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ATA 042CD
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$16.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
ATA Records presents the fourth volume of their regular soundtrack series, the Library Archives. An honest and forthright homage to the golden age of library recording, this new release is no exception -- with nods to David Shire, Roger Webb, '60s/'70s Hollywood, early anime and golden era video games. Hammond & Farfisa organ, soul flute and vibraphone are joined by the Baldwin electric harpsichord, alto flute and trumpet, all coloring the usual high-end rhythm section of drums and bongos, electric bass, piano and guitars. Moods range from the dynamic "The Galata Extraction" to the whimsical "Travers" and the romantic "Redford in Sheepskin," from the brooding "Tatsuya," the "Sword" to the sensual "Dunaway's Eyes." Walter in Gabardine and Sutherland fly the ATA library flag of '70s-era NYC soundtracks -- and both "A Dilemma for Holbrook" and "Roundtree" are drenched in soul flute so funky, it should be on the cheese counter. Now four volumes (and a couple of singles) in, The Library Archive will eventually stand as a testament to the love the ATA producers and artists have for the original composers and performers of the great music libraries of the past.
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ATA 042LP
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$29.50
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
LP version. ATA Records presents the fourth volume of their regular soundtrack series, the Library Archives. An honest and forthright homage to the golden age of library recording, this new release is no exception -- with nods to David Shire, Roger Webb, '60s/'70s Hollywood, early anime and golden era video games. Hammond & Farfisa organ, soul flute and vibraphone are joined by the Baldwin electric harpsichord, alto flute and trumpet, all coloring the usual high-end rhythm section of drums and bongos, electric bass, piano and guitars. Moods range from the dynamic "The Galata Extraction" to the whimsical "Travers" and the romantic "Redford in Sheepskin," from the brooding "Tatsuya," the "Sword" to the sensual "Dunaway's Eyes." Walter in Gabardine and Sutherland fly the ATA library flag of '70s-era NYC soundtracks -- and both "A Dilemma for Holbrook" and "Roundtree" are drenched in soul flute so funky, it should be on the cheese counter. Now four volumes (and a couple of singles) in, The Library Archive will eventually stand as a testament to the love the ATA producers and artists have for the original composers and performers of the great music libraries of the past.
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BB 483CD
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$16.50
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
CV Vision returns with the follow-up to his last opus Im Tal der Stutzer and delivers his sixth studio album Release The Beast -- where he finds the sweet spot between psych rock, Detroit techno, fried synths, black metal and library music. Teaming up again with Swedish drummer Uno Bruniusson, CV Vision switched up the last production approach and opted for a return to previous studio methodologies. "I wanted to get a rougher sound on this record," he says. "I dug out my two broken reel-to-reel tape machines, and patched them together, like Frankenstein. That's what gels everything really -- there's different musical styles, but it's the tape machine that brings it all together, sound-wise." Release The Beast does indeed fly off in several directions over the course of fourteen tracks, and gives listeners an insight into the full spectrum of the CV Vision musical universe. Fuzzed-out backbeats and psych progressions establish the opening tracks, as the sweet harmonies of "RTB" and "The Rhythm" are offset by raw magnetic hiss. "Dungeon Drums I, II, III" draws on acid and early Detroit techno experiments, tapping into the cosmic elements of the Motor City's beatdown grooves (and even mediaeval black metal melodies) to bring out a krautrock twist. The second half of Release The Beast takes another turn with instrumental jams, like "Nikita's Tune" and "It's K-Jazz," that nod towards the psychedelic soul of David Axelrod and Rotary Connection, and the trippy DIY experiments of L.G. Mair, Jr. Closing out the album, CV Vision lays down the bluesy stomper "Town Talk" and distorted motorik workout "The Jam" next to the folky incantation of "Brickwall Symphony" and stacked layers of heavy guitars on "Go Your Way." While Release The Beast is a varied tapestry of sounds and styles, there's a common thread running through it all. The cover art depicts the boarded-up entrance of a Berlin stairwell, surrounded by the burnt-out debris of a long-forgotten party.
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$26.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
LP version. CV Vision returns with the follow-up to his last opus Im Tal der Stutzer and delivers his sixth studio album Release The Beast -- where he finds the sweet spot between psych rock, Detroit techno, fried synths, black metal and library music. Teaming up again with Swedish drummer Uno Bruniusson, CV Vision switched up the last production approach and opted for a return to previous studio methodologies. "I wanted to get a rougher sound on this record," he says. "I dug out my two broken reel-to-reel tape machines, and patched them together, like Frankenstein. That's what gels everything really -- there's different musical styles, but it's the tape machine that brings it all together, sound-wise." Release The Beast does indeed fly off in several directions over the course of fourteen tracks, and gives listeners an insight into the full spectrum of the CV Vision musical universe. Fuzzed-out backbeats and psych progressions establish the opening tracks, as the sweet harmonies of "RTB" and "The Rhythm" are offset by raw magnetic hiss. "Dungeon Drums I, II, III" draws on acid and early Detroit techno experiments, tapping into the cosmic elements of the Motor City's beatdown grooves (and even mediaeval black metal melodies) to bring out a krautrock twist. The second half of Release The Beast takes another turn with instrumental jams, like "Nikita's Tune" and "It's K-Jazz," that nod towards the psychedelic soul of David Axelrod and Rotary Connection, and the trippy DIY experiments of L.G. Mair, Jr. Closing out the album, CV Vision lays down the bluesy stomper "Town Talk" and distorted motorik workout "The Jam" next to the folky incantation of "Brickwall Symphony" and stacked layers of heavy guitars on "Go Your Way." While Release The Beast is a varied tapestry of sounds and styles, there's a common thread running through it all. The cover art depicts the boarded-up entrance of a Berlin stairwell, surrounded by the burnt-out debris of a long-forgotten party.
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BSF 021EP
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$20.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
Renowned for his rich, soulful voice and heartfelt songwriting, Wellington, New Zealand's Louis Baker blends neo-soul, R&B, and folk into a sound that feels both timeless and fresh. His single "Keep On" is an uplifting anthem of perseverance, now reimagined by a hand-picked selection of acclaimed producers, each bringing their unique touch to the track.
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DC 948CD
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$13.50
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
"From out of the dark, the crackle of feedback birdsong signals a return to the land of sound environments exclusive to the music of Rafael Toral. A year and a half after his epochal electric guitar album, Spectral Evolution, Traveling Light finds him sharpening his focus, moving boldly from abstract forms to concrete compositions in the form of a set of jazz standards. Based on Toral's discography, this may seem an unlikely endeavor, but happily, Traveling Light transpires to be one of the major accomplishments in his long history, expressing these songs on their own terms through the unique listening lens of his music. Toral sidesteps the traditional logic of how to play a song, moving outside the framework with which one would expect a standard to be treated. Three decades ago, in the early years of his practice, Toral used the guitar as a generator, to create discreet texture and droning tones. Later, he abandoned the guitar entirely, focusing on self-made electronics to render his music, and the silence from which it came, with a post-free jazz perspective. For the music of Spectral Evolution and Traveling Light, Toral has combined his methodologies, radically expanding the space within their harmonies with his self-made machines, while engaging directly with his instrument and the chords of the material. The result is a listening experience of these standards, that remains 'in the tradition,' even as the elongated harmonies seem to alter time such that, as Toral notes, 'the chords become events on their own.' At points, the long tones animate the sacred ennui of liturgic music, the choir or the organ standing in for silent contemplation while rumbling the ground beneath our feet. Another echo of the concentric circling of music in time. In addition to Toral's proxy orchestra of guitars, sine wave, feedback and bass guitar, Traveling Light features the sounds of clarinetist José Bruno Parrinha, tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado, flügelhorn player Yaw Tembe, and flautist Clara Saleiro, who each guest on one song. One of Toral's self-made devices incorporates a theremin -- another near-century old innovation in electronics conceived for use in classical music -- to modulate feedback melodies here. In every contour of Traveling Light's path -- arrangement, improvisation and production -- the spring of the old pours through the new in an unstoppable flow."
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FELLICE 005EP
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$22.50
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
effgee returns on his own imprint Fellice with three deep house cuts, warm, soul-inspired and topped with dreamy sampled vocals. Fellice 005 comes as a special edition: each sleeve is hand screen-printed by the artist, limited to 250 copies. Another special feature is the label's first remix: a greeting from sunny Bari to the dance floors by Italian deep house fratello Nico Lahs. Your Light reaches back to effgee's production roots -- soulful sampling, dreamy textures and groove-heavy. "Birds" shifts into a fresher club direction, while "Roland Bass" brings together the essentials of his production recipe: analogue synths, sampling, and a punchy kick at the core.
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FREUD 129P-LP
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$38.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
"Limited edition in pink vinyl. 40th Anniversary Edition of the 1985 studio album, completely remixed and revamped -- as it should have sounded. Expanded with two unreleased tracks left off the original album, plus a bonus album with six previously unheard outtakes and six live versions. Remixed by The Vibrators' Pat Collier (RIP), who has brought the guitar properly up in the mix. Johnny missed the original mixing sessions, but now it can be heard as he originally intended. Features Mike Monroe, Wilko Johnson, Stiv Bators & Glen Matlock. Gatefold sleeve notes by Thunders biographer Nina Antonia with interviews of participants, including Mike Monroe."
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FTR 801CD
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$9.50
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
After two decades in the experimental music scenes of New York and Western Massachusetts, Wednesday Knudsen might be known equally as a sought-after improv collaborator and the vocalist and guitarist for the beloved long-running psych band Pigeons, as a member of the New England folk rock ensemble Stella Kola, or the psych kraut supergroup Weeping Bong Band. Atrium is Knudsen's fifth solo album, marking her rich recording history with a stunning masterwork. Channeling the "atmosphere of presence" alongside the legions of Éliane Radigue, Hiroshi Yoshimura, and Joanna Brouk, on Atrium, Knudsen plays it all -- alto saxophone, flute, guitar, synth, piano, autoharp, bass guitar, and vocals. Atrium's tracks are sculptural rather than ambient, with a release into the gorgeous hold of gravity that insists listeners don't escape or drift away. While conceived and recorded independently and at different moments over a two-year span, each piece on Atrium was shaped as an occasion, a space, a timbral architecture exposing and inviting presence. Each piece is an effort toward a minimalism meeting the pace of nature, without the need for geographic recognition. These hills don't impose on the listener, reverberating instead like an atrium to wherever and however you are. Atrium is the vital and expansive follow-up to Soft Focus: Volumes One (FTR 649LP) and Two (FTR 650LP) released in 2022. Developing her craft as a multi-instrumentalist since her youth, it took Knudsen nearly two decades to arrive at her own distilled beautiful sound that is disentangled from the fuzz guitar-haze of her pillar underground band Pigeons. Atrium opens with "Fair Aegis," a tone-scape that evokes the mystery of the green trees cathedral of the Taconic Mountains as it simultaneously offers a context and threshold to cross into the remarkable richness of the album. "Place of Dream" is the sound-portrait of a wonderful demi-daydream, an extremely brief, pleasant vision Knudsen experienced that would repeat itself, as if a spinning moment or a flickering, the spiral motion of certain plants as they grow, moving toward the places of their thriving. Other anchors include "Dear Life, Green Flame," the tremulous shape of life striving in first gear, the primal pulse seeking its cadence and the yes of breath. The track was recorded live, in one take, unplanned and improvised, unlike most tracks on the album which Knudsen intentionally shaped. As equally as "Atrium" is an experience of presence, it is music that reinforces the power of art as resistance. The songs distill attention in a language that Knudsen calls "the opening of the heart," reminding listeners that subsistence and community results from their own actions and engagement with their exterior.
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
Color vinyl. Kraftwerk FM radio broadcast, live at Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands. Recorded December 10, 1981.
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JIAOLONG 005LP
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$37.50
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
Double LP version. 2025 repress. Daphni's classic debut gatefold 2LP from 2012 finally repressed! Dan Snaith has fallen deeper into his love affair with the dancefloor to bring a full-length release as Daphni. The first Daphni album of shape-shifting works is titled Jiaolong (pronounced JOW-long) and is released on Dan's own imprint (also called Jiaolong). Inspired to work in a completely different way -- setting aside the meticulous compositional rigors and musical layers that underpin Caribou songs -- Dan Snaith-as-Daphni reaches out for a more feminine, fluid energy and seeks instant gratification.
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JIAOLONG 022LP
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$33.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
2025 repress. Double LP version. In 2017, Daphni (aka Caribou, aka Dan Snaith) released a very special FabricLive mix (FABRIC 186CD) made up of 23 original, unreleased Daphni tracks and four new Daphni edits to widespread critical acclaim. He follows up this mix with the new full-length album, Joli Mai, comprised of extended versions of the tracks from the mix as well as the unreleased track "Vulture".
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$24.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
"The legendary Americana band's 1983 album re-released with brand new liner notes and band interviews written by Chris Morris with rare photos and memorabilia images. The release recreates the band's third studio album complete with a replica of the inner sleeve with songwriter Dave Alvin's lyrics. The 11-track set features the four core band members -- Phil Alvin, Dave Alvin, John Bazz, and Bill Bateman accompanied by Gene Taylor, Lee Allen, and Steve Berlin. Includes band classic cuts ? 'Long White Cadillac' (a hit for Dwight Yoakum in 1989), 'Jubilee Train,' 'Red Rose,' along with deep track covers of 'Barefoot Rock' and 'Tag Along,' sung by piano player Gene Taylor. The album was critically acclaimed with positive reviews from The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Trouser Press, The Village Voice, Goldmine, and many others. The San Diego Union named it the eighth best album of the 1980s. The album marked a shift in their sound as the band incorporated more diverse influences, blending rock, rockabilly, blues, and country elements. While still maintaining the energetic roots rock style they were known for, Non Fiction also explored a more polished and mature production compared to their earlier albums. The album stands out for its mix of upbeat tracks with thoughtful lyrics and a more reflective tone than their earlier, more raw recordings. The album is praised for its strong songwriting, and although it didn't achieve major commercial success, it remains a beloved album among fans."
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$26.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
Five years after the enigmatic Phylax Society, the ever-sonic wanderer Sutja Gutierrez returns with Asystole Flatline, a new full-length odyssey. Asystole Flatline, an album shaped between studios in Barcelona in a process as tactile as it was instinctive, explores naked masculine vulnerability and the complex emotions that surround the irrationality behind every heartbreak with raw honesty. There's a certain violence woven throughout the album, an energy that emerges from the frustration of the fatherless man -- insecure, searching through different relationships for something unnamed. The work unfolds in dreamlike scenes with unexpected turns, revealing voices that range from raw and saturated to gentle whispers. Gutierrez delivers a work that slips between worlds -- part reverie, part vertigo -- haunting the threshold between what's ending and what's yet to come. With Asystole Flatline, Lumière Noire reaffirms its commitment to fearless, genre-defying voices that challenge conventional boundaries.
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$40.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
"First emerging from the British punk and rock underground in the late '70s, Peter Murphy fronted the groundbreaking iconic rock band Bauhaus before launching his solo career. The new album, Silver Shade, shows Peter Murphy's voice at its most iconic and majestic. Silver Shade is a stellar addition to the legacy of Peter Murphy. produced by Youth (Killing Joke)."
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$36.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
"Upon release in 1971, Africa's Blood was the first record Lee 'Scratch' Perry released under his own name, although his band The Upsetters do appear on most of the tracks. If any album serves as a good peak into what was happening in Jamaican music in the early '70s, Africa's Blood is the way to go. There's an undeniable influence from American contemporary R&B, but still Perry's signature dub and reggae fusion shines through. A limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies of this reissue will be pressed on purple colored vinyl, which makes the record look as vibrant as it sounds."
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
"Revolution Dub is a studio album by Jamaican's legendary dub producer Lee Perry and his studio band the Upsetters and it was originally released in 1975. The album, which features nine pared-down dubs, was the last in a line of releases that year in which Perry began exploring the possible studio techniques at his recently opened studio Black Ark in Kingston, Jamaica. In addition to making early use of a drum machine, the album is characterized by unpredictable drops in the beat, drastic stereo panning and samples of dialogue from television series, particularly British sitcoms, while Perry sings on the album in an eccentric falsetto and portrays different personas, including television characters from Kojak and Doctor on the Go. Critics and authors have described Revolution Dub as one of Perry's most important and exemplary albums, although some consider it one of his more overlooked productions. The use of sampled television dialogue has been highlighted by several writers as innovative for predating the sampler and for its unusual context, while the album was later influential on artists including Stevie Wonder and Holger Czukay. Revolution Dub is now available as a numbered limited edition of 1000 copies on orange colored vinyl."
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$18.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
The special one! Mr. G's productions are distinctive, deep, driving and, above all, a listen to behold. Like the man -- machine interface between hypno house and roots techno, he manages to unite dance floors either through his High Mass-like live sets full of swing, grit and soul, or simply through other DJs playing his records. Blessing Running Back for the second time, Mr. G's Reconnection EP is the result of a serious dive into his vaults.
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$30.50
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
The Swedish underground legends return with a brand-new album. Let this reddit user take over: "Listening to Brainbombs has been one of my weirdest experiences with music. Brainbombs are most definitely a band. I guess at the core they're a hardcore punk/noise rock hybrid I guess? But? It's so unlike anything I've ever heard and I still don't know if it's good or bad. I saw the edgelord Ed Gein album cover, and it intrigued me, so I listened to their biggest song and it was easily THE WORST thing I had EVER FUCKING HEARD. I shut it off as soon as it got to the vocals. I was shocked by the fact that it had almost a half million streams. But, a few hours later, I clicked on it again and didn't know why. Over the past few days, I've listened to all of their discography and looped a lot of it. And I don't even think I like them. The music is abysmal, it's the same single riff and verse repeating for 5 minutes. To make it worse, the vocals are just a guy with a Swedish accent awkwardly talking about murder and rape. That sounds awful right? It is awful. But at the same time I want to keep listening? It's so childishly edgy and obnoxiously repetitive but so intriguing? Catchy? I'm not even sure. It's one of if not the weirdest experience I've ever had with music and I don't know how to feel about it."
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$32.00
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
Peruvian cumbia has captured hearts and dance floors around the world thanks to its contagious rhythm and rich history. This genre reflects Peru's ethnic diversity, the result of a fusion of cultural influences from the coast, mountains, and jungle. Today, cumbia has evolved to become not only a symbol of national identity but also a unique cultural expression of the country. Therefore, Rey Records present this collector's edition, printed on 140-gram translucent green vinyl and available in limited quantities. A special selection featuring emerging artists from Lima, Tarapoto, and Huánuco, designed for DJs and music lovers alike. This exclusive piece invites you to rediscover the new Peruvian cumbia: the sound that brings the heart of Peru to the ears of the world. Pressed and made in Peru. Featuring Bareto, Hit La Rosa, Olaya Sound System, Paradero Angamos, Los Protones, Kozmic Cumbia, La Merfi, Flora Masato, Tribilin Sound, MC Black Joker, Los Kelkas, and Oriente Trio.
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
Introducing The Citadel to international audiences means re-introducing retro '60s aestheticism with a fresh touch of modern energy. The young quintet formed in the South German city of Erlangen in 2022 and built up their material through jams and experimentations. They have developed an almost two-hour live set of their own songs which evoke psychedelic rock, folk and an overall vintage flair transported by their warm charisma on stage. Touring all around the Nuremberg metropolitan region, The Citadel have now achieved several festival gigs all over the country while mixing their second studio album. Their 2024 debut album, The Foundation Cycle is now repressed by Subsound Records. With their roots in the psychedelic and progressive rock scene of the 1960s and '70s, The Citadel recorded their first complete musical statement in their drummer's studio, self-producing it and providing their own cover art. It is a fully self-made joint effort in transmitting vintage style sounds over new compositions. Blending psychedelic rock with folk and blues elements, narrative lyricism, electronic organ and flowing guitar solos, the result is unpolished, direct music: melodic, naïve, strange, full of groove and atmosphere -- take some time to listen in and enjoy! Also available on orange color vinyl (SSR 160LTD).
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
Orange color vinyl version. Introducing The Citadel to international audiences means re-introducing retro '60s aestheticism with a fresh touch of modern energy. The young quintet formed in the South German city of Erlangen in 2022 and built up their material through jams and experimentations. They have developed an almost two-hour live set of their own songs which evoke psychedelic rock, folk and an overall vintage flair transported by their warm charisma on stage. Touring all around the Nuremberg metropolitan region, The Citadel have now achieved several festival gigs all over the country while mixing their second studio album. Their 2024 debut album, The Foundation Cycle is now repressed by Subsound Records. With their roots in the psychedelic and progressive rock scene of the 1960s and '70s, The Citadel recorded their first complete musical statement in their drummer's studio, self-producing it and providing their own cover art. It is a fully self-made joint effort in transmitting vintage style sounds over new compositions. Blending psychedelic rock with folk and blues elements, narrative lyricism, electronic organ and flowing guitar solos, the result is unpolished, direct music: melodic, naïve, strange, full of groove and atmosphere -- take some time to listen in and enjoy!
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
For the Love, the Death and the Poetry is the fourth studio album by songwriter, singer, and guitarist Nero Kane. A folk liturgy that oscillates between yearnings for eternal love, fascination with death, and spectral poetry. Psychomagic mysticism, stripped-down blues, apocalyptic drones, guitar arpeggios, twilight ballads, shamanic rites, solemn organ, and string notes traverse the dark expanses of skeletal American deserts in an extended and obsessive ritual. Echoes of a romantic past evoke the eternal power of art and love in contrast to the ephemeral vanity of existence, in a journey of redemption through the blinding and dark lands of good and evil. Kane's dark folk-tinged vocals and guitars are accompanied by the mellotron and the voice of long-time collaborator and multi-talented artist Samantha Stella, creating a unique and personal style defined as cathartic, desert-like, disturbing, ritualistic, and psychedelic. References to the apocalyptic folk of Michael Gira/Jarboe/Swans, the gospel spirituality of Nick Cave, the perdition of Johnny Cash, the tragic poems of Nico -- evoked in Stella's icy spoken word, as highlighted by critics -- the visionary nature of Jodorowsky and the sick sound of Italian occult psychedelia, the latter being an element that characterizes. Also available on black (SSR 163LP) and white color vinyl (SSR 163LTD).
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RELEASE DATE: 10/24/2025
LP version. For the Love, the Death and the Poetry is the fourth studio album by songwriter, singer, and guitarist Nero Kane. A folk liturgy that oscillates between yearnings for eternal love, fascination with death, and spectral poetry. Psychomagic mysticism, stripped-down blues, apocalyptic drones, guitar arpeggios, twilight ballads, shamanic rites, solemn organ, and string notes traverse the dark expanses of skeletal American deserts in an extended and obsessive ritual. Echoes of a romantic past evoke the eternal power of art and love in contrast to the ephemeral vanity of existence, in a journey of redemption through the blinding and dark lands of good and evil. Kane's dark folk-tinged vocals and guitars are accompanied by the mellotron and the voice of long-time collaborator and multi-talented artist Samantha Stella, creating a unique and personal style defined as cathartic, desert-like, disturbing, ritualistic, and psychedelic. References to the apocalyptic folk of Michael Gira/Jarboe/Swans, the gospel spirituality of Nick Cave, the perdition of Johnny Cash, the tragic poems of Nico -- evoked in Stella's icy spoken word, as highlighted by critics -- the visionary nature of Jodorowsky and the sick sound of Italian occult psychedelia, the latter being an element that characterizes.
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LP version. Gatefold white vinyl. For the Love, the Death and the Poetry is the fourth studio album by songwriter, singer, and guitarist Nero Kane. A folk liturgy that oscillates between yearnings for eternal love, fascination with death, and spectral poetry. Psychomagic mysticism, stripped-down blues, apocalyptic drones, guitar arpeggios, twilight ballads, shamanic rites, solemn organ, and string notes traverse the dark expanses of skeletal American deserts in an extended and obsessive ritual. Echoes of a romantic past evoke the eternal power of art and love in contrast to the ephemeral vanity of existence, in a journey of redemption through the blinding and dark lands of good and evil. Kane's dark folk-tinged vocals and guitars are accompanied by the mellotron and the voice of long-time collaborator and multi-talented artist Samantha Stella, creating a unique and personal style defined as cathartic, desert-like, disturbing, ritualistic, and psychedelic. References to the apocalyptic folk of Michael Gira/Jarboe/Swans, the gospel spirituality of Nick Cave, the perdition of Johnny Cash, the tragic poems of Nico -- evoked in Stella's icy spoken word, as highlighted by critics -- the visionary nature of Jodorowsky and the sick sound of Italian occult psychedelia, the latter being an element that characterizes.
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Studio Mule presents the latest release from one of Japan's most respected producers and musicians, Kuniyuki Takahashi. This new single was created with the atmosphere of our listening bar Studio Mule in mind, and showcases Kuniyuki's unmatched ability to bridge dance music with sophisticated musical expression. With this release, Studio Mule delivers an inspired response to the timeless legacy of ECM, while continuing to explore new musical horizons.
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2LP comes in one pink & one black vinyl. For the 25th anniversary of the release of Strange Attitude, TMS Records has decided to re-release the album in a deluxe version (new artwork by H5) on vinyl. The album features an acoustic version of "You Were Born" and an original remix of "Little Scare" by Todd Edwards.
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Armed with just a laptop, Rico Puestel produced these tracks at beloved places around the world to capture the magic of the moment on-site!
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Paperback. 208 pages. "Album sleeve art from a transformative era in America's radical jazz culture, plus covers for recordings by Black poets, civil rights activists and experimental musicians. Just over 15 years ago, Soul Jazz Records' Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker published Freedom, Rhythm & Sound, showcasing the stunning graphic works of independently published jazz record cover designs of the 1960s and 1970s from radical jazz musicians such as Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and more. These artists reshaped the cultural landscape for African American musicians in the US, transforming the role of jazz musician from nightclub entertainer to artist. The artwork of their often self-produced record cover designs reflected their radical agenda, spiritual awareness and singular search for musical and personal freedoms. Following the success of the first volume, Freedom, Rhythm and Sound: Chapter Two features hundreds more of these beautiful and rare jazz record cover designs from the 1960s to the 1980s. In addition to spotlighting the radical jazz musicians of this time, this second volume branches out to feature record cover art of recordings by Black poets, civil rights speechmakers and other experimental pioneers."
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"There are perhaps few characters in the history of popular music who were as mysterious, as they were brazen than Aleck Ford, AKA Sonny Boy Williamson II. The true story of Sonny Boy Williamson II remains shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, and it seems this was Ford's intention, but to what ends, nobody can say. One thing is certain though -- he was one of the all-time greats of the harmonica, a bone fide bluesman, talented and charismatic in equal measure. His influence cannot be overstated. The first incarnation of the band that would become the Rolling Stones was named after him: Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys; B.B King described him as 'the King of the harmonica;' and maybe there would have been no Howlin' Wolf, or Elmore James without Williamson's mentorship and support. The British Blues explosion of the late 1960s certainly owed much to Williamson and his compatriots. This carefully curated collection of this colorful and charismatic performer's work showcases just why he was one of the true legends of blues music. Interestingly, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, the same year as Sonny Boy Williamson I. It seems fitting that even in death and in honors they were inextricably linked. This collection hones in on his work that took the world by storm during his tenure with Trumpet and Checker in the 1950's and early '60s from his iconic 'Eyesight For The Blind' through to 'One Way Out.' It is a true celebration of one of the most mysterious characters in music."
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"They called him the Originator for a very good reason. Bo Diddley was the foremost bridge between blues and rock 'n' roll, facilitated in no small part by his 'Bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp' sound, the famous 'Bo Diddley beat.' He was a master of invention too, inventing his name, his persona and style, and his own guitar. Put simply, he was one of those artists whose importance and influence as a pioneer of popular music far outweighed the commercial and chart success he enjoyed during his career. With just nine U.S. R&B and two Pop chart successes across a career spanning five decades, Diddley was not exactly a hit-making machine. But his legacy is such that echoes of his music pervade rock, pop and hip-hop to this day. This LP revels in Diddley's guitar genius and features 16 of his greatest and most iconic tracks including 'I'm A Man,' 'Diddley Daddy,' 'Pretty Thing,' 'Mona,' 'Say Man' and 'Road Runner.' Once he had scored his first No. 1 with 'Bo Diddley' the shape of popular music changed forever. His influence is clear to see, through some of the work of artists -- and Diddley devotees -- like Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Otis, Cliff Richard, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, U2, and George Michael. Every time a song uses the 'Bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp' motif, Diddley's legacy lives on."
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"John Lee Hooker, known as 'The King of the Boogie' and 'the Boogie Man,' was a true blues icon. Quality rather than quantity is the key to Hooker's singular success. He did not have a huge number of hits in the R&B chart, but those that did make a major impact would provide some of the key musical architecture for future blues and rock artists. When he came to prominence in the late '40s, he was playing blues in a way that was regarded as somewhat spare, his dark repetitive vocals supported only by his amplified guitar and his stamping foot. His was no overnight stardom. Having paid his dues over many years, once he started recording, he did so prolifically. This fine collection of his earlier songs demonstrates Hooker's blues virtuosity while at the same time establishing his work as a signpost to a deeper understanding of the British Blues explosion. It features a host of early hits including the iconic No. 1's 'Boogie Chillen'' and 'I'm In The Mood,' alongside 'Hoogie Boogie,' 'Hobo Blues,' 'Crawlin' King Snake,' 'Dimples,' 'No Shoes,' and, naturally, the timeless 'Boom Boom.'"
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"The life and career of Billie Holiday was underscored by triumphs and tragedies. One of the greatest artists of her generation, no-one conveys deep emotion better than 'Lady Day.' Hers was a new jazz voice, influenced by jazz instrumentalists, with its ability to manipulate tempo and phrasing in bold and enthralling ways. The great Frank Sinatra was both a friend and a fan of her music. He said of her in 1958, 'With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the U.S. during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.' In fact, her legacy carries across the generations, with artists such as Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, and Amy Winehouse citing her as an influence. This collection traces an important six years of her early recording career which built the platform for the huge commercial success she enjoyed during the mid to late '40s, before she began to succumb to the lifestyle which eventually destroyed her. It features iconic and beautifully harrowing recordings such as 'Summertime,' 'Strange Fruit,' 'Night & Day,' 'God Bless The Child,' and 'Solitude,' demonstrating her unique and unmistakable way of interpreting the songs. It is a fascinating and beguiling musical journey."
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"Forget the boxes. Forget the rules. Just play. Two of the most compelling voices in modern jazz -- trumpeter Theo Croker and pianist Sullivan Fortner -- come together for a fearless duo album that strips everything down to pure, in-the-moment expression. No rehearsals. No pre-written compositions. No expectations. Just two master improvisers in total conversation, creating music that's alive, unfiltered, and utterly free. This is raw, boundary-breaking jazz at its most honest."
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"Two years after he first appeared on Balmat with 1977, Mike Paradinas returns with 1979. The sense of continuity between the two records is clear, and not just from their titles. Both capture the Planet Mu head venturing into the wilderness, seeking something -- half-formed memories, thoughts caught in midair -- in some of the most abstract, searching music he has released. Just like 1977, 1979 surveys a synth-heavy array of ethereal soundscapes, ominous crevasses, and strange, psychedelic fugues. Like its predecessor, the new album's atmospheric cast sets it apart from much of the work Paradinas has released as µ-Ziq on Planet Mu. It's not strictly an ambient record, but it's close, as close as this famously mutable artist ever comes to inhabiting a particular genre. Paradinas' inspiration for the record began on visits to the Spanish cities of Ávila and Majadahona, where his family hails from. That might account for the sense that there are spirits flitting through this music, presences you can intuit if not quite grasp. But 1979 is also a record to meet on your own terms, and to find your own meanings in. It's a stunning record, every track a world unto itself: the mysterious contours of "Majadahonda at Dawn"; the playful melodic fillips of "Clari"; the airy melancholy of "Galletas"; the full-scale breakbeat abandon (yes, you read that right) of "Houzz 14," the rarest of dancefloor detours for Balmat. There are echoes of classic braindance and isolationist ambient and golden-age IDM; there are easter eggs and recurring themes and hidden symmetries. Despite what the title might suggest, it's less a trip back in time than a portal to another universe, a destination for(to?) which only Mike Paradinas knows the exact coordinates." --Philip Sherburne
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LP version. Aluminum sleeve. A collaboration forged in the heart of the American Midwest, In The Earth Again unites Oklahoma City's noise rock institution Chat Pile with Texas/Oklahoma's visionary guitarist and composer Hayden Pedigo. What began as a casual split release idea spiraled into a thirty-six-minute album that threads their contrasting sensibilities into something entirely new. Pedigo's panoramic, primitive guitar, meets Chat Pile's industrial decay, creating a record that explores unknown emotional registers and atmospheric depth for both, In The Earth Again sounds like a post-apocalyptic transmission from rural nowhere. Instead of making concessions, the five artists work as a single unit, and each decision is made in support of the greater vision. The result is both intimate and expansive, a tribute to the modern wasteland. Cover art by Malcom Byers.
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A collaboration forged in the heart of the American Midwest, In The Earth Again unites Oklahoma City's noise rock institution Chat Pile with Texas/Oklahoma's visionary guitarist and composer Hayden Pedigo. What began as a casual split release idea spiraled into a thirty-six-minute album that threads their contrasting sensibilities into something entirely new. Pedigo's panoramic, primitive guitar, meets Chat Pile's industrial decay, creating a record that explores unknown emotional registers and atmospheric depth for both, In The Earth Again sounds like a post-apocalyptic transmission from rural nowhere. Instead of making concessions, the five artists work as a single unit, and each decision is made in support of the greater vision. The result is both intimate and expansive, a tribute to the modern wasteland. Cover art by Malcom Byers.
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LP version. A collaboration forged in the heart of the American Midwest, In The Earth Again unites Oklahoma City's noise rock institution Chat Pile with Texas/Oklahoma's visionary guitarist and composer Hayden Pedigo. What began as a casual split release idea spiraled into a thirty-six-minute album that threads their contrasting sensibilities into something entirely new. Pedigo's panoramic, primitive guitar, meets Chat Pile's industrial decay, creating a record that explores unknown emotional registers and atmospheric depth for both, In The Earth Again sounds like a post-apocalyptic transmission from rural nowhere. Instead of making concessions, the five artists work as a single unit, and each decision is made in support of the greater vision. The result is both intimate and expansive, a tribute to the modern wasteland. Cover art by Malcom Byers.
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LP version. Indie retailers. A collaboration forged in the heart of the American Midwest, In The Earth Again unites Oklahoma City's noise rock institution Chat Pile with Texas/Oklahoma's visionary guitarist and composer Hayden Pedigo. What began as a casual split release idea spiraled into a thirty-six-minute album that threads their contrasting sensibilities into something entirely new. Pedigo's panoramic, primitive guitar, meets Chat Pile's industrial decay, creating a record that explores unknown emotional registers and atmospheric depth for both, In The Earth Again sounds like a post-apocalyptic transmission from rural nowhere. Instead of making concessions, the five artists work as a single unit, and each decision is made in support of the greater vision. The result is both intimate and expansive, a tribute to the modern wasteland. Cover art by Malcom Byers.
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LP version. Silver color vinyl. A collaboration forged in the heart of the American Midwest, In The Earth Again unites Oklahoma City's noise rock institution Chat Pile with Texas/Oklahoma's visionary guitarist and composer Hayden Pedigo. What began as a casual split release idea spiraled into a thirty-six-minute album that threads their contrasting sensibilities into something entirely new. Pedigo's panoramic, primitive guitar, meets Chat Pile's industrial decay, creating a record that explores unknown emotional registers and atmospheric depth for both, In The Earth Again sounds like a post-apocalyptic transmission from rural nowhere. Instead of making concessions, the five artists work as a single unit, and each decision is made in support of the greater vision. The result is both intimate and expansive, a tribute to the modern wasteland. Cover art by Malcom Byers.
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A deep reworking of Llyn Y Cwn's Megaliths (2024). The original was a profound dark ambient exploration of the sacred resonance embedded within stone circles; Megaliths In Dub is the echo beneath the surface, the unheard rhythm that has always been there. The megaliths stand -- timeless, unyielding. Their histories stretch beyond recorded memory, their presence imbued with silent narratives of the land. Megaliths sought to channel this ancient energy into pure sound. Yet no history exists without its counterpart -- no creation without its shadow. On Megaliths In Dub, suppressed tempos emerge, pulsing with the primal force of forgotten rites. Guitar invocations from the live rituals weave through the fabric of the album, distorting and reshaping the familiar, exquisite dark ambient Llyn Y Cwn has become renowned for. It is a sonic metamorphosis - a spectral reflection of the megalithic presence. The stones have been disturbed. Presented in a six-panel digipak with breathtaking photography by the artist.
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NTSC format, Region 0. "Featuring Paul 'Sandy' Davis (lead vocals, 12-string guitar), Alan Cowderoy (lead guitar, vocals), Martin Kitcat (Mellotron, organ, piano, vocals), Tim Wheatley (bass, vocals) and Robert Lipson (drums), the band first came to prominence in 1968 when they supported The Who on tour. They recorded a single for Polydor Records before a support slot for King Crimson in 1969 led to them purchasing a mellotron and changing style. In 1970 their debut self-titled album appeared on the Vertigo label and the band were greeted with critical praise. This in turn led to Gracious! performing a set at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival (joining a bill that featured Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Family, ELP, The Moody Blues and many more). Their set was recorded and filmed but was to remain unreleased. In early 1971 the band recorded their second album at Olympic Studios. Originally entitled Supernova and perhaps their finest work, the band was dropped by Vertigo prior to its release. The recordings eventually received a belated release on Philips Records under the title This is Gracious! later in 1971. The Recordings 1970-1971 gathers together both albums and also includes a CD of the band's 1970 Isle of Wight Festival set and a multi-region DVD featuring the film of their Isle of Wight performance. The set also includes a lavishly illustrated booklet with many unseen photographs and a new essay with band interviews by Mike Barnes."
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Phylipe Nunes Araújo's songs are as rich and varied as the diverse landscapes they were written in. The hills of Pernambuco, the lagoons of Alagoas, and the beaches of Bahia are all woven into his stripped-back, folk-inspired Brazilian songwriting. As part of a wider movement of musicians originating from Brazil's Northeast, Phylipe sees the process of music-making as the search for beauty itself. Collaborating with fellow Northeastern artists Bruno Berle, Batata Boy, and Nyron Higor among others, Phylipe's debut album represents the latest flowering of this exceptionally talented community's creative search. Born in Caruaru, Pernambuco state, and raised in the city of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, Phylipe describes his music simply as "Brazilian music from the Agreste of Pernambuco." His masterful compositions thread together regional rhythm, folk poetry and sophisticated harmony. Phylipe's musical foundations were laid in youth, listening to the local elders rehearsing their forrós, attending São João street parties in front of his house and watching the Junina Quadrilhas dance through his neighborhood. The tradition of Northeastern folk poetry proved particularly formative for Phylipe as a lyricist. Rich with extended chords and artful dissonances, it's clear from his compositions that jazz and bossa nova also took hold, but he's quick to eschew stereotypes. On the guitar Phylipe experiments with the binary rhythms inherent in traditional Northeastern music. Coco, frevo, maracatu and baião are recontextualized, placed alongside Brazilian popular music (MPB), gentle lullabies and stunning ballads. "In these ten songs, I am experimenting with making pop music on a nylon-string guitar with my foundation in the Northeastern songbook." The contemporary musical community which Phylipe belongs to developed initially in Pernambuco's neighboring state Alagoas. Phylipe lived in its capital Maceió for three years, where he built friendships and musical bonds with Bruno Berle and Batata Boy who together produced his album. Bruno also sings in unison with Phylipe on the duet "Valise," a song Phylipe wrote aged just 15. Other collaborators on the album include Alici, who provides vocals for the ebb and flow of "Temperim", Nyron Higor who plays drums on lead single "Asa" and the sweet indie moment "Ziz"", bassist Meno Del Picchia who plays on the mystical baião "Bixin" and the propulsive "Subindo a Ladeira", and Raphael Coelho who joins Bruno and Batata on percussion for "Santa Cruz", Phylipe's hypnotically powerful portrait of his hometown.
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LP version. Phylipe Nunes Araújo's songs are as rich and varied as the diverse landscapes they were written in. The hills of Pernambuco, the lagoons of Alagoas, and the beaches of Bahia are all woven into his stripped-back, folk-inspired Brazilian songwriting. As part of a wider movement of musicians originating from Brazil's Northeast, Phylipe sees the process of music-making as the search for beauty itself. Collaborating with fellow Northeastern artists Bruno Berle, Batata Boy, and Nyron Higor among others, Phylipe's debut album represents the latest flowering of this exceptionally talented community's creative search. Born in Caruaru, Pernambuco state, and raised in the city of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe, Phylipe describes his music simply as "Brazilian music from the Agreste of Pernambuco." His masterful compositions thread together regional rhythm, folk poetry and sophisticated harmony. Phylipe's musical foundations were laid in youth, listening to the local elders rehearsing their forrós, attending São João street parties in front of his house and watching the Junina Quadrilhas dance through his neighborhood. The tradition of Northeastern folk poetry proved particularly formative for Phylipe as a lyricist. Rich with extended chords and artful dissonances, it's clear from his compositions that jazz and bossa nova also took hold, but he's quick to eschew stereotypes. On the guitar Phylipe experiments with the binary rhythms inherent in traditional Northeastern music. Coco, frevo, maracatu and baião are recontextualized, placed alongside Brazilian popular music (MPB), gentle lullabies and stunning ballads. "In these ten songs, I am experimenting with making pop music on a nylon-string guitar with my foundation in the Northeastern songbook." The contemporary musical community which Phylipe belongs to developed initially in Pernambuco's neighboring state Alagoas. Phylipe lived in its capital Maceió for three years, where he built friendships and musical bonds with Bruno Berle and Batata Boy who together produced his album. Bruno also sings in unison with Phylipe on the duet "Valise," a song Phylipe wrote aged just 15. Other collaborators on the album include Alici, who provides vocals for the ebb and flow of "Temperim", Nyron Higor who plays drums on lead single "Asa" and the sweet indie moment "Ziz"", bassist Meno Del Picchia who plays on the mystical baião "Bixin" and the propulsive "Subindo a Ladeira", and Raphael Coelho who joins Bruno and Batata on percussion for "Santa Cruz", Phylipe's hypnotically powerful portrait of his hometown.
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Jerome Froese's fourth solo album. Jerome Froese was a long-standing member of the legendary German electronic band Tangerine Dream, working as a composer and multi-instrumentalist from 1990 to 2006. During this period, he received seven Grammy nominations. As the son of Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese, who passed away in 2015, he carries on the musical DNA with independence and innovative spirit -- in his own unique way. Froese's solo works are characterized by his unmistakable trademark sound, which he himself describes as "guitartronica" -- a unique fusion of electronic sound structures and guitar-based textures. In addition to electronic elements, the album also features stylistic influences from the post-rock and dreampop genre, which lend the sound additional emotional depth and organic warmth.
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Among the vast underworld of 1970s jazz-funk rarities, one name quietly resonates with collectors and rare groove DJs: Fire Water. With just one known, self-titled 7" -- independently released in the early 1980s, the group remains shrouded in mystery. Musically, Fire Water's "Twilight" sits at the crossroads of spiritual jazz, soul jazz, and atmospheric funk. The instrumentation leans heavily on Fender Rhodes, warm and hypnotic basslines, subtle horn sections, and Afro- Latin percussion. Likely pressed in limited quantities and distributed locally, the original 7" has become a cult item over the decades, circulating among aficionados of obscure American independent music.
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"Fiercely proud of his songs, but often dismissive of his live playing, his Yorkshire modesty belied the fact that he was one of the finest guitarists of his generation. Here's legendary singer, songwriter and guitarist Michael Chapman, nine years into his career. Starting in the folk clubs, Chapman kicked against the folk tag. His first gig was to get out of the Cornish rain, there's no blue plaque in Botallack yet, but there should be. In a career spanning 55 years, his playing went far beyond folk, into his first love, jazz, improvisation, reggae, rock and even noise. It was this borderless musicianship and love of playing that connected him with newer musicians. Michael loved playing in Germany, they loved him and with three live albums recorded there in '75, this is clearly a case of right place, right time. Party Pieces was recorded at the Post-Aula in Bremen, Germany in 1975."
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"Re-release of the classic Klaus Schulze album Moondawn, original released in 1976. Without doubt Moondawn is one of Klaus Schulze's cultic albums. Klaus was working with a 'Big Moog' for the very first time, which results into a special 'fat' sound. On Moondawn Klaus Schulze was accompanied by Harald Grosskopf on drums. Klaus Schulze first attracted attention as a member of the German pioneers of electronic music, Tangerine Dream. Following the release of their debut LP, Electronic Meditation he departed for a solo career. Klaus' recorded work typically features extended pieces sometimes filling an entire album built around computer-generated synthesizers and other specially programmed electronic effects. Klaus Schulze remains a cult figure in the whole world. He is widely considered an avant-garde mainstay as well as a founding father of both the new-age space music and electronica genres."
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"Omega are Hungary's number one rock export. 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 are rereleased originally and completely on CD, vinyl and digitally. After four studio albums and one compilation, the Hungarian megastars Omega were still much of an insider tip in the West. However, sales figures were noticeably rising, though far from going through the roof. In addition, the band had evolved, becoming more professional, both in their live performance and in their appearance. Those in charge at Bacillus/Bellaphon definitely meant to hold on to Omega, so in 1976 the contract with the quintet was extended till 1980. And the band, together with producer Peter Hauke, went to the Europasound Studios in Offenbach to record Time Robber. That LP was Omega's breakthrough in the West. To date, the album is said to have sold around two million copies. And this success was well deserved; for the first time, the Hungarians delivered a complex, self-contained work. Hopes were high for Skyrover. Omega came to Offenbach again and self-produced an exquisite successor of Time Robber. Quite a few Omega fans even consider Skyrover to be the better record, since the band elegantly merged the styles, which on Time Robber still appeared sometimes a bit stiff and side-by-side. 'Russian Winter' has become a live classic, with its Eastern European folklore references, the song stood out from the musical concept, and that's probably why it became a fan favorite."
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Filippo Diana's The Haunted Palace is the second album of unreleased tracks published by Musica Per Immagini, or a sort of soundtrack for an imaginary horror film set in a bloody past, inspired by the book The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The artist formerly known as Joe Drive used analog and digital synthesizers, as well as microphones and computers, to describe in notes the ancestral practices of resurrection of the dead accomplished by a shy and unsuspected character, who slowly transforms into an alien, inspiring both fright and terror. Limited edition of 300 copies.
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LP version. First ever release of post-Children Of The Mushroom heavy prog studio/live recordings from 1971. Formed in California in 1967, Children of the Mushroom were the quintessential garage-psych band. As the times evolved, the band hardened their sound, shortening their name to Mushroom. By 1970, Mushroom became Lady, incorporating prog-rock influences and instruments like flute to their hard-pych organ/guitar dominated sound, drawing inspiration from bands like Jethro Tull, Steamhammer, Gypsy, or Bloodrock. In 1971 the band recorded a few studio demos at Village Recorders in Los Angeles, which are presented here in top sound quality along with a couple of raw, lo-fi but killer live tracks from the same year. Long tracks, heavy fuzz guitar, Hammond organ, flute, and powerful vocals. Remastered sound. Includes insert with liner notes by Klemen Breznikar (It's Psychedelic Baby) and rare photos. Also includes download card with three live bonus tracks.
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$20.00
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Ian Pooley brings back his timeless classic "Higgledy Piggledy!" with a fresh reissue on his own label, PooledMusic. Following the re-release of his landmark 2000 album Since Then, it marks the beginning of a dedicated series revisiting key moments from his catalogue. A true collector's item and dancefloor weapon, freshly pressed for a new generation of house lovers.
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Andy Ash is a long-time contributor to the sound of Quintessentials. The Liverpudlian shows superb diversity on his new EP Silent Planet. The opener, "Patch 2," is a stripped down masterpiece of dub techno and a perfect club tool. "Hross" can be called acid house. The B-side shows more of a relaxed vibe with the beautiful string-laded "Franco alley" and the smooth low BPM track "Yellow." This silent planet has something to say and shows great variety of styles and Andy's skills as a producer -- and yes, all AA releases have his own artwork!
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"Phipps Pt. is the duo of Lovage Sharrock and Jon Leidecker (Wobbly, Negativland, Thurston Moore Group). Falling somewhere between precise songcraft and free improvisation, acid folk and ambient electronics, the music Sharrock and Leidecker create is an ongoing conversation between two singular artists and longtime friends listening and responding to one another with care and curiosity. Songs We No Longer Sing -- the duo's second studio album -- is a song cycle which moves across vignettes of consumption, lust, grief, and what it takes to push through life at a moment when so many forces are marshalled against living. Sharrock's gossamer vocals and delicately finger-picked guitar find their complement in Leidecker's careful approach to processing both, so that input frequently becomes indistinguishable from output. The album's electronic glitches, buzzes, whirrs, and drones burnish rather than obscure Sharrock's plaintive melodies and imagistic lyrics. Phipps Pt. work their sonic material into a final composition whose design, no matter how abstract, never erases the traces of the human hands behind it. Sharrock often says at the start of a performance that Phipps Pt. is 'an idea and a place that we are going to together.' Full of strange beauty and unexpected emotional candor, Songs We No Longer Sing issues a similarly generous invitation to the listener to partake in many return visits."
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$27.00
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Originally released in 1975 during the so called "Italian Years Of Lead", Angoscia endorses all of the subliminal and controversial emotions of the time with a series of ethereal yet mysterious sketches. It is possibly one of the most intense and obscure release by famous Morricone alumni and collaborator Alessandroni. His guitar is the leading voice here, with several cloudy synth arpeggios, classical piano chords and solemn string sections. A dark feel surrounds the opera overall: a true gem ranked between the most confrontational of the Italian library genre.
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Color vinyl version. Originally released in 1975 during the so called "Italian Years Of Lead", Angoscia endorses all of the subliminal and controversial emotions of the time with a series of ethereal yet mysterious sketches. It is possibly one of the most intense and obscure release by famous Morricone alumni and collaborator Alessandroni. His guitar is the leading voice here, with several cloudy synth arpeggios, classical piano chords and solemn string sections. A dark feel surrounds the opera overall: a true gem ranked between the most confrontational of the Italian library genre.
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$31.50
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RELEASE DATE: 10/31/2025
Heavy UK progressive monster rarity from 1973; only one acetate copy known to exist. During their brief existence, Cargo -- a band that supported the likes of Sam Apple Pie, Stray, East of Eden, and Greenslade -- certainly delivered the goods with their powerful blend of hard-rock, psychedelic and progressive/jazz-rock sounds, full of screaming vocals, hard guitar, furious sax attacks, and heavy drums. Formed in Burton on Trent by guitarist/songwriter Andrew Perrins with members from the band Helter Skelter, they included killer lead guitarist Neillian 'Sped' Spedding, saxophonist Alan 'Nala' Wright, drummer Graham Hair, bassist Dave Kent, and a charismatic vocalist modeled after Robert Plant named Terence 'Ticker' Davies. Influenced by bands like Gentle Giant, ELP, and Yes, Cargo gained attention through strong live performances, supporting major acts like Queen and East of Eden. In 1973, they recorded a demo acetate titled Delivering The Goods at Zella Studios. Although they nearly signed with Island Records, they turned down the offer when it was only extended to the singer and drummer. This is without doubt a major find for any hard-rock/heavy-prog fan. Gatefold sleeve in the best early '70s style. Remastered sound. Includes insert with detailed liner notes by Austin Matthews (Shindig!/Flashback) and rare photos Also includes download card.
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"Andrés Miguel Cervantes brings back his Western Noir desert soundscapes with the release of his second full length album, Songs for the Seance, released on independent label Speakeasy Studios SF. Born and raised in San Diego, while calling the SF Bay area home, Cervantes' music is influenced by songwriters Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, Fred Neil, and singers Vicente 'Chente' Fernandez, George Jones, and Merle Haggard. Cervantes' lyrics and songcraft are distinctly his own, with beautiful haunting images of landscapes both internal and external delivered with his virtuosic folk guitar finger picking style that is as if Bert Jansch met Mississippi John Hurt on the crossroads of a dark desert road. Songs For The Seance is a meditation on the collection of memories that live inside everyone, experienced, dreamed, or inherited from ancestors. It touches on themes of identity, the need for belonging, loss, isolation, and hope. Songs that soar through haunting noir soundscapes, about communicating with ghosts, facing what haunts you, and knowing that 'there's some winning in staying alive.' Songs For The Seance is a moving and expansive follow up to Cervantes' debut and internationally acclaimed album The Crossing. Cervantes returns to the studio with producer Alicia Vanden Heuvel to record, once again, to Otari ½" 8 track, an analog process, with the contributions of live bandmates Jacob Aranda (pedal steel, violin), Jessie Leigh Smith (harmonica), Raphi Gottesman (drums), Alicia Vanden Heuvel (bass,vocals, percussion), Hall McCann (lead guitar, vocals), Graham Norwood (guitar), Conor Riley (piano) and Noelle Fiore (vocals). Songs For The Seance was born from Cervantes' meditative process of songwriting, crafted while living and traveling throughout the southwest, in the Mojave and Sonora deserts along the coast to where the Pacific Ocean touches the bays of San Diego and San Francisco. Cervantes' songwriting on Songs For The Seance explores themes of the soul, love, the dark and the light, of feeling haunted, unsettled, and yet seeking hope."
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LP version. "claire rousay's music cascades from a well of documented experience, reflections of the past that compose the present. A prolific multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer, rousay gracefully crafts boundaryless music. From her frequent and acclaimed collaborations with artists like M. Sage, more eaze, Gretchen Korsmo, Andrew Weathers, LEYA, and Alex Cunningham, to her film scoring like on The Bloody Lady. From her own compositions to her solo pop work, rousay's music is delicate yet powerful, carefully constructed with a casual intimacy. rousay collages a wealth of found sounds and field recordings with earthy strings, stately piano, and processed instrumentation, all of which trace the outlines of memories and distinct impressions and create a complex constellation of feeling. rousay's music has evolved from confessional to conversational and excavates the rich emotional essence of each passage. Her work as both archivist and adept arranger and orchestrator merge sublimely into deeply honest and engrossing music. On a little death, rousay's blend of pop sensibility and compositional acumen turn abstracted sounds into tangible feelings, its warm, glimmering glow coalescing sensually with the darkness. The process of composing a little death felt like a homecoming for rousay after the more pop-oriented song forms of 2024's sentiment. 'sentiment was a different way of working that helped refresh my music making habits and usual flow,' rousay notes. 'This record is a return to what I see as my core solo practice, a re-dedication to those methods of working which I've found most align with what I envision my music or sound to be.' Intended as a part of a trilogy along with a heavenly touch and a softer focus, the pieces on a little death sprout from a wellspring of tactile samples and granularly processed sounds. The use of sounds recorded from her life outside of the studio remains a throughline in her work. While the previous two albums used field recordings as the primary sound source or central figure in the compositions, here they act more as springboards, timbrally intertwining with live instruments like additional voices in a chamber ensemble."
"Pop at its most fragile, attenuated and surreal." --New York Times
"a fantastic tour de force -- a musical antidote to numbness." --Rolling Stone
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LP version. Sunflare color vinyl. "claire rousay's music cascades from a well of documented experience, reflections of the past that compose the present. A prolific multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer, rousay gracefully crafts boundaryless music. From her frequent and acclaimed collaborations with artists like M. Sage, more eaze, Gretchen Korsmo, Andrew Weathers, LEYA, and Alex Cunningham, to her film scoring like on The Bloody Lady. From her own compositions to her solo pop work, rousay's music is delicate yet powerful, carefully constructed with a casual intimacy. rousay collages a wealth of found sounds and field recordings with earthy strings, stately piano, and processed instrumentation, all of which trace the outlines of memories and distinct impressions and create a complex constellation of feeling. rousay's music has evolved from confessional to conversational and excavates the rich emotional essence of each passage. Her work as both archivist and adept arranger and orchestrator merge sublimely into deeply honest and engrossing music. On a little death, rousay's blend of pop sensibility and compositional acumen turn abstracted sounds into tangible feelings, its warm, glimmering glow coalescing sensually with the darkness. The process of composing a little death felt like a homecoming for rousay after the more pop-oriented song forms of 2024's sentiment. 'sentiment was a different way of working that helped refresh my music making habits and usual flow,' rousay notes. 'This record is a return to what I see as my core solo practice, a re-dedication to those methods of working which I've found most align with what I envision my music or sound to be.' Intended as a part of a trilogy along with a heavenly touch and a softer focus, the pieces on a little death sprout from a wellspring of tactile samples and granularly processed sounds. The use of sounds recorded from her life outside of the studio remains a throughline in her work. While the previous two albums used field recordings as the primary sound source or central figure in the compositions, here they act more as springboards, timbrally intertwining with live instruments like additional voices in a chamber ensemble."
"Pop at its most fragile, attenuated and surreal." --New York Times
"a fantastic tour de force -- a musical antidote to numbness." --Rolling Stone
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Purple color vinyl. "Holy Sons is the largely solo project of Emil Amos (Grails, Om, Lilacs & Champagne). Puritan Themes is his 17th album and his 4th for Thrill Jockey Records and a tentpole album in his wide-ranging output, including myriad private press LPs, collections of oddities, and conceptual series. Puritan Themes relaxed vibes are influenced by the laid-back west coast rock sound of mid-period Fleetwood Mac, blended with a dose of psych distortion and imbued with the breeziness and ease of yacht rock. Puritan Themes is a record that knowingly, barely fits into the modern world. When mixing the record in Chicago, everyday Amos skated through Douglass Park listening to podcasts about the inner workings of The Band, listened to '70s AM radio while washing dishes and went to sleep at night to early Bee Gees interviews. The earliest concept of the record was based around the track 'Chain Gang' which was an imaginary take on if Cat Stevens had smoked a ton of salvia and taken a much darker route within that world of dense, story-telling/message-based songwriting. The track 'Raw & Disfigured' borrows its name from the last Thrill Jockey Holy Sons record, in a referential move that's stolen from the way Led Zeppelin separated the track 'Houses of the Holy' from the record of the same name (once again harkening back to '70s lore)."
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Following acclaimed outings About Love and Loving Again (TR 468CD, 2020) and Hold Your Love Still (TR 550CD 2023), Christian Kjellvander returns with Ex Voto/The Silent Love, a quietly devastating and profoundly intimate record that completes an unofficial trilogy exploring love in its most tender, conflicted, and spiritual forms. Originally conceived as an album of ten soft, calm country songs, Ex Voto gradually evolved into something more expansive, yet the embryo of that intention remains, pulsing gently beneath every track. The record opens with two stripped-back songs, flows into a louder, more dynamic center piece, then drifts back into stillness, mirroring the emotional journey of its creation. As with its predecessors, Ex Voto continues Christian's exploration of themes like love, religion, the natural world, and beauty, subjects he approaches with poetic precision and emotional depth. But this album goes deeper. It is more intimate, more raw. Christian was in a different place when he began writing it, and while the gravitational center of his artistry remains constant, that personal shift colors the entire record. Recorded live over a few days in an old summer house by the sea at Sweden's southern tip, the album captures the breath and quiet of a room where no headphones were needed, where vocals bleed into the space through a PA, and every creak of the floorboards became part of the sound. The specters of each voice and instrument haunt the multi-tracks like spirits lingering in a deep desert night. It's romantic and cinematic, a kind of small-town noir transposed from the Texan wilderness to the Swedish coast. At the heart of the record is Kjellvander's deep, expressive baritone and lyrical clarity, surrounded by a sparse yet richly textured palette: brush drums, bass clarinet, mournful cornet, Rhodes, synths, and the haunting counterpoint of female vocals. Producer Tobias Fröberg focused on the scale of Christian's voice and the gravity of his words, using reverb to lend a hyper-real quality to the album's mood. The sound is different to its predecessors, and so was the recording process -- just players in a room, leaning into the silence between sounds. The result is a document of presence: atmospheric, unguarded, and emotionally resonant. Ex Voto/The Silent Love is a record that inspires patience. It's not to be consumed, but sat with, like a long conversation late into the night.
