Instant (album)

Instant
Studio album by The Ex + Guests
Released October 1995
Recorded At the Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Purmerland, Holland
Genre Jazz, improvised, experimental, post-punk
Label CrossTalk (US)
Ex Records/RecRec Music (Netherlands)
Producer Dolf Planteijdt
The Ex + Guests chronology
Mudbird Shivers
(1995)		 Instant
(1995)		 Starters Alternators
(1998)
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Instant is a double compact disc by the Dutch experimental post-punk band The Ex. The band recorded the album in conjunction with many guest musicians, notably members of Holland's Instant Composers Pool (ICP) for whom the album is partially named, the other part being that the Dutch term for "free improvisation" literally translates to "instant composition."[1]

Background

The Ex had long collabroated with ICP members and featured those recordings on the double album Joggers and Smoggers and on the box set 6 (The Ex album)6. Instant marked the band's first album of entirely instrumental and improvised music. Instant's 32 tracks feature shifting duos and trios of musicians performing on a wide array of conventional (electric guitars, reeds, brass, etc) and non-conventional (e.g., toffee-tin bass) instruments.[2] Though the entire album could have fit onto one 70-minute CD, the band formatted it for a briefer listening experience with each of Instant's 35-minute discs containing 16 short tracks.

Track list

Disc 1

  1. "If the Hat Fits the Suit"
  2. "Duo Rumpus"
  3. "Kloptimog Twist"
  4. "Baars vs. Karekiet"
  5. "Keng Lil Surf"
  6. "Duo Triptych Too"
  7. "Lip Up, Stump"
  8. "So Low, Solex?"
  9. "Skoplje Bop"
  10. "Buildance"
  11. "Bratunac"
  12. "Horsemeal"
  13. "Expoobident"
  14. "Slow Sleeper
  15. "Duo Loom"
  16. "Te-Au-O-Tonga"

Disc 2

  1. "Travel On, Poor Bob"
  2. "What Inflexibility?"
  3. "Bon-Go Tell You Git-La La"
  4. "Duo Variola"
  5. "Meanwhile Back in Ozone Street"
  6. "Smuiger"
  7. "Rusticles"
  8. "Atoll"
  9. "Exile O'phonics"
  10. "Danse Maudit""
  11. "Knit Knack + Zoom"
  12. "Oh Muted Foghorn"
  13. "Duo Tonebone + Hitgit"
  14. "The Turtle the Hare"
  15. "Karremans' Last Measure"
  16. "There Were Sonic Bangs in the Songs I Sang, There Was Nothing Tickling No One"

Personnel

The Ex

Various band members also play organ, accordion, samples + tape, djembé-springs, mbira, reed shakers, musical saw, acoustic guitar, double-bass, chairs.

Guest musicians

Recorded at the Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Produced by Dolf Planteijdt.

Notes

References

  1. ↑ Trouser Press article on The Ex
  2. ↑ Instant on The Ex's website.
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