Bob Drake – Medallion Animal Carpet (1999, CD, Usa)

Tracklist:
Part I
1 Hideous Shrub 1:53
2 Crude Internal Organ 0:40
3 Detrimental Robot 1:29
4 Maybe It's ..... 1:39
5 Concrete Husky 0:46
6 How Was It 1:37
7 Where There Is Nothing 1:03
8 Mound 2:33
9 Bedraggled Things 3:18
10 Flashy Smog Wolf Person 1:05
11 Do You See, Hear, Ammonia 1:09
12 Slab 3:53
13 One Night, In An Old Fashioned ..... 0:45
14 Light Seen In Empty ..... 0:55
15 Dehydrated 1:59
16 I'm Afraid There Are Results 1:44
Part II
17 Over In The Glory Land 1:37
18 Seven Cents 1:57
19 Title Unknown (1) 2:14
20 Angel Band 2:19
21 Title Unknown (2) 2:40
22 I Wish It Had Been A Dream 3:10
23 Hand Me My Walking Cane 2:28
Part III
24 Dunwich Confidential 1:05

Musicians:

Drums, Percussion – Mark Fuller, Mark McCoin, Chris Cutler

Saxophone – Jason Dumars

Percussion [Hand Drums] – Mark Fuller, Mark McCoin

Voice – Mark Fuller, Mark McCoin

Voice, Keyboards, Other – Mark Bradford, Sharon Bradford

Keyboards, Samples – Stevan Tickmayer

Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – Tim Gadd
Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocals, Violin, Synthesizer, Tambourine, Cymbal, Pedal Steel Guitar – Bob Drake

Bob Drake – Lawn Ornaments (2014, CD, Usa)

Tracklist:
1 Lawn Ornaments 2:24
2 What's Happened To Your Meerkat? 1:13
3 To The Sphinx 2:03
4 Park Of The Mysteries 3:51
5 Elsie 2:30
6 Fix My Machine 1:13
7 The Lonely Manor 2:44
8 Hyena Hot Springs 2:57
9 Perpetual Lamps 2:35
10 Let's Go To The Marvelous Land 3:36
11 Agents Of Decay 2:21
12 X-Ray Fruitful Plain 1:24
13 Why Why Why Not? 1:01
14 Wolf Nose Knows Nose 1:42
15 Our Expert's Advice 2:41
16 Don't Worry 1:33

Musicians:
Vocals – Bing Selfish, Caitlin Hogan, Ray Hogan
Written-By, Recorded By, Performer, Instruments [All], Vocals – Bob Drake

Harpy – Do Not Eat (1997, CD, Japan)

Tracklist:
1 Cutting 1:22
2 Chips 2:29
3 Melu 1:28
4 Rig La 1:28
5 California Mixer 0:56
6 Guitar 2:06
7 Pause 0:39
8 Shopping 2:13
9 He Dodged The Military Service 1:46
10 Walking 1:13
11 Spanish Mold 2:03
12 Movie Program 1:34
13 Tikatiro 2:24
14 Echinococcus 2:36
15 Lipmooong 0:35
16 Dolphin 3:25
17 Whip Cream 2:42
18 Pipeline 0:21
19 2.31 Cafe 2:14
20 Tea 0:52
21 Wash A Gun 1:34
22 Massachusetts 1:32
23 Kick 0:48
24 Gregorius 4:20
25 Mouse Trap 1:24
26 Muffled Tone 1:31
27 Goatee 0:40
28 Microphone 1:08
29 Service 1:44
30 Blight Heavy 3:15
31 Do Not Eat 0:22

Musicians:
Drums, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards – Itoken (Kenji Ito)
Guitar, Trumpet – Suzuki
Piano, Saxophone – Ono Tetsu
Vocals – Kyoko

Adrian Belew – Lone Rhino (1982, CD, Usa)

