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	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.
	HOLLMER, LARS: The Siberian Circus Code:RESCD502 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Compilation from the classic out of print 5 LP's. What to say about Lasse? That he's one of a kind? That he writes tunes you want to listen to over and over again? That his is a combination of the experimental and the architypical, the carnival folkmeet and every mortal's existential solitude? These are songs and instrumental pieces that will haunt and caress. For soul and body
	HOLLMER, LARS: Tonoga, Fran Natt Ideg, Vendeltid (dbl) Code:RESCD517/18 Price: £19.74 Quantity in Basket: none
For the first time, the three complete CD's plus 7 bonus tracks. Indispensible and long awaited. Nice booklet too and a good price.
	HOLLMER, LARS: Viandra Code:Rune271 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Always a joy to receive a new CD from Lars, joined here on some tracks by guests including Michel Berckmans (bassoon), Coste Aptrea (mandolins), Morgen Agren (drums), Santiago Jiminez (violins) and Andreas Tengberg (cello). Exquisite tunes, beautifully arranged. Larsv quietly gets on with building while the world collapses around him. Chapeau.
	HOLLMER, LARS: XII Sibiriska Cyklar + Vill du Hora Mer Code:RESCD512 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The 2 classic LP's reissued.
	HOLLSINGER, TRISTAN: Sketches of Probability Code:CAI009 Price: £13.51 Quantity in Basket: none
	HOMLER/WAEGEMAN/FAJT: Corne de Vache Code:VICTOCD047 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Live (Radio) recording of their Victoriaville performance, with guest Koen van Roy (saxophone). Quiet, melodic, slightly 'oriental'. An acquired taste.
	HOMLER/WAEGMAN/FAJT: same Code:LOW002 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Charming, minimal, collection of music-slices. Homler's 'Japanese' vocalising, Fajt's beautifully shaped drum riffs and Waegeman's tastefully layered Guitar/Violin/Keyboards make a unique soundprint, touching sometimes on a more clinical version of Iva Bittova or Aqsak Maboul.
	HOMOSEXUALS THE : Astral Glamour (3 CDs) Code:MSS204 Price: £20.56 Quantity in Basket: none
One of the outstanding bands of the eighties who came and went with hardly anyone noticing and just 2 EP's and a single released on their own label. In 1982, ReR compiled an LP from the debris of the surviving tapes and that was that for 20 years. Now more or less everything that can be found has been collected together on these 3 CDs. The first two assemble the handful of releases issued by the band plus our own 1982 best-of LP, the 'Ici La Bas' album (the HS under other names), 'Venceremos' - a cassette release with some tracks by the group and various individual members, and various fragments - preliminary backing tracks and so on. The third CD features the work of the later group, mainly Bruno and Suzy. There is a 30pp booklet with some useful recovered photos, Bruno's version of the band history and notes on the tracks. Those of you for whom this is a must know who you are. You will need this release. Those who want to test the water first, I suggest you start with our single CD reissue of the ReR 1982 release.
	HOMOSEXUALS, THE : The Homosexuals CD Code:ReRHS1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
The Homosexuals appeared, stunned everyone who heard them and then disappeared. Between 1978 and 1982 they released 2 singles and a 12" EP. The three of them individually, under various names, also released a stack of other material, but as The Homosexuals they, curiously, left a whole archive of unreleased material lying around on tape with no idea of releasing it. When everyone had moved on, I was given all the masters and a invitation - if I was really still interested, to get on with it. For them it was already ancient history. I thought then, and think now, that this trio produced far and away the best this genre ever achieved; to the point that it transcends the genre even as it epitomises it. This music is just perfect: endlessly inventive, frighteningly memorable, brilliantly arranged - and is performed with throwaway genius as if tomorrow had been cancelled. What is it? Post Punk, sort of, except with too many chords, too much turned around rhythm - where a horror of droning on meets a mass of inspired detail and still results in a pellucid simplicity. Great texts, three unique singing voices, absurdity, criminal talent and a lot of blackness, in every sense. OK, so some of the recording quality was a bit lo-fi, but these were songs thrown off like sweat - and in the hurry some of the most radical mixing I ever heard from the period got fixed onto these recordings. Recommended released The Homosexuals LP in1984, gleaned from the surviving tapes, nearly all of which derived from one intense period of work. For this overdue CD reissue I went through all the surviving material again -there are 5 extra tracks, and they are not B sides - and then we re-mastered everything again to the highest possible current standard - without compromising the music. This is gold dust.
