{"product_id":"rimarimba-in-the-woods-lp","title":"Rimarimba - In The Woods LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eFreedom To Spend’s first catalog wide deep dive into an artist's career focuses on four albums from Rimarimba, beginning with 1983's \u003cem\u003eBelow The Horizon\u003c\/em\u003e, followed by 1984's \u003cem\u003eOn Dry Land\u003c\/em\u003e, 1985's \u003cem\u003eIn The Woods\u003c\/em\u003e, and finally, the once-imagined, now-realized assembly of 1988's \u003cem\u003eLight Metabolism Number Prague\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomewhere out there around the turn of the 1980s, to the left of the post-punk crew, to the right of the minimalists, and surfacing with a friendlier face than the dour industrialists of the time – there existed, seemingly unbidden, an entire, networked, tape-trading community; a community that crossed continents and oceans, that relied on the postal service to do its bidding; a community full of humble visionaries and lost, misunderstood, or just plain ignored home steeped genius.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploring that thicket of weirdness in the UK wild, you'd likely stumble across labels like Cordelia, Hamster, and Unlikely; compilations like the should-be-legendary \u003cem\u003eObscure Independent Classics\u003c\/em\u003e series, or the \u003cem\u003eReal Time\u003c\/em\u003e cassettes; and inexplicable one-offs like The Deep Freeze Mice, Jody \u0026amp; The Creams, R. Stevie Moore, Leven Signs, Jung Analysts, and Rimarimba.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRimarimba was the project of Robert Cox, based in Felixstowe, on the seaside in Suffolk, UK. Rimarimba was not Cox's first entry into the world of recorded music, but was the first time he explored, most perceptively, the parameters of a particular musical mode: one where minimalism is removed from its \"high-art\" mantle, Cox inveigling its practices in amongst the do-it-yourself creativity of a burgeoning and beguiling underground, letting the music breathe – and most importantly, letting it play, gifting it with imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Rimarimba's 1985 album \u003cem\u003eIn The Woods\u003c\/em\u003e, Robert Cox has made his music kit, an odd assortment of new and old technologies, lately fixated on the digital delay, and programming technologies, sing his own song at its most articulate clip. The songs seem more developed, fluent, like mini-suites in some sense. By his third album, it’s clear Cox has recognised just how liberating technology can be - \"All these intricate layers of things that I was trying to play, and didn't have the musical ability to play, I could suddenly program them\" - but he also recognises that if you head too far down that road, dull perfection is your bitter reward. Human music intoxicated and lurching through a new forest of machinery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne-time edition of 750 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Freedom To Spend","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67850540876051,"sku":"rcw1793064673036","price":14.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/4029\/7235\/files\/rimarimba---in-the-woods-lp_1.jpg?v=1793064681","url":"https:\/\/tentcamping.shop\/products\/rimarimba-in-the-woods-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}