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6CD BOX
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RER PBB1
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"ReR released the first Peter Blegvad Trio LP in 1988 and since then there's been a new one along about every 10 years, the latest adding Karen Mantler and Bob Drake, so it's a quintet now. In between, the trio toured Europe, America and Japan, did various projects and mounted a music-theatre performance. 30 years in, it seemed timely to collect everything together, add unreleased materials from concert recordings and out-takes, and write a fat illustrated book to tell the story so far. This box does that. In addition to the original releases, now re-mastered by Bob Drake and comprehensively repackaged, there are two full CDs of unreleased materials -- and the book. That's 72 pages of documentation, recollections, reactions, insights and testimony - alongside priceless drawings and photographs, and all presented in a beautiful sturdy box. Peter's songs have been covered (amongst others) by The Fall and Loudon Wainwright III -- and have featured in movies. With additional help from B. J. Cole, Adam Philips, Eddie Reader, Loudon Wainwright III, Syd Straw, Phil Shaw, Geraint Watkins, Stoffer Blegvad and Jakko Jakszyk."
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RER PB4
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"After 19 years, Go Figure marks the Peter Blegvad Trio's return to the studio, in supernal form and now a quintet with Karen Mantler and Bob Drake. Peter, John and Chris first met when Henry Cow was touring with Faust, in 1972. Peter was on secondment from his own group Slapp Happy, and in the following year Henry Cow and Slapp Happy merged, making two LPs before they separated again. When John Greaves left Henry Cow in 1976, he joined Peter in New York where they wrote and recorded Kew.Rhone. Peter and John have continued to work together, on-and-off, ever since. After making two solo LPs for the still vaguely experimental Virgin Records, Peter's next LP, Downtime, was made independently by ReR -- and the core players wound up being the Peter Blegvad Trio. Bob Drake first became involved during the second trio recording, Just Woke Up, which he mixed and mastered. Karen joined the trio in 2002 for a festival in Ferrara. Bob's first stage appearance with the band came ten years later, in 2012, at the RIO festival in Carmaux. ReR has been releasing the Blegvad working group's records for 37 years and this is the fourth so far. They don't come easy."
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RER PBCD2
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1995 release (this is actually ESD label stock, inherited by ReR). "Peter is a cult singer/songwriter with a history in the avant garde, who makes accessible guitar-based music which relaxes, titillates, confronts and charms. Described by Wired magazine as a 'fusion of Lou Reed and Bob Dylan, cross bred with English humorist Jon Hegley,' he has carved out a unique position as performer, songwriter and cartoonist. He played a part in many important groups, starting in the early '70s with Slapp Happy, Henry Cow and Faust. He was half responsible for the classic Kew. Rhone. duo album with John Greaves (which boasts arguably the greatest, certainly the most literate lyrical content of any avant garde recording to date). Peter then went on to play with The Golden Palominos for two years, and worked with Michael Stipe, Carla Bley, Jack Bruce, and John Zorn, and his own band, Breadvan."
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RER PB3
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"Peter Blegvad is a cult singer songwriter with a history in the avant garde, who makes accessible guitar based music which relaxes, titillates, confronts and charms. He has carved out a uniqe position as performer, songwriter and cartoonist. He played a part in many important groups, starting in the late 70s with Slapp Happy, Henry Cow and Faust. He went on toplay with The Golden Palominos for two years. This is Peter's third solo album for ReR. Featuring the sparkling ex-Henry Cow rhythm section of Chris Cutler/John Greaves, and produced by Bob Drake, the album carries you on a journey through the mind of this eccentric UK-based American."
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