AMM - After Rapidly Circling The Plaza (1967)

From “AMM - Ammmusic” [ Elektra - EUK-256 (LP) UK 1967 ]

Recorded on the 8th and 27th June 1966 by Harry Davis and Jac Holzman at Sound Techniques, London

Produced by DNA (Alan Becket , John “Hoppy” Hopkins , Peter Jenner , Ronald Atkins)

Music by Cardew , Prévost , Rowe , Sheaff , Gare

Cornelius Cardew: Piano , Cello , Electronics (Transistor Radio)
Keith Rowe: Electric Guitar , Electronics (Transistor Radio)
Lawrence Sheaff: Cello , Accordion , Clarinet , Electronics (Transistor Radio)
Lou Gare: Tenor Saxophone , Violin
Eddie Prévost: Drums , Xylophone , Bells , Cymbals , Percussion

The group that would evolve into AMM was formed in 1965. Back in 1965, Prévost was initially joined by guitarist Keith Rowe and saxophonist Lou Gare who had both previously been members of Mike Westbrook's band, Gare and Prévost having played together in a hard bop quintet. By 1966, the group had expanded to a quintet with the addition of avant-garde composer Cornelius Cardew on piano and cello, plus former Westbrook band bassist Lawrence Sheaff who played accordion and cello, not bass.

[troglodyteproductions]

Fun fact: This had a very big effect on Syd Barrett’s deconstruction of the electric guitar. Back in 1966 the guitarist of this band used to lay his instrument flat on a table to make it impossible for it to be played normally, thus making it so you have a whole new range of sounds to explore. Very interesting stuff that surprisingly seeped into the pop music at the time

[adminwsystems]

Hard to imagine these guys doing anything "rapidly"

[kevinscott]

'60s proto-industrial.
Love this.

[doctorpatient]

this is remarkable, necessary, ambience-creating, listener-challenging music ... I was unaware of these guys until a video about Pink Floyd here, which mentions the group by name but FAILS to properly and respectfully identify the players after stating that they had a significant influence on the Floyd's early extended pieces

they probably also paved the way for other artists developing this genre such as Evan Parker and Derek Bailey and later "practitioners" like Borbetomagus and GX Jupitter-Larsen, whose work is readily available here on uTube

[francoleo]

suoni sperimentali, provenienti da più di mezzo secolo fa ma ancora attuali!

[evan-sc]

I still don't understand how humans made this

[auntiemoshbcs]

Real psychedelic music from the mid to late sixties, not the radio crap, a real soundtrack for swinging London

[cmasseylynch]

The Underground Music group in early 1960s London. Pink Floyd would be on the same bill sometimes. This isn't Jefferson Airplane...

[adrianamatlack]

The 17 minute mark starts something interesting

[LuizClaudio-qlky]

Concrete music, like Zappa did after them.