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35th anniversary edition of The Durutti Column’s 1989 album ‘Vini Reilly’ on limited black vinyl.

Regarded as the seminal album from the Manchester post-punk legends, the album is presented in the famous (and as to now unseen) ‘rejected’ sleeve by 8vo, the influential London design studio of the late 80s & early 90s.

‘Vini Reilly’ was produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries, New Order).

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Numbered, limited edition on black vinyl.

Vinyl mastered by Peter Beckmann at Technology Works.

35th Anniversary edition of the seminal 1989 album ‘Vini Reilly’, Produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries, New Order). Remastered and heavily expanded 5 disc version, featuring over 75 tracks.

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1 - Vini Reilly:
1. Love No More
2. Pol In G
3. Opera I
4. People’s Pleasure Park
5. Red Square
6. Finding The Sea
7. Otis
8. William B
9. They Work Every Day
10. Opera II
11. Homage To Catalonea
12. Requiem Again
13. My Country
14. Otis (No Samples)
15. Dry
16. My Country (Monarchy Mix)

DISC 2 - The Sporadic Recordings:
1. Buddhist Prayer
2. Pathway
3. Nile Opera
4. Shirt No. 7
5. Kind Of Love
6. Rob Grey’s Elegy
7. Misere
8. For Steven Patrick
9. We Stumble
10. Sketch For A Manchester Summer 1989
11. Arpeggiator II
12. Diazepam 5 Mgs
13. But Was I…?
14. Pol In Ab
15. Real Drums – Real Drummer
16. Another Mirror – Another Wall
17. 30 Oldham Street
18. 4.10 AM
19. For Lydia
20. Detail For Heidi & Jodie
21. Zinni’s Dance
22. PPP Version
23. For Lucy H
24. 4.30 AM
25. It’s A Bright Guilty World – Pt 1
26. It’s A Bright Guilty World – Pt 2
27. Nile Reprise
28. Diazepam 5 Mgs

DISC 3 - Womad Live EP + Demos:
1. Otis (Womad Live)
2. English Landscape Tradition (Womad Live)
3. Finding The Sea (Womad Live)
4. Bordeaux (Womad Live)
5. Day Is Over (Live)
6. Red Shoes (Live)
7. Opera II
8. Finding The Sea I
9. PPP (demo)
10. Juan Montero (Sketch 1)
11. Sample Tune
12. Finding The Sea (2)
13. Juan Montero (Sketch 2)
14. William B (demo)
15. Sketches On Stratocaster
16. Zinni And Vini Tune

DISC 4 - Live In Porto 30/04/1988
1. Mercy Theme
2. Arpeggiator
3. What It Is To Me (Woman)
4. Jongleur Grey
5. Pol In B
6. Bordeaux Sequence
7. Jacqueline
8. Sketch For Dawn
9. Tomorrow
10. Requiem Again
11. English Landscape Tradition
12. When The World
13. The Missing Boy
14. Red Shoes
15. The Beggar
16. Sketch For Summer

DISC 5 - I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong
1. I Know Very Well How I Got My Note Wrong

Celebrating 25 years since the release of the seminal 1998 album by The Durutti Column for the first time on double heavyweight vinyl. Re-mastered with 5 bonus tracks: It’s Your Life, Babe (Bonus Track) Kiss of Def (Bonus Track) In the City (Bonus Track) New Order Tribute (Bonus Track) Drinking Song (version) (Bonus Track)

‘Time Was GIGANTIC…’ was the final Factory Records release for The Durutti Column and the last release for the label before it closed. The edition features extensive liner notes by Factory Records and band expert James Nice. The original artwork has been revisited by the original designers 8VO (Mark Holt and Hamish Muir) 

TRACK LISTING

1. Organ Donor
2. Pigeon
3. I B Yours
4. Twenty Trees
5. Abuse
6. Drinking Song
7. Sing To Me
8. My Last Kiss
9. For Rachel
10. Highfield Choir
11. Epilogue
12. It’s Your Life, Babe (Bonus Track)
13. Kiss Of Def (Bonus Track)
14. In The City (Bonus Track)
15. New Order Tribute (Bonus Track)
16. Drinking Song (version) (Bonus Track)

“Sunlight to blue … Blue to blackness” - This was one of the more upbeat title suggestions for the very bare, back to basics, reflective album from The Durutti Column. Originally released in June 2008, Sunlight to Blue… was a conscious response to the previous two polished and ‘studio-based’ releases. Here he created some sparse, simply beautiful 'sketches' as he once called them, more reminiscent of his work from the early eighties. Many of the pieces are instrumentals played on his Juan Montero flamenco guitar, and he returns to 'Without Mercy' for the last track 'Grief' whilst reinventing 'Never Known' from LC. Now, for the first time, the LP is available remastered and re-packaged as a gatefold double 12” 180gram vinyl release.

