{"product_id":"the-complete-obscure-records-collection","title":"The Complete Obscure Records Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally issued between 1975 and 1978, nearly 50 years on the output of Obscure remains radically forward-thinking - offering glimpses of a future yet to be fully seen - and amounts to one of the most important, influential, and creatively accomplished album series ever conceived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCo-curated by Eno and the composers Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman - issuing the recording debuts of Bryars, Nyman, John Adams, Christopher Hobbs, David Toop, Max Eastley, Jan Steele, Simon Jeffes \/ The Penguin Café Orchestra, and Harold Budd, in addition to important works by John Cage, Tom Phillips, and John White - Obscure’s collective output is a groundbreaking landmark in the histories of Minimalism, modern composition, and Experimental music, and laid much of the groundwork for the soon to emerge movement of Ambient music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlluminating the remarkable, and largely otherwise undocumented, creative ferment within and between the British and American scenes of experimental music during the mid to late 1970s, this collection - made in full collaboration with all of the composers or their estates - contains the entire 10 album output of Obscure, the majority of which have been out of print for years, with a number having never received a CD reissue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering each of Obscure’s albums, completely remastered and housed in faithful replicas of their original covers and liner notes, as well as a 130-page booklet for CD-BOX SET and 80-page book (LP dimension) for LP-BOX SET, filled with rare photos, archival material and texts by - among others - Gavin Bryars, Bradford Bailey, David Toop, Max Eastley, Richard Bernas, and Tom Recchion, this historic collection marks the first time this seminal series has received a complete CD and LP repress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINCLUDING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGavin Bryars’ “The Sinking of the Titanic” (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Christopher Hobbs, John Adams, and Gavin Bryars’ “Ensemble Pieces” (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Brian Eno’s “Discreet Music” (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e David Toop and Max Eastley’s “New and Rediscovered Musical Instrument” (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJan Steele and John Cage’s “Voices and Instruments” (1976)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Nyman’s “Decay Music” (1976)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Simon Jeffes \/ The Penguin Café Orchestra’s “Music from The Penguin Café” (1976)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e John White and Gavin Bryars’ “Machine Music” (1978)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Phillips, Gavin Bryars, and Fred Orton’s “Irma” (1978)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarold Budd’s “The Pavilion of Dreams” ‎(1978)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dialogo","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx10","offer_id":50416341320011,"sku":"2162701","price":399.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CDx10","offer_id":50416340173131,"sku":"2162698","price":179.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/image010_2_29cc378c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726701857","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/the-complete-obscure-records-collection","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}