'Vini Reilly' [London Records, Record Store Day 2024]

LP: UK 20.04.2024 (London Records, LMS1725126 / Fact 244)

Tracklisting

Side One

1. Love No More
2. Pol in G
3. Act I Opera
4. People’s Pleasure Park
5. Finding the Sea

Side Two

1. Otis
2. They Work Every Day
3. Act II
4. Opera
5. Homage to Catalonea
6. My Country

Notes

35th Anniversary edition of the seminal 1989 album. The album is presented in the famous (and as to now unseen) ‘rejected’ sleeve by 8vo. Produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries, New Order). Vinyl mastered by Peter Beckmann at Technology Works. Numbered, limited edition (2000 copies) exclusive to Record Store Day 2024.

Greetings from S.G.V. The Greetings LP [RSD 2024, Lantern Records]

LP: IT 20.04.2024 (Lantern Records/Materiali Sonori, LANR045)

Tracklisting / Credits

Side A

BLAINE L. REININGER - GREETINGS ONE

1. JAPANESE DREAM
2. BISMALLAH

Performed & composed by BLAINE L. REININGER
Clarinet on BISMALLAH by STEVEN BROWN
Engineered by FRANK LIEVAART for SOUNDWORKS - BRUXELLES

STOCKHOLM MONSTERS - GREETINGS TWO

1. PARTY LINE
2. MILITIA
3. DUMBSTRUCK

Performed by

TONI FRANCE - KARL FRANCE - JOHN RHODES - SHAN HIRA

Recorded at SUITE 16 STUDIOS - ROCHDALE
Engineered by SHAN HIRA & C. J.
Produced & composed by STOCKHOLM MONSTERS

Side B

THE DURUTTI COLUMN - GREETINGS THREE

1. FLORENCE SUNSET (V. Reilly) 5:50
2. ALL THAT LOVE AND MATHS CAN DO (V. Reilly - J. Metcalfe) 3:33
3. SAN GIOVANNI DAWN (V. Reilly) 3:55
4. FOR FRIENDS IN ITALY (V. Reilly) 4:35
Performed by

VINI REILLY - JOHN METCALFE - BRUCE MITCHELL
Recorded at CRIMSON STUDIO - MANCHESTER
All songs written and produced by VINI REILLY
Except 'ALL THAT LOVE...' by VINI REILLY and JOHN METCALFE

Notes

GREETING5 FROM S.G.V.

Originally Released by Materiali Sonori in 1987
® 2024 Lantern Records
www.lanterneditions.com

LANTERN REC materiali sonori

Project by GIAMPIERO BIGAZZI

"Overdue re-issue of the first three 12” in the record series dedicated to musicians who took part to the Greetings festival. It happened in 1987, it was time for Materiali Sonori 10th anniversary, an historic goal for the label/collective born in the small Tuscany village of San Giovanni Valdarno. The small celebration brought to life a box collecting the first 3 Eps of the Greetings from S.G.V. series. The series was intended as symbolic sound postcard, made with various musicians with whom the collective label shared a path, whether small or long. The Durutti Column, The Stockholm Monsters and Blaine R. Reininger (Tuxedomoon) are among the artist who took part to the project, here collected for the very first time. Lantern is pleased to pay tribute to the work of people whose passion, attitude, commitment and genuineness inspired this adventure still true to these days. “Our presence in this small tuscan town is almost casual… physically we were born and grew up here, while our hearts and our minds were travelling to Paris, Berlin, Brussels, New York or London”" (Giampiero Bigazzi of Materiali Sonori, taken from the original inner sleeves notes).

Time Was Gigantic... When We Were Kids [London Records]

CD: UK 30.06.23 (London Records, LMS5521915)
2LP: UK 30.06.23 (London Records, LMS5521916)

CD Tracklisting

1. Organ Donor
2. Pigeon
3. I B Yours
4. Twenty Trees
5. Abuse
6. Drinking Song
7. Sing To Me
8. My Last Kiss
9. For Rachel
10. Highfield Choir
11. Epilogue
12. It's Your Life, Babe
13. Kiss of Def
14. In the City
15. New Order Tribute
16. Drinking Song (version)

2LP Tracklisting

LP one

A1 Organ Donor
A2 Pigeon
A3 I B Yours
A4 Twenty Trees

B5 Abuse
B6 Drinking Song
B7 Sing To Me

LP two

C8 My Last Kiss
C9 For Rachel
C10 Highfield Choir
C11 Epilogue

D12 It's Your Life, Babe
D13 Kiss of Def
D14 In the City
D15 New Order Tribute
D16 Drinking Song (version)

Notes

25th Anniversary edition of Time Was GIGANTIC... When we were kids by The Durutti Column, featuring expanded artwork by original designers 8vo, new liner notes by James Nice and 5 bonus tracks of rarities. An A3 reproduction of the 1998 Manchester Cathedral show for In The City was made available to coincide with this release and bundled in certain packages.

