Bill Fontana | Sound Sculpture | CDr

Creel Pone | USA

a true pioneer to the form…
“Sound Sculpture” was originally released in 1978 as a vinyl only piece - now obviously long out of print, that highly sought-after and truly coveted original private-press LP has never seen a repress to this day …

Presented here is the faithful Creel Pone cd/LP-replica repress edition, and is a critical piece for fans of direct-to-tape experimental field recording compositions… circa 1978

“…a replica edition of the canonic American Sound Artist's first Private-Press LP, as realized via the Sydney EMI Custom facility plant in 1978 & covering Field Recordings & Sound Sculptures made around Sydney & Melbourne exhibited at the NGV in March 1978. Possibly misleading in its (early) use of the phrase, these pieces vary between raw documentation of acoustically-significant environments & events, presaging much of the diaristic work of the coming wave of post/"Broken-Music" world of Sound Works made primarily by Visual Artists with the remit of galleries & museum-spaces.

This replica edition covers every stray detail of the OG pressing on the outer panels, with blown-up detail of the liners & metholodogies on the inner ones. Absurdly great music; I've heard Fontana's name spoken-of in less-than-glowing terms more than a few times recently, largely due to how unknown & inaccessible this early material was... until now.

https://youtu.be/S8y9HU8Vih4?feature=shared

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