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£5.00 on it's own or £2.50 with a full price CD (including postage to anywhere).

£5.00 on it's own or £2.50 with a full price CD (including postage to anywhere).

The Last Days of Cordelia Records

(Pal format) DVD

Watch a trailer.

When bought with a full price CD.

The Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra

ZERO Alternatives

The seventh album by Z.E.R.O.

CD in a digipak.

The Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra

Six of One

The sixth album by Z.E.R.O.

CD in a gatefold cardboard cover.

The Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra

Make An Arf Noise Here

The is the first Z.E.R.O. CD to be recorded during a pandemic. 52 minutes of comedy music, despite everything, from an international collection of musicians including members of The Zappa Band, The Tubes, The Grandmothers, and many more!

Listen to this track.

The music of Frank Zappa adapted for ZEROs Christmas album. With the voice of Ike Willis.

CD in a gate-fold cardboard cover

On ZERO's: website

Z.E.R.O. perform the music of Frank Zappa

CD / gate-fold cardboard cover

Listen to this track.

Swing and a Miss / Sheetrock

Two double albums from 1977 and 1978 released on CD for the first time.

2xCD in cardboard gate-fold sleeve.

Apologies to Mr. Gottlieb

R. Stevie Moore's 1974 album on CD for the first time..

CD digipak

Glad Music

R. Stevie Moore's sixth album from 1986 on CD for the first time. This edition has undergone extensive remastering and restoration work and has eight bonus tracks

CD digipak

Listen to this track

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About R. Stevie Moore but were Afraid to Ask.

R. Stevie Moore's third album from 1984 on CD for the first time (remastered with bonus Paris audio diary fom the 1984 album launch).

Double CD digipak.

Advanced

2011 studio recording by R. Stevie Moore on CD for the first time with 12 bonus tracks

CD digipak

Watch this video which has muppets

The Embodiment of Progressive Ideals

A brand new 2018 collaborative album by R. Stevie Moore and Alan Jenkins.

Listen to this

CD digipak.

Delicate Tension

A new CD edition of R. Stevie Moore's classic and essential second album from 1979. This one has has new cover art, some subtle restoration work and ten bonus tracks.

CD digipak

Listen to this track

R. Stevie Moore's sixth album, originally released on Hamster Records in 1985, on CD for the first time and expanded to 76 minutes with six additional tracks.

CD in a digipak.

This was released on the Pink Lemon label in 2002. Compilation produced by Irwin Chusid..

CD in a digipak.

R. Stevie Moore's 2013 album on the Moloko+ label. 19 tracks. Digipak CD.

Tracklisting at Discogs

R. Stevie Moore's 1975 album of instrumental Beatles' tunes - on CD for the first time with three bonus tracks.

Listen to this track.

CD in a digipak.

"Thoroughly Years: Phonography II" is a selection of material from the '70s, originally compiled for album release in 1985 but subsequently abandoned and unavailable on CD until now. Expanded to 77 minutes with five additional tracks.

CD in a digipak.

The Mappa Zappa EP

An accompaniment to the Mappa Zappa album

(scroll down a little to the Frank Zappa section)

Fred Händl, The Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra, Caballero Reynaldo and Jerry Outlaw & Friends perform the music of Frank Zappa

CD in a cardboard cover

Would You Like A Snack?

"To celebrate the 50th anniversary of 200 Motels later this year, IBS asked many of those scheduled to appear at the cancelled 2021 edition of Festival MOO-AH – plus several chums, old and new – to record a selection of choice cuts from FZ’s opus for a new album on Cordelia Records".

More details at the home of the Idiot.

Listen to this song.

The "Mappa Zappa" album is a collection of 15 tunes by Frank Zappa performed by the world's top Zappa influenced musicians. There is a geographical theme.

CD / digipak

Listen to this track.

Here it is at Discogs. (You can see the tracklist).

Frank Zappa's "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" album re-recorded by ten of the worlds foremost Zappa covers bands.

CD / digipak

Here is a tracklisting.

Here is a track to listen to.

Various prominent Frank Zappa influenced artists record Zappa compositions that he didn't release himself.

CD / digipak

Details of the tracks.

On Broadway: Covers of Invention

A CD celebrating the 25th anniversary of Frank Zappa's final tour in 1988. 15 of the world's finest Zappa influenced artists (and Alan Jenkins) perform the tunes that Frank covered in '88. Full details are contained here.

