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The RēR Quarterly was an English

England

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"quarterly" sound-magazine comprising an LP record

LP record

The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

and a magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

. It was published at irregular intervals between 1985 and 1997 by Recommended Records

Recommended Records

Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

and November Books, and edited by English percussionist, lyricist and music theorist, Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and Gong/Mothergong...

. It was sold internationally by Recommended Records via mail order

Mail order

Mail order is a term which describes the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. The buyer places an order for the desired products with the merchant through some remote method such as through a telephone call or web site. Then, the products are delivered to the customer...

and in specialist record shop

Record shop

A record shop or record store is an outlet that sells recorded music. Although vinyl records and audio cassettes are no longer sold in the majority of music stores, in favour of compact discs and home video recordings products, people in some countries, like the UK, still use the term "record...

s.

A total of thirteen issues were published (four volumes of four, four, three and two issues respectively) plus two "collection" issues featuring music selections from volumes 1 and 2. From volume 4 the LP was replaced by a CD

Compact Disc

The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

and the CD and the magazine (now entitled unFILEd: The RēR Sourcebook) were sold separately or together as a set.

The record in each issue contained previously unreleased music by artists from across the world, including commissioned pieces, projects and live recordings. The A4

ISO 216

ISO 216 specifies international standard paper sizes used in most countries in the world today. It defines the "A" and "B" series of paper sizes, including A4, the most commonly available size...

magazine (varying from 42 to 112 pages per issue) included artwork and theoretical and practical articles on music, often by the composers and performers featured on the record. In keeping with the goals of Recommended Records and its prime mover, Rock in Opposition

Rock in Opposition

Rock in Opposition or RIO was a movement representing a collective of progressive bands in the late 1970s united in their opposition to the music industry that refused to recognise their music...

, a number of new musicians and groups appeared on the records, many having their music published internationally for the first time.

Cutler described the RēR Quarterly as:

Paul Oldfield wrote in the English music newspaper, Melody Maker
Melody Maker
Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was, according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly music newspaper. It was founded in 1926 as a magazine targeted at musicians; in 2000 it was merged into "long-standing rival" New Musical Express.-1950s–1960s:Originally the Melody...

in 1985: "Theirs [RēR Quarterly] is the pursuit of unimaginable, packed in artwork of giddy luminescence."

Background

The idea for RēR Quarterly began in 1982 when Recommended Records

Recommended Records

released the Recommended Records Sampler
Recommended Records Sampler
The Recommended Records Sampler is a sampler double album by various artists released by English independent record label Recommended Records on LP in 1982...

, a sampler double album

Double album

A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....

by various artists that contained newly recorded and previously unreleased work by musicians and groups on the Recommended Records catalogue at the time.

Distribution

RēR Quarterly was distributed primarily to international subscribers by Recommended Records in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. Individual issues were also sold by the record label and other specialist record stores

Record shop

. Subscribers received special Subscription Editions that were numbered and signed, and included "something extra". For example, issue 1/1 included additional artwork by Peter Blegvad

Peter Blegvad

Peter Blegvad is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums...

from his and John Greaves

John Greaves (musician)

John Greaves is a British bass guitarist and composer, best known as a member of Henry Cow and his collaborative albums with Peter Blegvad...

's 1977 album, Kew. Rhone.
Kew. Rhone.
Kew. Rhone. is a concept album by British bass guitarist and composer John Greaves, and American singer-songwriter and guitarist Peter Blegvad. It is a song cycle composed by Greaves with lyrics by Blegvad, and was performed by Greaves and Blegvad with vocalist Lisa Herman and others...

, and issue 1/2 contained a cassette tape

Compact Cassette

The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...

of Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

pop songs from the early 1980s (at that time musicians in the former Soviet Union had little to no exposure in the West

Western world

The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident , is a term referring to the countries of Western Europe , the countries of the Americas, as well all countries of Northern and Central Europe, Australia and New Zealand...

Name

When the RēR Quarterly was first published in 1985, it was entitled The Rē Records Quarterly, "Rē" being the label Cutler had set up for his own projects in 1978 alongside Recommended Records

Recommended Records

(q.v.) which served for distribution, mailorder and as a label for outside projects. In 1988 the name changed to The RēR Records Quarterly since the distinction between the two operations no longer needed to be marked. In 1994 the magazine title was reduced to The RēR Quarterly, which remained until it mutated again into the Sourcebook series.

