HENRY COW: Glastonbury, Bilbao and the Lions of Desire (digipak)

A further collection of missing pieces uncovered since the release of the 18 CD Henry Cow Box that fills in parts of the story still undocumented - even on the bootleg circuit. Intended primarily for box owners – it’s designed to fit into the box - it’s also availab... more »

HENRY COW: Glastonbury, Chaumont, Bilbao and the Lions of Desire (box version)

A further collection of missing pieces uncovered since the release of the 18 CD Henry Cow Box that fills in parts of the story still undocumented - even on the bootleg circuit. Intended primarily for box owners – it’s designed to fit into the box - it’s also availab... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS : It makes Sense to Me (dbl CD)

This is part of the box that’s available separately – a collection of tracks from my recorded output over 50 years, featuring Henry Cow, Art Bears, Cassiber, News From Babel, Aqsak Maboul, Duck and Cover, Peter Blegvad, Rene Lussier, The Work, Les Quatre ... more »

LUSSIER< RENE: Au Diable Vert

I seldom say this, but just buy this CD. It’s pretty much of a masterpiece: impeccable sound, jaw-dropping compositions, amazing detail and world-class performers. Scored for electric guitars and basses, two drummers, marimba, accordion, tuba, euphonium, clarinet, t... more »

DRAKE, BOB: The Legendary Lore Of The Holy Wells Of England

Bob takes a professional detour to explore an intriguing byway with this atmospheric, uncharacteristic, stripped down, highly intriguing (and I think highly successful) experiment in minimal exposition. There are thirteen chapters - for voices, organ, piano and ca... more »

RAVENSTINE, ALLEN: Crossing Daylight (with the Cane Run Orchestra)

These are ambiguous, hovering compositions for a small chamber group - air-tinting, incidental, cinematic swatches of sound, ephemeral and unattached, like sonic fire-lanterns drifting into oblivion. Performed by Victor Morales and the Cane Run Orchestra. ... more »

ANGELI, PAOLO: Rade

The long awaited new release from the never less than extraordinary Paolo Angeli. Technically this is just Paulo and his prepared and electrified Sardinian guitar with various pedals and processors played, unbelievably, in real time without loops or overdubs; but ex... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS: in a Box. Compositions and and collaborations, 1972-2022

10 CDs, 1 DVD, 80pp booklet and box. To make public a mass of unreleased material I decided to wrap this musical collection into a box. These 10 CDs (and a DVD) include over five hours of unreleased materials, my three previously released solo CDs (‘solo’, ‘twice a... more »

WOODBURY, BRIAN: Anthems and Antithets (4 CD Set)

This is truly EPIC. Brian set out to make this pre-planned tetrology over a year (it took a little longer but there was an intervening and ongoing pandemic), with the connivance, on art grounds, of an amazing range of people and facilities. Now it’s done; a dizzying... more »

DUMITRESCU, IANCU /AVRAM, ANA-MARIA: Sacrum et Profanum

It’s been many years since the last release, so this is a particularly welcome arrival. A high fidelity recording made in 2017 at the Sacrum et Profanum Festival in Krakow, it features five new compositions magisterially interpreted by an expanded Hyperion Internat... more »

BING SELFISH and his IDEALS: The Legendary Conway Hall Concert (and other live gems)

Bing fans, you will be (almost) in the presence of his greatness; golden fragments of Selfish philosophy, rib-cracking asides, incoherent mumbling between numbers, it’s all there, alongside a very plausible band and timeless music – very nicely recorded. As well as ... more »

RILEY, TERRY: Keyboard Studies

These are masterful recordings of some of Terry Riley’s seminal works, performed by the great John Tilbury, ‘sometime in the late 1970s or early ‘80s’.The compositions themselves date from 1964-65 and are: Dorian Reeds, which Tilbury plays on an electric organ, Keyb... more »

FRITH/LEWANDWSKI: Long as in Short, Walk as in Run

A selection of well recorded, careful, pellucid improvisations where it’s a case of Less as in More. Fred with his usual rig, Anna Lewandski playing the keys, the strings, preparing the piano and generally following Darmstadt rules. Fragility with confidence. Recor... more »

THE WORK: The Worst of Everywhere (double CD)

Tim Hodgkinson and Bill Gilonis formed The Work soon after the demise of Henry Cow. While punk-new wavish in its noise and energy, it was also grittily unorthodox and noisily catholic in its approach to performance and aesthetics.&nbsp; Always raw but often quietly ... more »

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 »

