DEREK BAILEY / LOT 74 - SOLO IMPROVISATIONS (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1974年にIncus Recordsよりオリジナル・リリースされた、ベイリーのオモシロさがズバッとわかるオススメの逸品!!! 左右のスピーカーを飛び交うパキパキのギター音がユニークな「Lot 74」、声とギターを通したフィードバック音の共鳴を探る「Together」、ただその音場にポツンと佇む境地の以降の楽曲と、音楽と音の境目を綱渡ったようなスリリングな内容! LOS APSON? CLASSICSエントリー作。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。 This iconic LP was originally released by Incus in 1974. Recorded at a private house in Catford, south-east London, the side-long title track is a masterwork: a twenty-two-minute, starkly personal, freely expressive, itchily searching re-casting of orders of rhythm and sound into a new, quicksilver kind of affective and musical polyphony. Never mind the guitarist's championing of 'non-idiomatic improvisation', the poet Peter Riley gets the ball rolling in his identification of the various hauntings of Bailey's playing at this time: 'mandolins & balalaikas strumming in the distance, George Formby's banjo, Leadbelly's steel 12-string, koto, lute, classical guitar... and others quite outside the field of the plucked string.' The five pieces on side two were recorded back home in Hackney around the same time - with the exception of Improvisation 104(b), from the year before (and issued by Incus in its TAPS series of mini reel-to-reel tapes) - opening with ventriloquised guitar feedback, and taking in some cod banter about colleagues like Mervyn Parker, Siegfried Brotzmann and Harry Bentink. Crucial. (HONEST JON'S RECORDS) Side One 1. Lot 74 (22:00) Side Two 1. Together (2:15) 2. Pain in the Chest ? (3:00) 3. Planks (4:00) 4. In Joke (Take 2) (4:00) 5. Improvisation 104(b) (6:00) Format:LP Label:HONEST JON'S (UK)