Hypa-Stretch, by Jon Rose, Barry Guy, Evan Parker, John Russell

Hypa-Stretch

by Jon Rose, Barry Guy, Evan Parker, John Russell

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	1.	Side A 32:09		buy track
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This FBR recording featured some of the most extraordinary UK improvising musicians: Evan Parker - soprano saxophone
Barry Guy - amplified double bass
and the late John Russell - acoustic guitar
in a series of duos, trios, and quartets.
Jon Rose played an amplified 19 string violin attached to a vertical frame.
The instrument was stolen a few weeks later to be replaced by a cello with a similar set up of 19 strings
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The session was recorded by Mike Finesilver direct to stereo at Pathway Studios, London 20/12/1980

Jon had hoped to sell it to a record company in Australia - surprisingly (!) they were horrified by the music which was way too pointillistic and uncomfortable for their ears. So the recording ended up as a cassette release on Fringe Benefit Records.

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released January 7, 1981

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Fringe Benefit Records Sydney, Australia

Fringe Benefit Records was set up in 1977 by Jon Rose as a tape library of Australian improvised music. By the time of the final release in 1985, more than 50 cassettes and more than a dozen LPs had been released. This site now exists to digitise and bring those releases to a new audience, beginning with the compilation double CD released on Entropy Stereo Recordings in Michigan in 1998... ... more

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