View basket “Black Unity” has been added to your basket. Everyday Madness Basil Kirchin SKU: JBH085LP Barcode: 666017339511 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Trunk Released Date: 3rd April 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Holy shit! If it isn’t three unheard 1960s and 1970s reels from the unreal and unreleased Basil Kirchin Tape Archive. Sublime pastoral jazz, autistic children screaming, spooky vocals, experimental tape manipulation and more from the master of such thing. HISTORY: The three parts of this new Basil Kirchin album come from three very different tapes from his archive. All parts were unreleased until now. “Pat’s Pigs” actually sounds to me like a Basil bird recording, slowed and treated, mixed with simple improvisation. But it could well be pigs. Pat’s pigs. This whole tape recording may have been an early experiment towards what was to become Worlds Within Worlds Parts I and II. A lot of Basil’s work was headed in that direction. “Electronic” – first of all this is not that electronic. There are elements of the classic Kirchin drone sound here, mixed with multiple and treated recordings of the autistic children of Schurmatt, along with Esther, his wife, singing. I remember speaking to Basil many years ago about his Schurmatt recordings. Esther worked as a nurse with the children, Basil got to know many of them, and became fascinated by the extreme musical noises they would make with their voices. This recording is not necessarily for the faint hearted, but makes for extraordinary listening, based on the fact this would have been made and mixed, simply as a classic and progressive Kirchin experiment, back in the late 1960s/ early 1970s. This also has untreated elements that would eventually contribute towards Quantum, his preferred version of the WWW concept. “The Suspended Fourth” comes across like a soundtrack, so it could well be part of what Basil called his “imaginary film music period”. It has a very distinctive and pastoral Kirchin style leitmotif that repeats along its glorious and slightly disturbed 21 minutes. It’s very well produced, possibly built up and improvised over a few days, could well have been an experiment, a pitch or just something that had to come out in the groovy studio. The tape itself states that this is The Suspended Forth with a subtitle: “The Musical Study Of A Mind, Part 1 Schizophrenia”. It therefore could even be something to do with a soundtrack he was asked to make for a mental heath conference for psychiatrists at Earls Court in the late 1960s (see States Of Mind, JBH005LP – the British jazz musical line seems like it could well be the very same). But who knows for sure? I shall continue looking in the archive for other possible parts. Before I go, the original title for this album and the artwork come from an empty tape box in the archive, which I think sums up all sorts of things about Basil, his awesome music and the tape archive all at the same time. More reel discoveries will follow. Thanks for listening as always. Artist Basil Kirchin Genre Jazz Label Trunk Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Pat’s Pigs Electronic The Suspended Fifth Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Jazz View Product Quick View Grachan Moncur III Evolution Jazz | Universal/Blue Note | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 19th March 2015 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Grachan Moncur III Evolution £14.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Universal/Blue Note SKU: 4717303 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th March 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Magnus Lindgren Stockholm Underground Jazz | ACT | 1LP Released 18th August 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Magnus Lindgren Stockholm Underground £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ACT SKU: ACT98461 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 18th August 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Django Reinhardt Souvenirs Jazz | Dreyfus Jazz | 1LP Released 10th May 2019 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Django Reinhardt Souvenirs £13.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Dreyfus Jazz SKU: 4050538483673 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Modern Jazz Quartet Lost Tapes Germany 1956/58 Jazz | Jazzhaus | 1LP Released 4th February 2014 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Modern Jazz Quartet Lost Tapes Germany 1956/58 £24.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Jazzhaus SKU: 101730 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th February 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin Jazz | Verve | 1LP Released 29th August 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin £16.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Verve SKU: 5383225 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bobby Hutcherson Oblique Jazz | Heavenly Sweetness | 180g, 1LP Released 4th April 2013 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bobby Hutcherson Oblique £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Heavenly Sweetness SKU: HS082VL Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 4th April 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Oscar Brown Jr Sin & Soul Jazz | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 28th September 2011 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Oscar Brown Jr Sin & Soul £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner SKU: EUROS8377 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 28th September 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Al Di Meola Twentyfour Jazz | Absolute | 2LP Released 19th July 2024 £32.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Al Di Meola Twentyfour £32.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Absolute SKU: 219621EMU Formats: 2LP Released Date: 19th July 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jack DeJohnette Sorcery Jazz | Craft Recordings | 180g, 1LP Released 11th August 2023 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jack DeJohnette Sorcery £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Craft Recordings SKU: 7244082 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tony Coe & John Horler Dancing in the Dark Jazz | Gearbox | 1LP Released 13th August 2021 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tony Coe & John Horler Dancing in the Dark £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Gearbox SKU: GB1567 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th August 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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