=======Artist: Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band=======

GRAVITY ADJUSTERS EXPANSION BAND

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(Paradigm Discs) CD $13.50

The GAEB started in 1967 and remains one of the America’s long lost and underestimated groups who explored the areas of free jazz, improvisation and experimental music. Drummer Lee Charlton shifts moods from jazzy phrasing to more abstract sound sculpture; in this world the GAEB mainly reside, using the self-invented percussive and bowed instruments of multimedia artist Richard Waters, many of which incorporate water-filled resonators to bend and tune. Other improvisers at the time — AMM, MEV, Sonde and Taj Mahal Travellers — made extensive use of homemade and adapted instruments, but the GAEB are a very different concern with their own unmistakable identity. Their first LP appeared in 1973 on Nocturne Records, a small Californian label (the first of their two LPs, the second appearing some eight years later). Paradigm Discs’ CD edition contains the entire first LP, plus fifteen minutes of extra material from the time.