Company – Epiphanies VII-XIIII [3LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic Teases of cartoon barrlehouse tickling

Teases of cartoon barrlehouse tickling on the keys of a farmhouse piano and tape melt psychedelia

"The Unlearning" is deeply meditative but entirely remote from ambient or minimalist clichés

It's a fantastically charged blend of ultra-propulsive ethnic drone

Immediately engaging while also hiding countless details in the folds of its polychrome fabric

originally released as a now (nearly) extinct cassette

Company – Epiphanies VII-XIIII [3LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic Teases of cartoon barrlehouse tickling"More buried treasure from Company Week 1982: seven previously unissued Epiphanies by lineups involving Derek Bailey, Ursula Oppens, Julie Tippetts, Keith Tippett, Philipp Wachsmann, Fred Frith, George Lewis, Anne LeBaron, Motoharu Yoshizawa and Akio Suzuki. Fred Frith is a stellar improviser 1974s Guitar Solos is still a seminal album of free improv and he has three opportunities here to showcase his considerable talents. Eleventh is a tour de force