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When listening to certain strains of contemporary classical or "composed" music, I have an annoying tendency to compare it to improvised music, thinking to myself, vaguely accusatorily/dismissively, something along the lines of "this just sounds like really good free improvisation, like AMM or Music Improvisation Company". Well, the first side of this LP definitely had me mentally trotting out that ol' chesnut, but here (as is often the case) there are a number of great compositional elements that would be impossible to achieve in a fully improvised setting, which satisfies me (but I'll be damned if the first 10 minutes or so *really* sounded like a free improvisation - I wonder what HL's take on that mode of music creation is... The liner notes here were largely conceptually based and didn't offer much insight into the nuts and bolts of the thing). The vocal work on side two reminded me (perhaps due in part to the tonalities of the German language) of the classic 'Hamburg '74' album by the Globe Unity Orchestra; this is a great LP that I'm surprised took me almost three years to check out.

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