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ART BEARS: REVISITED ART BEARS: REVISITED
Code:6908
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As the years passed and technology marched on, Art Bears decided to let other artists to remix the three original albums. On the 3 disks referred to as "REVISITED" in this box, we are treated to how others perceive the importance of the Art Bears' back catalog by their own standards in the current studio world, using the resurrected master tapes as a starting point. In all cases the work is as radical today as it was when the band first offered it up a quarter of a century ago. Features Bob Drake, Stephan Tickmayer, Jon Rose, Christian Marclay Thomas Dimuzio, Musci-Venosta, Lars Pedersen (When), Warrick Swinney (The Kalahari Surfers), Biota, The Residents, Otomo Yoshida, and, well....too many more to mention here. You get the idea. It harkens the Art Bears trilogy into a new era of technology, aesthetic and sound, all of which had yet to be introduced back when the original albums were made. Also on these disks are previously unreleased concert recordings, a reissue of the "Collapse" 45 rpm (from Ralph Records), a newly completed piece by the band aptly called," Rebirth" (which was hitherto a poem in the coveted "Wintersongs" book), "All Hail" from the Recommended Sampler, and the extremely rare live version of "Coda to Man and Boy" from the Cantu recording.

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Agitation Free: Malesch Agitation Free: Malesch
Code:6724
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Agitation Free was founded 1969 in Berlin and were known for a complex instrumental progressive rock with spacey sounds, a mixture of Popol Vuh and the early Pink Floyd. Yet, the style of Agitation Free was real and one filled with cosmic and ethnic elements and first of all due to the genius inventions and the great talent of its musicians, one played with a lot of electronic, keyboards, two guitars, drums but less vocals. The first LP of Agitation Free was released in 1972 on Vertigo and is back now as an official reissue on CD.

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Ahvak: Ahvak Ahvak: Ahvak
Code:5879
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"The Israeli band Ahvak, named after the Hebrew word for "Dust," creates music of dark, ominous and compelling beauty. Ahvak's mesmerizing and electrified version of chamber rock blurs the boundary lines between styles and aligns the band with forward-thinking bands such as Univers Zero, The Science Group, Sotos, Thinking Plague and the 5UUs. Led by two conservatory trained composers/keyboardists and also featuring excellent work on guitar, bass and drums (by Dave Kerman!), the five musicians are joined by their engineer, Udi Koomran, who often extends the music into unique directions by his use of modern computer software, without compromising the integrity of the compositions or the vibrant performances. The resulting CD is a highly sophisticated and expertly produced work, featuring superb compositions performed by highly experienced musicians". -Cuneiform

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Ayers, Kevin: Bananamour Ayers, Kevin: Bananamour
Code:6552
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"A new series of 2003 remastered reissues for the early Kevin Ayers catalog, each with large quantities of bonus tracks and extensive booklets. Very well done overall. Bananamour was the 4th Kevin Ayers solo album, reissued here with 4 bonus tracks. "Originally scheduled for release in late January 1973, the album, Bananamour appeared as Harvest SHVL 807 in May 1973. The albums release was preceded by the appearance of the single 'Caribbean Moon' c/w 'Take Me To Tahiti' on April 19th as Harvest HAFT 5071. A limited number of albums contained a 16-page colour book featuring photographs and transcribed comments on each of the songs taken from an interview conducted with Kevin by music journalist Al Clark. Original copies of Bananamour containing this book are now highly sought after collectors items. This CD reissue sees this rare item reprinted in its entirety." Bonus tracks include: 'Connie On A Rubber Band', 'Decadence', 'Take Me To Tahiti', and 'Caribbean Moon'. -Forced Exposure

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Ayers, Kevin: Joy Of A Toy Ayers, Kevin: Joy Of A Toy
Code:6553
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"2003 Remaster. The first Kevin Ayers solo album, following his tenure in Soft Machine. Includes a previously unreleased bonus track w/ Syd Barrett! Originally released in the UK in December 1969 as Harvest SHVL 763. Musicians include: Robert Wyatt, Rod Tait, Soft Machine, Mike Ratledge & Hugh Hopper, David Bedford. Instruments used: electric bass, string bass, cello, piano, celeste, drums, tambourine, organ, alto melodica, Spanish guitar, Hawaiian guitar, Italian guitar, electric guitar, electronics, trombone, flute, piccolo, recorder, oboe, mouth organ, kazoo. Bonus tracks include: 'Religious Experience (Singing A Song In The Morning)' featuring Syd Barrett, 'The Lady Rachel' extended mix, 'Soon Soon Soon', 'Religious Experience (Singing...)' previously unreleased mix, 'The Lady Rachel' single version, and 'Singing A Song In The Morning' single version." -Forced Exposure

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Barrett, Syd: Barrett Barrett, Syd: Barrett
Code:6555
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"UK version (with bonus tracks not found on the domestic US version), of the 2nd Syd Barrett solo album. Originally released in November 1970 on Harvest. Barrett was the second and final studio album of new material released by former Pink Floyd member Syd Barrett. 'Shortly after releasing his first album, The Madcap Laughs, Barrett appeared on John Peel's Top Gear radio show where he presented only one song from the newly released album. Two days later, he began working on his second album in the Abbey Road Studios, this time with Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Rick Wright as producers and musicians. The main aim for the Barrett sessions was to give Syd the structure and focus many felt was missing during the long and unwieldy sessions for The Madcap Laughs. Thus, the sessions were more efficiently run -- with much unreleased material recorded -- and the album was finished in far less time than it took to complete The Madcap Laughs. In addition, with the unpredictability and at times despairing nature of Madcap greatly decreased, the rigid format of the new sessions ended up giving Barrett a less inventive flavor, as a result. Nonetheless, Barrett does indeed have some memorable songs, least of all 'Baby Lemonade,' 'Dominoes' and 'Gigolo Aunt,' all of which are as well known to Barrett fans as 'See Emily Play' and 'Astronomy Domine.' Although not generally as highly regarded as The Madcap Laughs, Barrett -- of which, the cover was painted by Syd himself -- is still a much-prized recording from its maker. Includes seven bonus tracks including: 'Baby Lemonade (Take 1),' 'Waving My Arms In The Air (Take 1),' 'I Never Lied To You (Take 1),' 'Love Song (Take 1),' 'Dominoes (Take 1),' 'Dominoes (Take 2),' 'It Is Obvious (Take 2).'" -Forced Exposure

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Barrett, Syd: Crazy Diamond Barrett, Syd: Crazy Diamond
Code:6761
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"1993 release, in stock again for the first time in a while. Luxurious UK-only box consisting of Syd's two real LPs, both released in 1970, (Madcap Laughs (with 6 bonus tracks), Barrett (with 7 bonus tracks), plus Opel, (with 6 bonus tracks) (the 1988 album of leftover material). All bonus tracks are made up of alternate takes not legitimately released before. Also includes a 24-page full-color booklet that includes a bio on the making of these three records, full of photographs and lyrics." -Forced Exposure

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Barrett, Syd: The Madcap Laughs Barrett, Syd: The Madcap Laughs
Code:6556
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"UK version (with bonus tracks not found on the domestic US version), of the first Syd Barrett solo album. Originally released on Harvest in January 1970. 'During February 1968, Dave Gilmour had been drafted into The Pink Floyd and for a brief time they existed as a 5-piece. Soon, however, rumours circulated that Syd Barrett would be taking on a 'Brian Wilson' role, writing and recording material 'behind the scenes.' But by April it was clear that he had been ousted completely. Within a month of his axing, Barrett was back in Abbey Road. With his manager Pete Jenner as producer, Barrett began his solo career. Blending angular, riveting guitar-work and jaunty improvisation with more fragile and enchanting pieces, Barrett composed in a suitably elegiac fashion. Later in the recording process, Gilmour and Roger Waters would aid in co-production, shepherding Barrett through many takes and re-takes of what finally gelled as his most skilled and coherent solo record. Includes six bonus tracks including 'Octopus (Takes 1&2)', 'It's No Good Trying (Take 5)', 'Love You (Take 1)', 'Love You (Take 3)', 'She Took A Long Cold Look At Me (Take 4)', Golden Hair (Take 5)'." -Forced Exposure

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Bidziliba: RocQ Bidziliba: RocQ
Code:2902
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See above - they just get better.

