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Band Info
Junk Shop Star is instrumental soundtrack music for your own
headfilms. Crafted by hand and certified free of MIDI, programming or
sampling, these organic soundscapes evoke the spirit of Eno, Neu &
Tortoise. Music without words is like a land without frontiers.
Junk Shop Star was born out of a desire to create “Music for Headfilms”.
Junk Shop Star has long admired the music of Brian Eno, particularly the
sublime “Music for Films” and the Fripp/Eno collaboration “Evening Star”.
Junk Shop Star is not sure why instrumental music is such a passion,
but suspects it is because the moment words are added to music the
context and possibilities are limited by the language and sometime the
method of delivery. Music without words is like a land without frontiers.
The possibilities for headtravel within the music are endless.
Junk Shop Star developed abiding passions for the instrumental music
of German experimentalists Can, Neu, Faust and Popul Vuh, then
expanded horizons to the desert soundtracks of the likes of Calexico
and Friends of Dean Martinez, then via Chicago and the Thrill Jockey
team of Tortoise, and the lovely Brokeback, and back home to Dunedin,
New Zealand through the ocean-inspired instrumentals featured on
David Kilgour’s albums.
All Junk Shop Star recordings are certified free of MIDI, programming,
sampling or software. Everything is played by hand in real time (and
sometimes “reel” time too, which might be halfspeed and/or backwards)
hence the organic “looseness” sometimes evident to those who listen
closely. It is very human music, evolving from idea to conclusion without
a script, errors honoured as hidden intentions.
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Releases
Music for Headfilms Vol. 1 (limited edition CD-R)
“Glide” appears on DJ Romantech’s Oceanic Chill compilation CD
These releases may be purchased from the following retailers and
distributors:
Music for Headfilms Vol. 1
DJ Romantech's Ocean Chill Compilation
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Press
"Great atmospheric piece here. Excellent headphone music." - (Jmoog,
Indieonestop.com)
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