Art Bears Box Set

To mark the 25th Anniversary of the Art Bears, Recommended Records has released a 6 CD box. The box contains:

1. The three original releases, properly remastered, stunningy remastered by Bob Drake from 24 bit transcriptions of the original tapes and in newly designed Digipacks, same cover art, of course.

2. Art Bears Revisited - A double CD of remixes, reworkings and (mostly) new pieces made from the Art Bears multitrack masters by John Oswald, The Residents, Christian Marclay, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Biota, Otomo Yoshihide/Ground Zero, Bob Drake Jon Rose, Ossatura, Warric Swinney/Kalahari Surfers, When, Thomas Dimuzio, Annie Gosfield Roger Kleir,Andrea Rocca, Vitor Rua, Jocelyn Robert,Musci/ Venosta/ Mariani, Massimo Simonini, Herb Heinz. Martin Archer, Yasushi Utsunomiya, Jon Leidecker/Wobbly, Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer And Brian Woodbury.

Six years in the making, this is an amazing catalogue of imagination and great music: with cover art by EM Thomas, who did all three original Art Bears covers and containing Art remixes in the booklet as well as comprehensive information. This double also contains "Collapse" from the Ralph Records single, "All Hail" from the Recommended Sampler and one previously unreleased and unfinished track completed by Fred Frith and Chris Cutler for this release.

3. A free extra CD only available with the box (there are reasons) containing further reworkings by John Oswald, Bob Drake, Fred Frith, Biota, Yasushi Utsunomiya, as well as live Art Bears tracks and a Duck and Cover cover.

4. A thick book of artwork, articles, notes, interviews and commentary on the material, the work process, the tour and the band in general, with photographs, documents and artwork.