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ZENAMON’S~ Promenade

Zenamon – Promenade

Label:

Theta – 834 106-1

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country:

UK

Released:

1988

Promenade is the second Album in Zenamon’s discography released in 1988, after Zenamon - stellar Self Titled Debut in 1984.

Promenade is a bright, cheerful, West German Ambient, Electronic record with some beautiful Acoustic instruments. Jaime M. Zenamon sequenced the Synthesizers as well as played the Acoustic Guitar on this atmospheric instrumental record. The majority of Promenade was written by Jaime M. Zenamon (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 8)

The record was released on British boutique record label Theta. Promenade was recorded and mixed at the S.I.M. facility in Berlin, Germany in 1988. Additional recording occured at Studio Christoph Franke. Promenade had phonographic copyright from – 1988 Polygram International Music B.V. Baarn. The album’s delightful modern light blue album cover artwork were computer graphics based upon an idea by Detlef Maugsch. 

Tracklist

A1

Thirteen Little Eights

3:17

A2

Real Pink II

4:07

A3

Pantanal

5:08

A4

Three Against Four

1:57

A5

End Of A Film

4:46

A6

Aimaras

2:10

B1

Promenade Of The Times Through The Countries

22:00

B2

The Funny Side Of The Street

1:36

[ Standout Tracks - ‘Thirteen Little Eights’ & ‘Pantanal’ ]

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Zenamon

Promenade

@ 1988 UK Pressing

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This LP is an original cast recording of Promenade, book by Maria Irene Fornes and music by the Rev. Al Carmines, both winners of the Oscar of off-broadway theater, the Obie award. The show debuted in 1969 in the Promenade Theater, which was named for it. The premise is rather like Candide: Two prisoners escape and , in an attempt to worm their way into high society encounter all sorts of situations and characters , who appear in a variety of vignettes. True to its period, the show presents quite a bit of social commentary through its exuberant, funny, and often heartwrenching songs. Al's music draws on his early influences of gospel, vaudeville and opera, mainly, which he interprets in his own melodic, irrepressible style. The songs are all standouts, and the structure of the play enables each one to be enjoyed as an independent entity, making them work well as a recording. "Capricious and Fickle", sung by the incomparable Alice Playten, is considered by many to be one of the best theater songs ever written . Other standouts include the sardonic "Cigarette Song" with its distinctive take on life , the rollicking "Unrequited Love", and the searing self-knowledge of "I Saw a Man". Though tremendously appealing, "Promenade" confronts its audience as well as entertaining it. Along with the originality of words and music, it is this confrontational quality which insures its central place in the avant-garde theater that flourished in New York's Greenwich Village in the 1960's and 1970s.