LaDonna Smith, Davey Williams, Theodore Bowen – Folk Music [LP] (1978, Trans Museq)

LaDonna Smith has performed improvised music internationally since the 1970s as violinist, violist and vocalist, while also teaching music in Birmingham, Alabama. With long-time collaborator, guitarist Davey Williams, Smith has toured North America and Europe, and Russia, appearing at every major improvisation festival, and many new music festivals. The classically trained musician has also performed with such major improvisers as Peter Brotzmann, Anne LeBaron, Derek Bailey and Eugene Chadbourne. In addition to her work as a musician, Smith is co-editor of The Improviser, an international journal of free improvisation, and works as a visual artist, exhibiting her drawings and ceramics in the U.S. 

 
Evolving and setting forth the hypotheses in 1976 that free improvisation was indeed a folk music based on community friendships and the playground of musical explorations, thus the title of the recorded pieces on trans second album, 'Folk Music'. As a trio, Davey, LaDonna and Ted played weekly, but gigged together only once or twice. Side One features one of those rare gigs, live at Leigh Gallery in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday January 1978. Side Two features four recordings recorded at the Trans studio in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (1977-78). [SOURCE: LADONNA SMITH]

 

 

Label: Trans Museq – trans museq 2 

Format: Vinyl, LP 

Country: US 

Released: 1978 

Style: Free Improvisation 

 

Tracklist:

A1 Untitled 6:33 

A2 Untitled 9:30 

A3 Untitled 1:20 

B1 Untitled 5:45 

B2 Ditches And Cheesecake 5:50 

B3 To Tristan Tzara 5:30 

B4 Mishum 1:30 

 

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