Meet The Residents

Original Mono Recording

A1		Boots	1:30
		Written-By - Lee Hazelwood*
A2		Numb Erone	1:23
A3		Guylum Bardot	1:22
A4		Breath And Length	1:45
		Vocals - Ruth Essex
A5		Consuelo's Departure	1:55
A6		Smelly Tongues	1:35
		Vocals - Wool
A7		Rest Aria	5:41
A8		Skratz	1:18
A9		Spotted Pinto Bean	6:37
		Oboe - Phillip Friehofner Piano - James Whitaker Vocals - Pamala Wieking
B1		Infant Tango	6:01
		Bass - Bobby Tagney Bass, Guitar - James Aaron
B2		Seasoned Greetings	5:12
B3		N-ER-GEE	10:06

"Meet The Residents was originally released in 1974, on the Ralph Records label. The tapes were monaural recordings on home equipment and suffered further fidelity loss in the mastering and pressing stages. In 1976, The Cryptic Corporation came into legal possession of The Residents recordings, and began working on how to restore these original tapes to studio quality. Using the master tape as a directive, the album was disassembled, reprocessed, and reconstructed into this stereophonic version. No re-recording was employed. The artists who appear on this recording have personally approved this as an authorized realization of the original LP."
The Cryptic Corporation

flac

This particular pressing is the first in a series of reissues. 12,000 copies were pressed once the 1000 original copies had sold out. It features the old Ralph logo on both front and rear with the split black and white 'a' of 'Ralph'. Also, and this is true of both this pressing and the following pressing of reissues, the rear cover is black and white with the original liner notes in a column on the left half and on the right half we have the picture of the original sleeve and tracklisting etc.


This particular pressing is the second in a series of reissues. 5000 copies were pressed. It features the old Ralph logo on the front with the split black and white 'a' of 'Ralph'. But on the Ralph logo on the rear cover the 'a' is completely black (on the first pressing of reissues this is also split). Also, the rear cover is black and white with the original liner notes in a column on the left half and right half we have the picture of the original sleeve and tracklisting etc.


This particular pressing is the third in a series of Ralph reissues. This pressing, which features the 'starfish' front cover, is different from the previous two reissues because aside from the front cover being a slightly darker orange the rear cover is not only completely altered, re-arranged and styled but, most obviously of all, is in colour, whereas the previous two re-issues were in black and white. It also features the modified Ralph logo with black 'a' on both front and rear cover.


Limited edition of 3500 copies released to celebrate the bands 13th anniversary.


"Deluxe Edition" on 200 gram vinyl with gatefold sleeve.
A reissue (2003) of the 1974 Album with original cover. There was also a limited edition (500 copies) made on green vinyl.

Euroralph Reissue with original cover.
Green vinyl, 500 copies with a printed/numbered inner sleeve
Black vinyl, not limited / not numbered / no printed inner sleeve.


Meet The Residents Flexi

1000 copies of this limited edition flexi were made and given away free with File magazine.

Contains excerpts from The Residents LP 'Meet The Residents'.

Excerpts of the following songs: Numb Erone; Guylum Bardot; Smelly Tongues; Rest Aria; N-ER-GEE (A Crisis Bluesuite); Seasoned Greetings


Concentrated



Meet The Residents Sessions (flac)
Zip 001
Zip 002

1. unknown
2. unknown
3. numb erone 1
4. consuelo's departure
5. smelly tongues 1
6. smelly tongues 2
7. smelly tongues 3
8. guylum bardot 1
9. numb erone-guylum bardot
10. guylum bardot 2
11. guylum bardot 3
12. infant tango 1
13. breath and length
14. numb erone 2
15. nooh nooh nooh
16. nooh nooh nooh jam
17. moles
18. infant tango2
19. smelly tongues 4
20. skratz

Harry Partch

Born: 24 June 1901 in Oakland, California, USA.
Died: 3 September 1974 in San Diego, California, USA.

Harry Partch, one of the greatest and most individualistic composers of all time, was not only a great composer, but an innovative theorist who broke through the shackles of many centuries of one tuning system for all of Western music, a music instrument inventor who created dozens of incredible instruments for the performance of his music, and a musical dramatist who created his own texts and dance/theatre extravaganzas based on everything from Greek mythology to his own experiences as a hobo. Between 1930 and 1972, he created one of the most amazing bodies of sensually alluring and emotionally powerful music of the 20th century: music dramas, dance theater, multi-media extravaganzas, vocal music and chamber music---mostly all performed on the instruments he built himself.

The Harry Partch Collection Volume 1

1 Eleven Intrusions: Study on Olympos' Pentatonic
2 Eleven Intrusions: Study on Archytas' Enharmonic
3 Eleven Intrusions: The Rose
4 Eleven Intrusions: The Crane
5 Eleven Intrusions: The Waterfall
6 Eleven Intrusions: The Wind
7 Eleven Intrusions: The Street
8 Eleven Intrusions: Lover
9 Eleven Intrusions: Soldiers - War - Another War
10 Eleven Intrusions: Vanity
11 Eleven Intrusions: Cloud-Chamber Music
12 I. Castor & Pollux: Castor
13 I. Castor & Pollux: Pollux
14 II. Ring Around The Moon: Phase One
15 II. Ring Around The Moon: Phase Two
16 II. Ring Around The Moon: Phase Three
17 II. Ring Around The Moon: Phase Four
18 III. Even Wild Horses: Act I, Scene 1
19 III. Even Wild Horses: Act I, Scene 2
20 III. Even Wild Horses: Act I, Scene 3
21 III. Even Wild Horses: Act II, Scene 1
22 III. Even Wild Horses: Act II, Scene 2
23 III. Even Wild Horses: Act II, Scene 3
24 III. Even Wild Horses: Act III, Scene 1
25 III. Even Wild Horses: Act III, Scene 2
26 Ulysses At The Edge

