Album title: Songs
Title: Permutations: Junk Is No Good Baby (Track 06)
Publisher: hat Hut Records, USA/Switzerland
Date: 1981, publ. 1986
Medium: record 30 cm
Cover: Brion Gysin
Performers: Brion Gysin, Steve Lacy, Irène Aebi, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Bobby Few,
Steve Potts, Oliver Johnson
The piece Junk Is No Good Baby by Steve Lacy and Brion Gysin, the latter considered the inventor of the cut-up collage technique, is conceived as a permutation: Gysin interchanges the individual words of the central sentence "Junk is no good Baby" to form ever new constellations and sentence constructions. Lacy does the same with the musical elements, swapping notes and chords and playing them in ever new sequences. The result sounds discordant, fragmented and choppy, improvised and spontaneous.
Lacy and Gysin recorded the album Songs in Paris in January 1981. In addition to Lacy (soprano saxophone) and Gysin (lyrics), the group consisted of Irene Aebi (violone, vocals), Jean-Jaques Avenel (bass), Bobby Few (piano), Oliver Johnson (drums), and Steve Potts (alto saxophone).
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Biography Steve Lacy and Brion Gysin