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Blegvad, Peter: King Strut & other stories Blegvad, Peter: King Strut & other stories
Code:2925
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Fine song album, back in print. With guests including BJ Cole, Anton Fier, Syd Straw, Stoffer Blegvad, Andy Partridge, Peter Holdsapple, Chris Stamey.

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Camberwell Now: All's Well Camberwell Now: All's Well
Code:6911
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This definitive edition collects the entire released output of Camberwell Now (two EPs and an LP), newly re-mastered by the band and repackaged with full notes, lyrics, additional photographs and artwork. Chronologically, Camberwell Now immediately succeeded This Heat, Charles Hayward continuing to work with This Heat's last bassist Trefor Goronwy, and the two of them joining forces with Stephen Rickard who, for the new band, designed his unique 'cassette switchboard', a kind of proto-sampler - though that's not the half of it (Steve's article fully explaining the device is reprinted in the new, expanded booklet that comes with the CD).

Musically, Camberwell both followed and departed from the style of This Heat. Formally and gesturally there are common elements, but there is far greater transparency and the sound palette is quite different: the music is more placed than grown, as the slow accumulation and evolution of material in This Heat gives way to a more immediate and orderly development of the material in Camberwell Now. The songs - nostalgic, scary, and quietly desperate - peer into the future to find harbour but confront only fragments of ruin.

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Can: Flow Motion Can: Flow Motion
Code:6546
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"2006 remastered edition, with expanded artwork by Can. New liner notes by Alan Bangs. Hybrid SACD, designed to play in stereo on both CD and SACD players, as well as SACD-compatible DVD players. 'Originally released in 1976, features only the four core members and Michael Karoli on violin.' " -Forced Exposure

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Can: Saw Delight Can: Saw Delight
Code:6547
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"2006 remastered edition, with expanded artwork by Can. New liner notes by Andy Gill. Hybrid SACD, designed to play in stereo on both CD and SACD players, as well as SACD-compatible DVD players. 'Originally released in 1977 as Can's farewell. Features four original members, plus percussionist Reebop Kwaku Baah & bassist Rosko Gee.' -Forced Exposure

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Can: Tago Mago Can: Tago Mago
Code:6728
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2004 remastered edition, with expanded artwork by Can. Hybrid SACD, designed to play in stereo on both CD and SACD players, as well as SACD-compatible DVD players. Tago Mago is the group's third album, a sprawling masterpiece from 1971. Featuring the vocal invention of Damo Suzuki. "With the band in full artistic flower and Suzuki's sometimes moody, sometimes frenetic speak/sing/shrieking in full effect, Can released not merely one of the best Krautrock albums of all time, but one of the best albums ever, period. Tago Mago is that rarity of the early '70s, a double album without a wasted note, ranging from sweetly gentle float to full-on monster grooves. -- Ned Raggett.

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Cooper, Lindsay: Oh Moscow Cooper, Lindsay: Oh Moscow
Code:3056
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Lindsay Cooper, Phil Minton, Sally Potter, Marilyn Mazur, Hugh Hopper, Alfred Harth, Elvira Plenar. Long awaited release of the highly praised Cooper/Potter 1988 project group.

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Dave Kerman/5uu's: Abandonship Dave Kerman/5uu's: Abandonship
Code:5906
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"Dave Kerman is in the forefront of contemporary 'Rock In Opposition' (R.I.O.)-inspired progressive rock, his name appearing in multiple contexts as an internationally reknown drummer and as a composer. He is one of the most in demand drummers on the avant progressive scene, playing in the 5uu's, U Totem, Thinking Plague, Present and Blast. Kerman founded his own band, the 5uu's, in 1984. Inspired by the European "Rock In Opposition" (RIO) movement's uncompromising stance, and devoted to a concept of song-oriented music with emphasis on short pieces, and lyrics and melodies, the 5uu's created a sound that was a distinctly American version of R.I.O.-inspired rock. Abandonship is the 5uu's sixth release. It features compositions, lyrics (printed in the CD booklet), and multi-instrumentation by Kerman, vocals by Deborah Perry (Thinking Plague) & sound sculpting by Udi Koomran. It is an emotionally intense, densely-layered, and compositionally complex work, inspired by such dark R.I.O. bands as Univers Zero and Present, and a logical progression of the 5uu's multi-faceted, prismatic sound. 'The results are mesmerizing...Kerman is still the unsung shaman of unbridled convolution..perched on a precipice high enough to make most indie rockers appear ant-sized.' -Alternative Press. '...a frighteningly coherent statement that with time should eventually stand as one of Rock In Opposition's finest momements' -Expose". -Cuneiform

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Dave Kerman/5uu's: Point Of Views Dave Kerman/5uu's: Point Of Views
Code:5907
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"Inspired by the 'Rock In Opposition' (R.I.O) movement's uncompromising stance, drummer/composer David Kerman formed the 5uu's in 1982. Point Of Views reissues their first two lps; Bel Marduk & Tiamat and Elements, which features the addition of The Motor Totemists Guild & is the embryonic blueprint for U Totem. 'Bel Marduk & Tiamat and Elements...(are)...two important avant rock lps.' -The Wire 6/98. An essential document for those interested in the development of a distinctly American version of R.I.O. inspired progressive". -Cuneiform

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Dave Kerman/5uu's: Regarding Purgatories Dave Kerman/5uu's: Regarding Purgatories
Code:5908
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"Inspired by the 'Rock In Opposition' (R.I.O) movement's uncompromising stance, drummer/composer David Kerman formed the 5uu's in 1982. The 5th album by drummer/composer Kerman's 5uu's project features a completely revamped version of the band. He has enlisted what amounts to an avant/progressive supergroup to back him here, including vocalist Deborah Perry (Thinking Plague), bassist Keith Macksoud (Present) with guest keyboardists Charles Turner (5uu's) and Sanjay Kumar (U Totem). An essential document for those interested in the development of a distinctly American version of R.I.O. inspired progressive"-Cuneiform

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Denny, Martin: Afro-Desia Denny, Martin: Afro-Desia
Code:6968
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As part of our ongoing series of reappraised, remastered and intensified releases of music from the 1950s and before, let us consider exotica! Well, here we hit the Daddy of them all -- Martin Denny -- from the spectacular sleeve, featuring the Exotica Girl, Sandy Warner, in one of her many guises (this time she seems to be disguised as Lounge Laura) to the cool hypnotic vibes of the music within, this is an essential album. Presented here in both its hi-fi mono version, and its Spectrasonic Stereo version (both very different beasts indeed!) for your especial pleasure...featuring notes by Rev-Ola's very own Exotica Girl, Lounge Laura Taylor, and a whole load of wonderful tracks to chill out to! Pour the cocktails and dim the lights...for Martin Denny! -Forced Exposure