The album is available via:

https://thedurutticolumn.tmstor.es

"It sounds so sweet: Reilly's shimmering guitar spinning merry cartwheels behind Eley Rudge's angelic Harriet Wheeler warble, or basking lazily in pools of ambient calm. It's a smooth as porcelain, as mannered as a lily pond and as forgettable as your last breath."

- NME

Treatise on the Steppenwolf + Human Avatars (FBN 63 Record Store Day)

2LP (UK, 22.04.2023, Factory Benelux, FBN 63)

Tracklisting

A1. A Beautiful Thought (Pt 1)
A2. Harry Dreams The Dream
A3. A Wolf Of The Steppes
A4. Interlude
A5. The Title On The Cover

B1. Divided
B2. Magic Theatre
B3. Soul Track
B4. The Mothers And The Fathers
B5. A Beautiful Thought (Pt 2)

C1. Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 1)
C2. Stupid Steppenwolf (Pt 2)
C3. Human Avatars (Pt 3)

D1. Human Avatars (Pt 1)
D2. Human Avatars (Pt 2)

Notes

Factory Benelux presents the very first vinyl edition of the only soundtrack album recorded by The Durutti Column. A limited edition of 1000 copies on 180gm black vinyl for Record Store Day 2023.

Treatise on the Steppenwolf is a soundtrack to the performance piece of the same name by experimental theatre group 12 Stars, written and directed by Gerard McInulty (of fellow Factory band The Wake), first staged in Glasgow in May 2003. Freely adapted from the celebrated counter-culture novel by Hermann Hesse, the performance is a portrait a divided character in an ongoing state of conflict.

"Steppenwolf was something I'd read recently and when we approached Durutti Column with the idea it turned out they were interested too," explained McInulty. "People have described their music as ambient, although that's a description they don't care much for. It's certainly atmospheric and there's something about their sunny-sounding guitar that seemed appropriate to a book that, although published in 1927, didn't become popular in America until the 1960s."

This expanded vinyl edition combines the studio recordings of the 12 pieces performed live by The Durutti Column during the Glasgow run, along with 3 long and previously unreleased tracks from the Human Avatars art installation at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry in 2005.

Newly mastered for vinyl by Peter Beckman at TechnologyWorks, this limited Record Store Day edition also features new gatefold artwork by Howard Wakefield.

Steven Wilson Presents: Intrigue - Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative Music 1979–89

4CD (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, EDSL0133)
7LP deluxe signed (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, DEMRECBOX78X)
7LP regular (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, DEMRECBOX78)
2LP (UK, 10.02.2023, Demon, DEMREC1081)

Tracklisting (4CD)

CD 1

1. I Should Have Known Better – Wire
2. A Better Home In The Phantom Zone – Bill Nelson’s Red Noise
3. Back To Nature – Magazine
4. Complicated Game (Steven Wilson 2014 Mix) - XTC
5. Careering – Public Image Limited
6. The Raven – The Stranglers
7. Puppet Life – Punishment Of Luxury
8. Astradyne (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) – Ultravox
9. Contract – Gang Of Four
10. I Travel (Extended Version) – Simple Minds
11. Sketch For Summer – The Durutti Column
12. Health And Efficiency - This Heat
13. Burning Car – John Foxx
14. Cognitive Dissonance (Steven Wilson 2022 Mix) – Robert Fripp And The League of Gentlemen
15. Fatal Day – In Camera

CD 2

1. I Can't Escape Myself - The Sound
2. The Eternal - Joy Division
3. Big Empty Field - Swell Maps
4. Enemies - Art Nouveau
5. The Joy Circuit - Gary Numan
6. The Gospel Comes To New Guinea - 23 Skidoo
7. All My Colours - Echo And The Bunnymen
8. Ghost Town (Extended Version) - The Specials
9. They All Run After The Carving Knife - New Musik
10. The Him - New Order
11. White Car In Germany (Single Edit) - The Associates
12. Hit - Section 2513. Sealand - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
14. Talking Drum - Japan
15. Faith - The Cure

CD 3

1. Three Dancers (Steven Wilson 2021 Mix) - Twelfth Night
2. Airwaves - Thomas Dolby
3. Are You Ready? - Crispy Ambulance
4. The Outsider - Rupert Hine
5. Knife Slits Water - A Certain Ratio
6. Memories Fade - Tears For Fears
7. Patient - Peter Hammill
8. Donimo - Cocteau Twins
9. In A Waiting Room - Mr And Mrs Smith And Mr Drake
10. Close (To The Edit) - The Art Of Noise
11. Dalis Car - Dalis Car
12. Rawhide - Scott Walker
13. Brilliant Trees - David Sylvian
14. Dream Within A Dream – Propaganda

CD 4

1. Waking The Witch - Kate Bush
2. Ivy And Neet - This Mortal Coil
3. Beehead (7” Version) - Perennial Divide
4. This Corrosion – The Sisters Of Mercy
5. Ascension - O Yuki Conjugate
6. No Motion - Dif Juz
7. Gutter Busting – SLAB!
8. Murderers, The Hope Of Women - Momus
9. The Host Of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance
10. R.E.S. - Cardiacs
11. Good Morning Beautiful - The The
12. Omega Amigo - The Shamen
13. Night Sky, Sweet Earth - No-Man
14. The 3rd Time We Opened The Capsule - Kitchens Of Distinction

Notes

Compilation assembled by acclaimed musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer, Steven Wilson. The collection explores the creativity, experimentation and progressive spirit of alternative British music from 1979-1989. Features 'Sketch for Summer' by The Durutti Column. Other artists include Wire, XTC, The Stranglers, Ultravox, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, Tears For Fears, and many more.

