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E: E Live (vinyl) - GLOBUS 210008-131 - £8.30 Excellent self-produced LP of very stretched, intense, minimal and well constructed Rock-form pieces. Fine performances and good recording...of a live concert, extraordinarily - hence the hair-raising intensity at times. Simple, and always on the edge. ART BEARS: The World As It Is Today (vinyl) - Re 6622 - £11.00 See ReR for description. ART BEARS: Rats ∓ Monkeys/Collapse (7-inch) (vinyl) - RR 7904 - £3.50 NOTE RATS 7-inch is RALPH US PRESSING and has US CENTRE. BYCK, SVEN-ERIK: Electronic Music (vinyl) - FYLP 1021 - £11 Plentiful use of documentary sound. Side 2 very much like 'Arcane Device'! BAILEY, DEREK/EUGENE CHADBOURNE: Tout for Tea! (vinyl) - REK L. - £7 BARTSCHI same (vinyl) - RECREC 4 - £8.30 BERTONCINI, MARIO: Mario Bertoncini (vinyl) - ERZ 1002 - £8.30 Side 1. Pieces for Prepared Piano by EARLE BROWNE and M.B., who is a master of Piano preparation. His own two pieces are for two and three pianos respectively. Side 2. CARTRIDGE MUSIC by John Cage, where M.B. amplifies 'small sounds' with gramophone cartridges fitted with all manner of materials - revealing a massive sound world in the tiniest of objects and movements. BLEGVAD, PETER: Downtime (vinyl) - ReR 34 - £8.30 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. More 'personal' and less obviously commercial, with playing and production dedicated to the song, rather than trying to shape a surface that should do well in the marketplace. The result is sometimes eccentric, often subtle, generally always a little surprising. + CHRIS CUTLER, TONY MAIMONE, JOHN GREAVES, MICK HOBBS, STOFFER BLEGVAD and others.. Full text booklet. BODIN: Clouds (vinyl) - FYLP 1020 - £8.30 Interesting pieces, voice and choral work. BRAXTON, ANTHONY: Ensemble (vinyl) - VICTO 007 - £8.30 BRAXTON/BAILEY: Moment Precieux (vinyl) - VICTO CD OO2 - £8.30 CORA, TOM: Live at the Western Front - NML8710 Vinyl LP £7.00 CRISPELL, MARYLYN: Labyrinths (vinyl) - VICTO CD 006 - £8.30 DETI, ROZMAZANE: Mexico Family (vinyl) - MON 010011 - £7 Intelligent, intense, tuneful. Songs, in that stretched vocal style unique to the czech avant garde. Impressive instrumental sections too that show that there are still fresh things to do in the classic experimental rock format. DUMITRESCU, IANCU: Medium II, Cogito (vinyl) - ERZ 1001 - £8.30 Classic. ENSTRM, ROLF: TNT (vinyl) - FYLP 1031 - £12 Interesting and careful work. Side B is a rarity. It has 3 x 7 minute pieces, but you only hear one when you put the LP on, since the three pieces are engraved parallel rather than in sequence. It is pure chance that determines which piece you hear when the needle comes down. FAT: Automat Highlife (vinyl) - ReR 45 - £7 See also ReR FAT: Hit (vinyl) - THESE 3 - £8.30 One of Fat's best. FAT: Fat Plays For You (vinyl) - AMOK 516 - £8.30 The Unique. FRITH, FRED/FERDINAND RICHARD: Dropera (vinyl) - RECREC 32 - £8.30 FRITH, FRED/NOEL ACHOTE: Reel (10-inch vinyl) - REC K - £7 From 10-inch Series. Fred and guitarist Noel A. FYLKINGEN ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMP. '75: (vinyl) - FYLP 1027 - £11 Fine selection of pieces. Special mentions: BETARIZ FERRCYRA ∓ PHILIPPE MENARD. Excellent. English notes and nice cover ! GLOBUS SAMPLER: Globus Sampler (vinyl) - globus210079 - £8.30 A selection of the more interesting groups working in Czechoslovakia today - and yesterday. Includes