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I.S.O.: I.S.O. - AMO ISO 01 - £12 New formation with Ground Zero alumni Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko Matsubara and interesting newcomer Ichiraku Yoshimitsu (drums, electronics). Slow, abstract, rich with extremes, ambient. ICHIYANAGI, TOSHI/MAKI ISHII: Music for a Living Process (vinyl) - EDRZ 1008 - £8.30 IL BERLIONE: Il Berlione - BA 9229 - £15.50 50% fast and furious, clean and punchy, complex and super competent rock-kind-of-jazz-kind-of; convincing - 50% more jazz-rock as known. IL BERLIONE: 453 Minites Infernal Cooking - BELL 9483 - £15.50 New work from Japanese group who play in the classic 'progressive' 70's style, and far better, technically, than any group of the period. But it is a period style - for fans of 'progressive' rock. No current European or American group plays like this now, nor could they quite in the 70's, so it's a strange double timewarp music; uniquely so. Impressive is probably the word. IL GRAN TEATRO AMARO: Piazza Orphelins - RECDEC 69 - £12.50 IL GRAN TEATRO AMARO: Port-Famine - RECDEC 43 - £12.50 IL GRAN TEATRO AMARO: Hotel Brennessel - RECDEC 56 - £12.50 ILLUMINATED: Rituals around the World - SUBCD0 27-29 - £12.55 INVENTIONEN 1: Kand/Mandolini/Schaeffer - ERZ 2 - £8.30 ISLAND OF SANITY: New Music NYC. - NML 8707CD - £12 Rare sampler from No Man's Land. JABLKON: Jablkon and Sveceny - B+N 9101 - £12 Acoustic guitars, bass, percussions, voices, Violin. Now a quartet, joined here by virtuoso violinist Jaroslav Sveceny. Eccentric and wide ranging; a mixture of breakneck tempi, stretched time, additive rythmns, melody, pinpoint percussion, simplicity and complexity. Conventum, Feliu Gasul, Albert Marcoeur come to mind, but this is a music unto itself, of rank eccentricity and quiet virtuosity. Highly recommended.
JABLKON:
Baba Aga - B+N 9202 - £12
JABLKON:
Symphonic - F1 0003-2031 - £12
JABLKON:
Machalaj - BABA N9504 - £12
JAMES, BOB TRIO: Explosions. - ESP 1009-2 - £12.50 Welcome CD reissue of an extraordinary, even prophetic, 1965 recording (originally on the legendary ESP label) featuring: Tapes, noise, experimental playing techniques and silence. Pre-echoes of AMM. An important musical document as well as a listening pleasure. JARBOE: Warm liquid..(CD single) - SR 64 - £12.55 JARDIN D'USURE: Musique du Garrot.. - SR 65 - £12.55 JAUNIEUX, CATHERINE/IKUE MORI: The Vibraslaps - RECDEC 52 - £11.50 After extensive European touring, eccentric pieces from CJ (inscrutable voices) and IM (Drums and drum machines). JELLYFISH KISS, THE: Luna Hotel - RECDEC 63 - £12.50 JILALA & GNAOVA: Moroccan Trance Music - SUBCD0 13-36 - £12.55 JOHAN HUIZING QUARTET: Live at Da Capo - DC7 - £12.75 JON and UTSUNOMIYA: ( ) - MIMI 004 - £12 Utsunomiya some will recall was the genius behind the sound of After Dinner. Here, working with singer and accordionist JON, he has produced a CD that is more or less indescribable. It is a work of pure sound (and comes with a long and thoughtful essay about sound, place and performance. Do not expect 'weird' sounds and conventional complexity, nor electronics.. this is superficially baffling but essentially and existentially a genuine innovation. You can't listen to it for 'the music', it is a complete event, and there are listening recommendations which it pays to follow. Japanese release. limited quantity. JONSSON, LACH'N: Songs from the Cities of Decay - BAR 9602 - £12 Welcome reissue, with new intermezzo track, of the dark but fascinating LP featuring Lars on everything! Great drums and arrangements, accomplished use of odd metres and cross genre vocabularies (rock, medieval music, industrial noise) and strong composition. Nice to have it back. JORGENS, P.O: The Technology of Touch - NWM 008 - £12 A record it's hard to describe and do justice to. Consisting essentially of all manner of percussion carefully arranged and orchestrated, displaying a fine ear for detail and a sure sense of rhythm and dramaturgy. Each piece explores a clear set of sonorities and developmental possibilities with considerable imagination and variety. It's not contemporary, ethnic, minimal, repetitive, indulgent, jazzy ... but I can't say what it is. JULVERNE: Le Retour - IGL 089 - £12 Cult Belgian chamber rock/jazz/tango/ progressive group. Some very interesting arrangements. Part is a reissue of their most famous LP. JUSTINE: Suite - AM 016CD - £12 The core of 'Wondeurbrass' & 'Les Poules', here Joane Hetu, Diane Labrosse, Danielle Roger are joined by Marie Trudeau and guests Tenko & Zeena Parkins on 2 tracks. Continuing their work, their way. Excellent. See also vinyl
JUSTINE:
Langages Fantas.. - AM 033CD - £12
KAISER, HENRY: Lemon Fish Tweezer - RUNE 45 - £11.50 Lemon is an earlier compilation for Rune.
