A tremendous noise indeed about radio, as the vintage footage-inspired experimentalist band led by J Wildgoose Esq release a remastered album version of their acclaimed 2022 BBC Proms performance from London’s Royal Albert Hall with the full BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jules Buckley. Opening with a pleasing buzz and the gradual build of strings, it’s a celebration of radio transmission, accompanied of course by the cut-glass accents of announcers, testers, and communications, capturing the wonder and power of that once-new medium, from Ripples In the Ether (Towards The Infinite), the title track, A Cello Sings In Daventry (about that historic broadcast and station), the celebratory Broadcasting House that moves into their classic style mixing talking tones of wonder with krautrock musical momentum, all the way through to final and eighth track, What Of The Future? (In Touch With The Infinite). Splendid work, chaps. Receiving loud and clear. Originally commissioned to mark the BBC centenary, let us hope those ideals will endure. Out on Test Card Recordings.
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