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NEW RELEASES
LUSSIER, RENE: Le Tresor de la Langue (3 CD set)
Tresor de la Langue has to be one of one of the truly great projects of the last half-century and is therefore a very hard act to follow. But on this quietly revolutionary record Rene has found his way to a music that can fairly be described as new; new enough to ma... more »
LAST ReR RELEASES
LUSSIER, RENE: Completment Marteau
Tresor de la Langue has to be one of one of the truly great projects of the last half-century and is (therefore) a very hard act to follow. But on this quietly revolutionary record Rene has found his way to a music that can fairly be described as new; new enou... more »
ANGELI, PAOLO@ Jar'a
The incomparable Paulo Angelli, who fits no category and whose unique instrument and often apparently impossible playing techniques produce a deep, resonant, nuanced and completely grounded music, never far from a folk root, but enriched with so many strands drawn ... more »
ROSE, JON: State of Play (dbl CD)
Two CDs and a 44pp colour booklet containing full track details, an illuminating essay and nifty photographs of Rose’s recent projects, various automata and invented instruments - you know what to expect by now; Jon is never short of ideas: 60 years and half a new w... more »
BLAST: Vortographs
Frank Crijns and Dirk Bruinsma deliver four wholly convincing, tightly composed, pieces for guitar, saxophones and vibraphone, fattened and deepened with the sympathetic and unobtrusive use of midi and percussion programming (which in this rare case really works ... more »
Other
TIPPETT, KEITH: The Monk Watches the Eagle
An immaculate BBC recording of a 2004 commission by the Norwich Festival of a performance in Norwich Cathedral for the BBC singers and two saxophone quartets. Tippett is the composer only here, but listening makes you realise what we’ve missed as a consequence of pe... more »
BORIS KOVACS/STEVAN TICKMAYER/LAV KOVACS: Late October Lights
Boris and Stevan share 40 years of following their own very different musical disciplines and being virtuosi in their own fields; they also share a common cultural and geographical heritage – which is what has brought them together, intermittently but regularly, ove... more »
BORIS KOVACS NEW RITUAL QUARTET: White World
12 new compositions for what is essentially a jazz ensemble (bass, drums, piano and reeds) with some eastern accordion, playing what they describe as a dance programme, but which seems to belong in some timeless category that is neither folk, jazz, contemporary or c... more »
BORIS KOVAKS NEW RITUAL GROUP: Mosaic of Time
With an eight-piece ensemble of strings, reeds, double reeds, bass, piano and percussion. ... more »
OFFICER: Paragraphs and Principles
Coming out of left field this, is - to say the least – enigmatic; it’s also confident and full of detail, with some 30 musical contributors, constantly changing instrumentation and shifting musical styles, making it musically uncategoriseable. Loosely hung on the w... more »
KEITH TIPPETT & MATTHEW BOURNE Aeolian (dbl CD)
Interesting because it's a curious meeting of different generation pianists, finding a music between themselves in real time. There’s a studio CD, with a lot of fine stretches and a lot of sonic probing; then there’s a concert recording, which is gripping – and has... more »
MORTON FELDMAN For John Cage (dbl CD)
For piano and violin. ... more »
FRED FRITH TRIO with LOTTE ANKER and SUSANA SANTOS SILVA Road (double CD)
Fred’s standing improvising trio in the studio (CD1) and with guests Lotte Anker (saxes) and Susana Santos Silva (tpt) on CD2. ... more »
BING SELFISH: Inside the head of Stephen Saint
] look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see ….a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world. (Werner Herzog). This is the latest gripping instalment of Bing’s uniquely... more »
THE REMOTE VIEWERS: The Remote Code (triple CD)
Not for the faint-hearted. There’s not much melody here and not much rhythm - and not a lot of it sounds improvised, although some is. A procession of sounds doesn’t quite match it either, though there’s quite a bit of that and it never seems to do what you expect i... more »
FAUST: 1971 – 73 LIMITED EDITION VINYL BOX Seven LPs and two 7’ singles with a glossy booklet in a v
Probably a last chance because it’s already sold out elsewhere; ours just took a long time to arrive - but we only have a few. Hence the price; it’s a thing for collectors already. In the box: The two original Polydor releases Faust (white cover, black v... more »
ReR DOWNLOADS
THE JOHN TILBURY PERSONAL ARCHIVE RECORDINGS
THE JOHN TILBURY PERSONAL ARCHIVE RECORDINGS. A key in C20 interpreter in the history of C20 music makes his archive available online, with recordings, many of which have never been released before, of key works by Samuel Beckett, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Cornel... more »
NEW RER VINYL
SLAPP HAPPY: Acnalbasac Noom (vinyl)
Made at Wumme with Faust, Vinyl reissue. ... more »
NEWS FROM BABEL: Letters Home (vinyl)
With Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Parkins, Dagmar Krause, Chris Cutler, Phil Minton, Robert Wyatt, Georgina Born and Sally Potter. Vinyl reissue. ... more »
NECKS:THE: Mindset (Vinyl)
GOODFELLAS REPRESS. Always different. Here the Necks resolutely layer polyrhythmic material to form seething blocks of sound - in two long pieces, one more stripped back to the live trio, the other featuring multiple strata of swirling Hammonds, noise-gui... more »
STOP PRESS: Unheard at time of writing
VINYL COLLECTORS: FOUND RARITIES
Vinyl: single copies - new, not second-hand, but aged ...
MOORE, STEVE: A Quiet Gathering (vinyl)
Unplayed. Original nimbus pressing in hand-silkscreened cover ... more »
CHRISTMAS GIFT DEPT. Just a handy list of books and boxes. 10% discount on orders over £100.
