Label: Pogus Productions

未体験の方は是非、米Pogus Productionsによる偉業的発掘アーカイヴ!!もっと評価されるべき超傑作2CD作!!1975年にカリフォルニア大学サンディエゴ校の音楽実験センター"Center for Music Experiment"にて、米トロンボーン/ヴァイオリン奏者John Silberと、フランスの打楽器奏者Jean-Charles Francoisが始動した先鋭的即興アンサンブル"KIVA"。活動当時に残された録音物は無く、本作は1985年と1991年に行われた3つの長尺な即興演奏と、グループの様々な演奏をコラージュしたテープ作品を纏めた唯一の音源。極めて挑戦的な演奏スタイルが素晴らしく、間違いなくMEV、AMM、Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza、シュトックハウゼンが率いた即興アンサンブルの系譜に繋がる超高内容。





The group Kiva goes way back to 1975, when American trombonist/violinist John Silber and Franco-percussionist Jean-Charles Francois co-founded the ensemble at the Center for Music Experiment, University of California San Diego.

The self-titled two-CD set released on Pogus Productions documents four moments in their history: three lengthy musical discourses from 1985 and 1991, and a tape collage of various group performances assembled and re-realized by John Silber.

That deals with the basic logistics. The music is what matters, of course. And the music is quite challenging. It is a series of excellently executed abstract improvisations that owe something to MEV, AMM, Il Gruppo and the improvisational ensembles led by Stockhausen, more so than the music created by, say, Albert Ayler or Evan Parker. This is more on the new music end of the spectrum. It isn't so much jazz-related.