VANDROOGENBROECK, JOEL

Electronic, Jazz, Krautrock

Ambient, New Age, Experimental

Brainticket's Jöel Vandroogenbroeck* ‎– Coloursound Box

18 × CD, Compilation, Limited numbered edition of 500 copies

 TRACKLIST

CD 1: Images of Flutes in Nature
1. Great Valley
2. Magic Adventure
3. Plaine du Jura
4. Forest Spirit
5. Hobbits
6. Minor
7. Magnetic Blues
8. Electronic Jungle

CD 2: Biomechanoid
1. Dark Plasma
2. Elements
3. Sign From Space
4. Strange Lady
5. Plastic Gnome
6. Voices
7. Metallic Agony
8. Lost Planet
9. Asteroids
10. Interstellar Insects
11. Galaxy Recall

CD 3: Contemporary Pastoral & Ethnic Sounds
1. Cascades
2. Fairy Tale
3. Veridian Song
4. Goatherd
5. Strange Morning
6. Spanish Dialogue
7. Baja Song
8. M'ridamgam Song
9. Raven's Dance
10. Castles In Winter
11. Pastorale
12. Rocks
13. Mysterious Bali

CD 4: Meditations Vol 1
1. Group Meditation
2. Summer Clouds
3. Sand And Wind
4. Various Reflections
5. A Mantra

CD 5: Meditations Vol 2
1. Contemplation
2. Gongs
3. Meditative Contemplation
4. Meditation

CD 6: Birth Of Earth
1. Birth Of Earth
2. Trilobites
3. Dinosaurs
4. Desert
5. Volcanic Activity
6. Mutation
7. Forests
8. Homo Africanus
9. Homo Erectus
10. Cro-Magnon
11. Marine Fauna
12. Glaciations
13. Reptiles

CD 7: Lost Continents
1. Lemuria
2. Totem
3. Bowed String
4. Lemurian Scale
5. Lemurian Harmonics
6. Gondwana
7. Mu Ensemble
8. Migrations Mu
9. Waihu
10. Mural Picture
11. Atlantis
12. Lyra
13. Lost Continent
14. Solo Lyra
15. Energetics

CD 8: Open Air Impressions
1. Prelude A L'aube
2. Mediterranean Wedding
3. Springtime
4. Early Summer
5. Romantic Garden
6. Crazy Flute
7. Scherzo Rustico
8. Vie Campagnarde
9. Sound Colours
10. Carol's Manor
11. Paysage De Neige
12. Mysterious Tension
13. Oriental Birds

CD 9: Computer Blossoms
1. Data
2. Digital Song
3. Dancing Electrons
4. Computer Groove
5. Rock Cycle
6. Lunapark
7. Random
8. Informatique
9. Romantic Programme
10. High Computer Tension
11. Cycle
12. Error Source
13. Computer Graphic
14. Computer Duet

CD10: Industrial Retrospect
1. Steelworker
2. Ghost Town
3. Oil Tankers
4. Steam Valves
5. Demolition
6. Industrial Dream
7. Machine Sanctuary
8. Kinetic Sculptures
9. Allegro Mechanico
10. Troop Transport
11. Assembly Room
12. On The Way To Ruin
13. Chain Production
14. Industrial Retrospect --Press Release

CD 11: Mesopotamia Egypt
1. Song Of Ur
2. The Great Ball
3. Pan-Tur
4. Sumirian Ritual
5. Biblical Band
6. Elamite Court
7. Clay Relief
8. Babylonian Cortege
9. The Pyramids
10. Cult Of Isis
11. Papyrus Of Ani
12. Nilotic Sounds
13. Hymn To Osiris
14. In Praise Of Ra
15. Harvesters
16. Valley Of The Kings

CD 12: Joel However
1. Scoop The Pool
2. Samba Para Norma
3. Timeless
4. However
5. Jetty Betty
6. Because Of Love
7. News Blues
8. Saturn
9. No Turn
10. Queen Of Acapulco
11. Easy To Love
12. High Sky

CD 13: Middle Ages
1. Procession
2. Medieval Underlay
3. Danse des Sortileges
4. Sleeping Princess
5. La Marche au Château
6. English Almand
7. Ezechiel's Vision
8. The Court Jester - 1
9. The Court Jester - 2
10. Icon
11. Tour Enchantée
12. Medieval Joy

