AMM
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Radical free/spontaneous music ensemble founded in the UK in the mid-1960s. Members have included Lou Gare, Lawrence Sheaff, Keith Rowe, Eddie Prévost, Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff, Christopher Hobbs, John Tilbury and possibly others.

AMM disbanded in 2022, after playing their final performance at Cafe Oto on July 30.

ALBUMS


AMM
Last Calls
2023, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings
AMM
Indústria
2021, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings
Formanex With AMM, Christian Wolff, Keith Rowe, Ralf Wehowsky, John Tilbury, Phill Niblock, ONsemble, Seth Cluett, Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro, Julien Ottavi, Kasper T. Toeplitz*
20 Years Of Experimental Music
2019, 10xCD + Box, Ltd, Mikroton Recordings, Fibrr Records, ,
Abstract/Ambient/Contemporary/Experimental/Free Improvisation/Modern Classical/Musique Concrète/Noise/Drone
AMM
Until The Next Time
2019, LP, Album, Ltd, Next Festival Records, ,
Free Improvisation
AMM
An Unintended Legacy
2018, 3xCD, Matchless Recordings, ,
Free Improvisation
"A" Trio & AMM
AAMM
2018
AMM
Spanish Fighters
2015, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings
Evan Parker & AMM
Title Goes Here
2015, File, FLAC, Otoroku, ,
Free Improvisation
AMM
Place Sub. V.
2014, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings, ,
Free Improvisation
AMM
Two London Concerts
2012, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings
AMM
Sounding Music
2010, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings, ,
Abstract/Free Improvisation
AMM
Uncovered Correspondence (A Postcard From Jasło)
2010, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings
AMM With John Butcher
Trinity
2008, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings
MEV* & AMM
Apogee
2005, 2xCD, Album, Matchless Recordings
AMM
Norwich
2005, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings
AMM - Formanex
AMM - Formanex
2003, CD, Album, Fibrr Records
AMM
Fine
2001, CD, Matchless Recordings, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
AMM
Tunes Without Measure Or End
2001, ,
Abstract/Experimental/Free Improvisation
AMM / Merzbow
Split Series #4
1999, ,
Noise/Free Improvisation
AMM
Before Driving To The Chapel We Took Coffee With Rick And Jennifer Reed
1997, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
AMM
Live In Allentown USA
1996, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings, ,
Free Improvisation/Free Jazz
AMM
Laminal
1996, 3xCD, Album, Matchless Recordings, ,
Abstract/Free Improvisation/Experimental
AMM
From A Strange Place (Dedicated To The Tokuoka Family)
1996, CD, Album, P.S.F. Records, ,
Free Improvisation
AMM
Newfoundland
1993, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
AMM
The Nameless Uncarved Block
1991, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings, ,
Free Improvisation
AMM
Combine And Laminates
1990, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
Tom Phillips (3) & AMM
Irma
1988, CD, Album, Matchless Recordings, Matchless Recordings, ,
Contemporary/Free Improvisation
AMM
The Inexhaustible Document
1987, ,
Experimental
AMM
Generative Themes
1983, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
AMM
The Crypt - 12th June 1968
1981, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
AMM III*
It Had Been An Ordinary Enough Day In Pueblo, Colorado
1980, ,
Free Jazz/Modern Classical/Noise/Experimental
AMM
To Hear And Back Again
1978, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
AMM
At The Roundhouse
1972, ,
Free Jazz/Free Improvisation
MEV* / AMM
Live Electronic Music Improvised
1970, ,
Abstract/Experimental
AMM
Ammmusic
1967, ,
Noise/Abstract/Experimental/Free Improvisation
AMM
Ammmusic

APPEARANCES +


Various
Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series Vol. 1
2009, 3xCD, RE, RM + Box, Comp, WERGO, ,
Free Improvisation/Contemporary/Experimental
Various
In Search Of Syd (Mojo Presents 15 Mind-Bending Freak-Outs!)
2007, CD, Comp, Mojo Magazine, ,
Psychedelic Rock/Piedmont Blues/Prog Rock/Experimental
Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew Memorial Concert
1985, 2xLP, Album, Impetus Records, ,
Modern Classical/Political/Experimental/Free Improvisation
Cornelius Cardew, Howard Skempton
Howard Skempton's Cardew Retrospective
File, MP3, 192, UbuWeb, ,
Radioplay/Contemporary
Various
The Meaning Of Within (Mojo's Guide To The Fab Avant-Garde)
2022, CD, Comp, Mojo Magazine, ,
Avantgarde
Various
Further Perspectives & Distortion - An Encyclopedia Of British Experimental And Avant-Garde Music 1976 - 1984
2019, 3xCD, Comp + Box, Cherry Red, ,
Avantgarde/Experimental/Free Improvisation/Sound Poetry/Post-Punk
Shots
Hard Copy
2018, File, MP3, Mixed, 320, Oath of Janta
Vessel
Fact Mix 460
2014, File, MP3, Mixed, 128, FACT Magazine, ,
Musique Concrète/Free Improvisation/Contemporary/Power Electronics/Punk/Noise Rock/African/Medieval
Shapednoise
Secret Thirteen Mix 086
2013, File, MP3, Mixed, 320, Secret Thirteen Journal, ,
Spoken Word/Contemporary/Experimental/Noise/Industrial/Jungle
るぅなん
きらきら☆げんそうきょう
2013, CD, Album, Lunatic Locus
Various
That Mysterious Forest Below London Bridge
2007, CD, Album, Comp, Matchless Recordings
Various
The Wire 20 Years 1982-2002: Audio Issue
2002, 3xCD, Comp + Box, Mute, Wire Magazine, ,
Spoken Word/Free Jazz/Abstract/Free Improvisation/Dub/Experimental
Various
The Wire Compilation Sampler
2002, CDr, Comp, Smplr, Mute, ,
Experimental
Various
Not Necessarily "English Music"
2001, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Leonardo Music Journal, Electronic Music Foundation, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental
Various
Ambient 4: Isolationism
1994, ,
Ambient/Dark Ambient/Drone/Experimental/Leftfield/Minimal/Noise/Post Rock
Various
An Afflicted Man's Musica Box
1982, ,
Experimental/Free Improvisation
Various
Disk Blue
CD, Comp, Promo, ReR USA
Marolo
Noise Retrospective 1913-2007
2007, File, MP3, Mixed, Unofficial, 160, Spannered, ,
Experimental/Modern/Musique Concrète/Contemporary/Drone/Field Recording/Industrial/Noise/Ambient/Avantgarde/Rhythmic Noise/Abstract/IDM/Glitch/Minimal/Illbient
AMM III*
BBC Studio, London, April 23rd, 1979
File, MP3, Unofficial, 192, Not On Label, ,
Free Improvisation/Experimental