{"product_id":"lot-74","title":"Lot 74","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis iconic LP was originally released by \u003cem\u003eIncus\u003c\/em\u003e in 1974. Recorded at a private house in Catford, south-east London, the side-long title track is a masterwork: a twenty-two-minute, starkly personal, freely expressive, itchily searching re-casting of orders of rhythm and sound into a new, quicksilver kind of affective and musical polyphony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNever mind the guitarist’s championing of ‘non-idiomatic improvisation’, the poet Peter Riley gets the ball rolling in his identification of the various hauntings of \u003cstrong\u003eBailey’s\u003c\/strong\u003e playing at this time: ‘mandolins \u0026amp; balalaikas strumming in the distance, George Formby’s banjo, Leadbelly’s steel 12-string, koto, lute, classical guitar… and others quite outside the field of the plucked string.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe five pieces on side two were recorded back home in Hackney around the same time — with the exception of \u003cem\u003eImprovisation 104(b)\u003c\/em\u003e, from the year before (and issued by \u003cem\u003eIncus\u003c\/em\u003e in its TAPS series of mini reel-to-reel tapes) — opening with ventriloquised guitar feedback, and taking in some cod banter about colleagues like Mervyn Parker, Siegfried Brotzmann and Harry Bentink. Crucial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Honest Jons","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50479951970635,"sku":"1123023","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/139f652f-b231-40d4-9700-19e2effb1776_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727513839","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/lot-74","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}