Circuses and Bread (Factory Benelux, FBN 154 / FBN 154 CD)

CD (UK, 29.01.2021, Factory Benelux, FBN 154 CD)
2LP (UK, 26.03.2021, Factory Benelux, FBN 154)

CD Tracklisting

1. For Pauline
2. Tomorrow
3. Dance II
4. For Hilary
5. Street Fight
6. Royal Infirmary
7. Black Horses
8. Dance I
9. Blind Elevator Girl - Osaka
10. All That Love and Maths Can Do
11. Florence Sunset
12. San Giovanni Dawn
13. For Friends In Italy
14. The Aftermath
15. Our Lady of the Angels (Stu 'Jammer' James Mix)

2LP Tracklisting

Side One

A1. For Pauline
A2. Tomorrow
A3. Dance II
A4. For Hilary
A5. Street Fight
B1. Royal Infirmary
B2. Black Horses
B3. Dance I

Side Two

C1. Blind Elevator Girl – Osaka
C2. The Aftermath
C3. Our Lady of the Angels (Stu 'Jammer' James Mix)
D1. Florence Sunset
D2. All That Love and Maths Can Do
D3. San Giovanni Dawn
D4. For Friends In Italy

Notes

Factory Benelux presents remastered CD and 2LP coloured vinyl editions of Circuses and Bread, the seventh studio album by The Durutti Column. Originally released by Factory Benelux and Factory in 1986, the original 9 tracks have now been expanded with 6 bonus pieces.

The cover art retains the original design by 8vo. The remastered vinyl set is housed in gatefold sleeve, with liner notes and rare band images.

Self-produced by Vini Reilly at Strawberry and Revolution studios, the album saw Durutti playing as a quartet, with Reilly on guitar, vocals and keyboards, Bruce Mitchell in drums and percussion, John Metcalfe (viola) and Tim Kellett (trumpet).

"The music ends up being very simple," Vini told NME. "People can dismiss it as being very simplistic, easy listening or whatever. It's very honest, it's very personal. People say it's ambient, and it's like Eno. I don't like that, because the music's made to be listened to, it's not wallpaper."

Of extended piece Blind Elevator Girl – Osaka, Vini adds: "The music really writes itself. For example, we’re in Osaka, in Japan, getting in this elevator. It"s very crowded with all these Japanese businessmen talking about distribution deals, and going on and on. On this lift was a beautiful Japanese girl, in an immaculate uniform. Each floor we arrived at, she's starting talking Japanese, obviously saying what was on each floor. We went higher and higher, and finally we get to the top. And then, sort of walking out of the elevator, I suddenly realised she was blind... It got to me, this girl. It was incredible. So maybe a day later, I was thinking about that, and the whole tune came out. And every single piece of music is like that."

Bonus tracks include Italian-only EP Greetings Three, scarce compilation track The Aftermath, and a previously unreleased working version of 1987 single Our Lady of the Angels produced by the late Stuart 'Jammer' James.

Cover art retains the original design by 8vo. The remastered set is housed in 6 panel card digipack, with liner notes and rare band images. A double vinyl version of FBN 154 will be issued in March 2021.

More information at factorybenelux.com.

Sex and Death (Factory Benelux, FBN 201 / FBN 201 CD)

2CD: UK 23.04.2021 (Factory Benelux, FBN 201 CD)
2LP: UK 23.04.2021 (Factory Benelux, FBN 201)

2CD Tracklisting

CD1

1. Anthony
2. The Rest of My Life
3. For Colette
4. The Next Time
5. Beautiful Lies
6. My Irascible Friend
7. Believe In Me
8. Fermina
9. Where I Should Be
10. Fado
11. Madre Mio
12. Blue Period

CD2

1. Believe In Me (Mix 1)
2. You Mess Me Up
3. My Only Love (aka Duet)
4. Believe In Me (Mix 2)
5. Picking Guitar for the Shrimp
6. Get Me to the Beat On Time
7. Jumble Drums, Growling Bass and the Whammy Bar
8. For Cameron de la Isla
9. War Torn
10. The Celestial Bar

2LP Tracklisting

LP1

A1. Anthony
A2. The Rest of My Life
A3. For Colette
A4. The Next Time
B1. Beautiful Lies
B2. My Irascible Friend
B3. Believe In Me
B4. Fermina

LP2

C1. Where I Should Be
C2. Fado
C3. Madre Mio
C4. Blue Period
C5. War Torn
D1. Picking Guitar for the Shrimp
D2. The Celestial Bar
D3. Jumble Drums, Growling Bass and the Whammy Bar
D4. For Cameron de la Isla

Notes

Factory Benelux presents expanded double CD and double vinyl editions of Sex and Death, the 11th studio album by The Durutti Column.

