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Baron Elmo proudly presents a mouth-watering feast of sounds and ideas from some of the world's finest purveyors of experimental music: Volume One, Number Three of the Re Records Quarterly, an LP-plus-magazine set released in 1986 by Recommended Records, never issued on CD. The Re Quarterly was a series founded in the mid-Eighties to showcase and theorize on "art" music, from progressive rock to world music to experimental sound to avant-garde and beyond. Each LP featured amazing and exclusive recordings from a plethora of musical envelope-pushers from many varied corners of the cultural spectrum. And tucked inside each album was a full-sized magazine crammed with art, poetry, theory, criticism, politics, news of musical doings and humor. The series lasted for eleven LPs, then switched to CDs for a few volumes before shutting down. The Re Quarterly is best seen as an attempt to carry on the work of the legendary Rock in Opposition, a short-lived movement of British and European art bands that began with a single concert and evolved into a musical aesthetic that still resonates today. RIO assembled for the purpose of bringing bold, boundary-smashing music to the people, bypassing the stolid suits of the Music Industry to do it. These bands put out their own albums, staged their own gigs, even created their own record labels… one of which, Recommended (the instigator of this series) still exists today. Volume One, Number Three contains music from avant-soundscapers Biota, art-rock giant Robert Wyatt (with his beautiful animal activist gem "Pigs"), songsmith Peter Blegvad (here billed as The Big Guns, with Chris Cutler on drums), percussive madman Roger Turner, Hungarian rock group Kontroll Csoport, poet Adrian Mitchell, and the superb Mexican progressive ensemble Nazca. Perhaps the real prize of this collection, though, is the seven tracks from Cassix, a one-off collaboration between members of Italian RIO group Stormy Six and Brit/German ensemble Cassiber… a meeting of minds that is sure to tantalize fans of this genre. The magazine features Chris Cutler's thoughts on music technology, Biota's Bill Sharp on the use of the recording studio as a musical instrument, art from Peter Blegvad, Russian rock lyrics, dismembered photographic art from H.J. Hummel and a fascinating piece on "Stupid Logic" by Ed de Borage. All in all, a fascinating compendium of music, visuals and ideas. All the Re Quarterly albums were extremely limited, mostly sold through the mail. The record and the 44-page magazine are in superlative condition, while the cover shows a few tiny flaws here and there but is in great shape.

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Track listing
1. "Card to Bernard" by The Big Guns
2. "Early Rest Home" by Biota
3. "Pigs" by Robert Wyatt
4. "Sprung from Traps" by Roger Turner
5. "Little Red Bombadier" by Kontroll Csoport
6. "Woman of Water" by Adrian Mitchell
7. "Coste" by Cassix
8. "Criota" by Cassix
9. "Religion" by Cassix
10. "The Stanislavsky Method" by Cassix
11. "Tempo di Pace, Bari" by Cassix
12. "Copy Machine" by Cassix
13. "Finta di Nulla" by Cassix
14. "Nadja" by Nazca