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Artist:
AMM
Title:
At the Roundhouse
Label:
ANOMALOUS RECORDS
Format:
CD
Price:
$14.00
Catalog #:
ICES 001CD
"The International Carnival of Experimental Sound, or ICES '72 for short, was an ambitious festival sprung from the mind of Harvey 'Job' Matusow (1926-2002). Jumping off from his associations with the influential Source magazine, Harvey brought together over 300 artists from more than 21 countries to perform in London, England over the course of two weeks in August of 1972. Based on the theme of Myth, Magic Madness and Mysticism, he assembled an amazing diversity of performers working in diverse range of audio-visual arts. Encompassing happenings, films, dance, a train ride, and the phantom soft pool table, the focus was on sound -- specifically that of artists who were both composers and performers. Most of the concerts were held at The Roundhouse, a cavernous structure that was formerly a railroad engine house. Now, for the first time in 30 years, these recordings can be heard. This first CD in a series documenting the festival features the complete concert given by legendary free improvising group AMM. Represented here by Eddie Prevost and Lou Gare, they offer up powerful explosions of saxophone and drums punctuated with their famous
AMM silences
. This is the first time this material is available, aside from two short excerpts were published as the only 7" release on Evan Parker and Derek Bailey's Incus Records (and a very rare and desirable record that has become)."
Artist:
AMM
Title:
To Hear And Back Again AMM
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
MRCD03
A reissue of what is chronologically the 3rd full AMM album, following
AMM:1966
and
The Crypt
. Recorded during the years of 1973-75, this marks an unusual and little recognized period in the group's history. For about 5 years, Keith Rowe (and his guitar and electronics) had left the group (along with Cornelius Cardew), leaving AMM as a working duo of Eddie Prévost (drums) and Lou Gare (tenor saxophone). That makes this the most jazz-like version of AMM, but as the liner notes (by Martin Davidson) make clear in fascinating detail, this is not jazz; "absolutely nothing (melody, harmony, rhythm, tempo) was predetermined." This CD add three pieces of previously unavailable material. Unique document in their saga, but not necessarily the place to start.
Artist:
AMM
Title:
The Crypt - 12th June 1968
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
2CD
Price:
$35.00
Catalog #:
MRCD05
This monstrous, early set of noise is now available in complete form (31 previously non-LP minutes on this dbl CD - total of 110 minutes). Dense, original, crucial to the history of massive sound presentation and its aesthetics. Recorded 12th June, 1968. "The only possibility is to surrender to the ebb and flow of the pervasive group sound, until, finally you are lost inside it, mesmerised by it. You notice that the detail in the music is fascinating, no less the overall shape of the performance, which remains just out of grasp, like a landscape too powerful to assimilate in its entirety." --
Melody Maker
.
Artist:
AMM
Title:
Generative Themes
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
MRCD06
Studio recording from 1982, with the addition of a previously unavailable 31 minute piece from 1983 added (from the o/p LP version). This marks the recording debut of John Tilbury (piano) in the group, plus the now reunited core of Prévost and Keith Rowe (guitar, electronics). Absolutely stunning improvisational "noise" from a very serious standpoint ensemble.
Artist:
AMM
Title:
The Inexhaustible Document
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
MRCD13
Recorded live in London on 1/10/87. Prévost, Rowe, Tilbury, and Rohan de Saram (cello). The organic control of sound on this disc is spectacular; pretty much a must for serious listeners worldwide.
Artist:
AMM
Title:
The Nameless Uncarved Block
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
MRCD20
Live in Zurich 1990. 74 minutes of Gare/Prévost/Rowe/Tilbury, showing they have hardly run into a creative wall in their 3rd decade of existence.
Artist:
AMM
Title:
Newfoundland
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
MRCD23
76 minute piece recorded live in 1992, featuring the Rowe/Prévost/Tilbury trio; tremendous atmospherics and one of their ultimate recordings.
"AMM's singular shocking moment in Newfoundland is stretched to a taut 76 minute whole. Any one detail is packed with absorbing incident: dig an instance featuring distant-sounding chimes, the loose, dank and otherworldly knots f piano notes and the great, ghastly bowel-rattling laughter of Rowe's guitar-sprung electronics. And then a lost radio voice is fed through Rowe's pickup, temporarily anchoring the night in space and time. Rowe's ether-trawling catapults you back to the excitement of the dawn of broadcasting. Way back then, a listener was asked if h could hear the singing of Caruso. No, he replied, but 'I could occasionally catch the ecstasy.' Just picture that early, primitive listening pleasure, when radio hams strained to pick up music over transatlantic wires, unsure whether they were tuning into heavenly static or the voice of angels, and you begin to get close to the pleasure of AMM."
-- Biba Kopf,
The Wire
.
Artist:
AMM
Title:
Combines & Laminates & Treatise '84
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
MRCD26
CD issue of material previously available as an LP on Pogus, with an additional 32 minute track, called "Treatise '84" ("an improvisation inspired and guided, rather than dictated or controlled by Cornelius Cardew's graphic masterpiece"). New artwork and additional notes by Prévost compared to the LP. Recorded live at the Arts Club, Chicago on 5/25/95, this is the trio of Tilbury, Rowe & Prévost.
