This is one of a series of works inspired by railways (or, if you’re American, railroads). I spent a whole day listening to works by Jean Sibelius (Finland) and Jon Leifs (Iceland), 2 of my favourite composers...which directly inspired this post-apocalyptic anthem. It is taken from Ex Unitate Vires, our 42nd album.

Not a single word has anybody heard
Now the internet is dead and gone;
still the train trundles on and on and on.

We cannot afford to frolic in a fjord
Now the population of Oslo has gone
and the train trundles on and on and on.

Trondheim we lost yet despite the cost,
the tunnels will remain impervious to pain
and the train trundles on and on and on.

None of us dare to admit that we care
now the final vestiges of hope are gone
and the train trundles on and on and on.

We are all aware of impending despair
now the last of our provisions has gone
but the train trundles on and on and on.
The train trundles on and on.

Andy Martin – Vocals, Hammond Organ, Piano, ARP 2600, CS 80.
Keilan Knight – Bass Guitar.
Colin Murrell – Drums, Vibraphone.

Text & Music – Andy Martin.

If you have enjoyed this track we recommend you check out these works by UNIT on this site

A Study Of Alkaline Metals
Amery Hill School
The Algebra Of Greed
The Square Root Of Minus One
An Exercise In Futility
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
The Quasar
The Stoke Newington 8
Barbara’s Bridge
Another Faded Fragment Of A Distant Dream

Donations to our finances can be made ([email protected]) if you wish to support our future work.

Murphy’s Mob is a British television series for children that endured for 4 seasons, broadcast from 1982 to 1985, with character actor Keith Jayne as Boxer Reed, the leading member of Dunmore United Junior Supporters Club. A major essay on the drama appears in my book Civil Disobedience which is currently available from us as a pdf. To date, this magnificent series has yet to be issued on DVD. Thanks to Keilan, I was able to obtain a copy in pristine quality of the complete series.

The theme song, quite frankly, is really not particularly interesting although it is appropriate for a drama associated (but not specifically concerned with) football, the second most boring game in the world. (The first most boring game is golf, of course. Naturally it was invented by us Scots. That’s what happens when whole generations live on porridge and an absence of vegetables. These days, this isn’t strictly accurate, of course. We used to eat porridge but then we discovered it was healthy.)

We dedicate this to Keith Jayne who brightened up the period in which I worked on my first Grange Hill book, Not In Front Of The Children (also available from us as a pdf). He appears in Upstairs Downstairs, Survivors, The Onedin Line, Rumpole Of The Bailey, Doctor Who (The Awakening) and Stig Of The Dump. He also provides memorable characters in films made by the Children’s Film Foundation, including Sammy’s Super T Shirt and The Glitterball. For hardcore fans he has non-speaking roles in A Bunch Of Fives and Grange Hill.

Andy Martin – Vocals, Tenor Saxophone, Hammond Organ, Piano.
Keilan Knight – Vocals, Bass Guitar, Football Whistle.
Colin Murrell – Drums, Alto Saxophone, Vocals.

Text & Music – Mike Moran.
Arrangement – Andy Martin.

If you have enjoyed this track we recommend you check out these works by UNIT on this site

Eagle
Grange Hill
Osaka Boy
Amery Hill School
Soul Patrol
Orders Of The General
Workers Autonomy
Sports Day
My Parents Are Dead
Resonance Rocks Out

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Another Faded Fragment (Of Distant Dreams) is inspired by reading 2 volumes of short stories by Julie Travis although the ballad does not refer directly to any specific story. It is available elsewhere on this site if you are intrigued. This number, however, is a direct response to We Are All Falling Towards The Centre Of The Earth, the title story of her second collection although the central character (the narrator) is my own creation – a typical Radio 4 listening Daily Mail reading white middle class Englishman, the kind of chap who suspects Herr Hitler was a sadly misunderstood individual who merits our sympathy.

While on holiday in Germany I saw a woman flying through the air
on gossamer wings with which she swooped and glided everywhere.
I thought it strange. Indeed I questioned its veracity.
How could a woman dare behave with such audacity?
I told the local polizei. I telephoned my son
but he said that is probably how Germans have their fun.

Ursula said I’d go to bed with red inside my head
unless I thought of you and thus converted it to blue.
Well, that’s all very well for you – it’s safe and simply said
but now I’m faced with flying women – what am I to do?
There ought to be a prohibition we can all apply
to prevent a woman sprouting wings and taking to the sky.

