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| AGP142 is the second in
a series of transcriptions of the long out-of-print ReR Quarterly,
produced by Recommended Records.
Released at irregular intervals of no less than three months, the
series continued through three volumes of LP releases, before switching
to the CD medium for a fourth volume starting in 1994, and then ending
in 1997. Each volume except the third consisted of four issues
containing a magazine and either an LP or CD of music. A pair of CDs
with selected tracks from the first two volumes were released in 1991,
but those are now also long out of print. AGP142 is a transcription of the LP from volume 1, issue 2, released in September 1985. The highlights of this issue are an extended live structured improvisation at the Festival of Political Song, in East Berlin in February 1984, by a group called Duck and Cover that includes Henry Cow, Chris Cutler, and Dagmar Krause--all of Henry Cow and the Art Bears--as well as Tom Cora and other musicians. There is also a nice electroacoustic piece by John Oswald. It is an excellent pressing in excellent condition, with negligible surface noise or tracking distortion. The installment includes a PDF file with scans of the pages from the magazine describing the music on the LP. The scans encompass the four issues of volume 1. To download
AGP142 files, right-click on each of the following links and select
SAVE
LINK AS. The tracks without links are available on CD in a sampler of
some of the best tracks from volume 1, which can be purchased from ReR
Megacorp.
The out-of-print tracks from volume 1 are available here with the kind
permission of ReR Megacorp, so if you like what you hear in AGP141-144,
be sure to check out the sampler CD as well. 01 - Duck and Cover: Berlin Programme [27:29] 02 - John
Oswald: Mystery Tapes I [6:07] 03 - Conrad Bauer: Marzfeber [6:58] 04 - Reportaz: Fluent, Battle-Painter's
Song, The Day When Truth Was Not Existed [8:16] |
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