Label: NEXT Festival Records

傑作!!完全玄人好みの超名演!!電子音楽や即興演奏、サウンドアート、オーディオビジュアルまで、様々な音実験の探求が披露されるスロバキアの祭典NEXT Festival。この団体が20周年を機に始動した、フェスティバルのライブ録音音盤化シリーズ!!本作は、初期はCornelius Cardewも参加した事で知られる、60年代半ばに英国で結成された伝説的フリーミュージック・アンサンブルAMMの2018年コンサート音源。多くの説明は不要、Eddie Prevost、Keith Rowe、John Tilburyという最強のトリオ編成での演奏となっており、なんとKeith Roweは"雅楽"の録音?ラジオ放送?を投下し続けた超シリアス録音。180グラム重量盤。





Vinyl version of the album, containing the parts Until and The Next. Pressed on 180 g. vinyl. Artwork and design by Matej Vojtuš.

Eddie Prévost – percussion
Keith Rowe – guitar, electronics
John Tilbury – piano

More than half a century has elapsed since the founding of the legendary British free improvisation group AMM. We could say there would be no free improvisation as we know it today without AMM’s Eddie Prévost, John Tilbury and Keith Rowe. The mystery surrounding AMM has not faded; to the contrary, even nowadays it carries a particular appeal due to its engaged, intelligible and nonetheless radical message.

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AMM Until The Next Time Next Festival LP 2019 In 1966 the late Victor Schonfield wrote of “sounds like those made by flocks of birds, dogs, sirens, rain on a tin roof, buzz-saws, bubbling lava, giant insects ripping and slashing at steel doors, or electrified cats and babies” in AMM music. Versions of these are here in this recording from Bratislava. AMM music remains an ongoing vehicle or vessel for contemplation, looking back and moving on. A way of being, knowing and feeling for all present, almost sentimental perhaps in its memory. Midway through the performance Rowe introduces a thread of what seems to be a recording or radio broadcast of gagaku music – another important early reference for AMM – ritual sounds from centuries past and another world that entangle with theirs. Attached to this aggregate of sounds we hear time, the weight of lives lived – ballast, anchor, crutch, compass and ladder. The final minutes are one long emergent silence –footsteps, bodies, coughs, uncertain and eventually emphatic applause. 
Written by Seymour Wright