Los Angeles Free Music Society

"The unearthing of the LAFMS recordings is experimental rock history at it's most historical and hysterical - a completely bizarro and further-out counterpart to the L.A. punk scene." -- THURSTON MOORE

LAFMS: The Lowest Form of Music

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Forever Expanding Internal Horizons by Byron Coley

Lowest Form of Music review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire

Unearthed from the tar pits is a 10 CD collection in hand-crafted foil embossed box-set. The signed / numbered Artist Edition includes bonus CD with recordings of Rick Potts, The BDR Ensemble "Station Event" (BDR = Michael Donne-Bennett, John Duncan, Tom Recchion), Joe Potts "Chopped Optigan", Extended Organ (with Paul McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, and Tom Recchion). The Artist Edition also includes a Japanese translated wrapper around box. Comments from fans include...

"A bunch of hoodlums"
-Artistic Director for the Pilot Theater, LA, 1977, upon cancelling a show by Airway and the Doo-Dooettes

"LAFMS people have hybridized avant-garde, experimental, improvisational, punk, pop and even humorous stuffs. For Japanese fans, LAFMS has become a legend"
-Takuya Sakaguchi, Osaka

"Free ears and minds are one thing, but what about aesthetics?"
-Hal Clark, 1974, Electronic Music Festival Hovikkoden Norway, with regard to an L-44 piece

"I knew Varese personally and I know that you can control your dynamics, therefore you will play acoustically or not at all"
-Theater Owner

"Twenty some odd years later this music has a pre-technological poignance that accidentally imbeds it in history"
-Dennis Cooper

"It could be argued that some examples within this brown card box are the lowest forms of music. Personally I would make the counter claim"
-David Toop THE WIRE, UK

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