Browse by Label: REVENANT

Artist:	O'ROURKE, JIM
Title:	Happy Days
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	RVN 101CD

This CD marked the debut of a new label piloted by John Fahey, in 1997. "His first solo disc since 1995, Happy Days pits a lone acoustic guitar against a phalanx of hurdy-gurdies, a decided shift away from the composer's electronic-based work. O'Rourke's working relationships with Tony Conrad and John Fahey each find new resonance in this hybrid of early American minimalism and steel string guitar." A totally mesmerizing 48 minute work, indebted to the aforementioned mentors, but uniquely forging into all new territory. One of '97's most explosive pieces of music.

Artist:	FAHEY, JOHN
Title:	Red Cross
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	RVN 104CD

"Our late founder John Fahey's final album, Red Cross. An intensely personal project for John which he completed a few months before his death and originally intended for release in 2001. Red Cross can be heard as Fahey coming full circle, reinvigorated, at peace with both past and present. Includes spine-tingling interpretations of Irving Berlin's 'Remember' and the Gershwins' 'Summertime' alongside a number of stellar new Fahey originals. Featuring the acoustic fingerpicking of yore as well as some shimmering electric guitar vamps, Red Cross touches those peculiarly Faheyian regions in the heart and mind. A final, sparkling gem from a hue American original. Packaged in a special, limited-edition letter-pressed chipboard jacket with an inspirational pamphlet nestled insides."

Artist:	BAILEY/MIN TANAKA, DEREK
Title:	Music And Dance
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	RVN 201CD

"In the pioneering spirit of his Takoma imprint, John Fahey presents Revenant, dedicated to 'raw musics' from a variety of idioms From the so-called avant garde (Cecil Taylor, Jim O'Rourke, Milford Graves) to the 'modern primitive' sounds of the early Stanley Brothers, Roscoe Holcomb and Jenks Tex Carman, Revenant collects the best in uncompromising, unadultered work...these live recordings of Bailey's 1980 'accompaniment' to Japanese dancer Min Tanaka on a semi-outdoor Paris stage, previously available only on a privately released cassette, amply document Bailey's command of a highly individualized atonal language. 'Rain Dance' is the work of a remarkable ensemble: Bailey's ringing tones, Tanaka's percussive movements, rumbling thunder, a torrential downpour, and the rhythmic patter of rain dripping from a leaky roof. 'Saturday Dance' chimes and burns -- a concentrated assault rivaling the incendiary Incus Taps."

Artist:	TAYLOR, CECIL
Title:	Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	2CD
Price:	$28.00
Catalog #:	RVN 202CD

"By 1962, American pianist Cecil Taylor had been at the fringes of the jazz establishment for several years. His angular, percussive attack and unconventional harmonic sense bred controversy among players and listeners alike and proved at odds with most rhythm sections. The Cafe Monmartre recordings of Nov. 23, 1962 capture the birth of the mature Taylor style. The boppish lines of Jimmy Lyons retain ties to the past, while Sunny Murray's coruscating, arrhythmic washes point the way to the future. Originally issued by Freedom in 1975 but up to now unavailable domestically on CD, Nefertiti has attained cult status as one of the crucial recordings of Taylor's career." Has two non-listed bonus tracks (a second version of "Call" and a twenty minute improv at the end of disc 2) that were tagged on at the last minute.

Artist:	STANLEY BROTHERS
Title:	Earliest Recordings: The Rich-R-Tone 78s (1947-1952)
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	RVN 203CD

"In bluegrass, there's an oft-cited Holy Trinity: Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs. For a truly despairing, spectral, high-lonesome sound, however, Ralph (keening tenor, banjo) and Carter (earthy baritone, guitar) Stanley stand alone. This, the first complete collection of the rare 78s featuring their earliest, formative recordings for the Rich-R-Tone label, presents the Stanleys at their rawest and most unadorned."

Artist:	VA
Title:	American Primitive Vol.1: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36)
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	RVN 206CD

Repressed. Subtitled Pre-War Gospel (1926-36). "26 High intensity/low varnish killers by: Charley Patton, Rev. I.B. Ware, Booker White, William & Versey Smith, Blind Willie Davis, Frank Palmes, Bo Weavil Jackson, Elder Otis Jones, Rev. Edward Clayborn, Blind Roosevelt Graves, Austin Coleman, Blind Joe Taggart, Eddie Head and Family, Dennis Crumpton and Robert Summers, Luther Magby, Jaybird Coleman, A.C. Forehand and Blind Mamie Forehand. The definitive WORD in sacred street music, culled and remastered from the collections of Gayle Dean Wardlow and John Fahey."