Conductor - Horace Schwartz (tracks: 12-25)
Performers - Gate 5 Ensemble (Evanston) (tracks: 26) , Gate 5 Ensemble (Sausalito) (tracks: 12-25)
Principal Vocals - Harry Partch (tracks: 1-11)
Voice - Allan Louw (tracks: 18-25) , Lynn Ludlow (tracks: 14-17)
Notes
Tracks 1-11 recorded in 1950-51 in Gualala, California.
Tracks 12-25 recorded in 1953 in Sausalito, California.
Track 26 recorded in 1958 in Evanston, Illinois.
Recordings originally released on Gate 5 Records



The Harry Partch Collection Volume 2

The Wayward
1 I. U.S. Highball - A Musical Account Of A Transcontinental Hobo Trip (1943, Rev. 1955) 25:21
Conductor - Jack McKenzie
Performer [Gate 5 Ensemble (evanston, Illinois)] - Danlee Mitchell , David Reid , Dick Borden , Elizabeth Gentry , Harry Partch , Melvin Britton , Melvin Wildberger , Michael Colgrass , Thomas Coleman
2 II. San Francisco - A Setting Of The Cries Of Two Newsboys On A Foggy Night In The Twenties (1943, Rev. 1955) 2:29
Organ [Chromelodeon] - Elizabeth Gentry
Percussion [Kithara Ii] - Danlee Mitchell
Viola [Adapted], Vocals - Harry Partch
3 III. The Letter (1943, Rev. 1972) 2:48
Dulcimer [Harmonic Canon Iii] - Dennis Dunn
Percussion [New Kithara I], Percussion [Surrogate Kithara] - David Dunn
Percussion [Omicron Belly Drum] - Randy Hoffman
Performer - Ben Johnston , Betty Johnston , Donald Pippin
Vocals, Percussion [Omicron Belly Drum] - Harry Partch
4 IV. Barstow - Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions From A Highway Railing At Barstow, California (1941, Rev. 1968) 9:56
Performer [The Harry Partch Ensemble] - Alan Silverstein , Danlee Mitchell , Francis Thumm , Gary Irvine , Randy Hoffman , Ron Caruso
And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (1963–64, Rev. 1966)
5 And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (1963–64, Rev. 1966) 35:51
Performer [The Gate 5 Ensemble] - Danlee Mitchell , Emil Richards , Harry Partch , Michael Ranta , Stephen Tosh , Wallace Snow

Tracks 1 through 4 are parts of Partch's composition "The Wayward"
Tracks 1 & 2 recorded in 1958 in Evanston, Illinois
Track 3 recorded in 1972 in Encinitas and San Diego, California and contained "dubbed-in interludes" from a 1950 performance
Track 4 recorded live in 1982 at Mills College, Oakland, California
Track 5 recorded in 1964 in Petaluma, California and 1966 in Venice, California


The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3

1 The Dreamer That Remains - A Study In Loving (1972) 10:29
2 Windsong (1958) 11:36
3 Rotate The Body In All Its Planes - Ballad For Gymnasts (1961) 8:52
Water! Water! - An Intermission With Prologues And Epilogues (1961) (Excerpts Selected By The Composer)
4 The Opening Prologue, And The Second Prologue, In Which The Instruments Attack The Producer 2:59
5 Water Criers And Lead-In Lines, O What Could He Do But Pick Her Up? (Jazzmen) 4:04
6 Water Criers And Lead-In Lines, Witch For Water (Witches) / The Aldermen’s Fugue On No. Wanda The Water Witch (Jazzmen) 5:59
7 Santa Mystiana The Beautiful (Her Honor And Conductor) 2:39
8 Water Criers. Visitors From Strange And Foreign Places: The Singer From Spoleto, And An Alabama Mockingbird - Dear Old Alabama 2:02
9 We Really Love Each Other. In 43 Whines To The Octave (Aldermen, Ladies’ Auxiliary, Jazzmen, Witches) 1:41
10 Water Criers. The Baseball Game Is Called On Account Of Rain! 3:17
11 To Hell With The Game! Rain! Rain! The Highest Goodness Is Like Water (Whole Ensemble) 2:26
12 Opening Epilogue (After Three Days Of Rain). Ghosts, Undele, Oomph! / (The Indian Ghosts Dance Over Clarence’s Body And Play On Liquor Bottles) 2:56
13 Water Criers. Intervening Dialogue. We’ll Sue You For A Million! (Her Honor And Jazzmen) 3:03
14 Do-Lo-Do-Lo --- Doom! (Aldermen, Ladies, And Ghosts) / Phoebus Bids Farewell. The Indian Runners Bring News. The Final Song And Dance, Gone, Man, Gone! (Whole Ensemble). With The Descending Moan Of The Siren Phoebus Plunges Wildly Into Nothingness. 4:55
15 Eighth Epilogue - The Producer Finally Silences The Instruments. / Final Epilogue: “The Highest Goodness Is Like Water.” 1:48

Historic recordings supervised by the composer and first released on Gate 5 Records.
Booklet includes librettos, historic photos and new liner notes.

Recorded in 1972, San Diego, California (1), 1958, Chicago, Illinois (2), 1961, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (3), 1962, Urbana, Illinois (4 to 15).

