AMM

The Inexhaustible Document captures AMM as a quartet in January 1987. The trio of Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe and John Tilbury was joined by cellist Rohan de Saram, who spent twenty-six years in the Arditti Quartet. The concert took place in the Union Chapel in Islington, and the cello adds a bowed string voice to the group's sound of piano, percussion and amplified guitar.

Ray Beckett recorded the concert at the Union Chapel on 10 January 1987. The music is divided into two long parts, Page 9.1 and Page 9.2. Prévost plays percussion, Tilbury piano, Rowe guitar and electronics and de Saram cello. The label's own text describes an improvisation that values the unknown, joining unpredictability with coherence of context. By opening out the moment, it lets in a sense of the living processes that are lost in a world where everything is planned and manufactured. The same text presents AMM's path, musical and political, as one that asks the listener to question the function of music in daily life.

This Matchless Recordings CD, MRCD13, was published in 1994 as a reissue of the 1987 LP MR 13, with additional material from the same session that extends the second part to 34 minutes. Notes by Paige Mitchell, front cover Rousillon, The Other One by Malcolm Le Grice.