Gruncher Fried Rice No. 4 and Gruncher Fried Rice No. 5, however, seem to arrive closest to the SME exemplar, creating a sustained dialogue between the two freely improvising performers rather than working out individual lines simultaneously or alternating between leading and subordinate roles.
credits
from How Ya Doin?,
released January 1, 2013
9 Ascension Seven: Gruncher Fried Rice No 5 (Harvey) (7:43) Dave Wallace: electric piano, violin, flutes Nigel Harvey: drums, guitar, flutes Recorded: Stoke-on-Trent 1976
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