Memory Serves

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllmusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[1]
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Spin Alternative Record Guide8/10[4]

Memory Serves is a 1981 album by the New York based No Wave music group Material.[5][6]

Track listing

  1. "Memory Serves" (Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn) – 5:08
  2. "Disappearing" (Olu Dara, Sonny Sharrock, Laswell, Beinhorn, Fred Maher) – 7:11
  3. "Upriver" (Billy Bang, Laswell, Beinhorn, Maher) – 5:25
  4. "Metal Test" (Fred Frith, Laswell, Beinhorn, Maher) – 4:30
  5. "Conform To The Rhythm" (Laswell, Beinhorn, Frith) – 4:30
  6. "Unauthorized" (Sharrock, Laswell, Maher) – 3:50
  7. "Square Dance" (Frith, Laswell, Maher) – 4:29
  8. "Silent Land" (George Lewis, Laswell, Beinhorn) – 3:48
  9. "For A Few Dollars More" (E. Morricone) – 3:51 (7" edit, bonus track on CD release)

Personnel

Material
Additional personnel
  • Sonny Sharrock – guitar (except "Square Dance" and "Silent Land")
  • Fred Frith – guitar, violin, xylophone (1,4,5,7)
  • Olu Dara – cornet ("Disappearing", "Upriver")
  • Henry Threadgill – alto sax ("Disappearing", "Unauthorized", "Square Dance")
  • George Lewis – trombone ("Memory Serves", "Square Dance", "Silent Land")
  • Billy Bang – violin ("Upriver", "Unauthorized")
  • Charles K. Noyes – drums, percussion, bells ("Memory Serves", "Silent Land")

Production

  • Recorded at OAO Studio, Brooklyn, New York. Produced by Material with Martin Bisi.

Reception

Writing in The Boston Phoenix, Howard Litwak said that on Memory Serves, "Material intersperses its potent riffs and explosive electric power with interludes of noise, musique concrete, and unaccompanied synthesizer blats. Overlaid on this foot-stomping sound — the rhythm section of bassist Bill Laswell and drummers Michael Beinhorn and Fred Maher wants to kick your speakers out — is a collection of first-rate jazzmen (Henry Threadgill, Olu Dara, George Lewis, Billy Bang, and Sharrock) who are willing to interpret Material’s music on its own terms."[7]

References

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  1. ^ Memory Serves at AllMusic
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 132. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Andrew Collis (November 1992). "Album Reviews: Material — One Down / Memory Serves". Select. EMAP. p. 95. ISSN 0959-8367. Archived from the original on November 5, 2024. Retrieved April 21, 2025.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hunter, James (1995). "Material". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 242–243. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  5. ^ Jazzlists: Elektra Musician LP discography, accessed March 20, 2018
  6. ^ Both Sides Now: Elektra/Asylum Album Discography, Part 8: Consolidated 60000 Series (1982- ), accessed March 20, 2018
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Litwak, Howard (March 9, 1982). "Material possession". The Boston Phoenix. Retrieved August 5, 2024.

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