HENRY COW: Cow Box Redux (expanded version)

T he new edition of the box now includes the CD Glastonbury & Elsewhere. (making it 18CD's, I DVD and 3 booklets - 250 pages). 18 CDs, 1 DVD and 180 pages of histories, chronology, testimony and commentaries by the band, sundry contemporary do... more »

THIS HEAT: Out of Cold Storage (6 CD box and book)

The definitive collection: 5 CDs and a substantial book of interviews and documents in a sturdy box. Because it cannot be re-pressed, these are the last ever copies. The complete official lifetime releases of This Heat: This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficien... more »

BEGNAGRAD (2025) - No.2 in the ReR Documented Classics series.

From the start, Begnagrad defied categorisation. While firmly rooted in the Yugoslavian popular music tradition, they radically transformed it with elements of rock, punk, high energy jazz, odd metres, classical influences and avant garde experimentalism. Since peo... more »

VARIOUS ARTISTS : Household Objects - and sundry massed gadgets (dbl CD, 32pp book)

  After Dark Side of the Moon , Pink Floyd were casting around for a new concept. What they came up with was to make an album using only household objects - but allowi... more »

AMM: Aura

Recorded in Finland, in 2016 - the last recording in fact by AMM in duo form (Eddie Prevost and John Tilbury); a great recording, made in a highly responsive acoustic space with Eddie producing often unusual - even unlikely, sounds - and John being unobtrusive, but ... more »

PAULO ANGELI : Lema

There seems to be no end to what Paulo's uniquely customised, prepared and electrified Sardinian guitar can do. A master of seamless forward moving music - which, somehow, retains the logic and freshness of spontaneous extrapolation - he offers here a performance t... more »

MIRKO MARIANI : Musica per Sconosciuti (3CD box)

First, the instruments - for some of you these will already be enough - which include rarities from the early history of analogue electronics: the Optigan, the Ondioline, the Solovox, the Clavioline, the Ondiola and the Mellotron; some antiques from the early digit... more »

AMM with SACHIKO M: Testing

The post Rowe duo - Eddie Prevost and John Tilbury - caught in a rare collaboration with the Japanese sine wave minimalist Sachiko M., at London's Museum of Garden History in 2008. AMM, like the Necks, are an ensemble whose aesthetic is so evolved that it seems imp... more »

FRED FRITH & MARIA PORTUGAL : Matter

Fred and drummer/percussionist Maria live in Koln, later re-worked in tranquillity by both. A Highly abstract set best taken in the den with the lights out. ... more »

DANIEL BALL - Uncommon Sense

These are small edition, handmade releases, carefully made, through-composed and played with uncanny precision by many Daniel Balls. With a rock/chamber approach to composition, he occupies unique ground, no one else is on this track, which he continues to define an... more »

DANIEL BALL: A Sideshow of Stars

Complex, quirky and clean compositions, marked by individually interesting and well- integrated drums/percussion and bass, assembled into a programme that often shifts into different music territory, because why not. This is music that follows a why not? policy, ha... more »

ANIELLO PERDUTO: Segni Semi

A sharp, highly focussed set of shortish compositions for drums and two saxophonists, none of whom does much of what's expected, by which I want to say that this collection is impressive in the variety of its sounds, combinations, and compositional investigations. ... more »

ALAN RAVENSTINE : A Tale of Necula

For those of you who are following Alan's unusual journey, this is a quite lavishly produced and illustrated children's story. ... more »

BING SELFISH : The Day I fell in Love with Everyone

Long awaited by Bingomanes, the master is back with songs about Hannibal's campaigns, space delinquents, Beach people, charitable giving, the devil, and so on, in various musical styles, many of them hovering around the 60' and 70s. More variously arranged than usu... more »

FRED FRITH /GRAVITY BAND : Live at , Nijmegen and Moers Festival June 4 & 5, 2014

Fred with 11-piece band reinterpret Fred's classic Gravity in clean chamber ensemble style. ... 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;  Scale;  The Road to Plunderphonia; Thoughts on the Avant Garde;  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 »

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 »

ROSENBERG 3.0 not violin music: curated by Jon Rose

150+ pages of ricochet stimulation. This wild excursion into print and design gathers an indescribable variety of profound, absurd, satirical, dark, hopeful and downright strange, reflections on the state of the game, couched in the form of dubious interviews, acade... more »

HENRY COW: Cow Box Redux (expanded version)

T he new edition of the box now includes the CD Glastonbury & Elsewhere. (making it 18CD's, I DVD and 3 booklets - 250 pages). 18 CDs, 1 DVD and 180 pages of histories, chronology, testimony and commentaries by the band, sundry contemporary do... 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’s Hill and Go Figure – all re-mastered and repackaged - plus two additional CDs of unreleased studio recordings and live performances, mos... more »

FRITH, FRED: The Fred Records Story. 28 CDs, 3 fat booklets and 4 bonus CDs in 3 boxes.

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: 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 »

THIS HEAT: Out of Cold Storage (6 CD box and book)

The definitive collection: 5 CDs and a substantial book of interviews and documents in a sturdy box. Because it cannot be re-pressed, these are the last ever copies. The complete official lifetime releases of This Heat: This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficien... 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’s Pegase an... more »

WOODBURY, BRIAN: Anthems and Antithets (4 CD plus DVD 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 (8 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 »

CUTLER, CHRIS: in a Box. Compositions 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 »

HISTORIA: MUSICA URBANA, FELIU I JOAN ALBERT, TRIO ALTISENT BOX (3 CDs and a 52pp book)

This box collects and restores two legendary mid-70s releases, both met at the time with extravagant critical acclaim but with few sales outside of Spain, and presents for the first time a set of previously unknown studio recordings by the otherwise undocumented T... more »

SUN RA: Artyard in a Box (8 CDs)

9 classic Saturn releases on 8 CDs. All of them great, all of them quite different from one another and all featuring a lot of electric keyboards and Moog from the boss. The albums are Disco 3000, Sleeping Beauty, Media Dreams (double CD), Beyond the Purple Star Zon... 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 »

CASSIBER: The CASSIBER box. REDUX

Long out of print, this is the definitive Cassiber collection in a solid box and fully documented. Made up of the Four classic studio albums, re-mastered by Bob Drake, two extra CD collections: The Way it Was – an amazing set of studio sketches and live recordings ... more »

ROSE, JON: Rosin

Jon Rose is one of the most productive, original and focused people I know; he’s also an extraordinary musician and an inspired composer. To mark his 60th anniversary we are releasing this 3 CD box of previously unreleased works ranging from radio documentary and ra... more »

DRAKE, BOB: NITRE-ENCRUSTED box "...come at once, ANTIQUITIES!" (5CD box)

Master of strangeness, terrifying musicality and elastic production values. Contains: Little Black Train, The Skull Mailbox, 13 Songs and a Thing, Bob’s Drive-In and The Shunned Country. This mini edition comes in a sturdy box with a free special music-minus-one CD... 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 »