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Denny, Martin: Exotica Volume 2 Denny, Martin: Exotica Volume 2
Code:6963
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2005 reissue, in both mono and stereo. The 2nd Martin Denny album, originally issued by Liberty in 1957. Herein Mr. De"As part of our ongoing series of reappraised, remastered and intensified releases of music from the 1950s and before... well, here we hit the Daddy of them all...Martin Denny! From the spectacular sleeve, featuring the Exotica Girl, Sandy Warner, in one of her many guises...this time it's probably what my aunt imagined she looked like going out formal yet sexy-looking in about 1962..to the cool hypnotic vibes of the music within, this is an essential album...Presented here in both it's Hi Fi Mono version, and it's Spectraphonic Stereo version (both VERY different beasts indeed!) for your special pleasure. Original liner notes." -Forced Exposure

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Denny, Martin: Exotica Volume 3 Denny, Martin: Exotica Volume 3
Code:6964
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Denny's imagination has gone even further afield, and with superb Spectra-Sound giving us matchless fidelity, he has further explored the myriad tinkle of instruments foreign to our civilization, plus fresh approaches on those familiar to our ears. Never have you heard such wonderful percussive expressions of such reedy, totally uninhibited notes from a saxophone as you will in this album. How does he do it? Take this wonderful journey into exotic lands, and when you return, you tell us. - Forced Exposure

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Denny, Martin: Forbidden Island Denny, Martin: Forbidden Island
Code:6965
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As part of our ongoing series of reappraised, remastered and intensified releases of music from the 1950s and before, let us consider exotica! Well, here we hit the Daddy of them all...Martin Denny! From the spectacular sleeve, featuring the Exotica Girl, Sandy Warner, in one of her many guises (this time it's my auntie Maria ready to go out to mambo), to the cool hypnotic vibes of the music within, this is an essential album. Presented here in both its hi-fi mono version, and its Spectrasonic Stereo version (both VERY different beasts indeed!) for your especial pleasure, featuring notes by RevOla's very own Exotica Girl, Lounge Laura Taylor, and a whole load of wonderful tracks to chill out to! Pour the cocktails and dim the lights...for Martin Denny! -Forced Exposure

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  Denny, Martin: Hypnotique
Code:6966
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As part of our ongoing series of reappraised, remastered and intensified releases of music from the 1950s and before....well, here we hit the Daddy of them all...Martin Denny....from the spectacular sleeve, featuring the Exotica Girl, Sandy Warner, in one of her many guises...this time it's some kind of Betty Page as an assistant in a Beatnik curio shop scenario....to the cool hypnotic vibes of the music within, this is an essential album.....Presented here in both it's Hi Fi Mono version, and it's Spectraphonic Stereo version (both VERY different beasts indeed!) for your special pleasure.... -Forced Exposure

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Denny, Martin: Quiet Village Denny, Martin: Quiet Village
Code:6967
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As part of our ongoing series of reappraised, remastered and intensified releases of music from the 1950s and before....well, here we hit the Daddy of them all...Martin Denny....from the spectacular sleeve, featuring the Exotica Girl, Sandy Warner, in one of her many guises...this time it's some kind of Betty Page as an assistant in a Beatnik curio shop scenario....to the cool hypnotic vibes of the music within, this is an essential album.....Presented here in both it's Hi Fi Mono version, and it's Spectraphonic Stereo version (both VERY different beasts indeed!) for your special pleasure.... -Forced Exposure

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Die Trip Computer Die: Die Like A Rock Die Trip Computer Die: Die Like A Rock
Code:6594
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"The third album from Die Trip Computer Die sets out to bury the corpse of rock for all time but instead runs smack bang into a delicious wall of pithecanthropoid pop. Samplerdelia trio Die Trip present a third collection of skewed songs and numinous instrumentals. The trio of Lepke B, Xentos Fray Bentos and Ted Barrow have played in numerous combinations over the last 25 years (notably The Homosexuals and Milk From Cheltenham) and this album sees them palpably hit their stride. The critical response to the group has been positive: 'Convincing, sometimes astonishing pieces, songs, mini-dramas. One of the best ensembles using this technology I've heard; very focused and highly musical,' says Chris Cutler."-Forced Exposure

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Drake, Bob: What Day Is It ? Drake, Bob: What Day Is It ?
Code:5338
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What Day Is It ? is the re-issue of Bob's very first solo disc (originally self-manufactured in art packaging – here tho, professionally packaged for mass market sales). It already exhibits Bob's characteristic traits: golden fingers, hi-wire vocals, eyebrow-raising country-picking, loose-but-right-in-the-pocket drums, eccentric chord inversions, and a bass-guitar sound to die for. Sitting happily with the fantasy 'Yes' Euro-progressive surface is the rather more substantial depth of a bluegrass and rooted-rock American culture; an almost unique combination and one hard to imitate (or even imagine, until you hear Bob do it). But then, Bob has always marched to the beat of a different drummer, manifestly careless of the fashion or of the easier, more superficial aspects of the music he has absorbed.

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  Dull Schicksal: Dikke Mannen
Code:3205
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Songs. Bizarre arrangements, impressive playing and some musically lateral thinking. A sound collection with plenty going on. As usual, exquisite graphics and design work.

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  Dull Schicksal: Dull's Dullest Vol 2.
Code:3206
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See above.

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Dull Schicksal: Herfstblad'ren Dull Schicksal: Herfstblad'ren
Code:3207
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encore

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Faust: In Autumn   (4 CD Box) Faust: In Autumn (4 CD Box)
Code:6955
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Krautrock legends, Faust are back with an unbelievable 4 disc live set. Recorded last year in the UK, it features many enduring Faust classics performed live for the very first time after all these years. The first two CDs in the set consist of an ideal recording of a complete and unedited show from the Carling Academy, Newcastle. The 3rd CD is a collection of tracks culled from other dates on the tour. The 4th disc is a DVD compiling the finest footage from the tour, which has been hailed as their best tour since Faust's reformation in 1992. This fantastic box set really captures a legendary band at the absolute top of their game and truly on fire! Includes a 32 page booklet and liner notes from Faust frontman JeanHerve Peron.

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Flaming Fire: When The High Bell Rings Flaming Fire: When The High Bell Rings
Code:6901
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"Mixing art-damaged beauty and acid-drenched insanity, Flaming Fire's new album conjures a psychedelic rock landscape that is equal parts Aphrodite's Child, The Raincoats and Butthole Surfers. If psych-folk music were written by truckers and cocktail waitresses, this is what it would sound like. "When the High Bell Rings" is American apocalyptic fantasy in all its Bible-crazed, red-state, oxycontin-fueled madness. Featuring past and present members of: Autobody, Pere Ubu, Team USA, American Watercolor Movement, JZ Barrell, Brian Dewan, the Happiest Guys in the World and Barbez." -Silly Bird Records

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Frith, Fred: Impur II Frith, Fred: Impur II
Code:7708
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Impur II is totally different from Impur I - which was a deconstructed, spatialised simultaneity of musical events that could only be heard through open windows or by wandering through rooms - Impur 2 took the form of an unannounced performance across which audience members had to stumble by chance (and then collect their friends - or not). Both events formed part of a commission by L'Ecole Nationale de Musique de Villurbanne in May 1996.This recording, painstakingly edited and re-mastered by Fred, appears as a full-on concert by a large 19 strong ensemble with Fred conducting as well as playing. It's built on rhythm, harmony, rock noise, exotic instrumentation, power, complexity and melodic writing - with intermittent stretches of chaos, eccentricity and theatre, and fits comfortably into the aesthetic of his earlier performing ensemble projects, like Gravity, Skeleton Crew and Keep the Dog.

