Brilliant duo from underrated cellist Tristan Honsinger and Bailey. The latter tracks (7-13) came out on the brilliant Duo LP (INCUSLP20), and the proceeding documents some the pair's first duets - equally as captivating. There are parralels between this record and fellow sometime Parisian string pkayer Joelle Leandre's Taxi, but really, Honsinger's voice is like no other - there's less revulsion than Minton, and more slapstick. Bailey on Waiswich Crackle Box on track 12 is a real treat.

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"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. 

The Massy tracks are from that concert. The other tracks are from 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, August, 2002. 

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Derek Bailey / electric guitar, 19 string (approx) guitar, Waiswich Crackle Box on track 12)

Tristan Honsinger / cello, voice

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Tracks 1 - 6 recorded October 26 1975. Tracks 7-13 recorded by Bob Woolford 6th & 7th February 1976. Artwork by tony Monstrom. Design and layout by Tony Monstrom & Karen Brookman.

Tristan (Duo)

INCUSD053 - Derek Bailey & Tristan Honsinger - "The Shadow" from "Tristan - Duo"

Arguably the historic birthing of British Free Music. Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, and percussionist Jamie Muir formed the Music Improvisation Company in 1968 after Parker and Bailey met had met in Spontaneous Music Ensemble earlier. Essential. 

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Hugh Davies / electronics, organ
Derek Bailey / guitar
Jamie Muir / Percussion
Evan Parker / soprano saxophone, amplified autoharp

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Tracks 1-4 were recorded, in mono, 4/7/69 in London; 5 & 6 were recorded, in stereo, 18/6/70 in London. Previously issued on Incus LP 17 in 1976. Recorded by Bob Wolford. Post Production by John Haddon. Layout by Karen Brookman. Painting by Jamie Muir.

1968 - 1971

INCUSD012 - The Music Improvisation Company "Pointing" from "1968-1971"

This is an album of experimental solo guitar "haikus" I wrote in 2010. I was listening to a lot of Keiji Haino and Autechre at the time, and moving away from the band-centric, progressive rock music I had written with my old band Blue Sky Theory. 

It was something of a rebirth for me as a writer, and I was very proud of it... but alas, it coincided with a nervous breakdown and I never shared it with anyone outside of a few friends and family. I remember fantasizing about dropping it off anonymously in Keiji Haino's hands with a thank you note attached.

The title is a reference to a Yukio Mishima book/movie, and means "conflagration"

calligraphy rope

affection

the far west

marshes

rose hilted grievance

ballet

aftermath

The third release in a series of collaborations between Honest Jon's Records and Incus: a reissue of Derek Bailey & Han Bennink, originally released in 1972. The tussling vegetables in Mal Dean's cover-sketch somehow befit perfectly this extraordinary duo of Bailey and the great Dutch drummer Han Bennink. Recorded in London in 1972, Incus 9 was their second record (after an Instant Composers Pool in 1969), becoming a blueprint and inspiration for generations of free-improvisers. It is paired here with a brilliant session from the following year, with the same power and friendly combativeness, and oodles of creativity, technique, and humor. It's obvious how much they loved playing together. Newly transferred from tape at Abbey Road, and remastered by Rashad Becker. Available exclusively for download here. 

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Derek Bailey / guitar, voice

Han Beninnk / percussion, saw, reeds, brass, strings, voice

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Engineered by Bob Woolford (tracks: A.1.-B.3.). Mastered by Rashad Becker. Cover by Mal Dean

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INCUS09/HJRLP202 - Derek Bailey & Han Bennink "Improvisation III"

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