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1972
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CAT #: 1972 010LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SEA URCHINS, THE Stardust LP
"Cutting their teeth as teens in a West Bromwich bedroom, The Sea Urchins were nothing like the heavy metal that seemed to fill every bar in the UK Black Country. Fringe haircuts, perfect trousers, suede jackets and infectious tambourines gave plenty of hints as to their youthful ambition, but nothing could fully prepare you for just how utterly spellbinding these songs would be. Compiling their fanzine-only flexi material with the full complement of singles for Sarah Records, Stardust runs chronologically from late 1986 to the middle of 1989, beginning with the singles split for Clare Wadd's Kvatch and Matt Haynes' Sha La La, before hitting the first of what would be an even hundred releases from the new label Wadd and Haynes would form -- Sarah. The song that launched a legendary label and defined a sound, a scene, a place and time; 'Pristine Christine' still rings out as immediate and magical today as it did on first listen. What a glorious jangly rush racing around the corners of pop's history! The band would reach such heights time and again over the course of this three-year burst. The melancholy swinging folk of 'Everglade' and it's wonderfully yearning vocal; the organ-fueled British invasion garage rock sing-a-long of 'Solace'; the playful psych pop of 'A Morning Odyssey'; the acoustic sweep of 'Wild Grass Pictures'; the perfectly named 'Summershine' leaving you with a ramshackle smile out on the dancefloor. All of it is just so filled with delicate humanity, yet somehow absolutely perfect. As Bob Stanley said about the shimmering ballad 'Please Rain Fall' while bestowing it with NME Single Of The Week (an honor also bestowed upon 'Pristine Christine'), 'think of some variations on the word marvelous and you're most of the way there.' In their time, they might have seemed wildly out of step, but it's not crazy to say that things could have been very different for the likes of Radiohead, The La's, and Oasis without The Sea Urchins."
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CAT #: 1972 011LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SECOND LAYER Courts Or Wars LP
"Adrian Borland and Graham Bailey might be better known as members of legendary post-punk group The Sound, but the two were childhood friends and had been playing together even earlier in The Outsiders, and continued their deep musical rapport as a duo, creating these intense and engaging songs as Second Layer at the same time as their higher profile band output. Combining their early recordings, including the 1979 Flesh As Property EP and 1980 State Of Emergency EP, Courts Or Wars takes its title from the first song that served as the pair's introduction to listeners. Right from the beginning you are enveloped in what The Quietus described as, 'a monochrome worldview morbidly obsessed with the dehumanizing effect of war, nuclear weapon annihilation, and the fracturing and negation of the self within an increasingly distorted and technologically mediated society.' Where The Sound fit snugly next to Echo And The Bunnymen, Second Layer had far more in common with the pulsing menace of Suicide. Borland's familiar vocals and sense of melody hold a connection to his other songwriting, but within these songs he takes far more risks in his guitar work to suit the subject matter. What really drives everything is Bailey's propulsive bedrock, formed by his homemade pre-drum machine rhythm generators, creating an innovative mechanical approach that somehow inserts a jittery neurotic touch that merges perfectly with his electronic layers driven by the wasp synth, various unique effects boxes or tape loops. Adding in Bailey's own distinctive bass playing, the results feel personal and experimental, pointed and harsh, while also bracingly accessible and covered in dark manic energy. Over forty years later, these recordings feel shockingly appropriate. In painting a bleak reality and frightening future, there is real desperate beauty here."
ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
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CAT #: ALGA 029LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
RADIGUE, ELIANE Jouet Electronique/Elemental I LP
2022 repress. Alga Marghen presents the new edition of Eliane Radigue's "Jouet Electronique" (1967) for feedback on magnetic tape and "Elemental I" (1968) for feedback of natural sounds on magnetic tape. This LP was first issued in 2010, and it's now presented for the first time with its own specific artwork and layout. Both works were recorded at Pierre Henry's Studio Apsome in Paris. Between 1967 and 1968, Radigue was Henry's assistant, mainly for the editing of L'Apocalypse de Jean (1969). Henry also put her in charge of organizing his sound archive; Radigue enjoyed doing this work, even if it took a long time. She decided to set the machines of the studio to do some work of her own. "Jouet Electronique" and "Elemental I" were born this way during her time as an assistant; working with feedback is something that Radigue learned through Henry. Do you remember Henry's Voyage (1969)? There's that fluid part which is made of feedback constructed with a microphone. Everything had to be set at a precise distance from the loudspeakers because that is the specific problem with feedback; one has to be at the right distance. Afterwards, these high tone recordings were slowed down in order to discover the deeper character of their color. This work with feedback was in the end quite limited and the composer preferred working with two reel tape machines to produce sounds. The first was set on the recording mode while the other was playing and it was the accidents happening in this phase that made the feedback richer. Fine-tuning could yield beautiful results: low pulsations, high-pitched sounds (sometimes both at the same time), or long sounds. All of these could be slowed down or accelerated, which gave beautiful source material. With "Jouet Electronique", Radigue had a lot of fun, hence the title. As far as "Elemental I" is concerned, it was the first attempt at something which was important to her based on the theme of the basic elements: water, fire, air and earth. Eliane had the chance to record in open air thanks to a small Stella Vox that Arman gave her in the beginning of the 1960s. Using it, Radigue built a minimal sound library, consisting of not more than ten reel tapes. This was the starting point; in 1968 she used these recordings for her work with two reel tape machines. With liners by Radigue and portrait photos by Arman.
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CAT #: ALGA 045LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
RADIGUE, ELIANE Opus 17 2LP
2022 repress; remastered -- includes standard jacket and new 4 page insert with texts and photos which were not present in the previous edition. Alga Marghen very proudly presents Opus 17, a major turning-point in the sonic oeuvre of Eliane Radigue. Finished in 1970, it was the last work composed with feedback materials. From that experimental period, Opus 17 preserves a plastic character: a music made of rough sonic phenomena, at once harsh and granular, possessing a quality of materiality and tactility. Its vibrations structure the air surrounding the listener with densities, thicknesses, indeed with palpable movement. Her compositions are frames which let us hear these phenomena, open frameworks from the sonic installations of her Endless Musics and here reinserted in the five scenes making up Opus 17. In 1970, in her studio of very rudimentary means, she developed a completely unique body of work centered on sounds produced by feedback. Opus 17 has the quality of showing off the sum of the achieved techniques and methods. Eliane Radigue's music has never been rooted in ideas but in practice, the intimate experience of things in the wild which she has known how to tame. This dialog both intense and poetic which she keeps up with the solid matter of sound finds a remarkable concretization in Opus 17. It is to be underlined that with Opus 17 Eliane Radigue inaugurates a technique of composition which will be her footprint, her trademark: imperceptible transformations. For that she has developed a technique of meticulous mixings, based on the slow passage from one section to the next. Imperceptible all during the piece, we pass, ceaselessly and without noticing the changes, from one frequency flux to another. Time is suspended, smoothed out, stretched. It is this technique which Eliane Radigue will be essentially using for all the electronic works to come and which she will never cease to refine and render always more subtle. Opus 17 is the great panoramic voyage through material sound, its electronic phenomena detailed as if in a microscope. As Rhys Chatham recalls: "Eliane Radigue (...) had just moved to New York and had the idea of acquiring an analog modular synthesizer, which is why she worked at NYU in order to try out the possibilities of the Buchla 100 series which we had there. One day, while gossiping, she invited me to her loft, which was just on the corner. She had me listen to a piece composed in France; the piece called 'Opus 17'. (...) What I heard changed to course of my life as a composer. (...) That piece, impressive source of inspiration, gave the impression of being in a grand cathedral, both for the sensation of immensity of being in such a large cathedral, as for the effect of being so close to God." Opus 17 was created at the artistic center of Verderonne on May 23, 1970, for the Fête en blanc (i.e. White Festival) organized by the visual artists Antoni Miralda, Joan Rabascall, Dorothée Selz and Jaume Xifra. Previously unreleased,
AUS MUSIC (GERMANY)
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CAT #: AUS 1346EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
BICEP Stash EP 12"
2022 repress. The London-based duo of Andrew Ferguson and Matthew McBriar aka Bicep have played in more than a dozen countries, including major gigs across the U.S., China and, more recently, Australia, scooping the award for DJ Mag's "Best Breakthrough DJ." Across this EP they take things a little deeper, delving into a different area of their own personal taste. What's presented is an overall more lo-fi style and broader approach, drawing from a wide range of influences including King Street Sounds, HBO's The Wire, and Aphex Twin.
BA DA BING!
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CAT #: BING 177CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
NIGHTTIME Keeper Is The Heart CD
"Eva Louise Goodman's Nighttime project locates itself on a musical tree planted on the British Isles, perched atop the branch of folk leaning into '60s rock. Her upstate New York environs don't stray far from that image. With tempered percussion, floating mellotron, and singing that evokes Bleecker & MacDougal on a fervent Saturday afternoon, her new album Keeper Is The Heart reaches deep into the essence of musicians such as Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle Baier and Pentangle, breaking down the decades into a sound thoroughly and bizarrely modern. Through her years performing with Mutual Benefit, Goodman fell in love with life on the road and the collaborative energy of a band. In this third Nighttime album, she channels these experiences into her own music. The creative journey from writing to recording to mixing drove her deeper into a sense of self while expanding her sound. In the process, she put aside lo-fi origins and challenged herself to achieve the same intimacy with a bigger production. Like most paths of self-discovery, the journey started with displacement. In October 2019, Goodman set out to record the album on her own, while cat-sitting at a friend's empty Brooklyn apartment. Rather than recording, she was drawn to the overgrown garden, where she spent her days listening to music and reading old journals. Charlie Megira, The Incredible String Band and Roy Montgomery invoked the spirit of the album, as she realized that a new, more collaborative approach would be necessary to bring the songs to life. In March 2021, after a pandemic year immersed in sound experimentation and writing, she entered the upstate New York studio of recording engineer Rick Spataro (Florist). Together, Spataro and Goodman dove into creating the album, recording one song a day, letting the spark and excitement of spontaneity be their guide. 'I've always been fascinated with 'automatic' arts,' Goodman says, 'where things are created intuitively and without premeditation, from the subconscious.' In this light, they worked with abandon -- pushing through the heaviness of songs written years earlier with the same energy as songs which were not yet fully developed. Taking chances, improvising, they sought to strip away pretense, and elude perfectionism at all cost."
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CAT #: BING 177LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
NIGHTTIME Keeper Is The Heart LP
LP version. "Eva Louise Goodman's Nighttime project locates itself on a musical tree planted on the British Isles, perched atop the branch of folk leaning into '60s rock. Her upstate New York environs don't stray far from that image. With tempered percussion, floating mellotron, and singing that evokes Bleecker & MacDougal on a fervent Saturday afternoon, her new album Keeper Is The Heart reaches deep into the essence of musicians such as Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle Baier and Pentangle, breaking down the decades into a sound thoroughly and bizarrely modern. Through her years performing with Mutual Benefit, Goodman fell in love with life on the road and the collaborative energy of a band. In this third Nighttime album, she channels these experiences into her own music. The creative journey from writing to recording to mixing drove her deeper into a sense of self while expanding her sound. In the process, she put aside lo-fi origins and challenged herself to achieve the same intimacy with a bigger production. Like most paths of self-discovery, the journey started with displacement. In October 2019, Goodman set out to record the album on her own, while cat-sitting at a friend's empty Brooklyn apartment. Rather than recording, she was drawn to the overgrown garden, where she spent her days listening to music and reading old journals. Charlie Megira, The Incredible String Band and Roy Montgomery invoked the spirit of the album, as she realized that a new, more collaborative approach would be necessary to bring the songs to life. In March 2021, after a pandemic year immersed in sound experimentation and writing, she entered the upstate New York studio of recording engineer Rick Spataro (Florist). Together, Spataro and Goodman dove into creating the album, recording one song a day, letting the spark and excitement of spontaneity be their guide. 'I've always been fascinated with 'automatic' arts,' Goodman says, 'where things are created intuitively and without premeditation, from the subconscious.' In this light, they worked with abandon -- pushing through the heaviness of songs written years earlier with the same energy as songs which were not yet fully developed. Taking chances, improvising, they sought to strip away pretense, and elude perfectionism at all cost."
BACKWOODZ STUDIOZ
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CAT #: BWZ 778LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
ELUCID I Told Bessie LP
"I Told Bessie is the third solo album from New York City rapper/producer Chaz Hall aka ELUCID. The title is a reference to his paternal grandmother, Bessie Hall, a powerful presence in his life until she passed away in 2017. From childhood afternoons running around her apartment in the Red Hook projects, to living under the same roof in Crown Heights when he was a young man, Bessie was an axis on which Hall's family turned. 'I remember her silver afro like a halo atop her head. I remember the Westerns that were always on television in the living room. I remember. I remember her pouring early ideals of Black consciousness into me. I remember the stories and lore,' ELUCID says. While best known as one-half of critically acclaimed duo Armand Hammer, ELUCID has also built an impressive resume of other collaborations and side projects over the past decade: Small Bills with multi-instrumentalist producer The Lasso (Mello Music), Nostrum Grocers with R.A.P. Ferreira (Ruby Yacht), Dirtee Deacon with Von Pea (Blonde Medicine), and self-produced experimental work like Valley of Grace, Bernadette, and Seership. His debut LP Save Yourself dropped in 2016 on Backwoodz Studioz and still holds up as one of the best releases in I Told Bessie like a culmination. 'I was staying with Bessie in Crown Heights, still early in my music journey -- probably leading through the Progress mixtape and up to the Smash & Grab days -- and she'd hear me scream rap into a closet at all hours of the day and night. We would read the newspaper and talk shit about Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD. It was a pivotal time in my life and she was an important part of that, even just by letting me live there.' I Told Bessie features guests Pink Siifu, Quelle Chris, and billy woods. The album's production is handled by Child Actor, The Alchemist, P.U.D.G.E., Sebb Bash, The Lasso, Kenny Segal, August Fanon, and Messiah Musik. It's an impressive roster of producers, all of whom add something to the hard-hitting funk of this record's ever-warping sonics. Add to that the talents of engineer Willie Green, who helped build this from the ground up. Every song was recorded, mixed, and mastered at The Greenhouse, a process that helped shape a cohesive sound from disparate sources. Executive produced by billy woods and ELUCID, I Told Bessie is dedicated to its eponymous matriarch. 'Since she left this plane, I have felt her presence and voice in my life more than ever,' says ELUCID. With this album I want to pay tribute to her and acknowledge her continuing impact on my life path."
BE WITH RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: BEWITH 119LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
RUBIO, TONIO Rhythms (Tele Music) LP
Reissue, originally released in 1973. Tonio Rubio's Rhythms is a stone-cold killer, a heavyweight library breaks LP and the inaugural release in Be With's new partnership with legendary French library label Tele Music. For this extremely special 50 year anniversary reissue, Be With Records reproduced the classic Tele Music sleeve with a full color insert featuring rare photographs, fresh liner notes, and personal memories of Tonio from the likes of Jean-Claude Vannier, Jean-Claude Petit, and Janko Nilovic. Sumptuous opener "Latin Leitmotiv" is all funky phasing effects and a killer montuno, with what sounds like piano and bass in tandem, stoking straight up Latin fire. The gritty hard funk of blaxploitation groove "Red Medium" is dripping in wah-wah attitude and head-nod oddness. The atmospheric, exotica-tinged "Dead Slow" emulates the languid, sensual Afro groove of Quincy Jones's wild masterpiece "Gula Matari" whilst the proggy, electric jazz fusion epic "Rock 73" is 9+ minutes of moody, rolling menace. But the real highlight of this cult classic -- and why it has long been so desirable -- is the devastating, deep, hypnotic minimalist groove of "Bass In Action N°1". Very much in conversation with Quincy's rendition of "Hummin'", the loping, rumbling bassline and sweet electric piano over clean, crisp drums making it one of those tracks that sounds like a hip-hop beat 20 years ahead of time. "Bass In Action N°2" features Tonio's own vocal scat performance. Antonio "Tonio" Rubio Garcia got his start playing the double bass in jazz clubs. In 1962, Tonio joined the Golden Stars, the first backing band of France's teenage idol Johnny Hallyday. A genius musician with a unique guitar sound, he played on standards of French chanson including Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's "Bonnie and Clyde", Françoise Hardy's "Tous les Garçons et les Filles", Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin's "Je T'aime, Moi Non Plus", and Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg's infamous "Lemon Incest". Jean-Claude Vannier remembers Tonio as "a secretive, mysterious man, with an endearing personality, albeit difficult to reach out to. His virtuosity as a bass player allowed me to write very innovative basslines, because he was able to play any of my eccentricities!" Remastered by Simon Francis.
BECAUSE MUSIC (FRANCE)
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CAT #: BEC 5156505
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
CASSIUS 1999 2LP+CD
2022 repress. Originally released in 1999. Double 12" vinyl edition in gatefold sleeve. Includes CD. The CD included in the LP features the 16 tracks in the same order. 1999: after the global supremacy of Oasis and Blur, the world is looking for some musical freshness. Some artists such as Daft Punk and Air have already contributed to globally popularize what the English called the "French Touch", a new term that refers to a large musical French movement. 1999, the first album by Cassius, is one of the key pieces of this growing genre, and demonstrates once again the variety of the trend. Indeed, after have cooperated for a long time with MC Solaar, one of France's '90s best rappers, the hip-hop influence of both Cassius members had to have an impact on their personal concept, and it seduced a lot of listeners hungry for new musical flavors: more than 250,000 units sold worldwide and numerous unconditional fans.
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CAT #: BEC 5543698
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BETA BAND, THE The Beta Band 2LP+CD
2022 restock, reduced price. Because Music presents a reissue of The Beta Band's 1999 self-titled debut. Arguably one of the most acclaimed and loved bands of the past 20 years, by both fans and their musical peers alike, The Beta Band formed in St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1996. Innovative and singular, their unique musical and aesthetic approach to everything they did set them far apart from their musical contemporaries. Together for a relatively short period of time, the three albums and three EPs they released between 1996 and 2004 would nonetheless help define them as one of the most exciting and cherished bands of their generation. The Beta Band followed 1998's critically acclaimed compilation The Three E.P.'s (BEC 5543615, 5543616, 5543617, 2018). With high anticipation for The Beta Band, the band originally planned to record the album in four separate continents, but financial constraints slimmed the recording locations down. However, the album was still recorded in a variety of locations and pulling inspiration from sources as diverse as Jamaican reggae, Disney's The Black Hole (1979) and Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart". Gatefold jacket with printed sleeves; CD included.
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CAT #: BEC 5543703
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BETA BAND, THE Heroes To Zeros LP+CD
2022 restock, reduced price. Arguably one of the most acclaimed and loved bands of the past 20 years, by both fans and their musical peers alike, The Beta Band formed in St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1996. Innovative and singular, their unique musical and aesthetic approach to everything they did set them far apart from their musical contemporaries. Together for a relatively short period of time, the three albums and three EPs they released between 1996 and 2004 would nonetheless help define them as one of the most exciting and cherished bands of their generation. Heroes To Zeros is the third and final studio album by The Beta Band released in 2004. It was mixed by famed producer Nigel Godrich and rose to number 18 in the UK charts. LP version; printed inner sleeve, includes CD.
BLACK EDITIONS
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CAT #: BE 019LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WHITE HEAVEN Strange Bedfellow LP
Reissue, originally released in 1993. White Heaven's second album, Strange Bedfellow, is one of the great unsung albums of the '90s Japanese underground. Released two years after their striking debut, Out (BE 005LP), the album reveals the group shifting to a more dynamic and finely honed sound. You Ishihara's songwriting and arrangements take center stage, leading the group to transmute classic west coast psychedelia and garage into a thrillingly direct collection of songs that span from fuzz drenched, driving rockers to smoldering numbers that fade into the night... Only ever available in an edition of 700 LPs released in 1993 by PSF Japan, Black Editions present Strange Bedfellow, newly remastered in this deluxe edition. Heavy tip-on jacket with ink pigment foil stamping, metallic spot colors, contrasting gloss film laminate and matte satin finishes. Includes new full color folding insert. Pressed to high quality vinyl at RTI. Recorded at Inter Music Studio, Tokyo October 1992. Remastered at Peace Music Studio, 2020 by Soichiro Nakamura.
BLACK SWEAT RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: BS 008LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
KUREK, PIOTR Edena LP
2022 repress. Released on tape by the Polish label Sangoplasmo, Edena is the amazing record by Poland's Piotr Kurek. As a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a penchant for vintage sound equipment, as well as the practical sense to know where their limitations are, his musical compositions -- part melodic narrative, part sound collage -- distill a sense of nostalgia into a romance for the present. Using a Moebius comic he had never seen (Le Monde d'Edena) and an instrument he would never have (a Mellotron) as a conceptual starting point, the Warsaw-based, Polish artist presents Edena. A hypnotic, circular motion pervades all of Edena; a cyclic life-force that gives the impression of forward motion, while really folding back on itself, reflected by the infinity symbol of the cassette cover. The record is full of warm analog synth sounds and strange voices, like Roberto Cacciapaglia's "6 Note in Logica," and shares connections with the minimalistic music and '60s experimentalism of Steve Reich, Philip Glass and the hyper-energetic electronic nirvana of Terry Riley's 1967 masterpiece A Rainbow in Curved Air.
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CAT #: BS 017LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
M. ZALLA (PIERO UMILIANI) Problemi d'Oggi LP
2022 repress. Italian maestro Piero Umiliani, during his period of fascination with psychedelic and electronic atmospheres, composed a good number of musical portraits dedicated, as this title reveals, to the problems of his time. In the early '70s, Italians were worried about the mafia, terrorism, and social conflicts; and one can sense that the music represents these anxieties in its experimental nature. Dark, disturbing, and unique in the long and extremely productive career of Piero Umiliani. And if, in 2015, titles like "Mondo in Crisi," "Problemi Sociali," "Azione Sindacale," and "Mafia Oggi" sound sadly relevant, it's even more surprising to find that the music of Problemi d'Oggi (Problems of Today) still sounds alien and unique. The record, released under Umiliani's M. Zalla alias in 1973, presents various styles, from Pink Floyd atmospheres (or The Braen's Machine, if you prefer...) to compositions characterized by a great use of drum machines and Moog synthesizers. One listen to the beginning of the opening track "Produzione" justifies the words of Sean Canty (Demdike Stare), citing the music as the first techno/trance track in history. But between the grooves of this record, reissued here for the first time, it's easy to find moments that many other artist and musicians -- from The Residents to Aphex Twin and Four Tet -- may have caught during their careers.
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CAT #: BS 018LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
EMMANUEL, JD Electronic Minimal Music 1979-83 3LP
2022 repress. The rediscovery of J D Emmanuel by critics and audience in the early 2010s and Emmanuel's comeback to underground scene were crucial in reweaving the development of electronic music in the early '80s. This deluxe three-LP set casts new light on Emmanuel's first activity of composing and performing electronic music in 1979-'83, collecting experiments never before released on vinyl, some of which are previously unreleased in any form. Certainly seminal minimal works such as Four Organs (1970) and Violin Phase (1967) by Steve Reich and A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley (1969) -- as well as Cluster, Harmonia, and Peter Michael Hamel's early-'70s work -- had a decisive impact on Emmanuel's debut. However, since his beginnings he has reshaped and reformulated his sources of inspiration with unparalleled maturity and accuracy of vision. His poetry is closely tied to the will to expand consciousness and explore altered states, but more than a cosmic traveler, he appears as a courier of soul and heart -- a self-described "student of the metaphysical nature of the Universe." Magician of an incredible variety of analog keyboards, Emmanuel conceives sound as dynamic translation of forces and organic, expanding flows of energy. The cyclicity of patterns and phrases refers to minimalist traditions, but his music has little in common with something purely mathematical; using an approach to improvisation colored by his interests in jazz and the temporal expansion of rock jams, he charges harmonic sections with an intimate spontaneity and freedom without boundaries. These 14 "vaporous drawings," presented with photos and writings, evoke a primordial state of grace in the listener, in parallel to Emmanuel's contemporary ancestral work Wizards from 1982 (IMPREC 305CD). (This set contains two tracks that were initially included on the original Wizards release, but replaced by other tracks just before the final master.)
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CAT #: BS 026LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
PICCINELLI, FRED GALES, WALTER MAIOLI, PIT Amazonia 6891: Sounds From Jungle, Natural Objects, Echo And Electronic Waves 2LP
2022 repress; double LP version. Black Sweat Records present a reissue of Amazonia 6891: Sounds From Jungle, Natural Objects, Echo And Electronic Waves, originally released on cassette in 1986. The idea to evoke a deep journey in the Amazon rainforest has affected various musicians in the history of popular and experimental music, but compared to other works, this rare Amazonia 6891, released only on cassette in 1986, appears as totally original and extreme in his conception. Here, the interest in ethnomusicology of the expert Walter Maioli (part of Aktuala and Futuro Antico) is linked to a precise and comprehensive ecological, botanical, ethological and ethnographic perspective. In fact, starting from the sound recording of the ethnographer Pit Piccinelli's collection of natural objects, the collected material for this work is re-elaborate in different times by the anthropologist and electronic pioneer Fred Gales and by Maioli himself. The result of this multi-disciplinary approach is a long, concrete poem of plant organisms, field recordings of verses and calls of tropical animals, futuristically mixed with electronic sounds, similar to the great experimental trials of Futuro Antico and Ariel Kalma's 1978 album, Osmose (BS 007LP). Listening to this imaginative collage is like looking into a precious cabinet of antiquities and curiosity, whose wonders of multi-colored cellular fragments are shaped in the synthesis of a single universal sound matter. The merger between the wild jungle, the mysterious voices of the aboriginals and the oscillation of the electronic waves, creates a spasmodic tension between amazing and heavenly moments, leaking obscure paths and alien sequences. Amazonia 6891 is a magic trip into the unknown wild, into abyss of creation of kaleidoscopic floras and faunas, simply a proposal for a synesthetic experience and multi-sensory.
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CAT #: BS 058LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
CHERRY, DON Om Shanti Om LP
2022 restock; LP version. An amazing document of the life experiment that was the Organic Music Society. This super quality audio, recorded by RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) in 1976 for television, documents a quartet concert focused on vocals compositions and improvisations. Here, Don Cherry and his family-community's musical belief emerges in its simplicity, with the desire to merge the knowledge and stimuli gained during numerous travels across the World in a single sound experience. Don's pocket-trumpet is melted with the beats of the great Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, the Italian guitar of Gian Piero Pramaggiore, and the tanpura drone of Moki. A pure hippie aesthetic, like in an intimate ceremony, filters a magical encounter between Eastern and Western civilizations, offering different suggestions of sound mysticism: natural acoustics in which individual instruments and voices are part of a wider pan-tribal consciousness. A desert Western landscape marries Asian and Latin atmospheres. Indigenous contributions with berimbau explorations find fossil sounds of rattles and clap-hands invocations. Influences of Indian mantra singing are combined with eternal African voices or with folkish-Latin guitar rhythms, while flute and drums evoke distant dances. In the Organic Music everything becomes an act of devotion and love, an ecstatic dwell in the dimension of a sacred free-rejoice.
BORN BAD RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: BORNBAD 051LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LA FEMME Psycho Tropical Berlin 2LP
2022 repress. French indie-rock band La Femme is a conundrum -- an episodic band with various faces. La Femme was born during the X years in Biarritz, France, when Sasha and Marlon started composing music on their guitars and recording it onto Garage Band. Together they ride surfboards, pianos and synthesizers as they explore various styles from '60s yé-yé French pop to California surf music. Marlon moved to Paris, and there he met Sam, who played bass. Together, they formed SOS Mademoiselle along with Olivier Peynot, and played vintage French rock, as Sasha was practicing his scales in reverb surf band Les Redoutables. Sasha then joined his friends in Paris, where they discovered French cold wave and synth pop, Marie et les Garçons being one of their favorites. They polished a style that could be described as one of the following: surf-wave, bizarre-wave, strange-wave, weird-witch-wave, silly mental-wave or psycho-tropical Berlin. Joined in 2010 by drummer Noé and female singer Clémence. La Femme formed its first live roster in a few days and took shape that same year with its first anthem, "Sur la planche," a song that was made to be hummed and whistled while riding a surfboard. Later on, La Femme released their second EP, Paris 2012. Soon joined by fancy rhythm drummer Nunez Ritter von Merguez aka La Sauterelle and singer Clara Luciani, as well as a whole roster of female singers, they now present their debut album Psycho Tropical Berlin where rock, pop, rococo Bauhaus, as well as influences from Kraftwerk and Elli & Jacno conjoin just to please you. Printed innersleeves.
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CAT #: BORNBAD 064LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BEBEY, FRANCIS Psychedelic Sanza 1982-1984 2LP
2022 repress. Double LP version with printed inner sleeve. Born Bad Records presents the music of Cameroonian musician Francis Bebey, circa 1982-1984. "The first time I saw a sanza (a type of African 'thumb piano'), it was just sitting there on a piece of furniture in my family's living room/dining room -- a space that our father also transformed into a recording studio every day. It seemed more like a box than a musical instrument: a mysterious instrument, which arrived at our house, like many things, in a somewhat miraculous way. The sounds it produced seemed particularly bizarre; to my young musician's ears, trained in Western classical music, it sounded out of tune. That's because, like my brothers and sisters, I had been trained on the piano. I had trouble understanding how anyone could endure these tones and, honestly, our father's passion for 'unusual sounds' did not interest me. I was in secondary school at the time (the very late 1970s) and was not at all oriented toward musical projects. I planned to graduate, and then become a chef. In the early 1980s, my interest in music picked up. I was still undecided about my career. I was content to pursue my 'serious' English studies while hanging out at jazz clubs at les Halles in Paris, where I sometimes joined jam sessions. Next, I put together my first band with professional musicians; I had hidden my age and lack of experience from them. France was just beginning to accept 'world music.' Musicians of every nationality were performing in Paris. It was a wonderful period. My father asked my brother Toups and me to accompany him for a few concerts. In particular, we toured Tunisia together at the time of the 1983 Carthage International Festival. Back then, my father was renowned across the French-speaking world. Everyone looked forward to hearing his humorous songs, like 'Agatha' and 'La condition masculine.' But, behind the scenes, he continued his research concerning electronic music, the sansa, pygmy polyphony, etc. One day he put a sansa in my hands, without saying a word. He was sending me a message: 'Let's see what you can do with it!' That's when I really discovered something. Exploring the instrument and playing, I transcended the 'imperfect' aspect of its sound and began to discover its fascinating potential. Playing the sansa, you enter a world that enraptures you in a very serene and mesmerizing way. I think its sounds evoke a rainbow, with rain falling while the sun shines. A very peaceful feeling. It allows you to make music that truly sounds like life. The sansa is also the instrument that my father and I shared the most because I am a pianist and he was a guitarist. I also share this eminently African instrument with my musician brother, Toups. Our father loved to tell us one of the legends of the sansa: how it even managed to dispel the boredom felt by... the Creator himself! This instrument gives life to the world, to beings and things. I did not participate in the production of the various records that my father devoted to the sansa. He did it himself, you might say, in his 'laboratory.' Yet today, I cannot imagine playing a concert without using a sansa. The piano remains present so that listeners don't become disoriented and wonder about the weird sounds invading their ears! However, I find the eccentric and disturbing side of sansa interesting. And the sansa always affects the audience: in reality, it excites them. The secrets of this instrument are surely its beneficial powers and... its magic!" --Patrick Bebey
BUREAU B (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BB 039LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CLUSTER Sowiesoso LP
2023 restock; LP version. The fourth full-length album by legendary German electronic music duo Cluster, originally released on Sky Records in 1976. Sowiesoso follows on from their most highly-acclaimed album, Zuckerzeit (1974). Michael Rother's influence was clearly audible on the latter, Cluster already having recorded two albums with him under the name of Harmonia. 1976 saw the duo looking for new musical forms. More than any other Cluster album, Sowiesoso represents the utopian vision of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Mobius, its mellow transparency evoking the landscape of the Weser Uplands where the two musicians lived at the time. Sowiesoso is not the work of fanatic dreamers who have fled the metropolis, but the reward for their tenacious search for a new musical language. The LP's seven cuts were recorded in their own studio with modest equipment -- a four-track tape machine, two Revox A77 stereo tape-decks and a simple 8-channel mixer. Cluster were thus completely independent, able to work where and when they wanted, at their own pace. With no guest musicians, sound engineers or producers to accommodate, Cluster thrived on their new-found autonomous freedom. Sowiesoso captures them at the peak of their creative development, with the limited range of recording equipment enhancing the clarity of their vision, allowing them to concentrate on the music without drifting into narcissistic muso territory. Minimalist, yet neither formulaic nor automated, the album is a rhythmic tapestry of otherworldly electronic and acoustic elements -- relaxed, organic and gentle ambience. This could only be Cluster music; its harmonies reaffirm the quality of song, in spite of eluding song structure as such.
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CAT #: BB 423CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
HARMONIOUS THELONIOUS Cheapo Sounds CD
A pivotal figure in Düsseldorf's Salon Des Amateurs, Stefan Schwander has already amassed a remarkably rich musical repertoire. Through his Harmonious Thelonious project, he has spent the past dozen years exploring the worlds of Pan-African, South American, and Middle Eastern rhythms in combination with a minimalistic electronic sound, distilling his very own groove from the point at which they converge. His new album -- challengingly entitled Cheapo Sounds -- sees Schwander move away from tried and trusted recipes."This musical reorientation starts with the fundamental approach to production: the entire record was created using a single instrument -- the Monomachine -- which lends a very physical sound to the ten tracks featured here. The polyrhythms of earlier works are no longer in the foreground, replaced by melodies and chords interwoven on a base frame of brittle, simplified beat constructs and rugged bass pulses. On closer inspection, this is, at times, a new vision of an old technique. There are still the old amps in Schwander's rehearsal room, along with a primitive rhythm box, a programmable drum machine and various synthesizers, including an MS-20. None of these made it onto Cheapo Sounds and yet the idea with which these instruments are associated is written into the DNA of the album. When new wave superseded punk and the last throes of rockism, a new and particular spirit emerged, one which Stefan Schwander sought to capture on his new works. A new wave record informed by techno. His success in this venture brings us back to the elemental idea of the Harmonious Thelonious project: a form of dance music which, like a good club night, does not succumb to formulaic rigidity or generic expectations, but challenges the crowd, trading with jazz, krautrock, industrial, punk, dub, and disco. Stefan Schwander has never shown any interest in trends, but Cheapo Sounds and the ten pithy pieces contained therein, few of them exceeding the four-minute mark, can arguably be considered an exceedingly modern record -- in the best sense of the word. And even when the closing track 'Afterhour' has played out, Schwander's mesmeric variations on minimalism still hang in the air, like quiet clouds of smoke." --Daniel Jahn
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CAT #: BB 423LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
HARMONIOUS THELONIOUS Cheapo Sounds LP
LP version. A pivotal figure in Düsseldorf's Salon Des Amateurs, Stefan Schwander has already amassed a remarkably rich musical repertoire. Through his Harmonious Thelonious project, he has spent the past dozen years exploring the worlds of Pan-African, South American, and Middle Eastern rhythms in combination with a minimalistic electronic sound, distilling his very own groove from the point at which they converge. His new album -- challengingly entitled Cheapo Sounds -- sees Schwander move away from tried and trusted recipes."This musical reorientation starts with the fundamental approach to production: the entire record was created using a single instrument -- the Monomachine -- which lends a very physical sound to the ten tracks featured here. The polyrhythms of earlier works are no longer in the foreground, replaced by melodies and chords interwoven on a base frame of brittle, simplified beat constructs and rugged bass pulses. On closer inspection, this is, at times, a new vision of an old technique. There are still the old amps in Schwander's rehearsal room, along with a primitive rhythm box, a programmable drum machine and various synthesizers, including an MS-20. None of these made it onto Cheapo Sounds and yet the idea with which these instruments are associated is written into the DNA of the album. When new wave superseded punk and the last throes of rockism, a new and particular spirit emerged, one which Stefan Schwander sought to capture on his new works. A new wave record informed by techno. His success in this venture brings us back to the elemental idea of the Harmonious Thelonious project: a form of dance music which, like a good club night, does not succumb to formulaic rigidity or generic expectations, but challenges the crowd, trading with jazz, krautrock, industrial, punk, dub, and disco. Stefan Schwander has never shown any interest in trends, but Cheapo Sounds and the ten pithy pieces contained therein, few of them exceeding the four-minute mark, can arguably be considered an exceedingly modern record -- in the best sense of the word. And even when the closing track 'Afterhour' has played out, Schwander's mesmeric variations on minimalism still hang in the air, like quiet clouds of smoke." --Daniel Jahn
BURNING SOUNDS (UK)
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CAT #: BSR 867LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
MAYTONES The Best of The Maytones LP
"All tracks produced by A. Ranglin, except 'Hard Times' and 'Only Your Picture' produced by V. Buckley. Recorded and mixed at: Channel One Recording Studio, 29 Maxfield Avenue, Kingston 13, Jamaica. The Maytones are: Gladstone Grant and Vernon Buckley. Original cover by C More Tone. First released 1983."
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CAT #: BSR 870LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
LITTLE JOHN Unite LP
"Born John McMorris in Kingston, Jamaica in 1970 his nickname originally described this young man to a tee but, as time passed, his stature in the reggae music business continued to grow, Little John became more akin to his Sherwood Forest namesake. Little John first burst on to the Jamaican music scene in 1979 as a precocious nine-year-old on an uncredited combination with Captain Sinbad on '51 Storm' for Sugar Minott's Black Roots label. His Unite album is a reminder of the continuing relevance of the dancehall style. Rough, raw and rugged they represent the real authentic sound of young Jamaica from nearly forty years ago when the youths 'forgot their troubles and danced'. Recorded At Channel One, Kingston, Jamaica Produced by Anthony Dehaney. Mixed by Scientist. Backing band: The Roots Radics. Recorded 1984."
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CAT #: BSR 924R-LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS Recoup (Red Vinyl) LP
"Reissue of 1997 album on 180 gram red vinyl by Toots & Maytals."
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CAT #: BSR 966LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
MCGREGOR, FREDDIE Freddie LP
"180 gram vinyl LP of Freddie's 1979 album with extensive sleeve notes. Produced by: Winston 'Niney The Observer' Holness. Recorded, voiced and mixed at: Channel One Recording Studio, 29 Maxfield Avenue, Kingston 13. Engineers: Anthony 'Crucial Bunny'/'Bunny Tom Tom' Graham and Lancelot 'Maxie' McKenzie/ Musicians: drums - Max 'Feelgood' Edwards amd Leroy 'Horse Mouth' Wallace; bass guitar - George 'Fully' Fullwood; lead guitar - Earl 'Chinna' Smith; lead guitar and rhythm guitar: Albert Valentine 'Tony' Chin and Eric 'Bingy Bunny' Lamont; keyboards - Jamaba Johnson and Keith Sterling; tenor saxophone - Enroy 'Hot Train' Grant; trumpet - Arnold 'Willie' Brackenridge and Donald Vidan-Greaves; percussion - Herman 'Bongo Herman' Davis and 'Brooksy'."
CIRCUS COMPANY (FRANCE)
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CAT #: CCS 124LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MOLE, THE The River Widens 2LP
One of Circus Company's all-time favorite artists and extended label member The Mole returns a proper presentation of his album The River Widens. Originally a limited, cassette-only release via fellow Canadian Eddie C's Red Motorbike. Never one to shy away from synth deep dives, or raw sample flip collaging, this collection of 21 works checks all the boxes. Ambient trippers to straight up neck-snapping instrumental beats. Not forgetting tastes of the more uptempo, highly-assured and hypnotic dancefloor feels, the reason the world has come to love The Mole. Moments of casual chillin' are interspersed with effortless, emotive angles, some evoking the charm of his Little Sunshine release for the label in 2017 (CCS 107EP). "X-pert Profat" opens the set with sly statements that give way to relaxed and subtle keys over gentle, midtempo rhythms. Things switch up nicely into easy, Northwest Coast boogie-meets-beatdown feels in "Break For Ma", followed by a solid array of almost Jaylib-schooled boom bap twists, like the aptly-titled "Drums 2002" and "Jo Barker". Ambient cuts like "AR Day" and "New Family" offer a refreshing tap of the brakes, setting the scene for the gorgeous, Jarre-esque "Weak Stranger". You also get treated to "Repepepater"'s nod to Detroit house, urban-mode Balearic feels on "They Work For Mr. O", and sneak attack lo-fi future funk in the form of "UFOs Over Egypt", with Montreal co-pilot Cristobal on a wild shisha-lit vox narrative, earlier versions of which have blessed many of Circus Company's comrades' DJ sets, from Dave Aju to Vincent Lemieux. The River Widens expands beautifully on the breadth of unique musical directions. Also features Joli B and Ted Pilsner. Double LP version includes download code.
CLASSICAL MUSIC ON VINYL (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: MOVCL 007LP
FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL
GLASS, PHILIP Solo Piano LP
"With Solo Piano, Glass presents himself 'unplugged' -- no electronic keyboards or synthesizers, and no overdubs, either -- just solo piano. 'Metamorphosis' was written in 1988 and takes its name from a play based on Kafka's short story. Its second track, 'Metamorphosis Two', formed the basis of one of the main musical themes in the film The Hours. It is also the song that the American rock band Pearl Jam uses as their introduction music to concerts. 'Mad Rush' was written for the occasion of the Dalai Lama's first visit in New York City. 'Wichita Vortex Sutra' is the result of a chance meeting between two long-time friends, Glass and poet Allen Ginsberg, in a bookstore in the East Village. 'We decided on the spot to do something together, reached for one of Allen's books, and chose the poem 'Wichita Vortex Sutra'.'"
CRYPTIC CORPORATION
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CAT #: NRT 002T-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
RESIDENTS, THE Meet The Residents 3LP
"Formed in the early 1970s, The Residents have now been charting a unique path through the musical landscape for half a century. To commemorate their 50th Anniversary, the group revisit their 'classic' early period, presenting here the first in a series of expanded vinyl reissues featuring previously unreleased and newly rediscovered 1970s material from their ever-expanding archive. Produced with The Cryptic Corporation, and with full access to the band's extensive tape archive, this package explores and expands the classic debut album, including both mono and stereo mixes of Meet The Residents, alongside alternate versions, outtakes, recently re-discovered unreleased material and a fascinating audio tour of their studios and other business premises by Hardy Fox. Remastered, expanded, and pREServed for future generations -- this is the latest in a series of archival Residents reissues that will continue throughout 2023 and beyond."
DELICIOUS VINYL
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CAT #: DV 9095LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
JAY DEE Yancey Boys Instrumentals 2LP
"Delicious Vinyl presents this key material from Jay Dee's output in a never before issued and not to be repeated random colored vinyl assortment. Shortly after Jay Dee's younger brother Illa J's solo debut was issued on Delicious Vinyl, the label and the artist knew the next step in honoring Jay Dee's legacy was to issue the complete instrumentals from Yancey Boys as a stand-alone release. This mother lode of previously untouched (at the time) beats dates as far back as Jay Dee's time working on the Pharcyde's sophomore album, 1995's Labcabincalifornia. As Delicious Vinyl owner Michael Ross explains, 'From '95 through '98 Jay Dee was my go-to guy for hot beats and remixes. He was always making beats, always. So, there was a select amount of tracks that he composed for me during that time, tracks as good as anything he'd done, only they never got used.' Once these beats were used for Illa J's Yancey Boys they were presented to the public on Yancey Boys Instrumentals."
DIGITMOVIES (ITALY)
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CAT #: CDDM 316CD
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
NICOLAI, BRUNO Bruno Nicolai In Giallo 4CD BOX/BOOK
Digitmovies presents a limited edition set including Bruno Nicolai's The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (aka La coda dello scorpione), The Case of the Bloody Iris (aka Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer?), All The Colors of the Dark (aka Tutti i colori del buio), and Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (aka Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave). Four-CD box version includes book.
ECHO BEACH (GERMANY)
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CAT #: EB 081LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DUB SPENCER & TRANCE HILL The Clashification Of Dub LP
2022 repress. 180 gram LP version. Features eight of the twelve tracks from the CD version. The Swiss space-cowboys, Dub Spencer & Trance Hill bring their fourth album of superlative dub inna sci-fi control. Last time they chose a strange combination of cheap '80s songs and monumental rock standards for student parties. This time, The Clashification Of Dub is wrapped by the most influential band of revolution, pop, rock, punk, politics and dancing over the last 30 years: The Clash. Meet The Clash hits (almost all of them?) like "Guns Of Brixton," "London Calling," etc. -- the compact crossover of sweet and lovely reggae vibes matched with sci-fi tech power, partly orchestrated with innovative production and mixing skills. An album of incredible beauty and power featuring smart and contemporary dubness. Dub Spencer & Trance Hill's vision of cult is unique -- it is alchemy, prophecy and acoustic ecology encased in a magical, timeless atmosphere.
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CAT #: EB 165CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DUBMATIX ReWired CD
Dubmatix has taken his time working on his new album. Sly & Robbie meet Dubmatix Overdubbed was released in 2018 (EB 125CD/LP). It scooped the Juno Award for "Reggae Recording Of The Year 2019", marking the second time the Canadian producer and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto had received this coveted award. ReWired is his first studio album in years and it's already abundantly clear that the wait has been more than worth it. The album offers a dazzling, masterful kaleidoscope of modern sounds of dub-oriented bass music that is enormous fun. The Canadian could be in with a great chance of winning another Juno Award. Features Lone Ranger, Sr Wilson, Exile Di Brave and Kazam Davis, Joe Publik, The Hempolics, Lasai, Ras Kayleb, Jman, Duane Stephenson, Rootwords, and Barry Ashworth.
GET ON DOWN
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CAT #: GET 51295YC-LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
RAEKWON Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (Yellow And Clear Vinyl) 2LP
Yellow and clear split color vinyl. "The cultural phenomenon that is the Wu-Tang cannot accurately be described without referencing one of the pillars in the Clan's discography; Chef Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, one of the defining triumphs in their artistic legacy. The oft referred 'Purple Tape', has been cited and debated by many as the greatest Wu-Tang solo project to date and a remains a bullet point in any discussion involving the greatest 'Cocaine Rap' or 'Street Hop' albums of all time. Raekwon's narrative, plays out like a movie script from the violent, drug fueled, underbelly of New York City's criminal landscape, intricately woven over instrumental from the legendary Wu mastermind, The RZA. While Only Built 4 Cuban Linx did produce a string of successful singles, such as 'Ice Cream', 'Incarcerated Scarfaces' and 'Criminology', like all classic cinema, the album was intentionally engineered to be appreciated in one sitting, played from beginning to end. This reissue features the formerly CD only bonus track, 'North Star (Jewels)' as well as completely enhanced and painstakingly remastered audio."
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CAT #: GET 51304LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
CLIPSE Hell Hath No Fury LP
2023 repress; white vinyl. "In the 4 years after The Clipse dropped their sophomore classic Lord Willin' the duo was able to build a legacy that had fans hungry for new material. After the smoke cleared and they hit the studio the Virginia brothers recorded the confidently mature sophomore effort, Hell Hath No Fury. Best known for their unconventional radio smash 'Grindin',' Clipse are no strangers to taking risks with the boundary-pushing Neptunes, who return as trusted co-pilots for Hell Hath No Fury. As always the duo is right at home over The Neptunes crafted beats which perfectly embrace Pusha's inventive drug-game metaphors and Malice's soul-baring confessionals. Get On Down now proudly issues this Neptunes produced favorite on LP for the first timel."
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CAT #: GET 51320LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
RUN-DMC Tougher Than Leather LP
2023 repress; translucent blue vinyl. "Too many people sleep on Tougher Than Leather, Run-DMC's fourth album. But hear us out as we plead the case for this amazing LP. By 1988 there was a lot more competition in the rap game -- Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. & Rakim, Ice-T and many more had given Hollis, Queens' prodigal sons lots of competition. But Joe, Darryl and Jay were still at the top of their game, and hip-hop fans should never let this classic -- chiefly produced by their Queens neighbor, DJ and multi-instrumentalist Davy D[MX] -- get lost in their crates. For starters, the album's first single, 'Run's House' b/w 'Beats To The Rhyme' is arguably the most powerful one-two punch of the trio's career, showing contenders to the rap throne that they could still destroy a beat, tag-teaming with power at any speed. Not to be lost in the shuffle, fans were also reminded on both sides that Jam-Master Jay remained one of the world's best DJs, flexing the pinnacle of what would be called 'turntablism' a decade later. Both songs show a musical telepathy between all three that has rarely been equaled. The second single, 'Mary, Mary,' driven by an infectious Monkees sample, took a different approach, shrewdly ensuring that pop fans who jumped on the Raising Hell bandwagon had something to chew on. But, like 'Walk This Way,' the song wasn't just bubblegum -- there was an edge to it, and the lyrical gymnastics were very real. It wasn't selling out, it was allowing fans to buy in. 'Papa Crazy,' driven in concept and by a sample from the Temptations' 'Papa Was A Rolling Stone,' followed a similar pop-leaning path. Overall, the lyrical content on the album was a step up from the group's first three LPs. It's easy to infer, looking back, that they were feeling the heat from their younger competitors in the rap game. The genre was changing fast, and they were up to the challenge. On cuts like 'Radio Station' they bring substance to the grooves, by attacking Black Radio for its continual denigration of rap. 'Tougher Than Leather' reminds the world that they were still the Kings of Rock, with hard guitars to drive the point home. And 'They Call Us Run-DMC' and 'Soul To Rock And Roll' both bring things back to their early days, with sure-fire park jam rhymes and killer cuts. Tougher Than Leather, which went platinum up against a lot of competition, perfectly bookends the '80s output of one of the decade's most important groups. It encompasses the full range of the trio's capabilities, and reminds us that Run-DMC should never be forgotten as both pioneers and party-rockers. And so, we say, long live Joe, Darryl and Jay!"
GOD RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: GODREC 066LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
KAUDERS In Another Land Pt. 3 LP
"This is the third and concluding part of the trilogy In Another Land. It is not the dialectic synthesis of its antagonistic predecessors, it is just one of three equivalent antipodes that could have been released in any order. Mostly percussive and constantly transforming structures are weaving their net through both sides of this album. Processes of convergence follow moments of decay, high event density alternates with moments of quiet, aimless meandering. A further commentary on the not so obvious subject of the whole trilogy: absence and/or inevitability of repetition." --Kauders
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CAT #: GODREC 069LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE Terror Iridescence LP
After the magnificent Negative Infinity (GODREC 062LP), which is easily one of their best and most furious works they have ever done, The Flying Luttenbachers return with completely different musical approach. Something that can be described as kind of open-form, the record contains two one-sided pieces, almost in tradition of old prog-rock records. Hustle and bustle heavy and complex riffing from previous records, turned into high intensity droning fields...
GREEDY
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CAT #: GR 010LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DWARVES Come Clean LP
"Out of print for two decades this classic punk LP returns with a bonus track! Includes: 'Better Be Women', 'Over You', 'How It's Done', 'There She Goes Again'."
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CAT #: GR 016LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DWARVES Radio Free Dwarves Redux LP
"A-side has 'Dwarves Live on European Radio' includes 'Dominator', 'Looking Out For Number One', 'Salt Lake City'. B-side has alternate 7" tracks like: 'Sluts of the USA', 'Down and Dirty' and 'The Giver'. Repacked with nine more bonus tracks."
GREENSLEEVES
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CAT #: GREL 039LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
MCGREGOR, FREDDIE Big Ship LP
Reissue, originally released in 1982. "R&B has long been a major influence on reggae (just as it influenced ska and, before that, mento). In the early 1980s, different reggae artists were being influenced by different types of R&B -- some were getting into slick, keyboard-driven urban contemporary sounds, while others maintained their devotion to 1960s and 1970s soul. On 1982's Big Ship, Freddie McGregor's love of African-American soul music comes through loud and clear -- even though many of the more Rastafarian-oriented lyrics are very much a product of the Jamaican experience. True to form, the singer provides a variety of political and apolitical songs. While gems like 'Holy Mount Zion' and 'Get United' underscore his political/spiritual beliefs as a Rastafarian, McGregor favors more of a lovers rock approach on 'Let Me Be the One,' 'Stop Loving You,' and 'Sweet Lady.' In reggae circles, the term lovers rock refers to reggae that chooses romantic themes over social or political topics -- essentially, it is the reggae equivalent of romantic R&B. And any soul lover who has spent a lot of time savoring the romantic sweet soul of the Delfonics or Brenton Wood should have no problem getting into the lovers rock on this album. For that matter, McGregor's more sociopolitical songs have just as much classic soul appeal..." --AllMusic
GUERSSEN RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: GUESS 070CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CRYSTALLINE Axe Music CD
First reissued by Guerssen Records in 2012 and out of print for many years, here's a new, improved repress of this UK psych holy grail. Axe (known also as Axe Music and finally Crystalline by the time they recorded their rare acetate) were an obscure British psych band led by acid-rock guitar player extraordinaire Tony Barford and graced by Vivienne Jones ethereal vocals. The band hailed from Northampton (home also of their mates Dark of Dark Round The Edges fame). In 1970, they recorded a demo album of which only 12 copies were pressed as a demo acetate. Here's a straight reissue of this legendary artifact, as the previous "reissue" on the Kissing Spell label from 1993 and credited to Axe was altered without the band consent and included newly edited tracks, artificial echo/phasing effects, altered song titles... Here you'll find the acetate recording on its pure form: 100% unadulterated heavy psych and acid-rock sounds full of raw, fuzzed-out guitars and dreamy female vocals. Four impressive original songs plus a long, psyched to the max cover of Love's "A House Is Not A Motel" which has to be heard to be believed. Carefully remastered from an original acetate copy in 24-bit. Unfortunately, no masters survived and no 100% clean copies are known to exist of the original acetates, but you'll get the best result for the possibilities. New artwork (the original acetate came in blank sleeve); insert with unseen pictures and liner notes by Paul Cross (Sweet Floral Albion). "...This is possibly the finest example of British underground psychedelia..." --Richard Falk, Galactic Ramble. "...Axe did not make a lot of music, but they made some phenomenal music. Some of the best ever to emerge from the swamp of heavy British psychedelia, certainly some of the rarest" --Paul Cross (Sweet Floral Albion). Rated with the maximum rarity in Hans Pokora's 5001 Record Collector Dreams book.
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CAT #: GUESS 072CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DAKILA Dakila CD
First ever official reissue, originally released in 1972. Dakila (a Filipino word meaning "greatness") emerged from the melting pot of musical fusions that originated in the San Francisco Bay Area of the late '60s. They often could be seen playing at Bill Graham's Fillmore West, SF Winterland and all the major clubs in the SF Bay Area and festivals. Singing in Tagalog, Spanish, and English, Dakila was the first Filipino-American band signed to a major label. Their sole album from 1972 combined their Filipino heritage with Latin rock, psychedelia/acid-rock, and Afro-funk. The result was an explosive, hot jamming sound full of congas/percussion, Hammond, dual fuzz guitar, fuzz-bass. Features corrected pitch (the original was speeded up by the producers against the band's will) and a color insert with detailed liner notes. 50th anniversary reissue. One of the hidden gems from the original Latin rock movement. RIYL: Santana, El Chicano, Barrabás, Chango, Malo, Mandrill.
GUIDED BY VOICES INC.
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CAT #: GBVI 117LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
GUIDED BY VOICES La La Land LP
LP version. "La La Land doubles down on the intricate proggy-pop displayed on Guided By Voices's last album Tremblers And Goggles By Rank. On a hot streak of critical acclaim, Robert Pollard continues expanding his songwriting towards extremes of prettiness, heaviness and poeticism. As always, unforgettable hooks are everywhere. But with this latest, it seems Pollard is playing with the extremes of his abilities as a songwriter, emboldened by the power of this lineup now on their fourteenth album together since 2017. The prettiest stuff is prettier than ever ('Queen Of Spaces') and odder, more complex songs like 'Slowly On The Wheel' combine minimalism, whimsy, and cinematic inclinations. There are the exquisite power pop bangers that fans come to expect like 'Ballroom Etiquette' and 'Pockets.' Tracks like 'Instinct Dwelling' and 'Caution Song' effortlessly display a cranked-up weight and complexity most bands could never muster. Celebrating forty years in 2023 with their thirty-eighth album, GBV has lately been garnering rave reviews from Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Uncut, MOJO, Shindig, Paste, Popmatters, The Quietus and many more."
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
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CAT #: HOS 743LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VATICAN SHADOW Jordanian Descent (Remastered) LP
Exclusive clear vinyl. Remastered reissue, originally released in 2012. A cult was built around these this truly ominous original tape with slowed down mega-apocalyptic drone drum contemplations. Despite being created over a decade ago for limited double cassette and then compiled on It Stands To Conceal (2012) this is long form esoteric cold industrial perfectly suitable for our accelerating global amnesia. Fully remastered version.
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CAT #: HOS 744LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VATICAN SHADOW Ghosts Of Chechnya (Remastered) LP
Exclusive clear vinyl. Remastered reissue, originally released in 2012. What the artist may consider the most formative years for the project and what clubbers may have heard in numerous live sets with the "Encryption Nets" classic dub track. Despite being created over a decade ago for limited double cassette and then compiled on It Stands To Conceal (2012), this is widescreen esoteric cold industrial perfectly suitable for our collapsing world. Fully remastered version. First time on standalone LP. Alternate cover variant. Digital download included.
I DISCHI DI ANGELICA (ITALY)
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CAT #: ANGELICA 051CD
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LOPEZ/REINIER VAN HOUDT, FRANCISCO Untitled #400 CD
untitled #400 is a project presented as a world premiere by Spaniard Francisco López and Dutch pianist and composer Reinier Van Houdt at the opening of the 31st edition of AngelicA, on May 15th, 2021. The two musicians already worked together on untitled #275, a performance for mechanically prepared piano, quadraphonics and electronics which received a special mention at the 2011 edition of the Ars Electronica festival in Linz. In comparison to the piano "preparation" implemented in #275, the concept behind untitled #400, developed during six years, effectively introduced a new instrument: a "stringless piano" (or "inside-out piano"), whose initial inspiration came from Lopez's installation The [Music] Room presented at the Caramoor Centre for Music and Arts in Katonah (New York), in which a Disklavier piano in full automatic performance could be seen playing, but without hearing the notes associated to the keys, since the hammers were not touching the strings. The stringless piano used in untitled #400 consists exclusively of a portion of the instrument disassembled: the part comprising the keyboard and keys, the hammers and the interconnected mechanical parts, used as an autonomous unit of execution. The housing case, the lid, the soundboard, the strings and the pedals of a regular piano are completely missing. The first movement is played by van Houdt acoustically. In the absence of the strings, what you hear are the dull thuds of the felt of the hammers (several of which would be found on the ground at the end of the concert, due to the violence of the performance), but also the creaks of the wood against the screws and the metal sheets -- in fact, all the peculiar sound and mechanical-behavioral characteristics of the new instrument are explored, thanks to the powerful miking applied by López. The second movement, on the other hand, represents an "evolutionary transformation" created in the recording studio using exclusively exploded, dissected and recombined sound materials from the first movement, which in the live dimension is spatially diffused with an immersive audio system in total darkness, as is the custom of the Spanish musician in the last few years. The concept behind untitled #400 actually seems to reference to the "Machinistic Music" which occupied the vanguards of the early twentieth century, and which finds its contemporary expression in several of Lopez's compositions developed from original recordings of production machinery, electromechanical systems, and industrial sites.
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CAT #: ANGELICA 052CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
KONDO/MASSIMO PUPILLO/TONY BUCK, TOSHINORI Eternal Triangle CD
"Eternal Triangle was a dream come true: bringing together two of my favorite musicians in the whole world with me on the stage of AngelicA. Two musicians capable of encompassing both the most earthly and natural and the most rarefied and cosmic dimensions of sound, spontaneously and often seamlessly. Drawing from inspiration and life experience. We certainly didn't know this performance was going to be Toshinori Kondo's last one outside of Japan, and his last concert with a band. This is why in opening the files to work on the mixing we were struck by the sensation of a journey into the unknown and by the fact that it was Kondo-sans trumpet that was guiding us onto this path. Once or twice every few thousand concerts one gets the impression of having touched 'that thing', the inexpressible, which gives meaning to the rest of time, to the rest of the journey. Like the efforts of the mythological alchemists' lab. This, which remained the first and only concert of Eternal Triangle, was indeed one of those rare moments of coronation." --Massimo Pupillo (May 23rd, 2022)The 2019 edition of AngelicA presented, only a few days apart, two exceptional trios assembled around two legends of the improvised music scene: Peter Brötzmann and Toshinori Kondo. Travel companions since the '80s throughout countless experiences (including Die Like a Dog quartet, dedicated to Albert Ayler), the two found themselves in Bologna, this time as part of two different line-ups: Brötzmann was presenting the Italian premiere of his music trio with drummer Hamid Drake and the Gnawa musician Maâlem Moukhtar Gania (ANGELICA 041CD); Kondo was instead with Eternal Triangle -- a trio founded with bass player Massimo Pupillo and drummer Tony Buck which represented something completely new, even though the participants' paths had crossed on a few other occasions, since both Kondo and Bucks had already played with bassist Pupillo: more precisely as part of Hairy Bones (Brötzmann/Kondo/Pupillo/
ICTUS (ITALY)
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CAT #: ICTUSRE 002LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
BAILEY AND ANDREA CENTAZZO, DEREK Drops LP
2022 limited repress. Reissue, originally released in 1977. In the history of free improvised music, there has been arguably no greater advocate for the idiom's power and potential than the English guitarist Derek Bailey. Fiercely principled, between his emergence during the 1960s and his death in 2005, he cut a wide path, positioning this music at the height of creativity, transpiring in real time, and a means through which people from diverse backgrounds could come together, express, and commune. For Bailey, "playing is about playing with other people... Improvisation is a process that gets relationships sorted out." Among many great examples of this within Bailey's sprawling discography, a stand out is his 1977 duo LP Drops -- originally issued as the third album on Ictus -- recorded with the Italian percussionist/drummer Andrea Centazzo. Capturing the guitarist during one of his most prolific and creatively visionary periods -- overflowing with explosive clarity, dialogic energy, and imagination -- he clearly found a perfect foil in Centazzo, who recalls of the sessions: "The kaleidoscopic quality of Drops was created by this restraint of performing limits, i.e. the choice of instrumental timbres, dynamics and metronome speeds to suit each piece. We explored some aspects of our improvisational art, gleaned the best elements from our baggage of music memories and exposed them clearly and confidently." Comprising nine individual improvisations, Drops encounters each of its players at their best, finding a strange middle ground between the intuitive logics of their instruments; Bailey's tones taking on decidedly percussive approaches, while Centazzo's fractured polyrhythms and beats often veer toward the presence of a notable tonality. Remarkably expressive and diverse in the approach of each piece, Drops presents creative interplay at its most striking and challenging, rethinking the terms of musicality and collaboration every step of the way. Flurries of rattle back and forth, sculpting barbed and pointillistic landscapes of texture, stripped of reference and precedent, and abstract as real time organized sound comes. Edition of 250.
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CAT #: ICTUSRE 004LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
ZORN/ANDREA CENTAZZO/EUGENE CHADBOURNE/TOM CORRA/TOSHINORI KONDO/POLLY BRADFIELD, JOHN Environment for Sextet LP
2022 limited repress. Reissue, originally released in 1979. Recorded live at WKCR Radio in New York City in 1978 and issued by Ictus the following year, Environment for Sextet encounters John Zorn at the earliest stages of his career, resting within a sextet of a new generation of stunning improvisers emerging at the tail end of the '70s who would go on to define a vast swath of the '80s sound -- Polly Bradfield on violin, Andrea Centazzo on percussion, Eugene Chadbourne on guitar, Tom Corra on cello, and Toshinori Kondo on trumpet -- it roughly builds on the series of collaborations that had featured on Centazzo's 1978 Ictus LP U.S.A. Concerts. Launching from a total wall of sound -- full throttle fire on the boundaries of outright noise -- Environment for Sextet takes the listening on an endlessly surprising journey through its players' inner world, shifting between airy open passages that feature endless combinations of one or more players, to furious moments of sonorous lashings where the group falls in together in brilliant dialogical periods of conversant texture and tonal intervention. An engrossing and relentless listen from the first moment to the last -- featuring two works built from two of Andrea Centazzo's earliest graphic scores -- Environment for Sextet is an absolutely stunning body of improvised work by what were then among the most important rising stars on the free music scene. Edition of 250.
IN THE RED
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CAT #: ITR 368LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
C.I.A., THE Surgery Channel LP
"Step into a sick rhythm. And I mean sickly. Surgery Channel is a constructed world where everything is piercing and pinpointed. Every single word brings confrontation. With an intro as intimate and uncomfortable as this, The C.I.A. make you question what could be happening here...or what they're after. Denée Segall (vocals, lyrics) is both haunting and seducing us at once with her voice. Something unhinged might be about to happen and they're calmly dangling it over your head. Is it the possibility of dismemberment? Revenge? There is something about Surgery Channel that is sterile and covered in dirt at the same time. Maybe it's the feeling of simultaneous anger and defeat. Maybe it's what comes after. Or maybe it's about the ever-so-brief silent spaces between notes and words. Rhythm would be nothing without empty space. Words are rhythm at The C.I.A. There's nothing wishy washy about The C.I.A. or the way they sound. It's all about precision and aim. But really, it's a warning... amplified by the suspense of tick-tocking drum machine beats that resemble a hospital room. Ty Segall (bass, percussion, back-up vocals) and Emmett Kelly (bass, synth, back-up vocals) have painted a jarring and dissonant landscape behind Denée's story. Their basses could easily be swapped for bone drills and you might not be able to tell the difference. Emmett's modular synth envisions an environment reminiscent of the instrument itself, a mess of wires and pulsing red lights. Ty's subtle use of electronic and analog percussion fluctuates between the sound of a metal tray hitting the floor ('The Wait'), and the swish of an ultrasound scan ('Bubble'). Both Surgery Channel and The C.I.A's first self-titled record are ripe with straightforward conviction. However, this most recent installment reveals a new side of their personality. Now The C.I.A. is communicating from an electrified, pulsating, metallic playpen that wants you to strut. Surgery Channel shows punks a new way to move while remaining loyal to the traditions of catharsis and social commentary. This record is an astute observation and blunt critique. Both inward and outward. It is an exploration into how harshly intimate that process can be. It was written in 2021 by Denée Segall, Ty Segall, and Emmett Kelly. It was recorded at Harmonizer Studios and mixed at Golden Beat by Mike Kriebel." --Sofia Arreguin
INFINE (FRANCE)
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CAT #: IF 1076LP
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IMAGO, TOH Refuge LP
After spending his debut album exploring techno and mechanical sounds in the depths of the Pas-de-Calais mines, Toh Imago looks up to the sky, with an open breeze on his face, as tree branches and canopy filter out the sun's rays on Refuge. All the machines used during the album recording are tuned at 432hz, carrying the mystical benefits of Earth's resonance. Spending just seconds with the opening track, the listener is drawn into the safety that Refuge was intended to provide, and each subsequent piece pulls you deeper and deeper into the album's forest. Refuge was recorded on the edge of the Mormal Forest, in the North of France. With nature as a setting and studio accomplice, the album features synthesizers, field-recordings, as well as the acoustic qualities of reverbs from the nearby forest. As the artist's inner world and nature converge in moments of self-reflection, so the album's 11 recordings harmoniously unfold in a cavalcade of machines and organic sonorities. While the first LP Nord Noir (IF 1055LP, 2019) explored his family's mining past, Refuge is about being present and the desire to re-contextualize the relationship between nature and humans. It is a record of uplifting tones that is filled with optimism, imbued with the lightness of those who finally reconnect with nature, their roots, and the feeling of groundedness. Like the steps taken on a walk in the woods, the 11 tracks sonically tell the story of an inner journey divided in three chapters. "Asile Sauvage", "Sylve Barbare", and "Avril Mormal" take the listener into a fast-paced progression of rhythms. When the heart of the forest is reached, the journey becomes intimate, revealing a sacred space where breathing becomes the leading tempo ("Locus Neminis") and the traveler becomes a spirit lost in space ("Cosmos Intra"). The journey's climax is reached with "Monde intérieur". The album closes with "Chiff Chaff" which accompanies the listener back to a reality, hopefully a more reassuring one. Across the album, Toh Imago finds inventive ways of opening a dialogue between nature and machine, both literally and metaphorically, creating a soundscape that both feels like and was created by the natural world that surrounds him. The album offers a shelter from a predetermined world. It's a story told through ambience, racy and subtle electronics, and the memories of lichens clinging to shoes.
KARLRECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: KR 097LP
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BERTONI, MARTINA Hypnagogia LP
Cello player and electronic artist Martina Bertoni returns with her second album for KarlRecords. Hypnagogia delivers six new, masterfully crafted tracks between experimental ambient, drone, and modern composition. Cellist and composer Martina Bertoni started playing the cello at a very young age. Classically trained, her career further developed around experimental and film music, for which her cello has been featured in numerous records, works, and soundtracks for films and series. After two EPs and her debut full-length All The Ghosts Are Gone (2020), Bertoni joined the Karl roster where she released Music For Empty Flats in January 2021 (KR 083LP) to critical acclaim (listed as one of the "Top Ten drone albums of 2021" by A Closer Listen). On her new album Hypnagogia she continues to explore the sonic possibilities of her cello which she uses as primary source for composition and sound processing through reverbs, feedbacks and sub-bass frequencies, thus crafting sonic sculptures, rich of atmospheres and frictions, fed by ambient as much as drone and modern composition. In the words of Martina Bertoni: "The six tracks that constitute Hypnagogia have been written during 2021 and partially inspired by the reading of Stanislaw Lem's book Solaris. The title refers to a transitional state of consciousness from wakefulness to sleep, during which one might experience sensorial hallucinations and lucid dreaming, and can tap into the pristine structures of the subconscious. Hypnagogia portrays an imaginary cosmic journey of the Self that crash ends into a blinding sun." 180 gram vinyl; includes download postcard.
KOSMISCHE KURIERE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: KK 2258002CD
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WEGMULLER, WALTER Tarot 2CD
Remastered by Dieter Dierks and Dennis Flüchter. Walter Wegmüller (1937-2020) was a Swiss-Jenish artist who grew up in difficult circumstances in Bern. After training in Basel, Bern, Paris, and London, he began his artistic career. In addition to painting and sculptural works, Walter Wegmüller occupied himself with the entire spectrum of art. He gained widespread international attention, especially from 1974 onwards, with the publication of his Zigeuner Tarot. He was successful at countless exhibitions in Europe and overseas and was repeatedly awarded prizes and distinctions. However, he never forgot his origins as a Verding child and "Rome child from the Kalderasch tribe." In 1973, he released the album Tarot with an all-star band. Successful musicians such as Klaus Schulze, Manuel Göttsching, Harald Grosskopf, Dieter Dierks, Hartmut Enke, Jürgen Dollase, and Walter Westrupp played in the band. It remained Walter Wegmüller's only foray into the world of music. The album was last released on vinyl in 1976, the CD in 2000. This version here is the first remaster ever. Double-CD version (KK 2258002CD) comes in digifile cover.
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CAT #: KM 180126LP
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STERNENMADCHEN Gilles Zeitschiff LP
LP version. Reissue of the original 1974 album by Gille Lettmann aka Sternenmädchen/Star Maiden. Live in the Quadro Studio: Gille and Klaus Schulze. Music inserts from the LPs Seven Up (Ash Ra Temple and Timothy Leary), Lord Krishna von Goloka (Sergius Golowin), Tarot (Walter Wegmüller). Statements by Sergius Golowin, Timothy Leary, Brian Barritt, Walter Wegmüller, Liz Elliot, Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser. Recorded at the Zeitschiff Studio Dierks. Carefully transferred and remastered from the original analog master tapes by HaGü Schmitz at Dierks Studios in Pulheim-Stommeln in 2022.
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CAT #: KM 580116LP
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COSMIC JOKERS, THE Sci Fi Party LP
LP version. The compilations Planeten Sit-In and Sci Fi Party, both originally released in 1974, are a contemporary document of the legendary jam sessions of the Cosmic Jokers. Under a conceptual mantle, the recordings were brought to a young audience. Among the musicians the elite of the krautrockers of that time, like Manuel Göttsching, Klaus Schulze, Jürgen Dollase, and Harald Grosskopf. Plus, Dieter Dierks, who was responsible for the recordings, arrangement, and mixing, but also participated as a musician. Newly transferred from the original analog tapes and carefully remastered for the first time.
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CAT #: KM 580136LP
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COSMIC JOKERS, THE Planeten Sit-In LP
LP version. The compilations Planeten Sit-In and Sci Fi Party, both originally released in 1974, are a contemporary document of the legendary jam sessions of the Cosmic Jokers. Under a conceptual mantle, the recordings were brought to a young audience. Among the musicians the elite of the krautrockers of that time, like Manuel Göttsching, Klaus Schulze, Jürgen Dollase, and Harald Grosskopf. Plus, Dieter Dierks, who was responsible for the recordings, arrangement, and mixing, but also participated as a musician. Newly transferred from the original analog tapes and carefully remastered for the first time.
LEWIS RECORDINGS (UK)
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CAT #: LEWIS 1140EP
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SKINSHAPE Turn Away/Dreams Of Panama 7"
"Taken from Skinshape's Nostalgia album. For fans of Khruangbin, El Michels Affair, Tame Impala and Bonobo. ''Turn Away' is a song in two parts' explains Skinshape aka Will Dorey. 'The front section is intended to be classic songwriter style, with a focus on the chord progression and lyrics. The second half perhaps represents a curious epiphany, a realization of something profound'. As the plot develops, Dorey's clandestine charisma creates an alchemic, and most gentlemanly, cleansing of the soul. From his director's chair, Dorey expands that 'following the theme of film music, 'Dreams of Panama' could be an exotic scene in the movie, featuring a slight Latin twist and an epic introduction with full choir'. The track also makes the most of an opportunity to use a solo female vocal as the main melody."
MADE IN GERMANY (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MIG 2451LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SCHULZE, KLAUS Richard Wahnfried's Megatone LP
"Megatone is the third studio album by Klaus Schulze's side project, Richard Wahnfried, released in 1984. On this album, Schulze collaborates with Michael Garvens, Axel-Glenn Müller, Ulli Schober, Michael Shrieve and Harald Katzsch. During the eighties, the German synth legend Klaus Schulze pursued his solo adventure, working at the same time for his Wahnfried project. This Megatone brings something new to his usual 'kosmische musik'. A new element appears once again after the classic Time Actor; the presence of a singer (Michael Garvens). The voice appears in the modern and 'mechanical' electronic piece called 'Angry Young Boys'. Schulze synth explorations are also sustained by guitar parts and sequencers, drum-machines. This vast and epic cosmic 'trip' mixes pure atmospheric realms (the synth strings) with perpetual, repetitive drum rhythms. Megatone is a deep electronic album but not as abstract or as meditative as before. The electronic pulsations and the pop arrangements put Schulze's music into a more 'mainstream' level."
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CAT #: MIG 621LP
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SCHULZE, KLAUS Richard Wahnfried's Tonwelle LP
"The album Tonwelle is the result of Klaus Schulze's collaboration with some well-known musicians. Therefore, the album was released in 1981 as a vinyl under the artist's name Richard Wahnfried, featuring among others, Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Tempel) and Michael Shrieve (Santana). This original vinyl release was intended to be played at 45 RPM, but Klaus has already mixed the album so that it can also be played at 33 RPM. The now released vinyl edition contains the 45 RPM version -- newly mastered from an original mint vinyl that has never been played."
MADLIB INVAZION
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CAT #: MMS 041RC-LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
MADLIB & FREDDIE GIBBS Pinata: The 1964 Version LP
Pressed on sky blue and black vinyl. Single-LP edit of 'Piñata' lacquered at half speed master by Metropolis Mastering in London for the highest fidelity. Featuring Danny Brown, Mac Miller, Earl Sweatshirt, Raekwon, Scarface, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul, Polyester the Saint, BJ The Chicago Kid, Big Time Watts, G-Wiz, Casey Veggies, Sulaiman, Meechy Darko & Freddie Kane. 'Piñata is a gangster Blaxploitation ¬lm on wax,' says Gibbs. As a producer, Madlib, quite simply, is music."
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CAT #: MMS 043LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LITTLE BARRIE & MALCOLM CATTO Quatermass Seven LP
2023 repress; LP version. "Quatermass Seven, the meeting of minds between guitarist Barrie Cadogan, bassist Lewis Wharton and drummer Malcolm Catto represents a re-birth of sorts for Little Barrie, with these their first recordings since 2017's Death Express and the untimely passing of their gifted drummer and friend Virgil Howe. As Lewis explains, the sessions played a part in the healing process, a way to re-connect through music without any intentions to necessarily come away with a finished record. 'It was good to get in the studio again after such a long break especially as we didn't go in with any agenda or expectations,' he explains. 'There was no preconceptions that we would make a new Little Barrie record, it was just an opportunity to work on some things Barrie had written for fun with zero pressure.' With most tracks recorded live with minimal overdubs, and produced by Malcolm at his Quatermass studios, The Heliocentrics' main man brings new flavor to the band's rhythm section by blending his power behind the drum kit and his expansive skills behind the mixing desk to take Little Barrie's music forward into new territories. Recorded on Catto's treasure trove of analogue gear, and mastered onto ¼" tape, the overall effect is guitar, bass and drums finding a sweet spot where genres collide, delivering a record that takes the influences of the past and pushes them towards somewhere more contemporary. 'I definitely hear in Barrie's songs a lot of common musical ground' explains Malcolm. 'It felt like a great thing to do, work with Malcolm while we're figuring out what we wanna do,' Barrie concludes, 'let's just go in and do some playing and see what happens, and we came out with more than we ever intended.' Quatermass Seven delivers a dark, deep and expansive set of grooves, layered with frazzled and flawless guitar and flowing melodies, as well as pointing toward a future of exciting new musical opportunities. 'Still here, so fine, just a little darker state of mind' sings Cadogan on 'Steel Drum', words which sum up hope in times of uncertainty, whilst unintentionally offering a perfect description of Quartermass Seven."
METAPHON (BELGIUM)
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CAT #: METAPHON 006CD
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RANTA, MICHAEL Yuen Shan CD
2015 release. 16 track composition for pre-recorded sounds and live percussion performed by Michael Ranta. Entirely different work from the Yüen Shan CD released in 2005 on Ms Classic. All material previously unreleased. Yuen Shan ("Round Mountain" in Chinese) was conceived in 1972 and finalized in 2014. A musical cosmogony in four movements expressing different stages and cycles in life, The Ritual of Life. A major work in Ranta's oeuvre. Includes 12-page booklet in gatefold cardboard sleeve.
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CAT #: METAPHON 008CD
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RANTA, MICHAEL Die Mauer CD
2019 release. 11 track album of previously unreleased music for a ballet choreographed by Philippe Talard. Composed, performed, and recorded by Michael Ranta in 1988-1989. Mixed by Michael Ranta and Stefan Deistler. Mastered by Earlabs. Program notes for the ballet by Karla Nieraad. Translation by Christoph Heemann. Production and artwork by Timo van Luijk. Design by Meeuw. Triple gatefold card sleeve.
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CAT #: METAPHON 009CD
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RANTA, MICHAEL Taiwan Years CD
2021 release. More than any other of Michael Ranta's releases, this album shows his multiple roots and ideas as a composer, percussionist, and concrete/electronic musician, building a seamless bridge between Eastern and Western avant-garde. Ranta is one of those rare composers able to organically melt his wide artistic span into a singular but yet diverse universe morphing his rich vocabulary as a percussionist with the Oriental esoteric tradition, the psychedelic underground, and the realm of electronic minimalism. Michael Ranta: performance and mixing; Recording engineers: Shigeru Sato, Tsutomu Kojima; Mastered by EARLabs; Painting: Wayne Jacob Production: Timo van Luijk; Design: Meeuw. 12-page booklet in gatefold cardboard sleeve.
METROPOLIS RECORDS
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CAT #: MET 1302LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
KMFDM Hyena LP
"KMFDM has forged its own singular path over the course of 38+ years, refining and redefining the parameters of modern music, never missing the opportunity to address the social and political zeitgeist in brazen, belligerent, and boisterous fashion. Hyëna marks the 22nd studio album from the Ultra Heavy Beat, and what title could be more appropriate as the band laughs mockingly at the frayed and frantic state of world affairs. Driven by the vicious and virulent vocal onslaught of founder Sascha 'Käpt'n K' Konietzko and Lucia Cifarelli, the aural and angular guitar wizardry of Andee Blacksugar, and the forceful percussive thrust of Andy Selway, Hyëna blasts through the speakers with the force of a napalm airstrike. From the hip-thrusting rock and roll swagger of 'Black Hole,' the in-your-face industrial/rock of 'Liquor Fish And Cigarettes,' and the funky hip-hop overtones of 'Rock'n'roll Monster,' to the punky thrash metal fury of 'Blindface,' the sardonic blackgrass whimsy of 'Deluded Desperate Dangerous and Dumb,' and the irresistibly danceable electro of 'Hyëna' -- KMFDM remains as vital as ever, never afraid to assimilate any musical style, all the while keeping the lyrical talons sharpened and poised to strike against any and all injustice. Several members of the KMFDM family return to leave their indelible marks on Hyëna, like guitarist Jules Hodgson, rapper Andrew 'Ocelot' Lindsley, and Bruce Breckenfeld on the Hammond B3. On top of that, Sissy Misfit appears to add a decidedly venomous digital hardcore flavor to 'All Wrong - But Alright,' leaving Kumar Bent to close us out with the familiar yet fresh dub take on a KMFDM classic on 'In Dub We Trust.' Hyëna is a maniacal laugh in the face of maniacs who assume control, desperately trying to convince you that what you see, what you hear, what you read is not real -- don't you believe it! Nearly four decades on, KMFDM continues to keep it real for you as Hyëna proves to be among the group's leanest and meanest efforts, feeding fuel to the fury!"
MIND CONTROL (ITALY)
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CAT #: MIND 750LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VELVET UNDERGROUND, THE The Boston Tea Party July 11th 1969 2LP
2022 limited repress. The Boston Tea Party set from July 1969 on double vinyl. Excellent quality recording for all Velvets fans.
MUNSTER RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: MR 329LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LOS SAICOS Demolicion: The Complete Recordings LP
2022 repress. LP version with a 12-page full-color booklet with extensive notes and unseen photos. "With only six singles released between 1965 and 1966, and from an apparently remote place such as Lima, Peru, Los Saicos created a raw, wild and visceral sound, the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the garage rock that was coming out of the U.S. Northwest at the same time. Theirs is the same DNA shared by The Sonics, The Cramps and Black Lips. This release compiles all their recordings and tells their amazing story. This snarling maelstrom of nihilism was cut in Lima when the rest of the world was wetting itself over The Beatles, direct links to both The Stooges and The Cramps here and several more equally-enthralling combos. The latter spawned several generations of individuals who would dig deep to previously (mostly) unheard seams of music and other forms of culture that have since become part of the mainstream fabric. Another strong case of the same kind of happenstance to my mind is that which preceded the much-vaunted 'punk' explosion of the '70s." --Lindsay Hutton
MUSIC ON VINYL (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: MOV 2071COL-LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
ETHIOPIANS, THE Woman Capture Man (Gold Vinyl) LP
Gold vinyl. "The Ethiopians were one of Jamaica's most popular bands in the late ska, rocksteady and early reggae period. They were founded by Leonard Dillon, Stephen Taylor and Aston Morrison, and recorded several hit singles, including 'Train To Skaville' and 'Owe Me No Pay Me'. When their third album was released, reggae music was shifting from rough and fast towards a smoother and slower level. With the smooth vocals of The Ethiopians in front of the mix and the organ sound in the background, they recorded Woman Capture Man. The album is produced by J.J. Johnson, who was a major influence on Jamaican ska and rocksteady music during the 1960s revolution. Woman Capture Man is available as a limited individually numbered edition of 1000 copies on gold colored vinyl."
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CAT #: MOV 3169COL-LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
CULTURE Culture Dub (Orange Vinyl) LP
"Culture is the Jamaican roots reggae group who founded in 1976. The trio was led by Joseph Hill and also featured Kenneth Dayes and Albert Walker. Not long after releasing their classic debut album Two Sevens Clash, a dub version followed. This version having the tunes produced by Jamaica's first female producers Sonia Pottinger and reworked by no less than Errol Brown. This dub-version, titled Culture Dub, was originally released on HighNote Records and consisted of cool, chilled tunes. Culture Dub is available as a limited edition of 750 individually numbered copies on orange color vinyl."
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CAT #: MOV 3226COL-LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
PERRY & THE UPSETTERS, LEE 'SCRATCH' Rhythm Shower (Orange Vinyl) LP
Orange vinyl. "Rhythm Shower is the 1973 studio album by The Upsetters, but also features tracks by Dillinger and Sir Lord Comic. Many of the rhythms on the album are known as those done by Lee 'Scratch' Perry. Originally released in a very limited Jamaican pressing with no sleeve, it became better known after its reissue by Trojan Records as part of The Upsetter Collection. Rhythm Shower is available as a limited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on orange colored vinyl. Since the original release contained no sleeve, this edition is housed in a custom made sleeve by Music On Vinyl in collaboration with Trojan Records."
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CAT #: MOV 3266COL-LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
JEFFERSON, CARTER The Rise Of Atlantis (Green Vinyl) LP
"Carter Jefferson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who first made name for himself as member of Woody Shaw's first working quintet. As a sideman, Carter played amongst many jazz icons, including Art Blakey, Walter Davis, Jr. and Jack Walrath. In 1978, he released his first and only solo studio album, The Rise Of Atlantis, which was produced by Woody Shaw. For the recordings, Jefferson is backed by Terumasa Hino, Harry Whitaker, Clint Houston, Victor Lewis, Steve Thornton, Lani Groves, Shunzo Ono and John Hicks. The Rise Of Atlantis is available as a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on translucent green colored vinyl and includes liner notes by Michael Cuscuna on the back sleeve."
NOW-AGAIN
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CAT #: NA 5236LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
DO NASCIMENTO, FABIANO Lendas LP
"Fabiano Do Nascimento's Brazilian guitar meets a full orchestra arranged by Vittor Santos and with special participation by Arthur Verocai and his string quartet. Lush yet lively, standing alongside Jorge Ben's work with Verocai, and Tom Jobim and Baden Powell's work with Vinicius de Moraes. Lendas is the Brazilian guitarist Fabiano do Nascimento's fifth album for Now-Again Records. Like his previous albums Prelúdio and Ykytu, Lendas features do Nascimento's compositions, this time with orchestral arrangements by Vittor Santos and also special participation by Arthur Verocai. Vittor Santos is a composer, arranger, trombonist and music producer from Rio de Janeiro, who has worked in Brazilian music for over thirty years. Do Nascimento and Santos met in Rio in 2017 during the recording of Do Nascimento's hero, and '70s and '80s Brazilian guitar catalyst Carioca Freitas album Aquarelas. The two bonded over a mutual appreciation for Do Nascimento's uncle Lúcio and the bossa nova star Leny Andrade, both of whom largely influenced Do Nascimento's musical foundation. In Santos, Do Nascimento found an arranger who was sensitive enough in his orchestrations that he could create an orchestral dialogue between stacks of strings and Do Nascimento's plaintive plucking. It was only natural to invite the highest regarded, now legendary, 1970s Brazilian arranger, Arthur Verocai, to contribute. Verocai, who had worked with Do Nascimento on his forays in Los Angeles, was pleased to participate. In this way, the circle of old and new, so crucial in Do Nascimento's work, comes together and flows outwards. 'Lendas' translates from Portuguese as 'legends,' but the literal translation itself doesn't describe this album. With Lendas, Do Nascimento recalls memories from places that no longer exist; from fever dreams in the Amazon; from parts of the world we might never see or engage, but can imagine through music."
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CAT #: NA 5237LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
STARK REALITY, THE Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop 2LP
"Definitive reissue. Lacquered by Bernie Grundman in an all-analog transfer directly from the master tapes. Contains an extensive, oversized booklet with rare photos, liner notes and annotation. The story of The Stark Reality's Discovers The Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop begins in Boston the late 1960s, with a wild jazz -- as psychedelic as they were modal, as funky as they were swinging -- band based in Boston landing a deal with Ahmad Jamal's nascent AJP imprint after the legendary jazz pianist heard their demo recordings. They had been tasked by the great American songsmith Hoagy Carmichael's son, Hoagy Bix Carmichael, to create interpretations of the elder Carmichael's children songs for a Mr. Rogers-themed show that the younger Carmichael was producing for local PBS affiliate WGBH. The quartet -- Monty Stark on vibes, Phil Morrison on bass, Vinnie Johnson on drums and a very young John Abercrombie on fuzz guitar -- recorded an album that flopped upon its initial release and went on to become one of -- as Mojo Magazine noted -- 'the most prized 'funk' artifacts of all time... a project that allies Hendrix-stoned guitars, heavily-fuzzed vibraphone and Bitches Brew rhythms...' Now-Again Records, who has kept the Stark Reality's music in print since 2002, presents the definitive reissue of The Stark Reality's Discovers The Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop. Lacquered by Bernie Grundman in an all-analog transfer directly from the master tapes maintained by the Stark Reality's photographer Jim Bourne, it's presented in a replica gatefold sleeve, and contains an extensive, oversized page booklet with rare photos, liner notes and annotation."
OPEN MOUTH
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CAT #: OM 070LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MATTIASICH, WHEATIE Old Glow LP
"The first time I heard Wheatie's music was at a basement show in Philadelphia, and I was entranced. I've felt similarly when watching videos of the French singer Barbara as she concentrates on a corner of the room, her eyes big warm coins, singing 'La solitude' about a loneliness that 'rolls around the hips' and demands that the door is opened . . . Both make music that is as gorgeous as it's eerie and says a good deal about the workings of their own minds -- and by that, I don't mean that they reveal their psychology -- but they take us deep into their peculiarities as musicians. After Wheatie's set, I asked where I could get a record, and assumed there must be one -- surely, I'm late here -- because I wasn't alone. Everyone at that show was visibly mesmerized. It's been a few years since then, but I haven't forgotten it, couldn't, and have waited for Wheatie's debut, Old Glow, which captures and renews the hypnotic mystery of her set that night. For Old Glow, Wheatie has collaborated with Stephen Santillan, who plays keyboard and guitar, while she's on the keyboard and dulcimer, and of course, her distinct vocals. Wheatie and Santillan's album includes 'Blue,' which feels like a lyrical invocation that I can imagine under a canticle's heightened rubric, requiring the congregation to stand as it's being sung . . . Old Glow contains a private, condensed language that can only be built by solitude and a willingness to forego readymade forms. The problem with language is that, in order to speak, write lyrics, write about them, you must translate the peculiarity of the self into material script. When the heart is inarticulate. When literary language is often too precise. We're too trained up in it. There is a version of this kind of music that goes the route of slick pop, or becomes lazy because it's beautiful, but Wheatie's music is distinguished by an elemental weirdness, a plaintive and wonky carnival way off in the distance -- this is what it sounds like to submit the self to itself. On the track 'Low,' she ululates, 'It's OK to be low. It's OK to be low.' And because Wheatie has an uncanny ability to make something strange out of the familiar, it feels like a singular utterance. I have not heard it before. As if an old well could talk. There are also several moments of spontaneity in Old Glow. 'Canyon' brings more rock, and the harmonium gets country in 'Rose.' These turns make the album feel complex, like an epic about connection, loss, the inevitability of our being alone. Nico's nightmarish Desertshore also moves along a similar queasy spiral -- its emotional locus is precise, even though the music is impenetrable. Death and despair in Desertshore, like solitude in Old Glow, is palpable. They can't help but continuously return to it..." --Chelsea Hogue Ohlman, IL, 2022
PALILALIA
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CAT #: PAL 056LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ORCUTT, BILL Odds Against Tomorrow LP
2023 repress. LP version. "After two LPs and over half a decade spent toiling in the margins of the American Songbook, Bill Orcutt returns to original composition and the blues with his latest LP, Odds Against Tomorrow. Taking its title from Robert Wise's 1959 film noir, Odds Against Tomorrow retrofits familiar folk/blues forms to the unique sound of Orcutt's guitar and the result crackles with a freshness and authority that nostalgic retreads cannot deliver. Odds Against Tomorrow is more than an expansion of the territory charted by Bill Orcutt, his eponymous 2017 studio electric debut, although it's certainly that. With its nods to existing musics, half-step fluctuations, and near-songwriter-ly manipulations of tension/release, Odds Against Tomorrow is a rock record -- almost. Clearly and simply recorded through a clattering Fender Twin in Orcutt's living room and lovingly mixed by Bay Area neighbor and pedal-steel savant Chuck Johnson, no one would mistake it for any era's radio fodder, yet the precision of its technique and the swaying Child-ballad logic of its gentler improvisations comfortably seats it between John Mayall and Richard Thompson in your Ikea Kallax. Three songs ('Odds Against Tomorrow,' 'The Writhing Jar,' 'Already Old') are multi-tracked, an innovation that, for guitar buffs familiar with Orcutt's stripped-down vernacular, jumps out of the grooves like a Les Paul sound-on-sound excursion in 1948, or a Jandek blues rave-up in 1987. Specifically evoking John Lee Hooker's double-track experiments on 1952's 'Walking the Boogie,' the steady chord vamps of 'Odds Against Tomorrow' and 'Already Old' form a harmonic turf on which Orcutt solos with lyrical abandon . . . For the more 'contemporary-minded,' 'The Writhing Jar''s crashing overdubs recall the brassy six-string voicings of This Heat or Illitch. With the exception of the unreconstructed Elmore James-isms of 'Stray Dog' and the 'Layla'-finale-like haze of 'All Your Buried Corpses Begin To Speak,' the remaining non-overdubbed tracks dovetail snugly with Orcutt's previous solo output, reeling gently in a Mazzacane-oid mode or vibing up the standards ('Moon River'). On their own, these tracks would still be an important contribution to Orcutt's canon. As part of Odds Against Tomorrow's greater whole, they provide a through line, connecting the idiosyncrasies of Orcutt's past explorations with the scrambled tropes of his present work. Odds Against Tomorrow challenges contemporary solo guitar practice in a way that simultaneously nullifies hazy dreams of folk purity and establishes a new high-water mark for blues-rock reconstruction." --Tom Carter
PHARAWAY SOUNDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: PHS 048LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VA Rumbita Buena: Rumba Funk & Flamenco Pop from the 1970s Belter & Discophon Archives LP
2022 restock; LP version. From the archives of the legendary Belter and Discophon labels, essential to understand the birth of the Catalan rumba and flamenco-pop genre in Spain, Pharaway Sounds have selected 14 dance-friendly tracks taken from overlooked LPs and 45s. This is the real gipsy-funk sound, full of screaming flamenco vocals, funk drums, electric guitars, wah-wah, organ, electric bass, exotic percussions, soulish horns, Latin and even oriental touches... Featuring folkloric ye-yé singers, gipsy princes, teen rumba stars, and groovy rumba-pop bands: Dolores Vargas "La Terremoto", Chango, Rosa Morena, Rumba Tres, El Príncipe Gitano, El Noi... Also features Lola Flores, Los Candelos, Lola Flores Y Antonio González, Teresiya, Los Candelos, La Marelu, and Dolores Abril. Master tape sound. Includes insert with photos and liner notes by Txarly Brown (Achilifunk).
PILZ (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PILZ 290642CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WALLENSTEIN Blitzkrieg CD
In 1971, under the direction of Jürgen Dollase, who also composed all the tracks, this album was recorded and finally released in 1972. It was recorded at Dierks Studios by Dieter Dierks himself. Dollase and drummer Harald Grosskopf were later also members of the legendary Cosmic Jokers. Loyal krautrock fans labelled this album as progressive rock -- but that doesn't really do justice. Opulent, lengthy works like "Lunetic" with a playing time of 12 minutes are today among the highlights of what is summarized as krautrock. Transferred from the original analog tapes and carefully remastered without destroying the character of the recordings.
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CAT #: PILZ 290646LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WALLENSTEIN Blitzkrieg LP
LP version. In 1971, under the direction of Jürgen Dollase, who also composed all the tracks, this album was recorded and finally released in 1972. It was recorded at Dierks Studios by Dieter Dierks himself. Dollase and drummer Harald Grosskopf were later also members of the legendary Cosmic Jokers. Loyal krautrock fans labelled this album as progressive rock -- but that doesn't really do justice. Opulent, lengthy works like "Lunetic" with a playing time of 12 minutes are today among the highlights of what is summarized as krautrock. Transferred from the original analog tapes and carefully remastered without destroying the character of the recordings.
PLANET CLAIRE (FRANCE)
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CAT #: PC 1983LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BAUHAUS Live at Tiffany's, Glasgow, Scotland June 27th, 1983 FM Broadcast LP
Limited repress. Pink vinyl. Bauhaus live at Tiffany's, Glasgow, Scotland on June 27th, 1983. FM Broadcast recording.
ROGUEART (FRANCE)
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CAT #: ROG 122LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris 2LP
"The Art Ensemble Of Chicago, expanding to a chamber orchestra, marks its sixth decade as a vital force on the world music stage with an ear-opening live recording on two LPs. Recorded in France in 2020 at the Son D'Hiver Festival, this recording celebrates the legendary group's historic ties to Paris, where it was formed in 1968. When trumpet great Lester Bowie died in 1999, followers of the Art Ensemble of Chicago couldn't help but wonder whether the legendary quintet, which owed so much to his special and outlandish gifts, would -- or should -- go on. That it did, in his memory, with no loss of spirit. But the subsequent passing of two other founding members Malachi Favors Maghostut in 2004 and Joseph Jarman in 2019, made it even more difficult to envision a future for the band. Leave it to the AEC's proud surviving members, saxophonist/composer Roscoe Mitchell and drummer/percussionist Famoudou Don Moye to keep its flame glowing. In typical bold fashion, they not only extended the life of this beloved band, they redefined it in glorious and unexpected ways. With the addition of brilliant young players including poet and spoken word artist Moor Mother, cellist Tomeka Reid and violinist Jean Cook, and esteemed elders including trumpeter Hugh Ragin, flutist Nicole Mitchell, and bassist Jaribu Shahid, AEC became a full-fledged chamber orchestra. 'Come rejoice in a higher place!' urges the magnetic Moor Mother. In both honoring the band's illustrious history and soaring to new creative heights as a 17-member aggregation, Mitchell and Moye and company do just that. Would AEC have become the creative force it is had it not gotten the opportunity to find itself in Paris all those years ago? Will AEC return to celebrate their seventh? 'We can't control the clock, everything takes place in its own time,' says Mitchell. Don't be surprised if the time continues to be right for the AEC for years to come."
SCAT
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CAT #: SCAT 083LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SPIKE IN VAIN Jesus Was Born In A Mobile Home (Expanded Edition) 2LP
"Ready for some more racket from the titans of the tritone? The deans of decay? The earls of entropy? Until recently it was unknown how prolific Cleveland's Spike In Vain were in their three year run, roughly Fall 1982 through Fall 1985. Had all the group's songs been recorded, they would've filled five LPs handily. While only the debut album Disease Is Relative, compilation appearances, and a virtually unknown cassette were issued during their run, 2021 saw the band's unreleased second album Death Drives A Cadillac pulled out from its secret lair, and 2023 will see the release of the Jesus Was Born In A Mobile Home cassette via this much expanded double vinyl edition. Upping the original's twelve track program with an additional fifteen unreleased or rare tracks, this compilation provides a panoramic view of this mercurial, many-headed beast of absurdity, discord, and death. This release is loaded with surprises for even die-hard fans. Among other highlights, there's a nine-minute version of 'Opus.' While the recording on Disease Is Relative is essentially three short songs smushed together, this later live version doubles that, with all new material seamlessly tacked onto the original. 'Winter's Black Hand' is a shocking outtake from the second album with the same insane, harrowing quality as 'Children In The Subway.' There's a 1982 rehearsal recording of 'Tenement Housing,' the closest the band ever came to a straight up punk song. Or the rambling, shambling, and devastating 'Drunk And Ugly Soul Food (As I Understand It)' from an early 1985 radio session. Along with other live recordings of songs that never saw the inside of a studio and a few more outtakes, Jesus also gathers stray songs from compilation albums with much improved sound. The majority of the tracks here were mastered from the original reels, while others had to be rescued from cassettes. Veteran engineer John Golden has done a knockout job dealing with the wide variety of source materials, lending it cohesion without sacrificing the skull-splitting rawness of some tracks."
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CAT #: SCAT 083X-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SPIKE IN VAIN Jesus Was Born In A Mobile Home (Expanded Edition) (Color Vinyl) 2LP
Double LP version. Color vinyl. "Ready for some more racket from the titans of the tritone? The deans of decay? The earls of entropy? Until recently it was unknown how prolific Cleveland's Spike In Vain were in their three year run, roughly Fall 1982 through Fall 1985. Had all the group's songs been recorded, they would've filled five LPs handily. While only the debut album Disease Is Relative, compilation appearances, and a virtually unknown cassette were issued during their run, 2021 saw the band's unreleased second album Death Drives A Cadillac pulled out from its secret lair, and 2023 will see the release of the Jesus Was Born In A Mobile Home cassette via this much expanded double vinyl edition. Upping the original's twelve track program with an additional fifteen unreleased or rare tracks, this compilation provides a panoramic view of this mercurial, many-headed beast of absurdity, discord, and death. This release is loaded with surprises for even die-hard fans. Among other highlights, there's a nine-minute version of 'Opus.' While the recording on Disease Is Relative is essentially three short songs smushed together, this later live version doubles that, with all new material seamlessly tacked onto the original. 'Winter's Black Hand' is a shocking outtake from the second album with the same insane, harrowing quality as 'Children In The Subway.' There's a 1982 rehearsal recording of 'Tenement Housing,' the closest the band ever came to a straight up punk song. Or the rambling, shambling, and devastating 'Drunk And Ugly Soul Food (As I Understand It)' from an early 1985 radio session. Along with other live recordings of songs that never saw the inside of a studio and a few more outtakes, Jesus also gathers stray songs from compilation albums with much improved sound. The majority of the tracks here were mastered from the original reels, while others had to be rescued from cassettes. Veteran engineer John Golden has done a knockout job dealing with the wide variety of source materials, lending it cohesion without sacrificing the skull-splitting rawness of some tracks."
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CAT #: SCAT 085LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MY DAD IS DEAD Peace, Love & Murder LP
"Peace, Love & Murder was the second album by Cleveland's My Dad Is Dead, originally released in 1987 by Boston's Birth Records. Like the debut, ...And He's Not Gonna Take It Anymore, Mark Edwards wrote and performed all the music on his own. While not a significant departure from that album, Peace, Love & Murder does differ from its predecessor and has some qualities that make it unique in the voluminous MDID discography. While combining live drums with drum machine is a hallmark of the MDID style, on this album Edwards introduced the Roland TR-505 into the mix, and in a bold move recorded the live drums first, which had the effect of making the rhythm tracks feel a bit more organic despite the presence, and occasionally the prominence, of the TR-505. Modal guitar tunings remain de rigeur here, but Edwards' abilities as a guitarist display a marked increase in proficiency and imagination. While the debut album sprawls a bit, PLM is a tight and focused ten-song set, buoyed by a more impactful production job by Chris Burgess. Just as the debut album had a few lighter (or at least slightly less grim) songs, so does this album, but here they shine with a bit more pop sparkle. 'Babe In The Woods' and 'Hill O' Beans' would go on to be fan favorites for many years, as would the utterly harrowing unstoppable bulldozer that is 'Like A Vise.' All these years on, the album's closer 'Fireball' has become oddly relevant and chilling. Sung from the POV of a mass shooter to a droning riff that evokes Middle Eastern modes, the narrator intones, 'I'm gonna go out in a blaze of glory / today's the day I'm gonna make it to the headlines.' The whole album has remarkable cohesion and pacing, as well as variety, and, not to mention, what a god-tier track 'Breakdown' is. So grab a black overcoat and 'Open Wide.'"
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CAT #: SCAT 085X-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MY DAD IS DEAD Peace, Love & Murder (Color Vinyl) LP
LP version. Color vinyl. "Peace, Love & Murder was the second album by Cleveland's My Dad Is Dead, originally released in 1987 by Boston's Birth Records. Like the debut, ...And He's Not Gonna Take It Anymore, Mark Edwards wrote and performed all the music on his own. While not a significant departure from that album, Peace, Love & Murder does differ from its predecessor and has some qualities that make it unique in the voluminous MDID discography. While combining live drums with drum machine is a hallmark of the MDID style, on this album Edwards introduced the Roland TR-505 into the mix, and in a bold move recorded the live drums first, which had the effect of making the rhythm tracks feel a bit more organic despite the presence, and occasionally the prominence, of the TR-505. Modal guitar tunings remain de rigeur here, but Edwards' abilities as a guitarist display a marked increase in proficiency and imagination. While the debut album sprawls a bit, PLM is a tight and focused ten-song set, buoyed by a more impactful production job by Chris Burgess. Just as the debut album had a few lighter (or at least slightly less grim) songs, so does this album, but here they shine with a bit more pop sparkle. 'Babe In The Woods' and 'Hill O' Beans' would go on to be fan favorites for many years, as would the utterly harrowing unstoppable bulldozer that is 'Like A Vise.' All these years on, the album's closer 'Fireball' has become oddly relevant and chilling. Sung from the POV of a mass shooter to a droning riff that evokes Middle Eastern modes, the narrator intones, 'I'm gonna go out in a blaze of glory / today's the day I'm gonna make it to the headlines.' The whole album has remarkable cohesion and pacing, as well as variety, and, not to mention, what a god-tier track 'Breakdown' is. So grab a black overcoat and 'Open Wide.'"
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CAT #: SCAT 086EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MY DAD IS DEAD Pow! 12"
"Here one has a reissue of a My Dad Is Dead record that never was. Recorded shortly after Peace, Love & Murder, the Pow! EP was intended to be released in the summer of 1987 on Cleveland's St. Valetine Records, but that never quite happened. Newly signed to NYC's Homestead Records, it was resolved that the tracks could find a home there, and they were later issued on The Best Defense outtakes compilation on that label. Now, thirty-seven years on, the EP as originally intended is being released. Like its predecessors, Pow! is an isolationist post-punk affair with Mark Edwards performing all musical duties. Pow! features three strong tracks in stunning 45RPM sound, or maybe one should just say it's really freaking loud and sounds better than the last time around. First is a reprise of 'Anti-Socialist,' a highlight from the 1985 debut album. But this is not a mere re-recording, but a new arrangement of the song with additional sections and lyrics, and a more aggressive feel with unmistakable undertones of violence ('I wanna fix 'em with my bare hands'). On the flip is the haunting 'In the Morning,' in some ways a foreshadowing of the murderess later meet on 'Nothing Special.' Wrapping things up is the instrumental 'The Best Defense,' which is about as spritely and engaging as Mr Edwards gets during this era."
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CAT #: SCAT 086X-EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MY DAD IS DEAD Pow! (Color Vinyl) 12"
12" version. Color vinyl. "Here one has a reissue of a My Dad Is Dead record that never was. Recorded shortly after Peace, Love & Murder, the Pow! EP was intended to be released in the summer of 1987 on Cleveland's St. Valetine Records, but that never quite happened. Newly signed to NYC's Homestead Records, it was resolved that the tracks could find a home there, and they were later issued on The Best Defense outtakes compilation on that label. Now, thirty-seven years on, the EP as originally intended is being released. Like its predecessors, Pow! is an isolationist post-punk affair with Mark Edwards performing all musical duties. Pow! features three strong tracks in stunning 45RPM sound, or maybe one should just say it's really freaking loud and sounds better than the last time around. First is a reprise of 'Anti-Socialist,' a highlight from the 1985 debut album. But this is not a mere re-recording, but a new arrangement of the song with additional sections and lyrics, and a more aggressive feel with unmistakable undertones of violence ('I wanna fix 'em with my bare hands'). On the flip is the haunting 'In the Morning,' in some ways a foreshadowing of the murderess later meet on 'Nothing Special.' Wrapping things up is the instrumental 'The Best Defense,' which is about as spritely and engaging as Mr Edwards gets during this era."
SCISSOR TAIL EDITIONS
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CAT #: SCTR 059LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FIZER, JOHN Treasure Man LP
"Barely saved from obscurity by a series of chance events, John Fizer's only recorded album Treasure Man will finally see the light of day. Forty-five years in the making, while for the last twenty-nine years Fizer has been 'living rough' couch surfing, sleeping in play structures, friend's backyards and more recently his old Volvo station wagon. Fizer is currently residing in a nursing facility in Northern California. Below is the story of how this never before heard album came to Scissor Tail's attention. I used to walk my daughter to school and passed the original Peet's coffee every day. Across the street was Berkeley's beloved John 'Treasure Man' Fizer playing chess, doing crosswords and waiting next to the treasure tree which he had filled with gemstones and various magical trinkets. To this day any child passing by is welcome to choose a treasure. Over many stops with my daughter, I got to know John, a fountain of love, intelligence and humor and as quirky and feisty as can be. We became friends. Eventually he showed me a few old cassettes of cassettes of cassettes in poor condition of him performing and asked if I could make them sound better. I agreed to take a listen. Such amazing songs! So I proceeded to remaster the cassettes while continuing to ask John at least four times over several months if he had the original master studio recordings. The answer was always no. About the time I finally had his cassette sourced recordings sounding as good as they could be and he popped up with a 15 inches per second 1/4' half track, state of the art analog master reel-to-reel recorded at the legendary Mountain Ears recording studio in 1977 with some very fine studio musicians including Ray Bonneville, Brad 'Honeyboy' Hayes, Erik 'Bobo' Johnson and Brian 'Sluggo' Brown. John had found the original reel! It had been residing for decades in the bowels of John's old 1980 Volvo station wagon, which also serves as his home, and was covered in strangely beautiful mold but that was the day I knew the world would hear John's music the way it was meant to be be... big, fat, analog. The next few years were spent cleaning and remastering the album with some of the world's finest restoration specialists." --James Johnson (producer)
SELECT RECORDS
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CAT #: SELE 8510LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
KID 'N PLAY 2 Hype LP
"Select Records presents 2 Hype in an opaque white pressing. For a certain generation of hip-hop fans, just the mention of Kid 'n Play brings on a wave of nostalgia. The group released three full-lengths between 1988 and 1991 with a focus on positive lyrics and pop friendly production. The success of the group's music lead to countless House Party films, a Saturday morning cartoon show and even a series of comic books for Marvel (so, technically speaking, are Kid 'n Play are part of the Marvel Universe?) It all started here on the 1988 full-length 2 Hype which features 'Do The Kid 'n Play Kick Step', the musical accompaniment to their trademark dance, 'Rollin' With Kid 'n Play' which hit number 11 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and of course Kid's now classic hi-top fade haircut, which measured up to over six inches high at its peak. Producer Hurby 'Luv Bug' Azor, instrumental in the success of Salt-N-Pepa, was certainly a factor and the full length went on to chart in the Billboard Top 200 and to RIAA certified gold status."
STAG-O-LEE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: STAGO 186CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BONTEMPI, MARCEL Crawfish, Troubles, Cats & Ghosts: Demos & Recordings 2015-2020 CD
Subtitled: The (Second) Single Compilation 2015-2021. This record arrives exactly ten years after the first one, the highly successful Witches, Spiders, Frogs & Holes album (STAGO 068LP). At this moment, most "with it" or "aware" folks in our retro scene have common knowledge and informed opinions of that strange musical alchemist known as Mr. Marcel Bontempi. His phenomenal career arc from the 1998 debut of 1960s-beat band combo, The Montesas, to his "monster" solo hit of 2013, "Dig A Hole" (on Sleazy Records), has seen Marcel's star rise ever higher as a steady stream of his popular and clever recordings have been snatched up by an ever-widening fan base. Live stage appearances by Marcel and his gal "Friday," the effervescent Miss Ira Lee, and Marcel's own "hillbilly" gang, Dr. Bontempi's Snake Oil Company, at clubs and festivals throughout Europe (and even in Nashville and Las Vegas) have deservedly helped to spread the Bontempi infamy and infatuation far and wide. So, here is the second compilation of the wizard of rhythm -- packed full with his 7" output (all limited and sold out by now) from 2015 until 2021 and some unreleased songs and musical themes for theater plays among others. LP version includes bonus 7" of unreleased material; gatefold cover with info and photos.
TAK:TIL/GLITTERBEAT (GERMANY)
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CAT #: GB 132CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
REFREE El Espacio Entre CD
Acclaimed producer (Rosalia, Lina_Raul Refree) and in-demand collaborator (Lee Ranaldo, Richard Youngs) Raul Refree returns with his second solo album for tak:til/glitterbeat. A kaleidoscopic but seamless mashup of soundtrack music, post-classical meditations, Iberian traditional elements and experimental strategies. The title, El Espacio Entre (The Space Between), alludes to its spatial, temporal, and conceptual in betweenness. The concept for the album emerged from his soundtrack for the restored early Spanish cinema masterpiece The Cursed Village (Florián Rey, 1930). Refree adheres to total creative freedom. Some pieces like "Lamentos De Un Rescate" and "La Plage" represent his first attempt at re-composition. Refree took Monteverdi's madrigal "Lamento Della Ninfa" and personally directed the performance. El Espacio Entre is a unified whole without centerpieces. Each piece functions like a specific image or disposition translated into sound. The short evocative song titles provide interesting interpretative angles. They capture the introspective nature of Refree's musical expression, which is not preoccupied with epic arrangements or grand musical ideas. Refree's approach to improvisation, composition, and production resonates with the tenets of imagist poetry. The piano sequence in "Las Migraciones Nocturnas" is unedited. It's not played on a click. The short and sweet "Lamentos De Un Día Cualquiera," a modern reimagining of baroque vocals accompanied by a processed viola da gamba and lute, beautifully captures his philosophy. Certain elements simply must be included, though, like the evanescent trumpet line in "La Plage." Recomposed madrigals coexist with hectic piano explorations ("Montañas Vacías," "Montañas Vacías II"). "La Radio En La Cocina," a pensive dialogue between lute, radio static, piano, and marimba, gradually mutates into a post-rock crescendo. The immersive piece for prepared piano "Todo El Mundo Quiere Irse Ya" suddenly transitions into the The Durutti Column-inspired guitar sketch "Casc I Pluja." It is the way he approaches rhythm, timbre, dynamics, and texture that imbues his music with a sense of intimacy. His guitar meditations ("Amanece Sin Que Nadie Lo Vea," "Lo Que Esconden") bring to mind the music of Raphael Rogi?ski. In "Las Migraciones Nocturnas," a Jon Brion-style soundtrack piece that disintegrates into agitated strings wailing, one can hear the echoes of his music for films. A similarly cinematic atmosphere is conjured in the composition "No Es Tan Fácil Aquí." Yet the most surprising moment on the record arises in the epilogue "Una Nueva Religión" in which a mellow organ motif unexpectedly intertwines with Darkthrone-inspired metal blast beats. El Espacio Entre is a sonic diary that may lead you to transformational events while riding the bus, train or plane, being in transit between one destination or another, the current and next version of you.
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CAT #: GB 132LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
REFREE El Espacio Entre LP
LP version. Acclaimed producer (Rosalia, Lina_Raul Refree) and in-demand collaborator (Lee Ranaldo, Richard Youngs) Raul Refree returns with his second solo album for tak:til/glitterbeat. A kaleidoscopic but seamless mashup of soundtrack music, post-classical meditations, Iberian traditional elements and experimental strategies. The title, El Espacio Entre (The Space Between), alludes to its spatial, temporal, and conceptual in betweenness. The concept for the album emerged from his soundtrack for the restored early Spanish cinema masterpiece The Cursed Village (Florián Rey, 1930). Refree adheres to total creative freedom. Some pieces like "Lamentos De Un Rescate" and "La Plage" represent his first attempt at re-composition. Refree took Monteverdi's madrigal "Lamento Della Ninfa" and personally directed the performance. El Espacio Entre is a unified whole without centerpieces. Each piece functions like a specific image or disposition translated into sound. The short evocative song titles provide interesting interpretative angles. They capture the introspective nature of Refree's musical expression, which is not preoccupied with epic arrangements or grand musical ideas. Refree's approach to improvisation, composition, and production resonates with the tenets of imagist poetry. The piano sequence in "Las Migraciones Nocturnas" is unedited. It's not played on a click. The short and sweet "Lamentos De Un Día Cualquiera," a modern reimagining of baroque vocals accompanied by a processed viola da gamba and lute, beautifully captures his philosophy. Certain elements simply must be included, though, like the evanescent trumpet line in "La Plage." Recomposed madrigals coexist with hectic piano explorations ("Montañas Vacías," "Montañas Vacías II"). "La Radio En La Cocina," a pensive dialogue between lute, radio static, piano, and marimba, gradually mutates into a post-rock crescendo. The immersive piece for prepared piano "Todo El Mundo Quiere Irse Ya" suddenly transitions into the The Durutti Column-inspired guitar sketch "Casc I Pluja." It is the way he approaches rhythm, timbre, dynamics, and texture that imbues his music with a sense of intimacy. His guitar meditations ("Amanece Sin Que Nadie Lo Vea," "Lo Que Esconden") bring to mind the music of Raphael Rogi?ski. In "Las Migraciones Nocturnas," a Jon Brion-style soundtrack piece that disintegrates into agitated strings wailing, one can hear the echoes of his music for films. A similarly cinematic atmosphere is conjured in the composition "No Es Tan Fácil Aquí." Yet the most surprising moment on the record arises in the epilogue "Una Nueva Religión" in which a mellow organ motif unexpectedly intertwines with Darkthrone-inspired metal blast beats. El Espacio Entre is a sonic diary that may lead you to transformational events while riding the bus, train or plane, being in transit between one destination or another, the current and next version of you.
TAPETE RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TR 512CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BMX BANDITS Music for the film "Dreaded Light" CD
"If I could be in any other band, it would be BMX Bandits," Kurt Cobain allegedly said. The BMX Bandits have been around in varying formations since 1986 and come from great Scottish guitar pop lineage. With Duglas T. Stewart as the focal point, the band has been releasing great indie pop albums irregularly since 1989."... In between live images of the moon mission and reports the BBC were screening episodes of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe starring Robert Hoffmann, a 1965 serialized telling of the classic tale of a man lost so far from home, it felt an appropriate choice of program. The series was a French German production and for the BBC to broadcast it Hoffmann's dialogue had to be replaced in English. To do this they didn't have the option to just replace the voice and keep the original music and sound effects, everything had to be replaced. A new haunting soundtrack was produced by Gian Piero Reverberi and Robert Mellin . . . It was a starting point in setting an aesthetic that runs through so much that I love in music and also in a lot of what I have done. Since then, music composed/created for film and television has been a major passion and pleasure in my life and I always wanted to have an opportunity to work in this field. Mark MacNicol, Dreaded Light's writer and director approached me through a mutual friend to see if I would be interested in supplying original music for his debut film. At that point it became about both of us making a leap of faith, deciding that we trusted each other. I knew I needed a collaborator to help bring my ideas and themes to life and to bring interesting and to also bring sympathetic ideas of their own to the project. And so, I asked Andrew Pattie to work with me on the soundtrack. Andrew can play a lot of instruments well, is a great singer and has natural musicality. We loved and connected with the emotional content in the story and we found our first musical theme quite quickly. It was a reaction to imagining an opening titles sequence that would set a mood and tone for everything that would follow. This theme mutates and resurfaces at various points throughout the film. After that we found other themes that we connected to the emotions and physicality of the central characters. As well as the instrumental themes you will find two songs on this album..." --Duglas T Stewart, Summer 2022
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CAT #: TR 512LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BMX BANDITS Music for the film "Dreaded Light" LP
LP version. "If I could be in any other band, it would be BMX Bandits," Kurt Cobain allegedly said. The BMX Bandits have been around in varying formations since 1986 and come from great Scottish guitar pop lineage. With Duglas T. Stewart as the focal point, the band has been releasing great indie pop albums irregularly since 1989."... In between live images of the moon mission and reports the BBC were screening episodes of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe starring Robert Hoffmann, a 1965 serialized telling of the classic tale of a man lost so far from home, it felt an appropriate choice of program. The series was a French German production and for the BBC to broadcast it Hoffmann's dialogue had to be replaced in English. To do this they didn't have the option to just replace the voice and keep the original music and sound effects, everything had to be replaced. A new haunting soundtrack was produced by Gian Piero Reverberi and Robert Mellin . . . It was a starting point in setting an aesthetic that runs through so much that I love in music and also in a lot of what I have done. Since then, music composed/created for film and television has been a major passion and pleasure in my life and I always wanted to have an opportunity to work in this field. Mark MacNicol, Dreaded Light's writer and director approached me through a mutual friend to see if I would be interested in supplying original music for his debut film. At that point it became about both of us making a leap of faith, deciding that we trusted each other. I knew I needed a collaborator to help bring my ideas and themes to life and to bring interesting and to also bring sympathetic ideas of their own to the project. And so, I asked Andrew Pattie to work with me on the soundtrack. Andrew can play a lot of instruments well, is a great singer and has natural musicality. We loved and connected with the emotional content in the story and we found our first musical theme quite quickly. It was a reaction to imagining an opening titles sequence that would set a mood and tone for everything that would follow. This theme mutates and resurfaces at various points throughout the film. After that we found other themes that we connected to the emotions and physicality of the central characters. As well as the instrumental themes you will find two songs on this album..." --Duglas T Stewart, Summer 2022
TRU SOUL RECORDS
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CAT #: TRU 1015CD
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
ROCK, PETE Return Of The SP-1200 Vol. 2 CD
"Pete Rock is widely recognized as one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time. His name is oft included in the pantheon of the greatest, alongside DJ Premier, RZA and J Dilla. In addition, Pete has one of the world's most extensive vinyl collections, the sort of collection whose size can only be estimated, and that estimate stands in excess of 100,000 LPs. In 2019, Rock launched his own imprint, Tru Soul Records, with the release of Return Of The SP-1200. Pete Rock goes back to his roots -- the SP1200 and his vinyl -- to debut Return Of The SP-1200 Vol. 2. "
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CAT #: TRU 1015LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
ROCK, PETE Return Of The SP-1200 Vol. 2 LP
Opaque red vinyl. "Pete Rock is widely recognized as one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time. His name is oft included in the pantheon of the greatest, alongside DJ Premier, RZA and J Dilla. In addition, Pete has one of the world's most extensive vinyl collections, the sort of collection whose size can only be estimated, and that estimate stands in excess of 100,000 LPs. In 2019, Rock launched his own imprint, Tru Soul Records, with the release of Return Of The SP-1200. Pete Rock goes back to his roots -- the SP1200 and his vinyl -- to debut Return Of The SP-1200 Vol. 2."
VINILISSSIMO (SPAIN)
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CAT #: MRSSS 539LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MAIA, TIM Tim Maia (1977) LP
2022 repress. Vinilisssimo present the first vinyl reissue of Tim Maia's 1977 self-titled album. Tim Maia was born in 1942 in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro and started his musical career at an early age, along with close friends such as Roberto Carlos or Jorge Ben. Carlos would eventually help him to get a deal for his first single at CBS. During the '70s, Maia started to incorporate soul and funk elements into his style. After a two-year period involvement in the Cultura Racional in Brazil, Maia's funky style was still at its best when he released this album in 1977. It was his first and only recording for Som Livre, the legendary label that became extremely popular due to the many soap operas soundtracks in its extensive catalog. This self-titled LP deserves to be shortlisted among Maia's top records. It features killer tunes like the anthemic "É Necessário", undoubtedly one of the best songs in his career, and also boogie gems such as "Verão Carioca" or "Venha Dormir Em Casa" that show obvious influences by some of the biggest American soul artists of the time. It also contains intimate vocal delights as in the lovely smooth tune "Música Para Betinha" or even straight funky instrumentals like "Flores Belas". The string arrangements, wah-wah guitars, horns, deep vocals make this recording a milestone in the so-called "Black Movement" in Rio, where artists like Toni Tornado, Banda Black Rio and Maia himself were bringing in the funky sounds of America and mixing them with local rhythms like samba. Presented in facsimile artwork and pressed on 180 gram vinyl.
VOID RECORDS
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CAT #: VOID 064LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
RAYNE, THE The Rayne LP
"Brand new issue of mid to late 60's garage pop psych band from N.Y. Comprised of six period originals, plus three period covers and two later songs, the Rayne have a west coast psych sound with female/male vox... edition of 450 on black vinyl; band insert."
VP RECORDS
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CAT #: VPRL 4237LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
CONGOS, THE Heart of the Congos (Remastered) LP
Remastered vinyl edition of The Congos' legendary Heart Of The Congos.
WRWTFWW RECORDS (SWITZERLAND)
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CAT #: WRWTFWW 070LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
ISHIKAWA & DER EISENROST, CHU Tokyo Fist LP
WRWTFWW Records announce the release of Chu Ishikawa and Der Eisenrost's soundtrack for experimental action-drama Tokyo Fist, released in 1995 and directed by legendary director/producer/writer Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man and its sequels, Bullet Ballet, Hiroki The Goblin, Nightmare Detective). Previously only published on CD in Japan, the cult movie soundtrack is available on vinyl for the first time ever. The Tokyo Fist soundtrack gorgeously blends explosive industrial music, heavy percussion, martial rhythms, and noise experimentations with contemplative ambient and emotion-filled synth soundscapes, perfectly encapsulating the nihilistic pain felt by the characters of the movie and the brutally visceral rebirth they go through. Ishikawa and Der Eisenrost's compositions hit hard, sometimes truly terrorizing, sometimes heart-gripping in gloomy and bewitching ways. This is no holds barred music, a venture into the darkest yet most strangely beautiful corners of the human mind (and heart). The late great Chu Ishikawa was one of the innovators of the industrial and experimental scene in Japan and has collaborated with Shin'ya Tsukamoto on numerous movies. He also worked extensively with Takashi Miike, another visionary filmmaker from his home country. Ishikawa was the leader of groundbreaking industrial-metal-percussion unit Der Eisenrost whose live performances around Japan left an indelible mark on the genre's history. Housed in a heavy 350gsm sleeve.
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AGIPUNK (ITALY)
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CAT #: AG 130LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
PIG SWEAT Don't Panic LP
Straight forward in your face hardcore punk from this fresh band from Bern, Switzerland. Pig Sweat will bring you back to 1981 Washington DC or Boston with their direct blend of hardcore. They sharpened their knives after their amazing debut self-titled LP released in 2020 and are gonna rip you with these ten tracks of absolute relentless aggressiveness. Edition of 300.
ALGA MARGHEN (ITALY)
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CAT #: NMN 170LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
RADIGUE, ELIANE In Memoriam-Ostinato / Danse des Dakinis LP
Alga Marghen presents the last chapter from the Feedback Works documentation series, a brand-new LP including "In Memoriam-Ostinato" and "Danse des Dakinis", two previous unreleased tracks by Eliane Radigue. Among the works of fixed duration from the feedback period, "In Memoriam-Ostinato" is the link between "Jouet Electronique" (ALGA 029LP) and "Opus 17" (ALGA 045LP), and allows you to understand the evolution of her approach. "In Memoriam-Ostinato" is a game of mirroring symbols which glide into a non-measured, bent and elastic, temporality. Eliane Radigue's working method and her aesthetic direction are evident in this work from 1969: her very own unique temporal space of sonic experiences. Even though it bears the same name as the third part of "Adnos III", "Danse des Dakinis" is a peculiar work in Eliane's oeuvre. Conceived in a short time, with all kind of tapes from the composer's past work, it fluently shows a kaleidoscopic vision of Radigue's sensibility for sound. In 1998 she put together a curious self-portrait in sound. There is a feedback ostinato conceived around 1969 and which refers to "In Memoriam-Ostinato" and "Opus 17". All through "Danse des Dakinis" you plunge into the sound of a creek recorded at Mills College campus that brings you back to the field-recordings from the beginning of the 1960s, made on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Such elements construct "Elemental1" (ALGA 029LP) as well. There are also some discreet interventions on the ARP 2500 synthesizer. It is indeed a peculiar work, which doesn't have the same features of her other compositions, especially at that time of her compositional path. There is an explanation for the composer producing this kind of sound material in 1998, and not limited to the sound waves of the ARP synthesizer. Invited to a workshop at Mills College in 1998, Eliane Radigue could not load herself down with her bulky instrument on such a trip. So, she left with just a few tapes taken from her own collection, drawn from different periods, and composed "Danse des Dakinis" with those old elements. There is tension in this composition, a certain wildness, an unpredictability of elements, those which are recognized as fundamental elements, which give structure to the universe. "Dance des Dakinis" is an intimate and wild symphony, alive and unpredictable, which is to be the next-to-last gesture of the composer before completely stopping her work with electronics.
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CAT #: TES 169LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
SMEGMA Infringements LP
Alga Marghen's third installment of Smegma's original "Suburban Primitive Avant-folk music" period (1973-1975) based in Pasadena, featuring three previously unreleased tracks from the deep vault of their home recordings. In the beginning, the band Smegma had only one rule. No musicians. Starting from scratch, they took the road much less traveled. They were inspired by outsider musical artists of the time such as John Cage, Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart, Wild Man Fisher, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, etc. and they recorded every experiment with youthful enthusiasm. Mostly they only succeeded in tormenting their own friends and neighbors (except for the few who joined the band) but somehow, they never chose imitation, but stumbles on a path that allowed past (shamanistic) and future (space) sounds to lead the way. The titled track gently pulls you in and carries you off with a way-out inner-mind group jamming/not-jamming trip, featuring prepared piano, modular synthesizer, human mouth sounds, pan pipes, tabla, and electric bass guitar. "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" (defiantly not the 1960s pop hit) rips you straight into a high energy New Years Eve Party jam, in a romping free jazz style with stream of consciousness vocals and exuberant alto sax solos. Side B starts with Beatnik finger popping and wild dogs barking from a record player, while breathless flute playing leads you down the rabbit hole of mysterious group vocalizing, including imitating the cry of the wild tropical parrots that lived in the palm trees in the front yard of the house in Pasadena that they had lived in. Always out of sync with their own time, 49 years later these tracks still throb and pulsate Beautifully with their own inner logic. Edition of 230.
B-VIS (POLAND)
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CAT #: BV 278174LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CAVE, NICK Sings More Modern Classics (and Songs from the Silver Screen) LP
Limited restock. The king of alternative pop sings: "Disco 2000", "Let It Be", "Mojo", "The Kiss Of Love", "I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)", "I'm Your Man", "Cosmic Dancer", "Money & Run", "Farewell Song", "Ramblin' Mind", "The Breaking Hands", and "Shine On Me".
BANG! RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: BANG 165LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TEEL AND THE BIG CITY STOMPERS, JERRY Crazy Dreams LP
Bang! Records present Crazy Dreams, the unreleased album by Jerry Teel and The Big Stompers. Recorded more than 20 years ago at Funhouse Studio in NYC. The Big City Stompers, led by Jerry Teel and Pauline Teel knew how to mix the hillbilly and country sounds of rural America with the dirty sound of NYC of Jerry Teel's historical membership in bands such as The Chrome Cranks, The Honeymoon Killers, Knoxville Girls... And check this: this record, features The Sadies as a backing band in some tracks. Edition of 600.
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CAT #: BANG 166LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SOLUTION, THE Communicate! LP
Finally reissued on vinyl, this is The Solution's first album, Communicate!, originally released in 2004. Communicate! is the first collaboration between Detroit rock legend Scott Morgan (Rationals, Sonic's Rendezvous Band) and Nicke Royale (The Hellacopters). This album has been long out-of-print and has reached insane prices in the second-hand market. Now it is finally repressed from the original masters and artwork.
BLACK SWEAT RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: BS 073CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
ART OF PRIMITIVE SOUND (W. MAIOLI) Strumenti Musicali Della Preistoria: Il Paleolitico CD
Art Of Primitive Sound is a sensational journey to the origin of music. In his crucial research chapter on the Paleolithic, Walter Maioli between 1986 and 1991 investigates the soundscape of different geographical, climatic, and botanical environments, in which the mystery of the ancient human-nature relationship resides. What emerges is an expanded and unprecedented Paleorganology, with a range of acoustic and natural instruments from all over the world. Rubbing of fossils, animal artifacts, plant elements of all sorts, everything becomes sound and each object opens up forms of imaginary communication, psychic effect and unexplored languages. Whistles, flutes, leaf, and shell rattles, rhombuses, horns, bone pipes, slate slabs, bamboo arches, stones, vertebrae, seeds, stalagtites etc. How great can be the natural orchestra inherent in the spirit of forests, rivers, caves, seas, swamps or Amazon jungles? Thanks to an interdisciplinary partnership (Anthropology, Archaeology, Botany, Ethnomusicology) of collaborating friends, Maioli directs an opera of universal character inspired by the archaic essence of sound and infrasonic dimension.
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CAT #: BS 073LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
ART OF PRIMITIVE SOUND (W. MAIOLI) Strumenti Musicali Della Preistoria: Il Paleolitico LP
LP version. Art Of Primitive Sound is a sensational journey to the origin of music. In his crucial research chapter on the Paleolithic, Walter Maioli between 1986 and 1991 investigates the soundscape of different geographical, climatic, and botanical environments, in which the mystery of the ancient human-nature relationship resides. What emerges is an expanded and unprecedented Paleorganology, with a range of acoustic and natural instruments from all over the world. Rubbing of fossils, animal artifacts, plant elements of all sorts, everything becomes sound and each object opens up forms of imaginary communication, psychic effect and unexplored languages. Whistles, flutes, leaf, and shell rattles, rhombuses, horns, bone pipes, slate slabs, bamboo arches, stones, vertebrae, seeds, stalagtites etc. How great can be the natural orchestra inherent in the spirit of forests, rivers, caves, seas, swamps or Amazon jungles? Thanks to an interdisciplinary partnership (Anthropology, Archaeology, Botany, Ethnomusicology) of collaborating friends, Maioli directs an opera of universal character inspired by the archaic essence of sound and infrasonic dimension.
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CAT #: BS 074LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MAGMA, EVEREST Alto//Piano LP
Everest Magma rediscovers the folk roots of his dreamy alter ego Woodcutter. Once again, he appears as a minstrel crossing moonstruck woods inhabited by gnomes, butterflies, and crawling creatures. Nature is sublimated into a personal alien vision in which a lysergic approach triumphs in the arrangement of sound material and immersive musique concrète. Pure acid-folk fingerpicking communicates directly with the forest's humus, steeped in wild and ethereal moods. Between schizoid or more lyrical moments, a persistent taste for subtle subterranean noises, electric flashes, radio and UFOlogical interferences, deviant scents, and psychological drifts permeates the flow. The abstracting structure of voices and singing expresses the cyclical beingness of living, a decontextualizing dimension of space and time. It's the pantheistic feeling of a parallel naturalistic universe, which also takes cues from the psychedelic eccentricity of Claudio Rocchi's Suoni di Frontiera, the Incredible String Band or Holy Modal Rounders. Co-produced with Maple Death Records.
BLUME (ITALY)
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CAT #: BLUME 019-20LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
NIBLOCK, PHILL Four Full Flutes 2LP BOX
Blume Editions announce the long-awaited first-time vinyl pressing of the New York based composer Phill Niblock's seminal Four Full Flutes, restoring the album to the format for which it was originally conceived. Created in collaboration with the flutists Petr Kotik, Susan Stenger, and Eberhard Blum toward the end of the 1970s, the album's four compositions belong to Niblock's radical rethinking of the possibilities and terms of tape music and microtonalism, the effects of which continue to ripple across the field of experimental to this day. Created in full collaboration with the composer with newly commissioned liner notes by Bradford Bailey, David First, few artifacts of minimalism's second wave have proven to have had such an enduring effect. Niblock's third full-length dates from the same era of compositions as its predecessors, but found Niblock's attitude toward the potential activated by home playback moderately changed. Four Full Flutes comprises four works, roughly 20 minutes each, composed for flute by Niblock toward the end of the '70s and early '80s. Each deploys the compositional system within which he has worked for the better part of his career; combining sustained tones of specific durations, rigorously produced at microtonal intervals by the respective musicians, before arriving at their final form through meticulous work with magnetic tape on the part of the composer. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Deluxe wooden box with velvet lining; red vinyl, audiophile pressing, housed in Nagaoka anti-static record sleeves; includes an original LP-sized extensive booklet and a 60x90cm iconic poster designed by Bruno Stucchi/Dinamomilano; edition of 300.
BORN BAD RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: BORNBAD 039LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BEBEY, FRANCIS African Electronic Music 1975-1982 2LP
2022 repress; Double LP version. Cameroonian musician Francis Bebey is truly one of a kind. He entered the music scene with his African compositions for classical guitar. He gave recitals while pursuing a career in journalism and then as an international civil servant. The same creative impulse also led him to write pop songs, some of which (based on novels he had written) became big hits in Africa and in the French-speaking world. But few people know that in the '70s, Francis Bebey delved into electronic music. The first electronic keyboards, organs and drum machines offered him new possibilities of totally controlling his compositions. He embraced the technique of "sound on sound" recording (recording several tracks, sequentially juxtaposed on the same tape). This new stage in his musical career included the production of several records (Savannah Georgia, New Track, Haiti), rarities both for their creative explorations as well as their manifestations on vinyl. This was a particularly rich period for him, as he tested the limitless possibilities of the medium, and made use of surprising and novel instruments. Incredible sounds -- in the literal sense of the word -- would soon appear on the planet Bebey. Full-color printed innersleeves with notes in English and French.
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CAT #: BORNBAD 086LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LA FEMME Mystere 2LP
2022 repress. French pop connoisseurs La Femme present Mystère. La Femme have made a huge mark on modern Paris's cultural landscape, with the two sides of the city - the glamour and the grit - ingrained in their music. Since the release of their debut album, Psycho Tropical Berlin (BORNBAD 051LP, 2013), their rise has only gained momentum with fans including directors Jacques Audiard and Romain Gavras to legends Jean Michel Jarre and Hedi Slimane. Returning with a more psychedelic sound and guest vocalists that slice through the starkest of electro beats, Mystère sees La Femme celebrating their wonderful city. From the chattering tête-à-tête heard on "Conversations Nocturnes" to the throbbing disco beat of "SSD", a direct reference to the pulsing nightlife hotspot and multi-cultural district Strasbourg Saint Denis where the band is based. Mystère's true intrigue however, lies in La Femme's enigmatic questioning of falling in and out of love. A compendium of short stories describing loves and losses, each song breaks down language barriers through an inventive and astute knack for melody. The elation of a passionate encounter is captured on the ricocheting electronics of "Tatiana", the melancholic acoustic guitar echoes in "Le Vide Est Ton Nouveau Prenom" and the sorrow of a war-torn couple in "Psyzook". Whether delicate or drenched in dirty disco, the impact of Clémence, Marlon and Sacha's gothic mantras mixed with the guest vocal talent of Clara Luciani, Jane Peynot, Naomi Greene, Mathilde Marlière, Angela Hureau, Battista Acquaviva and Sarah Ben Abdallah is perhaps where La Femme's true meaning can be found. Sacha on his band's all-inclusive philosophy: "We don't like the idea of having a leader or a chief: everyone brings to the band what they can and want." Recorded between a castle in Brittany and a Paris basement before being finished up with Sonny Diperri (Animal Collective) in LA, Mystère once again sees backgrounds blurred and worlds collide. The band's chic retro-futurist surf-pop sound possesses the same dose of glamorous punk stomp as before, but this time around it's layered with an elegant fusion of influences from Ennio Morricone, Marie Et Les Garcons's disco-rock touch and the lysergic romanticism of The Velvet Underground. Through increased use of strings and further exploration of sound, Mystère also incorporates the band's new love of oriental sounds, Turkish disco, Tuareg blues, medieval psychedelia to mainstays Brian Eno and Pink Floyd.
BUREAU B (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BB 394LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TO ROCOCO ROT John Peel BBC Sessions 97-99 LP
LP version. Without a doubt, To Rococo Rot are an exception within the German music landscape. From 1995 until they broke up in 2014, the group around Robert Lippok, Ronald Lippok, and Stefan Schneider researched a unique sound between electronic music, ambient, post-melancholy, and the further development of a new, free music like krautrock. The trio was invited three times by John Peel to record radio sessions in the BBC studios. Bureau B make the recordings from these three sessions from the years 1997 and 1999 available on record for the first time, which, in addition to the live versions of selected album tracks, also contains exclusive, unreleased songs."... Kreidler originated in the west, Ornament & Verbrechen in the east. Robert Lippok describes the moment when things did a 180: 'When we first started releasing records it was almost a shock to hear our own music on the radio.' You walk through an invisible wall. You cause a membrane to pulsate. And finally in 1995, To Rococo Rot was the band whose music, in a kind of aesthetic feedback loop, also made a certain John Peel at the BBC and Daniel Miller at Mute Records sit up and take notice: 'It was something new, something that sounded like it could only be done in Germany; and, as I discovered later, could only be done by guys who were born in the east of Germany in the days before the wall came down.' And so, the three To Rococo Rot sessions united here with their to some extent exclusive Peel tracks ('Glück', 'Esther', 'Glass'), some recorded under intense time pressure, are testimonies to the intimate connection of three German musicians with the whole world, with pop, with the happiness that one possesses and that one shares. Pop without its means of production is inconceivable. And even in times when digital is king, we should consider ourselves lucky that this analog reality of sound, like radio waves, continues to pulsate through us." --Karl Bruckmaier
DEAR BOSS (ITALY)
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CAT #: JACK 004LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES Paradise in San Francisco: California Hall, 26th November 1980 FM Broadcast LP
Named by AllMusic as "one of the most influential British singers of the rock era", Siouxsie Sue needs no introduction in the world of alternative music. Caught live backed by the Banshees during their first US tour in 1980, at the California Hall while promoting their second album Kaleidoscope (1980) this is the essence of goth-rock before it was even invented. Features such hits as "Israel", "Hong Kong Garden", and "Happy House". Black vinyl; edition of 500.
DIE SCHACHTEL (ITALY)
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CAT #: ZEITC 020LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
O'ROURKE/GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO, JIM Immanent in Nervous Activity LP
Riding the razor's edge between bristling electroacoustic wizardry and the constrained structures and harmonic interplay of musical minimalism, Die Schachtel announce Immanent in Nervous Activity, a brand-new release from the creative partnership of Jim O'Rourke and Giovanni Di Domenico. Comprising a single long-form work, divided into two movements that culminate as a second chapter to the duo's 2015 LP, Arco (ZEITC 016LP) -- an album which endeavored, on visionary terms, after the potential of waiting and patience as means toward musical form. Delivering the long overdue follow-up to their brilliant 2015 outing, Arco, the duo of Giovanni Di Domenico and Jim O'Rourke return to Die Schachtel with Immanent in Nervous Activity. Their latest adventure -- recorded in Japan with further contributions by Eiko Ishibashi on flute and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto on snare -- rolls at a glacial pace, deftly weaving tension into restrained sheets of tonality, texture, and harmonic dissonance that ripple with microscopic detail and a stunning sense of structure. A bristling intervention the terms and possibilities of electronic music by one of the most exciting partnerships in the contemporary landscape of adventurous sound. Another defining statement by one of the most exciting partnerships in the contemporary landscape of adventurous sound. Printed in deep black and metallic silver on extra matte white heavy cardboard; includes black/silver limited "Zepelin" poster cm 30x90; original design by Bruno Stucchi/dinamomilano; edition of 400.
ESOTERIC RECORDINGS (UK)
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CAT #: ECLEC 42821CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MARTYN, JOHN The Apprentice 3CD/1DVD
"An expanded four-disc edition of the 1990 album The Apprentice by late John Martyn. With a career that had begun in the late 1960s and had produced a succession of excellent albums throughout the '70s and '80s, Martyn recorded The Apprentice at the end of 1989 at a studio in Glasgow working with musicians including Foster Patterson (keyboards), Dave Taif-Ball (bass) and Aran Ahmun (drums) and guest saxophonist Andy Shepherd."
ESP-DISK
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CAT #: ESPDISK 1016LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
AYLER, ALBERT New York Eye and Ear Control LP
2022 restock; 2017 repress; originally released in 1966. Featured artists: Albert Ayler (tenor sax), Ed Blackwell (trumpet), Don Cherry (trumpet, cornet), Sunny Murray (drums), Gary Peacock (bass), Roswell Rudd (trombone), John Tchicai (saxophone, alto sax). Michael Snow is a Canadian national treasure, a true Renaissance man. He assembled a stellar group to improvise a sound track for his art film, titled Walking Woman, featuring a silhouette that is rumored to have been inspired by Carla Bley. Digitally remastered. Manufactured in the USA by the original label. New digipak format. "This is a very interesting set, music that was freely improvised and used as the soundtrack for the 34-minute short film New York Eye and Ear Control. Tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler leads the all-star sextet (which also includes trumpeter Don Cherry, altoist John Tchicai, trombonist Roswell Rudd, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Sunny Murray) on two lengthy jams. The music is fiery but with enough colorful moments to hold one's interest throughout." --Scott Yanow, AllMusic
EXIL (GERMANY)
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CAT #: EXIL 5555LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
DISSIDENTEN & LEM CHAHEB Sahara Elektrik LP
Milestone of ethno-beat. Decades of worldwide concerts, 30 albums and millions and millions of streams have given the Dissidents a wonderful audience all over the planet. The New York Times saw them back in the eighties as pioneers of what would later become the term "world music." Almost 40 years after its initial release, their legendary album Sahara Elektrik remastered on vinyl is experiencing an unexpected rebirth and conveys the musical awakening of those years very closely.
FATIADO DISCOS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: FD 005LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
DI MELO Di Melo LP
2023 restock. Fatiado Discos present a reissue of Di Melo's self-titled album, originally released in 1975. One may say that in the '70s, in the Brazilian northeastern music scene, specifically in Recife/Pernambuco it was a magical time. The fusion of local original Brazilian genres such as samba and baião with North American soul music, funk and British psychedelia resulted in one of the richest cultural scenes worldwide. And it is exactly in such context that Di Melo was in when he wrote his acclaimed debut album. Roberto de Melo was known as Bob Di Melo amongst freaks and weirdos in the art and music scene when Jorge Ben introduced him to important executives of the music business in São Paulo, where most record labels were. His strong personality is best seen in his music and also helps launch his 1975 first album through a major company with amazing musicians such as Hermeto Pascoal. "Kilariô", the opening song of the album, became a big hit all over the country. Other songs such as "A Vida Em Seus Métodos Diz Calma" and "Pernalonga" were also a hit on the radio and clubs. Di Melo, the album, became then a success by the critic and public mainly for going through several music genres not letting go of the deep Brazilian roots. The young man of 25 coming from the outskirts of Pernambuco was at the peak of his success. Psychedelic drugs and cinema references were blowing his mind away when he realized that he was being conned by music industry rats. His songs were at the hit parade on the radio and his music had been recorded by some of the biggest names in Brazil, but what he was being paid for made no justice to that. People say that after watching the movie Blow Up by Antonioni, Di Melo himself beat the shit out of the publisher who paid him less than 10 dollars for his rights for the past three months. Such events, ran by the same strong personality that initially opened doors, made Di Melo ostracized by the ungrateful Brazilian music industry. Perhaps that's what it took to make such a mythical album. Includes original 1975 insert with lyrics plus photos from personal family archives and for the first time the full credits with all the name of every single musician who took part, among them, Hermeto Pascoal.
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
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CAT #: FTR 721CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MAKO SICA/HAMID DRAKE/THYMME JONES/TATSU AOKI Formless CD
"Gorgeous quintet improv space explored at Chicago's ProMusica studios. Long-time partners Przemyslaw Drazek (trumpet, strings, percussion) and Brent Fuscaldo (voice, guitar, percussion, harmonica) join up again with Hamid's percussion, Tatsu's bass and shamisen, and Thymme's piano and various, just as they did on last year's amazing Ourania (FTR 592LP). The sounds now are spacious, comfortable explorations of unknown sonic turf. There may be a bit less of the aggressive edge that marked their earlier work, but the music generates an equal amount of head-shaking wonder. Thymme's piano and the hails of percussive energy now sometimes set the stage in the way the band's trumpet and guitar once did. There's a magnificent moodiness to the way this music is put together. And trying to squeeze it into a genre definition is harder than ever. Rock, jazz and experimental textures are all allowed to roam freely throughout the session, with the result being a splendid sort of audio anarchy head birthing chunks of sound that are sculpted into boulders of cosmic beauty. There's almost no telling which way things are going to turn in the course of Formless, but the results are always warm blurs you can almost feel massaging your tympanic membranes. Amazing stuff. As usual! Also worth noting, the band will be dropping Mako Sica as a working name after this LP, and will henceforth be using Drazek/Fuscaldo, along with whatever special riders choose to come along. You have been warned." --Byron Coley, 2022
GLITTERBEAT (GERMANY)
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CAT #: GB 137LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AKYOL, GAYE SU Anadolu Ejderi LP
LP version. Wildly acclaimed Istanbul-based artist Gaye Su Akyol delivers an unforgettable fourth album, Anadolu Ejderi. Building upon her mélange of Turkish psychedelia, empowered commentary and retro-futurist sonics, her vision is more personal and uncompromising than ever before. Lauded for her startling, innovative mix of Turkish psychedelia and folk song, surf music and ?90s Western rock, a global sweet spot where Anatolian music heroine Selda Ba?can rubbed shoulders with Kurt Cobain, Akyol was ready to expand her vision after a relentless period on the road. Everything on Anadolu Ejderi -- the title translates as "Anatolian Dragon" -- breathes fire. It takes chances, the lyrics offer an exploration of politics in today's Turkey. The personal is very much part of that. While it can hark back to the beauty of Istanbul before the coups that changed the place, when the country shifted, Anadolu Ejderi is a record that's filled with possibilities and dives into the unexpected. It's there in the dancing joy of slipping a disco section into the title track or the stark beauty of the acoustic openings to "Yaram Derin Derin Kanar" and "Biz Ne Zaman Dü?man Olduk," which arrive as shocks to the system. If you thought you knew what to expect in Gaye Su Akyol's music, things have changed. Akyol's lyrics lure, puzzle, and often take by surprise, as with the album's final track, "Içinde Uyan?yoruz Hakikatin" (We Are Waking Up In Reality). Musically it can seem like the closest to a straightforward Western song she's come, but, Akyol notes, "you also hear non-existent Turkish folk". Akyol is an astute observer of what's happened to her country. The tales history tells are important to her. That first upheaval of 1980 was followed by another in 1997, and her cries for what's lost stand in her words. The political allusions are often carefully oblique, but they're there. The instrumentation forges closer connections between Turkey's past and its present. The rock guitar, bass and drum trio are now accompanied by traditional instruments such as violin, oud, electro baglama, cümbü?, sazbü?. With Anadolu Ejderi, Akyol says, "I'm telling stories for the future." To do that takes courage. It takes bravery and daring. Listen, and you'll hear the roar of the Anatolian dragon as it roars. "Her voice is a mesmerizing thing, deep and plummy enough to shake trees and stir hearts." --Pitchfork
GROWING BIN RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: GBR 043EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
PERSON, THE Magic $ 12"
The Person is back on the dancefloor and she brought the delicious Australian version of a good old Italian recipe -- Italoz Disco. Mouthwatering rhythms spiced with everyday hustle, cosmic boogie and the extra dose of synthesizer. Changing the meatballs for oddballs to worship the Magic $ properly. Sull' alto lato (aka on the B-Side) they change the oddballs for the mothballs as the one and only Hysteric warms up the magic ragout in his unique steam-powered kitchen. Now go to work! You still need to be convinced? Take these great lines by Patrick: "Magic $" beams into the discotheque direct from deep space; a shimmering body of squelching bass, nebulous pads, and snapping percussion which hosts Minna's bewitching vocals. The arch delivery and vintage sequences flirt with kitsch, but that playful genius particular to The Person pushes this into wonderfully wonkier territories. Basslines climb, keys collapse and the whole thing chugs and bubbles through a flawless arrangement. Stepping in on remix duty, renowned (moth)baller hysteric turns out a treatment that's worth a million bucks, boosting the bottom end with an acidic sequence, supercharging the percussion and punching in some strange sampler fun to guarantee utter club chaos. Every superhero needs a theme song, and "The Person" sees Minna step away from the dancefloor to deliver a synthetic ballad for lucid dreamers everywhere. Jamming on top of a malfunctioning Jomox, Minna channels chimes, piano, and a gentle chug into the classiest chord progression this side of Mike Francis. Closing cut "Go To Work" gives us neon lights and nighthawks as The Person indulges in a little Antipodean electro, proving once and for all that Australians Do It Better.
GUERSSEN RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: GUESS 180LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FARM Farm LP
Limited available stock. LP version. Reissue. Originally released as private pressing in 1971, the Farm album is highly sought-after and revered by collectors. Recorded by this Southern Illinois band in 1971 at the legendary Golden Voice studios, it's chock full of jammy, bluesy guitar psych with heavy dual guitars, organ, congas, harp... Recommended if you like Quicksilver, Allman Brothers, Canned Heat, Ten Years After... Remastered sound; original artwork; includes booklet with photos and extensive liner notes by Kevin Rathert (It's Psychedelic Baby) LP version includes download card. "A vital album for fans of vintage guitar action." --Patrick Lundborg (Acid Archives).
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CAT #: GUESS 205LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CRYSTALLINE Axe Music LP
LP version. First reissued by Guerssen Records in 2012 and out of print for many years, here's a new, improved repress of this UK psych holy grail. Axe (known also as Axe Music and finally Crystalline by the time they recorded their rare acetate) were an obscure British psych band led by acid-rock guitar player extraordinaire Tony Barford and graced by Vivienne Jones ethereal vocals. The band hailed from Northampton (home also of their mates Dark of Dark Round The Edges fame). In 1970, they recorded a demo album of which only 12 copies were pressed as a demo acetate. Here's a straight reissue of this legendary artifact, as the previous "reissue" on the Kissing Spell label from 1993 and credited to Axe was altered without the band consent and included newly edited tracks, artificial echo/phasing effects, altered song titles... Here you'll find the acetate recording on its pure form: 100% unadulterated heavy psych and acid-rock sounds full of raw, fuzzed-out guitars and dreamy female vocals. Four impressive original songs plus a long, psyched to the max cover of Love's "A House Is Not A Motel" which has to be heard to be believed. Carefully remastered from an original acetate copy in 24-bit. Unfortunately, no masters survived and no 100% clean copies are known to exist of the original acetates, but you'll get the best result for the possibilities. New artwork (the original acetate came in blank sleeve); insert with unseen pictures and liner notes by Paul Cross (Sweet Floral Albion). "...This is possibly the finest example of British underground psychedelia..." --Richard Falk, Galactic Ramble. "...Axe did not make a lot of music, but they made some phenomenal music. Some of the best ever to emerge from the swamp of heavy British psychedelia, certainly some of the rarest" --Paul Cross (Sweet Floral Albion). Rated with the maximum rarity in Hans Pokora's 5001 Record Collector Dreams book.
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CAT #: GUESS 210LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BULLET The Entrance to Hell 2LP
Top notch hard-rock/proto metal by post-Atomic Rooster and pre-Hard Stuff band Bullet, featuring the explosive guitar and vocals of John Du Cann (The Attack, Andromeda, Atomic Rooster) plus bass player John Gustafson (Quatermass, Roxy Music, Ian Gillan Band), and Paul Hammond (Atomic Rooster) on drums. Their legendary studio recordings from 1970-71, now for the first time on vinyl. Gatefold sleeve with detailed liner notes and photos. RIYL: Hard Stuff, Captain Beyond, Uriah Heep, Dust. "... gritty sounding, blues based power trio built around John Du Cann's unlimited arsenal of crunchy guitar riffs and scorching solos..." --Ryan Sparks (Sea Of Tranquility).
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CAT #: GUESS 216LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DAKILA Dakila LP
LP version. First ever official reissue, originally released in 1972. Dakila (a Filipino word meaning "greatness") emerged from the melting pot of musical fusions that originated in the San Francisco Bay Area of the late '60s. They often could be seen playing at Bill Graham's Fillmore West, SF Winterland and all the major clubs in the SF Bay Area and festivals. Singing in Tagalog, Spanish, and English, Dakila was the first Filipino-American band signed to a major label. Their sole album from 1972 combined their Filipino heritage with Latin rock, psychedelia/acid-rock, and Afro-funk. The result was an explosive, hot jamming sound full of congas/percussion, Hammond, dual fuzz guitar, fuzz-bass. Features corrected pitch (the original was speeded up by the producers against the band's will) and a color insert with detailed liner notes. 50th anniversary reissue. One of the hidden gems from the original Latin rock movement. RIYL: Santana, El Chicano, Barrabás, Chango, Malo, Mandrill.
HEIST RECORDINGS (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: HEIST 065EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
BYRON THE AQUARIUS Akira EP 12"
The embodiment of modern-day electronic funk and a true wizard on the keys: Atlanta raised cool guy Byron the Aquarius. Now, after a solid string of releases on labels like Shall Not Fade and Purveyor Underground, Byron is making his solo appearance on Heist. His Akira EP goes from dark basement grooves to dreamy broken beats and features a remix by New York dance music wizard Kush Jones. The Akira EP kicks off with "I love yo", a track that juxtaposes dreamy samples with rough percussion and vocal chops with a clear nod to the work of Mr. G. The melody is mellow, but don't be deceived; clever drum programming and plenty of sub take this track into the club vibe just the way Byron likes it: warm, hazy and sexy AF. Enter "Get up". There's everything you love about house music: smart vocal chops, driving percussion, classic house keys, and a booming sub to get you bumping to this beat. Byron up the tempo and takes a deep dive into bass territory with "Love". In this track, there's lush pads running over a percussive broken beat and chopped R n' B vocals to add some serious sex appeal. Going back to classic house mode, you get "Success": a spoken word house track that fits right in with the classics. Byron sets the mood with some bumpy key-and synth work while brainstorming about originality and blackness throughout the track.
HEY SUBURBIA (ITALY)
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CAT #: SUBURBIA 022LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CHEMICAL PEOPLE The Singles 1988 1989 LP
Long before any Ramones' style resurgence, the torch of pop punk worldwide was held by three bands on the SST sublabel, Cruz Records: All, Big Drill Car, and Chemical People. This compilation collects Chemical People's early singles, issued between 1988 and 1989 on their own 2" Pecker Records, along with some bonus cuts recorded live at CBGB's in 1989. Featuring double-sided insert and a 60x40 cm folded poster with an exclusive band photo by Robert John. Green vinyl.
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CAT #: SUBURBIA 035LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BURNING HEADS Burning Heads LP
Reissue, originally released in 1992. Long overdue reissue for the debut album by the French melodic hardcore punkers Burning Heads. With a three-decade career, tons of full-length albums on labels like Epitaph and Victory, Burning Heads are an institution in the punk rock scene worldwide. Includes double-sided insert. Orange vinyl.
