MACLEAN, STEVE: Ordinary Objects

In this episode, a number of short recordings of household objects and curious instruments become the core thematic material for a range of exquisitely conceived and realised pieces in which the recordings are shaped, stretched, tuned, combined and otherwise manipul... more »

DRAKE, BOB: Arxpilosa

This is such a remarkable piece of work I don’t know where to begin. Anyone who liked the idea-rich, sonically breathtaking and compositionally daring pop music of the ‘60s, will recognise in these 20 perfectly crafted songs a similar mixture of pop-sensibility and ... more »

DRAKE, BOB: Arxpilosa (numbered and signed with a special item from Bob)

Numbered and signed edition with a special item from Bob. ... more »

THE NECKS: Vertigo.

The release of a new Necks album is always news. This is our 12th to date - and their 18th. While most ensembles are driven by personalities, the Necks are powered by an idea. A very large and simple idea - which now seems completely obvious…. but only because the N... more »

KOVAC, BORIS: Times of Day.

We’re very pleased to be releasing this. What Boris does is without parallel or precedent, and he’s been doing it for over 40 years, perfecting a language that is uniquely his own: not chamber music, not world music, not jazz – but demanding performance skills vital... more »

RAVENSTINE, ALLEN: The Pharoah’s Bee.

Allen Ravenstine, erstwhile eminence grise of classic-era Pere Ubu, was one of the best-integrated and least predictable pioneers of analogue synthesis in rock until, in the late 1980’s, he quit both the public and the musical arena to pursue entirely different inte... more »

FRITH, FRED: Propaganda.

Written for theatre in 1987 using a host of avian and mammalian voices, snippets of unidentified musical material and electroacoustic noise- sculpting, as well as invented and real instruments played by Fred. This was a hard time and the mood is intense, lean and no... more »

FRITH, FRED: Field Days.

14 pieces originally written for dance and other practical situations, here reassigned and reconstructed for choreographer Amanda Miller and the Nederland Dans Theater.These are loop-based, textural, mood pieces, and invocations of spaces and landscapes, with some ... more »

MUSCI, ROBERTO/ VENOSTA,GIOVANNI: Vampyr and Other Stories

ROBERTO MUSCI/GIOVANNI VENOSTA Vampyr and Other Stories [£12.50] ReR MV30 Released to celebrate their 30 years of collaboration, this limited edition release collects their earliest and latest works, the tracks lost when the two LPs were reissued on a single CD, a... more »

BRAMNK, FALTER: Vagal

It’s been many years since we had anything new from Falter Bramnk, so this is particularly welcome. It’s a collection of 15 pieces, very varied – some highly composed, some sound collages, but all made with intelligence and care. This kind of work is increasingly ra... more »

JENKINS, ALAN: Free Surf Music 4

In another of Alan Jenkins’ parallel worlds a classic surf/guitar instrumental band gets into free improvisation; the instrumentals are as great as Alan’s always are, and the band gets free the way such a band would; a unique probe into counterfactual music history,... more »

MOORE, R.STEVIE: Verve

A Cordelia re-issue of one of R. Stevie Moore’s classic song-notebook-album collections. For those who don’t know, RSM is a song-writing genius, incurable maverick and a professional enigma. His music is instantly recognisable but impossible to classify - too weird ... more »

MOORE, R. STEVIE: 1952-19??

More Moore. See the write-up for Verve; this is a 27-song compilation taken from various different releases, with some tracks heard here for the first time as far as I can tell. All the recordings predate 1978 though, which when you listen, is sometimes hard to beli... more »

R. STEVIE MOORE OFFER

Both "Verve" and "1952 -19??" for £25... more »

HODGKINSON, TIM: Cuts

Three new pieces: "But hard without I", for bass clarinet solo - nicely recorded, exquisitely calibrated and perfectly formed; "On Earth", performed by the New York Ne(X)tworks Ensemble (cello, violin, harp, trombone, piano, voice and electronics); you can hear wher... more »

SHATNER'S BASSOON: Shansa Barsnaan

From the same cauldron that brought you Craig Scott’s Lobotomy, this impressive CD manages to collate unusual compositions, wildly diverse musical languages, serious improvisation, great playing and high quality recording. It’s imaginative and highly unusual; there’... more »

