Category: LIBRARY

  • BRIAN WOODBURY: Balladry & Soliloquy


    This is the second of the 4-Volume, 80+ song Magnum Opus – a song-writing master-class – being released in four instalments over the next twelve months. This one investigates narrative and personal songs. Old hands will know that we’ve been distributing Brian’s work for decades, starting in the vinyl days with his early, already-fledged, home productions. Now he lives and works in Hollywood, making music for Disney, television and theatre – but remains part of Tinseltown’s more shadowy art fringe, the place where daytime mainstreamers pursue their own musical interests for the hell and the love of it, and because they can’t help themselves – self-financed releases like these are essentially what hyper-talented people do in order to stay sane. Which means he has access to the best; the musicianship is world class, and Brian’s orchestrations broad, crafty, and, sometimes, quietly subversive. If you had to pay for this talent (and these studios), records like this would never get made, but money isn’t everything – and Balladry is a rare release by mainstream professionals still willing to work for love on the things they love. Brian studied with Bernard Rands, Pauline Olivieros and Tom Lehrer. Well, there you are. Balladry and Soliloquy features 23 songs in styles running from indie-pop to Broadway.

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    1. By Way Of Introduction listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/01.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3948:end]
    2. All Right listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/02.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3949:end]
    3. The Smile He Took Away listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/03.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3950:end]
    4. Don`t Let It Hit You On The Way Out listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/04.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3951:end]
    5. When I Think Of Love listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/05.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3952:end]
    6. New Car Smell listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/06.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3953:end]
    7. Asking For A Friend listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/07.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3954:end]
    8. Spontaneous listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/08.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3955:end]
    9. Going Through Emotions listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/09.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3956:end]
    10. Take A Hike listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/10.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3957:end]
    11. His Last Regret listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/11.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3958:end]
    12. All The People listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/12.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3959:end]
    13. You Will Find Your Way fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/13.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3960:end]
    14. On My Bike listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/14.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3961:end]
    15. Daddys Little Girl listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/15.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3962:end]
    16. Downtime listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/16.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3963:end]
    17. You Own It listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/17.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3964:end]
    18. Love Is Not The Answer listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/18.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3965:end]
    19. BYOB listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/19.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3966:end]
    20. I Started A Joke listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/20.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3967:end]
    21. All You Can Do Is Nothing listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/21.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3968:end]
    22. Little Bitta This, Little Bitta That listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/22.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3969:end]
    23. Take Me Back listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/balladry/23.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3970:end]
  • BRIAN WOODBURY: Levity & Novelty



    First Volume of  a 4-Volume Magnum Opus – with 80+ songs of Levity, Balladry, Ideology & Rhapsody
    Over the next year Brian will be releasing a linked set of CDs in 4 Volumes, two years in the making, each in a very different register – a songwriting masterclass if he can pull it off and, on past form, I believe he can: the man studied with Tom Lehrer, after all, and his work to date has grown ever better: seriously great songs, sharp lyrics, impressive musicians. His four seasons will be: 1) Funny. 2) Heartfelt. 3) Political and 4) Arty. You’ll get a new instalment every 3 months.
    More specifically, Brian works in Hollywood (Disney cartoons, television, theatre) and on the Hollywood art fringe…thing like these releases what hyper-talented people do to stay sane…The musicians here are all, you know, quite good at what they do – and the orchestrations they’re given, trust me, run the full gamut. So, a major undertaking by serious professionals who work for love on things they love – extra collaborators include Van Dyke Parks, Joe Moe, David Yazbek, Jill Sobule & Terri Roche Nathan Lane & Lisa Loeb, Elma Mayer, Marc Doten, Kimara Sajn (not all household names in our neck of the woods but they should be, google will elucidate). Even I get a walk on part. Obligatory legitimation references must include: “Not since… the wondrous works of young Brian Wilson… have I heard sound of this romantic design. Indispensable.” Van Dyke Parks’; ”..a multi-talented musician, bordering on genius. …he should be up there with Zappa and Beefheart.” BBC Radio 3, Mixing It. He studied with Bernard Rands, Pauline Olivieros and Tom Lehrer…DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM:
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    1. My Bad listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/01.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3919:end]
    2. Picture Me listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/02.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3920:end]
    3. If I Knew listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/03.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3921:end]
    4. Ava’s Couch listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/04.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3922:end]
    5. Eternal Damnation listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/05.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3923:end]
    6. The Brain listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/06.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3924:end]
    7. Medical Emergency listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/07.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3925:end]
    8. The Sea View Inn listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/08.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3926:end]
    9. Pasadeeny listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/09.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3927:end]
    10. Complicated Rhythm listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/10.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3928:end]
    11. Old Time Prog listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/11.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3929:end]
    12. Perfectly Awful listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/12.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3930:end]
    13. Audience Participation listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/13.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3931:end]
    14. Don Knotts listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/14.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3932:end]
    15. Wd – Forty listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/15.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3933:end]
    16. You Should Write A Song About That listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/16.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3934:end]
    17. Don’t Call Back listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/17.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3935:end]
    18. A Man With No Foible listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/18.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3936:end]
    19. The Worst Song On The Album listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/19.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3937:end]
    20. Women (Know What I’m Sayin’?) listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/20.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3938:end]
    21. You Rock listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/21.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3939:end]
    22. You’re Like Hitler listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/22.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3940:end]
    23. Flashmob! listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/23.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3941:end]
    24. I Hold Your Hand in Mine listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/24.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3942:end]
    25. Hey Guys listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/25.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3943:end]
    26. Care About Cancer listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/26.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3944:end]
    27. The Best Ever listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/levity/27.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3945:end]
  • BRIAN WOODBURY: Antipathy & Ideology



    This is the third chapter of Brian’s massively ambitious four-volume song-writing master-class, to be released in four installments over the space of a year. This issue digs into the news and – in an impressive variety of musical dialects – doesn’t pussyfoot around when it comes to the current state of the world – or of individual psychologies. At the same time it delivers a procession of jaw-dropping musical moments as Brian skids through twisty harmonic shifts, takes compositional risks, pulls off some amazing coups of arrangement – while delivering songs and lyrics of proper substance. Great imagination coupled with a journeyman’s skill and a journalist’s approach to music: working fast, taking the occasional risk and not worrying too much because this isn’t Madam Bovary, while turning in high quality, high detail, minutely wrought – and sometimes brilliant – copy. A listening pleasure, worthy of study and studded with some really great musicianship, this is also a discreet cri de cour. Anyone who cares about the art of songwriting or the state of the world – or the clockwork behind how this music stuff works – should buy this record.

