Label: Klanggalerie

激レア物件が47年越しで初CD再発!!NWWリストに名を連ねる米アヴァンギャルド・コレクティブの最初期録音!!Mark DerbyshireとWilliam Sharpが中心となり結成、現代音楽、実験音楽、ノイズ、インダストリアル、フリー・ジャズを融合させ大所帯形式で録音を行ったコロラド州を拠点とする集団Mnemonists。1980~86年にかけて自主レーベルDysから数種のアルバムをリリース(うち2nd [Horde]がNWWリスト入り)、後にBiotaと分裂するプロジェクトであり、本作は"Mnemonist Orchestra"名義で残した唯一作にして最初期の録音物。13名編成にてテープ操作と即興演奏を怪しく奔放に繰り返す最高に奇怪な4曲。リマスター仕様にて12ページブックレットが付属。







4 panel digipack with 16 page booklet

Mnemonists, on the first album called Mnemonist Orchestra, is U.S collective of avant-garde musicians from Colorado, led by Mark Derbyshire and William Sharp. Their music is a mixture of modern classical, experimental sounds, noise, industrial, avant-garde and free jazz. Their releases were published by their own self-produced label Dys between 1981 and 1986. By 1985 the group had split off into separate groups for visual and audio work. From that time, Mnemonists operated only as a visual arts collective while the musical activity was taken over by a new group called Biota that featured a few of the musicians involved with Mnemonists as well as many new members. The two groups co-exist and share only a few members. The Mnemonist Orchestra album was recorded in March 1979 at Fort Collins, Colorado. The musicians improvised within loose arrangements intended to suggest the concept of each piece. All pre-taped sounds were mixed live with the other instruments.