This issue of the irregular magazine RéR Quarterly came out in 1994. The CD (available with or without its printed counterpart) contains 75 minutes of music generally unavailable elsewhere. The scope of styles represented is very wide, thereby representing the interests of the ReR Megacorp/Recommended label. It takes wide ears and a solid stomach to switch from Cornelius Cardew's sweet-and-sour orchestral music to N.O.R.M.A.'s street band exuberance. In retrospect, this album is more important for the specific gems it presented to the public than for its overall listen. The tracks by Sales Combles (from the entourage of L'Ensemble Rayé), Diledadafish, and Koongoortoog (an avant rock group from Tuva fronted by a throat singer) are among the only documents left of these occulted projects. Other points of interest include an excellent live version of Thinking Plague's "How to Clean Squid," a rare example of the work of U.S. West Coast instrument builder Tom Nunn, a piece by Al Margolis that is very different from his electro-acoustic works released under the moniker If, Bwana, and a nine-minute extravaganza by N.O.R.M.A., much more festive than the music released on the group's sole ReR album, L'Arpe e l'Asino. Back in 1994, this CD was presenting an accurate snapshot of the developments in avant-garde music (mainly avant rock). Now it will appeal mostly to collectors. ~ François Couture, All Music Guide
The RéR Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1
01/01/1994 | Recommended Records
All Music Guide Review
The RéR Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1 Track Listing
Credits of The RéR Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1
- Teena Lyle
- Percussion
- Owen Maerks
- Drums
- Pino Martini
- Guitar (Bass)
- Micky Skin
- Drums
- Tom Nunn
- Performer
- Anonymous Paleontologist
- Drums
- Eddie Parker
- Flute
- Vadim Petrenko
- Guitar
- Mark Piersel
- Guitar (Acoustic), Producer, Engineer, Trumpet, Percussion
- Steve Scholbe
- Flute, Ching, Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Alto), Producer, Percussion
- William Sharp
- Bagpipes, Processing, Producer, Engineer
- Ashley Slater
- Trombone
- Nick Sudnik
- Keyboards, Ring Modulator, Vocals
- Gordon Whitlow
- Organ, Producer, Guitar (Bass), Banjo, Piano
- C. Wilson
- Engineer
- Larry Jon Wilson
- Producer
- Alexander Zhilin
- Bass, Percussion
- Kaigal-Ool Khovalyg
- Vocals
- Thinking Plague
- Performer
- Dirk Vallons
- Art Direction, Booklet Design
- Eric Jacobson
- Synthesizer
- Marina Kavezzina
- Art Direction
- Gilles V. Rieder
- Drums, Vocals
- Al Margolis
- Performer
- Ed Baxter
- Typesetting, Label Design
- Bill Ellsworth
- Art Direction
- Greg Heimbecker
- Engineer
- Lesego Rampolokeng
- Performer
- Roger Sutherland
- ?, Artwork
- David Myers
- Performer
- Mike Johnson
- Guitar
- Chris DeChiara
- Engineer
- Steve Moore
- Performer
- Biota
- Composer, Performer, Mixing
- Tom Cora
- Bass, ?, Cello
- Heiner Goebbels
- Synthesizer, Guitar, Piano
- Toshinori Kondo
- Trumpet
- Dagmar Krause
- Vocals
- Pig
- Drums
- R. Stevie Moore
- Performer
- Chris Cutler
- Drums, Compilation, ?, Art Direction
- ZGA
- Performer
- Bruce Allen
- Art Direction
- Bar-B-Que
- Accordion
- Doug Carroll
- Engineer, Processing
- Sarah Collins
- Piano
- Gerry Conway
- Guitar
- Chris Culter
- Performer
- Bob Drake
- Violin, Guitar (Bass), Sampling, Vocals
- Larry Dubin
- Drums
- Franco Fabbri
- Guitar
- Umberto Fiori
- Vocals
- Fred Frith
- Bass, ?, Performer, Guitar
- Mark Fuller
- Percussion, Drums
- Slow Gibbon
- Drums
- Alfred 23 Harth
- Clarinet, Trumpet, Sax (Tenor), Clarinet (Bass)
- Michail Judenich
- Percussion, Drums
- Tom Katsimpalis
- Guitar (Bass), Producer, Guitar (Electric), Photography
- Dave Kerman
- Drums, Keyboards
- Susanne Lewis
- Vocals
- Scott Johnson
- Photography
- Jeff Beck
- Bass
- Henry Kaiser
- Guitar (Electric)
- Cornelius Cardew
- Performer
- John Oswald
- Sax (Alto), Performer
- George Lewis
- Trombone











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