NEW RELEASES
BIOTA: Fragment for Balance
After 4 years of work on their 11th release for ReR, this extraordinary, reclusive, and highly individual audio-visual collective continues to evolve through the painstaking accumulation and disposition of a seemingly incompatible range of both exotic and familiar m... more »
BIOTA: The Biota Box
Without any obvious keystone event, Biota – who started recording in the late 1970’s as the Mnemonist Orchestra – have quietly become a musical fixture, honoured for their uniquely, abstract, layered, polystylistic approach to musical construction - ... more »
LAST ReR RELEASES
MACLEAN, STEVE: The Steve Maclean Box
To encourage you, here are six CDs for the price of two: Frog, Bug, Guitar, Computer (featuring what it says in the title); Expressions on Piano (Acoustic piano with disklavier 2 system); GPS (Steve MacLean Ensemble's final CD ), Futures (rock/songs) and Ordina... more »
ANGELI, PAULO: 22.22 Free Radiohead
Another great release in which Paulo and his extraordinary extended Sardinian guitar – larger than a standard guitar and augmented with two banks of sympathetic strings, a set of foot operated hammers (each linked to a primary string) and a series of motorised prope... more »
Other
STOCKHAUSEN, KARLHEINZ: Kurzwellen (1968)
An updated version of the ‘60s classic by Gerard Pape’s CSLI Ensemble presented, reportedly, to critical praise at the Stockhausen summer course at Kürten. Originally for 4 shortwave radios (one for each player), a giant tam-tam, an elektronium, piano and viola, in ... more »
CRUMB, GEORGE: Metamorphoses (Book 1)
George Crumb is one of the great unsung composers of the 20th and 21st centuries (most of the pieces here were written between 2015 – 2017) - he’s now 90, and still going strong. Above all he’s a master of timbre and texture - and of the optimum deployment of dynami... more »
MINTON,PHIL/WESTON, VARYAN: Ways for an Orchestra
Poly-stylistic orchestral arrangements by the never less than impressive Veryan Weston of music by Phil Minton, Veryan Weston, Eric Dolphy, Arthur Sullivan, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Lindsay Cooper, Luc Ex and Jacques Brel to texts by James Joyce, Adrian Mitche... more »
KANG, EYVIND: Chirality
Compositions and songs for a 25 piece mixed orchestra of traditional strings and winds, mixed with synthesisers, field recordings, percussion and voice. Pretty C19 and very straight. For fans, I think. (of which there are many). ... more »
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE/MILLER, CASSANDRA: Aaangelicaaa
Recorded at the Angelica Festival last year this consists of two pieces, one by Charlemagne (quasi liturgical) featuring himself on crystal glasses and voice, accompanied by tubular bells and a string ensemble; the other by experimental Canadian composer Cassandra M... more »
HODELL, AKE: Verbal Brainwash and other Works
The Swedish electronic community was always on the radical wing of electronic new music and, amongst them, Hodell was always something of an extremist. These are all text-sound pieces (this was a particularly Swedish contribution to new hybrid electronic forms) and ... more »
SELFISH, BING: in off-on-a-tangent park
13 more classics from a Bing-in-his-stride and a great band; these are songs comfortable with themselves, played and arranged by a band at one with its metier. A new Bing is like having Karl Krauss over for dinner. Includes Go Curator Go, What Lies Beneath the Pavem... more »
GREAVES, JOHN: Life Size
A new collection of John’s songs, with texts written by himself, Peter Blegvad, Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, Lisa Herman, Max Marchini/Annie Barbazza, Paul Verlaine, Emmanuel Tugny and Guillaume Appollinaire. Plus a musical reading of Robert Wyatt’s God Son... more »
JENKINS, ALAN, THE MELAMINE DIVISION PLATES: Novosibirsk (dbl CD)
Those who’ve been eagerly awaiting Alan’s next will know (more or less) what to expect: this time it’s ostensibly theatre music – in its elements loosely orbiting Telstar, often across parallel universes - whose improbability is admirably described in the scarily de... more »
MISTER LEAR & The NERVOUS FAMILY:Such is Life
An eccentric collection of songs that set texts by Edward Lear - in English, though the project is French – featuring, amongst others, our own Joseph Racaille. There are mandolins, banjos, electric basses, drums, electric guitars, on occasion an accordion, percussio... more »
BACK IN STOCK
ART BEARS: The Art Box
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 »
BOOK
BROKEN MUSIC (Book)
BIG NEWS . One of the holy grails of sound art, Broken Music was an essential 280 page compendium of records created by visual artists -originally published to accompany a DAAD exhibition, in 1989 - and long since out of print. It has now been repressed in a small ... more »
Vinyl.
GREAVES, JOHN: Life Size (vinyl)
A new collection of John’s songs, with texts written by himself, Peter Blegvad, Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, Lisa Herman, Max Marchini/Annie Barbazza, Paul Verlaine, Emmanuel Tugny and Guillaume Appollinaire. Plus a musical reading of Robert Wyatt’s God Song. Va... more »
KANG, EYVIND: Chirality (Vinyl)
Compositions and songs for a 25 piece mixed orchestra of traditional strings and winds, mixed with synthesisers, field recordings, percussion and voice. Pretty C19 and very straight. For fans, I think. (of which there are many).... 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
- GEORGE CRUMB: Metamorphoses (Book 1) for amplified piano
- AKE HODELL: Verbal Brainwash and other works 3 CD Box
- BROKEN MUSIC (book)
All 3 for £57 save £5.50
ESSENTIAL LIBRARY: 04/19
ESSENTIAL LIBRARY GEORGE CRUMB Metamorphosis (Book 1) for amplified piano AKE HODELL Verbal Brainwash and other works 3 CD BOX BROKEN MUSIC (book) All 3 for £57 save £5.50 ... more »