KAISER, HENRY:
The five Heavenly Truths - FOT HK1 - £12
KAISER/KIMURA/O'ROURKE/OSWALD: Acoustics - VICTO CD 025 - £12 KAISER/O'ROURKE/KIMURA: Tomorrow Knows - VICTO CD 014 - £12 KALAHARI SURFERS: In The Heart of the Beast (vinyl) - RR C24 - £8.30 Newscasts. Troublemaker Warric Sony, master of documentary incorporation & edit, who steals the sounds, embarassing speeches and paranoias from paradise and winds them into music that is insistent, out of hand, danceable, tricky and hallucinatory by turns. See also ReR, Lesego Rampolokeng KAMIYAMA, HOPPY: Juice and Tremolo - Son 02 - £11 'Works of Chamber Music'. The remarkable Hoppy Kamiyama extends his composing side with a fine selection of pieces for String Quartet, String Quartet with Harp, Drums and Metal, Bass, Keyboards, Guitar and Drums, Solo Piano, for 4 TV commercials with a lot of instrumentation and some Space Insects. This is an excellent collection, full of ideas and good playing that stretches from almost traditional string writing to full ahead power noise, with interesting mixtures along the way. KAMPEC DOLORES Solid, clear and inventive songs. One of the most distinctive and original voices in Hungarian experimental/rock today. Some very radical guitar, arrangements on the edge and fine deployment of violin, effects, national music references and straight/tricky times.(Levitation is a reissue on CD of our 'POINTS EAST' LP). See also ReR, Kontroll Csoport. KAMPEC DOLORES: Eye of the Needle - CDB 004 - £12 KAMPEC DOLORES: Levitation - BAMU CD 001 - £11.50 KARET, DJAN: The Devouring - RUNE 99 - £11.50 KARL EIN KARL: Karl ein Karl - UTR 4039 CD - £12 Interesting and well recorded CD of played organised and improvised pieces, very listenable, varied and engaging. Bass, Voice, electronics, electric & acoustic guitar, cello mainly. Intelligent and well designed booklet and careful listening proposals (special order replay programmes for 'concert, dinner music, instructive statements, exclusive songs'. KATO HIDEKI: Turbulent Zone - ME 89801 - £12 A CD of Electric Bass solos? Yes. A multiplicity of techniques imaginatively deployed to produce a sequence of fragile sound events. Delicate noise. KATZER, G/ Z. KRAUZE, J.KRCEK: Aide Memoire/Folk Music (vinyl) - RR 22 - £7 'Aide Memoire'('Seven Nightmares From The Thousand Year Night') is a classic work. Commissioned by GDR Radio on the 30th Anniversary of Hitler's rise to power (to counter the nostalgia coming from West German TV and Radio at the time) it uses the treated voices of the old nazi leaders and other contemporary documentary materials in the construction of a musical and dramatic structure of hair-raising intensity. This is a major work, and unequivocally a political one. It comes with full English text and notes. 'Folk Music' is Breughelian chaos of decentred folk musics, about 100 melodies simultaneously played by autonomously organised sub- groups within the Polish Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra at the Warsaw Autumn 1972. 'Sonaty' is a concrete work based on a phonetic medieval text of nightingale songs. Two voices provide the source material, radically processed. Exquisite, clear and haunting. 16pp Book. KEIJI HEINO: Fushitsusha - VICTO CD 060 - £12 With Yasushi Ozawa (bass) and Ikuro Takahashi (drums). KENSO: Sora Ni Hikaru - BA 9465 - £15.50 1981,2 - 'one of the most important technical sympho bands' KING/MOSS/YOSHIHIDE: All At Once At Anytime - VICTO CD 029 - £12 Guitar, Turntables, Drums and Voice. In the hands of old hands. Live improvisations, well recorded and kept to the point. KINOTHEK PERCUSSION: Industry - NML D873CD - £12 Dedicated to RUSSOLO. Organised samples of factory and mechanical sounds. KIXX: Weisser Voodoo - UTR 4058 CD - £12 Dietmar Diesner, Lars Rudolph, David Gattiker and the ubiquitous Jim Meneses. An unusual collection of pieces featuring rhythm, noise, treated saxophones and voices, trumpet, guitar and unrecognisable cello + electronics. Homogeneous, sometimes inspired. Horrible cover art. KJELL SAMKOPF: Har Du Sunget Den For Grieg? - dBUT 010 - £12 Did you sing this for a Grieg? subtitled 'a landscape portrait of the artist 86 years on'. A highly interesting environ/plunder project contrasting minute 'empty' listening (to snow, mountain walks, ancient voices) with simultanious 'tidal' auditions of Grieg's lyric, orchestra, vocal and piano musics. One of a kind. KLANGBRUCKE BERN: Selected Soundscape No 1 - CD 305 - £12 Unusual document of a concert spaced out across a city. Many great parts and altogether a pretty interesting achievement. Beautifully produced and annotated. KLAXON GUELE: Bavards (dbl) - AM052 CD - £24 KLIMPEREI: Toute seul sur la plage - AYAA CDT 059 - £12.50 KLUCEVSEK, GUY: Scenes From a Mirage (vinyl) - RERE106 - £8.30 KLUCEVSEK, GUY: Polka Dots and Laser Beams - EVVA 33008 - £12.75 KLUCEVSEK, GUY: Aint Nothing but a Polka Band - EVVA 33009 - £12.75
KLUCEVSEK, GUY:
Scenes From a Mirage - RERE106CDM - £12
KOMBINAT M: Hybrid Beat - RUNE 48 - £11.50 KONTROLL CSOPORT: 1983 (Dbl) - BVD 002-3 - £20 The legendary Hungarian song group. Strange pop, related to Kampec Dolores (share composer/guitarist Csaba Hajnoczy) with bizarre edge and great singing. Document of the unavailable (or at least 'underground') music of the early '80's. Well recorded. KOPCE/OSKLID: Jest Po·d... - PANTON 81115 - £12 Some will remember the excellent 7-inch, then the only recording of this interesting group. Now a well made CD. Fast, complex songs with imaginative arrangements and many soul/pop references, but all in a unique (but typically czech) style. Part of a truly original post- 'progressive' Czech school that deserves attention. KOVAC, BORIS: The Mask - TARCD004 - £11.50 Ensemble Music for Theatre. Covers a lot of ground. Scarce Jugoslavian pressing.
