THE DURUTTI COLUMN 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: "People have described their music as ambient, although that's a description they don't care much for. It's certainly atmospheric and there's something about their sunny-sounding guitar that seemed appropriate to a book that, although published in 1927, didn't become popular in America until the 1960s."
So says writer and director Gerard McInulty about The Durutti Column, the group he drafted for the soundtrack to his 12 Stars group production of Treatise On The Steppenwolf, first staged in Glasgow in 2003. This is what that sounds like - call it what you like, essentially it's just beautiful music to captivate and enthral, without insisting on itself - and you also get an additional trio of extended movements that were used to score the Human Avatars art installation at MOSI, Manchester, in 2005. Ace all round.

Review: On its initial release in 1995, Sex and Death marked the end of an era for Vini Reilly's Duratti Column ensemble, and the start of a new one. It was recorded in the years following the collapse of Factory Records, boasts a string of guest musicians including New Order's Peter Hook, and was their final collaboration with producer Stephen Street. As this expanded reissue proves, the album, remains a strong one, offering a mix of opaque, dream-like soundscapes, jazz-flecked musical meditation, effervescent post-punk pop and jangling downtempo compositions. This edition includes a second disc packed full of alternate takes and previously unheard tracks discovered in Tony Wilson's archive, the majority of which is every bit as interesting and entertaining as the full album.