HENRY COW: Stockholm

Stockholm is a high quality Swedish Radio recording, made in 1977, that includes Tim's epic Erk Gah (now known as Hold to the Zero Burn), Phil Ochs' No More Songs and The March - none of which we ever recorded for CD release - plus Ottawa Song & other, untitled, pi... more »

DOCKSTADER, TOD and MYERS, DAVID: Bijou

A subtle, moody, rich and wide-ranging work, in which atmosphere, emotion and dramaturgy lead the ear far beyond music into a world of hints, evocations, anticipation and association and, in passing, reveal a complex metonymic language that, at a deep level, invokes... more »

DOCKSTADER, TOD and MYERS, DAVID: Pond

Life meets art. Born of a long written correspondence and a mutual affection for frogs between David Myers (the artist formerly known as Arcane Device) and Tod Dockstader which eventually spawned this programme of electronic/concrete pieces derived almost entirely ... more »

DOCKSTADER, TOD/JAMES REICHERT: Omniphony

The legendary collaboration between a leading American Musique Concrete composer and an instrumental ensemble directed by James Reichert where, for I think the first and to date only time, there was full integration of the written, played and manipulated sounds. T... more »

QUARTERLY, ReR: Volume 4 No 1 CD

On the CD: John Oswald/John Zorn, Biota, Cornelius Cardew, ZGA, If Bwana, Kalahari Surfers + Lesogo Rampolokeng, Koongoortoog (Tuva),Blitziods, Al Margolis, Tom Nunn, Thinking Plague, Adenoid Quartet, N.O.R.M.A., Les Sales Combles, R.Deutsch, Martin Burlas, Peter Ma... more »

QUARTERLY, ReR: Vol 4 No. 2 CD

CD contains commissioned works by Q.R. Ghazala: Sacrifice To Isis, , Mike Hovancsek/Paul Guerguerian:Three Cold Floors, Tom Dimuzio: Inception, Marie Goyette: Short-Cuts: Brahms, Ken Ando: Danseuse, Robert Iolini: Congo, Zimbabwe, Giovanni Venosta: Le Ombre Di Otell... more »

5UU's: Crisis In Clay

Second Installment from monster band 5UU's, featuring rock complexity, extraordinary production (by bassist and singer Bob Drake) and high energy precision mixed with eccentric song-writing. People that work this hard are becoming an endangered species. Extraordinar... more »

ALQUIMIA/LEDESMA: Dead Tongues

Atmospheric, evolving, intricate and layered; a suite of fine compositions and carefully crafted sounds. Consistent creation of another place, another time. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

SUN RA: Nidhamu/Dark Myth Visitation Equation

These two LPs, on one CD, taken with Horizon, complete the Egypt trilogy. Nidhamu was in fact the second release of the series, half recorded at the Balloon Theatre and half at a concert at Hartmut Geerken's house in Heliopolis. It's a remarkable document: austere, ... more »

PELTONEN, AKI: Radio Banana

Just when you think it's all over, along comes something completely unpredictable - in this case, a modest but uncompromisingly original confection that mixes latin brass arrangements (sort of), great drumming, medium wave radio and the many characters of the accord... more »

BIOTA: Half a True Day

Six years in the making, the visual/sonic art group Biota have finally completed their Sixth CD for ReR. Unique in their history and method, Biota painstakingly construct complex, organic structures that mix extensive studio processing and musique concréte te... more »

ALLEN, DAEVID, HUGH HOPPER, CHRIS CUTLER: BRAINVILLE 3: Trial by Headline

Three old hands out of Soft Machine, Gong and Henry Cow stretch already flexible musical material into one shape after another, then tie it in knots and generally have a fun with it. High quality recordings combined with seat-of-the-pants playing keep the tension hi... more »

WOODBURY, BRIAN: Variety

Followers of our Quarterly will recall, about 6 years back, Woodbury's inspired arrangement of 'Shenandoah', which managed to embrace the whole of America history in under 10 minutes. Since then he has been working on completing this collection, his first full ensem... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS/FRITH, FRED: Two Gentlemen in Verona

An almost complete concert from Verona, 1999, slightly edited for listening logic with an impeccably clear and transparent sound. Very different from CCFFs 1 and 2, this documents a more upfront, intense performance, full of history, rock, post rock, tunes, rhythms,... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS: Twice Around the Earth

An experiment in listening. These compositions are an offshoot of the daily soundscape programme I ran for Resonance FM radio between July 2001-2002, which consisted of commissioned real-time recordings made all around the world between 23.30 and midnight GMT (the t... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS: Solo

It took long enough. The electric kit finally gets a chance to speak for itself. I won't try to describe it, but it's been pretty much my main work of the last three years. I can't say it reminds me of anything else but, naturally, I suggest you buy it. L. Only ... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS: There and Back Again

A companion to 'Twice around the Earth, 'There and Back Again' uses 44 environmental recordings to explore - amongst other things - the way memory works, and how the experience of passing time is constructed. Mainly it's just meant to be good to listen to: surprisi... more »

CHARMING HOSTESS: Punch

A few of you will already have heard either the Hostess's first wild American release or founder Jewlia Eisenberg's ear-opening Tzadik CD of last year. The Hostesses here are an extraordinary 7 piece band, tight, a little rockish, comprising bass, drums, guitar, fid... more »

CMCD [REISSUE]: Six Classics

This essential piece of history at last reissued, redesigned and repackaged. Keystone works from the various streams of musique concrete, electronic music, soundscape, electroacoustics and plunderphonics - including two masterworks from Eastern Europe, a territory t... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS & TOM DIMUZIO: Dust

The first of two tracks is a long Requiem which for me turned out to be a very serious piece of work - and unrepeatable, captured at a concert in New Mexico. Whatever were we thinking? It's followed by a studio piece, mixing raw binaural sound with sophisticated an... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS/DIMUZIO,TOM: Quake

Recorded at two concerts in Lowell and Portland in March 1999. Great blocks of sound alive with detail, sometimes massive, sometimes attenuated near to silence; sometimes it's hard to know what instruments if any are involved. Growling and Tearing. Glacial movements... more »

DIMUZIO, TOM: Headlock

Reissue of the classic new generation Musique Concrete LP, this is an historic document - with extra contemporary material pursuing the rich drone techniques for which Tom D. has more recently become known. Extensively remastered for this release. Only available ... more »

DIMUZIO, TOM: Slew

From a legend in the worlds of noise (both delicate and groundshaking) and of sophisticated electronic processing, this is an ensemble of pieces Tom has made over the years for various multiple-artist collections. It covers many of his musical bases in a useful chro... more »

DUMITRESCU/AVRAM /CUTLER/HODGKINSON/HYPERION ENSEMBLE: Musique- Action ! !

Compositions for the Hyperion ensemble by Dumitrescu, Avram, Hodgkinson and Cutler recorded at the Nancy-Vanoeuvre festival. Contents: New Meteors and Pulsars (Dumitrescu, 1982). For Tape and Percussion. Tape by Iancu Dumitrescu, Soloist, Chris Cutler. Nouvelle Axe ... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS, PARKINS, ZEENA: Shark!