HOLD YOUR GROUND (GERMANY)
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CAT #: HYG 020EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DJ BALATON Space For Afternoon 10"
On DJ Balaton's second release, Space For Afternoon, the title says it all: this 10" features two laidback house tracks that belong in every set of a dignified afterhour. "Honey Future" impresses with driving bass and distorted Korg sound, while the focus is on repetitive delays and melodies. The single is completed by "Bedroom Floor" in a classic B-side style: the spherical sound carries you through space and time and makes you blur and forget them.
HOLIDAYS RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: HOL 131LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
DELIVERY HEALTH SuperDeluxe! 2LP
For more than a decade, Giovanni Di Domenico, Jim O'Rourke, and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto have been coming together in various combinations -- duos, trios, and larger ensembles -- slowly becoming one of the most noteworthy, understated collaborations in the landscape of experimental sound. In 2015, the trio recorded a brilliant LP entitled Delivery Health ?for Silent Water, laying the groundwork for an enduring project that adopted that album's title as its name, debuting properly in 2017 with the stunner Hard Off (SW 014LP, 2017). Over the years since, Di Domenico, O'Rourke, and Yamamoto have played together in Bonjintan, their project with Akira Sakata, and in further collaborations with Eiko Ishibashi and Joe Talia, not to mention O'Rourke and Di Domenico's prolific work as a duo. A bit more than five years on from Hard Off, Delivery Health finally return with SuperDeluxe!, a stunning new double-LP on Holidays Records. Comprising roughly four years of early activity from the trio that rests at a fascinating juncture of electroacoustic composition, free improvisation, and noise, it's easily among the most engaging and intoxicating efforts yet from one of the most dynamic bands working today. Like its predecessors, SuperDeluxe! rides a beautiful line between striking singular creative ambition and accomplishment, and simply feeling like a free-wheeling conversation between friends who have relinquished their egos and presumptions out of a deep sense of mutual respect. Ironically, as forward thinking as it feels, the album is a kind of retrospective rewind, comprising five live documents recorded, of course, at the legendary SuperDeluxe! in Tokyo between 2012 and 2014 across its four sides. Taking you deep into the very beginnings and previously unheard activities (at least for those who were there on these nights) of Di Domenico, O'Rourke, and Yamamoto, the trio weaves a knotted tapestry unfurling as sheets of sound, that sidesteps signifiers and the expectations that one might have of each of these artists on their own. Ranging from brisling ambient passages drawing on latent melodic flirtations, heavy jams on guitar, drums, electronics, and keyboards, and outright, full throttle noise, each moment represents a visionary excursion into the depths of experimental, improvised sound, revealing a shocking sense of real-time dexterity from each player, as much as the collective whole experiments in improvised sound. SuperDeluxe! is an immersion into the joys of music making, collaboration, and ultimately listening. Contemporary improvised music at its absolute best. Insert with Japanese text on colored paper; obi; edition of 300.
KI RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: KI 044LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
FEJKA Hiraeth LP
Hiraeth, a soulfully atmospheric, melodic electronic deep house tune by Fejká is an exhibition of warmth and calm, which embraces the listener and inspires feelings of longing. The sense of tranquility is heightened by the distinctive vocals of Kim van Loo, who collaborated on the track. Working from his studio in Stuttgart, Fejká used processed synths, pads, and piano with a tape machine to create a heightened nostalgic ambiance and establish a genuine and meaningful relationship with the listener. Above all, the song is deeply personal and emotionally authentic -- a remarkable demonstration of a desire to delve into a vaster range of emotions by the young producer. Also features Henry Green and Tomasz Mrénca.
KOSMISCHE KURIERE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: KK 2258003LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WEGMULLER, WALTER Tarot 2LP
Double LP version. Poly-lined inner sleeves; gatefold. 180 gram, black double vinyl. The original analog master tapes were transferred with higher resolution and remastered with great care. Remastered by Dieter Dierks and Dennis Flüchter. Walter Wegmüller (1937-2020) was a Swiss-Jenish artist who grew up in difficult circumstances in Bern. After training in Basel, Bern, Paris, and London, he began his artistic career. In addition to painting and sculptural works, Walter Wegmüller occupied himself with the entire spectrum of art. He gained widespread international attention, especially from 1974 onwards, with the publication of his Zigeuner Tarot. He was successful at countless exhibitions in Europe and overseas and was repeatedly awarded prizes and distinctions. However, he never forgot his origins as a Verding child and "Rome child from the Kalderasch tribe." In 1973, he released the album Tarot with an all-star band. Successful musicians such as Klaus Schulze, Manuel Göttsching, Harald Grosskopf, Dieter Dierks, Hartmut Enke, Jürgen Dollase, and Walter Westrupp played in the band. It remained Walter Wegmüller's only foray into the world of music. The album was last released on vinyl in 1976, the CD in 2000. This version here is the first remaster ever.
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CAT #: KK 2258004LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WEGMULLER, WALTER Tarot (Boxset) 2LP BOX
Double LP version. Boxset; poly-lined inner sleeves. 180 gram, black double vinyl. The original analog master tapes were transferred with higher resolution and remastered with great care. Based on the original vinyl packaging in 1973. Contains various cards by the artists, as well as explanatory texts on the Tarot reference and reprints of the Tarot cards. Remastered by Dieter Dierks and Dennis Flüchter. Walter Wegmüller (1937-2020) was a Swiss-Jenish artist who grew up in difficult circumstances in Bern. After training in Basel, Bern, Paris, and London, he began his artistic career. In addition to painting and sculptural works, Walter Wegmüller occupied himself with the entire spectrum of art. He gained widespread international attention, especially from 1974 onwards, with the publication of his Zigeuner Tarot. He was successful at countless exhibitions in Europe and overseas and was repeatedly awarded prizes and distinctions. However, he never forgot his origins as a Verding child and "Rome child from the Kalderasch tribe." In 1973, he released the album Tarot with an all-star band. Successful musicians such as Klaus Schulze, Manuel Göttsching, Harald Grosskopf, Dieter Dierks, Hartmut Enke, Jürgen Dollase, and Walter Westrupp played in the band. It remained Walter Wegmüller's only foray into the world of music. The album was last released on vinyl in 1976, the CD in 2000. This version here is the first remaster ever.
LONDON RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: LMS 5521591
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SUGABABES Anniversary Remixes 12"
To honor twenty years since the release of Sugababes' iconic debut album One Touch, the band released a series of brand-new remixes. Available on blue vinyl for the first time. The reworks from Majestic, Metronomy vs Tatyana, Blood Orange, and MNEK offer a fresh take on classic singles "Overload", "Same Old Story", and "Run For Cover". New artwork featuring archive photographs.
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CAT #: LMS 5521756
FILE UNDER: ROCK
COMMUNARDS Red (35th Anniversary Edition) (Deluxe Color Vinyl) 2LP
Double LP version. One red and one white vinyl. Gatefold sleeve; includes printed inner sleeve. The Communards' sophomore album Red consolidated the genius of the musical partnership between Bronski Beat singer Jimmy Somerville and pianist Richard Coles. Fusing synths and hi-NRG production with lush string and horn arrangements, the Communards straddled pop and the political, the album's themes set against the political unrest and moral panic of late '80s Britain. A global smash upon its release in 1987, this is the remastered and expanded 35th Anniversary Edition with new sleeve notes. Features an extensive array of B-sides, live tracks, demo versions and remixes, including classic mixes by legendary '80s club doyens Shep Pettibone, Clivilles & Cole (better known as C&C Music Factory) and a euphoric new 2022 remix of "Never Can Say Goodbye" by UK outfit The 2 Bears (Hot Chip's Joe Goddard and DJ Raf Rundell). Includes Stephen Lipson extended version.
M-PLANT
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CAT #: MPM 040LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MONOBOX Regenerate 2LP
2022 restock. You might think that Robert Hood is an artist who is content with the successes he's achieved via his solo work and those alongside daughter, Lyric (as Floorplan) but this is not a man who easily rests on his laurels so after a long-time in the planning he is set to regenerate his much-loved Monobox alias. Originally launched in 1996, his Monobox sound spanned a trio of EPs on his own M-Plant label, culminating in more releases including the Molecule album (2003) for French label Logistic, which later spawned a series of remixes including those of Ricardo Villalobos and Matthew Dear. A brief return came in 2014 as part of M-Plant's 20th anniversary celebrations, which saw the release of a new Monobox 12", Film/Rectangle (MPM 022EP). Speaking to Red Bull Music Academy that year for one of their Fireside Chat interviews, Robert said: "Monobox was an alien project. I read this book when I was probably around 13 or 14. It was this ominous black box that came from some other universe, and it was just sort of hovering over the planet, over a cornfield somewhere." In Robert's mind the idea for the new EP and album is that this vessel has been lying dormant for 40 or 50 years and is now beginning to rise up again, or regenerate. Robert's approach to Monobox was to create techno minimalism, but from an alien futuristic perspective. Returning to the moniker, his forthcoming EP and album encapsulates this raw, bristling and sci-fi tinged techno sound. The Forwardbase Kodai EP (MPM 039EP) features two new tracks (which won't appear on Regerate) alongside a remix by Ø [Phase] and a special Robert Hood Re-Plant edit. Regenerate is a fully immersive experience over seven exclusive tracks.
MAD ABOUT RECORDS (PORTUGAL)
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CAT #: MAR 064LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
SANDERS & VISIONS, SAM The Gift of Love LP
Reissue, originally released in 1983. Mad About Records present the official reissue of the legendary LP by Sam Sanders & Visions for the first time worldwide, The Gift of Love. Highly recommended '80s Detroit spiritual jazz masterpiece. Classic Detroit jazz in the Tribe Records, Strata East jazz vein. Although most of the sessions with Sanders from the '60s or '70s are either nowhere to be found or still unreleased, The Gift of Love -- perhaps the only release of Sanders as a leader during his lifetime and privately pressed by what is likely his own label, That African Lady -- offers a document of this Detroit great's music with his band Visions. Fellow Strata musician Kenny Cox, even sits in on keys on a few tracks. Sam Sanders, a unique saxophonist whose approach to music made him a legend in Detroit jazz. While sometimes likened to John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, or Joe Henderson, Sanders had an unmistakably unique style. His group, Sam Sanders & Visions -- for many years with bassist Ed Pickens and drummer Jimmy Allen, was known for extremely aggressive post-bebop jazz bordering on the avant-garde. Sanders was also active as an educator and concert producer. He was an instructor at the Detroit Metro Arts complex and at Oakland University. He was instrumental in creating the Detroit Jazz Center -- an open jazz school and concert venue presenting artists such as Jackie MacLean, Donald Byrd, and Woody Shaw, with local artists Kenny Cox, Marcus Belgrave, Roy Brooks, Charles Boles, and Danny Spencer, among many others. Sanders began playing while attending Northeastern High School in the '50s with fellow classmates Alice Coltrane, Kenny Cox, and Bennie Maupin. He later attended the Teal Music School and studied privately with Detroit jazz Legend, Yusef Lateef. During his career, Sanders performed with various artists, including: Milt Jackson, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, James Blood Ulmer, Sonny Stitt, Pharoah Sanders. Before forming Visions, Sanders and trumpeter Marcus Belgrave fronted a band with pianist Harold McKinney called the Creative Profile. Belgrave and Sanders would continue to perform together, often with Sander's big band, the Pioneer Orchestra. During the last decades of his life, Sanders traveled often to Senegal and eventually settled there with his wife, Viola Vaughn. Official reissue under exclusive license by Viola Vaughn. 180 gram vinyl; hard-cardboard cover with obi.
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CAT #: MAR 065LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
HURLEY, JOYCE Joyce LP
Reissue, originally released in 1978. Australian soul jazz masterpiece. The first album was recorded in Sydney in 1978 by Joyce Hurley, who learned piano basics in the United States and is currently a European singer, pianist, and composer. Although it has been featured in many record guides and reviews as one of the coveted DJs for a long time, it was, for a long time, a rare LP much sought after by collectors. In addition to the standard number, it is composed of instrumental songs by David Martin Group, who serves as a backing, and Afro-Cuban numbers such as "Sambolé" and "Here And Now" are the highlights and killer version of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage". Joyce Hurley's first full-length release. Joyce was a Detroit-born singer who came to Sydney to study at the NSW Conservatorium and recorded this album with the David Martin Group while she was here. The album was recorded at Earth Media Studios in late 1977 and 1978. 180 gram vinyl; hard cardboard sleeve + obi.
METAPHON (BELGIUM)
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CAT #: METAPHON 013CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
RANTA, MICHAEL Azabu CD
Even though only being fully terminated 50 years after its conception, Azabu can be regarded as the starting point of Michael Ranta's creative self-discovery. The recordings that form the base of Azabu were mostly made in the Tokyo district with the same name (Azabu-Juban). Next to abstracted field recordings, Azabu is also pervaded by a rich variety of percussion, string, and wind instruments, all played by Ranta himself. Subsequently Ranta edited, layered, and processed the recordings at the NHK electronic music studio in Tokyo. Both pieces display a vast array of acoustic, electronic, and concrete sound events meticulously sequenced to a complex fusion symbolizing the entire spectrum of earthly and heavenly sounds. Dynamic extremes evoke a restless flight through space, or through the depths of human subconsciousness, between dream and reality. Ultimately the music disappears, like a dot in the sky gradually fading into nothingness -- an "ascension" that closes the loop in a ritual of life that can begin anew again at any time. Michael Ranta: composition, performance, mixing (1971). Stefan Deistler: final mixing and mastering (2021). Painting: Wayne Jacob. Production: Timo van Luijk. Design: Meeuw. Gatefold cardboard sleeve; eight-page booklet.
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CAT #: METAPHON 015LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
BEKAERT, JACQUES Jacques Bekaert LP
Originally released in 1981 on the Belgian Igloo label this reissue comes with the same sleeve as originally designed by Alain Géronnez. "A Late Lunch" is the soundtrack to Akiko Iimura's eponymous movie realized in 1978. It is based on acoustic instruments and field recordings, brilliantly reconfigured and mixed by Bekaert to create a surreal, immersive soundscape. The technique used includes superposition and speed change of recordings, radical sound effects, and juxtaposition of sounds. The players were prominent musicians of the 1970s, including Maggi Payne, George Lewis, David Rosenboom, and Blue Gene Tyranny. "A Summer Day at Stony Point" was composed in 1969, with participation of David Behrman, Shigeko Kubota, and Charlotte Warren. The piece was commissioned by English composer Hugh Davies who presented it at the Harrogate festival the same year. Stony Point is a small village in New York State where John Cage co-owned a small pseudo-commune art resort where like-minded artists gathered. "A Summer Day at Stony Point" is nothing more than a page of a journal, a fragment of a notebook that utilizes a series of sound sources recorded at Stony Point on one beautiful day in the summer of 1968. Other electronic sound sources were recorded at the Brandeis University where Alvin Lucier was professor. The final realization of the piece was done at Henri Pousseur's APELAC Studio in Brussels, 1969. The soundtrack for Akiko Iimura's Mon Petit Album was composed on the basis of a simple description of the technique of the film and its time span. It includes David Behrman on alto, from an outdoor recording at Stony Point, plus excerpts from a Transition concert in London, the band Bekaert formed in 1971 with Michel Herr, Takehisa Kosugi, and Ryo Koike, both members of the Taj Mahal Travelers. The atmosphere is quiet and pastoral throughout with a very dreamlike flavor. Edition of 500."... Gentle threads of instrumental and electronic sounds are mixed with outdoor rural field recordings and occasional voices of his friends speaking, whistling or singing. Bekaert creates a warm environment within which we can hear subtle individual voices of good musicians who are relating to his loosely-notated scores and verbal instructions..." --David Behrman
MIND CONTROL (ITALY)
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CAT #: MIND 774LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CRAMPS, THE Let's Get Fucked Up: Live At The Vidia Club Cesena - May 5th 1998 - TV Broadcast 2LP
First time on vinyl. Legendary TV broadcast from the "Big Beat From Badsville" tour. Live at the Vidia Club Cesena, May 5th 1998.
MODERN SILENCE (MALTA)
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CAT #: OI 015LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ARTEMIEV, YURI BOGDANOV, VLADIMIR MARTYNOV, EDWARD Metamorphoses: Electronic Interpretations Of Classic And Modern Musical Works LP
Reduced pricing, last copies. Modern Silence present a reissue of Metamorphoses, originally released in 1980. A Russian album of electronic interpretations of "classical" pieces by Claude Debussy, Claudio Monteverdi along with John Bull, Vladimir Martynov, Sergei Prokofiev, J. S. Bach, Edward Artemiev and Yuri Bogdanov. Yuri Bogdanov is featured on every track, on some tracks together with Edward Artemiev, composer for Andrei Tarkovsky, and others. Other tracks feature Vladimir Martynov. From the original liner notes: "The record is made on the basis of a kaleidoscope: it is interspersed with pieces of various styles, genres and eras. For example, with these pieces, the authors wanted to show a variety of ways to use a synthesizer, starting with the direct simulation of now or once existing instruments, to the establishment of new not yet known sound systems. Thus, the record is like a small musical walk through time (...)"
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CAT #: OI 016LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SCHNITTKE/EDISON DENISOV/SOFIA GUBAIDULINA/OLEG BULOSHKIN/EDWARD ARTEMIEV, ALFRED Musical Offering LP
Reduced prices, last copies. Modern Silence present a reissue of Musical Offering, originally released in 1990. Features works by Oleg Buloshkin, Sofia Gubaidulina, Edward Artemiev, Edison Denisov and Alfred Schnittke. From the original liner notes: "(...) Please, try to imagine a score sounding by itself without a conductor, an orchestra even without musical instruments. This magic is possible by using the musical synthesizer, ANS. ANS is an instrument with which a composer can not only create but even draw his music without notes and orchestra. A Soviet scientist Evgeny Murzin spent about 20 years creating this apparatus which can join together three processes: music creation, recording and performing. All these processes are rather complicated. You can see the twinkling of different lamps, the rotation of grooved discs made of glass - notes are cut on a glass disc covered with a special layer; The drawings on the glass are 'sounding notes'. To listen to the drawn picture you should press the button and a wonderful transformation will begin. Murzin dedicated his apparatus to Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin, that's why he called it ANS. Scriabin, the creator of the 'Poem of Ecstasy', used in his works a highly chromatic, new type of harmonic style designed to express his beliefs, views and wishes. Soviet music lovers already know some recordings made on ANS from the films Into Space, Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), Siberiade (1979) and others. Works of well-known Soviet composers E. Artemiev, O. Buloshkin, E. Denisov, S. Gubaidulina, A. Schnittke featured on this LP were recorded at the Electronic Music Studio (...)"
MUSIC ON VINYL (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: MOV 3271COL-LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
PASTORIUS & RASHIED ALI, JACO Blackbird (Yellow Vinyl) LP
"Blackbird contains the live recordings of the same-titled album by bass player Jaco Pastorius and drummer Rashied Ali. This live recording was broadcast on French Radio, December 19th, 1984 and features their duet performances of John Coltrane 'Naima', Jimi Hendrix 'Purple Haze', Ornette Coleman 'Broadway Blues', amongst others. Student bassists Michel Hatzigeorgiou, Reno Steba, Alan Brennan, and Angel Vicens joined the duo at various times during the performance. Blackbird is available on vinyl for the first time as a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on translucent yellow colour vinyl."
NECHTO RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: NECH 021EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
R.M.K NECH021 EP 12"
The record label NECHTO created by Nastia unveils EP by R.M.K -- a new alias of London's electronic music producer, DJ, and Fossil Archive label head Rob Kirkaldy, also known as Roberto. The record demonstrates a faster and more intense take on the artist's original sound. With a focus on the very core auditory aesthetics of raves, the tracks also incorporate a hypnotic groove element of groove. The EP comprises a thundering bass at higher tempos, whilst preserving a soul within the music itself. "The intention was to make a well-balanced EP aimed at the dancefloor, whilst showcasing a range of sounds that provide enough versatility to keep the listener interested throughout", says the artist on his debut release under the R.M.K alias. Apart from launching his own techno label Fossil Archive, Rob Kirkaldy has established himself as a notable figure both as a techno producer and a masterful DJ. His long-lasting dedication to electronic music has brought him to the world's most renowned club culture establishments, including London's fabric, Berlin's Tresor and Berghain, and many others. R.M.K strives to only deliver the highest quality of music and never settles for anything mediocre, as is proven with this new outstanding EP. "This will be my first full release as R.M.K and I am excited for everyone to hear it. Having the stamp of approval and backing from NECHTO is a great honor and I am excited about the future of this project." --R.M.K
ONDERSTROOM (BELGIUM)
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CAT #: OS 046LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
A BLAZE COLOUR Against The Dark Trees Beyond LP
LP version. Sought-after Belgian minimal synth finally reissued and compiled. Against a backdrop of cold war and economic crises, the DIY attitude of the earlier punk movement had spawned near countless new genres where artists and bands broke the three-chord guitar mold and experimented with new content matter, singular song structures and -- in many cases -- new instruments. Synthesizers became affordable and were no longer the sole privilege of rock millionaires. All around the globe, musical creativity boomed as never before, and Belgium was no exception. Ludo Camberlin and Karel "Bam" Saelemaekers already had a certain track record in Leuven's burgeoning music microcosm. But what they shared would become the cornerstone of A Blaze Colour (Against The Dark Trees Beyond): a fascination for new forms and instruments, a penchant for sonic adventure and a profound love for gripping songs. After appearing on the first No Big Business LP (1981) with the instrumental "Fisk", A Blaze Colour's first proper release, as was so often the case in those days, was a self-produced cassette. The music -- which would later be dubbed "minimal" -- was characterized by the use of basic rhythm machines (Boss Dr. 55, mainly) and analog synthesizers (Korg Delta and MS20, Roland SH-2 and Jupiter IV, and Casio VL-1). Camberlin's vocals, meanwhile, displayed an aloofness totally in sync with the zeitgeist. Equally important, though: all five tracks on this cassette were bona fide songs with a clear sense of structure, aided by a sonic mastery that demonstrated a high level of experience. A few months later, the band released a seven-inch single on its own ABLACO label. "Dark Trees Beyond", a quirky pop song, was coupled with "Addict Of Time", a dark and brooding spoken word piece. The Minny Pops' Wally van Middendorp, who had founded the Plurex label in 1978, invited A Blaze Colour to his studio in the Netherlands, to record an EP. It would prove to be a massive step forward: recording in a semi-professional studio offered great possibilities, the recently acquired TR-808 drum machine allowed for a broader rhythm palette, and the three new tracks (next to the re-recording of "Through With Life") showed a band on the top of their game. Meanwhile, Camberlin had already carved out a bit of a reputation for himself as a producer, while Saelemaekers was a respected graphic designer. It remains uncertain if this played a big part in the end of A Blaze Colour. Short, sweet, visionary, pioneering, and highly influential. First ever compilation of one of the most colorful electronic acts of its time.
PALILALIA
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CAT #: PAL 068CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ORCUTT, BILL Music for Four Guitars CD
"In a trajectory full of about-faces, Music for Four Guitars splices the formal innovations of Bill Orcutt's software-based music into the lobe-frying, blown-out Fender hyperdrive of his most frenetic workouts with Corsano or Hoyos. And while the guitar tone here is resolutely treble-kicked -- or, as Orcutt puts it, 'a bridge pickup rather than a neck pickup record' -- it still wades the same melodic streams as his previous LPs (yet, as Heraclitus taught us, that stream is utterly different the second time around). Although it's a true left-field listen, Music for Four Guitars is bizarrely meditative, a Bill Orcutt Buddha Machine, a glimpse of the world of icy beauty haunting the latitudes high above the Delta (down where the climate suits your clothes). I've written before of the immediate misapprehension that greeted Harry Pussy on their first tour with my band Charalambides -- that this was a trio of crazed freaks spontaneously spewing sound from wherever their fingers or drumsticks happened to land -- but I'll grant the casual listener a certain amount of confusion based on the early recorded evidence (and the fact that the band COULD be a trio of crazed freaks letting fly, as we learned from later tours). But to my ears, the precision and composition of their tracks were immediately apparent, as if the band was some sort of 5-D music box with its handle cranked into oblivion by a calculating organ grinder, running through musical maps as pre-ordained as the road to a Calvinist's grave. That organ grinder, it turns out, was Bill Orcutt, whose solo guitar output until 2022 has tilted decidedly towards improvisation, while his fetish for relentless, gridlike composition has animated his electronic music (c.f. Live in LA, A Mechanical Joey). Music for Four Guitars, apparently percolating since 2015 as a loosely-conceived score for an actual meatspace guitar quartet, is the culmination of years ruminating on classical music, Magic Band miniatures, and (perhaps) The League of Crafty Guitarists, although when the Reich-isms got tossed in the brew is anyone's guess. And Reichian (Steve, not Wilhelm) it is. The album's form is startlingly minimalist -- four guitars, each consigned to a chattering melody in counterpoint, repeated in cells throughout the course of the track, selectively pulled in and out of the mix to build fugue-like drama over the course of 14 brief tracks. It's tempting to compare them to chamber music, but these pieces reflect little of the delicacy of Satie's Gymnopedies or Bach's Cantatas. Instead, they bulldoze their way through melodic content with a touch of the motorik romanticism of New Order or Bailter Space ('At a Distance'), but more often ('A Different View,' 'On the Horizon') with the gonad-crushing drive of Discipline-era Crimson, full of squared corners, coldly angled like Beefheart-via-Beat-Detective. Just to nail down the classical fetishism, the album features a download of an 80-page PDF score transcribed by guitarist Shane Parish. And while it'd be just as reproducible as a bit of code or a player piano roll, I can easily close my eyes and imagine folks with brows higher than mine squeezing into their difficult-listening hour folding chairs at Issue Project Room to soak up these sounds being played by real people reading a printed score 50 years from now. And as much as I want to bomb anyone's academy, that feels like a warm fuzzy future to sink into." --Tom Carter Recorded Winter/Spring 2021 at the Living Room, San Francisco. Mastered by James Plotkin.
PARALLAX (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PRLX 010LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
RE-ARBEITEN First Episode 2x12"
First Episode is the ultimate work of duo Re-Arbeiten, Ziv Matushka and Natalie Bar. Previously displaying their vast array of complexities, this one facade a more introvert and delicate peak into their glitchy IDM-infused language. As often is the case with Matushka's productions, they manage to speak the most lyrical poetry using the harshest most elaborate grammar, and vice versa at times, a skill that's reserved only to the true greats. This is the duo's first album, and is one of three which will be released in the coming years. Ziv and Natalie sadly passed away in 2020 and this release is very much in their dear memory.
PILZ (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PILZ 6580066LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WALLENSTEIN Cosmic Century LP
Reissue of the third album by the German band Wallenstein, originally released in 1973. Recorded at the Dierks Studios by Dieter Dierks, the group consisted of bandleader Jürgen Dollase, Harald Grosskopf (drums), Dieter Meier (bass), Bill Barone (guitar), and Joachim Reiser (violin). In 2022 the original analog masters were newly remastered. An elaborate work, which has led to a very good result.
PINCHE DISCOS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: PINCHE 004LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VA Wild Mexico Vol. 2 LP
2022 repress. Second installment of this amazing quest for '60s Mexican gold, Wild Mexico Vol. 2 comes filled to the rafters with the same untamed spirit that made Volume 1 such a special record. This is fun, frantic and obscure rock n' roll at its best, 14 tracks of pure Mexican awesomeness sure to set your ass on fire and leave you asking for more. Get those margaritas ready, set this Pinche Discos record on your hi-fi system and get ready for your jaw to drop, órale! Features Los Hitters, Los Versalites, Beto Diaz Y Su Orquesta, Nanina Y Orquesta De Arturo Castro, Los Puntos Suspensivos, Los Correcaminos, Los Sellers, César Costa, Diego De Cossio Y Sus Barrocks, Los 4 Crickets, Los Beatteens, Dyno, Los Black Birds, and Angélica María.
POLYCARP RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PCR 011EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
BONN Never Ever 12"
Hamburg's Polycarp Records delivers the Never Ever EP by Bonn, backed with remixes from Johannes Albert and The Cruiser. The Polycarp Records imprint was launched in 2016 by Simon Ferdinand and across its past ten releases has unveiled an array of material from the likes of Pleasant Systems boss Tilman, Frank Music founder Johannes Albert and Simon Ferdinand and Basch, both under their own artist names and of course their collaborative project, Bonn. In 2019, Ferdinand and Basch inaugurated their Bonn guise with a debut album entitled Forget Forgot Forgotten, 2021 saw the release of a follow-up EP entitled Ravenous and here the story continues with the pair's latest collaborative works. The original mix of title-track "Never Ever" opens the EP and lays down crunchy, off-kilter drums alongside mystical atmospherics, an unfurling acid bass lead and loopy, fluttering stab sequences. Johannes Albert's twist on "Never Ever" follows next, the fellow German producer takes things down his signature cosmic, nu-disco path via bubbling arpeggio lines and '80s-tinged resonant leads melded together with fragments from the original composition. "Phero" then opens the flipside and sees Bonn deliver a twitchy house workout fueled by fidgety synth bleeps, dubbed-out chords, and bumpy, saturated drums. Last up to round things out, The Cruiser turns in a high-octane interpretation of "Phero", upping the tempo and reshaping the original's raw elements into a murky, dynamically unfolding thumper.
RADIATION REISSUES (ITALY)
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CAT #: RRS 182CV-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AERIAL FX Watching The Dance (Silver Vinyl) LP
LP version. Silver vinyl. Reissue, originally released in 1982. Moody Oxford post-punk quintet Exit 13 became Aerial FX at the dawning of the 1980s, the promise of their minimal sound, with its prominent synthesizers, yielding a publishing deal with Island Records and an early single released by the label. Debut album Watching The Dance has shades of dark synth pop and goth, with future Radiohead manager/producer Chris Hufford firmly in the spotlight throughout. The influence of acts like Van Der Graaf Generator, Modern Eon and others lurk beneath this hidden cold wave gem.
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CAT #: RRS 182LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AERIAL FX Watching The Dance LP
Reissue, originally released in 1982. Moody Oxford post-punk quintet Exit 13 became Aerial FX at the dawning of the 1980s, the promise of their minimal sound, with its prominent synthesizers, yielding a publishing deal with Island Records and an early single released by the label. Debut album Watching The Dance has shades of dark synth pop and goth, with future Radiohead manager/producer Chris Hufford firmly in the spotlight throughout. The influence of acts like Van Der Graaf Generator, Modern Eon and others lurk beneath this hidden cold wave gem.
RUFFNATION ENTERTAINMENT
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CAT #: RN 1025LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
RZA RZA Presents: Bobby Digital And The Pit Of Snakes LP
"RZA returns with the second installment of his three record Bobby Digital Trilogy, coming on the heels of his critically acclaimed first installment Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theatre Rza vs Bobby Digital, produced by DJ Scratch."
RUNNING BACK DOUBLE COPY (GERMANY)
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CAT #: RBDC 010EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA Double Copy Sampler 12"
Running Back's Double Copy subsidiary for house music history returns with four musical masterpieces from Chicago, London, and an international cast from Italy on its first various artist sampler. Originally released on Roy Davis Jr.'s Undaground Therapy outlet, "Destination Heaven" by the enigmatic Earth Boys project delivers a piece of cloud-nine-deep-house that was a staple at Frankfurt's Wild Pitch Club and during the early days of its successor Robert Johnson. Produced by Cloudy Eyes and Cole Brooks, unfortunately the duo has never been heard from again. Luckily, Family of Few have been a little bit more productive. Also known as Mind Readers, Kevin Elliot and Billy "Jack" Williams produced some of the more tender moments on Detroits 430 West label. "Intervoles" is amongst the most peculiar and catchy tracks that slow-burning dancefloors can hope for. The flip side turns the attention to the conclusions that Europe drew from its US role models. Released in 1992 on Rena Records with the involvement of New York's JoVonn (a distinct genius of deep grooves himself), the keyboard skills of Pierre Audetat and the production work of I. Betti, M. Clemente, and W. Brown, Dummy Head is one of a kind. Swirly echoes, dubby textures and a heavy bass line mate on the "Edit Mix" of "I Have Been Wanting You" to create one of the very first examples of fully formed dub-house. Similar pioneering properties can be ascribed to the work of Rob Mello. There isn't enough room here to list all his merits, but rest assured that the UK's house scene wouldn't be the same without him (Luxury Service Records, Classic et al). Under the Karim guise, Mello delivered a unique stroke of genius. Distilling the essence of deep house, while looking far into the future, "In My Mind" is many things at once: broken beat, electro, house with embracing chords, and -- if you will -- a warm-up banger. and does, what all the tracks in here do: turning heads then, turning heads now. Hardcore deep house.
SATURATE! (GERMANY)
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CAT #: STRTLP 014LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA Saturated! Vol. 9 LP
Since its inception, the various artist compilation series Saturated! has proven to be the epitome of curation in this small niche scene called bass music or whatever. Each volume is carefully hand-picked and is a picture in sound of the music at that point in time but overall has proven to be timeless. The arrangement works in such ways that each tune flows perfectly into the next one and actually (given that you have two vinyl records like a real DJ), you could mix seamlessly from the first through the last track. Saturate! has become a hotspot for those seeking fresh sounds from well-known and emerging artists within the scene. Channeling the quintessential stylings of low-end driven beats from across the globe, they have been leading the way in all things bass heavy, broken-beat, experimental, glitch, hip-hop, psychedelic, and trap for years now. Having featured releases from names like heRobust and G Jones early on in their careers, Saturate! continues to help push the new school, hip-hop influenced sound forward with their fingers firmly on the pulse of future freshness. A weird, wonky, and wonderful journey through the raw attitude of the blistering beat driven electronic music scene. Features OOTW, Bukez Finezt, Lewcid, RATIONAL SOUL, Starkey, Aprilfoolchild, Jalaya & Dark Velvet, Dayzero, Finnoh & Jack, Maysev, STATX & Long Tongue, DGTL-SGNL, PRESTUS, Dead End, not yes, and Hawkword & Bakaman.
SOUL 4 REAL (SPAIN)
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CAT #: S4R 001LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA It Hurts So Good LP
"It doesn't always hurt to hurt? Soul 4 Real's first venture into the albums market is as compellingly essential as the label's impressive singles catalog. Its 11 tracks explore every lonely street and losers avenue that soul music has walked down since the early '60s, tempering essays of heartbreak and love lost with the occasional glimpse of positivity and happiness. It Hurts So Good is very much in the tradition of those great '60s soul compilations where diverse strands of black American music sat side-by-side with each other, and still formed a satisfying listening experience despite their apparent disparity because, in the final analysis, the music mattered most. Just as it does here, in fact. This album showcases just under a dozen goodies by some very big names in soul. It may well be that one or two of the tracks might be less than familiar to you, but you will know the artists -- and you will know, too, that they will never let you down. Originally unissued tracks by James & Bobby Purify and Walter Jackson blend seamlessly with early essentials from Aretha Franklin, Willie Hutch, and the Main Ingredient (as the Insiders). Soul 4 Real has delved into the deeper parts of discographies of legendary artists like Marvin Gaye, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight & The Pips, and Esther Phillips to bring you songs and performances that are every bit as unforgettable as those that forged their reputations. And if you remain unmoved after experiencing the stellar offerings from the Soul Children and Lou Courtney, it may well be that you didn't have a soul to begin with. In the song that gives this collection its title, the great Prince Phillip Mitchell wrote 'it ain't no good unless it hurts a little bit'. It's true, and the 'Hurt' here really IS 'So Good'... and then some..." --Tony Rounce
STAG-O-LEE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: STAGO 185LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BONTEMPI, MARCEL Crawfish, Troubles, Cats & Ghosts: Demos & Recordings 2015-2020 LP + 7"
LP version. Includes 7" of unreleased material. Gatefold sleeve. Subtitled: The (Second) Single Compilation 2015-2021. This record arrives exactly ten years after the first one, the highly successful Witches, Spiders, Frogs & Holes album (STAGO 068LP). At this moment, most "with it" or "aware" folks in our retro scene have common knowledge and informed opinions of that strange musical alchemist known as Mr. Marcel Bontempi. His phenomenal career arc from the 1998 debut of 1960s-beat band combo, The Montesas, to his "monster" solo hit of 2013, "Dig A Hole" (on Sleazy Records), has seen Marcel's star rise ever higher as a steady stream of his popular and clever recordings have been snatched up by an ever-widening fan base. Live stage appearances by Marcel and his gal "Friday," the effervescent Miss Ira Lee, and Marcel's own "hillbilly" gang, Dr. Bontempi's Snake Oil Company, at clubs and festivals throughout Europe (and even in Nashville and Las Vegas) have deservedly helped to spread the Bontempi infamy and infatuation far and wide. So, here is the second compilation of the wizard of rhythm -- packed full with his 7" output (all limited and sold out by now) from 2015 until 2021 and some unreleased songs and musical themes for theater plays among others.
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CAT #: STAGO 196LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Rockin' N Boppn' with DJ Rudy 2LP
Double LP version. Stag-O-Lee is proud to continue the DJ-Set series with compilation by cult DJ Mr. Rudy. DJ Rudy blew the label away with his selection of tunes at the Goezot festival in Belgium in September 2021. And when he sent the label the list of festivals and weekenders he played at, they were even more impressed. So, Stag-O-Lee invited him to compile what is Volume 7 in the DJ Series on Stag-O-Lee. Features Red (Hot) Russell, Jay Headley, Lenny Capello and The Dots, Bernhard Byers, Freddy Cannon, Donnie Brookes, The Jumpers, Parker Cunningham, Harold Shutters and His Rocats, Frankie Lee Sims, Cousin Leroy, Lance Roberts, Ray Smith, Dale Wright, Tommy Roe, The Phantoms, The Cousins, Jimmy Reed, Larry Trider, Bruce Channel, Farris Wilder and His Band, Bob and The Rockabillies, Gene Kennedy, Ivor Fisher, Joe Melson, Chancellors, Tommy Danton and The Echoes, The Stompers, Bobby Peterson Quintet, and Dean and Jean."When I first heard DJ Rudy play, I could instantly feel the buzz on the dancefloor and see the excitement amongst the dancers. As the night progressed, being a DJ myself, I kept a keen eye on the clearly popular and friendly guy delivering the tunes --many of which (to my delight) I had never even heard before and the dance floor fillers kept coming, well put together and smoothly delivered. At last, I thought, a DJ who knows what the dancers want, isn't afraid to play a really wide mix of rockin' genres, (from rockabilly and r n' b to early sixties garage bands from Belgium!) and was not someone trying to impress with a small box of ultra-rare 45s -- he wasn't in the DJ booth to please himself, he was there to please the crowd and give them what they wanted. Since then, Rudy has played many sets for me at the Rockabilly Rave and is a regular DJ on the international rockin' scene. And the best part of my running into him all those years ago is that he is one of the nicest, warmest, passionate guys the scene has. Always willing to help, always with a huge smile and a kind word and always something positive to contribute. This album is a great taste of what Rudy has brought to the scene. It proves that rockin' tunes can be different and diverse, but if you pick the right ones it's always a rockin' party!" Jerry Chatabox (Oct 2021)
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CAT #: STAGO 199CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Buzzsaw Joint: Cuts 7 & 8 CD
Buzzsaw Joint was born of a club offering Londoners the chance to revel in the sounds of good ol' trashy rock n' roll in all its vintage vinyl forms. Club top-cat, Fritz, then took the primitive Buzzsaw sounds online with a series of savage Mixcloud mixes created by record fiends from all over the globe. Now, the high-octane energy of Buzzsaw Joint has manifested into the physical form with a run of compilations on Stag-O-Lee. Get your ears around the wild n' weird sounds of the extraordinary and inimitable Buzzsaw Joint! As usual with Stag-O-Lee compile two vinyl volumes on one CD into an 80 minute/32 track monster. Cut 7 comes from the crates of the Canadian couple James and Misty who currently resides in Osaka, Japan. Cut 8 introduces Johnny Alpha and Carl Combover, purveyors of all things sleazy, greasy and raw. Comes with an eight-page booklet with some info and detailed track-by-track notes.Features The Opals, The Dells, Billz Martyn And His Corvairs, The Sevilles, The Cymbals, The Penguins, The Clovers, The Royal Dukes, Googie Rene, Curtis Byrd And The Jo Rag Singers, Cal Valentine & The Texas Rockers, Les Cooper & His Soul Rockers, Dee Clark, Johnny Winter, Lee Castle, Ernie Fields, The Champs, Dynamics, Tarheel Slim, Bobbie Smith, Swan Silvertones, Goodie Rene, Lee The Big Masher Lilly, Plas Johnson, Nite Caps, The Rollers, Secrets, Majestics, Richard Anthony, and Johnny Fisher.
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CAT #: STAGO 200CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Rockin' N Boppn' with DJ Rudy CD
Stag-O-Lee is proud to continue the DJ-Set series with compilation by cult DJ Mr. Rudy. DJ Rudy blew the label away with his selection of tunes at the Goezot festival in Belgium in September 2021. And when he sent the label the list of festivals and weekenders he played at, they were even more impressed. So, Stag-O-Lee invited him to compile what is Volume 7 in the DJ Series on Stag-O-Lee. Features Red (Hot) Russell, Jay Headley, Lenny Capello and The Dots, Bernhard Byers, Freddy Cannon, Donnie Brookes, The Jumpers, Parker Cunningham, Harold Shutters and His Rocats, Frankie Lee Sims, Cousin Leroy, Lance Roberts, Ray Smith, Dale Wright, Tommy Roe, The Phantoms, The Cousins, Jimmy Reed, Larry Trider, Bruce Channel, Farris Wilder and His Band, Bob and The Rockabillies, Gene Kennedy, Ivor Fisher, Joe Melson, Chancellors, Tommy Danton and The Echoes, The Stompers, Bobby Peterson Quintet, and Dean and Jean."When I first heard DJ Rudy play, I could instantly feel the buzz on the dancefloor and see the excitement amongst the dancers. As the night progressed, being a DJ myself, I kept a keen eye on the clearly popular and friendly guy delivering the tunes --many of which (to my delight) I had never even heard before and the dance floor fillers kept coming, well put together and smoothly delivered. At last, I thought, a DJ who knows what the dancers want, isn't afraid to play a really wide mix of rockin' genres, (from rockabilly and r n' b to early sixties garage bands from Belgium!) and was not someone trying to impress with a small box of ultra-rare 45s -- he wasn't in the DJ booth to please himself, he was there to please the crowd and give them what they wanted. Since then, Rudy has played many sets for me at the Rockabilly Rave and is a regular DJ on the international rockin' scene. And the best part of my running into him all those years ago is that he is one of the nicest, warmest, passionate guys the scene has. Always willing to help, always with a huge smile and a kind word and always something positive to contribute. This album is a great taste of what Rudy has brought to the scene. It proves that rockin' tunes can be different and diverse, but if you pick the right ones it's always a rockin' party!" Jerry Chatabox (Oct 2021)
TAK:TIL/GLITTERBEAT (GERMANY)
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CAT #: GB 133LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
ETCETERAL Rhizome LP
LP version. Etceteral are a Slovenian experimental trio (saxophone and electronics, drums, visuals) who create a propulsive, polyrhythmic futurist jazz. It is a sound marked by abstract modular explorations, hypnotic drumming, ricocheted horn textures and crystalline production. Interzones between dub, krautrock, Afro-rhythms, free improvisation and quantized electronic music are brightly lit on this thrilling second album. The idea of musical elasticity is central to Rhizome, the sophomore album of the Slovenian audio-visual electronic jazz trio Etceteral who debuted in 2020 with the album Ama Gi for Kapa Records. Following a series of domestic and international gigs, the band consisting of Bostjan Simon (saxophone, synth, electronics), Marek Faku? (drums), and Lina Rica (visuals) returned to the studio, taking their ambition to meld audio and visuals to a whole new level on their debut for the tak:til imprint. On Rhizome, the band explores the interzone between groove-driven contemporary jazz, quantized electronic music, abstract modular explorations and free improvisation. Like rubber that is able to stretch and be returned to its original shape, Etceteral expands its arrangements to the point of no return, pushing its sonic architecture to the maximum without ever letting it collapse onto itself. Given carte blanche to self-produce their second album, they centered it around the concept of rhizome -- a continuously growing horizontal underground stem which puts out lateral shoots and adventitious roots at intervals. The sophisticated songs of Rhizome are interconnected in their structures, growing from the inside out. With its interlocking synth sequence, saxophone ornaments and hip-shaking syncopations, the opening earworm "Meadow Sage" sets the pace of the record, boasting an ambitious and adventurous sonic character. New songs took shape organically through jams, the only exceptions being the intermezzo "Ton 618," a nod to exploratory modular techno, and the IDM-inspired coda "Idler Idol," both arranged as links between adjacent songs. The interplay between synth sequences, the kick drum, and saxophone represents the foundation of Etceteral's sonic realm. Their sound palette consists of the iconic synth Dave Smith Evolver, a saxophone with a MIDI controller, sound effects, and drums. In Pygmy traditions, one of the band's reference points, every singer or musician follows a single theme or rhythm which is then unified into polyphony or polyrhythmic patterns. Etceteral build their sonic architecture from inside out, never fully defining the outlines of their songs. Even though their sequences are quantized, Faku? only rarely uses click tracks, rather opting for a more instinctive approach to electroacoustic fusionism, which results in a spontaneous flow and jazzy vibe.
TELESKOP (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TELE 017LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DAHLBERG, CHRISTOPH Blackforms LP
Christoph Dahlberg draws fine lines in the music with organic sounds and crackling beats. After his highly acclaimed debut album TIME (2020, Sonderling Records), his second work Blackforms follows at the end of 2022, merging cinematic, experimental electronica, and ambient textures with astonishing compositional consistency. He knows how to peel out details through intelligent sampling, encountering the idea, capturing it and thus freeing himself -- subtlety. Blackforms holds an engaging gloominess that will fascinate you, too. Gatefold cover; includes download.
THE OUTER EDGE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TAC 013EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
HASS, HANS Welche Farbe hat der Wind (Marian Tone Rework) 7"
The official reworks of Hans Hass's proto-AOR/cloud rock hymn "Welche Farbe hat der Wind" ("What color is the wind"). The main producer for this release was Marian Tone (of Key Elements), who reworked the track almost from scratch. He re-recorded the drums, the bassline, and some chords while keeping Hass's original vocal layer. The distinctive guitar playing by co-composer Gabor Kristof sparkles throughout. The result is exactly what we had hoped and asked for: a DJ-friendly version of this überclassic track. The idea for this rework project came to mind when label owner DJ Scientist got word from Tobias Kirmayer of Tramp Records that "Welche Farbe hat der Wind" would be officially re-released for the first time on his compilation series Praise Poems as well as on a single reissue. Scientist immediately asked if he could make an edit with louder drums to make the track more playable in a DJ set. However, as the masters of the Tramp reissues had already been submitted to the pressing plant, he was granted permission to re-license the track and rework it for his own label instead. Hence, the reworks feature Scientist's "vintage drums" mix, which has the drums mixed louder, plus drums added at the quite psychedelic and experimental last third, with a few other sound adjustments made. But it was up to Berlin-based DJ and music producer Marian Tone to put the icing on the cake and rework and enhance the song further with his own version. With fellow Key Elements bandmember Steffen Kieslich, he completely re-recorded the drums. Then it was up to Doron Segal to replay the bass and the keys. What we get is the classic sound of "Welche Farbe hat der Wind" -- just updated and fresher. For the first time ever, the track is also available as an instrumental version.
THINK ZIK! (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TZA 022CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
IMANY Voodoo Cello (Deluxe Edition) CD
Building on the success of this third album, and a major sold-out tour with over 60 dates, the deluxe edition of Imany's Voodoo Cello will contain seven bonus tracks: five unreleased tracks from Bob Marley to Jazmine Sullivan via Tones and I and Donna Summer, and two remixes including the single "Bust Your Windows" (Mexxbeat Remix). For her third studio album, Voodoo Cello released in 2021, Imany chose to gather eight cellos around her for an album of covers that become, without forgetting their roots, her own songs in the service of her convictions. No tricks, only eight cellos with a multitude of possibilities between the lows and the highs: "Sometimes it feels like they could be brass instruments or electric guitars... as if they were haunted." For ten years, Imany's deep voice has seduced the French public with compositions nourished by her soul, folk, and blues inspirations. With the triumph of her first two albums, the soundtrack of the film Sous Les Jupes des Filles and the two singles "Don't Be So Shy" and "You Will Never Know," Imany is enjoying success all over the world. Reworks and remixes also feature Stream Jockey and TIM PLVNK & Ayosha.
TINY GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS (HUNGARY)
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CAT #: PICI 042CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BINGO HARRY Where Do We Go? CD
These days, Bingo Harry is more often a solo vehicle for songwriter Benny Jones than a band. Benny spent the past few years recording dozens of songs before winnowing them down to fit on second album, Where Do We Go?, not to mention constructing the collage of the album cover. The cosmic inheritor of a certain Marc Bolan-esque knack for simple yet spiritual and thrilling tunes, Benny's songs span seemingly glam-induced groovers to a handful of gentle-but-trippy epics which would be overwrought in lesser hands, but here manage to capture a beautiful bit of the cosmos alongside their relevance to the wearying state of the world today. "Shine If You Can", the album's final track, works as well for an anthem of the times as anything you'll hear in the next few years.
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CAT #: PICI 047CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CALLAHAN, DAVID LANCE English Primitive II CD
The follow-up to 2021's first volume (PICI 028CD/LP), English Primitive II continues the themes introduced previously in a harder, more electric and psychedelic style. The songs were mostly recorded during the same sessions but, if EPI showcased the "songs of innocence", this new set comprises "songs of experience". David Lance Callahan's lyrical themes here are frequently the sleaze and corruption of our "betters", the intentional and unintentional brutality meted out on those weaker and the sometimes perverse ways in which this happens. There are moments of reflection among the broken mirrors, but they allow scant solace or reassurance. Dressed in another of Scottish artist Pinkie McClure's witty and detailed stained glass creations and recorded at home and under a railway arch, EPII rises above its origins and invades the wider world, in all its color, grit, and glory. Each song serves as a monument to its internal tale -- in fact, the whole album is as much a collection of musical short stories as it is an album of songs. Opening with "Invisible Man," the impression of a regular person with hidden grievances, biding his time and waiting to lash out is given. Waves of distant samples ebb and fall as the warped guitars swell and crash behind the main themes.
URASHIMA (ITALY)
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CAT #: UMA 144CS
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MERZBOW Rainbow Electronics Cassette
Originally released on CD in 1990 by Alchemy Records as part of the Good Alchemy Series, Rainbow Electronics marks the pinnacle of Merzbow's late '80s noise phase. Selected and transformed from about 21 hours tape of primitive raw material recorded during three years (1987-1990) in 14 fragments lasting about 74 minutes, this monumental work is an aural trip through a cold plotted universe of intergalactic space ships and golden celestial bodies. Remastered in December 2019 and split into two parts directly by the artist for the cassette version it opens up with a slow, kind of creepy tempo, reaching from dirty harsh noise flows coupled with eerie reverbed screeches and scrapes of iron objects. Noise and blasts come from every angle, and all you can do is sit and take it. Then continues with solid drumbeats briefly emerging from the static and disappearing just as quickly, again long stretches of subdued electronic drones buzzing along sleepily and the occasional sudden shift of noise into something more violent, though it all happens kind of slowly and gradually. A truly mesmerizing and immersive body of sound and its intense finish is something of pure artform. "I don't need a lot of words about Merzbow. All you have to do is immerse yourself in the sound." translated from Japanese liner notes of Alchemy Records CD by Toshiji Mikawa. Edition of 199; O-card 300g wrapping clear box with j-card and laser print orange shell; includes download code.
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CAT #: UMA 149CS
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MERZBOW Green Wheels Cassette
Green Wheels is Merzbow in its most straightforward, most genuine, most uncontrolled and refined form. Originally released by the legendary US label Self Abuse Records in 1995 on CD and 5-inch vinyl record, both housed in a foil-lined cardboard box with the abstract and impressive art work created by the artist himself, which has become another of the fetishist objects of Merzbow and now incredibly hard to find. Like all of his work since the early '90s, Green Wheels is an uncompromising cascade of brutal noise. In this album you find nothing of the minimalism of his early '80s, completely overwhelmed by synthesizers and handmade objects that become his unconventional weapons to create bursts of noise. The three tracks of the original CD, radiate the listener from the rackets of a rain of nails on metal plates, the synthetic crashing bombing, industrial percussion and the metal (green) wheels that roll and scrape. The two very short 5-inch tracks hurt you with thousands of jabs in just a matter of minutes. Then closes with two unreleased tracks from the same fantastic mid-1990s period which can undoubtedly be considered two wonderful discoveries for their intensity and beauty; musical pieces that blend perfectly and complete the reissue on this cassette. When you get to the end of the tape, you will feel purified, once the granite landslide subsides. It is like mental liposuction, eradicating all anguishes and hesitations. Everything was perfectly recorded and mixed in March-May 1995 at ZSF Produkt Studio, Masami Akita's home studio from the late '80s to late '90s; the outcome it's warm and bright as the bare steel of Shinjuko skyscrapers under the (rising) sun of hot Japanese summers. Tape reproduces the original art work; edition of 199; O-card 300g wrapping clear box with j-card and laser print green shell; includes download code.
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CAT #: UMA 154LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
NEW BLOCKADERS, THE Changez Les Blockeurs LP
Limited repress. Urashima present a reissue of The New Blockaders' Changez Les Blockeurs, originally released in 1982. Within the history of noise music, there are few artifacts, as seminal as The New Blockaders' Changez Les Blockeurs. Anyone who has even a casual interest in noise music should need no introduction to The New Blockaders. Hailed by Ron Lessard (of legendary US noise label RRR) as, "the first truly devoted noise artists," TNB self-released their debut LP in 1982. That original LP is now one of the most sought-after (and expensive) noise records ever. The fact that Changez Les Blockeurs is held in such high esteem by the likes of Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), who was the first person to hear the LP back in 1982 and reworked the album as NWW Plays Changez Les Blockeurs (DPROM 138CD,2018), David Jackman (Organum), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Masami Akita (Merzbow), Toshiji Mikawa (Incapacitants) and countless others is testament to its greatness and well-deserved legendary status. Lying in wait for almost 40 years, the LP emerged again in 2004 as a limited edition on the German Vinyl-On-Demand label, and since then has remained rare, elusive, and coveted -- until now. 2022 will mark the 40th anniversary (or, more accurately, anti-versary) of Changez Les Blockeurs and in celebration of this, Urashima present a limited reissue which has been expertly remastered at Audiplex Studio in Hamburg by Asmus Tietchens, himself a well-known German avant-garde composer. Black virgin vinyl; includes 12x12" insert; edition of 199."Changez Les Blockeurscaused a lot of fuss back in the early '80s, with its two 'tracks' of disorientating junk noise, squeaks, scrapes and the pitter-patter of rain on a tin roof. Lumps of metal get thrown around in a bid to resurrect the ghost of Tristan Tzara, two invalids in wheelchairs fencing with broken car aerials, two elephants fencing on bicycles, two squeaky wheelchairs fighting over a slack spring, it could or an army of tin men dismantling a Jean Tinguely sculpture while bouncing around on pogo sticks in need of three-in-one. We'll never know, and that's half of the appeal Changez Les Blockeurs sounds like nothing else before or since. It's magnificent in its absurdity. Its construct is simple but yet devastatingly effective. Today you'd be hard pressed to find anyone involved in Noise who doesn't cite TNB as an influence." --Mark Wharton
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CAT #: UMA 163LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
INCAPACITANTS Feedback of N.M.S. 2LP
Reissue, originally released in 1991. Incapacitants are the best noise band to ever come out of Japan; the group was formed in 1981 in Osaka, as the solo project of Toshiji Mikawa, a member of the amazing noise group Hijokaidan. Mikawa later moved to Tokyo, where he joined with Fumio Kosakai (also an occasional member of Hijokaidan, as well as a former member of C.C.C.C.) to make Incapacitants a duo and they released its first album Feedback of N.M.S. on Alchemy Records CD in 1991. Sometimes it's the result of luck. In others it's due to years of rigorous work or through unlikely combinations of individual creative practices. In the case of Feedback of N.M.S., the first release to feature the collaborative duo of Mikawa and Kosakai, all three are in play. Comprising three tracks of visionary expression -- incorporating elements of junk metal, modular synthesis, hand-made noisy objects, and real-time instrumental and vocal improvisation -- it encounters each artist entering a new stage of their career, harnessing the challenges posed by the other as a means to drive toward new creative unknowns. Central to this is the pair's unique approach to structure and form, in addition to their chosen instruments and electronics. The first track "Curse Of Ceau?escu", played on two sides of the first vinyl is something incredible. A truly stunning, visionary expanse of texture and tonality -- pushing noise practice and the very notions of language into uncharted realms. The others two tracks that fill the sides of the second vinyl complete this masterpiece increasingly pushing into more constrained of electronics phenomena, site specific resonance, and complex harmonic interplay, that consistently rethink the terms of noise, infusing it with tension, dissonance, and a deeply emotive, human touch. An absolutely masterful piece of work, threaded with risk, ambition, raw immediacy, and precision. While astounding artists in their own right, deserving every bit of the accolades they've thus far received, Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai seem capable of something profound together that has yet to have heard. Feedback of N.M.S. is everything you would hope to hear from an experimental endeavor and so much more. Includes six cards reproducing Takuya Sakaguchi's original drawings and adding an unreleased drawing and extensive notes in Japanese and English; edition of 299.
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CAT #: UMA 164LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
HIJOKAIDAN Zouroku No Kibyou (40th Anniversary Edition) LP
Reissue, originally released in 1982. Zouroku No Kibyo is the first album by Hijokaidan, released in April 1982. It is a compilation of live recordings from 1981, when the extreme performances of Hijokaidan first attracted attention, and is a record of the chaotic inner energy of young people in their early 20s, influenced by rock, jazz, contemporary music, and avant-garde art, erupting outside. It was first released on the independent Osaka label Unbalance Records and came to be regarded as a historical masterpiece of independent recordings in Japan. It was later released on CD several times by Alchemy Records, and was also released by the major Japanese label Teichiku Entertainment. An analog reissue of the album was released in 2006 by the German label Vinyl On Demand in the form of a double LP set. This will be the first time that the album will be reissued in its original form as a single analog disc, this time on Urashima in 2022. Hijokaidan is a Japanese noise band with a turning lineup that has ranged from two members to as many as fourteen in its early days. The group is the project of guitarist Yoshiyuki "JOJO" Hiroshige, its one constant member, who is owner of the legendary Osaka-based Alchemy Records. The ensemble began at the very end of the '70s as a performance art-based unit whose anarchic shows would often involve destruction of venues and audio equipment, food and garbage being thrown around, and on-stage urination. As the group's lineup changed over time, their focus became less performance-based and more musically based, fine-tuning their sound into a dense wall of white noise created by each member both for live performances and for studio recordings. Zouroku no Kibyo resting at a fascinating juncture between space-harsh progressive, improv and noise, it was years ahead of its time when it first appeared becoming one of the great holy grails of Japan noise. Creatively thrilling -- filled with emotive highs and lows -- it's a crucial piece in the puzzle of Japan's wild and wonderful history of noise music. The album pushes noise practice and the very notions of language into uncharted realms, improvising with a ferocity different from that of hard rock or punk, and a chaos unlike that of free jazz. Released with original cover art with draw by Hideshi Hino, plus all the inserts that were on the original 1982 LP: live photo book (two A3 double face foldable), one Japanese sheet, and a lucky triangle card with, exclusively for this edition, extensive liner notes by JOJO in Japanese and English. Edition of 299.
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CAT #: UMA 166LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SPACE MACHINE Space Tuning Box 3LP BOX
"From around 1998, Yamazaki Maso started to incorporate trippy, spacey electronic elements into Masonna performances. In order to better pursue these elements alone, in 2000 he started Space Machine, his self-labeled 'analog electronic cosmic sound project'. For as long as he had been performing under the Masonna moniker, Yamazaki had been ardent fan of early electronic music from the '50s and '60s, and in order to research the impact that electronic sounds had upon the spiritual lineage audible in sixties US and British psychedelic music and seventies krautrock, Yamazaki began collecting analog synthesizers and vintage electronic equipment. He continuously experimented with these instruments in his home studio, and while groping towards an understanding he discovered a new direction for his own music, a direction different from his work as Masonna. The violent extremity of Masonna live performances made no allowances for avoiding inevitable and direct physical damage to the body. In 2000 Yamazaki was forced to temporarily cease Masonna activities due to ill health, and this allowed him to concentrate more fully on Space Machine. Space Machine -- the end result of Yamazaki's daily inner trip explorations of music at his Space Machine Systems Studio -- and Masonna are like two sides of the same coin. Space Machine's concept exists at the opposite pole to Masonna's screaming noise action and extreme one-man rock band style. In Space Machine, all vocals, physical action and rock elements have been comprehensively excluded in favor of a non-rhythmic, pure electronic sound that cannot even be considered as part of the noise genre. The sounds are created using only analog echo machines and analog synthesizers (including the EMS VSC3, Roland System 100 & 100M, PAIA 4700 Modular, Doepfer Modular, etc.) There is no use whatsoever of the fuzz and distortion effects so characteristic of noise and rock's musical palette and which were heavily featured in Masonna. While the sound does have points in common with what is generally known as electronica or onkyo, what sets it firmly apart is the music's tenaciously psychedelic viewpoint. The absence of a beat signals its difference to the hedonistic physicality of trance dance music. And of course, there is no connection to old synthesizer music with its whiff of religion and its leanings towards new age naturalism. However, in the fervent and endless cosmic spaces of Space Machine, in the infinite floating weave of its future retro electronic tapestry, in its mixture of the organic and inorganic we can perceive an uncanny vibration..." --Satoru Higashiseto (from box set liner notes)This incredible box, released in a deluxe wooden edition with digital printing on the lid, contains the first album Cosmos From Diode Ladder Filter released on CD on Alchemy Records and the four mini CDs released on P-Tapes, California based label run by Damion Romero, reissued for the first time on vinyl on three records. The box is accompanied by a series of photos of the impressive equipment used by Maso Yamazaki taken by Masahiko Ohno and extensive notes in Japanese by Satoru Higashiseto, translated into English by Alan Cummings. Edition of 199.
VAMPISOUL (SPAIN)
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CAT #: VAMPI 168LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BATAAN, JOE Call My Name LP
2022 repress. "This whole project grew out of a song called 'Cycles Of You', which I had written around 2000-2001 with the guitarist and bassist of my band at the time, Easy. The chord progression and vocal melody really reminded me of Joe Bataan, and it occurred to me that it wouldn't be impossible to get him into the studio to do a guest vocal if we ever recorded it. I had met Bataan a few years before at Nuyorican Poets Cafe in my neighborhood. Around this time Bataan was playing out again, so I went to the show to see him and find out if he'd be interested in doing some vocals with us. He was agreeable, so we decided to turn it into a Joe Bataan session and do 'Cycles Of You'. When I got the opportunity from Vampisoul to do a full album, I was hoping Bataan and I could write some songs together, but our schedules proved tough to coordinate. I figured the best way to go about it was to do most of the work and just have him come sing on it. The rhythm section was a band called TransLove Airways that I formed in 2002. To this core group I added pieces from a few other local bands: The Middle Initials, who are a great Temptations/Main Ingredient-style vocal group, and members of an incredible Latin band called Grupo Latin Vibe, who were responsible for almost all the percussion and the vibraphone solo on 'I'm The Fool Pt. 2'. There was also some fine trombone playing by Aaron Johnson of Antibalas and great flute work by Neal Sugarman and my cousin Sonny. Preparing for Call My Name, I listened to a lot of different records from the mid to late '70s. It has now been over ten years since the completion of this record, and so much has changed. The Call My Name sessions took place when Daptone had just moved to Bushwick, its now-famous current location. Gabe Roth was my first call whenever I had any recording to do. He was yet to become the legendary figure at the center of the Daptone/Truth & Soul universe. He was just a humble guy with an incredible talent and an impeccable ear who made authentic sounding records with inexpensive analog gear." -- Daniel Collás, producer of Call My Name
WATERGATE RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: WG 096EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
JAMIIE Unfold Voices EP 12"
A vital collective member and resident, JAMIIE steps up for her long-awaited debut EP on Watergate Records. The artist has been a regular at the club stretching back to 2016, when she joined RISE, the Afro house collective that runs monthly residencies at Watergate. Despite this, JAMIIE has always gone her own way sonically, exploring deeper house and melodic tones, alongside the Afro influences. Beginning life during a summer-time sketch session in bed (her favorite spot to start new creative ideas), "Voices" is an emotive weapon, driven by a captivating synth lead, and chunky Afro-infused bottom end. "'Voices' is mysterious and is inspired by our thoughts, our inner voice," JAMIIE shares. "There's something truly mysterious and remarkable about our inner voice, the means by which we make ourselves aware of who we are and what we think and even feel. Our inner voice is very powerful. It can lift us up and weigh us down. It also makes decisions for us, even when sometimes we don't want to listen to it." "Unfold Me" is a glorious end-of-night future classic, as grandiose synths rub shoulders with beautiful bass melodies, before a delicate key interlude gives JAMIIE the opportunity to build the energy right back up again. "This has a personal meaning and again, has to do with the journey inwards to discovered ourselves. Like many other people I am an extroverted introvert. I think we can be quite confusing and peculiar to others. On the one hand, social and outgoing; on the other, very guarded, selective and hard to get to know. So, it needs time to unfold the layers to understand an extrovert introvert person, if they should let you in," she explains. The originals are complemented by a trio of tight remixes chosen by JAMIIE, from three artists close to her heart: Portuguese Afro tech producer DJEFF delivers a blissfully silky re-work of "Voices"; Italian artist Malandra Jr., whose most notably released on Diynamic, crafts a chugging and cosmic reinterpretation of the title track, while Stil Vor Talent's Annett Gapstream sends "Unfold Me" on a dreamy orbit skywards.
WRWTFWW RECORDS (SWITZERLAND)
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CAT #: WRWTFWW 067CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
OMODAKA ZENTSUU: Collected Works 2001-2019 CD
WRWTFWW Records announce the 18-track ZENTSUU: Collected Works 2001-2019, the first ever best-of compilation of Soichi Terada's amazing project OMODAKA. Initiated in 2001 while trying to create a "boat racing song", the OMODAKA project features sublime music by veteran electronic/house/jungle/video game music producer/DJ Soichi Terada and the vocals of Japanese folk min'yo and enka singer Akiko Kanazawa for a never-heard-before colorful blend of retro game 8-bit/chiptune sounds and traditional Japanese music with wet electro rhythms, joyful '90s house grooves, and slick downtempo vibes. Feel-good, sexy, and fun, Terada's project brings forth one of the most unique sounds in recent memory. The smile-inducing sonic adventure is packed with irresistible hits and a good dose of dancefloor-ready gems: a well-deserved delivery of good times for 2022 and beyond.Tokyo born genius, Soichi Terada has built an impressive career in different music genres. He co-founded respected label Far East Recording with Shinchiro Yokata, composed the soundtrack for cult video game series Ape Escape, released tons of amazing house music records (some included in the beautiful compilation Sounds from the Far East released by Rush Hour in 2015), and has been a celebrated world-touring DJ.
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ABERRANT RECORDS (ANDORRA)
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CAT #: ABERRANT 007LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Soviet Disco: Disco, Electro, Funk and more from Behind the Iron Curtain 1979-1990 LP
An amazing showcase of disco, electro, funk, and more from the USSR 1979-1990. A mind-blowing introduction to the obscure world of soviet dance music. 12 tracks of pure soviet disco fever. Alright, put on your dancing shoes and get ready for a weird trip to the dancefloor, to a time when the Soviet Union -- still alive and under the flag of the hammer and sickle -- managed to produce some wonderfully odd and hypnotic disco hits, mutant funk smashers and electro hip breakers. Coming from all over the huge landscape that the USSR was, the artists on this killer compilation showcase a variety of visions on the subject of shaking the ass that will surprise even the most cynical connoisseur of the genre. Features Mirdza Zivere, ????????, Anzhelina Petrosova / ???????? ?????????, Pervouralsk / ????????????, Güljan Hümmedowa / ???????? ?????????, Roza Rymbaeva / ???? ????????, ???????? ??????????? & ???????, Janina Mis?iukait?, Verasy, Formula Dreyka / ??????? ??????, Eolika, and Raduga / ??????.
BANG! RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: BANG 163LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FUZZTONES, THE Preaching to the Perverted LP
Bang! Records present an expanded and remastered reissue of the Fuzztones' Preaching to the Perverted, originally released in 2011. Preaching to the Perverted was the seventh studio album by the legendary NYC garage rock band The Fuzztones. The album was produced by the leader and sole survivor of the original Fuzztones line-up Rudi Protrudi and Berlin keyboardist Lana Loveland. Includes two bonus tracks previously unreleased from the recording sessions. On this album, The Fuzztones keep their fuzz spreading. Remastered; edition of 600.
BOBO INTEGRAL (SPAIN)
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CAT #: BBI 030LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FIELD SCHOOL When Summer Comes LP
Field School began as an experiment. As the pandemic pushed us into social isolation, Charles Bert realized that writing and recording with bandmates was off the table. But instead of burrowing away to wait it out, he seized the moment: writing, arranging, and recording songs on which he played every instrument, learning on the fly. His ingenuity was contagious, inspiring his friend, artist Jimmy Ulvenes, to start Small Craft Advisory to introduce the world (50 cassettes at a time) to Field School. When Summer Comes is a collection of these pocket-sized recordings, released as a debut album on Bobo Integral. K Records style indie pop but also the nearly mystical natural world of the Pacific Northwest is featured, with apple orchards, rippling rain, and aquatic phosphorescence drifting through the imagery. And with astonishing deftness, Charles also channels the questions and affinities of his older self through this effervescent style, allowing "twee" to grow up and flourish and renew. When Summer Comes is a panoramic album, traveling through wistful recollections and insecurity with humor and beaming hope. It's a reminder that after the separations of the pandemic, after hardship, after loss, you create your own now and you can keep learning and growing and living into the answers. Charles Bert made his mark in Seattle indie pop combo Math and Physics Club. RIYL: Math and Physics Club, Beat Happening, The Softies, The Reds, Pinks & Purples.
BORN BAD RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: BORNBAD 055LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Paink: French Punk Anthems 1975-1982 LP
2022 repress; LP version. Best of the best of French punk tracks. Only French KBD killer tracks. Released for the forthcoming exhibition "Europunk" at Cite de la Musique (Paris - October 2013/January 2014). The first French incarnations of "Le Punk" (pronounced "paink" in numerous locales) were not carbon copies of their foreign exemplars. Babbling, swarming, morphing, genuinely disorganized anarchy, bad intentions transformed into good ones: that's how punk rock (or at least a close approximation) was initially adapted to fit our peculiar French perspective. There was not the slightest network to distribute records or organize concert tours. Older generations were hostile (or worse, compassionate or even paternalistic). There was nothing and no one to forge a connection between the handful of small, isolated groups, fundamentally motivated by a passion for what they deemed true rock 'n' roll (the desire to terrorize the neighborhood arrived soon afterward), each in their own little world, trying to provoke their backwater village or their lame metropolis, and meeting, of course, with total indifference. Artists include: Les Nouveaux Riches, Strychnine, Electrochoc, Gasoline, Sexe A Pile, Soggy, Marie France, Ruth Elyeri, Les Olivensteins, Coronados, Dogs, Warm Gun, Gloires Locales, and Guilty Razors.
BUH RECORDS (PERU)
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CAT #: BR 158LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
VA La Materia Verbal (The Verbal Matter: An Anthology of Peruvian Sound Poetry) LP
This compilation brings together 22 sound poems, including both pioneering and current pieces, and constitutes itself as the first great overview of sound poetry from Peru. It continues a cycle that began in 2009 with the appearance of a CD called Inventar La Voz: Nuevas Tradiciones Orales [To Invent the Voice: New Oral Traditions] and was followed up in 2011 with another one called Irse De Lengua [To Let It Slip], both of which contributed to articulate diverse manifestations of poetry that used technological means, also in the context of intense activity in the local scenes of experimental music and sound art that opened spaces for interdisciplinary dialogues. What we know as sound poetry is the product of a technological revolution associated with the appearance of various means of recording, transmission and amplification of the voice. A long process that took shape in the 20th century, until it became a discipline, articulated as an international movement which, based on phonetic research, expanded into a universe of oral/vocal artistic practices as part of a new technological context. The recordings gathered here comprise a time frame that goes from 1972 to 2021. You find poems that work with montage techniques, either because they explore simultaneity or juxtaposition, such as those by Mario Montalbetti, Frido Martín, Florentino Díaz, Carlos Estela, Luisa Fernanda Lindo, Macri Cáceres, Rodrigo Vera Cubas, Tilsa Otta, Giancarlo Huapaya/Omar Córdova, Virginia Benavides, Lisa Carrasco, and Luis Alvarado. Others emphasize vocal/oral performance: you find the phonetic poems of Carlos Germán Belli and Eduardo Chirinos, as well as the concrete conceptual poems of Michael Prado, Sandra Suazo, Peru Saizprez, and the oral/guttural poem of Omar Aramayo. Finally, you find another group of pieces where the poem starts with the creation of a computational parameter or algorithm, as is the case with the pieces by Jorge Eduardo Eielson and Enrique Verástegui, eventually reaching the use of Artificial Intelligence as in the poems by Francisco Mariotti and Paola Torres Núñez del Prado. The Verbal Matter: An Anthology of Peruvian Sound Poetry is part of a series produced by Buh Records for Centro del Sonido, a website set up as a digital archive of Peruvian experimental music and sound art. Includes extensive notes and visual documentation. Mastered by Alberto Cendra. Art by René Sánchez. Edition of 300.
DIGITMOVIES (ITALY)
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CAT #: SPDM 019CD
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
BASEMENT'S GLARE Nati Morti CD
Digitmovies presents on CD the original soundtrack from the film Nati Morti performed by Basement's Glare. Directed by Alex Visani and starring Lorenzo Lepori, Ingrid Monacelli, and Ester Andriani. Luna is a young embalmer with a strange passion for everything concerning death. One day, during a trip in the woods, she finds two bodies. The first one is a dead woman, the other one is a man who is still barely breathing. From this moment, Luna's life will change forever and a horrifying spiral of violence will take place around her existence. Basement's Glare began shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic exploded. Following the restrictions caused by the imposed isolation, Basement's Glare have recorded and released their first single, "Red Zone", which deals directly with the issue of social distancing and its consequences. Subsequently, the duo decided to complete the recordings of the eponymous EP as previously scheduled, working mostly remotely. Basement's Glare are composed by Riccardo Adamo and Daniele Marinelli as stable members, and by various session musicians. The collaboration turned out to be so fruitful and satisfying that the duo decided to cement it, opening musical horizons and making Basement's Glare an all-round musical project, with no limits of musical genre or intended use. Edition of 300.
FAR OUT RECORDINGS (UK)
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CAT #: JD 054EP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
LIMA FEAT. JOAO BOSCO, DUDU O Ronco Da Cuica/Incompatibilidade De Genios 12"
Originally written by João Bosco and Aldir Blanc and released on Bosco's 1976 album Galos De Briga, "O Ronco da Cuica" is a samba/MPB masterpiece. In the song, the cuíca roars: roars in anger, roars from hunger and is told to stop, but it cannot -- "it's a man thing" explains Bosco in the lyrics. Personifying the instrument in this way, "O Ronco da Cuica" points to something quite profound about the nature of human suffering and our primitive need for expression. On this brilliant reimagining, renowned bassist Dudu Lima teamed up with Joao Bosco himself, as well as Azymuth drummer Ivan "Mamão" Conti, pianist Dudu Viana, and percussionist Marcos Suzano. Ironically, this version contains no cuíca, instead it takes a more stripped back instrumentation, exploring the deep jazz potential of this roaring samba classic, to stunning effect. On the B-side is a beautiful duet between Dudu Lima and João Bosco: acoustic guitar and vocals, and fretless bass -- together they take on "Imcompatibilidade De Gênios", also from Bosco's 1976 Galos De Briga album.
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS/CARDINAL FUZZ
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CAT #: FTR 701LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BLOOD QUARTET Root 7 LP
Pioneer of the New York no wave with the bands Mars and Don King, Mark Cunningham has been part of the Barcelona music underground for almost 30 years, performing solo, with his own groups Raeo, Convolution, Aleatory Grammar, and Bèstia Ferida, as a member of Pascal Comelade's Bel Canto Orchestra and Superelvis, and in countless local and international collaborations. Blood Quartet was formed in early 2015 in Barcelona from a fortuitous collaboration between Cunningham and Catalan underground rock trio Murnau B. An outstanding musical treat that starts from the instrumental base of the modern jazz quartet and takes it to the territory of experimentation and electronics. Blood Quartet sound more luminous and rhythmic than ever, diving into uncharted terrain. This results in an exceptional range of genres that play with the form between the classic and the contemporary, and that extend the creative spectrum of the band towards new styles, such as krautrock and North African music. The result of this process has given rise to nine themes, each one baptized with the title of a literary work by some reference writers of the members of the quartet, in order to add more roots of meaning, more shadows of influence. Produced by Mark Cunningham. Composed by Blood Quartet. Recorded by Pablo Miranda at Fabra i Coats, Barcelona. Mixed by Pablo Miranda at La Isla Estudio, Barcelona. Mastered by Chris Hardman, UK. Personnel: Mark Cunningham - trumpet, guitar; Lluis Rueda - Guitar; Kike Bela - bass, Korg MS-10; Marc Eugeni - drums.
GEOMETRIK (SPAIN)
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CAT #: GR 2156LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO Compuesto de Hierro+ 2LP
Reissue, originally released in 2002. Esplendor Geométrico, the influential industrial pioneers of the pulsating, hypnotic and mechanical rhythms, present the extended version of their album Compuesto de Hierro to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its release. Recorded in Beijing in 2002 and out of print for over 15 years, Compuesto de Hierro was originally released only on CD and now for the first time on double vinyl including on side D four new and unreleased tracks recorded in 2022, inspired by the music on the album. Now remastered for vinyl, the sleeve design is based on the original cover. Compuesto de Hierro is a perfect example of the industrial-tribal sound of Esplendor Geométrico, developed over more than two decades, reminiscent at times of their most "ethnic" album, Mekano-Turbo. The hypnotic and elaborate rhythms are masterfully combined with vocals, electronic analog sounds, and sonorities from the Far East, especially from China. Compuesto de Hierro represents a unique viewpoint in the fusion of traditional or ethnic music with classical industrial music. Esplendor Geométrico: Arturo Lanz and Saverio Evangelista. Composed by Arturo Lanz. Design: Alonso Urbanos and Andrés Noarbe (original cover). Remastered by Luca Spagnoletti, 2022. Edition of 600 (numbered).
JAZZMAN RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: JMAN 107X-LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
RENDELL-IAN CARR QUINTET, DON Shades Of Blue LP
Limited 2022 repress. Due to overwhelming demand for Jazzman Records' five-LP boxset, here are the first ever official individual reissues of all five of the iconic Lansdowne recording sessions by the legendary UK jazz combo, the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet. The five albums; 1965's Shades Of Blues, 1966's Dusk Fire (JMAN 108X-LP), 1968's Phase III (JMAN 109X-LP), 1969's Change Is (JMAN 111X-LP), and 1969's Live (JMAN 110X-LP), have reached almost mythical status in the collector's world. Regarded as holy grail artifacts for even the seasoned aficionado, the collective second-hand market value comes to an astonishing £6000. Jazzman Records located and acquired the original analog master tapes from the Universal vaults and created masters at Abbey Road Studios to produce audiophile quality 180 gram pressings replete with replica artwork -- shape, design, and even paper stock. No stone has been left unturned to deliver this absolute labor of love to the highest possible standard. Inside is a link to a printable online pdf which contains never before seen photographs, interviews with the remaining living band members and liner notes from BBC Radio 3 presenter, and award-winning jazz writer Alyn Shipton. The band played together for seven years and during this fruitful time they made a plethora of deeply melodic, post-bop British jazz compositions that later on took influences from Indo and more spiritually guided jazz. Produced by the influential Denis Preston and recorded at his Lansdowne Studios in London, the band was primarily made up of saxophonist Don Rendell, trumpeter/composer Ian Carr, and pianist/composer Michael Garrick. This is UK jazz at its absolute finest and is a treasure not to be missed. Original replica flipback color sleeves; 180 gram vinyl, mastered from the original master tapes at Abbey Road Studios, London; poly-lined and printed individual inner sleeves; contains link to online PDF with printable liner notes.
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CAT #: JMAN 108X-LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
RENDELL-IAN CARR QUINTET, DON Dusk Fire LP
Limited 2022 repress. Due to overwhelming demand for Jazzman Records' five-LP boxset, here are the first ever official individual reissues of all five of the iconic Lansdowne recording sessions by the legendary UK jazz combo, the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet. The five albums; 1965's Shades Of Blues (JMAN 107X-LP), 1966's Dusk Fire, 1968's Phase III (JMAN 109X-LP), 1969's Change Is (JMAN 111X-LP), and 1969's Live (JMAN 110X-LP), have reached almost mythical status in the collector's world. Regarded as holy grail artifacts for even the seasoned aficionado, the collective second-hand market value comes to an astonishing £6000. Jazzman Records located and acquired the original analog master tapes from the Universal vaults and created masters at Abbey Road Studios to produce audiophile quality 180 gram pressings replete with replica artwork -- shape, design, and even paper stock. No stone has been left unturned to deliver this absolute labor of love to the highest possible standard. Inside is a link to a printable online pdf which contains never before seen photographs, interviews with the remaining living band members and liner notes from BBC Radio 3 presenter, and award-winning jazz writer Alyn Shipton. The band played together for seven years and during this fruitful time they made a plethora of deeply melodic, post-bop British jazz compositions that later on took influences from Indo and more spiritually guided jazz. Produced by the influential Denis Preston and recorded at his Lansdowne Studios in London, the band was primarily made up of saxophonist Don Rendell, trumpeter/composer Ian Carr, and pianist/composer Michael Garrick. This is UK jazz at its absolute finest and is a treasure not to be missed. Original replica flipback color sleeves; 180 gram vinyl, mastered from the original master tapes at Abbey Road Studios, London; poly-lined and printed individual inner sleeves; contains link to online PDF with printable liner notes.
LILITH (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
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CAT #: LR 135C-LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VELOSO, CAETANO Caetano Veloso (A Little More Blue) (Color Vinyl) LP
2022 repress. Lilith present a reissue of Caetano Veloso's Caetano Veloso (A Little More Blue), originally issued in 1971. Often referred to as "Brazil's unofficial poet laureate" and the "Bob Dylan of Brazil", this heavyweight of Brazilian music was also a young revolutionary who used his music to protest against Brazil's oppressive military regime. This protest music, which became known as tropicalia, first earned Veloso a stint in jail, but by the time this dour album was released in 1971, it had placed him in exile in the UK. Veloso's extreme bitterness and melancholy can be heard on every groove of this album, but don't let the album's gloomy atmosphere stop you from buying it; it is dripping with some of the best moments of saudade in the history of Brazilian music. Color vinyl.
MEAN DISPOSITION (SPAIN)
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CAT #: MD 006LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
PREVOST, GREG 'STACKHOUSE' Vintage Violence: Barbaric, Crude & Primitive 1975-1979 LP
LP version. Gatefold sleeve. Vintage Violence: Barbaric, Crude & Primitive 1975-1979 is a selection of material Greg Prevost recorded with his past bands before forming the Chesterfield Kings. If you are a fan, you probably know that Greg Prevost played in different bands before forming the Chesterfield Kings. Only one of them, the Distorted Levels, released a 7" at the time, in 1978. But there were many more. You may have heard or read about mystery bands such as Mr Electro & The Void, The Cutdowns, Mr Electro & the Psychedelic Burnouts, etc. They all recorded profusely, but most master tapes eventually disappeared, in no less mysterious circumstances. Still, some recordings survived... and here you have a selection of this material: all demos, all previously unreleased, plus the Distorted Levels 7", as well as four tracks recorded by early Chesterfield Kings line-ups from 1978-79. Also features Mr. Electro & The Psychedelic Lampshade. Includes detailed track-by-track notes by Greg, including over 30 photos/press-clippings from his personal archive, and liner notes from Mike Stax (Ugly Things magazine), whose final verdict of this whole artifact could not be more exact: "Barbaric. Crude. Primitive. Beautiful."
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CAT #: MD 007CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
PREVOST, GREG 'STACKHOUSE' Vintage Violence: Barbaric, Crude & Primitive 1975-1979 CD
Vintage Violence: Barbaric, Crude & Primitive 1975-1979 is a selection of material Greg Prevost recorded with his past bands before forming the Chesterfield Kings. If you are a fan, you probably know that Greg Prevost played in different bands before forming the Chesterfield Kings. Only one of them, the Distorted Levels, released a 7" at the time, in 1978. But there were many more. You may have heard or read about mystery bands such as Mr Electro & The Void, The Cutdowns, Mr Electro & the Psychedelic Burnouts, etc. They all recorded profusely, but most master tapes eventually disappeared, in no less mysterious circumstances. Still, some recordings survived... and here you have a selection of this material: all demos, all previously unreleased, plus the Distorted Levels 7", as well as four tracks recorded by early Chesterfield Kings line-ups from 1978-79. Also features Mr. Electro & The Psychedelic Lampshade. Includes detailed track-by-track notes by Greg, including over 30 photos/press-clippings from his personal archive, and liner notes from Mike Stax (Ugly Things magazine), whose final verdict of this whole artifact could not be more exact: "Barbaric. Crude. Primitive. Beautiful." CD version includes an additional track.
MILLE PLATEAUX (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MP 012LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
NUMINOS Grains LP
Grains is the debut album by Numinos on Mille Plateaux. The Cologne-based producer, DJ, author, and lecturer has been writing the tech-reviews in Groove for many years, tests equipment for various specialist magazines and teaches at the Institute for Pop Music (IFPOM) and Institute for Computer Music and Electronic Media (ICEM) of the Folkwang University. In his current creative phase, he conceptually deals with the topic of "granular synthesis". A "grain" is thus, to a certain extent, a tiny spectral snapshot from a larger musical context -- an infinitely expandable, flowing intermediate state. This is also where the connection to the cover motif is found that shows the negative of a photograph of a wild field and has been taken Bernd Adamek-Schyma: The negative as an eternal intermediate state between the motif and the developed image. And despite the fact that Numinos has a fully equipped studio with a wide range of instruments, the 20 Euro iPad app "Borderlands Granular" turned out to be the creative catalyst that enabled the trained pianist to implement his sound ideas with direct haptic influence. The app gives the Cologne-based sound artist the opportunity to extract tiny fragments from the sample based on their specific tonality, to recontextualize them and thus work out structures that are not audible at the original tempo. The results are polyrhythmic sound scenes that appear harsh, artificial and strange in a moment, only to transform into contemplative, warm and familiar frequency stratification minutes later. Numinos deceives the listener in many ways. Above all with the supposed rhythm that does not exist. Because in fact almost all granular clusters within the pieces run in completely asynchronous loops. The addition of a simple kick drum then forces the brain to suddenly hear apparent triplets, quintoles, or dotted eighths in these mathematically completely chaotic structures, which are purely fallacy.
MUNSTER RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: MR 433LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DISENO CORBUSIER El alma de la estrella LP
Reissue, originally released in 1986. In the mid-80s Granada, a small city in the south of Spain, was a redoubt of avant-garde resistance. While Madrid bragged about being the capital of the new wave scene -- the much-trumpeted Movida madrileña --, away from any media interest the Andalusian city was part of a European wide network where the free circulation of ideas and knowledge could be linked to the current copyleft movement. They exchanged music following that do-it-yourself philosophy in which the cassette had an ideal role as the vehicle of music diffusion. Ani Zinc would become an expert amateur of such activities. As a child, radio was her only contact with music. She received her first shock listening to "Remember Love", the repetitive song by Yoko Ono. She later found out about Llorenç Barber. Only when she arrived in Granada to study psychology did she discover that she wasn't the only one that liked a kind of music that didn't resemble anything. Granada's proximity to Africa made it possible to tune into Arabic, flamenco, and pop radio stations. Unable to get that Yoko Ono song off her mind, she started discovering the possibilities of her voice. Diseño Corbusier was born out of that obsession. Also, out of the electronic explorations of Javier G Marín, then a first-year law student. They had met in 1981 after an ad in the music magazine Vibraciones. If their first record ("Pérfido encanto", 1985) was a vibrant experiment where the rhythms weren't yet muscled up, with El alma de la estrella (1986) the duo took a step ahead. They renovated some electronic equipment and signed a distribution deal between their own label, Auxilio de Cientos, and one of the most prosperous Spanish independents of the '80s, Nuevos Medios, who were working with labels such as Factory at the time. "Golpe de Amistad" came up as the most international track of a brilliant, expressionist and charmingly domestic repertoire. More confident than ever, Ani Zinc manipulated reality as if it were plasticine. El alma de la estrella gathered all her obsessions. On "Chiquillo" she imitated the angry women's voices which filled the streets of the poor neighborhood where she had grown up. "Ritmo 21" can't hide her admiration for Yoko Ono's vocal register and the records by French female singers that her sister used to bring her from Paris. "El club del ruido" came about as a fragmented document of an interview they did on the radio show of the same name. Rather than electronic or even industrial music, Diseño Corbusier's second album was a vibrant piece of domestic craftwork.
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CAT #: MR 434LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LOS YORK'S 67 LP
First time official reissue. Originally released in 1967. Los York's became the epitome of Peruvian garage sound, and the kings of the multi-group concerts which teenagers flocked to on Saturday and Sunday mornings in Lima's main movie theaters. The group was in tune with the youth from popular districts who were gradually turning morning concerts into dynamic gigs as the fashion for solo rock-ballads waned and garage sounds by bands like Los Shain's, Los Derbys, Los Juniors, Los Flyers, and, of course, Los York's took over. Their supportive fans would follow them to every gig. After releasing their three first singles on MAG, featuring covers of popular hits, it took them a year to turn their ideas into songs for their first LP that was successfully released at Christmas in 1967. The band was backed by Melcohita on vibraphone and Mario Allison on percussion. It features a beat-influenced go-go twang guitar garage psych tone throughout, including a bunch of covers like Alan Y Sus Bates' "Pronto Un Doctor" or The Box Tops' "The Letter", and amazing originals like "No Puedo Amar" with an intense garage beat.
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CAT #: MR 7357EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
INNOVATIONS Seabird 7"
First time reissue. When the Alessi twins saw their heyday in 1976, their moderate hit "Seabird" resonated strongly in the head of Javier Guerrero, son of the Peruvian label Discos MAG's founder Manuel A. Guerrero. The luminous melody of the song fits perfectly into the daily scenes of Lima surfers, establishing a curious parallelism with the idyllic Californian landscape and its traditional surfer way of life. It was not long before Guerrero entered into the recording studio accompanied by Ernesto Samamé, bassist in We All Together, the band led by Javier's brother, Carlos Guerrero, as well as a member of Laghonia, Fe 59, and a few other musical projects. In his hands, "Seabird" became an even brighter song than its original version, a potential perfect soundtrack for a scene taken from The Endless Summer, musical gold for any yacht-rock fan despite its less sophisticated and rawer production. The single was completed with another version, "Put A Little Away", a late hit by Frankie Valli's The Four Seasons, and was released in 1997 on MAG Records, with a tiny distribution most likely limited to Peru.
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CAT #: MR 7358EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
KEN & THE FORTH DIMENSION Rovin' Heart 7"
First time fully licensed 7" reissue. By the mid-60s, Kenny Johnson and several of his Bakersfield (California) acolytes had relocated to Los Angeles and were playing gigs all over. "See If I Care" is a killer 1966 organ-led snotty garage punker that was credited to the pseudonymous Ken & The Forth Dimension. At the time, this song was considered a relative throwaway compared to its pop A-side, "Rovin' Heart". However, an error with the original pressing that reversed the 45 labels meant that anyone that might have played the record expecting the schlocky sentiments of the main track, got an earful of garage band insolence instead. Many years on and "See If I Care" reached a cult status after being included in the Back From the Grave series becoming a popular spin in the garage scene.
NAP (GERMANY)
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CAT #: NAP 001EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
NAP NAP001 12"
Punchy, UK inspired house EP.
RECOLLECTION GRM (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: REGRM 009LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
PARMEGIANI, BERNARD De Natura Sonorum 2LP
2022 repress. De Natura Sonorum (1975): Premiered at the Salle Wagram in Paris on June 3rd 1975. A suite of 12 movements, divided into two series of six. "The first series comprises six related movements, usually organized in pairs, electronic sounds with instrumental and more rarely, concrete sounds: Incidences/resonances bring into play controlled resonances akin to sounds of concrete origin in a process that helps to expand the variable electronic sound sources. Here, 'incidents' are opposed to one-off 'accidents' in the second movement: 'Accidents/Harmoniques' ('Accidents/Harmonics'). In the second movement, very short events of instrumental origin change the harmonic tone of the continuum they interrupt or overlap. Moreover, the high notes are underplayed, which stimulates the attention given to other phenomena generally hidden by the melodic form applied to the instrumental play. 'Géologie sonore' ('Sound Geology') is similar to a flight over an area where different 'sound' layers come to the surface one after the other. When seen from high above, instrumental and electronic sounds seem to fuse. 'Dynamique de la resonance' ('Dynamics of Resonance') is a microphonic exploration of a single sound resonating through different forms of percussion. 'L'Etude élastique' ('Elastic Study') places together various sounds produced by 'touching' elastic or instrumental skins (balloons, doumbeks) or vibrating strings and a number of instrumental gestures close to this 'touch,' using electronic processes to generate white noise. 'Conjugaison du timbre' ('Conjugated Tone'), the last movement in the series, uses the same substance to apply rhythmic forms onto a perpetually varying tone continuum. The second series of movements draws its inspiration from concrete and electronic sources rather than instrumental ones. 'Incidences/battements' ('Incidences/ Beatings') is a reminder of the first movement in the first series, which then quickly moves into 'Natures éphémères' ('Ephemeral Natures'): an ephemeral play on instrumental and electronic sounds, singled out by their internal trajectory rather than by the material itself. 'Matières induites' ('Induced Matters'): just as molecular effervescence triggers changes of state, it seems that the different states of these sound materials can be generated by each other or through induction processes. In 'Ondes croisées' ('Crossed Waves'), the pizz vibrations interfere with somehow 'visible' water drops on the surface of a similar material. 'Pleins et déliés' ('Downstrokes and Upstrokes') can be listened to as the energies absorbed in the motion of bouncing bodies, while hollow 'bubbles' and points bring together some people's gravity and others' downwards movements. The work finishes with 'Points contre champs' ('Reverse Angle Points'). Here, the notion of perspective of the different sound threads weaving a kind of network, or field, traps the occasional iterative elements in the foreground and progressively absorbs them, giving more space for the angle -- and the chanted sound -- to grow." --Bernard Parmigiani; De Natura Sonorum whose title echoes Lucretius' De rerum natura, similarly explores the multiplicity of sound possibilities. This profuse work, with countless discoveries and dazzling intuitions, has influenced several generations of composers and remains a truly seminal piece in the experimental music soundscape. De Natura Sonorum, one of Parmegiani's masterpieces, has left an indelible mark on the classical period of electroacoustic music. At last, it is being reissued on vinyl and for the first time this includes the whole of its 12 movements." --Christian Zanési & François Bonnet. Housed in a gatefold sleeve.
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CAT #: REGRM 024LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
FORT, BERNARD Fractals / Brain Fever LP
2022 repress. "Fractals" (1981): Composed at the GMVL from December 1979 to September 1981, this work was commissioned by Fnac. Fractals are mathematical oddities that, when crossing our path, turn the smallest island into an immensity to be explored. "Fractals" is a series of short studies, all based on the same sound source. Seeking in the sound and its very logic a proposal upon which a construction is elaborated, each Fractal remains open and is a mere fragment of itself. "Fractals", music pieces sculpted in four dimensions, are vast microcosms that can only be inhabited by the mind. Each "Fractal" can be approached from several angles, far, near, etc. Some can be listened to at different speeds, forwards or backwards. "Fractals": amorphous and endless music pieces whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."Brain Fever" (2017): Wherever you may be in the forest of South India, the Brain Fever bird, together with the Seven Sisters, literally gets into your head. Whether it be early morning, daytime, or nighttime, amidst the stridulations of insects, its song utterly reflects Indian life: sonorous, noisy, insistent, dense, overcrowded, mobile, swarming, frantic, overheated, deprived of rest and sleep. "Brain Fever" echoes sonic images caught in the Aurovillian forest, near Pondicherry, and rich fragments of improvisations made in Lyon on analog sound synthesis or feedback devices, the kind Fort used to do in the first GMVL studios. "Brain Fever" is dedicated to Sofia Jannok, a musician and sàmi singer.Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, November 2019. Translations: Valérie Vivancos. Layout: Stephen O'Malley. Photos: Daniel Lepoutre, Francesco Giorni, Christian Ganet. Mécanisme d'un paysage urbain, by Paul Klee. Coordination GRM: François Bonnet, Jules Négrier. Executive Production: Peter Rehberg.
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CAT #: REGRM 026LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
MARCHETTI, LIONEL La grande vallee / Micro-climat LP
2022 repress. "I wonder if my fascination for clouds (without being an obsession) may have risen at the end of the '80s as, whilst composing 'Micro-climat', I would regularly wander between the Vercors mountains and the high plateaus of the Monts du Forez discovering, through my eyes, body, breath, active observation and walk, that natural forms when constantly changing and yet swollen with a unity of matter (in this instance, water) open one up to a deep, fundamental breath and a clear field for the mind. The sky and its forces: our ally. A model for a natural music which, although fixed, as in musique concrète (a rule of the genre), moreover on a recording tape, will remain charged with such a poetic quality that (isn't it its role or rather its reality?) it will ensure a perpetual renewal for our senses, so as to reach another idea of the world, far more open and richer than what we could have imagined." --Lionel Marchetti, 2011."Lionel Marchetti is a major figure of the 'third generation' of concrète musicians, a term he values. Listening to these works, imbued with poetry and traversed by micro-narratives, one can indeed retrieve the original concrète spirit, the one that draws from the sonic world, with ears wide open, so as to extract a fertile, rich and multiple substance then shaped and conveyed towards a formal and musical abstraction. Lionel Marchetti has mastered this process, but his real distinctive feature is a truly unique talent for setting climates (as one sets traps) and keeping us on constant alert. The two pieces in this record perfectly illustrate the entrancing dimension of Lionel Marchetti's music, whose charm leads us, through each successive listening, to become voluntary captives so as to better liberate ourselves." --François Bonnet, Paris, 2020."La grande vallée": Musical composition, design and sound production carried out at the INA grm Studios (Paris) in 1993/95; Original audio recordings in the Drôme and the Mont Ventoux areas "Micro-climat" is the first movement of the Sirrus cycle (Micro-climat, Passerelle, Sirrus) composed in 1989/90; Musical composition, sound design and production, audio recordings in 1989/90 at the CFMI studios in Lyon (Lumière University, Lyon 2). Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi; Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin, November 2020; Translations: Valérie Vivancos; Layout: Stephen O'Malley.
SOUFFLE CONTINU RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: FFL 077CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
MAAJUN Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde CD
Reissue, originally released in 1971. Before Mahjun -- with the two albums released by Saravah, reissued by Souffle Continu in 2016 (FFL 022LP, FFL 023LP) -- there was... Maajun. Five musicians (Jean-Pierre Arnoux, Cyril and Jean-Louis Lefebvre, Alain Roux, and Roger Scaglia) and three times as many instruments at the service of an electric-poetic guerrilla group molded from folk and blues. The group's unique album, Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde evokes an (imaginary) association of Frank Zappa and Jacques Higelin, of Sonny Sharrock and the Art Ensemble Of Chicago. Under these conditions, Long Live Death! "The most French of all the French groups, determined to take Maurice Chevalier's place in American hearts." This was how Rock&Folk presented Mahjun in 1977. So be it. But when Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde, was issued, it was 1971, and the name, though the same group, was still spelled Maajun. At the end of the sixties, five blues fans decided to form a French group ready to break down the barriers: Jean-Pierre Arnoux (drums, vibraphone, saxophone), Cyril Lefebvre (guitar, organ), Jean-Louis Lefebvre (bass, violin, guitar, vocals), Alain Roux (saxophone, flute, harmonica, vocals) and Roger Scaglia (guitar, vocals). This was Maajun, and Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde would be their only album, but which would (nevertheless) be followed by those of Mahjun created later by Lefebvre (Jean-Louis) and Arnoux. Recorded for the Vogue label, Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde would disturb a number of people. This is mostly due to the lyrics, many of which were written by Gérald Escot-Bocanegra, who, while summoning the spirit of Lautréamont and Rimbaud, turned the Maajun musicians on to rock and free jazz. Add a bit of politics into the mix, and the release of the album was delayed for several months. But then, wasn't it worth waiting for? Because Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde, a real concept-album, is an important and iconoclastic statement made directly in the face of (francophone) dreamers of all countries. Over heavy guitar riffs, psychedelic interludes or fantasy-fueled digressions, Maajun built mazes on the advice of alchemists known only to themselves before heading off on a long march on the "cracking walls". Licensed from Maajun. Carefully remastered and restored by Gilles Laujol. Graphic design by Stefan Thanneur. Includes liner notes by Ian Thompson and rare photos.
SPITTLE RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: SPITTLE 138LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
KINA Citta Invisibili LP+CD
Reissue. Originally released on Kina's Blu Bus label in 1996, Città Invisibili comes as the band's most mature work. A strong final statement from one of the seminal hardcore punk bands ever. Includes CD and printed inner sleeve.
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CAT #: SPITTLE 139LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
KINA La Gioia Del Rischio LP+CD
Reissue. Originally released on cassette by Blue Bus in 1990 and issued here for the first time on vinyl. This was Kina's first live album. An in-your-face snapshot of the band caught live during their 1900 European tour. Includes CD and printed inner sleeve.
SUB DISCOS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: BUS 009LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SYNTOMA No Me Puedo Controlar LP
Syntoma is a DIY synth band formed in Mexico City in the early '80s. No Me Puedo Controlar, the only Syntoma LP, released in 1983 by the independent labels Corporación Sintética and Trópico Digital, combined the benefits and atrocities of speculative science fiction with dystopian opera that opened the doors to new formulas for understanding the progress of human degradation. Where some used technology to destroy and conquer, others to create and unify. Personnel: Alex Ice & Drinks - synths - Korg (MS20, Monopoly), Yamaha (PS20), drum machine (KR55), guitars, vocals; Synthia Napalm - Synths - Korg (MS20, Monopoly), vocals; Bernardo Dix-Fraz - synths - Korg (MS10), Yamaha (PS20), vocals. Remastered from the original tapes. Include extra A2 poster with photos, lyrics, and liner notes.
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CAT #: BUS 011LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SABOTEN Saboten LP
Reissue, originally released in 1982. Formed in 1981 in Tokyo, Saboten was an all-girl-Erik Satie-obsessed-post-punk band. This album was recorded in 1982 at the legendary Studio Dig and is the first time the LP has been reissued in its original format. Remastered from the original master tapes with two bonus tracks from the same session. This reissue has the original artwork, extended with a gatefold cover and an extra A2 poster with lyrics, liner notes, photos, and amazing artwork by the singer and guitarist Satomi Matsumot. Saboten is featured on the cult compilations Huddle No Trouble (1984) and Welcome To Dreamland (1985). "Absolute masterpiece of minimal, Satie-influenced post-punk. No other group sounds like Saboten." "Saboten means 'cactus' and, like their namesake, they are spiky and yet oddly beautiful.""Of the many things one could say of Saboten it is their impeccable sense of lyricism and melody that make them truly great. They were a female band unlike any other in the world. Part contemporary music, part rock, theirs is a high form of pop music. When all is said and done, they are a wonderful band, and one of only a handful that will forever remain in the collective musical consciousness." --Shunji Tsutaki
VAMPISOUL (SPAIN)
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CAT #: VAMPI 220-2LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VALDEZ Y SU CONJUNTO, AL Gozando! LP
One of the "holy grails" of 1960s Cuban music was not recorded, produced or released in Havana or New York; in fact it was made in Lima, Peru under interesting if somewhat unexpected circumstances. Pianist Alfredo "Alfredito" Valdés Jr. (1941-2016), one of the most important figures in Latin music, came from an illustrious musical family in Cuba. In 1956, he emigrated to New York with his family, making him one of the forerunners of Cuban-based salsa music in the US. Three years later at age 18 Alfredito joined Arsenio Rodríguez and his conjunto; then in 1961 Ray Barretto recruited him for his Charanga La Moderna. Alfredito then become substitute pianist for Machito and His Afro-Cubans for a tour that would take him to Colombia and Peru for a number of engagements in the winter of 1964 and into the new year. While in Lima, several problems arose with the Argentine businessman and tour promoter Mauricio Támara who took the Machito gang to the Peruvian capital but forfeited their pay and left them stranded and penniless to fend for themselves in December of 1964. Machito's brother-in-law and musical director Mario Bauzá had to travel to New York to get money for the return of the entire company; meantime the rest of the musicians had not even enough to eat. They ended up being stranded for a total of three months. It is from this embarrassing and depressing turn of events that the enterprising Alfredito Valdés Jr. was able to spin musical gold in his newfound Peruvian home. Thankfully, sound engineer and proprietor of Discos MAG Miguel Ángel Guerrero made him a deal for some recording sessions, which eventually produced two albums, the first of which was Gozando! Alfredito played multiple roles on the date: arranger, pianist, percussionist, singer, and director. Gozando! has more than simply Cuban and Nuyorican genres like pachanga, mambo, descarga, guaracha, and bolero; there is also a fantastic cover of the Colombian cumbia classic "Tabaquera". Overall, the swinging MAG sessions sound like a long-lost record by Cachao and Tito Puente if they led an orchestra with Charlie Palmieri on piano and Tito Rodríguez on vocals (and played pachangas like Machito's Afro-Cubans "with flute to boot"). Ultimately, the Afro-Cubans were able to pay their bills and return to the United States in February, 1965. Though the Al Valdez y su Conjunto sessions for MAG may have been enjoyed by a few South American and Mexican aficionados at the time, the scarcity and obscurity of the releases insured that they would become "legendary lost records" rarely heard until recently, when the MAG vaults were opened and the reissues started to flow.
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CAT #: VAMPI 271LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
MITA Y SU MONTE ADENTRO Arecibo LP
First time reissue. From a young age, La Perla, Callao-born guitarist Oswaldo "Mita" Barreto was a fan of Cuban artists like Celina y Reutilio and Los Compadres, whose records were a staple in the port city homes. He soon learned to distinguish the sound of the Cuban tres on these records (the chordophone from rural areas of Cuba). At the age of 18, he had already mastered the instrument, although he had never seen a Cuban musician play one live until that point. At the beginning of 1969 (according to the record company's archives), his fame led him to record his first 45 RPM singles for the MAG label, which were compiled in an LP by the end of the year entitled Arecibo, after a song dedicated to the Puerto Rican city of the same name. For these recordings he was accompanied by a group of musician friends, all linked to the tropical music scene in Callao, Peru. The album opens with two Cuban guarachas from the 1950s: "Mango Mangüé" by El Gran Fellove, whose compositions were popularized across the Americas thanks to the voice of Celia Cruz and the Sonora Matancera; and "El Yoyo" by Antonio Sánchez Reyes, another international hit performed by Cortijo y su Combo. Both songs were recorded by Mita in May 1969. The album also includes four songs from the repertoire of Puerto Rican musician Joe Cuba: "Arecibo", "No Coman Cuento", "Oriza Oco", and "Con Mi Mambo", where Mita replaced the sound of the vibraphone with the Cuban tres, an innovation that gave the group its distinctive sound. Three songs by Oswaldo Barreto "Mita" were also included on the album: the memorable "Mita Descarga", the incredibly fast "Descarga En Botella Y Güiro" ("del Perú a Puerto Rico cantamos") and the intimate "No Aguanto Más", all with inspired plucking by the tres player from La Perla. The release of the LP at the end of 1969, established Mita's career, and he continued to record on MAG and other labels in the following years, although he never released another album.
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CAT #: VAMPI 272LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
SALAS Y SU SONORA, BETICO Baile Ud. Con Betico Salas LP
First time reissue. Originally released in 1966. First solo LP by the talented Peruvian artist Betico Salas, lead trumpet player of the great Sonora de Lucho Macedo, one of the best ensembles playing Cuban repertoires in the early '60s. Alfredo Linares on piano and sonero vocals by Benny del Solar stand out on this album. Benny del Solar sings lead vocals on the cumbia of Argentine origin "Nos Vamos A Casar"; the Colombian "Lo Que Pasa Es Que La Banda Está Borracha", a continental hit since the early sixties; the guaracha "A Los Muchachos De Belén", by Puerto Rican musician Tito Rodríguez; the guaracha "Ritmo Del Amor"; the elegant Cuban guaguancó "Así Namá", also well known for Tito Rodríguez's rendition; and the cumbia "Qué Le Digo A Mi Mujer". Singer, César Gonzales, who would have an extensive career in Peruvian tropical music, sang lead vocals in the guaguancó by the Sonora Matancera "Lindo Omelenko" and the bolero "El Árbol", a hit for the singer Roberto Ledesma, also recorded that same year by Peruvians Carmita Jiménez, Anamelba, Raul del Mar, and Lucho Macedo himself, who decided to sing for his new record label. The mythical singer Johnny Arce, years later known as Mr. Macondo, also appears on the album on the two guarachas: "La Renga", a composition by Esther Forero, known as "La novia de Barranquilla"; and "Yo Soy Candela", a composition by the Colombian Ray Rodríguez. Finally, "La Chola" is a cumbia by Peruvian composer Tomás Benítez; and "Mambo Jazz" is a version of the descarga "Yayi's Instant Mambo", an innovative instrumental track performed by Puerto Rican Willie Rosario, who recorded it in the United States at the start of 1966 with his own orchestra. Betico Salas would later release two more albums and become a legendary trumpet player in Peruvian musical history.
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CAT #: VAMPI 274LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
CHICO LESSA Chico Lessa LP
First time reissue. Originally release in 1982. This Chico Lessa album is one of the milestones of independent production in Brazil and one of the greatest achievements of MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) ever that deserves wider recognition, and shines with a depth that makes it an instant classic. The arrangements on the beautiful "Choveu" and "Me Pega, Me Larga" can easily bring names like Arthur Verocai to your mind. No wonder the album features some of Brazil's leading musicians, arrangers, and composers of all time: Wagner Tiso, Mauricio Maestro, Robertinho Silva, Pascoal Meirelles... The songs on this album sound so fresh they could have been recorded today while also retaining the feel of the best post-Tropicalia work of '70s Brazil. It has become a much sought-after album in recent times after being rediscovered by top collectors worldwide. For those into Milton Nascimento, Caetano Veloso, Arthur Verocai... 180 gram vinyl.
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CAT #: VAMPI 275LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
PEREZ Y PERUCHO TORCAT, RAY They Do It LP
First time reissue. Originally released in 1971. One of pianist Ray Pérez's rarest releases and his first on his own label Pyraphon, They Do It was also his final collaboration with Perucho Torcat, a talented sonero who died tragically young in NYC the following year. The record sports an impressively diverse array of rhythms and genres, including the popular Cuban, Puerto Rican, and New York sounds that the young Venezuelan salsa groups excelled in at the time (guaguancó, bolero son, son montuno, and Latin soul/boogaloo). Other Caribbean modes like calypso (the coast of Venezuela is very near Trinidad and Tobago), pambiche (a slow form of Dominican merengue developed for tourists), and even traditional Venezuelan merengue (a completely different rhythm from the Dominican genre of the same name) appear on the album. Full of classic dancefloor burners, the album has been lovingly restored, mastered from the original tapes, fully licensed, with its original artwork intact, preserving the legacy of this great Venezuelan music for today's generation of salsa dura lovers everywhere. Recommended by DJ Bongohead of Peace & Rhythm.
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CAT #: VAMPI 45092EP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
BATAAN, JOE Call My Name 7"
Back in 2004, Vampisoul played a role in the return to recording of the legendary Joe Bataan, which fully materialized in the acclaimed album Call My Name, written and produced by Daniel Collás (The Phenomenal Handclap Band, Incarnations). Now, the song that marked the return of Joe Bataan finally makes it into a 7" single for the first time. "This whole project grew out of a song called 'Cycles of You', which I had written around 2000-2001 with the guitarist and bassist of my band at the time, Easy. The chord progression and vocal melody really reminded me of Bataan, and it occurred to me that it wouldn't be impossible to get him into the studio to do a guest vocal if we ever recorded it. I had met Bataan a few years before at a small, family-reunion style show at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in my neighborhood, where he not only still sounded great, but was also gracious and easy to talk to. By the time we got around to recording with Easy, the band was about to break up but we still had the studio booked. We all agreed that we didn't want to continue as a band, but at the same time, it would be a shame to never record what we had been working on. Around this time Bataan was playing out again, so I went to the show to see him and find out if he'd be interested in doing some vocals with us. He was agreeable, so we decided to turn it into a Joe Bataan session and do 'Cycles of You' . . . The rhythm section was a band called TransLove Airways that I formed in 2002. We got really tight and developed a great sound that was, to me, equal parts Heart, Shocking Blue, Brian Auger, and Rare Earth. To this core group I added pieces from a few other local bands: The Middle Initials, who are a great Temptations/Main Ingredient-style vocal group, and members of an incredible Latin band called Grupo Latin Vibe, who were responsible for almost all the percussion. There was also some fine trombone playing by Aaron Johnson of Antibalas and great flute work by Neal Sugarman and my cousin Sonny . . . The 'Call My Name' sessions took place when Daptone had just moved to Bushwick, its classic location..." --Daniel Collás, producer of "Call My Name".
WEWANTSOUNDS (UK)
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CAT #: WWSLP 017LP
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YANO, AKIKO Japanese Girl LP
2022 repress; LP version. Includes download card and original four-page insert with lyrics and line-up. Wewantsounds continues their Akiko Yano reissue program with the release of Japanese Girl, her landmark debut album from 1976. Backed by Little Feat with Lowell George and by top Japanese musicians (including Haruomi Hosono), Japanese Girl is one of the most important Japanese albums of the '70s, mixing pop, rock, and Japanese folk together with Little Feat's superb classic sound. After a marriage with musician/producer Makoto Yano and the birth of her son (Fuuta), Yano and her team resumed the recording of the album and decided to pitch Little Feat for a collaboration as she loved the group. Against all odds they said yes and Yano left Tokyo for Los Angeles in March 1976 to record a full side with them. The legend has it they found it so difficult to keep up with Yano's compositions they returned some of their fee. The session was nevertheless stunning and Lowell George even compared Yano to Stevie Wonder. The Little Feat blend of New Orleans groove matched Yano's melodies perfectly, as witnessed on "Funamachi-Uta Part ". Originally a traditional song from The Nebuta Festival in her hometown of Aomori, the Little Feat version is a formidable slow-funk workout not dissimilar to their classic, "Spanish Moon", serving Yano's beautiful vocals and sense of groove to perfection. The whole side is a match made in heaven, showcasing the classic Little Feat line up at their funkiest with Yano's unique Japanese twist. The Japanese side on the album gives a great snapshot of the Tokyo music scene of the '70s with many musicians gravitating around Haruomi Hosono and also several musicians from Japanese band, The Moonriders. Recorded at the legendary Onkyo Haus studio in Tokyo, the sessions mix singer-songwriter sensitivity and pop with traditional Japanese sounds and instruments like the shinobue transverse flute, the koto string instrument, or the Tsuzumi hand drum as played on "Hekoriputaa" by the legendary percussionist Kisaku Katada who was appointed Living National Treasure by the Japanese state in 1999; together they create a beautiful east-meets-west mix masterfully driven by Yano's creativity and unique talent. First international release. Remastered sound.
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AFRODELIC (ITALY)
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CAT #: AF 1003LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
MABADU & HIS SUNRISE, TUNDE Bisu LP
Official reissue, originally released in 1978 on the Blackspot label (DECCA's West Africa division). Tunde Mabadu's ultra-rare debut album, Bisu, which includes the super groovy "Red Jeans", differs from the later 1980 Viva Disco album by a much more pure African style. A beautiful and soulful production in which Tunde's deep voice and sax move on the excellent horn arrangements, percussions, the wah-wah rhythm guitar, and weird keyboards and synths (at times psychedelic as in the nine-minute "Blue Bird"). As wrote on the original liner notes of the era: "His music will mesmerize you from the first track. A dedicated musician especially to his African roots with so much to offer musically."
ANTARCTICA STARTS HERE
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CAT #: ASH 101LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FRANK, JACKSON C. Jackson C. Frank LP
2022 repress. "Jackson C. Frank's eponymous album is the embodiment of folk legend. Issued in late 1965 on the UK Columbia label, it was for many years more famous for its producer (Paul Simon) and the musicians who would go on to cover its songs (Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Sandy Denny) than for the hauntingly beautiful music contained inside. Frank's backstory certainly adds to the legacy: born in Buffalo, New York, he used the settlement from a childhood accident to sail to London where he quickly became a fixture of the bustling folk scene. Performing a mix of blues standards and originals, he met fellow ex-pat Paul Simon who would put up the money to record Frank's only LP. For such a sparsely recorded work, Jackson C. Frank covers a lot of ground. From the rugged, world-weary opener 'Blues Run The Game' to the stunning melancholy of 'Milk And Honey,' Frank's nimble acoustic guitar and passionate howls are all that is needed to power such authentic songwriting. Captured in a single-day session, these ten tracks are stark, gritty and seemingly out-of-place with time. There may be no '60s folk record that is simultaneously as rare and influential as Jackson C. Frank's self-titled debut."
AUDIKA RECORDS
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CAT #: AU 1014LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
RUSSELL, ARTHUR Corn LP
2022 repress; LP version. "It has been seven years since Audika last issued an album of Arthur Russell material. The wait ends this summer with Corn, nine tracks Russell recorded in 1982 and 1983. In collaboration with Russell's partner Tom Lee, Audika's Steve Knutson compiled Corn from Arthur's original, completed 1/4" tape masters. Russell himself compiled this material on three separate test pressings -- labeled El Dinosaur, Indian Ocean, and Untitled, respectively -- in 1985. Russell fans know something of the Corn sound from Audika's debut release, Calling Out of Context (2004), which included four songs from these sessions: 'The Deer in the Forest Part 1,' 'The Platform On the Ocean,' 'Calling Out of Context,' and 'I Like You!' This new collection includes rhythmic alternate versions of 'Lucky Cloud,' 'Keeping Up,' 'See My Brother, He's Jumping Out (Let's Go Swimming #2),' 'This Is How We Walk On the Moon,' and 'Hiding Your Present From You,' along with 'Corn,' 'Corn (Continued),' 'They and Their Friends,' and the closing instrumental 'Ocean Movie,' one of the most beautiful and curious Russell tracks ever to see the light of day. With Corn, Audika reveals yet another side of Russell's staggeringly diverse artistry, following the avant-electrodisco of Calling Out of Context, and its companion EP, Springfield; the orchestral works 'Instrumentals' and 'Tower of Meaning,' compiled and released as First Thought Best Thought; the 'Buddhist Bubble Gum Pop' collected on Love Is Overtaking Me; and Russell's definitive solo masterpiece, World of Echo."
BE WITH RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: BEWITH 056LP
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GRIFFITHS, MARCIA Sweet And Nice 2LP
2022 repress. Be With Records present a reissue of Sweet And Nice, the vital debut album from Jamaica's undisputed first lady of song Marica Griffiths, originally released in 1974. It's reggae at its most soulful. Slinking through a tight ten tracks of R&B and pop-sourced material, it became an instant best seller. Sweet And Nice has appeared over the years with a revised running order and under different titles. But the original's opening sequence of loping soul is legendary, even beyond reggae circles. These songs are now returned to how they were presented on that first Jamaican release, and under their intended album title. Be With doesn't mess with magic. Marcia's version of "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" has long been lusted after, played by genre-hopping selectors to snapping necks for decades now. It's followed by the sophisticated, rollicking wah-wah funk of "Everything I Own" and the slice of smooth lovers soul par excellence that is "Green Grasshopper" and her ace, lilting Neil Diamond cover "Play Me". The thundering, humid funk of "Children At Play" "sounds uncannily like a precursor of Massive Attack", as FACT Mag astutely noted when they put Sweet And Nice at number 16 in their list of the 100 best albums of the 1970s. Otherworldly, moody, and essential. Side two keeps the fire burning. "Sweet, Bitter Love" should leave you swooning, and is also one of the album's alternate titles. Curtis Mayfield's already-eternal "Gypsy Man" follows, recast as proto-lovers rock. "There's No Me Without You" is elevated to canonical status by the majestic, forlorn horns of the Federal Soul Givers and Marcia's heartbreaking delivery. And if this doesn't get you then surely the next track will: arguably the definitive version of Ewan MacColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". "I Just Don't Want To Be Lonely" re-takes its rightful place at the end of the LP's second side... but Be With Records added an entire second record of rare material recorded around the same time as Sweet And Nice, much of it unavailable since it was originally released. Amongst these 14 extra tracks you'll find the exquisite late-60s singles "Melody Life" and "Mark My Word" which, along with the sumptuous reading of "Band Of Gold". All material is remastered. 140 gram vinyl.
BEAR FAMILY RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BAF 14029LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
JACKSON, WANDA Honey Bop 10"
"On the occasion of her 85th birthday on October 20, 2022, Bear Family Records honors Wanda Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly with a fine 10" vinyl LP. A round a dozen of unique Rockabilly classics fill the grooves of this high-quality record in a limited edition. In addition to '(Let's Have A) Party', tracks include 'Baby Loves Him', 'Mean Mean Man', 'Cool Love' and 'Savin' My Love' and her re-makes of 'Fujiyama Mama' and 'Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad'. Liner notes by Bill Dahl. What a party! All hail the rockabilly queen! Wanda Jackson staked her royal reputation as an unbridled rocker on the killer sides she waxed for Capitol Records during the second half of the 1950s. A dozen of those classics constitute this Bear Family Records 10" LP, every one permeated with the sexy swagger and sensual sway that became her trademark after Elvis helped convince her to switch her stylistic focus from country to rock and roll. Wanda set her own 'Baby Loves Him', 'Mean Mean Man', 'Cool Love', and 'Savin' My Love' afire, made the swinging oldies 'Fujiyama Mama' and 'Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad' her own, and transformed the rip-roaring '(Let's Have A) Party' into a national hit (even Elvis and The Collins Kids couldn't do that). Wanda's studio bands included guitar demigods Joe Maphis and Roy Clark as well as her own touring combo, The Poe Kats featuring piano pounder 'Big' Al Downing. Jackson's rip-roaring rockabilly side is on full glorious display on these 12 classic tracks. Talk about a party!"
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CAT #: BCD 17643CD
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VA Rockin' With The Krauts: Real Rock 'n' Roll Made In Germany Vol. 3 CD
"Third installment in the Rockin' With The Krauts mini-series on Bear Family Records. A whopping 33 tracks from 1956-67. R'n'R in its purest form, including twist rockers, jivers, beat rockers and rock n' roll instrumentals. Including Freddy Quinn with At The Hop, indo rockers Jimmy Ward & His Real Rockers with Susi Twist, the Rivets with a sizzling version of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' and the Odd Persons with their smash instrumental 'Odd's Boogie!' Super cover versions and interpretations of US tunes like 'Hats Off To Larry', 'King Creole', 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On', 'Trouble In Paradise', and 'King Of The Whole Wide World'. Besides little known artists like Christa Casper, Fred Jasper, the Pipelines and the Rickets, you'll hear recordings by popular singers like Ted Herold, Rita Pavone, the Rattles or Tony Sheridan. Many original singles are sought after, hard to find and often very expensive! Nine tracks officially available on CD for the first time! The German language, informative and very entertaining accompanying essay was written by Roland Heinrich! 'Deliver Me from the Days of Old' had Chuck Berry screaming imploringly to the heavens, and in stuffy post-war Germany he spoke from the soul of countless youngsters. While the church, law enforcers and the politically retarded countered the wild hordes of semi-starlets and hedonistic teenagers with perfidious tricks and brute force, a very unique German variant of rock n' roll emerged. The writers and musicians were particularly taken with the twist. In the USA, one dance style chased the next, while in Germany, people continued to compose twist. So, we were spared grotesque quick-fire creations like the 'Wattenscheid Watusi' and the 'Fürst Metternich Madison'. Bear Family Records presents with the third part of Rockin' With The Krauts rare, forgotten and even totally wacky tunes."
BLACK SAINT (ITALY)
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CAT #: BS 120113LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
OLD AND NEW DREAMS A Tribute To Blackwell LP
Reissue, originally released in 1990. This was Old and New Dreams, a legendary quartet and possibly one the most important line-up in the post-Ornette Coleman continuum! Recorded live in Atlanta in 1987 and first released in 1990, their second Black Saint release stands as the group final statement. A high-quality recording capturing an outstanding performance as homage to Ed Blackwell, one of the greatest drummers in the history of jazz. A strong and sensitive musician who managed to integrate the New Orleans rhythm tradition with the propulsive drive of free jazz. This was an amazing concert based on a great setlist including three Coleman's originals "Happy House", "Law Years", and "Street Woman", plus Blackwell's "Togo" and Dewey Redman's "Dewey's Tune". Personnel: Dewey Redman - tenor sax, musette; Don Cherry - pocket trumpet; Charlie Haden double bass; Ed Blackwell - drums."All of the musicians are in top form on this no-changes music, creating fresh and intuitive melodies with both freedom and hints of the tradition" --AllMusic.
BLUES FUNERAL RECORDINGS
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CAT #: BFR 003X-LP
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ELDER The Gold & Silver Sessions (Swirled Color Vinyl) LP
Swirled blue-and-bone color-merge vinyl. "Capturing Elder's expanding dynamic and ongoing progression, The Gold & Silver Sessions is a trance-inducing LP of ranging, tripped out psychedelic jams that captures their expressive and nuanced development. This is still the band who put out 2017's crushing Reflections of a Floating World, but allows their imagination to venture into a bold new direction."
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CAT #: BFR 021CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DEAD MEADOW Force Form Free CD
"Spacey and dreamy yet grimly propulsive, Force From Free sees Dead Meadow continuing to explore transporting, astral-gazing heavy psychedelia. Force Form Free, the new record from Dead Meadow, is spacey and dreamy at times, grimly propulsive at others, and captures one of the most important bands in modern heavy psych continuing their effortless exploration of the transporting, astral-gazing form they've spent their entire existence pushing forward."
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CAT #: BFR 021LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DEAD MEADOW Force Form Free LP
"Spacey and dreamy yet grimly propulsive, Force From Free sees Dead Meadow continuing to explore transporting, astral-gazing heavy psychedelia. Force Form Free, the new record from Dead Meadow, is spacey and dreamy at times, grimly propulsive at others, and captures one of the most important bands in modern heavy psych continuing their effortless exploration of the transporting, astral-gazing form they've spent their entire existence pushing forward."
BROKEN SPINE PRODUCTIONS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BSP 014CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
NADJA Labyrinthine CD
"Nadja's latest full-length offering Labyrinthine, recorded during the pandemic and concurrently with their Southern Lord album Luminous Rot, finally sees a CD release on the band's own label, Broken Spine. Labyrinthine explores themes of identity and loss, monstrosity and regret, extreme asceticism, the differences between labyrinths and mazes, taking inspiration from Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore, Ursula K. LeGuin's The Tombs Of Atuan, and Victor Pelevin's reinterpretation of the story of the minotaur and Ariadne, The Helmet Of Horror. While this might be Nadja's heaviest, doomiest album to date, it is unique in the band's extensive catalog as each track features a guest vocalist: Alan Dubin, legendary American vocalist from O.L.D., Khanate currently Gnaw; Rachel Davies, vocalist and bassist from the British band, Esben & The Witch; Lane Shi Otayanii, a Chinese multi-media artist and vocalist in Elizabeth Colour Wheel; and Dylan Walker, American vocalist from grindcore/noise band Full Of Hell. Nadja has released numerous albums on many different underground labels -- Alien8 Recordings, Daymare Records, Robotic Empire, Hydrahead Records, Gizeh Records, and Important Records, to name a few. The duo has toured extensively around the world, including performances at such festivals as SXSW, FIMAV, Roadburn, Donaufest, Le Guess Who, Incubate, and Unsound, and has shared the stage with such artists as Earth, OM, Khanate, Tim Hecker, Ben Frost, and Godflesh."
BURNING SOUNDS (UK)
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CAT #: BSR 846LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
JAH THOMAS Nah Fight Over Woman LP
"1983 album from Jah Thomas back on vinyl! Nkrumah 'Jah' Thomas reggae deejay and record producer who first came to prominence in the 1970s, later setting up his own Midnight Rock and Nura labels. Rhythm tracks recorded at Channel One Studio. Voiced & Mixed at King Tubby Studio."
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CAT #: BSR 849LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
JAH LION In Action With The Revolutionary Band LP
"Long out of print 1983 album from Jah Lion, pressed on vinyl."
COCOON (GERMANY)
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CAT #: COR 053LP
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VA Dots And Pearls 7 2x12"
As ever, Cocoon Recordings celebrate the turn of the year with another mouth-watering collection of electronic music. Dots And Pearls Volume 7 includes eight choice techno cuts of varying shapes and sizes, that somehow manage to acknowledge both past and future, while staying forever rooted in the "here and now". The lush, beach bar vibes of "Halluzinelle" get things rolling courtesy of DeFeKT x Extrawelt, and it's not long before we're lost in the subsonic undertow as the warm acidic vibes ebb and flow. Sudo's "Daytona" then complements a dark, low-slung groove with a soaring, nostalgic melody that reaches skywards, melting hearts and minds in the process. "Solaris" takes a more urgent turn as JA:CK utilizes growling synths, stuttering arpeggios and an elongated breakdown, slowly raising the stakes as the dance floor starts folding in on itself. Avision offers no respite on "Groove Theory", maintaining the intensity while surfing the frequencies through a dense forest of loops with a pounding 909 for company. Zzino & Insider continue the '90s leaning retrospective with "Mind Crush" and they're certainly true to their word, juxtaposing razor-sharp acid arpeggios with seductive chords and analog washes in a cavernous, serotonin-soaked epiphany of sound. Monaco, Povoa then gets downright dirty on "Makeup Artist", raising the tempo with freaking metallic riffs, twisted vocals and a plethora of disorientating filter action that'll push even the most headstrong dancefloor to the brink of implosion. Defex, Tsodor reels it in just in time on the epic "Sieg der Liebe", unleashing thick swathes of melancholy chords over a fat, rolling groove and the beats remain broken to the end, as Christopher Ledger closes things out with a classic slice of sci-fi electro. "X24" is all stuttering edits, intricate sequences, squelching fx and metallic bleeps, adding yet another unexpected dimension to this dynamic compilation series.
CYCLIC LAW (GERMANY)
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CAT #: 186THCYCLE
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NORDVARGR Resignation I-II-III 3CD
"Nordvargr's Resignation is a true tour de force that will stand as a true gem for any fan of the fringes of techno and electronic music. Nordvargr's Resignation project was initially born in 2008 exploring rhythmic and repetitive aspects of his musical output, merging elements of electronic music with dark ambient soundscapes. From its inception delving into the more gaseous realms of dubby techno and evolving through the years towards the harder and nosier side of electronics, Nordvargr's unique grasp of the genre and his will to turn it upside down culminates in a dreamy soundtrack-like voyage, where deep atmospherics are pierced by rhythmically hypnotic and abrasive passages. A true tour de force that will stand as a true gem for any fan of the fringes of techno and electronic music."
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CAT #: 186THCYCLELP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
NORDVARGR Resignation I-II-III 3LP BOX
Triple LP version. Box set with printed sleeves, (A3) poster; edition of 300. "Nordvargr's Resignation is a true tour de force that will stand as a true gem for any fan of the fringes of techno and electronic music. Nordvargr's Resignation project was initially born in 2008 exploring rhythmic and repetitive aspects of his musical output, merging elements of electronic music with dark ambient soundscapes. From its inception delving into the more gaseous realms of dubby techno and evolving through the years towards the harder and nosier side of electronics, Nordvargr's unique grasp of the genre and his will to turn it upside down culminates in a dreamy soundtrack-like voyage, where deep atmospherics are pierced by rhythmically hypnotic and abrasive passages. A true tour de force that will stand as a true gem for any fan of the fringes of techno and electronic music."
DAMAGED GOODS (UK)
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CAT #: DAMGOOD 022LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CHILDISH WITH THE SINGING LOINS, BILLY At The Bridge: Folk Variations and New Songs LP
"In Memory of Chris Broderick of the Singing Loins, who passed away earlier this year. We proudly present a vinyl reissue of this Medway folk classic! A re-issue of one of our favorite early releases and a rather overlooked classic album, a one-off collaboration between Billy Childish and legendary Medway folkies The Singing Loins. This was recorded in 1993 when Billy was in Thee Headcoats and The Singing Loins were in their first incarnation. The Singing Loins formed in late 1990, a two-piece band playing 'Authentic raw folk from the Medway Delta'. They were Chris Broderick on vocals/stick and Chris 'Arfur' Allen on guitar. They had recorded two classic albums before this both of which were released on Billy's own Hangman records. The album features a few Childish classics reworked including 'You Make Me Die' and 'Every Bit Of Me' as well as four tracks written by Billy & The Loins especially for this album."
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CAT #: DAMGOOD 221LP
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DELSOL, FABIENNE No Time For Sorrows LP
"White vinyl LP reissue of Fabienne's solo debut. Fabienne moved to London in 1996, almost immediately joining the Bristols, a then studio project consisting of Liam Watson and Ed Deegan, two producer-engineers at Toerag Studios. After two albums, a few singles and several tours of Europe, the Bristols came to an end. Eager to carry on singing, Fabienne went solo. With the help of Liam Watson producing, Fabienne recorded her first album No Time For Sorrows concentrating on a more elaborate but similar style she had previously experienced with the Bristols."
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CAT #: DAMGOOD 286LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DELSOL, FABIENNE Between You And Me LP
"White vinyl reissue of Fabienne's second solo album. Over three years in the making, Between You And Me is full of swinging '60s ye-ye pop charm including a few French language songs and the single 'I'm Gonna Catch Me A Rat'. It's the usual mix of cover and new songs written by George Miller, Peder Bernhardt and fellow Damaged Goods artist Pete Molinari (who also guests on one track)."
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CAT #: DAMGOOD 575LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DAGGERMEN, THE Dagger In My Mind LP
"Long-awaited vinyl reissue of a Medway classic!" "The Daggermen all went to Rede Secondary School In Medway, Kent. It was a school for those that failed their 11 plus, or who passed it but decided to go there anyway (as Jon pretends). Being in some of the same classes we became friends and found we liked the same music; The Who, The Small Faces, The Kinks, The Beatles and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. We started going to Carnaby Street, wearing Beatle boots and generally being a bit Moddy. Dave's older brother, James Taylor, played organ in The Prisoners and we'd listen to cassette tapes of them along with other local band, The Milkshakes as we bounced on the trampoline during P.E. After watching both bands play live in local venues such as the M.I.C. club in Chatham we formed The Daggermen, working out who was going to play which instrument as we stood next to the now demolished school sports hall. No one can quite remember who thought of the name, The Daggermen (it was me) or how comes Jon was playing bass on a guitar in the band at the very start and then Terry took over when we started gigging (it was because he had a real bass guitar and a car). But the next thing was that we were supporting The Prisoners both in Medway and places such as the 100 Club in Oxford Street. Then, one sunny day at around the age of 17, I bumped into Billy Childish walking across a field. I formally introduced myself and told him that he should definitely come and see our band that night because we were 'fucking brilliant'. He did turn up and bought us a tray of whiskies whilst we were on stage, a sure sign that he had liked it. This led to him and Russ Wilkins, bass player in The Milkshakes alongside Billy, asking us if we wanted to record an E.P. for Russ's label, Empire Records. This was our first ever recording called Introducing The Daggerman which was made in a brick arch under Rochester bridge that we rented for £2 a week to rehearse in and lovingly referred to as 'The Hole'." --Wolf Howard, Cafe Mozart, Chatham
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CAT #: DAMGOOD 579LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Are They Hostile?: Croydon Punk, New Wave & Indie Bands 1977-1985 LP
"A compilation vinyl LP featuring bands from in the Are They Hostile? documentary film. An 18 track compilation featuring the best of Croydon's punk and post punk scene! Are They Hostile? is a new documentary film about the punk, new wave and indie scene in Croydon in the late '70s and early '80s. It takes its name from the first single by Croydon band Bad Actors. To coincide with the film's release Damaged Goods are releasing a compilation LP and CD featuring bands from in the film including Johnny Moped, The Marines, The Daleks, Case, Fanatics and also bands such as The Straps who played Croydon many times usually at The Star Pub in West Croydon. The CD version also features a specially recorded introduction by ex-Croydon Greyhound DJ Peter Fox. It's been argued that Croydon was the birthplace of Punk in the UK, due to The Damned and Johnny Moped. But there was a group of other bands who were part of that scene, or who came just after, but who didn't achieve the same success or recognition. The film and album attempt to set the record straight by shining a light on bands such as Bad Actors, Case, The Daleks, The Heroes and Fanatics. The music still fizzes with the energy and enthusiasm of youth and the punk ethos of just doing it. And the participants, if a bit older and slightly less slim than forty years ago, come alive in the current interviews as if connected to the mains. As the saying goes, 'old punks don't die', but they do remember. The documentary film takes us through band history, the people in them, the places they played and, through current interviews with 'a bunch of old punks', what they did next, and how formative and important being in a band was for them growing up. The film is the brainchild of Bad Actor Griff Griffiths and Mark Williams and will premiere at the David Lean Cinema in Croydon on September 2nd with a Q&A afterwards by Griff and Mark, and an aftershow party nearby with special celebrity guests TBC. Griff explains: 'It's also a film about being young, being passionate, being part of something.'"
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CAT #: DAMGOOD 589LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
HAMPER TRIO & JAMES TAYLOR, THE GUY All The Poisons In The Mud LP
"Debut LP from the Guy Hamper Trio! Groovy Hammond garage rock instrumentals from Billy Childish (Thee Headcoats/CTMF, etc.) and featuring James Taylor (Prisoners/JTQ). Who's in the band sunshine? Mainly myself on guitar, Julie on bass, Wolf on drums, and of course Jamie on Hammond. A great bonus is Thee Headcoats with Bruce and Tub guest as rhythm section on a track or two. You and James Taylor go back a long way. Do you remember how you first met? The Prisoners were a young group who played with us (the Milkshakes) in the early 1980s. One day they turned up with an organ player, Jamie. Jamie used to then borrow my Selmer guitar amp to play through. You've revisited a few old classics on this album, and given them a true makeover. How would you describe The Guy Hamper Trio's sound? I guess there must be a derogatory term for it but I might need some help finding it. In the very early days of The James Taylor Quartet (Wolf was their drummer back then), I was in the Natural Born Lovers (a blues group with Big Russ and Sexton Ming). We used to be the support for them. I really liked their sound and I guess The Guy Hamper Trio is not a million miles from that blues-influenced, film soundtrack vibe, man. There you made me say 'man'. Next thing you know I will be saying 'cool!' Let's just say it's a wizard sound, Jamie is such a great player. Prior to this album The Guy Hamper Trio's sole release was the 'Polygraph Test' 7" from 2009. Why such a big gap? It takes time for all of us to get all our solders in line. 'Get on with it mush! And trifle not, your time is but short!' What inspired the album's title track All The Poisons In The Mud? It's actually the title of a novel I've been writing, and rewriting, over the past 12 years, and is taken from a quote from I Claudius by Robert Graves -- a formative influence on me as a 15 year old."
DESTINATION MOON (ITALY)
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CAT #: DMOO 017LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
FITZGERALD, ELLA Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas LP
First lady of song, Ella Fitzgerald, overcame the challenges of a tumultuous youth through music, her performances with the Chick Webb Orchestra at the Savoy Ballroom and distinctive scat singing leading to early recordings and the 1938 breakthrough, "A Tisket A Tasket." After recording bebop LPs for Decca, manager Norman Granz launched the Verve label to allow her to broaden her musical horizons, exploring the Great American Songbook. Released in 1960, Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas sees her tackle Christmas classics as only Ella can, the lavish orchestration overseen by noted conductor Frank de Vol. Clear vinyl.
DEXTER'S CIGAR
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CAT #: DEX 012CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
RABE, FOLKE What?? CD
2022 restock, all-time classic. "First issued in 1970 by the German label Wergo, What?? (as we would call it here in America) was obscure even among the avant company it kept in; labelmates such as Stockhausen, Ligeti and Cage overshadowed Rabe from the start." Rabe: "About 85% of the material is made up of electronically generated tones, which however are never present in their static, original form. Each partial has been specifically treated in itself, which can at times yield a very rich result. What?? was created in the late summer of 1967, and was realized by me in the electronic studio of the Swedish Radio...the second What?? is the same as the first, but at half-speed, ie. one octave lower. This may seem a lousy way to fill up a CD, but in fact through the years I have been using both versions in performances. With the kind of sound material used in What??, it does not simply sound half-speed. In a way it becomes another piece of music -- mellower, and the single events of course easier to distinguish."
DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS
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CAT #: 9788417975999
FILE UNDER: Misc
CARRINGTON, LEONORA The Tarot of Leonora Carrington Book
"The British-born Mexican surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) spent a lifetime exploring the esoteric traditions of diverse cultures, and incorporated their ideas and symbols into her artistic and literary oeuvre. Tibetan Buddhism, the Kabbalah, ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian magic, Celtic mythology, witchcraft, astrology and the Tarot were filtered through her feminist lens to create a visionary, woman-centered worldview. Carrington created a spectacular Major Arcana Tarot deck sometime during the 1950s, laying gold and silver leaf over brilliant color. Exhibited for the first time during her centennial exhibition Leonora Carrington: Magical Tales in 2018, this extraordinary work was a revelation for the public and inspired the publication of The Tarot of Leonora Carrington. This second, considerably expanded edition -- encouraged by the overwhelmingly positive reception of Fulgur's publication in 2020 -- explores further the central position that the Tarot held in Carrington's work. The volume includes an introductory text by her son Gabriel Weisz Carrington, who recalls his mother's long involvement with the Tarot, followed by a revised and more extensive essay by scholar Susan Aberth and curator Tere Arcq, including detailed analysis of each card: their color symbolism, their relationship to other works and their iconographic origins in ancient esoteric beliefs, including the Mesoamerican influences of her adopted country. This new edition also reproduces previously unpublished photographs and images, as well as exciting new research into Carrington's influences, emphasizing the authors' claim that her work on the Major Arcana represents an esoteric roadmap to Carrington's feminist vision and wish for a new global gender equality toward a better ecological future for our planet."
DOCTOR BIRD (UK)
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CAT #: DBCD 003CD
FILE UNDER: WORLD
KINGSTONIANS, THE Sufferer (Expanded Edition) CD
"Featuring a number of tracks new to CD and eight highly sought-after instrumental versions, Sufferer is a must for all serious fans of vintage Jamaican sounds."
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CAT #: DBCD 114CD
FILE UNDER: WORLD
THOMAS, RUDDY First Time Around (Expanded Edition) 2CD
"Seminal 1981 debut album by one of Jamaica's greatest hit-makers. Features numerous major reggae hits from the late '70s. Includes a dozen tracks new to CD."
DRAG CITY
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CAT #: DC 206LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DAMON & NAOMI WITH GHOST Damon & Naomi With Ghost LP + 7"
2022 restock. "The LP version of Damon & Naomi with Ghost includes a 7" single featuring a song included in the original Japanese CD release and a previously unreleased track, both of which appear here for the first time ever pressed on vinyl!"
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CAT #: DC 365LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CHILDREN OF THE SIXTH ROOT RACE Songs From The Source LP
2022 restock; LP version. "Songs From The Source is a lost-and-found 1973 recording of The Source family. These twelve songs were recorded live in the Hollywood Hills as a rehearsal for a concert date that Spirit of '76 -- aka YaHoWaH 13, The Savage Sons of YaHoWa, Yodship, and FireWaterAir, now known as Children of the Sixth Root Race -- had at the Whisky. A 1/4" tape copy of the recording was found in Chicago in 2006, though no one is really sure how it got there. Djin Aquarian, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for Spirit of '76, recalls being sent on a mission to Chicago later in 1973, where he believes he left the tape with an old friend. Djin wrote most of the songs in the year before he joined with The Source, as part of his solo 'mystical quest to help enlighten the world before it might annihilate itself,' adding, 'I'm glad both the album and the world are still here.' Though this rehearsal wasn't meant to be released at the time, there are probably no other recordings as complete of the band doing these songs. The Spirit of '76 had a different sound than the one YaHoWaH 13 made with Yahowa. Songs From The Source has more r'n'b-grooved energy, with splashes of synth and organ, a female vocal chorus and streamlined fusion rhythms backing the uniquely Yahowan lyrical populism of songs like 'Godmen' and 'Lost Dead But Hoping.' The ebullient, ever-climbing power of the climactic 'We Are the Dinosaurs,' has few analogues in the other Source recordings and is furthermore an outstanding piece of music from the entire era. Songs From The Source is a miraculous missing piece of The Source's positive musical movement. The members of YaHoWaH 13 (Djin, Sunflower on bass, Octavius on drums) were joined by family members Ahom, Aquariana, Cinderella, Rhythm, Vibration, and Zoroaster on lead guitar, to create the ecstatic sound of Spirit of '76. In summing up, Djin told us, 'I know Father is behind this redeeming of the Spirit of '76 album and up to his old tricks again... Yahowha.'"
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CAT #: DC 560LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BITCHIN BAJAS Bitchitronics LP
2022 restock. "Bitchitronics, is ready with the quickness we expect from the Chi-based duo -- which is funny, since their area of expertise and mastery is in the area of synthetic ephemeral sonic languid-ity known more instinctively, inclusively (and let's face it, irresponsibly) as drone music. They make slow music at a fast pace is what we're saying. Now these guys are paying attention to this on the micro-level because that's where their fun is, so how will you react when we tell you that the sound of Bitchitronics was a change so extreme they considered changing their name? Ha. Yeah, us too. They were revamping a bit on this one though, it isn't just about turning on the keyboard and getting cozy. This time, the concept was: use tape techniques to create and then solve problems -- but mainly, loops and edits were there to make things fun and the music great in the style of experimental tape pioneers upon whose shoulders the Bajas play. In keeping with the (unspoken, unacknowledged by the band) concept of catching air with tape, Bitchitronics is the first Bitchin Bajas record made as a trio, blending the blowing of flute into the mix of electric keys and posthuman tones and loops of tape atop other loops of tape, with the final result coming to us with all the ebbing and flowing of a breeze -- wind on wind, even! A veritable index of gases! Let the power of Bitchitronics fall over you; another green world of music made Baja fresh by the wandering ears and care-filled creations and re-creations of Bitchin Bajas."
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CAT #: DC 677LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MIYASHITA, FUMIO Live on the Boffomundo Show LP
2017 release. "By October, 1979, my partner, Aaron Weiner and I had produced a handful of Boffomundo Shows at Los Angeles' first public access television studio at Theta Cable in Santa Monica. It was our good fortune to meet and partner with Tony Harrington of All Ears Records and we joined forces as The All Ears Boffomundo Show. Up to that point we interviewed King Crimson's Robert Fripp, PFM singer Bernardo Lanzetti, and Brand X & Phil Collins (before his solo fame). All Ears Records stable of artists concentrated heavily on Japanese bands and musicians. He introduced us to the already legendary synthesizer master, Fumio Miyashita, founder of The Far East Family Band, who Tony boldly dubbed 'Japan's Answer to Pink Floyd.' While certainly influenced by the Floyd, Fumio, along with fellow band member and award winning synthesist, Kitaro, were more accurately evolving the electronic techo-stylings of Germany's Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Temple, Kraftwerk, and other Krautrock innovators from the early 1970s. One-time Dream and Temple member, and a seminal synth innovator in his own right, Klaus Schulze, both produced and mixed several Far East Family Band albums. As Aaron recalls, 'Fumio was a gentle soul. Soft spoken, thoughtful and intelligent. And on the cutting edge of technology. It was in Fumio's hands that I first viewed a Sony Walkman. It is mind boggling to think what has transpired technologically since then.' Fumio brought multiple keyboards, percussion and incidental sundries to a studio the size of a small garage. Somehow, the staff of Theta Cable Studios managed to capture all the sound pumped through a 12" bookshelf speaker! A single microphone rested on a wooden stool in front of that speaker. In 1980, a second appearance from Fumio included Far East Family Band members, guitarist Lance Hooks and bass player George Babon. The same lone bookshelf speaker was employed once again! That proud little speaker is no doubt fully decomposed in a landfill somewhere but the music survives..." --Ron Curtiss, March 2017
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CAT #: DC 678LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BITCHIN BAJAS Bajas Fresh 2LP
2017 release. "Bajas Fresh is on the beach here in 2017, existing and thriving in the same wrecked world as you and me. How they finding it so chill and pretty? It's been over three years since the last proper Bitchin Bajas album -- a natural paradise of woodwinds, droning organs, analog synths, field recordings, and an ever-expanding sense of MORE (and LESS). In between then and now came a series of collaborative LPs, with Natural Information Society (Autoimaginary), filmmaker Olivia Wyatt (Sailing a Sinking Sea) and Bonny Prince Billy (Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties). Each time these varied external stimuli came into contact with the Bitchin Bajas' acroamatic process, it left the group with expanded perimeters to traverse. So 2017 -- what's new? Everything and nothing, probably! The pursuit is still the same: a perfect continuous flow. The means to attain it are in full, fluid transition; woven into the strands that unspool so peacefully (and with such potent enervation) are new elements -- like chord changes, for instance! The use of percussives is evident for the first time as well. Plus, a horn section, a cover song . . . but before you start thinking that this Bajas Fresh is some kind of whole-cloth change, recall to your mind that the nature of equilibrium around Bitchin Bajas is such that new properties tend to melt into the surrounding texture, providing vivid sonics without uprooting the mindset. And they do. While flowing towards a wholeness, the four sides of Bajas Fresh feature distinct approaches, approaching the ephemeral with subtle tweaks from new angles. Eschewing the grainy expansiveness of the self-titled album, this new one has an almost monolithic approach, whether spitting forth with Harmonia-styled data riffs, finding Denny-esque South Pacific exotica within a classic Sun Ra piece or teasing out almost imperceptible inflections inside the epochal fizz and whir with glassy-eyed, glacial patience. On Bajas Fresh, the cellular system of Bitchin Bajas continues to synthesize amid a growing ecosystem also of the Bajas' making, both morphing naturally together into a state perhaps not that far removed from its former incarnation, while also essaying refreshing new tones for new zones. Succulent half-speed mastering done at Abbey Road gives the LP pressing greater depth, extension and resonance than all previous Bajas incarnations, but the double cassette version of course holds its own unique experience..."
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CAT #: DC 737LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
NACE, BILL Both LP
2022 repress. 2020 release. "With a requisite crackle, hum and drone, you're fixed to slide into the disrupture in stereo that is guitarist Bill Nace and -- well, THIS is a nice surprise -- Bill's got his own record out this time! Sweet -- in the past 15 years or so, Bill's been a trusty improv partner to so many: Steve Baczkowski, Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, Greg Kelly, James Twig Harper, Samara Lubelski and Thurston Moore, plus Body/Head, to name but a handful. Bill's appeared on probably more than 50 albums ? but other than a few solo cassettes way back in the day, Both is his actual solo LP debut. It's been a long time coming, and just like we hoped, with the Nace approach to electric guitar waxing front and center, sound and countersound, it's a blast. Working with producer Cooper Crain, Bill constructed Both with the ribs of composition protruding from his improvisational electron pool, pulsing with energies black and shiny, finding lots of sound and music in the process. The listening experience is only faux-monolithic -- you can take it all in as a big noise thing if you want, but it's much more rewarding to lean in and observe the variety of colors and spaces in the playing, how it breaks along discrete lines into alternating currents. The small details, like the crunch of contact between fingers and strings, the hum of the amp in a resting moment, the rhythm implied in a waveform and then pursued, all build up into melodies, climatic detours and underlying emotional expression before wiping into silence again. A real encompassing vision of what to do with a guitar in this day and age. Plus, you got cover artwork by Daniel Higgs..."
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CAT #: DC 747LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CALLAHAN, BILL Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest 2LP
2019 release. "... Bill's now writing from somewhere beyond his Eagle-Apocalypse-River headspace, and Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest is very much its own beast. The songs are, by and large, shorter, and there are more of them. It took almost all of the previous three albums to add up to that many. Plus, twenty's a lot of songs! But again, it goes a lot deeper than that. After Dream River, Bill's life went through some changes. Good changes -- marriage and a kid -- but afterwards, it was suddenly harder for him to find the place where the songs came, to make him and these new experiences over again into something to sing . . . While sorting it all out, he worked on songs every day -- which meant that for a while, there were lots of days simply confronting the void, as he measured this new life against the ones he'd previously known. It informed the shape of the album. Moving gradually from reflections upon the old days in 'Ballad of The Hulk' and 'Young Icarus' to the immediacy of the present moment in 'Watching Me Get Married' and 'Son of the Sea', Bill traces the different life lines, casually unwinding knotty contradictions and ambiguities with an arresting stillness. The sense of a life thunderstruck by change infuses Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest -- the songs wander from expressions of newfound joy and great contentment to other snapshots, considerations of the not-joy that we all know. Unsettling dream-images and mythic recollections are patiently received; the undertow of the past is resisted, pulling against it instead into the present, accepting revolutions of time and the unconscious as a natural flow. These transcendent expressions are wedded translucently to the music. Acknowledging the uncertainty in which the songs were assembled, Bill went to the studio alone, unsure if he could find what he was looking for with a band riding along -- because who knew how long it would take? This allowed the fluidity of his song-thoughts to be laid down with the right feeling. Once there was guitar and vocals, the other parts came. Matt Kinsey's guitar partnership is an essential relationship within the music, as is Brian Beattie's acoustic bass -- but also, Bill found himself overdubbing parts himself for the first time in many years, which lent the songs an episodic drift, as if he's passing through rooms while singing. In it's final mix, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest glows incandescent -- an entirely acoustic arrangement, sounds and stories shifting seamlessly, almost like one big song made of a bunch of new stories -- the kind that only Bill Callahan thinks to sing..."
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CAT #: DC 778LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
MIND MAINTENANCE (JOSHUA ABRAMS/CHAD TAYLOR) Mind Maintenance LP
2021 release. "Mind Maintenance is the duo of Joshua Abrams playing guimbri and Chad Taylor on mbira. This is where the music begins, but Mind Maintenance can't be described with a summing of parts and players. It's not about world music, it's not about jazz. It's about mind maintenance. When you put on the sound, you'll know what we're saying. How immediate and meditative it is. So simple, so in the room. The natural buzz of each instrument sits remarkably well against the other. The percussive qualities of each, so raw and unadorned individually, form with their shared resonance a soothing, sonorous whole. The songs of Mind Maintenance exist in a zone somewhere between composition and improv. Based in melodies that unspool over time as they move between the two instruments, they benefit from the players' intimately enmeshed sensibility and the intensity with which they listen to each other. Chad and Joshua have been playing together forever -- or, if you need to think of it more tangibly, since around 1994. Sticks and Stones was their first band. They played together on the session for the O'Rourke-produced Alan Licht/Loren Mazzacane-Connors album Hoffman Estates (on yes, Drag City) in '98. They live in different cities, but play together whenever they can -- whether it's with Sam Prekop, Natural Information Society or Joe McPhee. Or just a jam. After trying out the guimbri-mbira combo for a show at Chicago's MCA, they made Mind Maintenance a thing -- and just in time! Boy, do we need it. Engineered by Cooper Crain, whose vibrational sensitivities have been displayed on his own Bitchin Bajas recordings (including their 2015 collab with Natural Information Society, Automaginary), Mind Maintenance captures full spectrums of playing and listening, sound and music. And something else..."
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CAT #: DC 810LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CHASNY, BEN The Intimate Landscape LP
2021 release. "A new instrumental album of acoustic guitar playing from Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny! Everybody knows it's been far too long since 2004's much-beloved For Octavio Paz; even as the landscape has crowded with acoustic players, we've all been dying to hear Ben's distinctive virtuosity again in this format. But The Intimate Landscape is so much more . . . KPM Music, the legendary British library music company, extended an offer to Ben to make some songs for their library. Well aware of their history, he immediately agreed. The field of library music (music made for hire, for use in placement in films and advertising) is one that's come to public consciousness only relatively recently in the long century of record-making, but the influence of such records has been felt for years in the aesthetics of many diverse artists, including several who've recorded for Drag City . . . Ben chose the acoustic guitar for these recordings after considering the width and breadth of possible music he could make for the occasion. His approach while playing it was simple -- deceptively so: to make music as present and immediate and beautiful as possible. This type of playing requires a deep breath before beginning, as it has to generate from within, as well as at the fingertips. The resulting music is inventive and engaging, both in and out of the astral style of Ben's music and the utilitarian genre of music to which he's contributing. The album's title -- The Intimate Landscape -- is a clue to these dual intentions, as is Ben's use of his given name rather than the 6OOA alias he has preferred in his career. These songs manifest lovely themes played on acoustic guitar, recorded with spacious, almost pastoral ambiance; richly evocative pieces that can fill the multiple purposes of any sound library around the world. When paired with their titles, however -- such as, 'Last Night to Use the Telescope,' 'Circular Road,' and 'On the Way to the Coast' -- these pieces are profoundly re-contextualized as potent personal expressions. So too are the songs with titles like 'Water Dragon,' 'Star Cascade,' and 'Dust In the Ravine.' Two decades-plus into his life in music, Ben's got the craft and ability to make music that can be encompassing heard as intimate AND universal. Going for melody, Ben employs a relaxed technical facility, supported by a few guitar overdubs, plus several well-placed synths and a passage of wordless vocalizing, accessing the murky depths of his reservoir of spirituality while hand-spinning irresistible sonic candy at the same time. This is a greatly engrossing listening experience, regardless of what the listener's intentions are..."
