The Return of the Durutti Column [LP, Factory Benelux]

LP: UK 03.12.2013 (Factory Benelux FBN 114)
LP: UK 16.07.2018 (Factory Benelux FBN 114)

Tracklisting

Side 1

1. Sketch for Summer
2. Requiem for a Father
3. Katharine
4. Conduct

Side 2

1. Beginning
2. Jazz
3. Sketch for Winter
4. Collette
5. In 'D'
6. Lips That Would Kiss
7. Madeleine

Side 3

1. The First Aspect of the Same Thing

Side 4

1. The Second Aspect of the Same Thing

Credits

All tracks written by Vini Reilly and produced by Martin Hannett.

Thanks are due to Pete Crooks, bass, Philip 'Toby' Tomanov, drums, and Eric Random, rhythm box program on 2/6 and 2/7. Thanks also to Gammer for his melody, and Wilson, Rowbotham, Reid and Debord for the sandpaper packaging concept. Die-cut based on a 1978 logo designed by Peter Saville. Portraits by Daniel Meadows.

Album with flexidisc first released in January 1980 on Factory Records (FACT 14).

Tracks 2/6 and 2/7 originally released in October 1980 as a 12" single on Factory Benelux (FAC BN 2).

Reviews

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Notes

2013 issue

New Factory Benelux edition on 12" vinyl in a special sleeve with an 11-inch square sheet of coarse glasspaper seated in a recessed deboss. The back cover features period photographs by Daniel Meadows.

The original Hannett 'Test Card' flexi-disc has been converted to a regular non-flexi-disc black vinyl 7" single and this brings commensurately better sound quality.

There are two bonus tracks on the main album itself, 'Madeleine' and 'Lips That Would Kiss' which previously came out on an FBN single in 1980.

Liner notes feature quotes from Vini Reilly, Martin Hannett, Tony Wilson, Peter Saville, Daniel Meadows, John Brierley, Bruce Mitchell and members of Joy Division.

2018 issue

This slight variant features the 7" Testcard single on clear vinyl and the 11-inch square sheet of glasspaper is now black.

How to buy

The album is available direct from Factory Benelux mailorder. All enquiries about the album release, postage, etc direct to Factory Benelux please!

A Paean To Wilson (2LP, Kooky Records)

PLEASE NOTE THIS ITEM IS NOW SOLD OUT.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO BOUGHT A COPY ON RECORD STORE DAY OR ONLINE

2LP: UK 13.04.20 (Kooky Records, Kookydisc 35)
Download: UK 13.04.20 (Kooky Records) (via code redemption)

Tracklisting

One

I Or Are You Just A Technician
II Chant
III Quatro

Two

IV Requiem
V Stuki
VI Along Came Poppy

Three

VII Brother
VIII Duet With Piano
IX Darkness Here

Four

X Catos Revisited
XI The Truth
XII How Unbelievable

Download only: Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital. It Was Heaven Sent) [Kookydisc 35]

1 Bruce
2 Keir
3 Neil
4 Mike
5 Alan
6 Anthony

Liner notes by Vini Reilly

A Paean to Wilson is part of a body of work which I started around the time that my friend, Tony Wilson died. Towards the end of his illness, I sent him an instrumental track and he loved it, so I decided that the right thing to do was carry on.

I was at the hospital when he died. We were very, very close. Afterwards, many things were done in his name. They were all about 'Mr Manchester', and about what Tony had done for music, art and literature. I didn't attend many of them. I'd just lost one of my closest friends and I had all the grief that you feel under such circumstances. Once I'd got my act together though, I decided to do something for myself and for Tony.

The Durutti Column was Tony Wilson's baby. We were the first act signed up to his Factory club night and the first band signed to Factory Records. Over the years we worked on many albums together and the one thing that Tony and I always argued about was that he thought that I should make music and write rather than sing.

After he died, I decided to make a body of work which did not have traditional song structures and which was concerned solely with the musical content. My only objective was to create some music that Tony would thoroughly approve of. I think I've done that and, if his spirit lives on - which I like to think that it does - I want him to know that this is for him. Vini Reilly

Credits

Musicians
Vini Reilly - Guitar, Piano
Bruce Mitchell - Drums, Marimba
Keir Stewart - Bass, Keyboards, Harmonica
Poppy Morgan - Piano
John Metcalfe - Viola
Tim Kellet - Trumpet

Ruby Morgan, Kate Williamson - Vocals

String arrangements by Ian Livingstone and Keir Stewart; performed by the Livingstone Chamber Ensemble. Recorded at Highfield Studios, Guildford, Surrey

Composed by Reilly, Stewart & Mitchell

Drums engineered by Seadna McPhail and recorded at Moolah Rouge, Manchester

Produced by Keir Stewart
Executive producer Bruce Mitchell

Mixed & mastered by Keir Stewart at Inch Studio, Manchester - www.inchstudio.com

The copyright in this recording is owned by Bruce Mitchell Productions

Photography by Stephen Wright
Sleeve by Trevor Johnson & Lynx Studio

Kookydisc 35

www.thedurutticolumn.com
www.kookydisc.co.uk

Manufactured in the EU

Notes

Double 180 gram vinyl edition produced in a limited edition of 497 copies for Record Store Day 2013 in the UK. Copies not sold in the shop subsequently offered by mail order to Kooky Records mailing list and other customers via thedurutticolumn.com and kookydisc.co.uk. Includes an envelope containing the Manchester International Festival programme and a large postcard featuring the original artwork.

