Richard Teitelbaum with Anthony Braxton
Time Zones
Freedom (Germany) 1977
INT 147.304 (LP) One side coated sleeve.
sleeve : EX-(SOC, TEOC, light dirts)
media : EX-/EX-(some slightly noise. some light pop noise)
A 1977 collaborative album by American improviser Richard Teitelbaum, a member of the visionary experimental electronic collective Musica Elettronica Viva alongside figures such as Alvin Curran and Allan Bryant. Teitelbaum would later record an outstanding ethno-experimental electronic work in 1984 with Japanese shakuhachi master Katsuya Yokoyama and tabla player Trilok Gurtu. Here he is joined by saxophonist Anthony Braxton. The album consists of one extended piece on each side, with Braxton freely improvising on saxophone against Teitelbaum’s abstract electronic sounds generated with modular Moog and Micromoog synthesizers. The result is an extraordinarily deep, dangerous, and uncompromising collision of free improvisation and electronics. Braxton’s baritone saxophone on the B-side is especially intense, hitting with tremendous physical force.
A: Crossing
B: Behemoth Dreams