Annea Lockwood is a hugely important composer, musician and academic from New Zealand. Her early sound experiments with glass were captured on Glass World Of Ann(e)a Lockwood, released in 1970 on the small UK Folk & World Music specialist Tangent Records.
Over the course of twenty three short tracks, Lockwood hits, flicks, rubs, strokes, scratches, shakes, saws and vibrates glass in all its forms (much of it provided courtesy of industry leaders Pilkington Brothers of Lancashire), coaxing out an enormously listenable panoply of melodic and atonal noises, some whimsical, some sinister - all interesting. It's a fascinating, stimulating, thought-provoking project which provides a deep and sustained dive into the innate musicality of an interesting but neglected everyday object, transcending its accepted form and function.
For what it's worth, it's one of my Top Ten albums, along with The Idiot, Station to Station, Tom Jones Live At The Talk Of The Town and six others I haven't decided on yet.
The whole album is on You Tube, Spotify and Bandcamp, where you can also purchase it, which would be a shrewd move on your part, and a nice thing to do.
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