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Emanem LP discography: QED and Quark

This is a discography of LPs released on the QED and Quark labels.

These releases are part of the Emanem catalogue. Uncertain if the QED and Quark labels were sublabels of Emanem or label names used at periods when Emanem was not operating.

For more information about Emanem and to purchase CDs/downloads see the Emenem website.

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Emanem LPs: 300 / 600 / 3300 / 3400 series | QED & Quark sublabels

CDs: 4000 series: 4001 - 4099 | 4100 - 4150 | 4201 - 4219 / 4301 - 4303

CDs: 5000 series: 5001 - 5039 | 5201 - 5207 / 5301 - 5311

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Quark Sublabel LPs

Just Play 1976, Karl Berger & Edward Blackwell, 1979, Quark 9996

Tracks : Metal & Skin: We Are / Just Play / Steps / Time Is, Wood & Skin: Balafon Samba / Wood And Skin Works

Musicians : Karl Berger, Edward Blackwell

Recorded live in Albany in March 1976. Reissued on CD in 2000 (Emanem 4037).

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Crops: Solo In Motreal 1976 / The Woe 1973, Steve Lacy, 1979, Quark 9998

Tracks : Side A: Crops, Pearl Street, No Baby, The New Duck / Side B: The Woe: The Wax + The Wage, The Wane, The Wake

Musicians : Side A: Steve Lacy / Side B: Steve Lacy, Steve Potts, Irene Aebi, Kent Carter, Oliver Johnson

Side A recorded live in Montreal in March 1976. Side B recorded in Zurich in January 1973. The live tracks on Side A together with additional tracks from the same performance were released by Emanem on the CD Hooky in 2000 (Emanem 4042). The tracks on Side B were included on the Emanem CD Weal & Woe in 1995 (Emanem 4004).

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Domestic & Public Pieces: Solo Guitar Improvisations (1975-6), Derek Bailey, 1979, Quark 9999

Tracks : 5 Domestic Pieces: Kew / Unity Theatre / Queue / Cue / Roots, 5 Public Pieces: Second / Third / First / Seventh / Fourth

Musicians : Derek Bailey

5 Domestic Pieces recorded at Bailey's house in January 1976. 5 Public Pieces recorded live in London in May 1975. Reissued on an expanded CD in 1995 (Emanem 4001).

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QED Sublabel LPs

Don't Punk Out, Frank Lowe & Eugene Chadbourne, 1979, QED 995

Tracks : Composition For David Murray, If It Should Happen, Fright, At Reel's End, Bobo Did It, Ghosts, The Clam, St Thomas, Phantom To Tower (Parts 1 & 2), You Were Right In The First Place, 45 1st Ave (Parts 1 & 2), There's No Place Like Home, Doctor Too-Much, Don't Punk Out

Musicians : Frank Lowe, Eugene Chadbourne

Recorded live in New York City in October 1977. Reissued on an expanded CD in 2000 (Emanem 4043).

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School Days, Steve Lacy, 1979, QED 997

Tracks : Bye-Ya, Brilliant Corners, Monk's Dream, Monk's Mood, Ba-Lue Bolivar, Ba-Lues-Are, Skippy, Pannonica

Musicians : Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Henry Grimes, Dennis Charles

Recorded in 1963. Originally released on LP in 1976 (Emanem 3316). Subsequently released on hatHut.

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Last updated March 2016