Fairly Early With Postscripts

by Derek Bailey

Fairly Early With Postscripts cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1999-01-01
  • Label: Emanem
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:06:24
  • Community rating: 3.41/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A collection of Derek Bailey's solo guitar improvisations, centred on his earliest recordings of the 1970s with later postscripts. Bailey's non-idiomatic approach, developed alongside the founding of Incus Records, made him the central figure of European free improvisation.

Genres

Descriptors: improvised, experimental, avant-garde, guitars, atonal

Tracklist

  1. Six Fairly Early Pieces (12:21)
  2. In Whose Tradition? (0:35)
  3. Rehearsal Extract (Area 7) (3:21)
  4. Rehearsal Extract (Area 8) (6:42)
  5. Tunnel Hearing (7:18)
  6. 10% Extra Free (3:28)
  7. 20% Extra Free (3:49)
  8. Self-Erasing (0:15)
  9. A Bit Of The Crust (2:26)
  10. A Bit Of The Dumps (3:30)
  11. The Last Post (Morning) (7:42)
  12. The Last Post (Afternoon) (8:22)
  13. Postscript (2:46)
  14. Post Postscript (3:49)

Credits

  • Anthony Braxton - flute, sopranino saxophone

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