I saw a group of villagers armed with clubs and sticks.
The burgermeister said it is a problem they can fix.
He promised me this kind of thing is actually quite rare.
Most flying girls are foreigners who live way over there,
beyond the border in that land where manners are unknown
and women are allowed to fly – it’s a forbidden zone.

Ursula said I’d go to bed with red inside my head
unless I thought of you and thus converted it to blue.
Well, that’s all very well for you – it’s safe and simply said
but now I’m faced with flying women – what am I to do?
There ought to be a prohibition we can all apply
to prevent a woman sprouting wings and taking to the sky.

Andy Martin – Vocals, Alto Saxophone,
Hammond Organ, CS 80, ARP 2600.
Fabian Fritze – Bass Guitar.
Colin Murrell – Vibraphone, Drums.

Text & Music – Andy Martin.

If you have enjoyed this track we recommend you check out these works by UNIT on this site

A Study Of Alkaline Metals
Amery Hill School
The Algebra Of Greed
The Square Root Of Minus One
An Exercise In Futility
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
Quod Sumus Hoc Eritis
The Stoke Newington 8
Barbara’s Bridge
Another Faded Fragment Of A Distant Dream

Donations to our finances can be made ([email protected]) if you wish to support our future work.

This number (completed the day after Boxing Day, 2019) is a prime contender for inclusion on Animalevolence. All the ingredients are here: a violent boy, an old railway arch and (of course) the obligatory birds. It is one of a loose trilogy (the others are Lines Diverge and The Trondheim Train) featured on Ex Unitate Vires, our 42nd album.

Ivan Petrovsky was fourteen; sullen, surly, vicious and mean.
He was a boy of Russian descent. Nobody knew quite where he went.
Each weekend he disappeared. We all found him rather weird.

Under the viaduct we hid
so nobody could see what he did.

There’s an ancient railway bridge, it straddles Lapwing Lane.
The Council tried to remove it but their efforts were in vain.
Every time the workmen came to pull the old bridge down,
machines malfunctioned and the men collapsed onto the ground
so now it stands in mute defiance of each Council ploy,
protected by the violence of a savage teenage boy.

With a stock of secret words he could summon a flock of birds.
He took a Hawfinch, Goldfinch, Bullfinch; calculated the distance to an inch
and when he launched them into the sky, we knew someone would die.

Under the railway bridge we hid
so nobody could see what he did.

Andy Martin – Vocals, Hammond Organ, Piano, ARP 2600, Birds.
Fabian Fritze – Bass Guitar.
Colin Murrell – Vibraphone, Drums.

Text & Music – Andy Martin.

If you have enjoyed this track we recommend you check out these works by UNIT on this site

A Study Of Alkaline Metals
Amery Hill School
The Algebra Of Greed
The Square Root Of Minus One
An Exercise In Futility
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
The Quasar
The Stoke Newington 8
Barbara’s Bridge
Another Faded Fragment Of A Distant Dream

Donations to our finances can be made ([email protected]) if you wish to support our future work.

This is a ballad about a Glaswegian boy who falls through the cracks in the system - which, in Britain, so often fails. Based on an actual case history from the 1980s, this track remains one of our most popular, despite the grim subject matter. Certainly it ranks among the best ballads I have ever written…and yes, that is me playing drums…because the beat is so moronically simple it seemed an insult to ask either Luc or Richard (Wong Yit Sinh) to play the part. It is featured on the album Class War, released in 2008. Note: this is one of a brace of tracks that ceased to play so we were obliged to upload it again.

McKenna was a boy of 15 years from a broken home.
He never thought about his dreams and fears
except when he was alone.
The tenements of Glasgow became a distant universe.
To him all cities were the same or maybe somewhat worse.
His colours were the green and white although he didn’t really care,
that is, until he came home one night and found nobody there.

A tenement baby, a bantam weight fist,
a snarling rat face who nobody kissed,
a name on a crime sheet so simply dismissed,
he’s another lost boy who’ll never be missed.

He had no other relatives. He had nobody anywhere
so Glasgow social services put him into care.
He became a statistic, a percentage on a page.
Inclined to be fatalistic, he hid a slow and silent rage
until one day he ran away. It came as no surprise
he used violence to disguise the tears in his eyes.

His beauty is hidden away from the eyes
of respectable people he’ll surely despise.
Forever 15, eternally lost,
his honour maintained, whatever the cost,
now it’s explained, the meaning is lost.
Nothing remained. Who cares what it cost?
Forever 15, eternally lost,
nothing remained. Who cares what it cost?