Frequency

While RēR Quarterly was intended to be a quarterly sound-magazine, the gaps between issues varied from four months to four years. Editor Chris Cutler

Chris Cutler

remarked that "It was always hard to get sufficient material of quality for the Quarterly, and so it always took a long time to prepare each issue." Most of the pieces featured on the disc and magazine were commissioned, and as the magazine's circulation was small and it received no subsidy (each issue generally ran at a loss), the contributors received very little for their work. In addition, Cutler was not a full-time editor of the magazine and preparing each issue had to be squeezed into his schedule of recording, touring and running Recommended Records

Recommended Records

Volume 1

Rē Records Quarterly Vol.1 No.1 (LP, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

Rē 0101, May 1985)
- LP track titles
  1. "The Threshold of Liberty" by Steve Moore – 9:25
  2. "Experiment" by Lars Hollmer
    Lars Hollmer
    Lars Gustav Gabriel Hollmer was a Swedish accordionist, keyboardist and composer whose work draws on influences ranging from Nordic folk tunes to progressive rock. He has been a member and/or founder of over half a dozen groups, most of whose work has been recorded at The Chickenhouse, his well...
    
    – 3:45
  3. "Education" by Chris Cutler
    Chris Cutler
    Chris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and Gong/Mothergong...
    
    and Lindsay Cooper
    Lindsay Cooper
    Lindsay Cooper is an English bassoon and oboe player, composer and political activist. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians...
    
    – 3:45
  4. "Compromisation" by 5uu's
    5uu's
    The 5uu's were an American avant-rock group founded in Los Angeles, California in 1984 by drummer-composer Dave Kerman. The group released their first album in 1986 and recorded a second in 1988 with Motor Totemist Guild, a similar band from the area. The two groups merged in 1988 to form U Totem...
    
    – 3:00
  5. "Dans les Yeux Bleues" by Joseph Racaille – 1:10
  6. "Naiwabi" by The Lowest Note – 2:35
  7. "Sorry 'bout That" by Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...
    
    – 1:50
  8. "Prayer for Civilisation" by Kalahari Surfers
    Kalahari Surfers
    The Kalahari Surfers is the moniker of South African composer and musician Warrick Sony. It began as a solo recording project in the early 1980s to subvert the total media and propaganda onslaught of P. W. Botha’s Apartheid South Africa...
    
    – 5:02
  9. "Indefinite" by Mission Impossible – 2:58
  10. "Song in Space" by Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...
    
    – 0:35
  11. "Pensa un Numero" by Stefano Delu – 2:13
  12. "A Walk Around the Brewery" by Mikolas Chadima – 6:06
  13. "Saw It in the Paper" by Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...
    
    – 3:40

Rē Records Quarterly Vol.1 No.2 (LP, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

Rē 0102, September 1985)
- LP track titles
  1. "Berlin Programme" by Duck and Cover – 27:44
  2. "Mystery Tapes 1" by John Oswald
    John Oswald (composer)
    John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics, the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings .-Philosophy:Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his craft in a paper called which he...
    
    – 6:04
  3. "Märzfeber" by Conrad Bauer – 6:44
  4. "Fluent" by Reportaż – 3:13
  5. "Battle-painter's Song" by Reportaż – 2:11
  6. "The Day When Truth Was not Existed" by Reportaż – 2:58
  7. "Stufferation" by Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...
    
