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In Search of Spaces

by Flying Saucer Attack

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1.
Part 1 20:34
2.
Part 2 21:06
3.
Part 3 18:14
4.
Part 4 16:52

about

First ever reissue for this unique Flying Saucer Attack live album. Expanded with additional material and a new side 4 mix from Jim O’Rourke. Produced in collaboration with Dave Pearce/FSA and Bruce Russell (compiler of the original CD release for his Corpus Hermeticum label). New artwork by Bruce Russell.

While rightly known for the folk-influenced songs and spacey instrumentals of their proper albums, the briefly active live version of FSA unexpectedly delivered a blistering wave of electric sound. Recorded at various shows in 1994, In Search of Spaces heaves with long passages of feedback guitar racket, broken up by sections of surging rock music. The 1994 live band focused almost exclusively on visceral, trebly guitar noise - which while always a key element in the FSA sound, was greeted by audiences with total mystification (and often disapproval). Following a few brief attempts to settle a lineup and play songs from their records, Dave Pearce/FSA abandoned live performance altogether, leaving behind this album (and a barely available CDR) as the sole document of his in-person delivery.

Originally compiled and released as a CD in 1996 by the Dead C’s Bruce Russell, this reissue adds several minutes of music back to the original program that had been edited out by FSA for being “too rock.” For side 4, Jim O’Rourke revisited the original 1994 live tapes and has made a spooky and brooding new mix of music exclusive to this release.

credits

released December 1, 2017

Music played and improvised by Sam Jones, Debbie Parsons, Matt Elliot, Rachel Coe, Dave Pearce.

This release restores the full original analogue mix proposed by Bruce Russell in 1996 but declined and subsequently digitally re-edited for the Corpus Hermeticum release. This has been restored and mastered from cassette for this vinyl release by Patrick Klem (Sides 1-3). Jim O'Rourke has re-compiled selections from the original 1994 source recordings into an added side-long piece (Side 4).

Original source recordings by Simon, Rocker, Darryl, and the No-Fi Organisation.

Analogue tape collage of Sides 1-3 engineered by Tim Baird at rdu, Christchurch NZ. 1996, following a painstaking plan by Bruce Russell. Released on CD by Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes 018.

Copyright all. Grateful thanks to everyone involved in this release.

All photography by Bruce Russell (1986), taken with a Kodak Instamatic in Arran, London, Harris and Lewis.

Despite its height, the location of the London Post Office Tower was an official secret for many years. At one point Parliamentary privilege was invoked by a Member of Parliament in order that its whereabouts could be discussed in a debate in the Commons without risking prosecution. Regardless, it was the tallest structure in Central London.

In contrast the Stones of Machrie Moor are marked on all maps of Arran, where they have stood for two millennia, even though their use and meaning is utterly lost.

Scissors cut the thread of life. 'Futures and pasts': Neolithic-1745-1965-1986-1996-2016.

Harmonic 33 ...and the past, are not so far away.

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Flying Saucer Attack Bristol, UK

Formed by David Pearce and Rachel Brook, FSA's "rural psychdelia", a heavy mixture of krautrock, shoegaze, folk, psychedelia and atom-splitting guitar noise, commenced flowing out of Bristol UK around 1992 on labels including VHF, Domino and Drag City. Rachel left in 1995 to focus on Movietone; David soldiered on to the millennium before a long silence fell, broken in 2015 with Instrumentals 2015. ... more

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