Zhang Yao Min - Vocal, Guitar, Bass Guitar.
Luc Tran - Keyboards, Vibraphone.
Andy Martin - Drums.

Text & Music - Andy Martin. [email protected].

If you have enjoyed this track we recommend you check out these works by UNIT on this site

A Study Of Alkaline Metals
Barbara's Bridge
Another Faded Fragment
The Quasar
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
Sports Day

Donations to our finances can be made ([email protected]) if you wish to support our future work.

This jolly jape was recorded in 2003 for one of the Gods Punk compilations issued by Stan Batcow of Howl In The Typewriter. This is another of our tracks that suddenly ceased to play so we are obliged to upload it again.

Andy Martin – Vocal.
Luc Tran – Keyboards.
Zhang Yao Min – Bass Guitar.
Ngo Achoi – Vibraphone, Drums.

Text & Music – Andy Martin
(based on the traditional hymn).

If you have enjoyed this track we recommend you check out these works by UNIT on this site

A Study Of Alkaline Metals
Barbara's Bridge
Another Faded Fragment
The Quasar
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
Sports Day

Donations to our finances can be made ([email protected]) if you wish to support our future work.

Note: all tracks recorded under the names Academy 23 or UNIT are the property of DNA Records and protected by copyright, regardless of who wrote the works concerned. This is a track from Roads – Bridges – Space, our 43rd album, recorded in 2021.

Music by Andy Martin.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available on here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Jani Christou (1926-1970) was a Greek composer infinitely more interesting to enthusiasts of modern classical music and vital to Greek culture than the vastly over-rated compatriot Iannis Xenakis. His musical journey travelled from serialism in the late 1940s to extreme avant garde ‘happenings’ complete with aleatoric music, electronic sounds and musique concrete by the very late 1960s. Alas we were denied the opportunity to see where he would go next: in 1970 he was knocked down in a traffic accident and died instantly (a fate he shared with Hungarian composer Matyas Seiber who was killed by a motorist in 1960).

Epicycle (1968) is his most extended work in the late, avant garde idiom that informs all his pieces after 1965. It is scored for 5 Actors, Choir, Jazz Group, Ensemble & Tape. It is performed by N Vouteris, N Charalambous, S Michopoulou, D Asteriadis and A Katsaridis (actors) with the Athens State Choir, the Gunter Hampel Jazz Group and members of the Athens State Orchestra. Alas I do not have the full names of the actors involved. This is taken from a Greek radio broadcast and I endeavoured to improve the sound quality as far as possible. To date, the work has yet to be recorded commercially and issued on CD. The paintings are by Kazuo Shiraga. The Japanese lad is Akira Ishii, flautist and drummer for UNIT 1998-1999.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

Here is another instalment in my series of numbers loosely associated with the ghost / horror / science fiction genre, the others being The Shadow Out Of Space, 1•1 x 10 To The 10, The Newstead Arch, The Whitchurch Tunnel, The Bridge and The Transformation. There are others which possibly qualify – Paradigm perhaps. The style of the music and content of the lyric is directly inspired by the short stories of Julie Travis (primarily 2 short story collections Storylandia Issue 15 and We Are All Falling Towards The Centre Of The Earth, both published by Wapshott Press).

I saw the boy and he saw me.
I could have reached out and touched him easily
but had I done so, I’d encounter empty air,
for, rather like myself – he was not there.
I wish that he was me but then what would I be?
An ersatz man, a traitor to our scientific team
or another faded fragment of a distant dream.

I heard the girl and she heard me.
I could have listened to her very easily
but had I done so, I don’t think it would be fair,
for, rather like myself – she was not there.
I wish that she was me but then what would I be?
An ersatz man, a traitor to our scientific team
or another faded fragment of a distant dream.

I touch their tombstones and they touch me.
I could pretend they don’t exist, quite easily
but I’ll not do so. Indeed I would not dare,
for, rather like myself – they are still there.
I wish that they were me but then what would I be?
An ersatz man, a traitor to our scientific team
or another faded fragment of a distant dream.

Andy Martin – Vocals, Hammond Organ, Korg M1, Alto Saxophone.
Keilan Knight – Bass Guitar, Cowbell.
Colin Murrell – Vibraphone, Drums.
Text & Music – Andy Martin.

If you have enjoyed this track we recommend you check out these works by UNIT on this site

A Study Of Alkaline Metals
Barbara's Bridge
The Quasar
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
Sports Day

Donations to our finances can be made ([email protected]) if you wish to support our future work.

