Woob 1194
| 1194 | |
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| Studio album by Woob | |
| Released | August 1994 |
| Studio | Square Centre Studios |
| Genre | Electronic music, Ambient music |
| Label | Em:t Records |
| Producer | Paul Frankland |
Woob 1194 was the debut album of British soundtrack and ambient musician Paul Frankland. It was recorded over the span of two months and was released in the summer of 1994 on Em:t Records. It was also re-released in late 1994 on Instinct Records in the United States. It was Em:t's second release and is considered today to be a classic ambient album, and enormously influential.
The album blends together elements of ambient, dub, and world music into long pieces, combined with samples from field recordings, movies and television shows such as Quantum Leap and Star Trek. The cover art depicts several emperor penguins in the wild, and they can also be heard near the end of final track of the album, "Emperor". Like all other Em:t recordings, the album was made available only as a CD digipak.
At 31:59, this is the longest track on the album, and Woob's longest track to date. On Earth mixes rhythms and voices from around the world with clips of dialogue from TV shows and numerous natural sounds, such as birdsong. The track also contains live instrumentation - Frankland improvised the synth solo (heard from 27:23 – 28:46) during recording; he has said this is now his favourite part of the album.
The sample beginning at 5:25 comes from an episode of the TV show Quantum Leap, (“Killin’ Time”, from 1992) and features the voices of Deborah Pratt as Ziggy and Dean Stockwell as Al.
The second, larger vocal sample at 15:48 comes from the 1974 BBC album “English With an Accent” by Peter Hunt.
The repeated plucked-string melody that recurs throughout the track is a version of Camille Saint-Saëns' "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso" which originally featured in the soundtrack to Sergei Paradjanov's film Ašik Kerib,. This film was also a source for many of the vocal samples, including the female chanting at the start of the track, and the male chanting at the very end.
One of Frankland’s two personal favourites of the tracks on 1194, Odonna is mostly built around two samples - one an interview with classical cellist Yo Yo Ma, and the second a sample of dialogue from The Mark of Gideon, an episode of the original series of Star Trek, which features the voices of Sharon Acker and William Shatner. The track is named for Acker’s character in the episode, though it is spelt differently. Frankland spent five hours making the vocal loop on an Akai s1000 “so that it didn’t click!”
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