NEW JANUARY RELEASES
BIOTA: Fragment for Balance (subscription offer)
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 - deaf to fashion ... more »
BIOTA: Box and Fragment for Balance (subscription version)
OFFER: If you buy the Box the new release is yours for £5 extra, £10 extra in the subscription edition. ... more »
BIOTA: Box and Fragment for Balance (non - subscription version)
OFFER: If you buy the Box the new release is yours for £5 extra, £10 extra in the subscription edition. ... 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 »
LAST ReR RELEASES
MACLEAN, STEVE: Prime
A collection of new pieces that range across media and genres, mostly exploring prime numbers and the overtone series and featuring various guitars, a grand piano (played and remote-controlled), a quiet drum station, tube bells, assorted percussion, an amplified wi... more »
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 ( ), Futures (rock/songs) and Ordina... more »
YOU KNOW, IT'S CHRISTMAS - PERFECT GIFT REMINDERS
ALAN JENKINS The Experimental Surf Music BOX (8 CDs & documentation)
Some insufferably great music that’s hard to categorise. Somewhere in the mists it evolved away from the classic guitar instrumental, tweaking and stretching and mixing it with psychedelics and experimentalism, offering an alternative evolutionary history of popular... more »
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 »
THE NECKS: Body
The new NECKS studio record. It’'s another multi-layered classic and I won’t spoil it for you by trying to describe it. Though it’s their 20th, they still have a sack of fresh ideas - and even, on this record, a surprise! - as they further test... more »
DRAKE,BOB: L'Isola dei Lupi
Bob’s 10th solo album sees Bob playing all the usual instruments (and a few more this time) in another collection of close-up songs with impossible structures, extraordinary harmonies, informative lyrics (though a little outré in their subject matter), virtuoso play... more »
ZNR: Archive Box (4 CDS, booklet)
Contains both original ZNR releases Barricades III and Traite de Mechanique Populaire , plus two extra CDs - one containing the whole of the post-ZNR LP Les Flots Bleus by Patrick Portella and Joseph Racaille as well as Joseph Racaille’s Pegase and his... more »
THE PETER BLEGVAD BANDBOX
6 CDs and 72pp booklet. Containing all the Blegvad Trio and Quintet studio releases: Downtime, Just Woke Up, Hangman’s Hill and Go Figure – all re-mastered and repackaged - plus two additional CDs of unreleased studio recordings and live performances, mostly featur... more »
BLEGVAD/GREAVES/HERMAN: Kew Rhone (Book and CD)
Krew Rhone CD- with the Kew Rhone Book ... more »
BORAGE, FRED: Rural Class Struggles (book)
Rural Class Struggles In Ambridge by Fred Borage. James Joyce meets Joyce James of the Barchester Echo. A unique and extraordinary book. Words fail me. Illustrated by Tintoretto Sheepdip. Hand printed and a rarity.... more »
A SET OF 5 HENRY COW COASTERS
(trans: an upmarket, more solid species of beermat), each with a sharply printed facsimile of the Legend, Unrest, In Praise, Desperate and WestCult album covers. They were printed in a tiny edition to fill space in the US cow boxes (people got one or another randoml... more »
Other
STOP MOTION ORCHESTRA: Lightworks
From the Texas you don’t hear so much about, Stop Motion are a seven piece, rock-inflected, late sixties-mid-seventies influenced band (drums, bass, piano, synth, violin, cello, sax, banjitar) playing highly harmonically based, rhythmically interesting and through-c... more »
EVIL DICK: Earthly Delights
Another rare bird: a contemporary band, strong on improvisation as well as structure that lives on its playing and thinking skills; Zappa-tinged with a good balance between energy and abstraction, it’s very well recorded and persuasively played with some added use o... more »
THE ARTAUD BEATS - NODUTGANG. BODO 28.10.11
Norwegian concert recording of the Artaud Beats’ at which Geoff Leigh, John Greaves, Yumi Hara and Chris Cutler produce songs, travelogues and musical narratives off the top of their heads, sometimes intriguing, sometimes almost operatic, sometimes exciting, sometim... more »
CDRS
CUTLER, CHRIS: MIssing Chapters Vol. 2
Made in a small number for a project in Japan. This is the second CDR documenting a few things I like from my recent undocumented archive (in this case my first solo gig with the electrified kit in Japan (1998), music for Josef Nadj’s Ballet L’Anatomie d’un Fauve wi... more »
CUTLER, CHRIS: Missing Chapters Vol 3
Next in the Japan private release series, with more unreleased archive recordings (this time a duo concert with Fred Frith in Tel Aviv, a trio concert with Jean-Marc Montera and Jean-Francois Pauvros, some debris from EWA7, Nimmersatt (with John Greaves, Daan Vandew... more »
DVD
RIO JAPAN 2014 DVD
Performances by PICCHIO DAL POZZO, LE SILO, MATS/MORGAN BAND, RICHARD PINHAS, THE ARTAUD BEATS, PRESENT, HAPPY FAMILY, KOENJI HYAKKEI, ARANIS and the LARS HOLLMER GLOBAL HOME PROJECT with SOMA. Japanese quality Import. Limited Number. Sorry about the price. 2 hours... more »
Vinyl.
THE WORK: COMPILATION (VINYL)
Heavy vinyl, classy gatefold, tactile print; contains the selected (by the band) and re-mastered hits: Fingers and Toes, I Hate America, Brickyard, State Room, Do It, Hell, Abdomen, Dangerfish, Eat, Read to Me and Stone. In a numbered, limited edition of 400 copies.... more »
STOP PRESS: UNHEARD AT TIME OF WRITING
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 »