ROBERT ASHLEY Automatic Writing Lovely Music 1st OG Press Electronic Minimal NM

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ROBERT ASHLEY: “Automatic Writing”

Label: LOVELY MUSIC

Label Number: VR 1002

RAERE 1979 FIRST ORIGINAL US PRESSING on Lovely Music. ARCHIVAL COPY!!! Long gone and deleted issue!!!!

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint ~ Mint

Jacket: Near Mint ~ Mint

Some words on this issue: ROBERT ASHLEY “Automatic Writing” (Lovely Music – VR-1002 - 1979) Ashley’s landmark recordings, Automatic Writing (1979). Composed in recorded form over a period of five years, Automatic Writing is the result of Robert Ashley’s fascination with involuntary speech. He has recorded and analyzed the repeated lines of his own mantra and extracted four musical characters. The result is quiet, mysterious, melancholy and an early form of ambient music, still instead of ambient the term of minimal music is more to the point I guess. It is Ashley’s attempt to demonstrate the dichotomy between the rational-whatever can be explained in words-and its opposite-which is not irrational or a-rational, but which cannot be explained in words. The lead voice, the processed back-up chorus, the recurring bell tone, and the pervading tape hiss, create an unsettling mood. Separate phonemes are picked up freely by the group leaders and are relayed to the group members, who sustain them softly and for the duration of one natural breath. The time lag between the group leaders phoneme choices and those phonemes being picked up by members of the group produces a staggered, chant-like effect, with the sounds moving outward from the nearest performer to the farthest. In all a stunning masterpiece of a disc that surfaces only occasionally these days.

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