THOMAS DIMUZIO, TOM NUNN, SCOTT R. LOONEY, DAVID MICHALAK: Cracking the Surface

 (expected JANUARY 2025) Featuring the late and great instrument builder and musician, Tom Nunn’s, skatchbox and skatchplatter, alongside prepared and regular piano, a buchla modular synthesiser and live sampling. Wholly organic and initially acoustic, skatc... more »

MACLEAN, STEVE Clairvoyant

The tenth release in our Steve Maclean series, this one a retrospective. Made in the early 1980s these tracks hear Steve experimenting with Roland’s first guitar synthesizer (the GR500), a very early boss drum machine, v... more »

WOODBURY, BRIAN: Anthems and Antithets – INSTRUMENTAL MIXES - SET (4 CDs)

As advertised, this is Brian’s Magnum Opus with all the singing removed to reveal the detailed arrangements and sheer musicality of these extraordinary songs, here reborn as pure music. I can’t recommend it highly enough - to listen to, appreciate, study; it’s an e... more »

RAVENSTINE, ALAN ; MAIMONE, TONY: Harbour Lights Ragas

Two Pere Ubu ex-alumni (playing processed baritone guitar and EML synthesiser) plus electronic music producer William Blakeney (electric sitar) and supplemented by various guests with exotic instruments (sarangi, duduk, rahab, flute, sitar and occasional assorted p... more »

RAVENSTINE, ALLEN: Wall Flower (Dbl CD)

A highly unusual format: on the first CD there is what the subtitle calls a Radio Play - the narration of an unsettling story, with closely composed musical accompaniment (strings and piano). On the second CD the music stands alone, differently edited and with an a... more »

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 »

MUSICA URBANA: Musica Urbana

A truly great record by a truly great band. I’ve waited decades to reissue this luminous work which, in my opinion, was one of the most impressive musical achievements of its time. Made in Barcelona in 1976, it exemplified the creative optimism that swept through Sp... more »

FELIU I JOAN ALBERT

Released a year after Musica Urbana’s first album, this exceptional gem also featured keyboardist Joan Albert Amargos, mostly in duo with flamenco virtuoso Feliu Gasul. While in some ways traditional – in feeling, virtuosity and national sensibility - its genius eme... more »

DRAKE, BOB: The Room in the Tower

Here Bob is back in pop-as-you-wish-it-was, mode with an impeccable suite of eleven (ostensibly) straight ahead songs, each its own world but united by echoes of the best of pop history, exquisite production values and novel but model arrangements – and absolutely n... more »

THE PETER BLEGVAD TRIO: It’s All Experimental (dbl CD)

Previously only available as part of the Peter Blegvad Bandbox, this double CD collects 31 formerly unreleased tracks: demos, some amazing live performances (a few of them with interesting guests), studio out-takes and many songs that don’t appear on the officially... more »

ZNR: Demos and Lost Tracks

For the ZNR completist. Previously only available as part of the ZNRchive Box. A facinating collection of unreleased and early pieces ... more »

XENAKIS, IANNIS: THE XENAKIS BOX

One of the truly great figures of C20 music, Xenakis from the first avoided – and  transcended - the limitations of serialism, following Edgard Varese’s leap into an aesthetic that embraced the notion of organised sound as a pursuit that could not be contained... more »

THE INTERMODLATION BOX : Connections 1970-74 Cardew, Riley, Stockhausen, Souster

This fine box offers critically important recovered documents from the British ensemble, Intermodulations, one of a handful of hybrid groups formed in the 1960s to explore new ways of making music in the art tradition using conventional instruments as well as perfo... more »

LARS ‘LACHEN’ JONSSON: Exilens Sanger & Forvandlingar

Perhaps best known for his work with the bands Zut un Feu Rouge and Ur Kaos, Lars Jonsson – a man who has always worked slowly and very carefully – has, after 34 years, completed his third solo album, an instantly recognisable, very grounded, collection of leider (... more »

BOURNE, MATTHEW: Harpsichords (dbl CD)

Keyboardist and experimantalist Matthew Bourne with Glen Leach and Nika Ticciati, experiment with three damaged harpsichords, deploying a high level of musical intelligence – on CD 1 all playing together; very convincing and, sonically, not much like anything else ... more »

