THE PROMENADERS "BEGINNER STUDIO 1981"

 

Lol Coxhill, soprano saxophone
Steve Beresford, piano, euphonium, etc.
Peter Cusack, guitar, etc.
David Toop, flute, guitar, electric bass, etc.
Paul Burwell, percussion
Max Eastley, self-made-instruments (Arc?)


01. Medley  8:26
02. Rock Around The Clock  3:51
03. unknown title 2:59
04. Stranger On The Shore  4:55
05. Soprano Saxophone Solo  10:44
06. unknown title  2:49
07. Tea For Two  2:43
08. When You're Smiling 3:11
09. Play A Simple Melody 2:18
10. Guitar Solo  5:31
11. Medley  10:57


Recorded at Studio Beginner, Cologne on May 1, 1981.
(fm)

Note: the line-up is confirmed by a list of all concerts
held at Beginner studio on Walter Zimmermann's website.
Zimmermann was the organisator of the Beginner studio concerts.
But the instruments for the musicians are tentative and based on (educated?) assumptions (written before listening to the music).

PETER CUSACK AND CLIVE BELL ‎– BIRD JUMPS INTO WOOD (BEAD RECORDS, 1984)

A1. Gust
A2. Fishing For A Thousand Monsters
A3. Spray Paint In The Wind
A4. Red Ochre
A4. Bird Jumps Into Wood

B1. Paradise Style
B2. Searching For The Blue Hare
B3. Slate
B4. One Tongue Speaks As Two
B5. To Them The Cicadas Sing From The Ground
B6. Dontology



Peter Cusack, guitar, prepared guitar, bouzouki, environmental tapes
Clive Bell, flute, Chinese flute, shakuhachi, crumhorn, khene, balloon


Recorded 1983-84 at London Musicians Collective.

Bead Records ‎– BEAD 22

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PETER CUSACK ‎– AFTER BEING IN HOLLAND FOR TWO YEARS (BEAD RECORDS, 1977)

A1. Some Guitar Playing. Parts 1 And 2
A2. Some More Guitar Playing

B1. Maarsseveenseplassen
B2. A Dutch Landscape
B3. About Nice Dutch Improvisatory Music
B4. Recorded Near Tienhoven


Peter Cusack, guitar, tape


Recorded on various dates Nov 1975 - June 1977

Bead Records ‎– BEAD 5

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ALTERATIONS ‎– MY FAVOURITE ANIMALS (NATO, 1984)

A1. Sleeping Beauty
A2. Segue To My Heart
A3. Adios Half Cowboy
A4. Up In The Paint Cards
A5. Ça N'Est Pas Mon Chat; Je Suis Son Homme
A6. Thru And Thru
A7. Cat's Whiskers
A8. Calamity Joan

B1. Emus In The Zone
B2. Nopan Kissa
B3. A Horse With No Hooves
B4. Hank's Pantry
B5. The Old Coffity Pot
B6. The Burning Rosebush
B7. Yes Sir

David Toop, alto flute, electric guitar, steel guitar, drum machine, Casio Mt-68
Peter Cusack, acoustic guitar, bowed guitar, bottleneck guitar, prepared guitar, gatecrasher guitar, bouzouki,  effects, tape
Terry Day, percussion, piano, water bottle, alto saxophone, trumpet, prepared guitar, bamboo reed, vocals, effects
Steve Beresford, organ, bass guitar, turntables, whistle, tape, melodica, Casio Mt-68, flugelhorn, trumpet, drum tape, violin, vocals, crackle guitar, farfisa, univox

Recorded at the chapel of Villedieu, 3-4 September 1984.

Nato ‎– nato 280

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A TOUCH OF THE SUN ‎– MILK TEETH (BEAD RECORDS, 1975)

A1. Hundreds And Thousands
A2. Rosin And Squeak
A3. Strings Of Beads

B1. Geese
B2. Lickspittle


Simon Mayo, clarinets
Peter Cusack, guitar
Shelley Lee, dance


Recorded in 1974

Bead Records ‎– BEAD 1

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ALTERATIONS ‎– ALTERATIONS (BEAD RECORDS, 1978)

A1. Norwich 1
A2. Norwich 2
A3. Norwich 3
A4. Norwich 4

B1. London 1
B2. London 2
B3. London 3

David Toop, flute, electric guitar, percussion, fire bucket, water, plucked & bowed strings
Peter Cusack, guitar
Terry Day, percussion, cello, alto saxophone, mandolin, home-made reeds
Steve Beresford, piano, euphonium, violin, trumpet, guitar, toy piano, snapits

Side A recorded from The Premises in Norwich, May 13, 1978.
Side B recorded at the London Musicians Collective on June 22, 1978

Bead Records ‎– BEAD 9

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