Published
Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 21:17
- The campaign dives into '80s experimental music from UK artist Robert Cox.
RVNG Intl.'s Freedom To Spend offshoot will issue on vinyl four albums from the obscure experimental and minimalist project Rimarimba in the coming months.
Rimarimba was a project from Robert Cox, an artist from from Suffolk in the UK. With a DIY ethos and a "Pandora's box" of both mass-produced and home-built instruments, Cox used Rimarimba as an outlet for series of releases that explored, as RVNG puts it, "the parameters of a particular musical mode: one where minimalism is removed from its 'high-art' mantle." The label says it shares similarities with artists like Brian Eno (who went to the same school as Cox), Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Fahey and Moondog, with each album "a fully-contained world of trash and treasure, play and precarity." Besides tape releases, some of the music was put on vinyl, though nowadays those original physical editions are exceedingly hard to come by.
Freedom To Spend will present fresh vinyl versions of the albums Below The Horizon, On Dry Land and In The Woods, along with Light Metabolism Number Prague, a never-released album conceived in 1988, together as a limited-edition set, The Rimarimba Collection, next month.
Run by Pete Swanson and Jed Bindeman, Freedom To Spend launched early last year. Check out our Playing Favourites feature with Swanson here.
Watch two short films by Matthew Reed: the first inspired by real events in Cox's life, and the second an "audiovisual postcard" from his seaside hometown of Felixstowe, soundtracked by the Rimarimba track "Egg Foo Young."
Tracklist
Light Metabolism Number Prague
01. Glass Abbatoir - End
02. Man & Horse Music (V2)
03. Egg Foo Young
04. Adding Up To 256
05. Tom & Jerry
06. Why Do You Squeak?
07. Tallis Sleeps
08. Gaelic Progress
Below The Horizon
01. Steady State
02. Metal
03. Gone To Hell In A Small Bucket
04. The Melting
05. The One That Got Away
06. Ships
07. Bebag
On Dry Land
01. Do Wonders For Me
02. Tacky Travel Tune
03. Crash
04. Fairground
05. Down From The Sky
06. I Wouldn't Ask
07. Can't You Feel It
08. Welsh Water
09. On The Range
10. Gnats
11. Cacoughanation
12. Sick
13. Spirit
14. Foulground
15. Machinebeat
16. Beyond Pain
17. Not Enough Time
In The Woods
01. Spafft Moutafft Seeall + California
02. In The Can
03. Firedance
04. Bamboo Link + Couldn't Top The Demo
05. California + Saxes
06. Clearview
07. California + Bell
08. Gone To Hell In An Even Smaller Bucket
09. Xit
10. He's A Good Lad
11. Pacific
12. From 6 To 13
13. California + Guitars
14. Fitall Wall
15. Gone To Hell In The Smallest Bucket Of All
16. Few Parameters
17. Bamboo Duck
18. Hey! Almost Chinese Ain't It?
Freedom To Spend will release The Rimarimba Collection September 21st, before individual releases of Below The Horizon on October 5th, 2018, On Dry Land on January 8th, 2019 and In The Woods on February 22nd, 2019.
