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	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.
	TURCOTTE, ROXANNE: Amore Code:IMED9413CD Price: £9.09 Quantity in Basket: none
Impressionistic sound narratives. Other peoples' lives and Romance. Non literal and then concrete - for instance in the well managed telephone section. Bugging with static. Commerce crashes in on intimacy. Unusual employment of rhythm and media samples for the genre.
	TURCOTTE, ROXANNE: Libellune Code:IMED0370 Price: £15.28 Quantity in Basket: none
A collection of electroacoustic children's adventures, with no speaker and not playing down to the tots; it's for children as much as Gulliver's Travels or Don Quixote is. There are plenty of subtle and political ideas here. Organised In sections, often concerned with communication, speech, telephones this is a very unusual attempt to normalise electronics, complexity and simultaneity to the point where it can embody a discourse that need not insist on formal purity or self-reflexion: it's not about the sound - it's about what it's about, and it's aimed, unusually at the young.
	TYRANNY, 'BLUE' GENE: Country Boy, County Dog Code:LCD1065 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Pieces based on a 'procedural score' for composition with environmental sounds. The title track, made in 1967 is a very early environmental composition and is fascinating, as well as being of historical significance. All the other works are later orchestrations evolved out of different readings or electronic analyses of this one recording, three electronic and one for acoustic instruments, all of them mostly drone-centred. For me, the acoustic piece is far and away the best. In fact this 1980 work and the original 1967 recording, are reason enough to buy this CD.
	Taylor Hollis Special Code:TaylorSpecial Price: £31.73 Quantity in Basket: none
TAYLOR, HOLLIS: Post Impressions & Taylor / Jon Rose: Infidels for a special price.
	Tiny Tim: I Love Me Code:SEELAND503CD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
	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.
	Tudosok: Dobolok Code:tudosokDobolok Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	Typewriter: Skeleton Key Code:typewriterSkeleon Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	U TOTEM: U Totem Code:RUNE24 Price: £12.00 Quantity in Basket: none
West Coast state of the art chamber?/rock? group. Now consisting of 5uu's Dave Kerman (Drums etc) and Sanjay Kumar (Keys, Sitar) and old hands James Grigsby (Bass, Guitar, Vibraphone etc), Eric Johnson (Bassoon, Contrabassoon, Soprano) and Emily Hay (Singing, Piccolo, Flute). The closest thing to Henry Cow in complexity 'Attractors' is their most impressive collection so far; beyond chamber rock and toward a meeting of extremities. World class playing and singing and inspired drums from 5UU David Kerman. There is nothing else like this now.
	UCHIHASHI, KASUHISA: Flect II Code:icr013 Price: £14.00 Quantity in Basket: none
A second volume of solo guitar pieces, taken from concert performances, that confirms Uchihashi Kasuhisa as one of the most accomplished improvising guitarists working today. With a unique sound and style and an impeccable sense of time and structure.
	UN DRAME MUSICAL INSTANTANE: Urgent Meeting Code:NMLl/GRRR2018 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	UNE THEORIE DES ENSEMBLES: En Concert Code:AM022CD Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Montreal- treasure this, a musical community - where else do you find one ? And here are Michel Cote, Ander Duchesne, Jean Derome, Claude Fradette, Joanne Hetu, Diane Labrosse, Remi Leclerc, Robert Lepage, Rene Lussier, Danielle Roger, Pierre St.Jak, Marie Trudeau (amongst others, of Wondeurbrass, Justine, Les Quatre Guitaristes, Les Granules, Locomotive, Miriodor..) in an ensemble live concert, including pieces specially composed for the full ensemble. Excellent mobile recording (mixed later) - a tribute to the creativity and musicianship of this extraordinary group of active and exemplary musicians.
	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.
	UNIVERS ZERO: 1313 Code:RUNE20 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	UNIVERS ZERO: Ceux de Dehors Code:RUNE39 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
The Classic. By consent, the most extraordinary and successful of UZ's recordings. Formerly released by ReR as RR 10, now re-released as a co-production with Cuneiform. Not to miss. Repackaged. The 2 Classics 'Ceux' and 'Heresie' for 18.