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LP version. Following acclaimed outings About Love and Loving Again (TR 468CD, 2020) and Hold Your Love Still (TR 550CD 2023), Christian Kjellvander returns with Ex Voto/The Silent Love, a quietly devastating and profoundly intimate record that completes an unofficial trilogy exploring love in its most tender, conflicted, and spiritual forms. Originally conceived as an album of ten soft, calm country songs, Ex Voto gradually evolved into something more expansive, yet the embryo of that intention remains, pulsing gently beneath every track. The record opens with two stripped-back songs, flows into a louder, more dynamic center piece, then drifts back into stillness, mirroring the emotional journey of its creation. As with its predecessors, Ex Voto continues Christian's exploration of themes like love, religion, the natural world, and beauty, subjects he approaches with poetic precision and emotional depth. But this album goes deeper. It is more intimate, more raw. Christian was in a different place when he began writing it, and while the gravitational center of his artistry remains constant, that personal shift colors the entire record. Recorded live over a few days in an old summer house by the sea at Sweden's southern tip, the album captures the breath and quiet of a room where no headphones were needed, where vocals bleed into the space through a PA, and every creak of the floorboards became part of the sound. The specters of each voice and instrument haunt the multi-tracks like spirits lingering in a deep desert night. It's romantic and cinematic, a kind of small-town noir transposed from the Texan wilderness to the Swedish coast. At the heart of the record is Kjellvander's deep, expressive baritone and lyrical clarity, surrounded by a sparse yet richly textured palette: brush drums, bass clarinet, mournful cornet, Rhodes, synths, and the haunting counterpoint of female vocals. Producer Tobias Fröberg focused on the scale of Christian's voice and the gravity of his words, using reverb to lend a hyper-real quality to the album's mood. The sound is different to its predecessors, and so was the recording process -- just players in a room, leaning into the silence between sounds. The result is a document of presence: atmospheric, unguarded, and emotionally resonant. Ex Voto/The Silent Love is a record that inspires patience. It's not to be consumed, but sat with, like a long conversation late into the night.
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$16.50
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RELEASE DATE: 10/31/2025
The fiery Portuguese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado returns with the sophomore album from his multigenerational quartet the Bridge, spanning modern jazz history with a deeply experienced line-up: German free jazz pioneer Alexander von Schlippenbach on piano, veteran Swiss-based American Gerry Hemingway on drums, and the explosive Norwegian Ingebrigt Håker Flaten on bass. Amado's Bridge is the span linking the spirit of improvisation Rollins applied to composed music and modern free improvisation. For Portuguese tenor saxophonist Rodrigo Amado past and future have always been connected, bound in tradition while breaking free of it. The muscular reedist values collaboration deeply, working with countless musicians from his homeland, while simultaneously forming an ever-expanding constellation of international ensembles, including the powerful cross-generational quartet with veteran multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, Chicago double bassist Kent Kessler, and the explosive drummer Chris Corsano -- which has released several instant classics on Trost. A few years ago, Amado formed the Bridge, another quartet featuring a stellar cast of musicians from different regions and different eras. The saxophonist's deep regard for jazz history led him to assemble a group for the ages. There's the legendary German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach -- a still dominant figure who's been a revolutionary figure in improvised music and avant-garde composition since the early 1960s. American drummer Gerry Hemingway, who made his name as a member of Anthony Braxton's great quartet from the 1980s, has consistently reinforced his stature of one of the most restless, multivalent figures in experimental music from his adopted base in Lucerne, Switzerland. Double bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten rounds out the group -- a Norwegian virtuoso who's worked in the Thing with Mats Gustafsson and Paal Nilssen-Love, and more recently who's demonstrated his evolving strength as a composer with his group (Exit) Knarr. In 2023 Trost released the Bridge's galvanic debut Beyond the Margins, reflecting the tight connection the members developed on its first run of concerts in the fall of 2022, but the group's follow-up Further Beyond takes the music to another level. Across three full-bodied pieces the quartet summons a great deal of jazz history on its way to advancing the tradition.
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"The Nine Mile section in the parish of Saint Ann, is the birth and resting place of reggae legend Bob Marley. The mausoleum that houses his remains is a major pilgrimage site for fans from all over the world. Nine Mile is often associated with Rastafarian culture, which deeply influences reggae music. The community reflects the slower pace of life, deep connection to nature, and Afrocentric spiritual ethos that underpins roots reggae. This inspired the latest album from Alborosie, which includes his personal tribute 'Trench Town Legend.'"
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LP version. "The Nine Mile section in the parish of Saint Ann, is the birth and resting place of reggae legend Bob Marley. The mausoleum that houses his remains is a major pilgrimage site for fans from all over the world. Nine Mile is often associated with Rastafarian culture, which deeply influences reggae music. The community reflects the slower pace of life, deep connection to nature, and Afrocentric spiritual ethos that underpins roots reggae. This inspired the latest album from Alborosie, which includes his personal tribute 'Trench Town Legend.'"
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RELEASE DATE: 10/31/2025
2025 repress available in Oct. "Cindy Lee is the brainchild of singer/guitarist Patrick Flegel. While some may know Flegel from his time spent in Canadian experimental indie band Women, Cindy Lee has spent the past four years crafting songs that push and pull in opposing directions -- from tales of tragedy laced with haywire distortion to moments of breathtaking beauty. On Malenkost, Flegel combines everything that makes Cindy Lee so essential: heart-wrenching romantic pleas, rough shards of noise and twilit ballads. Featuring the lo-fi pop single 'A Message From The Aching Sky,' Malenkost sounds like Deerhunter playing The Supremes or vice versa. Superior Viaduct's imprint W.25TH presents the first of many Cindy Lee releases. Spectral and timeless, the music of Cindy Lee is hauntingly familiar yet of another plane, a magical collision of Brill Building hooks and uncompromising No Wave. 'Cindy Lee is intensely dark and cathartic, an eerie fever dream of fleeting, utterly heartbreaking classic girl-group melodies . . . one of the best things we have heard all year.' --Gorilla Vs. Bear"
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2025 repress available in Oct. "Cindy Lee is the diva alter-ego of singer/guitarist/drag queen Patrick Flegel, the one-time captain of heralded Canadian experimental guitar pop act, Women. In Flegel's working on/as Cindy Lee exclusively over recent years, their songwriting makes a move toward high atmospherics, often achieving a mysterious sweetness rooted equally in beauty and ache. As Cindy Lee's first long-form statement, Act Of Tenderness makes use of antipodal themes to create a living sound: static with grace, distortion and sugar, all masterfully arranged with crooked nods toward pop classicism. The layered vocal on 'Power And Possession' creates a palpable haunt, bringing historical girl-group lament to choir-esque heights. The feedback shriek and industrial grind of 'Bonsai Garden' provides near-operatic damage, yet never stumbles into the irrevocably grave. These snowy pieces give the album a decidedly cinematic feel, albeit one bent more towards Eraserhead. Originally released in a scant private edition in 2015, Superior Viaduct's imprint W.25TH is pleased to give Act Of Tenderness its deserving wide release."
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2025 repress available in Oct. "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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"Originally released as an edition of 50 lathe-cut LPs housed in silk-screened jackets in 2020 (fast on the heels of What's Tonight To Eternity), Cat O' Nine Tails has long intrigued die-hard Cindy Lee fans with its combination of the classic songwriting that would dominate Diamond Jubilee a few years later and an actual suite of classical songs under the title itself. Opening with the gothic soap opera theme of 'Our Lady Of Sorrows' into the manic exploration of 'Cat O' Nine Tails,' onto the dusty western walk through Patrick Flegel's lovely guitar work on 'Faith Restored,' the album seems to soundtrack the coolest movie the late '60s ever produced. All of this builds to the lush and sweeping ballad of bruised hearts that introduces that beautiful voice via 'Love Remains.' Side two sees 2024 live show closer 'Cat O' Nine Tails III' complete the suite to epic effect, before introducing the absolute showstopper that is 'I Don't Want To Fall In Love Again.' It is tender and fragile in that way that only Flegel can make both familiar and unique. Closing with the ethereal soul shuffle stomp of 'Bondage Of The Mind,' the album showcases nine songs from an essential time in the Cindy Lee evolution. W.25TH/Superior Viaduct is proud to bring this collection to the larger audience it deserves."
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Wewantsounds collaborates with cult musician Yusuf Mumin of the Black Unity Trio to unveil previously unreleased music from his personal archive. Following 2024's acclaimed Black Artist Group release, this new instalment continues to unearth hidden treasures from the Great Black Music tradition. Although the exact recording dates remain unknown, the music here is a powerful blend of serene spiritual jazz and fiery sonic intensity. All tracks have been remastered for vinyl by Colorsound Studio and the release also includes a two-page insert featuring new liner notes by Mumin and Pierre Crépon. In 1968, Yusuf Mumin was the blistering alto saxophone voice of the Black Unity Trio, who recorded the cult privately pressed album Al-Fatihah, one of the most sought-after albums in the genre. After extensive but unsuccessful searches for additional material by the group, Journey to the Ancient finally offers more unheard music from Yusuf Mumin. The album presented here draws from a selection of recordings preserved in Mumin's private collection, revealing previously unheard layers of his experimental vision. Mumin performs under both his own name and, when multitracking revelatory double bass parts, the pseudonym Dan Nuby. Born Joseph W. Phillips in 1944, Mumin became a key figure in Cleveland's radical free jazz underground of the 1960s. Deeply influenced by spiritual and esoteric traditions, Mumin was originally drawn to "outside" playing by the sonic explorations of Yusef Lateef. Shortly after Albert Ayler's U.S. recording debut with trumpeter Norman Howard, Howard and Mumin were co-leading a group in Cleveland. Mumin's legacy was cemented through his collaborations with Abdul Wadud and Hasan Shahid as the Black Unity Trio. The release includes a two-page insert featuring interview-based liner notes by Mumin and Crépon, offering fresh insight into the great history of the Cleveland scene. Journey to the Ancient continues Wewantsounds' mission to unearth the hidden treasures of such visionary jazz musicians, and it's an honor to finally present Yusuf Mumin's cutting-edge work for the first time after it remained unheard in the vault for decades.
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Hardcover. 588 pages. "Fiery, funny, inviting and digressive, Sonny Simmons' memoir is a long overdue celebration of the famed New York free jazz pioneer. Though his years in the New York free-jazz scene of the sixties cemented his reputation as 'one of the most forceful and convincing composers and soloists in his field,' saxophonist Sonny Simmons (1933-2021) was nearly forgotten by the '80s, which found him broke, heavily dependent on drugs and alcohol, and separated from his wife and kids. 'I played on the streets from 1980 to 1994, 365 days a year,' Simmons tells jazz historian and biographer Marc Chaloin. 'I would go to North Beach, and I'd sleep in the park. The word got around town that Sonny is a junkie, really strung out.' The resurrection of Simmons' career -- upon the release of his critically acclaimed Ancient Ritual (Qwest Records) in 1994 -- has become a modern legend of the genre. In the last two decades of his musical career, Simmons broke through to a new echelon of recognition, joining the pantheon of great innovators and masters of the music. But to this day he remains an undersung figure. Here, in the first ever book dedicated to his life, Simmons recounts his childhood in the backwoods of Louisiana, his adolescence in the burgeoning Bay Area jazz scene and his star-studded life in New York playing alongside the greats."
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"In a long-awaited unveiling, celebrating its 25th anniversary, Raison D'être's critically acclaimed dark ambient opus The Empty Hollow Unfolds is available for the first time ever on vinyl, released as a deluxe Double LP edition on marbled vinyl and standard black. Originally issued in 2000 this reissue marks a significant milestone in the legacy of Swedish composer Peter Andersson, whose immersive soundscapes helped define an era of industrial ambient music. The Empty Hollow Unfolds is not merely an album, it is a descent into the void. Widely hailed as one of the most haunting and emotionally resonant works in the dark ambient genre, it transforms isolation into an art form. Andersson constructs a sonic environment of desolate beauty, where metallic echoes, subterranean drones, and Gregorian-like chants collide in a ritual of decay and transcendence. From the slow, meditative swell of 'The Slow Ascent' to the sprawling, twenty-minute dirge 'The Eternal Return and the Infinity Horizon,' this record remains a singular achievement, a sound world of spectral ruins and elegant desolation. This new 2LP edition has been remastered specifically for vinyl, restoring the album's cavernous depth and atmospheric range in unprecedented detail and includes three bonus tracks not available on the original release. Critics have long praised The Empty Hollow Unfolds as a milestone in the genre, once voted the greatest release in Cold Meat Industry's storied history. Described as 'elegantly crafted ruin' and 'a travelogue from a land where the sun never rises,' the album continues to evoke awe and unease in equal measure. Its sound, monumental yet intimate, cold yet achingly human, remains as relevant and unsettling today as it was 25 years ago."
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Vakula invites listeners on a sonic journey with his latest album titled Cloud Bloom. Composed of four tracks, this album explores the depths of deep and dub techno, creating atmospheres that envelop the listener in a unique experience. Most of the instruments are organic, complemented by analog synthesizers, giving it a warm and authentic touch. Each track is an exploration of sonic textures that evoke dreamlike landscapes and moments of introspection. It's an ideal offering for those who appreciate immersive sounds and a hypnotic vibe.
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"With Live At The Star-Club Hamburg -- an ultimate Bear Family classic! -- Jerry Lee Lewis set the bar extremely high for any comparable releases. Accompanied by his tour band at the time, 'The Killer' works his way through a repertoire of his own classics such as 'Mean Woman Blues' and other hits like 'High-Heel Sneakers,' 'Who Will The Next Fool Be?', 'Hound Dog,' and 'Long Tall Sally.' Bear Family reissues the original Smash record as a 1:1 reproduction, re-mastered from the original stereo tapes and with the original cover art. As a bonus, a postcard with a photo of the artist is included. Anyone who likes rock and roll at the highest energy level will love this vinyl record! After Jerry Lee Lewis' sensational successes in the 1950s for the SUN Records label, things had quietened down for 'The Killer'. In 1958, the media and fans condemned his marriage to his underage cousin. In the spring of 1964, he toured the UK and Germany, playing in small clubs accompanied by local bands. In Hamburg, his energetic performance at the 'Star-Club' was recorded and released on LP -- ranked 16th in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of the '50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time.' Just a few months later, on July 18, 1964, Jerry Lee Lewis performed at the 'Municipal Auditorium' in Birmingham, Alabama, in front of 15,000 enthusiastic fans. Accompanied by his US tour band at the time, which later called itself The Memphis Beats (with James Hutcheson -- guitar, Larry Nichols -- organ, Herman Hawkins -- bass guitar, and Morris Tarrant -- drums), the 29-year-old pianist and singer set the stage on fire! Similar to the Nashville Teens in Hamburg, the Memphis Beats in Birmingham struggled to keep up with this burst of unbridled energy. The Star-Club album may sound a little more straightforward, but otherwise The Greatest Live Show On Earth is quite comparable to the legendary record from Hamburg, pounding piano, raunchy and raucous vocals, great backing."
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Attention all lovers of raw, unfiltered rock'n'roll! Bang! Records presents the vinyl reissue of Dubrovnik Blues, the celebrated debut LP from The Dubrovniks -- the Australian super-group born straight from the beating heart of the country's punk underground. Formed in Sydney in 1986 (originally as The Adorable Ones), The Dubrovniks brought together true icons of the Aussie scene: James Baker, legendary drummer for Beasts of Bourbon, founding member of Hoodoo Gurus, and a driving force in The Scientists; Roddy Radalj, co-founder of Hoodoo Gurus and veteran of The Scientists; and Boris Sujdovic, who also played with both The Scientists and Beasts of Bourbon. Far from being "just another debut," Dubrovnik Blues was an instant statement of intent -- a wild blend of garage rock grit, glam swagger, punk attitude and classic rock'n'roll hooks. Think The Troggs and T. Rex colliding with the spirit of the New York Dolls. Originally released in August 1989 on Timberyard Records, the album went on to earn a nomination for Best Independent Release at the ARIA Awards in 1990. Now, Bang! Records brings this cult gem back to life on vinyl -- a must-have for collectors, vintage-sound purists, and anyone ready to relive (or discover) the raw, electric energy of late-'80s Australian rock at its finest.
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Alex Voorhies, known to dance floor connoisseurs as lil_art_hoe, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Louisiana. lil_art_hoe's signature sound is raw and unedited, with an array of grooves and melodies endlessly swirling to create truly unique tracks full of big ideas, but completely lacking in regard for normalcy. For this Studio Barnhus debut, lil_art_hoe delivered two prime examples of their sonic practice, with elements constantly expanding and contracting, resulting in some of the most captivating yet straight-forward club music heard at Studio Barnhus HQ in recent times.
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Dave Doughman is the heart and voice behind Swearing At Motorists, who perform and record mainly as a duo. Since 1995, Swearing At Motorists has built a cult following with their raw energy, heartfelt songwriting, and relentless DIY ethos. They've traveled countless miles playing shows worldwide, sharing stages with iconic acts like Guided By Voices, Songs:Ohia, The Breeders, Spoon, Unwound, Brainiac, The Lemonheads, My Morning Jacket, and more. After an 11-year pause, the band is back. Swearing At Motorists has come a long way since its birth in Dayton, Ohio. The late '90s found Swearing At Motorists releasing a slew of 7' EPs on different labels, and after getting repeated plays from John Peel and favorable press worldwide, the band landed a contract with the then new label Secretly Canadian. Swearing At Motorists relocated to Berlin, Germany in 2005, releasing their last LP for Secretly Canadian, Last Night Becomes This Morning the following year before quietly disappearing into the never-ending Berlin night. 8 years later, the band (now with Martin Boeters on drums) resurfaced in Hamburg, Germany, with a new album titled While Laughing, The Joker Tells The Truth, released 2014 on Anton Newcombe's label A Recordings Ltd. 11 years later, the band re-resurfaced in Hamburg Germany, from another hiatus and with another new album, 31 Seasons In The Minor Leagues, self-produced at a studio located in Millerntor Stadion, Hamburg. Interestingly, Doughman has a unique connection to FC St. Pauli, the famed football club from Hamburg. His admiration for the club reflects his passion for underdog stories and authentic outsider spirit elements that are woven into the fabric of his music. Obviously, the album title mirrors this. It's about holding on to dreams (or illusions) even when success fails to materialize. The "31 Seasons" could allude to a whole life full of attempts, setbacks, and small triumphs. Critically acclaimed yet definitely under the radar, Swearing At Motorists remains a beloved staple of indie rock's underground-now roaring back to the stage with new stories to tell.
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LP version. Dave Doughman is the heart and voice behind Swearing At Motorists, who perform and record mainly as a duo. Since 1995, Swearing At Motorists has built a cult following with their raw energy, heartfelt songwriting, and relentless DIY ethos. They've traveled countless miles playing shows worldwide, sharing stages with iconic acts like Guided By Voices, Songs:Ohia, The Breeders, Spoon, Unwound, Brainiac, The Lemonheads, My Morning Jacket, and more. After an 11-year pause, the band is back. Swearing At Motorists has come a long way since its birth in Dayton, Ohio. The late '90s found Swearing At Motorists releasing a slew of 7' EPs on different labels, and after getting repeated plays from John Peel and favorable press worldwide, the band landed a contract with the then new label Secretly Canadian. Swearing At Motorists relocated to Berlin, Germany in 2005, releasing their last LP for Secretly Canadian, Last Night Becomes This Morning the following year before quietly disappearing into the never-ending Berlin night. 8 years later, the band (now with Martin Boeters on drums) resurfaced in Hamburg, Germany, with a new album titled While Laughing, The Joker Tells The Truth, released 2014 on Anton Newcombe's label A Recordings Ltd. 11 years later, the band re-resurfaced in Hamburg Germany, from another hiatus and with another new album, 31 Seasons In The Minor Leagues, self-produced at a studio located in Millerntor Stadion, Hamburg. Interestingly, Doughman has a unique connection to FC St. Pauli, the famed football club from Hamburg. His admiration for the club reflects his passion for underdog stories and authentic outsider spirit elements that are woven into the fabric of his music. Obviously, the album title mirrors this. It's about holding on to dreams (or illusions) even when success fails to materialize. The "31 Seasons" could allude to a whole life full of attempts, setbacks, and small triumphs. Critically acclaimed yet definitely under the radar, Swearing At Motorists remains a beloved staple of indie rock's underground-now roaring back to the stage with new stories to tell.
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Banning Eyre is one of the finest guitarists and his music is utterly magical. Specialized in African guitar playing, learning from masters while traveling around the African continent to discover hidden gems, Eyre took his time not only to describe the music in his books and productions for the U.S. radio program Afropop Worldwide; he also learned local guitar techniques to perfection. His way of playing is spiritual, intimate, dreamy. Once you start listening to his solo guitar playing, you don't want to let go, as your soul gets warmed by the comforting circles woven into his compositions. Pure pleasure! One World Records now presents the American master's music, inspired by 6-string diversity from around the globe. This set of 14 original compositions and arrangements reflects the artist's lifelong immersion in roots guitar music, from American blues to Malian finger-style to influences from Congo, Madagascar and Zimbabwe. You've never heard guitar music quite like this before.
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Frank Maston's beloved 2025 single finally gets its long overdue vinyl release! "Foreign Affairs" drifts through London fog and Paris shimmer, its avant-lounge glow wrapping each melody in a wistful ache. On B-side "Liaison," ghostly strings and a solitary piano paint a deserted twilight shoreline, Pacôme Henry's distinct 16mm cinematography hovering nearby. Originally written for a film Maston was scoring in 2024, he decided to keep it aside for himself. The two songs were recorded in Paris and London in the summer of 2024. Aside from the rhythm section and piano, there's vibraphone, a full string section, trombones and alto and concert flutes. The artwork for this 7" single has Roman campaign flags, referencing the foreign affairs in sort of a sassy way.
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A reissue of the masterpiece by the great French folk singer Veronique Chalot produced in the late 1970s by the Tuscan label Materiali Sonori, a collective with which Veronique collaborated for years. Celtic music and traditional Breton ballads presented in a new elegant guise, world music created when "world music" had not yet been invented. A fascinating sound, enriched by melodies that seem ancient but are actually timeless.
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A Bristol x Paris link-up between SSSLIP and Bamao Yendé delivers with BP028. A label debut for both artists on the BPR original series. All killer no filler ear worms from across the spectrum. A balanced collection of functional low end tools for the dance. Bristol-based producer SSSLIP, known for their experimental club hybrid productions and a growing back catalogue of strong outings on No dice, ec2a and their own imprint SSS Audio. Sharing the EP with Parisian DJ and producer, Bamao Yendé, head of Boukan Records, blending inspirations through garage, broken beat, and Kuduro.
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Buh Records presents the release of Cello in My Life, the new album by the renowned Ecuadorian composer Mesías Maiguashca. This deeply personal work reflects an intimate exploration of the relationship between the cello and the artist's life, realized in collaboration with celebrated cellist Gaby Schumacher. The album features six remarkable compositions spanning Maiguashca's career from 1972 to 2015. Each piece offers a unique perspective on his groundbreaking approach to music, blending acoustic and electronic elements to create an immersive sound experience. Highlights include: "Übungen" (1972-73): A fascinating dialogue between cello and synthesizer, performed by Gaby Schumacher and Maiguashca himself. "Lindgren" (1973): A haunting composition for cello and magnetic tape. "El Oro" (1992): A meditation on cultural collisions between the Old and New Worlds, featuring flute, cello, and spoken word. "The Spirit Catcher" (1993): An evocative piece inspired by the writings of Carlos Castañeda, combining cello and electronics. "unvermindert weiter" (1993): A duet for cello and accordion that highlights the interplay between the two instruments. "por el yasuní" (2015): A poignant commentary on the protests to protect Ecuador's Yasuní National Park, featuring violin, cello, and electronic textures. This release also marks the second collaboration between Maiguashca and Buh Records, following the critically acclaimed 2021 collection Música para cinta magnética (+) instrumentos (1967?1989). Cello in My Life stands as a testament to Maiguashca's enduring legacy as one of the most significant voices in contemporary and experimental music from Latin America. The album's intricate soundscapes and profound themes promise to captivate both long-time admirers and new listeners alike. Set for release on February 28, 2025, the album will be available on digital platforms and as a physical CD edition. This milestone in Maiguashca's discography further cements his reputation as a pivotal figure in the realm of contemporary and experimental music from Latin America.
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"A cornerstone of soulful reggae, Lover's Rock by Jamaican legend Delroy Wilson bridges his deep roots in ska and rocksteady with the smooth, romantic vibes of the UK's lovers rock movement. It's a noteworthy entry in the lovers rock canon and a testament to Wilson's versatility. Originally released in 1978 by Burning Sounds, this album captures Wilson's velvet-toned voice over laid-back riddims and heartfelt lyrics -- a perfect entry point for fans of both classic reggae and tender love songs. A must-have for collectors of golden-era reggae and lovers rock enthusiasts alike. Original UK pressing is increasingly rare and prized for its warm analogue sound and classic artwork. Recommended if you like: John Holt, Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Sugar Minott."
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LP version. "A cornerstone of soulful reggae, Lover's Rock by Jamaican legend Delroy Wilson bridges his deep roots in ska and rocksteady with the smooth, romantic vibes of the UK's lovers rock movement. It's a noteworthy entry in the lovers rock canon and a testament to Wilson's versatility. Originally released in 1978 by Burning Sounds, this album captures Wilson's velvet-toned voice over laid-back riddims and heartfelt lyrics -- a perfect entry point for fans of both classic reggae and tender love songs. A must-have for collectors of golden-era reggae and lovers rock enthusiasts alike. Original UK pressing is increasingly rare and prized for its warm analogue sound and classic artwork. Recommended if you like: John Holt, Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown, Sugar Minott."
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"Two titanic forces in reggae history -- Roots Radics and The Mighty Revolutionaires -- unite for a powerful dubwise journey on Outernational Riddim. This long-anticipated collaboration blends heavyweight rhythms, militant drum patterns, and deep, atmospheric dubs that channel the essence of Jamaican roots music with a forward-thinking production style. The Roots Radics, known for backing icons like Gregory Isaacs, Barrington Levy, and Israel Vibration, bring their unmistakable heavyweight style to this session. Meanwhile, The Revolutionaires, studio legends behind countless Channel One classics, lace the tracks with their tight arrangements and classic rockers grooves. Produced and mixed in true dubwise tradition, Outernational Riddim delivers an essential release for fans of roots reggae, dub collectors, and sound system culture. From deep and meditative grooves to militant stepper rhythms, Outernational Riddim is a testament to the timeless strength of Jamaican instrumental reggae and dub -- an 'outernational' statement from two of reggae's most respected rhythm sections."
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LP version. "Two titanic forces in reggae history -- Roots Radics and The Mighty Revolutionaires -- unite for a powerful dubwise journey on Outernational Riddim. This long-anticipated collaboration blends heavyweight rhythms, militant drum patterns, and deep, atmospheric dubs that channel the essence of Jamaican roots music with a forward-thinking production style. The Roots Radics, known for backing icons like Gregory Isaacs, Barrington Levy, and Israel Vibration, bring their unmistakable heavyweight style to this session. Meanwhile, The Revolutionaires, studio legends behind countless Channel One classics, lace the tracks with their tight arrangements and classic rockers grooves. Produced and mixed in true dubwise tradition, Outernational Riddim delivers an essential release for fans of roots reggae, dub collectors, and sound system culture. From deep and meditative grooves to militant stepper rhythms, Outernational Riddim is a testament to the timeless strength of Jamaican instrumental reggae and dub -- an 'outernational' statement from two of reggae's most respected rhythm sections."
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"Until The End (The Lost Album) features recordings made by Wil Malone throughout 1970, possibly intended as a follow-up to Wil Malone -- Wil Malone, which was recorded in mid-1969 and mastered for release on Fontana Records on July 5, 1969. Recently unearthed from the Morgan Blue Town tape vaults, these tracks offer a compelling mix of '60s pop and bubblegum, diverging from the original album's string-heavy, progressive-psych sound. All the material comprises either demos or finished masters, recorded over several months. With the exception of the brass parts -- performed by session musicians -- all instruments were played by Wil Malone himself. It's a shame the debut didn't achieve greater commercial success, as it might have brought these follow-up recordings to light much earlier, back in the 1970s."
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"A psych-pop cult classic. The Orange Bicycle blends Beatles/Beach Boys‑inspired psychedelic-pop style and sun-drenched melodies. The Orange Bicycle captures the kaleidoscopic charm of late-'60s British psychedelia. Featuring lush arrangements, sitar-laced textures, and soaring vocal harmonies, this LP is a must for fans of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Zombies, Tomorrow, or early Pink Floyd."
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Further adventures of the WTF Band... because three letters are cheaper than therapy. The Idjuts and Minjung Kate Kim continue their campaign to replace BPM with LOL.
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Muito Kaballa return in style with a refined modern sound on Tomorrow A Flower for the London-based imprint Batov Records, blending indie pop, soul, hip hop, jazz, Brazilian rhythms, and West African grooves. Initially the solo project of tenor saxophonist and composer Niklas Mündemann, Muito Kaballa has grown into a full-blown ensemble, based between Cologne and Berlin. Tomorrow A Flower builds on the success of the ensemble's acclaimed Like a River album, whilst moving away from the previous album's strong jazz leanings, towards a more direct, contemporary yet sophisticated pop feel. Still oozing with soul, and nods to not only African funk and hip hop but strong modern references, including electronic pop favorites "Jungle By Night" and cosmic groove merchants Khruangbin. The album commences with "Loving You", a heartwarming yet almost melancholy groover simultaneously recalling both classic soul, and the contemporary soul of electronic maverick Jitwan. Held to earth by a steady mid-tempo snare-and-tambourine rhythm, whilst the irresistible harmonizing between voice and horn threatens to lift it off the ground as the vocal slowly unfolds. "In My Delir" follows perfectly. Featuring South African singer and KEXP fave, Petite Noir, and shaped in collaboration with Muito guitarist Benjamin Schneider, the song opens with a beguiling guitar riff that melts through the speakers like a disintegrating highlife loop. On the epic album standout, "Make Me Bigger," guest vocalist Jermain Peterson asks the listener to "take my hand and make me bigger", on a stirring ode to friendship and its power to overcome fears and self-doubt. West African grooves and Afrobeats support coiling vines of jazz, soul, and pop that will no doubt appeal to fans of SAULT, Michael Kiwanuka, and Yazmin Lacey. Tomorrow A Flower is a modern classic -- interlacing multiple genres of sound into new perspectives that complement each and leave room for the enchanting and original songs and sounds of Niklas Mündeman and Muito Kaballa.
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Kutiman joins Batov Records' Middle Eastern Grooves series with explosive double-sider. The release features two essential, souk-fueled, psych-funk heaters: "Haraka" and "Khamsin." A prolific musical force, Kutiman delivers the goods on "Haraka" ("movement"), layering neck-snapping rock drums, irresistible psychedelic basslines, and haunting organ riffs, with microtonal-bending synths and tablainspired percussion. On the B-side, "Khamsin" ("heatwave") continues the trip with another heavy dose of Middle Eastern psych and funk, culminating in a blistering guitar solo in his signature Middle Eastern style by longtime collaborator Uri Brauner Kinrot (Ouzo Bazooka, Boom Pam), who also contributes beguilingly languid bass guitar riffs.
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With effortless cool, Moriah Plaza blend Brazilian samba, cinematic Latin jazz and psychedelic '60s pop on new EP Propolis. This EP picks up from the where their debut album left off, except now presenting more of a collaborative effort from the relatively settled Berlin-based group of Tamir Chen (bass) and Moosh Lahav (keys, flute), originally from Tel Aviv and formerly of the shoegaze band Soda Fabric, alongside Gretchen Schadebrodt (vocals, guitar) from Chile and Alice Moss (drums) from the UK. Title track "Propolis," co-written with Brazilian poet and singer Cecília Erisman, carries a joyful Brazilian tone, recalling Os Mutantes and Hermeto Pascoal.
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Devianza, leading artist and owner of the label, returns to production by launching a new series of single-sided vinyl releases, each featuring only two tracks. The first instalment is a sonic catharsis rising from the very depths of a generous land, abundant with new seeds ready to sprout. Le Piante di Elena is a dreamlike homage to a primordial world -- untouched, pure, and still fertile. A tribute to a newborn bearer of the most radical values of a necessary humanism: a call to return to nature in its most spiritual and purest form.
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$28.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
Joanna Duda Trio's new album, Delighted, weaves a hypnotic tapestry of sound that immediately captivates the listener. From the very first note, the track invites you into a world where inventive rhythms and melodies dance with a mesmerizing intensity. The crispness of the percussion and the looming intensity of the double bass create a vivid sonic landscape that feels both fresh and accessible, while undeniably complex. Duda's composition is one of her strengths, having been sought out to compose the music for the first Polish film for Netflix Originals, Erotica (2022), and she again demonstrates her uncanny ability to blend subtle complexity with melodic piano hooks that ooze playfulness. Beneath the surface a darker, more menacing undertone that keeps the listener on edge.
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$28.50
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
Born from a profound devotion to the piano and a reverence for the organic flow of life, byt' surprises listeners by presenting Paths Of Sand, a remarkable creation by Amsterdam-based composer xico, offering sound and soul to those willing to listen beyond the surface. Through the magic of experimentation, xico captured the fleeting beauty of the muse of improvisation, as described by Nachmakovich, transforming the ephemeral into something lasting. Performances recorded on the same old piano during the 2023 Kaalstaart Festival in the Netherlands have since evolved into a fully realized work. A journey of nearly three years of dedicated silence that began with Telva's intuitive recognition of xico's voice, starting with an invitation to her radio show and blossoming into a captivating fascination with what unfolded. This process led to the art of shaping the selected live recordings into a collector's item, now materialized as a limited edition of 200 pressed vinyl copies, forever remaining as an artistic memento. Perfectly attuned to the energy of the autumn equinox, Paths Of Sand unfolds as an intimate reflection of music's ability to hold what cannot be held, to speak what cannot be said, and to embody what can never be described. xico is a sound artist and improviser from Ibiza whose work explores the merging point between disruptive and post-natural soundscapes, crafting immersive sonic environments through compositions that unfold like ecosystems. Encouraged by an understanding of chance as nature's and awareness' most accessible voice, he focuses on creating generative live-sets with varying degrees of unpredictability. For him, subordinating human intention to nature's order is a conscious choice, and making art through this lens becomes a statement and a spiritual practice. With his distinctive touch, his compositions resonate with the world in unexpected and profound ways, offering experiences you may never have heard before.
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$135.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
For its 25th anniversary, Cocoon Recordings returns to its roots with an elaborate vinyl LP box set, marking the first part of a two-volume anniversary project. 25 Years Cocoon Recordings: Volume One brings together exclusive contributions from international artists who have defined the sound and diversity of the label over the past two decades, complemented by fresh talents who are helping to shape its future. This is more than just a compilation. It is both a homage to the label's history and a glimpse into what lies ahead. With exclusive tracks that embody the Cocoon sound in all its depth and complexity, this release marks a milestone in the legacy of one of electronic music's most influential labels, arguably the strongest compilation in Cocoon's history. The luxurious 5x12" box set features a spectral-reflective foil finish and includes contributions from renowned names such as Butch, Robag Wruhme, Josh Wink, Guy J, and Dino Lenny, alongside longtime companions of the label including Extrawelt, Harvey McKay, Johannes Volk, and Raxon. New discoveries of recent years, Jonathan Kaspar and Riccardo De Polo, enrich the release in their own distinctive ways. The compilation is completed by the unmistakable talents of Damiano von Erckert, Fedele, and ja:ck, who provide the perfect conclusion to the first of two parts.
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COSMR 043LP
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$23.50
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
Mentioned on Julian Cope's essential guide Jap Rock Sampler, Food Brain released their debut album in 1970, gathering influences from prog, proto-hard and psychedelic music. By far a supergroup consisting of Shinki Chen (Speed, Glue and Shinki), Hiro Yanagida (Milk Time) and Hiro Tsunoda (Flied Egg), the band showed an incredible interplay on their nine instrumental pieces, generating a cult following aboard.
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$23.50
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
A generous and off-the-track psych-rock experiment, Space Hymns originally saw the light in 1971 on influential UK company Vertigo, home of the most forward-thinking prog bands of the time. Enlisting the pure genius of the future 10 CC Kevin Godley (drums, flute) and Lol Creme (lead guitar, synth), the band was led by esoteric frontman Ramases (aka Kimberly Barrington Frost). The vocalist had a vision in the mind to late sixties where the Egyptian Pharaoh informed him he was his new incarnation. Take a trip to the moon and back!
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CVSD 125CD
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$13.50
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
It's not a stretch to say that saxophonist and clarinetist Ken Vandermark's path into creative music was paved by Joe McPhee. In particular, McPhee's landmark 1976 LP Tenor -- recorded casually in a Swiss chalet and featuring four new compositions that effortlessly combined experimentation and lyricism -- was Vandermark's ear-opener. The two musicians would go on to begin a fruitful working relationship in 1996, a partnership that continues today, and now Vandermark has paid homage to his friend and mentor with a suite of compositions and improvisations. These solo works, performed on an array of horns (clarinet, bass clarinet, baritone and of course tenor saxophone), are as melodious and unapologetically beautiful as anything in Vandermark's oeuvre, interweaving tremendous swells of emotion and ingenious linear inventions. Vandermark played the six pieces in the suite in front of an invited audience at Corbett vs. Dempsey, the gallery's natural acoustic drawing out every nuance of his playing. He augmented the suite, each part of which is named for a flower with significance to McPhee or Vandermark, with several powerful free improvisations, all titled after "filler flowers," making the entire program a bouquet for Mr. McPhee. Exquisitely documented by Alex Inglizian, with cover art by Arch Connelly and liner notes by Vandermark.
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$27.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
Who was that masked man? This question is on many lips having seen and heard the Defiant Jazz episode of the hit TV show Severance, the one in which the show's protagonists are allowed a company dance party, accompanied by a light show and increasingly wild, funky, saxophone-driven music. The masked man? None other than Joe McPhee, Poughkeepsie, New York's best kept secret, one of the great figures of contemporary improvised music. A living legend looming large, you might say. And now a presence in households around the globe. This "taster" is more than a "best of" record. Defiant Jazz includes "Shakey Jake," the dance party track, a funky upsetter from 1970 that shimmies and rolls at the same time it builds and explodes. The vinyl-only compilation then moves across time, touching on another early track, the spiritual jazz classic "Astral Spirits," from the 1972 CJR LP Trinity and a 1983 version of the Sonny Rollins tune "Oleo" from the hat Hut LP of the same name, with psychedelic guitar outbursts courtesy of Raymond Boni. The second side opens with "I See You Baby Shakin' That Ass," a self-proclaimed "throwdown" with McPhee as emcee and flamethrowing saxophonist, fronting two bands, Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing. A dance floor jack-in-the-box for anyone unlucky enough not to have heard it yet. The program concludes with a sensitive tenor/drum duet between McPhee and Paal Nilssen-Love. The cover features previously unpublished vintage photos of McPhee. If you already know Mr. McPhee's music, this compilation is designed to fulfill, and if you're new to him, it will thrill and chill. Win-win.
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DAMGOOD 630CD
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$16.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
"Holly Golightly is back with her first new album since Do The Get Along! It features ten new original songs all offering Holly's unique look at life and reflecting its many ups and downs. As always, the darker songs are offset with lighter offerings -- it also wouldn't be a Holly Golightly album if there wasn't a sharp caustic track or two included."
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DAMGOOD 630LP
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$23.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
LP version. "Holly Golightly is back with her first new album since Do The Get Along! It features ten new original songs all offering Holly's unique look at life and reflecting its many ups and downs. As always, the darker songs are offset with lighter offerings -- it also wouldn't be a Holly Golightly album if there wasn't a sharp caustic track or two included."
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$16.00
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"Stella Donnelly returns with a deeply personal and anchored album, a body of work that traces the journey back to herself after a period of profound change. Recorded in Naarm/Melbourne, the album carries the grounding energy of place, offering a sonic landscape that feels both intimate and expansive. Joining Donnelly on the record are longtime collaborators and friends Marcel Tussie, Sophie Ozard, Julia Wallace, Timothy Harvey, and Ellie Mason, whose playing brings a looseness and vitality to the music, holding space for Donnelly's voice to shine in its most tender and unguarded forms."
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$25.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
LP version. "Stella Donnelly returns with a deeply personal and anchored album, a body of work that traces the journey back to herself after a period of profound change. Recorded in Naarm/Melbourne, the album carries the grounding energy of place, offering a sonic landscape that feels both intimate and expansive. Joining Donnelly on the record are longtime collaborators and friends Marcel Tussie, Sophie Ozard, Julia Wallace, Timothy Harvey, and Ellie Mason, whose playing brings a looseness and vitality to the music, holding space for Donnelly's voice to shine in its most tender and unguarded forms."
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$25.00
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LP version. Color vinyl. "Stella Donnelly returns with a deeply personal and anchored album, a body of work that traces the journey back to herself after a period of profound change. Recorded in Naarm/Melbourne, the album carries the grounding energy of place, offering a sonic landscape that feels both intimate and expansive. Joining Donnelly on the record are longtime collaborators and friends Marcel Tussie, Sophie Ozard, Julia Wallace, Timothy Harvey, and Ellie Mason, whose playing brings a looseness and vitality to the music, holding space for Donnelly's voice to shine in its most tender and unguarded forms."
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$18.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
"Introducing the Bayside Beat of The Gnomes! Although they emerged from Melbourne bayside outer suburbs onto the local live scene with their fresh and spirited indie-rock update of the garage-beat sounds of The Easybeats, Kinks and early Beatles only recently, Gnomes actually started out as a bedroom solo project for teenaged singer/songwriter/ guitarist Jay Millar a few years back. Jay, playing everything himself, started recording and releasing a steady succession of material -- quite a few albums' worth -- on his own Goblin Records label via Bandcamp. Realizing he needed a band to start playing out, Jay approached some like-minded players from Frankston's rehearsal hub Singing Bird, and with Jay on lead vocals and lead guitar, Ned Capp on guitar, Olly Katsianis on bass, and Ethan Robins on drums, Gnomes became a band. Early in 2025, the last solo Jay recordings released under the Gnome name caused something of an international underground sensation when the Bandcamp only I Like It EP -- four songs of kranked up Kinks-style mono riffage -- was posted by a Spanish garage-punk YouTube page and quickly clocked up over 50,000 views. At the same time, the band quickly began gaining attention on the thriving Frankston scene and around Melbourne. They started breaking out, sharing bills with the likes of Drunk Mums, Skegss, Split System, The Prize, The Unknowns, Cosmic Psychos, Hockey Dad, Guitar Wolf, The 5.6.7.8's, The Breadmakers, Loose Lips, fellow Frankstoners/Singing Bird alumni The Belair Lip Bombs, and, on a quick trip to Sydney, Cammy Cautious & The Wrestlers. And now, finally, comes The Gnomes' debut album. Twelve killer tracks that combine the best of the '60s with the best of today. Twelve killer tracks that show off assertive and accomplished songwriting, singing and playing and an explosive and authentic swinging group sound. Twelve killers slices of raw rock'n'roll running the gamut from savage Rhythm & Blues to vibrant beat pop, with forays into heavy reverb psych, Cavern/Star Club stylings and first flyte jangle along the way. There's more of course, including a new version of that Kinks-style kranker 'I Like It' for good measure. Frankston's Fab Four are taking their sound to the world. Join them for the ride!"
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LP version. "Introducing the Bayside Beat of The Gnomes! Although they emerged from Melbourne bayside outer suburbs onto the local live scene with their fresh and spirited indie-rock update of the garage-beat sounds of The Easybeats, Kinks and early Beatles only recently, Gnomes actually started out as a bedroom solo project for teenaged singer/songwriter/ guitarist Jay Millar a few years back. Jay, playing everything himself, started recording and releasing a steady succession of material -- quite a few albums' worth -- on his own Goblin Records label via Bandcamp. Realizing he needed a band to start playing out, Jay approached some like-minded players from Frankston's rehearsal hub Singing Bird, and with Jay on lead vocals and lead guitar, Ned Capp on guitar, Olly Katsianis on bass, and Ethan Robins on drums, Gnomes became a band. Early in 2025, the last solo Jay recordings released under the Gnome name caused something of an international underground sensation when the Bandcamp only I Like It EP -- four songs of kranked up Kinks-style mono riffage -- was posted by a Spanish garage-punk YouTube page and quickly clocked up over 50,000 views. At the same time, the band quickly began gaining attention on the thriving Frankston scene and around Melbourne. They started breaking out, sharing bills with the likes of Drunk Mums, Skegss, Split System, The Prize, The Unknowns, Cosmic Psychos, Hockey Dad, Guitar Wolf, The 5.6.7.8's, The Breadmakers, Loose Lips, fellow Frankstoners/Singing Bird alumni The Belair Lip Bombs, and, on a quick trip to Sydney, Cammy Cautious & The Wrestlers. And now, finally, comes The Gnomes' debut album. Twelve killer tracks that combine the best of the '60s with the best of today. Twelve killer tracks that show off assertive and accomplished songwriting, singing and playing and an explosive and authentic swinging group sound. Twelve killers slices of raw rock'n'roll running the gamut from savage Rhythm & Blues to vibrant beat pop, with forays into heavy reverb psych, Cavern/Star Club stylings and first flyte jangle along the way. There's more of course, including a new version of that Kinks-style kranker 'I Like It' for good measure. Frankston's Fab Four are taking their sound to the world. Join them for the ride!"
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$29.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
LP version. Color vinyl. "Introducing the Bayside Beat of The Gnomes! Although they emerged from Melbourne bayside outer suburbs onto the local live scene with their fresh and spirited indie-rock update of the garage-beat sounds of The Easybeats, Kinks and early Beatles only recently, Gnomes actually started out as a bedroom solo project for teenaged singer/songwriter/ guitarist Jay Millar a few years back. Jay, playing everything himself, started recording and releasing a steady succession of material -- quite a few albums' worth -- on his own Goblin Records label via Bandcamp. Realizing he needed a band to start playing out, Jay approached some like-minded players from Frankston's rehearsal hub Singing Bird, and with Jay on lead vocals and lead guitar, Ned Capp on guitar, Olly Katsianis on bass, and Ethan Robins on drums, Gnomes became a band. Early in 2025, the last solo Jay recordings released under the Gnome name caused something of an international underground sensation when the Bandcamp only I Like It EP -- four songs of kranked up Kinks-style mono riffage -- was posted by a Spanish garage-punk YouTube page and quickly clocked up over 50,000 views. At the same time, the band quickly began gaining attention on the thriving Frankston scene and around Melbourne. They started breaking out, sharing bills with the likes of Drunk Mums, Skegss, Split System, The Prize, The Unknowns, Cosmic Psychos, Hockey Dad, Guitar Wolf, The 5.6.7.8's, The Breadmakers, Loose Lips, fellow Frankstoners/Singing Bird alumni The Belair Lip Bombs, and, on a quick trip to Sydney, Cammy Cautious & The Wrestlers. And now, finally, comes The Gnomes' debut album. Twelve killer tracks that combine the best of the '60s with the best of today. Twelve killer tracks that show off assertive and accomplished songwriting, singing and playing and an explosive and authentic swinging group sound. Twelve killers slices of raw rock'n'roll running the gamut from savage Rhythm & Blues to vibrant beat pop, with forays into heavy reverb psych, Cavern/Star Club stylings and first flyte jangle along the way. There's more of course, including a new version of that Kinks-style kranker 'I Like It' for good measure. Frankston's Fab Four are taking their sound to the world. Join them for the ride!"
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DUST 134CD
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$18.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
"Fragments was a completely new way of working for us. We've always worked with an internal brief, creating documents, pictures and videos, simply because keeping an idea on track with three individuals can be difficult. It's easy for someone to be edged out of the creative process when the focus is not clearly defined. It's a formula we've used since the early 2000s, but things have changed a lot since then, particularly when we decided to dip our collective toes into supporter memberships with Patreon. It made us think about what we could do directly for our supporters rather than just the next album or project. At first, the whole thing felt odd and uncomfortable, but we decided that we'd try a few things and ask for feedback. Fragments was initially a way for us to see how we could include others in an ongoing creative process. There was no over-arching concept, no defined characteristics or purpose, just the promise that there would be at least one new track for members to download every month. Consequently, we never knew what was coming next, so the old, very focused working method was irrelevant. It was difficult for us to let individual tracks go without knowing what was coming next, but this also made the project more interesting. And then C19 hit and we were forced to continue the project remotely from our home studios. As difficult as the disruption was, it was during this period that we realized we could reorganize and remaster the individual tracks into a coherent album, capturing a specific moment in time and drawing a line under the first phase of the project. Like our Allegory EPs, we've tried to keep everything stripped back. We used to hide many subtle elements within the layers, but not so much this time. Fragments is our journey through many changes, both self-imposed and those imposed upon us, and it ultimately led us to create things differently. We hope you like it." --The Black Dog
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$45.50
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RELEASE DATE: 11/7/2025
Double LP version. "Fragments was a completely new way of working for us. We've always worked with an internal brief, creating documents, pictures and videos, simply because keeping an idea on track with three individuals can be difficult. It's easy for someone to be edged out of the creative process when the focus is not clearly defined. It's a formula we've used since the early 2000s, but things have changed a lot since then, particularly when we decided to dip our collective toes into supporter memberships with Patreon. It made us think about what we could do directly for our supporters rather than just the next album or project. At first, the whole thing felt odd and uncomfortable, but we decided that we'd try a few things and ask for feedback. Fragments was initially a way for us to see how we could include others in an ongoing creative process. There was no over-arching concept, no defined characteristics or purpose, just the promise that there would be at least one new track for members to download every month. Consequently, we never knew what was coming next, so the old, very focused working method was irrelevant. It was difficult for us to let individual tracks go without knowing what was coming next, but this also made the project more interesting. And then C19 hit and we were forced to continue the project remotely from our home studios. As difficult as the disruption was, it was during this period that we realized we could reorganize and remaster the individual tracks into a coherent album, capturing a specific moment in time and drawing a line under the first phase of the project. Like our Allegory EPs, we've tried to keep everything stripped back. We used to hide many subtle elements within the layers, but not so much this time. Fragments is our journey through many changes, both self-imposed and those imposed upon us, and it ultimately led us to create things differently. We hope you like it." --The Black Dog
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$30.50
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Elations Recordings presents Depois do Silêncio, an intimate, forward-looking acoustic bass, digital keyboard and synthesizer recording by Brazilian avant-garde jazz luminaries Zeca Assumpção and Lelo Nazario. This release celebrates almost fifty years of the duo's friendship and musical affinity, continuing a musical dialogue between long-time collaborators. The duo began working together with Hermeto Pascoal's Grupo Vice Versa in the mid-1970s before forging one of Brazil's most adventurous experimental jazz groups Grupo Um in 1976; releasing three albums with a shared avant-garde and lateral, exploratory approach to sound fusing jazz and contemporary synthesis with expanded and prepared acoustic playing. Depois do Silêncio reflects the duo's long development of a shared conception of music, resulting in a work that is both timeless and modern. The music on the album was primarily recorded in Nazario's UTOPIA Studio, São Paulo, in 1994, featuring Assumpção on acoustic bass and Nazario on his newly acquired Ensoniq TS-12; these recordings were supplemented with acoustic bass for "Quintal da Memória" in 2018 and completed with an additional layer of rich, complex analog and virtual synthesis following their rediscovery of the material in 2022. Assumpção's deeply expressive acoustic bass playing forms the backbone of these compositions, augmented by Nazario's expansive and exploratory approach to synthesis, its constantly shifting timbres "making music a living organism, which adapts to situations as they appear." Nazario explains that "although the themes are written, much of the music is improvised based on an organic development of ideas, all intertwined and interrelated exactly as happens in a living organism." The album title Depois do Silêncio ("After Silence") references a phrase by the writer Aldous Huxley; "after silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Assumpção and Nazario continue a search for new forms of musical expression, and here they succeed in creating music that "expand[s] the sound of musical instruments, so opening new horizons in the minds of listeners."
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$40.00
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Widely regarded as one of the most uncompromising works in experimental noise, Kevin Drumm's Sheer Hellish Miasma is once again available on vinyl. First released on CD in 2002 on the original Mego label, the album remains a landmark in extreme electronic sound and is an essential and ferocious document of Drumm at his most inventive. The history of Drumm's Sheer Hellish Miasma is one of resilience to the twists of underground trends that have come and gone since its initial release. Using guitar, tape manipulation, microphones, pedals, analog synthesizers, and subtle computer processing, Sheer Hellish Miasma is an overwhelming experience: a sonic onslaught of storming feedback, fractured textures and an unrelenting energy. At once brutal and meticulously composed, the album offers a singular vision at the outermost edges of sound art. For seasoned noise veterans, Sheer Hellish Miasma offers a bracing soundscape filled with exquisitely abrasive textures and more than enough hidden detail to warrant repeated listening -- a distinct voice in the increasingly same-sounding world of abstract electronic noise. For everyone else, Drumm's journey through the noisy underworld is likely to inspire fear or, in an optimistic case, fearful admiration. Drumm's Sheer Hellish Miasma is an abstract noise classic with this 2LP reissue being an artefact of eternal power. Gatefold sleeve, gold pantone print. Includes hot foil stamping.
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$18.00
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Eudemonia marks a significant milestone with its 20th release: Cerebral Waves, the debut EP from Irish sound engineer and producer Kevin O'Reilly, known under his alias Otherend. This four-track collection dives deep into the electro continuum, weaving together cerebral rhythms, acidic textures, and cosmic atmospheres. The EP includes three original tracks built around crisp drum patterns and spacious synths, offering a thoughtful take on electro with subtle cosmic touches. It closes with a remix from Sound Synthesis, who brings a smooth melodic drive while keeping the release's spacey character intact.
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Jonathan Kaspar returns to These Eyes with his long-awaited Time EP -- his third release on the label after six years. Known for his deep, emotive productions, Kaspar takes a bold step forward on this EP, exploring more unconventional, off-kilter sounds while still delivering his signature groove. The release also features a special moment for the artist: "Where Are You," his very first ambient track, showcasing a new, introspective side of his sound.
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"Brown Acid: The Twenty-First Trip arriving right on time as the world at large degrades further into disorienting self-absorbed isolation and chaos. Ten powerful early hard rock brain benders, primal energy exploding sideways out of the ash heap of '60s idealism, rocking the darker side of human nature in style! Raw and unfiltered, no compromise, blasting gnarly sound perfectly sequenced to take you on one helluva ride! Every track sounds fresh today because Brown Acid is the real deal when it comes to what matters in music -- communication! Featuring Opus Est, Freedom North, Franki Hart, Accents, Brother Love, River Styx, Maxx, Pump, 29.9, Wakefield, and Peacepipe."
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LP version. "Brown Acid: The Twenty-First Trip arriving right on time as the world at large degrades further into disorienting self-absorbed isolation and chaos. Ten powerful early hard rock brain benders, primal energy exploding sideways out of the ash heap of '60s idealism, rocking the darker side of human nature in style! Raw and unfiltered, no compromise, blasting gnarly sound perfectly sequenced to take you on one helluva ride! Every track sounds fresh today because Brown Acid is the real deal when it comes to what matters in music -- communication! Featuring Opus Est, Freedom North, Franki Hart, Accents, Brother Love, River Styx, Maxx, Pump, 29.9, Wakefield, and Peacepipe."
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BDK lands on Footjob for his label debut, serving up a four-track EP of disco-laced dancefloor power. The Belfast producer delivers high-octane, funky-driven, floor-focused cuts packed with punchy drums. A guaranteed lift to any house/disco set.
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$40.00
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Frozen Reeds presents Mark Fell's Psychic Resynthesis, an instrumental work performed by Explore Ensemble. This double LP, with included digital download, is the label's eighth release, arriving 13 years after its foundation. Fell is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and theorist based in Rotherham, UK. Renowned for his rigorous and conceptual approach to electronic music and sound art, his work explores the limits of structure, rhythm, and perception through a blend of computational systems, philosophical inquiry, and cultural critique. Over the last decade, Fell's practice has visibly shifted from a world of technical intricacy and myopic microdetail to one of collaboration and community. He has purposefully sought out diverse musical partners from a wide variety of traditions and disciplines and found equally diverse ways to work and create together -- not to integrate their playing into a musical fusion, but rather to discover how such combinations of approaches and experience can stimulate unique and heretofore unheard results. The music here emerges from a commission for contemporary chamber group Explore Ensemble, situating Fell's work in a new context entirely. Having been a notable critic of classical music's slavish adherence to traditional musical notation, "the score," and its associated issues of control and hierarchy, one might expect a provocative or abrasive approach. Instead, a work of deep, tonal introspection unfolds -- an elegant structure navigating the artist's trepidatious relationship with linear or timeline-based musical approaches. In Fell's selection of timbres and events, the dynamic of composer and performer is interrupted by his twin adoption of system and flexibility. Mathematical determination and sonic fixation vie for dominance. The conflict governing combinations. Upsetting preconceived strategies. Published in an edition of 777 double LPs, with included digital download, the result, Psychic Resynthesis, represents both a prismatic object for repeated examination and an abstruse table of musical correspondences. Artwork and design by Mark Fell. Mastering by Jim O'Rourke.
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British producer Shackleton has transformed Saagara's highly acclaimed 2024 album 3 into a haunting, dub-infused counterpart. What began as a remix request evolved into a full-length reinterpretation, where Saagara's intricate blend of South Indian percussion, jazz, and electronic elements enters a dark, atmospheric dialogue with Shackleton's shapeshifting soundscapes. The result is a captivating rework that stands beautifully alongside the original, subtly amplifying its drama while adding new layers of depth and mystery. 3 made itself right at home in the tak:til universe as soon as it was released to considerable acclaim, quickly becoming as much of a touchstone for the label's Fourth World aesthetic as Jon Hassell, 75 Dollar Bill, and Sirom. A mind-twisting conference of jazz clarinet and sax, Carnatic percussion from South India and the kind of minutely textured electronic music that doesn't mind if you sit down (but would definitely prefer you to dance), the band's first album for seven years was well worth waiting for. What had Wacław Zimpel been up to in the meantime? Those seven years appear to have been extremely well-spent. What's been picked up on the way? For one, the conviction that the studio is as much of an instrument as the clarinet, the sax and indeed the percussion and violin that Saagara's elite line-up of Giridhar Udupa, Aggu Baba, K Raja and Mysore N. Karthik have spent their whole lives mastering. And it's to the studio that 3 has been led once again, in the form of this brilliant set by a British experimental electronicist celebrated for his groundbreaking dubstep productions and, latterly, for his more ambient and minimalist work and a series of high-profile collaborations (Pinch, Six Organs of Admittance, Holy Tongue and, indeed, Wacław Zimpel). At every point as beautifully coiled and weighted as 3, it matches the original for drama, trades blows with it, squints at it, smiles at it, waves at it and just as often picks its pocket. There's a little more darkness in these versions, Lancashire rain rather more than the heat and dust of Southern India, perhaps; but it's recognizably an exchange of love and respect that will get owners of both records scuttling backwards and forwards between the two. Wacław's lovely description of 3 as "interstellar folk" places that record firmly within one of music's more fascinating recent currents: the meeting of electronics and global roots, often anchored by drone, a fascination with minimalism and the kind of progressive retrofuturism that always seems to emerge at times of crisis.
