BAILEY, JAMES - Dimensions

A few sealed, OG copies left of this 1986 private Canadian electronic/experimental release. "James Bailey is an improviser and electroacoustic musician, who has been working within the shadows of the Canadian underground for decades. Dimensions, privately released on his own Applied Science imprint in 1986, while sonically stunning, equally opens a schism with many of the standing narratives of history. It is an emblem and indication of a neglected context - the self-reliance, ambition, and DIY ethos, which electronics activated within the avant-garde. Where Punk has largely dominated our vision of the pathways away from the corporate hold on recorded music, there is another history, beginning far earlier, lasting far longer, and operating with more diversity, which begins with experimental and avant-garde musics engagement with magnetic tape and electronic process, following the Second World War. Bailey among the inheritors of this long arc - its movement away from larger studios, act