rpk@lmi-angel.UUCP (Bob Krajewski) (10/09/86)
This article is based on the contents and advertisements of a British indie-label magazine called ``The Catalogue,''in the October issue. It's mostly news of new releases, with a lot of indie ads and many short reviews. The address is The Catalogue 61/71 Collier Street London N1 9BE, UK * New releases: Moodists: T.I.M./Abstract 12": Take the Red Carpet Out of Town Jazz Butcher Conspiracy: Glass single: Angels Jazz Butcher Conspiracy: Glass album: Distressed Gentlefolk Cocteau Twins: 4AD single: Loves Easy Tears/Those Eyes That Mouth/Sign's Smell of Farewell (12") [13 October] Cocteau Twins: 4AD album: with Harold Budd, as yet no title [end of October] Colin Newman: Crammed album: Commercial Suicide Colin Newman: Crammed 7": Feigned Hearing/I Can't Hear You Colin Newman: Crammed 12": ``interview/monlogue/rap'' + non-album tracks Minimal Compact: Crammed 12": Immigrants Songs Membranes: Homestead album: Songs of Love and Fury Jah Wobble + Ollie Marland + Harry Beckett: album: Trade Winds Hula: Red Rhino 12": Black Wall Blue Hula: Red Rhino album: Shadowland (live) * also, forthcoming collaboration with Daniel Miller Steve Jansen + Richard Barbieri: Pan East album: Worlds in a Small Room [mid-October] Soupdragons: Raw TV Products 7": Hang Ten!/Things Slow Down Hans Joachim Roedelius: Cicada album: Like the Whispering of the Wind William S. Burroughs: Les Temps Modernes album: The Doctor Is on the Market Faust: Recommended album: Munich and Elsewhere A Certain Ratio: Factory single: Mickey Way A Certain Ratio: Factory album: Force The Godfathers: Corporate Image album: Unsatisfied Legendary Pink Dots: Play It Again Sam 12": Curious Guy Legendary Pink Dots: Play It Again Sam album: Island of Jewels Executive Slacks: Play It Again Sam 12": Rock 'n Roll (remix) Skinny Puppy: Play It Again Sam 12": Dig It Robyn Hitchcock: Glass Fish album: Element of Light Tuxedomoon: Cramboy album: Suite en Sous-Sol [tracks from 1982] Coil: K. 422 12": Anal Staircase [mid-October] Live Skull: Homestead album: The Pusherman [mid-October] * LPs and CDs from Mute October to December: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Your Funeral, My Trial He Said: Hail Frank Tovey: The Fad Gadget singles Crime and the City Solution: Room of Lights I Start Counting: My Translucent Hands Holger Hiller: Oben im Eck Non: Blood & Flame * On CD: New Cocteau Twins + Harold Budd Phillip Glass: North Star Sonic Youth: Bad Moon Rising + Flower + Halloween + Satan Sonic Youth: EVOL New Jansen+Barbieri New ACR New Jazz Butcher Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains * Selected Reviews: Jansen/Barbieri: Worlds in a Small Room Let's begin in the New Age with the video soundtrack by ex-Japan members Jansen and Barbieri. Recorded in Tokyo (where else ?), the album titles alone, ``Breaking the Silence,'' ``Balance,'' ``The Way the Light Falls,'' etc. give you some idea of the cool, measured synth twiddling contained within. The total effect is decidedly powerful and meditative, suitable, shall we say, for those moments of stress inside your smallest room. Colin Newman: Commercial Suidicide `Mr Newman marries accessibility with invention.' So says his Press department, and they should know after all. Why then ``Commercial Suicide'' ? Mr Newman is of course playing Mr Modesty for there's plenty here to stimulate the jaded earholes of all persuasions. Favourites so far are ``Their Terrain,'' an almost hymn-like dirge sandwiched between characteristically oblique lyrics and an arrangment that builds from synthbleats to orchestral largesse and ``But I'' with its delightfully wacky psychedelic strings. Not commercial suicide but not ``Smash Hits'' either.