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Formations Idea 2007 CD £13.99 “Blue” Gene Tyranny is a fascinating margin walker who has roots deep in the avant garde and over the years has recorded a bunch of formally inventive sides that work through various spontaneous and compositional gambits while continuing to work on the other side of the tracks with jazz and rock musicians like Carla Bley and Iggy Pop. His association with the composer Philip Krumm goes back to the late 1950s/early 1960s when the pair organised an innovative series of new music performances in Texas including various Fluxus actions and happenings. Formations, a pianowork by Krumm, was originally realized by Tyranny for piano, organ and ring modulator in a live performance in 1968 and again later that year as a studio piece, but the version here re-works the concept for computer performance by using both originals as source material and combining them with evocative recordings of universal microwave background noise from the South Galactic Pole. The result is a truly alien slice of Kosmiche music with Industrial-scale klang matched with lumbering, iron-blue piano parts and the whirr of the galaxies. Fans of Max Neuhaus, Philip Corner, HNAS and Organum will find much to savour here. Comes in a glossy full-colour shrunken gatefold sleeve with a booklet. |