Originally released in 1994 on CD only, the album has now been re-mastered with bonus tracks and appears on vinyl for the very first time in a coloured vinyl edition limited to 1500 copies. The vinyl edition is housed in a gatefold vinyl sleeve. Disc 1 is pressed in blue vinyl, and disc 2 in silver.

The 2CD edition is remastered with rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks.

The writing and recording of Sex and Death closed an uncertain period for Vini Reilly and the group following the collapse of Factory Records in 1992. Factory founder Tony Wilson remained in post as manager of the band, but Sex and Death would be their last album with producer Stephen Street, famed for his work with Morrissey, The Smiths and Blur.

Writer and master guitarist Vini Reilly remained philosophical: "People say the Durutti Column is this or that. I don't care, so long as we make good music. There's screaming feedback on some tracks, heavy metal guitar, Spanish picking. It's not just this ethereal trip. Don't listen to the form, never listen to the form. Listen to the content."

Stand-out tracks include Anthony (dedicated to Wilson), The Rest of My Life and believe In Me. Guest musicians include viola player John Metcalfe, vocalist Ruth-Ann Boyle (later to form hitmakers Olive with Tim Kellett), programmer Martin Jackson (Magazine, Swing Out Sister) and bassist Peter Hook, then on furlough from New Order post-Republic.

Of the 10 bonus tracks on CD2, 6 are previously unreleased, having been retrieved from a long-lost DAT tape located in Tony Wilson's personal archive. The other 4 are album outtakes previously only available as an online download. All tracks have been newly re-mastered in 2020 by Peter Beckmann and Technology Works.

A limited edition 2LP coloured vinyl edition is also available housed in a gatefold vinyl sleeve and limited to 1500 copies.

Cosmic - St Valentin's Day selected by Daniele Baldelli [2LP]

2LP: IT 21.01.21 (Use Vinyl Records, UVR 10521)

Tracklisting

Side A

1. The Durutti Column - Sketch For Summer
2. Nef - Apparition À L'endroit
3. Francesco Messina - Harem
4. Peter Baumann - The Third Site

Side B

1. Gabor Szabo - Keep Smilin'
2. Herb Alpert - Love Is
3. J.J. Cale - Ride Me High
4. Neil Larsen - Sudden Samba

Side C

1. Jorge Ben - O Dia Que O Sol Declarou O Seu Amor Pela Terra
2. Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Ye-Me-Le
3. Zulu Gang - I Got A Magic Feeling Making Love
4. Naná Vasconcelos - Rekebra

Side D

1. D.C. LaRue - I Don't Want To Loose You
2. Sammy Gordon & The Hip Huggers - Making Love
3. Le Pamplemousse - Gimmie What You Got
4. Sea Level - Sneakers (Fifty-Four)

Notes

This record celebrates the very popular and crowded St. Valentine's party held on 14 Feb at the "Cosmic" discotheque near Verona where Daniele Baldelli was the resident DJ.

'Sketch for Summer' by The Durutti Column is Track 1 Side 1.

Available from afrocosmicshop.com and other retailers. 

Rebellion [LP blue vinyl, Demon, DEMREC743]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 743)

Tracklisting

4 Sophia
Longsight Romance
Geh Cak Af En Yam
The Fields Of Athenry
Overlord Part One
Falling
Voluntary Arrangement
Mello Part One
Mello Part Two
Protest Song
Meschugana

Notes

Single LP on blue vinyl. Pressed on 140g blue vinyl, housed in a printed inner sleeve.

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Keep Breathing [2LP red vinyl, Demon, DEMREC744]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 744)

Tracklisting

LP1

Nina

It's Wonderful

Maggie

Helen

Neil

Big Hole

LP2

Let Me Tell You Something

Lunch

Gun

Tuesday

Agnus Dei

Waiting

Notes

Pressed on two 140g red vinyl, housed in printed inner sleeves.

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Love In The Time Of Recession [2LP amber vinyl, Demon, DEMREC745]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 745) 

Tracklisting

LP1

In Memory Of Anthony

Rant

More Rainbows

I’m Alive

For Bruce

Painting

LP2

Wild Beat Tamed

Rainbow Maker

My Poppy

Loser

Lock-Down

Notes

Pressed on two 140g translucent amber vinyl, housed in printed inner sleeves.

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Someone Else's Party [2LP clear vinyl, Demon, DEMREC746]

LP: UK 6/11/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 746) 

Tracklisting 

Side one 

Love Is A Friend

Spanish Lament

Somewhere

Somebody’s Party

Requiem For My Mother

Remember

Side two

Vigil

Blue

No More Hurt

Spasmic Fairy

American View

Drinking Time

Woman

Goodbye

Notes

Pressed on two 140g clear vinyl, housed in printed inner sleeves.

