Henry Cow &c

	AKSAK MABOUL: Onze Danses pour Combattre la Migraine Code:CRAM101 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissue of the classic 1970 LP on CD. Mostly written and played by Marc Hollander using a Farfisa organ, clarinets and bassclarinet, middle eastern percussion, mandolin, flute, xylophone, saxes and drum machines (a rare example of their effective and sensible use to be what they are). Full of additive rhythms, iterations and catchy melodic material, this music is at the same time, intelligently minimal, deceptively simple and satisfyingly crammed with detail. Aksak Maboul was one of the seven actual RIO groups, and this LP was why.
	AKSAK MABOUL: Un Peu de L'Ame des Bandits Code:CRAM002 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Yes, this legendary LP has been reissued at last. A collaboration between Marc Hollander, Catherine Jaunieux, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Denis van Hecke ('The Hendrix of the cello'), Frank Wuyts and Michel Berckmans, recorded by Etienne Conod at Sunrise in 1979, it contains great compositions (Marc's epic 'Cinema' and 'A Modern Lesson' are classics, Fred contributed the tightly formed 'Geistige Nacht' featuring his unmistakable Bass playing), some extraordinary studio improvisation, and highly eclectic influences throughout. Includes one bonus track and comes beautifully packed (the famous cover picture seen in colour for the first time). Highly recommended.
	ANGELICA FESTIVAL: Angelica '92 Code:CAICAI003 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
EXCELLENT collection of 24 pieces - from the eponymous Bologna festival - with Fred Frith (in various guises - + Lars Hollmer; + Lindsay Cooper; alone; with Que D'La Guele, and with 2 workshop pieces),then there's Lars Hollmer (alone and with his all star 'Looping Home Orchestra'); Lindsay Cooper with The Bologna Theatre Orchestra; an Occarina ensemble; POPOLI (N.O.R.M.A.) project pieces, and other short extracts from Stefano Scodanibbio/Julio Estrada and Gianna Gebbia. Pretty Indispensible.
	ANGELICA FESTIVAL: Angelica '93 Code:CAICAI004 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Third year, third collection, includes Hans Reichel, Han Bennink, Dietmar Diesner, Catherine Jaunieux, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Tom Cora, Steve Beresford, Peter Kowald, Fred Frith, Lindsay Cooper, Lars Hollmer, Wolter Wierbos,
	ANGELICA FESTIVAL: Angelica '94 Code:CAICAI006 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
John Zorn, John Oswald, Fred Frith, Bob Ostertag, Phil Minton, Guy Klucevsek, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, Stefano Scodanibbio, Rohan de Sarem and others play in combinations improvised and composed. Also appearing are the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna and several constructions of John Oswald's.
	ANGELICA FESTIVAL: Angelica '95 Code:AI007 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Fourth in the sound record series of this great festival. This year includes- Heiner Goebbels, Jon Rose, Otomo Yoshihide, N.O.R.M.A., Chris Cutler, Marten Altena, The Rova Saxophone Quartet, Specchio Ensemble, Phil Minton, Lol Coxhill, Steve Beresford, Veryan Westen, Mike Cooper, Pat Thomas. Especially interesting is the radical editing and cutting that runs many different pieces together as one, making new pieces from parts. Another fine work.
	ANGELICA FESTIVAL: Angelica 97 Code:IDA103 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
From the legendary Bolognese festival, another extraordinary compilation which is not merely a collection of pieces but a long logical work in it's own right, assembled with radical editing flair by turntable player (and festival maestro) Massimo Simonini following the spirit of the topic of last year's Angelica- sampling. Featuring 'Ground Zero', Chris Cutler's 'P53', Stock Hausen and Walkman, Bob Ostertag, Ikue Mori, Dianne Labrosse, Martin Tetreault, Tenko, Dagmar Krauze and Marie Goyette, Zygmunt Krauze (with Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna), Mike Patton, Uchihashi Kazuhisa and the Italian Trio Magneto. Plus cameo appearances from John Oswald and Rene Lussier. A tribute to one of the best European festivals (I wish some of the others would mark themselves with such collections). I mean, Buy It.
	ART BEARS: Hopes and Fears LP Code:ReRVab1 Price: £21.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, & Dagmar Krause Limited audiophile edition of 750 copies on 180 gm virgin vinyl. POST FREE
	ART BEARS: Rats and Monkeys/Collapse Code:RR7904 Price: £7.00 Quantity in Basket: none
	ART BEARS: The World As It Is Today (vinyl) Code:Re6622 Price: £17.04 Quantity in Basket: none
THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE
	ART BEARS: The art box Code:ReRABox Price: £40.00 Quantity in Basket: none
A 6 CD box containing: 1. The three original releases, properly re-mastered, - when we did them before, the technology was much poorer. Stunningly re-mastered by Bob Drake from 24 bit transcriptions of the original tapes and in newly designed Digipacks, same cover art, of course. 2. Art Bears Revisited -A double CD of re-mixes, re-workings and (mostly) new pieces made from Art Bears multi-track masters by JOHN OSWALD, THE RESIDENTS, CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, FRED FRITH, CHRIS CUTLER, BIOTA, OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/GROUND ZERO, BOB DRAKE JON ROSE, OSSATURA, WARRIC SWINNEY/KALAHARI SURFERS, WHEN, THOMAS DIMUZIO, ANNIE GOSFIELD ROGER KLEIR,ANDREA ROCCA, VITOR RUA, JOCELYN ROBERT,MUSCI/ VENOSTA/ MARIANI, MASSIMO SIMONINI, HERB HEINZ. MARTIN ARCHER, YASUSHI UTSUNOMIYA, JON LEIDECKER/WOBBLY, STEVAN KOVACS TICKMAYER and BRIAN WOODBURY. 6 years in the making, this is an amazing catalogue of imagination and great music. Digi-packed with a cover art by EM Thomas, who did all three original art bears covers and containing Art re-mixes in the booklet as well as comprehensive information. This double also contains Collapse from the Ralph Records single, All Hail from the Recommended Sampler and one previously unreleased and unfinished track completed by Fred Frith and Chris Cutler for this release. 3. A free extra CD only available with the box (there are reasons) containing further re-workings by John Oswald, Bob Drake, Fred Frith, Biota, Yasushi Utsunomiya, as well as live Art Bears tracks and a Duck and Cover cover. 4. A thick book of artwork, articles, notes, interviews and commentary on the material, the work process, the tour and the band in general, with photographs, documents and artwork. Listen to a sample of this release
	ART BEARS: Winter Songs Code:ReRab4 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
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	BLEGVAD, PETER: Choices Under Pressure Code:RES143CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A hard one. Peter calls this an acoustic retrospective - it was rushed through to coincide with the official release of his wonderful book. There are two new songs here, the rest are lite revisitations of old material, with John Greaves and Danny Thompson, variously, on basses and Jackko Jakszyk playing guitar, percussion, keyboards and some other things. So, an easy listening Blegvad, with the edge shaved off, though I'm sure a lot of people will like it. Reservations: because I consider Peter to be a great talent, my disappointment is based, I guess unfairly, firstly on comparisons with existing versions of these songs, some of which, like "King Strut", "That'll Be Him Now" and "Daughter", really lose out, and secondly on the general toothlessness of the whole enterprise. I have to ask why? These aren't radical revisions (such as Dylan is a master of) and they aren't solo singer-songwriter versions either. I'm afraid, as the title suggests but doesnÕt excuse, the why? answer seems to be- in order to have some product to market with the book. But thatÕs just me - and I'll bet mine is a minority view. It's just that from Peter I expect much, much more.
	BLEGVAD, PETER: Hangman's Hill Code:ReRPB3 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
13 new songs from el maestro with the standard trio featuring John Greaves and Chris Cutler, and guests B.J.Cole, Geraint Watkins, Adam X, Chris Stamey, Bob Drake and Stoffer Blegvad. Listen to a sample of this release
	BLEGVAD, PETER: Just Woke Up Code:ReRPB2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
For my money, the best yet. Great songs performed by Peter, John Greaves, Chris Cutler and various guests including B.J. Cole, Kristoffer Blegvad and Jakko Jakszykx. Roll back the carpet, turn up the stereo. Listen to a sample of this release
	BLEGVAD, PETER: Opheus, the lowdown Code:APECD005 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
A coherent, integrated work of art. Spoken texts in a world of sounds; concise, complex and for the most part delicately or obliquely set. A model work of experimental radio, but wrapped in a dvd case with a set of dedicated pictures pitched somewhere between a rayogram and '60's bohemian underground graphics alternating with the printed text. Distinguished by a serpentine interconnectedness and a fastidious attention to sonic detail. Different approaches, different voices and different treatments for each tableau keep the ear in the air and the mind off the ground.
	BLEGVAD, PETER: The book of Leviathan Code:PBLEVI Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
(book) A very beautifully produced, 26 x 17 cm format hard backed 160 page, full colour collection of Peter's Independent on Sunday cartoons. This is a universe (or a life) condensed into Peter's own version of a grain of sand. Funny, elusive, radical, endlessly inventive, sometimes scary, always pretty dep (see book for elucidation). It's the same price as a CD but 1000 times more work. A reference book, a philosophical companion, a puzzle, a collection of cartoon strips and some awful puns. You won't regret it. Weight means we have to add postage to this - sorry £3.00 UK, £4.00 Europe, £6.00 World.
	BRINGAS, GERMAN: Y El Engrane Amarillo (dbl CD) Code:BRINGASEngrane Price: £20.27 Quantity in Basket: none
A double CD documenting a day with Bringas' quartet and four guests, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Luis Flores (violin) and Salvador Cruz (piano strings). Extremely eccentric package design. There's a lot that's good here, though possibly a more critical hand would have been more ruthless with the scissors. Featuring some fine Mexican improvisers. This is a rare import and in limited supply.
	CASSIBER/GROUND ZERO: Live in Tokyo/Ground Zero remix (dbl) Code:ReRCGZ2 Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
This is a collection of pieces developed from and using the live recordings of Cassiber's Tokyo performance by Otomo Yoshihide and Ground Zero. This is also in part a tribute, and it is the last recording of Ground Zero, marking the end of Otomo's main project of the last 7 years. Taken together, these have much to say about the connections, innovations and changes at the musical boundaries between the mid 80's and late 90's. Listen to a sample of this release
	CASSIBER: A Face We All Know Code:ReRCCD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Christoph Anders, Heiner Goebbels, and Chris Cutler. "A Face" breaks new ground altogether; it is a single work with texts by Chris Cutler, Rainald Geotz and Thomas Pynchon and documents the last days of a political nightmare. Beginners start here. Listen to a sample of this release
	COOPER, LINDSAY and CHARLES GRAY: Pia Mater Code:RES124CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	COOPER, LINDSAY: Rags/The Golddiggers Code:ReRLCD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Consists of the whole of the LP previously issued as Re/arc and most of "The Golddiggers". Featuring Lindsay Cooper, Sally Potter, Phil Minton, Georgie Born, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Marilyn Mazur, Kate Westbrook, Collette Lafont, Eleanor Sloan, Lol Coxhill and Dave Holland. Explores the song form as so many of the early post Henry Cow records by ex alumni did. With a full book of texts and pictures (74+ minutes). Listen to a sample of this release
	COOPER, LINDSAY: A view from the Bridge (double CD) Code:IMPCD29831 Price: £20.09 Quantity in Basket: none
A very welcome collection of pieces spanning Lindsay's compositional work from 1987 to 1998 comprising 'Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Strings' (Orchestra del teatro Communale di Bologna), 'Ophelia' (Lindsay and Sally Potter) 'Singing Waters' (Gemini Ensemble), 'Songs for Bassoon and Orchestra' (Bay Area Women's Philharmonic cond. Odaline de la Martinez with Lindsay), 'Nightmare' (Phil Minton with Ondes Martinot, Piano, Marimba, Drums, Bassoon, Synthesiser), 'German Stories' (Alfred Harth, Lindsay, Annemarie Roelofs, Elvira Plenar), 'The Rain Song' ( Maggie Nichols, Ian Mitchell), 'Fragments from God's Country' (Film Music extract) and the whole of the CD 'Angel on the Bridge' (Lindsay on various Horns plus Harp, Percussion and Voice) . Excellent.
	COOPER, LINDSAY: Music for Other Occasions Code:NML8603CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Various pieces, inc. Georgie Born, Sally Potter, Dagmar Krause, Maggie Nichols, Kate Westbrook, Chris Cutler, Vicky Aspinall, Zeena Parkins, Elvira Plenar, Alfred 23 harth, AnneMarie Roelofs, Robyn Archer. Now on CD.
	COOPER, LINDSAY: Oh Moscow Code:VICTOCD015 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Lindsay Cooper, Phil Minton, Sally Potter, Marilyn Mazur, Hugh Hopper, Alfred Harth, Elvira Plenar. Long awaited release of the highly praised Cooper/Potter 1988 project group.
	COOPER, LINDSAY: Sahara Dust Code:INTAKT029CD Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
Commissioned for TAKLOS festival, with Phil Minton, Elvira Plenar, Dean Broderick, Robyn Schulkowsky, Paul Jayasinha.
