CHRISTOPHER HOBBS / GAVIN BRYARS / JOHN ADAMS - Ensemble Pieces LP

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CHRISTOPHER HOBBS / GAVIN BRYARS / JOHN ADAMS - Ensemble Pieces LPAran and McCrimmon Will Never Return date from the period 1970 72, and were written for the Promenade Theatre Orchestra, a group started by White, consisting of 4 performers; White, Hobbs, Hugh Shrapnel and Alec Hill. Aranwas written at a time when the PTO was beginning to combine the sounds of reed organs and toy pianos, the original instruments of the group, with some newly acquired percussion instruments. The note to note procedure of the piece was

one which reveals further layers on repeat listens

vocalized bass clarinet weaves in & out with Lisa Alvarado’s harmonium to state the piece’s thematic material

Cronin's lyrics and melodies draw on the the stranger aspects of early American musical tradition

search of self-awareness

Dazu ein umfangreiches 24 seitiges Beiheft mit Texten

band features Guy Picciotto and Brendan Canty who later formed FUGAZI

His first proper full length under his own name

Not So Deep As A Well is raw and unyielding in so many ways we no longer expect to hear

while Arthur Doyle would gain exposure later for an obscure record that he made two years later

Casiotone samba of If I Should Fall In Love

genre-defying full length record Glow On via Roadrunner Records / Warner

Recorded live to tape at Berlin's legendary Hansa Studios