	HONNEGER: Christoph Colomb. Code:MODE35 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	HONSINGER, TRISTAN & MASSIMO SIMONINI: Call me Us Code:IDA025 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Cellist Honsinger and pre-existing media manipulist Simonini with a piece that falls between radio art, music theatre and... and what? A highly unusual performance in 10 parts that deploys its materials sparingly and intelligently and, through a combination of skill, spontaneity and ambiguity, arrives at something seemingly too controlled and precise to be improvised, but too complex and wilful to have been composed. In a world of its own; this is confident, eccentric, and highly musical. SimoniniÕs choice, use and development of both plundered sources and real time manipulation is masterful. A one-off.
	HOPKIN, BART and Various Artists: Gravicords, Whirlies etc (book) Code:CD3530 Price: £48.76 Quantity in Basket: none
Reduced CD reissue of Hopkins' remarkable book that opened a wonderful window on the world of new and unusual instruments (brief account, pictures, motives, potted histories) most of which are extraordinary - what people do is stranger than you can imagine). Mostly new to non-subscribers to Bart's magazine, but includes Leon Theremin, Harry Partch, Hans Reichel and Robert Moog and a 73 minute CD of original performances by 18 of the 37 designers on their instruments.
	HOPPER, HUGH/ALAN GOWAN: 2 Rainbows Daily Code:RUNE77 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
	HOPPER, HUGH/S.KLOSSNER: Different Code:BP303CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Excellent. Hugh's beautiful melodic sense to the fore, and plenty of swooning basslines. Plus fine singing. Spots of Elton Dean and others here and there, rest is programmed. But intelligently! Nice work.
	HOPPER, HUGH: 1984 Code:RUNE104 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The classic 1972 record reissued again, with additional track. The long sound-experimental and abstract sections are a tribute to the possibilities of the bass guitar, and still fresh and inspiring- exquisite sounds intelligently deployed, at once hypnotic, abrasive, engaging. Interspersed are post Soft Machine band pieces (John Marshall, Pye Hastings, Lol Coxhill, Gary Windo, Malcolm Griffiths, Nick Evans) which are fine, but very much of their time, and to me dated in a way that the other pieces are not. Recommended.
	HOPPER, HUGH: Carousel Code:RUNE67 Price: £12.00 Quantity in Basket: none
A solid and convincing record, with many of the old Softmachine qualities of compositional interest and high standard performance in evidence. Enjoyable and consistent. A rare music these days and hard to pull off as Hugh does here.
	HOPPER, HUGH: Hooligan Romantic Code:FOTHH1 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	HOPPER, HUGH: Hoppertunity Box Code:Rune240 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A great LP that came out originally in1975 in Norway, of compositions recorded piecemeal over a several weeks by Hugh, Dave Stewart, Elton Dean, Gary Windo, Marc Charig, Frank Roberts, and Mike Travis (with Nigel Morris [Isotope] on one track), that mixes great real-time playing with multi-tracked and vari-speeded basses. Rich sonically, and sure-footed musically, this record also exemplifies much of what was great about an era of rock experimentalism that was already being left behind, or buried under expensive technology. Exemplary.
	HOPPER, HUGH: Meccano Pelorous Code:WMAS6 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
	HORVITZ. SAMWORTHY. LEE.CLARK. SCHYFF: Intersection Poems Code:SPLI25 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Much improvised music seems to me to fail to make the transition from witnessed performance to abstracted recording. An event so much utilises and unifies all five of the senses - for every participant, each experiencing it under generally similar conditions: the room acoustics, the experienced flow of time and the nature of its interruption by this rather ritualised event, the inter-mutuality of a shared experience: that subtle human blending that occurs when people gather - and the rest. But listeners come to recordings under conditions of their own making - good or bad speakers or headphones operating at any volume from deafening to background murmur, sounding in a variety of acoustic spaces, and taken at widely disparate levels of concentration, none with the focus invoked by people collected together. And we listen with no access to visual, tactile or any other information relevant to what we are hearing. Records operate by different rules. Perhaps this is why not a lot of improvised music on record appeals to me. And therefore why, of the mountain of improvised music CDs in the world, so few find their way into our catalogue. The CD under review then is another exception. It seems to me to work as a listening object. Imaginative, musical, avoiding most of the clichés and language by which we recognise music as 'improvised', this offers constant and unexpected musicality, an unusual deployment of resources and a persuasive unfolding of ideas.
	HOSOKAWA, MASAHIKO: Like a Shimmering of Hot Air Code:BELLE96306 Price: £16.00 Quantity in Basket: none
	HOSOKAWA, MASAHIKO: Midas II Code:BELLE96284 Price: £18.80 Quantity in Basket: none
	HOSTETLER, RANDY: Happily Ever After Code:FP09 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A unique work that interleaves a number of bizarre and compelling narratives to construct, through a fascinating fog of words and texts and voices, a hearing event that is both engaging and suspenseful.
