Eastern Europe

	AGON ORCHESTRA: The Red and Black (Dbl) Code:AGONORCHESTRA:TheRedandBlack(Dbl) Price: £19.39 Quantity in Basket: none
Double CD of contemporary Czech music by the best Czech Ensemble.
	BAKSHI, ALEXANDER: Hamlet is Dying Code:CDLA00028 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Three works for performance (music-theatre).The first, Hamlet is Dying, for 2 violins, three string ensembles, Double Bass funeral train and Bass drum brought to my mind an echo of Broch's 'Death of Virgil' as Hamlet's life swirls around him and some external sounds penetrate following his fatal poisoning. Part music, more dramaturgy, a convincing and concentrated work.The second piece, Sidur Mystery, for Soprano and percussion ensemble seems less concentrated, certainly on the record, without the seeing and the being there. You can compensate a bit by turning the Volume up and the light down, but this is still more of a document than a listening piece. It's interesting but not gripping.The third, Shostakovich Concerto, for Violin and Strings (a piece about, not by Shostakovich) . Gideon Kremer is the main violinist on the first and third pieces. The sleeve notes are almost worth the price of the CD, Bakshi writes about his idea of theatre-music, about the unique and critical quality of individual performance and about the deep relation of sound, space and presence in performance that is centred on dramaturgy and not dependent on words or any separable element. And there's the rub, on the CD, of course, only the sound remains. Nevertheless, there is an intelligence at work here that even information of is worth the having. Russian release. Limited supply.
	BAKU: SYMPHONY OF SIRENS - SOUND EXPERIMENTS IN THE SOVIET AVANT GARDE. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND RECON Code:ReRRAG12 Price: £27.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Clothbound 72 page 25 x 14 cm book with two CDs. CD1: The Symphony of Sirens. In 1922 Arseni Avraamov composed and conducted a visionary public sound event, activating the entire port city of Baku: its factory sirens, the ships horns of the entire Caspian flotilla, two batteries of artillery, several full infantry regiments, trucks, seaplanes, 25 steam locomotives, an array of pitched whistles and several massive choirs. Constantly referenced but forever lost, this extraordinary event is here painstakingly reconstructed and spatialised to approximate the original experience. Plus 39 other priceless sound works, including the legendary Victory over the Sun and other lost documents of Malevich, Dziga Vertov, Nikolai Foregger & his Orchestra of Noises, Sergei Prokofiev, El Lissitsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, Ivan Ignatyev & The Ego Futurist Group, Mikhail Matiushin, Alexei Kruchenykh, Georgi Yakoulov, Konstantin Melnikov, Igor Severyanin, Vasilisk Gnedov, Vladimir Kasyanov & The Futurist Circle, David Burliuk, Elena Guro, Olga Rozanova, H2SO4 Group, Simon Chikovani, The Nothingists, Vasily Kandinsky, Danil Harms, Igor Terent'ev, Mikhail Larionov, The Psycho-futurists group, Vasily Kamensky, Varvara Stepanova and Roman Jakobson. CD2: Enthusiasm! The Dombass Symphony (1930) is possibly Dziga Vertov's most revolutionary achievement: a symphony of abstract industrial noise for which a specially designed giant mobile recording system was constructed (it weighed over a ton) in order to capture the din of mines, furnaces and factories. For Vertov, the introduction of sound film didn't mean talkies, but the opportunity to collage, montage and splice together constructions of pure environmental noise. In addition, this CD collects together for the first time a definitive library of original sound documents from the Russian Avantgarde: contemporary recordings of Alexander Mossolov, Julius Meytuss, Roman Jakobson, Velimir Khlebnikov, Alexei Kruchenykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lili Brik, David Burliuk, Sergei Esenin, Vasily Kamensky, Semen Kirsanov, V.I. Lenin, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Alexandra Kollontay, Leon Trotsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam, Ilya Ehrenburg, Marina Tsvetaeva, Naum Gabo, Noton Pevsner and Dmitri Shostakovich. BOOK: A comprehensive overview of the complexity and breadth of the many early C20 Russian avantgarde movements, followed by detailed notes and contexts for the individual recordings - including summary biographies of the main actors; additional work notes about the process of the extraordinary Baku reconstruction; a bibliography, rare photographs, web research links, artwork, facsimiles of contemporary documents, a comparative timeline of European and Russian Avantgardes and the first English translation of an article by Avraamov about the symphony. This is a definitive library collection, some seven years in the making and possibly our most important release of recent years.
	BITTOVA, IVA/VLADIMIR VACLAVEC: Bile Inferno (dbl) Code:MAM055-2 Price: £23.27 Quantity in Basket: none
Iva on top form and multi-tracked with the great Vladimir V and playing, between them, violin, electronics, guitar, mandolin, kailimba, percussion and singing, with numerous guests, including Tom Cora. A very great collection of complex, subtle and inventive pieces, exquisitely arranged and full of surprises. Piled up cycles of strange additive rhythms with winding interpolations, in the Dunaj style, but in a layered soundscape .. My personal favourite work of Iva's for a while. Two CD's in a substantial box with a fat book of texts and photographs. Pretty indispensable.
	BITTOVA, IVA: Cikori Code:MAM150-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The only Iva Bittova, what else to say? With Vladimir Vaclavec (Bile Inferno) guitar. Plus contrabass, percussion and trumpet
	BITTOVA, IVA: Classic Code:SU33712931 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
With the Skampa Quartet, the Lelky Girl's Choir and woodwinds. Larger scale pieces, including Iva's Quatour pour Cora, pieces by Janacek and Moravian Folk Songs and others.
