NEW RELEASES
BLEGVAD, PETER: Go Figure
After 19 years, the return of the Peter Blegvad Trio, in supernal form and now a quintet with Karen Mantler and Bob Drake. Recorded over 10 days at studio Midi-Pyrenees the old way: sitting in a room, working on arrangements, rehearsing a bit and then quickly re... more »
THE PETER BLEGVAD BANDBOX
THE PETER BLEGVAD BANDBOX Limited, signed, subscription edition. 6 CDs and fat book in a box, with a unique subscription only item, signed by Peter. And just in time for Xmas . You will get Go Figure immediately, and the rest as soon as it's re... more »
ZNR: Traite de Mechanique Populaire
The second and last release by this most exquisite and eccentric of groups, who hardly touched the world of working bands, and whose existence was tenuous, flickering, mythological – and yet who managed, stealthily, to find its way in time to legendary status &... more »
ZNR: ZNArchive Box 4CDs, 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 and his&... more »
ZNR BOX less Traite de Mechanique
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 and his... more »
VAROUTAS, GIORGOS: Chronostasis
Standing Time. From Athens, a somewhat unusual release for us: an intriguing collection of 10 very measured and nuanced drone-based pieces - for extended guitar, some percussion and, unusually, Iranian ney, Chinese sho (played by Ko Ishikawa, one of the leading play... more »
ZNR: Archive Box (4 CDS, booklet) Subscription edition.
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 and his... more »
RAVENSTINE, ALLEN: Waiting for the Bomb
ALLEN RAVENSTINE PRE-ORDER SUBSCRIPTION OFFER<p> Release Date Friday JUNE 29<p> Allen and I worked for several years together in the second coming of Pere Ubu before we both decided to quit at around the same time. I carried on playing – and r... more »
LAST ReR RELEASES
TAYLOR, HOLLIS: Absolute bird (double CD and 44pp Book).
This is an extraordinary and important work, breathtaking in it’s apparent simplicity but raised on a lifetime of study, thought and contrariness. All 41 tracks are, in one way or another, built around transcriptions or recordings of the pied butcherbird (an endless... more »
ANGELI, PAOLO: Talea
Recorded in Australia, Brasil, Italy, Japan, Turkey and America on his 2015/16 world tour, these excellent recordings offer an astonishing range of styles and sounds - all somehow emanating from Angeli’s fingers and feet – and his highly modified, prepared, extended... more »
RAZZI, FAUSTO: Per Piano
5 spacious and dynamic works, minimal - in a Feldmanesque rather than minimalist sense - by the remarkable but seldom heard contemporary Italian composer Fausto Razzi, who works in these pieces with dynamics and harmonics to gripping effect; each sound its own state... more »
SUBSCRIPTION OFFER
ZNR: Archive Box (4 CDS, booklet) Subscription edition.
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 and his... more »
Other
JENKINS, ALAN : CULPHO DOG GYMKHANA No.1
The man behind the Kettering Vampires, the Thurston Lava Tube, Experimental Surf Music and any number of other fictional interventions is one of the few proper enigmas at work in an otherwise blocked and co-opted music world endlessly repeating itself while it waits... more »
AAAAAAAAXB(Aaaaaaaaxb): The best of ...