	CUTLER, CHRIS & TOM DIMUZIO: Dust Code:ReRCCTD2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
The first of two tracks is a long Requiem which for me turned out to be a very serious piece of work - and unrepeatable, captured at a concert in New Mexico. Whatever were we thinking? It's followed by a studio piece, mixing raw binaural sound with sophisticated and radical secondary processing. I use my extended electrified kit and Tom his state of the art sample and real-time processing rig and we try to work as a single, highly complex and sophisticated instrument, with two brains and a mind of its own. Listen to a sample of this release
	CUTLER, CHRIS, PARKINS, ZEENA: Shark! Code:RERCZ1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
From the much lauded Queen Elizabeth Hall concert and club Link in Bologna, two very different knife-edge tours through sound and structure landscapes; from rollercoaster to glider. 'Indescribeable but wonderful. Quite superb. I would have been happy listening for ten times as long' Gibralter. Listen to a sample of this release
	CUTLER, CHRIS, THOMAS DIMUZIO, FRED FRITH: Golden State (LP - SIGNED) Code:ReR196.9665503 Price: £26.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Golden State Signed Collectors imprint on transparent golden vinyl - last of the 50 copies signed by the band. 180 gsm virgin vinyl and rather beautifully (and horribly expensively, as it turned out) packaged. The music was recorded in California in 1999 with guest Beth Custer (clarinet) on one track. Carefully mastered by Tom Dimuzio in wide frequency, solid footprint, broad compass stereo. Solid and expansive. Though we waved goodbye to vinyl decades ago, we felt this release was made to be an LP - a CD just wouldn't be the same, sonically, visually or ontologically. And of course we took advantage of the exaggerated dimensions and physicality to make it a thing visually to savour. Off the groove, Dimuzio, Cutler, Frith and Custer do what they do and you get a ringside seat - as well as something exquisite to look at and play with while you listen. A thing of beauty. * Outside Europe, please add £3 for postage and packing. Sorry.
	CUTLER, CHRIS, THOMAS DIMUZIO, FRED FRITH: Golden State (LP - TRANSPARENT VINYL) Code:ReR196.9665502 Price: £21.00 Quantity in Basket: none
A limited Edition of 500 numbered copies pressed into 180 gsm virgin vinyl and rather beautifully (and horribly expensively, as it turned out) packaged. The music was recorded in California in 1999 with guest Beth Custer (clarinet) on one track. Carefully mastered by Tom Dimuzio in wide frequency, solid footprint, broad compass stereo. Solid and expansive. Though we waved goodbye to vinyl decades ago, we felt this release was made to be an LP - a CD just wouldn't be the same, sonically, visually or ontologically. And of course we took advantage of the exaggerated dimensions and physicality to make it a thing visually to savour. Off the groove, Dimuzio, Cutler, Frith and Custer do what they do and you get a ringside seat - as well as something exquisite to look at and play with while you listen. A thing of beauty. * Outside Europe, please add £3 for postage and packing. Sorry. * Outside Europe, please add £3 for postage and packing. Sorry.
	CUTLER, CHRIS, THOMAS DIMUZIO, FRED FRITH: Golden State (LP) Code:ReR196.966550 Price: £17.75 Quantity in Basket: none
A limited Edition of 1969 numbered copies pressed into 180 gsm virgin vinyl and rather beautifully (and horribly expensively, as it turned out) packaged. The music was recorded in California in 1999 with guest Beth Custer (clarinet) on one track. Carefully mastered by Tom Dimuzio in wide frequency, solid footprint, broad compass stereo. Solid and expansive. Though we waved goodbye to vinyl decades ago, we felt this release was made to be an LP - a CD just wouldn't be the same, sonically, visually or ontologically. And of course we took advantage of the exaggerated dimensions and physicality to make it a thing visually to savour. Off the groove, Dimuzio, Cutler, Frith and Custer do what they do and you get a ringside seat - as well as something exquisite to look at and play with while you listen. A thing of beauty. The first 500 will be pressed on white vinyl, so please order early to get these. Outside Europe, please add £3 for postage and packing. Sorry.
	CUTLER, CHRIS/DIMUZIO,TOM: Quake Code:ReRCCTD1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Recorded at two concerts in Lowell and Portland in March 1999. Great blocks of sound alive with detail, sometimes massive, sometimes attenuated near to silence; sometimes it's hard to know what instruments if any are involved. Growling and Tearing. Glacial movements alive with an emergent order? Process of becoming? Two guys making a lot of noise? Nice object. Listen to a sample of this release
	CUTLER, CHRIS/DIMUZIO/VRTACEK: Preacher in naked Chase Guilty Code:PONK15 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Concert recording of surround sound timescore project at REAL ART WAYS, Hartford CT. A document of musical, unmusical, non musical and extramusical events. Continuous, as played, but tracked to be reprogrammable in keeping with the score concept. Beautiful package. Medium-fi; installation package.
	CUTLER, CHRIS/FRITH, FRED: Live in Moscow, Prague etc. Code:ReRCCFFCD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
72 minutes consisting of the whole of a 1978 Prague concert, a cause celebre at the time, (audibly) dividing the 3500 public and provoking controversy for some years after; a snippet from Washington, and the whole of a Moscow concert 10 years later (May '89). This is improvised music that refuses to fit into the usual categories of improvisation, as well as being technically and formally provocative. Listen to a sample of this release
	CUTLER, CHRIS/FRITH, FRED: Live in Trondheim etc Code:RERCCFFCD2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Digital recordings from the Nordlydd Contemporary Music Festival and Berlin's Tacheles from 1991. Plus the historic prescient noise-music 1978 analogue recording from Limoges as a bonus. All singing, all dancing, all hell let loose. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee... Listen to a sample of this release
	CUTLER, CHRIS/FRITH, FRED: Two Gentlemen in Verona Code:ReRCCFF3 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
An almost complete concert from Verona, 1999, slightly edited for listening logic with an impeccably clear and transparent sound. Very different from CCFFs 1 and 2, this documents a more upfront, intense performance, full of history, rock, post rock, tunes, rhythms, even melodies - all transformed into a contemporary and compressed musical language. With a surprising encore! Listen to a sample of this release
	CUTLER, CHRIS: Twice Around the Earth Code:ReRCC2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
An experiment in listening. These compositions are an offshoot of the daily soundscape programme I ran for Resonance FM radio between July 2001-2002, which consisted of commissioned real-time recordings made all around the world between 23.30 and midnight GMT (the time of the broadcast). This CD begins with material from these broadcasts confecting, as it were, two composites of the Earth and a few of its inhabitants, somewhat analogous to what an impossible satellite ear with pinpoint acuity might hear in transit - plus one ear-cleaning stretch between them, taken from a single hear-point. I have tried to make these pieces both open and to work on parallel levels: not only do they have their own narrative and aesthetic qualities, but I hope they also offer a meditation on listening and not listening, interpretation and structure, chance and microphonics. The list of ears around the world who supplied basic material is too long to print here, but it includes many names familiar from these catalogues, and many from the still young soundscape and phonograpic community. Full details of people and places are given in the booklet, along with artwork and thorough notes. You have to trust me on this, it's a really engaging record. Sometimes unbelieveable. I don't think you'll regret giving it a chance.
	CUTLER, CHRIS: File Under Popular (Polish Edition) Code:FUPOL Price: £17.04 Quantity in Basket: none
(book) ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	CUTLER, CHRIS: File Under Popular (book) Code:FUPPB Price: £13.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Theoretical and critical writings on Music. 200pp. Illustrated with woodcuts and Photographs. Chapters on Sun Ra, The Residents, Phil Ochs and Elvis Presley, What Is Popular Music?, Progressive Music in the UK, Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms, Henry Cow, Rock in Opposition etc. ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	CUTLER, CHRIS: File Under Popular (hard) (book) Code:FUPHB Price: £25.26 Quantity in Basket: none
As paperback, but hardback and signed. ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	CUTLER, CHRIS: File Under Popular, German ed. (book) Code:FUPG Price: £17.63 Quantity in Basket: none
German translation with final chapter replaced by a new article on Plunderphonia. ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	CUTLER, CHRIS: File Under Popular, Japanese ed. (book) Code:FUPJAP Price: £25.26 Quantity in Basket: none
Japanese edition, 3 extra chapters ADD £2.00 postage Europe, £3.50 rest of world - sorry: weight
	CUTLER, CHRIS: June 12 1998. Edge of Chaos Code:cutlerChaso Price: £22.00 Quantity in Basket: none
THE LAST 10 copies of a film by Shinji Aoyama that documents a solo concert in Tokyo, with set-up, sound-check and interview material. While we have them. Shinji Aoyama's documentary of an early solo concert in Tokyo, with soundcheck and Interview materials. 65 minutes. "This is a documentary recording of a solo concert I did in Tokyo in 1998 (first part is set-up and sound-check interpolated with interview extracts) made by award winning director Shinji Aoyama. It captures a moment, and finds your reporter refreshingly (or irritatingly) incoherent (it's no flattering confection); and while the set-up is long, maybe overlong (with interesting extraneous stuff going on) on the other hand, it's really not glamorised or staged - so there is a strangely artless feeling about it (they filmed very discreetly). And the concert is, well - what it is - as improvised concerts are. I may be the worst person to ask, but I do find it pleasingly straightforward, warts and all."
	CUTLER, CUTLER: Solo Code:ReRCC1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
It took long enough. The electric kit finally gets a chance to speak for itself. I won't try to describe it, but it's been pretty much my main work of the last three years. I can't say it reminds me of anything else but, naturally, I suggest you buy it.
	DEATH AMBIENT: Drunken Forest Code:TZ7264 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Third, and most ambitious so far by the DA trio: Fred Frith, Kato Hideki and Ikue Mori - joined on some pieces here by precision percussionist Jim Pugliese. DA open up their language on this release; lots of overdubs and building ambiances. Kato in particular plays not only bass (acoustic and electric) but also, banjo, acoustic guitar, violin, synthesiser, mandolin, accordion, ukulele, recorders, steel guitar, glasses, ice water and occasionally sings. Jim Pugliese is a bonus, always focused with a sympathetic ear for sound.
	DEATH AMBIENT: Synaesthesia Code:TZ7226 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
The Classic line-up- Ikue Mori, Kato Hideki and Fred Frith. To my ears even better than the first volume. A gripping journey into instrumental performance possibilities which never loses sight of the musical centre. Great.
	DRESSER, MARK / FRED FRITH / IKUE MORI: Latera Code:VICTO-CD070 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
All star cast.
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU - AVRAM, ANA MARIA: Implosive Eternity, Abysses Latents, Bolids and Contemplations Code:EDMN1019 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Two computer assisted pieces from Iancu and one for Voice (Keiko Hatanaka), Tenor Saxophone (Robert Regle) and Percussion (Gustavo Aguilar), recorded at a concert in Tokyo. Ana Maria contributes a piece for solo saxophone (Robert Regle - also recorded in Tokyo) and a large work for the Hyperion Ensemble, Computer and Bass Clarinet (Tim Hodgkinson).
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU; AVRAM, ANA MARIA: Objet Sonor Mysterious Code:EDMN1017 Price: £14.30 Quantity in Basket: none
5 new works from the dynamic duo and ensemble, two of them featuring Tim Hodgkinson as soloist. A preponderance of computer assisted sound + solo instrument pieces (solos: bass clarinet and trombone) plus some ensemble work, that sounds almost as processed.
	DUMITRESCU/AVRAM /CUTLER/HODGKINSON/HYPERION ENSEMBLE: Musique- Action ! ! Code:ReREDACH1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Compositions for the Hyperion ensemble by Dumitrescu, Avram, Hodgkinson and Cutler recorded at the Nancy-Vanoeuvre festival. Contents: New Meteors and Pulsars (Dumitrescu, 1982). For Tape and Percussion. Tape by Iancu Dumitrescu, Soloist, Chris Cutler. Nouvelle Axe (Avram, 1988) Hyperion Ensemble. Life On Earth (Cutler, 1998) Hyperion Ensemble with Ana Maria Avram, Prepared Piano and Tim Hodgkinson, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet. Black Death and Errors in Construction (Hodgkinson, 1988) Hyperion Ensemble with Ana Maria Avram, Piano, Tim Hodgkinson Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Tape (tape by Tim Hodgkinson).
	EC NUDES, THE: Vanishing Point Code:ReRN1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
The (ec) nudes are- Amy Denio, Listen to a sample of this release
	FEDER, JANET & FRED FRITH: Ironic Universe (DD + DVD) Code:AdHoc07 Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Ironic Universe (CD + DVD) [18.50] Ad Hoc 07 The CD features 6 melodic solo pieces by Janet, playing prepared guitar - and 6 duets with Fred. The DVD contains an excellently filmed 25 minute solo performance of Fred's - unusually using only acoustic guitar (though still employing a wide range of playing techniques, preparations, string, bows, bells and so on) - and three 5 minute pieces by Janet, mixing performance with colourful composed images.
	FRED FRITH & EVELYN GLENNIE: The Sugar Factory Code:TZ7623 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred and Evelyn get together in a big empty space - for a documentary - and improvise, mostly. Evelyn has a vast array of classical and profane percussion instruments and Fred has his guitar and pedals. It's a fascinating collaboration not least in the way it uncovers something of the very different root approaches to improvisation that these two musicians somehow bring successfully together. But, eloquently, it works best on the final track, when Evelyn plays a composed piece for Marimba which Fred, not knowing, simply improvises with, perfectly tonally - improvisation is free, but that doesn't mean it has to be abstract or difficult; the rule should be that there are no rules; and for a good improviser, like an actor, no role should be impossible. The result is a truly glorious piece - sublime would not be too strong (and it would chime happily with a deep root in romanticism). People talk a lot about pure music, but here's a very rare opportunity to hear what such a thing might sound like.
