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Artist:
YOUNG, ROLAND P.
Title:
Isophonic Boogie Woogie
Label:
EM RECORDS (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
EM 1045CD
Reissue of the legendary 5-track first LP (plus 2 bonus tracks) from horn wizard and original underground FM radio DJ
Roland P. Young
, featuring soprano sax, clarinet, and electronically-processed bass clarinet. An enjoyable outing from a neglected musician. Cosmic Afro-minimal electronic winds recorded in 1970s San Francisco. Classic explorations from the dude who was responsible for the legendary
Infinite Sound
LP on Arch 1750.
Artist:
YOUNG, ROLAND P.
Title:
Isophonic Boogie Woogie
Label:
EM RECORDS (JAPAN)
Format:
LP
Price:
$20.00
Catalog #:
EM 1045HJ-LP
Long-awaited, newly repressed for vinyl LP edition of the legendary 5-track first LP from U.S. horn wizard & original underground FM radio DJ
Roland P. Young
, featuring soprano sax, clarinet, and electronically-processed bass clarinet. Young's mid-'70s work with jazz/chamber/electronic ensemble
Infinite Sound
(including members
Glenn Howell
and
Aisha Kahlil
) helped form the musical language of
Isophonic Boogie Woogie
, a solo, jazz/world music-flecked exploration of acoustic and electronic sounds. An enjoyable outing from a neglected musician. Cosmic Afro-minimal electronic winds recorded in late 1970s San Francisco. CD version re-released in 2005 on Em Records.
Artist:
YOUNG, ROLAND P.
Title:
Istet Serenade
Label:
EM RECORDS (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
EM 1087CD
Thirty years since
Isophonic Boogie Woogie
(EM 1045CD/EM 1045HJ-LP), Em Records proudly presents new music from original underground DJ, horn-master, and producer,
Roland P. Young
.
Istet Serenade
is a foray into the area of music space that represents the core of Roland's sound philosophy, "isophonics," the theory of composed improvisation, of stillness in the fluidity of constant change. The thingness of actualized sound in the nothingness of acoustic evaporation and recreation from the source of the in-dwelling presence. This occurs at a speed which defies conscious comprehension, but which reveals abundant revelatory, spiritual aspects. It requires a state of immersion and a freedom to reach toward technical trust and semiconscious execution of the revealed composition. Upon returning to a conscious state, one hears what was created as though it is being presented. The thought then thinks about what was thought and executed as a comprovisation of point, with instantly-mixed and remixed sound devices: breath, posture, devotion, bass clarinet, soprano G and Bb clarinets and saxophone, kalimba, Native American flutes, electronic accoutrements, voice, percussion, Mac Book, family, pen, pencil and the One. As the artist himself explains: "
The 10 pieces were chosen from 55 comprovisations created over the past year. My travels to and playing in the atmospheres of Israel, Prague, Rome, London, Paris, Istanbul and Santa Fe, New Mexico, combined with my formative years in Kansas City, Missouri, then my years in the Bay Area of Northern California and my current residence in Brooklyn, New York, inform my music with ever-expanding inspirations and creative possibilities
. Istet Serenade
is a slice of the possible
." This is a sound that is thusly described as spaced acid-drones of intense acoustic chill, embracing electronic, ambient, world, avant garde, cosmic, free and chamber jazz. Deeply engrossing, truly far-out, and emblematic of this groundbreaking composer's commitment to his vision and experience of sound as a physical and spiritual process.
Artist:
YOUNG, ROLAND P.
Title:
Istet Serenade
Label:
EM RECORDS (JAPAN)
Format:
LP
Price:
$22.00
Catalog #:
EM 1087LP
LP version.
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