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Mary Zick - Orion's Belt

by Mary Zick

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1.
Stratos 01:04
2.
Migration 02:44
3.
Now/Move 01:41
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5.
Chem Trails 03:58
6.
Alt Tok 00:25

about

Previously unreleased, the tracks on ‘Orion’s Belt’ were written and recorded by Californian expat Mary Zick in Wellington, New Zealand in the summer of 1982.

Formerly members of the nascent San Francisco holistic audio wellness collective ‘Coolidge’, Mary Zick and her then-husband Merv arrived in Wellington in 1981 looking to set up an alternative healing practice in the Kapiti Coast using the same musical/medicinal techniques they had practiced in California.

Shortly after arrival they were introduced to veteran local muso Steve McKay (formerly of vintage prog outfit Harvest). Now running a successful sports medicine clinic, McKay’s clients mostly included athletes seeking high-performance muscle recovery through alternative medicine techniques. McKay invited Mary Zick to use his clinical practice and patients as a forum in which to demonstrate the potential benefits of music for healing.

Atmospheric, minimal and rhythmic, these 6 instrumentals were written and performed by Zick on a synthesizer borrowed from McKay. Subsequently considered by some to be important additions to the canon of lower-North Island New Age and Disco, these tracks were imagined by Zick less as ‘music’ than as a ‘dedication to wellness’, and played solely as a live backdrop for patients undergoing treatment in MacKay's holistic healing practice.

Zick abandoned her 'experiments' in mid-1983 but – crucially - retained the tapes. Invited to speak at a 2014 symposium in Westpac Stadium exploring 40 years of natural therapy in Wellington, Zick’s presentation revisited her compositions as an example of early experiments in the field of holistic medicine. The enthusiastic response to the tracks and the chance meeting with audience member and Burning Log associate Susan Hoff-Holt led us to approach Mary about a release, to which she happily agreed.

Today Mary Zick and Steve MacKay live in Carterton where they run the successful organic wholefood co-operative 'Harvest Life'. Merv Zick lives in California.

credits

released August 1, 2016

'Orion's Belt' - recordings by Mary Zick, 1983.

Side A
Stratos
Migration
Now/Move
Inverted Pulse
Chem Trails
Alt Tok

All music by Mary Zick. Engineered by Steve MacKay. Liner notes by Susan Hoff-Holt.
 
A Burning Log release. 2016.
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