CD / digipak

Fifteen of the worlds finest Frank Zappa covers bands perform versions of "Son of Mr. Green Genes" from Hot Rats. The cover of the digipak CD has a photograph from the Hot Rats sessions that you've never seen before.

Here it is on the Idiot Bastard web site (including a list of the tracks).

But listen to this track.

Teenage Head in My Refrigerator

The second album by the Mice originally released in 1981. This 2013 remaster on CD has greatly improved sound quality, lots of extra music and a 20 page booklet with interesting things in it.

There's a new collection of rare tracks from the period which can be downloaded free here.

The Gates of Lunch

The third album by the Mice originally released in 1982. This 2013 remaster has greatly improved sound quality, lots of extra music and a 20 page booklet with writing and pictures of some kind in it.

The fourth album by the Mice originally released in 1983. This 2015 remaster has better sound quality, 12 extra tracks and a 20 page booklet with interesting and often relevant things in it.

The fifth album by the Mice originally released in 1984. This 2015 remaster has much better sound quality, 15 extra tracks (the total playing time is about two and a half hours) and some new sleeve notes.

Double CD with gatefold cover and inside sleeves.

There's a track somebody put on youtube: here.

A new CD edition of the sixth album by The Deep Freeze Mice in a big wrap-around cover with some interesting pictures on it including a reproduction of the original manuscript of the lyrics. Somebody put this track on youtube.

War, Famine, Death, Pestilence and Miss Timberlake

The eighth album by the Mice originally released in 1987. This remastered CD has greatly improved sound quality, lots of extra music and a 20 page booklet with interesting things in it.

(This is the 7th Deep Freeze Mice album. It is a compilation - the tracks all appear as bonus material on the other CDs)

The Tender Yellow Ponies of Insomnia

The tenth and final Deep Freeze Mice album. The CD rerelease has a very fat booklet and lots of extra music.

The Deep Freeze Mice Live in Switzerland.

Jar Music label CD including a fat booklet with sleevenotes and photographs.

Alan Jenkins' new recording of "My Geraniums are Bulletproof" by The Deep Freeze Mice on the occasion of its 40th anniversary.

CD in gate-fold cardboard sleeve.

The Deep Freeze Mice's "I Love You Little Bo Bo With Your Delicate Golden Lions" on cassette

There's a new double cassette edition of the "Little Bo Bo" album released by Plastic Response Records of South Carolina. The cover art uses unusual versions of the original screen print and there's a little sheet of stickers included.

Listen to this tune

A T-shirt with a rat saying "What?" (Based on the label of "Be My Enemy £1")

Fruit of the Loom Heavyweight shirt / professional screen print.

Available sizes: small, medium, large, XL, XXL

Sorry there isn't a way of selecting the size here. If you haven't told me already I shall ask you when you order one.

A "Disaster Cake Interrogation Bunny" T-shirt.

(Gildan Ultra - Sizes small and medium are still available).

The Novosibirsk T-shirt

Fruit of the Loom Classic shirt / professional screen print.

Sizes small, medium, large, XL & XXL are currently available - either include a note with the paypal order or in a separate email.

Alan Jenkins and The Kettering Vampires

Notes on the Life Cycle of the Quantum Mouse

28 new songs on two CDs in a digipak cover with a huge orange mouse on the front.

Here is a track.

Alan Jenkins and The Kettering Vampires

Onion Light Over Pig Country

A lot of new songs recorded in 2019 on a CD in a big fold-out ecopak with many attractive and interesting illustrations.

Here is a track.

Alan Jenkins and The Kettering Vampires

Nosetown and Ratville

15 new tracks recorded in 2020, mostly with words and singing.

CD in a cardboard gate-fold cover.

The "Disaster Cake Interrogation Bunny" album by Alan Jenkins

Watch this video or listen to Emile Zola

A CD with 15 tracks on it in a digipak.

A "Disaster Cake Interrogation Bunny" T - shirt.

(Gildan Ultra - Sizes small, medium are still available).

The Creams - Pluto

A new restored version of The Creams' 1996 album which has been out of print for decades.

It comes in a slip case, has many extra tracks, lasts 73 minutes and has a new cover by Jonathan Lemon.

Listen to this track

The Melamine Division Plates

The second CD by The Melamine Division Plates contains 16 tracks of the finest Experimental Surf Music. The first edition comes in an elaborate hand-made cover with holes in it. There are also extensive interesting and informative sleeve-notes.

Here is an example.

The Melamine Division Plates

The Melamine Division Plates' Soundtrack to Jane Ek's play "Novosibirsk".