Total playing Time: 69:18


The Harry Partch Collection Volume 4:

The Bewitched, A Dance-Satire (1955) (74:43)
1 Prologue - The Lost Musicians Mix Magic 18:08
2 Scene 1 - Three Undergrads Become Transfigured In A Hong Kong Music Hall 5:30
3 Scene 2 - Exercises In Harmony And Counterpoint Are Tried In A Court Of Ancient Ritual 5:07
4 Scene 3 - The Romancing Of A Pathological Liar Comes To An Inspired End 5:33
5 Scene 4 - A Soul Tormented By Contemporary Music Finds A Humanizing Alchemy 5:39
6 Scene 5 - Visions Fill The Eyes Of A Defeated Basketball Team In The Shower Room 4:20
7 Scene 6 - Euphoria Descends A Sausalito Stairway 4:17
8 Scene 7 - Two Detectives On The Tail Of A Tricky Culprit Turn In Their Badges 5:32
9 Scene 8 - A Court In Its Own Contempt Rises To A Motherly Apotheosis 5:27
10 Scene 9 - A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among The Voteless Women Of Paradise 5:57
11 Scene 10 - The Cognoscenti Are Plunged Into A Demonic Descent While At Cocktails 9:18

This is a recording of the first performance of Harry Partch's dance-satire, which took place at the University of Illinois' Champaign-Urbana campus in 1957.
The performance featured musical instruments designed and built by the composer and played by above mentioned members of the University of Illinois Musical Ensemble.
℗ 1973 & © 1997 Composers Recordings, Inc.

This recording was originally released on Partch's own label, Gate 5, has been previously issued in 1990 on CRI as CD 7001, and was reissued in 2005 on New World Records as 80624-2.

Nash The Slash

Nashville Thebodiah Slasher

Profile:Nash The Slash has been creating his unique concept of sound and vision for over twenty years. His first live presentation of music to film was a performance to the surreal silent film "Un Chien Andalou" at the Roxy Theatre in Toronto.

Nash The Slash was born of silent film. The name comes from a killer butler encountered by Laurel and Hardy in their first film 'Do Detectives Think? ' 1927). Nash the musician has gone on to create the music scores for such recent cult films as "Roadkill" and "Highway 61' - both directed by Bruce McDonald.

Between experiments with film and music. Nash The Slash became a familiar name to music fans through his association with the pop electronic group FM. Having co-written the hit songs "Phasors on Stun " and "Just Like You" Nash established his credibility as a versatile artist. His talents have been recognized with a U-KNOW (later called CASBY) award for best instrumental artist as well as a JUNO nomination for best new male vocalist. Nash's profile was raised on the international stage when he toured the world with the likes of Gary Numan and Iggy Pop. Other high- profile shows include opening for The Who at C.N.E. Stadium in Toronto to a crowd of 70,000 people, and opening for The Tubes at a sold-out Maple Leaf Gardens.

Nash has recently recorded new music for the silent film classics "The cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919) and "The Lost World "(1925).

Nash continues to do unique film scores for other silent film classics including "Nosferatu" the original "Phantom of the Opera " and "Lost In Space"



Children of the Night CD 2000

1 Wolf 4:51
2 Dead Man's Curve 3:32
3 Children Of The Night 4:15
4 Deep Forest 0:54
5 Glass Eye 4:47
6 19th Nervous Breakdown 3:27
7 Swing Shift 3:44
8 Metropolis 1:00
9 Dopes On The Water 6:03
10 Danger Zone 4:15

Bonus Tracks
11 Wolf (Live) 5:51
12 Danger Zone (Live) 4:44
13 Reactor No.2 4:19
14 Swing Shift (Original 45 Rpm Version) 4:22
15 Swing Shift (Flexi Version) 3:22
16 Children Of The Night (Live) 4:45



Decomposing 1981

A1 The Calling
A2 Life In Loch Ness
B1 Womble
B2 Pilgrim's Lament

This is the first album playable at any speed. Being all-instrumental music, there are no voices to affect the realism of the orchestrations. Thus the album becomes a collection of electronic concertos, each movement being defined by the speed of the turntable. A turntable with speeds of 16,33, 45 and 78 rpm, creates a different ratio within the pieces, yet maintains a familiar melodic drama.



And You Thought You Were Normal 1982

A1 Citizen
A2 Pretty Folks
A3 RSVP
A4 Vincent's Crows
A5 Dance After Curfew
B1 Normal
B2 The Hypnotist
B3 Remember When
B4 Animal Jamboree
B5 Stalker

Lyrics By - Toby Dammit



American Band-Ages 1984

A1 (American Bandstand Theme) Bandstand Boogie 0:39
A2 American Band 3:34
A3 Born To Be Wild 4:04
A4 Who Do You Love? 4:08
A5 1984 (West Side Version) 5:35
B1 Bandstand Boogie Reprise 0:26
B2 Hey Joe 3:34
B3 Psychotic Reaction 5:29
B4 1984 (Dance Version) 6:35
B5 Run Through The Jungle 0:35


In-A-Gadda-Da-Nash (2008)


Astronomy Domine
21st Century Schizoid Man
Animal Magentism
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Baba O'Riley
Follow the Leader
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Constantinople

Here, in Jeffrey Morgan’s Media Blackout #165, I have discovered the great ray that first brought life into the world!

SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Nash The Slash - In-A-Gadda-Da-Nash (Cut-Throat) :: Elegantly tuxedoed like Cary Grant in George Cukor’s Holiday and hideously bandaged like Claude Rains in James Whale’s The Invisible Man, the revered and reviled serial sonic psychotron known as Nash The Slash has been number one in a field of one ever since he first began creating his own insidious sound of music from deep within secreted studio walls located somewhere inside of an abandoned subway station miles beneath the filthy sidewalks of Toronto.

Armed only with a Strickfaden array of hyper-amped violins, mandolins, synths and drum machines, Nash proceeded to unleash upon an unsuspecting society a senses-shattering series of aural album assaults whose titles said it all: Bedside Companion. Dreams And Nightmares. Decomposing. Children Of The Night.

These unreasonably unrelenting records led to Nash being smuggled into Europe to work with the likes of Gary Numan and Bill Nelson, only to be abruptly expelled from the continent by the EU as "a deviant influence not only on humanity but on all life itself" after angry villagers caught a rare glimpse of his grisly ungauzed visage late one night in an iniquitous den of ill repute on the Rue Morgue.

Safely ensconced back home in his underground lair, Nash donned his stained leather apron and threw himself into his work with a renewed vengeance born of righteous anger that would ultimately be made manifest in the records which were to follow: the corrupt social commentary on And You Thought You Were Normal; the modern urban brutality of Thrash; the silent cinema soundtrack to Nosferatu; and his first ever album of cover versions, American BandAges.

Now the Slasher strikes again with an even greater new record of covers that extends from the obvious (Baba O’Riley and Astronomy Domine) to the obscure (Follow The Leaders and Constantinople) to the omnipresent (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald). So don’t be an angry villager: buy it now!

TG 24

CD01 Recorded Live at I.C.A., London, 18th Oct 1976.
CD02 Recorded Live at Winchester and Air Gallery, London, 21st Aug 1976.
CD03 Recorded Live at Nags Head, High Wycombe, 11th Feb 1977.
CD04 Recorded Live at Brighton Polytechnic, 26th Mar 1977.
CD05 Recorded Live at Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, 7th May 1977.
CD06 Recorded Live at Rat Club, Pindar London, 22nd May 1977.
CD07 Recorded Live at Highbury Roadhouse, London, 29th Sept 1977.
CD08 Recorded Live at Winchester Art School, 11 Nov 1977.
CD09 Recorded Live at Rat Club, Pinda London, 17th Dec 1977.
CD10 Recorded Live at Brighton Polytechnic, 25th Feb 1978.
CD11 Recorded Live at Architectural Association, London, 3rd March 1978.
CD12 Recorded Live at Goldsmith's College, London, 18th May 1978.
CD13 Recorded Live at Industrial Training College, Wakefield, 1st July 1978
CD14 Recorded Live at Film Makers Co-Op, London, 6th July 1978.
CD15 Recorded Live at Cryptic One Club, London, 11th Nov 1978.
CD16 Recorded Live at Centro Iberico, London, 21st Jan 1979.
CD17 Recorded Live at Ajanta Cinema, Derby, 12th april 1979.
CD18 Recorded Live at Sheffield University, 25th April 1979.
CD19 Recorded Live at The Factory, Manchester, 19th May 1979.
CD20 Recorded Live at Guild Hall, Northampton, 26th May 1979.
CD21 Recorded Live at Y.M.C.A., London, 3rd Aug 1979.
CD22 Recorded Live at Butlers Wharf London, 23rd Dec 1979.
CD23 Recorded Live at Fan Club, Leeds, 24th Feb 1980.
CD24 Recorded Live at Scala Cinema, London, 1980.
CD25 Recorded Live at Goldsmith's College, London, 13 Mar 1980.

Remastered 25XCD version of the original "24 Hour" boxed set of 24 live C60 tapes released on Industrial Records.

Box Contents:
1x certificate of authenticity
1x wax sealed envelope
2x patches
3x stickers
4x pictures of TG
4x collage prints (1 of 2 made by each member of the band specifically for this release)
3x button badges
1x newsletter (history, tracklists etc.)

Included newsletter and all marketing has suggested that 1 cd (IRCD26 Scala Cinema) was ommited due to a technical problem with the original tape and that (IRCD29 Goldsmith's College, London 1980) was substituted for it instead. However both are contained in the boxset making the total number of cds 25 not 24.

For the compilation 4cd Live Box go here

Dogs Blood Order

Dogs Blood Order

1 Maldoror Is Dead (Live At The Clarendon) 30:31
Mixed By - Roger Smith
2 Maldoror Ceases To Exist (Live At The Equinox Festival) 10:28
Mixed By - John Fothergill , Steven Stapleton
Performer - Derek Thompson , Roger Smith

1997 CD UK DurtroDURTRO039CD
1000 In jewel case
1997 12" UK DurtroDURTRO039
1000 Red vinyl copies in regular sleeve
2007 February 12" UK DurtroDURTRO039
14 Black vinyl test pressing copies in signed and personalized sleeve with gold ink drawing
Hand-written labels in black ink
2008 September mp3 & flac UK Durtro

After releasing one record LAShtAl, under the name of Current 93, we briefly became Dogs Blood Order. This release gathers together recordings of the two concerts we played; there were no studio recordings.
The first concert was at The Equinox Event, which took place at The London Musician's Co-op in Camden Town, North London, on June 21, 1983. Dogs Blood Order were then: David Tibet and John Murphy. The sound was mixed by Roger Smith. The second was at the Clarendon, in Hammersmith, West London, on October 6, 1983. Dogs Blood Order were now: David Tibet, John Murphy, Roger Smith, and Derek (second name forgotten, though he had played for SPK). The sound was mixed by Steven Stapleton and John Fothergill, of Nurse With Wound.
The image on the cover, Maldoror Is Dead, was the first piece of art designed by Steven Stapleton for us. I can never thank him enough for all he has done for and with me. The reocrding of The Equinox Event was done onto low quality cassette. The recording at The Clarendon was done onto stereo 1/4" tape. Three people clapped at the end of the latter concert. They were being sarcastic.


