Pictures of a package probably from early 2023 which I never opened. Music appears to be Diastolic Murmurs playing with Furt and the record is Hospital Of The Soul (PSYCH.KG 501), hence the reason why it’s wrapped in bandages all white and white-oh. Address indicates this arrived from Richard Crow at the Institution of Rot Archive in North London. Adam Bohman is playing on it. The note from Crow here reads “Adam really wanted you to have a copy of this rare “London Edition””.
The music is non-specific object-based noise with electronics – Bohman’s specialty area in fine – ditto for Crow, who is credited with amplified objects, electronics and projections. Furt of course are all electronics – Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer, from whom we would love to hear more…we do glimpse Barrett now and again playing in Han-Earl Park groups, but what about his classical avant-garde compositions? Hospital as it turns out is a “classic” 1993 performance of that vintage…and was even recorded at a site of high experimentation and avant-magnetism, the London Film-Makers Co-op. Some lucky souls may even have heard it on cassette through Vintage Productions at the time. It would have had an Elastoplast stuck to the cover.
Now thanks to that German label that takes Komnmissar Hjuler seriously, we have this reissue – which already is growing as rare and collectible as the cassette. I think it’s got a CD and CDR inside the bandages. I refuse to open the package. I savour the hand-written messages in felt-tip pen. This patient will live forever in a bed of healing in my private wing. But you can stream it on Bandcamp and enjoy an amazing passage of slow, deliberative strangeness and charm.