"An important landmark in Experimental Surf Music" (Sergey Solovyov)

This track from Novosibirsk is not included on the album. Neither is this one.

31 tracks on two CDs in a long cardboard sleeve with extensive sleeve notes that explain everything.

Special Offer:

The two Melamine Division Plates CDs for less money.

Special Offer:

The two CDs by John Trubee on the left for less money.

Special Offer:

Seven CDs from the Cordelia catalogue that feature cover versions of famous songs by the world's finest surf instrumental bands..

...for £46 or £52 depending on where you live.

The avant-garde surf music compilation.

19 tracks / 70 minutes of music.

CD / digipak

There's a free sample: here.

And a tracklist here: here.

Well, That About Wraps It Up For The Sea.

CD in gate-fold sleeve.

Listen to "She Loves You".

Special Offer:

The four CDs in this row by The Creams: (Malcolm, Ie, The All Night Bookman and Net Yangers for the Pizza Froy).

Two of them are double albums.

for £27 or £32 depending on where you live.

The Creams

Malcolm

The Creams' 1997 album "Malcolm". This 2022 re-release has 25 bonus tracks.

It is a CD in a digipak.

Listen to this track

Alan Jenkins and The Creams

ie

A re-release of the "Ie" album from 1993, restored using the original multi-track tapes with an extra album's worth of bonus material (an expanded version of the fourth side of the original L.P. version)

Double CD in a six page cardboard cover.

Here is one of the songs.

The Creams

Net Yangers for the Pizza Froy

A complete concert recording from Hannover in 1997. (Digital source, audience A-) with interesting and informative sleeve notes.

CD in a cardboard gate-fold cover.

The Creams

The All Night Bookman

A reissue of The Creams' double CD from 1998. Two hours of remastered music in a cardboard sleeve with new and interesting things written on it.

Listen to this track.

Jody and The Creams

Lords of the Gromet Canning Factory

The follow up to the Big Dog.n album released on CD in 1998 by the Pink Lemon label. Digipak with 20 tracks.

Ruth's Refrigerator - Suddenly a Disfigured Head Parachuted.

A new edition of the first album by Ruth's Refrigerator from 1990, remixed in 2016

CD in a cardboard, gate-fold cover.

Ruth's Refrigerator - A Lizard is a Submarine on Grass.

The 2nd Refrigerator album from 1991 restored from the original analogue multitrack tapes. The 1991 LP and CD were completely different recordings and here they both are on a double CD with 7 bonus tracks.

CD x 2 in a digipak.

Listen to one of the bonus tracks.

Aaaaaaaaxb

Beyond the Pillars of Hercules

Originally recorded in 2013, Beyond the Pillars of Hercules is now released officially for the first time after years of fierce legal battles.

30 tracks / 60 minutes / CD in gate fold sleeve with interesting sleeve notes.

Listen to this track

The Best of Aaaaaaaaxb and Beyond the Pillars of Hercules

Both CDs by Aaaaaaaaxb for a smaller amount of money.

The Best of Aaaaaaaaxb comes in a folded, double-sided poster.

The Gas Museum: The Accessible Tunes of the The Creams

A compilation of The Creams' catchiest pop songs, released by the Moloko Plus label.

CD in a cardboard gate-fold cover.

Culpho Dog Gymkhana 3

A new 2020 recording by Culpho Dog Gymkhana with interesting and only slightly misleading sleeve notes.

CD in a cardboard gate-fold cover.

A Culpho Dog Gymkhana special offer:

All three of their albums for less money.

(CDs in a cardboard gate-fold covers)

Alan Jenkins' new recording of "My Geraniums are Bulletproof" by The Deep Freeze Mice on the occasion of its 40th anniversary..

CD in gate-fold cardboard sleeve.

Lost Meat - 100% Zappa Rareness

The world's premier Frank Zappa covers bands perform more of FZ's compositions that he didn't release himself.

The Novosibirsk T-shirt

Fruit of the Loom Classic shirt / professional screen print.

Sizes small, medium, large, XL & XXL are currently available - either include a note with the paypal order or in a separate email.

The Mappa Zappa EP

An accompaniment to the Mappa Zappa album

(scroll down a little to the Frank Zappa section)

Fred Händl, The Zappa Early Renaissance Orchestra, Caballero Reynaldo and Jerry Outlaw & Friends perform the music of Frank Zappa

CD in a cardboard cover

The Deep Freeze Mice

A complete concert recording from Schaffhausen, Switzerland in November 1985

On a CD in a cardboard cover

The Melamine Division Plates

The Melamine Division Plates' Soundtrack to Jane Ek's play "Novosibirsk".