Tracklist:
A1 Big Electric Cat 4:51
A2 The Momur 3:45
A3 Stop It 2:44
A4 The Man In The Moon 3:46
A5 Naive Guitar 3:57
B1 Hot Sun 1:29
B2 The Lone Rhinoceros 3:57
B3 Swingline 3:25
B4 Adidas In Heat 2:44
B5 Animal Grace 3:58
B6 The Final Rhino 1:21

Musicians:
Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Vocals – William Janssen
Bass, Vocals, Fretless Bass – J. Clifton Mayhugh
Guitar, Effects, Drums, Percussion, Lead Vocals – Adrian Belew
Piano [acoustic], Vocals – Christy Bley

Fred Frith – The Top Of His Head (1989, CD, England)

Tracklist:
1 Title Theme 1:49
2 Driving To The Train 2:45
3 Wheels Within 2:31
4 Hold On Hold 2:22
5 Lucy Leaves A Note 2:25
6 Gus Escapes 2:19
7 Gravity's A Rule 2:15
8 Channel Change 3:20
9 Orbit 1:24
10 Fall To Call 3:52
11 Underwater Dream 2:29
12 This Old Earth 3:21
13 Donuts 2:54
14 The Long Drive 4:51
15 Lucy 2:05
16 The Premonition 1:26
17 Questions And Answers 2:47
18 The Performance 2:56
19.1 The Way You Look Tonight 4:38
19.2 Title Theme (Conclusion)

Musicians:
Cello, Accordion – Anne Bourne
Instruments, Performer [Machines, Radios], Tapes, Programmed By – Fred Frith
Saxophone, Flute – Jean Derome
Tapes, Other [Influences, Advice] – Peter Mettler
Voice – Christie MacFadyen, Jane Siberry

Officer! – 8 New Songs By Mick Hobbs (1983, Cassette, England)

Tracklist:

A1 Join The A A 0:49
A2 Life At The Water's Edge 5:05
A3 Dogface 1:43
A4 Tunnels 3:49
B1 Way 3:23
B2 You 3:36
B3 Spooky 3:20

B4 All Reality Is Symbolic 2:38

Musicians:

Mick Hobbs: bass, guitar, drums, keyboards, turntable, voice
Bill Gilonis: guitar, sax
Tim Hodgkinson: guitar, voice
Terri Robson: violin
Alig Pearce: guitar
Richard Wolfson: keyboards
Felix Fiedorowicz: keyboards, bassoon, recorder, voice
Rick Wilson: drums
Chris Cutler: drums (on Way)
Anna (Stokes?): voice
Judy Carter: voice
Leslie: claquetteisme

Extra Life – Secular Works (2008, CD, Usa)

Tracklist:
1 Blackmail Blues 8:54
2 I Don't See It That Way 8:03
3 I'll Burn 10:14
4 The Refrain 2:53
5 This Time 10:02
6 See You At The Show 7:49
7 Bled White 2:23

Musicians:
Bass – Tony Gedrich
Drums, Percussion – Nick Podgurski
Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals – Charlie Looker
Viola – Karen Waltuch

Keyboards, Tenor Sax, EWI – Travis Laplante

Violin –  Caley Monahon-Ward

Ocrilim, Dirty Projectors, Seductive Sprigs and Zs member, Charlie Looker, has started this project called Extra Life in 2006, playing alone and has expanded it into a full band in 2007, while leaving Zs. Looker describes this project as "Dark heavy art song" and indeed the music is song-oriented, complex, angular and disjointed. Said to be influenced by the mix of elements of chamber and medieval music influences with the math/avant-rock of his previous band, Zs and some pop sensibilities, Extra Life creates a special and eerie feeling in their first full-length Secular Works (alluding to the works composed by medieval composers which were not meant for religious purposes such as masses, hence called secular).

