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Basil Kirchin: Basil Kirchin Is My Friend: Trunk Records Sampler - VINYL LPTitle: Basil Kirchin Is My Friend: Trunk Records Sampler Artist: Basil Kirchin Label: Trunk Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 666017317410 Genre: Electronic Release Date: 2017 09 22 Number of Discs: 1 An awe inspiring sampler of the late, great musical polymath's music. From pop punk pop to field recordings, jazz, horror film music, ambient sounds, experimental ideas and all points in between. Many tracks have not been released before. Basil Kirchin was a
Title: Basil Kirchin Is My Friend: Trunk Records SamplerArtist: Basil Kirchin
Label: Trunk
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 666017317410
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2017-09-22
Number of Discs: 1
An awe-inspiring sampler of the late, great musical polymath's music. From pop punk pop to field recordings, jazz, horror film music, ambient sounds, experimental ideas and all points in between. Many tracks have not been released before. Basil Kirchin was a unique talent. A man brought up as a drummer in the post-war big band era, he soon shunned the sounds of London ballrooms for world travel, marijuana, and spiritual enlightenment. On his return to London in the mid-1960s, he started work on experimental "sound picture music", a direction that led him into horror film music, library music, and eventually, to field recordings. He then developed the idea of slowing down the sounds of bird, insects, animals, autistic children - anything he recorded in fact - to reveal the hidden particles of sound that made them up. Mixing this with free jazz improvisation in 1969, he developed a new, peculiar sound that is now known as "ambient". Here, in this unique Trunk Record's sampler, the label offers a fascinating musical glimpse into his world, bringing together work from three decades, plus parts of a long conversation between Jonny Trunk and Basil Kirchin, recorded a few months before Kirchin died. There is unreleased film music, field recordings including autistic children from Schurmatt, music for advertising, the opening of Quantum (JBH 003CD), brilliant mixes of jazz and birds ("Charcoal Sketches"), the newly discovered digital post punk classic "Silicon Chip", plus brilliant and moving homages to his life with Esther, his wife. Together it makes extraordinary listening. All cues mastered and sequenced by Jon Brooks, AKA The Advisory Circle.
Tracks:
1.1 Kitchen Kirchin Excerpt One
1.2 Assignment K
1.3 Bells
1.4 Primitive London 2
1.5 Shuttered Room Effects
1.6 Birds 2
1.7 Shuttered Room 5
1.8 Charcoal Sketch 2
1.9 Kitchen Kirchin Excerpt Two
1.10 Quantum Part 1
1.11 Rank Xerox 1
1.12 Kitchen Kirchin Excerpt Three
1.13 The Dice Is Cast
1.14 The Mustations 5
1.15 Birds and Bangs
1.16 Silicon Chip
1.17 Schurmatt Autistic Children Tape
1.18 E+Me
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★★★★★ 5
A clear and concise book
Format: Hardcover
Fascinating book. Berntsen provides some interesting insights and recommendations on how we should fix problems at the CIA and in the national security apparatus. At a time when most critics want to destroy the Agency, Berntsen provides some plain spoken sanity. Human Intelligence, Counterterrorism and National Leadership needs to be read by anyone entering into defense, foreign affairs or intelligence - and anyone else with an interest in how the CIA works.
It is a fast and enjoyable read.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2008
★★★★★ 4
Skimming the Surface
Format: Hardcover
The essence of this book is to succinctly explain the role of CIA's National Clandestine Service (Directorate of Operations) in formulating and more importantly executing a coherent counter-terrorism strategy. Gary Berntsen is a retired CIA intelligence officer (clandestine service) with an impressive record of field assignments to his credit. He also clearly knows the ways of Washington D.C. in that this book is designed for those suffering from attention deficit disorder. While he raises several interesting point in the book, he also reveals an astonishing narrowness of view and tendency to reduce everything to its simplest terms.
In his introductory `background' chapter Berntsen makes the dubious claim that the collection of intelligence from human sources (HUMINT) is the "primary mission of CIA." Apparently he is unaware that CIA was originally founded to produce all source finished intelligence and that the National Intelligence Council (NIC), until recently under CIA, was the final word in the U.S. Intelligence System. Nothing reveals the sorry state of CIA's Directorate of Intelligence better than this claim. In the same manner Berntsen is apparently oblivious to the availability and uses of intelligence collected by technical means. To his credit he does recognize that the best intelligence is more often available from open (non-classified) sources than from secret sources. Yet he neither expands nor follows up this observation.
Berntsen more or less follows this pattern through out this book. For example he provides a brief discussion of the traditional Islamic Banking System called Hawalla, but is apparently unaware that the system is based on a recognized credit not cash and that money does not move across international borders. The system is widely trusted and is widely used by Muslim expatriates in the West and Saudi Arabia to send money home. For this reason Hawalla credit transfers providing money to terrorists are easily lost in a world wide mass of transactions. Yet it is possible to track Hawalla transactions and it has been done without "intensive manpower" allocations.
Berntsen deserves a good deal of respect and credit for his obvious service to the U. S. and his dedication to the cause of clandestine intelligence operations and its hand maiden covert operations. Yet this book is a terminally superficial and ill-considered work by someone who not only should know better, but could have produced a first rate `practical guide' to a counter-terrorism strategy.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2008
★★★★★ 5
Excellent Overview on Counterterrorism
Format: Hardcover
What really sets this book apart from the rest of books on the subject is that it illustrates positive solutions to the problems. It is also a very entertaining and fun read. I would highly recommend this book to anyone concerned over current events and terrorism in our time.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2014
★★★★★ 4
Good book worth adding to your CIA collection.
Format: Kindle
I enjoyed reading this quite a bit. It's a very fast read that provides an introduction to the layers of the CIA.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2016
★★★★★ 5
Five Stars
Format: Hardcover
Excellent CIA methofology review
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Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2017