tell me about los angeles free music society/le forte four/doo-dooettes

Juan Gomez parts with his music collection.

http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2016/10/amoeba-music/avant-garde-music-collection-arrives-at-amoeba-hollywood-october-22.html

I was looking for this thread yesterday! They have another insane box set, new stuff:

https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/upcoming/products/los-angeles-free-music-society-lafms-box-box-13xlp?mc_cid=a2c026fc30&mc_eid=339cebe4f6

They're also doing something at the Armory in Pasadena tomorrow that I will go to. Follow the link to their fb page I posted in July.

Los Angeles Free Music Society: the west coast's own Radiophonic Workshop

Another article.

https://frieze.com/article/rest-was-noise

Late notice, but Airway and more are playing at Zebulon tonight.

https://www.facebook.com/events/712621745898356/

Dennis Duck Goes Disco is fantastic.

― Tim Ellison, Thursday, March 1, 2007 12:00 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's true. and the reissue 2xLP is available on the secondhand market for under ten dollars !

LAFMS is pretty spotty stuff. They've been very good at mythologizing themselves. Some of it's wondrously good.

although i'm far from hearing their entire recorded output, this is pretty much the impression i have, especially listening to the "blorp essette" 4xCD comp just now. some of it is really good, some of it is fine.

byron coley blurb upthread kinda makes me want to barf

kinda related, but this single from 82 by the band Stillife is amazing – great Can rip a-side (Rubrica)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsOtHTpbeP8

and a great Glass/Reich-lite piece on the b-side (sounds eerily like Keith Fullerton Whitman circa Multiples)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veryZdGhfec

Tom Recchion and Dennis Duck play on it

I'm seeing on the LAFMS facebook page that Ace Farren Ford of the Los Angeles Free Music Society scene has passed away.