Category: SONG

BIOTA: Cape Flyaway

After 5 years of extensive and careful work, the new and much anticipated CD by this extraordinary collective, who have no parallels, no rivals and no peers, is at last complete. It’s a dense and indescribable orchestration of electric and acoustic guitars, clavioline, trumpet, Hammond organ, micromoog, biolmellodrone, electric and acoustic violins, bass, mandolin, accordion, piano, rubab, kit percussion and sometimes voice, layered and radically processed in the unique Biota manner. There is a leitmotif of folk elements in this piece that emerge from the roiling, swirling quicksand of sound we now expect from Biota, with texts by WB Yeats and snatches, arrangements and influences floating by way of Christy Moore, June Tabor, Judy Collins, Sandy Denny, Bert Jansch, the Bothy Band and older traditional sources. Biota craft sonic worlds that relate to, but are not built like, the music with which we are familiar; for them time is a continuum rather than a sequence of events; a simultaneous present in which past and future possibilities exist conterminously. With a 24 page full colour art portfolio from the Biota collective. DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM: MP3 - £6.99 FLAC - £9.99 [wp_eStore_buy_now_button id=2770] Buy album as CD(£12.50 POST FREE) [wp_eStore_buy_now_button id=2872]	TRACK PRICE: Listen: MP3: £0.70p\|FLAC: £1.00
	1. Evening Full (The Lake Isle of Innisfree)	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/01 Biota - Evening Full.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2749:end]
	2. Every Day Is Not Its Day	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/02 Biota - Every Day Is Not Its Day.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2750:end]
	3. Flee and Wander	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/03 Biota - Flee and Wander.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2751:end]
	4. A Few Short Lines	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/04 Biota - A Few Short Lines.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2752:end]
	5. Clock of Keys	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/05 Biota - Clock of Keys.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2753:end]
	6. The Bonny Boy - Bruton Town	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/06 Biota - The Bonny Boy.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2754:end]
	7. Yet Untold	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/07 Biota - Yet Untold.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2755:end]
	8. Life Like Our Own	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/08 Biota - Life Like Our Own.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:2756:end]`
	9. Ran to Look	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/09 Biota - Ran to Look.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:2757:end]`
	10. Lantern	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/10 Biota - Lantern.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2758:end]
	11. Probably in the Sea	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/11 Biota - Probably in the Sea.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2759:end]
	12. Valley of Late	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/12 Biota - Valley of Late.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2760:end]
	13. Rosemary Lane	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/13 Biota - Rosemary Lane.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2761:end]
	14. Remember Another Name	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/14 Biota - Remember Another Name.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2762:end]
	15. Drawn Scarcely	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/15 Biota - Drawn Scarcely.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2763:end]
	16. Somewhere When	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/16 Biota - Somewhere When.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2764:end]
	17. Arboreal	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/17 Biota - Arboreal.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2765:end]
	18. Of the Linnet's Wings (Innisfree)	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/18 Biota - Of the Linnet's Wings.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2766:end]
	19. Scatter Tree	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/19 Biota - Scatter Tree.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2767:end]
	20. On This the Other	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/20 Biota - On This the Other.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2768:end]
	21. Once More; Mask of the Half Civilized Man	`listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Cape Flyaway/21 Biota - Once More.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2769:end]

August 8, 2012

THIS HEAT: Out of Cold Storage (6 CD box and book)

The complete official lifetime releases of This Heat comprising: This Heat, Deceit, Health and Efficiency, Made Available and Repeat, all re-mastered and re-packaged with a substantial (48pp) book of interviews, recollections, information, documents and photographs packed into in a sturdy box. PLUS a new, otherwise unavailable, CD of concert recordings.
		BUY This Heat: Out of Cold Storage 6CDs, box and book Price: £47.00

March 13, 2012

NEWS FROM BABEL: Complete (3CDs in slipcase)

A special edition complete News From Babel collection that contains both released CDs Sirens and Silences/Work Resumed on the Tower and Letters Home – re-mastered and repackaged – with an extra illustrated CD of Contraries, by Zeena Parkins (previously only released as a 7″single with the subscription edition of the 2nd LP.)
		BUY News From Babel: Complete (3CDs in slipcase) Price: £22.00
		Also available individually: (click on cover image)

