rfi: amm

(in fact i know nothing about improv at all so feel free to broaden this out a bit)

They were always my favourite of all those free improv groups. I've seen them live a couple of times and they were excellent. As for records try "AMM Music" recorded in 1968. It features Cornelius Cardew.

Sorry, the album recorded in 1968 is called "The Crypt 12th June". My tape copy isn't labelled correctly.

The Inexhaustible Document (Matchless MRCD13)
The Nameless Uncarved Block (Matchless MR20)
AMMusic 1966 R&R AMMCD

i was listening to tunes without measure or end (aka the new one...i think) this past february and had an out of body experience! thank you electro-acoustical improv! otherwise mark's recommendations are spot on, although i've always had a soft stop for newfoundland too.

Keith Rowe's solo guitar experiments are worth hearing too. I've got an album by him called "A Dimension of Perfectly Ordinary Reality".

After answering this thread earlier on I realised how many years had passed since I listened to improv on a regular basis. When I started university in London in 1991 I often went to improv gigs. I saw John Stevens, Derek Bailey, AMM, Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, David Toop and Max Eastley, Chris Burns Ensemble, Morphogenesis, Lol Coxhill and Charles Hayward. I don't know why I stopped going to gigs like this. I suppose I often found the gigs to be a bit austere and I was always a lot younger than most of the audiences. I need to hear some improv again. I've been listening to AMM today and they still sound wonderful.

Toby- 95% of records I buy nowdays are free improv or records which have some improvisation. As creative music it is, at its best, irrestible. A good starting point is AMM1966.

''When I started university in London in 1991 I often went to improv gigs. I saw John Stevens, Derek Bailey, AMM, Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, David Toop and Max Eastley, Chris Burns Ensemble, Morphogenesis, Lol Coxhill and Charles Hayward. I don't know why I stopped going to gigs like this. I suppose I often found the gigs to be a bit austere and I was always a lot younger than most of the audiences. I need to hear some improv again.''

I've just started going to improv gigs (I've spent quite a while listening to the records- its only now that I'm getting out there. Lazy or what!) Today I went to Sound 323 record shop. They have a gig space and today I saw Rhodri Davies on Harp duetting with michel duck on double bass. Great stuff. And I was the only one that paid 3 quid to watch this (there was one other- but only because the guy in the shop said: 'We are closing now for the gig, you can pay for the gig or come back in 40 minutes' so he paid).

So it was 2 people, the store man and another guy who recorded it.

Though 25-30 turned up to see Lol Coxhill, what, 3 weeks ago.

''Keith Rowe's solo guitar experiments are worth hearing too. I've got an album by him called "A Dimension of Perfectly Ordinary Reality".''

So have I. His playing, as documented on 'Harsh, Guitar solo', is excellent and worth hearing.

''(in fact i know nothing about improv at all so feel free to broaden this out a bit)''

Don't have loads of time right now but I could go on forever and evah and evah about it. I was listening to some of the records I bought today. Among those was Paul Rutheford's solo trombone album 'Gentle harm of the Burgeoisie' and, you know...its incredible! The only category this belongs to is the one called 'Great Music'. The invention here is stunning.

But anyway, try and get some of the records. The web has some excellent zines that cover this music. The stuff on Incus and Matchless and Emanem is mostly quality. they have websites.

if you got an electric guitar stick a knife in the strings and let it go "boing" you too can build a career in "experimental" music. i used to love amm now i think they're just uncommunicative snobs

The only time I've ever seen AMM play live, John Tilbury v. nearly lost his temper 'cos he didn't like something Prevost or Rowe played.

andrew that is awesome!! i must quiz my spy in the house of [whatevah] abt that => tilbury was a sweetheart the time i met him

Mark, they were supporting Faust at the QEH, mid-'90s. A friend of mine worked w/ Tilbury at Goldsmiths and said much the same thing as you.

i'm a bit slow; what does rfi mean? i love AMM, i think they're some of the most communicative of the free improv groups. My favourite lineup is the current one (are they still?) of Tilbury/Rowe/Prevost, and the CDs Allentown and From am Unknown Place are utterly fantastic. Do any of you people who have grown tired of them want to trade with me so i can fill in the gaps in my collection? i've got a sale list here and a wants list here.

rfi = "request for information"

rfi = Request For Information.

I saw AMM at a London college too (can't remember which) in 80s. Don't remember any arguments. I have AMM3's "It Had Been An Ordinary Enough Day In Pueblo Colorado" LP, which is mostly great. AMM3 = rock?

yeah & rfi means request for information, are you deaf or something.

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― bob snoom, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)