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Artist:	BRYANT, ALAN
Title:	Spaceball
Label:	IRML
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	IRML 001CD

Bryant was an original member of the legendary 60s improvisational ensemble MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva). He later took up invented guitar language, releasing an infamous album on CRI (currently available as CRI CD 699); this new CD, self-released on his own new label, continues in the spirit of Space Guitars -- droning, long-string-like ambiance, space-pulse variations, all embedded in some of the deepest fields of cosmic invention that the current musical universe can offer. A music that Bryant claims is about whirling, speeding, smashing space particles and stormy, exploding matter -- a drama that touches our very existence, origins and being -- or not being. (I paraphrase, his unique personal spelling methods are much more exotic). I'm sure this will add up as one of the quintessential personal documents of recent times.

Artist:	MEV
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Label:	IRML
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	IRML 002CD

A previously unreleased document of MEV -- four sections of an improvisation recorded in London, 1968, spread out over 43 minutes. The line up was Bryant (synthesizer), Alvin Curran (trumpet, percussion), Frederick Rzewski (amplified percussion, singing), Jon Phetteplace (amplified cello). Powerful, historic noise and the first easily available MEV music on CD. Also comes with a Bryant solo synth wig-out piece at the end. Both of these IRML CDs come in regular jewel cases, and endearingly primitive xerox graphics; essential stuff to say the least.

Artist:	BRYANT, ALAN
Title:	Space Tecno
Label:	IRML
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	IRML 003CD

Solo electronics from the ex-member of MEV. Primitive xerox sleeve in jewel case, ala previous IRML documents. "Contemporary electronic musings from this MEV founder and producer of arguably the finest electric-guitar-process-as-musique-concrete-slab in the history of such an amalgam (that would be the Space Guitars CD on CRI). Despite the slightly sickening title, involved musics have less to do with 'techno' than, say, a selection of gold doubloons found off the Ivory Coast. Musically, these multi tracked solo synthesizer tracks (sonically akin to bending concave/convex sheets of hard vinyl) overlap in a most pleasing/mystically organized way. Liners feature new phonetically challenged texts to baffle in-laws and fans alike. Trance-inducing." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	MEV
Title:	Rome Cansrt
Label:	IRML
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	IRML 004CD

The original MEV (Allan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Joh Phetteplace), recorded in the spring of 1968 in Rome. "Vault find recordings of a MEV concert from Spring of 1968, featuring the original lineup of Allan Bryant (synthesizers), Alvin Curran (percussion, trumpet), Frederic Rzewski (percussion), and Jon Phetteplace (cello, percussion). Booklet reprints prime Bryant rants on church/state separation ('TH' 10 GRAETST AMERICNZ WR AGENST ORGANYZD RLIJN (OR)'), questionable medical practices ('SRCMSIZHN(S)-ITS DUN FOR MNI($)!'), the IBM theft of Apple technologies ('Just lyc Bill Gates mest up 7 Mac sstm, wich hi stol, n Uzd a cAmplx DOS sstm t mc it a mes U had t go t school t lrn, n wth cn upgrEdz ($)'), and quantum physics ('invent betr fzcl-xpl'nESnz 7an PAW, jumps, chans Es, Its bcm a stuupid wrd.'). You really can't find more convincing MEV recordings than this, excellent field-scrape with low-frequency peaks & valleys (incorrect tape speed during mastering process? You be the judge) and solemn, sub-aqueous anti-gloss tones... Excellent." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	BRYANT, ALAN
Title:	Can'bl Sel
Label:	IRML
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	IRML 005CD

"Pretty great albeit confusing new CD by Mssr. Bryant, he of MEV and the Space Guitar, once again in fact eschewing said guitar and utilizing what appears to be some recordings of thunderstorms followed by some wonderfully primitive electronics. Like the title 'says' this seems to be a meditation on Darwinism on the cellular level, all of the squishy and gurgly electronics mirroring (perhaps) the soundtrack of the alleged primordial ooze, and given that premise and the pedigree of the man behind the curtain, how can you go wrong? Easily the best music concerning microbes since the Incredible String Band's 'A Very Cellular Song'. In addition it's packaged with a wonderful broadsheet exhorting the virtues of phonetic spelling and mandatory organic chemistry classes for all. Still confused? Alan's track listing might illuminate things: 1. Intence THUNDR! - a real storm this x! (time) 2. bbLg: N7 benz C6 intu amino n nucleic asidz (RNA)bacTria, vyRs, plants (procaryotes). 3. O8-cryss(crisis) = sunlyt n CO2-eatrz kild by 7er O8 waste 4: Supersel aryvz(arrives). Hi (he) eats O8 - a hy-powrd fUl (fuel) 5. Spurts - Hi invEdz(invades) n bcmz part v bigr selz (eucaryotes) 6.CS -7e(they)now also eat proteen - 7er(their) nEbrz(neighbors). Run 7. If its smalr, get 7 kechup. 7 last 1/2 BY (billiun yearz)." -- Billy Kiely

Artist:	MEV
Title:	Pieces
Label:	IRML
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	IRML 006CD

Third archival MEV release on Allan Bryant's label. The first track, 'Quadrupl Play', is a piece for rubberbands recorded in 1966 by Allen Bryant. It can be described as 'variations on melody' and was played at the first MEV concerts in St. Paul du Vence, France and at Teatro Argentina in Rome. The second track, 'Pich Out' (or 'Rocket Take Off)', for 4 guitars, is loud and thundering, played by 4 musicians through 4 speakers at Sala Beloch, Rome in March 1967. Features Rzewski, Phetteplace, Curran, Bryant.

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Artist:	MEV
Title:	72 Berlz
Label:	IRML
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	IRML 007CD