	HUBBARD, NATHAN: Blind Orchid Code:ALP043 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Eight interesting percussion and electronics centred pieces that explore sound through physical activity, microphone placement and extensive subsequent processing. Mostly extended from drum-kit into noise and pursing density and timbre rather than structure, these are nonetheless coherent and demarcated pieces.
	HUBBUB: Hoop Whoop Code:MRCD53 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A French quintet, in the AMM style (released on Eddie Prevost's label). Subtle, gripping, a bulletin rather than a novel: real time passing. Nicely done.
	HUG, ERIC: Versatir Code:t-n-a0058 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
It's many years since Eric's limited edition but excellent LP came out, so this CD is a welcome reappearance. Here Eric plays all manner of percussion and prepared percussion, joined by Erich Tiefenthler on the entire flute family unconventionally played and electronically modulated. Disciplined and organised and not following any genre rules, this is engaging, organic, unusual and entirely musical.
	HUGHSCORE: Delta Flora Code:Rune110 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Hugh Hopper, ex Tone Dog Fred Chalenor and Elaine di Falco (all keyboards and singing). Includes a reworking of the classic 'Facelift'.
	HUGUENIN, JEAN 20: Solo Raye Code:HUGUENIN,JEAN20:SoloRaye Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
Solos and occasional duos, of acoustic rags and Guitar pieces, some electric, all beautifully played.
	Hayward, Charles: Near and Far Code:haywardNearFar Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	Honsinger, Tristan : This That and the Other Code:AIAI009 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
	I.S.O.: I.S.O. Code:AMOISO01 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
New formation with Ground Zero alumni Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko Matsubara and interesting newcomer Ichiraku Yoshimitsu (drums, electronics). Slow, abstract, rich with extremes, ambient.
	IANCU DUMITRESCU/ANBA MARIA AVRAM: Musique Directe (vinyl) Code:dumitrescuDirecte Price: £15.00 Quantity in Basket: none
	ICHIYANAGI, TOSHI/MAKI ISHII: Music for a Living Process (vinyl) Code:EDRZ1008 Price: £10.34 Quantity in Basket: none
	IDEAS: Ives, Rimsky-Korsakov, Partch, Carrillo, Harrison, Beardsley, Varese, Cage, Coates Code:P-200212 Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A very small, essentially handmade, edition of 300 copies of pieces researched and performed for the microtonal society at various venues in New York. Includes an alternative version of Ives's The Unanswered Question (prepared by Ives himself), a world premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov's Prelude for Strings, Julian Carrillo's unpublished I think of you, performed here on a 96-tone harp and voice, Harry Partch's Ulysses departs from the edge of the World for trumpet, string bass and 3 Boobams, Lou Harrison's excellent and interesting Simfony in Free Style (World Premiere) for strings, bassoon, flutes, horn, electronic hap and percussion, David Beardsley's Sonic Boom for guitar activated Korg Synthesiser tuned to 23-limit harmonic series, Edgard Varese's Graphs and Time (world premiere - worked up from a sketch of a graphic score made by EV for the legendary Teo Macero for jazz ensemble; I think this may have fared better in the hands of the jazz musicians it was envisioned for; in this version it doesn't add anything to Varese's reputation), John Cage's In the Name of the Holocaust for prepared piano and the seldom performed Gloria Coates' Lunar Loops for two guitars which are microtonally retuned in the course of the piece. Historic microtonal pieces are rare, so for those interested, this is a must have.
	IF, BWANA: L'Angelica (Dbl CD) Code:POGUSP21024-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	IF, BWANA: Clara Nostra Code:POGUSP21019-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
I'm someone not much enamoured of drones and this is, essentially, a 64 minute drone. But then it is a classic, bottomless, exquisite drone - the product of 106,476 clarinets "rumbling and growling" as composer Al Margolis has it, sped up slowed down and treated in uncountable ways - a pleasure to be in the room with.
	IKEDA, RYOJI: 1000 fragments Code:R-N089 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Contained noise of various sorts, arranged in extreme and radically opposing segments; very clean, very orderly, listenable in a perverse way, with no narrative content, but an engaging aesthetic wholeness, this is a good introduction to Ikeda's minimal but strict aesthetic. In three sections, one mobile and balanced, one extended and hollow, the third ghost-like. Austere and not for everyone, this is, however, also a welcome reissue by Raster-Notion of his first release (1995), though the minimal packaging won't tell you that, or anything else, so there is historical value here too, if 12 years constitutes history.
	IL BERLIONE: Il Berlione Code:BA9229 Price: £18.80 Quantity in Basket: none
50% fast and furious, clean and punchy, complex and super competent rock-kind-of-jazz-kind-of; convincing - 50% more jazz-rock as known.
	IL GRAN TEATRO AMARO: Piazza Orphelins Code:RECDEC69 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none