KOVAC, BORIS:
Play on String - MOMUS 002 - £12.50
KOVAC, BORIS:
Profane Liturgy - DNN 001C - £12
KOVAC, BORIS:
Anamnesis-Ecumenical Mysteries - VICTO CD 039 - £12
KOVACS. BORIS: East OFF Europe - VICTO CD 062 - £12 See also ReR, vinyl. KRALDJURSASTALTEN: Kraldjursastalten - MEGA 020 - £12 The legendary swedish reptile asylums, comprising telepathic twins Stefan and Thomas Agaton (Guitar, Bass) with the prodigious Michael Maksymenko (Drums). Nobody has yet got closer to the lurching swing complexity of the old magic band, I mean thinking like not imitating. KRAUSE, DAGMAR: Tank Battles - VP138 - £12.50 Dagmar's classic 'Songs of Hanns Eisler' CD. 36 great tracks beautifully arranged and recorded, terrifyingly sung and straight to the point. Classic. KRAUSE, DAGMAR & GOYETTE, MARIE: A scientific dream and a French kiss - RES 139 CD - £12 A collection of songs. Dagmar sings, Marie provides the big-bands, orchestras, other sound samples and incidental commentary with a particularly audacious simplicity that conceals a radical conception. KRZISNIK, BORUT: Stories from Magatrea - BK1 - £12 An extraordinary and almost extinct recording. Treated Orchestra. Enormous sound, rock spirit. KULENTY, MACCI, VAN DIJK, CUTLER etc: Going Up - KLIM OP 007 - £12.50 KURYOKHIN, SERGEI: Divine Madness (4 cds) - CD LR 813-816 - £49.24 Released as a memorial tribute. The 5 hours of music covers all periods of his career and includes previously unreleased work ,long deleted LPs , supplemented by a 20 page booklet. L'ENSEMBLE PIERRE CARTIER: Les Fleurs du Tapis - AM 043CD - £12 L'ENSEMBLE RAYE: Hiver/Pinson - AYAA CDT 028 - £12.50 A collection of exquisite constructions pellucidly recorded, preserving with crystal clarity the mostly acoustic (often exotic) instruments played. Much attention to unexpected detail, eccentric arrangements, melody, expression. A quiet record, mildly reminiscent of Lars Hollmer.
L'ENSEMBLE RAYE:
En Frac - LUS 003 - £12.75
L'ENSEMBLE RAYE:
Quelques Pieces Detachees - AYAAVDT 0993 - £12.50
L'ORCHESTRE DES PAS PERDUS: T'auras pas ta - AM 040CD - £12 L'ORCHESTRE PAS PERDUS: Maison douce maison - AM 060 - £12 Bigband pieces, very charming, bordering on exotica. L.VOAG: The Way Out - ALLV CD - £11.50 Reissue of the genuinely strange and idiosyncratic masterpiece reclusive and light-sensitive LV. In the guise of VERY OPEN and stretched pop songs, experiments stream out at A LOT per minute. A melange of snappy tunes, highly unobvious arrangements, left handed humour, sound research, super radical mixing and one off words and singing style. With extra material including the legendary and wholly perfect Beauty Spreads 7-inch. In my view, this is a benchmark best of the late 70's Magnum Opus. LA 1919: Giorni Felici - MASO 90094 - £12 Guests on single tracks: Franco Fabbri, Henry Kaiser, John Oswald, Fausto Rossi.
