AMM
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BBC Maida Vale Studios
Jan 1988?
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Source:  BBC FM broadcast > Aiwa 640 record > Aiwa 880 replay > Yamaha 1300 HD recorder
Transfer AMQR CDR > EAC > Flac Frontend (level 6)
Editing: None
Quality: A++, with relatively little hiss for this vintage
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This is an ultra-rare performance of AMMmusic by this elemental, yet reclusive group
of improv pioneers who are acknowledged as pivotal influences on many improv groups,
notably Henry Cow, who were to follow.

Actual members of AMM have varied over the years and even performance to performance,
Keith and Eddie being a core from 1966, when AMMmusic was first recorded. This particular
group is exceptionally rare and to my ears, the very best I've ever heard from AMM.

I heard AMM just once live, with the addition of Lou Gare (sax), live at Crawley and
it was not even close to the quality of this superb post, especially as de Saram is far
more prominent and audible without the presence of Gare (others may disgree of course).

The performance is humbling, awesome and about as extreme as music gets (as opposed to
noise from meisters like Merzbow and Borbetomagus). Dynamics are absolutely huge and
quite amazing, given limitations of the cassette medium, audibly better replayed on the
Aiwa 880 deck I got off Ebay to replace my treasured 3-head 640 which just died.

It is amazing to think that much of this recording is actually acoustic and a credit to
the skill of all these improv masters. It is one continuous recording with episodic track
markers added manually, except for the tape flip between tracks 3 and 4 which is amazingly
not really audible, so I did not do any editing or cross-fading.

Other details of the recording are not known, except it was in January as part of the
'Music and Ideas of 1968' celebrations so possibly the anniversary in 1988.

Noise from cassette and FM is there, but a lot of the audible noise is from Keith Rowe's
radios that can be heard switching on/off especially at the beginning, so it doesn't matter
much anyway.

IMHO, this is some of the greatest music you will ever hear - Enjoy !!

Band:
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Keith Rowe	- tabletop guitar, radios and electronics
Rohan de Saram	- cello
John Tilbury	- piano
Eddie Prevost	- percussion

AMMmusic:
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16.30 Part 1
27.02 Part 2
19.11 Part 3
05.45 Part 4
00.48 Applause > Radio announcer

Notes / Credits:
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1. Nice artworks courtesy of member 'jogemimu' - many thanks!!
2. No entry on db.etree and the BBC database is not available, so some details are limited
3. As far as I know, this is the first time this performance has been posted

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