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Alvin Curran

The Works (LP)

Label: Fore

Format: LP

Genre: Experimental

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Rare original edition on the tiny Italian label Fore of one of the MEV member's 1970's (this from 1976) solo masterpieces for voice, synthesizer, instrument and tape, which include some of the most personal and beautiful experimental music ever made, released in 1980. Essential.

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

With original innersleeve.

Recorded in one session on 24 February 1980 at Sound 80 Studios in Minneapolis (the audiophile facility where Bob Dylan cut Blood on the Tracks five years earlier). The third of Curran's 1970s solo statements, the one in which the Serge modular synthesizer takes centre stage. The Italian Fore label, based in Rome, pressed it in small numbers.

Same compositional logic as Fiori Chiari, discrete events end to end with no thematic development, but the palette has shifted toward synthesizer-plus-field. The Serge (built by Serge Tcherepnin at Cal Arts as a cheaper alternative to the Moog and Buchla) gives a colder, more circuit-driven sound than the VCS3 Curran used in Rome. Voice arrives as murmured or sung melodic line, embedded rather than narrating.

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File under: Electronic
Cat. number: FORE 80/TWO
Year: 1980