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Idiot Savants [Demon, DEMREC658]

LP: UK 29/08/2020 (Demon, DEMREC 658) 

Tracklisting

Better Must Come

Interleukin 2 (For Anthony)

Please Let Me Sleep 

2 Times Nice 

No Last Surprise 

Gathering Dust 

Whisper To The Wind 

That Blows My Name Away (For Rachel)

Notes 

Single LP on white vinyl released for Record Store Day 2020 by Demon on 29 August 2020.

Reissue of original Idiot Savants album on Artful/Fulfill from 2007 and the first ever release on vinyl. 

From Brussels With Love [Les Disques du Crépuscule, TWI 007 & 008]

CS: UK 10/2020 (Les Disques du Crépuscule TWI 007 & 008)
2LP: UK 10/2020 (Les Disques du Crépuscule TWI 007 & 008)
2CD: UK 10/2020 (Les Disques du Crépuscule TWI 007 & 008)

Tracklistings

Cassette + 2LP

1. John Foxx - A Jingle *1
2. Thomas Dolby - Airwaves
3. Repetition - Stranger
4. Harold Budd - Children On the Hill
5. The Durutti Column - Sleep Will Come
6. Martin Hannett - The Music Room
7. The Names - Cat
8. Michael Nyman - A Walk Through H
9. Brian Eno - Interview
9A. Phill Niblock - A Third Trombone
10. John Foxx - A Jingle *2
11. Jeanne Moreau - Interview
12. Richard Jobson - Armoury Show
13. Bill Nelson - The Shadow Garden
14. The Durutti Column - Piece For An Ideal
15. A Certain Ratio - Felch (live in NYC)
16. Kevin Hewick and New Order - Haystack
17. Radio Romance - Etrange Affinité
18. Gavin Bryars - White's SS
19. Der Plan - Mein Freunde
20. Gilbert and Lewis - Twist Up
21. John Foxx - A Jingle *3

2CD earbook

Note: CD1 tracklist is same as cassette/2xLP

CD2

1. John Foxx - A Jingle *4
2. John Foxx - Mr No
3. Bill Nelson - Dada Guitare
4. The Durutti Column - For Belgian Friends
5. Richard Jobson + Tuxedomoon - Orpheé
6. Aksak Maboul - DBB (Double Bind Baby)
7. Karel Goyvaerts - Ach Golgotha
8. Marguerite Duras - Interview
9. Polyphonic Size - Nagasaki Mon Amour
10. Marine - Life In Reverse
11. Michael Nyman - Mozart
12. Gavin Bryars - White's SS (unedited)
13. The Names - Nightshift
14. Repetition - A Still Reflex
15. Digital Dance - Treatment
16. Josef K - Sorry For Laughing
17. A Certain Ratio - And Then Again (live)
18. John Foxx - A Jingle *5

Available to pre-order in various formats/bundles from Les Disques du Crépuscule.

Notes

Les Disques du Crépuscule 40th anniversary editions of iconic compilation From Brussels With Love. Bearing the catalogue number TWI 007, From Brussels With Love was the very first release on Crépuscule back in November 1980, and now returns in 2020 on cassette, gatefold 2xLP (coloured vinyl), and 2xCD hardback 60-page 10-inch square earbook.

Originally released as a cassette with a 16-page booklet packaged in a PVC wallet, From Brussels With Love featured 21 exclusive tracks from the international avant-garde and new wave, as well as contributions from the celebrated Factory Records roster. Then, as now, the featured artists include A Certain Ratio, Gavin Bryars, Harold Budd, Thomas Dolby, Dome, The Durutti Column, John Foxx, Martin Hannett, Richard Jobson, The Names, Bill Nelson, Kevin Hewick + New Order, Michael Nyman and Der Plan.

Running for 78 minutes, the cosmopolitan 'cassette journal' was curated by Michel Duval, Annik Honoré and Wim Mertens, and also includes extended interviews with Brian Eno and legendary French film actress Jeanne Moreau. The cover art is by Jean-François Octave, with additional artwork in the booklet by Benoît Hennebert, Marc Borgers and Claude Stassart.

Vini Reilly [Factory Benelux, 2LP Record Store Day, FBN 244]

2LP: UK 18.04.2020 (Factory Benelux, FBN 244)

[NB: Record Store Day 2020 delayed due to Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak]

Tracklisting

LP1

A1. Love No More
A2. Pol in G
A3. Opera I
A4. People's Pleasure Park
A5. Finding the Sea

B1. Otis
B2. They Work Every Day
B3. Opera II
B4. Homage to Catalonia
B5. Requiem Again
B6. My Country

LP2

C1. Red Square
C2. William B
C3. Dry
C4. Paradise Passage Road
C5. My Country (Monarchy Mix)
D1. Otis (live)
D2. English Landscape Tradition (live)
D3. Finding the Sea (live)
D4. Bordeaux (live)

7" single

E1. I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong
F1. For Steven Patrick

Notes

Factory Benelux presents an expanded double vinyl edition of Vini Reilly, the acclaimed seventh studio album originally released by Factory Records in 1989. Just 1000 copies have been pressed for Record Store Day on 18 April 2020.

