The first reissue of Wounds by David Toop and Paul Burwell, originally released in 1980 on Toop's Quartz! label, a representative album of a seminal moment within the British music scene evolved around the London Musicians Collective in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
David Toop, electric guitar, flute, home-made-found stuff, cassette tapes, water, rubbish, noise, small explosives
Paul Burwell, percussion, 6-string harp, bamboo fiddle, bird decoys, whistle, rubbish, paper, water, etc
This record edited from tapes recorded at the London Musicians Collective, 42 Gloucester Avenue / concert evening of Saturday 30 June 1979.
Recorded on a Uher Stereo Report with 2 AKG S224 microphones.
Music improvised / one of many hundreds of performances given by this duo in the 10 years they have played together.
The parrot's long goodbye recorded London Zoo + whirled tape recorder with tape of Continamo Falls,
recorded Amazonas, 16 November 1978 by Toop and Figuera. |