Description
Full House, David Moss's groundbreaking 1984 recording, returns in a newly remastered CD edition documenting the adventurous musical environment surrounding New York's avant-garde Downtown movement. Moss emerged alongside a generation of experimental musicians including Fred Frith, John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, Christian Marclay, Bill Laswell and Wayne Horvitz, artists who freely crossed boundaries between improvisation, composition, noise, groove and performance art while helping redefine the possibilities of experimental music.
Where Moss's Dense Band explored expansive ensemble textures, Full House concentrates much of its energy within the exposed and immediate duo format. Across 19 concise sound studies, rapidly shifting guitars, saxophones, percussion, manipulated vocals and turntable experimentation collide with abstract rhythmic structures. The compact pieces encourage quick reactions and abrupt contrasts, allowing improvisation and composition to continually overlap rather than settling into conventional song forms.
Pieces such as "State of the Whirled," "The Man with the Rain-Colored-Legs," "Drum Men," "Drastic Fishers," "Shout & Twist" and "3-Way-Switch" reflect the album's restless character, with texture, rhythm and vocal sound treated as compositional materials in their own right. The resulting music captures an era when Downtown musicians were deliberately dismantling stylistic divisions and constructing new performance languages from an unusually broad range of sounds, techniques and technologies.
Presented on CD in a newly remastered edition, Full House preserves an important chapter in Moss's career and a vivid document of one of experimental music's particularly fertile periods. Four decades after its original appearance, its combination of spontaneity, concentrated duo interplay, unconventional instrumentation and fearless sonic invention remains challenging, energetic and strikingly original.
Track Listing
- Full House
- Impound This Touch
- Tunes
- State Of The Whirled
- Heads Up
- The Man With The Rain-Colored-Legs
- Hand Tech
- Possible Fruit
- Fashion Like Edges
- Liquids Of Choice
- Drum Men
- When I Was 18
- Drastic Fishers
- Trade-Ways
- Shout & Twist
- 3-Way-Switch
- All The News
- Husk When Time
- Amendment 5
Additional Details
Label: Yatak Music
Genre: Jazz
Language: English
Run Time: 46:42 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 09/04/26
UPC: 4255712500171