MICHAEL SNOW last LP orig 1988 Can avant Art Metropole

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original 1988 Canada stereo press of LP on Art Metropole label
MICHAEL SNOW titled "The Last LP"
CONDITION:
cover: Excellent
clean & sharp with just faint lite shelf wear/soiling ~ small soil spot lower right front ( may be
removable) ~ tiny minor lite fray to corners
vinyl: Excellent
clean & glossy ~ just a couple of lite sleeve lines/smudges ~ very superficial only
plays excellent with just an odd occasional lite tick
SELECTIONS:
Wu Ting Dee Lin Chao Cheu (Announcing The Arrival Of Emperor Wu Ting) 6:09
Si Nopo Da (By What Signs Will I Come To Understand?) 3:42
Ohwachira 9:34
I Ching Dee Yen Tzen (The Strings Of Love) 3:41
Pohlnovyessnikh (Full To The Brim) 0:29
Speech In Klogen 2:12
Mbowunsa Mpahiya(Battle Song Of Bowunsa) 7:59
Quuiasukpuq Quai Gami (He Is Happy Because He Came) 2:14
Amitabha Chenden Kala (The Simultaneous Welcome Of Amitabha) 6:43
Roiakuriluo ( Dawn Ceremony 9:36
Raga Lalat 2:53
here's some bio information & background on this recording glean from the net:
"In 1987, Snow issued The Last LP (Art Metropole), which purported to be a documentary disc of the
dying gasps of ethnic musical cultures from around the globe including Tibet, Syria, India, China Brazil,
Finland and elsewhere, with more thousands of words of pseudo-scholarly supplementary notes, but
was, in fact, a series of multi-tracked recordings of Snow himself, who gave the joke away only in a
single column of text in the disc's gatefold jacket, printed backwards and readable in a mirror. One track,
purported to be a document of a coming-of-age ritual from Niger, is a pastiche of Whitney Houston's
song "How Will I Know."" -Wikipedia
Canadian artist/filmaker Michael Snow was originally a professional Jazz musician and has made many
rare recordings and countless performances of experimental and conceptual music since the 1970s. Now
78 years old, Snow still periodically performs in the Toronto area with his avant/free jazz/noise band
CCMC. Can there be any such thing, Snow once asked, as "fake music"?
This now rare and expensive album was re-issued on CD by Art Metropole in 1994 as "The Last LP
CD".
here's additional bio information from the canadian encyclopedia
Snow, Michael (James Aleck). Pianist, trumpeter, composer, film maker, sculptor, painter, photographer,
b Toronto 10 Dec 1929. Although more immediately identified with the visual arts (eg, the sculpture-
graphic series Walking Woman,1961-7, and the films Wavelength, 1967, and La Région centrale, 1970-
1), Snow has also been involved for many years in improvised music. He was encouraged by the
boogie-woogie pianist Jimmy Yancey during visits to Chicago in the late 1940s, and played piano in
Toronto traditional-jazz groups while a student 1948-52 at the Ontario College of Art. He took up the
trumpet in the early 1950s.
After playing piano with the dixieland trumpeter Mike White 1958-61 and with his own bebop groups
1958-62, Snow was drawn to free jazz through his association with the Artists' Jazz Band in Toronto and
with the free-jazz movement's leaders in New York, some of whom (Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, et al)
appeared in his film New York Eye and Ear Control (1964). He has continued to perform with the
Artists' Jazz Band and was a member 1966-7 of the Toronto New Music Ensemble and a founder in 1974
of the CCMC. The last, with which he has played piano, trumpet, guitar and synthesizer, served as the
focus of his musical activities through the 1980s, although he also gave solo piano concerts in
Toronto, Quebec City and New York.
Snow's solo albums, meanwhile, extend into the medium of sound the same extensive manipulation of a
single idea theme or technique that is characteristic of his work in the visual arts - eg, the 50-minute
Sinoms, in which he has multi-tracked some 20 voices, with as many different French and English
accents, reading a complete list of the mayors of Quebec City, at some points making a simple
juxtaposition of pronunciation and at others creating the effect of a choir. In his films, beginning with
New York Eye and Ear Control, he has often drawn musical and visual elements together to create an
'image-sound composition'.
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