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Frith, Fred: Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air Frith, Fred: Nowhere, Sideshow, Thin Air
Code:7709
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This is Fred's sixth CD of music for dance, featuring three commissions by three different choreographers each sharing, as Fred says ' a certain obsession with melodic deconstruction.' Two of them feature - and were especially written for - the remarkable violinist Carla Kihlstedt. Fred and Carla perform one of them (Fred playing a huge array of instruments here as on all pieces), are joined by Fred Guiliano, (samples) and Gail Brand (trombone) on another, while the third features Fred, Hande Erdem (violin) and Threresa Wong (cello). These are complex studio compositions characterised by a deceptive simplicity, layers and plateaux, rhythm and colour.

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Greaves, John: Loco Solo- Live in Tokyo Greaves, John: Loco Solo- Live in Tokyo
Code:3383
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At last John, a piano and his songs. Taken from a concert at Star Pines, Tokyo and wisely minimally edited, this follows the dynamic of the concert and lives in the minutiae of its performance. Persuasive and gripping because so real - warts and struggle and all. What comes out is the essence of a performance that is engrained with character and engagement.

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Heinz, Herb: Another Heinz, Herb: Another
Code:3442
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An interesting collection by Herb - songs, with involved, traditionally musical arrangements, but also extended into a more purely sonic realm. The voice is used as an instrument mostly, and subject to treatment like everything else.

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Henry Cow: 40th Anniversary Box Set (Boxes 1 & 2, 9 CD's, 1 DVD, 2 Boxes, 2  60 Pg Books) Henry Cow: 40th Anniversary Box Set (Boxes 1 & 2, 9 CD's, 1 DVD, 2 Boxes, 2 60 Pg Books)
Code:7643
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The 5 full-length discs in Box 1 cover Henry Cow's career from the pre-Virgin Records days up to roughly 1975. These are all previously unreleased recordings, some live, some demo, some studio, all sonically enhanced by Bob Drake's painstaking re-mastering. We are treated to everything from early BBC sessions to somewhat later live improvisations, alternate recordings with Robert Wyatt, to the full 18 minute version of "With the Yellow Moon And Half Star" (The Bacchae). There are many compositions and improvisations new to anyone who only knows the official releases; The disks also document a number of one-off projects and events and - where different or remarkable enough to justify inclusion - live versions of parts of the LP repertoire. The hefty, 60-page booklet is chock-full of historic information and exclusive photos. The 4 full-length CD's + 1 DVD in Box 2 cover the Cow's career from roughly 1976 to the band's demise, with an emphasis on the later era. Nobody knew that this 75-minute concert broadcast of the band existed, so the DVD is a real boon, and has spectacular versions of "Beautiful As The Moon", "Living In The Heart Of The Beast", "March", "Erk Gah", "No More Songs" and a great, improvisational piece. The music discs are also excellent, and include as highlights the original version of "Joan", as well as a 12 minute, hitherto unreleased piece by Lindsay Cooper, and great versions of "Erk Gah and "Viva Pa Ubu". There's also some immaculate improvising, including a 17 minute foray from the original RIO Festival, and Fred's "Awake Against Sleep" from the Western Culture sessions - and all that's just the tip of the iceberg. The hefty, 60-page booklet is chock-full of historic information and exclusive photos. And everything has been carefully transferred and re-mastered by Bob Drake to the best audio quality that current technology allows without interference or tampering.

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Henry Cow: Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Box 1 (5 CD's + Box + Hefty Booklet) Henry Cow: Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Box 1 (5 CD's + Box + Hefty Booklet)
Code:7641
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The 5 full-length discs in Box 1 cover Henry Cow's career from the pre-Virgin Records days up to roughly 1975. These are all previously unreleased recordings, some live, some demo, some studio, all sonically enhanced by Bob Drake's painstaking re-mastering. We are treated to everything from early BBC sessions to somewhat later live improvisations, alternate recordings with Robert Wyatt, to the full 18 minute version of "With the Yellow Moon And Half Star" (The Bacchae). There are many compositions and improvisations new to anyone who only knows the official releases; The disks also document a number of one-off projects and events and - where different or remarkable enough to justify inclusion - live versions of parts of the LP repertoire.  The hefty, 60-page booklet is chock-full of historic information and exclusive photos.

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Henry Cow: Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Box 2  (4 CD's + DVD + Box + Hefty Booklet) Henry Cow: Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Box 2 (4 CD's + DVD + Box + Hefty Booklet)
Code:7642
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The 4 full-length CD's + 1 DVD in Box 2 cover the Cow's career from roughly 1976 to the band's demise,  with an emphasis on the later era. Nobody knew that this 75-minute concert broadcast of the band existed, so the DVD is a real boon, and has spectacular versions of "Beautiful As The Moon", "Living In The Heart Of The Beast", "March", "Erk Gah", "No More Songs" and a great, improvisational piece. The music discs are also excellent, and include as highlights the original version of "Joan", as well as a 12 minute, hitherto unreleased piece by Lindsay Cooper, and great versions of "Erk Gah and "Viva Pa Ubu". There's also some immaculate improvising, including a 17 minute foray from the original RIO Festival, and Fred's "Waking Against Sleep" from the Western Culture sessions -  and all that's just the tip of the iceberg. The hefty, 60-page booklet is chock-full of historic information and exclusive photos. And everything has been carefully transferred and re-mastered by Bob Drake to the best audio quality that current technology allows without interference or tampering.

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Hopper,Hugh: Hopper Tunity Box Hopper,Hugh: Hopper Tunity Box
Code:6984
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Freshly remastered from the master tapes and issued on CD from tapes for the first time, this is the second solo album by Soft Machine bassist and composer Hugh Hopper. Hopper Tunity Box features stellar contributions from members of groups such as the Brotherhood of Breath, Gilgamesh, Hatfield and the North, Isotope, Soft Machine and the Keith Tippett Sextet. Originally released in 1977, this is a lost jazz/rock classic that demands to be rediscovered 30 years later! Includes new liner notes by Hugh explaining how the record was made, as well as reproductions of some of the musical scores. --Forced Exposure

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IZ: EM IZ: EM
Code:6334
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"E M" is the 3rd CD from IZ, and is a densely layered and skillfully presented instrumental CD on the heavy side of rock, with elements of experimental music. Generally the songs writing is in a minimalist and sparse style that is in contrast to the thick tambor, meter changes and harmonic complexities. This approach makes every note/chord an essential statement and creates a unique sonic quality rarely heard in groups with rock instrumentation.

Michael Lance Serviolo does the majority of the composing and plays guitar, Tom Sublet plays bass & synthesizer, David Kerman plays drums. This line-up offers diversity and musical quality to "E M". Michael has played with such groups as The Perry Weissman 3, Jux County and Elan. David is known for his work with Thinking Plague, The 5UU's, U-totem and Present. Tom has worked with Uversa, Sandscrit and The Good Vibes Quartet. The blending of rhythmic precision, interesting compositions and tonal coloring make this a great recording.



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L'Ensemble Raye: Meme en Hiver L'Ensemble Raye: Meme en Hiver
Code:6949
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The two mainstays of the band were Jean-Vincent Huguenin (aka Jean-20 Huguenin) and Cedric Vuille. This is the debut disc by L'Ensemble Rayé, first released on vinyl in 1990, with each side of the disc devoted to compositions and arrangements by one of the pair (the "Même en Hiver" side featured Vuille and the "Comme un Pinson Dans L'Eau" side featured Huguenin). The album provided the two musicians the opportunity to display their skills on a wide array of instruments, with Huguenin revealing particular talents on guitar and Vuille on both guitar and clarinet; multi-tracking and a host of guest musicians gave L'Ensemble Rayé the sound of a full band on most of the tracks.

