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Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic
Gavin Bryars - Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Christopher Hobbs - Aran
John Adams - American Standard - (i) 'John Philip Sousa'
John Adams - American Standard - (ii) 'Christian Zeal and Activity'
John Adams - American Standard - (iii) 'Sentimentals'
Christopher Hobbs - McCrimmon Will Never Return
Gavin Bryars 1-2, 1-2 -2-3-4
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
Brian Eno - Fullness of the Wind
Brian Eno - French Catalogues
Brian Eno - Brutal Ardour
Max Eastley - Hydrophone
Max Eastley - Metallophone
Max Eastley - The Centriphone
Max Eastley - Elastic Aerophone - Centriphone
David Toop - Do the Bathosphere
David Toop - The Divination of the Bowhead Whale
David Toop - The Chairs Story
Jan Steele - All Day
Jan Steele - Distant Saxophones
Jan Steele - Rhapsody Spaniel
John Cage - - Experiences No.1
John Cage - Experiences No.2
John Cage - The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
John Cage - Forever and Sunsmell
John Cage - In a Landscape
Michael Nyman - 1-100
Michael Nyman - Bell Set No.1
Michael Nyman - 1-100 (Faster Decay)
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Single
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - From the Colonies
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - In a Sydney Motel
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Surface Tension
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Milk
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Coronation
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Giles Farnaby's Dream
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Pigtail
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and it Doesn't Matter
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Hugebaby
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Chartered Flight
John White - Autumn Countdown Machine
John White - Son of Gothic Chord
John White - Jew's Harp Machine
John White - Drinking and Hooting Machine
Gavin Bryars - The Squirrel and the Ricketty Racketty Bridge
Tom Phillips Gavin Bryars & Fred Orton - Introduction
Tom Phillips Gavin Bryars & Fred Orton - Overture
Tom Phillips Gavin Bryars & Fred Orton - Aria - I Tell You That's Irma Herself
Tom Phillips Gavin Bryars & Fred Orton - First Interlude
Tom Phillips Gavin Bryars & Fred Orton - Aria - Irma You Will Be Mine
Tom Phillips Gavin Bryars & Fred Orton - Second Interlude
Tom Phillips Gavin Bryars & Fred Orton - Chorus - Love Is Help Mate
Tom Phillips Gavin Bryars & Fred Orton - Postlude
Harold Budd - Bismillahi 'Rrahmani' Rrahim
Harold Budd - Two Songs
Harold Budd - Madrigals of the Rose Angel
Harold Budd - Juno

The Complete Obscure Records Collection - 1975-1978

Various Artists

Dialogo

remastered 10cd boxset with 130pp booklet

Released: 1st Dec 2023

£177.99

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This is the first ever boxset gathering the entire 10 albums released through Obscure Records - the label co-created & curated by Brian Eno, Gavin Bryars & Michael Nyman.

Originally issued between 1975 and 1978, nearly 50 years on the output of Obscure remains radically forward-thinking - offering glimpses of a future yet to be fully seen - and amounts to one of the most important, influential, and creatively accomplished album series ever conceived.

Obscure issued the recording debuts of Bryars, Nyman, John Adams, Christopher Hobbs, David Toop, Max Eastley, Jan Steele, Simon Jeffes / The Penguin Café Orchestra, and Harold Budd, in addition to important works by John Cage, Tom Phillips, and John White - Obscure's collective output is a groundbreaking landmark in the histories of Minimalism, modern composition, and Experimental music, and laid much of the groundwork for the soon to emerge movement of Ambient music.

Illuminating the remarkable, and largely otherwise undocumented, creative ferment within and between the British and American scenes of experimental music during the mid to late 1970s, this collection - made in full collaboration with all of the composers or their estates - contains the entire 10 album output of Obscure, the majority of which have been out of print for years