John White and Gavin Bryars
Machine Music
London, UK: Obscure, 1978
12” vinyl LP
Edition size unknown
Producer Brian Eno, Machine Music is the eighth release on his Obscure Records label, recently reissued as a complete box set. Side one features compositions by White and side two by Bryars.
"Gavin, Brian, Derek Bailey and I were playing two guitars each, simultaneously. I was probably the only one there who’d actually done such a thing before, but this was extremely demanding in an oddly cack-handed kind of way. Derek and I were already good friends by then, but the fact that Brian was playing those parts speaks volumes about his ability to try just about anything; not to assume that this was for a specialist.”
- Fred Frith, on his contributions to Bryars’ track "The Squirrel and the Rickety-Rackety Bridge"
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