Label: Another Timbre

Another Timbreらしからぬユニーク物件!!スリップケース入りの豪華パッケージ!!Another Timbreからはこれが通算4枚目のソロアルバムとなる英国のミュージシャンにしてコンポーザーのFrank Denyer。本作は、氏が音楽の最も基本的な要素に疑問を投げかけ民族音楽学的研究より生み出した74~77年の作曲作品[Melodies]。このレーベルの路線であるコンテンポラリーや即興ものとは少し異なる、感覚的な演奏が続く面白サウンド満載の内容で、どこか鈴木昭男氏を思わせる部分もあります。





A unique double album, featuring the first recording of Frank Denyer's extraordinary 'Melodies' series from the mid-1970's. The project arose from Frank's ethnomusicological studies of the time, which had forced him to question the most fundamental elements of music. He had to ask himself 'what is a melody?' and 'what is a note?' His typically eccentric response was to write a series of 25 pieces, starting with single-note melodies, then melodies with two, three or four notes, gradually becoming more complex until the last piece, which contains 14- and 15-note melodies.
The album contains a 24-page booklet with an essay about the 'Melodies' project by Frank Denyer himself.