Reissues
Faint Traces
Chamber Works 1973-2001. Frank Denyer's (b.1943, London) music is the work of a truly original mind, one that sees and hears the world just a little differently. The six pieces on this CD are unlike the music of any other composer working today, celebrating the richness of acoustic sound in all its inexhaustible variety. The composer supervised performances by The Barton Workshop, which Denyer co-founded in 1990.
Cincinnato (1974)
Incredible italian avant/free progressive album from the historic early Seventies finally rediscovered and dusted off the vaults !!! After a very long time, BTF distributes one of the rarest italian progressive albums of all time: Cincinnato, a masterwork recording originally released back in 1974 and never before reissued on LP! Featuring some great progressive and jazz-rock tracks and an incredible 20-minutes long suite. This is a superb release and the ultimate collector's item of the italian…
Climate Of Hunter
2006 remaster, originally issued in 1983. Climate of Hunter was Scott Walker's only album of the 1980s. It drew critical raves for a minimalist, trancelike ambience that showed him keeping abreast of cutting-edge trends. This version of the album is digitally remastered for the first time and has the addition of sleevenotes by music journo and St. Etienne member Bob Stanley. Guest musicians include Evan Parker and Ray Russell.
Journey Through A Body
Recorded in Roma in March 1981. It was recorded in five days, a day per body section. No tracks were re-recorded or added to after their day. Each was immediately after recording. No tracks were pre-planned, all tracks are invented directly onto the tape.
In The Shadow Of The Sun
In the Shadow of the Sun is an improvised "score" created by Throbbing Gristle for the Derek Jarman 1980 super-8 film bearing the same title. It is an example of what Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis P-Orridge called "Ambient video", used to "enhance or complete an environment."
20 Jazz Funk Greats
1997 reissue of this classic 1979 album. "It's a break in the clouds from Throbbing Gristle's pummeling noise and a first glimpse at the continuing pop influence on the TG/PTV axis, but 20 Jazz Funk Greats still isn't best described by its title. If there is such a thing as a funky Throbbing Gristle LP, however, this could well be it. 'Hot on the Heels of Love', 'Hamburger Lady' and 'Six Six Sixties' add only occasional bits of distortion between the rigid sequencer lines. 20 Jazz Funk Greats is…
Canti Del Capricorno
He is not a composer in the sense of the Latin word 'componere', to put together, as Giacinto Scelsi has often expressed it; he feels himself to be much more the conveyor of a message. This observation has a central meaning for Scelsi, the "non-composer", the creative musician. This CD (with private recordings from 1969 as well as 1981/2) was awarded the Quarterly German Record Critics' Award!
Zombie Fela Kuti And Afrika 70
Includes liner notes by Jacqueline Grandchamp-Thiam, Rikki Stein and Mabinuori Kayode Idowu. Digitally remastered by Pompon (Translab Paris, Paris, France). With the inclusion of Nigerian master musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti's incendiary 1977 single, "Zombie," "Mr. Follow Follow," a typical anti-authoritarian exhortation, and a couple of hitherto-unreleased live cuts from the 1978 Berlin Jazz festival, ZOMBIE finds the iconoclastic singer and bandleader at his electrifying best. The title track, …
V.I.P. / Authority Stealing
Fela Anikulapo Kuti's 1978 Berlin Jazz Festival appearance, here as V.I.P. (Vagabonds in Power), is one of Africa 70's finest performances. V.I.P. castigates Nigerian authority more sizably than any other Fela album for one reason: he verbally beat down the country's power structure in front of a European crowd. It was a big move for the singer (who'd lost his mother, his home, and any sense of physical security in his homeland thanks to Nigeria's thoroughly corrupt military elite). Fela certain…
Upside Down/Music Of Many Colours
This two-for-one CD reissue brings together a couple of the more unusual offerings in Fela Kuti's discography. Upside Down, released in 1976, is the usual two-song, half-hour deal, the songs beginning with several minutes of instrumental solo trades before the socially conscious lyrics enter. The song "Upside Down" itself, however, is sung not by Kuti but by Sandra Akanke Isidore. She was a woman who Kuti met during his stay in the United States at the end of the '60s, and who is credited with h…
Live In Amsterdam
Personnel includes: Fela Kuti (vocals, soprano saxophone, electric piano, organ); Laspalmer Ojeah (guitar); Femi Kuti (alto saxophone); Oyinade Adeniran (tenor saxiphone); Tajudeen Amimashaun, Achampong (baritone saxophone); Moses Sobo Wale, Akameah (trumpet); Dele Soshimi (keyboards); Lamtey (drums); Benjamin (congas). Producer: Fela Kuti. Reissue producer: Jean-Pierre Haie. Recorded live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on November 28, 1983. Includes liner notes by Jacqueline Grandchamp-Thiam, Ri…
