seems as good a place as any to drop this:
Poet Invasion at the Betsey 19-xi-2021
by
AMM All-Stars
Topics
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These tracks were recorded by
AMM All-Stars at the Betsey Trotwood, Clerkenwell, London on Friday 19th November.
AMM All-Stars:
Nick Lubran - bamboo flute, acoustic guitar, low grumbles
Robert "Sugarlips" Goldsmith - sopranino saxophone, conversation
Dave Black - electric guitar
Dave Russell - electric guitar (deleted)
Graham Davis - synths, heckles, glockenspiel, democracy, conversation
Out To Lunch - reading, wooden spoon, keyboards, dictatorship
Ciro Sagliano - electric bass
Peter Baxter - alcove tabletop drumset
Debora Colasanti - wooden spoon, glockenspiel
Luke Davis - typewriter, reading
Jim Clarke - typewriter, reading
Sam Wilson Fletcher - typewriter, reading, electric bass
"Against almost insuperable odds, veering between the Scylla of frozen/repressed formalism and the Charibdis of thawed/in-the-flesh spontaneity (ever threatening to dissolve into the soggy meal deal of banal
bonhomie), the Cause of Music is fought for by a few (phew!) bedewed, inspirate and unacknowledged legislators ..." OTL 22-
xi-2021
Live playing at the Betsey was edited by OTL, together with some extraneous materials: Track 1: "Splash'n'Klang" 5-
ii-2019b 0:00>>6:01; Track 3: "Electric Organ as Djembe Jelly" 28-
vii-2021 2:00>>4:41 and Eleanor Crook's electric guitar/bass piece "Space Explorations on Weekdays Doesn't Have To Be Hard" 13-
xi-2021 3:21.