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L'Ensemble Raye: Vis a Vis L'Ensemble Raye: Vis a Vis
Code:6950
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This is a group of jolly Swissmen who decided to synthesize the most fascinating tendencies of most unexpected music. These partners surely don't live on the same shore as, say, Jean-Luc Godard. Their art evokes instead that of Jacques Demy without words, or some talkative Jacques Tati or even some poetic Federico Fellini Humour, mischief and know-how blend there together in a caustic mixture. Amongst the numerous releases of the band, one could notice the excellent Même En Hiver" (1989), reissued by the Gazul label. If you appreciate Fred Frith, Aksak Maboul, Albert Marcouer or Lars Hollmer rush and get these references!" --Musea

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Larsen Rupin: Proces Verbal Larsen Rupin: Proces Verbal
Code:6954
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One of the very first (maybe *the* first) CD release on the late, great AYAA label was by this mostly instrumental Swiss trio of tenor sax, bass and drums. 20 years later, here they are again, now with a guitarist and a couple of guests on a few songs, with a fine third album and somewhat of a different sound than before. While the influences/energy/etc of the old 'downtown NYC' sound is still there, there's also some more 'modern sounding' influences here and there and it isn't as obviously in the Curlew/Decoding Society axis as before, with some great moody bits. --Wayside Music

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Lewis, Susanne: Kissyfur Lewis, Susanne: Kissyfur
Code:3670
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See HAIL/SNAIL Here by Susanne only, joined by various friends. Nice cover.

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Lewis, Susanne: Susanne Lewis Lewis, Susanne: Susanne Lewis
Code:3671
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New CD of songs from the incomparable Susanne Lewis. Whatever that gift is, to write simple rock songs and make them work, Susanne has it. She plays everything (except drums - and a rare guitar solo appearance from Bill Gilonis of The Work).

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Marcoeur, Albert: L'Apostrophe Marcoeur, Albert: L'Apostrophe
Code:6655
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L'apostraphe is an extraordinary new CD from Albert and his brothers - and many guest musicians. As always these are meticulously crafted songs, eccentric, brilliantly arranged and now opened out into a whole new world of sounds and treatments as they struggle through old cinema soundtracks, aural fog, nostalgia, distortion, interference or a dizzy, dreamlike aural Sargasso sea of trailing weeds. Diffuse, yet with every detail pin sharp. Remarkable. I had to listen three times to find it and that's always a good sign.

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Marcoeur, Albert: Plusiers cas de Figures Marcoeur, Albert: Plusiers cas de Figures
Code:3775
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Like Van Dyle Parks, Albert is sparing but a perfectionist; this is his first new work for a long long time, and again an exemplar of measured strangeness; it creates its own ground. The instrumentation is extensive and unusual - but restrained - and the arrangements flawless. A modest gem.

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Matching Mole: March Matching Mole: March
Code:5966
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"Formed by drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt after he left the pioneering UK jazz/rock Soft Machine in 1971. By early 1972, the band conisted of Robert, guitarist Phil Miller, bassist Bill MacCormick & electric pianist Dave MacRae. The band was exceedingly active for a band that lasted less than one year, recording two albums and playing dozens of shows throughout Europe. In 2001, Cuneiform released Smoke Signals, a collection of unreleased performances. The band was so pleased with that album that when one of the members came across a forgotten live show on tape - identified simply as 'March, 1972', they immediately contacted us, and this album is the result. Recorded live in Europe 3/72, shortly after Dave MacRae became the keyboardist, this includes the basic repertoire that the band would perform during their lifetime, with a few surprises thrown in. The sound is surprisingly superb for a live show of this vintage, and once again Tom Recchion has come up with a charming cover. 'Great sound, great artwork - so thanks once again.' -Robert Wyatt" -Cuneiform

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Matching Mole: Smoke Signals Matching Mole: Smoke Signals
Code:5967
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"Formed by drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt after he left the pioneering UK outfit Soft Machine in 1971. By early 1972, the band conisted of Robert, guitarist Phil Miller, bassist Bill MacCormick & electric pianist Dave McRae. Smoke Signals compiles all previously unreleased performances - selected & sequenced by Robert Wyatt biographer Mike King - from the band's most intense gigging period. The set list is mostly drawn from Little Red Record, but the way the band performed the pieces live is quite different from the heavily overdubbed versions found on the studio disc. Despite their very short lifetime, Mole developed an individual sound based on the players idiosyncratic musical styles, that was a unique take on fusion and Canterbury musics. Features an amazing cover and liner notes by Aymeric Leroy". -Cuneiform

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Muffins: Bandwidth Muffins: Bandwidth
Code:5976
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"Since their demise in 1981, The Muffins have been generally acknowledged as one of the finest (and one of the most unsung) U.S. proponents of progressive/new music. During their lifetime, The Muffins were never less than amazing, and with the reissues on CD of their back catalog, their reputation only grew. In a very happy occurance, all four members of the band reformed in 1998 and began developing a new repertoire and performing concerts. In a world glutted with half-baked reformations by bands looking to cash in on past glories, Bandwidth is the genuine article; a reformation of all the original members who who have gotten together not for money, but because they miss what they had done together in the past and who feel that they still have something to say. Bandwidth is very recognizably the work of The Muffins; you can hear elements of both Manna/Mirage and <185> here, as well as lots of new elements". -Cuneiform

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Muffins: Chronometers Muffins: Chronometers
Code:5977
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"Chronometers is an excellent collection of home and studio demos from the band's earliest period, when they were a quintet (Dave Newhouse-piano, organ, woodwinds, Tom Scott-woodwinds, Billy Swann-bass, Stuart Abramowitz-drums and Mike Zentner-guitar and violin). These 1975/76 recordings feature the band at their most Canterburian and especially at their most Hatfield-like". -Cuneiform

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Muffins: Double Negative Muffins: Double Negative
Code:5978
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"It is an all-too-rare occurrence for a band, throughout its career, to create music that continually pushes the envelope and transforms the landscape. It is an even rarer occurrence for such a band to reunite after a long separation, and embark on a second musical career that proves as innovative as the first. For The Muffins, lightning has struck twice. In 1998, The Muffins reformed with all four members, and it proved to be the genuine article. Double Negative is The Muffins' 2nd studio recording released since reforming and possibly the most ambitious work of their career. Featuring 75 minutes of music spread over 17 songs, Double Negative is The Muffins' most compositionally diverse work, featuring pieces that vary in style and tone greatly, but which are always theirs (although they might fool you for a bit here and there!). The Muffins have long been noted for the way they craft memorable themes with adventurous musical structures and this is no exception. In addition, it is the band's most instrumentally rich work, featuring an unprecedented number of musical guest appearances. Two principal members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott, play sax on several tracks, while longtime Muffins contributor, Doug Elliott, contributes excellent trombone parts to half the pieces and string players also contribute". -Cuneiform

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Muffins: Manna/Mirage Muffins: Manna/Mirage
Code:5979
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"The Muffins were a D.C. area band from 1974-81. This was their 1st & best known lp. A SUPERB & sublime instrumental mix of Canterbury progressive, fusion, improvisation elements, & more. '...America's most impressive & innovative Cow/Hatfield style group...The Muffins are the quintessential example of a group whose excellence, clear musical intelligence, light touch & broad range marked them out clearly for success and a place in the history of "progressive rock"....The Muffins deserve their place in the pantheon of 70's progressive GREATS.'-Chris Cutler". -Cuneiform

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N.I.M.B.Y.: Songs For Adults N.I.M.B.Y.: Songs For Adults
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James Grigsby – Bob Drake – Jerry Wheeler – Dave Kerman
"Not In My Backyard" (NIMBY)is James Grigsby (of the legendary Motor Totemist Guild) and left-field luminaries from Thinking Plague, Hail, The 5UUs and Giant Ant Farm. The official story is that an electrical storm temporarily deranged their faculties while leaving their musical abilities unaffected, leading to this unaccountable recording, made more or less live in a barn in Southern France, with only a handful of overdubs (mostly vocals & some soloing) added by engineer and bassist Bob Drake at the mixing and mastering stage. Instead of making the cutting edge contemporary post rock record they planned, they wound up musically reverting to their youth while mentally indulging in the whiny frustrations of middle age. Could it be worse? Yes. This is not just an album of songs, it's a concept album and it documents what happens when a bunch of spoiled baby-boomers - mostly from Southern California - get old & grumpy.

