OBSCURE RECORDS
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Exist : 1975-1978
Owner : Brian Eno
Distr. : Island Rec.>Polydor>Editions EG
Style : electronic / minimal / modern classical /
The first seven albums were issued on the Obscure label in 1975 and 1976,
manufactured and distributed in the UK by Island Records whose name appeared
at the bottom of the label. These have a catalogue number expressed as "obscur
no. 1" through 7 on the covers, and "OBSCURE 1" etc. on the labels. All albums
use the original, mostly black, cover art, designed by John Bonis of CCS.
https://www.discogs.com/label/288087-Obscure-2
OBSCURE 1 GAVIN BRYARS The Sinkink Of The Titanic LP .1975
The Sinking Of The Titanic / Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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OBSCURE 2 CHRISTOPHER HOBBS/JOHN ADAMS/GAVIN BRYARS:Ensemble Pieces LP .1975
Aran / American Standard / McCrimmon Will Never Return / 1,2,3-2-3-4
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OBSCURE 3 ENO Discreet Music LP .1975
Discreet Music 1 / Discreet Music 2 / Three Variations On The Canon In
D Major By Johann Pachelbel - Fullness Of Wind / French Catalogues /
Brutal Ardour
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OBSCURE 4 MAX EASTLEY/DAVID TOOP : New And Rediscovered Musical LP 04.1975
Instruments
Hydrophone / Metallophone / The Centriphone / Elastic Aerophone -
Centriphone / Do The Bathosphere / The Divination Of The Bowhead Whale
/ The Chairs Story
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OBSCURE 5 JAN STEELE/JOHN CAGE : Voices And Instruments LP .1976
All Day / Distant Saxophones / Rhapsody Spaniel / Experiences Nos 1 & 2
/ The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs / Forever And Sunsmell /
In A Landscape
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OBSCURE 6 MICHAEL NYMAN Decay Music LP .1976
1 - 100 / Bell Set no. 1
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OBSCURE 7 PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA : Music From The Penguin Cafe O. LP .1976
Penguin Cafe Single ; Zopf / From The Colonies / In A Sidney Motel /
Surface Tension / Milk / Coronation / Giles Farnaby's Dream / Pigtail ;
The Sound Of Someone You Love Who's Going Away / Hugebaby / Chartered
Flight
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OBSCURE 8 JOHN WHITE/GAVIN BRYARS : Machine Music LP .1978
Autumn Countdown Machine / Son Of Gothic Chord / Jew's Harp Machine /
Drinking And Hooting Machine / The Squirrel And The Ricketty
Racketty Bridge
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OBSCURE 9 TOM PHILLIPS/GAVIN BRYARS/FRED ORTON : Irma LP .1978
Introduction / Overture And Aria-I Tell You That's Irma Herself / First
Interlude //// Arai - Irma You Will Be Mine / Second Interlude / Chorus
: Love Is help Mate / Postlude
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OBSCURE 10 HAROLD BUDD The Pavillion Of Dreams LP .1978
Bismaillahi 'Rrahmani / Two Songs-Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord
/ Butterfly Sunday / Madrigals Of The Rose Angel-Rosetti Noise / Crystal
Garden / Juno
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OBSCURE 11 BRIAN ENO Music From Airports LP .1978
Originally intended as Obscure OBS-11, it came out instead as
Ambient / Polydor / EG AMB-001.
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