Current Update - November 2013
NEW RELEASES
THE NECKS: Open.
The Necks’ 11th ReR release is a new studio work that finds the group back on the territory for which it is best known: a single long-form piece that glacially mutates… each moment suspended but somehow still in motion. It’s a hard trick to pull off but here, in th... more »
CASSIBER: The CASSIBER box. 6 CDs, 1 DVD and Book.
n 1982 Cassiber (phonetically: ‘a message smuggled out of prison’) crashed like a locomotive into the Deutsche Neue Welle. Founded by Heiner Goebbels, Alfred Harth, Christoph Anders and Chris Cutler, Cassiber managed to fuse materials and attitudes drawn from experi... more »
THE CASSIBER BOX minus THE WAY IT WAS
For those who bought the pre-release The Way it Was and don’t want a second copy (the box version is differently packaged) the box without it is yours for £60 ... more »
CUSACK, PETER: Favourite Sounds of Berlin.
A beautifully realised sound homage to the city of Berlin, presenting its signature sounds, exquisitely recorded, in a carefully documented and evocatively designed package. There’s not a lot more to say; This does exactly what it says on the cover. ... more »
AREVALOS, MATTEO RAMON/PERRAULT, BRUNO: Serimpie - Works for piano and Ondes Martenot
This companion to our Messiaen et Autours de Messiaen collects together another classic group of works for Onde Martenot and piano, this time by Darius Milhaud, Andre Jolivet, Arvo Part, Kazuo Fukushima and Francisco Semprun, collected together here for the first ti... more »
MENTER, WILL: Always Sound. (Book + 3 CDs).
A 200 page book of photographs, texts and documents, including three CDs, drawn from the soundworks but recomposed as three related but internally coherent compositions. A contemporary of Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy, Menter is one of a handful of sound ... more »
THE BAD BOYS: Out of their Heads aka Graphic Instruction Process.(Download Only)
Contemporary works for Piano, Cello, Classical Percussion, Electronics and Electric Guitar by the Bad Boys: Daan Vandewalle, Arne Deforce, Chris Cutler and Jean-Marc Monetera. These pieces were recorded at various European festivals over the last five years and are ... more »
NEW ReR VINYL
HENRY COW: Concerts (vinyl)
Audiophile release of the double LP in gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves and some rare, unpublished photos.180 gm virgin vinyl.. Edition of 1000. Please add £3.50 postage outside of the UK. ... more »
LAST ReR RELEASES
ANGELI, PAOLO: Sale Quanto Basta
Paolo’s latest is an extraordinary collection of pieces that explore the full range of his highly modified, extended and prepared Sardinian guitar; and although it’s just him and electricity, it seldom sounds like fewer than 3 people. Great compositions, each like a... more »
THE KIDNEY BROTHERS: Coal Tattoo
Contemporaries of Pere Ubu and best known for their work with the Numbers Band, Bob and Jack Kidney were also essential to David Thomas’ Mirror Man project. These are stripped down, guitar based songs/stories with deep roots - the deep, dark, bluesy kind of roots. R... more »
COLLECTORS/NEW DISTRIBUTION
CUTLER, CHRIS, PIEKUT, BEN: Interview
12pp pamphlet in laid off-white conqueror cover, copy of the interview between Chris Cutler and Ben Piekut, from the 2012 conference on Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc. Strictly for collectors and to raise a few bob for the old firm. Numbered and sign... more »
ROSE, JON: The Music of Place.
76pp paperback flat bound book. Small edition published in Australia, of which we were able to obtain a handful of copies. From the Platform Papers series, the closest we get in these dire times to an intellectual cultural platform. An important essay about the plac... more »
RAVENSTINE, ALLEN/WHEELER, ROBERT: City Desk.