Artist:	CAPTAIN BEEFHEART
Title:	Grow Fins
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	5CD
Price:	$85.00
Catalog #:	RVN 210CD

"Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band set rock on its ear from 1965 until 1982, when leader Don Van Vliet retired from music. Engineering a mutant strain of musical DNA (tuff-ass garage punk R&B, extraterrestrial field hollers, austere 'classical' miniatures, loping sea chanties, scorched-earth delta blues, free-blowing skronk, fat-bottom groove and post-everything clangor all found their way into the soup), compelling bands ever waxed. The closest to a Best Of collection as we are likely to see, this career-spanning set corrals rare tracks from a variety of sources (band members' personal archives, live tracks, demos, worktapes, radio spots) along with over 30 minutes of Enhanced CD footage of liver performances, 112 pages of text and never-before-published photos, the completed Trout Mask Replica house sessions, and John 'Drumbo' French's 'colorful' history of the band. Hear a captain and his truly magic band." Track listing: CD 1 Just Got Back From The City [1965-67] (39:39) 1. Obeah Man (1966 demo) 2. Just Got Back From the City (1966 demo) 3. I'm Glad (1966 demo) 4. Triple Combination (1966 demo) 5. Here I Am I Always Am (early 1966 demo) 6. Here I Am I Always Am (later 1966 demo) 7. Somebody In My Home (1966 live) 8. Tupelo (1966 live) 9. Evil Is Going On (1966 live) 10. Old Folks Boogie (1967 live) 11. Call On Me (1965 demo) 12. Sure Nuff n Yes I Do (1967 demo) 13. Yellow Brick Road (1967 demo) 14. Plastic Factory (1967 demo). CD 2 Electricity [1967-68] (40:05) 1. Electricity (1968 live) 2. Sure Nuff n Yes I Do (1968 live) 3. Rollin n Tumblin (1968 live) 4. Electricity (1968 live) 5. Yer Gonna Need Somebody On Yer Bond (1968 live) 6. Kandy Korn (1968 live) 7. Korn Ring Finger (1967 demo) CD 3 Trout Mask House Sessions [1969] (72:57) 1. [untitled 1] 2. [untitled 2] 3. Hair Pie: Bake 1 4. Hair Pie: Bake 2 5. [untitled 5] 6. Hobo Chang Ba 7. [untitled 7] 8. Hobo Chang Ba (take 2) 9. Dachau Blues 10. Old Fart At Play 11. [untitled 11] 12. Pachuco Cadaver 13. Sugar n Spikes 14. [untitled 14] 15. Sweet Sweet Bulbs 16. Frownland (take 1) 17. Frownland 18. [untitled 18] 19. Ella Guru 20. [untitled 20] 21. She'Ss Too Much For My Mirror 22. [untitled 22] 23. Steal Softly Through Snow 24. [untitled 24] 25. My Human Gets Me Blues 26. [untitled 26] 27. When Big Joan Sets Up 28. [untitled 28] 29. [untitled 29] 30. China Pig CD 4 Trout Mask House Sessions [storytime portion] [1969] (12:33) 1. 'Blimp' 2. 'Herb' 3. 'Septic Tank' 4. 'Overdub' [plus ENHANCED CD live performance footage: Cannes Beach, 1968; Amougies, Belgium, 1969; Detroit, Michigan, 1971; Paris, France, 1973] CD 5 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Grow Fins [1969-82] (69:48) 1. My Human Gets Me Blues (1969 live) 2. When Big Joan Sets Up (1971 live) 3. Woe Is Uh Me Bop (1971 live) 4. Bellerin Plain (1971 live) 5. Black Snake Moan I (1972 radio phone-in) 6. Grow Fins (1972 live) 7. Black Snake Moan II (1972 radio) 8. Spitball Scalped Uh Baby (1972 live) 9. Harp Boogie I (1972 radio) 10. One Red Rose That I Mean (1972 live) 11. Harp Boogie II (1972 radio) 12. Natchez Burning (1972 radio) 13. Harp Boogie III (1972 radio phone-in) 14. Click Clack (1973 live) 15. Orange Claw Hammer (1975 radio) 16. Odd Jobs (1975 piano demo) 17. Odd Jobs (1976 band demo) 18. Vampire Suite (1980 worktapes/live) 19. Mellotron Improv (1978 live) 20. Evening Bell (1981 piano worktape) 21. Evening Bell (1982 guitar worktape) 22. Mellotron Improv (1980 live) 23. Flavor Bud Living (1980 live).

Artist:	VA
Title:	Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume Four
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	2CD
Price:	$28.00
Catalog #:	RVN 211CD

2007 repress! "The never before released fourth volume of the historic Anthology. Two CDs in a 96-page hardbound book. Twenty-eight tracks. Essays on the music by Dick Spottswood, John Fahey, and Greil Marcus. Produced in conjunction with the Harry Smith Archives. Harry Smith was a true polymath -- avant garde filmmaker, alchemist, folklorist, painter, magician, archivist and expert on string figures, paper airplanes, and Ukrainian painted eggs -- but is perhaps best known for his pioneering three-volume Anthology of American Folk Music, originally released in 1952 and reissued to great acclaim in 1997 by Smithsonian/Folkways. Compiled by Harry Smith contemporaneously with the first three volumes, Volume Four presents Smith's 'secret volume' in its intended song sequence, including tracks by Monroe Brothers, Carter Family, Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Lead Belly, Uncle Dave Mason, Sleepy John Estes and more."

