Raymilland formed in the summer of 1978 in St. Louis and lasted until the fall of 1981. Although starting out playing standard punk covers by the Buzzcocks, Damned, and Ultravox, their original influences and ideas about music leaned more toward the no-wave bands of NY and the more experimental bands from the UK. Raymilland played live eight times; four in St. Louis and four in Chicago. A fifth Chicago date slotted to open for Joy Division never happened when the US tour was canceled due to the death of Ian Curtis. Raymilland released one single in 1980 on Praxis; an influential Chicago music/art magazine, had one song included on the first Sub-Pop compilation cassette, and another on a compilation cassette released by the legendary Dong Dong Tapes from the Netherlands. A self produced demo cassette to attract label interest and procure live gigs was so influential that Wax Trax Records sold bootleg copies in their Chicago retail store. Although the band was constantly recording; there were no further official releases. Almost 30 years later BDR Records persuades the band to release a collection of those recordings. The members reviewed their vast archive to assemble the definitive Raymilland collection, and the result is Recordings '79-'81.

-Talk b/w Distant View 7" (1980-Praxis Records)

First copies came without a picture sleeve in an issue of Praxis magazine out of Chicago. It was then sold with a Praxis made picture sleeve.

 -Recordings ’79-’81 LP+CD or CD (2010-BDR #2)

Collection that includes their 7", their track from an early Sub Pop cassette compilation and unreleased demos. Available as a limited edition LP+CD package of 500 copies in a silk screened jacket with insert or packaged as a CD only in a CD wallet with fold out insert. 

Hear two tracks from Recordings  '79-'81:


  
Front of 7" sleeve    -    Back of 7" sleeve