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DA CAPO:  Da Capo - EGM 001 - £12
Extracts from concerts at DA CAPO, including Bach, Debussy, Shoenberg, Lee Konitz, Koln Saxophone Mafia, Luis de Matteo, John Cage, Lauren Newton, Michael Svoboda and others. Interesting collection (because dependent on the concert series; no one would compile such a set otherwise) which makes a good listening programme. Strange packaging and notes on a pack of cards.
DADA:  Castle Wall - BELL 9481 - £15.50
DALLAPICOLA/BERIO:  Short Pieces From Italy - SR 58 - £12.55
DAMA DAMA:  Dama Dama - WORE 960003-2 - £12
DD are a percussion ensemble with a strange and interesting repertoire, drawn mostly from Czech composers of the last 40 years - and many from the last 6 years. Occasional appearance of non percussion instruments and rock/industrial/theatre aesthetics. A few very off-the-wall moments here. An interesting and unusual record.
DATA DIRECT:  La Dolce Vita - CD 044 - £12
SLOVENIA. One of the trio, Borut Krzisnik will be well known to you from our Points East release some years ago. Decidedly up to date, played and processed compositions: skidding off techno here and there - and other genres too, but varied, often great, ideas, well realised. A group (with guests). Excellent sound and packaging.
DATENRYU:  Unto - BELLE 97370 - £15.50
DAWN:  Dawn - nml 9825 - £12
German trio, not unlike The Necks, minimal, very listenable with rich sonorities, riffs and slow unfoldings. Intriguing.
DEAN, ELTON:  Silent Knowledge - RUNE 85 - £11.50

DEAN, ELTON: Moorsong - Rune 143 - £11.50

DEAN, ELTON/TIPETT/ROGERS ETC:  Bladik - RUNE 92 - £11.50
DEANE, J.A.:  Nomad - VICTOCD 035 - £12
DEATH AMBIENT: Synaesthesia - TZ 7226 - £12.50
The Classic line-up: Ikue Mori, Kato Hideki and Fred Frith. To my ears even better than the first volume. A gripping journey into instrumental performance possibilities which never loses sight of the musical centre. Great.
DEBILE MENTHOL:  Battre/Emile Au Jardin - RECDEC 601 - £15.50
The two LP's combined on one CD. The Debiles were wild, inventive, rhythmically complex and extremely eccentric. On the unruly end of the RIO aesthetic and with high grade players and composers. A welcome reissue.
DELAURENTI, CHRISTOPHER: Three camels for Orchestra - AAR 003 - £12
Excellent collection that includes an impressive sample-orchestra composition. Refreshing sleeve notes: "Adventurous new music made with traditional and home made instruments... no new age noodling, droning drum machines, ambient fog or other demeaning crap. Weird. Disturbing. No Compromises∓. Certainly a record with something to say.
DENIO, AMY:  Birthing Chair Blues - KFWCD-111 - £11.50
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. Amy's is a unique voice, as player, singer and composer. Addictive repeated listening and highly recommended.
See also misc, ReR.

DENIO, AMY:  More Spoot I piu grandi successi (dbl) - MOMUS 006-007 - £16.60
Amy's greatest hits - a good selection. Culled from Tone Dogs, Denio Solos, Curlew, Billy Tipton Memorial Quartet, Pale and (ec) Nudes, FoMoFlo, unreleased tapes.. disc 2 is a collection of 5 versions of 'Salvatore'. A good intro to Amy.

DENIS, DANIEL:  Les Eaux Troubles - FGBG 4092 AR - £12
See below.

DENIS, DANIEL:  Sirius and the Ghosts - FGBG 4043 AR - £12
Univers Zero drummer, composer and guiding spirit with two solo records, following the same musical trail. Start with Sirius.

