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Catalogue # 134 (May-June 2012), online version
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CAN - TAGO MAGO (Spoon CDSPOON6/7: remastered) CD £10.00 Can's ultimate classic! A double
on LP. Although starting on safer ground, the opening three tracks are definitive
Can. With each track it draws the listener in with a succession of even
greater weirdness and invention, not least with two LP side-long excursions,
the groove-along "Halleluwah" and then "Aumgn" with
Jaki's manic drums and electronic effects wizzing off into space, and then
there's "Peking O." where Damo lets out some of the most agonising
vocal sounds amidst a plethora of crazy electronic and percussive effects.
Weird and radical innovation, that still sounds bizarre almost 40 years on!
One of our biggest sellers! Note: restocks of Can CD's, especially at this
price, are uncertain, as Mute have sold-out to EMI! © 1971. |
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ROGER DOYLE - THALIA ·
OIZZO NO (Silverdoor SIDO 012 CD) CD £11.00 Irish master of electroacoustic music
and weirdness, with a great value CD collection of remastered versions of his
two extremely rare 1970's LP classics. Think Pierre Henry, Ron Geesin, and
then throw in lots of Dada surrealism. From strange orchestral, via weird
looping voices through to intense Stockhausen-like wall of sound, it's full
of surprises. Yes, every track a different avenue of exploration. This CD is
now deleted and out of print, but we have quite a few in stock (note that 1
track from "Oizzo No" is omitted). Roger is also the man behind
"Operating Theatre" and is on the Nurse With Wound / NWW list! ©
1975/1976. |
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EARTHSTAR - FRENCH
SKYLINE (Musique Intemporelle CSP 00501) CD £13.00 In the annals of cosmic synth
based music there are only a few genuine classics that are not Klaus Schulze
or Tangerine Dream albums, and this is one of them! An American
multi-keyboard, guitars, etc. outfit that made a few nice instrumental
records in the 1970's-80's. This was their second, made in France & at
Klaus Schulze's studio in Germany. It comprises big tracks with huge drift
developments, leading to sequencer drives, all riddled with Mellotrons and
sizzling/cosmic guitars. Originally on Sky on LP, this is the now long out of
print 1990's CD reissue put out on Bernd Kistenmacher's Musique Intemporelle
label. © 1979. |
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EMBRYO - BAD HEADS
& BAD CATS (April 00005: RE,180g vinyl) LP £12.00 The Krautrock and World music
pioneers Embryo were always breaking new ground, and with this their 8th
studio LP they came up with ever more twists and new inventions. Expanding
and combining the "We Keep On" & "Surfin'" line-ups,
with the addition of American female
jazz singer Maria Archer, this is far superior to the similarly much
touted Real Ax Band album that she also features on. Lots of quirky beats and
grooves are to be found, along with funky diversions & strange soul-jazz
twists. Not definitive Embryo, but an excellent example of how creative and
ground-breaking they were in the 1970's. Great quality deluxe LP edtion. ©
1976. |
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EMBRYO - NI HAU (Indigo 3062-2: DP) CD £12.00 Innovative in the 1970's and still
pushing ever on in the 1990's, in fact Embryo are still active today! This is
one of their two finest releases of the 1990's, strongly featuring and
influenced by Chinese member Xizhe Nie, who plays all sorts of strange
traditional Chinese instruments. "Ni Hau" is "Hello" in
Chinese, and is an apt title for an album that stepped into new uncharted
musical territory. World Music is too simple a term for it, as this fuses all
sorts of cultures with other things that are uniquely Embryo's own creation.
Amon Düül II's Chris Karrer also features plauying oud. This lengthy CD comes
in a nice digipak cover. © 1996 |
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FAUST - RAVVIVANDO (Klangbad 03600-2: DP) CD £12.00 You may find that the catalogue
notes say: I'm not quite sure what to make of this one, as it does get a
little 1960's cheesy, & there's a track with glam-rock feel! But there's
much more to "Ravvivando" than that! True, it is an oddball one,
and very eccentric, with lots of weirdly processed electronics, clunky and
raunchy grooves, side-stepping from the realms of "Krautrock" and
the longer tracks on "Munic & Elsewhere", and there are bits
that recall Neu!, Harmonia, with nods to Stereolab, This Heat and The
Residents as well. There is just the one track that irks me a little with its
rhythm that sounds like an old Gary Glitter number! © 1999 |
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GURU GURU - UFO (Spalax 14296) CD £13.00 Of all the early Ohr LP's Guru
Guru's "UFO" is one of the best of what was one of the best ever labels!
