AMM

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Manoeuvre 07:28 Tools
Later During a Flaming Riviera Sunset 06:49 Tools
Ailantus Glandulosa 05:31 Tools
After Rapidly Circling the Plaza 01:03 Tools
In the Realm of Nothing Whatever 13:21 Tools
Later During a Flaming Riviera Sunset (LP version) 21:06 Tools
After Rapidly Circling the Plaza (LP version) 23:19 Tools
What is There in Uselesness to Cause You Distress? 03:01 Tools
The Great Hall 1 1982 23:19 Tools
For Ute 20:40 Tools
Musette 05:53 Tools
Vivace 06:34 Tools
Newfoundland 16:47 Tools
Toccata 08:38 Tools
Like a Cloud Hanging in the Sky? 45:23 Tools
Intermezzo 13:20 Tools
Generative Theme I 09:26 Tools
Aria 04:28 Tools
アリスのボサノバ 03:27 Tools
Ballade 13:49 Tools
Generative Theme II 14:22 Tools
Coffin Nor Shelf 45:40 Tools
Generative Theme III 10:00 Tools
Recitativo/Coda 11:39 Tools
Generative Theme IV 12:56 Tools
What Is There in Uselessness to Cause You Distress? 03:01 Tools
Neither Bill Nor Axe Would Shorten Its Existence 18:09 Tools
Generative Theme V 31:08 Tools
Page 9:1 00:00 Tools
After Rapidly Circling the Plaza (excerpt) 06:33 Tools
Sounding Music 51:07 Tools
Later During a Flaming Riviera Sunset [LP Version] 21:06 Tools
Part One 08:42 Tools
Part Two 06:34 Tools
Page 9:2 Plus 00:00 Tools
To Hear 21:42 Tools
Unity First 00:00 Tools
Part Four 07:51 Tools
Part Three 04:28 Tools
Part Five 12:04 Tools
Part Six 08:25 Tools
Back Again 25:40 Tools
tune one 00:00 Tools
combine + laminates 43:33 Tools
After Rapidly Circling the Plaza [LP version] 23:19 Tools
Tune Three 03:26 Tools
Part Seven 10:36 Tools
Tune Two 15:05 Tools
tune five 00:00 Tools
Sedimentary 29:12 Tools
tune four 00:00 Tools
Treatise '84 32:07 Tools
Kunstmusik 13:49 Tools
Duett 00:00 Tools
Metamorphic 07:20 Tools
Convergence 05:19 Tools
Tune Six 10:44 Tools
Later during a flaming... 06:49 Tools
The Sound Of Indifference 46:52 Tools
untitled 08:23 Tools
Commonwealth Institute 20-4-67 14:37 Tools
Radio Activity 18:22 Tools
Igneous 37:37 Tools
what is there in uselesness to cause you distress 03:01 Tools
For A 08:27 Tools
Spittlefields' Slide 06:53 Tools
Kline 08:30 Tools
From A Strange Place 08:20 Tools
Allentown 1 03:03 Tools
Allentown 2 09:31 Tools
What is There in Uselesness... 03:00 Tools
Allentown 3 14:04 Tools
Allentown 4 06:00 Tools
Allentown 5 19:46 Tools
Allentown 6 08:01 Tools
Paragraph One 25:23 Tools
Silence 00:00 Tools
Paragraph Two 22:56 Tools
Later During A Flaming Riviera Sunset ((LP Version)recording.) 21:06 Tools
AMM - AMMusic 1966 - 01 - Late 06:49 Tools
Paragraph Three 15:23 Tools
01.05.04 39:27 Tools
Contextual 06:28 Tools
The Aarhus Sequences (Pts. 1 & 2) 51:18 Tools
The Aarhus Sequences 1 51:18 Tools
After Rapidly Circling The Plaza ((LP Version)This track is added to the following track\nto recreate the original recording.) 23:19 Tools
The Aarhus Sequences, Parts 1 & 2 51:18 Tools
The Aarhus Sequences 2 14:52 Tools
AMM Group Of London 23:19 Tools
05. aria 04:28 Tools
His Love (feat. PC Akubueze) 02:50 Tools
Live at the Royal College of Art 06:26 Tools
The Aarhus Sequences 3 06:29 Tools
Contextual 2 11:04 Tools
Fine Part Two 00:00 Tools
AMM - AMMusic 1966 - 03 - Aila 05:31 Tools
Contextual 3 10:31 Tools
