Alterations Live by Alterations, released on Intuitive Records in 2000.

Review by François Couture

During their decade of activity, the free improv group Alterations released only three LPs, with mixed results. The quartet (Steve Beresford, piano; Peter Cusack, guitar; Terry Day, percussion; and David Toop, flutes) used to perform extended improvisations drawing on every possible genre, with each musician intentionally trying to destroy what the others were constructing -- "irreverent musical collisions" in which "nothing was held sacred," to quote Day's liner notes. The result is a roller coaster of musical ideas, clashes, stumbles, and moments of genuine beauty cut short by illuminated stupidity; the approach and result recall some of Eugene Chadbourne's projects...

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