Release Date: 22 November 2019
Label: Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Clamshell
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 5013929108400
Genres: Rock
Description
EXTENSIVE 3CD SET EXPLORING THE UK’S AVANT-GARDE AND EXPERIMENTAL SCENE
IN THE WAKE OF PUNK ROCK AND POST-PUNK.
AMBIENT IMPROVISATION, SPOKEN WORD, SOLO AND GROUP PERFORMANCES, PERCUSSION PIECES, NOISE, TAPE MANIPULATION, MODERN CLASSICAL, MUSIQUE CONCRETE, FOUND SOUND, SERIAL COMPOSITION…
FROM ESTABLISHED NAMES TO LESSER KNOWN EXPERIMENTALISTS AND EXPLORERS; THROBBING GRISTLE, THE POP GROUP, HENRY COW, NURSE WITH WOUND, ROBERT FRIPP, MORGAN FISHER, FRED FRITH, PSYCHIC TV, ROBERT WYATT, SOFT MACHINE, SWELL MAPS, MARK PERRY, 23 SKIDOO, CHRIS AND COSEY, CLOCK DVA, DAVID CUNNINGHAM, LOL COXHILL, AMM III, GAVIN BRYARS, MARTIN HANNETT, WILL SARGEANT, THIS HEAT AND MANY MORE….
COMPILED ALPHABETICALLY AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CHANCE AND CHAOS.
ACCOMPANYING ESSAY FROM MARK PAYTRESS (MOJO, THE GUARDIAN, ROLLING STONE, CRAWDADDY).
COMPILED BY THE TEAM BEHIND THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED CLOSE TO THE NOISE FLOOR SERIES AND THE RECENT BEST-SELLER ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE.
A year in the making, ‘Further Perspectives And Distortion’ presents a snapshot of the UK’s experimental and avant-garde music scene, observed through the paradigm-shifting lense of the post punk revolution and bringing together disparate names from across the experimental spectrum. This is a long-overdue look at the ‘other side’ of the freedom offered by the tectonic shifts in the musical landscape in 1976 & 1977.
For all of the upheaval of that mid-late ‘70s demolition of musical boundaries, the guitar and the search for a saleable melody continued to dominate. But for the willing the opportunity also arose to operate free of such commercial concessions, and in tandem with the explosion of angular guitar music and electronic pop (and often alongside those sounds on the same album or EP) came a wealth of exploratory and experimental material which, for the first time, demanded an audience beyond the culture set and the art world. From speed-fuelled kids bursting with raw talent and homemade electronic gizmos to trained composers and writers with a new, fresh audience to explore, herein lay the flipside – literally, in many of these recordings’ cases – of the independent explosion and the newfound ability to find homes (and stockists) for even the most unruly of sounds.
By design, ‘Further Perspectives And Distortion’ seeks to comfort, challenge and question in equal measure.
Tracklisting
Kevin Ayers
Wrath
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Tigertailz
The Fall
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
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