    – 1:42

Rē Records Quarterly Vol.1 No.3 (LP, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

Rē 0103, January 1986)
- LP track titles
  1. "Card to Bernard" by The Big Guns
  2. "Early Rest Home" by Biota
    Biota (band)
    Biota are an American avant-rock musical collective. They have released several albums. David Newgarden wrote, "Biota is not even remotely like any other group I can think of" in a review of their 1995 album, Object Holder.-Musical career:...
  3. "Pigs" by Robert Wyatt
    Robert Wyatt
    Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
  4. "Sprung from Traps" by Roger Turner
    Roger Turner (musician)
    Roger Turner is an English jazz percussionist. He plays the drumset, drums, and various percussion, and was brought up into the jazz and visual art cultures inhabited by his older brothers, playing drums from childhood in informal jazz contexts.- Career :Turner studied English literature and...
  5. "Little Red Bombadier" by Kontroll Csoport
  6. "Woman of Water" by Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...
  7. "Coste" by Cassix
  8. "Criota" by Cassix
  9. "Religion" by Cassix
  10. "The Stanislavsky Method" by Cassix
  11. "Tempo di Pace, Bari" by Cassix
  12. "Copy Machine" by Cassix
  13. "Finta di Nulla" by Cassix
  14. "Nadja" by Nazca

Rē Records Quarterly Vol.1 No.4 (LP, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

Rē 0104, May 1986)
- LP track titles
  1. "After Dinner" by After Dinner – 2:07
  2. "A Walnut" by After Dinner – 3:05
  3. "RE" by After Dinner – 4:29
  4. "A Man of Marble" by After Dinner – 3:02
  5. "Glass Tube" by After Dinner – 4:57
  6. "L'heure des Louves" by Wondeur Brass – 5:15
  7. "Раз, Два (1,2)" by Strange Games – 4:18
  8. "Hermetic Discourse" by Steve Moore – 6:38
  9. "C'est Bon la Viande!" by Art Moulu Tréfin – 4:44
  10. "The Murder of the Poet Michael Smith by Three Men in Kingston, Jamaica" by Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...
  11. "Power" by Black Sheep
  12. "Cantate 159" by André Duchesne
    André Duchesne (musician)
    André Duchesne is a Canadian experimental music guitarist and composer. He was a co-founder of Ambiances Magnétiques, a Canadian musical collective and record label, and formed several experimental music bands, including Conventum, Les 4 Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso-Bar and Locomotive...
  13. "Staying Awake" by Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...

Volume 2

Rē Records Quarterly Vol.2 No.1 (LP, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

Rē 0201, May 1987)
- LP track titles
  1. "Puptent" by Blitzoids – 3:45
  2. "Imperialism of the Future" by Ůr
    Ur
    Ur was an important city-state in ancient Sumer located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate...
    
    – 4:38
  3. "The Same Thing" by Henry Kaiser
    Henry Kaiser (musician)
    Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer.Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "first generation" of American free improvisers.-Biography:His grandfather was the...
    
    /Michael Maxymenko/Bill Frisell
    Bill Frisell
    William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
    
    – 5:50
  4. "The Wedding" by Iva Bittová
    Iva Bittová
    Iva Bittová is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer and composer. She began her career as an actress in the mid 1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s. She started recording in 1986 and by 1990 her unique vocal and...
    
    and Pavel Fajt – 4:52
  5. "Plains of Hungary" by Anthony Moore
    Anthony Moore
    Anthony Moore is a British experimental music composer, performer and producer. He was a founding member of the band Slapp Happy, worked with Henry Cow and has made a number of solo albums, including Flying Doesn't Help and World Service .As a lyricist, Moore has collaborated with Pink Floyd on...
    
    – 11:00
  6. "Parade" by John Oswald
    John Oswald (composer)
    John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics, the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings .-Philosophy:Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his craft in a paper called which he...
    
    – 11:10
  7. "Pégase" by Joseph Racaille – 1:14
  8. "Nivelles '81" by This Heat
    This Heat
    This Heat were a British experimental music group formed in early 1976 in Camberwell, London by multi-instrumentalists Charles Bullen , Charles Hayward and Gareth Williams .This Heat were active in the ascendancy of British progressive rock and punk rock, but stood apart...
    
    – 5:48
  9. "The Egg & I" by David Thomas & The Accordion Club
    David Thomas (musician)
    David Lynn Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.He was one of the founding members of the short-lived protopunkers Rocket From The Tombs , where he went by the name of Crocus Behemoth, and of punk group Pere Ubu . He has also released several solo albums...
    
    – 3:31
  10. "It Happened to Me" by David Thomas & The Accordion Club
    David Thomas (musician)
    David Lynn Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.He was one of the founding members of the short-lived protopunkers Rocket From The Tombs , where he went by the name of Crocus Behemoth, and of punk group Pere Ubu . He has also released several solo albums...
    