	BITTOVA, IVA: Divna Slecinka Code:X74321428912 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A fine CD reissued at last in a (dubious) new cover.
	BITTOVA, IVA: Elida Code:CA21027 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
From the Bang on a Can team, a fine ensemble comprising piano, bass, percussion, electric guitars, banjo, cello, clarinet and bassclarinet performing a programme of Iva's inimitable songs, very nicely arranged. Iva herself is on top form and these treatments work well. Her best since Bile Inferno - recommended.
	BITTOVA, IVA: Ne Nehledej Code:X7432124858 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Long awaited new CD (1995). Iva, joined sometimes by Pavel or amplified metal objects puts voice and violin through hoops.
	CHADIMA, MIKOLAS : The City (db) Code:BP0123 Price: £21.74 Quantity in Basket: none
Part of Czech underground history, written and occasionally performed at the end of 1979 and eventually released on vinyl after the changes in 1989, this has all the characteristic qualities of the best of the productions of that period (extended rock with an unmistakable Czech inflection); especially volume 2, which is great. No Western group ever sounded like this. (In fact the only non MC song here, a radically reinterpreted 'Sunshine of your Love' could function as a kind of E-W Rosetta stone. A classic.
	CHADIMA, MIKOLAS and PAVEL FAJT: Transparent People Code:CHADIMA,MIKOLASandPAVELFAJT:TransparentPeople Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Miklolas Chadima's last record Pseudodemocritus - in my opinion a fine piece of work - did badly with most of you, but undaunted, let me recommend this one, a collaboration with master drummer Pavel Fajt (who also plays groove box and electronics). Mikolas takes the guitars, bass, keyboards, saxophones and sings dark texts (he has a very charismatic voice). Studio work, obviously, with a lot of overdubbing, but a happy combination of people and sounds, especially Pavel’s electric stringed wheel – no I won’t explain. A kind of rock, but updated; songs but with imaginative settings. The wholly transparent booklet is charming, but uncompromising.
	CHADIMA, MIKOLAS: Nech Sv_tlo Doho_et, Kate_ino Code:BP01812 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
New recordings.
	CHADIMA, MIKOLAS: The MCH Band 1982-1989 Box Set (6 CDs and 40pp booklet) Code:BP0180-2BOX Price: £38.78 Quantity in Basket: none
An important figure in the Czech underground and the history of experimental rock, with a music cast in the quintessentially Czech style: strong, full of ideas, mature and intelligent. The box collects Chadima's work through the difficult '80s - when you had to be pretty serious to take your chances with a paranoiac and unpredictable state apparatus. While the Plastic People were celebrated in the world outside, and spurred on the declaration of Charter 77, they were in fact just part of a wider movement whose actors remain largely unknown outside Czecoslovakia where, for two decades, making 'anti-social' music would ensure that you didn't get a licence to perform - making public, paid concerts next to impossible. And to persist was to court arrest - so the music went underground, played at secret locations and under assumed names; recorded in basements or unofficial concerts and released in Samizdat tape editions. These 6 CDs, re-mastered from the original tapes, give some sense of the life of this Czech counterculture, and of the quality and professionalism of the work they produced under such severely antagonistic conditions. The first CD set alongside the later I984WELL - a 40 minute, single, abstract work - mark the extremes encompassed here: from insistent rock to explosions and dark, abstract atmospheres. A lot of fine musicians went through these various MCH ensembles whose line ups all featured bass, guitar and drums, with most of them adding various horns and lo-tech electronics. Not be to everyone's taste, perhaps, but these CDs are important historical documents and they do go a little way toward setting the record straight about what was going on musically in Eastern Europe - which was quite as innovative as anywhere outside. Most of this material has not been readily accessible until now and is not available in any other form. For those intrigued but not ready to spend try Chadima's Pseudodemocritus first. In a black box with a very informative 40pp booklet.
	CMCD [REISSUE]: Six Classics Code:ReRCMCD-RE Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
This essential piece of history at last reissued, redesigned and repackaged. Keystone works from the various streams of musique concrete, electronic music, soundscape, electroacoustics and plunderphonics - including two masterworks from Eastern Europe, a territory traditionally overlooked in collections of this medium. It comprises: John Oswald's 'Parade', a complex work drawn and extended from Satie's celebrated ballet composition of 1917; Georg Katzer's monumental 'Aide Memoire' ('7 nightmares from the 1000 year night'), a terrifying document of collage, electronic manipulation, original composition and sound documents from 1933-45; Lutz Glandien's exquisitely economical, sonically powerful and surprising 'Es Lebe' for Tape and Tuba; Steve Moore's groundbreaking 'A Quiet Gathering' (chamber music for environmental sounds) - a multi-layered 22 minute work made only from captured non-musical materials; Jaroslav Kr_ek's miniature electronic gem based on nightingale songs and the proto-plunder legend 'Ommagio a Jerry Lee Lewis' by Richard Trythall. An indispensable collection in my view.
	CZECH NEW MUSIC FROM THE 60'S: Agon Ensemble Code:F10048-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A splendid and much appreciated collection; unusual and prophetic music, all of which is uncompromisingly excellent. Particular mention for Berg: music in twelfth-tones (each tone divided in twelve) and Komorous (enormously inventive, especially the piece for mouth organs and bass drum). This is music that was missed, showing that the spirit of experiment lived and thrived, heard or unheard, every- where, and it is still coming to light. Highly Recommended.
