IOWA EAR MUSIC electronic improv experimental RARE LP

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IOWA EAR MUSIC electronic improv experimental RARE LP

Various Artists - Iowa Ear Music  Corn Pride Records Second Limited Edition


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Condition- Like new.



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Thanks to CREEL PONE for the track listing and the review

    •     an interwoven collage of tape-improv-psych!
sidechop: documenting 18 formerly secret performances (panidiomatic improvisaiton)
    •     pete’s beet (1972)
    •     anton’s chickenyard
    •     basschurn (1973)
    •     degroot #13 (1890’s)
    •     unseen walls (waltz?) (1975)
    •     the world’s most impossible silence (1973)
    •     crusader (1971)
    •     phase leake (1973)
    •     bent end (1973)
    •     the sands of time reborn (1967)
    •     bull elewhale (1975)
    •     ...now deceased (1973)
    •     the leo trio (1974)
    •     iowa night’s bloom (1973)
    •     waiting for grace (1974)
    •     back to the playground (1976)
    •     freedom’s not something someone tells (the way to live) (1974)
    •     falsestart falsestart falsestart etc...
    •     an infinite regression (1972-76)
sideflow: mandala lifesample
    •     first rites - before (1975)
    •     solomon’s mines - birth (1973)
    •     peace like a footbal - growth (1969-1973)
    •     moment of first choice - freedom (1974)
    •     choice abandoned - get a job! (1974)
    •     where karma curdles & hurts - dharma (1974)
    •     with sun inside - maturity (1973)
    •     clarabelle interlude - self explanatory
    •     last wrongs - death (1967-76)
    •     the knight of swords comes & cuts away one by one all the things you cling to until you’re left with only one (1968-76)
    •     lonely woman - ornette coleman
    •     decay of mayamusic (1974)
    •     decay of shivadrone (1974)



"this one’s certainly a mold-breaker; closer in spirit to cage/tudor’s “indeterminacy” than the sort of bedroom solo composer/producer/performer lps that have been the creel pone archetypes thusfar; improvisors were set up in 4 different isolation booths in the studio in iowa state university’s recording studio during the ‘67-’75 seasons... these simultaneously-ocurring sound-events captured in real time, then collaged via tape & electronic processing by the studio-head michael lytle afterwards (some of you may remember those lytle/cartwright lps that turned up in the early 80s on various recommended/rec rec imprints; same guy.)

there are brief snatches of amazingly dense, if even inept euro-style improvising; all dove-tailed with some great bits of zonked analogue electronics, vocal droning, and climactic, tape-speed warble free drumming (which, inexplicably erupts at one point into a reading of “lonely woman” for cavern-reverb trumpet and square-wave sequenced moog bass !!!) my favorite thing about this lp is that no one piece stays in one place for longer than a few minutes until the chopping block is brought out and a static-feeling improv is fiercely juxtaposed against a blast of pitched up stereo-echo blast along the lines of “several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict” (i could go on...)

it’s inspiring to know that this sort of free-wheeling electro-acoustic improv-tomfoolery was taking place even in the most midwestern of geographies during the early 70s... there are certainly echoes of the work of similarly-minded ensembles such as mev, gruppo nuova consonanza, and new phonic art, although natch this is considerably more ad-hoc/rough-around-the-edges... fans of mimaroglu & hubbard’s “sing me a song of songmy” will find parallel here, even if it’s a rougher, a-political one..." --CREEL PONE







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