MEV C/D S+D

I hear the self-titled album is good.

That's if you like extreme noise bands like Voice Crack, or Merzbow.

I saw Voice Crack in concert, it was crazy, like 4 Jumbo Jets lifting off at the same time. I was if the sound was actually pushing you backwards.

has anyone got the soundpool reissue on BYG?

I do like and some (not all) Merzbow.

the stuff i have by MeV seems quite quiet, AMM-style (of course i am in control of the volume knob haha)

will buy a rec by them tomorrow and i'll remember to turn up the volume. Thanks for the responses (well, the two of them anyway).

approach with care

mev did a lot of process music that was as much free sex and love (and most noises sound nice in that enviroment) and political statement as noise -- the end results are arbitrary recordings at sporadic locations throughout europe from a band that supposedly had thirty players at some gigs/orgies and played over a thousand gigs in the late '60s -- and it's hard to compare zany Allan Bryant with moogy Teitlebaum or groovy Rzewski

they were trying to find the missing link between oblique process strategies from classical music and the then mood of young people (when the world was changing, turning on etc..)

"spacecraft" is a process/quasi-academic/joke piece that may not endure many listens -- i haven't bothered to listen to "soundpool" in ages but that three hippies were able to release "Leave the City" as mez without any mev core members present on the recording tells you plenty about the free-wheeling spirit of what was maybe a very large collective experiment

if you listen to amm's "the Crypt" often it might be your bag, but these mev recordings were political pieces of their time so it's hard not to feel that in some ways they aren't "vietnam records"

duh, MEV (not mez) released "Leave the City" (re-issued at least a year before spacecraft and soundpool)

and i don't mean to imply "just a vietnam record", just that vietnam was the big issue at the time, ironically tied to the cold war and the space race by rzewski (who played a wired piece of glass cut into the shape of a grand piano as his instrument)

it's hard not to suspect that Rzewski would maybe wish to distance himself from those wild '60s experiments (see his interview in The Wire), as might Teitlebaum and Curran, whereas mev is Bryant's main claim to fame -- but if it's a re-issue on BYG royalties are going to be negligible anyway aren't they ?

read the manifesto-like instructions for "spacecraft", listen to it in the store -- this is "music" at it's most symbolically abstract

yeah, I'll get the store person to put an MEV rec on. Good idea. a good detailed response here...I don't think the 'political aspect' is of its time...it might be relevant for today (we have new wars now).