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Various - Not Necessarily "English Music"

Label:
Catalog#:
EMF CD 036
Format:
2 x CD, Album, Compilation
Country:
US
Released:
2001
Genre:
Classical, Electronic, Jazz
Style:
Experimental, Free Improvisation

Tracklist

1.01 AMM  -  Live At The Royal College Of Art 6:24
    Performer - Cornelius Cardew , Eddie Prévost , Keith Rowe , Lawrence Sheaff , Lou Gare
1.02 Max Eastley  -  Wind Flutes Urban 3:17
    Noises [Sound Sculptures] - Max Eastley
1.03 Intermodulation  -  Performants 6:40
    Performer, Composed By - Peter Britton , Robin Thompson (2) , Roger Smalley , Tim Souster
  Technician [Recording Prepared By] - Simon Emmerson (2)
1.04 Frank Perry  -  Wedged Into Release 3:27
    Percussion - Frank Perry
1.05 Michael Parsons & Howard Skempton  -  Piece For Cello And Accordion 2:50
    Accordion - Howard Skempton
  Cello, Composed By - Michael Parsons
  Recorded By - Dave Smith (3)
1.06 Daphne Oram  -  Four Aspects 4:51
    Performer, Composed By - Daphne Oram
1.07 abAna  -  The Judith Poem 2:29
    Guitar [Electric] - David Toop
  Percussion - Paul Burwell
  Technician [Digital Conversion] - Dave Hunt
  Voice, Composed By - Bob Cobbing
1.08 Hugh Davies  -  Music For Three Springs 5:03
    Performer [Amplified Springs], Composed By - Hugh Davies
1.09 Robert Worby  -  Piano Musics I & II 5:13
    Performer, Composed By - Robert Worby
1.10 Lol Coxhill & Steve Miller (3)  -  Plum 7:07
    Piano [Electric] - Steve Miller (3)
  Saxophone [Soprano], Effects [Copy Cat Echo] - Lol Coxhill
1.11 Spontaneous Music Orchestra  -  Search And Reflect 6:09
    Composed By - John Stevens (2)
  Performer - Chris Turner , Christopher Small , David Toop , Herman Hauge , John Stevens (2) , Lou Gare , Mike Barton , Paul Burwell , Ron Herman , Trevor Watts , Ye Min
  Recorded By - David Toop
  Technician [Digital Conversion] - Dave Hunt
1.12 People Band, The  -  Part 3 6:42
    Performer - Eddie Edem , Frank Flowers , George Khan , Lyn Dobson , Mel Davis (2) , Mick Figgis , Russ Herncy , Terry Day , Terry Halman , Tony Edwards (4)
1.13 Evan Parker & Paul Lytton  -  As It Were 7:40
    Horns [Reeds] - Evan Parker
  Percussion, Electronics - Paul Lytton
2.01 John Stevens (2)  -  Solo 7:50
    Percussion, Cornet, Voice - John Stevens (2)
  Producer - Trevor Taylor (2)
2.02 Steve Beresford  -  Toy Piano 1:47
2.03 Steve Beresford  -  Voice 1:43
2.04 Cornelius Cardew & Jane Manning  -  Battle March 2:27
    Arranged By, Piano - Cornelius Cardew
  Recorded By - Dave Smith (3)
  Voice - Jane Manning
2.05 Ron Geesin  -  Duet For One-String Banjo And Water Cistern 2:54
    Composed By, Performer - Ron Geesin
2.06 Gentle Fire  -  Group Composition VI (Unfixed Parities) 4:31
    Performer - Graham Hearn , Hugh Davies , Michael Robinson (2) , Richard Bernas , Stuart Jones
  Recorded By - Hugh Davies
2.07 Rain In The Face  -  Instant Composition No. 1 6:59
    Drums - Paul Burwell
  Guitar [Electric] - David Toop
  Technician [Digital Conversion] - Dave Hunt
2.08 Ranulph Glanville  -  Nona Meyeah Teay 3:35
    Composed By, Performer - Ranulph Glanville
2.09 Derek Bailey  -  Improvisation 5 7:43
    Guitar - Derek Bailey
2.10 Campiello Band, The  -  Miserere 4:47
    Performer - Doug Wooten , Keith Thompson (2) , Lucie Skeaping , Michael Nyman , Roddie Skeaping , Rory Allam , Steve Saunders
  Recorded By - Robert Worby
2.11 Mike Cooper  -  Pharoah's March 7:10
    Bass - Harry Miller
  Composed By, Guitar - Mike Cooper
  Drums - Alan Jackson
  Piano - John Taylor (2)
  Saxophone [Alto] - Mike Osborne
  Saxophone [Tenor] - Alan Skidmore , Geoff Hawkins
2.12 A Touch Of The Sun  -  Geese 3:24
    Clarinet - Simon Mayo
  Guitar - Peter Cusack
2.13 Scratch Orchestra, The  -  Pilgrimage From Scattered Points On The Surface Of The Body To The Brain, The Inner Ear, The Heart And The Stomach 7:15
    Mastered By [Remastered] - Bryn Harris
2.14 Frank Perry , Mongezi Feza & Chris McGregor  -  Blowin' In The Wind 7:06
    Drums - Frank Perry
  Piano - Chris McGregor
  Trumpet - Mongezi Feza

Credits

Compiled By [Curated By] - David Toop
Engineer, Mastered By - Tom Erbe
Photography - Stuart Marshall Archives

Notes

Subtitled "a collection of experimental music from Great Britain, 1960-1977".

Published in two editions:

Two CDs in a jewel case available from Electronic Music Foundation.

Two CDs mounted in the rear of Leonardo Music Journal Volume 11, published by The MIT Press, which includes: "Introduction - Not Necessarily 'English Music': Britain's Second Golden Age" by Nicolas Collins, "The Scratch Orchestra and Visual Arts" by Michael Parsons, "Cardew as a Basis for Discussion on Ethical Options" by Coriún Aharonián, "The New English Keyboard School: A Second 'Golden Age'" by Sarah E. Walker, "The Arrival of a New Musical Aesthetic: Extracts from a Half-Buried Diary" by Eddie Prévost, "Imaging Music: Abstract Expressionism and Free Improvisation" by Matthew Sansom, "Between Now and Then: The Auto-Interview of a Lapsed Musician" by Ranulph Glanville. "Plus ça change: Journeys, Instruments and Networks, 1966-2000" by Lawrence Casserley, "Stuart Marshall: Composer, Video Artist and Filmmaker, 1949-1993" by Alvin Lucier, "Gentle Fire: An Early Approach to Live Electronic Music" by Hugh Davies, "Making It Up as You Go Along" by Stuart Jones, "Remembering How To Forget: An Artist's Exploration of Sound" by Robin Rimbaud, "AudiOh!: Appropriation, Accident and Alteration" by Janek Schaefer, "Rorschach Audio: Ghost Voices and Perceptual Creativity" by Joe Banks, plus Contributors’ Notes on the double CD from Max Eastley, Simon Emmerson, Frank Perry, Michael Parsons, Hugh Davies, Bob Cobbing, Lol Coxhill, Terry Day, Steve Beresford, Ron Geesin, Ranulph Glanville, Mike Cooper, Peter Cusack, and Bryn Harris.