[also, clearly nothing to do with ALAN JENKINS]<p> [All these bands are real. Probably. Alan isn’t just making them up. Probably. Maybe. Not.]<p> This invaluable collection brings us further news from the suspiciously overlooked constituency of the Inter... more »
VITOR RUA & the Metaphysical Angels Do Androids Dream of Electric Guitars? (dbl CD)
A genuinely original guitarist and composer, Vitor is still curiously little celebrated outside his native Portugal. Hopefully this record will change that. It’s a remarkable release for a number of reasons – firstly, CD1, really does have something new to say about... more »
BING SELFISH & THE WINDSORS: Selfish Sentiments
Amazingly, he’s still at large. And this may be Bing’s most massive yet. A dozen great songs, including the rational derangement of all the senses, financial advisor, world without government and never alone with a drone all dressed in nicely judged headlong arr... more »
JUMP FOR JOY!: Keeping Score
Limited Edition. Released by the band (Jean-Herve Peron, Zappi Diermier Geraldine Swayne [all from Faust], Geoff Leigh, Yumi Hara and Chris Cutler) – a good quality recording of a concert (edited) from the 2016 RIO Festival in Carmaux. Neither flesh nor fish nor g... more »
SCOTT, RAYMOND/The Secret Seven: The Unexpected
Originally released in 1960, with seven (in fact eight) – musicians Scott thought would be immediately recognisable (hence the Secret Seven, because none are named on the LP; you can try to guess) - who cover piano, vibraphone, harmonica, trumpet, guitar, tenor sax... more »
SCOTT, RAYMOND: Kodachrome – Compositions for Orchestra
A selection of Scott’s compositions played by the Dutch Metropole Orchestra (half a classical orchestra and half a big-band jazz ensemble, some 50 strong - you’ll remember their perfect renditions of Juan Esquivel‘s work a couple of years back at this same address).... more »
SCOTT, RAYMOND: Suite for Violin and Piano
A curiosity and an important piece of research, this carefully crafted CD features two versions – the original and then a contemporary rendition of an unpublished and entirely untypical work by Scott, specifically written for Arnold Eidus - first violinist in Scott’... more »
ALL 4 RAYMOND SCOTT RELEASES
OFFER, for the diehards, all 4 Scott releases for the price of 3. ... more »
ANTHEIL, ORNSTEIN, LOURIE: Futurpiano
Highlighting three giants of early C20 Futurist Music: two Russians - Arthur Lourie, who evolved new notations and explored a radical mixture of atonality, impressionism and proto-serialism, and Leo Ornstein, whose family emigrated to America when he was 14 - a prod... more »
Milhaud, Poulenc & LE GROUPE DES SIX (Auric, Durey, Honegger, Tailleferre) (dbl CD)
The name has stuck. Six young French composers who came together under the gentle pressure of Cocteau (and to a degree Satie) and – rather like the New Wave after Punk - broke with past orthodoxies though not in very uniform ways; in fact it was hardly a movement at... more »
DEBUSSY, SATIE, APOLLINAIRE, DUCHAMP, RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES, ARP, PICABIA, HONNEGER, DESNOS, LES SIX,
A useful collection. The recordings of Apollinare (1913), Arp (1961), Cocteau (1929) and Desnos (1938) are all of short contemporary recordings of the artists reciting their own verse – Cocteau accompanied by the Dan Parrish Jazz Orchestra and Desnos as part of a ... more »
IVES, ORNSTEIN, COWELL, ANTHEIL, RUGGLES, RUDHYAR, VARESE, SESSIONS, FELDMAN, CAGE, PARTCH, GYSIN. T
An interesting addition to the series. Disc one features Ives’ prescient and (very) quietly iconoclastic Central Park in the Dark (1906), Leo Ornstein’s explosive Suicide in an Airplane (1913), Henry Cowell’s Dynamic Motion (1916) performed by the composer, Ge... more »
CAGE, JOHN: Klang der Wandlungen (3 CD Box)
These 3 CD contain 6 long works recorded by various German radio stations between 1985 and 2011. There are two orchestra pieces- seventy-four and 103, both late works – which dispense with conductors, leaving the coordination to the performers. The results are very ... more »
SCHAEFFER, BOGUSLAW: Travel Notes
Five electronic pieces by the Polish composer Boguslaw Schaeffer made in Warsaw, Belgrade, Stockholm, Cracow and Berlin - part of what was then the East bloc circuit - between 1973 and 1979. Of importance mainly, I would say, to scholars and specialists - not least ... more »
KUDA ORG.. WORKSHOP: Conspiracies (Chris Cutler)
Limited release by KUDA, in Novy Sad, of a time and rule-based composition drawn up by Chris Cutler as part of the final workshop concert of one of KUDA’s Indefatigable Residencies at their Festival of Opposition. There were 12 participants, electric, acoustic, trad... more »
EASTMAN, JULIUS: The Zurich Concert
Very slowly Eastman’s fascinating and maverick oeuvre is being rediscovered, though much is lost (but that’s another story, from his even more extraordinary - some would say - tragic, life). Best known as a singer (Maxwell Davis’ 8 songs for a Mad King, for instance... more »
MYERS, DAVID LEE: Ether Music
A new collection of pieces by the original no-imput mixer maestro; exquisite and unearthly, but with real substance and variety; this is still a person performing with a instrument, not the more familiar paying obeisance to programmes, samples and presets to which s... more »
DVD
CAGE,JOHN/TUDOR, DAVID/ MUMMA, GORDON/ PAIK NAM JUN/ VANDERBEEK STAN/ CUNNINGHAM, MERCE: Variations
A 1966 German Television recording of Variations V, written for Merce Cunningham’s Dance Company in 1965 with a score that consists of 37 enigmatic statements or instructions. The music is performed here - with a lot of electronic clutter, including radios and a lot... more »
BACK IN STOCK.
