Robert Ashley - Automatic WritingLovely Music present a reissue of Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing, originally released as an LP by Lovely Music in 1979. Over the course of Robert Ashley's career his preoccupation with language and the voice took many forms. He became known in his librettos as a wonderful, funny, moving writer. But with Automatic Writing he examines language at a very "primitive" level the human impulse make sounds to express his inner state, whether it be regret,

an acknowledgement of forebears

Essential for all dancefloors

Jansons was against any attempt to make the music sound pleasant here - he wanted the orchestral barrel-organ to sound out of tune

Jann Wenner

releasing a neo-soul record that focused on new beginnings: the advent of fatherhood

John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band saw the New York outfit perform a selection of their own material and covers of classic hits including 'Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu'

Vu opens the album fixed on a force that recurs throughout

Yet those expansions and contractions

Younge & Shaheed Muhammad on this musical journey are drummer Greg Paul

witnessing the development of the Classical style and then Romanticism

and they present the young composers they commission alongside exciting and established music

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