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:	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:	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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