Contextual 4 11:12 Tools
AMM - AMMusic 1966 - 02 - Late 21:06 Tools
1-Place sub. v. 01:03 Tools
The Great Hall 1 36:46 Tools
The Great Hall (Pts. 1 & 2) 36:46 Tools
AMM - AMMusic 1966 - 05 - Afte 01:03 Tools
the aarhus sequences (mix) 06:28 Tools
Late 11:12 Tools
2-Place sub. v. 23:19 Tools
The Aarhus Sequences (Alternate Take) 14:52 Tools
Contextual 5 13:41 Tools
In t 11:12 Tools
AMM - AMMusic 1966 - 06 - Afte 23:19 Tools
<untitled> 23:19 Tools
Spanish Fighters 20:08 Tools
Contextual 6 36:46 Tools
3-Place sub. v. 36:46 Tools
The Great Hall 2 38:55 Tools
The Aarhus Sequences [3] [Mix] 14:52 Tools
Place sub. v. 36:46 Tools
After Rapidly Circling The Plaza (extract) 38:55 Tools
The Aarhus Sequences [2] [Alternate Take] 03:01 Tools
Group Of London 23:16 Tools
AMM - AMMusic 1966 - 07 - What 03:01 Tools
The Great Hall, Parts 1 & 2 36:46 Tools
The Great Hall (Alternate Take) 38:54 Tools
The Sound Of Indifference (extract) 36:46 Tools
Meantime 17:57 Tools
The Great Hall [2] [Alternate Take] 38:54 Tools
Generative Theme II (extract) 23:16 Tools
Flamsteed 13:14 Tools
Side A 22:13 Tools
Norwich (extract) 14:52 Tools
What Is There In Uselessness To Cause You Distress 03:01 Tools
Musiques intimes et secrètes 14:52 Tools
Aila 14:52 Tools
SE1 AMM 46:50 Tools
One Tree Hill 20:08 Tools
Caresse 14:52 Tools
03. part three 13:14 Tools
Fine (extract) 13:14 Tools
Afte 22:13 Tools
AMM - AMMusic 1966 - 04 - In t 13:21 Tools
E1 AMM 31:28 Tools
at the Roundhouse pt. 1 22:08 Tools
Part 2 22:08 Tools
Page 9:2 34:24 Tools
Side B 22:08 Tools
at the Roundhouse pt. 2 31:28 Tools
Bossa Nova of Alice 15:16 Tools
London 5th December 2015 15:16 Tools
contextual, part 1 14:11 Tools
contextual, part 6 10:37 Tools
contextual, part 5 13:42 Tools
contextual, part 2 11:04 Tools
Contextual, Part 3 10:31 Tools
contextual, part 4 11:12 Tools
Conduit 37:37 Tools
Part 1 14:11 Tools
Outro 14:11 Tools
What Is There in Uselesness to 34:24 Tools
igneus 37:37 Tools
Danse de travers No. 1 31:28 Tools
Petite musique do clown triste 31:28 Tools
Amm - 01.05.04 39:27 Tools
Allentown 14:04 Tools
Norwich 3 11:12 Tools
1 08:22 Tools
12 Petits Chorals 37:37 Tools
Part 3 11:12 Tools
No. 2 Trois Danses de travers 37:37 Tools
Les pantins densent 37:37 Tools
Préludes flasques 37:37 Tools
Radio 02:17 Tools
Trondheim 9th June 2016 38:57 Tools
The Aarhus Sequences 1 (1969) 51:16 Tools
Norwich 2 06:33 Tools
Norwich 5 11:44 Tools
Danses gothiques 08:22 Tools
part1 06:33 Tools
Pages mystiques 39:27 Tools
ammmusic 1966 11:44 Tools
Norwich - Track 1 08:14 Tools
Ailantus Glandolusa 05:26 Tools
Paris 7th April 2016 15:16 Tools
Norwich 1 05:26 Tools
Norwich 4 05:26 Tools
Part 4 05:26 Tools
8:33 11:12 Tools
After rapidity circling the plaza (excerpt) 06:33 Tools
Place sub. v. 06:33 Tools
Improvisation for piano, guitar, violoncello and drums 06:33 Tools
No. 1 Trois Airs à faire fuir 11:12 Tools
Later During A Flaming Riviera Sunset ((LP Version)recording 06:33 Tools
3 08:14 Tools
What Is There in Uselessness t 06:33 Tools
Cornelius Cardew - Unintended Piano Music 05:26 Tools
part3 05:26 Tools
part4 08:14 Tools
part2 08:14 Tools
part5 08:14 Tools
june 12 '68 11:44 Tools
Norwich - Track 3 06:49 Tools