Produced by Vini Reilly and Stephen Street (The Smiths, Morrissey, Blur), the original working title of the Vini Reilly album was The Durutti Column Sampler. "People describe them as found samples and found voices," explained Vini at the time. "I always build up a catalogue of interesting loops and voice samples and stuff. Then I forget where I got them from a lot of the time, which is quite convenient... A lot of the time I manipulate the sample anyway, so it's singing my tune, rather than the original tune.

Stand-out tracks include Otis, Love No More and My Country. "The tune always comes from playing the guitar, added Vini. ‘As soon as I pick a guitar up I'll come up with a tune. I don't know whether it’s good or bad - but there's always a tune there.

The sleeve itself samples Bob Dylan circa Highway 61 Revisited, showcasing an iconic portrait by Mark Warner. Indeed much about the album flirts with mainstream culture, being a deliberate attempt to position Reilly as a 'pop' artist following his chart-topping collaboration with Morrissey on Viva Hate. This collaboration is further explored on the bonus 7" single (pressed in crystal clear vinyl), which features rare outtake I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong and exquisite homage For Steven Patrick.

Bonus tracks on this 2020 double-disc remaster include several never before issued on vinyl, including William B and Red Square from the extended CD version of Vini Reilly, plus all four tracks from pristine performance CD WOMAD Live. Recorded at the WOMAD Festival in Cornwall in August 1988, the core Durutti duo of Vini Reilly and Bruce Mitchell are here augmented by Andy Connell on keys and Chinese opera singer Liu Sola.

See also: Vini Reilly [Factory Benelux, FBN 244 CD]

Fidelity [Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2LP coloured vinyl, TWI 976]

LP: UK 10.01.2020 (Les Disques du Crépuscule)

Tracklisting

A1. Fidelity
A2. For Suzanne
A3. G+T

B1. Future Perfect
B2. Abstract of Expression
B3. Remember Me

C1. Sanko
C2. Grace
C3. Storm for Steve

D1. Guitar for Mother
D2. My Only Love
D3. The New Fidelity

Notes

Les Disques du Crépuscule presents the first ever vinyl release of Fidelity, the 1996 studio album by cult Manchester ensemble The Durutti Column.

Originally released by Crépuscule on CD only in April 1996, Fidelity featured 10 tracks written and performed by Vini Reilly, with occasional guest vocals by Eley Rudge. In addition to Vini's trademark guitar stylings, the album showcased sleek electronic textures and programmed beats.

This 2019 vinyl re-master features two bonus tracks: My Only Love was originally released in 1995 on a covermount CD with a specialist guitar magazine, while experimental piece The New Fidelity was issued on a Portuguese compilation album from 1992 called Hare, Hunter, Field.

Limited to just 1000 copies, this special double disc edition pressed in clear and blue vinyl features brand new cover artwork by Crepuscule design director Benoit Hennebert, based on a portrait by Vini Reilly of filmmaker Carol Morley.

More info: Les Disques du Crépuscule Mailorder

FACTORY: Communications 1978-92 [8LP silver vinyl]

LP: UK 08.11.19 (Rhino)
Download: UK 08.11.19 (Rhino)

Tracklisting

Sketch For Summer (Side 2, 1979-80)
Messidor (Side 5, 1981)
Without Mercy (Duet) (Side 10, 1984-85)
Home (Side 15, 1990-91)

Notes

The Durutti Column have four tracks on this 8LP silver vinyl box set reissue of the 'FACTORY: Communications 1978-1992' compilation album which surveys the entire 15-year history of the iconic label, with a grand total 63 tracks spread over 16 sides of newly remastered vinyl albums. As well as classic cuts from New Order, Joy Division, Minny Pops, Happy Mondays, Electronic, A Certain Ratio and Section 25, this definitive overview delves deep into Factory's rich and occasionally wayward recorded catalogue, with X-O-Dus, Marcel King, 52nd Street, Quando Quango, Northside, James, The Railway Children, Crawling Chaos.

Originally issued as a 4CD box set in 2009, Communications 1978-92 is curated by Jon Savage, with booklet notes by Paul Morley and James Nice.

Lift lid box with 8 x 180gram silver heavyweight vinyl and 40 page booklet, previously released on CD. Limited run of 500 units.

Previous title was 'Factory Records: Communications 1978-92' but the "Records" bit has been dropped and some capital letters added.

Previous 4CD version came as digital download with extra track 'Otis' (which did not feature on any of the CDs).

More information: rhino.co.uk

Obey The Time [Factory Benelux, Record Store Day 2019]

2LP + Digital download: 13.04.19 (Factory Benelux FBN 274)

2LP tracklisting

LP1

1. Vino Della Casa Bianco
2. Hotel of the Lake 1990
3. Fridays
4. Neon
5. Home
6. Spanish Reggae
7. Art and Freight
8. The Warmest Rain
9. Contra-Indications
10. Vino Della Casa Rosso

LP2

1. Home (live)
2. What It Means to Me (live)
3. English Landscape Tradition (live)
4. Opera II (live)
5. Finding the Sea (live)
6. Otis (live)
7. Jacqueline (live)

Notes

Factory Benelux presents a deluxe 3CD box set edition of Obey the Time, the eighth studio album by The Durutti Column. Originally released by Factory Records in December 1990, the original 10 tracks have now been expanded to no less than 43.