    – 2:33

Rē Records Quarterly Vol.2 No.2 (LP, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

Rē 0202, Autumn 1987)
- LP track titles
  1. "In Life's Hand" by 5uu's
    5uu's
    The 5uu's were an American avant-rock group founded in Los Angeles, California in 1984 by drummer-composer Dave Kerman. The group released their first album in 1986 and recorded a second in 1988 with Motor Totemist Guild, a similar band from the area. The two groups merged in 1988 to form U Totem...
  2. "Chairman Mao" by Robert Wyatt
    Robert Wyatt
    Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
    
    – 6:19
  3. "Yeah Mom" by John French
    John French (musician)
    John "Drumbo" French is an American drummer and musician. He played on Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica and on various other Beefheart recordings: Beefheart dubbed him "Drumbo"...
    
    – 3:47
  4. "From Suite Koradi" by Arturo Meza
    Arturo Meza
    Arturo Meza is a Mexican songwriter, musician, composer, singer, poet and writer. He is a prolific artist and inventor of musical instruments, such as the teclaedro, yeloguerlizet, mezáfono and oglio. The base of his songs is folk music, usually only his own voice and guitar...
    
    – 11:49
  5. "Resume 84-86" by Intellectual Cabaret – 11:54
  6. "Christi Crucifixi Ultima Verba" by Jocelyn Robert – 5:35
  7. "Dance" by Hunk Ai! – 5:22
  8. "The Barking Dogs Versus the Minimalists" by Henry Kaiser
    Henry Kaiser (musician)
    Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer.Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "first generation" of American free improvisers.-Biography:His grandfather was the...
    
    – 3:42

RēR Records Quarterly Vol.2 No.3 (LP, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

RēR 0203, 1988)
- LP track titles
  1. "Klangfarbenprobes" by John Oswald
    John Oswald (composer)
    John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics, the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings .-Philosophy:Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his craft in a paper called which he...
    
    – 2:00
  2. "Warsong" by Roberto Musci
    Roberto Musci
    Roberto Musci is a music composer, performer, saxophonist and guitar player.Musci studied saxophone and guitar. From 1974 to 1985 he travelled around the world to study African, Indian, and Near & Far Eastern music, to make field recordings and collect musical instruments...
    
    and Giovanni Venosta – 2:40
  3. "Redens" / "Orbiston Parva" by Luciano Margorani – 3:07
  4. "Brave It" by Tone Dogs – 4:05
  5. "Engine of Myth" by David Myers
  6. "Warheads" by James Grigsby – 5:25
  7. "Under Xmas Tree" by When – 4:00
  8. "Tango" by Kampec Dolores – 3:46
  9. "Tra le due Inghilterre" by La 1919 – 3:35
  10. "Pageant for Blinking Signal" by James Grigsby and Brad Laner – 1:25
  11. "Flaubears Dancing" by J. Lachan – 4:40
  12. "Moyen-âge" by Miriodor
    Miriodor
    Miriodor is a Canadian musical group in the field of what is known as Rock in Opposition; the band combines jazz, progressive rock and chamber music into a powerful sound reminiscent of better known artists like Univers Zéro or Art Zoyd...
    
    – 11:00

RēR Records Quarterly Vol.2 No.4 (LP, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

RēR 0204, 1989)
- LP track titles
  1. "Todesanzeige" by Expander Des Fortschritts – 5:40
  2. "Cairo: Khan Al Khaki" by Werner Kodytek
  3. "Picasso's Last Stand" by Increase the Angle – 4:15
  4. "All Thumbs" by Bill Gilonis
    Bill Gilonis
    Bill Gilonis is an English guitarist and composer. He co-founded the gritty experimental rock group The Work in 1980 with Tim Hodgkinson...
    
    – 4:06
  5. "Os Monomakhos" by Dimosiypalliliko Retire – 4:12
  6. "Cut" by Lutz Glandien
    Lutz Glandien
    Lutz Glandien is a Berlin-based German avant garde composer and musician. He has composed a number of classical and electroacoustic pieces, released four solo albums, and collaborated with English percussionist Chris Cutler to record two acclaimed avant-rock albums, Domestic Stories and P53...
    
