ELLIOTT SHARP

NOTS

  1/  Happy Chappie Polka                        (Sharp)                       1.37
  2/  TMI                                        (Sharp)                       3.08
  3/  Obvious                                    (Sharp)                       4.24
  4/  The Free World                             (Sharp)                       2.33
  5/  Escape Clause                              (Sharp)                       3.33
  6/  Carbon                                     (Sharp)                       3.26
  7/  Surdification                              (E#,Laswell,Miller,Noyes)     0.45
  8/  Loisaida                                   (Sharp)                       2.05
  9/  Transient                                  (Sharp)                       5.41
  10/ Irreversibility                            (Sharp)                       2.36
  11/ Just Like Here                             (Sharp)                       3.11
  12/ Filter                                     (E#,Miller,Laswell,Noyes)     4.22
  13/ Sample/Hold                                (Sharp)                       5.33
  14/ HM3                                        (Sharp)                       4.00
  15/ SP                                         (Sharp)                       0.44
  16/ T                                          (Sharp)                       2.18
  17/ LOD                                        (E#,Brown,Diaz,Linton)        2.50
  18/ SP(2)12/8                                  (Sharp)                       5.33
  19/ WB?                                        (Sharp)                       1.57
  20/ FSFSF                                      (Sharp)                       2.00

          Tracks 1-4 recorded by Ranfy Hui at Big Apple, May 21, 1980
          Track 5 recorded and mixed by Al Fierstein  at Sorceror Sound, New York,
            December 12, 1980
          Tracks 6-12 recorded and mixed by Martin Bisi at OAO Studio, Brooklyn,
            New York, July 23-24 and October 12-13, 1981
          Track 13 live K7 recordings at A7 Club, CBGB, November 8, 1981 - May 25, 1982
          Tracks 14-20 recorded and mixed at Plaza Sound, December 9, 1982 by
            Don Hunenberg
          Tracks 1-4 mxed by Doug Epstein at Mediasound October 13, 1980
          Produced by Elliott Sharp
          Tracks 1-4 co-produced by Mark Kamins

E# : voice (1,5,6,10,15,17,18), tenor sax (1,3,8), guitar (1,5,7,12,16,17), bass (1,4,5,6, 8,9,10,13), guitars (2,3,9,13), soprano sax (2,12,13,16), fretless guitars (4), alto sax (4), bass clarinet (4,9,10,13,19), fretless guitar (6,11,14,15,18,20), razor (13); Mark Miller : drums (1,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13), percussion (3,8), voice (7); Bill Laswell : bass (2,3,7,11,12); Philip Wilson : drums (2,3,4); Art Baron : trombone (2,3,6,9,10,11); Olu Dara : cornet (6,10,11); Diana Meckley : percussion processing (6,9); Charles K. Noyes : percussion (7,11,12); Michael Brown : bass (13,14,15,16,18,19,20), voice (15,18,19,20), guitar (17); Al Diaz : percussion (13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20); Robert Previte, Scott Jarvis & Paul Burwell : drums (13); David Linton : drums (13,14,15,16, 17,18,19,20); Gwain Gillespie & Neal White : percussion (13); Wayne Horvitz : synth (13); Chris Vine & Felipe Orrego : guitar (13); Jeanette Riedel : violin (13); Richard Edson : trumpet (13); Philip Johnston : soprano sax (13); David Sacks : trombone (13).

          1982  -  Glass Records (USA),  LP 020  (Vinyl)
          1992  -  Atonal Records (Germany),  ACD 3011  (CD)

Note : All compositions by Elliott Sharp, except 7 and 12, which are improvisations.
Note : Tracks 13-20 were not featured on the original Glass Records release.

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