DUST-TO-DIGITAL
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CAT #: DTD 055CD
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VA Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World's Music (1907-1967) 4CD BOX
It begins with a South African choir from 1930 and a song about police brutality; it ends in Cuba with dreamy innuendo. This collection is about music that is often invisible in today's world, the incredible world of global recordings that aren't jazz, blues, country, rock n' roll, R&B, or "classical." This physical edition of the box set, eight years in the making, contains 100 tracks and 100 stories in an extensive, illustrated 184-page book with detailed, contextual mini-histories about both musical origins and the beginnings of the industry, touching on the complexities of colonialism, economic agendas, and cultural tourism. With nearly all of the tracks never before reissued, this collection expands upon and acts as a companion to Jonathan Ward's Excavated Shellac website, a unique repository of music, history, and data on 78 rpm recordings from around the world, rarely heard and seldom seen. 100 recordings on 4 CDs; 184-page hardcover book printed on artbook-quality paper; Packaged in a deluxe gloss-laminated box.Jonathan Ward is a Grammy-nominated producer and compiler of early recordings from around the world on CD and LP, and the founder of the Excavated Shellac website, a resource on early global music history. His releases include the 4CD box set Opika Pende: Africa at 78rpm (Dust-to-Digital, nominee for Best Historical Album, DTD 022CD), and the ongoing Excavated Shellac series on LP and CD. His writing can be found on his website, and his work has been featured on NPR, and in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, as well as Mojo, Uncut, Signal to Noise, and other music-related magazines and journals.Features Caluza's Double Quartet, Los Chinacos, Itokazu Kame, Cheikh Saïd Relizani, Enosse Kuhanya Muni, Bonfiglio de Oliveira, Giovanni Vicari, K. S. Narayana Ayyengar, Hosseingholi Tatayy, Ne'matjon Qulabdullaev, Che Ta'seah, Demka dhe Hajro e Shoket, Liam Walsh, Sule Radosavljevi?-Sap?anin, Klaudiya Kotok and E.M. Shishova, Fr. Dukli Wiejska Banda, Triki-Trixa de Zumarraga, Margarida, Cantadeira de Paredes, Andrés Chazarreta y su Orquesta Tipica de Arte Nativo, Cuadro Gitano La Coja, Concha Maya, Cuarteto Caraquita, Sein Bo Tint, Park Booyong, Ali Muhammadi, Hanns in der Gand, Chimudon, Mashibato, and Togus Ziguradan, Muhammad Rashid al-Rifa'i, Negatoua, Pico?lu Osman, Miyagi Michio, Yoshida Kyoko, Miyagi Kiyoko, Paulos Dikito, Saez y Hermanos Ascuez, Grupo Istmeño, Orchestre Franco-Creole, Khaledi and Zahedi, Mita Stoyecheva, Myskal Omurkanova, Miss Thông, Vassyl Yemetz, Abaimbi be Kanisa Lutiko eye Namirembe, Nicholas De Heer, Tamarii-Tahiti, Count Lasher, Payk?n, Zohra El Fassia, Gavino de Lunas, Coro de Ruada, Crimean Tatar Orchestra, Júlio Silva, Salim Abdullah, Adja Mint Aali, Siddiq and Party, Khan Shushinski, J. Joseph and Mary, Ewert Åhs, Orchestre Créole Delvi, Trio Medellín, Pasquale Taraffo, Cayla and Demay, Dachauer Bauernkapelle "Strassmaier", A. Megrelidze and the Georgian Radio Folk Song Ensemble, Tiwonoh and Sandikola, Sears Orchestra, Pov Siv Nou and Pov Van Chorn, Toba Batak ensemble, Emmanuele Cilia, Mayfair Band, Wei Zhongyue, Subeit bin Ambar, Koni Coumaré, Yusuf Taj, Monks of the Maru Monastery at Lhasa, Francis Salomon, Philip Tanner, Hernández Brothers, Sigbjørn B. Osa, Durban Lions, Tunde King, El Haja Rouïda, Margareta Radulescu, Tom Clough, Superba Molassana, Valentin Eugenio, San Salvador, Rakotondrasoa and Manjakaray, Elenkrig's Orchestra, Ahmet Hulûsi Bey, Setrak Sourabian and George Shah-Baronian, Miss Phuaphan and Miss Pleng with the Organ-Phinphat Ensemble of Bang Khun Phrom Palace, Angus Chisholm, Kolompár Peti Cigánybandája, Atan and Sak Ena, Al Hadj Taha Abu Mandour, Gonxhe Manakovska, Saramacca Band, Kawîs Axa, Garifulla Kurmangaliyev, Ishmulla Dilmukhametov, Abrew's Portuguese Instrumental Trio, and Sexteto Habanero.
EDIZIONI DELLA NOTTE (ITALY)
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CAT #: EDN 002EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SCERIDA By Night 12"
"Four Flies Records is proud to present its brand new imprint Edizioni Della Notte, which expands the label's musical range. The sound of Edizioni Della Notte is a sound of twilight atmospheres and moonlit nights, traversing genres from disco-funk to soft rock, jazz-fusion and city pop. It's the music that creeps out of smoky nightclubs and car cassette radios, breaking the silence of empty streets and offering an escape from metropolitan reality into cosmic-exotic dreamlands. Quite fittingly, the first official release on Edizioni Della Notte is called By Night. It's the debut EP of Scerida, a solo project of musician and singer-songwriter Daniela Resconi, and a perfect match for the sound that the new imprint intends to represent. Its four tracks explore the idea of night as a time of ecstasy and torment, as a land of freedom and imagination but also of delusion, as an accomplice, a friend and an enemy described through feelings and mental states that range from expectation and euphoria to disillusionment and resignation. Resconi, who hails from Brescia, northern Italy, formerly released music under the moniker Cara and as part of the duo The Loud Vice. Her new alias Scerida, which combines the French term cherie with the Spanish word querida, signals both a revolution and an evolution. 'Scerida is a dive into the exotic side of my imagination, into mischievous thoughts, into a crazy night where I lost and found myself again,' she explains. 'She is still me, Daniela, but she keeps her eyes wide open on this restless, troubled world to write songs that try to ward off the horror vacui of everyday life.' By Night celebrates the dark hours as magical and mesmerizing, even when mysterious or dangerous. It evokes images and scenarios cinematically -- a taxi passing by and fading into the distance, ice-cold Martinis during a party, whirlwinds of emotion, psychedelic sunrises and neon sunsets -- through a stream of consciousness filled with noir-inflected pop, lo-fi vibes, slow hypnotic rhythms, suspended grooves and swelling atmospheres."
EREMITE
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CAT #: MTE 065LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
PARKER, JEFF Slight Freedom LP
2022 repress. The long awaited repress of Slight Freedom, acclaimed guitarist & composer Jeff Parker's first solo album & a New York Times' best albums of 2016 selection, is here. Pressed on premium 120-gram audiophile-quality vinyl by RTI from lacquers cut at sterling sound by Steve Fallone, presented in a retro flipback jacket. Second edition of 1,399 copies. What we said in 2016: "Slight Freedom, Jeff Parker's first ever solo record, presents the first opportunity to hear the guitarist in fully self-revealed circumstances. recorded 2013 & '14 in the Hollywood Hills as he relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles, Parker combines the dark tonal palette & percussive attack he's long been known for with real-time processing elements & field recordings, deftly crafting a unique world of solo guitar music -- multilingual, mysterious, alive with extraordinary sonic events, with a sturdy intelligence in charge & a raw homestyle vibe. parker's title composition sets the album's cavernous mood. terse lines & ricocheting loops morph into a gnarly ambient section that resembles Neil Young droning out over a vg+ copy of discreet music. Parker creates a different sort of ambient space in his take on Frank Ocean's 'Super Rich Kids', bending the melody around a bossa nova rhythm into a moodsville tone poem. parker makes an extraordinary long-form statement out of Chad Taylor's 'Mainz', a piece he first recorded with Taylor & Chris Lopes on the album Bright Light In Winter. Twice the length of the trio recording, the multi-layered soliloquy finds parker leaping from the high rung to damn near orchestral heights, pushing his techniques & concepts to the breaking points. It's one of the great solo performances you'll hear from a musician this year. To say 'Lush Life' comes with formidable baggage is an understatement. Parker achieves instant classic status with a rendition that sounds beamed-in from a decommissioned satellite -- burned out, covered in space grit, yet still formally nuanced & beautifully reflective of Strayhorn's world-weary lyrics. twenty years into the game it's a joy for eremite to present work by an artist who's clearly taking his music to the next level." "It's not jazz, it's not ambient, it's not noise; it's something more idiosyncratic and more personal, something only Parker could have come up with. Perhaps this is what Slight Freedom is supposed to mean: Not an anarchic exploding of rules, not the total liberation proposed by free jazz, but a steadier, stealthier path -- dissolving boundaries, softening constraints, and wearing away at the edges of things until the ideas run as freely as water." --Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork
ESOTERIC RECORDINGS (UK)
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CAT #: ECLEC 2196LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SOFT MACHINE Bundles LP
"New 180 gram remastered vinyl LP edition of the classic 1975 album Bundles by the celebrated jazz/progressive group Soft Machine. The album was the band's first for EMI's Harvest label and featured a line-up of Mike Ratledge (keyboards), Karl Jenkins (oboe, piano, soprano sax), John Marshall (drums), Roy Babbington (bass) and new member Allan Holdsworth (guitar)."
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CAT #: ECLEC 2785LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BLOSSOM TOES We Are Ever So Clean LP
"Unfairly overlooked at the time of its release, We Are Ever So Clean is regarded as one of the greatest psychedelic rock albums ever. This new official limited vinyl edition has been newly remastered and was cut at Abbey Road Studios. The LP is a facsimile of the original 1967 release and features an illustrated inner bag."
FAR OUT RECORDINGS (UK)
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CAT #: FARO 117X-LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
AZYMUTH Azimuth LP
2022 repress. Far Out Recordings present a reissue of the seminal debut album from Azymuth, Azimüth, originally released in 1975. Having never seen a vinyl release outside of Brazil, Azimüth is considered a milestone in Brazilian music. Azymuth -- Jose Roberto Bertrami, Ivan Conti, and Alex Malheiros, as well as Ariovaldo Contesini -- formed in the late '60s just as Os Mutantes released their debut record (1968). Whilst Mutantes were honing a psychedelic "Amazonian" version of western pop music, Azymuth were creating a futuristic, electric interpretation of US jazz -- also driven by the same rootsy Brazilian "swing" that Mutantes had harnessed. Bertrami was the drive behind Azymuth's sound -- a control freak and musical genius obsessed with the latest technology who wanted to use it to push the boundaries of music in a way that no one else in Brazil had done. His use of keyboards has drawn comparisons between Azymuth's work and Herbie Hancock's early '70s output, yet with its Brazilian swing Azymuth's electric jazz sound is unmistakably their own. Conti is an impulsive and an incredibly energetic drummer. Alex Malheiros, who learned his trade playing from the master of Brazilian swing Ed Lincoln, is one of Brazil's original groove masters. Bertrami rose to fame as an arranger in the mid-60s, and by the late '60s he was arranging for the queen of Brazilian music, Elis Regina. Released in summer 1975, the album was a minor commercial success selling 200,000 copies. Opening track "Linha do Horizonte" -- a sublime piece of melancholic electronic saudade where deep cinematic synths melt into gently strummed acoustic jazz guitar -- was chosen for a TV novella and went on to sell half a million, propelling Azymuth onto the Brazilian music scene. The rest of the album doesn't disappoint -- "Melô Dos Dois Bicudos" sees Azymuth plugging them into the Brazilian national grid for a slice of electrified psyched out samba funk with crashing military drums, shrieking sirens and psych synths. "Brazil" is a lolloping bass led groover with Bertrami's melody giving the track a charming, innocent naivety, and "Caça A Raposa" is a boogie jazz funk groover. Azimüth is the album that kick-started it all for them, the record that was the blueprint and definition of their "samba doido/crazy samba" sound. Comes in a gatefold sleeve; 180 gram vinyl.
FIRE BREATHING TURTLE
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CAT #: FBT 2022LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS Climax Golden Twins 2LP
The first new Climax Golden Twins record in many years. Founded in 1993 by Robert Millis and Jeffery Taylor, Climax Golden Twins is perhaps best known for the soundtrack to Session Nine (directed by Brad Anderson in 2001, original soundtrack on Milan International). CGT have released ambient recordings (Lovely on Anomalous Records), compilations of rare 78rpm shellac records (the Victrola Favorites book on Dust-to-Digital), field recording, collage, and musique concrète experiments (Dream Cut Short in the Mysterious Clouds on the Japanese Meme label), and instrumental rock, noise, and improv (5 Cents A Piece on Abduction Records and Imperial Household Orchestra on Scratch). Their new double-LP continues many of these threads and features contributions by friends from Seattle's vibrant music scene and beyond including Alan and Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Ko Ishikawa (master Japanese sho player), Greg Kelley (extended trumpet technique specialist), Porest (Sublime Frequencies' Mark Gergis), members of Kinski, Diminished Men, the A Frames, Dreamsalon, and more. The last official Climax Golden Twins release of new sounds was 2008's Journal of Popular Noise. In the years since, CGT composed the score to the film Chained (directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch in 2012), united with Seattle's A Frames to record a few LPs as AFCGT (including one on Sub Pop), released further Victrola Favorites cassettes and CDs, and continued to perform live. In addition, Jeffery Taylor plays with the improv outfits Hound Dog Taylor's Hand and Spider Trio, while Robert Millis has released solo recordings, pursued installation and sound art projects, plays with Idol Ko Si and has worked extensively with the Sublime Frequencies record label (producing Indian Talking Machine and Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road (SF 112CD) in addition to films and compilations of music from Korea, Thailand, Japan, Myanmar, and more).
GONER RECORDS
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CAT #: GONE 185EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BEACH, MICHAEL 2022 EP 12"
"Following the highly acclaimed album Dream Violence (2021) and the recent LP re-issue of his modern underground classic Gravity/Repulsion, Michael Beach has announced a new self-titled 12-inch EP, to be released via Goner and Poison City Records. Recorded during the winter of 2021, the new record is made up of both 8-track tape and full studio recordings, interspersed with experimental, moody interludes, and features Beach's Australian bandmates Bonnie Mercer (guitar), Peter Warden (drums) and Carla Oliver (bass) throughout. The EP's stunning closer 'Only A Memory' is a collaboration with Lloyd Swanton of renowned Australian minimalist trio The Necks, recorded in NSW's Blue Mountains. 'Out In A Burning Alley,' the EP's lead single, combines Beach's soulful abstracted lyrics over two minutes and fifty eight seconds of blazing garage-rock, where the sounds of the Melbourne and Oakland/Bay Area underground collide."
GRAPEFRUIT
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CAT #: GY12 006LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MONTGOMERY, ROY Camera Melancholia 2LP
"Camera Melancholia is a double album of instrumental music inspired by and dedicated to Kerry McCarthy (1967-2021) who was Montgomery's partner for twenty years and the mother of two children they had together. She died from cancer in early 2021 after first being diagnosed in 2014. McCarthy was a professional curator in the area of pictorial collections, particularly around photographic material, and her PhD used the work of Roland Barthes to theorize about the legacies of images associated with Antarctic exploration in the early 20th Century. The cover art for Camera Melancholia was provided by Ronnie van Hout, an Aotearoa New Zealand artist associated with the earliest graphic design work for Flying Nun Records. Van Hout was also a very close and long-standing friend of McCarthy. The gatefold album includes the text for ten poems written for and about McCarthy."
GREEDY
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CAT #: GR 007LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DWARVES Sugarfix LP
"The '90s punk classic returns with bonus tracks and expanded art! Includes 'Anybody Out There', 'Smack City', 'Down By The River' and 'Saturday Night'."
HARLEM SHUFFLE RECORDS
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CAT #: HSRSS 003LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VA Hot Sauce 3 (1965-1975) LP
"The much anticipated third volume in the Hot Sauce series dedicated to Trojan related UK labels between 1965 and 1975. Includes a full color double sided insert featuring the cover by French artist Alteau and detailed liner notes. Hot Sauce Volume 3 features outstanding original rocksteady, boss reggae and early reggae tracks including rare songs, overlooked gems, hidden treasures and a couple of hits. The record labels showcased on this third volume are Amalgamated, Duke, Gayfeet, Grape, Harry J, Rio, Randyís, Treasure Isle, Upsetter and Trojan. The tracks here have been selected according to their interest, rarity, and how they complement other tracks found on the release. Particular attention has been paid to the way the songs are sequenced so that the album builds up nicely and gradually, generally starting with the Rocksteady songs on the A side and the 70s songs on the B side. Hot Sauce is a musical journey across early Jamaican reggae -- highlighting its diverse sub-genres and outstanding artists as it issued by U.K. labels during this golden decade."
HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: HPS 152BLACK-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SONIC FLOWER Rides Again (Alternate Cover) LP
Alternate cover. All the tracks on Sonic Flower's Rides Again album are unreleased studio material recorded after first album came out in 2005. At that time the band members had some troubles during recording, so after the recording sessions they broke up. These tracks were sleeping in the vault for more than fifteen years. The music is a mixture of psychedelic groove, rock, funk, and doom metal. For fans of Cactus, Grand Funk Railroad, Mountain, Sir Load Baltimore, Captain Beyond, Meters, Graham Central Station, and Funkadelic. On the album you can find four original songs plus two cover tracks: "Earthquake" from Graham Central Station and "Stay Away" from Meters.
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CAT #: HPS 152ULTRA-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SONIC FLOWER Rides Again (Alternate Cover) (White/Black/Pink Striped Vinyl) LP
LP version. Alternate cover. White/black/pink striped vinyl. All the tracks on Sonic Flower's Rides Again album are unreleased studio material recorded after first album came out in 2005. At that time the band members had some troubles during recording, so after the recording sessions they broke up. These tracks were sleeping in the vault for more than fifteen years. The music is a mixture of psychedelic groove, rock, funk, and doom metal. For fans of Cactus, Grand Funk Railroad, Mountain, Sir Load Baltimore, Captain Beyond, Meters, Graham Central Station, and Funkadelic. On the album you can find four original songs plus two cover tracks: "Earthquake" from Graham Central Station and "Stay Away" from Meters.
HEIST RECORDINGS (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: HEIST 066EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DAM SWINDLE Keep On Swindling Pt. 3 12"
The third and final installment of Dam Swindle's Keep On Swindling series. This final ep holds two new originals, remixes by Nightmares on Wax and DJ Bone and the long-awaited re-release of their seminal track from 2013: "The Wrap Around". Keep On Swindling Pt. 3 kicks off with "You"; a fast-paced slice of electronic funk that sees the boys dive into heady club territory. With this track, they show a new direction in their sound that combines their vintage sampled-based soulfulness with modern percussive and melodic elements. The A side also holds "More Love"; a track that takes you back to what has been the center of the Dam Swindle sound in the past ten years. Conga loops, vocal chops, synth stabs and a simple string to keep the tension. Add to that a simple funk bass loop and you've got yourself a modern-day Swindle classic. On the flip, you'll find a special song from the Dam Swindle catalog: "The Wrap Around". When released on Huxley's now defunct Saints & Sonnets label back in 2013, the release sold out quickly and was never repressed. Now, it's available on vinyl through Heist Recordings. It's had a few touch-ups in arrangement and mixing for the 2022 mix, but the boys worked hard to maintain the rough edges that made the original loved by so many fans. Next is a collaboration with Nightmares on Wax, who delivers a brilliantly creative version of "64 Ways" featuring Mayer Hawthorne. NoW completely flips the original, opting to use the spoken word intro in a mangled and chopped way on top of a nasty groove and soaring bassline. The EP closes off with another special track: DJ Bone's "Doc Ciroc remix" of "The Wrap Around". DJ Bone goes for pacey percussion with a classic Detroit Techno feel. His version is minimalistic and raw, chopping up the vocal and using the original Prophet pad as a base layer of warmth.
HOLY BASIL RECORDS
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CAT #: HBR 006LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
COSMOS FACTORY An Old Castle Of Transylvania LP
"Originally formed in 1968 under the name The Silencer, Nagoya, Japan progressive rock band Cosmos Factory didn't change their name until their 1973 debut on Nippon Columbia with An Old Castle Of Transylvania. Loaded with heavy psychedelia and prog rock guitar moments, experimentally blended with the use of Hammond and Mellotron, the band lead by keyboardist/vocalist Tsutomu Izumi takes you on an adventure throughout the dark forests of Transylvania. Throughout the years, the album has become a very rare and sought-after gem in the history of Japanese prog rock, this is the very first reissue ever, complete with OBI strip and insert, officially licensed by Nippon Columbia Co. Ltd. and now available worldwide through Holy Basil Records."
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CAT #: HBR 008LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
CARPI, FIORENZO Un Bianco Vestito Per Mariale LP
"Directed in 1972 by Romano Scavolini, Un Bianco Vestito Per Mariale' features a cast with some familiar faces from the Italian thriller genre like Evelyn Stewart and Ivan Rassimov. The film was scored by a great name of the Italian film music scene, Fiorenzo Carpi, whose music was superbly arranged and conducted with his own and unique great style by Bruno Nicolai. Originally released on vinyl by Gemelli in 1975, three years after the release of the movie, this score is dominated by the Mariale' theme both with Piano and orchestra and Edda Dell'Orso's voice and orchestra versions, and also features several lounge and tensive themes. Long out-of-print, Holy Basil Records are proud to bring this beautiful soundtrack back on vinyl as a limited edition of 500 copies, including the instrumental version of 'Mariale'' and an alternative arrangement of 'Garden Party', available on vinyl for the first time."
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CAT #: HBR 011LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ALESSANDRONI, ALESSANDRO Storie Di Guerra LP
"Ominous drums, obscure cellos, fuzzy and distorted guitars, psychedelic piano sequences: legendary Italian composer Alessandro Alessandroni creates a somber and gritty war atmosphere on this classic library album Storie Di Guerra". Originally released on the Octopus Records imprint by Flipper Music in 1972, this obscure and spooky library has been long out-of-print -- 50 years past its release we are happy to bring this back on vinyl in collaboration with Flipper Music as a limited edition of 500 copies!"
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CAT #: HBR 012LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
TOGASHI & MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI, MASAHIKO Pulsation LP
"On May 27th 1983, drummer Masahiko Togashi and guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi, two pivotal figures in the Japanese free jazz scene that had been working together since the 1960's, performed and record this unique set at Zojoji Hall in Tokyo. At the time, Japanese jazz musicians were trying to find their own voice, welcoming creative elements coming in from the USA and Europe. The two musicians were at the fore-front of this generation, with Takayanagi developing his own guitar style through influences of mainstream and more extreme jazz, and drummer Togashi had developed a unique approach to drums and percussions, using silence as an integral part of music making, also due to an accident that forced him on a wheelchair after 1970. The record is divided in two tracks ('Inner Pulsation' and 'Outer Pulsation'), each one about 22 minutes in length, mirroring the original LP sides. The performance can be regarded as a single piece though, with a clearly symmetrical structure, even if the musicians cover much musical ground over the course of the album. The extreme abstractness of the music guarantees many possibilities, but the main themes here are pure sound and space, investigated through a massive use of silence, ever-changing dynamics and slow structural developments unfolding with a mysterious musical logic. Originally released on iconic Japanese label Paddle Wheel and out-of-print for a very long time, the album has become a very sought-after collector's item and we are glad to bring this back on vinyl in collaboration with King Record Co."
IN THE RED
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CAT #: 21361 007EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
PANIK, THE It Won't Sell 12"
Limited remaining copies of this BLACK FRIDAY RSD 2022 release. "...Between The Fall, Buzzcocks and Joy Division, it's easy to see that something was definitely happening in the greater Manchester area. However, these brilliant bands are not nearly the entire story. At some point, when I was able to see this chapter of England's contribution to music culture as part of a larger story, it bugged me that there was little to no mention of the Panik. Books have been written, records have been reissued but for some reason, the Panik were largely overlooked. It Won't Sell, (the back cover photo taken by the now legendary Kevin Cummins) is one of my favorite 7" records of all time. The Panik were there and done before a lot of Punk bands had even started." --Henry Rollins
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CAT #: 21361 008EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
RUTS, THE The In A Rut Sessions 12"
Limited remaining copies of this BLACK FRIDAY RSD 2022 release. "It seems like years ago I contacted Mr. Segs and Mr. Ruffy and inquired if either Rut had possession of the In A Rut Sessions tape. The two song 7" with 'In A Rut' and the prophetic 'H-Eyes' had never been reissued since its original three pressing 1979 release . . . It could have been that the tape would have sat in the guts of Virgin for the rest of the century and there would be no reissue. The tape is back in control of the remaining Ruts and their great music is now yours to enjoy." --Henry Rollins
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES
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CAT #: 9781737797920
FILE UNDER: Misc
HIGGINS, DICK A Something Else Reader Book
"A previously unpublished anthology of classic texts from Something Else Press, assembled in the 1970s by Dick Higgins, with works by John Cage, Al Hansen, Claes Oldenburg and many more Conceived by poet, publisher, artist, composer and writer Dick Higgins (1938-98) in the early 1970s to celebrate Something Else Press -- the legendary publishing company he founded in 1963 to showcase Fluxus and other experimental artists -- this volume, which was never realized in Higgins' lifetime, collects an amazing array of 1960s avant-garde creativity. Something Else Press published some of the most radical art and literature of its time and provided a foundation and template for the artist's book medium, which has flourished internationally since the 1960s. The Reader features selections from rare and out-of-print Something Else classics such as Claes Oldenburg's Store Days; John Cage's Notations; Emmett Williams' An Anthology of Concrete Poetry; Richard Kostelanetz's Breakthrough Fictioneers anthology; Jackson Mac Low's pioneering poetry collection, Stanzas for Iris Lezak; Gertrude Stein's Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein; Bern Porter's I've Left; Wolf Vostell's Dé-coll/age Happenings; Al Hansen's A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art; and other pamphlets and artist projects for the page by Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Philip Corner, Daniel Spoerri, André Thomkins and Richard Meltzer, among others. A critical checklist/bibliography assembled by Hugh Fox and Higgins' introduction from 1973 completes the original manuscript." 369 pages. 6x9.25 inches.
JACKPOT RECORDS
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CAT #: JPR 042COL-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
KESEY/GRATEFUL DEAD, KEN The Acid Test (Blue Vinyl) LP
Blue vinyl. "Ken Kesey's ultra rare 1966 studio recording of the Acid Test with The Grateful Dead. Legendary documentation of the 1965-66 Bay Area Acid Test scene from 14 hours of the actual trip (recorded in a studio). Lots of amazing mind games and word play with Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs in good form, ad libbed poetry, fractured harmonica solos, tape loops and the Grateful Dead lurking in the background. Originally released in March 1966." Originally released in 1966.
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CAT #: JPR 82801LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WIPERS Is This Real? LP
2022 repress. "Unquestionably Portland's most well-loved punk group, the Wipers formed in the late 1970s and in 1980 released their debut LP, Is This Real? -- twelve songs of stabbing, jittery guitar, snapped vocals, and unabashed teen angst. Full of desperation and yearning, the LP has stood as a blueprint for wretched youth for over 25 years. In the early 1990s Is This Real? was given mainstream attention when Nirvana covered two tracks off the record and Cobain announced it was one of the primary influences on his group. While it was reissued on compact disc and available as a part of the Wipers Boxed Set (Zeno), this is the first time Is This Real? has been available on vinyl in the U.S. since its initial release. Remastered from original tapes as provided by Greg Sage himself, the LP is pressed on audiophile grade vinyl and housed in a deluxe tip-on sleeve. Complete with a printed insert that replicates the original innersleeve, the Jackpot Records reissue of Is This Real? is a lavish tribute to one of the greatest recordings of the last 30 years."
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CAT #: JPR 82802LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WIPERS Youth of America LP
2022 repress. Authorized reissue of the 2nd Wipers album, originally issued in 1981. "Simply obliterating any conception of the Wipers as a mere punk band, Greg Sage released this follow-up to Is This Real? in 1981 -- a sophisticated, overwhelming response to the evil times marked by the turn of the decade. Broken up into six long songs, Youth of America is a much colder, harrowing experience than the teen angst of their debut. Vocally, Sage comes off as sleep-deprived and forsaken, snarling not only at his own predicament but at the predicament of the entire world. The centerpiece of the album is the title track, a dire ten minutes of paranoia and angst that gave Sage the space to showcase his wildest, darkest playing yet. As bassist Brad Davidson and drummer Brad Naish hold the same hypnotic rhythm for the entire song, the guitar careens and swoops with such a frantic energy, it seems as though it's the only thing keeping Sage alive in the maelstrom of sound. It's a fitting commentary that the exacting, post-punk legends Mission of Burma and squalling, noisy thugs The Melvins both saw fit to cover the track. Jackpot Records have kept to the high standards set by our previous reissues (The Wipers' Is This Real? and the self-titled Beauregarde LP), and Youth of America is pressed on high-quality vinyl at RTI and packaged in a sturdy, old-fashioned tip-on sleeve. The tracks have been mastered from original tapes by Greg Sage himself, and the cover is identical to the original sleeve as issued in 1981."
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CAT #: JPR 82803LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WIPERS Over The Edge LP
2012 repress. "The bleak, hard-driven third LP by the Wipers (originally released in 1983) offers Greg Sage at his most chased and breathless, lashing out with sharp staccato notes as if melody were his only defense. While their debut LP provided the blueprint for grunge, and their second album recast the band as one of America's premier postpunk bands, it's Over The Edge that best exemplifies the Wipers' sound. The jagged, effortless guitar lines, the paranoid lyrics and raw-throated vocals and the taut, unified rhythms that define their sound bleed together most clearly on this LP, and it stands as both the best entry point for new fans and the most prevalent favorite of diehards. Since Jackpot Records began our Wipers vinyl reissues in 2006, we've been inundated with requests for a reissue of Over The Edge. After two years of labor, including an immaculate remaster from the original tapes by Greg Sage, we are proud to present Over The Edge, pressed on audiophile grade vinyl and packaged in a deluxe, tip-on sleeve."
KLANGGALERIE (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: GG 402CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
BERROCAL/DAVID FENECH/VINCENT EPPLAY, JAC Transcodex CD
"Jac Berrocal is a 1946-born musician (trumpet player), poet and sometime film actor who came of age in the '70s Paris improv scene, where the boundaries between music, art and theater were porous and begging to be breached. During the '70s his uproarious performances routinely wound-up jazz and rock audiences alike, but earned the admiration of many musicians: Steven Stapleton invited him to perform on two Nurse With Wound albums, and other notable collaborators in his career include Sunny Murray, Lol Coxhill, and James Chance. Fenech cut his teeth in the mail-art scene of the early '90s, leading the Peu Importe collective in Grenoble. His 2000 solo debut was recently reissued by Felix Kubin's Gagarin label, and he has also worked as a software developer at IRCAM, and played with Jad Fair, Tom Cora, Rhys Chatham and James Plotkin; in 2011 he formed a trio with Berrocal and Ghedalia Tazartes for the Superdisque LP. Epplay is a highly regarded sonic and visual artist with a particular interest in aleatory composition and autonomous pieces, concrète, and the puckish reappropriation of vintage sound and film material, with dozens of published works to his name on labels like Alga Marghen and PPT/Stembogen. Transcodex is the fourth album by the trio. Turning more towards pop than in their beginnings, this fourth record follows the footsteps of their previous album, Exterior Lux. The trio seems limitless: they experiment with a large variety of styles (pop, dub, electronica, dark jazz), always colored by their very own touch. For this album, they invited two amazing musicians. Jah Wobble, founding member of the mighty Public Image Ltd. and Jean-Hervé Peron, one of the fathers of German krautrock legend Faust."
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CAT #: GG 411CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SECTION 25 Hymns From The Bardo CD
"Archival live recordings from the very early days of postpone Factory Records legend Section 25. Section 25 formed in Blackpool, UK in November 1977. Initially they were a duo, consisting of brothers Larry Cassidy and Vincent Cassidy). In June 1978, they made their live debut with Phil Denton on guitar. Their debut 7", Girls Don't Count, was released in July 1980 on Factory Records, produced by Ian Curtis and Rob Gretton of Joy Division. Joined by percussionist Lee Shallcross, Section 25 gradually evolved with a more electronic-dance direction from 1983 onwards, a process which culminated in the album From the Hip and remix single 'Looking From A Hilltop', both released in 1984 and produced by Bernard Sumner of New Order. This second iteration of the band also featured the Cassidy brothers' sister Angela Flowers and Larry Cassidy's wife Jenny Ross. In 1986, Section 25 fell silent for more than a decade, and reemerged with the album Part Primitiv in 2006. On February 27, 2010, it was announced that founding member, singer, and bass player for the group, Larry Cassidy, had died at the age of 56. Today, Section 25 consist of Vin Cassidy and long-time collaborator Steven Stringer. Hymns From The Bardo is a collection of archival concert recordings and is the sister album to Jams From The Bardo released in 2021. A delicacy for all fans of the early days of Section 25 and Factory Records."
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CAT #: GG 412CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
BEGG, MICHAEL Moonlight and Sentiment CD
"Dark ambient music by British composer Michael Begg who has recently collaborated with Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Michael Begg is an award-winning Scottish composer, sound artist, and musician. In 2000, he began the Human Greed project with Deryk Thomas, releasing a string of critically acclaimed albums, including Black Hill, Fortress Longing, and World Fair. Since 2007, he has been a core contributor to Clodagh Simonds's cult collective, Fovea Hex. He is an associate artist at The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, and artist in residence with the European Marine Board. Begg has released a number of recordings in his own name, working more progressively towards a territory comprising site specific thematic exploration, contemporary classical music, software development and studio experimenting. In 2018 he won the New Music Scotland award for TITAN, a Cryptic commission for Sonica Festival. Shortly thereafter he founded the Black Glass Ensemble to develop new forms of music for the Anthropocene, informed by scientific collaboration and data sonification. The Ensemble comprises fellow traveler in the UK underground, Ben Ponton (:soviet:france:), and players from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. His recent output includes a collaborative CD with Krautrock legend Hans-Joachim Roedelius which is still available from Klanggalerie. This is what Michael says about Moonlight and Sentiment: 'This music does not create a song for our ears. It is a 'state', such as moonlight poured over the fields.' This is not a crafted record. The quality is often very poor and the resolution is seldom realized. The melodic lines drift into sentimentality and the production lacks focus and rigor. It is, however, the authentic sound of moonlight suicides, Christmas midnights and a representation of a certain kind of recovered memory that ruins your sleep. I was in the midst of upheaval and I was trying to realize something. Whatever the 'something' was refused to play, and so something else has been realised instead.'"
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CAT #: GG 419CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
HET ZWEET Het Zweet CD
"Reissue of a classic tribal industrial album by Dutch project Het Zweet, originally released in 1987, comparable to the music of Z'ev. Het Zweet (Sweat) was the band project by Marien van Oers, native of Breda in the Netherlands active from 1983 to about 1988. The music consisted of long 10-minute percussion pieces played on self-built instruments (shopping trolleys amplified with pickups, blown cardboard tubes etc.) with repetitive shouted vocals by Marien. The music was often placed in the industrial camp and linked with the likes of Test Dept. but in fact Het Zweet were more concerned with 'tribal' music, physicality and trance effects like Z'ev. During concerts he often performed together with other players. Marien Van Oers sadly passed away in 2013. This self-titled album originally came out on the great Dossier label in Germany in 1987. The bonus material included on this reissue consists entirely of previously unreleased material. There's three untitled tracks and two live excerpts presented as long experiences that belie their disparate origins with a unity of sound and purpose. Van Oers' percussive nous and distantly yelled chants certainly sound capable of working up a sweat in both the performer and any movement-minded listeners, but maybe the most striking thing about Het Zweet is how vital it still sounds, despite its age and relative obscurity."
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CAT #: GG 421CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ENSAMBLE KAFKA Ensamble Kafka CD
"Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California. The band formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the punk rock movement. Pulling influence from punk and electronic music, the group, originally consisting of Steven Brown and Blaine L. Reininger, used electronic violins, guitars, screaming vocals and synthesizers to develop a unique 'cabaret no-wave' sound. Bassist Peter Principle joined the band and in 1979 they released the single 'No Tears', which remains a post-punk cult classic. That year they signed to Ralph Records and released their first album, Half-Mute. All members of the band had solo careers next to the output of Tuxedomoon, with Steven Brown releasing a new album in 2021, and touring Europe in 2022. After composing and recording the soundtrack for the film El Informe Toledo, Steven was asked by the director Albino Alvarez to perform the music live at the film's premiere in the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City. Having employed session musicians for the recording, Brown found it necessary to form a band in order to accomplish the task. Although the original idea was to only participate in the premier of the film, the audience response was so overwhelming that Brown and partner Julio Garcia decided to continue the project and Ensamble Kafka was born. This group combines contemporary music techniques with traditional Mexican music thereby humbly attempting to create new traditional music. The self-titled album was released in Mexico only in 2013 and has now been extended to 14 tracks for this first worldwide release."
KRANGLAN BROADCAST (SWEDEN)
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CAT #: KLN 016EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
BJORK, HARALD Drifting 12"
In May 2020, Cocoon Recordings released the third album of Harald Björk. With the club scene on Covid-hold, tours canceled, and DJs locked up at home, it was not the optimal conditions to release an album on a number 1 worldwide club empire as Cocoon. However, Kranglan Broadcast have decided not to let a virus kill the beloved culture, as Mr. Sven Väth put it "I would like to share with you the album of Harald Björk... which has soothed me and I hope will also give you a soundtrack for these uneasy days." It felt right to release it. The release was shrinked from a thought of vinyl box to a digital release with future plans on vinyl. However, Covid decided to stay and time went. The queue at the vinyl factories didn't make the process easier... But at one point the dream factory of Kranglan Broadcast decided, enough! The world has to keep on dreaming. And what is a better way to embrace dreams then to release a vinyl full of dreamers, groundbreaking in their corners of the electronic umbrella. Dreamers doing their thing not even looking at the norm or what's the recent hype. Features remixes by Molø, Ada, Throwing Snow, and Skudge.
LEWIS RECORDINGS (UK)
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CAT #: LEWIS 1121CD
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
DJ YODA Prom Nite CD
"Dressed in a powder blue suit with the frilly shirt to match, DJ Yoda invites you to be his +1 for Prom Nite, his new album promising retro Americana full of daydreaming reverie, international megastar guests, trip hop acknowledging the likes of Morcheeba and Nightmares on Wax, and the turntable extraordinaire's bread and butter of cuts, beats and rhymes. Certainly no stranger to retro sounds having famously peppered his DJ and AV sets with the unexpected the world over, and his How to Cut n Paste mix series going all the way back to the 30s, Yoda's harp-laden puppy love vibe spreads from the sweet and mellow sound of 2019's Home Cooking, an album described as 'boundary-breaking' by Mojo upon slotting nicely into the UK's blooming jazz canon. Think deliciously harmonized doo-wop murmuring 'Goodnight Sweetheart' with an eye for dreamboats en route to Makeout Point -- on 'My Energy', Eva Lazarus takes the form of an earth angel, with Yoda on jukebox cut-ups, taking it back to starry-eyed, clean cut days of wonder (or more recently, Little Mix's 'Love Me Like You'). Beginning enigmatically with the assistance of Hollywood A-lister (and former next-door neighbor) Lily James, 'Breathe' demonstrate Yoda's continued evolution as a musician (not to mention shrewd decision maker), with James' vocal confidence -- a little Lana del Rey to her breathiness -- returning on the velvet-smooth 'Airplane Mode.' It's a smartly executed soundclash accentuated by LA rapper Choosey, the star of the album's straightest hip-hop shooter 'Harder I Rock'. Homeboy Sandman adds some kick to the prom punch with typical wordplay sent down 'Coconut Grove', and Liam Bailey is perfectly cast for the darkly cinematic sway of 'Don't Even Try It.' On an album of many talking points, the LP's crowning glory is opening single 'Feel Like Home': featuring the vocal comforts of the House Gospel Choir, it's your go-to pick-me-up when the chips are down, targeting the hairs on the backs of necks like a softer focus version of Jamie xx's 'Loud Places.' Extended into an alternative, equally uplifting form by Beardyman's 'Don't Mean Thing', summer festival season already has its homecoming anthem. With tongues wagging, the twists and turns step away from Heartbreak Ridge when O Love tucks into the mouthwatering shopping list funk of 'Way Home'; and 'Lesson 1956', featuring Jamie Cullum and DJ Woody, jauntily pays homage to classic Cut Chemist alchemy, Yoda's celebrated turntable tomfoolery back in full effect and extending the flavors found in Home Cooking. Magpie artwork supplied by London's ENDLESS, whose signature style has tagged Liberty and Lagerfeld as but two high profile clients, Yoda again maximizes the experience and enjoyment gained from recording live instruments and prioritizing songs over beats. His continued progress mixes risk-taking, elite musicianship, nostalgia brought bang up to date, and ultimately, good clean fun capable of stirring your soul, making Prom Nite a date to remember."
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CAT #: LEWIS 1121LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
DJ YODA Prom Nite LP
LP version. "Dressed in a powder blue suit with the frilly shirt to match, DJ Yoda invites you to be his +1 for Prom Nite, his new album promising retro Americana full of daydreaming reverie, international megastar guests, trip hop acknowledging the likes of Morcheeba and Nightmares on Wax, and the turntable extraordinaire's bread and butter of cuts, beats and rhymes. Certainly no stranger to retro sounds having famously peppered his DJ and AV sets with the unexpected the world over, and his How to Cut n Paste mix series going all the way back to the 30s, Yoda's harp-laden puppy love vibe spreads from the sweet and mellow sound of 2019's Home Cooking, an album described as 'boundary-breaking' by Mojo upon slotting nicely into the UK's blooming jazz canon. Think deliciously harmonized doo-wop murmuring 'Goodnight Sweetheart' with an eye for dreamboats en route to Makeout Point -- on 'My Energy', Eva Lazarus takes the form of an earth angel, with Yoda on jukebox cut-ups, taking it back to starry-eyed, clean cut days of wonder (or more recently, Little Mix's 'Love Me Like You'). Beginning enigmatically with the assistance of Hollywood A-lister (and former next-door neighbor) Lily James, 'Breathe' demonstrate Yoda's continued evolution as a musician (not to mention shrewd decision maker), with James' vocal confidence -- a little Lana del Rey to her breathiness -- returning on the velvet-smooth 'Airplane Mode.' It's a smartly executed soundclash accentuated by LA rapper Choosey, the star of the album's straightest hip-hop shooter 'Harder I Rock'. Homeboy Sandman adds some kick to the prom punch with typical wordplay sent down 'Coconut Grove', and Liam Bailey is perfectly cast for the darkly cinematic sway of 'Don't Even Try It.' On an album of many talking points, the LP's crowning glory is opening single 'Feel Like Home': featuring the vocal comforts of the House Gospel Choir, it's your go-to pick-me-up when the chips are down, targeting the hairs on the backs of necks like a softer focus version of Jamie xx's 'Loud Places.' Extended into an alternative, equally uplifting form by Beardyman's 'Don't Mean Thing', summer festival season already has its homecoming anthem. With tongues wagging, the twists and turns step away from Heartbreak Ridge when O Love tucks into the mouthwatering shopping list funk of 'Way Home'; and 'Lesson 1956', featuring Jamie Cullum and DJ Woody, jauntily pays homage to classic Cut Chemist alchemy, Yoda's celebrated turntable tomfoolery back in full effect and extending the flavors found in Home Cooking. Magpie artwork supplied by London's ENDLESS, whose signature style has tagged Liberty and Lagerfeld as but two high profile clients, Yoda again maximizes the experience and enjoyment gained from recording live instruments and prioritizing songs over beats. His continued progress mixes risk-taking, elite musicianship, nostalgia brought bang up to date, and ultimately, good clean fun capable of stirring your soul, making Prom Nite a date to remember."
MADE IN GERMANY (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MIG 143CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SCHULZE, KLAUS La Vie Electronique 5 3CD
"Re-launch of the successful and partly out-of-print La Vie Electronique series by Klaus Schulze in a new digifile. MIG will gradually make the out-of-print volumes available again. La Vie Electonique Vol. 5 contains works from 1976 to 1977. 'Berlin Schönberg' was recorded in 1976 on a radio concert in Berlin. 'Vie de rêve' is from a concert from the same year, recorded in Reims in France. 'Nostalgic Echo' and 'Titanische Tage' are also solo concerts from 1976. One year later 'For Barry Graves' was recorded -- a short kurzes concert for the WDR-program Musik Extra 3. 'The Oberhausen Tape' was recorded in 1976 (the second part of this concert is on La Vie Electronique Volume 6). 'The Poet' finally is a typical gem from the Moondawn era."
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CAT #: MIG 2591LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
OMEGA Omega LP
"Remastered re-issue of Omega's debut album. More than 50 million records sold, LP productions in Hungarian, German and English, tours and festival appearances throughout Europe and Japan, at least 50 cover versions or adaptations of the world hit 'Gyöngyhajú lány' -- Omega are Hungary's number one rock export. In 2022, the band will be celebrating its 60th stage anniversary, making it one of the longest-serving rock formations in the world. On St. Nicholas Day, December 06, 2021, singer and founding member János Kóbor passed away due to the coronavirus. Now the Omega albums from the well-known and successful Bacillus era will be rereleased originally and completely on vinyl. The 1973 LP Omega I was a compilation of songs from 'Élö' and from the album Omega 5, which was released in the same year in the Eastern bloc. To boost sales of this first Bacillus record by the Hungarian flagship rockers, it was backed by two singles of the ballad 'Gyöngyhajú lány' in English ('Pearls In Her Hair')."
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CAT #: MIG 2601LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
OMEGA III LP
"Remastered reissue of Omega's second album. More than 50 million records sold, LP productions in Hungarian, German and English, tours and festival appearances throughout Europe and Japan, at least 50 cover versions or adaptations of the world hit 'Gyöngyhajú lány' -- Omega are Hungary's number one rock export. In 2022, the band will be celebrating its 60th stage anniversary, making it one of the longest-serving rock formations in the world. On St. Nicholas Day, December 06, 2021, singer and founding member János Kóbor passed away due to the coronavirus. Now the Omega albums from the well-known and successful Bacillus era will be rereleased originally and completely on vinyl. After a few trips into symphonic and psychedelic rock realms, Omega presented themselves on III, released at the end of 1974, again more down to earth: Nine crisp hard rock tracks, only one exceeding the four-minute mark. For this album, Peter Hauke, still producer, and Omega not only used current material, but also included songs that had already been recorded on the Hungarian original from 1969: 'Stormy Fire' and 'Spanish Guitar'. In order to attract a broader audience, the songs had been pared down, instrumental soloing was reduced. Although Omega had always flirted with progressive stylistic means since their turn to psychedelic rock in 1969, this time they kept their hands off intricate arrangements. Instead, they turned towards the zeitgeist by including rather blunt rock tunes like 'Stormy Fire', 'Go On The Spree' and 'Fancy Jeep' in the list, which could also please a glam rock fan and passionate consumer of single hits by bands like The Sweet and Slade."
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CAT #: MIG 750CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SCHULZE, KLAUS La Vie Electronique 12 3CD
"Disc 1: 'Picasso...' is Klaus' longest composition so far. Originally there were various 1992-93 recordings for a film soundtrack, but the film producer could not pay for it and accordingly Klaus withdrew his collaboration and his music. For the Silver Edition release I put the music in logical order. It continues on the Disc 2. The denomination of 'Picasso geht spazieren' was 'Picture Music in Three Movements' due to the fact that twenty years earlier Klaus invented the term 'Picture Music' for one of his earliest albums. This description and name did still fit in 1993 ...especially with the variety of sampling pictures you'll hear while dear old 'Picasso Takes a Walk'. Disc 2: In 1995, '96, '97, '98, '99 and also in the year 2000 the more than two and a half hours long(!) 'Picasso geht spazieren' was elected by the members of 'The KS Circle' among the top ten of the most popular of the many KS titles, the highest position was number 3 in 1997. Disc 3: The original tape of 'The Music Box' had the working title 'Meditation I' first. Klaus recorded it in 1993 and gave it for free to the 'Guttemplers', an institution that helps alcoholics. For the first release in Silver Edition I had given it the full title 'The Music Box -Tongemälde in fis-moll' (Sound picture in F sharp minor). PS: Of course, I had the famous movie in mind when I invented the title 'The Music Box', yes, I speak of Laurel and Hardy's only Oscar winning epos (the one with the piano up (and down) the many steps). I did put some other Laurel and Hardy titles and references in Silver Edition. Not just KS believes that the two (and also W.C. Fields) were true geniuses, they put their souls into their work."
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CAT #: MIG 90101LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
STIFF LITTLE FINGERS Live At Rockpalast 1980 LP
"The longest-tenured Irish punk band is undoubtedly Stiff Little Fingers -- who have been bashing and thrashing since 1977. And the vinyl, Live At Rockpalast 1980, shows that the band remained a vital live band (and also, stayed true to their roots) throughout the '80s, despite a five-year hiatus smack dab in the middle of the decade. Singer/guitarist Jake Burns has been the band's leader since their inception -- with bassist Ali McMordie standing right alongside Jake most of the time -- which saw Stiff Little Fingers being a part of the first-wave of Euro punk bands, which included the lofty likes of the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and the Damned, the Buzzcocks, the Jam, etc. And in the process, Stiff Little Fingers issued such classic punk LPs as Inflammable Material, Nobody's Heroes and Go for It plus the punk anthems 'Alternative Ulster', 'Suspect Device' and 'At the Edge'. Jake Burns still remembers: 'The place was packed and the audience were with us from the first note. They were wonderful, singing and bouncing along. It really felt like a 'home game' to use a football analogy. I thought we played really well too, apart from a slight timing mistake during 'Back to Front', a new song we were still learning.'"
METROPOLIS RECORDS
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CAT #: MET 1294LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, THE The Museum of Human Happiness (Glow In The Dark Vinyl) 2LP
Limited glow in the dark vinyl. "The Legendary Pink Dots has developed a devoted following over its four-decade career. On The Museum of Human Happiness, the bands unique explorations in textural ambience, rock experimentalism, lyrical imagery, hypnotic guitar and synth washes crate a spellbinding experience. In the era of lock downs, the trademark avant-garde sound is perhaps informed by observing the state of current events."
MINKY
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CAT #: MKY 3306LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
DENGUE FEVER Sleepwalking Through The Mekong 2LP
Remaining copies of this BLACK FRIDAY RSD 2022 release. "Dengue Fever's psychedelic take on the Cambodian pop sounds of the '60s makes them one of rock n' roll's most unique success stories. They draw enthusiastic crowds from LA to the UK, from Maui to Moscow, and leave critics rummaging through their thesauruses looking for new superlatives to describe their sound. The band's vinyl release, the double-disc vinyl LP soundtrack of the feature film Sleepwalking Through The Mekong, continues the story and evolution of the band as they travel to Cambodia as the first Western group to perform the music of Cambodia since the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Sleepwalking Through The Mekong has received an enthusiastic reception at international film festivals, as well as the Tucson Film Festival, the Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles, the Hawaii International Film Festival and the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York." "An engagingly different rock 'n' roll documentary..." --Variety "Dengue Fever, or course, is quite possibly the most original pop band in LA." --Los Angeles Times
MOLL-SELEKTA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MOLL 013LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VA The Bunny Lee Rock Steady Years 2LP
Warehouse find, last copies. Many reggae aficionados see the concentrated phase of rock steady between 1967-1969 as the Caribbean's most productive era of all time. Never before had such sweet melodies, inspiring rhythms and beautiful love lyrics come together. Numerous soul hits by the likes of Curtis Mayfield, The Impressions, The Supremes all got the bass-driven, Jamaican style treatment. The Bunny Lee Rock Steady Years collects some of the most essential and rarest songs of that era -- in a better sound quality than ever before. It showcases a wealth of soulful singers, ranging from top acts like Slim Smith (also lead-singer in the Techniques and Uniques) or Alton Ellis to the rather unknown Cynthia Richards or Webber Sisters. All songs were produced by Bunny Lee, one of the greatest Jamaican producers, who had one rock steady hit after another -- finally earning him the nickname "Striker". This compilation is a valuable slice of history for reggae and soul fans alike, for lovers of great voices, for those who do not confuse "cool" with cold and appreciate a good love song when it comes from the heart. Features The Sensations, The Uniques, Glen Adams, Owen Gray, Dawn Penn, Ken Parker, Slim Smith, Winston Samuels, Errol Dunkley, Pat Kelly, Alton Ellis, Alva Lewis, Cynthia Richards, Webber Sisters, and Lester Sterling with King Cannon.
MOONCREST
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CAT #: CRESTDP 117CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CHAPMAN, MICHAEL Live At The New Vic Bristol 4th June 2000 CD/DVD
"Released to commemorate a year since Michael's passing, this CD and DVD is a double-pack of Michael's gig at The New Vic in Bristol on the 4th June 2000. There is a sadness in the fact that I won't get to sit grinning like a fool again as Michael weaves that Chapman magic, but this is a gem of a show, a record of a master at work. There are lovely versions of favorites and some surprises, yes Michael fluffs a lyric, but he flows through it and it becomes part of the moment. If he had edited reality and taken out the trouble and the strife then he wouldn't have been the legendary musician performer he was, generating smiles, a fully qualified survivor with the sunshine in his hands."
NAKED LUNCH (ITALY)
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CAT #: NAKED 035LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
BAKER, CHET Live In Bologna 1962 LP
Rare gem capturing the poetry and magic of the legendary Chet Baker live on stage. Here, Chet is in Italy on April 1962, at "La Cantina" in Bologna. Miles Davis is on the trumpet, of course, along with Rene Thomas at the guitar, George Gruntz at the piano, the great Karl Theodor Geier on the bass, and Eberhard Stengel on the drums. The entirety of the side A is taken by a long Miles Davis composition, "Solar", while the B side features a much celebrated, timeless standard in "Pennies From Heaven" and Bird's original in "Donna Lee".
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CAT #: NAKED 036LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
MONK, THELONIOUS At The Village Gate 1963 LP
The jazz giant Thelonious Monk is here featured in this live recording in New York. Monk is in his best form during this "Village Gate" gig, along with famed session men accompanying him here and forming this solid quartet -- namely, Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, John Ore on the bass, and Frankie Dunlop on the drums. The album features three Monk's originals ("Rhythm-A-Ning", "Evidence", "Jackie-ing") and two jazz standards ("I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" and the immortal "Body And Soul" in two takes).
NOTON (GERMANY)
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CAT #: NOTON 057EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ALVA NOTO FEAT. MARTIN L. GORE & WILLIAM BASINSKI Subterraneans 12"
Alva Noto with Martin L. Gore and Willian Basinski offer two versions of David Bowie's "Subterraneans".
PINK FLAG (UK)
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CAT #: PF 012LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WIRE Chairs Missing LP
2022 repress; LP version. "1978's Chairs Missing represented perhaps the biggest conceptual leap made during this period of Wire and was widely misunderstood at the time yet it remains, to the band and production crew Wire's favorite '70s album. If Pink Flag proposed an almost cut and paste approach to deconstructing rock history, Chairs Missing proposed something more radical, a definite futurism with much less influence from its antecedents. Chairs Missing was at once more stark and more lush than its predecessor and has exerted its own influence on the course of cultural history, having laid down one of the earliest (if not the earliest) blueprints for the genuinely post-punk aesthetic."
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CAT #: PF 013LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WIRE 154 LP
2022 repress; LP version. "1979's 154 represented the final tableau in Wire's Harvest released '70s triptych and was the first Wire album to be released to a universal set of five star reviews from the British rock weeklies, thus it represented the point when the British 'pop culture establishment' publicly recognized Wire's primacy. '154 makes 95 percent of the competition look feeble' wrote Nick Kent in the NME, 'Wire are achieving a lot of things other--and more recognized--names have been striving for' wrote Chris Westwood in Record Mirror (a paper that had slagged off Pink Flag). 'The album is a musical tour de force' wrote Jon Savage in Melody Maker. Many said it was the album that Bowie and Eno had failed to make with Lodger (as hinted in the RM review), it was on John Lennon's playlist. Without a doubt, even if record sales did not bear it out, Wire had 'arrived.'"
RADIATION REISSUES (ITALY)
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CAT #: RRS 150LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CORTINAS, THE Defiant Pose: Singles and Demos 1977/1978 LP
Repressed. Bristol punk quintet the Cortinas began as an R&B cover band, but soon sped up their repertoire when punk arrived, making them local pioneers. A slot supporting the Stranglers at the Roxy brought them onto Miles Copeland and Mark Perry's Step Forward label and they later signed to CBS before imploding, guitarist Nick Sheppard then joining the Clash and drummer Daniel Swann of San Francisco's the Sneetches. This ace compilation gathers the best of their early work, including the immortal debut Fascist Dictator/Defiant Pose, as well as "TV Families", both in the studio and live. Another crucial piece of the Bristol puzzle!
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CAT #: RRS 159LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SEX PISTOLS Spunk: The Demos 1976-1977 LP
Repressed; pink vinyl. In the history of punk, the Sex Pistols reign supreme; the anarchic quartet changed the history of popular culture forever with their caustic rupture of rock, a mixture of shock and awe that gave two fingers to the establishment, kick-starting a musical revolution. Released a few months before their Never Mind The Bollocks debut, Spunk is a revelation, raw demos cut in late '76 and early '77 by producer Dave Goodman, with Glen Matlock's bass far more melodic than what Sid Vicious cut on Bollocks; this edition has bonus demos of "Anarchy" and "Pretty Vacant" cut at Denmark Street, as well as an unedited "No Fun".
RADIATION TAPES (ITALY)
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CAT #: RADK 7006CS
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DINOSAUR JR. Without A Sound Cassette
Repressed. Radiation Tapes present a cassette reissue of Dinosaur Jr.'s Without A Sound, originally released in 1994. Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr. carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s, issuing a number of highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records. Without A Sound, their sixth record, emerged in the summer of 1994, in the wake of personal bereavement and the departure of longtime drummer and founder member Murph. Performed primarily by J Mascis, Without A Sound continued the band's growth in popularity and commercial achievement, reaching #44 in the US (their highest ever album placing there) and featuring the hit singles "Feel The Pain" and "I Don't Think So". Released to positive reviews, Without A Sound also took Dinosaur Jr around the world, including dates in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, and into the mainstream as the group contributed "Blah" to the hit US TV show Melrose Place. Limited edition of 350 on cassette.
RIDINGEASY RECORDS
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CAT #: EZRDR 139CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Brown Acid - The Fifteenth Trip CD
"Lo and behold, Brown Acid - The Fifteenth Trip is here, and it's another mind-melting dose of brilliant long-lost, rare, and unreleased hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks from the 60s -70s. Riding Easy's crate-digging mining expeditions, and growing network of the original artists keeps on giving with more and more incredible discoveries every time they go back for more. Like they've done throughout this series, all of these tracks were painstakingly licensed legitimately and the artists were paid. Make oneself comfortable and prepare for yet another deep, deep dive into the treasure trove of dank, subterranean, wild-eyed and hairy rock n' roll of yesteryear. Some key examples include: As usual, this Trip opens strong, as 'Take The Time' swaggers along with switchblade stabs of guitar twang and frantic drumming that sounds like Nick Cave's '80s post-punk barbarians The Birthday Party on this 1969 single from the mysterious Boston area band The Looking Glass. Negative Space toil in the dark web of The Seeds, and dwell in the mystic haze of working-class suburbs in Camden, NJ circa 1970. Their angry, nasty guitar sounds and frustration-bogged frontman Rob Russen ensure that the aggro fueled 'Forbidden Fruit' -- in which he confesses his love for his sister-in-law -- will hit one right in the face. Truth & Janey might be familiar from their 45-only 'Midnight Horseman' single heard way back on the Sixth Trip, and/or their incredible 1976 album No Rest For The Wicked. Their super-driven soul leaning cover of 'Under My Thumb' is almost like The Who had penned the track, with relentless drums, jackhammer rhythm guitar and near-falsetto vocals."
ROOM40 (AUSTRALIA)
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CAT #: RM 4155LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
STETSON, COLIN Chimaera I LP
A body is bounded. It operates within physical limitations and biological constraints. Whilst some see these physiological boundaries as a terminus, others such as Colin Stetson perceive them as a nexus of possibility, and perhaps even of expansion. It is in this zone of unsteady tension and promise that his new album Chimæra dwells. Collecting a series of extended drone works for saxophone, Chimæra charts an entirely new thread of work for Stetson. This thread simultaneously maintains states of reductive minimalism and reactive maximalism. The album pushes his physical abilities, as a body and also as a player to a new terrain. The pieces reveal his increasingly refined capacity to compose works that push out-ward testing for the boundaries of timbre, harmony and also density. Each of Chimæra's two pieces forge an almost geological sensibility, tracing out the imagined caverns, hidden hollows and surging magma flows of an underworld that exists beyond the everyday we know. His instrument breathes like wind expelled from lava pipes. The pieces are tactile, engulfing the entire body and the ears with equal ferocity. It is a record that melds together a deeply layered sense of sonic strata with an unwavering harmonic delicacy. For more than a decade now, Stetson has been involved an impressively divergent array of works that are concerned with the very physiology of sound. His lungs shaping sound through the coiling metallic pathways of his saxophones. This work is an opening to a new subterranean stream of his playing and resoundingly places him at the very center of an ever-expanding body of work that has come to define the potentials of his instrument of choice.
RUMBLE RECORDS
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CAT #: RUM 2011074LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WILSON, JACKIE He's So Fine LP
2022 repress. Detroit native Jackie Wilson aka "Mr. Excitement," left jump blues and R&B group The Dominoes in 1957 to pursue a solo career. The following year he released this, his debut LP, a rollicking collection of orchestrated pop R&B of the highest caliber. Including the hit "Reet Petite," half the songs on this LP were written by Berry Gordy, Jr. nearly two years before he founded Motown, which was partially funded by songwriting royalties Gordy earned writing hits for Wilson. A fine debut from one of the great soul and R&B singers of the late '50s/early '60s, a man who counted among his fans and followers no less than James Brown, Michael Jackson, and The King himself, Elvis Presley.
RUSTBLADE (ITALY)
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CAT #: RBL 088LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
SIMONETTI'S GOBLIN, CLAUDIO Suspiria (45th Anniversary Prog Rock Version Deluxe Vinyl) LP
"Coinciding with Suspiria's 45th anniversary, Claudio Simonetti's Goblin celebrates this anniversary with a new prog rock version of the famous soundtrack. The terrifying and atmospheric experience of Dario Argento's films comes from the merging of gorgeously crafted visuals with a soul tingling auditory experience. Once heard, Goblin's scores are never quite forgotten. Suspiria is no exception, characterized by its synth heavy sound, carillons, yells and sighs. Suspiria is perhaps Argento's most celebrated film and a classic of horror subgenre in its own right. A surreal masterpiece from Dario Argento with a pounding score from cult prog rockers Goblin, Suspiria will leave you battered and breathless. Deluxe gatefold colored vinyl. 499 copies only. transparent marble blue vinyl."
SEELAND
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CAT #: SEELAND 037CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
NEGATIVLAND Speech Free: Recorded Music For Film, Radio, Internet And Television 2CD
"What does a Negativland album sound like when it's missing all of those voice samples? It sounds like Speech Free. A release of library music for advertising, this new album by Negativland has had every last trace of language carefully removed from the mix. But what does that really mean? Having become a rock music adjective for their work in mass media collage, where voices are seized from the airwaves and woven into musical conversations more true than anything that normally makes it on the air, Speech Free is a complete re-imagining of the music that was hiding in plain sight beneath the branded 'cultural jamming' on their last two record albums. Entirely composed and performed by the band with an all-star group of guest musicians (including Prairie Prince, Ava Mendoza, Matmos and others), these productions explode out of even the tiniest speakers as some of Negativland's most listenable barrages of pure ear candy yet -- all they had to do was remove all of that speech! As marketing research suggests, these catchy tunes will work well as new jingles and musical beds, perfectly suited for voiceovers discussing anything from commercial products to political campaigns. Everyone knows that most target audiences regularly indicate a preference for moderately subversive content -- and this release provides that audience with precisely the right amount, now that all of this 'usable music' has been personally guaranteed by Negativland as Speech Free."
SUPERIOR VIADUCT
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CAT #: SV 161CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
BRYARS, GAVIN The Sinking of the Titanic CD
"Gavin Bryars was born in Yorkshire, England in 1943. His first musical forays were as a jazz bassist working in the early 1960s with improvisors Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. Bryars later worked with composers John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, founded the Portsmouth Sinfonia and collaborated with Brian Eno on his famed Obscure imprint. The Sinking of the Titanic, Bryars' first major composition, was inspired by the tragic event of the British passenger liner's cross-Atlantic maiden voyage. Bryars eloquently reconstructs the passengers' experience -- at once forlorn and eerily calming -- through assemblages of understated strings and indeterminate elements. A core principle of the piece is that the ship's band continued to play as the vessel went down. One of the most sublime works in the modern classical canon, Titanic remains Bryars' magnum opus. Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, the album's second sidelong track, is based on a tape loop of a London street singer captured in the early 1970s. Featuring Derek Bailey, Michael Nyman and John White, Bryars' composition gradually builds around the cripplingly poignant voice until its emotional force is almost too much to bear. It's no surprise that Jesus' Blood is known as Tom Waits' all-time favorite piece of music. Produced by Brian Eno in 1975 as the inaugural release on Obscure, The Sinking of the Titanic draws the listener in to a majestic world. While these exquisite, hymn-like recordings have not changed in nearly 50 years, their deeply personal nature and the audience's attention to their subtlety have only strengthened over time."
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CAT #: SV 164LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
MCPHEE, JOE Nation Time LP
2022 repress. "'It's been nearly five decades since Joe McPhee assembled a group of musicians to perform the weekend concerts that would become Nation Time, his second LP. It was December 1970, thirty-one-year-old McPhee was inspired by Amiri Baraka's poem 'It's Nation Time,' and the students at Vassar College didn't know what hit them. 'What time is it?' shouted the bandleader. 'C'mon, you can do better than that. What time is it?!' The music on Nation Time came out of the fertile, but little-known creative jazz scene in Poughkeepsie, New York, McPhee's home base. Two bands were deployed, one with a funky free foundation featuring guitar and organ, the other consisting of a more standard jazz formation with two drummers and the brilliant Mike Kull at the piano. Across the concert and the next afternoon's audience-less recording session, the band was ignited by McPhee's passion and his gorgeous post-Coltrane / post-Pharoah tenor. On 'Shakey Jake,' they hit a James Brown groove filtered through Archie Shepp, while the sidelong title track is as searching and poignant today as it was during its heyday. Originally released in 1971 on CjR, an imprint started expressly to document McPhee's music, Nation Time has a sense of urgency and inspiration. Additional material from those December days would later appear on Black Magic Man, Hat Hut's first release. In fact, the first four records on this seminal Swiss label all featured McPhee. Nation Time was largely unknown a quarter century or so later, when it was first issued on CD through Atavistic's Unheard Music Series. On Corbett vs. Dempsey, we reissued the album along with all known tapes leading up to and around it as a deluxe box set, but the standalone LP has long remained incredibly rare. Now is the time for a new generation of freaks to lose their shit when settling into the cushy beat of 'Shakey Jake' and answer McPhee's call with the only appropriate response: It's NATION TIME.' --John Corbett."
SURVIVAL RESEARCH (AUSTRALIA)
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CAT #: SVVRCH 071LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MANSON, CHARLES Live at San Quentin LP
Following his 1971 conviction for the murder of seven people, including the actress and model Sharon Tate, the notorious cult leader, Beach Boys associate and failed singer-songwriter Charles Manson was sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment. Recorded with just an acoustic guitar in his jail cell, Live at San Quentin dates from 1983 and is probably the most poppy of Manson's improvised far-out folk songs ever committed to tape, with flushing toilets and background conversations adding to the gritty low-fi realism. If you like the Lie album, you need this one too -- Manson fans will not be disappointed!
THE LOLLIPOPPE SHOPPE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: LLP 008LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
O'HEGARTY, CHARLES The More I Travel LP+CD
In the early 1960s, a young British folksinger from London read about the budding folk boom in the USA and wanted a piece of the action. As he and his wife already had travelled through Europe, the Middle East and Africa they didn't hesitate to pack up and go. So, this folksinger added an "O" to his name and became Charles O'Hegarty. Charles and Anna arrived in Canada in 1963 and stayed until early 1965. Then they entered the USA, lived in San Francisco and Los Angeles before they crossed the whole country to go to New York. By then it was early autumn of 1965 when Charles became part of the Greenwich Village scene -- and continued to do so until 1970. This is a very brief sketch of Charles O'Hegarty's life in the 1960s -- and if you have an "in the right place at the right time" notion, you're absolutely correct. Charles connected to several important folk scenes in Canada and the USA, played the Berkeley Folk Music Festival and many famous folk clubs of the day, recorded a folk-rock single for Verve-Folkways and became a singer-songwriter with his own repertoire. But nowadays only a few people remember Charles O'Hegarty (who died in 2010). And he's not a household name in the annals of '60s folk music -- obviously due to the lack of available recordings. Through the Lollipoppe Shoppe's association with John Townley, the label got to hear three unreleased songs by Charles, recorded by John at his Apostolic Studio in 1969. These wonderfully written and sublimely arranged originals cried out to be released -- so the label started to dig deeper in the hope of finding enough material for a whole LP. Now, after two years of work the Lollipoppe Shoppe can present a retrospective LP+CD-set of '60s studio and live recordings by Charles O'Hegarty, gathered together from six different sources, recorded between 1964 and 1970. Of the 16 tracks on the LP only one has been previously released -- and the CD includes seven additional tracks (also unissued). With this release -- organized in collaboration with Anna and Marika Hegarty -- the label hope to set the record straight and put Charles O'Hegarty back on the map of 1960s folksingers/singer-
TOY TONICS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TOYT 102EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MANGABEY & KOSMO KINT Time No More/Get Lost 12"
2022 repress. New York vocalist Kosmo Kint joined the Toy Tonics crew. Born in Trinidad and raised in New York City, Kosmo has been part of the recent Brooklyn scene, singing in several projects in NYC before moving to Berlin two years ago. To find like-minded people to create new lyrics driven dance music. In Berlin he teamed up with the Toy Tonics boys and now TT boss Kapote and the crew are working with him in Berlin Kreuzberg to find a new R&B and disco influenced style of electronic dance music. The first release is a collabo between French talent Mangabey and Kosmo Kint, produced by Kapote. The two songs have a chilled L.A. G funk vibe that makes you think about certain Dr. Dre productions from the '90s combined with some broken beats and four-to-the-floor house vibes. The song might remember some French touch tracks too and some might think about that West London early 2000 "Dego" vibe maybe. Anyway, its new and there is not a name yet for that style.
UGLY THINGS
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CAT #: UT 061
FILE UNDER: Misc
UGLY THINGS #61 MAG
"Our cover story focuses on NYC garage-pop wizards the Magicians ('An Invitation to Cry') and the fascinating twilight world of Greenwich Village in the mid-sixties. Also: The remarkable story of Jefferson Airplane's first bass player Bob Harvey is revealed for the first time, along with the saga of '60s garage heroes the Chancellors (famous for the Back From the Grave fave 'On Tour'). Mark Cunningham of '70s New York no wave renegades Mars is interviewed, David Holzer explores Lou Reed's obsession with the white light mysticism of Alice Bailey, and we unravel the mystery of Phantom's Divine Comedy (rumored at the time to be the recently deceased Jim Morrison in disguise). Plus, Part 2 of the story of Detroit proto-punkers the Dogs, and much more, including our popular review sections, covering all the latest vinyl and CD reissues, and rock 'n' roll-related books."
VINYL LOVERS (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
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CAT #: VL 990212LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
OS MUTANTES Mutantes LP
2022 repress. Vinyl Lovers present a reissue of Os Mutantes' Mutantes, originally released in 1969. One album into their career in 1969, Mutantes showed few signs of musical burnout after turning in one of the oddest LPs released in the '60s. Similar to its predecessor, Mutantes relies on an atmosphere of experimentation and continual musical collisions, walking a fine line between innovation and pointless genre exercises. The lead track ("Dom Quixote") has the same focus on stylistic cut-and-paste as their debut LP's first track ("Panis et Circenses"). Among the band's musical contemporaries, Mutantes sounds similar only to songs like the Who's miniature suite "A Quick One While He's Away" -- though done in three minutes instead of nine, and much more confusing given the language barrier. The album highlights ("Nao Va Se Perder Por Ai") and ("Dois Mil E Um") come with what sounds like a typically twisted take on roots music (both Brazilian and American), complete with banjo, accordion, and twangy vocals. Though there are several other enjoyable tracks, including "Magica" and a slap-happy stomp called "Rita Lee," there's a palpable sense that the experimentation here isn't serving much more than its own ends. If the first album's relentless eclecticism did in fact occasionally result in dry passages, it's especially true here. Bottle green vinyl.
WE RELEASE JAZZ (SWITZERLAND)
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CAT #: WRJ 010LTD-LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
SUZUKI, HIROSHI Cat LP
2022 repress; LP version. 180 gram vinyl, half speed mastered; heavy sleeve with obi and gold ink. We Release Jazz announce the official reissue of Hiroshi Suzuki's Cat, a glorious jazz-fusion-funk holy grail originally released in 1976. Cat was recorded in October 1975 at Nippon Columbia Studio, while Hiroshi Suzuki was visiting his home country of Japan after moving to Las Vegas in 1971 to play with Buddy Rich and perfect his craft. Back on his old stomping grounds, the man known as Neko (Cat) immediately reunited with his dear friends for an epic two-day session of groove magic. The chemistry was still intact. The skills and style had grown. The result, Cat, is a smooth masterpiece, a deep and soulful affair where stunning trombone solos by Hiroshi Suzuki flirt with Takeru Muraoka's heavenly saxophone and the sensual rhythm section of Hiromasa Suzuki (keyboards), Kunimitsu Inaba (bass), and Akira Ishikawa (drums). Celebrated in jazz collectors circles, in the lo-fi beat scene, and among music diggers around the world, Cat has become one of the most sought-after Japanese jazz albums of all time and, much like Ryo Fukui's Scenery, has fascinated old and young generations alike. Sourced from the original masters. Liner notes by Teruo Isono.
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ABRAHAM (CANADA)
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CAT #: AA 679LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
PALMA, TRISTON Joker Smoker LP
2022 repress. A reissue of Triston Palma's Joker Smoker, originally released in 1981. Angus Taylor of the BBC on Joker Smoker in 2008: "Triston Palma's (or Palmer as he was also known) Joker Smoker was notable not just for his praise of herb smoking (nothing new in reggae) but for its sardonic appraisal of the moochers and chancers that those who live such a lifestyle are fated to encounter. Its continuing resonance was proven in 2006 when the Italian singjay and producer, Alborosie, released his own anthem, 'Herbalist', on the 'Joker Smoker' rhythm. . . . Joker Smoker was released in 1981, when reggae had become fascinated with its own fundamentals: sparse reworkings of familiar rhythms, with pounding kick drums, simple plodding basslines, and effects laden, highly evocative guitar and keyboard lines. These tended to be played by the Roots Radics band who created all the backings for this disc, produced by the deejay Jah Thomas at the famous Channel One Studio. The received mainstream critical wisdom on this era is that it was a musical blind alley that necessitated the iconoclasm of hard dancehall later in the decade. But the captivating ambience and musical intricacies of a record like Joker Smoker show this up for the reductive nonsense that it is. Bingy Bunny's chopping rhythm guitar work, Sowell Bailey and Dwight Pinckney's plaintive, chorus laden, lead guitar phrasing, and the primordial, relentless drum and bass foundations laid down by Errol Holt and Style Scott are typical of a time when modern production techniques, live instrumentation, dancehall rhythms and rootical lyrics came together as one. But it is the small touches that really impress. These include Dean Fraser, Nambo Robinson and Deadly Headley Bennett's mocking horns (parodying Palma's dried honey vocals) on the title track, Gladstone Anderson's precisely considered, minimal piano, and percussionist Sky Juice's use of a cuica friction drum on 'Give Me Give Me Your Love'. 'Joker Smoker' may be the album's centre, but every one's a winner here. A perfect example of what was, in reality, a high point in reggae's golden age."
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CAT #: AALP 6042LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
THOMAS, JAH Dance Hall Connection LP
Originally released in 1983. Recorded at Channel One, Kingston, Jamaica. Mixed at Channel One and King Tubby's Studio. "Jah Thomas was an important figure on the Jamaican music scene during both the roots era of the '70s and the subsequent dancehall decade of the '80s. Besides releasing several DJ sides of his own in the latter half of the '70s, Thomas also came into his own as one of the island's top producers for both singers and DJs. Many of these sides found their way to the dub studios of King Tubby, who transformed a wealth of Thomas' rhythms into a some of the best dub tracks to emerge from Jamaica." --AllMusic
ACID TEST
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CAT #: ACIDTEST 018-1
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
OCIYA AKA PATRICIA & TIN MAN Celestial Body Music Part 1 12"
Johannes Auvinen (Tin Man) and Max Ravitz (Patricia), two devotees in the cult of the TB-303, return to Acid Test with the Celestial Body Music series, a follow up to their 2020 LP Powers Of Ten (AT 011LP). Recorded in Ravitz's studio in Asheville, NC, Celestial Body Music once again showcases the pair's penchant for raw yet emotive dance music. With Auvinen's signature TB-303 programming and Ravitz's typical melancholic flair, the duo's styles merge seamlessly over the course of 8 tracks that harken back to the heyday of American techno and house. Following on from Powers Of Ten, the pair continue to fix their eyes firmly on the stars, as Celestial Body Music's song titles conjure visions of listening to Dance Mania 12"s on the ISS. With a tonal palette that features the well-trodden sounds of classic analog hardware like the TR-808, TR-909, TB-303, and SH- 101, Ociya demonstrate their ability to breathe new life into these old instruments through thoughtful programming, arrangement, and mixing. This is made all the more significant when considering every song was recorded live to 2-track with no editing over the course of a few days. Sweet and savory both, the new material strikes a perfect balance between emotive sensibility and dancefloor appeal.
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CAT #: ACIDTEST 018-2
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
OCIYA AKA PATRICIA & TIN MAN Celestial Body Music Part 2 12"
Johannes Auvinen (Tin Man) and Max Ravitz (Patricia), two devotees in the cult of the TB-303, return to Acid Test with the Celestial Body Music series, a follow up to their 2020 LP Powers Of Ten (AT 011LP). Recorded in Ravitz's studio in Asheville, NC, Celestial Body Music once again showcases the pair's penchant for raw yet emotive dance music. With Auvinen's signature TB-303 programming and Ravitz's typical melancholic flair, the duo's styles merge seamlessly over the course of 8 tracks that harken back to the heyday of American techno and house. Following on from Powers Of Ten, the pair continue to fix their eyes firmly on the stars, as Celestial Body Music's song titles conjure visions of listening to Dance Mania 12"s on the ISS. With a tonal palette that features the well-trodden sounds of classic analog hardware like the TR-808, TR-909, TB-303, and SH- 101, Ociya demonstrate their ability to breathe new life into these old instruments through thoughtful programming, arrangement, and mixing. This is made all the more significant when considering every song was recorded live to 2-track with no editing over the course of a few days. Sweet and savory both, the new material strikes a perfect balance between emotive sensibility and dancefloor appeal.
AVENUE 66
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CAT #: AVE66 018LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SW. okALGORYTHM 2LP
The elusive SW. returns to Avenue 66 with okALGORYTHM. His third LP for the label is a semi-opaque wandering through the shadowy byways of memory, driven by tough-yet-supple production, and his unmistakable, unerringly original voice. Inspired by all night electronic radio shows of the '90s, okALGORYTHM pulses with rich imagination and a sense of purposeful meandering. Speaking in cryptic fragments, the artist hints at elusive reminiscences "back then on the Autobahn, to Berlin, with friends" while also noting that some recollections are "of things that didn't happen that way." To this end, the album drifts from the knotty synth spirals of opener "WHAtADAY" through the tense, technoid tropics of "stepCLASSixMOtor," the brightly melancholic Larry Heard-isms of "TROPyCALLhytsrIA" to the stately skronk of closer "What endingENDs." The rhythmic undergirding never lets up, suggesting a limitless night drive tinted in deep greens and refracted reds. Each of the album's ten tracks comes alive with warm, analog finesse and a palpable atmosphere, though they play out by turns urgent or unhurried, coaxing or inscrutable. Yet throughout, there's a consistently hypnotic quality which draws the listener deeper into the album's unique balancing act. If listeners are trained to expect throwback anthems every time the '90s are referenced, here they might find a more apt touchstone in the wilder, left-of-center corners of Chicago's foundational epoch. Throughout the album, the spirit of jacking house is absorbed, metabolized and transmuted. Drawing on lineages of taut, nervy synth-and-drum machine workouts, SW. manipulates his hardware with the delicate, considered touch of a painter. Perhaps the memory that lingers longest from that bygone era is the sense of profound possibility that dawns before forms become rigidly calcificed and commodified. Either way, adventurous listeners will find that okALGORYTHM blooms with a uniquely affecting grace and SW.'s inimitably obscure loveliness, infused with a somber glow and marked by shimmering, untraceable contours.
BASIN ROCK (UK)
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CAT #: BR 015LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BEALES, TREVOR Fireside Stories (Hebden Bridge circa 1971-1974) LP
LP version. Tip On sleeve. Anti-counter culture loner folk from a teenage attic in the heart of rural Northern hippiedom. Today the valley town of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire is world-renowned as something of a bohemian backwater. It wasn't like this back in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, when a disparate selection of radicals, drop-outs, heads, musicians, artists and writers started to be attracted to the Calder Valley. Over time, those seeds of radicalism and collectivism ensured Hebden Bridge evolved into a place where people could be themselves and all shades of individual oddness not only tolerated but actively encouraged. But back at the turn of the dreary 1970s it remained a monochrome world defined by its unforgiving surrounding landscapes, where the old gritstone over-dwellings were stained with soot and rain lashed down for weeks. It was here that Trevor Beales, who was born in 1953, grew up, and from where he drew musical and lyrical inspiration. The discovery of Bob Dylan, Django Reinhardt, The Byrds, and James Taylor at a young age, lead to him picking up a guitar at the age of ten, and he was soon writing his own originals and performing them at local (though often remote) folk clubs and pubs. Recorded in the attic of the family home at Ivy Bank in Charlestown on the verdant wooded slopes at the edge of Hebden Bridge between 1971 and 1974, these early recordings are collected here for the first time and mark Trevor Beales long-overdue solo debut. In these songs is a suffer-no-fools sense of realism that is defiantly Northern, yet also expresses a worldliness that belies Beales's young years, whilst also showcasing an inherent storyteller's ear for narrative. Two aspects of this music make it remarkable: Beales' natural ability showcases a sophisticated guitar-picking style that was leagues ahead of many of his (older, more recognized) contemporaries. This is music that can confidently hold its own with pioneers such as Davey Graham, Michael Chapman, Dave Evans, Bert Jansch, and Jackson C Frank, as influenced by jazz, blues and steel guitar as any of the old songbook classics from ancient Albion. Secondly, his lyrics are a far cry from either the naïve bedroom scribblings of a teenager who has barely left his upland home, nor do they fall foul of the type of lazy cliches and sub-Tolkien imagery that was still in abundance in the early 1970s. Trevor's music is grounded in reality -- his reality. Trevor Beales died suddenly and unexpectedly on March 29th 1987, aged 33. He left behind Christine and their young child Lydia. Sleeve notes by Hebden author Benjamin Myers.
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CAT #: BR 015X-CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BEALES, TREVOR Fireside Stories (Hebden Bridge circa 1971-1974) CD
Anti-counter culture loner folk from a teenage attic in the heart of rural Northern hippiedom. Today the valley town of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire is world-renowned as something of a bohemian backwater. It wasn't like this back in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, when a disparate selection of radicals, drop-outs, heads, musicians, artists and writers started to be attracted to the Calder Valley. Over time, those seeds of radicalism and collectivism ensured Hebden Bridge evolved into a place where people could be themselves and all shades of individual oddness not only tolerated but actively encouraged. But back at the turn of the dreary 1970s it remained a monochrome world defined by its unforgiving surrounding landscapes, where the old gritstone over-dwellings were stained with soot and rain lashed down for weeks. It was here that Trevor Beales, who was born in 1953, grew up, and from where he drew musical and lyrical inspiration. The discovery of Bob Dylan, Django Reinhardt, The Byrds, and James Taylor at a young age, lead to him picking up a guitar at the age of ten, and he was soon writing his own originals and performing them at local (though often remote) folk clubs and pubs. Recorded in the attic of the family home at Ivy Bank in Charlestown on the verdant wooded slopes at the edge of Hebden Bridge between 1971 and 1974, these early recordings are collected here for the first time and mark Trevor Beales long-overdue solo debut. In these songs is a suffer-no-fools sense of realism that is defiantly Northern, yet also expresses a worldliness that belies Beales's young years, whilst also showcasing an inherent storyteller's ear for narrative. Two aspects of this music make it remarkable: Beales' natural ability showcases a sophisticated guitar-picking style that was leagues ahead of many of his (older, more recognized) contemporaries. This is music that can confidently hold its own with pioneers such as Davey Graham, Michael Chapman, Dave Evans, Bert Jansch, and Jackson C Frank, as influenced by jazz, blues and steel guitar as any of the old songbook classics from ancient Albion. Secondly, his lyrics are a far cry from either the naïve bedroom scribblings of a teenager who has barely left his upland home, nor do they fall foul of the type of lazy cliches and sub-Tolkien imagery that was still in abundance in the early 1970s. Trevor's music is grounded in reality -- his reality. Trevor Beales died suddenly and unexpectedly on March 29th 1987, aged 33. He left behind Christine and their young child Lydia. Sleeve notes by Hebden author Benjamin Myers.
BAUHAUS RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BAUHAUS 003EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MATOS, AVI Dub Im Neshama 7"
Straight from the long-forgotten tapes of Avi Matos and never released before. The dub version of "Ish I'm Neshama" (man with soul) that was featured on his iconic Lokeach Et Hayom Leat album that was released in 1986 as the first ever reggae and dub record to be made in Israel. Produced by the greatest of the greatest Yossi Fine and Dennis Bovel. This 7" with the special dub version sees the light of day for the first time ever, alongside its original track.
BECAUSE MUSIC (FRANCE)
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CAT #: BEC 5611046
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VANGARDE, DANIEL The Vaults of Zagora Records Mastermind (1971-1984) 2LP
Born in 1947, Daniel Vangarde is a French songwriter and producer. In 1967, he met Jean Kluger who became his publisher. In the 1970s, their tandem stood out in those fields, for a plethora of popular French artists such as Petula Clark, Claude François, Joe Dassin, Dalida, Régine, Sheila, and Ringo. 1975 saw the birth of Vangarde's label, Zagora, and his first and only solo LP. Later on, Vangarde and Kluger were responsible for a number of hit songs by The Gibson Brothers, Ottawan, and La Compagnie Créole. With or without Kluger, Vangarde also wrote and produced songs that remained underground, under several monikers (Starbow, Who's Who, Soul Iberica Band, Yamasuki, Rocky & Vandella...) and for various artists. Because Music opens these incredible cosmic disco funk vaults. Features Starbow, The Electronic System, Daniel Vangarde, Who's Who, Soul Iberica Band, La Boca, The Lovelets, Yamasuki, Ami Stewart, The Great Disco Bouzouki Band, Vicky Edimo, Gibson Brothers, Black Blood, La Compagnie Créole, Ottawan, Rocky & Vandella, and François Patrice.
BREAD & WINE
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CAT #: BRINE 005LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
C.O.B. Spirit of Love LP
Limited 2022 restock; LP version. "Prior to co-founding the Incredible String Band, Clive Palmer had already made a name for himself as a versatile instrumentalist from his teenage years busking around London. Just after the first ISB album was released, he would quit the band and seemingly vanished from the scene, traveling around Europe, India and Afghanistan. He resurfaced with his banjo a few years later under the guise of COB, Clive's Original Band, with instrumentalists and songwriting partners Mick Bennett and John Bidwell. Guitarist Ralph McTell agreed to produce the project as a labor of love, and with the newly coined trio they created what is considered to be one of the most beautiful acid folk albums ever to come out of the British Isles. McTell kept the production organic, with most of the vocals and rhythm tracks recorded live. Experimental in nature, Spirit of Love is a highly original album that embodies the spirit of UK folk amidst reality at the time. Bootlegged several times, this is the first official vinyl reissue of this eternal classic."
BRETT (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BRETT 001EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
INLAND BRETT001 12"
BRETT is a new label celebrating the co-dependent scenes of techno and contemporary art. A sub-label of Inland's Counterchange imprint, each edition will feature music selected by Ed Davenport, paired with cover art curated by Nils Petersen. BRETT is dedicated to the spirit of Berlin's early club scene, where cross-pollination and spirited discourse between musicians and visual artists etched the blueprints for a new techno-culture. BRETT001 finds co-creator and long-time Berlin ex-pat Inland at the helm, delivering four surging, up-tempo club tools, plus two brainwave-activating noise experiments. Celebrated Irish-born artist Mariechen Danz provides a photograph of her visionary sculpture, "Statue for Gesticulation", for the cover artwork. The towering super-human structure bears a multitude of nurturing hand-gestures, suggesting support, comfort, and togetherness. Built from roughly textured grey concrete and resembling a technoid, monolithic bunker or industrial space in itself, the loving, humanist symbols of peaceful action mirror the culture of inclusion, love and acceptance practiced on the dancefloor.
BUREAU B (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BB 102LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Rot LP
2022 restock. LP version on 180 gram vinyl. There was a particular type of artist who could only have emerged in the legendary early 1970s. Few musicians fit the bill better than Conrad Schnitzler (Tangerine Dream, Kluster). Revolution, pop art and Fluxus created a climate which engendered unbridled artistic and social development. Radical utopias, excessive experimentation with drugs, ruthless (in a positive way) transgression of aesthetic frontiers were characteristic of the period. The magic words were "subculture," "progressivity" and "avant-gardism." West Berlin, with its unique political status, was a crucible of turbulence. Founded in 1968, Zodiak Free Arts Lab was the ultimate point of convergence for subculture in West Berlin, with Conrad Schnitzler the driving force behind it. It was also here that Tangerine Dream and Kluster first met up to perform in public. Bureau B presents Rot (The "Red" Album) from 1973, Schnitzler's first solo LP. Includes a printed innersleeve with notes from Asmus Tietchens.
CAMISOLE RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: CAM 022LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
MLD 1983-1986 LP
2021 release. MLD (Minimal Lethal Dose) was a Japanese project lead by Takayuki Shiraishi after his first mythical release with BGM on Vanity Records in 1980. Made with the help of Jun Sonohara it was active between 1983 and 1986 in Tokyo. This compilation collects nine unpublished tracks from the original tapes and confirms his unique offbeat style ranging from post-punk, dub, and industrial. It's completed by "Perpetual Motion" and "Dynamo" previously released in 1983. With his quirky approach, this record unveils another piece of Japanese experimental music history. All these tracks have been carefully remastered by Krikor Kouchian.
CLASSICAL MUSIC ON VINYL (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: MOVCL 072LP
FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL
MEIJER, LAVINIA Are You Still Somewhere? LP
"Lavinia Meijer is a pioneering and exciting musician and composer, and one of the most important harpists of her generation. Known for her passion in broadening the possibilities of the harp -- both in terms of sound and appeal -- she's garnered worldwide critical acclaim for her intelligent, inventive interpretations of both orchestral repertoire and more contemporary music, playing alongside the likes of Philip Glass and Ólafur Arnalds, and performing works by Radiohead in classical venues. Four years in the making, Are You Still Somewhere? sees Meijer combine original compositions with her long-stated dream of interpreting modern composers and musicians for harp. Works by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ólafur Arnalds, and Alexandra Streliski all feature, as do collaborations with Dutch pianist Pieter de Graaf and punk legend Iggy Pop. Are You Still Somewhere? concerns self-reflection and inner growth, topics that have come to the fore over the last couple of years. Family too; looking back, longing, and living with one's regrets are raked over in 'Mom & Dad', a track that features spoken word poetry from Iggy Pop. The 2022 Edison Award-winning album Are You Still Somewhere? includes a 4-page booklet."
CLOCKTOWER (CANADA)
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CAT #: CTLP 004LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
GRAY, OWEN Hit After Hit After Hit LP
2022 repress. Originally released in 1984. Personnel: Backing vocals - Owen Gray, Sidney Crooks, Winston Reid; bass - Franklyn Dunn; drums - Jah Bunny; guitar - Locksley Gichie; keyboards - Sunny Binns; percussion - Winston Reid; producer - Alfred Abraham, Sydney.
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CAT #: CTLP 180LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VA Reggae Hits Vol. 1 LP
2022 repress. Reggae hits featuring Pat Kelly, Ken Parker, L. Sterling/Stranger Cole, M. Motts, Nora Dean, Hoyd Devon, Val Bennett, Derrick Morgan, Max Romeo, and L. Sterling.
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CAT #: CTLP 3048LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
CULTURE Good Things LP
2022 repress. Originally released in 1989. "Culture delivers a stellar album and reinvents the sound of reggae along the way under the guiding hand of member Joseph Hill's phenomenal arrangements and productions. The entire set has a massive density to the sound, hearkening back to the heyday of roots; the coursing rhythms pay homage to the rockers style, while the ebullient brass section conjures up the heady melodies of the rocksteady age..." --AllMusic
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CAT #: CTLP 8801LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VA Clocktower Classics Vol. 1 LP
2022 repress. Originally released in 1990. Features Naggo Morris, Linval Thompson, Diamonds, J. Clarke, Upsetters, J. Riley, Tec Tracks, Horace Andy, Suzan Codogan, Silverstones, Carl Dawkins, and Rod Taylor.
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CAT #: LPCT 125LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
LEVY, BARRINGTON Poorman Style LP
2022 repress. Some of Barrington Levy's most significant (and enduring) recordings from Channel One Studio, mixed by Scientist. Originally released in 1982. "It's difficult to overstate the transformative effect that Barrington Levy's earliest recordings had on the sound of Jamaican music. In late 1979, Levy's spare, hauntingly arranged early singles such as 'Shine Eye Gal,' 'Collie Weed,' and 'Shaolin Temple' completely overtook Jamaican dancehalls and streetside sound clashes. . . . By the time Levy released Poorman Style in 1982, he was arguably Jamaica's preeminent vocalist. Poorman Style features a set of punishing rhythms from the crack studio outfit The Roots Radics, with production work from singer-turned-label owner Linval Thompson and former King Tubby protégé Scientist. The title track -- a crisply observed sufferers' tale full of tragic notes and indelible details from everyday life -- hits particularly hard." --iTunes
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CAT #: STV 003LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
JAH WOOSH Ital Movement LP
2022 repress. Collection of roots reggae from Neville Beckford aka Jah Woosh.
COLD SPRING RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: CSR 300LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
P-ORRIDGE & DAVE BALL, GENESIS Imagining October: The Original Sondtrack To The Derek Jarman Film LP
The official soundtrack to Derek Jarman's 1984 short film Imagining October, with music recorded by Derek's friend and collaborator Genesis P-Orridge (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle), and Dave Ball (Soft Cell, The Grid). Recorded at DJM recording studios in Theobalds Road, London. Derek Jarman put together a program of films for the London Film Festival, reflecting the cutting edge of the London avant-garde of the time. Recorded at the same time as The Angelic Conversation, Imagining October was filmed in the Eisenstein Museum in Moscow, Vladimir Mayakovsky's grave at Novodevichy Cemetery, the GUM department store facing red square, and the fire temples of Baku in Azerbaijan. The painting sequences with a group of soldiers (Angus Cook, Stephen Thrower, Peter Doig, and Keir Wahid) was filmed in London. Jarman considered it one of the best, if not the best, of his shorter works. It was intended as an agit-prop work and the combination of music and imagery remains powerful to this day. Features liner notes by James Mackay (Jarman's producer, collaborator, and archivist). Limited edition 12" vinyl featuring a beautiful etched B-side; full color sleeve."The heroism of revolution through the queered lens... It was not just the Soviet Union censoring books, Jarman points out here, but Thatcher's government and its homophobia was no greater friend to gays than the regime on the other side of the Iron Curtain. A moral hysteria surrounding AIDs was sweeping Britain, the miner's strike was in full swing (an action supported by gay activists, as it was brutally broken up by police): back home, society seemed on a knife edge" --ArtReview.
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CAT #: CSR 304CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
JAGATH Svapna CD
Svapna is the brand-new album from Jagath, the ritual/industrial/dark ambient act from Perm, Russia. "A portal to another world is located inside an abandoned Soviet-era swamp drain near a residential building in the Zakamsk suburb of Perm, Russia, 58.0122, 55.9623. A ritual was performed here, so now we are living in an inside-out world. This is one of the last recordings inside our Temple -- the oil tanks are finally scrapped. I hope this is not the end. This album is dedicated to the victims of totalitarian regimes." Jagath create their music at abandoned industrial locations -- the bottom of a moist underground sewer shaft and inside huge hollow oil tanks -- without using digital synthesis. Simple, mostly hand-crafted instruments, found objects and voices are used to share their vision of decaying post-industrial age, to unleash the spirit of deep beyond-world and unveil life in the abyss. Six-panel glossy digipak. For fans of: Shibalba, Phurpa, Raison D'etre, Arktau Eos.
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CAT #: CSR 309CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
KOLLAPS Until The Day I Die CD
Until The Day I Die is the third album from Australian post-industrial outfit Kollaps. Until The Day I Die is a merciless and visceral assault on the senses and continues the trajectory of the band's idiosyncratic approach in their creation of sound. The album showcases an uncompromising force of harsh post-industrial music narrated by overarching themes of condemnation and redemption; of violence, romanticism, sexuality, and addiction. Much of the creation and lyrical conceptualization of the record has been stylized and presented using William S. Burroughs's cut-up method. A wide variety of metals and raw materials were used in the creation of the album including metal grates, a rusted hoist, cement cylinders, field recordings, hammering of various decrepit objects, broken amplifiers, an exposed reverb tank, various synthesizers, and the infamous metal coil; a crudely self-constructed artifice that has become iconic in its use across Kollaps's triptych of releases and lengthy touring history in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Until The Day I Die has had a tectonic shift in production methods compared to its predecessors and was entirely written, recorded, and mixed internally the self-constructed ILoveHeroin Studios built above a sculpture museum in Lugano, Switzerland. All instrumentation was handled by Wade Black except for bass guitar by Andrea Collaro recorded at Hangar 121 in Lenate Pozzollo, Italy on all tracks except "D-IX" and "I Believe In The Closed Fist", handled by Black, and additional sound design and percussion by Giorgio Salmoiraghi. The album was mastered by James Plotkin and completed with cover artwork by Nullvoid (Thomas Ekelund/Trepaneringsritualen). CD version in six-panel digipak.
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CAT #: CSR 309LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
KOLLAPS Until The Day I Die LP
LP version. Until The Day I Die is the third album from Australian post-industrial outfit Kollaps. Until The Day I Die is a merciless and visceral assault on the senses and continues the trajectory of the band's idiosyncratic approach in their creation of sound. The album showcases an uncompromising force of harsh post-industrial music narrated by overarching themes of condemnation and redemption; of violence, romanticism, sexuality, and addiction. Much of the creation and lyrical conceptualization of the record has been stylized and presented using William S. Burroughs's cut-up method. A wide variety of metals and raw materials were used in the creation of the album including metal grates, a rusted hoist, cement cylinders, field recordings, hammering of various decrepit objects, broken amplifiers, an exposed reverb tank, various synthesizers, and the infamous metal coil; a crudely self-constructed artifice that has become iconic in its use across Kollaps's triptych of releases and lengthy touring history in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Until The Day I Die has had a tectonic shift in production methods compared to its predecessors and was entirely written, recorded, and mixed internally the self-constructed ILoveHeroin Studios built above a sculpture museum in Lugano, Switzerland. All instrumentation was handled by Wade Black except for bass guitar by Andrea Collaro recorded at Hangar 121 in Lenate Pozzollo, Italy on all tracks except "D-IX" and "I Believe In The Closed Fist", handled by Black, and additional sound design and percussion by Giorgio Salmoiraghi. The album was mastered by James Plotkin and completed with cover artwork by Nullvoid (Thomas Ekelund/Trepaneringsritualen). LP version with full color matt-laminate sleeve and printed inner lyric sleeve.
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CAT #: CSR 318CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) Malfeitor CD
A history lesson, recorded in autumn 1989. Unavailable for over 20 years in any format, Cold Spring Records present Malfeitor, the now classic album from Maschinenzimmer 412. This was the last release under that name, and what seemed like the final nail in the coffin for the Swedish Black Industrial act. Six years later they rose from the ashes, restructured and resurrected as MZ. 412. This is evil incarnate, staring into the abyss. Relentless industrial rituals; darkness fused with machines, your fears and your power. An expression of the coldest music imaginable. With a more lyrical approach than the predecessor Macht Durch Stimme (CSR 306CD), Malfeitor explores themes of death, with an unequivocal dystopian outlook. Cavernous heavy industrial, primitive machine rhythms, and cold metallic loops created on old synths with very little post-production. What you hear is how it sounded on those original sessions. Originally released on LP in 1989 by Cold Meat Industry, this monumental album is now available for the first time since 2001. This definitive edition has been painstakingly transferred and mastered from the original 4-track tapes, with no unnecessary "padding". Digipak with elegant new artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja).In 1987, Henrik Nordvargr Björkk, Jouni Ulvtharm Ollila, and Leif Holm forged a band that would be an outlet for blasphemous prophecies, yet from a unique sonic spectrum. The unholy triumvirate were already hitting hard as Pouppée Fabrikk, with Maschinenzimmer 412 unleashing their deepest, darkest personas. Jonas Drakhon Aneheim joined in 1995, replacing Holm and thus enacting the change of name to the abridged MZ. 412. MZ. 412 are an act that continues to cover the earth in a nightmarish black veil. Rare releases and even rarer performances have only added to the cult status of these prime movers.
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CAT #: CSR 320CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DEAD VOICES ON AIR Abrader Redux CD
The hugely sought-after debut album from Dead Voices On Air (Mark Spybey of Download/ ex-Zoviet France, Reformed Faction), featuring Cevin Key (Skinny Puppy/Download). Abrader blends processed sounds from primitive instruments and found objects into hypnotic looped rhythmic structures, with dark clusters of heavy ambient washes into what could be described as "organic panambience", or "music for the eyes". Abrader was the first of over 80 releases (so far) by Mark Spybey using the name Dead Voices On Air. It was recorded over the space of days in Vancouver in 1993 and released as a tape the following year by Akifumi Nakajima (Aube), for his G.R.O.S.S. label. Chronologically, the material was recorded after most of the music that made up his first two releases on compact disc -- New Words Machine and Hafted Maul -- however, Abrader was released before both of those albums. Abrader Redux features the three lengthy tracks that were released on the original cassette, plus the bonus tracks that were included in the 2009 reprint as part of the Fast Falls The Eventide double-CD, and now with two "new" previously-unreleased bonus tracks recorded 1994 -- taking this masterwork up to seven tracks and over 67 minutes of exceptional music. This release is dedicated to the memory of both Akifumi Nakajima and Zev Asher who both passed away in 2013. Spybey was introduced to Akifumi by his friend from Vancouver, Zev Asher. Zev had a noise project called Roughage and was also in a band called Nimrod, that had at one time been based in Japan. Remastered by Martin Bowes from Attrition. Packaged in a matt-laminate digipak with art by Spybey, beautifully laid out by Abby Helasdottir. "If most ambient is the laudanum of the new fin de siécle, then Dead Voices on Air are the absinthe" --Village Voice.
CRYPTIC CORPORATION
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CAT #: CDBRED 862CD
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
RESIDENTS, THE Triple Trouble CD
"The soundtrack to the Residents' long awaited new feature film Triple Trouble. Seven collaged suites of brand-new Residents music, film dialogue and one or two familiar themes. Triple Trouble the movie will be appearing at film festivals and art house cinemas near you throughout 2022. 'From priesthood to plumber: In the wake of his mother's death, an idealistic but emotionally isolated man replaces his belief in God with a faith in fungus...' The Residents present Triple Trouble, the soundtrack to their forthcoming fifty-years-in-the-making feature film of the same name. Featuring a blend of extended instrumental cues, film dialogue and spoken word extracts, and self-produced by The Residents and regular collaborator Eric Drew Feldman. Dive deep into the psyche of Randall 'Junior' Rose, son of a recently deceased rock star and a former priest who has lost faith in the church. Convinced that a fungus is a threat to humanity, and accompanied by his only friend Cherry, an AI enhanced drone, Junior slowly gathers evidence to support his bizarre theory, spiraling out of control in the process..."
DAILY RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: DAY 009VS-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BUSINESS, THE 1980-81 Complete Studio Collection LP
Ninth installment already of Daily Records' Vintage Series, this time dedicated to The Business. The label turns their attention to the first formation of the band, including all their studio recordings conducted during 1980 and 1981. The Business were formed during this period by the ubiquitous Micky Fitz on vocals, Steve Kent on guitar, Martin Smith on bass, and Nick Cunningham on drums; the most surprising aspect of this period is the contrast between the usual street-punk sound of some songs as "Suburban Rebels", "No Emotions", or "Richard Lewis" and the much more pop-oriented tunes like the magnificent "Out in the Cold" or "Streets Where You Live" that fall closer to the sound of mod revival bands than other punk oi! bands of the time. On A side you will find the seven tracks that were officially published (on singles and compilation LPs) while the flip side features the band's demo recordings. This release features an inner sleeve with information about all the recording sessions compiled on this album and also previously unseen graphic material.
DE LA CATESSEN RECORDS (AUSTRALIA)
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CAT #: DLC 006LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DALE, JON Last Blues LP
In Last Blues, De la Catessen Records presents a mysterious folio of sonic snapshots, as much recaptured as composed, by Jon Dale's project, Moth, in Adelaide in the late '90s and early '00s. We're invited to tune in to these liminal frequencies, to observe and inhabit them, and relish the glowing sensual overdrive of their manifestation. From the ready means and at-handedness of guitar, amp, and tape, a congruous but diverse selection of unnamed tracks emerge -- musical moments borrowed from oblivion with the as yet unfulfilled good intention of returning them. Their sounds evoke abstract Polaroids of winter seascapes flecked with spare, brittle detail, or the scaly-winged flutterings of elusive nocturnal insects. Here, a homely hum like a vacuum cleaner on sunny childhood's weekend morning; there, suburban power lines buzzing gently in the mist. The last track of Last Blues is like a reverent vision of lava-flow for harmonium, the slow-motion eruption of a single chord, which echoes in the mind for hours. Last Blues comes from somewhere that doesn't exist anymore, and shows us something that may never have happened there."Jon Dale collapses old dichotomies (such as organic vs. inorganic and heavy vs. light) into a pure horizon of tone with only guitar and a little harmonium. Sonically, it makes me think of a middle point between if Organum snuck into the studio to remix Glenn Branca, and what I imagine the electric synapses firing off in Raymond Roussel's brain would've sounded like if committed to wax cylinder. Which is to say, it sounds rad." --Ben Chasny, Six Organs Of Admittance
DEAR BOSS (ITALY)
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CAT #: JACK 007CV-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CURE, THE From A Land Down Under: Live in Sydney 1981-08-17 - FM Broadcast (Color Vinyl) LP
The Cure, live in Sydney on August 17, 1981. FM broadcast. Color vinyl.
DIRT CREW (GERMANY)
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CAT #: DIRT 142EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
BANDIT, PETE Wild Feelings EP 12"
Dirt Crew present a new artist from Berlin. Dutch native Pete Bandit relocated to Berlin some years ago where we first met in 2018 when he was part of the Times Are Ruff collective. They contributed a track on Dirt Crew for their Deep Love 2018 compilation (DIRT 113LP). Now, recently going solo, he developed his sound even more towards Detroit-ish house with dabs of techno and a bit of high tech jazz in there as well. This debut EP offers Loads of deep soulful grooves, spiritual "computer" music at it's best! The A-side "Wild Feelings" is such a beautiful opener to this record, with its lush spread out intro it paves the way with that perfect mood for what is to come, a mix of soul, funk, and electronics and overall well-crafted deepness. The keys on this one were contributed by the mysterious Nelson of the East topped with vocals by Pete himself. "It's Happening Again" continues the story with soulful deep house textures and this one especially reminds us a lot of those early '90s Chicago/ New York House gems, the track is building towards a great breakdown key change and with its atmospheric strings and pads it's a truly uplifting "Good Times" tune. On the flip you have "Computer's Creativity". This track picks up the pace and is centered around a funky, almost slap like, bass line. Here again topped by a vocal add of Pete about "Computer's Creativity" and with it's cool break this one will also be a sure floor-filler, guaranteed! The closing track on this record is the driving "Luv Your Body", great percussion guides us through a loose set arrangement and make this one a perfect late hours or early mornings tune in any mix, it could go on forever! All tracks have been mixed by Ariel Schlichter in Berlin and mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne. Photography and art by Break 3000.
EMBASSY ONE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: WG 70276LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
WESTBAM/ML Famous Last Songs Vol. 1 2LP
Double LP version. Gatefold sleeve. Includes download code. On his new album Famous Last Songs Vol. 1, Westbam presents himself as a brilliant curator of his own music. With unerring instinct, the legendary techno DJ and producer succeeds together with guests such as Dieter Meier (Yello), Inga Humpe (2raumwohnnung), and Jon Marsh (The Beloved) in paying homage to the spirit of the '80s and making the ultimate statement about the current time: music for the club in your head. Also features Steve Van Velvet, Richard Judge, Ben Becker, Yasha, Marian Gold After Life 3000, Henning Wehland, and Beccy Boo.
EMOTIONAL RESPONSE RECORDS
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CAT #: ER 121LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
USELESS USERS We Are All LP
"The remarkable nine track debut from Useless Users is a lesson in style and eloquence. The band is comprised of former Sarah Records alumni, (members of Action Painting! and Secret Shine, and featuring Even As We Speak). This is sonically adventurous pop music, packed with melody, dreamscape swashes and élan. Bold and opulent, and brilliantly constructed, Useless Users are pushing the boundaries of preconception, poised to grasp attention and reward the listener. RIYL: The Associates, Bowie, dreampop." "Reminiscent of Pulp's Fire Records Years, in both chord choice and vocal delivery" --The Quietus. "...the odd twist or two along the way." --Whispering and Hollering "...a real gem, a moody piece with debts owed to late Sixties psych" --A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed.
FAR OUT RECORDINGS (UK)
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CAT #: FARO 200X-LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
PASCOAL & GRUPO VICE VERSA, HERMETO Viajando Com O Som: The Lost '76 Vice-Versa Studio Session (Green Vinyl) LP
Green vinyl. Recorded in two days in 1976, at Rogério Duprat's Vice Versa Studios in São Paulo, the sessions featured Hermeto's go-to "Paulista" rhythm section: Zé Eduardo Nazario (drums), Zeca Assumpção (bass), and Lelo Nazario (electric piano), as well as saxophonists Mauro Senise, Raul Mascarenhas, and Nivaldo Ornelas, guitarist Toninho Horta, and vocalist Aleuda Chaves. Not released until over 40 years later, now Viajando Com O Som is back again for a short time only, on limited edition green vinyl."Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Pascoal's magical 1976 album casts a spell over the listener from the first beat to the last" --Echoes."Viajando Com O Som is a wonderful buried treasure from a better time." --Songlines"It's a richly satisfying discovery; a snapshot of a master at his peak." --Record Collector
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
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CAT #: FTR 685LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
COLEY & TED LEE, BYRON As Seen In Your Wildest Dream LP
"If Coley can do anything and, I assure you, he can do a few things, some very well indeed -- cooking, drinking, smoking, chortling, collecting, dissecting, inspecting, sniffing, gassing, pranking -- to name but a few, he can, without a beat gone by, make you wanna listen to the goddamn records he's criteeking whether it be in old ishes of Forced Exposure, Boston Rock, New York Rocker, or the LA Weekly or his nugget column in Wire. For many his obscurant references to what is already an obscure contempo side can be so layered -- as if the review is some kind of lit cuz to Jodorowsky's spiraling labyrinthian masterpiece of surrealist Espanola 'huh?' cinema, The Holy Mountain -- that the narco-eclectic desire to actually hear what the fuk this accredited gourmandizer is -- in various temperaments -- jazzed about, that you actually find yrself hunting the lathe cut edition of minus three and sending all yr rent money to grip it -- 'Coley wrote about this -- s'posed to be 'insane''. He and Ted Lee have been manning the formidable and replete Feeding Tube emporium for a few years now in the wilds of Western Mass and what at first appeared to be an unlikely pair have become quite a prolific bastion of bonkerism rock and experimental otherness like a water tap stuck on unthreaded gush. Open heads recognize and learn/teach from each other without too many questions being asked (look, listen, have a cold one, step out for a smoke) They play sax? Good toot? sign 'em up! Music is an exchange, a gift, has nothing to do with making money only in making friends and neighbors ('that's where we meet!' --Ornette). Putting out cool records is -- a well worn trope I know, but it's true as trout -- a LABOR OF LOVE. Ted Lee gleans sound art music in organic intrigue obviously from the day he was released from the chute of procreation and it stands to cosmic reason that he can hang tuff and throw down smooth licks with Coley's verbacious loquacity. These readings with sound spoo are just a taste of the cream dream epiphanies these gents collude so instantaneously on. Time is of the essence and music is time, so are thoughts and words like diamond juice dripping from the corners of Don Cherry's pocket trumpet maw -- at least that's what I hear when I hear these cats yowling half past the end of nowhere on a fence behind our collective houses full of records, books, and nudie mags. Life is fuckin sweet." --Thurston Moore, London 2022
FEUILLETON (GERMANY)
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CAT #: FEUILLET 001LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
PRIEBE, PHILIPP Apparent Calm Palms 2x12"
Stólar label boss Philipp Priebe delivers his new album Apparent Calm Palms, joining the roster of Mainz/Hamburg, Germany's Feuilleton. Berlin-based artist Philipp Priebe has been steadily making his mark on the contemporary deep hazy house and leftfield electronica scene over the past few years with a series of releases on his own Stólar imprint. Here though you see him deliver his second album following his debut LP, The Being Of The Beautiful, released on Japan's IL Y A Records back in 2014. Feuilleton is the brainchild of Chris Gruber (Fossar) and Tim Eder and since 2018 has unveiled material from the duo themselves, RR (René Raabe), Snad, Gari Romalis, Melina, Jakob Seidensticker, and more. Throughout the Apparent Calm Palms LP, Priebe delivers a concoction of styles and sounds cohesively fused together to form the bigger concept which is he says is "an album about small towns and villages and the needs and desires that brings one night out in clubs. The transport/travel, the preparty, all the things that you had to do, when you are not directly living in the big party places, but still want to have a decent night out, away from your usual suspects." Throughout the ten-track LP Philipp delivers ethereal deep house with opening track "Desires", the succeeding "Interborough" and "Chimera", murky dub house leaning cuts like "Quiet Decay", "Slalom", "Unfold", and "Conclusions" while "Transfiguration" showcases a more classic Chicago house influence. Title track "Apparent Calm Palms" and the interlude "Behind Their House" then see Priebe offer a foray into textural ambient sounds, once again showcasing his unique ability to craft raw, understated and emotion-fueled material across a variety of genres. Mastering by Sven Weisemann and lacquer cut by Stefan Betke.
FREUDE AM TANZEN (GERMANY)
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CAT #: FATXXIV 002EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA XXIV - Chapter Two 12"
Freude am Tanzen is back for a very special occasion. In 2022, three Various Artists EPs will be released, celebrating the 24th anniversary of the label from Thuringia. Whilst occasions like this would normally be celebrated on the quarter century, this release makes sense not only on the mathematical level. Three compilations with four tracks provide the half of 24. The release however also makes sense in terms of history. Freude am Tanzen is showcasing a broad range of electronic music, never neglecting their history but also looking into the future. The second edition of the compilation features tracks from Caldera, Freund der Familie, Gathaspar, and Front Left. The A-side focuses on dub-house. Caldera's track "30 Friends" gets a smooth yet groovy vibe across. Freund der Familie contributes a hypnotic production, which could be well incorporated in a warm-up or on the home speakers. The flip side goes deeper into the minimalistic region of electronic music. Gathaspar has produced a trippy journey, featuring the vocals of Anna Partini. One for the morning hours on the dancefloor. Front Left praises the groove with his track "AM3N". Very playful and delicate and a lovely selection of percussion.
GOLDMIN MUSIC (FRANCE)
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CAT #: GMNLP 008LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
STL Illumination 3x12"
Obviously right after Sneak Illuminator EP, the Illumination LP arrives. And it is an illumination worthy of the name as the German musical blacksmith delivers here luminous musical landscapes for his first ever gatefold triple-LP album. A very important addition in this artist's already extended discography and an important step for Goldmin too, mostly as the label is celebrating their ten-year anniversary in 2022.
GRAND GALLERY (JAPAN)
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CAT #: GRGWAS 001LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
IDE, YASUSHI Cosmic Suite 2 - New Beginning- LP
Japanese street music icon, Yasushi Ide releases a new album featuring Don Letts, Josh Milan, Jeff Mills, DJ Krush, and more. Yasushi Ide is the Japanese street icon. In the '90s he was called "the Guru of Shibuya-kei" which was the movement of Shibuya style of eclectic pop by the artists such as Cornelius, Pizzcato Five, or Original Love who is once again recognized in city pop revival of recent years. (Yasushi Ide was a manager of Original Love, and also Kenji Ozawa). Through his works, he has been creating the global network of musicians such as Josh Milan of the Blaze, house music icon, Don Letts, the pioneer of connecting punk rock with reggae, and Jeff Mills, Detroit techno legend, and released a great amount of hi-quality music on his label, Grand Gallery. The Cosmic Suite project started in 2020, during the pandemic. It started as a project to reconstruct the parts of music Jeff Mills created for Chieko Kinbara, a violinist which Mills produced. However, it turned out to be 36 minutes of space-themed original track: Cosmic Suite. This masterpiece created a buzz in the music scene in Japan and overseas, and became Yasushi Ide's new beginning. In June, 2022, Ide released Cosmic Suite 2. Originally, Cosmic Suite was an instrumental. Cosmic Suite is the reconstruction of Cosmic Suite 2 with the element of vocals. In this project, Don Letts, Josh Milan, and DJ Krush are featured as guest musicians. Moreover, drums of Tony Allen, the legendary Afrobeat drummer, and Style Scott, a drummer known for his works in early days of ON-U label, and Gota Yashiki, a Japanese drummer known for his works with Soul II Soul are featured in this album. Also, Japanese brightest talents such as Kan Takagi of Major Force, Kaoru Inoue aka Chari Chari, Tomoyuki Tanaka aka Fantastic Plastic Machine and Calm are featured as artists and engineers. This is the true dream team of the Japanese underground music scene. Artwork by Josue Thomas (Gallery Dept). He is also featured as poetry reading artist in the first track of Cosmic Suite 2. Highlight of Cosmic 2 is include unique dub sounds in tracks such as "Lava" featuring UA, the Japanese singer often described as "Japanese Björk", and "Sumimasen Suite" featuring Rebel Dread (Don Letts). Also features Emilie Chick, Emily Capell, Afrika Bambaataa, and Reck.
HARTO DE TODO (ITALY)
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CAT #: HHDT 1995LP
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GAI Damnation LP
Japanese hardcore/noisecore/crust/
HEY SUBURBIA (ITALY)
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CAT #: SUBURBIA 024LP
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MCRACKINS Bat Out of Shell LP
Reissue, originally released in 2006. With over 70 different releases spread over a thirty-year career and literally hundreds of songs in their repertoire, Canadian pop-punk institution the McRackins hardly need an introduction. originally released on compact disc only in 2006 and widely considered McRackins' own Pet Sounds, Bat Out Of Shell makes it on vinyl for the first time, with new revised artwork and complete with double-sided lyric insert. Color-EGG vinyl.
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CAT #: SUBURBIA 029LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BUM Wanna Smash Sensation! LP
Reissue, originally released in 1993. 30-year anniversary reissue for the Canadian power pop legends, Bum's debut album. Originally released on Popllama Products from Seattle, produced by Kurt Bloch of the Fastbacks, one of the greatest records not enough people heard. Featuring two bonus tracks and double-sided insert with liner notes by Grant Lawrence of the Smugglers.
INFINE (FRANCE)
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CAT #: IF 1077CD
FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL
WAGNER, VANESSA Mirrored CD
French pianist Vanessa Wagner collects solo piano studies of graceful minimalism and rare finesse for new album Mirrored. Quickly following March 2022's Study of the Invisible album (IF 1070CD/LP), Vanessa Wagner returns with a new collection of work that paints in many colors. The application of shadow in Mirrored evokes haunting poignancy; the care and delicateness of its negative space leaves room for undulating melodic motifs to ebb and flow; its bold splashes of luminescence are striking and rich. And while the album collates re-interpretations of works by composers as varied as Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, Moondog, Leo Ferré, and Camille Pepin, the potency and effect of the collection as a whole reflects only Vanessa Wagner and the extraordinary breadth of her abilities. Performing solo, exposed to timbre, tempo and clarity, many of the pieces here -- such as "Sea Horses" by (Vanessa's one-time mentor) Moondog or Philip Glass's "Etude 4" -- demand virtuosic abilities as a performer and interpreter. But in Vanessa Wagner's hands, they are not only made her own, but made mesmeric and magical by the sensitivity of her touch. Also features works composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Melaine Dalibert, and Sylvain Chauveau.
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CAT #: IF 1077LP
FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL
WAGNER, VANESSA Mirrored LP
LP version. French pianist Vanessa Wagner collects solo piano studies of graceful minimalism and rare finesse for new album Mirrored. Quickly following March 2022's Study of the Invisible album (IF 1070CD/LP), Vanessa Wagner returns with a new collection of work that paints in many colors. The application of shadow in Mirrored evokes haunting poignancy; the care and delicateness of its negative space leaves room for undulating melodic motifs to ebb and flow; its bold splashes of luminescence are striking and rich. And while the album collates re-interpretations of works by composers as varied as Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, Moondog, Leo Ferré, and Camille Pepin, the potency and effect of the collection as a whole reflects only Vanessa Wagner and the extraordinary breadth of her abilities. Performing solo, exposed to timbre, tempo and clarity, many of the pieces here -- such as "Sea Horses" by (Vanessa's one-time mentor) Moondog or Philip Glass's "Etude 4" -- demand virtuosic abilities as a performer and interpreter. But in Vanessa Wagner's hands, they are not only made her own, but made mesmeric and magical by the sensitivity of her touch. Also features works composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Melaine Dalibert, and Sylvain Chauveau.
INTERNATIONAL FEEL (URUGUAY)
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CAT #: IFEEL 080EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
FEATER Positive People 12"
Running Back regular Feater aka Daniel Meuzard puts his newly transplanted studio through its paces for the first time since relocating from Vienna, swapping out the bustle of the city for the fresh mountain breeze of the West Alps. The Positive People EP proves that a change is as good as a rest, as the wide-open nature not only had some rejuvenating effects on the creative process -- it also gave Feater some room in his head to ponder questions about nature, nurture, and whether our inner morality is externally programmed. The taut jazz funk of opening track "Coding" springs into action like the montage music of a lost '70s TV show, while the title track "Positive People" plays on the ambiguity of its title, with cascading synth notes, tastefully dubby 303 stabs, and an Afro-Cuban drum figure that forms the foundation for a spaced-out dancefloor workout. It's a combo of tracks that should appeal to chat room moderators and serotonin programmers alike. "Expensive Zeit" kicks off sounding like grime maverick XTC had been brought up on Murder Capital electro rather than East London garage -- before it morphs into a bumpin' electrofunk and percussion session, with its sights set firmly on an aquatic worm hole. The EP rounds out with "Decline All Cookies", which breaks out of a flanged-out half-time drum n' effects intro to reveal a lush chord progression, flipping a soul jazz piano mood into a trippy slice of modern instrumental funk. Can man be the master of his own destiny? It seems with this change of location and musical direction, Feater might just have figured out the answer.
JUNGLE RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: FREUD 138CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MARCH VIOLETS, THE The Palace of Infinite Darkness 5CD BOX
"A 5CD boxset. Though the band never recorded an album in the '80s, an abundance of material has been discovered. In addition to CDs of singles and extended versions, the box includes six BBC sessions and two whole discs of unreleased demos -- one each from the Rosie and Cleo era. Rosie Garland recounts the band's story in an illustrated 44-page booklet."
KOMMERZ RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: KOMMERZ 007LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
DJ PIPER A Dream In A Dream LP
A Dream In A Dream is the debut LP by DJ Piper, also known as Felix Wagner of techno superstar duo FJAAK. One might be surprised about this all hip-hop instrumental album looking at Felix's all dance music focused musical resumé. Nevertheless, he has been crafting rap beats ever since he started producing as a teen, but had his childhood friends freestyle over the tracks solely. It took until 2020 when he teamed up with Lukas and Jonathan Nixdorff of Kommerz Records to release his first solo track "Iluminay", which was part of Kommerz Season 1: Anti-Virus compilation and shared by B-Real of Cypress Hill right away. Now, 2022, marks the right moment to share his debut album, a waltzing ode to hip-hop's golden era. The Berlin-Spandau original merges the legacies of both Pete Rock and Dr. Dre, while funky breakbeats meet laid back SoCal Chronic vibes. 12 instrumental tracks and two skits strong, his album tells the story of a young man, who lives up to his wildest teenage dreams. Most of the track ideas came up while being on tour with FJAAK. Between international transit areas, making inspirational new friends and bizarre encounters all over the world, beat-making became DJ Piper's safe space to process all the positive madness around him. As a result, A Dream In A Dream breathes that raw, untamable creative energy around Felix's extraordinary day-to-day life, while being heavily influenced by the sound of his childhood, '90s and 2000s rap. To visualize A Dream In A Dream DJ Piper and Kommerz Records joined forces with Raman Djafari, a childhood friend of the artist, who illustrated music videos for Dua Lipa and Elton John (no joke!) and worked for Adult Swim. Raman's supernaturalistic aesthetics bring life to DJ Piper's somewhat psychedelic, somewhat nostalgic fantasy, locating the album in an otherworldly version of Spandau, hometown to both of the artists. As one half of FJAAK, Felix became an icon of Berlin techno conquering major festival stages and mainstream audiences while heavily representing underground D.I.Y. mentality up to this very day. As an initiator of Spandau20 label and collective, Felix pushes his creative family and day one's regardless of commercial potentials. The same ethos and love for culture fuels the DJ Piper project. No matter if it's FJAAK or DJ Piper, techno or hip-hop -- integrity is key! Gatefold sleeve.
LONDON RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: LMS 5521765
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE Let It Bee 2CD
First time reissue. London Records remasters and reissues Voice of the Beehive's classic debut 1988 album, Let It Bee. In the mid-80s, armed with only a suitcase of songs, Californian sisters Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland escaped the American music industry in search of the vibrant British indie scene, finding recently split Madness band member Daniel "Woody" Woodgate, who together with guitarist Mike Jones and bassist Martin Brett would form "the Beehive Boys". The powerful live chops of the Beehive Boys, combined with the harmonies, energy, and stage presence of Tracey and Melissa, made Voice of the Beehive indie darlings and one of the hottest live acts on the London scene. Signing with London Records, they recorded Let It Bee, its sunny exterior of sparkling indie guitars, energetic rhythms matched with lyrics and melodies that revealed both hope and an occasionally cutting cynicism. On its release, Let It Bee was a UK Top 15 album, its singles "I Say Nothing", "I Walk The Earth", and "Don't Call Me Baby" all chart hits and radio favorites. Reissued for the first time since its initial release. New liner notes by the band's very own Tracey Belland. The expanded double-CD version features previously unreleased tracks, live versions, and demos; includes "Cartoon City", a band favorite recently uncovered and remastered from the London Records archives.
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CAT #: LMS 5521766
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE Let It Bee LP
LP version. Transparent honey yellow vinyl; gatefold. First time reissue. London Records remasters and reissues Voice of the Beehive's classic debut 1988 album, Let It Bee. In the mid-80s, armed with only a suitcase of songs, Californian sisters Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland escaped the American music industry in search of the vibrant British indie scene, finding recently split Madness band member Daniel "Woody" Woodgate, who together with guitarist Mike Jones and bassist Martin Brett would form "the Beehive Boys". The powerful live chops of the Beehive Boys, combined with the harmonies, energy, and stage presence of Tracey and Melissa, made Voice of the Beehive indie darlings and one of the hottest live acts on the London scene. Signing with London Records, they recorded Let It Bee, its sunny exterior of sparkling indie guitars, energetic rhythms matched with lyrics and melodies that revealed both hope and an occasionally cutting cynicism. On its release, Let It Bee was a UK Top 15 album, its singles "I Say Nothing", "I Walk The Earth", and "Don't Call Me Baby" all chart hits and radio favorites. Reissued for the first time since its initial release. New liner notes by the band's very own Tracey Belland.
LOVE INJECTION FANZINE & RECORDS
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CAT #: LIR 005LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BERTISCH, BARBIE Prelude LP
Prelude is an introspective record. It explores all of the valences of being and feeling. Some songs are chaotic and choppy. Others are soft and searching. There is rage and innocence, and moments of forced stillness, like capturing the aftermath of panic attacks, as in After The Storm. Barbie Bertisch also focuses on rhythm, bass guitar being her main instrument, and is no stranger to the power of the beat. The record also draws on influences as varied as Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Cocteau Twins, Berlin School, and pioneering producer François Kevorkian. Both sonically and conceptually, Prelude is a portrait of who Bertisch is as a person. "Is This What You Wanted?" is fiery, a pointed provocation to domineering figures from her past. It's full of strobing, strident synths, and heady lines of bass. It gives off the same vibe as a fire alarm, as a big room dance track that subverts your expectations of what it means to dance in a sea of bodies. "28," the record's opening track, is more peaceful. It's all languid keyboard arpeggios with the occasional flourish of a cascading synth effect. Coke bottle clear vinyl. "I love the sounds, very much. The layers and depths. The melting phases and soaring distances." --Anna Domino
MITSUBASA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MTB 006EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
UTROIT & K.O.S Roku EP 12"
Lovely handcrafted white label with three groovy techno cuts from Utroit & K.O.S. Pressing by Matter of Fact Mastering. Lacquer cut by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin.
MODERN OBSCURE MUSIC (SPAIN)
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CAT #: MOM 036LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VIAN & MANA, PEDRO Cascades LP
Modern Obscure Music presents Cascades, the new album from Pedro Vian and Mana, which premiered during their immersive live set at the most recent Sonar Festival in Barcelona. Cascades was recorded over a three-day studio session in Turin during the winter months, which is reflected in the musical narrative, as the eleven tracks flow gently like an icy river, filled with a mixture of hazy melancholy, uncanny dream-states and euphoria. Various recording techniques and instrumentation was utilized, including the Lyra-8 organismic analog synthesizer, which takes principles from living organisms to produce sounds resembling a conversation between nature and technology. The result is a spellbinding ambient odyssey that features a luminous synthesis of neo-classical strings and orchestral drones, together with strange voices, and abstract passages designed to evoke Dante's Inferno, which represent the soul's journey. Pedro Vian and Mana join forces to traverse new sonic territories between electronica, ambient, drone, and trance-inducing soundscapes.Pedro Vian is a renowned Catalan artist who has released three solo albums and a collection of singles on his Modern Obscure Music imprint -- a multi-disciplinary platform based on deep listening and music research. Pedro curated the PRSNT compilation (MOMPRSNT) in 2021, featuring Laurie Spiegel, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Visible Cloaks. Pedro has been remixed by Inga Copeland and Pye Corner Audio.As part of a new generation of Italian electronic music artists, Piedmont born composer and producer Mana has released two full-length albums on Kode 9's Hyperdub imprint, plus an EP on Nicolas Jaar's Other People label under his Vaghe Stelle alias. Earlier in his musical journey, Mana supported Laurent Garnier, James Holden, and Skream across the Torino club scene, and in 2011 teamed up with Italian friends Lorenzo Senni and A:RA to form the experimental group One Circle.
MOOSICUS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: M 1215CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
BRUFORD'S EARTHWORKS, BILL Live at the Schauburg Bremen 1987 CD
"Amazing live recordings of Bill Bruford's Earthworks, recorded in November 1987 in Bremen (Germany), musically a tremendous show to remember. Having already spent twenty years on the cutting edge of modern rock percussion, Bill Bruford (ex-King Crimson, Yes, UK a.m.m.) formed Earthworks in 1986, as a deliberate return to his roots in jazz. Availing himself of the brightest young talent on the burgeoning U.K. jazz scene, namely keyboardist and tenor horn player Django Bates, and saxophonist Iain Ballamy, both best known as frontrunners with the anarchic big band Loose Tubes, Bruford encouraged the use of rock technology with jazz sensibility -- the hallmark of Earthwork's stylish approach. By letting in air and light, and adding a little wit and wisdom, they produced a particularly British antidote to the increasingly grotesque jazz fusion scene. The first LP for Editions EG, Earthworks, was a testament to their achievement. It sounds simple, but the band only found its direction through serious live playing. No theoretical studio concoction here. Japan, Europe and the UK were all visited before the release of the first album. In November 1987 Bill Bruford, double bass player Mick Hutton, Django Bates as well as Iain Bellamy performed at the 'Schauburg' in Bremen (Germany). The famous German radio and TV station Radio Bremen recorded the show. Stylistically, Earthworks offered here again all the band's openness to diverse styles: Power rock passages alternate with lyrical, balladic passages. Influences from African and Latin American music stood next to swinging sections. It was an amazing show and musically a tremendous night to remember."
MUSIC ON VINYL (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: MOV 2526COL-LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
PERRY & THE UPSETTERS, LEE 'SCRATCH' Scratch The Super Ape (Orange Vinyl) LP
"Scratch The Super Ape is the 1976 studio album by Lee Perry's studio band The Upsetters. The lineup consisted of Boris Gardener on bass, Mikey Benbow on drums, Earl Smith on guitar, Keith Sterling on keys and the horn quartet Bobby Ellis, Dirty Harry, Herman Marquis, and Vin Gordon. The album is recorded at Lee Perry's studio and is both composed and produced by him. This edition of Scratch The Super Ape features the original Jamaican album cover and is available as a limited edition of 2000 individually numbered copies on orange colour vinyl."
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CAT #: MOV 3119AQ-LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
BAKER, CHET Sings Again (Aquamarine Vinyl) LP
Aquamarine vinyl. "American trumpeter Chet Baker was a major innovator in cool jazz, leading him to be nicknamed 'the prince of cool'. He earned much attention and praise through the fifties, particularly for albums featuring his vocals. This included his 1954 album Chet Baker Sings and its follow-up Chet Baker Sings Again in 1985. The latter he released on the Dutch jazz label Timeless Records. He recorded the album with bassist Ricardo Del Fra, drummer John Engels and pianist Michel Graillier."
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CAT #: MOV 3172COL-LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
MCCOOK, TOMMY Reggay At It's Best (Orange Vinyl) LP
"The Jamaican saxophonist Tommy McCook was a founding member of The Skatalites, but also directed The Supersonics and backed many sessions for Bunny Lee or The Revolutionaries. As a producer, McCook also released several albums on his own name, including Reggay At It's Best. The album's selection of top reggae tunes perfectly suit Jamaica's unchallenged top saxophonist and is recorded at Duke Reid's Treasure Isle Studios in Kingston. Reggay At It's Best is available as a limited edition of 750 individually numbered copies on orange color vinyl."
NERO'S NEPTUNE
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CAT #: NN 008LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
PERE UBU Live at the Longhorn -- April 1, 1978 2LP
Warehouse find, last copies. ouble LP version. The three vinyl sides of Pere Ubu Live at the Longhorn are as much an indispensable live rock album as Modern Dance is an indispensable studio album. The show consists mainly of material from the Modern Dance album, only rocked out and swinging, more raw-nerved yet seasoned than their studio counterparts. What becomes apparent, especially on repeated listens, is how well-made this music is, how the drama and comedy flows within the modules of each song, how the songs fit together to give an audience an experience that -- while sharpened to paranoia and sensitive to harsh realities -- is as ineffable as it is concrete.
NOID (GERMANY)
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CAT #: NOID 1122EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
POSATRON AND DIGBY YAKIDDIN, CYRUS Zodiac Bath Bomb 12"
The disco facelift, the arse tuck, some analog liposuction... Digby Yakiddin and Cyrus Posatron return to the discotheque coalface to grind out a value pack of random Noid selections for all the family to enjoy. Get your chaps on girls and boys, jump on the Noid bucking bronco and lets ride!
NOTON (GERMANY)
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CAT #: NPLUS 003CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
IKEDA, RYOJI ultratronics CD
Born in 1966 in Gifu, Ryoji Ikeda currently lives and works in Paris and Kyoto. While rooted in electronic music, the internationally active composer and artist also produces art as experimentation. Ikeda's immersive live performances and installations employ an elaborate orchestration of sound, visuals, matter, physical phenomena, and mathematical concepts. He established his online source as codex | edition. In 2022, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art presented his first major solo exhibition in Japan since 2009. Ikeda has received the Prix Ars Electronica Collide at CERN in 2014, and the 70th Japanese Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts (Media Arts Division) in 2020.
OPTIC NERVE (UK)
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CAT #: OPT4 047LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
GYMSLIPS, THE Rocking with the Renees LP + 7"
East London's The Gymslips -- Paula Richards, Suzanne Scott, and Karen Yarnell -- barged their way onto the post punk scene in 1981. They openly embraced drinking, Pie & Mash, monkey boots, and double denim right from the start. Often credited with being the first female Oi! band, but they brought so much more to the table with their punky '60s influenced girl pop. Formed in 1980, the Gymslips started playing live the following year, and opened for Dolly Mixture on a 1981 UK tour. The band referred to themselves as "Renees" a late '60s term for mod girls, the same subculture that named boys "Ronees". Drummer Karen Yarnell told the NME that a "Renee was a girl who got as much shagging done as a bloke while also matching him for pint drinking, fag smoking, nose-picking, farting and the wearing of skinhead style double denim." They recorded five sessions for the John Peel show, after signing to Abstract Records their first single was a cover of Suzi Quatro's "48 Crash", which was released in 1982. The following year they released their sole album Rocking With The Renees along with two further singles "Big Sister" and "Robot Man". After Karen Yarnell left to join Serious Drinking, this ended the Gymslips. Although, they were to return two years later with a new line-up to release their final single "Evil Eye". Deluxe gloss laminated gatefold reissue with bonus 7", The Silly Egg EP; half red and half turquoise vinyl with a white vinyl 7"; includes printed inner sleeve.
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CAT #: OPT4 052LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MCCARTHY I Am A Wallet 2LP +7"
Expanded reissue, originally released in 1987. By the time McCarthy appeared on the NME's C86 cassette they had already been playing together for a couple of years and released two excellent singles. Their debut "In Purgatory" and the indie masterpiece "Red Sleeping Beauty" are both included on this release. The following year McCarthy released the brilliant "Frans Hals" before unleashing their debut album I Am A Wallet. Now recognized as an indie pop masterpiece it has gone on to achieve cult status, receiving praise from the likes of Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) as one of the most important albums of the '80s. Known by today's indie acolytes as the band that spawned Tim Gane and Leititia Sadier (who of course went on to form Stereolab). It's a seamless album reminiscent of the Byrds. Wonderful, if slightly twee, jangly guitars with complex and rarely rhyming lyrics, Malcolm Eden's strident left wing political views are manifest on I Am A Wallet. Cloaked in pretty guitar and propulsive drums, Eden sets about attacking the pillars of the day, MPs, Prince Charles, Fleet Street, religion, the response to AIDS, and on almost every song, capitalism. The horrors and inequalities of the capitalist system are laid bare for all the see. The system which enables some to get rich at the expense of others is reviled and attacked.Pressed on red vinyl and presented in gloss laminated gatefold sleeve. Double album set contains the original LP plus 13 bonus tracks taken from their first four singles and the re-recorded version of "In Purgatory" which originally appeared on the Pink compilation EP, It Sells Or It Smells (1986), plus bonus 7", a reproduction color vinyl copy of McCarthy's first 7" In Purgatory. All three tracks have been remastered from the original master tape and presented in a wraparound sleeve, just like the incredibly rare "Wall Of Salmon" original. Also includes 20-page, 12x12" full-color booklet containing all the lyrics and packed full with photos, many previously unpublished, and press clippings and other memorabilia. Introduction by Nicky Wire of the Manic Street Preachers and track-by-track commentary by Malcolm Eden. 8x10 black-and-white press photo Reproduction European Tour poster "The Well Of Loneliness".
OUT-SIDER (SPAIN)
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CAT #: OSR 076LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WILDFIRE Smokin LP
2022 restock. Out-Sider present a reissue of Wildfire's Smokin', originally released in 1971. Powerful and melodic hard-rock by this US power-trio: ultra-loud Quilter amps, killer leads, fuzz bass, furious drumming and vocals. Recorded at the legendary Sonobeat Studios in Austin (home of Mariani) and originally released in 1971 as a private demo album, now impossible to find. Originally formed in California in the late '60s, Wildfire consisted of Randy Love (guitar, vocals), Danny Jamison (bassm lead vocals), and Donny Martin (drums). Famous for powerful live shows, they packed the clubs with lines around the block of fans waiting to enter, becoming the house band for Finnegan's Rainbow and the favorite group of The Hessians Motorcycle Club, who became the unofficial guardians of the band. Soon, they got in touch with Pat Quilter from Quilter amps. Tired of blowing up amps when playing, Randy told Pat to design an amp that couldn't blow up. And he did it. Following Wildfire's input, Pat designed for the band the famous "Master Volume Dial" amp. In 1969, a Texas promoter heard the band in Southern California and brought them to Austin, becoming an instant hit locally in the Austin area. While in Texas, Wildfire shared the stage with Freddie King, the Allman Brothers, Johnny Winter, and ZZ Top. It was in Austin that the eight-song demo was cut at Sonobeat Records (home also of Mariani and Cold Sun), released in 1970 as a private pressing housed in a plain white cover with a Wildfire sticker, each one numbered. The demo album was never sold other than at a small record store in Southern California and it's now one the rarest hard-rock albums from the US. First bootlegged in the '90s and then officially reissued by Shadoks in 2006, here's a welcomed new vinyl edition. RIYL: Grand Funk, Bolder Damn, Demian, Cactus, Stack, Banchee, Blue Cheer, Hendrix... Master tape sound; includes insert with liner notes and photos.
PAN EUROPEAN RECORDING (FRANCE)
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CAT #: PAN 075CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
KOUDLAM Precipice Fantasy Part 1 CD
Koudlam returns to civilization with Precipice Fantasy, an abnormal album once again. The album is made up of two very different parts which will be released separately, with a first part which shells 12 songs like so many flamboyant mutations and a second contemplative instrumental part halfway between uneasy yoga music and trance from the lowlands of Kathmandu. Inspired by the hallucinated stories of mountain pioneers and conquistadores, the artist delivers here the soundtrack of peaks and precipices. Or rather that of the path between the two, winding, vertiginous, always on the edge of the blade.
PARTIAL RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: PRTL 019LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
ZION TRAIN PRESENTS TASSILLI PLAYERS The Wonderful World of Weed in Dub LP
A welcome reissue for this herbal-influenced Zion Train album, originally released on Universal Egg in 1995. A spaced-out, worldwide dub excursion into the Wonderful World of Weed. For 30 years, Zion Train have been at the forefront of the UK dub and festival scene and still take their sound and message worldwide.
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CAT #: PRTL 7077EP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
RHYTHMITES I & I 7"
Two sought-after vocal tracks from influential British reggae band Rhythm-ites recorded in 1988. Rhythm-ites recorded their classic debut album Intergration (Bluurg Records) at Southern Studios, London in 1989 and were regular fixtures on the free festival circuit. "I & I" and "Guiding Star" previously only appeared on the Travellers Aid Trust compilation 1988, compiled by Hawkwind.
PASSAT CONTINU (SPAIN)
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CAT #: PC 006LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SEGURA, JAVIER El Ser Y El Tiempo (1976-1978) LP
Almost five years after the inaugural compilation El Sol Desde Oriente (PC 001LP, 2018), Passat Continu releases El Ser Y El Tiempo, the first solo recordings of the Tenerife musician Javier Segura, a set of seven compositions that make up a true exceptionality in the panorama of Spanish experimental music and that have never before been uncovered for listening. This sound document recorded between 1976 and 1978 is presented remastered from its original tapes and with a bonus track, with the invaluable collaboration of Juan Belda.
PERLON (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PERL 133EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
TANAKA, FUMIYA Deep One 12"
Two tracks from Fumiya Tanaka.
POLIFONIC (ITALY)
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CAT #: PF 005EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA Itria Vol. 3 12"
Itria Vol. 3 is a slow techno-inspired cosmic journey that condenses in a single orbit a great cast of artists coming from different galaxies. It marks an evolution in sound and mood, taking us to a deeper and more visceral dimension. The first track by Interstellar Funk is a 100% pure electronic mind-trip, a machined groove where thoughts still roam frenetically paves the way for a more intimate experience. Tamburi Neri's downtempo track shapes a space-time portal in which to sink; their sound is like a beat echoing from the bottom of the chest and spreading to the tips of the fingers softly. For the first time, Salamanda co-works with Polifonic framing a Korean unknown soundscape, an ambient loop track through which we break away from this dimension and move towards the exotic. Hiver restores a connection with reality through their pulsating bass. The heartbeat speeds up, but you still float into a dreamy techno atmosphere. Claudio PRC & ZIPPO come into play with a powerful combination of techno textures that gets us to resurface and awaken the senses.
PSSSH RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PSSSH 003EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DAUWD PSSSH 003 12"
The third release from Psssh completes the trilogy of EPs from label founder Dauwd, with a cameo from Sied. Typically primitive, rhythmically intricate with a tubby feel, Psssh 003 is possibly the best one yet.
PUBLIC POSSESSION (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PP 081EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
NICE GIRL Look At That Thing 12"
Nice Girl is back with four Tracks sitting somewhere between chillout, club, and experimental. Fans will already know about her unique approach to sound, always surprising and fresh very hard to categorize. Although the four tracks can very much be viewed as an extension of her debut album Ipsum (PP 057LP), the overall tone of the EP is somewhat brighter with more light, at times almost euphoric.
RADIATION REISSUES (ITALY)
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CAT #: RRS 016LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BLITZ Time Bomb: Early Singles and Demos Collection LP
Repress, originally released in 2013. A pure shot of abrasive punk/rock n' roll with a hint of working class Oi!, Blitz were among the most influential punk bands ever. It was Gary Bushell (who wrote for Sounds magazine and was later dubbed the "Godfather of Oi!") who brought the band to the attention of his friend Chris Berry, who had just set up No Future Records with a bank loan and high hopes. No Future 001 catalog (and Blitz's debut release) was a 4-track EP titled All Out Attack, a 20,000 copy bestseller that made the label's fortune, later to become the most representative of the whole UK82 movement. Its follow-up, "Never Surrender", reached #2 in the indie charts, while their third EP, Warriors, showed their slight move towards the sing-a-long-style of classic Oi!. Before shifting to a new wave-influenced vein right by the end of 1983, they managed to reach #2 in the charts with a fourth and last "punk" single, "New Age". This complete 1980-1983 retrospective features all four aforementioned singles along with their very first recording session from 1980, the legendary "Time Bomb" demos, and four cuts from the Voice Of A Generation demos.
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CAT #: RRS 080CV-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DISCHARGE Early Demos - March/June 1977 LP
The whole record screams of the early days of young, snotty, pissed off punks filled with teen angst. If you're a Discharge completist want to see the very start of this hugely influential band, or if you're really into raw, primal '77 punk sound you should check this out. A cool document from the very beginning of what was to become a legendary influential group. Red vinyl.
RADIO UNDERGROUND RECORDS (POLAND)
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CAT #: RRL 001LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
5.6.7.8'S, THE Golden Hits Of The 5.6.7.8's LP
Reissue. Back in 1988, the all-girl band The 5.6.7.8's from Japan released their first album as a tape and then CD, it took until 2004 for it to appear as a ltd Japan only vinyl release with copies going for up to $100.00 these days... This period catches them as a garage band more than a "Rockin" type band and long before they became world famous after appearing in the movie Kill Bill (2003). A real gem of an album. Japan queens of garage rock. Compilation of very early recordings finally reissued.
RECITAL
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CAT #: R 099LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
BAILEY, CHARLIE MORROW & FRIENDS, DEREK New York 1982 LP
Recital publish an album of lost Derek Bailey sessions recorded with his friend and collaborator Charlie Morrow. In 1982, Bailey and Morrow organized a series of live concerts and studio sessions around New York. This new LP is a boiled-down rendering of the master tapes that lived dormant in Charlie's archive, until now. Throughout the album, Bailey and Morrow are joined by a rotating cast of New Wilderness players including frame drum percussionist Glen Velez, sound poet Steve McCaffery, publisher and artist Carol E. Tuynman, composer Patricia Burgess, and multimedia artist Michael Snow. The results are surprising and marvelous. The energy of the live concert, which makes up the first half of the record is particularly exciting, with Morrow and McCaffery's visceral sound poetry and Glen's frame drum echoing off of Derek's fret stabs, and Carol, Patricia, and Michael's horns swirling through the air between. A very raw and intense recording. The second side of New York 1982, is a session recorded at The Record Plant, and is clearly more "produced" with panning and tape echo processing, plus experiments with water whistles and other devices. Derek Bailey stands out for personal achievements as a guitarist and for his way of bringing together performance meetings ranging from duos to large ensembles. Working across style and genre, his music and musical unions have inspired the breakdown of boundaries, embracing all flavors of musicians as improvisers. Players focusing on the moment, "without memory." Personnel: Derek Bailey - acoustic guitars; Charlie Morrow - trumpet, ocarina, voice; Glen Velez - percussion; Patricia Burgess - saxophone; Steve McCaffery - voice, saxophone; Carol E. Tuynman - trumpet; Michael Snow - trumpet. Includes eight-page booklet with program notes and artwork; edition of 400.
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CAT #: R 100LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
AUTUMN FAIR Autumn Fair LP
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Recital, the label presents Autumn Fair. A group LP comprised of 44 guest players, curated and edited together by Sean McCann. Autumn Fair aptly embodies the feeling of Recital as a record label; the infusion of abstract sound art and sentimental beauty -- performed by both younger and older generations of artists. Personnel: Oren Ambarchi - guitar; Ed Atkins - paper shredder; Jason Bannon - family; Derek Baron - keyboard; Karla Borecky - upright piano; Andrew Chalk - guitar; crys cole - birds; Loren Connors - guitar; Philip Corner - grand piano; Maxwell August Croy - whistle; Sarah Davachi - electronics; Aaron Dilloway - SFX; Delphine Dora - voice; Giovanni Fontana - voice; Scott Foust - trumpet; Peter Friel - impression; Malcolm Green - camera; Judith Hamann - cello/voice; Mark Harwood - speech; Forest Juziuk - voice; Johnny Kay - tapping; Kajsa Lindgren - hydrophone; Rob Magill - guitar; Lia Mazzari - whip; Molly McCann - flute; Sean McCann - editing/voice; Nour Mobarak - voice sampler; Azikiwe Mohammed - interview; Charlie Morrow - MIDI piano; Kiera Mulhern - SFX; Zachary Paul - violin; claire rousay - SFX; Michel Samson - violin; Troy Schafer - strings; Eric Schmid - tone generator; Ben Schumacher - SFX; Tom James Scott - keyboard/SFX; Asha Sheshadri - reading; Patrick Shiroishi - winds; Sydney Spann - voice; Matthew Sullivan - instruments; Flora Sullivan-Kelly - percussion; Connor Tomaka - SFX/synth; Alex Twomey - upright piano. "I won't go into too much detail on the album itself, but after many twists and turns, the album concludes with 'Recital Program,' an intense track that manically collages two-second excerpts from every Recital album to date. I extend a sincere 'thank you' for all the incredible support for Recital over the past decade." Gold foil printing; program notes; numbered fair ticket; edition of 350.
RECOLLECTION GRM (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: REGRM 022LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
FERRARI, LUC Music Promenade/Unheimlich Schon LP
2022 repress. "Music Promenade" (1964-1969): Electroacoustic Music, world premiere for the Théâtre de la musique, March 16, 1970 "Hétéro-Concert". Permanent version for four stand-alone tape recorders. A series of colliding realistic sounds and sonic images. Whilst walking, a man is struck by the violence of his surroundings. Nature has disappeared in a whirlwind of warfare and industry in the midst of which he encounters a dying folklore and a lost young girl. The "Installation" version is used to sonify a place in which walkers are free to choose their musical itinerary."Unheimlich Schön" (1971): Musique concrète made in 1971 in the studios of the Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden. Voice: Ilse Mengel. "How does a young woman breathe when thinking about something else?" To be listened to at a low volume.Translations by Valérie Vivancos. Layout by Stephen O'Malley; Photos by Jacques Brissot, ARR. Coordination GRM by François Bonnet. Remerciements by Brunhild Ferrari. Executive Production by Peter Rehberg; Digital transfer by Jonathan Fitoussi and Diego Losa; Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, November 2018.
ROOM40 (AUSTRALIA)
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CAT #: RM 4177CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
PHAUSS Nya Sverige - Nothing But The Truth CD/BK
Phauss is Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser. Formed in the early 1980s, Phauss operated amidst of generation of uncharacteristic Swedish artists concerned with reshaping the edges of practices in sound, light, performance and vision. It was a monumentally fertile period for Sweden in that a confluence of factors allowed artists to dedicate themselves to the relentless excavation of ideas, drilling down to the absolute core of their interests and ways of making. Von Hausswolff and Pauser, who both operated across sound and installation, used Phauss as a means for deconstructing ideas of composition, situationalism, site-specific works and extended performance methodologies. Across the second half of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, they made connections, through their travels, outward from their homeland into scenes and communities that stretched from the Middle East, through North America and into Asia. Nya Sverige - Nothing But The Truth is a recording made in the United States whilst the pair were undertaking an exhaustive tour in 1991 alongside Hafler Trio and Zbigniew Karkowski. This, now legendary, tour was both arduous and rewarding. Living in a van for many weeks at a time, travelling between cities with the most modest of means meant Phauss came to know a very particular vision of the United States, one that existed below plain view. Their's was an experience had at the rawest edges of cities. Equally the performances they gave, from which this edition is assembled, were raw and quite frankly dangerous. Fire on stage, sparks flying from short circuiting electronics and intense physical rituals guided so much of their work during this tour and looking back at bootleg videos from the time it's difficult to imagine the work being able to be presented in the modern world. One of the flyers from their tour reads "Extreme Swedish Industrial", and as familiar as those words might appear now, in 1991 they held a very different resonance. They were unfamiliar terms of reference and the intensity of Phauss's music maintains that unknowability to this day. This is a profoundly individual work and sets the stage for a generation of musicians who followed them. The edition includes a book featuring a long-form in conversation between Carl Michael Von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser with Lawrence English. It also includes never before seen photos and documents from their North American tour and collects together an essential and largely underdocumented history of this period of the group's work.
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CAT #: RM 4178CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
PHAUSS Audiodrome CD/BK
Phauss is Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser. Formed in the early 1980s, Phauss operated amidst of generation of uncharacteristic Swedish artists concerned with reshaping the edges of practices in sound, light, performance and vision. It was a monumentally fertile period for Sweden in that a confluence of factors allowed artists to dedicate themselves to the relentless excavation of ideas, drilling down to the absolute core of their interests and ways of making. Von Hausswolff and Pauser, who both operated across sound and installation, used Phauss as a means for deconstructing ideas of composition, situationalism, site-specific works and extended performance methodologies. Across the second half of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, they made connections, through their travels, outward from their homeland into scenes and communities that stretched from the Middle East, through North America and into Asia. Audiodrome collects together two discreet works that sit somewhere between field recording, chance composition and experimental soundscape. Both pieces pre-date the widespread arrival of field recording as a creative practice, and expand outward the work that had been developed by musique concréte and other experimental music approaches concerned with the intersections of found sound and composition. Both works were devised using the same working methodology, whereby an alarm would sound every few days and wherever and whenever it sounded the pair would start recording their surroundings. Those raw material became the basis for the pieces. The first composition "Zürich - Zürich" is a piece that traces a line around the world, Phauss travelling on a round the world air ticket stopping only in countries where conflict was present. This unsettling journey became a meditation on the evolving state of the world in those moments. Voices, traffic, cafes, radios, transportation system and other incidental environments float into one another in a kind of stream of (temporally incongruous) consciousness. The second work "Alger - Lagos" brings to mind some of Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs tape cut-ups. Street musicians are splice against bursts of radio, roadside conversations and searing blasts of industrial noise captured from aircraft and other unfamiliar sources. The edition includes a book featuring an exhaustive collection of photographs, documents and artworks made by Von Hausswolff and Pauser during their journeys undertaken to complete each of the compositions. Many of these images and artworks have never been published previously.
RUNNING BACK (GERMANY)
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CAT #: RB 085-5EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA One Swallow Doesn't Make A Summer Part 5 12"
Part 5 of the various artists series is at it again with five tracks by five different producers and a mixture of feelgood party time music and contemplative music. You will hear familiar Running Back names like Storken (this time together with JStaaf) refining their comic tropes (or imagine Foreigner doing house music) next to newcomers like Archie Ward. His "Pizza Girl" puts musical toppings on a pounding underbelly that wouldn't be out of place in any warehouse, while Moritz and Amount dial it back a bit. Their respective tracks are gleaming with a special kind of elegant end-of-night euphoria that is hard to come by -- and all the nicer if it happens. Remember: trance is a state of mind! Last but not least, Australia's Jonus Eric delivers an IDM-leaning piece of outsider dance.
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CAT #: RB 113X-EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
KRYSTAL KLEAR Essentia 12"
"Essentia" is not only the Latin word for -- you guessed that right -- essential, but also the name of Krystal Klear's return to Running Back. While trance might be a state of mind (according to DJ Dag), it's also a tone theory with a very specific tool kit. Here you get the version that makes sense in the aural universe of a producer that got raised on a diet of hip-hop, boogie, and the foundation tunes in house music. Moderate in tempo, the result is still euphoric to say the least: melted brains, stimulated spinal cords, and rave rampage included. "Essentia" balances the euphoric rush of its topical genre perfectly with the happy-sad moments after the rave. If that is not musical or emotional enough for your taste, you will find content in the "Sunrise" version. Excessive use of the well-beloved choir, breakbeats and breakdowns make it equally irresistible for sun-ups and love-ups. Flip the coin for "Winnies Karaoke". Stemming from the same source and session as "Essentia". Named after the interactive entertainment bar in Chinatown NYC and made sometime in the early morning hours, it's the quintessential Krystal Klear. Sawtooth boogie, if you will. Its counterpoint is the "Sundown" mix. Techno prog for the tilted generation. Sometimes, in the permanent search of happiness, the world of tomorrow needs the sound of yesterday made with the means and minds of today. Essential bliss.
SAPIENS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: SAPIENS 004LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SMITH, STEFAN Thlostonesa 2LP
With his second album, Thlostones, the English producer Stefan Smith continues a journey on the back of synthesizers where techno loops meet the delicacy of ambient, where IDM meets new wave references. All to serve a quest for the original purity of the experience of sound.
SEVEN VILLAS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: 7VA 006LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MUNDOS SUTIS Quintessence 2LP
The debut release of the fantastic duo Mundos Sutis. They became an instant favorite of many people with their unique music style, that immersive deep techno etiquette that they craft really well. Quintessence is an album that gathers Seven Villas' favorite works released on the label in the past months. The journey is about to start, just press play and fly away.
SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: SMALL 015LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MOVE D/DMAN All You Can Tweak 2x12"
The lost tracks -- unreleased material from Move D and Dman. Around the year 1990, a group of producers gathered regularly at a space called "Blaues Zimmer" (Blue Room), located at Bergheimer Strasse, Heidelberg. The Blue Room was the studio of Dirk Mantei aka Dman, and David Moufang (Move D) calls it the one of the "keimzellen" (seeds) for what would happen in regards to the electronic music movement within the Rhein-Main-Area during the following ten years. The '90s were roaring, with a lot of mid-sized cities located relatively close to each other -- Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Darmstadt -- and Frankfurt was easily reached. Various highly influential clubs and parties happened around that time and Dirk and David had their parts. Dirk Mantei and David Moufang, Eric D Clark, Robert Gordon, Nils "Puppetmaster" Hess, DJ Cle -- to name a few- all happen to live in Heidelberg and gather around at Dirks place during this time. Discogs calls Dirk Mantei "a katalyst figure in the 1990s techno scene of Southern Germany" and this is for a reason. He was running a record store (Dubtools) and threw legendary parties -- like Planet Bass, Hot Lemonade. When he moved to Mannheim, Dirk opened the legendary club Milk! out of nothing and later ran another club called HD800 (located in MS Connexion). Both were suited with the same famous -- and massive -- soundsystem, acquired and tuned by himself. David calls Milk! the birth place of his name Move D as well as Source Records as a label. Both David and Dirk's first vinyl release ever was a 12" they released on David's Source -- called Homeworks 1 -- four tracks that were released as one of the first CDs on Source Records a year before. Also "Wired To The Mothership" can be found on this CD compilation, a 32-seconds-long track -- and although far too short, it's special. Timeless components woven together in the most wonderful way -- Sheffield-inspired bleeps, timeless pads and Detroitish strings, a JXP-3 organ solo, analog drums and a driving analog bassline -- and then it's gone. When asked, why there wasn't a longer version of the track, David and Dirk said they were not happy with the mixdown back then -- so it took them almost 30 years to finally finish a 2021 full version together. Between 2011 and 2021, they both found themselves in David's Studio from time to time, Dirk was living in Mannheim and some sessions resulted in a bunch of yet unreleased tracks that slept on hard drives ever since then.
SOMMOR RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: SOMM 059LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
GRIT Grit LP
2022 restock. First ever reissue of this ultra-rare acetate (two copies pressed) from 1972, Grit's self-titled album. Featured in Hans Pokora's book with the maximum scale rarity. Psychedelic hard-rock with furious drumming and stunning lead guitar by this unknown until now London based band. Includes the four tracks from the original acetate (taken from the master tape) plus two bonus tracks taken from lo-fi, crude rehearsals: "1000 Miles" (a Grit original) and a killer demo version of "Mineshaft". Born from the ashes of a London band called Merlyn, Grit consisted of Frank Martinez (lead guitar, vocals), Paul Christodoulou (bass, vocals), Tom Kelly (drums, vocals), and Jeff Ball (vocalist). Frank, nicknamed "Spider", has an interesting story: at the beginning of his musical career he auditioned for Joe Meek at his Holloway Road studio. Later, he also played with a band called Grand Union -- who supported Pink Floyd in 1968 -- and with members of the John Dummer Band. An electronic wizard, Frank also worked building amps and electronic equipment at Nolan Amps, MIDAS, etc. Tom Kelly came from a band called Connexion and Paul Christodoulou had played in Merlyn along with Frank. After some attempts, the definitive line-up of Grit was born when Frank and Paul convinced drummer Tom Kelly to join them, after assisting to a Nazareth concert. They also recruited powerful singer Jeff Ball after an ad in Melody Maker. On Christmas Eve, 1972, Grit recorded a demo at SWM Studios and two copies of a one-sided 12" acetate were pressed for promo purposes. It featured four self-penned songs, the killer "Mineshaft" (pure underground fuzz hard-rock), and two lengthy numbers: "Child and the Drifter" (furious drumming, stunning leads, hard-prog moves), and the hard-psychedelic "What Do You See In My Eyes"/"I Wish I Was". 40 years later, one of the two copies of the original Grit acetate was found at a flea market in Germany, which led to its inclusion in the 7001 Record Collector Dreams book by famous collector Hans Pokora. By pure chance in 2019, Alex Carretero from Guerssen found Frank Martinez and he opened his vault, which included the original master tape of the Grit acetate and several tapes with rehearsals from Grit and Merlyn. Master tape sound. Includes insert with rare photos/memorabilia and detailed liner notes. Free download card includes the full album plus another three digital-only bonus tracks, also taken from rehearsal tapes, including cool cover versions of "Chicken Shack" and "Burnin' Red Ivanhoe".
SPACE DRUM MEDITATION (GERMANY)
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CAT #: SDM 005EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SPACE DRUM MEDITATION Space Drum Meditation 12"
The next EP on Space Drum Meditation comes with four vigorous, percussion-heavy cuts for a powerful ceremonial dance ritual. Includes download code.
SQUAMA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: SQM 001G-LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
FAZER Nadi (Green Vinyl) LP
Green vinyl. Munich quintet Fazer release their second album, Nadi. Nadi follows the underground success of their self-released debut Mara (2018), which quickly sold out and became one of the most-streamed jazz records of the year. Moving freely between composition and improvisation, the band's spacious, organic sound pitches lyrical melodies from guitar and trumpet over double-drummer polyrhythmic grooves and dub-like basslines. The album title Nadi references a term rooted in traditional Indian medicine. Nadis are channels that connect points of intensity within the body. This reflects the band's feeling while playing of moving as one body. Contrary to the creation of Mara, both the writing and recording sessions for Nadi were completed in relatively short periods of time.
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CAT #: SQM 016LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
POPP Blizz LP
On his third album, Blizz, Munich-based drummer and producer Simon Popp further blurs the line between electronic and organic sounds. In carefully crafted, slow-growing tracks tuned metal percussions cut through searing synth pads, sucking the listener into a sonic vortex. Informed by personal and spiritual themes, Popp's debut album Laya (SQM 002LP), as well as his 2021 follow-up Devi (SQM 010LP) make use of rhythms as storytelling mechanisms. Contrasting light and dark, organic and synthetic sounds, his compositions engage in a dance of subtle complexities, enticing the listener into the practice of close listening. Throughout Blizz, a panopticon of metallophones takes flight, floating freely over earth-bound counter rhythms, conjuring up call-and-response techniques inherent in polyrhythmic music. This technique favors experimentation over perfectionism, leaving space for happy accidents to unlock new melodic possibilities. According to Popp, "it's much more interesting to try to push the boundaries of an instrument to see what's possible."
STUDIO 1 (GERMANY)
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CAT #: STUDIO 001CD
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STUDIO 1 Studio 1 CD
2022 classic, restocked. The Kompakt label couldn't be happier to announce the return of this long out-of-print CD collection from Wolfgang Voigt's famed and highly influential Studio 1 series. The Studio 1 CD has been out-of-print since 2000 -- the vinyl versions have remained unavailable since their initial pressings. This CD compiles some of the best of the 12" material (plus 5 unreleased tracks). On the heels of the celebrated Gas boxed set release, Nah Und Fern (KOMP 066CD), this CD is an opportunity to glimpse into a legendary series that is celebrated for being the root and origin of German minimal techno. Studio 1 is comprised of edited highlights from the nameless colored Studio 1 12" vinyl series recorded by Wolfgang Voigt in the mid-/late '90s. Cologne artist and Kompakt founder Wolfgang Voigt's (aka Gas, Mike Ink, M:I:5, etc.) most celebrated alias, Studio 1 (pronounced "Studio Eins" and not necessarily a reference to the legendary Jamaican dub productions) is not so much a title but rather a series of ten influential records. Beginning with the Green record in 1995, Voigt began releasing one Studio 1 record after another, with each untitled record bearing only a different color to differentiate it from its predecessor. The records featured a unique style of ultra-minimal techno, characterized by a palette of bouncy beats at varying frequencies, intricately arranged into a spacious yet complex multi-layered rhythm. This palette of bouncy beats owed more to warm dub bass beats than crisp, percussive bass beats, instantly differentiating itself from the traditional sounds of techno. Back by popular demand and more relevant than ever.
SUED (GERMANY)
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CAT #: SUE 026EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
PST & FRIENDS Tryptmix EP 12"
PST and friends, fresh on sued 2022. Features Coral D and SVN.
SURVIVAL RESEARCH (AUSTRALIA)
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CAT #: SVVRCH 066LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CANNABIS Joint Effort LP
Reissue, originally released in 1972. Rhode Island rock band Cannabis are another of those fabled groups that were gone in the blink of an eye. With only an album and a single to their name, issued on the short-lived Amphion Seahorse label, the band's particular brand of harmonic psychedelia and keyboard-driven rock deserved a wider audience, as attested by the high prices afforded original copies of this excellent LP. They're at their best on songs like "See You In The Morning" and "Sleeping Bride," both of which display a strong late-period Beatles influence. Another lost gem that is ripe for rediscovery, of interest to all fans of melodic, early '70s psych rock.
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CAT #: SVVRCH 068LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AHBEZ, EDEN Eden's Island (The Music Of An Enchanted Isle) LP
Reissue, originally released in 1960. During the late 1940s, enigmatic proto-hippie Eden Ahbez lived off the grid beneath the Hollywood sign, fueled by a raw food diet and dreams of a far-off paradise, scraping a living by writing songs like "Nature Boy" for Nat King Cole. Sole LP Eden's Island is a one-off, exotica wonder from 1960 that puts you in Ahbez's dreamy headspace through innovative sound design that fills in the blanks of his seascape, the vibraphones and piano capped by drifting choruses and Ahbez's disjointed spoken words. Definitely ahead of its time and apart from the later works by Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, this is a must for all exotica fans.
SYSTEMATIC (GERMANY)
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CAT #: SYST 014LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MASSEYEFF, NICOLAS Endless 2x12"
"Have you ever had this endless feeling of unconditional love for someone or music, between virtuality and reality, which seems to be eternal for your own heart..." --Nicolas MasseyeffFrench DJ and producer Nicolas Masseyeff shares his first album in almost a decade on Marc Romboy's label Systematic. The release brims with lush tones, electronica-flecked rhythms and rich soundscapes, suitable for a club-based audience and home listening. Celebrated visual artist Yann Masseyeff -- Nicolas's brother -- is responsible for the artwork of the release. Raised on the French Riviera, Nicolas Masseyeff started out as a local record dealer before purchasing his own shop, Limelight, establishing it as the most respected vinyl haunt in the South of France. Pursuing music production full-time since the late noughties allowed Nicolas to follow his true path, shaping him into the multi-genre artist he is today. Having released on Herzblut Recordings, Systematic, KD Music, Mobilee, and several other esteemed imprints, Nicolas has worked relentlessly to craft a sound that transcends house, electronica, downtempo and Afro house. Collaborations with Kittin, Oxia, and Parallelle wind throughout his back catalog, as well as remixes for Frankyeffe, Pig&Dan, Nikola Gala, Hot Since 82, and many more besides. Endless offers an insight into Nicolas's spiraling world, detailing the artist's lithe production skills and consideration when collaborating with other talents, like the interdisciplinary singer Kittin. The collection sums up where Nicolas is at now in his career -- a storied producer who continues to evolve, sharing an aesthetic rich in melody while retaining a dance-driven flavor. It's the kind of sound that comes with years of practice, patience, and perseverance.
TAMOKI-WAMBESI-DOVE (UK)
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CAT #: TWCD 1027CD
FILE UNDER: WORLD
PRINCE HAMMER Freedom CD
Rhythms recorded in Jamaican. Overdubs recorded at Glass Studios, Wirral, England.
TERAPIA RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: TRP 001LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
COMPLEMENTARY MINDS Butch Haynes Introduces Complementary Minds Vol. 1 LP
Terapia Records present the first release of its catalog, a stunning LP by the two founders Luca and Michele (aka Complementary Minds) called Butch Haynes Introduces Complementary Minds Vol. 1. The newborn label launches its ambitious, yet very much considered project, after the debut of one of the two head-honchos Luca Ferrara aka Butch Haynes on Apparel Music and Sistrum Recordings. He metaphorically introduces the first LP by the Milan born and bred duo, who share a deep love for music and a great productive connection. They deliver a brilliant eleven-track album, full of diversified sonic influences and quite representative of their bright talent. The record, which will be presented to you both on vinyl and digital, starts with a couple of masterly produced beats ("Fantastic", "Teacher Carey"), both with an analogous mellow, warm energy, some brilliantly crafted bass-lines and a substantial harmonic presence. The album keeps rolling with the deep feeling of "Flower Diva": its soulful, skillfully arranged vocals and the dreamy synthetic chords help the pair to perpetuate this passionate, balmy vibe. "Insomnia" ends the first quartet of sexy tunes with some seductive improvised spacey key stabs and its delicate pensive chords while "Q Orchestra (The Lost Tape Mix)" speeds up the heartbeat and leads to the closing track of the A side, "Bebi": a gorgeous groovy interlude. B side kicks off in style with the slightly darker feel of "Myers Boogie Man" where the pitched sampled vocals, the solid rhythm section, a profound array of sonic details and a marvelous warm synth melody towards the end of the track make it a true ghetto hit! "Right On", with its broken-beat and a radiant harmonic progression, "Contact 911" with its tight kick-snare connection and some far-out, whimsical chord evolution and "G Buster" with its irresistible slightly acid driving force, pave the way for the grand finale where "Maam", a proper club banger, ends this amazing LP in epic fashion. Butch Haynes Introduces Complementary Minds Vol. 1 is such a cohesive, yet incredibly diversified album and their authors, Luca Ferrara and Michele Fallabrino, achieve the challenging task of telling their sonic story with a flawless work. What a way to start Terapia Records' experience.
THE OUTER EDGE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TAC 011LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ART P No Message LP
Reissue, originally released in 1985. The Outer Edge present the first ever vinyl release of No Message by Art P, a still lesser known and lost masterpiece from the P.A.P. archives. Art P (initially Art Programming) was an electronic music duo consisting of Jens-Markus Wegener and Frank Grotelüschen. On No Message, originally released in 1985, you hear the band's most profound work, a detailed and unique mixture in between of electro and the synth-laden edge of new wave. The Outer Edge initially discovered Art P on the tape compilation Berlincassette 2-85. Their contribution, the title track from their second and last album No Message, blew the label away: punchy drum machines, heavy synths and cool female vocals delivering a serious, yet slightly ironic view on the meaninglessness in pop music having "no message". A couple of months later, when the label finally was lucky to get hold of an original full-length tape, they couldn't ask for more: powerful apocalyptic synth wave on "A Place To Fear", thrilling vocoder electro funk on "Polaroid", up-tempo new wave synth pop on "Sounds of the City", dreamy and melodic electro on "Without Jackets", and other well produced tracks. It was an absolute necessity for the label to get in touch with Art P and ask for permission to re-release their music on vinyl. No Message was remastered from the absolute best original tape source and sounds incredibly well. As a side note it should be mentioned that Wegener later became a key figure in the German music market. He was the founder of companies such as Public Propaganda, Europe's largest and most successful promotion agency in the mid '90s, the publishing company AMV, the distributor PP Sales Forces, among others. As a freelance promoter for SPV and the PIAS label he was also responsible for establishing the term "Electronic Body Music" as a musical genre. Grotelüschen was active as a music journalist (e.g. for Spex Magazine) and later became an important and well-known journalist for science. Fully licensed. Includes insert; blue vinyl; edition of 300.
THIRD MAN RECORDS
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CAT #: TMR 689LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TROST, HEATHER Petrichor LP
2020 release. "... Third Man Records is chuffed to present to you the New Mexico-based artist, Heather Trost's second solo full-length. Petrichor is fresh, unique, and really fucking good. Sonically, this modern psychedelic pop music is as experimental as it is accessible. Petrichor was recorded between 2018 and 2019 by Heather Trost and her husband Jeremy Barnes at their home studio. The two are community activists, urban gardeners, and full-time musicians. Feel joy now, find the time to watch the sunrise over the mountain/Make the space for yourself for others, we may not have the chance again/Things change so fast, we're not prepared/A precipice may open up anytime, separating us from life once again -- 'Let It In' Trost has an impressive body of work, notably in collaboration with husband Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel) on their own record label, Living Music Dupli-Cation, and their dazzling and uncategorizable Eastern European folk-influenced band, A Hawk And A Hacksaw, where she sings and plays violin, autoharp, keyboards, and other instruments. In the last two decades, Trost has toured and recorded with dozens of artists, including Beirut, Jospehine Foster, Thor and his Friends, Claire Cronin, the Swans, and her old band Foma. Fans of A Hawk And A Hacksaw might be surprised at how different Trost sounds; she describes the difference as working in 'two different languages.' Trost explains that 'recording music and writing songs reminds me of making a collage or a quilt.' When I was young I laid in the sand of a dry river bed in the desert sun/ I'll think of you in the canyon, winter won't last so long/Petrichor I feel your shadow in the morning air -- Petrichor. These seven lush, beautiful songs defy easy categorization, gleefully mixing elements from multiple genres--but it's never to impress you or show off. You might not even notice how smart the record is until a fifth listen, a testament to how much work was put into the futuristic and shimmering record. We all can have a hard time holding on to a shred of hope. With Trost's, Petrichor, we have a record that sounds like the soundtrack to what might come next, on the off chance that what comes next really doesn't suck. 'Even though shit had yet to hit the fan when I wrote these songs,' Trost says, '2019 also felt like such a crazy year in terms of what was happening in the world, I felt like I needed to remind myself to have joy and love in my heart. It's something I meditate on a lot, especially when it seems like the world is ending.'"
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CAT #: TMR 724LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SLEEP The Clarity/Leagues Beneath 2LP
2021 release. "A 4/20 surprise release from stoner rock progenitors Sleep. This 2x12" single collection features both of Sleep's iconic 12" singles -- 2014's The Clarity and 2018's Leagues Beneath -- packaged together for maximum monolithic potency. Each 180g single has music on the A side and a new etching by artist Dave Kloc on the B side, plus all new artwork by Kloc on the gatefold LP jacket. A must-have for Sleep fans everywhere."
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CAT #: TMR 786EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BIRCH, GINA Wish I Was You 7"
"London-based Gina Birch began her storied career in music in 1977 when she formed the feminist punk band The Raincoats with fellow Hornsey School of Art student, Ana da Silva. Gina and Ana witnessed an early performance by The Slits and although neither of them knew how to play any instruments, they knew they had to start a band. Just months after they picked up their instruments, they were on stage doing their thing around London and the UK in the fledgling and groundbreaking punk rock scene. The Raincoats quickly developed a large and loyal group of fans and supporters, among them Red Krayola, Swell Maps and Geoff Travis and his new record label, Rough Trade. The Raincoats went on to record three albums for Rough Trade that are frequently found on lists of the most important records of the punk rock era and are still name checked as influences by artists today. Originally, The Raincoats broke up in 1984 but were talked into reforming in 1994 when Kurt Cobain asked them to go on tour in support of Nirvana (sadly, that never happened). With a renewed interest in the band led by Kurt and Kim Gordon, The Raincoats records were reissued with liner notes by Kurt and Kim themselves. Worldwide tours and a brand-new fourth album on DGC resulted in 1996. The Raincoats still perform today for special events and have started their own record label, We Three Records, to handle their back catalog. Gina is a respected painter, a celebrated filmmaker and video director (directing videos for The Libertines and New Order to name a few) and is a mother of two wonderful daughters. She has formed and fronted the band Dorothy and The Hangovers. In September of 2021, Gina released her first ever solo single, 'Feminist Song', on Third Man Records in celebration of the opening of their brand-new London location. In February of 2023, Third Man will release Gina's brand new and first ever solo full-length album, I Play My Bass Loud, recorded by Martin 'Youth' Glover from Killing Joke and featuring Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth."
TRICATEL (FRANCE)
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CAT #: TRILPFR 015LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BURGALAT MEETS A.S DRAGON, BERTRAND Album Live 2LP
Reissue, originally released in 2022. This album, recorded live after the release of Bertrand Burgalat's first album (The Sssound of Mmmusic , 2000), is a unique testimony of a passionate encounter, of explosive concerts, and an exceptional musical adventure, a mixture of soulful rhythms, oneiric keyboards and songs with chiseled lyrics and harmonies. Out of stock on vinyl for decades, it is reissued here with a text by Philippe Manoeuvre. 21 years after its first publication, it has not aged a bit. It includes tribute covers ("Follow Me" by Amanda Lear, "Tears Of A Clown" by Smokey Robinson), and a version of "Easy Tiger", recorded at the same time for Depeche Mode. Gatefold sleeve.
VP RECORDS
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CAT #: VP 4162LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
LAWES, HENRY "JUNJO" Reggae Anthology: Volcano Eruption 2LP
2022 repress. 2010 release. Features Volcano singers: Barrington Levy, Leroy Smart, John Holt, Don Carlos, Barry Brown, Wayne Jarrett, Junior Reid, Johnny Osbourne, The Wailing Souls, Tony Tuff, Little John, Frankie Paul, Linval Thompson, and Al Campbell; and Volcano deejays: Nicodemus, Yellowman, Josey Wales, Early B, Eek-A-Mouse, Clint Eastwood And General Saint, Captain Sinbad, Lee Van Cliff, Charlie Chaplin, Ranking Trevor, Michigan & Smiley, Billy Boyo, Sister Nancy, and Toyan.
WASTE MANAGEMENT (ITALY)
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CAT #: TONY 004LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
JOY DIVISION Unreleased Pleasures LP
Collection of 14 tracks with unreleased material from the band. Pink vinyl version including material from the RCA Demos from the aborted first LP project (1978), the Genetic Records session (1979), Strawberry Studios (1979), Central Sound Studios where the band unsuccessfully recorded "Transmission" the single (1979), the Piccadilly Radio Session (1979), the Graveyard Studios recordings with rough rehearsal of what became New Order's songs (1980). Despite the band's short existence, there is no doubt that their sound has left a sign on music fans and performers alike.
WATERGATE RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: WG 095LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA Watergate 20 Years 3LP
The iconic club by the Spree celebrates 20 years with a mammoth 20-track compilation of new and unreleased tracks exclusive to the compilation. From Sasha to Anja Schneider, Henrik Schwarz, and Adana Twins, right through to the ascendent names such as JAMIIE, Kristin Velvet, JOPLYN, and Biesmans, the compilation is an exhilarating snapshot of some of the artists who have shaped Watergate's sound; both via the label and through laying down unforgettable sets at the club over a two-decade period. The highlight heavy compilation charts a course throughout all the deep, dark, euphoric, tech and even pop-laden corners of house music. Henrik Schwarz navigates a classic course via the vibey "You Need Attitude", while JOPLYN brings soaring melodies and arresting vox with "Lima". Biesmans is in characteristic sleek form with the sparkling nostalgic-soaked business of "Basic Bro", before emerging stars Mia Mendi contribute a driving electro jam "Astromech". The iconic Anja Schneider is an essential addition. The Berlin icon brings her A-game with the big piano chords and gospel vocals of "Can't You See Me No More" before handing the baton to Extrawelt who comes strong with a delicious micro house serenade "Rover". Sasha weaves a trademark masterful beast with "Wolf Cider", a dark and twisted weapon that's packed with plenty of groove and low-end attitude. Kristin Velvet's "Wanted Competition" is a propulsive gem that reinforces her position as one of the most exciting breakout producers of the last two years. Adana Twins are always on-point and they don't disappoint with "Nacht" a deviant, distorted house tool the belongs in every DJ's back pocket. Matthias Meyer & Ryan Davis share another ace track with "Genki", a shimmering, drama-laden piece that morphs into a tougher psy-laden finish. New Watergate signing DJEFF crafts an uplifting string-laden ace with "Cloud 7", while Hyenah make an essential contribution with the funky key-driven houser "Going in Circles". Club resident JAMIIE shares the wicked "Echoes", which is pacey and hypnotizing with colorful arpeggios and a latticework of key patterns. The project rounds out on a stunning note with "Tone Trails", a lilting slice of electronica by Watergate stalwart Marco Resmann & Lee Jones, which is inflected with organic guitar and dreamy melodies. The release will be presented as a triple gatefold vinyl using a special ink-spot color effect and will feature a collection of the compilation's key tracks, while all tracks will be available digitally. "Corona" color vinyl; gatefold sleeve; 180g inner sleeves; contains admission voucher for Watergate Club for two people at a night of their choice; includes download code. Also features Ede & Max Joni, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Stephan Jolk, Gorje Hewek & Joseph Ashworth, Jos & Eli, and Kid Simius.
WRWTFWW RECORDS (SWITZERLAND)
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CAT #: WRWTFWW 057LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
TAKADA, MIDORI Tree of Life LP
LP version. 180 gram vinyl; half-speed-mastered. WRWTFWW Records present the worldwide reissue of Midori Takada's solo album from 1999, Tree of Life. Originally recorded in September 1998 at legendary Ginza (Tokyo) studio Onkio Haus (founded in 1974 and where Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" and many more were recorded) and released on CD only for the Japan market in 1999, Tree of Life is Midori Takada's best kept secret, a lost gem of minimalism and percussive ambient. The album is separated in two parts, the first one finds Takada exploring her trademark environmental soundscapes with precise mastery of marimba, drums, and bells, notably on the magnificent fan-favorite "Love Song Of Urfa". The second half is a collaboration with Chinese virtuoso Erhu player Jiang Jian Hua, allowing Midori Takada to unveil new layers of her artistic mind with a slightly more theatrical approach and a beautiful crystallization of complex simplicity. The entire album was given a fresh new audiophile mix by Midori Takada herself and was mastered at Emil Berliner Studios. This Tree of Life reissue follows two newly recorded Midori Takada albums, Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter (WRWTFWW 060CD/LP) and You Who Are Leaving To Nirvana (WRWTFWW 061CD/LP), both available on WRWTFWW Records, along with her 1983 masterpiece, Through The Looking Glass (WRWTFWW 018LP). Design by Kohei Sugiura.
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AUDIKA RECORDS
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CAT #: AU 1001LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
RUSSELL, ARTHUR Calling Out of Context 2LP
2022 repress! "The compilation that started the renaissance. In 2002 Audika Records entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with the estate of Arthur Russell to compile and issue previously unreleased and out of print material from Arthur's vast archive. This first album Calling Out of Context, features 12 previously unreleased tracks of Buddhist Bubblegum Alt Disco Pop recorded during Arthur's prime years 1985-90."
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CAT #: AU 1002LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
RUSSELL, ARTHUR World of Echo 2LP
2022 repress. "Arthur Russell's most extraordinary work, World of Echo is reissued in this remastered vinyl edition by Audika Records. 18 tracks are featured including drumless versions of his disco classics 'Let's Go Swimming,' 'Tree House,' and 'Wax The Van' along with four previously unreleased tracks. Originally released in 1986, World Of Echo is a deeply intimate and meditative work of awe-inspiring grace and remains a timeless work of sublime beauty. Arthur's aim was to achieve what he calls 'the most vivid rhythmic reality,' with just cello, voice, and echoes. Arthur achieved all of this and more on one of the most incredible albums you will ever hear."
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CAT #: AU 1017LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
RUSSELL, ARTHUR Iowa Dream 2LP
2022 repress; double LP version. "Over the past decade, the visionary musician Arthur Russell has entered something close to the mainstream. Sampled and referenced by contemporary musicians, his papers now open to visitors at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center in New York, and his name synonymous with a certain strain of tenderness, Russell is as widely known as he's ever been. Thanks to Russell's partner Tom Lee and to Steve Knutson of Audika Records, who have forged several records from Russell's vast archive of unreleased material, the world now hears many versions of Arthur Russell. There's the Iowa boy, the disco mystic, the singer-songwriter and composer, and the fierce perfectionist deep in a world of echo. While all of these elements of Russell are individually true, none alone define him. Now, after ten years of work inside the Russell library, Lee and Knutson bring us Iowa Dream, yet another bright star in Russell's dazzling constellation. Blazing with trademark feeling, these nineteen songs are a staggering collection of Russell's utterly distinct songwriting. And although Russell could be inscrutably single-minded, he was never totally solitary. Collaborating here is a stacked roster of downtown New York musicians, including Ernie Brooks, Rhys Chatham, Henry Flynt, Jon Gibson, Peter Gordon, Steven Hall, Jackson Mac Low, Larry Saltzman, and David Van Tieghem. Musician Peter Broderick makes a contemporary addition to this list: more than forty years after Russell recorded several nearly finished songs, Broderick worked diligently with Audika to complete them, and performed audio restoration and additional mixing. Several tracks on Iowa Dream Russell originally recorded as demos, in two early examples of his repeated brushes with potential popular success -- first in 1974, with Paul Nelson of Mercury Records, and then in 1975, with the legendary John Hammond of Columbia Records. For different reasons, neither session amounted to a record deal. Russell kept working nearly up until his death in 1992 from complications of HIV-AIDS. At once kaleidoscopic and intimate, Iowa Dream bears some of Russell's most personal work, including several recently discovered folk songs he wrote during his time in Northern California in the early 1970s. For Russell, Iowa was never very far away. 'I see, I see it all,' sings Russell on the title track: red houses, fields, the town mayor (his father) streaming by as he dream-bicycles through his hometown. Russell's childhood home and family echo, too, through 'Just Regular People,' 'I Wish I Had a Brother,' 'Wonder Boy,' 'The Dogs Outside are Barking,' 'Sharper Eyes,' and 'I Felt.' Meanwhile, songs like 'I Kissed the Girl From Outer Space,' 'I Still Love You,' 'List of Boys,' and 'Barefoot in New York' fizz with pop and dance grooves, gesturing at Russell's devotion to New York's avant-garde and disco scenes. Finally, the long-awaited 'You Did it Yourself,' until now heard only in a brief heart-stopping black-and-white clip in Matt Wolf's documentary Wild Combination, awards us a new take with a driving funk rhythm and Russell's extraordinary voice soaring at the height of its powers. On Iowa Dream, you can hear a country kid meeting the rest of the world -- and with this record, the world continues to meet a totally singular artist."
BONFIRE RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: BONF 016LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
AFFINITY Affinity LP
Reissue. The sole album by cultish British prog-blues combo Affinity. Originally released in 1970 on influential label Vertigo, their self-titled album is still one of the most original efforts of the England jazz-rock scene. Fronted by Linda Hoyle, a powerful vocalist who sounds like a cross between Carol King and Julie Driscoll, the line-up was completed by Mo Foster (bass), Mike Jupp (electric and 12-string guitars), Lynton Naiff (keyboards), and Grant Serpell (drums and percussion). Their eclectic mixture was truly compelling moving over a certain psychedelic feel, thanks also to the ubiquitous Hammond organ. A singular effort that made definitely history. Fully licensed. Gatefold; edition of 500.
BUREAU B (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BB 406LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
CLUSTER Cluster II LP
50th anniversary edition reissue, originally released 1972. Cluster can be counted among the most important international protagonists of the electronic avant-garde. Some credit them with having invented ambient music, others as pioneers of synthesizer pop, whilst to some they are firmly embedded in the krautrock universe. There is some truth in all of these notions. Cluster (or Kluster as they were in the beginning) were founded in 1970 in Berlin by Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Dieter Moebius. A change in direction and musical differences moved Moebius and Roedelius to split from Schnitzler after which the duo recorded ten regular studio albums between 1971 and 2009. Their debut album (Cluster 71) was in Wire Magazine's "One Hundred Records That Set The World On Fire" list. Follow up, Cluster II, has now reached its 50th anniversary and to celebrate Bureau B are releasing a limited anniversary edition, vinyl only in a gatefold sleeve."Cluster II was born in two big cities. Back in 1972 Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius still lived in Berlin, where they were part of the city's swirling underground scene, situated somewhere in the middle of artistic happenings, musical outrageousness and drug abuse: an urban mixture that perceptibly influenced Cluster II, but the album was recorded in Hamburg; one track a live performance at Hamburg's concert hall 'Fabrik' . . . It goes without saying that they could not do completely without electricity, but they mostly manipulated their keyboards and other electric devices in an improvised way, as if rolling their sleeves up for some real manual work. This way Cluster never saw their role reduced to pushing buttons and pressing switches. It is obvious that Roedelius and Moebius were not late in discovering the tape loop as a method of creating repetitive patterns. They also incorporated an analog rhythm machine into Cluster II, even though it did not yet play an essential part on the album but what they firmly relied on was not their equipment, but rather their intuition and the option to decide at any point what was supposed to happen in the next few moments. The fact that they were always ready to run the risk of musical failure is something that cannot be respected highly enough. So, Cluster proceeded in a different way not only from a musical point of view, but also displayed a completely new attitude. Moebius and Roedelius never submitted to their machines but let their personalities as heart and soul musicians be heard at all times to create 'electronic music with a human face'. Conrad Plank, the ingenious sonic magician, who regularly hosted Cluster, Harmonia and others in his studio, displayed so much enthusiasm and inspiration in helping put these new ideas into practice. Bravely and without fear, Cluster had ventured out on a journey without knowing where it would lead them, stepping into fascinating, virgin territory..." --Asmus Tietchens
CIEN FUEGOS (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: CF 022LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
JOHANSSON, SVEN-AKE Schlingerland / Dynamische Schwingungen LP
2022 restock; Cien Fuegos present a reissue of Sven-Åke Johansson's Schlingerland / Dynamische Schwingungen, originally released in 1972. Sven-Åke Johansson (Mariestad, Sweden, 1943) works as a composer, drummer, accordionist, poet, and visual artist. Longtime collaborator of the free improv scene in the German '60s with Kowald, Brötzmann, Schlippenbach. He contributed to numerous exhibitions, publications, and recordings. Sven-Åke Johansson - drums. Recorded 1972 in Stockholm, Schweden. Engineered by Göran Freese. Cover photo by Norbert Eisbrenner. Cover by SÅJ. Remastering by Martin Siewert, 2019. 180 gram vinyl."Sven-Åke Johansson's 1972 record Schlingerland presents just the man and his drum set, exploring the polyrhythmic possibilities of his kit. Schlingerland fills a gap in the documentation of '70s European improvisation. At the same time, it retains a surprisingly contemporary sound which reverberates in the ear, mind, and heart of the 21st century listener." --All About Jazz
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CAT #: CF 024LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
GLOBE UNITY ORCHESTRA & THE CHOIR OF THE NDR-BROADCAST, THE Hamburg '74 LP
Limited restock. Recorded during the 105th NDR Jazzworkshop, November 19, 1974 at the Funkhaus Hamburg, großer Sendesaal. This album was originally released on FMP in 1979 (FMP 0560). Liner notes by Alexander von Schlippenbach (in German). 180 gram vinyl.Personnel: Manfred Schoof - trumpet; Kenny Wheeler - trumpet; Peter Brötzmann - reeds; Rüdiger Carl - alto & tenor saxophone; Gerd Dudek: soprano & tenor saxophone; Evan Parker - soprano & tenor saxophone; Michel Pilz - bass clarinet; Günter Christmann - trombone; Paul Rutherford - trombone; Derek Bailey - guitar; Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano; Peter Kowald - double bass, tuba; Han Bennink - drums, percussion, clarinet; Paul Lovens - drums, percussion; and the Choir of the NDR-Broadcast conducted by Helmut Franz.
CINEDELIC RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: CNLP 810LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
SUZUKI, HIROMASA Rock Joint Biwa - Kumikyoku Fulukotofumi LP
Reissue, originally released in 1973. The Fulukotofumi is the most important and ancient historical chronicle of Japan. The content of this work becomes an inspiration for the creation of a sound transposition of the legends and myths that most marked the spirit and inspiration of Hiromasa Suzuki, as a musician and as a high-level composer. The music that is concentrated between these grooves is a representation of the best that moved in the early seventies in the jazz-rock orbit at an international level; in addition, very strong infiltrations of tradition, characterized above all by the extremely calibrated and perfectly ad hoc interventions of the Biwa (lute of the Japanese tradition once used by blind monks to recite poems) and the Wadaiko drum. From its entirety, a highly evocative and magical sketch in nine suites emerges, a viaticum towards the most ancestral past of Japan, but at the same time also immersed in the modernity and expressive relevance of the land of the rising sun. A masterpiece that, buried for too long in the archives, is finally back reissued on vinyl with original graphics on its gatefold cover and enriched by an insert with the translations of the precious introductory essay contained in its original edition. Accompanying Suzuki's acoustic and electric piano is the crème of Japanese jazz that gives free rein to one's primordial instincts. Some passages come close to progressive, especially thanks to Kiyoshi Sugimoto's Allan Holdsworth style guitar.
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CAT #: CNLP 811LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
SUZUKI, HIROMASA Rock Joint Cither - Silk Road LP
Reissue, originally released in 1973. After the space-time experience and the translation into music of the Bible of Japanese civilization, the Fulukotofumi, the following year, in 1973, Hiromasa Suzuki pushes his research and experimentation beyond the borders of his own country by venturing, with the usual companions of adventure (Kunimitsu Inaba, Hideo Sekine, etc.), along the lights and shadows of the Silk Road. A backward journey in search of the musical and cultural sources of mainland Asia, from the gates of India to the roots of China. If the Biwa lute characterized the previous chapter dedicated to the profound ancestral of Japan, here, the sitar, the Asian instrument par excellence, becomes a new narrator; Suzuki plans and manages the interventions by juxtaposing it with an opera that, like the previous one, always remains strongly jazz and rock, at times very similar to Ian Carr's Nucleus. A precious find in the endless and seminal musical archeology of modern Japanese music. Gatefold; includes insert.
CLASSICAL MUSIC ON VINYL (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: MOVCL 064LP
FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL
JARVI, KRISTJAN Arvo Part: Cantique LP
2022 restock. "Cantique features the music of iconic Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. In celebration of Pärt's 75th birthday, Estonian-born and American-raised conductor Kristian Järvi leads the Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin and the RIAS Kammerchor in the performance of Cantique. The album includes Pärt's 'Symphony No. 3' and the world premiere recordings of the orchestral and choral version of his 'Stabat mater' (1985/2008) and 'Cantique des degrès' (1999/2002) for choir and orchestra. Cantique represents the culmination of a lifelong friendship between Järvi and Pärt. The album was produced by Florian Schmidt and recorded at Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin in February 2010. The orchestra -- Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin -- is one with which Kristjan Järvi has collaborated for more than a decade, and hails from Berlin, Pärt's home for many years outside of Estonia. Cantique is available on vinyl for the first time and contains an insert."
CORBETT VS. DEMPSEY
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CAT #: CVSD 087CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
GUSTAFSSON, MATS Naja (Black Cross Solo Sessions 5) CD
Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson might have a separate discography for his solo records. He's investigated the possibilities of unaccompanied reed music from almost every angle. Presented with the opportunity to make a new solo record under the isolation of the pandemic, Gustafsson returned to a project he'd conceptualized but never realized: the playing-card pieces of Peter Brötzmann. Although these Fluxus-like prompts are better known through the two card sets the German saxophonist created in the 1990s, which resulted in two CDs with his Chicago Tentet, Images and Signs (both released on Okka Disk in 2004), Brötzmann had in fact been using cards since the 1970s. Recording in his home studio in Nickelsdorf, Austria, Gustafsson used two of these sets of compositional prompts, one designed for the ICP Tentet and another intended as a spur for Brötzmann's own solo work. The instrumentation on Naja includes the entire saxophone family from sopranino to bass, as well as a piece for mouthpieces; this is also a rare opportunity to hear Gustafsson play more than one horn at the same time, a Roland Kirk move that he'd long ago sworn off but was prompted to do by the cards. In addition to nine pieces using the cards, Gustafsson played one non-card composition from Brötzmann's solo FMP LP 14, Love Poems. Stunningly mixed and mastered by Martin Siewert, with liner notes by Gustafsson, photos of the card boxes and the first photograph of Gustafsson and Brötzmann. Cover art, as on all Black Cross Solo Sessions CDs, by Christopher Wool.
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CAT #: CVSD 088CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
DRAKE, HAMID Dedications (Black Cross Solo Sessions 6) CD
One of the towering creative musicians of our time, a master drummer and percussionist, Hamid Drake has anchored innumerable bands. As a hard-working player, constantly touring the globe, he's collaborated with most of the major figures in improvised music and contemporary jazz, from David Murray and Peter Brötzmann to Pharoah Sanders and Don Cherry. Along the way, Drake has never had an opportunity to stop and make a solo record. Indeed, he's only performed solo on a few occasions. John Corbett began petitioning Drake to record an unaccompanied session twenty years ago. At last, after the pandemic had (just slightly) slowed down Drake's incessant travel itinerary, a plan was hatched and he entered Experimental Sound Studio during the cold, hard month of December, 2020. With Corbett, Jim Dempsey, and engineer Alex Inglizian as his audience, Drake worked through a vaguely plotted-out blueprint, however after a few months had passed, the drummer was unsatisfied with the result. He returned to the studio in July, 2021, with no pre-planned notion, and this time the Hamid Drake magic was everywhere -- perched on his drum-throne, working exclusively at the kit, sometimes plying metallic percussion atop the snare, Drake recorded nine tracks, a cornucopia of rhythms and textures that touch on his love of reggae and funk but retain the openness and buoyancy that have made him such a go-to figure among his peers. In the CD's liner notes, he says: "A dedication in spirit to all those who have influenced, helped, opened, nurtured, shown love for, and cared for me along the way." These include Brötzmann's band Die Like a Dog, long-term percussion pal Adam Rudolph and mentor Fred Anderson, fellow drummers Paul Lovens and Milford Graves, Don and Moki Cherry, Big Black, and others. The record, precisely and soulfully recorded by Inglizian, has the beauty and warmth that always radiate from Drake's sticks, from his person and spirit -- deep humanity in the form of an unstoppable engine room. Cover art by Christopher Wool.
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CAT #: CVSD 089CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
LINDSAY, ARTO Charivari (Black Cross Solo Sessions 7) CD
One of the architects of no wave with his band DNA, a pioneer of noise guitar, sublimely inventive producer, and slinkily seductive songwriter, Arto Lindsay has worn countless musical hats. Invited to make a solo record for the Black Cross Solo Sessions, Lindsay boiled it down to essential ingredients, waxing a collection of bristling new songs and works for solo guitar; on six of a baker's dozen tracks, his angelic voice offsets the bracing dissonance of his acidic electric. Recorded at studios in Brooklyn and Araras, Brazil, Charivari has the intensity of a killer live session; it's closer in vibe to the more aggressive side of his work -- think of his trio outing Aggregates 1-26 or the barbed riffs of classic DNA -- than gorgeously arranged solo songwriting records like O Corpo Sutil (The Subtle Body). In these razor sharp cuts you may well discover the identity of what, in the song "Nothing," Lindsay calls "holier than thou timing." CD contains full transcriptions of Lindsay's lyrics. Cover artwork and design by Christopher Wool.
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CAT #: CVSD 090CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
PARKINS, ZEENA To Dusk (Black Cross Solo Sessions 8) CD
Every day over the course of a year starting in June, 2020, in something she refers to as a "domestic ritual," Zeena Parkins recorded solo electric harp performances in her home studio. The brilliant improvisor and composer had, like most of her peers, been sidelined by the pandemic; unable to tour, she spent the end of each day at the harp, playing until sunlight waned, inventing and discovering new soundscapes, keeping her musical self together while the world seemed poised to crumble. Parkins's audience consisted of her boyfriend, filmmaker Jeff Preis (who filmed and recorded all the music) and their dog. Invited to participate in the Black Cross Solo Sessions, she returned to this deep well of recordings and selected ten tracks, augmenting the harp with pedals and resonant and resonating objects including bells and other percussion. To Dusk is a uniquely vibrating set of auditory investigations, a buzzing, ringing, hammering, plunging suite of instant compositions snatched from the maw of a malicious moment in the world's collective history. Liner notes by Zeena Parkins. Cover artwork and design by Christopher Wool.
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CAT #: CVSDLP 004LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
REID & FRED LONBERG-HOLM, TOMEKA Eight Pieces for Two Cellos LP
Repertoire for cello represents a little-explored niche of the greater jazz songbook. In 2013, cellists Tomeka Reid and Fred Lonberg-Holm turned their arranger-ly and composer-ly attention to this terrain, assembling a selection of four originals (three by Lonberg-Holm, one by Reid) and four works by other composers. The latter include "Pluck It" by pioneering jazz cellist Fred Katz, member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet and soundtrack composer for Roger Corman films; "In Walked Ray" by intrepid hardbop bassist and cellist Sam Jones, who worked extensively with Cannonball Adderley; "Rally" by legendary bassist and cellist Ron Carter, who played with everyone from Miles Davis to Eric Dolphy to A Tribe Called Quest; and "Monti-Cello" by Harry Babsin, the least recognizable name in the group who played cello duets with Oscar Pettiford and recorded the first jazz cello solos with Dodo Marmarosa Trio in 1947. These new takes on old charts provide a storied backdrop and contemporary diving-board for Reid and Lonberg-Holm. By turns achingly beautiful -- utilizing all the woody resonance of the twinned instruments -- and probingly exploratory, they pay reverence to and also rethink their predecessors' music. Alongside these historically-mined tracks are the player's own deeply engaging compositions. Reid's "Alla Mingus For La Bang" pays homage to one stringsman by way of another: bassist Charles Mingus to violinist Billy Bang. Lonberg-Holm's "Fragile, C'mon," and "How Can We?" all investigate the bowed and pizz'ed cosmos of the celli with devilish relish. Gorgeously recorded direct-to-stereo sans audience at Chicago's Logan Art Center, with a cover that sports a painting by Lonberg-Holm.
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CAT #: CVSDLP 007LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
ZETTERBERG, TORBOJRN Opinions LP
Torbjörn Zetterberg's new record, Opinions, is not a conventional "solo" outing. It doesn't represent the bassist, composer, and bandleader stepping away from all that to prove his mettle as a virtuoso unaccompanied improvisor. Anyone familiar with Zetterberg's small group recordings needs no confirmation of his prowess. And anyway, strutting his stuff is not his vibe. Certainly not the vibe of this record, where the bassist plays more than bass, a solo venture on which he is occasionally joined by others. What we have on Opinions is something altogether different, nearly impossible to describe except in parts -- minimal electronic/maximal prog/eco conceptual/experimental song form. With myriad instruments and multitrack studio composition, painstakingly assembled 2020-22, the LP's tracks have an episodic nature, and in this sense -- perhaps this alone -- they connect with other parts of the Swedish musician's oeuvre, his propensity for contrasting and juxtaposing sections, which can be deliciously heard on his records with The Torbjörn Zetterberg Hot Fiveor Torbjörn Zetterberg and Den Stora Frågen (including the latter ensemble's 2019 CD Live, also on Corbett Vs. Dempsey). But Opinions is a stand-alone work, a strange and wondrous personal adventure, a set of landscape miniatures contained in a bottle, each one equally abstract and actual, heady and guttural, melodic and textural, reaching for elements from across the musical map but never as pastiche, rather as deeply submerged influence, meditative result, a splash in icy water after the opium of sauna. Not your everyday solo record. Opinions introduces something particular: a chunk of raw coal buried far below surface that emerges faceted and glisten-y. Torbjörn Zetterberg writes: "This is without a doubt my best work so far. If you know me, you probably know me as a bass playing jazz musician. Yes, that's true, but pretty far from the whole truth. You'll be surprised. Not that this isn't jazz. Perhaps it is. If you say it is, why? If you say it's not, why? If you know the answer, please let me know. Me, I only hear music. The 'concept' behind this album was: not to box myself but to let creativity lead the way, all the way. I took guidance from the smallest kids in the playground. Apart from 'Brevet Från Lillan,' which was recorded at Zengården, the Zen Buddhist monastery where I live, everything was recorded in my apartment and my studio in Stockholm. Apart from drums on 'Random Thoughts,' which were played by Konrad Agnas, and Anna Högberg's alto sax on 'Opinions part 2,' I did everything myself including samples, singing, playing all instruments, recording, mixing, and mastering..."
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CAT #: CVSDLP 008LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
MCPHEE & TOMEKA REID, JOE Let Our Rejoicing Rise LP
In the year that Juneteenth was finally declared a national US holiday, 2021, Joe McPhee and Tomeka Reid united for a live concert in celebration. Multi-instrumentalist McPhee was deeply moved by the historical nature of the circumstances, the incredible freight of that history of oppression and liberation represented in the legislation, both the insanity of its overdue-ness and the joy of its institutionalization. As a preamble to the music, McPhee led off with two poems, read with trembling, vehement intensity: "Alone Together" and "Nation Time For Real This Time." Then, without a pause, they launched into a 33-minute duet for tenor saxophone and cello that gutted everyone in the packed audience, alighting for a brief segment on the late-19th century hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the so-called African-American National Anthem, lyrics from which the title of the record is taken. At the concert's end, McPhee was nearly inconsolable, the immensity of the day and the emotion of the playing overtaking him alone in the dressing room. Let Our Rejoicing Rise is a kind of apotheosis, an outpouring of two sensitive souls at the dawn of a new day in an epoch of damnation. With a jubilant cover image by Gee's Bend quilter Mary Lee Bendolph, recorded and mastered by Alex Inglizian, it's a once-in-a-lifetime record.
CRYPTIC CORPORATION
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CAT #: PR 051LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
RESIDENTS, THE Triple Trouble LP
"The soundtrack to the Residents' long awaited new feature film Triple Trouble. Seven collaged suites of brand-new Residents music, film dialogue and one or two familiar themes. Triple Trouble the movie will be appearing at film festivals and art house cinemas near you throughout 2022. 'From priesthood to plumber: In the wake of his mother's death, an idealistic but emotionally isolated man replaces his belief in God with a faith in fungus...' The Residents present Triple Trouble, the soundtrack to their forthcoming fifty-years-in-the-making feature film of the same name. Featuring a blend of extended instrumental cues, film dialogue and spoken word extracts, and self-produced by The Residents and regular collaborator Eric Drew Feldman. Dive deep into the psyche of Randall 'Junior' Rose, son of a recently deceased rock star and a former priest who has lost faith in the church. Convinced that a fungus is a threat to humanity, and accompanied by his only friend Cherry, an AI enhanced drone, Junior slowly gathers evidence to support his bizarre theory, spiraling out of control in the process..."
DAMAGED GOODS (UK)
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CAT #: DAMGOOD 578LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WILD BILLY CHILDISH & THE SINGING LOINS The Fighting Temeraire LP
"New studio album by Wild Billy Childish and Arf and Rob from The Singing Loins. In memory of Chris Broderick of the Singing Loins, who passed away earlier this year, we present a new studio album by Wild Billy Childish and Arf and Rob from The Singing Loins. The Fighting Temeraire contains new songs, old songs re-worked, traditional songs and a Bob Dylan cover. HMS Temeraire was a 96 gun ship of the line, built in Chatham, as was HMS Victory. After the passing of their dear friend, Chris Broderick, (lead Singer of The Singing Loins), Billy, Arf, and Rob decided to get together and record a 45 in his memory. The single 'Song of the Medway' soon led to this full-length LP. The Billy/Loins connection goes back to the early '90s. Billy had recorded the first two Singing Loins LPs in his bathroom back then, as well as an LP of folk variations of his own tunes with Chris and Arf. It was Chris's dying wish that the boys should continue the Singing Loins, so it was pretty much a given that this fine LP would come to be. At once ancient and modern, it is a fitting tribute to a great ship (and singer) of the Medway."
DRAG CITY
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CAT #: DC 120LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
O'ROURKE, JIM Bad Timing LP
2022 repress; LP version, originally released 1997, the first O'Rourke album for Drag City. "Make no mistake, Bad Timing is not a pop album by any standards. But it is a musing on popular standards and uses much of the same instrumentation that many of our country's most popular records have. Yes, Bad Timing is a theme record, Jim O'Rourke's pop opera, just waiting for someone to come along and play with it. Based on Fahey-esque 6-string acoustic guitar foundations, each of the three pieces expand to include other musical elements. Piano, organ, electric guitar, brass, strings -- everything, it seems except vocals! Think of the impressionist Americana of Van Dyke Parks and the soundtracks of Jack Nitzsche."
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CAT #: DC 215LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SILVER JEWS Bright Flight LP
2022 repress; LP version. "Bright Flight is the fourth Silver Jews album, but it could also be called 'Silver Jews In Space' -- that's how high and lonesome it sounds. All the Silver Jews traditions are there -- the vague country-rock, the solid silver tunes, Berman's moan-and-yowl, way-out lyrics, the secret hits and the sudden twists in the road that only Silver Jews songs have."
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CAT #: DC 235LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SMOG Supper LP
2022 repress; LP version. "Supper will strike some of you as easy-listening (Smog) which is simply proof that you (Smog) fans out there have hardened over the years. Sure, Supper features soft steel guitars, female harmony vocals, fluttering guitars, a sentimental ode to 'Our Anniversary', and more heart-warming things packed into its 43 plus minutes, but honestly it's still (Smog), isn't it? That means sharp observations, a steady stream of humorous spectres, discomfiting intimacy and other heart-warming things packed into nine melody-filled tunes."
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CAT #: DC 447LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DEATH Spiritual-Mental-Physical LP
2022 repress. LP version. "Spiritual-Mental-Physical is a collection of wild early Death demos, presenting the three young Hackney brothers consolidating their powers as they embark on a trip into pure rock and roll music...an inside look at Death's early days, one that fans of the group and fans of punk rock (and, indeed, rock of all kinds) are sure to enjoy for the rest of time."
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CAT #: DC 727LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ISHIBASHI, EIKO The Dream My Bones Dream LP
2022 repress. "Eiko Ishibashi's sixth solo album, The Dream My Bones Dream, rides the rails into a partly envisioned, partly imagined past. Eiko's previous songs-with-singing records explored the ambitions and intoxications of pop music -- but never so dramatically as with The Dream My Bones Dream. Here, her songs open up into reflections upon the vast spaces that exist between people as close as family members -- in other words, reflections on the things we spend our whole lives drinking and cursing about! When we're not trying to forget what we were told about god, that is . . . It's been four years since Car and Freezer, a time during which Eiko has been steadily working, writing for stage and cinema, playing live and recording (and hanging out with her no-goodnik boyfriend!). In 2016, she toured Europe and released Kouen Kyoudai (Editions Mego), a collaboration with Masami Akita. At Sinnerfama Lisbon later that year, she won the Best New Music Award for her soundtrack to The Albino's Trees. In 2018, Black Truffle released Ichida, her collaboration with Darin Gray. Amongst all this abject jet-setting and debauched gadding about, the music of The Dream My Bones Dream started to gather. It began with the death of Eiko's father. Going through family effects in the aftermath, she found photos from a time she knew nothing about: her father's childhood. A taciturn man, he had never discussed this period of his life. Classic dad! As it transpired, it took place in an infamous setting of recent Japanese history, the occupation of China's Manchurian region in the 1940s. In the light of this, questions about Eiko's lost family history took on a larger resonance. No, not war crimes! Please try and keep your head out of the gutter. We're talking about lyrical things here -- the ever-changing relationships between people and places in our lives, okay? The music is richly conceived in cinematic arrangements with details referencing Eiko's grandfather, who worked as a railroad man in occupied territory. The few images Eiko had to base her exploration on are set in shifting landscapes colored by the unreliable narrators of history. For Eiko, the train that ran through this rough terrain is now headed for her future, and only by accepting its past will she able to direct it through what is to come. Something to think about, yeah? We at Drag City are hopeful that this musical message will be blared down the main streets of Fascist Everytown, USA -- at least until they come to get us! On The Dream My Bones Dream, as with Eiko's previous albums, the diverse sounds within the musical arrangement and the qualities of Jim O'Rourke's mix (off the couch and mixing again!) are crucial to the achievement. The Dream My Bones Dream is a record of exquisite musicality and deep emotions, a travelogue pointed towards a time hopefully better than the future we see coming down the line! Any eventuality where we can listen to The Dreams My Bones Dream would be preferable to that one."
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CAT #: DC 853LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
AMBARCHI, OREN Shebang LP
Repressed! LP version. "Extended guitar hero Oren Ambarchi returns with Shebang, the latest in the series of intricately detailed long-form rhythmic workouts that includes Quixotism (2014) and Hubris (2016). Like those records, Shebang features an international all-star cast of musical luminaries, their contributions recorded individually in locations from Sweden to Japan yet threaded together so convincingly (by Ambarchi in collaboration with Konrad Sprenger) that it's hard to believe they weren't breathing the same studio air. Expanding on the techniques used on Simian Angel (2019), we can never be entirely sure who is responsible for what we hear, as Ambarchi's guitar is used to trigger everything from bass lines to driving piano riffs. Picking up from the staccato guitar patterns that ran through Hubris, Shebang's single 35-minute track begins with a precisely interwoven lattice of chiming guitar figures, expanding Hubris' monolithic pulse into a joyous, hyper-rhythmic melodicism that calls up points of reference as disparate as Albert Marcoeur, early Pat Metheny Group, and Henry Kaiser's It's A Wonderful Life. Building from isolated single notes into densely layered poly-rhythms, the muted guitar tones are joined by subtle touches of shimmering Leslie cabinet tones and guitar synth. Simmering down and funneling into a single note, the guitar stew is soon thickened by Joe Talia's propulsive ride cymbal, which blossoms into a beautifully flowing yet rigorously snapped-to fusion funk, whose ever-shifting details skitter across the kit -- think '70s heavyweights like Jack DeJohnette or Jon Christensen. An unexpected entry of guttural bass clarinet licks from Sam Dunscombe begins the series of instrumental features that pepper the remainder of the piece. Soon we hear from the legendary British pedal steel player B.J. Cole (hopefully known to some listeners from his outer-limits singer-songwriter masterpiece The New Hovering Dog or, failing that, 'Tiny Dancer'), whose languorous yet uneasy lines float in and out of a shifting rhythmic foundation supported by a single note bass groove, cut through with aleatoric synth articulations. Though single-mindedly occupying its rhythmic space throughout, Shebang's dense ensemble sound is carefully composed while drawing on the free flow of improvisation, with individual voices momentarily coming to the fore and subtle changes in harmony and texture. Perhaps the most surprising of these shifts occurs around half-way through when the smoke of a buzzing synth crescendo from Jim O'Rourke clears to reveal something like a piano trio, with Ambarchi's guitar-triggered piano patterns providing restless accompaniment to flowing melodic lines from Chris Abrahams of The Necks, while Johan Berthling's double bass and Talia's drums fill out the bottom end. Before long, things take another left turn as Julia Reidy's rapidly picked 12-string guitar lines take center stage, with O'Rourke's monumental synth clouds hovering in the distance. The ensemble surges through a slow series of harmonic changes before the whole shebang dissolves into a delirious synthetic mirage. Bridging minimalism, contemporary electronics, and classic ECM stylings, and bringing together a cast of preternaturally talented contributors, Shebang is unmistakably the work of Oren Ambarchi: obsessively detailed, relentlessly rhythmic, unabashedly celebratory."
EMOTIONAL RESPONSE RECORDS
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CAT #: ER 123LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AMOS & SARA Go Home Soldier 10"
Color vinyl. Includes unreleased track. "Welcome reissue of long out of print UK DIY post-punk EP, with OG copies currently demanding triple digits. Previously released on the peerless early '80s DIY-avant punk label 'Its War Boys', Emotional Response is proud to reissue this genuine 1983 Rosetta Stone post-punk-disco-dub oddity from one of the few legit unsung pioneers of the UK underground. Recorded in the twilight hours, at the legendary Surrey Sound with Chris Gray at the controls, featuring the arresting vocals of Sara Fancy, this long out of print EP serves as an essential piece of the jigsaw from a sprawling and fascinating back catalogue of Amos. (AKA Xentos Jones, Amos D'eath, L. Voag, Jim Welton, and others...), the playful lunacy and a driving force and behind such heavy hitters of the UK DIY avant-pop squat scene such as Milk From Cheltenham, L. Voag, The Work, The Fear Merchants, Just Measurers, The Homosexuals... and a bazillion others. This EP collects the three original EP tracks, plus the additional previously unreleased studio dub, rescued from an oxide shedding cassette. All remastered with love and consideration, ready for the gen pubs aural consumption. This is essential and rewarding listening. As those of you who know, will appreciate."
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CAT #: ER 124LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
2 SQUARE Y? The Secret Degree LP
Color vinyl. "Avant pop masterpiece, new band and new recordings from respected UK underground DIY post-punk legends. Mozart was a freemason. While still a baby, he was gifted a magic !ute on which he wrote all his tunes. Some of them are still around. Even so, the best way to gift-wrap your head around The Secret Degree, the latest release from Xentos Fray Bentos (guitars, keys, voice) and Ted 'Tebbs' Barrow (circuit-bending, percussion) is to picture it as a town. A town full of pity: Five blocks long, forty miles north of nowhere, with an empty gas station, a closed-up diner and the smoking remains of a Freemason's Hall, recently burnt to the ground by a pack of incensed villagers fresh out of a Universal Pictures' Frankenstein. In among the pitted ruins sit Ted and Xentos, plucking and slapping their instruments, busily exploring the folkish blue roots that underpin today's music making and trying to figure out how we got to where we're at. Feel free to roll up one leg of your pants, curl up a sleeve and join them on this nimble trip through an imaginary landscape of coltishly cultivated harmonies, mind-jingling melodies, all tempered by the occasional banshee wail of an untamable circuit. Two Square Why? Indeed. Why not?"
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
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CAT #: FTR 560LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
NOYES & JOSEPH ALLRED, ROB Avoidance Language LP
2022 repress. "There have been some very cool guitar duo LPs over the years -- Bert Jansch & John Renbourn's Bert & John, Danny Kalb & Stefan Grossman's Crosscurrents, Jody Harris & Robert Quine's Escape, Charalambides' Joy Shapes, Bill Orcutt & Michael Morley's Electric Guitar Duets, any comp of Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie, etc. -- but there has never been one quite like Avoidance Language. It is a wild-eyed classic from start to finish. Ostensibly a meeting between two guitarists lurking around the Boston area (although Rob has since moved to Japan), Joseph's mastery of other instruments (harmonium and banjo) affords the pair a wider range of sounds than some of their precedents. But they also eschew vocals here, so that kinda balances things out. At least in my book. The album's four tracks display brilliance and variety in spades. 'Feet of Clay and a Crown of Stars' is a two guitar conversation, with notes initially slurring and sliding against each other, then spreading out like waves of sound hitting a sandy beach. It's like something you might hear inside your head if John Fahey dunked you in one of the hot tubs at Big Sur. On 'Stutter Study' Allred uses his harmonium to soften the rhythmically tangled briar patch improvs by Noyes. 'A Valid Subspecies' pairs Noyes' guitar with Allred's provocatively original banjo inventions. Rob's playing on this one mixes ruminative downstrokes with aggressive single string highlighting in a style quite different from his trademark whirlwindery. Finally, on the title track, we are shown another intricate and deftly woven two guitar tapestry. It makes me imagine what Robbie Basho might have done in response to 'The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace at Versailles' from John Cale & Terry Riley's Church of Anthrax album. What can I say, but 'Wow.' Avoidance Language is one for the ages. Don't miss your chance to get ahead of its curve." --Byron Coley, 2021
GREEDY
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CAT #: GR 005LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DWARVES Blood, Guts & Pussy LP
"The Dwarves '90s punk classic returns with bonus tracks and expanded art. Includes 'Back Seat of My Car', 'Astroboy', 'Motherfucker', and 'Drugstore'. This record should be in every punk rock collection."
GUERSSEN RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: GUESS 157LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TAPIMAN Tapiman LP
2022 restock. Guerssen Records present a reissue of Tapiman's self-titled release, originally released in 1971. First reissued on vinyl by Guerssen in 2003 and long out of print, here's a new, deluxe edition of this Spanish monster rarity. Legendary psychedelic hard-rock album from 1971 with prog and blues influences by this extremely underground hard-rocking power trio from Barcelona. Line-up features Max Sunyer on killer guitar (later in Iceberg), and Tapi on drums (just after leaving pioneering psych band Maquina). Newly remastered sound; Hard cardboard sleeve and obi; Includes reproduction of the original promo poster and four-page insert with an interview with Max Sunyer plus many unseen photos. RIYL: Black Sabbath, Cream, Mountain, Thin Lizzy, Amboy Dukes.
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CAT #: GUESS 161LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LOS SHAKERS Shakers For You LP
Limited 2022 restock. First vinyl reissue of Shakers For You, the second LP by legendary beat/pop band from Uruguay, Los Shakers, originally released in 1966. An album clearly influenced by Help! (1965), Rubber Soul (1965), and Revolver (1966), but showing a band that were more than mere copycats, offering some revolutionary compositions and influences, such as bossa nova. The songs on Shakers For You take you through incredible musical mixtures that, while keeping a strong early/mid-Beatles feel, give you clues of what would come later in pop music with psychedelia just around the corner. One of the greatest beat LPs from the 1960s. Remastered sound in original mono sound. Original artwork in heavy cardboard sleeve and obi; Four-panel color insert with liner notes in English/Spanish by Miguel Navarro and rare photos.
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CAT #: GUESS 183LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
HAYMARKET SQUARE Magic Lantern LP
2022 repress. Originally from Chicago, Haymarket Square released in 1968 one of the rarest vinyl artifacts from the US underground psychedelic scene: the Magic Lantern album. Originally conceived as the soundtrack to a psychedelic lightshow art installation, the album offers crude, dark, psychedelic rock featuring trippy fuzzed-out/wah guitars, male-female vocals and long tracks. Newly remastered sound, insert with liner notes, repro of the ultra-rare Baron & Bailey Lightshow poster. New repress in hard cardboard sleeve; OBI; resealable outer sleeve."Magic Lantern is as fine a display of American psychedelia as late-60s albums by It's a Beautiful Day and Jefferson Airplane. This will appeal to fans of the fuzzed-out guitar antics of Cream and Blue Cheer." --Dean McFarlane (AllMusic)
HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: HPS 005CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TONS Musinee Doom Session, Volume 1 (2022 Remastered) CD
Reissue, originally released in 2012. Tons is an Italian band formed in Turin in October 2009 from the ashes of three popular hardcore bands of the city. The aim of the band is to remain close to the hardcore influence of the city where they were born but they decided to move on to sludge and doom. Musineè Doom Session, Volume 1 was their debut album out in June 2012 on Heavy Psych Sounds. Now the label and the band decided to release a very special 10th anniversary reissue with new cover and remastered tracks.
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CAT #: HPS 151BLACK-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SONIC FLOWER Sonic Flower (Alternate Cover) LP
Alternate cover. Reissue of Sonic Flower's self-titled debut album. Their self-titled debut album is an instrumental bluesy heavy rock with no doom taste. A lot of improvised double guitar solo and a very special groovy rhythm section. The release got a real unexpected awesome response all over the world. All the tracks are 100% original, except the cover of the blues classic "Going Down".
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CAT #: HPS 151ULTRA-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SONIC FLOWER Sonic Flower (Alternate Cover) (Pink/Blue/White Vinyl) LP
LP version. Alternate cover. Pink/blue/white vinyl. Reissue of Sonic Flower's self-titled debut album. Their self-titled debut album is an instrumental bluesy heavy rock with no doom taste. A lot of improvised double guitar solo and a very special groovy rhythm section. The release got a real unexpected awesome response all over the world. All the tracks are 100% original, except the cover of the blues classic "Going Down".
HOT CASA (FRANCE)
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CAT #: HC 043LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
HAASTRUP, JONI Wake Up Your Mind (Deluxe Gatefold) LP
2022 restock. Hot Casa reissues Joni Haastrup's Wake Up Your Mind, originally recorded in 1978. Growing up in a royal household in Nigeria, Joni Haastrup began his musical journey performing for his brother's band Sneakers and was quickly snapped up as a vocalist for Orlando Julius Ekemode and his Modern Aces's 1966 Super Afro Soul album (VAMPI 091CD), one of Afro-beat's formative albums. Soon after, Ginger Baker of Cream fame replaced Steve Winwood with Joni on keys for Air Force's UK concerts in '71 and the success of the collaboration led to further shows with Baker as part of the SALT project before he returned to Nigeria to set up MonoMono. Back in London in 1978, Joni recorded his solo gem Wake Up Your Mind for the Afrodesia imprint. Laced with funk basslines, swirling keyboards and screaming guitars, this is Joni's most "western" record but at the same time, unmistakably African in origin. From the slow-motion disco of "Greetings" to the stone-cold groove of "Watch Out" to the Reuben Wilson-style funk of "Free My People" Joni was soaking up the sounds of the times and blending them with the music of his roots. Limited repress of Hot Casa's 2011 reissue. Deluxe gatefold sleeve.
INSTITUTE FOR DANISH SOUND ARCHAEOLOGY (DENMARK)
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CAT #: IDL 006LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
CHRISTIANSEN, HENNING Satie I Hoj So LP
Restocked, last copies. The Institute for Danish Sound Archeology and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark present a reissue of the most enigmatic and rare of Danish artist and composer Henning Christiansen's albums Satie I Høj Sø. Originally released in 1977, the album collects five central works from Christiansen's neo-romantic period in the 1970s. This completely overlooked and virtually unheard period in Henning Christiansen's oeuvre contains perhaps his most fascinating and beautiful works. For ten years, from 1969-79, Christiansen turned his back to the art scene and made a very unorthodox artistic decision: To leave behind "art for arts sake", fluxus, and the concretist art music, that he had invented in the 1960s. Instead he created a music that was a positive vision for the future. A music that would make it "sing" inside the listeners -- and by changing them would change the world. A convinced communist, Christiansen created wonderful joyous waltzes and dancing melodies that set to bring about a revolution -- both an inner and an outer revolution -- by believing in the good in the world and by having hope for a bright future. Now, with the re-release of Satie I Høj Sø the music can make it sing inside us again. "Art should be such, that the People believe in themselves" --Henning Christiansen, journal entry, 1971. Carefully remastered from the original master tapes; 180 gram vinyl; High gloss cover; Henning Christiansen's own program notes for the music in both Danish and English -- 16-page booklet with never-before-seen pictures and a new in-depth article about Christiansen's works from the 1970s in Danish and English.
INTRAVENAL SOUND OPERATIONS
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CAT #: ISO 005CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
GALAS, DIAMANDA Diamanda Galas CD
Reissue, originally released in 1984. "Diamanda Galás's second album is sometimes referred to as Panoptikon (the composition on the A-side of the album). The album consists of two pieces: 'Panoptikon', which was inspired by Jack Henry Abbott, whose 1981 autobiographical book In the Belly of the Beast chronicled his experiences in the prison system, and '???????? ??? ?? ???? ??? ?????????????' ('Song from the Blood of Those Murdered'), a work dedicated to the political prisoners who were tortured and executed during the 1967-74 Greek military junta. The album, originally released on the label Metalanguage (founded by Henry Kaiser and Larry Ochs in 1978), has long been out of print. It is now available for the first time on CD, and reissued on vinyl for the first time. Remastered by Heba Kadry, with updated artwork overseen by Galás, it follows the recent reissue of Galás's 1982 solo debut The Litanies of Satan (2020) and her new solo piano LP De-formation (2021) on Intravenal Sound Operations. From original liner notes by Richard Zvonar (edited by Galás 2021): 'Panoptikon is a cry of rage by a caged prisoner against his jailer who is concealed from his victims by an impenetrable wall of technology. The title of the work derives from a design for a new kind of prison, proposed in 1843 by Jeremy Bentham. This edifice consisted of a central observation tower, ringed by multiple tiers of cells. Each prisoner could be kept under continual observation by his keepers, yet he would see neither them nor his fellow inmates. Such a polarization of power, manifested through architectural constraint and omnipresent surveillance, would leave an indelible mark upon the victim, even after release. In Galás's piece, the architecture of the Panoptikon is a model for the architecture of the performance work. The observation tower is aurally present as a continuous pulse, placed behind the audience and in opposition to the performer/victim through whose ranting can be seen the progressive psychosis of one buried alive. The walls of his prison become increasingly monolithic as layer upon layer of sound is built up around him -- each one a transformation of the sound of her voice.'"
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CAT #: ISO 005LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
GALAS, DIAMANDA Diamanda Galas LP
LP version. Includes full sized poster and insert. Reissue, originally released in 1984. "Diamanda Galás's second album is sometimes referred to as Panoptikon (the composition on the A-side of the album). The album consists of two pieces: 'Panoptikon', which was inspired by Jack Henry Abbott, whose 1981 autobiographical book In the Belly of the Beast chronicled his experiences in the prison system, and '???????? ??? ?? ???? ??? ?????????????' ('Song from the Blood of Those Murdered'), a work dedicated to the political prisoners who were tortured and executed during the 1967-74 Greek military junta. The album, originally released on the label Metalanguage (founded by Henry Kaiser and Larry Ochs in 1978), has long been out of print. It is now available for the first time on CD, and reissued on vinyl for the first time. Remastered by Heba Kadry, with updated artwork overseen by Galás, it follows the recent reissue of Galás's 1982 solo debut The Litanies of Satan (2020) and her new solo piano LP De-formation (2021) on Intravenal Sound Operations. From original liner notes by Richard Zvonar (edited by Galás 2021): 'Panoptikon is a cry of rage by a caged prisoner against his jailer who is concealed from his victims by an impenetrable wall of technology. The title of the work derives from a design for a new kind of prison, proposed in 1843 by Jeremy Bentham. This edifice consisted of a central observation tower, ringed by multiple tiers of cells. Each prisoner could be kept under continual observation by his keepers, yet he would see neither them nor his fellow inmates. Such a polarization of power, manifested through architectural constraint and omnipresent surveillance, would leave an indelible mark upon the victim, even after release. In Galás's piece, the architecture of the Panoptikon is a model for the architecture of the performance work. The observation tower is aurally present as a continuous pulse, placed behind the audience and in opposition to the performer/victim through whose ranting can be seen the progressive psychosis of one buried alive. The walls of his prison become increasingly monolithic as layer upon layer of sound is built up around him -- each one a transformation of the sound of her voice.'"
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CAT #: ISO 006CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
GALAS, DIAMANDA The Divine Punishment CD
Reissue, originally released in 1986. Includes poster and lyric insert. "On June 30, 1986, the same day that Diamanda Galás's The Divine Punishment was released, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Georgia's so-called sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick, criminalizing consensual sex between men. At the time, about 15,000 people were known to have died of AIDS in the U.S. alone, with little government acknowledgement besides suggestions to quarantine homosexuals on island colonies. By the end of 2021, the number of AIDS deaths globally would exceed 36 million. The first album in her Masque of the Red Death trilogy, The Divine Punishment is one of the most jarring works of art produced in response to the AIDS epidemic, and a milestone in Diamanda Galás's artistry and activism. Galás uses her famous voice both as an oratory instrument and as well as a physical representation of AIDS and those it afflicts. The album features the panphonic dirge work of Galás, accompanied by analogue synthesizers played by Dave Hunt. The texts are primarily taken from the Old Testament, contrasting the hectoring lawmakers of Leviticus with the desperate appeals of the Lamentations and Book of Psalms (Psalm 22, 59, and 88). In doing so, she indicts those who use religion to instigate the witch hunts that inevitably accompany real and perceived plagues. Today, The Divine Punishment sounds no less audacious than when it was released in 1986, but one hears it with a sense of shared trauma and a renewed call to action. Galás imbues all her work with the crushing weight of history -- the hypnotic cadences of her vocal work are precisely aligned to the liturgical texts employed. Remastered with exceptional clarity by mastering engineer Heba Kadry working from the original mixes by London-based producer/ composer Dave Hunt, it's a work of great empathy, solidarity, and physical power. Coming amid another pandemic marked by ignorance and division, its anger and fervor feels remarkably urgent."
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CAT #: ISO 007CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
GALAS, DIAMANDA Broken Gargoyles CD
"Employing a vast array of advanced vocal and instrumental techniques, Broken Gargoyles is arguably Galas's most intellectually, sonically and viscerally formidable work to date. The album finds the visionary artist deftly probing the weaving, warping transformation on the nervous systems of her post-traumatic soldiers and dying diseased. Composed in 2020 during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the first presentation of Broken Gargoyles featured verses by German poet Georg Heym, 'Das Fieberspital' and 'Die Dämonen der Stadt.' The work was finalized in 2020 in collaboration with the artist and sound designer Daniel Neumann. In 'Das Fieberspital' Heym describes the horrific state of people suffering from yellow fever who live in paralyzing fear of death and swirling delirium owing to their brutal treatment and isolation in medical wards in early 20th-century Germany. 'Die Dämonen der Stadt' also addresses such grim portents of World War I; in this poem, the god Baal observes (like a gargoyle) a town from a rooftop of a city block at nighttime and lets a street burn down during dawn. The final incarnation of the work was played as a sound installation at the Kapellen Leprosarium (Leper 's Sanctuary) in Hanover, Germany. 'Mutilatus' (side one) recedes in an approaching chilly ill wind, Galás intones over subdued whining electronics, cawing birds, semi-human verbalizations and something somewhere between these things. The often Sisyphean sound throughout Broken Gargoyles plumbs great depths in the album' s second part, 'Abiectio' (humiliation, dejection, despondency), which draws from the Heym poems 'Der Blinde' and 'Der Hunger' and the last verses of 'Das Fieberspital.'"
JAZZLINE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: N 78106LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
HARRIS QUARTET, EDDIE Live At Fabrik Hamburg 1988 2LP
"Eddie Harris Quartet - Live At Fabrik Hamburg 1988; Gatefold, 180 gram vinyl. This musician is simultaneously world-famous and unknown. The label Atlantic periodically re-released the recording of a very special concert he took part in and everybody who is somehow interested in jazz, even if only on its fringes, most probably has listened to at least one of the numbers performed by the saxophonist Eddie Harris. On June 21, 1969, he met with singer and pianist Les McCann on stage of the old casino of Montreux to unleash what can only be described as a firework of music, hardly ever experienced by the jazz community before. Situated somewhere between jazz, funk and soul, McCann and Eddie Harris actually create (this is no exaggeration!) something like a new style; and "'Compared to What', Les McCann's spectacular song oscillating between 'black consciousness' and the civil rights rhetoric, became the hymn of this movement."
KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
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CAT #: KOMP 174CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
BLANK GLOSS Melt CD
Melt is the debut full-length album by Blank Gloss, the Sacramento duo of Patrick Hills and Morgan Fox. Attentive listeners will recall their lovely contribution to Kompakt's Pop Ambient 2021, "Of A Vessel", which reappears here; others might know their 2020 mini-album, January, released on the stylish Miami label, Night Young. With Melt, Blank Gloss make a heavy contribution to Kompakt's ongoing explorations of the hundreds of hues of Pop Ambience. A lush dream of an album, it's a remarkable index of the gilded eternities that you can magic from a reduced tonal palette: glistening guitars, ruminative piano, warps and weaves of subtle drone and hum. The two members of Blank Gloss met through their shared involvement in punk and experimental music. Fox's band had recorded at Hills' Earthtone studio a number of times; they hit it off and made the decision to explore making music together. Their initial explorations resulted in their mini-album, January; for Melt, they aimed for something more minimal and improvised. Choosing not to spend too much time hyper-focused on any one thing freed Fox and Hills to make music that's guided by intuition, inhabiting the moment and reaching for the next surprising possibility. The long reels of e-bow guitar that wind through opener "Those Who Plant" ease the listener into an album that says plenty by doing less: witness the dream scripts that play out through pieces like "Hollowed Out" and "Of A Vessel", the gentle weightlessness of "Almost Home", or the clusters of guitar, expressive yet restrained, that sculpt "Rags" into being. It's an album that feels sui generis, somehow, much as it clearly sits within a number of fields -- pop ambient, touches of new age and drone music. Some provisional clues, though, for music that echoes Melt's loveliness: the humble ambience of the artists on Cold Blue Music; the eventless horizon of Bark Psychosis' "Pendulum Man"; the emotive pointillism of Labradford; some of the snippets of song that drift through Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook's Sleeps With The Fishes. Like all of this music, Melt embraces a radical ambiguity, one that allows the listener to enter the frame and inhabit the corners of the duo's music. There's pleasure and joy here too, of course -- you can hear it in the ease of the playing and the beauty of the melodies that Blank Gloss carefully dapple across the tonal field.
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CAT #: KOMRSD 006LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
BIONAUT, THE Everybody's Kissing Everyone LP
Warehouse find, last copies of this otherwise o/p LP. The story's been told before, though perhaps it hasn't been documented as well as it should have been: a group of young producers in Germany were knocked out by acid tracks, and in particular, the UK's acid house moment, convinced by the way it negotiated pop's pleasure and dancing's drive. Across the turn of the decade, The Bionaut's Jörg Burger, alongside friends and peers Wolfgang Voigt, Ingmar Koch, Cem Oral, Andreas Bolz, and Gregor Luttermann, would produce a dizzying number of tracks under a mountain of pseudonyms. 1992 was a turning point for Burger. Moving between Frankfurt and Cologne, Burger produced Everybody's Kissing Everyone with one eye on the dancefloor, the other on the lounge room. The productions from these fruitful sessions share a glam pop element, even at their most supine, with Burger returning to his pop roots. This was a running theme across the '90s, as he released a stretch of pop-electronica albums and EPs as The Bionaut and The Modernist. Vivid and welcoming, precision-tooled for the dancefloor, dewy-eyed and humbly melancholy, The Bionaut's productions manage to make risk and experimentation welcoming, joyous -- the inverse of so much studious experimental music. Talking about his productions as The Bionaut, Burger uses the term "metapop" to explain his music, and that's a perfect way of thinking about what he does -- it's at once pop and beyond pop, with a knowingness that gleefully ransacks pop's history. You can hear, in the seven tracks on Everybody's Kissing Everyone, reflections of UK acid house, the spiraling squelch of Chicago acid tracks, the lilting lightness of pop-trance, but the connecting force is a lushness of tone and richness of melody that points forward to the pop-tronica of later Bionaut. Here, Burger takes a snapshot of that precise middle-point between the dancefloor and the bedroom and colors it in both primaries and pastels. It's a most elegant swoon. Includes liner notes. Includes download code with two unreleased bonus tracks. Yellow marbled vinyl.
LANTERN REC. (ITALY)
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CAT #: LANR 018LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
COLONEL ELLIOTT AND THE LUNATICS Interstellar Reggae LP
Reissue, originally released in 1973. What if Lee Perry and Lex Baxter have been caught in a firetrap altogether? A weird experiment in dub and reggae coined in 1973, the sole album of this interstellar venture was a case in point. Jamaican rhythms (provided by the almighty Trojan Records crew) with legendary prog/psych keyboardist Ken Elliot (former member of influential British bands such as Second Hand and Seventh Wave) creating groovy instrumental on top. Ten tracks including the Joe Meek classic "Telstar" and a spacey rendition of The Skatalities' "Guns Of Navarone" (aptly named "Guns Of The Martian Giants") for an album that might sounds like a Caribbean easy listening session on dope. A true gem on its own, incredible strange music for the suburbs. Fully remastered and licensed.
LIBERATION HALL
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CAT #: LIB 5074LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MUTANTS, THE Curse Of The Easily Amused LP
"It's hard to let go of a good thing. More than four decades after the Mutants first appeared on the San Francisco underground music scene, four of the original members are still playing shows together under that name in 2022. After all, mutants are known to mutate, and that's what this colorful, energetic musical collective has been doing off and on since 1977. Perhaps even more surprisingly, the sessions for their lone album, 1982's Fun Terminal, continue to bring forth lost nuggets. In punk and new wave lore, Fun Terminal is considered a troubled project. Prior to the album's appearance, the Mutants had released only one 7-inch single -- 1980s' The Mutants EP -- and the band also had songs featured on two local compilations. Both the EP and one of the compilations were issued by 415 Records, the legendary Bay Area indie that made the jump from the new wave trenches to the majors when they signed a deal with Columbia Records in 1981. Many scenesters felt that the Mutants should have begun album sessions for 415 immediately after the EP, but that didn't happen. Each of the 14 tracks on the new collection, Curse Of the Easily Amused" has either been remixed, or sourced from previously unreleased tapes. 'From the band's point of view, each cut is a substantially different version than what might have appeared before,' explains current Mutants bassist and project producer Peter Conheim. Eight songs have never been officially released on vinyl or CD in any form. The versions of 'Think Think Think' and 'Tribute to Russ Meyer' feature radically different approaches than what was heard on the Fun Terminal reissue. We recently rediscovered a tape reel that included those songs. The Mutants discarded or forgot about a ridiculous amount of music during its first eight years. Audio quality for all the tracks here is superior to anything that's come before. No overdubs were used in preparing this release."
LION PRODUCTIONS
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CAT #: LION 198LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SYNDICATE Space Alley LP
"Plastic Crimewave Syndicate has finally returned with a wide-ranging/raging new album -- recorded two years ago in an expansive, benevolent alleyway in the midst of a dark, diseased, claustrophobic time of global chaos. The new PCWS album, entitled Space Alley, boldly travels into the relatively unexplored malevolent terrain of free doom, space/noise punk, and darkly dubbed-out library/soundtrack grooves (call it 70's crooked-cop show/freak-funk, if you must). This is all capped off with a sidelong, (beat of the) earth-harvesting modal exploration of synthed-out kraut-throb. With new bassist Rob Rodak (Dead Feathers) aboard, and guests like sax-skronk legend Taralie Peterson (Spires That in the Sunset Rise), flautist Sara Gossett (Spiral Galaxy), and synth lord Will MacLean (Protovulcan), new influences have seeped into PCWS's dystopian vision. The Syndicate have opened for revered deities like Nik Turner, Loop, Simply Saucer, Chrome, and Josefus; but now a more diverse and groovy array of past underground sounds like Skin Alley, Sound of Imker, Here and Now, Mann/Sharrock, Black Sun Ensemble, Parson Sound, and Schizo have influenced PCWS's journey. Recorded by Eric Block (Rhys Chatham, Sick Gazelle) of Rec Rooms studios, and mastered by Monster Magnet/Desert Sessions guitar god JP McBain, the mind-fry level is set to 11 ½ on Space Alley!"
LONDON RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: LMS 5521767
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Evergreen (25 Year Anniversary Edition) 2CD
In 1997, after a lengthy hiatus, Echo & The Bunnymen returned to the fore with Evergreen, revealing the brighter side of the band, and standing up with any of their earlier work. The self-produced album was recorded at The Doghouse in Henley-On-Thames with additional strings, horns, and vocal arrangements recorded at Abbey Road. The album saw the band rightfully return to the UK album charts at #8, with three singles ("Nothing Lasts Forever", "I Want to Be There (When You Come)", and "Don't Let It Get You Down") entering the UK top 50. "Nothing Lasts Forever" (with backing vocals and tambourine by Liam Gallagher) has grown to become one of the band's most enduring and well-loved songs -- a UK Top 10 and a fan favorite to this day. To celebrate its 25-year anniversary, London Records releases Evergreen. Double-CD version is remastered and expanded; includes studio B-sides, live and acoustic sessions, and previously unreleased versions across 33 tracks.
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CAT #: LMS 5521768
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Evergreen (25 Year Anniversary Edition) LP
LP version. White vinyl. In 1997, after a lengthy hiatus, Echo & The Bunnymen returned to the fore with Evergreen, revealing the brighter side of the band, and standing up with any of their earlier work. The self-produced album was recorded at The Doghouse in Henley-On-Thames with additional strings, horns, and vocal arrangements recorded at Abbey Road. The album saw the band rightfully return to the UK album charts at #8, with three singles ("Nothing Lasts Forever", "I Want to Be There (When You Come)", and "Don't Let It Get You Down") entering the UK top 50. "Nothing Lasts Forever" (with backing vocals and tambourine by Liam Gallagher) has grown to become one of the band's most enduring and well-loved songs -- a UK Top 10 and a fan favorite to this day. To celebrate its 25-year anniversary, London Records releases Evergreen.
LOST LAGOON
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CAT #: LLR 001LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BASHO, ROBBIE Bouquet LP
"Robbie Basho's 13th album is now available on vinyl.. Remastered from the original master recording, it has never sounded better. Robbie Basho's innovative pieces for the steel-string acoustic guitar incorporated American, European, and Eastern influences, while his unique voice appeared to emanate from another world. Along with John Fahey and Leo Kottke, Basho was a part of the triumvirate of guitarists on the legendary Takoma Records, and one of the foremost proponents of elevating the steel-string acoustic guitar to the level of a concert instrument. In his brief and troubled life, he laid the foundations for radical changes to the musical landscape of America during the 1960s and '70s but reaped little more than a sparse (if fervent) following during his lifetime. Almost 40 years since its original issue on cassette, Basho's 13th album Bouquet is available on vinyl. Affording us a greater insight into his remarkable vision, this long-awaited release is a critical piece of the puzzle that was Robbie Basho. With lyrical themes traversing famous mystics and arcane symbols, Basho's conceptual focus on Bouquet roves through Catholic, Sufic, Hopi, and otherwise nebulous terrain in search of the choicest blooms, while his approach to composition sees him veering ever further from the long-form instrumentalist of earlier days, becoming something of a troubadour. Remastered from the original master recording (discovered during the production of Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho), it has never sounded better. The 24-page booklet includes rare photos and images from Basho's illustrated songbook, as well as texts from Glenn Jones, Henry Kaiser and others. Bonus tracks include an epic 13-minute solo version of 'Land of Our Fathers'."
MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MORR 190LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TAPE Rideau LP
Reissue of the third album by Swedish trio Tape, originally released in 2005. First time on vinyl. On, Rideau, made their great leap forward. Released on Häpna, following two albums of pastoral folk meets electronica, Rideau saw the trio of Andreas and Johan Berthling, and Tomas Hallonsten, working with an outside producer, Marcus Schmickler (Pluramon). On Rideau, Tape's music opened out considerably, embracing traditional minimalism, and luscious melodicism. Now, seventeen years later, Rideau has a new home with Morr Music. Rideau sits neatly with Morr Music's catalog yet it feels contemporary, suggesting the creative discoveries made by the trio have ongoing resonance; their elliptical poetry echoes through recent music from the likes of Tara Clerkin Trio, and Tape's sometime collaborators, Tenniscoats. While they had previously recorded their albums in rural Sweden, for Rideau, the trio decamped to Schmickler's Piethopraxis Studio in Cologne. The creative space that Schmickler carved out for the group allowed them to explore this new material to its fullest. You can hear Schmickler's influence at an almost molecular level -- Tape had never sounded quite so graceful and assured with their compositions. Rideau represents a collective exhalation for Tape, with the trio exploring more involved, longer pieces, which situates them in yet broader musical contexts. There are clear connections with the history of minimalism, for example, via the repeating organ phrase of "Sunrefrain", and the insistent piano arpeggio of "A Spire", which builds into a Reich-ian dream song, with sensuous electronics and glinting vibraphone dappling abstract shapes across the song's stretched canvas. Reflecting on Tape's essence, Schmickler isolates their "uncompromised ethos, caring about small details." This echoes most radically through the twilight environment of "Long Lost Engine", which sets the listener adrift on impossibly radiant drones, while a gentle, almost Feldman-esque melody plays out over the song's surface. It's followed by the reissue's extra track, Japanese electronica quartet Minamo's remix of "Roulette", a connection that would lead to a Minamo/Tape collaborative album, Birds Of A Feather (2007). For now, though, here is the gorgeous, penumbral abstraction of Rideau, an album of whispers and clues, quiet moments and grand gestures, reintroduced to a welcoming world. Includes printed inner and download code; edition of 500.
MVD AUDIO
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CAT #: MVD 4667LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DEVO Somewhere With Devo (Live at the Palace 1988 + Remix Set) LP
"Live Devo from 1988 on vinyl. The Somewhere With Devo suite was performed live, one night only, as the encore of the band's Total Devo concert at The Palace in Hollywood, CA 12/9/88. The Devo re-mix set by DJ Kinky from 2010, also included here, was never released previously."
ONDERSTROOM (BELGIUM)
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CAT #: OS 047-053LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AROMA DI AMORE Zwarte Doos 6LP BOX/7"
Comprehensive box-set of six LPs/EPs and Aroma Di Amore first rare 7". Aroma Di Amore is/was Belgian's premier cult band. Since the early eighties ADA innovatively combined electronics with rock. With a mix of razor-sharp Flemish lyrics and unconventional song structures the group earned a cult status in Belgium and abroad. 40 years later they conclude their career with a few last concerts and a vinyl box set spanning the years 1983-1987. Frontman Jos Verlooy adopted the stage name Elvis Peeters. His companion Gerry Vergult -- who very much determines the sound with his metallic riffs, somewhat indebted to Jean-Marie Aerts -- adopts the stage name Fred Angst. On a bed of post-punk and cold wave (Joy Division, Wire and Sisters of Mercy are the main influences), they initially let out playful, minimalist, and nonsensical slogans such as "Doe De Mafia" (1982) and "Gorilla Dans De Samba" (1983). Later on, the tone becomes more serious, although Peeters's choice of words continues to show a penchant for absurdism and sarcasm. In the 1980s, an arms race is underway. When the Belgian government decides to install nuclear missiles in 1981, Aroma di Amore asks for one minute of silence in the hall during performances. In Lauwe Oorlog (1983), Peeters exposes the core of his unrest. In 1984 Aroma releases Koude Oorlog on the new and independent Brussels label Play It Again Sam. Encouraged by modest success in the alternative circuits, the group returns to the studio for a 12" single. With new group member Frits De Cauter on sax, they record "Voor De Dood". To this day, "Voor De Dood" remains the most popular AdA song. AdA goes to the Netherlands to record their next album, De Sfeer Van Grote Dagen. The people from Nasmak have built a new studio in Eindhoven and one of the members, Theo Van Eenbergen (later Henry Rollins), will be the producer. De Sfeer Van Grote Dagen is the group's most adventurous album. PIAS proposes to recruit Chris Reed of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and record a new single with him. "Zonder Omzien" is recorded at the prestigious Pyramid Studio. However, PIAS is waiting to release the album, and in the meantime, AdA is recording a number of extra tracks with producer Ludo Camberlin, including "Koekoek In De Stad". Towards the end of the year, Lo and Elvis travel to Africa for a few months and as a result the group comes to a standstill. In this period, Zonder Omzien is released. At the beginning of 1986, Peeters and Meulen return, and Andrea Smits leaves the group. Luc Pillards is hired as a replacement, and when Ludo Camberlin presents himself as a new label boss and producer (Anything But Records), they start recording their first full album for the label. Harde Feiten kicks in immediately, and the group is back up to cruising speed. At the beginning of 1987 the recordings for the second album start, this time in a production by Peeters and Angst themselves. Shortly after the shooting, AdA goes to Switzerland for a short but successful tour, with Men 2nd and Cas & Organized Crime as support act. Koudvuur is published in the autumn and considered to be their strongest record so far by the group, the reactions are rather low. Both the reviews in the press and the sales are disappointing and put a damper on the joy.
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CAT #: OS 048LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AROMA DI AMORE Koude Oorlog LP
Aroma Di Amore is/was Belgian's premier cult band. Since the early eighties ADA innovatively combined electronics with rock. With a mix of razor-sharp Flemish lyrics and unconventional song structures the group earned a cult status in Belgium and abroad. 40 years later they conclude their career with a few last concerts and a vinyl box set spanning the years 1983-1987. Frontman Jos Verlooy adopted the stage name Elvis Peeters. His companion Gerry Vergult -- who very much determines the sound with his metallic riffs, somewhat indebted to Jean-Marie Aerts -- adopts the stage name Fred Angst. On a bed of post-punk and cold wave (Joy Division, Wire and Sisters of Mercy are the main influences), they initially let out playful, minimalist, and nonsensical slogans such as "Doe De Mafia" (1982) and "Gorilla Dans De Samba" (1983). Later on, the tone becomes more serious, although Peeters's choice of words continues to show a penchant for absurdism and sarcasm. In the 1980s, an arms race is underway. When the Belgian government decides to install nuclear missiles in 1981, Aroma di Amore asks for one minute of silence in the hall during performances. In Lauwe Oorlog (1983), Peeters exposes the core of his unrest. In 1984 Aroma releases Koude Oorlog on the new and independent Brussels label Play It Again Sam.
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CAT #: OS 049EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AROMA DI AMORE Voor De Dood 12"
Aroma Di Amore is/was Belgian's premier cult band. Since the early eighties ADA innovatively combined electronics with rock. With a mix of razor-sharp Flemish lyrics and unconventional song structures the group earned a cult status in Belgium and abroad. 40 years later they conclude their career with a few last concerts and a vinyl box set spanning the years 1983-1987. Frontman Jos Verlooy adopted the stage name Elvis Peeters. His companion Gerry Vergult -- who very much determines the sound with his metallic riffs, somewhat indebted to Jean-Marie Aerts -- adopts the stage name Fred Angst. On a bed of post-punk and cold wave (Joy Division, Wire and Sisters of Mercy are the main influences), they initially let out playful, minimalist, and nonsensical slogans such as "Doe De Mafia" (1982) and "Gorilla Dans De Samba" (1983). Later on, the tone becomes more serious, although Peeters's choice of words continues to show a penchant for absurdism and sarcasm. In the 1980s, an arms race is underway. When the Belgian government decides to install nuclear missiles in 1981, Aroma di Amore asks for one minute of silence in the hall during performances. With new group member Frits De Cauter on sax, they record "Voor De Dood". To this day, "Voor De Dood" remains the most popular AdA song. AdA goes to the Netherlands to record their next album, De Sfeer Van Grote Dagen.
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CAT #: OS 050EP
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AROMA DI AMORE De Sfeer Van Grote Dagen 12"
Comprehensive box-set of six LPs/EPs and Aroma Di Amore first rare 7". Aroma Di Amore is/was Belgian's premier cult band. Since the early eighties ADA innovatively combined electronics with rock. With a mix of razor-sharp Flemish lyrics and unconventional song structures the group earned a cult status in Belgium and abroad. 40 years later they conclude their career with a few last concerts and a vinyl box set spanning the years 1983-1987. Frontman Jos Verlooy adopted the stage name Elvis Peeters. His companion Gerry Vergult -- who very much determines the sound with his metallic riffs, somewhat indebted to Jean-Marie Aerts -- adopts the stage name Fred Angst. On a bed of post-punk and cold wave (Joy Division, Wire and Sisters of Mercy are the main influences), they initially let out playful, minimalist, and nonsensical slogans such as "Doe De Mafia" (1982) and "Gorilla Dans De Samba" (1983). Later on, the tone becomes more serious, although Peeters's choice of words continues to show a penchant for absurdism and sarcasm. In the 1980s, an arms race is underway. When the Belgian government decides to install nuclear missiles in 1981, Aroma di Amore asks for one minute of silence in the hall during performances. Following "Voor De Doo", AdA goes to the Netherlands to record their next album, De Sfeer Van Grote Dagen. The people from Nasmak have built a new studio in Eindhoven and one of the members, Theo Van Eenbergen (later Henry Rollins), will be the producer. De Sfeer Van Grote Dagen is the group's most adventurous album. Originally released in 1985.
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CAT #: OS 051EP
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AROMA DI AMORE Zonder Omzien 12"
Comprehensive box-set of six LPs/EPs and Aroma Di Amore first rare 7". Aroma Di Amore is/was Belgian's premier cult band. Since the early eighties ADA innovatively combined electronics with rock. With a mix of razor-sharp Flemish lyrics and unconventional song structures the group earned a cult status in Belgium and abroad. 40 years later they conclude their career with a few last concerts and a vinyl box set spanning the years 1983-1987. Frontman Jos Verlooy adopted the stage name Elvis Peeters. His companion Gerry Vergult -- who very much determines the sound with his metallic riffs, somewhat indebted to Jean-Marie Aerts -- adopts the stage name Fred Angst. On a bed of post-punk and cold wave (Joy Division, Wire and Sisters of Mercy are the main influences), they initially let out playful, minimalist, and nonsensical slogans such as "Doe De Mafia" (1982) and "Gorilla Dans De Samba" (1983). Later on, the tone becomes more serious, although Peeters's choice of words continues to show a penchant for absurdism and sarcasm. In the 1980s, an arms race is underway. When the Belgian government decides to install nuclear missiles in 1981, Aroma di Amore asks for one minute of silence in the hall during performances. PIAS proposes to recruit Chris Reed of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and record a new single with him. "Zonder Omzien" is recorded at the prestigious Pyramid Studio. However, PIAS is waiting to release the album, and in the meantime, AdA is recording a number of extra tracks with producer Ludo Camberlin, including "Koekoek In De Stad". Originally released in 1986.
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CAT #: OS 052LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AROMA DI AMORE Harde Feiten LP
Aroma Di Amore is/was Belgian's premier cult band. Since the early eighties ADA innovatively combined electronics with rock. With a mix of razor-sharp Flemish lyrics and unconventional song structures the group earned a cult status in Belgium and abroad. 40 years later they conclude their career with a few last concerts and a vinyl box set spanning the years 1983-1987. Frontman Jos Verlooy adopted the stage name Elvis Peeters. His companion Gerry Vergult -- who very much determines the sound with his metallic riffs, somewhat indebted to Jean-Marie Aerts -- adopts the stage name Fred Angst. On a bed of post-punk and cold wave (Joy Division, Wire and Sisters of Mercy are the main influences), they initially let out playful, minimalist, and nonsensical slogans such as "Doe De Mafia" (1982) and "Gorilla Dans De Samba" (1983). Later on, the tone becomes more serious, although Peeters's choice of words continues to show a penchant for absurdism and sarcasm. In the 1980s, an arms race is underway. Harde Feiten was released in 1986. At the beginning of 1987 the recordings for the second album start, this time in a production by Peeters and Angst themselves. Shortly after the shooting, AdA goes to Switzerland for a short but successful tour, with Men 2nd and Cas & Organized Crime as support act.
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CAT #: OS 053LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AROMA DI AMORE Koudvuur LP
Aroma Di Amore is/was Belgian's premier cult band. Since the early eighties ADA innovatively combined electronics with rock. With a mix of razor-sharp Flemish lyrics and unconventional song structures the group earned a cult status in Belgium and abroad. 40 years later they conclude their career with a few last concerts and a vinyl box set spanning the years 1983-1987. Frontman Jos Verlooy adopted the stage name Elvis Peeters. His companion Gerry Vergult -- who very much determines the sound with his metallic riffs, somewhat indebted to Jean-Marie Aerts -- adopts the stage name Fred Angst. On a bed of post-punk and cold wave (Joy Division, Wire and Sisters of Mercy are the main influences), they initially let out playful, minimalist, and nonsensical slogans such as "Doe De Mafia" (1982) and "Gorilla Dans De Samba" (1983). Later on, the tone becomes more serious, although Peeters's choice of words continues to show a penchant for absurdism and sarcasm. In the 1980s, an arms race is underway. At the beginning of 1987 the recordings for the second album start, this time in a production by Peeters and Angst themselves. Shortly after the shooting, AdA goes to Switzerland for a short but successful tour, with Men 2nd and Cas & Organized Crime as support act. Koudvuur is published in the autumn and considered to be their strongest record so far by the group, the reactions are rather low. Both the reviews in the press and the sales are disappointing and put a damper on the joy.
PINGIPUNG (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PING 074LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ANADOL Felicita LP
Limited 2022 repress. "Whether it is traditional or contemporary, we need to be authentic," says Go?zen Atila who performs as Anadol. "I don't claim that I am authentic, but this is what I want to achieve." A sense of authentic exploration, introspection, and celebration coats every inch of Anadol's latest album. After 2019's Uzun Havalar (PING 065LP), the Turkish artist returns with an album that continues to explore a variety of deeply embedded musical traditions while also hurtling into new terrain. The music and influences -- as well as the history, culture, and geography behind them -- that make up Atila as an artist all coalesce to create something entirely new. The result is something that is simultaneously exploring history and tradition, while harnessing innovative modern sounds and techniques. "If there is any tradition I am somehow connected to, or influenced by, then it's multi-genres," she says. "Such as Turkish Pop and Arabesk music from this country where I grew up. There is a connection to folk and also French pop or Flamenco, Middle Eastern melodies and orchestration, Greek adaptations, Kenny G. solos, American guitars." This can be heard on Felicita, not in as much as you can link up the influences directly but in the way it glides across genres, eschewing convention and predictability along the way, to result in a kaleidoscopic experience. For the album, Atila found a talented roster of jazz musicians in Istanbul who she recorded on top of her synth productions and field recordings. Soon enough saxophone, drums, and strings began to stack up against preset drum loops from vintage organs. It's a record where woozy psychedelic excursions bleed into dreamy synth lines, immersive ambience, and the occasionally disconcerting yet incredibly tactile use of field recordings. Felicita translates as "happiness" and this album is something that explores the complexities of such an emotion. "I did not name the album like this because I just wanted to call it happiness," Atila says. "A song like 'Felicita Lale' is a sad and confused song about a female character who can't get out of bed. It's a funny rumination, in her thoughts, saying to get up and lie down repeatedly. At some point the lyrics say: 'hep agla, felicita', meaning: 'Cry all the time, Felicita'. Like she is talking to happiness itself and telling it to cry. So it is not about happiness, it is more about the concept of happiness which can be very sad."
RADIATION ROOTS (ITALY)
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CAT #: RR 347LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
BIG JOE At The Control LP
Reissue, originally released in 1978. Second album reissue for Big Joe (born Joseph Spalding in 1955), Jamaican reggae deejay and record producer, who recorded extensively in the 1970s and early 1980s. This is the follow-up to Keep Rocking And Swinging (1977), released on Live & Love in 1978 and produced by Bunny Lee. A must for all the reggae and dub fanatics out on Radiation Roots.
ROARATORIO
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CAT #: ROAR 045LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
SUN RA & HIS ASTRO-IHNFINITY ARKESTRA Sun Embassy LP
2022 restock. Roaratorio's survey of the unheard Sun Ra continues with Sun Embassy. Consisting of recordings from Sun Studios (aka Ra's house in Philadelphia) from 1968-1969, the album features nine tracks: six compositions which have never been heard before in any form, plus fresh coats of paint on such 1950s classics as "Sunology" and "Ancient Aiethiopia", and an early rendition of "Why Go To The Moon". Essential listening for Sun Ra devotees. Includes download coupon.
SILVER CURRENT
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CAT #: SILVER 050LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FUCKWOLF Goodbye, Asshole LP
"Goodbye, Asshole is the first studio album by San Francisco scuzz-wave merchants Fuckwolf -- it's a rat's nest of deep grooves, lost '70s rock riff intentions and art punk damage. These conundrums of time inform Goodbye, Asshole, but they are hardly romanticized in its music. The band, Eric Park (bass, vocals), Simon Phillips (drums) and Tomo Yasuda (guitar) sound blazing and scuzzy, a tight low-fi energy blasted onto tape at renowned Bay Area indie studios summarizing the last twenty years of San Francisco's wild artistic soul -- one that is now hard to find much evidence of in the city itself, but impossible to miss in the band's sound. Fans of OSEES, Pink Fairies, late '70s NYC, Emotional Rescue-era Stones, trashy post-punk dub and solvent-huffing rejoice!"
SPITTLE DEPENDANCE (ITALY)
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CAT #: SPITTLEDD 001EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
TROPHY Slow Flight (Vocal Version)/Slow Flight (Instrumental Version) 12"
Originally released in 1982 this pure electro-jam was a surgical trait d'union between the Italo-disco phenomenon and the American boogie. The frantic vocal version is paired with the instrumental on the B-side. Scientific Saturday Night Fever with vocoder and the likes!
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CAT #: SPITTLEDD 002EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ZED Plastic Love/Plastic Love (Instrumental Version) 12"
This was the sole release of ghostly electro wizards Zed, released in 1983 by the mysterious couple of J.K. Eller and J.P. Enten. Universal love meets artificial intelligence in this feverish number.
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CAT #: SPITTLEDD 003EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
BARSOTTI DJ, MASSIMO Whole Lotta Love 12"
Killer rendition of the classic Led Zeppelin stomp, arranged by famous DJ and producer Massimo Barsotti. Programmed by none other than Maurizo Dami aka Alexander Robotnick, this robotic version is delivered with alien vocals and cold as ice synth lines. Still a favorite for many international DJs.
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CAT #: SPITTLEDD 004LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA Fuzz Dance Classics Over The World LP
Pioneers, that's what they're called. Not properly a giant team, but a bunch of forward-thinking producers. In the heyday of the Italo disco there was some forward thinking, a new way to address the club scene. 1985 is the golden year and if you want to get to the core of the synth-pop experience. Look no further! This previously unreleased compilation collects a series of unbelievable tracks. An outstanding vision featuring la crème de la crème of the early '80s scene. All the way from electro wizard Alexander Robotnick to the astonishing performance of vocalist Mya Fracassini, through the French connection of Bigazzi brothers of Mon Bijou. Also features Mya & The Mirror, Naïf Orchestra, and Gina & The Flexix.
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CAT #: SPITTLEDD 005LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ROBOTNICK, ALEXANDER Fuzz Dance Classics LP
Selected from Alexander Robotnick's catalog of hits and released in this form for the first time. A unique compilation featuring all Robotnick's electro anthems originally released on Fuzz Dance label. A must have for all the Italo-disco and synth-pop freaks out there. Includes a rework by Lorenzo Boscussi.
SPITTLE RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: SPITTLE 135LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
NEGAZIONE Wild Bunch/The Early Days LP
The rising hardcore punk movement was taken by storm by a young Italian band from Turin, Negazione. Their earlier singles "Mucchio Selvaggio" (originally a split tape with Declino), "Tutti Pazzi", and "Condannati A Morte Nelvostro Quieto Vivere" are collected here as a real foundation of the genre. Compilation originally released by We Bite Records in 1989.
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CAT #: SPITTLE 140LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
THELEMA Tantra LP
Reissue, originally released in 1986. Deeply inspired by Aleister Crowley's esoteric thinking, Thelema are regarded as one of the crucial '80s post-punk acts from Italy. Originally released in 1986, Tantra was the band's debut album, a unique chemistry between occultism, acid guitars, and pagan rhythms.
SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
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CAT #: SR 488CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
CHAUVEAU/PIERRE-YVES MACE, SYLVAIN L'Effet Rebond (Version Silicium/Version Iridium) 2CD
L'effet Rebond is not one album but two. Two parallel albums sharing the same title. One by Pierre-Yves Macé, the other by Sylvain Chauveau -- two friends and regular collaborators for nearly twenty years. Both works come from the same original material: a few tracks of guitar, piano, harmonium, and vocals, initially recorded by Chauveau. The lyrics (in French, English, Japanese) are very short poems by or quotations from e.e. cummings, Thelonious Monk, John Cage, Basho, cult tennis player John McEnroe, Carla Demierre, Aram Saroyan, Joseph Guglielmi, and painter Philip Guston. From this common material, each of the two composers has built his own edifice, choosing the elements he keeps, the ones he abandons, adding little by little his own instruments, structures and ideas. In the end, two distinct and autonomous opuses are born. Double-CD; digipack inside a slipcase."Version Iridium": Pierre-Yves Macé has allowed himself to be guided by his long-standing obsessions: hybridization of genres and formats, balance between lyricism and formalism, intersection of chamber instrumental writing and chiseled electronics. But this time he pushes his penchant for sobriety further than ever. Whether it is a song-haiku, a miniature for piano or a long repetitive and rhythmic piece, the simplicity is at the service of the clarity of the ideas and the beauty of the timbres -- Maitane Sebastiàn's cello or Cédric Jullion's bass flute in mind."Version Silicium": Sylvain Chauveau has surrounded himself with his friends Peter Broderick (backing vocals), Machinefabriek (electronic processing), Lucille Calmel (field recordings), Romke Kleefstra (electric guitar), and Rainier Lericolais (electronic sounds) in order to develop more than ever his love of repetition and the ultra-short format. Here, the pieces often last only the time of a breath, of a few heartbeats. A musical form rarely explored in any musical genre, but one that Chauveau has been fond of since his early days and whose quintessence he seeks here.
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CAT #: SR 531CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
OISEAUX-TEMPETE What On Earth (Que Diable) CD
With their sixth studio album, Oiseaux-Tempête unveils a new facet of its mythology through a dense work that carries darkness towards the light of day, that rumbles, calms down and warms up again. Like the silhouette of a lighthouse that reveals itself as its torch rises and shines, the powerful beauty of What On Earth (Que Diable) radiates into an expanding musical cosmos. From the mammoth riffs of "Partout Le Feu", progressively thickened by explosive sound textures and sirens ringing the alarm, you levitate on "Terminal Velocity", a minimalist interlude with a crepuscular feel that is jostled by the hypnotic pulsations of "Voodoo Spinning" and then the call of the dungeon "The Crying Eye - I Forget", an electro mystical trance that deploys its philters in a troubled moat haunted by the psalmodies of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh. The tempo speeds up in "A Man Alone in a One Man Poem", a meeting of body and mind, of mechanical energy and burning breath where the spoken word of G.W.Sok sneaks in, before the pastoral crossing of "Waldgänger" and its forest of electronic chimeras."... At the center of this project, which blurs lines and genres, the duo turned trio of multi-instrumentalists Frédéric D. Oberland, Stéphane Pigneul, and Mondkopf have been building dialogues between their own reality, their vocabulary, and those of fellow travelers met all around the surface of the world. From their Mediterranean trilogy to their foray into Canada with the explosive From Somewhere Invisible, deeply instinctive albums shrouded in mystery take shape, in parallel with feverish and incendiary live performances, punk in their urgency to tell the world by blasting the boundaries of space and time. After having signed the soundtrack of the bewitching Tunisian film Tlamess (Sortilège) by Ala Eddine Slim in 2020, Oiseaux-Tempête immerses us with What On Earth (Que Diable) in a collapsed future. A psychedelic/psychological roadmap, the album gathers around Frédéric D. Oberland, Stéphane Pigneul, Mondkopf and Jean-Michel Pirès (Bruit Noir), the voices of Ben Shemie (SUUNS), G.W.Sok, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart) or the electric strings of Jessica Moss (Thee Silver Mt. Zion). If the planetary reality of 2022 looks like a bad spin-off of a pre/post-apocalyptic series, this new record invites us to another kind of anticipative present where the only weapons are poems chanted against the wind. Ben Shemie opens the projection on 'Black Elephant' and sets the tone for this magnetic dance . . . Drum machines, analog synths, percussions, guitars, mellotron, flute, saxophone, vocals, rhodes, piano, violin and electric buzuk come to life in a sort of disaster aesthetic, pushing back the walls of the decor, against the current of any calibrated music." --Alice Butterlin
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CAT #: SR 531LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
OISEAUX-TEMPETE What On Earth (Que Diable) 2LP
Double-LP version. Gatefold sleeve. With their sixth studio album, Oiseaux-Tempête unveils a new facet of its mythology through a dense work that carries darkness towards the light of day, that rumbles, calms down and warms up again. Like the silhouette of a lighthouse that reveals itself as its torch rises and shines, the powerful beauty of What On Earth (Que Diable) radiates into an expanding musical cosmos. From the mammoth riffs of "Partout Le Feu", progressively thickened by explosive sound textures and sirens ringing the alarm, you levitate on "Terminal Velocity", a minimalist interlude with a crepuscular feel that is jostled by the hypnotic pulsations of "Voodoo Spinning" and then the call of the dungeon "The Crying Eye - I Forget", an electro mystical trance that deploys its philters in a troubled moat haunted by the psalmodies of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh. The tempo speeds up in "A Man Alone in a One Man Poem", a meeting of body and mind, of mechanical energy and burning breath where the spoken word of G.W.Sok sneaks in, before the pastoral crossing of "Waldgänger" and its forest of electronic chimeras."... At the center of this project, which blurs lines and genres, the duo turned trio of multi-instrumentalists Frédéric D. Oberland, Stéphane Pigneul, and Mondkopf have been building dialogues between their own reality, their vocabulary, and those of fellow travelers met all around the surface of the world. From their Mediterranean trilogy to their foray into Canada with the explosive From Somewhere Invisible, deeply instinctive albums shrouded in mystery take shape, in parallel with feverish and incendiary live performances, punk in their urgency to tell the world by blasting the boundaries of space and time. After having signed the soundtrack of the bewitching Tunisian film Tlamess (Sortilège) by Ala Eddine Slim in 2020, Oiseaux-Tempête immerses us with What On Earth (Que Diable) in a collapsed future. A psychedelic/psychological roadmap, the album gathers around Frédéric D. Oberland, Stéphane Pigneul, Mondkopf and Jean-Michel Pirès (Bruit Noir), the voices of Ben Shemie (SUUNS), G.W.Sok, Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart) or the electric strings of Jessica Moss (Thee Silver Mt. Zion). If the planetary reality of 2022 looks like a bad spin-off of a pre/post-apocalyptic series, this new record invites us to another kind of anticipative present where the only weapons are poems chanted against the wind. Ben Shemie opens the projection on 'Black Elephant' and sets the tone for this magnetic dance . . . Drum machines, analog synths, percussions, guitars, mellotron, flute, saxophone, vocals, rhodes, piano, violin and electric buzuk come to life in a sort of disaster aesthetic, pushing back the walls of the decor, against the current of any calibrated music." --Alice Butterlin
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CAT #: SR 532LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
SIDHARTA, OTTO Kajang LP
Previously unreleased music by Otto Sidharta, pioneer of Indonesian electronic music. Inspired by Indonesia's multifarious styles of traditional music, that he tries to preserve, the four pieces on Kajang express a contemplation of the self. Otto Sidharta loves to travel, everywhere within Indonesia, in order to collect almost any environmental tones and harmonies he can gather, as an endless source of composition. He is also deeply inspired by Indonesia's multifarious styles of traditional music, that he tries to preserve, as in some remote places, they keep their own tradition very strongly. What really interests Sidharta is musicians not interacting with other kinds of music, as in those deep villages, where one might find sounds that feel like very "natural". It results in works expressing Sidharta's personal impression from their music: "I just use my own feeling, with no calculation", not using the tribals motif or style. Kajang is the name of a tribal people living in the south of Sulawesi, a giant island in eastern Indonesia, a closed community, that Sidharta visited twice: "They cut off their communication with the outside world. They live in a very traditional way and try to avoid any new development in culture that might impact their way of life." Sidharta's previous album collected early pieces under the title Indonesian Electronic Music 1979-92, released on Sub Rosa in 2017 (SR 452CD). Kajang gathers a quartet of compositions from 2015 to 2020. White vinyl.
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CAT #: SUBLOGOS 002LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
TOOP + PETER CUSACK + STEVE BERESFORD + TERRY DAY, DAVID Alterations LP
Never released before recordings from Logos Foundation live sessions at Logos Foundation, Gent, Belgium on January 3, 1981. "The music is free-improvisation -- that is we make our music co-operatively while playing: by listening, reacting, throwing in new ideas, not by following preplanned schemes. At its simplest the group's intention can be said to be to play together as well as possible and to enjoy ourselves while doing so. We are very interested in the result and intend that the audience is as well. As well as the musicians reacting to each other the music itself is pretty reactive to context. In other words, room acoustics, background noise, audience response have a strong effect on what happens. This is particularly true of the audience. We have done performances where conversation has broken out with some audience members. There is much to see as well as hear -- this is partly to do with the instruments. Together Terry, Steve and David have hundreds, all sizes, all sorts, most colors. They completely cover the floor. Many of these are non-western. The wide range of instruments means that an extremely broad sound spectrum is covered, from sudden bangs to very quiet low notes, from squeaks to normal guitar sounds. This is what fixes the overall group sound." Personnel: David Toop - flute, home-made reeds, percussion; Peter Cusack - guitar; Steve Beresford - piano, small instruments; Terry Day - percussion, home-made reeds.Logos Foundation: Belgium Flanders' unique professional organization for the promotion of new music and audio-related arts by means of new music production, concerts, performances, composition, technological research and other activities related to contemporary music. This organization has been founded in 1968 by Godfried-Willem Raes.
SUPERIOR VIADUCT
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CAT #: SV 153LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SPACEMEN 3 Dreamweapon 2LP
2022 repress. "August 1988, Spacemen 3 embark on one of the strangest events in the band's already strange history. Billed as 'An Evening Of Contemporary Sitar Music' (although consciously omitting the sitar), the group would play in the foyer of Watermans Arts Centre in Brentford, Middlesex to a largely unsuspecting and unsympathetic audience waiting to take their seats for Wim Wenders' film Wings Of Desire. Spacemen 3's proceeding set, forty-five minutes of repetitive drone-like guitar riffs, could be seen as the 'Sweet Sister Ray' of '80s Britain. Their signature sound is at once recognizable and disorienting -- pointing as much to the hypnotic minimalism of La Monte Young as to a future shoegaze constituency. On this double LP reissue, Dreamweapon is augmented by studio sessions and rehearsal tapes from 1987 that would lead up to the recording of Spacemen 3's classic Playing With Fire album. 'Spacemen Jam,' featuring Sonic Boom and Jason Pierce on dual guitar, is a side-long mediation on delicate textures and psychedelic effects. Includes download card and new insert with liner notes by Will Carruthers."
TAKE IT ACID IS (ITALY)
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CAT #: LSD 69009LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LES RALLIZES DENUDES France Demos LP
Limited 2022 repress. Feedback drenched noise for the classic "France" Demos from Japanese psych noise legend, Les Rallizes Denudes.
TAPETE RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TR 498LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CARAMBOLAGE Carambolage LP
2022 repress; LP version, Carambolage never set out to be a "girl band" but they were one of the first German new wave bands whose members were all female. The punk alliance comprising Britta Neander, Elfie-Esther Steitz and Angie Olbrich emerged organically from the environs of Ton Steine Scherben, friends united by a common interest in musical experimentation. Britta's passion for the drums ignited in 1974 in Fresenhagen, North Frisia, where she played percussion for Ton Steine Scherben. R.P.S. Lanrue's little sister Elfie-Esther was an obvious candidate. Angie, a child from the streets who joined the commune in 1972, completed the line-up. Carambolage surfed on their very own "North Frisian Wave" -- an epithet dreamed up for their distinctive sound. Shortly before her death in 2004, Britta was interviewed by music journalist Tine Plesch and described how the "girls gang" gave them the freedom to experiment and come up with "these really funny, filthy lyrics". There is a childish, subversive charm to the songs, emboldened by the realization that "we could fool around as much as we wanted." Their sound was not the only aspect of the group which resulted from experimental tinkering. Keen to have their own space, away from a male-dominated environment, they used cardboard and carpets to build their own practice room inside an old grain silo.With the first demo tapes in circulation, Burkhardt "Zensor" Seiler organized a gig for Carambolage in the hip Kreuzberg club SO36. At a time when anything that could be labelled "Neuen Deutschen Welle" (German New Wave) was stamped accordingly, the trio played by their own rules. The eponymous debut album Carambolage, produced by Rio Reiser and R.P.S. Lanrue in the summer of 1980 and released on the Scherben label David Volksmund Produktion, could not be constrained by NDW marketing concepts. Instead, the disc was defined by its "colossal, inventive sound" which fed on Elfie's curiously autodidactic "Fantasiegriffen" guitar style and her "Fresenhagen sparrow" voice, counter-balanced by Angie's organ and inimitable basslines and energized by Britta's relentless drumming. Backed by quirky organ and ragged drums, Elfie spits her lyrics with emphatic simplicity. Once her words are in your head, they stay there. Tracks like "Die Farbe war Mord" hint at a sense of feminist awareness. Carambolage may not have coined the phrase, but "lipstick feminism" became a thing, consciously playing with feminine clichés and hammering them home in performative fashion, rather than boxing them off. Towards the end of the record, vocals and sound are transcended in the monotone shimmer of "22 rue Chenoise".
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CAT #: TR 519CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
GARRIE, NICK Summer Nights (The Lost Portuguese Session) CD
Nick Garrie was discovered in the late '60s while busking in the South of France as a backpacker. His legendary album The Nightmare Of J.B. Stanislas (TR 437CD/LP) was to be released in 1969 on the no less legendary French label Disc'Az. However, due to the suicide of the label's founder Lucien Morisse, only about 100 copies of this psych pop/soft rock masterpiece came into circulation. A cult album in the truest sense of the word which has been re-released several times, and rightly so. After that Garrie finished his studies and worked as a teacher, ski instructor, and owned a hot air balloon company as well. Gradually, a new generation of music fans and musicians came to appreciate Garrie's work, he was collaborating with the likes of Duglas T. Stewart (BMX Bandits), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Francis McDonald (Teenage Fanclub), and Gary Olson (The Ladybug Transistor) and releasing critically acclaimed albums in recent years. The latest find from the Nick Garrie cosmos is a session he recorded in Portugal at the beginning of the millennium: Summer Nights: The Lost Portuguese Session.Nick about these recordings: "'Love In My Eyes'turned out to be our wedding song followed by three beautiful children. Of course, the music stopped. I was too busy with kids and working at my own balloon business. And then one summer we went to a lovely village in North Portugal where we picked tomatoes from the field. One night I went out to a '60s type bodega run by a fierce 80 year old with a big stick. He was watching me watch a guitarist and asked me if I played 'a little'. He pulled out a guitar from under the counter and I sang 'Deeper Tones of Blue' and I was home for the first time since I recorded Stanislas all those years ago. Sure enough someone asked me if I'd like to make a record and I said yes provided we have the Portuguese guitar which I'd fallen in love with. We recorded on the top floor of a block of flats with the local bus rattling round the corner. I slept on a bench and when we finished, I took everybody out for dinner . . . Well, the album went nowhere and lay on my shelf for 20 years until someone wrote in asking for it. I listened and loved that Portuguese guitar all over again..."
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CAT #: TR 519LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
GARRIE, NICK Summer Nights (The Lost Portuguese Session) LP
LP version. Nick Garrie was discovered in the late '60s while busking in the South of France as a backpacker. His legendary album The Nightmare Of J.B. Stanislas (TR 437CD/LP) was to be released in 1969 on the no less legendary French label Disc'Az. However, due to the suicide of the label's founder Lucien Morisse, only about 100 copies of this psych pop/soft rock masterpiece came into circulation. A cult album in the truest sense of the word which has been re-released several times, and rightly so. After that Garrie finished his studies and worked as a teacher, ski instructor, and owned a hot air balloon company as well. Gradually, a new generation of music fans and musicians came to appreciate Garrie's work, he was collaborating with the likes of Duglas T. Stewart (BMX Bandits), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Francis McDonald (Teenage Fanclub), and Gary Olson (The Ladybug Transistor) and releasing critically acclaimed albums in recent years. The latest find from the Nick Garrie cosmos is a session he recorded in Portugal at the beginning of the millennium: Summer Nights: The Lost Portuguese Session.Nick about these recordings: "'Love In My Eyes'turned out to be our wedding song followed by three beautiful children. Of course, the music stopped. I was too busy with kids and working at my own balloon business. And then one summer we went to a lovely village in North Portugal where we picked tomatoes from the field. One night I went out to a '60s type bodega run by a fierce 80 year old with a big stick. He was watching me watch a guitarist and asked me if I played 'a little'. He pulled out a guitar from under the counter and I sang 'Deeper Tones of Blue' and I was home for the first time since I recorded Stanislas all those years ago. Sure enough someone asked me if I'd like to make a record and I said yes provided we have the Portuguese guitar which I'd fallen in love with. We recorded on the top floor of a block of flats with the local bus rattling round the corner. I slept on a bench and when we finished, I took everybody out for dinner . . . Well, the album went nowhere and lay on my shelf for 20 years until someone wrote in asking for it. I listened and loved that Portuguese guitar all over again..."
TROST (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: TROST 230BK
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
BROTZMANN/HAN BENNINK, PETER Schwarzwaldfahrt CD/BK
Schwarzwaldfahrt is a magical document of a moment out of time, a moment when the saxophone player Peter Brötzmann and percussionist Han Bennink made a journey deep into the heart of the Black Forest with early portable recording equipment and cameras. The recordings that they made there were released as the Schwarzwaldfahrt album by FMP in 1977 and it remains a free music classic, recorded completely in the open air, with Bennink and Brötzmann duetting with the birds, playing in the water, drumming on great natural xylophones made of logs and catching the sounds of airplanes strafing the skies. It is a music of eternal expansion, of elemental communion. This new book comes with the original recordings on a CD and is assembled round a treasure trove of newly discovered photographs taken during the trip by both Brötzmann and Bennink -- photographs of each other, of their lodgings, of their ritual communions, of their route into, and out of the forest. "It's so lonely, this music, these two friends, making music on their own, in all of this space, and back of time, now, too, a document of a world that seems less populated -- by people, by ideas, by demands, by the tyranny of modern time, itself." --pre-liminal poetic text by David Keenan Peter Brötzmann & Han Bennink: e-flat clarinet, b-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, birdcalls, viola, banjo, cymbals, wood, trees, sand, land, water, air. 120 page book; 20x20cm; edition of 1000.
UMEBOSHI (GERMANY)
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CAT #: UME 002LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MATHIEU, STEPHAN FrequencyLib / Sad Mac Studies 2LP
Restokced. Stephan Mathieu's FrequencyLib was originally released in 2001 on Mille Plateaux's Ritornell sub-label. A quintessential document of the late 1990s/early 2000s Pismo PowerBook era of digitally manipulated audio, FrequencyLib is an adept meditation on the entropic possibilities inherent in popular music. Included with this reissue is the complementary Sad Mac Studies EP -- first issued in a run of 100 on Robert Meijer's boutique En/Of label. Exploring similar themes/processes as FrequencyLib, Sad Mac Studies reimagines and deconstructs the sonic world of Sesame Street.
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A COLOURFUL STORM (AUSTRALIA)
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CAT #: ACOLOUR 041LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TIME IS AWAY Ballads 2LP
Over the better half of a decade, Time is Away, the London-based duo of Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney, have made tender and heartfelt transmissions through countless mixes, sound works, and radio. Exploring deeply human themes of memory, persistence, and resistance using an assemblage of source material, the duo's unique mode of storytelling culminates in Ballads, a new suite of songs and, significantly, their first officially licensed compilation. From the opening notes of Horvitz Morris Previte Trio's jazz romanticism to Gilles Chabenat and Frédéric Paris's lively reimagined standard, the haunting vocal seance of Tanto Pressanto and the mesmerizing swirls of The Unthanks, Yuko Kono, and Rachel Bonch-Bruevich, the spirit of Ballads roams through generations of affectionate songwriting and conjures images both candid and surreal. The voice of poet and longtime collaborator Christina Petrie appears briefly and contemplates the "sighs and replies... the space between verses" of the ballad, its beauty, its place in our lives. What is the ballad but a reflection of our soul? "Perhaps I'll wander in search of it", she bittersweetly concedes. At the suite's cusp is an alternate version of David Lang's "Just (After Song of Songs)", a thirteen-minute meditation on devotion which featured in Paolo Sorrentino's Youth (2015). The track's universal themes of faith and desire radiate throughout and elucidate Time is Away's peerlessly precise yet gossamer touch. Also features Christmas Decorations, Antonietta Borgoli, Merula, Stella Vander, and Hydroplane.
AKUPHONE (FRANCE)
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CAT #: AKU 7001EP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
KAMACH & BAKSEY CHAM KRONG, MOL Ne Penser Qu'A Toi 7"
Limited restock. For the first time, two single records of Baksey Cham Krong - the first Cambodian guitar band - are officially being reissued in an identical version. Between surf music and ballad, these two records released in 1963 (Je Te Quitterai (AKU 7002EP)) and 1964 (Ne Penser Qu'A Toi) are an invitation to rediscover the effervescent Khmer musical scene of the 1960s. The early 1960s are often described as the "golden age" of Cambodia, with a flourishing economy and a strong cultural development. As the country had just won its independence, the King Norodom Sihanouk - who had been a singer himself - encouraged dynamism and creativity in all aspects of cultural life. In 1959, in the midst of this artistic turmoil, Mol Kamach and his brothers created a band: the Baksey Cham Krong (also spelled Bakseis Cham Krung) named after a temple of the Angkor site. The teenagers were influenced by the latest hits they had listened on the radio. For the music, Kagnol got his inspiration from the rock 'n' roll of The Ventures and The Shadows while Kamach took over the vocal techniques of crooners such as Paul Anka. The lyrics were either in French (as for the song "Ne Penser Qu'à Toi") or in Khmer. The song "Pleine Lune" became a hit and revealed Kagnol's musical genius at playing guitar and Kamach's delicate voice. From their beginnings on the capital's high school stages to their first broadcasts on national radio, the success of the Baksey Cham Krong was very quick. At the end of the decade the band already split, the brothers getting back to activities that conformed more with their parents expectations. A few years later, in April 1975, the arrival of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh put an end to this musical development and started the darkest era of Cambodia's contemporary history. A quarter of the population was killed in the Khmer Rouge genocide and the majority of artists and intellectuals were exterminated in a sordid will to wipe out any form of culture in the country. Films and music were banned, movie tapes and vinyls were destroyed. Mol Kamach and Mol Kagnol luckily managed to flee the country: one now lives in France, the other in the USA. Both still continue to make music nowadays. Bearing witness to the past history, the reissue of these two single records of Baksey Cham Krong brings back to us the Cambodian musical scene of the 1960s.
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CAT #: AKU 7002EP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
KAMACH & BAKSEY CHAM KRONG, MOL Je Te Quitterai 7"
Limited restock. For the first time, two single records of Baksey Cham Krong - the first Cambodian guitar band - are officially being reissued in an identical version. Between surf music and ballad, these two records released in 1963 (Je Te Quitterai) and 1964 (Ne Penser Qu'A Toi (AKU 7001EP)) are an invitation to rediscover the effervescent Khmer musical scene of the 1960s. The early 1960s are often described as the "golden age" of Cambodia, with a flourishing economy and a strong cultural development. As the country had just won its independence, the King Norodom Sihanouk - who had been a singer himself - encouraged dynamism and creativity in all aspects of cultural life. In 1959, in the midst of this artistic turmoil, Mol Kamach and his brothers created a band: the Baksey Cham Krong (also spelled Bakseis Cham Krung) named after a temple of the Angkor site. The teenagers were influenced by the latest hits they had listened on the radio. For the music, Kagnol got his inspiration from the rock 'n' roll of The Ventures and The Shadows while Kamach took over the vocal techniques of crooners such as Paul Anka. The lyrics were either in French (as for the song "Ne Penser Qu'à Toi") or in Khmer. The song "Pleine Lune" became a hit and revealed Kagnol's musical genius at playing guitar and Kamach's delicate voice. From their beginnings on the capital's high school stages to their first broadcasts on national radio, the success of the Baksey Cham Krong was very quick. At the end of the decade the band already split, the brothers getting back to activities that conformed more with their parents expectations. A few years later, in April 1975, the arrival of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh put an end to this musical development and started the darkest era of Cambodia's contemporary history. A quarter of the population was killed in the Khmer Rouge genocide and the majority of artists and intellectuals were exterminated in a sordid will to wipe out any form of culture in the country. Films and music were banned, movie tapes and vinyls were destroyed. Mol Kamach and Mol Kagnol luckily managed to flee the country: one now lives in France, the other in the USA. Both still continue to make music nowadays. Bearing witness to the past history, the reissue of these two single records of Baksey Cham Krong brings back to us the Cambodian musical scene of the 1960s.
ALTER (UK)
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CAT #: ALT 036LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LOW LIFE Dogging LP
2022 repress. Dogging crawled into the world desperately and painfully. Originally slated for release on Brisbane's singular Negative Guest List Records in 2012, the label's owner sadly passed away before it got there. It eventually emerged two years later as a split between two labels from the band's home turf of Sydney, Disinfect Records and R.I.P. Society. It's fitting that the latter had reissued Venom P. Stinger's Dugald McKenzie-era material the year prior -- arguably the only other Australian band that compares to the tough, shit-kicking intensity found on Dogging. Comprised of Mitch Tolman, Cristian O'Sullivan, and Greg Alfaro at this point (the current 2017 line-up includes Dizzy from Oily Boys), the reckless ferocity and defeatist's humor is pointedly nihilistic. It's not kitsch nihilism either, it's the kind that enlivens. Indexing happiness, fear, lust, grief, and sorrow, the wry indulgences outlined in Tolman's coded and scheming lyrics amount to white-knuckle sincerity. It's disarming, but it's blunted by a weighty smirk. If all this weren't delivered through a sardonic curled lip, the violence at the edge of it all would perhaps come off a little less real. There's a bitterly angry confrontation with the contemporary Australian psyche once you enter Low Life's estate. Thugged-out and at pace, there's a genuine rush to Dogging. The mindless logic of "harder and faster" could never get you to where they were at this point. Even at the marginally calmer moments, the guitars glance you like a headache revealing just how bad it is. There's no respite, but on the whole, it's a very functional arrangement between the three of them. Each song is belted out with a short, sharp fit, with some synthesizers occasionally glistening out at the edges. The restraint is all the more fierce as it amplifies everything that's fucked about them. Low Life pull you through it all on all their terms, and that impact feels as untimely and excessive now as it did then.
ASH INTERNATIONAL (UK)
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CAT #: ASH 13-9CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
GOLDMANN, STEFAN Call and Response CD
Stefan Goldmann's Call and Response has been crafted entirely from artificial reverb and nothing else: historic and contemporary units, responding only to brief electronic impulses (clicks). All sounds stem exclusively from the intrinsic properties of machines designed to replicate spatial acoustics. These range from early mechanical means such as springs and plates to increasingly complex algorithms aimed at convincingly approximating the rich acoustic responses of real world environments. The devices' idiosyncrasies enable the creation of spaces that fall short of naturalistic expectations. Yet new possibilities of exploring physically impossible alternative realities emerge. Recorded music has a rich history of much beloved and highly unreal spatial designs -- from the slap-back sounds of rock n' roll and the echoes of dub to gated snare reverbs and the nonlinear reflection bursts of 1980s drum machine fame. Despite the expected obsolescence of most historic efforts in the age of convolution reverb technology, many odd spatialization techniques persist and are now the subject of contemporary emulation. In Call and Response, the capacity of artificial reverb to go far beyond what the reflections of physical surfaces can elicit is often amplified to gargantuan proportions, only to be folded back into what appears to be the most minuscule of entrapments. Hissing tunnels and threatening wells vibrate left and right. A succession of "frozen" reverbs solidifies what otherwise would be fleeting reflections. Rapid shifts create artifacts that tear the fabric of space, only to reveal the underlying mechanics of its simulation. Occasional feedback, a reverb's output looped back into a unit's input, produces eerie harmonic textures inherent in algorithmic response curves (analogous to resonance frequencies determined by a room's geometric shape). The continuously dynamic handling of parameters such as size, density and shape allows for the exploration of impossible architecture along impossible trajectories. An aural choreography, plotted along permanently receding walls, liquid ceilings and crumbling floors. This is Goldmann's first album for Ash International. He runs the Macro label with Finn Johannsen.
BEACON SOUND
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CAT #: BNSD 069LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SABRA AND FADI TABBAL, JULIA Snakeskin LP
Snakeskin is an album of visionary electronic dream pop, shapeshifting above ambient and industrial undercurrents. It is moody, unsettling, luminous -- the culmination of a decade of collaboration and friendship between Lebanese producer/musician/engineer Fadi Tabbal and singer-songwriter Julia Sabra from Beirut-based indie trio Postcards. The duo began working on Snakeskin in the aftermath of the August 2020 Beirut port explosion, which killed at least 218 people, injured 7,000, and left over 300,000 people homeless. Indeed, Julia's home was destroyed by the explosion and her partner and bandmate Pascal badly injured. The first song that they wrote together afterwards was "Roots", which closes out the album and was composed for the Ruptured-curated series The Drone Sessions in the fall of 2020. Snakeskin utilizes tape loops, synthesizers, vocals, and drum machines, combining Julia's pop-inspired melodies and choral roots (an echo from her religious upbringing) with Fadi's affinity for minimalism and musique concrète. The album seamlessly incorporates the melancholy electro-pop of "All The Birds", the quiet menace of "In Our Garden" (long-lost treasures, ancient lies/another buried paradise), and the beat-driven "Signs". The title track sums up their frame of mind, beginning as a lullaby and evolving into a glittering tapestry of distortion and feedback. As the artists write, Snakeskin is a product of "the disappearance of life as we know it, and with it the decay of nature and living creatures. There is no rebirth, no renewal. It's about what it means to feel at home in such a place." Some tracks were also inspired by events happening in the surrounding region, such as the invasion of Armenia by Azerbaijan and the Palestinian uprising of May 2021 (Sheikh Jarrah) -- both events shedding light on relationships to home and land across the wider region. That such compelling art can emerge from unceasing tragedy may be the ultimate testament to human resilience and the pursuit of freedom and justice. "The moon speaks in tongues we can't discern/ A plastic dove hangs from a cypress branch/ Haven't you heard?/ Nothing grows here anymore/ The air is burnt/ Nothing grows..." RIYL: Gazelle Twin, Lali Puna, This Mortal Coil, Slow Walkers, Atlas Sound, Bowery Electric, Broadcast. Edition of 300.
BECAUSE MUSIC (FRANCE)
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CAT #: BEC 5611412
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VANGARDE, DANIEL The Vaults of Zagora Records Mastermind (1971-1984) CD
Born in 1947, Daniel Vangarde is a French songwriter and producer. In 1967, he met Jean Kluger who became his publisher. In the 1970s, their tandem stood out in those fields, for a plethora of popular French artists such as Petula Clark, Claude François, Joe Dassin, Dalida, Régine, Sheila, and Ringo. 1975 saw the birth of Vangarde's label, Zagora, and his first and only solo LP. Later on, Vangarde and Kluger were responsible for a number of hit songs by The Gibson Brothers, Ottawan, and La Compagnie Créole. With or without Kluger, Vangarde also wrote and produced songs that remained underground, under several monikers (Starbow, Who's Who, Soul Iberica Band, Yamasuki, Rocky & Vandella...) and for various artists. Because Music opens these incredible cosmic disco funk vaults. Features Starbow, The Electronic System, Daniel Vangarde, Who's Who, Soul Iberica Band, La Boca, The Lovelets, Yamasuki, The Great Disco Bouzouki Band, Vicky Edimo, Gibson Brothers, Black Blood, La Compagnie Créole, Ottawan, and Rocky & Vandella.
BIKINI KILL RECORDS
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CAT #: BIKINI 002EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BIKINI KILL Bikini Kill EP 12"
2022 repress. "This is the 20th anniversary reissue of Bikini Kill's debut 12" EP. The vinyl reissue includes a new fanzine in the form of a 34" x 21" poster featuring interviews with Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Evens) and Molly Neuman (Bratmobile), liner notes by Layla Gibbon (Skinned Teen, MRR), excerpts from the band's zines (Bikini Kill #1 and #2, Jigsaw #4), and photos from the band members' personal archives. Bikini Kill was a feminist punk band that was based in Olympia, WA and Washington, DC, forming in 1990 and breaking up in 1997. Kathleen Hanna sang, Tobi Vail played drums, Billy Karren (a.k.a. Billy Boredom) played guitar, and Kathi Wilcox played bass. Bikini Kill is credited with instigating the Riot Grrrl movement in the early '90s via their political lyrics, zines, and confrontational live performances. The self-titled EP, originally released in the fall of 1992, comprises four songs recorded by Ian MacKaye at Inner Ear Studios; one song from the band's 1991 demo cassette, recorded by Pat Maley (Yo-Yo Studios) and one song recorded during Bikini Kill's live performance on April 4th, 1992, at Washington, D.C.'s Sanctuary Theater."
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CAT #: BIKINI 006LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BIKINI KILL Pussy Whipped LP
2022 restock; LP version. "Originally released in 1993, Pussy Whipped is Bikini Kill's debut full-length. Out of print for seven years. Bikini Kill was a feminist punk band based in Olympia, WA and Washington, D.C., forming in 1990 and breaking up in 1997. Kathleen Hanna sang, Tobi Vail played drums, Billy Karren (a.k.a. Billy Boredom) played guitar and Kathi Wilcox played bass. Bikini Kill is credited with instigating the Riot Grrrl movement in the early '90s via their political lyrics, zines, and confrontational live performances."
BILLBROOK RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BILLBROOK 002LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ABORIGINAL VOICES Instant Music LP
"For a quarter of an hour, Zürich was the navel of the world . . . Contrary to legend, even back then, it was often those with a musical background who were the most successful. One such example, Henrich 'Wüste' Zwahlen, who had learned the violin, attended a jazz school and went into prog-rock before joining the Nasal Boys, one of the first punk bands in Zürich. The scene included the female band Kleenex, whose minimalism was praised by the London music press, while the world's most important rock theorist, Greil Marcus, wrote an ode highlighting Zürich's role as the birthplace of Dadaism. A fertile ground for the militant youth movement that exploded in 1980 and stirred up the city of banks, Protestantism, and boredom with raw wit and expressive violence . . . In Zürich's underground, the duo Aboriginal Voices caused a stir at that time. A couple, good-looking, styled, looking cool into the cold neon light, with a danceable beat and sequenced electro sounds, to which Micheline gave a very unique touch when she sang in French and English. Micheline had a classical piano education, had left home early, worked as a lighting technician in a strip joint and at Booster, the hottest boutique in town. Voilà: a musician who was as stylish as she was tough. She was already playing with Wüste in the band Doobie Doos, a band where everyone played an instrument they didn't master. In 1980 the Aboriginal Voices were formed, initially with vocalist Magda Vogel (of later UnknownmiX fame), who was trained as a classical singer. Frustrated by organizational friction and constant hassles with band lineups, Wüste and Misch decided to do everything as a twosome: self-mixed, self-styled, self-produced. With the top-of-the-line Linn drum machine clocking the beat, Wüste's guitar and Micheline on the Yamaha synthesizer created a unique sound of danceable electronic music . . . They had an interface built for the legendary Roland MC-4B, who sequenced the modular Roland System 100M but where one output controlled a light show synchronized with the sound. A pioneering act that fit well into the DIY spirit of punk, with its self-distributed tapes and fuck-you attitude towards the cretins of the music industry. Consequently, only two cassettes and an EP were released. There was something futuristic about the sound, the vestiary style and the electronics, while the attitude remained rebellious. Of course something so deep in the Zeitgeist wasn't meant to last. Wüste moved to New York, Micheline stayed in Zurich, both still active in the music scene to this day..." --Thomas Haemmerli
BUREAU B (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BB 058LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
CLUSTER Cluster 71 LP
2022 repress. 140-gram LP. Cluster's self-titled debut was originally released by Philips in 1971; this edition is the first reissue to restore the track running order of the original Philips release. Includes liner notes by electronic avant-garde pioneer Asmus Tietchens. In 1998, The Wire listed Cluster's self-titled debut as one of "100 Records That Set The World On Fire (When No One Was Listening)." Very few albums from Germany can lay claim to this honor. Cluster is a monster; it contains a mere three untitled tracks and was quite an ordeal for untrained ears when it was released. Yet the album pointed the way forward like no other electronic opus. Cluster's previous incarnation was a trio called Kluster. A change in direction and musical differences moved Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius to split from the group's third member, Conrad Schnitzler, in 1970. The following year, in addition to playing live, they recorded their first album in publisher Ralf Arnie's Star Musik Studio in Hamburg. Here they first met Conny Plank, who would himself become a legend. They remained close friends until Plank's death in 1987. Early Cluster music was new. New in the sense that it did not continue any tradition, instead laying the foundations for a future tradition. The duo's utter renunciation of conventional harmony and rhythm, embrace of near total aural abstraction, and confident use of noise, rigorous live electronic improvisation, and a positive mindset were all factors in Cluster's innovative trailblazing of 1971. For want of a better category, Cluster was classified rather inappropriately and incorrectly as "cosmic." Few recognized Cluster for what it was -- a synthesis of pop music, stripped of embarrassing glamor, and so-called serious music without intellectual constraints. Moebius and Roedelius took the liberty of raiding both disciplines to perfect their musical concept. A common enough practice today, but akin to a palace revolution in 1971. So it is that three pieces of electronic music meander and pulsate through Cluster, with no beginning and no end. Cluster's music is free and open in all directions. There are sounds, noises, and structures to be heard on this album that would become ingrained in the electronic pop music of the 1980s and 1990s. Cluster had taken the first step into the future.
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CAT #: BB 417CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
REV, MARTIN To Live CD
Reissue, originally released 2003. "Like a blizzard in a snow globe American indie label File 13 Records released what was already Martin Rev's sixth solo album in the autumn of 2003. The previous year, Rev and his musical partner Alan Vega had struck out in a new direction on their American Supreme album and Rev's solo works continued in a similar vein. If Strangeworld (BB 337CD/LP) from the year 2000 actually felt more like a timeless abstract of Martin Rev's entire spectrum of musical influences, To Live, three years later, introduces more contemporary elements, including guitar samples for the first time. "The sound of To Live was actually one I had already been using live on stage for a couple of years. The inspiration didn't come from the 2000's but probably from something much earlier although I couldn't specifically pinpoint from where. It's also related to the rhythm tech I was using," Rev recalls. The record met with mixed reactions on release. Some critics were wrongfooted by sequence-driven segments and the industrial rock characteristics of the late 1990s -- not what they expected from a Rev album. In the same way that Suicide's revolutionary new sound was loved and hated in equal measure back in the 1970s, Rev was still polarizing opinion with his music some 30 years later. But even if synthesizer drones and minimalist keyboard figures were less prominent on To Live it is fair to say that all of the tracks shared the inimitable language of form which made Martin Rev's sound so distinctive. Layers of rhythmic loops fade into Rev's sporadic, recitative spoken words which are as tender as they are threatening, building into a snow globe blizzard where chromed glitter and golden confetti dance wildly, haphazardly. This is particularly striking on 'Gutter Rock', an overmodulated, hypnotically charming slice of lounge exotica. And this very sound of antithesis, between hard drum machines, guitar salvoes and Rev's intangible voice, in which every mood and sense of insecurity which foreshadowed the new millennium, especially in a city like Rev's New York, was shattered two years earlier on September 11. To Live is not easy to digest, a work of contradictions which marks a transition in Martin Rev's overall output as a child of its time, worthy of special attention in his legacy." --Daniel Jahn, February 2022
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CAT #: BB 417LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
REV, MARTIN To Live LP
LP version. Reissue, originally released 2003. "Like a blizzard in a snow globe American indie label File 13 Records released what was already Martin Rev's sixth solo album in the autumn of 2003. The previous year, Rev and his musical partner Alan Vega had struck out in a new direction on their American Supreme album and Rev's solo works continued in a similar vein. If Strangeworld (BB 337CD/LP) from the year 2000 actually felt more like a timeless abstract of Martin Rev's entire spectrum of musical influences, To Live, three years later, introduces more contemporary elements, including guitar samples for the first time. "The sound of To Live was actually one I had already been using live on stage for a couple of years. The inspiration didn't come from the 2000's but probably from something much earlier although I couldn't specifically pinpoint from where. It's also related to the rhythm tech I was using," Rev recalls. The record met with mixed reactions on release. Some critics were wrongfooted by sequence-driven segments and the industrial rock characteristics of the late 1990s -- not what they expected from a Rev album. In the same way that Suicide's revolutionary new sound was loved and hated in equal measure back in the 1970s, Rev was still polarizing opinion with his music some 30 years later. But even if synthesizer drones and minimalist keyboard figures were less prominent on To Live it is fair to say that all of the tracks shared the inimitable language of form which made Martin Rev's sound so distinctive. Layers of rhythmic loops fade into Rev's sporadic, recitative spoken words which are as tender as they are threatening, building into a snow globe blizzard where chromed glitter and golden confetti dance wildly, haphazardly. This is particularly striking on 'Gutter Rock', an overmodulated, hypnotically charming slice of lounge exotica. And this very sound of antithesis, between hard drum machines, guitar salvoes and Rev's intangible voice, in which every mood and sense of insecurity which foreshadowed the new millennium, especially in a city like Rev's New York, was shattered two years earlier on September 11. To Live is not easy to digest, a work of contradictions which marks a transition in Martin Rev's overall output as a child of its time, worthy of special attention in his legacy." --Daniel Jahn, February 2022
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CAT #: BB 418CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
REV, MARTIN Les Nymphes CD
Reissue, originally released in 2008. Hazy dream chronicles. "A Martin Rev album is always liable to spring a surprise. Think of the rough guitars which unexpectedly appeared on his 2003 release To Live (BB 417CD/LP) instead of synthesizers. Les Nymphes, which followed in 2008, saw Rev return to dream-laden melodic miniatures, but came from a resolutely more radical place than its predecessors. A minimalist thread runs through Martin Rev's oeuvre, and yet there is an opulence, something approaching exuberance, to the pieces on Les Nymphes. The first few seconds of the opening track 'Sophie Eagle' herald a towering sonic wave, a cascade of echoes and rhythm loops, with fragments of melody and Rev's sporadic utterances rising like whitecaps above splashing phase shifts. References to contemporary club music, in evidence on To Live, resurface here, along with the disconcerting guitar samples which dominated the previous album. The other tracks on Les Nymphes share a subcooled, dreamlike, slow rave sensibility amidst a post-industrial atmosphere which is reminiscent of Coil in the scope of its three-dimensional soundscape. Rev elaborates: "The similarities of Les Nymphes to house and dance were evident for sure, although I didn't start off searching for them in particular. It was probably the first work I brought to completion from start to finish on computer, and a lot of the tracks were digitally derived from interactive programs rather than outboard gear. The atmosphere and sound were inspired by a lot of reading I had been doing in Greek mythology and also investigating the same stories in different languages. Probably my spending a lot of time living in Montreal for several years was a strong influence in that it's a French speaking environment and all the book stores had a great array of classical literature in French and other languages." The inspiration of cultural mythologies is what makes Les Nymphes so irresistible, its hazy realities assembled in a dream chronology. What would an ethereal house or techno album sound under Rev's guidance? Once again, this work demonstrates the rigor of Martin Rev's approach, his willingness to embrace risk and his uncompromising rejection of a single aesthetic framework. Les Nymphes is, without question, the work of an artist who is constantly in search mode." --Daniel Jahn, February 2022
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CAT #: BB 418LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
REV, MARTIN Les Nymphes 2LP
LP version. Reissue, originally released in 2008. Hazy dream chronicles. "A Martin Rev album is always liable to spring a surprise. Think of the rough guitars which unexpectedly appeared on his 2003 release To Live (BB 417CD/LP) instead of synthesizers. Les Nymphes, which followed in 2008, saw Rev return to dream-laden melodic miniatures, but came from a resolutely more radical place than its predecessors. A minimalist thread runs through Martin Rev's oeuvre, and yet there is an opulence, something approaching exuberance, to the pieces on Les Nymphes. The first few seconds of the opening track 'Sophie Eagle' herald a towering sonic wave, a cascade of echoes and rhythm loops, with fragments of melody and Rev's sporadic utterances rising like whitecaps above splashing phase shifts. References to contemporary club music, in evidence on To Live, resurface here, along with the disconcerting guitar samples which dominated the previous album. The other tracks on Les Nymphes share a subcooled, dreamlike, slow rave sensibility amidst a post-industrial atmosphere which is reminiscent of Coil in the scope of its three-dimensional soundscape. Rev elaborates: "The similarities of Les Nymphes to house and dance were evident for sure, although I didn't start off searching for them in particular. It was probably the first work I brought to completion from start to finish on computer, and a lot of the tracks were digitally derived from interactive programs rather than outboard gear. The atmosphere and sound were inspired by a lot of reading I had been doing in Greek mythology and also investigating the same stories in different languages. Probably my spending a lot of time living in Montreal for several years was a strong influence in that it's a French speaking environment and all the book stores had a great array of classical literature in French and other languages." The inspiration of cultural mythologies is what makes Les Nymphes so irresistible, its hazy realities assembled in a dream chronology. What would an ethereal house or techno album sound under Rev's guidance? Once again, this work demonstrates the rigor of Martin Rev's approach, his willingness to embrace risk and his uncompromising rejection of a single aesthetic framework. Les Nymphes is, without question, the work of an artist who is constantly in search mode." --Daniel Jahn, February 2022
CAMISOLE RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: CAM 025LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SHIRAISHI, TAKAYUKI Photon 2LP
Reissue, originally released on CD only in 1997. A fascinating Japanese ambient techno excursion. Takayuki Shiraishi is no stranger to Camisole Records. With projects like BGM, MLD, or Tristan Disco, he is considered as one of the most prominent figures of underground Japanese music. Following those '80s industrial projects he continued his path and recorded numerous electronic tracks without forgetting his experimental roots. After an EP on the highly revered label Apollo with his alias Planetoid, he released on a very limited run his first album Photon only on CD in 1997. Mixing techno and ambient, those works were recorded between 1987 and 1996 to create a trancey ride of dreamy tunes. A journey through spectral dances and afterglows, dreamy incantations and Solar rituals devoted to euphoria. Experimental techno who never forget to keep your mind and body aware. Remastered by Krikor Kouchian.
CELLULE 75 (GERMANY)
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CAT #: CELL 009CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VINDICATRIX One or Several Tigers CD/BK
This album presents music created by Vindicatrix for Ho Tzu Nyen's One or Several Tigers, a theatricalized installation using ancient and contemporary cinematic techniques including shadow puppetry, CGI, motion capture (taken from a suspended Vindicatrix's body and facial movements), and animatronics, exploring the histories, cosmologies and ecologies of Southeast Asia through the figure of the Malayan tiger. The work begins as a duet between two central figures in Road Surveying Interrupted in Singapore (c. 1865), a wood engraving by Heinrich Leutemann, depicting an encounter between a British survey mission headed by George Dromgoole Coleman and a Malayan tiger in a forest in Singapore in 1835. In the Pre-Colonial Malayan world, the tiger was a medium for ancestral spirits. It was sometimes feared as a harbinger of disease, death and destruction, and sometimes regarded as a guardian. Shamans, vagrants, and sometimes descendants of royal blood were believed to have the gift (or the curse) of turning into tigers. This symbiotic relationship between humans and tigers was broken in the 19th Century with British colonialism, a period of ecological upheaval in which Malayan tigers were massacred. But the tiger is a master of metamorphosis, and its physical death only called forth its resurrection in new forms, with which it continued haunting the British colonialists during the Pacific War and its aftermath. One or Several Tigers condenses this complex weave of history, ecology, anthropology, and mythology into an operatic duet sung by a pair of digitally created figures. On one side, there is Coleman, Irish servant of the British empire, official surveyor and Superintendent of Public Works and Convicts in Singapore -- an agent of reason, order, imperialism and capitalism. On the other side, there is the Malayan tiger -- an embodiment of chaos and nature unbound, and a conduit of ancestral and magical forces. In their fateful encounter in the forested heart of Singapore in 1835, the tiger spared the humans. Vindicatrix plays the parts of both colonial surveyor and (were)tiger, singing and speaking from various points of transformation and dialogue between animal, surveyor and narrator, within a sound world that evokes images from the "seasonless tropical Hell" of the jungle, to the Javanese courts of Mataram -- clattering polyrhythms, contorted 19th century Orientalisms, nightmarish caterwauls, and fragmentary vocal treatments. The lines between human and animal, reason and magic, and history and folklore begin to blur. Includes book; 24-page art book (130x190mm).
CLOCKTOWER (CANADA)
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CAT #: CTLP 1045LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
PERRY & KING TUBBY, LEE Cloak & Dagger LP
2022 repress; LP version. "Once again Clocktower bring you the massive and powerful tracks, such as 'Cloak & Dagger' DJ style led by King Tubby and Lee Perry. And they've also included the slow style of 'Cloak & Dagger' which you will never stop listening for generations to come, young and old. Then the following tracks of 'Blackboard Jungle' with two incomparable versions that will open up your ears to the greatest musicians on bass and drums, etc. We from Clocktower say listen, enjoy, party, and dance to all the fine production. We have compiled this for all who loves reggae music production beyond compare. Music of life." --Alfred Newman Not a reissue, a new compilation of early Lee Scratch Perry material, not previously issued in this form. With tracks recorded from the early '70s with material from Clocktower 7" only releases, etc.