From the much lauded Queen Elizabeth Hall concert and club Link in Bologna, two very different knife-edge tours through sound and structure landscapes; from rollercoaster to glider. 'Indescribeable but wonderful. Quite superb. I would have been happy listening for t... more »

MYERS, DAVID /ARCANE DEVICE: Engine of Myth

In 1988, I received a tape from David Myers consisting of music made purely from the internal conflicts of machines; sounds made from no sound - no input, only output emerging from the unstoppable flow of electrons within and across machines plugged into one anothe... more »

KIRALY, ERNO: Phoenix

At last a CD by this undeservedly hardly known Jugoslavian composer and performer, now in his mid seventies. 30 years ago, while doing folk music research, he dreamed of a massive electrified multi-zither. He woke up and built it and here he plays it - somewhere bet... more »

MARTUSCIELLO, ELIO: Unoccupied Areas

Tightly focused electroacoustic compositions that are austere, rich, strange and brilliantly executed. Elio has an ear like a bat and a serious antipathy toward cliché, and he never relies on repetition for structure; these pieces seem rather to grow out of t... more »

FAT: Automat Highlife

Canada's most extreme noise-music exponents caught here in a project built around short, diverse sound experiments..31 bites - which you are encouraged to programme for random order select (shuffle). Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (min... more »

GOEBBELS, HEINER and HARTH,ALFRED: Hommage/Vier Fauste fur Hanns Eisler + Vom Sprengen des Gartens

This long and extraordinarily fruitful partnership started here - continuing though the Sogennantes Linksradikales Blasorchester - where they picked up Christoph Anders with whom they went on to co-found Cassiber with your humble reviewer. These are jazz inflected, ... more »

QUATRE GUITARISTES: World Tour

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HAIL: Kirk

Second Hail CD, with guest appearances from Chris Cutler, David Kerman and Bill Gilonis. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

HAIL: Hello Debris

After a break of almost 15 years Susanne Lewis and Bob Drake have reconvened their classic partnership. In the meantime rock and post rock has mainly moved away from the song and its classic shapes, leaving commercial pop to straighten them out and endlessly repeat ... more »

HACO: Happiness Proof

Haco and many guests (including Otomo Yoshihide, Peter Hollinger, Uchihashi Kasuhisa, Pierre Bastien amd Ichiraku Yoshimitsu with a new collection of songs, in inimitable Haco style. Nothing to explain. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (... more »

HACO: Ash in the Rainbow

Out of print immediately after release, now re-issued. A test-bed of experimental arrangement and production ideas set in the context of songs that only just hold together - exquisitely realised. Extraordinary sounds, treatments and arrangements - in part because t... more »

ROSE, JON: Brainweather

'Brain' is a CD musi-drama (opera pervers) with El Maestro JR lui-meme, Shelley Hirsch, Phil Minton, a Nietschean dentist and thousands of Rosenbergs. Plus The Weatherman. Full texts and notes. Cover by Peter Blegvad. L Only available at this price as part of th... more »

ROSE, JON: The People's Music

With string orchestras, percussion, a motivating red guard and the severed embalmed arm of the great helmsman himself (maybe), Jon pits the ethos of Mao's China - and in particular the mass production of the violin and it's use in life against the 'reductive cultura... more »

VEES, JACK: The Restaurant Behind the Pier

Seven pieces for solo bass. Sounds unappetising? Well. To 'bass', add a lot of pedals and extended techniques, add sound on sound and a mastery of harmonics; to 'solos' add versions of rock classics (Manic Depression - I Want You and As you said) as well as more abs... more »

GLANDIEN, LUTZ: Scenes From No Marriage

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GLANDIEN, LUTZ: Lost in Rooms

Although following The 5th Elephant in its musical organisation - around grids of pulses and highly crafted, rich sonorities - this work is more evolved, more focussed and more internally economic. Following a narrative thread this time, the whole is bound into a co... more »

LAGOS, VENOSTA, MARIANI: Metamorphoses (Electronic Adventures in Flamenco)

11 pieces beautifully played by flamenco guitarist Alfredo Lagos, and then put through an electro acoustic obstacle course by Venosta and Mariani. The raw guitar is reversed, inverted, cut up, re-played, propelled by processed handclaps and swathed in delayed vocals... more »

MAXYMENKO, MICHAEL: Businesscide

Michael, founder and brain behind the extraordinary Swedish post-Beefheartian group Kraljursastalten, and world-class ice-hockey player, here collects his extraordinary songbook including much of the two celebrated '70s releases by Kraljursastalten (the Reptile Inst... more »

MUSCI/VENOSTA: A Noise, A Sound

See other M/V title for general description. Over 2 years in the making and flawless, as usual. L Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

NEWS FROM BABEL: Sirens and Silences: Work Resumed on The Tower

News from Babel was the song project inaugurated by Chris Cutler with fellow ex Henry Cow composer Lindsay Cooper. The pieces for this first LP were written for a band that also included Zeena Parkins (harp - her first recording with the instrument) and the incompar... more »

NEWS FROM BABEL: Letters Home

The second record by this group (Lindsay Cooper, Zeena Parkins and Chris Cutler) with invitees Robert Wyatt, Sally Potter, Phil Minton and Dagmar Krause who sing, and Bill Gilonis (of The Work) who plays occasional guitar and bass, and who also produced the recordin... more »

KODJABASHIA, NIKOLA: Solitary Walker

Macedonian composer (tutors: Anatol Vieru, Tomislav Zografski, Sir Harrison Birtwistle and the Gyorgiâs Ligeti and Kurtag) with a unique voice, moving easily here between tape manipulation, ensemble and choral composition both contemporary and soaked in national fo... more »

KODJABASHIA, NIKOLA: Explosion of a Memory

An extended iterative, cycling, dissipating cloud of fragments, constantly shifting focus, which throws up detail, evolves, returns, settles and re-dissolves; it's a four-dimensional explosion in which stretches of baroque, folk themes and Byzantine liturgy exist co... more »

NORMA with CHRIS CUTLER: The Harp and the Donkey

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OSSATURA: Verso

The second release from this abstract trio who mingle hard electronics with acoustic and processed percussion. A more focused, subtle aesthetic here, I think, than on their last also excellent - CD. These are finely tuned and seamlessly integrated sounds that have ... more »

OSSATURA with TIM HODGKINSON: Dentro

Somewhere between Musique Concrete and a kind of abstract improvisational work, using extended techniques and electrification that disconnects sound from any recognisable source. A fascinating first record that sits between studio improvisation and extensive post pr... more »

RATSIMANDRESY, NADIA and MATTEO RAMON AREVALOS: Messiaen et autour de Messiaen for ondes Martenot an

A signature collection of exquisite works for onde Martenot and piano by Olivier Messiaen, N'Guyen Thien Dao, Jacques Charpentier and Tristan Murail, exploring the many voices of this extraordinary instrument. The onde (or ondes musicales or le Martenot) was first d... more »

P53: P53

Commissioned project from Chris Cutler for the 25th Frankfurt Jazz Festival 1994, featuring Marie Goyette, Zygmunt Krauze, Otomo Yoshihide, Lutz Glandien and Chris Cutler (score contemporary composers: 2, Sound debris organisers: 2, virtuoso pianists: 2, Virtual ins... more »

