AMP ~ All of Yesterday Tomorrow

AMP

All Of Yesterday Tomorrow

3 x CD

Total Running Time 3:36:44

Release Date : 24th June 2007

Catalogue Number RR02PP

'All Of Yesterday Tomorrow' is a compilation of singles and non-album tracks, and unreleased material by Amp, the experimental music and sound collective.

In its fifteen year history, Amp – the "trans-European esoterrorists" – has become a renowned anti-establishment in experimental music and sound.

Comprised of the core duo of Richard Amp and singer Karine Charff, Amp has released music on an array of seminal international record labels, including Kranky, Wurlitzer Jukebox, Darla Records and Space Age Recordings. The Amp collective operatives have been drawn from an equally enviable list of bands – from the legendary Third Eye Foundation, Flying Saucer Attack and Prolapse, to the distinguished Moonshake and Movietone.

'All Of Yesterday Tomorrow' collects 38 tracks that span the totality of Amp's oeuvre – including 12 unreleased songs, alternate versions and demos, the 10 tracks from the out of print 1998 singles album, 'Passé • Présent', and 16 more non-album, vinyl-only and compilation tracks. All of the tracks have been skilfully re-mastered, exclusively for this collection.

The beautiful four-fold digipack bears a unique twenty page booklet, which shares the particulars and minutiae of each track, as well as containing exclusive Amp text and images.

Spanning three CDs, 'All Of Yesterday Tomorrow' conjures up all of the convention-defying aspects of Amp's music and sound. It is a tour de force of experimental genres – juxtaposing ambient, electronic, dream-pop, post-rock and space-rock songs.

These songs form the space where music and sound meet, where raw noise, field recordings and accidental or natural occurrences are as expressive and as valued as melodies, lyrics or riffs. It is this juxtaposition of the composed and the improvised, with music and sound in harmony together, where true magic happens – where meaning and mystery meet in the world of imagination.

With this release on RROOPP, all of Amp's yesterdays are finally free to inspire all of our tomorrows.

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this should be very excelent

if seefeel still made music it would sound like this i reckon

very true

ive got to say, thats a very good blurb, whoever wrote it.

i mean its got me very interested.

i guess it could be easier to write such words, when the music is really that good.

STUNNING!

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boomkat

"I never cease to get 'the fear' when I see a 3cd boxset - it's just so much music, there's almost no way the momentum can be kept up for that long is there? Well this bumper collection from Bristol based collective Amp has confounded my meagre expectations. The group, led by Richard Amp and his singing accomplice Karine Charff have been busying themselves making gorgeous widescreen dronerock for fifteen years now taking in absolutely loads of collaborators under their large, welcoming wings including the effervescent Dave Pearce of Flying Saucer Attack and Matt Elliott (Third Eye Foundation) and Robert Hampson (Main) to name but three. The music itself is collected from their entire career, hoovering up B-sides, compilation appearances, unreleased tracks, vinyl only tracks and heaven knows what else and is plonked together to form a coherent whole. Having albums on Kranky back in their hey-day should convince you that these guys are a avant-rock force to be reckoned with, but I was quite stunned at the amount of utterly beautiful music on offer here - music that is sat somewhere between 'Loveless' era My Bloody Valentine and Flying Saucer Attack. Fuzzed-out electric guitars form a mid-range cloud of hum while wordless vocals echo out like curls of blue smoke - it is entrancing and almost calming, launching a quiet intensity which is impossible to ignore. I haven't been very familiar with Amp's earlier output but on the strength of this simply stunning compilation I think I need to remedy that immediately. This is just perfectly formed drone rock music, with leanings towards so many other fractured genres it would be impossible to list them all - let me just say that there are covers of the Silver Apples and Spacemen 3 included for good measure, and that might give you some idea of what to expect. Gorgeous."

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matt elliott is on this record?

maybe,,

but björk isnt

yeah well i'm a huge matt elliott fan, well of his pre-drum n bass days anyway. does he sing? play accordian? which track?

whereas i haven't heard the last bjork album and won't till someone else i know buys it

havent got a clue

,, but you may have not realized that this is a comp of some sort..

music from early 90s till ..01 or something

i read the blurb

you want medal?

i want recognition and power

i got nothing

screw that im buyign it

bristol based eh? i wonder if they perform live here.

  awkward said:

yeah well i'm a huge matt elliott fan, well of his pre-drum n bass days anyway. does he sing? play accordian? which track?

welb.. here is what the linear-notes says about mr.elliott ..

- the main collaborator from 1996-1997. originally on loan from movietone, flying saucer attack, and subsequently as the third eye foundation

..he is on few tracks.. .. drum programming and guitars. .and some viola too.

...also

* bumps ahead of snares thread *

yeah its hot

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i use it to wake up and go to sleep to but cant seem to wake up yet.