    – 11:45
  7. "Organism" by Thinking Plague
    Thinking Plague
    Thinking Plague is a United States avant-rock group founded in 1982 by guitarist/composer, Mike Johnson, and bass guitarist/drummer, Bob Drake. Based in Denver, Colorado, the band has been active off and on since 1982, taking on a number of musicians over the years...
    
    – 8:37
  8. "USA Intolerance" by Jean Derome
    Jean Derome
    Jean Derome is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal musique actuelle scene, Derome has been a member of a number of experimental jazz and rock groups, and has appeared on over 30 albums, including seven solo albums...
    
    – 1:33
  9. "Italy Resistance" by Jean Derome
    Jean Derome
    Jean Derome is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal musique actuelle scene, Derome has been a member of a number of experimental jazz and rock groups, and has appeared on over 30 albums, including seven solo albums...
    
    – 2:14
  10. "Ghana Hope" by Jean Derome
    Jean Derome
    Jean Derome is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal musique actuelle scene, Derome has been a member of a number of experimental jazz and rock groups, and has appeared on over 30 albums, including seven solo albums...
    
    – 3:35

Volume 3

RēR Records Quarterly Vol.3 No.1 (LP, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

RēR 0301, 1989)
- LP track titles
  1. "Iranian Rock" by Steve Moore – 7:01
  2. "Bakerloo Boogaloo" by Overflow – 7:33
  3. "Bells" by Don Wherry – 11:40
  4. "War is Deception" by State of War – 3:45
  5. "Vox-5" by Trevor Wishart
    Trevor Wishart
    Trevor Wishart is an English composer, based in York. Wishart has contributed to composing with digital audio media, both fixed and interactive...
    
    – 5:37
  6. "Anything's Possible" by ZGA – 2:15
  7. "Duchesne Téléphone" by René Lussier
    René Lussier
    René Lussier is a musician based in the province of Québec, Canada. He is a composer, guitarist, bass guitarist, percussionist, bass clarinetist and singer. Lussier has collaborated with such figures as Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Jean Derome and Robert M. Lepage...
    
    – 2:14
  8. "Christmas Message" by René Lussier
    René Lussier
    René Lussier is a musician based in the province of Québec, Canada. He is a composer, guitarist, bass guitarist, percussionist, bass clarinetist and singer. Lussier has collaborated with such figures as Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Jean Derome and Robert M. Lepage...
    
    – 2:46
  9. "Extrait du Manifeste du 'Front de libération du Québec'" by René Lussier
    René Lussier
    René Lussier is a musician based in the province of Québec, Canada. He is a composer, guitarist, bass guitarist, percussionist, bass clarinetist and singer. Lussier has collaborated with such figures as Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Jean Derome and Robert M. Lepage...
    
    – 3:29
  10. "Government of Love" by Bing Selfish & The Ideals – 4:29
  11. "Working Stiff" by The Murphy Federation (Murphy Working Stiffs) – 2:32

RēR Records Quarterly Vol.3 No.2 (LP, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

RēR 0302, 1990)
- LP track titles
  1. "Premature Inversion Ratios Applied to Asynchronous-Impedence Shift Registers as Witnessed by a Ceramic-Based Silkworm Process" by David Myers and Alex Ross
  2. "Es Lebe" by Lutz Glandien
    Lutz Glandien
    Lutz Glandien is a Berlin-based German avant garde composer and musician. He has composed a number of classical and electroacoustic pieces, released four solo albums, and collaborated with English percussionist Chris Cutler to record two acclaimed avant-rock albums, Domestic Stories and P53...
  3. "Stone Music" by Zygmunt Krauze
    Zygmunt Krauze
    - Biography :Polish composer and pianist , who studied composition and piano at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He is known as a composer of unistic music, based on the theory of unistic art adopted from the painting of Wladyslaw Strzeminski...
  4. "Music from 'The Bacchae'" by Rasmus B. Lunding
  5. "Dedicated to Marina D." by Ne Zhdali
  6. "Release" by Charles Southern
  7. "From Suite in 3-Parts: The Old Pianola" by Pierre Bastien & Mecanium