PULNOC, GARAZ, JIM CERT, PSI VOJACI, MCH BAND ∓ 'E'. What it says, a good, representative sampler. GOEBBELS/HARTH: Live at Victo (vinyl) - VICTO CD 004 - £8.30 HENRY COW with ROBERT WYATT: The Last Nightingale (vinyl) - Re 1984 - £7 ROBERT WYATT, CHRIS CUTLER, LINDSAY COOPER, TIM HODGKINSON, ADRIAN MITCHELL, SALLY POTTER, BILL GILONIS, HENRY COW et al. 12-inch EP made to raise money for the British miners during their historic strike of 1984. Cover by RALPH STEADMAN. HIRSCH/WEINSTEIN: Haiku Lingo (vinyl) - RERE139 - £8.30 HOMOSEXUALS, THE: The Homosexuals (vinyl) - RR 8 - £7 Rare archive recordings of a legendary group. Compiled from a cache of surviving studio tapes, all of which have been remastered because, simply, this was a great moment in the life of a great group; quintessence of all I found most essential in the late 70's.Short, stretched lifetime-in-a-flash songs and, you know, Rock Music so you play it loud. Behind is a lot of thought - or something - and experiment inside the form. Incomparable. JONSSON, LACH'N: Songs From The Cities Decay (vinyl) - BAR 8901 - £8.30 An excellent LP. These are extended songs, with a wealth of instrumental and performance material as well as treated and arranged 'sound'. Traditional skills of playing, rhythmic extrapolation, expression and composition predominate. Careful, integrated and stimulating work. JONSSON, LACH'N: Music From The Dying Forest (vinyl) - BAR 8503 - £8.30 See above. KALAHARI SURFERS: Sleep Armed (vinyl) - RR 26 - £8.30 KAMPEC DOLORES: Levitation (vinyl) - ReR PE07 - £7 New work from this unusual song group, whose highly individual and musical style is developed further on this LP. Some will know them from our Quarterly, or will have seen them this at MIMI. Music of interlocking parts and highly distinctive. KOSK,HIIDENKARI, VUORI, NEVANLINNA: (vinyl) - ERZ 3004 - £8.30 Four radiophonic works, produced in the experimental studio of the Finnish broadcasting Co. Electronic and Concrete works, beautifully recorded. The sidelength 'Transmissions in A' is particularly noteworthy, mixing treated and natural sounds somewhere between narrative and dream. KOVAC, BORIS: Ritual Nova 2. (vinyl) - PE 01 - £7 A rich and folk tempo-ed work built from ethnic and electronic sounds and instruments. Layered and always at root folkloristic harmonic constructions with an extraordinary sense of pace and inner dynamic. KRCEK, JAROSLAV: Raab (vinyl) - RR 23 - £7 Prizewinner of the Concours Internationale De L'Opera et Ballet, Geneva 1971. This is a concrete opera, or 'psychodramatic representation', of the fall of Jericho. Characters don't sing; there is instead expressive speaking in invented tongues with Musique Concrete interludes. Made over 13 months (450 hours) at the Electronic Music Studio, Prague and then put on ice. We waited 5 years to get it. Book with full notes, texts and background material. KRZISNIK, BORUT: Currents of Time (vinyl) - PE 06 - £7 Beautifully recorded CLOCKS and CLOUDS music; intricate and intelligent. Instrumental pieces, verging on the modern, but with wilder, more abstract, sections. Extremely listenable and stimulating work. LACHENMANN, HELMUT: Pression. Guero. Gran torso (vinyl) - ERZ 1003 - £8.30 Intense and radical pieces - especially the two (Pression /Guero) for solo instruments in which notes play virtually no part, but where sound, dynamics, novel techniques are uppermost, though in all cases subservient to a strong formal and expressive aesthetic. Virtuosic performances in unpopulated territory. MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN: More Encores - ReR CM1 - £11 Turntable/plunder CLASSIC, featuring Jimi Hendrix, Maria Callas, Johann Strauss, John Zorn, John Cage, Martin Denney, Fred Frith, Frederick Chopin, Louis Armstrong, Ferrante ∓ Teicher, Birkin ∓ Gainsbourg and CM himself...This is the big one. Historic. Unmissable. 