COLLISION: CAUSE OF CHAPTER 3 (GERMANY)
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CAT #: CCT 30192LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
DUBBLESTANDART/LEE "SCRATCH" PERRY/ARI UP Return From Planet Dub LP
2022 repress on LP. Features eight song highlights from the original double CD version of the album (CCT 3019CD). On the planet dub, Dubblestandart have already left their own crater with ten albums by now. Founded in the late eighties under the impression of Lee Perry's unique Black Ark productions and Adrian Sherwood's radical mixing maneuvers on On-U-Sound, the proven and sought-after backing band (Ari Up, Lee "Scratch" Perry Dillinger, Lilian Allen, Top Cat) around Paul Zasky has given Jamaican production techniques their own European face: bass-based, new wave-informed, on the cutting edge of mixing and adept in the tightrope walk between digital wumms and analog warmth, wordlessly mediating between patois and schmäh. With their eleventh album, they crown their career with a series of sensational collaborations (including Lee "Scratch" Perry, Ari Up and director David Lynch) and one that is unparalleled in terms of density, richness, depth and weight this season. Recorded in Kingston, the Bronx and in the home studio in Vienna. 180 gram vinyl.
COSMIC MYTH RECORDS
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CAT #: CMR 006CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
SUN RA & HIS BLUE UNIVERSE ARKESTRA Universe in Blue CD
"A collection of torrid live club performances at the legendary NYC venue Slugs. Originally released in 1972, these recordings provide an intriguing glimpse of the Arkestra's repertoire and virtuosity towards the end of their first decade in New York. Universe in Blue is a rarity. After-hours music, showcasing Sun Ra's twisted take on the Blues, these recordings brought him to the greater attention of New York jazz writers and helped cement his reputation for audacious showmanship. Ra and his band performed at the famed East Village Slug's almost every Monday night for several years through the late sixties, and took the stage sporadically for several years thereafter. This collection of undated performances from 1970-71 was issued in small-run pressings with two different LP covers on Sun Ra's Saturn label around 1972, but has largely escaped further notice."
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CAT #: CMR 006LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
SUN RA & HIS BLUE UNIVERSE ARKESTRA Universe in Blue LP
LP version. Tip-on jacket. "A collection of torrid live club performances at the legendary NYC venue Slugs. Originally released in 1972, these recordings provide an intriguing glimpse of the Arkestra's repertoire and virtuosity towards the end of their first decade in New York. Universe in Blue is a rarity. After-hours music, showcasing Sun Ra's twisted take on the Blues, these recordings brought him to the greater attention of New York jazz writers and helped cement his reputation for audacious showmanship. Ra and his band performed at the famed East Village Slug's almost every Monday night for several years through the late sixties, and took the stage sporadically for several years thereafter. This collection of undated performances from 1970-71 was issued in small-run pressings with two different LP covers on Sun Ra's Saturn label around 1972, but has largely escaped further notice."
COULDN'T CARE MORE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: NTUNSURE 001EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
WE SMILE Remixes 12"
We Smile were part of the Hamburger Schule back in the early nineties: expressive vocals, associative lyrics in German and English, brittle guitars, and, overall, a quite broad interpretation of the general idea of pop. Now, 30 years later, Hamburg label Couldn't Care More releases these spectacular remixes of songs from We Smile's album Für Die Anderen: Glasgow's JD Twitch (Optimo) turns "Sack Voll Drogen" into one twisted colossus of a track, made from electro, breaks, and rave; Tokyo's Tentenko fires up the Casio for her two versions of "31 24 42"; and Hamburg's Mense Reents (Egoexpress, Die Vögel, Die Goldenen Zitronen) builds the most extraordinary elegant pop song from the sparse "Can't Resist (Popmusiker Sind Auch Künstler-Version)". Also included is the formidable (and remastered) original of "Kind Und Kegel".
DRAG CITY
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CAT #: DC 424LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
NIBLETT, SCOUT The Calcination Of Scout Niblett LP
2022 repress; LP version. "Drag City rolls up on the Scout Niblett scene just in time for the grand calcination. What luck, to arrive in time for such good timing! Her new record is her most tightly coiled long-player yet, a heavy handful of songs that are reaching for the ripe and the light. People come to Emma Louise 'Scout' Niblett for the joy of a scalding hot bath of sound amidst stark, bluesy emoting -- and she won't let 'em down this time. But something has shifted. Having made herself a record or two's worth of celebration ballads and moody freakouts, she seems to be hearing that call from within to feel for other things. Yelling at the kids around the way only ever gets you so far. And so, it's time to holler inward. The Calcination of Scout Niblett finds our girl in phase transition, exchanging elements for the betterment of her organism. Stripping down. Surrendering. Taking the bull by the wheel and driving to another place. Take the picture on the cover. It's the first album photo where Scout's acknowledging the camera, a new relationship giving sign of a greater awareness of herself and a desire to confront -- a new confrontation, a more sober and realistic conversation. Throughout The Calcination of Scout Niblett we see Scout in deep focus. The lens has dollied in and stuck there. The sweat conjured in performance permeates the screen; darkness is all around her, overwhelming the picture. She's in an empty space and her voice snaps against the walls, behind weird shadows we can't make out. And cutting through, we might believe that we're hearing an inner monologue or two. The songs string together, almost as one, her guitar growls and bites, and the black velvet of space hovers. Just when the tension in the room and the filament of guitar can't glow any brighter, suddenly a band erupts, accompaniment to her vision -- and then back down to Scout and guitar. All the better for the boys to not get too burned. Well, burned just enough. Well-done, even! The Calcination of Scout Niblett is an intense devotional, a determined spirit journey and a collection of great slow-dance songs."
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CAT #: DC 532LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
NIBLETT, SCOUT It's Up To Emma LP
LP version. "Over the course of 46 minutes and nine songs, It's Up To Emma simmers, storms and cascades through an alinear tale of domestic emotional crises, all of which are immaculately rendered in Scout's distinctive songwriting style. The dark news that the record brings is good news for Scout's fans, who look to her to get under the skin and, as if in a trance, live through these songs in an attempt to get everyone a bit of clarity. In Scout's eyes, the slowly uncoiling spirit world dances with the more chaotic animal called man. Friction between partners generates gradual tension, a sudden fracture that explodes from a backdrop of darkly bruised ego blues. Meanwhile, stars slip icily in and out of constellation mode. It wouldn't work if Scout weren't such a powerful singer or if her insistent guitar lines didn't echo so, or her records weren't so carefully produced to stand the stark details of the performance out against a lush, deeply black backdrop."
EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: EMEGO 291LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
GIBBS, MELVIN Anamibia Sessions 1: The Wave LP
Melvin Gibbs is the renowned bass player and producer from Brooklyn whose vast resume includes playing with Sonny Sharrock, John Zorn, The Rollins Band, Dead Prez, Caetano Veloso, and Femi Kuti, amongst others. Behind the scenes, those who know Gibbs knew that amongst all this he was also tinkering away at another form of music, one which skirts around the border between music and sound design. The Wave is the first release that reveals this side of Gibbs's creative output to those outside his inner circle. The driving force for this output is Gibbs's multi-decade friendship with acclaimed American video artist and cinematographer, Arthur Jafa. Over the course of time Gibbs and Jafa have had many conversations about music and the connection between film and music. Jafa's desire to make film that worked the way Black (as in Black/African-American/Afro-
EL PALMAS MUSIC (SPAIN)
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CAT #: ELPALMAS 021LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
PEREZ Y EL GRUPO CASABE, RAY Ray Perez y El Grupo Casabe LP/7"
Grupo Casabe can lay claim to being Ray Pérez's last great group. Fresh from the successes of Los Dementes and Los Kenya, Pérez was at the forefront of salsa in the mid-70s, and still experimenting with música bailable and all the danceable horn-blazing styles that were beginning to be known collectively as salsa. The finest tracks of this short-lived combo, active from 1974 until 1975, are now being celebrated by El Palmas Music on a new compilation simply titled Ray Pérez y El Grupo Casabe. Pérez was bandleader for an astonishing number of groups, which was partly due to his in-demand status, with each move to a new label meaning he needed a new band name. Such was the case with Ray Pérez y El Grupo Casabe, formed when CBS came calling. Their line-up built on his previous groups, with both a drum kit and percussion for additional power, with Pérez himself belting out those trusty piano montuños, however there was one significant change, with Pérez using saxophones for the first time, alongside his usual brass section of trumpets and trombones. With him for the ride were vocalists including Rodrigo Perdomo (brother of "El Negrito Calavén", from Pérez's earlier group, Los Calvos) and Rafael Morillo. The compilation begins with "María Antonia", the first 7" Grupo Casabe released in 1974. 1974 and 1975 were important years in the trajectory of salsa. It was this period when salsa became a collective name for urban orchestras playing Latin music styles like son, guaganco, mambo, cha-cha-cha and rumba. Though undoubtedly salsa -- Ray was a "rey de salseros" after all -- there is so much nuance in the music. "Campesino Nuestro" is a slow-building rural son, taking the Cuban countryside to the dancefloor; "Santa" and "Oye Nena" are twisting guaguancos, the former possessing one of Perdomo's finest vocal performances, and the latter the finest showcase for the band, with percussion, brass, and piano on fire. "La Reina", a danzón, show that the band can do the slow numbers too, and then there's "Sábado En La Tarde", Perez's take on surf with a melody seemingly taken from the finest Steve McQueen crime caper. There are few that come close to Ray Pérez for musical inventiveness and a sheer ability to keep dancefloors moving. Includes 7".
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CAT #: ELPALMAS 022LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
CONJUNTO INGENIERIA Conjunto Ingenieria LP
Compiled by El Dragón Criollo and El Palmas Music. As the 1950s drew to a close a group of students at Caracas's Universidad Central de Venezuela caught the tropical music bug and decided to form an orchestra. With the majority of the students coming from the engineering faculty, they were duly christened Conjunto Ingeniería (The Engineering Group) and from the offset, they were ahead of the game. Tropical music, or música bailable (danceable music), was slowly making its way to Venezuela, but Conjunto Ingeniería had a secret weapon as one of their fellow students was studying in New York and every July he'd return with the latest Latin big band sounds: Tito Puente, Machito, they heard it first. Nine young male musicians playing the hippest sounds around, they were the obvious band to play high-society quinceañeras (15th birthday celebrations to mark a "girl's journey into womanhood"), as well as playing countless times at the university, on TV, at weddings, and at carnival, where on one occasion they accompanied Celia Cruz. "We were the first group to play at the launch party for 'salsa', a term that was established by the [Venezuelan] announcer Phidias Danilo Escalona in Barquisimeto we were considered the best orchestra", says Marquez. On record, their eclecticism and musical chops belied their age. In 1961, they released their self-titled debut album, which tackled mambo, guaracha, cha-cha-cha, and charanga, which included their cover of The Diamond's "Little Darlin'", arguably the first rock n' roll song recorded in Venezuela. They followed it up with Aqui Esta El Conjunto Ingenieria, their second album in 1962, in which they showed once more that rock could easily sit next to Latin. Their last album, Boogaloo Con Ingenieria, arrived in 1967, and made clear the influence of New York in their sound. Conjunto Ingeniería came to an end at the beginning of the '70s. Though their recording output was nowhere near as prolific as their contemporaries Billo's Caracas Boys or Los Melódicos, if you were turning on the TV, going to carnival or, especially, attending a quinceañera, in Caracas in the 1960s, then you would no doubt of come across Conjunto Ingeniería and their rock n' roll-embellished New York-meets-Venezuela big band sound. On this compilation, simply titled Conjunto Ingeniería, El Palmas Music have cherrypicked a glorious selection of tracks from across the group's career, capturing all the creativity and youthful excitement that made them one of the first titans of Venezuela's tropical music history.
ENJOY JAZZ RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: EJR 000CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
GURZHY, YURIY Richard Wagner & Die Klezmerband: Auf Der Suche Nach Dem Neuen Judischen Sound In Deutschland CD
Yuriy Gurzhy, former DJ of the legendary "Russendisko" and co-founder of the multilingual Berlin band RotFront, presented his first book: a fascinating interview volume compiled in a kind of sampling aesthetic on the subject of "Richard Wagner & and the Klezmer Band. In Search of the New Jewish Sound in Germany (Ariella Verlag)." The idea for it arose in a conversation between Gurzhy and Rainer Kern, the director of the Enjoy Jazz Festival. The book quickly attracted keen interest far beyond the feuilletons. And now the soundtrack is available. Yuriy Gurzhy, as a DJ a specialist in the field of compiling, has knowledgeably selected all the pieces himself. A good eclectic mix, ranging from folk to hip-hop. The 18-track CD is also the first release from Enjoy Jazz Records, the new "festival label for jazz and more." At first glance, it may seem irritating that Gurzhy mentions the avowed anti-Semite Richard Wagner and klezmer, i.e. Jewish folk music, in the same sentence. In the "Jüdische Allgemeine" Gurzhy answered the question why he included the German composer in the title of his book. Against this background, by the way, Gurzhy himself provides one of the highlights of the album. For in the RotFront song "Girl from Bayreuth" he bilingually tells the absurdly convoluted story of how a man falls unrequitedly in love with a blond German violinist during a Wagner concert in Tel Aviv and from then on incessantly maltreats his neighbor through the thin walls with a mixture of crying fits and Wagner music. In addition, there is a wonderfully ironic side-splitting by Geoff Berner, performed in a children's song ductus ("Half-German Girlfriend"), a Balkanese brass version of the folk song "Hava Nagila" by Shazalakazoo/Edi Partizani or the organ-soaked rock of Forshpil ("Meydl in di yorn"), of course with guitar solo. Also features Vivian Kanner, Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird, You Shouldn't Know From It, Jewrhythmics, Paul Brody's Sadawi, Solomon & Socalled, Fayvish, Jewdyssee, Jewish Monkeys, KlezCore, The Disorientalists, Andrea Pancur, Yahoodi, and Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars.
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS
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CAT #: FTR 392CS
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CVS Ad Hoc Cassette
"Ad Hoc is this Spanish trio's first release with which they've disguised themselves as a popular American drug store chain. There was an earlier cassette issued under the Cunningham/Volt/Serra banner, which is probably a more elucidating name, but brevity being the soul of wit (and all that), it's surely more modern a choice to go with the acronym they occasionally employ. Acronyms, after all, suggest a kind of sleekness. And the music created by CVS is as sleek as a goddamn otter. The line-up is unusual. Our great friend, Mark Cunningham (of Mars, Blood Quartet, etc.), plays trumpet. Trumpet is also the chosen 'axe' of fellow Barcelonan underground musician, Pablo Volt. The third member, Andreu Serra (who also works and records widely under various soubriquets), focuses here on guitar and sax. I'm having a tough time naming another unit with this line-up, and indeed, CVS doesn't sound quite like any other band I can easily conjure. Both trumpeters work in a hybridized cool/avant tradition. Their lines certainly go 'out' at times, but there's none of the smear/fracture of Don Cherry, who is the main model for so many trumpeters. If you need to point fingers, Mark and Pablo's styles might be said to share a resonance with the later work of Bill Dixon, although both of them favor warmer tones. Andreu's approach to both sax and guitar is equally off-center, with outwardly-focused splange of strange but genteel nature. But this is not a 'jazz' album by any means. Cunningham (and his collusionists) have employed jazzoid moves as component parts of an avant/jazz/rock hybrid since the days of Don King (and maybe before.) The avant electronic passages and rockoid forward motion are huge parts of this music's character. Ad Hoc is just another step on a path with a long, storied history and a luminous, infinite future." --Byron Coley, 2022
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CAT #: FTR 394CS
FILE UNDER: ROCK
KARLSSON, NIKO Its Own Phantom Cassette
"Five years after the magnificent Valosta Valoon LP (FTR 331LP, 2017), Finnish multi-instrumentalist, Niko Karlsson is back with a new swab of sound that is even more organic than its predecessor. This time out the focus is more on acoustic strings and percussion, with a minimum of machine-driven sounds, even when things get cinematically tense (especially on the B-side). But the bulk of Niko's new tape (which he had first suggested be released sans any artist info) is a mesmeric assemblage of small gestures that feel something like a meditation exercise taking place in the great outdoors. Acoustic strings swirl around your head like a flock of soft ravens, then expand spectral fingers to search your spine for arcane gifts. Gongs ignite barely visible fires in the distance. And you start to quiver until the earth shakes. That said, there are certainly a few more ominous passages where the sound gathers up more like storm clouds than sunshine, but the shade these portions cast are ultimately transitory. The music on Its Own Phantom has a charmed ruralist glow that is sure to delight wanderers of many stripes. So pick a fork. Any fork. The kingdom of heaven is within you." --Byron Coley, 2022
GLADYS PALMERA RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: DGP 001R-LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
GUANTANAMO BOYS, THE Latin Guateque Remixes 10"
Reissue of one of the lesser-known titles of the legendary catalog of the New York label SMC (Spanish Music Center). Highly sought-after among Latin music collectors, ideal for DJs specializing in Latin soul, boogaloo, salsa, Latin music, psychedelic sounds, and exotic music. It includes on the A side the theme "Let's Dance The Bugalú" (actually Boogaloo), featured in the New York dances of the late '60s, which demonstrates its validity; and "Aprende Mi Tumbao", a boogaloo-rock that begins as a guajira, Cuban rhythm perfect for intensity changes in discos and clubs. And on the side B two remixes of "Aprende Mi Tumbao" in charge of the best DJs today. The first is made by Andy Grey (resident DJ of Gladys Palmera) and Desi Calatayud (producer and sound designer); and the second, by Tiraya (selector, producer, percussionist).
GUERSSEN RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: GUESS 069CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TOP DRAWER Solid Oak CD
Reissue, originally released in 1972. One of the rarest private pressings from the US from this band from Mansfield, Ohio. Psychedelic hard rock with a charming, homemade feel. Including the monster psych opus "Song Of A Sinner" plus more cool tracks with great guitar/organ interplay. Sourced from the original master tapes. Includes insert with liner notes by band member Steve Geary and photos.
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CAT #: GUESS 182LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MANCO, BARIS Sakla Samani Gelir Zamani (Picture Disc) PIC. DISC
Picture disc reissue, originally released in 1976. In 1976, Baris released his third album which was actually also a compilation of songs previously released in 45s, as happened with his debut. For this LP release, and basically because of contractual reasons, Guerssen Records present this compilation with a few changes: two of the original songs are not there, and the label added four new ones. So, what you get here is a scorchin' collection of funky psychedelics Turkish way in a cool picture disc that will knock you out. Big Baris beats them all, the king of Anadolu pop!
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CAT #: GUESS 184LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
OPTIC NERVE Forever and a Day LP
Reissue. Recorded in 1988 but not released until 1993, Forever and a Day was the first full-length album by our favorite NYC jingle-jangle mop-tops, full of mid-60s sounding garage-y folk-rock. Out of print for many years, here's a long overdue vinyl reissue with band-sanctioned new artwork and remastered sound. Includes insert with detailed liner notes and photos; includes download card. "A folk-rock masterpiece. Sounding like Bob Dylan fronting the Blue Things, the band reprised the mood and feel of the genre they mined with amazing accuracy." --Beverly Paterson (Something Else!)
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CAT #: GUESS 185LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
OPTIC NERVE Lotta Nerve LP
Reissue, originally released in 1994. Formed in New York in 1985, The Optic Nerve were children of Nuggets who dreamed about the Velvet Underground but looked like the Byrds. Their take on '65-66 jangly garage-folk-rock was unrivaled. Lotta Nerve collects their fabulous early 45s plus studio tracks for what should have been their aborted first album. Out of print for many years, here's a new vinyl edition with new artwork and remastered sound. RIYL: Byrds, Love, Gene Clark, Leaves, Dylan, Emitt Rhodes. Includes insert with detailed liner notes and photos; also includes download card.
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CAT #: GUESS 203LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TOP DRAWER Solid Oak LP
LP version. Hard cardboard sleeve with OBI and insert; includes download card. Reissue, originally released in 1972. One of the rarest private pressings from the US from this band from Mansfield, Ohio. Psychedelic hard rock with a charming, homemade feel. Including the monster psych opus "Song Of A Sinner" plus more cool tracks with great guitar/organ interplay. Sourced from the original master tapes. Includes insert with liner notes by band member Steve Geary and photos.
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CAT #: GUESS 204LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
RJ & THE RIOTS RJ & The Riots LP
Reissue, originally released in 1964. Cool rock n' roll, surf, beat and garage-rock from Philippines in the '60s. Led by teen guitar wizard Ramón "RJ" Jacinto, RJ & the Riots was one of the first rock n' roll/beat bands from the Philippines and certainly the first to release original rock n' roll songs with lyrics in their own country. This is the first ever reissue of their second album, now impossible to find (four stars rating in Hans Pokora's 1001 Record Collector Dreams book). Including original songs like the monster instrumental "fuzzed", the garage sounding "Advertising Man", "Girl Nice", the surf rock of "Trip To Manila", and more plus a few rad covers (Beach Boys, Buddy Holly). The album was recorded at the home studio built by whizz kid Ramón Jacinto, who also operated his own record label (RJ Productions), magazine (Teenstone), and radio station (from his parent's backyard). RJ & the Riots started as a high school band of classmates composed of Ramón "RJ" Jacinto (lead guitar), Alan Austria (bass guitar), Jimmy Colayco (rhythm guitar), and Bernie Evangelista (drums) with ages ranging from 15-17 years old. They were one of the first bands with electric instruments in the Philippines and this album marked the transition from instrumental rock to vocals. Today, RJ is a well-known businessman (founder of a TV and radio network), Pinoy rock n' roll icon and continues his musical journey performing rock n' roll hits of the '50s-80s at his own Bistro "RJ" music lounge, where the top of Philippine society, movers and shakers, go to dance and sing to RJ's rock n' roll classics. RIYL: Ventures, Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Stones, Jan & Dean, Beatles. Remastered sound; color insert with liner notes and rare photos; includes download card with the album plus one bonus track from a rare 45 ("Rave On Teenstone").
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CAT #: GUESS 211LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
NECRONOMICON Tips zum Selbstmord LP
50th anniversary official reissue of this holy grail kraut album from 1972. Real underground heavy-prog/psychedelic hard-rock with raw, in-your-face production, German lyrics, insane acid-fuzz guitar, garage organ and dark, proto-doom atmosphere -- the real deal! Named after the famous Lovecraft book, Necronomicon formed in the German town of Aachen in 1970, first influenced by bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Hendrix... In 1972 they entered a small studio in the Dutch border and recorded in just five days a concept album named Tips zum Selbstmord. The title roughly translates as "Tips on how to commit suicide" but the message the band wanted to give had nothing to do with taking your own life but instead with how mankind was facing self-destruction, destroying its own planet by pollution, wars, exploitation and overpopulation. 500 copies of the album were privately pressed by the band, housed in a lavish, cross shaped multi fold-out cover. It was a graphical translation of what they wanted to express musically. Original copies are impossible to find, making it one of the most desirable and sought-after kraut/German albums ever. Here's a long overdue new vinyl reissue. RIYL: Black Sabbath, Amon Düül, Gila, Paternoster, Hawkwind, Gäa, German Oak, Pink Floyd, Hendrix. Faithful reproduction of the original multi-fold-out cross shaped cover; sourced from the original master tapes; insert with detailed liner notes and photos. "... one of the best and most unique German records of the early seventies." --Cosmic Dreams At Play "... Necronomicon has created a dark and powerful vision that blends psychedelic and progressive music with a proto-punk garage band sensibility" --Rolf Semprebon (AllMusic)
HABIBI FUNK (GERMANY)
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CAT #: HAB 008LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
KEILA, KAMAL Muslims And Christians 2LP
2022 restock. Double LP version. "Songs about the unity of Sudan, peace between Muslims and Christians and the fate of war orphans, backed by grooves equally taking influence from Arabic sounds, American funk as well as neighboring Ethiopia. Kamal Keila was among the first artist we met in Sudan during our two trips to Khartoum and Omdurman last year. He is one of the key figures of the Sudanese jazz scene that was a vital part of the musical culture in Sudan from the mid-1960s until the Islamist revolution in the late 1980s. When we meet Kamal he luckily presented us with two mold covered studio reels. Each tape included five tracks. One with English lyrics and another with Arabic ones. Musically you can hear the influence of neighboring Ethiopia much more than on other Sudanese recordings of the time, as well as references to Fela and American funk and soul. His lyrics, at least when he sings in English which gave him more freedom from censorship, are very political. A brave statement in the political climate of Sudan of the last decades, preaching for the unity of Sudan, peace between Muslims and Christians and singing the blues about the fate of war orphans called 'Shmasha'. A note inside one of the boxes specified the track titles, durations and the fact that the sessions were recorded on the 12th of August 1992. Both sessions stand as a hearable testament how Kamal Keila stuck to a sound aesthetic from decades ago, while incorporating current events into his lyrics. Kamal Keila's album is the first in a series of releases covering the Sudanese jazz scene on Habibi Funk."
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CAT #: HAB 009LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
SCORPIONS & SAIF ABU BAKR, THE Jazz, Jazz, Jazz LP
2022 repress; LP version; includes download. "Incredibly unique modernized adaptations of traditional rhythms of the diverse regions of Sudan, recorded in Kuwait 1980. The 'holy grail' album from Sudan. 'I heard about Seif Abu Bakr and The Scorpions maybe 3-4 years ago. Their album Jazz, Jazz Jazz ended up on my radar because of an eBay auction with the bids eventually rising daily up to a staggering 1000$. The music is a unique combination of incredible horn arrangements powerfully performed, a vigorous drummer contributing a funky backbone and Seif's vocals uniting those elements. The results range from instrumental tracks awaking memories of 1970s crime thriller soundtracks to more Sudanese-rooted tracks, a lot of them modernized versions traditional rhythms of the diverse regions of Sudan and even an excursion into Colgolese Soukouss. The jazz scene started to perish after president Nimeiry's turn away from his socialist policies, that he was widely associated with in the first decade of his rule, towards the implementation of Sharia law in 1983. During the first decade of his rule he had actively supported various artists of the Jazz scene, taking some of them on trips throughout Africa. The 1989 coup of Bashir and his generals then caused the final blow to a once thriving scene. Both of these political events within 6 years lead to significant drawbacks for the Sudanese jazz scene resulting into hardly no gig opportunities left and parties and concerts being critically observed. A number of musicians faced prosecution, most of the time for their political views; some left Sudan for good. Music never completely vanished from public life and even the regime kept selected artists close, but for a majority of those bands affiliated to the jazz scene life and making ends became a lot harder. The Scorpions dissolved as a group around the same time. The re-release was produced with a clean copy of the vinyl version as a source. The original reel tape of the album stayed with Saif Abu Bakr along with another reel with other recordings that were never released. Unfortunately it was lost when Saif Abu Bakr had to flee to Kuwait temporarily during the second gulf war when Iraq raided Kuwait. Both the CD and vinyl version come with extensive booklets with photos, interviews, liner notes." Jannis Stuerz / Habibi Funk Records, 2018).
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CAT #: HAB 015LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VA Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection From The Arab World (Part 2) 2LP
2022 repress; double LP version. "This compilation of songs is not meant as a historic reflection of popular music of the 'Arab world.' It is a very personal selection of songs we grew to like at Habibi Funk. It is music that historically never existed as a unified musical genre. We think it's important to make this distinction and to have the listener understand that the majority of the music on this compilation does not come from the highly famous names of the musical spectrum of North Africa and the Middle East. Instead, the final body compiled for this record consists of some -- at least for us -- niche-y pearls and often overlooked artists; resulting in a diverse range of styles from Egyptian organ funk, disco sounds from Morocco, an example of the lively reggae scene of Libya, political songs from Lebanon, soundtrack music from Algeria, a musical union between Kenya and Oman, and much more. The photo we chose for this cover somehow could be seen as an allegory of the sounds we feature on the label. It depicts Algerian composer Ahmed Malek at an ice cream bar during his stay in Japan for the World Expo in Osaka, 1970. He later said that his visit to Japan and especially the manga culture left a distinctive mark on the way he created his own compositions. With this in mind, it feels as a suiting visual representation for the music on this compilation. Accordingly, the compilation you are holding in your hands offers a much wider range of music than just funk influenced sounds. Sure, it brings back Fadoul, who we have already dedicated a full-length album to. He was the mystical Moroccan singer who -- influenced by the sounds of James Brown -- created his own musical vision full of energy but also still very intimate. Another artist we have featured before is Ahmed Malek, the grand Algerian soundtrack composer, whose music is largely connected by a distinct feeling of melancholic beauty or Hamid Al Shaeri, the Egyptian hit producer whose track 'Ayonha' was probably the most widely appreciated track off our first compilation. But we have also learned that this format of a compilation can serve as a medium to introduce artists to our audience, who we are planning to dedicate full length releases to in the near future, such as Ibrahim Hesnawi. Hesnawi is the father of reggae music in Libya -- a genre still widely popular in Libya -- and whose presence in the country is commonly connected to the rhythmic similarities of reggae with some form of Libyan folkloric music. Nahib Alhoush is another Libyan artist, whose musical output we will spotlight in the near future. In the 1970s, he was the co-founder of Free Music, one of the first Libyan bands introducing western influences into their music. After the band stopped performing together he started an at least equally successful solo career under his own name. When I got into Arabic music around five or six years ago, I knew pretty much nothing about it. Realistically, I still know very, very little about it and I'm by no means an expert. I just had the opportunity to visit the region frequently, trying to learn about music I might like. Most of the bands, I happen to enjoy, were fairly obscure and therefore a lot of the music on this compilation seems to be largely forgotten. After sharing many of the old records and tapes online through mixes, I have realized that there is a huge disparity between the interest in the music on the one hand and its availability on the other. All tracks on this compilation are fully licensed, most directly from the artist or in the case of artists, who are deceased licensed from the artist's family. There are two exceptions: Hamid Al Shaeri's track was licensed from SLAM! as the label is still active under the name Sonar. Zohra's 'Badala Zamana' from the great Belgian label MTMU, who has reissued this track under license from the producer on 7" format before."
HEIDETON RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: HR 022LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA Green 3LP
Lower Saxony's best kept secret, Heideton Records, returns with their most ambitious and comprehensive release to date, a double pack titled Green. Green taps into the rich history of European house and techno, from Panorama Bar to Bar25 royalty, while also championing a new era of producers and cult label favorites. The album is an exploration of the textures and timbres that make up the golden hours between day and night and night and day. You move from the sunset kaleidoscopic deep house of Bobby Cazanova to the drifting introspection of Joe Metzenmacher alongside Borka & the Gang to the peak-time punch of Mathias Kaden. You shift seamlessly from the psychedelic techno naughtiness of André Galluzzi and Daniel Stefanik and all the way back to sunrise with Cassy who turns out a best-in-class disco house. This is an album of impossibly deep dance music crafted with a particular emotional flair. Green is an expertly curated collection of the finest in contemporary club tracks -- from deep house to bouncy UK garage to tripped-out techno. More than the sum of its parts, the record is also remarkably cohesive thanks to the care and precision each producer brings, displaying an intimate knowledge of what works on both the dancefloor and in your headphones on the walk home. Across 12 tracks, Green celebrates deepness both sonically and politically. Also features Florian Hollerith, Joe Metzenmacher, Tobi Neumann, Dorian Paic, Sid, Murmur Tooth, Lars Moston, and Behind Those Ears. Gatefold sleeve.
HOLD YOUR GROUND (GERMANY)
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CAT #: HYG 023LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
RAMPUE Tragweite 2LP
Berlin-based producer Rampue has not released an album in 14 (in words: fourteen) years. Between 2008 and 2020 he toured the world and worked mainly on his live sets in the meantime. So now only a worldwide pandemic had the power to prevent the traveling musician from continuing this hustle and bustle and eventually share a new record with the public. The new Rampue album Tragweite came into existence in February 2021, which portrays the artist's desire for experimentation. Inspired by a modular synthesizer (Buchla), Rampue has seemingly put himself into a kind of trance, in which he lets the machines work and combines randomly created sounds with airy structures such as low drums or simple grooves. Rampue accomplished to break free by using random sounds as a new impulse and a way out of a creative crisis, which stemmed both from the enforced home isolation and from the self-perceived paralysis. Listening to Tragweite one gets the impression that the dialectical relationship between chaos and order, further supported by its production, is the defining theme of the album. After an initially perceived chaos, a delicate order, which is determined by structuring drum patterns and basslines, takes over throughout the course of the album. Later, it frays and loses itself again in sounds and tones created mechanically. However, it never seems arbitrary, but willful and skillfully staged. For instance, "Fur?" begins with apparent arrhythmia. The combination of bass and subtle percussion, however, gives this arrhythmia a shape, guiding the track which gradually becomes more and more driving without losing its original playfulness. Although one might be inclined to think of genres such as downtempo or ambient at the beginning in the further course of the album results in such a diverse sound and rhythmic landscape that one willingly questions one's own perception of music while listening and finally throws every type of categorization overboard joyfully. The musical spectrum ranges from straight arrangements that live entirely without a drum foundation ("Für Dich") to almost meditative sound collages ("Regengesicht") to the four-to-the-floor banger "Kembang". "Direct Faden" on the other hand, surprises with its simple guitar-based foundation on which the omnipresent synth snippets and pads are allowed to let off steam towards the end of the record. The track that most closely combines the progressive production style with a danceable club atmosphere is probably "Phobia". Rampue breaks with his old, musical habits as Tragweite creates the impression of improvisation and jam character without getting lost.
IMPORTANT RECORDS
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CAT #: IMPREC 494LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
DOCKSTADER, TOD Aerial II 2LP
Tod Dockstader's Aerial series, an electronic/drone masterpiece, is cherished among fans of the artist's work and this second volume is available in an audiophile quality double LP. Tod Dockstader's Aerial series is sourced from his life-long passion for shortwave radio. Dockstader collected over 90 hours of recordings, made at night, and comprised of cross signals and fragments plucked from the atmosphere. Opening with airwave drones, Dockstader gradually allows elements to slowly come and go, summoning an ominous atmosphere of ethereal cloud clouds. Malignant placidity continues, giving the feeling of eavesdropping upon late-night audio activity not unlike discovering number stations while sweeping the dials. These sounds pull you in as their density and rhythms come and go. Backward voices, deep echoing choruses of conversations flowing under the surface, ocean sounds, pulsing electro-rhythms, all seem to be created via the collaging of many hours of source recordings. A masterwork of collage and juxtaposition by an overlooked pioneer of American electronic music. Artwork by John Brien (Imprec) is inspired by the propagation of shortwave radio signals throughout the earth's atmosphere. Edition of 500.Tod Dockstader on the Aerial project (September 14, 2003): "... When I was very young, people got most of their entertainment from radio. They called it 'playing the radio,' as if it were a musical instrument. That's what I've tried to do in this piece. About this time, a few people encouraged me to look into using a computer for this work. I'd never used one, but I saw it would allow me to keep my mixes digital -- no more transfer losses. So, at the end of 2001, I got a computer and an editing program for it, and spent what seemed a long time learning it. I began selecting mixes and loading them into the computer in late March, 2002. Out of the 580, I selected 90 'best' mixes -- eventually reduced to 59, the ones on the CDs. Finally, in assembling the CDs, I followed David Myers' suggestion to allow each piece to flow into the next - making a continuous journey to the end.""This return of Dockstader is something to cherish, not just because his output has been so limited and scarce but because what we do have is so intriguing, persuasive and cliche-free; the music of an inspired explorer who trails in nobody's slipstream." --The Wire
K7/BECAUSE MUSIC (FRANCE)
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CAT #: K7 415EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
OTIK Crystal Clear/Rainbow Rhythm 12"
45RPM. Hailing from Bristol and based in London, Ashley Thomas routinely passes the storied music heritage of both cities through his own singular, prismatic filter. As Otik, he produces brilliant and complex hues, forming compositions from weightless neon-tinged trails, richly layered melodic webs and inky, subaqueous bass lines. The prolific artist recently created his own imprint, Solar Body, to accommodate the expanse and volume of his unfettered productions; now with his !K7 Record debut, Otik deepens his sonic explorations for the label he credits as a crucial discovery portal. "Crystal Clear" is inspired by a personal epiphany, and it shines through with sparkling clarity. With the unmistakable signifiers of dancehall in its bassline and drum programming, Thomas turns these references outwards and upwards, finding a new expression with glistening drops of cosmic color, gauzy pads, and soft crescendos of cymbals. Despite coming in hard and fast with a bruising 130BPM bass rhythm "Rainbow Rhythm" evokes a positively disorienting kaleidoscope for Thomas, courtesy of its sugary, euphoric synth sounds. It is a balance of hard and soft, leading heavily with drums throughout, contrasted with the track's delicate and sweetly warped melody.
KIOSK I.D. (GERMANY)
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CAT #: KIOSKID 013LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DORAD, DAVID Murmel EP 2x12"
If you've been in the club scene for many years like David Dorad, you will one day face the big, essential, serious questions that each of us will ask ourselves sooner or later: Are marmots pack animals? Can marmots sign language? Do marmots plan their lives according to European or Chinese zodiac signs? Do marmots need a special passport, after all they don't have a thumb to turn the pages? What happens when a marmot eats Coke and Mentos at the same time? And with all those questions whistling, hissing and muttering in his head, David grabbed piano, baton and BioBassline to crochet his new EP. This is called "Marble" and offers six different approaches to solve these big questions. As a source of ideas, he has competent partners at his side in Roman Flügel, Mira, Christopher Schwarzwälder, Canson, and Sascha Cawa.
LILITH (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
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CAT #: LR 138LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FAUST Faust LP
2022 restock. Legendary German post-rock band formed in 1971 by undisputed noise pioneer Uwe Nettelbeck, Faust garnered an immediate following due to its artistically extreme experimentations with music cut ups and other mixed sources hinging on cacophony and distortion. Don't miss their 1971 cult classic debut, now reissued with its original clear printed sleeve on 180 gram clear vinyl.
MAD ABOUT RECORDS (PORTUGAL)
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CAT #: MAR 061LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
MCCLERKIN, CORKY Searchin' For The Soul LP
Reissue, originally released in 1983. One of the rarest boogie jazz records ever. The private press album includes the rare groove classic "Searchin' For The Soul". Corky McClerkin's early career follows It follows in the wake of the infectiously funky, blues-based keyboard music exemplified by hard-bop paragons Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons in the '50s and '60s. Not surprisingly, McClerkin listened to those pianists while growing up on Chicago's south-side; he also heard plenty of Ahmad Jamal (who then lived and worked in Chicago), and Jamal's trademark airiness occasionally works its way into the mix as well. Since the 1960s, Corky has performed professionally throughout the Chicago area, guided by his mentor, jazz tenor great Von Freeman, he developed his talents throughout the 1970s while also discovering his passion for writing. As a featured columnist for the Chicago Courier, he was inspired to write Undercurrents (1978), a collection of short stories about the black experience. In 1981, Corky strengthened his talents by taking on the position of musical director and arranger for the Chicago production of Sasha, Sing Dinah! and wrote "a play, Life Cycles," performed at the Chicago Cultural Center. In 1983 he built on his experiences by releasing his first album, Searchin' For The Soul on WinCor Records in 1983. Hard-cardboard sleeve; obi; 180 gram vinyl.
MAMA TOLD YA (FRANCE)
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CAT #: MTY TERRE
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA Contre Tous, Toutes Et Tous, La Terre Demeure 4LP
Anetha releases her second seismic compilation on her label Mama Told Ya entitled Contre Tout, Toutes Et Tous, La Terre Demeure, just one year after MTY-EAU L'eau Repousse Les Feux Agressifs (2021). Through earth element, the compilation comes up with the collaboration of 19 artists -- 19 tracks, divided into four vinyl records: Anetha has brought together a generation of young electronic music artists from around the world to get their hands dirty and produce some solid gems. Features Öspiel, Tahl, Anetha, Drazzit, Paul Copping, 74185#, Gutkein, Mac Declos, Elise Massoni, Voiski, Nebuchadnezzar, Valerie Ace, Nui.R, Luca Eck, Boo, Peachlyfe, Onleash, Ida Engehardt, and Schacke.
MESH-KEY
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CAT #: MKY 024CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AUNT SALLY Aunt Sally CD
"A true desert island disc, criminally out of print for nearly 40 years. This seminal, eponymous post-punk album by Japanese group Aunt Sally, fronted by experimental singer Phew (Mute Records), was first released by the iconic Vanity Records label in 1979. Over the past forty-plus years, Phew has forged a singular path through a wide range of styles -- from free improvisation to pop -- and has collaborated with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, members of Can, DAF, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Raincoats, and more. But Aunt Sally is where she got her start and, despite the members' young ages (still in college at the time), Phew and the band delivered a mature, timeless take on minimalistic punk. Remastered from the original analog tapes."
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CAT #: MKY 024LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AUNT SALLY Aunt Sally LP
LP version. Stoughton tip on jacket. "A true desert island disc, criminally out of print for nearly 40 years. This seminal, eponymous post-punk album by Japanese group Aunt Sally, fronted by experimental singer Phew (Mute Records), was first released by the iconic Vanity Records label in 1979. Over the past forty-plus years, Phew has forged a singular path through a wide range of styles -- from free improvisation to pop -- and has collaborated with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, members of Can, DAF, Einstürzende Neubauten, The Raincoats, and more. But Aunt Sally is where she got her start and, despite the members' young ages (still in college at the time), Phew and the band delivered a mature, timeless take on minimalistic punk. Remastered from the original analog tapes."
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CAT #: MKY 027LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
JACKS, THE Vacant World LP
"Arriving on the Japanese music scene during the Beatles-inspired cover band boom of the late '60s, Jacks instantly distinguished themselves from their fluff-peddling, copycat peers with stripped-down, original compositions, nihilistic lyrics and raw performances. Their tenure was short -- '67 to '69 -- but Jacks managed to cut a handful of singles and two albums in that time, the first of which, Vacant World, is now widely considered in Japan to be one of the greatest rock albums the country has ever produced. The combination of Yoshio Hayakawa's arresting baritone and austere guitar work, drummer Takasuke Kida and upright bassist Hitoshi Tanino's jazzy, loose interplay, and lead guitarist Haruo Mizuhashi's searing fuzz leads was alchemical, and Vacant World captured the band at the peak of their powers. Some have described Jacks as the Velvet Underground of Japan -- a singular, revolutionary group that had little commercial success in their day but whose influence and legend grows exponentially with each passing year. The comparison is apt. Unlike VU, however, Jacks remain largely unknown outside Japan, and Mesh-Key hopes this first-ever officially licensed international release does something to fix this injustice. Available in the US for the first time. Vinyl only release, with film-laminated tip-on jackets, and 6-page, full-color booklet."
MILLE PLATEAUX (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MP 046LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ALFA JNR, IBRAHIM Messier87 2LP
Ibrahim Alfa Jnr released techno music since the age of 17. He started to play piano when was six years old and has a master degree in sonic arts. He is known worldwide as a live act and DJ. His first album on Mille Plateaux is a fine example of "hypercussion", which implies a new rhythmic A-logic when beats split or shoot each other off, or when they overlap and mutate into high-pitched hums and rattlesnake breaks; accelerating, before music again blurs into the grains of noise or calm science fiction landscapes and at the same time builds gigantic sound walls. And such music, as far as its conceptualization is concerned, does not have to submit itself to technology at all, but must understand itself as a form that can be recombined with technology.
NERO'S NEPTUNE
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CAT #: NN 012LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FINE/PAUL METZGER, MILO Concerning The Other Condition/Spontaneous Composition.. LP
...Generator. 2022 restock, last copies. Nero's Neptune presents a split LP of solo works from free-jazz improv master/multi-instrumentalist Milo Fine and guitar experimentalist Paul Metzger. "'Moosbruger' was recorded on the occasion of my first public collaboration with Paul Metzger. Before the concert, and for a number of reasons, my thought was that, when my name was drawn for a solo, I'd be playing drum set. But, as befits the spirit of improvisation (the moment), I grabbed the B flat clarinet, and then, echoing the first time I played piano in public (1971), moved off stage to the prepared piano remains, where the two instruments conjoined. 'Ulrich' is a self-contained section of a set-long (drum) solo I played at the Art of This Gallery's Tuesday Night Improvised Music Series. 'Moosbruger' was recorded on March 21, 2009. 'Ulrich' was recorded on January 20, 2009." --Milo Fine "I created the Spontaneous Composition Generator to produce a random series of musical actions. It is a device consisting of 37 altered music box movements mounted in a wooden painter's box. The alterations include dampening, detuning, replacing, removing, doubling, and reversing the tines. Most of the original melody pins on the cylinders were removed. Rubber bands of various lengths and thicknesses were attached to the winding stems to facilitate a continuously variable tension. One dozen hand-wired piezo pickups are attached to output a stereo signal. The piece on this recording was created November 9, 2009 with a time of 18:43. It was specifically made as a complement to Milo's contributions to this Nero's Neptune LP. --Paul Metzger Strictly limited edition of 421 vinyl copies only. Screen-printed onto wax paper sleeves, with an insert. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl.
NOTON (GERMANY)
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CAT #: NOTON 051LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Vrioon (Remaster) 2LP
Limited repress; double LP version. Pioneers in their own musical approaches, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, began their exploration of sound in the evocatively titled V.I.R.U.S series in 2002. After more than a decade from the release of the collection's final installment with summvs in 2011, NOTON reissues all the five albums between June and October 2022. With its impressionistic atmosphere, in this collaborative project two generations met and shared the idea of electronic music as an inspiration source for new musical structures. Over a series of five albums, Vrioon (2002), Insen (2005), Revep (2006), utp_ (2008), and summvs (2011), the duo has explored blending electronic and acoustic sounds into a meditative whole that is at once expressive, breathing and precision-engineered. Remastered in collaboration with Calyx Mastering, the recordings are made available under the title Remaster, accompanied by exclusive, unreleased compositions and housed in a beautifully designed sleeve with original cover art by Carsten Nicolai. In November 2022, a dedicated, limited edition cardboard slipcase will be available as a separate item from the V.I.R.U.S.
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CAT #: NOTON 052LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Insen (Remaster) 2LP
Repressed; double LP version. Originally released in 2005, Insen is the second collaboration album between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto and the second installment of V.I.R.U.S.'s five album series. Remastered in 2021 in collaboration with Calyx Studio, the album's recordings are accompanied by an unreleased composition titled "Barco." Initially composed for Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto's 2005 Insen tour, the audio material used in this piece is based on the subtle sounds of Barco projectors, whose tonalities served as a ground for the artists' live improvisation. In Insen, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto explore the potential for interaction and tension between electronic and acoustic instrumentation. Across eight compositions, the echoes of the cascading piano combine, collide, and dissolve with the tapestry of digital breakages in sheer vibrancy. This relationship lies at the album's core. It subtly continues Vrioon's calm melancholia, becoming a vessel for all the emotions and memories nourished by the listener. As you hear the opening, lonesome notes of "Aurora," you realize that the pair have once again conceded an ambition to embed elaborate disciplines into an archetypal sound of soul-searching beauty. Album art designed by Carsten Nicolai. Mastering by Bo at Calyx.
OUT-SIDER (SPAIN)
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CAT #: OSR 091LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ILL WIND Flashes LP
Reissue, originally released in 1968. US psychedelic/acid rock classic. Flashes, the sole album by Boston based band Ill Wind, was produced by Tom Wilson (Simon & Garfunkel, Mothers Of Invention, Velvet Underground...) and originally released on ABC Records. Terrific west coast-styled sound with male/female vocals, strong guitar interplay, and inventive songwriting, featuring titles like "Dark World", "People Of The Night", "Hung Up Chick", and wait till you hear their cover of "High Flying Bird". RIYL: Jefferson Airplane, Growing Concern, Moby Grape, Yankee Dollar, Big Brother, Peanut Butter Conspiracy. Hard cardboard sleeve; OBI; includes insert with liner notes and photos; includes digital download card. "... an excellent gateway drug when building a psychedelic LP collection" --Patrick Lundborg (Acid Archives). "... some of the finest psychedelia conceivable." --MOJO.
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CAT #: OSR 092LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
STACK Above All LP
Reissue, originally released in 1969. Definitive reissue of this wild and heavy psychedelic hard-rock album from California, released in tiny quantities at the time. Ultra-loud guitars (think Blue Cheer or late '60s Who), melodic vocals and thundering rhythm section. Includes bonus track taken from a previously unreleased acetate. Hard cardboard sleeve; OBI; insert with extensive line notes by genre expert Clark Faville and lots of rare pictures/memorabilia. "Early LA hardrock blowout with a British sound and Who and Led Zep influences. Best tracks go into ferocious guitar excursions that are among the best anywhere. Mandatory to any hard-rock fan" --Patrick Lundborg (Acid Archives). "Above All is one of the few pure and willfully heavy hard rock albums that rank as both incredibly rare and ultimately essential to a collection of American Rock" --Clark Faville
OVUM
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CAT #: OVM 320EP
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LOMBARDO, FRANCESCA Magic Moment 12"
Longtime underground star Francesca Lombardo steps up to Ovum with a trio of superb new signature sounds. Italian Lombardo has been crisscrossing the globe and headlining all its most tasteful clubs and festivals for many years. Her powerful, heartfelt grooves have come on the most influential labels of the day and her critically acclaimed debut album Life of Leaf showed that she can do all sounds and styles from downtempo to pop with equal skills. Her mix of innovation and compelling grooves continues on this latest EP. The vocals on the opener "Magic Moment" are a poem Francesca's friend Victoria (Viktoriia) sent to her. She kept them for four years before finding the special inspiration that encouraged her to use them in these writing sessions. They lend the tune an intimate feel and draw you in deep to the elegant house drums and warming synths. It's an uplifting and classy tune with a standout Moog bassline that will lock in the floor. After the dub version is "Sea," a much more twisted and peak time techno tune. The synths are spangled over jacked-up drums, with edgy textures and late-night menace all making it a surefire winner This is another tasteful take on techno from Francesca Lombardo.
PALOMA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PALOMA 007EP
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TOM Lose Yourself EP 12"
Paloma presents its seventh release: Tom's Lose Yourself EP featuring Rose. Throughout club music history, the combination of vocals and groove remains a vital element. Countless anthems have prompted singing on the floor, and have raised arms in the air. There might have been times where vocals mattered less, but right now they are probably more needed than ever. Tom and Rose are well aware of all that, and they were willing to place themselves and their music in a tradition of dancefloor euphoria, universal messages and also a bit of bittersweetness. Tom is a DJ, producer and mix engineer, and also a booker and resident at Paloma. Rose is an Irish singer and producer. Together they created these tunes, a testament to better times gone and ahead. "How Wrong" is the sound of heartbreak, albeit locked in a UKG-tinged sureshot that swings back and forth with ease between jubilant piano bliss and monolithic bass weight, and it kicks like a mule. "Lose Yourself" is both an ageless acid slam and a joyful paean dedicated to all nights that should never end. There is a pumping dub too, equally designed to be the soundtrack to blowing a nocturnal kiss to everyday sorrows. Also included: complementary remixes by Eluize and Massimiliano Pagliara that come up with a different take, but a similar vision.
PAMPA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PAMPA 039EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
IMPERIEUX Fantasmagorii EP 12"
The illusive Impérieux ventures into the fantastical world of DJ Koze's Pampa with three tracks of masterful, genre-bending electronica. It's little wonder that the Turkish/Bulgarian native finds himself coming into the orbit of the Hamburg-based label head. DJ Koze has been a long-time supporter of Impérieux's music, his intrepid DJ sets often finding their most dramatic peaks or existential lows with one of the producer's audacious dancefloor soundscapes. Now Berlin-based, Impérieux's music draws deeply on the sounds of his heritage, taking inspirations from Bulgarian folklore, twisted and chopped Turkish dialect as well the gritty underground of his new surroundings. With Fantasmagorii EP, Impérieux explores his sonic boundaries with techniques inspired by the label-head himself. As a producer he is becoming known for his ability to build fantasy worlds through aural experimentation, creating productions soaked with fragility and emotion. His music brings a full-body listening experience of its own, laden with intensity and mystery, and full of opposites. He has the ability to pluck their listeners out of reality, to bend the rules of time and space and defy genres in a way that is reminiscent of Koze's various bodies of work, and it's no surprise that this selection of tracks feels right at home in the Pampa fantasy. "I am permanently seeking for Music that blows my mind. It's like digging for gold. Impérieux delivers a psychedelic bullion" --DJ Koze.
PAN EUROPEAN RECORDING (FRANCE)
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CAT #: PAN 075LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
KOUDLAM Precipice Fantasy Part 1 2LP
Double LP version. Koudlam returns to civilization with Precipice Fantasy, an abnormal album once again. The album is made up of two very different parts which will be released separately, with a first part which shells 12 songs like so many flamboyant mutations and a second contemplative instrumental part halfway between uneasy yoga music and trance from the lowlands of Kathmandu. Inspired by the hallucinated stories of mountain pioneers and conquistadores, the artist delivers here the soundtrack of peaks and precipices. Or rather that of the path between the two, winding, vertiginous, always on the edge of the blade.
PERLON (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PERL 130LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MELCHIOR PRODUCTIONS LTD Vulnerabilities 3x12"
Soul departure time. Drowning in a dreamlike state where drifting with the current is free movement. Driven by echoes of serious intentions and playfulness. The order of music takes you further. In time, on the floor, under the skin, melting measures and dimensions. On a way back to where the future of your comfort has dawned. Through zones of whispers and expanding beauty. On a memory lane while passing all your favorite things and sentiments. On a straight, gently quantized line through tunnels of love and liberation. To a vanishing point where the soul is exposed to a scattered radiation of joy, content, revival, liveliness, melancholia. Feels like an arrival, no detour or deviation. Soul: its vulnerability becomes a superpower.
PHARAWAY SOUNDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: PHS 070LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
KARACA, CEM Apaslar, Kardaslar, Mogollar (Picture Disc) PIC. DISC
Picture disc reissue, originally released in 1974. Sophisticated and passionate, with flamboyant taste in sunglasses, Cem Karaca once led Istanbul's music fans through a period of violent political turmoil. Karaca reworked traditional folk lyrics with molten electric bass lines that played up both a poet's broiling righteousness and also his listeners' common ground with their elders in Turkey's history. This is the second album from Karaca, released in 1974, reissued for the first time in picture disc with remastered sound. It leads the listener through Karaca's own musical history, skipping across various collaborations and bands up to his then-current project Dervisan. Can throbbing Anatolian guitars take on the assassins of the Grey Wolves? Imagine a hairy pied piper with R Kelly's flair for drama, wailing into a microphone over an electric baglama, and you're ready to enter the bohemian world of Papa Cem.
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CAT #: PHS 075LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
ZANGENEH, PARI The Series of Music for Young Adults: Iranian Folk Songs LP
Travel back in time to the modern pre-revolution Teheran and dig this wonderful, ear-catching album from 1976 by Iranian female singer Pari Zangeneh. Traditional Persian folk songs with a lovely, sweet psychedelic flavor with the use of beautiful strings, flutes, charming and tasty drumming, some organ and orchestration, percussions... imagine a Persian version of Mellow Candle or Vashti Bunyan and you're there. Born in 1939 in Kermanshah (Iran), Pari Zangeneh is a Soprano singer that lost her sight after a car accident in 1972. Her work over the years on restoring traditional Persian music and regional folk songs is invaluable. In 1976, she recorded this very unique album commissioned by K?noon (Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults), a social organization that produced many kinds of materials (books, films, records) for children in Iran. The arrangements were done by Varoujan (famous for his work with Googoosh, Dariush, etc.) Sourced from the original masters; hard cardboard sleeve + OBI; includes download card.
POSH BOY (ITALY)
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CAT #: 8055515233797
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SOME NICHOLSON Drop Down Mama LP
Some Nicholson is an ensemble created by renowned Canadian artist David Nicholson. Their debut album is a collection of blues infused material presented in the form of a classic '70s LP. David Nicholson was born in Montreal in 1970. His career began at Artists Space in NYC in 2002 and he now lives and works in Berlin, where he is represented by Galerie Michael Haas. In 2018 Nicholson decided to state a musical position based on his lifelong love of the blues by producing a vinyl album, reminiscent of the LP records of the 1970s. Recording took place in his painting studio, summoning the minimalist spirit of field recordings, rendered with modern technology. This approach set the parameters for the project which later expanded to include a recording made on location at the Freiberg Cathedral, home of a baroque masterpiece, Gottfried Silbermann's organ. To help him realize his vision, Nicholson gathered an ensemble of 12 musicians and singers, including renowned jazz organist Brian Charette, trumpet player Christoph Titz, and guitar maestro/sound-über nerd Thomas Büchel. The results speak for themselves. Sit back and immerse yourself in a musical adventure and note that the album's creators advise that this LP record is best enjoyed with a bottle of 2018 Chinon. Gatefold.
PUBLIC POSSESSION (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PP 080EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
EDEN BURNS Big Beat Manifesto (Remixed) 12"
Eden Burns the prophet is back and he brought along some friends to mix up his messages. Remember a good message is one that is flexible! Includes DJ Boring, Nice Girl, and Red Axes. Join the tribe. Help spreading the message of the Big Beat! Beat moves feet. Feet do dance. Dance brings joy. Joy is life. Life is special.
ROOM40 (AUSTRALIA)
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CAT #: RM 4162LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
ABRAHAMS, CHRIS Follower LP
For more than three decades now Sydney pianist and composer Chris Abrahams has developed a singularly iconic body of work. Known widely for his work with trio The Necks, Abrahams solo works have carved out an entirely otherworldly realm in sound. His explorations of organ, electronics, and piano capture a restless curiosity and timbral interrogation that only deepens with each of his releases. With Follower, his compositional language further expands. Melodies cascade with a cinematic pacing, spilling out over the top of harmonic electronics and unsteady percussive elements. He creates a sense of opening and space, a field within which we become lost and utterly consumed by the evolving states he casts into focus. On the opening track, "Costume", bass piano meanders through a wilderness of de-tuned bells and organ swells; a strange sort of festival. Low frequency sighs evenly punctuate, like a pump or a heartbeat. It's a procession that takes it time as it wanders the terrain, brought to a close with transcendent distortion. On the second piece, "New Kind of Border", muscular modal piano surfs among waves of percussion and analog synthesizers. A buffeting travel. Follower is Abrahams's sixth album for Room40 and it showcases his continuing interest in the ambiguous spaces between music and noise; tonality and atonality; rhythm and texture. All four tracks have piano as a key factor: in one instance, high-pitched and atonal; in another, emotive yet distant as if projected on to a screen. Follower presents the listener with a sound world of colorful juxtapositions, rich orchestration and organically open forms.
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CAT #: RM 4185CD
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ROSE, BRAD E. Annular Silhouettes CD
With Annular Silhouettes, Brad E. Rose traces an undulating pathway through ideas of place, memory, and intergenerational exchange. The edition is a mediation on how perspective is shaped, and reshaped, in time. More so it explores how change is simultaneously incremental and accumulative. This is reflected in the compositional strategies he deploys. Elements arrive and pass with an almost subconscious logic. Their pace is measured, but entirely fluid, creating a sense of breathing or perhaps even daydreaming. This is a work of constant evolution, but couched within a singular perspective of subjective experience.From Brad E. Rose: "There are many times when I'm working on a music project that, in the moment, I'm not sure what I'm really doing. I don't believe there's some otherworldly power guiding my hands or thought processes unless our own subconscious could be classified as such a thing. It's mostly about trying to be present at that moment and letting the ideas and sounds unfold in a way that isn't forced. Oftentimes, after the fact, it will become clearer to me that certain feelings or thoughts were trying to find their way out, but my brain, as is often the case, wasn't sure how to process them and let them go. Sound has often acted as that medium for me over the last three decades; a way to channel difficult thoughts into a language I can understand. One evening as I watched the snowfall in mid-January, after thinking about what Annular Silhouettes was, it finally hit me. Recorded during the depths of 2020, during a time spent within the vicinity of where I live, it's a bit of a love letter to the place I grew up. I live in the house that my grandparents lived in for over 20 years, that my grandfather gutted and rebuilt with his own hands. It's the last place he ever called home and his spirit remains firmly etched into its walls. I live less than ten minutes from my childhood home, where both my parents still live. I moved away and eventually came back. I am lucky to gain a different understanding of this place than I had growing up. Place is a strange thing in the way it can influence and shape us, for better or worse. Nearly 20 years ago, when I moved back here with my partner, she would tell me how she couldn't get over how big the sky felt in Oklahoma. I still think about that often. For a place that is stuck moving backward in so many ways, the possibilities above us can be endless beyond the forces dragging us back into the soil..."
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CAT #: RM 4194CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
ENDEAN, AVIVA Moths & Stars CD
Australian composer and clarinetist Aviva Endean has developed an impressive capacity for creating work that merges intense control (of breath, of instrument, of composition) and a willingness to allow the music to lead. On Moths & Stars, her second solo work, she charts out a sound world that is equal parts timbre and tone, placing sounds relationship to space as a paramount focus for her pieces.From Aviva Endean: "Coming from a background as a performer and clarinet player, the opportunity to record my own music opened up a whole new context to think about music. Sounds are freed from being confined to one place, one time, or even one perspective. I wanted the recording to have a right-up-in-your-ear kind of intimacy -- so close, that you could hear the beating of a moth's wing, but I also wanted the listener to experience the expansiveness of the recorded space, like the vast night sky. The microphones became extensions of my instruments, getting right up close to capture the microscopic, creating tones of feedback which captivated me, or zooming out to capture multiple acoustic spaces. My recording and composing process became more intuitive and explorative, another form of play. I could start creating and see where the piece would take me, and notice how new relationships were formed as I folded multiple time/spaces in and over each other. Sometimes I would begin by gleaning sounds from my archives, and listening to how they could be reimagined and transformed alongside the discoveries my microphones and instruments were finding. In 'Nightwork' I wanted to find a way to revisit some microtonal humming that I had recorded for a sound design project, and then discovered the Leslie speaker as a way to spin my bass clarinet sound around the microphones, creating bass tones emerging as waves out of the densely layered pitches. Sometimes a new instrumental fascination, such as the e-bows and magnets on 'Mirror Signals' or the binaural microphone feedback on 'Moths & Stars' would call for me to find further layers of clarinets and field recordings to be woven into their story."
SCI + TEC DIGITAL AUDIO
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CAT #: TEC8S5
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DUBFIRE CHLLNGR 12"
CHLLNGR is the last single before Dubfire's debut album EVOLV drops. An 11-track visionary into the mind of Dubfire to be released on his long-standing label SCI+TEC. EVOLV's concept? The journey of the "hybrid" being and its evolution since its first appearance in 2015, as part of his two-year world tour following the release of his retrospective release A Decade Of Dubfire. With a career spanning over three decades, Dubfire has achieved global success as an artist with relentless drive, talent, and intuition. Pioneering commercial notoriety came initially as one half of the Grammy award (2001) winning duo Deep Dish, before embarking on a truly groundbreaking solo career in 2007. A career filled with timeless tracks include his early works "Ribcage", "Emissions", "Roadkill" and the highly acclaimed "Exit" with Kiss Kitten. Collaborative work highlights include Luke Slater, Moscoman, Oliver Huntemann, Chris Liebing, Tiga and co-producing two tracks on the legendary Underworld's Barking album. Sonically, the journey so far has been like a dystopian landscape, but "Decent" brings a kaleidoscope of color and sound before dropping into the "CHALLNGR" duo. "CHALLNGR 1.1" is perhaps the most contemporary track on the album. Dubfire picks up the rhythm for a full-on dancefloor focused track. It's no-nonsense techno at its best, with heaps of pure energy. Two versions appear on the album.
SOWING RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: SOW 013LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
ASHBY, DOROTHY Soft Winds: The Swinging Harp of Dorothy Ashby with Terry Pollard, Jimmy Cobb, Herman Wright LP
2022 repress. Sowing Records present a reissue of Dorothy Ashby's Soft Winds: The Swinging Harp of Dorothy Ashby, originally released in 1961. Features female vibes player Terry Pollard. Comes with a version of The Skatalites' "Guns Of Navarone" which is a pretty surreal listening experience. Clear vinyl; edition of 300.From the original liner notes: "Dorothy Ashby may not be the first jazz harpist (Caspar Reardon) or the first female jazz harpist (Adele Girard), but her good feeling for time and ability to construct melodic, guitar-like lines, mark her as the most accomplished modern jazz harpist (...) Accompanying her was another Detroit girl, Terry Pollard. Terry's main instrument is the piano and she is one of the best in the country, bar none. She is also a pretty fair country vibraharpist and in this set, Miss Pollard plays vibes exclusively. With them is still another Detroiter, Herman Wright, who like Miss Pollard has worked with Terry Gibbs and Yusef Lateef, and who also served as Miss Ashby's regular bassist. (...) Completing the quartet is Jimmy Cobb, drummer for the Miles Davis group. During the proceedings, Cobb travels between brushes and sticks without upsetting the equilibrium of this essentially quiet set. There is wide range of material presented here, from blues like Benny Goodman's title number, 'Soft Winds', and Miss Ashby's 'With Strings Attached', to movie themes such as 'Laura', 'Wild Is the Wind', and 'Guns Of Navarone'. Then there are works by such superior writers of standards as Kurt Weill ('My Ship'); Gershwin ('The Man I Love' and 'Love Is Here To Stay')."
SQUAMA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: SQM 018CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
OHTA & MATTHIAS LINDERMAYR, MASAKO MMMMH CD
Pianist Masako Ohta and trumpet player Matthias Lindermayr's music flows in gentle waves, moving with ease between every theme they imagine. Their music is largely improvised, embracing chance and following sound down winding paths. Their debut collaborative album, MMMMH, highlights this loose process through its relaxed pace, surprising turns, and drifting style. The album presents small vignettes that each encapsulate their free-flowing motion and tranquil melodies, drawing from simple ideas to create a fully bloomed, radiant sound.
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CAT #: SQMRE 001LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
QUIEROZ, JOANA Tempo Sem Tempo LP
Tempo Sem Tempo is the fifth studio album by São Paulo based clarinet player, singer, and composer Joana Queiroz, now available on vinyl for the first time outside of Brazil. It is indeed a timeless record. A cocooning blend of looped reeds and low-key electronics holding melodies and lyrics. When Joana sings, it's with noble restraint and grace, as can be heard on four songs including Gilberto Gil's "Seu Olhar" and "Dois Litorais" by her friend and Quartabê band mate Mariá Portugal. Standing out on Tempo Sem Tempo is a wistful beauty that makes it easy to immerse oneself in the intimate vastness of this album.
STEPPAS RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: ASLP 002LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
DUB DYNASTY Thundering Mantis LP
2022 repress; LP version. Thundering Mantis is the much-anticipated second album from Dub Dynasty, aka Alpha & Omega meets Alpha Steppa. Dub Dynasty's 2013 debut Unrelenting Force (ASCD 001CD, 2013) received widespread critical acclaim with support from media platforms such as Q Magazine, Mixmag, Wire, BBC, and Rinse FM, to name a few. Dub Dynasty once again deliver an international line-up featuring vocalists and instrumentalists from around the globe; UK, USA, Zimbabwe, Jamaica, Italy, Ireland, Spain, and Suriname. With diverse contributions ranging from the soulful vocals of Wellette Seyon, Cian Finn, and Prince David, to the militant chants of N'goni and Ras Tinny, traversing the enchanting flute melodies of Don Fe to the spoken-word teachings of internationally-recognized spiritual guru Mooji. This album is a musical journey to be experienced both at home and at soundsystem sessions across the globe. Beautifully mastered and pressed for maximum bass pressure. Features artwork contributions from South Africa's dance movement, the University Of Steppas.
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CAT #: ASLP 005LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DUB DYNASTY Holy Cow 2LP
Double LP version. Dub veterans Alpha & Omega and their son and nephew Alpha Steppa present their eagerly awaited third album as Dub Dynasty. This third installment of dynastic dub follows their critically acclaimed albums Unrelenting Force (ASCD 001CD/ASLP 001LP, 2013) and Thundering Manta (2014). Diverse, dynamic, and forward-thinking dub reggae music with a deep roots foundation. Championed by a range of soundsystems from the bass music spectrum from roots veterans Channel One Soundsystem to UK steppers pioneers Iration Steppas and dubstep originator V.I.V.E.K. Includes contributions from Cologne, Iyano Iyanti, Sis Jane Warriah, Kiangana, and Violinbwoy.
SUPERIOR VIADUCT
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CAT #: SV 077LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AVENGERS, THE The Avengers LP
2022 repress. "In the late '70s, The Avengers established themselves as one of the US's preeminent punk bands. Fusing incisive guitar hooks, explosive rhythms and adolescent venom, the group forged some of the most in-your-face songs of the era. Their live shows were legendary, playing up and down the West Coast and even blowing Sex Pistols off the stage at the latter's final performance. As Byron Coley writes in the liner notes, 'Of the best bands of San Francisco's first wave in 1977, The Avengers were by far the coolest and youngest sounding. They roared without irony, as though this were indeed Year Zero (and, for a moment, it was), with history being overwritten by the new. The honesty of their belief was carried by their sound. And it was convincing!' Originally released in 1983, four years after the band's dissolution, The Avengers' self-titled LP is often referred to as 'The Pink Album' for its magenta-hued cover design. Frontwoman Penelope Houston's iconic voice and razor-sharp lyrics resonate on anthems 'We Are The One' and 'The American In Me,' while penetrating ballads like 'Corpus Christi' reveal a truly out-of-body euphony. The Pink Album remains The Avengers' definitive statement -- collecting their classic Dangerhouse EP, sessions recorded with the Pistols' Steve Jones and a half-dozen revelatory demos. While much has been written about The Avengers in the past three decades, rock critic Greil Marcus puts it succinctly, 'The word I always come back to is mystical, and that remains almost theirs alone.'"
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CAT #: SV 096LP
FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL
REICH/PHILIP GLASS, STEVE Four Organs/Phase Patterns LP
2022 repress. "Steve Reich remains one of the most important figures in 20th century music. Though he studied at the prestigious arts institutions Julliard and Mills College, by the mid- 1960s Reich set about dismantling the very orthodoxy that he had been trained in. Forming a new musical language based on repetitive processes, Reich became established as part of the so-called 'Big Four' of New York minimalists (along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Philip Glass). Reich's influence can easily be seen today in both the classical world and contemporary pop music. 'Four Organs' is the ultimate minimalist composition. Performed by Reich, Glass, Art Murphy and Steve Chambers, four identical Farfisa organs strike a single chord and gradually lengthen each note to produce polyrhythms between the players. Anchored by Jon Gibson's stoicallysteady pulse on maracas, the piece deconstructs its opening burst to a sustained mass of sound -- stretching the tones to create (in Reich's words) 'slow-motion music.' Inspired by Reich's early training on drums, 'Phase Patterns' treats the keyboards like tuned percussion instruments: a basic rhythm pattern is played in unison and almost imperceptibly increases tempo to move out-of-sync. Each progressive cycle emphasizes unique figures that are not generated by an individual alone, but rather emerge from the communal expression of the group. Originally released on Shandar in 1971, Four Organs / Phase Patterns is one of most highly regarded avant-garde recordings in the past 45 years. This first-time vinyl reissue features cover photography by artist Michael Snow and is recommended for fans of Neu!, Glenn Branca and Tim Hecker."
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CAT #: SV 147LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FALL, THE Rough Trade Singles LP
2022 repress. "The Rough Trade Singles collects The Fall's four singles recorded for this influential label in 1980 and 1983 -- How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' / City Hobgoblins, Totally Wired / Putta Block, The Man Whose Head Expanded / Ludd Gang and Kicker Conspiracy -- none of which appeared on any of the band's studio LPs. With 7-inches being the era's vehicle for buzzing communiqués, The Fall would use the format for short-form, standalone works rather than as mere promotional devices for forthcoming albums. 'Totally Wired' is often cited (and rightfully so) as The Fall's most infectious tune -- an amphetamine-fueled anthem with stuttering nods to forebears, yet too incisive to have been made by anyone else. 'How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'' is another mad hoedown, one reimagined for the post-punk age. While the playful rhythm machine on 'The Man Whose Head Expanded' almost suggests danceability, Mark E. Smith's idiosyncratic shriek on 'Kicker Conspiracy' pierces through the twin drumming of Paul Hanley and Karl Burns and the group's unpredictable/unmistakable racket. Together these songs remain some of the absolute best material The Fall would ever release. Superior Viaduct's edition is the first time that The Rough Trade Singles has been available on vinyl domestically. Liner notes by Brian Turner."
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CAT #: SV 154LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SPACEMEN 3 Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To 2LP
2022 repress. Housed in a gatefold sleeve with download code; includes the "legendary Northampton demos from 1986". "Amidst the swirl that is Spacemen 3's discography, Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To occupies a pivotal position -- one right at the nexus between their garage beginnings and their expansionist future. While much of this material is expanded upon via Sound Of Confusion and The Perfect Prescription, many devotees consider these urgent, minimally treated recordings as the prime document of Spacemen 3 at this stage. Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To casts Spacemen 3 alongside the mid-80s cadre of UK front-line rockers, contributing a distinct variation of high pop shining through layered noisy guitars. Ultimately, this collection serves to exalt the strength of Spacemen 3's songwriting over the atmospherics and production assemblage that would permeate their later efforts. Be it the rave-up rendering of 'The Sound Of Confusion' or the churning take on 'Losing Touch With My Mind', these full band recordings capture the excited and inspirational spark of psychedelia rather than deep-dive ruminations on sonics and space."
SYSTEMATIC (GERMANY)
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CAT #: SYST 134EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
REBEL YOUTH What Is Soul? (30th Anniversary Remixes) 12"
This almost lost treasure from 1993 was heavily supported by Sven Väth during his Omen times and was released by the label Ongaku which was run by Ata and Heiko M/S/O. It was produced by the Frankfurt based techno mentors Kay Praag and Jörn Elling Wuttke and celebrates its 30-year anniversary. "What Is Soul?" is one of those classics which has not been played to death and comes along with brand new interpretations by no one else than Joris Voorn (Rejected) and Joseph Ashworth (Life & Death, Pets). First reissue of this true classic after 30 years.
TARTELET (DENMARK)
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CAT #: TARTALB 010C-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
JITWAM. HONEYCOMB (Gold Vinyl) LP
Tartelet release jitwam.'s 2019 success album on gold vinyl. HONEYCOMB hits the sweet spot between jitwam.'s work in dance music and efforts as a bandleader, connecting people in studio and on stage. The record encapsulates his diverse upbringing in India and Australia, before living in monasteries in Thailand, orphanages in South Africa, and finally the US, where he currently resides. On jitwam.'s journey, he's worn several musical faces that all highlight soulful sounds within the world of psychedelic indie rock, the hip-hop realm, and underground house music. These sounds and musical identities are apparent in his 12-track album of broken microphone blues, heartfelt vocals, and smooth assorted instrumentation. It follows jitwam.'s well-received EPs on his own imprint, The Jazz Diaries, which secured him a spot on Moodymann's DJ Kicks compilation. HONEYCOMB was recorded at the Steam Room Sessions studio in London, where Natureboy Flako lent his special touch to jitwam.'s tracks across some intimate collaborative sessions. What's left are sonic "diary entries" that put a magnifying glass on life's mundane moments, turning them into inspired tales of life, love, sadness, and periods of ecstatic release. Album opener "busstop" finds him welcoming you into his world with warm guitar riffs, smooth basslines, and lyrics about the comforting chaos of urban life in India. Features are aplenty on the LP too: London artist Marie Bashiru adds croons to the buttery "diamonds" and "temptations"; trumpet is worked in by Henry Wu-collaborator Nick Walton; and frequent Brooklyn-based collaborator Aquiles Navarro features on the lullaby jam "hearts don't lie." Hazy '90s hip-hop drums and warm synths bring the listener into "i'm a rock." Going even deeper, jazz-funk enters the room on "trustt," a tune that's all groovy basslines and cosmic soundscapes. "opendoors" brings up the energy for one of the LP's most full on, hands-up trips; it's a mix of buzzing horns and uplifting vocals about the possibilities to be found in any moment if you just let go -- and let loose. HONEYCOMB frees jitwam from any parameters of a dancefloor 12-inch. It blasts open the doors for an artist who fuses musical identities and stitches together ideas into some of the warmest music you'll hear all year. Welcome to HONEYCOMB: A psychedelic journey through the inner beyond.
TELESKOP (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TELE 015LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
OH NO NOH Kanzi LP
Finding beauty, where one wouldn't suspect it in the first place. Discovering music, where there used to be only sound a moment before. Forming an orchestra out of everyday surroundings, the main thing out of the incidental, the fulfilling momentary situation out of the profane togetherness. All of this is part of the goal, meaning and sense of Oh No Noh, the project of Leipzig based guitarist, robot programmer, magnetic tape crumpler, and composer Markus Rom. All of this floats and shines through Kanzi, the second Oh No Noh album.
TIME IN THE SPECIAL PRACTICE OF RELATIVITY (GERMANY)
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CAT #: RELTIME 003LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
FRIEBE, RICO Jenni II LP+CD
Rico Friebe returns with a second part to Jenni, his initial full-length album from early 2022. The furthermore ongoing personal story of empathy, tragedy, and hope continues with a cycle of orchestral compositions, leading Friebe's work into unforeseen directions. A soundtrack of the soul with the uniquely natural and timeless touch of orchestra music... Includes CD.
TOUCH (UK)
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CAT #: TO 033-21CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MOORE, ANTHONY C-Sound + Saz CD
Antony Moore: "Touch.40 live at Iklectik. I received an invitation to perform at the 40th anniversary gathering, June 2022. Previous works for the label, 'Arithmetic in the Dark' and 'Isoladrone2020' illuminated the landing strip for a new work. It should be continuous -- a further play on moving and remaining. I wanted to balance the digital output of a CSound orchestra with an analog instrument and chose the Turkish saz, a sound I've loved and lived with for the last six decades. I prepared the ground for the live performance with a graphical interface for CSound and an EBow for the saz (along with some short pre-recordings of picking and strumming). Then, a few days before the concert, I got Covid. On the suggestion of Jon and Mike I recorded a live performance-for-one, (myself at home) which was played back at Iklectik. Unedited, unchanged, here it is."Three pairs of thin, wire strings on the Turkish saz are struck, and the resulting sound is harmonized, filtered and then sustained in an infinite but gradually shifting chord of harmonics. In addition, an EBow is used to excite the strings in real time. This sound is natural, untreated, and adds layers to the sustained chord. Subsequently, two Csound programs running in parallel are "fed" the natural sound of the saz and the output is heavily affected with filters, resonators, vocoders etc. These sonic gestures are allowed to take over as the original chord fades to leave the more transparent sounds of the Csound outputs. The organum returns with much warmer low end. The saz transformations thin out to leave a keening call. And finally, the last minutes are filled with a deep chord which fades to silence.Anthony Moore (b. August 1948) is a composer/musician, now based in the UK, formerly professor in Cologne for sound art and music working on the social and technical history of sound. He operates across many genres; ambient drone, musique concrète, electroacoustic, songwriting, and immersive, multi-channel sound installations. He continues to compose, perform and release work on various labels such as Touch, Drag City (Chicago), P-Vine (Tokyo) and others. Anthony Moore conducted a lengthy interview with Julian Cowley for The Wire, which appeared in October 2022 edition.
TOY TONICS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TOYT 139EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
KAPOTE & KOSMO KINT Remix EP 12"
Here comes a fat Toy Tonics remix package. Coeo made two club versions of this track originally by Toy Tonics head honcho Kapote -- featuring New York born, Berlin based Soul singer Kosmo Kint. Coeo's "Garage" version is a heavy booty shaker, quite different from their last release. This is very UK. You can hear that Coeo has been DJing a lot in the UK lately. Of course, the other one remix is killer too... You get what you know from a Coeo work. The Kapote remix package also includes a version by Detroit original hero Dez Andres. A sneaky dancefloor slammer that will get a lot of attention.
TROST (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: TROST 118LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
SUN RA ARKESTRA Live in Nickelsdorf 1984 4LP BOX
2022 restock, last copies... 4LP box set version. The great Sun Ra Arkestra, live at Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf, Austria on March 11th, 1984. This is a recording of the entire -- nearly three hour -- performance. Personnel for this show was Sun Ra (piano, synth, vocals); John Gilmore (tenor saxophone, clarinet, evi, vocals); Marshall Allen (alto saxophone, flute, kora, percussion); Danny Ray Thompson (baritone saxophone, flute, percussion); Eloe Omoe (Leroy Taylor) (alto saxophone, bass clarinet, percussion); James Jackson (basoon, flute, drums, vocals); Ronnie Brown (trumpet); Rollo Radford (standup bass); Don Mumford (drums); Matthew Brown (congas, dance); Myriam Broche (dance); Greg Pratt (dance). Vinyl box limited to 1,000 copies.
UKW49B (GERMANY)
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CAT #: UKW49B 001B-EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA Sound Of The Concrete Lady Part 2 12"
The UKW club in north-east Germany and its street location number calling 49b. A unique building and home for music enthusiasts where no fame exists. The new inhouse label is now starting its output with music from friends and regulars of the club. The label philosophy is simple: Music from the heart that moves. This first release comes as a compilation split into two parts packed with chords, raw analog drums, dubby elements dreamy pads, and bleepy elements. Features Andre Kronert, Alex.Do, Thomas Hessler, and Stefan Rein.
VESSEL RECORDS (AUSTRALIA)
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CAT #: VSSL 005EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
NORACHI/MIRIS Vessel 05: Miris & Norachi 12"
Vessel 05: The founders edition. A special artist split featuring Vessel label heads Norachi and Miris. A and B. Deep and deeper. Sunshine, rain, joy and pain.
WRWTFWW RECORDS (SWITZERLAND)
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CAT #: WRWTFWW 057CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
TAKADA, MIDORI Tree of Life CD
WRWTFWW Records present the worldwide reissue of Midori Takada's solo album from 1999, Tree of Life. Originally recorded in September 1998 at legendary Ginza (Tokyo) studio Onkio Haus (founded in 1974 and where Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" and many more were recorded) and released on CD only for the Japan market in 1999, Tree of Life is Midori Takada's best kept secret, a lost gem of minimalism and percussive ambient. The album is separated in two parts, the first one finds Takada exploring her trademark environmental soundscapes with precise mastery of marimba, drums, and bells, notably on the magnificent fan-favorite "Love Song Of Urfa". The second half is a collaboration with Chinese virtuoso Erhu player Jiang Jian Hua, allowing Midori Takada to unveil new layers of her artistic mind with a slightly more theatrical approach and a beautiful crystallization of complex simplicity. The entire album was given a fresh new audiophile mix by Midori Takada herself and was mastered at Emil Berliner Studios. This Tree of Life reissue follows two newly recorded Midori Takada albums, Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter (WRWTFWW 060CD/LP) and You Who Are Leaving To Nirvana (WRWTFWW 061CD/LP), both available on WRWTFWW Records, along with her 1983 masterpiece, Through The Looking Glass (WRWTFWW 018LP). Design by Kohei Sugiura.
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3000 GRAD RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: 3000GRAD 022CD
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MOLLONO.BASS Together CD
The third Mollono.Bass album is dedicated to what we need most. As inhabitants of the same planet, as members of a free society, and as a culture. Everyone has to stick together more than ever, rather than drifting further and further apart. At the same time, Together brings together everything Mollono.Bass stands for since more than 20 years: Ritualist Afro-influences and acid loops, the sensual physicality of house, the laidback boost of dub techno, analog depth and digital highs, hope transcribed into groove and utopia set into rhythmic motion. It's the dynamic novelty and pioneering spirit of the arrangements that reflect the unmistakable signature style of this producer. True to the traditional idea of an album, complete with previously unreleased tracks and special versions, Together is a highly immersive listening experience from start to end and works beautifully on the dancefloor and far beyond it. Features Bonfante, Rodden von Ast, and Andy's Echo.
ARA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: ARA 009EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
POLYGONIA Living Patterns 12"
ARA welcome a new incredible talent. Polygonia created a landmark record of avant-garde dance music called Living Patterns. The six tracks are inspired by nature, converting the complex structures of plants and animals into spiraling pulsations and fractal textures. Polygonia represents a multidisciplinary music and art project conceived by Lindsey Wang from Munich, Germany. She draws inspiration from her many years of practicing various acoustic instruments and her keen interest for other cultural forms of expression, which she translates into the digital language of electronic music and art. The soundscape of her own productions conveys a mystical, organic character, and features driving complex rhythms.
BERTHOLD RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BR 322133CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
VOLLBRECHT, TIMO Givers & Takers CD
Fly Magic is saxophonist Timo Vollbrecht's longstanding signature ensemble. A genre-exploding unit with a bold sense of creativity and intent. Following two highly acclaimed releases (2016's Fly Magic and 2018's Faces in Places), Givers & Takers marks the band's next chapter. Recorded while on tour, it captures the chemistry that the four musicians developed on the road, presenting a new vision that expands on the sonic path Vollbrecht has been refining for over a decade.Timo Vollbrecht is an internationally performing saxophonist, composer, and reeds player. Described as "luminously fine" by the New York City Jazz Record, Timo creates a magical blend of emotional intensity and vivacious energy, resulting in a genuine sound that often depicts the sensation of flying. Based in between his home in Lower Saxony, New York, and Berlin, he is particularly active in the international jazz and contemporary music scenes. As a Fulbright scholar, he holds a master's degree in jazz saxophone from New York University where he studied with Mark Turner, Stefon Harris, and Joe Lovano. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at NYU Steinhardt's Jazz Studies Department. He is also completing his PhD with a dissertation on "Manfred Eicher & ECM Records: The Creative Process at the Intersection of Music Production, Composition, and Performance." With his quartet Fly Magic he combines elements from jazz, post-rock, minimalism, new music, electronic music, and contemporary sound culture. Acclaimed for his rich tone and unique musical writing, Timo has released several albums as a leader and sideman and won numerous awards. Grammy-Award winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis invited him to perform with his quartet at the iconic Village Vanguard, after having collaborated at the Festival International de Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
BLACK TRUFFLE (AUSTRALIA)
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CAT #: BT 092LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
CUNI, AMELIA Mumbai 04.02.1996 2LP
Following on from the stunning recording of her 1992 performance at the Berlin Parampara Festival (BT 079LP, 2021), Black Truffle continues its documentation of the work of Berlin-based Italian singer Amelia Cuni, one of the great contemporary exponents of dhrupad, the oldest surviving style of North Indian classical vocal music. Beautifully recorded in concert at Vishweshwarayya Hall, Mumbai 04.02.1996 presents expansive performances of three ragas stretching across four sides and almost one and a half hours of music. Beginning with the serene Raga Lalit, Cuni dwells for over twenty-five minutes on its opening alap movement, accompanied only by tanpura, her limpid yet full-bodied voice moving from graceful exposition in free tempo to increasingly rhythmically active variations, gradually spiraling upward in register. She is then joined by master pakwahaj player Manik Munde for the raga's dhrupad and dhamar sections, the resonant tone of the drum and his constant invention with the complex 14-beat cycle serving as the perfect accompaniment for Cuni's ecstatic melodic developments. On the more solemn Raga Bhairav, Cuni's alap, again stretching out over a whole side, is particularly notable for its powerful held notes and mastery of microtonal movement of pitch. After Munde returns for another rhythmically intricate dhamar movement, the record ends with the buoyancy of the Raga Alhaiya Bilaval, whose mode has, for the Western listener, an unmistakably "major" quality. The rapturous applause that greets the performance is reflected in a remarkable selection of press clippings contemporary with the recording, which demonstrate Cuni's success with Indian critics. Comes in gatefold sleeve featuring stunning color photographs of Cuni taken by legendary Australian fashion photographer Robyn Beeche (who resided in India from the early '90s), Mumbai 04.02.1996 is a document of indescribable beauty and a moving testament to music's ability to cross national and cultural borders.
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CAT #: BT 096LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
COLE, CRYS Other Meetings LP
Following on from 2021's acclaimed Sylva Sylvarum (BT 077LP), the epic double LP from Ora Clementi (her collaborative project with James Rushford), crys cole returns to Black Truffle with Other Meetings. Originally commissioned and released on cassette by Boomkat Editions in 2021, Other Meetings is a major addition to the body of carefully hewn solo work cole has released over the last decade, offering up two side-long suites of her radically intimate approach to sound. After many years dominated by touring and travel, cole found herself in lockdown in her Berlin apartment, working in a limited space with minimal equipment. Digging through archives of recordings taken overseas and exploring the sonic potential hidden in the objects surrounding her (including a coffee pot and a vase of dying flowers), she crafted what she calls "an internal dérive, a journey that drifted through many places without a defining compass." Totaling over 50 minutes, the two pieces unfold at an unhurried pace, each containing four individually titled subsections. Beginning with a sequence of the highly amplified small sounds characteristic of much of cole's work, the opening moments of "The time between two durations of sleep" are underpinned by a gentle rocking motion, weaving together contact mic crunch, metallic resonance, glimpses of bird song, and isolated drum machine hits, the sonic space expanding and contracting as focus moves between elements. Briefly side-lined by a tactile but unplaceable sizzling, this complex weave of voices then returns in a kind of dubbed-out "version", the percussive accents echoing around the stereo space. In one of the record's most beautiful and unexpected moments, these sounds are joined by a sparse melodic line performed on a broken 1980s digital synth, the vaguely new age timbres being taken on a long, tonally ambiguous wander. Cole's immersion in memories of travel comes to the fore in the final section of the first side, titled "Wat Paknam" after a royal temple in Bangkok, where snatches of voices, ringing bells and distant waves of chanting blur together with synth tones into an increasingly abstracted wave of sound. The second side, "Slices of cake", opens in a similarly hallucinatory outdoor space of echoing bird song and liquified traffic before abruptly zooming in on a microscopic world of subtly processed and highly amplified objects, explored with a starkness and quiet insistence that calls to mind the fringe not-quite-concrète of outsiders like Paul A.R. Timmermans or Knud Viktor, whose obsessive interrogation of dripping water might also serve as a point of reference for the following sub-section, the aptly titled "magischer Abfluss" (magic drain). Radically reductive yet deeply musical, Other Meetings is a major work from an artist driven by an uncompromising and idiosyncratic vision. Presented with an inner sleeve with photos and liner notes from the composer and remastered audio.
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CAT #: BT 098LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
KATZENSTEIN, URI Audio Works 2LP
Black Truffle announce Uri Katzenstein's Audio Works, produced in collaboration with Holon's Centre for Digital Art. Spanning sculptural installation, performance, video art, and many other media, Katzenstein's absurdist, poetic, and often hilarious work made extensive use of sound and music. This, however, is the first release dedicated to the artist's audio work, collecting 28 tracks produced between the early 1980s and 2017. Compiled from dozens of hours of recordings left uncatalogued (some unheard) at the artist's death in 2018, these four sides are a treasure trove, offering a captivating glimpse into a uniquely uninhibited creative practice. Predominantly recorded alone, with some contributions from regular collaborators such as Ohad Fishof on the later pieces, many of these tracks stem from Katzenstein's time living in New York in the 1980s. Feeding on the cross-pollination of post-punk energy, radical art practice, and new media possibilities that characterized the New York scene at this time, many of Katzenstein's recordings squeeze multilayered vocal experimentation into synth-based miniatures with a distinctively pop twist, their forms ruptured with anarchic bursts of free-form electronics, sounds from self-built instruments, and field-recorded snatches of the outside world. Katzenstein's electronic production calls up touchstones of skewed '80s art pop like Laurie Anderson, Ambitious Lovers, and Scritti Politti, but imbued with DIY directness and economy of means. The arrangements of synths, percussion, and noise elements are invigoratingly raw and, at times, almost austerely minimal. On "Intermission", thick distorted chords accompany a wandering portamento melody, inhabiting the wayward carnival space of Roedelius's most unhinged efforts. Many of the tracks center on Katzenstein's multi-tracked vocal performances, often moving between multiple languages, (most commonly English, German, French, and Hebrew). A bewildering range of vocal approaches are present on these pieces, from sweet wordless harmonies to hammed-up growls and monastic recitations. On "Skin O. Daayba - Complex Habits no. 3", improvised resonance singing against a backdrop of echoing electronics and radio snatches. "Half Monk Half Herring" layers multi-lingual syllabic fragments, crossing sound poetry techniques with melodic invention in a way rarely heard outside of Caetano Veloso's Araçá Azul. On "Attempt to Raise Hell", Katzenstein's distorted voice spits out streams of alliterative nonsense, while on the hilarious "Eric", Katzenstein appears to instruct a small boy simultaneously in basic French and German conversation. On "Chicken", vocal harmonies accompany the pecking and clucking of the titular fowl. Moving from bent, outsider synth pop to snatches of Jo Jones-esque automated instrumental clang and absurdist linguistic experiments, these are far more than footnotes to an artist's gallery works. Accompanied by extensive liner notes by Roee Rosen and the little information that exists on the individual tracks, Katzenstein's Audio Works inhabits an outer fringe of DIY pop and sonic experiment reminiscent of Pascal Comelade or Die Welttraumforscher, where accessible forms convey radical interrogations of song, word, and sound. Gatefold sleeve.
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CAT #: BT 099CD
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WOLFF, CHRISTIAN A Complete Anthology of Solo and Duo Violin Pieces CD
Black Truffle announce its second release from New York violin duo String Noise (Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris), following on from their self-titled double-disc collection of compositions by Alvin Lucier (BT 061CD, 2020). Here, they present A Complete Anthology of Solo and Duo Violin Pieces by legendary American experimental composer Christian Wolff. The youngest and in some ways most radical of the composers of the New York School (alongside Brown, Cage, and Feldman), Wolff has ceaselessly rethought his approach throughout the seven decades of his composing career, moving from early experiments in radical reduction through indeterminacy, improvisation, and leftist political engagement to reach the limpid lyrical fragments of his most recent music. Beautifully recorded across two days by Ryan Streber with Wolff in attendance, String Duo's complete anthology of Wolff's work for violin solo and duo covers the entirety of the composer's career, from his earliest published work to a major new work written for this recording. Written by the teenaged Wolff in 1950 during his brief period studying with Cage, "Duo for Violins" is a beautifully austere experiment in extreme reduction, using only three chromatically adjacent pitches without octave transpositions. This recording also presents premiere recordings of two other short duo pieces from the same year, recently rediscovered by Wolff in his papers, which use similarly reduced materials in a livelier, more dynamic manner. Moving forward to the 1970s, the solo pieces "Bread and Roses" and "The Death of Mother Jones" belong to the period in which Wolff was drawing on political music, in this case two early 20th century songs that celebrate women labor activists. In both, arrangements of the traditional melodies are followed by a series of technically demanding free variations in a modernist style. The lyricism of these pieces is carried into the more fragmented, elusive works of the '90s onward. In the beautiful "Six Melodies Variation" (1993), written in tribute to Cage, fragments of Cage's "Six Melodies" dissolve into anthemic snatches of the music of 18th century American composer William Billings. The sixteen "Small Duos for Violinists" (2021) explore the radically disjunctive style of recent major Wolff works such as "Long Piano (Peace March 11)", where short "patches" varying in style, density, and notation system are places next to each other without clear concern for conventional compositional principles. Includes extensive liner notes and wonderful reproductions of a series of Wolff's delicate abstract works in pencil, crayon, and water color.
BLUE CHOPSTICKS
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CAT #: BC 037LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
GRUBBS & JAN ST. WERNER, DAVID Translation from Unspecified LP
"David Grubbs and Jan St. Werner met in the mid-1990s when Grubbs was playing with Gastr del Sol and The Red Krayola and St. Werner in Mouse on Mars and Microstoria. After years of exchanging ideas, Translation from Unspecified marks their first-time locking horns as a duo, and it's clear this deck-clearing collaboration was long overdue. In January 2020 Grubbs arrived at Mouse on Mars' Berlin studio Paraverse with a guitar and 'Translation from Unspecified,' an open-ended, seemingly self-generating poem suggesting AI, one of the themes in St. Werner's recent work. This became the side-length title track, a winding corridor of electronic fanfares and spontaneous musical miniatures urging Grubbs's slow and steady recitation to grow wings and graduate into song. Who knows where this idiosyncratic mise-en-scène -- day-glo, extrovert electronics and task-oriented human -- came from? Reference points, distant ones, might include Robert Ashley and Paul De Marinis's In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven... and the sound poetry of Anton Bruhin. Flip the record and you have 'Soixante Ooze,' a live-in-the-studio duo for guitar and computer more recognizably St. Wernerian and Grubbs-like that reconfigures elements of the title track before finally morphing into needle-pinning monoliths of sound."
BUREAU B (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BB 391LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FAUST The Faust Tapes LP
Limited restock; LP version. Reissue, originally released in 1973. There's something perversely fabulous about the thought of this warped masterwork wandering into 60,000 unsuspecting British homes in 1973. Faust's second-and-a-half album hit the shops to celebrate their signing to the nascent Virgin Records, who were looking to take advantage of the zeitgeist for German music at that time. Undeterred by the fact the band's unwillingness to engage with the commercial landscape had seen them dropped from Polydor, Branson and co. cooked up a suitably spectacular marketing strategy, selling the LP for 49p, the bargain price of a single. What was lurking within the grooves was a condensed collage of outtakes, oddities, sketches and samples previously known to the band's nearest and dearest as The Faust Party Tapes -- and how you wish you'd been to those parties. Cacophonous keys and roaring drones splinter into a deranged hybrid of tumbling toms and yelping vocals; committed experimentalism which in no way prepares you for the beautiful ballad which follows. Armed with acoustic guitar, playful piano and panning vocals, Faust fashion a pastoral idyll imbued with the most profound yearning. "Flashback Caruso" brims with Byrds-ian jangle and Syd's psychedelia, its non-sensical English lending the piece a Confucian lyricism perfect for expanded minds. Sliced and spliced between TV snippets, dissonant trumpet and the sound of someone pissing, the utterly freaky fuzz-rock of "J'ai Mal Aux Dents" sounds positively radio-friendly, far less far out than if it were encountered alone. Compared to the non-musical madness beside it, this thrash-jazz trance dance makes perfect sense, as does the corrosive breakbeat of "Two Drums, Bass, Organ", a mutant funk workout which rivals Can in an all-German dance off. The progressive and symphonic "Dr. Schwitters", dissected by fragments of dissonant process music, haunted vocal takes and the proto-industrial grind of "Elerimomuvid", charts a course for the dark side of the moon more suited to the serious cosmonauts of the world. Then the record freefalls into disorienting drum workouts, mixing desk experiments and a wicked premonition of no-wave jazz ("Hermann's Lament") before taking slight respite in the beauty of "Rudolf Der Pianist" and "I've Heard That One Before". The particles of prepared piano, power tools and tape echo continue to cascade through the soundspace, gradually building into the final trilogy of "Stretch Out Time", "Der Baum" and "Chère Chambre", which return to conventional song structure, albeit in the group's typically twisted style. Once again though, in comparison to the wonderfully weird pieces which precede them, these three tracks are entirely accessible, and in this lies the brilliance of the album.
CLASSICAL MUSIC ON VINYL (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: MOVCL 008COL-LP
FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL
GLASS, PHILIP Glassworks (Clear Vinyl) LP
Clear vinyl. "Philip Glass is an American composer. His music is considered to be minimal music, although he himself uses the term theater music. Glassworks was originally released in 1982. The album is a six-part chamber music work by Philip Glass. After his larger-scale concert and stage works, Glassworks was Philip Glass's successful attempt to create a more pop-oriented 'Walkman-appropriate' work, with significantly shorter and more accessible pieces written for the recording studio. In fact, the cover of the cassette release stated that it was 'mixed especially for your personal cassette player'."
CLOCKTOWER (CANADA)
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CAT #: CT 124LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
SCIENTIST Heavy Metal Dub LP
2022 repress. Recorded at Channel One Studio in 1982. Tracks include "Having Fun With The Klingons," "Rocking Time Warp Dub," "Jah Love All Aliens," "Conversation With Kahn" and "Smerf Wak Head Beat."
DAMAGED GOODS (UK)
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CAT #: DAMGOOD 581CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
THEE HEADCOATS Head Box 4CD BOX
"A boxed set of 4 CDs featuring four classic albums by Thee Headcoats! We present four albums by Thee Headcoats in a clamshell box set complete with booklet. With exclusive new artwork by Bruce Brand at Arthole! The four albums in the set are -- Headcoats Down! The kids are all square, this is hip! Headcoatitude W.O.A.H! Bo in Thee Garage Thee Headcoats was a band formed in Chatham, Kent, England in 1989, that was well known for its garage rock sound, explicitly sticking to this style on almost all of their albums. The band's signature sound as well as their prolific writing has been attributed to Billy Childish's love of simple, direct recording. The band has been on multiple labels including Billy's own Hangman Records, Damaged Goods and Sub Pop. Described in the New York Times as 'the king of garage rock', Thee Headcoats had their roots in the British punk scene of the 1970s (both Billy and Bruce playing in The Pop Rivets and The Milkshakes). The band recorded songs by The Clash under the pseudonym Thee Stash. The band also recorded tribute albums to Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed. Their debut album featured new versions of songs recorded by Son House including 'John the Revelator' and 'Child's Death Letter', both of which were later covered by The White Stripes upon whom Billy and Thee Headcoats were a great influence. These influences give a good indication of the band's sound; punk mixed with pure rhythmic rock 'n' roll and blues."
DANFOTRONICS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: DNFTRNX 001LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
OGBOH, EMEKA 6°30'33.372"N 3°22'0.66"E 2LP
The Nigerian sound and installation artist Emeka Ogboh will release his second album 6°30?33.372?N 3°22?0.66?E via his newly launched Danfotronics imprint for experimental electronic music from Nigeria, West Africa, and beyond. The album follows Beyond The Yellow Haze (2021), which was re-released last year via Ostgut Ton sublabel A-TON. While Beyond The Yellow Haze took a more macro sonic overview of various areas in Lagos, 6°30?33.372?N 3°22?0.66?E turns its hyper-specific geographical focus toward the sounds and voices within the city's Ojuelegba bus station and its environs. It's a sonic "zooming-in" to the anarchic, self-organized urban node at a critical transformational juncture, previously immortalized on Fela Kuti's legendary track and critique of post-colonial Lagos, Confusion. Ojuelegba was also the previous location of a sacred historical shrine created for Eshu, the Yoruba god of dance and confusion (amongst other things), and located at the area's main intersection. This junction is the starting point for Lagos's numerous yellow VW Danfo buses, whose drivers and conductors, recorded by Ogboh, provide a kind of verbal mapping of the neighborhood on the album; spoken descriptions of bus routes, food, spiritual geography, history, and prostitution. On 6°30?33.372?N 3°22?0.66?E, Ogboh converts these field recordings and voices into a musical ode to Ojuelegba. Over eight tracks, Nigerian Pidgin, a form of Creole, takes center stage, guiding the listener from informal interviews on the origins of the name and descriptions of Ojuelegba via massive, cavernous drums, synth and bass of album centerpieces "W?le" (enter in Yoruba) and "Ayilara" (the red light district). Elsewhere, the kick-less Afro-electronics of "Verbal Drift" unfolds amid overlapping conversations and a bus conductor's verbal spin on the neighborhood, while the ambient Lagos techno of "No Counterfeit" (one driver's declaration of Ojuelegba's matchlessness) and heady, hyper-detailed dub of "We Die Hia" (an avowal to never abandon Ojuelegba) serve as meditations on the area's 24-hour accessibility. "Oju 2.0", the album's penultimate and longest track, is a blurry ambient orchestra of multiple neighborhood field recordings combined into a single, sonic landscape -- each street scene decaying, reverberating and resounding at a different speed. As a sonic metaphor for order amid chaos, this sentiment echoes in the record's final interviews on finding a future -- Eshu willing -- within the anarchy of a neighborhood that never sleeps.
DARK ENTRIES
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CAT #: DE 305CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
COWLEY, PATRICK Malebox CD
"Dark Entries has a surprise delivery! Malebox brings us six previously unreleased funk-fueled jams from the archives of the cybernetic disco titan himself, Patrick Cowley. Best known for his chart-topping disco anthems, Cowley left us with an incredible body of work before his tragic death in 1982 due to AIDS-related illness. Since 2009, Dark Entries has been working with Cowley's friends and family to uncover the singular artist's lesser-known sides, including his soundtracks for gay pornographic films on compilation albums School Daze, Muscle Up, and Afternooners. But Malebox gives us more of the Cowley we know and love: churning disco-funk and hi-NRG tracks that are spacey and sleazy, gritty and sublime. Recorded from 1979-1981, these six tracks illuminate what was one of Patrick's most creatively exciting periods. 'If You Feel It' and 'Love Me Hot' were both early Paul Parker demos; the former is a peak hour hi-NRG bomb, while the latter dips into Cowley's zoned-out space disco sound. Jeanie Tracy's soulful vocals feature on the demo version of 'Low Down Dirty Rhythm,' which was later re-recorded by Sarah Dash. The slower, less-varnished rendition here hits with a wild psychedelic edge. Meanwhile, Patrick's gifts for careful orchestration and infectious melodies shine on 'Floating' and 'Love and Passion,' which were likely demo tracks for Loverde. The songs on Malebox display the vitality and inventiveness of a brilliant composer taken from us too soon. Malebox sleeve design was by Gwenaël Rattke, and features a hyper-color retro collage. Also included is an air mail envelope containing a letter from Patrick Cowley to French disco producer Pierre Jaubert as well as liner notes and hand-written lyrics."
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CAT #: DE 305LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
COWLEY, PATRICK Malebox LP
LP version. "Dark Entries has a surprise delivery! Malebox brings us six previously unreleased funk-fueled jams from the archives of the cybernetic disco titan himself, Patrick Cowley. Best known for his chart-topping disco anthems, Cowley left us with an incredible body of work before his tragic death in 1982 due to AIDS-related illness. Since 2009, Dark Entries has been working with Cowley's friends and family to uncover the singular artist's lesser-known sides, including his soundtracks for gay pornographic films on compilation albums School Daze, Muscle Up, and Afternooners. But Malebox gives us more of the Cowley we know and love: churning disco-funk and hi-NRG tracks that are spacey and sleazy, gritty and sublime. Recorded from 1979-1981, these six tracks illuminate what was one of Patrick's most creatively exciting periods. 'If You Feel It' and 'Love Me Hot' were both early Paul Parker demos; the former is a peak hour hi-NRG bomb, while the latter dips into Cowley's zoned-out space disco sound. Jeanie Tracy's soulful vocals feature on the demo version of 'Low Down Dirty Rhythm,' which was later re-recorded by Sarah Dash. The slower, less-varnished rendition here hits with a wild psychedelic edge. Meanwhile, Patrick's gifts for careful orchestration and infectious melodies shine on 'Floating' and 'Love and Passion,' which were likely demo tracks for Loverde. The songs on Malebox display the vitality and inventiveness of a brilliant composer taken from us too soon. Malebox sleeve design was by Gwenaël Rattke, and features a hyper-color retro collage. Also included is an air mail envelope containing a letter from Patrick Cowley to French disco producer Pierre Jaubert as well as liner notes and hand-written lyrics."
DEAR BOSS (ITALY)
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CAT #: JACK 004CV-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES Paradise In San Francisco: California Hall, 26th November 1980 FM Broadcast (Yellow Vinyl) LP
Siouxsie and the Banshees, live at California Hall on November 26th 1980. FM broadcast. Yellow vinyl.
DISCHORD
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CAT #: DIS 070LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FUGAZI In On The Kill Taker LP
2022 repress. Fugazi's third album, originally released in 1993. Remastered with full color inner sleeve. "Part of this album's beauty is the track list. It begins with the upbeat number 'Facet Squared' which is almost pop-punkish in its delivery. Essentially the tracking of the album begins it with the lightest material and by the end you're cast into Guy's own torments with the quiet brooding 'Last Chance For A Slow Dance.' The middle of the album is almost completely dedicated to the noise experimental side of Fugazi, especially the centerpiece and half-instrumental '23 Beats Off,' a soundscape of harsh noise that supposedly reflects the deterioration of a relationship... With Guy's brilliant performance, lyrically and vocally, walls of sound encapsulate his pleas of 'Why don't you come to my house? Why don't you drag me right out?'. It is truly one of the most beautiful yet aggressive songs in Fugazi's vast library." -- Sputnik Music
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CAT #: DIS 166LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
GOVERNMENT ISSUE Boycott Stabb Complete Session LP
2022 repress; pink vinyl. "When Government Issue recorded Boycott Stabb in November 1982 they initially tracked twenty songs, including several older previously recorded songs. The band had been through a major line-up change and finally decided to release only the newest songs. The outtakes have remained un-mixed and unreleased until now. Side A of this 12" LP features the original Boycott Stabb songs and side B features the outtakes." Includes printed inner sleeve and download coupon.
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CAT #: DIS 192LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SOULSIDE A Brief Moment in the Sun LP
"Soulside announce first album in 33 years! Soulside formed in Washington, DC, in 1985, split up in 1989, then reformed in 2014 and has continued playing and writing music since then. After releasing their debut album on Sammich/Dischord, they recorded Trigger (Dischord, 1988) and Hot Bodi-Gram (Dischord, 1989), which were combined on the Soon Come Happy CD in 1990. The band toured extensively in the US and Europe during these years, including groundbreaking shows in Poland and East Berlin shortly before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. In 2020, Soulside put out a new 7-inch, This Ship, their first release in 30 years, which was recorded in Prague. In late 2022, Dischord will release a 12-song Soulside album, A Brief Moment in the Sun, which was written during the heart of the coronavirus pandemic and recorded in person by J. Robbins in November 2021."
DISPOSABLE MUSIC (UK)
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CAT #: DIM 007LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SPOERRI/MASSONIX, BRUNO Hommage Au Fromage / Hollingsville LP
Warehouse find, last copies. The Finders Keeers subsidiary Disposable Music library subscription series is a series which pools some of the best emotive, comprehensive, previously unavailable instrumental music from the unmarked archives of experimental artists within the expanding Finders Keepers family and presents it as a series of limited uniformed archival vinyl discs. With unlimited entry to the archives belonging to names like Ciani, Spoerri, Rollin, Epple, Korzynski, and Massey, Disposable Music have taken the best in unadulterated, underexposed and unattached mood music and given these homeless compositions a place, purpose and time to thrive. Hommage Au Frommage is perhaps one of the best titles to have ever been in a dusty box of a quarter inch tape reel. However, without a crumb of irony the music that appears on this session also ranks highly in Finders Keepers list of archival triumphs. An early '70s conceptual jazz pop album combining dulcimers, harps, a Jew's harp and what sounds like a tap dancer instantly earns itself its own protective niche shared only by certain vintage recordings by Vladimir Cosma and The Roundtable -- but when accentuated by a heavy weight back beat and the added information that it was commissioned by the national Swiss Cheese Consortium this record commands further inspection and repeat listens. Starting with all the traits of a moody Morricone or Bruno Nicolai giallo soundtrack and breaking into a healthy cross section of modal jazz, tape manipulation, electronic grinds, Brazilian accordion, and (dare it be said) b-boy break beats, Hommage Au Frommage by Swiss electronic jazz pioneer Bruno Spoerri is a record quite unlike anything else. The music found on Graham Massey's Hollingsville record was originally created for a twelve-part radio series on Resonance 104.4 FM. The series, Hollingsville, was conceived and presented by writer Ken Hollings and would focus each week on a different aspect of man's historical relationship with technology. Informal discussions with a series of specially invited guests were accompanied by custom-built theme tunes by Massey, His approach was intentionally leaning toward the Bakelite and hot valve nostalgia of some forgotten Expo or World's Fair. The resulting Hollingsville soundtrack exercises Massey's authentic knowledge of original analog machines in their rawest form and triumphantly draws comparisons with the likes of Henk Badings, Oscar Sala, and Kid Balton from the pre-synth era of electric keyboards and tape manipulation. "Neptune" features Seaming To.
DRAG CITY
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CAT #: DC 309LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LOOSE FUR Born Again In the USA LP
2022 repress; LP version. "Rising from the undead three years after their debut is Loose Fur with an album of all new, all-American rock and roll called Born Again In the USA. The Loose Fur II sound is irreverently all over the place. Twinned electric guitarmonies and stop-on-a-dime rhythms give way to breezy acoustics and melodious whistling, which in turn fades into an ominous well of vibes, percussion and...distant thunder. Throughout Born Again In the USA, Loose Fur keep the changes (and the chuckles) coming, crafting a complete album of classic and questing pop music that threatens to satisfy fans of Wilco, O'Rourke, On Fillmore and even Godpsell all at once. It's just that all-encompassing -- a populist entertainment that takes no prisoners. Loose Fur is a super group/power trio (take your pick), comprised of Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), Glenn Kotche (Wilco and On Fillmore) and Jim O'Rourke (Loggins & Messina)."
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CAT #: DC 404LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
OM God Is Good LP
2022 repress; LP version. "It's been years now -- just about two, judging from the sun. OM have done their time in the desert, and ever-changing, are returned. Today, they say, God is Good. Are you surprised? Perhaps you've haven't understood what OM was saying to you. But perhaps you felt something... It's true that the one way pursued by OM leads in many different directions. It is a mystic path. Songs come from innumerable sources, filtering through the external and the internal. OM albums are rituals, personal convictions transcripted into verse. Playing the music is visceral, emotional, a catharsis of soul and spirit. As the ghat liberates soul from body to the ultimate, so too do OM strive to disengage from the finite object of their objective mortal self to rest in the empty and timeless witness. And in doing so, they seek to release you as well. As ever, dynamic relationships and the slow building of mood are attenuations that shape the structures of God is Good. With careful microscopic increase, the energy grows through the four songs, leading towards moments that one could interpret...revelation? Oblivion? Awakening? Since 2004, OM have burned their name into the annals, trolled the fertile crescent, faithfully made more out of what little was put into their hands, forged three full-length albums from white-hot evaluations of the infinite. The duo that is OM is composed of bass and drums and whatever else comes into their mind that will serve the song and do it justice. Al Cisneros has been pursuing the pure note as OM (and previously with Sleep) for many years now, but this is the first OM record to feature the battery of Emil Amos, who replaces Chris Haikus in the chair. You can go to the shelf and study it: there are comparative religions, philosophy, metaphysics, mythology, and history. Turn around, and there is OM. Their vibrations of the philosophical and the physical are meant to move you. Believe."
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CAT #: DC 438LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
OM Advaitic Songs 2LP
2022 repress; double LP version. "Where God Is Good was the first step in a more ornate and sophisticated direction for Om, Advaitic Songs achieves a level of composition that would've been impossible to foresee. There remains the singularity of purpose that is the core of all Om records, but no single reason can account for this comprehensive nature of their evolution. On this album the core primary sound of Om remains, yet everything reaches further and becomes more of itself. Whatever drone-doom camp that Om had previously been placed in has been decimated by the sheer imagination and expansive quality of this recording. For a band that has continually followed its own course, and stood alone in its sound and approach, Advaitic Songs for certain, is the band's most focused, progressive document."
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CAT #: DC 840LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MOORE, ANTHONY Flying Doesn't Help LP
"40-plus years since its original release, the pop-punk-new wave inventions of Anthony Moore's Flying Doesn't Help are freshly remastered, blasting the sparkling, angular sounds into today with perfect vitality. After spending the early years of the '70s making experimental music first as a solo artist, then with Slapp Happy and Henry Cow, 1976's OUT sessions had reinvigorated Anthony's youthful love of the naive pop melodies of pop radio, the undeniable excitement of songs. While OUT ultimately went unreleased at the time, the iconoclasm clouding the late '70s air was addictive and transformative for Anthony. England seemed to be roiled as violently as it had been in counter-cultural days a decade earlier; the UK pop charts breathlessly reflected the changing spectrum with equal parts aging hippie and prog delicacies alongside new ascendant sounds: rough-hewn pub and punk rock, plus dub reggae and disco and ska and stiff and krautrock . . . This proved to be an ideal environment for Anthony to make records by exploring, as he puts it, the 'deep connection between minimalism, repetition, working with tape and celluloid and forming the modules of a three minute pop song.' Caught up in a no-holds-barred era, Anthony was more than happy to play the out-of-his-head madman, raving through outrageous exchanges with the press, while 'Judy Get Down' received Single of the Week honors from the NME (with review penned by Brian Eno). Represented by Blackhill Enterprises, Anthony did production work throughout 78-79, on Kevin Ayers' Rainbow Takeaway, Manfred Mann's Earth Band's Angel Station and the first This Heat album, meanwhile cutting his own songs on a dead time deal at Workhouse Studio with engineer/producer Laurie Latham. Through the wee hours of countless nights, the two pieced together Flying Doesn't Help, with a little help from friends (an inspired bunch, including Bob Shilling, Charles Hayward, Chris Slade, Robert Vogel, Festus, Matt Irving, Sam Harley, Bernie Clark, Edwin Cross and Martine Moore on the telephone!) Building upon the axis of pop and experimental impulses that distinguished OUT, and informed further by the raw sensibilities exploding everywhere, Flying Doesn't Help blasts out of the speakers with its own unique blend of sophistication and aggression, Anthony's keyboard flashes between arpeggiations and outright stabs among the noise of slicing guitars, funk basslines and the reverbed blare of the drumkit..."
EUDEMONIA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: EUDEMONIA 013EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
NOT EVEN NOTICED No More Waiting 12"
Next up on eudemonia is the Frankfurt-based duo, not even noticed. With only a couple of vinyl releases during the last years the two artists are relatively new to the scene. However, their sound is perfectly produced and meets the tooth of time. The No More Waiting EP consists of five outstanding futuristic electro and breaks-influenced tracks each going into their own direction.
FOURTH DIMENSION (UK)
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CAT #: FD 129LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
KLEISTWAHR Mobility LP
Limited edition reissue of this cassette originally released in 1983 on Broken Flag, gathering five untitled solo pieces by Gary Mundy of Ramleh in full on early power electronics mode, firmly illustrating his place as one of the innovators of this genre yet likewise pushing this confrontational avant-garde sensibility somewhere entirely new. It is a sound that Kleistwahr has continued to explore and add new dimensions to ever since, but never completely untangles itself from this particular root. Raw and seemingly unrestrained, these pieces present a robust, white-hot sonic meltdown up there with the very best from this ultimately fertile period for music from the basement. They last around 17 minutes in total. This release is packaged similarly to the vinyl reissues of the first two full-length Kleistwahr albums released by Harbinger Sound in 2011, Arsonicide and Myth. Released at the same time as the Do Not (FD 130LP) reissue originally released on cassette in 1986.
FPE RECORDS
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CAT #: FPE 047CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
BARKER, NOAH Instrumental Memory CD
"Elegant post-bop explorations and contemplations. Pianist Noah Barker's succinct Instrumental Memory begins with a daydream, clear and serene, mellow with curiosity and wonder. An insightful balm, not forcing undue conclusion. 'Fortune Teller' is more circumscribed, hesitant... what lies ahead? The answer is simpatico between father and son, junior burning while senior stokes the fire. Enter the klaxon soprano saxophone of Mike Troy, with Coltrane-esque intent. No sheets of sound, a focused prodding. Noah's father -- AACM legend Thurman -- skitters and splashes, somewhat martial and Ed Blackwell-like on the snare. He's a chamber music composer from time to time, an aesthetic for space and dynamic he shares with his son, who's pianism commands elegance and poise. There's the scent of Bill Evans in the equilibrium and intelligence of Barker's chordal peregrinations, anchored by Dean Torrey's ostinato bass on 'Theme from South Side Suite'; on 'Fortune Teller' too. 'Movement on McDonald' is an intro feature for soprano, with swinging bass entering to up the ante. Then Barker père calls into service his straight-ahead chops and groove-ability, taking the cut out with percussion taxonomy. 'Shively' is a bath in slightly murky salts, Barker's final solo an unprepossessing shimmer, the fleeting reflection of sun in rock pool. There's beautiful music here, transparently recorded, that never outstays its welcome -- more than a third of the tracks come in under two minutes. Crystalline and considered, yet with the lilt or agitation of genuine spontaneity."
GET ON DOWN
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CAT #: GET 783EP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
CAMP LO Black Nostaljack (aka Come On) 7"
"To celebrate the 25-year anniversary of Camp Lo's classic debut album Uptown Saturday Night, Get On Down presents a brand new 7-inch single for 'Black Nostaljack (aka Come On)' with a Kid Capri produced remix on the B-Side featuring Rev Run of RUN DMC."
GILGONGO RECORDS
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CAT #: GGGR 129CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
VA Blorp Esette Gazette Volumes Three & Four 2CD
"The history of the Blorp Esette, which chronicles the output of the Los Angeles Free Music Society and other entities in its orbit, dates back to 1977, with the release of Blorp Esette Volume One LP (soon to be reissued by Superior Viaduct) and Volume 2 2LP in 1980. Volumes 3 and 4 emerged in 1999, packaged in a boxset with the previous volumes. The Blorp Esette Gazette first appeared with Volume 1 & 2 in 2013. Intended to be an on-going series, it was paused after the passing of Transparency label owner Michael Sheppard who was co-releasing the CDs with LAFMS members. While the original Esette is an obligatory who's-who of LAFMS (Doo-Dooettes, Smegma, Le Forte Four), the Gazettes have an even more sprawling reach. Compiled by Ace Farren Ford and Ju Suk Reet Meate, Volumes 3 & 4 features: Michael Uhlenkott, (AN) EeL, Ace & Duce, Control Unit, Sissy Spacek, Kommissar Hjuler und Frau Mama Baer, Million Brazillians, Lee Rockey, Trance Farmers, Keith Mitchell, Split Second, Mr. Foon, Electric Bill Robinson, Testing Vault, Donkey Flybye, James Dewey, Eric Zann, Threed, Purple Panther Ensemble, Lynn Carey, Collide Burger with Chicken Larry and Patrick Lubow, Dr. Amazon, Io, GX Jupitter-Larsen & Ace Farren Ford, Dan and Letha Rodman Melchoir, Harold Schroeder, Erica Rawlings. Art direction by John Wiese & Ace Farren Ford, with collages from Cody Brant featured throughout the release. Each 'issue' of the Gazette features a visual artist (Vol. 1 was Ace Farren Ford, Vol. 2 was Rick Potts)."
GLITTERBEAT (GERMANY)
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CAT #: GB 137CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AKYOL, GAYE SU Anadolu Ejderi CD
Wildly acclaimed Istanbul-based artist Gaye Su Akyol delivers an unforgettable fourth album, Anadolu Ejderi. Building upon her mélange of Turkish psychedelia, empowered commentary and retro-futurist sonics, her vision is more personal and uncompromising than ever before. Lauded for her startling, innovative mix of Turkish psychedelia and folk song, surf music and ?90s Western rock, a global sweet spot where Anatolian music heroine Selda Ba?can rubbed shoulders with Kurt Cobain, Akyol was ready to expand her vision after a relentless period on the road. Everything on Anadolu Ejderi -- the title translates as "Anatolian Dragon" -- breathes fire. It takes chances, the lyrics offer an exploration of politics in today's Turkey. The personal is very much part of that. While it can hark back to the beauty of Istanbul before the coups that changed the place, when the country shifted, Anadolu Ejderi is a record that's filled with possibilities and dives into the unexpected. It's there in the dancing joy of slipping a disco section into the title track or the stark beauty of the acoustic openings to "Yaram Derin Derin Kanar" and "Biz Ne Zaman Dü?man Olduk," which arrive as shocks to the system. If you thought you knew what to expect in Gaye Su Akyol's music, things have changed. Akyol's lyrics lure, puzzle, and often take by surprise, as with the album's final track, "Içinde Uyan?yoruz Hakikatin" (We Are Waking Up In Reality). Musically it can seem like the closest to a straightforward Western song she's come, but, Akyol notes, "you also hear non-existent Turkish folk". Akyol is an astute observer of what's happened to her country. The tales history tells are important to her. That first upheaval of 1980 was followed by another in 1997, and her cries for what's lost stand in her words. The political allusions are often carefully oblique, but they're there. The instrumentation forges closer connections between Turkey's past and its present. The rock guitar, bass and drum trio are now accompanied by traditional instruments such as violin, oud, electro baglama, cümbü?, sazbü?. With Anadolu Ejderi, Akyol says, "I'm telling stories for the future." To do that takes courage. It takes bravery and daring. Listen, and you'll hear the roar of the Anatolian dragon as it roars. "Her voice is a mesmerizing thing, deep and plummy enough to shake trees and stir hearts." --Pitchfork
HABIBI FUNK (GERMANY)
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CAT #: HAB 020CD
FILE UNDER: WORLD
MAHA Orkos CD
"Completely unknown album by Salah Ragab's Cairo Jazz Band vocalist Maha, recorded in Cairo in 1979. Features productions by Hany Shenoda of Al Massrieen. Maha's Orkos, originally released on cassette, is one of these standout musical diamonds that combines jazz and Egyptian vocal traditions with funk, Latin and soul. Maha's Orkos immediately catches your ear as a unique album. A strong and energetic voice, equally grounded in jazz as well as Egyptian vocal traditions, Maha sings over instrumentals that offer a wide palette of influences, sonically emblematic of the cultural changes that were occurring in the country. The album features rich compositions and productions by renown Egyptian musician Hany Shenoda, who's group, Al Massrieen, Habibi Funk worked with in 2017 (the release led to sync placements in Hulu's Ramy TV series). At the time of its release, however, the Orkos cassette quickly faded away among the growing number of releases populating the Egyptian musical soundscape. For more than 40 years, it sat in near obscurity before being given new life in the form of a properly licensed vinyl release. Habibi Funk and Disco Arabesquo are honored to play a part in sharing Maha's story. Below is a bit more context around the release as well as the campaign schedule. The arrival of the cassette brought a seismic shift in how music was produced and consumed around the world. Smaller bands and labels were able to release music without the logistical and financial barrier present in vinyl manufacturing. At the same time, in Egypt, a new crop of musicians and composers made their way into the scene, seeking to bring something fresh to what was perceived as the widely monophonic musical traditions of Egypt. Hany Shenoda, Mohamed Mounir, Magdy El Hossainy, Omar Korshid, Salah Ragab and Hamid El Shaeri are some names that come to mind. Many built their sounds combining their own musical upbringing with influences coming from the outside. The success of these projects varied widely, but for each there were numerous lesser-known bands and singers. Many of these often-short-lived projects would release their music on cassettes on tiny labels only to fade into the musical ether. Maha's Orkos" album fits this category. Put out in a small run of cassettes, it's fair to say that the singer's sole recording outing was not a financial success when it was originally released by Egyptian label Sout El Hob in 1979. While it may not have found an engaged and open-eared audience upon its release, the first few bars of the album indicate this is a special, timeless album that transcends the musical boundaries that many artists were seeking to break through at the time. From the funk sounds of 'Law Laffeina El Ard'; the moody, mellow sounds of 'Kabl Ma Nessallem We Nemshy' or 'We Mesheet;' to excursions into Latin sounds in the title track 'Orkos,' and disco with Ana Gaya the album is an amalgamation of genres that stands out from the immense creativity present in Egypt at the time..."
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CAT #: HAB 020LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
MAHA Orkos LP
LP version. "Completely unknown album by Salah Ragab's Cairo Jazz Band vocalist Maha, recorded in Cairo in 1979. Features productions by Hany Shenoda of Al Massrieen. Maha's Orkos, originally released on cassette, is one of these standout musical diamonds that combines jazz and Egyptian vocal traditions with funk, Latin and soul. Maha's Orkos immediately catches your ear as a unique album. A strong and energetic voice, equally grounded in jazz as well as Egyptian vocal traditions, Maha sings over instrumentals that offer a wide palette of influences, sonically emblematic of the cultural changes that were occurring in the country. The album features rich compositions and productions by renown Egyptian musician Hany Shenoda, who's group, Al Massrieen, Habibi Funk worked with in 2017 (the release led to sync placements in Hulu's Ramy TV series). At the time of its release, however, the Orkos cassette quickly faded away among the growing number of releases populating the Egyptian musical soundscape. For more than 40 years, it sat in near obscurity before being given new life in the form of a properly licensed vinyl release. Habibi Funk and Disco Arabesquo are honored to play a part in sharing Maha's story. Below is a bit more context around the release as well as the campaign schedule. The arrival of the cassette brought a seismic shift in how music was produced and consumed around the world. Smaller bands and labels were able to release music without the logistical and financial barrier present in vinyl manufacturing. At the same time, in Egypt, a new crop of musicians and composers made their way into the scene, seeking to bring something fresh to what was perceived as the widely monophonic musical traditions of Egypt. Hany Shenoda, Mohamed Mounir, Magdy El Hossainy, Omar Korshid, Salah Ragab and Hamid El Shaeri are some names that come to mind. Many built their sounds combining their own musical upbringing with influences coming from the outside. The success of these projects varied widely, but for each there were numerous lesser-known bands and singers. Many of these often-short-lived projects would release their music on cassettes on tiny labels only to fade into the musical ether. Maha's Orkos album fits this category. Put out in a small run of cassettes, it's fair to say that the singer's sole recording outing was not a financial success when it was originally released by Egyptian label Sout El Hob in 1979. While it may not have found an engaged and open-eared audience upon its release, the first few bars of the album indicate this is a special, timeless album that transcends the musical boundaries that many artists were seeking to break through at the time. From the funk sounds of 'Law Laffeina El Ard'; the moody, mellow sounds of 'Kabl Ma Nessallem We Nemshy' or 'We Mesheet;' to excursions into Latin sounds in the title track 'Orkos,' and disco with Ana Gaya the album is an amalgamation of genres that stands out from the immense creativity present in Egypt at the time..."
HEAVY SHEET
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CAT #: HEAVY 020LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MOCKY Goosebumps Per Minute Vol. 1 LP
Collection of upbeat and funky Mocky tracks. Following up 2021's orchestral album opus Overtones For The Omniverse (HEAVY 011LP), Mocky has been releasing a number of upbeat and uplifting instrumental tracks and now collects them as Goosebumps Per Minute Vol. 1 on vinyl. Putting his vocals and songwriting to the side for this project, Mocky employs harps, horns, and '70s analog synths to provide a funky soundtrack that spreads a little of that California sunshine in the listeners direction. Built around Mocky's signature basslines and ensemble vocal arrangements that include his son Telly and his daughter Lulu, all recorded to his vintage Ampex tape machine, Mocky did away with the normal metronomic BPM calculations in modern production and instead measured his music in "GPM" (the tempo at which music transmits Goosebumps) -- and on top of a multitude of summery bass, drums, and strings perfection, Vicky Farewell drops a blistering Rhodes solo on "Flutter" and Carlos Niño lends a percussive hand on the sublime "Iridescence". Todd M. Simon handles the horn duties, and Liza Wallace infuses the dance tracks with live harp which recalls the floating approach of Alice Coltrane. Titles like "Refractions", "Wavelengths", or "Conduction" are hinting at a scientific approach to creating the conditions for "Goosebumps Per Minute" -- his own calculus for the timing of how and when to hit and strum the things in his studio to make it raw and funky. The songs were also inspired by his time hanging out at the Goldline bar in LA's Highland Park. "Throughout the pandemic it was the one place I could go and sit outside and hear incredible music as I listened to my friend DJ Phonecalls playing from the Goldline's vinyl collection. He would be dropping these uplifting funk and disco cuts -- and at the end of the night I would go home to my studio and make a track and upload it to my Bandcamp and the streaming services immediately -- It reminded me of my time in Tokyo's vinyl bars so 'Goosebumps Per Minute' owes a lot to that inspiring culture as well." Includes download code; edition of 600.
HEY SUBURBIA (ITALY)
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CAT #: SUBURBIA 009CV
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MACH PELICAN Mach Pelican (Clear Vinyl) LP
Clear vinyl. Reissue, originally released in 1999. Debut album for the Australian-adopted Japanese punk band, Mach Pelican. Ripped jeans, leather jackets, 14 short and sharp three-chords tunes. Punk rock to the bone! Featuring the single "Dance In Chicago" and a cover of The Queers' classic "Ursula Finally Has Tits". Cover art by Ray Ahn from the Hard Ons. Double-sided lyrics insert included.
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CAT #: SUBURBIA 033LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MANGES, THE The Book of Hate for Good People LP
Sixth studio album by the Italian punk rock veterans par excellence. Produced by Andrea Caredda and mixed at the Blasting Rooms in Fort Collins, CO., year 2022. Comes complete with exclusive poster and double-sided lyrics insert featuring art by renowned artist Manuel Cossu. RIYL: Screeching Weasel, Queers, Ramones, Hard-Ons, Chemical People... and The Manges! Exclusive color vinyl.
HOT CASA (FRANCE)
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CAT #: HC 075CD
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DJEUHDJOAH & LIEUTENANT NICHOLSON 2+ CD
2+ is the third album of DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson. A new sound stopover in their funky trip since their beginning with T'es Qui? album in 2015 (HC 034CD). This new building stone prolong their critically acclaimed album Aimez Ces Airs released in 2019 (HC 061CD/LP). Aimez Ces Airs De Plus loves this theme again, that's exactly what the two sidekicks want to present with their diptych. What's new? 15 tracks, eclectic, soft, deep, and funky, where electro, soul even Afrobeat touches, or bossa nova live together harmoniously. DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson make praise of slowness "Pas si vite"), address environmental issues on ("Coeur béton"), social statements on ("Police", "Raie publiques", "Clic" and the social media addiction), childhood on ("Bola Mba"), the post-colonial relation between Africa and the other continents. Love is also really well presented ("Thé à la menthe", "Ping Pong") and why not sailing to Essaouira in Morocco; During the summer of 2020, when the French National Radio asked them to perform a live cover, the French funky duo chose the famous "Né quelque part" by Maxime Leforestier released in 1987. Their suave interpretaion, haunting beat, and spatial and languid atmosphere give a fantastic tribute to this beautiful melody and strong lyrics. They found a very intimate link with chorus in Zulu, harking back to the strong connection they made with South Africa during their last tour. It became clear that they needed to put this track on their new album, as their now club remix classic "Bwe Dlo" performed with their friend David Walters. After their tour in South Africa, they met Cool Affair the musician and electro house producer in Johannesburg who made a beautiful remix of "Aimé Césaire" which close perfectly this new opus. Recorded at "Le triangle des Bermudes" the home studio of Lieutenant Nicholson, produced and mixed by him with a electro analog sound dear to them. Horns, live drums, percussions, and vocal choir were recorded at Bastille village at the label basement, even during the pandemic. On 2+, you can also hear the swirls of Antoine Berjeaut at the trumpet and bugle, magic keys from Florian Pellissier, two new flagships of the French jazz scene. Once again, DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson push the boundaries of the traditional "French song" to make the world dance. They want to keep their international audience, from Australia, Japan, USA, South Africa to name a few of the dancefloors around the world that will ignite with this new album. The French touch will still shine.
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CAT #: HC 075EP
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DJEUHDJOAH & LIEUTENANT NICHOLSON Pas si vite 7"
The funky French duo is back with a new 7". Once again, DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson push the boundaries of the traditional "French song" to make the world dance. Two funky electronic flow, ready to electrify clubs worldwide. Our two "chansonniers" are the leaders of "Afropeanité" and the Creolity. The song "Pas si vite" champions deceleration and positivity during our complex period. "Caipirinha" is a soft tribute to bossa nova, the dream of hot and sweet destination in a cold winter. Recorded at "Le triangle des Bermudes" the home studio of Lieutenant Nicholson, produced and mixed by him with an electro analog sound dear to them. Horns, live drums, percussions and vocal choir were recorded at Bastille village at the label basement, even during the pandemic. Mastered by Frank Merritt at The Carvery (London).
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CAT #: HC 075LP
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DJEUHDJOAH & LIEUTENANT NICHOLSON 2+ 2LP
Double LP version. 2+ is the third album of DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson. A new sound stopover in their funky trip since their beginning with T'es Qui? album in 2015 (HC 034CD). This new building stone prolong their critically acclaimed album Aimez Ces Airs released in 2019 (HC 061CD/LP). Aimez Ces Airs De Plus loves this theme again, that's exactly what the two sidekicks want to present with their diptych. What's new? 15 tracks, eclectic, soft, deep, and funky, where electro, soul even Afrobeat touches, or bossa nova live together harmoniously. DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson make praise of slowness "Pas si vite"), address environmental issues on ("Coeur béton"), social statements on ("Police", "Raie publiques", "Clic" and the social media addiction), childhood on ("Bola Mba"), the post-colonial relation between Africa and the other continents. Love is also really well presented ("Thé à la menthe", "Ping Pong") and why not sailing to Essaouira in Morocco; During the summer of 2020, when the French National Radio asked them to perform a live cover, the French funky duo chose the famous "Né quelque part" by Maxime Leforestier released in 1987. Their suave interpretaion, haunting beat, and spatial and languid atmosphere give a fantastic tribute to this beautiful melody and strong lyrics. They found a very intimate link with chorus in Zulu, harking back to the strong connection they made with South Africa during their last tour. It became clear that they needed to put this track on their new album, as their now club remix classic "Bwe Dlo" performed with their friend David Walters. After their tour in South Africa, they met Cool Affair the musician and electro house producer in Johannesburg who made a beautiful remix of "Aimé Césaire" which close perfectly this new opus. Recorded at "Le triangle des Bermudes" the home studio of Lieutenant Nicholson, produced and mixed by him with a electro analog sound dear to them. Horns, live drums, percussions, and vocal choir were recorded at Bastille village at the label basement, even during the pandemic. On 2+, you can also hear the swirls of Antoine Berjeaut at the trumpet and bugle, magic keys from Florian Pellissier, two new flagships of the French jazz scene. Once again, DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson push the boundaries of the traditional "French song" to make the world dance. They want to keep their international audience, from Australia, Japan, USA, South Africa to name a few of the dancefloors around the world that will ignite with this new album. The French touch will still shine.
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CAT #: HC 076EP
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DAMAWUZAN, ROGER Fine Fine 7"
Since his introduction in the '60s, he has lit stages on fire, whether it be with The Rickers Orchestra or with The Melo-Togo Orchestra (taking home second place for the first National Festival of Tologese Music). His first seven-inch vinyl, Wait For Me, is a holy grail for diggers all around the world. It was such a hit that Togolese music is and will forever be stamped by Roger Damawuzan. He was principal in introducing Gazo, Akpesse, and Kamou rhythms to modern day soul music. Relentless and unstoppable, Roger Damawuzan is now making a comeback with a heavy funk 7". Afro. Soul. Funk. Vaudou. Such a force of nature, this album could have been only captured, if not mastered, by one studio. Such mission was accomplished by the legendary studio OTODI (Office Togolese of Disks) by utilizing solely analog equipment to translate and to breath all of Damawuzan's soul into this album. Such a force of nature, Roger Damawuzan could have been supported by only one group. Led by Peter Solo, the members of the Vaudou Game and Lomé's most talented musicians are at Damawuzan's disposal for this new soul DJ friendly vinyl.
INTERVENTION RECORDS
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CAT #: IR 031LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DILLARD & CLARK The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark LP
100% analog mastered from the original analog master tapes; mastered by Kevin Gray at CoHEARent Audio; ultra-quiet 180-gram vinyl pressed at Gotta Groove Records; beautiful old-style "tip-on" jacket printed by Stoughton. "What a time 1968 was for the burgeoning country rock scene! Gene Clark and Gram Parsons had introduced rock fans to some country flair with The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo. After Sweetheart, Parsons broke auspicious new ground with The International Submarine Band (just a year before he'd make The Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin), while Gene Clark teamed with banjo genius Doug Dillard for this bluegrass classic, The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark. The picking virtuosity of Dillard, Bernie Leadon and others on this LP meshes beautifully with Gene Clark's soulful vocal presence and guitar. The repertoire is endlessly fun and engaging but punctuated with somewhat somber Clark offerings like 'She Darked the Sun' and 'Something's Wrong'. Country rock is familiar ground to Intervention fans, as we've already tackled greats from The Flying Burrito Bros., and Gene Clark's amazing solo effort White Light. This is the roots of the music that paved the way for the Eagles and countless others. The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark is Mastered Direct-to-DSD from the 1/4'' 15-ips Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray at CoHEARent Audio. The tapes sound beautifully dynamic and alive, with tuneful bass, extended highs and three-dimensional imaging. The IR cut has better separation and punch than ANY previous version of this amazing record." "Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark is one of the first, inarguable classics of country-rock ... a work rooted in tradition while reveling in freedom and new ideas and making the most of them all." --Mark Deming, AllMusic
JUBG (GERMANY)
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CAT #: JUBG 001LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
GUT/NATHAN WOOLEY, GUDRUN The Painter LP
Since its opening in spring 2021, JUBG, a still young Cologne gallery for contemporary art, has specialized in the broad field of artists and collaborations working along artistic interfaces, especially those between visual art and experimental and/or electronic music. It is only logical that the gallery now expands its sphere of activity to include its own label, on which music appears that comes from similar contexts as the artists listed above already suggest. JUBG releases the official soundtrack to The Painter from 2021. The film, German title Der Maler, is a mixture of feature film and documentary and a collaboration between German director Oliver Hirschbiegel, best known for his Oscar-nominated film Downfall, and Albert Oehlen, with whom Hirschbiegel has a long friendship, as they both once studied together at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Hamburg. The docu-fiction shows Oehlen struggling with a painting and pondering the meaning of his work. Oehlen is played by German actor and musician Ben Becker, accompanied by the off-screen voice of Charlotte Rampling. In the film, Becker makes a painting that Oehlen himself creates step by step behind the camera, while the actor improvises the process in front of the camera. The wonderful music for this film comes from no less than two outstanding personalities. On the A-side it is Gudrun Gut, icon not only of the German electronic music scene since at least the '90s, singer, composer, DJ, label owner (Monika Enterprise) and of course founding member of the legendary '80s new wave band Malaria. On the B-side it's the world famous and award-winning US avant-garde trumpeter and improvisational musician Nathan "Nate" Wooley, who has played with Fred Frith and John Zorn, among others. Gudrun Gut's tracks bear such beautiful titles as "Bewegung", "Küste" or "Weinen" and she once again pulls out all the stops of her great skills and decades of experience as a producer of the most diverse electronic music genres. These are unusual and much more experimental musical paintings that she creates here than on her recent solo works. Edgy, angular, raw and unpolished, yet always elegant and clever, she subverts the male artist madness depicted extensively in the film in her own unique way. Nathan Wooley answers with the instrument he has been familiar with since childhood, the trumpet, with which he is able to create a ravishingly virtuosic noise. His pieces are more like sketches, often only 90 seconds or a few minutes long, but in all their abstractness underpin the narrative of the film almost perfectly.
JUKE JOINT 500 (GERMANY)
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CAT #: JJ 5008CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TINY LEGS TIM Call Us When It's Over CD
Tim de Graeve (1978-2022). Raised in rural Westouter in Belgium, Tim discovered his love for blues music through his father's record collection, including an acoustic album by Blind Lemon Jefferson. He took classical guitar lessons from the age of eight and soon began writing his own songs. Tim formed his own blues band at the age of 17. Tim went to Ghent to study biology at university and lived there for the rest of his life. He worked as a teacher for a time, making music with his band The Heartfakers as a hobby. At the age of 20, a nine-year ordeal began. Even as a child he had problems with his liver, but this was not correctly diagnosed at the time. This was to take revenge, because as a young man he spent most of his time in the hospital getting liver transplants and fighting for his life. Meanwhile, Tim focused on learning how to play his grandfather's slide guitar and delving into blues classics like delta blues and writing songs. Back then he swore to himself that if he survived, he would dedicate his life to become a professional musician. In 2009, he released his debut EP Please Dr. Please under the name Tiny Legs Tim & The Concrete Blues Band. He then focused on releasing solo work as a singer-songwriter for a number of years. His stage name, Tiny Legs, was a reference to his small and thin appearance, which was a result of his severe liver disease. Inspiration came from some of his blues heroes like Blind Willy Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Sleepy John Estes, who also have three-part names, often describing a physical characteristic. He thought it was a funny name that had a self-relating effect. It was a way of dealing with his "new" body. He recorded more albums, sometimes solo, sometimes with a drummer or harp-player or like on the marvelous 2019 album Elsewhere Bound with an eight-piece band. For Call Us When It's Over Tim founded a new four-piece band that recorded these six tracks during the pandemic (hence the album title). This band blew everyone away at the Goezot Festival in Turnhout in September 2021. Juke Joint 500 instantly struck a deal which hopefully was the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship. This was not to be as Tim de Graeve died during an operation in hospital in May 2022.
KOMPAKT (GERMANY)
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CAT #: KOM 453LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
AGENTS OF TIME Universo 2LP
Double LP version. Italian duo Agents Of Time have been incredibly busy over the past few years, from releasing a string of classic singles -- including their recent single for Afterlife, "The Mirage" -- to remixing The Weeknd's "Take My Breath", which appeared on his recent Dawn FM (Alternative World). But the biggest news is here now -- their second album, Universo, is ready. Elevating their trademark melodic techno with an exquisite pop-ness, Universo has found its ideal home with Kompakt, following their Music Made Paradise 2020 debut EP for the label (KOM 417EP). It's a meeting of minds that makes perfect sense. Andrea Di Ceglie and Luigi Tutolo, the two members of Agents Of Time, used their time during the pandemic to work on Universo, an album loosely conceptualized around their "personal universe", a manifestation of the world Di Ceglie and Tutolo built both within and around their studio. This accounts for the sparkle and brightness of Universo -- it's full of personality, vim and vigor, the duo experimenting with their music, exploring its furthest corners. If you come to Universo expecting just another album of melodic techno, get ready to be pleasantly surprised -- there's a whole lot more going on here, and it's all equally compelling. After a typically poetic opening gesture -- the swirling, synesthetic, self-titled intro track -- expectations are immediately blindsided with the two-step pop of "Fallin'", sung with gentle clarity by guest Audrey Janssens, a dream of a song that harks back to the glory days of early '00s UK garage. "Interstellar Cowboy" is a confident, lithe, disco-fied strut; the gentle minor-key piano of "Liquid Fantasy" spirals into a gorgeously melancholy techno-pop epic, Vicky Who?'s voice rich with yearning. Janssens also reappears on the electro-swirl of "Poison"; "Dream Vision" revisits their single "The Mirage", soft with sweeping strings, loaded with drama; "Part Of Life" sashays into view with a schaffel-stomp. This rich variety throws the more dancefloor-focused tracks, like "Ciao", into even starker relief -- they're more decisive, streamlined, yet rich with detail, chugging, Moroder-esque bass meeting strobe-lit synths that fire melodies out into the firmament. Universo feels texturally dense, but it still breathes, its sounds so tactile you want to reach out and grab them, its tunes so seductive you can't get them out of your head. Universo is a fiercely beautiful album, brave in its spirit, a perfectly poised meeting-point of pop melody and stylish, lush techno.
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CAT #: KOM 456LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
BJORKE QUARTET, KASPER Mother 2LP
For over two decades, Kasper Bjørke has cut his own path, as a solo artist and enthusiastic collaborator. Bjørke's Copenhagen home may be one of Europe's great cultural hubs, and he's certainly added a paragraph or two to that story, but his music is distinctly international. Even a cursory listen exposes an impressive, ever-evolving career. However, few expected him to initiate the collaborative ambient/neo-classical project Kasper Bjørke Quartet. In 2018, The Fifty Eleven Project (KOM 393LP) was released on Kompakt Records, a deeply personal record that musically documents Bjørkes encounter with, and triumph over, cancer. The album topped many critics' lists, and was included among The Guardian's Best Contemporary Albums of the year. Mother represents a quantum leap forward. Literally, when you consider the terrestrial shifts that informed it. Six compositions explore what the evolution of our planet sounds like. While Holst may have gotten there first, Mother singularly focuses on the orb where we reside, from its formation, to its likely conclusion. Other artists have tackled song cycles that parallel a day, a year, or even a lifetime. Mother spans a timeframe from 4.5 billion years ago up to humankind's impending demise. It hints at how that may be sooner than we think, as well as the earth's resilience, and the promise of another chapter. Additional gravity comes courtesy of evocative choir arrangements -- and marimba recorded at the Copenhagen Opera House. "Formation" condenses 20 million years of runaway accretion into 20 minutes. It is sublimely padded by feature artist Sofie Birch's gentle synths. "Abiogenesis" intimates a different type of emergence: the first life to inhabit our nascent planet. The entire cosmos is condensed into the layered vocals of Philip|Schneider. Birch returns on "Miocene," which signals the divergence of proto-humans from primates not with foreboding, but rather cascaded notes and swells adumbrating a pure and curious being, revealing nothing of what the Catch-22 of knowledge will bring. That's addressed in the diptych of "Anthropocene" and "Tipping Points," respectively marking the dawn and foreshadowing the probable downfall of homo sapiens, through wondrous advancements and their climate damaging byproducts. It's tempting to think the album's finale, "Requiem," implies only a dark conclusion, owing to its sparkling verrillon's coronach, and the return of Philip|Schneider's empyrean vocals, but its juxtaposition with revolving, enigmatic piano chords infers the earth will enter its next act. Mother is a staggering achievement, encouraging contemplative thought.
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CAT #: KOMP 170CD
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VA Kompakt Total 22 CD
It's common knowledge that Kompakt's Total series serves as our yearbook, a musical wrap up of the past 12 months. Therefore, it doesn't come as a surprise that 2022's edition is informed by another pandemic year, where dancefloors were still mostly deserted and the devastating developments in Eastern Europe. Kompakt's A&R team still kept on foot on the imaginary dancefloor, while scouting different realms apart from the big room euphoria. Anyway, brain dance has always been a key ingredient to our catalogue. Kompakt founding member Jörg Burger adequately opens Total 22 with a groovy midtempo chugger that reminisces "Blue Lines" era Massive Attack as much as the late Andy Weatherall's low slung psychedelia. Jürgen Paape is calling a spade a spade with "Le Monde À Changé" -- the world has changed. Parisian rookies, Archil & Leon won the label's hearts over with an EP full of laidback, funky pop played on their self-made instruments. "Loving You" rightly made it onto this compilation. Matias Aguayo returns to the mothership with "The Tiger", a lascivious beast of a track, perfect for getting lost in reveries. Dutch-American techno legend Orlando Voorn continues his foray into Kompakt's sonic continuum with "Deeper Shades". Perel is spreading love with her ravishing piano house tune "Matrix", taken from her recent album Jesus Was An Alien (KOMP 171CD/KOM 451LP). The Voigt brothers (Voigt & Voigt) are further building the vibe with their crispy exclusive contribution "Why", before Jonathan Kaspar ultimately pushes the energy to (almost) post-pandemic levels. Barnt's tranced-up secret weapon "This Is For Decor Only" makes a welcome appearance and Mexican musician Rebolledo delivers a first solo appearance on Total with his trademark hypnotic desert sound. Agents Of Time are melting hearts with "Blu" while proudly putting Italian vocals back into Italo house. Michael gives the overly talented Danish singer songwriter eee gee a proper Michael Mayer treatment before a whole bunch of Berlin legends, Bleep Gigaverse, are closing Total 22 with a bang.
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CAT #: KOMP 172CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
AGENTS OF TIME Universo CD
Italian duo Agents Of Time have been incredibly busy over the past few years, from releasing a string of classic singles -- including their recent single for Afterlife, "The Mirage" -- to remixing The Weeknd's "Take My Breath", which appeared on his recent Dawn FM (Alternative World). But the biggest news is here now -- their second album, Universo, is ready. Elevating their trademark melodic techno with an exquisite pop-ness, Universo has found its ideal home with Kompakt, following their Music Made Paradise 2020 debut EP for the label (KOM 417EP). It's a meeting of minds that makes perfect sense. Andrea Di Ceglie and Luigi Tutolo, the two members of Agents Of Time, used their time during the pandemic to work on Universo, an album loosely conceptualized around their "personal universe", a manifestation of the world Di Ceglie and Tutolo built both within and around their studio. This accounts for the sparkle and brightness of Universo -- it's full of personality, vim and vigor, the duo experimenting with their music, exploring its furthest corners. If you come to Universo expecting just another album of melodic techno, get ready to be pleasantly surprised -- there's a whole lot more going on here, and it's all equally compelling. After a typically poetic opening gesture -- the swirling, synesthetic, self-titled intro track -- expectations are immediately blindsided with the two-step pop of "Fallin'", sung with gentle clarity by guest Audrey Janssens, a dream of a song that harks back to the glory days of early '00s UK garage. "Interstellar Cowboy" is a confident, lithe, disco-fied strut; the gentle minor-key piano of "Liquid Fantasy" spirals into a gorgeously melancholy techno-pop epic, Vicky Who?'s voice rich with yearning. Janssens also reappears on the electro-swirl of "Poison"; "Dream Vision" revisits their single "The Mirage", soft with sweeping strings, loaded with drama; "Part Of Life" sashays into view with a schaffel-stomp. This rich variety throws the more dancefloor-focused tracks, like "Ciao", into even starker relief -- they're more decisive, streamlined, yet rich with detail, chugging, Moroder-esque bass meeting strobe-lit synths that fire melodies out into the firmament. Universo feels texturally dense, but it still breathes, its sounds so tactile you want to reach out and grab them, its tunes so seductive you can't get them out of your head. Universo is a fiercely beautiful album, brave in its spirit, a perfectly poised meeting-point of pop melody and stylish, lush techno.
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CAT #: KOMP 173CD
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VA Pop Ambient 2023 CD
The 23rd edition of the Pop Ambient compilation, compiled as always by Wolfgang Voigt. With the first tracks of Leandro Fresco/Thore Pfeiffer, Gen Pop (Burger, Pfeiffer, Würden), Morgen Wurde featuring Tetsuroh Konishi, and Max Würden up to Triola's gloomy and melancholic "Kupferblüte", the feeling of a slowness and calmness not experienced before, of an exceedingly lively standstill, creeps over us. A mental state that resembles dreams, in which you follow strange events as if paralyzed, yet awake and sensory. The Cologne-based Sono Kollektiv, an association of experimental artists Annie Bloch, Stefanie Grawe, Joel Jaffe, Alex Linster, Luis Weiß, Moritz Riesenbeck, Lukas Schäfer, Emily Wittbrodt, and Max Würden, is represented for the first time with two contributions on Pop Ambient. The two works, the fragile "Bolzano Sessions IV" and the rather light-flooded "Bolzano Sessions V" nestle perfectly into the musical whole of this year's compilation, not only in terms of their majestic leisureliness. In Jens-Uwe Beyer's "Nero", melancholic guitar chords reduced to the bare minimum are carried away by the wind like leaves, the reverberation holding the last note so long that it almost comes to a stop in the ear. If you like it synesthetic, look at the once again ravishing cover artwork by Veronika Unland right at this moment. Colors and shapes in which there is both everything and nothing to discover. Both feel equally right. The final third of Pop Ambient 2023 begins with Reich & Würden's herbaceous "Receiver," a track so dignified and carried by pads reminiscent of the sound of bagpipes. The slowness is joined by togetherness at the end: Pop Ambient veteran Joachim Spieth cooperates with American sound artist zakè on his literally weightless "Air", Thore Pfeiffer co-produced the wonderful "Instinct" with Scottish brother duo Andy and Mike Truscott aka Kinbrae. California duo Patrick Hills and Morgan Fox aka Blank Gloss close out with the yearning "Down At The Heel."CD features Leandro Fresco / Thore Pfeiffer, Gen Pop, Morgen Wurde, Tetsuroh Konishi, Max Würden, Triola, Sono Kollektiv, Jens-Uwe Beyer, Reich & Würden, Joachim Spieth / zakè, Thore Pfeiffer / Kinbrae, Blank Gloss, and Ümit Han.
LATINO BUGGER VEIL
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CAT #: LBV 003LP
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BUTTHOLE SURFERS Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac LP
2022 repress. "Latino Bugger Veil presents the long-awaited vinyl reissues of Butthole Surfers' first four full-length albums. Originally released between 1984 and 1988, these classic and influential LPs capture the band at their peak, drawing from punk, rock, psychedelic and experimental influences for a truly inspired and unmistakably unique sound. Comes with coupons for free digital downloads."
LIBERATION HALL
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CAT #: LIB 5102CD
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FLYING BURRITO BROS, THE Live At The Bottom Line NYC 1976 CD
"Touring in support of their fifth studio album Airborne, The Flying Burrito Brothers performed at the legendary New York City venue, The Bottom Line on August 18, 1976. This 12-track set features many of their classic tracks alongside a few C&W standards. The group's line up consisted of Skip Battin and Gene Parsons (both ex-Byrds band members), along with Gib Guilbeau, Joel Scott Hill and original Burrito pedal steel legend, 'Sneaky' Pete Kleinow. This live recording is previously unreleased." "1976 was a great year for re-iteration of the Flying Burrito Brothers having the opportunity to travel throughout the USA celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the founding of the United States. Though Gram Parsons wasn't around anymore, Chris Hillman embarked on a solo career, and Chris Ethridge had just departed this band, we had some great guys that just happened to be really familiar with the 'Burrito' mentality. It all came together quite spectacularly! To begin, Gib Guilbeau was my life-long pal and Cajun guy par excellence. Gene Parsons, formerly of the Byrds, was he drummer from hell who lifted the excitement to the limit (and picked a great banjo and string bender guitar. What can I say about Joel Scott Hill? A rebel? A reverent fanatic? A soulful and emotional artist? ALL of the above! Then there is Skip Battin, who just joined the band whom everyone loved and called friend who provided very original bass and vocal support. All these cuts are genuine items from a live performance at New York City's legendary Bottom Line club with all the warts and magical moments. No fix ups and no apologies. Just real music and true enthusiasm. This was the way it was when he hit the road in 1976!" --Sneaky Pete, 2001
LION PRODUCTIONS
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CAT #: LION 196LP
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JAHN, LOTHAR Dreams of 75 (Transparent Blue with Black Swirl Vinyl) LP
Transparent blue with black swirl vinyl. "Lothar Jahn's February '75 single was released by the German label Sound Records in 1977 -- a very unusual record, somewhere between psychedelic, folk, and krautrock. That single was reviewed thus on Discogs: 'A mysterious journey through Cosmic Psych Folk Kraut, whatever you may call it. Fantastic, from beginning to end. Another Kraut on 45 milestone.' This newly recorded album, Dreams of 75, is an extended riff on the original single, taking that smaller vision as a starting point and then launching into a wilder and weirder psychedelic/progressive stereoscopic headspace than was evident (or possible) on the original single. So, who is Lothar Jahn? He is a singer/songwriter, television presenter and multi-instrumentalist who has been active in the German music scene since the early 1970s. Since 2020, Jahn has his own television show, Lothar's Liedertreff. And what were Jahn's dreams of '75? 'They were wistful dreams of boundless love, community and peace, boundless sex, boundless freedom and a lot of wonderful music. What better time to grow up than back then, in the middle of works like Oldfield's 'Ommadawn' and Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here'?' says Jahn. Hand-numbered copies on transparent blue with black swirl vinyl; comes with an 8-page booklet giving Jahn's thoughts on his life and the dreams which provoked this album; includes the bonus track 'Merseburger,' recorded with Olaf Casalich, the singer of famed German band Ougenweide."