"An important landmark in Experimental Surf Music" (Sergey Solovyov)

This track from the Novosibirsk is not included on the album. Neither is this one.

31 tracks on two CDs in a long cardboard sleeve with extensive sleeve notes that explain everything.

CD compilation of the best of the four Obscure Independent Classics L.P.s

In a CD sized gatefold sleeve with interesting sleeve notes on the inside. 26 tracks by such bands as The Kamikaze Sex Pilots, C. W. Vrtacek, Zoogz Rift, The Freshies, Yeah Yeah Noh, P16 D4, Alvaro etc etc

8 CD boxed set of Experimental Surf Music on the ReR Megacorp label.

If you have been following the ESM releases on the Cordelia label then you may already have all of these but otherwise it's a good value introduction. We only have 15 copies of this at the time of writing.

Chris Cutler writes:

Some insufferably great music that’s hard to categorise. Somewhere in the mists it evolved away from the classic guitar instrumental, tweaking and stretching and mixing it with psychedelics and experimentalism, offering an alternative evolutionary history of popular music. Alan J. ranks highly in my personal pantheon because he's funny, very musical, doesn't much care about what’s fashionable and sometimes comes up with the unthinkable. Plus, of course, it’it's all a pleasure to listen to. So, in the interests of anyone giving a damn, we decided to put a bunch of these lost gems in a box and sell them enticingly cheap – commissioning a short but illuminating pamphlet from Alan about fractures in the ESM community.

Contents include:
The Kettering Vampires Perform Nico and the Velvet Underground.
The Best of Aaaaaaaaxb
Culpho Dog Gymkhana 1
That Wraps it Up for The Sea
Considerably further Beyond the Sea
The Magic City
Free Surf Music 3
Free Surf Music 4
In a sturdy box.

John Trubee and The Ugly Janitors of America - My Hope is a Broken Dog Fading Beneath the Evening Tide

A new retrospective collection of unreleased or unavailable material.

On CD in a jewel case with an 8 page booklet.

Listen to the music of John Trubee at bandcamp

Culpho Dog Gymkhanan #2

Listen to this extract.

The new album by Culpho Dog Gymkhana also comes in one of those CD sized gate-fold LP sleeves and has relevant sleeve notes of a disturbing nature.

Culpho Dog Gymkhanan #1

New CD by Suffolks top experimental surf band.

Listen to this extract.

It comes in a gate-fold cardboard cover with sleeve notes that elaborate on the ESM scene at the University of Culpho as previously mentioned in the sleeve notes to the "Well, That About Wraps It Up For The Sea" album.

The "We Are Not Alone" CD by The Spanner Jazz Punks. 20 tracks most of which are versions of tunes by Franz Zappa. There is also a version of "The Blimp".

CD / digipak

Watch them performing Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance.

Investigate further at the Spanner HQ

The Ninth Alan

A new double album by Alan Jenkins.

The first two hundred copies come in the form of this small book which will obviously be worth a fortune in a couple of years.

This is the opening track

27 tracks on two CDs

"The Best of Aaaaaaaaxb" album by Aaaaaaaaxb

Listen to this tune

20 track CD in a double-sided wrap around poster with various illustrations and lengthy sleeve notes detailing the controversial events of the 2014 Experimental Surf Music Conference at the University of Culpho and the ill-fated Aaaaaaaaxb concert at Lowestoft the following year. 

Culpho Dog Gymkhanan #1

New CD by Suffolks top experimental surf band.

Listen to this extract.

It comes in a gate-fold cardboard cover with sleeve notes that elaborate on the ESM scene at the University of Culpho as previously mentioned in the sleeve notes to the "Well, That About Wraps It Up For The Sea" album.

"Beside Laibach, the following people were involved in doing these remixes: "A.I. Zero Remix" - Guitar: Nikola Sedlic, the rest: Flesh Wire, Maikko Advance. "Flash Beach Remix" - additional drums: Mivi, the rest: Maikko Advance & Flesh Wire. "Melting Rust Opera Remix" - Scary kid vocals: Mivi, Guitar: Nikola Sedlic, Soundscapes in the middle of the Track: Maikko Advance, the rest: Flesh Wire.
"Mind Area Remix" - entirely done by Maikko Advance."

