Description
Honest Jon’s Records present a reissue of Derek Bailey‘s Lot 74, originally released by Incus in 1974. Recorded at a private house in West London, the side-long title track is a masterwork: a twenty-two-minute, starkly personal, freely expressive, itchily searching re-casting of orders of rhythm and sound into a new, quicksilver kind of affective and musical polyphony. Never mind the guitarist’s championing of « non-idiomatic improvisation », the poet Peter Riley gets the ball rolling in his identification of the various hauntings of Bailey’s playing at this time: « mandolins &
