Australian violinist, composer and oddball Jon Rose’s 1995 album Violin Music in the Age of Shopping is one of the most left field items in Intakt’s extensive discography. A postmodern celebration and satire of easy-listening mall music, it slides with reckless insouciance from the over-the-top saccharine muzak schmaltz of “TV Shopping” to the teetering bricolage of “The Channel Surfer’s Guide to the Information Industry” to the fractured noise rock of “Tribal Chant.”
Noah Berlatsky, Bandcamp Intakt-Label profile, 2020

Cover Art: M. S. Bastian
Photo: Transit, Innsbruck

Pieces composed by Jon Rose (© & p 1994, GEMA), except #2 after A. Kent, #6 after trad., #9 after B. Bryant, #21 after C. Chaplin
Recording engineered by Peter Pfister at Rote Fabrik, Zürich, Switzerland, on 28th March 1994, direct to 2 track
Master editing by Ray Edgar, STEIM, Amsterdam. Mastered, Aug. 8, 1994 at OMD, Diessenhofen
Additional material collated and mixed by Jon Rose at Die Küche, Berlin
Thanks to Taktlos Zürich, Rote Fabrik Zürich
Produced by Intakt Records, P.O. Box 468, CH 8024 Zürich, Switzerland
Executive Production: Fredi Bosshard