Four Full Flutes

Deluxe wooden box with velvet lining. Double LP on red vinyl, audiophile pressing, housed in Nagaoka anti-static record sleeves. Also includes an original LP-sized extensive booklet and a 60x90cm iconic poster designed by Bruno Stucchi/Dinamomilano
Joining their broad efforts in building networks of context and understanding, spanning historical and contemporary territories of adventurous sound, Blume Editions is thrilled to announce the long-awaited first-time vinyl pressing of the New York based composer Phill Niblock’s seminal “Four Full Flutes”, restoring the album to the format for which it was originally conceived.
Created in collaboration with the flutists Petr Kotik, Susan Stenger, and Eberhard Blum toward the end of the 1970s, the album’s four compositions – “P K”, “S L S”, “P K & S L S”, and “Winterbloom Too” – belong to Niblock’s radical rethinking of the possibilities and terms of tape music and microtonalism, the effects of which continue to ripple across the field of experimental to this day. Created in full collaboration with the composer with newly commissioned liner notes by Bradford Bailey, David First, few artefacts of minimalism’s second wave have proven to have had such an enduring effect.