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A voice, timeless as the desert, swirls up like the sirocco, drenched in cavernous reverberation, accompanied by the solitary, meditative swells of the ardine, an acoustic harp that dials in the fundamental frequency of Noura Mint Seymali's music. A brief pause, and the same refrain returns, this time picked out on a heavily flanged electric guitar, grounded by thunderous drums and growling electric bass. And there's that voice again -- direct and urgent, careening off into wild ululations and refracted echo. That's the opening two tracks on Yenbett, the brand-new album by Mauritanian force of nature, Noura Mint Seymali. In just under four and a half minutes, these two versions of the song "Lehjibb" set the tone for what's to come -- a trance-inducing and ferociously evocative blend of ancient Northwest African musical tradition and searing, electrified Saharan future rock. Noura Mint Seymali is a living embodiment of musical tradition. She hails from a family of musical visionaries: her father, Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall, was a renowned composer and scholar and her stepmother, Dimi Mint Abba, was a cherished singer and performer. Seymali is a practicing griot -- equal parts poet, singer, musician, historian and cultural custodian -- and a living embodiment of Mauritania's tradition of Moorish griot music. "The griot are highly respected lineages in our culture and are a source of social cohesion and social history that endures," Seymali explains. "We are still a kind of mirror for society, reflecting back the social bonds and history to the people. It's still the griot who are the artist celebrants of traditional weddings and ceremonies. And it's still griot representing the culture as artist ambassadors." In this role, Seymali performs as a powerful vocalist with both a deep connection to the griot's timeless repertoire, and an urge to create fresh, contemporary messages. Rounding out the band are bassist Ousmane Touré, and on drums Matthew Tinari -- an American who has resided in Senegal for many years. Tinari also co-produced the album, together with Mikey Coltun, best known as bassist with Tuareg rock pioneers Mdou Moctar. It's no surprise, then, that Yenbett smolders with a languid fire comparable to the desert blues played by West African groups such as Mdou Moctar. Certainly, Seymali can see a connection between the blues and West African music. "It's sewn from the same cloth," she says.
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LP version. A voice, timeless as the desert, swirls up like the sirocco, drenched in cavernous reverberation, accompanied by the solitary, meditative swells of the ardine, an acoustic harp that dials in the fundamental frequency of Noura Mint Seymali's music. A brief pause, and the same refrain returns, this time picked out on a heavily flanged electric guitar, grounded by thunderous drums and growling electric bass. And there's that voice again -- direct and urgent, careening off into wild ululations and refracted echo. That's the opening two tracks on Yenbett, the brand-new album by Mauritanian force of nature, Noura Mint Seymali. In just under four and a half minutes, these two versions of the song "Lehjibb" set the tone for what's to come -- a trance-inducing and ferociously evocative blend of ancient Northwest African musical tradition and searing, electrified Saharan future rock. Noura Mint Seymali is a living embodiment of musical tradition. She hails from a family of musical visionaries: her father, Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall, was a renowned composer and scholar and her stepmother, Dimi Mint Abba, was a cherished singer and performer. Seymali is a practicing griot -- equal parts poet, singer, musician, historian and cultural custodian -- and a living embodiment of Mauritania's tradition of Moorish griot music. "The griot are highly respected lineages in our culture and are a source of social cohesion and social history that endures," Seymali explains. "We are still a kind of mirror for society, reflecting back the social bonds and history to the people. It's still the griot who are the artist celebrants of traditional weddings and ceremonies. And it's still griot representing the culture as artist ambassadors." In this role, Seymali performs as a powerful vocalist with both a deep connection to the griot's timeless repertoire, and an urge to create fresh, contemporary messages. Rounding out the band are bassist Ousmane Touré, and on drums Matthew Tinari -- an American who has resided in Senegal for many years. Tinari also co-produced the album, together with Mikey Coltun, best known as bassist with Tuareg rock pioneers Mdou Moctar. It's no surprise, then, that Yenbett smolders with a languid fire comparable to the desert blues played by West African groups such as Mdou Moctar. Certainly, Seymali can see a connection between the blues and West African music. "It's sewn from the same cloth," she says.
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Manteca, the London Latin jazz/salsa funk combo, are back with a first-time vinyl release of their brilliant digital album Oye from 2014. Oye is a collection of heavy-duty Latin music that reaches well beyond the standard salsa or Cuban dance-band style, appealing to anyone and everyone, from mambo dancers to B-boys, jazz brothers to soul sisters! Led by Colombian singer Martha Acosta and bassist Javier Fioramonti, who have played with everyone from Roberto Pla and Candela, to Alex Wilson's groups and Salsa Celtica, as well as backing Latin legends such as Joe Bataan, Jack Costanzo, Henry Fiol and Azuquita, this band really cooks! "Que Pasa" is smoking Latin funk, this will get your head nodding and foot tapping for sure. "Oye," a lovely mid-tempo Afrobeat/Latin jazz fusion number with punching brass and super-funky kit playing. There are three cover versions on the album: Horace Silver's "The Jody Grind," a 1960s Blue Note Records soul jazz classic. Manteca does it justice, taking the original and turning it into a heavy Mongo Santamaria style funky Latin soul belter. Sergio Mendes' "Groovy Samba" is also given the 1960s Mongo "Watermelon Man" style Latin soul jazz treatment. Very hip arrangement, and some fantastic brass soloing in there too. The last one is a brave choice. It's the timeless bolero standard "Como Fue," which the band plays beautifully. "Para Pello" ("For Pello"), a conga-style big percussive beat that evolved from Afro-Cuban street carnivals. Secondly, "Bomba Chevere", a blend of Puerto Rican bomba and Colombian cumbia. The big Afro-Cuban track of the album is "Descarga China", which has two different mixes. One is a descarga funk mix with some heavyweight kit playing and smoking trumpet soloing, while the other is a more straight-ahead Latin jam with Javier's upright bass playing underpinning the whole number in a very Cachao way. Big shouts to the whole band, which features some of the best musicians from the London Latin music scene of the last three decades. This London Latin music gem has been crying out for a vinyl release for over a decade. At last, it's here. Slap it on the turntable, drop the needle on track one, turn the volume up, press play and be ready to dance. Standing still is NOT an option!
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Named after the galactic location of the nearest black hole to Earth, Connecticut psychedelic band NGC-4594 only issued one single during their brief existence in 1967, Skipping Through The Night (truly an acid-head anthem) backed with "Going Home." Rumors of a lost, unissued full album started to circulate until psych music researcher Gray Newell found it. Top shelf acid-rock/psychedelia, highly recommended if you dig Country Joe & The Fish, Jefferson Airplane, Spirit, Doors, H.P. Lovecraft, Love. LP + 7" single, housed in a hard cardboard sleeve. Remastered sound. Insert with liner notes by Gray Newell and photos.
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On H008, Len Faki goes back to his crate for a unique journey through synth-led landscapes, carefully selected and bolstered up for the dancefloor. Starting with "2000 And One - Edge Of No Return" from the mid-2000s, when it was just a standout synth-line -- no beats. The "Hardspace Mix" takes this masterclass in building tension, adds a driving beat and searing percussion. The flip boasts two of longtime Figure-collaborator Viers' productions. "Re-L", released almost ten years ago, it delivered that unmistakable pulse of deep, dubby, shimmering synths. Equally energetic but much more brooding in atmosphere is the Hardspace version of "Free Your Mind".
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Dam Swindle's new Backyard Galaxy EP is an ode to house music and the classic Swindle sound. "Feel it Much?" has all the ingredients of a classic Swindle heater, with warm pads, rich organic percussion and tons of soul. There's a simple and effective vocal running throughout the track that blends nicely with the classic house elements and electronic textures that are layered throughout the track. "Backyard Galaxy" is an up-tempo Latin-themed jam with a hint of old school techno. You move into garage territory with the shuffling vibes of "Rhythm Baby". The EP closes with the NY-style house cut "What You Give".
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"Scattered notes stretch time, their repetitions evoking the infinite iridescence of dawn -- a ritual as inevitable as it is unpredictable. Melaine Dalibert's Musique pour le lever du jour, composed over two years and completed in 2017, was envisioned as 'an infinite piece,' without beginning or end. Subtle, intangible, both complex and minimal, this hour-long work -- dedicated to pianist Stéphane Ginsburgh -- lets silence and resonance blossom into shifting colors. Released by Elsewhere Music (run by Yuko Zama), the album was among France Musique's 100 best of 2018. Its abstract cover was created by David Sylvian. Dalibert has since performed the piece in varied settings, from dawn to dusk, leading him to craft a condensed 20-minute version more suited to live performance. During this period, he released three more albums on Elsewhere, each featuring artwork by Sylvian -- an artist Dalibert first admired through his experimental works like Blemish and Manafon. Sylvian, best known as the voice of Japan (1974-1982), has also built a significant ambient legacy, collaborating with Holger Czukay, Jon Hassell, Robert Fripp, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Christian Fennesz, and Stephan Mathieu. Their connection naturally led to his contribution on two tracks of Dalibert's 2021 Night Blossoms, subtly enriching its piano textures with electronic color. The two new pieces of Vermilion Hours mark a culmination. With a generational bridge -- Dalibert (b. 1979), Sylvian (1958), Czukay (1938) -- this project reinterprets Musique in a slower, more resonant form, allowing Sylvian's restrained electronics to gently 'baroquize' the texture. Dalibert's Arabesque, also featured, embodies his systematic yet humanized approach."
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LP version. "Scattered notes stretch time, their repetitions evoking the infinite iridescence of dawn -- a ritual as inevitable as it is unpredictable. Melaine Dalibert's Musique pour le lever du jour, composed over two years and completed in 2017, was envisioned as 'an infinite piece,' without beginning or end. Subtle, intangible, both complex and minimal, this hour-long work -- dedicated to pianist Stéphane Ginsburgh -- lets silence and resonance blossom into shifting colors. Released by Elsewhere Music (run by Yuko Zama), the album was among France Musique's 100 best of 2018. Its abstract cover was created by David Sylvian. Dalibert has since performed the piece in varied settings, from dawn to dusk, leading him to craft a condensed 20-minute version more suited to live performance. During this period, he released three more albums on Elsewhere, each featuring artwork by Sylvian -- an artist Dalibert first admired through his experimental works like Blemish and Manafon. Sylvian, best known as the voice of Japan (1974-1982), has also built a significant ambient legacy, collaborating with Holger Czukay, Jon Hassell, Robert Fripp, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Christian Fennesz, and Stephan Mathieu. Their connection naturally led to his contribution on two tracks of Dalibert's 2021 Night Blossoms, subtly enriching its piano textures with electronic color. The two new pieces of Vermilion Hours mark a culmination. With a generational bridge -- Dalibert (b. 1979), Sylvian (1958), Czukay (1938) -- this project reinterprets Musique in a slower, more resonant form, allowing Sylvian's restrained electronics to gently 'baroquize' the texture. Dalibert's Arabesque, also featured, embodies his systematic yet humanized approach."
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"At last, a memorable and listenable meeting between jazz and new music returns. At the 1971 Donaueschingen Music Festival, which has become a pioneering meeting not only for new music ever since, Don Cherry and Krzysztof Penderecki performed together with the illustrious personnel of the New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra in a concert that continues to be memorable and well worth a listen. The concert recording was released as a vinyl album by the WERGO label and has been unavailable for many years. After an extensive technical sound restoration using 24-bit digital remastering, Intuition is now releasing Actions on 180g vinyl."
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Splatter color vinyl. The Cure, live in Sydney on August 17, 1981. FM broadcast. Color vinyl. The Cure in their early days broadcasted on the Australian FM radio while at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney for their legendary "World Picture" tour. A breath-taking set, with remastered audio, "Charlotte Sometimes" played live for the second time in their career, along with a plethora of hits from their early days.
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Splatter color vinyl version. The Jam live at The Rat, Boston, 13th Oct 1977. Captures the raw energy of the band's early U.S. tour. Recorded at the legendary punk club, the setlist is a blistering mix of tracks from In the City and This Is the Modern World, showcasing their aggressive, mod-punk sound. Paul Weller's sharp guitar work, Bruce Foxton's driving bass, and Rick Buckler's tight drumming deliver a relentless performance, embodying the band's youthful urgency and tight musicianship. A must-hear for fans of The Jam's early years!
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Born in Buenos Aires in 1934, Hector "Costita" Bisignani is one of the leading figures in Latin American jazz. Settling in São Paulo in the late 1950s, he quickly established himself as one of Brazil's most renowned flutists and saxophonists, collaborating with major artists such as Sérgio Mendes, Elis Regina, Hermeto Pascoal, João Donato, and Gato Barbieri. His career also led him to play alongside Michel Legrand, Lalo Schifrin, Burt Bacharach, and Ray Conniff, demonstrating his international influence. A founding member of Sérgio Mendes' Sexteto Bossa Rio, he contributed to the rise of Brazilian jazz by incorporating local rhythms and bold compositions. He is also renowned as a teacher, making him a respected figure for several generations of musicians. With a career spanning more than 70 years, he remains a pioneering figure in the history of Latin American jazz. 1981, now reissued, perfectly illustrates this creative freedom. Recorded in the exuberant spirit of the 1970s and 1980s, it blends baião, jazz-funk, and Brazilian soul. Led by his saxophone, flute, and clarone, and backed by his Gallery Club band, this rare recording embodies the vibrant energy of a scene where experimentation and virtuosity went hand in hand.
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LP version. Born in Buenos Aires in 1934, Hector "Costita" Bisignani is one of the leading figures in Latin American jazz. Settling in São Paulo in the late 1950s, he quickly established himself as one of Brazil's most renowned flutists and saxophonists, collaborating with major artists such as Sérgio Mendes, Elis Regina, Hermeto Pascoal, João Donato, and Gato Barbieri. His career also led him to play alongside Michel Legrand, Lalo Schifrin, Burt Bacharach, and Ray Conniff, demonstrating his international influence. A founding member of Sérgio Mendes' Sexteto Bossa Rio, he contributed to the rise of Brazilian jazz by incorporating local rhythms and bold compositions. He is also renowned as a teacher, making him a respected figure for several generations of musicians. With a career spanning more than 70 years, he remains a pioneering figure in the history of Latin American jazz. 1981, now reissued, perfectly illustrates this creative freedom. Recorded in the exuberant spirit of the 1970s and 1980s, it blends baião, jazz-funk, and Brazilian soul. Led by his saxophone, flute, and clarone, and backed by his Gallery Club band, this rare recording embodies the vibrant energy of a scene where experimentation and virtuosity went hand in hand.
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Limited to 500 copies. Reinhard Holstein: "I've always had a soft spot for weird misfits! Ramsay Midwood is such a weirdo. I first heard him when Neal Casal and I were on our way to Big Pink (the house where The Band lived and recorded The Basement Tapes with Bob Dylan). He popped a CD into the player of his red Chevelle, and I was immediately hooked. Shortly thereafter, we released this album on CD through Glitterhouse Records. That was in 1999. Now, over 25 years later, after a long struggle, I finally convinced Ramsay to let me produce the first vinyl version of this masterpiece. Because of the approximately 800 records released during my time at Glitterhouse, Shoot Out At The OK Chinese Restaurant is my absolute favorite. Like JJ Cale jamming with Tony Joe White on Valium! Here's what others are saying: Shoot Out at the OK Chinese Restaurant draws deep from two American wells. Traditional music nourishes these performances, but so does that part of American culture that produces idiosyncratic, somewhat twisted individualists. In a laconic drawl that recalls both Woody Guthrie and Levon Helm, Midwood projects an ageless, enigmatic quality; like Leon Redbone, he might be a prematurely rustic twentysomething, a crotchety yet poetic septuagenarian, or anything in between. Vivid images fill his lyrics and drift over shambling tracks marked by banjo plucks, beat-up old pianos, and other garage-sale relics. His songs offer romantic insights based on distant experience, bits of aphoristic wisdom fashioned as koans from a Dust Bowl Buddha, reflections on redneck bravado and stream-of consciousness ramblings that seem more wise than coherent. Perhaps his most compelling lyric, 'Spinnin' on a Rock,' documents the murderous fantasy of a laid-off dockworker in couplets more reminiscent of a playground game. In one song, Midwood advises listeners to hear him out with the wry line, 'Take a tip from a real smart feller.' That's a suggestion worth listening to, given the broken-down brilliance of this debut."
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"In 1964, Martin Denny looked beyond the Hawaiian and Asian influences of his previous records to find another place to plant his umbrella in the sand, as well as in your drink: the sounds of Latin America. With this new sound to hang his exciting arrangements on, Latin Village has long been considered one of Denny's high-water marks, and Jackpot is thrilled to have this long-cherished LP back in print. Sourced from the master tapes. First time on vinyl since the original release in 1964. Featuring "The Girl From Ipanema" and "Ho-Ba-La-La". Pressed on limited floral swirl color vinyl."
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"Although Denny was recording his output at an astonishingly brisk rate, there's something about Exotica Vol. III that makes it one of his best and most sought-after with collectors and listeners. Of course, the brilliance of the lead-off track of Les Baxter's 'Jungle River Boat' with its tight vibe-and-percussion workout intertwined with Colon's iconic bird calls and other worldly sounds, only makes the sweet, lazy water sounds of the following track 'Harbor Lights' all the more delightfully mysterious. On limited sky blue color vinyl. Sourced from the master tapes. First time on vinyl since the original release in 1959."
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Marcel Dettmann's "My Own Shadow" is the latest chapter in the Berlin-based legend's illustrious career. The live project is, in his own words, "a space where all of my artistic expressions meet," blending techno with film, sketches and photography. The shows are less club sets and more immersive experiences, where the audience gets lost in a "full sensory narrative." "My solo work has always been open, evolving across records and remixes," Dettmann added. My Own Shadow's first official release, Approaching, is a five-track EP.
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Kalita are proud to present a two-year anniversary repress of Emerson's 1988 mythical electro boogie grail Sending All My Love Out, accompanied by two remixes courtesy of the genre's most respected innovators, Egyptian Lover and Detroit In Effect. Limited to only 500 copies, pressed on electrifying yellow 12" vinyl. A late 80's electro boogie anthem, featuring a heavy mix of synthesizer and drum-machine euphoria, overlaid with Emerson and Leora's own vocals, the recording truly is in a league of its own.
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Lilac is the first Donna Regina album since 2019's Transient. The world has changed considerably since then, which has also left its mark on the Berlin indie pop duo. "In Lilac, I imagine good ol' Earth as a big ol' bear shaking us off because it can't stand us anymore," says Regina Janssen. "It has become a serious album," Günther affirms, but he is also adamant that it is not a sad one. Musically, Donna Regina have remained true to the spirit of their early work, recently re-released by Karaoke Kalk: their arrangements are as minimalist as they are emotionally rich. Samples play a smaller role this time than on earlier albums, with analogue instruments such as a monophonic synthesizer and, above all, guitars coming to the fore again. This frames lyrics that are being delivered by Regina in German, English, or in both languages. They delve even further into the intricacies of urban life. Starting with the ominous sounds of "Whole World In My Town," through the dreamscapes of "Autumn In Paris," to the elegiac conclusion of "No More Roses," Regina and Günther Janssen move through different timbres and styles with a few select means. Their preference for minimalist electronics becomes evident at times, while elsewhere the pieces open up to balladic arrangements in which the guitar plays a leading role. This turns Lilac into a city by itself, the songs forming its soundscape: every neighborhood looks different, every street has its own character.
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LP version. "The debut 13-track album from the American roots rock band re-released with its original front and back cover, album labels and new liner notes from Chris Morris. The LP was released on independent label Rollin' Rock records in 1980. The set is a glimpse into the Blaster's beginnings with many covers of songs the band made their own from Bill Haley, Howlin' Wolf and other American music legends. Features the original versions of the band's two most popular classic tracks, 'Marie Marie' and the album title track. The groundbreaking album had been re-released by Hightone Records with a new cover and package in 1997 with both configurations unavailable for many years now. The album now makes its re-release on LP and CD in its original package from 1979. Includes new liner notes written by Chris Morris with band member interviews. Also features rare photos and memorabilia only available for this re-release."
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"The debut 13-track album from the American roots rock band re-released with its original front and back cover, album labels and new liner notes from Chris Morris. The LP was released on independent label Rollin' Rock records in 1980. The set is a glimpse into the Blaster's beginnings with many covers of songs the band made their own from Bill Haley, Howlin' Wolf and other American music legends. Features the original versions of the band's two most popular classic tracks, 'Marie Marie' and the album title track. The groundbreaking album had been re-released by Hightone Records with a new cover and package in 1997 with both configurations unavailable for many years now. The album now makes its re-release on LP and CD in its original package from 1979. Includes new liner notes written by Chris Morris with band member interviews. Also features rare photos and memorabilia only available for this re-release."
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Goldie's 1995 debut Timeless is often described as one of the greatest dance music albums of all time. As one of the founders of Metalheadz, one of the most influential drum and bass labels, Goldie helped shape the sound of a generation, and a genre that has spanned over three decades. Listening to Timeless is like taking an adventure. If the limits of music are the limits of society, then Timeless is going to create new worlds. It's a record that travels from darkness to light across electronic oceans, across streetsoul, ambience and jazz. London Records celebrate 30 years of Timeless with limited edition vinyl, re-imagining the original white sleeve and putting the album on double vinyl for the first time since '96, with new liner notes from Tim Carr. Remastered audio.
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Splatter color vinyl version. Goldie's 1995 debut Timeless is often described as one of the greatest dance music albums of all time. As one of the founders of Metalheadz, one of the most influential drum and bass labels, Goldie helped shape the sound of a generation, and a genre that has spanned over three decades. Listening to Timeless is like taking an adventure. If the limits of music are the limits of society, then Timeless is going to create new worlds. It's a record that travels from darkness to light across electronic oceans, across streetsoul, ambience and jazz. London Records celebrate 30 years of Timeless with limited edition vinyl, re-imagining the original white sleeve and putting the album on double vinyl for the first time since '96, with new liner notes from Tim Carr. Remastered audio.
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Spend any amount of time pacing the streets of Monterrey, the bustling city in the north of Mexico where Delia Beatriz, aka Debit, grew up, and you'll be sure to catch traces of cumbia echoing from Bluetooth speakers, DIY soundsystems or car stereos. The sound struck a chord with locals, and huge street parties hosted by ramshackle soundsystems known as sonideros unified the diverse community. So when cumbia rebajada materialized serendipitously in the 1990s, it emphasized and highlighted the memory distortions at the heart of the immigrant experience. Local record collector, selector and sonidero Gabriel Dueñez had been playing cumbia for hours one night when disaster struck: his turntable's motor overheated and slowed down turning the music into a warped groan, with half-speed voices echoing over wobbly accordion drones and splashy drums. But the crowd kept dancing, and Sonido Dueñez realized he'd struck gold -- cumbia rebajada was born. Over the next few years he dubbed a popular series of mixtapes, hawking them at the flea market on the dried-up Santa Catarina riverbed beneath El Puente del papa, the bridge that links downtown Monterrey with Independencia. And these woozy archives became the stuff of legend, poetically but subconsciously shadowing DJ Screw's series of epochal cassettes that appeared over the border in Houston. Beatriz uses Sonido Dueñez's first two tapes as the starting point for Desaceleradas, entering into a dialogue with time, culture and geography as she recalls the sonic ecosystem that surrounded her decades ago, long before she emigrated to the USA. If 2022's acclaimed The Long Count was an attempt to recover concealed pre-Columbian history in the face of colonization, Desaceleradas jumps forward, figuring out how memory and shared celebration can resist a more contemporary form of cultural erasure. As AI systems scrape, blend and decontextualize culture around the world, leaving vapid slop, Desaceleradas proposes a slower, more careful, and ultimately more human kind of engagement. It's an archive with a pulse.
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Since hard-snagging ears and feet in 2023 with 12"s for FELT and his own label, Guy Brewer's Carrier has become the go-to project for those who had almost given up on chasing this sort of ultra-subtle but vitally distinctive new permutations in dance music. For the past two years his unpredictable variations within a style have kept listeners all tip-toed and seat-edge with organizations of a finely chiseled percussive palette and smoldering ambient noise that distills the salient aspects and spirits of D&B, dub techno, and electro-acoustic music with utterly unique traction. In effect, he's enacted a clear leap of imagination and proprioception from previous work issued as part of Commix and solo as Shifted that only continues to reveal absorbing new fissures and hallucinatory psychoacoustics on this first album detail. Previewed at Berlin Atonal '25, Rhythm Immortal now sees Brewer tilt the project into slower, resoundingly atmospheric realms, better to luxuriate in the instinctive guile and integer-stepping style 'n pattern of his incredible sound. At the album's poles, a vocal cameo by cult gynoid Voice Actor follows from Gavsborg's on a preceding 7" single to ideally model his sound's mutability and compatibility with trip hop forms, and Memotone helps seal the deal with a hovering glow lent to "Offshore," whilst Carrier jostles the reins throughout with masterful control of his thing, crisply purposed to the album canvas. In that context it's perfectly adaptable to bodies supine or in motion.
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Originally recorded in the Dutch towns of Ureterp and Groningen between 2003 and 2005, Through Friendly Waters marks a pivotal moment in Reimer Eising's -- better known as Kettel -- journey through melodic braindance and ambient electronica. With his classical training on piano and a refined sensibility for gentle electronic textures, Kettel weaves together shimmering piano motifs, warm ambient textures, playful breakbeats, and pastoral atmospheres that shimmer with emotional resonance. First released in 2005 via his own label Sending Orbs, the album soon achieved cult status among IDM fans, celebrated for balancing playful compositional elegance with heartfelt sonic depth. TFW still remains as a timeless soundtrack that perfectly encapsulates why Kettel remains a key figure of electronic music enthusiasts two decades on. To honor its twentieth anniversary, Lapsus Records presents Through Friendly Waters (20th Anniversary Edition), marking the album's debut on vinyl within the Perennial Series. This edition has been remastered by Alex Ferrer and redesigned by Basora, resulting in a deluxe version that also includes the tracks "Unistar" and "Toen," which were originally released only on CD by the Timothy Really label back in 2007.
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DJ Balaton continues to carve out his part in the puzzle with a fresh four-tracker on LQL <3. A nostalgic nod to Frankfurt with spacious arrangements. The title track "Back To The Mood" orbits around that secret open-air energy -- one of those full-circle cuts for the crew. You are missing the water, baby is all there is to say about "Flow Key", rolling away at 127, disguised but with energy. "Reso 02" grooves along with restrained intensity, shaping the EP into something personal and unique. Closing off, "Push Yourself" is Geoff White meets Herbert in a club-ready outfit.
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Latency presents Nexus, the new solo album by virtuoso Iranian percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi. Covert art by Jordan Belson. Mohammad Reza Mortazavi (b. 1979, Iran) is known for his groundbreaking work with the tombak and daf, traditional Persian drums that he has radically redefined through new playing techniques and extended vocabulary. Mortazavi began playing the tombak at the age of six. By nine, he had already outpaced his teacher and won Iran's national tombak competition -- a distinction he would earn six more times. By his early twenties, he was widely regarded as one of the foremost players of the instrument. Since then, his music has continued to evolve, embracing new forms and vocabularies beyond tradition. Following his acclaimed 2019 release Ritme Jaavdanegi, Nexus marks Mortazavi's return to Latency with a full-length album recorded entirely in Berlin. The record introduces new elements into his sound: voice, effects, and treatments never before used in his discography. These experiments serve not as departures but as further extensions of his ongoing exploration of rhythm, resonance, and transformation. Nexus refers to a point of connection or intersection, a meeting place where different energies, times, and spaces converge and transform. The cover artwork features an image by American visual artist and filmmaker Jordan Belson (1926 -- 2011). Belson's work, often referred to as "cosmic cinema" or "visual music", explores themes of consciousness, transcendence, and the infinite nature of the universe. The pairing with Mortazavi's percussive, trance-induced musical language feels immediate: two approaches to rhythm and energy, balance and harmony, coming together at a single point. Mortazavi's hypnotic live performances have been featured at renowned venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Paris Pantheon and the Sydney Opera House. In recent years, Mortazavi's rhythmic explorations have resonated deeply with the experimental electronic music scene, leading to collaborations with artists such as Burnt Friedman and Mark Fell.
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Polish pianist, composer and instrument maker Slawomir Zubrzycki presents his new album Viola Organista: Monologues & Dialogues -- produced by Nils Frahm at the legendary Funkhaus Berlin. The Viola Organista, a unique keyboard string instrument originally designed by Leonardo da Vinci but never built, takes center stage. The Viola Organista produces its sound through a rotating wheel system that strokes strings like a bow -- a fascinating hybrid of keyboard and string instrument. Zubrzycki reconstructed the instrument based on centuries-old sketches, breathing new life into one of the most unusual instruments in music history. The album brings together works by Dowland, Marais, Kircher, Handel, Podbielski, J.C. Bach, and J.S. Bach, interpreted on the viola organista -- partly solo, partly as a duo with harpsichordist Lilianna Stawarz. The repertoire impressively demonstrates the emotional depth and tonal diversity of the instrument. Zubrzycki's aim is to establish the viola organista as a living contemporary instrument -- not as a museum exhibit, but as an inspiration for new music. Artists such as Björk and Nils Frahm share his vision. This album is a milestone -- both sonically and historically.
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"Until The End (The Lost Album) features recordings made by Wil Malone throughout 1970, possibly intended as a follow-up to Wil Malone -- Wil Malone, which was recorded in mid-1969 and mastered for release on Fontana Records on July 5, 1969. Recently unearthed from the Morgan Blue Town tape vaults, these tracks offer a compelling mix of '60s pop and bubblegum, diverging from the original album's string-heavy, progressive-psych sound. All the material comprises either demos or finished masters, recorded over several months. With the exception of the brass parts -- performed by session musicians -- all instruments were played by Wil Malone himself. It's a shame the debut didn't achieve greater commercial success, as it might have brought these follow-up recordings to light much earlier, back in the 1970s."
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Erik K Skodvin summons his alter ego Svarte Greiner for a dive into the dark, wintery Swedish forest with the score to the psychological thriller/horror film From Darkness (orig: Ur Mörkret). The film is director Philip W. Da Silva's debut and is set largely at night, deep in a Swedish nature reserve where mining used to take place. Loss, mental health and Nordic mythology come together in a story that revolves around the search for a missing woman. The score follows an eclectic and atmospheric path throughout the narrative with an uneasy underlaying vibe; although one with occasional points of refuge in the otherwise vast darkness. There is a gloomy, barely tangible sound of Nordic folk tradition buried in the music, even if it comes across in a different, more abstract way, where the various instruments are often used more as sound sources that are improvised (and abused) into becoming their own element. Skodvin performed and recorded the majority himself. In addition, he commissioned free improviser Axel Dörner to participate with his unique, custom-built electro-acoustic interface, which, along with Claudio Puntin's processed reeds and additional electronics, has been built into the elaborate backdrops to create an entire world that balances on the border between the approachable and the elusive - not unlike the journey of the protagonists. Skodvin's partner in Deaf Center, Otto A Totland, appears on piano in the stand out piece "What have you become?" The result is a harrowing yet deeply melancholic journey through the human psyche. One that echoes through the dark forests, cabins and lost mines of the desolate Swedish woodlands. The vinyl is released in an edition of 150 numbered copies, with screen-printed artwork on black cardboard inside a screen-printed PVC sleeve, incl. Riso-printed insert with liner notes by Mike Lazarev. 180g vinyl.
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Anushka Chkheidze and Robert Lippok's Uncontrollable Thoughts on Morr Music is the duo's debut joint release. The Netherlands-based Georgian composer and the German sound artist from Berlin first met in 2019 in the context of a workshop program that took place in Tbilisi, and later worked with Eto Gelashvili, Hayk Karoyi, and Lillevan on the massive Glacier Music II music and book project, released in 2021. This led them to engage in a less conceptually driven form of musicking and real-time composition that corresponds with their respective environments. They draw on traditions such as minimal music or late 1990s and early 2000s electronica to integrate subtle beats with elegiac organ drones, playful melodies with lush textures. The first document of an ever-shifting intergenerational dialogue, Uncontrollable Thoughts is a product of mutual listening outside time. Though Chkheidze and Lippok had access to professional studios, they chose to rent a simple rehearsal space, equipped with only the bare essentials -- bass and guitar amps as well as a small PA -- to maintain immediacy in their working process. The music they made together corresponded to and drew on the respective possibilities and shortcomings of this studio, much like their collaboration in general is characterized by the care with which they approach each other's talents and ideas. While both had loosely defined roles -- Chkheidze was responsible for the free-flowing beat programming and the evocative distortion came courtesy of Lippok, for example -- they individually contributed in different ways to their joint process, which is as free of hierarchies as it is limitless. Hence, the duo's focus on spontaneity and out-of-the-moment emergence makes them organically move beyond tried and tested conventions, resulting in music that seems to suspend time altogether. While there is much that sets Chkheidze and Lippok apart as solo artists, the major shared leitmotif in their respective bodies of work is the sonic engagement with space. Uncontrollable Thoughts is hence best understood as an extension of this practice; as an album that maps the geographies of their minds in motion, tracing musical movements as they melt into each other.
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LP version. Yellow color vinyl. Anushka Chkheidze and Robert Lippok's Uncontrollable Thoughts on Morr Music is the duo's debut joint release. The Netherlands-based Georgian composer and the German sound artist from Berlin first met in 2019 in the context of a workshop program that took place in Tbilisi, and later worked with Eto Gelashvili, Hayk Karoyi, and Lillevan on the massive Glacier Music II music and book project, released in 2021. This led them to engage in a less conceptually driven form of musicking and real-time composition that corresponds with their respective environments. They draw on traditions such as minimal music or late 1990s and early 2000s electronica to integrate subtle beats with elegiac organ drones, playful melodies with lush textures. The first document of an ever-shifting intergenerational dialogue, Uncontrollable Thoughts is a product of mutual listening outside time. Though Chkheidze and Lippok had access to professional studios, they chose to rent a simple rehearsal space, equipped with only the bare essentials -- bass and guitar amps as well as a small PA -- to maintain immediacy in their working process. The music they made together corresponded to and drew on the respective possibilities and shortcomings of this studio, much like their collaboration in general is characterized by the care with which they approach each other's talents and ideas. While both had loosely defined roles -- Chkheidze was responsible for the free-flowing beat programming and the evocative distortion came courtesy of Lippok, for example -- they individually contributed in different ways to their joint process, which is as free of hierarchies as it is limitless. Hence, the duo's focus on spontaneity and out-of-the-moment emergence makes them organically move beyond tried and tested conventions, resulting in music that seems to suspend time altogether. While there is much that sets Chkheidze and Lippok apart as solo artists, the major shared leitmotif in their respective bodies of work is the sonic engagement with space. Uncontrollable Thoughts is hence best understood as an extension of this practice; as an album that maps the geographies of their minds in motion, tracing musical movements as they melt into each other.
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The Alien Dub Orchestra is ragtag collective of Bavarian musicians, featuring members of The Notwist and G.Rag y los hermanos Patchekos. The cohort formed around the idea of performing the standards of the fabled Breadminster Songbook, aka the back-catalogue of lone dubman Elijah Minnelli. Minnelli is known for constructing wheezy, forlorn odes to his hometown, both as highly sought-after self-released 7" singles, and a critically-acclaimed debut album, Perpetual Musket for FatCat Records, lauded by the likes of The Guardian, The Wire, and The Quietus. Plays the Breadminster Songbook finds group covering Minnelli's cumbia-infused dub reggae with full band, playing an eclectic array of instruments including: guiro, accordion, melodica, sousaphone, trumpet and assorted percussion. The seeds of the Alien Dub Orchestra were sown during a support gig for The Notwist, where assorted musicians joined Minnelli for an encore, reinterpreting one of his dub remixes across woodwind, brass and assorted percussion. Despite the non-traditional origins of the source material, the inherent musicality of Minnelli's songwriting shines through across his releases, and this creative kinship is what attracted the Orchestra to reimagining his work. The first live collaboration led to recording sessions and further gigs, with the Orchestra building a full set of Minnelli's music. The resulting album puts forward the strongest case yet of the shared musical throughline between the acts, where cumbia, dub and folk sensibilities coalesce to something altogether unique. The tracks are wrought new, with melodies fleshed out and broader instrumentation expanding the sonic possibilities of the compositions. For these dubs, Minnelli is joined by Raimund Wong, who had caught his ear with his ambitious live sets, a daisy chain of tape machines and FX pedals. Again, despite their differing creative processes, the two bonded over a shared love of dub music.
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Moving freely through time and space via experimental DIY recordings since 2009, Joasihno return with their fourth album Spots. Southern German experimental pop duo Joasihno -- initial solo founder Cico Beck (The Notwist, Aloa Input, Spirit Fest) and drummer/composer Nico Sierig (Instrument, Fehler Kuti) -- seem to know exactly when it's time to shine. Idiosyncratic genre tweakers since day one, they have been operating at their own pace, mostly staying in their own shady corner. Yet, almost a decade after their most recent Meshes (N 047CD), it's high time for them to take over more corners, to reclaim even more spots between lo-fi and sci-fi, retro electronica and contemporary classic. Drawing upon influences as varied as Reich, Riley, Ryuichi, múm, Meek, and Moondog, while also nodding to other experimental twosomes (e.g. The Books), the duo's fourth full-length Spots arrives via Alien Transistor. Electronic shapes align and things lift off -- with a majestic 8-bit sunrise soon appearing right in front of the listener. Whereas playful title song "Spots" is a miniature Rube Goldberg kind of device, with quirky plucked strings and glitches setting off more and more contraption layers, "Crackleboom" is uncharted energy, an open landscape, an expanding bonfire that leads to a long-forgotten piano, all dust-covered in some kind of saloon. Things break and shatter in the distance, but this spot right here is for hypnosis, dancing, sylvan spirits. And yeah, it's surprisingly hot down here in the undergrowth. It's all DIY spots, spots that leave room to dream or dangle, drape yourself over or dive into. Returning to the leafy bower on a melancholy post rock tip, we eventually learn that "Death Is Real" -- and so the listener is left with a laterna magica that turns and turns and turns. It's a beautiful spot where light and shadows keep on dancing, just like they've always done, ever since the dawn of this madcap universe.
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LP version. In The Name Of Blood is an intimate dive into the heart of identity. The change of stage name, from "Sierra" to Sierra Veins, is at the core of the creative process for this second album. This evolution resonates directly with its central theme: identity. Featuring Ghost Dance.
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In The Name Of Blood is an intimate dive into the heart of identity. The change of stage name, from "Sierra" to Sierra Veins, is at the core of the creative process for this second album. This evolution resonates directly with its central theme: identity. Featuring Ghost Dance.
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Progressive hard-psych milestone from Australia, 1971, with fantastic twin guitar interplay and cool West Coast vibe. Formed in Sydney, Kahvas Jute were a short-lived but much-admired Aussie hard-rock band from the early '70s with connections to local legends Mecca and Tamam Shud. They featured ace guitar players Tim Gaze and Dennis Wilson plus future international rock legend Bob Daisley (Ozzy, Rainbow, Gary Moore) on bass and Dannie Davidson on drums. Originally released in 1971 on the Festival sub-label Infinity, Wide Open has become one of the most sought-after Australian rock albums of the era and is without doubt a lost gem of Aussie progressive hard rock. Original artwork in gatefold sleeve. Remastered sound. Insert with detailed liner notes by Ian McFarlane and rare photos. Includes download card.
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Sarathy Korwar, genre-breaking drummer, producer and composer, announces the release of his seventh album, There Is Beauty, There Already, out on Otherland. Celebrating the melodic power of the drum ensemble, the album follows his 2022 Indofuturist manifesto KALAK with a deeply immersive longform suite of percussion-led compositions. Playing as a 40-minute suite of hypnotic and transcendent drum improvisations, the album beats through a repetitive, circular structure that brings to mind Indian folk music, jazz drum ensembles like Max Roach's M'Boom and the contemporary classical minimalism of Terry Riley and Steve Reich. From the undulating bass tones of the tabla to the tonal varieties of South Indian clay pot ghatam, the snare drum snap of the drum kit, and shades of electronic texture through the Buchla Easel, Korwar's ensemble bubbles and flows through a stream of steady rhythm, forever in motion like the ceaseless energy of a river. "The album is me finding my voice as a composer again and going back to the thing I know best, which is the drums," Korwar says. "It's me falling back in love with percussion and expressing just how melodic and emotive it can be. Unlike my other albums that have often engaged with weighty themes like migration, identity and futurism, this is a raw act of placing myself front and center -- letting the drums speak instead."
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LP version. Sarathy Korwar, genre-breaking drummer, producer and composer, announces the release of his seventh album, There Is Beauty, There Already, out on Otherland. Celebrating the melodic power of the drum ensemble, the album follows his 2022 Indofuturist manifesto KALAK with a deeply immersive longform suite of percussion-led compositions. Playing as a 40-minute suite of hypnotic and transcendent drum improvisations, the album beats through a repetitive, circular structure that brings to mind Indian folk music, jazz drum ensembles like Max Roach's M'Boom and the contemporary classical minimalism of Terry Riley and Steve Reich. From the undulating bass tones of the tabla to the tonal varieties of South Indian clay pot ghatam, the snare drum snap of the drum kit, and shades of electronic texture through the Buchla Easel, Korwar's ensemble bubbles and flows through a stream of steady rhythm, forever in motion like the ceaseless energy of a river. "The album is me finding my voice as a composer again and going back to the thing I know best, which is the drums," Korwar says. "It's me falling back in love with percussion and expressing just how melodic and emotive it can be. Unlike my other albums that have often engaged with weighty themes like migration, identity and futurism, this is a raw act of placing myself front and center -- letting the drums speak instead."
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Soft Centre is the new album by Iko Chérie, the solo project of French-born, London-based multi-instrumentalist Marie Merlet. She blends dub-inflected textures, pop-tinged vocals, reverb-drenched guitars, Casio drones, and warm experimental noises -- creating her own intimate, fragile sound. Self-produced and largely performed by Merlet, the album grew from an introspective process, with many sketches recorded in transit between tours. The result is a deeply personal work, balancing light and dark in a Lynchian dream-pop haze. Songs such as "We Smoke That Peace Pipe" and "Bilbao" shimmer between vulnerability and resilience, while the single "Ghosted Ghosters of the Holy G" captures the immediacy of a one-take dub bass. Some pieces retain the quality of improvised snapshots while others reveal her meticulous production process and songwriting craft. Merlet defines Soft Centre as alive in radical tenderness, unguarded, open, and vivid. Influenced by Clarice Lispector's prose, Diane di Prima's poetry and Rachel Carson's environmentalist writing, as well as Marie's fascination with a vintage Roland Space Echo, the album is an invitation to connection that she describes as "hopefully a meditation into healing." A versatile musician trained in classical piano, jazz, and electroacoustic composition, Merlet has long moved between different worlds of sound. She has worked with Laetitia Sadier in Monade, performs with Gina Birch (The Raincoats), Malphino, Yama Warashi, and several other groups. She recently appeared as guest singer on the latest Stereolab album. Her debut solo LP, Dreaming On (Elefant Records, 2015), revealed her singular melodic instincts; with Soft Centre she ventures further inward, shaping her own distinctive voice in experimental pop.
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"Curandero ignites the imagination on a frontier between the known and the exotic, the stable and chaotic, fear and freedom. On their first collaboration, pioneering ambient electronic artist Steve Roach teams up with acclaimed throat singer and ritual artist SoRIAH to fashion an utterly unique and propulsive experience within the magical realm of the elemental and energetic. Roach's transcendent realms weave with SoRIAH's ecstatic spectral voice to decipher the vastness, wonders and mysteries of this planet and the cosmos. Esteemed artists in the field of sonic shamanism, Roach and SoRIAH create an expression of enigmatic immersive ritual music seamlessly integrated with harmonic overtone singing and spirit incantations. Roach -- an originator of the tribal ambient genre -- has resided for many years in Baja Arizona, drawing deep inspiration from the ancestral land of the curanderos. The curanderos are the indigenous sages who cure with folk plant medicine and a profound working knowledge of the natural environment as well as the spiritual. SoRIAH's world travels and deep devotion to the art of Tuvan throat singing (Khöömei) paired with his ancestral heritage brought him to the very land where this collaboration took place, the mystical ground of modern Baja Arizona known in antiquity as the ancient motherland of Aztlá. Recorded at the Timehouse, Baja Arizona and the Grand Hotel Ulaangom, Mongolia. The mix of interwoven trance rhythms, hallucinatory atmospheres and vocal overtones creates interconnections within our world and the realms between and beyond ordinary states of consciousness."
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Sean McCann presents The Leopard, an opera. Dialog, music, and elaborate sound design fold into a narrative fantasy about self-cannibalization and transformation. Written and recorded over five years, this is McCann's first album since 2019's Puck (R 069LP) and his first opera. The opera is voiced by composer Martin Bresnick, artist Nour Mobarak, musician Max Eilbacher (Horse Lords), and voice actors David George and Krystel Abimeri. McCann performed and recorded most of the music himself, meticulously editing every sound. The opera opens with an ornate musical overture before plunging into a surreal tableau: characters on a sailboat cooking and consuming themselves over a makeshift stove. Over the course of eight scenes, the plot continually dissolves and recombines, inducing a narcotic dreamstate. The opera is overseen by Copy, a chimerical figure who both guides and distorts the plot. Four wordless interludes feature Copy in a greenhouse, playing old Victrola records while pruning floral incarnations of each persona. One hears screaming silverware, sprays of watering cans, a thunderstorm, and the baking of each character into a loaf of bread. Musical flourishes appear, such as Barbara Strozzi's devastating "Lagrime mie" (1659) which is performed in an empty library alongside a Gertrude Stein-esque spoken incantation read by Nour Mobarak. The opera closes with a grand coda; a haunting, elegiac work for violins and choir. The opera is accompanied by a book that contains the libretto along with unspoken texts and artwork. Each scene in the book contains a "Copy path," a kind of plot betrayal or text smear that beckons the listener to fall inside plot holes and uncover flickers of meaning for themselves. The Leopard navigates a new form that lays somewhere between radio-play, experimental opera, and dioramic film.
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3LP version. + Book Sean McCann presents The Leopard, an opera. Dialog, music, and elaborate sound design fold into a narrative fantasy about self-cannibalization and transformation. Written and recorded over five years, this is McCann's first album since 2019's Puck (R 069LP) and his first opera. The opera is voiced by composer Martin Bresnick, artist Nour Mobarak, musician Max Eilbacher (Horse Lords), and voice actors David George and Krystel Abimeri. McCann performed and recorded most of the music himself, meticulously editing every sound. The opera opens with an ornate musical overture before plunging into a surreal tableau: characters on a sailboat cooking and consuming themselves over a makeshift stove. Over the course of eight scenes, the plot continually dissolves and recombines, inducing a narcotic dreamstate. The opera is overseen by Copy, a chimerical figure who both guides and distorts the plot. Four wordless interludes feature Copy in a greenhouse, playing old Victrola records while pruning floral incarnations of each persona. One hears screaming silverware, sprays of watering cans, a thunderstorm, and the baking of each character into a loaf of bread. Musical flourishes appear, such as Barbara Strozzi's devastating "Lagrime mie" (1659) which is performed in an empty library alongside a Gertrude Stein-esque spoken incantation read by Nour Mobarak. The opera closes with a grand coda; a haunting, elegiac work for violins and choir. The opera is accompanied by a book that contains the libretto along with unspoken texts and artwork. Each scene in the book contains a "Copy path," a kind of plot betrayal or text smear that beckons the listener to fall inside plot holes and uncover flickers of meaning for themselves. The Leopard navigates a new form that lays somewhere between radio-play, experimental opera, and dioramic film.
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Island5 is Islandman's most focused and detailed exploration of Anatolian psychedelia to date. They re-imagine the deep-rooted sounds of Anatolia through a modern lens. To them, this music isn't frozen in time -- it's alive, shifting, and always becoming. Tradition, in their hands, isn't something to preserve in glass, but something to carry, stretch, and let grow. Each track offers a different angle into this reimagined sound. Analog synths mimic reed instruments, fuzzed guitars evoke forgotten tales, and percussion carries both the pulse of the city and the stillness of rural ground. There are meditative passages that invite silence, and sunlit grooves that move the body before the mind. Everything flows as if improvised -- but nothing feels accidental.
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LP version. Island5 is Islandman's most focused and detailed exploration of Anatolian psychedelia to date. They re-imagine the deep-rooted sounds of Anatolia through a modern lens. To them, this music isn't frozen in time -- it's alive, shifting, and always becoming. Tradition, in their hands, isn't something to preserve in glass, but something to carry, stretch, and let grow. Each track offers a different angle into this reimagined sound. Analog synths mimic reed instruments, fuzzed guitars evoke forgotten tales, and percussion carries both the pulse of the city and the stillness of rural ground. There are meditative passages that invite silence, and sunlit grooves that move the body before the mind. Everything flows as if improvised -- but nothing feels accidental.
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A note from Lawrence English: "If I'm not mistaken, Ben Frost and I first talked about the ideas of what would become Steel Wound sometime in mid-2002. In the early '00s, Ben had been working on cut-up electronics, spilling over with floating rhythms, humming string samples and piano splices. It was a sound realized in part through the subversion of fruity loops and also owes a debt to Ableton Live which arrived in late 2001. His works to that point, gently saturated and bristling with a fizzy distortion at times, hinted at another sound world which would become his focused in the summer of 2002 and into 2003. Locking himself away at Johanna's Beach, a remote southern vantage along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, he was able to record for the first time without a sense of constraint. This opening up of the sound palette brought with it an entirely new harmonic language that had been hinted at, but not realized, on previous recordings. With a simple restriction of instrumentation, the guitar as the palette, Frost unlocked a certain verticality to his working methods that holds light to this day. Steel Wound is, by design, a singular record in Ben Frost's discography. It's a recording born of particular conditions, but also of particular interests. It was the first time Ben had set himself up with a situation where saturation, volume and density were all something that could be realized in a space and a time, not as a process of post-production. To have sound operating in space is a thing of true beauty and moreover it allows for a certain unpredictability that is central to new discoveries. Working with a Fender Twin, often with the reverb dialed in at maximum, he found a language of shimmer and saturation, of compression and collision, that set the stage for a prolonged interest in how sound performs and is perceived at volume. It also is the first time that many of the tonal and melodic inflections that have come to be recognized as his compositional language are on display. Steel Wound, in my opinion, is a map to the future for Ben. It is a portal, a chance for new understandings to emerge and also to take hold and it's these learnings that have guided Ben's work in the subsequent years. Steel Wound remains a pulsing beacon in an ocean of noise that has been flickering for two decades now."
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"In the spring of 1983, a newly conceived version of the James Newton Quartet appeared on the European jazz scene. After four decades, producer Stephan Meyner contacted James Newton. They realized that, unfortunately, the quartet had never released a recording. This changed when he unearthed a 1983 recording of the quartet from Willisau in Switzerland. A few months before the tour, James Newton had heard about a fantastic young pianist, composer and scholar from Detroit who was completing her master's degree in ethnomusicology at the University of Pittsburgh - Geri Allen. The members of the James Newton Quartet for this European tour included Geri Allen on piano, Anthony Cox on bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums. The recording from Willisau is one of the first recordings in Geri Allen's long, historic and outstanding career. Bassist, composer and bandleader Anthony Cox has immense, highly virtuosic mastery of his instrument, plays with great sensitivity, contributes to every nuance of the ensemble with incredible technical skill and responds to it with confidence, switching skillfully and fluently between different styles. Andrew Cyrille is one of the most respected drummers jazz has ever produced. His ensembles and compositions have contributed greatly to the tradition he embodies. He is known for his enthusiastic collaborations with modernists such as David Murray, Muhal Richard Abrams, Mal Waldron, Horace Tapscott, Peter Brötzmann and Oliver Lake. The recording's repertoire includes Charles Mingus' loving tribute to Charles Christopher Parker, 'Reincarnation of a Lovebirds,' Geri Allen's masterpiece 'The Printmakers,' and two originals by James Newton: " Forever Charles,' dedicated to Mingus, and 'Pinkie Below," the nickname given to my then young son James III by one of his uncles because he was the youngest grandson in the family and was born with light skin."
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"Supported by experience and mastery of their instruments, Parker and Léandre work together through acute listening and lightning-quick communication. Eight tracks, as different from one another as they are coherent as a whole. Without a net or chance for revision, the pair dive right into the heart of the dialogue. Parker reacts with spontaneous simplicity - to borrow a title from Sun Ra & his Arkestra -- to the impulses and suggestions of the bassist, who initially favors tense and haughty arco playing. At times, listeners get closer to the fibber of the sounds, alternatively granular and silky, and on a more reflective piece, Parker's swirling motifs land on Léandre's long-held notes in the low register. Extended techniques are used on the central and longest improvisation, Parker again reacting without delay to his partner's thunderous strikes on the strings. The artists are in a trance, connected to each other and to the music, soaring in full flight. In yet another direction, the last piece has Léandre adding mostly wordless vocals to her bass playing, as she likes to do in her solo work, an example of which can be seen in Christian Pouget's Duende - Joëlle Léandre solo 2023 film. With Parker's comments on tenor, the duo becomes a trio."
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IIris Our is the new surrealist duo of artists Kiera Mulhern and Sydney Spann. Recital now presents their debut album, Victual Vittle Bottle Cunt. Both Mulhern and Spann have released celebrated solo works on Recital: Mulhern's De ossibus 20 (2020) and Spann's Sending Up A Spiral Of (2023). Close friends, they would meet up weekly on Saturdays to record; channeling their love, angst, and wit. The synergism of their friendship is evident: poems read in tandem, flanking each other's syllables and breaths. Voice, synthesis, various electronics, and kinetic field recordings (often from their shared lives) form the material. This album's conceptual core is femininity understood through diffusion, imitation, and horror, alongside themes of debt, addiction, and inheritance. Vestiges of these can be heard in verbal intercourses through an industrial hiss emerging from the CD. As the artists write: "the obscene impossibility of having a mouth that sucks, eats and speaks, and of a voice that commands, soothes, and curses." Many of the texts began as hand-drawn concrete poems by the duo. "Urnshaped Murmuration" stages Spann and Mulhern reciting texts in the left and right channels, chasing each other in a lapping ocean of shadow sounds. The final track "Erections of Angels Directed at Me" is immense. A hushed This Mortal Coil-esque melody is sung, as flush oscillators churn autonomously. Smoldering flutes glow ahead of distant metallic havoc. Despite its condensed 26-minute runtime, the album feels dense, commanding, and total. The result is an authentic, sharp mythology -- visceral research into "the body as disposable, the body as the object of medicine, the body as etched with words, the body in revolt." Victual Vittle Bottle Cunt was engineered by Katie Von Schleicher, mixed by Theodore Cale Schafer, and mastered by Sean McCann. The pastel album cover by Maggie Fitzpatrick showcases a barren alley with a parked Tesla engulfed in flames. The release includes a 12-page booklet booklet of concrete poems, artwork by the duo, and artist portraits by Gram Hummell. Glass-mastered gatefold CD edition of 200.
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Recital presents The Holy Restaurant, the new full-length album by Derek Baron, and their first solo LP since Curtain (Recital, 2020). The album is built from years of miniature transcriptions of improvisations, functioning in many ways as a sister to Curtain. Half-thoughts and mistakes are revisited, gilded, and illuminated. The floorboards of the album are laid with piano, organ, string pads, while serrated accruements (distortions, flourishes, and recording interferences) step and drop overhead. The resulting conflux, as Baron notes in the accompanying booklet "becomes the point and the problem to explore." The second track "Oven Girls" opens with us galloping on a horse in some video-game meadow on a bed of MIDI strings. Abruptly, a helicopter soars over the listener and they transition to a latticed guitar and woodwind exploration. The album rolls on in this fashion, juxtaposing musical half-sentences within a museum of sounds rag-picked from history and daily life. Emotional interviews with Midwestern friars who build and sell caskets are set against gothic piano and guitar duets. On "Music in the Casket," a disorienting and hilariously epic guitar solo erupts. The penultimate titular piece, "The Holy Restaurant," sets a text written by Baron's grandfather. A small chorus voices his words, echoing the humanistic storytelling of "Blue" Gene Tyranny's A Letter From Home. Under sunlit piano progressions, a fleet of smokey trumpets emerges. Running throughout the album is a series of "traces": short melodic phrases painted over again and again with different real and MIDI instrumentation. The "luxurious asceticism of doubling" as Baron puts it. They explain, "Part of the allure for me is that the 'original' material is itself kind of thin, sketchy, meaningless, maybe calling attention to itself only by way of a felicitous mistake. Hearing, transcribing, and learning what was basically only ever played first on accident becomes the guiding concern." The album's shifting, variegated forms and voices pass quickly; the record feels both comforting and elusive, suitable for any hour of the day. The Holy Restaurant features guest players Ed Atkins, Lucy Liyou, Quentin Moore, Emily Martin, Dominic Frigo, Jacob Wick, and several of Baron's family members. It is released in a limited-edition vinyl pressing of 200 copies, accompanied by a 12-page booklet of effusive program notes by the composer, alongside an assemblage of photographs, scores, and artwork.
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"For the first time since their iconic run in the early 1960s, all five founding members -- Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Hilton Valentine, Chas Chandler, and John Steel -- came together for a raw, soulful reunion. This is the Animals with the benefit of age, experience, and no pressure to chase hits -- just great playing. Recorded with minimal fanfare in 1977, Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted is a return to the blues and R&B roots that shaped the band's early success. It's stripped-down, honest, and deeply musical -- a perfect record for fans of The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, or Bob Dylan. The album features a standout cover of Bob Dylan's 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue,' along with classics from Jimmy Reed, Joe Tex, and Gospel/Blues deep cuts, reinterpreted with grit and grace. While overlooked at the time due to the rise of punk and disco, this album has grown in reputation as a hidden treasure of late-'70s rock. A must-have for collectors and a powerful reintroduction to one of Britain's most influential bands."
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"X-Ray Spex was a British punk rock band that emerged in the late 1970s, known for their distinctive sound, socially conscious lyrics, and the dynamic frontwoman Poly Styrene. The band was active during the first wave of punk rock and played a significant role in the punk movement. Lead vocalist and songwriter Poly Styrene was known for her unique vocal style and often cited as an influential figure in the punk scene. Other band members on Germfree Adolescents are Jak Airport, Paul Dean, Rudi Thompson, and B P Hurding. X-Ray Spex released their debut album, Germfree Adolescents, in 1978, featuring the title track, 'Germfree Adolescents.' The album is considered a classic of the punk era. Poly Styrene's lyrics often addressed social and consumerist issues, and her unconventional fashion sense and energetic stage presence added to the band's overall identity. While X-Ray Spex had a relatively short-lived career, disbanding in 1979, they left a lasting impact on the punk scene, and their music continues to be celebrated for its originality and influence. Poly Styrene sadly passed away in 2011, but her contributions to punk rock remain influential. This limited-edition re-issue of Germfree Adolescents is pressed on black 180-gram vinyl. Incl. 12" insert poster of album cover + sleeve notes by Stephanie Phillips."
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LP version. "In the late 1970s and early 1980s, South Shields, England's politically motivated punk band, The Angelic Upstarts, saw considerable chart success. Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69 produced their debut album, Teenage Warning (1979), which peaked at No. 29 on the UK Albums Chart and featured singles like 'I'm An Upstart' (No. 31) and 'Teenage Warning' (No. 29). Their third album, 2,000,000 Voices (1981), reached No. 32, while their second, We Gotta Get Out of This Place (1980), peaked at No. 54. Angelic Upstarts Live (1981), a live album, did well as well, peaking at number 27. Two of the Angelic Upstarts' singles made it into the Top 40, and seven of their singles made it into the UK Top 75. Their early work was marked by sociopolitical critique and unadulterated intensity. Live at The Basins Nightclub recorded in 1987 represents a unique summary of that undertaking as well as capturing a rare snapshot of the Upstarts during one of the less well-documented periods of their history. Includes sleeve notes from Dick Porter."
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LP version. "In the late 1970s and early 1980s, South Shields, England's politically motivated punk band, The Angelic Upstarts, saw considerable chart success. Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69 produced their debut album, Teenage Warning (1979), which peaked at No. 29 on the UK Albums Chart and featured singles like 'I'm An Upstart' (No. 31) and 'Teenage Warning' (No. 29). Their third album, 2,000,000 Voices (1981), reached No. 32, while their second, We Gotta Get Out of This Place (1980), peaked at No. 54. Angelic Upstarts Live (1981), a live album, did well as well, peaking at number 27. Two of the Angelic Upstarts' singles made it into the Top 40, and seven of their singles made it into the UK Top 75. Their early work was marked by sociopolitical critique and unadulterated intensity. Live at The Basins Nightclub recorded in 1987 represents a unique summary of that undertaking as well as capturing a rare snapshot of the Upstarts during one of the less well-documented periods of their history. Includes sleeve notes from Dick Porter."
