Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music,net.music.classical Subject: Re: Obscure Music makes a return! Message-ID: <986@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 19:40:24 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.986 Posted: Wed Aug 15 19:40:24 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:28:18 EDT References: <15@lasspvax.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 21 > I was perusing my weekly copy of the Britrag NME (now back on the racks > after their strike is settled), and happened upon an advert for the > RobertQuine/Fred Maher collaboration by EG records. In addition to their > normal catalog, it appears that they've picked up some interesting stuff > for release, including the most recent Jon Hassell "Magic Realism". > But of most interest was that they are re-releasing the entire original > Obscure Music catalog-all ten of them. THis series came around in the > mid-seventies, and is a reasonably good study of British Post-Modernism > in the seventies (though some non-Brits are in the series)....Michael Nyman, > Gavin Bryars, David Toop, Max Eastley, the Penguin Cafe, Harold Budd, > Christopher Aran, Jan Steele, Tom Phillips. > Its unclear whether or not EG will be releasing these recording domestically. > I am checking on that. They are. This month's MUSICIAN has an advert for Editions EG, including the Robert Quine/Fred Maher collaboration "Basics", a new Budd/Eno collaboration, and (I think) the Jon Hassell release. -- WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Rich Rosen WHAT IS YOUR NET ADDRESS? pyuxn!rlr WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF ASSYRIA? I don't know that ... ARGHHHHHHHH!