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COURTEOUS available as... duration:
47'49" 1.
Dad, Have You Been Drinking? I Was Courteous! 47'49"
Steve Freeman: live and prepared looping, turntable, voice. review... The complete big jam at The Musician pub, Leicester, 28
June 2005, with the 6 Scanner Game musicians augmented by a guitarist and
hurdy-gurdy player. Such a powerful cosmic excursion, this is only mixed and
balanced (not edited), for an as authentic as we can get it document of this
extraordinary work. This is quite unprecedented really, that such a great opus
could spring out of nothing. The sound is big, dark, but never threatening,
although on occasions the tumults and crescendos do reach quite ecstatic
highs. Amazingly, virtually all the instruments make their mark and have
their say, with melody riding against dissonance, and a great sense of space
throughout. If you thought the free live improvisation just meant a random
noise, this fine balance of music and weirdness may well make you think
again! A brief word about the track title, and a tradition that
goes back to the days of The Rain Garden, with Planet Scanners titles being
chosen by page and line number from the "latest cheesy sci-fi
novel" that Chris Conway is
reading at the time (The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson here, ta Jim!).
An intriguing and unique idea, resulting in some very odd titles! Versions... |
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