Steve Kuhn / Sheila Jordan Band – Playground [USED LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield It's far from a happy

It's far from a happy album and it contains no hit songs

driving its narrative in and out of the heights of exploratory sound practices

Designing an unbound pipe organ -- though emulating some of the mechanical idiomatics of the initial Pancrace church organ -- seemed the obvious way to gain more spatial control over a vast choice of places

Here variegated impressionistic electronics provide a fitting bed for a faultlessly dry five-part spoken narrative of undesirable company and parochial outlooks

Deux Filles was Simon Fisher Turner and Colin Lloyd Tucker

Steve Kuhn / Sheila Jordan Band – Playground [USED LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield It's far from a happyECM, 1980