AMM

Featuring: Eddie Prévost, John Tilbury

Indústria documents AMM in its duo form, John Tilbury on piano and Eddie Prévost on percussion, in the year the group turned fifty. It is a single unbroken improvisation of about fifty-five minutes, played in a former power station across the river from Lisbon that now houses an industrial museum. The album takes its name from the place. Tilbury and Prévost recorded as AMM through the years after Keith Rowe left in 2004, and this concert came just over a month before the trio was reunited at Huddersfield.

The performance took place on 9 October 2015 at the Museu Industrial da Baía do Tejo in Barreiro, during that year's OUT.FEST, the Festival Internacional de Música Exploratória do Barreiro. In Magnet, Bill Meyer heard the two players testing the room as much as each other. Every short keyboard phrase, plucked piano wire and stroke on a cymbal is amplified and made small by the acoustics, and both leave space to hear what the building gives back. Brian Olewnick in The Squid's Ear noted Prévost's restraint, his bowed cymbals held back and the only drum sound apparently a rubbed bass drum. Tilbury surprises with simple figures of two or three notes, at times darkly Romantic. About thirty-three minutes in, the piano grows strident and Prévost answers with loud, ringing metal. Writing in Jazz Journal, Nic Jones observed that the music avoids episodes and the obvious contrast of loud and soft, which gives it an air of logical progression. Olewnick called it "Truly a highlight of their career" (2021), and pointed out that six years on Tilbury no longer remembered the concert.

Published by Matchless Recordings in 2021 as MRCD 105, on CD in a gatefold card sleeve with a sixteen-page booklet, including notes by Tilbury, Prévost, Nathan Moore and the festival's organiser Rui Pedro Dâmaso.