La 1919:
Jouer. Spielen. To Play - MASOCD90063 - £12
LA LEGENDE DE LA PLUIE: Hetu, Parkins, Tenko etc - AM 026CD - £12 Written, Improvised, Studio work. A unique production of fascinating quality - prepared for and presented at the Montreal Musiques Actuelles Festival 1990. A travelogue, displaced narrative, collision..? Sublime moments and plenty of musical lateral thinking. Nice package. LA PEAUDE DU MONDE: ditto - FAI040CD - £12 LABORATORIO DI MUSICA & IMAGINE: Colpi Secci - ERH 008 - £12 Another collection of compositions for films by the italian 14 piece mini-orchestra LABROSSE, DIANE: Face cachee des - AM 036CD - £12 'The hiden side of things'. Diane, of JUSTINE, at work with concrete sounds (diverse, everyday in the main, and annotated in the booklet), radical treatments and voice. From which: stories and music and great mirages, finely wrought and far from raw noise. Beautifully presented. LABROSSE, DIANE /COTE M: Duo - AM 031CD - £12 Is Diane Labrosse and Michel Cote, main instruments keyboard and drums/percs added by electronics, tape, stuff. Fragments, Constructions, Episodes. LABROSSE/MORI/TETREAULT: Ile Bizzare - AM 055 CD - £12 Takes no prisoners. Radical electronics, employing no recognisable sound, but full of silence and definition. An impressive piece of electronic music, except that you know it was actually played in real time. Extreme and beautifully controlled dynamics. LACRYMOSA: Joy of the Wrecked Ship - SSE 4033 - £15.50
LACRYMOSA:
Bugbear - SSE 8021 - £15.50
LAIBACH: Kast Pod Baptism - SUBCD 001-9 - £12.55 LANE, FRED: From the One that Cut You - SDE 8911CD - £11 The inimitable and extraordinary Rev. Lane and his huge 20 piece orchestra manned and womanned by an extraordinary galaxy of famous pseudonyms rips his way through 2 classic LP's. Frank Sinatra on a cocktail of psychotropics and psychedelics. Funny and frightening and completely unique. Who could produce or even conceive such a project today? Deleted - so these are the last copies. LAS HALMAS: Plus One - IH 9601 - £11.50 LASWELL, BILL/NICHOLAS BULLEN: Bass Terror - SR 82 - £12.55 LEMONS, CHRIS: Fantasy & Icon - CL2 - £12 A completely extraordinary production. This is a 38 minute piece for Electric Guitar, Bass, Kit and Udo Drums, Synthesiser, some ethnic instruments and Symphony Orchestra. And it's not Deep Purple but a fascinating and skilfully through composed piece after Lutoslawski - though far more liberal with instrumentation and genre references - where the electric instruments are fully and properly integrated. More amazing is that CL managed to arrange and finance an orchestra (the Lithuanian State Orchestra) to perform and record it. It was then substantially reworked and re-mastered it back in the USA. A remarkable achievement and I'm sure an early glimpse into a career that could produce great things. LEMONS, CHRIS: Control/Refugee - CL1 - £12 'Nirvana meets Lutoslavski' with String Orchestra of of Lyric Opera, Chicago and Rock instruments. Heavily composed and well integrated. OPTION compares to Rhys Chatham, Zappa, Chronos etc. LEPAGE, ROBERT: Les Clarinettes - AM 046CD - £12 LEPAGE, ROBERT: Les Choses derri... - AM 035CD - £12 LEPAGE, ROBERT: La Plante Humaine - AM 042CD - £12 LES BATTERIES: Bell System - RIFT CD19 - £12 More from the drum and other bits and pieces duo of Gigou Chenevier and Rick Brown. LES REINES PROCHAINES: Dumme Seich - RECDEC 62 - £12.50 LES SCULTURES DE VINYL: Memory and - ST 1012 - £12 Otomo Yoshihide and Matsubara Sachiko with 3 French turntable players and guests Tom Cora, Tsunoda Tsuguto and Catherine Jauniaux live from the MIMI festival in 1996. 5 turntables, sampler, voice and cello. LETARTE, GENEVIEVE: Vous Seriez Un Ange. - AM 020CD - £12 Songs, supersharp recording, some interesting arrangements that pull away from convention. LEWIS, SUSANNE: Kissyfur - FM 024 - £11.50 See HAIL/SNAIL Here by Susanne only, joined by various friends. Nice cover. LILITH: Redwing - SR 96 - £12.55 LILITH: Stone - SR 55 - £12.55 LINGHAM: Musiche per un Film Immaginario - BY TITLE - £11 First CD by this intriguing Italian group. Influences from early Art Bears, Magma, Fred Frith, well worth checking out. LINZ, RAINER/BRIGID BURKE: Intersect - CD NMA 7906 - £12.50 LOOK DE BOEK: Bec et Ongles - AYAA TIC 089 - £12.50 Another one-of-a-kind. Simple but essential. Short pieces - played but made of minimal elements carefully deployed. Unsophisticated but full of ideas. Fresh, charming and with occasional echoes of Racaille and Musci/Venosta. A modest but excellent and stimulating piece of work. LOUISE AVENUE: Let's take one more.. - C7 007 - £12.55 As only Belgian groups seem to manage: another rythmic but dense small-ensemble not-jazz, not- rock, not-classical chamber music group with controlled compositions in the vein: Juleverne, Cro-Magnon &c. LUNDING, RASMUS: A travellers guide - PINGO CD 006 - £12 Interesting and well produced experiment. Memoir of a journey with richly compiled field recordings, studio performance, composition and arrangement; sometimes rather too much easy-listening to my taste, but a notable experiment. LUSSIER, RENE: Tresor de la Langue - AM 015CD - £12 A work of extraordinary accomplishment and vision. Years in the making (all feature transcripts, instrumentations and orchestrations of the human voice), sometimes breathtaking in its effect and technique. Won the French language radio Prize, not surprisingly.
