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ARTIST
ALTERATIONS
TITLE
Up Your Sleeve
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
PARADIGM DISCS
CATALOG #
PD 037LP
PD 037LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
7/29/2022
Reissue, previously released in 1980 on
David Toop
's Quartz label at a time when improvised music in London was settling into a long spell of excellence. The players here are
Steve Beresford
,
Peter Cusack
,
Terry Day
, and David Toop. Terry had been a member of
The People Band
in the '60s, one of the groups forming part of the first wave of British improvisation. The rest of the group could be regarded as pioneers of a second generation of improvisers who emerged out of the explosion of musical development that came in the wake of
AMM
,
Derek Bailey
,
SME
, etc. Out of this burst of musical energy a platform soon emerged in the form of the
London Musicians Collective
. A permanent venue and an open network were soon established and the seeds were planted for a wide range of new and exciting players to explore the possibilities of free improvisation. The first
Alterations
LP from 1978 exemplifies this, with new ideas literally brought to the table -- alongside the numerous conventional instruments played by the group, a plethora of simple musical toys, sound makers, and homemade instruments were used.
Up Your Sleeve
is their second LP and operates in a similar territory, but takes things to another level with its casual embrace of noise and feedback, and somewhat controversially for improv; fragments of familiar songs and a hearty indulgence in rhythm. In short,
Up Your Sleeve
is free improvisation drawn from a very broad range of components. It should be said that all the members of the group were also at the same time in bands that played songs, most notably Steve's involvement with
The Slits
and
The Flying Lizards
. David also briefly basked as a Lizard, but all four members were singing the same tune in both
The 49 Americans
and
The Promenaders
. Maybe it's not so surprising to hear stylistic clashes exploited on this record. London was awash with musical development in the early '80s. Apart from the burgeoning LMC scene there were many post-punk and experimental groups like
This Heat
and
Swell Maps
that enriched the creative atmosphere. London labels like Quartz along with Recommended Records, It's War Boys, Incus, Industrial, United Dairies, and countless others were all releasing ground-breaking experimental music. It was arguably the best time for experimental music in London. There was certainly something in the air. Four-page insert; edition of 500.
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