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Although this is one of Derek Bailey’s earliest recordings, it holds much of the microscopic precision, a love of empty space and his detailed but fractured aesthetic for which he became famous and respected. The official ECM site states the dilemma that occupied me in the process of categorizing such music: “Yet how to describe it? A possessed duck call tripping down a flight of stairs into a pile of discarded instruments? A broken jack-in-the-box heavily amplified on cheap speakers? A radio being tortured to give up its innermost secrets? A coven of instrumental wizards poring over the crucibles of some private alchemical experiment? Unfortunately, none of these seems to come close to mapping the album’s rambling course. One thing I can say for sure: the results are very consistent.”
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(Complete review in http://www.kurrentmusic.com/blogviewer.html?blog-guid=3bc9144a-e04d-48c1-84fb-e266cfee4aef)
Although this is one of Derek Bailey’s earliest recordings, it holds much of the microscopic precision, a love of empty space and his detailed but fractured aesthetic for which he became famous and respected. The official ECM site states the dilemma that occupied me in the process of categorizing such music: “Yet how to describe it? A possessed duck call tripping down a flight of stairs into a pile of discarded instruments? A broken jack-in-the-box heavily amplified on cheap speakers? A radio being tortured to give up its innermost secrets? A coven of instrumental wizards poring over the crucibles of some private alchemical experiment? Unfortunately, none of these seems to come close to mapping the album’s rambling course. One thing I can say for sure: the results are very consistent.”
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(Complete review in http://www.kurrentmusic.com/blogviewer.html?blog-guid=3bc9144a-e04d-48c1-84fb-e266cfee4aef)
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