Incredible Krautrock freaked-out space-music trip, way beyond Pink Floyd's
"Interstellar Overdrive". They were more commonly compared with
Cream by the media. But that's only a hint at the freaky sound of Guru Guru.
Intense, dark, crazed space-music, with extraordinary drummer Mani Neumeier,
pyrotechnical guitarist Ax Genrich, and the solidly weird bassist Uli Trepte.
This is the pure, ecstatic demented acid-rock trip, and a guitar freaks
delight! We presently have just 7 copies of this now deleted Spalax CD in
stock! © 1970. |
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GURU GURU - MOSHI MOSHI (Think Progressive TPCD 1.705.001) CD £12.00 Few bands could still claim to
be making innovative music after 30 years, but Guru Guru kept on reinventing
themselves and bouncing back with the occasional surprising classic. The 1990's
classic was "Wah Wah" a full of innovation potpourri delight which
won them the chance to tour and play in Japan. "Moshi Moshi" is
what the Japanese say when they answer the telephione, and excepting the
poppy "Jet Lag" is another fine and varied mix of eclectic
Krautrock and World Music fusions, strongly featuring Roland Schaeffer (ex
Brainstorm) and with Luigi Archetti (Tiere Der Nacht) freaking out on guitar.
Last stock copies of the original CD! © 1997 |
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GURU GURU / ULI TREPTE HOT ON SPOT / INBETWEEN (Tripkick 001: 180g
vinyl) LP £12.00 Originally release on LP on
Nurse With Wound's United Dairies label, this is a real gem of an LP. One
side is a crazed and extended lengthy version of the classic "Der
LSD-Marsch" full of scattering rhythms, shattered guitars and manic
drives, heading of into space. The other side is a demo half LP (recorded for
Brain, but unreleased) by Uli's short-lived hybrid band in between Guru Guru
and Kickbit Information / Spacebox. It features Embryo musicians: Roman Bunka
and Christian Burchard, and Frumpy drummer Carsten Bohn. It is all delightful
off-kilter Krautrock that shouldn't be overlooked! Long deleted, high quality
LP pressing! |
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MANEIGE - LIVE MONTREAL
1974/1975 (Fonovox VOX 7964-2: DP) CD £13.00 Originally unreleased live
recordings from this seminal Canadian band, in between their first and second
albums. Maneige were pioneers in Canadian rock, starting as a largely
acoustic ensemble, with flutes, saxophone, guitars, and keyboards, added to
the usual rhythm section, bridging classical music, systemic, prog & RIO
genres. They were undoubtedly influenced by fellow Canadiand L'Infonie, and
in turn were a big influence on Miriodor. Their concoction crossed from melodic Henry Cow realms, via
Canterbury and Camel realms onto jazzy Zappa/Mothers-isms. This is now a
rare/deleted CD, of which we have 10 copies left. |
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NEKTAR - LIVE IN NEW
YORK (Bacillus 288.09.102) CD £12.00 At the tail-end of their best period
the German based British rock band Nektar ventured to America for some
prestigous gigs. This release documents such gigs in New York, in 1974 and
their last with Roye Albrighton. It contains lots of classic tracks from
"A tab In The Ocean" and "Sounds Like This" fleshed-out
with extended jams and such-like. This long deleted CD issue (just 4 copies
in stock) has two 2 tracks omitted from the 2LP set. We also have in stock 2
copies of LIVE IN NEW YORK (Bacillus 320.09.002: GF) 2LP £18.00, early 1990's
pressings that are pretty authentic to the original. |
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NEU! - NEU! 2 (Gronland 7243 5 30781 2) CD £13.00 The Klaus Dinger & Michael
Rother duo of Neu! were born out of the original Kraftwerk 1st LP line-up, and
took the metronimic Kraftwerky beat to more aggressive guitar fronted realms.
