BD6: THE SCIENCE SET THE METALANGUANGE FESTIVAL OF IMPROVISED MUSIC 1980 VOLUME 2 (LP)

The Metalanguage Festival of Improvised Music brought together a scrummage of musicians who had previously recorded on The Beak Doctor/Metalanguage label.

The Science Set was recorded in performance on October 21, 1980, at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, a grand hall with lots of age and rubbed-off gold. We got the feeling, gazing from the stage at the high ceilings above the wrap-around box seating, that it was The Roman Coliseum. If we squeezed into our Lion costumes, we could make a night of it. The contests were in duos, trios, quartets, and an occasional solo: someone battling himself.

• BD6: The Science Set -- The Metalanguage Festival of Improvised Music 1980, Volume 2
  
  
• Derek Bailey: acoustic guitar
  
• Greg Goodman: piano & percussion
  
• Henry Kaiser: electric guitar
  
• Toshinori Kondo: trumpet
  
• Larry Ochs: tenor & sopranino saxophones
  
• Evan Parker: tenor & soprano saxophones
  
• Jon Raskin: clarinet, baritone & alto saxophones
  
• Andrew Voigt: alto & sopranino saxophones
  

• Side 1 (24:41)
  
• Cumulus: Kaiser, Voigt (4:32)
  
• Gabbro Scoops: Bailey, Ochs, Kondo (5:20)
  
• Lexeme: Parker, Goodman, Raskin, Ochs (7:08)
  
• Xenon: Kondo, Parker (7:41)

• Side 2 (27:08)
  
• Realgar: Bailey, Raskin (4:47)
  
• Carpus: Kondo, Kaiser, Goodman (7:45)
  
• Basalt: Parker solo (7:54)
  
• Applied Ions: Ensemble (6:42)

• Recorded in San Francisco at The Great American Music Hall by Bob Shumaker.
  
• Mastered by Phil Brown at Warner Brothers, Los Angeles.
  
  
• Produced by Larry Ochs in conjunction with Beak Doctor Records.
  
• Cover design and layout: M.K. Frank, Berkeley.
  
• Special thanks to Lee Brinkman, Tom and Judy Bradshaw.

Presently out of print. Inquire with the Main Beak.