Label: Helicopter

6年振りの新録は2CDフォーマット!!LAFMSファンは是非!!アヴァン音楽ファンにはお馴染み、米Odysseyから1967年に発表された2つの名盤[Extended Voices]と[A Second Wind for Organ]よりタイトルを拝借しグループ名とした、LAFMS系ユニットExtended Organ。寡作なグループであり、Aaron Dillowayとのスプリットを含め残したアルバムは3枚、そして前作[Vibe]から6年振りとなる待望の新音源。Paul McCarthy、Fredrik Nilsen、Joe Potts、Tom Recchion、Alex Stevensらによるセッションを録音、一つはオリジナルの演奏そのままに、もう一つはJohn Wieseがデコンポーズした音源、2つのバージョンを2CDに分けて収録。埃っぽくてクールなプリミティヴな音の集積。

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Ex-Org is the fourth album from Extended Organ, recorded during two sessions in January 2018 by Paul McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Tom Recchion, and Alex Stevens. The album consists of one session as-performed, and a second session “decomposed” by John Wiese. Formed in 1994, Extended Organ produces a dynamic otherworldly ambience which can be simultaneously hilarious and frightening. Joe Potts lays down a carpet of sound using and his self-engineered drone instrument, the "Chopped Optigan," over which Paul McCarthy performs vocal and guitar improvisations channeled and processed by Alex Stevens, who also adds his own keyboard triggered synthesized sounds. Tom Recchion, renowned as an inventor of homemade instruments, a free improviser, and an accomplished composer of acoustic, electronic and tape music, performs an array of sounds folding lush beauty and horror sensibility into the matrix. Fredrik Nilsen plays an antique Rheem Mark 7 organ, prepared guitar and Kaossilators. The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the early 1970s around a loosely knit group of like-minded musical improvising sound experimenters in the San Gabriel Valley part of Los Angeles who discovered their mutual interest in art and sound and banded together to design modes of self production and distribution of recordings and publications, helping to develop and propel the Proto-Punk DIY movement. In the ensuing 50 years the LAFMS has gone on to create dozens of records and groups (including Doo-Dooettes, AIRWAY, Le Forte Four, Smegma, John Duncan and Extended Organ), hundreds of concerts, festivals in both US and Europe, a full-scale gallery retrospective and volumes of artwork, sculptures, homemade instruments, videos, recordings, and other ephemera. Outside of the groups many recordings their oeuvre has been documented in 3 large box sets, each focusing on various aspects of the collectives work.