Motorik beat some people call it, and an influence on dozens of bands,
Mushroom and Stereolab to name but too. The second Neu! album is one side in
their typical style, a couple of beaty riffers counterpointing a spacier
trip, and a second side that's largely mutilated tapes of their single, given
the cut-up and trash-up treatment! Excellent stuff if you can take it. These
are last copies of the 2001 official reissue with poster/fold-out insert. ©
1973. |
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NOISE-MAKER'S FIFES -
PUBLIC FRONTATION (Twin Tub & Beaver CD 01/NMT CD-04) CD £9.00 There's nothing quite like the mind-boggling
bizarre Belgian outfit the Noise-Maker's Fifes. They just simply defy any
attempt at classification. They may often sound like an avant-improv outfit
in the vein of someone like Morphogenesis, yet they also take in classical
influences, vaguely rock elements and are not so much improv but largely
composed and conceptual with their works. Eric Faes of Univers Zero
management fame is also involved as a musician in the band. This remarkable
80 minute CD documents them in concert, with weird avant soundscapes, collage
and atonal vaguely Third Ear Band like textures. Unique. © 1996 |
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OPERATING THEATRE -
RAPID EYE MOVEMENTS (United Dairies UD 011CD: 1xBT) CD £11.00 Roger Doyle's much celebrated
United Dairies LP sonic art opus. A mixture of sound-thertre, collage,
electronics and studio processing, it's much like being lost in a surreal
sound movie for almost an hour, as he plays games with audio perception, and
breathtakingly vivid 3D sound.
Created by music-concrete techniques, it is often close to Karlheinz
Stockhausen's masterwork "Hymnen" Region's 3 & 4, with its
massive gliding descending walls of sound, jerking squiggle-splats, rotating
effects, etc. This CD also includes: Temple Music - Earth To Earth
(1991-1992). Deleted now rare CD - original United Dairies edition ©
1982/1995 |
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OUT OF FOCUS - NOT TOO
LATE Tripkick 004: 180g vinyl) LP £12.00 The Munich Krautrock fusion
masters. Lost for 25 years, this is very much in the spirit of LP1 from
"Four Letter Monday Afternoon" with great Out Of Focus songs, &
brilliant Soft Machine "Third" era / Embryo instrumentals! Kuckuck
withdrew interest in Krautrock in the mid-1970's, leaving Out Of Focus
without the chance of a contract elsewhere. There were plans for a release
with April/Schneeball in 1975, in fact an album was recorded, and then lost
as band leader Remi eventually gave-up trying to keep the band afloat. This
is that lost 4th Out of Focus album, restored from those old lost tapes. Last
original LP copies! Also on CD on Cosmic Egg. |
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OUT OF FOCUS - RAT
ROADS (Tripkick 006: 180g vinyl) LP £12.00 Such heady days for Out Of
Focus, there was lots more material recorded during the "Four Letter
Monday Afternoon" sessions. But the tapes remained lost in old dusty
boxes for over two decades! Reassembled and remastered they became this LP,
yet another excellent collection, typically Out Of Focus, that is a bit Xhol,
a bit Thirsty Moon and a nod towards all things trippy/jazzy Canterbury! I
also hear some Embryo and Zappa/Mothers elements here, as well as some
familiar themes, lots of totally new and different ideas. In all, excellent!
