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	QUARTERLY, ReR: Vol 4 No. 2 CD and Book Code:ReR0402SET Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
CD + Book. See UNFILED for contents.
	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 and Book Code:ReR0401SET Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
CD+Book, as intended. See UNFILED for contents.
	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.
	QUARTERLY, ReR: Selections Vol.2 Code:ReRQCD2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Commissioned materials from Robert Wyatt, Iva Bittova / Pavel Fajt, LA 1919, Jocelyn Robert, James Grigsby, J. Lachan, Henry Kaiser, Increase The Angle, Bill Gilonis, David Thomas, Jospeh Racaille, John Oswald, Musci / Venosta, Luciano Margiorani, 5UU'S, When, Jean Derome. Taken from Volume 2 of the influential Quarterly, remastered, with an exquisite book by Dirk Vallons.
	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.
	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
	RAMPOLOKENG, LESEGO: Endbeginnings Code:ReRLRSCD1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Leading Black South African poet with the legendary surfers in a radical mix of rap/reggae and experimental pop. Echoes of Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Last Poets: strong reflections on the times. Clarity, engagement and art/pleasure/catharsis - rarity today. Listen to a sample of this release
	RATSIMANDRESY, NADIA and MATTEO RAMON AREVALOS: Messiaen et autour de Messiaen for ondes Martenot an Code:ReROM1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A signature collection of exquisite works for onde Martenot and piano by Olivier Messiaen, N'Guyen Thien Dao, Jacques Charpentier and Tristan Murail, exploring the many voices of this extraordinary instrument. The onde (or ondes musicales or le Martenot) was first demonstrated at the Paris Conservatoire in 1928 and immediately attracted the attention of Varese, Milhaud, Koechlin, Jolivet, Honegger and Messiaen, who all wrote for it - cumulatively ensuring its survival. Seven years younger than the theremin, the onde is a far more sophisticated, complex and versatile instrument, not least because of the combination it offers of pitched and glissando tones, and the wide range of filters and different resonating media through which it can sound: loudspeakers, gongs, sympathetic resonating strings and reverberant enclosures. The compositions here exploit every unearthly aspect of the instrument and are beautifully performed: a remarkable and exquisite collection.
	RIEMAN, DALABA, DEMPSTER: Lung Tree Code:ReRRDD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
This is one of those recordings that arrived unannounced in the mail. I knew Lesli Dalaba, of course, but the others were new to me. The project is Eric Glick Rieman's and I found it immediately intriguing. There seemed to be something quite subtle going on; minimal, microtonal, economical and eccentric; it plays subtly with timbre, pitch and structure and never quite does what you expect. At first blush it seemed as it would be another interesting but conventional improvising trio, but after a few minutes the organising intelligence, and the clear compositional discipline became clear. And after this, throughout the CD, it sticks to the point. This is a deep investigation of a very few simple principles. Acoustic instruments rub ambiguously up against electrified objects and electronics, but these in the main provide atmosphere and harmonic complexity, never overpowering the mingling air-columns on which the wave of this CD floats. Attachments, modifiers, objects all make an appearance, but the topic is the small, the tenuous - and the tenacious - above all, breath.