	FRIEND OF FRED VOLUME 3 Code:FredVol3 Price: £111.63 Quantity in Basket: none
Volume 2 will wrap up with the next batch of releases in October [Impur, Technology of Tears, The Happy End Problem]. The signed free book that accompanies it is in preparation. You can still sign up for it, and for Volume 3 (the next 8 releases). What it means. To become a friend of fred costs 95 pounds (45 now and 50 when we send CD No.5, You get the ARTIST SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of Vol 3: That's 8 CDs with a special signed book full of Fred's notes on the works, the process of their composition and recording, related photographs and other documentary materials. You get the CDs as soon as they come out, the signed book, occasional other additional materials and 1.50 pounds off any other Fred CD you buy from us during the subscription period - whatever label it's on. Volumes 1 and 2 can still be purchased separately. NOTE. Members of the ReR record club will get the book free as part of their membership.
	FRITH, BOURNE, OSWALD: Dearness Code:SPL116 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred Frith (Guitar, Vox), Anne Bourne (Cello, Vox) and John Oswald (Sax, Vox)Live recording in Toronto.
	FRITH, FRED & JOHN ZORN: Late Works Code:Tzadik7634 Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
At last this great duo went into a studio and made a CD. Most musical bases are covered and there is not a squandered or distracted moment. Here are 10 improvisations that step out with the confidence and lean-ness of compositions, while optimising invention. A duo at the top of its game. Highly recommended.
	FRITH, FRED & ANTHONY BRAXTON: Duo (Victoriaville 2005) Code:VICTOCD100 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Documents an historic meeting; five improvised duos, recorded live at the Victoriaville festival.
	FRITH, FRED , ALVIN CURRAN, PAULINE OLIVIEROS, CHRIS BROWN, JOHN BISCHOFF, MAGGI PAYNE.: Oasis - Mus Code:CD004 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
8 pieces of various hues, though all decidedly modern, by teachers at Mills College in Oakland.
	FRITH, FRED / COSA BRAVA: Ragged Atlas Code:INTAKTCD161 Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred's latest touring band with Carla Kihlstedt (violin, nykelhapa, bass harmonica, voice), Zeena Parkins (keyboards, accordion, foley objects, voice), Matthias Bossi (drums, percs, voice) - and sound engineer/manipulator The Norman Conquest. Fred plays Guitar, Bass and sings. These are all tightly composed, economically arranged, layered and rhythm driven pieces; some are songs. There are many skeleton crew echoes in the form, though extended forward in time, experience and technology. A lot of great playing and intriguing compositions.
	FRITH, FRED /HENRY KAISER: Friends and Enemies double CD Code:Rune117/118 Price: £20.56 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissue of the two now classic LP's 'With Friends Like These' and 'Who Needs Enemies', plus an unreleased album of live material plus 27 minutes of newly recorded pieces.
	FRITH, FRED /MAYBE MONDAY: Digital Wildlife Code:910071-2 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred with Miya Masaoka (Koto, electronics), Larry Ochs (saxes) & Joan Jeanrenaud (cello), live concert recording. In the usual lush Winter & Winter packaging...
	FRITH, FRED : Accidental Code:ReR/FRA1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
11 new pieces originally composed and recorded for choreographer Paul Selwyn Norton with big guitar, violin, voice, pedals, radios, keyboards, extraneous noises and voices off put together as rhythms, large chords, squeals, harmony .. where accidents are more than welcome. This is Fred with the stops out and the musical intelligence set at high...you want it. Listen to a sample of this release
	FRITH, FRED : Gravity Code:ReR/FRED Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
At last this classic record is back in print in its original form. Fred's first post Cow solo album of great tunes and dancing rhythms with Samla Mammas Manna, The Muffins and various guests. A major work that mixes infectious compositions, great performances, innovative techniques, advance recordings and an overarching structure that binds the entire work together. Still a definitive statement and a great record to listen or jump around to.Remastered, repackaged. Listen to a sample of this release
	FRITH, FRED DVD: Step Across the Border Code:915001-7 Price: £27.03 Quantity in Basket: none
Long awaited reissue of this excellently made (and serial award-winning) film about and featuring Fred - at work, rest and in interview mode - moving through Japan, Italy, France, Germany, England, Switzerland and America, alone and in the musical company of Iva Bittova, Tom Cora, Joey Barron, Rene Lussier, Haco, Zeena Parkins, Bob Ostertag, John Zorn, Art Lindsay, Tim Hodgkinson and others. Part documentary, part visual meditation with soundtrack, this edition comes with a great deal of extra footage. Pretty indispensable. Film 1 hour 23. Plus Bonus tracks, 30 mins. French, German, Japanese, Portugese and Spanish subtitles. (Friends of Fred price 22)
	FRITH, FRED GUITAR QUARTET: Ayaya Moses Code:AM051 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Second Cd from Fred's guitar quartet, features Fred Frith, Rene Lussier, Nick Didkovsky and Mark Stewart. New compositions. CD ONLY, NO COVER
	FRITH, FRED and THE ENSEMBLE MODERN: Traffic Continues Code:910044-2 Price: £17.04 Quantity in Basket: none
It gets better - with Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori. I see you reaching for your cheque-books. Quite right - this is a fascinating work. The second of the two pieces here, (in which Zeena and Ikue are soloists) is built around a (sampled) Tom Cora. Fred deals with so many issues on this record that I can't begin to address them. I just hope that there is more to come.
	FRITH, FRED and the ARDITTI QUARTET: Eleventh Hour (double CD) Code:910-103-2 Price: £19.98 Quantity in Basket: none
Five substantial compositions: Lelekovice, for string quartet; Tense Serenity, for string trio and trombone (Uwe Dierksen); Allegory, for string quartet and electric guitar (Fred); Stick figures, for 6 guitars and 2 players (Fred and William Winant); Fell, for string quartet and electric guitar. Odd piece out is the guitar composition, Stick Figures, which moves into the timeless zone, more an event than a composition. It could have been longer, Fred; a great piece, and nicely placed between all those exquisitely articulated strings. Fell, is a truly great composition; it'll wear out the laser on your player unless you're careful. CD comes in a fancy Winter and Winter book sleeve, with notes and paintings. Beautiful, but a bit impractical for sliding the CDs in and out, unfortunately.
	FRITH, FRED and the ARTE QUARTETT: Still Urban Code:IntaktCD155 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A 2004 commission for saxophone quartet and guitar (Fred). Good quality radio recording. Open, mostly very sparsely melodic form, with accompanying environmental recordings and solo interludes.
	FRITH, FRED and the ARTE QUARTETT: The Big Picture Code:IntaktCD156 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Two pieces here: the title work, about 14 minutes of very open music for saxophones (often unrecognisable) piano and percussion, which could have been much longer. This is followed by Freedom in Fragments, commissioned by the Rova Sax Quartet in 1994 and recorded by them. This version (it's a modular piece which can be assembled in any order) is very different from the Rova recording, and includes 7 new sections.
	FRITH, FRED, JEAN DEROME, PIERRE TANGUAY, MYLES BOISEN: All is bright but it is not day Code:AM106CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Three people play, Myles records and treats their sounds in real time. Some fine stretches. For the most part, it occupies the simultaneous-events/ abstract-unfolding genre of sound compilation increasingly common today - as opposed to what I could call the musically directed type (I have to ask you for a sympathetic understanding of what I mean by this distinction, or we'll be here all night) it's as if Cage had suddenly become a mainstream influence. But as the player's attention to the listener diminishes, more power or more responsibility - falls onto that listener for the communicative act itself. Thus we enter an era where different kinds of listening and different senses of the social relations between players and auditors - are being crystallised out of a vanishing performative practice. Increasingly I find myself drawn back to the musical, or away to the non-human presentation of sounds that are being themselves (environmental recordings, for instance)
	FRITH, FRED. STEVIE WISHART. CARLA KIHLSTEDT: The compass, log, and lead Code:IntaktCD103 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Stevie Wishart plays hurdy gurdy, violin and some electronics, Carla Kihlstedt, violin and nyckelharpa (a Swedish folk instrument, with many strings and keys, played with a bow) and Fred, acoustic guitar, Lowry organ and also some violin. This is a studio recording of improvisations of quiet almost exclusively acoustic music (it may be the first such record on which Fred has played only acoustic guitar).
	FRITH, FRED/FERDINAND RICHARD: Dropera Code:RECDEC32 Price: £13.00 Quantity in Basket: none
	FRITH, FRED/JEAN PIERRE DROUET/LOUIS SCLAVIS: I dream of you jumping Code:VICTOCD072 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Live at Victo 2000. For electric guitar, percussion, horns; keeps moving within seamless musical logic.
	FRITH, FRED/JEAN PIERRE DROUET: Improvisations Code:TE012 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
J-P Drouet plays drums, percussion, various objects and sings, Fred appears, as known. Fred Frith and John Zorn
	FRITH, FRED/JOHN ZORN: The Art of Memory Code:INCUSCD20 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Live Improvisations
	FRITH, FRED/LEANDRE, JOELLE/SEGEL, JONATHAN: Tempted to Smile Code:Line20 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Electric Guitar, Contrabasse, Violin, some fine passages.
	FRITH, FRED/TIM HODGKINSON: Live Improvisations Code:WOOF013 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Recorded in London, Sheffield and Leeds in 1990. No description is required I guess.
	FRITH, FRED: The Previous Evening Code:ReRFF1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Written for a dance programme, this is Fred's hommage, in three pieces, to the work and influence of John Cage, Earl Brown and Morton Feldman. Beautifully conceived and executed and full of minute and fascinating detail. An unalloyed pleasure to listen to and one of my favourites from Fred's recent output.
	FRITH, FRED: Allies Code:RECDEC70 Price: £13.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred, with George Cartwright, Tom Cora and Joey Baron. Six pieces for dance. An interesting period Fred's composing career. Here are flat simple/complex music zones, where harmonic movement is held in tension by rhythmic shifts distributed amongst the instruments. Intriguing.
	FRITH, FRED: Allies Code:ReRFRO07 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissue of the 1989 dance music album, with Joey Baron, Tom Cora and George Cartwright. One of Fred's open field type compositions - where parallel events proceed serenely, coinciding half-unpredictably, but still often enough to sound connected. There is continuity in modular repetition but so many overlays, small alterations, emergent details and new material that the sonic terrain they invoke is constantly mutating and constantly unpredictable (even after several auditions). Continuity is here irregularly interrupted by disruptive events, always settling back into semi-stable planes. Re-mastered and repackaged
	FRITH, FRED: Back to Life Code:TZ8045 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
An excellent collection of commissioned pieces for piano (played by Daan Vandewalle), the Callithumpian Ensemble (dir.Stephen Drury) and smaller groupings. They fall into the ambit of chamber music but are pretty instantly recogniseable as Fred's. Very nice work.
	FRITH, FRED: Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire ([Photo]Graphic Scores 1992-95) - Double CD with substantial B Code:IDA014 Price: £21.15 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred's large, flexible ensemble project using marked photographs and rules as scores. Fred directing and conducting as well as playing. Permanent members are Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins, otherwise the balance of the 44 strong ensemble changes. Recordings here are taken from 5 concerts, including the first in 1992 at AngelicA, and features 44 musicians (including Jean Derome, Lesli Dalaba, Paulo Angelli, Co Streif, Rene Lussier, Jean Marc Montera, Guy Klucsevek, Myra Melford, Han Bennink, Chris Cutler, Daan Vandewelle, Massimo Simonini and Hans Koch). It comes beautifully packaged with a full colour book containing all the [Photo]Graphic Scores, instructions on interpretative rules and a history by Fred.
	FRITH, FRED: Cheap at half the price Code:ReRFRO Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred's third LP for Ralph Records, back in 1983, was a collection of four-track home studio songs (and a couple of instrumental pieces) in which Fred played all the instruments (exceptions: two bass cameos from Tina Curran and Bill Laswell, and some great drum samples from Hans Bruinnsson. Causing raised eyebrows at the time (from, as Fred calls them 'progressive music snobs' - of which I guess I was one) for its apparent simplicity and departure from what was then thought of as Fred Style, this work has matured with age and perspective and no longer seems (to this former critic) to stand outside the oeuvre, but rather to exemplify a persistent strand within it. Echoes appear in many later works. In context it's a record that makes sense - what was all the fuss about? - and it has become a record that's refreshing to listen to. And political - political and personal. In fact, as well as being a very rewarding, darkish, toe-tapper of a record, it seems also to have tapped an important biographical moment. There are some great guitar sounds, production ideas and of course the expected exemplary playing of everything, all the time. A good argument for reissues. Very nicely re-mastered, and in a nice new package.
	FRITH, FRED: Clearing Code:TZ7605 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred's first solo recording in over a decade.
	FRITH, FRED: Eye to Ear Code:TZ7503 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
A collection of film and theatre Music. Some very beautiful compositions and a little radical guitar noise in a collection of 6 full and characteristic pieces. With a prejudice toward romance, sorrow and beauty.
