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2023 repress In 1973, Stay On It turned the coordinates of avant-garde music on its head It is minimal, but un-ashamedly groovy; it is open to improvisation, grants performers all the freedom they could need, but it isn't jazz and never slips into the non-committal It is open to theatrical and performative elements, but also to...
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For the exhibition "Flowers in 20th and 21st Century Art", Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke had created the installation Lifetime of a Flower in which they set parameters but allowed the process itself to grow uncontrollably Literally: in the garden of their Japanese house, they planted seeds and filmed the plant growing and...
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In 1972, left-wing intellectual film critic Uwe Nettelbeck suggested to Anthony Moore that he might write some straight songs (relatively speaking), which in turn prompted Moore to invite his old school friend Peter Blegvad over to Hamburg to form the band Slapp Happy Dagmar Krause, a young singer from Hamburg and Moore's...