	DAMA DAMA: Dama Dama Code:WORE960003-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A percussion ensemble with a strange and interesting repertoire, drawn mostly from Czech composers of the last 40 years - and many from the last 6 years. Occasional appearance of non percussion instruments and rock/industrial/theatre aesthetics. A few very off-the-wall moments here. An interesting and unusual record.
	DATA DIRECT: La Dolce Vita Code:CD044 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
SLOVENIA. One of the trio, Borut Krzisnik will be well known to you from our Points East release some years ago. Decidedly up to date, played and processed compositions- skidding off techno here and there - and other genres too, but varied, often great, ideas, well realised. A group (with guests). Excellent sound and packaging.
	DETI, ROZMAZANE: Mexico Family (vinyl) Code:MON010011 Price: £12.34 Quantity in Basket: none
Intelligent, intense, tuneful. Songs, in that stretched vocal style unique to the czech avant garde. Impressive instrumental sections too that show that there are still fresh things to do in the classic experimental rock format.THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE
	DETONI, DUBRAVKO: With ACEZANTEZ Code:PD11 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Absurdly ignored and important Croatian composer with his 5 piece performing ensemble (recorders, horns, piano, harpsichord, Celeste, Organ, Glockenspiel, Viola, Double bass, Tuba and a lot of Tape). You can't imagine the noises they can make by looking at the instrumentation. This is a long missed collection of his work and adds to the little that slowly emerges of what was happening in experimental music in the ignored east. An important document.
	DOMACI KAPELA: Jedne Noci Snil Code:R0010 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Legacy of the PPU. An excellent Suite of Songs, with a highly distinctive harmonic signature, fine singing, good arrangements, light but authoritative drums and concise guitar. There is still life in Rock and Roll.
	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: Remote Pulsar, Movemur, Numerologie Secrete, Incantato, Quinco Code:EDMN1018 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
3 pieces by Iancu, 2 by Ana Maria. Central pillar is the massive Incantatio for Large orchestra, percussion and Viola, a full spectrum work that pits a virtuoso soloist against a post global warming sonic weather system. In addition there are two computer assisted pieces, both tense and suspenseful, one for solo viola alone, and the last for computer assisted sounds and viola. In all cases the soloist is the never less than impressive Cornelia Petroiu.
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU /ANA MARIA AVRAM: Meteors, Profundis Code:EDMN1010 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
5 More signature compositions, respectively for Computer assisted composition; Clarinet, Bassclarinet and Orchestra; Cello Solo; Two Orchestras; Cello and Percussion.
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU/ANA MARIA AVRAM: Ikarus, Fluxus Code:EDMN1008 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
New works including Dumitrescu's Kronos Quartet piece and works for Tape and Orchestra, string quartet and tape, prepared Piano.
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU/ANA MARIA AVRAM: Mnemosyne etc. Code:EDMN1007 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Another excellent collection
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU/ANA MARIA AVRAM: Ouranos, Gnosis, Orion I, II, Swarms III, Labyrinthe I Code:EDMN1009 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Pieces for Tape, Percussion, 12 cellos; Double Bass, 3 groups of Percussionists, String Orchestra, Strings, Amplified Percussion by the extraordinary and uncategoriseable Dumitrescu/Avram team. Pursuing the intimate grain of sounds through the directed inspiration of performers who somehow produce music while uncovering it, escape control by going through it. Movement and stillness. Even in the storm of percussion (Orion) is a slow centre.
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU: A Priori/5 Implosions Code:EDMN1006 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
5 pieces- three new works by Iancu (two for chamber ensemble (with electrics) tracking sound to its furthest lairs, and one for Orchestra) two by Ana-maria Avram, one for Orchestra (de Sacrae - an indispensible classic) and one for Tape. A Great CD.
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU: Astree/Holzwege Code:EDMN1004 Price: £11.50 Quantity in Basket: none
4 Pieces, two by IANCU (for orchestra, and for viola), a long electronic and treated voice work by Georges Astalos and voice solo by Ana-Maria Avram.
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU: Au Dela/Monades Code:EDMN1002 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Au Dela.. new work for string orchestra, Monades, previously unreleased versions of electrocord work. The three works by Ana-Maria Avram, one for chamber orchestra, one for Dumitrescu's 'Hyperion ensemble' and one for prepared piano (A-M M), percussion and tape, fall into the same musical realm. Especially interesting is Zodiaque.
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU: Galaxy/Movemur/Basreliefs Code:EDMN1005 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
'Galaxy' is a new work, for 'Harryphones' percussion and micro-processing, 'Movemur' a virtuoso soundwork for 3 contrabasses and percussion, 'Reliefs' for 2 orchestras and piano, 'Memorial' for string quartet and 'Basoreliefs' for orchestra. Each is a gem, each keeps right on top of its moment with no uneccesary note or tone, each tunnels deep into the inner quality of sound. Innovative and profound. Great works.
	DUMITRESCU, IANCU: Pierres Sacrees/Harryphones Code:EDMN1003 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
Pierres is a new work for prepared pianos and metal objects. Grande Ourse for 2 bassoons, prepared piano and percussions is also new, Harryphones - previously unreleased versions of the work available before on Romanian electrocord.
	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).