	FRITH, FRED: Eye to ear II Code:TZ7517 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
Second collection of soundtrack compositions on which Fred plays a lot of instruments and works sharply with recordings; the four part cartoon soundtrack Sideshow is pure pleasure, and brilliantly conceived and executed. Guest musicians add trombone, gu zheng, accordion and voices.
	FRITH, FRED: Freedom in Fragments Code:TZ7076 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
A 1994 commission for the Rova Saxophone quartet mixing through-composed with indicational modules which can be assembled in any order.
	FRITH, FRED: Guitar Solos Code:ReRFRO02 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
The original breathtaking solo record that introduced Fred's new instrument and his radical new playing techniques - already in a high state of evolution. Nearly 30 years later it's still almost shocking and has deservedly become a landmark record in the history of C20 guitar. Remastered by Fred to be as close as currently possible to the original recording and repackaged. Listen to a sample of this release
	FRITH, FRED: Helter Skelter Code:RECDEC40 Price: £13.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred's Marseille youth orchestra project. Very Interesting.
	FRITH, FRED: Impur part II Code:ReRFRFC Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Essentially a pretty great concert by a large 19 strong ensemble with Fred conducting as well as playing. Lots of rhythm, harmony, rock noise, exotic instrumentation, power, complexity and melodic writing, with stretches of chaos, eccentricity and theatre. Totally different, then, from Impur part 1 (ReR FRFC1) which was a deconstructed, spatialised simultaneity of musical events heard through open windows or by wandering through rooms; Impur 2 was an unannounced performance upon which audience members had to stumble (and then collect their friends - or not). The recording here was in fact made a little later, by the same people in a different artspace and has been edited and re-mastered by Fred for this release. It fits well in the aesthetic of earlier group records from Fred: Gravity, Skeleton Crew, Keep the Dog.
	FRITH, FRED: Impur Code:ReR/FRFC1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
In 1996, at the end of a two year residency, Fred organised an event at L'Ecole Nationale de Musique de Villeurbanne in France. He roped in as many of the students as he could, grouped according to their departments (early music, rock, African drumming, classical &c), and set them up in all the rooms in the building. The public wandered around creating their own mix, or sat in the courtyard listening to the sound drifting out through the open windows. For their part, each group of musicians played their own specially written music and occasionally were asked to improvise, all of them following a precise time-score prepared by Fred (55 minutes long). Synchronize watches. The whole thing was recorded on 4 A DAT machines and was later mixed - this was the result: an exiting, lurching and capricious beast with many heads, by turns an orchestra tuning up, a salute to Sonny Blount, a roiling chaotic mass of sound that splitting into layers colliding back together, pullulating, ululating, roaring and sometimes mewing like a kitten.
	FRITH, FRED: Keep The Dog Live (dbl) Code:ReR/FRA03 Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
FredÕs legendary collected works band, formed in 1989 with allstars Rene Lussier, Bob Ostertag, Zeena Parkins, Jean Derome and Charles Hayward. An album mainly of instrumental compositions. CharlesÕ clean, incisive drums lend a sharp edge to the more jazz inflected horns Ð sometimes shifting into jazz-rock territory, Zeena in less customary role concentrates on Keyboards (and occasionally sings with Fred), Rene and Fred share Bass and Guitar, Jean covers a family of winds with an even handed virtuosity and, for the rest, if you canÕt square it, itÕs probably Bob Ostertag, whose sampler stored parts, noises and whatever no one else had hands for. As with Henry Cow, Fred integrated large stretches of improvising between and within the piecesÉ following the grail many of us pursue still - integration beyond the point of distinguishing between composition, improvisation, interpretation and performance. This double CD was compiled from performances in many countries in 1991 and it represents both the breadth of composition and the extraordinary quality of musicianship and imagination characteristic of that new, homeless, community of composer/performers that emerged from the 70Õs genre collapse, a terminal collapse that was to throw the contents and techniques of Folk, Jazz, Rock and Contemporary musics into what was to become in the space of a few years effectively a new form Listen to a sample of this release
	FRITH, FRED: Middle of the Moment Code:RERFRO05 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Continuing the definitive Fred edition, this is the CD based on Fred's music for the second film he made with Humbert and Penzel - following nomads - that features, along with Fred's compositions and re-workings, a restless and gripping unfolding of atmospheric locations, tuareg and other musics, ethongraphic material and times captured. A collage or a soundwork rather than a straightforwardly musical composition, this is a serious and unfairly marginalised piece (because it falls between worlds?) that nevertheless succeeds brilliantly once the ear is fully opened. A meditation too on the power - and the enigma - of recording.
	FRITH, FRED: Nowhere . Sideshow . Thin Air Code:ReRFRA07 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Three commissions for dance (3 different choreographers), one [2000] performed by Fred and Carla Kihlstedt, one [2001] by Fred and Carla with Fred Guiliano, (samples) and Gail Brand (trombone) and the last [2007[ with Fred, Hande Erdem (violin) and Threresa Wong ((cello). Layers and plateaux, modules and colour.
	FRITH, FRED: Pacifica Code:TZ7034 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
A major composition performed by the Bolognese ensemble EVA KANT under the direction of Fred and produced and mixed by him. A long, permanently mutating and breathing piece, where repetition and mutation constantly entwine; a piece ceaselessly changing and at the same time cycling around a massive immovable core. Precision of sound, terrific dynamics and unusual scoring.
	FRITH, FRED: Prints Code:ReRFRA02 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A collection of various songs and extended songs that Fred has made over the years, including a samples and newspaper project made for WDR (radio) and tributes to Bert Bacharach and Serge Gainsbourg. This is Fred in studio mode, writing great songs - sadly a generally rather thinly documented aspect of his work, and one that, in my opinion, he excels at. A very welcome release. Listen to a sample of this release
	FRITH, FRED: Rivers and Tides Code:FrithRiversTides Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Soundtrack to film about environment artist Andy Goldsworthy, great sound track...
	FRITH, FRED: Rivers and Tides Code:W&W910092-2 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
As close as anyone should get to perfect. Soundtrack work for a film, which is also excellent - be sure to see it if it comes your way - on the work of British outdoor artist Andy Goldsworthy..Exquisitely recorded, crystal clear sounds always seamlessly deployed, mostly played by Fred with some double bass, percussion soprano sax and bass-clarinet added;. It's sparse, but not always, set in soundcapes, even breaking in to melody now and then, but holding at all times in a subtle web of tension that isn't tense; and un-intention that isn't aleatoric. Absolutely great. Fred, you're a bloody genius
	FRITH, FRED: Step Across the Border Code:RECDEC30 Price: £13.00 Quantity in Basket: none
This is a retrospective compendium of Fred's work over the last 17 years, with a lot of new material, perfectly put together and exceptionally listenable start to finish- an enlightening journey. It's my favourite of Fred's works in recent times. Close composition for electric and acoustic resources, tapework, concrete constructions, songs, sound effects and noise-art improvisations. Guests inc- Iva Bittova, Tom Cora, Jean Derome, Haco, Tim Hodgkinson, Lasse Hollmer, Rene Lussier, Bob Ostertag, Zeena Parkins and John Zorn.)
	FRITH, FRED: Step across the Border Code:ReRFRO03 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Another classic. Along with the Film for which it was a soundtrack this CD follows Fred's work through improvising, group exposition and directed composition (so there is a soundtrack in the film and a soundtrack to the film - both intermingled). This is as broad in musical scope as it is excellently realised and neatly assembled, adding up to a sketch of Fred's many musical identities. Also appearing: Iva Bittova, Tom Cora, Joey Barron, John Zorn, Haco, Ciro Battista and the legendary 'Keep the Dog'.
	FRITH, FRED: The Happy End Problem Code:ReRFRA5 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A new recording, and instantly a Fred classic. Two, related, small-ensemble works for 6 and 7 musicians respectively - mostly strings of one sort or another, with percussion, flute and clarinet occasionally, and electronics. Fred, violinist Carla Kilsteht and percussionist Willie Wynant play throughout, providing continuity across the pieces as the music constantly unfolds into new textures and dialects. Melody, harmony and rhythm are omnipresent, though not always obviously colluding, and the music moves with constant assurance, never hesitating and never marking time. There are some affinities with Nicola Kodjbashia's luminous 'Solitary Walker' (which it predates) in its use of minimal instrumentation to maximum effect, popular materials, exquisite articulation and a kind of modest transcendence. The necessity and simplicity of these pieces conceals a catalogue of experimental techniques and novel ideas; there are those who'd have squeezed a score of albums from this material. A gem. Buy it. Carla Kilsteht shines throughout.
	FRITH, FRED: The Technology of Tears Code:RECDEC20 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
Ballet and other music. Mostly Instrumental. With John Zorn, Tenko, Jim Staley. Title piece especially good.
	FRITH, FRED: The Top of his Head Code:MTM21CD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Film Score, much sound work and atmospherics as well as tunes.
	FRITH. FRED: Speechless Code:ReRFRO04 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
After Gravity, where he worked with The Muffins and Samla Mammas Manna, this was FredÕs second solo release for The ResidentsÕ Ralph Records, this time working with French RIO band Etron Fou Leloublan - notably their drummer, Gigou Chenevier, who makes a major musical and aesthetic contribution to the character and atmosphere of these recordings. Here are clear, melodic, through composed pieces that both hold to the Folk/Rock vocabularies explored on Gravity and continue the exploration of territory opened up on Hopes and FearsÕ ÔMoeris DancingÕ. These tracks drive and rock and swing; they are tense and dense and often dramatic. Environmental recordings of FredÕs New York environment also colour the mix. And listen out for SatieÕs typewriter..
	FRITH/LUSSIER: Nous Autres Code:VictoCD01 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	GABBIANI, CLAUDIO: Nightnursing Code:GABBIANI,CLAUDIO:Nightnursing Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Guitar, Computer, Violin, Drums, Electronics. Primarily the work of composer Claudio G. but with contributions from Roberto Musci, Jon Rose and Chris Cutler, this is an excellent collection of rich and often strange - even exotic - sample and computer manipulated material. At once complex and coherent, simple and focussed, it is delicately realised. Another one of those hard to define musical half-way houses, where all manner of disparate elements somehow meet and manage successfully to converge.
	GLANDIEN, LUTZ : The 5th Elephant Code:ReRLG2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Between electroacoustic procedural precision and more recent pulse driven electronica slips this placeless new work from composer Lutz Glandien, 2 years in the making, employing material collectively generated by Lutz himself, Chris Cutler and Tuba virtuoso Michael Vogt - heavily reorganised, processed, stretched and re-assembled to make extraordinary pieces that demand - and reward - concentrated listening. http://www.lutzglandien.de/ Listen to a sample of this release
	GLANDIEN, LUTZ: Scenes From No Marriage Code:ReRLG1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Electroacoustic and Tape Music. 5 great pieces- 1) For tape and 2 Percussionists, 2) for Tape and String Quartet 3) for tape and Piano (Jeffrey Burns) 4) for Tape and Drums/ Electrics (Chris Cutler). Great works of rare quality and sensitivity. Exquisite listening. http://www.lutzglandien.de/ Listen to a sample of this release
	GREAVES, JOHN : Loco Solo- Live in Tokyo Code:LSR004 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
At last John, a piano and his songs. Taken from a concert at Star Pines, Tokyo and wisely minimally edited, this follows the dynamic of the concert and lives in the minutiae of its performance. Persuasive and gripping because so real - warts and struggle and all. What comes out is the essence of a performance that is engrained with character and engagement.
	GREAVES, JOHN: Little Bottle of Laundry Code:BP232CD Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
With Sophia Domancich, Francois Ovide, Pip Pyle, Pete Kimberley and 22 guests. 10 songs featuring highly evolved arrangements and excellent performances.
	GREAVES/ BALLOT/MEYER: On the Street where you Live Code:BP346 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
John sings Standards with Piano (Ballot) and Guitar (Meyer) accompaniment, in English and French (viz. Fly me to the Moon, Over the Rainbow, Slow Boat to China &c).
	GREAVES/PYLE/PUNG: The Pig Part Code:VP225CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Computer-assisted compositions largely, plus bass, piano, voice, organs, guitars, bass, trumpet &c. Spread across the spectrum from songs to semi-chaos. I like the last 3 tracks.
	HARTH/COOPER/MINTON: State of Volgograd Code:FMPCD57 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Improvised pieces from a 1991 concert in Esslingen. Starts a bit dry but then gets more interesting fast. A lot of good keyboard work and unusual drama-music sections. Interesting.
	HENRY COW 40th ANNIVERSARY BOX - JAPANESE COLLECTOR'S LIMITED EDITION of 200. Code:cowJapBox Price: £150.00 Quantity in Basket: none
The same musical content as the ReR sets. 9 CDs and a DVD, each in a 14.5 cm square sleeve with printed cover inside. Sturdy box printed gloss black on matt black. Nothing new here, it's just collectible. We have only 2 copies. We'll include the booklets in English and the subscription only single with it - otherwise, sorry but that's the price.
