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K. Leimer

K. Leimer has two sides, the ambient new age side and the ambient post punk side. Here are a few in that second category from 1983. As I mentioned in Pt.1 K Records put out a retrospective A Period Of Review in 2014, here's a look at that from Dr Rob's Test Pressing website https://www.testpressing.org/magazine/k-leimera-period-of-reviewrvng-intl

Entr'acte from Installation View and included on the K Records retrospective A Period Of Review

Life of the Poet from Imposed Order

The Human Condition from Imposed Order

Ceylon from Installation View and included on the K Records retrospective A Period Of Review

K. Leimer, Installation View / 1983

K. Leimer, Music For Land and Water / 1983

Leimer put out three albums on his own Palace Of Light label in 1983. Even the post punk/avant rock tracks have an ambient something to them but today I'm focusing on the soundscapes, the sighs and celestial harmonies

RVNG put out a compilation A Period Of Review (Original Recordings 1975 – 1983) in 2014 which didn't quite make K. Leimer a household name but it aroused interest, the Ranson Not interviews him to promote the compilation https://www.theransomnote.com/music/interviews/k-leimer-talks/

The first four tracks are from K. Leimer's album Imposed Order

Three Forms Of Decay

Method, Language and Silence

Aspects of Order

Simple Hierarchies

And a beautiful long piece from Music For Land And Water

Art And Science

Palace Of lights is an independent record label founded by Kerry Leimer in Seattle, USA

Roy Finch was in the group Savant with K. Leimer, their solo album Fiction Music was released on Palace Of Light in 1982. It's a lot lighter and poppy compared with much of PoL's output

Roy Finch - The Fun Man

Rvng Intl. put out a compilation of K. Leimer's solo work and with the group Savant in 2014 under the title A Period of Review, you can find it here on bandcamp https://kleimer.bandcamp.com/album/a-period-of-review-original-recordings-1975-1983. Two Voices originally from the Palace Of Light album Land Of Look Behind is included on the RVNG comp

K. Leimer - Two Voices

Regional Zeal, Mouth Music From Olympia Washington is an album of voice based experiments, it was produced by Customer Service Steve Peters and Steve Fisk. Together or separately Peters and Fisk recorded and produced many bands for K Records (A-T-2 237). Steve Peters was in The Go Team, Steve Fisk is a member of Pell Mell and The Halo Benders but he's possibly best know for producing Beat Happening and The Screaming Trees

Sleeve notes: "This is an anthology of music dealing with various applications of the human voice - i.e., spoken, singing, multi-tracked, processed... Some of these people have appeared on other records, some have never been recorded at all until now. All are involved in various other kinds of music/activity (electronics, improvisation, rock, dance, theatre, poetry, performance, etc.), so this is in no way an accurate representation of what they all "do". What they all have in common is an interest in using voices in one way or another to make music. Steve Peters Jan, 1982"