RēR Records Quarterly Vol.3 No.3 (LP, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

RēR 0303, 1991)
- LP track titles
  1. "Chiaroscuro" by Steve Moore – 7:00
  2. "Photo Project 1" by Jocelyn Robert and Diane Landry – Z:22
  3. "Bell II" by When – 6:25
  4. "Tombo" by Tom Djll – 5:05
  5. "Racer Hero" by Hail
    Hail (band)
    Hail are an American indie/punk band with an avant-garde twist consisting of Susanne Lewis and Bob Drake . The band has also had guest appearances from Mike Johnson, Dave Kerman, Chris Cutler and Bill Gilonis. Albums include Gypsy Cat & Gypsy Bird , Turn of the Screw and Kirk...
    
    – 3:33
  6. "Microclimats" by Illegal Function – 9:19
  7. "Carousel of Progress (ReR Photo Project 2)" by Dave Kerman
    Dave Kerman
    David Kerman , better known as Dave Kerman, is a United States experimental rock drummer and composer, best known as the founder and member of the Los Angeles avant-rock group 5uu's. He is also a member of the Belgian progressive rock band Present and the Israeli avant-rock band Ahvak...
    
    and Patrick Tierney – 5:22
  8. "Intense Grace" by Abdo-Men – 3:16
  9. "Diary XI-XV" by Erik Hug – 7:30

Volume 4

RēR Quarterly Vol.4 No.1 (CD, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

RēR 0401, 1994)
- CD track titles
  1. "Untitled" by Koongoortoog – 4:03
  2. "Untitled" by The Adenoid Quartet – 7:20
  3. "Z" by John Oswald
    John Oswald (composer)
    John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics, the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings .-Philosophy:Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his craft in a paper called which he...
    
    – 0:22
  4. "TP2" by Tom Nunn – 7:26
  5. "What's the Point?" by Diledadafish – 2:13
  6. "The Desk" by Lesego Rampolokeng
    Lesego Rampolokeng
    Lesego Rampolokeng is a South African writer, playwright and performance poet.- Early life and education :Lesego Rampolokeng was born in 1965 in Orlando West, Soweto, Johannesburg. He studied law at the University of the North in South Africa. .- Works :Lesego Rampolokeng prominence happened in...
    
    with Kalahari Surfers
    Kalahari Surfers
    The Kalahari Surfers is the moniker of South African composer and musician Warrick Sony. It began as a solo recording project in the early 1980s to subvert the total media and propaganda onslaught of P. W. Botha’s Apartheid South Africa...
    
    – 3:45
  7. "Vietnam's Victory" by Cornelius Cardew
    Cornelius Cardew
    Cornelius Cardew was an English experimental music composer, and founder of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. He later rejected the avant-garde in favour of a politically motivated "people's liberation music".-Biography:Cardew was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire...
    
    – 6:27
  8. "Death in 40 Pictures" by Peter Machajdik
    Peter Machajdik
    Peter Machajdík is a contemporary Slovak composer and sound artist. He grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia and lives in Berlin, Germany....
    
    – 2:03
  9. "Circus Music" by Tiziano Popoli and N.O.R.M.A. – 9:01
  10. "Sonnet 2" by Al Margolis – 2:41
  11. "The Unknown" by David Myers – 2:47
  12. "How to Clean Squid" by Thinking Plague
    Thinking Plague
    Thinking Plague is a United States avant-rock group founded in 1982 by guitarist/composer, Mike Johnson, and bass guitarist/drummer, Bob Drake. Based in Denver, Colorado, the band has been active off and on since 1982, taking on a number of musicians over the years...
    
    – 5:42
  13. "Lost Title" by ZGA – 3:23
  14. "Walk Aside" by Biota
    Biota (band)
    Biota are an American avant-rock musical collective. They have released several albums. David Newgarden wrote, "Biota is not even remotely like any other group I can think of" in a review of their 1995 album, Object Holder.-Musical career:...
    
    – 4:15
  15. "The Cross and the Circle" by Martin Burlas – 5:42
  16. "Chair" by Blitzoids – 3:38
  17. "Les cons ont Dansé. Lait Condensé" by Les Sales Combles – 3:44
  18. "Encore" by Chris Cutler
    Chris Cutler
    Chris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and Gong/Mothergong...
    
    and Fred Frith
    Fred Frith
    Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor.Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew...
    
