LOT 74 by DEREK BAILEY
SKU | 102740 |
Artist | DEREK BAILEY |
Title | LOT 74 |
Label | HONEST JONS RECORDS |
Catalog # | HJRLP 203 |
Tag | |
Release | W 13 - 2018 |
Format | Vinyl - UKLP |
€ 17,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- Lot 74
- Together
- Pain In The Chest?
- Planks
- In Joke (take 2)
- Improvisation 104(B)
Description
This iconic LP was originally released by Incus in 1974. Recorded at a private house in West London, the side-long title track is a masterwork: a twenty-two-minute, starkly personal, freely expressive, itchily searching re-casting of orders of rhythm and sound into a new, quicksilver kind of affective and musical polyphony.Never mind the guitarist’s championing of ‘non-idiomatic improvisation’, the poet Peter Riley gets the ball rolling in his identification of the various hauntings of Bailey’s playing at this time: ‘mandolins & balalaikas strumming in the distance, George Forby’s banjo, Leadbelly’s steel 12-string, koto, lute, classical guitar… and others quite outside the field of the plucked string.’
The five pieces on side two were recorded back home in Hackney around the same time — with the exception of Improvisation 104(b), from the year before (and issued by Incus in its TAPS series of mini reel-to-reel tapes) — opening with ventriloquised guitar feedback, and taking in some cod banter about colleagues like Mervyn Parker, Siegfried Brotzmann and Harry Bentink.