	HENRY COW SPECIAL EDITION: In Praise of Learning Code:HCSpecialEdition4 Price: £32.90 Quantity in Basket: none
In Praise of Learning, in cardboard original release facsimile cover. This is a limited Japanese edition of 500 copies of which 32 numbered copies are available outside Japan. These pressings are identical to the ReR releases, so these are really only for collectors. And they are not cheap:28 pounds each, or 100 pounds the set which comes with an archive "Henry Cow family tree" from 1990. Must be sold on a first come first served basis. Not available in japan
	HENRY COW SPECIAL EDITION: Legend Code:HCSpecialEdition2 Price: £32.90 Quantity in Basket: none
Legend, in cardboard original release facsimile cover. This is a limited Japanese edition of 500 copies of which 32 numbered copies are available outside Japan. These pressings are identical to the ReR releases, so these are really only for collectors. And they are not cheap:28 pounds each, or 100 pounds the set which comes with an archive "Henry Cow family tree" from 1990. Must be sold on a first come first served basis. Not available in japan
	HENRY COW SPECIAL EDITION: Unrest Code:HCSpecialEdition3 Price: £32.90 Quantity in Basket: none
Unrest in cardboard original release facsimile cover. This is a limited Japanese edition of 500 copies of which 32 numbered copies are available outside Japan. These pressings are identical to the ReR releases, so these are really only for collectors. And they are not cheap:28 pounds each, or 100 pounds the set which comes with an archive "Henry Cow family tree" from 1990. Must be sold on a first come first served basis. Not available in japan
	HENRY COW SPECIAL EDITION: Western Culture Code:HCSpecialEdition5 Price: £32.90 Quantity in Basket: none
Western Culture, in cardboard original release facsimile cover. This is a limited Japanese edition of 500 copies of which 32 numbered copies are available outside Japan. These pressings are identical to the ReR releases, so these are really only for collectors. And they are not cheap:28 pounds each, or 100 pounds the set which comes with an archive "Henry Cow family tree" from 1990. Must be sold on a first come first served basis. Not available in japan
	HENRY COW SPECIAL EDITION Code:HCSpecialEdition1 Price: £100.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Legend, Unrest, In Praise of Learning, Western Culture - all in cardboard original release facsimile covers. This is a limited Japanese edition of 500 copies of which 32 numbered copies are available outside Japan. These pressings are identical to the ReR releases, so these are really only for collectors. And they are not cheap:28 pounds each, or 100 pounds the set which comes with an archive "Henry Cow family tree" from 1990. Must be sold on a first come first served basis. Not available in japan
	HENRY COW: Western Culture Code:ReRHC4 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
The last Henry Cow record made after the group had officially disbanded,now remastered and repackaged, with expansive notes and three extra tracks (Viva Pa Ubu, Slice and Look Back (alt). I'm biased of course but I believe this was a milestone recording,and perhaps the closest we came to getting the music to sound the way we wanted on disc. Guest appeances by Irene Schweitzer and Anne-Marie Roeloffs.
	HENRY COW: Leg End Code:ReRHC1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
First time on CD for the original mix of the album that launched a thousand careers, inspired the establishment of a number of international record companies, and built many reputations. This was the first time together on record for Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson, Chris Cutler, John Greaves and Geoff Leigh. An extension and fusion of the key influences of Soft Machine and Frank Zappa, the album is packed full of extraordinary tunes, complex but never pompous arrangements, and great improvisations. It defines a whole new world of European music. Those disappointed by the remixed version which originally appeared on CD will be delighted to hear the album in its original form. Repackaged with contemporary pictures and documentation. Indispensible.
	HENRY COW: 40th ANNIVERSARY BOX SET - VOL 1 - 5 CDs , box, book Code:RERHCBOX1 Price: £47.00 Quantity in Basket: none
THE 40th ANNIVERSARY HENRY COW BOX SET 9 CDs and 1 DVD with 2 substantial books - in two solid Boxes. LIMITED EDITION. Assembled over 15 years, this collection gives for the first time some idea of the breadth and depth of Henry Cow's work. Always very much a live band, performance was their metier, and a concert might range far - always driven by an intense dialogue between tightly knit compositions and radically open improvisation. The officially released LPs tell at best only half this story, and one purpose of this definitive collection is to set the work back into its broader context. These are all previously unreleased recordings, that include many compositions and improvisations new to anyone who only knows the official releases, documentation of a number of one-off projects and events and - where different or remarkable enough to justify inclusion - live versions of parts of the LP repertoire. Many of these recordings are high quality radio transcriptions taken directly from the original masters, others are less hi-fi, but justified we think by their historic and musical quality. And everything has been carefully transferred and re-mastered by Bob Drake to the best audio quality that current technology allows without interference or tampering. It's all a million times better than the terrible bootlegs that are swimming around. Altogether, these 9 CDs embody some extraordinary, and occasionally prescient music. Taking this box together with the officially released albums, it is possible at last to get some impression of the extensive ground Henry Cow covered in it's 10 short years. Finally, there is the DVD: 80 minutes of the 1976 Cow (with Georgina Born and Dagmar Krause) performing many unreleased pieces as well as Living in the Heart of The Beast, Beautiful as the Moon &c. This is the only known video recording in existence - professionally made, multi camera - and has not been recovered since its original broadcast (just scour U-Tube, HC is conspicuous by its total absence). And last but not least, there is a great deal of written, photographic and textual documentation. Since this will probably be the last and definitive collection, it has to be thorough. For reasons of fairness and cost we have decided to split the set into two boxes - which can be bought separately or together. VOL 1 covers the period 1971 to the 1976 Hamburg radio show which documents John Greaves' last concert with the band, as well as the extraordinary Trondheim concert from the quartet tour that immediately followed. VOL 2 takes the story through to 1978 and includes more previously undocumented compositions as well as the Bremen radio recording. The Stockholm CD belongs to this second box, which also contains the DVD. Dusted Reviews: The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set
	HENRY COW: Concerts (dbl) Code:ReRHC5-6 Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
The long-time out-of-print collection of live recordings that form a snapshot of Henry Cow as it was in 1975, including some of the concerts with Robert Wyatt, plus a couple of earlier recordings and the whole of the rather remarkable Henry Cow side of the long deleted 'Greasy Truckers' album. Fully re-mastered by Bob Drake and repackaged into the ReR definitive reissue series. This release completes that series.
	HENRY COW: In Praise of Learning Code:ReRHC3 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
ORIGINAL MIX remastered and with new, amplified booklet of pictures and texts. Third in the definitive series.
	HENRY COW: Installment Plan Completion Payment Item Code:HCInstal15 Price: £15.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Only order this if you are completing a Cowbox-on-the-installment-plan (see above). There is no actual item associated with this otherwise. Thanks.
	HENRY COW: LIMITED EDITION FACSIMILIE SET IN BOX (7 CDs, box) Code:henryCowFac Price: £105.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Very sturdily boxed edition containing the new Concerts double, as well as the other four Henry Cow releases and the Henry Cow/SlappHappy release 'Desperate Straights' - all in facsimile original board LP-style covers, with an extra subscription-only 8cm CD of previously unreleased material, in a strictly limited edition of 200 numbered copies.
	HENRY COW: Legend LP Code:ReRVHC1 Price: £21.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Limited audiophile edition of 1000 copies on 180 gm virgin vinyl. POST FREE
	HENRY COW: Legend Code:ESD80482 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The first Virgin LP, remixed, with extra tracks. The first ESD reissue, with extra tracks (not on our reissue). But very inferior sound, collectors
	HENRY COW: Stockholm Code:ReRHC7 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Stockholm will form part of the box set, and if you subscribe to the box, we will send this CD alone immediately. The rest of the box will follow when it is released. If you want this CD alone and decide later to get the box anyway, we'll send you the box minus Stockholm, cheaper than the full price, so either way you won't have to buy anything twice. Stockholm is a high quality Swedish Radio recording, made in 1977, that includes Tim's epic Erk Gah (now known as Hold to the Zero Burn), Phil Ochs' No More Songs and The March - none of which we ever recorded for CD release - plus Ottawa Song & other, untitled, pieces. Over an hour of music, taken from the original radio tapes and re-mastered for this edition by Bob Drake.
	HENRY COW: THE 40th ANNIVERSARY HENRY COW BOX SET - VOL 2 - 4 CDs, DVD, box, book WITHOUT STOCKH Code:RERHCBOX2NS Price: £42.00 Quantity in Basket: none
THE 40th ANNIVERSARY HENRY COW BOX SET 3 CDs, DVD, box, book. LIMITED EDITION. Assembled over 15 years, this collection gives for the first time some idea of the breadth and depth of Henry Cow's work. Always very much a live band, performance was their metier, and a concert might range far - always driven by an intense dialogue between tightly knit compositions and radically open improvisation. The officially released LPs tell at best only half this story, and one purpose of this definitive collection is to set the work back into its broader context. These are all previously unreleased recordings, that include many compositions and improvisations new to anyone who only knows the official releases, documentation of a number of one-off projects and events and - where different or remarkable enough to justify inclusion - live versions of parts of the LP repertoire. Many of these recordings are high quality radio transcriptions taken directly from the original masters, others are less hi-fi, but justified we think by their historic and musical quality. And everything has been carefully transferred and re-mastered by Bob Drake to the best audio quality that current technology allows without interference or tampering. It's all a million times better than the terrible bootlegs that are swimming around. Altogether, these 9 CDs embody some extraordinary, and occasionally prescient music. Taking this box together with the officially released albums, it is possible at last to get some impression of the extensive ground Henry Cow covered in it's 10 short years. Finally, there is the DVD: 80 minutes of the 1976 Cow (with Georgina Born and Dagmar Krause) performing many unreleased pieces as well as Living in the Heart of The Beast, Beautiful as the Moon &c. This is the only known video recording in existence - professionally made, multi camera - and has not been recovered since its original broadcast (just scour U-Tube, HC is conspicuous by its total absence). And last but not least, there is a great deal of written, photographic and textual documentation. Since this will probably be the last and definitive collection, it has to be thorough. For reasons of fairness and cost we have decided to split the set into two boxes - which can be bought separately or together. VOL 1 covers the period 1971 to the 1976 Hamburg radio show which documents John Greaves' last concert with the band, as well as the extraordinary Trondheim concert from the quartet tour that immediately followed. VOL 2 takes the story through to 1978 and includes more previously undocumented compositions as well as the Bremen radio recording. The Stockholm CD belongs to this second box, which also contains the DVD. Dusted Reviews: The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set
	HENRY COW: THE 40th ANNIVERSARY HENRY COW BOX SET - VOL 2 - 4 CDs, DVD, box, book Code:RERHCBOX2b Price: £49.00 Quantity in Basket: none
THE 40th ANNIVERSARY HENRY COW BOX SET Volume 2 VOL 2 - 4 CDs, DVD, box, book. LIMITED EDITION. Assembled over 15 years, this collection gives for the first time some idea of the breadth and depth of Henry Cow's work. Always very much a live band, performance was their metier, and a concert might range far - always driven by an intense dialogue between tightly knit compositions and radically open improvisation. The officially released LPs tell at best only half this story, and one purpose of this definitive collection is to set the work back into its broader context. These are all previously unreleased recordings, that include many compositions and improvisations new to anyone who only knows the official releases, documentation of a number of one-off projects and events and - where different or remarkable enough to justify inclusion - live versions of parts of the LP repertoire. Many of these recordings are high quality radio transcriptions taken directly from the original masters, others are less hi-fi, but justified we think by their historic and musical quality. And everything has been carefully transferred and re-mastered by Bob Drake to the best audio quality that current technology allows without interference or tampering. It's all a million times better than the terrible bootlegs that are swimming around. Altogether, these 9 CDs embody some extraordinary, and occasionally prescient music. Taking this box together with the officially released albums, it is possible at last to get some impression of the extensive ground Henry Cow covered in it's 10 short years. Finally, there is the DVD: 80 minutes of the 1976 Cow (with Georgina Born and Dagmar Krause) performing many unreleased pieces as well as Living in the Heart of The Beast, Beautiful as the Moon &c. This is the only known video recording in existence - professionally made, multi camera - and has not been recovered since its original broadcast (just scour U-Tube, HC is conspicuous by its total absence). And last but not least, there is a great deal of written, photographic and textual documentation. Since this will probably be the last and definitive collection, it has to be thorough. For reasons of fairness and cost we have decided to split the set into two boxes - which can be bought separately or together. VOL 1 covers the period 1971 to the 1976 Hamburg radio show which documents John Greaves' last concert with the band, as well as the extraordinary Trondheim concert from the quartet tour that immediately followed. VOL 2 takes the story through to 1978 and includes more previously undocumented compositions as well as the Bremen radio recording. The Stockholm CD belongs to this second box, which also contains the DVD. Dusted Reviews: The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set
	HENRY COW: THE 40th ANNIVERSARY HENRY COW BOX SET - VOL 3 Code:RERHCBOX2c Price: £47.00 Quantity in Basket: none
The complete re-mastered Henry Cow studio recordings in the third matching box: Legend, Unrest, Desperate Straights, In Praise of Learning and Western Culture. Dusted Reviews: The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set
	HENRY COW: THE 40th ANNIVERSARY HENRY COW BOX SET ON INSTALLMENT PLAN Code:RERHCBOXINSTAL Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
We know it's expensive, and that's a problem. But it really is expensive to make, and there's no way around that. However, from feedback we've had we can proposes a special payment method. If you desperately want the box but just can't spend so much at once, you can buy in installments (at £12.5 per CD) and we'll send the boxes with CDs 5 & 10, as well as the extra box for the studio CDs.  At any time you can pay the balance and get the rest of the set all at once (when you win the lottery, for instance). Hopefully this will make it a more manageable proposition for some of you. Just add to the cart as many items as you want at any time, and then in the note section at the bottom of the shopping cart (Use this area for alternate selections and additional sale items) specify the title or titles you want. Please note: CDs 4 & 5 must be bought together, that's 2 items, and the DVD must be the last item you orderÊ - we will send the 2nd and 3rd boxes and the 2nd booklet out with it. Please order this seperately - it is the item listed after this one called: INSTALLMENT PLAN COMPLETION PAYMENT. Thanks. Installment unit Vol 1   £12.50 Installment unit Vol 2   £12.50 Installment unit Vol 3   £12.50 Installment unit Vol 4 & 5       £25 Installment unit Vol 6  (optional)  £12.50 Installment unit Vol 7   £12.50 Installment unit Vol 8   £12.50 Installment unit Vol 9   £12.50 Installment unit DVD    £15
	HENRY COW: Unrest Code:ReRHC2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Dating from 1974, and following on from the re-release of Legend, this is the second in our series of definitive reissues of the original Virgin Albums. Geoff Leigh had left the group and Lindsay Cooper joined on Bassoon, Oboe, Flute, Soprano Sax. The mix was more 'live' than Legend, with the drums much more up front. The first half is composed material, with some of the Cow's best loved tunes, like Half Asleep Half Awake and Bittern Storm Over Ulm. For the second half the material was all written in the studio, using loops, varispeed tapes and electronics, and superimposing live improvisation and composed passages. Classic, historic and still relevant, this re-issue has been carefully re-mastered with new booklet, photos and documentation.