Listen to a sample of this release

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Non Credo: Impropera Non Credo: Impropera
Code:6704
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Impropera is a bit of a departure from their previous multi-layered approach to recording. Capturing the spontaneity of their live performances, they present an "improvised opera". Utilizing Kira's remarkable vocal range and a musical landscape of bass clarinet, percussion and unusual samples, they lead the listener on a journey with many detours and dark alleys along the way. Be prepared to get seasick, beaten up, thrown in jail, fall in love, contract an STD, have your heart broken, your wallet stolen, get shanghaied, hog tied and crucified.

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Pere Ubu: London * Texas Pere Ubu: London * Texas
Code:7710
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A missing piece of the Ubu jigsaw, and a fine memento of a great band, London Texas is a satisfyingly hi-fi live recording of the sadly short-lived line-up that toured briefly between the arrival of Eric Drew Feldman and the departure of Chris Cutler. Certainly it's the best recording of the Scott, Cutler, Maimone rhythm section - though the whole band is on lean-back-intense concert form. Coming back to it, this was the end of a particular era, of a certain kind of band: the songs are economical and tightly arranged but harmonically elaborated - with strongly performative and musical underpinning (there's a new aesthetic in place now); it's an approach that takes no prisoners. Then there's the bonus of that scary live energy. Studio recordings just can't do this. London Texas stings like a bee - in a beret.

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Pharoah Overlord: Number 2 Pharoah Overlord: Number 2
Code:6722
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Formed in Finland by guitarist Jussi Lehtisalo, the songwriting force behind cult Finnish band Circle, Pharaoh Overlord came together with the intention of creating vastly minimal, psychedelic music. Some may call it 'Stoner Rock' -- but we're not gonna go there, although it is true that anyone with an altered state of mind could easily get lost in the repetition found on Pharaoh Overlords' second record. Influenced by the groove and fuzz of 70's hard rock, the Overlords strip it down to the bare essentials of minimalism. Jamscapes built around heavy rhythms that are just waiting to explode, but they rarely do, and that's the beauty of it. The six tracks on this album stretch across time and space where the quietest rumble of a guitar can feel like the end of the world. II may certainly put you in a relaxed state, but don't get too comfortable, man. Trouble is right around the corner.

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Pox: Borgnine Pox: Borgnine
Code:7772
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POX (not to be confused with the French pop group that bears the same name) is the long-standing project by CHRIS BLOCK, ex of Cheer Accident. A few years in the making, this recording goes well beyond the group's previous offerings, and will enthrall fans of C.A., Star Period Star, Flying Luttenbachers, Hail, Fortrangt Hushallsarbete, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, This Heat, Combat Astronomy etc. There's a lot of juicy, hard-hitting tunes here, and a great amount of variety in their approaches. A few guest musicians too, including four different drummers: Thymme Jones, Brad Schlueter, Jim Widlowski and Dave Kerman. This is a disk that takes pleasure in breaking many rules of "Rock" music, while somehow managing to be ultimately fun and listenable. Certain elements of instrumental harmony are just so "wrong", but that was the point; and hence they become idiomatic certainties by means of purposefully re-writing the musical language explored. Though self-produced, it doesn't sound DIY or cheap, and with these old hands at the helm....well, experience is speaking loudly here. Give it a shot, wontcha ? Think Ernest Borgnine; no Star Trek references, please.

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  Pulnoc: Pulnoc
Code:4084
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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.

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Rattlemouth: Home Fed and Full Grown: Music for Film and Dance Rattlemouth: Home Fed and Full Grown: Music for Film and Dance
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The return of another long-standing American mainstay, RATTLEMOUTH's newest is gorgeous, and surely their most mature work to date. Though subtitled, "Music For Film And Dance", this truly transcends what is commonly referred to as a soundtrack. It's great to hear complimenting sax work (Roger Carrol and Danny Finney) laying down the melodic framework instead of the aimless skronking matches intrinsic to many other East Coast bands; and the rhythm section of drums, bass and guitar are so TIGHT they'd make a minnow's closed eye jealous. You can still hear the band's influences, especially Fred Frith, their old Orthotonics days and the first ZNR, maybe. But this far on in the game, Rattlemouth have become a school unto themselves, and their MO allows the music to grow and unfold. Robbie Kinter's drumming is impeccable here: So much in the pocket, assured and elegant, without a single intent to bludgeon the listener (and he's branched out into other instruments as well, blessya, man). Some of this record is so beautiful that you'd hardly guess it was Rattlemouth, the "bad ambassadors" of Richmond, VA. But they're not afraid to live it up either, as witnessed by the inclusion of what must be the shortest tango ever (move over, Jack Bruce's The Consul At Sunset). The hauntingly eerie "Between Frames" is my favorite piece of music this month; Think Etron Fou, but with many years of experience on, playing the deck of a cruise ship, skeet shooting perfect notes, through the clouds, out of the starry skies.



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  Ruins: Mandala 2000
Code:6739
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Ruins: Symphonica Ruins: Symphonica
Code:6738
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A new direction for this innovative group , which until now has worked solely as a duo. Augmenting their core unit of drums and bass with two female vocalists and a keyboard player of astonishing virtuosity, these brilliant orchestral arrangements of new compositions and Ruins classics display aspects of their music that have been waiting to emerge for years.

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Slapp Happy: Sort Of Slapp Happy: Sort Of
Code:4276
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Reissue of the long unavailable and classic first LP, backed by Faust, with one bonus track (JumpinŐ Jonah, the b-side of their only single). Indispensible.