Largely self-produced, and entirely instrumental, Obey the Time saw Vini Reilly further develop his interest in electronic music, and even embracing house and techno stylings. "The title came screaming off the TV screen in somebody's version of Othello and captured exactly the feel of the work in progress," explained Tony Wilson, Durutti manager and Factory founder. "We were in the middle of the Acieeed explosion. If you lived in Manchester, you were absolutely in the middle of it. Vini even explained why House made keyboards sound so fresh. Something to do with a chord being played with 3 or 4 notes into the sampler, but then different chords being triggered by a single key stroke. Creating mathematical harmonic relationships 'which Schoenberg had searched for but never found.'"

Indeed veteran Durutti percussionist Bruce Mitchell features on just one track, Art and Freight. Marking a further break with tradition, dance exploration Contra-Indications was taped with New Order programmer (and later co-manager) Andy Robinson. Released in December 1990, Obey the Time (Fact 274) would be the last Durutti Column album on Factory before the labelled collapsed beneath a mountain of debt.

The second record features 7 live tracks from a previously unreleased performance at Manchester University Whitworth Hall on 23 June 1990 (opportunistically billed as 'The Acid Guitar'), on which Reilly and Mitchell are joined by guests Andy Connell, Liu Sola and Rob Gray.

Original cover art by 8vo. The remastered vinyl set is housed in a striking gatefold sleeve printed in pantone colours on a matt varnished board. The bold primary colours are mirrored by the coloured vinyl – purple for LP1, and yellow for LP2.

Without Mercy [Factory Benelux FBN 84 / CD]

4CD: 09.18 (Factory Benelux FBN 84 CD)
2LP + 7": 09.18 (Factory Benelux FBN 84)
Digital download: UK 09.18 (Factory Benelux FBN 84)

4CD tracklisting:

CD1

1. Without Mercy (Stanzas I-III)
2. Without Mercy (Stanzas IV-VII)
3. Without Mercy (Stanza VIII)
4. Without Mercy (Stanzas IX-XII)
5. Without Mercy 2
6. All That Love and Maths Can Do
7. Snowflakes
8. Profondeurs des Eaux des Laques
9. The Sea Wall
10. Duet
11. Estoril a Noite
12. Favourite Descending Intervals

CD2

1. Goodbye
2. The Room
3. A Little Mercy
4. Silence
5. E.E.
6. Hello(w)
7. Paresseuse Aussi
8. Mercy Theme (Live in Tokyo 1985)
9. A Little Mercy (Live in Tokyo 1985)
10. Estoril a Noite (Live in Rotterdam 1983)
11. Favourite Descending Intervals (Live in Manchester 2011)

CD3 (Live in London 1984)

1. Sketch for Summer
2. Jacqueline
3. Mercy Theme
4. A Little Mercy
5. Pauline
6. Mercy Dance
7. E.E.
8. The Room
9. Silence
10. Ornithology
11. Prayer
12. The Beggar
13. The Missing Boy
14. Friends in Belgium

CD4 (Live in Oslo 1986)

1. Mercy Theme
2. A Little Mercy
3. Pauline
4. Mercy Dance
5. E.E.
6. Silence
7. The Room
8. Dream of a Child
9. Tomorrow
10. Blind Elevator Girl

2LP + MP3 tracklisting:

LP1

A1. Without Mercy I
B1. Without Mercy II

LP2

C1. All That Love and Maths Can Do
C2. Duet
C3. Estoril a Noite
C4. Favourite Descending Intervals
C5. A Little Mercy
D1. Mercy Theme (Live in London 1984)
D2. A Little Mercy (Live in London 1984)
D3. Mercy Dance (Live in London 1984)

Notes

Factory Benelux presents expanded 4CD and 2LP disc editions of Without Mercy, the fourth album by Manchester ensemble The Durutti Column, originally released in 1984 and widely regarded as Vini Reilly's most ambitious album.

In 1983 The Durutti Column's mentor/manager Tony Wilson asked Vini Reilly to abandon fleeting guitar miniatures in favour of a longform modern classical piece. The result was an ambitious 20 minute instrumental suite, Without Mercy, performed by core Durutti duo Vini Reilly and Bruce Mitchell along with Blaine L. Reininger and John Metcalfe (violas), Caroline Lavelle (cello), Tim Kellett (trumpet) and Maunagh Fleming (cor anglais).

Explains Vini: "Tony had just come in for a conversation one day and said, 'Look, you keep making these albums that you want to make, and I'm quite happy with you doing that, but just give me this one album and do it my way.' He wanted it to have a narrative determined by a Keats poem, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, which he said was the poet's version of a pop song: boy meets girl, falls in love with girl, loses girl, blah blah blah. It was a very, very Tony way of looking at it. He had aspirations that I should be taken seriously."

