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4CD/DVD BOX
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LMS 1725127
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35th Anniversary edition of the seminal 1989 Durutti Column album Vini Reilly. Produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries, New Order). Remastered and heavily expanded five-disc version, featuring over 75 tracks. Disc 1 features the Vini Reilly album plus three bonus tracks. The original album is presented in the famous (and as to now unseen) "rejected" sleeve by 8vo. Disc 2 features The Sporadic Recordings (28 tracks), a limited-edition CD from 1989. Disc 3 features Womad Live EP, plus bonus live tracks and demos (16 tracks). Disc 4 is an exclusive DVD, Live from Porto 1988. Disc 5 features a bonus one-track 3" mini-CD titled I Know Very Well How I Got My Name, a replica of the bonus addition from the original CD pressing. Expansive booklet includes new essay by Durutti Column/Factory Records expert James Nice, liner notes by band member Bruce Mitchell, liner notes from Anthony Wilson, interview extracts with Vini Reilly and restored images and outtake images. DVD is NTSC format, region 0.
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2LP
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LMS 5521916
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Double LP version. 180 gram vinyl; two printed inner sleeves. Celebrating 25 years since its release, Time Was Gigantic... When We Were Kids, the seminal 1998 album by The Durutti Column. The band and lead member Vini Reilly were one of the first signings to Antony Wilson's Factory Records, and Time Was Gigantic... was the final Factory Records release for The Durutti Column and the last release for the label before it closed. The new edition features extensive liner notes by Factory Records and band expert James Nice, and the original artwork has been revisited by the original designers 8VO (Mark Holt and Hamish Muir). The band (and in particular the guitar playing of Vini) has developed a cult following over the past 40 years with fans of the band including Brian Eno, John Frusciante (who called Vini "the best guitarist in the world", The Avalanches, The Chromatics, Johnny Marr, and John Cooper Clarke, to name a few. Remastered; includes five bonus tracks: "It's Your Life, Babe", "Kiss of Def", "In the City", "New Order Tribute", "Drinking Song (version)". Double LP version marks the album's first vinyl release.
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LMS 5521915
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Celebrating 25 years since its release, Time Was Gigantic... When We Were Kids, the seminal 1998 album by The Durutti Column. The band and lead member Vini Reilly were one of the first signings to Antony Wilson's Factory Records, and Time Was Gigantic... was the final Factory Records release for The Durutti Column and the last release for the label before it closed. The new edition features extensive liner notes by Factory Records and band expert James Nice, and the original artwork has been revisited by the original designers 8VO (Mark Holt and Hamish Muir). The band (and in particular the guitar playing of Vini) has developed a cult following over the past 40 years with fans of the band including Brian Eno, John Frusciante (who called Vini "the best guitarist in the world", The Avalanches, The Chromatics, Johnny Marr, and John Cooper Clarke, to name a few. Remastered; includes five bonus tracks: "It's Your Life, Babe", "Kiss of Def", "In the City", "New Order Tribute", "Drinking Song (version)". CD reissue.
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2LP
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LOTTA 005LP
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Sunlight To Blue... Blue To Blackness -- This was one of the more upbeat title suggestions for the very bare, back to basics, reflective album from The Durutti Column. Originally released in June 2008, Sunlight To Blue... was a conscious response to the previous two polished and "studio-based" releases. Here he created some sparse, simply beautiful "sketches" as he once called them, more reminiscent of his work from the early eighties. Many of the pieces are instrumentals played on his Juan Montero flamenco guitar, and he returns to "Without Mercy" for the last track "Grief" whilst reinventing "Never Known" from LC. This album also saw the debut of the then talented young pianist and singer, Poppy Morgan, who co-wrote the melancholy "Ananda" as a duet with what Vini Reilly dryly called "intrusive guitar". For the uninitiated, Vini was the first artist signed to Manchester's influential Factory Records, co-wrote and played on Morrissey's first solo album Viva Hate, and was heavily featured in the Manchester music culture film, 24 Hour Party People. Vini Reilly has recorded under the name The Durutti Column since 1978 and has a rich portfolio of work, releasing over twenty albums in this time. Ever critical of Vini's voice, but ever a fierce champion of his talent, the late Tony Wilson would surely appreciate this return of The Durutti Column. Remastered. Gatefold sleeve; 180 gram vinyl; disc 1 - yellow to blue and disc 2 - blue to black vinyl.