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Soft Machine: Backwards Soft Machine: Backwards
Code:6033
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"The fourth in our Soft Machine archival series. Backwards is comprised of recordings from three different and interesting eras of the band: First on the CD is a recording of the quartet from May, 1970, made just about the time that the band had finished recording their Third album. The recording is mono, but the sonic quality is superb; this may be the single finest recording of the quartet version of the band, surpasing even their official studio relases. Next is two performances from November, 1969, featuring the septet version of Soft Machine. Since the only other available material by this version of the band is 20' of BBC recordings, this is an invaluable addition to the band's recorded legacy. Lastly there is Robert Wyatt's original demo of 'Moon In June', which would eventually appear on Third. The first half of this demo version was recorded in the USA in the fall of 1968, after Soft Machine had disbanded after their 2nd US tour, but before the band reformed for their 2nd album. Then, in 1969, the trio version of Soft Machine recorded the ending to their piece, and spliced on the final half". -Cuneiform

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Soft Machine: Live In Paris Soft Machine: Live In Paris
Code:6034
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"The Soft Machine line-up of Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, John Marshall and Mike Ratledge lasted under half a year and recorded just one half of an album (side two of '5'). Live in Paris is a rare recording of this quartet during that lineup's final days; Dean left Soft Machine later that month. It is also a special, rare example of a Soft Machine concert recorded and released in its entirety. Live in Paris shows Soft Machine playing in top form. The tracklisting consists of works from 'Third' and '5' in often significantly different versions, as well as several piece not recorded elsewhere. This excellent quality release - formerly released as 'Live In France' on another label - is taken from the less than 2 dozen shows performed by this version of the band, and shows that despite such a short life, that this version of the quartet definitely had their own style and sound". -Cuneiform

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Soft Machine: Noisette Soft Machine: Noisette
Code:6035
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"Noisette was recorded January 4th, 1970, by the short-lived quintet formation of the group: Elton Dean & Lyn Dobson-reeds, Hugh Hopper-bass, Mike Ratledge-keyboards & Robert Wyatt-drums & vocals. Noisette showcases a band in transition from their earlier psychedelic/progressive sound towards the jazz rock sound of Third & Fourth. It features the quintet performing versions of material from their 1st two albums as well as material not available on their studio albums. Mastered directly off of the 30 year old 15ips master tapes, this release boasts superb live sound for the time period, & includes rare, unseen photos and liner notes by Aymeric Leroy". -Cuneiform

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Soft Machine: Spaced Soft Machine: Spaced
Code:6036
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"This is previously unreleased studio recordings recorded in mid 1969 by the 'classic' Soft Machine trio line-up of Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge and Robert Wyatt. These heavily manipulated/looped/etc. recordings were originally presented as the backdrop to a multi-media work entitled Spaced. After it's week-long performance, the tapes were forgotten for over 25 years until rediscovered by Mike King. These recordings feature the band at their most radical, & while they would never again use the studio in such an extreme fashion, the work done here definitely influenced later works such as Third & Hugh's 1984. With liner notes by Hugh & Bob Woolford. 'Fantastic archival release...showing them at their most experimental, tranced-state ever, an organically looped masterpiece of sound construction...' -Forced Exposure". -Cuneiform

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Soft Machine: Virtually Soft Machine: Virtually
Code:6037
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"This is a previously unreleased show recorded 3/23/71 by the classic quartet Softs (Elton Dean/Mike Ratledge/Hugh Hopper/Robert Wyatt) during their final European tour & just 4 months before their dissolution. The recording (licensed from German radio & taken from the master tapes) is superb for the time period, & the performance really sparkles, with everyone shinning. With versions of all the tracks from Fourth, most of Third and much more, this 78' release, which captures the entire concert, is absolutely essential for any fan". -Cuneiform

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Sumo: Sumo (sic) CDR Sumo: Sumo (sic) CDR
Code:4328
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A second collection of inventive and eccentric pieces (some of them songs) that mix fine real playing (families of strings, brass, piano, drums) with electronic manipulations, dipping into various styles in a broad tour of musical and sonic worlds that add up to a very personal and constantly unusual record. Limited edition CDR release.

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The Hat Shoes: Differently Desperate The Hat Shoes: Differently Desperate
Code:7630
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Ad Hoc Records' new, four-panel digipack reissue of THE HAT SHOES' debut album will be especially welcomed by lovers of intelligent and thoughtful Progressive music, with a hint of Romanticism. Originally released in 1991, "DIFFERENTLY DESPERATE" is a studio offering of diverse avant-pop songs by a "Super-group", comprised of members BILL GILONIS (The Work), CATHERINE JAUNIAUX (Fluvial), CHARLES HAYWARD (This Heat, Camberwell Now) and TOM CORA (Skeleton Crew, Curlew). There's also a slew of well-known guest performers: David Thomas, Amos, Chris Cochrane, Tim Hodgkinson, Hahn Rowne and Rick Brown, among others.

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The Homosexuals: Astral Glamour (3 CDs) The Homosexuals: Astral Glamour (3 CDs)
Code:4410
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One of the outstanding bands of the eighties who came and went with hardly anyone noticing and just 2 EP's and a single released on their own label. In 1982, ReR compiled an LP from the debris of the surviving tapes and that was that for 20 years. Now more or less everything that can be found has been collected together on these 3 CDs. The first two assemble the handful of releases issued by the band plus our own 1982 best-of LP, the 'Ici La Bas' album (the HS under other names), 'Venceremos' - a cassette release with some tracks by the group and various individual members, and various fragments - preliminary backing tracks and so on. The third CD features the work of the later group, mainly Bruno and Suzy. There is a 30pp booklet with some useful recovered photos, Bruno's version of the band history and notes on the tracks. Those of you for whom this is a must know who you are. You will need this release. Those who want to test the water first, I suggest you start with our single CD reissue of the ReR 1982 release.

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The Residents: Freak Show The Residents: Freak Show
Code:6978
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After their 1990 Cub-E tour, The Residents needed to recharge their creative batteries, and the Freak Show project was born. Freak Show created a marvelous cast of quirky freaks, each with their own all-too human failings & haunting theme songs worming their way into the listener's brain. Feeling their ideas had more life, The Residents met with comic artists Brian Bolland (visual creator of Judge Dread and the 'Dark Knight' Batman) & Edwin 'Savage Pencil' Pouncey and crafted the idea of a Freak Show graphic novel, which was released by Dark Horse comics a year later. The Freak Show project also spawned a CD-ROM in 1994, and a theatrical stage show complete with orchestra a few years later. Originally released in 1991 with a bonus CD-ROM, Mute's Freak Show reissue contains a special 32-page book in hardbook packaging. The DVD video disc is NTSC format, approx running time: 55 minutes." --Forced Exposure

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Thinking Plague: A History Of Madness Thinking Plague: A History Of Madness
Code:6040
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"Thinking Plague's greatly anticipated 5th album presents a further maturation of the band's sound. Not content to merely repeat their past successes, the album's overall feel is due in part to the inclusion of acoustic instruments in the mix, which is also interwoven with electronic sounds and samples. The CD includes two soundscape pieces, 'War on Terra' and 'Le Gouffre', that leader Mike Johnson maintains: 'are really a departure for me, or a beginning, as it were, in that they are my first really serious forays into the realm of semi-composed, sonic environments rather than organized pieces or songs.' The line up is Mike Johnson (guitars), Deborah Perry (vocals), Dave Willey (bass and accordions), Dave Shamrock (formerly of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) (drums), Mark Harris (reeds) and Matt Mitchell (piano, harmonium, synths) with contributions from other musicians, including Dave Kerman (percussion), Ron Miles (trumpet), Mark McCoin (samples and soundscapes) and others. The CD's magic reveals itself on multiple listenings, in exploring the work's threads like currents in a stream. However, a single listen will suffice to leave most spellbound". -Cuneiform

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Thinking Plague: Early Plague Years Thinking Plague: Early Plague Years
Code:6041
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"Thinking Plague grew out of basement recording experiments by Mike Johnson & Bob Drake in the early 80's. They released their 1st lp, ...a thinking plague in 1984 on their own label in a hand-painted edition of 500. They then disbanded the original version of the band & formed a new version, featuring Susanne Lewis & others. This band released Moonsongs in 1986, which Option called 'stunning' upon its release. Newly remastered by Bob Drake, with astonishingly improved sound, this marks the 1st time that these vinyl rarities have been available in over a decade. You can hear the development of the band from their roots grow into the sound that is uniquely theirs". -Cuneiform

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Thinking Plague: In Extremis Thinking Plague: In Extremis
Code:6042
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"Denver's legendary Thinking Plague have been making music since the early 1980's. This is their latest & includes co-founders guitarist Mike Johnson, multi-instrumentalist Bob Drake, monster drummer Dave Kerman as well as a host of others, all of whom turn in tremendous performances on vocals, guitars, multiple reeds, accordion, keyboards, bass, drums and more. Tuneful, well composed & strongly structured, this is very much in the vanguard of the RIO art-rock song style, along with peers such as U Totem, the 5uu's & the Art Bears. 'Among the vanguard of groups riding the crest of a largely unheralded contemporary avant-progressive tsunami, Denver's Thinking Plague stand out in bas-relief...the manner in which Thinking Plague...have condensed only the most fertile (& often most pulverising) aspects of the last 30 years of progressive exploration is nothing short of awe-inspiring.' 5/5 stars - Alternative Press". -Cuneiform

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Thomas, David (And Foreigners): Bay City Thomas, David (And Foreigners): Bay City
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David with Danes P.O..Jorgens (drums, percs), Per Buhl (bass, clarinet) and Jorgen Teller (guitars). Lyrically related to Mirror Man, these songs sit somewhere between late Pedestrians and Current Ubu.