LUSSIER, RENE:
Fin de Travail - AM 000CD - £12
LUSSIER, RENE:
Trois Histoires - AM 041CD - £12
LUSSIER, RENE:
Le Corps De L'Ouvrage - AM 029CD - £12
LUSSIER, RENE:
Chronique d'un Genocide Annonce - AM 058 CD - £12
LUSSIER, RENE & NOW ORCHESTRA: Le Tour Du Bloc - VICTO CD036 - £12 Rene gets his hands on a 15 piece band. Fine compositions and arrangements - and a killer opening. An excellent CD. LUSSIER, RENE /MARTIN TETREAULT: Dur Noyau Dur - AM 057 CD - £12 Radical sound improvisations. LUSSIER, RENE, PIERRE TANGUAY: Le Vie Qui Bat - AM 047CD - £12 Improvisations for acoustic guitar and drums - but with the care and perfection now expected from Rene. Close, intimate sound, and constantly to-the-point playing from both parties, make this a gripping and exquisite recording. Minimum means, maximum expression. LUSSIER, RENE/ROBERT LEPAGE: Chants et Dnaces du Monde Inanime - AM 001 CD - £12 Reissue of the Vinyl LP. LUSSIER, RENE/JEAN DEROME: Le Royaume du Silencieux - AM 018CD - £12 Beautifully recorded, surprising, inventive. running from written and complex to simple and mysterious, with much tapework and virtuosic playing. Half understood stories of sound. Prodigious. M'AABET, MOHAMMED: The Storyteller..Fisherman - SUBCD 0015-38 - £12.55 M. GIRA: Drainland - SR 86 - £12.55 MACHINE FOR MAKING SENSE: Talk is cheap - SPLIT 4 - £12 A long standing and fascinating improvising group with a unique earprint - 2 seconds of listening and you know who it is. The machine is Stevie Wishart (Hurdy Gurdy), Jin Denley (winds), Amanda Stewart and Chris Mann (texts/voices) and Rick Rue (tape manipulations). The use of voices is particularly unusual - a far from anything you might expect. Interesting. MAESTRO TRYTONY: Enoptronia - MOZG CD02 - £12 MAGICAL POWER MACO: No Goverment After Revolution - BELLE 97390 - £15.50 MAGICAL POWER MAKO: Magical power - BA 9331 - £15.50 Magical Power Mako is a legend in Japanese fringe music. Curious collections of events, songs, styles. No noise or thrash. A one- off, of interest to those who know them or in the reaches of the off-the-map. MAGICAL POWER MAKO: Music from Heaven - BA 9460 - £15.50 MAGICAL POWER MAKO: Bluedot - BELL 95131 - £15.50 MAGMA MAGMA were one of the most extraordinary groups I ever saw. It was the compositional, philosophical and inspirational project of Christian Vander who brought (compositionally and essentially) Carl Orff, Stravinsky, East European Folk melodies and John Coltrane together in a form and intensity comparable to nothing else in Rock. He also seemed to play only with virtuoso instrumentalists who focus all their skill inward, toward a transcendent simplicity, notwithstanding the complexity and difficulty of the materials. These are long pieces (25-50 minutes) of dense structure but long unfolding and sometimes hair- raising intensity. Magma always delivers what it promises. Here also are exquisitely haunting melodies, beautifully sung. Magma is the one group to whose work I constantly relisten, and who continue to astonish and engage me. The best is inexhaustible - not to mention Vander's preternaturally extraordinary drumming, Klaus Blasquiz's perfect voice and remarkable range, three virtuosic bass players, and some infinitely tiny perfections of expression and microtonal movement from Claude Olmos (Guitar on 'Mekanik') and Dider Lockwood (Violin on 'Live'). I must aknowledge that this is my own opinion. I know people who are less enthusiastic. But I can think of no other group who innovated in such a complete way, and successfully realised their project (not a monster hybrid but a genuinely new form, born from elements of Folk, Classical, Jazz and Rock - not quoting or collaging, but fully unified) and were technical (but unassumingly disciplined) instrumental virtuosi. Try something - to see if you like it at all - I recommend for instance: TRISTAN, MEKANIK (both, they're different), MAGMA LIVE, KONTAKOSZ, RETROSPKTIW 1-2 and 3 and 1001C.
MAGMA:
1001 Centigrades - REX 6 - £12.55
MAGMA:
Mekanik Destruktiw - REX 7 - £12.55
MAGMA:
Mekanik Komandoh - REX 62 - £12.55
MAGMA:
Kohntarkosz - REX 8 - £12.55
MAGMA:
Tristan and Isolde - REX 9 - £12.55
MAGMA:
Retrospektiw 111 - REX 15 - £12.55
MAGMA:
Magma Live (dbl) - REX 10 - £20
MAGMA:
Bobino Concert 1981 (dbl) - AKT 5 - £20
MAGMA:
Theatre du Taur 1975.Dbl - AKT 4 - £20
MAGMA:
Concert, Bruxelles 1971 (double cd) - AKT 8 - £20
MAGMA:
Concert 1976 - Opera De Reims (triple CD) - AKT 9 - £18
MAGMA:
Offering, A Fiieh - REX A9 - £12.55
MAGMA:
Offering 1 & 2 - REX A1/A11 - £12.55
MAGMA:
Offering 2 & 3 - REX A6 - £12.55
MAGMA: Kobaia (dbl) - REX 4 - £20 MAGMA: Attahk - REX 13 - £12.55 MAGMA: Udu Wudu - REX 12 - £12.55 MAGMA: Inedits - REX 19 - £12.55
MAGMA:
Mythes et Legendes - REX 14 - £12.55
MAGMA: Les Voix de Magma - AKT 1 - £12.55 MAGMA: Merci - REX 3 - £12.55
MAGMA:
Kompila - REX 20 - £5.50
MANDRAKE: Unreleased Materials - BELLE 9743 - £15.50 MARANHA, ANDRE: Gargula - CR 004 - £12 Andre, of Osso Exotico, with a beautifully presented CD made from Bottle, Glass, Voice, Bowed Cymbal and Recorder, recorded in bathroom and corridor. Consistent and very consequent. For all friends of the monimal. MARANHA, DAVID: Musica 2 - CR 005 - £12 Also beautifully wrapped. Curious minimal pieces for unusual instruments. MARCOEUR, ALBERT: Ma Vie avec Elles. - CD 920 - £12 1990. After a 7 year wait, a new CD from AM. As usual the construction and arrangements are exemplary, not to say extraordinary, with an open border on the bizarre. Old AM elements of messed about minimalism or systems music are further developed to the point where complexity and simplicity fuse.
