{"product_id":"allan-bryant-space-guitars-2lp","title":"Allan Bryant - Space Guitars (2LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in 1977 and expanded for a 1995 edition by Musica Elettronica Viva founder member Allan Bryant, 'Space Guitars' uses no electronics, Bryant instead prepares and plays his modified instruments to remodel the sound into unclassifiable waves, clusters of bleeps and insectoid chirps.\nBryant wasn't averse to electronic music - he started an influential electronic improv act with Alvin Curran, after all - but he didn't want to rely on synths to make \"fascinating new and completely different sounds.\" And 'Space Guitars' collects studies he made specifically for guitar, whether it immediately sounds like it or not. The title track alone is mindbogglingly unique, making Derek Bailey and Fred Frith's prepared jammers sound almost pedestrian in comparison. We're not completely sure what Bryant is doing, but using only amplification and his arsenal of instruments, he creates sounds with as much variance and texture as a room filled with synthesizers, constantly modifying the pitch and any identifying sonic markers to prevent us from hearing anything that might be too straightforward.\n\nIt's hard to believe 'Bouncing People Planet' isn't firing from a rack of modules; the way Bryant stacks his ping-ponging string sounds is undoubtedly inspired by synth methodologies and the sound itself is confounding, dense and rhythmic in ways you struggle to comprehend. Best of all though is 'Space Train', where Bryant makes his guitar sound like one of Alan Lamb's legendary aeolian harps, stretching its strings to make it mimic train wheels moving across miles of track.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 373px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4087827803\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u0026lt;a href=\u0026quot;https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/space-guitars\u0026quot;\u0026gt;Space Guitars Allan Bryant\u0026lt;\/a\u0026gt;\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49887702483203,"sku":"DEATH137LP","price":6774.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/a3697260478_10.jpg?v=1792292811","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/allan-bryant-space-guitars-2lp","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}