Eddie Prévost

Entelechy is a solo record by Eddie Prévost, percussionist of AMM, made with a single instrument, the tam-tam. Four pieces named after the ways the metal is sounded, Mixt, Beaten, Scraped and Bowed, lead to the title piece. That last track lasts almost thirty-three minutes, more than half of the disc.

The sessions took place in the Electronic Music Studios of Goldsmiths College in London. Mixt runs eighteen minutes, while the three single-technique pieces last about six minutes each. For Entelechy itself Prévost let the instrument play on its own. In his note he explains that the tam-tam hung on its usual rectangular frame while a battery-driven motor turned a small wheel beside it. Wire threads fanned out from the wheel against the metal. He set it in motion and retired to the control room while the tam-tam, as he puts it, told its own story. The result, in his words, is "virtually autonomous". Writing later about Prévost's records of the period, Brian Olewnick set this disc apart from both his concentration on bowed metal in AMM and his jazz drumming. He described it as his "more mechanistic experimentation".

Issued by Matchless Recordings as MRCD 67 on CD in 2006.