Red Square
Rare And Lost 70s Recordings
Ultra-rare recordings by '70s UK avant-rockers Red Square, the missing link between original free-noise practitioners like AMM, Nihilist Spasm Band and Peter Brotzmann, and post-No Wavers à la the Blue Humans, Borbetomagus and the Dead C. Red Square was a pioneering free-improv, avant-rock band. The band bridged the worlds of psychedelic rock, noise and avant-jazz. Pre-dating Sonic Youth by seven years and Last Exit by a decade, Red Square's railing aural assaults were once considered too extreme for commercial release. Now 'Rare And Lost 70s Recordings' includes a complete never-before-heard heavy studio session from 1978 plus a thunderous live set opening for fellow "rock in opposition" mavens Henry Cow, recorded with perfect sound quality in 1976. The sound was remastered by original member Jon Seagroatt (currently with '70s pagan-folk gods Comus and Current 93).