Charlemagne Palestine

“Charlemagne Palestine made recordings of the Jamaica Day parade in New York City - where people from Jamaica, Guyana, Cuba, Haiti and other places come to dance, sing, eat and drink. These field recordings of shouting people, passing parade floats and helicopters hovering overhead are interwoven with the electronic sonorities. Together they give a completely new dimension to Charlemagne’s work: Jamaica Heinekens in Brooklyn is colorful, exciting, trance enducing and it slowly unfolds into a magic experience.” From Palestine's liner notes: “This work came out of the idea of traveling with an electronic drone on a ghetto blaster and re-recording it in different situations in many countries... the 60+ minute segment on this record is played without any editing, but super imposed upon this extract I have composed three series of drone textures of Yamaha organs, 16 Serge & Rubery oscillators with bandpass filtering, and a thick Arp synthesizer texture using oscillators, filters and other sound modulation devices. All together this work creates a dialogue between pure and mixed electronics of my long continuum tradition and the real-time ambient sounds of a traditional urban ethnographic popular festival.”