Ist - A More Attractive Way [5CD]

Format: 5CD
Catalogue No.: CORE21
Barcode: 5060446129821
Release Date: 4th June 2021
Genre: Indie/Alternative

A MORE ATTRACTIVE WAY is a comprehensive study of live performances made by IST between 1996 and 2000. This 5 CD set begins at the very outset of the group's career and features their debut concert at Club Orange in London and charts it's way through further gigs in London, Billericay, Norwich and Cambridge. The 20 page booklet contains written contributions from Mark and Rhodri, Jo Fell, Simon Rose, Nick Smith, John Butcher, Phil Durrant, Graham Halliwell and Chris Goode together with previously unpublished photographs. IST are - Rhodri Davies: harp, preparations, Simon H. Fell: double bass, preparations, Mark Wastell: violoncello, preparations. IST operate at such a pitch of invention they transcend the divide between art and science. Harp, upright bass and cello are played at the horizon of known technique. Simultaneously lush and abrasive, the trio push string sounds into new zones of strange beauty. Barbed bouquets explode before the ear, aural events that leave the imagination ransacked. (HIFI News & Record Review)

Disc I/ 23/04/1996 Club Orange, Dolly Fossett’s, Kentish Town, London 1. Vivo Study I (34.05) 2. Vivo Study II (11.36) 3. Vivo Study III (10.22)

Disc II/23/05/1997 Club Unire, Billericay Arts Association, The Fold, Billericay 1. Restrictive Parallels I (18.11) 2. Restrictive Parallels II (17.22)

Disc III/27/11/1997 Red Rose Theatre, Finsbury Park, London IST 1. Calm Magnanimity I (17.08) 2. Calm Magnanimity II (07.08) IST + John Butcher (tenor & soprano saxophone) 3. Trenchant Observations I (14.56) 4. Trenchant Observations II (11.13) 5. Trenchant Observations III (10.48)

Disc IV/17/02/1998 Red Rose Theatre, Finsbury Park, London IST 1. Orthographic Dissonance I (23.07) 2. Orthographic Dissonance II (04.25) IST + PhIl Durrant (violin) 3. Aesthetic Triage I (09.35) 4. Aesthetic Triage II (08.23) 5. Aesthetic Triage III (04.47) 6. Aesthetic Triage IV (05.20)

Disc V/ 24/11/1998 Other Sounds, King Of Hearts, Norwich* 1. Self-reflexive I (06.58) 2. Wstrws (Rhodri Davies) (05.35) 3. Ritmico (Mark Wastell) (03.00) 4. Self-reflexive II (05.40) 5. Sowari for IST (Phil Durrant) (06.26) 6.Intensität (Karlheinz Stockhausen) (05.06) 7. X-IST (Guto Pryderi Puw) (08.06)

30/05/2000 Cambridge Conference Of Contemporary Poetry, Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge 8. Generating Contexts I (20.33) 9. Generating Contexts II (05.55)