Browse by Label: MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)

Artist:	PREVOST, EDDIE
Title:	Minute Particulars
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	Book
Price:	$35.00
Catalog #:	MR COPULA2

Eddie Prevost (AMM)'s 2nd book of writings to be published by Matchless. Subtitled: "Meanings in music-making in the wake of hierarchal realignments and other essays." Paperbound, 178 pages. The first half of the book is a series of essays relating to the subtitle; the 2nd half if a collection of additional essays (written 1984-2002) on: The Ganelin Trio, John Zorn, Keith Rowe & John Tilbury, etc. -- including various album liners notes, magazine articles, etc.

Artist:	CARDEW, CORNELIUS
Title:	Cornelius Cardew: A Reader
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	Book
Price:	$48.00
Catalog #:	MR COPULA3

A collection of Cornelius Cardew's published writings, edited by Eddie Prévost. With commentaries and responses from Richard Barrett, Christopher Fox, Brian Dennis, Anton Lukoszevieze, Michael Nyman, Eddie Prévost, David Ryan, Howard Skempton, Dave Smith, John Tilbury and Christian Wolff. Introduction by Michael Parsons. "The English composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) was among the most adventurous, controversial and innovative musicians of his generation. After an initial association with Stockhausen and the European avantgarde, he became engaged with the aesthetic ideas of John Cage and the New York School. A leading figure in the experimental music of the 1960s, Cardew is widely acknowledged as a pioneer of indeterminacy, graphic notation, free improvisation and performer involvement. As well as extending the boundaries of music in unprecedented directions, he inquired deeply into its social relevance and meaning. His passionate and untiring quest for wider social significance led him eventually to become a political activist. In the 1970s he repudiated his earlier experimental work and adopted a more traditional musical language. He joined a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist party and devoted himself to political action, at the same time searching for ways to express his commitment in musical terms. At the height of his political involvement he died tragically at the age of 45, killed by a hit-and-run driver near his home in East London. This reader brings together a diverse collection of Cardew's major essays and writings from different stages of his career, together with commentaries by other writers associated with his work. It reflects developments, changes and contradictions in his thinking about music from the late 1950s to the end of his life. As a companion volume to John Tilbury's biography -- Cornelius Cardew: A Life Unfinished, Copula, 2006 it provides essential material for the study of Cardew's life and ideas; it also makes a significant contribution to discussion of the wider issues involved in the relationship between music, ideology and political commitment." Illustrated 390 pages, paperbound.

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:	PREVOST QUARTET, EDDIE
Title:	Continuum+
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD07

Larry Stabbins (tenor, soprano sax), Veryan Weston (piano), Marcio Mattos (double bass), Eddie Prévost (drums). Re-mixed re-release of the LP Continuum which featured the performance made at the Bracknell Jazz Festival, 3rd July 1983, together with 30 minutes of hitherto unreleased studio material recorded in 1985. "It moves forward in a complicated, constantly mutating web of stylistic references to musical precedents within jazz and twentieth century music, overlapped in a restless search for new textures, moods, dramatic interludes, and possible resolutions. Some listeners may feel -- as others have over the years-- that sections of the Quartet's music sounds like bebop heard at a distance or in a dream." -- Alan Durant.

Artist:	SUPERSESSION
Title:
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD17

Evan Parker (ss, ts), Keith Rowe, Barry Guy (b), Eddie Prévost. Recorded at a concert given in London, England on 3rd September 1984. "The rapport between the musicians and the unconventional noises they produce from their instruments challenge the listeners' powers of identifying and distinguishing the voices of the individual players. Enjoyable though this game is it is hardly the most fruitful approach. Details of timbres, component sound relationships, transmutations of constituent parts of the music and, flipping the telescope over, the overall effect of the tapestry matter more than individual credits. A supersession for sure, music-making of formidable integrity (in all senses of the word) which offers seemingly infinite and inexhaustible prospects." -- Barry Witherden, The Wire.