This is a number previously recorded by The Apostles in 1989 during our final studio session. It was horrible. I totally forgot about the existence of this piece (I tend to try to forget The Apostles in their entirety) but then discovered it again while searching for another number called The Sigil...so since we’ve also recorded that one, this is now called The 1st Sigil because it was written a couple of weeks prior to the other one. The lyric is preposterous – I was reading far too many William Burroughs books at the time. Anyway, this is how it is supposed to sound.

Today I saw your face upon a pentagram of fire.
Although you left no trace, I heard your voice across the wire.
Can you see the force directing me? It’s been here for years.
You are that magic soul I seek.
You talk to me but never speak.
That’s why I’m smiling through the tears.

Another distant room, another faded photograph
both lead me to assume I was guided to this path.
Can you feel a force that’s more than real?
Do you know why we are here?
With no faith there is no fear.

Andy Martin – Vocals.
Keilan Knight – Guitars, Korg M1.
Fabian Fritze – Bass Guitar.
Colin Murrell – Drums.

Text & Music – Andy Martin.

If you have enjoyed this track we recommend you check out these works by UNIT on this site

A Study Of Alkaline Metals
Amery Hill School
The Algebra Of Greed
The Square Root Of Minus One
An Exercise In Futility
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
The Quasar
The Stoke Newington 8
Barbara’s Bridge
Another Faded Fragment Of A Distant Dream

Donations to our finances can be made ([email protected]) if you wish to support our future work.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

This is one of the strangest works by Japanese composer Akira Miyoshi (1933-2013), composed for a radio broadcast in 1959 It was issued on CD briefly during the 1990s (from which this recording is taken) but soon deleted and has not been available since then. Scored for actors, female choir, instrumental ensemble and tape with prominent parts for oboe and ondes martenot, it takes the European folk tale of the water nymph Ondine and her doomed love for Paul (a young human) and gives it a distinctly oriental spin. Mr Miyoshi was the first Japanese composer I ever heard (the Concerto For Orchestra broadcast at a Proms concert I heard on the radio when I was 12 or 13) and he soon became my second favourite Japanese composer after Toshiro Mayuzumi. The paintings are by my favourite Japanese artist, Kazuo Shiraga.

Yasue Yamamoto (Speaker),
Hiroko Kodo (Ondine),
Koneharu Hisatomi (Paul)
+ Kyoko Kishida, Hiroshi Mizushima, Genki Koyama, Hatsuko Tsunashima,
Hiroshi Sunaga and Masanori Tomoake (Actors),
The NHK Radio Choir, Seizo Suzuki (Oboe), Reiko Honsho (Ones Martenot)
and members of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra under Ryusuke Numajiri.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Makoto Shinohara (b 1931) is a minor but still important figure in Japanese music. Like Teruyuki Noda, Minoru Miki and Makoto Moroi, he is often interested in the combination of traditional Japanese folk instruments with modern western ensembles and this is brought to a splendid zenith in Yumeji (1992) for Choir, Japanese Instruments & Orchestra, perhaps his finest exploration into this very Japanese subgenre. The work may be regarded as an extension / expansion of an earlier work, Co-operation (also available on this channel) for Japanese Instruments & Chamber Ensemble. It is performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Choir with the Pro Musica Nipponia and the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra under Yuzo Toyama. Among the Japanese instruments I discern are the shakuhachi, hichiriki, sho, biwa and shamisen. It is taken from a CD issued in the 1990s, long since deleted – one of the large series of Min On festival discs (with their distinctive blue and white covers) that feature various lesser known 20th century Japanese composers.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Makoto Shinohara (b 1931) is a minor but still important figure in Japanese music. Like Teruyuki Noda, Minoru Miki and Makoto Moroi, he is often interested in the combination of traditional Japanese folk instruments with modern western ensembles, of which this work Co-operation (1990) for Japanese Instruments & Chamber Ensemble is an excellent example, performed by the Pro Musica Nipponia with the Tokku Ensemble under Kazuhiko Komatsu. Among the Japanese instruments I discern are the shakuhachi, hichiriki, sho, biwa and shamisen. It is taken from a CD issued in the 1990s, long since deleted – one of the large series of Min On festival discs (with their distinctive blue and white covers) that feature various lesser known 20th century Japanese composers.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Matyas Seiber (1905-1960) was a Hungarian composer who fled to Britain to escape the terrors of communist tyranny in his own country, then under the jackboot of Soviet Russia. His work is frequently unusual and interesting yet his promising career was tragically terminated by a traffic accident in South Africa which robbed us of one of our most inventive composers. His Improvisations for jazz group and orchestra, Elegy for viola and small orchestra and James Joyce Fragments for speaker and ensemble are 3 excellent examples of his work. Ulysses continues his fascination with James Joyce. Performed by Alexander Young (tenor) and the BBC Choir with the London Symphony Orchestra. Sadly this work is not commercially available on CD.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Cristobal Halffter (b 1930) is a Spanish composer associated mainly with chamber music although his 2 large scale choral works Symposium (1967) and Yes Speak Out Yes (1968) deserve wider recognition. Lineas Y Puntos (1967) or Lines & Points for Wind Ensemble & Tape is one of his most effective larger scale works.It is taken from an old but good quality LP, performed by the South West German Radio Orchestra. It has yet to be issued properly on CD. (Digression: Canadian composer Pierre Mercure also wrote a short piece for chamber orchestra called Lines & Points. Alas I don’t have a copy of it.)