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. LINDGREN, PAR: Electronic Music (vinyl) - FYLP 1032 - £8.30 3 pieces. MANDOLINI, RICARDO: Electroacoustic Music (vinyl) - ERZ 3001 - £8.30 MOMES, THE: Spiralling (vinyl) - WOOF 011 - £8.30 MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN: Record without a cover - LP - £11 Japanese Limited re-edition of the classic Marclay object designed to age, change and gradually acquire it’s own unique personality. Until this record, scratches and surface damage - like feedback on the guitar before the blues - were things to avoid; but here, for the first time accumulative damage was factored in. On white vinyl, concentric print on one side and sound (Marclay’s turntable work) on the other. Running out fast. MAYBE MONDAY (FRED FRITH, MIYA MASAOKA, LARRY OCHS) Saturn's Finger - ZZ 76007 - £12 Live concert recording from Chicago 1998. (Miya Masaoka: Koto and samples). NEGATIVLAND: Escape from Noise (vinyl) - RECREC 7 - £8.30 NEGATIVLAND: Helter Stupid (vinyl) - RECREC 29 - £8.30 NIMAL: Voix (vinyl) - RECREC 31 - £8.30 NO DOCTOR: same (7cm CD) - X021 - £8.30 NO SAFETY: Spill - RECREC 45 - £8.30 NO SAFETY: This Lost Leg (vinyl) - RECREC 25 - £8.30 NO SECRETS IN THE FAMILY: same (vinyl) - RECREC 23 - £8.30 NONO, LUIGI: A Carlo Scarpa (vinyl) - ED RZ 1004 - £8.30 OSKLID: Osklid - OSKLID - £11 These are both 7-inch EP's in a series of new experimental Czech groups. These are the two most interesting. OSKLID particularly. Incredibly rare now. Order By Name OSTERTAG, BOB: Sooner or Later (vinyl) - RECREC 37 - £8.30 PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE: 8 CD Limited Edition Box - PPU BOX - £100 Full Collected 8 LP boxed and numbered set. The CD set is no more. There remain two copies of the LP set - 8 LP's + Book + Teeshirt in a box. The life and times of the PPU, 1971-1984. LP's: I. FRANCOVKA. Unreleased concert recordings. Some great activities and ambiances. II. ELIASUV OHEN. Continued. III. EGON BONDY'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BANNED. The classic first French LP collection reissued. IV. PASSION PLAY. Large compositional work, previously on rare LP reissued. V. SLAVNA NEMESIS. Unreleased, mostly studio. VI. LEADING HORSES. LP reissued. VII. HOVEZI PORAZKA. Unreleased. VIII. MIDNIGHT MOUSE. Our Own POINTS EAST LP reissued. All LP's are remastered. This is History. Last ever copies. A rare and important document. Fine Music. PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE: Midnight Mouse (vinyl) - FREE 1436 - £7 Expanded instrumentation from the Plastics; their last LP before the new times. plus Full Collected 8 LP boxed and numbered set. PULNOC: Pulnoc (vinyl) - GLOBUS 21001 - £8.30 The Plastic People as was. Now with a new name but the same commitment to a special kind of Rock that retains the clarity and simplicity of their influences (Velvet Underground/ Reed especially) - and no inverted commas. Czech Pressing. QUARTERLY, ReR (ARCHIVE): Vol 2 No 3 (vinyl) - Re 0203 - £11 