Music for People

• Artist: VAST
• Rating:
• Release Date: September 12, 2000
• Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Enhanced CD-ROM
• Genre: Rock

Review

VAST's Jon Crosby is mysteriously alluring -- the dark's scene artistic poet. And on his sophomore release Music for People, he molds his one man show of elaborate classical orchestration and shadowy industrial layers into another enigmatic piece of cathartic wizardry. Music for People is haunting and vividly edged with heavy metal elements and Crosby's somber vocals. It's cutting with Crosby's use of the Bulgarian Voices, his signature chanting backdrops made famous on his debut Visual Auditory Sensory Theater. "What Else Do I Need" and Song Without a Name" showcase the dismal impressionistic view in which Crosby has aimed to create: harmonies so lushly sculptured into a new metal sound. It's not raging, yet it's angst-ridden with bittersweet tongues of love and deception. "The One Alive" is reminiscent of goth-rock's Sisters of Mercy, brooding along to the band's 1985 cut "Marian." "Lady of Dreams" and Free" illustrate Crosby's therapeutic nature. He's oddly similar to Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor, for his material appears to be an outlet for his mind's distractions and frustrations. But his compositions do not solely reflect him. Music for People is bizarre and beautiful in capturing social apathy. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
The Last One Alive/Angelite	Jon Crosby	VAST, The Bulgarian Voices	(3:38)
Free/Zulu	Jon Crosby	Medwyn Goodall, VAST	(3:07)
I Don't Have Anything	Jon Crosby	VAST	(3:46)
The Gates of Rock 'N' Roll	Jon Crosby	VAST	(3:24)
What Else Do I Need/Epithalamica Excerpts	Jon Crosby	Paul Hillier, VAST	(3:37)
Blue	Jon Crosby	VAST	(3:25)
Land of Shame	Jon Crosby	VAST	(3:26)
A Better Place	Jon Crosby	VAST	(3:23)
Song Without a Name/Virgines Caste Excerpts	Jon Crosby	Paul Hillier, VAST	(3:32)
We Will Meet Again	Jon Crosby	VAST	(3:39)
My TV and You	Jon Crosby	VAST	(2:40)
Lady of Dreams	Jon Crosby	VAST	(5:21)

Credits

David Baerwald (Lap Steel Guitar), Paul Hillier (Voices), David Bottrill (Mixing), Country Joe McDonald (Photography), Alan Moulder (Mixing), Richard Mouser (Engineer), Lloyd Puckitt (Engineer), Robert Read (Assistant Engineer), J.D. Staples (Vocals (Background)), Medwyn Goodall (Performer), Donal Hodgson (Engineer), Rail Jon Rogut (Engineer), Marina Chavez (Photography), Chris Vrenna (Remix Producer), John Tyree (Assistant Engineer), Daman Sood (Engineer), VAST (Main Performer), Jon Crosby (Guitar), Jon Crosby (Programming), Jon Crosby (Producer), Jon Crosby (String Arrangements), Jon Crosby (Orchestral Arrangements), Rowan Robertson (Guitar), The Bulgarian Voices (Performer), Jason Todd (Photography), Lynn Bugai (Stylist), Tosh Kasai (Assistant Engineer), Michael Tuller (Guitar), Michael Tuller (Programming), Michael Tuller (Producer), Blumpy (Guitar), Blumpy (Programming), Blumpy (Producer), Andrew T. Mackay (String Arrangements), Andrew T. Mackay (Orchestral Arrangements)

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