Tom Phillips, Gavin Bryars, Fred Orton – Irma [LP] Post-Punk / Alt. Rock Engineered by drummer Joe Talia

Engineered by drummer Joe Talia and featuring inspired arrangements and performances by his live band (plus various guests from Melbourne's fecund experimental music family-tree)

You can feel the weight of the moment in these recordings and can imagine a captive audience under the spell of this strange music that never feels overstated

Flirting with the cinematic through its depth of emotiveness and scale

At first this doomed atmosphere seems all encompassing

Door after hall

Tom Phillips, Gavin Bryars, Fred Orton – Irma [LP] Post-Punk / Alt. Rock Engineered by drummer Joe Talia"In 1977, for Brian Enos Obscure Records, I made a version of Irma. These notes arise from that experience and explore how the piece can be performed. Irma is an unusual scoreprinted on a single 50cm x 50cm sheet. Its notation consists of verbal fragments from Tom Phillips' A Humument, referencing libretto, decor and mise en scne, or sounds. These categories are arranged separately, with stave notation at the bottom. At first glance, it appears