Tom Phillips / Gavin Bryars / Fred Orton
Irma
- Editions EG 25MM 0162
- LP
- Japan
- 1982
Condition
- NM
- NM
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- A1 Introduction
- A2 Overture And Aria: "I Tell You That's Irma Herself"
- A3 First Interlude
- B1 Aria: "Irma You Will Be Mine"
- B2 Second Interlude
- B3 Chorus: "Love Is Help Mate"
- B4 Postlude
A1 Introduction
A2 Overture And Aria: "I Tell You That's Irma Herself"
A3 First Interlude
B1 Aria: "Irma You Will Be Mine"
B2 Second Interlude
B3 Chorus: "Love Is Help Mate"
B4 Postlude
In 1969 Tom Phillips drew 93 fragments from A Humument, his painted-over treatment of a Victorian novel, and set them out as a largely graphic score for an opera. Gavin Bryars took over the musical direction and built it out through improvisation; Brian Eno produced the recording in London in February 1977, and it appeared in 1978 as the ninth Obscure release. Side A is a slow minimal drift of scales on piano, mallet percussion and strings, with a collage of wave sounds. Side B lays long string tones from a family of eight violins, sopranino to contrabass, under Lucie Skeaping singing fragments of the text. Michael Nyman, John White and Howard Skempton are among the players. This is the 1982 Japanese issue of one of Obscure's least-discussed titles.
- 25MM 0162
- Japan
- 1982
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