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Steve Hauschildt returns after six years with a new album titled Aeropsia. After a transcontinental relocation from the US to Tbilisi, Georgia, the electronic composer emerges from a personal and global transformation to explore themes of perceptual distortion, disconnection, and renewal. Aeropsia (which roughly translates as "seeing the air") refers to a visual phenomenon in which objects appear to float or shimmer, often due to changes in pressure, perception, atmospheric shifts or neurological disturbance. This becomes a metaphor for the liminality that informs the record: blurry visions, dreamlike displacements, and the fragile membrane separating what is seen from what is felt. In the years since his last solo release, Hauschildt's world has been marked by relocation and a growing sense of global turbulence. These experiences became the raw material for a work that navigates institutional haze and uncertainty itself. The result is music that employs decay as method, structure as entropy, and mutation as expression. While Aeropsia remains subjective in its vision, Hauschildt invited two previous collaborators to expand the album's gravitational pull. Cellist Lia Kohl, who previously performed on Nonlin, returns and brings a tactile warmth to select tracks, while guitarist Michael Vallera threads spectral harmonics into the mix. The album's electronic foundation and its tactile elements meet in a state of luminous suspension to navigate the shifting in physical and psychological terrain.
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"Cream Soda are a trio of late teens hailing from the Medway Delta, offering Punk Rocked Power Pop, fused with '60s Freakbeat and Garage, as well as the late '80s indie stuff. Respecting the past, with eyes firmly on the road ahead, they echo the classic Medway sound, respecting The Prisoners and Thee Milkshakes, whilst also incorporating more recent influences, along with their very own sound. The idea behind Cream Soda started in late October of 2023 when both the Toms, accompanied by one of Tom Page's mates on bass, started playing original material in various garages after becoming acquainted through Music GCSE at Rainham Mark Grammar School, Medway. Due to creative disagreements, the bass player left and Jack -- another one of Tom Page's mates joined the band; a guitarist by trade but was happy to pick up the four-stringed instrument. Playing their first gig on 1st December 2023, Cream Soda have played throughout Kent, London and the South East since then, sometimes supporting The Masonics and The Len Price 3, and continue to make noise on stages wherever they can. The group released a very short run lathe cut 7" in December 2024, with only twenty copies; they naturally sold in a click. A four-track 7" EP, Make Up your Mind, soon followed, to much acclaim. With the fire still burning very bright, they booked themselves back into Ranscombe Studios, and recorded a further ten tracks to battle up a full-length album for release, with a little help from Zach Moon too. Serving You provides fifteen of Cream Soda's best bits!"
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Developed over three years across residencies, tours, and periods of deep listening, Your Whistle Tells of Landscape finds Australian sound artist Alexandra Spence continuing her investigations into the perceptual entanglements of sound, place, memory, and imagination. Like much of the artist's work, it unfolds at the liminal edge between the real and the imagined -- between what is heard and what is remembered. Composed from a constellation of materials gathered across sites and seasons -- snowscapes recorded in Vancouver, insect choruses from a Sydney backyard, ceramic fragments unearthed while mudlarking with tinysound -- it renders an intimate cartography of experience: one shaped equally by ecological resonance and internal drift. Each piece traces a kind of imaginary geography, where sonic ephemera become proxies for topography, weather, or myth. The album is informed by time spent at EMS (Stockholm) and MESS (Melbourne), where Spence deepened her engagement with microtonality and tuned feedback systems, and by dialogues with sympathetic artists such as Tashi Wada and Patrick Farmer. Sound materials were sourced from Serge Modular systems, a custom lyre built by Tim Wall, amplified objects, handmade electronics, and Spence's own field recordings captured within rockpools, beneath sand, and among a flock of sheep in the French Pyrenees. On "Magenta," a collaboration with Delphine Dora, the domestic and mythic intertwine, as layers of voice, environmental recordings, and Halldorophone feedback drift in and out of one another like overlapping weather systems. Despite its diverse material palette, the album resists spectacle or accumulation. Instead, it moves with a quiet sense of continuity and a rich interiority -- less a sequence of compositions than a set of situated attunements. Across its duration, sounds seem to murmur, glint, or hover right at the edge of presence, invoking a listening practice that is as much about orientation as it is about reception. These are pieces not simply about place, but of place -- etched with the grains of time, vibration, and breath.
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Mister Water Wet returns to Soda Gong with Things Gone and Things Here Still, an album that radically expands the project's purview while preserving the homespun warmth and oblique tactility that have long defined Iggy Romeu's work. Where earlier records tilted toward the dusty swing of sample-based beatcraft or spectral minimalist jazz, here Romeu opens the frame to a more ensemble-minded approach, inviting a stellar cast of supporting musicians, including SG alumni Memotone and K. Freund, into the fold. The result is an album that feels both broader and more intimate, with live instrumentation such as piano, strings, and reeds woven into MWW's signature lattice of hand percussion, production sleights, and slippery time signatures. Acoustic and electronic textures bend toward each other like plants angling for the same light: bowed strings blur into vaporous pads, brushed drums scatter under riffing guitars, a horn phrase lingers in the same space as a cracked cassette loop. A tension between decay and presence -- the "things gone" and the "things here still" -- runs throughout the record. At times, the music evokes a chamber session refracted through waterlogged tape; at others, it recalls the afterimage of a hip-hop instrumental slowed into an oneiric haze. In the world of MWW, memory functions less as nostalgia and more as a living fabric -- mutable and resonant. Things Gone and Things Here Still finds Iggy Romeu at his most expansive, offering up a generous record of open spaces and porous boundaries. Also featuring more eaze, Ben Bondy, and Sleepdial. Die-cut sleeve, gloss laminate finish. Includes download code.
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One of the crown jewels of the European jazz-rock-prog-fusion scene. This band from Barcelona, comprised of top notch musicians connected to Crac, Màquina! and Barcelona Traction, mixed Canterbury/RIO influences with classical Spanish music. This is their first album from 1976. Música Urbana was a short-lived Spanish jazz rock band formed in Barcelona in the mid-'70s by composer and multi-instrumentalist Joan Albert Amargós. Their aim was to forge a distinctly Catalan progressive-rock identity -- rooted in Mediterranean and Andalusian traditions rather than Anglophone influences. The band assembled top-tier musicians (Lucky Guri, Carles Benavent, Salvador Font, Luigi Cabanach) piece by piece, ultimately becoming a sort of local supergroup. Their sound blended jazz rock, traditional Spanish and classical music, and even cinematic scores, forming a unique, sophisticated fusion style. The original album cover referenced Spanish classical composers -- signaling the band's deep embrace of Iberian musical heritage in a prog-fusion framework. Remastered sound in 24-bit domain. Multilingual insert with liner notes by journalist Àlex Gómez-Font and rare photos.
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Beyond rare British private press folk album from 1971. Charming atmosphere and dreamy twin female vocals, mixing traditional tunes with interesting covers and superb original songs featuring a slight psych/folk edge. Named after the fabled ghost ship, Wolverhampton folk group Marie Celeste left behind just one rare recording: the 1971 private-press album And Then Perhaps. Pressed in only 200 copies without a proper picture sleeve and recorded live in a single session, it has since become a collector's treasure -- a haunting message in a bottle from the British folk underground. Formed in the late '60s by childhood friends Brian Lindop (vocals, guitar) and Jon Tame (bass), the group evolved through several line-ups before settling with singers Glenys Jenkins and Mary Bishop, alongside young guitar prodigy Ken Price. Their harmonies, combined with Brian's evocative songwriting and Ken's dexterous playing, gave the band a distinct voice within the flourishing folk scene. The album blends five striking originals with inspired covers of Tom Paxton, Joni Mitchell, and traditional standards. Highlights include the pastoral title track "And Then Perhaps," the harmony-rich opener "Prisoner", and the lilting instrumental "A Slice of Peace". Critics at the time praised its warmth and quality despite its shoestring budget, with the Wolverhampton Express & Star calling it "a good album" that deserved wider attention. Though the band disbanded in early 1972, their swansong -- a support slot for Fairport Convention -- confirmed their talent. First ever band-sanctioned reissue. Newly vintage styled artwork in hard cardboard sleeve. 24-bit domain remastered sound. Insert with liner notes by Austin Matthews (Shindig!/Flashback) and photos.
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Found Keys is the debut album from American artist Ruth Maine. Although Ruth has been playing and composing music for over two decades, this is the first time she decided to record some of her varied compositions and share them with the public. But in times when it is the norm to clamor for attention, she prefers to go the opposite way. Ruth likes to let her music speak for itself and stay in the shadows. The 16 short piano pieces heard on this album, each about two to three minutes long, were recorded remotely and purely surrounded by nature. Once a composition was found and Ruth considered it mature, she only recorded it once, embracing the beauty of doing something for the first time with all its little imperfections. Found Keys sounds anything but imperfect though. These compositions feel timeless, intimate and comforting, as if they have been around for a long time, like an old friend. Gently played keys slowly evolve into minimal pieces through repetitive melodies. There's stillness as much as there's brightness, sadness as much as joy; welcome to a beautiful journey through Ruth's world of wonder. In many ways, Found Keys is a deeply personal record that takes Sonic Pieces back to its roots. And it leaves a feeling of nostalgia while reviving memories of the past.
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Sanguis is the alias of Berlin-based producer Ludwig Wandinger, a fixture in the city's experimental scene. On his debut album Wounding, dark ambient textures and solo piano improvisations let the listener's attention slip in and out of focus creating a liminal state of dreaming, feeling and drifting through inner worlds and thoughts. Wandinger tries to capture fleeting moments -- all tracks are unedited first takes, some recorded only with his phone in various places, from a friend's flat in Neukölln to his family home in rural Bavaria. Background noises become a part of the music and create a tangible sense of place, urging the listener to keep an ear out for one's own surroundings. Though firmly rooted in the ambient genre, the album is not just about finding comfort. It's an acknowledgement of the ambiguity of our world where menace and beauty coexist, a dichotomy most apparent in nature itself -- a constant source of inspiration for Wandinger. Wounding is about walking alone on damp foliage at night and being handed a blanket by a loved one at the earliest daylight.
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Mellonius One's blend of cinematics and downtempo breaks gets fully captured in all its emotive brilliance for his first long player vinyl LP. Turquoise color vinyl.
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Deluxe 6-panel digipak CD, Heavyweight board. "Hikmah is the astonishing new [studio] solo piano work from virtuosic and far-ranging sound scientist; deep and compassionate thinker; UK (and world) musical treasure: Pat Thomas. It is a singular work in his singular and now substantial body of work, and his first for the TAO Forms label. Pat Thomas was Born in Oxford, UK to Antiguan parents on July 27, 1960. Interestingly, just over 4 months separate his birth to that of fellow modern piano master Matthew Shipp (Dec 7, 1960) -- whose The Piano Equation was TAO Forms inaugural release. Thomas is most certainly among the Black Mystery School Pianists of which Shipp elucidates in the title essay of his recently published first book. Eight thoroughly focused improvised and otherwise compositions recorded at Fish Factory studio in London. The album's title, Hikmah, means 'wisdom' in Arabic. The title is also presented in two different forms of Arabic calligraphic script on the cover artwork. This album does indeed bring the information. The vibrantly living jazz tradition and new modes of expression in abundance are brought forth from a lifetime of work and Thomas' decades-long devotion to Sufism, understanding that the practice and performance of this music is an elemental form of spiritual practice. As William Parker writes in the liner notes, '[the] music becomes the prophet and the prayer all in one gesture.' And, 'If you haven't yet heard the music of Pat Thomas, get hip to it quickly.' Attuned American audiences are most likely to have become familiar with Pat Thomas through his work with the quartet [Ahmed], whom over recent years have amazed with their mesmeric, long-form explorations on the compositions of Ahmed Abdul-Malik, and more recently, Thelonious Monk. Their debut US performance took place in March 2025, and TAO Forms were lucky members of the rapt audience at Roulette in Brooklyn that night; the group flew to Knoxville the next day to perform to a equally rapt audiences at Big Ears."
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LP version. "Hikmah is the astonishing new [studio] solo piano work from virtuosic and far-ranging sound scientist; deep and compassionate thinker; UK (and world) musical treasure: Pat Thomas. It is a singular work in his singular and now substantial body of work, and his first for the TAO Forms label. Pat Thomas was Born in Oxford, UK to Antiguan parents on July 27, 1960. Interestingly, just over 4 months separate his birth to that of fellow modern piano master Matthew Shipp (Dec 7, 1960) -- whose The Piano Equation was TAO Forms inaugural release. Thomas is most certainly among the Black Mystery School Pianists of which Shipp elucidates in the title essay of his recently published first book. Eight thoroughly focused improvised and otherwise compositions recorded at Fish Factory studio in London. The album's title, Hikmah, means 'wisdom' in Arabic. The title is also presented in two different forms of Arabic calligraphic script on the cover artwork. This album does indeed bring the information. The vibrantly living jazz tradition and new modes of expression in abundance are brought forth from a lifetime of work and Thomas' decades-long devotion to Sufism, understanding that the practice and performance of this music is an elemental form of spiritual practice. As William Parker writes in the liner notes, '[the] music becomes the prophet and the prayer all in one gesture.' And, 'If you haven't yet heard the music of Pat Thomas, get hip to it quickly.' Attuned American audiences are most likely to have become familiar with Pat Thomas through his work with the quartet [Ahmed], whom over recent years have amazed with their mesmeric, long-form explorations on the compositions of Ahmed Abdul-Malik, and more recently, Thelonious Monk. Their debut US performance took place in March 2025, and TAO Forms were lucky members of the rapt audience at Roulette in Brooklyn that night; the group flew to Knoxville the next day to perform to a equally rapt audiences at Big Ears."
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Sascha Dive returns to the Tenampa podium with another outstanding release. True to form, he stays faithful to his signature style: a well-defined, punchy, groovy, and solid tech-house sound that has become his trademark... sophisticated and refined! On remix duties, the excellent Tuccillo delivers his touch of class, fresh off a string of acclaimed releases on some of the most respected electronic labels around, and delivers a standout remix. This is a must-have addition to your collection: a vinyl-only release, limited to just 300 copies worldwide, featuring a stunning full-cover illustration by renowned Mexican artist El Stitch.
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From 2019 to 2022, Gorgun drafted this record twice, then deleted most of her sketches. By the time she opened a new session, she had gone through an accidental electrocution, a cancer diagnosis, and an allergic collapse that nearly suffocated her. During treatment, chemotherapy left her in a cognitive fog known as "chemo-brain," forcing her to relearn the craft of composition from scratch. While rebuilding her own focus, she watched her friends, relatives, and musical heroes battle illness, recover, or slip away. The result is Earthbound: a final, third iteration recorded in the quiet intervals between sunshine afternoons in the park, surgeries, funerals, long walks by the sea, emergency rooms, and snow-lit nights -- above all, between days spent searching for sound and music. Yet, rather than foregrounding those ordeals, Gorgun surrendered to them, composing as a witness to the post-COVID world limping back to life in "Janus"; to the wavedrops rejoining the sea in "Cloudbreak Swell"; to a joyful stargazing experience in "Moonbeams," to the attention-seeking power-drunk swagger in "Edgelord"; to memory dissolving at the doorway -- the doorway effect -- in "Olvido"; or to the way Middle-Eastern artists are ever more exotically consumed while their homelands splinter in "Exocannibalism" and "Bon Pour L'Orient."
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Claire M Singer has shared details of the captivating second instalment in a triptych of albums that delves into two intertwining narratives. Gleann Ciùin -- which means "quiet glen" in Scottish Gaelic (pronounced gly-ow-n kyoon) -- is released on CD Touch. The follow up to 2023's Saor, the heart of this album lies a profound exploration of the artist's personal journeys across the rugged, awe-inspiring landscapes of the Cairngorms in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Through a tapestry of evocative melodies and stirring harmonies, the music transports listeners to these majestic mountain peaks, evoking the solitude, the natural wonder, and the transformative power of traversing such terrain. Gleann Cùin also represents a parallel journey, one that ventures deep into the history and grandeur of the UK's most remarkable pipe organs. As the artist navigates these historic instruments, coaxing forth their rich, resonant tones, the music becomes a vehicle for uncovering the stories embedded within these magnificent, centuries-old artifacts. Each track on the album seamlessly blends these two narrative threads, creating a captivating tapestry that invites the listener to experience the artist's own discovery, whether exploring the rugged Scottish landscape or unearthing the hidden musical treasures of the nation's most revered pipe organs. Gleann Ciùin stands as a powerful and immersive artistic statement, a mesmerizing musical journey that immerses the listener in the artist's own transformative explorations. The album's title piece is the Ivor Novello nominated "Gleann Ciùin." Originally commissioned in 2019 by the London Contemporary Orchestra and the Richard Thomas Foundation for the PRS New Music Biennial. The piece features violin, viola, four cellos, and two horns and the 1967 Flentrop organ housed under the stage when not in use in the Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
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Big remix package for Toy Tonics's boss Kapote. His song "Mystery" from the last album reworked by Harvey Sutherland, Opolopo, and Close Counters, with a bonus remix by French house master Cassius. Turning Kapaote's new school house anthem into super fresh jazz-funk disco, NYC 1990s house hit and proto-dance bangers. There is no way there is not one version that every good DJ with an interesting fresh sound can't play.
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"I founded this band, and I'll bury it when I feel like it," Naked Lunch mastermind, songwriter, and singer Oliver Welter once said. Obviously, he hasn't felt like it yet. So it should come as no surprise that this band -- believed by many to be long gone -- is opening a new chapter in its eventful history, twelve years after their last critically acclaimed album All Is Fever (TR 243CD, 2013), with their new record Lights (And A Slight Taste Of Death). Following lineup changes and internal reshuffles, comes this outrageous record, on which, as seems to be the case with every Naked Lunch release, everything is once again at stake. The madness, the perspective, and the journey of songwriter and singer Oliver Welter go deep with these songs, far-reaching -- not least inward -- and from there, back out into the world. The almost fateful encounter with musician and producer Wolfgang Lehmann ("the best and most talented music interpreter ever," as Welter puts it) inspired Welter to finalize the arrangements and production of the various song drafts for Lights (And A Slight Taste Of Death) in Lehmann's studio -- with Lehmann also handling the final mix. All this, of course, was done with the support of longtime companions Alex Jezdinsky (drums) and Boris Hauf (keys/sax). Lights (And A Slight Taste Of Death) is a 14-track tour de force; demanding and harsh, yet tender and embracing. It's an intimate self-examination, spanning grand ballads like the hauntingly beautiful "Come Into My Arms or Love Don't Love Him Anymore," to sweeping, sky-storming pop anthems such as "To All And Everyone I Love, We Could Be Beautiful," or "Going Underground," and even includes completely unexpected expressive outbursts -- like a free-jazz saxophone solo in the drugged-out "If This Is The Last Song You Can Hear." Lights (And A Slight Taste Of Death) thus takes its rightful place as a consistent continuation in the tightly woven, high-quality discography of Naked Lunch.
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LP version. "I founded this band, and I'll bury it when I feel like it," Naked Lunch mastermind, songwriter, and singer Oliver Welter once said. Obviously, he hasn't felt like it yet. So it should come as no surprise that this band -- believed by many to be long gone -- is opening a new chapter in its eventful history, twelve years after their last critically acclaimed album All Is Fever (TR 243CD, 2013), with their new record Lights (And A Slight Taste Of Death). Following lineup changes and internal reshuffles, comes this outrageous record, on which, as seems to be the case with every Naked Lunch release, everything is once again at stake. The madness, the perspective, and the journey of songwriter and singer Oliver Welter go deep with these songs, far-reaching -- not least inward -- and from there, back out into the world. The almost fateful encounter with musician and producer Wolfgang Lehmann ("the best and most talented music interpreter ever," as Welter puts it) inspired Welter to finalize the arrangements and production of the various song drafts for Lights (And A Slight Taste Of Death) in Lehmann's studio -- with Lehmann also handling the final mix. All this, of course, was done with the support of longtime companions Alex Jezdinsky (drums) and Boris Hauf (keys/sax). Lights (And A Slight Taste Of Death) is a 14-track tour de force; demanding and harsh, yet tender and embracing. It's an intimate self-examination, spanning grand ballads like the hauntingly beautiful "Come Into My Arms or Love Don't Love Him Anymore," to sweeping, sky-storming pop anthems such as "To All And Everyone I Love, We Could Be Beautiful," or "Going Underground," and even includes completely unexpected expressive outbursts -- like a free-jazz saxophone solo in the drugged-out "If This Is The Last Song You Can Hear." Lights (And A Slight Taste Of Death) thus takes its rightful place as a consistent continuation in the tightly woven, high-quality discography of Naked Lunch.
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Tresor Records presents the first-ever reissue of Drexciya's Fusion Flats 12" vinyl, including remixes from Detroit's Octave One, Kaotic Spatial Rhythms, and 043 Chaos. Originally released in the wake of Drexciya's seminal 1999 Tresor debut album Neptune's Lair, this release marks its long-awaited return and first appearance on digital platforms. The remastered edition contains the original extended version of "Fusion Flats" and features new artwork by Detroit-based contemporary artist Matthew Angelo Harrison. 25 years later, Fusion Flats returns to the constellation of Drexciya's Tresor works, connecting their debut full-length to further explorations that continue to inspire generations.
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"Somewhere around 2007 a rather remarkable sight and sound appeared around these parts. Two women, seated among a variety of instruments, playing their own mesmerizing songs amid scattered covers (Richard and Linda Thompson, Donovan, Anne Briggs). Sometimes they played together, sometimes one or the other would do a song while the other watched or added a bit of harmony. It was closer to something you'd see in a university club in 1967 than anything contemporary, but there they were. A large and devoted audience developed quickly, following them from gig to gig. At the time it seemed like they were ready to for the world to discover, something so good that everyone would know about them soon enough. Within a couple of years they would seem more like an apparition, something flown by that you weren't sure was ever really there. They had made some tentative starts at recording, but nothing much to show when I approached them in 2009 to make an LP. One afternoon they loaded all their gear in and set up as they would for a gig. We recorded everything live, including vocals, in one or two takes -- usually one. It was a lovely afternoon, without a hint of the usual recording jitters or other distractions. The songs flowed out, one by one, as naturally as you please. We later added a touch or two to a couple of songs, but the resulting record is almost entirely live, just as you would have heard it if you were lucky enough to see 'em around town. As it turned out, that session was close to the end for Baba Yaga. There were a few more gigs, and then they split -- Carla moving to NYC and Amanda staying local. There were scattered sightings of each over the years: Amanda joined Major Stars for a while. Carla formed Raajmahal with Pat Murano (of No Neck Blues Band and K Salvatore) and put out several LP's and cassettes. But the album they made together as Baba Yaga was seemingly doomed. For a couple of years emails were exchanged, but trying to get the recordings sequenced and artwork prepared for a defunct band whose members lived in different states was slow going. Finally in 2013 everything was in order and 250 copies of the LP were pressed. Then the finished art for the cover went missing. That seemed to be the final nail in the coffin. Boxes of unfinished LP's were tucked into a closet, where they've sat for over a decade. But you can't keep a good record down forever, right? A couple of chance meetings in the middle of this decade restarted the conversation, and designer Darryl Norsen (Grateful Dead, Yes, Joni Mitchell) was brought in to design an all-new sleeve. The records were exhumed and unboxed and after a sixteen year wait the Baba Yaga album everyone 'round town was waiting for is finally here." -- Wayne Rogers
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Animistic Resonance marks a new stage for artist and electronic musician Leslie García, as it is her first album under her own name, following several releases as Microhm and her parallel work as founder of the contemporary art studio Interspecifics, where she has developed an extensive body of sonic projects presented in major museums and programs around the world. The album is the culmination of a profound and extended exploration of sound as language. It is also a statement against the classicism of long-form ambient pieces. Narratively, each track is conceived as a finely detailed work that functions as a condensed temporal fragment, each with its own individuality while simultaneously forming part of a broader universe. The compositional language of the album draws on minimalist structures, deep listening strategies, and experimental approaches to electronic sound. Each track offers a meditation on repetition, density, and micro-variation, unfolding like a sonic landscape shaped by temporal tension and perceptual ambiguity. Animistic Resonance resists categorization, situating itself between ambient, noise, and abstract rhythm, while grounding its aesthetic in a Latin American sensibility that embraces technological poetics, affective depth, and critical imagination. The album invites listeners to move beyond the surface and inhabit a world of vibrational and animistic temporalities. It offers a refuge in sound, a suspended space where calm can emerge. In the midst of contemporary turbulence, Animistic Resonance opens the door to imagining new ways of listening and feeling, demanding an embodied and visceral form of engagement. Composition sound synthesis and programming by Leslie García. Composed between 2022 and 2024 in Mexico City. Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, NY. Artwork by Daniel Castrejón.
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An essential Roy Ayers album blending soulful jazz roots with crisp 1970s funk. Featuring Ayers' signature vibes, tight arrangements, and standout tracks like "The Boogie Back" (sampled by the likes of NWA, 2Pac, and De La Soul) and "Change Up the Groove," this LP is a must-have for any fan of jazz-funk and vintage grooves. Step into the vibrant soundscape of the 1970s with Change Up the Groove, a hidden gem from Roy Ayers Ubiquity's early Polygram years. Often overlooked in favor of Ayers' bigger hits, this soulful album is a masterclass in jazz-funk fusion, capturing the essence of Ayers' evolving style as he bridged the gap between his jazz roots and the rhythmic snap of the '70s funk revolution. From the very first track, Ayers' signature vibes take center stage, shimmering with emotion and groove. The album leans heavily into instrumental richness, with standout contributions from jazz greats like the legendary Bernard Purdie on drums. Strings weave in and out subtly, enhancing Ayers' already deep and textured arrangements. Change Up the Groove isn't just an album -- it's a snapshot of Roy Ayers' artistic evolution, full of rhythm, heart, and timeless groove. Whether you're a longtime fan or just discovering his legacy, this record is essential listening.
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A samba funk essential. This debut album from Jorge Ben's iconic backing band blends Brazilian rhythms, soulful vocals, and American funk energy into one unforgettable groove. Includes the hit single "Coqueiro Verde" along with standout tracks like "Meu País," 'Aleluia, Aleluia," and "O Canto da Ema." A timeless gem for fans of Brazilian soul, vintage funk, or global grooves. First time official reissue. Trio Mocotó is best known for being the powerhouse backing band behind Brazilian legend Jorge Ben during the height of his creative explosion in the early 1970s. But their contribution to music goes far beyond the supporting role -- they were instrumental in shaping what would become known as samba funk, a vibrant fusion of traditional Brazilian rhythms with the groove and energy of American soul and funk music. Formed in São Paulo's iconic Jogral nightclub, Trio Mocotó -- featuring Fritz Escovão, Joãozinho Parahyba, and Nereu Gargalo -- began their musical journey as resident musicians, providing live accompaniment for a rotating cast of performers. It was here that Jorge Ben first encountered their raw talent and unmistakable chemistry, ultimately inviting them to join his band. The collaboration would go on to define an era. In 1971, Trio Mocotó stepped into the spotlight with their debut solo album, Muita Zorra! (São Coisas Que Glorificam a Sensibilidade Atual). The record made an immediate impact, climbing the charts with the infectious single "Coqueiro Verde" and marking the start of a prolific period in the group's career. Muita Zorra! is a dazzling blend of styles -- mixing the baroque funk and melodic sophistication of artists like Marcos Valle with the soulful spirit of Jorge Ben. Layered with elements of American funk, the album delivers a dynamic, rhythm-driven sound that still feels fresh today. The trio's vocal harmonies are front and center, weaving through each track with warmth and richness, creating a captivating sonic tapestry that energizes every beat. This album isn't just a snapshot of a musical moment -- it's a cornerstone of Brazilian soul. A must-listen for fans of global grooves, vintage funk, and timeless Brazilian music, Muita Zorra! is once again available and ready to take its well-deserved place in your collection.
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Among the most revered voices in funk, Marva Whitney holds a special place thanks to her fierce energy and unmistakable style on tracks like the classic "Unwind Yourself," a long-time favorite for DJs and dance floors alike. Emerging from the dynamic world of the James Brown Revue in the late 1960s -- alongside iconic names like Lyn Collins and Vicki Anderson -- Marva quickly carved out a name for herself. In 1969, she began recording as a solo artist under James Brown's King label, scoring a Top 20 R&B hit with 'It's My Thing.' While mainstream hits were few, her music resonated deeply with funk lovers and crate diggers around the world. Songs like "You Got to Have a Job" and the endlessly sampled "Unwind Yourself" have only grown in stature over the decades. Her album, It's My Thing, dropped that same year and has since become a touchstone of the genre. Backed by the legendary JB's and produced by James Brown himself -- who also contributed to most of the songwriting -- the album captures a raw, unapologetic funk sound with a distinctly female voice at the forefront. From the explosive opening of "It's My Thing" -- a bold response to the Isley Brothers' "It's Your Thing" -- Marva channels sheer intensity, backed by a band that doesn't let up. The pace briefly softens with "If You Love Me," a soul-soaked ballad in the spirit of Otis Redding, before diving back into the rhythmic grit of tracks like "Unwind Yourself." Decades later, It's My Thing continues to inspire, sampled by producers and treasured by collectors -- a powerful snapshot of funk at its most uncompromising. Reissue on 180g vinyl.
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The Spice of Life, released in November 1969, stands as Marlena Shaw's second -- and final -- studio album for Cadet Records, produced and arranged by the renowned Richard Evans and Charles Stepney. From the opening, Shaw's voice -- both playful and powerful -- cuts through the lush yet tight-knit arrangements, weaving together a vibrant tapestry of soul, proto-funk, jazz, gospel, and blues. The album features two defining classics: her deeply resonant original of "Woman of the Ghetto" and a signature take on Ashford & Simpson's "California Soul," both staples in sampling culture (you'll probably find that you're more familiar with Shaw's material than you thought.) Evans and Stepney's arrangements are far from mere support -- they're panoramic and inventive. You'll hear kalimba flourishes, psych-tinged guitar accents, and bongo-fueled organ textures that elevate each track, keeping the atmosphere rich but never overwhelming. Moments like the Bacharach-styled "Looking Through the Eyes of Love" or the dramatic flair of "Stormy Monday" showcase their widescreen sensibility and Shaw's versatility. Beneath its musical elegance, The Spice of Life carries a weighty current of social commentary. Tracks such as "Woman of the Ghetto" and the succinct, fierce "Liberation Conversation" bring political and feminist themes into a soulful, expressive framework -- adding unexpected depth to the sophisticated sonic palette. This album offers an immersive journey through soul-jazz mastery, one that rewarded listeners with sampling gold for decades to come. Reissue on 180g vinyl.
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A longtime favorite among Brazilian music collectors! Trio Ternura's "A Gira," originally released in 1973, blends mid-tempo grooves with percussive funk and soul in a way that feels effortlessly timeless. Vampisoul now make this incredible single available once again, cut at 45 RPM and remastered from the original tapes. The track was written by the group's father and uncle as a heartfelt homage to the Candomblé deity -- celebrating nature and spirituality. Trio Ternura was a true family project, made up of three siblings with deep musical roots. According to them "A Gira" captures "the dancing, the expression, the lyrics and musical relaxation -- something very Brazilian." The B-side features the trio's soulful interpretation of Gato Barbieri's "Last Tango in Paris," adding a mellow cinematic touch to this sought-after release.
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Aitcher Clark steps out from his work as one half of LOFN with a first solo long-player that draws a sharp line between the club and the cinema. The six-track LP moves with intent across ambient space, industrial techno frameworks, and restrained neoclassical harmony. It favors patience over peaks, detail over spectacle, and a narrative arc that rewards a start-to-finish listen. Across the LP, Clark threads field-recorded texture with precision drum programming and layered harmonies, avoiding predictable drops in favor of pressure that accumulates over time. The palette is cool and tactile: detuned pads, clipped low-end, and percussive details at the edge of audibility. Moments of clarity, strings, voice-like synths, negative space, arrive as structural markers rather than ornaments. For Veyl, the album sits comfortably within a catalog that values forward motion and atmosphere, while opening a more composition-driven lane. For listeners who followed LOFN's 2021 release, this solo debut widens the frame: less collaborative call-and-response, more solitary architecture, with the same focus on tension and timbre.
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The Village presnts Devin Daniel's sophomore release with the label, Grandiose. A modern jazz-epic composed entirely of original tunes composed by Devin, and performed by quartet of young west coast all-stars: Logan Kane on bass, Myles Martin on drums, and Javier Santiago on keys. Logan was present on Devin's first excursion with The Village, Trio Expeditions. Myles is a frequent collaborator and a staple in premiere LA rhythm sections. Javier and Devin met while attending the Herbie Hancock Institute at UCLA. Right after graduating from the institute, Devin toured with Herbie Hancock and found himself to be the youngest player on legendary stages including the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Hall. Together, the quartet explores grooves, odd-time signatures, post-bop blues, and synthy ambient textures, all pushing each other's boundaries with a sense of freedom and urgency. "Particle" features a Miguel Atwood-Ferguson arrangement, performed by a string-quartet, adding a unique chamber influence. "Nightmare Kitten" contrasts to a Ta brooding melody with dissonant chords over a slow, deliberate groove. Other highlights include the electric energy of "Blink," the breezy pocket in "Contrivance," and extended meditations in "Mind 1" and "Mind 2." Here is the quintessential young Devin Daniels record, tight yet grand in scale, his unique talents on full display from start to finish
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"First time on vinyl for Chapter One of the acclaimed previously CD-only set that was released to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Randy's Records. Kicking off with the joyful ska of Lord Creators' Independent anthem, Chapter One runs the true course of Jamaican music in the 1960s with a virtual who's who of reggae music including Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Toots & The Maytals, Rico, Skatalites, John Holt & Alton Ellis. Beautifully packaged with inner sleeves featuring rare photos and liner notes by Blood & Fire's Steve Barrow."
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"First time on vinyl for Chapter Two, the second part of the acclaimed previously CD-only set that was released to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Randy's Records. From Augustus Pablo's groundbreaking 'Java' to Carl Malcolm's UK pop crossover hit 'Fattie Bum Bum,' Chapter Two showcase classic after classic from an all-star line-up of the '70s reggae music greats including Black Uhuru, Horace Andy, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, The Heptones & Big Youth. Beautifully packaged with inner sleeves featuring rare photos and liner notes by reggae historian, Dennis Katz."
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"Ring the alarm! Here comes the next essential cut on the Stalag Riddim from the late, great Tenor Saw. This is the ultimate soundsystem weapon and a must have for every selector worth their salt. Backed with the crucial original Ansell Collins Stalag 17 instrumental keyboard work out recorded for techniques, Stalag is one of the cornerstones of reggae music, used and utilized by a galaxy of the music world's superstars including Big Audio Dynamite, Public Enemy, Run DMC, Alicia Keys, Kayne West, Sublime etc. An original twin killer double sider-limited press in illustrated sleeve."
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As trans-Atlantic alchemists pulling from a shared dialectic that somehow encompassed both postmodern deconstructionist tendencies and a delightfully subversive sense of poptimism, it's easy to see how David Cunningham and Peter Gordon immediately hit it off upon initially meeting each other back in the late-1970s at the height of their youthful transgressions. Having initially worked together on the second Flying Lizards' LP, with its ingenious fusion of dismantled rhythms and rearranged melodies juxtaposed against the slyly sultry singing of Snatch's Patti Palladin -- with Gordon adding a few sprinkles of mischievous sax in the mix -- it's no wonder the collaboration would lead to further musical adventures. Which leads directly to the genesis of The Yellow Box. Embarking on a collaborative exercise in the structural repurposing of music as untethered puzzle pieces in need of rearrangement with no predetermined outcomes, the duo gave birth to a project that would see them move through both time and recording studios across Europe, taking nearly two years from 1981-1983 to complete. Enlisting the great Anton Fier on drums from The Feelies/Lounge Lizards nexus and John Greaves on bass from Henry Cow/Soft Heap lore to round out their duelling creative counterparts, the album would be something of a lost treasure until its eventual release on Cunningham's Piano imprint in 1996. Cinematic in scope, and filled with drifting drones, beautiful counter-melodies, eery minimalism, Kraftwerkian synthesizers, looped voices, skronky interludes, and other shifting undercurrents of sound, it was an album that utilized both a diverse array of expressive languages, as well as early sampling techniques and prepared instruments, well before most people were thinking in such expansive, integrated terms at the dawn of the '80s. Like a sparser, less groove-oriented version of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, or a more radical take on the experimental work of Can's Holger Czukay, The Yellow Box stands at the crossroads of time and technology, fusing multiple strands of musical thought and compositional techniques into a disjointed whole that somehow still comes off as a conceptually complete record. Now, here it is again, over 40 years later, with perhaps even more historical resonance than it had before, remade and remodeled just waiting to be rediscovered again.
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New York-based artist James K returns with Friend. This album is full of electric pop anthems that blends ear-worming melodies with peak-time breaks, buzzing powerpunk guitars and a classic rave pulse, with K's signature enchanting vocals playfully spitting emotion. It's a hallucinatory pleasure, tearing through your body and mind. "Play" rushes with a rebellion of friends -- an electro fever daydream waking up everywhere you go. Hot off extensive tours worldwide, playing the likes of Pitchfork Festival, Dekmantel, iii Points, and Mutek, following in the footsteps of her last two critically acclaimed singles Friend comes on AD 93. RIYL: Cocteau Twins, Yves Tumor, Prodigy, Oklou, Grimes. Also available on black (WHYT 083LP) and transparent vinyl (WHYT 083TR-LP).
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Conamara-raised musician and performer Olan Monk presents Songs for Nothing, their second album. Songs for Nothing was written upon Olan Monk's return to the west coast of Ireland. The album is imbued with the influence of sean-nós singing, Irish language songs in the "old style" that often proclaim tales of love, loss and landscape; and also heavily indebted to the late Sinéad O'Connor's confessional songwriting. Reconstructing these influences through their unique perspective has resulted in a fragmentary album veering between collaged pop, machinic rock and slow airs, "dedicated to Conamara and all who have called it home." The western, Atlantic-facing edge of Ireland has a particular feeling and energy, one that permeates the release: the granite pulsates, the ocean and sky reflect intensities, seaweed rots on shingle shores, plants bloom, ancient trees come up for air from the drowned forest in Galway Bay, the sun splinters through the low clouds. The album's title suggests a one-way transaction, an offering to the listener expecting nothing in return, but also a devotion to nothingness; and the realm of infinite possibility that springs from its well: singing out into a sparse landscape, which once was home to long-lost forests and communities. A departure from Olan Monk's previous, more electronic work, the instrumental arrangements of Songs for Nothing delve deeper into the "descriptor" with elements of shoegaze, witch house, cloud rap and Irish traditional music bleeding through the walls of the studio. Songs for Nothing, in melding influences old and new feels at times absurd, but never ironic; it is from the heart, and its respect for song traditions and dedication to process are felt in two arrangements of older songs embracing this new trajectory: "Fate (Reprise)" is an earlier recording reimagined as a doomer ballad with Maria Somerville singing in a duet, and "Amhrán Mhaínse" is a Conamara anthem slowed down as a duo of accordion performed by Peadar Tom Mercier accompanied by heavy guitar drones. Folding in other Irish neo-traditional expressionists and experimentalists, the record also features Michael Speers, Dylan Kerr, Aindriú De Buitléir, Risteárd O'hAodha, and Róisín Berkeley.
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London-based experimental artist and new AD 93 signing feeo announces the project's debut album Goodness. Illuminated with breathtaking vocals and uncanny poetics, Goodness is an open, impressionistic assemblage of drone, ambient, experimental electronics, improvisational music and minimalist dance music. Across protean forms and voices, feeo explores an ever-evolving counterpoint between connection and isolation, the city and the natural world, the external and the internal. Contrasting beauty with volatility, communion with disintegration, feeo creates an album of absorbing tension between distinct contrasts. With eleven interconnected pieces of music, each engaged in symbiotic dialogue, Goodness represents a sinuous yet uniform work. Each track is like a link in a chain, with each piece revealing its luster when held up to the light. feeo describes the album as "an exploration of simultaneous yet opposing states of being; darkness and lightness, obscurity and visibility and most fundamentally, solitude and togetherness. Each song is an adumbration; a partial sketch of one aspect of the LP -- each finding its complete meaning when read in the context of the whole." Mirroring the push and pull of perception and contemporary experience, Goodness oscillates between disparate moods and intensities, reflecting moments of interiority, intimacy, seclusion, collective experience and exterior turbulence. With gentle lyricism and mercurial musicality, the album carries listeners through multitudes, from the ruptured spoken word noise of "Days pt.1," to the elemental close-mic ambient of "The Mountain," through the arhythmic electronic soulfulness of "Win!" and the aching piano loops of "Sandpit," to the languid lap steel abstraction of "There Is No I" and the luminous improv cycles of "The Hammer Strikes The Bell." Together, these tracks form an album of profoundly emotive, radical resonances; music both tender and fearless. Goodness marks an evolution in feeo's artistic practice, both as her first full-length release, and as a product of wider collaboration after several years working independently. Welcoming close collaborators and select affiliates into the fold, the process of making Goodness was very much like the record itself; a deeply personal, special convergence of expression and artistry. Hailed by The Wire as "part of an exciting new wave of London experimental artists and improvisors," Goodness signifies a culmination in feeo's output, which spans an acclaimed run of solo releases as well as collaborations with Loraine James and bassist Caius Williams.
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A Few We Remember is the new album by Jonah Parzen-Johnson and Lau Nau. The recording debut for the new duo of Finnish composer Lau Nau, aka Laura Naukkarinen, and American baritone saxophonist Jonah Parzen-Johnson, it cycles between moments of knotty ambience, whispered melody, and innocent tinkering, as the duo improvises over 8 narrative scores composed by Parzen-Johnson. Jonah Parzen-Johnson and Lau Nau are each prolific and celebrated creators on their own, with 22 albums released between the two of them, but in this fresh conversation, something completely new comes to life. In Laura's words: "I enjoy recording live takes without overdubs, and this album is exactly that -- pure first takes, bubbling creative energy happening in the moment. Jonah's written stories gave a powerful spark and direction for our improvisations, but the album reminds me of a chemical reaction: a result that is impossible without both of our inputs, and a surprise to each of us." On the debut single, First Time Viewer, it is almost impossible to tell where Jonah's fragile baritone saxophone melody begins and where Lau's live-sampled, processed, and re-synthesized accompaniment ends. As the improvisation develops, a cloud of ethereal fragments forms into a lattice of melody and texture strong enough to support the entire track.
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WRWTFWW Records presents the first-ever vinyl release of Japanese electronic music producer Virgo's debut album, Landform Code, a forgotten underground classic from 1998, now finally available as a limited edition 45rpm cut double LP housed in a heavyweight sleeve. Originally only released on CD by Tokyo-based cult label FORM@ RECORDS, Landform Code is an absolute gem of smooth, melodic Detroit techno infused with brilliant hints of acid, ambient, and IDM. It's a dreamy, organic, and timeless record that captures the essence of late '90s electronic innovation with a deeply soulful touch. The 12-track album, radiating with lush melodies, hypnotic rhythms, and textural detail, is an essential (hidden) treasure of electronic music history, transporting the listeners back to the pioneering days of Carl Craig, B12, The Black Dog, Ian O'Brien, or Warp's Artificial Intelligence series, beautifully honoring its influences, while solidly standing on its own as a distinct and emotionally resonant piece from Japan's underground scene. Landform Code is released simultaneously with Virgo's 1999 follow-up album Remnants (WRWTFWW 117LP), both excavated from the vaults of FORM@ RECORDS which has officially supervised the reissue efforts. This marks the first phase of a collaboration between the Swiss and Japanese labels.
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WRWTFWW Records presents the first-ever vinyl release of Japanese electronic music producer Virgo's unheralded sophomore album, Remnants, a sleeper underground hit from 1999, now finally available as a limited edition 45rpm cut double LP housed in a heavyweight sleeve. Released only on CD in 1999 by Tokyo-based cult label FORM@ RECORDS, Remnants is a quietly visionary record: mellow ambient techno, fluid electronica, and soul-laced atmospherics with the spirit of Detroit close to the heart. As the follow-up to his essential debut Landform Code, Virgo expands his palette here -- working in widescreen textures, warm synth tones, and patient, emotive arrangements that feel both intimate and cinematic. The result is lush, heartfelt, and simply brilliant -- a late '90s statement that rewards deep, repeated listening. Remnants sits comfortably alongside the era's best explorations in soulful techno, ambient, and IDM, recalling the sensibilities of B12, The Black Dog, Ian O'Brien, and the lineage of labels Warp, Likemind and Clear, while remaining distinctly Virgo -- subtle, sophisticated, and unexpectedly moving. The album is released alongside Virgo's Landform Code (WRWTFWW 117LP), also available on vinyl for the first time ever, as part of a collaborative reissue series between WRWTFWW and FORM@.
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It's not often that a songwriter will deny being the author of his own lyrics, even less so when writing the introduction to a whole book of them. But, without giving too much away, that's exactly what Bid, the man of words both behind and in front of unashamedly literate UK post-punk psych sophisticates the Monochrome Set, sets out to do in Strange Young Alien. If you have followed the past five decades or so of his band's career, you may well have asked yourself what might possess anyone to write lines such as "Every night at sleepy time / I hang my skin out on the line", from "Eine Symphonie des Grauens". You will find a very definite, highly intriguing answer to this question in Bid's book, though most certainly no literal interpretation. There are background stories, to be sure. Amusing and disturbing ones. But essentially, the more you learn about Bid's writing process, the more mysterious it gets. Part I of the book is technically a memoir, from his childhood experience in India and the Himalayas via his adventures in the music business to the near-fatal aneurysm that physically rearranged Bid's brain in 2010. Part II is a helpful compendium of some of the most fundamentally misheard lyrics in pop, from "He's Frank", "Jet Set Junta" and "The Lighter Side of Dating" all the way to "The Ruling Class". Most centrally though, Strange Young Alien is a book about the human brain, specifically its being inhabited by "the Creature," as Bid likes to call his artistic other self that was revealed to him after his stroke. Getting to know the Creature through his description of this revelation may fundamentally change not just the way you understand Bid's lyrics, but the artistic mind as such. Contrary to appearances, then, this book isn't just one for fans of The Monochrome Set, though they'll doubtless be pleased. This is not just a lyric book -- as well as containing many song lyrics has a short biographical story charting the bands lifespan and Bid's special relationship with his uncontrolled inner artistic demon. Paperback. 240 pages. 13x19,5 cm.
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When rock music from Germany gained international recognition under the label "krautrock" in the 1970s, it was far more than a mind-expanding phenomenon. In basements, youth centers, and improvised studios, a vibrant scene emerged-shaped by fearless curiosity and a strong will to transcend traditional musical structures. Some bands produced only a single recording; others became experimental platforms for established musicians or transient fixtures in local underground milieus. What united them was a desire to cross boundaries: rock met jazz, folk merged with electronics, soul touched the avantgarde. These intersections produced soundscapes that remain powerful documents of a creatively restless era. The recordings collected here reflect that spirit-not only from the krautrock period, but also from the decades that followed, including contributions from both Germany and Austria. Featuring Skyline, Psi, Toto Blanke, Ragawerk, Lychee Lassi, Abadie, Zoppo Trump, Epsilon, Radio Noisz Ensemble, Mocolage, Dschinn, Frob, Emotion, Join In, Morpheus, Opossum, Zyma, and The Terrible Two.
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Beat Records reissues the soundtrack by Ennio Morricone for the drama film La Scorta, directed in 1993 by Ricky Tognazzi, with a screenplay by Graziano Diana and Simona Izzo. Ennio Morricone is no stranger to the noir and crime genres. It was only natural for Morricone to continue his collaboration with Ugo Tognazzi's son Ricky, director of La scorta. At the time, Morricone prepared a 21-track assembly with a running time of approximately 49:21, derived from the stereo masters tapes of the original session. That material was first released on the premiere CD release and reissued in 2000 on CD and on vinyl. Thirty-two years after the original CD release and twenty-five years after the CD reissue, this thrilling soundtrack returns to the market on CD. To illustrate the drama and violence of the story, Morricone composed a soundtrack that draws deeply from his well-known sounds from the films of the '70s. This CD is truly essential for any collection dedicated to the musical genius of the immense Ennio Morricone.
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Hyper-limited ethereal ambient-guitar-soul, originally released on cassette only. First time ever vinyl release, on 140g vinyl. The phenomenally hyped Thought Leadership returns with another X ideas: the deck this time chooses the Ace of Swords. Originally out on cassette only, Be With presents the first ever vinyl issue. The sonic palate has been augmented by the addition of synth and bass; there are more guitar layers, more pedals and more organic drums this time -- a much fuller production. Still DIY, and still recorded straight to multitrack, just ever so slightly grander in scale; think a rough-hewn, long-lost Claremont 56 cut and you'll have some idea of how XI opens this future classic LP. The touchstones so key to the vision of Pentacles (Cocteau Twins, Dif Juz, Durutti Column) are all still present and correct; XII could be a piece from Extractions, XIII is pure Garlands-era Guthrie and, now with the shuffling jazz drums, XV makes TL even more LC -- but more disparate influences are found this time out too. ECM guitar legends John Abercrombie and Pat Metheny in the more considered melodic phrasing and harmonic structure of the ideas and a nod to the cosmic Balearic spirit in the overall vibe, means more is offered to the listener across Swords. Be With is honored to present the first ever vinyl release of Ace Of Swords, carefully remastered by Be With's engineer Simon Francis to ensure it sounds better than ever after its initial tape release. Cicely Balston's expert skills have made sure nothing is lost in the cut at Abbey Road Studios whilst the records have been pressed to the highest possible standard at Record Industry, in Holland. The original tape cover artwork, so crucial to Thought Leadership's striking visual aesthetic, has been rejigged for vinyl issue here at Be With.
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After a critically praised debut in 2023 and numerous tours across Europe, Yalla Miku returns with 2, a new record that further asserts their unique identity. Still based in Geneva, the band moves forward with a reimagined lineup -- not as a departure, but as the natural continuation of a project envisioned from the start as a space for encounters, movement, and musical reinvention. Blending post-kraut grooves, mutant folklore and electronic trance, Yalla Miku continues to spark dialogue between traditions from the Horn of Africa and the most unrestrained experiments of Geneva's underground. The krar riffs of Samuel Ades Tesfagergsh, the sculptural bass of Louise Knobil, the taut percussion of Cyril Bondi, the raw electronics of Emma Souharce, and Cyril Yeterian's modified banjo weave a dense, collective sonic fabric, full of sharp turns and rhythmic surges. There's no smooth fusion here, nor any fixed folklore: 2 is an interplanetary journey where multiple voices overlap, clash or complement each other. It's a music of otherness, built as a shared space where each texture keeps its own roughness. With this second album, Yalla Miku digs deeper into its sound: raw, militant, unclassifiable -- for curious ears and open hearts.
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LP version. After a critically praised debut in 2023 and numerous tours across Europe, Yalla Miku returns with 2, a new record that further asserts their unique identity. Still based in Geneva, the band moves forward with a reimagined lineup -- not as a departure, but as the natural continuation of a project envisioned from the start as a space for encounters, movement, and musical reinvention. Blending post-kraut grooves, mutant folklore and electronic trance, Yalla Miku continues to spark dialogue between traditions from the Horn of Africa and the most unrestrained experiments of Geneva's underground. The krar riffs of Samuel Ades Tesfagergsh, the sculptural bass of Louise Knobil, the taut percussion of Cyril Bondi, the raw electronics of Emma Souharce, and Cyril Yeterian's modified banjo weave a dense, collective sonic fabric, full of sharp turns and rhythmic surges. There's no smooth fusion here, nor any fixed folklore: 2 is an interplanetary journey where multiple voices overlap, clash or complement each other. It's a music of otherness, built as a shared space where each texture keeps its own roughness. With this second album, Yalla Miku digs deeper into its sound: raw, militant, unclassifiable -- for curious ears and open hearts.
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"Although The Black Dot/White Spot performance space in Nanaimo, BC has now passed into legend, The Black Dot label continues apace. To prove this we off¬er you The Twain, an extraordinary album helmed by BC-based string maestro Gordon Grdina, whose Square Peg combo's debut LP was The Black Dot's first release. This new project came about when Gordon encountered Michiyo Yagi's Trio, the Far out East-Improv Japan at the 2016 Jazztopad Festival in Poland. With Yagi on koto, Takahiro Honda on drums, and Koichi Makagami on vocals, the sound was beyond belief. Yagi and Honda regularly play as the duo DOJO, and their communication happens on a molecular level, giving their music a wild sense of freedom while maintaining clarity and forward-moving power. The vocals of Makagami (whose avant credentials stretch back as far as the Tokyo Kid Brothers) added an absolutely otherworldly element to the whole, as anyone who has seen him perform will surely attest to. Gordon was blown away, and knew he wanted to figure out a way to collaborate with this crew. Plans were laid, and eventually a session came together at Tokyo's GOK Studio in 2019. Three hour-long sets were recorded. One with Gord and DOJO, another with Gord and Koichi, and a final one with all four. These three hours were boiled down and edited into shorter segments. So what we have here is la creme de la creme. Things are blazing from the very start. Gord and Michiyo's work together the way Larry Coryell and Sonny Sharrock's did on the wilder parts of Memphis Underground. It's like a Vulcan Mind Meld style jam, conducted by the ghost of Jimi Hendrix. Honda's drums are tucked in there with a kind of free rock mass so huge it's hard to get your head around. And Koichi's vocals -- ranging from gibbered sound poetry to the peeps of twenty happy babies -- are akin to instructions being beamed in from alien galaxies. Taken together, these four musical voices all manage to remain distinct while at the same time conjoining for a kind of Fifth Mind synergy that will blow your mind for good." --Byron Coley
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After more than a decade of touring, collaborations, and sonic explorations, Peruvian guitarist and improviser Jorge Espinal presents Bombos y Cencerros, his first solo album, released through Buh Records. Based in Buenos Aires since 2007, Espinal has been part of projects such as Ricarda Cometa and Calato, where he developed a musical approach in which body and instrument function as a single rhythmic unit. The idea for the album took shape after a 16-date European tour in 2023. Back in Buenos Aires, Espinal entered Estudio Belcebú to record, in a single session, a series of pieces that condense years of practice. Here listeners hear him playing, all at once: prepared electric guitar, bass drum, cowbell, pedals, and laptop. He triggers samples, builds loops, freezes sounds. The guitar becomes a source of rhythm rather than harmony. The title Bombos y Cencerros refers to two essential elements of popular Latin American percussion. These are instruments that set the pulse, that lead the way in parties, processions, and street celebrations. In the context of the album, they also serve as a statement of intent: rhythm as a point of departure. Espinal takes this foundation and transports it to a territory where noise, repetition, and accident coexist. Bombos y Cencerros is released through Buh Records in a limited vinyl edition. The album was mixed and mastered by Genosidra, and the cover art is by Japanese artist Hideyuki Katsumata, a frequent collaborator of Espinal since his work in Ricarda Cometa.
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In 1934, Swiss engineers completed the Chandoline Hydroelectric Plant, channeling Alpine water through 16 kilometers of concrete pipe. By 2023, the turbines had stopped. The plant was empty, silent -- a cathedral to obsolete energy with perfect acoustics and nothing left to say. Christian Marclay saw an instrument. For the inaugural Biennale Son in 2023, the artist who made his name destroying vinyl in 1980s New York turned the entire hydroelectric system into a playable object. The concept: open a manhole 4.5 kilometers uphill, drop something in, wait for sound to travel through the mountain. Steel bearings didn't work -- too heavy, wrong frequency. So Marclay used golf and tennis balls donated by local clubs. The Valais School of Art rigged the turbine hall with microphones. Then the balls dropped. Seconds of silence. Then: tumbling, bouncing, accelerating through kilometers of concrete. Not one ball but many, building into something between avalanche and applause as they hit the hall below. Marclay directed remotely, releasing volleys like a percussionist striking a drum the size of a small town. The pipe amplified everything -- pure mountain reverb, no processing, just 1934 engineering singing its swan song. The recording, mixed with Alain Renaud, is the Biennale Son's first vinyl release. Side A features fifteen minutes of cascading spheres, industrial archaeology as living sound. Side B features an engraved portrait of Marclay. Unplayable. The performance happened once. The pipe spoke. That's enough. This is quintessential Marclay -- the artist who built the Phonoguitar (1983), scattered records to be crushed underfoot (Footsteps, 1989), won Venice's Golden Lion with The Clock (2011), collaborated with Sonic Youth and John Zorn, and has spent his career proving that everything is already an instrument. Mountains. Vinyl. Film. Time itself. You just need to know where to listen -- or where to drop the ball. Always the same question: what music do objects make when you know how to listen? Here, the answer is gravity plus concrete plus expired sporting goods equals something you've never heard before. Conduite forcée means "penstock" but translates as "forced conduct" -- water compelled through pipe, sound through space, music from infrastructure. Limited edition. One pressing. No digital. Just the grooves and the ghost of Switzerland's hydroelectric past, pressed into vinyl like water in a sealed pipe. Mountains as instruments. Golf balls as notes. A decommissioned power plant's final performance, conducted by one of contemporary art's most inventive listeners.
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Léo Dupleix returns to Black Truffle with Round Sky, following the enchanting Resonant Trees (BT 119LP, 2024). The composer here performs on analogue synthesizer, harpsichord and spinet as one member of Asterales, a group that brings together four important figures in the international community of musicians working with just intonation: Dupleix, Jon Heilbron (double bass), Rebecca Lane (quarter-tone flute) and Frederik Rasten (guitars). The quartet perform three recent pieces by Dupleix, each of which is like a different view on the same landscape of unruffled calm, where the unique harmonic events made possible by just intonation flicker across melodies and harmonies like light on the surface of water. The first side is dedicated to "Poème d'air," composed while Dupleix was immersed in the music of 14th-century ars nova composer-poet Guillaume de Machaut. A sustained study of the "sonic possibilities of low-pitched sounds in just intonation," it begins with a long, rumbling pitch from Heilbron's bass, soon joined by the organ-like tones of the composer on synthesizer. The piece is made up of cycling sequences of chords, each of which is repeated for several minutes before the music either freezes on a single harmony or silently pauses before the next episode begins. The development culminates in a stunning episode around fifteen minutes in where the texture thins out, casting a spotlight on a melodic figure exploiting the uncanny sound of Lane's quarter-tone flute. On the second side comes two briefer pieces, closer to the sound of Resonant Trees as they return harpsichord and spinet to the foreground. "Ghosts" centers on a harpsichord melody that slowly expands as it repeats, growing from a haunting six-note cell to a flowing succession of notes whose shape become increasingly difficult to perceive. Alongside this melodic development, an increasingly lush accompaniment grows, with long tones from bass, flute, e-bowed guitar and synthesizer holding notes picked out the harpsichord melody in a swaying harmonic cloud. Dupleix notes that the concluding "Round Sky" was written in the countryside in spring, a circumstance that seems far from irrelevant to the impression the piece makes when its euphonous spinet arpeggios emerge from a gentle synthesizer drone like a flower from a bud. Performed as a duo with Rasten, with both instrumentalists also singing, this title piece exemplifies what makes Dupleix's music so unique: grounded in a rigorous application of just intonation principles yet as open as Harold Budd or Andrew Chalk to an uncomplicated, intuitive experience of beauty.
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"Recorded in Paris -- nine urgent Dinosaur Jr classics performed at arguably the band's '90s peak as a live outfit. A perfect snapshot of the J, Mike and Murph era as it neared its end."
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Originally released in 2005, OK Cowboy, Vitalic's first album, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary with a reissue in several formats, enriched with rare tracks and previously unreleased versions. OK Cowboy is a landmark album in electronic music, a pivotal record between eras. It perfectly captures that period while also anticipating the raw, abrasive new sounds of French Touch 2.0 (the movement led by Justice and the artists of the Ed Banger label). Twenty years later, the impact and power of this major album still mark it as a defining release of the mid-2000s, retaining its full sonic relevance today.
