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EYELESS IN GAZA / LOL COXHILL - Home Produce: Country Bizarre

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: NDN Records 37 Release Year: 2003 Note: re-release of old cassette-only with 20 miniatures from 1982 (Tago Mago) with bonus material, showing EIG in their early experimental phase with legendary saxophonist LOL COXHILL Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Ein uraltes TAGO MAGO - Tape mit Aufnahmen der frühen Eyeless in Gaza (noch in ihrer Experimentierphase) zusammen mit Lol Coxhill, dem legendären Impro-Saxophonisten: 20 Miniaturen zwischen minimal-geräuschhaften Sounds und jazzigen Ausbrüchen. Dazu gibt es neues Material ! “Originally released in 1982 in France on a limited edition audio cassette tape only, the old Tago Mago recordings have on "Home Produce: Country Bizarre" been infused with new life, new arrangements and with additional new material. Eyeless In Gaza have undertaken to fuse the Coxhill pieces with their own and on top of it add some new improvisations and tunes to exciting ends. Whereas the original Tago Mago tape was more of a divided piece of work with Coxhill on the one side and Eyeless in Gaza on the other, the result on "Country Bizarre: Home Produce" is a much improved flow and the album now appears as a whole. Martyn Bates and Pete Becker (Eyeless In Gaza) have thus very successfully produced an album that brings the more than 2 decades old Tago Mago material right up to the 21st century, but without the expense of losing any of the character of the original sounds. Sometimes barely audible, other times alarmingly loud, the sounds on "Home Produce: Country Bizarre" are progressing, going back, exploring, unconventional, sweet, disturbing. You never quite know where the music will take you next, which is one of the albums's major strengths. Lol Coxhill's performance is mostly done in the vein of some exhilarating saxophone playing to go along with highly improvised tunes. Perfectly complementing Coxhill, the duo of Eyeless In Gaza recorded some of their most free improvisations to date, somewhat in the vein of their critically acclaimed "Pale Hands I Loved So Well" album. Eyeless in Gaza are sometimes very moody and dreamy. The recordings on "Home Produce: Country Bizarre" show more of the under-represented (in the released works) experimental nature of Eyeless In Gaza. Unconventional instruments such as metal pipes and sheeting are taken into use. It is recordings like these that help explain how Eyeless In Gaza produced such original and chameleon-like works throughout their long and varied career. "Sonic estrangement, remixes & romances, old pieces & old alignments, new pieces and new creations - slotted / crafted / chance factor pieces - we mixed, we matched... Lol Coxhill & Eyeless in Gaza have made something new from the Home Produce/Country Bizarre ... just listen." (Martyn Bates 2003).“ [label description]