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Various Artists - Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music: 1930 - 1973

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"...one of those rare compilations whose desire to edify is equalled by its unabashed enthusiasm, and whose audio matches and sometimes exceeds expectations. Musically, it answers many questions about our history and poses still more" - The Wire, August 2007.

"Australia is a country that buries its past almost before it occurs in the present. A place with a more developed case of cultural amnesia would be hard to find. In the middle of all this, Clinton Green's Artefacts project stands out as a beacon of the kind of activity we should be having much more of. There IS a past there - one that we can be extremely proud of - and Clinton's project is one important way we can recover it. - Warren Burt.

Tracklisting:
1. Jack Ellitt "Journey #1" excerpt (Early 1930s)
2. Percy Grainger "Free Music (Reed Box - Top and Bottom Ranks - Thick)" (1951)
3. Melbourne Dada Group (featuring Barry Humphries) "Wubbo Music" excerpt (1952)
4. Robert Rooney "Duo 3" (1965)
5. Bruce Clarke "Of Spiralling Why" excerpt (1966)
6. Val Stephen "Fireworks" (1967)
7. Barry McKimm "Monotony for Eight Trumpets" (1967)
8. Syd Clayton "Yehudi" excerpt (1968)
9. Arthur Cantrill "soundtrack for Eikon" (1969)
10. Tully "Phsssst" (1970)
11. Felix Werder "Oscussion" excerpt (1971)
12. Keith Humble "And Tomorrow" excerpt from an Opera (1972)
13. NIAGGRA "Excerpt #2" (1973)
14. Ron Nagorcka "Apathetic Anomaly 2" excerpt (1973)

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