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Various – The Complete Obscure Records Collection - New 10 LP Record Box Set Dialogo Italy Vinyl -  Post-Modern / Contemporary / Ambient

Various – The Complete Obscure Records Collection - New 10 LP Record Box Set Dialogo Italy Vinyl - Post-Modern / Contemporary / Ambient

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Various  The Complete Obscure Records Collection

Label: Dialogo – DIALP926BOX
Series: Obscure (2)
Format:
Box Set, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered
10 x Vinyl, LP, Reissue
Country: Italy
Released:
Genre: Electronic, Classical
Style: Post-Modern, Contemporary, Ambient, Experimental

Tracklist

The Sinking Of The Titanic
A Gavin Bryars The Sinking Of The Titanic
B Gavin Bryars Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Ensemble Pieces
C1 Christopher Hobbs Aran
John Adams American Standard
C2 (i) John Philip Sousa
C2 (ii) Christian Zeal And Activity
C2 (iii) Sentimentals
D1 Christopher Hobbs McCrimmon Will Never Return
D2 Gavin Bryars 1, 2, 1-2-3-4
Discreet Music
E Brian Eno Discreet Music
Brian Eno Three Variations On The Canon In D Major By Johann Pachelbel
F (i) Fullness Of Wind
F (ii) French Catalogues
F (iii) Brutal Ardour
New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments
G1 Max Eastley Hydrophone
G2 Max Eastley Metallophone
G3 Max Eastley The Centriphone
G4 Max Eastley Elastic Aerophone / Centriphone
H1 David Toop Do The Bathosphere
H2 David Toop The Divination Of The Bowhead Whale
H3 David Toop The Chairs Story
Voices And Instruments
I1 Jan Steele All Day
I2 Jan Steele Distant Saxophones
I3 Jan Steele Rhapsody Spaniel
J1 John Cage Experiences No.1
J2 John Cage Experiences No.2
J3 John Cage The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs
J4 John Cage Forever And Sunsmell
J5 John Cage In A Landscape
Decay Music
K Michael Nyman 1-100
L Michael Nyman Bell Set No. 1
Music From The Penguin Café
M1 Simon Jeffes Penguin Café Single
Performer  Penguin Café Quartet*
Simon Jeffes Zopf
Performer  Members of the Penguin Café Orchestra*
M2 (i) From The Colonies
M2 (ii) In A Sydney Motel
M2 (iii) Surface Tension (Where The Trees Meet The Sky)
M2 (iiii) Milk
M2 (v) Coronation
M2 (vi) Giles Farnaby's Dream
M2 (vii) Pigtail
N1 Simon Jeffes The Sound Of Someone You Love Who's Going Away And It Doesn't Matter
Performer  Penguin Café Quartet*
N2 Simon Jeffes Hugebaby
Performer  Members of the Penguin Café Orchestra*
N3 Simon Jeffes Chartered Flight
Performer  Members of the Penguin Café Orchestra*
Machine Music
O1 John White Autumn Countdown Machine
O2 John White Son Of Gothic Chord
O3 John White Jew's Harp Machine
O4 John White Drinking And Hooting Machine
P Gavin Bryars The Squirrel And The Ricketty Racketty Bridge
Irma
Q1 Tom Phillips, Gavin Bryars, Fred Orton Introduction
Q2 Tom Phillips, Gavin Bryars, Fred Orton Overture And Aria : "I Tell You That's Irma Herself"
Q3 Tom Phillips, Gavin Bryars, Fred Orton First Interlude
R1 Tom Phillips, Gavin Bryars, Fred Orton Aria: "Irma You Will Be Mine"
R2 Tom Phillips, Gavin Bryars, Fred Orton Second Interlude
R3 Tom Phillips, Gavin Bryars, Fred Orton Chorus: "Love Is Help Mate"
R4 Tom Phillips, Gavin Bryars, Fred Orton Postlude
The Pavilion Of Dreams
S1 Harold Budd Bismillahi ´Rrahmani ´Rrahim
Harold Budd Two Songs
S2 (i) Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord
S2 (ii) Butterfly Sunday
Harold Budd Madrigals Of The Rose Angel
T1 (i) Rossetti Noise
T1 (ii) The Crystal Garden And A Coda
T2 Harold Budd Juno

Companies, etc.

  • Licensed From  Gavin Bryars – OBS 1, OBS 2, OBS 8, OBS 9
  • Licensed From  David Toop – OBS 4-A
  • Licensed From  Max Eastley – OBS 4-B
  • Licensed From  Universal Music Italia s.r.l. – OBS 3, OBS 6, OBS 7, OBS 10
  • Licensed From  Jan Steele – OBS 5 - I3
  • Licensed From  John Cage Trust – OBS 5-B
  • Licensed From  LIft Music Limited – OBS 5 - I1, I2

Credits

  • Artwork  John Bonis
  • Design  Dinamomilano
  • Edited By, Supervised By  Gavin Bryars
  • Graphic Design, Liner Notes  Bruno Stucchi
  • Liner Notes  Carlo Boccadoro, David Toop, Gavin Bryars, Max Eastley, Richard Bernas, Silvia Lelli, Tom Recchion, Walter Rovere
  • Liner Notes, Translated By  Bradford Bailey
  • Mastered By  Andrea Marutti, Don Tyler* (tracks: A, B, C1, D1, D2, P)
  • Photography By  Andrew Tweedie, Harry Todd (3), John Haynes (5), Leon Morris (2), Pamela Marre, Peter Brooker (2), Roberto Masotti
  • Project Manager  Fabio Carboni, Luciano Cantone
  • Translated By  Eleonora Zanin, Mattia Merlini

Notes

Limited edition of 1000 copies in linen embossed box, including hand-numbered numbered certificate, containing all ten Obscure Records releases, housed in replicas of the original covers with original liner notes, and black die-cut poly-lined innersleeves.

Includes an 80-page book with new texts and contributions by Gavin Bryars, Bradford Bailey, David Toop, Max Eastley, Richard Bernas, Tom Recchion, Carlo Boccadoro, Walter Rovere, Bruno Stucchi, and rare photos, plus a note by Silvia Lelli re the Masotti photos.

Box comes shrinkwrapped, with long hype sticker on front and loose 12" promo sheet on back.

Each LP bears a different catalog number on spine, from DIALP926 to DIALP935

Each LP has OBS catalogue numbers on labels, from OBS 1-A / OBS 1-B on obscure no. 1 A/B labels - to OBS 10-A / OBS 10-B on onscure no. 10.

On Lp OBS 7, Penguin Cafe Orchestra is never mentioned as such in sleeve or label credits; the only credits are Members of the Penguin Café Orchestra on front cover - back cover also credits a Penguin Café Quartet as performer of two tracks.