MARCOEUR, ALBERT:
Sports et percussions - CC861 - £12
MARGIORANI, LUCIANO/ROBERTO ZANESI: Vendetta ! - BOZO CD 9801 - £12 MARTIN ARCHER and SIMON FELL: Pure Water Construction - DISCUS CD - £12 With the above and Gino Robair, Robin Hayward, Rhodri Davis, Jenni Molloy, Stefan Jaworzyn, Charlie Collins, Chris Burn. An very interesting idea - a piece assembled from individual recordings of the above, but as a compositional exercise by way of computer editing and processing. MASAOKA ORCHESTRA: What is the difference between stripping and playing the violin ?[ - VICTO CD 058 - £12 MASQUE: Third Ear - Third Eye - BELLE 97384 - £15.50 MASSACRE: Killing Time - RECDEC 906 - £12.50 Reissue of the Heavy Guitar Rock 'n' Row album released in Japan in 1981 by Fred Frith, Bill Laswell and Fred Maher. Power trio. MATHEWS. KAFFE: CD ANN - AWCD 0001 - £11.50 Violin and processing, layers, drones, loops, slow developments. MAX NAGL: Daily Bullet - LEO LAB CD023 - £11.50 MAXIMALISTE!: What the Body - SUBCD 008-26 - £12.55 MEKONG ZOO: Minimal Dance - WMCD012 - £11 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.... . MELTABLE SNAPS IT: Points Blank - NML 8604CD - £12 MENGELBERG, MISHA: Misha Mengelberg - AI 010 - £11 New from Angelica and recorded live at the festival in 1996. A long piano solo, which you may like or not, some excellent pieces for orchestra, slipping from baroque to contemporary to classical bar to bar. Zorn for Orchestra, very well scored and performed, and another, I think fine, solo piano piece. Worth it for the orchestra pieces alone I think MERTENS, ERIC: Spleen - C7012 - £12.55 MIDAS: Midas 2 - BELLE 96299 - £15.50 MILESI, PIERO: Modi - RUNE 63 - £11.50 MILESI, PIERO: Nuclear Observatory - RUNE 7 - £11.50 MILLER, PHIL: Digging In - RUNE 34 - £11.50 MILLER, PHIL: Cutting Both Ways - RUNE 11 - £11.50 MINCHEV, GEORGI: Concerto for Piano & Orchestra - GEORGI MINCHEV - £11 This occupies one side of an LP from the 3rd International Music Festival, Leningrad, 1988. It is an impressive and adventurous piece, well constructed and very well played - with some extraordinary and unexpected effects, beautifully employed; for instance the sudden entry of electronic treatments on the piano, or the fast-running hi-hat part taken from another genre altogether..Highly Recommended. The other side contains a servicable concerto for viola and orchestra by Andrei Eshpai. Order By Name MINTON, PHIL QUARTET: Mouthful of Ecstacy - VICTO CD 041 - £12 MIRIODOR: 3rd Warning - RUNE 32 - £11.50 Rich, round, tuneful. Belongs to what was once called 'progressive' music genre. Now one of a kind. Unusual packaging.
MIRIODOR:
Miriodor - RUNE 14 - £11.50
MIRIODOR: Elastic Juggling - RUNE 78 - £11.50 MIRIODOR: Rencontres - RUNE 108 - £11.50 MITCHELL, ROSCOE: Songs in the Wind - VICTO CD 011 - £12 MOLECULES, THE: Down Under the Black Light - MEGA 007 - £11 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. MOMES, THE: Spiralling - RIFT15 - £11 Mick Hobbs, Tim Hodgkinson, Andy Channing. The LP with 2 extra tracks. See also misc. MOORE, STEVE: Return of the Poet (cassette) - IEM 611 - £7 Electronic/Electroacoustic/ Concrete works using a great deal of documentary sound, organised in an extraordinary way. Many will already know Steve's work from our Quarterly and from his classic LP: A Quiet Gathering. Cassette. Own Label. MOORE, THURSTON: Piece for Jetsun Dolma - VICTOCD 045 - £12 Two 30 minute live improvisations for Electric Guitar and two Drummer-percussionists (with audience enthusiasm). Noise and avoidance of metric beat - with quiet parts for amplifier hum and small sounds. Interesting, but for me too close and too far from, for instance, Sonny Sharrock. Worth a listen, just avoid the sleevenotes. MOOREFIELD, VIRGIL: Distractions on the way.. - RUNE 56 - £11.50 MORPHOGENESIS: Charivari Music - PD 902 - £11.50 Only the second recording of this venerable durable British electroacoustic ensemble, who make non synthesised drone-with-event music where the quality of the SOUND is crucial and precisely organic; a unique voice here well represented.
MORPHOGENESIS:
Solarisation - STREAMLINE 1006 - £12
MORPHOGENESIS: Stromatolites - VER 1 - £12 MORROCAN TRANCE 2: Sufi - SR 97 - £12.55 MOSAIC: Yiddish & Judeo-Spanish - SR 54 - £12.55 MOSS/OTTO/SCHULTE: The day we forgot - NML 9118CD - £12 MOTHER MALLARD'S PORTABLE MASTERPIECE CO.: 1970-73 - RUNE 109 - £11.50 MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD: Archive 1 - NML/MTG1 - £12 Collection from 81-86 consisting of the scarce 'Infra dig' and 'Contact with Veils' (here remixed and much altered) from the chamber rock ensemble whose complexity, twists, turns and general unpredictability can be impressive. The very early material is particularly interesting in its musical scope, concise organisation of material and theoretical density (not to say wit). Ambitious, not always successful, but a timely and welcome reissue.
MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD:
Archive 2 - NML/MTG2 - £12
MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD: City Of Mirrors - RUNE 116 - £11.50 MUFFINS, THE They won't thank me for saying it, but the Muffins are the quintessential example of a group whose excellence, clear musical intelligence, light touch and broad range marked them out clearly for success and a place in the history of 'progressive' rock, and yet they were overlooked and more or less vanished without trace. This collection (their best available) gives us another chance to enjoy a group who will surely appeal to anyone who liked Henry Cow, Hatfield, early Zappa et al. Start with Chronometers (below). MUFFINS, THE: Open City - CUNEIFORM 55007 - £11.50 See above
MUFFINS, THE:
Chronometers - CUNEIFORM 550010 - £11.50
MUFFINS, THE:
185 - CUNEIFORM 55013 - £11.50
MUFFINS, THE:
Manna/Mirage - WMAS 4 - £11.50
MUJICIAN: Poem about the Hero - RUNE 62 - £11.50 Mujician is a new Keith Tippet group. MUJICIAN: Birdman - RUNE 82 - £11.50
MUJICIAN:
Colours Fulfilled - RUNE 102 - £11.50
MUJICIAN: The Journey - RUNE 42 - £11.50 MURASHKIN, B: Bio Energetic Music - MURASHKIN, B - £12 More or less indescribable soundworks (mainly for film) for exotic and electric instruments, concrete sound, various priests reading and singing now and then and Ali Khan (sitar) off a record. Extremely limited. ORDER BY TITLE. MURRAY/HOPKINS: Firestorm - VICTO CD 020 - £12 MUSCI, ROBERTO: Debris of a Loa - LOW 009 - £12 Reissue of the long unavailable LP 'The Loa of Music', made before he teamed up with Giovanni Venosta, plus 6 new tracks. MUSCI/VENOSTA/MARIANI: Losing the Orthodox Path - VICTO CD 049 - £12 M/V, with electronic composer Mariani, extending their method to medieval and religious musics, transformed, layered, composed upon. See also, ReR . NA MARGAN: Death's Angel - BAR 9302 - £7.24 Another 12cm CD-EP from Bauta. 2 solid songs, well produced and very well performed. Limited, numbered edition. NATIONAL HEALTH: Missing Pieces - VP113CD - £12.50 A collection of unreleased pieces, some of which I think are amongst the best things this group has done, including a classic 'Canterbury' song by Dave Stewart and a couple of very Eggish pieces by Mont Campbell. NATIONAL HEALTH: Complete Works Dbl - ESD 80402/41 - £23 NAZARIO, LELO: Discurso aos Objetos (vinyl) - UT 17 532 - £11 This is an extremely rare out-of-print Brasilian 12-inch EP of excellent Electronic/Concrete compositions, in a high quality pressing and art-printed cover. VERY limited supply. NE ZDHALI: Whatever Happens, Twist! - RECDEC 65 - £12.50
NE ZHDALI:
Live Rarities Vol 1 - NML 9722 - £12
NE ZHDALI: Hey Driver, Cool Down the Horses - RECDEC 65 - £12.50 NECKS, THE: Aquatic - FOM 0002 - £12 Australian minimalist so-called ambient jazz ? I guess that's a stab at it. Simple idea easy to think of but hard to do. Long tracks of acceptable steady low key grooves with slow micro developments. Aquatic is maybe the bravest - just one long track. An acquired taste but nobody else is quite on this case.... Features the ubiquitous Tony Buck (drums) with Lloyd Swanton (Acoustic and Electric Bass), Chris Abrahams (Piano, Keyboards). Heroes of 'Mixing It'.
NECKS, THE:
Sex - FGOM 0000 - £12
NECKS, THE:
Next - FOM 0001 - £12
NECKS, THE:
Silent Night - FOM 0004 - £12
NECKS, THE:
Piano, Bass, Drums - FOM 0005 - £16.60
NEGATIVLAND 'Negativland' and 'Points' are the first two Negativland records, re-released by the group on CD. Both are classics.
