John Cage, Charles Ives, Marcel Duchamp

condition (record/cover): M / M Insert included.

Three figures whose creative trajectories share more than their chronological proximity: Charles Ives, working in isolation from the American experimental tradition, anticipating so much of what would come; Marcel Duchamp, whose extension of artistic practice into sound via the readymade and chance prefigured John Cage more directly than almost anyone; and Cage himself, who acknowledged Duchamp as one of his most important models. The Swedish label Caprice Records pressed this pairing with an evident understanding of the intellectual coherence it proposed.