Joe Jones - Solar Music Tent - Music & Performance - Vinyl

Editions Telemark offer a first-time vinyl reissue of Joe Jones's Solar Music Tent, originally released on cassette in 1982. Documenting an installation and performance in Hagen, Germany, Solar Music Tent, was self-released by in in an edition of ten copies. From the early 1980s onwards, Jones released a handful of these self-recorded music machine performances on tape under his own record label, Tone-Deaf Music. Most tapes came in a standard xeroxed sleeve with a handwritten title and instrument listing. A few, including Solar Music Tent, were released in combination with a book. Solar Music Tent was included in a red ring binder that held a handwritten photo documentation of the performance of the same name at Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum in Hagen on April 1, 1982, a handwritten music notebook, and an invitation card. The recording itself was titled "Solar Music #5" and was made on March 16, 1982, with the instrument ensemble of the Solar Music Tent at Jones's apartment in Düsseldorf. Comes in a gatefold, PVC sleeve; Includes A4-sized facsimiles of all original artwork; Edition of 200.