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:	ORGANUM/EDDIE PREVOST
Title:	Flayed/Crux
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD27

CD issue of an LP previously issued on Silent Records in 1985. "Crux" is an Organum track, featuring Andrew Chalk on bowed gong, David Jackman on drone flute & bowed piano, Dinah Jane Rowe on drone flute and Stephen Stapleton on chair. It's a pretty classic piece to say the least. "If you like the dronescapes of traditional Far Eastern musics, you'll love 'Crux'; if you wigged out to La Monte Young at his most conceptual, you'll do much the same with this. Better still, you may love 'Crux' having previously heard none of these supposed influences; you're simply wired for sound." --David Ilic. "Flayed" features mainly AMM's Prévost on drums, general percussion and acme thunderer whistle, while Jackman added some bowed gongs and electronic sounds.

Artist:	TILBURY, JOHN
Title:	Cornelius Cardew Piano Music 1957-1970
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD29

Studio recordings from 1996 of solo piano music by the late composer (and key figure in the early days of AMM), Cardew, as performed by AMM's Tilbury. "All the music included in this recording belongs to Cardew's early period of radical exploration and experimentation in the late 1950s and 60s, when having fully assimilated the advanced language of the European avant-garde, he went on to develop new techniques and new aspects of indeterminacy, to use notation in increasingly flexible and open-ended ways and to encourage the creative involvement of performers in the realisation of his musical ideas."

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:	PREVOST, EDDIE
Title:	Loci Of Change: Sound And Sensibility
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD32

First ever solo percussion release by the founding member of AMM, recorded in 1996. "Such complex layering is a characteristic of AMM music and it is to AMM music that the most immediate comparisons must be made. The 'landscape' pieces presented here evoke most nearly the unhurried, laminal, deep listening qualities of AMM music. Comparisons and parallels may be found with the big drum cultures of Africa and Japan, the Korean ajaeng and komungo, the invented instruments of Harry Partch, the low-tech electronics of Hugh Davies and Paul Lytton: but these are comparisons of detail, the broad structural concerns are the same ones to be heard in classic AMM performance... The surprise lies in the technical achievement involved, since such an evocation is no easy task for a solo performer. To reveal the nuts and bolts of how this astonishingly rich, complex, many coloured multi-layered music is made is perhaps as crass and unnecessary as explaining how Ad Reinheardt maintained such control over nine shades of black pigment or how Sonny Rollins can alter the tone colour of the tenor saxophone to sound like a flute or a baritone. Of course there is a technical explanation involving motorised beaters and plectra, strings, bows, hollow bridges of metal and wood, etc. -- these are the inventions which EP has always been so good at. The resulting music is the discovery."

Artist:	PARKER/EDDIE PREVOST, EVAN
Title:	Most Materiall
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$35.00
Catalog #:	MRCD33

1997 studio recordings between Parker (saxophones) and AMM's Prévost (percussion). "Double album, double solos of two distinctive musicians, becoming duets in a relatively rare space between solo playing and ensemble. Reed and percussion start at different places, the working through breath, the other pulse of materials being struck, one typically characterised by line, the other by attack, producing in the first pitch configurations, in the second beat patterns (Prévost doesn't use the specifically pitched mallet instruments). Each player comes with a distinctive sonic identity, but they're frequently crossing. the main intersection is sonority. The saxophone can splutter, click and gesture, notably in the extreme registers and the rapid shifts between them, with just sound. Prévost makes long, sustained attackless sounds by bowing his cymbals and gong, and his invented string drum tosses up melodic fragments. Percussion drives and saxophone sings, Parker can drive just as hard and Prévost makes a singing sound. Sometimes you can't tell which of the two's sounds you're hearing."--Christian Wolff.

Artist:	PREVOST TRIO, EDDIE
Title:	Touch
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD34

A new exploratory improv trio featuring Tom Chant (soprano sax) & John Edwards (double bass). "This trio, quite intuitively (because I never spelt out what I hoped would happen) works in a subtle, attentive way: examining what the music is and where it is going all within the process of playing; feeling the sound to be complementary and in contrast to other sounds; feeling the stuff of the instruments, and sensing the presence of other creative beings. This is part of the extraordinary and gloriously uncertain matrix of what making and listening to music should be about."--Prévost.