	ROBERT, JOCELYN : Folie Culture Code:ReRJORCD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
New work from JR to listen to or to not listen to; 'environmental' but very much present, this is an impossible work to categorise, but an evocative and innovative one; and to my taste a keystone of a new form. Listen to a sample of this release
	ROSE, JON: Brainweather Code:ReRBJRCD2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
'Brain' is a CD musi-drama (opera pervers) with El Maestro JR lui-meme, Shelley Hirsch, Phil Minton, a Nietschean dentist and thousands of Rosenbergs. Plus The Weatherman. Full texts and notes. Cover by Peter Blegvad. Listen to a sample of this release
	ROSE, JON: Perks Code:ReRJR3 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Jon's latest and, I think, best studio production- an interactive Badminton Game where the two sides of the court are the left and right hemispheres of Australian composer, improviser, eccentric and keen sportsman Percy Grainger's brain. A whirlwind of playing, samples, speech, grippingly organised and musically a step ahead. Nice work
	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
	ROSE, JON: The Fence Code:ReRJR5 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
2 excellent pieces - The Fence, about borders and fences all over the world, using very long amplified strings and documentary voices; a serious and substantial work. Bagni di Dolabella, "a violinists guide to the treatments and political intrigues of an ancient roman bath" - featuring the orchestra of ancient guts. Both originally made for radio. Listen to a sample of this release
	ROSE, JON: The Hyperstring Project Code:ReRJR6 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Subtitle: The dynamic of rogue counterpoint. Jon, alone, with some of his interactive, midified, altered and invented instruments (eg the whipolin, a disembowelled cello, fitted with a variety of not exactly centred hurdy gurdy type wheels made of various materials). There's also civilian violin and midified bow without violin at all. And an automatic violin quartet for good measure. None of this tells you a lot. Hyperstring is a very intense and dense CD (we put some recovery time blank tracks in) and listening in sections is advised. Sometimes hard, it's an extraordinary document of a rare case in which processing and interactivity conspire with musical intelligence and virtuosity to evolve a genuine cyborgian artform. No shit. Listen to a sample of this release
	ROSE, JON: Violin Music for Restaurants Code:ReRBJRCD Price: £11.50 Quantity in Basket: none
'Violin', a Radio work based on Jo 'Doc' Rosenberg's 'BOO' theory - songlines applied to restaurant tables. Includes theatre, noise, golden 4th dimension standards, vox humana and help from Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Alvin Curran, Luc Houtkamp, Joelle Leandre, Misha Mengelberg, Barre Phillipsinter alia.
	ROSE, JON: The People's Music Code:ReRJR7 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
With string orchestras, percussion, a motivating red guard and the severed embalmed arm of the great helmsman himself (maybe), Jon pits the ethos of Mao's China - and in particular the mass production of the violin and it's use in life against the 'reductive cultural practice of our globalised world'. Well, that's what it says here and by golly I agree. Apart from that, this a large scale work that features fine and extensive writing for string orchestras, juxtaposed with (more or less) controlled Rosean chaos, and harbours serious intentions toward the violin in all its lives and phases. Beautifully packaged in tasteful revolutionary kitsch.
	ReR Club - 1 Year Code:rerClub1Year Price: £5.00 Quantity in Basket: none
The ReR Record Club The idea is this: • You will be sent, automatically, every new ReR release and press releases and occasional extra items. You will automatically get the subscription editions. • very fourth CD will be free. • You sign up for one, two or three years; we will ask confirmation of renewal before this runs out. • You send us your Credit Card details and we will just deduct the appropriate amount whenever CDs are mailed. Otherwise with Cheque or Paypal pay £93.75 to cover 10 releases - because you pay upfront, there is no annual charge. To join with Credit Card payment costs £5 a year, £9 for two years or £12 for three years. We can also extend this offer to include any of the following labels: Ad Hoc, Angelica, EDMN,  Artyard, Fred Records. To join: Send your credit card details and membership period. Or cheque or paypal payment. When you get to the CHECKOUT please WRITE in the MESSAGE BOX the LABELS you want in ADDITION to ReR (Ad Hoc, Angelica, Fred Records, Artyard, EDMN) if any.
	ReR Club - 2 Years Code:rerClub2Year Price: £9.00 Quantity in Basket: none
The ReR Record Club The idea is this: • You will be sent, automatically, every new ReR release and press releases and occasional extra items. You will automatically get the subscription editions. • very fourth CD will be free. • You sign up for one, two or three years; we will ask confirmation of renewal before this runs out. • You send us your Credit Card details and we will just deduct the appropriate amount whenever CDs are mailed. Otherwise with Cheque or Paypal pay £93.75 to cover 10 releases - because you pay upfront, there is no annual charge. To join with Credit Card payment costs £5 a year, £9 for two years or £12 for three years. We can also extend this offer to include any of the following labels: Ad Hoc, Angelica, EDMN,  Artyard, Fred Records. To join: Send your credit card details and membership period. Or cheque or paypal payment. When you get to the CHECKOUT please WRITE in the MESSAGE BOX the LABELS you want in ADDITION to ReR (Ad Hoc, Angelica, Fred Records, Artyard, EDMN) if any.
