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Artist:	SMITH/JOHN STEVENS, GARY
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Label:	ECSTATIC PEACE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	E#52

A series of seven improvisations for electric guitar and drums, recorded live to DAT in a London studio in 1993. This presents the young UK free guitarist Smith alongside the late, legendary Spontaneous Music Ensemble drummer Stevens (also found briefly on mini-trumpet, in what unfortunately will have to be remembered as one of his final studio dates). Gary Smith has released one amazing solo CD previously (Rhythm Guitar on the Impetus label), and here develops a full palette of what has been referred to as "electroacoustic free/scratch guitar," a decidedly post-Bailey language of volume-pedal-manipulated in/out chatter that mixes dense rhythmic build ups with long, stretched note explorations (that occasionally almost drowse themselves to a non-blues-centered Mazzacane-esque haze). The whole thing coalesces with beautiful fragility, adding a new sub chapter to the contemporary world of non-metered improv. Limited stock.

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