various artists
FURTHER PERSPECTIVES & DISTORTION ~ AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH EXPERIMENTAL AND AVANT-GARDE MUSIC 1976-1984 BOXSET
cherry red
a brilliant handbook to the incredibly productive period when innovators such as fripp, chris and cosey prowled the earth.
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.
Tracklist
- TRAIL OF TRAPS - Alterations
- THE FORCE IS BLIND - Alternative TV
- CONVERGENCE – AMM III
- HANG TEN – …And The Native Hipsters
- RATS AND MONKEYS – Art Bears
- INTELLECTUAL STANCE – A Tent
- OVERSPREADING ART GENIUS – Blancmange
- POSITIVE PARANOIA/THE CITY IN THE SEA - Bodhi Beat Poets
- AFTER MENDELSSOHN (137 YEARS) - Gavin Bryars
- LMC 1979 - Paul Burwell And David Toop
- THE GIANT'S FEET – Chris And Cosey
- EXERCISE IN MAGNETIC TAPE NO 4 – Clock DVA
- REFRESHMENT BREAK – Bob Cobbing
- GENERAL STRIKE – Lindsay Cooper
- VASE – Lol Coxhill And Morgan Fisher
- ERROR SYSTEM (BAGFGAB) – David Cunningham
- HER MASTER'S VOICEDeux Filles
- BRIGHTON, PT. 1 – Doof
- JOHN OF PATMOS – Eyeless In Gaza
- BURNING FEET – Faction
- THINK - Five Or Six
- MINIATURE – Robert Fripp
- THE BOY BEATS THE RAMS (KLUK TLUCE BERANY) – Fred Frith
- BLADES SPIN NOTIONS – Ron Geesin
- MZUI (EXTRACT) – bcGilbert, glewis And russellMills
- NIGHT BY THE SEA – bill Gilonis And Tim Hodgkinson
- PROCESSION (FT NICO) - Martin Hannett And Steve Hopkins
- WOODEN HEARTTHROB OF PEKING - Kevin Harrison
- INDUSTRY - Henry Cow
- MUSIC FOR THE HANGING OF A MINISTER – Het
- JUNSHI – Hula
- SOUNDS THAT SAVED MY LIFE (HOMAGE TO K.S.) – George Melly
- (EXTRACT FROM) THE COMPASSION AND HUMANITY OF MARGARET THATCHER – No Artist
- DOWN THE SINK – Nocturnal Emissions
- I WAS NO LONGER HIS DOMINANT (ALTERNATE VERSION) – Nurse With Wound
- DEATH LOOKS DOWN – Mark Perry
- IN THE NURSERY - Psychic TV
- PARALYSIS – Robert Rental
- JAPANESE HEADSET – Second Layer
- SCENE X - Will Sergeant
- SCATTERED STRATEGIES/OBLIQUE REFERENCES – Nigel Simpkins
- KAYOO – Soft Machine
- OPUS - Stinky Winkles
- ROBOT FACTORY – Swell Maps
- WWBC - Test Dept
- NOSTRADAMUS – The Door And The Window
- CHANGEZ LES BLOCKEURS (EXTRACT) - The New Blockaders
- AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT – The Pop Group
- CROSSOVER – The Wildings
- BRICKYARD – The Work
- 24 TRACK LOOP – This Heat
- ZYKLON B ZOMBIE – Throbbing Gristle
- BANISHING - 23 Skidoo
- PALE YELLOW – Two
- DRINKING AND HOOTING MACHINE? – John White
- MUSICAL BOX – Trevor Wishart
- RANGERS IN THE NIGHT – Robert Wyatt
- BAPTISM OF FIRE – Zos Kia