    – 1:16

RēR Quarterly Vol.4 No.2 (CD, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

RēR 0402, 1997)
- CD track titles
  1. "Sacrifice to Isis" by Q.R. Ghazala
    Reed Ghazala
    Qubais Reed Ghazala, an American author, photographer, composer, musician and experimental instrument builder, is recognized as the "father of circuit bending," having discovered the technique in 1966, pioneered it, named it, and taught it ever since...
    
    – 2:26
  2. "Three Cold Floors" by Mike Hovancsek
    Mike Hovancsek
    Mike Hovancsek is a , , and from Kent, Ohio, United States. He collaborated with Egyptian composer Halim El-Dabh since the late 1980s , and is a former member of the multicultural experimental group,...
    
    and Paul Guerguerian – 4:01
  3. "Inception" by Tom Dimuzio – 4:08
  4. "Short-Cuts: Brahms" by Marie Goyette – 4:25
  5. "Danseuse" by Ken Ando – 5:13
  6. "Congo" by Robert Iolini – 2:35
  7. "Zimbabwe" by Robert Iolini – 1:42
  8. "From 'Le Ombre di Otello'" by Giovanni Venosta – 3:47
  9. "Feu Brilliant" by Keith Rowe
    Keith Rowe
    Keith Rowe is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter. Rowe is a founding member of both the hugely influential AMM in the mid-1960s and M.I.M.E.O. Having trained as a visual artist, Rowe's paintings have been featured on most of his own albums...
    
    and Alain De Filippis – 5:54
  10. "Shenandoah" / "Innsbruck" by Brian Woodbury's Variety Orchestra featuring Dudley Saunders – 5:44
  11. "The Unthinkable" by Richard Barrett – 6:28
  12. "Heterophony" by Stevan Tickmayer – 7:19
  13. "Des Objets de la Plus Grande Importance" by Volapük – 3:26
  14. "Interludium: Two Drums" by Boris Kovač
    Boris Kovac
    -Biography:Kovač was born in Novi Sad, the capital of the Vojvodina region of Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia. He studied on the accordion as a child and later received one year of instruction on saxophone, but is self-taught on a wide array of instruments....
    
    – 2:46
  15. "Virgo Ramayana" by Philip Perkins – 5:56
  16. "After Hours" / "The Colour of Blood" by Shelley Hirsch
    Shelley Hirsch
    Shelley Hirsch is a singer, performer, and composer. Central to Hirsch's work are her versatile vocal abilities, which are often enmeshed in a kaleidoscope of electronic music and sound effects....
    
    /Jon Rose
    Jon Rose
    Jon Rose is an Australian violinist born in the UK in 1951. Rose began playing violin at age 7 after winning a music scholarship to King's School in Rochester. For over 35 years, Rose has been at the sharp end of new, improvised, and experimental music and media...
    
    /Chris Cutler
    Chris Cutler
    Chris Cutler is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and Gong/Mothergong...
    
    – 5:00

Selections

RēR Quarterly Selections from Vol.1 (CD, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

RēR QCD1, 1991)
- CD track titles
  1. "Mystery Tapes" by John Oswald
    John Oswald (composer)
    John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics, the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings .-Philosophy:Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his craft in a paper called which he...
    
    – 6:07
  2. "Berlin Programme" by Duck and Cover – 27:41
  3. "Hermetic Discourse" by Steve Moore – 6:45
  4. "Religion" by Cassix – 2:32
  5. "The Stanislavsky Method" by Cassix – 1:11
  6. "Tempo di Pace, Bari" by Cassix – 3:56
  7. "Copy Machine" by Cassix – 1:49
  8. "Finta di Nulla" by Cassix – 1:59
  9. "The Birth of Compomisation" by 5uu's
    5uu's
    The 5uu's were an American avant-rock group founded in Los Angeles, California in 1984 by drummer-composer Dave Kerman. The group released their first album in 1986 and recorded a second in 1988 with Motor Totemist Guild, a similar band from the area. The two groups merged in 1988 to form U Totem...
    
