Gary Kail / Zurich 1916 "Creative Nhilism" (1984) 2LP gatefold Iridescence

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Comments: Beautiful gatefold cover is vg++ with light ringwear and some minor wear to the corners and seams (no splits).  All four sides of the vinyl are ex or very close to it.  Plays great.

Lovely copy of this extremely desirable and relentlessly experimental artefact from the Los Angeles underground circa 1979-83, to my knowledge the only official release by Kail.  This is one of those one-in-a-thousand deep leftfield albums that simultaneously inspires, fascinates and (occasionally) irritates but never gets old.  In some respects, it's the funhouse mirror image of the Wergo "Sound Sculptures" compilation (also on the block this week) which was released around the same time.  For those who care, Kail is assisted on a few tracks by Brad Laner (Steaming Coils) and Carla Bozulich.

"The tracks vary greatly in atmosphere and sound but consistently maintain an aural friendliness and sense of humour that separates this kind of recording from the more sterile musique concrete exercises that had by this point been emanating from university labs for around 20 years. The opening chord from ‘A Hard Days Night’ features repeatedly on “It’s Been A” suggesting Terry Riley’s or Steve Reich’s experiments with tape loops, whereas “The Plastic Grapes” has some spirited Evan Parker-esque duck honk stabs that made me think of the late great Basil Kirchin. Other tracks feature snippets of FM radio, oscillators, recordings of a storm, spoken word, quite a few squiggly synth trails and enough reverb to swing a cat around in.  Gary’s liner notes state “You may find these works varying greatly in overall sound because they were recorded over a 4 1/2 year period. Generally my interests lie in taking one idea, exploiting it to a particular degree then finding no need to use the idea again in the same way”.  - Waxidermy

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