DEREK BAILEY Aida 2xLP/+2/1980 UK/Solo Guitar Free Improvisations/Incus/Company
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DEREK BAILEY 'Aida' Double Double LP (UK, Honest Jons Records, Catalogue #HJRLP205) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2018 Honest Jons Records label special Double LP edition of year 1980 solo guitar free improvisation sessions by Derek Bailey. This album was originally released in 1980 in the UK on Derek Bailey's Incus label as a single LP. This special Honest Jons Records label Double LP edition includes the original Incus label LP recordings plus a second LP of contemporaneous unreleased tracks "recorded on May 28, 1980 at the BBC in London, for the Jazz In Britain radio programme presented by Charles Fox."
(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)
Continuing their ongoing series of reissues of music by Derek Bailey, Honest Jon's Records present a first vinyl reissue of Aida, originally released on the guitarist's own Incus label in 1980. Expanded for this release, the present version of this masterwork adds two hitherto unreleased gems recorded solo for Charles Fox's Radio 3 program Jazz in Britain, in the same few months of 1980 as the stunning original performances. The phrase "in the moment" is often bandied about with reference to free improvisation, and indeed there's no better way to describe Derek Bailey's playing. The acoustic guitar is notoriously lacking in natural reverberation -- notes barely hang in the air for a couple of seconds before they disappear -- which explains the almost non-stop flow of new material in these stellar performances. Bailey knew from one split-second to the next exactly where to find the same pitch on different strings, either as a stopped tone or a ringing harmonic, and there's never a note out of place. "He who kisses the joy as it flies," in the words of William Blake, "lives in eternity's sunrise" -- and this music is forever in the moment, constantly active but never gabby, kissing the joy. One of the special pleasures of the BBC set is the guitarist's own laconic commentary, a deliciously deadpan description of what he's doing while he's doing it. "I like to think of it -- as a kind of music" -- and the interaction between words and music is a particular delight. "You may have noticed a certain lack of variety," he quips, while unleashing a furiously complex volley. Is it a coincidence that the final seconds recall the famous cycling fifths of the coda to Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight"? Surely not; Bailey, like Monk, was a note man par excellence; they're both still alive and well in eternity's sunrise.
- Honest Jon's Records continue their ongoing series of reissues of music by Derek Bailey with Aida, originally released on the guitarist's own Incus label in 1980.
- This is the seventh release in a series of reissues of Derek Bailey's music on Honest Jon's Records.
- Reissued on vinyl for the first time and expanded to a double LP set with additional material originally recorded for the BBC.
- Bonus material features two unreleased recorded solo pieces originally recorded for Charles Fox's Radio 3 program Jazz in Britain, at the same time as the original recording.
Tracks on this Double LP are as follows:
A1 Paris 19:00 B1 Niigata Snow 6:00 B2 An Echo In Another's Mind 14:00 C1 Introductions 12:07 D1 Inaudibles 14:40Shipping in US is $4.98./CANADA AIRMAIL is $20.98./MEXICO AIRMAIL is $23.98./OVERSEAS AIRMAIL is $24.98. (Shipping totals will be consolidated for multiple winning bids.)
Record shipped in professional, superior rectangular shaped, corner-protecting corrugated cardboard record mailer with filler pads. Satisfaction guaranteed!
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