One of two reissues from the collaboration of Important Records and the Pauline Oliveros Trust, this album with accordionist Guy Klucevsek was originally self-released in 1986 on cassette, each side presenting a piece for two accordions, here with Guy Klucevsek's "Tremolo No. 6" on side A and Pauline's Oliveros' "The Tuning Meditation" on Side B.
Label: Important Records Catalog ID: IMPREC 471LP Squidco Product Code: 27846
Format: LP Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: USA Packaging: LP Recorded at Yellow Springs Institute, in Chester Springs, Pennsylvannia, by Werner Strobel. Originally released independently on cassette in 1986.
"Pauline Oliveros and Guy Klucevsek's "Sounding / Way" was originally released on cassette in 1986 and has been out of print ever since. This LP was cut by John Golden and pressed at RTI in order to achieve a quiet, dynamic pressing. The Sounding / Way concept was simple: Each artist would write a piece for two accordions and then they would perform them together. Thus, side A contains Guy Klucevsek's "Tremolo No. 6" performed by Guy Klucevsek and Pauline Oliveros. Side B contains Pauline's composition "The Tuning Meditation", also performed by both Pauline and Guy. This is the second release in an on-going effort between Important Records and the Pauline Oliveros Trust to maintain and promote the music, philosophy and legacy of Pauline Oliveros."-Important
"Obviously, the late Pauline Oliveros wasn't JUST an accordionist. But as a part of Important Records' ongoing collaboration with the Pauline Oliveros Trust, where the goal is to shine a retrospective light on the life and work of Oliveros, suddenly accordions are raining from the sky!
The stereotype of it being an instrument for nerds was only ever accepted by impressionable Urkel observers. Accordions are raining from the sky now, and the inevitable victims of a squeezebox bludgeoning have been predetermined by the unconscious level of smirk whenever the word "accordion" enters the conversation. Thus, regular readers of TMT will largely be spared, and the just-announced releases should prove plenty appealing as well.
Sounding / Way is a collaboration with fellow accordionist, Guy Klucevsek; and as far as I can tell, it originally came out on limited edition, basically apparational cassette in 1986. The release was a conjoining of two separately-written accordion pieces that were performed together, and its reissue is accompanied by Tara's Room, a solo Oliveros endeavor from 1987. That foray of accordionism has been reissued in the meantime, but not on the vinyl medium on which it's being imminently etched."-Mike Reid, Tiny Mix Tapes