Description

Musics For Piano, Whistling, Microphone And Tape Recorder / 2LP

Author/Editor: Michael Snow

CONTENTS

Necessary, first ever vinyl reissue of a truly seminal double LP set originally that appeared on the Chatham Square imprint in 1975. Canadian artist and filmmaker Michael Snow was originally a jazz pianist, and continued to be involved in music throughout his long career. He arranged for Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Sunny Murray, John Tchicai, Gary Peacock and his then neighbour Roswell Rudd to record the landmark improvised soundtrack to his film New York Eye And Ear Control (1964) and was active in the group CCMC since its founding in 1974. Also a conceptual composer, Snow befriended both Steve Reich and Philip Glass in the late ‘60s and this double LP is a happy by-product of their association. “Falling Starts”, which covers the entirety of the first LP, is a tape of a piano melody first played back at hyperspeed, then slower and slower until it becomes recognizable before transforming into a thunderous, quivering bass boom. Also included is an intentionally distorted, repetitive stride piano experiment and a whole side of whistling.

Original Release Date: 2016
Label: Song Cycle
ASIN: B01KTYVDR0
Number of discs: 2