[net.music.classical] Obscure Music makes a return!

rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (08/16/84)

> I was perusing my weekly copy of the Britrag NME (now back on the racks
> after their strike is settled), and happened upon an advert for the 
> RobertQuine/Fred Maher collaboration by EG records. In addition to their
> normal catalog, it appears that they've picked up some interesting stuff
> for release, including the most recent Jon Hassell "Magic Realism".
> But of most interest was that they are re-releasing the entire original
> Obscure Music catalog-all ten of them. THis series came around in the 
> mid-seventies, and is a reasonably good study of British Post-Modernism
> in the seventies (though some non-Brits are in the series)....Michael Nyman,
> Gavin Bryars, David Toop, Max Eastley, the Penguin Cafe, Harold Budd,
> Christopher Aran, Jan Steele, Tom Phillips.
> Its unclear whether or not EG will be releasing these recording domestically.
> I am checking on that.

They are.  This month's MUSICIAN has an advert for Editions EG, including
the Robert Quine/Fred Maher collaboration "Basics", a new Budd/Eno
collaboration, and (I think) the Jon Hassell release.
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