Current 93 / Dogs Blood Order / Death In June

Dogs Blood Order 10" Vinyl

A1 Current 93 - Great Black Time Pt. I 3:50
A2 Current 93 - Imperium 6:10
A3 Current 93 - Great Black Time 8:00
B1 Dogs Blood Order - Dogs Blood Order 11:40
B2 Death In June - Behind The Rose (Fields Of Rape) 4:00
Vocals - David Tibet

Comes in a thin gatefold sleeve. Limited to 500 copies.
Track A1 is recorded live at Indipendenti Festival, Italy, 1987, track A2 live at Neu Konservativ Festival, Hamburg, Germany, 1985, track B1 live at Equinox Event Festival, London, UK, 1983 and track B2 live at The Fridge, London, UK, 1984.

Ambient 1234

Ambient 1

Music For Airports (1978)

1 1/1 17:21
Composed By - Rhett Davies
Composed By, Piano [Acoustic] - Robert Wyatt
Engineer - Rhett Davies
2 1/2 8:54
Engineer - David Hutchins
Voice - Christa Fast , Christine Gomez , Inge Zeininger
3 2/1 12:07
Engineer - David Hutchins
Voice - Christa Fast , Christine Gomez , Inge Zeininger
4 2/2 9:38
Engineer - Conny Plank

Composed By, Engineer, Producer - Brian Eno
Artwork By [Concept And Design], Liner Notes - Brian Eno
Artwork By [Original Masters Re-design, Of The Red Room/emi] - Andrew Day
Technician [Ampex 2ch Tape Playback With Aria Electronics] - David Hill

NOTE: The track 'titles' are in fact just arbitrary 'positions' on the release itself. The titles are the 'pictures', which are drawings of what the music supposedly 'sounds like', an attempt by the artist to transcribe electronic music beyond the confines of conventional musical notation.
Track timings are significantly in error on the release artwork, actual timings given here.


Ambient 2

The Plateaux Of Mirror (1980)

1 First Light 7:08
2 Steal Away 1:29
Composed By - Eugene Bowen
3 The Plateaux Of Mirror 4:14
4 Above Chiangmai 2:55
5 An Arc Of Doves 6:29
6 Not Yet Remembered 3:50
7 The Chill Air 2:13
8 Among Fields Of Crystal 3:24
9 Wind In Lonely Fences 3:58
10 Failing Light 4:14

Composed By - Brian Eno (tracks: 1, 3 to 10) , Harold Budd
Instruments [Other Instruments], Effects [Treatments], Producer - Brian Eno
Piano [Acoustic], Electric Piano - Harold Budd
Technician [Ampex 2ch Tape Playback With Aria Electronics] - David Hill


Ambient 3

Day Of Radiance (1980)

The Dance
1 #1 9:06
2 #2 9:39
3 #3 3:15
Meditation
4 #1 18:42
5 #2 7:50

Producer - Brian Eno
Written-By - Laraaji


Ambient 4

On Land (1982)

A1 Lizard Point 4:30
Bass - Bill Laswell
Guitar - Axel Gros
Synthesizer - Michael Beinhorn
A2 The Lost Day 9:29
A3 Tal Coat 5:48
A4 Shadow 3:03
Trumpet - Jon Hassell
B1 Lantern Marsh 5:35
B2 Unfamiliar Wind 5:16
B3 A Clearing 4:06
B4 Dunwich Beach, Autumn, 1960 7:08
Engineer [Live Equalization] - Daniel Lanois
Guitar - Michael Brook

Artwork By [Design & Text] - Brian Echo
Artwork By [Typography] - Chong-Donnie
Composed By - Axel Gros (tracks: A1) , Bill Laswell (tracks: A1) , Brian Eno , Michael Beinhorn (tracks: A1)
Engineer - Andy Lydon , Barry Sage , Cheryl Smith , Daniel Lanois , John Potoker , Julie Last , Martin Bisi , Neal Teeman
Mastered By - Greg Calbi
Producer - Brian Eno

Recorded between September 1978 and January 1982.

The Golden Hare With A Voice Of Silver

A Guide For Beginners: A Silver Voice

1-01 Amethyst Deceivers
1-02 Lost Rivers Of London
1-03 Are You Shivering?
1-04 Ostia (The Death Of Pasolini)
1-05 Where Are You?
1-06 At The Heart Of It All
1-07 A Cold Cell
1-08 Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)
1-09 Who'll Fall?
1-10 The Dreamer Is Still Asleep

An anthology release of ambient/introspective tracks from Coil's back-catalogue, plus the new track "A Cold Cell".

The first of two anthology CDs created to mark Coil's live performance in Moscow on September 15, 2001.
This volume features a selection of melancholy and melodic pieces from throughout Coil's career, along with the new track "A Cold Cell".
The English title given above is a loose translation of the Russian title devised by Ivan Pavlov of COH.
The tracks "Are You Shivering?" and "Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)" are listed in the wrong order on the cover. The track listing below is the correct one.