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PRAED return to Discrepant, after their 2017's entry Fabrication of Silver Dreams. Known for their signature blend of Egyptian Shaabi, free jazz and improvisation, the Lebanese duo behind PRAED -- Raed Yassin and Paed Conca -- now assemble a full orchestra for the second time taking the music to a deeper, rooted level. Following their 2020 release Live in Sharjah, also under the PRAED Orchestra! moniker, the duo now revisit their unique blend of Arabic heritage and free jazz sensibilities with an album that keeps pushing further into strange and unexpected directions. The Dictionary of Lost Meanings is just that, seven fully composed pieces and large-scale improvisations, performed by an expanded ensemble of musicians from across the globe. The result is dense and playful, unpredictable but familiar, a record where Arabic rhythms and microtonal melodies collide playfully against electronics, warped vocals and orchestral textures. It's less about genre than about memory -- like tuning into a radio station broadcasting from somewhere between the past and the future. PRAED continue to blur the line between popular culture and experimental music in ways that feel both grounded and completely their own.
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Underneath The Earth is the debut album from Chimehours; a hauntological music project for the dislocated present day. Taking inspiration from Max Porter's novel Lanny, the album digs into themes of nature, myth and community, with an edge of folk-horror. Drones, drums and gritty guitars are juxtaposed with woodwind, strings and ethereal song. Written and produced between Derbyshire, London and Margate, the album takes musical influence from the likes of Liz Fraser, Broadcast, Beth Gibbons, Bibio, and Jóhann Jóhannsson, and atmospheric cues from The Wickerman, The Fog, and Enys Men. Chimehours is a collaboration between Beck Goldsmith and Jon Dix. The pair have previously performed in bands together and composed music for award-winning film and television. They conjured up this foray into cinematic, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human. Here, Chimehours raid the vaults of '70s British cinema and trad folk soundscapes to riff on contemporary anxieties and ecological yearning. They conjured up this foray into cinematic, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human. The result is a collection of all things earthy, exquisite and grotesque.
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LP version. Underneath The Earth is the debut album from Chimehours; a hauntological music project for the dislocated present day. Taking inspiration from Max Porter's novel Lanny, the album digs into themes of nature, myth and community, with an edge of folk-horror. Drones, drums and gritty guitars are juxtaposed with woodwind, strings and ethereal song. Written and produced between Derbyshire, London and Margate, the album takes musical influence from the likes of Liz Fraser, Broadcast, Beth Gibbons, Bibio, and Jóhann Jóhannsson, and atmospheric cues from The Wickerman, The Fog, and Enys Men. Chimehours is a collaboration between Beck Goldsmith and Jon Dix. The pair have previously performed in bands together and composed music for award-winning film and television. They conjured up this foray into cinematic, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human. Here, Chimehours raid the vaults of '70s British cinema and trad folk soundscapes to riff on contemporary anxieties and ecological yearning. They conjured up this foray into cinematic, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human. The result is a collection of all things earthy, exquisite and grotesque.
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LP version. Green color vinyl. Underneath The Earth is the debut album from Chimehours; a hauntological music project for the dislocated present day. Taking inspiration from Max Porter's novel Lanny, the album digs into themes of nature, myth and community, with an edge of folk-horror. Drones, drums and gritty guitars are juxtaposed with woodwind, strings and ethereal song. Written and produced between Derbyshire, London and Margate, the album takes musical influence from the likes of Liz Fraser, Broadcast, Beth Gibbons, Bibio, and Jóhann Jóhannsson, and atmospheric cues from The Wickerman, The Fog, and Enys Men. Chimehours is a collaboration between Beck Goldsmith and Jon Dix. The pair have previously performed in bands together and composed music for award-winning film and television. They conjured up this foray into cinematic, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human. Here, Chimehours raid the vaults of '70s British cinema and trad folk soundscapes to riff on contemporary anxieties and ecological yearning. They conjured up this foray into cinematic, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human. The result is a collection of all things earthy, exquisite and grotesque.
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Double LP version. Originally released in 2005, OK Cowboy, Vitalic's first album, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary with a reissue in several formats, enriched with rare tracks and previously unreleased versions. OK Cowboy is a landmark album in electronic music, a pivotal record between eras. It perfectly captures that period while also anticipating the raw, abrasive new sounds of French Touch 2.0 (the movement led by Justice and the artists of the Ed Banger label). Twenty years later, the impact and power of this major album still mark it as a defining release of the mid-2000s, retaining its full sonic relevance today.
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Beat Records Company and Cabum Edizioni Musicali present the release of the original motion picture soundtrack of Rats Notte Di Terrore, the 1984 horror cult directed by Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragasso. The score composed by Luigi Ceccarelli is an electronic symphony, for years requested by horror cinema fans. It has been processed in a wonderful stereo thanks to remastering of a multi-track original master of the period and a meticulous restoration and mix by the composer. After 40 years since its theatrical, it is release finally available this milestone music. The soundtrack finally available in this 40th anniversary featuring the amazing original artwork. Mix and project supervision by Luigi Ceccarelli, multi-track audio restoration by Giuliano Radiciotti.
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LP version. Beat Records Company and Cabum Edizioni Musicali present the release of the original motion picture soundtrack of Rats Notte Di Terrore, the 1984 horror cult directed by Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragasso. The score composed by Luigi Ceccarelli is an electronic symphony, for years requested by horror cinema fans. It has been processed in a wonderful stereo thanks to remastering of a multi-track original master of the period and a meticulous restoration and mix by the composer. After 40 years since its theatrical, it is release finally available this milestone music. The soundtrack finally available in this 40th anniversary featuring the amazing original artwork. Mix and project supervision by Luigi Ceccarelli, multi-track audio restoration by Giuliano Radiciotti.
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Originally released in 2020. "Gorgeous live debut LP by an extremely flexible quartet put together by Vancouver based string-monster, Gordon Grdina. Grdina plays both electric guitar and oud. His guitar work here recalls a couple of very different players -- the clean angular scramble of Boston's Joe Morris, and also the more lyrical passages played by the master of power-distortion, Sonny Sharrock. On oud (an instrument most often associated with traditional music of Northern African and Western Asia) he creates a new approach to the instrument, perhaps parallel to what Chicago's Joshua Abrams is doing with the guimbri. Grdina's fellow travelers in Square Peg are all similar in their multi-directional tactics. Players unafraid to go deep into uncharted territory, with wide discographies on which they play with legends and neophytes with equal power. Brooklyn-born violinist Mat Maneri has collaborated with everyone from Cecil Taylor to Robin Williamson, and is known for his totally open approach to both violin and viola. Maneri's playing here most often reminds me of '70s Leroy Jenkins, shifting from dark sonorities to light-drenched obliquity in the blink of an eye. New York-based Shahzad Ismaily plays bass and synth here, although I've seen him at festivals where he played six different instruments in six different groups. Ismaily can pretty much do anything, but here he creates a flowing, near-constant foundation effectively holding everything together. German drummer, Christian Lillinger, has also played in myriad formats, generally jazz-based, but also those involving avant-garde rock and experimental composition. His playing here is tightly focused and highly propulsive. Not unlike what Chris Corsano does when he goes right down the middle. The pieces on this album are numbered rather than named, but they are not lacking identity. From the first burst of bent notes, Square Peg is boiling. Without horns or reeds or even prominent keys to hang melodic laundry, the music feels like blocks of harmonic interplay shifting around like tectonic plates. Some of the parts where Ismaily plays synth make me think of the communion between Larry Young and John McLaughlin in Tony Williams Lifetime, but the when Grdina is on oud, the sound is unlike anything I've heard. And it is cool as hell, way beyond what little I know of non-trad oud players (Sandy Bull, John Berberian, Solomon Feldthouse). The textures the ensemble creates are hard to give name to as well. Some parts are definitely jazzoid, others are more like free-rock, still others have an almost avant-folk heft (not unlike the Wall Matthews-led Entourage LPs on Folkways). In all, it's a great LP on a great new label. And I'm looking forward to what everyone comes up with next." --Byron Coley, 2019
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Originally released in 2020. "Welcome to the second release in the Black Dot LP series. Black Dot albums are all recorded live at the White Spot performance space in beautiful downtown Nanaimo BC, a venue which Mats Gustafsson visited on June 23, 2019. Mats is many things to many people -- a doting father, a fancier of fine bourbons, an enthusiastic sport fisherman and a record collector of unparalleled passion. But he is probably best known as a musical performer/composer/explorer with world-gobbling intentions. On this evening in June, Mats was in extremely fine solo form. Playing baritone sax, fluteophone and three 'vinyl killer' record players (containing three copies of his own Hockey 10" on Gaffer), Mats began the evening with the sounds of tabletop hockey. The hockey sounds were courtesy of the 'vinyl killer' (which look like Hot Wheels versions of VW mini-buses driving around a record), and this madness was soon intercut with insanely fleet breath manipulation on the baritone. Gustafsson is one of the few players (along Anthony Braxton, Peter Brotzmann and the late Hamiett Bluiett) who has managed to bend the baritone sax to his will. Even the tenor is a big horn, requiring some real meat/lung duality for successful wrangling, but the baritone is a monster. Although Mats handles it as though it were a baby otter (albeit a large baby otter.) His click-stop playing shows he has darn nice tongue control, with grumbles of mutated melodic construction poking up and then hiding again, burrowing deep into the fabric of pure sound. As the set continues, the sax gets more aggressive -- inflating and inventing new strategies of sonic architecture, tearing up the air, sometimes inhabiting the so-called freak register like it was born there, at others playing melodies as though Coleman Hawkins' ghost was haunting its bell. Sometimes when he's playing, Mats gets an expression on his face that suggests he's revisiting the entire history of jazz music (something I know he carries around in his head at all moments). And I suspect those spirits were visibly passing across his visage this night in British Columbia. Although he is revered as an avant-gardist, Gustafsson is much more than that. He embodies a tradition that connects all kinds of seemingly unrelated segments of the music, creating unexpected combinations of sound and technique that span a variety of theoretically unbridgeable gaps. The force of his playing and personality create a furnace in which everything must melt and combine." --Byron Coley
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Originally released in 2021. "crys cole is a Canadian-born composer, currently based in Berlin. She has a long history as a sound artist, both for performances and recordings that display a subtle approach to sound generation (often involving small gestures and the amplification of objects not necessarily designed to produce music). She also creates sculptural installations featuring sound as one element amongst others. This might suggest she possesses some of the mania associated with Fluxus, but crys's work generally eschews the antic, focusing on the slow build and accretion of sound layers. On this night in Nanaimo BC, Oren and crys sat at a pair of tables. Oren held a guitar and his table was covered with electronics. crys held no instrument in her hands, but her table contained a mass of objects, some clearly electric in nature, others looking more like random bits found in a kitchen drawer. Working with these tools and microphones to amplify their voices and/or gestures, the pair created the two pieces here -- wonderfully flowing soundscapes from imaginary vistas of otherness. The instruments they employ sometimes recall the essence of things you've heard before, but more often they are sonic events whose source can only be discerned (and then, only fitfully), by trying to see who is doing what with their hands. The interplay of gesticulation and the slow swaying of their bodies resembles a kind of slow-motion dance, almost like something taking place underwater. And at times there is a concordant submarine heft to the music. Drifting as though heard through a waving wall of water at 20,000 leagues beneath the sea. Other portions make you feel as though you are lying in a tent at night in a jungle filled with cyborg insects. It was a night of music that came and went like a dream state. Beautiful, familiar and utterly strange all at the same time. Sadly, this will be the last LP in this series recorded at the original White Room, upstairs at 4 Church Street in downtown Nanaimo. A new landlord wanted to do something different with the legendary performance space/gallery, and so it goes. We are assured, however, that a new venue will be secured in the Nanaimo area, and the shows (with concomitant live LPs) will continue once the plague has abated. For now, take the opportunity to take a trip with Oren and crys. You won't regret a moment of it." --Byron Coley
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"Drummer extraordinaire Chris Corsano is one of the best-known percussionists of his era as well as one of the most peripatetic musicians this side of Mike Watt (with whom he sometimes collaborates.) Saxophonist Steve Baczkowski (aka 'Buffalo Steve') tends to travel less, favoring gigs within a few hundred miles of his base in upstate New York. So although he has a heavy rep (especially on baritone), his discographical count and overall profile is lower than Corsano's. That said, the two have been friends and collaborators for many years. I think I first saw them play together as part of Thurston Moore's nine piece Dream/Aktion Unit at the 2005 Victoriaville Festival. They have also recorded together regularly, often with Paul Flaherty and/or William 'Bill' Nace. That said, This Is Not a Prayer for You documents a February 2017 session, recorded in Steve's Buffalo NY living room, representing their first recording as a duo. Chris reports they listened to Dewey Redman & Ed Blackwell's 1980 duo set, Red & Black at Willisau, before they began to play, but the skronk they came up with belongs to no one else. Steve plays both baritone and tenor (sometimes with various things jammed into their bells) while Chris handles drums, percussion and slide clarinet. Between the two of them they conjure up a hell of a beautiful racket. Steve's baritone playing has a savage mass that makes me think of Frank Wright in terms of gnarly edge and sheer force, while Chris' drumming is an example of his fleetest 'straight ahead' action, displaying an approach that is without frills while still managing to be ten places at once. The opening cut, 'Slowly Getting Rid of Everything in the Middle of the Room,' is as gorgeous a piece of sax/drum dynamism as you could ask for. And the rest of the album follows suit. The sounds range from a epic sequence of the kind of blats Han Bennink sometimes managed to coax from Brotzmann when they played in duo, to a piece, 'Even the Chairs Look Like They Are Resting,' pairing slow freak register sax-slink with Corsano's slide clarinet for artistic results. But the meat of this matter is dark and red and has to do with the interplay between two musicians who know how to stay nimble even when their playing gets hard as hell, and who never falter in their ability to listen to each other. It's a deep, immersive and thoroughly wonderful spin. I'm just glad we're able to hear it at long last." --Byron Coley
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"Although it is true that the Nanaimo concert hall known as 'The White Room' has been eradicated by real estate greedheads, Jack and Dave (who ran the place and its documenting record label) have decided to keep the label going because why the hell not? The first fruit of this divine union is the Belfort Strasse LP by Eugene Chadbourne's Contemporary Rock Band (whose name was copped from an otherwise anonymous Pismo Beach cover band). Under this exquisitely generic banner you'll find Eugene Chadbourne on vocals, guitar and banjo, Schroeder on drums, Jan Fitsjen on bass and baritone guitar and occasionally Titus Waldenfels on lap steel. Unlike their namesake, this Contemporary Rock Band only plays a couple of covers -- Johnny Paycheck's 'The Cave' and Willie Nelson's 'Wake Me When It's Over.' These are also the tracks on which Waldenfels's lap steel adds musical width, while on 'Prisoner' (recorded for Bulgarian National Radio), the ensemble features solely Chadbourne and Schroeder. The material here was recorded in 2018-19 in a basement studio on Belfort Strasse in Freiburg-im-Brieslau, Germany or in taverns within walking distance of the studio, using a mobile recording facility. A few of the tunes have appeared on some of Eugene's recent CDRs, but this the first vinyl appearance of the music, and a damn fine appearance it is. Unlike his more 'purely' avant instrumental records, Belfort Strasse is a suite of Eugene's sometimes-straight/sometimes-bent lyrics, spiced up with experimentally-canted musical flourishes that fuck with time, melody and harmonics in equal measure and at their own cruel pace. Eugene's approach is so amazingly advanced it can often be head-spinning to try and unravel its intent, but the overall effect kinda destroys the perceptual barriers between sounds deemed 'inside' and 'outside.' This is a trick Chadbourne has long been working at, but as much as I loved many of his early efforts at this syncretic mode of creation, over the years his tactics have become a bit less manic, which seems like a good thing in terms of making the lines blurrier than ever. Eugene is an artist whose aesthetic has long seemed to be dictated by Duke Ellington's statement, 'if it sounds good and feels good then it is. Good. There's no art when one does something without intention.' And to my ear, Belfort Strasse, is Eugene's most adamant exemplar of this dictum yet. If you can't dig it. I'm not certain you can dig." --Byron Coley
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Following the acclaimed reissue of Sa Discossa, Jo Tongo's third solo album Those Flowers returns to the spotlight. Originally released just a year and a half after Sa Discossa, this 1982 gem came out on the small Context label and, in Tongo's own words, the two records are "like twins." Recorded with many of the same musicians, Those Flowers continues the vibrant fusion of disco-funk and reggae -- this time dedicating one side to each, leaning slightly more into his Western influences. But there's more than groove beneath the surface. Tracks like "People Need Peace" and "We Human Beings" channel his enduring themes of resistance, identity, and freedom. The synthesizer at the beginning of the song mimics the ominous drone of warplanes, and lyrics speak directly to global struggles -- reminders that his music is both deeply personal and powerfully political. "I paid for these ideals in my career," Tongo reflects, alluding to the personal costs of his outspoken stance against colonialism and injustice. Still, Those Flowers carries joy at its heart. Songs like "Ain't No Man Like A Real Friend" celebrate trust and loyalty, while the title track offers a tender ode to love and kindness -- "picking flowers from the soul," as Tongo puts it. These songs reveal the inner world of a man who has always viewed music as a mirror of life. This reissue marks the second installment in the African Edge series from The Outer Edge label. Fully restored and remastered, Those Flowers is now set to bloom again -- another vital chapter in the legacy of Jo Tongo.
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A duo concert featuring universal artist and activist Moor Mother and Archie Shepp was planned for October 19, 2023, at the Enjoy Jazz Festival. However, a spinal disc operation on the then 86-year-old saxophone legend led to the cancellation of this eagerly awaited world premiere -- and to a spontaneous demonstration of respect. To honor the great Archie Shepp, one of the most influential intellectuals in jazz, an Enjoy Jazz all-star cast spontaneously recorded a tribute song during the festival -- organized by festival director Rainer Kern. The line-up consisted of Nicole Mitchell, the most important flutist in the history of jazz, as well as the Enjoy Jazz "Artists in Residence" for 2023 and 2024, Moor Mother (spoken word) and Nduduzo Makhathini (piano). In her lyrics, the poetess creates a powerful linguistic monument to Archie Shepp, whom she greatly admires, by playing with the titles of the saxophonist's legendary recordings (instead of with him himself). The title One For Archie is an allusion to Shepp's 1964 Impulse debut, Four For Trane, which, according to Jazzwise, is one of the "100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World." In her moving text, Moor Mother also celebrates Shepp's political and social commitment. The way Moor Mother rhythmically and aesthetically picks up on Shepp's unique playing style, which oscillates between rugged clarity and deep humanity, begins to improvise on it, and thereby creates new connections, is impressive proof of her masterful artistry. Her recitation is peppered with haunting dramatic climaxes that give listeners goosebumps due to their authenticity. The B-side features "They've Got A Plan," a song that is like a beacon. An intense and powerful invocation of "Agenda 2063," a master plan of the African Union to transform the continent socially, economically, and politically. Both tracks are available on vinyl for the first time.
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Elations Recordings presents Tairen, an evocative cello recording marking the debut solo release of Melbourne/Naarm-based cellist LEM (Lauren Meath). This deeply personal work is an impressionistic reflection on place, memory and self at the intersection of classical technique and folk sensibility; expanding Meath's lateral, avant garde approach to sound with piano and textural percussion, resulting in a work that unintentionally falls into the post-minimalist tradition. Conceived as a single piece across five movements and recorded between 2022 and 2024, "Tairen" reflects on memories of a formative place and period for Meath. Each movement scores part of an imagined landscape, mirroring the cliffs and expansive southern ocean of the coastal Otway ranges, remembered and reinterpreted. While tied to a place and time, ultimately Tairen is an exploration and expression of self. Each piece explores this landscape, retaining its own identity while unified by recurring themes, moods and motifs. Meath emphasizes restriction in her approach, creating subtly shifting layers of slowly evolving cello lines with expressive unstructured free playing bursting out. In all but one movement ("Bird"), cello is performed in a single take, utilizing joined looping pedals on a semi acoustic cello from luthier Paul Davies. Equal parts meditative and expressive, uplifting and melancholic, the instrument becomes a proxy for the human voice creating a work that is intensely beautiful. While Meath has a background in classical and pop, LEM has always been a more interior, personal project on the boundaries of minimalism and folk; in the past only as a live project featuring only herself, taking a lateral approach to sound through bow, harmonics and voice. While built on this foundation, Tairen expands Meath's typically minimal live approach with piano ("Sky") and additional textural percussion. Produced and engineered by James Tom and Danny Smith and with additional percussion from Dylan Lieberman. Mixed and mastered by Cam Parkin.
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A decade after its original release, Flako's seminal debut album Natureboy returns for its first-ever reissue on vinyl in a special 10th anniversary edition. In 2015, Natureboy emerged as a rare bloom in the electronic underground -- a record that defied genre and expectation. Hailed by Bleep as "one of the most startlingly unique and original releases" and crowned their album of the year, it still stands as one of the most singular, emotive, and genre-defying releases of its era. The debut full-length from Natureboy Flako (aka Dario Rojo Guerra, also known as soul singer Dirg Gerner on Floating Points and Alexander Nut's Eglo label) pushed beyond beat music into something panoramic. Merging classical structures, sampledelic textures, and electronic experimentation with threads of his South American upbringing, Flako created a richly cinematic sound world, with echoes of folk, cumbia, and soul woven through dense synth-driven futurism. Featuring stunning contributions from Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Dirg Gerner's own evocative vocals, Natureboy balances orchestral beauty with deep electronic textures and intricate beat science, creating an immersive sound universe like no other. Its scope remains astonishing: from the meditative glow of "Gelis," with its sunrise-like chords and delicate percussion, to the energetic drive of "Kuku," where shimmering synths and rolling grooves open into one of the album's most expansive surges. This 10th anniversary edition includes vinyl-only B-sides and other rarities, offering a window into the wider creative universe surrounding the album. After selling out quickly in 2015, Natureboy returns as a limited reissue -- reintroducing a modern classic to new ears while celebrating its enduring influence.
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"In May of 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted and everyone in the Pacific Northwest was touched by its ash, its destructiveness, and its story, a shared experience that became an ash souvenir. Ash Souvenir is the collaborative album by Drowse (Kyle Bates) and Ragana (Maria and Noel), conceived in a shared sense of grief and collective memory rooted in the Pacific Northwest. Ash Souvenir was originally commissioned by and premiered at the 2024 edition of Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands. Afterwards, the trio recorded the album at the legendary Unknown studio in Anacortes, Washington. Ash Souvenir confronts grief. During the writing process, Maria and Kyle were both in a painful, transitional period, moving back to the Pacific Northwest to be closer to struggling loved ones. This return home and the emotions it stirred echoed in Noel's own inherited history. Their grandmother escaped occupied Latvia in the 1940s and began a new life in the United States, eventually spending her final 25 years in a hand-built log cabin deep in the woods outside Shelton, Washington. Surrounded by fir and aspen, she lived in quiet self-reliance, her days shaped by isolation and resilience. The album combines Ragana's heavy, emotionally charged metal with Drowse's textural approach to sound. Across four long-form pieces, the trio's voices and instruments move between stark intimacy and overwhelming intensity, culminating in a collective refrain: 'there is nothing to lose.' Ash Souvenir is a sublime experience, conjuring both the power of a devastating eruption and the eerie stillness that lingers in its wake, ashen memories drifting through night air before rejoining the earth. Ragana have carved their niche as pioneers of the Pacific Northwestern queer black metal scene. They have released five albums since their formation in 2012, with 2023's Desolation's Flower as their first for The Flenser. Kyle Bates specializes in moody, glacial drone as Drowse, a vision that has spanned across five albums since beginning the project in 2018. His most recent, Wane into It, came out in 2022 on The Flenser, followed by a split LP in 2023 with Portland-based experimentalist Amulets."
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Color vinyl version. "In May of 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted and everyone in the Pacific Northwest was touched by its ash, its destructiveness, and its story, a shared experience that became an ash souvenir. Ash Souvenir is the collaborative album by Drowse (Kyle Bates) and Ragana (Maria and Noel), conceived in a shared sense of grief and collective memory rooted in the Pacific Northwest. Ash Souvenir was originally commissioned by and premiered at the 2024 edition of Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands. Afterwards, the trio recorded the album at the legendary Unknown studio in Anacortes, Washington. Ash Souvenir confronts grief. During the writing process, Maria and Kyle were both in a painful, transitional period, moving back to the Pacific Northwest to be closer to struggling loved ones. This return home and the emotions it stirred echoed in Noel's own inherited history. Their grandmother escaped occupied Latvia in the 1940s and began a new life in the United States, eventually spending her final 25 years in a hand-built log cabin deep in the woods outside Shelton, Washington. Surrounded by fir and aspen, she lived in quiet self-reliance, her days shaped by isolation and resilience. The album combines Ragana's heavy, emotionally charged metal with Drowse's textural approach to sound. Across four long-form pieces, the trio's voices and instruments move between stark intimacy and overwhelming intensity, culminating in a collective refrain: 'there is nothing to lose.' Ash Souvenir is a sublime experience, conjuring both the power of a devastating eruption and the eerie stillness that lingers in its wake, ashen memories drifting through night air before rejoining the earth. Ragana have carved their niche as pioneers of the Pacific Northwestern queer black metal scene. They have released five albums since their formation in 2012, with 2023's Desolation's Flower as their first for The Flenser. Kyle Bates specializes in moody, glacial drone as Drowse, a vision that has spanned across five albums since beginning the project in 2018. His most recent, Wane into It, came out in 2022 on The Flenser, followed by a split LP in 2023 with Portland-based experimentalist Amulets."
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Frederiksberg Records presents the long-awaited reissue of Ambonisye Lord Shepherd's 1981 debut album, Evidence For Real -- a deeply personal and spiritual fusion of soul and jazz that has remained a hidden treasure for more than four decades. The newly remastered edition arrives on vinyl, restoring the powerful work of a drummer, composer, and bandleader who chose to walk his own path, well outside the mainstream. Born Robert Charles Sheppard Jr. in Omaha, Nebraska, and later known as Ambonisye Lord Shepherd, the artist carried a life story as inspiring as his music. From his formative years in Omaha's historic 24th & Lake district to his creative explorations in Los Angeles, Shepherd forged a sound that was at once fiercely personal and universally searching. Recorded in late-night sessions across Hollywood and Hermosa Beach with a close circle of collaborators, Evidence For Real reflects Shepherd's spiritual journey in the wake of his mother's passing, embodying his belief in music as a vehicle for healing and higher consciousness. Though self-released on his Verline Records label and overlooked upon its release, Evidence For Real has since become a cult artifact -- a record whispered about among collectors who revere it as a profound statement of resilience, spirituality, and independence. This reissue finally brings Shepherd's masterpiece back into the light.
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"46 years after I first heard Stare Kits on a cassette, they finally have an LP. About time! This NYC quartet's name often comes up in discussions of the No Wave era, which make sense. The members -- Angela Jaeger, Amy Rigby, Michael McMahon, and Bob Gurevics -- were all fans of the scene, and involved with various aspects of TR3, one of No Wave's pre-eminent showcases. UT played their first gig opening for Stare Kits. Rick Brown (Blinding Headache, Information, etc.) played guest sax with them. Julia Gorton used Amy as a photo model almost as often as she used Lydia Lunch, and so on. But despite such connections they were not a No Wave band. Stare Kits's music certainly use instrumental elements in line with No Wave's ethos, but these're part of a much larger mix. The band's basic approach is much rockier and punkier. Bob's guitar parts are more in the tradition of Quine and Reed than they are Lydian, the McMahon/Rigby's rhythm section is more primitive than martial, and Angela's vocals are goddamn melodic. Closer musical comparisons might be made to a various aspects of UK bands from Penetration to Wire to Deaf School to X-Ray Spex. There's a soupçon of a '79 UK DIY rattle to some of the tunes as well. But there is an ineffable something lurking in their collective soul that keeps Stare Kits's instrumental sound grounded in the NYC art-punk/street-rock continuum. Angela's vocals may resemble Penelope Houston's at moments but there's not much overt political content in Stare Kits's lyrics. An eclectic mix of elements? Yeah, and it sounds fucking great. The saga of Stare Kits was laid out pretty well in Angela's excellent book, I Feel Famous (Hat & Beard Press 2025) and was also part of Amy McMahon's equally dandy Girl to City (Southern Domestic 2019). Now's your chance to hear what their hubbub was all about." --Byron Coley, 2025
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The highly anticipated debut album from Amsterdam-based Indonesian psych-folk ensemble Nusantara Beat has finally arrived. Having built a rapidly rising reputation through captivating live performances and a string of acclaimed 7" singles (Bongo Joe Records), this self-titled album powerfully extends an already potent musical vision. A mesmerizing collection of eleven original tracks, Nusantara Beat delves deep into the group's Indonesian ancestral roots, and thrillingly weaves together hypnotic folk melodies, vintage Indo-pop, pulsating psychedelic grooves and contemporary sonic textures. Nusantara Beat grew out of Amsterdam's vibrant music scene, with several of its members previously playing in Dutch groups including EUT, Jungle by Night and the Turkish psych ensemble Altin Gün. But it was the allure of exploring Indonesian sounds that cemented their alliance. Released in 2023, "Djanger" is a beloved song describing the movements of a Balinese dancer. "Kota Bandung," also released in 2023, is a 1970s classic describing the capital city of West Java. And 2024's "Mang Becak" is another '70s pop track based around a conversation between a woman and a becak (bicycle rickshaw) driver, delivered in Sundanese, the local language of West Java. Across these three singles, Nusantara Beat paid heartfelt tribute to the tradition of "Sunda Pop" -- the Indonesian pop sensation that, from the 1960s onwards, blended traditional Sundanese music with contemporary pop sounds such as psychedelia, surf music and funk. Nusantara Beat have staked out a daring place in modern music, paying homage to the tradition of Sunda Pop, while reinvigorating it for the 21st century with pristine production techniques, modern synthesizers and deep grooves. Now, with their self-titled debut album, Nusantara Beat have gone one step further, writing, recording and producing eleven scintillating original songs that have their roots deep in tradition while stretching out into bold new worlds. The ethereal mood of the traditional Javanese and Balinese gamelan percussion ensemble can be heard to striking effect, underpinning the heavy twang of a surf guitar and whooshing synth sirens. And, throughout the album, samples of Balinese gamelan instruments add extra depth, along with the sounds of traditional instruments such as the kecapi zither, the kendang drum and Balinese gongs. Most of the lyrics -- written in English and translated into Indonesian -- deal with the complexities of modern love, with a bittersweet pop sensibility perfectly suited to Megan's gorgeously delicate vocal style. Atmospheric, mesmerizing and timeless, it's a perfect example of the magic Nusantara Beat weave. Nusantara Beat is the sound of an utterly unique musical collective, forging new ground with a breathtaking freshness and a seductive sense of folk history that echoes through the decades.
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LP version. The highly anticipated debut album from Amsterdam-based Indonesian psych-folk ensemble Nusantara Beat has finally arrived. Having built a rapidly rising reputation through captivating live performances and a string of acclaimed 7" singles (Bongo Joe Records), this self-titled album powerfully extends an already potent musical vision. A mesmerizing collection of eleven original tracks, Nusantara Beat delves deep into the group's Indonesian ancestral roots, and thrillingly weaves together hypnotic folk melodies, vintage Indo-pop, pulsating psychedelic grooves and contemporary sonic textures. Nusantara Beat grew out of Amsterdam's vibrant music scene, with several of its members previously playing in Dutch groups including EUT, Jungle by Night and the Turkish psych ensemble Altin Gün. But it was the allure of exploring Indonesian sounds that cemented their alliance. Released in 2023, "Djanger" is a beloved song describing the movements of a Balinese dancer. "Kota Bandung," also released in 2023, is a 1970s classic describing the capital city of West Java. And 2024's "Mang Becak" is another '70s pop track based around a conversation between a woman and a becak (bicycle rickshaw) driver, delivered in Sundanese, the local language of West Java. Across these three singles, Nusantara Beat paid heartfelt tribute to the tradition of "Sunda Pop" -- the Indonesian pop sensation that, from the 1960s onwards, blended traditional Sundanese music with contemporary pop sounds such as psychedelia, surf music and funk. Nusantara Beat have staked out a daring place in modern music, paying homage to the tradition of Sunda Pop, while reinvigorating it for the 21st century with pristine production techniques, modern synthesizers and deep grooves. Now, with their self-titled debut album, Nusantara Beat have gone one step further, writing, recording and producing eleven scintillating original songs that have their roots deep in tradition while stretching out into bold new worlds. The ethereal mood of the traditional Javanese and Balinese gamelan percussion ensemble can be heard to striking effect, underpinning the heavy twang of a surf guitar and whooshing synth sirens. And, throughout the album, samples of Balinese gamelan instruments add extra depth, along with the sounds of traditional instruments such as the kecapi zither, the kendang drum and Balinese gongs. Most of the lyrics -- written in English and translated into Indonesian -- deal with the complexities of modern love, with a bittersweet pop sensibility perfectly suited to Megan's gorgeously delicate vocal style. Atmospheric, mesmerizing and timeless, it's a perfect example of the magic Nusantara Beat weave. Nusantara Beat is the sound of an utterly unique musical collective, forging new ground with a breathtaking freshness and a seductive sense of folk history that echoes through the decades.
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Body Language Vol. 27 marks the return of Get Physical's landmark series, curated this time by Dutch producer Helsloot. Since its launch in the early 2000s with curators like Dixon, Modeselektor, and DJ Hell, Body Language has become one of the most respected compilation formats in electronic music -- a series that captures moments in club culture while pointing to the future. For this new chapter, Helsloot brings his melodic and emotional touch to the project, weaving together exclusive originals, collaborations, and carefully chosen reinterpretations. A special highlight is his remix of the legendary "Body Language" by M.A.N.D.Y. vs. Booka Shade, which bridges the series' heritage with its modern vision. Across four sides, Helsloot balances intimate songwriting with dancefloor energy, joined by guests including Richard Judge, Pete Josef, Sailor & I, and Beacon. The result is both a personal artistic statement and a continuation of the Body Language legacy -- a timeless journey designed for deep listening as well as club play.
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Arguably one of Get Physical's most influential tracks, "O Superman" sees a new release with remixes from Man Power and SIS alongside the 2008 version from Robag Whrume and a remaster of the now classic original. Man Power kicks off the new interpretations with an epic, ten-and-half-minute version that patiently stretches the original's melodies into pads and held bass tones across crisp, micro-house styled beats before unleashing loose, clattering breakbeats after a striking, extended breakdown. SIS's dreamy, percussive version sees the German producer in hypnotic, and tracky form. Robag's Pumper-Nikkel remix is yet another funky, chopped, sliced and diced piece of work from the playful producer and still sounds as fresh as ever.
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Recorded during a spellbinding performance in Italy at Jazz a Forlì in November 2024, La Giostra captures the magic of an unexpected yet natural meeting between two unique musical worlds. On one side, Guano Padano, Alessandro "Asso" Stefana, Zeno De Rossi, and Danilo Gallo -- known for their evocative blend of cinematic desertscapes, western dust, and psychedelic jazz. On the other, Enrico Rava -- a poetic and visionary composer who has graced the global jazz scene for decades with his unmistakable lyricism and fiery spirit. The album unfolds like a circular journey, suspended between reality and imagination. Slow, meditative passages give way to sudden bursts of energy; Rava's luminous trumpet lines weave seamlessly through Guano Padano's richly cinematic textures. The result is a sonic fresco of rare beauty -- steeped in dust, nostalgia, and glimpses of the future.
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LP version. Recorded during a spellbinding performance in Italy at Jazz a Forlì in November 2024, La Giostra captures the magic of an unexpected yet natural meeting between two unique musical worlds. On one side, Guano Padano, Alessandro "Asso" Stefana, Zeno De Rossi, and Danilo Gallo -- known for their evocative blend of cinematic desertscapes, western dust, and psychedelic jazz. On the other, Enrico Rava -- a poetic and visionary composer who has graced the global jazz scene for decades with his unmistakable lyricism and fiery spirit. The album unfolds like a circular journey, suspended between reality and imagination. Slow, meditative passages give way to sudden bursts of energy; Rava's luminous trumpet lines weave seamlessly through Guano Padano's richly cinematic textures. The result is a sonic fresco of rare beauty -- steeped in dust, nostalgia, and glimpses of the future.
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With X-ÆON, Giöbia push their signature blend of mesmerizing neo-psychedelia and space rock into uncharted territory. Echoes of the '70s meet a bold, forward-looking vision, shaping an album that feels timeless. Each track offers a glimpse into a parallel reality, a plunge into a new era brimming with tension and mystery. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 363LP), blue vinyl (HPS 363LTD-LP), and splatter color vinyl (HPS 363ULTRA-LP).
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LP version. With X-ÆON, Giöbia push their signature blend of mesmerizing neo-psychedelia and space rock into uncharted territory. Echoes of the '70s meet a bold, forward-looking vision, shaping an album that feels timeless. Each track offers a glimpse into a parallel reality, a plunge into a new era brimming with tension and mystery.
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LP version. Blue color vinyl. With X-ÆON, Giöbia push their signature blend of mesmerizing neo-psychedelia and space rock into uncharted territory. Echoes of the '70s meet a bold, forward-looking vision, shaping an album that feels timeless. Each track offers a glimpse into a parallel reality, a plunge into a new era brimming with tension and mystery.
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LP version. Splatter color vinyl. With X-ÆON, Giöbia push their signature blend of mesmerizing neo-psychedelia and space rock into uncharted territory. Echoes of the '70s meet a bold, forward-looking vision, shaping an album that feels timeless. Each track offers a glimpse into a parallel reality, a plunge into a new era brimming with tension and mystery.
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Limited to 500 copies. A swamp-noir reworking of roots, blues, and outsider gems. Brighton's swamp-noir stalwarts Mudlow return with Run Thru the Cover Crop, a full-length LP of cover versions released via acclaimed German label JukeJoint500. Long known for their slow-burning, smoke-hung blend of blues, jazz, and Southern Gothic storytelling, Mudlow take a sharp left turn here -- offering up ten carefully chosen reinterpretations that reflect the dark undercurrents and idiosyncratic soul of their influences. But this is no paint-by-numbers tribute. With Run Thru the Cover Crop, the band doesn't so much cover songs as inhabit them -- dragging each track down into the lowlands and dressing it in Mudlow's signature grit and shadow. The album's selections span decades and genres, but they're unified by tone and texture: lonesome, bruised, and cinematic. The album cover -- a stark, twilight-drenched image of silhouetted poles and crows perched on power lines -- captures the desolate, timeless feel of the music inside. Run Thru the Cover Crop plays like a haunted mixtape discovered in the glovebox of a car that's been abandoned since the '70s. The album follows 2022's Bad Turn and marks a bold addition to their growing discography -- leaning into tradition while twisting it into new, stranger shapes. For fans of Tom Waits, Morphine, Solomon Burke, Kelly Joe Phelps, and anyone drawn to the murky end of the river.
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LP version. Limited to 500 copies. A swamp-noir reworking of roots, blues, and outsider gems. Brighton's swamp-noir stalwarts Mudlow return with Run Thru the Cover Crop, a full-length LP of cover versions released via acclaimed German label JukeJoint500. Long known for their slow-burning, smoke-hung blend of blues, jazz, and Southern Gothic storytelling, Mudlow take a sharp left turn here -- offering up ten carefully chosen reinterpretations that reflect the dark undercurrents and idiosyncratic soul of their influences. But this is no paint-by-numbers tribute. With Run Thru the Cover Crop, the band doesn't so much cover songs as inhabit them -- dragging each track down into the lowlands and dressing it in Mudlow's signature grit and shadow. The album's selections span decades and genres, but they're unified by tone and texture: lonesome, bruised, and cinematic. The album cover -- a stark, twilight-drenched image of silhouetted poles and crows perched on power lines -- captures the desolate, timeless feel of the music inside. Run Thru the Cover Crop plays like a haunted mixtape discovered in the glovebox of a car that's been abandoned since the '70s. The album follows 2022's Bad Turn and marks a bold addition to their growing discography -- leaning into tradition while twisting it into new, stranger shapes. For fans of Tom Waits, Morphine, Solomon Burke, Kelly Joe Phelps, and anyone drawn to the murky end of the river.
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Swiss saxophonist Gilles Torrent, perhaps known from the Spiritual Jazz collection A Tribute to 'Trane, leads the way with his new album Buleria; a mesmerizing set of modal jazz pieces that will speak directly to any listener who has felt the other-worldly depths of John Coltrane. The album is comprised of Torrent originals and explorations of Coltrane standards. It reaches for something beyond the mundane, and blends complex harmonic structures with raw, improvisational energy. The Torrent original, "Danse Tropical," opens the set with a contemplative tone. Led by a sax that pulls the listener through a maze of scales and modes, the rhythm section remains steady, creating a grounding space for exploration. "Quannassa" drives the energy forward, and the band moves seamlessly through shifting tensions as Torrent's saxophone searches for answers within a pantheon of harmonic structures. The standout track, "Buleria" is a daring 8-minute piece, with an evolving, meditative flamenco piece that showcases the saxophonist's raw improvisational skill, a spiritual journey that takes the listener to the windswept plains of Iberia. The quartet is a faithful tribute to classic modal jazz, with the interplay between piano, bass, and drums feeling natural and organic. They provide a harmonic foundation that encourages the saxophone to glide and soar, pushing into new emotional territory, going from tender and melodic to fiery and free. This interplay gives the album its distinctive feel -- while drawing from Coltrane's influence, it's clear the musicians are searching for something new, something personal.
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LP version. Swiss saxophonist Gilles Torrent, perhaps known from the Spiritual Jazz collection A Tribute to 'Trane, leads the way with his new album Buleria; a mesmerizing set of modal jazz pieces that will speak directly to any listener who has felt the other-worldly depths of John Coltrane. The album is comprised of Torrent originals and explorations of Coltrane standards. It reaches for something beyond the mundane, and blends complex harmonic structures with raw, improvisational energy. The Torrent original, "Danse Tropical," opens the set with a contemplative tone. Led by a sax that pulls the listener through a maze of scales and modes, the rhythm section remains steady, creating a grounding space for exploration. "Quannassa" drives the energy forward, and the band moves seamlessly through shifting tensions as Torrent's saxophone searches for answers within a pantheon of harmonic structures. The standout track, "Buleria" is a daring 8-minute piece, with an evolving, meditative flamenco piece that showcases the saxophonist's raw improvisational skill, a spiritual journey that takes the listener to the windswept plains of Iberia. The quartet is a faithful tribute to classic modal jazz, with the interplay between piano, bass, and drums feeling natural and organic. They provide a harmonic foundation that encourages the saxophone to glide and soar, pushing into new emotional territory, going from tender and melodic to fiery and free. This interplay gives the album its distinctive feel -- while drawing from Coltrane's influence, it's clear the musicians are searching for something new, something personal.
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25 has always been a mystical number in the world of Kiosk ID, woven into our story since the earliest days of Bar 25, Holzmarkt 25, and every chapter since. When 2025 arrived, the magic of the number was undeniable, echoing through Kater Blau, Holzmarkt, and Kiosk ID -- and calling for a celebration like no other. Two core Kiosk ID artists -- Britta Arnold and Sascha Cawa -- took to the decks, weaving a spellbinding journey crafted specifically for this moment. Months in the making, they unfolded a beautifully hypnotic tribute to the magic of 25, premiering five tailormade tracks in the process. That moment lives on as Kiosk ID no. 40 -- a special double LP capturing the magic of that night. Side A features the live New Year's recording: an unfiltered document of Britta and Sascha's hypnotic, otherworldly, and deeply danceable set, as it unfolded in real time -- strobing into the first moments of the new year. Sides B, C, and D feature five exclusive studio originals, written and produced specifically for this night. On "Counting," Britta and Sasha unfold their brand of stripped darkness and rolling groove work, while "Reformer" teeters on taut coils of suspended synths. With "NGVMT," the energy bursts open -- a radiant block-party roller with throbbing staccato swagger and clanking metallic arpeggios. "Beam" lifts off into pure cosmic wonder, its fluttering, airy themes spiraling skyward. "Good Life" rolls the credits with a beautifully introspective soliloquy, tender and reflective beneath gentle waves of aspirating piano chords. Together, these recordings offer both an auditory keepsake and an invitation to relive that unforgettable night or discover it anew. Across five hypnotic compositions and a half hour of dance floor bliss, Good Life 25 encapsulates the ever-evolving sound.
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Another gem from the brief but influential golden age of rocksteady. This is legendary saxophonist Roland Alphonso at the head of the so-called Original Orchestra a short-lived ensemble that included some of Jamaica's finest session players. ABC Rocksteady consists of elegant instrumental versions of popular hits composed by record producer Sonia Pottinger.
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Get ready, it's rocksteady! One of the coolest music styles ever in Jamaican music and a real tornado for the mid-sixties island scene. Pianist Gladstone Anderson was a prolific artist and one of the most requested session players of the era. First released in 1968 Glad Sounds sees the pianist backed by guitarist Lynn Taitt and the Jets for a pulsating track list full of instrumental rocksteady hits composed by the likes of Desmond Dekker, Ken Boothe, and The Gaylads.
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During the summer of love and all across the Vietnam protest marches there was a mysterious object flying the non-safety zone. The sole album from Los Angeles psych combo The Travel Agency was released in 1968 and produced by James Griffin of Bread fame. Full of incredible proto-garage leaks and more lysergic crescendo, the album opens with the scary organ intro of "What's A Man," which then reveals an unbelievable resemblance with "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
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Channeling inventive sound design into incisive, characterful techno variations, Jurango returns to Livity Sound with an eight-track double album -- his longest release to date. Taíno Gold captures a moment in time for Bristol-based Nate Reece's continually evolving sound as it draws on the full spectrum of UK club music. Reece is more assured than ever tackling a variety of club-focused cuts. The tracks on the release all came together before, during and after a two-month visit to Reece's grandparents' home -- an idyllic tropical environment in a small community at the top of a hill in the northern part of Jamaica. Taíno Gold refers to the island's indigenous Taíno community and the legend of a witch luring Spanish settlers into a trap on the Martha Brae river. There are no messages explicitly embedded in the music, but the release is both a personal reflection of Reece's own experiences and family heritage, plus a reminder about the enduring scepter of colonialism and the continued need to fight against it. From absorbing Jamaica's fraught history through museum and plantation visits to the abundant nature in the garden surrounding his grandparent's house, the double EP marks a place in time for Reece, with eight advanced, ear-catching tracks as the end result. From the cascading arps of "Black Torches" to the tunnelling chords of "Waiting For Trelawny," the melodic dimension of the Jurango sound is more confident than ever. With the space afforded by a longer release, Reece widens out the scope of his artistic identity while absorbing the particular scene and setting that surrounded him while making the tracks. Taíno Gold is a vibrant next step for Jurango and a natural continuation of his work with Livity Sound.
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Los Angeles-based duo LUCKYANDLOVE are back with their third album, evoking a new sense of art school originality. The duo defines Humaura as the atmosphere that emanates from the feelings of the human spirit void of technological control. Blending raw analog synth sounds with driving punctuated percussion and punchy analogue bass, LUCKYANDLOVE's music is shaped by the embers of Siouxsie and The Banshees and Bauhaus, resonant specters carry over from synth-laden galaxies, where the needle hits the vinyl groove and Doc Martens marched to basement dance floors. LUCKYANDLOVE is the raw sonic experiment of Loren Luck and April Love, whose music transcends genres. Their live analogue synth beats, Moog instrumentation and beautiful, harmonic vocals trigger an immediate download of fuzzy sunset synthgaze, blue-black neon darkwave, and tigerprint electro punk. This album was recorded, mixed and mastered for digital release by Grammy award-winning engineer Be Hussey (Modern English, Twin Tribes, Boy Harsher) at Balboa Studio and Catwater for the digital music, and mastered for vinyl and lathe-cut by Grammy-nominated engineer Nicholas Townsend (Weezer, Grimes) at Townsend Mastering. LUCKYANDLOVE's visceral, dark electro-pop appeal continues to stretch through time and space.
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The legacy of wipE′out″ has transcended time and cemented itself as a true transgenerational phenomenon. Launched in 1995, it didn't just revolutionize the gaming industry, it created a bridge between the gaming ecosystem and the raver community. Its futuristic aesthetics and forward-thinking sound left a mark not only on mainstream audiences but also on the most demanding corners of the underground. Decades later, the game's impact is still alive. The release in 2023 of The Zero Gravity Soundtrack on Lapsus Records proved once again that wipE′out″'s accompanying audio will go down in history as much more than just an anti-gravity racing game soundtrack. This is why Lapsus decided to go deeper into the slipstream and build the second volume you're now holding in your hands. Drawn from the original archives of Tim Wright, aka CoLD SToRAGE, this new collection surfaces unreleased cuts, pieces that couldn't fit on the first edition, and a suite of self-authored ambient reworks that translate pure velocity into wide-screen atmospherics engineered for the long straights, the drone of airbrakes, the blue hour between checkpoints. It also reconnects the circuit, gathering selections and variants tied to later chapters of the saga -- wipE′out″ HD and wipE′out″ Pure -- plus alternative mixes that, until now, only existed in the Sega Saturn dimension of the franchise. Finally, the material takes a leap into the future in the hands of four remixers especially chosen for this release: Tim Reaper, SHERELLE, Mantra, and NikNak, who collectively forge links between CoLD SToRAGE's pioneering musical vision, the sound world of the game, and the contemporary breakbeats and drum and bass vanguard. Expect the DNA you remember -- accelerated breaks, trance-vector synths, jungle influences, sub-bass rumbling neatly beneath the craft's hull, and at times even echoes of classic hardstyle -- now revealed with new angles and air. The previously unheard material carries the same aerodynamic design sense that made these tracks feel faster than the track map itself, while the ambient versions open the field of view with melodies hovering at the lip of overdrive. For the faithful -- crate-digging ravers, speed-run obsessives, and design nerds -- this is an essential expansion pack: compiling rarities, restoring context, and reframing the emotional core of wipE′out″ for late nights and early mornings alike. Bridging memory and momentum, club and console, rush and afterglow. Strap in.
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Triple LP version. The legacy of wipE′out″ has transcended time and cemented itself as a true transgenerational phenomenon. Launched in 1995, it didn't just revolutionize the gaming industry, it created a bridge between the gaming ecosystem and the raver community. Its futuristic aesthetics and forward-thinking sound left a mark not only on mainstream audiences but also on the most demanding corners of the underground. Decades later, the game's impact is still alive. The release in 2023 of The Zero Gravity Soundtrack on Lapsus Records proved once again that wipE′out″'s accompanying audio will go down in history as much more than just an anti-gravity racing game soundtrack. This is why Lapsus decided to go deeper into the slipstream and build the second volume you're now holding in your hands. Drawn from the original archives of Tim Wright, aka CoLD SToRAGE, this new collection surfaces unreleased cuts, pieces that couldn't fit on the first edition, and a suite of self-authored ambient reworks that translate pure velocity into wide-screen atmospherics engineered for the long straights, the drone of airbrakes, the blue hour between checkpoints. It also reconnects the circuit, gathering selections and variants tied to later chapters of the saga -- wipE′out″ HD and wipE′out″ Pure -- plus alternative mixes that, until now, only existed in the Sega Saturn dimension of the franchise. Finally, the material takes a leap into the future in the hands of four remixers especially chosen for this release: Tim Reaper, SHERELLE, Mantra, and NikNak, who collectively forge links between CoLD SToRAGE's pioneering musical vision, the sound world of the game, and the contemporary breakbeats and drum and bass vanguard. Expect the DNA you remember -- accelerated breaks, trance-vector synths, jungle influences, sub-bass rumbling neatly beneath the craft's hull, and at times even echoes of classic hardstyle -- now revealed with new angles and air. The previously unheard material carries the same aerodynamic design sense that made these tracks feel faster than the track map itself, while the ambient versions open the field of view with melodies hovering at the lip of overdrive. For the faithful -- crate-digging ravers, speed-run obsessives, and design nerds -- this is an essential expansion pack: compiling rarities, restoring context, and reframing the emotional core of wipE′out″ for late nights and early mornings alike. Bridging memory and momentum, club and console, rush and afterglow. Strap in.
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"Amateur is the 12th studio album by Molly Nilsson. Deep in the teeth of a career that threatens to tip into something resembling a 'legacy,' Nilsson celebrates with an album recorded instinctively, quickly and bursting with so many moments of emotional brilliance and clarity it may be her greatest yet. Hers has been a career spent reaching out, perennially powerful in her earnestness, a warrior ridiculously defenseless and armed with a glittering sincerity. Shearing herself of the machinations of the music industry, recording at home, writing direct to the heart. Amateur is a jubilee for losers. A treatise in thirteen songs, it states clearly that one should live their life with eternal curiosity, offering one an open hand of comradeship out of the rat race. The songs on the album are both some of the most personal of Nilsson's career and the most anthemic. First single 'How Much Is The World' asks to re-evaluate value in the face of a neoliberal system squeezing the life out of love. Pulsing opener 'Die Cry Lie' satirizes the commercialization of emotion in the form of a shout-along diss-track. With a pounding rhythm track held down by gorgeous chord changes, heartbreaker 'Valhalla' carries the torch for the main themes of the album: never growing up, making mistakes with kindness, moving on. There are moments on Amateur shrouded in reverb, slightly out of focus, forcing the listener to step deeper into the Mollyverse. Nilsson's open-armed beseeching to the world permeates every beat, every chord. These are songs exploding with life: the chunky, aggressive bassline on the punker 'Get A Life' can't hide its massive, catchy chorus. The sweeping 'Swedish Nightmare' might be a tongue-in-cheek self-reference, but at its heart it's a song about the duality of living life large -- what is a dream, what is a nightmare? Molly Nilsson says you can't have one without the other, and why would you want to? Here's to making mistakes."
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LP version. "Amateur is the 12th studio album by Molly Nilsson. Deep in the teeth of a career that threatens to tip into something resembling a 'legacy,' Nilsson celebrates with an album recorded instinctively, quickly and bursting with so many moments of emotional brilliance and clarity it may be her greatest yet. Hers has been a career spent reaching out, perennially powerful in her earnestness, a warrior ridiculously defenseless and armed with a glittering sincerity. Shearing herself of the machinations of the music industry, recording at home, writing direct to the heart. Amateur is a jubilee for losers. A treatise in thirteen songs, it states clearly that one should live their life with eternal curiosity, offering one an open hand of comradeship out of the rat race. The songs on the album are both some of the most personal of Nilsson's career and the most anthemic. First single 'How Much Is The World' asks to re-evaluate value in the face of a neoliberal system squeezing the life out of love. Pulsing opener 'Die Cry Lie' satirizes the commercialization of emotion in the form of a shout-along diss-track. With a pounding rhythm track held down by gorgeous chord changes, heartbreaker 'Valhalla' carries the torch for the main themes of the album: never growing up, making mistakes with kindness, moving on. There are moments on Amateur shrouded in reverb, slightly out of focus, forcing the listener to step deeper into the Mollyverse. Nilsson's open-armed beseeching to the world permeates every beat, every chord. These are songs exploding with life: the chunky, aggressive bassline on the punker 'Get A Life' can't hide its massive, catchy chorus. The sweeping 'Swedish Nightmare' might be a tongue-in-cheek self-reference, but at its heart it's a song about the duality of living life large -- what is a dream, what is a nightmare? Molly Nilsson says you can't have one without the other, and why would you want to? Here's to making mistakes."
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Viva Marina' celebrates the 100th release of Marina Records. The label was founded in Hamburg in 1993 by Stefan Kassel and Frank Lähnemann. Over the years the label released many outstanding albums by artists like The Pearlfishers, Shack, Brent Cash, The Bathers, James Kirk, The Free Design, Malcolm Ross, Ashby, Paul Quinn & The Independent Group, Der Plan, and many many more -- including the best-selling Beach Boys/Brian Wilson tribute album Caroline Now!. Viva Marina is the fourth of the label's acclaimed compilations -- following in the footsteps of In Bed With Marina, Ave Marina, and Goosebumps. These compilations have all been elaborate classy affairs with lots of attention to detail (packaging/design/liner notes/photography/mastering). Artefacts of beautifully curated Pop Art. The new compilation continues in that tradition. It features 21 tracks from the Marina roster and kindred spirits like Van Dyke Parks, The Kingfishers, Frank Schmiechen, and Michel van Dyke. Featuring many exclusive and previously unissued contributions. Also featuring Evelyn Pope, Warren Mcintyre, David Scott, Marina Unlimited Orchestra, Fascinator, The Tall Poppies, Oscar In Venice, Dislocation Dance, and the Colin Steele Quartet.
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Impérieux (aka Alper Durmush) is a beatmaker extraordinaire hailing from Kırcaali / Kardjali: since antiquity a hub of mythical music, located at the crossroads of Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. After conquering the hearts and feet of the scene with his stunning debut album Rezil and the follow-up Fena EP, Impérieux caps off his stellar year with a seven-track mini album on Macro. Unpredictability, bound together by a consistent, modernist glint. From the raw jacking of "Gips" to the warm euphoria of "Baka," from the darbuka frenzy of "Duman" to the cutting friction of "Trese" -- a triumph.
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ARIA Hall Of Fame inductee Kev Carmody's debut LP from 1988 is a landmark album of Australian protest music. It's stripped back, raw and angry, but also full of humanity and great love, tearing apart the hypocrites and embracing the downtrodden. He was in his 40s by the time it was released, with enough experience to give the music and subject matter some real gravitas. Tracks like "Thou Shall Not Steal" and "Black Deaths In Custody" cut right to the point, and remain so relevant today. The spoken-word piece, "Comrade Jesus Christ," takes the story of Jesus away from the establishment and reconfigures him as a warrior for the dispossessed and outcast. It is a stunning piece of poetry, and the album itself is a remarkable piece of First Nations storytelling.
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Double LP version. Viva Marina' celebrates the 100th release of Marina Records. The label was founded in Hamburg in 1993 by Stefan Kassel and Frank Lähnemann. Over the years the label released many outstanding albums by artists like The Pearlfishers, Shack, Brent Cash, The Bathers, James Kirk, The Free Design, Malcolm Ross, Ashby, Paul Quinn & The Independent Group, Der Plan, and many many more -- including the best-selling Beach Boys/Brian Wilson tribute album Caroline Now!. Viva Marina is the fourth of the label's acclaimed compilations -- following in the footsteps of In Bed With Marina, Ave Marina, and Goosebumps. These compilations have all been elaborate classy affairs with lots of attention to detail (packaging/design/liner notes/photography/mastering). Artefacts of beautifully curated Pop Art. The new compilation continues in that tradition. It features 21 tracks from the Marina roster and kindred spirits like Van Dyke Parks, The Kingfishers, Frank Schmiechen, and Michel van Dyke. Featuring many exclusive and previously unissued contributions. Also featuring Evelyn Pope, Warren Mcintyre, David Scott, Marina Unlimited Orchestra, Fascinator, The Tall Poppies, Oscar In Venice, Dislocation Dance, and the Colin Steele Quartet.
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A collection of transfixing, storm-like compositions, Drifts draws you into its heightened sense of quiet, reveling in iridescent, tranquilized vapors -- one part ambient classical, one part club-adjacent ambience. Pitched, reduced, sampled and re-sampled, the album's glowing, elliptical abstractions -- using piano, harp, strings and modular synthesizer -- explore the emotional terrain between aftermath and renewal, blending the unstructured immediacy of improvisation with the elegant sculpture of composition. Drifts represents for its maker a newfound interest in shadow and mystery, each track a shifting terrain, a collection of clues, a scene set in a larger story, the effect cumulative. Featuring collaborations with Patrick Belaga, Marilu Donovan (LEYA), and Takuma Watanabe, the album's cinematic suite of impressionistic, ambient works invites the listener into a vast, mapless space of dreamlike non-linearity where interior and exterior landscapes bristle with intimacy and electricity.
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"Bill Withers is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed from 1970 until 1985. He recorded several major hits, including 'Lean on Me,' 'Ain't No Sunshine', 'Use Me', 'Just the Two of Us', 'Lovely Day', and 'Grandma's Hands'. Withers has won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for four more. His life was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Still Bill. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Withers' fourth studio album Making Music was originally released in 1975 on Columbia Records. It possesses the same down-to earthiness and eye for ordinary day life as his former work. The overall sound is smoother than his previous albums, with a warm mellow soul sound that can't be beat. The album includes his classic 'Hello Like Before', plus 'The Best You Can', 'Make Love To Your Mind', 'Paint Your Pretty Picture', and 'Don't You Want To Stay?'"
