MaterialMemory Serves

Label:

Celluloid – CEL N.Y. 5007

Format:

Vinyl , LP, Album

Country:

Released:

Genre:

Funk / Soul

Style:

Avantgarde

Tracklist

A1 Memory Serves 5:07
A2 Disappearing
Written-BySonny Sharrock
7:10
A3 Upriver
Written ByBilly Bang
5:24
A4 Metal Test 4:30
B1 Conform To The Rhythm 4:28
B2 Unauthorized
Written-BySonny Sharrock
3:49
B3 Square Dance 4:28
B4 Silent Land
Written-ByGeorge Lewis
3:50

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded AtOAO Studios
  • Mixed AtSorcerer Sound

Credits

  • Alto SaxophoneHenry Threadgill
  • Artwork [Cover]Thi-Linh Le
  • Bass, Mixed By, Written-ByBill Laswell
  • Drums, Bells, PercussionCharles K. Noyes
  • Drums, Guitar, PercussionFred Maher
  • GuitarSonny Sharrock
  • Guitar, Mixed By, Violin, VibraphoneFred Frith
  • Mixed ByFred Frith
  • Mixed By, Synthesizer, Tape, Guitar, Drums, Voice, Written-By, Other [Radio]Michael Beinhorn
  • ProducerMaterial
  • Producer, Engineer, Mixed ByMartin Bisi
  • TromboneGeorge Lewis
  • TrumpetOlu Dara
  • ViolinBilly Bang
  • Written-ByFred Maher (tracks: A2 to A4, B2, B3)

Notes

Recorded at OAO Studio, Brooklyn - N.Y.
Mixed at Sorcerer Sound, N.Y.C.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Rights Society: SACEM

Other Versions (5 of 32)

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
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Memory Serves (LP, Album) Celluloid 204 291, 204 291-320 1981
Memory Serves (LP, Album, Brown Labels) Celluloid 529812 1981
Memory Serves (LP, Album) Celluloid ILPS 9693 UK 1981
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Memory Serves (LP, Album) Celluloid 204 291-320, 204 291 Netherlands 1981
Memory Serves (LP, Album) Celluloid CELL 5507 1981

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Reviews

  • sklerici's avatar
    sklerici
    Best Material record, a dance that is pure joy to dance 'cause doesn't impone itself with brutal sinth sounds as it will be just a year after with the more acclaimed One by One album.
    • Gerolsteiner's avatar
      Gerolsteiner
      Comes with a celluloid inlay printed on both sides, pr pages!
      • cheriNYC's avatar
        cheriNYC
        Just incredible. So much going on. Hits you in the solar plexus , the ears, and the head. Then Henry Threadgill s in on "Disappearing" and you fucking surrender. Early masterpiece that was at the forefront of the no wave movement in downtown New York in the 80s-90's.
        • eleventhvolume's avatar
          eleventhvolume
          Bloody masterpiece. And then some more words to make ten.

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