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NEW RELEASES
FRITH, FRED: The Fred Records Story. Twenty-eight CDs, in three boxes, with three fat booklets and f
The Fred Records Story. Twenty-eight CDs, in three boxes, with three fat booklets and four extra bonus CDs. Signed Edition: the first 50 sets willl be numbered and signed by Fred. Each box contains 8 Fred Records releases, a bonus Fred title and a f... more »
FRITH, FRED: The Fred Records Story. Twenty-eight CDs, in three boxes, with three fat booklets and f
The Fred Records Story. Twenty-eight CDs, in three boxes, with three fat booklets and four extra bonus CDs. Signed Edition: the first 50 setsl be numbered and signed by Fred. . Each box contains 8 Fred Records releases, a bonus Fred title and ... more »
FRITH, FRED: Rocking The Boat (Volume 1 of The Fred Records Story)
Volume 1 of the 3 box volume, The Fred Records Story. Vol. 1. Rocking the Boat (9 CDs, large booklet) CONTENTS Guitar Solos Gravity Cheap at Half the Price Killing Time Impur Middle of the Moment Keep the Dog (dbl) - BOX ONE BONUS CD Dropera ... more »
FRITH, FRED: Crossing Borders (Volume 2 of Thr Fred Records Story)
Volume 2 of The Fred Records Story. Vol. 2. Crossing Borders (9 CDs, large booklet) CONTENTS Live in Japan Speechless Prints Step Across the Border Impur 2 Art of Memory II Skeleton Crew (dbl) - BOX TWO BONUS CD Helter Skelter (remaster... more »
FRITH, FRED: Stepping Out (Volume 3 of The Fred Records Story)
Volume 3 of The Fred Records Story. Vol. 3. Stepping Out (9 CDs, large booklet) CONTENTS Technology of Tears Propaganda Allies Accidental The Previous Evening Happy End Problem Nowhere, Sideshow Field days - BOX THREE BONUS CD Inimitable (... more »
WOODBURY, BRIAN: Antipathy & Ideology
This is the third chapter of Brian’s massively ambitious four-volume song-writing master-class, to be released in four installments over the space of a year. This issue digs into the news and - in an impressive variety of musical dialects - doesn’t pussyfoot around ... more »
MINIATURES 2020 - 124 ASSORTED ARTISTS - an anniversary tribute to Morgan Fisher’s 1980 classic. (d
Expected early February, 2021 Third in a noble series: first was Morgan Fisher’s classic 1980 release, then an expanded second volume at the millennium - and now we have this third, even more expanded homage. The idea is simplicity itself: invite a selecte... more »
FRITH, FRED: Extras from The Fred RecordsStory
BOX KIT: If you have all the CDs and just want the 3 boxes, the 3 books and the 4 bonus CDs, to make up the set, that can be yours for £60 (plus postage: £3.50 UK, £8 Europe, £13.50 Rest of the World) ... more »
BOB DRAKE SUBSCRIPTION EDITION
DRAKE, BOB: Planets and Animals
As always exquisitely recorded, this is a suite of short, dense, twisty, jaw-dropping and highly unusual songs-slash-mini-epics, that ‘give delight and hurt not’ (Wm Shaksper, 1610). It’s a whirlwind. I could go on to extol the man and the work but t... more »
BOOK
BLEGVAD, PETER: Imagine. Observe. Remember (252pp 234 x 142mm art paperback)
252pp 234 x 142mm art paperback. (Just buy it). This is Peter Blegvad, so it’s not going to be simple. He wants it to be simple, but so does a corkscrew - if you’re looking for skewer, try kitchenware. And, of course, a corkscrew is simple - it does a hard t... more »
BLEGVAD, PETER: Imagine, Observe, Remember.(252pp 234 x 142mm art paperback.)