BOOK
CHARLES VRTACEK/O’MEARA Drawing a Line + re-mastered CD of Chuck’s 1988 ReR LP Heaven Comes to Town
This LP, by chance perfectly suited to the book (simultaneous absorption is recommended) delivers a prescient, episodic, unraveling of melody, field-ambience and electronic sound - like a mind at rest daydreaming through the debris of a day. ... more »
BLEGVAD, PETER: The book of Leviathan
(book) A very beautifully produced, 26 x 17 cm format hard backed 160 page, full colour collection of Peter's Independent on Sunday cartoons. This is a universe (or a life) condensed into Peter's own version of a grain of sand. Funny, elusive, radical, endlessly inv... more »
BLEGVAD, PETER: Selected Songs by Slapp Happy, illustrated by Peter Blegvad
86pp 10.5 x 15 cm flat bound book on white and blue art paper. Private Edition of 400 copies, not on general sale - featuring illustrated texts from various Slapp Happy songs and the full texts of both Sort Of and Acnalbasac Noom. Made for concert appearances in Ger... more »
BLEGVAD, PETER: Imagine. Observe. Remember (252pp 234 x 142mm art paperback)
252pp 234 x 142mm art paperback. (Just buy it). This is Peter Blegvad, so it’s not going to be simple. He wants it to be simple, but so does a corkscrew - if you’re looking for skewer, try kitchenware. And, of course, a corkscrew is simple - it does a hard t... more »
CUTLER, CHRIS: File Under Popular (paperback, signed edition)
Theoretical and critical writings on Music. 200pp. Illustrated with woodcuts and Photographs. Chapters on Sun Ra, The Residents, Phil Ochs and Elvis Presley, What Is Popular Music?, Progressive Music in the UK, Necessity and Choice in Musical Forms, Henry Cow, Rock ... more »
CUTLER, CHRIS: Not as We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology 140pp paperback. signed/numbered.
Illustrated by Peter Blegvad. A new book of essays on music, 30 years in the making, developing some of the themes of the last book and moving on into new theoretical territories. Blurb: In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired to cha... more »
PIEKUT, BEN: Henry Cow: The World is a Problem (paperback)
520 pp Paperback, 63 illustrations This is an academically motivated, but for the most part straightforwardly told story that tries painstakingly to piece together what was going on in Henry Cow in respect both of its individual internal relationships, and in... more »
GARMO, TROND EINAR: HENRY COW An Analysis of Avant Garde Rock. 274pp paperback
This substantial book was written in 1984/85, soon after the band broke up and while memories were still fresh. It was written very much from the perspective of the time – that’s more important than it may sound in such a project: hindsight has its own val... more »
BAKU: SYMPHONY OF SIRENS - SOUND EXPERIMENTS IN THE SOVIET AVANT GARDE. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND RECON
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,... more »
RAVENSTINE, ALLEN: Four Stories (book)
Slim, 44pp. perfect bound, paperback containing four stories. Illustrated by Mary Thomas. These four stories were written while Allen was working and touring with Pere Ubu, and speak directly of his experiences in those years. They waste no words - and ... more »
FERRARI, LUCA: GLEN SWEENEY’S ALCHEMIES: The life and Times of the Third Ear Band. 268pp PLUS CD
Giant Sun Trolley were legends in the earliest stirrings of what became the underground in London in late 1966, coming to full flower in the summer of 1967; doubly legendary because they never recorded anything. One of them, Glen Sweeney, went on to form the Th... more »
CUSACK PETER: Sounds from Dangerous Places
Two remarkable and important CDs of remarkable - and very diverse - site recordings made in Chernobyl - (occupying the whole of CD1), the Caspian Oilfields around Baku (Azerbaijan) and in various UK sites, including Lakenheath, Dungeness, Sellafield, Snowdonia &c. (... 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 »
BOXES
HENRY Cow BOX REDUX: THE COMPLETE HENRY COW
HENRY Cow BOX REDUX: THE COMPLETE HENRY COW [£75] ReRHCGK 17 CDs, 1 DVD and 180 pages of histories, chronology, testimony and commentaries by the band, sundry contemporary documents, and rare photographs – in a sturdy box. ... more »
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 »
ZNR: Archive Box (4 CDS, booklet)
Contains both original ZNR releases Barricades III and Traite de Mechanique Populaire , plus two extra CDs - one containing the whole of the post-ZNR LP Les Flots Bleus by Patrick Portella and Joseph Racaille as well as Joseph Racaille’s Pegase an... more »
FRITH, FRED: The Fred Records Story. Twenty-eight CDs, in three boxes, with three fat booklets and f
The Fred Records Story. Twenty-eight CDs, in three boxes, with three fat booklets and four extra bonus CDs. Signed Edition: the first 50 sets willl be numbered and signed by Fred. Each box contains 8 Fred Records releases, a bonus Fred title and a f... more »
SUN RA: Artyard in a Box (7 CDs)
9 classic Saturn releases on 7 CDs. All of them great, all of them quite different from one another and all featuring a lot of electric keyboards and Moog from the boss. The albums are Disco 3000, Sleeping Beauty, On Jupiter, Beyond the Purple Star Zone/ Oblique Par... more »
MACLEAN, STEVE: The Steve Maclean Box of Seven
To encourage you, here are seven CDs for the price of two: Frog, Bug, Guitar, Computer (featuring what it says in the title); Prime ; GPS ( Steve MacLean Ensemble's final CD ), Year of the Dragon , (featuring Chris Cutler); Bridges (double CD) and Ordi... more »
SUN RA: The Eternal Myth: The early Music History Of Sun Ra Part 1 1921-1958 (14 CD boxed set and pa
For scholars and those interested in the influences and history of Sun Ra’s music, this is a great release. It sold poorly on its release because it contained not only Ra’s early work as an arranger and composer and his appearances as a sideman but also the pre- Ark... more »