	HET: Let's Het Code:AdHoc3 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Another original Woof release from 1983, this was a project led by Dominic Weeks and Cass Davies from the legendary acappella group Furious Pig, with invitees Tim Hodgkinson and Catherine Jauniaux (absorbed into the mix). Marimbas, bells and all manner of tuned and untuned percussion, with voices (mostly in choral/chant style, sometimes treated) With distant echoes of Gamelan, Harry Partch, The Residents' 'Fingerprince' and a lot of Monkey Chant, these are broadly structured pieces that twist and turn and introduce material in A-B-C-D-E-F form over implied ostinati. Sounds like post facto composition: that is, structure that emerges from improvisation and is then built up in the studio. Rather like Cage basing a composition on marks and flaws on sheets of paper, except with selective intentionality - and a lot of attitude. And a BIG, big sound if sometimes a little monochromatic.This was an interesting and unique LP when it was released, and it still sounds strange and unusual now, in spite of everything that as happened in between.
	HODGKINSON, TIM: Each in our own thoughts Code:WOOF0016 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Six pieces, including the legendary unrecorded last Henry Cow piece (here as 'Hold to the Zero burn, imagine') a string Quartet, 2 works for small ensemble, 1 for samples and multiple horns and 1 for electronics. Featuring Dagmar Krause, Lindsay Cooper, Chris Cutler, Guy Segers, Dominique Weeks, Bill Gilonis and assorted trumpet, flute and string players. Thoroughly through composed; a remarkable musical statement that absolutely defies genre coding or classification.
	HODGKINSON, TIM: Sang Code:ReRTH2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Four new compositions. (1) for Viola, Piano, Alto Sax, Percs and live processing (2) for Bb Clarinet and Tape (3) for a large number of instruments and a mass of brass; (4) for Voice (Federica Santoro) and a montage made from instrumental recordings of other pieces of Tim's (rehearsal with Banda Municipal de Barcelona and fragments of his second String Quartet). All of 1,2 and 3 are played, real or virtual, by Tim. Composed chamber music, complex and persuasive. Listen to a sample of this release
	HODGKINSON, TIM: Sketch of Now Code:MODE164 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Six substantial compositions: three for the Romanian Hyperion Ensemble, with additional percussionists and wind players (Tim conducts two and plays on the third, which Iancu Dumtrescu conducts); one for bass clarinet and tape (all Tim); one for computer-modified cello and electric guitar (Tim again) and the last for clarinet, bass-clarinet and piano. These are very gestural pieces, which speak to dramaturgical rather than conventionally musical relationships; to the open ear rather than to the decoding mechanisms of a musically literate brain. In this respect there is a meeting of the specifically Romanian idea of spectralism with a more anthropological way of finding a sounding presence; a generating rather than representing way of music-making.
	HODGKINSON/HYDER/PONEMAREVA: The Goose Code:MEGA004 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Improvisations. (in fact mostly, except, Begnagrad, Vojvodina)
	HOLLMER, LARS: Looping Home Orchestra Code:VICTOCD024 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Includes Fred Frith and Jean Derome. Great tunes, performances, arrangements, spirit. Intelligence and emotion - as we should expect from one of the great figures to emerge from the last 20 years of the 'alternative' music community.
	HUMBERT, NICHOLAS - PENZEL, WERNER: Middle of the Moment Code:W&W915002-7 Price: £27.03 Quantity in Basket: none
DVD. After their prize-winning movie about Fred, the Cinenomads made 'a cinepoem about nomadic life' with Fred providing an integral sound track, which also won a stack of prizes. [Much of this soundtrack appears on Fred's CD of the same name]. It's a fascinating film and for those who only know the soundtrack adds dense layers of data. Their nomads are not simply Saharan tribes but the 'Cirque O', on it's 2 year tour 'creating a furor everywhere', and poet Robert Lax. It looks at the idea of present time. There are also two bonus shorts, one of Cirque O tightrope performer Johann le Guillerm (18 min) with soundtrack by Chris Cutler and Fred Frith from the Prague and Washington CD, and one a homage to poet Robert Lax. (24 min). 2 hours of intense sight and sound. Origin, Germany.
	JAUNIAUX, CATHERINE: Fluvial Code:AdHoc2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Recorded and released on the Woof label, this LP was a compositional collaboration between Tim Hodgkinson and Catherine Jauniaux. Guests included 2 other ex-Henry Cow members, Lindsay Cooper and Georgie Born, This Heat's Charles Bullen, The Work's Bill Gilonis and Furious Pig's Dominic Weeks. With very varied instrumentation, organised in small groups, these are mostly experimental pieces centred around the voice, which is extended in all dimensions, though largely avoiding conventional melody. That said, there is a tango, a song by Brecht and Dessau and a pair of Blake texts set by Tim that are more straightforward. The Dessau I liked a lot. References vary from contemporary music through ethnic, complexity through trance. The Blake songs are little epics with, to my ear, a faint art bears-without- the-beat flavour; they are also fully formed compositions that prefigure some of Tim's later work.
	K SPACE: Going Up Code:AdHoc12 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
This is not like an improvised music record, When you hear this you realise how unfree a lot of improvising is, how stuck it is in a language and an approach to the organisation of sound that is actually quite narrow. Having a Tuvan shaman in the band and two serious anthropologists helps of course, and the hardly recognisable instrumentation and the very inspired use of field recordings and sudden mutterings close to your ear. At its best, this CD does suggest a different discursive space, a different 'form of life' ('to imagine a language is to imagine a form of life' Wittgenstein). To me the first 2 tracks really do achieve alien status. More information on package would be nice.
	K-SPACE: Bear Bones Code:S:AMCD247 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Tim Hodgkinson, Ken Hyder and Shaman Gendos Chamzyryn marshalling vocals, percussion, ektara, doshpulur, samples, electronics, piano, alto sax and lap steel guitar. There are some genuinely counterintuitive moments here, of a truly strange and persuasive music. Try listening as you look at the cheery picture of the band on the cover.. Gendos' growling, yapping vocals are a highlight. Ken Hyder's website
	KONK PACK: Warp Out Code:Grob.323 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn and Roger Turner, mostly fast, pattering, abstract events, a carpet of sounds, that is pointillist and with a fine dynamic sensitivity.
	LUSSIER, RENE/CUTLER/DEROME: Three Pieces Suite Code:ReRLDCD1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Studio recordings seven years in the honing. Plus music for a film by Jacques Leduc, with guest Tom Cora. Plus part of a live performance at Sound Symposium, Newfoundland. Listen to a sample of this release
	MASSACRE: Funny Valentine Code:TZ7601 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred Frith, Charles Hayward, Bill Laswell. A lot of fine, thoughtful playing.
	MASSACRE: Killing Time Code:ReR/FR010 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Another legendary release. Fred's first full-on group after Henry Cow - following soon after his move to America - was a power trio with Bill Laswell (bass) and Fred Maher (drums), both from Giorgio Gomelsky's house band Zu - later to become Material. Massacre was loud and their pieces tended to be short, make their point and end. They used the time-honoured structure of bebop: an intricate head followed by high energy explorations of rhythm and timbre (aka noise). But the authority of playing skills remained very much to the fore - hence, perhaps, the term Punk Jazz which was applied at the time. However, this is unequivocally rock. A fully re-mastered reissue of the original Japanese release, plus the five extra tracks that appeared on the long out of print, Rec Dec CD and two, previously unreleased tracks, including The Shadows-Massacre, FBI.
	MASSACRE: Lonely Heart Code:TZ7619 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred Frith, Charles Hayward, Bill Laswell. Fine live recordings from Roskilde, 2003 and Sons D'Hiver, 2003.
	MASSACRE: Meltdown Code:TZ7606 Price: £15.86 Quantity in Basket: none
Fred Frith, Charles Hayward, Bill Laswell. Live recording from the London Meltdown festival in 2001.
	MCCB: Things from the Past Code:AdHoc1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Collects together all the releases of all the various, mostly connected, groups fronted by Henry Cow's Geoff Leigh: - Red Balune, The Kontakt Mikrofoon Orkhest and The Black Sheep -, as well as his own legendary solo EP 'Chemical Bank'. Some of this is as wild as it gets (Loek Van Saus' 'Spider in love', originally released in a brown paper bag and now a rare collector's item, stands out). Much is sharp and exquisitely recorded (at the celebrated Sunrise Studio in Switzerland), and all of it is uncompromisingly left-field, engaged, funny (in a grim sort of a way), inventive and faithful to the short pop song format - however stretched. And it gets pretty stretched. Mainly covering a very fruitful three years (1978-1981), with a couple of later tracks, 2 of them previously unreleased. Comes with a useful, Informative booklet with fine photographs and lyrics. A nice package altogether.
	NEWS FROM BABEL: Complete (3CDs in slipcase) Code:ReRNFBox Price: £22.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissue on 2 CDs of both long out of print LPs, re-mastered and repackaged, in a slipcase with an extra illustrated CD of the 7" single that was issued only to subscribers with the original release. Stretched songs and studio work. 'Work' was Lindsay Cooper, Chris Cutler, Dagmar Krause and Zeena Parkins, and followed the vein breached by Art Bears, though with a very different musical emphasis. 'Letters' added Robert Wyatt, Sally Potter, Phil Minton and Bill Gilonis. Music by Lindsay Cooper, words by Chris Cutler. With full text and illustrations.
	NEWS FROM BABEL: Letters Home Code:ReRNFB2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
The second record by this group (Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Parkins and Chris Cutler) with invitees Robert Wyatt, Sally Potter, Phil Minton and Dagmar Krause who sing, and Bill Gilonis (of The Work) who plays occasional guitar and bass, and who also produced the recording. These are extended songs, unusually orchestrated and arranged and not much like anything else recorded before or since. Re-mastered and repackaged here, with full text and illustrations enclosed.
	NEWS FROM BABEL: Sirens and Silences: Work Resumed on The Tower Code:ReRNFB1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
News from Babel was the song project inaugurated by Chris Cutler with fellow ex Henry Cow composer Lindsay Cooper. The pieces for this first LP were written for a band that also included Zeena Parkins (harp - her first recording with the instrument) and the incomparable Dagmar Krause (another ex-band member) singing. Using the studio as an instrument and experimenting with unusual instrumentation and techniques, these are songs stretched into a less than familiar shape. Phil Minton and Cow bassist Georgie Born also appear. Re-mastered and repackaged with full text and illustrations enclosed.
	NORMA with CHRIS CUTLER: The Harp and the Donkey Code:ReRNORMA1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
New work in 3 parts (1) Cinema - based on the Satie piece - a chameleon of a composition that changes every few seconds. A remarkable work remarkably recorded and mixed, (2) duo pieces for samplers, turntables and such by Massimo Simonini and Tiziano Popoli, universally great and imaginative, (3) NORMA live. Listen to a sample of this release
	OSSATURA with TIM HODGKINSON: Dentro Code:ReRO1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Somewhere between Musique Concrete and a kind of abstract improvisational work, using extended techniques and electrification that disconnects sound from any recognisable source. A fascinating first record that sits between studio improvisation and extensive post production processing composition. Listen to a sample of this release
	OSTERTAG, BOB/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE: Twins Code:CMDD0-00030 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
Concept- 3 invitees prepare 3 original pieces of about 4 minutes. Bob and Otomo generate pieces from deconstructing, sampling, reconstructing, and sometimes supplementing them; each 'parent' thus leading to a set of 'twins'. The original pieces - by Chris Cutler, Yagi Michiyo and Herb Robertson - appear too, so here's a window on samplers, musical thinking and plunderphonia - as well as a very listenable CD. Japanese Pressing
	P53: P53 Code:ReRP53 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Commissioned project from Chris Cutler for the 25th Frankfurt Jazz Festival 1994, featuring Marie Goyette, Zygmunt Krauze, Otomo Yoshihide, Lutz Glandien and Chris Cutler (score contemporary composers: 2, Sound debris organisers: 2, virtuoso pianists: 2, Virtual instruments: 2, Rythmn, Melody, Chaos: 2,2,2, more of the same: nil). His first without sung text. Instruments: Two Grand Pianos, Turntables, Random-tuned Guitar, Drums/Electronics, Computer and real-time processing. A single, complex narrative of sound; but track marked for listening convenience. Cover by Peter Blegvad. Notes and Pictures.