Pioneers - the Beginning Of Danish Electronic Music
Finally arrived! A lavishly deluxe packaged compilation that holds the earliest recordings of Dansih electronic music. The cd contains works by Danish electronic pioneers Else Marie Pade, Jørgen Plaetner, Bent Lorentzen, Gunner Møller Pedersen, Fuzzy, Svend Nielsen and Svend Christiansen. The booklet contains interviews with all the composers except from Plaetner who died in 2002, and a general introduction to the environment surrounding the Danish electronic musicians in the late 1950 - early 6…
III°
As a group whose work has spanned the best part of eighteen years, Ain Soph have always acted as a touchstone for the post-industrial scene, whether in the form of their early ritualistic utterances such as I and II (issued by Misty Circles in 1984 and 1985 respectively) which gave us a style which was to find its purest and most sophisticated form in 1988's Kshatriya, or in their later and more classically-influenced work such as the Cthulhu-issued Ain Soph/Sigillum S split cassette or the St…
II°
Re-Release of the second album of historical ritual industrial sounds from pioneering and esoteric Italian project Ain Soph. Long deleted and originally only available on vinyl, this re-release has been digitally remastered, partly remixed and includes some bonus material too. Lovingly packaged in a special jewel box with mini poster reproduction of the original album sleeve.
Fanfare For The Warriors
Fans of the A.E.C. and cutting-edge-music rejoice! Long unavailable in this country, the Art Ensemble of Chicago's landmark album recorded in 1974 for the Atlantic label is back in print. Though not "easy listening" to be sure, the A.E.C. present challenging music that's worth the effort. Witness the relentless, Louis Jordan/Louis Prima-rooted swing of "Barnyard Scuffel Shuffel" and the sublime African/Japanese/Javanese-influenced rhythmic soundscape of "What's To Say." The eerie, pensive, breat…
L'Expérience Acoustique
WAREHOUSE FIND, few copies available: this is the long out of print Francois Bayle's 'L'Experience Acoustique', finished in 1972, is an early work, powerful and immense in its scope, which explores a universe of electronic sounds and sound relationships. The sounds are so striking because they're stated in such a simple way. Tracks 1-5 are 'thÅmes-sons' and tracks 6 - 22 consist of five parts: 'L'aventure du cri', 'Le Langage des fleurs', 'La Preuve par le sens', 'L'Äpreuve par le son', and 'La …
Manifesto Industriale Italiano
1 copy only, this the rare re-edition of the 4xC60 tapes box-set released back in 1996 by OEC into digital format on pro-printed CDr's ! All sounds was exclusively recorder for that box, a great document on best Italian Industrial tradition, this is copy n. 37 of 150 The box contains :4 high quality professionally printed CDr's8 inserts (In this edition the inserts come in full colours ...)1 Handnumbered booklet with notes on groups and tracks1 Industrial pin with same design as on the CD label…
The Recommended Sampler 1982 25th Anniversary Edition
RESTOCKED! By 1982, recommended was in its fourth year. the catalog had expanded and the label was firmly established. a sampler seemed an obvious and necessary next step. we asked the most interesting groups in our catalog to record something new. the result was two hours of music released as a double lp in a hand silk-screened sleeve that was a time capsule - a tidy slice taken across a fascinating forking of musical paths that captured a moment of growth that foresaw a variety of possible fut…
Abbiamo Tutti I Suoi Problemi
Picchio dal Pozzo is regarded as one of the most original, impressive and highly respected of all the experimental groups to have come out of Italy in the 1970s. They share their original label with Henry Cow's Concerts, and were early invitees to the canonical Recommended Sampler. Aldo De Scalzi, Andrea Beccari, Giorgio Karaghiosoff and Paulo Griguolo all met at infant school and began playing Teleman, Corelli, Bach and Mozart together in their school orchestra. In 1969, Aldo's brother, one of …
Gracilty
a mindblowing archival double cd centered around Laurie Scott Baker, who has been involved in experimental music since he was a teenager. A pioneer of live electronics and graphic scores back in the 60s, a member of the Scratch Orchestra & Peoples Liberation Music with Cornelius Cardew, played many first performances of new music.Gracility comes out of the development of free improvisation & groups such as Scratch Orchestra etc. & the general questioning of the music establishment. Text and grap…