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 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 change th... more »
CUTLER, CHRIS: Not as We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology 220pp 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 ... 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 »
VRTACEK/O’MEARA, CHARLES: Do Not Write on the Walls (book/CD)
Chuck was one of those unstoppable forces; he just had to make things all the time – music, furniture, stories, drawings, a novel - as well as holding down his day job as a psychiatric nurse. Highly creative and born talented, he’d studied art wi... 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
First Volume of a 4-Volume Magnum Opus – with 80+ songs of Levity, Balladry, Ideology & Rhapsody Over the next year Brian will be releasing a linked set of CDs in 4 Volumes, two years in the making, each in a very different register - a songwriting ma... 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 »
BRAXTON, ANTHONY/ KERROD, JACQUELINE: Duo (Bologna) 2018
Recorded during the 2018 edition of AngelicA. Braxton performs for the very first time with harp virtuoso Jacqueline Kerrod. ... more »
BROTZMANN, PETER/ GANIA, MAALEM MOUKHTAR/ DRAKE, HAMID: The Catch of a Ghost
A rare trio with Maâlem Moukhtar Gania (guembri and voice) - the last representative of the legendary tradition of Gnawa music masters in Essaouira (Morocco), recorded at the 2019 edition of AngelicA. An interesting meeting of musical styles that works surprisi... more »
MITCHELL, ROSCOE: Splatter
Recorded during the 2017 edition of AngelicA. Founder member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago performs with the Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna , directed by Tonino Battista , and the participation of Thomas Buck... more »
GREAVES, JOHN: Passage du Nord-Ouest
John Greaves at 70 - marked here with the release of a rediscovered concert recording from1993 featuring John, Sophia Domancich (piano), Francois Ovide (ac. guit), David Cunningham (e. guit, electronics), Peter Kimberly (2nd voc), Paul Rogers (bass) playing of 16... more »
THE KEITH TIPPETT OCTET: The Nine Dances of Patrick O’Gonogon
Recorded in 2014, this is a large-scale late work by one of music’s rōnin masters; impregnable compositions beautifully executed through a happy confluence of the best of the history of British jazz - from Stan Tracey and Joe Harriott, through Centipede - absor... 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 »
VINYL
GRIMAUD, DOMINIQUE: 19 Feedbacks (vinyl)
We don’t normally stock LPs, but we have a handful of these from our old friend Dominique. This project started life with the opening of I Feel Fine, and grew from there; a quasi-plunderphonic project looking back to the ‘60s but only recently completed. As the titl... more »
DVD, BOOK/DVD.
THE REVEREND FRED LANE: Icepick to the Moon - a feature length documentary by Skizz Cyzyk DVD
The Raudelunas Pataphysical Revue rates as one of the truly great productions of the 1970s, coming seemingly out of nowhere (in fact Tuscaloosa, Alabama), it was fully fledged, brilliantly competent, Dadaistic, funny - in a disturbingly ambiguous sort of way - and s... more »
CONRAD, TONY: Doing the City/Urban Community Interventions 89pp landscape large format, flat bound
The book documents with photographs and articles, drawings, interviews and facsimile documentation various outdoor events, installations and interventions by the late American violinist, art-film director and compelling maverick, Tony Conrad, key player in early Ame... 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 »