GRAEME MILLER & STEVE SHILL The Moomins LP/'82 UK Animated Television Soundtrack

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Start Date: October 7, 2018
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GRAEME MILLER & STEVE SHILL 'The Moomins' LP (UK, Finders Keepers, Catalogue #FKR090LP) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2017 Finders Keepers label vinyl edition of previously unreleased soundtrack music for the stop-motion animated television series "The Moomins." 

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

Imagine, if you will, a foreboding homemade electro-acoustic, new age, synth-driven, proto-techno, imaginary world music created on a Portastudio soundtrack for a Polish-made animated fantasy based on a Finnish modern folk tale and created for German and Austrian TV, composed in 1982 by two politically-driven post-punk theater performers from a shared house in Leeds. To even the most perspicacious and adventurous of alternative music fans, the genuine bloodline of this previously unreleased record already begins to sound like an entire record collection in one sitting. It would be surprising if this project's ambitious and exotic credentials didn't tick at least one box on your musical matrix and without one drop of unnecessary nostalgic hyperbole this project already sounds like the perfect fantasy record that you've never heard. From the same social landscape as Gang Of Four, The Mekons, and Impact Theatre Co-operative - armed with a Wasp synthesizer, an ocarina, and a cassette of the Robinson Crusoe music taped off the TV, Graeme Miller and Steve Shill used minimum means for maximum mayhem, instilling over 35 years of dream-like illusory fuzziness and freakiness into the memories of a generation of school age TV addicts waiting for the next five minute fix of outer national fuzzy felt folklore. Collected here, all in one place for the first time, Finders Keepers, in close collaboration with the original composers, present the first-ever full soundtrack release for the UK-specific cult animated series. Finders Keepers take the original homemade micro-melodies and reintroduce them to a musical landscape where fans of vintage electronics, concrète tape effects, pocket percussion, and domestic synths are finally ready to be reunited with the magnetic music of Moominvalley.  

- Finders Keepers present the first-ever full soundtrack release for the UK-specific cult animated series.
- Produced with the full cooperation of Graeme Miller and Steve Shill.
- The label's third release in a dedicated issue series of music from the cult 1983 television series.
- Homemade electro-acoustic, new age, synth-driven, proto-techno, imaginary world music created on a Portastudio soundtrack.
- Vintage electronics, concrète tape effects, pocket percussion, and domestic synths.

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

A1The Moomins Theme 2:24 A2Travelling Theme 2:07 A3Hobgoblin’s Hat 1:29 A4Leaving Moomin Valley 2:30 A5Moomins Partytime 2:00 A6Hattyfatteners Row 0:47 A7Woodland Band 1:29 A8Most Unusual 1:15 B1Midwinter Rites 2:51 B2Piano Waltz 1:31 B3Creepers 0:59 B4Woodland Band (Far Away) 1:29 B5Comet Shadow 4:41 B6Comet Theme 1:17 B7The Moomins Theme (End Titles) 0:31

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