New releases; Jansen/Barbieri and Colin Newman reviews

[Bob Krajewski <lmi-angel!rpk>]

This article is based on the contents and advertisements of a British
indie-label magazine called ``The Catalogue,''in the October issue.  It's
mostly news of new releases, with a lot of indie ads and many short reviews.
The address is

The Catalogue
61/71 Collier Street
London N1 9BE, UK

* New releases:
Moodists: T.I.M./Abstract 12": Take the Red Carpet Out of Town
Jazz Butcher Conspiracy: Glass single: Angels
Jazz Butcher Conspiracy: Glass album: Distressed Gentlefolk
Cocteau Twins: 4AD single: Loves Easy Tears/Those Eyes That Mouth/Sign's
	Smell of Farewell (12") [13 October]
Cocteau Twins: 4AD album: with Harold Budd, as yet no title [end of October]
Colin Newman: Crammed album: Commercial Suicide
Colin Newman: Crammed 7": Feigned Hearing/I Can't Hear You
Colin Newman: Crammed 12": ``interview/monlogue/rap'' + non-album tracks
Minimal Compact: Crammed 12": Immigrants Songs
Membranes: Homestead album: Songs of Love and Fury
Jah Wobble + Ollie Marland + Harry Beckett: album: Trade Winds
Hula: Red Rhino 12": Black Wall Blue
Hula: Red Rhino album: Shadowland (live)
	* also, forthcoming collaboration with Daniel Miller
Steve Jansen + Richard Barbieri: Pan East album: Worlds in a Small Room
	[mid-October]
Soupdragons: Raw TV Products 7": Hang Ten!/Things Slow Down
Hans Joachim Roedelius: Cicada album: Like the Whispering of the Wind
William S. Burroughs: Les Temps Modernes album: The Doctor Is on the Market
Faust: Recommended album: Munich and Elsewhere
A Certain Ratio: Factory single: Mickey Way
A Certain Ratio: Factory album: Force
The Godfathers: Corporate Image album: Unsatisfied
Legendary Pink Dots: Play It Again Sam 12": Curious Guy
Legendary Pink Dots: Play It Again Sam album: Island of Jewels
Executive Slacks: Play It Again Sam 12": Rock 'n Roll (remix)
Skinny Puppy: Play It Again Sam 12": Dig It
Robyn Hitchcock: Glass Fish album: Element of Light
Tuxedomoon: Cramboy album: Suite en Sous-Sol [tracks from 1982]
Coil: K. 422 12": Anal Staircase [mid-October]
Live Skull: Homestead album: The Pusherman [mid-October]

* LPs and CDs from Mute October to December:
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Your Funeral, My Trial
He Said: Hail
Frank Tovey: The Fad Gadget singles
Crime and the City Solution: Room of Lights
I Start Counting: My Translucent Hands
Holger Hiller: Oben im Eck
Non: Blood & Flame

* On CD:
New Cocteau Twins + Harold Budd
Phillip Glass: North Star
Sonic Youth: Bad Moon Rising + Flower + Halloween + Satan
Sonic Youth: EVOL
New Jansen+Barbieri
New ACR
New Jazz Butcher
Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains

* Selected Reviews:
Jansen/Barbieri: Worlds in a Small Room
Let's begin in the New Age with the video soundtrack by ex-Japan members
Jansen and Barbieri.  Recorded in Tokyo (where else ?), the album titles
alone, ``Breaking the Silence,'' ``Balance,'' ``The Way the Light Falls,''
etc. give you some idea of the cool, measured synth twiddling contained
within.  The total effect is decidedly powerful and meditative, suitable,
shall we say, for those moments of stress inside your smallest room.

Colin Newman: Commercial Suidicide
`Mr Newman marries accessibility with invention.' So says his Press
department, and they should know after all.   Why then ``Commercial
Suicide'' ?  Mr Newman is of course playing Mr Modesty for there's plenty
here to stimulate the jaded earholes of all persuasions.  Favourites so far
are ``Their Terrain,'' an almost hymn-like dirge sandwiched between
characteristically oblique lyrics and an arrangment that builds from
synthbleats to orchestral largesse and ``But I'' with its delightfully wacky
psychedelic strings.  Not commercial suicide but not ``Smash Hits'' either.