J.D. ROBB

ELECTRONIC MUSIC FROM RAZOR BLADES TO MOOG LP

Asch Records / Folkways

with booklet 

Rare debut Asch records original from american composer J.D. Robb using the Moog Synthesizer, the Ondes Martenot, analog computer music and many other experimental techniques.

Some info on the release:  Original released back in 1970. Released by the Asch records label, this is the ultra-rare 1st edition (after it appeared on the Folkways collection), please note this was co-produced by Folkways Records (John Cage, David Tudor, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Henry Jacobs, Tod Dockstader, Barton McLean and Gianni Safred, Barton Smith, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Travelon Gamelon, Malcolm Goldstein, Philip Corner). Slightly different artwork from the Folkways Records issue. The record features a lot of small pieces experimenting with various electronic gadgets and synthesizers (Ondes Martenot, Analog Computer Music, Moog, etc.), using field recordings, electronic oscillators, etc.   

Robb studied composition with Horatio Parker, Darius Milhaud, Roy Harris, Paul Hindemith, and Nadia Boulanger. He composed a large body of music, including two operas, symphonic and chamber music, and electronic music. His orchestral works have been conducted by Maurice Abravanel and Leonard Slatkin. Among his notable composition students is Halim El-Dabh.

While at the University of New Mexico, he collected approximately 3,000 field recordings of traditional music from the American Southwest, Nepal, and South America, which formed the core of the John Donald Robb Archive of Southwestern Music at the University of New Mexico.

Not many people walk away from a successful international law career to devote their time to making electronic music at the ripe age of 49 years. John Donald Robb did just that when he set up shop in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1941 and dove head first into a career as a composer, ethno-musicologist and an early electronic music noodler whose bizarre and singular electronic music recordings are short on same old same old and long on quirky, beat audacity. Quite close to  Lejaren Hiller, Roger Reynolds, Alvin Lucier and of course David Behrman, Larry Austin, Jerry Hunt, Glenn Branca, Bruce Haack, Phil Niblock, Charlemagne Palestine, Noah Creshevsky and Charles Dodge. Complete albums of his music have appeared on Folkways (2), Opus One and Locust Music and include a wide range of works from large ensembles to soloists with electronic and computer-generated tape.

Condition: Cover lies in excellent- condition, quite well preserved with small writing on top right corner (see photo). Vinyl lies in very good++ condition, showing to have some light spots on both sides, propably from storage conditions plus some dust, a cleaning will be necessary, but plays quite "quietly".

Tracklist

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