DEROME, JEAN:  Pieces pour Ubu - AM 030CD - £12

DEROME, JEAN:  3 Musiques pour Ubu - AM 030 CD - £12

DEROME, JEAN:  Confiture de Gagaku - VICTO CD05 - £12

DEROME, JEAN:  Et les Dangeroeux - AM 032CD - £12

DEROME, JEAN:  Navre - AM 038CD - £12

DEROME, JEAN:  Je Me Souviens - AM 044CD - £12
A stunner. Jean and a big band rehearse perfect Exotica, 40's, 50's and 60's generic band music, TV music, Latino, Hot Jazz, early rock, Tangos and other perfectly realised slices of memory, transformed by wit and intelligence to be much much more than pastiche - this is also HI FI, microgroove music and so perfectly realised I had immediately to listen to it again. A gift - I hope Jean mines this seam some more.. That's 2/3 of the CD (44 mins) the rest is a collection of 'game' improvisations with 2 all-star bands. Phew.

DEROME, JEAN:  The Beast Within - AM 048CD - £12
Music for dance with Joanne Hetu, Pierre Tanguay, Diane Labrosse, Rene Lussier and others.

DEROME, JEAN: Strand. Under the Dark Cloth - AM 064 - £12
Many will remember the extracts from this soundtrack, which appeared on our Quarterly some years back. Unusual and beautifully composed pieces for combinations of brass, reeds, winds, piano, strings, percussion and voice. Modular, thematically interwoven and emotionally rich. Fine work.

DEROME, JEAN et les DANGEREUX ZHOMS:  Torticolois - AM 061 CD - £12
DEROME, JEAN /JOANE HETU:  Nous Percons les Oreilles - AM 054 CD - £12
DESBIENS, PATRICE:  et les Moyen du Bord. - AM 065 CD - £12
Great Quebecois poet Desbiens, accompanied by Rene Lussier, Jean Derome, Pierre Tanguay and Guillaume Dostaler. He speaks; they play. It works. It helps of course if you understand French. Unique presentation in a custom ring binder.
DeLAURENTI, CHRISTOPHER: N.30 Live at the WTO Protest Nov 30 1999 £12 - By Name
Radio documentary, field recording, musique concrete.
DICK/BRENNAN/PATUMI:  Aurealis - VICTO CD 052 - £12
DIDKOVSKY, NICK:  Binky Boy - PM 003 - £12
Compositions by Dr Nerve boss and Fred Frith Guitar Quartet member, for multitrack, duo (w. Mark Stewart) and ensemble (+ Frith, Lussier, Howell) electric guitars, many styles and none, characterised by precision, energy, complexity and full exploitation of the electric mutability of the instrument. Cutting edge; a substantial entry in the lexicon.
DIE KNODEL: Non Lo So, Polo - make 3 - £12
Austrian non - classical chamber ensemble (strings, reeds, harp, accordions etc.) perform an operetta written by and performed with Amy Denio. Ambitious and nicely realised project with 4 singers, some extended scoring and arrangements and oblique texts.
DIE KNODEL:  Die Knodel - RECDEC 64 - £12.50
9 piece Austrian Ensemble who play tightly composed and nicely articulated dance/concert music somewhere between contemporary and armslength jazz with a lot of film influence. This is a highly accomplished and impressive piece of work, much better than their first, full of very sharp performances and nifty arrangements; light on its feet. And songs

DIE KNODEL:  Verkochte Tiroler - RECDEC 34 - £12.50
A large rock chamber group of mixed Bassoon, Harp, Trumpet, clarinet, violins, voice, bass, guitar and voices. Unusual and excellent arrangements of varied and well composed pieces. Hard to place. Unusual and well worth listening to.

