derek bailey, tristan honsinger / duo (HONEST JON'S盤LP)
無調で研磨されたテンションを保つことは難儀なことで、その難儀なゾーンにギター1本で挑戦し続けたのが、このインプロヴィゼーションの御大デレク・ベイリーなんですよね。こちらは、Evan Parker（エヴァン・パーカー）プロデュースで、ICPオーケストラやCecil Taylor（セシル・テイラー）のグループにも参加した米即興チェリスト、Tristan Honsinger（トリスタン・ホンジンガー／強烈な海外版ハナモゲラ語も飛び出します！）と共演した1976年作「Duo」が、なんとHONEST JON'S RECORDSから2018年に丁寧にアナログLP盤でリイシュー!!! オリジナル・マスターテープを名門アビー・ロード・スタジオでデジタル変換し、Rashad Beckerがマスタリングして蘇らせたこともトピックの一つではっ!? 音質もすこぶる良いですよー。 Born in Burlington, Vermont, and conservatory-trained in the US, the cellist Tristan Honsinger moved from Montreal to Amsterdam in 1974, quickly linking with Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg, and opening a long and fruitful musical relationship with Derek Bailey. Recorded in 1976, Duo displays a performative musical approach already characterised by the lack of inhibition which would later endear him to The Pop Group: he is knockabout, exclamatory, explosively rhythmic; burping Bach and folk melodies with spasmodic lyricism, in amongst the garrulous textures and accents of his scraping, bowing and plucking, and gibbering like a monkey; throwing out his arms and stamping the floor, grappling with his instrument like an expert clown, always on the lookout for new ways to trip himself up. You can hear Bailey revelling in the company, as he ranges between scrabbling solidarity and an askance skewering of his partner's antics, on prepared (nineteen-string) and standard electric guitars - and a Waisvisz Crackle-box, for the garbled, quizzical, cross-species natter which closes The Shadow. Throughout, the spirited interplay between laconic, analytic wit and guttural, sometimes slapstick physicality is consistently droll, often laugh-out-loud funny; vigorously alert, alive and gripping. （HONEST JON'S RECORDS） Side One 1. The Visit (3:20) 2. Duo (Part 1) (4:56) 3. Duo (Part 2) (11:28) Side Two 1. Performance (4:12) 2. Preparation (6:24) 3. The Shadows (10:36) 4. Exits (3:48) Format：LP Label：HONEST JON'S (UK)
