AMM LP Box Set 1968 Import MINT Keith Row, Prevost

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May 10, 2005 Sold Date

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AMM

The Crypt June 12 1968

Box Set // 2 Long Playing LPS // Nice Black & White Photo of Band // 2Booklets

1968 recording

In MINT Condition, Never Played !!

Radical free/spontaneous music ensemble founded in the UK in the mid 1960s. Members have included Lou Gare, Lawrence Sheaff, Keith Rowe, Eddie Prévost, Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff, Christopher Hobbs, John Tilbury and possibly others. The group currently performs as a trio of Tilbury, Rowe and Prévost.

Matchless Recordings – MR5 Imported from England

[1968] Cardew/Gare/Hobbs/Prevost/Rowe "The only possibility is to surrender to the ebb and flow of the pervasive group sound, until, finally you are lost inside it, mesmerised by it. You notice that the detail in the music is fascinating, no less the overall shape of the performance, which remains just out of grasp, like a landscape too powerful to assimilate in its entirety." Melody Maker (U.K.) Recorded at the Crypt, Lancaster Road, London by Bob Woolford, 12th June, 1968 -

It is fair to assume that AMM's The Crypt June 12th 1968 (Matchless MRCD05) will come to be regarded by future generations as a landmark work as important as Stockhausen's epic Hymnen of the preceding year.

In the early part of its career, AMM was relatively well-known (a brief association with The Pink Floyd and other luminaries of the London scene at the time helped matters), but from the mid 1970s through until the early 1990s the group continued to plough its lonely uncompromising furrow in near obscurity, and considerable hardship - Rowe recalls that there was a time during the Thatcher years when he was playing in public barely once a year, a fact that might in part have prompted his decision to leave England altogether and relocate to France, where he lives to this day. In the mid 1990s, happily, the tide began to turn, not only for Rowe, who today is very much in demand as a performer, but also for AMM percussionist Eddie Prévost, whose Matchless label is now beginning to rival Martin Davidson's Emanem imprint in importance as invaluable documentation of the English free improv scene, and pianist John Tilbury, whose work as an improviser is increasingly being mentioned in the same breath as his landmark interpretations of contemporary piano music, notably that of Cage, Feldman and Cardew.

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