LIVE AT ROBERT JOHNSON (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PLAYRJC 083EP
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LE TOUGH, MANO Holographic Witness 12"
Live At Robert Johnson presents the new Holographic Witness EP by Niall Mannion aka Mano le Tough. Please enjoy four very special tracks made by experienced Irishman Mannion near beautiful Lake Zurich. Four tracks to jump into like Zurich folks jump into the Limmat to get carried away. Now here's your chance to get carried away too! Let's start with the hypnotic grooves of "Holographic Witness" with its subtle handclaps and percussions turning this bass-line driven monster to further heights -- a bass-line quite reminiscent of that special Miami sound made famous by the Murk guys back in the early '90s. Add some Balearic guitar riffings and wait until that mighty bass drum comes back in after 6 minutes and you'll find yourself dreaming on a dancefloor in heaven. Niall continues with more pounding drum sounds in next tune "Kakooja". Stabbing synths sounds dominate this track while Niall manages to create another dreamy vibe again for this monotonous (in a very positive way that is) work of art -- a dreamy vibe which can be found on any of Niall's tracks. This leads you directly to "Last Floating Figh, Liufe Floating" where Mr. Mannion floats into much quieter shores. It's a very meditative affair which makes you want to listen to it over and over again once the tune comes to an end. On "Weather Master", this EP's last track, Niall masters the art of trippy sounds for a fourth time building another dreamy hypnotic groove that is just beautiful. Maybe too beautiful for this world. Fans of Mano Le Tough who does not seem so tough at all considering his first offering for Live At Robert Johnson.
LJUDVERKET (FINLAND)
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CAT #: LJ 013EP
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HEDLUND, RASMUS Far 2LP
Rasmus Hedlund releases Far on Ljudverket.
LOST LAGOON
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CAT #: MVD 10986CD
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BASHO, ROBBIE Bouquet CD
"Robbie Basho's 13th album is now available for the first time on CD. Remastered from the original master recording, it has never sounded better. Robbie Basho's innovative pieces for the steel-string acoustic guitar incorporated American, European, and Eastern influences, while his unique voice appeared to emanate from another world. Along with John Fahey and Leo Kottke, Basho was a part of the triumvirate of guitarists on the legendary Takoma Records, and one of the foremost proponents of elevating the steel-string acoustic guitar to the level of a concert instrument. In his brief and troubled life, he laid the foundations for radical changes to the musical landscape of America during the 1960s and '70s but reaped little more than a sparse (if fervent) following during his lifetime. Almost 40 years since its original issue on cassette, Basho's 13th album Bouquet is now available for the first time on CD. Affording us a greater insight into his remarkable vision, this long-awaited release is a critical piece of the puzzle that was Robbie Basho. With lyrical themes traversing famous mystics and arcane symbols, Basho's conceptual focus on Bouquet roves through Catholic, Sufic, Hopi, and otherwise nebulous terrain in search of the choicest blooms, while his approach to composition sees him veering ever further from the long-form instrumentalist of earlier days, becoming something of a troubadour. Remastered from the original master recording (discovered during the production of Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho), it has never sounded better. The 24-page booklet includes rare photos and images from Basho's illustrated songbook, as well as texts from Glenn Jones, Henry Kaiser and others. Bonus tracks include an epic 13-minute solo version of 'Land of Our Fathers'."
LUGAR ALTO (BRAZIL)
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CAT #: LUGAR 004LP
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SUBOTIC & GORAN VEJVODA, MITAR The Dreambird 2LP
"The fourth release from São Paulo label Lugar Alto is not a Brazilian production but it still has strong ties to the country, it is the psychotomimetically heuristic ambience of The Dreambird by Mitar Suboti? (Suba) & Goran Vejvoda. The album was produced in Paris in 1987 and five years later was the first release by Suba in Brazil as a limited edition CD put out by the Brazilian Catholic label Paulinas COMEP. The album was made while Goran Vejvoda was living in Paris. Relaxed days were spent sitting around, tinkering with sounds, going out, having lunch, coming back and playing some more. Pascal Humbert, bass player from the French band Passion Fodder, joined the duo for a day. Goran had a Japanese field recording CD called Bird Island Seychelles that contained the exotic bird sounds and sea waves used to create the organic textures of the album. Suba left with the 8-track tapes and rough mix cassettes and adapted the music for a sound art installation/happening by the Danube in Novi Sad where The Dreambird was played, climaxing with a laser show. Mitar Suboti? aka Rex Illusivii aka Suba, was born in 1961 in Yugoslavia. A renowned innovator in his home country but is best known in Brazil for his 1999 CD São Paulo Confessions, a hugely important release that effortlessly walked the line between modern MPB and '90s electronica, influencing a whole generation of Brazilian music makers. Tragically, he died just after it was released and could never benefit from its critical acclaim and success. The Dreambird was recorded in Paris one year before 'In the moon cage', a similar project using the pseudonym Rex Illusivi. This was a recording of exuberant synth scapes, ambient guitar and Yugoslavian folk which was awarded the International Fund for Promotion of Culture from UNESCO, and included a three-month scholarship to research Afro-Brazilian rhythms in Brazil. The album was released in 2015 by Ivkovi?'s Offen Music. It's challenging to trace the story of this project precisely, very little information is available and what we have are diffused fragments of memory from different actors. So, we return to the initial question: what is The Dreambird? It doesn't matter if it is either an environmental statement or simply relaxing spa music, what it does is evoke sensations that elevate your mind to a higher and more emotional plane and from there you can travel wherever you like."
MADE IN GERMANY (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MIG 2802CD
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SCHUTZ, DIETER Transvision CD
"German electronic music, produced by Klaus Schulze, performed by Dieter Schütz. Dieter Schütz, born in Flensburg (Germany) in 1955, was a highly talented multi-instrumentalist who, unfortunately, died at the age of only 36. Shortly before his death, he founded the pop rock trio Deja Vue together with his partner Ulla Witt and his friend Adelbert von Deyen, of which the album Nightflight was released in 2004 only at the instigation of Adelbert von Deyen. When Dieter Schütz died suddenly on September 25, 1991, he left behind no less than 500 songs and instrumentals composed and produced by himself, of which, however, only a fraction has ever been released. Also, on his first solo album TransVision (1981) Dieter Schütz played almost all acoustic instruments himself and was only supported by percussionist Fred Severloh and drummer Barry Madison (both from the band Lorry, also on the IC label). Germany's electronic legend Klaus Schulze, who unfortunately passed away recently, brought Dieter Schütz to his IC label and produced his debut. Several instrumental solo albums followed, but now on the Sky label. The album TransVision, however, is still considered the most important milestone in Dieter Schütz's unfortunately much too short career. About the three bonus tracks: 'Guess' is a vocal version of the instrumental from TransVision, 'The Lonely Whale' is previously unreleased and 'Blue White View' is from the one and only deja vu album Nightflight with Adelbert Von Deyen and Ulla Witt."
MAGAZINE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: WAVES 003LP
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CURD DUCA Waves 3 LP+CD
Magazine announces the album Waves 3 by Curd Duca, the third and last part of the trilogy Waves: Austrian electronic composer Curd Duca is widely known for his 1990s series of critically acclaimed easy listening 1-5 (Normal) and elevator 1-3 (Mille Plateaux). After a long break from the studio, Duca has issued part 1 of the Waves series in late 2020 on Magazine WAVES 001LP. This was in fact his first album in 20 years. The Waves recordings pick up the thread of his '90s work and open up a new chapter. Again, everything is shifting constantly and all tracks are quite different (soft, rough, melodic, abstract...), but complement each other in a surprisingly coherent way to form an idiosyncratic universe. While other experimental artists can sound as if they're attempting to lift lead weights over their heads, Duca is content flicking feathers into their faces. After his impressive 1990s/00s run on Normal and Mille Plateaux, Curd Duca had disappeared for 20 years before emerging from the aether last year. The albums of the new Waves trilogy represent a flawless examination of sound and texture. The Vienna-based producer still straddles high and low culture, but approaches his sonics with a more historically aware ear. So plain and resonant gong recordings are placed next to pop music loops and DSP-fractured cut-ups, and icy electronic jams nudge up against cassette warped instrumental sketches. Waves 3 is a continuation and culmination of the series. In the final chapter, you're drawn in with church bells on dome, but quickly transported to another era entirely with the crackly bläser and absurd zither, a tongue-in-cheek plunderphonic experiment assembled from zither samples. Duca follows this evocative run of tracks with a machine-gun blast of experimental sound, from the percussive 500 GRM to the ferric ASMR birdsong of "ziegenmelker." This is Duca at his most uncompromising, grabbing central European culture and dragging it through his array of processes. Playing the album from beginning to end opens up a weightless cut-and-paste mixtape, stitched together with expert foresight and a knowing wink to camera. Like the best psychedelic experiences, memories are triggered and turned inside-out, and knowledge is allowed to blossom. Curd Duca has been refining his process for three decades now, and few artists have quite the same ability to challenge, provoke, and inspire.
MANA (UK)
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CAT #: MANA 016LP
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AYLU Profondo Rosa LP
"Big or profound sensations from small gestures which are carefully arranged. Using a mixture of sacred and profane, or classical and prosaic sound sources, knitted into intricate, fleet-footed compositions that virtually spring into the ear. Profondo Rosa is composer Ailin Grad's first vinyl album following years embedded and loved in the Argentinian experimental music scene, with past treats on labels Krut, Sun Ark, Orange Milk Records and her own label Abyss, devoted to 'connecting Latin Juke with the world'. There's a playfulness at the heart of Profondo Rosa that's immediately charming, with a sense of scale and spatialization in the sounds being toyed with, exploring the strange pleasures and satisfaction in her approach to delightful and fresh feeling sound design. Aylu is known to be as likely to deploy the sound of a finger click, a fizzy drink being cracked open, or a fly buzzing past the ear, as she is drawn to sampling gorgeous strings or instrumentation. Her debut album for Mana constantly builds territories that tug at your heartstrings and then have you grinning five seconds later. This versatility and acceleration have often resulted in her music being compared to footwork, alongside collaboration with other producers experimenting in that sphere; in 2017 she and Foodman put together a dizzying hour of sounds for NTS. Her miniaturization of rhythm and ringtone-like sample size could also bring to mind SND circa their warmer softer glitch Tenderlove phase, or perhaps the approach that Teenage Engineering take to designing tools for music making. Each are deriving pleasure from small and satisfying shapes, as well as advocating an object-oriented philosophy and minimalization in their work that sidesteps a draining of color. Sound is fun, and in Profondo Rosa it sounds like Aylu has that at the forefront of her mind. Her hyperreal sound and its link to the languages of electroacoustic or computer music are clear, but she out maneuvers many of the overly-academic and formless examples of those genres. Profondo Rosa's skeletal assembly of objects becomes tunes in an elegant, almost understated way; tactile elements quickly combine and roll into deeper and persuasively emotional places. These compositions give off an air of being very free, very experimental, despite being meticulously artful and studied arrangements on precise and nimble coordinates."
MANNEQUIN RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MNQ 140LP
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GIOVANOTTI MONDANI MECCANICI GMM Suite LP
Mannequin Records present for the first time on vinyl, the reissue of Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici's first video soundtrack, originally released in 1984 as an audiotape in less than one hundred copies. Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici (literally "Mundane Mechanical Youth") or GMM was one of the most unclassifiable audiovisual experiences to emerge from Italy in the 1980s. Maurizio Dami, aka Alexander Robotnick, a pivotal member of GMM, was responsible for the group's music output. Founded in 1984 by Antonio Glessi and Andrea Zingoni in Florence, GMM was an art collective whose production represents the quintessential expression of postmodern transmedia hybridity. GMM pioneered the genre of computer comics, created video installations, developed "multiple identity" performances, and was involved in fashion, media, and music productions, and later on produced cyberdelic environments, artificial reality projects, and proto-memes. Alexander Robotnick's first contribution to GMM was this soundtrack for the group's eponymous first video, the animated version of a computer comics they coincidentally published on legendary Frigidaire magazine. Restored by Dami and reissued here for the first time by Mannequin Records, the composition was also split into two "suites". Determining in this work is Dami's adoption of the alphaSyntauri, also known as the first affordable digital synth (priced less than $2000 when it was released in 1980), which was playable through its own software, "alphaPlus," on the Apple II computer. The same computer was used by Glessi to "draw" the 3-bit strips scripted by Zingoni recounting the joyrides of the Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici, three merciless cyborgs in black suit and sunglasses. As Robotnick, Dami developed an innovative formula of Italo disco that was attractive to the dancefloor yet at the same time highlighted the expressive properties of the instruments he used, notably Roland drum machines and Korg synthesizers. For the soundtrack of GMM's videos and installations, he left aside the danceable synth rhythmics in favor of ambient sounds that produced rarefied atmospheres, psychological tensions, and enhanced states of consciousness. Dami's scores for GMM's artworks could be associated with Italian avant-garde music of the 1970s and 1980s, ranging from composers who adopted electronics flirting with pop and songwriting to minimalist musicians exploring seriality and drones, including Franco Battiato, Roberto Cacciapaglia, Francesco Messina, and Riccardo Sinigaglia. Analogies could also be traced with the playful and humanizing approach to personal computers that characterizes the music output of Marcello Giombini and Doris Norton. The futuristic escapism of minimal synth and ambient music's psychological nature is infiltrated by drifting harmonics typical of new age, as if in search of a spiritual dimension of technology.
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CAT #: MNQ 144EP
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REBOTINI, ARNAUD Shiny Black Leather 12"
Mannequin Records welcome a brand-new killer release from the legendary French producer Arnaud Rebotini. Whether as one half of Black Strobe or in his own material or just busy receiving a César prize in 2018 for best film music, Arnaud Rebotini devotes his career to mind-blowing electronic productions. Passionate about analog synthesizers, and with a strong taste for electronic music of a dark and brutal hue, the new EP Shiny Black Leather pushes to the limit his EBM-influenced electro-goth side, making the most doomy, goth clubber happy.
MARIONETTE (CANADA)
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CAT #: MARIONETT 020LP
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LODERBAUER, MAX Petrichor LP
"Max Loderbauer's career in music spans the last 3 decades, yet he's still managed to keep his listeners hungry by releasing only three solo albums to date. Two of those releases (Transparenz, 2013 and Donnerwetter, 2020) were on Tobias Freund's label Non Standard Productions -- his long-time collaborator and Templehof studio mate. In between those releases, Loderbauer graced Marionette with Greyland in 2016, revealing a previously unheard youthful and sentimental side. Now in 2022, the seasoned mind voyager is back with Petrichor, making yet another rare and treasurable solo appearance. Petrichor distills the elements of Loderbauer's work that are fundamental to the initiation of the label. With his Buchla, modular synth, and Haken fingerboard, Loderbauer's improvised studio maneuvers dilate into imagined journeys from glacial peaks into the exosphere. This is Maxi at his most exhilarating state, morphing through bittersweet and optimistic soundscapes to bleak moments of throbbing unease -- all while maintaining a sense of grace and elegance. Petrichor is a reflection of Loderbauer's impactful trips to the mountains, and returning from these summits with an electrifying urge to paint this mighty perspective. The harmonies and melodies on the tracks simulate emotional peaks and valleys, with vibration and rhythm rooted in the foundation of the sound, as though it's woven into the fabric of the fauna and flora. Legendary collaborations like Vilod (with Ricardo Villalobos), the Moritz Von Oswald Trio, Non Standard Institute, Sun Electric in the early nineties, and the newly formed Ambiq ensemble have gained this unique artist the respect of the underground and avant garde scenes alike."
MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MORR 192LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
HALEIWA Hallway Waverider LP
Fourth album by Stockholm based multi-instrumentalist Mikko Singh, aka Haleiwa. Hallway Waverider is Mikko Singh's second album for Morr Music under his Haleiwa moniker. Blending the washed-out aesthetics of dream pop with a lo-fi take on modern psychedelia, it is a fuzzy record in more than one sense. The ten songs see the multi-instrumentalist explore the sonic idiosyncrasies of analog recording equipment while also expressing a self-assured statement by a musician who has carved out a niche for himself and feels perfectly at home in it. After exploring the affordances of vintage equipment for 2019's Cloud Formations album (MORR 167CD/LP), Singh worked with a Tascam 244 4-track cassette recorder and Tascam 388 8-track reel-to-reel recorder to transform the sounds of his vintage synthesizers, bass, the occasional guitar part, and drums supplied by Svante Karlsson for Hallway Waverider. By experimenting extensively with the machines' unique sonic qualities and constantly reworking the pieces in regards to their sound signature over the course of two years, Singh has found the perfect equilibrium of electronic music and lo-fi aesthetics while navigating with ease through styles like driving surf rock, gritty garage punk and ethereal dream pop. On his new record, he seamlessly integrates these influences into anthemic yet soothing songs. The title of the album refers to Singh's halcyon days as a teenager spent listening to punk music and -- in wintertime -- skateboarding in his own bedroom. The lyrics refer to surfing as a nod to both his own experiences with riding the waves and the music genre that has provided him with inspiration throughout his career as a prolific recording artist with three solo albums under his belt. However, surfing primarily serves as a metaphor for something bigger. Hallway Waverider dedicated to Singh's mother who passed away in 2015. "She made it possible for me to have a good childhood and to be able to do what I love," says the artist. This sense of closure and being at peace with himself is also expressed in lyrics like "A sea stroll. Going slower. Feeling featherlight," expressing a calm that perfectly mirrors the music's steady grooves and welcoming overall feeling. Starting with the upbeat "River Park/Sleeping Pill"; to the almost ambient, synthesizer-heavy "A Bottomless Pit"; or short, punk-inspired and bassline-driven outbursts like "Watered Down" or "Halulu Lake"; to the blissful title track that closes the album, Singh opens up a whole panorama of different moods across a broad variety of musical styles. Includes download code; edition of 300.
MULE MUSIQ (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MUSIQ 282EP
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DE KUNOVICH, SIMONE Addio Mondo Nuovo 12"
Second release of a bright hope in Italy, Simone De Kunovich. This release is a final chapter of his Mondo Nuovo series. It's a unique mixture of world music, acid, wired electric music.
MUSIC ON VINYL (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: MOV 3170COL-LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
REVOLUTIONARIES Outlaw Dub (Orange Vinyl) LP
Orange vinyl. "The Jamaican reggae group The Revolutionaries were set up in 1975 as the house band of the Channel One Studios. With Sly Dunbar on drums and Bertram 'Ranchie' McLean on bass, The Revolutionaries created the new 'rockers' reggae style that would change the whole Jamaican sound. Recorded at the Channel One studios, the 1979 album Outlaw Dub was written and produced by Linval Thompson."
NATURE SOUNDS
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CAT #: NSD 135LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
ROCK, PETE NY's Finest 2LP
"He made remixes matter more than the original songs. He introduced dramatic, forceful horns to rap's sonic discussion. It almost goes without saying that Pete Rock is among the greatest hip-hop producers of all time, and Soul Brother #1 is still crafting timeless music. Now back on vinyl for the first time in years, Pete's acclaimed album NY's Finest features an impressive lineup of vocalists, including Wu-Tang emcees Raekwon and Masta Killa, Jim Jones, Little Brother, Styles P, Redman, Max B, Papoose, and more. Entirely produced by Pete Rock, the album is a modern masterpiece from a legendary artist. This repress also includes the bonus track 'It's So G' featuring Roc Marciano, a lost treasure from the NY's Finest sessions that wasn't on the original tracklist."
NO LABEL
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CAT #: CR 001X-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CRAMPS, THE All Aboard The Drug Train LP
Green vinyl. Recorded live at The Stone, San Francisco, California on May 13th, 1980. One of the final shows with Bryan Gregory.
NOW-AGAIN
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CAT #: NA 5240LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
GARDINER, BORIS Ultra Super Dub Vol. II LP
"The lost albums in jamaican bass player, bandleader, songwriter, singer and producer Boris Gardiner's discography. First official issue of these impossibly rare albums contains extensive booklet, with Jeff Mao detailing Gardiner's career and the 70s Jamaican music industry. Unpublished photos and ephemera. 1970s Jamaica suffered an unprecedented stretch of political turmoil and violence, and as the country's economy and morale collapsed, reggae and its offshoots exploded worldwide. Boris Gardiner enjoyed great success leading bands, issuing albums that mixed reggae, ska, soul and funk, and collaborating with the likes of Lee (Scratch) Perry and Herman Chin-Loy in their legendary studios and playing on hundreds of records. So many that he lost count. Sometime around the issue of his Boris Gardiner Happening Is What's Happening album -- a loft classic, with David Mancuso favoring Gardiner's take of Booker T. and the MG's 'Melting Pot' at his legendary gathering -- and his soundtrack to Every N----r Is A Star, famously sampled by Kendrick Lamar and used as the introduction to the film Moonlight, two albums -- Ultra Super Dub Vols. 1 and 2 -- credited to The Boris Gardiner Happening -- two albums so obscure that for the longest time Boris wasn't even aware that they existed. Following classics such as King Tubby's Dub From the Roots and Augustus Pablo's King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown, Miami-based Alty East's Ultra Records took instrumentals Gardiner created for a run of 45s, and created and issued these compilations of dubbed out originals and JA renditions of songs by Otis Redding, Clarence Carter, Betty Wright, Jimmy 'Bo' Horne and Ultra label-mate Frankie Zhivago Young. Released in tiny runs in handmade, silkscreened, paste-on covers, they have become some of the most sought-after Jamaican albums. Now, issued under Boris' guidance, and with a detailed booklet by Jeff Mao, which delves into the deep scene which birthed these remarkable records, we can finally consider the last, unheard portion of this landmark musician's career."
OHR (GERMANY)
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CAT #: OMM 560086LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AMON DUUL Paradieswarts Duul LP
2022 repress; LP version. Ohr present a reissue of Amon Düül's Paradieswärts Düül, originally released in 1971. In 1968, the Münchner Kommune, formed in 1967, had applied to Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, the organizer of the Essen Songtage, for a gig there. When the Düüls arrived in Essen, already two bands of this name in the meantime, since three members had split off and now called themselves Amon Düül II. Paradieswärts Düül was released in 1971, it's the third album of this outfit. Transferred from the original analog tapes at Dierks Studios and carefully re-mastered.
OPTIMO MUSIC (UK)
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CAT #: OM 052EP
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DE AMBASSADE Young Birds 12"
The Netherland's De Ambassade have dropped the "De" and are now known as Ambassade. Optimo Music will be releasing their second album in 2023. Ahead of that is this glorious two track 12". Both tracks are exclusive to this release. Ambassade on the tracks: "These two songs were born after a collaboration with Naama Freedman. She's an artist from Amsterdam and former member of Ambassade. She brought a couple sketches to the studio and we came out with these two songs. The lyrics on 'Young Birds' come from an old traditional English folk song from around 1903. It has been re-arranged a couple times throughout the years by multiple artists. The song reflects our development in sound and arrangement with extended synthesizer parts, less conventional song-writing. Also, singing in English is a new path. The pulsing song 'Palette' is a perfect combination of sequence and extended legato vocal parts. It creates a tense atmosphere which builds up to the very end."
OUTERNATIONAL SOUNDS (UK)
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CAT #: OTR 017LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
JAZZ CLAN, THE Dedication LP
One of the rarest and most sought after South African recordings of the early 1970s, available again for the first time since its original South African release -- the swinging township groove of The Jazz Clan's 1973 debut LP, Dedication. One of the dozens of South African groups who styled themselves as "jazz dignitaries" -- like the Jazz Giants, the Jazz Ambassadors, or the Jazz Ministers, for instance -- their two widely separated studio albums for Gallo (Dedication and Makwenkwe, released in 1973 and 1976 respectively) are extremely hard to find. They may have left a small recorded footprint, but it was an impressive one, epitomized by their hard-swinging 1973 debut, Dedication -- a tough, swinging soul-jazz set with distinct African touches which is counted by those in the know as among the best South African jazz recordings of the era. The players that comprised the Jazz Clan were veterans. And they thought big -- their first incarnation during the 1960s had been as a 16-piece, and they had held down a residency at one of Nelson Mandela's regular haunts, the Planet Hotel in Fordsburg. The original leader, drummer Gordon "Micky" Mfandu, had been a regular on the Johannesburg jazz scene since the early 1960s and had recorded with figures including Gideon Nxumalo, and the famous Blue Notes; along with bassist Mongezi Velelo, he had also been a member of the revered Soul Giants unit. Baritone player Cornelius Khumalo had also played with Chris McGregor and the Blue Notes in the pit band of the musical play Mr Paljas, and had also recorded with township legend Zakes Nkosi. Also in the line-up, and handling most writing duties here, was the great trumpeter Peter Segona -- a quicksilver hornsman, Segona later sought exile in Europe, where he played with musical luminaries across the continent including Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Cymande, and Manu Dibango. By the 1970s, Mfandu was dead, murdered in Soweto, and the group had consolidated as a septet -- the late drummer is memorialized here on closer "Micky". South African jazz was moving toward electrified funk and bump, and the new township style of Dollar Brand was just around the corner. But Dedication captures the acoustic jazz sound of the early 1970s in its pomp -- a handful of tightly wound songs jostling for space, blending up-tempo soul-jazz sensibilities with Latin influences and pronounced township jazz accents, the latter especially audible in Dimpie Tshabalala's piano vamps, Jeff Mpete's pattering hi-hat emphases, and the unmistakably South African swagger and dip of the horns on cuts like "Rabothata". Transferred from the master tapes by Gallo in South Africa; Mastered for release by Dubplates & Mastering; Pressed at Pallas; Fully licensed from Gallo South Africa.
PEACE & RHYTHM
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CAT #: PEACE 019LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
C.A.M.P.O.S. The 8th Door LP
The second C.A.M.P.O.S. studio album is here at long last. More psychedelic and electronic disco cumbia. Titled The 8th Door and literally years in the making, this record is a culmination of everything that C.A.M.P.O.S. mastermind Joshua Douglas Camp has been working on since the first studio album Miracles came out in 2016 (PEACE 005LP), with many ideas for the new songs being fleshed out from renditions initially created during the pandemic lockdown and released as a two volume digital-only set titled Shake Up The World: Live In The Studio, Vol. 1 and 2. Other compositions date from before or during the time of the first studio album but were not completed until years later, benefitting from Camp's experiences in the interim during which the group Locobeach was born and C.A.M.PO.S. became a live one-man-band. As a result, The 8th Door is a more mature and focused release that will certainly satisfy longtime fans but should also attract new listeners as well. The multitalented Camp has been involved with many diverse bands over the years, including Latin-flavored outfits like Chicha Libre, Locobeach, and Los Crema Paraíso, as well as country band Westwork, Eastern-European klezmer group Litvakus, and the literary rockers One Ring Zero and somehow these various projects and musical genres all play a part in laying a background for The 8th Door. Though he plays most of the instruments on the new record (and handles production, engineering, vocals and composition), Camp also managed to collaborate with various friends and bandmates along the way. Pianist Marlysse Simmons (Bio Ritmo, Miramar) as well as percussionists Karina Colis (Chicha Libre, Locobeach), Neil Ochoa (Chicha Libre, Los Crema Paraíso, Locobeach), and Gabo Tomasini (Bio Ritmo, Yotoco) all add seamlessly to the mix, helping Camp create a rich, full web of psychedelic sound that transports the listener to interior worlds beyond the cosmos. Much like previous C.A.M.P.O.S. releases, The 8th Door is replete with retro synths, jangly guitars, funky bass lines, and otherworldly vocals that float on a bed of syncopated tropical percussion inspired by cumbia from Colombia and Peru, like some long lost Caribbean version of British synth pop from the '80s but with a modern touch that brings the music in line with similar contemporary underground artists from Bogotá, Mexico City, and Los Angeles. Includes download card with full digital album, including five bonus tracks.
PILZ (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PILZ 2029077LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
EMTIDI Saat LP
2022 repress; LP version. 180 gram vinyl, gatefold sleeve. A reissue of Emtidi's Saat, originally released in 1972 as the 14th release on the legendary label PILZ. Producer Dieter Dierks prescribed the folk duo a good portion of cosmic electronic chords. The remaster sounds better than all issues before."Saatis a little-known gem and krautrock classic, an album full of dreamy and beautiful melodies. The Emtidi duo considerably expanded its instrumentation and style, and played a unique mix of folk, art rock, and psychedelic music. Besides acoustic guitar, the sound is mainly dominated by synthesizers, Mellotron, and other keyboard instruments, which are often played in a classical style. Some softly floating organ parts are comparable to early Tangerine Dream. In contrast stands a song like 'Love Time Rain,' which could be written by the British folk band Pentangle. On most tracks, Dolly Holmes sings lead with her high, transfigured voice. Aside from 'Die Reise,' a fairy tale story sung by Maik Hirschfeldt, all the songs have English lyrics. The album has a surprisingly full sound for a duo recording, although no drums were used. Most contemporary German bands played with new styles and sounds, but only a few obtained such wonderful music out of their experiments." --Klaus Kehrle, AllMusic
PINGIPUNG (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PING 076LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
Y BULBUL/YUMURTA Not One, Not Two LP
Y Bülbül is back on the controls accompanied by Yumurta, a percussionist from Istanbul. Pingipung introduced the London based artist in 2020 with his psychedelic, synth-laden debut Fever (PING 072LP). Not One, Not Two is based on a one-way transmission of improvised drum recordings from an industrial estate in Maslak, Istanbul to another one in Tottenham, London, where Y Bülbül laid down fragmented layers of bass, synths, guitars and field recordings over Yumurta's singular drum takes. The result is a free-form deep listening album for fans of dub, ambient, and kosmische music, where the groove and harmonies are mystically interwoven, yet somehow manage to stay on the brink of collapse. Although the sessions were non concurrent and scattered over two continents, the collaboration evokes scenes of a telepathic communion where individual perspectives, circumstances and stories are exchanged between the two. Resembling Moondog, Holy Tongue, or Luis Paniagua in the sense that they favor the raw over the polished, holistic presence over conceptual perfection and questions over answers, the duo's focus on bare sounds and repetition guides the listener throughout the album. The ride cymbal opening the minimalistic "I'm This", for instance, briskly disarms the listener who might have been looking for more traditional songwriting or production clues. There are plenty of immediately rewarding moments too in Not One, Not Two, like the organic acid bassline in "Maurin Quina", the euphoric drum fills of "Big K" and the intoxicating groove of the hypnotic vibe-setter "Jah Oto". Bu?lbu?l is Turkish for a singing bird while Yumurta simply means egg. Which one is first? Who is to follow? It's this enigmatic entanglement between the two artists which creates the lurking tension, emphasized by the Zen Ko?an-like title. The beauty in this album is a peculiar one, and it certainly is a rabbit hole too. Dissonance is fluid as everything moves, and whenever two sounds collide, a third one emerges.
REBOOT
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CAT #: RE 019LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
VA The Golem Rescored LP
"Jewish Arts & Culture Non-profit Reboot presents a vinyl record of the new rescore of the iconic 1921 silent horror film, The Golem. The Golem is the Jewish Frankenstein that inspired the Boris Karloff original and a renowned Jewish fable about the occult and Jewish identity. Featuring original music by Scott Amendola, Steven Drozd (The Flaming Lips), and Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, The Flesh Eaters) / Threshing Floor (Alan Licht, Gretchen Gonzales Davidson, Rebecca Odes, John Olson, Nate Young) / Meg Baird, Charlie Saufley and Jeremiah Lockwood / Universal Eyes (members of Slumber Party and Wolf Eyes) / Michael Morley (The Dead C) / Sharon Gal / Marika Hughes and Shahzad Ismaily / ?Y? (Boredoms)."
RECITAL
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CAT #: R 091CS
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VA The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival 4xCASSETTE/BOOK
After years of preparation, Recital presents The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival box set. Held in New York in 1980, this was the last festival of the pioneering sound poetry series started in Stockholm in the 1960s. This ambitious document holds nearly five hours of audio from 30 artists. A 240-page book with biographies, texts, and artwork from each artist supplements the edition, including program notes by Charlie Morrow and Sean McCann. Organized by Sten Hanson and Charlie Morrow, the 10-day festival gathered a battalion of sound poets from around the globe to share the stage at Washington Square Church in Manhattan. Both established sound poets are juxtaposed with more obscure artists, some more fervent than others. Carles Santos, John Giorno, and The Four Horsemen, for example, convey a verbal onslaught. And Bernard Heidsieck, you can hear his shouted and snarled words of "Democratie II" shimmer against the walls and ceiling, amplifying in intensity as if he is screaming at the French Parliament in the Palais du Luxembourg. Not all performances are aggressive; Alison Knowles presents a theatrical ensemble reading (with bean performance), and the subdued conceptual work of Robert Joseph and Pier Van Dijk's for voice and the sound of turning book pages is particularly interesting. The year 1980 seemed like a turning point for sound poetry: there were seemingly more new sound poets than ever, yet the genre began to dissipate and melt into a pool of other experimental sound practices with newer digital technologies. One can almost hear the generational change in these tapes, mid-exhale. But of course, at the end of the day sound poetry is still alive and well, and splitting hairs as fine as these becomes more a matter of personal taste/perception than anything else. There will always be a romanticization of the beginning of any project or movement, the pure state, and luckily this collection includes many of the pioneers. Artists included: Carles Santos, Jackson Mac Low, Greta Monach, Bernard Heidsieck, Katalin Ladik, Jerome Rothenberg, Mary Ellen Solt, John Giorno, Armand Schwerner, Charles Stein, Beth Anderson, Charles Amirkhanian, Richard Kostelanetz, Franz Kamin, Michael Gibbs, The Four Horsemen, Adriano Spatola, Paula Claire, Sten Hanson, Charlie Morrow, Glen Velez, Larry Wendt, Nina Yankowitz, Robert Joseph, Pier Van Dijk, Alison Knowles, Bern Porter, P. Clive Fencott, Bob Cobbing, and the Ocarina Orchestra. 240-page book, 6"x9" perfect bound. Housed in printed box. Includes download card. Edition of 200 (hand-numbered).
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CAT #: R 096BK
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CONNORS, LOREN Night of Rain Book
Night of Rain is the second art book by musician and artist Loren Connors, following 2021's Wildweeds (R 087BK). The book is comprised of two parts: "Night of Rain," which Loren describes as "seascapes, or expressions of the sea and shore. [They are] about the power of rain and the sea, lagoons, bays, tides." Taken from small pencil and black ink drawings enlarged again and again at a copy store. The pieces would often be drawn over and modified throughout this process -- ultimately reaching sizes of 8x6 feet or larger. In this series, Loren considers the digital images as the "originals" -- so this section of the book acts as a sort of swatch, a gallery exhibiting an element of this process. The second section of the book is "A Coming to Shore." Nineteen acrylic paintings on stretched canvas, which are often cast in hazy and dreamlike blues, greys, and yellows. They span across the page in stark simplicity. "They all have the feeling of horizon, but not all of them depict horizons," Loren remarks. Supplemented with a foreword written by artist and friend Aki Onda, Night of Rain is part of a continuing series of limited books published by Recital that explore Loren's visual art. 12"x8.5"; 100 color pages, perfect bound book; edition of 200 (hand-numbered).
RECKLESS YES RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: RY 112LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CRYSTAL FURS, THE In Coastal Light LP
The Crystal Furs are a queer indie pop/rock band from Portland, OR. They write melodic, textured songs about anxiety, architecture, lesbians, and queer feels -- loud music for quiet hearts. In Coastal Light is the band's fifth album, following on from 2020 LP Beautiful and True, and hears them honing their blend of grunge-y riffs and '60s-girl-group vocals. Sky blue vinyl. "Had Portland's (via Forth Worth) The Crystal Furs have been around in the late '80s-early '90s there is a possibility they would have been signed to Sarah Records, home of OG jangle pop bands like The Field Mice and The Sea Urchins. Then again with their sunny, bright melodies, they might have found themselves riding the charts alongside The Bangles." --50Thirdand3rd "It's something of a well-worn expression, that adult life is about 'finding oneself', but it certainly seems for the Buchanans, and their band, that all of the changes in their life have enabled them to do just that. And what they've found are winning alt. indie-pop purveyors in the mold of Helen Love. Beautiful And True is an album whose title could not be clearer: it is what it says it is." --Get In Her Ears "Think of those jangly C86 tunes mixing genteel harmonies, spiraling keyboards, melodic guitar/bass sounds and wistful vocals and you begin to get the drift here." --Into Creative "From the opening tones of the Farfisa organ on 'Comeback Girls' the lo-fi indie pop shines through, with jangly guitars, unassuming instrumental breaks and a naturalistic production that puts the Furs right there in the room with you." --Cambridge Music Review "Retro without being jaded, cute without being cliched what The Crystal Furs do so well -- and demonstrate deeply on both tracks in this release -- is as we've said pair light, sparkling and downright danceable melodies with dark-hearted lyrics emerging from shadowy inner worlds and harder lived experiences." --Popoptica
RIDINGEASY RECORDS
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CAT #: EZRDR 146LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
EARLY MOODS Early Moods LP
LP version. "The self-titled full-length debut of Los Angeles quintet Early Moods is a marriage of classic underground doom like Candlemass, Witchfinder General, Pentagram, Trouble and Saint Vitus, paired with traditional 'big box' heavy metal melodies and song structure. These two contrasting aesthetics may seem incongruous, but the skilled musicianship of Early Moods -- some of whom have played music together since their early teens -- manages to find the perfect balance between grit and gloss. 'From the beginning, the purpose for this band was to incorporate our love of traditional doom metal with a heavy metal approach,' guitarist Eddie Andrade says. 'We wanted to show that heavy doom can be complemented with melodies and harmonies. Black Sabbath meets NWOBHM is what we aim for, really.' The band was founded in 2015 by Andrade and vocalist/keyboardist Alberto Alcaraz after a few years of playing in thrash and death metal projects before the two realized that the classic doom that they'd grown up with was what they really wanted to explore. Going through a few lineup changes while delving deeper into the diverging influences that were calling, Early Moods arrived at the sound and lineup that grew their fanbase locally. The band soon captured the attention of German label Dying Victim Productions, who released their debut EP, Spellbound in 2020. Early Moods is Oscar Hernandez on lead guitar, Chris Flores on drums, Elix Felciano on bass, Alcaraz on vocals/synth and Andrade on guitar. Early Moods was recorded at 7th Street Studios in downtown L.A. by Carlos Cruz (Warbringer, Chris Poland, Power Trip) from October to December of 2021. It was mixed by Allen Falcon of Birdcage Studios and mastered by Brad Boatright of Audio Siege who has worked with bands like Sleep, Obituary, and High On Fire."
ROGUEART (FRANCE)
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CAT #: ROG 120CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
MARONEY/SCOTT WALTON/DENIS FOURNIER, DENMAN O Kosmos Meta CD
"Denman Maroney, creator of hyperpiano, Denis Fournier, drummer in the lineage of Sunny Murray or Milford Graves and Scott Walton, solid and creative bassist. Denman Maroney (piano), Scott Walton (double bass), Denis Fournier (drums, percussion)."
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CAT #: ROG 124CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
SHIPP & MARK HELIAS, MATTHEW The New Syntax CD
"Matthew Shipp and Mark Helias, two outstanding artists, two great careers, the first time playing together! Matthew Shipp (piano), Mark Helias (double bass)."
RUNE GRAMMOFON (NORWAY)
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CAT #: RLP 3228LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MOLLESTAD & TRONDHEIM JAZZ ORCHESTRA, HEDVIG Maternity Beat 2LP
Double LP version. Hedvig Mollestad says her new album, Maternity Beat, is her most ambitious work to date, and that's not a proclamation to be taken lightly. Mollestad, after all, has been one of Norway's most adventurous and hardest-working musicians since the Molde International Jazz Festival named her the "Young Jazz Talent of the Year" in 2009. Recorded with the 12-piece Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (who have previously worked with legends like Chick Corea and Joshua Redman), Maternity Beat is a sprawling double album and true career milestone. In addition to encompassing the full evolution of her sound to date, it offers deeply personal meditations on the nature of family and pressing social justice issues. While listeners will no doubt encounter the Mahavishnu Orchestra-inspired fire music that has made the Hedvig Mollestad Trio (HM3) heavyweights in 21st-century fusion and jazz-metal, Maternity Beat also expands on the contemplative experimentation showcased on two of Mollestad's recent solo works: 2020's Ekhidna (RCD 2215CD/RLP 3215LP, 2020), and the Arne Nordheim-inspired Tempest Revisited (RCD 2223CD/RLP 3223LP, 2021), both of which netted her a Spellemannpris (the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy). The sheer sonic and emotional scope of Maternity Beat required Mollestad wear multiple hats: guitar explorer, composer, arranger, improviser, collaborator, and, as the striking title implies, mother. That latter role serves as the album's thematic focus. This represents a novel direction for her. Back around 2019 -- when the Molde International Jazz Festival and Midtnorsk Jazzsenter originally commissioned the creation of Maternity Beat -- Mollestad felt compelled to compose a new and far more personal work that weighed her own privileged experiences with parenting and nurturing against the harsh political realities unfolding before her. Let's not forget: This was a time when graphic images of migrant families drowning at sea were flooding international news. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which further drove home how the economic systems in which we are all complicit tear apart humanity's far less fortunate. The harsh contrast of humanity and systemic failure fuels the tense shifts in mood coursing throughout Maternity Beat. Featuring the vocals of Mai Elise Solberg and Ingebjørg Loe Bjørnstad, the opening "On the Horizon Part 1" directly references the migrant crisis, while "On the Horizon Part 2" unleashes the full power of the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. Harrowing moments are counterbalanced by some of the most unabashedly touching music in Mollestad's catalog. "Her Own Shape," for example, expresses the profound desire of parents to give their children the tools they need to thrive. Jazz has witnessed an explosion of boundary-breaking creativity in the last several years. The boom of musicians interested in cutting-edge forms of fusion, spiritual jazz, and electronic-based improvisation has infused the genre with an urgency relevant to our tumultuous times. Mollestad -- who likens the making of Maternity Beat to the jittery thrill of "jumping off a cliff" -- embodies precisely the kind of daring that not only makes her a vital leader on the Norwegian jazz scene, but also a key voice in jazz's global vanguard.
SCOOPS RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: SCOOP 077LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VIBRONICS MEETS MAFIA & FLUXY Vibronics Meets Mafia & Fluxy In Brixton LP
Brixton in South London has to be the place where legends in reggae and dub meet up for a collaboration. The result is this eight-track all-analog mixed dubwise adventure that features the UK's hardest roots reggae bass player and drummer (Mafia & Fluxy) playing the UK's deepest dubs (Vibronics). This fascinating and intricate LP merges old stool Jamaican reggae musicianship with the swirling euphoria found in contemporary dub music. Vibronics is one of the most established names in UK dub/reggae music. From their base, in the Dub Cupboard Studio in Leicester, their music has achieved millions of views on YouTube, millions of streams, and many tens of thousands of vinyl record sales. Vibronics have collaborated with reggae legends Michael Prophet, Macka B, Iration Steppas, Soom T, Aba-Shanti, and so many more. Mafia & Fluxy are the UK's foremost reggae rhythm section and were initially inspired by Sly And Robbie, consisting of brothers Mafia (bass) and Fluxy (drums). Legends of the stage and the studio, they record regularly in the UK & Jamaica, building rhythm tracks for Bunny Lee, Blacker Dread, King Jammy, Exterminator, and Jah Shaka. They continue to work with the cream of the crop in terms of reggae, having recently backed Luciano and Eek-A-Mouse on their world tours.
SECOND EDITIONS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: SE 011LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
AHTI & JUDITH HAMANN, MARJA A coincidence is perfect, intimate attunement LP
Second Editions presents a collaborative work by Marja Ahti and Judith Hamann. After their distinguished duet Portals for Cafe Oto's Takuroku label, A coincidence is perfect, intimate attunement is a wonderful sophomore collaborative work pieced together over two years of changing seasons, ideas, moods, and feelings. The release is formed from a shifting field of sound correspondence that pivots on moments of coincidence, of a tuning in. A coincidence... is an LP length composition of multiple interlocking parts, created through exchange, alignment, unpredictability: the title borrowed from poet Fanny Howe falling right into place, a flock of birds in flight, pitches matched and moved across different geographies and temporal frames. Marja and Judith have created an intuitive, lyrical longform piece that considers the idea of attunement itself as, in some sense, the smallest form of measure or denominator connecting their respective practices: across field recording, just intonation, electronic sonorities and instrumental bodies. A coincidence... reflects a sense of a willingness to tune in to impulses given, or gifted to the other, a position that embraces an intimate synchronicity. Recordings and correspondences between 2020-2022. Mixed by Marja Ahti and Judith Hamann. Mastered and cut by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin, 2022. Edition of 300.Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a Swedish-Finnish composer and sound artist based in Turku, Finland. Ahti works with field recordings and other acoustic sound material combined with synthesizers and electronic feedback in order to find the space where these sounds start to communicate. She makes music that rides on waves of slowly warping harmonies and mutating textures -- rough edged, yet precise compositions, rich in detail. Ahti has presented her music in many different contexts around Europe, in Japan and the United States. She is currently active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner Niko-Matti Ahti and in the artist/organizer collective Himera.Judith Hamann is a cellist and performer/composer from Narrm/Melbourne in so-called Australia, currently based in Berlin. Their work encompasses performance, improvisation, electro-acoustic composition, field recording, electronics, site specific generative work, and micro-tonal systems in a deeply considered process-based approach to creative practice. Currently Judith's work is focused on an examination of expressions and manifestations of "shaking" in solo performance practice, a collection of works for cello and humming, as well as ongoing research surrounding "collapse" as a generative imaginary surface, and the "de-mastering" of bodies (human and non-human) in European settler-colonial heritage instrumental practice and pedagogy.
SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND/ACTIONS FOR FREE JAZZ (UK)
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CAT #: STSAFJ 392LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
EMMELUTH, SIGNE Signe Emmeluth LP
"Its an honor for the AFJ-Series to introduce the self-titled debut album by Danish Oslo resident Signe Emmeluth. Recorded at Flerbruket, in the forest an hour outside of Oslo -- Emmeluth alone in a room with her alto and tenor saxophones. A fantastic session of sax solo ecstasies recorded by Magnus Hemnes Nergård. Much like Joe McPhee's Tenor and Peter Brötzmann's 14 Love Songs, this album shares the same beautiful intimacy. It is close, sparse, poetic and raw at the same time. Minimalist and soulful free music. Signe Emmeluth is a Danish saxophonist and composer educated by the Jazz Department in Trondheim and is currently based in Oslo. Emmeluth has recently become a rising star on the international scene for improvised music. She has her own quartet Emmeluth's Amoeba and has worked with Trondheim Jazzorkester, John Edwards, Tony Buck, Paal Nilssen-Love, Mats Gustafsson and Mette Rasmussen to name a few."
STATIC SHOCK RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: SSR 087EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
NEUTRALS Bus Stop Nights 7"
Neutrals return with a stunning new four-track EP on Static Shock Records, after an album on Emotional Response in 2019 and two 7"s on Slumberland and Domestic Departure in 2020. Each song on this EP is a golden nugget of DIY indie pop with clean and jagged guitar work, tunes at every corner and a joyous naivety. Go straight to "Gary Borthwick Says" -- a song about a full-time bullshitter with lyrics akin to I, Ludicrous's Preposterous Tales with music which has the charm of prime The Television Personalities and The Times. "New Town Dream" is another gem and if it had come out in 1979 as an obscure DIY/post punk 7", the kids would be paying £200 for it. Honestly, it's love at first listen and pure infatuation after repeated plays. This EP will not leave you turntable. The 7" is limited to 550 copies on blue vinyl and housed in wraparound sleeve.
STUDIO MULE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: STUDIOMUL 042EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MOOGROOVE Dark Room 12"
Moogroove is a pseudonym of Japanese house music producer Kenji Eto. This release is originally released in 1994 on Mo Rhythm Records. It was a top secret '90s Japanese house record until Danilo Plessow aka Motor City Drum Ensemble selected "Dark Room" from this EP for his fabric compilation. First straight reissue with great artwork from Lily Fei. All tracks are first class underground deep house.
SUPERIOR VIADUCT
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CAT #: SV 161LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
BRYARS, GAVIN The Sinking of the Titanic LP
LP version. "Gavin Bryars was born in Yorkshire, England in 1943. His first musical forays were as a jazz bassist working in the early 1960s with improvisors Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. Bryars later worked with composers John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, founded the Portsmouth Sinfonia and collaborated with Brian Eno on his famed Obscure imprint. The Sinking of the Titanic, Bryars' first major composition, was inspired by the tragic event of the British passenger liner's cross-Atlantic maiden voyage. Bryars eloquently reconstructs the passengers' experience -- at once forlorn and eerily calming -- through assemblages of understated strings and indeterminate elements. A core principle of the piece is that the ship's band continued to play as the vessel went down. One of the most sublime works in the modern classical canon, Titanic remains Bryars' magnum opus. Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, the album's second sidelong track, is based on a tape loop of a London street singer captured in the early 1970s. Featuring Derek Bailey, Michael Nyman and John White, Bryars' composition gradually builds around the cripplingly poignant voice until its emotional force is almost too much to bear. It's no surprise that Jesus' Blood is known as Tom Waits' all-time favorite piece of music. Produced by Brian Eno in 1975 as the inaugural release on Obscure, The Sinking of the Titanic draws the listener in to a majestic world. While these exquisite, hymn-like recordings have not changed in nearly 50 years, their deeply personal nature and the audience's attention to their subtlety have only strengthened over time."
SURVIVAL RESEARCH (AUSTRALIA)
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CAT #: SVVRCH 064LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
GAINSBOURG/ALAIN GORAGUER, SERGE Strip-Tease LP
Another side of Serge Gainsbourg permeates this 1963 film soundtrack about "a stripper lost in the nocturnal world" of Paris, according to director Jacques Poitrenaud, who cast Nico in the lead role (after her appearance in La Dolce Vita and just prior to the single she cut with Jimmy Page for Andrew Loog Oldham). Created by Gainsbourg with arranger and longstanding collaborator Alain Gourager, the music is fittingly the cool jazz of dingy nightclubs and seedy bordellos, with Gainsbourg on piano, and there's the sultry title track, delivered breathlessly by Juliette Greco. Another lost gem for all serious Gainsbourg fans.
TAPETE RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TR 524CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ROBOCOP KRAUS Why Robocop Kraus Became the Love of My Life 2CD
Long time no hear: after an extended hiatus and just the occasional gig, Robocop Kraus have rewired and reunited. They're back in the game. Almost a quarter of a century has passed since the band was formed, a period which saw them release on labels like L'Age D'Or, Epitaph, and Anti. Now they have put together a compilation featuring all of the tracks which, for one reason or another, were not available on their regular albums, with an intriguing number of rarities and previously unreleased material. Meticulously detailed liner notes courtesy of the band. Artwork by Lorenzo Zimmermann."Why Robocop Kraus became the love of my life. Good question, if indeed it is a question (no question mark in sight): Founded in the late 1990s by members of former (secondary modern and grammar) school bands in the small Middle Franconian town of Hersbruck, endowed with the most rudimentary technical skills on their respective instruments (the deal was that every band member would play an instrument he had yet to master) and unafraid of hammering out songs from blatantly pilfered or well-worn musical ideas, the band was, to all intents and purposes, set up to fail. Nevertheless, Robocop Kraus became the love of our lives: five albums between the years of 1999 and 2007, the first on the band's own label Swing Deluxe, the last on the internationally renowned Epitaph label. Hundreds of shows across Europe, the USA, Russia, and Japan. Encounters and friendships with people and bands, adventures and events in squats, bars and clubs. Enough answers? Things quietened down in 2010, a lengthy break with just the odd show here and there. But last year, 2021, we had to concede that Robocop Kraus really are the love of our lives: a concert request was spontaneously accepted -- surprising even the promoter, not to mention ourselves. Back to the rehearsal room. Now we are six and we have more instruments too. We had to listen back to the old songs so we could practice, and as we rummaged through the archives we happened upon the 28 songs now gathered here together for you. They range from our very first recordings to songs for (and in) 2022. EPs, compilation tracks, a few all-time faves like 'Poor Soul Relax' and previously unreleased songs or alternative versions..."
THE WIRE (UK)
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CAT #: WIRE 466
FILE UNDER: Misc
WIRE, THE #466 December 2022 MAG
"On the cover... Richard Pinhas: France's master of cosmic rock has come through his game-changing 1970s group Heldon to become an international trailblazer of guitar noise, forging links with Wolf Eyes, Tatsuya Yoshida, Pascal Comrade and many others. As a brand new album CODA with Merzbow and Oren Ambarchi is released, he talks to Daniel Spicer about his extraordinary orbit; Inside the issue... The Primer: French underground rock: A user's guide to Francophone revolutionary rock music, as Keith Moliné explores the 1960s and '70s psychedelic realm of Heldon, Komintern and Red Noise through to the legacies of groups such as Magma in the '80s and beyond; Weyes Blood: Celestial American songwriter Natalie Mering talks visions of the apocalypse with Emily Pothast, as Sub Pop release new album And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow with contributions from Mary Lattimore and Oneohtrix Point Never; Invisible Jukebox: Chicago-based globetrotting percussionist Hamid Drake feels the universal vibrations of The Wire's mystery record test; Global Ear: James Gun visits the DMZ Peace Train Music Festival in Gangwon Province, whose mission to reunite the divided Korean peninsula has become more urgent in an era of hawkish politics; Unlimited Editions: Boundary-breaking online sound art and feminist thought archive rec-on.or forges new global networks to counter colonialism and structural inequality. By Stephanie Phillips; Unofficial Channels: Emily Bick enjoys a snack and some adventurous sounds following the daily Twitter recommendations of Japanese music cafe Jazz??????; Epiphanies: Anarchic European experimental turntablist DJ Marcelle discovers a life-changing taste for outsider art; Plus, one-page interviews with Noor Baksh, Suzi Analoge, Zubin Kanga, and Ale Hop."
THIRD MAN BOOKS
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CAT #: TMB 013BK
FILE UNDER: Misc
POP/JEFF GOLD, IGGY TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of the Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop Book
"TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of the Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop features even more new, never before seen photos than the original hardback book, plus an additional chapter from legendary vocalist of Black Flag, Henry Rollins. TOTAL CHAOS was already the definitive oral history in words and images of The Stooges. Now, updated and revised is the new 9.5" x 7" high quality paperback art book featuring all the hundreds of full color photos from the classic hardback plus new bonus material. There is no other book like this that documents one of the USA's most influential groups in the words of Iggy Pop himself!" 9.5x7 inches; softcover; 1.6 lbs.
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CAT #: TMB 044BK
FILE UNDER: Misc
GOODY, MATTHEW Needles and Plastic: Flying Nun Records, 1981-1988 Book
"With his gratifying archive, Matt Goody details one of the most successful eras in the history of rock music -- Flying Nun Records, formed in 1981 by Roger Shepherd in a Christchurch record shop. Shepherd and his brilliant cohorts served up the legendary output of not only kingpins like The Clean, The Chills and Tall Dwarfs, but also captured the best from favorites of mine like Able Tasmans, Bird Nest Roys, Look Blue Go Purple and The Verlaines. Goody provides the most comprehensive presentation yet of Flying Nun's rise from Shepherd's notepad to international underground rock sovereignty -- and a vital part of one nation's collective art history." --Bob Nastanovich, Pavement "In this remarkable tale of creativity and chaos, do-it-yourself innovation and extraordinary attempts at world domination, Needles and Plastic tells the inside story of one of New Zealand -- and the world's -- great independent music labels. Hundreds of full color & black and white photos illustrate the story! Founded in 1981 by Roger Shepherd in Christchurch, New Zealand, Flying Nun Records unleashed an extraordinary wave of music that had an impact around the world. Needles and Plastic is the first comprehensive history of the early years of the label and its bands covering the critical period from 1981?1988 when many of the most influential and critically acclaimed artists emerged on Flying Nun, bands like -- from The Clean, The Chills, The Verlaines, Straitjacket Fits and Bailter Space. The influence of the obscure label became apparent in the 1990s, when big-time indie acts like Pavement, Cat Power or Yo La Tengo started covering Flying Nun bands. In entries on over 140 records from The Clean's 'Tally Ho!' 7" in 1981 to The Verlaines Bird-Dog LP in 1988, Matthew Goody tells the story through the records themselves. His book draws on years of in-depth research to reveal the stories of the bands, the recordings, the songs, and the audience, with a host of significant characters contributing along the way -- Shepherd, Chris Knox, Doug Hood, Hamish Kilgour and many more. In this remarkable tale of creativity and chaos, do-it-yourself innovation and extraordinary attempts at world domination, Needles and Plastic tells the inside story of one the world's great independent music labels." 8x1.1x9.9 inches; 2.4 lbs.; paperback.
THIRD MAN RECORDS
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CAT #: TMR 750LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Southeast of Saturn: Vol. 2 2LP
"Third Man Records is excited to announce Southeast of Saturn Vol. 2. The compilation is a follow up to 2020's Southeast of Saturn, a collection of music from Detroit's space-rock/shoegaze/dream pop scene of the '90s. The second volume expands upon the Michigan-centric aural delights purveyed on Vol. 1, by including groups from throughout the Midwest. Highlighting groups spanning Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, Vol. 2 works to cement the Midwest's status as a breeding ground for the space-rock and shoegaze subgenres, which more famously burgeoned in the UK. Once again, there are no big names or crossover artists on Southeast of Saturn Vol. 2. However, for those who know that digging deep in the real and virtual record bins yields the greatest rewards, this 18-track compendium will trigger profound swoons. We've scoured the Midwestern underground, highlighting the evanescent acts of the '90s such as Star Phase 23 and Sidereal, so you don't have to. Southeast of Saturn Vol. 2 is first-class aural escapism from America's big-shouldered outpost of outward-bound rock."
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CAT #: TMR 752LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WHITE, JACK Fear of the Dawn LP
"Fear of the Dawn is the fourth studio album from Jack White, founding member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather. True to his DIY roots, this record was recorded at White's Third Man Studio throughout 2021, mastered by Third Man Mastering, pressed to vinyl at Third Man Pressing, and released by Third Man Records."
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CAT #: TMR 753LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WHITE, JACK Entering Heaven Alive LP
"Entering Heaven Alive is the fifth studio album from Jack White, founding member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather. True to his DIY roots, this record was recorded at White's Third Man Studio throughout 2021, mastered by Third Man Mastering, pressed to vinyl at Third Man Pressing, and released by Third Man Records."
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CAT #: TMR 769EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WHITE, JACK Love is Selfish/Fear of the Dawn 7"
"Psssst...word on the street is that this is the only place to get this version of 'Selfish' on vinyl. Contemplative and unabashedly acoustic, the LP version is a totally different take. Coupled with the intense, punk ferocity of 'Fear...' and the diametrically opposed vibes of each of these sides complement each other in the same way that the albums they emanate from do. Can you front on that?"
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CAT #: TMR 772LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
RUTH, RICH I Survived, It's Over LP
"Recorded under a loft bed in the guest bedroom of his Nashville home, Michael Ruth aka Rich Ruth's I Survived, It's Over starts in a humble space. And while many contemporary music projects are produced in such an environment, I Survived, It's Over sets itself apart in its transformative properties as well as its transparency. What we have here is honest sound exploration, session musician-level instrumentation, and a true love for nature run through the fingers of a dude who can channel some acute and undeniable magic. This music goes deep. 'I conceived much of this record amidst the quiet and tumult of 2020 in my neighborhood that had recently been ravaged by a tornado,' Ruth recalls, 'I spent most of my days working on these pieces between bicycle rides -- watching the beautiful Tennessee ecosystem flourish in Shelby Park, listening to Keith Jarrett's The Koln Concert and John Coltrane's Ascension.' Underneath the swell of the strings and the shredding of the guitars, this record has hard working, rustbelt, drum-heavy roots all over it (which makes sense as Ruth hails from outside of Toledo, the album was mixed by John McEntire from Chicago band Tortoise). Many of the flutes, saxophones, pedal steel, and other instruments were recorded remotely because we live in the future, but this only adds to the collage of sampled and sample-able material that Rich Ruth has to offer. The organic relationships between the artist and other musicians on the album is evident even in the compilation style sampling that needs to occur in putting such a project together. 'Working on this music is a daily meditation,' says Ruth. 'I constantly experiment with sound until it reflects the way I am feeling and attempt to sculpt something meaningful from it. Through years of being a touring musician, it is a constant inspiration and privilege to collaborate with the individuals that graced this record with their voices.' And those relationships pay off, because I Survived, It's Over is a sonic meal. It's rich (no pun intended) with massive instrumentation that's usually reserved for more symphonic delights. But at the same time it's simple and leaves space to breathe -- space you didn't know you needed. In his own words; 'I Survived, It's Over is a meditation on healing, confronting trauma, surrendering, and finding peace. I wanted to encapsulate the tranquility and disarray found within this process.' Ruth's heart and the peace that his presence produces is all over this album . . . I Survived, It's Over is a record you should buy for your friend, your foe, and yourself. It'll sit perfectly on your shelf between Alice Coltrane and Hiroshi Yoshimura."
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CAT #: TMR 774EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WHITE, JACK Hi-De-Ho (feat. Q-Tip)/Queen Of The Bees 7"
"With the a-side featuring both Q-Tip and an iconic sample of Cab Calloway's song of the same name backed by a guitar tone summoned from the depths of Hades, 'Hi-De-Ho' is one of the most ambitious and unique recordings to ever come from Jack White. Coupled with the light, effervescent percussive feels from 'Bees' and the diametrically opposed vibes of each of these sides complement each other in the same way that the albums they emanate from do. Don't you dare front on that."
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CAT #: TMR 775CD
FILE UNDER: WORLD
ISOKRATISSES Cry With Tears: Greek-Albanian Songs of Many Voices CD
"Isokratisses (Greek for women who sing the 'iso' or 'drone') is a vocal ensemble comprised of eight women who carry the ancient tradition of polyphonic songs from Epirus: a region in northern Greece and southern Albania. Born and reared in the Greek speaking villages around Deropoli and Politsani in Albania, the women of Isokratisses have sung these songs since childhood. The group ranges in age from 19 to 56 with some sisters in the group as well as an aunt. They were nurtured by this archaic music, listening and singing it with their family and friends. The songs were passed down from generation to generation. The group started its artistic activity in 2015, after the singer Anna Katsi took the initiative to encourage the younger members to perform regularly. The communal nature of polyphonic singing is a way of revitalizing an art that has declined in recent years and to reassert the primacy of female voices in the southern Balkans. Singing these songs builds an invisible bridge that connects the present with the past, the memories of childhood travel with the immediacy of daily life. Third Man Records will release a full album of these solo polyphonic songs, with Grammy-winning producer Christopher King. 'It is social music, woven into the fabric of poor, marginalized, and disenfranchised communities. Many of the songs are variations of mirologia (songs of fate, songs of morning) that used to be sung throughout the southern Balkans but have largely disappeared on an informal cultural level except for Epirus. Structurally, the songs are pentatonic (five notes with no semitones) and are composed of three or four distinct melodic voices that weave together in an organic yet unexpected way. The remaining members of the group provide the iso or 'drone' that is the low tonic note of the melody.'"
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CAT #: TMR 775LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
ISOKRATISSES Cry With Tears: Greek-Albanian Songs of Many Voices LP
LP version. "Isokratisses (Greek for women who sing the 'iso' or 'drone') is a vocal ensemble comprised of eight women who carry the ancient tradition of polyphonic songs from Epirus: a region in northern Greece and southern Albania. Born and reared in the Greek speaking villages around Deropoli and Politsani in Albania, the women of Isokratisses have sung these songs since childhood. The group ranges in age from 19 to 56 with some sisters in the group as well as an aunt. They were nurtured by this archaic music, listening and singing it with their family and friends. The songs were passed down from generation to generation. The group started its artistic activity in 2015, after the singer Anna Katsi took the initiative to encourage the younger members to perform regularly. The communal nature of polyphonic singing is a way of revitalizing an art that has declined in recent years and to reassert the primacy of female voices in the southern Balkans. Singing these songs builds an invisible bridge that connects the present with the past, the memories of childhood travel with the immediacy of daily life. Third Man Records will release a full album of these solo polyphonic songs, with Grammy-winning producer Christopher King. 'It is social music, woven into the fabric of poor, marginalized, and disenfranchised communities. Many of the songs are variations of mirologia (songs of fate, songs of morning) that used to be sung throughout the southern Balkans but have largely disappeared on an informal cultural level except for Epirus. Structurally, the songs are pentatonic (five notes with no semitones) and are composed of three or four distinct melodic voices that weave together in an organic yet unexpected way. The remaining members of the group provide the iso or 'drone' that is the low tonic note of the melody.'"
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CAT #: TMR 810EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WHITE, JACK What's The Trick?/If I Die Tomorrow 7"
"'Tomorrow' is a somber, Mellotron-fueled exercise in meditative, poetic morbidity while 'Trick' kicks off with a lyric borrowed from dialog in the 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons while its incessant, fuzz-blasted riff propels a vocal delivery reaching Beefheartian levels of absurdism. The diametrically opposed vibes of each of these sides complement each other in the same way that the albums they emanate from do. You can't front on that."
THROUGHTWELVE COMMUNICATIONS (ITALY)
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CAT #: TTC 001LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
THROUGH TWELVE Inner Bridges LP
Through Twelve are a Milanese duo active since the early 1980s and already featured on the compilation published by Spittle Records, Milano After Punk (SPITTLE 092LP). Many years have passed and they release their first mini-album produced by Fred Ventura and Paolo Gozzetti aka Italoconnection. Modern new wave sounds veered towards a synth-pop feel, with more than just reminiscent of Factory Records. Pulsating rhythms and analog synths aiming at the club scene while maintaining a strong radio impact. Two remixes by Italoconnection and Mono Han complete the album.
TREADER (UK)
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CAT #: TRD 011LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
WASSERMANN, UTE Strange Songs LP
"Multiphonic trills and yodels, loops of ululations, sudden percussive outburst, warbling glissandi. Ute masks her voice with bird whistles creating a hybrid vocal persona with sculptural, oscillating, swirling tone-colours. The vocal sounds seem to be disconnected from the human voice dissolving into the sounds of birds, of machines, of electronics, of fragmented language." "Ute Wassermann's vocal practice is so unique and specialized that it seems to challenge our ability to understand it's sounds as vocal." --Aaron Cassidy, Noise in and as Music, University of Huddersfield Press, 2013 "Wassermann sings as a bird, rather than like one. And as philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari point out in A Thousand Plateaus, 'Becoming is never imitating ... The Wassermann soundworld takes form within waveflows and fluctuating particles." --Julian Cowley, Outer Limits Review, CD review radio tweet, The Wire, March 2016 (Issue 385)
TRESOR (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TRESOR 137X-EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DREXCIYA Hydro Doorways (2022 Reissue) 12"
Just a month after the album release of Neptune's Lair in September 2022 (TRESOR 129X-CD/LP), its companion 12" Hydro Doorways will be second in the series. 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of James Stinson and the releases of the Transllusion and Shifted Phases albums. In recognition, the rightsholders, their families, and the label have commissioned Detroit-based contemporary artist Matthew Angelo Harrison to re-conceptualize the covers of Tresor's Drexciya-related catalog. 180 gram vinyl.
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CAT #: TRESOR 181X-CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DREXCIYA Harnessed The Storm CD
Reissue, originally released in 2002. Tresor Records announce forthcoming special editions of its entire catalog of Drexciya and related projects. 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of James Stinson and the releases of the Transllusion and Shifted Phases albums. In recognition, the rights holders, their families, and the label have commissioned Detroit-based contemporary artist Matthew Angelo Harrison to re-conceptualize the covers of Tresor's Drexciya-related catalog. These editions will be released sequentially, bimonthly, starting early-September 2022. Harnessed The Storm and Digital Tsunami (TRESOR 182X-EP) come in November. The series will be completed by the long-awaited re-release of Shifted Phases - The Cosmic Memoirs Of The Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope. These records, individually and as a catalog, represent some of the most crucial moments in the Tresor label history, with the sound and mythic world of Drexciya undoubtedly inspiring generations.
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CAT #: TRESOR 181X-LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DREXCIYA Harnessed The Storm 2LP
Double LP version. 180 gram vinyl; silver pantone, UV spot varnish. Reissue, originally released in 2002. Tresor Records announce forthcoming special editions of its entire catalog of Drexciya and related projects. 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of James Stinson and the releases of the Transllusion and Shifted Phases albums. In recognition, the rights holders, their families, and the label have commissioned Detroit-based contemporary artist Matthew Angelo Harrison to re-conceptualize the covers of Tresor's Drexciya-related catalog. These editions will be released sequentially, bimonthly, starting early-September 2022. Harnessed The Storm and Digital Tsunami (TRESOR 182X-EP) come in November. The series will be completed by the long-awaited re-release of Shifted Phases - The Cosmic Memoirs Of The Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope. These records, individually and as a catalog, represent some of the most crucial moments in the Tresor label history, with the sound and mythic world of Drexciya undoubtedly inspiring generations.
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CAT #: TRESOR 345EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
YAZZUS Black Metropolis 12"
Yazzus follows up her appearance on the Tresor 30 compilation with a new EP named Black Metropolis. Within its, at times, rough-hewn textures lies a core that explores joy and energy within the roots of black techno. In her words: "I want this release to be black and beautiful, to be queer, and playful, a nostalgic nod to the '90s but also reimagining it in the current times." The Ghana-born, London-bred, now Berlin-based producer's research into Afro-futurism, envisaging a path forward for science, technology and culture through the black experience, has impressed a deep vision on this EP. Yazzus sets like a cartographer, using her tracks to explore a technologically advanced world, each representing different regions and environments. "Human Error Processor" introduces an ear-worming percussion pattern nearly swamped by distorted bass drums and a vocal sample screwed just beyond recognition. "Perforated" leads with a 150bpm four to the floor stomp, infectious and supercharged. Gluey synth motions soak in an otherworldliness, where industrious, mechanical rhythms map out futurist structures in all directions. "Metro City Bay Area" exhibits a ghetto tech soul, lean and bouncy -- this part of the galaxy is an infinite source of fun, with the heart of groove at its core. "Three Deities" brings adventurers of its region towards higher powers, its rave-y synths and an engulfing bass provoke a complete NRG release, ascending into a spiritual trance where dense melodies bubble and fizz. 180 gram vinyl; full printed sleeve.
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CAT #: TRESOR 349EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
JENSEN INTERCEPTOR X DEFEKT Free Your Body 12"
Ignore expectations and Free Your Body. Travel a new path and Free Your Body. Accept the limitations and Free Your Body. Free your mind then Free Your Body. Move to the beat and Free Your Body. 180 gram vinyl; obi strip; full printed sleeve; includes download code.
TRISOL (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TRI 406CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SPIRITUAL FRONT Rotten Roma Casino CD+DVD
2010 release. The "armageddon gigolo" is back: after the succinctly titled first album for Trisol, on Rotten Roma Casino, the charismatic Italian heartbreaker Simone Salvatori's band once again define that which they have shaped like no other: "suicide pop". That is to say: melancholy melodies, stirring guitar chords, emotional vocals, and yearning string passages, but also solid-groove beats and macabre phrases. Just as the recipe was fully finalized on Armageddon Gigolo (2006), which defined the genre single-handedly, Rotten Roma Casino goes a decisive step further. They once more summoned together the proven ensemble featuring chamber musicians associated with Ennio Morricone and created a whole series of musical gems which you can't get out of your head after just a single hearing. As per the title, it's about Rome -- a metaphorical, decadent Rome however, a parallel to the Roma of Fellini, full of wonder, monstrosities, and passions. They pay homage to the orgiastic, wild, and ambiguous in such a way, particularly on the intense video clips which are featured on the bonus DVD, as to conjure up the immortal spirit of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The doleful "Sad Almost A Winner" orientates itself towards his homoerotic melodrama, Fox and his Friends, while the clip for "Darkroom Friendship" pays homage to the promiscuous bisexual passion of frontman, Salvatori. Salvatori acknowledges that without Fassbinder's controversial "sex and death" drama Querelle, he probably wouldn't have founded Spiritual Front. To all this are added harmonies which seem to derive from the legendary creators of film music, Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota. Spiritual Front carries their unmistakable Italian spirit into the post-modern. With Rotten Roma Casino, Spiritual Front consciously shake off their underground roots in order to invent their own unique variety of morbid folk-pop which blends indie rock, acoustic chords and tango into a new, intense and above all heartrending, genuine mixture. It is still Elvis Presley's libertine little brother: Hellvis. With auratic timbre in his voice, he once again sings about the impossibility of love and the pain which it leaves behind. Rotten Roma Casino is a fresh and original but at the same time mature and majestic musical work, without compromise but yet catchy; slightly sweet but yet disturbing. CD plus DVD in eight-panel digipak; DVD is Stereo 2.0, PAL, 4:3, All Regions; includes special Leporello fold booklet with precious art print on high-quality paper including lyrics and exclusive photos; also includes fold-out poster.
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CAT #: TRI 476CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SPIRITUAL FRONT Open Wounds 2CD/BOOK
2013 release. Songs are like open wounds. Music can hurt. Can strike new wounds and tear up old ones. No one is more aware of this than Simone "Hellvis" Salvatori. His feverish music is a diary of his failures and triumphs, a deep scar running through his work. He finds pleasure in the pain it causes him, sheds tears for the lust it evokes in him. Like an Italian Johnny Cash, he clads his life in intimate ballads of becoming and withering, of sex and death. Spiritual Front is the folk noir crossbreed of Ennio Morricone and Nick Cave -- suicide pop from a decadent otherworld. Where secret passions are whispered into darkness, where dream and waking, intoxication and hangover dance closely, Open Wounds feels at home: Morbid mafia folklore for hedonistic self-destructors, murder ballads for decadent lotus-eaters. Like a heavy red wine, Spiritual Front's music gets better and better over the years -- ever more exhilarating, ever more effective. As if Simone Salvatori had to reach a certain age to understand his music properly. As if he had to accept that living means suffering. Now, the erotic enchantment of his masterpiece Armageddon Gigolo is back. On Open Wounds, it mates with delicate prowess and baffling arrangements that would invoke envy in every mafia orchestra. Sacred profoundness turns to sweaty sheets when Simone Salvatori sings for his soul, when he trembles, hope, loves, suffers and lives. The machismo and his guitar, joined by the orchestra -- Open Wounds is the epitome of suicide pop. Sexy to the brim, sensual even in the face of certain death, full of whipping urgency. To this, the bonus CD comes as a sharply accentuated contrast, uniting instrumentals, alternate versions and stunning reworks: A calm and very moody view into the artistic life of this abyssic gigolo. This second album is like the cuddling after the all-consuming act of love that is Open Wounds -- and Spiritual Front is the lover that disappears before dawn. Only a dream? The wounds tell a different story. Double-CD in book format (appr. 14x21 cm); bonus-CD includes 11 tracks; hardback book with elaborate thread stitching; 40-pages extra-booklet, art print on high-quality paper.
TROST (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: TROST 224CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
GUSTAFSSON & NU ENSEMBLE, MATS Hidros 8 - Heal CD
Personnel: Anna Högberg - alto and baritone sax; Mats Gustafsson - baritone sax and conductions; Susana Santos Silva - trumpet; Per-Åke Holmlander - tuba; Hedvig Mollestad - guitar; Dieb13 - turntables; Christof Kurzmann - lloopp, voice; Massimo Pupillo - bass; Gert-Jan Prins - drums and electronics; Ivar Loe Bjørnstad - drums.Recorded at DE Studio, Antwerp, November 23rd, 2016. Mixed by Mikael Werliin. Mastered by Lasse Marhaug. Cover illustration/design by Lasse Marhaug.
TRUNK (UK)
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CAT #: JBH 094LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
MAGICIAN Magician LP
Reissue, originally released in 1977. Mythically rare British album from the late 1970s, only a handful of original copies have ever been found. This is because a 1977 British jazz album that looked like a 1970 prog album that was issued on a brand-new label that didn't know what it was really doing, so it was never going to sell. And it didn't. But this is a unique jazz/fusion album from the period, sounding like an incredibly hip 1973 library LP, all super funky, occasionally dark, atmospheric, and very hip indeed. Performed by a killer line-up of top musicians, including the legendary Barbara Thompson. Reproduction of classic and super rare UK only original with new and very informative sleeve notes.
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CAT #: JBH 097LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
GEESIN, RON Sunday Bloody Sunday LP
Sublime unreleased soundtrack by Ron Geesin for one of the most important and controversial films in British cinema history. Side one is the score for Sunday Bloody Sunday, the controversial 1971 drama directed by John Schlesinger. Starring Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, and Murray Head, it tells the story of an open love triangle between a gay Jewish doctor, a divorced woman and a bisexual young male artist who makes glass fountains. Daniel Day Lewis also makes his uncredited screen debut as a yobbo scratching up posh cars. The films significance at the time of release lay in the depiction of a mature gay man who was both successful, well-adjusted and at peace with his sexuality. Features Bridget St. John on two tracks. The music on side two comes from two different sources: tracks one to four are from the 1985 Channel Four documentary about Viv Richards. Simply called Viv it was directed by Greg Lanning, with words and narration by Darcus Howe. It was (and still is) a fascinating film recounting Richards's rise from young talented Antiguan to global cricket superstar. It also explored the long history of West Indian players through the English game. Howe later recalled how seeing Viv Richards walking out to bat at the Oval (just down the road from where Howe lived in Brixton) without a helmet on no matter how fast the bowler was -- and wearing his Rasta sweatbands of gold, green and, red, was inspirational. The documentary was later re-titled Viv Richards - King Of Cricket for the video market. The last six cues of side two are from a 1970 BBC Omnibus film Shapes In A Wilderness. Directed by Tristram Powell, this was a documentary about the importance and influence of art therapy in mental hospitals, tracing its origins from a painting hut in a wartime military hospital to its successful and widespread incorporation in institutions. It featured fascinating medical insights, disturbing imagery and Ron's finely tuned accompaniment. The music confirms the fact that Ron Geesin is one of the most underrated, inventive and versatile composers (and musicians). Sleeve art taken from the 1971 film poster.
VHF
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CAT #: VHF 156LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS The Apotheosis of VaVaVoom LP
"Third VHF dispatch from the mighty and prolific Ashtray Navigations, following 2020's mega and extremely popular Imaginary Greatest Hits package. The curiously titled The Apotheosis of VaVaVoom is one of Phil Todd and Melanie O'Dubhshlaine's most direct and rocking packages, with mucho ripping lead guitar action backed by some absolutely fun bubbling synth and drum grooves. 'Irons Three' kicks off with wicked wah'd out leads, followed by the subdued ambience of 'Tasteful Grey Putting' and 'Appropros Tower' and a segue into the driving 'Hinges on the Clapometer.' Side two's opening combo of 'Slush Puppy Window' and 'Avatar Down The Highway' sounds like a head on collision between Terje Rypdal and Tangerine Dream on a dark bender, with laser guitar over a bed of tumbling electronics and tiny noises. The closing 'Crack Another Bloodcapsule' is one of Ashtray Nav's all-time best, like a lost krautrock classic jam with a driving rhythm from guest drummer Alex Neilson." Green vinyl.
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CAT #: VHF 157LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
GANGLOFF, MIKE Evening Measures LP
"First solo LP in a decade from long-time Pelt/Black Twigs/Eight Point Star leader, presenting a remarkable program of solo Hardanger and octave fiddle music. Evening Measures is a bold and unique statement, a direct and disarming individual expression of a musician's inner thoughts and inspirations. Like some of Mike's work in other projects, this ricochets back and forth across the line between the most traditional and the most 'out' music, blending drone, melody, and the pure tactile sensation of acoustic string music into a personal sound. A set of all-original compositions (save the traditional 'Wild Geese Chase'), Mike's playing is languorous and expressive, with the sympathetic strings of the Hardanger-style instrument ringing out on some cuts like multiple players. The album touches on a variety of styles, keeping things fresh for the entire playing time. 'The Other Side of Catawba' is a deeply psychedelic and immersive cloud of hovering string sound, reminiscent of some of Pelt's more gentle explorations. 'New River Suite' (some of which appeared in group versions by Eight Point Star on a PBS documentary about Appalachia's New River) is a keening set of themes that have the memorable melodies of established traditional repertoire but are all completely new. 'Wild Geese Chase' is a rugged and wild slash through a well-known fiddle standard. 'Halfway From Shawsville' rounds things out with a lovely tribute to Mike's Virginia town."
VP RECORDS
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CAT #: VPMLP 9052LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
GAUDI + MISTA SAVONA Havana Meets Kingston in Dub LP
"Australia's leading reggae producer, arranger and musician Jake Savona (aka Mista Savona) brought together a stellar assortment of Cuban and Jamaican musicians in 2017 to create a collection of re-interpreted classics and original songs as a sound- track to a documentary of the same title. Havana Meets Kingston is a tour through these two historic island nations highlighting the common ground between the two, through rhythm and culture. In 2021, Mista Savona collaborated with Italian record producer Gaudi to create a dub version of selected tracks from the original album for a nine-track LP titled Havana Meets Kingston In Dub. Featured artists include Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare, Randy Valentine, Prince Alla, Winston 'Bopee' Bowen, Ernest Ranglin, Felix Baloy, Pepe Ordaz, Julito Padron, Rolando Luna, Bongo Herman, Oliver Valdes, Carlos Aduras, David Swarez."
W.25TH
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CAT #: W25 009LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CINDY LEE Model Express LP
2022 repress. "Cindy Lee, the performance and songwriting vehicle of Canadian artist Patrick Flegel (who fronted influential indie group Women earlier), previously stunned listeners with Act Of Tenderness, a heart-wrenching statement informed by the noirish core of celebrity, and has continued to enchant with every album, including the startling What's Tonight To Eternity released earlier this year. Model Express originally appeared as a self-released edition of 100 gold cassettes. The arch, filmic drama of Cindy Lee's songwriting -- realized with keyboards, guitars, aching voice and collaged, lo-fi production -- traverses a wide range of emotional and sonic terrain. The red velvet psych-pop of 'What Can I Do' gives way to the fluid 'Diamond Ring' like radio bursts from space. Model Express finds Flegel at both their most experimental and immediately melodic, and this first-time vinyl release recognizes the collected tracks as a pillar in the Cindy Lee catalogue. Cindy Lee (who uses the gender neutral pronoun they) is a drag persona drawing on suburban closet queens and mid-century divas. In keeping with Flegel's interest in the fault lines of identity, gender expression, performance and media, Model Express delivers an intense and diverse set of unforgettable songs."
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CAT #: W25 013LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CINDY LEE What's Tonight To Eternity LP
2022 repress. "For Patrick Flegel, Cindy Lee is more than just a recording music project. It is the culmination of a lifelong exploration of art, the electric guitar, queer identity and gender expression. 'Singers like Patsy Cline and The Supremes carried me through the hardest times of my life,' explains Flegel, 'and also provided the soundtrack to the best times.' Following the dissolution of Canadian experimental indie band Women, Flegel would delve deeper into songwriting that bends further toward high atmospherics and bracing melodies -- a unique space where splendor naturally collides with experimentation. Delivering moments of sheer beauty through somber reflections on longing and loneliness, Cindy Lee is something to hold onto in a world of disorder. What's Tonight To Eternity, Cindy Lee's fifth long-form offering, showcases the project's most entrancing strengths: ethereal snowdrift pop and sly nods toward classic girl-group motifs. Recorded at Flegel's Realistik Studios in Toronto and featuring younger brother Andrew Flegel on drums, the album travels hand in hand with a spectral guide. Flegel found inspiration for Cindy Lee in the form of Karen Carpenter, drawing on the singer/drummer's early recordings as well as her look and style. 'I found a deep interest and comfort in Karen's story, which is a cautionary tale about the monstrosity of show business, stardom at a young age and being a misfit looking for connection. The darkness and victimizing tabloid sensationalism she suffered is easily tempered and overwhelmed by her earnest output, her artistry, her tireless work ethic. Something utterly unique and magical takes shape in the negative space, out of exclusion. What I relate to in her has to do with what is hidden, what is unknown.' What's Tonight To Eternity remains a mix of pop culture indoctrination, pain and suffering, hopes and dreams, fierce confrontations and wide-open confessional blurs. Closing with the song 'Heavy Metal' (dedicated to the memory of former Women bandmate Chris Reimer) and adorned by Andrea Lukic's Journal of Smack artwork, the album continues the bold and rewarding path on which Cindy Lee has embarked."
WE RELEASE JAZZ (SWITZERLAND)
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CAT #: WRJ 006LTD-LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
BOILLAT THERACE QUINTET Boillat Therace Quintet LP
2022 restock; LP version. We Release Jazz present its sixth release, a reissue of Boillat Thérace Quintet's self-titled album, available for the first time since its original limited private pressing in 1974. Full of prolific and inspired local clusters and boosted by the recently launched Montreux Jazz Festival, the Swiss jazz scene was vibrant and inventive in the 1970s, notably in the region surrounding Lake Geneva. This is precisely where jazz activist and brilliant pianist Jean-François Boillat and wind instrument master Raymond Thérace formed their quintet whose dazzling debut album was recorded in 1974. An absolute Lemanic gem of the soul-jazz/modal kind, the self-titled album includes superb covers of Freddie Hubbard's "Straight Life", Keith Jarrett's "In Your Quiet Place", and Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "Sweet Fire", plus groovy original compositions from the Boillat-Thérace crew. Helvetian fun facts: the velvety "1224" is dedicated to Geneva's public transport line Tram 12, and one exquisitely funky track on the album is named after the famed yet elusive (and locally legendary) Swiss Marmite: "Cenovis"! This is reissued in conjunction with Boillat Thérace Quintet's My Greatest Love featuring Benny Bailey from 1975 (WRJ 007CD/LTD-LP). Swiss jazz bliss!
WEWANTSOUNDS (UK)
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CAT #: WWSLP 060LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VA Sharayet El Disco: Egyptian Disco & Boogie Cassette Tracks 1982-1992 LP
Repressed. Wewantsounds release Sharayet El Disco a selection of Egyptian '80s disco and boogie tracks curated by Egyptian DJ Disco Arabesquo from his vast collection of cassettes. Most tracks have never been released on any other format and are making their vinyl debut with this set. A journey through the funky sound of '80s Egypt, Sharayet El Disco (which can be translated by "Disco Cassettes") features Simone, Ammar El Sherei, and more obscure names from Cairo's cassette culture. Sharayet El Disco is part of an important mission for Moataz Rageb aka Disco Arabesquo. The Amsterdam-based Egyptian DJ has been collecting cassettes from Arab-speaking countries and its diaspora for many years and has amassed a vast collection of Egyptian music concentrating on the '80s, the sound he grew up listening to. His goal has been to search for these rare sounds and make them known to a new vinyl-hungry audience. During this decade, the rich Egyptian music industry, which had seen such stars as Oum Kalthoum, Abdel Halim Hafez, and Warda take the Arab world by storm in the '60s and '70s, was going through a new phase and the cassette format was the cause. This radical change enabled many young musicians and producers to spread their music directly to consumers duplicating cassettes themselves. A new vibrant music scene erupted in Cairo blending their sound with trends coming from the US and Europe including, of course, disco, soul, and funk. The cream from this scene was soon picked up by the most daring labels, including Mohsen Gaber's Alam El Phan, Sout El Hob, and Americana. Sharayet El Disco gives you a glimpse of these great tracks which -- for most of them -- were only ever released on cassette. The set is a unique insight into the diversity of the Egyptian disco sound, from the pulsating disco of "Hezeny" by Hany Shenouda's Al Massrieen band to the boogie of Simone's "Merci", via Firkit El Asdekaa's tongue-in-cheek "Eklib el Sheriet" ("turn the cassette to the other side"), produced by legendary Egyptian musician Ammar El Sherei. The music is both inventive and funky and played with both Western and Arab instruments proving that quality of Egyptian music. Audio remastered for vinyl by David Hachour/Colorsound Studio in Paris. LP artwork by young Egyptian graphic designer Heba Tarek. Includes two-page insert featuring artwork of the original cassettes plus insightful liner notes by Moataz Rageb. Also features Afaf Rady, Dr. Ezat Abou Ouf & el four M, FIrkIt el Ensan, Eman el Bahr Darwish, Firkit Americana Show, and Lebleba.
WORM DISCS (UK)
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CAT #: WDSCS 014LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
RUN LOGAN RUN Nature Will Take Care Of You LP
Bristolian power-improv duo Run Logan Run continue their link-up with Worm Discs and producer Riaan Vosloo on Nature Will Take Care Of You -- a monumental slab of contemporary energy music that draws on the heavy soul of David Axelrod and the fiery commitment of Archie Shepp. Working with an expanded line-up that includes singer Annie Gardiner (daughter of the late guitarist Ricky Gardiner, who played and collaborated with Iggy Pop and David Bowie) plus a string quartet and a brass section, saxophonist Andrew Neil Hayes and drummer Matt Brown have once again steered Run Logan Run in a dramatic new direction. Churning, future-forwards and emotionally tuned in, Nature Will Take Care Of You reaches out towards propulsive rock and psychedelic soul, while keeping one foot in the radical jazz-not-jazz of Bristol's ever fertile improv scene. The core of Run Logan Run's sound is the dynamic conjunction of Matt Brown's agile and powerful drums with Andrew Hayes's looping, pedal-treated sax motifs. No matter how the duo augment and enhance their music, the kernel of their art has always been the spiraling energies generated by this essential musical relationship. Explorations of repetition, dissolution, and dervish-like disorientation remain a central part of their project, with Brown weaving a tight rhythmic armature for Hayes's unshackled journeys into sound. But though they began within Bristol's improvised music scene, their vision has been increasingly structured and expansive, and the arrival of producer and bassist Riaan Vosloo (Nostalgia 77) for 2021's For a Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers (WDSCS 007CD/LP) allowed to them move outwards to explore pulsing, cinematic synth-scapes. Vosloo is behind the boards again on Nature Will Take Care of You -- and the duo's vision has broadened a step further. Both band members have recently won the prestigious Montreaux Jazz Award alongside prestigious artists such as Shabaka Hutchings (Comet Is Coming) and Michael League (Snarky Puppy).
WRWTFWW RECORDS (SWITZERLAND)
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CAT #: WRWTFWW 028LTD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
HIROSE, YUTAKA NOVA + 4 2LP
2022 restock; double LP version. Gatefold sleeve: Includes liner notes in English and Japanese. WRWTFWW Records present an expanded reissue of one of the most fascinating Japanese ambient/environmental albums ever made, NOVA by Yutaka Hirose, originally released in 1986. The expanded reissue includes the album known as Soundscape 2: Nova, sourced from its original masters, as well as four never-released-before recordings over 50 minutes. Initially released in 1986 as part of the Soundscape series. Commissioned by Misawa Home Corporation for use in their prefabricated houses, Yutaka Hirose's NOVA has grown to become a mythical piece of the Japanese minimalist/ambient/
YNFND (GERMANY)
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CAT #: YNFND 024EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ROMANSKI Karma Calling 7"
Cosmopolitanism is creeping into the bedroom studios of producers worldwide. Romanski is another agent evolving transcultural hybrids, which blend from retained folkways to modern aged club grooves. A mixture of electronic beats in a rigid machine order and handmade organic moments woven together to form an eclectic sound. With a bit of drama, the Hamburg based DJ and producer Romanski, invites you on a diverse journey with his unique vision of club music. Balearic groove patterns accompanied by repetitive bongo motives and dimmed synth themes flow along the four tracks (two of them featured on 7" vinyl) of this EP. The title track "Karma Calling" is a passionate homage to Mulatu Astatke, "Tagh Tagh" is surrounded by an Iranian children's song, "Gaugin" features a Tahitian vocoder line about the French painter and on "Ants" Romanski reflects on lyrics that came to him when resident at a sanatorium years ago. Romanski is using his custom sound range and tools to express his downbeat grooves in this well-balanced release. Hide below or turn around the umbrella with devotion and delight.
ZEHRA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: ZEHRA 002LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA FEAT. BACHIR ATTAR, THE Apocalypse Across The Sky 2LP
2022 repress. Zehra present a reissue of Apocalypse Across The Sky by The Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Bachir Attar, originally released in 1992. Available on vinyl for the very first time. Produced by Bill Laswell, remastered for vinyl by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. No matter if you consider the Master Musicians of Jajouka a "4,000 year-old rock n' roll band" (William S. Burroughs) or even "6,000 years old" (Ornette Coleman) -- without doubt, the music of the ensemble in all its incarnations over the centuries is deeply rooted in Sufi mysticism, paganism, and the cult of the goat-god Boujeloud. According to a myth, many centuries ago Boujeloud appeared to a shepherd called Attar, an ancestor of today's ensemble leader Bachir Attar, and till today every year at the end of Ramadan a fire in honor of the goat-god is ignited. This pagan root aside, the music performed in several hour long rituals on traditional instruments like tebel and tariyya (drums), ghaita (a woodwind instrument), lira (flute), and gimbri (stringed instrument) reveals hypnotic, trance-inducing qualities and is considered to have magical and healing properties. In the 1950s, Brion Gysin along with Paul Bowles were among the first westerners to witness such a ceremony, and it was Gysin who invited the Master Musicians of Jajouka to play in his restaurant in Tangier, and who later (in 1967) brought Brian Jones to the small village of Jajouka where the Rolling Stones guitarist recorded the ensemble for what became the first "world music album" and that raised interest in the Master Musicians of Jajouka in the western world. Since those days, a wide number of creative minds like William S. Burroughs, Ornette Coleman, Marc Ribot, Flea, Talvin Singh, or the Rolling Stones have worked with the Master Musicians of Jajouka who are now performing regularly outside Morocco. In 1991, iconic producer Bill Laswell also embarked on a trip to the small village of just 800 inhabitants in the Rif mountains to record the group for his Axiom label -- Apocalypse Across The Sky is, unlike other Laswell projects that bring together different cultures and genres, a pure document of the ensemble, raw and unpolished but exquisitely recorded, and ranks among the essential recordings according to the world music magazine Songlines. 180 gram vinyl; gatefold sleeve; includes download code.
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20/20/20
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CAT #: 202020 007LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
GALAXIE 500 Today LP
2022 repress. "When Galaxie 500's Today was released in 1988, it set off a chain reaction of quiet explosions still being felt. Never before had a record so emphasized the calming elements of rock music, transforming what at first seems like a collection of bridges into fully realized songs. And one can draw a straight line from here to the many groups they influenced, like Low, Belle & Sebastian, and Bon Iver. More than 20 years after its initial release, its title is still no misnomer. The music, recorded with what many thought at the time was too much reverb, sounds present, alive, and indeed a product of today. Songs like 'Flowers,' 'Temperature's Rising,' and of course 'Tugboat' (the band's debut single) stand the test of time and exist in an eternal now. For the first time since its original pressing, Today is available again on vinyl. Cut by vinyl ace Kevin Gray from a remaster by Kramer and Alan Douches, the album sounds more vibrant than ever, and Galaxie 500 exists again as one of the most enrapturing and glorious bands to emerge from the underground in the past 25 years."
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CAT #: 202020 008LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
GALAXIE 500 On Fire LP
2022 repress. "On Fire is widely recognized as the canonic pinnacle of Galaxie 500's career. The artwork conveys this, with a low-angle shot of the band, looking up towards an amber sky. This record marked the realization of their signature sound. Nowhere is it clearer than on the album opener, 'Blue Thunder,' the closest a song can come to waves crashing on a beach in song form. Lyrically inconsequential, with a chorus composed entirely of 'las', the track's power lies in a systematic build and break of intensity that reaches a Spector-like climax. It is the quintessential Galaxie 500 song, encapsulating all that was great about the band. For the first time since its original pressing, On Fire is available again on vinyl. Cut by vinyl ace Kevin Gray from a remaster by Kramer and Alan Douches, the album sounds more vibrant than ever, and Galaxie 500 exists again as one of the most enrapturing and glorious bands to emerge from the underground in the past 25 years."
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CAT #: 202020 009LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
GALAXIE 500 This Is Our Music LP
2022 repress. "After producing two albums celebrated by a thirsty underground network of fans, Galaxie 500 released what turned out to be their unexpected swansong, This Is Our Music. The title is an intentionally declarative statement. After being labeled masters of the disengaged and forlorn, Damon Krukowski, Dean Wareham, and Naomi Yang delivered a full-length comprised of their most stately material. Here, one can hear potential realized, as well as changes afoot. For the first time since its original pressing, This Is Our Music is available again on vinyl. Cut by vinyl ace Kevin Gray from a remaster by Kramer and Alan Douches, the album sounds more vibrant than ever, and Galaxie 500 exists again as one of the most enrapturing and glorious bands to emerge from the underground in the past 25 years."
AKUPHONE (FRANCE)
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CAT #: AKU 1031CD
FILE UNDER: WORLD
KADEF ABGI Diva Of Deva Loka CD
Kadef Abgi came together in a serendipitous way. Devin Brahja Waldman was walking up St. Laurent borough in Montreal when he heard an otherworldly voice emanating from the venue Divan Orange. He walked in and listened to the singer on stage. When he was done, Devin walked over to him. After a short exchange about playing a house show in a couple of days, Ziad Qoulaii told Devin that he was available for all his projects. Shortly thereafter, Devin and Ziad met up at Mathieu Pelletier-Gagnon's studio with Anas Jellouf and Hamza Lahmadi. Later on, Anas Hejam, Vicky Mettler, and guitarist Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect, The Dwarfs Of East Agouza, Karkhana, Land Of Kush) joined. The music materialized in a natural, collectively improvised way, without any compositions or ideas discussed beforehand -- and without second takes. From there, Waldman began editing and mixing. Ala Dehghan painted the album's great artwork. A single composer's imagination would not have produced Diva Of Deva Loka as it is music created from a collective consciousness unfolding in real time. The album has its roots in each musician's sonic experience: this includes Arabic music including most notably Moroccan Gnawa -- as well as rock n' roll, jazz, and the avant-garde. Devin Brahja Waldman is a New York saxophonist, drummer, synthesizer player and composer. He has performed with Patti Smith, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, along many other artists. He has also accompanied his aunt, the poet Anne Waldman, since the age of ten. He leads a NYC/Montreal-based band, B R A H J A, performs in Heroes Are Gang Leaders and is a member of Artists For A Free World Marching Band. Along with Anne Waldman and his cousin Ambrose Bye, Waldman co-directs Fast Speaking Music -- a still-active music and poetry label which has released the works of Amiri Baraka, Meredith Monk, CA Conrad, and many others. Vinyl replica style CD.
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CAT #: AKU 1033CD
FILE UNDER: WORLD
YUNIS Mulid El-Magnoun CD
Mulid El-Magnoun addresses the term "moulid" and its various manifestations it takes on in Egyptian folk music. Here, the word "moulid" does not exclusively refer to Sufi moulids: rather also the intertwined artistic spaces that lie between the moulid in its Sufi sense and what it carries in distinctive rhythmic patterns, musical instruments, and artistic forms, and the moulid as a musical genre originating from folk weddings that enjoy special aesthetics and unique styles. Through this project, YUNIS tries to explore the spaces where those two concepts collide through producing an original musical composition which reflects his own vision and understanding of "moulids" as well as the manifestations the word carries within him. Deluxe limited CD in a 350grm vinyl replica gatefold sleeve; printed on reverse cardboard; edition of 300.YUNIS (b. 1994 - Kafr El-Dauwar) is an Egyptian musician and music producer. He has produced two albums until now; The Blue Djinn Dance which was his first solo album, and Ya Khal which was a collaborative work with Ibrahim X. He is also a co-founder of Kafr El-Dauwar Records, an independent digital record label interested in contemporary and experimental music, founded by a group of young artists with the aim of creating a musical movement in the city, by supporting a group of artists to start their music from Kafr El-Dauwar with the potential of going with the music to the farthest point it could arrive. In his music, YUNIS seeks inspiration from the popular Egyptian folkloric heritage, which boasts many instruments, tools, and musical styles. He then reads and analyzes the musical legacy and presents it with the forms of his contemporary time.
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CAT #: AKU 1034CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SUZUKI AND SPIRITCZUALIC ENHANCEMENT CENTER, DAMO Arkaoda CD
As a traveler-without-age, Damo Suzuki has been touring all over space-time. Presenting the light of "instant composing" to new generations, he refers to his makeshift collaborators as sound-carriers. Exactly fifty years after the release of the profoundly iconic Ege Bamyasi (1972), you can hear his voice on yet another fantastic album, as in "derived from fantasy." Manifested from the meeting with Spiritczualic Enhancement Center -- an eight-piece group of self-proclaimed disciples from the CAN University have gathered at Arkaoda (Turkish for "backroom"). Named after the place in Berlin where it was recorded, this release freewheels down the "Autobahn of Consciousness" as it swerves along that ancestral road. A witness of this session was quoted calling it "unfiltered, freeform, de-programming music." The album's three volatile tracks -- "U," "Ra," and "Beya" -- are unity-enhancing, non-boolean excerpts from this serendipitous symposium at the beginning of 2020 (just before the new measures). Let your children hear this! Deluxe limited CD in a 350grm vinyl replica sleeve; printed on reverse cardboard; edition of 400."Damo was so natural, like a zen master, a spiritual elder. He spoke to us in kind, authentic, deep mannerisms -- and yet, was so approachable, not the least apparent in the fact that he immediately said 'yes, sure' to my offer to partake in some Hashish smoking -- and we sat and laughed and spoke for hours ... rather philosophically and intellectually, you could say, but in a way that seemed so easygoing nonetheless. I was moved by this, as I didn't know what to expect -- there was this anticipation that he'd be 'too big' and kinda feel above us, but this feeling was not there in the slightest. We were merged, from the start. And this felt like his secret, the way by which he's able to tour and play with completely new musicians every time, for decades. And it isn't a method or a tactic." --words from Spiritczualic Enhancement Center.
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CAT #: AKU 1035CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
CRANKSHAW & THE DEAD MAURIACS, EVAN Expedition CD
Expedition is a collaboration between sound artist The Dead Mauriacs (aka Olivier Prieur) and collage artist Evan Crankshaw, based on their mutual interest in treating exotica as both a subject and a material. Evan Crankshaw's 2015 collage book, also entitled Expedition, is assembled and collaged by hand from a vast archive of popular exoticist printed materials, and explores recurring motifs in expedition narratives, simultaneously evoking and alienating the exoticist fantasy. In 2018, the book was interpreted for a live performance at Festival BBMix in collaboration with The Dead Mauriacs, who created a complete exotica-concre?te score accompanying projected images of the book and live narration. That collaboration can be heard on this album, an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of an imagined actual elsewhere, stitched from pieces of narcotizing fabulisms, disturbing actualities, and incomprehensibilities -- an interior excursion into the exotic immensity. Evan Crankshaw is a collage artist residing in North Carolina and the host of Explorers Room on WFMU's Give The Drummer Radio. The Dead Mauriacs' music is a journey into post-industrial landscapes, concrete exotica, Ballardian dystopia: a joyful nightmare. It is Olivier Prieur's art and music project. Gatefold CD sleeve.
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CAT #: AKU 1037LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
BERROCAL/DAVID FENECH/VINCENT EPPLAY, JAC Transcodex LP
Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, and Vincent Epplay are back with a true gem of an album: Transcodex. Turning more towards pop than in their beginnings, this fourth record follows the footsteps of their previous album, Exterior Lux (AKU 1026LP, 2021). The trio seems limitless: they experiment with a large variety of styles (pop, dub, electronica, dark jazz), always colored by their very own touch. Jac Berrocal's trumpet, richer than ever, plays over an ever-changing sonic landscape engineered by the duet of musicians/producers Vincent Epplay and David Fenech. For this album, they invited two amazing musicians: Jah Wobble (founding member of Public Image Ltd and collaborator of African Head Charge, Brian Eno, Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Evan Parker, Sinéad O'Connor) plays deep bass lines on two tracks and Jean-Hervé Peron (founding member of the German band Faust, and who recorded with Tony Conrad, Nurse With Wound, Pascal Comelade) brings his prowess to two tracks as well. Peron writes lyrics in French, German, and Russian -- and plays the French horn like no one else/ The closing track of the A side is a tribute to Christophe Bevilacqua (1945-2020), friend to Jac Berrocal. The song summons the place Bevilacqua used to live in: an Art Deco flat on Boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris. Even if its intentions are clear, Transcodex does not reveal all its secrets right away. It's up to you to find the solution, the key, the Transcodex yourself. It must be revisited over and over again for its beauty to be fully revealed.
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CAT #: AKU 1038LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
STAMOU, TASOS Balkan Express LP
Contrarily to the rest of Tasos Stamou's experimental discography, the musician's latest album Balkan Express has a more obscure electro-folk approach. It consists of seven pieces, all recorded with seven different vintage electric keyboards from Stamou's own collection, blended with oriental acoustic solos. Since Stamou grew up in the Balkans in the '80s, he wanted to pay homage to the essence of the sound of the era that unintentionally shaped a whole culture. It was when these inexpensive, available-to-all electronic keyboards with synth sounds and drum machines replaced traditional Balkan folk music ensembles. The acoustic instruments solos and melodies of the album were influenced by local traditions and the heritage of the Ottoman music. Balkan Express is meant to be a time capsule taking the listener to the folk-wave retro-Balkan subculture. Tasos Stamou is an electroacoustic music composer and performer, alternative electronic instrument maker, instructor and sound technician. He explores the gap between ancient and contemporary transcendental music, using both traditional and advanced media. For ten years, he has been performing and recording, developing a unique style of live electroacoustic composition.
ALIEN TRANSISTOR (GERMANY)
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CAT #: N 083LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WHAT ARE PEOPLE FOR? What Are People For? LP
What Are People For? make the perfect kind of dystopic dance music for our times. Born from a collaboration between artist Anna McCarthy and musician/producer Manuela Rzytki, the band could be the illicit lovechild of Tom Tom Club and Throbbing Gristle, displaying the ideal balance of hip shaking vibes and dark provocative content. On their collaborative debut, McCarthy and Rzytki share songwriting duties. The album was produced by Rzytki herself. They are joined by Paulina Nolte on backing vocals and Tom Wu on drums, while Keith Tenniswood mastered the record. The whole project stems from a publication and exhibition by McCarthy laying the foundations for the content and lyrics of the album, which is humorous, poetic and political. As a lyricist, McCarthy uses her storytelling ability to explore anxieties and desires, digging into free surreal word associations reminiscent of Su Tissue's tongue in cheek experiments with Suburban Lawns, but also explosive and gripping like a Kae Tempest rap. Rzytki's precise sonic palette and talent at penning structured bangers perfectly complement McCarthy's playful and subversive language manipulations. Rzytki's beats are rooted in old school hip-hop loop principles and an authentic love for the analog. Her use of an array of synthesizers and other "real" instruments adds to WAPF's depth, soul and sincerity. Throughout the album, lyrical themes revolve around underground aspects of society, violence, political ideologies, sexuality, and mysticism. "73", with its drum machine hysteria and hypnotic synth basses is a text collage written on the 73 bus through London, consisting of situations and conversation snippets encountered along the way. "Nursery Rhyme" brings more soothing incantations. There is definitely an affinity for fairytales, albeit adult ones and especially the anarchistic ones such as The Moomins, who were a consistent influence on the band. WAPF? have absorbed and digested a variety of influences. Trip hop, punk, and techno are rubbing shoulders on "Party Time". "Mz. Lazy" starts like an invitation to meditation and references Gertrude Stein's book Ida in which she develops the idea that publicity is a new religion and people are now famous for being famous. "Fantasize", on its part, is raw, sexual, and liberating while the closing track "Bring Back the Dirt" is a welcome hymn into a world that is becoming more and more sanitized. While exploring deep subject matters throughout their album, WAPF? manage to remain satirical, exciting and funny. WAPF? is a rare combination of contemporary punk energy, irresistible groove, absurdist dry humor and astounding depth of field. Includes printed inner and insert; also includes download code; edition of 500.
ARBITRARY (DENMARK)
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CAT #: ARBITRARY 013CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
SCOTT, RICHARD Delirious Cartographies CD
Arbitrary presents Delirious Cartographies by composer, improviser, and synthesist Richard Scott. "These compositions capture aspects of my personal sonic experience of specific times and places. Extending beyond my usual work with analog synthesizer, these pieces open the doors and windows to the outside world, incorporating field and live recordings made in various locations and situations. Rather than intending any clear sense of narrative, these are molecular dialogues between elements and geographies which do not necessarily share organic points of connection, other than my own incomplete experience and memory of them." The final piece "6 Graphic Etudes" (included as digital prints) is intended as a set of visual/sonic sketches, each of which describes a discrete kind of movement or texture. These may have a variety of uses; as musical exercises, as scores, combined as parts of scores, or simply as stand-alone visual propositions/artworks. The pieces were composed between 2017 and 2021 at Sound Anatomy, Berlin, Spektrum Berlin, EMS Stockholm, NOVARS, University of Manchester University, Boliqueime, Portugal and the Electronic Music Studios University of Huddersfield. As well as various microphones, hydrophones and recorders, the instruments used on this recording are mostly analog and modular synthesizers: Hordijk Modular, Serge Modular, EMS Synthi A, various Eurorack modules, Buchla Thunder midi controller, Oberheim Xpander, Clavia Nord Micro Modular, CataRT and maxMSP, Rob Hordijk Blippoo box. On "Thunder, actually bicycles..." Axel Do?rner plays a Holton Firebird trumpet with additional live-sampling via maxMSP and a controller interface developed by Sukandar Kartadinata. Written and produced by Richard Scott. Drawings by Richard Scott. Graphic design by Mads Emil Nielsen. Mastered and cut by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Part of the Danish imprint's Framework editions. Includes six printed drawings as well as a text by Scott. CD version comes in a digipak.
ASSOPHON
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CAT #: ASSO 010LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
JAY, TOMMY Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma 2LP
Classic release from 2016. R.I.P. Tommy Jay. Assophon present an expanded reissue of Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma, originally released on cassette in 1986. "Tucked away between I-71 & US-62 lies nestled the quaint, speed trap hamlet of Harrisburg, Ohio. With its humble ambience, affable familiarity, weekend fish fries and Christian B&B ('mind the sherry, brother, for it is the Lords nectar'), blink twice and you might think you've been transported into a 21st century Winesburg, Ohio. Only now the emphasis is on a new chapter, 'The songsmith-concerning Tommy Jay'. In a converted barn just off Main St, Jay and friends have been forging a massive catalog of music, both original and cover variations, for a solid four decades. Fellow towns-person and erstwhile participant, one Mike 'Rep' Hummel (Serpent Mound expert, croquet enthusiast) was the first to make these recordings available when he issued a cassette of the proceedings under the title, Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma via his homespun DIY label, Old Age/No Age, in 1986. For anyone prescient enough to lock in back then, they were staggered by talent, far removed from the stars of High Street (Great Plains, Gibson Bros, Willie Phoenix). A singer/songwriter par excellence, Tommy Jay ably forged a hybrid of pre-speedball Stephen Stills with post Iron Cross-headed Lou Reed, the results of which come across as both effortless and visionary. Some 20 years later, Tall Tales would finally receive it's long deserved elevation to the vinyl format (this time through Columbus Discount Records), and was now being heard by a new generation of ears, garnered immediate success, quickly sold out and inexplicably was never repressed. In the intervening limbo, copies were more sought than found, lucky bumpkins forking upwards to three figures for pride of ownership. Recently, Assophon, a US label with Jim Rockford-like determination, swooped in to un-fuck this glaring wart. Plus, time and patience being the powerful warriors they are, the new, expanded edition is brimming with a whole second platter of hoot; 13 unreleased tracks what's rarely been discerned this side of Tony's Coney's. Which all goes to say that the new and improved, 30th anniversary edition of Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma is, to paraphrase the words of the late, great Randy Poffo, 'The record the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for'." --Tom Lax Lynx.
AUS MUSIC (GERMANY)
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CAT #: AUS 016LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VON ERCKERT, DAMIANO The Past The Present The Future 2LP
Damiano von Erckert's The Past The Present The Future lands on Aus Music. TPTPTF is Damiano's third studio album and sees him perfectly balancing rave euphoria with more cuddly intimate moments moving effortlessly from deep Detroit techno to the spacious kraut sounds associated with his homeland. The Past The Present The Future has depth substance and timelessness all packaged beautifully by design and art legend Eike Koenig. The Past The Present The Future is for all independent thinking romantics and specialists looking for urban melancholy and the feeling of freedom and security. It is for those who find themselves in the dust and rain of the night darkness. It serves people who are determined to conquer their inner fears and readjust the orientation of their minds to banish stress, anger and despair from their lives. Finally, it is the soundtrack for lovers and fighters who want to slow down time and create new patterns to open up new dimensions in their lives as ravers, dancers and people of the night. It is about forgotten fragments of past sounds and the simplicity of clubbing.
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CAT #: AUS 176EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DJ TENNIS Repeater 12"
Life and Death founder Manfredi Romano aka DJ Tennis debuts on Aus Music with Repeater -- here he delves deep into his own cosmos creating two cuts that are uniquely spacey whilst playful and powerful. DJ Seinfeld needs no introduction. His DJ Kicks mix and debut album for Ninja Tune have both been critically acclaimed. His rave-y mix of "Repeater" is a tension builder, his version simmers away for seven minutes patiently dropping metallic stabs and Detroit FM synths licks. Manfredi's career spans over two decades as agent, manager, promoter, label owner, DJ, and producer. His releases are few and far between so.
AVENUE 66
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CAT #: AVE66 017EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MOIRE Circuits Remixes 12"
Moiré's rain-streaked and masterful Circuits (AVE66 013LP) album dropped in September 2022. RA's Andrew Ryce stated the eight-track album cast the shadowy producer into "a rarefied air occupied by the only the finest and most influential of ambient techno artists." Now, in short order, the label returns with a remix EP charting out multiple hubs of oblique dancefloor innovation. If there's a sonic motif on the A-side, it's vastly reactive interpretations of the "factory floor" element that inspired techno's pioneers. Matthew Herbert, a pioneering force in his own right, mixes steam engine percussion with the dreamy atmospherics of "Circuit 15" and comes up with eight minutes of cerebral machine funk. Tolouse Low Trax, meanwhile, continues his masterclass in modern motorik on his remix of "Circuit 7," integrating a chiming piano into a fascinating, perfectly-timed 110 BPM rhythm. The B-side, meanwhile, doubles down on the oneiric nature of the original material. Workshop head and Avenue 66 alumnus Lowtec builds allows the synths of "Circuit 04" to billow into Gas-like immersive layering, sheets of melody are anchored by a restrained beat for an ambient techno track that doesn't tip the scales too far in one direction or the other. Rather, it achieves a perfect balance. Hamburg/Dial mainstay Lawrence closes things out with his version of "Circuit 18," which also concludes the original album. While the original has a wistful, Deckard's dream quality, Lawrence's version is deeply-rooted in the late-night German style; a low-slung bassline will keep dancers deeply rooted while those wistful chords sweep in like the violet before dawn.
BA DA BING!
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CAT #: BING 174CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TROST, HEATHER Desert Flowers CD
"As Heather Trost put together her new album Desert Flowers, she imagined herself sitting out on the mesa amidst the arid climate and sand. Even with such little water to survive, wildflowers bloom. This vision is an embellishment of Trost's Albuquerque surroundings, an intersection of rural splendor and emptiness. She remains focused on those purple, yellow and orange flowers with faces beaming up to the sky, thriving on very little. 'How does a flower grow in the desert?' she sings. Desert Flowers postulates the potential for new life. Using the messages from the unconscious during sleep, the record ultimately conceives a bridge to the world beyond one's own. Written and recorded in her home studio, Trost began with harmonic frameworks, allowing the melodies to naturally take root. Introductory track 'Frog And Toad Are Friends' -- yes, named after the book -- is like a surf song from a sci-fi movie. Trost sees it as a mindwipe, 'a playful kind of romp to help shake off the cobwebs and get the bones moving.' The album ripens as it progresses, and 'Sandcastles' best embodies the spirit of the record. Lush strings and bass are complemented by a slow guitar groove, as Trost soulfully fantasizes about Earth's regeneration. 'In time, the bullets and tanks, and all of humanity's violent creations will melt back into mountains and the ocean,' she says. Integral to the record's creation was Trost's cohort in A Hawk & A Hacksaw and record label Living Music Duplication, Jeremy Barnes. 'This album wouldn't sound the way it does without his wonderfully discerning and courageous ear,' she says. Much like her previous two albums, Agistri and Petrichor, the record was primarily recorded at their home studio. Many of the tracks on Desert Flowers were created during difficult years, during which Trost's strident creativity offered a much-needed path to solace. 'Maybe these songs are a bit like desert flowers,' she reflects, 'pushing their way towards the sun, and in turn searching and pushing roots deep into the ground for water. As above, so below, the light and the dark, extroverted and introverted, color and monochrome.'"
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CAT #: BING 174LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TROST, HEATHER Desert Flowers LP
LP version. "As Heather Trost put together her new album Desert Flowers, she imagined herself sitting out on the mesa amidst the arid climate and sand. Even with such little water to survive, wildflowers bloom. This vision is an embellishment of Trost's Albuquerque surroundings, an intersection of rural splendor and emptiness. She remains focused on those purple, yellow and orange flowers with faces beaming up to the sky, thriving on very little. 'How does a flower grow in the desert?' she sings. Desert Flowers postulates the potential for new life. Using the messages from the unconscious during sleep, the record ultimately conceives a bridge to the world beyond one's own. Written and recorded in her home studio, Trost began with harmonic frameworks, allowing the melodies to naturally take root. Introductory track 'Frog And Toad Are Friends' -- yes, named after the book -- is like a surf song from a sci-fi movie. Trost sees it as a mindwipe, 'a playful kind of romp to help shake off the cobwebs and get the bones moving.' The album ripens as it progresses, and 'Sandcastles' best embodies the spirit of the record. Lush strings and bass are complemented by a slow guitar groove, as Trost soulfully fantasizes about Earth's regeneration. 'In time, the bullets and tanks, and all of humanity's violent creations will melt back into mountains and the ocean,' she says. Integral to the record's creation was Trost's cohort in A Hawk & A Hacksaw and record label Living Music Duplication, Jeremy Barnes. 'This album wouldn't sound the way it does without his wonderfully discerning and courageous ear,' she says. Much like her previous two albums, Agistri and Petrichor, the record was primarily recorded at their home studio. Many of the tracks on Desert Flowers were created during difficult years, during which Trost's strident creativity offered a much-needed path to solace. 'Maybe these songs are a bit like desert flowers,' she reflects, 'pushing their way towards the sun, and in turn searching and pushing roots deep into the ground for water. As above, so below, the light and the dark, extroverted and introverted, color and monochrome.'"
BANG! RECORDS (SPAIN)
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CAT #: BANG 027LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
KILL DEVIL HILLS, THE The Drought LP
Killer reissue of the second album by The Kill Devil Hills, The Drought, originally recorded in November 2005, where the band goes toward dirtier and rawer sounds. The band continues in the direction of their first work, Heathen Songs, but adds dirtier nuances and rock. If in the first album you could mention Nick Cave and Hugo Race as influences, in this second one you can easily add The Beasts Of Bourbon to the list of influences, when listening to some of the rawest songs of it. This gang of animals from Perth, Australia, take their swampy folk-blues and take it to a new world of more extreme and wild sounds where melodies and violins create a wall of sound that involuntarily forces you to listen. After their successful tours of Australia and America, The Kill Devil Hills released this album in which they showed you that they were not "the next big thing", they were really a great band with overwhelming live shows. A key band and a pillar of the new emerging and ardent scene that has once again made Australia a hotbed of creativity. Bang! Records returns to edit this band, and as usual, with the quality Bang! Edition of 500.
BEACON SOUND
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CAT #: BNSD 070LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
RAUELSSON & TATU RONKKO Myriadi LP
Recorded both in Spain and Finland, the 13-track album Myriadi documents Tatu Rönkkö and Raúl Pastor Medall's first standalone collaboration, entirely created, performed and mixed by the pair. With Myriadi, the two artists walk listeners into a world that somehow manages to feel ancient and modern at the same time. It is peaceful and dreamy but also raw, solemn and unsettling. Tatu's improvisational, crude and almost ritualistic sonic approach blends in seamlessly with Raúl's more melodic and melancholic schemes of composition. With its simplicity and clarity, Myriadi belongs in the realms of dark ambient and drone as much as it belongs to a tradition of minimal acoustic music. Myriadi embraces loose ends, harmonic freedom, and even atonality; regardless of whether it involves the sound of glass-blowing water bottles, a small Finnish harp, bell-like sounding metal plates or piano strings played with paint brushes and sticks, the overall improv-based character of the project gives Myriadi a primal, unpredictable, and meditative feel. This spontaneous study of form and timbre has room for bold rhythmic pieces played with a drum set consisting of six floor toms, but also for hypnotic chants of granular flute-like sounds and spoken word poetry (featuring voices by Raúl and Tatu's moms). The spontaneity and lack of premeditation that permeate through Myriadi paradoxically reinforce the cohesiveness of the record. Rauelsson (Raúl Pastor Medall's musical moniker) and Tatu Rönkkö met in 2015 through common friends. They both have released music on the Berlin-based label Sonic Pieces and have collaborated on stage and in the studio on a number of occasions. Tatu appeared as a guest musician on Rauelsson's Mirall (2018) and contributed significantly on some film and TV projects that Raúl has worked on for the last couple of years. For the recording sessions of the dystopian TV Series Anna (2021) Tatu travelled to Spain where they explored countless rhythmic ideas with relatively untraditional instrumentation. These free and relaxed creative meetings led to other recording sessions completely unconnected to any scoring project, planting the seed for what Myriadi would become. RIYL: Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Brian Eno. Mastered by Martyn Heyne at Lichte Studio, Berlin, Germany. Cover art by Tatu Rönkkö. Photo by Saku Soukka.
BEAT RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: DDJ 021DLX-CD
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
MARIANO, DETTO La Casa Stregata/Mia Moglie E' Una Strega CD
After Il Ragazzo Di Campagna another release dedicated to maestro Detto Mariano, with this CD release featuring two unreleased soundtracks, La Casa Stregata and Mia Moglie E' Una Strega. Two movies with a common male protagonist, Renato Pozzetto, facing some esoteric plots, in the former movie in a bewitched mansion, in the latter having married a right a witch. Co-star gorgeous Gloria Guida and beautiful Eleonora Giorgi. Two scores waited since a long time by maestro's fans, finally available in full displaying the typical sound of this never too much celebrated artist, unfortunately recently late, to whom Beat Records dedicate this release. The music of La Casa Stregata and Mia Movlie E' Una Strega are in jewel case with a 16-page deluxe booklet, liner notes by Andrea Morandi, master by Claudio Fuiano, graphic layout by Daniele De Gemini.
BLACK EDITIONS
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CAT #: BE 017LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
HALLELUJAHS Eat Meat, Swear an Oath LP
Reissue, originally released in 1986. A dreamlike dispatch from mid-80s Japan, the first and only Hallelujahs album is an entrancing and gentle work of psychedelic pop brilliance. In a series of informal studio sessions between 1985 and 1986, Shinji Shibayama (Nagisa Ni Te) gathered a group of friends, emerging luminaries from the burgeoning Kansai underground rock scene including Naoki Zushi (Hijokaidan, Spiral Stairs / ????), Ken Ichi "Idiot" Takayama (Idiot O'Clock), and Chie Mukai (Ché-SHIZU) to form what would become known as Hallelujahs. The result was a music of deep feeling and wonderment created through simple song craft and imbued with a sort of guileless magic. Their sole album presented a set of unvarnished songs, filled with vulnerable, intimate moments, caught on reel to reel, most often in single takes never to be repeated. The album was self-released in 1986 in a micro-edition of 300 copies. It was the first record by Shibayama's now revered ORG Records which would go on to introduce the world to the likes of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Reiko Kudo as well as his own group, Nagisa Ni Te. With affinities to the sounds of the Rough Trade and Flying Nun labels, the Paisley Underground and Galaxie 500, the Hallelujahs' Eat Meat, Swear an Oath is an utterly unique masterpiece that remains a touchstone for generations of like spirited artists in Japan and around the world. Black Editions is proud to present this all-time classic in a deluxe vinyl edition, remastered from the original tapes and presented in a heavy tip-on jacket with textured paper, mounted high quality print, foil stamped finishes and spot colors. Pressed to high quality vinyl at RTI.
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CAT #: BE 018LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
NAGISA NI TE New Ocean 2LP
Since their first album in 1995, Japan's Nagisa Ni Te has created an enchanting and deeply personal sound world woven from elements of folk, psychedelia, and rock along with wistful melodies and gentle arrangements. Centered on Shinji Shibayama (Hallelujahs) and Masako Takeda's partnership, the group has created intimate, emotionally resonant music that floats and breathes with an ease that can only come from a sort of telepathic chemistry. Released in Japan on the group's 25th anniversary, New Ocean is a clear eyed, expansive collection of songs evoking love and loss, hazy sunshine and looming darkness, human yearning amidst nature's grandeur. Deluxe 45 RPM double-LP, gatefold edition featuring heavy tip-on jackets with embossing, gloss UV and strike through matte coating. Pressed to high quality vinyl at RTI.
BLANK FORMS
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CAT #: 9781953691118
FILE UNDER: Misc
BROWN, WESLEY Blue in Green Book
"The latest work from the veteran novelist called 'one hell of a writer' by James Baldwin and 'wonderfully wry' by Donald Barthelme: a timely meditation on the psychological impact of police brutality, through the lens of a day in the life of Miles Davis. Written by playwright and novelist Wesley Brown, Blue in Green narrates one evening in August 1959, when, mere weeks after the release of his landmark album Kind of Blue, Miles Davis is assaulted by a member of the New York City Police Department outside of the Birdland jazz club. In the aftermath, we enter the strained relationship between Davis and his wife, Frances Taylor, whom he has recently cajoled into ending her run as a performer on Broadway and retiring from modern dance and ballet altogether. Frances, who is increasingly subject to Davis' temper -- fueled by both his professional envy and substance abuse -- reckons with her upbringing in Christian Science and, through a fateful meeting with Lena Horne, the conflicting demands of motherhood and artistic vocation. Meanwhile, blowing off steam from his beating, Miles speeds across Manhattan in his sports car. Racing alongside him are recollections of a stony, young John Coltrane, a combative Charlie Parker and the stilted world of the Black middle class he's left behind. Wesley Brown (born 1945) is a novelist and playwright. He is the author of novels including Darktown Strutters, Push Comes to Shove and Tragic Magic, which was reissued in 2021 to critical acclaim. He has led an active political life, having held memberships in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. In the early 1970s he spent more than a year in federal prison for refusing induction in the armed services during the Vietnam War. In this time, he drafted his first novel, which was edited by Toni Morrison. He is a professor emeritus of English at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he taught for 26 years. Brown lives in Lawrenceville, Georgia."
BONDAGE MUSIC (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BOND 12067LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
HOMM, MARKUS After Dark 2x12"
Markus Homm unveils his twelve-track debut LP After Dark on German imprint Bondage Music. An artist with a rich history within deeper house spheres and minimal territories, Markus Homm has been a fixture of the scene for over twenty years with a long list of appearances at renowned institutions, including Panorama Bar, Watergate, Kater Blau, and Tresor. Whether releasing stand-out solo material or collaborating with fellow countryman Mihai Popoviciu, Homm's continual evolution and development have seen him become a staple name within sets of the industry's leading talent. A regular on the imprint with a string of releases dating back to his label debut in 2012 as remixer for Miguel Lobo -- Atemporal, the Romanian-born, Nuernberg-based talent returns to Bondage-Music as he presents his first album on the label. Markus Homm: "The album came together over the period of the last few years. I wanted to find the sweet spot of timeless music you can listen to at home or in a club. A few tracks have been completed also during the worldwide lockdown two years ago, such as the track After Dark. Most of us had the feeling of being in a dark place in life, for myself I always knew things would get better and I was looking forward to the moment, that motivated and inspired me to make my first artist album. After these difficult times, After Dark, just look forward again, and feel new joy." After Dark, a rich collection of eight productions on the vinyl, the album is a carefully crafted project. Starting with "The System", Homm delicately introduces the deep and dubby textures he's so well known for and sets the tone for what is to come. "Generator" builds upon this foundation with a selection of deep, aquatic tones, while "Trespasses" and "Grauzone" subtly pick up the pace and energy, guiding listeners down equally hazy and captivating trips. "Blue Mountain" harnesses skipping drums alongside resonant chords, while title track "After Dark" is an exemplary display of the Romanian's ability to fuse delicate layers of misty pads, intricate percussion and resonant stabs. "I Wish" is a spirited and breezy journey through rich soundscapes guided by floaty vocals, while "Who Are You" concludes the physical package with a twisting production crafted for the after-hours. A display of deep textures, After Dark marks showcases Homm's signature sonics while offering new shades to his sound. Four vinyl-only tracks; 180 gram vinyl.
BUH RECORDS (PERU)
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CAT #: BR 135LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VARSOVIA Disenar Y Destruir LP
Diseñar Y Destruir (Design and Destroy) is the second album by Varsovia, an electronic punk project created in Lima at the beginning of 2012 by Dante Gonzales (synthesizers), Fernando Pinzás (synthesizers), and Sheri Corleone (guitar, vocals). Unlike their celebrated debut album Recursos Inhumanos (Inhuman Resources) (BR 065LP, 2014), this new production reflects a greater influence of styles such as industrial music and EBM but maintaining the sound of analog synthesizers as a principle. The lyrics follow a concept based on the period of violence that Peru experienced in the 1980s, with samples of General Juan Velasco Alvarado and songs that refer to situations such as blackouts, bombings of terrorist groups, and the uncertainty of living in the midst of the armed conflict in a city lost in chaos. The songs of Diseñar Y Destruir were recorded between 2015 and 2017 and finished during 2021. This process was marked by the exit of Corleone (when she moved to the Netherlands) and the entry of Carla Vallenas as lead singer, with whom the first version of the album was recorded, and a promotional video was released. During this period, the band shared the stage with important artists such as She Past Away, Sixth June, Ash Code, Mueran Humanos, or the legendary group of the '60s, Silver Apples. After a few years of activity, Carla Vallenas left the band, and both Dante Gonzales and Fernando Pinzás went on to work on different personal projects. Until 2021, when, after a brief activity of Varsovia as a duo, they decided to re-record the album with Sheri Corleone on vocals and guitar, marking the return to the original formation of the group. Varsovia has gathered great international attention in recent years thanks to the inclusion of a song from its first album in the soundtrack of the HBO series Los Espookys. The band was again invited to include a new song in the second season of the series, which premiered during 2022. Includes guest musicians such as Mexican saxophonist Martín Escalante and guitarist Óscar Reátegui of the legendary band Dios Hastío. It was recorded and mixed at Paraíso del Silicio by Dante Gonzales and mastered by Alberto Cendra at Garden Lab Audio. Cover art by About Studio. Edition of 500.
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CAT #: BR 140LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
LOS HERMANOS BALLUMBROSIO Homenaje a El Carmen LP
Homenaje a El Carmen (Homage to El Carmen), Los Hermanos Ballumbrosio's debut album for Buh Records, captures the true spirit of the musical tradition of El Carmen, a city located a few miles to the south of Lima that is home to the largest black community in Peru. Songs based on percussion and zapateo bring back the memories and experiences of a culture that has produced one of the greatest treasures of Peruvian music. Members of one of the main families of El Carmen, Chincha, a cotton-producing province located 200 km south of Lima and known for hosting the largest black community in Peru, the Ballumbrosio brothers are the heirs of a great cultural tradition, embodied in the figure and teachings of their father Amador Ballumbrosio Mosquera, as well as their mother Adelina Guadalupe de Ballumbrosio. The patriarch of the family was an icon of Afro-Peruvian musical culture, a violinist, a performer of zapateo (a local type of tap dance) and, for a long time, a leading exponent of the "Danza de Negritos" (also known as "Hatajo de Negritos"), a traditional religious dance that is part of the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Amador and Adelina had fifteen children, all of them heirs and practitioners of the Afro-Peruvian tradition who became great cultural ambassadors of El Carmen by turning their family house into a pilgrimage site for visitors in town. Hence, the Ballumbrosio brothers cultivated music from a very young age, training as percussionists and in particular as virtuosos of Afro-Peruvian zapateo, which constitutes a fundamental element of the "Hatajo de Negritos". Currently, the Ballumbrosio brothers are made up of Chebo, Miguel, Roberto, Camilo, and Pudy Ballumbrosio, all of them with a recognized individual career in various groups and solo projects. Homage to El Carmen, the third volume of the series "Perspectives on Afro-Peruvian Music", signals the return of the group to the recording studio, and also to the sources of rhythms such as festejo and panalivio, which they interpret with cajón, quijada (jawbone), congas, bongo, and batá. The result is a distillation and a testimony of the memories and experiences that portray the cultural universe of El Carmen. There is a selection of traditional songs that are heard during the festivities and two traditional Christmas carols. There are songs that speak of the difficulties of rural life, but they also serve as a vehicle to demonstrate the Ballumbrosio brother's mastery in the art of zapateo, a dance that is accompanied by violin and bells. Includes eight-page booklet with liner notes in Spanish and English. Produced by Manongo Mujica and Daniel Mujica. Cover by Yerko Zlatar. Edition of 300.
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CAT #: BR 143LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
PERKUTAO Mis Ancestros LP
If, among the Afro-Peruvian music groups that have emerged in recent years, there is one that has dared to take the sound to new dimensions, it is Perkutao. Heirs to the best Afro-Peruvian tradition, they have been able to integrate Afro-Cuban elements and various contemporary popular styles, which they play with amazing with speed and precision. Mis Ancestros, is their debut album for Buh Records. Perkutao is an Afro-Peruvian percussion ensemble founded in 2005, directed by Percy Chinchilla, musician, percussionist, zapateador, and teacher of young generations of percussionists. Mis Ancestros (My ancestors) is their first record under the production of Manongo Mujica and is the fourth title of the collection Perspectivas de la Música Afroperuana (Perspectives on Afro-Peruvian Music). Chinchilla shares the artistic direction of Perkutao with William Nicasio 'Makarito', another outstanding percussionist. Both grew up in the famous Callejón del Buque, in the district of La Victoria, a spot preferred by bohemians and known by local music partying -- jaranas criollas. Both were also formed in Perú Negro, an emblematic Afro-Peruvian ensemble, and both carry in their blood the cult of percussion and Afro tradition. Perkutao arose precisely from the merging of Afro-Peruvian, Afro-Cuban and Caribbean music traditions, and have become one of the most sought-after percussion ensembles due to the intensity of their sound and their powerful performances. In addition to Chinchilla and Makarito, the ensemble is completed by Edu Campos, Andree Liendo, and Víctor Sánchez Pitín. "Azañero Colorao", "Trucutum Kiti Pa", and "Cancha con Sabor", composed based on minor percussion (cajita, quijada), zapateo and cajón, respectively, are compositions that serve as an introduction, a tribute to the essential instruments of the Afro-Peruvian tradition. The last one in particular already defines Perkutao's style: a trepidant and orgiastic rhythm, hypnotic and hard hitting, Dionysian and cathartic. With "Madre África" and "Al Tayta Bukense", for djembes and congas, respectively, you find Perkutao retaking the Afro-Cuban heritage embedded to the Afro-Peruvian sounds, abakuá and festejo. "Lloraré", a version of a famous Cuban song, mirror the ensemble's fascination with Caribbean music (salsa is another genre cultivated by its members). Mis Ancestros is an album about a tradition, but it is also a renewal. Perkutao opens a new direction for Afro-Peruvian music, its sound is an evocation and the here and now, it is deep-rooted but freely flowing percussion.
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CAT #: BR 162LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
AGUILAR, LUIS DAVID Ayahuasca: Musica Para Cine De Luis David Aguilar (1978-1983) LP
Ayahuasca: Music for Film, by Luis David Aguilar (1978-1983) compiles works by Luis David Aguilar, one of the most prolific composers of film scores in Peru. It shows the great versatility and avant-garde style that has distinguished his work. Luis David Aguilar (Arequipa, 1950) occupies a fundamental place in the history of film music in Peru, not only because of the prolific nature of his work (which also includes music for television and advertising), but because of the singular, experimental style found in many of his scores. Aguilar's music blends modern academic composition with the use of native instruments, synthesizers, sound collages, and a diversity of resources, which identify him as a key figure to understand a period of Peruvian music marked by the imprint of the avant-garde and the use of native sounds, which developed during the late '70s and the early '80s. Aguilar belongs to the so called "Generation of the '70s", along with Peruvian composers such as Walter Casas, Seiji Asato, and Aurelio Tello, who were then immersed in the languages of contemporary classical music. But he also shares the spirit of renewal of a generation of musicians who came from the world of jazz and electronic experimentation such as Manongo Mujica and Arturo Ruiz del Pozo. Ayahuasca is an album that collects pieces from 1978 to 1983 and offers an overview of the different musical paths that Aguilar followed during his career as a soundtrack composer. The album opens with music from the film El viento del ayahuasca (The Wind of Ayahuasca) (1983), by director Nora de Izcue, performed by the National Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Cuba under the baton of Luis David Aguilar, with Chucho Valdés on piano. It is an ambitious orchestral and vocal composition, in which you can hear the beginning of the famous melody of "Mujer Hilandera" (Female Weaver), popularized by the Amazonian cumbia group Juaneco y su Combo. The next track is the music for the documentary Anónimo cotidiano (Anonymous Everyday) (1979), by director Jorge Rey, a unique experimental piece for synthesizers (played by Aguilar), drums and percussion (played by Manongo Mujica), with the addition of various Andean instruments (panpipes, charango, among others). And finally, Los Constructores (The Builders) (1978), by director José Carlos Huayhuaca, a salsa which incorporates unusual sounds of tubular bells and prepared pianos. Remastered audio from the original reel tapes by Aldo Montalvo. Includes a booklet with notes by Luis David Aguilar; edition of 300.
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CAT #: BR 166LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
PUPPIES IN THE SUN Light Became Light LP
Light Became Light is the debut album from Puppies in the Sun, a project composed of Alberto Cendra (synthesizers) and Cristóbal Pereira (drums), both originally from Peru and currently based in Rotterdam. Friends since childhood, they crossed paths again in Barcelona by sheer coincidence. This spontaneous pulse is also what dictated the beginnings of the project's characteristic sound: lengthy improvisational and sound exploratory sessions which are summed up in the project's first two EPs (Unheard EP and The Church of Puppies in the Sun, 2018). Light Became Light is Puppies in the Sun's statement towards bringing the improvisation's spontaneity and unruliness into a new phase in order to come up with their first full length. Like other well-known duos, Puppies in the Sun maximizes their compact instrumentation to establish themselves as a (noise) rock band without the presence of guitars or bass guitars. Far from being a limitation, this has provided them with great freedom. The lower end of the album's soundscape is triggered on Cendra's synthesizer scheme by Pereira's drums. This is one of the characteristics that emerge from the organic, minimal and spontaneous style of the band. As if it was a rocket, Light Became Light takes off in search of a sound and a space that pays tribute to cosmic rock and synthesizer music without leaving the melodic rawness of noise rock or even black metal behind. Some might also perceive an atmosphere that owes its existence to techno parties and a slight wink towards folk imagery. If there is anything that makes their sound iconic is the call for constructing wild and festive ambiances, state of trance and agitation. Light Became Light was recorded and mixed by Oscar Moreno at El Purgatorio (Madrid, Spain). In the middle of an intense heat wave, Puppies in the Sun locked themselves through the course of two weeks to record and process various analog and digital synthesizers, pianos, drums, and vocals, to later mix Light Became Light in a classic analog console. Artwork by the band itself and designed by Fernanda Binvignat. Edition of 300.
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CAT #: BR 167LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
MUJICA, MANONGO Del Cuarto Rojo (From the Red Room) LP
The story of Del Cuarto Rojo (From the Red Room) began in March 2020, when the Peruvian composer and percussionist Manongo Mujica received a call notifying him that the visual artist Rafael Hastings, his friend of almost half a century, had passed away. Since then, and in the midst of the pandemic, Manongo Mujica began a personal journey searching for sounds, which has resulted in a new set of pieces that evoke the memory of a friendship. Del Cuarto Rojo (From the Red Room), subtitled Homenaje sonoro escuchando la pintura de Rafael Hastings (Sound Tribute Listening to Rafael Hastings' Paintings), is Manongo Mujica's new album, and it has also motivated the preparation of a new show by the dancer and choreographer Yvonne von Mollendorff, wife of Hastings. The history of this friendship dates back to 1974, when a young Manongo returned to Lima, after ten years living in London, while young Rafael Hastings and Yvonne von Mollendorff settled in Peru after a long period in Europe. Since then, the collaborations between these artists have been continuous, always marked by an experimental impetus. The attitude of listening to images and painting sounds was more than a metaphor and became a code that identified them and a way of working, where the crossing of disciplines set the tone, both in video works and in unusual visual/conceptual scores, works of dance and experimental music, in the context of a creative effervescence that renewed the arts and music in Lima in the '70s. Del Cuarto Rojo is an album that integrates many of the musical resources developed by Mujica. It is an amalgam that well sums up his own language: from the creation of environments with extended techniques and objects, to experiments in jazz fusion; from the use of field recordings and sound montages to compositions with string arrangements: everything around the hypnotic pulse of percussion and drums, which oscillate between moments of subtlety and explosive improvisation. The album features the participation of outstanding musicians such as Pauchi Sasaki (violin), José Quezada (cello), Terje Evensen (electronic effects), Jean Pierre Magnet (saxophone), Cristobal, Daniel, and Gabriel Mujica (sons of Manongo Mujica, on percussion, string, and wind arrangements). Includes a full color 12-page booklet with a sample of Rafael Hastings's visual art, which also illustrates the album cover.
BUREAU B (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BB 419CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
AREU AREU Areu Areu CD
Reissue, limited 30th anniversary edition. Originally released in 1992. Under the name Areu Areu, the two Camouflage musicians, Heiko Maile and Marcus Meyn, released a five-track EP in 1992, which is now being re-released in an extended version in a limited edition and for the first time on vinyl. In 1991, a friend and companion of Heiko Maile and Marcus Meyn, the photographer Reiner Pfisterer, celebrated his 24th birthday. Instead of records or books, the two Camouflage founders planned to present the birthday child with a performance by a band formed especially for the occasion and launched Areu Areu. After Camouflage had just released their rather acoustic sounding album Meanwhile, Maile and Meyn were more in the mood for purely electronic music, so this side project was just what they needed to play around with the electronic gear they had accumulated in their studio in the center of the small town of Bietigheim in southern Germany. The result was cover versions of songs that had always strongly influenced Maile and Meyn: you hear "Day Tripper" (Beatles), "Cold" (The Cure), Fad Gadget's "Ricky's Hand" and a two-song medley of "I'm Your Money" (Heaven 17) and the Depeche Mode classic "Tora! Tora! Tora!". In addition, several versions of their legendary German-language song "Mr. X" were worked out. A few weeks after the party, Maile and Meyn told their A&R manager about the project, and in 1992 a small number of tracks were released in a small edition on CD. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of this release, the complete work of Areu Areu now appears on an album for the first time. Areu Areu created the perfect soundtrack for a party in the hot summer of '91. Areu Areu are danceable, unpolished and wild.
CHUNKLET INDUSTRIES
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CAT #: CHKLP 010LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MAN OR ASTROMAN Defcon 5...4...3...2...1 LP
Originally released in 2013. "Repress on blue vinyl. Man Or Astroman have returned to earth for the human masses and after years of hibernation they are now unveiling their finest recorded work to date. it has been nearly 12 years since the band last released their intergalactic sonic wave forms, and the new album, Defcon 5...4...3...2...1 is here now with a striking validity that the band is unquestionably as both tuneful and energetic as they ever have been. The record combines ever-familiar Astro audio tones and the well-established playing ferocity that MoAM are known for, but yet now, there is an un- deniably evolution to the band that is both intuitive, logical and well crafted. Defcon is here and is here with imminent purpose. Recorded by Steve Albini and Daniel Farris."
CIEN FUEGOS (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: CF 025LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
PILZ/PETER KOWALD/PAUL LOVENS, MICHEL Carpathes LP
Produced and recorded by Jost Gebers on August 1st and 2nd, and September 7th and 8th, 1975 in Berlin. This album was originally released on FMP in 1976. Vinyl remastering by Martin Siewert in 2021. Cover design by Paul Lovens. Personnel: Michel Pilz - bass clarinet; Peter Kowald - bass; Paul Lovens - percussion. 180 gram vinyl.
CLUB CULTURE RARITIES (GERMANY)
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CAT #: CCR 008EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MR. MARVIN Entity 12"
Club Culture Rarities, the record label exclusively dedicated to re-prints of cult and rare 12" taken form Expanded Music's labels. The eighth release on Club Culture Rarities: Entity, originally released on Dance Floor Corporation in 1991. Before becoming world champion of acrobatic flight, Mr Marvin (aka Sasha Marvin) has been one of the most appreciated Italian deep house producers and DJs. Joyful acrobatic flights are present in the variety of sounds that go throughout the four original versions, all included in this new precious re-release of the 1991 Entity by Mr. Marvin.
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CAT #: CCR 009EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
N.O.I.A. Stranger In A Strange Land 12"
Club Culture Rarities is a record label exclusively dedicated to re-prints of cult and rare 12" taken form Expanded Music's labels. The ninth release on Club Culture Rarities is Stranger In A Strange Land from N.O.I.A., originally released on Italian Records in 1983.
COSMIC ROCK (ITALY)
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CAT #: COSMR 012LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
UCHIDA & THE FLOWERS, YUYA Challenge! LP
Reissue, originally released in 1969. All-in-all the debut album by cultish Japanese freak-rockers Flower Travellin' Band, then called Yuya Uchida & The Flowers. It features mainly cover songs of influential Western bands such as Cream, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Jefferson Airplane. It was named number 34 on Bounce's 2009 list of "54 Standard Japanese Rock Albums."
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CAT #: COSMR 013LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
ADVANCEMENT, THE The Advancement LP
Reissue, originally released in 1969. After collaborating with Gabor Szabo on such influential "rare groove" albums as More Sorcery (1967) and Dreams (1968), bassist Louis Kabok and drummer Hal Gordon further embraced jazz-rock fusion under The Advancement moniker. Their self-titled album from 1969 opens with the moody expressiveness of "Juliet" moving on "Moorish Mode" on more interesting drums break. Their heady melting pot of jazz, hard rock, and psychedelia is anyhow well described on closing number "Fall Out".
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CAT #: COSMR 014LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
ASSAGAI Assagai LP
Reissue, originally released in 1971. South-African jazz-rock worshippers alert! Assagai was an Afro-rock band, active in the early 1970s in London, whose relatively short career produced two albums recorded in 1971. It has been described as "the second best-known African group of the late '60s/early '70s in Britain" after Osibisa. The original band consisted of five members, three from South Africa and two from Nigeria: drummer Louis Moholo, trumpeter/flautist Mongezi Feza, alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana, tenor saxophonist Bizo Mngqikana, and guitarist/bassist Fred Coker Assagai's self-titled debut album was released in 1971 on Vertigo; among the African musicians who played with the group on the recording was Terri Quaye. Previously, in the 1960s Pukwana, Feza, and Moholo had been members of the jazz band The Blue Notes alongside Chris McGregor.
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CAT #: COSMR 015LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FLIED EGG Dr. Siegel's Fried Egg Shooting Machine LP
Reissue. 1972 debut album by cultish Japanese combo. This unbelievable psychedelic/progressive rock band came together the same year after Shigeru Narumo and Hiro Tsunoda shelved their project Strawberry Path (they had a sole album release in 1971 and eventually a 7"). Their sound is pure adrenaline, a stormy, hard blues kinda thing, with heavy Hammond organ riffs and more than a freakbeat influence. Partially informed by contemporary British bands, like Deep Purple or Uriah Heep, they opened to more gentle and sophisticated arrangements in the soulful ballad "I Love You" with an epic string section. The hypothetical single "Plastic Fantasy" could have been an alternative dancefloor classic with that Traffic/Brian Auger feel in the end.
DELTRON PARTNERS
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CAT #: DEL 75040LP
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DELTRON 3030 Deltron 3030: The Instrumentals 2LP
2022 repress. "Deltron 3030 The Instrumentals is the sibling of Deltron 3030's legendary self-titled debut and an experience all its own. Since the record's release in 2000, Deltron 3030 has moved into the pantheon of greatest recordings of all time, of any genre. Del's Deltron Zero persona certainly has much to do with the release's setting in a dystopian future. But beyond that, and beyond the great guest appearances the foundation of that setting is the sonic landscape presented by Dan The Automator. The Instrumentals puts the focus on the mood forged by The Automator's soundscapes which create a listening experience often referred to as cinematic. Long out of print since its initial release in 2001, The Instrumentals return housed in a unique die-cut jacket with a full color obi rounding out the package. The result is a set that's visual appeal compliments the rich soundscape created by Dan The Automator."
DIGITMOVIES (ITALY)
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CAT #: CDDM 319CD
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NICOLAI, BRUNO Il Conte Dracula CD
Digitmovies presents the original soundtrack for Jesus Franco's Count Dracula (aka Il Conte Dracula). The series Bruno Nicolai for Jess Franco comes back, years after, with this divine soundtrack composed and directed by Bruno Nicolai. Although the film was released in theaters in 1970, it was only in 1982 that Edipan released a LP record containing twenty stereo tracks selected by the author. In 1994, that same material was released on CD. Thanks to the stereo master tapes of the original recording session, one unpublished track was discovered. The soundtrack opens with Dracula's theme called "Processo", epic and suggestive piece with the intervention of the Hungarian harpsichord played by Leonida Torrebuono, which is then brought back in several tracks, such as "Sparviero", "Incubi", and "Magia". Dramatic music takes turns with classical music, like "Concerto variator". This edition is a new chapter in the ever-growing discography of maestro Nicolai, a musician much loved by his fans all over the world.
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CAT #: LPDM 040LP
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NICOLAI, BRUNO Il Conte Dracula LP
LP version. Color vinyl. Digitmovies presents the original soundtrack for Jesus Franco's Count Dracula (aka Il Conte Dracula). The series Bruno Nicolai for Jess Franco comes back, years after, with this divine soundtrack composed and directed by Bruno Nicolai. Although the film was released in theaters in 1970, it was only in 1982 that Edipan released a LP record containing twenty stereo tracks selected by the author. In 1994, that same material was released on CD. Thanks to the stereo master tapes of the original recording session, one unpublished track was discovered. The soundtrack opens with Dracula's theme called "Processo", epic and suggestive piece with the intervention of the Hungarian harpsichord played by Leonida Torrebuono, which is then brought back in several tracks, such as "Sparviero", "Incubi", and "Magia". Dramatic music takes turns with classical music, like "Concerto variator". This edition is a new chapter in the ever-growing discography of maestro Nicolai, a musician much loved by his fans all over the world.
DIRT CREW (GERMANY)
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CAT #: DIRT 141EP
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MILL, STEVE Love Attack EP 12"
Back from a hot summer we are presenting you this great new release by Steve Mill who truly captures the sun and warmth in these new jams. The Greek born artist who lives between Berlin and Thessaloniki just released his The Mistake EP on Tensnake's own True Romance label where you could already hear his soulful and groovy disco infused sound. The opener "Love Attack" is a real "good times" tune with catchy vocal snips and a bad ass funky arpeggio bass line topped with spaced-out strings and pads, this one is reminiscent of Krystal Klear material and Lorenz Rhode. Saying that, there was no one better than Lorenz to take on this tune and drawing the inspiration to create his own super funked-up version. As always, all parts are played and recorded live in his Cologne studio with the same hot summer vibes on this one as well. You can find the vocal version on vinyl. "Make Me Feel" featuring the Berlin based vocalist Tee Amara has disco flavors all over it and is just an irresistible house tune, majestic and soulful. Followed by the slow and developing "Next to You" that's steadily building towards a crescendo "heaven" gem, much in the tradition of disco edits from back in the '80s. It is reminiscent of Ben La Desh records on Dirt Crew from ten years ago. Get in the groove with Steve and Lorenz and let it surprise you with a truly funky, groovy, and above all positive vibes. Mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne. Photography and art by Break 3000.
DOGHOUSE & BONE RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: DGRTR 001LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
RONDELLS, THE Exotic Sounds From Night Trips LP
The new exotica sensation has a name: The Rondells. This talented French trio+1 is exploring the world and its crazy rhythms on this amazing debut album. All the cuts were recorded and mixed at the Electrophonic Studio, down in Lyon, France, by the wizard of the place, Hervé Bessenay. With a handful of vacuum equipment and vintage effects, Hervé's got it! The mid-century lounge exotica sound that was in vogue from Miami to Malibu in the '50s... full analog recording rules! So get your bamboo skirt and limbo barefoot in the sand.
DRAG CITY
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CAT #: DC 851LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
BITCHIN BAJAS Switched On Ra LP
"A year after the cassette-only release of Switched On Ra, another format has fallen from whatever kind of rare ether Bitchin Bajas occupy when they're at home. The LP edition of Switched On Ra bears all the same riches (only richer of course) in its grooves, adding a lovely screen-printed rendering of the graphics to its larger-than-cassette-cosmos dimensions. Switched On Ra is the outcome of a typical Bajas exercise: pouring some out for the pioneers that came before (as they've done with Bitchitronics and their participation in the annual Chicago performance of 'In C' over the years) . . . Before long, they're playing with the inspirations twined, as they can only come from within. For Switched On Ra, this meant a deep delve into the song-book of one of their soul-predecessors, Sun Ra, whose music is literally written in the Bajas DNA. Digging into this music sounded wild on paper: the drone synth group taking on the Arkestra harmonies and Ra's loose grooves? The trick was to get that sense of rhythm to translate across the spectrum from Ra to Bajas, in a way that worked for them both. Their rearrangements of the tunes went good -- up and down the EQ band, they were finding the round sounds and jagged edges that brought Ra's music into their own thing. Then at the last minute, there was another twist -- why not pay tribute to the Queen herself, and think of the arrangements with a Wendy Carlos vibe? A little side homage? After all, Switched on Bach was visionary, bringing analog synths from the outside all the way into the mainstream in the late '60s -- and this take on Ra is meant to take him to new ears everywhere . . . Bitchin Bajas have been content to dominate in a microtonal world, usually without a single chord to be found anywhere. But here, they step up righteously, their vibe triangulated as they bring Ra's music forward with some Wendy C style, making an unexpected space for all to thrive. There's a real feeling of joy as these collected signals bounce off the platter and through the speakers into your space. To get this unique colloid exactly right, Bitchin Bajas used nineteen different keyboards. They abstained from deploying their arsenal of reed and woodwind instruments: everything had to be on the keys. This meant Yamahas, Rolands, Korgs, Casios, a MicroMoog and of course their trusty Ace Tone organ. They even broke out the Crumar DS-2, to have some of Ra's chosen tone in the mix. Then Jayve Montgomery added an EWI as a solo voice on a few tunes, just to get some air-blown signal (and a natural shout out to EWI master Marshall Allen) in there, after all..."
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CAT #: DC 852LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
NACE, BILL Through a Room LP
"Bill Nace's Through a Room represents a seismic progression from Both, his startling 2020 debut solo LP for Drag City. Nace's career has been defined by a relentless probing of ways to frame the complex menu of human emotions, and that the guitar has been his primary tool for exploring this terrain is of little consequence. On this new release, he also employs tapes, hurdy gurdy, doughnut pipe, quelle est belle, as well as his latest instrument of choice, taish?goto. This is also, ultimately, insignificant. What matters is the discerning spirit which animates his work. The tracks are carefully built from loops and phrases that talk to each other, subsume one another, overlapping and crashing and diving and expanding and emerging into unimagined vistas. On the whole, the record offers a fascinating and engrossing chronicle -- a sequence of interrelated stories told by a temporally dislodged narrator. You think you're here, then you're there, and then you go through trapdoors and along tunnels, into cellars and secret rooms, and you find that actually you're back where you started. But it's not hard to follow. Trust me. Nothing this enticing can be hard to follow. The record was recorded and edited in Philadelphia during the uncertain summer of 2021 with engineer and co-producer Cooper Crain. Where Both was a chiseling down of spontaneous live performance, Through a Room, while obviously the work of the same artist, treats its sounds as building blocks, combining them to mesmerizing effect. What's striking is the poise, the degree of authorial intensity. The false dichotomy of composition and improvisation is thoroughly and rightfully abolished. Bill's interests range from post-punk to post-industrial to hip-hop to free jazz to avant-garde composition, and every area between such unhelpful labels. From the inscrutable, evocative track titles to the enticingly baffling cover art by his longtime compatriot Daniel Higgs, Nace is guided by an ineffable, internal muse, a persistently personal stormcloud of ideas that, ultimately, comprise that thing we call art. Here's the real deal." --Matt Krefting, Holyoke, 2022
DROID (GERMANY)
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CAT #: DROID 922EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
IDJUT BOYS Portion Out Of Control 12"
Portion out of control. In a shocking act of extreme togetherness, and ruthless efficiency, a third Droid platter in one earth year. The crack management team at Tape Man Enterprises have assured you this is not a temporary blip, more bacon donors will be flying through the cosmos... as sure as night follows day, thus proving that for some ineptitude can work as a lifestyle choice and pigs do fly. Hopefully this humble offering can pierce the shitstorm of life and help replenish your joy batteries...
ECHO BEACH (GERMANY)
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CAT #: EB 067RED-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DUBXANNE Police in Dub (Red Vinyl) LP
Red vinyl version. Originally released on CD only in 2008, this album has been in constant demand and has already seen a number of vinyl reissues. At the beginning of the 1980s, The Police were among the biggest acts on the planet, and their reunion tour in 2007 filled halls and stadiums worldwide. Like hardly any other pop band, the trio profited from influences of African and especially Jamaican music. Songs like "So Lonely" and "My Bed's Too Big Without You" would be nothing without Sting's bass foundation carpentered parallel to the vocals, and "Walking On The Moon" is probably one of the few reggae-killer bass lines that originated outside Jamaica. Time for an appreciation of a special kind: DubXanne is probably the first dub showcase based entirely on Police riddims. The album was recorded by Okada, the backing band of reggae artist Zoe, and many guests like Earl 16, Rankin Rogers, Eased (Seeed), and poet Benjamin Zephaniah. The result is saturated bass, a dynamic, repetitive steady beat, sound system atmosphere and above all: synchronicity -- a feedback of The Police's abstracted reggae elements with their Jamaican roots.