	PALE ORCHESTRA, THE: Mirror Man Act 1 Code:CookCD175 Price: £15.57 Quantity in Basket: none
The Orchestra- Andy Diagram, Keith Moline, Peter Hammil, Chris Cutler, Jack Kidney, David Thomas. Singers and speakers- Robert Kidney, Linda Thompson, David Hild Jackie Leven, Jane Bom-bane, David Thomas. Commentary and voiceover- Bob Holman. In July 1998 David Thomas programmed three days of Disastodrome at London's Southbank. The centrepiece was David's epic journey into the heartland where it's all road and sky and one-horse towns on the outside and failure, deserts and tumbleweed on the inside. There are great stories and texts here, daring to be openly poetic. And songs winding in and out of them. On their way to somewhere and an unusual and courageous experiment with form. Bob's Kidney and Holman are a revelation and it is wonderful to hear Linda Thompson back on the boards. This is more than a record. Sorry about price – Cooking Vinyl!
	PERE UBU: London Texas Code:ReRPU01 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A great live recording of the sadly short-lived version of the band that existed between the arrival of Eric Drew Feldman and the departure of Chris Cutler. By far the best recording of the Scott, Cutler, Maimone rhythm section, I think, and the whole band is on intense concert form: David racked up to 11, Eric working equally on foundations and fine details as to the out-there manner born and Jim Jones somewhere in the stratosphere. Coming back to it, this was a pretty great band. The songs are economical, tightly arranged and take no prisoners. And there's that live energy - the closest we can get to being when and where we weren't. Studio recordings can't do this. Mastered by Bob Drake, and it stings like a bee - with a beret. Play it loud.
	QUARTERLY, ReR: Selections Vol 1 Code:ReRQCD1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Selections from VOLUME 1 of the ReR Quarterly,including the legendary recording of the so-called 'supergroup' DUCK AND COVER (Tom Cora, Chris Cutler, Heiner Goebbels, Fred Frith, Alfred Harth, Dagmar Krause and George Lewis), BIOTA, Steve Moore, CASSIX, 5UU's, John Oswald. Wirth generous book.
	QUATRE GUITARISTES: World Tour Code:ReRGQ1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Released on LP in 1987-8 these are composed rock/contemporary/experimental pieces for electric guitar quartet and drums. Complex and energetic. Both LP's are now on one CD, omitting the Fred Frith guitar quartet extracts, which have been released separately. Performed by: Andre Duchense, Rene Lussier, Jean-Pierre Bouchard, Roger Boudreault, Claude Fradette and guests Remi Leclerc and Ferdinand Richard. Listen to a sample of this release
	QUATRE GUITARISTES: Fin De Siecle (vinyl) Code:ReR42 Price: £13.80 Quantity in Basket: none
'Fin' finds Roger replaced by Claude Fradette and Ferdinand Richard and Remi Leclerk added. These are dense Rock/Contemporary Instrumental compositions operating at a lot of borders and not much like anything else. 'Fin' includes commissioned work from Fred Frith and Lars Hollmer - and Bartok string quartet transcriptions.THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE
	QUATRE GUITARISTES: World Tour (vinyl) Code:Re404 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
An extraordinary project dreamed up by ANDRE DUCHESNE: an electric guitar quartet - on 'World' consisting of the Quebcoises RENE LUSSIER. Andre himself, JEAN-PIERRE BOUCHARD and ROGER BOUDREAULT, plus CHRIS CUTLER, drums.THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE
	RADAR FAVOURITES: Radar Favourites Code:RR017 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
This legendary band - with Gerry Fitzgerald, Jack Monck, Cathy Williams and Charles Hayward - was put together by Geoff Leigh just after he left Henry Cow in 1973. Geoff and Gerry had been in Mouseproof together (and Gerry next surfaced on the second volume of Frith's Guitar Solos); Jack Monck, then best known from his time in Delivery with Lol Coxhill & Carol Grimes, was also an old Cambridge friend of Henry Cow's [he, Fred and Chris were briefly in a band called Sparks together]; Cathy and Geoff went on to form Red Balune. So, this captures a mightily interesting socio-musical moment. The recordings here are of the first edition of the band, since everything else seems to have been lost - including the famous Virgin demo, which I remember we all loved but Virgin passed on. But, here are two great, mostly instrumental, compositions, strong, filmic and with their own unique musical identity, and a handful of rare live recordings, the last of which is an improvisation, to my ears, quite spookily Cowish. This is a recording very much of its time, eloquent of a musical climate and style that has long vanished, almost without trace. If you were there or are interested in the critical byways of the period, this is pretty essential. Carefully re-mastered from original reel-to-reel tapes, with the originally projected cover by Barney Bubbles.
	RING RING 1996: Ring Ring '96 Code:RINGRING001 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Following AngelicA, this series documents the excellent Ring Ring festival (Beograd) CD Features- Pierre Bastien, Erno Kiraly/Stevan Tickmayer/Chris Cutler, Boris Kovacs, Fastilio, the incomparable Ferus Mustavof, and Floridis/Petrovic/Papa Nik.
	RING RING 1997: Ring Ring '97 Code:RingRing97 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Live at Beograd festival memo, vol 2. Featuring- Palinckx, Altered States, Meneses/Fajt, Lajko Felix, Yumiko Tanaka/Uchihani Kazuhisa, Jon Rose/Otomo Yoshihide/Chris Cutler, Ground Zero, Justine, Kampec Dolores. That's it right there.
	RIVERS AND TIDES-Working with time: Dir Thomas Riedelsheimer Code:DVDRiversTides Price: £23.50 Quantity in Basket: none
An exemplary 91 minute documentary on the work of the great British land artist Andy Goldsworthy, with the added bonus of a very fine soundtrack by British composer Fred Frith. Made for Arte and subsequently distributed for cinema exhbition worldwide. All zones. In German or English with German and French subtitles. With 60 minutes of equally inspiring extra materials, documenting further works.
	ROSE, JON: Shopping Live@Victo Code:ReRJR4 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Yes, we're still shopping - this is an unexpurgated copy of the Victoriaville concert (Radio recording) with group: Lauren Newton, Joelle Leandre, Otomo Yoshihide and Chris Cutler. In my opinion the wildest and most dizzying version on record. Unfolding chaos with luminous performances - viz, Lauren's hair-raising interpretations and vocal event, Joelle's oscar-winning bag lady performance, THE CAST for maintaining an atmosphere of knife-edge confusion. All human life and a whole lot of other stuff too. High quality radio recording with nothing cut or edited - nightmarish, and funny. Glad I was there. Listen to a sample of this release
	ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET: Bingo Code:VICTOCD056 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Pieces commissioned from Lindsay Cooper, Fred Frith, Barry Guy
	SHAMS: Burghan Interference Code:SLAMCD238 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Shams is Tim Hodgkinson and Ken Hyder, who have worked together for a lot of years and achieved a musical understanding that is both sure-footed and elliptical. This makes for a particular kind of narrative coherence, based, at best, more on synchronicity than accompaniment - and on the maintenance of a tension that seldom descends into the merely musical. Use of the voice is crucial to the Shams dramaturgy - so that you mostly keep hold of the personalities. That's a hard number to pull off. This is a music you are required to play too, by switching off the music critic and narrowing down your time horizon. Some sections are more conventional but where level two kicks in, it's well worth the ride.
	SKELETON CREW: Country of Blinds. Learn to Talk (dbl CD) Code:ReR/FRO8/9 Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
With 10 extra tracks. A reissue of two timeless classics. On the first CD it's just Fred Frith and Tom Cora, the legendary two man crew who somehow - in real time, not with endless overdubs - managed to play all their own instruments (cello, bass, electric guitar, violin) and sing - as well as, between them, constructing the drum parts - dislocated into elements, with each of them having bits of the kit. This made for some fantastic, and normally unplayable, parts - most drummers having only one brain. No one sounded like Skeleton Crew, ever. Devious, complicated, brutally simple, always unexpected, turning on a dime, this was not just a pop band then, but a tocsin, a call to arms - and a catalogue of invention that is remains breathtaking today. On the second album, the inspired addition of Zeena Parkins (keyboards, accordion, more drums, more vocals) led to some of the best music of the decade. The recording was rawer, more urgent, the songs stand out in sharp relief; every part essential. And yet it's a puzzle almost impossible to unravel: how on earth did they ever evolve those dislocated parts and still make them fit so brilliantly together? Did I mention the texts? So to the point, so good. So where are the Skeleton Crews today when we really need them? Both CDs are here, in full, re-mastered by Fred and with 10 extra tracks - each as good as anything on the official albums. Just give in to the urge: if you have any pennies left, spend them on this.
	SLAPP HAPPY & HENRY COW: Desperate Straights Code:ReRHCSH Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
(Henry Cow Definitive Reissue series No. 4)In 1974, Henry Cow took a sabbatical while it considered what to do next. SlappHappy meanwhile was planning its second record for Virgin. One night the trio showed up at the quartet's door and proposed that the two groups make the second Slapphappy LP together. So incompatible - Slapphappy was making eccentric pop songs and Henry Cow was composing complex epic instrumentals - so how could a merger fail? Henry Cow jumped at the chance and Desperate Straights -was the result. It's still a gem to my ears, and now at last it's possible to release it, properly re-mastered (by Bob Drake), its sound closer to the original tapes even than our earlier Nimbus vinyl pressing. Great songs, great arrangements, great performances and Dagmar on top of her form... real people in a room together, playing straight to tape. Those were the days..
	SLAPP HAPPY: Sort Of Code:BP318CD Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissue of the long unavailable and classic first LP, backed by Faust, with one bonus track (JumpinÕ Jonah, the b-side of their only single). Indispensible.
	SLAPPHAPPY/HENRY COW: Desperate Straights and Slapphappy Code:CDOVD441 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
The two Virgin LP's reissued on one CD. 'DESPERATE' was the classic 'merged' supergroup with HENRY COW and 'SLAPPHAPPY or' was the remake without FAUST of our own 'ACNASLBASAC NOOM'. Listen to a sample of this release
	SONGS BETWEEN: Cities and Waterholes Code:BAR9303 Price: £9.09 Quantity in Basket: none
3 Songs, 1 instrumental - 20 minutes of music - from the 1992 'Between' tour with Lars (Lach'n) Jonsson, Sten Standell, Nikolas Billstrom and Chris Cutler. 12cm CD from BAUTA, in a strictly limited numbered edition of 500 examples. Until they run out.
	SPECIAL OFFER/HELP US: Golden State Signed Collectors imprint on transparent golden vinyl (LP) Code:SOGolden Price: £21.00 Quantity in Basket: none
500 copies only will be pressed this way and the first of these will be signed by the band and will only be available directly from us while this update is in print. Outside Europe, please add 3 for postage and packing. Sorry.
	TELECTU/ CUTLER/ BERROCAL: S/T Code:FS100001 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	THE RECOMMENDED SAMPLER LIMITED JAPANESE FACSIMILE EDITION Code:recSampJap Price: £36.00 Quantity in Basket: none
We have a handful of these beautiful reproductions of the original gatefold double LP release with the extra mini CD. CDs are the same as the ReR jewel case edition, so this is for collectors.
	THE RECOMMENDED SAMPLER: (double CD) Code:ReR1982 Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Faust, Art Bears, ZNR, Robert Wyatt, The Residents, Henry Cow, This Heat, Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, Stormy Six, Aqsak Maboul, Picchio Dal Pozzo, Decibel, Goebbels and Harth, The Homosexuals, The Work, Amos and Sarah, The Black Sheep, Feliu Gasul, Hector Zazou, The Muffins, R.Stevie Moore, Robel Vogel, Ron Pate/Raudelunas, Conventum, Joseph Racaille and Patrick PortellaOriginally released in 1982, this is a collection of specially commissioned and (at the time) newly recorded pieces by the most interesting groups and individuals then in the Recommended catalogue. Never reissued, it has slowly become a prized collectors' item - and remains an indispensable snapshot of the range and musical brilliance of this critical moment in the history of a small community of left-field groups struggling towards new musical languages. The breadth of imagination displayed is exemplary and it is amazing how fresh and original this music still sounds, and how much things have changed in only 25 years. What was intended on its release as a practical compendium has now become a definitive document so, on the occasion of Recommended's 30th anniversary, we have decided to reissue it fully re-mastered and with additional accompanying material.
