"RADIO PROGRAMME
No.1 AUDIO COLLAGE" (CD)
Audio Collage
Loop 2 - Channel Rhythms
Interview With Sholem Stein
Sonota For Loudspeaker
Interview With Shorty Petterstein
Comments On The Indian Raga With Musical Illustration
Interview With Jocko
Informal Rhythm Session
Hallelujah, I'm a bum.
Henry "Sandy" Jacobs, the mastermind behind this fine collection of audio brain farts, satirical cut ups, ethnosurreal incursions and brilliantly assembled rhythmic loop studies, is a many headed creature of habit breaking. Should you ever have the good fortune to meet up with him in his strange and beautiful home sandwiched between the Redwoods and the Pacific Ocean in the hills of Northern California, you'd be in very good company. As you sit inside his peculiarly shaped primitive to the future, Gilligans' Isle styled abode put together with a variety of recycled parts -- road concrete, wood left over from a horrible fire that took his previous home and most of his personal possessions with it -- it won't take long for you to realize that his general amusement with life is in no short supply.
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In 1954, the call came in from Folkways. Would Henry Jacobs make a record of highlights from his "Music and Folklore" show? Henry jumped at the idea but what he delivered in the end wasn't exactly what Moe Asch (head of folkways) might have been expecting. Sure, he could have turned over a fine collection of straight up excerpts from the radio show but Henry put together this striated and stressed collection instead, a collection that, with all of its' inversions -- private experiments made public, public field recordings personalized -- remains as beguiling today as it likely was when it first came out 45+ years ago. It was after all, a pretty tweaked, sonic gestalt of sorts: to Henry Jacobs.
There was an overwhelming overexposure to obviousness, to non-subtlety, to non-vaguness like in cartoons when the rabbit is sneaking around and the music was going `do doot do doot do doot doot,' and all that I'd seen and heard so many times that I just had no appetite for it. So with this meeting of reality and unreality, there's always the possibility that, yes, `this is a real, actual interview and this guy is posing these ideas' because it honed that line of showing your hand and not showing it. "It was a perfect satire of what I had been doing on `Music and Folklore' for years."
You might think of this record like you might have imagined Henrys' home -- contoured, few right angles, naturally shifting temperatures from one room to the next -- and like his, it defies easy comprehension but always seems to give more than it takes away.
Dawson Prater,
September, 2002
"RADIO PROGRAMME NO.1 AUDIO COLLAGE"
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