    – 2:53
  10. "The Threshold of Liberty" by Steve Moore – 9:32
  11. "Early Rest Home" by Biota
    Biota (band)
    Biota are an American avant-rock musical collective. They have released several albums. David Newgarden wrote, "Biota is not even remotely like any other group I can think of" in a review of their 1995 album, Object Holder.-Musical career:...
    
    – 9:43

RēR Quarterly Selections from Vol.2 (CD, Recommended Records
Recommended Records
Recommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...

RēR QCD2, 1991)
- CD track titles
  1. "Chairman Mao" by Robert Wyatt
    Robert Wyatt
    Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
    
    – 6:20
  2. "The Wedding" by Iva Bittová
    Iva Bittová
    Iva Bittová is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer and composer. She began her career as an actress in the mid 1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s. She started recording in 1986 and by 1990 her unique vocal and...
    
    and Pavel Fajt – 4:52
  3. "Tra le due Inghilterre" by La 1919 – 3:40
  4. "Christi Crucifixi Ultima Verba" by Jocelyn Robert – 5:32
  5. "Pageant for Blinking Signal" by James Grigsby and Brad Laner – 1:46
  6. "Flaubears Dancing" by J. Lachan – 4:49
  7. "The Barking Dogs Versus the Minimalists" by Henry Kaiser
    Henry Kaiser (musician)
    Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer.Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "first generation" of American free improvisers.-Biography:His grandfather was the...
    
    – 3:40
  8. "Picasso's Last Stand" by Increase the Angle – 4:23
  9. "All Thumbs" by Bill Gilonis
    Bill Gilonis
    Bill Gilonis is an English guitarist and composer. He co-founded the gritty experimental rock group The Work in 1980 with Tim Hodgkinson...
    
    – 4:09
  10. "The Egg & I" by David Thomas & The Accordion Club
    David Thomas (musician)
    David Lynn Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.He was one of the founding members of the short-lived protopunkers Rocket From The Tombs , where he went by the name of Crocus Behemoth, and of punk group Pere Ubu . He has also released several solo albums...
    
    – 3:29
  11. "Pégase" by Joseph Racaille – 2:28
  12. "Klangfarbenprobe" by John Oswald
    John Oswald (composer)
    John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics, the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings .-Philosophy:Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his craft in a paper called which he...
    
    – 2:02
  13. "Warsong" by Roberto Musci
    Roberto Musci
    Roberto Musci is a music composer, performer, saxophonist and guitar player.Musci studied saxophone and guitar. From 1974 to 1985 he travelled around the world to study African, Indian, and Near & Far Eastern music, to make field recordings and collect musical instruments...
    
    and Giovanni Venosta – 3:06
  14. "Redens" / "Orbiston Parva" by Luciano Margorani – 3:09
  15. "In Life's Hand" by 5uu's
    5uu's
    The 5uu's were an American avant-rock group founded in Los Angeles, California in 1984 by drummer-composer Dave Kerman. The group released their first album in 1986 and recorded a second in 1988 with Motor Totemist Guild, a similar band from the area. The two groups merged in 1988 to form U Totem...
    
    – 4:40
  16. "Warheads" by James Grigsby – 4:33
  17. "Under Xmas Tree" by When – 3:52
  18. "USA Intolerance" by Jean Derome
    Jean Derome
    Jean Derome is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal musique actuelle scene, Derome has been a member of a number of experimental jazz and rock groups, and has appeared on over 30 albums, including seven solo albums...
    
    – 1:34
  19. "Italy Resistance" by Jean Derome
    Jean Derome
    Jean Derome is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal musique actuelle scene, Derome has been a member of a number of experimental jazz and rock groups, and has appeared on over 30 albums, including seven solo albums...
    
    – 2:16
  20. "Ghana Hope" by Jean Derome
    Jean Derome
    Jean Derome is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal musique actuelle scene, Derome has been a member of a number of experimental jazz and rock groups, and has appeared on over 30 albums, including seven solo albums...
    
    – 3:48

External links

RēR Quarterly at SquidCo.
RēR Quarterly at Rate Your Music.
An interview with Chris Cutler (1999) at Clouds and Clocks.

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