JIM FASSETT avant experimental LP “Strange to Your Ears” COL ’53 orig RARE NM

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Artist:  Fabulous World of Sound with JIM FASSETT

Title:   “Strange to Your Ears”

Label:   COLUMBIA MASTERWORKS ~ # ML 4938.   Mono pressing on thick vinyl, with deep groove.  Labels are blue with silver text. 

Year:  1953.

Condition:   

DISC:  NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.

JACKET:   Jacket is nice VG++ with clean glossy front cover (original retail price sticker at the bottom right).  Top seam has a small split (approximately one inch) at right corner; otherwise very nice seams and corners.  Reverse has darkened slightly with age.  No writing, stickers, or other issues. 

Includes the original heavy cardboard inner folder in NEAR MINT condition.

Very rare and unique album from the early days of 33-1/3 rpm vinyls.

Review:

“During the late 1950s, longtime CBS Radio musical director Jim Fassett introduced a Sunday afternoon program titled Strange to Your Ears, essentially a vanity showcase to spotlight the exec's growing fascination with the kind of magnetic tape experiments first explored by musique concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer a decade earlier.  Despite his corporate credentials, Fassett was no dilettante -- the tape pieces collected for this LP don't boast the sheer imagination or engineering wizardry of contemporaries like Karlheinz Stockhausen or Tod Dockstader, but the sheer brass necessary to create music this radical and difficult for national radio broadcast is alone sufficient to legitimize Fassett's dedication to his craft.  And while Strange to Your Ears doesn't seem quite so alien decades after the fact, it's nevertheless a bold, anything goes immersion into pure sound, painstakingly woven from tape splices and re-recordings sped up, slowed down, reversed and pureed -- no less fascinating are Fassett's spoken introductions, delivered in a voice so dignified and authoritative that the music seems that much more audacious by comparison.”

(review courtesy of Jason Ankeny, allmusic.com)

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