SUN RA: The Magic City
For their first reissue, the Sun Ra estate chose Magic City, originally released in 1965 and a testament to Ra’s experimental instincts and indifference to following jazz trends. The instrumentation is extreme and the combinations unusual; the structure rolls throu... more »
Sun Ra: My Brother the Wind Volume 1
The second official and properly sourced reissue by the Sun Ra estate. My Brother the Wind was the first recording Ra made with the still young Moog synthesiser – this was in 1969 - and is a small ensemble recording with John Gilmore, Marshall Allen and Danny Davis... 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 »
STOP PRESS: UNHEARD AT TIME OF WRITING
THE REMOTE VIEWERS: Last Man in Europe
"The peculiar brainchild of tenor saxophonist David Petts, The Remote Viewers have sometimes included six or seven members ata time. Reduced to the key trio of Petts, Adrian Northover on soprano sax and bassist John Edwards, the project sheds the clumsy Harry Partc... more »
MORE NEW STUFF - HOW TO BUILD A LIBRARY
From each update I will select those CDs I think most remarkable or important - those which I think should be in any living library - and offer a discount for anyone buying them all. There will be 2 categories must have and essential history. Offers will be available for either or both together. If you find this essential library idea useful, I will slowly work backwards and compile a list from the whole catalogue.Essential Library 1
- ZNR: Traite de Mechanique (dbl)
- ALAN JENKINS: CULPHO DOG GYMKHANA No. 1
- RAYMOND SCOTT/SECRET SEVEN: The Unexpected
All 3 for £36 save £5.50
Essential History 1
- JOHN CAGE/DAVID TUDOR/GORDON MUMMA/NAM JUNE PAIK/STAN VANDERBEEK/MERCE CUNNINGHAM: Variations V
- The American Avant Garde in the C20
- JULIUS EASTMAN: The Zurich Concert
All 3 for £48 save £5.50
All 6 for £81 save £14
ESSENTIAL LIBRARY: 12/17
ESSENTIAL LIBRARY: ZNR: Traite de Mechanique RAYMOND SCOTT /The Secret Seven: The Unexpected ALAN JENKINS: Culpho Dog Gymkhana All three for £36 (save £5.50) ... more »
ESSENTIAL HISTORY: 12/17
ESSENTIAL HISTORY: JOHN CAGE/DAVID TUDOR/GORDON MUMMA/NAM JUN PAIK/STAN VANDERBEEK/MERCE CUNNINGHAM: Variations V (DVD) The American Avant Garde in the C20 JULIUS EASTMAN: The Zurich Concert Both for £48 (save £5.50) ... more »
ESSENTIAL LIBRARY and ESSENTIAL HISTORY 2017
ESSENTIAL LIBRARY AND ESSENTIAL HISTORY All 6 for £81 - save £14 ... more »