CD 14: Southeast Asia
1. Bulan Indonesia
2. Jalan-Jalan
3. Matahari Terbenam
4. Wayang
5. Wono Sari
6. Malay Archipelago
7. Borneo Mood
8. Sunrise Over Singapore
9. Mandarin Road
10. Han Dynasty
11. Peking Opera
12. Taiwan Tan
13. Evening Meditation
14. Cambodia Mood 1
15. Cambodia Mood 2

CD 15: Digital Project
1. Chipland Liquids
2. Digital Meneut
3. Banjomatic
4. New Wave Rock
5. Kinderspiel
6. Wall Street Stress
7. Genetic Manipulation
8. Cosmic Wings
9. Drum Program
10. Silicon Siren
11. Rock Program
12. Logic Paths
13. Liquid Quartz
14. Artificial Intelligence
15. Robot Tiger

CD 16: Video Games & Data Movements
1. Video Funk
2. Pin-Balls
3. Martian Invaders
4. Mouse Runner
5. Flipper
6. Vampire Chaser
7. Flip Box
8. Spiel Salon
9. Video Games
10. Robot Voices
11. Computer Room
12. Japanese Technology
13. Data Movements
14. Software Jungle
15. Future World
16. Informatic Terminal
17. Ad-da

CD 17: California - Industrial & Scenic Moods
1. Updating
2. El Camino Real
3. San Diego Industry
4. Spaceline
5. Science Mystery
6. Machine Whistle
7. Santa Cruz
8. The Bay Force
9. Night Plant
10. San Francisco Lights
11. Golden Gate Romance
12. Road 101
13. Dawn In Chinatown
14. Underwater Research

CD 18: Brainticket Remix 88
1. Possessed House (Adapted Vox from Original 80Track)
2. Neandra s Def Version
3. Black Sand (Radio Version)
4. Black Sand (Drug Dub Version)
5. Brainticket (Anabolic Stereo Version)
6. End Title (Haluzo Thrill Version) --Press Release

MUSICIANS :

Bass – Dave King

Drums – Todd Canedy

Flute – Crawford Young

Guitar – Charles Hornemann

Harp – Imme Atwood

Percussion – Elmar Louis

Performer – Carole Mur

Fiddle, Lyre – Jason Paras

Flute – Liane Ehlich

Keyboards, Guitar, Synthesizer, Flute, Vocals  – Joel Vandroogenbroeck

Los Angeles, CA - At long last, the first ever CD release of Brainticket founder Joel Vandroogenbroeck's much sought after Coloursound recordings presented in a limited edition, sequentially numbered 18CD box set! These rare recordings were released anonymously throughout the '70s and early '80s on the German-based Coloursound label, which specialized in ambient soundscapes for use in film and television, and have gone largely unheard except by those who know them to be some of the most progressive, awe-inspiring masterpieces Joel VDB ever committed to tape! The Coloursound Box also features meticulously recreated artwork from the original Coloursound LPs plus personal reflections on each album by Joel himself alongside additional liner notes by music historian Dave Thompson! The entire package is available now courtesy of Purple Pyramid Records.

Belgian-born Joel Vandroogenbroeck was playing jazz in Switzerland when he found inspiration in the new sounds emanating from German krautrock artists Amon Duul II, Can, and Tangerine Dream. Under the influence of these groups, Joel and guitarist Ron Byer recruited drummer Wolfgang Paap and formed the trio that would become Brainticket. The group's 1971 debut album Cottonwoodhill immediately ran into a storm of controversy for its association with psychedelic drugs. The album came with a warning label that insisted you should "only listen once a day to this record. Your brain might be destroyed," which led to the album being banned in several countries including the USA.

From then on, Brainticket's reputation as a band of experimentalists at the forefront of underground, avant-garde music had been solidified. Following the death of Bryer, Brainticket regrouped for 1972's Psychonautfollowed by Celestial Ocean, which told the after-life experience of Egyptian kings traveling through space and time. Released in 1973, the album was hailed as the definitive Brainticket experience and earned the band their greatest acclaim. And Joel has continued to explore new creative avenues over the decades, releasing more albums under the Brainticket moniker, including his most recent offering Past, Present & Future, which was released in February of this year by Purple Pyramids. The Coloursound Box is sure to please fans of Bratinticket as well as fans of adventurous, avante-garde music!