Recitativo-Coda 06:49 Tools
The Aarhus Sequences 2 (1969) 14:04 Tools
John Tilbury: announcements for Cardew & AMM 00:55 Tools
2 13:32 Tools
1979-04-23 - BBC 08:14 Tools
Cornelius Cardew - Piano Solo with Accompaniment 06:31 Tools
part6 11:18 Tools
13:33 08:14 Tools
Nouvelles pièces froides 11:44 Tools
AMMmusic2 15:16 Tools
12:30 08:14 Tools
After Rapidly Circling the Plaza (Exerpt) 08:14 Tools
Fine 1 08:14 Tools
John Tilbury: announcements for Cardew & Wolff 01:18 Tools
Norwich - Track 2 00:55 Tools
John Tilbury: announcements for Cage & Skempton 02:11 Tools
Norwich - Track 4 00:55 Tools
5 11:44 Tools
The Aarhus Sequences 3 (1969) 06:31 Tools
After Rapidly Circling The Plaza ((LP Version)This track is 06:31 Tools
4 12:29 Tools
E1 31:28 Tools
Contextual, Parts 1-6 11:18 Tools
Likeacouldhanginginthesky 15:16 Tools
8:15 11:18 Tools
Prèlude en tapisserie 11:18 Tools
[Untitled] 15:16 Tools
Norwich 08:16 Tools
Fine 2 11:18 Tools
Later During a Flaming Rivera Sunset 06:49 Tools
01 06:49 Tools
The Nameless Uncarved Block 06:49 Tools
After Rapidly Circling the Plaza (Part 2) 08:16 Tools
Irma 14:10 Tools
SE1 46:50 Tools
The Crypt: 12th June 1968 45:24 Tools
[silence] 00:10 Tools
John Tilbury/Eddie Prevost - Improvisation AMM 00:55 Tools
Howard Skempton: for strings (waves, shingle, seagulls) 10:37 Tools
Untitled 3 00:55 Tools
09/11/06 14:22 Tools
Untitled 2 00:55 Tools
Christian Wolff: For 1, 2 or 3 people, any sound producing means 45:24 Tools
From An Afflicted Man's Musica Box 15:16 Tools
Recitativo 31:28 Tools
AMMmusic4 46:50 Tools
Fine 3 15:16 Tools
Fine 4 15:16 Tools
Fine 5 15:16 Tools
Live Ica London England 3-23-66 02:11 Tools
02 15:16 Tools
After Rapidly Circling the Plaza (Part 1) 15:16 Tools
03 15:16 Tools
05 31:28 Tools
Contextual I 14:10 Tools
Contextual II 11:04 Tools
Contextual VI 10:37 Tools
Later During a Flaming Riviera Sunset (Part 2) 15:16 Tools
Live Electronic Music Improvised 38:57 Tools
John Cage: Variations III for arbitrary number of players and arbitrary sound originators 00:10 Tools
Eisei Cafe Terrace 03:13 Tools
Untitled 1 03:13 Tools
Cornelius Cardew: Solo with Accompaniment for 2 instruments ad libitum 03:13 Tools
Untitled 4 00:00 Tools
Untitled 5 00:00 Tools
Like a Cloud Hanging in the Sk 00:00 Tools
Cornelius Cardew: February pieces for piano (#2) 00:00 Tools
What 00:55 Tools
Contextual 01 31:28 Tools
Combine And Laminates 31:28 Tools
Trois nouvelles pièces enfanti 15:16 Tools
AMMmusic3 45:24 Tools
Paragraph Three (15.24) 31:28 Tools
02 - AMM Group Of London 31:28 Tools
Fine 6 31:28 Tools
The Great Hall 36:46 Tools
Fine 7 31:28 Tools
WDR3 - speaker: introduction 31:28 Tools
04 31:28 Tools
WDR3 - speaker: AMM-improv - fadeout and closing words 31:28 Tools
Norwich - Track 5 46:50 Tools
Contextual III 14:10 Tools
AMM London 5th December 2015 14:10 Tools
The Great Hall 2 (1982) 38:57 Tools
Contextual IV 14:10 Tools
Contextual V 14:10 Tools
K-Line 38:57 Tools
i 38:57 Tools
London 20 January 1970 38:57 Tools
After Rapidly Circling The Plaza ((LP Version)This track is added to the following track\\nto recreate the original recording.) 23:19 Tools
Spacecraft 10:37 Tools
Generative Themes II. 14:22 Tools
