...SIŁA I PIĘKNO MUZYKI TKWIĄ W JEJ RÓŻNORODNOŚCI


..::OPIS::..

Drummer, composer, lyricist, improviser, cultural theorist and the individual largely responsible for the existence of ReR/Recommended records, Chris Cutler (like his longtime musical sparring partner Fred Frith) has cast a long shadow over avant rock for over 30 years. He first came to prominence when he joined Henry Cow in 1971, but he had been active on London's psychedelic/underground scene since the mid 60s, and in the early 70s formed the Ottawa Music Company (a large collective of rock composers) with sometime Egg/Hatfields keyboards player Dave Stewart.

When Henry Cow ceased working in 1978, he was instrumental in setting up Recommended Records along with Nick Hobbs, Henry Cow's ex-manager, initially as a distribution service and subsequently as a label in its own right. He also formed the excellent Art Bears with Fred Frith and Dagmar Krause, in which he was lyricist as well as the drummer. Since then he has been involved in a bewildering number of projects, often simultaneously, including The Residents, Pere Ubu, News From Babel, Cassiber, Aqsak Maboul, The EC Nudes and P53. He has also worked as an improviser, notably with Fred Frith (see seperate entry), Thomas DiMuzio and Zeena Parkins. Further to all this, he has also developed a unique electric drum kit - to quote from the man himself: "There are no samples, pads or triggers, just acoustic drums amplified and modified with standard electronic processors ... All this is run into a small 16 channel mixer and out through various standard pedals and guitar effects" (from the sleevenotes to Solo). More details can be found on his website. At various points in its evolution, this kit can be heard on all his post Henry Cow recordings. To date there have been only 2 Cutler solo releases; Solo is live improvisations on the electric drumkit, while Twice Around The World is an album of soundscapes created for London based Resonance FM and described as 'an experiment in listening'. The discography also includes 2 albums recorded with electronics performer Thomas DiMuzio (who has also worked with 5UUs) and one with Zeena Parkins (News From Babel, Skeleton Crew).

A masterful and highly original drummer, he is well worth catching live where his unique style can be seen as well as heard. All of his albums can be recommended, but his collaborations with Thomas DiMuzio are perhaps the best place to start, in particular the masterful Dust. See also Cutler/Frith.

A seminal figure in the RIO scene, Cutler's solo and collaborative works are an essential addition to the RIO/Avant prog category.



10 CDs, 1 DVD, 80pp booklet and box.
To make public a mass of unreleased material I decided to wrap this musical collection into a box. These 10 CDs (and a DVD) include over five hours of unreleased materials, my three previously released solo CDs (‘solo’, ‘twice around the earth’ and ‘there and back again’); plus a double CD collection of tracks spanning 50 years of official recordings (It Makes Sense to Me), as well as the 22-hour radio programme I made for Radio Art Zone last year (that’s on the DVD). 36 hours. Comes with 2 fat books of documentation, artwork, photographs, published and unpublished texts.
for the avoidance of all confusion: of the 5 CDs of 'unreleased materials', 100 copies of 4 of them were privately printed for japan (as CC100, 200, 300 & 400), so a few of you may have them. CC500, the two books and the DVD appear for the first time.

The subscription edition is numbered and signed and comes with an extra CD not otherwise available.



..::TRACK-LIST::..

It Makes Sense To Me (A Selection From The Public Record 1972-2022)
CD 4:
1. Henry Cow - Amygdala (Extract) 3:29
2. Henry Cow - Deluge 5:23
3. Slapphappy & Henry Cow - The Messiah 1:42
4. Henry Cow - Beginning The Long March 5:59
5. Art Bears - The Labyrinth 2:13
6. Art Bears - The Winter Wheel 3:03
7. Art Bears - The Slave 3:34
8. Aksak Maboul - Knokke (Cinema, Section 3, Extract) 3:02
9. Art Bears - Song Of The Martyrs 4:01
10. The Work - State Room 3:22
11. Chris Cutler & Fred Frith - Live In Prague 4:05
12. Duck And Cover - The Address 1:09
13. Duck And Cover - Dunkle Wolken 2:20
14. Duck And Cover - Fragments 1:09
15. Duck And Cover - On Suicide 0:41
16. Duck And Cover - Und Ich Werde Nicht Mehr Sehen 1:10
17. Cassiber - In Eine Minute 7:30
18. News From Babel - Heart Of Stone 3:04
19. Rene Lussier, Jean Derome, Tom Cora, Chris Cutler - Menuet No.2 Mowtown Version 1:32
20. Peter Blegvad - Not Weak Enough 4:04
21. Cassiber - This Was The Way It Was (Intro) 0:50
22. Cassiber - Philosophy 0:05
23. Cassiber - Gut 3:42

CD 5:
1. Pere Ubu - Final Solution 5:40
2. Les Quatre Guitaristes De L'Apocalypso Bar - Last Cigar Before New York 3:31
3. Cutler & Glandien - Non Are Disbarred 3:29
4. The (ec) Nudes - Delta 3:46
5. Songs Between - Platser Sömn Och Fortsättning 5:06
6. Chris Cutler & Zeena Parkins - Shark (Extract) 2:08
7. Peter Blegvad - Daughter 3:22
8. p53 - p53 (Extract) 2:06
9. NORMA - Cinema (Extract) 6:46
10. The Science Group - Event Horizon 1:52
11. Peter Blegvad - On All 4s 3:40
12. Chris Cutler & Tom Dimuzio - Floating Plates / Do Not Drink 4:20
13. Vril - Uncanny Haversack 3:36
14. Vril - Impossible Cana 2:02
15. Chris Cutler - North Car Roulette 5:50
16. Brainville III - Who's Afraid? 6:34
17. Chris Cutler & Steve MacLean - The New Apocathary 1:55
18. Peter Blegvad - King Of Straw 2:29
19. Yumi Hara - Schoenberg U41 0:47
20. Nobody - Nothing 0:06
21. Chris Cutler & Fred Frith - Encore 1:14



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