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| The AGP celebrates its
three-year anniversary with the first in a series of transcriptions of
the long out-of-print ReR Quarterly,
produced by Recommended Records.
Released at irregular intervals of no less than three months, the
series continued through three volumes of LP releases, before switching
to the CD medium for a fourth volume starting in 1994, and then ending
in 1997. Each volume except the third consisted of four issues
containing a magazine and either an LP or CD of music. A pair of CDs
with selected tracks from the first two volumes were released in 1991,
but those are now also long out of print. The tracks in these installments run the gamut from electroacoustic music to free improvisation to poetry recitation to avant-pop. Many of the artists participated in the protest movements of that time and were devoted partisans of a revolutionary ethos. Most of the tracks were recorded and produced on a shoestring budget, but even so the sound quality is often excellent. And even in the more primitive recordings, the range of timbres explored can be quite striking. AGP141 is a transcription of the LP from volume 1, issue 1, released in May 1985. It is an excellent pressing in excellent condition, with negligible surface noise or tracking distortion. The installment includes a PDF file with scans of the pages from the magazine describing the music on the LP. The scans encompass the four issues of volume 1, which will be released in the next four AGP installments. To download AGP141 files, right-click on each of the following links and select SAVE LINK AS. The tracks without links are available on CD in a sampler of some of the best tracks from volume 1, which can be purchased from ReR Megacorp. The out-of-print tracks from volume 1 are available here with the kind permission of ReR Megacorp, so if you like what you hear in AGP141-144, be sure to check out the sampler CD as well. 01 - Steve Moore: The Threshold of Liberty [9:28] 02
- Lars Hollmer: Experiment [1:20] 03 - Chris
Cutler/Lindsay Cooper: Education [3:44] 04 - 5 uu's:
Compomisation [2:48] 05
- Joseph Racaille: Dans les
Yeux Bleues [1:16] 06
- The Lowest Note: Naiwabi
[2:34] 07
- Adrian Mitchell: Sorry
'bout That [1:57] 08
- Kalahari Surfers: Prayer
for Civilisation [5:03] 09
- Mission Impossible:
Indefinite [3:42] 10
- Stefano
Delu: Pensa un Numero
[2:16] 11
- Adrian
Mitchell: Song in Space
[0:40] 12
- Mikolas Chadima: A Walk
Around the Brewery [6:48] 13 - Adrian Mitchell: Saw it in the Papers [3:58] |
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