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a tribute piece to avant-percussion luminary Paul Burwell by Fergus Kelly, made available this very week on the tenth anniversary of Burwell's death <iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src=""></iframe> here's what he wrote about the piece, which is ruddy...

if i had a vibraphone / marimba / glockenspiel / xylophone in my living room and a pair of mallets i would never get any work done

ooh that bobby hutcherson is very pretty

classic bit of 20th Century bingety-bing-bong-tish - and short too

some joker's slowed this down by 50 percent

having it laraaaaji

i was struggling to upload that very cover, but it would keep coming out tiny postage stamp size.

i was struggling to remember his name another percussiony / sound installation chap called Max

Baschet brothers instruments and sound sculptures look better than they sound, at least judging by the records I've heard - they try a little too hard to make proper music on them. (Probably that's the fault of the Lasrys though, being proper musicians). Some good moments in this video though.

percussion but also the beating of air - spinning instruments

dull chimes and distant moans - from David Toop and Max Eastley's NEW AND REDISCOVERED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

the wonderful Annea Lockwood (Youtuber mispells her first name) and her world of glass

Blimey they are still going, or at least were still going, into the 21st Century

Bow Gamelan Ensemble longer version it was... interesting. a thing they did the previous year at the ICA was much better, far more overwhelming at close quarters, whereas watching Offshore Rig from the opposite bank you were some distance from the action the ICA thing one of the best...

percussion (metal bashing kind) and pyrotechnics! i actually went to see this outdoor thing on the Thames near Kew coming from the more Toop "invented instruments" / experimental-English end of things, than Test Dept / industrial-postpunk

pastry face or pasty face? the latter is truer, the former is a wonderful image i don't hink anyone had pony-tails during the postpunk era, but otherwise your stereotype is pretty on the money