Formats
VHF137 - 7 xCD's
783881013726
Details
No Fans Compendium is a deluxe, limited-edition seven-disc set of Richard Youngs’s recordings for his long-running private No Fans label. Five CDs are the artist’s personal selection from his No Fans releases, all of which were issued in tiny editions (20-50 copies) and only available for sale at his rare shows or at Glasgow’s now-defunct Volcanic Tongue shop. In addition, Youngs has included two full discs of material previously unavailable in any form: a recording from 1989 predating his earliest widely known work, and a new recording from late 2014. Unbeatable as a survey of Youngs’s career, everything here is of equal quality to his over-the-counter releases. In keeping with his penchant for unpredictable stylistic mashups and reinventions, there are folky laments, achingly beautiful “songs,” tape collage, rude prog noise, minimalist experiments, multi-tracked vocals, etc. Each disc is housed in an individual card folio with artwork repurposed from the original releases.
Tracks
Disc 1 ? 20th Century Jams
1. 19 Used Postage Stamps 2. Inner Sky Part II
3. May Verses 4. Live in My Head
Disc 2 ? 21st Century Jams
1. Live in Glasgow 2000 2. Easter 2001
3. This Life Gives Force 4. Sun Lay Lay
Disc 3 ? Multi-Tracked Shakuhachi / Live in Salford
1. Multi-Tracked Shakuhachi 1
2. Multi-Tracked Shakuhachi 2
3. Multi-Tracked Shakuhachi 3
4. Live in Salford
Disc 4 ? Somerled / No Home Like Place
1. Glasgow Device 2. Mixolydian Sea Tone
3. Revolution, Again 4. Alarms I
5. Alarms II 6. No Home Like Place
Disc 5 ? Three Handed Star / Garden of Stones
1. Three Handed Star 2. Garden of Stones 1
3. Garden of Stones 2 4. Garden of Stones 3
5. Garden of Stones 4 6. Garden of Stones 5
Disc 6 ? Harpenden!
1. Green Ink 2. To the Hill
3. The Dead Fly 4. Setting for Voices
Disc 7 ? Thought Plane
1. Thought Plane