ZGA - [Riga] vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed) (Mega Blowout Sale)
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We did a deep dig into the lost warehouse to come up with these; they are new and unplayed, but they’ve been sitting for over 30 years and there may be small corner dings, seam splits from travel, etc etc.
These are the original issues on Points East, which was ReR’s pre-CD vinyl label ‘dedicated solely to new music from Central Europe’.
VALERA DUDKIN: Guitar, Percussion, Penny Whistle, Vocals.
MIKOLAI SUDNIK: Clarinet, Sax, Ring Modulator,
Keyboard, Iron Objects, Percussion, Vocals.
SASHA ZHILIN: Bass, Percussion.
MISHA YUDENICH: Drums, Percussion, Vocals.
tracks A1 to A8 - home live recording, January, 1988
tracks A9 to B7 - home live recording, March-May, 1987
Recorded without over-dubbing, in an ordinary city apartment in Riga.
“This is an extraordinary record from a group who build their own instruments from metal, springs, transducers, electronic parts, as well playing more conventional instruments unconventionally. Somewhere between electronic contemporary composition and a kind of subliminal rock sensibility that emerges now and then in surprising guises.
ZGA was founded in 1984. They record in a (16 square metre) sitting room, passing all sounds through a 10
channel mixer onto a 20 year old Telefunken. According to Viktor Mazin their ‘uncommercial music hardly has
more than two dozen iisteners in Riga, Leningrad and Moscow and it is not music well sulted to concert hall performance...’
The tracks on this LP were selected from 2 C-90 cassettes in London and remastered here an far as was possible. However, when faced with a choice between superfluous noise and the best overall sound we let the noise be. This isn’t a hi-fi record; it is the only trace of excellent and innovative work done as best could be in the circumstances of its making. No apologies but a word of explanation.”-Chris Cutler