The Starry Voluptuary Has Been Born, by The Unseemly Trio and Lol Coxhill

The Starry Voluptuary Has Been Born

by The Unseemly Trio and Lol Coxhill

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Recorded 18th March 2002.

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released July 18, 2020

Mike Adcock - Accordion, Guitar and Piano
Mark Browne - Percussion and collected objects
Lol Coxhill - Soprano saxophone
Steve Nash - Percussion

Collages by Daniel J. Gregory
Titles derived from Wallace Stevens

A long time ago there was a group called The Unseemly Trio – Mike Adcock, Steve Nash and myself (Mark Browne). I had known Steve since the early 80s as we both lived in Aylesbury and had organised a number of concerts there, including Lol Coxhill playing with us at St Mary’s Church in 1991. We met Mike at the Eddie Prevost workshops around 2000. Mike had played with Lol for some years and appears on The Café De La Place album. Mike and Steve may disagree, but I feel that we were at odds with the aesthetic that predominated in the workshop, and that it made some sense to investigate a different path outside that group. The Unseemly Duo, became The Unseemly Trio and there is evidence of us playing as a trio in London from 2000. We ran a club on Tooley Street, and later moved to the Rose and Crown, Blackfriars. I have recordings from these venues as well as the Klinker, LMC at Conway Hall and various flats and sheds. The concerts were deliberately theatrical with episodes of noisy vegetable eating, very loud sounds and sometimes played with only torchlight or by the light of Mike’s ancient electrical medical apparatus. A device from an age when electricity was thought to be a cure for everything. The atmosphere was more Dada than Surreal.

For this recording we booked the Red Rose Club on the Seven Sisters Road on a Monday evening and invited Lol to play with us. By 2002 I had almost given up the saxophone and didn’t bring one on this occasion, so there would be no saxophone duets developing. I haven’t listed the instruments I played on this recording but there were whistles, jaws harp, birdcalls, game calls, sirens (humming through), an airhorn, a starting gun, bones, friction drums, damaged tape players, two way radios that I used to create little feedback loops and nose flute. I can hear Steve using table tennis balls, noisy putty and a coin in a bottle.

There were two recordings made. One on DAT with the microphones placed by the stage to capture the piano. Mike and the piano were on the stage, the rest of us were at floor level where I was recording using a MiniDisc player. I wasn’t happy with my recording at the time. I felt the levels were too low and hoped the DAT version was better. Although I never heard the DAT alternative, I understood that it was not good, having captured too much of the piano and not enough of the rest of the group. I committed my recording to CDr filed it away and forgot about it.

Being concerned that CDrs may only have 25 year life span, I’d started transferring old recordings from 1998 onto my PC when I came across our recording from 18th March 2002. I’ve edited it, polished it a little, but it remains pretty raw.

Mark Browne 18th July 2020

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