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:	PREVOST/VERYAN WESTON, EDDIE
Title:	Concert, V
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD37

Eddie Prevost (drums) & Veryan Weston (piano). Recorded in England, 5/98, mixed by Evan Parker. "'Beauty as an Ear Thing' is a meticulous exploration of texture, full of soft explosions, the reverberant ring of spinning metals, and overtones that glow like embers, dying into silence; this music wouldn't be misplaced on an AMM disc. 'Clustered' rebuilds something out of the emptiness. The dislocated rhythmic feel is like an abstraction of something Monk and Max Roach might have played together. 'Fingers and drums' also conveys the sense of inventing almost from scratch, asking 'what material?' and digging into it to find out. Finally, 'Hammer and Tonic' a roaring thing, leaps from the starting gate as if all questions were resolved long ago..." -- Steve Lake.

Artist:	SUCH
Title:	The Issue At Hand
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$35.00
Catalog #:	MRCD38

Such is the trio of Yoshikazu Iwamoto (shakuhachi), John Tilbury (piano), Eddie Prévost (percussion). This double CD consists of one 151-minute continuous piece of beautiful Morton Feldman-inspired minimal driftage. "In this recording session, right from the start one confronts aural magic. John Tilbury is one of the most outstanding interpreters of Morton Feldman's music and one hears a certain Feldmanesque sensibility in the extraordinary way the piano sounds are placed in time and the unique quality of his touch. How wonderfully this complements Yoshikazu Iwamoto's contributions that seem to encase the spirit of bamboo and to draw us into the silence at the heart of the Buddhism. Eddie Prévost by his presence, draws everything together into an indivisible whole, through responses that have been honed from years of working in free or improvised music, where the freedom and openness have always triumphed over narrower and more provincial stylistic considerations. It offers an inspiration to our own aspirations as listeners to find what it is to be simply human...it requires a quieter courage, the courage of kindliness, sensitivity, thoughtfulness, mutual respect, listening as well as playing, supporting, taking a chance, working together. These are all qualities at the heart of the music recorded on this CD. We should cherish them." -- Frank Denyer.

Artist:	TILBURY/EVAN PARKER, JOHN
Title:	Two Chapters and An Epilogue
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD39

Studio recordings from 8/3/98: Tilbury (piano), Parker (tenor and soprano saxophones). "These musicians have chosen to eschew the given media of jazz, from whence Evan Parker received much of his initial inspiration, and the classical world from which John Tilbury received his early and formative training, in order to become autonomous human beings who can engage creatively and practically -- not only with the world of sound, but with the the world of philosophy, and thence reflect upon a civil society. Why make are if not wanting to indicate other worlds and to transcend this one?" -- Eddie Prévost.

Artist:	PREVOST, EDDIE
Title:	Silver Pyramid
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD40

"Eddie Prévost's Silver Pyramid -- directed by Keith Rowe. An historic recording from a Music Now festival, London 1969. Features the Music Now Ensemble including Cornelius Cardew, Keith Rowe, Lou Gare, Eddie Prévost and others." One continuous scraping, atmospheric 74-minute live piece, part of a Roundhouse festival which also featured works by Sonic Arts Group, John Cage, Christian Wolff, LaMonte Young, Terry Jennings, Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, etc. The piece is based on a silver pyramid art icon designed by Prévost ("a wooden framed structure covered with shimmering, reflecting material that shot light out at every angle"). This piece anticipated the imminent arrival of the Scratch Orchestra and is a vital missing link in the documentation of the AMM-associated free-sound continuum. "I listen to the silvery threads of sound catching a near glimpse of this or that person. Keith is prowling and growling the whole time -- worrying at the music, there are metallic scrapings, cello sounds (that I think must have come from Cornelius) and wistful whistling on penny flutes." -- Prévost.