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3LP
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LOTTA 004LP
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A Paean to Wilson is still arguably Vini Reilly and the Durutti Column's most important and consistent piece of work since the demise of the original and seminal Factory Records in the early 1990s. On this release the F4 "Heaven Sent" tracks released on vinyl for the first time. They first appeared in 2005 via Tony Wilson's project F4, as being the fourth version of Factory Records. Originally it was download-only release, Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital, It Was Heaven Sent). A six-track CD of personal dedications by Vini ironically the last piece is titled "Anthony". Originally this was commissioned for the MIF (Manchester International Festival) where it was premiered in July 2009. Vin had already composed pieces for Tony to listen to whilst he was ill in hospital and it was from here that the project developed. Triple-LP vinyl with one clear disc, one gold disc, and one black disc. Originally released in 2010.
"Near the beginning of the final night of the Durutti Column's 70-minute international festival tribute to Tony Wilson, A Paean to Wilson, guitarist Vini Reilly announced that he wouldn't be singing: 'So you won't have to put up with my awful voice and schoolboy lyrics.' If Wilson was with us, he would have chuckled. The Granada presenter-turned-Factory Records boss spent years urging his first signing to stop singing, and concentrate on the virtuosity that led Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante to call Reilly 'the greatest guitarist in the world'. Two years after his death, Wilson got his way, one of many lovely touches in a very personal, emotional and often warmly funny musical tribute. Wilson signed Joy Division and Happy Mondays, yet never gave up on this cult band he adored, working with them even after his legendary label went bankrupt. A complex man, Wilson was an academic thinker who reveled in Steve Coogan's affectionate, Alan Partridge-style send-up of him. And this tribute was no different. At one point, Reilly known for melancholy launched into something resembling an Irish jig. 'Tony loved to laugh,' he explained. 'He loved absurdities.' After the humor came exquisitely mournful music. With Reilly and drummer Bruce Mitchell augmented by bass, keyboard, violin, electric piano, drum machine and trumpet, the band's beautiful pieces reflected Wilson's love of rock and classical. Reilly's plangent guitar work showed grief's emotional spectrum, from sadness to overdriven anger..." --Dave Simpson, The Guardian
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LOTTA 003EP
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Clear vinyl. The first stand-alone vinyl single to be released by The Durutti Column this century will be released in celebration of Vini Reilly's birthday early August 2020. "Free From All The Chaos", was originally on the CD release Chronicle presented with the unreleased track "Number Three", from the same sessions, also includes the voice of singer/songwriter Caoilfhionn Rose, a collaborator with the band over the past five years. Chronicle is a body of work commissioned from Vini Reilly as an autobiographical project concluding with a series of live shows.
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KOOKY 025CD
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2007 release. Durutti Column's Sporadic Three, was the third in a series of special collections almost 30 years since the original Sporadic Recordings (1989). As highlighted over his long and illustrious career, Vini Reilly is a prolific songwriter. Ideas and tracks just fly from Vini, and most of these tracks, or initial versions of songs, never make it to a final release. The basic idea behind The Sporadic Recordings series is to release material that never makes it onto studio albums. This collection follows the same premise and contains new and exclusive tracks, outtakes, versions, and home demos.
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KOOKY 027CD
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2008 release. Sunlight To Blue... Blue To Blackness was one of the more upbeat title suggestions for this very bare, back-to-basics, reflective Durutti Column album. Many of the pieces are simply instrumentals played on Vini Reilly's Juan Montero flamenco guitar, and he returns to Without Mercy (1984) for the last track "Grief" and reinvents "Never Known" from LC (1981).
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KOOKY 019CD
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2004 release. Durutti Column's Tempus Fugit collects improvisations, re-workings of art installation soundtracks, and snippets of lyrics and musical passages from the past. Gone are most of the drum machines and much of the sampling; in their place is more focused and intense guitar strumming. Tempus Fugit is an emotional, vibrant musical masterstroke from an artist who seems to never release anything less.
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