	ReR Club - 3 Years Code:rerClub3Year Price: £12.00 Quantity in Basket: none
The ReR Record Club The idea is this: • You will be sent, automatically, every new ReR release and press releases and occasional extra items. You will automatically get the subscription editions. • very fourth CD will be free. • You sign up for one, two or three years; we will ask confirmation of renewal before this runs out. • You send us your Credit Card details and we will just deduct the appropriate amount whenever CDs are mailed. Otherwise with Cheque or Paypal pay £93.75 to cover 10 releases - because you pay upfront, there is no annual charge. To join with Credit Card payment costs £5 a year, £9 for two years or £12 for three years. We can also extend this offer to include any of the following labels: Ad Hoc, Angelica, EDMN,  Artyard, Fred Records. To join: Send your credit card details and membership period. Or cheque or paypal payment. When you get to the CHECKOUT please WRITE in the MESSAGE BOX the LABELS you want in ADDITION to ReR (Ad Hoc, Angelica, Fred Records, Artyard, EDMN) if any.
	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: Acnalbasac Noom Code:ReRSH Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
The classic original, version recorded at the legendary Wümme studios using Faust as the house band, later, re-recorded with other musicians and different arrangements as 'Slaphappy or Slaphappy' for Virgin Records. Also includes the legendary 'Charlie and Charlie', not on the Virgin version and four extra tracks, including the single 'Everybody's Slimming' and unreleased pieces, one by Dagmar Krause.
	SLAPP HAPPY: Slapphappy or Slapphappy Code:slappHappyJap Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Very limited Japanese facsimile edition of the original release, in the rare original Blegvad cover and with the text insert that was replaced after the first 1000 pressings, when the record was renamed Acnalbasac Noom. CD is the same as the ReR release, the packaging very different. For collectors.
	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.
	SUN RA: Cosmo-Sun Connection Code:ReRSR1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A CD containing the limited edition Recommended LP release that has been out of print for the last 12 years - though much in demand, since it comprehensively covers the diversity of the Arkestra's work - via Africa, through Ellington and all the way on to Pure Electronics. Given to us by Ra over a decade ago, we intend to apply the royalties of this re-release directly to the Arkestra. A Classic. Listen to a sample of this release
	SUN RA: Media Dreams (dbl CD) Code:ARTYARDCD002 Price: £20.00 Quantity in Basket: none
Companion to Disco 3000, made on the same classic Italian quartet tour with John Gilmore, Michael Ray (trumpet) and the minimal but perfect Luqman Ali (drums). Ra himself plays piano and electronic keyboards, including the mysterious Crumar Mainman, which Ra describes as 'like a piano, organ, clavichord, cello, violin and brass instruments' and which also, importantly, has a facility for pre-programmed bass-lines and electronic percussion - which Ra uses constantly and to great effect in this small ensemble setting - and seldom, if ever, elsewhere. The best of this collection (most of CD1) is luminous: very electronic, often rhythmical and melodic, always economical and making every sound count. These tracks are like no other jazz ensemble and, although recognisable as Ra - who else could think of, and then get away with, this - unlike any other Ra ensemble either. Ra makes the machines do amazing, visionary, things while the band exercises restraint, remaining always in focus. Between, there are piano, saxophone, trumpet and drum vignettes, fresh and perfectly judged; this really was a fine band. This places the original vinyl release (and related releases: Sound Mirror and Disco 300) back into the context of the concerts from which they were drawn. An important addition to the Sun Ra canon since it is a rare document of an unusual Ra project that produced three classic late '70s LPs. Beautifully packaged and well annotated.