	ELECTROPLEINAIR SOUND DIARY: The Wind Rises Code:ReRSD1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A revelation. First released in Hungary in 1987, this is an extraordinary work combining ensemble playing, documentary recording, studio manipulation, electronics and some stunning compositional conception. Featuring Marta Sebastjen, the Amaninda group, WYXOMPHONIC group, Mandel Quartet and a star gallery of other instrumentalists of all kinds. A unique work we worked years to acquire - a masterwork in every sense. Listen to a sample of this release
	ELEKTROAKOUSTISCHE MUSIK: Glandien, Zapf, Voigtlander, Ruschkowski etc Code:X002292-BF Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
An excellent collection of works produced in the former East Germany between 1984-88 by some of the best composers in the form. A fine and rare collection. Short supply.
	FRAGILE: Saad Code:fragileSaad Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Trio from Estonia, rock based: keyboards, bass, drums. Clear, crisp, powerful sound, economic compositions, some innovative techniques, fairly minimal. Very nice threefold card package with 12 panel full colour booklet of original paintings.
	FUKI, TARA: Kapka Code:MAM214-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
New CD by Andrea and Dorota, the usual mixture - singing and dual cellos, inevitably a bit bittova-esque but rather ambitiously produced this time; less of the simple charm and more weight, a development which is curiously distancing to my ear. It's hard to fault but less easy to like.
	GANELIN CHEKASIN TARASOV: Golden years of the Soviet New Jazz Vol IV Code:GY413/416 Price: £29.38 Quantity in Basket: none
(4CD set - limited 750 Edn) We all owe a lot to Leo Feigin, who has tirelessly recovered, reissued and restored an amazing musical archive from the old Soviet Union. What was happening there was quite as remarkable as anything happening in the easy West, but without major labels, press hype and appearances few names have stuck. Here are 4 CDs devoted to members of the Ganelin Trio, all recorded in the 1980's. On the first 2 CD's they work in pairs - this is world class material, as genre free and imaginative and original as anything from the period; these guys were as far off the map and, if anything, freer than many; unhampered by the 'forbidden' vocabularies of melody, style and rhythm and incorporating - very much ahead of the game - multiple languages and crossed genres more associated with Zorn, even Oswald. Note the extraordinary use of electronic keyboards on the Le Mans recording. This box is worth it just for these 2 CDs. CD 3: 'sketches of everyday life' by Chekasin's quartet starts radical but settles into more of a crowd pleaser - a tour de force, but finally giving the jazz public a stomping show. Finally two early '80's shows by the Ganelin trio itself.
	HAVLOVA/HAVEL: Hata H Code:VI00052911 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Strange, quiet, abstract; sound constructions for, variously- bowls, viola da gamba, prepared gong, harmonium, kettledrums, violocello, piano, voice, treatments, fragments of baroque, melody, rhythm....interesting.
	HAVLOVA/HAVEL: Little Blue Nothing Code:F100212511 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Voice, Viola da Gamba/Tenor/Alto, Tibetan singing bowls, gongs, bamboo stems, knitting needles, organ, silver cups, small drum - gives an idea. Quite minimal, quiet, atmospheric, not songs. Nicely done.
	JABLKON & SVECENY: Mumlava Code:SUB0003-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A light, sure touch. featuring variously, acoustic guitars, violin, viola, bass, oboe, bassoon, percussion and keyboards, where every detail is important and which features an effective and unusual use of low-mixed voices to add instrumental colour. Highly articulated and imaginative music, exquisitely realised.
	JABLKON: Baba Aga Code:B+N9202 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
New CD from the eccentric acousticians. Not easy to clasify. Whoever heard the last will know what to expect. Newcomers I'd still advise to listen to JABLKON and SVECENY first. Two new releases.
	JABLKON: Devata Vlna Code:SU5365-2311 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Finally reissued on CD, this was one of the signature Czech bands, unplaceable really. Not electric, but tough - though highly eccentric. A bit of acoustic early Etron Fou, but stranger... Involved, twisty compositions for guitars, tuned percussion and junk. Reissued here with 6 extra titles. Welcome back.
	JABLKON: Machalaj Code:BABAN9504 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
More as known.
	JABLKON: Symphonic Code:F10003-2031 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
As the title implies, Jablkon had the Czech Symphony Orchestra to play with - and violin maestro Jaroslav Sveceny. 11 pieces. A curiosity with some fine parts. Someone did a monstrous amount of work for this. A document
	KAMPEC DOLORES: Sitting On The Buffalo Code:ReRKD2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Co-released with BAHIA. Listen to a sample of this release
	KAMPEC DOLORES: Foldayana Egapa Code:A38 Price: £12.93 Quantity in Basket: none
Latest release by Hungary's finest.
	KATZER, G/ Z. KRAUZE, J.KRCEK: Aide Memoire/Folk Music (vinyl) Code:RR22 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
'Aide Memoire'('Seven Nightmares From The Thousand Year Night') is a classic work. Commissioned by GDR Radio on the 30th Anniversary of Hitler's rise to power (to counter the nostalgia coming from West German TV and Radio at the time) it uses the treated voices of the old nazi leaders and other contemporary documentary materials in the construction of a musical and dramatic structure of hair-raising intensity. This is a major work, and unequivocally a political one. It comes with full English text and notes. 'Folk Music' is Breughelian chaos of decentred folk musics, about 100 melodies simultaneously played by autonomously organised sub- groups within the Polish Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra at the Warsaw Autumn 1972. 'Sonaty' is a concrete work based on a phonetic medieval text of nightingale songs. Two voices provide the source material, radically processed. Exquisite, clear and haunting. 16pp Book.
