Αναλυτική Περιγραφή
The very first Buchla synthesiser performance by revolutionary composer Suzanne Ciani
finally makes its fifty year journey from its switch-on New York art gallery to its long deserved
and discerning global phonographic audience.With this previously unheard vinyl pressing, Finders Keepers Records are proud to present an
archival project of ‘art music’ that not only redefines musical history but lays genuine claim
to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and
esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we have
come to understand it. To describe Italian-American composer Suzanne Ciani’s resurrected
Buchla concert records as genuine gamechangers would be a gross understatement. These
records represent a musical revolution, an artistic revelation, a scientific benchmark and a
trophy in the cabinet of counterculture creativity. This sonic installation album, alongside
her recently liberated WBAI/Phill Niblock 1975 sessions (FKR082), are triumphant yardsticks
in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial
musical moon. While pondering the early accolades attached to these golden era New York
recordings it’s daunting to learn that these records were in fact not even records at all.What exists on this disc now was a manifesto and a one-time gateway to a new world,
which somehow was only partially pushed ajar. Captured here is a genuine live act exploring
new territories with a fully performable music instrument. If the unfamiliar, modernistic,
melodic pulses, tones and harmonics found on these 1970’s artistic gallery collaborations/
live presentations (then soon to be followed by academic grant applications and educational
demonstrations) had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the widely marketed
work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita, then the name Suzanne Ciani and her
infectious influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of
our record.With the light of Buchla and Ciani’s initial flame Finders Keepers continues the journey through
the vaults of this increasingly celebrated music legacy, illuminating these ‘non-records’ that
evaded the limelight for almost half a century. You can’t write history when you are too busy
making it. With fresh ink in the bottomless well, let’s start at the beginning. Again.
