First Rehearsal Tapes (Vinyle) Leon Gast recorded between 1974 and 1976

recorded between 1974 and 1976 and released in 1976

exhilarating and unexpected

Steve Lacy

through Saddle Creek Records

First Rehearsal Tapes (Vinyle) Leon Gast recorded between 1974 and 1976Captured in 1975 on Alan Vega's two track recorder in a basement under Lower Manhattan's Greene Street, these recordings were built around Martin Rev's newly acquired Seeburg Rhythm Prince drum machine, whose primitive Latin style pulses formed the bedrock of the tracks. Rather than a sketchpad of semi formed ideas, the tapes serve as an audio diary of two artists measuring themselves as they headed further into uncharted territory, a raw, essential