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CAT #: EB 139LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
NOISESHAPER Noiseshaper LP
The sound company operating under the project name Noiseshaper is poised to release a very special vinyl album into record shops worldwide. The band received great acclaim for their first albums, which were released on the legendary and famous Rockers Hifi label Different Drummer. They later became celebrated for their musical contribution to the US television series CSI - Miami! The Viennese coffee table boys Axel Hirn and Florian Fleischmann achieved cult status with their 12" single The Only Redeemer, which was later released in the US by Quango (Island Records/Palm Pictures) and fast became a permanent fixture on the playlists of the best and most popular DJs in Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo, Paris, London, and New York. The next dancefloor filler followed with "All A Dem A Do", sung by Juggla, which was the band's first release to get heavy rotation on many European and US radio stations. Next up were remixes by and for heavyweights such as Sly & Robbie, Outkast, Seven Dub, and Carl Douglas. Noiseshaper's defining sound has been distilled and condensed an utterly distinctive blend of "house-y downbeats with a fat reggae flavor" has brought the Noiseshaper's international acclaim and popularity. The very special vinyl release is the essential of what Noiseshaper has ever done all over the years with a special focus on heavy bass remixes by Adrian Sherwood and Paolo Baldini. It is another very impressive display of how a musical style has progressed. Dub as a style with all its reference points between commerce and innovation! Eight pounding dub flavor tunes all are best for bringing the dancefloors of the dub universe to boiling point. Heavy bass for heavy dancing! Features Sammy Dread, Kid Kenobi, MC Shureshock, Vido Jelashe I, G.Rizo, and Juggla.
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CAT #: EB 185CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
L.A.B L.A.B In Dub (by Paolo Baldini DubFiles) CD
L.A.B return with a brand-new remix album L.A.B In Dub. The ten-track album features an array of dubbed-out L.A.B remixes by Italian producer and remixer Paolo Baldini DubFiles. This collection of tracks has been lovingly crafted by Baldini at his Alambic Conspiracy Studio in San Foca, Italy. Each dub has been created live in the studio, with Baldini working live on the stems of each track. These new versions are all created in one take with no overdubs or edits, creating entirely new versions. With the tracks hand-picked from L.A.B's catalog, L.A.B In Dub see's Baldini bring a new light with his dubbed-out versions. Combining a range of L.A.B's eclectic sounds including funk-inspired tune "Fashion Dread" and reggae-pop fan favorite "Why Oh Why", the album sees Baldini bring his signature dub-filtered sound, approaching each track with his analog techniques inspired by Jamaican pioneers King Tubby and Scientist. Following on from multiple number one singles and albums, alongside a growing list of platinum sales and awards across New Zealand and Australia, this is the band's first ever full-length remix album in collaboration with Loop and European dub-focused label Echo Beach.More on L.A.B: L.A.B's groove blends an eclectic mix of reggae, electronic, blues, funk, and rock -- all combining to create a sound entirely their own. L.A.B made their name on the live stages of Australasia and were recently publicly-voted as Radio New Zealand's Best Live Act. L.A.B have become a mainstay in the NZ Music Charts and on the festival circuit, performing at every major festival across NZ, plus marquee slots at the Byron Bay Bluesfest and WOMADelaide. A summer run of sold-out stadium and greenfield shows from January to April 2022 saw them perform to over 70,000 people in Australia and New Zealand and take out fourth spot in Pollstar's top Australasian acts for 2021/2022. 2021 saw L.A.B win Best Group, Best Album and Best Single at the New Zealand Music Awards, named as the most-played NZ act on NZ radio. After releasing five albums in five years, the band have cemented themselves on the NZ charts, with "In The Air" and "Why Oh Why" both reaching number one and remaining in the charts for over three years. Their accomplishments include all five albums reaching platinum status, alongside ten platinum singles and 13 gold singles. The biggest of these include "Why Oh Why" (three-times-Platinum), "Controller" (six-times-Platinum), and "In The Air" (eight-times-Platinum in NZ and Gold in Australia).
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CAT #: EB 185LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
L.A.B L.A.B In Dub (by Paolo Baldini DubFiles) LP
LP version. L.A.B return with a brand-new remix album L.A.B In Dub. The ten-track album features an array of dubbed-out L.A.B remixes by Italian producer and remixer Paolo Baldini DubFiles. This collection of tracks has been lovingly crafted by Baldini at his Alambic Conspiracy Studio in San Foca, Italy. Each dub has been created live in the studio, with Baldini working live on the stems of each track. These new versions are all created in one take with no overdubs or edits, creating entirely new versions. With the tracks hand-picked from L.A.B's catalog, L.A.B In Dub see's Baldini bring a new light with his dubbed-out versions. Combining a range of L.A.B's eclectic sounds including funk-inspired tune "Fashion Dread" and reggae-pop fan favorite "Why Oh Why", the album sees Baldini bring his signature dub-filtered sound, approaching each track with his analog techniques inspired by Jamaican pioneers King Tubby and Scientist. Following on from multiple number one singles and albums, alongside a growing list of platinum sales and awards across New Zealand and Australia, this is the band's first ever full-length remix album in collaboration with Loop and European dub-focused label Echo Beach.More on L.A.B: L.A.B's groove blends an eclectic mix of reggae, electronic, blues, funk, and rock -- all combining to create a sound entirely their own. L.A.B made their name on the live stages of Australasia and were recently publicly-voted as Radio New Zealand's Best Live Act. L.A.B have become a mainstay in the NZ Music Charts and on the festival circuit, performing at every major festival across NZ, plus marquee slots at the Byron Bay Bluesfest and WOMADelaide. A summer run of sold-out stadium and greenfield shows from January to April 2022 saw them perform to over 70,000 people in Australia and New Zealand and take out fourth spot in Pollstar's top Australasian acts for 2021/2022. 2021 saw L.A.B win Best Group, Best Album and Best Single at the New Zealand Music Awards, named as the most-played NZ act on NZ radio. After releasing five albums in five years, the band have cemented themselves on the NZ charts, with "In The Air" and "Why Oh Why" both reaching number one and remaining in the charts for over three years. Their accomplishments include all five albums reaching platinum status, alongside ten platinum singles and 13 gold singles. The biggest of these include "Why Oh Why" (three-times-Platinum), "Controller" (six-times-Platinum), and "In The Air" (eight-times-Platinum in NZ and Gold in Australia).
EDITION AKASHA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: EDAK 002EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
HAUL, EIRA Star Vertigo 12"
You'd spent our whole life in a dance of fear. And when you examine that, you realize that very often the thing you were frightened of wasn't nearly as frightening as the fear. Eira Haul returns to Edition Akasha to launch us into the ether by way of the Star Vertigo EP. Moving across a luminous range of otherworldly atmospheres, five tantalizing original cuts strike a spellbinding balance between body-shaking euphoria and meditative mind-healing. On the A-side, the garage shuffle and ultra-deep bass wobbles of "Ceramics" corrode beneath its hypnotic strings, while the fast-paced acid lines of "Anthracite" bubble and squeak over a choir of fallen angles. "Memory Rush" captures a similar tension as the engulfing dub chords at its center ebb and flow on-top a muscular four-to-the-floor pulse to illuminate the darkest of nights. The B-side is equally captivating: Like a gravitational collapse, the stellar melodies of "Incense Trip" break down into a void of razor-sharp percussion only to shine again in full effect thereafter. Lastly, Eira Haul sheds the black holes to ascend to catharsis with "Star Vertigo": "We wanted to try to understand what the fear is [...] and whether that energy is something we can transform -- is it our friend, is it our foe?" muses the voice on-top the tender bounce of the title-track's lush framework, leaving you with a lofty sense of hope transcending this exceptional sophomore EP.
EDIZIONI MONDO (ITALY)
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CAT #: MND 014EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
WANDT, NIKLAS Abbondanza 12"
"The five tracks that became Abbondanza all materialized from summer to winter of 2020, a time of unprecedented productivity in the home studio. Some of them developed from first time fiddlings on new synthesizers, some from unaccompanied jams on percussion instruments. I hope these tracks capture my naive fascination and joyful jamming I had while creating them. My Florentine friends of the Intro-Spettiva collective introduced me to the concept of 'stalla' (stables) -- their codeword for a proper party. At a particularly memorable Tuscan stalla in 2019, I got to know Edizioni Mondo head Francesco de Bellis and his amazing music. A year later, we listened to the first demos of this record in his damp basement studio close to Vatican City and here it is in all its abundance!" --Niklas Wandt
EFFICIENT SPACE (AUSTRALIA)
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CAT #: EFFICIENT 030EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
JEFF DREAD Dub The Farmer's Daughter/Out On A Limb 7"
A double shot of Y2K digi thrillers from Sydney via Bromley electro-dub producer Jeff Dread. Part of the city's burgeoning network of blunted bass and sound system culture, Dread worked in parallel with the likes of Sheriff Lindo, Andy Rantzen, and Ali Omar, issuing two dynamite albums on Creative Vibes in 1999 and 2001. Utilizing the Atari 1020 Ste, Dread would frantically live mix up to nine tracks direct to CD-R, echoing the same rough and ready low-tech intuition as Jamaican trailblazers King Tubby, Scientist and Jack Ruby and their UK-based disciples Jah Shaka, Adrian Sherwood and Mad Professor. While unmarked discs of his indulgently durational sessions litter the archives, this plate showcases versions immortalized by two crucial compilation CDs. Wicked stepper "Dub The Farmer's Daughter" burrows the ear canal with its addictive melodica and tightly coiled acid synth lines, edited for high impact by Sheriff Lindo for his volume of Dub For the Masses (Dread would curate its successor), while "Out On A Limb" hails from Just Is, a double album sequenced by legendary Sydney queer party crew Club Kooky. A bass bin creeper that was extended with horns for his second long-player Return From Alpha One, it's this unembellished work in progress that really stings. With Dread's allegiance to local sound system heavyweights Firehouse, these totally brained studio jams are tried and tested weapons, finally blasting on the sacred 7" format.
ELISION FIELDS
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CAT #: EF 101CD
FILE UNDER: CLASSICAL
RILEY, TERRY Les Yeux Fermés & Lifespan CD
2022 restock. "After changing the world in the late '60s with In C and A Rainbow in Curved Air, legendary American composer and father of minimalism Terry Riley abandoned tape manipulation and written composition to concentrate on longform keyboard cycles and improvisations. In the early '70s, while in Europe, he was invited to create scores for two films. The first, in 1972, was Joel Santoni's Les Yeux Fermés, a feature-length art film that instantly became a cult classic by virtue of its never having screened in the USA. The second, Lifespan, directed by Alexander Whitelaw in 1974, featured Klaus Kinski. Both soundtracks were released in limited editions on LP and have long been out-of-print. This first-ever CD release of these two classic Terry Riley soundtracks -- both on one disc -- was remastered from the original tapes, the hypnotic songs sounding far superior to the below-average vinyl pressings. Having brought the '60s Corti archive back into print, Elision Fields now turns its attention to the under-examined crucial period of Riley's work -- the '60s."
ESKAPADEN (GERMANY)
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CAT #: ESK 123LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MANNI MONO Pension Central LP
Behind Manni Mono hides Schu von Blumentopf, he was 1/5 of the band Blumentopf and has given the band as a lyricist and rapper several Top 10 albums. He finally exchanged the mic for a sampler. With Pension Central he now celebrates his vinyl long-player debut. Almost infinite samples and set pieces are disassembled down to their molecular structure and put together to a nerdy and yet unique mosaic. Pension Central is a true Frankenstein in the world of beat.
FAITICHE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: FAITICHE 027LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SCHERK, JONATHAN Toon! LP
As Jonathan Scherk's split album with Daniel Majer, It's Counterpart (FAITICHE 019LP, 2019), made abundantly clear, Jonathan Scherk is a master of his craft. Toon! immerses you in a highly distinctive world of plunderphonics-sampledelica-
FIGURE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: FIGURE X026EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ROBERT, ARTHUR Transition Part 2 12"
Limited restock. Transition Part 2 continues Arthur Robert's reduced style, opening with a sleek tunnel-vision thumper, but then deviates for a playful breakbeat space exploration in collaboration with like-minded modular nerd Naty Seres. Eventually closing out the B-side of his strong eight-track package, Robert first boils the energy down to essential deep minimalist trip first, then ramps up the levels one last time for an exquisite example in rumbling dub-techno. Both parts of the Transition EPs firmly establish Arthur Robert further as an expert craftsman, merging the sonic textures of psychedelic jams with the forceful rhythms and intricate melodies of purist techno.
FINDERS KEEPERS (UK)
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CAT #: FKR 001X-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VANNIER, JEAN-CLAUDE L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches (FKR 10th Anniversary Edition) LP
2022 repress. To mark its 2015 ten-year anniversary, the Finders Keepers label presents an improved, remastered repress, with updated liner notes in a gatefold sleeve, of its first release, a reissue of Jean-Claude Vannier's 1972 album L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches. At the time of the 2005 reissue the resurgence of '60s Gallic pop, once known as yé-yé music, had escalated beyond an interstellar height. Without a shadow of doubt, the flagship LP with the best odds on becoming a discerning household object was Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971) by one Serge Gainsbourg, an inimitable 45-minute concept LP handcrafted by a bass-driven psychedelic rock group and a heaven-sent 1001-piece orchestral and choral symphony. The album left hip hop producers and progressive rock aficionados crying out for more and more for years to come. This LP was in a league of its very own... or was it? The seldom-sung musical arranger for Melody Nelson, Jean-Claude Vannier, is the lesser-spotted tell-tale seal of sample-friendly quality when it comes to crate-digging "en Français." Suitably, rumors among French record dealers claiming "the band who played Melody Nelson recorded a follow-up LP" became a legend of psychedelic folklore. Another unconfirmed rumor about JCV taking the remaining outtakes of the beloved Melody Nelson to create a promo-only experimental rock LP left sample-hungry producers and DJs in turmoil... The answers to these mysteries lay between the gatefold sleeve of an undiscovered conceptual album bizarrely titled L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches by a custom-built avant-rock entourage called Insolitudes. So here we have it. For record-collectors looking for that special something, this LP contains the extra-special everything. Peruse the following genres: psychedelic, classical, soundtrack, jazz, hip hop, samples, avant-garde, funk. Then place a copy of L'Enfant Assassin des Mouches in each section. History notes that when M. Gainsbourg first heard the initial bones of this LP he took his poetic pencil to paper and composed bizarre liner notes, thus consummating the most extraordinary concept album of all time. The story "The Child Assassin of the Flies" was to be included as the only information to grace the LP's highly collectible concertina-gatefold sleeve. The story in full is reproduced in its native tongue on this very special re-release package. DJs and producers such as Jim O'Rourke, Stereolab's Tim Gane, and David Holmes have spent sleepless nights in perusal of original copies of this perfect release and now regard it as "One of the Best."
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CAT #: FKR 110LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
SPOERRI, BRUNO Der Wurger Vom Tower LP
There's a devious religious sect underneath the Tower Of London which consists of some of the most greedy and powerful men and women in the world! The plot of this obscure Soho-based German thriller perhaps feels more believable during today's political climate than it did when it was released back in 1966, taking diehard fans of Edgar Wallace paperback adaptations on a slightly more macabre and mystical journey than they had come to expect. What is perhaps less believable is the almost "criminal" fact that this films unheard spooked-out jazz score by one of the most innovative European players and composers has spent almost fifty-five years locked away. For those who thought soundtracks and conceptual cinematic records like Mad Monster Party and The Vampires Of Dartmoore were unrivalled in there phantasmagorical micro-genres, well the time has come for the original "jazz electronicien" Bruno Spoerri and the Finders Keepers archivists to unleash thick plodding bass lines, mind-bending percussion effects, wayward electric organs and breakneck European jazz to the loneliest part of your record library. Encapsulated in the unbroken chains of baritonal chants by mystical mad monks during cloaked underground ceremonies while the life-blood of some of the most important and coveted players of the Swiss, French and German jazz scenes perform outlandish musical exchanges under Dr. Spoerri's watchful eye Der Wurger vom Tower delivers on a rare conceptual brief marking a truly unique moment in their combined careers. Having finally been liberated from Bruno Spoerri's meticulous master tape vault this music takes you to the furthest reaches spanning right back to his first-ever feature-length soundtrack commission in order to find its place alongside other recently resuscitated oblique jazz scores by the likes of Basil Kirchin, Krzysztof Komeda, Angelo Michajlov, Roger Webb, and Jonny Scott. For an established jazz composer like Spoerri, who would quickly gravitate towards the rise of electronic music to become one of its biggest champions and pioneers, it is easy to identify within this score the early murmurs of minimal electronic sound design and bizarre jarring keyboard motifs which wouldn't sound out of place in recordings by Sun Ra if you can imagine an unlikely recording session with the John Barry Seven. Heinz Pfenninger's thick plodding bass notes (complete with double tracking and spring reverbs) embody the classic Bert Kaempfer. and Tony Fisher's wet bass sound, successfully pinning down the sodden plot against the damp underground canals of '60s London in conjunction with legendary Swiss jazz drummer Rolf Banninger as the rhythm sections unwittingly channels McCallum and Axelrod in the dark shadows.
GET ON DOWN
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CAT #: GET 51310LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
NAS It Was Written 2LP
2022 repress. 'Illmatic, the 1994 studio debut of Nasir 'Nas' Jones, was more than just a critical success for the Queensbridge-based rapper. At a time when East Coast hip-hop was increasingly being taken less seriously than their West Coast counterparts, Illmatic's raw jazz and soul-based production, dire atmosphere and lyrics, coupled with Nas' uncompromising flow was integral in restoring interest in the East Coast as a hotbed of hip-hop artistry. Along with key releases from Wu-Tang Clan and Notorious B.I.G., it shifted attention away from the funky, dayglo synth-based G-funk coming out of California and back to the grimy streets of New York. After such an unprecedented debut record, expectations were understandably high for Nas' follow-up. What came next threw critics and fans for a loop, but was no less influential than Illmatic, and would become the most commercially successful album in the entirety of Nas' discography. The 1996 sophomore follow-up was titled It Was Written, and in contrast to the urban bleakness of his debut, had Nas dipping his toes into the world of mafioso rap. Amidst production from heavy hitters like Trackmasters, Dr. Dre, L.E.S., Havoc of Mobb Deep, and Illmatic-collaborator DJ Premier, among others, Nas weaves evocative narratives of gang warfare, downtrodden neighborhoods, drug deals gone awry, and gangsta triumph, against a backdrop of samples from Sam Cooke, Etta James, the Isley Brothers, and even Chuck Mangione. It Was Written was not hard up for top-tier guests either, featuring major guest turns from Lauryn Hill and Joel 'JoJo' Hailey of K-Ci & JoJo. It also introduced the world to The Firm, the brief Nas-led supergroup featuring rappers AZ, Foxy Brown, and Cormega. It even managed to cause some minor controversy in the hip-hop community for its collaboration with West Coast producer Dr. Dre, at a time when the East Coast/West Coast rap feud was reaching a fever pitch, briefly attracting the ire of one Tupac Shakur. Not only was It Was Written received warmly by critics, but became a major commercial success, reaching the top of the Billboard 200 charts, reaching platinum sales status four times, and alongside albums like Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, helped usher in the era of mafioso rap in the mainstream. It rendered chart hits out of singles like the Eurhythmics-mimicking 'Street Dreams', and the Grammy-nominated 'If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)', and proved to be a major influence on artists like Kendrick Lamar, Lupe Fiasco, and many more."
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CAT #: GET 52721LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
ROCK & C.L. SMOOTH, PETE Mecca and the Soul Brother 2LP
2022 repress. "The critically acclaimed 1992 full-length debut from Pete Rock & CL Smooth. The album is considered as one of the greatest Hip Hop albums of all time. Boasting tracks such as the first single, 'They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)', a dedication to their deceased friend; 'Trouble T-Roy', which went on to become not only their signature hit, but also one of Hip Hop's all-time great songs. The album is propelled forward by Rock's quick, soulful interludes; usually bits of old R&B tunes layered with his signature trumpet and sax loops. Smooth's liquid freestyle delivery pieces together the perfect vocal match that, together, creates a sprawling, nearly 80-minute-long album on which not a single song or interlude is a throwaway or a superfluous piece. Mecca And The Soul Brother has stood the test of time. The release has been named one of the essential recordings of the 90s by Rolling Stone, appears on Ego Trips listing of the Top 25 Hip Hop albums released from 1980-1998, and appeared on The Source's 100 Greatest Rap Albums of all time."
GLITTERBEAT (GERMANY)
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CAT #: GB 128CD
FILE UNDER: WORLD
LIRAZ Roya CD
The new third album from award-winning Israeli-Persian singer Liraz is an invitation to dream. Anthems, love ballads, glittery Middle Eastern dance tunes -- a collection of 11 tracks that enrich that signature blend of tradi-modern rhythms and retro-Persian sonics. Liraz and her Israeli sextet (three women, three men) recorded Roya over ten days in Istanbul, in a basement studio hidden from public view and crackling with creativity. With them, on violin, viola and the tar, the wasp-waisted wooden Iranian lute, were composers and musicians from the Iranian capital, Tehran. The same clutch of anonymous players who previously collaborated with Liraz online, under the radar of Tehran's secret police, for her feted 2020 album, Zan (GB 101CD/LP, 2020). Players who'd travelled undercover from Tehran to Istanbul to work with Liraz and producer/multi-instrumentalist Uri Brauner Kinrot in the flesh. Featuring music written by bassist Amir Sadot, "Doone Doone" is a rollicking ode to the Tehrani musicians Liraz befriended through computer screens. "Mimiram" delivers dramatic protestations of love with knowing irreverence; while "Omid" -- with lyrics by an anonymous Iranian female musician and music by Zan co-writer Ilan Smilan -- tells of a man named Hope and of hope, who is also a man. A slow, lonely song about Iran, the string-and-synth-driven "Tanha" was recorded on the day the Iranians may or may not have arrived in Istanbul. Her Hebrew accent intact, her confidence boosted by prestigious awards (Songlines Artist of the Year 2021) and widespread international acclaim, Liraz has never sounded so passionate, so strong and defiant. Roya, then, is the next phase of a high-profile career further distinguished by a drive to fight oppression, to champion the right of women everywhere to sing, perform and be heard. Liraz grew up dancing to the music of divas such as Ramesh and Googoosh celebrated in Tehran in the '60s and '70s, the golden age of Persian pop. She also loved female singer-songwriters: Kate Bush, Tori Amos. Lessons in singing, music and acting -- and a stint spent clubbing - were followed by three years working in the US as an actress, appearing in the big budget films such as Fair Game and A Late Quartet. Liraz also appeared as a Farsi-speaking Mossad operative in the 2020 Apple TV espionage series Tehran. In Tehrangeles -- the Little Tehran of Los Angeles -- she found her people, embraced her inner Persian. With each album, Liraz has grown bolder, more outspoken (ask her about Palestine and she'll extol Palestinian rights, too). Recorded in secrecy in Istanbul with her band from Tel Aviv and risk-defying Iranian musicians from Tehran. A musical portal to a place of peace, joy and unfettered freedom.
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CAT #: GB 129CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TAU & THE DRONES OF PRAISE Misneach CD
The kaleidoscopic third album from Seán Mulrooney and his Ireland meets Berlin ensemble. Ecstatic folk-psych that full embraces the natural world and living ancestry, through joyful experimentation and deeply rooted sonics. An inspired soundscape that echoes eclectic and eccentric atmospheres: traditional Irish folk, outsider pop, global sacred music and drone rock. Features guests from Tindersticks, Clannad, as well as Irish troubadour Damien Dempsey. Titled after this concept of bright bravery, Misneach, is the third full-length from Ireland's Tau & the Drones of Praise. Following on 2016's Tau Tau Tau and 2019's self-titled album, as well as 2020's widely acclaimed Seanóirí Naofa EP, it is a next-stage realization of the traveler-folk vision of principal songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Seán Mulrooney, whose travels invariably inform the songs being written. That's nothing new for Tau, now officially Tau & the Drones of Praise, who have in the past engaged with folk traditions stemming from Mulrooney's Irish homeland as well weaving in the teachings of the indigenous first nations people from Turtle Island, the continent of America. Recorded like its predecessors mostly in Berlin at Impression Studios by Robbie Moore, who also plays in the main four-piece studio lineup with Mulrooney, Earl Harvin (Tindersticks) and Iain Faulkner (who helmed additional recording in Dublin at Sonic Studios), Misneach is nonetheless the boldest and farthest-reaching work Tau & the Drones of Praise have done, stepping beyond expectation born of their past and into a reimagined future of interaction with the natural world both within and outside ourselves. Misneach is a homecoming for Mulrooney, who, even as the arrangement of opener "It's Right to Give Drones and Praise" seems to reference Screamadelica-era Primal Scream, establishes Ireland as the backdrop on which the songs are built. Heralded Irish folk troubadour Damien Dempsey and Pól Brennan from the legendary County Donegal band Clannad are just two of the more than 16 guests featured on the album. Engineer Robbie Moore calls it "adding to the party," a process where an organic interwovenness is joyfully unleashed. But in the hands of Mulrooney -- and the significant company he keeps -- Misneach is also the clearest and most live-sounding that Tau & the Drones of Praise have been yet. The songs are brimming with energy but are never overblown or melodramatic, even as grand ideas coincide with arrangements that, despite their depth, remain wholly unpretentious and earthed. Cultures, languages and gods tie together.
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CAT #: GB 129LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TAU & THE DRONES OF PRAISE Misneach LP
LP version. The kaleidoscopic third album from Seán Mulrooney and his Ireland meets Berlin ensemble. Ecstatic folk-psych that full embraces the natural world and living ancestry, through joyful experimentation and deeply rooted sonics. An inspired soundscape that echoes eclectic and eccentric atmospheres: traditional Irish folk, outsider pop, global sacred music and drone rock. Features guests from Tindersticks, Clannad, as well as Irish troubadour Damien Dempsey. Titled after this concept of bright bravery, Misneach, is the third full-length from Ireland's Tau & the Drones of Praise. Following on 2016's Tau Tau Tau and 2019's self-titled album, as well as 2020's widely acclaimed Seanóirí Naofa EP, it is a next-stage realization of the traveler-folk vision of principal songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Seán Mulrooney, whose travels invariably inform the songs being written. That's nothing new for Tau, now officially Tau & the Drones of Praise, who have in the past engaged with folk traditions stemming from Mulrooney's Irish homeland as well weaving in the teachings of the indigenous first nations people from Turtle Island, the continent of America. Recorded like its predecessors mostly in Berlin at Impression Studios by Robbie Moore, who also plays in the main four-piece studio lineup with Mulrooney, Earl Harvin (Tindersticks) and Iain Faulkner (who helmed additional recording in Dublin at Sonic Studios), Misneach is nonetheless the boldest and farthest-reaching work Tau & the Drones of Praise have done, stepping beyond expectation born of their past and into a reimagined future of interaction with the natural world both within and outside ourselves. Misneach is a homecoming for Mulrooney, who, even as the arrangement of opener "It's Right to Give Drones and Praise" seems to reference Screamadelica-era Primal Scream, establishes Ireland as the backdrop on which the songs are built. Heralded Irish folk troubadour Damien Dempsey and Pól Brennan from the legendary County Donegal band Clannad are just two of the more than 16 guests featured on the album. Engineer Robbie Moore calls it "adding to the party," a process where an organic interwovenness is joyfully unleashed. But in the hands of Mulrooney -- and the significant company he keeps -- Misneach is also the clearest and most live-sounding that Tau & the Drones of Praise have been yet. The songs are brimming with energy but are never overblown or melodramatic, even as grand ideas coincide with arrangements that, despite their depth, remain wholly unpretentious and earthed. Cultures, languages and gods tie together.
GOD? RECORDS
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CAT #: GODRECORDS 026
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
VA Folding Cassettes Greatest Hits LP
"That ol' spirit and image of SF has meant a lot of things loved and lost over the past couple centuries -- but the most recent golden age is still cooling in the hearts and minds of many nu music enthusiasts, god bless 'em! In truth, it's already hardened into fact and myth -- or in the case of this fantabulous GOD? release, into retrospective compilation, with the far-flung fascinations of the Folding Cassettes label repping the time and place for our dew-eyed purposes. Folding Cassettes -- yup, a cassette label -- was pretty much done and sorted when the new era of peak cassette improbably broke wide in the early twenty-teens. Back in 2001, when founded by Mike Donovan, it was more representative of the exclusive confines of the urban underground, well represented as always around the Bay area. Mike had been jitterbugging through the scene for several years, playing with this group and that, starting a label and releasing some actual LPs and CDs (to no avail) -- and with notoriety fronting Sic Alps still several years hence, he had the time and energy to reach out and tap the shoulder of his fave local talents, not to mention legends, resulting in a sequence of dozens of delightfully EFFED SF-ite releases on Folding Cassettes . . . The various musics curated included everything from lo-fi to free-form to metal (so far as rock was concerned), with further genre distinctions including abstract electronics, laptop noise, contempo-jazz-fusion, country-folk and even comedy, all of it delivered with a highly demanding, archly punk sensibility. The players? Hailing from names you might recognize today -- members of OCS (multiple ones!), Gang Gang Dance, Child Abuse, Krallice, Lightning Bolt and Comets on Fire, all of them getting down with the freedom and some truly head-cleaning sounds. Plus, Kit Clayton (as himself)! Mikey Wild! A slice of (the now-defunct style of (now impossible)) anonymous crank call comedy! And even a little number from curator Mike D. himself! All burned into vinyl for the first time literally EVER . . . The liner notes there unpack whats, whos and wheres for us, bringing other aspects of The Way It Was in those DIY days back into visceral life in all their manually-typewritten glory. No details skimped! Personal memoir touched upon! And of course, a discographical list of all 44 Folding Cassettes releases, including the unreleased Tits2 single (FC CEO, what are the odds of finally getting that one out there?!). Folding Cassettes Greatest Hits is a wild night on the old town and an earful that's awful too..."
GOOFIN'
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CAT #: GOO 022LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SONIC YOUTH Confusion Is Sex LP
2022 repress; LP version. "Originally slated to be a seven-inch single to follow up their self-titled debut, Sonic Youth's Confusion Is Sex blossomed into the band's first album: a brain-bludgeoning, completely fried endeavor of dissonance and disarray, a perfect soundtrack for running from a chain-wielding gang near the SIN Club. This was the sound of 1983 New York City: nothing like London where punks were starting to scrub their faces and sounds to get on Top of the Pops, and nothing like the jangly roots of college radio rock starting to formulate in Athens, Georgia. It sounded like no one else on Earth, for that matter. The raw, Wharton Tiers 8-track production is dark, the Kim Gordon-scrawled cover figure art of Thurston Moore is dark, Lee Renaldo 's back cover photo-collage and Catherine Ceresole's crumpled-xeroxed images that adorned the inside are dark. It's an album that moves Sonic Youth forward from their first EP almost by devolving backwards into true ugly, lo-fi primitivity."
GUIDED BY VOICES INC.
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CAT #: EAT 018BK
FILE UNDER: Misc
POLLARD, ROBERT EAT 18 Book
"235 pages of Robert Pollard's fantastic collage art in a perfect bound book. HE NEVER STOPS CREATING."
HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: HPS 234CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE To Hell With The Lords CD
Reissue, originally released in 2002. "We were tired of instrumental music, and completely burned out after touring 300 + shows a year in our previous band (the Bomboras). We needed a change, we needed rock n' roll -- fuzz guitar and leather. We were out for blood --big boots, bikes, and wild angels!" Recorded 100% analog and mastered to tape. Garage punk in its purity. Take all your biker movie soundtracks and throw 'em away, replace it with the soundtrack to your life -- To Hell With The Lords.
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CAT #: HPS 234LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE To Hell With The Lords LP
LP version. Reissue, originally released in 2002. "We were tired of instrumental music, and completely burned out after touring 300 + shows a year in our previous band (the Bomboras). We needed a change, we needed rock n' roll -- fuzz guitar and leather. We were out for blood --big boots, bikes, and wild angels!" Recorded 100% analog and mastered to tape. Garage punk in its purity. Take all your biker movie soundtracks and throw 'em away, replace it with the soundtrack to your life -- To Hell With The Lords.
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CAT #: HPS 234LTD-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE To Hell With The Lords (Oxblood Vinyl) LP
LP version. Oxblood vinyl. Reissue, originally released in 2002. "We were tired of instrumental music, and completely burned out after touring 300 + shows a year in our previous band (the Bomboras). We needed a change, we needed rock n' roll -- fuzz guitar and leather. We were out for blood --big boots, bikes, and wild angels!" Recorded 100% analog and mastered to tape. Garage punk in its purity. Take all your biker movie soundtracks and throw 'em away, replace it with the soundtrack to your life -- To Hell With The Lords.
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CAT #: HPS 234ULTRA-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE To Hell With The Lords (White/Red/Black Vinyl) LP
LP version. Striped white/red/black vinyl. Reissue, originally released in 2002. "We were tired of instrumental music, and completely burned out after touring 300 + shows a year in our previous band (the Bomboras). We needed a change, we needed rock n' roll -- fuzz guitar and leather. We were out for blood --big boots, bikes, and wild angels!" Recorded 100% analog and mastered to tape. Garage punk in its purity. Take all your biker movie soundtracks and throw 'em away, replace it with the soundtrack to your life -- To Hell With The Lords.
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CAT #: HPS 235CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE Lords Have Mercy CD
Reissue, originally released in 2005. "Our attempt to achieve the sound of the Sonics first album with extra raw drums recorded live In Long Beach California Shawn Medina (bass player) did all the guitar playing aside from Wic Coleman (close friend and honorary member) the solo for 'Velvet' on a big box 100watt JMP Marshall and 1968 Burns Bison. Johnny had left the band after co-writing and performing most of the songs on this album. 'Action' was written with the plans to have Poison Ivy play the lead. It was discussed, but never became a reality. Todd Youth (formerly of Agnostic Front/Warzone/Murphys Law/Danzig) joined the band shortly after."
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CAT #: HPS 235LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE Lords Have Mercy LP
LP version. Reissue, originally released in 2005. "Our attempt to achieve the sound of the Sonics first album with extra raw drums recorded live In Long Beach California Shawn Medina (bass player) did all the guitar playing aside from Wic Coleman (close friend and honorary member) the solo for 'Velvet' on a big box 100watt JMP Marshall and 1968 Burns Bison. Johnny had left the band after co-writing and performing most of the songs on this album. 'Action' was written with the plans to have Poison Ivy play the lead. It was discussed, but never became a reality. Todd Youth (formerly of Agnostic Front/Warzone/Murphys Law/Danzig) joined the band shortly after."
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CAT #: HPS 235LTD-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE Lords Have Mercy (Violet Vinyl) LP
LP version. Violet vinyl. Reissue, originally released in 2005. "Our attempt to achieve the sound of the Sonics first album with extra raw drums recorded live In Long Beach California Shawn Medina (bass player) did all the guitar playing aside from Wic Coleman (close friend and honorary member) the solo for 'Velvet' on a big box 100watt JMP Marshall and 1968 Burns Bison. Johnny had left the band after co-writing and performing most of the songs on this album. 'Action' was written with the plans to have Poison Ivy play the lead. It was discussed, but never became a reality. Todd Youth (formerly of Agnostic Front/Warzone/Murphys Law/Danzig) joined the band shortly after."
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CAT #: HPS 235ULTRA-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE Lords Have Mercy (Red/Orange/Black Splatter Vinyl) LP
LP version. Transparent back, red/orange/black splatter vinyl. Reissue, originally released in 2005. "Our attempt to achieve the sound of the Sonics first album with extra raw drums recorded live In Long Beach California Shawn Medina (bass player) did all the guitar playing aside from Wic Coleman (close friend and honorary member) the solo for 'Velvet' on a big box 100watt JMP Marshall and 1968 Burns Bison. Johnny had left the band after co-writing and performing most of the songs on this album. 'Action' was written with the plans to have Poison Ivy play the lead. It was discussed, but never became a reality. Todd Youth (formerly of Agnostic Front/Warzone/Murphys Law/Danzig) joined the band shortly after."
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CAT #: HPS 236CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE The Altamont Sin CD
Reissue, originally released in 2008. "'No Love Lost' is our favorite track -- originally by Joy Division but with an 'angels hard as they come' approach. This album was as close as we were ever going to get as an 'original lineup'. Johnny DeVilla came back after a hiatus, and Micheal Davis (MC5) joined the band. Recorded at Woody Jackon's world famous studio located in Nichols Canyon in Hollywood, California. Laurent Bagnard graced us with bad ass photos of the band. Johnny DeVilla's wife Jamie posed for the album cover on Eric Or's of the Cretins Motorcycle Club Norton Commando. Artwork by Sergio Palami.
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CAT #: HPS 236LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE The Altamont Sin LP
LP version. Reissue, originally released in 2008. "'No Love Lost' is our favorite track -- originally by Joy Division but with an 'angels hard as they come' approach. This album was as close as we were ever going to get as an 'original lineup'. Johnny DeVilla came back after a hiatus, and Micheal Davis (MC5) joined the band. Recorded at Woody Jackon's world famous studio located in Nichols Canyon in Hollywood, California. Laurent Bagnard graced us with bad ass photos of the band. Johnny DeVilla's wife Jamie posed for the album cover on Eric Or's of the Cretins Motorcycle Club Norton Commando. Artwork by Sergio Palami.
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CAT #: HPS 236LTD-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE The Altamont Sin (Magenta Vinyl) LP
LP version. Magenta vinyl. Reissue, originally released in 2008. "'No Love Lost' is our favorite track -- originally by Joy Division but with an 'angels hard as they come' approach. This album was as close as we were ever going to get as an 'original lineup'. Johnny DeVilla came back after a hiatus, and Micheal Davis (MC5) joined the band. Recorded at Woody Jackon's world famous studio located in Nichols Canyon in Hollywood, California. Laurent Bagnard graced us with bad ass photos of the band. Johnny DeVilla's wife Jamie posed for the album cover on Eric Or's of the Cretins Motorcycle Club Norton Commando. Artwork by Sergio Palami.
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CAT #: HPS 236ULTRA-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE The Altamont Sin (Orange/White/Yellow Vinyl) LP
LP version. Orange/white/yellow vinyl. Reissue, originally released in 2008. "'No Love Lost' is our favorite track -- originally by Joy Division but with an 'angels hard as they come' approach. This album was as close as we were ever going to get as an 'original lineup'. Johnny DeVilla came back after a hiatus, and Micheal Davis (MC5) joined the band. Recorded at Woody Jackon's world famous studio located in Nichols Canyon in Hollywood, California. Laurent Bagnard graced us with bad ass photos of the band. Johnny DeVilla's wife Jamie posed for the album cover on Eric Or's of the Cretins Motorcycle Club Norton Commando. Artwork by Sergio Palami.
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CAT #: HPS 237CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE Take Altamont CD
Reissue, originally released in 2014. "Censored by a controlling under powered label we have finally released the album as it was intended. Altamont was no joke, it changed the world, it changed rock n' roll forever. We covered at least one song every band that participated in Altamont -- minus The Grateful Dead, who went home scared. Every song has a lord's twist that is like a solid punch between the eyes. This was one of the hardest and funnest albums to record. It was great seeing all the past members come together for a session. Burrito Bros, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones, Santana, Crosby Stills Nash and Young -- how did we do it(Dec 6th, 1969 forever changed. 17 former Lords recorded this album in Los Angeles at the Glory Hole with Nic Jodoin, Gabe Hammond, John Tyree, Max Eisdon, Johnny DeVilla, Spencer Robinson, Wic Coleman, Dave James, Harry Drumdini, Kevin Starr, Harlen Spector, Warren Eaton, Christian Martucci, Jake Cavaliere, Shawn Medina, Lights Out Levine, John Saletra."
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CAT #: HPS 237LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE Take Altamont LP
LP version. Reissue, originally released in 2014. "Censored by a controlling under powered label we have finally released the album as it was intended. Altamont was no joke, it changed the world, it changed rock n' roll forever. We covered at least one song every band that participated in Altamont -- minus The Grateful Dead, who went home scared. Every song has a lord's twist that is like a solid punch between the eyes. This was one of the hardest and funnest albums to record. It was great seeing all the past members come together for a session. Burrito Bros, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones, Santana, Crosby Stills Nash and Young -- how did we do it (Dec 6th, 1969 forever changed. 17 former Lords recorded this album in Los Angeles at the Glory Hole with Nic Jodoin, Gabe Hammond, John Tyree, Max Eisdon, Johnny DeVilla, Spencer Robinson, Wic Coleman, Dave James, Harry Drumdini, Kevin Starr, Harlen Spector, Warren Eaton, Christian Martucci, Jake Cavaliere, Shawn Medina, Lights Out Levine, John Saletra."
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CAT #: HPS 237LTD-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE Take Altamont (Brown Vinyl) LP
LP version. Brown vinyl. Reissue, originally released in 2014. "Censored by a controlling under powered label we have finally released the album as it was intended. Altamont was no joke, it changed the world, it changed rock n' roll forever. We covered at least one song every band that participated in Altamont -- minus The Grateful Dead, who went home scared. Every song has a lord's twist that is like a solid punch between the eyes. This was one of the hardest and funnest albums to record. It was great seeing all the past members come together for a session. Burrito Bros, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones, Santana, Crosby Stills Nash and Young -- how did we do it (Dec 6th, 1969 forever changed. 17 former Lords recorded this album in Los Angeles at the Glory Hole with Nic Jodoin, Gabe Hammond, John Tyree, Max Eisdon, Johnny DeVilla, Spencer Robinson, Wic Coleman, Dave James, Harry Drumdini, Kevin Starr, Harlen Spector, Warren Eaton, Christian Martucci, Jake Cavaliere, Shawn Medina, Lights Out Levine, John Saletra."
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CAT #: HPS 237ULTRA-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LORDS OF ALTAMONT, THE Take Altamont (Transparent Orange/Red Splatter Vinyl) LP
LP version. Transparent orange/red splatter vinyl. Reissue, originally released in 2014. "Censored by a controlling under powered label we have finally released the album as it was intended. Altamont was no joke, it changed the world, it changed rock n' roll forever. We covered at least one song every band that participated in Altamont -- minus The Grateful Dead, who went home scared. Every song has a lord's twist that is like a solid punch between the eyes. This was one of the hardest and funnest albums to record. It was great seeing all the past members come together for a session. Burrito Bros, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones, Santana, Crosby Stills Nash and Young -- how did we do it (Dec 6th, 1969 forever changed. 17 former Lords recorded this album in Los Angeles at the Glory Hole with Nic Jodoin, Gabe Hammond, John Tyree, Max Eisdon, Johnny DeVilla, Spencer Robinson, Wic Coleman, Dave James, Harry Drumdini, Kevin Starr, Harlen Spector, Warren Eaton, Christian Martucci, Jake Cavaliere, Shawn Medina, Lights Out Levine, John Saletra."
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CAT #: HPS 240CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BJORK, BRANT Bougainvillea Suite CD
Once again, Brant Bjork is back with a wonderful new album, Bougainvillea Suite. He's never missed a shot in the last 20 years. His discography is connected by an imaginary line which crosses different sounds and melodies, but always with the same attitude. In the background you can imagine the Mojave Desert where everything started many years ago, but his last record sounds fresh as his debut Jalamanta. Brant says about this album: "This is a bitter sweet record for me. So much change in my life. Some stuff more positive than others. But it's always a blessing to be able to make a record and get the music out and to the fans. This is the last record to be recorded in my Joshua Tree studio. I'm saying good bye to an era and looking down the road toward new beginnings." Bougainvillea Suite is composed by eight songs. Produced by Yosef Sanborn and Brant Bjork. Recorded at The Rad Cabin, Joshua Tree, CA. Engineered and mixed by Yosef Sanborn.
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CAT #: HPS 240LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BJORK, BRANT Bougainvillea Suite LP
LP version. Once again, Brant Bjork is back with a wonderful new album, Bougainvillea Suite. He's never missed a shot in the last 20 years. His discography is connected by an imaginary line which crosses different sounds and melodies, but always with the same attitude. In the background you can imagine the Mojave Desert where everything started many years ago, but his last record sounds fresh as his debut Jalamanta. Brant says about this album: "This is a bitter sweet record for me. So much change in my life. Some stuff more positive than others. But it's always a blessing to be able to make a record and get the music out and to the fans. This is the last record to be recorded in my Joshua Tree studio. I'm saying good bye to an era and looking down the road toward new beginnings." Bougainvillea Suite is composed by eight songs. Produced by Yosef Sanborn and Brant Bjork. Recorded at The Rad Cabin, Joshua Tree, CA. Engineered and mixed by Yosef Sanborn.
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CAT #: HPS 240LTD-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BJORK, BRANT Bougainvillea Suite (Mustard Vinyl) LP
LP version. Mustard vinyl. Once again, Brant Bjork is back with a wonderful new album, Bougainvillea Suite. He's never missed a shot in the last 20 years. His discography is connected by an imaginary line which crosses different sounds and melodies, but always with the same attitude. In the background you can imagine the Mojave Desert where everything started many years ago, but his last record sounds fresh as his debut Jalamanta. Brant says about this album: "This is a bitter sweet record for me. So much change in my life. Some stuff more positive than others. But it's always a blessing to be able to make a record and get the music out and to the fans. This is the last record to be recorded in my Joshua Tree studio. I'm saying good bye to an era and looking down the road toward new beginnings." Bougainvillea Suite is composed by eight songs. Produced by Yosef Sanborn and Brant Bjork. Recorded at The Rad Cabin, Joshua Tree, CA. Engineered and mixed by Yosef Sanborn.
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CAT #: HPS 240ULTRA-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BJORK, BRANT Bougainvillea Suite (Black Splatter Black/Orange Vinyl) LP
LP version. Half black, half orange vinyl with black splatter. Once again, Brant Bjork is back with a wonderful new album, Bougainvillea Suite. He's never missed a shot in the last 20 years. His discography is connected by an imaginary line which crosses different sounds and melodies, but always with the same attitude. In the background you can imagine the Mojave Desert where everything started many years ago, but his last record sounds fresh as his debut Jalamanta. Brant says about this album: "This is a bitter sweet record for me. So much change in my life. Some stuff more positive than others. But it's always a blessing to be able to make a record and get the music out and to the fans. This is the last record to be recorded in my Joshua Tree studio. I'm saying good bye to an era and looking down the road toward new beginnings." Bougainvillea Suite is composed by eight songs. Produced by Yosef Sanborn and Brant Bjork. Recorded at The Rad Cabin, Joshua Tree, CA. Engineered and mixed by Yosef Sanborn.
HEIST RECORDINGS (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: HEIST 001EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DAM SWINDLE Break Up to Make Up EP 12"
2022 repress. This is the very first release from Heist Recordings from 2013. "The Break Up" features an infectious set of airy chords, a bumpy bass-line and a lush female vocal. "The Make Up" is a deeper track, but still a genuine house tune, with some repetitive, almost hypnotic vocals and stabs, and of course, a pumping groove. You'll lose track of everything halfway through the break, but as soon as the beat kicks in, you know its business time.
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CAT #: HEIST 064EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DAM SWINDLE Keep On Swindling Pt. 2 12"
After the chart-topping Keep On Swindling Pt. 1 (HEIST 061EP), that included summer anthem "All I Want" and the live jazz rework of "The Break Up" by Emma-Jean Thackray, Dam Swindle are now back with part two of their ten-year anniversary series. Keep On Swindling Pt. 2 includes a new Afro-tinged DS original, alongside a never-released remix of an obscure Guadeloupean record and remixes by rising star of the Detroit music scene Ash Lauryn and Rush Hour favorite Arp Frique. To top things off, the boys release their Afro-brass dancefloor burner "Call of the Wild" featuring Jungle by Night for the first time on a single. The EP kicks off with a new original production by DS: "Good Woman." This track has Dam Swindle on their best dancefloor behavior: Powerful live drums with an electronic edge and a big smudge of soul through smart sampling. The next track is somewhat of a special project. Tipped in 2019 by close friend Vincent "Venz" Reinders who now runs one of Amsterdam's finest venues Radioradio, Lars and Maarten started working on a rework of the song "A Ka Titine" by Guadeloupean band Gaoulé Mizik. The original release was only distributed from private press in small amounts, and therefore did not reach that many people. The Dam Swindle rework was first put out as a free download, but was taken offline quite soon after. Fast forward three years and we're here with an official remix of this amazing piece of music where the guys add an electronic twist to the original to bring that classic Gwo Ka music towards today's clubs. On the flip, we've got the amazing Ash Lauryn remixing the title track of Dam Swindle's 2018 album: High Life (HEIST 001CD/LP). This remix -- co-produced with Stefan Ringer -- takes a deep and grooving approach to the original, with new heady percussion to add that original Detroit flavor. The next track is a remix by of our favorite and colorful Dutch artists: Arp Frique. Arp Frique is known for his multicultural take on music, combining Caribbean and Cabo Verdean styles with classic disco and funk. He decided to write a whole new song around the vocals of the Swindle and Tom Misch hit "Yes, No, Maybe." He takes a loose-limbed, tropical disco direction where the live, analog recording lays a perfect foundation for this breezy track.
HOLY MOUNTAIN
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CAT #: HOLY 77525LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
OM Variations on a Theme LP
2022 repress. "OM reunites one of the most powerful rhythm sections in rock music: Al Cisneros [bass, vocals] and Chris Hakius [drums], both ex-members of the legendary Sleep. Variations on a Theme is comprised of three long songs employing a series of rhythmic chants whose cadence-like textural drive conveys flight. The album's numerous lyrics serve as symbolist vehicles to a state outside the field of time and space. Variations on a Theme is a series of vibrations and flow. The opening track,'On The Mountain at Dawn' is the thematic blueprint of the entire album; a transportive series of differentiated verse with sets of solid groove. 'Kapil's Theme' furthers the motif while the closer 'Annapurna' breaks the spell, where the final wash of sound reflects the infinite."
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
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CAT #: HOS 797CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MASONNA/PRURIENT Annihilationism CD
Longbox CD. Years in the making, Annihilationism is a split full-length of brand new material of "harshtronics and exclamation" from Japan's Masonna and "doom electronics" by America's Prurient. Arranged in alternating sequence with one track from each artist until burning annihilation. Mastered by Kris Lapke.
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CAT #: HOS 797LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MASONNA/PRURIENT Annihilationism LP
LP version. Includes two-sided poster and download code. Years in the making, Annihilationism is a split full-length of brand new material of "harshtronics and exclamation" from Japan's Masonna and "doom electronics" by America's Prurient. Arranged in alternating sequence with one track from each artist until burning annihilation. Mastered by Kris Lapke.
I SHALL SING UNTIL MY LAND IS FREE (UKRAINE)
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CAT #: SONG 006EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VAISANEN, ILPO Keskipaivan Hetken Sumea Vaillinaisuus 12"
Music by Ilpo Va?isa?nen, founding member of Pan Sonic. Mastering by Noel Summerville. Artwork by Dmytro Fedorenko. Design by Zavoloka. Release produced by Dmytro Fedorenko. 180 gram black vinyl. 45rpm. "Still against this invasion. Summer is at its best, but for some, it's not that. Russia continues its brutal war in Ukraine, bombing civilian targets, killing civilians, and deliberately destroying cities and villages. The war goes on, and Russia's tactic is to prolong it so that the West at some stage will forget the whole thing. Putin is using energy and food as a weapon, hoping to destroy our unity. I want to point out that there is a genocide currently happening in Europe. Damn it, it's here now. Don't forget!" --Ilpo Va?isa?nen
IN THE RED
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CAT #: ITR 360CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LUNADON, DION Beyond Everything CD
"After releasing his self-titled debut album in 2017, Dion Lunadon (The D4, ex-A Place To Bury Strangers) and In The Red Records is proud to release his sophomore album, Beyond Everything. Beyond Everything will be Lunadon's first release on In The Red (an ideal match for his music), as well as his first full-length since departing A Place To Bury Strangers. Written, performed and recorded by himself, the songs tap into a raw, palpable energy that blur the line between the music and the person. Drums on the record were played by Blaze Bateh (Bambara) and Nick Ferrante (The Black Hollies). Lunadon says; 'The record was written and recorded sporadically between 2017 and 2019. I probably wrote about one hundred songs during this period. The first album was pretty relentless which I liked, but I wanted to make something more dynamic for the second record. Something that could be more conducive to repeated listens. I'd get in my studio, come up with a song title, and start working on any ideas that I had. For example, with 'Elastic Diagnostic,' the idea was to create a hum that evokes the sound of life coursing through your body. Everything else kind of formed around that idea.'"
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CAT #: ITR 360LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LUNADON, DION Beyond Everything LP
LP version. "After releasing his self-titled debut album in 2017, Dion Lunadon (The D4, ex-A Place To Bury Strangers) and In The Red Records is proud to release his sophomore album, Beyond Everything. Beyond Everything will be Lunadon's first release on In The Red (an ideal match for his music), as well as his first full-length since departing A Place To Bury Strangers. Written, performed and recorded by himself, the songs tap into a raw, palpable energy that blur the line between the music and the person. Drums on the record were played by Blaze Bateh (Bambara) and Nick Ferrante (The Black Hollies). Lunadon says; 'The record was written and recorded sporadically between 2017 and 2019. I probably wrote about one hundred songs during this period. The first album was pretty relentless which I liked, but I wanted to make something more dynamic for the second record. Something that could be more conducive to repeated listens. I'd get in my studio, come up with a song title, and start working on any ideas that I had. For example, with 'Elastic Diagnostic,' the idea was to create a hum that evokes the sound of life coursing through your body. Everything else kind of formed around that idea.'"
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CAT #: ITR 367LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SPENCER & THE HITMAKERS, JON Spencer Gets It Lit LP
LP version. "The incredible, indelible Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion, Boss Hog, Pussy Galore, Heavy Trash, etc) is back with the incendiary HITmakers -- and with his hottest record yet! Spencer Gets It Lit is classic Jon Spencer taken to the extreme -- electro-boogie, constructivist art pop, and a psychedelic swamp of industrial sleaze and futurist elegance. It is an epic master work of freak beat from the world's weirdest garage. Across brain-boggling layers of fury, fuzz guitar, and a crash-bang battery of phaser blasts, photon torpedoes, and otherworldly zounds, he frantically spits, croons, rhapsodizes, and seduces. Spencer Gets It Lit is his most complex and groovy record in years, a dark, danceable odyssey -- both a studied take-down of the early 21st century, and a celebration of the place where electricity meets the mind. Thirteen wicked hot songs of love, loss, lust, life -- from the Farfisa-fueled, warped psycho-punk rave-up of 'Junk Man,' to the intimate lover's plea of 'My Hit Parade,' to the outer-space, end-of-days country funk of 'Worm Town,' Spencer Gets It Lit delivers all of the friction, excitement, and post-modern depravity one could ever ask for! Says Spencer, 'Send out the Hit Signal! This is the most uncompromising album I've ever made!'"
INFINE (FRANCE)
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CAT #: IF 1020-10Y0
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
RONE Tohu Bohu (Recycled Color Vinyl & Sleeve) 2LP
Double LP, recycled color vinyl and recycled sleeve; includes two sticker sheets with the artworks of each track of the album. Tohu Bohu (released in 2012) has become Rone's most cult album, with tracks like "Bye Bye Macadam" or "Parade." InFiné decided to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the album with an anniversary edition in recycled vinyl (random color), recycled sleeve, and two sticker sheets with the artworks of each track of the album. It has been a decade since electronic producer and musician Erwan Castex, known by the pseudonym Rone, released his groundbreaking and breakout second album Tohu Bohu in 2012. Created in a three-month period soon after moving from Paris to Berlin, Tohu Bohu is more a contemplative, reflective record than it is an observation of his newfound present environment. The result is a truly transcendent, transportive album that has for ten years occupied a space in the electronic music landscape that is wholly its own. Tohu Bohu was met with a steady landslide of critical acclaim, and hailed by The Creator's Project as "a beautiful musical artifact from an increasingly powerful musical archaeologist," and "grand in scale, yet delicately intimate" by Interview Magazine. The tenth anniversary of the album will be celebrated with a special edition vinyl reissue on InFiné, made with fully recycled materials. In the words of Death + Taxes Magazine in 2012, "Rone is one of the shining lights of electronic music in a decade of micro-genres and artists that burst brilliantly then fade into internet obscurity," and the decade following the release of Tohu Bohu is conclusive proof of that. Features High Priest of Antipop Consortium and Gaspar Claus.
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CAT #: IF 1064LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
BLANOS, MISCHA City Jungle LP
LP version. Renowned as an exhilarating solo live performer, Mischa Blanos makes the piano his own on his second album City Jungle, using it as rhythmic element, organic groove or drowned in noise, perfectly interplaying with free flowing, polyrhythmic percussion and morphing synths, to create his own unique musical force. From his early education through the release of two EPs, Second Nature (2018) and Indoors (2019), to the creation of City Jungle, Blanos has lived in various cities around the world and travelled through many others. Each city held "a unique atmosphere and pressure" as Blanos describes it, "each of them with new rules to follow and different rhythms to attune to." Sometimes traveling alone, Mischa Blanos was able to dissolve into the crowd -- to be an outsider exploring the depths of the huge, pulsing city organism. Often, he was traveling with fellow countrymen Cristi Cons and Vlad Caia, performing as one third of the influential "Ro-minimal" techno outfit Amorf, bringing his unique groove and musicality to their live shows at the world's most famous clubs. Taking in new musical and social influences, a new part of the artist within Blanos was growing: the need not just to perform on the piano, but to finally make it his own. In 2020, the global pandemic meant that Mischa Blanos found himself stuck in Bucharest, no longer able to travel. With a curfew in place between 9pm and 9am, he would spend long, solemn nights in his studio making music, letting the memories, the different rhythms and pressures of the cities and spaces that he used to explore, flow through him. You travel with Blanos from interconnectivity, globalism, humanity -- all the way to isolation, reflection, emptiness and bliss. City Jungle is an extensive exploration of all aspects of the modern age, but it is also a very personal one, born because Blanos was forced to stand still, to come face to face with himself. The result is, as always with Blanos, truly unique.
JUKE JOINT 500 (GERMANY)
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CAT #: JJ 5011CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BOOGIE BEASTS Blues From Jupiter CD
Dirty beats, hypnotizing slide, screaming harmonica riffs and plenty of fuzz: all of these will be served by this four-men band from Belgium. Boogie Beasts translate their passion for (hill country) blues into a most characteristic sound of their own, which has a touch of The Black Keys jamming with John Lee Hooker at a rave in the wee hours of the morning, or Morphine on a psychedelic trip with Little Walter, or even RL Burnside backed up by the young Rolling Stones at a juke joint-gig. So far, the bass-less (two guitars, harmonica, drums) band released three studio albums and played all venues in Beneluxa last three times. Here's the story behind their fourth album, Blues From Jupiter: In early 2021, venues and clubs were closed due to restrictions from the Covid pandemic. Belgian blues rock band Boogie Beasts were looking for alternatives to celebrate their ten-year anniversary. On March 6, they are live on Facebook from Studio Jupiter, where they recorded their second and third album but also owned by their sound engineer Koenraad Foesters. During the entire livestream, Boogie Beasts honored their roots and biggest influence: the blues. It resulted in an intense and energetic set of 11 covers that were received with great enthusiasm. The feedback was so enthusiastic that the idea arose to release this live session as an album.
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CAT #: JJ 5011LP
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BOOGIE BEASTS Blues From Jupiter LP
LP version. Edition of 666. Dirty beats, hypnotizing slide, screaming harmonica riffs and plenty of fuzz: all of these will be served by this four-men band from Belgium. Boogie Beasts translate their passion for (hill country) blues into a most characteristic sound of their own, which has a touch of The Black Keys jamming with John Lee Hooker at a rave in the wee hours of the morning, or Morphine on a psychedelic trip with Little Walter, or even RL Burnside backed up by the young Rolling Stones at a juke joint-gig. So far, the bass-less (two guitars, harmonica, drums) band released three studio albums and played all venues in Beneluxa last three times. Here's the story behind their fourth album, Blues From Jupiter: In early 2021, venues and clubs were closed due to restrictions from the Covid pandemic. Belgian blues rock band Boogie Beasts were looking for alternatives to celebrate their ten-year anniversary. On March 6, they are live on Facebook from Studio Jupiter, where they recorded their second and third album but also owned by their sound engineer Koenraad Foesters. During the entire livestream, Boogie Beasts honored their roots and biggest influence: the blues. It resulted in an intense and energetic set of 11 covers that were received with great enthusiasm. The feedback was so enthusiastic that the idea arose to release this live session as an album.
KEPLAR (GERMANY)
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CAT #: KEPLARREV 011LP
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EHLERS, EKKEHARD Plays 2LP
Ekkehard Ehlers's seminal plays series was originally released on three 12"s (Staubgold) and two 7"s (Bottrop-Boy) in very limited runs. The entire series was previously only available as a CD compilation. Keplar finally presents it on double vinyl for the first time, featuring a new artwork. Domestic ethnology: Ekkehard Ehlers plays. "Play" is a word in English with many meanings attached. Each one sends you down a different cognitive pathway. When Ekkehard Ehlers plays, he is very much on his own. Or, at least, alone but at the same time keeping intimate company with the artistic innovators named in his titles. Robert Johnson. John Cassavetes. Albert Ayler. Cornelius Cardew. Hubert Fichte. Is he playing with them, against them, about them, for them, to them? This can never be known. It is certainly a mistake to try to hear the "work" of these originals in the sounds played by Ekkehard. They're not cover versions. They're hardly tributes in the conventional sense. Cassavetes and Fichte are not even musicians, although music played an important part in both their careers. Sure, there are little nods and flashes of recognition -- tiny guitar licks among the minimal beats of "Robert Johnson 2"; rich bowed instruments in "Albert Ayler", recalling the violin, cello and double bass arrangements on Ayler's 1967 Live in Greenwich Village LP; the elongated organ lines of "Cornelius Cardew 1" gesturing towards passages in Paragraph 1 of the British composer's 1971 Marxist monolith, The Great Learning. Ekkehard is not so much playing these figures as allowing himself to be played by them. Playing as an activity also suggests freedom. Maybe the only thing all five named persons have in common is that they were all quiet radicals. In music, literature and cinema, they all stepped, without self-promotion or fanfare, into unmapped territories. Once there they found it necessary to invent new languages in order to survive. Necessity was the mother of their inventiveness. They were also uncomfortable avant-gardists. Lonely types, fighting their corners out on the margins, with little reward, often misunderstood, ridiculed or ignored. All died unfairly young. The deaths of Johnson, Ayler and Cardew have never been satisfactorily explained, and remain shrouded in myths and conspiracy theories. The pioneering expeditions of all five began in that spirit of playful freedom, but inexorably drew them towards the heart of darkness. Ekkehard Ehlers's intuitive electronic portraits are a form of domestic ethnology in themselves. Invoking another of Ekkehard's musical aliases, they are portraits of cultural "autopoiesis" -- creators whose works were strong enough to have their own self-regenerating life force. Featuring Stephan Mathieu, Joseph Suchy, Anka Hirsch. Mastered by Rashad Becker. Cut to vinyl by Lupo, Berlin, 2022. Redesigned by Sandra Kastl, 2022. Photos by Ludger Blanke. Gatefold sleeve; includes download code; edition of 500.
KOMMERZ RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: KOMMERZ 005CD
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XADES Shaded CD
Xades (pronounced "shades") is the newest creation of the DJ and curator known mostly under MSJY. Whilst MSJY's DJ sets are known for their heavy bass drip and bouncy rhythmic darkness, Xades is an ode to the sweet Latina soul hidden underneath the tiny powerhouse bouncing behind the booth. Whilst it is certainly new to hear the voice behind the sound, MSJY has been spreading her music all over the world for more than eight years. By using it as a portal to connect to people and interact with her surroundings, she enjoys exploring its various soundscapes with a sharp mind, sensitive ear and a dedicated heart. The Dekmantel affiliated selector as well as former resident at Amsterdam's De School, Groningen's OOST, and Berlin's Griessmuehle is known for thoughtful and playful sets that dig into bass and breaks adding dashes of her passed influences of trip-hop and IDM. As Xades, Jenny explores her voice and songwriting, extending her tentacles into different genres, serving a vulnerable exploration that transitions smoothly from dub, downtempo electronica, and contemporary R&B. Her multiplicitous musical and cultural roots (Brazilian mother, Argentinian father, Swiss passport) seep through all the versatile layers of her sound. A perfectionist at heart, it needed a gentle push by her partner (in crime, music, and life) to find the confidence to share an album that proves that finesse for depth and layer her long-time listeners have always admired her for. Includes a 16-page booklet with all lyrics. Features remixes by Premis, LUZ1E & MSJY, Maroki, Atrice, and Coffintexts.
KRACHLADEN DUB (GERMANY)
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CAT #: KLD 003LP
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A ROCKET IN DUB Ltd. 2x12"
For some, melancholy is the joy of being sad. But for A Rocket In Dub, the reawakened project of Düsseldorf producer Stefan Schwander, also known under pseudonyms like Antonelli Electr. or Harmonious Thelonious, Viktor Hugo's famous saying always applies. Two years ago, the Düsseldorf producer and musician released a 4x7" box set on Krachladen Dub, his first release after a break of 17 years at the time. Now, two years later, nine new tracks follow as a long player, double vinyl release. Even more experimental, more playful, more hypnotic and with a trombone! Monotony is nice! The rocket is back in the club, teaching genres like house and minimal Jamaican dub deepness again. Third Album from A Rocket In Dub with past releases on Italic Records and Krachladen Dub.
KRANKY
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CAT #: KRANK 176CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
GROUPER Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill CD
2022 repress. "The third full-length release for Portland, Oregon-based Liz Harris. Harris might have achieved a significant fan base thanks to the whispering, near-ambient vocal crusades of her debut album Way Their Crept and its follow-up Wide, but those with a careful ear would have heard slightly more trapped beneath her fuzzy chain of effects. Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill marks a departure of sorts for Liz, which sees her turn down the fuzz boxes which caged (and to some degree defined) her sound and allows her voice to ring out above everything else. It is an album steeped in the world of dream-pop and far from shying away from the reference, Liz has instead grabbed on with both hands, creating an album's worth of perfect, left-field pop songs. Using delicate song structures which are at once both familiar and somehow alien, her vocals cry out hauntingly over stripped-down guitar lines and looped environmental recordings. These are the future soundtracks to love, despair and ultimately, hope." "This remarkable album is actually what I personally always wanted 4AD records to sound like, only they never quite delivered the hazy pleasures their beautiful sleeve art promised." --Pitchfork (8.2)
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CAT #: KRANK 235LP
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VANTZOU, CHRISTINA No5 LP
LP version. "While on the island of Syros in the Aegean Sea for a film festival performance, Christina Vantzou experienced what she characterized as 'a moment of focus' -- a specific vision for the sprawl of raw recordings she'd been amassing for her fifth album. Upon relocating to the Cycladic island of Ano Koufonisi, she situated herself outside at a patio table with a laptop and headphones, taking brief breaks to swim, and began the 'reductive process' of shaving and shaping the source material into uneasy but lyrical movements, alternately austere and adorned with strange inflections: glottal groaning, cavernous water, glittering eddies of modular synth, languorous silences. Mixing the pieces herself without outsourcing to an engineer compounded the intimacy and autobiographical dimension of the music; she refers to Nº5 as 'almost like a first album.' Drawing on sessions staged in February 2020, Vantzou's editing instincts emphasize process and isolation, spotlighting resonance and restraint, liquidity and long tails. Fleeting configurations of piano, wind, strings, synthetics, and field recordings, these are spaces as much as compositions, surreal grottos of shifting light, suffused with a sense of invisible divinity. Although seventeen musicians appear on the record, the proceedings feel minimalist and malleable, sculpted from interstitial moments and oblique synchronicities. The definition of a composer as 'one who joins things' is here both plumbed and proven; Vantzou describes Nº5 as 'a letting go,' a place of 'soft borders,' unfixed and undefinable."
LANTERN REC. (ITALY)
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CAT #: LANR 020LP
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CLARKE, JOHNNY Can't Get Enough LP
First time vinyl reissue, originally released on UK label Arts & Crafts in 1982. This legendary Johnny Clarke recordings is something you wouldn't miss. Completely written by the Jamaican singer himself -- backed here by Roots Radics (the Channel One studio session group) -- and arranged by Clarke and Stafford Douglas (alias Mafia Tone). "Can't Get Enough" witnesses the peak of his career with his first British production. The beginning of a period that would bring Clarke to London and see him churn out a string of hits with Douglas's production, before returning to work with Bunny Lee and Mad Professor, King Tubby, Errol Thompson, Prince Jammy. Roots reggae at its best here! Fully remastered and licensed.
LES ALBUMS CLAUS (BELGIUM)
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CAT #: LAC 028LP
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HUMBROS Druidarium LP
After From 0 to 90, released in 2020 on the British label Phantom Limb, Humbros returns with Druidarium, always with this focus on the mixture, the hybridization of synthetic and acoustic sounds. Captured in the mass, the eleven pieces are a concentrate of the different mediums and materials explored by the duo during four days of improvisation in the Ateliers Claus studio in December 2020. Eleven scenes, panoramic or microscopic faux-field-recordings, strewn with stridulations and buzzes, from which sometimes emanate melodies seeming to escape from occult radios, from a deserted hotel hall, or even from a festive parade. Sound environments with different depths, textures, and distances made possible by the movement of microphones in space, the use of different types of speakers as well as a multitude of acoustic and electronic percussion played on both sides of the studio. Recorded by Christophe Albertijn at Les Ateliers Claus. Mixed by Etienne Foyer. Mastering by scape Mastering / Stefan Betke. Artwork by Valentin Verron.
LIFE AND DEATH (ITALY)
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CAT #: LAD 059LP
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ATAXIA Out Of Step 2LP
The Detroit duo Rickers and Ted Krisko, AKA Ataxia, present their debut long player Out Of Step. Featuring guest spots from close peers DJ Minx, Andrés, and Mr Joshooa, they twist house, techno, electro, breakbeat, and rave into revitalized new shapes; embellished with a touch of soul, funk and hip-hop. Out Of Step is a standout record that's big in character, bringing to mind the renegade spirit of Underground Resistance, and the bombastic brilliance of The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers. Defiantly optimistic despite the state of the world, a "life is good" vocal sample meets minor chords sliding over 808 hats on the exemplary house/techno pumper "Detroit Gospel", before a lighter moment on the album, but no less impactful with its hefty low-end thump, is "Pine Island" featuring Motor City hero Andrés. Together they cook up a Motown-inspired house cut awash with horn swells and backup singers, bouncing to wide swung funk bass, in classic 313 style. "Language" turns the club on its head -- busting out one of the most distinct basslines in recent times, and bristling with buzzy, undulating chords, whilst "Maxia" features influential Detroit royalty DJ Minx. The high-tech funk of "Spit In Your Percolator", is laser-guided in its efficiency, with a strobe-like, increasingly intensifying energy, peppered with clever, tripped-up vocal chops. With the next cut, conveyor belt noises and fast churning low-end gives way to a dubbed-out breakdown, on the deep breakbeat roller "98 Degrees". Charged with a blistering, rave intensity, "Number Streets", is a futuristic distorted techno workout that booms through the subs, whilst "The Formulator" mixes filtered snippets, abstract synth noises and melodic bleeps. Closer to the UK definition of hardcore, combining 4/4 and breakbeat, "The Pusher" evokes the spirit of late '80s orbital raves. "Feels Like" sees Rickers and Ted team up their studio mate and fellow TV Lounge resident and club booker, Mister Joshooa. Inspired by Photek but also almost UKG in style, this breakbeat session is stamped with MJ's signature chopped vocals and intricate rhythmic interplay. The bubbling, wobbly loose swing of "WM" is constructed around a classic chopped-up MTV cribs sample, with a filtered vocal creating a far-out psychedelic effect -- all of which is propelled apace by a huge bruising LFO. The LP concludes in fine style with "Dance The Bridge", where bouncy beats and wigged-out keys meet bright, gently uplifting synth chords that bring a clear-skied mood; ending the record as it began, on an optimistic note.
LONDON RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: LMS 5521215
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MINOGUE, DANNII Neon Nights 2CD
2022 repress; Originally released in 2003, Dannii Minogue and London Records re-release Neon Nights to celebrate its 15th year anniversary of its release. A veritable pick and mix of the European dance scene at the time, Neon Nights spawned four Top 10 hit singles in the UK "Who Do You Love Now?" (No.3), "Put The Needle On It" (No.7), "I Begin To Wonder" (No.2), and "Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling" (No.5). The album reached No.8 on the UK Official Albums Chart and was certified gold. In Australia it was nominated for "Best Pop Release" at the 2003 ARIA Music Awards. Dannii says: "When I embarked on a solo recording career and released my first album in 1990, music was only released on 7" and 12" vinyl. Fast forward through my album releases and throw in a bunch of technology changes; cassingles, cassette albums, CDs, Mini CDs and we are finally back to vinyl! Neon Nights never had a vinyl release -- it was the '90s, and the industry was entering the digital age, and no-one was looking back at this experience of music listening. Thankfully Gen Y has embraced the nostalgia of the record player, so you finally get to put the needle on it with these tracks (please turn the volume up loud enough to annoy your neighbors!)" includes bonus tracks and remixes by Tiga, Jason Nevins, and Almighty. Double CD version includes 24-page stapled booklet.
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CAT #: LMS 5521804
FILE UNDER: ROCK
COMMUNARDS Red (35th Anniversary Edition) LP
LP version. Includes printed inner sleeve. The Communards' sophomore album Red consolidated the genius of the musical partnership between Bronski Beat singer Jimmy Somerville and pianist Richard Coles. Fusing synths and hi-NRG production with lush string and horn arrangements, the Communards straddled pop and the political, the album's themes set against the political unrest and moral panic of late '80s Britain. A global smash upon its release in 1987, this is the remastered and expanded 35th Anniversary Edition with new sleeve notes.
MAIS UM (UK)
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CAT #: MAIS 036LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
MINYO CRUSADERS Echoes of Japan 2LP
Limited restock; double LP version, black vinyl. Glossy gatefold sleeve; Includes insert with Japanese lyrics and English translations. Minyo Crusaders rework historic Japanese folk songs (min'y?) with Latin, African, Caribbean, and Asian rhythms for their debut album Echoes of Japan. Releases from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, and Midori Takada have re-ignited global interest in Japanese music and Echoes of Japan marks the arrival of a big band like no other. "For Japanese people, min'y? is both the closest, and most distant, folk music," explains band-leader Katsumi Tanaka: "We may not feel it in our daily, urban lives, yet the melodies, the style of singing and the rhythm of the taiko drums are engrained in our DNA." Initially indifferent to min'y?, a tragic event in recent Japanese history set Tanaka on his current path: "Following the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, I reflected on my life, work and identity. A fan of world music, I began searching for Japanese roots music I could identify with. Discovering mid-late 20th century acts Hibari Misora, Chiemi Eri and the Tokyo Cuban Boys, I was captivated by their eccentric arrangements and how they mixed min'y? with Latin and jazz." Originally sung by fishermen ("Kushimoto Bushi"; "Mamurogawa Ondo"), coal miners ("Tanko Bushi") and sumo wrestlers ("Sumo Jinku"), these songs deal with topics such as the returning spirits of ancestors ("Hohai Bushi"), Japan's smallest bird ("Toichin Bushi"), and a bride's love for her husband's pockmarked face ("Otemoyan"). Minyo Crusaders are one of the most hyped acts on the Tokyo music scene that went national in 2018 through festivals such as Fuji Rock. The band features veterans of the Tokyo roots music scene such as bassist DADDY U (Ska Flames), keyboardist Moe (Kidlat), sax player Koichiro Osawa (Matt Sounds, J.J. Session), Yamauchi Stephan (J.J. Session), percussionist Mutsumi Kobayashi (Banda de la Mumbia), conga player Irochi (Cubatumb), and vocalist Meg (DJ collective Tokyo Sabroso). For fans of: Haruomi Hosono, Soundway Records, Analog Africa, Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band.
MANNEQUIN RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MNQ 114LP
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BOURBONESE QUALK The Spike LP
Reissue, originally released in 1985. Bourbonese Qualk's third album The Spike was recorded during the period 1984-1985 and published by the Berlin based Dossier/Atonal label while Bourbonese Qualk were involved in organizing the Berlin Atonal festival. Parts of side two of the album is a recording of pieces made for a dance and film performance at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London in 1985. Bourbonese Qualk were an experimental music group from England, active from 1979 through 2003. They were always obsessively and uncompromisingly focused on controlling their work: they ran their own record label, recording studio, tour organization, and music venue (the notorious Ambulance Station). They refused to integrate into the commercial music racket and turned down publishing deals from major labels, stubbornly opting for total independence. They're also known for their political activism, formed in the crucible of 1980s Britain amid such influences as the UK miners' strike, The Falklands War, Thatcherism, monetarism, local government corruption, squatting, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, and anarchism. Their work was often ambiguous and directly critical of cynical power-politics of any color, often irritating members of the traditional organized left. In 1984 Bourbonese Qualk occupied a large empty building -- The Ambulance Station -- on the Old Kent Road in South London, which they turned into a base for their activities, a cooperative space for artists, musicians, and writers, and a center for radical political activism -- specifically as a coordinating center for the Stop the City anti-capitalist riots of 1984. This is music as much for then and today, a radical, revolutionary cultural force that acts as a positive social charge. Remastered by Rude 66. Graphic design by Simon Crab. Edition of 400.
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CAT #: MNQ 115LP
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BOURBONESE QUALK Bourbonese Qualk LP
Reissue, originally released in 1987. The self-named LP marked the fifth album and end of the first incarnation of Bourbonese Qualk. Julian Gilbert left the group after The Spike (1986) to concentrate on writing and theatre, leaving Steven Tanza and Simon Crab who parted ways after touring in Europe in early 1986 and recording this album. Steven Tanza went on to found the group The State and while Crab continued as Bourbonese Qualk (with the new line-up of Miles Miles, Crab and Owen If), dissolved the Recloose Organisation label and founded New International as the outlet for future Bourbonese Qualk and Recloose Org releases."If we were awarding prizes for making people rush out of the room in blind panic Bourbonese Qualk would have a trophy cabinet to match Bayern Munich's. Strange, because whilst some of their music is damned uncomfortable listening, an equal part is pleasantly ambient. Pretty, even. Their fifth album is no exception with different types of track side by side throughout, so that the listener can neither drift along in a state of slumber nor masochistically subject themselves to the audio equivalent of the Chinese water torture. This makes it all a very stop-start thing but all the more rewarding as a result." --Can't Be Beat, London 1986Bourbonese Qualk were an experimental music group from England, active from 1979 through 2003. They were always obsessively and uncompromisingly focused on controlling their work: they ran their own record label, recording studio, tour organization, and music venue (the notorious Ambulance Station). They refused to integrate into the commercial music racket and turned down publishing deals from major labels, stubbornly opting for total independence. They're also known for their political activism, formed in the crucible of 1980s Britain amid such influences as the UK miners' strike, The Falklands War, Thatcherism, monetarism, local government corruption, squatting, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, and anarchism. Their work was often ambiguous and directly critical of cynical power-politics of any color, often irritating members of the traditional organized left. In 1984 Bourbonese Qualk occupied a large empty building -- The Ambulance Station -- on the Old Kent Road in South London, which they turned into a base for their activities, a cooperative space for artists, musicians, and writers, and a center for radical political activism -- specifically as a coordinating center for the Stop the City anti-capitalist riots of 1984. This is music as much for then and today, a radical, revolutionary cultural force that acts as a positive social charge. Remastered by Rude 66. Graphic design by Simon Crab. Edition of 400.
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CAT #: MNQ 151LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ADRIANI, ALESSANDRO Program & Rhythm 2LP
Alessandro Adriani marks his comeback on Mannequin Records with an impressive body of work on this double-LP Program & Rhythm, inspired by the Italian library music and soundtrack composers. Italian composers from the '60s to the '80s seemed limitless in their experiments and endlessly colorful, despite being a hidden part in the history of music. Library music takes weird and fantastic detours, between garish drum machines, seedy guitars, synthesizers gone haywire, and fractious brass sections. The scene's big names included Ennio Morricone, Piero Umiliani, Alessandro Alessandroni, Giampiero Boneschi, Egisto Macchi, A.R. Luciani, and Bruno Nicolai, just to name a few. After spending weeks on end in an improvised-by-covid home studio recording hours and hours of music every day, Alessandro was turning and shaping his analog machines into an experimental synth pop, psychedelic funky jazz, and weird ambient fusion, making up six different releases called simply Program & Rhythm from the Roland CR-78 programming buttons. The final selection of 42 tracks out of the six releases -- originally intended to be put out as tapes -- would finally compose the track list of the double vinyl presented here, with the catalog number PR and roman numerals used for the track titles. An exceptional document of music in Alessandro's discography, Program & Rhythm enters into an ultimate unknown journey, creating music for films that do not yet exist, putting his steps deeper into a faceless obscure music.
MIASMAH (UK)
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CAT #: MIA 053LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
ALL THAT WE SEE OR SEEM All That We See or Seem LP
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" This quote from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe sums up the lamenting, primal work that is All That We See or Seem; a project conceived between Finland, England, and Brazil. The self-titled album consists of two long-form pieces of droning mysticism hailing from the trio of Gruth (concept, production, electronics), Ellen Southern (vocals, field recordings, percussion), and Johanna Puuperä (violin, modular synthesizer, additional vocals). The album opens straight into a thousand-yard stare with "Myrskymielellä", adapted from a 1891 poem by the Finnish national poet, Eino Leino, who wrote it at the tender age of 13. Here a blank distant droning of synths and the sounds of flowing water hover underneath like a dark river observed from the air. This is a sound and feeling that will stay constant for the entirety of the piece's thirty-minute duration. It is a trance-inducing composition that slowly unfolds elements of pagan ancestry into its own life. The tranquility of the first half is slowly morphed into a full-blown ceremony as driving ritualistic percussion and a foreboding witch-like presence shifts the piece into a Dead Can Dance-like territory. Here a constant enveloping mixture of violins, modular synths, field recordings and vocal screams creates the feeling of a grand finale. It is an astounding piece of music that develops like a drone symphony for the beginning of time. With the second piece, "A Dream Within A Dream", from Edgar Allan Poe's 1849 poem, you are transported to the shores of an undisclosed island; a place where it´s only you, your thoughts and the endless emptiness. The continual sound of waves is soon brought together with a cloud of synths and mourning violins that will keep a steady dreamlike state during most of the piece's duration. The composition flows like a slow caress of the soul and feels like the spirit twin of Gavin Bryars's "The Sinking of the Titanic" with its lamenting slow movements towards the unknown. Truly a ghost of a record, All That We See or Seem is an experience hard to shake and feels like entering sacred ground. We are in a place surrounded by earth, both ancient and present. Artwork with silver spot color; includes insert; includes download code; edition of 300.
MITSUBASA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MTB 005EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA MTB005 12"
Purely raw techno cuts in Detroit manners let you drift hypnotic. Benales, Zadig, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, and Gerald VDH give expression to this record. Pressing by Austrovinyl Mastering and lacquer cut by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin.
MOCHILLA
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CAT #: MO 007LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
ASTATKE, MULATU Timeless 2LP
2022 repress; 2LP version. "Packaged in a beautiful, five-color gatefold jacket printed on brown chip board. Ethiopian Mulatu Astatke is a giant in African music. He is the inventor of Ethio-jazz. His work has inspired many imitations, many admirers and a whole new generation of fans. His music veers from the sublime tezetas to the most foot-stomping funk. The award-winning and invaluable Ethiopiques series has shed a light into a vital and amazing music scene that existed in the Addis Ababa in the '60s. The composer/arranger of that era was Mulatu Astatke. On February 1st he blessed the sold-ut Luckmann Theatre with an amazing show. He shared the stage with veterans of the Los Angeles jazz scene Bennie Maupin, Azar Lawrence and Phil Ranelin. The performance is beautiful, showcasing many classics as well as some new material. Nas, Damien Marley, Cut Chemist, Quantic, Madlib and K'naan all have felt the influence of Ethio-jazz. This special edition 2LP honors Mulatu and his music. Part one of a three-part series."
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CAT #: MOLP 2109LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
VEROCAI, ARTHUR Mochilla Presents: Timeless 2LP
2022 repress. "In 2009, Brian Cross (aka B+) organized a series of live events at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angles. The Timeless series captured the lasting impact of several artists on the world of Hip Hop and beyond. Live fully orchestrated performances by Ethiopia's Mulatu Astatke and Brazil's Arthur Verocai bookended the incredible Suite For Ma Dukes, a tribute to James 'Dilla' Yancey, by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. These superb quality live recordings, now long out of print, are back in effect. On Mochilla Presents: Timeless Arthur Verocai the Brazilian composer/arrange leads a full orchestra through his self-titled 1972 release. The result was stunning. Having just witnessed the show captured on this recording MF DOOM remarked 'A true master conductor. Just as incredible live as recorded' with Madlib saying 'I could listen to this music every day for the rest of my life. Full color gatefold jackets with printed inner sleeves.'
MONO-TONE RECORDS (FRANCE)
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CAT #: MT 057LP
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SUBSONICS 2 Minutes or Less LP
Fabulous compilation of all the Subsonics' 45s! All non-LP tracks from their beginnings to their most recent record. 19 songs in less than 40 minutes of the best American rock n' roll band of the 21st century. The Subsonics -- Atlanta's notorious gutter glam legends who pummel VU urbanity with Cramps causticity and offer you a heaping teaspoon of primitive rock n' roll on this fabulous compilation: 19 infectious, irresistible instant classics, all non-LP 45 tracks. Warning! Two Minutes or Less drives through the underground canals of dubious charms, bleak isolation, and crumpled covers!
NAKED LUNCH (ITALY)
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CAT #: NAKED 037LP
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MACHITO Afro-Cuban In New York LP
First Naked Lunch release dedicated to the Afro-Cuban golden age. Machito was a seminal figure in the New York Afro-Cuban scene of the post-World War II era, vastly responsible to deliver this new genre of music to happy-feet crowds populating the ballrooms of the time -- in fact essentially creating the so-called Cubpop and contributing to the large adoption of Salsa as a new kind of dance for the American audience. An unmissable collection for the lovers of the truly vintage Afro Cuban sound.
NERO'S NEPTUNE
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CAT #: NN 023LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
BROTZMANN & HAMID DRAKE, PETER Solid And Spirit 2LP
2022 restock, last copies. Recorded on April 18, 2010 at Clemente Velez Center, New York City. German free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Peter Brötzmann: alto and tenor sax, B-flat clarinet, tarogato. American jazz drummer/percussionist, Hamid Drake: drums and percussion.
OHR (GERMANY)
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CAT #: OHR 2021206LP
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MYTHOS Mythos LP
Ohr present a reissue of Mythos' self-titled album, originally released in 1972. Mythos was formed in 1969 on the initiative of Stephan Kaske (flute, keyboards, vocals, guitar), who found two comrades-in-arms in Harald Weisse (bass) and Thomas Hildebrand (drums). Various performances impressed label boss and talent scout Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser so much that the band was able to release their debut album on the Ohr label in 1972. On Mythos the band realized a mixture of art rock and psychedelic with oriental influences in lengthy pieces. This album was also re-recorded and remastered from the original analog tapes.
ONE WORLD RECORDS (DENMARK)
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CAT #: AAONE 2022CD
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ADEDEJI Yoruba Odyssey CD
The Nigerian singer and guitarist's third album, Yoruba Odyssey, is a project that goes back to the very core of Adédèji's roots. The result is a progressive jazz-funk record, influenced with vintage Afrobeat and Yoruba eclectic sounds, that greatly reflects Adédèji's up-bringing in the metropolitan city of Lagos. A ten-track educating, entertaining, feel good, funky album, that chronicles his interpretation of the music and artists that influenced him. From soul, to jazz, to blues, to funk, to the traditional Yoruba music he grew up with. Yoruba Odyssey was recorded during three days in Lagos, Nigeria, at the legendary Afrodisia/Decca Studio, that has housed giants like Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, and Ebenezer Obey, to name a few. The album presents authentic and personal ideas with tremendous harmonies and tight arrangements. The line-up includes some of Nigeria's most skilled musicians; the grooviest rhythm section and a splendid horn section, adds to the Afrobeat-influenced sound together with powerful female and male backing vocals, that clearly reference Adédèji's gospel upbringing. The lyrics are song in Yoruba, English, and Pidgin English. In the texts, Adédèji's reignites the traditional identity of Yoruba culture using riddles and proverbs, as well as talking about the society. "Every aspect of the human life, depicts a form of sojourn or the other. From the previous albums Ajò through the double dose of Afreekanism to this point of the Lagos experience, let your mind transverse the cosmos," Adédèji says. Adédèji started singing in a Church Choir in Lagos, and by the age of ten, he became the leader of the choir. His first album, Ajo, featuring Lionel Loueke, got great international reviews and won the VNO NCW Noord Talent Award, The Netherlands, in 2012. His second album, Afreekanism, won him the LBM Awards for "Best Afro Fusion Artist" in Nigeria in 2017. Adédèji shared stages with Tony Allen, Lionel Loueke, Gene Jackson, Ayo Bankole, Paco Sery, FraFra Sound, and many more.
ORNAMENTS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: ORN 053EP
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STEFANIK, DANIEL Echoes EP 12"
Deep, trippy, dub techno and Detroit inspired cuts by Daniel Stefanik. Clear marbled vinyl.
OUTSIDER (ITALY) (ITALY)
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CAT #: OUTS 021LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FRANKLIN, ARETHA A Natural Woman... In Sweden LP
Mandatory Scandinavian recordings for the queen of soul! In 1968, she issued the top-selling albums Lady Soul and Aretha Now, which included some of her most popular hit singles, including "Chain of Fools", "Ain't No Way", "Think", and "I Say a Little Prayer". That February, Franklin earned the first two of her Grammys, including the debut category for "Best Female R&B Vocal Performance". In the same year, Franklin toured outside the US for the first time in May, including an appearance in Stockholm, from where this historic recording was taken.
OVUM
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CAT #: OVM 318EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
WINK & TRUNCATE, JOSH Be Aware 12"
Josh Wink is as iconic as it gets in electronic music. The Philly artist crafted several of the genre's most enduring hits early in his career and has continued to remain at the forefront of the scene ever since. His Ovum label is part of the reason for that, as are superb new tunes like this one. Truncate is one of the new techno dons, known for his funky signature style of jackin' tracks, along with crafting vast, all-consuming grooves that dominate dance floors. He has done so mostly on his own label and together the pair cook up some real magic on this new release. Be Aware came about during a multi-day studio session at Truncate's LA studio and is the first of two EPs that will be released from that same creative collaboration. Josh has been a fan of Truncate's for years and had him remix his 2016 single "Shoelaces" and 2017 single "Resist", while in return Josh remixed Truncate's 2017 tune "Concentrate". The timeless "Be Aware" is a ghoulish techno track with freaky vocals that keep you looking over your shoulder. A sparse lead synth rises and falls to edgy effect, slick drums roll deep and unique tweaked effects flesh out this most well-crafted of tracks. Truncate offers his own impactful interpretation, where the tempo quickens and builds into an infectious powerful groove that has immense impact. This EP is a perfect example of an artist collaboration, where you can equally hear the signature sound of each producer in one distinctive track. This is the first coming together of these two underground icons and the results are unsurprisingly powerful.
PALOMA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PALOMA 008EP
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WANG, DANIEL DSDN EP 12"
The label imprint of the beloved Berlin based club Paloma delivers its eighth release, and it was created by none other than a vogueing encyclopedia of musical and club culture knowledge (plus a cherished Paloma resident DJ). The disco professor: Daniel Wang. It is his first original production under his own name in many years, and you can easily tell that this is not a tool to join in with dancefloor conformity (after all, his first album was called Idealism for a reason). Daniel Wang had already evolved from innocently enthusiastic sampling to synth wizardry during the heyday of his legendary Balihu label, and while studying the masters, he became one himself. DSDN is an ode to nocturnal Berlin and its party community, a city that never left the center of international attention for its vital and influential scene. Daniel Wang is a part of it for twenty years, and he was influenced by what he experienced as much as he left his mark on many nights, both as a DJ, and as a producer. Of course, this release follows the traditional structure of a Disco EP by using a main tune "DSDN" with complementing dubs and instrumentals. Four to be exact, because four is the magic number with this format. "DSDN" reflects the internationality of the clubs across town in English and German words and pays homage to all the districts, and it effortlessly manages to unite sounds of both '80s NYC and Italo disco, '90s NYC and Italo house, synthpop and rap before it became too successful, Balearic vibes before they became a mere excuse, and then it just majestically unfolds into both a charming summer hit and a complex opus magnum, but all an aural sunbeam that blows a kiss to those who emerge from recent sensations in clubs, bars, parks, and streets. Alone or together, happy or sad, resolute or irresolute, tired or energized, or all at once.
PERLON (GERMANY)
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CAT #: PERL 032EP
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LUCIANO & MAT JONSON Alpine Rocket 12"
2022 repress. "Part 1 of a series of 12"s featuring Lucien 'n' Luciano in various collaborations with friends. Luciano's first appearance on Perlon was a song of his and Ricardo Villalobos' project, Sense Club, followed by the beautiful "Indio Muerto" on the label's Superlongevity 2 compilation. Today, Geneva-based Luciano invited Mat Jonson from Victoria/Canada to the Alps to build the Alpine Rocket, a ten-minute ride featuring vocalist Cassy Britton. On the other side, it's Luciano solo with 'Mr. Chancleta'."
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CAT #: PERL 074EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DYGAS, MARGARET Invisible Circles 12"
2022 repress. The most essential 12" released in the year 2009. Malgorzata Dygasiewicz was born in Poland and moved to Berlin in 2006. Before that, she lived in London, where she consolidated her DJ skills in famous clubs like Fabric and The End. Just 2 years ago, Ms. Dygas decided to produce her own tracks, which were released through Contexterrior and Tobias Freund's imprint, Non Standard Productions. For Perlon, she brings the deepness.
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CAT #: PERL 091EP
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VILLALOBOS, RICARDO Any Ideas 12"
2022 repress. "Two new tracks on this 12" by Ricardo Villalobos. A pre-taste of his upcoming full-length album, scheduled for summer 2012."
RAJATON (FINLAND)
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CAT #: RAJATON 001CS
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RIPATTI DELUXE Speed Demon Cassette
Cassette version. Edition of 100. Sasu Ripatti, aka Vladislav Delay, now sporting the new Ripatti Deluxe moniker, presents his very own abstract take on early rave and happy hardcore. Speed Demon marks the first release on Vladislav Delay's newly launched label, Rajaton. The Finnish word "raja" has multiple meanings. It could refer to a "border", "limit", "boundary", or even "capacity" if understood broadly. It feels that "border" is the first interpretation that comes to mind when the word is met in isolation of additional context. It often includes political energy of some sort. Or perhaps it's just this particular point in time that leads the mind into such field of thought. As the Dutch author Rutger Bregman notes in his book Humankind: A Hopeful History, the real trouble with people began when the first person had the idea of drawing a line on sand and claiming ownership of the area on their side. The concept of physical borders was born. Naturally, there are mental borders, as well. Think about all the things you shut out because they're "not for you". They are numerous and we do it all the time. The issue is not to stop that, but to recognize when to let new things in, even if they're not commonplace. Mental borders might often be easier to rewrite than physical ones, but the challenge remains a real one. That's where the derivative form "rajaton" comes to play. By simply adding the "-ton", all borders, limits, boundaries and capacities are lifted in an instant. We have something "borderless" instead, and are thus free to expand our thinking. One could argue that the word "rajaton" implies not the removal of borders but instead their very non-existence at large. How will our mind work when the concept of borders doesn't even enter the conscious thought? Mental borderless-ness is a truly fascinating concept. A maximalist array of opportunities and potential ideas enters the picture -- one which is also limitless, unlimited, sans boundaries, and also without a danger of being depleted. It's an all-existence of multitudes where hierarchy also starts to deteriorate, giving way to a new form of full understanding without judgement. Music is one fine place for such thinking, especially when thinking about the role of the listener. Occupying a much more active position than is generally recognized, the listener can greatly benefit from borderless thinking, and thus help to enhance the collective perceived significance of any given body of work. As the late revolutionary jazz pianist Burton Greene: "Borders are boring!"
REAL SOON (UK)
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CAT #: RSOON 028EP
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ULTRAMARINE FEAT. ANNA DOMINO $10 Rework 12"
Ultramarine and Anna Domino meet again for a reworking of their collaborative track "$10 Heel". The song originally appeared on the Ultramarine album Signals Into Space (Les Disques du Crépuscule, 2019). "$10 Rework" replaces the urgent, jittery rhythm of the original with a straighter house backbone and then proceeds to disassemble the structure with a pair of freestyle, hands-on-the-desk, on-the-fly dub mixes. Anna Domino's stream-of-consciousness lyrics tell the impressionistic tale of post-club after-hours chaos in Times Square, NYC circa 1979. Anna raps off studio equipment brand names like passing neon signs glimpsed in a blur through a taxi cab window. Iain Ballamy wields his saxophone like a graffiti artist with a spray can; scrawling and skronking across the canvas. Ric Elsworth lurks in a side alley, unraveling a trash can monologue of wild flamming bongos. Ultramarine is the UK duo of Ian Cooper and Paul Hammond. Formed in 1989, their albums include Every Man and Woman is a Star (Rough Trade, 1991), United Kingdoms (with Robert Wyatt) (Blanco Y Negro, 1993), and Signals Into Space. Anna Domino is an American musician based in LA and NY, best known for her classic run of releases on Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule in the 1980s and '90s. Iain Ballamy is a composer and saxophonist; a member of the Loose Tubes collective in the 1980s and more recently with several albums to his name on ECM. Ric Elsworth is UK-based percussionist and vibraphone player.
RECOGNITION (POLAND)
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CAT #: RECOG 044LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SIENKIEWICZ, JACEK Pristine LP
The sun, kissing the forehead through half-closed blinds; the night, coming uninvited through a windowpane like a damp, sticky shroud. Light and darkness, solid foundations and elusive glimpses of parallel realities. Armies of digital insects -- taken aback by warmth of one brave heart, '90s chillout rooms updated for today's vast and desolated space full of fragile souls desperate in their look for any kind of communion; "artificial intelligence" after three decades of wandering, trying to finally find a helping hand, solace and peace. Shimmer and shine. Welcome to Pristine, a new recording from the mind of Jacek Sienkiewicz. For the past years Jacek has been escaping his image of relentless producer and performer of driving, multi-layered club music. His most recent works include deep ambient records, abstract electro-acoustic experiments, and super smart, stripped-down yet incredibly complex contemporary electronica. The last few records, mostly on his own label Recognition include albums with Max Loderbauer and AtomTM, reinterpretations of works by Bogdan Mazurek of the legendary Polish Radio Experimental Studio, scores for radio plays and last year's massively overlooked "Krasz", music for theatrical performance of Ballard/Cronenberg's "Crash". "Pristine", a labor of love, is at times abstract and atonal, at times breathtakingly beautiful and tender. Eight tracks written and performed in Jacek's unmistakable, singular style, and covering many grounds -- abstract, electronic forms, neo-classical wonders, super tight compositions and freeform, jazz-like improvisations and stripped-down rhythms. Different moods, machine-translated and reverse-engineered in a variety of recording locations, make up this exceptional record. Shimmer and shine, immerse and enjoy. Co-financed by the Minister Of Culture And National Heritage of Poland. The project has been implemented in co-production with Recognition Records and the National Centre for Culture of Poland. Includes download code.
RUNE GRAMMOFON (NORWAY)
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CAT #: RCD 2228CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MOLLESTAD & TRONDHEIM JAZZ ORCHESTRA, HEDVIG Maternity Beat CD
Hedvig Mollestad says her new album, Maternity Beat, is her most ambitious work to date, and that's not a proclamation to be taken lightly. Mollestad, after all, has been one of Norway's most adventurous and hardest-working musicians since the Molde International Jazz Festival named her the "Young Jazz Talent of the Year" in 2009. Recorded with the 12-piece Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (who have previously worked with legends like Chick Corea and Joshua Redman), Maternity Beat is a sprawling double album and true career milestone. In addition to encompassing the full evolution of her sound to date, it offers deeply personal meditations on the nature of family and pressing social justice issues. While listeners will no doubt encounter the Mahavishnu Orchestra-inspired fire music that has made the Hedvig Mollestad Trio (HM3) heavyweights in 21st-century fusion and jazz-metal, Maternity Beat also expands on the contemplative experimentation showcased on two of Mollestad's recent solo works: 2020's Ekhidna (RCD 2215CD/RLP 3215LP, 2020), and the Arne Nordheim-inspired Tempest Revisited (RCD 2223CD/RLP 3223LP, 2021), both of which netted her a Spellemannpris (the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy). The sheer sonic and emotional scope of Maternity Beat required Mollestad wear multiple hats: guitar explorer, composer, arranger, improviser, collaborator, and, as the striking title implies, mother. That latter role serves as the album's thematic focus. This represents a novel direction for her. Back around 2019 -- when the Molde International Jazz Festival and Midtnorsk Jazzsenter originally commissioned the creation of Maternity Beat -- Mollestad felt compelled to compose a new and far more personal work that weighed her own privileged experiences with parenting and nurturing against the harsh political realities unfolding before her. Let's not forget: This was a time when graphic images of migrant families drowning at sea were flooding international news. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which further drove home how the economic systems in which we are all complicit tear apart humanity's far less fortunate. The harsh contrast of humanity and systemic failure fuels the tense shifts in mood coursing throughout Maternity Beat. Featuring the vocals of Mai Elise Solberg and Ingebjørg Loe Bjørnstad, the opening "On the Horizon Part 1" directly references the migrant crisis, while "On the Horizon Part 2" unleashes the full power of the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. Harrowing moments are counterbalanced by some of the most unabashedly touching music in Mollestad's catalog. "Her Own Shape," for example, expresses the profound desire of parents to give their children the tools they need to thrive. Jazz has witnessed an explosion of boundary-breaking creativity in the last several years. The boom of musicians interested in cutting-edge forms of fusion, spiritual jazz, and electronic-based improvisation has infused the genre with an urgency relevant to our tumultuous times. Mollestad -- who likens the making of Maternity Beat to the jittery thrill of "jumping off a cliff" -- embodies precisely the kind of daring that not only makes her a vital leader on the Norwegian jazz scene, but also a key voice in jazz's global vanguard.
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CAT #: RLP 3229LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
MULELID TRIO, KJETIL Who Do You Love The Most? LP
Who Do You Love The Most? is the young trio's third album in just over four years, and continues in the tradition of their two previous efforts; beautiful and evocative melodies, rich on harmonies, often rhythmically complex textures and a typically folk-like Scandinavian character with the occasional gospel feel. The album's ten songs are all Kjetil Mulelid originals, except for a gripping cover of Judee Sill's "The Archetypical Man". Two of the originals are the trio's versions of songs that first appeared on the pianist's much lauded solo piano album (Piano) from 2021 (RCD 2220CD/RLP 3220LP).Kjetil André Mulelid comes across as an exceptionally mature pianist and composer. The trio's 2017 debut Not Nearly Enough To Buy A House (RCD 2196CD/RLP 3196LP) received wide international acclaim, with writers most typically mentioning Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans. The praise continued for 2019's follow-up What You Thought Was Home (RCD 2208CD/RLP 3208LP), with the Jazz Journal giving it a 5/5 rating and calling it "some of the most captivating music I´ve heard in quite some while". All About Jazz noted the maturity of the work, feeling like coming from three well-seasoned pros. Mulelid grew up in the small village of Hurdal, and started playing the piano when he was nine, after hearing Chopin on the stereo. Later he did a bachelor degree in jazz performance at NTNU in Trondheim, blessed with top teachers such as Erling Aksdal, Vigleik Storaas and Espen Berg. He is also a member of jazz quartet Wako. Bjørn Marius Hegge has been making waves on the Norwegian jazz scene lately, with his quintet's debut album Hegge winning a Norwegian Grammy. He has his own trio as well, with pianist Oscar Grönberg and young drummer ace Hans Hulbækmo (Moskus). In 2019 he released Ideas with Axel Dörner, Rudi Mahall, Håvard Wiik, and Hans Hulbækmo. Andreas Skår Winther is, like the other two, a "product" of the fertile milieu at the Trondheim Conservatory of Music. His discography includes Left Exit, Mr. K with Michael Duch and Klaus Holm (Clean Feed) and Megalodon Collective.
RUNNING BACK (GERMANY)
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CAT #: RB 112X-EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
EAGLES & BUTTERFLIES Retropolis Vol. 01 12"
Welcome to Retropolis! Known for the inimitable Can't Stop with Coloray, an unhealthy obsession with vintage music machines, a baroque style in the use of synthesizer melodies and a forewarn-looking approach to the past, Chris Barratt's music as Eagles & Butterflies can be as fun-loving as melancholically beautiful. For his long overdue debut on Running Back, the English man dishes out a bit of both in a healthy bowl of broth. "Retropolis" is not only the direction giving title, but bold and bonny at the same time. That its working title was Italo should tell you all you need to know. Suitable for big rooms, major moments, minor miracles and sophisticated car chase scenes alike. "Faster" takes off in another direction. Imagine two people falling in love during a bumper car ride -- heartfelt vocals included. On the flip side, E&B follows a similar state of equilibrium. Like the highs and lows and ups and downs in a John Hughes movie, it also showcases the characteristics of two synthesizer classics: the exuberant piano version of "Juno Ninja" (please look at the digital release for a version devoid of it) offsets the poignant and plangent vibe of "CS-80". In summary: made with lots of synthesizers and for fans of keyboard music. And always keep in mind: the future sounds and looks better than you think.
RUNNING BACK DOUBLE COPY (GERMANY)
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CAT #: RBDC 008EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
LOSOUL Open Door 2x12"
In certain circles, this is a record that would easily be called "eternal". Back in 1996, when it was originally released, it sounded like nothing else -- and still does. The sixth record of Frankfurt's soon to be imperial Playhouse label and Losoul's first outing on the label, it hot-wired many things at once: house and techno, US roots and European fruits, grittiness and wittiness, high tech funk, the expansion pf playtimes and the concept of minimalism in dance music. Elegance met effectiveness. A composition that hooked you and also caused a stir elsewhere. Daniel Bell licensed it to his Elevate label and commissioned a very young Theo Parrish to remix it, Michel De Hey did the same with his EC Records and treatments by Gerd among others. Here you finally get both of those carefully restored, remastered and reissued next to the originals. Amply placed on a double 12", it also features the previously unreleased "D1". Stemming from the same time and era as "Open Door," it rings and feels like a compact lost brother. Addictive as on the very first day and here to stay.
SCISSOR & THREAD
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CAT #: SAT 054LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ZG ZG LP
ZG is the moniker of London based Zansika Lachhani and Grant (aka Anthony Collins, and the Tony in Frank & Tony). The concept was borne out of a connection online, as Grant and Zan connected on Soundcloud, both independently vibing off each other's music and approach to their art. In 2018, they began to work together, developing a number of tracks but eventually parking the project as other life commitments got in the way. Fast forward to 2021, while clearing out old hard drives, Grant rediscovered the recordings and was blown away by the music already put down. Together they began to rework and develop the project further, resulting in a blindingly beautiful seven track LP. Opener "Jungle Times" sets the scene, an atmospheric dreamy opening giving way to an idiosyncratic breakbeat and whispered vocals from Zan, setting the tone perfectly, floating the sound equally between London and New York styles. Following it up is the enigmatic "Roll of Thunder", drawing its power broken beat patterns, deep and soulful strings and washes reminiscent of 4Hero in their prime. "When Young" also brings a jazz aesthetic to the fore, with upfront drums and Rhodes chords washing over in melodic bliss. "Ombre" starts with a thick bassline and urgent synth stabs before developing into a tripped-out groove, layered with thick synth lines and subtle harmonic touches. Similarly, "Aura" uses some of the same sound palette as well with touches of guitars and more sparking pads creating an uplifting yet melancholic journey. The first real vocal arrives with the penultimate track "Dog Days", dreamily layered over beautifully evolving synth washes and skittering beats. By the time "Drift Out" arrives to usher in the last act of this exceptional LP, you are on cloud. Includes download code.
SILUH RECORDS (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: SILUH 105HC-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DIVES Wanna Take You There (White Vinyl) LP
LP version. White marbled vinyl version. Vienna three-piece Dives are shaping up to be mainline Europe's biggest export. Since forming at pink noise Girls Rock Club in 2016, they have played over 150 gigs in over ten countries, toured with LA Witch and Courtney Barnett, headlined Viennese Popfest, played big name industry festivals such as Eurosonic, Reeperbahn Festival and c/o pop, whilst also building a huge grassroot fanbase playing beloved underground venues (8mm Bar, Ostpol Dresden). Dives' forthcoming second album Wanna Take You There is the first to be released in the UK and follows their debut self-titled EP (2016) and debut album Teenage Years Are Over (2019). Whilst the debut album was characterized by unpolished garage-guitar sounds, new album Wanna Take You There is a collection of smoother, more compact pop moments. Garage-rock, surf-pop, '90s-flavoured indie, and harmonies à la The Breeders blend with a touch of riot grrrl attitude, present in the lyrical presentation of Dives' manifesto: Anti-discrimination and pro-equality and humanity. Dives' sound is fun in a big way, but also clever and versatile, veering from upbeat power pop on "Walking The Dog", big anthems on "100 Times", or dream pop on "Only Lies." Album opener and title track "Wanna Take You There" adds to the renaissance of playfully clever guitar songs to dance to as trailblazed by Wet Legs. Dives know how to party with their sound evoking images of road trips with friends and long days on the beach, "Oh let's head out, to a place that's pretty," sing Dives on "Streets," "Where the lights, they never go out." Simultaneously, Dives riot grrrl energy sees them sharing important messages and personal experiences within their danceable indie-pop tunes. The trio's first UK single "Ego" is about one-way conversations with narcissists "This conversation is too odd; you got to listen and stop." Or, on the song "Burger," they lay bare every woman's experience of patriarchal society's enabling in the purposely antagonizing line "You cannot blame him anyway, 'cause honey you know, he doesn't mean it that way." Wanna Take You There is a vibrant, fun, danceable and socially conscious ride. On it, Dives rally against the wrongs in the world whilst reminding us to live life to the full, and simultaneously offering us the perfect soundtrack to do just that.
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CAT #: SILUH 105LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DIVES Wanna Take You There LP
LP version. Vienna three-piece Dives are shaping up to be mainline Europe's biggest export. Since forming at pink noise Girls Rock Club in 2016, they have played over 150 gigs in over ten countries, toured with LA Witch and Courtney Barnett, headlined Viennese Popfest, played big name industry festivals such as Eurosonic, Reeperbahn Festival and c/o pop, whilst also building a huge grassroot fanbase playing beloved underground venues (8mm Bar, Ostpol Dresden). Dives' forthcoming second album Wanna Take You There is the first to be released in the UK and follows their debut self-titled EP (2016) and debut album Teenage Years Are Over (2019). Whilst the debut album was characterized by unpolished garage-guitar sounds, new album Wanna Take You There is a collection of smoother, more compact pop moments. Garage-rock, surf-pop, '90s-flavoured indie, and harmonies à la The Breeders blend with a touch of riot grrrl attitude, present in the lyrical presentation of Dives' manifesto: Anti-discrimination and pro-equality and humanity. Dives' sound is fun in a big way, but also clever and versatile, veering from upbeat power pop on "Walking The Dog", big anthems on "100 Times", or dream pop on "Only Lies." Album opener and title track "Wanna Take You There" adds to the renaissance of playfully clever guitar songs to dance to as trailblazed by Wet Legs. Dives know how to party with their sound evoking images of road trips with friends and long days on the beach, "Oh let's head out, to a place that's pretty," sing Dives on "Streets," "Where the lights, they never go out." Simultaneously, Dives riot grrrl energy sees them sharing important messages and personal experiences within their danceable indie-pop tunes. The trio's first UK single "Ego" is about one-way conversations with narcissists "This conversation is too odd; you got to listen and stop." Or, on the song "Burger," they lay bare every woman's experience of patriarchal society's enabling in the purposely antagonizing line "You cannot blame him anyway, 'cause honey you know, he doesn't mean it that way." Wanna Take You There is a vibrant, fun, danceable and socially conscious ride. On it, Dives rally against the wrongs in the world whilst reminding us to live life to the full, and simultaneously offering us the perfect soundtrack to do just that.
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CAT #: SILUH 106CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DIVES Wanna Take You There CD
Vienna three-piece Dives are shaping up to be mainline Europe's biggest export. Since forming at pink noise Girls Rock Club in 2016, they have played over 150 gigs in over ten countries, toured with LA Witch and Courtney Barnett, headlined Viennese Popfest, played big name industry festivals such as Eurosonic, Reeperbahn Festival and c/o pop, whilst also building a huge grassroot fanbase playing beloved underground venues (8mm Bar, Ostpol Dresden). Dives' forthcoming second album Wanna Take You There is the first to be released in the UK and follows their debut self-titled EP (2016) and debut album Teenage Years Are Over (2019). Whilst the debut album was characterized by unpolished garage-guitar sounds, new album Wanna Take You There is a collection of smoother, more compact pop moments. Garage-rock, surf-pop, '90s-flavoured indie, and harmonies à la The Breeders blend with a touch of riot grrrl attitude, present in the lyrical presentation of Dives' manifesto: Anti-discrimination and pro-equality and humanity. Dives' sound is fun in a big way, but also clever and versatile, veering from upbeat power pop on "Walking The Dog", big anthems on "100 Times", or dream pop on "Only Lies." Album opener and title track "Wanna Take You There" adds to the renaissance of playfully clever guitar songs to dance to as trailblazed by Wet Legs. Dives know how to party with their sound evoking images of road trips with friends and long days on the beach, "Oh let's head out, to a place that's pretty," sing Dives on "Streets," "Where the lights, they never go out." Simultaneously, Dives riot grrrl energy sees them sharing important messages and personal experiences within their danceable indie-pop tunes. The trio's first UK single "Ego" is about one-way conversations with narcissists "This conversation is too odd; you got to listen and stop." Or, on the song "Burger," they lay bare every woman's experience of patriarchal society's enabling in the purposely antagonizing line "You cannot blame him anyway, 'cause honey you know, he doesn't mean it that way." Wanna Take You There is a vibrant, fun, danceable and socially conscious ride. On it, Dives rally against the wrongs in the world whilst reminding us to live life to the full, and simultaneously offering us the perfect soundtrack to do just that.
SMALLVILLE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: SMALL 058EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
ALEXANDER, AMIR Love Notes To Brooklyn 12"
Amir Alexander's unique production style and his musical output has been an inspiration for a long time. His record were always special ones and Smallville were loving the fresh vibes outta Chicago a lot. In 2012, the lable were happy to host Amir to play his first-ever DJ-gig in Germany at their Smallville night at Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg, as part of his first EU tour ever. The night remains a memorable one and the label closes the circle now and release this special 12" by Amir. Full cover artwork by Stefan Marx. The tracks were made in loving memory of Nathaniel Jay. Rest in peace and all the love to you.
SODA GONG
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CAT #: SODA 011LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
MISTER WATER WET Top Natural Drum LP
Following releases on West Mineral and Lillerne Tapes, Iggy Romeu's inimitable Mister Water Wet project makes its Soda Gong debut. Top Natural Drum feels like a double entendre ode to digging culture, drawing equally from the plant life in the dirt and the grooves in the stacks. Tracks like opener "Soak" concoct a haze of resonant ceramic/wooden percs, skittering drum programming, and addictive yet diffuse melodic and harmonic textures. Dusty-fingered nodders like "Caged at Last", "Classicfit," and "Gossamer Hits Softly Spun" harken back to the glory days of instrumental hip-hop and downtempo, sounding a bit like transmissions from some lost Landspeed Records or Mo' Wax comp, or like field recordings from the courtyard at Scribble Jam that have been infused with the slippery sonic signatures and sleights of hand that define MWW productions. What links these two distinctive tonal registers is a sort of lingering warmth -- warmth like the saturation of natural dye or sunlight on a brisk, clear Midwestern autumn day. Written and produced by Iggy Romeu. Mastered by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Felix Luke and Alex McCullough. Die-cut sleeve; gloss laminate finish; includes download code; edition of 500.
SOLEILMOON RECORDINGS
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CAT #: SOL 187CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, THE The Maria Dimension - The Complete Recordings 3CD
"The Legendary Pink Dots classic psychedelic masterwork from 1991 is released now with all the bonus tracks previously available on the extremely limited (and expensive) 5LP box set from 2015. In addition to the original album, remastered by Edward Ka-Spel, two additional CDs of material from the same recording sessions are presented here. It's all packed into an eight-panel digipak with a 12-page booklet with lyrics and notes about the recordings. It's three hours of music in one package!"
SOULGRAMMA (ITALY)
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CAT #: SOULG 006LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
RAM JOHN HOLDER Black London Blues LP
Reissue, originally released in 1969. Singer and guitarist Ram John Holder was born in 1939 in Georgetown, British Guiana, then moved to Cincinnati in 1954, and to the East Coast to work as folk blues singer in the early 1960s. In 1963, he took residency in England where he recorded several albums. Released in 1969, Black London Blues is surely a masterpiece. A socio-political manifesto, the album chronicles the trials and tribulations that were the result of being a black-immigrant in London, and it contains all the pathos and pain one can imagine. Self-conscious, as concept albums often are, the record is almost like an audio A-Z or pub guide. It's funky and represents his own black experience. It is a must have for all the blues revivalist out there, a record to rank along the lines of early Mike Cooper and American stalwarts like Eugene McDaniels or Sixto Rodriguez. Fully licensed.
SOWING RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: SOW 035LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
COOKE, SAM Twistin' the Night Away LP
Reissue, originally released by RCA Victor in 1962. Twistin' the Night Away is Sam Cooke's eighth studio album. The album shows how the one and only Sam Cooke approached the twist dance phenomenon and as a result became one of Cooke's most successful releases. In fact, Twistin' the Night Away peaked while the single of the same name charted high at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. Twistin' the Night Away stands as one of the great dance albums of its period, and a brilliant soul album as well. Clear vinyl.
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CAT #: SOW 036LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
QUEBEC, IKE Bossa Nova Soul Samba LP
Reissue, originally released in 1962. Bossa Nova Soul Samba came as Ike Quebec's best contribution to the fruitful marriage between jazz and Brazilian music. Recorded in 1962 and released on Blue Note in the same year, this was Quebec's final recording before his death in January 1963. A beautiful studio session dominated by Quebec's tenor sax warm tone and the light and gentle groove provided by Kenny Burrell (guitar), Wendell Marshall (bass), Willie Bobo (drums) and Garvin Masseaux (chekere). Clear vinyl.
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CAT #: SOW 037LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
COLEMAN, ORNETTE Tomorrow is the Question! LP
Reissue, originally released in 1959. This was definitely a perfect title for Ornette Coleman's second and last album for Contemporary before switching on Ertegun's Atlantic label. Tomorrow is the Question! was an early evident step towards the revolution to come. An adventurous yet accessible, bluesy album with Coleman and Don Cherry tasting for the first time the freedom of a piano-less rhythm section featuring Percy Heath or Red Mitchell on bass and the great Shelly Manne on drums. Clear vinyl.
SPECTRUM SPOOLS
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CAT #: SP 043LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SECOND WOMAN S/W LP
2022 repress. Includes download code with Gábor Lázár remix as a bonus. Future music duo Second Woman's sophomore full-length for Spectrum Spools further hones their distinctive fusion of shape-shifting software sculpture and tessellated footwork. Shivering digital textures oscillate with and against algorithmically mapped percussion samples; smeared synthetic chords levitate in the distance; stabs of digital noise punctuate the mix in twitchy, time-distorting patterns. Their anamorphosis verges on ascetic: stark, splintered waveforms rendered into unique fiber optic hieroglyphs. Multi-instrumentalists Josh Eustis and Turk Dietrich share a deep history going back to their days in the New Orleans ambient electronic community, as part of Telefon Tel Aviv and Belong, respectively. Even so, S/W pushes beyond their combined discographies to date, flexing impossibilities, building rhythms from arrhythmia, teasing veiled emotion from bold iterations of cold code.
SQUAMA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: SQM 006RE-LP
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BRUGGER, MARTIN Music For Video Stores (2022 Repress) LP
2022 repress. On his debut, album producer and Squama co-founder Martin Brugger hovers through ambient, (upbeat) downbeat, and unfulfilled build-ups. Conceptualized as a blank soundtrack, the music was sent to fellow artists who shared their visual and verbal associations which became the source for the artwork and track titles, effectively making the album a collective effort. Evident in all of his recent projects is Brugger's passion for working and thriving within closely set limits. The only audio sources in the process of making the album were his record player and a Dave Smith Prophet 08 synthesizer. In an antithesis to most sample-based music, Brugger takes the more ephemeral moments of recorded music and uses pitching tools as a magnifying glass to dive deeper into the sound and bare layers that normally remain unheard. 180 gram viny; includes printed inlay.
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CAT #: SQM 018LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
OHTA & MATTHIAS LINDERMAYR, MASAKO MMMMH LP
Pianist Masako Ohta and trumpet player Matthias Lindermayr's music flows in gentle waves, moving with ease between every theme they imagine. Their music is largely improvised, embracing chance and following sound down winding paths. Their debut collaborative album, MMMMH, highlights this loose process through its relaxed pace, surprising turns, and drifting style. The album presents small vignettes that each encapsulate their free-flowing motion and tranquil melodies, drawing from simple ideas to create a fully bloomed, radiant sound. 180 gram vinyl.
STAG-O-LEE (GERMANY)
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CAT #: STAGO 187LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Buzzsaw Joint: Johnny Alpha & Carl Combover - Cut 8 LP
Buzzsaw Joint was born of a club offering Londoners the chance to revel in the sounds of good ol' trashy rock n' roll in all its vintage vinyl forms. Club top-cat, Fritz, then took the primitive Buzzsaw sounds online with a series of savage Mixcloud mixes created by record fiends from all over the globe. Now, the high-octane energy of Buzzsaw Joint has manifested into the physical form with a run of compilations on Stag-O-Lee. Get your ears around the wild n' weird sounds of the extraordinary and inimitable Buzzsaw Joint! Cut 8 introduces Johnny Alpha and Carl Combover, purveyors of all things sleazy, greasy and raw. When delinquent-at-large Carl isn't pounding drums, he's running the Go-Go Cage, Liverpool's most raucous '60s night. Johnny's Killer Diller radio show, broadcast from a bunker in Wigan, unearthed so many exclusive 45s, it defined a genre. For years this pair have slung records at Europe's coolest clubs and fuzziest festivals. Now they've stewed up a heady mix with pungent notes of tonic wine and spiced rum. Slurp! Features Lee Castle, Ernie Fields, The Champs, Dynamics, Tarheel Slim, Bobbie Smith, Swan Silvertones, Goodie Rene, Lee The Big Masher Lilly, Plas Johnson, Nite Caps, The Rollers, Secrets, Majestics, Richard Anthony, and Johnny Fisher. Violet vinyl; edition of 500.
STARTRACKS (SWEDEN)
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CAT #: STAR 3303001LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FIRESIDE Bin Juice LP
Fireside, Sweden's supreme indie rockers (back then it was called emo-core) are back with their first studio album since 2003. Kristofer Âström on vocals singing better than ever. Pelle Gunnerfeldt studio wizard and producer (The Hives, Viagra Boys) here on guitar have written some of the very best Fireside songs. Guitar-driven indie rock with layers of sounds but still clean and melodic.
STASIS RECORDINGS (CANADA)
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CAT #: SRWAX 018LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
AURAL IMBALANCE Dreaming In Future Tense LP
Lush and atmospheric tapestries are the hallmark signatures of Aural Imbalance's compositions. Easily spotted and loved by his knowledgeable fans. Dreaming In Future Tense remembers all the euphoria, optimism, and exploration of the nineties D&B movement and carries it forward to the now in six soothing rollers. The perfect balance of embracing the past, living in the present, and eyeing the future. Features Luna Pixie.
STIL VOR TALENT (GERMANY)
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CAT #: SVT 316EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
KADOSH Unanimously 12"
The versatile debut full-length offering from Tel-Aviv-based producer Kadosh on Stil vor Talent, Unanimously. Bridging the club universe with that of deeper, further immersive off-floor narratives, Kadosh entices you down a compelling path of rhythmic enlightenment and all-embracing togetherness. Casting mutable strains of EBM, house, pop and exotica entangled in one dizzying polyphony throughout the album, the Israeli vibist has us surfing our way across his musical headspace effortlessly. From the stealth, neo-noir-like opening sequence of "Interstellar" featuring Marc Piñol to the epic Luso-Italo vibrations of "Sandcastles" featuring vocal hoodooist Abrão, via the exquisite Afro-informed piano house and all-round atmospheric luxuriance of "My Mind" featuring Floyd Lavine and Erika Krall's supremely smooth yet characterful timbre, Kadosh swings the pendulum with constant surprise and bravura. Aside from his compositions' obvious hooking nature, there's also great lots of textural back funk to dive in at every corner. Hauntingly transporting, "From Jaffa to Frederichshain" featuring Upon You's Marco Resmann works a more jagged programming, flush with big-room reverbs and muted drums, while the slo-evolving "Pronto" featuring Emanuel Satie morphs from a low-key DJ tool into a full-fledged, melancholy-charged peak-time burner. Bearing both Kadosh and David Mayer's signature, "1999" lets the '80s-inherited arsenal of iridescent Casio synths and lashing percussions talk in unhindered fashion, whereas "Volantage" featuring Murat Uncuoglu goes all in on the trampling kicks, sooty claps and prismatic keyboard stabs. Sensual to the fullest, "Moran" in collaboration with Rodriguez Jr. is certainly one of the album's highlights with its impeccably laid-down mélange of bassy thunder and shapely Latin rhythmic backbone ushering us down an irresistibly poignant and hypnotic tunnel of sound. A joint effort with Locked Groove, "Far Too Close" is a further loopy discoid affair reminiscent of the French filtered-house scene's heyday, while the album's closer "Think it Over" featuring Stereo MC's is that perfect pop-indebted electro chugger that'll rev up any tired engine with reinvigorated, ecstasy-inducing horsepower. The four-track 12" includes download with the full ten-track album.
SUBSOUND RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: SUBSOUND 121LP
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MULLA Don't Cry My Africa LP
Mulla is a black metal act from Iraq. Their members are currently anonymous. Mulla denies that they, in their own words, are a terrorist group or religious fanatics. Their goal is to provide a musical feel for the "frightening atmosphere of the Middle East these days." Genre: Black metal, raw black metal, atmospheric black metal.
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CAT #: SUBSOUND 121LTD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MULLA Don't Cry My Africa (Grey Vinyl) LP
LP version. Grey vinyl. Mulla is a black metal act from Iraq. Their members are currently anonymous. Mulla denies that they, in their own words, are a terrorist group or religious fanatics. Their goal is to provide a musical feel for the "frightening atmosphere of the Middle East these days." Genre: Black metal, raw black metal, atmospheric black metal.
SUNDANCE (JAPAN)
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CAT #: SND 017LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
TANAKA, FUMIYA One More Thing (Second Part) 2x12"
The second part of Fumiya Tanaka's One More Thing. The first part was released in January 2022 as 12" double-pack (SND 015LP).
SUPERIOR VIADUCT
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CAT #: SV 151LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SPACEMEN 3 Playing With Fire LP
2022 repress. "Spacemen 3 began assembling their third album, 1988's Playing With Fire, at perhaps the freest, most confident point in their career. Recording began with the band road-tested and rugged, even amidst the functional volatility that famously motivated their course. The sessions' first offering came in the form of 'Revolution,' a single of heroic Stooges-devotion and the most commercially successful release the group had to date. High expectations for the album were soon exceeded, as Playing With Fire would become Spacemen 3's crowning studio achievement and cement their rightful place on the vanguard of otherworldly rock 'n' roll. An exquisite mix of stuttering tremolo guitars and wistful melodies, Playing With Fire sheds any trappings of revisionism and furnishes a nuanced grade of psychedelia. Epic entries like 'Suicide' (named after the notorious NYC band) and the mesmeric 'How Does It Feel?' catch Spacemen 3 at their celestial apex, the very point where their collective writing, performance and production would crest and wondrously splinter. Includes download card and new insert with liner notes by Marc Masters."
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CAT #: SV 152LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
SPACEMEN 3 Recurring LP
2022 repress. "1990's Recurring, the fourth and final studio album by Spacemen 3, is often considered the introduction of two brilliant solo projects (Spectrum and Spiritualized) rather than the work of a functioning band. While Spacemen 3's departing statement surely reveals a deep divide within the S3 camp -- each side of the LP was written by Sonic Boom and Jason Pierce separately and, unlike previous releases, the two do not play on each other's songs -- Recurring maintains a cohesive, dreamy feel with its chief sonic officers backed by fellow travelers Will Carruthers, Mark Refoy and Jon Mattock. Opening saga 'Big City (Everybody I Know Can Be Found Here)' marries ambient haze with narcotized indie rock, while 'I Love You' manages to arrange a beautiful flute alongside a defiantly throbbing bass track. 'Hypnotized,' a reimagined fuzz-pop hymn, would become the group's first entry in the UK Singles Charts. Recurring lays bare the essence of Spacemen 3's persistent sound, rooted in both aural expansion and phenomenal songwriting. Includes download card and new insert with liner notes by Marc Masters."
TAK:TIL/GLITTERBEAT (GERMANY)
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CAT #: GB 133CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
ETCETERAL Rhizome CD
Etceteral are a Slovenian experimental trio (saxophone and electronics, drums, visuals) who create a propulsive, polyrhythmic futurist jazz. It is a sound marked by abstract modular explorations, hypnotic drumming, ricocheted horn textures and crystalline production. Interzones between dub, krautrock, Afro-rhythms, free improvisation and quantized electronic music are brightly lit on this thrilling second album. The idea of musical elasticity is central to Rhizome, the sophomore album of the Slovenian audio-visual electronic jazz trio Etceteral who debuted in 2020 with the album Ama Gi for Kapa Records. Following a series of domestic and international gigs, the band consisting of Bostjan Simon (saxophone, synth, electronics), Marek Faku? (drums), and Lina Rica (visuals) returned to the studio, taking their ambition to meld audio and visuals to a whole new level on their debut for the tak:til imprint. On Rhizome, the band explores the interzone between groove-driven contemporary jazz, quantized electronic music, abstract modular explorations and free improvisation. Like rubber that is able to stretch and be returned to its original shape, Etceteral expands its arrangements to the point of no return, pushing its sonic architecture to the maximum without ever letting it collapse onto itself. Given carte blanche to self-produce their second album, they centered it around the concept of rhizome -- a continuously growing horizontal underground stem which puts out lateral shoots and adventitious roots at intervals. The sophisticated songs of Rhizome are interconnected in their structures, growing from the inside out. With its interlocking synth sequence, saxophone ornaments and hip-shaking syncopations, the opening earworm "Meadow Sage" sets the pace of the record, boasting an ambitious and adventurous sonic character. New songs took shape organically through jams, the only exceptions being the intermezzo "Ton 618," a nod to exploratory modular techno, and the IDM-inspired coda "Idler Idol," both arranged as links between adjacent songs. The interplay between synth sequences, the kick drum, and saxophone represents the foundation of Etceteral's sonic realm. Their sound palette consists of the iconic synth Dave Smith Evolver, a saxophone with a MIDI controller, sound effects, and drums. In Pygmy traditions, one of the band's reference points, every singer or musician follows a single theme or rhythm which is then unified into polyphony or polyrhythmic patterns. Etceteral build their sonic architecture from inside out, never fully defining the outlines of their songs. Even though their sequences are quantized, Faku? only rarely uses click tracks, rather opting for a more instinctive approach to electroacoustic fusionism, which results in a spontaneous flow and jazzy vibe.
TAPETE RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TR 524LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ROBOCOP KRAUS Why Robocop Kraus Became the Love of My Life 2LP
Double LP version. Long time no hear: after an extended hiatus and just the occasional gig, Robocop Kraus have rewired and reunited. They're back in the game. Almost a quarter of a century has passed since the band was formed, a period which saw them release on labels like L'Age D'Or, Epitaph, and Anti. Now they have put together a compilation featuring all of the tracks which, for one reason or another, were not available on their regular albums, with an intriguing number of rarities and previously unreleased material. Meticulously detailed liner notes courtesy of the band. Artwork by Lorenzo Zimmermann."Why Robocop Kraus became the love of my life. Good question, if indeed it is a question (no question mark in sight): Founded in the late 1990s by members of former (secondary modern and grammar) school bands in the small Middle Franconian town of Hersbruck, endowed with the most rudimentary technical skills on their respective instruments (the deal was that every band member would play an instrument he had yet to master) and unafraid of hammering out songs from blatantly pilfered or well-worn musical ideas, the band was, to all intents and purposes, set up to fail. Nevertheless, Robocop Kraus became the love of our lives: five albums between the years of 1999 and 2007, the first on the band's own label Swing Deluxe, the last on the internationally renowned Epitaph label. Hundreds of shows across Europe, the USA, Russia, and Japan. Encounters and friendships with people and bands, adventures and events in squats, bars and clubs. Enough answers? Things quietened down in 2010, a lengthy break with just the odd show here and there. But last year, 2021, we had to concede that Robocop Kraus really are the love of our lives: a concert request was spontaneously accepted -- surprising even the promoter, not to mention ourselves. Back to the rehearsal room. Now we are six and we have more instruments too. We had to listen back to the old songs so we could practice, and as we rummaged through the archives we happened upon the 28 songs now gathered here together for you. They range from our very first recordings to songs for (and in) 2022. EPs, compilation tracks, a few all-time faves like 'Poor Soul Relax' and previously unreleased songs or alternative versions..."
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CAT #: TR 526LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Revenge of the She-Punks: Compilation Inspired by the Book by Vivien Goldman 2LP
Double LP version. Since the historiography of punk is a male-dominated one, a Revenge of the She-Punks was long overdue. This feminist reckoning was written by none other than post-punk pioneer Vivien Goldman, who has an insider's perspective due to her work as a musician and one of Britain's first female music writers. Along four themes -- Identity, Money, Love and Protest -- the "punk professor" traces empowering moments that punk holds especially for women. This compilation is inspired by the book, originally released by University of Texas Press in 2019. Compiled and with liner notes by Vivien Goldman."We're not talking a mean-spirited gotcha! revenge here. As both my book that inspired it and this recording prove, us She-Punks' revenge is about our complex survival in an all too often hostile environment. The book offers a template to finding a way through the patriarchal labyrinth of the music industry by telling the backstories of thirty-eight songs by women from not only the Anglophone countries, but Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and Eastern and Continental Europe. Together, they demonstrate how girls around the world, with no or few role models, found ways to thwart blockages and become self-expressive musicians, breaking traditions and expectations, setting new standards with every chord . . . We open with Identity featuring Fea, Big Joanie, The Raincoats, Blondie, and Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex. Then comes Money with Patti Smith, Shonen Knife, Malaria! and the Slits; followed by Love/Unlove: Crass, Cherry Vanilla, Grace Jones, Rhoda Dakar with the Special AKA, Alice Bag (The Bags), Tribe 8 and the Au Pairs, the Mo-Dettes, Neneh Cherry from the UK/Sweden/US and this writer/musician. The closing chapter, Protest, features Sleater-Kinney, Jayne Cortez and the Firespitters, Skinny Girl Diet, Vi Subversa and the Poison Girls, the Czech Republic's Zuby Nehty, Colombia's Fertil Miseria, and Jamaica's Tanya Stephens. Many people have questioned how I arrived at those four themes (answer: thinking,) and so far, no-one has disagreed. However, in sequencing this compilation, the important thing was to sonically flow through the breadth of our creativity, led by the rhythms and sound, rather than the lyrics; they, I already knew, formed a compelling whole, an implacable critique. My perspective on punk is based on spirit rather than adherence to the venerated concept of the genre as only a frenetic full-frontal sonic attack (though that is also represented here). Having been involved with the movement at the start in mid-1970s London, as Features Editor of the punk rock weekly, Sounds, I understood it to be a front line, inclusionary genre, with DIY at its core, which is why it was the first genre to give anything approaching an equal platform to women musicians. Especially for the less conventional, all too often the path for women artists is still steeper than that of male peers. Despite the massive success of today's female superstars, there remains a quota perception in an industry that still largely lives in boystown (though always factor in that it's not the men, it's the mentality,) who are less receptive to forceful females; like the sort of bookers who say, 'Well, we've done our bit, we've booked our female artist' -- as if booking women were some grim post-MeToo duty. But as heard in these tracks, in all its forms, whether sounding strident or soft, punk is a music of resistance; women's punk specially so..." Also features Bush Tetras and The Selecter.
THINK ZIK! (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TZA 020CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
THINK ZIK! ALL STAR Acoustic Love Sessions CD
Acoustic "Love" Sessions, is the first part of the Acoustic Sessions collection conceived by the Think Zik! label. The concept is simple: 14 love songs in English revisited in their simplest form... In these times when music is so formatted, the freshness of this organic album, is a pleasure to hear by finding the salt of great voices such as Ben L'Oncle Soul, Imany, Rover, Faada Freddy, Tété, China Moses, or Hugh Coltman. Also highlighted are new voices, such as Saandia, Anwar, Ginne Marker, or Yaya Minté. The album was produced by Johan Dalgaard, pianist/keyboardist known for playing with Benjamin Biolay, Jean-Louis Aubert, Gaëtan Roussel. Dalgaard also produced Alain Chamfort's album which was awarded at the Victoires de la Musique in 2019, several albums of Christophe Maé and the latest album of Bénabar. Also features Paper Plane, Axelle Rousseau, and E.B. CD version includes 12-page booklet.
TOY TONICS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TOYT 135LP
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CURRIE, CODY Lucas 2x12"
The 14-tracker will land via Berlin's Toy Tonics label and glides from disco to jazz, house, and funk and features key collaborations with the likes of Jitwam, Eliza Rose, Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange, and his close friends. After having met Mathias "Kapote" Modica, creative mind behind Germany's well respected Toy Tonics label three years ago, East London born Cody Currie understood Kapote and his international TT Crew have the perfect understanding for his talents and share the same visions and so Cody joined the TT crew and released three EPs with the German label. Now finally he steps up to present his highly anticipated debut album, Lucas. The roots of Cody's artistry runs deep, hailing from Leytonstone in East London by his father a fashion designer and his Spanish mother a music writer, it was inevitable that Cody would follow suit in the world of creativity. Currie's keen ear and penchant for retro disco licks, chopped keys, and broken beats have landed him also with one-off releases on other notable labels like Razor-N-Tape, Dan Shake's Shake Records. The past few years has found Cody in the midst of a fresh, unique buzz taking over Europe, predominantly in Berlin and London, as he bridges the gap between jazz and house music with his energetic DJ sets, talented instrumental skills and effortless swag. This debut album, like his EPs, represents the new essence of jazz burgeoning out of London's youth scene of today. Cody doesn't use any samples, only live instruments, vocals and great chord combinations, a nod towards his music school studies in London before moving over to Berlin. Cody comes from playing jazz piano and playing in bands and combines this real musician's attitude and knowledge with his skills as an electronic producer and extremely talented DJ/selector. On Lucas, Cody defines his work by enjoying the collaborative process with other talented artists such as Eliza Rose and Ziggy (Freedom Zeitgeist Energy Exchange), as well as some of Cody's close personal friends like Jitwam, Ally McMahon, Andreas Kon, and more. Currie comments on the album saying: "Lucas LP is a collection of tracks which I've either done myself around the world recording in different places, or collaborating with my friends. The music reflects my enjoyment of the musical process and I'd say it's inspired a lot by George Duke and Frank Zappa, the disco and funkier stuff from the '70s and '80s. Some of the tracks are quite deep and introspective, whilst other ones are more fun and silly like "That Stick"..." Also features MiK and Tino.
TRISOL (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TRI 628LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
LUST SYNDICATE, THE Capitalism is Cannibalism LP+CD
2019 release. Capitalism is war. Capitalism is cannibalism. Western society is devouring itself, just as it previously devoured other societies. This realization brings anger, and demands an answer. Simone Salvatori (the Spiritual Front mastermind) brings this fury to us. With his martial post-industrial pop project The Lust Syndicate, he destroys all we came to trust, infecting our imaginary idylls forever. Capitalism is Cannibalism is the title of his first work with The Lust Syndicate, and the aggressive course pursued by the death-fixated cover, which is full of weapons, skulls, and dildos, is an effortless and perfect fit for the tracks collected here. The album is made up of critical and downright politically provocative statements, and surprises not only with its clearly defined theses on the present day, but also with some well-known guests: Michael de Victor from the neofolk band While Angels Watch, the Italian genre actor Mark Thompson Ashworth, the American occultist Paul Smalley, Gary Carey (Joy Of Life), Sean Ragon (Cult Of Youth), Erin Powell (Awen), and Caroline Jago (Sol Invictus) all appear here, positioning the album in a European post-industrial tradition. Salvatori's countless appearances with the cult figures of neofolk over the last two decades (including Death In June and King Dude) have left clear traces. But The Lust Syndicate has more to offer than accusation -- driving percussion, melodic fragments, and gut-wrenching noise. With its tribal metallic beats, the song "Deserted Future" is reminiscent of Australian industrial pioneers, SPK. But Hunting Lodge also come to mind, with their driving "Tribal Warning Shot", as do Test Dept., whose accusatory agitation shines through again and again (such as on "United States of Slavery"). But Simone Salvatori is known for the suicide pop of Spiritual Front, which on this album he dresses up to be variously colder or more electronic. The vocals in "Utopia as Violence" and "Death Moves Towards Us" are indeed reminiscent of electro-pop legends Depeche Mode. Once you've heard The Lust Syndicate, there's no escape. Simone Salvatori's new project gives our powerlessness a voice and calls for a revolt. White 180 gram vinyl; reverse board printed cover sleeve; includes color inner sleeve with lyrics; included CD contains six bonus tracks.
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CAT #: TRI 659LP
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AWEN The Hollow In The Stone LP+CD
2019 release. Impressions of eternity. A modern voice for an ancient messenger. The delicate balance of warm wood, cold stone, and steel. These are some of the sonic flashes imparted on the listener of The Hollow In The Stone, the third album from the Texas-based neofolk/post-industrial band Awen. Led by the stentorian voice of Erin Powell, sustained by the dulcet tones of Katrin X, and propelled by the delicate guitar work of Wes Radvansky, the album pushes and pulls in measures through avenues of melancholy and moments of horror, forcing the listener to become an active participant on the journey. Archaic actions leave palpable impressions -- The Hollow In The Stone. Featuring guest appearances from Jerome Reuter (Rome), b9 InVid (Et Nihil, Luftwaffe, The Muskets), and Greg Elliott (Dying And Rising). Clear 180 gram vinyl; reverse board printed cover; color printed inner sleeve with lyrics; includes CD.
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CAT #: TRI 696LP
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OSTARA Eclipse of the West LP+CD
2020 release. Ostara's eight album, Eclipse of the West, is an uncompromising confrontation with the Zeitgeist, brimming from start to end with a sense of tragic urgency. Inspired by the Sturm und Drang movement, singer songwriter, Richard Leviathan, weaves a barbed thread through the centuries, from the battle cry of the Norse god Wieland to the contemporary echoes of failed utopias, mass narcissism, the loss of love, and the death of hope. This is an album for the times, a bleak yet stirring harbinger of a dark new decade. Solar gold 180 gram vinyl; reverse board printed cover; includes color printed inner sleeve with lyrics; includes CD; includes postcard.
TROST (AUSTRIA)
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CAT #: TROST 217LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
SAKATA & TAKEO MORIYAMA, AKIRA Mitochondria 2LP
Double LP version. Spectacular live recording from 1986 of two seminal figures of the Japanese avantgarde -- Akira Sakata on saxophone and Takeo Moriyama on drums. Mitochondria captures the reunion of the two free jazz masters, who started playing together in the Yosuke Yamashita Trio in 1972 until 1975. For both, the experience with the trio was an important step in the development of their own career and musicianship. The recordings are a remarkable performance in which each successfully highlights the essential elements of his playing while giving of room for the other musician. Recorded at Kashiwa Church Chiba Pref. in Japan on May 24, 1986 by Yukio Tezuka on Sony stereo cassette recorder. Mixed by Jim O'Rourke, Mastered by Martin Siewert. Graphic design/cover photo by Lasse Marhaug. Liner notes by Kazue Yokoi.
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CAT #: TROST 222LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
BROTZMANN/FRED VAN HOVE/HAN BENNINK, PETER Jazz in der Kammer Nr.71 2LP
Double LP version. The first concert of Peter Brötzmann, Fred Van Hove, and Han Bennink in East Germany -- 4.11.1974, Deutsches Theater, Berlin. Recorded by radio for the series Jazz in der Kammer Nr 71. Liner notes by Bert Noglik, with translation by Jeb Bishop. Recorded by Radio GDR, Berlin. Produced by Brötzmann, 2021 mastering by Martin Siewert. Artwork/design by Brötzmann/Untiet. Personnel: Peter Brötzmann - alto/tenor saxophone; Fred van Hove - piano; Han Bennink - drums.
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CAT #: TROST 224LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
GUSTAFSSON & NU ENSEMBLE, MATS Hidros 8 - Heal LP
LP version. Includes download. Personnel: Anna Högberg - alto and baritone sax; Mats Gustafsson - baritone sax and conductions; Susana Santos Silva - trumpet; Per-Åke Holmlander - tuba; Hedvig Mollestad - guitar; Dieb13 - turntables; Christof Kurzmann - lloopp, voice; Massimo Pupillo - bass; Gert-Jan Prins - drums and electronics; Ivar Loe Bjørnstad - drums.Recorded at DE Studio, Antwerp, November 23rd, 2016. Mixed by Mikael Werliin. Mastered by Lasse Marhaug. Cover illustration/design by Lasse Marhaug.
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CAT #: TROST 229CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
AMADO, RODRIGO Refraction Solo CD
An intimate solo set by Portuguese tenor saxophone player Rodrigo Amado, recorded at the Church of The Holy Ghost (Igreja do Espírito Santo), Caldas da Rainha. Amado is a key player of the current European jazz scene and has regular band projects with Joe McPhee, Hernani Faustino, Chris Corsano, and leads his own groups Lisbon Freedom Unit and Motion Trio. Mastered by David Zuchovski. Photo by Laurent Orseau. Liner notes by Stuart Broomer.
TURBO RECORDINGS (CANADA)
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CAT #: TURBO 217EP
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TIGA Easy - Remixes 12"
Turbo Recordings present he latest from executive honcho Tiga, a massive ode to passive-aggressive income remixed by Héctor Oaks, Der Zyklus, and Decius. "No one wants to work their body anymore," says the Montreal merrymaker from atop a throne in the exact shape of a digital wallet. "I get it. Who wants their surplus sweat equity vacuumed up off the dance floor by corporate parasites when the real future's in decentralized skanking? But that's why people in my position -- the top one-percent in terms of nightlife and hospitality take-home pay -- have to offer real benefits to risking it all in the clubs. I'm talking dance-move insurance, competitive drink ticket packages, and -- most of all -- the kind of brick-and-mortar bangers Rhythm Nation was founded upon back in 1814." While gratingly content with the original version, Tiga has nonetheless chosen to flood the marketplace of ideas with a plurality (three) of voices he feels will optimally position this release in today's unforgiving neo-centrist landscape. This stunning grassfed vinyl 12" opens with a remix by Berlin-based vinyl-only DJ Héctor Oaks, who has been described as "operating at the absolute vanguard of rave." Please remember that describing people this way is basically injecting them with Imposter Syndrome. The release also features a remix by Der Zyklus, an alias of Gerald Donald, the epochal genius from Drexciya, Dopplereffekt, Japanese Telecom, Abstract Thought, Zerkalo, Zwischenwelt, and many other fantastic projects. Finally, Decius closes out the EP with all the British mischief you might expect from UK luminaries from Trashmouth Records, Fat White Family, and Paranoid London. "I've designed my entire life around the concept of ease," adds Tiga. "I never wanted to work for a law firm. I wanted to make beats for a law firm. I've always been self-employed, and that why my street cred's off the street charts. And I've let as much of that freedom trickle down to the audience as I can. Because when it comes to music, there's no such thing as an acceptable minimum wage. You gotta know that you gotta give it all you got or you're gonna get got."
UKW49B (GERMANY)
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CAT #: UKW49B 001A-EP
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VA Sound Of The Concrete Lady Part 1 12"
The UKW club in north-east Germany and its street location number calling 49b. A unique building and home for music enthusiasts where no fame exists. The new inhouse label is now starting its output with music from friends and regulars of the club. The label philosophy is simple: Music from the heart that moves. This first release comes as a compilation split into two parts packed with chords, raw analog drums, dubby elements dreamy pads, and bleepy elements. Features Kyle Geiger, Stojche, Don Williams, Mareena, and AVION.
UMOR REX (MEXICO)
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CAT #: UR 145LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
OESTERHELT, CARL The Dualistic Principle LP
Throughout his productive career, Carl Oesterhelt has proven to be an artist who finds it easy to move between musical genres and concepts. Much of his work has been within classical and chamber music, but he has also scored museum exhibitions and he is sometimes part of The Notwist crew as an angular figure on the Munich scene. In Umor Rex, the label has been lucky enough to publish an array of Oesterhelt's universes. In Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer (UR 121LP, 2019) you heard his kosmische side, where the connections with Harmonia or Klaus Schulze were amalgamated with ecclesiastical organ pieces and intense semi-automatic rhythms. A deeply melodic, fresh album. Pure syntax of the modern synthesizer. Further, in The Aporias of Futurism (UR 133LP, 2021), in collaboration with Andreas Gerth (Driftmachine, Tied & Tickled Trio), Oesterhelt showed what is perhaps his darkest side -- a work full of nuances within concrete music and midnight atmospheres. As deep and cerebral an album as it is surprising and catatonic. Yet, it seems that Carl Oesterhelt has another ace up his sleeve. Now he surprises his listeners with The Dualistic Principle, a fantastic album full of weird but charming electronic melodies, rhythms that push the body to movement, sometimes syncopated and abstract, others permanent and fluid. In this work, Oesterhelt invited Johan Simons to give voice to the lyrics. The Dualistic Principle is a sort of rendition of a philosophical review or a nostalgic memory of the glamorous years. There is also underlying humor in the post/space-pop/Munich-disc assortment. The Dualistic Principle is the score to an imaginary film of contemporary hedonism. All music and lyrics by Carl Oesterhelt. Voice by Johan Simons. Additional strings played by the Ensemble für synkretische Musik. Recorded in Munich and Bochum, Germany. Mastered by John Tejada in Sherman Oaks, USA. Artwork by Daniel Castrejón in Mexico City. Blue vinyl; includes download code.
V I S (GERMANY)
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CAT #: VIS 008LP
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STRING Last Index Of... 2LP
"Nothing is explained in the mysteries around us, but some art touches their soul: last year, Justin Tripp, one half of the US-American impro electronic duo Georgia and London-based electronic artist Zaheer Gulamhusein, man behind projects like Waswaas and XVARR, joined forces as String. Together they went on a virtual vacation and never came back. As the virtual is fully real due to its virtuality, they created a truly authentic aural hardware journey, hauntingly adventurous, calm, and surprising. Without defining the scope, String tumbled through a dark musical zone that stretched to the horizon, letting the sound shape itself while falling discreet into an appealing abstract space. Hovering clockwise shortly above the ground, they formed impossible geometric musical figures -- weightless, fluid clouds, made up of relations between asymmetrical elements. Like in nature, their collaborative work avoids identical characteristics. In an expression of respectful admiration, they softly celebrate the irregularities between their specific genetic musical fingerprints, creating eight light binding clouds of dawn. A meditative musical voyage that transports cosmic particles of idealistic Berlin school ambient right into the heart of their electronic machines. All tunes swing calm but constitutive, dancing around synthesized surfaces that form obsessed flaming orbs of fear and hope, of matter and antimatter. A shared love for hardware and the ethos of improvisation guided String into an experimentation, in which each party aligns closely to the core ideas of co-operative, in-the-moment electronic music, tied across the eight tracks in a sequence. Finding a home with the highly esteemed Hamburg based label V I S, String's debut Last Index Of... will enter the earth in double vinyl." -- Michael Leuffen
VAMPISOUL (SPAIN)
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CAT #: VAMPI 245LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
DESUMANOS Desumanos LP
Desumanos' fresh mixture of guitar driven melodies is as evocative as it is playful. This instrumental project is made up of a dream-team of Brazilian producers and musicians. Kassin, on bass, was member of The +2's band and co-produced Gilles Peterson's Brazilian project Sonzeira, featuring legendary artists such as Elza Soares, Naná Vasconcelos, Wilson Das Neves... While Liminha, on guitar, is a former member of Os Mutantes. His signature sound is heavily influenced by classic instrumental surf music, but tropical rhythms are also dropped in the mix. The band is completed with Felipe and Manoel Cordeiro (on guitar), one of the lambada originators, and Stephane San Juan (drums), currently playing with David Byrne. Across the track list of this Desumanos debut album, you can find a unique combination of musical styles that are all filtered through the sieve of instrumental surf music without losing their roots anchored in tropical sounds such as cumbia, African rhythms and, of course, popular genres from Brazil such as forró or lambada. Ten original songs in which the guitar is the undisputed protagonist and the tropical atmosphere emanates through each note.
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CAT #: VAMPI 265LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
SALCEDO Y SU ONDA TRES, JIMMY El Mundo de Jimmy Salcedo y Su Onda Tres LP
Many music fans will remember Jimmy Salcedo due to his wonderful work as arranger and producer with the duo Elia and Elizabeth in the early '70s. Their delicate songwriting acquired, after his treatment, a special tropical aroma that even included the funk influences received by Salcedo at that time. He released with his band, La Onda Tres, a few LPs and singles that had a limited distribution, mainly in Colombia only. This anthology comprises a selection of songs that celebrate Salcedo's sound signature: a base of coastal funk with vocals and melodic bubblegum-bomb arrangements and hints of light psychedelia. Many of the compiled songs became popular radio hits in Colombia that Jimmy Salcedo and La Onda Tres recorded and arranged at the Zeida studios in Medellín. These recordings include Latin-jazz tracks ("Mira") with stunning percussion solos, songs recorded under a heavy Caribbean-soul influence ("¡Qué linda es Colombia!: and "Lo mismo de siempre") "Maranguango", an irresistible mix of Afro-Latin percussion and catchy tropical harmonies spiced-up with Moog keyboard sounds, fuzz and wah-wah guitars and even touches of Hammond, in a psychedelic funk style, an exhilarating Moog driven instrumental with a heavy Afro-funk rhythm ("Moogambo") and revisited Latin classics ("Moliendo Café"). Jimmy Salcedo's big popularity in Colombia is due however to his long career as TV presenter at El Show de Jimmy, running for over 20 years, where he would also perform with his band and act as a comedian. His life was tragically cut short and died in 1992, when he was only 48, due to health issues. This compilation celebrates his superb musical legacy and makes most of these songs available again for the first time. Includes and insert with notes and rare photos.
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CAT #: VAMPI 268LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
CHICOMA Y SU ORQUESTA, TITO Cumbias y Boogaloos LP
First time reissue, originally released in 1968. The musician Roberto Enrique "Tito" Chicoma forged one of the most solid and constant career paths in Peruvian music. In 1959, at the age of 23, Tito moved to Lima, where he soon joined ensembles such as the Koki Palacios and Armando Boza orchestras, which took him abroad for the first time on tour. A recognized musician in his own right, Tito would later decide to form his own orchestra, which was soon hired by América Televisión, starring on programs such as El Show de Juan Silva, where he accompanied international artists that visited Lima. In 1966, Tito made his first record under his own name on the MAG label, performing two cumbias by the Colombian group Los Teen Agers. The praise the single received led to the recording of his first LP, El Ritmo de Moda, where he continued to compile Colombian songs. At the end of 1967, he dedicated his new LP project to recording two fashionable rhythms at the time: Cumbias y Boogaloos. The Colombian cumbia became popular in Peru from 1964 onwards, when local orchestras like those of Andrés de Colbert, Mario Cavagnaro, Eulogio Molina, and Lucho Macedo recorded cumbia hits, then the genre soared when groups like Los Pacharacos and Los Demonios del Mantaro mixed it with Andean music. Boogaloo in Peru was popularized chiefly by the record label MAG, which kept its listeners up to date with developments in tropical music in New York, releasing and distributing records by Alegre Records and recording versions of hit songs such as "El Pito" and "Mamblues" with local musicians. The recording sessions for Cumbias y Boogaloos began in December 1967, when Tito released one of his first compositions: "Dale U". He also recorded the instrumental track "La Cigüeña" and "Plaza de Toros", two compositions by the Venezuelan artist Hugo Blanco. After a trip to Buenos Aires in 1968, he recorded two more songs, both from the Alegre Records single: "Mr. Trumpet Man" and "El Diri-Bop" by Puerto Rican musicians Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz. Then, during May, Tito recorded a couple of songs by the Venezuelan guitarist Orlando Peñaranda Moros and his group Orlando y su Combo: "Pata Pata Pelada" and "A Que Tú No Sabes". The former was inspired by Miriam Makeba's 1967 global hit "Pata Pata". The sessions were complemented by recording "La Cebolla", a composition by the Colombian songwriter Graciela Arango de Tobón, and the Amazonian waltz "La Contamanina" recorded with a cumbia beat. By September 1968, the LP was released and received extensive airplay on the radio, especially the cumbias. An obscure tropical gem loaded with dancefloor tunes.
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CAT #: VAMPI 270LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
LATIN BROTHERS, THE El Picotero LP
Reissue, originally released in 1974. Heavy-duty Colombian salsa group The Latin Brothers were formed in 1974 by the Discos Fuentes A&R team as a sibling band of Fruko Y Sus Tesos in order to provide the local market with a trombone-heavy ensemble in the mode of the popular Nuyorican Willie Colón orchestra. The band was led by Julio "Fruko" Estrada on bass, featuring basically the same musicians as Los Tesos, minus the trumpets and highlighting the cutthroat trombone work of Gustavo "La Pantera" García. At the time, Fruko's Tesos were going through a transition and his talented former lead vocalist, Píper Pimienta, left to sing lead in The Latin Brothers while Joe Arroyo and Wilson "Saoko" Manyoma took over vocal duties in Los Tesos. El Picotero was The Latin Brothers' debut album and remains to this day a favorite of salsa dura fans the world over. The album established The Latin Brothers as a bona fide contender in the crowded field of trombone-centric salsa bands taking over the airwaves and dance floors around Latin America. With this bold and brassy record, The Latin Brothers would inspire future Colombian salsa orchestras as well as helping establish Medellín as a center of salsa almost as famous as Cali. The song selection on the album also spotlights where the band is coming from as a salsa manifesto of sorts, lyrically covering various topics such as paying homage to the people, patron saints and music of Puerto Rico and Cuba, as well as praising the DJs (picoteros) and radio hosts (locutores) who play the guaguancó rhythm of salsa, and of course the typical themes of problems with women and heavy partying that come with most male-centric Latin dance tunes of the era. This lovingly restored reissue adds the Píper Pimienta penned "Echa Pa'lante Camará" as a great bonus track with its heavy dance rhythms and oddball Mellotron solo. 180 gram vinyl.
