A dissonant note: As you know, the pound has crashed against the Euro and the Dollar - a roughly 20% devaluation since the Brexit vote in 2016. We have so far kept our prices of imports the same and absorbed the negative effects, but we will have to raise some prices soon not to be losing money, especially if rates further deteriorate.
NEW RELEASES -BOOKS
CUTLER, CHRIS: Not as we Choose; Music, Memory and Technology. 220pp. Paperback. Illustrated by Pete
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 change the face of music: the collapse of common... more »
CUTLER, CHRIS: Not as We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology 220pp paperback. signed/numbered.
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 change the face of music: the collapse of... 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 »
NEW RELEASES
WOODBURY, BRIAN: Balladry and Soliloquy
This is the second of the 4-Volume, 80+ song Magnum Opus - a song-writing master-class - being released in four instalments over the next twelve months. This one investigates narrative and personal songs. Old hands will know that we've been distributing Brian’s wo... 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 »
LAST ReR RELEASES
The NECKS: Three
I’m sure you don’t need to be told: ‘The greatest trio on Earth’ (The New York Times) , ‘Among the world’'s greatest forces in music’ (The Los Angeles Times) and ‘One of the most entrancing live acts in the world’ (The ... more »
FRANCO CASAVOLA, CHRIS CUTLER, ANDRZEJ KARPINSKI, SILVIO MIX, ALESSANDRO MONTI, NICK SUDNICK: Inton
New and old compositions for Luigi Russolo's legendary Intonarumori. After publishing his visionary manifesto, the Art of Noises, in 1913, the futurist painter Luigi Russolo designed and built a revolutionary family of new instruments with which to compose with nois... more »
WOODBURY, BRIAN: Levity & Novelty
Volume 1: Levity & Novelty (released Feb. 1, 2020) 27 songs, from indie-pop to theatrical numbers to a Tom Lehrer cover. ... more »
BOOK
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 value but it ... more »
Other
AKSAK MABOUL: Figures (dbl. CD)
Seductively constructed songs by the enigmatic and quietly challenging composer and instrumentalist Marc Hollander - with his long-time collaborator, ex Honeymoon Killer singer, lyricist and visual artist, Veronique Vincent. These are layered constructions mix... more »
CULPHO DOG GYMKHANA VOLUME 3
- with Vin Diagram, the Wasp the Rabbit, the Rat, the Mole and absolutely nothing at all to do with Alan Jenkins or anyone like him . Take 1 : If guitar instrumentals had remained mainstream and then mutated, ramified and spread out into hypnotic experimentalism, ... more »
SONATA ISLANDS KOMMANDOH Quasar Burning Bright
After their virtuoso tribute to After Dinner, Wha Ha Ha and the Haniwa Allstars. Giovanni Venosta and Sonata Islands offer a collection of 6 compositions of their own, with references – sometimes strong – to other music, but in their own way and with no conces... more »
SUN RA and his MYTH SCIENCEORCHESTRA: When Angels Speak of Love
Another official, properly documented release from the Sun Ra estate, nicely mastered and with excellent accompanying documentation. Recorded in 1963, this sees the band experimenting not only with timbre, structure and extended passages of ‘free’ sounds, but also s... more »
THOMAS, PHILIP: Morton Feldman Piano (5 CD Box)
5-disc collection that includes Last Pieces, Piano, Palais de Mari, Untitled piano piece, Illusions, Three Dances, Nature Pieces, Variations, Two Intermissions, intermissions 3, intermissions 4, intersection 2, Three pieces for piano, Piano Piece 1955, Piano Piece 1... more »
BOOK Special Limited offer, just a few copies.
Price reductions shown below on orders placed before December 20.PETER BLEGVAD/ JERRY JOINER writing as BJORN D’ALEVEY: The Marvellous Moo/Milano Eagles. ( Limited E
Not intended for publication when originally undertaken as a kind of exquisite corpse enterprise, conducted across four decades and two continents, our two protagonists swapping books periodically, each doing a page and passing the book back, so that both stories ev... more »
BACK IN STOCK
ART BEARS: The Art Box (6CDs, definitive book)
A 6 CD box containing: 1. The three original releases, properly re-mastered, - when we did them before, the technology was much poorer. Stunningly re-mastered by Bob Drake from 24 bit transcriptions of the original tapes and in newly designed jewel cases, same cov... 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 »
CASSIBER: The CASSIBER box. 6 CDs, 1 DVD, definitive 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 ... more »
VINYL COLLECTORS: FOUND RARITIES
Vinyl: single copies - new, not second-hand, but aged ...
DODGE/AREL/BORETZ: Music for Computers, Electronic Sounds and Players (vinyl)
Original pressing. Unplayed. A Classic. £15... more »