Artist:	BARK!
Title:	Swing
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD41

Ex-Manchester scene electroacoustic ensemble coming out of the same scene as Stock, Hausen & Walkman, the Spaceheads and the Honkies; featuring Rex Caswell (electric guitar). Phillip Marks (percussion) and Paul Obermayer (electronics). From Richard Scott's liner notes: "...the music appears as a kind of conversational game, built of molecules and fragments, dots and dashes, calls and responses, moves and counter-moves...it is quite severe music, sometimes ugly and disturbing, but it's also always striving to be beautiful. At its best, when its shapes evolve patiently and inevitably into clear and tangible orders, vistas and architextures, the result is really quite magnificent."

Artist:	CHARAOUI/LELY/WRIGHT
Title:	396.
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD42

Yann Charaoui (cymbals and table top samplers), John Lely (piano and prepared bal-bal tarang), Seymour Wright (alto saxophone). "The new austerity on the first CD from the young exponents of the growing art of improvisation...in the year 2000, this approach in which traditional musical instruments are twisted into complex sound transformers which match the new sound sources available from the burgeoning electronics and computer sciences has become a medium in its own right." -- Eddie Prévost.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Matchless Day At The Freedom Of The City Festival? 2001
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$35.00
Catalog #:	MRCD47

"CD1 features: Bark!, Eddie Prevost solo, Particles, Romuald Wadych and Denis Dubovtsev. CD2 features: The Eddie Prevost Trio (with Tom Chant and John Edwards), Yann Charaoui, John Lely and Seymour Wright, John Tilbury and Evan Parker." "The Evening: The little official, institutional or media recognition (to examine the equivalence which is taken for granted between these three adjectives reveals plenty of horrors) which is (not) enjoyed by free improvisation sends its defenders into habitual errings of groupuscular logic. There's nothing new under the sun, in the arena of polemics concerning the presumed parallels (or lack thereof) with (free) jazz, everyone is right and wrong at the same time, because there is no one improvised music or one (free) jazz, and from the start one can say everything about nothing or vice versa -- it is rare to hear Eddie Prévost's remark to Derek Bailey cited: 'They criticised us by saying 'that's not jazz' -- in an important sense, these remarks were completely erroneous.' The founder of AMM is not dogmatic. We cannot now explore in depth the implications of this spiny 'in an important sense', but Eddie Prévost's music will illustrate it this evening some ten years down the road." --Philippe Alen

Artist:	PREVOST, EDDIE
Title:	Material Consequences
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD48

A solo percussion CD from AMM's Eddie Prevost. Studio recordings from 7/61/01. From Eddie's liner notes: "My work on the accompanying CD has particular connections with my experience within AMM. There is a strong concern with tonal, textural and tactile qualities, and the relationships we have with sound. These might be considered as the aural equivalents of fabric and shading. There is also, of course, a strong polyrhythmic component to this music. However, the dynamic priority is definitely dialogical....Alone in the studio, it is just me trying to breathe life into the materials I have chosen to have at hand. The gongs, chimes, bells, strings, skins and resonating boxes are a rich environment."

Artist:	SAKADA
Title:	Undistilled
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD49

Sakada is: Mattin (computer feedback), Rosy Parlane (computers and radio) and Eddie Prevost (percussion). "Undistilled was recorded at live performances in London and Rotterdam in 2002. Components are a restricted range of percussion (Eddie Prevost), electronic sounds confected earlier for intuitive, tweaked release (Rosy Parlane), and nervous hyper-attention to every noise present, allowing spontaneous digital transfiguration of some (Mattin). The product is a formidably dense mesh of textures and a subtle alignment of urgency and stasis, persistence and interruption. A sound-body exalting in its raw and varied outer abrasions, tormented by heaving intestinal bass and pierced irregularity by silver screeches, yet somehow concealing a few inner surfaces of all but languid smoothness. Needless to say (or to continue demonstrating), it Is wholly incommensurable with any attempt at verbal description."