VENTIL VERLAG (GERMANY)
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CAT #: 9783955751555
FILE UNDER: Misc
BARTEL/GUDRUN GUT/BETTINA KOSTER, BEATE M Dokumente: Mania D., Malaria!, Matador Book
Extensive show of works by the three iconographic underground bands. The book project M_Dokumente focuses on the explicitly female perspective of the all-female bands Mania D., Malaria!, and Matador on the West Berlin music and art scene from the late 1970s on. The three bands around Beate Bartel, Bettina Köster, and Gudrun Gut played concerts, released records and toured around the world in different formations from 1979 on. What stood out and was new was the self-determined appearance of the musicians, which was reflected in their music and lyrics as well as in their unique style and the genre-crossing approach of "more art in the music, more music in the art". To this day, the three M_Bands are considered visionary, they shaped a new image of women in pop culture and are pioneers and role models for important and necessary emancipatory movements in the music industry. With oral history documentary by and with Beate Bartel, Gudrun Gut, and Bettina Köster as well as contributions by Nick Cave, Diedrich Diederichsen, Christine Hahn, Peter Bömmels, Mark Reeder, Scumeck Sabottka, and Annett Scheffel. In German and English. 184 pages. 8.03x0.63x10.71 inches; 1.47 pounds."Beginning in West Berlin, in 1979, with the inception of Mania D., spawning Malaria! and later Matador; in a time when music was essential to movement, to escape, to space, to the scene and to the rebellion of the people; three bands stood for trial and error, trial and terror, anti-conformity, and anti-consumerism, for girl power and sticking it to the man, and for just doing whatever the hell they wanted." --Annika Henderson (Anika)
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CAT #: 9783955751739
FILE UNDER: Misc
DEAD MOON Off the Grid (Softcover) Book
Dead Moon were a lo-fi garage/rock n' roll band from Portland, Oregon, active for almost 20 years between 1987 and 2006, during which time the band gained a mythic and legendary iconic status. Off the Grid is a "dizzying oral history" about this most stubborn, idealistic and arguably wildest band in the world -- a saga about love itself and the love of rock and roll, about DIY and about an improbable career. The biography of singer and guitarist Fred Cole (formerly of The Weeds, Lollipop Shoppe, and The Rats before Dead Moon) is like a rollercoaster ride through countless bands and musical styles beginning in the Teenbeat era of the '60s driven by an invisible force and one big love. Dead Moon cultivated their DIY code built around Fred's superstitions and avoidance of conventional music industry pitfalls. They toured around the world, played in live clubs between Oregon, Europe, and New Zealand. They cut their own records and ran their own music store and label -- Tombstone Music. Their story is completely unique in the pantheon of rock music: a group who never sold out, never gave in and built a legacy of art and community in a sustainable way almost unheard of. The book is a tribute to their unique aesthetic, unbelievable twisted path of a story and role as pioneers of the Portland music scene. Off the Grid is a declaration of love to Dead Moon, to music in general and to rock n' roll in particular. The documentation tells the entire Dead Moon saga in the words of the band itself. Close friend, author and editor szim spent three summers (2013-2016) in Fred and Toody Coles's attic sifting through photos, flyers and tour diaries, collecting posters and T-shirts and conducting extensive interviews. This fourth revised and updated edition contains 16 more pages than the third and 36 more pages than the first one. The already extensive photo section now holds even more historical material, posters, flyers as well as an extended and completed discography and gig list. Exclusive to this edition is an interview with Edwin He. Softcover; 336 pages. 9.49x1.06x12.6 inches; 3.59 pounds.
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CAT #: 9783955751746
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TENOR, JIMI Omniverse: Sounds, Sights and Stories Book
Born in Lahti in 1965, he changed his name from Lassi Letho to Jimi Tenor in reference to his favorite instrument, the tenor saxophone, and out of admiration for the musician Jimmy Osmond. After school, he took up music studies before eventually moving to New York, where he worked as a souvenir photographer on the Empire State Building. During this time, Tenor continued to work on his music in his flat and a unique mixture between house, jazz, and experimental pop music emerged. His solo debut Sähkömies (1994) established one of the most exciting artistic careers that has lasted for over 30 years. A techno pioneer in the 1990s, Tenor turned to his love of jazz in the 2000s, recording an album with Afrobeat legend Tony Allen and collaborating with several orchestras. As the first part of the new series Sounds, Sights & Stories, Omniverse uses photos and stories to document the various stages of Jimi Tenor's life and career, whose work goes far beyond his music -- from photography and filmmaking to instrument making and fashion design, everything is conceivable in the world of what is probably the first Finnish pop star. Hardcover; 192 pages. 8.03x0.83x9.57 inches; 1.58 pounds.
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CAT #: 9783955751784
FILE UNDER: Misc
BERTON, BENJAMIN Dreamworld: The Fabulous Life of Daniel Treacy and his Band Television Personalities Book
London 1977: Daniel Treacy drops out of school, bored to death. With friends, he records a few songs thanks to a few pounds sterling lent to him by his parents and sends the finished single to the legendary radio DJ John Peel, who is immediately thrilled -- the Television Personalities are born ... In the turbulent life of Daniel Treacy you meet Jimmy Page, Bob Marley, Alan McGee, David Gilmour, Wham!, Nico, and Kurt Cobain. Dreamworld is the very real, very crazy story of a genius in music history. Enriched with plenty of scene and period color from British pop from the 1960s to the present, Dreamworld tells of all the ups and downs of a legend who was once called the "Godfather of Indie Pop". The translation by David Marshall appears with a fully revised color picture section and numerous illustrations. 264 pages. 5.12x0.91x7.32 inches; 0.76 pounds.
VERSION (GERMANY)
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CAT #: VERSION 018EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
YAK Balmora Blue/Swex 12"
UK-based producer Yak is one of the strongest talents in percussive, bass-heavy club music. His debut record Mido, which appeared on Version in 2017, remains an ultimate DJ weapon. After releases on Martyn's 3024 and the esteemed R&S label, Yak delivers his third record on Version, Balmora Blue/Swex. This is a proper double A-sider that will surely get your dance bubbling. "Swex" and "Balmora Blue" are future rave anthems coming with earth-shattering sub, warm, elevating synths -- and the trademark Yak drums to resurrect a dead soundboy's nana. Both tracks range around 120bpm, but will sound as crisp at higher/slower pitch or rpm too, making them versatile tools in every DJ's chest. Another essential bit from Yak and Version. Played by Vladimir Ivkovic, Moxy, Madam X, Or:la, and Breaka.
WEWANTSOUNDS (UK)
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CAT #: WWSLP 050LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
RAHBANI, ZIAD Houdou Nisbi LP
2022 repress. Wewantsounds present the first ever vinyl release of Ziad Rahbani's Houdou Nisbi recorded in 1985 and only released on cassette and CD in 1991. One of Rahbani's most praised albums, released on the sought-after Lebanese label Relax-in. Mixing Arabic music with funk, jazz, boogie and a touch of Brazilian music, it is considered a classic among Oriental groove fans, DJs and collectors around the world. Curated by Lebanese DJ and Journalist Ernesto Chahoud. Ziad Rahbani is one of the giants of Arabic music and a cultural icon in the Middle East. The musician, pianist and producer is also a celebrated playwright and a political activist. Coming out of an illustrious artistic dynasty (his father, famous composer and musician Assi Rahbani, was in The Rahbani Brothers and his mother is the legendary Lebanese diva, Fairuz), Ziad Rahbani released a string of key albums in the '70s that have since become cult among DJs and collectors. Heavily influenced by Western music, Rahbani brought these influences to traditional Arabic music early one. 1978 saw the release of two key Rahbani albums, the disco 12" Abu Ali and Bennesbeh Labokra... Chou? (WWSLP 044LP). Serving as musical director to his mother Fairuz, he produced some of her best albums including Maarifti Feek recorded in 1984 at his Beirut studio, By Pass, bringing his blend of modern influences to her traditional sound. At the very same time, Rahbani started recording his own album at By Pass with the cream of Lebanese musicians including saxophonist Tewfic Farroukh, guitarist Paul Dawani, and percussionist Emile Boustani. Bringing funk, boogie, jazz funk fusion and Brazilian music to the mix, Rahbani created a landmark album, Houdou Nisbi now considered one of the best jazz funk albums from the Middle East. Featuring such cult tracks as "Rouh Khabbir", a remake of the Crusaders' "Soul Shadow" sung by Rahbani himself, the modern soul of "Bisaraha" and the Brazilian flavored "For Sure", the album is both effortlessly groovy and steeped in Oriental music. Houdou Nisbi, which means "relatively calm", an expression used by news anchors on Lebanese TV to describe the mood during cease-fire in the civil war that went on between 1975 and 1990. The cassette artwork has faithfully been reproduced for vinyl release. Remastered. New liner notes by Lebanese DJ and curator Ernesto Chahoud in English/French.
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CAT #: WWSLP 052LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
WARDA Khalik Hena LP
2022 repress. Wewantsounds present the first vinyl reissue of legendary Arabic diva Warda's Khalik Hena, recorded with full Egyptian orchestra and originally released on the label Soutelphan in 1973. A cult classic sampled by Jay Z and J Dilla, the album recorded in public mixes traditional Arabic music with a tinge of '70s grooves. Here, Warda delivers a hypnotic performance backed by her full-size orchestra featuring those unparalleled Arabic strings that made recordings by Oum Khalthoum, Farid El Atrache, and Abdel Halim Hafez so famous. Khalik Hena is one of her all-time classics, written by legendary composer Baligh Hamdi. Warda is one of the undisputed divas of the Arab world. Born in the Paris suburb from an Algerian father and a Lebanese mother, she was discovered at 11 by Ahmed Hachlaf, Pathe Marconi's heads of A&R specializing in Arabic music. having honed her singing skills at her father's cabaret in the Latin Quarter, the Tam-Tam (for Tunisia-Algeria-Morocco) she quickly found recognition in the Arabic music circles. The family relocated to Beirut in the late '50s after the police found arms in her father's cabaret destined to the political group fighting for Algeria's independence and was swiftly discovered there by an Egyptian film producer who brought her to Cairo to record and play in his films. From there, her career took a meteoric rise and she became a star working with Egyptian such stars as Abdel Halim Hafez and composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab. However, in the early '60s a traditional marriage in Algeria stopped her career for a decade to be a housewife until Algerian President Boumediene asked her to perform for the tenth anniversary of the Nation's independence in 1972. This was an epiphany and after a divorce she was back to Egypt for a triumphant comeback. Khalik Hena recorded in public in 1973 dates back to these glory days. Teaming up with her new husband, legendary composer Baligh Hamdi, she recorded a string of classic albums -- hypnotic tour-de-forces stretching over two sides in an almost trance-like mode, enhancing Warda's powerful vocal and ability to mesmerize audiences. Blending traditional and modern instrumentations (electric guitar, organ), the music is both complex and groovy, Khalik Hena is one of her best LPs, sought after by Arabic diggers and collectors alike. Remastered audio; original artwork and two-page insert with new introduction by Mario Choueiry from Institut du Monde Arabe who curates Wewantsounds' Arabic series of reissues.
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CAT #: WWSLP 059LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
YAMASH'TA & THE HORIZON Sunrise From West Sea LP
2022 repress; LP version. Gatefold sleeve with OBI. Wewantsounds present a first time reissue of Sunrise From West Sea, Stomu Yamash'ta's cult LP originally released in 1971. A deep, cosmic, at time ambient performance recorded live and featuring two other Japanese legends: Takehisa Kosugi from the Taj-Mahal Travellers and jazz pianist Masahiko Satoh. The line-up also included Hideakira Sakurai on electric shamisen. Stomu Yamash'ta has been hailed as one of the best percussionists in the world by John Cage. Yamash'ta and Satoh recorded the landmark album Metempsychosis for Nippon Columbia in 1971. 1971 was also the year Yamash'ta released his highly-acclaimed Red Buddha solo album which was released in Europe and in the US. Inspired by the Metempsychosis experience Yamash'ta set to recreate the flowing energy of the album in a live setting with a smaller line-up. Recorded live at Yamaha Hall in Tokyo on April 18, 1971, just a few days after the end of the Red Buddha recording sessions, the all-night concert was recorded in front of an invite-only audience consisting of friends and musicians. Yamash'ta enrolled Satoh on keyboards together Taj Mahal Travellers leader Takehisa Kosugi, whom he'd met through his mentor, Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. Hideakira Sakurai on electric shamisen was also added the lineup. Edited down to fit two sides of an album that will become Sunrise From West Sea, the performance is both hypnotic and ethereal. It starts with Kosugi's distinctive electric violin and develops into a deep, spiritual free form conversation between the four musicians, giving them all the space they need to freely improvise and interact with each other, mixing electronics, percussion, electric organ, and shamizen without ever clashing. The interaction alternates between quiet, tranquil Eastern meditations and more paced parts, fuelled by Yamash'ta's extraordinary percussion playing. Later known for his involvement in soundtracks for Robert Altman's 1972 film Images -- collaborating with John Williams -- and Nic Roeg's 1976 classic The Man Who Fell To Earth, and also for his foray into fusion with his group Go, Yamash'ta never reached the creativity heard in Sunrise From West Sea again. The album was recorded during one of the most fertile periods in Japan where such groups as Les Rallizes Denudes and Taj Mahal Travellers and jazz musicians like Masahiko Satoh and Yamash'ta were revolutionizing the Japanese music scene. Includes new introduction by Paul Bowler. Remastered from the master tapes.
YORE RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: YORE 042EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DAVIS, GLENN Better Daze EP 12"
The second Glenn Davis 12", a year on from his last Yore twelve-inch Soul On My Side. Dublin-based DJ and producer Glenn Davis returns with its sequel, the as-stellar Better Daze EP. The EP's melodic, soulful sound. The dynamic title cut locks in instantly with a pumping kick drum and builds layer by layer thereafter. Percussion, hi-hats, electric piano chords, and synthesizers add to the thrust of the production as it grows ever more urgent. As the track advances, Davis drapes a jazzy keyboard solo across the booming base as the swing swells to a near-ecstatic level. "Your Time" rounds out the A-side with a cut that suggests pure energy at its outset before quickly morphing into a sleek house strut. With percussion included and late-night synth atmospherics folded in, the breezy tune starts to sound like something you'd hear banging out on the dancefloor that's surrounding you. On the flip, Davis brings the skipping house groove of "Inner Monologue" to a fever while. Moody chords, hand drums, and a snappy groove set the scene. The female vocalist's soulful delivery and vibes-like earworm that make the tune the standout it is. Think of a dark room and a red light bulb and house music forever and a day.
ZEENA (GERMANY)
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CAT #: ZEENA 001EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
AMOR, YARON Zeena 12"
Well known as the Deep'a half of Deep'a & Biri, and a huge influential source of energy and innovation in Tel Aviv's house and techno community, Yaron Amor goes solo for the very first time with an incredibly personal project. Introducing Zeena: "The decision about the solo project was made during a visit to Morocco, in the main city square of Marrakesh I came across an improvised jam of 20 drummers from all over the country, the crazy rhythms they played together spontaneously amazed me and made me realize that the perfect beat I've been looking for, for so many years, was under my nose. In Arabic and Moroccan music that was constantly played in the house where I grew up?" Home is where the soul is... Zeena translates to beauty in Moroccan and this label exists wholly to celebrate and push cutting edge Arab electronic music. It starts here with Yaron's first solo EP. The result of an inspired creative series of recordings with drummers and musicians from Israel, Algiers, Morocco, and Berlin, across three tracks you are taken on a beautiful excursion of emotions, tension and introspective places. "I tried to merge together influences from the world of techno which I have been active in for almost 20 years along with the rhythms of Arabic music while paying respect to each of the genres." From the tension and powerful emotion of "The Pain Body" (a mesmerizing kick-less tableaux that would work perfectly for an intro or mid-set game-changer) to the powerful synth-laced Detroitian drive and thump of title track "Zeena" via the wild rolling toms of "Omipresence", this is Yaron Amor as you've never heard him before. Raw, honest, direct and totally at home. The Middle East has played a huge role in so many inspirations, influences, and sample sources since the very start of electronic music. Now, its time to bring that to the fore and celebrate it on a whole new level. Zeena is that level.
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012 (GERMANY)
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CAT #: 012 005EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
VA Systema Naturae II 12"
Second EP of the Systema Naturae series on 012 with four fresh new deep techno cuts from newcomer producers. Systema Naturae is the first compilation of 012. It is inspired by and takes the name of one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus, dating back to 1735, which broadly describes the hierarchical classification of the natural world. The series consists of three parts, each containing four tracks, where several artists are invited to recreate, with sounds, a deep reconnection with nature. Features Saphileaum, Zemög, Birds ov Paradise, and Luca Sanna. Original artworks by Ciredz.
AFFIN LTD (UK)
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CAT #: AFFIN 005LTD-LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SPIETH, JOACHIM Terrain LP
With Terrain, Joachim Spieth presents the fourth long-player on his Affin imprint. The follow-up album to Ousia (2021), Terrain reflects on the human relationship with nature. The album title is a reference to a musical language that layers Spieth's music production practices and intimacy with nature. Terrain was forged in deep solitude. "It's an interplay of euphoric flashes and introspection," says Spieth. The eight compositions take the listener into a captivating cascade of sonic textures resembling internal states fluctuations and emotional release. The tension between the organic warmth and static curves broad tones into liquified roars and empty spaces. Unlike Spieth's previous albums, Terrain holds more intimate gestures and emotional sensibility. Soothing frequencies here are intended to create a state of awareness in the listener. It is a work of conceptual and emotional beauty, evoking a form of spatial imagery that is as grounding as it is elevating.
AGUIRRE RECORDS (BELGIUM)
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CAT #: ZORN 044LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
FRANCE Occitanie LP
2022 repress. Aguirre Records present the first vinyl edition of France's Occitanie, originally released in 2009. Savage pulsating drone-rock from France, the trio of Jeremie Sauvage on electric bass, Mathieu Tilly on drums, and Yann Gourdon on amplified hurdy-gurdy. They play one note/one rhythm, producing energetic performances reminiscent of the early collaborations between Faust and Tony Conrad. Creatively recycled influences result in intense shows with pounding overtones and repetitive pulsing rhythms. Loud, straight, and trance-inducing. On Occitanie, in the mass of sound, the rhythmic repetition and the elongated drones. The hurdy-gurdy forces you deeper, highlighting points of microtonal flux, cracking open the single note, the nodding rhythm, to imply the presence of every note, every sound, inside it. The insensible evolution lurks in a corner of noise and finally imposes itself slowly on careful listening. The band members of France perform in various other projects: Tanz Mein Herz, Toad and Jérico, all are member of the collective La Novià, an organization based in Haute-Loire which brings together professional musicians and acts as a place for reflection and experimentation around traditional and or experimental music. In 2009, France was invited to play in Pau, a city far south-west of France, next to Spain, by the people running Pagans Musica, a like-minded traditional-oriented group of people, also bent on educational issues concerning the local music and dialect: Occitan and on fusing traditional musics and rock related sounds and instruments. They had set up a show for France and their band Artus and originally wanted to have Acid Mothers Temple join the bill. The Japanese band had done versions of songs coming from their village, but weren't touring near France so instead they invited Duo Ancelin-Rouzier as the third act, a band both Artus and France were also very fond of. Pagans had everything set-up for the concert to be recorded and as France had plenty of time for sound-check, they went on to record the Pau album (2011) in the afternoon, taking a thirty seconds pause in the middle of the session so as to mark both sides of the vinyl. Occitanie is a recording of the live set later that night, with no cut and a longer, more savage performance. Artwork by Standard In-Fi Visuals. Recorded live by Tòmas Baudoin and Yannick Prévost; Mastering by Kris Delacourt. High-glossy sleeve; Edition of 500.
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CAT #: ZORN 093CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
PARKER, JEFF Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy 2CD
"Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy, x2 LPs of long-form, lyrical, groove-based free improv by acclaimed guitarist & composer Jeff Parker's ETA IVtet, is at last here. Recorded live at ETA (referencing David Foster Wallace), a bar in LA's Highland Park neighborhood with just enough space in the back for Parker, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, & alto saxophonist Josh Johnson to convene in extraordinarily depthful & exploratory music making. Gleaned for the stoniest side-length cuts from 10+ hours of vivid two-track recordings made between 2019 & 2021 by Bryce Gonzales, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy is a darkly glowing séance of an album, brimming over with the hypnotic, the melodic, & patience & grace in its own beautiful strangeness. Room-tone, electric fields, environment, ceiling echo, live recording, Mondays, Los Angeles. Jeff Parker's first double album & first live album, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy belongs in the lineage of such canonical live double albums recorded on the West Coast as Lee Morgan's Live at the Lighthouse, Miles Davis' In Person Friday & Saturday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco & Black Beauty, & John Coltrane's Live in Seattle. While the IVtet sometimes plays standards &, including on this recording, original compositions, it is as previously stated largely a free improv group -- just not in the genre meaning of the term. The music is more free composition than free improvisation, more blending than discordant. It's tensile, yet spacious & relaxed. Clearly all four musicians have spent significant time in the planetary system known as jazz, but relationships to other musics, across many scenes & eras -- dub & Dilla, primary source psychedelia, ambient & drone -- suffuse the proceedings. Listening to playbacks Parker remarked, humorously & not, 'we sound like the Byrds' (to certain ears, the Clarence White-era Byrds, who really stretched it). A fundamental of all great ensembles, whether basketball teams or bands, is the ability of each member to move fluidly & fluently in & out of lead & supportive roles. Building on the communicative pathways they've established in Parker's -- The New Breed -- project, Parker & Johnson maintain a constant dialogue of lead & support. Their sampled & looped phrases move continuously thru the music, layered & alive, adding depth & texture & pattern, evoking birds in formation, sea creatures drifting below the photic zone. Or, the two musicians simulate those processes by entwining their terse, clear-lined playing in real-time. The stop/start flow of Bellerose, too, simulates the sampler, recalling drum parts in Parker's beat-driven projects. Mostly Bellerose's animated phraseologies deliver the inimitable instantaneous feel of live creative drumming. The range of tonal colors he conjures from his extremely vintage battery of drums & shakers -- as distinctive a sonic signature as we have in contemporary acoustic drumming -- bring almost folkloric qualities to the aesthetic currency of the IVtet's language. A wonderful revelation in this band is the playing of Anna Butterss. The strength, judiciousness & humility with which she navigates the bass position both ground & lift upward the egalitarian group sound. As the IVtet's grooves flow & clip, loop & repeat, the ensemble elements reconfigure, a terrarium of musical cultivation growing under controlled variables, a tight experiment of harmony & intuition, deep focus & freedom. For all its varied sonic personality, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy scans immediately & unmistakably as music coming from Jeff Parker's unique sound world. Generous in spirit, trenchant & disciplined in execution, Parker's music has an earned respect for itself & for its place in history that transmutes through the musical event into the listener. Many moods & shapes of heart & mind will find utility & hope in a music that combines the autonomy & the community we collectively long to see take hold in our world, in substance & in staying power. On the personal tip, this was always my favorite gig to hit, a lifeline of the eremite records Santa Barbara years. Mondays southbound on the 101, driving away from tasks & screens & illness, an hour later ordering a double tequila neat at the bar with the band three feet away, knowing i was in good hands, knowing it would be back around on another Monday. To encounter life at scales beyond the human body is the collective dance of music & the beholding of its beauty, together." --Michael Ehlers & Zac Brenner
ARBITRARY SIGNS
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CAT #: ARB 004LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MV & EE Liberty Rose LP
Warehouse find, last copies... "New LP by contemporary psychic blues visionaries MV & EE. The duo spent 40 days and 40 nights under the twisted trees and endless sky of the Mojave desert via a Vermont homestead, freedom and unity. That's where these songs were unformed in dreams, floating off to mingle with the collective unconscious of coyotes and rattlesnakes, before they were re-birthed as smoke signals channeled through shaky hands, an old tele, germanium transistors and a bucket brigade. We at Arbitrary Signs feel that this is the purest distillation of the MV & EE 'S P E C T R A S O U N D' to date. Embedded within the grooves of this record are 6 streams to dip into as respite from the punishing rays of the hot summer sun."
ASTRAL INDUSTRIES (UK)
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CAT #: AI 032LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SON OF CHI & ARTHUR FLINK The Fifth World Recordings LP
AI-32 signals the arrival of The Fifth World Recordings, by Son of Chi (Hanyo van Oosterom) and long-term collaborator Arthur Flink. A tribute to the late Jon Hassell, who passed away in 2021, the album connects a deep running thread that goes back to the source of Chi project. Carrying on from where Hassell left off, the album takes inspiration and references from his Fourth World music concept and the ancient Hopi tradition of Native America. Illuminating the subliminal space of the arising Fifth World, Son of Chi pays respects to an inimitable force in contemporary music. Hassell's Dream Theory in Malaya forms a touchstone to Hanyo van Oosterom's musical journey, which soundtracked long, deep and reflective periods living in the cave of the Kallikatsou (Patmos, Greece) back in the early '80s. This period resulted in Hanyo's track as Chi -- "Hopi" -- in 1984. Hanyo met Hassell shortly after in 1987 at his "The Surgeon in the Nightsky" concert in Rotterdam -- it wasn't until twenty years later that Hanyo invited him for two magic nights of "Instant Composing Sessions" with the Numoonlab Orchestra (with a host of other artists) at the LantarenVenster, the very same stage where Hassell had performed in 1987 and also where Chi did their first live performance. Dreamful, mysterious, prophetic, the Fifth World Recordings features the quiet yet elaborate sound of Chi awash with rich instrumentation, field recordings, and old stories by the firelight. Sketches were created with drones, loops, and soundscapes, with which Arthur Flink (also a member of the Numoonlab Orchestra) jammed on trumpet. Channeling Hassell's idiosyncratic style, floating melodies, and lyrical improvisations are parsed into the mix, where Hanyo has processed and manipulated the recordings, also referencing Hassell's exotic scales and unique harmonics. Additionally, the wah Bamboo flute at the closing piece is an homage to the works of Chi co-founder Jacobus Derwort (1952-2019). For this piece Hanyo used his first bamboo flute he made at the cave of the Kallikatsou in 1984. Arthur Flink answers in counterpoint with the wah trumpet, almost like the intuitive communication of the nightbirds...
BACKWOODZ STUDIOZ
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CAT #: BWZ 776LP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
BILLY WOODS & PRESERVATION Aethiopes LP
"Aethiopes is billy woods' first album since 2019's double feature of Hiding Places and Terror Management. The project is fully produced by Preservation (Dr Yen Lo, Yasiin Bey), who delivered a suite of tracks on Terror Management, including the riveting single 'Blood Thinner.' The two collaborated again on Preservation's 2020 LP Eastern Medicine, Western Illness, which features a memorable billy woods appearance on the song 'Lemon Rinds,' as well as the B-side 'Snow Globe.' Aethiopes is Preservation's first collaborative LP since he and Ka dropped Days with Dr Yen Lo in 2015. One of the most respected producers in the game, Preservation moves at his own pace and is very selective about what projects he takes on. It took more than a year for Aethiopes to come to fruition and the result is a boiling pot of word and sound, teetering on the edge of the stove. Ten years after History Will Absolve Me, woods wades back into the deep water with a project as ambitious and uncompromising as anything he has ever done."
BALMAT (UK)
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CAT #: BALMAT 004LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
NUEEN Diagrams of Thought LP
For Balmat's fourth release, the label turns their attention close to home: to the Mallorca-born, Barcelona-based artist Nueen, aka Nacho Pezzati. Nueen has been developing his highly personal style of blissfully Balearic ambient over the past few years, with releases on labels like Quiet Time Tapes and Good Morning Tapes. On Diagrams of Thought, he explores new depths in his sound. His atmospheres remain bucolic, but there's a disturbance at work, a hint of uncertainty swirling beneath seemingly placid pads. While Diagrams of Thought retains the ambient (or at least ambient-adjacent) focus of all Balmat's releases so far, the album also marks new frontiers for the label; the album's first half is graceful and largely beatless, but the mood grows murkier with the foggy drones of "Dome" and the intimations of liquid drum 'n' bass on "Maxima"; "Veta," meanwhile, might just represent the most forceful rhythm to appear on a Balmat release yet. Despite the album's considerable range of moods, tones, and textures, it's all tied together by a singular preoccupation, says Nueen: "Lately, I've become conscious of my fascination for the notion of the break, on a conceptual and musical level. What's temporary and what's permanent. Thinking and making out of what isn't there, yet is. Some people would call it silence, but it could also be a skip of the needle, an ellipsis. Something very basic -- or Basic Channelesque. A set of sounds and silences, structuring just a hint of rhythm. Sounds that become silences, and silences that become sounds. The other day, I was saying to someone that for me, the sound of electric current running through the power lines above the train tracks is the most ambient sound there is. That infinity in which you never quite grasp all the harmonics and reverberations. It's a form of time detained or expanded. Recently, I've been rereading Morton Feldman -- you can tell, right -- Vertical time, the silence that sounds. A sort of sacredness. My mind is blown every time I walk into a church, for whatever that's worth."
BEAT RECORDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: DDJ 022DLX-CD
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
LIBERATORI, FABIO Acqua E Sapone CD
Beat Records announce a new tribute to the music for the great cinema of Carlo Verdone with the release of the original motion picture soundtrack of Acqua E Sapone, composed by maestro Fabio Liberatori, the artist who features the greatest number of collaborations with the Roman director. Shot in 1983 it's the story of Rolando Ferrazza (Verdone) who, stolen the identity of Father Spinelli, finds a job as private teacher for Sandy Wash (Natasha Hovey), a young teenage model with whom he will soon fall in love. The story will come to a bittersweet conclusion, in the typical style of its director, for sure more bitter than sweet, with the unavoidable separation of the two lovers and the return to normal life, now permanently marked by the experience. A movie that, like many others shot by Verdone, was a landmark of an era, portrayed through the humanity of its protagonists, their forbidden dreams, great delusions and tragic daily life, everything narrated through a biting poetic style and delicate irony in a guise that made Verdone's cinema a unique genre. The wonderful music by Fabio Liberatori, previously partially available through a compilation dedicated to his soundtracks, now finally released for the first time in a complete edition dedicated to this score with a great electronic frame, a sound that the musician skillfully masters chiseling a series of moods throughout the story. Wonderful original artwork by Renato Casaro. This release has been possible through the collaboration with Cecchi Gori which gave access to maestro Fabio Liberatori score, remastered under his supervision by Gianrico La Rosa, and with Sony Music Italy which authorized the addition of songs, "Acqua e Sapone" and "C'é", which could not be missing from a tribute to this movie. Editing by Claudio Fuiano, graphic layout by Daniele De Gemini. CD version includes 16-page booklet.
BOOMKAT EDITIONS (UK)
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CAT #: BKEDIT 022LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SAKINI & LUCY VAN, LAILA Figures LP
Laila Sakini and Lucy Van's highly sought after 2017 EP Figures resurfaces on a newly expanded and remastered edition, deploying taut poetry and precise production for an alchemical suite of slowly encroaching trip hop x dub-pop pulses -- highly recommended if you're into CS + Kreme, Laurie Anderson, Leslie Winer, YL Hooi, Bullion, Jonnine, Kallista Kult. Long before releasing her slow-burn classic Vivienne and 2021's compelling Princess Diana of Wales album (ACOLOUR 038LP), Laila Sakini was at work with acclaimed poet Lucy Van for an impromptu session for a local noise and spoken word night in Naarm, Australia. Those initial ideas marinated and eventually resulted in Figures -- an EP that offsets Sakini's minimal production against Van's text, spoken in a carefully enunciated dialect lifted and wrapped around Sakini's nocturnes. It's the sort of thing that is reminiscent of Tin Man & Rashad Becker's Wasteland sessions, fused with the spirit of the contemporary Naarm/Melbourne scene. For all those references, Sakini and Van's songs are displaced from the contemporary wellspring too. The dusky blue waltz of opener "Those Who See" comes off like a lighter Leslie Winer or melodic, early AFX, as Van dryly intones "...all my enemies in an orgy, of IQ to body ratio," while "Deep End" sees them nudge into more claustrophobic introspection, before shoring up a dank sort of trip hop sleaze with the title song, slithering with a similar energy to early '90s Autechre as the narration echoes into a blur. The three previously unreleased songs flesh out the release into the full album it always should have been, cut of equally rare, hand-spun fabric. With its post-Sleng Teng B-line and noctilucent chords, "What You Need" feels like an Eski rhythmic bump accompanied by sub-aquatic synth bass, and the opalescent, gumtree-shaking shimmer "Rough Desires" secretes its intimations with an absorbingly hypnagogic slow-burn that pools into the perfect curtain closer; "Trees Make Me High". For those that care for cultural artefacts and biographical turning points, this record is worth the wait. The good stuff always rises to the surface. Remastered by Rashad Becker. Clear vinyl; edition of 500.
BULBOUS MONOCLE
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CAT #: BM 001LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 Admonishing the Bishops LP
"Bulbous Monocle, a new label focused on the legacy of the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 and the scene from which it reveled in between the years 1986-1996, is honored to launch the label with arguably the most lauded and concise testament from the band. 1993's mini-masterpiece Admonishing the Bishops. Originally released on the Matador Records label, this title and most of the 'Fellers' discography has been out of print for over 25 years. Now, newly remastered by Mark Gergis (Sublime Frequencies et.al) this perfect EP is sounding better than ever!" "Formed in San Francisco in 1986, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 had the bad luck to display a range of cultural and musical reference points shared by relatively few members of that era's archconservative 'underground culture.' On any given day, you might hear that their records were too manicured or too chaotic, too cerebral or too absurd, too personal or too impersonal, too experimental or too pop. Above all, they were derided as 'self-indulgent' by critics who expected artists to tiptoe deferentially around their audience's blind spots. To be fair, their early recordings had about as much relation to their in-the-flesh grandeur as a dripping faucet does to Iguazu Falls. Against steep technical odds, Greg Freeman of Lowdown Studio made their LPs work beautifully as aural monuments. But listeners who hadn't seen the Fellers' live could be forgiven for finding these albums a bit forbidding. Which brings us to Admonishing the Bishops -- a wholly unexpected breakthrough release comprising four down-home, crowd-pleasin' tracks engineered by Volcano Suns/Shellac bassist Bob Weston during the Fellers' epochal tour with Sun City Girls in fall 1992. 'The studio was in Steve Albini's basement, and we stayed there at his house for a couple days while we recorded and mixed,' vocalist/guitarist/bassist/
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CAT #: BM 002LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 Strangers from the Universe LP
"Bulbous Monocle presents a first-time vinyl reissue of The TFUL 282 masterpiece LP originally released in 1994 on Matador Records. Even in a catalog that bristles with pinnacles, Strangers from the Universe remains pinnaclier than most. Somehow harnessing influences from Bali to Cinecittà to Memphis to the wobbly Sunday morning organ at Oakland's Rose of Sharon Missionary Baptist Church without feeling contrived or showoffy, Strangers is possibly and/or indisputably the most successful shotgun marriage of the Fellers' disparate pop sensibilities with their outlandish song structures, their acre-feet of tape snippets with their hydra-headed arrangements, and their individual compositional and instrumental skills with their congenitally peculiar joint sensorium. Eager as always to experiment with unconventional (i.e., daft and cumbersome) approaches to writing and recording, the Fellers fine-tuned their working methods for Strangers, assigning individual members as 'sheriffs' to oversee the arrangement of promising morsels into coherent compositions. Even more daringly, they decided to let Greg Freeman, their long-suffering engineer, control his own mixing board. 'The result was a much more cohesive sound than we'd ever gotten with our usual approach,' says TFUL282 multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Mark Davies. The Fellers' 1994 tour saw the band in full flight bringing the Strangers material to their growing fanbase. Sharing bills with Matador labelmates Pavement and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion for more high-profile gigs, TFUL 282 tore through the US playing from coast to coast and sharing stages with kindred spirits the Sun City Girls, Fly Ashtray, and a host of regional bands who stood in awe at the overwhelming spectacle and furious sonic and visual onslaught that this band could generate on a nightly basis. 'I've always thought of Strangers and the fall tour for it as a pinnacle of sorts,' Mark says. It's easy enough to cite some highlights as evidence: 'Hundreds of Years,' a blossom-garlanded Tower of Song erected at the intersection of Abbey Road and Jalan Kajeng; the galvanic sputter of 'Socket' and 'February' (the latter titled after a handy mnemonic for 'Fingered Eastern Banjo'); Brian Hageman's oddly moving 'The Operation,' which Mark calls 'one of the most sonically dense/confused things we ever did.' Bulbous Monocle's long-overdue reissue puts every single one of this millipedal LP's best feet forward with meticulous remastering by the golden-eyed and gimlet-eared Mark Gergis, making it an essential acquisition for the diffident toe-dipper as well as the seasoned bathyscaphist."
BUREAU B (GERMANY)
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CAT #: BB 394CD
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TO ROCOCO ROT John Peel BBC Sessions 97-99 CD
Without a doubt, To Rococo Rot are an exception within the German music landscape. From 1995 until they broke up in 2014, the group around Robert Lippok, Ronald Lippok, and Stefan Schneider researched a unique sound between electronic music, ambient, post-melancholy, and the further development of a new, free music like krautrock. The trio was invited three times by John Peel to record radio sessions in the BBC studios. Bureau B make the recordings from these three sessions from the years 1997 and 1999 available on record for the first time, which, in addition to the live versions of selected album tracks, also contains exclusive, unreleased songs."... Kreidler originated in the west, Ornament & Verbrechen in the east. Robert Lippok describes the moment when things did a 180: 'When we first started releasing records it was almost a shock to hear our own music on the radio.' You walk through an invisible wall. You cause a membrane to pulsate. And finally in 1995, To Rococo Rot was the band whose music, in a kind of aesthetic feedback loop, also made a certain John Peel at the BBC and Daniel Miller at Mute Records sit up and take notice: 'It was something new, something that sounded like it could only be done in Germany; and, as I discovered later, could only be done by guys who were born in the east of Germany in the days before the wall came down.' And so, the three To Rococo Rot sessions united here with their to some extent exclusive Peel tracks ('Glück', 'Esther', 'Glass'), some recorded under intense time pressure, are testimonies to the intimate connection of three German musicians with the whole world, with pop, with the happiness that one possesses and that one shares. Pop without its means of production is inconceivable. And even in times when digital is king, we should consider ourselves lucky that this analog reality of sound, like radio waves, continues to pulsate through us." --Karl Bruckmaier
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CAT #: BB 408CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SCHNITZLER & BAAL & MORTIMER, CONRAD Con-Struct CD
Conrad Schnitzler liked to embark on daily excursions through the sonic diversity of his synthesizers. Finding exceptional sounds with great regularity, he preserved them for use in combination with each other in subsequent live performances. He thus amassed a vast sound archive of his discoveries over time. When the m=minimal label in Berlin reissued two Conrad Schnitzler albums at the outset of the 2010s, label honcho Jens Stru?ver was granted access to this audio library. Stru?ver came up with the idea of con-structing new compositions, not remixes, from the archived material. On completion of the first Con-Struct album, he decided to develop the concept into a series, with different electronic musicians invited into Schnitzler's unique world of sound. Since 2014, Baal & Mortimer is the project of Alexandra Gru?bler, sonically exploring questions of resistance, autonomy, matter and speculation. The debut album Deixis was released on Bureau B in 2020 (BB 344CD/LP).Gru?bler on the release: "Conrad Schnitzler's music came to me first in Du?sseldorf at Salon des Amateurs, roughly 2007 or 2008, most definitely in the early morning hours, in the shape of his track Das Tier. I remember his name coming up quite a bit, deeply rooted in a specific experimental/Kraut discourse and I liked listening to his records, but working with his archive added an entirely different, physical intensity. Instead of reworking the material on its own, I chose to find traces of melodies, harmonies, notes within it, using them as seeds to add and derive new compositions. Schnitzler's archive became the foundation and departure point from which a process of accumulation and chiseling away started. Through playing things on wrong speed, stretching, or warping, fractal structures appeared, one unfolding out of the previous one, almost like chaos magick set in motion. I tried to internalize his work mode of not having any rules before the first note is played, no key, no meter, just following through with the evolving linearity of the sound. I tried to not focus too much on the fact that Schnitzler is from a different generation or that I'm not from a Krautrock or Post-Krautrock generation. Then again, my age and background pose different urgencies, questions and conditions, so I took the liberty to meet his material on a level that reflects the specific present surrounding me. Through living in Berlin, Schnitzler's (and Roedelius') short lived Zodiak Free Arts Lab was interesting as a concept and in that collaborative spirit I invited a few people to contribute their instruments and languages to the record. It was exciting to break open existing material, peeling something out of the past and thus transgressing it and opening portals."
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CAT #: BB 408LP
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SCHNITZLER & BAAL & MORTIMER, CONRAD Con-Struct LP
LP version. Conrad Schnitzler liked to embark on daily excursions through the sonic diversity of his synthesizers. Finding exceptional sounds with great regularity, he preserved them for use in combination with each other in subsequent live performances. He thus amassed a vast sound archive of his discoveries over time. When the m=minimal label in Berlin reissued two Conrad Schnitzler albums at the outset of the 2010s, label honcho Jens Stru?ver was granted access to this audio library. Stru?ver came up with the idea of con-structing new compositions, not remixes, from the archived material. On completion of the first Con-Struct album, he decided to develop the concept into a series, with different electronic musicians invited into Schnitzler's unique world of sound. Since 2014, Baal & Mortimer is the project of Alexandra Gru?bler, sonically exploring questions of resistance, autonomy, matter and speculation. The debut album Deixis was released on Bureau B in 2020 (BB 344CD/LP).Gru?bler on the release: "Conrad Schnitzler's music came to me first in Du?sseldorf at Salon des Amateurs, roughly 2007 or 2008, most definitely in the early morning hours, in the shape of his track Das Tier. I remember his name coming up quite a bit, deeply rooted in a specific experimental/Kraut discourse and I liked listening to his records, but working with his archive added an entirely different, physical intensity. Instead of reworking the material on its own, I chose to find traces of melodies, harmonies, notes within it, using them as seeds to add and derive new compositions. Schnitzler's archive became the foundation and departure point from which a process of accumulation and chiseling away started. Through playing things on wrong speed, stretching, or warping, fractal structures appeared, one unfolding out of the previous one, almost like chaos magick set in motion. I tried to internalize his work mode of not having any rules before the first note is played, no key, no meter, just following through with the evolving linearity of the sound. I tried to not focus too much on the fact that Schnitzler is from a different generation or that I'm not from a Krautrock or Post-Krautrock generation. Then again, my age and background pose different urgencies, questions and conditions, so I took the liberty to meet his material on a level that reflects the specific present surrounding me. Through living in Berlin, Schnitzler's (and Roedelius') short lived Zodiak Free Arts Lab was interesting as a concept and in that collaborative spirit I invited a few people to contribute their instruments and languages to the record. It was exciting to break open existing material, peeling something out of the past and thus transgressing it and opening portals."
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CAT #: BB 412CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier Vol 2: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik 1978-87 CD
"For their second foray into the fringes of German pop, Bureau B delve deeper than before, raiding cassette culture, 7" obscurities, and overlooked album cuts to further frame this free-thinking strain of sonic expression. Starting the count from punk's year zero, this set sees a newly liberated generation get weird and wild with anything they could lay their hands on, delivering demented, detuned and disorienting tracks brimming with DIY spirit. Where their kosmische predecessors preferred immersive, expansive compositions, these artists opted for immediacy, quickly capturing one idea before moving on to the next. Exploiting advances in home recording to say outside of industry confines, these art-school extroverts and commune drop outs often came together in unplanned collaborations and one-off projects, capturing their whole creative lifespan on one side of a C45 . . . The sparse drum machine of ALU's 'Aludome' opens proceedings, laying the foundation for wavy guitar chords and simple melodies on this tender 1980 composition, which only came to light in 2005. From there we sink into the watery electronics, free jazz bass and abstract guitars of Detlef Diederichsen charmingly abrupt 'Pissnelke 2000', before Maria Zerfall moves us into the shadows with the dark and punkish dirge 'Der Mond', a haunting track with double tracked and distorted spoken vocals. Butzmann/Kapielski's avant-dance masterpiece 'Do The VoPo' diverts us to the dancefloor, where the oddball synth sounds and skewed sampler vox of Rüdiger Lorenz's 'Francis & Friends' traps us in a strange slow motion groove. The tempo raises via E.M.P.'s dubbish sabotage of '80s smooth jazz, turns inside out on Vono's charming interlude 'Der Zauberer', then finds its feet again via Reichmann's '78 composition 'Wunderbar' taken from the Sky LP of the same name. This frazzled fusion of cosmic country and Asiatic melody shares a widescreen worldview with Deux Baleines Blanches' 'Draht 9', on which post punk electronics and chiming guitars combine with bittersweet beauty. The time-travelling Rolf Trostel takes us to the midpoint with pulsating chords which predate Basic Channel by a decade, while Phantom Band's 'Dream Machine' stitches together two decades of the psychedelic continuum in a riot of tumbling toms, panning sequences and brain melting waveforms. 'Glucose' sees Moebius & Beerbohm unleash their strange music at a delinquent tempo, before Jimmy, Jenny + Jonny offer a second subversion of smooth jazz with their skronking Mediterranean fantasy 'Salome'. Thomas Dinger's frosty music box romance 'Alleewalzer' and The Wirtschaftswunder's stomping ska-like 'Television' follow in quick succession, leading us into Cluster's narcotic fairground 'Oh Odessa', a queasy assemblage of detuned FM bells and percussive piston bursts. From there, the dubbed-out post punk of Sprung Aus Den Wolken, experimental dance of 'Notorische Reflexe' and unhinged disco of Günter Schickert capture different ends of the alternative dancefloor, before the pastoral outsider pop of Lapre's 'Septer' signs off in a swell of yearning melody." --Patrick Ryder
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CAT #: BB 412LP
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VA Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier Vol 2: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik 1978-87 2LP
Double LP version. "For their second foray into the fringes of German pop, Bureau B delve deeper than before, raiding cassette culture, 7" obscurities, and overlooked album cuts to further frame this free-thinking strain of sonic expression. Starting the count from punk's year zero, this set sees a newly liberated generation get weird and wild with anything they could lay their hands on, delivering demented, detuned and disorienting tracks brimming with DIY spirit. Where their kosmische predecessors preferred immersive, expansive compositions, these artists opted for immediacy, quickly capturing one idea before moving on to the next. Exploiting advances in home recording to say outside of industry confines, these art-school extroverts and commune drop outs often came together in unplanned collaborations and one-off projects, capturing their whole creative lifespan on one side of a C45 . . . The sparse drum machine of ALU's 'Aludome' opens proceedings, laying the foundation for wavy guitar chords and simple melodies on this tender 1980 composition, which only came to light in 2005. From there we sink into the watery electronics, free jazz bass and abstract guitars of Detlef Diederichsen charmingly abrupt 'Pissnelke 2000', before Maria Zerfall moves us into the shadows with the dark and punkish dirge 'Der Mond', a haunting track with double tracked and distorted spoken vocals. Butzmann/Kapielski's avant-dance masterpiece 'Do The VoPo' diverts us to the dancefloor, where the oddball synth sounds and skewed sampler vox of Rüdiger Lorenz's 'Francis & Friends' traps us in a strange slow motion groove. The tempo raises via E.M.P.'s dubbish sabotage of '80s smooth jazz, turns inside out on Vono's charming interlude 'Der Zauberer', then finds its feet again via Reichmann's '78 composition 'Wunderbar' taken from the Sky LP of the same name. This frazzled fusion of cosmic country and Asiatic melody shares a widescreen worldview with Deux Baleines Blanches' 'Draht 9', on which post punk electronics and chiming guitars combine with bittersweet beauty. The time-travelling Rolf Trostel takes us to the midpoint with pulsating chords which predate Basic Channel by a decade, while Phantom Band's 'Dream Machine' stitches together two decades of the psychedelic continuum in a riot of tumbling toms, panning sequences and brain melting waveforms. 'Glucose' sees Moebius & Beerbohm unleash their strange music at a delinquent tempo, before Jimmy, Jenny + Jonny offer a second subversion of smooth jazz with their skronking Mediterranean fantasy 'Salome'. Thomas Dinger's frosty music box romance 'Alleewalzer' and The Wirtschaftswunder's stomping ska-like 'Television' follow in quick succession, leading us into Cluster's narcotic fairground 'Oh Odessa', a queasy assemblage of detuned FM bells and percussive piston bursts. From there, the dubbed-out post punk of Sprung Aus Den Wolken, experimental dance of 'Notorische Reflexe' and unhinged disco of Günter Schickert capture different ends of the alternative dancefloor, before the pastoral outsider pop of Lapre's 'Septer' signs off in a swell of yearning melody." --Patrick Ryder
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CAT #: BB 415CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
SPRUNG AUS DEN WOLKEN Sprung aus den Wolken CD
The Berlin project Sprung Aus Den Wolken was part of the "Geniale Dilletanten" movement in the early 1980s, along with Einstürzende Neubauten and Mechanik Destrüktiw Komandöh. The band first released an EP on ZickZack in 1981, followed by further releases on the band's own record label Faux Pas in 1982 and 1983, then on the French outlet Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier until 1991. The track "Pas Attendre" was part of the soundtrack of Wim Wender's movie Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) (1987) and thus became an underground hit. Founder of the band Kiddy Citny is also a painter. His paintings of the Berlin Wall have been exhibited around the world and are now in private collections in the US, France, and Japan. Bureau B finally make the long out-of-print, self-titled album from 1982 available again. Carefully remastered, with reconstructed original artwork, numerous photos and liner notes by Alexander Hacke."How do you feel, Kiddy?""I feel free!""A leap from the clouds is the ultimate expression of joie de vivre. Implicit trust in one's own powers, confidence in a positive outcome, surrendering to fate without delay or hesitation, ripping up any restrictive barriers, eyes front, unwaveringly so. That's what it's all about. The ever-changing line-up of Kiddy Citny's group thrived on the liberating anarchic energy of noise and poetry, the spirit of reinvention. We hung out in the West Berlin district of Schöneberg, in bars and clubs like Café Mitropa, Dschungel, and das Risiko, before heading down to the cellar of the Cassetten Combinat in Naumannstraße. Here we let our inspirations run free in wild all-night sessions. Something to remember, something we value and can be proud of: the music. The cassette was our medium, the four-track recorder which had just appeared on the market was a cornerstone of the studio. Our fresh recordings were duplicated in the shop upstairs and slipped into covers we made in the copy shop. Hey presto, a new piece of work, direct from the creator to the people's playback devices, without further ado. Sprung Aus Den Wolken and hip-hop are children of the same generation, not so remarkably similar and yet somehow related. Cousins rather than siblings. They share a symbiosis of music and art, rhythm and color, loudness and light, all combining to underpin the integrity and authenticity of the end product. They were the happiest years of my teenage life in West Berlin, oh how we laughed!" --Alexander Hacke
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CAT #: BB 415LP
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SPRUNG AUS DEN WOLKEN Sprung aus den Wolken LP
LP version. The Berlin project Sprung Aus Den Wolken was part of the "Geniale Dilletanten" movement in the early 1980s, along with Einstürzende Neubauten and Mechanik Destrüktiw Komandöh. The band first released an EP on ZickZack in 1981, followed by further releases on the band's own record label Faux Pas in 1982 and 1983, then on the French outlet Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier until 1991. The track "Pas Attendre" was part of the soundtrack of Wim Wender's movie Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) (1987) and thus became an underground hit. Founder of the band Kiddy Citny is also a painter. His paintings of the Berlin Wall have been exhibited around the world and are now in private collections in the US, France, and Japan. Bureau B finally make the long out-of-print, self-titled album from 1982 available again. Carefully remastered, with reconstructed original artwork, numerous photos and liner notes by Alexander Hacke."How do you feel, Kiddy?""I feel free!""A leap from the clouds is the ultimate expression of joie de vivre. Implicit trust in one's own powers, confidence in a positive outcome, surrendering to fate without delay or hesitation, ripping up any restrictive barriers, eyes front, unwaveringly so. That's what it's all about. The ever-changing line-up of Kiddy Citny's group thrived on the liberating anarchic energy of noise and poetry, the spirit of reinvention. We hung out in the West Berlin district of Schöneberg, in bars and clubs like Café Mitropa, Dschungel, and das Risiko, before heading down to the cellar of the Cassetten Combinat in Naumannstraße. Here we let our inspirations run free in wild all-night sessions. Something to remember, something we value and can be proud of: the music. The cassette was our medium, the four-track recorder which had just appeared on the market was a cornerstone of the studio. Our fresh recordings were duplicated in the shop upstairs and slipped into covers we made in the copy shop. Hey presto, a new piece of work, direct from the creator to the people's playback devices, without further ado. Sprung Aus Den Wolken and hip-hop are children of the same generation, not so remarkably similar and yet somehow related. Cousins rather than siblings. They share a symbiosis of music and art, rhythm and color, loudness and light, all combining to underpin the integrity and authenticity of the end product. They were the happiest years of my teenage life in West Berlin, oh how we laughed!" --Alexander Hacke
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CAT #: BB 419LP
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AREU AREU Areu Areu LP
LP version. Reissue, limited 30th anniversary edition. Originally released in 1992. Under the name Areu Areu, the two Camouflage musicians, Heiko Maile and Marcus Meyn, released a five-track EP in 1992, which is now being re-released in an extended version in a limited edition and for the first time on vinyl. In 1991, a friend and companion of Heiko Maile and Marcus Meyn, the photographer Reiner Pfisterer, celebrated his 24th birthday. Instead of records or books, the two Camouflage founders planned to present the birthday child with a performance by a band formed especially for the occasion and launched Areu Areu. After Camouflage had just released their rather acoustic sounding album Meanwhile, Maile and Meyn were more in the mood for purely electronic music, so this side project was just what they needed to play around with the electronic gear they had accumulated in their studio in the center of the small town of Bietigheim in southern Germany. The result was cover versions of songs that had always strongly influenced Maile and Meyn: you hear "Day Tripper" (Beatles), "Cold" (The Cure), Fad Gadget's "Ricky's Hand" and a two-song medley of "I'm Your Money" (Heaven 17) and the Depeche Mode classic "Tora! Tora! Tora!". In addition, several versions of their legendary German-language song "Mr. X" were worked out. A few weeks after the party, Maile and Meyn told their A&R manager about the project, and in 1992 a small number of tracks were released in a small edition on CD. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of this release, the complete work of Areu Areu now appears on an album for the first time. Areu Areu created the perfect soundtrack for a party in the hot summer of '91. Areu Areu are danceable, unpolished and wild.
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CAT #: BB 421CD
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GOINEAU, KRISHNA I Need A Slow CD
Krishna Goineau was born in Sri Lanka in 1963. He spent his youth in the 1970s in Barcelona, where he met Javier Hernando in 1978 to found the post-punk group Xeerox. In 1981 Goinau moved to Düsseldorf, where he met Christo Haas and Beate Bartel. He became the singer of the joint project Liaisons Dangereuses and lent his unmistakable voice to the band's big hit ("Los Niños Del Parque"). At the end of the 1980s Krishna Goineau lived in Brussels and became the singer and keyboardist of the groups Metropakt and Veldorome, together with Jodie Guber. Meanwhile, Goineau lives very secluded in the south of France and concentrates mainly on his painting. In 2007-2008, he worked at home with analog synthesizers on a series of songs that to this day have never been released. Electronic cut-ups and haunting compositions that sound as contemporary as they are detached from any zeitgeist. Bureau B make a selection of these lost recordings available with this collection I Need A Slow.Krishna Goineau (February 2022): "... My first influence was punk; in attitude and in music with Xeerox/Javier Hernando & Co at Barcelona where we lived at the time. It was in 1978 just after Franco's regime. Later on in Düsseldorf I met Chrislo Haas (former DAF-member) and Beate Bartel (founding member of Einstürzende Neubauten and of Mania D.) who recorded several tapes under the moniker CHBB, which later turned to be Liaisons Dangereuses. The crystallization of us as a trio was strange and remarkable and comet fast. I remember clearly the amazing approach to sound in Conny Plank's studio. Since that point my interest switched from image to sound, infinite intelligence without frontiers. After working for a long time with a Tascam 4-track-tape-recorder I later, in Brussels around 1987, discovered Atari, Steinberg, and synth software while working with Jordi Guber (Lineas Aereas, Velodrome) which was a new big experience. All these years were simply music and painting. When I lived in France, I studied at the Narbonne Conservatory in the jazz section and learned the guitar; it's system, spirit, knowledge, fluency and the pleasure in playing a real acoustic instrument. I was also working and recording with Victor Sol (Lars Müller) in Barcelona on a project we had together from 1998 . . . All recordings on this album were made in the south of France (au bord de la mer) during the years 2007-2008. Home works with analog synths and a home computer system. Songwriting and recordings all by myself..."
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CAT #: BB 421LP
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GOINEAU, KRISHNA I Need A Slow LP
LP version. Krishna Goineau was born in Sri Lanka in 1963. He spent his youth in the 1970s in Barcelona, where he met Javier Hernando in 1978 to found the post-punk group Xeerox. In 1981 Goinau moved to Düsseldorf, where he met Christo Haas and Beate Bartel. He became the singer of the joint project Liaisons Dangereuses and lent his unmistakable voice to the band's big hit ("Los Niños Del Parque"). At the end of the 1980s Krishna Goineau lived in Brussels and became the singer and keyboardist of the groups Metropakt and Veldorome, together with Jodie Guber. Meanwhile, Goineau lives very secluded in the south of France and concentrates mainly on his painting. In 2007-2008, he worked at home with analog synthesizers on a series of songs that to this day have never been released. Electronic cut-ups and haunting compositions that sound as contemporary as they are detached from any zeitgeist. Bureau B make a selection of these lost recordings available with this collection I Need A Slow.Krishna Goineau (February 2022): "... My first influence was punk; in attitude and in music with Xeerox/Javier Hernando & Co at Barcelona where we lived at the time. It was in 1978 just after Franco's regime. Later on in Düsseldorf I met Chrislo Haas (former DAF-member) and Beate Bartel (founding member of Einstürzende Neubauten and of Mania D.) who recorded several tapes under the moniker CHBB, which later turned to be Liaisons Dangereuses. The crystallization of us as a trio was strange and remarkable and comet fast. I remember clearly the amazing approach to sound in Conny Plank's studio. Since that point my interest switched from image to sound, infinite intelligence without frontiers. After working for a long time with a Tascam 4-track-tape-recorder I later, in Brussels around 1987, discovered Atari, Steinberg, and synth software while working with Jordi Guber (Lineas Aereas, Velodrome) which was a new big experience. All these years were simply music and painting. When I lived in France, I studied at the Narbonne Conservatory in the jazz section and learned the guitar; it's system, spirit, knowledge, fluency and the pleasure in playing a real acoustic instrument. I was also working and recording with Victor Sol (Lars Müller) in Barcelona on a project we had together from 1998 . . . All recordings on this album were made in the south of France (au bord de la mer) during the years 2007-2008. Home works with analog synths and a home computer system. Songwriting and recordings all by myself..."
COLUMBIA
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CAT #: COL 30131HLP
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CALE & TERRY RILEY, JOHN Church Of Anthrax LP
2022 restock. Terry Riley (piano, organ, soprano saxophone) & John Cale (bass, harpsichord, piano, guitar, viola, organ) collaborated on this one-off album, released in 1970. At this time, rock music was a serious movement, removed from the joke it once was, quite unaware of the joke it would eventually become, and things like this sometimes happened. Cale, classically trained on the viola, must have been pretty pleased to get a shot to record with the '60s king of minimalist pulse, Terry Riley. The album features 4 collaborative tracks between the two; while maybe not earth-shattering, they are quite fine for horizontal home listening pleasure at just about any hour of the day. Instrumental jams, mixing the styles of the two players pretty evenly (if you're vaguely awake, you can imagine this easily). The fifth track is a psychedelic pop masterpiece by Cale, "The Soul of Patrick Lee." Exactly why this track is included here has never been adequately explained, but it is about as beautiful as music in song form can get. 180 gram exact repro reissue.
CREEPY (POLAND)
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CAT #: CREEPY 066LP
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ERICKSON, ROKY The Modern Humans' Show LP
Limited 2022 restock. This is one of the greatest radio shows ever made onto a record as it combines a radio interview with Roky Erickson in full gloom while he is presenting the demos of tracks that may ended up on the great The Evil One LP Earlier versions of "Mine Mine Mind", "Two Headed Dog", and "Click Your Fingers Applauding The Play". Previously released on vinyl by France's Sponge Records in 1976. The bonuses (interviews, demos, rarities) are dandy, but the album is treasure enough. Its retro-metal chops have more kaboom than the irony-diluted pap of current poseurs, and its bent lyrics mop the floor with wannabe-kooks like Jad Fair. Some savvy touches -- such as Roky's progressive pre-PC designation that the swamp monsters are "alligator-persons" -- hint that Roky was more lucid than he let on.
DARKER THAN WAX (SINGAPORE)
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CAT #: DTW 071LP
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STEADY WEATHER Steady Weather LP
"A+ record -- My first reaction was 'since when is Tamil making dance music, what can't he bloody do', I'm so here for it. 'Robert Street' and 'Burning So Hot' are simply future classics IMO." --CC:DISCO!Born in the heartland of Melbourne suburb Fitzroy, Steady Weather (comprised of scene stalwarts Ben Grayson and Tamil Rogeon) bring to light organic dance music from Melbourne's rich neo-soul and jazz community. With a lineage that leads directly to the founding of groups like Australian funk royalty The Bamboos and orchestral beat music pioneers The Raah Project, Rogeon and Grayson not only bring that heritage to their music, they bring a philosophy of raw emotion and soulfulness to their productions. Tamil also plays strings for Harvey Sutherland's Bermuda, with the group's musical DNA echoing in Steady Weather's productions. The self-titled record features the gloriously meditative, raw soul vocals of Allysha Joy and Rita Satch. Allysha Joy's potent lyricism, unique musicianship and killer vocals have garnered legions of attentive fans the world over. She's an integral member of the Melbourne soul jazz scene, known as part of the acclaimed 30/70 collective and for her own equally revered solo work. A modern-day siren, Rita Satch is fast becoming an unforgettable presence in Australia's neo-soul movement. Steady Weather will be right at home on the most soulful of dancefloors. The record traverses through diverse musical territory and melds together a number of sounds, from the jazzy stomper "Burning So Hot" (to which CC:DISCO! provides her magic editing touch), to the boogie and disco-tinged funk of "CP3" and "Love Came Along", into the deeper shades of house music found on "Robert St". Though incorporating diverse influences, all the cuts are tied together with a consistently organic, hand-made, and earnest production style. Also features Kylie Auldist.
DEAD BISON (UK)
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CAT #: DB 19001CS
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WRECKED LIGHTSHIP Drowned Aquarium Cassette
In a blur of smudged, psychedelic jams with a distinctly aquatic tone, Wrecked Lightship shores up on Dead Bison. This new collaborative project from Laurie Osborne and Adam Winchester speaks to their considerable experience in the fields of leftfield electronic music with a dubwise, bassweight bias -- Anderson is better known as Appleblim and Winchester can be found recording in Dot Product and under his own name. Wrecked Lightship intentionally alludes to sci-fi as much as maritime imagery -- vast alien atmospheres being explored in breached vessels. Ramshackle rhythmic impulses from off-center delay trails are a recurring theme, calling to mind blown-out hyperdrives and creaking masts, but there remains a submerged groove carrying these loose shanties no matter how far off course they veer. Sonically, Winchester's interest in electro-magnetic noise generation interweaves with Anderson's woozy, melodic psychedelia, while years of musical engineering experience combines with a readiness to embrace imperfection in pursuit of honest, immediate expression and interaction. The improvised element which fed into the making of this album is intrinsic to its cracked beauty, resulting in a Ballardian soundworld full of question marks and corridors leading to unexpected places.
DICRISTINA
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CAT #: STEP 011LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
BUNYAN, VASHTI Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind 2LP
Double LP version. 2022 repress; deluxe Stoughton gatefold packaging. Singles and demos, 1964 to 1967. "Following the amazing success story of Vashti Bunyan's recent re-emergence as an artist after an exile of over 30 years, comes the release of Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind, a comprehensive compilation of early recordings dating from the period prior to Vashti's classic Just Another Diamond Day album which was originally released1970. Titled after Vashti's (Jagger/Richards-penned) debut single which opens the compilation, this double-album represents an attempt to both open out and draw a line under the past, and also to try to set the record straight about the disparity between how Vashti viewed (and still views) herself against the way she has been popularly perceived. Widely construed as a folk singer -- a tag she fundamentally disagrees with - these recordings instead reveal Vashti as a pop singer, however 'fragile' and unique."
EREMITE
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CAT #: MTE 076-77LP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
PARKER, JEFF Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy 2LP
"Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy, x2 LPs of long-form, lyrical, groove-based free improv by acclaimed guitarist & composer Jeff Parker's ETA IVtet, is at last here. Recorded live at ETA (referencing David Foster Wallace), a bar in LA's Highland Park neighborhood with just enough space in the back for Parker, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, & alto saxophonist Josh Johnson to convene in extraordinarily depthful & exploratory music making. Gleaned for the stoniest side-length cuts from 10+ hours of vivid two-track recordings made between 2019 & 2021 by Bryce Gonzales, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy is a darkly glowing séance of an album, brimming over with the hypnotic, the melodic, & patience & grace in its own beautiful strangeness. Room-tone, electric fields, environment, ceiling echo, live recording, Mondays, Los Angeles. Jeff Parker's first double album & first live album, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy belongs in the lineage of such canonical live double albums recorded on the West Coast as Lee Morgan's Live at the Lighthouse, Miles Davis' In Person Friday & Saturday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco & Black Beauty, & John Coltrane's Live in Seattle. While the IVtet sometimes plays standards &, including on this recording, original compositions, it is as previously stated largely a free improv group -- just not in the genre meaning of the term. The music is more free composition than free improvisation, more blending than discordant. It's tensile, yet spacious & relaxed. Clearly all four musicians have spent significant time in the planetary system known as jazz, but relationships to other musics, across many scenes & eras -- dub & Dilla, primary source psychedelia, ambient & drone -- suffuse the proceedings. Listening to playbacks Parker remarked, humorously & not, 'we sound like the Byrds' (to certain ears, the Clarence White-era Byrds, who really stretched it). A fundamental of all great ensembles, whether basketball teams or bands, is the ability of each member to move fluidly & fluently in & out of lead & supportive roles. Building on the communicative pathways they've established in Parker's -- The New Breed -- project, Parker & Johnson maintain a constant dialogue of lead & support. Their sampled & looped phrases move continuously thru the music, layered & alive, adding depth & texture & pattern, evoking birds in formation, sea creatures drifting below the photic zone. Or, the two musicians simulate those processes by entwining their terse, clear-lined playing in real-time. The stop/start flow of Bellerose, too, simulates the sampler, recalling drum parts in Parker's beat-driven projects. Mostly Bellerose's animated phraseologies deliver the inimitable instantaneous feel of live creative drumming. The range of tonal colors he conjures from his extremely vintage battery of drums & shakers -- as distinctive a sonic signature as we have in contemporary acoustic drumming -- bring almost folkloric qualities to the aesthetic currency of the IVtet's language. A wonderful revelation in this band is the playing of Anna Butterss. The strength, judiciousness & humility with which she navigates the bass position both ground & lift upward the egalitarian group sound. As the IVtet's grooves flow & clip, loop & repeat, the ensemble elements reconfigure, a terrarium of musical cultivation growing under controlled variables, a tight experiment of harmony & intuition, deep focus & freedom. For all its varied sonic personality, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy scans immediately & unmistakably as music coming from Jeff Parker's unique sound world. Generous in spirit, trenchant & disciplined in execution, Parker's music has an earned respect for itself & for its place in history that transmutes through the musical event into the listener. Many moods & shapes of heart & mind will find utility & hope in a music that combines the autonomy & the community we collectively long to see take hold in our world, in substance & in staying power. On the personal tip, this was always my favorite gig to hit, a lifeline of the eremite records Santa Barbara years. Mondays southbound on the 101, driving away from tasks & screens & illness, an hour later ordering a double tequila neat at the bar with the band three feet away, knowing i was in good hands, knowing it would be back around on another Monday. To encounter life at scales beyond the human body is the collective dance of music & the beholding of its beauty, together." --Michael Ehlers & Zac Brenner Pressed on premium audiophile-quality 120 gram vinyl at RTI from Kevin Gray/Cohearent Audio lacquers. Mastered by Joe Lizzi, Triple Point Records, Queens, NY. First eremite edition of 1799 copies.
FOURTH DIMENSION (UK)
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CAT #: FD 130LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
KLEISTWAHR Do Not LP
Limited edition reissue of this album originally released in 1986 on cassette on Broken Flag. Comprising two untitled side-long pieces, Do Not catches Gary Mundy of Ramleh in peak "noise" mode with his solo endeavor, taking much from his place as one of the innovators of the so-called power electronics genre yet pushing this confrontational avant-garde sensibility somewhere entirely new. It is a sound that Kleistwahr has continued to explore and add new dimensions to since, but never completely untangles itself from this particular root. Raw and seemingly unrestrained, these pieces present a robust, white-hot sonic meltdown up there with the very best from this ultimately fertile period for music from the basement. This LP is packaged similarly to the vinyl reissues of the first two full-length Kleistwahr albums released by Harbinger Sound in 2011, Arsonicide and Myth. It is also being released the same time as the one-sided Mobility (FD 129LP) reissue originally released on cassette in 1983.
GET ON DOWN
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CAT #: GET 810CS
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
WU-TANG CLAN Wu-Tang Forever 2xCassette
"For the 25 Year Anniversary of Wu-Tang Clan's multi-platinum sophomore full-length, Get On Down reissues the long out of print cassette edition of Wu-Tang Forever. This double cassette reissue is housed in a collectable replica of the original slipcase."
GOD UNKNOWN RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: GODUNK 089LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MONSTER MAGNET Test Patterns: Vol. 1 LP
Born from the Red Bank of New Jersey, the early days of Monster Magnet were a cosmos away from the major-label, alternative rock boom that would suck the band into the shiny MTV world of the early to mid '90s. Originally formed by Dave Wyndorf, John McBain, and Tim Cronin, Monster Magnet lysergic oozed into the world in 1989 with two demo tapes -- Forget About Life, I'm High On Dope and I'm Stoned, What Ya Gonna Do About It? -- making it perfectly clear from the start where they were coming from. This was a band reveling in bad trips and the death of the hippy dream with a Manson Family stare, playing squelchy lo-fi psychedelic music with a rabid punk rock sneer, like The Stooges terrorizing Hawkwind at the most unpleasant free festival imaginable. There were tales of entire audiences at their gigs being spiked with LSD. It didn't matter if this was true or not, it all added to the mystique. This was indeed a satanic drug thing, you wouldn't understand. Those two demos formed the base of what would become their pivotal Spine Of God album from 1991 and the 25... Tab EP, which featured the mesmerizing 32-minute opus itself, "Tab". Long considered to be the true essence of Magnet's early psychedelic voyages, "Tab" is finally returning to Earth's stratosphere with the release of Test Patterns: Vol. 1. Test Patterns: Vol. 1 features a 2021 remix of "Tab" by John McBain, alongside the original demo, recorded in 1988 and then released on the aforementioned Forget About Life, I'm High On Dope in 1989. "When Magnet started, John and I worked in record stores in Red Bank and Dave worked in the comic bookstore and we made a lot of tapes for each other," recalls Tim Cronin. "A lot of 'check this shit out' kind of stuff -- Hawkwind, early UFO, Amon Düül, Can, Skullflower, Morgen, Loop, Crystalized Movements, early Alice Cooper, Walking Seeds, Butthole Surfers, Spacemen 3. When we recorded the first demo and got to 'TAB', we just beat the shit out of it until it became heavy, noisy, weird, mean and either too long or not long enough, depending on your mood. Everything we wanted in a song (at least everything I wanted in a song), punishingly psychedelic. Jersey Shore krautrock." 180 gram vinyl; acid blotter insert.
HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS (ITALY)
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CAT #: HPS 223ULTRA-LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ALUNAH Strange Machine (Transparent Splatter Blue-Orange Vinyl) LP
LP version. Transparent splatter blue-orange vinyl. Strange Machine, not just the title of the new Alunah album, but a summary of surviving the last two years. Written and rehearsed during the pandemic whilst overcoming numerous personal struggles, Strange Machine shows Alunah in their most diverse yet focused light. Returning to Foel Studio in October 2021 for the follow-up to their Heavy Psych Sounds debut with producer Chris Fielding, the nine tracks span the epic majesty of "The Earth Spins" featuring guest guitars from Shane Wesley (Crowbar), to the groove of "Dead Woman Walking". From the West Coast psychedelia of "Psychedelic Expressway" to the swagger of the title track, this is the sound of Alunah cutting loose and free. Welcome to the Strange Machine. Artwork by Mariano Peccinetti.
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
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CAT #: HOS 728CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
LUNAR WOMB The Sleeping Green CD
Composed and recorded by Henri Sorvali, also known as Trollhorn (from Moonsorrow, Finntroll, etc.) back in summer 1998 to winter 1999, The Sleeping Green recording has never seen the light on a physical format until today. Includes a bonus track recorded back in 1997 entitled "Eben Ocean". "Eben Ocean" is a long, trance inducing, ethereal composition from the best medieval electronic project.
HYPOCRITCAL BEATDOWN (UK)
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CAT #: HB3
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
VIOLATORS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Violators of the English Language LP
Emanating from a "prehistoric" existence, near the end of the last millennium, schoolies Andy Votel and his slightly older college mates, were once best recognized in Mancunian clubs and bars as teenage vinyl nerds and bum-fluffed battle-rappers under the collective name Violators Of The English Language. As steadfast supporters of the '80s/90s Brit-core rap scene coming out of London, the multicultural Violators... Mancunian accents were perhaps a bridge-too-far to secure dream-job contracts for humble labels like Kold Sweat and Music Of Life. An unlikely constructive meeting with Gang Starr's DJ Premier (while Andy helped out at a radio station) and playing warm up DJ sets for countless US rap hero's might have temporarily added inspirational fuel to the fire, but after an active period combining graffiti, rapping, scratching, obsessive record digging and beat making into their daily operations, adulthood eventually began to rear its unwelcome head. A decade later Andy Votel (with his reluctant moniker) and his digging skills would begin to provide direct sample material for the likes of Madlib, Mos Def, Jay-Z, Nas, Dr. Dre, Ghostface Killa, and Action Bronson amongst others, and the Violators' black book of break-beats and catalog numbers soon began to feed a same-but-different rap beast. For a project that has taken thirty years it would be totally inadequate to call the formation of Hypocritical Beatdown Records a lockdown-project. There's a deep history and psychology in these records by Violators Of The English Language and their spin-off groups Magnets (Rap Group) and ProVerbs, that combines stage-fright, loss, pride, creative-schizophrenia, racial inequality, surrealism, personal politics, brotherhood, artistic-constipation, better judgment, love, anti-love, soul searching and much more. Each member of all of Violators Of The English Language crew were committed to this cause as soon as the doors opened. Completed, recorded, exorcised, committed to vinyl, rotated and liberated. As well as Andy Votel taking care of both production and part of the microphone duties, some might recognize fellow MC and solo recording artist Figure Of Speech as a prominent voice here. The trio of Magnets (Rap Group) sees Andy also joined by local B-Girl legend Jeni Chan aka Penny Chew, and rapper and DJ Benjamin Hatton. Widely respected visual artist Rick Myers (now living in Massachusetts) also contributed scratches for many of these recordings via file sharing and custom dub-plates to keep the Violators... authentic line-up intact, as well as galvanizing the crew's semi-reluctant art-school roots. Extra production credits for the label also go to Sean Canty from Demdike Stare and the late great Dan Dwayre aka Black Lodge (Mo Wax) who sadly passed away during the completion of these recordings. The members of Violators Of The English Language who you've not yet heard of will quickly make themselves known as the needle drops on this long-mooted debut vinyl release.
IMPROVED SEQUENCE (ITALY)
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CAT #: IMP 077LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CRUNT Crunt LP
Crunt began in 1993 as a kind of indie rock supergroup and had their 1994 debut album touted by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. Crunt's members included guitarist/vocalist Stuart Gray (aka Stu Spasm) and bassist/vocalist Kat Bjelland. Gray was well-known in Australia by the start of Crunt for his past involvement in the bands Salamander Jim and the horn/guitar punk rock of Lubricated Goat, which included drummer Martin Bland who went on to play in the Monkeywrench. As for Bjelland, she was the frontwoman/guitarist for the Minnesota-based Babes in Toyland. Crunt was rounded out by drummer Russell Simins, who was the full-time sticksman for New York City's Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Each of Crunt's members were temporarily residing in Seattle when Gray conjured up the idea of starting a new group. After writing almost a dozen songs, the trio entered Seattle's Ranch studio in February of 1993 with Simins and Gray acting as the producers, and their friend John Dunleavy -- known for his work with the Supersuckers -- filling the role of engineer. A year passed before the group's self-titled album was released on February 15, 1994, on Austin, TX label Trance Syndicate, owned by Butthole Surfers' drummer King Coffey. The record was the imprint's first release from a non-Texas group. The debut of the full-length album coincided with the Swine/Sexy single on Australia's Insipid label, which was known for releasing singles by other bands such as the Cows, Urge Overkill, and the Jesus Lizard. Prior to the releases, there had been talk that the band was not going to just be a side project, but a full-time band in the same tradition as Babes in Toyland and the Blues Explosion. The trio had even planned a full-scale tour. By January of 1995, however, Crunt came to an end.
IMPULSE!
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CAT #: IMP 9155HLP
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
AYLER, ALBERT In Greenwich Village LP
2022 restock. Originally released 1967; exact reissue, 180 Gram, Gatefold sleeve. Part of the Back To Black series. Including digital download code. "During 1967-69 avant-garde innovator Albert Ayler recorded a series of albums for Impulse that started on a high level and gradually declined in quality. This LP, Ayler's first Impulse set, was probably his best for that label. There are two selections apiece from a pair of live appearances with Ayler having a rare outing on alto on the emotional 'For John Coltrane' and the more violent 'Change Has Come' while backed by cellist Joel Friedman, both Alan Silva and Bill Folwell on basses and drummer Beaver Harris. The other set (with trumpeter Donald Ayler, violinist Michel Sampson, Folwell and Henry Grimes on basses and Harris) has a strong contrast between the simple childlike melodies and the intense solos. However this LP (which was augmented later on by the two-LP set The Village Concerts) will be difficult to find." --Scott Yanow, All Music
INCUNABULUM (NETHERLANDS)
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CAT #: INC 029CD
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
VAN WISSEM, JOZEF Nosferatu: The Call Of The Deathbird CD
Jozef Van Wissem: "In 2019 I was commissioned by Cinémathèque Française in Paris to compose the soundtrack to the restored original version of the Nosferatu film (1922). When I was writing the score, I found a Dutch double 7" record with sounds of extinct birds on the streets of Rotterdam. I manipulated these found bird sounds by using electronics and added them to the score." Personnel: Jozef Van Wissem - lute, electronics, beats, electric guitar, found bird sounds."Beginning with a lute solo, his soundtrack incorporates electric guitar and distorted recordings of extinct birds, graduating from subtlety to gothic horror. 'My soundtrack goes from silence to noise over the course of 90 minutes,' he said, culminating in 'dense, slow death metal.'" --The New York Times
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CAT #: INC 030LP
FILE UNDER: SOUNDTRACK
VAN WISSEM, JOZEF Nosferatu: The Call Of The Deathbird LP
LP version. Jozef Van Wissem: "In 2019 I was commissioned by Cinémathèque Française in Paris to compose the soundtrack to the restored original version of the Nosferatu film (1922). When I was writing the score, I found a Dutch double 7" record with sounds of extinct birds on the streets of Rotterdam. I manipulated these found bird sounds by using electronics and added them to the score." Personnel: Jozef Van Wissem - lute, electronics, beats, electric guitar, found bird sounds."Beginning with a lute solo, his soundtrack incorporates electric guitar and distorted recordings of extinct birds, graduating from subtlety to gothic horror. 'My soundtrack goes from silence to noise over the course of 90 minutes,' he said, culminating in 'dense, slow death metal.'" --The New York Times
KALLISTA RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: KALLISTA 002CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DAL FORNO, CARLA Come Around CD
Carla dal Forno resurfaces with the news of plans to release her third album, Come Around, via her own Kallista Records imprint. Now, based in the township of Castlemaine, Central Victoria, the Australian artist returns self-assured and firmly settled within the dense eucalypt bushlands. Dal Forno grapples with ideas of home, disorder and insomnia in the swift pop structures of her DIY/post-punk forebearers such as Young Marble Giants, Virginia Astley, and Broadcast. Three years since the launch of her label, Kallista Records, dal Forno finds stability in Castlemaine (pop. 6,750), her third home city in as many albums. After nearly a decade of moving, recording and touring out of Berlin and London, Come Around embodies a newfound solitude born of/in elemental pop hooks and enlightened songwriting. The title track, "Come Around," offers the best example of this confident, fresh candor. It's an elegant invite into dal Forno's sharp new focus beckoning old friends, relationships and audiences into her resettled home. This meandering pop hit strikes between the melodic simplicity of Anna Domino and YMG and the arrangement hooks of The Cannanes and Movietone, capturing dal Forno at her most welcoming with arms wide open. Other tracks like "Mind You're On" recalls the bass driven heft of dal Forno's previous work but where past albums projected the pastoral idyll from the urban jungles of Berlin and London, the lyricism and production on Come Around embody her current lived experience in the Australian regions where space, strong bonds and solitude are in high supply. Returning to rekindle relationships with people and places and joining in trysts amidst the foreboding badlands cuts through the whole record, as on "The Garden of Earthly Delights," a cover of The United States of America's 1968 track. There is joy if you look for it but, as dal Forno warns on "Caution": "I sell caution word of you." Mistrust and doubt are not completely vanquished. Having embarked on such a radical physical and creative journey since the last record, dal Forno lays bare the passing of time and the oscillating waves of energy and ennui that go with it. This is plain to see on "Stay Awake" and instrumentals like "Deep Sleep" and "Autumn," which gives rise to anxiety and insomnia in her new sunburnt home. Yet "Slumber" offers a glimmer of respite sitting within the chaotic circus of production that channels Kendra Smith, General Strike, and The Flying Lizards. This track, a duet with English artist, Thomas Bush, searches for solace in the arms of another. Nothing is left unsaid on Come Around. Having finally found limitless time and space, dal Forno does well not to waste any bit of it.
KINGSTON SOUNDS (UK)
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CAT #: KSCD 089CD
FILE UNDER: WORLD
ZUKIE, TAPPER Bunker Buster CD
Tapper Zukie after taking a little time out of the musical arena has come back with an album full of great material and has called in an A list of fellow Jamaican artists to add flavor to this great set. As Tapper named the album himself Bunker Buster, it shows Mr Zukie busting back out of the studio and back in the arena in fine style. The opening track finds his long-standing working partner Horace Andy adding his distinctive vocal style to "Aquarius". "Nuh Fraid A Dem" features the great Luciano, "The Blessings" the mighty Michael Rose, and Little Roy adds some magical rhymes to "Wicked". The soulful voice of Beres Hammond sweetens the effects of "Stress". The killer title track "Buster Bunker" is backed up by the Musical Intimidators and Tapper has reworked his "Good Luck My Friend" track to "Lucky Friend" which features the timeless backing vocals by the legendary Jamaican vocal group The Tamlins. Digging even deeper into his back catalog he has also pulled up some classic rhythms and more existing vocals to rework over. For example, "The Light In Me" features the greatly missed Ronnie Davis. Junior Rass adds his mighty roar to "Humble Lion" and Junior Reid leads the charge on "Warrior". Half Pint adds a musical layer to "Flesh and Blood". All in all, a great selection of musical ideas that also features the cream of Jamaica's musicians, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, Flabba Holt, Chinna Smith to name but a few. Tapper's son Noel Barnes (AKA Brand New) alongside Pam Hall adds some gloss. Such is his standing in the reggae community that a call out to Jamaica's finest set of singers and their eager reply to add their talents has made this an album not to be missed and can sit proudly alongside and find a place in his already prodigious catalog. CD version includes four bonus tracks.
KRANKY
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CAT #: KRANK 235CD
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
VANTZOU, CHRISTINA No5 CD
"While on the island of Syros in the Aegean Sea for a film festival performance, Christina Vantzou experienced what she characterized as 'a moment of focus' -- a specific vision for the sprawl of raw recordings she'd been amassing for her fifth album. Upon relocating to the Cycladic island of Ano Koufonisi, she situated herself outside at a patio table with a laptop and headphones, taking brief breaks to swim, and began the 'reductive process' of shaving and shaping the source material into uneasy but lyrical movements, alternately austere and adorned with strange inflections: glottal groaning, cavernous water, glittering eddies of modular synth, languorous silences. Mixing the pieces herself without outsourcing to an engineer compounded the intimacy and autobiographical dimension of the music; she refers to Nº5 as 'almost like a first album.' Drawing on sessions staged in February 2020, Vantzou's editing instincts emphasize process and isolation, spotlighting resonance and restraint, liquidity and long tails. Fleeting configurations of piano, wind, strings, synthetics, and field recordings, these are spaces as much as compositions, surreal grottos of shifting light, suffused with a sense of invisible divinity. Although seventeen musicians appear on the record, the proceedings feel minimalist and malleable, sculpted from interstitial moments and oblique synchronicities. The definition of a composer as 'one who joins things' is here both plumbed and proven; Vantzou describes Nº5 as 'a letting go,' a place of 'soft borders,' unfixed and undefinable."
LA VIDA ES UN MUS (UK)
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CAT #: MUS 259LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
IRREAL Era Electronica LP
Following up their 2020 EP Barcelona, Irreal delivers eight troglodyte anthems of radikal hardcore punk. Borrowing heavily from the Hear Nothing era Discharge and echoing equally Suomi classics Destruktions/Mellakka and AOQ demo era Cro-Mags, Irreal creates a maelstrom of hypnotic feedback. Era Electrónica Catalan and Spanish anarchist lyrics bind the bands primitive sonic assault, delivering a modern hardcore punk record without an ounce of modern attitude. Punk as it is meant to be; nasty, aggressive, political and uncompromising. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Markus at No Master's Voice in Copenhagen. Cover art by Arturo PS.
LES DISQUES BONGO JOE (SWITZERLAND)
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CAT #: BJR 060LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
LIMA, PEDRO Recordar E Viver: Antologia Vol. 1 2LP
Double LP version. Pedro Lima was certainly the most iconic singer from Sao Tomé Island. Born in 1944, his career began at teenage, with his faithful band Os Leonenses, who were mostly members of his family and shared most of his musical life; and lasted until his death on January 31st, 2019. Until the very end, he kept performing big events all around the country, and was among the very few singers and bands from Sao Tomé & Principe that recorded in Luanda Angola for N'Gola and Merengue labels in the '70s, and in Lisbon for the essential IEFE imprint in the '80s. Respected father of 27 children from four different wives, people named him "A voz do povo de Sao Tomé", the people's voice of the island, as he always made very clear his political views on internal affairs and backed since day one the revolutionary party that took power after the independence obtained from Portugal on July 12th, 1975. A powerful and free soul, expressing through his beautifully soft and deep voice range, the concerns of the poor, in this often-troubled country. His funerals were the biggest ever organized on the island, and were paid for by ex-president Pinto da Costa, gathering thousands to accompany him to his last home. His music is wonderfully rich and delicate, though quite minimalistic in arrangements, revealing the subtle melodies of the islands' harmonic and backing vocals traditions, laid on either incredibly energetic Puxa rhythms, or the sweetness of sensual Rumbas. Continuing their work on Sao Tomé and Principe with curator DJ Tom B., Les Disque Bongo Joe announce the release of Recordar É Viver: Antologia Vol. 1, the first volume of a retrospective of Pedro Lima's work. You'll find here some rare and unreleased tracks from the '80s when he was at the top of his game. For fans of: África Negra, Ebo Taylor, William Onyeabor.
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CAT #: BJR 077CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
CITRON CITRON Chagrin Bleu CD
Brother and sister, Citron Citron is the new revelation of the Geneva underground scene. Chagrin Bleu explores the melancholy of the night and the joy of a flight under the sun. Songs with transcendent refrains, and synthetic laments with romantic melodies, carried by groove box-like rhythms. An album on the borders of chamber pop, medieval chants, and ambient. The lyrics are at times poetic, angry or dreamy. The first sketches of the album were drawn during the first confinement when time was slowing down. The songs were then recorded in a DIY way by the band in their studio in Geneva during the year 2021. The first sessions were recorded on tape with a Tascam 688, then expanded and edited on computer. Some additional recordings were made with the help of sound engineer Yavor Lilov (L'Éclair) and some guests: Fhunyue Gao on theremin, Sébastien Bui (L'Éclair) for some synth parts. The album was then worked on and mixed with Jacco Gardner in his Antwerp studio. His analog world allowed the sound of the album to grow and deepen. With his echoes and tape machines, the mix could be approached in an organic and evolutionary way.
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CAT #: BJR 079LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
YILDIRIM & GRUP SIMSEK, DERYA Dost 2 LP
LP version. Derya Y?ld?r?m and Grup ?im?ek are back with their third album Dost 2, the second of a two-part series following 2021's highly acclaimed Dost 1 (BJR 065LP). The eight-track release sees Turkish singer, ba?lama player and multi-instrumentalist Derya Y?ld?r?m and her international band of brothers and sisters continue their psychedelic journey, meandering through Anatolian folk music and poetry with their electrifying grooves, while also delving into their own lives and personal experiences. While rooted in Anatolian tradition, Grup ?im?ek (which translates into "Ocean Lightning and the Thunderbolts", a play on Derya's surname "Y?ld?r?m", which means lightning in Turkish) draws on a boundless cosmos of sounds and builds on the contribution of each band member. Despite being multilingual, Y?ld?r?m exclusively sings in Turkish. Graham Mushnik (organ, synthesizers, and clavinet player) and Antonin Voyant (guitar, bass, and flute) are both members of London/France-based collective Catapulte Records and played in l'Orchestre du Montplaisant, a quartet known for its cinematic, retro atmospheres -- a clear influence on Grup ?imsek's sprawling, vintage-tinged compositions. The band marries 1960s and '70s Anatolian influences with a contemporary approach to composition and rhythm, thanks in large part to the contribution of drummer, percussionist, composer, and marimba player Greta Eacott. With a background in experimental and contemporary music, Eacott "thinks about essential things like sound and time within music and space, and contributed this whole mindset to Grup ?imsekm," says Y?ld?r?m. ?im?ek's original compositions dominate Dost 2's tracklist, with the lyrics on four of the tracks penned by Derya Y?ld?r?m in collaboration with Berlin-based writer Duygu A?al. Guitar and organ curl around each other on opener "Gümü?", which unfolds and swells as Y?ld?r?m's powerful voice takes off before giving way to an evocative guitar solo. "Merakl? Gönül" deals with memory and loss, feelings that permeate Y?ld?r?m's vocals as they float on a mellow bed of delicate percussions, phased guitars, and winding synth lines; "Mola" is an understated but incredibly powerful ba?lama composition, where moments of silence are able to stir up emotions as intensely as the music itself; seconds later the tension is broken by the funky bassline on the irresistibly catchy "Bal". The sorrowful atmosphere on "Odam Kireç Tutmuyor" mirrors the heartbreak of the song's two protagonists. Based on a traditional love song, the track ends with a cry of "Oy Leminê", a Kurdish expression that conveys a feeling of pain, hope, and unfulfilled hopes, artfully captured by a wistful flute line. The third cover on the album is the soul stirring "Ay?e Halam Ar?yor" sung by Derya's aunt Ay?e Y?ld?r?m. For fans of: Altin Gün, Satellites, Sababa 5, Mogollar, Baba Zula.
LEWIS RECORDINGS (UK)
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CAT #: LEWIS 1119EP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
DJ YODA Feel Like Home/Don't Mean A Thing 7"
"The opening single of 'Prom Nite' is a sermon perfect for log cabin lock-ins and losing yourself across the Balearics: 'Feel Like Home' is spirited, euphoric and thoroughly satisfying, not to mention an advertising executive's dream. London's House Gospel Choir, endorsed by Annie Mac and The Blessed Madonna, provide the salvation that everyone is looking for right now, their heavenly harmonies aligned to Yoda's gentle grooves and keys leading you to the light, encouraging the linkage of arms and for its soulful soothing properties to wash over you."
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CAT #: LEWIS 1120EP
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP
DJ YODA My Energy/Lesson 1956 7"
"In a world of beauty school dropouts and jukebox tearjerkers, Eva Lazarus (DJ Vadim, The Nextmen, and a guest on Yoda's Home Cooking album) invites you to come and feel 'My Energy'. A superlatively soulful slow jam wrapped in stars and stripes, it's a timeless, lilting breakup song, with Yoda shiftily putting in work on the decks out back. Authentic doo wop straight from a 50s picture show, Lazarus takes center stage as she leaves a string of devastated would-be suitors in her wake. The new sound of DJ Yoda revisits a golden era of rhythm and blues -- going all in on 'Prom Nite', his new album of retro Americana and superstar guests continues to expand his musical expertise, with his signature scratches and cut-ups craftily coming into view over Heartbreak Ridge."
LIVITY SOUND RECORDINGS (UK)
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CAT #: LIVITY 057EP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DJ PLEAD Quick EP 12"
Two years since his Going For It EP, Livity Sound Recordings welcome back Sydney's DJ Plead for a second round of versatile, psychedelic club variations. Since debuting around 2018 Plead has forged a distinctive sound which focuses on inventive use of percussion and elegant melodic hooks that draw lines between global dance music cultures without adhering to any fixed formula. From the carnival futurism of lead track "Come Quick" to the infectious reggaeton lilt and understated trance synths of "El Es", Plead presents a sound as playful as it is serious, predominantly exploring the 100 bpm tempo range. Shaped out by acutely angled rhythms, shifting time signatures and bold licks, Quick EP further establishes him as a vital, individual talent with the kind of flexible club tracks that bend between scenes and inject vibrant energy into the dance.
MADE IN GERMANY (GERMANY)
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CAT #: MIG 90783LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WATERS, MUDDY Live At Rockpalast 2LP
"Muddy Waters had a good sense for talent and accordingly almost always an excellent band behind him, but his backing band from 1974 to 1980, which can be heard on these recordings, was one of his very best: The pianist Pinetop Perkins joined the band already in 1970 after the death of Otis Spann, with the drummer Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith Muddy even worked together since 1964. The bassist Calvin Jones joined in 1971, and in 1973 the two guitarists Luther 'Guitar Jr.' Johnson and Bob Margolin came into the band. The band was rounded out in 1974 by the excellent harmonica player Jerry Portnoy, who later became, among other things, the first blues harp choice for Eric Clapton. Permanent touring made this line-up a top-rehearsed band, which optimally supported the charismatic leader when they entered the stage of Dortmund's Westfalenhalle for the Rockpalast recording on December 10, 1978. Muddy Waters himself was still at the height of his career at this time, his powerful vocals and great stage charisma captivating the audience. Muddy's guitar playing came into its own especially during his typical slow blues slide guitar solos on the Fender Telecaster electric guitar played in normal tuning - and rarely did Muddy have such a hot sound as on these WDR television recordings. The evening's song selection consisted of some of his greatest hits, which probably belonged to the mandatory repertoire every evening ('Hoochie Coochie Man', 'Walkin' Thru The Park', a terrific version of the macho anthem 'Mannish Boy' and of course the immortal 'Got My Mojo Workin''), but also more rarely played tunes like 'Soon Forgotten' by St. Louis Jimmy Oden or 'Country Boy', both atmospheric slow blues with slide."
MODERN LOVE (UK)
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CAT #: LOVE 069LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
STOTT, ANDY Passed Me By (2022 Edition) 2x12"
2022 edition. New cover art. Andy Stott's radical 2011 bonecrusher returns on its first new pressing for almost a decade, still screwing the dance and heads like nothing else with its lo-sprung suspended takes on boogie dub and claggiest rhythmic thumpers. The sludgy, slow-motion slug of Passed Me By marked a pivotal point when Stott swam against the grain of prevailing currents of the post-dubstep era's turn toward garage-techno and UKF-inspired percussive house. Working loosely adjacent to a then emergent witch-house sound, Andy screwed templates associated to Salem and Holy Other into a more muscular, thrumming style of drug chug more in key with early Actress, arriving at his own distinctive sound that sent us reeling. Between the intoxicating, syrupy gnarrr of "New Ground" with its Proustian vocal motifs, and the head-wobbling Pennine weather system compressions of its titular curtain closer, it's a stone cold classic; eliciting heads-down, wall-banging reactions in the side-chained thrum of "North To South" and a lip-biting MDMA-buzz come up with the thriller funk of "Intermittent", while sore thumb "Dark Details" gives shivering flashbacks to warehouse brukouts and "Execution" curbs the high with a K-holing drag. Delivering a narcotic, keeling dose of nostalgia that slings us back to late hours in the office and blunted afters with the goodest kru, Passed Me By was one of those records that made you reassess pretty much everything else around at the time, practically forcing you to play other stuff on the wrong speed if we wanted to DJ with it, or more simply letting it run and slowly shift temporal perceptions and paradigms in the process. Mastered and cut by LUPO. Clear vinyl; edition of 700.
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CAT #: LOVE 072LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
STOTT, ANDY We Stay Together (2022 Edition) 2x12"
2022 edition. New cover art. Andy Stott's ultra-classic bout of screwed, knackered house is a shapeshifting, hardy perennial whose crushing traction and atmospheric grip has only deepened in the decade (+1) since it was first issued, as part of a now notorious one-two in 2011 beside Passed Me By (LOVE 069LP). Out of print for almost a decade, it's now finally available again in a new edition that's still sounding unlike pretty much anything else we've heard in the intervening years. We Stay Together was a proper watershed moment for Andy Stott in the nascent phase of an inspirational stylistic arc. While he'd spent the previous six years constructing everything from warehouse-shuddering deep house and dub techno to bare-boned dubstep, the arrival of a new decade paid witness to Stott turning inward, collapsing what he'd learnt from late night sessions with the Modern Love crew into a radical new sound that was arguably without precedent in its field. The simple move of screwing the tempo to circa 100BPM would, in turn, open out his sound, prising room between the rhythms which he colored with a palette of particularly bruised, processed outside-the-box textures gleaned from an array of guitar pedals and endlessly churned samples. There were, of course, parallels in DJ Screw's codeine-infused treatments of classic rap and soul, and their influence on the contemporaneous "witch house" style, but few, if any, were doing it within a techno and club music context that hewed so close to the darker, gristlier underbelly and animus of Manchester's warehouse heritage. This style of viscous, cranky chug proved fertile ground that would be explored in-depth over the next decade -- you can hear traces of it on everything from Overmono's sludge to Low's acclaimed Double Negative -- and it's the source of it all. But, still, nothing twats quite as smart or heavy as We Stay Together. From an opening that uncannily echoes the rinsed-out empty warehouse scenes in the closing stages of "Fioriucci Made Me Hardcore", the serotonin-depleted "Submission" triggers a side-chained momentum that helplessly drags users thru the gnarly mire of "Posers" to the zombied lurch of "Bad Wires" and its title tune's ket-legged strut. He pushes the aesthetics to asphyxiating degrees on "Cherry Eye", but not without a glimmer of hope in its underwater choral motifs that always buoys his best bits from utter doom, before "Cracked" stresses the metallic tang of his textures with a bloodlust and vital, systolic throb whose effect has only been galvanized with age. Clear vinyl; edition of 700.
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CAT #: LOVE 124LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
SAKINI, LAILA Paloma LP
Paloma, meaning the symbol of peace, a white dove, is the fourth LP by Laila Sakini, and her debut for Modern Love. Invoking hope, in hopeless times, is perhaps the central aim of this album -- which has links and references to similarly spirited exercises: the aspirations of Veronica/Veronique to fatefully discover herself through song in Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique, a high school band readying their first performance, a theater production cutting stars and props to decorate their small but important production. Endeavors, fraught with risk of failure and which are quintessentially naive, are attempted with whatever material is within reach. In Paloma, piano and recorder form the core instruments, with a reluctant vocal, a borrowed violin, some glockenspiel, a timbale. Sakini sings of reflections, shadows, optical illusions, tricks of light, tricks of the mind, secret meanings, magic and mysteries. Charged and coded, forlorn and impressionistic, it's a mystifying album of unapologetically elementary instrumentation, arranged with cinematic ambitions.Multi-
MY VIA NERO'S NEPTUNE
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CAT #: MY 003LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
YONKERS, MICHAEL Michael Lee Yonkers LP
Limited restock, last copies... An original sealed pressing of Michael Yonkers's Michael Lee Yonkers from 1974. Self-recorded in 1971 and '72, Michael Lee Yonkers has often been referred to as Michael's "country" album. It is many folks' favorite of his early works, and is likely the weirdest. The roughhewn quality of these recordings has caused listeners to make comparisons with other "real people" outsiders like Grudzien and the Holy Modal Rounders, but there are more obvious, well-known comparisons (Townes Van Zandt) that are at least as appropriate. There are clear references to various classic country stylings in these songs, even as Michael's unique distillation of their influence lends a delightfully skewed mischievousness to the proceedings. Released in 1974 and rescued from deep inside Yonks's storage space/weirdo museum.
NERO'S NEPTUNE
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CAT #: NN 006LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
KOERNER, SPIDER JOHN March 1963 LP
2022 restock. A major archival discovery, taped March 24, 1963 for a Milwaukee, Wisconsin radio program, on the eve of the very same day that the seminal Blues, Rags & Hollers LP by Koerner, Ray & Glover was created. Spider John Koerner is the man who first introduced a young Bob Dylan to the 12-string guitar, a bona fide legend who is acknowledged as an influence by artists as diverse as John Lennon, Beck, The Doors & Dylan himself. Nearly 50 years ago, Paul Nelson, writing in the Little Sandy Review and Sing Out respectively, said that "Koerner's art is like Chaplin's, as great and lasting as it is entertaining," while calling him "the most innovatively brilliant acoustic blues musician of his generation." In the year 2010 -- seldom performing and now in his 70s -- the reclusive Koerner is "one of the world's greatest living practitioners of traditional American folk music." It is with enormous pride that Nero's Neptune presents this long-lost piece of American musical history. Tip-on sleeves, pressed on 180 gram vinyl.
RIDINGEASY RECORDS
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CAT #: EZRDR 139LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
VA Brown Acid - The Fifteenth Trip LP
LP version. "Lo and behold, Brown Acid - The Fifteenth Trip is here, and it's another mind-melting dose of brilliant long-lost, rare, and unreleased hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks from the 60s -70s. Riding Easy's crate-digging mining expeditions, and growing network of the original artists keeps on giving with more and more incredible discoveries every time they go back for more. Like they've done throughout this series, all of these tracks were painstakingly licensed legitimately and the artists were paid. Make oneself comfortable and prepare for yet another deep, deep dive into the treasure trove of dank, subterranean, wild-eyed and hairy rock n' roll of yesteryear. Some key examples include: As usual, this Trip opens strong, as 'Take The Time' swaggers along with switchblade stabs of guitar twang and frantic drumming that sounds like Nick Cave's '80s post-punk barbarians The Birthday Party on this 1969 single from the mysterious Boston area band The Looking Glass. Negative Space toil in the dark web of The Seeds, and dwell in the mystic haze of working-class suburbs in Camden, NJ circa 1970. Their angry, nasty guitar sounds and frustration-bogged frontman Rob Russen ensure that the aggro fueled 'Forbidden Fruit' -- in which he confesses his love for his sister-in-law -- will hit one right in the face. Truth & Janey might be familiar from their 45-only 'Midnight Horseman' single heard way back on the Sixth Trip, and/or their incredible 1976 album No Rest For The Wicked. Their super-driven soul leaning cover of 'Under My Thumb' is almost like The Who had penned the track, with relentless drums, jackhammer rhythm guitar and near-falsetto vocals."
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CAT #: EZRDR 146CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
EARLY MOODS Early Moods CD
"The self-titled full-length debut of Los Angeles quintet Early Moods is a marriage of classic underground doom like Candlemass, Witchfinder General, Pentagram, Trouble and Saint Vitus, paired with traditional 'big box' heavy metal melodies and song structure. These two contrasting aesthetics may seem incongruous, but the skilled musicianship of Early Moods -- some of whom have played music together since their early teens -- manages to find the perfect balance between grit and gloss. 'From the beginning, the purpose for this band was to incorporate our love of traditional doom metal with a heavy metal approach,' guitarist Eddie Andrade says. 'We wanted to show that heavy doom can be complemented with melodies and harmonies. Black Sabbath meets NWOBHM is what we aim for, really.' The band was founded in 2015 by Andrade and vocalist/keyboardist Alberto Alcaraz after a few years of playing in thrash and death metal projects before the two realized that the classic doom that they'd grown up with was what they really wanted to explore. Going through a few lineup changes while delving deeper into the diverging influences that were calling, Early Moods arrived at the sound and lineup that grew their fanbase locally. The band soon captured the attention of German label Dying Victim Productions, who released their debut EP, Spellbound in 2020. Early Moods is Oscar Hernandez on lead guitar, Chris Flores on drums, Elix Felciano on bass, Alcaraz on vocals/synth and Andrade on guitar. Early Moods was recorded at 7th Street Studios in downtown L.A. by Carlos Cruz (Warbringer, Chris Poland, Power Trip) from October to December of 2021. It was mixed by Allen Falcon of Birdcage Studios and mastered by Brad Boatright of Audio Siege who has worked with bands like Sleep, Obituary, and High On Fire."
RUMPELMUSIG (SWITZERLAND)
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CAT #: RUMP 008CD
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
KALABRESE Let Love Rumpel (Part 2) CD
Kalabrese, the pleasant Rumpelzampano from Zürich, is back with 11 songs that get under your skin and straight into your hips. The follow-up to Part 1 (RUMP 007CD/LP, 2021) is less pop-structures, more trippy and floating, reminiscent of his debut album Rumpelzirkus (STATT 002CD, 2007) at times and leveling perfectly between head nodding moments, Balearic sounds and massive Kalafunk. The story of the album naturally continues and bears the hallmark of Sacha Winkler who's not getting tired exploring and experimenting with his music. "Kevin und Sandra" is a strong, technoid, rocking yet poetic introduction to the album. Hypnotic driving synths howling over a stoner rock alike drum beat and a fluid rollin' synth-bass. "Springbrunne" is a great "rap without rap" hymn featuring the elegant and relaxed voice of Kayyak. Over a heavy beat he's toastin' about reinventing himself through the splatter of a fountain before Deacon Blues, better known as Seth Troxler, suddenly joins in. The title song of the new album, "Let Love Rumpel" is an ode to the joy of raving together but and the perfect soundtrack for sunrise. "Eight Bars" is massive Rumpelfunk, showing that it doesn't need more than a simple bassline and groove to lean back in the spirit of funk. "Get Up And Try" is the nimble answer towards the exhausting polemic about measures within the pandemic and know-all caprices. A children's choir over a mid-tempo housebeat, a beautiful cello by band buddy Dominik Löhrer and the swingin' trumpet, performed by Rumpeljazzer Benjamin Danech. "Explore Yourself" is a collaboration with the vocal contributions of talented newcomer Palma Ada. "Die Kette feat Zoé Miku" is a powerful and hypnotic mid-tempo Balearic house jam with the contemplative vocals of Zoé Miku. "Healthy Again" features Palma Ada backed up by a wonderful brass section. "Middle Of The Night" is a stripped-back, lyrical segment. Carefully sculpted sounds, smooth and low bass tones and a captivating simple rhythm. "Halftime Blues" is quite the opposite; heavy and slow, a dub without echoes with a slightly dystopic texture to it. With "Don't Loose The Center" featuring Kayyak, Kalabrese is celebrating the Rumpelfunk again -- this time pimped up with a lot of piano and boogie while Kayyak is lifting his voice. Rumpelorchester's bass player Marci Dobozi delivers the magnificent piano.
SEELAND
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CAT #: SEELAND 538CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
TISM Collected Versus: The Complete TISM Singles 2CD
"In its twenty-year career, Australian band TISM became possibly the most notorious band in their country's history, mixing the satire of Frank Zappa, the art-project long-game of the Residents, the songwriting chops and wit of Sparks, and the culture-jamming panache of Negativland. Now, forty years after forming and eighteen years after their last gig, an unsuspecting America can finally enjoy the pop-dance-satire band from Oz they never knew they were missing, as experimental music label Seeland Records proudly presents the TISM singles collection Collected Versus in a 2CD set that brings their greatest 'hits' to U.S. audiences for the first time. TISM albums such as Great Truckin' Songs Of The Renaissance, Hot Dogma, Machiavelli And The Four Seasons, and De Rigueurmortis became chart hits while the band wowed live audiences with a series of absurd performance art happenings that inspired equal parts head-banging and stage-diving, danger and glee, laughs and total confusion. Born of the early-1980s music scene of suburban Melbourne, the band was a hit onstage and on the pop charts, with the seven men of TISM remaining anonymous for decades. Performing in balaclavas and rocking stage names like Humphrey B. Flaubert, Jock Cheese, Eugene de la Hot Croix-Bun, and Ron Hitler-Barassi, their provocative live shows became the stuff of legend, as they blasted their fans with infectiously catchy guitar-laden electro-pop leavened with bottomless cynicism and dark laughs. Career highlights included appearing on a children's TV show to promote their song 'Saturday Night Palsy' and gradually increasing the size of the band to twenty eight members over three minutes; playing an entire gig in front of platforms on which they staged a full wedding reception, complete with best man's speech, bridal party, and a separate wedding band; holding a press interview on a football field with the journalists fifty meters away at the end of a taut piece of string; releasing their debut single 'Defecate on My Face' as a 7-inch record in a 12-inch sleeve with all four sides glued shut; playing a benefit gig in which two separate TISMs performed at opposite ends of the same hall; and bringing twenty guitarists on stage to play a single chord. Collected Versus includes a career-spanning survey of all of the band's singles on disc one, plus eighty minutes of fan favorites on disc two."
SOFT ABUSE
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CAT #: SAB 105CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
PUMICE Phylis CD
"Pumice returns with an exquisite experimental bathroom sink pop record in hand, dubbed Phylis. This time out the long-running Aotearoa band, currently a duo consisting of Stefan Neville and Jade Farley, fracture sore-thumbed folk songs into crumpled bricks with riffs written on the toilet. Wonky South Pacific skiffle careens into heady organ dirges followed by galloping blurts of afterlife feedback. As ever, texture and accidents rub up against melodies, rhythms are not strict and words are grubby. But with Phylis, the restless band tenders its most exuberant, straightforward and enjoyable pop record yet. Recorded at Neville's T?maki Makaurau/Auckland studio in 2021, Neville and Farley have returned to the simple and joyful instincts of the earliest Pumice recordings. Nylon strings, drums with the feet, the empty and the absurd. Impossible to think of something analogous to the cosmic comforts on offer here, Phylis once more presents songs that could only come from the world of Pumice."
SONIC CATHEDRAL (UK)
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CAT #: SCR 215LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DUMMY Dumb EPs LP
LA five-piece Dummy follow 2021's acclaimed debut album Mandatory Enjoyment (released by Trouble In Mind) and their single for Sub Pop with Dumb EPs, a compilation of their first two EPs from 2020, remastered especially for vinyl by Simon Scott from Slowdive. EP1 was recorded from late 2019 and released in May 2020, both digitally and on a tape by Maryland punk label Pop Wig. Translucent green vinyl. "Dummy has all the makings of a modern cult band" --Pitchfork. "Like a scrappy, punch-drunk Stereolab or a blissed out, mantra-hypnotized Wire" --Aquarium Drunkard
SPEAKEASY STUDIOS
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CAT #: SPEAKEASY 004LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DAWN RIDING You're Still Here LP
"In San Francisco's Mission District, there's a Victorian house with a garden full of towering tobacco flowers and rose vines so thick they're pulling down the fence. Every Sunday, for a great span of 2021, songwriter Sarah Rose Janko would join producer and engineer Alicia Vanden Heuvel (Aislers Set, Magic Trick) there, to play guitar, sing harmonies, and hum lines for other instruments, before retreating to Vanden Heuvel's basement recording studio (Speakeasy Studios SF), to roll tape on her Otari half-inch 8-track. This is how, week by week, Dawn Riding's new record You're Still Here, was chipped out of the ethereal and into an expansive album of meticulously crafted and deeply captivating songs. It's an album steeped in intimacy and warmth, each song built with a level of restraint that leaves room for Jankos's quietly fierce vocals and her powerful songwriting to sit front and center. Nothing is rushed and each song is presented almost as a vignette: some with so much stillness one can feel the relationships, some that build from the heart's interior solitude into swells of emotional catharsis. Above all, the album drives and breathes with storytelling. You're Still Here marks Dawn Riding's third full-length album, dropping this November as a co-release between The Long Road Society and Speakeasy Studios SF, two women-owned Bay Area record labels, a fitting arrangement considering that the album's creation was deeply collaborative. The credits reveal a wealth of Bay Area musicians lending their talents, with multi-instrumentalist Vanden Heuvel acting as producer and musical arranger. In addition to long-time Dawn Riding drummer Jasmyn Wong's familiar shuffle on 'All The Time,' Keenah Silver Fassett brings a rockier edge to two of the heavier numbers on the record. Hall McCann, Dawn Riding's long-time lead guitar player and backup vocalist pushes her harmonies to the apparitional on 'Scales Fall From My Eyes' while her guitar lines on 'The Difference' are dirty and raw, invoking CSNY's 'Ohio.' Vanden Heuvel steps away from the mixing desk to play bass, organ, and even drums (on 'Nine Lives'). Jacob Aranda (Tarnation) plays pedal steel and violin on a number of songs, including a haunting steel track on 'Scales Fall From My Eyes.' Anna Hillburg adds trumpet, and Jessie Leigh Smith, who often performs live with Dawn Riding, plays soulful harmonica, lending a comforting down-home vibe to the journey."
SUBEXOTIC (UK)
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CAT #: SUBEX 068LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
CONFLUX COLDWELL The Phantomatic Coast LP
The East Coast of England is a land living on borrowed time. Time borrowed from the North Sea, reclaimed a thousand years ago. But now it seems that sea has come to claim it all back. Michael C Coldwell spent three years traveling up and down this rapidly disappearing shoreline, collecting ghost stories, photographing the roads to nowhere, the monumental sound mirrors and pillboxes teetering on the edges of cliffs, making field recordings of the waves and fog signals, and writing mournful electronic music from static caravans. This hauntological project finally culminated in a short essay film entitled Views from Sunk Island -- and this new Conflux Coldwell album. More than just a film score, The Phantomatic Coast stretches beyond the original aims of the documentary, to evoke something deeper about our troubled relationship with the sea -- the many towns and ships lost beneath the waves, and ancient forgotten lands lying out beyond the windfarms like some Yorkshire Atlantis. Memory and mythology became obvious themes in the work, as did the ruins and remains of the world wars, now slipping beneath shifting sands forever. Deluxe gatefold sleeve. Sea-mist color vinyl.
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES
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CAT #: SF 121LP
FILE UNDER: WORLD
BABA COMMANDANT AND THE MANDINGO BAND Sonbonbela LP
Sublime Frequencies release the third LP from Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band. Sonbonbela was recorded in the beginning of 2022 in the Republic of Burkina Faso. The group continue to hone their trademark fusion of Mandingue and Afro-beat styles. The Mandingo Band are a hit machine, sculpting seven new tracks of near Beefheart/Magic Band dynamics, Fela inspired groovers dusted out in the Sahel zone, rather than the humidity and sweat of Lagos, creating one of the most original and propulsive musical statements to come from the contemporary West African cultural juggernaut. As with previous releases, the band features the legendary guitar pyrotechnics of Issouf Diabate, truly one of the greatest West African (or Earth for that matter) guitarists of the last forty years. The band is completed by a near bottomless barrel of artistry from the Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso musical talent pool. On bass guitar, Wendeyida Ouedraogo, on drums Abbas Kabore, and on percussion and balafon, Nickie Dembele. Leading the charge again is the captain himself, Mamadou Sanou on the Doso Ngoni featuring one of the most distinctive voices of the modern era. The opposite of the banal trends of auto-tune that have pervaded most of West African popular music, Baba's voice still impresses with its gravel and grit, showcasing a range that is ancient and defiant in equal measure. This LP is a non-stop hit parade of Afro-beat bangers destined to light dancefloors and living rooms ablaze! This album is dedicated to the memory of Massimbo Taragna, the bass player extraordinaire who was an integral part of the Mandingo Band's trance stun musical power. He passed away in early 2022. RIP.
SWAMI
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CAT #: SWA 157LP
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MEAT WAVE Malign Hex LP
"Swami Records is excited to glom onto Chicago punks Meat Wave for the release of their fourth album Malign Hex. Ryan Wizniak (drums), Joe Gac (bass) and Chris Sutter (vocals, guitar) strip back the 'Windy City Sound' and expose a more jagged and turbulent frame. The ten-track album, which features singles 'What Would You Like Me To Do' as well as 'Ridiculous Car' and 'Honest Living,' was recorded by Gac in 2019 and serves as the band's most cohesive, dynamic and ambitious work to date. 'Our sound in the beginning was consistently very driving,' says Gac. 'Now, that characteristic is merely a tool we can reach for. I don't think it completely defines what we're doing.' Meat Wave spent the last half of 2019 chipping away at Malign Hex. 'We recorded it the same way we always have -- live in a room together,' says drummer Ryan Wizniak. 'But we allowed ourselves to embellish more and take more chances with extra instrumentation.' While Malign Hex does incorporate synths, organs, and walls of guitar, it provides only nuance and atmosphere and does not displace Meat Wave from their meat locker. The album's lyrics center around themes of lineage and explores a litany of subjects and circumstances: addiction, greed, unreliable memory, obedience. All through a surrealist, collage-like lens. 'Everyone wears a backpack full of hexes,' Chris Sutter explains. 'It's heavy and familial. And it's yours.'"
TAPETE RECORDS (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TR 508CD
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VA Intact and Smiling: The Weird & Wonderful World of Tapete Records Vol. 1 2CD
20 years of Tapete Records -- The label's first release, if memory serves, was in 2002. The world has changed a lot in the last 20 years but one detail has remained the same: Tapete Records is still putting out great music. That's a bit reassuring, isn't it? So, the label thought in their Tapete Building at Stahltwiete 10 in Hamburg-Altona: Let's look back and start a series of good, old-fashioned, fantastic label compilations in the style of Shadow Factory, Tamla Motown Is Hot! Hot! Hot! or Wanna Buy A Bridge?... something like that. And so here is Intact and Smiling: The Weird & Wonderful World of Tapete Records Vol. 1. It wasn't that easy to choose 28 out of about 5000 released songs, but what's easy? Therefore, a series. Intact and Smiling Vol. 1 concentrates on the poppy side of Tapete Records, the basic tone is upbeat and uplifting. Can't hurt these days. The title comes from the John Howard & The Night Mail song which says: "Intact and smiling, an independent soul, nobody's slave." What could be more fitting? The label would like to thank all the great artists who have released music with them over the last two decades, especially the bands and artists who have so kindly and unbureaucratically made available their great songs for this compilation. Features We Are Muffy, Martin Carr, Jaguwar, Stereo Total, Simon Love, The Jazz Butcher, The Proper Ornaments, The Monochrome Set, Botschaft, Comet Gain, Pete Astor, The Clientele, Louis Philippe & The Night Mail, Bill Pitchard, Benjamin Dean Wilson, Robert Foster, Elva, Lloyd Cole, Die Höchste Eisenbahn, Gary Olson, The Catenary Wires, Friedrich Sunlight, Sophisticated Boom Boom, LAKE, Davey Woodward and the Winter Orphans, Der Englische Garten, Carambolage, John Howard & The Night Mail.
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CAT #: TR 508LP
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VA Intact and Smiling: The Weird & Wonderful World of Tapete Records Vol. 1 2LP
Double LP version. 20 years of Tapete Records -- The label's first release, if memory serves, was in 2002. The world has changed a lot in the last 20 years but one detail has remained the same: Tapete Records is still putting out great music. That's a bit reassuring, isn't it? So, the label thought in their Tapete Building at Stahltwiete 10 in Hamburg-Altona: Let's look back and start a series of good, old-fashioned, fantastic label compilations in the style of Shadow Factory, Tamla Motown Is Hot! Hot! Hot! or Wanna Buy A Bridge?... something like that. And so here is Intact and Smiling: The Weird & Wonderful World of Tapete Records Vol. 1. It wasn't that easy to choose 28 out of about 5000 released songs, but what's easy? Therefore, a series. Intact and Smiling Vol. 1 concentrates on the poppy side of Tapete Records, the basic tone is upbeat and uplifting. Can't hurt these days. The title comes from the John Howard & The Night Mail song which says: "Intact and smiling, an independent soul, nobody's slave." What could be more fitting? The label would like to thank all the great artists who have released music with them over the last two decades, especially the bands and artists who have so kindly and unbureaucratically made available their great songs for this compilation. Features We Are Muffy, Martin Carr, Jaguwar, Stereo Total, Simon Love, The Jazz Butcher, The Proper Ornaments, The Monochrome Set, Botschaft, Comet Gain, Pete Astor, The Clientele, Louis Philippe & The Night Mail, Bill Pitchard, Benjamin Dean Wilson, Robert Foster, Elva, Lloyd Cole, Die Höchste Eisenbahn, Gary Olson, The Catenary Wires, Friedrich Sunlight, Sophisticated Boom Boom, LAKE, Davey Woodward and the Winter Orphans, Der Englische Garten, Carambolage, John Howard & The Night Mail.
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CAT #: TR 511CD
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ASTOR, PETE Time On Earth CD
Pete Astor on Time on Earth: "In my 50s I realized that the past slowly becomes a bigger country than the future. As always, the future is where I'm headed, but now the past and all that comes with it is stacked up behind me . . . I've made 11 albums of new material since 1987. I realize that anything I've ever thought that mattered, that told the real story, is in those records. It's been five years since my last album of new songs. Perhaps more than before, there's been plenty of time over the last few years to think and reflect. Like every set of work, Time on Earth is an attempt to make sense of life by making work about it. As erstwhile editor of the NME and Q, journalist Danny Kelly wrote recently while interviewing The Loft: 'a lifetime of listening to them has led me to believe that Pete Astor's songs would have always found a way to reach an audience. If he'd been a Californian baby boomer, he's have ended up in the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles, laying down late-night grooves with the Wrecking Crew for a largely-neglected, slightly gloomy, pop album that'd now be worth a fortune. If he'd been born into post-War Britain, earnest girls in sweaters would've fallen in love with him, and his songs, in Embassy-fogged folk clubs.' Of course, I love this quote. And I believe that Time on Earth is most of these things. But then I would say that, wouldn't I? Time on Earth has songs which were written in direct response to loss and bereavement ('Undertaker', 'Fine and Dandy'); songs striving for different kinds of belief ('New Religion', 'Time on Earth', 'Miracle on the High Street'); stories from either end of the cycles of life ('Sixth Form Rock Boys', 'English Weather'). And a few still searching for fulfilment of the heart ('Stay Lonely', 'Grey Garden', 'Soft Switch'). I was lucky enough to be able to make the music with the help of multi-instrumentalist Ian Button (Wreckless Eric, Death in Vegas, Papernut Cambridge) on the drums, bass maestro Andy Lewis (Spearmint, Paul Weller, and DJ at London's legendary Blow Up Club and Soho Radio), longtime guitarist Neil Scott (Everything But the Girl, Denim) and last but by no means least, Sean Read (Dexys, Edwyn Collins, Rockingbirds) who recorded and produced the album at his Famous Times Studios. As you would expect, I'm convinced it's the best record I've made." Pete Astor is a musician, writer and educator. He led Creation Records' groups The Loft and The Weather Prophets. He has gone on to a lengthy solo career since then.
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CAT #: TR 511LP
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ASTOR, PETE Time On Earth LP
LP version. Pete Astor on Time on Earth: "In my 50s I realized that the past slowly becomes a bigger country than the future. As always, the future is where I'm headed, but now the past and all that comes with it is stacked up behind me . . . I've made 11 albums of new material since 1987. I realize that anything I've ever thought that mattered, that told the real story, is in those records. It's been five years since my last album of new songs. Perhaps more than before, there's been plenty of time over the last few years to think and reflect. Like every set of work, Time on Earth is an attempt to make sense of life by making work about it. As erstwhile editor of the NME and Q, journalist Danny Kelly wrote recently while interviewing The Loft: 'a lifetime of listening to them has led me to believe that Pete Astor's songs would have always found a way to reach an audience. If he'd been a Californian baby boomer, he's have ended up in the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles, laying down late-night grooves with the Wrecking Crew for a largely-neglected, slightly gloomy, pop album that'd now be worth a fortune. If he'd been born into post-War Britain, earnest girls in sweaters would've fallen in love with him, and his songs, in Embassy-fogged folk clubs.' Of course, I love this quote. And I believe that Time on Earth is most of these things. But then I would say that, wouldn't I? Time on Earth has songs which were written in direct response to loss and bereavement ('Undertaker', 'Fine and Dandy'); songs striving for different kinds of belief ('New Religion', 'Time on Earth', 'Miracle on the High Street'); stories from either end of the cycles of life ('Sixth Form Rock Boys', 'English Weather'). And a few still searching for fulfilment of the heart ('Stay Lonely', 'Grey Garden', 'Soft Switch'). I was lucky enough to be able to make the music with the help of multi-instrumentalist Ian Button (Wreckless Eric, Death in Vegas, Papernut Cambridge) on the drums, bass maestro Andy Lewis (Spearmint, Paul Weller, and DJ at London's legendary Blow Up Club and Soho Radio), longtime guitarist Neil Scott (Everything But the Girl, Denim) and last but by no means least, Sean Read (Dexys, Edwyn Collins, Rockingbirds) who recorded and produced the album at his Famous Times Studios. As you would expect, I'm convinced it's the best record I've made." Pete Astor is a musician, writer and educator. He led Creation Records' groups The Loft and The Weather Prophets. He has gone on to a lengthy solo career since then.
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CAT #: TR 516CD
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PHILIPPE, LOUIS Sean O'Hagan Presents: The Sunshine World Of Louis Philippe CD
Louis Philippe is living the big dream: He's a famous football journalist and a pop star. He writes, arranges, sings, and plays the most elegant pop songs on our side of the Atlantic, he released on the legendary label él Records and his influence on the great Japanese Shibuya sound cannot be underestimated. Tapete Records present a long overdue compilation of some of the greatest Louis Philippe songs from the years 1994-2007. Many of these songs are from albums that have been out of print for a long time, and some of them are being released on vinyl for the first time. The album was expertly compiled by Louis Philippe's friend and sometime musical partner Sean O'Hagan (The High Llamas), who also wrote the liner notes. In them O'Hagan writes and recommends: "Lose yourself in this record and let me warn you. You´ll be humming the tunes and reliving the chorus's and key changes for an age, and if you´re a songwriter you will probably be lifting the melodies without realizing is. That´s the sign of a timeless classic." They say that when Smokey Robinson sings, you hear violins. And when the great Louis Philippe sings, the sun rises, even on 21 December at midnight."I first encountered Louis Philippe as a collaborator with The King Of Luxembourg on Cherry Red, the label that was redefining the notion of 'the alternative', resolutely showcasing European eccentricity and melody in the sea of early '80s DIY pop. I was confused and excited all at the same time and recruited to follow the career of this strange fellow. I remember catching a glimpse of him in the buzzing corridors of Cherry Red one afternoon as someone whispered 'That's him, that's Louis Philippe.' . . . As songwriters, we all assimilate our influences and Louis Philippe was learning from the special school of Bones Howe, John Phillips, Maurice Ravel, Paul Williams, Brian Wilson, Michel Legrand, Judee Sill, and Boris Vian, The Tamba Trio... the pattern here was that of an artist who was building a practice based on the pursuit of the exotic soul of harmony and arrangement. This music also extended a European perspective on a pop culture content to accept the Anglo/US axis of influence as a given. But Louis was in love with London and wrote love letters to his new home in song. Alas, some things can never last. Louis Philippe's relationship with Tokyo was also remarkable and important in establishing the Shibuya Sound, a triangular relationship between London, Tokyo, and Paris which also swept up Philippe's collaborators like Bertrand Burgalet and Simon Fisher Turner. And so to be a bit more specific . . . This record is the retrospective of a songwriter, arranger and singer who understands the gift of the chord change, the endless intrigue of arrangement and always knows where and when the sun rises and falls." --Sean O'Hagan
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CAT #: TR 516LP
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PHILIPPE, LOUIS Sean O'Hagan Presents: The Sunshine World Of Louis Philippe LP
LP version. Louis Philippe is living the big dream: He's a famous football journalist and a pop star. He writes, arranges, sings, and plays the most elegant pop songs on our side of the Atlantic, he released on the legendary label él Records and his influence on the great Japanese Shibuya sound cannot be underestimated. Tapete Records present a long overdue compilation of some of the greatest Louis Philippe songs from the years 1994-2007. Many of these songs are from albums that have been out of print for a long time, and some of them are being released on vinyl for the first time. The album was expertly compiled by Louis Philippe's friend and sometime musical partner Sean O'Hagan (The High Llamas), who also wrote the liner notes. In them O'Hagan writes and recommends: "Lose yourself in this record and let me warn you. You´ll be humming the tunes and reliving the chorus's and key changes for an age, and if you´re a songwriter you will probably be lifting the melodies without realizing is. That´s the sign of a timeless classic." They say that when Smokey Robinson sings, you hear violins. And when the great Louis Philippe sings, the sun rises, even on 21 December at midnight."I first encountered Louis Philippe as a collaborator with The King Of Luxembourg on Cherry Red, the label that was redefining the notion of 'the alternative', resolutely showcasing European eccentricity and melody in the sea of early '80s DIY pop. I was confused and excited all at the same time and recruited to follow the career of this strange fellow. I remember catching a glimpse of him in the buzzing corridors of Cherry Red one afternoon as someone whispered 'That's him, that's Louis Philippe.' . . . As songwriters, we all assimilate our influences and Louis Philippe was learning from the special school of Bones Howe, John Phillips, Maurice Ravel, Paul Williams, Brian Wilson, Michel Legrand, Judee Sill, and Boris Vian, The Tamba Trio... the pattern here was that of an artist who was building a practice based on the pursuit of the exotic soul of harmony and arrangement. This music also extended a European perspective on a pop culture content to accept the Anglo/US axis of influence as a given. But Louis was in love with London and wrote love letters to his new home in song. Alas, some things can never last. Louis Philippe's relationship with Tokyo was also remarkable and important in establishing the Shibuya Sound, a triangular relationship between London, Tokyo, and Paris which also swept up Philippe's collaborators like Bertrand Burgalet and Simon Fisher Turner. And so to be a bit more specific . . . This record is the retrospective of a songwriter, arranger and singer who understands the gift of the chord change, the endless intrigue of arrangement and always knows where and when the sun rises and falls." --Sean O'Hagan
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CAT #: TR 523CD
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UNHAPPYBIRTHDAY Stella Loops CD
Unhappybirthday from Hamburg have been releasing dreamy avant-pop records and touring Europe consistently for over ten years now. The group was founded in the port city of Wismar in northern Germany in 2012 by singer and keyboardist Daniel Jahn and guitarist Tobias Rutkowski and producer Jonas Meyer joins the band for this, their fifth album. Stella Loops circles around the vast cosmos offering refuge from the feeling of confinement that has enveloped us all over the last few years and to help achieve this Unhappybirthday have mixed their trademark elements of electronica, house, and ambient music and for this release invited a guest list that includes Andreas Dorau, Martha Rose, and Jimi Tenor to contribute."Hamburg's masters of emotional pop Unhappybirthday return via Tapete this fall with their fifth LP, Stella Loops, a fantastic voyage through outer and inner space in a craft comprised of mid-90s electronica, pastoral house and sun-blushed downbeat. On their previous LP, the moonlit Mondchateau (TR 469CD/LP, 2020), Unhappybirthday explored the suave sophisti-pop of the late '80s, serving their trademark beauty and sadness with a poolside spritz. For Stella Loops, the Hamburg outfit swap the Mediterranean for the Sea of Tranquility, slipping their terrestrial moorings in the name of auditory escapism. Written in part as a response to the enforced inertia of the pandemic and ever-present anxiety of life in the now, Stella Loops finds the group staring skywards, seeking solace in the possibilities of the infinite. Using the sci-fi literature of the GDR as a lyrical launchpad, Unhappybirthday stumble, tumble, float and fall through the galaxy, finding freedom in each mantra like vocal. With space as their place, the group take inspiration from the dreamy electronica of their teenage daze, filtering their yearning melodies and intricate arrangements through core memories of Ultramarine, Gus Gus, and The Beloved. Processed beats and blinking sequences underpin nonchalant basslines and graceful guitar licks while nebulous pads provide a woozy weightlessness befitting their cosmic concerns. Recorded once again in Hamburg and Berlin, Stella Loops sees Daniel Jahn and Tobias Rutkowski working closer than ever with regular collaborator Jonas Meyer, who joined the group in addition to his usual production duties. Hamburg's Andreas Dorau and Zwanie Jonson return to lend their vocal talents alongside Berlin based Martha Rose, while Finnish legend and Bureau B sibling Jimi Tenor graces album closer 'Jimmy' with an enchanting flute solo..." --Patrick Ryder
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CAT #: TR 523LP
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UNHAPPYBIRTHDAY Stella Loops LP
LP version. Unhappybirthday from Hamburg have been releasing dreamy avant-pop records and touring Europe consistently for over ten years now. The group was founded in the port city of Wismar in northern Germany in 2012 by singer and keyboardist Daniel Jahn and guitarist Tobias Rutkowski and producer Jonas Meyer joins the band for this, their fifth album. Stella Loops circles around the vast cosmos offering refuge from the feeling of confinement that has enveloped us all over the last few years and to help achieve this Unhappybirthday have mixed their trademark elements of electronica, house, and ambient music and for this release invited a guest list that includes Andreas Dorau, Martha Rose, and Jimi Tenor to contribute."Hamburg's masters of emotional pop Unhappybirthday return via Tapete this fall with their fifth LP, Stella Loops, a fantastic voyage through outer and inner space in a craft comprised of mid-90s electronica, pastoral house and sun-blushed downbeat. On their previous LP, the moonlit Mondchateau (TR 469CD/LP, 2020), Unhappybirthday explored the suave sophisti-pop of the late '80s, serving their trademark beauty and sadness with a poolside spritz. For Stella Loops, the Hamburg outfit swap the Mediterranean for the Sea of Tranquility, slipping their terrestrial moorings in the name of auditory escapism. Written in part as a response to the enforced inertia of the pandemic and ever-present anxiety of life in the now, Stella Loops finds the group staring skywards, seeking solace in the possibilities of the infinite. Using the sci-fi literature of the GDR as a lyrical launchpad, Unhappybirthday stumble, tumble, float and fall through the galaxy, finding freedom in each mantra like vocal. With space as their place, the group take inspiration from the dreamy electronica of their teenage daze, filtering their yearning melodies and intricate arrangements through core memories of Ultramarine, Gus Gus, and The Beloved. Processed beats and blinking sequences underpin nonchalant basslines and graceful guitar licks while nebulous pads provide a woozy weightlessness befitting their cosmic concerns. Recorded once again in Hamburg and Berlin, Stella Loops sees Daniel Jahn and Tobias Rutkowski working closer than ever with regular collaborator Jonas Meyer, who joined the group in addition to his usual production duties. Hamburg's Andreas Dorau and Zwanie Jonson return to lend their vocal talents alongside Berlin based Martha Rose, while Finnish legend and Bureau B sibling Jimi Tenor graces album closer 'Jimmy' with an enchanting flute solo..." --Patrick Ryder
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CAT #: TR 526CD
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VA Revenge of the She-Punks: Compilation Inspired by the Book by Vivien Goldman 2CD
Since the historiography of punk is a male-dominated one, a Revenge of the She-Punks was long overdue. This feminist reckoning was written by none other than post-punk pioneer Vivien Goldman, who has an insider's perspective due to her work as a musician and one of Britain's first female music writers. Along four themes -- Identity, Money, Love and Protest -- the "punk professor" traces empowering moments that punk holds especially for women. This compilation is inspired by the book, originally released by University of Texas Press in 2019. Compiled and with liner notes by Vivien Goldman."We're not talking a mean-spirited gotcha! revenge here. As both my book that inspired it and this recording prove, us She-Punks' revenge is about our complex survival in an all too often hostile environment. The book offers a template to finding a way through the patriarchal labyrinth of the music industry by telling the backstories of thirty-eight songs by women from not only the Anglophone countries, but Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and Eastern and Continental Europe. Together, they demonstrate how girls around the world, with no or few role models, found ways to thwart blockages and become self-expressive musicians, breaking traditions and expectations, setting new standards with every chord . . . We open with Identity featuring Fea, Big Joanie, The Raincoats, Blondie, and Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex. Then comes Money with Patti Smith, Shonen Knife, Malaria! and the Slits; followed by Love/Unlove: Crass, Cherry Vanilla, Grace Jones, Rhoda Dakar with the Special AKA, Alice Bag (The Bags), Tribe 8 and the Au Pairs, the Mo-Dettes, Neneh Cherry from the UK/Sweden/US and this writer/musician. The closing chapter, Protest, features Sleater-Kinney, Jayne Cortez and the Firespitters, Skinny Girl Diet, Vi Subversa and the Poison Girls, the Czech Republic's Zuby Nehty, Colombia's Fertil Miseria, and Jamaica's Tanya Stephens. Many people have questioned how I arrived at those four themes (answer: thinking,) and so far, no-one has disagreed. However, in sequencing this compilation, the important thing was to sonically flow through the breadth of our creativity, led by the rhythms and sound, rather than the lyrics; they, I already knew, formed a compelling whole, an implacable critique. My perspective on punk is based on spirit rather than adherence to the venerated concept of the genre as only a frenetic full-frontal sonic attack (though that is also represented here). Having been involved with the movement at the start in mid-1970s London, as Features Editor of the punk rock weekly, Sounds, I understood it to be a front line, inclusionary genre, with DIY at its core, which is why it was the first genre to give anything approaching an equal platform to women musicians. Especially for the less conventional, all too often the path for women artists is still steeper than that of male peers. Despite the massive success of today's female superstars, there remains a quota perception in an industry that still largely lives in boystown (though always factor in that it's not the men, it's the mentality,) who are less receptive to forceful females; like the sort of bookers who say, 'Well, we've done our bit, we've booked our female artist' -- as if booking women were some grim post-MeToo duty. But as heard in these tracks, in all its forms, whether sounding strident or soft, punk is a music of resistance; women's punk specially so..." Also features Bush Tetras and The Selecter.
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CAT #: TR 526LP
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VA Revenge of the She-Punks: Compilation Inspired by the Book by Vivien Goldman 2LP
Double LP version. Since the historiography of punk is a male-dominated one, a Revenge of the She-Punks was long overdue. This feminist reckoning was written by none other than post-punk pioneer Vivien Goldman, who has an insider's perspective due to her work as a musician and one of Britain's first female music writers. Along four themes -- Identity, Money, Love and Protest -- the "punk professor" traces empowering moments that punk holds especially for women. This compilation is inspired by the book, originally released by University of Texas Press in 2019. Compiled and with liner notes by Vivien Goldman."We're not talking a mean-spirited gotcha! revenge here. As both my book that inspired it and this recording prove, us She-Punks' revenge is about our complex survival in an all too often hostile environment. The book offers a template to finding a way through the patriarchal labyrinth of the music industry by telling the backstories of thirty-eight songs by women from not only the Anglophone countries, but Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and Eastern and Continental Europe. Together, they demonstrate how girls around the world, with no or few role models, found ways to thwart blockages and become self-expressive musicians, breaking traditions and expectations, setting new standards with every chord . . . We open with Identity featuring Fea, Big Joanie, The Raincoats, Blondie, and Poly Styrene with X-Ray Spex. Then comes Money with Patti Smith, Shonen Knife, Malaria! and the Slits; followed by Love/Unlove: Crass, Cherry Vanilla, Grace Jones, Rhoda Dakar with the Special AKA, Alice Bag (The Bags), Tribe 8 and the Au Pairs, the Mo-Dettes, Neneh Cherry from the UK/Sweden/US and this writer/musician. The closing chapter, Protest, features Sleater-Kinney, Jayne Cortez and the Firespitters, Skinny Girl Diet, Vi Subversa and the Poison Girls, the Czech Republic's Zuby Nehty, Colombia's Fertil Miseria, and Jamaica's Tanya Stephens. Many people have questioned how I arrived at those four themes (answer: thinking,) and so far, no-one has disagreed. However, in sequencing this compilation, the important thing was to sonically flow through the breadth of our creativity, led by the rhythms and sound, rather than the lyrics; they, I already knew, formed a compelling whole, an implacable critique. My perspective on punk is based on spirit rather than adherence to the venerated concept of the genre as only a frenetic full-frontal sonic attack (though that is also represented here). Having been involved with the movement at the start in mid-1970s London, as Features Editor of the punk rock weekly, Sounds, I understood it to be a front line, inclusionary genre, with DIY at its core, which is why it was the first genre to give anything approaching an equal platform to women musicians. Especially for the less conventional, all too often the path for women artists is still steeper than that of male peers. Despite the massive success of today's female superstars, there remains a quota perception in an industry that still largely lives in boystown (though always factor in that it's not the men, it's the mentality,) who are less receptive to forceful females; like the sort of bookers who say, 'Well, we've done our bit, we've booked our female artist' -- as if booking women were some grim post-MeToo duty. But as heard in these tracks, in all its forms, whether sounding strident or soft, punk is a music of resistance; women's punk specially so..." Also features Bush Tetras and The Selecter.
TEXT (UK)
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CAT #: TEXT 054LP
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TCHAPARIAN, HAGOP Bolts LP
Kieran Hebden's Text Records announce Bolts, the debut album from British-Armenian producer Hagop Tchaparian. Hagop's debut album Bolts features ten tracks of hyper-personal rhythm music that mixes techno with field recordings of his travels through Armenian and Mediterranean culture. The ten tracks on Bolts, combine the audio evidence of a life's experience, with the notion that lo-fi techno can be the right canvas for conveying that experience. Hagop's been gathering these sounds and vignettes for almost 15 years, having begun accumulating them before the smart-phone in his pocket included a "record" function. The result is the sound of a man chasing his heritage around the world, while sprinkling clues of his everyday life amidst the manipulated folk instruments of his ancestry. There are aspects of tactile remembrances in between these rhythms, at times the result feels explosive. From its title down to the incessant bleating of the zurna, "Right to Riot" is like a punk techno that cries for the disaffected. Whereas "Timelapse", which features a loop of the music that accompanies the fire-jumping wedding ritual sews together what seem like connected images in a photo album that may be physically decomposing, but whose power remains. Hagop's past is the precursor to him creating something meaningful with these recordings. In his teens Tchaparian, played guitar in Symposium, a '90s post-grunge punk band. After Symposium, Hagop contributed to a 2000 comp called Hokis, which collected music by Armenian artists and Hagop was drawn into London's club scene. Hagop would make the occasional remix that friends like Kieran would play in their DJ sets, but working on original new music wasn't foremost on his mind. He kept gathering these little snippets of rudimentarily recorded sound. There was an emotional resonance in continuing to fit these samples together into a storyline that made sense to him. On their own, the rhythm tracks could successfully power an underground dance-floor, but the elements surrounding the beats were the undercurrents that helped push the music beyond party rituals. When he played some early bits and pieces for Hebden, the veteran musician encouraged him to continue, and turn it into a full body of work. Hagops's globalized narrative complicates this party's soundtrack beyond the margins of ethno-cultural chill-out comps. Bolts is a very particular and this is Hagop's excavation of his Armenian heritage through a lifetime's worth of remote recordings. Ryan Smith (Caribou, Taraval) assisted with production and mixing. London compatriot Dennis White added a few production touches. Hagop also worked with Michel "Shelle" Dierickx, a legendary old-school producer. Artwork by Atiba Jefferson.
THE FLENSER
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CAT #: FLENSER 140CS
FILE UNDER: ROCK
DROWSE Wane Into It Cassette
Cassette version. "In 2019, Drowse's Kyle Bates set out to produce a self-recorded new album. Marked by moving across state lines, long-distance relationships, and deaths in the family, the following years proved to be metamorphic. Now, three years later, he's emerged with Wane Into It, continuing a distinctly Pacific Northwestern tradition of self-recording indie experimentalists (Grouper, The Microphones, Unwound's Leaves Turn Inside You). One of the most impactful moments came during the looming passing of a family member. With death expected, the choice was made to conduct a bizarre 'living-wake' gathering -- with the soon-to-be-deceased in attendance. Shortly after, Bates found himself disturbed, preoccupied with the abstraction of memory. The experience led him to reassess the tool one uses to curate our selective memories: the internet. The internet, which creeped into even more aspects of life during the pandemic, serves as our self-made digital link to the past. Its uncaring presence layered over humbling thoughts of death and his own childhood memories of the Oregon Coast as he worked on Wane Into It; life's hyperreal texture sank into the recordings as he felt his body age and wane. Big sounds were captured in bedrooms, hallways, practice spaces, forests, and on highways throughout West Coast -- vibraphones chime over black metal guitars, a mellotron drones under degraded samples, violins splinter against granular field recordings. In the process of documenting these aural moments Bates completed an MFA at Mills College, coloring the album with shades of avant-electronic and minimalist composition (Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Maryanne Amacher, Sarah Davachi etc?). To realize this scope Drowse collaborated with Madeline Johnston (Midwife), Alex Kent (Sprain), Lula Asplund, a chamber ensemble and more. Bates's songwriting and production have never been more lucid; sounds flicker as he sings with fragile intensity. The record, Drowse's third for The Flenser, impressionistically distills loss, distance, mystery, prescription drugs, the preservation of memory via recording, and ambient anxiety through its titular act: to Wane Into It, to disappear awaiting the next moon phase, water returning to sea before reemerging as a wave."
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CAT #: FLENSER 140LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
DROWSE Wane Into It LP
"In 2019, Drowse's Kyle Bates set out to produce a self-recorded new album. Marked by moving across state lines, long-distance relationships, and deaths in the family, the following years proved to be metamorphic. Now, three years later, he's emerged with Wane Into It, continuing a distinctly Pacific Northwestern tradition of self-recording indie experimentalists (Grouper, The Microphones, Unwound's Leaves Turn Inside You). One of the most impactful moments came during the looming passing of a family member. With death expected, the choice was made to conduct a bizarre 'living-wake' gathering -- with the soon-to-be-deceased in attendance. Shortly after, Bates found himself disturbed, preoccupied with the abstraction of memory. The experience led him to reassess the tool one uses to curate our selective memories: the internet. The internet, which creeped into even more aspects of life during the pandemic, serves as our self-made digital link to the past. Its uncaring presence layered over humbling thoughts of death and his own childhood memories of the Oregon Coast as he worked on Wane Into It; life's hyperreal texture sank into the recordings as he felt his body age and wane. Big sounds were captured in bedrooms, hallways, practice spaces, forests, and on highways throughout West Coast -- vibraphones chime over black metal guitars, a mellotron drones under degraded samples, violins splinter against granular field recordings. In the process of documenting these aural moments Bates completed an MFA at Mills College, coloring the album with shades of avant-electronic and minimalist composition (Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Maryanne Amacher, Sarah Davachi etc?). To realize this scope Drowse collaborated with Madeline Johnston (Midwife), Alex Kent (Sprain), Lula Asplund, a chamber ensemble and more. Bates's songwriting and production have never been more lucid; sounds flicker as he sings with fragile intensity. The record, Drowse's third for The Flenser, impressionistically distills loss, distance, mystery, prescription drugs, the preservation of memory via recording, and ambient anxiety through its titular act: to Wane Into It, to disappear awaiting the next moon phase, water returning to sea before reemerging as a wave."
TINY GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS (HUNGARY)
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CAT #: PICI 038CD
FILE UNDER: ROCK
WESTLAKE, DAVID My Beautiful England CD
The release of NME's C86 cassette heralded a new generation of artists who'd emerged since the preceding C81 assembled a set of acts who'd coaxed new dialects out of punk, rhythms, reggae and the avant-garde. What of another of the best from C86 -- the Servants, David Westlake's band Ambivalent about the invitation to be on C86, Westlake gave the NME a wrong-footing B-side, before keeping a distance from the noise around the compilation. Subsequent releases from Westlake and The Servants and Westlake attracted fine reviews but settled quietly into relative obscurity, despite musical involvement from various Housemartins, Go-Betweens, and Triffids, a quest by Stuart from Belle & Sebastian to find Westlake and form a band; not to mention Luke Haines's own five-year presence in the Servants before forming The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof, and Black Box Recorder. Westlake went first into the law, then spent years in literary academia. Now the surprise arrival of My Beautiful England. The album is a masterpiece of concept, composition and performance, a conceptual work of truths and reflections of difficult but deft and unflinching expression. "It is not only fashionable now to denigrate England and its past; it is heresy to recognize good in it. The place that made me is disappearing. Its values and traditions. Among them: good manners, humility and clemency, resilience and perseverance, good humor. History is being refashioned -- in spirit and material fact -- by ideologues unshakably certain they are in the right, and people are being distanced from their pasts. Some find themselves forced into passive acceptance of new distortions of the past, out of imitativeness or cowardice. I resist. This album is a memorial. Intentionally, a museum piece. It is a personal tribute to the England I knew."
TRESOR (GERMANY)
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CAT #: TRESOR 343EP
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OSCEAN Multirays 12"
Oscean comes out firing from the outset on their new 12" entitled Multirays. The Argentinian duo of Andre?s Zacco and Sebastia?n Galante are following up on the first release of their collaboration, Ideoma (TRESOR 329EP), also released on Tresor Records. With Multirays, this burgeoning collaboration reveals a promising evolution, moving into more rhythmically diverse environments and playful structures. The opening track, "Multidimensional", strikes with confronting beats and a searching, woolly bass sound. Constantly growing, it moves confidently with its skittering percussion work, ebbing and flowing through filter movements and expansive synths. "Invisible Rays" draws in breathing techno pulses, as Zacco and Galante cast drenches of feedback across the spectrum. A deceptively mellow melody, recalling "Spiral" from their debut EP, teases at a deeper melodic progression, but the focus stays locked on the animated rhythms, tempting towards divergent grooves but expertly keeping feet on the floor. In "Drivion", Oscean investigates electro territories, simultaneously bubbling and driving. Echoed arpeggiations and upfront beats funnel impulses between neurons. Broad synth gestures offer gateways into abstraction before, without barely a hint, the rhythms beat once more. On the closing track, "Horizonsz", the duo drives forth through skipping rhythms and soul-searching bass murmurs. Synth pads beckon with Fresnel lens reflections and rising warmth, motioning towards a stunning moment of euphoria, where futurist mirages coexist with distant memories. 180 gram vinyl, full printed sleeve.
VIOLETTE RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: VIO 071EP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
MEANING OF TALES Where There's Life, There's A Dream 10"
Somewhere between Simon & Garfunkel and the Kings of Convenience, Meaning of Tales bring benevolent and empathetic music in their own style. Music that will evoke memories of youth for some, without any nostalgia but with infinite tenderness, and will teleport others to nature at sunset. Music that proves Aristotle right: so much will it soften our morals and delight our hearts.
WEWANTSOUNDS (UK)
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CAT #: WWSLP 043LP
FILE UNDER: ELECTRONIC
SAKAMOTO, RYUICHI Esperanto LP
2022 repress; LP version. Wewantsounds continues their Ryuichi Sakamoto reissue series with the release of the 1985 album Esperanto, composed for a performance by New York avant-garde choreographer Molissa Fenley. Produced and performed by Sakamoto with contribution by Arto Lindsay and Japanese percussionist Yas-Kaz, Esperanto is a fascinating instrumental work mixing electronica, ambient and synth pop. Released in Japan in 1985 on Midi Inc.s' School label, the album has never been released outside of Japan until now. Esperanto originally came out in 1985 and was Ryuichi Sakamoto's sixth solo album. Coming after his stint with the influential Yellow Magic Orchestra, and also the worldwide success of Sakamoto's 1984 soundtrack for the film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (in which he starred alongside David Bowie), Esperanto was a return to Sakamoto's leftfield roots. Composed as the soundtrack to a performance by New York choreographer Molissa Fenley (a show commissioned by Japanese producer Shozo Tsurumoto), the album was masterminded by Sakamoto with the help of the cutting-edge electronic technology of the time (the only external contributions are by Arto Lindsay on guitar and Japanese composer Yas-Kaz on percussion). Indeed, the album is a fascinating soundscape experimenting with the new sampler technology -- which, according to Ryuichi Sakamoto from a conversation with journalist Andy Beta mentioned in the liner notes, needed a computer that was huge at the time. Esperanto is composed of eight tracks displaying a varied mix of influences. "A Wongga Dance Song" is pulsating with rhythms while "A Rain Song" adopts a minimalist mode with its distinctive repetitive pattern. "Dolphins" and "A Carved Stone" are captivating ambient pieces showcasing Sakamoto's talent for setting beautiful abstract melodic ornaments over atmospheric tones. One of the highlights of the album is "Adelic Penguins", a fascinating proto techno piece with a funky twist stretching over six minutes which echoes the electro funk of 1981's album Hidari Ude No Yume (WWSCD 033CD/WWSLP 033LP/WWSLP 034LP). "Ulu Watu", a collage-like piece featuring bird motives and a tropical soundscape closes the album with an experimental note. It's interesting to note that, a year later, the tracks from Esperanto would be turned into an experimental video project by New York visual artists Kit Fitzgerald and Nam June Paik collaborator Paul Garrin. A unique album in Ryuichi Sakamoto's rich discography, Esperanto is a groundbreaking work worth rediscovering in its full glory. Original artwork; includes two-page insert with a new introduction by journalist Andy Beta. Audio remastered in Tokyo by Seigen Ono.
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CAT #: WWSLP 047LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
YANO, AKIKO Ai Ga Nakucha Ne LP
2022 repress; LP version. Gatefold sleeve; includes 24-page booklet. Wewantsounds reissue Akiko Yano's cult classic Ai Ga Nakucha Ne, recorded in 1982 and co-produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Ai Ga Nakucha Ne ("there must be love" in Japanese) is Akiko Yano's sixth studio album and follows Tadaima in 1981. It continues exploring the electro-pop sound of its predecessor, hot on the heels of her touring with Yellow Magic Orchestra between 1979 and 1980. For this album, Akiko decided to try something new; she enrolled English musicians Mick Karn, Steve Jansen and David Sylvian from Japan and booked the Air Studios in London under the supervision of engineer Steve Nye. Over a couple of weeks, the musicians created a fascinating soundscape full of catchy pop tunes, sung in both Japanese and English. Reminiscing about the studio sessions, Steve Jansen notes "Our music's different but we maybe had a similar process of working. It was a great environment because the studio was a great place to work. It was very insular. There were four studios and there were always groups working in there 24/7." The eleven tracks featured on Ai Ga Nakucha Ne, mostly composed by Akiko -- are a great collection of catchy tunes featuring her distinctive vocals and accompanied by the Japan musicians. As Akiko explains about the creative process, "I didn't think to imitate or to make another Tin Drum. But I had Steve Jansen and Mick Karn, these excellent musicians. They were eager to understand the songs, then they put in everything they had. I knew the material was different from what they usually played in Japan. But it was a great experience working with them." There are many highlights on the album, from the pop edge of "Aisuru Hito Yo" to the avant groove of "Another Wedding Song", each song is memorable and the album ends with the superb "Good Night" sung by Akiko and David Sylvian. The original 1982 LP release included a 24-page booklet featuring many photos by Pennie Smith and Japanese photographer Bishin Jumonji. The booklet is reproduced in its entirety here and the album on top of contributions by Mac DeMarco, a longtime fan of the album. Also includes a dual interview with Akiko Yano and Steve Jansen by journalist Paul Bowler. Audio remastered from the original tapes by Mitsuo Koike.
WRONG SPEED RECORDS (UK)
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CAT #: WSR 038LP
FILE UNDER: ROCK
ENABLERS Some Gift LP
"Enablers (no the) first made music together in San Francisco in 2002. Their individual histories join the dots through the major musical events in America of the '80s and '90s: the fertile Texas underground, Homestead Records, New York noise, Bay Area metal, the post-Nevermind goldrush and everything that got left in its wake. As with all the best bands, they formed by accident. Author and poet Pete Simonelli convinced guitarists (and fellow bar-dwellers) Joe Goldring (Swans) and Kevin Thomson (Nice Strong Arm) to provide musical backing for a few poems. The addition of drummer Yuma Joe Byrnes (of 4AD's Tarnation) sparked Enablers into life, away from the cerebral idea of a "book project" and into the infinite possibilities of a living, breathing band. We agreed that (Enablers) were not going to sound like much of what had already come before in the vein of "spoken word" recordings: a voice in front of a droning, basically static piece of music. We wanted solid musical compositions with dynamic and tense arrangements." --PeteThey've been doing that very thing, collectively, from day one. Simonelli punctuates the thrilling out-rock of the musicians as if directing the chaos with each jabbed finger or kick of a boot, rhythms explode on a single syllable or are seemingly sucked back into their shell by a breath in the text. Goldring and Thomson constantly reinvent the wheel, using the limitations of guitar to their advantage, always surprising listeners with new possibilities. It is primal, powerful, and absolutely hardcore. In the tradition of the punk and underground era they grew up in, Enablers have always treated each new recording as a bookmark in time used to generate resources to tour. Some Gift is their seventh LP and the first on Wrong Speed Records. It represents a summation of the history of the band. It recalls the incendiary power of the early records whilst being delivered with a loose, human feel that can only have been cultivated through the time and experiences they share together. These seemingly gradual changes in sound from album to album reveal themselves as revelations once fully experienced and understood as a whole. It sounds like this music comes effortlessly to the players, yet it leaves the listener punch drunk, exhausted and elated.
YELLOW ELECTRIC
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CAT #: GR 021X-LP
FILE UNDER: EXPERIMENTAL
RAUM Daughter 2LP
2022 repress.. "Double-LP gatefold version of new album by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Liz Harris on black vinyl; side D blank/mirror finish; handmade insert. Daughter is a record that took great patience to make. It captures a strange time spent in the desert, later added to, edited and finally made sense of after we lost the friend we'd been there with. There are fragments of beginnings and a deep sense of loss. A requiem, a lullaby, goodbye. Most of the material was generated in Marfa at a residency we did with Paul Clipson in 2016. We both felt confident that someday the shape of our hours of recordings would reveal itself but at the time it felt impossible to revisit. A lot happened that week. The desert was an anxious landscape, and each of us were in our own fevered headspaces. We met several times to work on finishing these recordings over the years, but a big piece of the record only made sense after sitting with the loss of Paul. The recordings took on a special resonance. They are a document of the last time the three of us were in the same physical place. His film projector sound is embedded there. The sound of our long walks in the desert scrub. Sounds of birds screaming in the mornings. Heat, calm, companionship, and grief; all moving very slowly -- across years, across a remembered landscape."
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