Name: Irida Records: Hybrid Musics from Texas and Beyond, 1979-1986
Brand: Jerry Hunt / Various Artists

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BFBX003LP

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black

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Box Includes detailed essay on on the label by Lawrence Kumpf and Tyler Maxin, Archival materials, ephemera

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-10-07

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Signed copies: No

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785034477119

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Artist

Jerry Hunt / Various Artists

Genre GB

Modern Composition

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Blank Forms Editions

Irida Associates U.S.A., an obscure and short-lived record label formed by composer-performer Jerry Hunt, offers a glimpse into the revelatory world of new music and composition in the artist's native Third Coast. Based first in Dallas and later in Hunt's home outside the rural town of Canton, Texas, Irida presented the innovative and daring experiments into aleatoric methods, environmental acoustics, improvisation, homemade technologies, and more pursued by Hunt and his select collaborators, primarily working in or near Texas between 1979 and 1986. Irida's brief and compact output seven non-sequentially numbered LPs released in unknown quantities shared work by artists whose practices often challenged the limitations of vinyl recording. Hunt called the label a "vanity project" and frequently talked of a tax loophole he could claim if it all went belly up, but in its short lifespan Irida captured a tremendous period of creative experimentation by the artist and his friends and collaborators. 

This boxed set gathers Irida's complete discography for the first time. These records include early attempts by Hunt to record his generative and highly permutable scores and performances on vinyl in Cantegral Segment(s) 16.17.18.19. / Transform (Stream) / Transphalba / Volta (Kernel), as well as his only composition for piano, Lattice, on Texas Music (both records 1979).

The label distributed solo and group recordings by those in Hunt's circle as well, including Larry Austin's electroacoustic, syncretic compositions in Hybrid Musics; James Fulkerson's unique, extended techniques for the trombone on Works; a fusion of three overlaid compositions in Dary John Mizelle's Music of Dary John Mizelle; spontaneous pieces and riff-based "character improvisations" in Music of BL Lacerta by the four piece "orchestra in miniature" BL Lacerta Improvisation Quartet; and experiments in compositional "mapping" by external structures in Cartography, featuring Austin, Gene De Lisa, Robert Michael Keefe, and Rodney Waschka II. Accompanying the boxed set is a richly-illustrated reader with a detailed essay on on the label by Lawrence Kumpf and Tyler Maxin; never-before-published archival materials; newly commissioned reflections by Fulkerson and the composer Jerry Willingham; as well as an interview with Hunt and ephemera including album and concert reviews, artworks, posters and flyers, and correspondences from the musicians and composers involved. 

Contents : Irida 0026 / BF029: Texas Music (1979), Jerry Hunt / Philip Krumm / Jerry Willingham; Irida 0032 / BF030: Cantegral Segment(s) 16.17.18.19. / Transform (Stream) / Transphalba / Volta (Kernel) (1979), Jerry Hunt; Irida 0017 / BF031: Works (1980), James Fulkerson; Irida 0022 / BF032: Hybrid Musics: Four Compositions (1980), Larry Austin; Irida 0009 / BF034: Music of BL Lacerta (1981), BL Lacerta; Irida 007 / BF035: Cartography (1986), Larry Austin / Gene De Lisa / Robert Michael Keefe / Rodney Waschka II

Irida Records: Hybrid Musics from Texas and Beyond, 1979-1986

Music GB