I don't know: I remember these Unknown Public collections arriving, one or two a year, and each one impressed anew. "I'll look forward to revisiting that," I thought, "and getting to know it better." A decade and a half passed and I never quite got round to doing the revisiting — until Music Arcades imposed this discipline on me.
And as I've now worked through fifteen "volumes" (01, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 — I undercounted earlier this month because I relied on Google) in a little under four years, I find I'm underwhelmed. Perhaps it's just because there are so many other ways to forage around in the nooks and crannies of contemporary music these days. Not that the area is overserved now, I grant you, but lots of opportunities for the curious to satisfy our curiosity.
Yes, that's a giant plectrum you can see in the fluxus-style box.
Details of this album at the Unknown Public site
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