	UNIVERS ZERO: Clivages Code:Rune295 Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
If any band held fast to the values and intensity of vision that marked the most inventive and serious bands of the '70s, it's Univers Zero, who make - and need to make - no concessions to changing fashion; their music is always in its time. Substantial and sometimes dramatic pieces, densely composed, rich with additive rhythms and dark harmony; masterful use of tempi and dynamics. Daniel Denis is one of the great drummers, always intriguing, never demonstrative, with extraordinary drive and precision, and a flawless ear. And these are fine compositions - by Daniel himself, bassoonist Michel Berckmans, bass clarinettist Kurt Bude and Andy Kirk - beautifully played and excellently recorded. Andy Kirk's long piece in particular is perfectly conceived for this band. A fine record.
	UNIVERS ZERO: Crawling Wind Code:Cuneiform155 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissued at last. Precision, drama and deeply focused playing. (see other catalogues for more on UZ).
	UNIVERS ZERO: Heatwave Code:RUNE9 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	UNIVERS ZERO: Heresie Code:RUNE29 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Classic reissue by one of the most influential and respected experimental rock groups of the late 70's, whose extraordinary compositional sense and unusual instrumentation invited comparison with Henry Cow and Magma, though their voice was distinctively their own. The 2 Classics 'Ceux' and 'Heresie' for 22.
	UNIVERS ZERO: Implosion Code:Rune190 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
An expanded line-up with, on some tracks, trumpet, marimba, cello and acoustic guitar. A very clean recording with close attention to sound and atmosphere -with the effect, curiously, of making the whole band sound rather anodyne and surgical. Sampled sounds add to this general lifelessness. I hate to say it, but even where the writing is lively, the rendition is mechanical and the rhythms more numerical than felt. It has its moments, of course, and glimpses of a future clearing (the track Mellotronic, for example) but I miss the playing, the feeling, the power, the intensity of the music of the earlier records. Especially of Daniel himself, one of the most original drummers the last 40 years has produced and who is here very reduced - as are all the players, a result , I suspect, of the recording method and lack of ensemble paying. That's my dissident view. Fans I am sure will beg to differ.
	UNIVERS ZERO: Live Code:Rune220 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
This version a six piece, Drums, Bass, Keyboards Violin, and two wind-players covering Bassoon, Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Tenor Saxophone. The recording is excellent, airy, transparent and powerful. The playing exemplary, and Daniel Denis, always one of the most interesting and orchestral of European drummers, is on superlative form. Univers Zero is the only RIO group that has been continually active since the late '70s, and it continues to evolve. For me, this is far and away the best thing they have done in the last 2 decades: it is intensely musical, exact, never excessive; sensitively executed - with great attention to dynamics and timbre - and it resolutely treads its own musical path. This is an exceptional record and is highly Recommended.
	UNIVERS ZERO: Rhythmix Code:Rune165 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A new CD from a band essentially consisting of original UZ Îs Daniel Denis (drums and all Keyboards) and Michel Berckmans and bassist Eric Plantain, with various guests on individual tracks playing Marimba, Acoustic Guitars, Trumpet, Flute, Cello, Accordion.. Form: 13 shorter pieces with more variation of colour than usual but musically less intense than the classic era. There are a couple of very nice stretches, with interesting combinations of harpsichord and classical tuned percussion.
	UNIVERS ZERO: The Hard Quest Code:Rune120 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
New works at last. It was a long wait. Softer sounding than the old band, in fact a little MOR for my taste, but I'm an old grouch.
	UNIVERS ZERO: Used Code:RUNE15 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
	UNREST, WORK ∓ PLAY: In-Forms (vinyl) Code:RRC19 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
The only recordings of this shortlived but important group. In-Forms is a particularly accomplished work, mangling ∓ renewing 'In' Forms. Full of ideas and excellent playing.THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE
	UNREST, WORK ∓ PLAY: Sound every Day (12-inch EP) Code:PU3 Price: £14.10 Quantity in Basket: none
THIS IS A VINYL RELEASE
	UP MURPHY STREET Code:upMurphy Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissued by El Frenzy, offshore home to Bing Selfish Enterprises, this ambitious multi-instrument collection of eccentric songs is available again, while stocks last.
	UR KAOS: Av Sprucket ut ar ett Inutti Code:BAR9901 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
It's been a long time since the last. Sombre, minimal, nicely recorded, this is a kind of almost-rock that is insistent but soft, a little distant. Disappearing songs, a fragment of twisted forest. Many fine moments. An acquired taste, but very articulated and finished music.
