GRAVITY ADJUSTERS EXPANSION BAND
“One”
13,00€
In stock
The GAEB started in 1967 and remains one of the the America’s long lost and underestimated groups who explored the areas of free jazz, improvisation and experimental music. Drummer Lee Charlton shifts moods from jazzy phrasing to more abstract sound sculpture; in this world the GAEB mainly reside, using the self-invented percussive and bowed instruments of multimedia artist Richard Waters, many of which incorporate water filled resonators to bend and tune. Other improvisers at the time–AMM, MEV, Sonde and Taj Mahal Travellers–made extensive use of homemade and adapted instruments, but the GAEB are a very different concern with their own unmistakable identity. Their first LP One appeared in 1973 on Nocturne Records, a small Californian label (the first of their two LPs, the second appearing some eight years later). Paradigm Discs’ CD edition contains the entire first LP, plus fifteen minutes of extra material from the time.
On connaît l’art de ce label pour nous faire (re)découvrir des perles ou des raretés de la musique expérimentale restées enfouies dans la masse d’une production non planifiée. Le Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band ou GAEB débuta en 1967, tentative nord-américaine de réunir free jazz, improvisation et musique expérimentale. Le batteur Lee Charlton et le créateur d’instruments Richard Waters sont à la base de ce projet qui vit le jour à la même période qu’AMM ou MEV par exemple. Réédition du premier LP sorti en 1973 + 15 minutes d’inédits. Excellente (re)découverte. Merci.
