"I used to work so hard over my written compositions in this period, first scoring them, then rehearsing them painstakingly, then struggling to get recordings made. Inevitably everyone would be totally unsatisfied with both the sound quality of the recordings and what had happened in the performances, but as it turned out, these are the only recordings that were ever made of these compositions, with this particular group of fine musicians which includes John Zorn, Polly Bradfield, Henry Kaiser, Bruce Ackley and others. This is a collection of just about everything I can find of this nature in the tape archive, including the out of print 'Chadbourne' material from the Parachute School album as well as alot of stuff never previously available, or available only briefly on a cassette. Also included are some interesting solos from the period, cover versions of tunes by Dave Holland, Roscoe Mitchell and Ornette Coleman. Recordings run the range of analog, so there is surface noise and some distortion, but again, these are the only recordings of these events so deserve a cherised place in the archive."-Eugene Chadbourne