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...

https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-mw0001207989

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Three & Four Pullovers (1975-8) by Three & Four Pullovers | Steve Beresford, Nigel Coombes, Roger Smith & Terry Day, originally released on Quartz-Mirliton Cassettes in 1977 as Three Pullovers and re-released by Emanem in 2000.

Excerpts from sleeve notes:

“To very much simplify, it’s a cross between an SME tiny-elements-interlocking-thing and an AMM landscape.”

STEVE BERESFORD (1977)

The Four Pullovers was a somewhat occasional group that lasted from around 1974 to 1978. At times, Terry Day was unavailable, so the group became Three Pullovers, as on the first session heard here. This very fine 1975 trio session is heard complete. It sounds like nothing that had gone before, which is particularly remarkable when one considers that it was one of the earliest recorded examples of each of the musicians...

http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4038.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LpsS3ST5Do&list=RD2LpsS3ST5Do&start_radio=1

#SteveBeresford #NigelCoombes #RogerSmith #TerryDay #FreeImprov #Music #Emanem #FourPullovers