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Tom Ellard
Meteosat 2004
Album AU 2013 on Sevcom label
Electronic (Ambient, Experimental)
"In 2004 I was asked to provide some music for a wedding. That isn't something I would usually do, but for the reason that the wedding was happening in Poland at a small town for which I had the coordinates brought to mind satellites and surveillance. This was a theme and a chance to expand my practice a bit more and try out some ideas. When I looked up names of satellites they were charming - there is Telstar of course and the mysterious Dummy Mass and a Starlette, and each name gave plenty of clues about what to do. In the case of Cluster 2FM5 it was hard to avoid making a 'Cluster' track. It all got done very quickly and sent off to Poland, I think it got a play, I can't quite recall. I made a very limited number of CDs and sent them to a few unlucky people, so it remained a bit of an exclusive for nearly a decade. One track (Telstar 8) was re-used for the track 'Taking Out The Surfing Bird' on the 'Under Gail Succubus' album two years later. Now while I work very slowly on new things it seems a decent time to make this generally available at no cost, in case it brings some wider joy to satellite fanciers. Or something."
Musicians
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Producers
| Tom Ellard recorded by |
Album Tracks
| No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Launch | Tom Ellard | 1:54 | |
| 2 | Meteosat | Tom Ellard | 3:16 | |
| 3 | Afristar | Tom Ellard | 4:55 | |
| 4 | Cluster 2FM5 | Tom Ellard | 2:09 | |
| 5 | GOES 3 | Tom Ellard | 2:37 | |
| 6 | Eurobird | Tom Ellard | 6:39 | |
| 7 | Dummy Mass | Tom Ellard | 2:18 | |
| 8 | Starlette | Tom Ellard | 1:56 | |
| 9 | Garuda 1 | Tom Ellard | 2:56 | |
| 10 | Telstar 8 | Tom Ellard | 3:34 | |
| 11 | Jawsat | Tom Ellard | 1:42 | |
| 12 | Oscar 32 | Tom Ellard | 1:27 |
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