	UR KAOS: Ur Kaos Code:BAR0701 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissue of the fine 1987 release by Swedish trio Ur Kaos, featuring Lach'n Jonsson (who will be well known to old Recommended hands - indeed, included here as a bonus track is one of the pieces he did for the ReR Quarterly many years ago). An inventive, strong - but sombre - collection of instrumental-heavy songs that have internalised Magma, This Heat, Art Bears and other influences, while retaining their own character and mood. Bands used to be like this. Instrumentation is bass, drums, guitar, keyboards and singing. Sensibly divided by a silent track into the original A and B sides so as to retain the listening-programme of the LP, this is a memento of a time when bands had musical personalities, and when instrumental playing was nuanced and expressive. Music with character.
	UR RAUTEN: Various Code:DBUT009 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
22 Track Sampler of fringe music from Norway. Varied and instructive. the only such document and guide to a quiet country. No thrash.
	URIEL: Arzachel Code:CD69-7201 Price: £14.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Before Egg, there was Uriel, a four piece with Steve Hillage, who made one recording, in a day for a fly-by-night-label wanting to cash in on psychedelia in 1969. Long an unobtainable collector's item, the band have reissued it themselves.
	USSACHEVSKY, VLADIMIR: Electronic and Acoustic Works 1957-72 Code:NWCD80569 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Reissue of the valuable CRI collection of early pieces from composer and early Tape music pioneer Ussachevsky tracking some of his early concrete (1957-65) and computer works ( 1968-71) by way of a mixed media piece for choir, processing and electronic sound (3 Scenes from The Creation) through to the purely instrumental and choral 'Missa Brevis' of 1972.  Nice new packaging and useful biographical notes.
	USSACHEVSKY, VLADIMIR: Film Music Code:80389-2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
Two classic works from the originator of American tape music and founder of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Centre, which he directed from 1959 to 1983. Mixing electronic and concrete techniques with occasional voices and conventional instruments, these two scores are particularly demonstrative of Ussachevsky's mature musical method. While the first score, for Sartre's 'No Exit' (1961) was used as incidental music (though here we have a coherent suite assembled from the material); the 1967 work, 45 minutes long, for 'Line of Apogee' formed the centre point of the film, which was mostly without dialogue, fast cut, dreamlike and strange. The work indeed is an aural film in itself, and a masterpiece of mixed media and emotive sonic montage. 'Line of Apogee' is a masterpiece.
	USSACHEVSKY, VLADIMIR: Music of... Code:CRICD813 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Europe pioneered Musique Concrete and Electronic Music in radio Studios, while in the USA it was tape music in Universities. The pioneer at Columbia-Princeton (1952) was Ussachevsky. Here at last collected are some of these pieces (earliest 1957 so not the oldest, but the oldest are very clunky), the 1960's electronicised choir piece "Three Scenes from the Creation" and the later "Missa Brevis". The first six tracks are historic and indispensable for any student of the form, as well as being fine pieces.
	UT GRET: Time of the Grets Code:ZNR1009 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
OK. Henry Cow was a silly name too. This is an interesting and, on occasion, very impressive record. A mixture of high-class non-generic improvisation and complex studio writing. Two signature pieces refer smartly to Henry Cow and Magma respectively. The players are exemplary and include Henry Kaiser, Davey Williams, Eugene Chadbourne and Greg Goodman alongside regulars Joee Conroy, David Stilley and Gregory Acker.
	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
	University of Minnesota Symphonic Wind Ensemble: BLUE DAWN INTO WHITE HEAT Dbl CD Code:INNOVA517 Price: £20.09 Quantity in Basket: none
A remarkably diverse and interesting collection of pieces By Gunther Shuller, Elliot Schwartz, Jeffrey Brooks, Michael Colgrass, Jeffrey Brooks, Steven Stucky, Anthony Plog and John Zdecklik. It says File under Classical, 20th Century, but there is almost Rock, Almost Jazz, almost Free Jazz here as well.
	VA: LES MYSTERES DES VOIX VULGAIRES #2 Code:VV2 Price: £14.69 Quantity in Basket: none
A fine collection of pieces from many sources - extremely eclectic. From Lesego Rampolokeng and Linton Kwesi Johnson through Etron Fou, Fred Frith and Caveman Shoestore to Eugene Chadbourne and Jello Biafra - not to mention Che Guevara, Lady June, Tony Coe, Peeni Waali, Subcomandante Marcos and Crass. Amongst others. An Anarchist Review item, lovingly produced with full book of texts and information in English and Italian. Rare and fine.