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Today, Thursday 19th April 
doors 7pm (despite City Paper misprint!) 
Mt. Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 
10 E. Mt. Vernon Place Baltimore, MD 
$10 


::once.twice presents::
>From London, one of the most famous (and longest lasting) groups in 
free 
improvised music: 

AMM 
Eddie Prevost - percussion 
Kieth Rowe - guitar 
John Tilbury - piano 

Plus the Baltimore trio of Neil Feather, Catherine Pancake, and Andy 
Hayleck play music on instruments of Neil Feather's design. 

AMM were founded in 1966, making them one of the first free 
improvisation 
groups to record. At that time, New Society magazine wrote, "I know 
of no 
music that takes the listener so far out of himself and so far 
towards 
imaginative participation in the life of sounds, or any that nearly 
fulfills the purpose of music according to Indian philosophy - to 
sober and 
quiet the mind, thus rendering it susceptible to divine influences." 

Thirty-five years later, after releasing more than a dozen dizzyingly 
beautiful recordings of non-idiomatic improvisation with a rotating 
cast 
which has included New York School composer Christian Wolff and the 
late 
Scratch Orchestra founder Cornelius Cardew, AMM remain one of the 
most 
inscrutable and refined institutions in avant-garde music. 

"As one sinks into the soundscape time dissolves and the mind begins 
to 
wander with a sense of purpose but with no particular destination. 
AMM make 
it possible to be in two places at one time, completely focused and 
unaware 
and completely hypnotized" ND magazine, 1995 

For much more information, check out: 

http://www.shef.ac.uk/misc/rec/ps/efi/mamm.html 
http://www.matchlessrecordings.com/ 

or the article by Kieth Rowe in the new April issue of the Wire 
magazine. 

Also: 
Neil Feather, Baltimore's own inventor of startlingly original 
instruments 
opens this heady evening with a trio performance. Having built 
visionary 
original instruments for the past thirty years, his music must be 
heard to 
be believed. Feather's sound relies on obscure physical principles, 
aesthetic decisions, and extra-musical references which are almost 
completely new to music. Catherine Pancake and Andy Hayleck, both 
great 
improvisors and members of Feather's ensemble AEROTRAIN, open the 
night 
with Feather in a trio set. 

More information on Mr. Feather at 
http://www.recorded.com/neilfeather/ 

For information, email room_temp@xxxxxxxxxxx or call 

Jason Urick (410) 662-6110. 






 

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