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Thomas, David: Mirror Man Thomas, David: Mirror Man
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U-Totem: U Totem U-Totem: U Totem
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"U Totem is the combination of the 5uus & the Motor Totemist Guild. This pairing has brought out the best parts of both bands, combining the abstraction & lyricism of the 5uus with the classical control & tambre of the MTG. Keyboards, bassoon, guitar, bass, flute, drums & voice combine to produce major stunners. 'U Totem is characterized by unsurpassed technique and perfect sound; in addition, this music is well written & well orchestrated...this must surely be the CD of the year!' -Gateavisa. 'The closest thing to Henry Cow in complexity...world class playing & singing...there is nothing else like this now.' -Chris Cutler". -Cuneiform

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VRIL: The Fatal Duckpond VRIL: The Fatal Duckpond
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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 by the elusive VRIL - a band who revive and update both the great institution of the guitar instrumental and the now sadly neglected practice of collective arrangement, intense rehearsal and live studio performance. Appropriate to the half century that has passed since the birth of the form, these hits dodge about, get bored easily and blend both concentration and complexity with the still indispensable traditional qualities that made the genre great: hummability, crafted sounds, nifty arrangements, ridiculous gimmicks and ensemble playing. 'Neither tribute nor parody, these enigmatic pieces are never more nor less than exactly what they are'.... wrote Lothar Preen in his Melbourne concert review....'but perfectly realised'. With film stills, misleading sleeve-notes and storyboard by the Diogenesian recluse Frank Key.

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Van Wissem, Jozef: Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear Van Wissem, Jozef: Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
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First solo release by Van Wissem on Bvhaast, 2005 release. Performed by Jozef van Wissem (lute, airfield recordings, electronics), Arnold Marinissen (palindrome percussion on track 7). "Though Van Wissem draws inspiration from Renaissance period forms, the use of computer-edited airport recordings fixes these pieces firmly in the now, and his approach to the lute is such that this CD would not be out of place in the John Fahey section of your music collection. Dreamy, oblique and minimal, the music insinuates itself into the listener's mind like a subliminal message or an overheard snippet of conversation." --Pete Gershon, Signal to Noise

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Various: Anthology of Rebetiko Songs 1933-1940 Various: Anthology of Rebetiko Songs 1933-1940
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This is yet another great collection from the Greek Archives series. Arguably the highlights here are the songs of Stratos Payoumitzis, who had one of the greatest singing voices of early Rembetika. Sadly, like so many of the musicians, Stratos' golden years were difficult and tragic ones. He died performing on stage in New York in 1971, and a collection had to be taken up to ship his body home. There is quite a bit of work by Kavouris and Skarvelis on this disc as well. Also some great tracks from Markos, Hatzichristos, and an absolutely great version of Artemis doing his classic, "Girl From Tsitsifies".


A Diamandidis and A Amiralis: Hassapiko Laterna
G. Kavouras: What Can I Do? I Love You!
Takis Nikolaou: In Marigo's "tekes"
Kostas Roukounas: Marika, The Hashish Smoker
Stellakis Perpiniadis: You Don't Remember Who I Am
Stratos Payoumtzis: Amanes Sabah
G. Kavouras: I Have A Secret Sorrow
Markos Vamvakaris: Antonis The Boatman
Anestis Delias: Girl From Tsitsifies
Stratos Payoumtzis: Warm-Hearted Dina
Stellakis Perpiniadis: You Are Not For Me
Marika Frantzeskopoulou ("Politissa"): You Can't Fool Me
G. Kavouras: I Don't Want You To Look At Me
A. Hatzichristos, M Vamvakaris and G. Papaioannou: I'll Drop By Tonight
Georgia Mittaki: Mother, I Want A Man
Stratos Payoumtzis and Stellakis Perpiniadis: I Want Money And A House
Giorgos Kavouas: Don't Refuse Me, Little One
Stellakis Perpiniadis: Magdalo
Stratos Payoumtzis: I Met A Dark-Eyed Girl


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Various: Songs Of Manghes Vol 2.  1926-1940 Various: Songs Of Manghes Vol 2. 1926-1940
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Currently Out of Stock, Expected back Fall 2006

This is the perfect addition to Vol. 1, and generally follows up on that disc's attitude to capture the music of the outcast, fringe society. Especially great here is the Artemis stuff; He was one of the Rembetises to succumb to heroin and was found dead in the streets, clutching his Bouzouki, at age 31. There are also great pieces here by his contemporaries from the Piraeus Quartet, and main staples from Stelios Keromitis and Kostas Skarvelis.


Markos Vamvakaris: Alana From Piraeus
Nota Kalleli: My Girl From Pangrati
Stellakis Perpiniadis: Wily Woman
Markos Vamvakaris: When You See Me Go By
Nontas Sgouras: Gambler
Kostas Roukounas: Don't Speak To Me Any More
Stelios Keromitis: In Baboulas' Dive
Stellakis Perpiniadis: It's Showing
Zacharias Kassimati and Rita Abadzi: The Widow And The Manghas
Yorgos Batis: The Recording Producers
Antonis Diamantidis or Dalgas: Elenaru
Kostas Roukounas: My Pipina
A. Kostis: I Wasted Away
Kostas Roukounas: Soropis
Yorgos Batis: Athenian Taxim And Zeibekiko
Katina Tsakiri and Stratos Payoumtzis: My Zoitsa
Yannis Ioannidis: These Cops
Antonis Diamantidis or Dalgas: Manghas


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Wha Ha Ha: Shinutokiwa Betsu Wha Ha Ha: Shinutokiwa Betsu
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Williams, Gareth: Flaming Tunes Williams, Gareth: Flaming Tunes
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When Gareth Williams died on Christmas Eve 2001 at the age of 48, the world lost a huge personality and a unique creative talent, yet little is known of his work outside of the legendary group This Heat. With this first official release on Compact Disc of Williams's solo and collaborative works from 1985, Life and Living Records take the first steps to correcting this imbalance. "Flaming Tunes" was recorded by Gareth Williams and Mary Currie with input from a variety of contributors including fellow This Heat member Charles Bullen, long term collaborators Martin Harrison and Rick Wilson, Mick Hobbs and others.

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Wyatt, Robert: Dondestan Wyatt, Robert: Dondestan
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Wyatt, Robert: Nothing Can Stop Us Wyatt, Robert: Nothing Can Stop Us
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Wyatt, Robert: Ruth is Stranger than Richard Wyatt, Robert: Ruth is Stranger than Richard
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