music for a world in which things have never been okay
Higuchi’s and Sachiko’s instrumental armory is multiple : piano
"The Unlearning" is deeply meditative but entirely remote from ambient or minimalist clichés
Immediately engaging while also hiding countless details in the folds of its polychrome fabric
originally released as a now (nearly) extinct cassette
Company – Epiphanies VII-XIIII [3LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic music for a world in"More buried treasure from Company Week 1982: seven previously unissued Epiphanies by lineups involving Derek Bailey, Ursula Oppens, Julie Tippetts, Keith Tippett, Philipp Wachsmann, Fred Frith, George Lewis, Anne LeBaron, Motoharu Yoshizawa and Akio Suzuki. Fred Frith is a stellar improviser 1974s Guitar Solos is still a seminal album of free improv and he has three opportunities here to showcase his considerable talents. Eleventh is a tour de force