	THE NECKS: Townsville Code:ReRNECKS8 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
The Necks in quiet mood recorded at a concert recording in Townsville, Thuringowa, Northern Queensland. Though many Necks' pieces open with - or eventually arrive at - some discernable groove, Townsville just floats in a state of suspension from beginning to end. It's like watching the ocean as wave follows wave follows wave: each the same; each different; assymetric. Bassist Lloyd Swanton who, on this occasion, provides the motif that set Townsville running says he had had no idea where it would lead: 'One of the deep joys for me' he said, 'after twenty years of making music with this group, is that we're still completely unable to predict where our pieces will go.'
	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
	THINKING PLAGUE: In This Life Code:ReRTPCD Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
Remarkable song group from Denver whose state-of-the-art work is breathtakingly well represented on this CD, which features new pieces (a new 'LP') plus 'Moonsongs' completely remixed and remastered. 71 Minutes. 20pp Booklet. Listen to a sample of this release
	THIS HEAT: Out of Cold Storage (6 CD box and book) Code:thisisbox Price: £47.00 Quantity in Basket: none
The complete official lifetime releases of This Heat: This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficiency, Made Available and Repeat, re-mastered and re-packaged, with a substantial (48pp) book of interviews, recollections, information, documents and photographs in a sturdy box, PLUS a new CD of concert recordings
	THIS HEAT: THIS HEAT BOX MINUS 1st CD Code:heatboxminusBY Price: £42.00 Quantity in Basket: none
For those of you who have bought Blue and Yellow separately already, we don't want you to pay twice so there is a special box offer for £42, minus Blue and Yellow THE BOX contains all the released material except the 1st blue & yellow "This Heat" CD, newly re-mastered (Deceit, Made Available, Repeat, Health and Efficiency, PLUS a CD of unreleased material selected and re-mastered by Charles Hayward & Charles Bullen, PLUS a fat book of interviews, articles, photograph, memorabilia and documents that trace the history and contextualise work of the group.
	THIS HEAT: This Heat Code:ThisIs!1 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
A landmark recording by one of most important British bands, full stop. This, their first release, tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. First, the music: without precedent, then, the musicians: all extraordinary, all uncompromisingly radical, then the way it was all put together: endlessly surprising, hammeringly intense, and the sound: hard, radical, crafted, rich, with complete control of the frequency range. Beautifully recorded, radically mixed, this was breathtakingly present . Stripped back to the bone but never simplified. And it hasn’t aged. This is deep, complex work that creates its own world, anticipating much that was to follow in the next 15 years. A luminous release out of print (for almost a decade?). Re-mastered by the group for this re 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.
	TICKMAYER, STEVAN: Repetitive selective removal of one protecting group Code:ReRST2 Price: £12.50 Quantity in Basket: none
After a long absence Stevan roars back with this dense and complex work - a rare example of a truly uncategoriseable music: neither electronic nor acoustic but somewhere in between - or outside. Taken often at impossible Nancarrow/late Zappa/Ligeti tempi, a cascade of material constantly forms and reforms into different kinds of order: fragments of New Complexity performed with a kind of rock, dance, jazz undercurrent; shards of popular musics dressed in contemporary classical and electroacoustic clothes; debris from the C20 soundworld train-wrecked together as if all possible musics had been crammed into a bag, smithereened, and then somehow self-regenerated into viable but hybrid mutant forms: a kind of Burgess Shale of emergent musical life. However, alien as some of this music may seem at first hearing, it is coherent, amazingly through-composed and wholly intentional; nothing is arbitrary and every detail counts. Microtonality, polymetricality, slicing, shuffling and extreme processing sit easily alongside atmospherics, performance, and subtle explorations of timbre and acoustic space. Perhaps it is a monster, but it is a viable monster; a form so new that it may take a few listenings just to learn how to listen to it. Order will percolate out, with attention, because it is there. It's just new - but worth the effort I think.