DIE KNODEL:  Panorama - RECDEC 74 - £12.50

DIE, TRIP COMPUTER DIE:  Die, Trip Computer Die - ALDTCD - £12
Amos/L.Voag again, this time known as Xentos, with a long awaited album of new songs. With Lepke B. (Lowest Note on the Organ and live DJ), and Bongo Bongo Barrow (The Homosexuals and the Murphys). Unheard at the time of publication, but promises radical adventures in the line of English pop-noise eccentricity. DIE TRIP COMPUTER DIE: We are your friends - ALDT2KCD - £12
Return of the eccentric Samples and Playing ensemble. Convincing, sometimes astonishing pieces, songs, mini-dramas. One of the best ensembles using this technology I've heard; very focussed and highly musical. Excellent.
See also Misc.
DIFFUSION ENSEMBLE: Knuth - Mazz1 - £12
14 piece Polish ensemble, 2 horns, one brass the rest electric or exotic. Disciplined and considered open improvisations, or... Art package, art thinking. Interesting.
DIKOVSKY/MACLEAN/VRTACEK:  Flies in the Face of Logic - POGUS 21008- - £12
Pieces by the 3 characters above for virtual and real pianos, sampled, treated, prepared and reconstructed pianos and one dropped from a crane from 100 feet.The Maclean pieces I have to single out for special mention: work of exquisitely integrated conception. performance, construction and subsequent manipulation; this is close to perfection by earthly standards. A lot of invention, thinking and pragmatics all round. Appropriately, 'None of us play piano. This is a common obstacle we shared, took advantage of and each dealt with in our own way'
DIMUZIO, TOM:  Louden - OS CD20 - £12
More from the Electronic drone maestro.
See also ReR.
DJAM KARET: Reflections from the Firepool £11.50 - Rune 139
DJLL, TOM: Mootootator - SRPD 01 - £12
Tom (known by Quarterly listeners) plays trumpet- driven interactive samples and electronics, also keyboards, and here is joined by 19 different guests (1 per piece). Intense, sometimes breathtaking improvisations.
DOMACI KAPELA:  Jedne Noci Snil - R 0010 - £12
Legacy of the PPU. An excellent Suite of Songs, with a highly distinctive harmonic signature, fine singing, good arrangements, light but authoritative drums and concise guitar. There is still life in Rock and Roll.
DONEDA/ACHIARY/SAWAI:  Temps Couche - VICTO CD 055 - £12
DONEDA/ACHIARY/SAWI:  Temps Couche - VICTO CD 055 - £12
DOPPELMOPPEL: Adventure Quebecoise - VICTO CD 065 - £12
DOUBLE ARTICULATION:  Fold and Rhizomes Remixes - SR 110 - £12.55
Dr NERVE:  Every Screaming Ear - RUNE 88 - £11.50
Live recordings - studio quality - from Mainz, Tilburg and New York, Didkovsky compositions with New Ear (one of the best pieces on the CD), Isso Yukihiro Group, Meridian Ensemble, and his own Dr. Nerve. Fast and furious, tightly composed, devilishly complicated pieces performed with hard rock energy and virtuoso precision. Impressive...

Dr.NERVE.:  Skin - RUNE 70 - £11.50
Pretty unremitting, pretty extraordinary. Complex and gripping group music with trumpets nicely used. Successful deployment of computer controlled drums, approaching at times a techno brink. Memo: John Oswald's Metallica. Goes far enough to arrive.

Dr.NERVE:  Did Sprinting Die ? - CUNEIFORM 55002 - £11.50

Dr.NERVE:  Beta - RUNE 26 - £11.50

Dr.NERVE:  Armed Obs/Bomb.. Kings - RUNE 38 - £11.50

DR NERVE and SIRIUS STRING QUARTET:  Ereia - RUNE 126 - £11.50
Complex and dense; deeply composed -breaking out into rock once in a while. From solo viola to all hell let loose. This CD covers a great deal of ground.

DRAKE, BOB:  What day is it ? - CR 001 - £12
Thinking Plague, 5UU, Hail member and producer here with his first solo CD (Guitars, keyboards, bass, drums, violin etc.). 5UU David Kerman plays drums on some tracks. Dense production and a lot of very interesting production experiments equals Arkham House meets Country meets W.Coast meets terminal eccentricity. Catchy too!
See also ReR
DRESSER, MARK / FRED FRITH / IKUE MORI:  Latera - VICTO- CD070 - £12
All star cast.
DUCHESNE, ANDRE:  Le Temps des Bombes - AM 022CD - £12
Montreal: treasure this, a musical community - where else do you find one ? And here are Michel Cot, Andr Duchesne, Jean Derome, Claude Fradette, Joanne Hetu, Diane Labrosse, Rmi Leclerc, Robert Lepage, Ren Lussier, Danielle Roger, Pierre St.Jak, Marie Trudeau (amongst others, of Wondeurbrass, Justine, Les Quatre Guitarists, Les Granules, Locomotive, Miriodor..) in an ensemble live concert, including pieces specially composed for the full ensemble. Excellent mobile recording (mixed later) - a tribute to the creativity and musicianship of this extraordinary group of active and exemplary musicians.