Skeleton Crew – Live Im Kulturkeller Würzburg 10/82 (1982, Cassette, Switzerland)

Live at the Kulturkeller in Würzburg, Germany, October 1982
Cassette released by Rec Rec Music, Zürich, 1984

Tracklist:
1. Side A (21:42)
2. Side B (20:19)

Musicians:

Fred Frith: guitar, violin, keyboards, bass drum, hi-hat, tapes, voice

Tom Cora: cello, bass guitar, homemade drums, vocals

Dave Newhouse: saxophone, drum kit

The show is actually a succession of short tracks with Skeleton Crew performing unparalleled and unequaled complex instrumental songs, disrupting common songwriting schemes whatsoever and particularly normal live performance configuration. Dave Newhouse of The Muffins is joining on saxophone and additional drums, though the
core duo of Frith+Cora was able to perform on several instruments at the same time as evidenced on their innumerable other live recordings. The musical irony in Skeleton Crew is comparable only to Negativland’s first LPs of the same period. For instance, at 6:30 in side A, a John Philip Sousa symphonic march is played as ironic background noise and at 18:00, Ronald Reagan is heard backward reading his famous quote: ‘We’re still free in America’. Additionaly, the trio is able to find its way through various musical genres, passages in this live recording verging on the experimental, noise or concrète music, while elsewhere the music is blues, avant rock or system music. Occasionaly, a song from their first 1984 LP ‘Learn to Talk’ is played in a more or less recognizable form. There is a possibility this cassette was issued as a parallel release with their first album to gather them more tour dates especially in Europe. These guys were undubitably great showmen. Cora died 1998. Thanks to HC Earwicker for the music. (continuo.wordpress)

Ortho-tonics ‎– Accessible As Gravity (1982, Cassette, Usa)

Side A
1. Be So Mean / Cult Figures (3:18)
2. (Too Hot To) Trotsky (4:29)
3. Painting (1:56)
4. On Death And Dying (3:13)
Side B
1. Accessible As Gravity (2:50)
2. Tuesday (2:31)
3. Barking Under A Banner (3:29)
4. Cool Hiss (5:28)

Musicians:
Paul Watson / trumpet, guitar
Danny Finney / saxophone, vocals
Pippin Barnett / drums
Rebby Sharp / guitar, voices
Paul Trumbo / bass

Teflon Fonfara & Maik Glemser – Inge In Venedig (1982, LP, Germany)

Tracklist:

A1. Frau Top 4:04

A2. Tanz Der Neutronen 3:12

A3. Inge In Venedig 6:02

A4. A. Pa. Che! 3:55

A5. Mutti 2:45

B1. Electric Airlions 3:12

B2. Bitter Lennon 3:47

B3. Lamborghini 2:32

B4. Glatt & Softig 6:08

B5. Elibis 2:34

B6. In Der Regel 1:21

Musicians:

Composed By – Maik Glemser (tracce: A1 to A3, A5 to B6), Teflon Fonfara (tracce: A1 to A3, A5 to B6)

Bass, Electronic Drums – Maik Glemser

Guitar, Tape, Producer – Teflon Fonfara

Demi Semi Quaver – Demi Semi Quaver (1994, CD, Japan)

Songs:
1. Recreation (4:41)
2. Love Maniac (3:31)
3.Fundamentarhythm (5:21)
4. Black Milk (5:24)
5. P+P (0:21)
6. A*Merika (12:08)
7. Diva Operation Sex Nox (6:25)
8. 第２魔術 Second Magic (3:54)
9. S+P (0:11)
10. ロックの隠れ家 Hideout Of Rock (4:13)
11. ~S~mash Room (6:27)
12. The Door Was Always Part Of The Wall And ~Key~ (2:15)

Musicians:
Bass – Hidenori Yokoyama
Drums – Koichiro Naka
Guest, Violin – Yuji Katsui (tracce: 3, 5)
Guitar, Kazoo – Toru Terashit*
Keyboards, Sampler – Genya Kuwajima
Percussion, Effects [Metals], Backing Vocals – Steve Eto
Vocals, Accordion, Synthesizer [YC-30], Piano, Backing Vocals – Emi Eleonola
Written-By – Demi Semi Quaver (tracce: 1 to 4, 6 to 12), Emi Eleonola (tracce: 5), Hoppy Kamiyama (tracce: 2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12), Yuji Katsui (tracce: 5)

