| $15.75
back in stock as of
january 26th, 2008
first in stock on
october 10th, 2006
threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
experimental-instruments
live-electronic
|
| | | paradigm (uk) #pd 20 cd gravity adjusters expansion band “one” compact disc - one (extended cd version) (12:17)
- eastern lunarterranium (4:08)
- autumnal equinox harvest dance (9:20)
- soon after the beginning (6:38)
- amerizenitation (6:47)
- birds return to hollywood (6:48)
- shimmering (extra track) (7:49)
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "one (extended cd version)" |
| the timing on this reissue couldn’t be more perfect... a few months ago, after years of searching i finally found an original copy (sealed) of this long-lost experimental-instrument/electro-acoustic-improv obscurity (along with the second volume, also sealed) - and what feels like mere moments later here’s a proper reissue of said lp, replete with contemporary liner notes, bonus material, & everything on clive graham’s newly revived paradigm imprint. i call that synergy: now i get to enligten two birds with one gesture by bringing this in along with the myriad other hard-to-find early-electronic and nurse-with-wound-list classics in the paradigm catalogue all in one fell swoop. everyone’s a winner...
i’ve long been enamored with the sound of the waterphone; the eerily haunting water-filled bowed-metal instrument named after it’s inventor richard a. waters (side note: a few years back i went so far as to attempt to purchase one for petra for her birthday last year - no dice: they begin at around $800 and climb, climb, climb...) this disc reissues the debut album by richard’s late-60s experimental-instrument free-improvising troupe the gravity adjusters expansion band. |
| | paradigm press release... |
| gravity adjusters expansion band - one (pd 20)
total time 54'22"
cover by richard waters.
released 2006
jewel case cd with 8 page booklet
although the gravity adjusters expansion band (gaeb) started in 1967 they remain one of the long lost and underestimated groups that explored the areas of sound sculpture, improvisation, experimental music and free jazz. the group have their roots in playing in and around the san francisco bay area, and finally recorded their first lp in los angeles.
free jazz drummer lee charlton seemlessly shifs the moods from jazzy phrasing into the far more abstracted ideas of the world of sound sculpure. it is this abstract world where the gaeb mostly reside, using the invented instruments of multi-media artist richard waters, many of whose percussive and bowed instruments incorporate water filled resonators to bend and tune the sound.
although many other improvisors at the time like amm, mev, sonde and taj mahal travellers all made extensive use of home made and adapted instruments, the gaeb are a very different concern with their own unmistakeable identity.
their first lp “one” appeared in 1973 on nocturne records, a small californian label. it was the first of their 2 lp’s, the second appearing some 8 years later. this cd edition is a reissue of the first lp from the master tapes and also contains some 15 minutes of extra material from the time. |
|
|