ANGELI, PAOLO: Bucato

Extraordinary player - extraordinary instrument. Paulo plays a highly modified and treated Sardinian Guitar - in many styles, some of them apparently impossible. Innovative techniques, a deeply musical sensibility and a rich, occasionally baffling, palette of sounds... more »

CUSACK, PETER: Baikal Ice

In 2004 Peter took a field trip out to lake Baikal to record the ice breaking up (it's a dramatic annual event) and to make an aural document of the environs (port, jettys, generators, the trans-siberian express, settlements &c.). These are beautifully recorded ... more »

PERE UBU: London Texas

A great live recording of the sadly short-lived version of the band that existed between the arrival of Eric Drew Feldman and the departure of Chris Cutler. By far the best recording of the Scott, Cutler, Maimone rhythm section, I think, and the whole band is on int... more »

QUARTERLY, ReR: Selections Vol 1

Selections from VOLUME 1 of the ReR Quarterly,including the legendary recording of the so-called 'supergroup' DUCK AND COVER (Tom Cora, Chris Cutler, Heiner Goebbels, Fred Frith, Alfred Harth, Dagmar Krause and George Lewis), BIOTA, Steve Moore, CASSIX, 5UU's, John ... more »

QUARTERLY, ReR: Selections Vol.2

Commissioned materials from Robert Wyatt, Iva Bittova / Pavel Fajt, LA 1919, Jocelyn Robert, James Grigsby, J. Lachan, Henry Kaiser, Increase The Angle, Bill Gilonis, David Thomas, Jospeh Racaille, John Oswald, Musci / Venosta, Luciano Margiorani, 5UU'S, When, Jean ... more »

RIEMAN, DALABA, DEMPSTER: Lung Tree

This is one of those recordings that arrived unannounced in the mail. I knew Lesli Dalaba, of course, but the others were new to me. The project is Eric Glick Rieman's and I found it immediately intriguing. There seemed to be something quite subtle going on; minima... more »

IOLINI, ROBERT: Iolini

Electroacoustic, Chamber Ensemble, Soundscapes and works for radio. Some will remember his two great small ensemble compositions from an earlier quarterly. This collection concentrates more on his (prize-winning) tape works and includes the great Hong Kong changeove... more »

IOLINI, ROBERT: Songs from Hurt

Robert transcends the divisions between music, documentary and radio art. The bulk of this CD is built around the extraordinary testimonies of aboriginal teenagers, prisoners and witnesses of a world in which the interviewees are continually told that they are surpl... more »

MUSCI, ROBERTO ,GABBIANI, CLAUDIO, ROSE, JON, CUTLER, CHRIS: Steel Water Light

Music made originally for three short silent films by Joris Ivens, Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler performed as part of a music and film festival in Milan; here re-mastered, edited and reorganised for listening. Hard to describe, but it straddles the ground between ... more »

MOORE, R STEVIE: Phonography

The first time I heard R. Stevie Moore was when the Residents played me goodbye piano - which would have been sometime in early 1978. Soon after that, I got in touch with him to import some copies for Recommended - followed over the years by many of his other releas... more »

THE SCIENCE GROUP - CUTLER, CHRIS/TICKMAYER, STEVEN/DRAKE, BOB: ...a mere coincidence...

A CD of songs following on from Art Bears, News From Babel and Domestic stories.This time the co-authors are Stevan Tickmayer and Chris Cutler, with Bob Drake, and guests Fred Frith, Amy Denio and Claudio Puntin. A dense, composed, gallon-in-a-pint kind of a record ... more »

THE SCIENCE GROUP: Spoors

Some changes from Volume One. These are Instrumental pieces, and the band is now a quartet. Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Bob Drake and Chris Cutler are joined by guitarist Mike Johnson of Thinking Plague. The music remains somewhere between intense contemporary complexi... more »

ELECTROPLEINAIR SOUND DIARY: The Wind Rises

A revelation. First released in Hungary in 1987, this is an extraordinary work combining ensemble playing, documentary recording, studio manipulation, electronics and some stunning compositional conception. Featuring Marta Sebastjen, the Amaninda group, WYXOMPHONIC ... more »

SUN RA: Cosmo-Sun Connection

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MacLEAN, STEVE: Opposite of War

An interesting and innovative ensemble (keyboard, bass, drums, guitar) with a chamber approach. Nothing aggressive or flashy, no electronics or noise, but carefully composed, cleanly performed pieces which play with complexity concealed inside simplicity. Outwardly... more »

MACLEAN, STEVE: Bridges (dbl)

These recordings collect together works spanning two decades of composition and experimentation that balance traditional musical resources (the band, compositional skills, instrumental techniques, acoustic and amplified instruments) and the new technologies (compute... more »

MACLEAN, STEVE: Expressions on Piano

Steve's fourth CD for us is a remarkable set of pieces for mediated acoustic piano that operates in the shadowy territory between what is playable and what is programmable; between narrative simplicity and performative complexity; between hopeful intentionality and ... more »

TICKMAYER, STEVAN: Repetitive selective removal of one protecting group

After a long absence Stevan roars back with this dense and complex work - a rare example of a truly uncategoriseable music: neither electronic nor acoustic but somewhere in between - or outside. Taken often at impossible Nancarrow/late Zappa/Ligeti tempi, a cascade ... more »

TICKMAYER, STEVAN: Cold Peace

A suite of fiendishly complex compositions for mixed real and virtual resources. Bob Drake, Djorge Delibasic, Pegja Milosavljevic and Chris Cutler make appearances - playing electric guitar, bass, drums and virtuoso violin between them, but mainly it is Stevan who p... more »

HODGKINSON, TIM: Pragma: New Works

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VOGT, MICHAEL: Tuba Intim

Contemporary music for tuba and a revelation of an under-utilised musical voice. For stretched and traditional techniques. Includes works by Lutz Glandien (Tuba and Tape), Morton Feldman, Igor Stravinsky and Michael himself. Excellent collection; and unusual. On... more »

VOGT, MICHAEL: Argonautika

A sound drama for tuba and electronics that constructs its own rich, twilit, rather alien, world. Only the sound of the tuba (sometimes), a few waves and a little thunder sound familiar, everything else is a mysterious presence; the electronics are not at all conven... more »

VRIL [Bob Drake, Lukas Simonis, Chris Cutler]: Effigies in Cork

Bob Drake proposed this project: to make a CD of Guitar Instrumentals, but now, in the C21- and not to copy the Shadows and Surf bands but to recover the form: tune, arrangement, rhythm, bass, drums, all the essentials: flexibility with focus. Songs pushed them asid... more »

VRIL: The Fatal Duckpond

Award-winning soundtrack to the film by Horst Gack, (Prix Ultra de Concourse Lumiere, Ulm, 2009: Best Soundtrack). After a break of six years, Chris Cutler, Bob Drake and Lukas Simonis, now with added ingredient Pierre Omer, present the second volume of recordings b... more »