NEGATIVLAND:
Points - SEELAND 002 - £12.50
NEGATIVLAND:
Escape From Noise - RECDEC 17 - £12.50
NEGATIVLAND:
A Big 10-8 Place - SEELAND 003 - £12.50
NEGATIVLAND:
Helter Stupid - RECDEC 29 - £12.50
NEGATIVLAND:
Negativconcertland - X180G - £15.50
NEGATIVLAND:
Free - SEELAND 009 - £12.50
NEGATIVLAND:
Over the Edge Vol 5. - SEELAND 010 - £12.50
NEU KONSERVATIV: Various Artists - DSA 54046 - £12 A God Mountain sampler produced by the legendary Hoppy Kamiyama. A good introduction to a strong Japanese new music stream, featuring terrifying technique, hypnosis, screaming power and plenty of post rock imagination. Includes Altered States, Pon, Bass Army, Tipographica, Optical 8, Ground Zero and the God Mountain Orchestra. NEW WINDS: Potion - VICTO CD 053 - £12 NEW WINDS: Digging it Harder - VICTOCD 028 - £12 NEW YORK SOUNDSCAPE: Scanner/Shea/Nu's etc - QUANTUM 153 - £12 NEWBAND: Dance of the Seven Veils - M&A CD 931 - £12 Microtonalists perform with Harry Partch instruments Harry's great Castor and Pollux and new pieces for the instruments by harpist Anne Lebaron, Elizabeth Brown and Dean Drummond (assistant to HP and performer w/ HP's ensemble). Please check first NO SAFETY: This Lost Leg - RECDEC 25 - £12.50 NO SECRETS IN THE FAMILY: Play - RECDEC 23 - £12.50 NO SECRETS IN THE FAMILY: In a certain light - RECDEC 905 - £12.50 NO SECRETS IN THE FAMILY: Kleinzeit - RECDEC 47 - £12.50 NON CREDO: Happy Wretched Family - VICTOCD 033 - £12 NORMA: Psycho/Circus Music - CAICAI 002 - £11 A great CD. Deconstructivist, highly composed, brilliantly orchestrated and highly cut-up mini orchestra meets recording technology. Ensemble works, wide sonic resources. 5 major pieces: 'Suite from PSYCHO' developed from the Bernard Hermann film score, 'Chinoiserie'', the extraordinary 'Circus Music', dedicated to Nina Rota, 'N.O.R.M.A.' - a tape/cutup 'overture' to the disc lying in the middle - work of the recording engineer, 'Artes Moriendi' and 'Classico' (for turntables). There's a world of music here and it's a new world. See also ReR NUS: All the Vertical Angles - SR 102 - £12.55 OPTICAL 8: Bug - DSA 54048 - £12 Screaming. The legendary Hoppy Kamiyama and band rip up heavy strips of solid power and rodeo with them. The energy you find only in Japan, coupled with an eclectic and surefooted technique. ORCHESTER 33 1/3: Orchester 33 1/3 - PDN 006/RHIZ 000 - £12.50 Large ensemble project, covering and mixing all manner of musics in very contemporary way. Some Ground Zero lines, some almost techno, a lot of developmental arrangements, a little minimal, grooves, electronics - generally assembled with imagination and flair. Unique and extremely interesting. A success. Also one of the best and most original (and to-the-point) packages I've ever seen - so much so, it's worth the money for the package alone. Amazing. ORCHESTRE MURPHY: Frankincense - OUT 26 - £12 Another major hit from the OUT label who brought you Bing Selfish and the Ideals. Songs, eccentric if you like Napalm Death, but easy to glide around the ballroom floor to if, like me, you are absolutely normal. Highly individual production values, good texts and a great cover. An acquired taste maybe, but I would say one definitely worth acquiring.
ORCHESTRE MURPHY:
Bogtrotting - X0UT 28 - £12
ORCHESTRE MURPHY: Smut - ALOMCD - £11.50 ORGANUM: Veil of Tears - MRCD 24 - £11.50 A very interesting sound/environment/ noise recording featuring Michel Prime, David Jackman, Dinah Jane Rowe plus Roger Sutherland and some remixing (before the recording was made, according to the sleeve!) by Jim O'Rourke. Nice work. OSKLID: Osklid - OSKLID - £11 7-inch EP in a series of new experimental Czech groups. Interesting. Incredibly rare now. Order By Name OSSO EXOTICO: 1st CD - OE V1 - £12 For specialists. A curiosity from Portugal. 9 pieces pursuing unusual sound and odd structural arrangement. Half minimal, half beyond it. Unusual packaging. Very Limited.
OSSO EXOTICO:
2nd CD - ANANANA 11001 - £12
OSTERTAG, BOB: Like a Melody - No Bitterness - MVOLR - 01 - £11.50 The Jackson Pollock sound. Fractal densities. From one of the pioneers and intelligences of sampling
OSTERTAG, BOB:
Verbatim - RED NOTE - £12
OSTERTAG, BOB:
Say No More - RECDEC 59 - £12.50
OSTERTAG, BOB: Sooner or Later - RECDEC 37 - £12.50 OSTERTAG, BOB: Attention Span - RECDEC 33 - £12.50 OSTERTAG, BOB/OTOMO YOSHIHIDE: Twins - CMDD 0-00030 - £12.50 Concept: 3 invitees prepare 3 original pieces of about 4 minutes. Bob and Otomo generate pieces from deconstructing, sampling, reconstructing, and sometimes supplementing them; each 'parent' thus leading to a set of 'twins'. The original pieces - by Chris Cutler, Yagi Michiyo and Herb Robertson - appear too, so here's a window on samplers, musical thinking and plunderphonia - as well as a very listenable CD. Japanese Pressing OSTERTAG/FRITH/MINTON: Voice of America - RECDEC 907 - £12.50 Stands the test of time OSWALD, JOHN: Plexure - AVAN 06 - £19.30 Short and intense threshold-of-recognition Plunderphonic assembly, beautifully crafted and an instant classic. OSWALD, JOHN/GRATEFUL DEAD: Greyfolded (dbl) - SA1969 - £19.30 John takes 25 years of GREATFUL DEAD concerts (100+ live performances) and from them creates (seamlessly) a platonic ideal version of 'Dark Star' one second short of an hour. No Plunderphonic pyrotechnics here but a dead-paced unfolding that imbricates times and places, staying pretty much freeform (with psychedelic climax) until 40 minutes in when there's a rock burst burst followed by a Phil Lesh feature and then echoes of old Mexico. For Grateful dead fans, close listeners and the curious. OTOLITHEN: S.O.D - RUNE 97 - £11.50 OTOMO YOSHIHIDE: Vinyl Tranquilizer - NAIM 01 CD - £12 Otomo's MEMORY DISORDER, Solo works, Vol 2. Featuring 60 1 minute tracks each working on a single vinyl record..; a compendium of techniques and fun to 'spot the source'. Next page (P - S) Back to complete catalog index Back to main index |