As with the "Not Too Late" LP this is an original 180g vinyl
pressing on the defunct Nexus label! |
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PULSAR - BIENVENUE AU
CONSEIL D'ADMINISTRATION (SOUNDTRACK) (Musea FGBG 2020: IN) LP £12.00 Pulsar are best-known for 3
classic early/mid 1970 LP's of cosmic Pink Floyd meets Camel done the French
way! After that they moved into the arts, doing some theatrical scores,
multi-media spectacles and such-like. This LP is a document of one such
extravaganza, with the Pink Floyd influence being more "Shine
On..." and "Animals" along with the usual Pulsar sylisms,
adding new-wave touches, and all sorts of surprising new ideas. An excellent
album. The original LP is extremely rare. And this Musea LP reissue is now
also pretty scarce! © 1981 |
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SBB - GRUPA SBB (Muza PNCD 342) CD £9.00 SBB started as the backing band
of Polish rock/blues singer Czeslaw Niemen, who after touring as support to
Mahavishnu Orchestra in Europe split from Niemen and continued as one of the
hottest rock fusion outfits in Eastern Europe. This CD is the full concert
recording of SBB's 1974 debut LP, with the bonus of 20 minutes more classic
SBB adding up to an awesome 54 minutes. Sizzling guitars, distorted fuzz
bass, and manic surging "tunnel drives" are the patent SBB,
counterpointed by prog songs /ballads and cosmic/spacey excursions. We
forgive them the drab opener (play from track 2) and the 13 minute encore
blues/rock 'n' roll medley! |
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CONRAD SCHNITZLER -
LIVE ACTION 1977 (Plate Lunch VGR LA 1977-PL 02) LP £8.00 (Plate Lunch VGR LA 1977-PL 02: clear vinyl) LP £11.00 The prolific and innovative
Conrad Schnitzler, of Tangerine Dream's "Electronic Meditation",
Kluster and Eruption, here with an originally unreleased live LP of VCS3
craziness from 1977. All chipry rasping bleeps, whooses, sizzles, and
such-like in big evolutive sound slabs,
that kind of feels like "Con" aka "Ballet
Statique" meets "Rot" in a blender! If you know what I mean!
This LP only release comes in a unique embossed print metallic almost
mirror-like LP sleeve and a choice of vinyl types. A limited pressing from
2002 it's sure to be rare now! |
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STORMY SIX - UN
CONCERTO (Radio Popolare-Sensible SSB 004) CD £12.00 Pioneers of a unique prog genre
all of their own, Stormy Six were the Italian representatives of the RIO
movement, along with Henry Cow, Samla Mammas Manna, Univers Zero, etc. Stormy
Six though were fish out of water really, with a politico-folk style taking
in all sorts of cultures, old and new, and were extremely eclectic. This
excellent CD documents a few reformation concert recordings where they
faithfully step-back to the classic late-1970's to early-1980's style, whilst
also throwing in a few surprises and new ideas. An easier first step than
some albums, into the world of Stormy Six, it's an essential starter! |
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TRIANGLE - TRIANGLE (Mantra 016: IN) LP £15.00 Triangle were one of the most
important and seminal of Paris rock bands born out of the psychedelic era.
This, their debut LP, is a gem akin to other bands such as Ame Son, Martin Circus,
Coeur Magique, etc., influenced by British psych and blues, but totally
French (actually some songs are sung in French, some in English) with big
tracks that have extended instrumental breaks, guitars, keyboards and winds,
etc. In all, and original and complex blend of styles. The original Pathé LP
is extremely rare and pricey! These LP reissues date from 1989, and had been
languishing lost in a French distriubutor warehouse! |
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WAPASSOU - MESSE EN RE MINEUR (Musea FGBG 4111.AR) CD £13.00 Wapassou hailed from Strasbourg,
France, and were one of the most original of prog bands around. The totally
unique "new formula" Wapassou, debuted in 1976 with this their
second album. A single LP long opus / suite, based around keyboards (mostly
organ and synthesizer), violin, bass guitar, and lovely lucious / unusual
female vocals. Think of a baroque spacey Pink Floyd meeting Popol Vuh, and
you may get closer to imagining the Wapassou sound. Or, maybe not! This, now
long-deleted and rare CD joins the LP sides back together for a single 40
minute opus that's beguiling and engrossing. A totally original album! © 1976 |
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WLUD - SECOND (Musea FGBG 4187.AR) CD £13.00 There was a genre of progressive
rock in the mid 1970's through the early 1980's that was uniquely French.
Pioneers were bands such as Shylock, Asia Minor, and many obscure
lesser-knowns. Most were instrumental, or largely instrumental, and played a
music that was full of complexities, unusual rhythms, structures, etc. WLUD
are one such obscure band. Their instrumental concoction has hints of early
Camel & Yes, along with a slightly new-wave/indie edge, but is pure prog.
Note: this CD reissue also features their 2 singles from 1981 & a previously
unreleased track from 1983, these tracks are not instrumental! © 1979 |
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