VariousFeaturing: Nihilist Spasm Band, Joe McPhee, Shar, Trio Fibonacci, Larry Polansky, Andrés Lewin Richter
Musicworks 81 - Balloons And Kazoos (CD+magazine)
LabelMusicworksGenreExperimental
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10"x8", 64- to 72-page (depending on the issue) stapled magazine.
Issue 81 of Musicworks, titled Balloons And Kazoos, with The Nihilist Spasm Band of London, Ontario, the composer Larry Polansky and an article on Edgard Varèse among its contents.
On the CD the Spasm Band, playing their home-made kazoos, guitars and pots, are joined by Joe McPhee on pocket cornet for Garbage Culture. Judy Dunaway plays balloons with the trio Shar, Trio Fibonacci plays Serge Provost's La pietra che canta with live electronics, and Sarah Cahill and Martin Christ play Polansky's piano variations. The disc ends with Andrés Lewin-Richter's electronic piece The Gondola Eye, recorded in 1964. Published in 2001.
Release notes
Tracks 1 through 10 recorded between 1999 and 2001; Track 11 recorded in 1964.
| 1 | Garbage Culture | 14:12 | |
| 2 | Miguel I | 2:26 | |
| 3 | Chromotom | 2:01 | |
| 4 | Milano Centrale | 1:01 | |
| 5 | La pietra che canta, for violin, piano, cello, and live electronics | 21:55 | |
| 6 | The Casten Variation | 3:43 | |
| 7 | Lonesome Road (The Crawford Variations), Variation I | 1:34 | |
| 8 | Lonesome Road (The Crawford Variations), Variation II | 1:17 | |
| 9 | Lonesome Road (The Crawford Variations), Variation III | 1:01 | |
| 10 | Lonesome Road (The Crawford Variations), Variation VI | 1:08 | |
| 11 | The Gondola Eye | 20:25 |
