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IRIDA RECORDS: HYBRID MUSIC FROM TEXAS AND BEYOND (BLANK FORMS EDITIONS)

VARIOUS - IRIDA RECORDS: HYBRID MUSIC FROM TEXAS AND BEYOND 154381
Format:
7 LP
Release:
14.10.2022
Label:
BLANK FORMS EDITIONS
Kat.-Nr.:
154381
Barcode:
0785034477119
Jerry Hunt, Philip Krumm, Jerry Willingham, James Fulkerson, Larry Austin, Dary John Mizelle, BL Lacerta, Gene DeLisa, Robert Michael Keefe, Rodney Waschka II Irida Records: Hybrid Musics from Texas and Beyond, 1979-1986 Irida Associates U.S.A., an obscure and short-lived record label formed by composer-performer Jerry Hunt, offers a glimpse into the revelatory world of new music and composition in the artist's native Third Coast.

Based first in Dallas and later in Hunt's home outside the rural town of Canton, Texas, Irida presented the innovative and daring experiments_into aleatoric methods, environmental acoustics, improvisation, homemade technologies, and more_pursued by Hunt and his select collaborators, primarily working in or near Texas between 1979 and 1986.

Irida's brief and compact output_seven non-sequentially numbered LPs released in unknown quantities_shared work by artists whose practices often challenged the limitations of vinyl recording.

Hunt called the label a "vanity project" and frequently talked of a tax loophole he could claim if it all went belly up, but in its short lifespan Irida captured a tremendous period of creative experimentation by the artist and his friends and collaborators.

This boxed set gathers Irida's complete discography for the first time. These records include early attempts by Hunt to record his generative and highly permutable scores and performances on vinyl in Cantegral Segment(s) 16.17.18.19.

/ Transform (Stream) / Transphalba / Volta (Kernel), as well as his only composition for piano, "Lattice," on Texas Music (both records 1979).

The label distributed solo and group recordings by those in Hunt's circle as well, including Larry Austin's electroacoustic, syncretic compositions in Hybrid Musics; James Fulkerson's unique, extended techniques for the trombone on Works; a fusion of three overlaid compositions in Dary John Mizelle's Music of Dary John Mizelle; spontaneous pieces and riff-based "character improvisations" in Music of BL Lacerta by the four piece "orchestra in miniature" BL Lacerta Improvisation Quartet; and experiments in compositional "mapping" by external structures in Cartography, featuring Austin, Gene De Lisa, Robert Michael Keefe, and Rodney Waschka II.

Accompanying the boxed set is a richly-illustrated reader with a detailed essay on on the label by Lawrence Kumpf and Tyler Maxin; never-before-published archival materials; newly commissioned reflections by Fulkerson and the composer Jerry Willingham; as well as an interview with Hunt and ephemera including album and concert reviews, artworks, posters and flyers, and correspondences from the musicians and composers involved.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. JERRY HUNT - LATTICE
  • 1.2. PHILIP KRUMM - SOUND MACHINE
  • 1.3. JERRY WILLINGHAM - T'CHU
  • 2.1. JERRY HUNT - TRANSFORM (STREAM)
  • 2.2. JERRY HUNT - CANTEGRAL SEGMENT 18.17
  • 2.3. JERRY HUNT - TRANSPHALBA
  • 2.4. JERRY HUNT - VOLTA (KERNAL)
  • 3.1. JAMES FULKERSON - CO-ORDINATIVE SYSTEMS
  • 3.2. JAMES FULKERSON - MUSIC FOR BRASS INSTRUMENTS
  • 3.3. JAMES FULKERSON - ANTIPHONIES AND STREAMS
  • 3.4. JAMES FULKERSON - SUITE FOR SOLO CELLO
  • 4.1. LARRY AUSTIN - QUADRANTS: EVENT/COMPLEX NO. 1
  • 4.2. LARRY AUSTIN - SECOND FANTASY ON IVES' UNIVERSE SYMPHONY - THE HEAVENS
  • 4.3. LARRY AUSTIN - CATALOGO VOCE
  • 4.4. LARRY AUSTIN - MAROON BELLS
  • 5.1. DARY JOHN MIZELLE - POLYPHONIES I
  • 5.2. DARY JOHN MIZELLE - SPECTRA FOR BASS AND COMPUTER TAPES
  • 5.3. DARY JOHN MIZELLE - PRIMAVERA-HETEROPHONY FOR 24 CELLI
  • 6.1. BL LACERTA - HIGH ENERGY
  • 6.2. BL LACERTA - STARTS SAME BUT BEAUTIFUL
  • 6.3. BL LACERTA - FLUTES AND TUBA
  • 6.4. BL LACERTA - POWERFUL
  • 6.5. BL LACERTA - ESTAMPIE
  • 6.6. BL LACERTA - MY MOTHER IS HERE
  • 6.7. BL LACERTA - STRAVINSKY
  • 6.8. BL LACERTA - THIRD
  • 6.9. BL LACERTA - MONKEY CHANT
  • 7.1. GENE DE LISA - SANCTUS
  • 7.2. GENE DE LISA - CONCERTAL
  • 7.3. ROBERT MICHAEL KEEFE - FRACTALIS BALINESUS
  • 7.4. RODNEY WASCHKA II - EUWE SUITE: 1. EUWE-COLLE
  • 7.5. RODNEY WASCHKA II - EUWE SUITE: 2. EUWE-ALEKHINE
  • 7.6. RODNEY WASCHKA II - EUWE SUITE: 3. ALEKHINE-EUWE
  • 7.7. RODNEY WASCHKA II - EUWE SUITE: 4. EUWE-NAJDORF
  • 7.8. RODNEY WASCHKA II - EUWE SUITE: 5. MOONEN-EUWE
  • 7.9. RODNEY WASCHKA II - RUNES