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アート系指南書ブロークン・ミュージック掲載タイトルであり、個人的アート系レコード最高峰の一枚となっている、ベイエリアのコンセプチュアル・アーティストTerry Foxが82年に残した超名盤[Linkage]!!スイス・ルツェルン美術館でのインスタレーションに伴い制作された1st LPで、ワイヤーを素手やバイオリンの弓、スティック、錆びた金属棒で引っ張る、叩く、削るなどした至極ミニマルな催眠演奏。特にAサイド後半部で出現する激ヤバの音色&リズミカルなパターン演奏は、間違いなくこの手の録音の最高峰。オリジナル同様のゲートフォールドスリーヴに、魅力的資料が大量に掲載された大型ブックレット付き。マスト。

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Terry Fox was a first generation Bay Area conceptual artist. Beginning in the 1970s, he worked extensively with sound, especially the use of piano wires detached from their native instrument and anchored between opposing walls of the performance space.

Linkage, Fox's first album, was originally released in 1982 to accompany an installation at Kunstmuseum Luzern in Switzerland. The record would mark Fox's first attempt to realize his groundbreaking and visceral piece "Berlin Wall Scored for Sound."

Side one links five ways of playing the piano wires: drumming, pulling, bowing, beating and scraping. The room itself acts as a type of natural resonator as Fox moves the wires with padded mallet, his bare fingers, violin bow, wooden shish kebab stick and rusted metal rod. The effect of such plain arrangements can be utterly hypnotizing.

The second half of Linkage was recorded in the attic of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, West Berlin, in May 1981. A thirty-three meter long wire was held in contact with a sardine tin. Over the course of 20 minutes, pulsating drones dissolve into rhythmic patterns that sound almost synthetic in origin. As noted in the original LP pamphlet, all these sounds were strictly acoustic; the only electronics involved was the recording equipment.

In an introduction for this edition, Marita Loosen-Fox and Ron Meyers write, "The desire to eliminate any barriers between the art and the viewer/audience connects all of Fox's situations/actions/performances. The ultimate goal is to communicate as directly as possible, which finds its most concentrated expression in the artist's works with sound."

This first-time reissue is limited to 750 numbered copies. Comes with booklet.

Track Listing:

Drumming
Pulling
Bowing
Beating
Scraping
Ether
The News
The Vicar And The Cowboy
The Bear
Sign Off