A Guide For Finishers: A Golden Hair

2-01 Panic
2-02 First Dark Ride
2-03 Further Back And Faster
2-04 The Anal Staircase
2-05 Red Skeletons
2-06 Scope
2-07 Solar Lodge
2-08 Blue Rats
2-09 A.Y.O.R.
2-10 The First Five Minutes After Violent Death

An anthology of upbeat/agressive tracks from Coil's back-catalogue, plus the new track "A.Y.O.R.".

The second of two anthology CDs created to mark Coil's live performance in Moscow on September 15, 2001. Limited to 1000 copies.
This volume features a selection of aggressive and noisy pieces from throughout Coil's career, along with the new track "A.Y.O.R.". The other volume is A Guide for Beginners: A Silver Voice, which features more melancholy and melodic tracks.
The English title given above is a loose translation of the Russian title devised by Ivan Pavlov of COH. The Russian word for "finisher" means "those who ejecting semen".

Anthology release previously available in Russia as two separate albums.

Пособие Для Кончающих: Волос Злата

Пособие Для Начинающих: Глас Сѐребра

Coum Transmissions

COUM Transmissions was a transgressive performance art group, with roots stemming from Fluxus and the underground Mail Art scene, founded in 1967 by Genesis P-Orridge and "Jesus" Joheero. COUM expanding its members from 1970 to 1973 to include Cosey Fanni Tutti, Pinglewad, Spydee and Ray Harvey.

From 1972 onwards COUM consisted solely of Cosey Fanni Tutti and Genesis P-Orridge, until including Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson in early 1974. During it's 10 year existence, the group featured a rotating cast of other peripheral members and pushed the boundaries of art and social acceptability.

Towards the end, they developed more into a music group, appearing as Throbbing Gristle at their last performance - "Prostitution" in London's ICA, October, 1976.

COUM Transmission were always controversial with such avant garde happenings such as Copyright Breeches, COUMing of Age and Marcel Duchamp's Next Work, but this peaked with the "Prostitution" art exhibit - based around photos from Cosey's career as a model/actress for pornographic magazines and films. The "Prostitution" show was also the accepted premier of Throbbing Gristle. Tory MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn decried the show as "a sickening outrage. Obscene. Evil. Public money is being wasted here to destroy the morality of our society. These people are the wreckers of civilization!"


The Sound Of Porridge Bubbling (2009)

A1 Welcome To The Alien Camp
A2 Real Sure Alien Brain
A3 On The Count Of Three
A4 Dogs Are Funny People
A5 It's Easy With Kesey
A6 73 Vibrant
A7 Magazine Illustration

B1 Magickal Variants
B2 Nude Supper
B3 The Sound Of Porridge Bubbling

Style: Psychedelic Rock, Avantgarde, Experimental, Spoken Word
Notes: Limited to 500 copies.

Bicoastal boutique label Dais Records --founded in 2007 by Gibby Miller in L.A. and Ryan Martin in Brooklyn -- has, in its brief history, quickly amassed (with no signs of stopping) an impressive back-catalog of instantly classic releases by artists on the obscure and dark end of the spectrum. The label’s roster of quality limited vinyl pressings includes albums by Cult of Youth and Tor Lundvall as well as the sought-after Cold Cave 12”, The Trees Grew Emotions and Died. The label has also developed a trusted working relationship with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge which has resulted in the vinyl release of Psychic TV’s recent full-length, Mr. Alien Brain vs. The Skinwalkers, and a haunting, previously unreleased 1968(!) archival recording from P-Orridge entitled Early Worm (now out of print). A third upcoming team-up between P-Orridge and Dais is another archival release, entitled The Sound of Porridge Bubbling by the infamous COUM Transmissions. Its release will mark the first time most will hear COUM Transmissions, a transgressive performance art collective and band founded, in part, by P-Orridge in 1967 (whose detailed story can be read in a 1999 illustrated biiography entitled Wreckers of Civilisation by Simon Ford). By the time Sound was recorded in 1971 its members also included Cosey Fanni-Tutti and, by 1976, eventually evolved into the seminal and forever holy/unholy Throbbing Gristle. The recordings went unreleased until now due to the rapid activity of the collective pushing them off as a priority. However, now that the seal on the vault has been cracked, further COUM archive releases via Dais are also in the works .

Astral Disasters

LP
Astral Disaster

A1 The Sea Priestess 14:11
A2 2nd Son Syndrome 2:47
A3 I Don't Want To Be The One 2:45
A4 The Avatars 3:21

B The Mothership And The Fatherland 23:03

Limited to 99 copies available only by series subscription. It's packaged in a plain black sleeve with a title sticker signed and numbered by Balance and Christopherson. It includes an insert with the track listing and release notes, and a piece of handmade artwork in a plastic zip-lock bag.

There is also a limited edition of 14 "Promo" copies without sleeve and artwork but with a title insert (this time written "Promo edition of 14 copies") and the same insert with the track listing and release notes as the "regular" edition.

Later reissued in a modified form on CD & LP.



Astral Disaster CD
1 The Avatars 3:02
2 The Mothership & The Fatherland 22:24
3 2nd. Sun Syndrome 4:16
4 The Sea Priestess 14:10
5 I Don't Want To Be The One 5:47
Guitar - Gary Ramon
6 MU-UR 22:40

CD features reworked versions of the tracks from the original LP (limited edition of 99 copies released in 1999) plus new material.

This album was recorded in two days at Samhain 1998ev under the level of the River Thames in the Ancient Borough of Southwark.

This album is dedicated to Steven Stapleton & David Michael Tibet, with love.