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Visionary Amsterdam-based ensemble Stargazers present their self-titled debut album via Night Dreamer. Drawing on the spiritual, freedom-driven sound of '60s/'70s Black jazz, Stargazers breathes new life into the introspective, quietly crafted and previously hidden musical diary of the ensemble's orchestrator, saxophonist, flautist and composer, Finn Peters. Released as a direct-to-disc live album, Stargazers marks Peters' debut in Night Dreamer's prestigious direct-to-disc series, joining the ranks of Emma-Jean Thackray, Gary Bartz & Maisha, Sarathy Korwar, and Knoel Scott featuring Marshall Allen. Like all entries in the series, it was recorded live at Artone Studios, cut straight to vinyl with no overdubs, bringing to life the highwire musicianship of the group. From the meditative deep jazz of "Loempia" to the spaced-out astral improvisation of the title track, Stargazers presents a fluent and poised collection of originals and spiritual jazz interpretations that take the legacies of John Coltrane and Sun Ra -- whose "Theme of the Stargazers" inspired the title -- into shimmering new realms. Looking to the sky for inspiration, Peters blends personal compositions such as "91 Ships" with tributes like "Clifford Jordan," paying homage to the lineage of saxophonists who came before him. Alongside rhythm section siblings Yoran and Yariv Vroom, bassist Jeroen Vierdag, Timothy Blanchet on keys and Gideon Tazelaar's tenor sax, Peters set out fashioning a new record that would represent both his range of influences, the kinetic interplay of his consummate improvisors and the versatility of his own playing on alto sax, flute and Moog. A nod to the iconic tenor saxophonist and composer who played with everyone from Max Roach and Art Blakey to Charles Mingus before signing for independent label Strata-East, "Clifford Jordan" takes a cooler tone, carried by Peters' sensitive flute playing and a light-touch triplet feel that flutters in the breeze of Yoran Vroom's delicate drumming. A glittering homage, the track then breaks down into an extended percussive outro, mirroring the journey of Jordan's own eclectic career, from hard bop to free jazz and beyond. Released as a six-track album, Stargazers' self-titled debut is a late night ode to the eternal cosmos and an earth-bound time capsule of Finn Peters at the height of his game, ready to take off once more.
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Following a string of acclaimed collaborations, Peruvian artist Alejandra Cárdenas (aka Ale Hop) returns with her most personal work to date yet, A Body Like a Home. Marking her first album under her birth name, the project is a sonic memoir exploring the tangled realms of trauma, recovery, and love through autobiographical soundscapes. A Body Like a Home is the artist at her most exposed. Comprising 13 songs and 15 poems, the album sees her set aside collaborative fusions for solo catharsis, channeling years of turbulence - intergenerational scars left by colonialism, racism, domestic violence, and alcoholism -- into a work that oscillates between brutality and tenderness. At the heart of the album is Cárdenas's own voice -- part witness, part confessor -- reciting over layers of electric guitars, electronic textures, the haunting violin of Mexican musician Gibrana Cervantes, and a collage of field recordings, from rainfall, muffled whispers, broken glass, to archival protest footage from Peru. The result is a work that resonates like a diary written in sound. The first single, "Motherland," is a searing testimony where Cárdenas voice cracks under the weight of history and personal loss. Amid a storm of distorted guitars, she traces the cyclical legacies of colonialism, from state massacres branding Indigenous bodies as "terrorists" to the spiral of addiction as an unavoidable future. The lyrics draw parallels between political and domestic violence: a mother's drunken knife pressed to her chest, and a motherland where racism is currency. Yet, amid the wreckage, a willful grip on love and faith persists. Ultimately, A Body Like a Home is a document of transformation. Tracks like "Evangelina" and the title piece "A Body Like a Home" hold space for resilience, spirituality, and love, while "Early Road" and "Going South" thread subtle nods to Peruvian folklore, opening up bright vignettes into a sense of belonging. The poetry chapbook accompanying A Body Like a Home (five of its pieces are also recited on the album) extends the work, building a parallel architecture. Oscillating between the documentary and the mythic, the intimate and the forensic, the profane and the oneiric, these poems practice a theology of the ordinary, where everyday objects -- cameras, knives, moth-eaten cotton -- are charged with spiritual and historical weight. Here, the body is land, house, battlefield, collective pain, geological territory; and trauma is, in contrast, archival, cellular, ritualistic, inherited.
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"Another Perfect Day is Bill Orcutt's first solo electric guitar record since 2017's eponymous Bill Orcutt. While that eight-year gap might not seem like a ton of time on the cosmic scale, it nonetheless represents a busy half-decade plus for Orcutt projects: a raft of improv collaborations, an acclaimed run of chopped and looped albums on Fake Estates, and the collision of Orcutt's computer and guitar music on Music For Four Guitars and How to Rescue Things, both on Palilalia. The undeniable alchemy of those latter mashups inspired not only a wider appreciation of Orcutt-as-composer, but also the resurrection of Orcutt-as-bandleader, as the Bill Orcutt Quartet hit the road in support of Four Guitars, Orcutt's first work with a proper score (courtesy of Shane Parrish). Here, he is wielding his trademark four-string rather than a mouse, running the neck rather than shuffling waveforms, blasting through Cafe Oto's tattered Fender Twin (the cover model for the aforementioned How to Rescue Things) rather than a pair of ancient NS-10s. Indeed, this 2023 performance at Oto, East London's finest music establishment, boomerangs back into the slashing chords and frenzied double- picking of the Harry Pussy years, tossing the gentler melodic glow of the last few solo records into the dustbin. In other words, this may be Orcutt's most overtly punk-rockist record since Gerty Loves Pussy, his first solo electric LP from a decade ago. It's an affirmation that Orcutt is above all a lead player -- angular runs scaling the heavens, ricocheting back to ground zero before climbing again. Orcutt builds tension with short phrases, repeated with slight variability until it seems like they'll never stop, finally slamming into a fresh line like the dawning valley at the crest of the mountain pass. Another Perfect Day is, ultimately, something of a solo guitar Nouveau Roman, an exhilarating run through melodic reiteration, impossible crescendos breaking into -- a moment rarely found on an Orcutt record -- soft, whisper-quiet tracer notes at the end of 'A Natural Death.' Another Perfect Day returns Orcutt to the immediacy of his earliest records while maintaining the melodic complexity, phrasing, and flow of a player, who's been going, what -- four-plus decades now? And when he taps his roots, it's a reminder of exactly what was so exciting about Orcutt's playing in the first place." --Tom Carter
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LP version. "Another Perfect Day is Bill Orcutt's first solo electric guitar record since 2017's eponymous Bill Orcutt. While that eight-year gap might not seem like a ton of time on the cosmic scale, it nonetheless represents a busy half-decade plus for Orcutt projects: a raft of improv collaborations, an acclaimed run of chopped and looped albums on Fake Estates, and the collision of Orcutt's computer and guitar music on Music For Four Guitars and How to Rescue Things, both on Palilalia. The undeniable alchemy of those latter mashups inspired not only a wider appreciation of Orcutt-as-composer, but also the resurrection of Orcutt-as-bandleader, as the Bill Orcutt Quartet hit the road in support of Four Guitars, Orcutt's first work with a proper score (courtesy of Shane Parrish). Here, he is wielding his trademark four-string rather than a mouse, running the neck rather than shuffling waveforms, blasting through Cafe Oto's tattered Fender Twin (the cover model for the aforementioned How to Rescue Things) rather than a pair of ancient NS-10s. Indeed, this 2023 performance at Oto, East London's finest music establishment, boomerangs back into the slashing chords and frenzied double- picking of the Harry Pussy years, tossing the gentler melodic glow of the last few solo records into the dustbin. In other words, this may be Orcutt's most overtly punk-rockist record since Gerty Loves Pussy, his first solo electric LP from a decade ago. It's an affirmation that Orcutt is above all a lead player -- angular runs scaling the heavens, ricocheting back to ground zero before climbing again. Orcutt builds tension with short phrases, repeated with slight variability until it seems like they'll never stop, finally slamming into a fresh line like the dawning valley at the crest of the mountain pass. Another Perfect Day is, ultimately, something of a solo guitar Nouveau Roman, an exhilarating run through melodic reiteration, impossible crescendos breaking into -- a moment rarely found on an Orcutt record -- soft, whisper-quiet tracer notes at the end of 'A Natural Death.' Another Perfect Day returns Orcutt to the immediacy of his earliest records while maintaining the melodic complexity, phrasing, and flow of a player, who's been going, what -- four-plus decades now? And when he taps his roots, it's a reminder of exactly what was so exciting about Orcutt's playing in the first place." --Tom Carter
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Thank You For Almost Everything is the sophomore album for Headache, a collaboration between writer and poet Francis Hornsby Clark and music-producer Joseph Thornalley aka Vegyn. This new album follows on the surprise underground success of their debut: The Head Hurts But The Heart Knows The Truth, releasing on Vegyn's own PLZ Make It Ruins label. Since its release, Headache has built a dedicated global fanbase, with several fans even going so far as to get lyrics or the project's logo tattooed on themselves. Thank You For Almost Everything continues the original's distinct style of trip-hop/downtempo electronica but combining with its own unique (and now imitated) AI-voiced spoken word. For this new album, Headache steps away from the hum-drum of Blighty and instead focuses his gaze to sunnier shores. Recalling personal histories of ruffled hair and school cafeterias, ancient unsolved Albionic riddles, Rome's changing seasons and its poignant graffiti, arguments with girlfriends at luxury hotel beachfront restaurants, and what it truly feels like to be alive in this inscrutable but beautiful world. The project features a further collaboration with artist Cali Thornhill DeWitt who returns to design the packaging and cover for this new album. This double 12" vinyl release, like the first, includes the instrumental versions exclusive to the vinyl version. The album was mixed and mastered by Margo Broom at RAK Studios.
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Quadrant Park is a new label from the makers of frozen reeds (which will continue in its own stream). It exists to present music that demands to reach a little further, occupying new spaces and a new context. For the inaugural release, SDEM delivers a live recording with a twist: this set was recorded in early 2024 in a single take to an audience of one, at a now abandoned empty club space beneath a railway arch in Leeds. Following a series of physical and digital releases culminating with Vortices (SKALD 038CD) in 2023, SDEM has focused on continuous upgrades to a mutating live set, sporadically performed, for example, alongside the Autechre and Gescom axes. In the phase documented here, the set draws deeply from turntable-era early hip hop and '80s drum machine architecture, resulting in a landscape of tactile slippage: rhythms gripping and releasing, gestural scrubs and stabs, scratching meets musique concrète. Interlocking parts snap in and out of alignment, before recombining on the fly -- kinetic, raw, and precise. The SDEM approach is marked by Tom Knapp's sculptural take on sound design, rhythm and texture -- ranging from dystopic ambient passages to pixelated, sub-heavy beats. A member of the Skam circle of atavistic beat freaks since the late '90s, Knapp's sound is that of hyperattentive electronica buried under soil and left to decay (or ferment). What emerges is somehow both ruthlessly futuristic and redolent of decrepit antique engineering. At Quadrant Park is presented in an edition of 500 compact discs with artwork by Robert Beatty unique to every individual copy. In a warped reflection of the recording circumstances, each copy forms one distinct frame of a short film never to be viewed in its totality. Liner notes are provided by the sole witness to the recording, long-standing SDEM co-conspirator Ed Martin, aka edv3ctor, while audio was mastered by the ears that matter, frozen reeds mainstay Jim O'Rourke.
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What once slipped out under a veil of anonymity now steps into the light: the original mystery record was, in fact, Tuff City Kids. The duo's playful fingerprints are all over it -- equal parts homage and mischief. Fast forward to today, and the circle closes with an EP that reimagines the spirit of that covert release, pushing it into sharper, modern focus. Where the first outing thrived on secrecy, this one thrives on revelation -- same DNA, but recut for the present tense.
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Cassette version. What began as a nostalgic nod to Camden Market's bootleg culture has become the next chapter of in the Running Back Mastermix series. At once deeply personal and openly communal, it shows how a lifetime of production can be condensed into 90 minutes without losing its edge -- proof that the mixtape, even in 2025, still has stories left to tell. What followed was a patient excavation. Old DATs were pulled out of storage, forgotten files surfaced from hard drives, and new material was written to sit alongside them. Together, these fragments revealed a body of work stretching back more than 25 years -- tracks that moved across the spectrum of house and techno but shared a common thread of character and atmosphere. Recorded live on three decks using Serato, the resulting mix brings together 24 tracks: unreleased material from the past and brand-new productions, all stitched together into a continuous narrative. It's equal parts retrospective and statement of intent -- less a museum piece than a living document.
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What began as a nostalgic nod to Camden Market's bootleg culture has become the next chapter of in the Running Back Mastermix series. At once deeply personal and openly communal, it shows how a lifetime of production can be condensed into 90 minutes without losing its edge -- proof that the mixtape, even in 2025, still has stories left to tell. What followed was a patient excavation. Old DATs were pulled out of storage, forgotten files surfaced from hard drives, and new material was written to sit alongside them. Together, these fragments revealed a body of work stretching back more than 25 years -- tracks that moved across the spectrum of house and techno but shared a common thread of character and atmosphere. Recorded live on three decks using Serato, the resulting mix brings together 24 tracks: unreleased material from the past and brand-new productions, all stitched together into a continuous narrative. It's equal parts retrospective and statement of intent -- less a museum piece than a living document.
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Released in 1985, five years after the band's epochal 1980 debut LP, X-Aspirations, At Home With You saw Australia's X reconfigured with Cathy Green on drums, providing a hard-hitting pounding beat for bassist Ian Rilen and guitarist Steve Lucas to work their songs around. Produced by Lobby Lloyd, At Home With You is an absolutely classic slice of Aussie punk rock, featuring raw, guttural tracks like "Degenerate Boy," "Oxford Street Nick" and "All Over Now," but mixing it up with brass-laden tracks such as "The Feel" and "T.V. Glue" and the balladry of "Don't Cry No Tears." It is, in some sense, the band's Eternally Yours to the debut's (I'm) Stranded, if you will -- a more mature, eclectic take on the X sound, but one still featuring Steve Lucas's jagged guitar work and howling, ragged vocals, Ian Rilen's bass pummel and Cathy Green's stop-on-a-dime 4/4 rhythms. Remastered by Mikey Young. Artwork reconfiguration by Luke Fraser/Ahrt+. Front cover photo by Ruby Davies.
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Born in 1932, Ernest Ranglin is one of the greatest session players in the whole history of Jamaican music. His guitar appears in countless recordings of artists like Alton Ellis, Jimmy Cliff, Bunny Wailer, Max Romeo Skatalites, Heptones, Congos, you name it! Produced by Chris Blackwell and released in 1961 on Island Records Guitar in Ernest reveals the jazz side of Ranglin's playing. A fine album where the guitarist's sophisticated phrasing and soulful chords shine on a relaxed swinging rhythm groove provided by Thad Mowatt on double bass and "Tootsie" Bean on drums.
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First released in 1964, still under Blackwell's production for Island records, here is another gem of pure Jamaican soulful jazz by the great Ernest Ranglin. Backed again by a highly swinging rhythm section formed by Malcom Cecil on bass and Alan Ganley on drums, Ranglin moves through a series of catchy fast, mid and slow tempos including Latin flavors and ballad moods.
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DVD is NTSC format, region-free. Never released before. In 2009, the Triton venue (near Paris, France) was sold out to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Univers Zéro, an iconic band of the Rock In Opposition movement. These two exceptional concerts highlighted a radical and unique style of music, at the crossroads of new music and chamber rock, skillfully blending acoustic and electric instruments, as heard on the cult album Ceux du Dehors. Around Daniel Denis (drums, composition), Michel Berckmans (oboe, bassoon), and Andy Kirk (keyboards and guitar), three historical figures of the group, complemented by four other talented musicians, offered an intense multimedia show, intertwining a condensed version of key pieces from the repertoire with more recent compositions. These concerts were part of a key phase in which the band offered one of its most-accomplished line-ups, taking the opportunity to establish its sound and image. The line-up had undergone a few changes since its reformation in 2004, with Pierre Chevalier (from the band Présent) and a new bassist joining the ensemble. This highlight has now resulted in the release of a live CD/DVD, a precious testimony to the band's artistic resurgence and stage energy.
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LP version. Black vinyl. Recorded 7/94 at Sunlight Studios, engineered by Fred Estby, mixed and produced by Tomas Skogsberg and Fred Estby. Music and lyrics by Refused, layout by Jose, Dennis and Adam at Hillebjork.
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LP version. Black vinyl. Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent was first released in 1996 and catapulted the band Refused from Umea in northern Sweden into the hardcore punk premier league. The Scandinavians, who were known for their hard, uncompromising and irreverent lyrics, followed the album with extensive tours all over the world, for example with Kristofer Aström's Fireside, Madball and Entombed.
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Originally released in 2005, the Furries' third and final album to be recorded by Epic Records, Love Kraft, is now reissued. Four previously unheard tracks are drawn from the vaults, including the squidgy ELO-stomp of drummer, Daf Ieuan-led "Rock 'N' Roll Flu," plus the distorted space-jam of Cae Marw, the band's deep-bass sketch of Palo Alto and ghostly, percussive morsel of Bedw Arian. The album followed six previous albums by the band, including their statement debut album, Fuzzy Logic in 1996, melding an attention-demanding mix of literary, narcotic and musical influences. Maintaining a shape that was ill-fitting in the jigsaw of other '90s guitar bands, their follow-up, UK Top Ten album, Radiator brought the hooky squelch of the bona fide indie dancefloor classic, "The International Language of Screaming." Love Kraft's sense of cohesion, collaboration and free-flow of rich harmony has been credited to the five-piece escaping Wales to record in the shimmering heat of Figueres, Catalunya. Bringing famed Beastie Boys producer, Mario Caldato Jr along with them for the ride, the travelling band's stay in the Catalonian hometown of Salvador Dali included found sounds, boozy petrol stations, gastronomic revelations and, finally, a rich album of strings, synths and opulent vocal harmonies. While eventually finding their way to Baha, near to Rio di Janeiro to mix the album Love Kraft's story began in Wales and Pleasure Foxxx Studios, where the band began to craft the album's songs. Embracing the landmark of a seventh album, notably coming after the 2004 release of their first "best of" package, Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1, Super Furry Animals pooled ideas and affected further democracy in their songwriting, taking a load off traditional lead-writer and front man, Gruff Rhys, and sharing in lead vocal duties (aside from the microphone-averse bassist, Guto Pryce). Love Kraft was the first Super Furry Animals album recorded to hard disc instead of multi-track tape, and found the band typically explorative and open to happenstance. "Zoom"'s opening splash into the recording studio's swimming pool is accompanied by the on-location, pool table samples found elsewhere on the album. Updated packaging features the original, meticulously built diorama design by long-time collaborator Pete Fowler. Constructed by hand in his studio, complete with bulb-lit illumination, then photographed, the sleeve's depiction of a monolith-rich desert landscape reflects the sense of other space and time depicted by Love Kraft's woozy songs. The final sleeve design again comes courtesy of Mark James.
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Double LP version. Originally released in 2005, the Furries' third and final album to be recorded by Epic Records, Love Kraft, is now reissued. Four previously unheard tracks are drawn from the vaults, including the squidgy ELO-stomp of drummer, Daf Ieuan-led "Rock 'N' Roll Flu," plus the distorted space-jam of Cae Marw, the band's deep-bass sketch of Palo Alto and ghostly, percussive morsel of Bedw Arian. The album followed six previous albums by the band, including their statement debut album, Fuzzy Logic in 1996, melding an attention-demanding mix of literary, narcotic and musical influences. Maintaining a shape that was ill-fitting in the jigsaw of other '90s guitar bands, their follow-up, UK Top Ten album, Radiator brought the hooky squelch of the bona fide indie dancefloor classic, "The International Language of Screaming." Love Kraft's sense of cohesion, collaboration and free-flow of rich harmony has been credited to the five-piece escaping Wales to record in the shimmering heat of Figueres, Catalunya. Bringing famed Beastie Boys producer, Mario Caldato Jr along with them for the ride, the travelling band's stay in the Catalonian hometown of Salvador Dali included found sounds, boozy petrol stations, gastronomic revelations and, finally, a rich album of strings, synths and opulent vocal harmonies. While eventually finding their way to Baha, near to Rio di Janeiro to mix the album Love Kraft's story began in Wales and Pleasure Foxxx Studios, where the band began to craft the album's songs. Embracing the landmark of a seventh album, notably coming after the 2004 release of their first "best of" package, Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1, Super Furry Animals pooled ideas and affected further democracy in their songwriting, taking a load off traditional lead-writer and front man, Gruff Rhys, and sharing in lead vocal duties (aside from the microphone-averse bassist, Guto Pryce). Love Kraft was the first Super Furry Animals album recorded to hard disc instead of multi-track tape, and found the band typically explorative and open to happenstance. "Zoom"'s opening splash into the recording studio's swimming pool is accompanied by the on-location, pool table samples found elsewhere on the album. Updated packaging features the original, meticulously built diorama design by long-time collaborator Pete Fowler. Constructed by hand in his studio, complete with bulb-lit illumination, then photographed, the sleeve's depiction of a monolith-rich desert landscape reflects the sense of other space and time depicted by Love Kraft's woozy songs. The final sleeve design again comes courtesy of Mark James.
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Guilherme Granado and Bruno Abdala reunite for a second volume of beats, jazz ghosts and synth-funk dust. Following their first outing, the duo returns with a bigger, deeper, and smoother bang on Vol. 2: Filhos. The grooves remain intact, expanding on the raw funk blueprint of Vol. 1 -- now infused with Tropicália-rooted freedom, Sun Ra-style celestial chaos, and a tighter, more confident feel. The sonic palette is rich and eclectic: samplers, bells, analog synths, drums, marimba, vibraphone, bass, violas, and more are layered into a warm, rhythmic tapestry that honors the past while forging new sonic terrain. At its core, Filhos (Portuguese for "Sons") is a tribute to lineage and tradition. It reflects the idea that everyone is shaped by what came before -- and through music, Guilherme and Bruno honor that legacy while pushing it into the future.
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Norwegian/Cuban duo to you they are birds, to me they are voices in the forest return with their second album, Primordia. Using field recordings, electronics, and live instruments, they craft improvised soundscapes that blur the line between natural and musical environments. Primordia continues their focus on the interaction between people, nature, and sound, combining raw textures with subtle improvisation. The result is an immersive work that feels both organic and otherworldly.
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Cintura Interna is João Hã's new release for Sucata Tapes, a work shaped by accident, drift, and unlikely connections. Its guiding notion comes from "Música Careca" (Bald Music) -- a strange term apparently used by Jean Dubuffet to describe his own sound experiments. Dubuffet wasn't a musician, but he was bald; the phrase lingers as an apt description for music that is naïve without innocence: amateur bruitism, soft sound, raw and direct, where intention is left exposed to errancy. The piece itself came together without project or plan, eventually forming what Hã calls an "accidental Frankenstein" -- or perhaps Frankenoise. Built from recordings made more than 15 years ago on cassette and obsolete equipment, mixed with more recent material, Cintura Interna bridges time and decay, refusing diaristic or documentary framing. As an unexpected detour, the release also includes a version of the garage classic "Louie Louie."
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Total Spook Mixtape is Artetetra's homage to the forgotten cassette and CD culture of mass-distributed commercial Halloween sound effects, horror tales, and spooky music productions across the eighties and nineties. Mainly produced in the U.S. these objects featured some of the famous names of the entertainment and commercial industry such as Prince's Dr. Fink (yes, that synth master), Elvira, the Mistress of the Dark and Hallmark as well as unknown and anonymous creatives and artists. In these tracks engineers, musicians and producers arguably had carte blanche in experimenting with extreme samples and vocal manipulation, time-based effects, extended techniques, spooky sound fonts and stock sound effects developing their unique ideas around the sound ambience of the Halloween and horror imagery's campy cliches. After digging around 30 hours of material gathered from dedicated YouTube channels and playlists such as the ones created by "Beetlemuse" and "Caleb Jones", here are some of the most endearing, weird and experimental sound designs long forgotten in the vaporware-like consumer culture of the '80s and '90s. Compiled and produced by Luigi Monteanni. Artwork by Nicola Tirabasso. Contains the short essay "Consumer Occultures, Sounding us Pervers" by philosopher Enrico Monacelli.
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"Difficult as it may be to imagine, there was a time when Sun City Girls did not exist. Prior to the Bishop brothers teaming up with drummer/shaman Charlie Gocher to form SCG's classic trio lineup, there were various ad-hoc assemblages of local Phoenix-area freaks and weirdos -- groups which existed only long enough to play a single gig, open mic or house party before disbanding without a trace. Hatched from this milieu was Paris 1942, a short-lived band formed by guitarist Jesse Srogoncik that included Alan Bishop, Richard Bishop, and former Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker. Paris 1942 would play only four shows in as many months, but between April and August of 1982, the band would gather several times a week in Tucker's living room, where the group feverishly wrote and rehearsed with a kind of quotidian discipline. While P42 didn't release anything during their brief tenure, a 7" EP and LP (both self-titled) surreptitiously surfaced on the Majora label in the mid to late '90s. Until now, those two titles -- as well as an appearance on Placebo's Amuck comp in late '82 -- would be the only documented evidence that this improbable, serendipitous and magnificent band ever existed. While those expecting P42's music to sound like a tantalizing combination of Sun City Girls' iconoclastic hoodoo havoc and the Velvets' primal drug-chug certainly won't be disappointed, Paris 1942 more often than not transcends even these nearly impossible expectations. Srogoncik's songs, in particular, are a revelation, displaying as much in common with the exuberant raunch of The Gun Club and the chapbook punk of Peter Laughner as they do any of the more obvious touchstones."
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Double LP version. "Difficult as it may be to imagine, there was a time when Sun City Girls did not exist. Prior to the Bishop brothers teaming up with drummer/shaman Charlie Gocher to form SCG's classic trio lineup, there were various ad-hoc assemblages of local Phoenix-area freaks and weirdos -- groups which existed only long enough to play a single gig, open mic or house party before disbanding without a trace. Hatched from this milieu was Paris 1942, a short-lived band formed by guitarist Jesse Srogoncik that included Alan Bishop, Richard Bishop, and former Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker. Paris 1942 would play only four shows in as many months, but between April and August of 1982, the band would gather several times a week in Tucker's living room, where the group feverishly wrote and rehearsed with a kind of quotidian discipline. While P42 didn't release anything during their brief tenure, a 7" EP and LP (both self-titled) surreptitiously surfaced on the Majora label in the mid to late '90s. Until now, those two titles -- as well as an appearance on Placebo's Amuck comp in late '82 -- would be the only documented evidence that this improbable, serendipitous and magnificent band ever existed. While those expecting P42's music to sound like a tantalizing combination of Sun City Girls' iconoclastic hoodoo havoc and the Velvets' primal drug-chug certainly won't be disappointed, Paris 1942 more often than not transcends even these nearly impossible expectations. Srogoncik's songs, in particular, are a revelation, displaying as much in common with the exuberant raunch of The Gun Club and the chapbook punk of Peter Laughner as they do any of the more obvious touchstones."
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Max Graef turns his attention back to his universally adored debut, Rivers of the Red Planet, and offers up an exclusive gatefold edition on marbled vinyl with new versions and unreleased gems. As such, on revisiting Rivers of the Red Planet for this Anniversary Edition, Graef decided to go beyond the basic repackaging and demo offcuts to deliver something meaningful that marks the passing of time and offers a fascinating answer to the sort of "what-ifs" so many fans of the album will have pondered. The new versions of key album tracks are as fascinating for the similarities as the differences, still bursting with the expressive flair of a versatile beat maker while comfortably leaning into a richer variety of moods and grooves. "Running (Ancient Mix)" is a downtempo dancehall-tinged dream that repositions Wayne Snow's wistful vocal in a street soul reverie replete with '90s RnB MIDI-harp. "Superswiss (Atmosphere Mix)" leans on plastic slap bass and deliciously dubbed out sax woven through a laconic beat for the ages -- the consummate lysergic swirl of chill out with teeth. "Itzehoe (World House Mix)" gets into a subheavy, spring-loaded new jack swing funk, like Jam & Lewis meeting Smith & Mighty downtown and stopping by the juice bar for a quick hit of freshness. "Jazz 104 (Acid Mix)" turns the heat up on busy, bustling breaks and bass licks that positively spring forth from the mix with a clarity and purpose that speaks to the progression in Graef's craft over the past decade.
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A cross-generational summit between the legendary pianist Marilyn Crispell (member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and Reggie Workman Ensemble) and Midwest improvising trio of bass clarinetist Jason Stein, bassist Damon Smith, and drummer Adam Shead delivers all the range and expressivity one would expect from such seasoned players. The concert captured on Live at the Hungry Brain moves organically from searing free jazz to contemplative, lyrical balladry, all of conceived in the urgency of the moment and revealing a long-ranging, intricate approach to free improvisation. By its very nature any time a working ensemble, even one fully devoted to improvised music, is joined by another musician its modus operandi can't help by change. While no performance the trio of Chicago bass clarinetist, drummer Adam Shead, and St. Louis bassist Damon Smith has ever been quite the same, since forming in 2021 the trio had forged a tight bond and developed a highly effective approach informed by fundamental elements of jazz tradition and a fiery desire to create anew with every gathering. On the other hand, the art of improvisation has always thrived upon new input, novel challenges, and changing circumstances. This performance is a sterling multi-generational project that uses instant communication to bridge experiences. Crispell has always worked with a wide array of collaborators, regularly embracing partnerships with musicians decades younger than her. Like Crispell, the members of the trio have their unique influences and sweet spots, but the act of spontaneous creation bridges any such differences. In June of 2023 the musicians gathered for a studio session along with performances in Madison, Wisconsin, and subsequently, in Chicago, where the group recorded Live at the Hungry Brain. While spiraling horn, the studio session releases in 2024 leaned toward shorter excursions built around a small array of gambits and ideas, the remarkable live performances captured two long-form pieces where the ensemble had the space and time to spread out and dig in. The interactions spin in multiple directions, leading the trio to occasionally veer a bit closer to the deeply lyric post-Coltrane wanderlust Crispell thrives within, unspooling gorgeously dynamic streams of tender melody. The music is given fierce propulsion, with Smith and Shead generating churning, kinetic energy. In some ways it's Stein that binds everything together, his endlessly fluid playing retaining an equanimity through serenity and chaos.
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Lung Oysters is the new studio album from NWW featuring the multi-instrumentalist Diarmuid MacDiarmada, a heady free-range mix of krautrock, experimental and toe tapping psychedelia, leaning towards a slightly more rock orientated sound. Regular Nurse members Colin Potter, Andrew Liles and Matt Waldron are all on board with the added voice and talents of Irish artist and poet, Tara Baoth Mooney. Artwork by Babs Santini.
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Scottish singer Quinie presents her third album Forefowk, Mind Me with Upset The Rhythm. The record is largely sung in Scots language, one of Scotland's three official languages along with Gaelic and English. Quinie sings with a style inspired by Scottish Traveller singers. "I began singing unaccompanied Scots Song in 2015 after hearing Scots Traveller singer Sheila Stewart on the radio. Initially I felt like I shouldn't sing these songs because I'm not a Traveller, and I saw people around me doing that in a way that made me uncomfortable. But on the other hand this music made sense to me and I felt driven to learn. Over the years I have met Traveller friends who taught me that settled people sharing these songs could contribute to raising awareness. Scottish Travellers are marginalized and discriminated against in modern Scotland, despite being custodians of so many of our important traditions. So I started to perform them and tell this story. From there I built on my repertoire and started writing my own songs." To develop this record, Quinie travelled across Argyll with her horse. They went on a pilgrimage of sorts through the ancient landscapes of the West of Scotland to explore the interconnected relationships between people, ancestors, animals, and place. The album's vinyl release is accompanied by a book and film, documenting this unusual research process. Forefowk, Mind Me was recorded in August 2024 at The Big Shed in Highland Perthshire with support from Creative Scotland. Quinie is accompanied by an ensemble of musicians: Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh (viola), Oliver Pitt (duduk, bouzouki, percussion), Harry Górski-Brown (small pipes, violin), and Stevie Jones (double bass, recording, and mixing). Each of these artists brings their own distinctive voice, bridging contemporary experimental practice with worlds of traditional and early music.
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"On the cover: Makaya McCraven meets Melvin Gibbs. After a three year hiatus in solo output, the prodigious drummer, producer and bandleader is about to release one new studio album, Off The Record via Chicago's International Anthem label, and four EPs, all edited and reworked from extensive live recordings dating back as far as 2015 and featuring contributions from Theon Cross, Ben LaMar Gay, and Jeff Parker. In this special cover feature he is interviewed by Black Rock Coalition bassist Melvin Gibbs. Features and regular sections: Griot Galaxy: Formed in 1972 by late saxophonist and poet Faruq Z Bey, and led by bassist Jaribu Shahid after a serious motorcycle accident left Bey unable to perform for the better part of a decade, the long under-appreciated Detroit Great Black Music ensemble have seen a renewal of interest in recent years. By Mike Rubin. Alpha Maid: Following a series of releases as one half of the duo Spresso with Mica Levi, Leisha Thomas, aka Alpha Maid returns with Is this a queue on AD93 records, her first solo release since 2021's CHUCKLE EP. By Claire Biddles. Emergence Collective: With a distinguished but revolving lineup of experimental performers from jazz, folk and modern composition backgrounds, the Sheffield group's improvised minimalism responds to the historical, architectural and acoustic qualities of each location where they perform. By Daryl Worthington. Konrad Smolenski: The Warsaw based sound and installation artist combines the DIY ethos and sonic antagonism of punk with minimalist formal strategies. By Robert Barry. Invisible Jukebox: Test Department: The pioneering industrial duo of Graham Cunningham and Paul Jamrozy down tools to take on The Wire's mystery listening challenge. Tested by Mike Barnes. Against The Grain: Holly Dicker on the histories of hardcore. Global Ear: UK Sacred Harp Convention. Unlimited Editions: Glint Music. Plus one page profiles of Debit, Klinck Trio and Erwan Keravec."
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Wewantsounds presents the release of Akiko Yano's cult 1979 album 7 O'Clock in Tokyo, recorded live in September 1978 at a pivotal moment in Japanese music history, just as Yellow Magic Orchestra was about to take the world by storm (Yano would tour the world with the group in 1979). Featuring a very funky Yano performance accompanied by Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Yukihiro Takahashi, plus Tatsuro Yamashita and Minako Yoshida, the album is presented outside Japan for the first time, with remastered audio, original artwork, and a four-page insert including new liner notes by Paul Bowler. Akiko Yano holds a unique place in Japan's musical history. Emerging in the mid-'70swhile still in her early 20s, she quickly gained attention for her inventive songwriting, versatile singing, playful melodies, and genre-blending mix of pop, jazz, funk, and experimental sounds. Her influence has since reached far beyond Japan, earning her a devoted international following that includes Mac DeMarco, Clairo, and Jessy Lanza. By the late '70s, she had become closely connected with the members of Yellow Magic Orchestra, joining them on their first international tour in 1979. 7 O'Clock in Tokyo, captured live in September 1978, features Yano with a band including the three musicians performing a concert to support her third studio album, To-Ki-Me-Ki, just as YMO was preparing to take the world stage with their debut album. This performance offers a compelling snapshot of a pivotal moment in Japanese pop, when musical boundaries were being explored and new sounds were emerging. The concert highlights Yano's distinctive blend of Japanese pop and funk, with a superb rendition of "To-Ki-Me-Ki's" title track and "Katarun Kararan" from the same album, plus "Satchan," a playful piece performed with Yano accompanying herself on acoustic piano. The album closes with "Walk on the Way of Life," an eight-minute funky finale that brings the musicians together in a groovy performance, underlining both their versatility and the energy of the show.
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LP version. Wewantsounds presents the release of Akiko Yano's cult 1979 album 7 O'Clock in Tokyo, recorded live in September 1978 at a pivotal moment in Japanese music history, just as Yellow Magic Orchestra was about to take the world by storm (Yano would tour the world with the group in 1979). Featuring a very funky Yano performance accompanied by Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Yukihiro Takahashi, plus Tatsuro Yamashita and Minako Yoshida, the album is presented outside Japan for the first time, with remastered audio, original artwork, and a four-page insert including new liner notes by Paul Bowler. Akiko Yano holds a unique place in Japan's musical history. Emerging in the mid-'70swhile still in her early 20s, she quickly gained attention for her inventive songwriting, versatile singing, playful melodies, and genre-blending mix of pop, jazz, funk, and experimental sounds. Her influence has since reached far beyond Japan, earning her a devoted international following that includes Mac DeMarco, Clairo, and Jessy Lanza. By the late '70s, she had become closely connected with the members of Yellow Magic Orchestra, joining them on their first international tour in 1979. 7 O'Clock in Tokyo, captured live in September 1978, features Yano with a band including the three musicians performing a concert to support her third studio album, To-Ki-Me-Ki, just as YMO was preparing to take the world stage with their debut album. This performance offers a compelling snapshot of a pivotal moment in Japanese pop, when musical boundaries were being explored and new sounds were emerging. The concert highlights Yano's distinctive blend of Japanese pop and funk, with a superb rendition of "To-Ki-Me-Ki's" title track and "Katarun Kararan" from the same album, plus "Satchan," a playful piece performed with Yano accompanying herself on acoustic piano. The album closes with "Walk on the Way of Life," an eight-minute funky finale that brings the musicians together in a groovy performance, underlining both their versatility and the energy of the show.
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Aguirre edition: Mastered by Helge Sten, Audio Virus, Oslo. Lacquers by Dubplates & Mastering. Liner Notes by Theaster Gates. LPs pressed on premium audiophile-quality vinyl at Pallas Records. Rich in musical associations yet utterly singular in its voice, joyous with an inner tranquility, the music of Natural Information Society is unlike any other being made today. Their sixth album in eleven years for eremite records, descension (Out of Our Constrictions) is the first to be recorded live, featuring a set from London's Cafe OTO with veteran English free-improv great Evan Parker, & the first to feature just one extended composition. The 75-minute performance, inspired by the galvanizing presence of Parker, is a sustained bacchanalia of collective ecstasy. You could call it their party album.
This was the second time Parker played with NIS. Joshua Abrams: "Both times we played compositions with Evan in mind. I don't tell Evan anything. He's a free agent."
The music is focused & malleable, energized & even-keeled, drawing on concepts of ensemble playing common to musics from many locations & eras without any one specific aesthetic realization completely defining it.
"The rhythms that Mikel plays are not an exact reference to Chicago house, but that's in there," Abrams says. "I like to take a cyclic view of music history, can we take that four-on-the-floor, & consider how it connects to swing-era music? Can we articulate a through line? I dee-jayed for years in Chicago & lessons I learned from playing records for dancing inform how I think about the group's music. The listener can make connections to aspects of soul music, electronic music, minimalism, traditional folk musics, & other musics of the diaspora as well. It's about these aspects coming together. I don't need to mimic something, I need to embody it to get to the spirit, to get to the living thing."
For jazz fans, the sound of Parker's soprano & Jason Stein's bass clarinet might evoke Coltrane & Dolphy, even though they didn't necessarily set out to do that & they play with complete individuality. Abrams sees a bridge to the historical precedent, too. "Since we first met in the 1990s, one of the things that Evan and I connected on was Coltrane's music," he says. "I hoped that we would tap into that sound world intuitively. In this case, I think that level of evocation adds another layer of depth, versus a layer of reference."
Indeed, this is a performance in which the connections among the ensemble & the creative tension between improvisation and composition build into a complex mesh of associations & interactions. While the band confines itself to the territory mapped out by Abrams' composition, they are remarkably attentive & responsive, making adjustments to Parker's improvisations. When Parker's intricate patterns of notes interweave with the band, the parts reinforce one another & the music rockets upward. Sometimes, Parker's lines are cradled by the group's gentle pulse & an unearthly lyrical balance is struck.
Drummer Mikel Patrick Avery is locked-in, playing with hellacious long-form discipline, feel & responsiveness. Jason Stein's animated, vocalized bass clarinet weaves in & out with Lisa Alvarado's harmonium to state the piece's thematic material; the pulsing tremolo on the harmonium brings a Spacemen 3 vibe to the party. Abrams ties together melody & rhythm on guimbri, a presence that leads without seeming to. Like his bandmates, he shifts modes of playing frequently, improvising & then returning to the composed structure.
"As specific as the composition is, the goal is to internalize it & mix it up," Abrams says. "The idea is to get so comfortable that we can make spontaneous changes, find new routes of activity, stasis & byways every gig. It's like a web we're spinning. If someone makes a move, we all aim to be aware of it, make room for it. Experiencing & listening is what it's about, & Evan supercharges that."
& "supercharged" is the word for this album. With Parker further opening up their music, descension (Out of Our Constrictions) is the sound of Natural Information Society growing both more disciplined and freer, one of the great bands of its time on a deep run.
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Uncertainty about and confidence in the future, melancholia and euphoria, tears and hope: The fifth Mollono.Bass album resonates with a zeitgeist that is a complex, highly divergent, sometimes even opposing state of thoughts and emotions. Deep and heady groove structures create compelling drive, emotive human voices add introspective fragility, free flowing harmonies unfurl as intense collective ecstasy. Vocals reflect pensively on issues like falling apart, yet the tracks themselves are magnificent examples of what happens when creative minds come together. MAZ'N contributed to several tracks on Tear & Hope, and in one track comes the voice of Margret. The song-oriented approach of these tunes is another very contemporary aspect -- one that will find expression in a special live show this year. Andy's Echo adds to the signature vibe of friendship and co-creation on this Mollono.Bass album with a mutual production, as well. With many different expressions of its main theme, Tears & Hope has everything it takes to make a powerful, electrifying impact - on major dancefloors and in intimate listening settings alike.
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Grooving, evocative, richly diverse, and truth seeking. Black Jesus eXperience's Time Telling explores the fragility of life, the preciousness of time and the importance of hope, love, joy, and community. Time Telling's cover is a detail from celebrated artist Julie Mehretu's 2001 artwork eye of (Thoth). BJX is absolutely jammed to have Julie share her creativity with the extended family of musical artists that is Black Jesus eXperience.
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Stiletti City Tape Archives is the fourth Stiletti-Ana album, showing off the Finnish mastermind's talent for making electronic music that's immediately inviting while generously rewarding the focused listener. Following on stand-out work for labels like Public Posession and Höga Nord -- not to mention all sorts of odd jobs within the Sex Tags multiverse -- Stiletti-Ana presents his latest offering: eight irresistible jams cooked up in the hallowed halls of Helsinki's Haista II studio. Here, vintage and modern synths joined forces with live drums and the occasional robot-voiced interjection, resulting in a body of work that's dazzlingly off-kilter, rich in detail and instantly addictive. The artist himself states: "I think the music has a sense of urgency which relates to city life. Still, Stiletti City is a small and cozy place, a bit freaky and not gentrified." Stockholm label Studio Barnhus is delighted to invite fellow travelers into this secret town -- welcoming and full of surprises.
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A timeless statement on media, culture, and music. Karl Bartos, renowned as an essential member and songwriter of Kraftwerk during their most innovative years, is reissuing his solo album Communication on Hamburg's Bureau B. First released in 2003, 13 years after leaving the legendary electronic group, the re-release arrives at a moment when its central theme, the transformation of culture through electronic media, feels more relevant than ever. When Bartos departed Kraftwerk in 1990, he left behind a catalogue that had redefined electronic music: "The Model," "The Robots," "Numbers," "Pocket Calculator," and many more bear his imprint as co-writer and melody-maker. 2021 Kraftwerk's classic line-up was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for their innovative work -- the first German band ever to be honored. With the sharp-witted electro-pop of Communication, the Kraftwerk legend extended that legacy, turning his focus toward a rapidly evolving media landscape at the turn of the millennium. At the time, the album's exploration of celebrity culture, digital imagery, and the early internet felt like a glimpse into the future. Today, it reads as sharp cultural analysis of a reality that has since become ordinary. Two decades later, this reissue allows Communication to be reconsidered on its own terms. The questions Bartos posed, about image saturation, reality fragmentation, and identity commodification, resonate more strongly in the age of smartphones, social media, and streaming platforms than they did in the early 2000s. Karl Bartos: "We are living in an age of huge behavioral manipulation. Cybernetics, artificial intelligence -- this is a major challenge for humanity." Bartos's role in shaping Kraftwerk's defining sound is undisputed, yet Communication also asserts his independent artistic voice: one that critiques media while celebrating the joy of electronic sound. Its rerelease is less a nostalgic act than a reminder that Bartos's work continues to speak directly to the cultural present. With this reissue on Bureau B, Communication endures as both a document of its time and a timeless statement on media, culture, and music.
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LP version. A timeless statement on media, culture, and music. Karl Bartos, renowned as an essential member and songwriter of Kraftwerk during their most innovative years, is reissuing his solo album Communication on Hamburg's Bureau B. First released in 2003, 13 years after leaving the legendary electronic group, the re-release arrives at a moment when its central theme, the transformation of culture through electronic media, feels more relevant than ever. When Bartos departed Kraftwerk in 1990, he left behind a catalogue that had redefined electronic music: "The Model," "The Robots," "Numbers," "Pocket Calculator," and many more bear his imprint as co-writer and melody-maker. 2021 Kraftwerk's classic line-up was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for their innovative work -- the first German band ever to be honored. With the sharp-witted electro-pop of Communication, the Kraftwerk legend extended that legacy, turning his focus toward a rapidly evolving media landscape at the turn of the millennium. At the time, the album's exploration of celebrity culture, digital imagery, and the early internet felt like a glimpse into the future. Today, it reads as sharp cultural analysis of a reality that has since become ordinary. Two decades later, this reissue allows Communication to be reconsidered on its own terms. The questions Bartos posed, about image saturation, reality fragmentation, and identity commodification, resonate more strongly in the age of smartphones, social media, and streaming platforms than they did in the early 2000s. Karl Bartos: "We are living in an age of huge behavioral manipulation. Cybernetics, artificial intelligence -- this is a major challenge for humanity." Bartos's role in shaping Kraftwerk's defining sound is undisputed, yet Communication also asserts his independent artistic voice: one that critiques media while celebrating the joy of electronic sound. Its rerelease is less a nostalgic act than a reminder that Bartos's work continues to speak directly to the cultural present. With this reissue on Bureau B, Communication endures as both a document of its time and a timeless statement on media, culture, and music.
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"The band these Brummie boys were fated to become were always an exceptional group, even in their early years as Earth, when as teenagers they formed a blues band. Neatly timed in the mid-1960s, as the blues boom was in decline. Nevertheless, they persevered, widening their repertoire, until, name-change they became the most important and most-copied of all heavy metal bands. They single-handedly invented the style that influenced and inspired not only so many bands, but also those dozens of sub-metal styles that now abound -- black metal, death metal, gothic metal, nu metal and so many more. The band's subsequent worldwide success over the last fifty odd years has, unsurprisingly, drawn attention away from just how fine a band they were at the outset. This release will most certainly address that position. These early recordings were made by the band, still known as Earth, who had already built an enviable reputation and a veritable army of fans with their high-powered, blues-rooted, red hot and rocking performances. These recordings accurately chart their development of their repertoire as they edged their way towards those heavy metal anthems that were soon to captivate the world of rock."
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"Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward first came together in 1968 and originally named themselves The Polka Tulk Blues Band, before transitioning to Earth shortly afterwards. In 1969, they recorded a number of demos in Zella Studios in Birmingham that were never released. The band these Brummie boys were fated to become were always an exceptional group, even in their early years as Earth, when as teenagers they formed a blues band. Neatly timed in the mid-1960s, as the blues boom was in decline. Nevertheless, they persevered, widening their repertoire, until, name-change they became the most important and most-copied of all heavy metal bands. They single-handedly invented the style that influenced and inspired not only so many bands, but also those dozens of sub-metal styles that now abound -- black metal, death metal, gothic metal, nu metal and so many more. The band's subsequent worldwide success over the last fifty odd years has, unsurprisingly, drawn attention away from just how fine a band they were at the outset. This release will most certainly address that position. These early recordings were made by the band, still known as Earth, who had already built an enviable reputation and a veritable army of fans with their high-powered, blues-rooted, red hot and rocking performances. These recordings accurately chart their development of their repertoire as they edged their way towards those heavy metal anthems that were soon to captivate the world of rock. All tracks featured have been carefully restored from the original masters, untouched for over 50 years, and presented here for the very first time in all their glory."
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Jeb Loy Nichols is a bonafide country soul legend. The Music Maker presents 21 incredibly deep, grooving and soulful songs from the cream of Jeb's catalogue; from its earliest days to his latest unreleased gems via countless rare and unbelievably good lost-classics. This 2LP set is presented in a gatefold sleeve complete with freshly commissioned artwork courtesy of Jeb himself. In collecting these uncut, under-heard gems, Be With hopes to do justice to Jeb's jaw-dropping artistic brilliance. A man who, in working with Adrian Sherwood, Dennis Bovell, Dan Penn, Larry Jon Wilson, and countless other legendary characters, has crafted some of the most deeply affecting folk, country, soul, funk, blues, dub, reggae, gospel, rap and electronic music, ever heard. This compilation features hand-made, lo-fi, ramshackle, stripped down, real deal music. Heartworn and funky. Music made in the kitchen, not in the studio. A combination of all his loves; country, reggae, soul. The name of this compilation comes from a time when Jeb lived in Peckham, south London and he used to DJ and sometimes perform at a local bar: "The owner of the bar, a Jamaican named Count Percy, once asked me what I called my music. I told him I wasn't sure, I guess just pop music. He thought about it for a minute and then said, 'no, more like mom and pop music.' Rather than call me a country singer or a folk singer he always referred to me as The Music Maker." With the long overdue deluxe overview of his beloved music, Be With hopes to finally shine a light on the unheralded genius of Jeb Loy Nichols. RIYL Larry Jon Wilson, Townes Van Zandt, Bobby Charles, country got soul artists, dub, deep soul, disco, dancing, heartbreak. This deluxe collection, spellbinding from beginning to end, should hopefully go some way to ensuring Jeb reaches an ever bigger, ever more appreciative crowd of followers. Mastering for this special double vinyl edition was overseen by Be With regular Simon Francis and it was cut by the esteemed Cicely Balston at Abbey Road Studios to be pressed in the Netherlands by Record Industry. The artwork has been lovingly put together by The Music Maker, himself, Jeb Loy Nichols.
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"'The undisputed kings of garage rock' (New York Times) are back once again! Two years on from their 2023 album Irregularis (The Great Hiatus), Thee Headcoats are back with a new record that ranks alongside the very best of their 1990s albums. Featuring 12 fab cuts (or ditties if you prefer) recorded at Ranscombe Studios in Rochester. The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm 'n' Beat Vernacular comes at the same time as Man-Trap, a brand-new album by Thee Headcoatees, which features the chaps on rhythm section duties."
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LP version. "'The undisputed kings of garage rock' (New York Times) are back once again! Two years on from their 2023 album Irregularis (The Great Hiatus), Thee Headcoats are back with a new record that ranks alongside the very best of their 1990s albums. Featuring 12 fab cuts (or ditties if you prefer) recorded at Ranscombe Studios in Rochester. The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm 'n' Beat Vernacular comes at the same time as Man-Trap, a brand-new album by Thee Headcoatees, which features the chaps on rhythm section duties."
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"If you had an uneasy feeling that 2025 would somehow be the year of Thee Headcoatees, then give yourself a hearty handshake -- for surprisingly, 'tis true! Through sheer determination and tenacity, one-by-one, Ludella Black, Kyra LaRubia, Bongo Debbie and Holly Golightly were dragged kicking and screaming (the things they do best) out of the woodwork to lay down the 14 killer-diller cuts found on this, their latest long-playing release, the cunningly titled Man-Trap. That's no mean feat! So, in early 2025 recording time was booked at Rochester's Ranscombe Studios, gin and snacks were prepared, and in the twinkling of an eye the backing tracks were down -- Thee Headcoats back in their best rhythm section mode and Thee Headcoatees back singing. Billy Childish took the reins as producer. Undaunted by some geographical hiccups along the way, by late May the result was a new Headcoatees album!"
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LP version. "If you had an uneasy feeling that 2025 would somehow be the year of Thee Headcoatees, then give yourself a hearty handshake -- for surprisingly, 'tis true! Through sheer determination and tenacity, one-by-one, Ludella Black, Kyra LaRubia, Bongo Debbie and Holly Golightly were dragged kicking and screaming (the things they do best) out of the woodwork to lay down the 14 killer-diller cuts found on this, their latest long-playing release, the cunningly titled Man-Trap. That's no mean feat! So, in early 2025 recording time was booked at Rochester's Ranscombe Studios, gin and snacks were prepared, and in the twinkling of an eye the backing tracks were down -- Thee Headcoats back in their best rhythm section mode and Thee Headcoatees back singing. Billy Childish took the reins as producer. Undaunted by some geographical hiccups along the way, by late May the result was a new Headcoatees album!"
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"On Beacon Hill: at twilight we find Anthony Moore, roots winding backwards to the halcyon days of Slapp Happy and the '70s progressive art rock scene, at guitar and piano. With the atmospheres and accompaniments of AKA & Friends, he breathes infernal new life into songs from his six decades of multivarious music making. This new delivery system is unto a séance, a communal incantation, twining Anthony's avant and pop traditions together in a darkly radiant coil of folky chamber music; a rope to lower the listener through cobwebs and murk, unveiling new life beneath Anthony's mad old lines. AKA are Anthony Moore, Keith Rodway and Amanda Thompson. A pagan family of sound worshipers hailing from that unholiest of all places: Hastings UK, home of Crowley and Turing. Like their sinister forbears in that infamous tradition, this latest trinity shares a passion for subverting pattern and number, factoring unlikely permutations arising from sea and horizon, greensward, the southerly aspect, and the planisphere as half-world. Their equatorial shore speaks of a planet of water and earth, fire and air. AKA's humble tools of choice for this endeavor are guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer and vocals. The Friends of AKA are Tullis Rennie, trombone and electronics; Olie Brice, double bass; Richard Moore, violin; and Haydn Ackerley, guitar. They too navigate the shoreline of the south coast, haunt the same taverns and regularly play together in whatever combinations fit the bill. Leaving the drums (and their drummer) at home to realize anew these dream-laden songs, AKA & Friends ensure that the notes fall around the beat and not on it, so as to define the pulse with absence. Anthony Moore with AKA & Friends manifest a sensuous post-devastation lounge act, seeking to re-invoke natural orders by naming -- rather than cursing -- the darkness in its many guises. Like final-phase Johnny Cash on a lost episode of Twin Peaks, Anthony's innate gravitas is a light through the surreal landscape, as the players combine themselves again and again, their efforts rising and falling in shared space. Their gothic jazz orchestra carves delicately through Anthony's songs, releasing the melodies and the melancholy to drift upward, like smoke against a sooty and scorched backdrop. Fantastic, prophetic journeys, dry eyed but deeply affected, through the shadow depths of Anthony Moore's mirror."
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Cassette version. "Glyders been dreaming up this sound for ages -- over years, with different players, countless shows and many late nights at the tape machine. It's been a long ride to Forever -- but now that they've arrived, the vibe's lightning and the blink of an eye. Guitarist/vocalist Joshua Condon and bassist Eliza Weber started up in 2014, but even when they put together their 2023 album debut, Maria's Hunt, they still had a revolving door on the drums. Then they met Joe Seger, who fit on the kit like a glove and in their sound like a brother. Since then, the three have ridden together, building up Forever while playing shows all around the US and Europe. This makes Forever's spirit high and tight, its sinews rumbling with communal joy. The song nugs of Forever sprouted branches and spokes on the road, the increased physicality driving their mellow licks and riffs with a great depth of rolling bottom, its groove taking them further into their own thing. After all this time, the streamlined new chassis feels mighty fine, making this the first real band album for Glyders. These sweet tunes punctuate and emphasize the wind and rain in the hair of Forever's driving jams. Glyders like to keep shuffling the deck. Taped at their own Studio 'G' in Chicago's Humboldt Park, with Josh getting the sounds they like, then mixed by Cooper Crain at Sweat Loge Studios down in Pilsen, Forever is super rich, crackling with the raw details of real life. The title comes from a battle cry within the band, something they hear at shows too. Eliza's amazing art emphasizes this for life credo, mixing classic roots with punk collage style drawn from years of flyers. It's like a family/club vibe, the kind of thing you get tattooed into your skin. Forever lands smooth, its lightning-quick 37 minutes leaving you plenty of time to live. Flip it over and let it go again, then!"
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RELEASE DATE: 11/21/2025
"Glyders been dreaming up this sound for ages -- over years, with different players, countless shows and many late nights at the tape machine. It's been a long ride to Forever -- but now that they've arrived, the vibe's lightning and the blink of an eye. Guitarist/vocalist Joshua Condon and bassist Eliza Weber started up in 2014, but even when they put together their 2023 album debut, Maria's Hunt, they still had a revolving door on the drums. Then they met Joe Seger, who fit on the kit like a glove and in their sound like a brother. Since then, the three have ridden together, building up Forever while playing shows all around the US and Europe. This makes Forever's spirit high and tight, its sinews rumbling with communal joy. The song nugs of Forever sprouted branches and spokes on the road, the increased physicality driving their mellow licks and riffs with a great depth of rolling bottom, its groove taking them further into their own thing. After all this time, the streamlined new chassis feels mighty fine, making this the first real band album for Glyders. These sweet tunes punctuate and emphasize the wind and rain in the hair of Forever's driving jams. Glyders like to keep shuffling the deck. Taped at their own Studio 'G' in Chicago's Humboldt Park, with Josh getting the sounds they like, then mixed by Cooper Crain at Sweat Loge Studios down in Pilsen, Forever is super rich, crackling with the raw details of real life. The title comes from a battle cry within the band, something they hear at shows too. Eliza's amazing art emphasizes this for life credo, mixing classic roots with punk collage style drawn from years of flyers. It's like a family/club vibe, the kind of thing you get tattooed into your skin. Forever lands smooth, its lightning-quick 37 minutes leaving you plenty of time to live. Flip it over and let it go again, then!"
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$16.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/21/2025
"Making this album was an absolute joy. We used Rothko's artwork as a major influence. His use of color fields, blending, mood and scale really helped us build an album of tracks that could stand on their own and also work together as a coherent whole across all the tones we had been working with. It was also a chance to fall back in love with our 909, 808 and 707. While working on music for several other projects, the 'Rothko' project got renamed Loud Ambient because it did not really sit right with the My Brutal Life series. We often talked about what people make of The Black Dog and whether they think we only make ambient music. We do not. Over the last year or so, one of us would be working on something and someone else would say, 'That is a Loud Ambient track.' The name stuck. We liked the funny side of it. With Loud Ambient, everything just fell into place creatively. Surprisingly for us, the tracklisting never changed, just small tweaks here and there. That rarely happens. It marks a first for us as a band. All the stars aligned and the confidence in this album is the strongest we have ever had. Loud Ambient was made to dance to, something we have not done in a while. We welcome the return to the dancefloor with both hands. Will you join us?" --The Black Dog
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LP version. Color vinyl. "Making this album was an absolute joy. We used Rothko's artwork as a major influence. His use of color fields, blending, mood and scale really helped us build an album of tracks that could stand on their own and also work together as a coherent whole across all the tones we had been working with. It was also a chance to fall back in love with our 909, 808 and 707. While working on music for several other projects, the 'Rothko' project got renamed Loud Ambient because it did not really sit right with the My Brutal Life series. We often talked about what people make of The Black Dog and whether they think we only make ambient music. We do not. Over the last year or so, one of us would be working on something and someone else would say, 'That is a Loud Ambient track.' The name stuck. We liked the funny side of it. With Loud Ambient, everything just fell into place creatively. Surprisingly for us, the tracklisting never changed, just small tweaks here and there. That rarely happens. It marks a first for us as a band. All the stars aligned and the confidence in this album is the strongest we have ever had. Loud Ambient was made to dance to, something we have not done in a while. We welcome the return to the dancefloor with both hands. Will you join us?" --The Black Dog
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$31.50
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Reintroducing Soar -- the alias of Christian Aebi, serial DIY taper and one-man orchestra from Langenthal, a fog-shrouded town in the Swiss provinces. Krautophobia, ambient lo-fi agriculture, analogue soul balm and slowspeed psych gelati-blitz cardboard pop only gesture towards the sound world he coaxed from his broken Tascam four-track recorder, in attics, churches, junkyards and at the kitchen table. The spark for Soar was likely time and space, somewhere in the autumn of 1994. Armed with a cable salad of '60s guitar/bass, fairground drums, mold-speckled organs and toy instruments, Aebi coaxed five albums, an unverified run of 25 cassettes, and a handful of gigs. Mostly issued through Zurich label Corazoo, the records arrived in hand-pasted sleeves, rough-cut reproductions of his teddy bear-fixated artwork that carried the same imperfect immediacy as the music. With Rudi Steiner, performances in galleries, clubs and halls bent into live sound-image happenings -- part installation, part film, part flea-market-instrument theatre -- invariably leaving the house engineers bewildered. At the time of his untimely death in 2021, Aebi remained a village secret, his music passed quietly between friends and local ears. Now, Swiss graphic designer and Ghost Riders compiler Ivan Liechti has pieced together a portrait from the afterglow, gathering tangled audio formats, paintings, illustrations, photographs and notebooks with his family, former label and peers. What emerges is a first glimpse of Soar's intimate cosmos -- brushing against Füxa, Spectrum, Dump, Stereolab, and King Crimson, but orbiting a dimension entirely his own.
