Musicking, by Rex Casswell

Musicking

by Rex Casswell

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	1.	Mum's Duster 03:09
	2.	Boyes's Cork and Needle Preparation 01:21
	3.	Rubber Headed Beater Creeper 07:09
	4.	Paper Folderphone 05:25
	5.	Misappropriated Swizzle Stick 04:38
	6.	Stor Bambus Strikkepind 04:43
	7.	Red Necked Knitting Needle 02:03
	8.	Squiggle Wiggle Writer 06:10

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Rex Casswell electric guitar, objects

The title 'Musicking' was inadvertently suggested by my father.
He had a habit of ‘verbing’ quite unexpected words (asking a piano playing friend of mine if she was still ‘pianisting’ was a particularly memorable example).
For many years I had thought this was something quite particular to him until last year, while visiting my hometown of Louth, an old school acquaintance asked me if I was still ‘musicking’.
Later I discovered that the musicologist Christopher Small had used the word ‘musicking’ to emphasise that music is a process not an object, an idea that seems particularly appropriate to the practice of musical improvisation.
[Rex Casswell]

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released January 23, 2023

recorded 08 and 09 August 2022 at the Sweet Factory, Louth, Lincolnshire using 'Harvey' Benton HB-35Plus, Berhinger CS400 Compressor, Berhinger EQ700 Graphic Equaliser

recording and microphone concept by Dave Formula
produced by Rex Casswell and Dave Formula

Robert Ivan Casswell (1933 - 2019)

Portrait of the Guitarist as a Young Man drawing by Phillip Marks

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