First released by Cherry Red fifteen years ago to an enthusiastic response from press and public, who saw the album as a pioneer of the new direction in ambient music. The album, originally recorded in Japan, has now been remixed and extended for a year 2000 CD release. Experimental musician, neo-glam popstar, guru devotee, Morgan Fisher has straddled careers and idioms as diverse as they come in the rock world. From his first band ‘Love Affair’, through ‘Mott The Hoople’ to Japan where he now resides as a composer and solo artist (having recorded over 20 albums in the last 22 years), Morgan Fisher’s career path could never be described as dull!

Water In The City / Ice Melting / The Great Lakes / After The Rain / We Are All Water / Breathing Rain / We Are On The Brink / We Are All Water (remix)

This is a great title and describes accurately the contents of the album. It is very relaxing, peaceful, heartful, instrumental piano music. Morgan Fisher has had a fascinating career. Was originally the keyboard player in Love Affair who had a No 1 hit with "Everlasting Love" when he was 16 years old. Went on to join Mott The Hoople who had several top ten hits in the early to mid 70's. In 1978 he was one of the first musicians to form his own label, Pipe Music, recording the groundbreaking "Miniatures" album. In 1981 he played keyboards with Queen on their world tour. Since 1985 he has lived in Tokyo and has been very successful there writing music for TV commercials and film soundtracks. During this time he has recorded 12 albums and has built up a strong following in that country. This CD can be racked in both "New Age" sections and under his name "Morgan Fisher" as a known artist.

Melt Into Love / Illustrious Facades / Space Between Cars / Birds Over Buildings / Peace (Go Slowly) / Life Goes On / Urban Satori / Naive Sophisticate / Era Of An End / Simple Song (City Song)

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Featuring artists as diverse as The Residents, Robert Fripp, XTC'sAndy Partridge, Pete Seeger, Robert Wyatt and The Pretenders Martin Chambers, as well as cover artwork contributed by Ralph Steadman, Morgan Fisher's1980 release Miniatures truly was a first. Overwhelmed with concepts for potential releases, Fisher decided to see how many of these ideas he might be able to squeeze onto just one album. Rather than performing everything himself, he invited 50 musicians he admired to send in tracks of up to one minute in length. They responded with unanimous enthusiasm, and Miniatures was born out of Morgan’s’ precise editing and sequencing of these tracks, providing a unique snapshot of the cutting-edge music of the period and achieving legendary status amongst those who cherish such creativity and individuality in the process.

Fast forward 15 years, several projects and the development of new realms of communication and data transfer afforded by the Internet, and Morgan decided the time was right for a sequel. Little did he know that this project would take six years to complete and involve an international cast of players (taking in 18 countries across five continents), but it proved truly worth both the effort and the wait. The astounding Miniatures 2 brings together over 60 musicians and artists of all genres - the bizarre, the eccentric, the contemplative, the rebel-rousers, the pioneers and the philosophers and no stone was left unturned in its creation.

As with the original album, one minute creations were composed, then sequenced and edited by Morgan, again meeting with rave reviews and an acknowledgement that Fisher had produced something both original and vital to those with any interest in music existing outside the mainstream. Comprising both legendary tiny masterpiece collections, this new set brings together all one hundred and thirteen tracks (yes, 113!) in one two-disc collection for the first time, freshly boosted and tweaked for 2008.