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El Palmas announces the release of his new single, "La Baja." The song, written and sung by Maurice Aymard, DJ, producer, and founder of the El Palmas Music label, was recorded live in New York with production by Cheo Pardo. "La Baja" fits perfectly with El Palmas' aesthetic, which fuses social, tropical, and festive elements. The use of classic Latin percussion (congas, timbales, bongos) creates a rhythmic base reminiscent of Central American and Afro-Latin genres.
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Emerging from the depths of private-press obscurity, The People's People Present The Spirit of David is a remarkable testament to the ambition and discipline of its creators. This singular album, originally recorded in 1974 and released in 1976, marks the first original work by tenor saxophonist Jeff Jones, who also arranged, wrote, and conceptualized the project. That same year, Jones founded The People's People collective and The Voice of the People Publishing Company, using music and the arts as a platform to give voice to the voiceless. Performed in one continuous take, The Spirit of David weaves spiritual jazz with elements of soul, world music, and electric funk, producing a hypnotic, emotive soundscape that resonates with the era's social unrest and a longing for unity and transcendence. The band -- featuring Emmons Porter on bass vocals, Jack Spinovich on drums, Leonard Franklin on guitar, Ray Vega on percussion and congas (not the trumpeter of the same name), and Steve Espanosa on piano -- delivers a deeply cohesive and textured performance that transcends its time. Now reissued by Frederiksberg Records -- a label founded in 2013 by Danish video journalist Andreas Vingaard in New York -- the album's elusive history only deepens its mystique, inviting renewed exploration. That mystique is further illuminated in the extensive story found on the album insert, written by guitarist and composer Karl Evangelista, whose detailed liner notes provide essential context and insight into the album's creation and cultural significance. From the liner notes by Karl Alfonso Defensor Evangelista: "(Jeff) Jones had musicians commit to three years of preparation, and he was a harsh taskmaster; music was drilled -- 'like the army,' as Jones describes it. Participants were more or less forbidden from taking paying gigs in the interim, and the bandleader, saving most of his capital for studio time, could not afford to feed or pay the band. The ensemble was so thoroughly rehearsed by the time of the session that the entire record was performed in one take, and the album's myriad breaks and deft orchestration changes were accomplished without visual cues."
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"Transparent red and black splattered vinyl. In 1979, Johnny Thunders, renowned Heartbreakers and New York Dolls guitarist, teamed up with Wayne Kramer, the legendary guitarist of Detroit's seminal MC5, to form Gang War, an alliance that lasted the best part of a year. They released no records and were without a label -- at the time they were very much an underground act. Gang War came about shortly after Johnny released his classic So Alone album, and Wayne was not long out of jail after serving two years of a sentence of four for a coke bust. They toured regularly and recorded a couple of demos with a view to getting a deal, but although there was great interest, after nine months or so they split. Both contribute lead vocals and guitars on Thunders and Dolls tracks such as 'London Boys,' 'Endless Party,' and 'M.I.A.'; and Kramer and MC5 songs such as 'Ramblin' Rose' and 'Hey Thanks,' and fascinating covers such as 'These Boots Are Made For Walking.' Wayne Kramer has said: 'Music is important to me and I value the honor, the opportunity, to be an important musician. Johnny, on the other hand didn't consider himself a musician. He considered himself an entertainer.' Reproductions of flyers from their club gigs illustrate extended sleeve notes by the biographer of Johnny Thunders and New York Dolls, Nina Antonia."
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"The resurrection of Sid Vicious continues with Sid Lives' -- a 2LP of Sid's last ever four shows. Containing 39 tracks, mostly previously unreleased, it comes packaged with comprehensive 8,000-word notes in the gatefold sleeve. This tells the story of Sid: firstly in an eyewitness account from surviving guitarist Steve Dior; secondly in a lengthy Sid, Nancy and Sex Pistols day-by-day timeline from pre-Pistols early days to his demise (and inevitable Nancy death theories); plus a song-by-song background. Since his death Sid has come to symbolize the Sex Pistols -- he never aged. Always courting controversy he out-did old college-mate Johnny Rotten in the punk outrage stakes. With an impressive rock'n'roll voice and an abundance of attitude, just three memorable solo singles was all that he left - plus an industry of posters, documentaries and films. These recordings, backed by the New York Dolls' late rhythm section of Arthur Kane and Jerry Nolan along with guitarist Steve Dior (at that time playing together as The Idols), show the direction Sid would have gone for his next recordings had he lived. This is the definitive Sid Vicious release for all fans of the punk-rock scene."
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Yawning Man return to the studio with founding members Gary Arce and Mario Lalli with Bill Stinson. The new album on Heavy Psych Sounds Records Pavement Ends marks Arce and Lalli returning to a collaboration off the beaten path on some of the band's darkest and heaviest themes. Drenched in sonic tension and release, bleak and beautiful. The first track released titled "Bomba Negra" digs deep in the emotional undertow of Yawning Man's unique approach to rock music. The cover painting is the band's first collaboration with Joshua Tree artist Diane Bennett. Recorded at Gatos Trail Studios by Dan Joeright. Mixed and co-produced by Mike Shear. Cover Art by Diane Bennett. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 372LP), orange vinyl (HPS 372LTD-LP), and splatter vinyl (HPS 372ULTRA-LP).
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LP version. Yawning Man return to the studio with founding members Gary Arce and Mario Lalli with Bill Stinson. The new album on Heavy Psych Sounds Records Pavement Ends marks Arce and Lalli returning to a collaboration off the beaten path on some of the band's darkest and heaviest themes. Drenched in sonic tension and release, bleak and beautiful. The first track released titled "Bomba Negra" digs deep in the emotional undertow of Yawning Man's unique approach to rock music. The cover painting is the band's first collaboration with Joshua Tree artist Diane Bennett. Recorded at Gatos Trail Studios by Dan Joeright. Mixed and co-produced by Mike Shear. Cover Art by Diane Bennett.
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LP version. Orange color vinyl. Yawning Man return to the studio with founding members Gary Arce and Mario Lalli with Bill Stinson. The new album on Heavy Psych Sounds Records Pavement Ends marks Arce and Lalli returning to a collaboration off the beaten path on some of the band's darkest and heaviest themes. Drenched in sonic tension and release, bleak and beautiful. The first track released titled "Bomba Negra" digs deep in the emotional undertow of Yawning Man's unique approach to rock music. The cover painting is the band's first collaboration with Joshua Tree artist Diane Bennett. Recorded at Gatos Trail Studios by Dan Joeright. Mixed and co-produced by Mike Shear. Cover Art by Diane Bennett.
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LP version. Splatter color vinyl. Yawning Man return to the studio with founding members Gary Arce and Mario Lalli with Bill Stinson. The new album on Heavy Psych Sounds Records Pavement Ends marks Arce and Lalli returning to a collaboration off the beaten path on some of the band's darkest and heaviest themes. Drenched in sonic tension and release, bleak and beautiful. The first track released titled "Bomba Negra" digs deep in the emotional undertow of Yawning Man's unique approach to rock music. The cover painting is the band's first collaboration with Joshua Tree artist Diane Bennett. Recorded at Gatos Trail Studios by Dan Joeright. Mixed and co-produced by Mike Shear. Cover Art by Diane Bennett.
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"In 2019, a brutal epileptic seizure changed my life -- the first of more to come. I was forced into solitude, and in that quiet, music became my lifeline. In the following years, I poured everything I had into creating between you and me: a raw, DIY album that is a distillation of my lived experience during this time. The album explores emotional authenticity, freedom of expression, and acceptance: not as abstract concepts, but through visceral experiences that have fundamentally reshaped my art and my sense of self. As a listener, I invite you to explore your vulnerability by joining me in mine. This album is truly between you and me." --Ozzy Jones
Ozzy Jones is a Dutch-Australian interdisciplinary artist whose music blends electronica with indie. Drawing from personal struggles and raw emotion after his seizures started, his debut album between you and me explores vulnerability, male identity, and authentic self-expression. Rooted in Amsterdam's vibrant creative scene, Ozzy's work fuses sound, visuals, and storytelling to create a deeply immersive and honest artistic experience.
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"For the first time in more than fifteen years, the debut album Way Their Crept by Grouper is being made available, reissued in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the original release. The first in a series of ineffable solo albums and collaborations that have come since, these are the initial sounds widely shared by the artist on a long journey of explorations that continue to this day."
"This is ambient music that refuses to simply wash over the listener; it's a riptide dragging you under." --The New Yorker
"The chain reaction these songs generate together produces enough fog and smoke to keep the spell going strong -- and to keep whatever secret she's trying to tell us just on the other side of the speakers." --Pitchfork
"Each track sounds, in the best possible way, like it was never meant to be heard outside of the room in which it was recorded." --New York Times
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LP version. "For the first time in more than fifteen years, the debut album Way Their Crept by Grouper is being made available, reissued in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the original release. The first in a series of ineffable solo albums and collaborations that have come since, these are the initial sounds widely shared by the artist on a long journey of explorations that continue to this day."
"This is ambient music that refuses to simply wash over the listener; it's a riptide dragging you under." --The New Yorker
"The chain reaction these songs generate together produces enough fog and smoke to keep the spell going strong -- and to keep whatever secret she's trying to tell us just on the other side of the speakers." --Pitchfork
"Each track sounds, in the best possible way, like it was never meant to be heard outside of the room in which it was recorded." --New York Times
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$22.50
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RELEASE DATE: 11/21/2025
The recording session for this album took place in 1958 and featured Ashby as leader on harp, backed by bassist Richard Davis, drummer Grady Tate, percussionist Willie Bobo and a horn section consisting of Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson, Sonny Russo, and Tony Studd. The album pre-dates the spiritual jazz tradition of Alice Coltrane and Sanders but with a more R&B blues feel and it is a mandatory listen!
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RELEASE DATE: 11/21/2025
FYC40 celebrates 40 years of Fine Young Cannibals, the British trio who stormed the global music scene in the mid-to-late '80s. Their journey began with the soulful, new wave energy of their 1985 debut Fine Young Cannibals, before reaching new heights with 1989's The Raw & The Cooked, a worldwide smash that fused rock, funk, and house, all powered by Roland Gift's unmistakable voice. Across their career, the band scored eight UK Top 40 hits, two U.S. Billboard #1 singles, multiple Grammy nominations, and two BRIT Awards -- cementing their place in pop history. The Raw & The Cooked delivered enduring anthems like "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing," both U.S. chart-toppers whose influence still resonates today, from hit shows like The Bear to Chanel campaign featuring Dua Lipa and BLACKPINK's Jennie. Includes new artwork and new liner notes. Fully remastered. Also available on clear vinyl (LMS 1725531), double vinyl (LMS 1725532), and as a 4CD/DVD box set (LMS 1725530). DVD is NTSC format, region 0.
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Deluxe hardcover boxset with heavyweight slipcase, 24-page book, 4CD + 1 DVD version. FYC40 celebrates 40 years of Fine Young Cannibals, the British trio who stormed the global music scene in the mid-to-late '80s. Their journey began with the soulful, new wave energy of their 1985 debut Fine Young Cannibals, before reaching new heights with 1989's The Raw & The Cooked, a worldwide smash that fused rock, funk, and house, all powered by Roland Gift's unmistakable voice. Across their career, the band scored eight UK Top 40 hits, two U.S. Billboard #1 singles, multiple Grammy nominations, and two BRIT Awards -- cementing their place in pop history. The Raw & The Cooked delivered enduring anthems like "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing," both U.S. chart-toppers whose influence still resonates today, from hit shows like The Bear to Chanel campaign featuring Dua Lipa and BLACKPINK's Jennie. Includes new artwork and new liner notes. Fully remastered. DVD is NTSC format, region 0.
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Clear vinyl. FYC40 celebrates 40 years of Fine Young Cannibals, the British trio who stormed the global music scene in the mid-to-late '80s. Their journey began with the soulful, new wave energy of their 1985 debut Fine Young Cannibals, before reaching new heights with 1989's The Raw & The Cooked, a worldwide smash that fused rock, funk, and house, all powered by Roland Gift's unmistakable voice. Across their career, the band scored eight UK Top 40 hits, two U.S. Billboard #1 singles, multiple Grammy nominations, and two BRIT Awards -- cementing their place in pop history. The Raw & The Cooked delivered enduring anthems like "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing," both U.S. chart-toppers whose influence still resonates today, from hit shows like The Bear to Chanel campaign featuring Dua Lipa and BLACKPINK's Jennie. Includes new artwork and new liner notes. Fully remastered.
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2LP 180gr black vinyl version. Gatefold sleeve. FYC40 celebrates 40 years of Fine Young Cannibals, the British trio who stormed the global music scene in the mid-to-late '80s. Their journey began with the soulful, new wave energy of their 1985 debut Fine Young Cannibals, before reaching new heights with 1989's The Raw & The Cooked, a worldwide smash that fused rock, funk, and house, all powered by Roland Gift's unmistakable voice. Across their career, the band scored eight UK Top 40 hits, two U.S. Billboard #1 singles, multiple Grammy nominations, and two BRIT Awards -- cementing their place in pop history. The Raw & The Cooked delivered enduring anthems like "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing," both U.S. chart-toppers whose influence still resonates today, from hit shows like The Bear to Chanel campaign featuring Dua Lipa and BLACKPINK's Jennie. Includes new artwork and new liner notes. Fully remastered.
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RELEASE DATE: 11/21/2025
The Bam Jam Band is back! On their third seven-inch release, the band dares to reimagine a true soul classic -- Jon Lucien's timeless masterpiece "Would You Believe in Me" -- with an irresistible disco twist. Flip it over and discover the B-side, a fresh Portuguese reinterpretation, passionately performed by Brazilian-born powerhouse Denize Machado from the ultra-militant Bamba Social. With "Would You Believe in Me" The Bam Jam Band bridges eras, continents, and grooves -- paying homage to '70s soul while keeping the dancefloor burning.
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"Ennio Morricone composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions, making him one of the most influential and best-selling film composers since the late '50s. The Legend of 1900 (Italian: La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano) is a 1998 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore and starring Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, and Melanie Thierry. The film is inspired by Novecento, a monologue by Alessandro Baricco. The Legend Of 1900 was nominated for a variety of international award, winning several for its soundtrack, including a Golden Globe for Best Original Score - Motion Picture. This release includes the song 'Lost Boys Calling' featuring Roger Waters & Eddie van Halen. Throughout his career, Morricone received an unprecedented amount of awards, including Grammys, Golden Globes, and BAFTAs. Ennio Morricone has influenced many artists including Danger Mouse, Dire Straits, Muse, Metallica, Radiohead, Hans Zimmer, and many more. The Legend of 1900 is available limited edition of 2500 numbered copies on white vinyl. The package includes an insert."
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The release prior to Fin seemed to hint at a more acoustic version of Spanish band Exnovios -- more interested in the studio as an instrument, more electronic, and more subtle. The new dozen songs that make up their fourth LP happily confirm that impression: to the usual unbeatable formula of this Pamplona-based quartet are added new and fascinating layers -- at once fresh yet entirely logical in the evolution of such a unique band within the local scene. Exnovios' new collection of songs wasn't created in a rehearsal space or recorded in a single week in the studio. Rather, it was composed and rehearsed slowly in bedrooms and living rooms -- songs that were later brought into the studio with the idea of finishing building them there. Over the course of nearly a year, the band approached each song one by one, in a handcrafted manner, alongside their trusted ally, producer Guillermo Mutiloa. The result is a treasure trove of songs, perhaps more psych-folk than ever, as acoustic pieces abound -- full of exquisite melodies without abandoning the consciousness-expanding journeys that have made Exnovios a cult favorite: These are often drumless tracks, perhaps with some light percussion, always featuring detailed and exquisite arrangements of guitar, electronics, percussion, and even touches of strings. And despite the reduced presence of drums, fans of the band's legendary fuzz-guitar reverbcore sound won't be disappointed: there's the psychedelic "Viaje Alucinante," full of their classic riffs; their brutal cover of Psychic TV's "Godstar" (drenched in echo and eccentric vocal effects); and the perfectly crafted "Naves Misteriosas," which pulls off the impossible feat of sounding like "Cerca de las Estrellas"-era Los Pekenikes in the verses, Phil Spector in the chorus, and the Ramones in the post-chorus. Fin reveals more sides and nuances of Exnovios than ever before -- a festival of eclectic styles that all remain true to the musical vision that has defined them over the past decade, with their melodic powers at the peak of their talent.
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1985 was a landmark year for punk rock in the Basque country, and possibly for the whole of Spain. Punk merged with the Basque Radical Rock (Rock Radikal Vasco or RRV) movement, although this was not necessarily always the case. For instance, Eskorbuto invariably kept their distance from the movement and everything related to it. Hardship was part and parcel of Eskorbuto's life and musical career. All their albums were recorded in the shortest time imaginable, partly due to tight budgets (studios were expensive, labels were close-fisted), and partly because Josu and Jualma needed to spend the money on other things. When it came to recording Anti Todo, Eskorbuto stuck to what they did best: hitting the studio with as much raw energy, provocation, inspiration, and natural talent as possible. It was their best record and it begs the question: what would Eskorbuto have been capable of if they had more time, a bigger budget, and tighter control? The song "Tamara" was practically composed on the spot in the studio in less than two recording days, as was much of "Ha llegado el momento." The experienced sound technician did an outstanding job, but a new remastering for this rerelease has given the album the richer, more vibrant sound it always deserved. Listeners can once again enjoy the urgency, simplicity, and rage of this refreshed Anti Todo, a true classic in musical history, originally released in 1985 at Eskorbuto's peak of their creativity and energy.
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Unlike other Spanish bands of the time, Los Z-66 enjoyed unique conditions that allowed their sound to stand out as one of the most advanced on the local scene in the late 1960s. As was the case with many other groups, their repertoire for entertaining discotheques had to include the hits of the moment and was not always open to the songs of the most daring international bands, which was the sound that most stimulated the musicians. In the case of Los Z-66, being based in Mallorca meant they had privileged access to hard to-find records, imported by foreign tourists, and to a much more modern atmosphere than in other parts of the country. Songs in Italian and French soon gave way to English hits by the Animals, the Stones, and the Beatles. But it was the offer received from Mike Jeffries, manager of Jimi Hendrix, the Animals, and others, to serve as the house band at the newly opened club Sgt. Pepper's that allowed the group to raise their live performances to a level rarely seen in these parts. They even soon incorporated the distorted sound of fuzz into their guitar when they received a fuzz face pedal as a gift from Jimi Hendrix himself, who was invited to play at the club's opening! Their excellent blend of stunning soul, psychedelia, and pop became their hallmark, not only in the band's concerts but also in the handful of singles and EPs they released on the Regal label. Their songs reflected the influence of bands such as The Move, Vanilla Fudge, and Blood, Sweat & Tears, showcasing a solid, modern, and powerful sound. Munster are now re-releasing for the first time their only full-length album, originally published in 1969, which is actually a compilation of songs previously released in 45 rpm format, complete with two bonus tracks not included on the original LP. This reissue, which includes a booklet with liner notes and rare photos, is a joint project between Munster and Runaway Records.
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Berlin's ZentaSkai returns to his Mask Records with the Billie EP, collaborating with Palawan, Jeremy Reinhard, and Thomas Grün for release on vinyl only. He kicks off with the solo cut "A1," which is quick, sophisticated, raw house with a funky clip to the beats that diffuses heat in the grainy sustained pads. It brings serene emotional release through stylish hypnosis and gorgeous vocals that blend seamlessly into the mix.
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Implosion is a crushing split album, appropriately released on The Bug's own PRESSURE label. Mapping out a new form of spectral dub, the sound is deliberately immersive, introverted, and yes, definitely implosive. In pursuit of heavy lids, blurred vision, and merciless bass bin punishment, it's one part meditation, two parts low-end theory, and essentially a confession of devoted sound system addiction. As expected from a tag team featuring British soundlab explorer and "London Zoo" composer Kevin Martin, aka The Bug, and Michael Fiedler, aka Jah Schulz -- a long-time graduate of Germany's new school of sound system reggae culture -- the duo approaches their target differently yet share the goal of keeping their sound "raw" and "brutally minimal". Each track illuminates the emotional impact and atmospheric pressure being explored across this deceptively sparse album -- a mastery of tone and texture. This collection might be as reduced, minimal, and deep as The Bug has ever gone, perhaps echoing the solemnity of his recent Kevin Richard Martin Black release and invoking the futurist steppas self-pioneered on his previous Pressure album. Alternatively, Fiedler's Ghost Dubs project ventures into his most heavyweight direction yet, which is no mean feat considering his previous, the critically acclaimed album Damaged, was a monstrously massive triumph of analogue weight and enviable sound design. Implosion is ice-cool, a stark contrast to the warmth and sociability of traditional Jamaican roots and the current trends in digi-dub. Instead, the mood is soaked in tension and intense dread, finding an unexpected melting point where classic dub's stark rhythm attack, isolationist ambience's eerie drift, dub techno's floatation strategies, and even the relentless riffs of doom metal collide. The super heavyweight pulsations, emotive resonances, and bone-rattling vibrations detonated here effortlessly go far beyond the artists' influences. Shadowy and elusive, there's a mysteriousness at this record's core. A haunting moodiness oscillating between nostalgia and future shock. Implosion is a testament to being enveloped in bass, seduced by bass, submerged in bass, and utterly crushed by bass, as The Bug and Ghost Dubs seek to craft a new form of dub for zonal headz and Babylon seekers. Mastered by Stefan Betke (a.k.a. POLE) at Scape Mastering studio.
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Double LP version. Implosion is a crushing split album, appropriately released on The Bug's own PRESSURE label. Mapping out a new form of spectral dub, the sound is deliberately immersive, introverted, and yes, definitely implosive. In pursuit of heavy lids, blurred vision, and merciless bass bin punishment, it's one part meditation, two parts low-end theory, and essentially a confession of devoted sound system addiction. As expected from a tag team featuring British soundlab explorer and "London Zoo" composer Kevin Martin, aka The Bug, and Michael Fiedler, aka Jah Schulz -- a long-time graduate of Germany's new school of sound system reggae culture -- the duo approaches their target differently yet share the goal of keeping their sound "raw" and "brutally minimal". Each track illuminates the emotional impact and atmospheric pressure being explored across this deceptively sparse album -- a mastery of tone and texture. This collection might be as reduced, minimal, and deep as The Bug has ever gone, perhaps echoing the solemnity of his recent Kevin Richard Martin Black release and invoking the futurist steppas self-pioneered on his previous Pressure album. Alternatively, Fiedler's Ghost Dubs project ventures into his most heavyweight direction yet, which is no mean feat considering his previous, the critically acclaimed album Damaged, was a monstrously massive triumph of analogue weight and enviable sound design. Implosion is ice-cool, a stark contrast to the warmth and sociability of traditional Jamaican roots and the current trends in digi-dub. Instead, the mood is soaked in tension and intense dread, finding an unexpected melting point where classic dub's stark rhythm attack, isolationist ambience's eerie drift, dub techno's floatation strategies, and even the relentless riffs of doom metal collide. The super heavyweight pulsations, emotive resonances, and bone-rattling vibrations detonated here effortlessly go far beyond the artists' influences. Shadowy and elusive, there's a mysteriousness at this record's core. A haunting moodiness oscillating between nostalgia and future shock. Implosion is a testament to being enveloped in bass, seduced by bass, submerged in bass, and utterly crushed by bass, as The Bug and Ghost Dubs seek to craft a new form of dub for zonal headz and Babylon seekers. Mastered by Stefan Betke (a.k.a. POLE) at Scape Mastering studio.
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Pilot is the debut album from London quintet Miniseries. Channeling the epic sweep of TV themes and movie soundtracks into resplendent space rock they explore themes of youth and ageing, heartbreak and paranoia, euphoria and existential dread. Songwriter Doug Morch (Longview) had been working on largely acoustic folk songs when he met Angela Gannon (The Magic Numbers) at Glastonbury 2017. Romance and musical collaboration ensued. The band coalesced in the hallowed environs of Farringdon's The Betsey Trotwood pub -- a musical nexus where burgeoning indie and Americana scenes collide -- where they met fellow songwriter and guitarist Dermot Watson (from Brighton's The Dials) and drummer Danny Abbasi and were joined by Doug's former bandmate Aidan Banks on bass. When they came together, their indie folk mutated into motorik art rock. When it came to capturing their sound, the band reached for maverick musician and producer Sean Read. They recorded tracks at Read's Famous Times studio in Clapton, London, as well as at Edwyn Collins' Clashnarrow in Helmsdale, Scotland. Miniseries' Pilot is just the beginning of the story. Enthralling and atmospheric, the London quintet have created something familiar yet timeless.
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LP version. Pilot is the debut album from London quintet Miniseries. Channeling the epic sweep of TV themes and movie soundtracks into resplendent space rock they explore themes of youth and ageing, heartbreak and paranoia, euphoria and existential dread. Songwriter Doug Morch (Longview) had been working on largely acoustic folk songs when he met Angela Gannon (The Magic Numbers) at Glastonbury 2017. Romance and musical collaboration ensued. The band coalesced in the hallowed environs of Farringdon's The Betsey Trotwood pub -- a musical nexus where burgeoning indie and Americana scenes collide -- where they met fellow songwriter and guitarist Dermot Watson (from Brighton's The Dials) and drummer Danny Abbasi and were joined by Doug's former bandmate Aidan Banks on bass. When they came together, their indie folk mutated into motorik art rock. When it came to capturing their sound, the band reached for maverick musician and producer Sean Read. They recorded tracks at Read's Famous Times studio in Clapton, London, as well as at Edwyn Collins' Clashnarrow in Helmsdale, Scotland. Miniseries' Pilot is just the beginning of the story. Enthralling and atmospheric, the London quintet have created something familiar yet timeless.
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Rie Nakajima and David Toop recorded at Dave Hunt's studio, 6 May 2022. Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space. A note from David Toop: "These are two conversations we had by emails when we all had to stay inside quietly five years ago. We have always enjoyed chatting on art, music, food and shared what we observed in life since we met but this period of lockdown, we couldn't see each other so somehow we found a way to continue this habit. Also, this extreme situation persuaded us to be 'thoughtful' and 'creative' not in a normal or natural way. Though the way we try to be thoughtful and creative is always with humor and laughter. This part is so important in what we share through art and music. Like sculpture, like music. Some thoughts in spring. Emerging in spring we made a studio recording. Many things had floated away in the time of lockdowns and isolation. Other things became fixed in unfamiliar ways. It's a long time since Lucy Lippard wrote about the dematerialization of the art object but it seems that the word 'sculpture' still has connotations of a solid thing, with weight and mass. Early on in our conversations, maybe 12 years ago, we thought about this word and its weight. What if sculpture was just a duration, an empty cup held in the hand until it disappears, leaves that fell from a tree in autumn, a collection of sounds that one person heard but the other person ignored, a closed suitcase full of objects and then later on the suitcase has been opened and the objects have been stuck to a window, or a season and its transitions, its colors and scents, its feeling of vigor and renewal. The thoughts were sculptures, you could say, but you couldn't touch them. They looked after themselves."
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Two jewels in the crown of the soulful electronic music scene in NYC unite for a spellbinding EP on Rhythm Section International. Full Circle is a brand-new body of work from Musclecars & Toribio. These are not merely tracks -- these are three movements making up a concerto -- with a dub thrown in for good measure! This is a delicate tour de force, delivered with such raw emotion and vulnerability it allows the instrumentation takes a back seat -- just a gentle groove, swelling strings and some unresolved chords are all that's required to transform listeners to the main character of this story.
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Limited 180g "Blood Red" vinyl repress with double-sided lyric insert. Recorded with producer and mix engineer James Wyatt at his Sloe Flower studio in Chester -- with the organ recorded in Wales, co-incidentally where Robert Plant wrote IV -- the objective was simple; show restraint. With Toria's reassuring vocals and guitar taking the lead, it is only at the end of "Sweet William" when the band join in, whilst rousing strings on "Seeing Things Through" crescendo at the perfect point through instinct rather than intent -- adding its own challenges.
"Enchanting. Whether playing almost solo or with a full band arrangement, Wooff is never less than mesmerizing." --Shindig!
"Her spectral voice and acoustic guitar lead abstract stories of loss, yearning and self-exploration, nimbly embellished with pedal steel, organ and strings. 'The Waltz Of Winter Hey' and 'Lefty's Motel Room,' with its allusive nod to Townes Van Zandt, are outstanding." -- UNCUT
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Uzed is the fourth album by Belgian band Univers Zero. It was released three years after Ceux du Dehors, due to a change in line-up and a new repertoire, although the EP Crawling Wind had been released in the meantime. The album marked a turning point for the band. Univers Zero explored new electric colors, giving it a more rock feel with the addition of new musicians such as Jean-Luc Plouvier, who introduced the synthesizer, guitarist Michel Delory, who played a memorable solo in "Célesta (For Chantal)," and André Mergen on electric cello and alto saxophone, who enriched the orchestral texture. With Dirk Descheemaeker on clarinet and soprano saxophone and the return of Christian Genet on bass, this evolution can also be explained by the arrival of new musicians. Uzed is entirely composed and arranged by Daniel Denis. The recording and mixing were done at Daylight Studio in Brussels in 1984, but to bring out Uzed, the sound had to be improved by giving it more dynamic range, which was done at ICP Studios in 2024. Univers Zero represents one of the longest-living bands in Belgium. It was established in 1974. Drummer Daniel Denis had the brilliant idea to gather together a team of professionals sharing the same taste for music. The band has adopted an instrumental progressive style. Over the last couple of decades, the band has also implemented a series of influences from chamber music -- most commonly, chamber music from the 20th century. Even if the line-up changes a lot over the years, the overall sound of UZ remained fairly consistent.
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LP version. Uzed is the fourth album by Belgian band Univers Zero. It was released three years after Ceux du Dehors, due to a change in line-up and a new repertoire, although the EP Crawling Wind had been released in the meantime. The album marked a turning point for the band. Univers Zero explored new electric colors, giving it a more rock feel with the addition of new musicians such as Jean-Luc Plouvier, who introduced the synthesizer, guitarist Michel Delory, who played a memorable solo in "Célesta (For Chantal)," and André Mergen on electric cello and alto saxophone, who enriched the orchestral texture. With Dirk Descheemaeker on clarinet and soprano saxophone and the return of Christian Genet on bass, this evolution can also be explained by the arrival of new musicians. Uzed is entirely composed and arranged by Daniel Denis. The recording and mixing were done at Daylight Studio in Brussels in 1984, but to bring out Uzed, the sound had to be improved by giving it more dynamic range, which was done at ICP Studios in 2024. Univers Zero represents one of the longest-living bands in Belgium. It was established in 1974. Drummer Daniel Denis had the brilliant idea to gather together a team of professionals sharing the same taste for music. The band has adopted an instrumental progressive style. Over the last couple of decades, the band has also implemented a series of influences from chamber music -- most commonly, chamber music from the 20th century. Even if the line-up changes a lot over the years, the overall sound of UZ remained fairly consistent.
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Do you believe in spring? Simon Wangen (cello) and Philipp Sutter (piano) pose this question as the title for their new project. Whereas Bill Evans made a demand in 1981, the two Cologne-based musicians believe that in times of uncertainty, crisis, and environmental destruction, it is ok to set a question mark here. But politics and world events aside: Do you believe in spring? Of course! It's never too late to start something new, get creative, and test your own limits. Simon Wangen is a classically trained cellist, Philipp Sutter a trained jazz pianist. Their different musical roots merge on this instrumental album into a lively mix of neoclassical, new jazz, and Cinéma Nordique. Ten pieces come across as sometimes dark, sometimes wild, sometimes delicate, always focusing on the dialogue between the two instruments that harmonize so well. The subtle use of electronic effects constantly opens up new perspectives and builds a bridge to contemporary sound aesthetics. Cello and piano -- this combination has been established for centuries, but can still add new facets today. Do you believe in spring? begins stormily and turbulently, oscillating between romantic, sad, and beautiful moments, and leads from a rather dark beginning to the final and eponymous piece in C major, which leaves the listener with a glimmer of hope.
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Synaptic Cliffs presents pdqb together with six black belt gamers (PRZ, Noise&Noise, Galaxian, CEM3340, Dark Vektor, Mesak), each a legend in their own right. They don't just replay pdqb's 8 1/2 Bit album; they become it. Together, they embark on a journey through legendary worlds, creating a place filled with soundscapes and challenges that blur the line between music and game. They move with the rhythm of the music and face the challenges within, weaving their own stories into the fabric of the iconic work.
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Following the skewed-unself-help-brilliance of Sus Dog (which marked his first full foray into songs, abetted by Thom Yorke), and its companion piece Cave Dog, Chris Clark returns to the dancefloor's simple, but no less affecting pleasures, with Steep Stims. Steep Stims marks a back-to-basics approach, invoking the early years of gung-ho creativity enforced by limitations in technology at the time. Made quickly, Steep Stims reflects the immediate rave energy of his live show, but that's not to say it's basic floor fodder, as it's rife with personality, synth magic, and knack for melody. Although swift and impressionistically captured rather than labored over, it's still formidably deft, with plenty of oddball weirdness lurking beneath the dancefloor. Soft, orange, scorched, brutal, the opening track "Gift and Wound" captures the classic dance music dread/awe/euphoria combo perfectly, before "Infinite Roller" merges sparkly-minimalism with snarling bass and soft sines, which turn more-dense and metallic as it progresses. The melancholic smoke belch of "No Pills U" gives strong classic vibrations, which is belied by its creation, made in just 20 minutes. Drumless, yet still full of exhilarating-big-trance-drama, "Who Booed The Goose" flashes by in stroboscopic fast forward, then "5 Millionth Cave Painting" gives a palate cleanser, letting "the virus with its delicious broken, luxurious reverb have a moment," before "Negation Loop" swoops down in all its glory, with Clark's tweaked vocals leading deconstructed trance breakdowns, tape edits and brutal noisebursts. An antidote to the bombast of its predecessor is "Micro Lyf," which closes the set on a poignant note, of sorts. Muted staccato gives way to field recordings "that gradually put it in this outside space; alien in a meadow somewhere nameless. It feels like a sinkhole. The record kinda swallows itself up and then is gone", ends Chris.
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Double LP version. Following the skewed-unself-help-brilliance of Sus Dog (which marked his first full foray into songs, abetted by Thom Yorke), and its companion piece Cave Dog, Chris Clark returns to the dancefloor's simple, but no less affecting pleasures, with Steep Stims. Steep Stims marks a back-to-basics approach, invoking the early years of gung-ho creativity enforced by limitations in technology at the time. Made quickly, Steep Stims reflects the immediate rave energy of his live show, but that's not to say it's basic floor fodder, as it's rife with personality, synth magic, and knack for melody. Although swift and impressionistically captured rather than labored over, it's still formidably deft, with plenty of oddball weirdness lurking beneath the dancefloor. Soft, orange, scorched, brutal, the opening track "Gift and Wound" captures the classic dance music dread/awe/euphoria combo perfectly, before "Infinite Roller" merges sparkly-minimalism with snarling bass and soft sines, which turn more-dense and metallic as it progresses. The melancholic smoke belch of "No Pills U" gives strong classic vibrations, which is belied by its creation, made in just 20 minutes. Drumless, yet still full of exhilarating-big-trance-drama, "Who Booed The Goose" flashes by in stroboscopic fast forward, then "5 Millionth Cave Painting" gives a palate cleanser, letting "the virus with its delicious broken, luxurious reverb have a moment," before "Negation Loop" swoops down in all its glory, with Clark's tweaked vocals leading deconstructed trance breakdowns, tape edits and brutal noisebursts. An antidote to the bombast of its predecessor is "Micro Lyf," which closes the set on a poignant note, of sorts. Muted staccato gives way to field recordings "that gradually put it in this outside space; alien in a meadow somewhere nameless. It feels like a sinkhole. The record kinda swallows itself up and then is gone", ends Chris.
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In 1985, Eric Goulden released an album entitled A Roomful Of Monkeys on the Go! Discs label under the name Captains Of Industry. It was a disaster -- most people didn't like it -- where it wasn't roundly ignored it was critically slated. Forty years later he decided to use these songs, written in the Medway Towns between 1982 and '84, as the basis for a new album: England Screaming. On the new recordings Eric played most of the instruments himself. Sam Shepherd played the drums, Amy Rigby and Marc Valentine sang backing vocals, and contributed piano along with Eric's art school friend, performance artist Graham (Graham) Beck. England Screaming is a sonically savage world apart from the insipid, half-arsed (Eric's words) original album. He has succeeded in marrying a young and unrealized vision to the wisdom and experience of his older years, incidentally posing the question: how far have we actually come as a society? As Wreckless Eric he needs little introduction -- he wrote and recorded the classic "Whole Wide World" and had a hit with it back in 1977. Since then it's been a hit for countless other artists including The Monkees, Cage The Elephant, and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day. As Eric Goulden it's a little more complicated -- a musician, artist, writer, recording engineer and producer, he didn't like either the music business, the mechanics of fame, or the name he'd been given to hide behind, so he crawled out of the spotlight and disappeared into the underground. He went on to release twenty something albums in forty something years under various names -- The Len Bright Combo, Le Beat Group Electrique, The Donovan Of Trash, The Hitsville House Band, and with his wife as one half of Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby, finally realizing he was stuck with the name Wreckless Eric.
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LP version. In 1985, Eric Goulden released an album entitled A Roomful Of Monkeys on the Go! Discs label under the name Captains Of Industry. It was a disaster -- most people didn't like it -- where it wasn't roundly ignored it was critically slated. Forty years later he decided to use these songs, written in the Medway Towns between 1982 and '84, as the basis for a new album: England Screaming. On the new recordings Eric played most of the instruments himself. Sam Shepherd played the drums, Amy Rigby and Marc Valentine sang backing vocals, and contributed piano along with Eric's art school friend, performance artist Graham (Graham) Beck. England Screaming is a sonically savage world apart from the insipid, half-arsed (Eric's words) original album. He has succeeded in marrying a young and unrealized vision to the wisdom and experience of his older years, incidentally posing the question: how far have we actually come as a society? As Wreckless Eric he needs little introduction -- he wrote and recorded the classic "Whole Wide World" and had a hit with it back in 1977. Since then it's been a hit for countless other artists including The Monkees, Cage The Elephant, and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day. As Eric Goulden it's a little more complicated -- a musician, artist, writer, recording engineer and producer, he didn't like either the music business, the mechanics of fame, or the name he'd been given to hide behind, so he crawled out of the spotlight and disappeared into the underground. He went on to release twenty something albums in forty something years under various names -- The Len Bright Combo, Le Beat Group Electrique, The Donovan Of Trash, The Hitsville House Band, and with his wife as one half of Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby, finally realizing he was stuck with the name Wreckless Eric.
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This anthology of Los Wembler's allows listeners to appreciate the legacy of the iconic group from Iquitos, the most important city in the Peruvian Amazon which is only accessible by air or river, and their key role in the creation and revival of Amazonian cumbia. Los Wembler's emerged as a family band in the late 1960s in the Belén district of Iquitos and are regarded as pioneers of electric guitar-driven Amazonian cumbia from Perú. The selection of songs that make up this compilation dates from the period between 1972 and 1980, at the peak of the band's career. Songs such as "Sonido amazónico" or "La danza del petrolero" have become highly influential classics of the genre. Most of these tracks are reissued here for the first time after remaining unavailable for decades. Selva includes an insert with liner notes and photos. Pressed on 180g vinyl.
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Manny Corchado should be a household name for all boogaloo fans. His classic track "Pow-Wow" is one of the most sought-after singles among collectors and DJs -- not just for its A-side, but also for the absolute dance floor bomb hidden on its B-side: "Chicken and Booze." This instrumental recording features an irresistible rhythm section that could practically serve as the definition of the boogaloo genre itself. On the B-side of this single comes another version of the same song -- this time re-titled "Aguardiente y Pollo" in Spanish -- performed by Nelson y sus Estrellas. The tropical and salsa orchestra, founded in Venezuela by pianist, composer, and bandleader Nelson González Rojas, keeps the same punch and dance-driven focus as Corchado's version, but adds more melodic and sophisticated arrangements.
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Prolific South East London guitarist and songwriter Alpha Maid presents her album Is this a queue. Beginning from a sense of frustration at the predictable and boring narratives and systems of the world, and the feeling that such rules were the rules of the universe, Alpha Maid formed an interest in particle physics. "We only know 4% of the universe, there is hope in that and the unknown 96%. I found excitement and wonder in that. The theories I was reading about relied more on the conditions of the present moment, and it made the idea of living in the moment feel more accessible. It started to be possible to see present time from all these different angles, and to have infinite more options to choose where to be next." Written across many years and different places, the LP documents a journey and the people Alpha Maid met while moving around, collating moments of the present. Her guitar remains a constant amongst an array of sonic influences throughout: from dub which honors her Jamaican heritage and the Windrush Generation, to the twinges of an emo love song in "On Smoke." Is this a queue revels in the magic of that which people cannot see and coherently understand, and the narratives that have been shrunk down to fit. Remembering, continuing, forgetting, paying attention, building, navigating, contributing, time. Alpha Maid (aka Leisha Thomas) is a guitarist, vocalist, and producer from South London. Her debut EP Spy (2019) was released by the collective/label CURL. She continues to collaborate in various forms with fellow members such as Coby Sey and Mica Levi. Alpha Maid's debut vinyl release Chuckle EP (2021) was released on the C.A.N.V.A.S. collective/label, and garnered significant critical attention. In spring 2023 Alpha Maid teamed up with Mica Levi to self-release their joint EP spresso. Featuring Leo Hermitt, Valentina Magaletti, Ben Vince, and Coby Sey.
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Talk Show is a new duo collaboration featuring Steph Richards on trumpets and resonating surfaces and Qasim Naqvi on drums, almglocken bells and modular synthesizer. Having worked together on other projects for almost two decades, Miss America, released by We Jazz Records, marks their first, pure duo collaboration -- a space to engage with a sonic language they've been cultivating together for years. The album was recorded live, with Qasim crafting real-time electronics and drum set work, and Steph using trumpets and resonating percussion to summon sympathetic vibrations and otherworldly sounds through timpani, snare and water. The trumpet sounds electronically processed, though every sound is acoustic. Both artists wanted to retain the live nature of their process, so what you hear is virtually untouched. Sharing an appetite for experimentalism, theatricality and irreverent collisions of sound and image, Qasim and Steph met in 2008 at CalArts- which was a breeding ground for open creative thought and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Often working with directors in the theater program, choreographers, or experimental and character animators, Steph and Qasim's musical language has a rooting in visual performance art. From their first premiere, costumed together inside a giant two-person dress sculpture that consumed a drum set, to their most recent audio-visual nightmare which explores the horrors of '80s daytime reality talk shows, this duo presents a voice the grimy and the grotesque: a new beauty of questionable acts and character flaws in sound.
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Paperback. 248 pages. "The vinyl record as an artistic medium: a contemporary sequel to the 1989 definitive guide on sound works and records by artists. Following Ursula Block's groundbreaking 1989 exhibition 'Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks' and the accompanying publication, which was reproduced in facsimile by Pioneer Works in 2018, this theoretical sequel explores the development of the record as an artistic medium from the postwar period to the present. Broken Music Vol. 2 explores links between the fields of music in composition and improvisation, pop, punk and techno, expanded by sound works from the collection of the Nationalgalerie, including sound installations and media works. Artists include: Tauba Auerbach, Harry Bertoia, Luciano Castelli, Martin Creed, Henning Christiansen, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Romuald Hazoumé, Rolf Julius, Milan Knízák, Christina Kubisch, Piotr Nathan, Bruce Nauman, Hermann Nitsch, Charlemagne Palestine, Mario Pfeifer, A.R. Penck, Salomé, Richard Serra, Viktor Vasarely, Lawrence Weiner."
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With Michaela Melián's LP music for a while, a-Musik is releasing the first album by the visual artist, co-founder of F.S.K., and solo musician since Monaco (MONIKA 079CD), which appeared on Monika Enterprise in 2013. While her last releases, Electric Ladyland (2016), Music from a Frontier Town (2018), and Tania (2022) were created as part of exhibitions and sound installations, music for a while is Melián's fourth autonomous LP, characterized on the one hand by her unmistakable dreamlike sound along the interfaces between dark chamber music, solemn ambient techno, and cinematic sound art. As with her previous albums, there is also a wonderful avant-pop cover version -- this time of the track "My Other Voice" (1979) by the Sparks. On the other hand, music for a while, whose cover is adorned with Melián's photographs of the clouds above her new home of Marseille, spreads a comparatively ominous mood, thanks in part to the sedate, almost ticking drum sounds of co-producer Felix Raethel. Once again, the multi-instrumentalist, supported by Ruth May on violin and Elen Harutyunyan on viola, weaves her recordings of various string instruments -- cello, guitar, bass, and zither -- into fascinating, lurching, looping, and almost hypnotic soundscapes, but atonal synthesizer sounds in tracks such as "traverse Benjamin" and "märchenwald" open up the music to electroacoustic and experimental music. The concluding cover version of Irving Berlin's "they say it's wonderful" (1946) rounds off one of this year's most impressive releases in an incomparably groovy and melancholic way.
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Going back to sleep... is a lovingly gathered suite of windswept, heart-bursting contemporary DIY indie-pop and folk including new songs by Carla dal Forno, The Reds, Pinks and Purples, Lewsberg-related duo The Hobknobs and Rat Columns, next to luminaries and newcomers Daily Toll, Who Cares?, The Lewers, The Sprigs, Drunk Elk, I Can I Can't, The Gabys, and Chateau. A beautiful contemporary companion of I Won't Have To Think About You (2017). Focused on Australian artists predominantly recording and performing in intimate spaces, the compilation's sentiment extends to likeminded artists around the world. A feeling of introspection that seems impossible to achieve when recording for anyone but yourself. A trip through the wonderfully diverse international pop underground, or more simply, a group of music makers performing on A Colourful Storm's imaginary stage.
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With Processing Music, Dutch composer and electronic musician Casimir Geelhoed offers a compelling meditation on sound transformation as a metaphor for psychological and emotional processing. Operating at the intersection of overstimulation, introspection and fragility, the album unfolds as a deeply immersive and personal exploration -- one that invites the listener to inhabit a space of their own projection, memory and reflection. Rather than imposing a fixed compositional structure, Processing Music follows a bottom-up approach, allowing form to emerge organically from the interaction of sonic materials. Digital signal processing is not used here as a mere technical tool, but as a poetic device: transformation as narrative, delay as memory, distortion as tension. Through slowly eroding loops, gently collapsing textures and shifting layers of timbre and space, Geelhoed crafts a delicate sound world that is charged with friction. What may at first seem abstract gradually reveals an emotional core. The album evokes the suspended time of a largo, the layering of memory like an excavation, the psychological tension of perceived spatial expansion. These are not literal themes, but associative keys to a music that operates in a distinctly human sonic language. Emerging from a series of live performances, Processing Music retains a performative sensibility: the music breathes, transforms, and invites attention to nuance. It slowly unfolds a landscape shaped by the subtle interplay between structure and dissolution. Casimir Geelhoed has presented performances and installations at festivals such as CTM, Sonic Acts, Rewire, Fiber, SPATIAL, and Aural Spaces. He studied computer science, composition, music technology, and sonology in Amsterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht.
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A remix by Purelink (Peak Oil) featuring multiple samples from various tracks off Corker Conboy's debut album. "In Light of that Learnt Later" was originally released in 2003 on Vertical Form. Recorded around the early noughties and originally released over twenty years ago in August 2003, "In Light Of That Learnt Later" is a discrete modern classic of post-rock, dub, Afro-Brazilian and jazz-influenced composition. There is very little of the band on the internet, their releases falling sometime between dial up modems, My Space and before social media and Spotify. They did only two gigs, one in Porto the other in the Ritzy cinema Brixton and the one picture of the band is a drawing done by a street artist in Leicester Square. This will be the first time the album is available digitally.
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In 2025, Finnish musician and composer Jimi Tenor celebrated his 60th birthday. He couldn't have imagined a better place to do so than on stage, and so Tenor came to Hamburg with his band in March, not only to celebrate his personal anniversary, but also to record new music. Partly with Hamburg producer Tobias Levin at his Electric Avenue Studio, and partly at Lauri Kallio's Kiikala Center of the Universe Studio Complex, Selenites, Selenites! -- the first album by the Jimi Tenor Band -- was recorded in spring 2025. Tenor can now look back on numerous collaborations, including with Tony Allen, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, Kabukabu and Freestyle Man. The band, consisting of Eeti Nieminen, Heikki Tuhkanen, Ekow Alabi Savage, Lauri Kallio and Jimi Tenor, has played numerous club and festival gigs together, but had not yet released an album up till now. Recording for the band's debut began at Lauri Kallio's studio in Kiikala, Finland -- an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere that has been converted into a recording studio aptly named Kiikala Center of the Universe Studio Complex. While the band was recording, Lauri's parents cooked for them using ingredients from the Finnish forest: chanterelle mushrooms and moose meat. After two initial sessions, the recordings were sent to Bureau B in Hamburg, who invited the band to join Tobias Levin at his Electric Avenue Studio for another session lasting several days. As the band had already tried out and internalized most of the songs through live performances, the recordings went smoothly and often required only a single take. This quickly resulted in the eight songs that now make up Selenites, Selenites! As so often in the world of Jimi Tenor, it's about space, dimensions and -- of course -- love, conveyed in that energetic and captivating way that makes it impossible to resist this music. Also featured on the track "Shine All Night" is Tenor's second collaboration with Florence Adooni, the queen of Ghanaian frafra gospel. Selenites, Selenites! is an impressive debut that showcases a group of virtuoso musicians in absolute joy of playing and exploring new sonic connections. This is not just any Afro-jazz album, but an extraordinary journey into a raw and unadulterated sound, as if you were standing right in front of the stage while listening to the record.
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LP version. In 2025, Finnish musician and composer Jimi Tenor celebrated his 60th birthday. He couldn't have imagined a better place to do so than on stage, and so Tenor came to Hamburg with his band in March, not only to celebrate his personal anniversary, but also to record new music. Partly with Hamburg producer Tobias Levin at his Electric Avenue Studio, and partly at Lauri Kallio's Kiikala Center of the Universe Studio Complex, Selenites, Selenites! -- the first album by the Jimi Tenor Band -- was recorded in spring 2025. Tenor can now look back on numerous collaborations, including with Tony Allen, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, Kabukabu and Freestyle Man. The band, consisting of Eeti Nieminen, Heikki Tuhkanen, Ekow Alabi Savage, Lauri Kallio and Jimi Tenor, has played numerous club and festival gigs together, but had not yet released an album up till now. Recording for the band's debut began at Lauri Kallio's studio in Kiikala, Finland -- an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere that has been converted into a recording studio aptly named Kiikala Center of the Universe Studio Complex. While the band was recording, Lauri's parents cooked for them using ingredients from the Finnish forest: chanterelle mushrooms and moose meat. After two initial sessions, the recordings were sent to Bureau B in Hamburg, who invited the band to join Tobias Levin at his Electric Avenue Studio for another session lasting several days. As the band had already tried out and internalized most of the songs through live performances, the recordings went smoothly and often required only a single take. This quickly resulted in the eight songs that now make up Selenites, Selenites! As so often in the world of Jimi Tenor, it's about space, dimensions and -- of course -- love, conveyed in that energetic and captivating way that makes it impossible to resist this music. Also featured on the track "Shine All Night" is Tenor's second collaboration with Florence Adooni, the queen of Ghanaian frafra gospel. Selenites, Selenites! is an impressive debut that showcases a group of virtuoso musicians in absolute joy of playing and exploring new sonic connections. This is not just any Afro-jazz album, but an extraordinary journey into a raw and unadulterated sound, as if you were standing right in front of the stage while listening to the record.
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With over 25 years' experience performing on stages across the globe with their unique take on ska, soul and black music in all its forms, Bilbao-based band AKATZ present their new EP, Á Go Go 3. This new collection features six reinvented tracks with Spanish lyrics and fresh arrangements, bearing the unmistakable stamp of this cult band. The third instalment in the Á Go Go series is an invigorating exploration of soul, vocal jazz, ska and mambo classics, reimagined by O. Munilla and Akatz as a tribute brimming with reverence, creativity and their distinctive flair. From New York to Bilbao with a stop in Havana. Á Go Go 3 is more than just a compilation of covers: it is a celebration, a tribute and a declaration of love for music that moves bodies and minds.
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"Here is a recording of the Broad Museum show. A bunch of Krauty jams we've never played live before and a couple old favs. Mixed by JPD. Mastered by the guru JJ Golden. Here is a slab to burn one to while you jettison any garbage (good riddance) out the hatch -- onward and upward."
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Double LP version. "Here is a recording of the Broad Museum show. A bunch of Krauty jams we've never played live before and a couple old favs. Mixed by JPD. Mastered by the guru JJ Golden. Here is a slab to burn one to while you jettison any garbage (good riddance) out the hatch -- onward and upward."
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Double LP version. Color vinyl. "Here is a recording of the Broad Museum show. A bunch of Krauty jams we've never played live before and a couple old favs. Mixed by JPD. Mastered by the guru JJ Golden. Here is a slab to burn one to while you jettison any garbage (good riddance) out the hatch -- onward and upward."
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Syncretic marks the debut full-length from Australian duo Bhairavi Raman, a Western and Carnatic violinist, and Nanthesh Sivarajah, a mridangam player and versatile percussionist. Both artists share a Tamil heritage, a current that hums across the album. Raman, from South India, and Sivarajah, from Sri Lanka, draw lines that connect Western practice and Carnatic tradition. This hybrid is central to Raman's approach as a violinist, an instrument itself caught between East and West since the late 18th century. Her playing folds history, lineage and experimentation into music that acknowledges inheritance while gently rewiring its circuitry. Expanding on traditional music can be a precarious practice, but Syncretic never feels heavy-handed. Raman and Sivarajah exercise measured restraint, letting the Carnatic framework breathe even as it is refracted through contemporary tools. Delays, looping, subtle layering and synthesized harmonies tilt tradition into a new light without disguising it. Even within a contemporary framework, Raman's rigorous Carnatic training under gurus Sri S. Varadarajan (India), Sri Murali Kumar (Australia) and Sri Gopinath Iyer (Australia) is unmistakable. She captures the spiritual and emotional essence of each raga: on "Seven," the playful raga Bahudari becomes both centerpiece and conduit, while on the traditional piece "Thunbam Nergayil," drawn from a Tamil poem, listeners hear a deeply personal iteration, a weeping euphony of mixed emotions hitting all at once. Tradition here is absorbed, expanded and reframed. Sivarajah's command of the mridangam, honed by his gurus Sri Jambunathan (Sri Lanka), Sri Balasri Rasiah (Australia) and Sri T. R. Sundaresan (India), is central to his original composition "Guardian." He sustains tradition while extending it through layering and sound-spatialization. The mridangam here functions as both a structural and ornamental force, mapping continuity between inherited form and contemporary sonic architecture. Syncretic resonates as a space where Tamil heritage, diasporic memory and contemporary practice coalesce. Culture, like sound, circulates, transforms and persists. Tradition is not an archive but living material, a soundworld that lingers in the ears and the imagination.
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Something is brewing in the state of Norway! Kronstad 23 are the latest trailblazers from northern Scandinavia: a creative force exploring the boundaries of musical genres, including but not limited to: psych rock, jazz, post-rock and Scandinavian folk music. The group of young players follows the footsteps of Motorpsycho, Elephant9 and El Paraiso's own Lotus, Fra Det Onde and Kanaan, carving out their path through the musical landscape in seemingly effortless ways! One minute you're floating on cosmic Pharoah Sanders waters, the next you're ascending on electrified if-Tortoise-played-Allman Brothers-style jamming. The band describes their approach as: "Sommermørket is an escape from inhumane technology and politics in search of something that feels authentic. The music breathes in the little that is left of old air and rises slowly into the hazy summer twilight like brittle thoughts that try to connect and fade away." Kronstad 23 was formed in Kronstad, Bergen, Norway in the Autumn of 2023. As old friends and musical collaborators, they rekindled a creative spark that had been dormant for over 10 years. Rarely rehearsed and often caught on first take, Sommermørket was recorded live on tape in the studio of Keyboardist Øyvind Vie Berg in Bergen, Norway. The record captures three sessions across one year, from spring and late summer in 2024 to winter of 2025.
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LP version. Something is brewing in the state of Norway! Kronstad 23 are the latest trailblazers from northern Scandinavia: a creative force exploring the boundaries of musical genres, including but not limited to: psych rock, jazz, post-rock and Scandinavian folk music. The group of young players follows the footsteps of Motorpsycho, Elephant9 and El Paraiso's own Lotus, Fra Det Onde and Kanaan, carving out their path through the musical landscape in seemingly effortless ways! One minute you're floating on cosmic Pharoah Sanders waters, the next you're ascending on electrified if-Tortoise-played-Allman Brothers-style jamming. The band describes their approach as: "Sommermørket is an escape from inhumane technology and politics in search of something that feels authentic. The music breathes in the little that is left of old air and rises slowly into the hazy summer twilight like brittle thoughts that try to connect and fade away." Kronstad 23 was formed in Kronstad, Bergen, Norway in the Autumn of 2023. As old friends and musical collaborators, they rekindled a creative spark that had been dormant for over 10 years. Rarely rehearsed and often caught on first take, Sommermørket was recorded live on tape in the studio of Keyboardist Øyvind Vie Berg in Bergen, Norway. The record captures three sessions across one year, from spring and late summer in 2024 to winter of 2025.
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Released in collaboration with the Tomas Schmit Archiv and Wiens Verlag. A previously unreleased recording of Sven-Åke Johansson playing a solo set at the legendary Petersen Galerie in West Berlin, 1982. The concert took place inside an exhibition of drawings by Tomas Schmit and runs the gamut from Johansson's trademark Schlingerland-style drumming to accordion sabre dance and absurdist poetry. The gallery, owned by Jes Petersen, hosted Fluxus, Actionist, Art Brut and Surrealist exhibitions and performances between 1977 and 1994.
From the liner notes by Sven-Åke Johansson: "Between Tomas' rare animal drawings and mythical creatures I set up my drum kit, tightened the straps of my accordion, and checked my other equipment. First the combo set, pulsating in waves, then working the accordion, with a vocal bit about fish and bird, next abusing the floor and drums with rags and iron bands. Again dynamic waves with the set, taking out the shoetrees and rubbing them on all the edges of the drum kit. Conclusion with frenetic waves from the drums. Then we had from their finest; Jes and Ilona poured drinks, Tomas Schmit smiled looking pleased, the technician rolled up his thick cables. Later on some of us also stood talking on the wide pavement of Pestalozzistraße, about what I don't remember."