ZGA: Sub Luna Morrior

Classic recording by the ever deeper Russian instrument builders and masters of live electroacoustic/song/sound sculptures. Dangerous, Bitter, Desperate and Down to the Bone, but carrying a huge emotional charge and a rare beauty. This is lived music, both mature an... more »

DRAKE, BOB: 13 Songs and a Thing

The latest collection of twisting, turning instrumentals and songs, and another instant classic. If you didn't venture down this way yet, now is a good time to start. In a category of one, Bob undermines musical, technical and production norms with a breathtaking am... more »

DRAKE, BOB: The Shunned Country

A collection of 52 very short songs on uncanny themes, illustrated in the exquisite 24p full-colour booklet with a set of 20 commissioned paintings by Ray O'Bannon. Perhaps the scariest thing is that each of these miniatures is a fully formed, fully orchestrated and... more »

DRAKE, BOB: Little Black Train

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BOB DRAKE: Bob's Drive-in

A set of twisty, forty-ideas-a-minute, niftily arranged, irredeemably eccentric, but strangely brilliant songs that skip blithely across genre borders - from Nashville through the Miskatonic by way of the Beach Boys… even the production values range across the histo... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS and MACLEAN, STEVE: Year of The Dragon.

A collection of 5 songs and 4 instrumental pieces that explore equally - and simultaneously - spontaneous performance values, close compositional detail and extensive processing. Made out on the rocky coast of Maine with just a TV eye keeping tabs on a world skiddin... more »

WEINGER, LAUREN: Silos

Sound artist Lauren Weinger documents and reworks one of her large scale installation events in giant grain silos in America. The massive sounds of gargantuan hoppers pouring grain, documentary moments of dialogue, local, archive and composed musics, mysterious trac... more »

FEDER, JANET: Speak Puppet

Prepared guitars and dobro, for the most part composed and all very much in Janet's own unique style - somewhere between classical, experimental and folk-picking with attitude. Which doesn't tell you much about how listenable and strange these pieces are, but then t... more »

ANGELICA FESTIVAL: Angelica '95

Fourth in the sound record series of this great festival. This year includes- Heiner Goebbels, Jon Rose, Otomo Yoshihide, N.O.R.M.A., Chris Cutler, Marten Altena, The Rova Saxophone Quartet, Specchio Ensemble, Phil Minton, Lol Coxhill, Steve Beresford, Veryan Westen... more »

ANGELICA FESTIVAL: Angelica '96

Latest in the Angelica Festival series, features..Misha Mengelberg, Jacques Palinckx, Guus Janssen, Tristan Honsinger, Michel Waisfisz, Hennemann String Quartet + others. Exquisitely edited and compiled by Massimo Simonini . A good opportunity to listen to one hour ... more »

ILAIYARAAJA: Wings

At last!! The long awaited first compilation of pieces by legendary Tamil film composer Dr. Ilaiyaraaja. For years a private enthusiasm of friends of Angelica (Fred Frith, Heiner Goebbels, John Zorn &c.), this music has circulated until now only on dubbed cassettes,... more »

ILAIYARAAJA'S MUSICAL JOURNEY

This will be for those who enjoyed the first CD. A (rare) live concert, exquisitely executed, this is a little less unusual than the first but contains a minor gem - an entire piece made from only three notes, beautifully arranged. Only available at this price as... more »

DELLA MARINA, ANTONIO: Fades

Electro-acoustic composition for sine tones: high, low, medium, microtonal, drone based. Sensitively done. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

GOEBBELS, HEINER: The Italian Concerts

With Chris Cutler, The Icarus Ensemble conducted by Yoichi Sugiyama, Sira and Boubacar Djebate, Johannes Bauer, Tiziano Popoli, Jocelyn B. Smith and the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna conducted by Franck Ollu, this is a rare release from one of the pion... more »

HONSINGER, TRISTAN & MASSIMO SIMONINI: Call me Us

Cellist Honsinger and pre-existing media manipulist Simonini with a piece that falls between radio art, music theatre and... and what? A highly unusual performance in 10 parts that deploys its materials sparingly and intelligently and, through a combination of skill... more »

VINCENZO VASI and GIORGIO PACORIG: Per favore sing.

Vincenzo Vasi has a remarkably flexible voice, in the tradition of Demetrios Stratos, Mike Patton or Phil Minton - and he puts it through its paces in mostly experimental but orderly pieces, half of which are written or improvised by the duo and half by various othe... more »

SUN RA: The Antique Blacks

Another much sought after and long unavailable title recorded in 1974 with a smallish ensemble consisting (probably) of stalwarts Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, Danny David, James Jacson, Akh Tal Ebah, Clifford Jarvis, Artakatune, and new electric guitarist, Sly, tha... more »

RILEY/SCODANIBBIO: Lazy Afternoon amongst the Crocodiles

A limited edition release with world-class contrabassist Scodanibbio and minimal raga master Riley on synthesiser. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

MEADOW HOUSE: Tongue under a Ton of Nine Volters

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YOSIHIDE, OTOMO: Turntable Solo 8 cm ep

Turntable without records - feedback. 22 minutes of mid frequency range roaring and squeals. Sustained assault music. Pretty definitive. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

OTOMO.ROWE. SUGIMOTO: Ajar

Minimal, quiet. There will be fans but though this can be gripping at a concert it doesn't seem to me to transfer to listening-object well at all. Unless as ambience. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

ORCHESTRE MURPHY: Smut

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TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA: No Input Mixing Board Vol 3

Extreme pitches, raw cracklings, tiny sounds, loops. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

PATE, RON and his DEBONAIRS: Raudelunas 'Pataphysical Revue'

This one is obligatory. A classic. The Revue was a one-off concert in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1975 - part of the second Raudalunas Exposition - trapped on tape by chance or no one would have believed it. A revue that remains consistently outside any genre, culture or... more »

I.S.O.: I.S.O

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HET: Let's Het

Another original Woof release from 1983, this was a project led by Dominic Weeks and Cass Davies from the legendary acappella group Furious Pig, with invitees Tim Hodgkinson and Catherine Jauniaux (absorbed into the mix). Marimbas, bells and all manner of tuned and ... more »

BOLE, ANDY: Ramshackle Pier

Andy Bole, known to our very old adherents through the remarkable Bole Drawings, was and is a very fine guitarist in (loosely) the British style (Jansch, Graham, Renbourne), with oriental shadings. This is a fine collection of his own (mostly) acoustic pieces, joine... more »

LEWIS, SUSANNE/ DRAKE, BOB: Venus Handcuffs

Before 'Hail' loomed up out of the Pre-Cambrian swamps to lay waste to much of the known world, there was Venus Handcuffs. This is as much a testament to an attitude and a time as it is a CD of songs. In Bob's excellent accompanying notes he describes the conditions... more »

NIMBY: Songs For Adults

NIMBY is James Grigsby (of the legendary Motor Totemist Guild) and US leftfield luminaries from Thinking Plague, Hail, The 5UUs and Giant Ant Farm Dave Kerman, Bob Drake and Jerry Wheeler. The official story is that an electrical storm temporarily deranged their fa... more »

K SPACE: Going Up

This is not like an improvised music record, When you hear this you realise how unfree a lot of improvising is, how stuck it is in a language and an approach to the organisation of sound that is actually quite narrow. Having a Tuvan shaman in the band and two seriou... more »

