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Keep Together - Fluxus & Neofluxus Part II (2CD + Booklet)
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The second instalment of Sub Rosa's ambitious Fluxus edition, following 2023's Stolen Symphony, Keep Together revolves around an unlikely protagonist: a broken piano, acquired by the Opening Performance Orchestra for live and studio recordings, and now left out in the open air in Prague to decay slowly. Around this damaged instrument, a wide cast of Fluxus and non-Fluxus composers wrote new works, gathered here alongside older pieces, finished compositions and scores still waiting to be realised, solos and ensemble works.
The roster reads like a Fluxus who's who: Milan Knizak, La Monte Young, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, John Cage, Philip Corner, Takako Saito, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Ken Friedman, George Brecht and many more, performed by ten soloists and four ensembles. Mastered by Gabriel Severin at Laboratoire Central in Brussels and in Prague, and presented with substantial booklets of essays, photographs and documentation. Double CD.
"In April 2023, there was released the first part of the Fluxus edition called Stolen Symphony. The year has come and gone and there is the second part of the Fluxus edition called Keep Together. At the centre of both parts of this edition was a broken piano, acquired by the Opening Performance Orchestra for the purpose of making live and studio recordings. During this time other new works for this broken piano were written by diverse Fluxus and non-Fluxus composers. In the spring of 2022, the Opening Performance Orchestra and broken piano participated in an event hosted by Mieko Shiomi. This was a new version of her early work Spatial Poem, documentation of which was presented at the 2022 Aichi Triennale in Tokyo. At present, broken piano lies in the open air in Prague and is subject to gradual decay." - Fred
Format
2CD digipack with 72 page booklet in slipcase. Limited edition of 500 copies.
Release notes
2CD digipack with 72 page booklet in slipcase. Limited edition of 500 copies.
| CD 1 | |||
| 1-1 | (Maybe) Sonata (1971) | 4:10 | |
| 1-2 | Mond-Glass-Fiber-Rohr (1986) | 2:23 | |
| 1-3 | Novelties (from the cycle Processes Mainly For The Space Of Mind) (1978) | 0:48 | |
| 1-4 | Piano Piece For David Tudor #2 (1960) | 0:34 | |
| 1-5 | CELLO WALKING - I. Walk The Walk (2017) | 2:59 | |
| 1-6 | CELLO WALKING - Præludium: Cello Slow Drag (2017) | 3:05 | |
| 1-7 | Triad No.2 (2021) | 4:32 | |
| 1-8 | Solo For Violin (For Sylvia Bussotti) (1962) | 3:37 | |
| 1-9 | Negations (from the cycle Processes Mainly For The Space Of Mind) (1978) | 1:26 | |
| 1-10 | Untitled (2020) | 7:52 | |
| 1-11 | In Memoriam Of John Cage (1992-93) | 3:07 | |
| 1-12 | Solo For Sick Man (1962) | 4:55 | |
| 1-13 | Destroyed Handel & Chopin (1981) | 6:58 | |
| 1-14 | GOOD JEW, After A Listen To Julius Eastman's 'Evil Nigger' ver. II (2021) | 12:01 | |
| 1-15 | Man In Field (The Sound As "Hero") (2020) | 7:46 | |
| 1-16 | Mozart Mix (Edit) (1965) | 3:00 | |
| 1-17 | Sky Music v. II (1985) | 3:06 | |
| 1-18 | Video Flag (1985) | 0:45 | |
| 1-19 | Peck And Pluck (2022) | 2:33 | |
| CD 2 | |||
| 2-1 | Rational Music (1987) | 31:51 | |
| 2-2 | Voice Piece For Soprano (Scream Against The Sky) (1961) | 2:57 | |
| 2-3 | Voice Piece For Soprano (Scream Against The Wall) (1961) | 2:46 | |
| 2-4 | Voice Piece For Soprano (Scream Against The Wind) (1961) | 3:21 | |
| 2-5 | Tabchiernchau (Für Sprechen) (1998) | 1:00 | |
| 2-6 | Foglie D'Autunno Lentamente Trascolorano (1983) | 6:41 | |
| 2-7 | Ha He Fu Hi Ho (1976) | 2:36 | |
| 2-8 | Tramp Sonate (2021) | 11:43 | |
| 2-9 | Water (1963) | 0:47 | |
| 2-10 | GOOD JEW, After A Listen To Julius Eastman's 'Evil Nigger' ver. I (2021) | 8:41 | |
| 2-11 | Zen For Record (1966) | 5:00 | |