	KILHETS: Kilhets (5CD metal box) Code:BP0191-2 Price: £43.48 Quantity in Basket: none
This is one of those documents I thought would never see the light of day. I first saw Kilhets in 1979 (it was their 3rd concert) in Prague, back in the days of strict control and secret police, when imagination could be expected to be treated as subversion. A vanishing rarity in the CSSR, Kilhets essentially played free improvised electric music, far from jazz, far from most anything - it was a home-grown laboratory for a new music, something the East-bloc wasn't supposed to have. With hoods and painted faces (whether part of a general alienation effect or a nominal disguise I'm not sure) three (later four) extremely talented musicians (all active more visibly in other bands) just made it up as they went along. On the continuum noise - silence all points were occupied; this was a music that came seemingly fully formed out of nowhere. What makes it doubly fascinating is that these players were not part of a fashion or a school - there was no other music like this in the CSSR, nor was there any ready public for it. Kilhets just played this way because they had to and, at least in the beginning, they also had to invent their own rules and aesthetic. In those days, concerts in the CSSR were few and far between, and each one was a special event. In 2 years Kilhets managed 8 performances, which was pretty good going, and five of them are contained here (1, 5 & 7 are missing). They are all very different and the ones I find most interesting are the first two and the fifth - which is the most conceptual and intense. The others have their moments (some may prefer them - there are even snatches of The Residents' songbook and a lot more quotes from the rock lexicon in them); they are clearly keeping on the move. However, this is not for everyone; you have to be interested or curious and ready to be bemused. That said, this is an important document and a significant piece of lost history that will need from now to be taken into account.
	KIRALY, ERNO : Spectrum (dbl CD) Code:AUT1004 Price: £18.80 Quantity in Basket: none
Comprising one sound CD and one CD-ROM concert video. The sound part features predominantly Kiraly's writings for voice - a children's opera from 1963 and various songs and improvisations with Katalin Ladik, some with the Ensemble Acezantez. It's interesting historically and as contemporary vocal work from the 60's and '70's. But the CD gets into high gear with the bonus track - a tablophone solo from 1998 by Kiraly himself, which is astonishing. His instrument is already otherworldly (electrified, highly modified zithers) but his aesthetic is really sharp and on the edge (and the guy is in his eighties now). Think Fred Frith/Keith Rowe and then some. The CDROM is more artistic to look at than informative since it is dramatically lit and low resolution; still it's a good document, and fixes a great piece of music. For this 24+ minutes and the solo audio track the CD is already worth having. Kiraly is one of the few - and a pioneer. And he's still way ahead of people a quarter his age.
	KODJABASHIA, NIKOLA: Solitary Walker Code:ReRNK1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Macedonian composer (tutors: Anatol Vieru, Tomislav Zografski, Sir Harrison Birtwistle and the Gyorgiâs Ligeti and Kurtag) with a unique voice, moving easily here between tape manipulation, ensemble and choral composition both contemporary and soaked in national folk influences to form a complex minimal, tangled music that answers to no genre but short-circuits straight to the 21st century ear combining the best qualities of melodic and developmental writing with ear-centred composition and a contemporary concern with collage, stasis and unaccustomed juxtaposition. Listen to a sample of this release
	KONTROLL CSOPORT: 1983 (Dbl) Code:BVD002-3 Price: £24.09 Quantity in Basket: none
The legendary Hungarian song group. Strange pop, related to Kampec Dolores (share composer/guitarist Csaba Hajnoczy) with bizarre edge and great singing. Document of the unavailable (or at least 'underground') music of the early '80's. Well recorded.
	KOPCE/OSKLID: Jest Po'd... Code:PANTON81115 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Some will remember the excellent 7-inch, then the only recording of this interesting group. Now a well made CD. Fast, complex songs with imaginative arrangements and many soul/pop references, but all in a unique (but typically czech) style. Part of a truly original post- 'progressive' Czech school that deserves attention.
	KOVAC, BORIS: Anamnesis-Ecumenical Mysteries Code:VICTOCD039 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Chamber music with voice. A single work, dedicated to Berdjiaev and Gurdjieff.
	KOVAC, BORIS: Mirror of the Voice Code:0008 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
A sampler of Boris' work, beautifully packaged with embossed sleeve and separate flat-bound 50pp booklet with an extraordinary apologia sua vita and intellectual and spiritual biography elucidated through the works. Most of the tracks are taken from existing records but their sequence and the addition of recent material make this a journey that has it's own existential meaning. A tribute to a great, and quiet spirit.
	KOVAC, BORIS: Play on String Code:MOMUS002 Price: £13.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Music for String Quartet.
	KOVAC, BORIS: Profane Liturgy Code:DNN001C Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
This is the third of a set of highly distinctive and articulate releases which bring Folk sensibilities and instruments together with contemporary aesthetics and a particular spirituality.
	KOVAC, BORIS: The Mask Code:TARCD004 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Ensemble Music for Theatre. Covers a lot of ground. Scarce Jugoslavian pressing.
	KOVAC. BORIS: East OFF Europe Code:VICTOCD062 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	KRZISNIK, BORUT : Stories from Magatrea Code:BK1 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Extraordinary and already out of print item (some will remember our Borut's ReR Points East LP). Huge Orchestra composition with unbelievable monster sound. Great Music. Serious imagination ! A remarkable achievement. Very Limited Quantity - first come...
	KURYOKHIN, SERGEI: Divine Madness (4 cds) Code:CDLR813-816 Price: £58.44 Quantity in Basket: none
Released as a memorial tribute. The 5 hours of music covers all periods of his career and includes previously unreleased work, long deleted LPs , supplemented by a 20 page booklet.
