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01. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Gong Electronic
02. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Marimba Electronic
03. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Flute Circles
04. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Flute Streams
05. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Marimba Bells
06. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Zither Flute
07. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Tunnels Electronic
08. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Dulcimer Flute
09. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - String Percussion
10. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Gong Finale
11. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - The Wind Upon the Moor
12. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Tribal Dance
13. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Solo Duet Nr. 1
14. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Solo Duet Nr. 2
15. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Sacrifice
16. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Unidentified Flying Frequencies
17. BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC - Your Call Requires a 10 Cent Deposit
ARTIST
TITLE
Episodes at 4AM
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
PD 024CD PD 024CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/4/2012

2007 release. Bob Downes is most often thought of as a jazz flautist, composer and group leader, but throughout his varied career that has included such diverse musical activity as working with the John Barry Seven and playing on Egg's second LP, he also had his own fluid conceptual group Open Music with principle bass player Barry Guy and drummer Denis Smith. Other players that passed through Open Music include Chris Spedding, Kenny Wheeler, Ray Russell, Ian Carr, Henry Lowther, Harry Beckett, Harry Miller, Barre Phillips, John Stevens, and many others. Besides the free jazz and jazz rock influences, Bob Downes has also been involved in much experimental music. After his early '70s releases on Philips, Vertigo and Music For Pleasure, there appeared a series of three private-pressed LPs on his own label Openian that explored this more experimental style. Episodes at 4AM is the second in this series and is by far the strangest of the three. Released in 1974 and commissioned by the Welsh Dance Theatre, it consisted of 10 short duos performed by Wendy Benka on zither, dulcimer and small percussion, and Downes on flutes, various percussion and plenty of electronic manipulation. Nearly every sound on this LP was processed using a variety of shimmering delays, controlled feedback, reverb and speed change to create a haunting and delirious mix of musical styles and atmospheres. Taken from the master tapes, this 33-minute LP has been expanded for the CD release with 35 minutes of previously-unreleased experimental works, mostly from the same period, that cover even more ground than the LP, including one piece made entirely from the sounds of various phone booths on the streets of New York.