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Cristobal Halffter (b 1930) is a Spanish composer whose Lineas Y Puntos (Lines & Points) for wind ensemble and tape is also available on this channel. Yes Speak Out Yes (1968) is one of a series of works composed in that turbulent year in response to the massive wave of student demonstrations against the Vietnam war. Others might be Kraanerg for 23 instruments and tape by Iannis Xenakis and The Raft Of The Medusa by Hans Werner Henze. Performed by Catherine Geyer (soprano), Michael Rippon (baritone) and the Spanish National Choir with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra. The work is not available commercially on CD.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

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Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) is (in my biased opinion) a French composer whose larger scale works merit far more attention than they receive currently. Outside France only her Concerto For Harp receives performances and recordings yet this magnificent Concerto For 2 Pianos must rank as a minor marvel in a subgenre of orchestral works in which a wordless choir is employed. Others are, for example, Daphnis & Chloe by Maurice Ravel (mixed choir), Printemps and The Sirens by Claude Debussy (female choir). The woodwind section of the orchestra also includes 4 saxophones – a very French feature, n’est pas? It is performed by Pascal Roge (piano), Ami Roge (piano) and the BBC Welsh National Orchestra with the BBC Welsh National Choir (women). To date this work is not commercially available on CD.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Henri Pousseur (1930-2009) was a Belgian composer and a French citizen. One of the people involved in and associated with the Second Viennese School in Darmstadt in the 1950s (with Luigi Nono, Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez and other daft buffoons), he was one of the composers who contributed to the national celebrations in France to mark the 200th anniversary of the revolution of 1789 with Declarations D’Orage (1989) for 6 Speakers, Soprano, Baritone, Orchestra & Magnetic Tape. It is performed by Linda Hirst, Michel Butor, Omar Ebrahim, Fabrizio Cassol, Michel Massot & Arnould Massart (Speakers) with the Liege Philharmonic Orchestra. The text is by Michel Butor. The work is not available commercially on CD.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949) was perhaps the first Greek composer to achieve international recognition outside his own country. Toward the end of his short life he dabbled in serialism and this, his final major work, is a fine example. Performed by Sotto Papoulkas (speaker), Efi Drosou (speaker), Maria Devitzaki (soprano) and the Macedonia University Choir with the Macedonia University Orchestra. This magnificent work is still not available commercially on CD.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

This was recorded for the album The Workshop in 2012 and forms 1 of an extensive series of portraits of boys and girls I knew while I was a pupil in Amery Hill School in Hampshire in the 1970s. Every syllable of this report is factual and actually happened. I have not changed the names of the participants. Where is little Damien Turner now? Dead probably...or in prison.

Andy Martin – Vocals.
Fabian Fritze – Bass Guitar.
Colin Murrell – Bass Guitar.

Text & Music – Andy Martin.

If you have enjoyed this track we recommend you check out these works by UNIT on this site.

