Extended Organ – Ex-Org 2xCD
Extended Organ
Ex-Org 2xCD
Helicopter, HEL 99103
Ex-Org is the fourth album from Extended Organ, recorded during two sessions in January 2018 by Paul McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Tom Recchion, and Alex Stevens. The album consists of one session as-performed, and a second session “decomposed” by John Wiese. Formed in 1994, Extended Organ produces a dynamic otherworldly ambience which can be simultaneously hilarious and frightening. Joe Potts lays down a carpet of sound using and his self-engineered drone instrument, the "Chopped Optigan," over which Paul McCarthy performs vocal and guitar improvisations channeled and processed by Alex Stevens, who also adds his own keyboard triggered synthesized sounds. Tom Recchion, renowned as an inventor of homemade instruments, a free improviser, and an accomplished composer of acoustic, electronic and tape music, performs an array of sounds folding lush beauty and horror sensibility into the matrix. Fredrik Nilsen plays an antique Rheem Mark 7 organ, prepared guitar and Kaossilators. The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the early 1970s around a loosely knit group of like-minded musical improvising sound experimenters in the San Gabriel Valley part of Los Angeles who discovered their mutual interest in art and sound and banded together to design modes of self production and distribution of recordings and publications, helping to develop and propel the Proto-Punk DIY movement. In the ensuing 50 years the LAFMS has gone on to create dozens of records and groups (including Doo-Dooettes, AIRWAY, Le Forte Four, Smegma, John Duncan and Extended Organ), hundreds of concerts, festivals in both US and Europe, a full-scale gallery retrospective and volumes of artwork, sculptures, homemade instruments, videos, recordings, and other ephemera. Outside of the groups many recordings their oeuvre has been documented in 3 large box sets, each focusing on various aspects of the collectives work.
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