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Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
AMM	Uncovered Correspondence: A Postcard From Jaslo	CD	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS	MRCD78
$19.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL "The performance represented by this CD took place on 15th of May 2010 in the concert hall of the Jasło Cultural Centre in southern Poland. The concert began with John Tilbury using the piano to produce a gamelan-like quality, which was quickly followed by Eddie Prévost bowing a cymbal producing subtle metallic sounds. One could feel an electric atmosphere of concentration and note the exceptional care and elegance with which the performers selected even the tiniest details of the complex sound structure. Intriguing phrases from the prepared piano and sonorous tones from percussion instruments wafted around the huge expanse of the hall -- whose excellent acoustics let the audience immerse themselves in the music -- savouring the subtle sounds emerging from the silence. The changes within the slow stream of improvisation occurred in such a natural way introduced by either musician by turn. Sometimes a highly abstract motif seemed to be a logical development rather than a step into the unknown -- which in reality it was. The dominant impression was that such an advanced level of intuitive understanding between the two performers was the result of many years of collaboration. In my view each sound produced during the concert was not only 'desirable' but also essential (inevitable) and created its own profound aesthetic justification. Especially noteworthy was the compelling way in which both musicians made use of silence, whose role in AMM is as important as sound. The performance of a shorter or longer period of silence entailed the same creative intervention as did playing a sound or motif. The moments when the sound structure intensified and thickened became less frequent yet did not disappear completely." -- Andrzej Serwa, August 2010

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AMM	Sounding Music	CD	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS	MRCD77
$19.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL Recorded at the "Freedom of City" festival, Conway Hall, London on 5/3/09. John Butcher (tenor & soprano saxophones), Ute Kanngiesser (cello), Eddie Prévost (percussion), John Tilbury (piano) and Christian Wolff (piano, bass guitar, melodica).

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AMM	Trinity	CD	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS	MRCD71
$19.00 NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER Eddie Prévost (percussion); John Tilbury (piano) with John Butcher (soprano and tenor saxophone). Recorded at Trinity College of Music, Greenwich, England on January 13, 2008. "The tinniest sound is amplified by intention. Other noises are transformed into counterpoint. The music begins. Tentative suggestions are offered, politely ignored, admonished or not noticed. Serendipitous slips of the wrist are canonized -- pursued by conflagrations and spectacular shell bursts. Momentum is achieved. The music has an energy with which the musicians can wrestle, deflecting its trajectory or being thrown inconsequentially aside. Tempo defied temporality. Logic limps away. As suddenly as the turbulence arose, it subsides, hovering portentously, unpredictable and uncontrollable in all those ways a serialist doesn't trust. The musician waits, trying to anticipate and out-think the unthinking but thinkable direction the sounds will take. Construction overtakes the constructionist, who can only nod approvingly as the piers and girders of musical form slot automatically into place. Here is the invisible handshake, enjoined before a motion was ever formulated. The music makes itself -- just as man makes himself. Here are volition, intention, determination tempered by acceptance of eventuality. Here is definition by action. I am what I am because I do what I do, acted upon and acting upon. The sound returns. The contra-bass drum resounds, its deep vibration sympathizing with the solar-plexus. The echo grows weaker and richer at the same time, as its lingering residue settles into the crevices of perception. The drummer raises the beater; then slowly and with conscious care withdraws the intention. No more sound is need." --Eddie Prévost

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AMM	Norwich	CD	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS	MRCD64
$19.00 NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER 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."

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AMM	At the Roundhouse	CD	ANOMALOUS RECORDS	ICES 001CD
$14.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL "The International Carnival of Experimental Sound, or ICES '72 for short, was an ambitious festival sprung from the mind of Harvey 'Job' Matusow (1926-2002). Jumping off from his associations with the influential Source magazine, Harvey brought together over 300 artists from more than 21 countries to perform in London, England over the course of two weeks in August of 1972. Based on the theme of Myth, Magic Madness and Mysticism, he assembled an amazing diversity of performers working in diverse range of audio-visual arts. Encompassing happenings, films, dance, a train ride, and the phantom soft pool table, the focus was on sound -- specifically that of artists who were both composers and performers. Most of the concerts were held at The Roundhouse, a cavernous structure that was formerly a railroad engine house. Now, for the first time in 30 years, these recordings can be heard. This first CD in a series documenting the festival features the complete concert given by legendary free improvising group AMM. Represented here by Eddie Prevost and Lou Gare, they offer up powerful explosions of saxophone and drums punctuated with their famous AMM silences. This is the first time this material is available, aside from two short excerpts were published as the only 7" release on Evan Parker and Derek Bailey's Incus Records (and a very rare and desirable record that has become)."

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AMM	Fine	CD	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS	MRCD46
$19.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL "Recording of the concert they gave with together with the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski at Musique Action festival produced by CCAM, Vendoeuvre-les-Nancy, France on 24th May 2001." One continuous 59 minute piece by the Tilbury/Rowe/Prévost trio.

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AMM	Tunes Without Measure Or End	CD	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS	MRCD44
$19.00 IN STOCK "Rowe/Tilbury/Prévost. Recorded in Glasgow, Scotland May 2000, at the free radiCCAls festival, curated by Evan Parker. First AMM CD since 1996 recording. One continuous 58-minute piece."

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AMM	Before driving to the chapel...	CD	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS	MRCD35
$19.00 NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER ...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.

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AMM	Laminal	3CD	MATCHLESS RECORDINGS	MRCD31
$48.00 NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER "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.

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AMM	From A Strange Place	CD	PSF	PSF 080CD
$18.00 NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER "Undisputed deans of the meta-music, captured live on their first ever tour of Japan in October 1995. After 30 years of AMMusic there's very little left to be said about the group. Suffice to say that this is more of their totally committed style of pure improvisation, scaling new heights of non-derivativeness. Music created with a piercing awareness of place and time, once created never to be repeated, even by themselves. This set was marked by an extreme level of quietness, a grappling with silence and subtle vibration, and their mastery of instantaneous technique. An instant captured. Gone yet living." The trio of Prevost (perc.), Rowe (guitar) and Tilbury (piano).

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