Incus Records was established in 1970 by Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley and Evan Parker. Usually it is referred to as, 'the first independent, musician run record company in Britain'. Overlooking one or two short-lived predecessors in the 1950's, that's probably true. Motivated partly by the ideology of self determination and partly by an absence of an acceptable alternative, the policy is centred on improvisation.
I put an E with a B and a G with a D and an A and an F. And a B
with C and a G and an E and an F and an A. And a ..........
with C and a G and an E and an F and an A. And a ..........
From: I'm the guy who found the lost chord.
Mastermind
Stewart Lee answers questions
on the life and work of Derek
Bailey on BBC's Celebrity
Mastermind.
See it on
Company Returns
Report by John Eyles,
journalist and reporter, who
attended all 3 events of the
Incus Phoenix Festival.
See it in