Produced by Reilly and Wilson at Strawberry Studio and Britannia Row, Without Mercy was originally split into 19 separate stanzas, some of which have now been restored using digital cue points on the CD. Bonus tracks include the original recordings of Duet, Estoril a Noite and Favourite Descending Intervals (all re-worked for inclusion on Without Mercy), as well as companion EP Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say, collaborations with John Metcalfe, Steven Brown and Benjamin Lew, and two previously unreleased live sets across Discs 3 and 4, recorded at London School of Economics in December 1984 and Oslo in December 1986.

The remastered 4xCD set is housed in a clamshell box, with inner wallets and liner notes by Reilly, Wilson, Mitchell, Reininger and Metcalfe. The cover painting is L'Etang de Trivaux by Henri Matisse (1916/17).

A double gatefold vinyl edition is also available with free digital copy (MP3) of the vinyl tracks. The outer sleeve is printed on 500 mic grey cairn board, with letterpress typography and tipped sheets front and back. The insert (with liner notes) is printed on a 350gsm white frost card, and the whole package housed in a re-sealable polybag.

A limited edition of 100 copies of the vinyl will also be available with a postcard signed by Vini and Bruce. These copies are only available from FBN mailorder.

Available as a 4CD box, gatefold double vinyl and MP3 (vinyl tracklisting). To order please select correct button and shipping option and click on Add To Cart button below cover image, or else contact FBN by email for other payment methods.

For release in September 2018.

M24J (Anthology) [Factory Benelux FBN 164 / CD]

2CD: UK 09.18 (Factory Benelux FBN 164 CD)
2LP + 7": UK 09.18 (Factory Benelux FBN 164)
Digital download: UK 09.18 (Factory Benelux FBN 164)

2CD tracklisting:

CD1

1. Sketch for Summer
2. Conduct
3. Lips That Would Kiss
4. For Belgian Friends
5. Danny
6. Messidor
7. The Beggar (live)
8. Prayer
9. Mercy Theme (Duet)
10. Estoril a Noite
11. College
12. All That Love and Maths Can Do
13. Pauline
14. Arpeggiator
15. Catos con Guantes
16. Otis
17. Love No More
18. My Country

CD2

1. Home
2. Art and Freight
3. My Only Love
4. A Beautiful Thought (Pt 1)
5. The Title On the Cover
6. Bruce
7. The Missing Boy
8. Anthony (Favourite Descending Intervals)
9. A Paean to Wilson I: Or Are You Just a Technician?
10. A Paean to Wilson II: Chant
11. A Paean to Wilson IX: Darkness Here
12. Glimpse
13. Detail for Annik (live 1980)
14. Sketch for Summer (live 1980)
15. Requiem for a Father (live 1980)

2LP + 7" tracklisting:

LP1

A1. Sketch for Summer
A2. Lips That Would Kiss
A3. For Belgian Friends
A4. Danny
A5. Messidor
B1. Mercy Theme (Duet)
B2. Estoril a Noite
B3. All That Love and Maths Can Do
B4. Catos con Guantes

LP2

C1. Prayer
C2. Otis
C3. Love No More
C4. Home
C5. A Beautiful Thought
D1. Anthony (Favourite Descending Intervals)
D2. A Paean to Wilson I: Or Are You Just a Technician?
D3. A Paean to Wilson II: Chant
D4. A Paean to Wilson IX: Darkness Here
D5. Glimpse

7"

E1. Albatross (live in Nottingham 2004)
F1. Spooky Tune (live in Manchester 2011)

Notes

M24J (Anthology) is a collection of valuable passages recorded by The Durutti Column between 1979 and 20?? for various iterations of Factory Records, including poignant tributes to Anthony H. Wilson and Ian Curtis.

Available as a gatefold double vinyl (with bonus 7") and 2xCD set, M24J includes selections from The Return of the Durutti Column, LC, Another Setting, Short Stories for Pauline, Without Mercy, Circuses and Bread, The Guitar and Other Machines, Vini Reilly, Obey the Time, Treatise on the Steppenwolf and A Paean to Wilson.

Bonus tracks on the CD version include three tracks recorded live at Leeds Polytechnic on 7 October 1980 (with The Invisible Girls and John Cooper Clarke), these being the earliest preserved professional in-concert recordings by Vini Reilly. The bonus 7" included in the vinyl package features two previously unreleased live recordings: a cover of Peter Green's Albatross recorded in 2004, and Spooky Tune, recorded with Poppy Morgan at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester in 2011, Vini's last major concert to date.

The remastered 2xCD set is housed in a jewel case; copies ordered direct from FBN are delivered in a Factory Benelux slipcase. The vinyl version is housed in a double gatefold sleeve printed on white matt board and includes as a digital copy (MP3).

Available in September 2018 on CD, gatefold double vinyl (+7") and MP3 (vinyl tracklisting) via Factory Benelux Mailorder.