A Study Of Alkaline Metals
Amery Hill School
The Algebra Of Greed
The Square Root Of Minus One
An Exercise In Futility
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
The Quasar
The Stoke Newington 8
Barbara’s Bridge
Another Faded Fragment Of A Distant Dream

Our projects will be obtainable from this address: unit-united.bandcamp.com.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].
Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) is a French composer known for his interest in jazz and bitonality. Like Germaine Tailleferre he is known for a very small number of works yet is oeuvre extends to an impressive list of works in every genre. The Symphony No.3 ‘Te Deum’ is probably his least known work in this field yet is, for me, the best. It is the only one of his symphonies to include singers (4 soloists and choir). The wordless choir in the 3rd movement (which occasionally is strongly reminiscent of Vaughan Williams) is truly magical. Performed by Irina Kameneva (soprano),
Elena Zolotova (alto), Victor Obnosov (tenor), Alexander Kapusniansky (bass) with
the Russian State Choir and Russian State Symphony Orchestra. This particular performance is not commercially available on CD.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Andre Prevost (1934-2001) was a Canadian composer whose work is virtually forgotten outside Canada which I consider rather a shame. Terre Des Hommes (1967) was written for Expo 67, one of those celebrations of a particular country that were popular during the 1960s and 1970s. I remember the Expo 70 of Osaka, for example, with its absurd architecture and wonderful music by Toshiro Mayuzumi. This recording is from a radio broadcast and while I have endeavoured to improve the sound quality as much as possible, it is still shabby, for which I apologise. For crying out loud, will some enterprising record company please arrange for this splendid work to be recorded properly and issued on CD? The text is by Michelle Lalonde. Performed by Michelle Rossignol (speaker), Albert Millaire (speaker), the Montreal Festival Choir, Jeanne Loriod (ondes martenot) and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985. Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected]. Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.
Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) was a Swiss-French composer known primarily for Pacific 231 and a few chamber works but, for me, this magnificent piece is his most impressive. Perhaps as a student of ancient Greek culture I am biased. It is beyond doubt his most stridently atonal piece which evidently accounts for its lack of popularity, unfortunately. That it also requires 8 soloists in addition to a choir and orchestra only exacerbates the lack of performances and recordings I suspect. Performed by Genevieve Serries (Antigone), Claudine Verneuli (Ismene), Gianine Collard (Eurydice), Andre Vessieres (Tiresias), Jean Giraudeau (Creon), Bernard Plantey (Guard), Bernard Demigne (Hemon), Michel Roux (Messenger) and the French National Radio Choir with the French National Radio Orchestra.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Lubos Fiser (1935-1999) was a highly impressive Czechoslovakian composer whose 15 Prints After Durer’s Apocalypse of 1966 placed him on the international musical map. For me, however, it is his Requiem which makes the most dramatic impact. Scored for soprano, bass, choir and orchestra, this is his direct response to dreadful invasion of his country by the despicable communist troops and tanks of Soviet Russia in 1968. It is performed by Helena Tattermuschova (soprano), Karel Berman (bass), the Czech Philharmonic Choir and Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The passionate performance by Karel Berman is staggering. The recording is taken from an old but good quality LP yet, alas, so far it has not been issued properly on CD.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The music and video remain copyright of their respective owners and are strictly used here for educational purposes as well as for the promotion of the composer and performers; therefore, if you own copyright over any part of these materials and do not wish to see it here, please contact me directly (rather than referring to Bit Chute) and I will remove it immediately.

Vladimir Sommer (1921-2000) was a Czechoslovakian composer known outside Czechoslovakia for one work – A Vocal Symphony (1963). It was issued by RCA on their series of The New Music. This was Volume 5 or 6 and featured works by Lubos Fiser (15 Prints After Durer’s Apocalypse) and another Czech composer whose name I have forgotten. In the 1990s a new recording of this work was made (in Czechoslovakian) and issued on CD, long since deleted, but this is that first recording (in English) performed by Peter Ustinov (speaker), Nancy Williams (soprano,, The Ambrosian Singers and the London Symphony Orchestra. It is taken from an old but good quality LP but, alas, it has yet to be issued properly on CD.

You may be interested in these other tracks by UNIT, all of which are available here.

The Earth Is Finite.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes.
Osaka Boy.
Barbara’s Bridge.
A Study Of Alkaline Metals.
The 613 Mitzvot.
The Unwanted.
A Song For Eric Cooper.
Amery Hill School.
Realise Your Potential.
1985.
Resonance Rocks Out.
Yom Kippur.
The Noahide Laws.
Hup Soon Heng.
Eagle.
When We Were Friends.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The paypal address for our Band Camp site is now [email protected].

Donations to our finances can also be made to this address if you wish to support our future work.

In addition we have 7 books available in PDF format free on request.

Not In Front Of The Children: A Study Of Grange Hill 1978 – 1993
Fast – Clean – Cheap (A Compendium)
Civil Disobedience – A Collection Of Short Stories For Children
Behind The Bike Shed – A Novel For Children
Grange Hill 1994 – 2008
The No Nation Interview
Birds, Bridges & Boys – Short Stories For Adults