Various Artists - The Complete Obscure Records Collection 1975-1978 : 10 x CD box set (due to weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
SKU
05-DIACD 926BOX
This is all 10 of the original releases on Obscure, some of them very easily available for decades, and a number of them never before reissued.
Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic
Christopher Hobbs, John Adams, Gavin Bryars - Ensemble Pieces
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
David Toop, Max Eastley - New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments
Jan Steele, John Cage - Voices and Instruments
Michael Nyman - Decay Music
The Penguin Café Orchestra - Music From the Penguin Café
John White, Gavin Bryars - Machine Music
Tom Phillips, Gavin Bryars, Fred Orton - Irma
Harold Budd - The Pavilion of Dreams
“A truly groundbreaking body of recordings - many of which have remained out of print and difficult to find for decades - it contains some of the most important, influential, and enduring music to emerge during the second half of the 20th Century, which collectively reconfigured the terms of minimalism and laid the groundwork for the emerging movement of ambient music over its short, three-year run. Issued in a deluxe CD edition of 1,000 copies, each box set contains all of Obscure's albums, completely remastered by Andrea Marutti and housed in faithful mini-replicas of their original covers and liner notes, as well as a 130-page booklet, this historic collection marks the first time such a seminal series has received a complete repress.
This is certainly one of the year's most interesting, essential, and widely anticipated releases, stunningly produced with the complete involvement of all the artists or their estates. When viewed collectively, the Obscure catalog reveals a remarkable, and previously unexplored counterpoint -- bridging the United Kingdom and the American West Coast -- to the dominant threads of minimal and experimental music, centered in New York that had long dominated the public consciousness. This historic collection marks the first time the seminal Obscure catalog has received a complete repress; simply a dream come true.”
- LabelDialogo
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