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Alterations was a chaotic and intensely creative British quartet featuring Peter Cusack, Terry Day, David Toop, and Steve Beresford who were in action together from 1977 to 1986. Alterations’ music was entirely freely improvised from start to finish, with each musician intentionally trying to destroy what the others were constructing. Rarely would any group member stick to any one instrument during a song; often switching from piano, to drums, to saxophone, to electric guitar, to toys, to violin, to electric devices, and so on (even playing each other’s instruments). Unlike other free-improvisation artists or groups of the time, Alterations wasn’t afraid to play a beat (however brief) or to use guitar-stompboxes (such as fuzz boxes, flangers, and wah-wah pedals), or to constantly switch music styles from noise to ragtime to doo-wop to blues to bebop to rock, etc. Alterations simply played whatever they wanted to, whenever they wanted to. They released three studio LPs within their lifetime as a group, none of which were ever re-released on CD. In 2003 Atavistic Records published a CD compilation of live material from Alterations titled Voila Enough! 1979-81.
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