Memory Serves

Memory Serves is a 1981 album by the New York based No Wave music group Material.

Track listing

"Memory Serves" – 5:08
"Disappearing" – 7:11
"Upriver" – 5:25
"Metal Test" – 4:30
"Conform To The Rhythm" – 4:30
"Unauthorized" – 3:50
"Square Dance" – 4:29
"Silent Land" – 3:48
"For A Few Dollars More" – 3:51

Personnel

;Material

Bill Laswell – 4, 6 and 8 string basses
Michael Beinhorn – synthesizers, tapes, radio, guitar, drums, voice.
Fred Maher – drums, percussion, guitar

;Additional personnel

Sonny Sharrock – guitar
Fred Frith – guitar, violin, xylophone
Olu Dara – cornet
Henry Threadgill – alto sax
George Lewis – trombone
Billy Bang – violin
Charles K. Noyes – drums, percussion, bells

Production

Recorded at OAO Studio, Brooklyn, New York. Produced by Material with Martin Bisi.

Reception

Writing in The Boston Phoenix, Howard Litwak said that on Memory Serves, "Material intersperses its potent riffs and explosive electric power with interludes of noise, musique concrete, and unaccompanied synthesizer blats. Overlaid on this foot-stomping sound — the rhythm section of bassist Bill Laswell and drummers Michael Beinhorn and Fred Maher wants to kick your speakers out — is a collection of first-rate jazzmen who are willing to interpret Material’s music on its own terms."