	KURYOKHIN, SERGEY: Some combinations of fingers and passion Code:LR179 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The incomparable Sergey, recorded in London, hauls his piano through thickets of sound with deceptive ease. Protean, hopping from one genre to another, scarily free of gloss and bluster, this is direct, sometimes irresponsible music that plays endlessly with form. A long cat and mouse performance with Brubeck's 'Blue Rondo a la Turque' forms the centrepiece; as cavalier with time as the early Dollar Brand.
	KURYOKHIN, SERGEY: The Ways of Freedom Code:GY14 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The legendary release reissued. A lot of vari-speeded pianos and some phenomenal playing.
	MCH BAND: Live (dbl CD) Code:BP-0142 Price: £17.04 Quantity in Basket: none
Mikolas Chadima, Czech troublemaker and survivor, with a collection of great live recordings from 1985, 2002 and 2003. In another world he would have been a major figure; he has the intensity, the discipline, the imagination and the steady depth that makes a great performer and bandleader. His unique brand of rock is quirky, tinged with avant-garde detail and thinking, but remains categorically rock; steady and powerful, never callow or shallow. He's a phenomenon and much under-rated. These pieces sound good, are solid and nuanced, and range quite far, musically. For old fashioned craftsmanship, with an adamantine edge; this is the goods.
	MUSICWORKS 56: (magazine & CD) Code:MUSICWORKS56 Price: £18.21 Quantity in Basket: none
Inc. interview, article about Iva Bittova and CD has 5 pieces by her + a great classic of James Tenney: 'Collage No.2: Viet Flakes', some new gamelan and others.
	MUSICWORKS 76: (magazine & CD) Code:MW76 Price: £12.34 Quantity in Basket: none
Interviews with Ana Maria Avram, Pamela Z, Warren Burt, Articles by Pauline Olivieros, Udo Kasemets and about interactive installations, David Tudor, Instrument building. Plus reviews. CD tracks by Pamela Z, Warren Burt (Theremin), Jesse Stewart, Ana Maria Avram (appears also on EDMN 015), Anne Bourne (Cellos) and Pauline Olivieros.
	MUZYKA CENTRUM: same Code:DBC02 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A rare collection of contemporary music from Poland for traditional instruments, voices, tape, electronics, computers, samples. Astonishingly varied and lively. Sometimes like the best improvised music, sometimes near Techno or stretched electric Jazz, then clearly c.20 serious music, and two minutes later a rich and unusual programme, and an eye opener. For instance the piece for charango, computer and tape. Highly recommended. VERY LIMITED SUPPLY
	NE ZHDALI: Live Rarities Vol 1 Code:NML9722 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
AT LAST a recording that captures some of what makes Ne Zhdali such a great concert group. To my mind, far better than all but the first studio record. Inventive kind-of rock with brains, exuberance and fast footwork.
	NE ZHDALI: Whatever Happens, Twist Code:nml0530 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissue of the 1995 Rec RecCD. Ne Zhdali came from pre- Glasnost Estonia and found a welcome in the Recommended related community in mainland Europe in the '90s. Fine musicians, with a bit of punky who cares, some jazz echoes and clear rock roots (fast and furious school), they rip through the songbook with noise asides. With careful crafting and precision when needed, strong compositions and a penchant for instrumentals, this record documents a nicely produced, old fashioned, live approach to performance that is very welcome today.
	OSKLID: Osklid Code:OSKLID Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
7-inch EP in a series of new experimental Czech groups. Interesting. Incredibly rare now. Order By Name
	PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE with THE AGON ENSEMBLE 2004: Passion Play Code:KH0001-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Performed (once) in 1978 and released on vinyl this was the first of the Plastic People's major through-going works - a major achievement for a rock band by any standards that went largely un-noticed outside Czechoslovakia, and of course, was never officially released inside - the band being effectively illegal. This new version, featuring many of the original group has been expanded and arranged for the PP and the Agon ensemble (a 20 piece contemporary music group best known for their work with the great experimental Czech composers of the last half century). The result is impressive, revealing not only how the PP had evolved a compositional style that left all rock cliché behind but also how seamlessly elements of contemporary music, minimalism and rock can be wound into a powerful vehicle of almost genre-free musical expression. From another planet, certain conceptual parallels might be drawn with Magma (although there is no obvious similarity in the letter or the spirit - and the PP are further from identifiable models than Magma). Still there is certain sense of scale, of evolving composition, of elemental accumulation - and a shared use of choral material). This recording documents the 2004 concert and the sound is excellent. In form, it is an oratorio, with a substantial and impressive text (in Czech), powerfully delivered. The booklet contains the full text in English. Passion Play was one of the great works to come out of what was still loosely called rock in the '70's and has here found a new and expanded life in this nuanced and appropriate elaboration.
	PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE: 1997 Code:Gobus210240-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Recent live concert.
	PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE: Hovezi porazka Code:210218-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Volume 9 of the works.
	PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE: Jak bude po smrti Code:210215-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Volume 6 of the works.
	PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE: Kolejnice Duni Code:210217-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Volume 8 of the works.
	PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE: Lazy Love Code:Globus210309-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
In memoriam Mejla Hlavsa who recently died, featuring many of his songs. The Current PPU show how it's done. There's no one with sound like this, with an aesthetic like this, with a way to do Rock that's inventive, unaggressive but tough like this; doesn't show off but nails it down. And so many great singers.
	PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE: Pasijove hry velikonocni Code:210214-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Volume 5 of the works.