TOSHIAKI, SUDOH: Mobile Suite

Effectively a solo work by bassist Sudoh Toshiaki, who also plays all the other instruments on this impressive independent release. In 15 parts, this is full-band, complicated, tuneful, prog-inflected material, scarily well arranged and played - that turns on a dime... more »

URBAN SAX: Live in Pori 1984

Back in the glory days, this spectacular, theatrical mass saxophone project could tour. For a while they showed up everywhere, 20 or 30 costumed horn-players, moving around, standing on roofs, surrounding their public and playing a kind of thick, harmonic, minimal ... more »

COXHILL LOL, SIMON EMMERSON, VERYAN WESTON: Digswell Duets

Important 1978 concert recordings, half with Simon Emmerson who processes Lol's soprano sax electronically in real time - which must be one of the first examples of such interactive, improvised live processing anywhere, and it still sounds convincing and engaging -... more »

FANFARE POURPOUR and LARS HOLLMER: Karusell Musik

Convened in Canada with master saxophonist and composer, Jean Derome, this large (in the late teens) ensemble of winds, strings, some voices and accordion (giving the instrument a good name for a change) plays a luminous programme of Lars Hollmer’s epidemical tunes ... more »

FAUST: Kleine Welt (Live)

Just a few copies of the parallel Faust assembled by Keyboardist Jochen Irmler after the reformed band drifted apart again. ... more »

ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN: Live at the Rock in Opposition Festival, 1978, New London Theatre

Not sure how the band tracked down this very plausible recording made at the obscurely famous RIO festival in 1978, but here it is, cleaned up and pressed into vinyl. The sound is good, clear and persuasive, with the occasional minor glitch. This was Etron Fou in th... more »

ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN: Live at the Rock in Opposition Festival, 1978, New London Theatre

Not sure how the band tracked down this very plausible recording made at the obscurely famous RIO festival in 1978, but here it is, cleaned up and pressed into vinyl. The sound is good, clear and persuasive, with the occasional minor glitch. This was Etron Fou in th... more »

XENAKIS, IANNIS: Le Depassement de Soi DVD

Linaia-Agon is one of Xenakis’ game pieces, scored for tuba, trombone and French horn. Structured as a contest (Agon) with referee and scorekeeper, it’s powered by a complex set of calculations that create unique sets of combinations of actions for the musicians. Ea... more »

MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN: More Encores (10" vinyl)

Original Limited Edition Vinyl Reissue ... more »

DUMITRESCU, IANCU & AVRAM, ANA MARIA: George Enescu International Festival, Bucharest, 2015

Unheard as going to press. Latest from Iancu and Ana Maria with Hyperion International – conducted by Ilan Volkov.... more »

RILEY, TERRY: The 3 Generations Trio

Unheard as going to press.... more »

OLIVEROS, PAULINE/MITCHELL, ROSCOE/TILBURY,JOHN/SMITH,WADADA LEO: Nessuno

Pointillistic improvisations by the experts. A conservative but beautifully recorded live concert performance from the Angelika festival, 2011.... more »

DILLON, JAMES: Music Projects/London

Includes the magnificent 'East 11th St NY 10003' for 6 percussionists, buy it if only for this. Plus 'Windows and Canopies' for chamber orchestra and 'La femme Invisible' for woodwind ensemble, piano and 3 percussionists. L... more »

BARRETT, RICHARD: Vanity

Three dense movements (25.36 total) for Orchestra (BBC Symphony). Remarkable in that the orchestra is organised like a small ensemble, with a complexity and clarity of organisation and timbre that is surprising, even extraordinary. In fact the orchestra becomes, eff... more »

SMALLEY, ROGER : Pulses

Large scale swelling and swirling orchestra clusters (26 'moments'), for 5 instrumental groups (brass and percussion - in concert spatially deployed) and real-time ring modulation. A work very much of its time (late 60's - a good time for experimental music) and cle... more »

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Falter Bramnk - Vagal: Urban Sax - Live in Pori: Lars Hollmer - Karusell Musik PLUS Xenakis DVD. Total £47: save £15 ... more »