JOHN WHITE / GAVIN BRYARS - Machine Music LP Spiritual Jazz the town mayor (his father)

the town mayor (his father) streaming by as he dream-bicycles through his hometown

a former soundman at C

American primitive guitar

Written during the course of a few months

Perennial favorites and setlist staples like the album’s opener (“Vehicle”) and its closer (“Resection”) still sound as brilliant as the first time you heard them

JOHN WHITE / GAVIN BRYARS - Machine Music LP Spiritual Jazz the town mayor (his father)The Machines, which date from the period 1967 1972 represent a departure from the more traditionally narrative nature of the rest of my pieces. I use the word Machine to define a consistent process governing a series of musical actions within a particular sound world and, by extension, the listeners perception thereof. One might thus regard the Welsh Rarebit as a Machine in which a process is applied to the conditioning and perception of the world of