Early Worm - Vinyle Bleu Marbre

Description

Summer 1968. At 18 years old, Genesis P-Orridge (then Neil Andrew Megson) locked themselves away in an attic in suburban Solihull with some friends, armed with rudimentary equipment, to record raw and experimental sound fragments. From these sessions emerged Early Worm, the first testament to a mind already focused on the most radical avant-garde. Only one acetate copy was pressed in 1969, quickly lost, then rediscovered decades later in the artist's personal archives. These recordings, influenced by psychedelia, Fluxus, John Cage, and the beatnik spirit, form a mosaic of noise, improvisation, and tape collages, marking the beginnings of the trajectory that would lead to COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV. More than just a sound artifact, Early Worm is a foundational piece, the missing link in P-Orridge's sprawling body of work, restored here from the original tapes and reissued on limited vinyl with previously unpublished notes by the artist. As The Guardian summarizes, if Early Worm reveals one thing, it's that P-Orridge had, from the very beginning, a resolutely unconventional vision. Marbled blue vinyl edition.