Content of the album is the same as the CD version with the exception of a slightly different mastering overseen by Keir Stewart and the removal of the wind noise at the end (due to timing constraints).

The 'Heaven Sent' download tracks offered as CD2 in the original cd version (Kookydisc 29/2) are offered as a free download along with this vinyl edition and are exactly the same. Further bonus tracks were not offered but may subsequently be distributed by a means that remains to be determined.

LC (Factory Benelux, 2013)

CD: BE/UK 11.02.2013 (Factory Benelux/LTM, FBN 10 CD)

Tracklisting

Disc one

1. Sketch for Dawn (1)
2. Portrait for Frazier
3. Jaqueline
4. Messidor
5. Sketch for Dawn (2)
6. Never Known
7. The Act Committed
8. Detail for Paul
9. The Missing Boy
10. The Sweet Cheat Gone
11. Danny
12. Enigma
13. For Mimi
14. For Belgian Friends
15. Self-Portrait
16. Favourite Painting
17. Zinni

Disc two

1. Mavuchka
2. Experiment in Fifth
3. Portrait for Paul
4. The Act Committed
5. Portrait for Frazier
6. Never Known
7. Untitled LC Demo
8. For Patti
9. Weakness and Fever
10. The Eye and the Hand
11. Party
12. One Christmas for Your Thoughts
13. Homage to Martinů
14. Sleep Will Come
15. Piece for an Ideal
16. Piece of Out of Tune Grand Piano

Notes

Factory Benelux presents an expanded double disc edition of LC, the second studio set by cult Manchester ensemble The Durutti Column, originally issued in 1981 and ranked among Vini Reilly’s finest albums.

After recording debut album The Return of the Durutti Column with producer Martin Hannett in 1979, virtuoso guitarist Vini Reilly purchased a TEAC four-track recorder from Bill Nelson and set about producing his own material. These evocative, highly atmospheric demos were perfected by Reilly at Graveyard Studios with co-producer Stuart Pickering, with additional drums and percussion from Bruce Mitchell, who has partnered Reilly ever since. Originally released by Factory Records in November 1981, LC is a key album in a body of work described by David Stubbs of Uncut magazine as "unique in rock, with Reilly's scampering, watercolour guitar style building a tentative bridge between post-punk and the chamber sketches of Debussy and Ravel."

On this expanded Factory Benelux the original ten tracks are supplemented by no less than 23 bonus cuts, including rare Sordide Sentimental single Danny/Enigma, 12" EP Deux Triangles, and the three tracks Reilly contributed to A Factory Quartet in 1980, his last recordings with Hannett and featuring Donald Johnson of A Certain Ratio on drums. The remastered double disc set also includes a clutch of scarce Crépuscule compilation album tracks, and demo versions of LC tracks, including a full length version of Detail for Paul.

LC (1972 label, 2013)

CD: US 02.2013 (1972 / Revolver, IF51)

Tracklisting

1. Sketch for Dawn (1)
2. Portrait for Frazer
3. Jacqueline
4. Messidor
5. Sketch for Dawn (2)
6. Never Known
7. The Act Committed
8. Detail for Paul
9. The Missing Boy
10. The Sweet Cheat Gone

Notes

Production: Vini Reilly and Stuart Pickering
Design: Les Thompson

2013 CD re-release on the American 1972 label. Release notes state: "Vini Reilly's masterpiece, originally released in 1981. Includes Ian Curtis tribute "The Missing Boy". First-ever domestic (i.e. USA) CD release. No export."

The Return of The Durutti Column [1972 label, 2013]

CD: US 02.2013 (1972 / Revolver USA, IF50)

Tracklisting

Sketch For Summer
Requiem For A Father
Katharine
Conduct
Beginning
Jazz
Sketch For Winter
Collette
In "D"

Original credits

The Durutti Column is Vini Reilly on guitar and Martin Hannett on switches
Recorded at Cargo, Rochdale
Mixed at Strawberry, Stockport
Engineers Chris Nagle and John Brierley
33 1/3 rpm
Published by Movement of 24th January Music
A Factory Records Product
(P) © 1979

Notes

Release notes state: "Reissue of classic debut album, originally released in 1980. First-ever domestic (i.e. USA) CD release. Produced by Martin Hannett (Joy Division, Magazine, A Certain Ratio, New Order). No export."

Production: Martin Hannett
Paintings by Dufy (Black sleeve reissue)