BELELLI, AVI: Strawberry Cream & Gunpowder

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THE WORK: See

Tim Hodgkinson's first major project after Henry Cow with Bill Gilonis, Mick Hobbs & Rick Wilson. See was the third and last record the band released before it broke up, and was continuing to evolve, becoming more subtle, complex and rounded than the earlier alb... more »

THE WORK: The 4th World

This would have been the band's last album, made two years after See. A live recording - arguably sounding better than the earlier studio recordings, doubtless in part thanks to Udi Koomran's post production work - it captures the energy and power of the band, and a... more »

GILONIS, BILL: The Hat Shoes - Differently Desperate

First released in 1991 the credits are impressive: the basic band is Bill, Catherine Jaunieux, Tom Cora and Charles Hayward, with guest including Tim Hodgkinson, David Thomas, Rick Brown, Amos and Chris Cochrane. This a remastered edition. Only available at this ... more »

GILONIS, BILL and CHANTALE LAPLANTE: Zurich Bamberg

The first from Bill for a long time, this is an abstract aural collage recorded between 2003 and 2006, over long distances by mail, that operates somewhere between soundscape and radio art, assembling environmental recordings, bits of broadcasts and other modified f... more »

HENRY COW: Unrest (ESD version).

The second Virgin LP, remixed, with extra tracks (The Glove, Torchfire). The first ESD reissue, with extra tracks (not on our reissue). Inferior sound. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

ART BEARS: The Bonus Disc

The extra CD, which came with the box, containing further re-workings by John Oswald, Bob Drake, Fred Frith, Biota, Yasushi Utsunomiya, as well as live Art Bears tracks and a Duck and Cover cover. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimu... more »

ROBERT, JOCELYN : Folie Culture

New work from JR to listen to or to not listen to; 'environmental' but very much present, this is an impossible work to categorise, but an evocative and innovative one; and to my taste a keystone of a new form. L Only available at this price as part of the ReR S... more »

LUSSIER/CUTLER/DEROME: Three Pieces Suite

Studio recordings seven years in the honing. Plus music for a film by Jacques Leduc, with guest Tom Cora. Plus part of a live performance at Sound Symposium, Newfoundland. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

MACLEAN, STEVE: GPS

A journey through complex, composed polyrhythmic pieces interspersed with careful, atmospheric improvisations for guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion and various objects. There is a quiet rigour, almost a formality, about this CD that is rather unusual for the new ce... more »

MACLEAN, STEVE: Frog Bug Guitar Computer

Steve is back with a truly original and unusual CD; very different from his other work - featuring, as the title proclaims, frogs and insects - recorded in the field - and guitar -, all subtly and intelligently processed (which is where the computer comes in); not t... more »

HODGKINSON, TIM: Sang

Four new compositions. (1) for Viola, Piano, Alto Sax, Percs and live processing (2) for Bb Clarinet and Tape (3) for a large number of instruments and a mass of brass; (4) for Voice (Federica Santoro) and a montage made from instrumental recordings of other pieces ... more »

CUTLER, CHRIS/DIMUZIO/VRTACEK: Preacher in naked Chase Guilty

Concert recording of surround sound timescore project at REAL ART WAYS, Hartford CT. A document of musical, unmusical, non musical and extramusical events. Continuous, as played, but tracked to be reprogrammable in keeping with the score concept. Beautiful package. ... more »

ROSE, JON: Double Indemnity

The 10 string double violin, two bodies, two bows, one neck - a real-time performance by Jon that puts the instrument through its microtonal, rhythmic and harmonic paces. With a 20 pp exposition concerning Dr Rosenberg's researches into Payawipayan violin music and ... more »

Yoshihide, Otomo: Warhol Memory Disorder

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ABSOLUTE ZERO: Crashing Icons

Based in Miami, this is a very interesting American band, ploughing its own furrow - whose accent is what they call 'prog' over there, but whose language is more complex by far. Pip Pyle adds a seasoned sophistication - in fact I think this is a great environment fo... more »

FAT: Magnetizer

Back on course, the old screaming, hi-chaos Fat rip through 50+ minutes without taking a breath. Nice work in now rare field real playing high energy electrics/noise, no samples, keyboards or horns. Strap yourself in and turn the volume to 11. Only available at ... more »

NEUMA NEW MUSIC SERIES: Volume 3

Compositions by Elliott Carter, Harvey Sollberger,Pozzi Escot, Andrew Imbrie, Robert Carl, Thomas Delio. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

DE SOUSA, PHILIPE: Boite a petits...

Pieces for Portugese guitar, classical guitar, fretless guitar, contrabasse, xylophone, and percussion, with occasional violin. All played by de Sousa (except the violin), always overdubbed in small string orchestras, sometimes piled up like a zither. An excellent, ... more »

CARPENTER, CHARLES: Frog A La Peche

5 pieces for synthesised instruments, based on the Bohlen/Pierce tuning system (so- 'out of tune') with strong rhythmic structure and thorough through- composition. Interesting and unusual.L Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 t... more »

From A-Z: Starkland

Collection includes Tod DOCKSTADER, Pal DRESHER, Philip BIMSTEIN, Charles AMIRKHANIAN, Joseph KASINSKAS, Joseph LUKASIK and Pamela Z. More toward the mditative than the industrial, some excellent pieces. A useful sampler. L Only available at this price as part of... more »

MATTHEWS. KAFFE: CD ANN

Violin and processing, layers, drones, loops, slow developments. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE: Volume 5

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ROSE, JON: The Virtual Violin

Includes the Australian Radio Drama 'Play it again Doc' and the classic title track- a scurrilous meditation on fame starring virtual Madonna, McCartneys etc. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

HAYWARD, CHARLES: Escape from Europe

Recorded and released in Japan, ex This Heat drummer (in case there's anyone who doesn't know) Charles Hayward performs both old and new material with his usual power and flair. It's good to have a document measuring his current programme, now well honed and integra... more »

Hayward, Charles: Near and Far

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SNELL, JERRY: Life in the Suicide Riots

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PALO ALTO: Grands Succedanes (20 min)

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VARIOUS ARTISTS: Transforms - The Nerve Events Project

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WOODBURY, BRIAN: All White People Look Alike

Timely reissue of Woodbury's classic 1987 song rant, previously released in a small scarce vinyl edition. There are song blocks, ranting blocks, interesting arrangement blocks - all adding up to an impressive and quite unique 20 minute wind up. Don't drink coffee b... more »

CARPENTER, PAUL: Achter Glas, Landschap With Laura

A record of parts, sectors in differing styles, mostly related to contemporary classical and composed jazz. Some outstanding sections and some I'd skip. Overall, an interesting record. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles)... more »

Curran, Alvin: Toto Angelica

Alvin was given all the recordings of all the concerts from the many years of the Angelica Festival to do with what he would. This is what he did. Much of the result is fairly abstract electroacoustic music - a lot of treatments - so best to think of this as an Alvi... more »