AMM: improvisation for piano, guitar, violoncello and drums 14:22 Tools
AMMmusic 1 10:37 Tools
Tower Of Ghost 10:37 Tools
Generative Themes III. 10:00 Tools
Generative Themes IV. 12:56 Tools
AMMmusic 2 45:24 Tools
Later During A Flaming Riviera Sunset - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Spittlefield's Slide 45:24 Tools
AMMmusic 4 45:24 Tools
Memories Of The Ghetto 46:50 Tools
Improvisation with birds 45:24 Tools
AMMmusic1 45:24 Tools
Coda 45:24 Tools
Part 5 45:24 Tools
neither no axe would shorten it's existence 46:50 Tools
Paris, 7th April 2016 46:50 Tools
AMM_09/11/06 46:50 Tools
AMM - London 3 February 1970 39:22 Tools
The Great Hall 1 (1982) 36:44 Tools
Like A Cloud Hanging In The Sky?. 14:10 Tools
Later During a Flaming Riviera Sunset (Part 1) 14:10 Tools
London 16 December 1969 14:10 Tools
Treatise 36:44 Tools
set 1 36:44 Tools
CONFUSION 36:44 Tools
iii 14:10 Tools
The Twins 14:10 Tools
AMM Paris 7th April 2016 14:10 Tools
apogee part 1 14:10 Tools
apogee part 3 10:37 Tools
AMM 01.05.04 10:37 Tools
'The Crypt - 12th June 1968' 3:4 45:24 Tools
AMMmusic 3 45:24 Tools
Contextual 02 45:24 Tools
02. generative theme ii 45:24 Tools
Fine 45:24 Tools
2. Coffin nor Shelf 45:24 Tools
11:44 45:24 Tools
Cardew-The Aarhus Sequences 3 45:24 Tools
Iintermezzo 45:24 Tools
Coffin Nor Self 45:24 Tools
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1) AMM is a British free improvisation group, founded in London, England in 1965. 2) Japanese arranger. Circle: ShibayanRecords. 1. AMM have never been well-known to the general public, but have been, in their own way, hugely influential on several generations of adventurous musicians. AMM has been called "legendary" and "groundbreaking." They are notable as the perhaps the first musical group to deliberately try to make music not related to any established musical genre: as Michael Nyman wrote, "AMM seem to have worked without the benefit or hindrance of any kind of prepared external discipline." In a 2001 interview, founding member Keith Rowe was asked if "AMM" was an abbreviation; he replied, "The letters AMM stand for something, but as you probably know it's a secret!" There is an unconfirmed story that one of the group's members told John Stevens, in a confidence that Stevens failed to keep, that the letters stood for Art, Music, Madness. AMM was initially composed of Keith Rowe on guitar, Lou Gare on saxophone and Eddie Prévost on drums. Rowe and Gare were members of Mike Westbrook's band; Prevost and Gare were also in a hard bop jazz quintet. The three men shared a common interest in exploring music beyond the boundaries of conventional jazz, as part of a larger movement that helped spawn European free jazz and free improvisation. No AMM performance was ever planned; each was unique and spontaneous. The musicians tended to avoid any conventional melody, harmony or rhythm, and further sought an ensemble sound that often obscured any individual's role. It was, and remains, sometimes difficult to discern which musical instrument is making which specific sound on an AMM recording, due in part to liberal use of various extended techniques. Prévost has written, "The player could, at times, share a timeless