A proper reissue of the 1976 Incus album from guitarist Derek Bailey and cellist Tristan Honsinger, primarily from a live concert at at Verity's Place in London on February 7, 1976, with two unusual studio recordings punctuating the album, an early example of their long history of collaboration and a great example of their intense, joyful, and truly free improvisation together.
Format: LP Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: UK Packaging: LP Recorded at Verity's Place on February 7th, 1976, by Bob Woolford, A1 and B2, recorded at Tangent Studio, on Janurary 6th, 1976, by Bob Woolford. Mastered by Rashad Becker. Originally released on the Incus label in 1976 as Incus 20.
The following album was damaged in transport and we're selling it at cost. All of the vinyl is in new (mint) condition, but the outer jacket has had some damage in the post. You can see the damage at the link below, just look for the album you're interested in from the pictures shown. The jackets are not severely damaged, but we can't in good faith sell them as new. If you don't mind a wrinkle, bend or cut and want this album at a great price, we're happy to sell it to you: it wasn't pressed to sit in a box at Squidco, it should be spinning on your turntable for you to enjoy!
"A reissue of Derek Bailey and Tristan Honsinger Duo, originally released by Incus in 1976.
Born in Burlington, Vermont, and conservatory-trained in the US, the cellist Tristan Honsinger moved from Montreal to Amsterdam in 1974, quickly linking with Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg and opening a long and fruitful musical relationship with Derek Bailey.
Recorded in 1976, Duo displays a performative musical approach already characterized by the lack of inhibition which would later endear him to The Pop Group: he is knockabout, exclamatory, explosively rhythmic; burping Bach and folk melodies with spasmodic lyricism, in amongst the garrulous textures and accents of his scraping, bowing, and plucking, and gibbering like a monkey; throwing out his arms and stamping the floor, grappling with his instrument like an expert clown, always tripping himself up.
You can hear Bailey reveling in the company, as he ranges between scrabbling solidarity and an askance skewering of his partner's antics, on prepared (nineteen-string) and standard electric guitars -- and a Waisvisz Crackle-box, for the garbled, quizzical, cross-species natter which closes "The Shadow". Throughout, the spirited interplay between laconic, analytic wit, and guttural, sometimes slapstick physicality is consistently droll, often laugh-out-loud funny; vigorously alert, alive, and gripping."-Honest Jons Records
"The first time I heard Tristan was when I joined a group of startled listeners surrounding a cello player playing on the street in Massey, a small town a few miles south of Paris. It was about then that I realised had there been no such thing as free improvisation, Tristan Honsinger would have invented it. I was in Massey to play on a concert made up entirely of solo guitar players; a situation obviously leaving a lot of room for improvement. It was to that end that I invited Tristan to play with me on the concert and it was my great fortune that he agreed and we've played together in all kinds of situations since.
[...] Duo, the record we made he following year (Incus LP 20) and date from a time when judicious editing, post production and allied techinical sophistications had not yet entered recorded improvised music, and are issues precisely as we put them out in 1976." - Derek Bailey