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CHRISTIAN RAINER Mein Braunes Blut (Bar La Muerte; Italy) $5 Modern Italian chamber music with operatic female voice on most tracks. Released 2002. This is NOT rock, noise, improv, etc. Here's the Bar La Muerte review: "Christian Rainer is an artist in the round (visual arts, music, etc...). He composed this sublime chamber music CD, melting, epic, majestic in its piano, strings, voice and winds srrangements. He eats in a bit Rachel's, Godspeed YBE, and all chamber dark. You didn't expect this one from Bar La Muerte, uh?"

RED GLANCE Swirls Away (Gulcher Records) $8 Gulcher catalog: "The early 1980s were a great time to make music. The liberating effects of punk unleashed a gush of energy and emotion into the mainstream of rock'n'roll. The early 1980s were a horrible time to make music. The liberating effects of punk seemed destined to be co-opted into the synthesized blandishments of new wave. Labels large and small were changing the face of corporate rock, but that face was heavily made-up, shoved under a pile of hair and over a skinny tie. The energy and emotion had to find its way underground, to backwaters like Athens, GA, Minneapolis and, well, Indianapolis. For a short while in 1982, a little band in the Hoosier capital found a big voice and hammered it for all it was worth. Weaned on everything from 60s British Invasion to Heavy Metal to Neil Young to Funkadelic, filtered through bands like the Velvet Underground, the Ramones and, most profoundly, Television, what came out was moody, sometimes dazzling rock'n'roll. What REM was working on in Athens and Husker Du in Minneapolis, Red Glance was doing in Indianapolis: re-examining rock's past and pointing toward it's future. Here are the roots of alternative rock, grunge, emo and whatever else you want to call where rock has gone and is still going. Unfortunately for them, Red Glance was short-lived and land-locked. Unlike REM, HD, and other contemporaries like the Dream Syndicate or the Replacements, they never found an audience or a contract. It would be a shame if Red Glance were ignored again. Not so much for the band--they are all getting old and gray and are used to being ignored. It would be a shame for you to have missed them twice. Just for you, Gulcher Records is proud to present SWIRLS AWAY, a collection of Red Glance recordings made over several months in the summer and fall of 1982. Never intended for public release, these recordings were all done live, into little cassette machines.  Even at that, they carry quite a wallop and still sound as fresh as this afternoon. They are all that remain of what was a very good band."

REYNOLS Live in Chicago (Carbon Records) $20 This is one of 100 copies with the regular jewel-cased CD packaged in a silk-screened cloth slipcase (not shown).

TERRY RILEY Shri Camel (CBS Records) $8

ROUGE Live 1976 (Captain Trip Records; Japan) $9 Loud, dumb, barely competent Japanese glitter-rockers. The messy Dolls/Stones raunch includes "originals" like "No! (Born to Be School's Out)" (with a bit of Alice's "Titanic Overture" lifted for the chaotic opening), "Star Fuck," "Heavy Mama," and "New York Baby," but they do give credit to Chuck Berry for their mangling of "Johnny Be [sic] Goode." This is probably way better or way worse than you think, depending on the depth of the dent in your head.

R.U.N.I. Il Cucchiaio Infernale (Bar La Muerte/Beware!/Wallace Records; Italy) $8 Italian rock band with touches of Kraut-beat electronica, 70s prog, Italian folk music, exploded funk, and heavy metal. Recorded in early 2000.