HATFIELD AND THE NORTH: Hatitude

Archive recordings 1973-1975. Like Henry Cow, Hatfield - contemporaries, friends and occasional collaborators - were at their best on a stage. The stupid machine / lucky accident of industry indifference has meant that the band has happily been left to collect the ... more »

HATFIELD AND THE NORTH: Hatwise choice

Archive recordings 1973-1975. Like Henry Cow, Hatfield - contemporaries, friends and occasional collaborators - were at their best on a stage. The stupid machine / lucky accident of industry indifference has meant that the band has happily been left to collect the ... more »

HENRY COW: THE 40th ANNIVERSARY HENRY COW BOX SET - VOL 2 - 4 CDs, DVD, box, book

5 CDs and a fat booklet in a box. The 3-BOX Henry Cow set is now out of print and will not be repressed in this form. We hope there will be a reissue later next year, with all 16 CDs in slipcases and a single box, at a reasonable price. But we still have a handful ... more »

ROSE, JON/CURRAN, ALVIN: Cafe Grand Abyss

Two giants on great form: Alvin spookily surefooted in deployment of his often counterintuitive palette of sounds, Jon just stunning – in a partnership that provides perfect context for both performers. And it’s beautifully recorded. I know this stuff is a hard sell... more »

BAKU: SYMPHONY OF SIRENS - SOUND EXPERIMENTS IN THE SOVIET AVANT GARDE. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND RECON

Clothbound 72 page 25 x 14 cm book with two CDs. CD1: The Symphony of Sirens. In 1922 Arseni Avraamov composed and conducted a visionary public sound event, activating the entire port city of Baku: its factory sirens, the ships horns of the entire Caspian flotilla,... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS : Not as We Choose; Music, Memory and Technology. (book)

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 territory. Contents: Plunderphonics; Locality;&nbsp; Scale;&nbsp; The Road to Plunderphonia; Thoughts on the Avant Garde;&nbsp; i... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS: Not as we Choose; Music, Memory and Technology. 140pp. Paperback. Signed

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 »

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 »

RAVENSTINE, ALLEN: Four Stories (book)

Slim, 44pp. perfect bound, paperback containing four stories. Illustrated by Mary Thomas. These four stories were written while Allen was working and touring with Pere Ubu, and speak directly of his experiences in those years. They waste no words - and ... more »

HENRY Cow BOX REDUX: THE COMPLETE HENRY COW

HENRY Cow BOX REDUX:&nbsp; THE COMPLETE HENRY COW &nbsp;[£75] ReRHCGK 17 CDs, 1 DVD and 180 pages of histories, chronology, testimony and commentaries by the band, sundry contemporary documents, and rare photographs – in a sturdy box. ... more »

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 »

THE PETER BLEGVAD BANDBOX (6 CDs, definitive book).

6 CDs and 72pp booklet. Containing all the Blegvad Trio and Quintet studio releases: Downtime, Just Woke Up, Hangman&#146;s Hill and Go Figure &#150; all re-mastered and repackaged - plus two additional CDs of unreleased studio recordings and live performances, mos... 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 sets willl be numbered and signed by Fred.&nbsp; Each box contains 8 Fred Records releases, a bonus Fred title and a f... 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 »

NEWS FROM BABEL: Complete (3CDs in slipcase)

Reissue on 2 CDs of both long out of print LPs, re-mastered and repackaged, in a slipcase with an extra illustrated CD of the 7" single that was issued only to subscribers with the original release. Stretched songs and studio work. 'Work' was Lindsay Cooper, Chris C... 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&#146;s Pegase an... more »

WOODBURY, BRIAN: Anthems and Antithets (4 CD Set)

This is truly EPIC. Brian set out to make this pre-planned tetrology over a year (it took a little longer but there was an intervening and ongoing pandemic), with the connivance, on art grounds, of an amazing range of people and facilities. Now it’s done; a dizzying... more »

THE NECKS: The Necks Box (7 CDs)

One of the greatest bands in the world, said the New York Times; A post-jazz, post-rock, post-everything sonic experience that has few parallels or rivals, according to The Guardian; Fifty years after Kind of Blue, the new music I would find it hardest to do without... more »

MACLEAN, STEVE: The Steve Maclean Box of Seven

To encourage you, here are seven CDs for the price of two: Frog, Bug, Guitar, Computer (featuring what it says in the title); Prime ; GPS ( Steve MacLean Ensemble's final CD ), Year of the Dragon , (featuring Chris Cutler); Bridges (double CD) and Ordi... more »