Artist:	FURT
Title:	Defkt
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD50

Furt is the long running duo of: Richard Barrett & Paul Obermayer: electronics. They have been performing together since 1986. This CD collects 5 pieces recorded over the years 1997-2001; "Plint" is a studio piece derived entirely from piano-duo improvisations. "Gute Nacht" uses 7 songs from Schubert's Winterreise as its point of departure. "Volksmusik" features the voice of Charlie Chaplin. The 45-minute "Ultimatum" is dedicated to Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Artist:	WOLFF, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Early Piano Music (1951-1961)
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$35.00
Catalog #:	MRCD51

Early Christian Wolf piano music (written 1951-61), performed by: John Tilbury & Christian Wolff (pianos), Eddie Prevost (percussion). Studio recordings from 2001/2. "During the period when these works were composed (1951-61), Christian Wolff was closely associated with John Cage. Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and David Tudor (they are sometimes referred to together as the New York School'). Feldman later remarked that he was profoundly indebted to Christian Wolff ('I think of him as my artistic conscience')... First impressions may be of a music unlike any other: abrupt, delicate, astringent, enigmatic, disconcerting. The effect is as of isolated objects in space, sounds which seem to come from nowhere and lead nowhere, appearing and disappearing unpredictably, framed by silences. Attention is drawn to the immediacy of each sound. The ear is finely tuned to precise details, a microscopic world in close-up. Expectations derived from other kinds of music are not much help here; one is encouraged to listen afresh, with special alertness, as in unfamiliar territory, searching for clues. Technically, the music arises directly from the mechanical action of the piano and emphasises its percussive character. The sounds are not joined up in familiar ways, the pedal is not used to give continuity, there is no legato phrasing, no illusion of the 'singing line'; instead there is a sharpness of attack, a stark exposure and isolation of individual sounds. The use of preparations enhances this impression: a method developed by Cage in the 1940s of transforming the sounds of the piano by the insertion of small objects (screws,, coins, wedges, wood, rubber and other materials) between the strings. The sounds are altered in a variety of ways, in terms of pitch, timbre and resonance; new timbral qualities are discovered, reaching out into the diverse sound world of percussion instruments."

Artist:	BROWN, EARLE
Title:	Chamber Music
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD52

Recorded 1999-2002. A collection of early works by Brown, written 1952-64. Includes: "Folio", "Corroboree" (for three pianos); "Four Systems" (multi-timbral realisation); "Tracking Pierrot" (for ensemble). Performed by the Dal Niente projects: Simon Allen (vibraphone, marimba, percussion harmonicas, various sound-producing media); Peter Bevan (trombone); Bridget Carey (viola); Tania Chen (piano); Robert Coleridge (piano); Francesca Hanley (flute); Nicolas Hodges (piano); Mieko Kanno (violin); Lore Lixenburg (voice); Zoe Martlew (cello); Mannon Morris (harp); Fiona Ritchie (vibraphone,marimba); David Ryan (clarinet, bass clarinet); Nancy Ruffer (flute); Andrew Sparling (clarinet, bass clarinet); John Tilbury (piano); Earle Brown (conductor).

Artist:	SCHULKOWSKY, ROBYN
Title:	Percussionist Songs
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD59

Performed by Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion). Playing music by Christian Wolff (Wolff also performs on some tracks). Studio recordings from 2003. "Christian Wolff invites us to join him on a journey to his magical world. A world where music we never imagined before exists. This is one of the spaces John Cage was talking about when he asked us to 'let sounds be sounds'. So they are. And there is so much music to be discovered there." -- Robyn Schulkowsky.

Artist:	HUBBUB
Title:	Hoib
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD60

Third CD from this French improvisational group, featuring: Frédéric Blondy, Bertrand Denzier, Jean Luc Guionnet, Jean-Sébastien Mariage, Edward Perraud. 2nd release on Matchless, they also have a CD on For Four Ears. "From a line, and from's it's slowness, that vibrates, that, trembles, I say, that it is, no more talkative, than a cloud, of its likeness, or than a, gust of wind, in the trees, Now, felling, compelled, to produce words, I say, that it is no, more silent, than a fearful dog, than a satisfied cat, or, than a disturbed, cow, then all bark, purr, or moo, One calls, and the world, answers, One keeps silent, and the world, calls us. This is to be, at the heart, of a line, that vibrates, that trembles, The line dwells, on the side, of the, w o r l d."