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    1. Next Time I See You listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/01.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3897:end]
    2. While Supplies Last listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/02.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3898:end]
    3. We Can’t Breathe listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/03.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3899:end]
    4. Better listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/04.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3900:end]
    5. Get Out of Your Car listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/05.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3901:end]
    6. Welcome to America listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/06.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3902:end]
    7. Why Can’t It Be Like It Was? listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/07.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3903:end]
    8. Jury Duty listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/08.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3904:end]
    9. If It Ain’t Broke, Break It listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/09.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3905:end]
    10. Good Cop/Bad Cop listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/10.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3906:end]
    11. Lucy, I’m Home listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/11.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3907:end]
    12. Shut Up and Listen listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/12.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3908:end]
    13. Poor Landlord listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/13.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3909:end]
    14. I Oppose the Troops listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/14.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3910:end]
    15. Guns and Ammo listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/15.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3911:end]
    16. Beware of Famous People listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/16.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3912:end]
    17. The Law of Attraction listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/17.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3913:end]
    18. The South Will Rise Again, Again listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/18.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3914:end]
    19. Small Penis listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/19.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3915:end]
    20. Save the World listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl=[wp_eStore_audio_player src ="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/antipathy/20.mp3"][wp_eStore:product_id:3916:end]
  • LUSSIER, RENE: Le Trésor De La Langue

     

    Tresor de la Langue has to be one of one of the truly great projects of the last half-century and is therefore a very hard act to follow. But on this quietly revolutionary record Rene has found his way to a music that can fairly be described as new; new enough to make it hard to explain, even though it’s easy enough to listen to. For the majority of the pieces here Rene has dispensed with obvious overall form and traditional compositional logic and replaced them with patterns of events; there’s no ABC, no development, no thematic integration, instead we have a kind of experiential logic, a road you share with Rene that’s poly-stylistic and unpredictable, stabilised with rhythms and harmonies when you need them and populated with sounds that exist autonomously and sometimes seem to belong in another story – but all bound tightly into something like what Stockhausen called moment form.. with space added. A range of recognised instruments are used, especially electric guitars, contrabass and Daxophone, as well as a host of non-instruments and invented instruments, combined to construct Webern-like orchestral distributions of sounds. Of the seven compositions featured, five probe deeply into the klangfarbenmelodie / event-nexus mode described above; of the other two, one is a tour de force for guitars, electric toothbrushes and snatches of conversation, the other (and the oldest here) a more conventional work for four contrabasses. These are all studio assemblies, meticulously crafted, that deploy their materials with a fine ear for timbre and stereophony. They are also surprisingly attractive and easy to listen to; part lounge, part C20 experimental, part je ne sais quoi.

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    1-1. La Française Du Début

     

    1-9. Ouin Cé Ça (Vox Pop 3)

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    2-2. La Voiture Du Général
    2-7. Le Conte De L’Espiègle
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    3-4. Un Article De Grande Rareté
    3-14. Qui S’en Souvient?
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  • Miniatures 2020 – 124 Assorted Artists


    Third in a noble series: first was Morgan Fisher’s classic 1980 release, then an expanded second volume at the millennium – and now we have this third, even more expanded homage. The idea is simplicity itself: invite a selected body of artists to make a piece one minute long and then group them together in through-listening blocks. There are 124 contributors here, some well-thumbed (The Residents, Fred Frith, Stewart Lee, Billy Bragg, David Thomas, John Otway, R. Stevie Moore, Peter Blegvad, Henry Kaiser, Attila the Stockbroker, Terry Riley, Half Japanese, Tom Robinson, Bob Drake, Alternative TV, The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, &c. and many others lesser known or as well known but in other musical circles – including members of Van der Graaf Generator, Curved Air, Zoviet France, Stomu Yamashta’s Red Buddha Theatre, Soft Machine, Fairport Convention, The Blockheads,The Stranglers, John’s Children, Alternative TV, Caravan, The Damned, Global Village Trucking Company, King Crimson, Adam and the Ants and The Monochrome Set. It’s a snapshot, a sampler, a box of variety and delights – and a window on the state of play: in all, a useful and worthwhile undertaking. 2 CDs in a slipcase with a thick  book.

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    This is a whole work, but these few extracts give the flavour…
    1. David Cunningham – Speak Not Speak listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Mini/1-06 Speak Not Speak.mp3"]
    2. Attila the Stockbroker – Mountaineering in Belgium listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Mini/1-23 Mountaineering in Belgium.mp3"]
    3. Henry Kaiser – I’m the Guy Who Found the Lost Chord listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Mini/2-07 Lost Chord.mp3"]
    4. Peter Blegvad – Amputated Twin listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Mini/2-25 Amputated Twin.mp3"]
    5. Terry Riley & Sara Miyamoto – Tomb Song listen: [sc_embed_player fileurl="https://rerdownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/samples/Mini/2-46 Tomb Song.mp3"]