March 13, 2012

ART BEARS: The Art Box

BUY The Art Box 6CDs, book and box Price: £45.00

		A 6 CD box containing: 1. The three original releases, properly re-mastered, – when we did them before, the technology was much poorer. Stunningly re-mastered by Bob Drake from 24 bit transcriptions of the original tapes and in newly designed Digipacks, same cover art, of course. 2. Art Bears Revisited -A double CD of re-mixes, re-workings and (mostly) new pieces made from Art Bears multi-track masters by JOHN OSWALD, THE RESIDENTS, CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, FRED FRITH, CHRIS CUTLER, BIOTA, OTOMO YOSHIHIDE/GROUND ZERO, BOB DRAKE JON ROSE, OSSATURA, WARRIC SWINNEY/KALAHARI SURFERS, WHEN, THOMAS DIMUZIO, ANNIE GOSFIELD ROGER KLEIR,ANDREA ROCCA, VITOR RUA, JOCELYN ROBERT,MUSCI/ VENOSTA/ MARIANI, MASSIMO SIMONINI, HERB HEINZ. MARTIN ARCHER, YASUSHI UTSUNOMIYA, JON LEIDECKER/WOBBLY, STEVAN KOVACS TICKMAYER and BRIAN WOODBURY. 6 years in the making, this is an amazing catalogue of imagination and great music. Digi-packed with a cover art by EM Thomas, who did all three original art bears covers and containing Art re-mixes in the booklet as well as comprehensive information. This double also contains Collapse from the Ralph Records single, All Hail from the Recommended Sampler and one previously unreleased and unfinished track completed by Fred Frith and Chris Cutler for this release. 3. A free extra CD only available with the box (there are reasons) containing further re-workings by John Oswald, Bob Drake, Fred Frith, Biota, Yasushi Utsunomiya, as well as live Art Bears tracks and a Duck and Cover cover. 4. A thick book of artwork, articles, notes, interviews and commentary on the material, the work process, the tour and the band in general, with photographs, documents and artwork.

March 12, 2012

SLAPP HAPPY & HENRY COW: Desperate Straights

(Henry Cow Definitive Reissue series No. 4) In 1974, Henry Cow took a sabbatical while it considered what to do next. SlappHappy meanwhile was planning its second record for Virgin. One night the trio showed up at the quartet's door and proposed that the two groups make the second Slapphappy LP together. So incompatible - Slapphappy was making eccentric pop songs and Henry Cow was composing complex epic instrumentals - so how could a merger fail? Henry Cow jumped at the chance and Desperate Straights -was the result. It's still a gem to my ears, and now at last it's possible to release it, properly re-mastered (by Bob Drake), its sound closer to the original tapes even than our earlier Nimbus vinyl pressing. Great songs, great arrangements, great performances and Dagmar on top of her form... real people in a room together, playing straight to tape. Those were the days.. DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM: MP3 - £6.99 FLAC - £9.99 [wp_eStore_buy_now_button id=2700] Buy album as CD (£12.50 POST FREE) [wp_eStore_buy_now_button id=2665]	TRACK PRICE: Listen: MP3: £0.70p\|FLAC: £1.00
	1.Some Questions About Hats	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/01 Some Questions About Hats.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2687:end]
	2. The Owl	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/02 The Owl.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2688:end]
	3. A Worm Is At Work	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/03 A Worm Is At Work.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2689:end]
	4. Bad Alchemy	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/04 Bad Alchemy.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2690:end]
	5. Europa	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/05 Europa.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2691:end]
	6. Desperate Straights	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/06 Desperate Straights.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2692:end]
	7. Riding Tigers	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/07 Riding Tigers.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2693:end]
	8. Apes In Capes	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/08 Apes In Capes.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2694:end]
	9. Strayed	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/09 Strayed.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2695:end]
	10. Giants	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/10 Giants.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2696:end]
	11. Excerpt From The Messiah	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/11 Excerpt From The Messiah.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2697:end]
	12. In The Sickbay	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/12 In The Sickbay.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2698:end]
	13. Caucasian Lullaby	`[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Desperate Straights/13 Caucasian Lullaby.mp3"]`[wp_eStore:product_id:2699:end]

March 6, 2012