DEMI SEMI QUAVER got started as an experimental-avantgarde rock outfit featuring Emi ELEONOLA, a female vocalist of marked personality. Dressed in a bondage suit, Emi utters a weird and mysterious lyrics called 'Eleonola Language' upon their songs, that can charm the audience into Demi Semi world. In 1995, they appeared on Japanese underground rock scene with their eponymous debut album full of experimentalism, aestheticism, avantgardism, and individualism. A magnificent lineup - Yuji KATSUI (violin), Steve ETOH (percussion), TELLASIT (guitar), Hidenori YOKOYAMA (bass), and Koichiro NAKA (drums) - supports her, and they leaped into Japanese Underground Stardom.

Through many active gigs, DEMI SEMI QUAVER made their major debut with the third album '3' in 1996. They often appears on stage despite of getting less active than before, since each member can get more renowned currently as a session musician or a member of another progressive rock project (Emi has got a versatile artist e.g. actress, model, or fashion designer).

Luciano Margorani – Home Recording Is Killing Studios (1989, LP, Italy)

Tracklist:
01 Hop-Frog! (2:52)
02 Contrattempi (1:07)
03 Man with a Million (2:23)
04 Binocolo (3:14)
05 La meccanica dei fluidi (2:06)
06 Cappelli di carta (to Charles Ives) (2:08)
07 Il mondo nuovo (1:14)
08 1919 (:50)
09 Ridens (1:11)
10 Orbiston Parva (2:49)
11 Nodi (2:03)
12 Dirigible Nobile (3:25)
13 Focke Wülf 190.D (3:22)
14 Barbara Sukowa (2:15)

LP released by AYAA, France, 1989

After the first two La 1919 albums (his duo with Piero Chianura) in 1985 and 1987, Milanese Luciano Margorani, born 1961, went on to release his first solo album, ‘Home Recording Is Killing Studios’ on French label AYAA. His solo output retains some of La 1919’s characteristics: elaborated guitar parts with drum machine and keyboards, plus extraneous noises and found sounds. Thanks to the A.D.N. label and a few others, the worlds of industrial rock and avant-rock started to mingle a little, though I’m not sure the audience of the mid-1980s was actually ready for this kind of crossover. On ‘Home Recording…’, Margorani collected poetical sketches on guitar and Casio CZ 101 he recorded in 1987. The tracks are more focused than La 1919’s and the sound more polished, closer to the Fred Frith/Henry Kaiser duos. Like the former, Margorani is able to bring new ideas and surprising twists in his guitar playing, and to keep it exciting throughout. Both Margorani and La 1919 resumed publishing discs in the 21st century with several new releases each.

Albert Marcœur ‎– Album À Colorier (1976, CD, France)

This was the fantastic 2nd album by Albert, which, like his first, was originally released on French Atlantic. A brilliant musician, composer and arranger, the closest comparison one can make is that Albert is the French Frank Zappa, except that that doesn't really do Albert or his original music justice.Coming just two years after his first (the shortest time between albums Albert has ever managed - he works carefully and SLOWLY), this might have been slightly overlooked by folks. Don't make that same mistake now; this is a stupendous album with great melodies, musical surprises galore, brilliant orchestration and much more. He had a big budget and big ideas on this outing, and this comes highly recommended. (wayside)

The Lowest Note On The Organ ‎– The Lowest Note On The Organ (1983, EP, England)

Tracklist:

A1 Thusly Routed We Gambol
A2 Jane
A3 Meddle-A-Beadle
B Trial By Silhouette

A 'Work' related group, featuring Mick Hobbs of 'The Work', Rick Wilson of 'The Work, and Trevor Goronwy of 'Camberwell Now' and 'This Heat' and completing our Avant Rock connections, produced by Charles Bullen of,its them again, 'This Heat.
A quirky little e.p. which could easily be labelled 'Art Rock' by those who know better.

