Revenant Records

Revenant Records
	Artist Title: Label: Format: Price:	Albert Ayler The Holy Ghost Revenant 3LP $40
Three LPs worth of material from Revenant's incredible Albert Ayler box set. Mostly live material from Ayler's '66 and '67 groups, this also includes gigs with Pharoah Sanders in '68, Burton Greene's band at Slugs Saloon in '66, and Cecil Taylor's seminal '62 group with Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray. Double gatefold sleeve and poster.
	Artist Title: Label: Format: Price:	Derek Bailey Music and Dance Revenant LP $15
“British guitarist Derek Bailey has plied his wholly original brand of free improvisation for over three decades. These live recordings of Bailey's 1980 ‘accompaniment’ to Japanese dancer Min Tanaka, previously available only on a privately-released cassette, amply document Bailey’s command of a highly individualized atonal language. ‘Rain Dance’ is the work of a remarkable ensemble: Bailey's ringing tones, Tanaka’s percussive movements, rumbling thunder, a downpour, and the patter of rain dripping from a leaky roof. ‘Saturday Dance’ chimes and burns; a concentrated assault equaling the incendiary ‘Incus Taps.’” – Revenant
	Artist Title: Label: Format: Price:	Dock Boggs Country Blues Revenant 2LP $40
“Dock Boggs was a singer and banjo player who sounded as if his bones were coming through his skin every time he opened his mouth. In the mountains of eastern Kentucky/western Virginia in the 1920s he forged a highly personal music of such singular intensity it retains the power to shock seventy plus years after it was recorded. Over 60 minutes of music, including Boggs's 12 original 1927 and 1929 released recordings, 5 never-before-issued 1929 outtakes, and 4 1920s cuts by Boggs's Kentucky compatriots Bill and Hayes Shepherd.” Double LP set, clear vinyl, and an oversized 12-page booklet of notes and photos. CD version currently unavailable.
	Artist Title: Label: Format: Price:	Stanley Brothers Earliest Recordings: The Complete Rich-R-Tone 78s (1947-1952) Revenant LP $14
“For a truly despairing, spectral high-lonesome sound, Ralph (keening tenor, banjo) and Carter (earthy baritone, guitar) Stanley--the Stanley Brothers--stand alone in bluegrass. This collection features their earliest recordings, beginning in 1947 for the Rich-R-Tone label, and presents the duo at their rawest and most unbridled.” Packaged with Revenant’s usual class, it features a gatefold sleeve, clear vinyl, and informative liner notes.
	Artist Title: Label: Format: Price:	Cecil Taylor Nefertiti, the Beautiful One has Come Revenant 3LP $40
“By 1962, American pianist Cecil Taylor had been at the fringes of the jazz establishment for several years. His angular, percussive attack and unconventional harmonic sense bred controversy among players and listeners alike and proved at odds with most rhythm sections. While embraced by progressive critics--even voted ‘new star’ by Down Beat--Taylor passed most of that year with few gigs and many hours of work as a dishwasher to show for it. At least, he has said, he knew why he was washing dishes: a personal decision following the death of his father in 1961 to be faithful to his own artistic vision at all costs. This commitment, combined with an intensely creative gestation period during which Taylor's Unit firmly meshed, led to his decisive break through the last barrier hindering his musical voice: the barline. “The Café Montmartre recordings of November 23, 1962 capture the birth of the mature Taylor style. The boppish lines of Jimmy Lyons retain ties to the past, while Sunny Murray's coruscating, arrhythmic washes point the way to the future (just as they would for Albert Ayler only a few years later). Originally issues by Freedom in 1975 but heretofore unavailable domestically, Nefertiti has attained cult status as one of the crucial recordings of Taylor's career.” Cecil Taylor: piano Jimmy Lyons: alto saxophone Sunny Murray: drums
	Artist Title: Label: Format: Price:	Various Artists American Primitive, Vol. 1: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-'36) Revenant 2LP $25
“77-minutes of gut-bucket, early gospel from the collections of Gayle Dean Wardlow and John Fahey. Included... Charley Patton, Rev. I.B. Ware with Wife & Son, Booker T. Washington - “Bukka” White, William & Versey Smith, Blind Willie Davis, Frank Palmes, Bo Weavil Jackson, Elder Otis Jones, Blind Roosevelt Graves, Blind Joe Taggart, Blind Mamie Forehand, Jaybird Coleman, and more.” Double LP, gatefold sleeve, liner notes by John Fahey.
	Artist Title: Label: Format: Price:	Various Artists American Primitive, Vol. 2 Revenant 2CD $20
Seemingly the Revenant label’s final salvo and it’s a doozy. Described by the label as “Revenants. Phantoms. Biographical ciphers who emerged from their anonymous dark, made 78rpm recordings, and were promptly swallowed up by darkness again. Yet their recordings have made an indelible place for themselves in our world by dint of their capacity to inspire wonder.” Curated by John Fahey, this double disc offers eerily beautiful music from Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas, Bayless Rose (see 78 Quarterly #12 and hear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIT3rpOakcQ), and Henry Spaulding’s deathless “Cairo Blues”. There’s also ragged visionaries such as Tommy Settlers and his discombobulating “Big Bed Bug.” If you ever wanted a collection that’ll confirm that your efforts to “make sense of it all” are a fool’s errand, look no further. Screened covers, 40 page booklet.