laughing hands complete works
7 CD box
Mark Records 2024
disc 01 - ledge
1 metallic enjoyment series I
2 coital wreckage
3 untitled
4 ..................
5 three stains on a theme by cesar franc
6 knives like these
7 arc
8 ledge
9 metallic enjoyment series II
10 untitled
11 slightly higher in canada
12 fissures of men
13 metallic enjoyment series III
14 progress of the race
gordon harvey (rip) - bass guitar, guitar, effects
paul widdicombe - electric piano, synthesizer, effects
ian russell - guitar, voice, electronics
paul schütze - synthesizer, percussion, drums
disc 02 - dog photos
1 one
2 two
3 three
4 four
5 five
6 six
7 seven
8 eight
9 nine
10 ten
11 eleven
composed and performed by gordon harvey, ian russell and paul schütze
engineered by david chesworth
the sounds in these pieces are a combination of direct to tape and cassette to tape recordings
the pieces were assembled as they are here on a four track and mixed down at la trobe studios 1981
specia; thanks to david chesworth, thanks also to mark o'brain, uri kostyk, doug zweinenburg & vicki porter
originally released on the adhesive label in 1981
disc 03 - ee: the welder's bible side A
vibrate
1 guitar boats (recorded live in mono)
2 rowing over london
3 red ropes (saxophone - jenny beeston)
4 hammers (recorded live in mono)
scatter
5 five songs from the razor bridge
mixing - david chesworth & laughing hands
production - david chesworth & laughing hands
original release - 1981 as a C90 cassette on the adhesive label
disc 03 - ee: the welder's bible side B
picture
1 art blankly
2 white rain
3 my father's loop
4 blue doors and water
splinter
5 moisture
6 annunciation
7 swimming statues
mixing - david chesworth & laughing hands
production - david chesworth & laughing hands
original release - 1981 as a C90 cassette on the adhesive label
disc 04 - the luxury of horns
(as the invisible college)
1 the past revealed
2 the raining rooms
3 striking distance
4 between wars
5 aguirre
6 rumours of rain
7 against method
the invisible college are:
steven varese - guitar, bass
theo zenakis - percussion
frank tesla - synthesizer, tapes, drum computer
recorded at under music studios
thanks to chris wyatt for engineering
original released as a C60 cassette
on rash (decisions) 1991
disc 05 - nights
1 nights
trumpet and percussion sounds were recorded separately in
a large stairwell, the prophet parts were added later in our
studio and the whole piece was remixed at crystal clear studios
2 infinite summer
water and night sounds were recorded in private gardens
the violins have been processed and slowed down and the remaining sounds are synthetic
the piece was mixed in mono from 4 track, 2 track and synthesizer
at after dinner studios
it was recorded initially for an installation at the george paton
gallery in october 1982
original released as a C60 cassette on rash (decisions) in 1982
disc 06 - temporal archaeology
a four dimensional collage of unreleased live improvisations
gordon harvey - bass, guitar, tapes, effects
paul widdicombe - keyboards
ian russell - guitar, voice, electronics
paul schütze - synthesizers & percussion
from our very first iteration, laughing hands had a strict policy of
recording every note we played together
if we met up for a couple of hours to play at someone's house, it was all recorded
every time, without fail
often this was just on cassette, through the most rudimentary microphones
in later times it would be on quarter-inch, reel to reel tape
sometimes on a four-channel, cassette multi-track
the great majority of these recordings no longer exist though
some found their way onto albums as elements of future pieces
this collage has been created from the few that survived countless relocations and misadventures
while the methods of layering and imaging used here coulnd not even
have been imagined when our improvisations were first created
I like to think they have been waiting, in the circular time that art describes.
for the means of their extrapolation to evolve
I think the essential texture and the spirit in which they came about
bring the unmistakable presence of those original sessions to life again
over four decades since they first materialised out of the melbourne air
paul schütze - sandgate - 2023
this work was created exclusively for this archival release
disc 01 - ledge
1 metallic enjoyment series I
2 coital wreckage
3 untitled
4 ..................