In 2012 Pere Ubu’s original synthesiser player, long out of the game, and their current synthesiser player met to be interviewed for a documentary about their shared use of the EMS series synth. (American analogue to the VCS3 over here). As a footnote they played to... more »
RAVENSTINE, ALLEN, WHEELER, ROBERT: Farm Report
In 2012 Pere Ubu’s original synthesiser player, long out of the game, and their current synthesiser player met to be interviewed for a documentary about their shared use of the EMS series synth. (American analogue to the VCS3 over here). As a footnote they played to... more »
THE REMOTE VIEWERS: Crimeways
On this new CD, the aesthetic mutates again. The instrumentation – four saxophones, used orchestrally and for the most part chordally, contrabass, tuned percussion, rhythm programming and small electronics are sparely deployed in highly compositional contexts. There... more »
BYRD, JOSEPH: NYC '60-'63
Some early works by the legendary Joseph Byrd, mastermind of The United States of America, and Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies - classics both. Written under the influence, and in close company with, first the West coast experimentalists (Young, Riley, Reich &c) then... more »
BANDA ELASTICA: Aqui, alla y aculla
A career retrospective from this impressive and versatile Mexican rock/composed/improvised/ chamber group, featuring guitar, drums, percussion, marimba, bass, flute, saxophone. Ranging from 1994 to 2008, New York to Trondheim and at home in Queretaro - with various ... more »
LUSSIER, RENE: Toucher une ame
A specialist taste maybe, but Rene never ceases to surprise. The sound is exquisite, the songs subtle and steeped in the great tradition of the French masters ( Marcoeur). And Rene himself, of course, turns out to be a fine singer and a pleasure to ... more »
DORNER, AXEL/ SANDERS, MARK: Stonecipher
At first sight, this is a dubious sounding proposal - an excuse for a jokey Dutch pastiche. Why? Who could hope to better the master, and what would be the point of just copying him? In fact it’s a gem, and it proves, once again, that the same thing can be very diff... more »
METROPOLE ORKEST: Perfect Vision: The Esquivel Sound
At first sight, this is a dubious sounding proposal - an excuse for a jokey Dutch pastiche. Why? Who could hope to better the master, and what would be the point of just copying him? In fact it’s a gem, and it proves, once again, that the same thing can be very diff... more »
ELECTRONIC, CONTEMPORARY
DUNN, DAVID: Music. Language and Environment
Important works in still rarefied field; the three pieces here involve complex procedures that are rooted in recordings initiated in very specific locations (the Grand Canyon, Azalea glen in Cuyamaca state park, Little Blair valley, Balboa Park and the Anzo-Borrga d... more »
CRUMB, GEORGE: Vox Balaenae
Just a couple of copies for those who might be interested. A fascinating work of great clarity that uses a wide arsenal of extended techniques. For amplified Flute, amplified piano and amplified cello. The CD also features a number of other small ensemble works, all... more »
SOUNDING THE BODY ELECTRIC: Experiments in Art and Music in eastern Europe (double CD)
Drawn from the 2012 exhibition of the same name in Lodz, which brought together some of the more radical - but not clandestine – experiments conducted in East Europe through the ‘60s and ‘70’s (Norwegian Arne Nordheim seems to be here because his piece was recorded ... more »
KRAUZE, ZYGMUNT: Spatial Music
Two archival pieces: Spatial-Musical Composition, 1968 and Fete Galante et Pastorale, 1974 - both by the experimental Polish composer Zygmunt Krauze. S-M C was first realised for Musikprotokol ’74 in Graz, where 26 rooms were filled with sound played from 13 tapes i... more »
NEMESCU, OCTAVIAN: Musique pour descendre.
A handful of copies only. This Polish edition of two of Nemesu’s ‘hours’ gives a useful idea of the very different direction of travel taken in the second half of the C20 by a number of Romanian composers – influenced by elements of a Romanian folk tradition and a s... more »
DUMITRESCU, IANCU/AVRAM, ANA MARIA: Electronic Music
Iancu Dumitrescu: Hazard and Tectonics ( electronic version), Crepuscule I ( electronic), Early, Before All Times ( electronic) Avram: Metalstorm I... more »
DUMITRESCU, IANCU/AVRAM, ANA MARIA: Avram/Dumitrescu in Israel (II)
Dumitrescu: Plutonian Frenzy for ensemble, Galaxy III for tape and e-guitar (soloist Stephen O'Malley), Hyperspectres I for 3 doublebasses. Avram: Textures Liminales II for ensemble and live electronics, Textures Liminales I - computer assisted music ... more »
SOUNDSCAPE
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Sounds of Silence VINYL
s you know, we pretty much avoid vinyl, but this is an exception, since it makes sense. It’s a conceptual notion. These are silences – intended as silences, for a variety of reasons, political, artistic, demonstrative - taken from various previous releases (by the l... more »
LUMSDAINE, DAVID: Mutawinji; Pied Butcher birds of Spirey Creek.
stunningly musical record of enormous subtlety and grace. The first track is worth the whole CD; here’s a bird that has a clear, modular, elaborated song, with extraordinary insertions and variations and an uncanny sense of timing. In a 21-minute solo (with a compl... more »
BOOK
SMIRNOV, ANDREY: Sound in Z.
An indispensible work that gathers together the groundbreaking and largely ignored innovations and experiments concerned with sound and electronic music in the early years of the Soviet Union. 266 pages, with a huge and precious collection of photographs, diagrams, ... more »
COSMIC ORGASM, The Music of Iancu Dumitrescu.
400pp book, edited by Andy Wilson and containing essays by Ben Watson, Tim Hodgkinson, Costin Cazaban, Ana-Maria Avram, Eugene Thacker Guillaume Ollendorff and Iancu himself, plus several lengthy interviews with Iancu (sometimes with Ana Maria), biographical notes, ... more »
SPECIAL
Another scattering of old vinyl for collectors and last copies of CDs.
ART BEARS: Winter Songs LP
Original copy of the original Nimbus ART BEARS Winter Songs LP, with insert and dutch metal lettering. ... more »
FAUST: MUNIC and Elsewhere LP
One of the original Nimbus white vinyl edition of FAUST Munic and Elsewhere LP. ... more »
BOLLETER, ROSS: The Country of Here Below.
Bass accordions and ruined pianos.... more »
BACK IN STOCK
THIS HEAT: Out of Cold Storage (6 CD box and book)
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 ... more »
OSWALD, JOHN : 69 plunderphonics 96 (Dbl CD and book)
Likely the most essential release of 2001. 60 tracks covering the period 1969 to 1996 - including all 25 tracks from the infamous banned Plunderphonic CD -in re-mastered and alternate versions. Plus a 44-page, handbound, hardcover book, featuring a 30,000 word inter... more »