DUCHESNE, ANDRE:  Locomotive. - AM 027CD - £12
With Claude Fradette, Remi Leclerc and Francis Grandmont, compositionally and atmospherically this is effectively a new Quatre Guitaristes De l'Apocalypso Bar recording. Some very good pieces in fine complex mode.

DUCHESNE, ANDRE:  Le Royaume ou L'Asile - AM 09CD - £12

DUCHESNE, ANDRE:  L'ou 'L - VICTO CD 010 - £12

DUCHESNE, ANDRE: Reflexions - AM 072 - £12
Solo guitar pieces. Reflective. Something new from one of the guiding lights of the Montreal music community.

DULL SCHICKSAL:  Dikke Mannen - ADM 24975 - £11.50
Songs. Bizarre arrangements, impressive playing and some musically lateral thinking. A sound collection with plenty going on. As usual, exquisite graphics and design work.

DULL SCHICKSAL:  Dull's Dullest Vol 2. - FLOATING 102 - £12
See above.

DULL SCHICKSAL:  Ambush - AMF 1057 - £12
Latest and possibly last bulletin from this formation. Another collection of songs large and small, bizarre and almost normal. Some gems. Recorded and mixed by Bob Drake.

DULL SCHICKSAL:  Herfstblad'ren - AMF 1043 - £12
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DUMITRESCU, IANCU:  Au Dela/Monades - EDMN 1002 - £11
Au Dela.. new work for string orchestra, Monades, previously unreleased versions of electrocord work. The three works by Ana-Maria Avram, one for chamber orchestra, one for Dumitrescu's 'Hyperion ensemble' and one for prepared piano (A-M M), percussion and tape, fall into the same musical realm. Especially interesting is Zodiaque.

DUMITRESCU, IANCU:  Pierres Sacrees/Harryphones - EDMN 1003 - £11
Pierres is a new work for prepared pianos and metal objects. Grande Ourse for 2 bassoons, prepared piano and percussions is also new, Harryphones - previously unreleased versions of the work available before on Romanian electrocord.

DUMITRESCU, IANCU:  Astree/Holzwege - EDMN 1004 - £11
4 Pieces, two by IANCU (for orchestra, and for viola), a long electronic and treated voice work by Georges Astalos and voice solo by Ana-Maria Avram.

DUMITRESCU, IANCU:  Galaxy/Movemur/Basreliefs - EDMN 1005 - £11
'Galaxy' is a new work, for 'Harryphones' percussion and micro-processing, 'Movemur' a virtuoso soundwork for 3 contrabasses and percussion, 'Reliefs' for 2 orchestras and piano, 'Memorial' for string quartet and 'Basoreliefs' for orchestra. Each is a gem, each keeps right on top of its moment with no uneccesary note or tone, each tunnels deep into the inner quality of sound. Innovative and profound. Great works.

DUMITRESCU, IANCU:  A Priori/5 Implosions - EDMN 1006 - £11
5 pieces: three new works by Iancu (two for chamber ensemble (with electrics) tracking sound to its furthest lairs, and one for Orchestra) two by Ana-maria Avram, one for Orchestra (de Sacrae - an indispensible classic) and one for Tape. A Great CD.

DUMITRESCU, IANCU:  Ursa Mare/Aulodie Mioritica (vinyl) - ERZ 2001 - £8.30
Classic. See ReR

DUMITRESCU, IANCU/ANA MARIA AVRAM:  Mnemosyne etc. - EDMN 1007 - £11
Another excellent collection

DUMITRESCU, IANCU/ANA MARIA AVRAM:  Ikarus, Fluxus - EDMN 1008 - £11
New works including Dumitrescu's Kronos Quartet piece and works for Tape and Orchestra, string quartet and tape, prepared Piano.
See also special distribution.

DUMITRESCU, IANCU/ANA MARIA AVRAM:  Ouranos, Gnosis, Orion I, II, Swarms III, Labyrinthe I - EDMN 1009 - £11.00
Pieces for Tape, Percussion, 12 cellos; Double Bass, 3 groups of Percussionists, String Orchestra, Strings, Amplified Percussion by the extraordinary and uncategoriseable Dumitrescu/Avram team. Pursuing the intimate grain of sounds through the directed inspiration of performers who somehow produce music while uncovering it, escape control by going through it. Movement and stillness. Even in the storm of percussion (Orion) is a slow centre.

