Early Henry Jacobs Electronic Music LP HIGHLIGHTS OF VORTEX Folkways FSS 6301

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- Early Electronic Music -

 

HIGHLIGHTS OF VORTEX 

(By Henry Jacobs and others)

Record in playable condition with one moderate scratch that looks like it will at least cause ticking (and other light scratches / scuffs that may not); jacket in about very good condition with some shelf wear to spine and a touch of ring wear but no owner marking, split seams, etc.

Artists: Various ?
Title: Highlights Of Vortex
Label: Folkways Records ?– FSS 6301
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation 
Country: US
Released: 1959
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental, Musique Concrète
Tracklist: A1 –David Talcott Trilogy 5:23 A2 –Henry Jacobs Chan Flute – Santiago Herarra Guitar – L.K. Dunham Tabla [Amplified Indian] – Henry Jacobs 2:16 A3 –Wm. Loughborough* For The Big Horn 2:49 A4 –Henry Jacobs Logos 2:12 A5 –Henry Jacobs Rhythm Study #8 2:16 B1 –Gordon Longfellow Notes On The History Of A World, Part 3 4:11 B2 –David Talcott Loop Number 3 4:01 B3 –Henry Jacobs Electronic Kabuki Mambo 4:47 B4 –Gordon Longfellow 350-2 3:24
Companies, etc.: Copyright (c) – Folkways Records & Service Corp. Pressed By – Plastylite
Credits: Design [Cover Design By] – Ronald Clyne Liner Notes – Junius Adams
Notes; "Electronic Kabuki Mambo" was used, initially, as a score for the play, "The Orange Seller" by David Westen Hunter, then later presented at Vortex. Both of Gordon Longfellow's works were introduced in performances of the Vortex Sound Experiments.
Includes 6-page folded insert (single sheet folded twice to form 6 pages). The back page has a catalog of other Folkways Records titles but no track listing on back cover.
© 1959 Folkways Records and Service Corp., 117 W. 46th St., N.Y.C., U.S.A.
Biography:
Henry Sandy Jacobs (October 9, 1924 – September 25, 2015) was an American sound artist and humorist.
Henry Jacobs is a legend, at least among fans of 1950s radio satire and electronic music. Jacobs has been a composer and radio host, as well as a friend and collaborator with philosopher Alan Watts and poet Ken Nordine. Jacobs' legacy might have existed mostly in the hazy memories of his fans were it not for some of his old tapes.
Some of the first of his recorded tape loops appeared on the "Radio Program No. 1" Folkways disk, and eventually was included on the 1957 Folkways album, "Sounds of New Music" (Folkways disk no. FX 6160.) Meanwhile, he continued to pursue an interest in all aspects of sound, in the composition of musique concrete, in improvisational theatre and humor. He met poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg, comedian Lenny Bruce (whose first recording was a Jacobs project, Interviews of Our Times), and percussionist Mongo Santamaría.
Most important among these new social contacts were the friendships he struck up with Ken Nordine, "the father of word jazz", and Alan Watts, a gifted raconteur and former Anglican priest best known for popularizing and interpreting Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.[3] Jacobs, upon taking the helm at his friend Bill Loughborough's record label, MEA, in 1959, set about releasing several recordings of Watts. He was co-curator of the Alan Watts archive. Moe Asch, the founder of Folkways Records, offered Jacobs the opportunity to release his first record, Radio Programme No 1 Audio Collage: Henry Jacobs’ Music and Folklore, in 1955.
He co-organized the vortex experiments, a series of mind-expanding sound and light concerts at a San Francisco planetarium starting in 1957. They featured the work of such composers as John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, as well as Jacobs himself. There were loudspeakers all around the walls of the planetarium. Murch says the vortex experiments later inspired his work on Apocalypse Now.

creditseleased July 1, 1981 All music by Storm Bugs, sleeve design by Yann Farcy of L'invitation au Suicide.

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