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With AGP102,
the Avant Garde Project veers wildly off course. This installment is a
transcription of an early LP by the avant garde guitarist Henry Kaiser,
who has had a long, prolific career playing a remarkably diverse and
profoundly strange assortment of musics. My favorite of his many
recordings is "Outside Pleasure", recorded live without overdubs in
August 1979 in San Francisco and Berkeley, California. Kaiser's guitar
style, particularly at this stage in his career, is unlike anything
anyone else does. Imagine a combination of Hawaiian slack-key guitar,
the songs of humpback whales, and the music of the Krell, and you have
some idea what it sounds like.
The tracks on this LP have been re-released on a now-out-of-print CD
entitled "Outside Aloha Pleasure" that also includes most of the tracks
from his follow-up LP "Aloha". AGP103 will be a transcription of that
CD, but when I transcribed some tracks from my LP copy, I found that
the LP transfer actually has more fine detail and sounds more alive
than the CD. I'm guessing they used digital noise reduction on the CD
re-release to reduce the hiss of the original analog recording, and in
doing so lost some clarity as well.
The installment includes two bonus tracks from Henry Kaiser's
contribution to the Table of the Elements series (Neon), and a PDF file
with front and back cover scans from Outside Pleasure. My scanner's bed
isn't large enough to scan an entire LP cover, so each cover is scanned
in two parts.
To download
AGP102 files, right-click on each of the following links and select
SAVE
LINK AS.
01 - Outside Pleasure [7:43]
02 - Punctual as Actual
[3:19]
03 - Farmer in Heaven [10:11]
04 - The Stormy Present
[7:58]
05 - An Economy of Scale
[1:52]
06 - Aquirax Aida [4:14]
07 - Information
Mechanics [6:12]
08 - The
Blood at the Back of the Harp [2:35]
09 - Table of
Elements: Delirium [2:54]
10 - Table of
Elements: Homesickness [2:54]
Scans of LP front and back
covers
AGP102
description
FLAC fingerprints
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