DUMITRESCU, IANCU /ANA MARIA AVRAM:  Meteors, Profundis - EDMN 1010 - £12
5 More signature compositions, respectively for Computer assisted composition; Clarinet, Bassclarinet and Orchestra; Cello Solo; Two Orchestras; Cello and Percussion.

DUNAJ:  La La La - R 0009 - £12
New work from the overlapping parts group. Simple ingredients locked together in slightly counterintuitive ways that make cyclic flat rhythms with songs over the top. Distinctive.

DUNAJ:  Rosol - PM 0002-2 31 - £12
Excellent

DUNAWAY, JUDY:  and the Evan Gallagher Little Band - AMF 1036 - £12
With a lot of classy guests, extraordinary songstress and guitarist JD breaks as many popsong rules as she can think of, to great effect. Sharp, funny, musically interesting, good songs. Drummer EG fits like a glove.
EGG:  The Polite Force - POCD 1844 - £16
Japanese reissue of the best album from this seminal and too much forgotten group. Egg score with their mixture of Soft Machine influenced instrumental extensions, highly developed, non-dilettantic (Stravinsky influenced) compositions, impeccable performances and their careful attention to timbre and dynamics. This release also contains 'Boilk', in 1970 an exemplary piece of tapework. Highly limited.
EGY KISS ERZSI ZENE: - CDB 044 - £12
Very unusual Hungarian group, comprising the guitarist and singer/violinist of Kampec Dolores with another singer and a drummer. Strong African influence, but that doesn't cover it. Top line are two extraordinary singers doing extraordinary things in a language I don't recognise and probably don't need to. Layers of rhythmic and melodic lines. No comparisons, a unique concept. Recommended.
ELLA GURU:  Morbius - UNDER 003CD - £12
Ella Guru is an italian 6 piece (includes part of NORMA) who play an intriguing selection of original compositions, complex arrangements, not-quite-kitchy covers and strange cultural references and hybrids that are imaginative, funny, surprising and enjoyable. Excellently executed and recorded. A lot of fun.
ELLIS, LISLE:  Elevations - VICTO CD 027 - £12
EMANUEL, CAROL:  Tops of Trees - EVVA 33002 - £ 12.75
Harpist CE plays compositions by John Zorn, Guy Klucevsek, Wayne Horowitz, Bobby Previte, Bill Frisell, Butch Morris, Anthony Coleman, Evan Lurie, Marty Erlich and Amy Rubin for various combinations of instruments.
ENSEMBLE RAYE:  Ein Fest fur Pu den Baren - order by name - £14
A one off item, music for Winnie the Pooh. Very charming and, in essence, an Ensemble Raye record, but wrapped as concept. Digipack, booklet; no catalogue number.
ENSEMBLE NIMBUS:  Key Figures - APM 9403 AT - £12
A new group with ex-Samlas drummer Hasse Bruinsson (on electric drums) who sound a lot like the old Samlas in their approach and material.
ETAGE 34:  Etage 34 - X33REVPERMI - £12
Interesting noise-distort post-rock performances, in a style known better in its Japanese version, but developed long ago and honed over many years by this group in France.
ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN:  CD Set, music from 6 LPs - FGBG4214.AR - £30
RIO's Fast, furious and deeply eccentric Etron Fou, collected.
EVIDENCE:  Musique de Thelonius Monk - AM 028CD - £12
EX, THE:  Mudbird Shivers - RECDEC 68 - £12.50
EX, THE/TOM CORA:  The Weathermen... - RECDEC 55 - £12.50
Just when you thought it was safe...Tom and the EX VOLUME 2.
EXILES:  Jon Rose, Tony Buck, Joe Williamson - EXILES 1 - £11.50
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 it's own good, too many jokes for serious music, more adrenaline than SPEED II; drive your gerbils MAD by just pointing at the CD as if you were THINKING about playing it. What is faster than the speed of light grasshopper - the speed of thought that's what. And faster than thinking ??
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