LP: JOHN OSWALD, MUSCI/VENOSTA, TONE DOGS, DAVID MYERS, LUCIANO MARGIORANI, WHEN, KAMPEC DOLORES, LA 1919, J.LACHAN, J.GRIGSBY, MIRIODOR. Magazine: D.MYERS, A Personal system For Electronic Music, JOCELYN ROBERT:A Choice of means for Music, FERDINAND RICHARD: Mimi, History and Report. More. QUARTERLY, ReR (ARCHIVE): Vol 2 No 4 (vinyl) - Re 0204 - £12.75 LP: LUTZ GLANDIEN, INCREASE THE ANGLE, THINKING PLAGUE, DER EXPANDER DES FORTSCHRITTS, BILL GILONIS, WERNER KOTYDEC, DIM. RETIRE Magazine: MICHAEL GERZON: Creative Possibilities for Compact Disc, ALLEN RAVENSTINE: The End Of The Road, ROGER SUTHERLAND: Serialism and After etc... More QUARTERLY, ReR (ARCHIVE): Vol 3 No 2 (vinyl) - Re 0302 - £8.30 LP: MYERS/ LUTZ GLANDIEN, ZYGMUND KRAUZE, RASMUS B.LUNDING, CHARLES SOUTHERN, MECCANIUM, NE ZDHALI. Magazine: PHILIP TAGG: Reading Sounds, Teletours in NEGATIVLAND, DIRK VALLONS/ANNICK CASTRO: Scenes from the Pre-sampling era. More. QUARTERLY, ReR (ARCHIVE): Vol 3 No 3 (vinyl) - Re 0303 - £7.75 LP: STEVE MOORE, JOCELYN ROBERT, LARS PEDERSEN, TOM DJLL, HAIL, 5UU'S, ILLEGAL FUNCTION, ABDO MEN, ERIC HUG. Magazine: CHRIS CUTLER: Propositions, ALAN JENKINS: How to be in a Pop Group, ALAN RAVENSTINE, TIM HODGKINSON, ROGER SUTHERLAND etc. More. QUATRE GUITARISTES: World Tour (vinyl) - Re 404 - £8.30 An extraordinary project dreamed up by ANDRE DUCHESNE: an electric guitar quartet - on 'World' consisting of the Quebcoises RENE LUSSIER. Andre himself, JEAN-PIERRE BOUCHARD and ROGER BOUDREAULT, plus CHRIS CUTLER, drums. QUATRE GUITARISTES: Fin De Siecle (vinyl) - ReR 42 - £8.30 'Fin' finds Roger replaced by CLAUDE FRADETTE - and FERDINAND RICHARD and REMI LECLERC added. These are dense Rock/Contemporary Instrumental compositions operating at a lot of borders and not much like anything else. 'Fin' includes commissioned work from FRED FRITH and LARS HOLLMER - and BARTOK string quartet transcriptions. RACAILLE/PORTELLA: Les Flots Bleus (vinyl) - RR 16 - £7 Joseph was 33.33% of ZNR. One side = multiple horn pieces, the other short songs for piano and horns. The shade of Erik Satie hovers; eccentric, charming and not a little odd... RADULESCU, HORATIU: Astray/Clepsydra (vinyl) - ERZ 1007 - £8.30 More close and hyperclose sound, modulations of timbre and subtle grades of tone. 'Astray' in particular is a perfect example of a rarely managed form: unfolding stillness. REPORTAZ: Up The River (vinyl) - PE 05 - £7 Trio ( Piano, Synthesiser, Hurdy Gurdy, Bassoon, Drums, voices) who range from highly composed to completely improvised playing. Idiosyncratic and full of ideas. Reportaz have now a record released on the Polish State label, which is already sold out and much sought after. ROBERT, JOCELYN: Live.Stat.Moniteur (vinyl) - RR 32 - £11 Documentary recording, tapework, electrics and some instrumental playing woven into a dramatic whole. Like Steve Moore, Jocelyn offers a peep into the possibilities of a new field of work altogether; witness to the emerging contours of an as yet unmapped domain. SLAPP HAPPY: Sort Of - BP 318CD - £12 Reissue of the long unavailable first LP backed by Faust, with one bonus track (Jumpin' Jonah, b-side of their only single). The Scratch Orchestra: 10" EP. Limited Edition Vinyl £10 A rare recording of this seminal project, released strangely on vinyl. A document. Very few left, first come first served I’m afraid. SCHERCHEN, HERMAN: Orchestra Proben Beethoven 6 (vinyl) - ERZ 6001 - £8.30 As the