Disk 1
Ollie Halsall & John Halsey - Bum Love / The Residents - We're A Happy Family + Bali Ha'i / Roger Mcgough - The Wreck Of The Hesperus / Morgan Fisher - Green And Pleasant / John Otway - Mine Tonight / Pete Challis & Phil Diplock - My Way / Robert Wyatt - Rangers In The Nights / Stinky Winkles-Opus/ Mary Longford - Body Language / Andy 'Thunderclap' Newman - Andy The Dentist / David Bedford - Wagner's Ring In One Minute / Fred Frith - The Entire Works Of Henry Cow / Maggie Nicols - Look Beneath The Surface / Joseph Racaille-Week-End / The Work With Wings - Pressed Back / Neil Innes & Son-Cum On Feel The Noize / Herbert Distel - Toscany In Blue (Last Minute) / Lol Coxhill - An End To The Matter / Ken Ellis - One Minute In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich / Steve Miller – Alice / Norman Lovett-John Peel Sings The Blues Badly / Patrick Portella - Serrons Nous Les Coudes / George Melly - Sounds That Saved My Life / Robert Fripp – Miniature / Andy Partridge (Xtc) - The History Of Rock'n'roll / Phantom Captain - Breather / Ron Geesin-Enterbrain Exit / Alejandro Viñao - An Imaginary Orchestrina / Quentin Crisp - Stop The Music For A Minute / Simon Desorgher – Tetrad / Ralph Steadman - Sweetest Love (Lament After A Broken Sashcord On A Theme Of John Donne) / R.D.Laing & Son – Tipperary / Trevor Wishart - Beach Double / John White - Scene De Ballet / Ivor Cutler - Brooch Boat / Hector Zazou - Do Tell Us / Michael Bass & Ellen Tenenbaum - A Miniaturization Of Bartok's Sonata For Two Pianos & Percussion (3rd Movement) / Martin Chambers (The Pretenders) - A Swift One / Bob Cobbing & Henri Chopin - Refreshment Break / Dave Vanian (The Damned) -Night Touch / Metabolist-Racing Poodles / Gavin Bryars-After Mendelssohn (137 Years) / 1/2 Japanese - Paint It Black / Simon Jeffes - Arthur's Treat / Mark Perry - Talking World War Iii Blues / Michael Nyman - 89-90-91-92 / David Cunningham (The Flying Lizards) - Index Of Ends / Kevin Coyne - James, Mark & Me (In The Manner Of Tom Waits) / Etron Fou Leloublan - Hep! / Neil Oram & Ken Campbell & The Science Fiction Theatre Of Liverpool - The Minute Warp / Pete Seeger - Chorale From Beethoven's 9th Symphony / Bonus Tracks - No Artists - One Minutes Silence / All Artists - The Miniatures Miniature

Disk 2
Jean Houston - Jump Time / John Paul Jones - It's Coming (A Fanfare For The Millennium) / Linton Kwesi Johnson - Beacon Of Hope / Talitha Mackenzie - Chakras / Hugh Cornwell - 2000 Lights / Piero Milesi - Minute Quartet / Howard Jones - Atoms And Stars / Kazufumi Miyazawa - One Minute Blackout / Klaus Trabitsch - Jodler / Bj Cole - Newgrange / Aeon Fragment / Terry Riley - A Dog Barks At Midnight / Michael Nyman - Here's To The Next One / Meredith Monk - Panda Chant Ii / Sainkho Namtchylak - Last Christmas / Jill Purce - The Healing Voice Dagmar Andrtová - Little Orchestra Of Disaster And Hope / Wolfgang Mitterer - Solo No.3 /Phillip k. Bimstein - Garland Hirschi's Cows / Piano Circus - Red / Robert Fripp & Trey Gunn - Blast / Isao Osada & Takuro A - Un / David Cunningham -Oxalis / Penguin Cafe Orchestra - A Pythagorean Roll / Sizzle Ohtaka - One Cell / Hermeto Pascoal - Feira De Asakusa (Asakusa Market) / Chris Hughes - Shaka Shaka Shaka / Dissidenten - Light Of Love / Christos Hatzis - Hunter's Dream / Baka Beyond -Timeless / Ottmar Liebert - Freedom (Universal Mix) / Mamadou Doumbia - Qui Sait? / Tananas - Ashtanga / Koto Vortex - Sae / Michael Shrieve & Jeff Greinke - Invisible Guides Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Miniature) / Jane Siberry - The Narrow Bridge / Laurie Spiegel - Soundtrack For Sandin / Chéng Gongliang - Ghu Zu Jun / John Fiddler - Another 21st Century Day / Nastya - Islands / Geoffrey Richardson -The Lighthouse / Thomas De Hartmann - Gurdjieff/De Hartmann Music / Peadar Óriada - Seascad Siocand I Dtreo Millennium (Sixty Seconds Towards A Millennium) / Daniel Figgis - Fail Better / The Deep Season -Theme For The Peaceful Revolution / Heat Wave -Takeda No Komori Uta / Woof Woof -Passion Sauce / The Minus 5 - Came Saw Stayed / Morgan Fisher - Flowers Of Silence / Komitas Vardapet - Gutan Yerg / David Darling - Introspection / Lol Coxhill - Six To Four /Trans Global Underground - Dead Dog Of Kairouan / The Levellers - Hope Street (Rain Chant Remix) / Chris Butler - Have A Nice Century! / Moondog (Louis Hardin) - Cosmicode / Ashik Peter Lynch - Snow / Tokiko Kato - Toorina / Jane Campion - Passionless Moments / Milladoiro - Alal Ádas Mariñas