immersion in a world of sound, while simultaneously being free to pursue their individual paths. It was not uncommon for the musician to wonder who or what was producing a particular sound, stop playing, and discover it was he himself who had been responsible." Members of the group have come and gone over the years, but Rowe and Prevost have usually been present for most recordings and performances; the latter has been the only constant in the nearly four decades of AMM music. AMM released their first recording, AMMusic 1966, on Electra Records UK in 1966. With this release, there were some initial similarities to free jazz, due in part to Gare's saxophone. One critic has written, however, that the resemblance was rather slight: "the overall sound of the group, even in 1966, was so different, so idiosyncratic, that it's not at all surprising that both new jazz and contemporary classical audiences were baffled, if not horrified." Lawrence Shaeff played with the early AMM; he had been a jazz bassist, but on AMMMusic, he played cello, accordion and other instruments. Percussionist Christopher Hobbs (a student of Cardew) also played with AMM in the late 1960s. The next AMM material to see release were the important The Crypt sessions from June 12, 1968. Further "out" and even less conventional than earlier material, one critic has written "An eerie sensation inevitably accompanies each listen to the raw streams of electric noise channeled on AMM’s second album and early masterpiece, The Crypt. To ears informed by the twenty-first century, it’s the uncanny feeling of listening to three-and-a-half decades of experimental music history as delivered in a chillingly prescient sort of reverse premonition... It’s a little unnerving that the only records that seem to accurately describe the brave new soundworld harnessed on The Crypt came into being well after its creation." The Crypt sessions have been issued multiple times; twice in the 1980s as a double LP, and it is now available (with extra material, billed as "The Complete Sessions") on a double CD from Matchless Recordings. The Crypt continues to inspire adventurous listeners; in the liner notes to the 1992 double CD, Prévost writes, "Despite being (arguably) the most ‘difficult’ material on Matchless, The Crypt has been a mainstay for the label. It obviously pays not to underestimate the audience. Its continued success has enabled us to release other works. So we felt committed, obliged almost, to keep it available... this music has proved itself not to be ephemeral." Composer Cornelius Cardew joined AMM in 1966, performing on piano and cello. He worked with AMM intermittently until his death in 1981. Composer Christian Wolff performed with AMM in 1968. Cardew and Rowe became enamored of socialism and Maoist philosophies, and thought that AMM's music should reflect their sociopolitical outlook (Prevost accuses the pair of "cultural bullying"). This generated some tension in the group, which resulted in some AMM performances being made by alternating duos: Rowe and Cardew, Prevost and Gare. AMM Myspace http://www.myspace.com/ammtheband Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.