title indicates this is a recording of rehearsals for Radio Televisione Della Svizzera Italiana of parts of Beethoven's 'Pastorale'. The recording is excellent and Scherchen's commentary, exhortation, inspiration, clarity and grasp of the score exciting to listen to - mostly in Italian, sprinkled with German; this doesn't matter; the whole thing is intensely musical and although decidedly odd, moving. SERIOUS SOLID SWINEHERD: Sohn Onsens (vinyl) - OW 017 - £8.30 SHEA, DAVID: Land of Pure Illusions (vinyl) - QUANTUM 121 - £8.30 SOCIETY FOR FUTURE RESEARCH: Same (vinyl) - UTR 4036 - £8.30 11 Musicians, including string quartet. Excellent record of diverse, but coherent, developments; from impressive piano and string quartet writing to sharp rhythmic stutters through instrumental harmonies, virtuosic solo sections and big band passages, this LP always keeps to the point (Self produced, limited supply) SNSTEVELD, KNUT: Bassoon (vinyl) - FYLP 1011 - £11 Fascinating record of mostly solo and processed Basson, using specially designed live electronic system, connecting bassoon to a number of devices directly controlled by the player. Also 'Solo for melody instrument and feedback' by KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN and a piece for Bassoon and Tape. SPAHLINGER, MATHIAS: Morendo Entloeschend, (vinyl) - ERZ 1005 - £8.30 Six very different pieces. Entloeschend for giant Tam Tam, disposing an enormous range of sounds; as if electronic or concrete; Stoerung for interference and distortion; Sotto Voce for choir (sound/drama, not notes) with concrete interludes of quotidian sounds. SIDE 2: Dense and discontinuous orchestral net woven from small groups and silences. Exquisite recording and pressing. Full notes. STRANGE GAMES: Strange Games (vinyl) - PE 03 - £7 A legend in their own time, Strange Games were one of the first underground groups to concentrate on arrangement and theatre as well as texts. Witty, intelligent songs, always on the brink of anarchy, but still toe-tapping. TEITELBAUM/ZINGARO: The Sea Between (vinyl) - VICTO CD 003 - £8.30 TONE DOGS: Ankety Low Day (vinyl) - CZ016 - £8.30 See misc for description. UNGVARY, TAMAS: Ite, Missa est (vinyl) - FYLP 1028 - £11 UNREST, WORK ∓ PLAY: In-Forms (vinyl) - RR C19 - £7 The only recordings of this shortlived but important group. In-Forms is a particularly accomplished work, mangling ∓ renewing 'In' Forms. Full of ideas and excellent playing. UNREST, WORK ∓ PLAY: Sound every Day (12-inch EP) (vinyl) - PU3 - £4.25 See above WHA HA HA: Wha Ha Ha (vinyl) - RR 17 - £7 Compiled from three great and ephemeral records from the master Japanese group whose music never appeared in the occident. This group were a revelation: daring dub mixes, sudden changes, humour, virtuosic playing; extreme; very musical and pretty eccentric. Not to be missed. Nimbus pressing WORK, THE: Rubber Cage (vinyl) - WOOF 012 - £8.30 ZGA: Zga (vinyl) - PE 02 - £7 This is an extraordinary record from a group who build their own instruments from metal, springs, transducers, electronic parts, as well playing more conventional instruments unconventionally. Somewhere between electronic contemporary composition and a kind of subliminal rock sensibility that emerges now and then in surprising guises. See also ReR ZNR: Barricades 3 (vinyl) - RR 7 - £8.30 The legendary first LP. 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 quite like it. See also ReR Back to index |