SPECCHIO ENSEMBLE: Suite No. 1 per Quintetto Doppio

Title tells you, for double quintet (drums, Bass, Sax, Keyboards, Electric Guitars) Conducted and composed, with improvising. The Quintets pull every trick - playing together, intercut, bits of one and the other, and so on. Enough composition, arrangement and imagin... more »

NORRIS, T.J.: Trimix

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BLEGVAD, PETER: Alcohol

Originally released on 7" vinyl, now available as an 8cm mini-CD. Limited quantity. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

SUN RA: Sub Underground

A classic Saturn experimental studio/rehearsal release, starting with 8 delirious minutes of Kora and Piano frame – almost certainly the Strange Strings instruments, whatever they were… and then Ra’s signature clavinet of the period and an unidentifiable double- ree... more »

THE REMOTE VIEWERS: City of Nets

They just get better and better with each release. A sextet now (acoustic but with some discreet electronics), the compositional tone has also changed; it’s less austere and warmer now - though still pared back. And it’s beautifully recorded and mixed with a wide va... more »

BLEGVAD,PETER: Downtime

The first release by the Blegvad Trio (Peter Blegvad, John Greaves, Chris Cutler). Compiled over two years without the pressure of Peter's major label releases, giving time for the songs and for Peter's singing to speak for themselves. Widely diverse in style, with... more »

CASSIBER: A Face We All Know

Christoph Anders, Heiner Goebbels, and Chris Cutler. "A Face" breaks new ground altogether; it is a single work with texts by Chris Cutler, Rainald Geotz and Thomas Pynchon and documents the last days of a political nightmare. Beginners start here. L Only availa... more »

CASSIBER: Perfect Worlds

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CUSACK, PETER: Favourite Sounds of Berlin.

A beautifully realised sound homage to the city of Berlin, presenting its signature sounds, exquisitely recorded, in a carefully documented and evocatively designed package. There’s not a lot more to say; This does exactly what it says on the cover. Only availabl... more »

FRITH, FRED: Nowhere . Sideshow . Thin Air

Three commissions for dance (3 different choreographers), one [2000] performed by Fred and Carla Kihlstedt, one [2001] by Fred and Carla with Fred Guiliano, (samples) and Gail Brand (trombone) and the last [2007[ with Fred, Hande Erdem (violin) and Threresa Wong ((... more »

MION, PHILIPPE: Confidence.

8cm mini-CD. Part of the Collection Cinema pour l'oreille. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

ROSE, JON: Violin Music for Restaurants

'Violin', a Radio work based on Jo 'Doc' Rosenberg's 'BOO' theory - songlines applied to restaurant tables. Includes theatre, noise, golden 4th dimension standards, vox humana and help from Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Alvin Curran, Luc Houtkamp, Joelle Leandre,... more »

HOMOSEXUALS, THE : The Homosexuals CD

The Homosexuals appeared, stunned everyone who heard them and then disappeared. Between 1978 and 1982 they released 2 singles and a 12" EP. The three of them individually, under various names, also released a stack of other material, but as The Homosexuals they, cur... more »

WHEN: Black, White and Grey

A complete new work plus 'Death In The Blue Lake'. Combines playing and through-composition with manipulated and environmental sound in dramatic, narrative, psychological constructions. Quite unique. 'Death' based on a novel; texts in new works by Chris Cutler. Book... more »

ZNR: Barricades 3

The legendary first LP reissued. One of the more extraordinary groups of all time; bizarre, minimal, Satiesque, Les Six and Brasilian echoes; clear as crystal, completely impenetrable, innocent and ironic. There never was before, nor has been ever again anything qui... more »

HAYWARD/COXHILL/HOPPER/ROBINSON/WYATT: Clearframe

Featuring the all-star cast of Charles Hayward, Hugh Hopper, Lol Coxhill and Orphy Robinson (vibraphone, steel drums), with guest Robert Wyatt on cornet. Eight strong pieces in a rock-inflected, improvisation-empowered, loose - but not too loose - free-associating o... more »

KAMPEC DOLORES+ ISTVAN GRENCSO: Koncert!

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DENIO, AMY: Birthing Chair Blues

;Amy solo with her best so far, playing guitar, bass, saxes like a demon and singing better than ever. Strong arrangements, exact and exiting use of musical sound, and beautiful, seductive recording. Lyrical, tough, mysterious in proportions not available elsewhere.... more »

THE KIDNEY BROTHERS: Coal Tattoo

Contemporaries of Pere Ubu and best known for their work with the Numbers Band, Bob and Jack Kidney were also essential to David Thomas’ Mirror Man project. These are stripped down, guitar based songs/stories with deep roots - the deep, dark, bluesy kind of roots. R... more »

PERNOT, LOUIS: Livre de luth de Perrine

The Book of Perrine comprises some of the most beautiful pieces ever written for baroque lute. Often considered a Rosetta Stone for the lute world, these pieces were some of the very few to be transcribe by a contemporary of the authors, from tablature to modern te... more »

FAUST: Ravivvando

Ravvivando is the new studio album by FAUST, the legendary inventors of Kraut Rock. Ravvivando is Italian for 'growing faster, giving life', and this perfectly captures the spirit of the music. Last year Faust split with former member Jean Herve Peron, who is rumour... more »

TAROZZI, SILVIA: Virgin Violin.

Half the CD is taken up by Circle Process, the result of composer Pascal Criton and Silvia Tarozzi working in very close collaboration - and it’s pretty extraordinary. For a long time indeed, it’s not even obvious what it is you’re listening to. There’s a catalogue ... more »

GROUND ZERO: Consume Red

First Volume of a three CD project. Ground Zero makes a monster structure that starts screaming and gets more and more intense and massive until you don't imagine there is anywhere else to go. Then it gets bigger. A classic. L Only available at this price as part... more »

STEVAN TICKMAYER: Gaps, Absences.

A beautifully recorded and produced cycle of pieces that combine complexity and precision with rich and unfamiliar timbres. The ensemble pieces amplify and enrich a core piano with various combinations of harmonium, double bass, violin, percussion, Hungarian zither,... more »

EXILES: Jon Rose, Tony Buck, Joe Williamson

You trembled at Slawterhouse, now GASP at Exiles- violin, electronics, samples, drums, contrabasse. Too many big beats for jazz, too fast for speed metal, too musical for its own good, too many jokes for serious music, more adrenaline than SPEED II; drive your gerbi... more »

GREINKE, JEFF: In Another Place

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MOLECULES, THE: Down Under the Black Light

Speed Metal/Punk/Cut-up vignettes - tight, shocking arrangements, the kind of band that takes no prisoners. We originally took these for distribution only. Not for the squeamish.... more »

MOSS/OTTO/SCHULTE: The day we forgot

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ANGELI, PAOLO: NITA. L'Angelo sul Trapezio

This could hardly be more different from his first ReR CD- the extraordinary collection of solo prepared Sardinian Guitar pieces. Here, with a small orchestra of musicians (30 of Bologna's finest), is a programme of highly evolved, through composed pieces that cove... more »

ANGELI, PAOLO: Tessuti

The latest from Paulo on which he plays compositions by Fred Frith and Bjork - solo (though when you hear it, you definitely won't believe it) on his highly customised and extended, electrified, giant Sardinian guitar. A tour de force of technique and a musical plea... more »