Artist:
AMM
Title:
Live in Allentown USA
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
MRCD30
Recording of a concert given at the Muhlenberg College Arts Center Recital Hall, Allentown, PA, on Sunday 4/24/94. The trio of Keith Rowe (guitar), John Tilbury (piano) & Eddie Prévost (percussion). One beautiful 60-minute piece in the style of expansive, spatial-detailed improvisation that they have so fully mastered in recent years -- the purest in absolute sound.
Artist:
AMM
Title:
Laminal
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
3CD
Price:
$48.00
Catalog #:
MRCD31
"A three CD set marking thirty years in the making of AMMmusic. Three concert performances: Aarhus, Denmark, 1969. London, 1982. New York, 1994. Featuring variously: Cornelius Cardew, Lou Gare, Christopher Hobbs, Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe and John Tilbury. Includes an illustrated booklet with commentaries by Jim O'Rourke, Victor Schonfield, Malcolm LeGrice and John Tilbury." Tremendous historical document of all exclusive material to this box, perfectly packaged, desperately awaited. "AMM moves on or comes together on any plane: it could be volume, speed or density as much as pitch. The most peaceful and united parts might be the ones which are the busiest and most crowded. AMM uses all the dimensions of musical space to create the feeling that sound is a solid object in solid space -- complete with size, shape, performance. It depends where they are sitting, what they are focusing on, how long and at what stage they can concentrate, and how widely or narrowly. There is no whole or center, only parts. AMM reveals the behaviour of sound, and its anomalies. Low sounds absorb high ones, loud sounds blot out soft ones, but most sounds placed side by side either co-exist, reach out to each other or merge. Sometimes you can hear one sound being squeezed until it splits into two or more. The melody need not be sound changing: it could simply be sound being" --Victor Schonfield.
Artist:
AMM
Title:
Before driving to the chapel...
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
MRCD35
...we took coffee with Rick and Jennifer Reed
. The Recording of a concert given at Rice University, Houston, TX, USA on Friday 19th April 1996. A stupendous continuation of the 90's AMM sound, ala previous documents such as
Newfoundland
,
Live In Allentown
and
From A Strange Place
. Shifting patterns consistently emerge; via Prévost's bowed percussion; via Rowe's distinct prepared guitar emanations that so distinctly verify the interior nature of electricity; via Tilbury's near-hallucinatory piano lines which seem to take on three dimensional status on this recording. Ultimately, it's AMM. Whose albums have been described as "alike or unalike as trees." This is another one, but it's not like the others. Music that you can play at almost any volume, at any time, forever.
Artist:
AMM
Title:
Tunes Without Measure Or End
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
MRCD44
"Rowe/Tilbury/Prévost. Recorded in Glasgow, Scotland May 2000, at the
free radiCCAls festival
, curated by Evan Parker. First AMM CD since 1996 recording. One continuous 58-minute piece."
Artist:
AMM
Title:
Fine
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
MRCD46
"Recording of the concert they gave with together with the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski at Musique Action festival produced by CCAM, Vendoeuvre-les-Nancy, France on 24th May 2001." One continuous 59 minute piece by the Tilbury/Rowe/Prévost trio.
Artist:
AMM
Title:
Norwich
Label:
MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
MRCD64
First AMM CD in a while, featuring the new duo AMM (Keith Rowe is no longer a member). Eddit Prévost on percussion and John Tilbury on piano. "AMM at UEA. Eddie Prévost and John Tilbury recorded at a concert given at The School of Music, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England on 14th February 2005." From Simon Waters' liner notes: "Despite availing themselves of entirely different technologies, they can produce sounds which are almost identical, or fuse sounds through awesome real-time skill and intimate awareness of their vastly different resources: a moment where John's piano clusters isolate and make explicit the pitches in Eddies bowed cymbal is one magical example here."
Artist:
AMM
Title:
From A Strange Place
Label:
PSF (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
PSF 080CD
"Undisputed deans of the meta-music, captured live on their first ever tour of Japan in October 1995. After 30 years of AMMusic there's very little left to be said about the group. Suffice to say that this is more of their totally committed style of pure improvisation, scaling new heights of non-derivativeness. Music created with a piercing awareness of place and time, once created never to be repeated, even by themselves. This set was marked by an extreme level of quietness, a grappling with silence and subtle vibration, and their mastery of instantaneous technique. An instant captured. Gone yet living." The trio of Prevost (perc.), Rowe (guitar) and Tilbury (piano).
Artist:
AMM
Title:
AMMusic 1966
Label:
RECOMMENDED (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
RER AMMCD
Repressed, originally reissued in 1989. Monumental debut recording (originally issued by the Elektra recording company in far different times). "The classic first recording from 1966, with Cornelius Cardew, Eddie Prevost, Lou Gare, Keith Rowe and Lawrence Sheaf. One of the first attempts to bring Noise improvisation (radios, scraped guitars, prepared pianos) into popular culture. Essential and historic." See the Matchless label for the rest of AMM's discography.
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