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The New Language of Music Vol. 2

by Serge Ermoll's FREE KATA

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First Movement - Atlantis [Part 1] 07:56
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2.
First Movement - Atlantis [Part 2] 07:43
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3.
First Movement - Atlantis [Part 3] 12:42
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4.
Second Movement - Derelictus [Part 1] 06:51
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5.
Second Movement - Derelictus [Part 2] 07:57
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6.
First Movement - Atlantis [Unedited] 28:23
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7.
Second Movement - Derelictus [Unedited] 14:51
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Side 1
First Movement - Derelictus

Side 2
Second Movement - Atlantis

Recorded October 10, 1976.
Recorded and mixed at Earth Media Recording Company, Sydney, Australia

Originally released on vinyl as KATA 003

This Bandcamp version includes both an earlier digitisation which has unfortunate processing, compression and splitting of tracks, and different unedited files from another copy of the vinyl release.

Liner notes:
Before this session, and even between the two takes, I was subjected to an emotional browbeating by these extraordinary musicians. We had not worked together for a couple of months and I think they were worried that I might hold back, fall back on things we had done before or, conscious that it was going on record, try to sweeten the proceedings. Above all, I think they wanted to break down anything I may have been preparing in my head. The effect was that, hardly able to stand up at one point, I did fall back on some old stuff, but I couldn't get it right. The fluffs jolted me into new ares. Parts of this embarrass me. The desperation comes through, but so moments of fantastic release. This is improvised words and music. It is amazing how fixated some people are on the fact that poetry and music has been done before, when it is one of the least exploited forms. I doubt that it has been done before with musicians quite like these. I hope you can share some of the empathy as well as the hostility we experienced in the studio. It demonstrated to me that if you argue honestly, rather than trying to score points with well-practised debating tricks, you can argue to the very death without breaking the real bonds. - John Clare

Jon Rose re-released these two seminal recordings by Serge's group from 1976 as two of the earliest releases on Fringe Benefit in 1978. He later arranged for the group to re-form for a gig in 2003 (without John Clare) and joined them to make a quartet.

"For nearly 40 years, pianist Serge Ermoll has been the wild man of Australian jazz.
His group Free Kata, formed in the 1970s, 'ripped open the heart of music aesthetics in Australia' (John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald, August 2003). Ermoll has played with some of the greats of the international jazz scene, such as the trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie; but his desire to 'be free'—and a chaotic life—has kept him out on the wild frontier of Australian music making."

"My deep lifeblood and love is free music, for free music is simply composing on the spot spontaneously, taking a walk outside the bounds of the metaphoric house of music and the boundaries of form, a walk on the wild side, a walk on the wonderful unpredictable path of beauty, of spontaneity returning home after the excursion... home again. For all free music has form in itself and all music has time and rhythm, it's like my sensei used to say, "Experience is empty, innocence is full. There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the single moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment, but if one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing to do and nothing else to pursue." - Serge Ermoll

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released June 1, 1978

John Clare, spontaneous poetry
Eddie Bronson, tenor saxophone
Serge Ermoll, piano
Lou Burdett, drums

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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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