Description
Full House, David Moss's groundbreaking 1984 recording, returns in a newly remastered vinyl 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, rock, jazz and emerging forms of electronic and turntable experimentation.
Where Moss's Dense Band explored the possibilities of ensemble performance, Full House concentrates much of its energy within the more exposed and immediate duo format. Across 19 compact pieces, guitars, saxophone, percussion, manipulated vocals and turntable sounds collide with abstract rhythmic structures and rapidly changing musical ideas. The abbreviated forms encourage quick reactions and abrupt contrasts, allowing improvisation and composition to continually overlap rather than settling into conventional song structures.
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 developing new performance languages from whatever sounds, techniques and technologies were available to them.
Newly remastered for this vinyl reissue, Full House preserves one of Moss's important early recordings and a vivid artifact of the experimental music culture of the period. Four decades after its original appearance, its combination of spontaneity, concentrated duo interplay, unconventional instrumentation and fearless sonic invention remains an uncompromising example of the creative possibilities that defined the Downtown avant-garde.
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: 4255712500218