FRANK PERRY TIBET LP DAVID TOOP-INCUS-NWW-OVARY LODGE

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FRANK PERRY

DEEP PEACH LP

Quartz Publications

with insert 

Rare debut personal record from Frank Perry on David Toop's Quartz label using only tibetan, chinese, burmese, japanese and indian musical instruments.

Some info on the release:  Rare album on David Toop's Quartz Publications (Alterations, Paul Burwell, Flute Music from new Guinea Madang, etc.). On this album Perry uses the following instruments: Bells [400 Year Old Zen Buddhist Densho Bells, Ming Dynasty Chinese Temple Bell, Japanese And Chinese Bell Trees, Tibetan Bells, Indian Bells, Swiss Cowbells, Japanese Resting Bells, Japanese And Chinese Bells], Gong [Various Kyeezees (burmese Meditation Gongs) None Less Than 50 Years Old, Chinese Buddha Gongs, Chinese Gongs, Paiste Orchestral Tuned Gongs, Paiste Sound-plates And Sound-discs (tuned And Untuned), Untuned Sound Discs], Singing Bowls [Burmese Chime Bowls], Percussion [Glass Bowls And Glasses, Home-made Petal-discs (made From The Paiste Sound-disc Material)], Cymbal [Tibetan Invocation Cymbals And Meditation Cymbals]. Free improvisation to its' limits. This was the music with which his wife gave birth to their children(!). Perry has played together with Barry Guy, Paul Rutherford, Howard Riley, Paul Lytton, Radu Malfatti, Henry Cow, Harry Miller, Alan Davie, Trevor Watts and David Hykes. Rare and highly recommended.

The result of 14 years of research into the occult effect of sound and music, this piece is 'symphonic' in scope being good for meditation, artistic inspiration, healing activities and relaxation. It moves seamlessly through a large variety of sound-textures, each one blending harmoniously into the next. It combines a fixed ‘Ritual’ backing-track alongside spontaneous improvisation with some ‘numerological’ repetitive rhythmic cycles. Inspired by Wagner’s Eucharist theme from his music-drama Parsifal, it takes as its basic shape two waves with their peaks being represented by complexity of sounds - rather than dynamic peaks as found in Wagner's Parsifal. These two waves also represent the Holy Communion with God the Supreme Universal Spirit experienced as Father-Mother and Child. Track 1 is more attuned to the Masculine energies of individuation whilst Track 2 contains the more Feminine energy of Communion whilst the piece-as-a-whole is the Child – born of the Two-in-One. The entire piece lasts around 40 minutes linking with the Great Mother through the usual period of gestation. The timing between the two tracks (end of part 1 and beginning of part 2) reflects the original concept of a single piece of music whilst they have also been retained as two separate tracks.

Some autobiographical notes from Perry: "I soon joined a Rhythm & Blues band, which I called The Abstract Sounds. Mid ’66 I joined a Chicago Blues band called Black Cat Bones, which featured the legendary Paul Kossoff (of Free fame & Back Street Crawler etc) on lead guitar. I was too ‘jazzy’ for the band and by February of ’68 was asked to leave, having failed to supply the simplest of Rock beats. I moved straight into Jazz and began playing Free-Form Group Improvisation as that was happening in London during the late 60s. Whilst playing with all the top improvisers (including Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Mike Osborne etc) I formed a number of groups:—trios of my own featuring Evan Parker (saxophones) and Derek Bailey (guitars) and co–founded Ovary Lodge with Keith Tippett (pianist) and Balance with Ian Brighton (guitar). Ovary Lodge recorded two albums for RCA/Victor whilst Balance recorded one for Incus (Label run by Derek Bailey & Evan Parker).

From 1968 I began to collect suitable percussion instruments for my intuitive work in this field. There are too many stories to tell of how some of these instruments came. Sometimes it was ‘voices’ in my head (from my spirit guides) telling me where to go to buy ancient Japanese Temple bells, etc, yet other times it was visiting Tibetan masters and yogis bringing extremely rare sacred ritual instruments for me.

In 1971 I began my solo career wherein I could more thoroughly explore my spiritual objectives through my creativity—and use these sacred instruments. During the 70s I released three solo albums and in 1980 I recorded Deep Peace originally for David Toop’s !Quartz label. Eckart Rahn of Celestial Harmonies had contacted Dave Lawrence (Nada Records) to stock the Tibetan Bells CDs on his label but was told that Dave Lawrence had something better. Very quickly, Eckart bought the rights for Deep Peace and this was my first solo album on his label (released in 1981) followed in 1983 by New Atlantis (sponsored by Eckart Rahn and recorded at John Hiseman’s studio) which featured Petalumines (instruments invented and built by myself) and another track solely for my sacred Tibetan ritual instruments. In 1986 I hired The White Temple (of The White Eagle Lodge) for five days and recorded enough material for 10 albums. This resulted in a Library album titled Temple of the Stars released on KPM of EMI and commercially released by Eckart Rahn on Celestial Harmonies as Zodiac. This was music intended to accompany 12 paintings by the Russian artist Nicholas Roerich (1874 – 1947) linked by myself to the Cycle of the 12 Signs of the Zodiac. I now have around 60 releases to date." 

Condition: Vinyl lies in mint condition, looks to be unplayed - crystal clear and shiny. Cover lies in excellent- condition, with some yellowing, mainly on the back cover. The accompanying insert comes in excellent shape.

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