	PULNOC: Pulnoc (vinyl) Code:GLOBUS21001 Price: £13.87 Quantity in Basket: none
The Plastic People as was. Now with a new name but the same commitment to a special kind of Rock that retains the clarity and simplicity of their influences (Velvet Underground/ Reed especially) - and no inverted commas. Czech Pressing.THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE
	PULNOC: Pulnoc Code:G210011-2311 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Plastic People as was. Now with a new name but the same commitment to a special kind of Rock that retains the clarity and simplicity of their influences (Velvet Underground/Reed especially) - and no inverted commas. Czech Pressing.
	QUARTERLY, ReR: Vol 4 No. 2 CD Code:ReR0402 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
CD contains commissioned works by Q.R. Ghazala: Sacrifice To Isis, , Mike Hovancsek/Paul Guerguerian:Three Cold Floors, Tom Dimuzio: Inception, Marie Goyette: Short-Cuts: Brahms, Ken Ando: Danseuse, Robert Iolini: Congo, Zimbabwe, Giovanni Venosta: Le Ombre Di Otello, Keith Rowe/A. De Fillips: Feu Brilliant, Brian Woodbury's Variety Orchestra:Shenandoah/Innsbruck, Richard Barrett: The Unthinkable, Stevan Tickmayer: Heterophony, Volapuk: Des objets de la plus grande importance, Boris Kovacs: Extract, Philip Perkins: Virgo Ramayana, Shelley Hirsch/ Jon Rose/Chris Cutler: After Hours/The Colour Of Blood.
	QUARTERLY, ReR: Volume 4 No 1 CD Code:ReR0401 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
On the CD: John Oswald/John Zorn, Biota, Cornelius Cardew, ZGA, If Bwana, Kalahari Surfers + Lesogo Rampolokeng, Koongoortoog (Tuva),Blitziods, Al Margolis, Tom Nunn, Thinking Plague, Adenoid Quartet, N.O.R.M.A., Les Sales Combles, R.Deutsch, Martin Burlas, Peter Machajdik, David Myers, Chris Cutler/Fred Frith. New, found and commissioned work.
	RASCEP: Act Out Code:Actout1 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Fine Serbian sort of rockish sometimes a bit jazzish group who show that there is still life in the old line-ups where straight ahead playing plus imagination continue to produce surprising, satisfying and convincing results.
	REPORTAZ: Bezsensory nonsensors Code:ARS2 Price: £12.93 Quantity in Basket: none
An interesting and unusual record by Reportaz's Andrzej Karpinski (drums, percussion, real-time processing and samples) and Witold Olezak (piano, synthesiser, samples) who between them make full spectrum, exquisite sounding pieces that are somehow both open and structured, rhythmic and free, coherent and capricious. Each piece is minutely articulated, and they move rapidly through ideas. Above all, the sounds are often unfamiliar and rich. Not an earth-shaker but a matured, original collection of pieces.
	REPORTAZ: Up The River (vinyl) Code:PE05 Price: £12.34 Quantity in Basket: none
Trio ( Piano, Synthesiser, Hurdy Gurdy, Bassoon, Drums, voices) who range from highly composed to completely improvised playing. Idiosyncratic and full of ideas. Reportaz have now a record released on the Polish State label, which is already sold out and much sought after.THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE
	SCHNITTKE: C Grosso 2/Conc. Violin, Orch Code:SCHNITTKE8 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	SCHNITTKE: Choir/2 Pieces for Organ Code:SCHNITTKE6 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	SCHNITTKE: Symphony 1 Code:SCHNITTKE1 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	SCHNITTKE: Symphony 2 Code:SCHNITTKE2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	SCHNITTKE: Symphony 3 Code:SCHNITTKE3 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	SCHNITTKE: Symphony 4 Code:SCHNITTKE4 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	SER UN PEYJALERO: U Code:PANTON81112 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Another interesting Czech group (this seems to be a prime productive centre for rock experiments). Shades of Magma at times, of epic film music, of minimalism. A wide range of instruments, all played and not sampled. Broad, varied and high quality work. Pity about the packaging.
	SKOCZYNSKI, STANISLAW: Per Un Solo Code:POLONIACD027 Price: £15.57 Quantity in Basket: none
Solo percussion pieces, organised sound-blocks. A very scarce and unobtainable item. Last 3 copies.
	SLEDE ZIVE SLEDE: Cherie Sculpte les Paysage Code:SON06 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
In the Czech style, the basic trio is Contrabass/Voice, Bassoon/Clarinet, Saxophone/Voice, Guitar/Voice. These are organised compositions and pretty eccentric. Engaging, original and considered. Unclassical, unjazz and unrock. With plenty of guest players- Guitars, Bass, Trumpet, Violin, Sitar. Very nice work indeed.
	SLEDE ZIVE SLEDE: Plants Code:MAM133-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Start with this one. A fascinating and unique approach to composition and sound. See above.
	SOCHA IRENEUSZ: With/Without Code:SOCHAIRENEUSZ:With/Without Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
4 pieces (15 tracks). One alone, one with Joanne Hetu (Vox, sax), one with Marek Choloniewski, Boleslaw Blaszczyk (cello, piano). Ireneusz plays drums and samples throughout. Interesting and varied, with fine moments. Rare Polish home-made CD.
	STRANGE GAMES: Strange Games (vinyl) Code:PE03 Price: £12.34 Quantity in Basket: none
A legend in their own time, Strange Games were one of the first underground groups to concentrate on arrangement and theatre as well as texts. Witty, intelligent songs, always on the brink of anarchy, but still toe-tapping.THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE
	SUDNICK, NICK (Zga): Promenade Code:CDLA02047 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Long, mostly abstract, atmospheric pieces.
