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A Mere Finger Pointing At The Moon

by Colin Offord & Peter Kelly

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1.
Uks [Door or One] 03:11
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2.
Wakening 04:28
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3.
Streamsong 02:00
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4.
Bones 02:32
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5.
Joy 01:27
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6.
For All The Babies 01:43
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7.
Messiaen 01:41
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8.
Tahini 01:39
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9.
Shamballa 02:17
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10.
Earthen 05:09
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11.
Little Celtic Song 02:40
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12.
Light Your Own Lamp 05:58
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13.
Not the Wind, Not the Flag 06:24
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14.
One Way 06:04
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"When one looks at it, one cannot see it
When one listens to it, one cannot hear it
However when one uses it, it is inexhaustible" - Tao Te Ching

"The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form" - Pythagoras

"If one really wishes to be master of an art, technical knowledge of it is not enough. One has to transcend technique so that the art becomes an 'artless art', growing out of the unconscious" - Daisetz Suzuki

Peter Kelly and Colin Offord are responsible for the music, cover paintings, recording, etc of this record. Editing with help from the Electronic Studio, NSW Conservatorium of Music.

"Earthen" is dedicated to all 'primitive' peoples being so carelessly pushed aside by the spread of 'civilisation' in the guise of progress... to where?

Colin Offord - Chinese flute, Chinese piccolo, gong, bells, recorder, flageolet, voice, waterfall, concert flute, 5-note panpipes, bamboo dronepipe, percussion, ukulele, handdrums

Peter Kelly - gong, bells, watergong, percussion, Indonesian drum, rattle, voice, berimbau, clay flute, Moroccan flute, marimba, vibraphone


Recorded at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1 Central Street, Sydney on 19-21 May 1978 and in the Blue Mountains on 5 June 1978.

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released June 1, 1979

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Fringe Benefit Records was set up in 1977 by Jon Rose as a tape library of Australian improvised music. By the time of the final release in 1985, more than 50 cassettes and more than a dozen LPs had been released. This site now exists to digitise and bring those releases to a new audience, beginning with the compilation double CD released on Entropy Stereo Recordings in Michigan in 1998... ... more

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