Derek Bailey & Paul Motian - Duo in Concert LPFrozen Reeds presents the only recorded duo playing of two legendary musical figures. Derek Bailey and Paul Motian two longstanding pioneers of distinct strains of improvised music came together for a brief period of collaboration in the early 1990s. Tapes of their two known live performances (one at Groningen's JazzMarathon festival in the Netherlands, the other a year later at New Music Cafe, NYC) were recently unearthed in the Incus archives, and

Cruel Summer

As a duo they capture a special sense of place and time that is uniquely their own

The results occasionally echo the crooked homespun clarity of figures like Syd Barrett

Scritti Politti and many of the other early Rough Trade bands

and finally what sounds to me like an homage to the tension producing minor key synth sounds that constituted a certain staple of horror film scores in the 1980s

Christensen was motivated to re-record the song when hearing that at the start of lockdown another friend from the same circle had died in similar circumstances

Originally released by EMI's Pathé Marconi imprint in 1969

There's little quite like A Place In My Memory

uncertainty had already taken root

Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl

quaffing & cursing the sacred nectar of Rock

NSW Since My Baby Left Me by Midnight Mines