Picture Music

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Concocted in a share house in the South of Brisbane in the mid-’80s, a small collective of well-acquainted musicians gathered to compose film soundtracks, music for pictures, therefore Picture Music. To this end, a ‘spec’ tape of Picture Music recordings would be produced to give to potential clients, or maybe even sell on the market. Picture Music registered as a business in the summer of 1986. If there is a red thread running through the Picture Music album, it is its "late-night" ambience. The wrath of the sub-tropical summer heat of Brisbane is not kind on electronic equipment, which would crash regularly by day. So all recording was done in the relative cool of the late evening, in a room only dimly lit by lamp and candle. The Picture Music collective would make music and party all through the night, departing around sunrise. They would sleep through the heat of the day, only to return in the evening for more of the same. The 1987 cassette release remains an evocative representation of the music and late-night, dimly-lit ambience enabled, experienced and nurtured by a bunch of laid-back, amiable and like-minded friends Rainer Guth, Jon Anderson, Gary McFeat & Rod Owen in a tiny corner of Brisbane in the mid-'80's. Although the tape was subsequently distributed out to a number of film and video producers, it seemed otherwise generally dismissed. Left Ear Records have dug up a few copies, available for purchase. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Com