MNEMONISTS 2ND LP EXPERIMENTAL-NWW-SCHNITZLER-COMELADE
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MNEMONISTS
Some attributes of a living system LP
- Original 1st pressing
- Limited edition:500 copies
- Label :DYS 02 / Usa 1980
- Condition :ex-/ex(cover/vinyl)
- with original inserts
Original 80's second vinyl of american DYS label initiated by the Mnemonists collective(that released also Pascal Comelade, Conrad Schnitzler, Maurizio Bianchi, Biota). Just impossible to find, this original was pressed in a micro-pressing of 500 copies ONLY!! Comes with all original artwork/inserts. Watch out my other auctions for their 3rd LP & 7" as well!!
Colorado-based Mnemonists, later renamed Biota, were among the earliest avantgarde groups that engaged in chaotic collages and harked back to abstract, dadaistic art. They created drifting hypnotic sound collages out of pre-industrial loops, processed ambient sound, rock 'n' roll guitar, and fragments of half forgotten memory. Their work was highly visual, and always accompanied by beautiful line drawings and painted art works; The total meaning is forged from the combination of sonic and visual information. Some Attributes of a Living System stands as a classic early noise album, somewhere between the work of AMM, Faust and Brian Eno. What makes it stand out is the subtlety of the work: The process begins with the recording of played acoustic and electric instruments that are later re-processed and electrically altered, leading to a spiraling of replaying, re-composition and re-structuring. This aural world is as vast as space, and seemingly as limitless; The Mnemonists were the one group most apt to embrace the latest technology, and to put it to good use to create 'anti-music'. But the outcome is so beautifully flowing and amazingly profound that their radical methods create positive change in a sonically transparent way, rather than to bludgeon the listener into submission by means of shock tactics. The result then, is elucidating and exciting. A necessary sound document for experimental music fans.
Vinyl lies in excellent condition, looks and plays great, while cover lies is excellent- condition with small corner damage!! Impossible to find such a copy after 28 years!! Might appeal to fans of experimental, psych, progressive, LAFMS, DIY, punk, free jazz, Le Forte Four, Airway,John Duncan, Negativland, Smegma, People like us, John Cage, Pierre Henry, musique concrete, Broken Music, Stockhausen, Xenakis, AMM, David Tudor, Pierre Schaeffer, Henri Chopin, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Alvin Curran, Stockhausen, Xenakis, La Monte Young, Nurse with wound, Asmus Tietchens, Zoviet France, Hafler Trio, Leif Ellgrenn, Hausswolff, Merzbow, Organum and similar!
Shipping: Combined shipping=BIG discounts. Shiping for 1st LP is 5 gbp airmail in Europe / 7 gbp for the rest of the world! Each additional LP add 1 gbp up to 6 LPs for Europe(2 kgs). Each additional LP for the rest of the world, please add 1 gbp for first 2 additional, 2 gbp for the 4th LP and then 1 gbp for each additional LP. For registered rates, please ask.
Payment: by paypal, bank transfer, postal IMO.
Watch also for some vinyls ranging from experimental / industrial / power electronics to minimal / synth with Genocide Nurse with Wound, Hnas, Coil, Current 93, Death in June, Les Joyaux de la Princesse, Merzbow, Mnemonists, Throbbing Gristle, AMM and more at my other auctions!
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