The Plastic People Of The Universe ‎– Magor's Shem 40th Year Anniversary Tour PPU 1968-2008 (2008, CD, Czech Republic)

Tracklist:

1. Non Stop Opera

2. Foggy Night (Je Noc, Mlha Pada)

3. Come On (Pojd)

4. The Television Idyll (Televizni Idyika)

5. Mary, Wake Up (Marie, Vstavej)

6. Magor's Shem (Magoruv sem)

Ed Sanders & The Plastic People of the Universe - The garden is open (2005, CD, Czech Republic)

Tracklist:
01 Pepr Walk
02 An Ode of Sappho
03 Song for Miriam
04 For Allen
05 Dover Beach
06 How Sweet I Roamed from Field
07 Morning Morning
08 I Want to Know
09 The Garden Is Open
10 Magical Night

Musicians:
V.Brabenec - sax
J.Janíček - keyboards
J.Kabeš - violin
J.Kandl - drums
I.Turnova -bass
J.Carnation - guitar
I.Bierhanzl - double bass
Ed Sanders - vocals

Ed Sanders, the politically outspoken poet and founding member of The Fugs, made his return to the stage at the Prague Writers Festival of 2005. The performance also provided the first chance for Sanders to perform with The Plastic People of the Universe, the Czech band whose fight against the Czechoslovakian government received vocal support from The Fugs. This disc documents the performance, which sees Sanders returning to form with his signature blend of spoken word and poetry.

Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata ‎– Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata (1983, LP, Italy)

Lato A
A1 Un Umido Motivo (2:56)

A2 I Sette Piani Dell' Esperienza (3:02)

A3 Cerco Lavoro (2:44)

A4 Microprocessore (1:31)

A5 Citocromo (4:32)

A6 Onde Corte (6:14)

Lato B
B1 Autistico (2:46)

B2 Percussioni (4:15)

B3 Introdotta La Scrofa Nel Mattatoio (5:02)

B4 Quasi Pieno (3:13)

B5 El Motel Electrico (1:23)

B6 49° Parallelo (2:15)

Musicians

Bass, Percussion, Drum Machine, Backing Vocals, Tapes – Andrea Azzali

Synth, Tone Generator, Trumpet, Backing Vocals – Fabio Cortesi

Guitar, Synth, Keyboards, Violin, Balafon, Zurna, Percussion, Tapes – Simon Balestrazzi

Drums, Percussion – Giampaolo Terenziani

Vocals, Trombone – Giorgio Barbuti

Guest

Piano – Andrea Salvini

Alto Saxophone – Stefano Zanzucchi

Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Congas – Marco Gorreri

Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata began as a one-man-band hiding the multi-instrumentist and sound engineer Simon Balestrazzi, which would later join Kino Glaz, Kirlian Camera, Bron Y Aur.

His first LP under the name T.A.C. came out in 1983 (or maybe in 1982) and features a very peculiar, Nurse With Wound-ish sound interbreeding such diverse styles as no-wave, electronic experimentation, progressive rock, radical improvisation and post-punk.
The rattling, crunchy guitar sound isn't far from Fred Frith's distinctive style in his no-wave project Massacre, and the shattered jazzy orbits it follows are quite close too. The telluric funk-punk basslines contribute creating bony, deconstructed pieces with everchanging rhythms and meters. Then come the electronic incursions of polluted radio frequencies and background buzzes, which give the music an eerie, dismantled feeling.
The lyrics are often quasi-nonsensical, but reflect the aftermath of the strong political engagement of the Seventies. Repetition and obsessive rants are the key elements of Balestrazzi's neurotic vocal style.
T.A.C. sound is completed by occasional free saxophone bursts, atonal piano figures and sparse folkloric remindings. The final result is something between Henry Cow, This Heat, The Work, with a more sinister, industrial mood. (Il golpe e l'uva)

Milan Hlavsa ‎– Než Je Dnes Člověku 50 - Poslední Dekáda (2001, 2xCD, Czech Republic)