Dear friends
Covid-19 is dangerously impacting the social-economic category of musicians. No concerts, poor political and social consideration, uncertain earnings. As a consequence, an ever-growing number of musicians, especially those from the experimental area, are trying to promote their music on BandCamp in digital format only. It is increasingly difficult for me to follow and review this incredible flow of music. I therefore decided to open this section on my blog Neuguitars where I propose music in digital format that I consider particularly interesting and worthy of attention. I hope you like it. Let’s support musicians. They need it.
Andrea Aguzzi
Educated Guess Vol. 1 by Dave Tucker, Pat Thomas, Thurston Moore, Mark Sanders, 577records, 2021 on #neuguitars #blog
LISTEN TO EXCERPT HERE:
soundcloud.com/577records/5833-1-excerpt-preview-educated-guess-vol1
Dave Tucker says that he brought this disparate group of musicians together for a live performance at London’s Cafe Oto last March on “an educated guess,” predicting that the artists—Mark Sanders (Drums & Percussion), Pat Thomas (Piano & Keys), Dave Tucker (Guitar) and Thurston Moore (Guitar)—would be able to create something extraordinary through improvisation. The condition of their encounter would later become the collective’s name, an “Educated Guess” and the eponymous title of their first release, the first installment of a two-part volume. The album is another experiment in chance: an eclectic composition of spontaneous performance, layering guitars over complex, sometimes-scattered drum arrangements, and punctuating the noise with distinctive electronic manipulation. Demonstrating their different backgrounds, UK improvised music heroes Thomas and Sanders, already on a few 577 Records’ releases, join forces with UK-based guitarist Tucker (a longtime collaborator with The Fall, Dudu Pukwana, Louis Moholo) and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth to create something deeply inventive and experimental, pushing the boundary of noise music towards a complicated, dissonant electronica. The album, released online and on vinyl, will be available on April 2nd, 2021.
credits
released April 2, 2021
Dave Tucker – Guitar and Electronics
Pat Thomas – Piano & Keys
Thurston Moore – Guitar
Mark Sanders – Drums & Percussion
Recorded March 4, 2020 by Paul Skinner at Cafe Oto, London
Mixed and mastered by Jeremy Loucas at Sear Sound, New York City
Image painted live by Gina Southgate
Graphic design by Sergio Vezzali
All pieces spontaneously improvised by Dave Tucker (PRS), Pat Thomas (PRS), Thurston Moore (BMI administered by Kobalt), Mark Sanders (PRS)
577 Records is an independent record label based in Brooklyn, New York operating since 2001
577 Records
Brooklyn, New York
http://www.577records.com
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