Browse by Label: INCUS RECORDS (UK)

Artist:	BERESFORD/DENNIS PALMER/BOB STAGNER/ROGER TURNER, STEVE
Title:	Short In The UK
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 027CD

Ten improvisations by the TN duo known as the Shaking Ray Levis: Palmer (synthesizers, voice) & Stagner (drums, perc.) in collaboration with veteran UK improvisers Beresford (keyboards, small trumpet) & Turner (perc.). Recorded in London, 1994. Crazed improv. at least partially influenced by their shared interests in "TV cartoons, Baptist preaching, mushy peas, the world of the painter and preacher The Reverend Howard Finster," etc.

Artist:	LEWIS/BERTRAM TURETZKY, GEORGE
Title:	Conversations
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 032CD

George E. Lewis (trombone), Bertram Turetzky (contrabass). "In describing the phenomenon that is Bert Turetzky, the words 'perpetual motion' spring to mind. His version of 'perpetual motion' turns up in many dimensions at once -- timbral, rhythmic, gestural, melodic, rhetorical, dramatic, and much more -- so that playing with Bert becomes a matter of finding, somewhere, a sound that he isn't playing at that moment, a sound that you can grab onto as a life preserver to save you from getting smoked right out of the room." -- George E. Lewis.

Artist:	HESSION/WILKINSON/FELL/MORRIS
Title:	Registered Firm
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 033CD

"1996 grouping of saxophonist Alan Wilkinson, bassist Simon Fell, and tubsman Paul Hession (known collectively for their body of work for the Bruce's Fingers and Shock recording organizations, individually for records on Leo and Incus) and guitarist Joe Morris (leader of many fine sessions released on the Aum Fidelity, Knitting Factory, Soul Note, Leo, Hat Art, etc... labels) notable for bridging the Atlantic chasm of US/UK 'energy' jazz circles (a feat worth noting in the apparent cul-de-sac of pan-national out-jazz ensembles). A fine display of blurted spirituality in a decidedly non-bearded setting (despite the appearance of just that on the mugs of mssrs. Morris/Hession). 7 pieces (such as 'Spaceships are Crap' or 'If I've Offended Anyone, I Apologize') over 53 minutes... Red-blooded." --Hrvatski.

Artist:	JOSEPH HOLBROOKE
Title:	'98
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 039CD

"Derek Bailey (guitar), Gavin Bryars (bass), Tony Oxley (drums). First performance together since 1966. Recorded in Cologne 1998." "So here they were, together again after 32 years, which is equivalent to the period separating Louis Armstrong's Hot Five recordings and Ornette Coleman's Tomorrow Is The Question. The essence of the trio was there from Bailey's opening pair of acerbic chords, through Bryars' ever attentive basslines, to Oxley's orchestrations of time itself. There was no sense of nostalgia here, more the feel of three men resuming a conversation they had begun some time ago, while mindful that their subject matter back then has been widely discussed in many languages since, and that this was a restatement through minds enriched with subsequent experiences." -- Andy Shone/The Wire.

Artist:	ACOUSTIC GUITAR TRIO
Title:
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 046CD

"Recorded Los Angeles 2000. Rod Poole (acoustic guitar, bowed guitar). Nels CIine (acoustic guitars). Jim McAuley (acoustic guitars)." This is an improvising trio that have been playing around in the LA area in recent times; McAuley and Poole are both on Nels Cline's all-time"Top 200 Guitarists" list. McAuley is known as a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque (classical guitar), and Poole is the genius Just Intonation force of modern times (see his mesmerizing solo albums The Death Adder and Iasis). The result is more richly detailed and sonically pleasurable sound base than one sometimes gears up for when approaching the Incus label. According to Nels these guys are known to make up tunings mere minutes before improvising, but the results would indicate a deeply ingrained empathy.

Artist:	BAILEY, DEREK
Title:	Lot 74: Solo Improvisations
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 057CD

"In 1974, when Derek Bailey was planning his second solo LP on Incus, he decided to include a side-long solo using his stereo electro-acoustic set-up. Unfortunately, he never seemed to have a 20-minute stretch of time free of interruptions in his home, so he asked if he could record it at my place. After a fairly lengthy drive across London on the arranged date, he discovered that he had brought all his gear except the actual guitar. So he had a cup of tea and a chat, then drove home again. He came again about a week later, on May 13th, this time with everything. I set the level too high for the first two takes, not quite allowing for his enormous dynamic range (which really was not suitable for analogue recording and reproduction equipment). The result was too much distortion for his liking. The level was corrected for the third take which was the one used as the title track on the LP, even though he preferred the music on the earlier takes. All but one of the short pieces on the second side of the LP were recorded by Bob Woolford around the same time, probably at Derek's home. (The exception, 'Improvisation 104(b),' was recorded the previous year and originally released on one of the Incus TAPs -- mini reel-to-reel tapes that were an attempt to bypass the technical problems of going from tape to vinyl. They were reissued by Organ of Corti.) 'Pain In The Chest' and 'In Joke (Take 2)' feature the unamplified 19-string (approx) guitar, which was probably the only instrument that Derek modified -- he otherwise used standard guitars. There was a shortage of good vinyl at the time, making it difficult to get decent pressings. (The original pressing of the solo Steve Lacy Emanem LP sounded as though it had been recorded in a hail-storm.) We were recommended to go to a pressing plant that specialized in 'classical' music. (At the same time that Derek was trying to get Lot 74 pressed, I was also working on his duo album with Anthony Braxton.) The first test pressing of Lot 74 was very muffled, and we discovered that the cutting engineer had played the tape up-side-down, so that the music had been filtered through the tape backing (used on professional tapes to reduce print-through). The cutting was subsequently redone correctly, resulting in an acceptable test pressing. However, the plant manager was completely incredulous and perplexed, as he was used to checking pressings using his library of scores of Beethoven sonatas and the like. How could he tell if the vocal and feedback howls at the start of side two ('Together') were correct? Over thirty years later, advances in technology have eliminated most of the technical problems we had then, so that this magnificent music can be heard sounding better than ever. Every so often, I get someone asking me to issue things on vinyl -- my response is usually not very polite." -- Martin Davidson