TAYLOR, PAUL: Whirl and Magnet

Defying category this is a record that featuresanother improvising pianist moonlighting on an unfamiliar instrument in the interests of pure sonic pleasure. The instrument is a the classic hammond C3 organ – with leslie speakers; it’s a glorious instrument and play... more »

THE REMOTE VIEWERS: Inside the Blizzard/Trivia

The latest episode, this one without acoustic drums and something more like a quilt: a mixture of longer, extrapolated, pieces and shorter sketches.... more »

COSA BRAVA: Z Sides

Fred Frith’s most recent collective ensemble, Cosa Brava (Fred Frith, Karla Kihlstedt, Zeena Parlins, Matthias Bossi, Shahzad Ismaily and The Norman Conquest) is best known for its tricksy compositional work, but here feature in an imaginary performance painstaking... more »

HENRY COW: Stockholm & Goteborg (double LP)

Limited release on vinyl of two live Swedish radio recordings from 1975 and 1977, with full notes and photos, originally released  as volume 13 of the Henry Cow Box Redux. Includes Erk Gah, A Bridge to Ruins, Goteborg, Phil Ochs’ No More Songs and The March. S... more »

MINGUS, CHARLES: Presents Charles Mingus to Pre Bird Revisited

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 »

CUTLER, CHRIS: : Not as we Choose/File Under Popular (2 books)

Special offer of the 2 Chris Cutler books - both signed. http://rerextensions.com/?page_id=46 Shipping: Europe -  £8: ROW - £15. ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

BLEGVAD, PETER: The book of Leviathan

 A very beautifully produced, 26 x 17 cm format hard backed 160 page, full colour collection of Peter's Independent on Sunday cartoons. This is a universe (or a life) condensed into Peter's own version of a grain of sand. Funny, elusive, radical, endlessly inve... more »

PETER BLEGVAD: Milk - through a glass darkly (book)

Peter has been collecting quotations about milk for over 50 years; you could call it a fascination, an interest or an obsession. And it’s taken him to some curious and often disturbing corners of the human psyche. This 94pp book collects 342 of them. Shippi... 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 »

THE LOST LEADER BOX (7 CDs)

In the last 40 years we have released a lot of records. For the curious listener, interested in the roads less trodden, here are seven releases we thought, though not by ‘names’, were exceptional and broke new ground. Our 10th box offers you a set of unusual and ver... 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 »

HENRY Cow BOX REDUX: THE COMPLETE HENRY COW + Glastonbury (box version)

including the Glastonbury CD. 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.   This collection brings together th... 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. 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 »

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 »

DRAKE, BOB: "...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 »

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 »

WOODBURY, BRIAN: Anthems and Antithets – INSTRUMENTAL MIXES - SET (4 CDs)

As advertised, this is Brian’s Magnum Opus with all the singing removed to reveal the detailed arrangements and sheer musicality of these extraordinary songs, here reborn as pure music. I can’t recommend it highly enough - to listen to, appreciate, study; it’s an e... 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 »

SUN RA: Artyard in a Box (7 CDs)

9 classic Saturn releases on 7 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, On Jupiter, Beyond the Purple Star Zone/ Oblique Par... 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 »

JENKINS, ALAN: 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 »

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 »

BIOTA: Almost Never (long out of print)

'Almost Never' returns to the deep layering and density of the earlier Horde'. ... more »

SUN RA: Wake up Angels (dbl. CD) - now out of print

Recorded live at the Ann Arbor Blues And Jazz Festival 1972-73-74. Classic big band with full complement of singers, Tracks 1 –10 (1972) feature the great Space is the Place Suite. Surprisingly good sound after the first few minutes. Great drums throughout, and crys... more »

WORK THE : Rubber Cage - ( now out of print)

My favourite of all the Work records, so newcomers start here. Dense compositions, high quality, powerful recordings that explore the fringes of rock; pop fragments, hypnotic repetitions and highly evolved arrangements coupled with a fine exploration of sonorities a... more »

SUN RA: Live in London (dbl)

The legendary Queen Elizabeth Hall concert from1970. This was the full-scale Arkestra on its first European visit, and a concert that has resonated down the years. “...one of the most spectacular concerts ever to be held in this country”, according to David Toop in ... more »

LOST AND FOUND SOUND Vol. 2 (Double CD) - Rare.

Two complete CDs from this remarkable and unique American national public radio sound-documentary programme. Includes: Sam Phillips and many others speaking about the early days of the Memphis Recording Service - from funerals and weddings through black R 'n B and B... 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 »