GLANDIEN, LUTZ : The 5th Elephant

Between electroacoustic procedural precision and more recent pulse driven electronica slips this placeless new work from composer Lutz Glandien, 2 years in the making, employing material collectively generated by Lutz himself, Chris Cutler and Tuba virtuoso Michael ... more »

VAKKI PLAKKULA: Una Barca

Fast and furious Italians - Drums, Contrabasse, Saxophone and a lot of shouting and singing...written, eccentric and imaginative.. and breathless. No electronics or recording densities, just scorching performances. Rare these days. Only available at this price as... more »

FRITH, FRED: Guitar Solos

The original breathtaking solo record that introduced Fred's new instrument and his radical new playing techniques - already in a high state of evolution. Nearly 30 years later it's still almost shocking and has deservedly become a landmark record in the history of... more »

THE REMOTE VIEWERS: To The North

First CD release (2010) of the post-Leo Remote Viewers, featuring the stellar rhythm section of John Edwards (bass) and Mark Sanders (drums). A few copie left. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles)... more »

MEKONG ZOO: Minimal Dance

World music meets Carl Orff's childrens songs with an echo of Jean Luc Ponty, featuring the vocals of Japanese singer Mieko Shimiza, and the exquisite electronic violin of Aska Kaneko. Not in the usual ReR style, but.... . Only available at this price as part of ... more »

BUDAPASTIS: La Bouche Fermee

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SHIMIZU, MIEKO: Totem

To coincide with the release of MEKONG ZOO, this reissue of Mieko's first solo CD, nicely repackaged. Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

CORRINGHAM, VIV/ WILSON, RICK: Glimpses of Recognition

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MOE, JOE: Mainland

Once in a while a really great song album comes along, with exquisite arrangements, surprising harmonies, intriguing texts and sideways melodies that exhibits both a sharp musical intelligence and a deep immersion in popular forms for their own sake (Van Dyke Parks ... more »

L'ENSEMBL'ENSEMBLE VOLTA, TRISTAN MURAIL: Nuages de Magellan.

Our third collection featuring the ondes Martenot and the most experimental, in part because the Spectralist composer Tristan Murail, to whom this CD is dedicated, was himself a student of - and performer on - the ondes and, in these pieces, he explores some of its ... more »

DRAKE, BOB: Lawn Ornaments.

After Bob's Drive-In, which, in terms of production was quite restrained and minimal, Ornaments sets off in the opposite direction, piling up great car-crashes of overlapping fragments in a production that makes rococo look like shaker minimalism. Playing only drums... more »

MACLEAN, STEVE/MeRCy: Future(s)

This CD of songs, grittily arranged and produced is noticeably more straight-ahead than ReR’s usual releases though it sits comfortably within the broad range of Steve’s tirelessly experimental output. This is a project with a long history: Steve and his main collab... more »

EAR & NOW: Eclipse

Xabier Iriondo, Alberto Morelli and Paulo Cantu, with various guests who, in different combinations, cover organs, harmonium, piano, autoharp, acoustic, electric and prepared guitars, trombone, various winds, percussions, exotic string instruments and some processin... more »

MUSCI, ROBERTO/ VENOSTA,GIOVANNI: Vampyr and Other Stories

ROBERTO MUSCI/GIOVANNI VENOSTA Vampyr and Other Stories [£12.50] ReR MV30 Released to celebrate their 30 years of collaboration, this limited edition release collects their earliest and latest works, the tracks lost when the two LPs were reissued on a single CD, a... more »

COOPER,LINDSAY: Rarities from the Lindsay Cooper Archive (compiled for the occasion of her first mem

This double CD set collects together, amongst other things, all of Outtakes for Other Occasions and The Small Screen, both of which were never commercially released, all four pieces from The Classic Guide to NoMansLand, the subscription 7” Pictures from the Great Ex... more »

THE REMOTE VIEWERS: Pitfall.

I hope you’re all keeping up. This new instalment drives on into rockier landscapes, the sound is harder -edged and the compositions no less complex, but rounder. Only in these philistine days would no-one notice that something very different was going in this part ... more »

THIS HEAT: Live 80/81

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RAVENSTINE, ALLEN: The Pharoah’s Bee.

Allen Ravenstine, erstwhile eminence grise of classic-era Pere Ubu, was one of the best-integrated and least predictable pioneers of analogue synthesis in rock until, in the late 1980’s, he quit both the public and the musical arena to pursue entirely differen... more »

BING SELFISH and THE WINDSORS: right side of my brain

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CHARLES HAYWARD: One Big Atom

Charles’ first new solo CD for nine years, and he hasn’t been resting on his laurels; here are new ideas and a consolidation of the story to date, all plaited up into a fully articulated musical manifesto, characterised by virtuosity, soul, complexity, drive and att... more »

MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN: More Encores

Reissue on CD of the turntable/plunder CLASSIC, featuring Jimi Hendrix, Maria Callas, Johann Strauss, John Zorn, John Cage, Martin Denney, Fred Frith, Frederick Chopin, Louis Armstrong, Ferrante and Teicher, Birkin and Gainsbourg and CM himself...This is the big one... more »

VARIOUS: Isole Che Parlano

From the International Festival in Sardinia, mixing contemporary and traditional musics. This CD includes Jon Rose, Amy Denio, Paulo Angeli, Takumi Fukushima, Vakki Plakula, and all manner of Itaian performers. A fascinating hour of varied pieces. Only available ... more »

AMM: Ammusic

The definitive 1966 recordings, complete, available for the first time as they were recorded. Plus 35 minutes of extra music from the same sessions. No history of contemporary music is written without reference to AMM, and in particular to these recordings. Corneliu... more »

PAOLO ANGELI and TAKUMI FUKUSHIMA - ITSUNOMANIKA

Paulo and ex-After Dinner/Volapuk violinist/singer Takumi Fukushima present an integrated, complex and largely composed programme of deft, focused pieces that make the most of their not inconsiderable individual talents and instruments; mostly sounding like a much l... more »

THIS HEAT: Made Available

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NECKS, THE: Drive By

New studio recording by the great rhythm minimalists. Somewhere between Hanging Gardens and Aether, this is a steady moderate tempo piece with some beautiful floating chords and inspired drum passages. The usual masterful playing and restraint; forward movement and... more »

MACLEAN, STEVE: Ordinary Objects

In this episode, a number of short recordings of household objects and curious instruments become the core thematic material for a range of exquisitely conceived and realised pieces in which the recordings are shaped, stretched, tuned, combined and otherwise manipul... more »

SELFISH, BING and the MULTIVERTS: in the morning we glow and in the evening we glow again

Bing, the unstoppable text machine, with another cult hit on his hands. Lots of proper songs properly played, nicely arranged and full of ideas - but infused with a self-reflexivity and generic complexity that makes any coherent assessment difficult; there’s a... more »

SLAPP HAPPY: Acnalbasac Noom

The classic original, version recorded at the legendary Wümme studios using Faust as the house band, later, re-recorded with other musicians and different arrangements as 'Slaphappy or Slaphappy' for Virgin Records. Also includes the legendary 'Charlie and Cha... more »

THE REMOTE VIEWERS: November Sky

Another intriguing set of compositions that don’t do what you expect. Minimal, sort of, keeping its parts in order – with intrusions; some French Noir soundtrack material; thick harmonies, sudden changes of direction and a lot of ideas in a relatively short space of... more »

VARIOUS: Isole Che Parlano 00 03 (dbl CD)

The latest from the International Festival in Sardinia mixing contemporary and traditional musics. This CD includes Ne Zhdali, Tarafuki, Phil Minton, Veryan Weston, Gigou Chenevier, Shelley Hirsch, Haco, L'Ensemble Raye, Mike Keneally, Bratko Bibic, Mike Cooper, Pau... more »

KOVAC, BORIS: Times of Day.

