These recordings capture the core group and its floating membership at various stages of their existence. Recordings from the studio sessions and live sets, including playing to a a school hall full of teenage girls at 3pm one afternoon. They were the final, mystery band to play at the legendary Equinox Event at the London Musicians Collective in 1983, on the night their performance was halted by a Police raid, which closed down the event.

The recordings are raw in nature and should be considered as historical documentation.

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The Curfew Recordings

The Curfew Recordings were made at a disused industrial site on the river Tyne in
1984 and feature John Smith (then publisher of Interchange magazine), Sean Dower
(ex Death Magazine 52 & later of Bow Gamelan Ensemble) and John Mylotte (of the
band Metgumnebone).

The recordings were made inside a steel-plated silo (approx 10m tall and 18m wide)
once used for bitumen storage. The instrumentation is acoustic and the recording are
unprocessed (the space however adds a remarkable reverb).

Instrumentation included: bull roarers, spirit whistles, human thy-bone trumpet,
chimes, pipes, gongs, flutes, drums, projectiles, scraped and bowed objects and other
materials like glass, metal, bones and wood.

This is the first digital transfer of the original tapes to become available.

CD on Harbinger Sound (Harbinger 110)

Link to review by Idwal fisher

OPEN THE WINDOW

Linear Obsessional's third annual "open access" release is built around a simple premise: Open your window and record two minutes of what you can hear, interacting with it live or editing and processing the recordings later. From this concept has emerged this 85 track, 2 hour 50 minute compilation of extraordinary recordings from all over the world. Released December 24, 2015

Compiled and Edited by Richard Sanderson for Linear Obsessional recordings.

Download includes a 62 page PDF booklet of contributor notes, photographs and an essay.

Free Download here