"AMM music may initially seem impenetrable, but it sure as hell penetrates you. Soon the desired state is instilled in the listener; a rapt vacancy somewhere between supreme concentration and utter absentmindedness." - Melody Maker On AMMMusic, long tones sit next to abrasive thuds, the howl of uncontrolled feedback accompanies Cardew's purposeful piano chords, radios beam in snatches of orchestral music. AMM's clearest break with jazz-based improvisation concerned the idea of individuality. Initially through an engagement with eastern philosophy and mysticism and later though a politicized communitarianism, AMM sought to develop a collective sonic identity in which individual contributions could barely be discerned. In the performances captured on AMMMusic the use of numerous auxiliary instruments and devices, including radios played by three members of the group, contribute to the sensation that the music is composed as a single monolithic object with multiple facets, rather than as an interaction between five distinct voices." - Francis Plagne --- Cornelius Cardew / piano, cello and transistor radio Lou Gare / tenor saxophone and violin  Eddie Prévost / percussion Keith Rowe / electric guitar and transistor radio Lawrence Sheaff / cello, accordian, clarinet and transistor radio --- Recorded on the 8th and 27th June 1966 at Sound Techniques by Harry Davis and Jac Holzman.

Recorded at The Loft, Cologne on 14 October 1997 by Ansgar Ballhorn.  --- Keith Rowe / guitar Jeffrey Morgan / alto saxophone --- Front cover by Keith Rowe. --- Tracklisting:
 1. Addition - 20:08 
2. Dynatron with Electric Seats - 15:47 
3. Ballad from another Planet - 12.25 4. Savannah Heat - 10:42 
5. Teddy Bears in the Closet  - 7:02 6. Subtraction (recommended for radio play) - 6:51

The recording of a concert given at Rice University, Houston, TX, USA on Friday 19th April 1996. DL includes divided tracks and piece as a whole. With special thanks to Daniel Plunkett, Rob Forman, Jeff Filla and all the friends we made in Austin during our 1996 US tour. Recorded by Paul Winstanley. Artwork by Keith Rowe.  --- Keith Rowe / guitar John Tilbury / piano Eddie Prévost / drums --- "A stupendous continuation of the 90's AMM sound, ala previous documents such as Newfoundland, Live In Allentown and From A Strange Place. Shifting patterns consistently emerge; via Prévost's bowed percussion; via Rowe's distinct prepared guitar emanations that so distinctly verify the interior nature of electricity; via Tilbury's near-hallucinatory piano lines which seem to take on three dimensional status on this recording. Ultimately, it's AMM. Whose albums have been described as "alike or unalike as trees." This is another one, but it's not like the others. Music that you can play at almost any volume, at any time, forever." - Forced Exposure.

Dense, epochal cloud of unknowing. Essential.  "The only possibility is to surrender to the ebb and flow of the pervasive group sound, until, finally you are lost inside it, mesmerised by it. You notice that the detail in the music is fascinating, no less the overall shape of the performance, which remains just out of grasp, like a landscape too powerful to assimilate in its entirety." - Melody Maker  --- Christopher Hobbs & Eddie Prévost / percussion Cornelius Cardew / piano, cello  Lou Gare / saxophone, violin  --- Tracklisting:  1. Like A Cloud Hanging In The Sky? - 45:21 2. Coffin Nor Shelf - 45:36 3. Neither Bill Nor Axe Would Shorten Its Existence - 18:08 --- Recorded at the Crypt, Lancaster Road, London W11, 12th June 1968 by Bob Woolford.