Further Perspectives & Distortion/ Various - Further Perspectives & Distortion: An Encyclopedia Of BritishExperimental & Avant-Garde Music 1976-1984 / VariousThree CDs. A year in the making, Further Perspectives And Distortion presents a snapshot of the UK's experimental and avant garde music scene, observed through the paradigm shifting lens of the post punk revolution and bringing together disparate names from across the experimental spectrum. This is a long overdue look at the 'other side' of the freedom offered by the tectonic shifts in the musical landscape in 1976 & 1977. For all of the upheaval of

Hear Buck Owens and the band in session with legendary producer Ken Nelson

The B finds BRSB taking on the infamous Galt MacDermot tune "Space"

viola da gamba and basso continuo

Manu Dibango

originally on the Choice label

In 2007 Frank Peter Zimmermann was able to realize his long-cherished dream to establish a string trio

the spiritual adoration of nature in Dvorak's Silent Woods and in the Spinning Room

Then Loomis swoops in at all the right times to add an eerie sounding clean guitar break

dedicated to the memory of Peer Wyboris

which do not correspond to the cliché of the composer suffering under the Soviet cultural doctrine

As she writes in her booklet note: 'When Joseph suggested making an album of Russian songs

"Let Your Boys Be Country"