We'’re very pleased to be releasing this. What Boris does is without parallel or precedent, and he’s been doing it for over 40 years, perfecting a language that is uniquely his own: not chamber music, not world music, not jazz – but demanding performance skills vita... more »

DRAKE, BOB: Medallion Animal Carpet

A rollercoaster of a record - intensely musical and highly attentive to the quality of sound - only not in the usual directions. This is what happens when a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and engineer gets to do what he wants his own way, free of the norms of the mu... more »

CASSIBER - The Way it Was

These are great recordings that paint the best – and most devil-take-the-hindmost – picture of this extraordinary, groundbreaking band. The sound is exemplary and the music constantly thinks around corners. Plus you have all the complexity and serendipity of live in... more »

ANGELI, PAOLO: Sale Quanto Basta

Paolo’s latest is an extraordinary collection of pieces that explore the full range of his highly modified, extended and prepared Sardinian guitar; and although it’s just him and electricity, it seldom sounds like fewer than 3 people. Great compositions, each like a... more »

FRITH, FRED: Impur

In 1996, at the end of a two year residency, Fred organised an event at L'Ecole Nationale de Musique de Villeurbanne in France. He roped in as many of the students as he could, grouped according to their departments (early music, rock, African drumming, classical), ... more »

FRITH, FRED: The Technology of Tears

With an all-star line-up that features Tenko, John Zorn and Christian Marclay (with guest Jim Staley on trombone), Technology of Tears started life in New York in 1986 as a dance commission by Rosalind Newman. Fred took this opportunity to experiment with Henry Kais... more »

OSSATURA: Maps and Mazes

After many years percolating, this third release by Ossatura documents a quite dramatic aesthetic shift – including more acoustic instruments alongside the electronic; more settled, cyclic rhythms; more harmonic concord - even a song. On occasion reminiscent of the ... more »

THIS HEAT: This Heat

A landmark recording by one of most important British bands, full stop. This, their first release, tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. First, the music: without precedent, then, the musicians: all extraordinary, all uncompromisi... more »

THIS HEAT: Health and Efficiency

The EP restored, with both tracks. Remastered. Now available alone. <p> Only available at this price as part of the ReR Sale Offer (minimum) 4 titles) ... more »

HENRY COW: Vevey DVD

The only known filmed recording of a Henry Cow concert. Made at Vevey, in Switzerland, in August 1976 with Georgie Born, Lindsay Cooper, Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson and Dagmar Krause. A professional multi-camera recording of a complete concert, 75 minut... more »

HENRY COW: Later and post-Virgin.

We are so often asked and agree that we probably should offer individual titles from the two definitive boxes for sale, though it’s unfortunately expensive to do, in spite of their being only essential information in the packaging (the detail is in the booklets). So... more »

SUN RA: On Jupiter

A big band studio recording made a month before Sleeping Beauty and released by Saturn in 1979 consisting of three quite different pieces: On Jupiter, which is a vocalised, relaxed, swing trance piece, UFO - Sun Ra's unashamed approach to disco, layering big band ev... more »

HENRY COW: Bremen.

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HONSINGER, TRISTAN: This, That and the Other: Sketches of Probability

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DOWNES, BOB: It’s a Mystery

Bob Downes was a name you’d see everywhere in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s – always up to his neck in something interesting and experimental. Last year I tracked down a composition of his for Alphorns for the Probes series (it will be in No.22) and a... more »

THE NECKS: Vertigo.

The release of a new Necks album is always news. This is our 12th to date - and their 18th. While most ensembles are driven by personalities, the Necks are powered by an idea. A very large and simple idea - which now seems completely obvious…. but only because the N... more »

HENRY COW: Late.

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AREVALOS, MATTEO RAMON/PERRAULT, BRUNO: Serimpie - Works for piano and Ondes Martenot

This companion to our Messiaen et Autours de Messiaen collects together another classic group of works for Onde Martenot and piano, this time by Darius Milhaud, Andre Jolivet, Arvo Part, Kazuo Fukushima and Francisco Semprun, collected together here for the first ti... more »

ANGELI, PAOLO and NANNI: Tibi (CD/DVD Hybrid disc)

This disc will play in stereo on a CD player and with film and 5.1 surround sound (or stereo) on a DVD player or computer. The music, as always, is prodigious, sounding like a small band, but played by one person in real time (as the film attests). In this format, y... more »

ANGELI, PAOLO: S'u

An amazing record. It’s beautifully recorded and almost impossible to believe that such a layered and polyphonic music, with chords, percussion, lead lines, bass lines, harmonies, string sections and sometimes voice could all be produced by one person in real t... more »

CASSIBER: Beauty and The Beast

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FRITH, FRED: The Previous Evening

Written for a dance programme, this is Fred's hommage, in three pieces, to the work and influence of John Cage, Earle Brown and Morton Feldman. Beautifully conceived and executed and full of minute and fascinating detail. An unalloyed pleasure to listen to and one o... more »

FRITH, FRED: The Happy End Problem

A new recording, and instantly a Fred classic. Two, related, small-ensemble works for 6 and 7 musicians respectively - mostly strings of one sort or another, with percussion, flute and clarinet occasionally, and electronics. Fred, violinist Carla Kilsteht and percus... more »

SUN RA: Horizon

In 1971 Sun Ra and the full Arkestra of the time went to Egypt. Three Saturn LPs were released memorialising this visit: Horizon was the last (it has also been known as Starwatchers and Sun Ra in Egypt Vol.2). It's a fine recording of a classic band - in great shap... more »

SUN RA: Beyond the Purple Star Zone and Oblique Parallax

Two related classic Saturn LP reissues on a single CD, both recorded at the Detroit Jazz Centre - in 1980 and 1981 respectively. They share an excellent sound quality and great playing - there's a classic version of Rocket No.9 and plenty of otherworldly Moog and e... more »

CAMBERWELL NOW: All's Well

After the demise of This Heat, Charles Hayward continued to work with Trefor Goronwy, bassist from the last manifestation of the group, the two of them joining forces with Steve Rickard who, for the new band, designed the cassette 'switchboard' a kind of proto-samp... more »

BLEGVAD, PETER: Just Woke Up

New digipak version. For my money, the best yet. Great songs performed by Peter, John Greaves, Chris Cutler and various guests including B.J. Cole, Kristoffer Blegvad and Jakko Jakszykx. Roll back the carpet, turn up the stereo.L (Only available at th... more »