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Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams

by Alex Menzies

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2B 01:51
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3C Rev2 02:00
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Not Upbeat 8 02:03
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Sketch 22 01:58
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Upbeat 7 02:03
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6C 01:45
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7C REV2 01:45
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12C II 01:38
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14B 02:12
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10F II 01:47
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18B REV2 01:37
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21B II 01:48
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Sketch 1 01:42
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Sketch 5 II 01:45
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7D 01:45
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Upbeat 9 II 02:01
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Sketch 23 01:58
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Sketch 15 II 01:47

about

Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams is Alex Menzies', aka techno head Alex Smoke, follow up to 2015's Order & Disorder LP (KTX 003LP) release for Kathexis, both original soundtracks to BBC4 documentaries.

The film Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams explores the amazing and untold story of automata - extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life. Much of the instrumentation used for Menzies' carefully constructed score was also of the type actually incorporated into automatons, including bells, chimes and wind organs. Percussive patterns scattered throughout the cues are samples of machines moving, gears grinding, halting, some of them automatons themselves.
As with Order & Disorder strings and choir are also spread throughout these evocative cues bridging a link from 18th century instrumentation and machines and providing an emotional connection to these long-forgotten marriages of art and engineering that are actually the ancestors of many of our most-loved modern technologies, from recorded music to the cinema and much of the digital world.

With Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams, Menzies' talents as a composer really shine through; each piece revealing a level of technical sophistication and an inventive use of instruments both new and old to hauntingly beautiful results.

Direct digital edition Includes eight additional bonus tracks.

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released June 10, 2016

Written & produced by Alex Menzies
Design & layout by Daniel Castrejón

© & ℗ Kathexis LLC 2016

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