Tony Bevan, Gregg Kingston, Matt Lewis

1988 release ** "This is what you get when you put three nutcases like Tony Bevan, Greg Kingston, and Matt Lewis in a room together with their instruments and a case full of toys to play with and turn the tape machine on. Actually, it was recorded live in 1988, so there was the concert's respectability to hold them back somewhat, but not much. This is free improvisation completely realized, articulated, and cacophonously executed in front of a live audience by a group of musical troublemakers who sound like they had a ball turning every new music cliché on its ear. They created some compelling music while they were at it, too. Bevan's tenor is perhaps the most startling thing here since it's the only thing he brought with him to play with. He moves through multiphonic labyrinths and timbral manipulations of scale and dimension and plays a load of tricks on his mates to get the right thing to come out of the horn. With Kingston moving from the electric guitar (which never screams) to recorder and turning taped loops on and off and fooling with children's toys -- either to enhance the proceedings or annoy both audience and his bandmates, it's not clear which -- and Matt Lewis' percussion and birdcalls (not to mention a drum made from a cello), these infernal pieces all bleed into one another and make a racket not unlike the Clusone 3. Going into specifics is ridiculous because the music changes immediately upon perception. "