TOM JOHNSON

An Hour For Piano

(Lovely Music) Used LP $15.00

“This trance-music piece is made up of repeating 4/4 cells in which an absolutely steady eighth-note motion predominates. Often several cells are going on simultaneously, and one cell frequently mutates into another through the addition or subtraction of a note or two. One has to step back far enough to get a perspective on the large-scale shifts in density and tonality before the impact can be felt. Frederic Rzewski plays very percussively throughout, giving the piece an intense forward motion.” Original pressing from 1979

TAKEHISA KOSUGI

Violin Improvisations New York September 1989

(Lovely Music) Used CD $10.00

“1990 CD release of solo violin and electronics by the main Taj Mahal Traveler and key player in Fluxus-related activities during the sixties. It’s some of the most beautiful mathematical-relationship-inspired solo performance grate-scrape out there… with just enough … Eastern micro-tonalities and alien gestures to keep your ears dancing on end…. [H]ard to believe that [the] glossed-out cavern / tank sonics are all derived from a single violin and a digital delay unit.”