AMM

Uncovered Correspondence: a Postcard from Jasło is a concert by AMM as the duo of John Tilbury on piano and Eddie Prévost on percussion, recorded in southern Poland in May 2010. Prévost had been the group's one constant member since 1965, and Tilbury its pianist since 1980. After two records with guests such as John Butcher and Christian Wolff, this was the first AMM album since 2006 to present the two alone. Its three long improvisations are titled Paragraph One, Two and Three.

The concert took place on 15 May 2010 in the hall of the Jasielski Dom Kultury, the town's cultural centre, and the cover reproduces a 1915 view of the Jasło market. Prévost bows metal, sets gongs and cymbals shimmering and makes drum skins roar. At one point, the booklet reveals, he sounds one of the hall's wood-panelled walls with a beater. Tilbury moves between a spare, mostly tonal touch on the keys and the interior of the instrument, at times answering himself in near antiphonal exchanges. In Dusted (2012) Marc Medwin heard the prepared piano of the opening evoke Javanese gamelan. He also noted a variable tremolo Prévost draws from the decay of a bowed cymbal. The third paragraph opens into broad drama before falling back into charged near-silences, and the record ends with an unexpected outpouring. In The Wire in 2011 Julian Cowley wrote that "the outcome has mineral clarity and is exceptionally beautiful", likening the space the duo creates to a Japanese temple garden. Bill Shoemaker went further and called it the most inviting album AMM had ever made.

Released by Matchless Recordings in 2010 as MRCD 78 on CD, in a gatefold card cover with a text by Andrzej Serwa. It was recorded by Karol Moszczyński and edited, mixed and mastered by Sebastian Lexer.