This album also saw the debut of the then talented young pianist and singer, Poppy Morgan, who co-wrote the melancholy Ananda as a duet with what Reilly dryly called 'intrusive guitar'. For the uninitiated, Vini was the first artist signed to Manchester’s influential Factory Records, co-wrote and played on Morrissey’s first solo album ‘Viva Hate’, and was heavily featured in the Manchester music culture film, ’24 Hour Party People’. Vini Reilly has recorded under the name The Durutti Column since 1978 and has a rich portfolio of work, releasing over twenty albums in this time. Ever critical of Vini’s voice, but ever a fierce champion of his talent, the late Tony Wilson would surely appreciate this return of The Durutti Column.

TRACK LISTING

1. Glimpse
2. Contact
3. Messages
4. Ged
5. Ananda
6. Never Known Version
7. So Many Crumbs And Monkeys!
8. Head Glue
9. Demo For Gathering Dust
10. Cup A Soup Romance
11. Grief

A Paean to Wilson is still arguably Vini Reilly and the Durutti Column's most important and consistent piece of work since the demise of the original and seminal Factory Records in the early 1990's. On this release we have the ‘F4 Heaven Sent’ tracks released on vinyl for the first time. They first appeared in 2005 via Wilson's project F4, as being the fourth version of Factory Records. Originally it was download-only release, Heaven Sent (It Was Called Digital, It Was Heaven Sent). A six track CD of personal dedications by Vini ironically the last piece is titled Anthony. Originally this was commissioned for the MIF (Manchester International Festival) where it was premiered in July 2009. Vin had already composed pieces for Tony to listen to whilst he was ill in hospital and it was from here that the project developed.

This release belatedly coincides with the new Paul Morley Biography ‘Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony ...’Ever critical of Vini's voice, but ever a fierce champion of his talent, the late Tony Wilson would surely appreciate this instrumental tribute by The Durutti Column. ‘Near the beginning of the final night of the Durutti Column's 70-minute international festival tribute to Tony Wilson, A Paean to Wilson, guitarist Vini Reilly announced that he wouldn't be singing: "So you won't have to put up with my awful voice and schoolboy lyrics." If Wilson was with us, he would have chuckled. The Granada presenter-turned-Factory Records boss spent years urging his first signing to stop singing, and concentrate on the virtuosity that led Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante to call Reilly "the greatest guitarist in the world". Two years after his death, Wilson got his way, one of many lovely touches in a very personal, emotional and often warmly funny musical tribute. Wilson signed Joy Division and Happy Mondays, yet never gave up on this cult band he adored, working with them even after his legendary label went bankrupt.

A complex man, Wilson was an academic thinker who revelled in Steve Coogan's affectionate, Alan Partridge-style send-up of him. And this tribute was no different. At one point, Reilly known for melancholy launched into something resembling an Irish jig. "Tony loved to laugh," he explained. "He loved absurdities." After the humour came exquisitely mournful music. With Reilly and drummer Bruce Mitchell augmented by bass, keyboard, violin, electric piano, drum machine and trumpet, the band's beautiful pieces reflected Wilson's love of rock and classical. Reilly's plangent guitar work showed grief's emotional spectrum, from sadness to overdriven anger. As in life, Wilson had the last word, his recorded voice expounding thoughts on socialism with an eerie echo. Silence followed as Manchester pondered the loss of one of its truly larger-than-life characters. Then everybody cheered.'

TRACK LISTING

I/Or Are You Just A Technician
II/Chant
III/Quatro Two
IV/Requiem
V/Stuki VI/Along Came Poppy Three
VII/Brother
VIII/Duet With Piano
IX/Darkness Here Four
X/Catos Revisited
XI/The Truth
XII/How Unbelievable Five
XIII/Bruce
XIV/Keir
XV/Neil Six
XVI/Mike
XVII/Alan
XVIII/Anthony