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The premium edition of Musica Elettronica Viva's groundbreaking fusion of live electronics and raw improvisation is now available on 180-gram black vinyl. This first official reissue has been restored & remastered from the original tapes by Nick Robbins and includes a new and insightful essay by author & music journalist Kevin Le Gendre. The LP features the original gatefold sleeve and artwork meticulously recreated with a sleek matte laminate finish and comes with a double-sided insert.

Formed in Rome in the late 60s, the ever-shifting collective Musica Elettronica Viva included such luminaries as Fred Rzewski, Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum among others, and aimed to conduct the most radical experiments in sound possible. Although the above were primarily composers, they were greatly inspired by avant-garde jazz titans such as Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane and were intent on drawing on any sound source, from keyboards and drums to cans and plates of glass.

This recording is a masterful electronic music opus that retains all the heat and light of the kind of performance associated with a stellar improviser. Constantly changing shape and density the music veers provocatively between the distinctive curls and squelches of synthesizers and the crash and stomp of household or industrial objects that are amplified and manipulated to conjure all the imagery of a marathon piece of physical theatre.

This premium edition of The Sound Pool confirms Musica Elettronica Viva as one of the most original forces of the late 20th century. Blurring the lines between electric and acoustic, conventional and unconventional, their sound remains as bold and forward-thinking today as it was at it's inception-always teetering between the present and the future.