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"Miniatures 2" is the long awaited follow up to the 1980 "Miniatures" album, which was both critically and commercially well received. The album is a fascinating collection of 60 new tracks, all no more than 60 seconds long. The album is compiled by Morgan Fisher who has enjoyed a long and varied career, playing keyboards with Love Affair, Mott The Hoople and Queen. Contributors on the album include Gavin Bryars, Hugh Cornwell (Ex The Stranglers), Lol Coxhill, David Cunningham, John Fiddler (Ex Medicine Head), Robert Fripp (Ex King Crimson), Howard Jones, John Paul Jones (Ex Led Zepplin), The Levellers, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Sun Ra and Terry Riley.

DAGMAR ANDRTOVA / Little Orchestra Of Disaster And Hope / BAKA BEYOND / Timeless / GAVIN BRYARS / Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet / CHRIS BUTLER / Have A Nice Century / JANE CAMPION / Passionless Moment / BJ COLE / Newgrange Aeon Fragment / HUGH CORNWELL / 2000 Lights / LOL COXHILL / Six To Four / DAVID CUNNINGHAM / Oxalis / DAVID DARLING / Introspection / THE DEEP SEASON / Theme From The Peaceful Revolution / DISSIDENTEN / Light Of Love / MAMADOU DOUMBIA / Qui Sait / JOHN FIDDLER / Another 21st Century Day / DANIEL FIGGIS / Fail Better / MORGAN FISHER / TBA / ROBERT FRIPP / Blast / CHENG GONGLIANG / Ghu Zu Jun / THOMAS DE HARTMANN / Gurdjieff / De Hartman Music / CHRISTOS HATZIS / Hunters Dream / HEAT WAVE / Takeda No Komori Uta / JEAN HOUGHTON / Jump Time / CHRIS HUGHES / Shaka Shaka Shaka / LINTON KWESI JOHNSON / Beacon Of Hope / HOWARD JONES / Atoms And Stars / JOHN PAUL JONES / It’s Coming / TOKIKO KATO / Toorina / KOTO VORTEX / Sae / THE LEVELLERS / TBA / OTTMAR LIEBERT / Freedom / ASHIK PETER LYNCH / Snow / TALITHA MACKENZIE / Chakras / PIERO MILESI / Minute Quartet / MILLADOIRO / Alala Das Marinas / MINUS 5 / Came Saw Stayed / WOLFGANG MITTERER / Solo No 3 / KAZUFUMI MIYAZAWA / One Minute Blackout / MEREDITH MONK / Panda Chant 11 / MOONDOG / Cosmicode / SAINKHO NAMTCHYLAK / TBA / NASTYA / Islands / MICHAEL NYMAN / Here’s To The Next One / SHIZURU OHTAKA / One Cell / PEADER O’ RIADA / Cead Siocan / ISAO OSADA / A Un / HERMETO PASCOAL / Fiera De Asaku / PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA / Pythagorean Roll / PIANO CIRCUS / Red / JILL PURCE / The Healing Voice / SUN RA / Disco 2000 / GEOFFERY RICHARDSON / The Lighthouse / TERRY RILEY / A Dog Barks At Midnight / MICHAEL SHRIEVE / Invisible Guides / JANE SIBERRY / The Narrow Bridge / LAURIE SPIEGEL / Soundtrack For Sandin / TANANAS / Ashtanga / KLAUS TRABITSCH / Jodler / TRANS/GLOBAL UNDERGROUND / Dead Dog Of Kairouan / KOMITAS VARDAPET / Gutan Yerg / WOOF WOOF / Passion Sauce/