Mnemonists – Mnemonist Orchestra / Some Attributes Of A Living System 2 LP

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Mnemonists – Mnemonist Orchestra / Some Attributes Of A Living System 2 LP

Label: Dys – DYS 01/02

Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP

Country: US

Released: 1985

Genre: Electronic, Jazz

Style: Free Jazz, Abstract, Noise, Experimental

Tracklist

            Mnemonist Orchestra

A1                   Input   12:00  

A2                   Vulnerable, Than Functional   11:38  

B1                   Corrosive On Contact             11:20  

B2                   Stasis   15:40  

            Some Attributes Of A Living System

C1                   Fragment 1                 

C2                   Fragment 2 : Religion In Media                     

C3                   Fragment 3                 

C4                   Fragment 4 : Harvey G Talks             

C5                   Fragment 5 : Labeling Diseases                     

C6                   Fragment 6                 

C7                   Fragment 7                 

C8                   Fragment 8                 

C9                   Fragment 9                 

C10                 Fragment 10               

C11                 Fragment 11 : Relative Neighbors                 

C12                 Fragment 12               

D1                   Fragment 13               

D2                   Fragment 14 : Contingency               

D3                   Fragment 15               

D4                   Fragment 16               

D5                   Fragment 17 : Heads Up                    

D6                   Fragment 18               

D7                   Fragment 19               

D8                   Fragment 20               

D9                   Fragment 21 : Theory Of Tiles                       

D10                 Fragment 22               

Notes

Rerelease of their first 2 LPs "Mnemonist Orchestra" and "Some Attributes of a Living System".

Comes with two folders, including the artworks of both releases in slightly smaller version than the original ones.

Edition of 500 copies.

Album surface: VG- (edge wear)

Album artwork: VG

Musical career

The band formed in 1979 in Fort Collins, Colorado as Mnemonist Orchestra (later Mnemonists) led by Mark Derbyshire and William Sharp and recorded five albums on their own self-produced label, Dys. In the mid 1980s they split into a visual arts group retaining the Mnemonists name and a musical group called Biota.[2]

Almost Never (1992) features three long compositions. The band's line-up was James Gardner, Tom Katsimpalis, Steve Scholbe, Sharp, Gordon Whitlow, Larry Wilson and Randy Yeates. The band's membership remained the same on Object Holder (Recommended Records, 1995). Artwork for Object Holder was by Mnemonists: Ken DeVries, Bill Ellsworth, Katsimpalis, Dana Sharp, Stan Starbuck, Ann Stretton, E.M. Thomas, Dirk Vallons, Wilson, Kyle Yeates and Randy Yeates. Musical guest appearances on the album are by drummer/lyricist Chris Cutler, vocalist Susanne Lewis, Andy Kredt, and Forever Einstein's Charles Vrtacek (now known as Charles O'Meara) on piano, who later joined the band fully. Object Holder was their first album to include lyrics.

Genevieve Heistek (of Set Fire to Flames and H???A) joined the band for Invisible Map (2001), which otherwise included Gardner, Katsimpalis, Andy Kredt, Mark Piersel, Scholbe, Sharp, O'Meara (a.k.a. Vrtacek), Whitlow, Wilson and R. Yeates.

The band have only performed live twice: once in 1981, and in Montreal in 1990. The latter performance was eventually released as Musique Actuelle 1990.[3]

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