ORGANUM - SPHYX LP (1994) w/ AMM, Jim O'Rourke, Heeman
$
28
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Organum - Sphyx (Matchless Recordings / Aeroplane AR 14) LP ... this is from the first press edition of 549!
Cover NM, record VG+
Way long OOP, rare document of mid-90s "Organum Big Band" with stalwarts like AMM's Eddie Prevost, HNAS founder Christop Heemann, and ex-Sonic Youth ex-Wilco collaborator Jim O'Rourke ... Epic drone tsunamis as expected from David Jackman, with added color and abstract cloud tone development from the aforementioned improvisers.
EST review ->
"David Jackman is joined by Dinah Jane Rowe, Jim O'Rourke, Christoph Heemann and Eddie Prévost for three fairly short tracks (totalling 36 minutes) here. It's tempting to describe Aurora and particularly Sphyx itself as Organum-goes-New-Age; the latter blends a flute into the usual whirlpool of drones and metallic reverberation. The addition of some rippling, nervous drumming by Prévost helps make this one of Organum's more approachable, less noisy albums, but fans will recognise all Jackman's usual loves here. The emphasis is on timbre and on drones; in Aurora they even at times sound quite uplifting, ecstatic in the same sense as a Branca symphony, which is not something I could say about any of my other Organum records. Third track Mutla treads water, but the other two easily make this a must-have release."
price rating
