PLAY LOUD / PLAY QUIET (1981)

With JOHN WHITE and GAVIN BRYARS
Cassette album

UK: ZG Magazine

(Side A) Play Loud (Hybrid Kids remixes & out-takes):

1. We Three Kings - edit
2. Coventry Backtrack
3. Emergency
4. D’Ya Think I’m Sexy - new mix
5. MacArthur Park - first attempt

(Side B) Play Quiet:

The music of John White performed live at the “Miniatures” launch party, performed by:
The Nordic Reverie Trio (John White, Gavin Bryars, Dave Smith). Collaged with recycled tapes from “Slow Music” by Morgan and Lol Coxhill.

ZG Magazine was a short-lived British magazine that covered recent developments in modern art and music, and a cassette came with each issue. For their third issue they invited Morgan to provide some music and he decided to use material that had been recorded in connection with two of his recent albums. The “Play Loud” side includes demos, remixes and out-takes from “Claws”. “Play Quiet” was a fascinating collage of remixed material from “Slow Music” plus six pieces by The Nordic Reverie Trio, who had performed at the “Miniatures” launch party. The trio’s music was composed by John White (a contemporary classical composer who had made an album for Brian Eno’s Obscure Records label), who also played, and the other two members were Gavin Bryars (now world famous for his lush minimal orchestral music, and a participant in both of the “Miniatures” albums) and Dave Smith.