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01. AMM - Later During A Flaming Riviera Sunset
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02. AMM - After Rapidly Circling The Plaza
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ARTIST
AMM
TITLE
AMMMusic
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BLACK TRUFFLE
CATALOG #
BT 018LP
BT 018LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
2/19/2016
2023 repress! First vinyl reissue of the landmark 1967 debut album by
AMM
,
AMMMusic
. Remastered and cut by
Rashad Becker
at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Exact replica sleeve by
Stephen O'Malley
. "Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of its recording in 1966, this reissue makes one of the cornerstones of the experimental music tradition available again in its original form, replete with
Keith Rowe
's beautiful pop art cover and the terse aphorisms by the group that served as its original liner notes. A testament to the interaction between the experimental avant-garde and the countercultural underground, the album was originally released on Elektra, recorded by
Jac Holzman
(the label's founder, responsible for signing
The Doors
,
Love
, and
The Stooges
) and produced by
DNA
, a group that included
Pink Floyd
's first manager,
Peter Jenner
(the title of Pink Floyd's 'Flaming' is a tribute to AMM's 'Later During a Flaming Riviera Sunset'). Formed in 1965 by three players from the emerging British jazz avant-garde -- Keith Rowe and
Lou Gare
had played with the great progressive big band leader
Mike Westbrook
and
Eddie Prévost
played in a post-bop group with Gare -- AMM quickly evolved from a free jazz group into something decidedly more difficult to categorise. By the time these recordings were made, two more members had joined the group: another Westbrook associate,
Lawrence Sheaff
, and the radical composer
Cornelius Cardew
. Then at work on his masterpiece of graphic notation
Treatise
, Cardew brought with him extensive experience of the post-serialist and
Cage
ian currents in contemporary composition. Using a combination of conventional instruments and unconventional methods of sound production (most famously Keith Rowe's prepared tabletop guitar, but also prepared piano and transistor radio), the group performed improvised pieces often running for over two hours and ranging from extended periods of silence to terrifying cacophonies. On
AMMMusic
, long tones sit next to abrasive thuds, the howl of uncontrolled feedback accompanies Cardew's purposeful piano chords, radios beam in snatches of orchestral music. AMM's clearest break with jazz-based improvisation concerned the idea of individuality. Initially through an engagement with eastern philosophy and mysticism and later though a politicized communitarianism, AMM sought to develop a collective sonic identity in which individual contributions could barely be discerned. In the performances captured on
AMMMusic
the use of numerous auxiliary instruments and devices, including radios played by three members of the group, contribute to the sensation that the music is composed as a single monolithic object with multiple facets, rather than as an interaction between five distinct voices." --
Francis Plagne
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