Artist:	PATTON, CHARLEY
Title:	Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues: The Worlds of Charley Pat
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	7CD
Price:	$155.00
Catalog #:	RVN 212CD

A mammoth slip-cased boxset, weighing in at over 6 lbs! "Historical Revisionism has writ large the name of Robert Johnson in blues annals while according Charley Patton a comparative footnote. One of the founders of Mississippi Delta blues, Patton (1891-1931) was already the long-reigning kingpin of Delta bluesmen when Johnson was still in short pants. Take a listen and hear why many consider Patton the best there ever was. Possessor of a driving, percussive guitar style, a gravel-encrusted holler, often improvisatory lyrics, complex rhythmic dynamics, an unequalled 'talking' bottleneck and a deep reservoir of melodic hooks, Patton conjured up songstuffs that gave vent to both a restless artistic temperament and a palpable, lingering rage. A 7-CD primer on Mississippi Delta blues with Charley Patton as the central, generative figure, this set features 5 CDs with all issued and unissued recordings by Patton and sessionmates Son House, Willie Brown. Louise Johnson, Henry 'Son' Sims, Bertha Lee, Delta Big Four, Buddy Boy Hawkins, Edith North Johnson, and even talent scout HC Speir; a 6th CD of artists in Charley's 'orbit' like Ma Rainey, Howlin' Wolf, Poor Boy Lofton, Kid Bailey, Walter Rhodes, Rube Lacy, Blind Joe Reynolds (newly discovered track!), Tommy Johnson and Pops Staples; and a 7th CD of interviews with Patton associates Staples, Wolf, Speir and Patton protege Booker Miller. All tracks are fully remastered and pitch-corrected from the best possible sources, resulting in the definitive versions of this material. Also included are a freestanding reprint of John Fahey's 1970 Patton book, 128 pages of exhaustive new notes by Fahey and blues scholars David Evans, Dick Spottswood, and Ed Komara, complete lyric transcriptions, full-size reproductions of the 6 original 1929 Paramount ads, a full set of 78 record label stickers from all Charley's Paramount, Vocalion and Herwin releases, and dozens of other dazzling visuals. All housed in a deluxe '78 Album' hard-cover book and slipcase."

Artist:	VA
Title:	American Primitive Vol. II - Pre-War Revenants (1897-1939)
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	2CD
Price:	$30.00
Catalog #:	RVN 214CD

"Revenants. Phantoms. Biographical ciphers who emerged from their anonymous dark, made 78 rpm recordings, and were promptly swallowed up by darkness again. Yet their recordings have made an indelible place for themselves in our world by dint of their capacity to inspire wonder. At once a collection of secret blueprints for a raw musics revolution and a testament to the enduring power of great art to shock, confound, inspire and sustain. John Fahey's final curated work for Revenant. Revenant's long-awaited follow-up to 1997's much-saluted American Primitive Vol. I."

Artist:	AYLER, ALBERT
Title:	Holy Ghost
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	9CD BOX
Price:	$100.00
Catalog #:	RVN 213CD

Revenant's most ambitious reissue project yet, back to regular price. "By 1958, Albert Ayler and his horn had made some rounds: from boy prodigy to teenage member of Little Walter's Blues Band, from 'Little Bird' of Cleveland to featured U.S. Army Band soloist. Then he resolutely set out to forget everything he ever learned about how to properly play the sax so he could channel symphonies to God out of his horn. Seeking nothing short of Truth in music, Ayler shortly became THE catalytic force in defining the sound of the tenor in Free Jazz, and was a heavy influence on John Coltrane's later work. Holy Ghost is the first comprehensive attempt to construct a monument in sound to Albert Ayler, including his never-before-heard first and last recordings, book-ending rare and unissued music from every stage of his career. 9 CDs of rare and unissued recordings, 208 page full color hardbound book, new essays by Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer, and other Ayler scholars, 10th bonus disc with Ayler as a member of the U.S. Army Band, all housed in a lavish 9.5" square by 3" deep Spirit Box cast from a hand-carved wooden original." Seven discs of live music (Hertb Katz Quintet with Ayler, Helsinki, 1962), Albert Ayler Trio (NYC, 1964), Ayler Quartet (Copenhagen, 1964; NYC, 1967), Burton Greene Quintet with Ayler (NYC, 1966), Albert Ayler Quintet (Cleveland, Berlin & Rotterdam, all 1966; Newport, 1967; Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1970), Pharoah Sanders Ensemble with Ayler (NYC, 1968), Don Ayler Sextet w/ Ayler (NYC, 1969), Albert Ayler solo (NY, 1968). Plus 2 CDs of interviews (1964, 1966, 1970), including a Don Cherry interview from 1971.

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Artist:	BASSHOLES
Title:	Blue Roots
Label:	REVENANT
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	RVN 204CD