RICHARD BONE / VAULTED VISIONS, FILMWORKS, SYNTH-POP, DEMOS AND EXPERIMENTS 79-85 3LP/7INCH / レコード

SYNTH WAVEリバイバルでアメリカ出身といえばこの人に当たる才人RICHARD BONEの初期作品集。1983年には香港のDISCOシーンを賑わしたり、2005年にはNEW AGEの名誉ある賞を採ったりと現在でも精力的に活動するベテラン。2004年に500枚限定でのリリースだった79年から85年作編集CD収録曲から78年のレアサントラ作品、今回が初音盤化となる蔵出し音源がてんこ盛りの3LP-BOXです。

Richard Bone is an American electronic musician who began his professional musical career creating soundtracks and scores for several off-Broadway companies working in experimental theater.

In 1979, he released with his band Bone the single "Pirate the Islands/Headlines Have It" before joining the new-wave band Shox Lumania in 1981.Bone then recorded a solo 7" entitled "Digital Days/Alien Girl" on and was
subsequently signed to Survival Records in the UK in 1983 where he released several LPs, EPs, singles and contributed to various compilation albums. His 1983 single "Joy of Radiation" reached No. 1 on the Hong Kong Dance Chart.Bone started the label Quirkworks Laboratory Discs in 1991, allowing him freedom to create music of a more experimental nature and retain control of his musical direction.
Since then Bone has released over 25 recordings of new material and several collaborations and compilations. Of the new material recordings, three quickly rose to No. 1 on industry charts as well as receiving numerous other honors.
In 2004 Bone's recording The Reality Temples was nominated for the 2004 New Age Reporter Lifestyle Music Awards' Best Electronic Album, his 2005 recording Saiyuji was nominated for the 2005 New Age Reporter Lifestyle Music Awards' Best Ambient Album, his 2007 recording Infinite Plastic Creation was awarded the 2007 New Age
Reporter Lifestyle Music Awards' Best Electronic Album and his 2008 release Sudden Departure was nominated for the 2008 New Age Reporter LifeStyle Awards’ Best Ambient and Best Electronic Album.
This 3Lp/7inch-Set on Vinyl-on-Demand gives you an excellent overview to his early Filmworks, Synth Pop, Demos & Experiments produced between 1979-85. It is covering his very early Tapes (Quiz Party and Life in Video CIty) released on Archie Pattersons EUROCK-Label from 1979/80, his Video-Sountracks from 1981/82 for the Emerging Melodies Video and several Porn-movie Soundtracks.
Lp2 and Lp3 as well as the 7"inch takes a look at his Synth-Pop-tunes he recorded between 1979 and 1984 (The Rumble Years) and includes several Demos and Outtakes and Sessions of which many are straight out of Richards archive and therefore previously unearthed and released until today. These Lp's also contain most of the Tracks released by Orlandomaniacmusic in 2004 on CD (Untold Tales 1979-85)





LP1A: Extract from Quiz Party (1979/80) and Life in Video City (1980/81)
LP1B: The Video-Soundtracks (1981/82)
Lp2: The Rumble Years 79-82 (PART1 & 2)
Lp3A Rhode Island Session 1983 & Demos / Outtakes
Lp3B: Previously Unreleased 1979-1981 (27:50)
Bonus 7“ more previously unreleased 1978-1981 (18:41)