Artist:	BAILEY & AGUSTI FERNANDEZ, DEREK
Title:	A Silent Dance
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 058CD

Derek Bailey (electric guitar) & Agusti Fernandez (piano). Recorded at La Pedrera Barcelona, 12th May 2005. "The British free improvising guitarist Derek Bailey relocated to Barcelona in 2003. During his time in this vibrant city there were numerous musical meetings. This live duo concert recording with Agusti Fernandez at La Pedrera in May 2005 was one such occasion. A Silence Dance is released on Incus Records under the umbrella of 'The Barcelona Chronicles.' These recordings document Derek's new approach to his instrument, whilst dealing with the complex and progressive limitations caused by Motor Neurone Disease. Here was someone for whom obstacles were occasions for necessary creativity. This was to be his last public performance."

Artist:	HOLBROOKE, JOSEPH
Title:	'65 (Rehearsal Extract)
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD EP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	INCUS S01CD

"CD single (10 & 1/2 minutes) of the Joseph Holbrooke group, recorded in 1965. With Derek Bailey (guitar), Gavin Bryars (bass) and Tony Oxley (drums) -- a legendary ensemble, and a key to the whole dawn of the European free music arena.. The first and only issued recording by this trio (named after an obscure turn-of-the-century UK composer, Joseph Holbrooke). Includes an addition of some poorly designed CD Rom material (text, photos and other ephemera about the brief and generally undocumented existence of this trio) that doesn't seem to commonly function (doesn't work with Netscape, seems to auto-crash on Explorer -- but maybe you're made of tougher stuff). "This short piece was recorded in rehearsal in the front room of my ground floor flat at 329 Crooksmoor Road, Sheffield some time in 1965. It was a medium-size living room, carpeted and with an open fireplace, and was just big enough for the three of us to have sufficient space to play. I had lived in the upstairs flat during my last two years as a philosophy student, a period when, in reality, I was spending more time working virtually as a professional musician even before I graduated in 1964. Throughout the time that I lived there, until the end of the summer of 1966, the three of us would rehearse frequently and try out ideas. Sometimes just Tony and I would practice together, working on complex approaches to pulsed time, especially in order for the trio to become familiar with Tony's increasing interest in subdivisions of triplets (even when we were still playing relatively conventional jazz compositions). At other times the three of us would rehearse, basically testing possible procedures in our transition from jazz to free playing. We would perform regularly in public, playing each Saturday lunchtime in an upstairs room in The Grapes, Trippet Lane." -- Gavin Bryars. Limited stock.

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Artist:	BEVAN/GREG KINGSTON/MATT LEWIS, TONY
Title:	Original Gravity
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 003CD

Artist:	COMPANY
Title:	Once
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 004CD

Artist:	COMPANY 6 & 7
Title:
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 007CD

Artist:	BAILEY/MOHOLO/LIPERE
Title:	Village Life
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 009CD

Artist:	BAILEY/JOHN STEVENS, DEREK
Title:	Playing
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 014CD

Artist:	COMPANY 91
Title:	Vol 2
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 017CD

Artist:	BAILEY/JAMIE MUIR, DEREK
Title:	Dart Drug
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 019CD

Artist:	ZORN/FRED FRITH, JOHN
Title:	Art of Memory
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 020CD

Artist:	BUTCHER/ VENESSA MACKNESS, JOHN
Title:	Respiritus
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 021CD

Artist:	STEVENS/KENT CARTER/DEREK BAILEY, JOHN
Title:	One Time
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 022CD

Artist:	SMITH & NEIL METCALFE, ROGER
Title:	S&M
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 024CD

Artist:	JAWORZYN/ALAN WILKINSON, STEFAN
Title:	In A Sentimental Mood
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 025CD

Artist:	KAISER/JOHN OSWALD, HENRY
Title:	Improvised (Vancouver)
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 026CD

Artist:	BAILEY/SUSIE IBARRA, DEREK
Title:	Daedal
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 036CD

Artist:	BAILEY/ALEX WARD, DEREK
Title:	LOCationAL
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 037CD

Artist:	O'ROURKE/MATS GUSTAFSSON, JIM
Title:	Xylophonen Virtuosen
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 038CD

Artist:	FALSE FACE SOCIETY
Title:
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 047CD

Artist:	BAILEY/MIN XIAO-FEN, DEREK
Title:	Flying Dragons
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 050CD

Artist:	BAILEY/TRISTAN HONSINGER, DEREK
Title:	Tristan (Duo)
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 053CD

Artist:	BAILEY/INGAR ZACH, DEREK
Title:	Seven
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 054CD

Artist:	GAINES/DEREK BAILEY, WILL
Title:	Rappin & Tappin
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 055CD

Artist:	BAILEY/TONY BEVAN/SONIC PLEASURE/ALEX WARD/T.H.F. DRENCHING, DEREK
Title:	Limescale
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	INCUS 056CD