alan silva CCO desert mirage SIGNED arthur doyle i. oki
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alan silva & the celestrial communication orchestra
desert mirage
iacp 7004-5
vinyl: m-
sleeve: m-
signed & decorated by silva (see photos). 1982 double l/p dedicated by silva to bill dixon. in my experience this is silva's rarest record. CCO heard here includes arthur doyle (what a hand!), michael zwerin, itaru oki, bernard vitet, ron pittner, & many of silva's students from Institut Art Culture Perception in paris (including denis colin & didier petit), where silva acted as director for a decade+ before he was removed by the board of directors for his idiosyncratic methods (see below). all compositions by silva. half the performances are tempestuous gesturally conducted improvs in the lineage of seasons & HR57; other pieces are clearly more pre-determined & bear a striking resemblance to gil evans' writing & orchestration style! a consistently fascinating record. cover photo by hart leroy bibbs, liner notes by zwerin. see my other listings for more signed silva records.
dennis gonzalez on bagatellen.com: "I visited IACP in June of 1980, while visiting Denis Colin in Paris. I'd studied with Alan Silva at Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY, and my trip to Paris was in part to play a gig at 14, Rue Dunois and to hook up with Alan, who'd invited me to come study with him at his school. The school was swirling with activity at the time. I'm not sure what happened there after I left, but at the time, which must have been one of those "best of times", there were students and teaching musicians practicing and teaching in the hallways and in classrooms. I remember having to step over people to get to Alan's office... at one point Alan took me to a strange room in the center of the IACP building and put me through some sort of light and sound show; I was then blindfolded and sensorially deprived for a short while, after which Alan asked me to draw my impressions on a large sheet of paper. That, stated the enigmatic and laughing Alan Silva, is the way in which he was able to predict how a particular soloist would perform with his ensemble, and he would place students in his school on different levels of study by using this....er...unorthodox method. He then went on to tell me what my thinking was (at the time, and before I was "saved" by Roscoe Mitchell) and how I went about constructing my solos, and what I could do to improve. I must say that he was quite "right-on" in his critique, even though he'd had a chance to hear me play in Woodstock with Cecil Taylor's band the December before."
Alan Silva-dir Pierre Faure-fl Carl Schlosser-fl,piccolo Aldridge Hansberry-fl,alto fl Karo-alto cl Denis Colin-bcl Jean Querlier-oboe,ehn Bruno Girard-vln Pascal Morrow-vln Didier Petit-cel Itaru Oki-tp,bugle Jeff Beer-tp Serge Adam-tp Bernard Vitet-tp Michael Zwerin-tb Domenico Criseo-tb Francois Cotinaud-ts Georges Gaumont-ts Arthur Doyle-ts Philippe Sellam-as Sebastien Franck-as Henri Grinberg-ss Antoine Mizrahi-el-b Rosine Feferman-b Francis Gorge-g Francois Leymarie-el-b Jacques Marugg-vib,marimba,timbales Adrien Bitan-vib,timbales Ron Pittner-d Bernard Drouillet-d Gilles Premel-perc
unless noted records are u.s. pressings & visually graded: m-/exc/vg+. unless a record is new i do not use m grade. as a serious collector & audiophile i am frequently disappointed by over-graded records & half-assed packaging on ebay. i grade conservatively & accurately, & package records with real care. see my other listings for jazz, avant-garde, psych, blues, international, private press. multiple item buyers save on shipping. paypal only, payment in full must be received w/ in 72 hours of auction ending, no exceptions. shipping to u.s.a. is by priority or media mail w/ delivery confirmation for every shipment. international buyers pay actual shipping plus $3 handling. buyer assumes all responsibility for postage and uninsured purchases.