	THE SCIENCE GROUP - CUTLER, CHRIS/TICKMAYER, STEVEN/DRAKE, BOB: ...a mere coincidence... Code:ReRSCIENCE1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A CD of songs following on from Art Bears, News From Babel and Domestic stories.This time the co-authors are Stevan Tickmayer and Chris Cutler, with Bob Drake, with guests Fred Frith, Amy Denio and Claudio Puntin. A dense, composed, gallon-in-a-pint kind of a record about the outer edges of hard science. Tightly composed, complex and layered. Listen to a sample of this release
	THE SCIENCE GROUP: Spoors Code:ReRSCIENCE2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Some changes from Volume One. These are Instrumental pieces, and the band is now a quartet. Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Bob Drake and Chris Cutler are joined by guitarist Mike Johnson of Thinking Plague. The music remains somewhere between intense contemporary complexity and rock - passing most points between. Tickmayer's compositional language is....unique and complex and extremely broad - no influence is seemingly outlawed, and this makes for a genuinely unclassifiable form that resembles nothing else I have ever heard. Listen to a sample of this release
	THE WORK: Rubber Cage Code:AdHoc14 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
My favourite of all the Work records, so newcomers start here. Dense compositions, high quality, powerful recordings that explore the fringes of rock; pop fragments, hypnotic repetitions and highly evolved arrangements coupled with a fine exploration of sonorities and techniques, this has a strong and unique musical fingerprint, always surprising while retaining its centre in performance. Now re-mastered with a dramatically improved sound. A modest classic.
	THE WORK: See Code:Woof015 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
The second LP reissued.
	THE WORK: Slow Crimes Code:AdHoc15 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
First LP by The Work, formed in 1980 by Tim Hodgkinson and Bill Gilonis with Rick Wilson and Mick Hobbs. Song based, noise backed, tight-drum-riff-driven, complex, strange and edgy music, with a life-is-short basement aesthetic. Takes no prisoners. Reissued re-mastered.f
	THE WORK: The Work Live in Japan Code:AdHoc13 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
In 1982, a one-off version of The Work went to Japan for a series of concerts - in the absence of regulars Rick Wilson and Mick Hobbs, Chris Cutler and L. Voag (as he was then known) filled in alongside regulars Tim Hodgkinson and Bill Gilonis. This recording was made at the last concert in Osaka, and the LP assembled from it came out later the same year, only in Japan, soon to go out of print and to remain so until now. This is a different and extremely in your face version of The Work, made more so by the recording, which brings everything forward and accentuates every punch and roar. Tim is in screaming form and the band take extreme liberties, somehow staying inside the songs they are systematically splitting them open and spitting them out. There's a lot going on here, in rapid succession, and yet somehow it remains uncluttered. Best taken loud (though, technically it sounds loud even when it's quiet), this recording is a nice example of what I like about certain live recordings - they have an energy and directedness (thanks to a lively public) that is quite impossible to capture in a studio. This CD Includes one piece never recorded by the official Euro Work, laconic spoken comments from Amos/Voag and the rare red flexi-disc version of 'I Hate America' by the same band from the same concert.
	THOMAS, DAVID: Monster (4 cd box) Code:HR110 Price: £29.96 Quantity in Basket: none
Four CD set in a slipcase box containing- THE SOUND OF THE SAND (with Richard Thompson, Philip Moxham, Anton Fier) VARIATIONS ON A THEME (Thompson, Hamann, Fier, Lindsay Cooper, Chris Cutler, Jack Monck) MORE PLACES FOREVER (Cooper, Tony Maimone, Allan Ravenstine, Cutler) MONSTER WALKS THE WINTER LAKE (David Hild, Maimone, Ravenstine, Garo Yellin) BLAME THE MESENGER (Jim Jones, Ravenstine, Maimone, Cutler. Produced by Chris Cutler.
	THOMAS, DAVID: Winter Comes Home (vinyl) Code:Redtlp Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
DT of PERE UBU fame plus CHRIS CUTLER and LINDSAY COOPER masquerading as 'The Legs'. This is a document of a live performance near Munich and is a kind of tour de force. David as stand-up- comic cum poet with the unruly and bolshie Legs sometimes with him and sometimes who knows where?
	Toychestra and Fred Frith: What leave Behind Code:SK28CD Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Small edition 'Concert for Electric Guitar and Toy Orchestra, written by Dan Plonsey. Toychestra is a 6 piece goup (all women) who play.... toy instruments. A charming and curious meeting and an opportunity for Fred to play a lot of great, (mostly) tuneful guitar. The problem is that, for their part, the Toychestra's means are very restricted and the use made of them rather predictable and based on repetition. Nice idea with a lot of nice stretches, but a bit plodding and static overall.
	UNFILED 1: ReR Quarterly 0401 (magazine only) Code:UNFILED1 Price: £17.04 Quantity in Basket: none
In the book (112pages, colour): Hugh Davis' definitive History of Sampling, The Plunderphonics case (Oswald) and the U2/Negativland story, a business analysis of the old Virgin Records, Part 2 of 'How to be in a Pop Group', Michael Gerzon's prophetic look at the near future of digital technology, 'Far From Equilibrium' - Paul Pignon's radical theory of improvisation, 'IRCAM, legitimacy', Notes by Georgie Born, Remix Notes by Guiseppe Colli and Chris Cutler, Bob Drake on Sampling and Rap, Independent Music Culture in South Africa, by Warric Swinney, Graphics and Indeterminacy (Sutherland), a new story by Alan Ravenstine, Stalin's casebook, artwork by Peter Blegvad, Jane Colling, Bill Ellesworth, Bruce Allan, David Evans and others.
	UNFILED 2: ReR Quarterly 0402 (magazine only) Code:UNFILED2 Price: £17.04 Quantity in Basket: none
Magazine contains: Jon Rose: Stringsville, story of a jazz fake, First interview with Tod Dockstader (Chris Cutler) Ron Rice: Anti records and Conceptual records, an overview, Philip Tagg: From Refrain to Rave: The decline of figure and the rise of ground, Berry/Miller- Pogacar: Deconstruction to Decomposition, Soviet Necrorealism in the light of western theories of postmodernism, Q.R. Ghazala: Incantors and the practice of Circuit Bending, Chris Cutler: Scale Michael Gerzon: Beethoven, improvisation and C-20 Music, Alan Ravenstine: Deacon, Frank Key: The Administration of Lighthouses, Kersten Glandien: Too Long IgMUSICWORKS: Nored, Too Bad plus artwork by Peter Blegvad, Jane Colling, Bill Ellesworth and others.
	VARIOUS ARTISTS: Enhanced Gravity Code:YTREGSDR Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A collection of pieces about Gravity, with extensive interactive media materials also provided by the artists - who are- Chris Cutler and Bob Drake; Faust; Amy Denio and Jim Bennett; Dildadafish; Noble Gas; Une Drame Musical Instantane; Pointless Orchestra; Laurie Spiegel and Steve Horowitz.
	VARIOUS ARTISTS: Passed Normal Vol 5 Code:FOTPN5 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Featuring, inter alia, David Thomas, Mother Gong, Catherine Jaunieux/Ikue Mori, Ivor Cutler, Daevid Allen, Kaiser/O'Rourke, Amy Denio, Hugh Hopper, Lol Coxhill, Elton Dean, Tim Hodgkinson. Eclectic selection.
	VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Meridian Crossing Code:AV0078-2931 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Very good collection of pieces united by place and acoustic. Recorded in the Granary, Chapels and Convent of Plasy monastery in Czechoslovakia, these are pieces for Cello, Voices, Slide Guitar, Percussion, Kalimbas, Xylophone, Pepared Piano and Orchestra, performed by, amongst others, Vojtech Havel, Pavel Fajt, Tim Hodgkinson, Jo Truman, Amanda Stewart, Wiel Conen, Jim Meneses... Very well selected and assembled to listen through, with some really outstanding pieces.
	VERY LIMITED JAPANESE REPLICA EDITION OF DESPERATE STRAIGHTS Code:limitedDesperate Price: £23.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A handful of copies of this perfect replica of the original release in miniature gatefold sleeve with a perfectly reduced copy of the original 16pp biographical booklet made at the time by Peter Blegvad and Chris Cutler, containing original drawings, commentary and photographs - and circulated only to the press.
	VRIL [Bob Drake, Lukas Simonis, Chris Cutler]: Effigies in Cork Code:ReRVRIL1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Bob Drake proposed this project: to make a CD of Guitar Instrumentals, but now, in the C21- and not to copy the Shadows and Surf bands but to recover the form: tune, arrangement, rhythm, bass, drums, all the essentials: flexibility with focus. Songs pushed them aside in the '60s, and then solos replaced tunes for guitar players. Hendrix remembered, Third Stone from the Sun is a guitar instrumental. We also wanted to return to the old work method, rarer today, where the band sits around with instruments, plays the pieces and works out arrangements together and then records them while they are still fresh. That's what we did, so all the basic tracks were played together, straight to tape. Of course, after recording the pieces we - especially Bob - did a lot more work on them in studio world - but playing and spontaneity remain its underpinning. These pieces cover a lot of ground, fast, and move right along; the sounds continually change and performance is firmly back at the centre of the music. What's not to like? Listen to a sample of this release
	VRIL: The Fatal Duckpond Code:ReRVril2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Award-winning soundtrack to the film by Horst Gack, (Prix Ultra de Concourse Lumiere, Ulm, 2009: Best Soundtrack). After a break of six years, Chris Cutler, Bob Drake and Lukas Simonis, now with added ingredient Pierre Omer, present the second volume of recordings by the elusive VRIL - a band who revive and update both the great institution of the guitar instrumental and the now sadly neglected practice of collective arrangement, intense rehearsal and live studio performance. Appropriate to the half century that has passed since the birth of the form, these hits dodge about, get bored easily and blend both concentration and complexity with the still indispensable traditional qualities that made the genre great: hummability, crafted sounds, nifty arrangements, ridiculous gimmicks and ensemble playing. 'Neither tribute nor parody, these enigmatic pieces are never more nor less than exactly what they are'.... wrote Lothar Preen in his Melbourne concert review....'but perfectly realised'. With film stills, misleading sleeve-notes and storyboard by the Diogenesian recluse Frank Key.
	WHEN: Black, White and Grey Code:ReRWHCD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A complete new work plus 'Death In The Blue Lake'. Combines playing and through-composition with manipulated and environmental sound in dramatic, narrative, psychological constructions. Quite unique. 'Death' based on a novel; texts in new works by Chris Cutler. Book of artwork. Listen to a sample of this release
	WICKES, JOHN: Innovations in British Jazz (vol1 1960-80) Code:JOHNWICKESInnovationsinJazzvol1 Price: £23.50 Quantity in Basket: none
248 large format pages with an unusual orientation that follows a line through John Dankworth, Stan Tracey and Humphrey Littleton to Alexis Korner, Ian Carr and Graham Bond, then out into to blues, soul, Soft Machine, Gong, Henry Cow, Lol Coxill, Jon Hiseman, Jack Bruce, Caravan, Egg, Matching Mole, Henry Cow, Paul Buckmaster and many others - all the way down to Brand X on one side, and through Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Tony Oxley, SME, AMM, LJCO and the hard core experimenters on the other, as well as taking the more expected route through Mike Westbrook, Keith Tippet, Chris Macgregor, John Surman, Harry Becket, Norma Winston and Co. Divided into easy, headed blocks, often biographical (but small print Ð there is a LOT of data here), this also covers early race issues, poetry connections, the unfairly forgotten indo-jazz fusions, the UFO club, the Musicians collective, the South Africa connection, Women in Jazz, The Amazing band, Mike Cooper and a lot else. The names listed above are just a tiny selection of a vast number dealt with in this history. There are quibbles one could make, errors and omissions and what I would consider wrong interpretations, but overall the sheer scope and structure of this book is impressive. And unique. I have never seen this story told this way. And the so called progressive and Canterbury groups get put into a serious context and seen as part of a greater story that is about music, its connections and ramifications Ð all clearly situated into a socio-historic context. Not the last word but a book immeasurably better than anything near it. Properly Indexed too. A vital resource. Apologies but because of weight, the postage for this outside Europe is 8 pounds (actually 10 but we charge you 8)
	WOOF: 7 Inches Code:AdHoc4 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
This CD collects for the first time all four 7" releases on the Woof label - the rare-as-gold-dust EP 'I do, I do, I don't I don't', by Tim Hodgkinson and Bill Gilonis (who went on to found The Work) and the Work's own three track 'I hate America' - plus 3 bonus tracks, one unreleased. 'I do..' is extremely strange, a little as if the Residents had got mixed up with Throbbing Gristle in a Cronenburg movie, only stranger. The Work are fast and furious, meaty and still very impressive This is big stuff. Next up are the ep and single by The Lowest Note on the Organ (Andy Bole and 'Billy Rebel' with, amongst others, 'Sven Halo', Alig, all the members of The Work, Trefor Goronwy, Chris Grey, Ian Hill, Ted Barrow, Veronique Vincent, and Catherine Jauniaux; a veritable who's who for those who follow this Brit strand). Six tracks that combine rather stretched recording techniques with very open form. Instrumentals, and a song or two with... you just have to listen to it. Then there are 4 bonus Bole/Rebel tracks, more obviously tuneful including a 7 minute medley from Ramshackle Pier, perfectly formed. The finale is Bill Gilonis' 'Naiwabi' from the ReR Quarterly. All in a very attractive 6 panel digipack with 12pp booklet of data, photographs and documentation. Nice work.