CD & 12" vinyl

Details at Discogs

12" Vinyl: £20.00 inc. postage to the World

Tracks: Kingfisher, Harvest Home, Priest of the Venusians, One To Three (Crum’s mix) and Real Love and Communication.

CD in a cardboard cover much like a mini LP sleeve

The Bard of Ely at Discogs

The "World War Four" double album by R. Stevie Moore

Here is a description (with a track list) on Mr Moore's web site

It's a double CD in a digipak with 40 tracks recorded between 2011 and 2015.

Scroll down for more R. Stevie Moore.

The "Teenage Spectacular" album by R. Stevie Moore

Watch this video

R. Stevie Moore's seventh album from 1987 on CD for the first time, remastered with five bonus tracks, in a cardboard gate-fold sleeve.

See below for more R. Stevie Moore.

Culpho Dog Gymkhanan #1

New CD by Suffolks top experimental surf band.

Listen to this extract.

It comes in a gate-fold cardboard cover with sleeve notes that elaborate on the ESM scene at the University of Culpho as previously mentioned in the sleeve notes to the "Well, That About Wraps It Up For The Sea" album.

Alan Jenkins - Well, That About Wraps It Up For The Sea.

CD in gate-fold sleeve.

Listen to "She Loves You".

Alan Jenkins and The Kettering Vampires - Nico & The Velvet Underground.

CD in gate-fold sleeve.

Listen to "I'm Waiting for the Man".

Alan Jenkins - Free Surf Music #4

A CD in a digipak. Includes the longest surf instrumetal ever recorded in the history of the world.

The "Fig 3g (with mouse) T-shirt

High quality Gildan Premium. Only size small is still available.

A T-shirt with the "Verve" Cordelia Records label from the Nico & The Velvet Undergound CD by Alan Jenkins and The Kettering Vampires.

£8.50 including postage to the UK

"The avant-garde surf music compilation". (See Beyond the Sea and Further Beyond the Sea below). 19 tracks / 70 minutes of music.

CD / digipak

There's a free sample: here.

And a tracklist here: here.

The Surf Intrumental Bands of the world perform the music of The Rolling Stones.

CD / digipak

Listen to this track and then listen to this track.

Here is a list of all the tracks.

Frank Zappa's "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" album re-recorded by ten of the worlds foremost Zappa covers bands.

Here is a tracklisting.

Here is a track to listen to.

Alan Jenkins

The Magic City

A new album recorded in 2012. There is a companion album called "The World of String". This is made of tunes which were too terrible to go on The Magic City. Don't even click the link.

CD / digipak

Various prominent Frank Zappa influenced artists record Zappa compositions that he didn't release himself.

CD / digipak

Details of the tracks.

This was produced in colaboration with The Idiot Bastard Son web site.

On Broadway: Covers of Invention

A CD celebrating the 25th anniversary of Frank Zappa's final tour in 1988. 15 of the world's finest Zappa influenced artists (and Alan Jenkins) perform the tunes that Frank covered in '88. Full details are contained here.

CD / digipak

A second CD released in conjunction with the Idiot Bastard Son web site - the 21 contributing artists were asked to condense Frank Zappa's "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" album into a 3 to 5 minute piece of music.The 21st track is this album condensed down to a 3 to 5 minute piece of music and is only available as a download here.

And there's a promo video.

CD

20 tracks recorded by The Thurston Lava Tube that aren't on their other albums. A third of them were already released on compilation CDs but you only own a couple of them so this is also worth getting. Here is a track from it.

CD / digipak

The Pink Elephant with Nipples for Tusks

The third album by The Thurston Lava Tube

CD / digipak

The Year of the Dog

The latest album by The Thurston Lava Tube - with CD extra format content including several videos and live recordings. Digipak.

CD / digipak

Alan Jenkins and The Thurston Lava Tube - Free Surf Music #1 and #2 CD.

The Free Surf Music #1 L.P. (1999) and the Free Surf Music #2 L.P. (2000) plus the Pour Quoi Pas Moo E.P. and one bonus track on one CD. 40 tracks in about 77 minutes.

CD

Free Surf Music #3

Yet more pre-Lava Tube experimental surf music by Alan Jenkins. This CD has 76 bonus tracks in mp3 format. More details.

CD

Don's Mobile Barbers

The first album

CD

CD

Don's Mobile Barbers on YouTube

Sourpus on YouTube

Be Nice

The first abum by Sourpus. Digipak.

CD

Tango... Whiskey.. Alpha... Tango... ?

The second album by Sourpus.

CDR

Social Intention - Nichelle 7”