Artist:	MEV/AMM
Title:	Apogee
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$35.00
Catalog #:	MRCD61

The first CD features a joint recording of the six musicians of Musica Eletttronica Viva and AMM together: Alvin Curran, Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum and John Tilbury. It was recorded April 30th 2004. The 2nd CD contains separate performances that MEV and AMM gave at the 'Freedom of the City' festival, London on May 1st 2004. "After the generally low dynamic levels and relatively slow pace of the AMM trio set on 1 May, the MEV trio opened with the blast of Alvin Curran playing the sho far, a trumpet made from a ram's horn, a 'defiantly primitive', prototypical music, fit to leave the walls of the Conway Hall, like some new Jericho, pitched down fiat. If I spoke earlier of the way in which AMM might deal, in Reeve and Kerridge's phrase, with the internal, microscopically-enlarged body surface which becomes a landscape -- and the same is true of some of Teitelbaum and Curran's quieter use of radically pitch-shifted and extended samples -- particularly that ululating operatic-theatrical voice, coming to sound almost like something from AMM's label-mates FURl -- then this is the extrovert mode, which refuses any easy accommodations. Which division is inherent; as Bourdieu explains, the culture which unifies via the medium of communication is also the culture which separates via the culture of distinction, and which legitimates distinctions. It may be, as Adorno remarks, that a work of art is great insofar as it registers a failed attempt to reconcile such objective antinomies; failure then being in the highest sense the measure of success." -- Harry Gilonis.

Artist:	TILBURY, JOHN
Title:	Plays Samuel Beckett
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD62

With Christina Jones and Sebastian Lexer. Features the following pieces: "Cascando" (a radio piece for music and voice). Voices by John Tilbury. Music composed and performed by John Tilbury with electronic modulations by Sebastian Lexer. "Rough for Radio 1" (for music and voices). Voices: Christina Jones and John Tilbury. Music composed and performed by Sebastian Lexer, Eddie Prévost and John Tilbury. Studio recordings from 2004/5.

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:	PREVOST, EDWIN
Title:	No Sound Is Innocent
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	Book
Price:	$35.00
Catalog #:	MR COPULA

Artist:	AMM
Title:	Generative Themes
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD06

Artist:	RESOUND
Title:	Resoudings
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD08

Artist:	AMM
Title:	The Inexhaustible Document
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD13

Artist:	SMITH, DAVE
Title:	First Piano Concert
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD14

Artist:	DUNMALL, PAUL
Title:	Soliloquy
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD15

Artist:	AMM/TOM PHILLIPS
Title:	Irma
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD16

Artist:	FREE JAZZ QUARTER
Title:	Premonitions
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD18

Artist:	AMM
Title:	The Nameless Uncarved Block
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD20

Artist:	CONSPIRACY
Title:	Intravenous
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD21

Artist:	MOORE, TONY
Title:	Observations
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD22

Artist:	ORGANUM
Title:	Veil Of Tears
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD24

Artist:	CRISPELL/EDDIE PREVOST, MARILYN
Title:	Band On The Wall
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD25

Artist:	AMM
Title:	Combines & Laminates & Treatise '84
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD26

Artist:	MOORE/JOSEPH VALLRIBERA, TONY
Title:	Assessments and Translations
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD28

Artist:	AMM
Title:	Live in Allentown USA
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD30

Artist:	ROWE/JEFFREY MORGAN, KEITH
Title:	Dial: Log-Rhythm
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD36

Artist:	EDDIE PREVOST TRIO
Title:	The Virtue In If
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD43

Artist:	AMM
Title:	Tunes Without Measure Or End
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD44

Artist:	AMM
Title:	Fine
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD46

Artist:	9!
Title:	none (t)
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD54

Artist:	CONDITIONS
Title:	A Bright Nowhere
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD55

Artist:	TILBURY/EDDIE PREVOST, JOHN
Title:	Discrete Moments
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD58

Artist:	VA
Title:	Horn_Bill
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$35.00
Catalog #:	MRCD63

Artist:	GARE, LOU
Title:	No Strings Attached
Label:	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MRCD65