Tom Phillips - Irma - VINYL LP
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- Genre: Rock
- Description: Between 1975 and 1978, Brian Eno's Obscure imprint produced ten LPs to document the work of virtually unknown composers at the time. These records continue to inspire both practitioners and fans of experimental, ambient and modern classical music.Irma-Obscure No. 9, the tag's penultimate -might be considered an outlier in it's catalogue, given that the album is presented (nominally) as an Inchopera,Inch complete with libretto by art historian Fred Orton. Yet when one considers that Eno included within the tag's small discography the works of Harold Budd, Michael Nyman, John Cage and Plenguin Cafe Orchestra, Irma begins to feel less conspicuous.Conceived by visual artist Tom Phillips-whose painting graces the cover of Another Green World-Irma is constructed from phrases from Phillips' book A Humument, itself a postmodern up-cycling of a Victorian novel that Phillips had found in a second-hand shop. These textual fragments were the basis for a graphical score, and Gavin Bryars was tasked with orchestrating the work. Each time the piece is performed, as Bryars states in the liner notes, InchIrma needs to be re-composed rather than realised.InchWhile on the surface this may seem to be one of the more accessible Obscure titles, Irma resonates as complex as anything in the tag's daring and original roster, utilizing clusters of cycling notes and Cageian strategies of indeterminacy to make a record that is profoundly and unexpectedly beautiful. The overall effect is a grand tour through several centuries of symphonic music-from Joseph Haydn to Morton Feldman. Album Tracks 1. 1. Introduction 2. 2. Overture and Aria InchI Tell You That's Irma HerselfInch 3. 3. First Interlude 4. 4. Aria InchIrma You Will Be MineInch 5. 5. Second Interlude 6. 6. Chorus InchLove Is Help MateInch 7. 7. Postlude
- Artist: Tom Phillips
- Title: Irma
- Format: VINYL
- Label: Superior Viaduct
- Release Date: 06/13/2025
- Genre: Rock
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- Product Name: Tom Phillips - Irma - VINYL LP
- UPC: 857661008575
Between 1975 and 1978, Brian Eno's Obscure imprint produced ten LPs to document the work of virtually unknown composers at the time. These records continue to inspire both practitioners and fans of experimental, ambient and modern classical music.Irma-Obscure No. 9, the tag's penultimate -might be considered an outlier in it's catalogue, given that the album is presented (nominally) as an Inchopera,Inch complete with libretto by art historian Fred Orton. Yet when one considers that Eno included within the tag's small discography the works of Harold Budd, Michael Nyman, John Cage and Plenguin Cafe Orchestra, Irma begins to feel less conspicuous.Conceived by visual artist Tom Phillips-whose painting graces the cover of Another Green World-Irma is constructed from phrases from Phillips' book A Humument, itself a postmodern up-cycling of a Victorian novel that Phillips had found in a second-hand shop. These textual fragments were the basis for a graphical score, and Gavin Bryars was tasked with orchestrating the work. Each time the piece is performed, as Bryars states in the liner notes, InchIrma needs to be re-composed rather than realised.InchWhile on the surface this may seem to be one of the more accessible Obscure titles, Irma resonates as complex as anything in the tag's daring and original roster, utilizing clusters of cycling notes and Cageian strategies of indeterminacy to make a record that is profoundly and unexpectedly beautiful. The overall effect is a grand tour through several centuries of symphonic music-from Joseph Haydn to Morton Feldman. Album Tracks 1. 1. Introduction 2. 2. Overture and Aria InchI Tell You That's Irma HerselfInch 3. 3. First Interlude 4. 4. Aria InchIrma You Will Be MineInch 5. 5. Second Interlude 6. 6. Chorus InchLove Is Help MateInch 7. 7. Postlude
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Between 1975 and 1978, Brian Eno's Obscure imprint produced ten LPs to document the work of virtually unknown composers at the time. These records continue to inspire both practitioners and fans of experimental, ambient and modern classical music.Irma-Obscure No. 9, the tag's penultimate -might be considered an outlier in it's catalogue, given that the album is presented (nominally) as an Inchopera,Inch complete with libretto by art historian Fred Orton. Yet when one considers that Eno included within the tag's small discography the works of Harold Budd, Michael Nyman, John Cage and Plenguin Cafe Orchestra, Irma begins to feel less conspicuous.Conceived by visual artist Tom Phillips-whose painting graces the cover of Another Green World-Irma is constructed from phrases from Phillips' book A Humument, itself a postmodern up-cycling of a Victorian novel that Phillips had found in a second-hand shop. These textual fragments were the basis for a graphical score, and Gavin Bryars was tasked with orchestrating the work. Each time the piece is performed, as Bryars states in the liner notes, InchIrma needs to be re-composed rather than realised.InchWhile on the surface this may seem to be one of the more accessible Obscure titles, Irma resonates as complex as anything in the tag's daring and original roster, utilizing clusters of cycling notes and Cageian strategies of indeterminacy to make a record that is profoundly and unexpectedly beautiful. The overall effect is a grand tour through several centuries of symphonic music-from Joseph Haydn to Morton Feldman. Album Tracks 1. 1. Introduction 2. 2. Overture and Aria InchI Tell You That's Irma HerselfInch 3. 3. First Interlude 4. 4. Aria InchIrma You Will Be MineInch 5. 5. Second Interlude 6. 6. Chorus InchLove Is Help MateInch 7. 7. Postlude
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