Rimarimba
In The Woods LP

Freedom To Spend’s first catalog wide deep dive into an artist’s career focuses on four albums from Rimarimba, beginning with 1983’s Below The Horizon, followed by 1984’s On Dry Land, 1985’s In The Woods, and finally, the once-imagined, now-realized assembly of 1988’s Light Metabolism Number Prague.

Somewhere 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.

Exploring 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 Obscure Independent Classics series, or the Real Time cassettes; and inexplicable one-offs like The Deep Freeze Mice, Jody & The Creams, R. Stevie Moore, Leven Signs, Jung Analysts, and Rimarimba.

Rimarimba 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.

Produs Nou / Anul aparitiei: 1985 / Reissue 2019

Tracklist:

A1 Spart Moutafft Seell + California

A2 In The Can

A3 Firedance

A4 Bamboo Link

A5 Couldn’t Top The Demo

A6 California + Saxes

A7 Clearview

A8 California + Bell

A9 Gone To Hell In A Bucket (1)

A10 xit

A11 He’s A Good Lad

B1 Pacific

B2 From 6 To 13

B3 California + Guitars

B4 Final Wall

B5 Gone To Hell In A Bucket (2)

B6 Few Parameters

B7 Bamboo Duck

B8 Hey! Almost Chinese Ain’t It?