5 three stains on a theme by cesar franc
6 knives like these
7 arc
8 ledge
9 metallic enjoyment series II
10 untitled
11 slightly higher in canada
12 fissures of men
13 metallic enjoyment series III
14 progress of the race
gordon harvey (rip) - bass guitar, guitar, effects
paul widdicombe - electric piano, synthesizer, effects
ian russell - guitar, voice, electronics
paul schütze - synthesizer, percussion, drums
disc 02 - dog photos
1 one
2 two
3 three
4 four
5 five
6 six
7 seven
8 eight
9 nine
10 ten
11 eleven
composed and performed by gordon harvey, ian russell and paul schütze
engineered by david chesworth
the sounds in these pieces are a combination of direct to tape and cassette to tape recordings
the pieces were assembled as they are here on a four track and mixed down at la trobe studios 1981
specia; thanks to david chesworth, thanks also to mark o'brain, uri kostyk, doug zweinenburg & vicki porter
originally released on the adhesive label in 1981
disc 03 - ee: the welder's bible side A
vibrate
1 guitar boats (recorded live in mono)
2 rowing over london
3 red ropes (saxophone - jenny beeston)
4 hammers (recorded live in mono)
scatter
5 five songs from the razor bridge
mixing - david chesworth & laughing hands
production - david chesworth & laughing hands
original release - 1981 as a C90 cassette on the adhesive label
disc 03 - ee: the welder's bible side B
picture
1 art blankly
2 white rain
3 my father's loop
4 blue doors and water
splinter
5 moisture
6 annunciation
7 swimming statues
mixing - david chesworth & laughing hands
production - david chesworth & laughing hands
original release - 1981 as a C90 cassette on the adhesive label
disc 04 - the luxury of horns
(as the invisible college)
1 the past revealed
2 the raining rooms
3 striking distance
4 between wars
5 aguirre
6 rumours of rain
7 against method
the invisible college are:
steven varese - guitar, bass
theo zenakis - percussion
frank tesla - synthesizer, tapes, drum computer
recorded at under music studios
thanks to chris wyatt for engineering
original released as a C60 cassette
on rash (decisions) 1991
disc 05 - nights
1 nights
trumpet and percussion sounds were recorded separately in
a large stairwell, the prophet parts were added later in our
studio and the whole piece was remixed at crystal clear studios
2 infinite summer
water and night sounds were recorded in private gardens
the violins have been processed and slowed down and the remaining sounds are synthetic
the piece was mixed in mono from 4 track, 2 track and synthesizer
at after dinner studios
it was recorded initially for an installation at the george paton
gallery in october 1982
original released as a C60 cassette on rash (decisions) in 1982
disc 06 - temporal archaeology
a four dimensional collage of unreleased live improvisations
gordon harvey - bass, guitar, tapes, effects
paul widdicombe - keyboards
ian russell - guitar, voice, electronics
paul schütze - synthesizers & percussion
from our very first iteration, laughing hands had a strict policy of
recording every note we played together
if we met up for a couple of hours to play at someone's house, it was all recorded
every time, without fail
often this was just on cassette, through the most rudimentary microphones
in later times it would be on quarter-inch, reel to reel tape
sometimes on a four-channel, cassette multi-track
the great majority of these recordings no longer exist though
some found their way onto albums as elements of future pieces
this collage has been created from the few that survived countless relocations and misadventures
while the methods of layering and imaging used here coulnd not even
have been imagined when our improvisations were first created
I like to think they have been waiting, in the circular time that art describes.
for the means of their extrapolation to evolve
I think the essential texture and the spirit in which they came about
bring the unmistakable presence of those original sessions to life again
over four decades since they first materialised out of the melbourne air
paul schütze - sandgate - 2023
this work was created exclusively for this archival release