PARAGRAPHS AND PRINCIPLES – a tribute to Cornelius Cardew

Production

Pour ce nouvel album “Paragraphs and Principles”, Officier! c’est Mick Hobbs, Felix Fiedorowicz et Bill Gilonis aux côtés d’une impressionnante réunion de 30 musiciens venant de 8 pays. Personne ne sait exactement comment ce projet est né – c’est presque une conspiration internationale, et certainement un secret bien gardé. Nous espérons seulement qu’après leur déclenchement, ces nouveaux sons féroces pourront être entendus par autant d’oreilles que possible.

TRACKLIST :
A1 Three Rules and Eight Points
(Central Political Propaganda Composition Committee, based on a Chinese folk song
arranged by Cheng Tan)

A2 Two Paragraphs
(Fiedorowicz; inspired by Paragraphs 1 + 2 of The Great Learning; music: Cardew; text:
Confucius)

A3 The Song of Ruthless Criticism
(Fiedorowicz; after a Chinese children’s song by Ru Yinhe and Xiao Fengdeng from the
era of the Cultural Revolution)

A4 The Song About Navigation
(After Cardew’s arrangement of a song by Wang Shuangyin; words by Li Yuwen adapted
by Fiedorowicz/Hobbs)

A5 The Croppy Boy
(After Cardew’s arrangement of an Irish political song)

B1 Moscow Nights
(Music: Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi; words: Mikhail Matusovsky)

B2 Make the Past Serve the Present
(Hobbs/Fiedorowicz)

B3 Winter Potato #3
(Hobbs/Fiedorowicz)

B4 The Telephone Song
(Fiedorowicz; after a children’s song by Kang Shouxin from the era of the Cultural
Revolution)

B5 The East Is Red
(After Cardew’s arrangement of a Chinese revolutionary song based on a folk song;
words adapted by Fiedorowicz/Hobbs)

C1 Fish and Ships
(Mick Hobbs; texts by Wassily Kandinsky and Otto von Bismarck)

C2 Albania, My Dear Comrade and Brother
([Chinese] Central Political Propaganda Composition Committee)

C3 Unintended Music for Ensemble
([Chinese] Central Political Propaganda Composition Committee)

C4 Red Flag Prelude
(Cardew, based on a revolutionary song with words by Jim Connell set to a traditional
folk tune)

All arrangements and sample programming by Fiedorowicz, except:
Three Rules and Eight Points: Pyper/Fiedorowicz, and Fish and Ships: Hobbs.
Produced and engineered by Fiedorowicz/Gilonis/Hobbs.

Additional engineering by Luc White (A4, B1,B5), Jared Paolini at Tempo House,
Baltimore (B2), Jeroen Visser (B1).
Mixed by Ben Hobbs (A1, A2, A5, B3, B4, C1–4), Jeroen Visser (A3–4, B2, B5)
and Martin Harrison (B1).

Recorded 2019–2021 in:
Anidri, GR; Baltimore, US; Basel, CH; Broughton Hants, UK; Exoghi, GR; Guyencourt, FR; London, UK; Sutton Coldfield, UK; Wenffrwd, UK; and Zürich, CH.

Mastered by Noel Summerville at 3345 Mastering.
Vinyl cut by André Pierrat.

Front cover installation by Mick Hobbs; design and layout by Peter Hobbs,
Design adapted for vinyl format by Jelodanti.

Officer! is grateful for financial support from Stadt Zürich Kultur and Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich.

Officer! is proud to dedicate this album to the memory of Joey Stack,
who passed from this mortal earth on 2 August 2021.

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