Alex Fergusson

Alex Fergusson (born 16 December 1952, Glasgow) is a Scottish guitarist / record producer.

Fergusson formed the punk band Alternative TV with Mark Perry in 1977, and a few years later (in 1981) Psychic TV with Genesis P Orridge. He left the latter in 1987.

In 1993 he released an eponymous white label vinyl LP, followed by Perverse Ballads in 1996, The Essence in 2001, and The Castle in 2006.

As a record producer under the working title of AF Productions, Fergusson has worked with a list of musicians, including - Orange Juice, The Go-Betweens, Dorothy and Gaye Bykers on Acid.


Stay With Me Tonight

7" (1980)

A Stay With Me Tonight
B Brushing Your Hair

Alex Fergusson’s debut single is a very nice and catchy little electronic pop record. Musically it is strongly reminiscent of Silicon Teens and early Depeche Mode (circa Speak & Spell), which isn’t surprising, given it was produced by the same person – Daniel Miller (under the nickname "Larry Least") Mute Records supremo, the man behind The Normal and Silicon Teens projects. Highly recommended to all fans of early Mute Records output and good old electropop music in general.
gadg3t Feb 22, 2008


Perverse Ballads (1996)


1 Miracle Maker 3:20
2 Sophie French 3:32
3 She Comes To Me 2:52
4 She Comes Instrumental 3:44
5 Werewolf Shazam 3:30
6 Akiram's House 2:58
7 Baby Fantasy 2:57
8 Lullaby 2:10
9 Psychedelic Buddah 2:55
10 It Won't Take Long 3:00
11 Somewhere By The Sea 8:26
12 Curly 5:16
13 Deep Snow 2:18
14 Chase The Darkness Away 2:07
15 Simple Love 2:44

Eight tracks from his debut solo "White Label" album plus 7 unreleased tracks.
Limited to 500 numbered copies.
No producer mentioned.


The Essence (2001)


1 Intro 0:41
2 Tomorrow 2:26
3 I'm Obsessed 3:43
4 Sometimes 2:46
5 Whistler 0:33
6 Sunday Came Too Soon 1:34
7 Wine Dark Sea 0:56
8 The Essence Of You 3:52
9 Wild Orchid 2:39
10 Everyday 1:55
11 Hannah 2:08
12 Sundown 2:41
13 Epilogue 2:11
14 There's A Smile 10:31
Lyrics By - William Blake
15 Outro 0:36
Cello - Suwie Tsan
Drums - Liam Watson
Oboe - Janey Miller
Violin - Jiemi Fang
Vocals [Special Appearance] - Rose McDowall
Vocals, Guitar, Producer, Arranged By, Music By - Alex Fergusson

The music on "The Essence" is for Annette with my undying love.
The release came in a jewelcase with a 8-paged coloured booklet.



The Castle (2006)


1 The Castle - Entrance 2:57
2 Dark Angel 2:52
3 Bar Noir 3:46
4 Ways Of Pleasure 3:32
5 Solitude 2:15
6 Hope 2:21
Lyrics By - A. Brinkmann*
7 Odyssey 4:06
8 Twilight 1:56
9 Daybreak 2:20
10 Mirror 0:56
11 Let The Sorrow Go 2:44
Vocals [Special Guest Appearance] - Rose McDowall
12 The Castle - Exit 2:55

Drums - Igor
Violin - Justin Chen
Vocals, Guitar [Guitars], Music By, Producer [Produced By] - Alex Fergusson

Not Available

UNCLE WILLIE'S HIGHLY OPINIONATED GUIDE TO THE RESIDENTS

This, the second album recorded by the Residents, is perhaps the most hauntingly beautiful of all their albums. Its was bounded by the “Theory of Obscurity” and “could only be released when the creators themselves had completely forgotten about its existence.”

For whatever reasons, the album was eventually released four years later. Some have complained that this release was blasphemous and that the theory should have been respected. Let me assure you that no crime was committed. The lyrics are heavily veiled in an acoustic and linguistic gauze. Sometimes there is rhyme, and sometimes there is reason. There are times at which we catch glimpses of these lyrics through the veil, however their meaning tends to speak more directly to the soul, and for the most part are not available to the analytical mind. When listening to this album, one realizes that its obscurity remains fully intact.

The music is full of many rich and varied themes. Its juxtaposition of the sad, the beautiful, and the unusual, creates deep emotional currents that with proper navigation will lead you to interesting places. There is an innocence about this album that lays aside all pretense and bears open their soul.

We hear a hypnotic mesh of percussion, strings, horns, and voices. We find ourselves carried upon waves of unfamiliarity which lead us to seductive places where female voices and pianos sweetly wonder about the blooming of posies. There are also places of loneliness as felt in these words:

The sentence existing inside of a rhyme, is only just a token left spoken in time.

In “The Making of a Soul” there exists a most beautiful and delicately played piano passage. It sounds as though they were playing on their grandmother’s seldom used piano in the basement while she was away. Later, lamenting strings join in with the piano, and a peculiar person shows up with some questions that are guaranteed to shake you up.

We make our way through the turbulent “Ship’s A’Going Down”, spiraling ever downward, descending into the whimpering depths from which there appears to be no return, until at last we find ourselves with “Never Known Questions”. A lush resting place.

When you look into the emotions contained in the music on this album, they speak clearly, and there is no question of obscurity. This album is simultaneously sad, happy, and beautiful. Particularly as found in its climactic conclusion. Grandma’s sad and innocent piano reappears and after a valiant attempt at trying to communicate the passage of calling cards and winking bards and falling guards, there is a certain feeling of resignation as we find ourselves, along with The Residents, throwing up our hands and saying “OK”.