ReR signed and numbered Limited Edition of 75 copies, with additional artwork by Peter. £20, as long as we have them. 252pp 234 x 142mm art paperback. (Just buy it). This is Peter Blegvad, so it’s not going to be simple. He wants it to be sim... more »
LAST ReR RELEASES
VRTACEK/O’MEARA, CHARLES: Do Not Write on the Walls (book)
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, h... more »
CHARLES VRTACEK/O’MEARA Drawing a Line + re-mastered CD of Chuck’s 1988 ReR LP Heaven Comes to Town
This LP, by chance perfectly suited to the book (simultaneous absorption is recommended) delivers a prescient, episodic, unraveling of melody, field-ambience and electronic sound - like a mind at rest daydreaming through the debris of a day. ... more »
CUTLER, CHRIS: Not as we Choose; Music, Memory and Technology. 140pp. 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 140pp 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 to cha... 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 »
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 »
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 stud... 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 »
Other
LOGAN KANE NONET: Nope, Science
Led by no-messing Los Angeles bassist and composer Logan Kane and populated by some fiendishly competent jazz-educated players, this nonet (alto, tenor saxes, trombone, violin, bass clarinet, flute, piano, bass, drums) rips through nine highly complex, often Zappaes... more »
TAYLOR, CECIL: At Angelica 2000, Bologna (dbl CD)
On CD one Cecil plays the piano, as he does. On CD2 he talks, explains himself, is interviewed by Franco Fabbri, answers questions in a dramatic, quasi-musical, stream of consciousness, quasi-erudite, highly eclectic, scattershot, unarguably arresting, cryptic, rath... more »
MENGELBERG, MISHA: Rituals of Transition
One of a kind. Misha Mengleberg seems to have settled into a musical style that answers only to itself. I could insert a lot of adjectives here but what’s the point? I find this a completely fascinating record, taking a direction and exploring an aesthetic that is g... more »
NITSCH, HERMANN : Orgelkonzert
Now 82, Nitsch is a unique figure in Western art, a relic of an age when art mattered and wound its roots around death, mysticism, creation and transcendence - with no breath of irony. Directing large scale (days-long) multimedia events he evolved a sound aes... more »
AMIRKHANIAN, CHARLES: Loudspeakers (dbl CD)
Amirkhanian has to be one of the most important proselytizers and supporters of classical/contemporary music’s experimental fringes, as well as being a singular proponent, in his own right, of concrete music and text-sound compositions of great focus and consequenti... more »
ORCHESTRA OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE: 05
Another patient - and prolific - source of high quality music now operating at a moderately indispensible level, is Martin Archer’s Discus Records (whom we also have to thank for the recent Keith Tippett releases). This is the fifth record from TOOTUA, now an 8-piec... more »
KALASH, DIRAR: Of Quietude
Another great, in fact important, release from Discus. I quote from them: Dirar Kalash is an improvising musician from Ramallah in Palestine, where opportunities to perform are non-existent; even access to an instrument is at present impossible. This recording was m... more »
OXLEY, TONY: February Papers
Originally released by Incus (a label Oxley co-founded) in 1977, this is a particularly successful, generically ambiguous and musically engaging, example of the British school of free improvisation, notable for its excellent recording of Oxley’s back-to-basics elec... more »
THE MELAMINE DIVISION PLATES (and nothing whatsoever to do with Alan Jenkins, whoever he may be) The
At Last! Out of the haar and brume of rumour, come the legendary Melamine Division Plates, captured at last on disc - making Cordelia at a stroke, officially, the best label in the four galactic quadrants (yes better even than In Coma Berenice. Would I lie to you?) ... more »
DIMUZIO, THOMAS: Slew Tew
A collection of 13 pure electronics pieces, notable for their rich sonic spectra, satisfyingly low frequencies, sensuous microtonal pitch-portamenti and general immersivity. Excellent recording quality. Full saturation. ... more »
HARRIET RILEY and ALEX GARDEN Sonder
A very musical project, making highly literate use of violin/octave violin and vibraphone (with added contrabass) rich in folk elements, non-generic vocabulary, classical technique and Indonesian, Balkan and Arabic dialects - with shades of minimalism, jaz... more »
FRITH, FRED/COXHILL, LOL: French Gigs
The original LP was released in 1983 and found Fred and Lol in fine fettle and both playing to their strengths; there’s still that freshness that was around then, that lack of self-consciousness, in ... more »
NEW RER VINYL
SLAPP HAPPY: Acnalbasac Noom (vinyl)
Made at Wumme with Faust, Vinyl reissue. ... more »
NEWS FROM BABEL: Letters Home (vinyl)
With Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Parkins, Dagmar Krause, Chris Cutler, Phil Minton, Robert Wyatt, Georgina Born and Sally Potter. Vinyl reissue. ... more »
