Not Necessarily "English Music"

V/A -
Not Necessarily "English Music"
a collection of experimental music from Great Britain, 1960-1977
Curated by David Toop

2xCD - Experimental Music Foundation, EMF CD 036
UK, 2002

Tracks

CD ONE

AMM - Live at the Royal College of Arts (6:24)
Max Eastley - Wind Flutes Urban (3:17)
Intermodulations - Performants (6:40)
Frank Perry - Wedged into Release (3:27)
Michael Parsons & Howard Skempton - Piece for Cello and Accordion (2:50)
Daphne Organ - Four Aspects (4:51)
abAna - The Judith Poem (2:29)
Hugh Davies - Music for Three Strings (5:03)
Robert Worby - Piano Musics i & ii (5:13)
Lol Coxhill & Steve Miller - Plum (7:07)
Spontaneous Music Orchestra - Search and Reflect (6:09)
The People Band - Part 3 (6:42)
Evan Parker & Paul Lytton - As It Were (7:40)

CD TWO

John Stevens - Solo (7:50)
Steve Beresford - Toy Piano (1:47)
Steve Beresford - Voice (1:43)
Cornelius Cardew & Jane Manning - Battle March (2:27)
Ron Geesin - Duet for One-String Banjo and Watern Cistern (2:54)
Gentle Fire - Group Composition VI (Unfixed Parities) (4:31)
Rain in the Face - Instant Composition no. 1 (6:59)
Ranulph Glanville - Nona Mayeah Teay (3:35)
Derek Bailey - Improvisation 5 (7:43)
The Campiello Band - Miserere (4:47)
Mike Cooper - Pharoah's March (7:10)
A Touch of the Sun - Geese (3:34)
The Scratch Orchestra - Pilgrimage from the Scattered Points on the Surface of the Body to the Brain, the Inner Ear, the Heart and the Stomach (7:15)
Frank Perry, Mongezi Feza & Chris McGregor - Blowin' in the Wind (7:06)

Credits

The Scratch Orchestra - Pilgrimage from the Scattered Points on the Surface of the Body to the Brain, the Inner Ear, the Heart and the Stomach (7:15)
Performers: The Scratch Orchestra
Recorded in London, 1970.
Remastered by Bryn Harris.

Additional Information

"The other large concert from this time was the "Pilgrimage from the Scattered Points on the Surface of the Body to the Heart, the Brain, the Stomach and the Inner Ear" at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on November 23, 1970. Plans for this concert began in July of the same year, with the showing of Fantastic Voyage. The original proposal for the concert centered on Mindfulness of the Parts of the Body by Michael Parsons, which was to open the concert, and HSTPR41 of Nature Study Notes by Howard Skempton, his Three Part Rite ("Each player divides himself into three equal parts") which was to be performed throughout the concert. Parsons suggested the first of four "popular classics" performed during the "journey," the 1812 Overature; because of Napoleon's "An army marches on its stomach," it represented "the vicotry of the Russian over the French stomach."
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[Cardew] included a counter-proposal by David Jackman for a journey - the "journey from the Outer to the Inner Ear" because "we are an orchestra predominantly involved in making sounds." The "popular classic" proposed for this journey was Terry Riley's In C, as it was "based on a predominantly auditory experience and... is mesmeric, hypnotic..." - "British Experimental Music: Cornelius Cardew and His Contemporaries", Virginia Anderson, August 1983, pp.66-7