An angelic farewell march fades in and takes over while the singing continues in time with the new music. “OK, OK”. There is a sense of finality and acceptance. As the march continues to play, another refrain emerges.

To exist to show, or to be shown? Is a question never, never known.

As the music slowly fades out, so do the lyrics. They leave us, receding faintly, with the words “to exist ... to exist”. The music is sad because it is time to say farewell, as we all must do someday. It is happy, for having had the chance to exist. And it is beautiful, because it is.

- David Willenbrink


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A1 Edweena
A2 The Making Of A Soul
B1 Ship's A' Going Down
B2 Never Known Questions
B3 Epilogue

While there are a million stories about The Residents, one of the more intriguing concerns the recording of their second LP, Not Available. Early in the career of the band, the "theory of obscurity" was introduced to them by the German avant-guardist, N. Senada. The plan called for the creation of complete projects that were literally not intended to be heard by anyone other than its creators. The Residents realized the truth in this ideal: that music really was difficult to record without considering the audience. They thought the experience gained by completing such a project would prove worthwhile toward achieving an independent attitude toward music. N. Senada had also been quick to point out that such a project reduces the amount of artistic clutter that is quickly swallowing the planet.
Not Available was completed in 1974 and stored. Several years later, in 1978, The Residents were severely over schedule on their opus, Eskimo. The final release deadline set by the record company arrived only to find that The Residents had fled to Europe and taken Eskimo with them. In desperation, the record company pulled Not Available from the masters room and released it. Surprisingly, The Residents were not upset by this fact since it in no way violated their original intent. Eventually Eskimo was retrieved from the bank vault in London but, ...well... that's another story.


The first pressing (5000 copies) suffered from an audible blemish in the recording on side two during "Ship's A' Going Down", and most of these records were recalled and destroyed.There are, however, several hundred copies still in existence;they are identified by purple record labels and the matrix 1174 B Re 1 on side two. Second pressings (which have orange labels - 10,000 copies) and later (wich have green record labels) have the matrix 1174 B Re 3 and do not suffer this pressing defect.


Concentrate

Bach Is Dead

Lyrics

"This record is issued at the discretion of Ralph Records and The Cryptic Corp. The characters and events portrayed are fictional and do not represent either The Residents or other persons, living or dead."

Gingerbread Man

Uncle Willie's Highly Opinionated Guide

THE GINGERBREAD MAN is the story or, maybe more accurately, one of the many journeys of an entity that visits the minds of human beings, and spies upon their thoughts. In the center of these personalities, the Gingerbread Man finds each person’s individual “brain song,” an infectious piece of pop music that floats around in their mind. The Gingerbread Man recognizes this “brain song” as a human’s unconscious attempt at creating order in the quagmire of chaos constantly confusing its mental condition. Because of his ultimately detached position, The Gingerbread Man has no real emotional stake in the lives of these people, but they do represent an ongoing sense of amusement for him. In the end he sums up his feelings toward humanity with a brief song of his own.

The musical treatment of THE GINGERBREAD MAN is a continuous piece approximately 36 minutes long. This piece is actually a series of musical fragments united by two themes announcing the arrival and departure of the Gingerbread Man as he visits each personality. Within this structure several different characters or personalities will be created:
• A BUTCHER, who has returned from a near death experience, is preoccupied with thoughts of revenge towards someone he refers to as “buddy.”
• An ASCETIC or seeker of truth constantly strives to find out what is at the “top of the mountain” but also hears a voice that tells him to “beware of what he wants, because it might want him more.”
• A LONELY OLD WOMAN obsesses on the fact that her children never write or call and asks an angel if anyone would even notice if she murdered herself.
• An ARTIST sees himself as having sold out, but justifies his position because he had to “feed the fat boy,” a demon that everyone must eventually serve in order to become successful.
• An OLD SOLDIER fondly remembers an affair with a younger woman as he stands at attention in the hot summer sun; he wishes they could just dance together one more time.
• A CONFUSED TRANSSEXUAL has unfortunately discovered that a sex change operation was not a miracle cure for all his/her problems; he/she identifies with crows and how some people see the call of a crow as a cry, while others see the cry of a crow as a lie.
• A WEAVER who believes that something better is always just beyond her reach, but is also terrified that she won’t recognize her big opportunity when it finally arrives; meanwhile she plays the lottery and looks down on the man who is completely devoted to her.
• An AGING MUSCIAN fantasizes how might he might be remembered on MTV if he committed suicide; he mentally constructs his suicide note which reads: “If you like to pretend that you’ll never get old, you got what it takes to rock n’roll.”

The Gingerbread Man


1 The Weaver: The Fool And The Death-maker Die Alone 3:52
2 The Dying Oilman: Blinded By The Hostages Of Fortune 3:13
3 The Confused Transsexual: Stamen And Pistallate Together Again 3:12
4 The Sold-Out Artist: Black Are The Legs Inside The White Sepulcher 3:47
5 The Ascetic: Shadows Doubt The Strength Of The Sun 4:07
6 The Old Soldier: Safety Sells, But War Always Wins 3:31
7 The Aging Musician: Narcissus Knows No One Naked 4:51
8 The Butcher: The Flesh Of Animals Angers Anew... And Moos 3:04
9 The Old Woman: Kissless Are The Isolated, Rootless Are Their Tongues 4:32
10 Ginger's Lament 2:23

Lyrics

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