	SUDNICK, NICK: Tauromakia Code:NICKSUDNICKTauromakia Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
(Russian import) Theatre music, ZGA styleÉaround the story of deadalus, ariadne, theseus and the minotaur.
	TARAFUKI: Tarafuki Code:MAM153-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
2 women, one Czech, one Polish who both play cellos and sing. But there's a lot to be got from that seemingly minimal instrumentation and these pieces are remarkably flexible, expressive and persuasive throughout. The medium is openly structured songs - with much use of additive rhythms and stretched techniques. There are some inevitable echoes of Iva Bittova here, of course, given the instrumentation and history of the region, but essentially this is an original and imaginative record.
	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
	TICKMAYER FORMATIO: Wilhelm Dances Code:ReRTFCD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Substantial work from Stevan Tickmayer, recorded at IRCAM in Paris. Wide-ranging compositions excellently performed. Some Louis Andreissen echoes, Zorn-cuts, generic leaps, lyricism and much variety. Listen to a sample of this release
	TICKMAYER, STEVAN: Cold Peace Code:ReRST3 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A suite of fiendishly complex compositions for mixed real and virtual resources. Bob Drake, Djorge Delibasic, Pegja Milosavljevic and Chris Cutler make appearances - playing electric guitar, bass, drums and virtuoso violin between them, but mainly it is Stevan who plays all kinds of keyboards, strings, double bass, zither, samples and software. Three thoroughly through-composed and finely articulated pieces make up this very concentrated suite: Concerto Grosso (for keyboards, string instruments and CPU), The Cold Peace Counterpoints and Five Bagatelles for a Polyhsitor. Those familiar with Tickmayer's earlier recordings, or the Science Group, will have some idea of what to expect - a rare commingling of high European art music (Tickmayer studied with both Gyšrgy Kurtˆg and Louis Andriessen), various East European folk musics, experimental rock, post rock and computer assisted electronic composition. These are intense, emotionally and philosophically driven pieces that demand attention, and reward it when given.
	TUDOSOK (The Scientists): The Nice Plain Code:HMKX010CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Hungary's wildest. Recorded live at the Knitting Factory and Paradiso. Comes in a substantial book, flat bound, with drawings and texts. Post and Pre punk with musical intelligence, intense expression, screeching, roaring, raw patches and sometimes echoes of Cassiber. Unlike Western groups, Eastern groups still inhabit the semi-colonised fringes of art. This is a good example of a vital eastern life-form.
	UZ JSME DOMA: In the Middle of Words Code:MAM029 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
An ambitious project by the fast and furious Domas, with thematic texts and a pretty wild cover/booklet design (texts in Czech and English) god, soldiers, war... post Etron Fou
	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.
	VENI ENSEMBLE, THE: Veni Code:SF00042131 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
6 pieces by the historic ensemble. Music from the early 60's and from today: composers who use 'forbidden' devices, like melody, transparent diatonic structure, rock riffs mixed in with 'harsh' sounds, noise &c. A good taste of Czech Post/Avantgarde.
	VETROPHONIA: Strappadology Code:CDLA00011 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Zga's Nick Sudnick and Alexander Lebedev-frontov in more abstract vein.
	W.H.: Shakespeare's Sonnets Code:BLY001 Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Hungarian quartet: cello (the excellent Albert Markos), drums, bass guitar, some quite minimal synthesiser and voice - perform, on the 400th anniversary of their publication, a selection of 12 of Shakespeare's Sonnets (reproduced from the first edition in the accompanying booklet). Ghanaian Sena Dagadu has a striking voice, and the arrangements are varied, focussed and stripped down to their essentials. An interesting and unusual project.
	ZGA: End of an Epoch Code:ReRZGACD2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
'Epoch' is very compositionally developed. Prodigious. Listen to a sample of this release
	ZGA: Sub Luna Morrior Code:ReRZGA3 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Classic recording by the ever deeper Russian instrument builders and masters of live electroacoustic/song/sound sculptures. Dangerous, Bitter, Desperate and Down to the Bone, but carrying a huge emotional charge and a rare beauty. This is lived music, both mature and profound. Listen to a sample of this release
	ZGA: Zgamoniums Code:ReRZGACD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Sound bites from 'real' and electrified scrapyard instruments; an indescribable and incomparable group who have succeeded both in defying genre and creating radically new sounds. Listen to a sample of this release
	ZGA: Kinderalbum Code:ZGAKinderalbum Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
(Russian Import) Zga in song mode - well sort of; with many additional instruments (accordion, violins, winds and guitars). These are childrenÕs songs Ð spanning lugubrious through a bit dark to decidedly scary..Texts in Russian, and not printed. A complex object, culturally speaking; and soaked in Russia.
	ZGA: MaraZGAmatikA Code:ZGA:MaraZGAmatikA Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Suite in 32 parts, new works by the originals, still amongst the only groups working with homebuilt electronic instruments and experimental treatments who play composed pieces where rhythms and melodies feature alongside more unalloyed electronics. Playing, not processing; analogue instruments (springs, sheet metal, micro amplification) not laptops. Here Trombone is added. Russian import. Limited.
	ZGA: Zga (vinyl) Code:PE02 Price: £12.34 Quantity in Basket: none
This is an extraordinary record from a group who build their own instruments from metal, springs, transducers, electronic parts, as well playing more conventional instruments unconventionally. Somewhere between electronic contemporary composition and a kind of subliminal rock sensibility that emerges now and then in surprising guises.THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE