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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 enough to ... more »
NEW 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 »
LAST ReR RELEASES
MINIATURES 2020 - 124 ASSORTED ARTISTS - an anniversary tribute to Morgan Fisher’s 1980 classic. (d
Expected early February, 2021 Third in a noble series: first was Morgan Fisher’s classic 1980 release, then an expanded second volume at the millennium - and now we have this third, even more expanded homage. The idea is simplicity itself: invite a selected bod... more »
WOODBURY, BRIAN: Antipathy & Ideology
This is the third chapter of Brian’s massively ambitious four-volume song-writing master-class, to be released in four installments over the space of a year. This issue digs into the news and - in an impressive variety of musical dialects - doesn’t pussyfoot around ... 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 »
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 setsl be numbered and signed by Fred. . Each box contains 8 Fred Records releases, a bonus Fred title and ... more »
Other
SUN RA: Heliocentric Worlds 1 & 2
Classic reissue of the signature pair of Sun Ra/Arkestra studio releases for the New York ESD label, recorded in Spring and Autumn of 1965 when, somehow, the band had got hold of some tympani and an impressive bass marimba. Ra plays the marimba, as well as tuned bon... more »
HERRINGTON, CHLOE: Silent Reflux
Seven non-linear, hybrid, compositions that seldom do what you expect and are extremely focused on the juxtaposition of timbres, musical gestures, montage, narrative-sound, fragments and flat rhythmic interludes; these are not improvisations or conventional composit... more »
SAX RUINS: Blimmguass
A scarcely credible tour de force of speed and precision in the service of complex, rapidly changing, additive-rhythm-rich compositions performed by Tatsuya Toshida (drums) and Ryoko Ono (many saxophones, in layers) like nothing else by anyone. No fat, 20 ideas a mi... more »
FRITH, FRED, HUMBERT, NICHOLAS, PARISOTTO, MARC: Cut up the Border
Cut up the Border [£14.50] ROG 0098 Out of some 33 hours of sound recordings, accrued between 1989 and 1990 in the making of the 90-minute Step Across the Border, our three protagonists cut and pasted this montage out of interviews, snatched environmental recordings... more »
FRITH, FRED/COXHILL, LOL: French Gigs
The original LP was released in 1983 and found Fred and Lol in fine fettle and both playing to their strengths; there’s still that freshness that was around then, that lack of self-consciousness, in ... more »
FRITH, FRED, MORI, IKUE: A Mountain doesn't know it's Tall
Clean studio recording and the first duo recording of Fred and the incomparable Ikue - after half a century of working on countless larger projects together. Mostly meditative, or active, electronica. ... more »
GENTLE FIRE Explorations (1970-1973) 3 CD box
This is a useful document because, although the group played an important role in the early 1970s in the grey zone between experimental contemporary music and fringe youth culture, almost no recordings were released. A maverick group of mixed instrumentation, home-m... more »
BOOK
OSTERTAG, BOB: Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat
This is a well written, well researched and constantly fascinating book, written directly from experience and in a conversational tone that deals in depth with serious matters musical, political and technological. ... 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 »
BACK IN STOCK
FRITH, FRED/JEAN PIERRE DROUET/LOUIS SCLAVIS: I dream of you jumping
Live at Victo 2000. For electric guitar, percussion, horns; keeps moving within seamless musical logic.... more »
MUSCI/VENOSTA/MARIANI: Losing the Orthodox Path
Musci and Venosta, here with electronic composer Mariani, extending their method to medieval and religious musics; transformed, layered, composed upon.... more »
