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The Choral Sea by the Split Enz, from their album "True Colours" (1979/1980)

Vinyl Pressings came in a variety of colour combo covers, with a laser etched record. Seldomly used, laser etching was to be a way to deter bootleg copies from being produced. The Split Enz 7" 45rpm release "One Step Ahead" (1981) also came laser etched.

The Choral Sea, an instrumental composition that finishes off the True Colours LP, is a highly dancable new wave/disco hybrid, and sadly, unlike anything else found on the album. The closest comparison may be to Moroder, in terms of contemporaries at the time of release, but I wouldnt be surprised if the brothers Hartnoll (that's Orbital, for the layman) were playing this to death when younger and were inspired by it when it came time to record tracks such as Impact, Lush 3, Monday, or even Beached.

Now for the boring stuff:

Written By - Split Enz

Recorded at Armstrongs, Melbourne, Australia.

A Boomerang production.

(P) 1979 Mushroom Records Pty. Ltd.

the copyright for this audio is owned by WARNER MUSIC GROUP for the world.

Comentarios

10 years ago

The 5th

Underrated band back then and even more underrated and even unknown internationally now, they did some truly unique and new music for the years and should have much much greater acknowledgement in music history as innovative pioneers than they do or probably ever will, while people crap on about Genisis Split Enz were doing far more interesting stuff.

10 years ago

Katherine Ganzel

I heard this album the first time at the library of the University of Maine in Orono in 1981. I was a junior in high school and supposedly doing a school sponsored college tour, but I really went just so I could hang out with my boyfriend all day. I think it was my first ever exposure to New Wave, and I haven't looked back since. When I was home, I bought the album. It looked great on a turntable. :)

11 years ago

Chris Kennedy

This was the first album I owned as a kid, THE stand out track, plain and simple...Its love.

11 years ago

Michael Grech

This is an awesome tune, my fav on the album!

12 years ago

trfesok

Really cool! Hadn't heard it before. Thanks for the upload!

12 years ago

noidea26

omg, you would be my hero if you can post a video of how to play it!

12 years ago

Julia'sMusic

great idea! I will try to get that done soon :D

12 years ago

pabloplato

awesome :) you should post a video response of you playing the bass line :)

12 years ago

Julia'sMusic

This is awesome! I learned the bass part (which is really fun!!) just by watching this twice! Thank you :)

12 years ago

3000EJS

Nice presentation of the song and the album! Thank you...

13 years ago

Mike Walker

A great track from the album.The sound is a bull roarer at the beginning and end. Sound is made by revolving a long tube around.Always listened to this at max volume driving along the Red Sea Corniche in Jeddah,Saudi Arabia after a days diving on the superb coral reef there. Very evocative of great times past.

13 years ago

mystered

Double Happy, Wail, Albert of India, Pioneer, The Lost Cat, and Overdrive.

13 years ago

Dave Davis

... a heady tune ... neat how that arpeggiator keyboard effect is tweaked from six months in a leaky boat ... this was one i always liked for forcing my mind out of the square ... i've invented cool things to the tune of this song. why aren't there more like this? it's like they really wanted to do techno, but couldn't quite get there with guitars ... it's great sometimes when all the witchcraft is out of the mix and the musos have a go. useful words weren't designed to rhyme.

13 years ago

71yid

Listen to that bass! Good instrumental from the Finn brothers and co.

13 years ago

pulstropiciela

Lindstrom - Where You Go Split Enz Were There Earlier

13 years ago

Lloyd Radford

One of there best instrunmental songs especially on this album even though the best album out of all of them all .

13 years ago

utuberine

@dddrum they still are.

13 years ago

mystered

@JamesMcRae78 And a better tune than I Hope I Never, IMO. Although I think it owes a little to Space's "Magic Fly".

13 years ago

James McRae

I used to listen to this song as a 7 year old boy stealing my mums records! It was the B side to 'I Hope I Never'!!

13 years ago

Beeeeejai

@cynflux - I ended up finding out directly from Eddie Rayner and Mike Chunn that it is whirly tubes making that sound. They said all of the guys had them, and that it was probably Noel's idea.