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Released on the occasion of his 75th birthday, Edition Telemark presents the first LP since 1986 by German composer and sound artist Ralf Hoyer. Hoyer's versatile new music oeuvre includes works for chamber ensembles, choir, orchestra, chamber opera, as well as electronic, electro-acoustic and multi-media pieces. Hoyer grew up in East Berlin where he worked as a sound engineer for the GDR record company VEB Deutsche Schallplatten in the late 1970s while studying composition at the Academy of Arts. In the 1980s, he wrote primarily chamber, vocal and electronic music as well as works for theatre. After 1990, his interests shifted towards sound and multi-media installations, and more recently, he produced a number of electro-acoustic pieces, some of them conceived for spatial multi-channel diffusion. Presented on this LP is "zur Mitte / hindurch / hinauf," an electro-acoustic work commissioned by Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting Corporation) in 2020. The composition is in three parts mirroring the emotional states laid out in the three parts of Dante's Divine Comedy, in which the poet gives an account of his encounters during his traversal of Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purgatory), and Paradiso (heaven). "Zur Mitte" (to the center) uses a mostly brusque and unpredictable juxtaposition of sounds and noises. "hindurch" (through) follows with feedback sounds and mysterious rhythms emerging, disappearing, and reappearing. Finally, in "hinauf" (up), complex sounds continuously transform, then transition into a stable state. The three parts broadly correspond to the ideas of damnation, cleansing, and contemplation, without retracing them in a programmatic way. Rather, the literary content is fully absorbed in sound and structure. Edition of 200 with artwork by Lutz Beckmann and liner notes by Ralf Hoyer.
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Moody and Zeitgeist have had the utmost privilege to bring onboard a team of some of the most accomplished musicians/wordsmiths India has to offer for this album. Working out of Island City Studios in Khar West, Mumbai, the duo assembled a team of musicians including acclaimed and awarded vocalists Vinay Sugatha Ramadasan and Anuja Zokarkar. The pair bring a lyrical depth to the music informed by millennia of North-Indian classical poetry and melody. Metaphor and imagery are intermingled with Ex Generation's unapologetic rhythm and production style to form something that is profound and complex, whilst also accessible and innate in the way it confronts the listener.
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Interstitial Spaces is Martin Brandlmayr's debut release on Faitiche. In this award-winning radio collage, the well-known drummer and composer (Radian, Polwechsel) explores the quiet moments in music and film recordings. The last notes of a piece of music fade out in the space. The pianist and the violinist remain frozen in place, holding their breath. The sound engineer sits silently at the desk. Once he has switched off his tape machine, the dull drone of a ship's horn is heard in the distance. Otherwise, not a sound. Or was there something else hidden in the white noise? Interstitial Spaces is based on short excerpts from music recordings, films, TV adverts and field recordings. Brandlmayr takes these quiet scenes, intervals in which nothing seems to happen, and brings them into the foreground, subjecting them to a microscopic spotlight. Moments in which one hears only the space itself, or the subtle presence of someone in the space: faint breathing, footsteps and the soft creak of a chair. Listeners also hear preparations for an orchestra rehearsal: the musicians are all busy tuning their instruments, talking to each other, the concert has not yet begun. This leads to a shift in perception: incidental details hidden in the hubbub of voices or in the silence suddenly take on a leading role. In the empty spaces, the listener discovers various shades of noise, sharpening their awareness of sonic peculiarities. In a gentle rhythm, Brandlmayr's radio collage offers a sequence of strange, not immediately identifiable sounds that are woven in the second part into a dense structure. At the end, the carefully captured sounds are released back into the empty space. Interstitial Spaces is a bold spectacle that celebrates the eventful uneventfulness.
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On "Cold Sweat," James Brown famously called to "give the drummer some." In 1974, Philadelphia vibraphonist Khan Jamal called to Give the Vibes Some, with superb results. Pianist and composer Jef Gilson's PALM label gave Jamal the platform he needed to deliver a thorough exploration of contemporary vibraphone. After launching PALM in 1973, Gilson quickly demonstrated that he would only produce records not found anywhere else. Give the Vibes Some, PALM number 10, was another confirmation of this guiding principle. Raised and based in Philadelphia, Khan Jamal took up the vibes in 1968, after two years in the army during which he was stationed in France and Germany. Decisively drawn to the instrument by the work of the Modern Jazz Quartet's Milt Jackson, Jamal studied under Philadelphia vibraphone legend Bill Lewis and soon made his debuts in the local underground. Early in 1972, Jamal made his first recording, with the Sounds of Liberation. The band attempted an original fusion of conga-heavy grooves with avant-garde jazz soloing. Saxophonist Byard Lancaster, an important figure in Jamal's development, contributed much of the solo work. Later in 1972, Jamal made his leader debut with Drum Dance to the Motherland, a reverb-drenched, never-to-be-replicated experiment with live sound processing. Both albums appeared on the tiny musician-run Dogtown label. "We couldn't get no play from nowhere. No gigs or recording sessions or anything. So I took off for Paris," Jamal recalled in a Cadence interview with Ken Weiss. "Within a few weeks, I had a few articles and I did a record date. It didn't make me feel good about America." That was in 1974, while Byard Lancaster was recording the music gathered on Souffle Continu's The Complete PALM Recordings, 1973-1974. Jamal's record date delivered Give the Vibes Some. At its core, it was an exploratory solo vibraphone album, even if two tracks added (through technological resourcefulness?) a très célèbre French drummer very much into Elvin Jones appearing under pseudonym for contractual reasons. Another track, for which Jamal switched to the vibes's wooden ancestor, the marimba, added young Texan trumpeter Clint Jackson III. The most notable article published on Jamal during this stay in France was a Jazz Magazine interview. Jamal's last word there were "The Creator has a master plan/drum dance to the motherland." "Give the vibes some" could be added to this programmatic statement.
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LP version. On "Cold Sweat," James Brown famously called to "give the drummer some." In 1974, Philadelphia vibraphonist Khan Jamal called to Give the Vibes Some, with superb results. Pianist and composer Jef Gilson's PALM label gave Jamal the platform he needed to deliver a thorough exploration of contemporary vibraphone. After launching PALM in 1973, Gilson quickly demonstrated that he would only produce records not found anywhere else. Give the Vibes Some, PALM number 10, was another confirmation of this guiding principle. Raised and based in Philadelphia, Khan Jamal took up the vibes in 1968, after two years in the army during which he was stationed in France and Germany. Decisively drawn to the instrument by the work of the Modern Jazz Quartet's Milt Jackson, Jamal studied under Philadelphia vibraphone legend Bill Lewis and soon made his debuts in the local underground. Early in 1972, Jamal made his first recording, with the Sounds of Liberation. The band attempted an original fusion of conga-heavy grooves with avant-garde jazz soloing. Saxophonist Byard Lancaster, an important figure in Jamal's development, contributed much of the solo work. Later in 1972, Jamal made his leader debut with Drum Dance to the Motherland, a reverb-drenched, never-to-be-replicated experiment with live sound processing. Both albums appeared on the tiny musician-run Dogtown label. "We couldn't get no play from nowhere. No gigs or recording sessions or anything. So I took off for Paris," Jamal recalled in a Cadence interview with Ken Weiss. "Within a few weeks, I had a few articles and I did a record date. It didn't make me feel good about America." That was in 1974, while Byard Lancaster was recording the music gathered on Souffle Continu's The Complete PALM Recordings, 1973-1974. Jamal's record date delivered Give the Vibes Some. At its core, it was an exploratory solo vibraphone album, even if two tracks added (through technological resourcefulness?) a très célèbre French drummer very much into Elvin Jones appearing under pseudonym for contractual reasons. Another track, for which Jamal switched to the vibes's wooden ancestor, the marimba, added young Texan trumpeter Clint Jackson III. The most notable article published on Jamal during this stay in France was a Jazz Magazine interview. Jamal's last word there were "The Creator has a master plan/drum dance to the motherland." "Give the vibes some" could be added to this programmatic statement.
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Following the reissue of his debut album Dispatches (FIELD 034LP), Field Records returns to the seminal work of Mike Parker with an overview of his releases on Prologue -- a truly original strain of steely, hypnotic techno that has touched upon many different waves within the wider scene. Having pioneered a hard-edged, reductionist style via his Geophone label since the mid-'90s, around 2010 Mike Parker found himself at the vanguard of an emergent sound alongside artists like Donato Dozzy and Cio D'or exploring the possibilities of immersive, profoundly transcendental club music. The Prologue label came to define this cult zeitgeist, where reduction and repetition took on a truly psychedelic quality and the subtle details made all the difference. It ran from 2008 to 2015, laying the foundations for the deep techno sound that remains a vital, evolving subculture in the present moment. From Parker's first appearance on Prologue with the Subterranean Liquid EP in 2011 through to the Lustrations LP in 2013, he delivered some of the most incisive music of his accomplished career -- teased-out rhythms carrying exquisitely engineered textures veering from the subliminal to the visceral, locked into endless, cyclical oblivion and maintaining a stern, machinist veneer. This collection on Field Records combs through Parker's Prologue output and makes a considered selection, gathering key pieces from the first two EPs alongside six of the album tracks on a triple vinyl pressing, alongside a further eight cuts on the expanded digital edition. Not just a straight-forward reissue, consider Epilogue a thoughtful reframing of a key point in Mike Parker's stellar career. In every exacting pulse, every inch of tacit spatial design, it's the work of an expert sculpting a sound which remains influential in the here and now.
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Orange color vinyl. Knob twisters Biesmans & Johannes Albert are back at it with another sun-drenched late summer weapon. This time they shine a "Tangerine Beam" straight onto the dancefloor. Expect a cheeky disco spark that might remind you of something at the core, bouncing rhythms, and a melody so infectious you'll catch yourself humming along after the first round. Both playful and relentless, "Tangerine Beam" connects the dots between timeless disco heat and modern club thunder. One spin and you'll know: this beam is unstoppable.
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La Traversée (The Crossing) is Matthias Puech's second album for Hallow Ground and follows up on 2023's Mt. Hadamard National Park. Profoundly inspired by re-reading The Odyssey, the French composer, instrument designer, and scholar used a Eurorack modular synthesizer to create four pieces that are by far the most intuitive and emotionally charged in his ever- expanding catalogue. Puech's masterful command of sound comes to the forefront with even more urgency on this record. A wandering meditation on the human condition, La Traversée is an album that is constantly in motion -- complex electronic music at its most gripping and evocative.
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Aoki Takamasa and Tujiko Noriko's 2005 album 28 has become a cornerstone in the artists' respective discographies. 20 years after its initial release, Keplar issues it on vinyl for the very first time. Three years in the making, 28 saw the sound artist and the avant-pop singer-songwriter combine their distinct aesthetics for an album that defied categorization. Their combination of advanced electronic experimentation and pop appeal paved the way for a new generation of artists and turned 28 into an enduring fan favorite. Remastered by Stephan Mathieu, the reissue comes with a brand-new artwork by Joji Koyama and a changed track listing -- authorized by Takamasa and Tujiko -- for the vinyl version to fit it on a single LP, while the digital version remains identical to the original release. Tujiko and Takamasa first shared the stage together after the turn of the millennium. Both were emerging solo artists, with Takamasa a mainstay on the Progressive Form label and Tujiko forging a connection with Mego in Vienna, Austria. They first collaborated in 2002 for two shows at the Fondation Cartier in Paris and at SonarLab in Barcelona, respectively. The first joint piece was a rework of Tujiko's "Fly" from "Hard Ni Sasete (Make Me Hard)" by Takamasa, appearing as the album opener Fly2 on 28. After that, the Paris-based Tujiko and Takamasa, still based in Osaka, worked sporadically and remotely on new material. For the first two years of their collaboration, the two met in the context of live events or Takamasa's visits to the French capital to discuss their process and exchange hard drives while also occasionally sending each other CDrs in the mail. Takamasa used hardware such as the Nord Modular, the Korg Z1, and the Korg ER-1, while also working with different kinds of software and plug-ins as well as Logic. Tujiko was using Cubase, her preferred piece of gear at the time being an AKAI MPC. After Takamasa moved to Paris in 2004, this enabled the duo to finish the album together in person. Starting with its subtle use of glitches to the almost-anarchic way in which it deals with the structures of a song, »28« came to be an incomparably intricate album. 20 years on, it remains timeless because of its flawless synthesis of the cutting-edge avant-garde ideas of early 2000s electronica with an idiosyncratic but accessible pop sentiment.
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Northside were key players in the "Madchester"/baggy/indie-rave scene of the early '90s. Chicken Rhythms includes the indie dancefloor fillers "Take 5," "Shall We Take A Trip," and "My Rising Star." Featuring restored artwork by Central Station Design. Expanded CD edition features six bonus tracks: rarities, single edits, and two remixes by The Reflex and Leo Zero. Includes 12-page booklet.
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LP version. Green color vinyl. Northside were key players in the "Madchester"/baggy/indie-rave scene of the early '90s. Chicken Rhythms includes the indie dancefloor fillers "Take 5," "Shall We Take A Trip," and "My Rising Star." Featuring restored artwork by Central Station Design. Expanded CD edition features six bonus tracks: rarities, single edits, and two remixes by The Reflex and Leo Zero. Includes 12-page booklet.
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Alongside Joy Division, The Durutti Column were amongst the first artists to be released by Factory Records. Their debut album, produced by Martin Hannett, showcased the filigree guitar work of Vini Reilly, awash with reverb and early experiments with synthesizers. It would be a first album of a five-decade career, in which The Durutti Column would quietly emerge as one of the most influential acts from the Manchester scene and beyond. To celebrate the album's 45th anniversary, London Records revisits the album with new editions, with audio sourced and remastered from the original tapes, with vinyl cut at half speed. 2CD version includes original album, bonus tracks, home and studio demos, and early live tracks (33 tracks total). Features two home demos exclusive to this format. Housed in a special hardback tall storybook edition (dimensions 147mm (w) x 196mm (h)). Includes 48p page booklet, restored 1985 "cassette edition" artwork with textured "tall book" sleeve, and the exact textured card for the outer sleeve has been accurately sourced. Features three essays by The Durutti Column/Factory Records expert James Nice, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and MOJO editor Ian Harrison.
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LP version. Alongside Joy Division, The Durutti Column were amongst the first artists to be released by Factory Records. Their debut album, produced by Martin Hannett, showcased the filigree guitar work of Vini Reilly, awash with reverb and early experiments with synthesizers. It would be a first album of a five-decade career, in which The Durutti Column would quietly emerge as one of the most influential acts from the Manchester scene and beyond. To celebrate the album's 45th anniversary, London Records revisits the album with new editions, with audio sourced and remastered from the original tapes for the first time since 1980, with vinyl cut at half speed. LP version includes restored "second edition" artwork with textured sleeve. Liner notes by The Durutti Column/Factory Records expert James Nice.
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The latest album from Michael Cashmore (formerly of Current 93 plus known for his work as Nature and Organisation) collects ten pieces which, as with the previous album, Until the End of Vibration, released by Lumberton Trading Company, draw from that magical place where crepuscular and moody soundtrack work converges with the kind of synth lines Tangerine Dream made a name for themselves with. Along the way, there are piano-led melodic swells, a couple of surprisingly serrated edges and sparingly used percussion veering between the bombastic and more emotionally charged. Between each of the compositions, there's an overarching sense of sadness or resignation while carefully woven refrains point to the simple beauty one derives from staring at a night sky or the sun's rise or setting over a serene sea apparently untouched by man. Sophisticated yet unostentatious, this is music that's bold, minimal and utterly deserving of the attention of the film that will doubtlessly play out in your head as you lock yourself in to everything it promises.
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Magnificent Fall, The Notwist's new rarities compilation, compiles some special and wild moments from this unique German indie group's rich history. They've always snuck gorgeous songs and thrilling remixes onto split singles, extended plays, and other formats, across their career, and pieced together here -- compiled thoughtfully, with sensitivity to flow and the listening experience -- these thirteen selections work as a kind of "shadow narrative" of The Notwist, an alternative index of the possibilities this shape-shifting group uncovered during their time together. They've been smart to let go of chronology when sequencing Magnificent Fall, so the songs here move across phases and stages of The Notwist's career, helmed by brothers Markus and Micha Acher. The Notwist have always been interested in and open to community, and one of the many ways they reach out to others is through the remix. There are three here, sent back to The Notwist from different corners of the world, both aesthetically and geographically. The music on Magnificent Fall traverses varying terrain -- abstract hip-hop, chamber pop, sweet and simple folk song, indietronica, free-floating improvisation. There are several unreleased songs, as well, drawn from across the group's history. Core to it all, though, the thing that makes The Notwist so singular, is the thumbprint of the Acher brothers, their gently poetic way of moving through the world and welcoming other musicians and artists into the fold, expressively and with generosity.
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Sum Variations features two long form studies of Josephine's song "The Sum Of Us All" from 2013. These were recorded in Spain and Morocco, respectively, in collaboration with two different ensembles. These two variations offer a glimpse into the early exploration of the song, which became later embedded in Foster's song cycle, "Godmother" (made into an electric solo album released by Fire Records in 2021). Side A recorded live in the village of Joujouka, Ahl-Srif mountains, Morocco, 2012. Side B recorded and mixed by Gyda Valtysdottir, Vejer de la Frontera, Spain, 2012.
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One Instrument welcomes Morning Seance, composer and sound artist, originally from Italy and based in Vienna. On this debut LP, Morning Seance traces a drifting narrative composed of unstable harmonies, fluid structures, and ghostlike forms. The album unfolds like a dream told in fragments, oscillating between fluctuating pulses and decaying transmissions, from nocturnal stillness to acoustic mirages. The first half of the record moves through zones of suspended tension and evanescent contours, where tracks like "Be faster than your own depression" and "The tenderness of our own autobiography" sketch fragile architectures of affect. The second half enters a more spectral terrain ? "Breakfast in a night club," "A visit to the Brion-Vega tomb" -- not places, but agglomerates of sonic sensation, detached from any personal frame. With each piece, the music dissolves and reconstitutes itself, resisting finality or form, and doing so with an indestructible joy that hums beneath the wreckage. This is degenerate ambient music: anti-geometric and subject to emotional weather -- not a refuge, but a slow collapse of structure and purity, where atmosphere gives way to excess and disobedience. The album is crafted entirely from a single source: the Roland Alpha Juno-1. Despite this constraint, it achieves a vast sound spectrum, transforming one synthesizer's voice into a layered landscape of textures and moods. The electronic music of Morning Seance is built on constant variation and intricate, looping patterns with no clear beginning or end. This variation is not simply applied to an audio element, but enacted as a compositional logic -- avoiding mechanical combinations and obvious rhythms. The result is a mutable mass of audio matter and tonal debris, guiding the listener through richly divergent environments.
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Seeking out the inspirational intersection between free improvisation, rave and ancient mysticism, Plants Heal deliver an album of kaleidoscopic, organic beatdowns to Quindi. Plants Heal is a collaborative project between Dan Nicholls on synths, Dave De Rose on drums and Lou Zon (aka Louise Boer) on visuals. The roots of the project are entwined with Dan and Lou's London-based event Free Movements, which began in 2018 to explore how instrumental music could merge with live electronics and DJ sets. From the tentative steps of their first collaborations, Dan and Dave coalesced Plants Heal as a more pronounced project with Lou's live visuals, culminating in a first self-released album in 2021 and since organically fed and watered through continued performances across adventurous festivals and intimate club spaces. The trio opted to pour this energy into two days of studio sessions at Sonic Playground Studios in Athens, maintaining their unplanned approach and letting the music and visuals unfold in the moment. The end result is Forest Dwellers, a sincere document of truly free music that uses the rhythmic structure of dance and trance music as a springboard into heightened consciousness. Throughout the album you can hear hints of the familiar -- dub techno shimmers, trip hop boom-bap, kosmische momentum, snarling bass modulation, new age ambience and even the odd sizzle of disco. But none of these references are explicit, and they weave in and out of less placeable expressions deeply bedded into Dan and Dave's sonic practices. The end result is a swirling tapestry of unspooling groove, wide open and agile enough to shift gears mid-flow -- just as comfortable letting the propulsion melt away as locking into a four-to-the-floor throwdown. Lou's visual practice is an intrinsic part of the project. During performances she improvises with analogue footage from her library run through video mixers and synthesizers, focused on medicinal plants such as yarrow, hawthorn, nettle and thistle. All those plants feature in processed form on the cover of the record, which was designed in collaboration with Lou's brother Arthur Boer. Meanwhile, Lou recorded additional footage in Athens during the recording sessions to feed into the continued cycle of the project's live evolution.
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The brilliantly named duo -- formed by Adam Morrow and Jamie Sego -- might be based in "the hit recording capital of the world," Muscle Shoals, Alabama, but somehow, they have made a concept album about the ancient religious outpost off the coast of northeast England. It's a stunning record that mixes fuzzy guitars with folk horror and fantastic melodies -- for fans of Ride, Slowdive, Galaxie 500, Talk Talk, Yo La Tengo and The Clientele. Despite its lyrical inspiration lying thousands of miles away, it comes imbued with the soulfulness of their surroundings -- not least because it was recorded in the old Muscle Shoals Sound studio by the Tennessee River, now Portside Sound, which is run by Jamie. "The story of Lindisfarne gave us a framework for what were otherwise very abstract ideas and emotions," explains Adam. "It became a way to make sense of our own moment in history. We really want our lives and societies to always get better, and to be left alone to make that happen. But we are stuck in these cycles of progress and regression, and I think most people are really driven to make sense of it and assign meaning. Lately, we've lived through a global pandemic, a devaluation of truth and reality, and a resurgence of far-right politics into the mainstream. Not really what I expected out of life in 2025." He is keen to point out that, despite the seriousness of its inspirations, the duo had a lot of fun making the album and really want it to be "a living and breathing thing". "We want people to be able to engage with it regardless of whether they care about it as a concept record," he says. "For me, it's just another reason to expand the pedalboard," concludes Jamie. "We hope you enjoy it. Peace, love and reverb from Alabama."
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LP version. The brilliantly named duo -- formed by Adam Morrow and Jamie Sego -- might be based in "the hit recording capital of the world," Muscle Shoals, Alabama, but somehow, they have made a concept album about the ancient religious outpost off the coast of northeast England. It's a stunning record that mixes fuzzy guitars with folk horror and fantastic melodies -- for fans of Ride, Slowdive, Galaxie 500, Talk Talk, Yo La Tengo and The Clientele. Despite its lyrical inspiration lying thousands of miles away, it comes imbued with the soulfulness of their surroundings -- not least because it was recorded in the old Muscle Shoals Sound studio by the Tennessee River, now Portside Sound, which is run by Jamie. "The story of Lindisfarne gave us a framework for what were otherwise very abstract ideas and emotions," explains Adam. "It became a way to make sense of our own moment in history. We really want our lives and societies to always get better, and to be left alone to make that happen. But we are stuck in these cycles of progress and regression, and I think most people are really driven to make sense of it and assign meaning. Lately, we've lived through a global pandemic, a devaluation of truth and reality, and a resurgence of far-right politics into the mainstream. Not really what I expected out of life in 2025." He is keen to point out that, despite the seriousness of its inspirations, the duo had a lot of fun making the album and really want it to be "a living and breathing thing". "We want people to be able to engage with it regardless of whether they care about it as a concept record," he says. "For me, it's just another reason to expand the pedalboard," concludes Jamie. "We hope you enjoy it. Peace, love and reverb from Alabama."
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LP version. Color vinyl. The brilliantly named duo -- formed by Adam Morrow and Jamie Sego -- might be based in "the hit recording capital of the world," Muscle Shoals, Alabama, but somehow, they have made a concept album about the ancient religious outpost off the coast of northeast England. It's a stunning record that mixes fuzzy guitars with folk horror and fantastic melodies -- for fans of Ride, Slowdive, Galaxie 500, Talk Talk, Yo La Tengo and The Clientele. Despite its lyrical inspiration lying thousands of miles away, it comes imbued with the soulfulness of their surroundings -- not least because it was recorded in the old Muscle Shoals Sound studio by the Tennessee River, now Portside Sound, which is run by Jamie. "The story of Lindisfarne gave us a framework for what were otherwise very abstract ideas and emotions," explains Adam. "It became a way to make sense of our own moment in history. We really want our lives and societies to always get better, and to be left alone to make that happen. But we are stuck in these cycles of progress and regression, and I think most people are really driven to make sense of it and assign meaning. Lately, we've lived through a global pandemic, a devaluation of truth and reality, and a resurgence of far-right politics into the mainstream. Not really what I expected out of life in 2025." He is keen to point out that, despite the seriousness of its inspirations, the duo had a lot of fun making the album and really want it to be "a living and breathing thing". "We want people to be able to engage with it regardless of whether they care about it as a concept record," he says. "For me, it's just another reason to expand the pedalboard," concludes Jamie. "We hope you enjoy it. Peace, love and reverb from Alabama."
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Oliver Leith's Balloon was originally commissioned by the London Sinfonietta as an acoustic piece, and first performed at the Southbank centre's Sound Unbound festival in 2019. "This is an arrangement for synthesizers of many tunings. I called it Balloon because I had this image of thrashing a balloon with a baseball bat or something, rather than breaking or bursting it just sort of floats off -- unhurt, even if you absolutely pelted it. 'Slide' is old and one of my first purely electronic pieces and really was me doing a hack job with computers. On my aged software you could make parameters and automation dance around by using a mouse and track pad at the same time, that doesn't work anymore because my computer tries to be sensible so I'm back to shifting tiny notes all the time which is about as slow as pencilling in acoustic music. It felt like quite an analogue way to play with notes so that's a shame."
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Subaerial is the latest and most sophisticated transmission from the long musical partnership of cellist Lucy Railton and keyboardist Kit Downes, a collaborative history that stretches back thirteen years. From the beginning, the pair bridged musical worlds, with the former emerging from classical and contemporary music and the latter steeped in jazz tradition. This phenomenal new album captures the musicians erasing lines between approaches and traditions. While improvisation has always been a part of their alliance, Subaerial marks the first time that the duo have used recorded improvisations as the core material for a release. The cello and organ, beautifully recorded by Alex Bonney at Skáholt Cathedral, blend in richly striated harmonies, with phrases and cadences that stretch back centuries while sounding unerringly contemporary. The pair first crossed paths whilst studying in London and spent the following decade collaborating in various groups whilst cutting their own distinct paths. By the time they rendezvoused in Iceland in the fall of 2017 to create Subaerial, Railton had moved to Berlin, where her embrace of electronics was leading her in new directions, exploring microtonality, psychoacoustics, and synthesis, an evolution captured on shape-shifting albums released by experimental imprints like Editions Mego, PAN, and Takuroku. Her debut solo album Paradise 94 released on Modern Love features Downes on organ. Around the same time, Downes had been signed to ECM and was directing much of his focus on the organ -- his original instrument -- on the two recordings he's made for the hallowed imprint, including the 2019 album Dreamlife of Debris, which features the cellist.
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Ubek returns. The mysterious Polish duo digs out a new collection of degraded echoes, salvaged from authority. Galvanized as if lost to the shock of formal experiments, 3 revises the present and takes listeners back to other versions of actuality.
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In keeping with tradition, the new year brings another offering from Portuguese pianist and composer Tiago Sousa. The fourth volume of the Organic Music Tapes series concludes this cycle that has significantly transformed Tiago Sousa's music. Compositions in a fluid state, forming nebulae of sounds with vague contours for piano, organ, and tape loops, based on techniques pioneered by American minimalism, particularly by composers such as Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Charlemagne Palestine. While throughout this series the electric organ has played a more prominent role in contrast with pre-recorded loops, this is the moment when this technique is extended to the piano compositions. New opportunities arise for the repetition and variation of small motifs to induce subtle perceptions and psychoacoustic effects. This final edition represents the maturation of the Portuguese composer's intentions surrounding the idea of organic music. In music, too, the organic world is quite different from the one built on the rules of syntax and grammar. It refers instead to a type of inter-dependent relationships and patient, repetitive processes that are simultaneously spontaneous and unpredictable, which shape rivers and mountains, the grain of wood, muscle fibers, or marks on a jade stone. Enter then the fourth volume and be locked in a new theatre of eternal music by an artists that keeps pushing his own style to ebullient highs.
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"Over four years in the making, Yell At Cloud is the follow up to the PLOSIVS critically hailed debut. Why so long between releases, you ask? Nov. 2020 the band was invited to be the first guinea pigs at No Fun Club recording studio in Winnipeg, Canada and baptize the brand-new facility. The band would live and record in the studio and be densely immersed in the forming of this new record. Most of what you hear on Yell At Cloud was recorded in the dark or by candlelight in below freezing conditions. It wasn't as romantic as it sounds. Due to Canada's regulations for foreign travelers during the pandemic, the band had to forge out on foot once a day in blizzard-like conditions to a clinic a mile away where they had to be swabbed nasally, between the toes and in the groin area in order to be tested for COVID so they could be allowed to stay in the country for another 24 hours. This had a massive influence on the material and the way it was captured to tape. Finally the sessions became so intense the band members could no longer sustain focus to completion and decided to return home to finish the record at a later date. Months turned to years. Drummer Atom Willard was now the full-time member of the Alkaline Trio. Guitarist John Reis focused on Hot Snakes and his solo recordings and shows with Swami John Reis. Singer and guitarist Rob Crow continued with Pinback and a myriad of projects both musical and visual. Bassist Jordan Clark reconnected with his band The Frights and began touring and recording with them once again. There was such a massive emotional dust cloud kicked up during the recording of Yell At Cloud that it took four years to settle. Finally, Ben Moore (who recorded and mixed the band's debut) stepped in and mixed Yell At Cloud. In order to a create seamless continuity with the original tracks, Ben mixed the majority of these files in the dark with the brightness of his screen turned to the lowest setting. The result is a claustrophobic album that searches for an oasis within. From lurching dissonance to uplifting harmonic convergences Yell At Cloud is a stark, black and white departure from their debut."
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LP version. "Over four years in the making, Yell At Cloud is the follow up to the PLOSIVS critically hailed debut. Why so long between releases, you ask? Nov. 2020 the band was invited to be the first guinea pigs at No Fun Club recording studio in Winnipeg, Canada and baptize the brand-new facility. The band would live and record in the studio and be densely immersed in the forming of this new record. Most of what you hear on Yell At Cloud was recorded in the dark or by candlelight in below freezing conditions. It wasn't as romantic as it sounds. Due to Canada's regulations for foreign travelers during the pandemic, the band had to forge out on foot once a day in blizzard-like conditions to a clinic a mile away where they had to be swabbed nasally, between the toes and in the groin area in order to be tested for COVID so they could be allowed to stay in the country for another 24 hours. This had a massive influence on the material and the way it was captured to tape. Finally the sessions became so intense the band members could no longer sustain focus to completion and decided to return home to finish the record at a later date. Months turned to years. Drummer Atom Willard was now the full-time member of the Alkaline Trio. Guitarist John Reis focused on Hot Snakes and his solo recordings and shows with Swami John Reis. Singer and guitarist Rob Crow continued with Pinback and a myriad of projects both musical and visual. Bassist Jordan Clark reconnected with his band The Frights and began touring and recording with them once again. There was such a massive emotional dust cloud kicked up during the recording of Yell At Cloud that it took four years to settle. Finally, Ben Moore (who recorded and mixed the band's debut) stepped in and mixed Yell At Cloud. In order to a create seamless continuity with the original tracks, Ben mixed the majority of these files in the dark with the brightness of his screen turned to the lowest setting. The result is a claustrophobic album that searches for an oasis within. From lurching dissonance to uplifting harmonic convergences Yell At Cloud is a stark, black and white departure from their debut."
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$34.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025
Turbo Recordings presents the revival of German techno giant Gregor Tresher's Sniper Mode alias with the Riot Gear LP. Riot Gear showcases Tresher's established production genius over 11 cuts of S-tier electro marked by menace, depth, and sharp melodic hooks. Lead single "Blinded by the Dark" is a collaboration with Dave Clarke, the most respected man in electro and perhaps just in general, and features the most punishing drop in recent memory. The album also includes standout vocal contributions from Detroit techno pioneer Jay Denham ("Sanctuary of Vices"), Miami bass kingpin Exzakt ("Echoes From a Wasted Land"), dance-world enigma Kira ("Phantom Pain"), and Turbo favorite Perel ("Modesty Is a Virtue").
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RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025
Written, arranged and produced by Roy Anthony Perry Cousins. Mastered at Glass Studios, Wirral, England.
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RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025
Blue-in-black color vinyl version. Heavyweight psychedelic improvisers EarthBall are back with their third and most monstrous record to date: Outside Over There. Born from the haunted basements of Nanaimo, Canada, the quintet thrives on spontaneity, shaping improvisation into jagged hallucinations and ecstatic eruptions. Recorded live-off-the-floor in 2024 in Jeremy, Izzy, and Kellen's basement, and mixed by drummer John Brennan, Outside Over There is an album that feels both summoned and inevitable. Each track lands with uncanny purpose, as if uncovered rather than written. The opener, "100%," features a cameo from comedian and English icon Stewart Lee, who lent his blessing for the band to use a fragment of his stand-up. The album was mastered by John Dieterich (Deerhoof), with liner text contributed by longtime comrade John Olson (Wolf Eyes). EarthBall's trajectory has been relentless. Their 2024 album It's Yours was praised by The Quietus as "fully aggressive and fully life-affirming." The band's live double set LP Actual Earth Music Vol. 1 & 2 (2025) captured blistering performances: a performance opening for Wolf Eyes at the Fox Cabaret, and a Café OTO improvised throw-down featuring Chris Corsano and Steve Beresford. Outside of EarthBall, each member carries their own torch. Jeremy Van Wyck, founding member of the legendary Shearing Pinx, has toured extensively, released over 100 records, and has been a vital force in the Vancouver and West Coast underground for the past 25 years. He and Isabel Ford (Izzy) play together not only in EarthBall, but also in Psychedelic Dirt, Shearing Pinx, Behaviours, and Crotch. John Brennan collaborates widely, including with Endlings, Evichen (Victoria Shen), Francesco Fonassi, Plan Your Future, Brennan/Corsano duo and Physics with John Dieterich. Kellen Maclaughlin performs with KVMP and Ora Corgan, while saxophonist Liam Murphy is a west coast staple, playing with the best across Vancouver Island and the mainland. On three of the tracks of Outside Over There, the band is joined by their comrade Justin Patterson. This cross-pollination fuels EarthBall's sound -- a collective improvisation, psychically overdriven, and grinding into bloom. Outside Over There is more than an album though, it is a ritual, a gathering of sound at the forest's edge; where feedback, saxophone screams, and ecstatic vocals dissolve the boundary between chaos and clarity.
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RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025
Heavyweight psychedelic improvisers EarthBall are back with their third and most monstrous record to date: Outside Over There. Born from the haunted basements of Nanaimo, Canada, the quintet thrives on spontaneity, shaping improvisation into jagged hallucinations and ecstatic eruptions. Recorded live-off-the-floor in 2024 in Jeremy, Izzy, and Kellen's basement, and mixed by drummer John Brennan, Outside Over There is an album that feels both summoned and inevitable. Each track lands with uncanny purpose, as if uncovered rather than written. The opener, "100%," features a cameo from comedian and English icon Stewart Lee, who lent his blessing for the band to use a fragment of his stand-up. The album was mastered by John Dieterich (Deerhoof), with liner text contributed by longtime comrade John Olson (Wolf Eyes). EarthBall's trajectory has been relentless. Their 2024 album It's Yours was praised by The Quietus as "fully aggressive and fully life-affirming." The band's live double set LP Actual Earth Music Vol. 1 & 2 (2025) captured blistering performances: a performance opening for Wolf Eyes at the Fox Cabaret, and a Café OTO improvised throw-down featuring Chris Corsano and Steve Beresford. Outside of EarthBall, each member carries their own torch. Jeremy Van Wyck, founding member of the legendary Shearing Pinx, has toured extensively, released over 100 records, and has been a vital force in the Vancouver and West Coast underground for the past 25 years. He and Isabel Ford (Izzy) play together not only in EarthBall, but also in Psychedelic Dirt, Shearing Pinx, Behaviours, and Crotch. John Brennan collaborates widely, including with Endlings, Evichen (Victoria Shen), Francesco Fonassi, Plan Your Future, Brennan/Corsano duo and Physics with John Dieterich. Kellen Maclaughlin performs with KVMP and Ora Corgan, while saxophonist Liam Murphy is a west coast staple, playing with the best across Vancouver Island and the mainland. On three of the tracks of Outside Over There, the band is joined by their comrade Justin Patterson. This cross-pollination fuels EarthBall's sound -- a collective improvisation, psychically overdriven, and grinding into bloom. Outside Over There is more than an album though, it is a ritual, a gathering of sound at the forest's edge; where feedback, saxophone screams, and ecstatic vocals dissolve the boundary between chaos and clarity. Also available as blue-in-black color vinyl (UTR 175BB-LP).
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$28.50
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RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025
Brussels-based label VLEK presents a new recording of Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass, 1976). Captured at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, this version brings together the Ictus ensemble, the Ghent-based Collegium Vocale Gent, and Suzanne Vega, iconic figure of the New York folk revival. In 2018, Ictus and Collegium Vocale Gent, with the support of visual artist Germaine Kruip, took on a bold challenge: to deliver a purely musical interpretation of Einstein on the Beach, now widely regarded as the manifesto of minimalist music. Suzanne Vega later joined the project, taking on all spoken roles. Carried by the physical commitment of the performers, this version retains the hypnotic power of the original score while opening new sonic perspectives. After touring successfully across Europe, the work was recorded in November 2022 at the prestigious Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Founded in Brussels in 2011, VLEK first made its mark with experimental electronic music. In 2025, the label celebrates its 15th anniversary by launching a new editorial line focused on contemporary creative music. The CD and vinyl release of Einstein on the Beach illustrates this ambition: to let singular works resonate across borders and genres, reach curious and diverse audiences, and place today's music within a lineage that is both heritage-based and ever-evolving.
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RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025
3LP version. Brussels-based label VLEK presents a new recording of Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass, 1976). Captured at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, this version brings together the Ictus ensemble, the Ghent-based Collegium Vocale Gent, and Suzanne Vega, iconic figure of the New York folk revival. In 2018, Ictus and Collegium Vocale Gent, with the support of visual artist Germaine Kruip, took on a bold challenge: to deliver a purely musical interpretation of Einstein on the Beach, now widely regarded as the manifesto of minimalist music. Suzanne Vega later joined the project, taking on all spoken roles. Carried by the physical commitment of the performers, this version retains the hypnotic power of the original score while opening new sonic perspectives. After touring successfully across Europe, the work was recorded in November 2022 at the prestigious Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Founded in Brussels in 2011, VLEK first made its mark with experimental electronic music. In 2025, the label celebrates its 15th anniversary by launching a new editorial line focused on contemporary creative music. The CD and vinyl release of Einstein on the Beach illustrates this ambition: to let singular works resonate across borders and genres, reach curious and diverse audiences, and place today's music within a lineage that is both heritage-based and ever-evolving.
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RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025
Grey CD version. New York-based artist James K returns with Friend. This album is full of electric pop anthems that blends ear-worming melodies with peak-time breaks, buzzing powerpunk guitars and a classic rave pulse, with K's signature enchanting vocals playfully spitting emotion. It's a hallucinatory pleasure, tearing through your body and mind. "Play" rushes with a rebellion of friends -- an electro fever daydream waking up everywhere you go. Hot off extensive tours worldwide, playing the likes of Pitchfork Festival, Dekmantel, iii Points, and Mutek, following in the footsteps of her last two critically acclaimed singles Friend comes on AD 93. RIYL: Cocteau Twins, Yves Tumor, Prodigy, Oklou, Grimes. Also available on black (WHYT 083LP) and transparent vinyl (WHYT 083TR-LP).
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RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025
WRWTFWW Records presents the limited-edition vinyl reissue of Natural Sonic, the groundbreaking 1990 environmental percussion album by Japanese composer and performer Yoshiaki Ochi. Long a hidden gem of the kankyō ongaku movement, Natural Sonic finally returns in its full analog glory, housed in a heavyweight sleeve with obi and carefully remastered from the original archives of Wacoal Art Center/Spiral's visionary NEWSIC label. Originally released only in Japan at the dawn of the 1990s, Natural Sonic is a mesmerizing exploration of earthly sound and rhythm -- a sonic tapestry woven from wood, water, and stone, and skin. Ochi, who at the time was the in-house composer and performer for world-renowned designer Issey Miyake, created a series of elemental pieces that blur the line between avant-garde percussion, ritual music, and environmental sound art. The result is both deeply physical and profoundly meditative -- an album that breathes with nature itself. Echoing the organic minimalism of Midori Takada's Through the Looking Glass and the ecological grandeur of Geinoh Yamashirogumi's Ecophony Gaia, Ochi's compositions open portals into primal landscapes, evoking forests, rivers, and stones in flux. Part of NEWSIC's celebrated experimental catalog -- alongside Yoshio Ojima's Une Collection des Chaînons, Motohiko Hamase's #Notes of Forestry, and Satsuki Shibano's Rendez-Vous -- Natural Sonic now finds new life for contemporary listeners seeking sound that feels both timeless and vital. A singular album of resonance and restraint, Natural Sonic is a treasure from the golden age of Japanese environmental music, finally available again over three decades later.
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$29.50
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RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025
"Years ago we saw Kling Klang in a warehouse basement between Oval and Camberwell -- two decades ago, I reckon. Synths were rigged up in a DIY sci-fi fashion, wires and cables everywhere. it was heavy. In 2025 we know heavy takes on all forms. It doesn't need to be guitars. We know punk rock takes on all forms, it's not defined by spikey hair. Nothing is anything anymore. Wrong Speed is proud to be releasing the second Kling Klang album. It makes sense. Two of the band are in Part Chimp. The band is from our world -- on the surface. Dig in though and this record is being beamed in from the furthest reaches of the galaxy. Synth heavy, hypnotic, soundtrack inspired, motorik music from the past and the future. DIY as hell. Punk rock as hell. Catchy as hell. Creepy and wild. 300 pressed on sweet wasp yellow vinyl." --Wrong Speed Records
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$18.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025
Wewantsounds presents the release of Tokyo Funk Diva, a compilation highlighting the work of Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama, one of Japan's leading funk voices of the 1980s. Blending funk, boogie and soulful grooves, Penny brought a distinctive energy to Japan's music scene during the decade. Compiled by Nick Luscombe -- who previously curated Tokyo Dreaming for the label -- the set marks the first time Hitomi's music has been compiled outside of Japan. Featuring newly remastered tracks and liner notes by Luscombe, the release offers fresh context to Penny's work and its role in the evolution of Japanese funk and groove culture. Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama was one of the few female singers to fully embrace Japan's burgeoning funk and boogie movement of the 1980s. Born in Okinawa in 1957 and raised partly in California, she developed a cosmopolitan outlook that would shape her music. At a time when the country's pop scene was shifting toward slick, funk-oriented productions, Penny crafted a distinctive style that fused boogie, disco, and funk with her confident, soulful delivery. Her albums for Nippon Columbia recorded in the '80s capture this vibrant moment, combining sophisticated studio craft with the pulse of Tokyo's nightlife. The selection includes cult classics such as "Sexy Robot," "Love is the Competition," and "Instant Polaroid," with lesser-known gems such as "Exotic Yokogao" and "I Love You Shika Omoitsukanai." Together they showcase the singer's versatility, moving effortlessly between syncopated upbeat floorfillers and chilled mid-tempo grooves. While her music earned recognition at home, these releases were never widely available outside Japan and slowly became prized finds among DJs and collectors. Tokyo Funk Diva presents highlights from this catalogue for the first time in an international release. Compiled by broadcaster and tastemaker Nick Luscombe, the selection has been newly remastered and comes with Luscombe's liner notes, retracing Penny's career and her role in the evolution of Japanese boogie and disco. As he writes in the liner notes, "It's this deep musical craftsmanship -- both in the songwriting and performances -- that gives Penny Tohyama's work its lasting power. Her music feels as fresh and relevant today as it did when it was first released." With its mix of sharp production, irresistible rhythms, and Penny's unmistakable presence, Tokyo Funk Diva serves both as a long overdue introduction to one of Japan's original funk queens.
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$33.00
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RELEASE DATE: 11/28/2025
LP version. Wewantsounds presents the release of Tokyo Funk Diva, a compilation highlighting the work of Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama, one of Japan's leading funk voices of the 1980s. Blending funk, boogie and soulful grooves, Penny brought a distinctive energy to Japan's music scene during the decade. Compiled by Nick Luscombe -- who previously curated Tokyo Dreaming for the label -- the set marks the first time Hitomi's music has been compiled outside of Japan. Featuring newly remastered tracks and liner notes by Luscombe, the release offers fresh context to Penny's work and its role in the evolution of Japanese funk and groove culture. Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama was one of the few female singers to fully embrace Japan's burgeoning funk and boogie movement of the 1980s. Born in Okinawa in 1957 and raised partly in California, she developed a cosmopolitan outlook that would shape her music. At a time when the country's pop scene was shifting toward slick, funk-oriented productions, Penny crafted a distinctive style that fused boogie, disco, and funk with her confident, soulful delivery. Her albums for Nippon Columbia recorded in the '80s capture this vibrant moment, combining sophisticated studio craft with the pulse of Tokyo's nightlife. The selection includes cult classics such as "Sexy Robot," "Love is the Competition," and "Instant Polaroid," with lesser-known gems such as "Exotic Yokogao" and "I Love You Shika Omoitsukanai." Together they showcase the singer's versatility, moving effortlessly between syncopated upbeat floorfillers and chilled mid-tempo grooves. While her music earned recognition at home, these releases were never widely available outside Japan and slowly became prized finds among DJs and collectors. Tokyo Funk Diva presents highlights from this catalogue for the first time in an international release. Compiled by broadcaster and tastemaker Nick Luscombe, the selection has been newly remastered and comes with Luscombe's liner notes, retracing Penny's career and her role in the evolution of Japanese boogie and disco. As he writes in the liner notes, "It's this deep musical craftsmanship -- both in the songwriting and performances -- that gives Penny Tohyama's work its lasting power. Her music feels as fresh and relevant today as it did when it was first released." With its mix of sharp production, irresistible rhythms, and Penny's unmistakable presence, Tokyo Funk Diva serves both as a long overdue introduction to one of Japan's original funk queens.
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$16.50
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RELEASE DATE: 12/5/2025
So Far, so far out. By 1972, Faust had already dismantled the concept of a rock album. With their self-titled debut, they tore through convention with tape edits, abstract structures, and a scathing collage of cultural detritus. Its successor, recorded just six months later, was not a retreat from that radicalism, but its evolution. Instead of challenging form through outright fragmentation, the band now disguised their subversion in structures that almost, almost, resemble songs. But don't be fooled. This is still Faust: unpredictable, subversive, and unbound by convention. The circumstances surrounding the album's creation were no less unconventional than those of their debut. Faust were still ensconced in the converted schoolhouse in Wümme, Lower Saxony, and its improvised studio -- a riddle of cabling, tape and custom electronics. By this point, the band had grown more cohesive as a unit but remained steadfastly anti-commercial, despite the pleas of their label. Taken as a whole, So Far is less a linear progression from Faust's debut than a sideways leap into a parallel sonic dimension. Where the first album exploded rock from the inside out, So Far rearranges the wreckage into strange new shapes. There's a sly-humor here too, buried under the fuzz and tape edits, a knowing wink that these sonic detours aren't acts of nihilism, but of creation. Faust were building something. What, exactly, remains elusive, and still utterly intoxicating. Also available on black vinyl (BB 493LP) and blue vinyl (BB 493LTD-LP).
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RELEASE DATE: 12/5/2025
LP version. So Far, so far out. By 1972, Faust had already dismantled the concept of a rock album. With their self-titled debut, they tore through convention with tape edits, abstract structures, and a scathing collage of cultural detritus. Its successor, recorded just six months later, was not a retreat from that radicalism, but its evolution. Instead of challenging form through outright fragmentation, the band now disguised their subversion in structures that almost, almost, resemble songs. But don't be fooled. This is still Faust: unpredictable, subversive, and unbound by convention. The circumstances surrounding the album's creation were no less unconventional than those of their debut. Faust were still ensconced in the converted schoolhouse in Wümme, Lower Saxony, and its improvised studio -- a riddle of cabling, tape and custom electronics. By this point, the band had grown more cohesive as a unit but remained steadfastly anti-commercial, despite the pleas of their label. Taken as a whole, So Far is less a linear progression from Faust's debut than a sideways leap into a parallel sonic dimension. Where the first album exploded rock from the inside out, So Far rearranges the wreckage into strange new shapes. There's a sly-humor here too, buried under the fuzz and tape edits, a knowing wink that these sonic detours aren't acts of nihilism, but of creation. Faust were building something. What, exactly, remains elusive, and still utterly intoxicating.
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RELEASE DATE: 12/5/2025
LP version. Blue color vinyl. So Far, so far out. By 1972, Faust had already dismantled the concept of a rock album. With their self-titled debut, they tore through convention with tape edits, abstract structures, and a scathing collage of cultural detritus. Its successor, recorded just six months later, was not a retreat from that radicalism, but its evolution. Instead of challenging form through outright fragmentation, the band now disguised their subversion in structures that almost, almost, resemble songs. But don't be fooled. This is still Faust: unpredictable, subversive, and unbound by convention. The circumstances surrounding the album's creation were no less unconventional than those of their debut. Faust were still ensconced in the converted schoolhouse in Wümme, Lower Saxony, and its improvised studio -- a riddle of cabling, tape and custom electronics. By this point, the band had grown more cohesive as a unit but remained steadfastly anti-commercial, despite the pleas of their label. Taken as a whole, So Far is less a linear progression from Faust's debut than a sideways leap into a parallel sonic dimension. Where the first album exploded rock from the inside out, So Far rearranges the wreckage into strange new shapes. There's a sly-humor here too, buried under the fuzz and tape edits, a knowing wink that these sonic detours aren't acts of nihilism, but of creation. Faust were building something. What, exactly, remains elusive, and still utterly intoxicating.
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RELEASE DATE: 12/5/2025
By 1973, Faust had already rewired the circuits of German rock. Their first two albums had exploded traditional song form with a joyous disregard for continuity, coherence, or commercial appeal. The Faust Tapes, released earlier that year for 49p as a surreal sampler of their cut-and-paste genius, had earned them a curious British audience and the indulgence of Virgin Records. For a brief moment, it seemed as though Faust might finally play the game, just a little. What emerged instead was Faust IV, their most paradoxical work: accessible enough to lure listeners in, complex enough to keep them guessing. For the first time, the band left the rustic headquarters in Wümme, a former schoolhouse in rural Lower Saxony, stuffed with cabling, hand-built electronics, and limitless weed, and entered the professional confines of The Manor, Virgin's newly christened studio in Oxfordshire. Gone was the radical freedom of the commune. In its place: deadlines, engineers, and a rapidly dwindling budget. The sessions stretched on and grew increasingly fraught, yielding a mixture of fresh material and fragments drawn in from earlier experiments in Wümme. Faust IV is the result: part studio artefact, part salvage operation, part séance. Faust IV is uneven, restless, and full of contradictions, and that's exactly what makes it compelling. Its rough edges and loose threads sit right alongside moments of real focus, giving the sense of a band following ideas wherever they lead. Rather than polish things smooth, Faust left the seams visible, and the result feels all the more vital for it. Nearly half a century on, its spirit remains intact: mischievous, mysterious, and gloriously unfinished. If Faust had set out to build a new language, Faust IV shows them mid-sentence, trailing off, cracking jokes, then suddenly profound. Don't expect to follow the conversation, just keep listening. Also available on black vinyl (BB 497LP) and clear vinyl (BB 497LTD-LP).
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RELEASE DATE: 12/5/2025
LP version. By 1973, Faust had already rewired the circuits of German rock. Their first two albums had exploded traditional song form with a joyous disregard for continuity, coherence, or commercial appeal. The Faust Tapes, released earlier that year for 49p as a surreal sampler of their cut-and-paste genius, had earned them a curious British audience and the indulgence of Virgin Records. For a brief moment, it seemed as though Faust might finally play the game, just a little. What emerged instead was Faust IV, their most paradoxical work: accessible enough to lure listeners in, complex enough to keep them guessing. For the first time, the band left the rustic headquarters in Wümme, a former schoolhouse in rural Lower Saxony, stuffed with cabling, hand-built electronics, and limitless weed, and entered the professional confines of The Manor, Virgin's newly christened studio in Oxfordshire. Gone was the radical freedom of the commune. In its place: deadlines, engineers, and a rapidly dwindling budget. The sessions stretched on and grew increasingly fraught, yielding a mixture of fresh material and fragments drawn in from earlier experiments in Wümme. Faust IV is the result: part studio artefact, part salvage operation, part séance. Faust IV is uneven, restless, and full of contradictions, and that's exactly what makes it compelling. Its rough edges and loose threads sit right alongside moments of real focus, giving the sense of a band following ideas wherever they lead. Rather than polish things smooth, Faust left the seams visible, and the result feels all the more vital for it. Nearly half a century on, its spirit remains intact: mischievous, mysterious, and gloriously unfinished. If Faust had set out to build a new language, Faust IV shows them mid-sentence, trailing off, cracking jokes, then suddenly profound. Don't expect to follow the conversation, just keep listening.
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LP version. Clear color vinyl. By 1973, Faust had already rewired the circuits of German rock. Their first two albums had exploded traditional song form with a joyous disregard for continuity, coherence, or commercial appeal. The Faust Tapes, released earlier that year for 49p as a surreal sampler of their cut-and-paste genius, had earned them a curious British audience and the indulgence of Virgin Records. For a brief moment, it seemed as though Faust might finally play the game, just a little. What emerged instead was Faust IV, their most paradoxical work: accessible enough to lure listeners in, complex enough to keep them guessing. For the first time, the band left the rustic headquarters in Wümme, a former schoolhouse in rural Lower Saxony, stuffed with cabling, hand-built electronics, and limitless weed, and entered the professional confines of The Manor, Virgin's newly christened studio in Oxfordshire. Gone was the radical freedom of the commune. In its place: deadlines, engineers, and a rapidly dwindling budget. The sessions stretched on and grew increasingly fraught, yielding a mixture of fresh material and fragments drawn in from earlier experiments in Wümme. Faust IV is the result: part studio artefact, part salvage operation, part séance. Faust IV is uneven, restless, and full of contradictions, and that's exactly what makes it compelling. Its rough edges and loose threads sit right alongside moments of real focus, giving the sense of a band following ideas wherever they lead. Rather than polish things smooth, Faust left the seams visible, and the result feels all the more vital for it. Nearly half a century on, its spirit remains intact: mischievous, mysterious, and gloriously unfinished. If Faust had set out to build a new language, Faust IV shows them mid-sentence, trailing off, cracking jokes, then suddenly profound. Don't expect to follow the conversation, just keep listening.
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140gr vinyl. A surefire Salsoul classic and comfortably one of the label's finest moments, the self-titled LP from The Strangers was originally released in that golden year of 1983 and is one of the greatest albums of the post-disco era. It's one of Be With's favorite ever LPs and it's a complete honor to be giving it the reissue treatment. Still strangely overlooked but not for much longer, The Strangers contains flawless tracks with truly top tier production and includes the eternal Paradise Garage favorite "Step Out Of My Dream." The Strangers were a US electronic-funk studio concept group comprising Edward "Tree" Moore, Howard King, and Hubert Eaves III, all key members of Mtume and Gary Bartz NTU Troop and, in the case of Eaves, one half of D-Train. The album kicks off with the dope electro-funk of "Wanna Take Your Body" which features Gary Bartz on sax and becomes more sensational and irresistible the longer it plays. The wonky super-bomb "Let Me Take You Home" has a punk-funk, post-Prince feel, driving and delicate all at the same time while "Show Me How You Like It" is pure FUNK, the groove just pure fire. Side B is perfection. It kicks off with the NTS favorite "Love Rescue," a track so slick it positively SLAPS out the gate and, while it bangs throughout, the vocals and melodies elevate this to the status of EMOTIONAL POP. Next up, "Step Out Of My Dream" swaggers forth, the undisputed masterpiece that was huge with the London DJs and UK Soul fraternity; it's not hard to see why. It's a gliding, smooth, soulful piece of once-in-a-lifetime magic. The breezy "It's Too Late" is a perfect slow jam before this remarkable set is rounded out with the sickest proto-acid synth-drizzled jam, "Stimulation"; a perfect slab of '80s funk and a strutting vocoder-laced funk workout. Meticulously remastered and cut by both Simon Francis and Cicely Balston respectively, it has been pressed to the highest possible quality at Record Industry in Holland.
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Buh Records presents Selva Selva, the debut album by Wayku, a project led by guitarist and researcher Percy A. Flores Navarro, originally from Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon. The album centers the electric guitar, blending traditional jungle sounds with contemporary approaches to explore new textures, rhythms, and expressions. Wayku emerged in late 2022 after Flores's previous project Motilones de Tarapoto. It reflects a dialogue among Amazonian music, rock, and jazz, while also drawing on Brazilian music, tropical rhythms, and other popular expressions from the jungle. The sound feels organic and evolving, rooted in tradition yet open to modern languages. According to its creator, the album seeks to renew the Amazon's repertoire by adapting it to contemporary sonic languages. Selva Selva weaves three strands of Amazonian popular music: sounds and instruments recorded in ethnographic archives, traditional folk ensembles, and tropical jungle bands. Flores Navarro's ethnographic research in Indigenous communities of San Martín and Loreto has profoundly informed Wayku's vision. His compositions interlace narratives of Indigenous resistance with traditional aesthetics, modern harmony, electric instrumentation, and symphonic elements, balancing formal exploration with cultural commitment. Across eleven tracks, Selva Selva offers a journey through native communities while reflecting the cosmopolitan realities of Amazonian cities. Songs such as "Carnaval en la selva" and "Por la marginal reimagine pandilla," a festive Amazonian genre of lively rhythms, flutes, percussion, and community ties. Wayku projects pandilla into the present, amplifying its vitality with contemporary arrangements. This work continues a lineage dating to the 1970s, when tropical Amazonian bands incorporated electric guitar into pandilla, creating the form now known as electric pandilla. Wayku revives and expands that language, asserting a discourse that empowers Amazonian musicians and raises the visibility of their work on broader stages. Selva Selva was recorded between January and March 2024 in Morales, San Martín, with Michel Paredes on bass. Flores performed the rest and handled recording and digital mastering. Vladimir Ivanov completed analog mastering and Gonzalo de Montreuil produced the artwork. The album is released by Buh Records, supported by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture's 2023 Cultural Stimulus Grants.
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A Deeper Shade, produced by Case Woo and originally released on CD only in 2001, is now presented as a double 12" vinyl. It comes with a full-cover print of the original artwork, as well as an insert with photos of young Case in the studio and a list of the equipment that was used to record this album. Back then, this release was hailed as the definitive and only full-length deep house/tech house album to emerge from the tiny island of Singapore, by one of the pioneers of the local electronic music industry. Case himself states: "I was introduced to the Deep House genre in 1999 and it was love at first listen, pure magic! What began as a spark of inspiration soon led to a month of self-imposed studio isolation -- a journey of immersion, expression, and devotion to a newfound sound. The outcome of that creative dive is A Deeper Shade."
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Conic Rose's debut album has finally come to life on stage. After two years of playing it live, the music has grown, shifted, and deepened. This live album captures that process -- recorded in one night at Kantine Berghain, Berlin. A unique blend of jazz, indie and electronic elements -- the signature Conic Rose sound.
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Wild by nature, the Does of the Florian Pellissier Quintet could never be contained in a creative pen that would have forced them never to cross potential geographical limits. Travelers, spending their energy without restraint to let the hard bop of their jazz wander and export itself wherever the groove guided them, they went as far as Africa or South America, from the Cape of Good Hope to Rio. Rio, precisely where, for their last appearance, exposure to a brief electric current had carried them into outer space. A revelation. Furious strides, exhausting gambols, the Does had done so much that they could not escape the obvious call of calm and serenity. Freed from distances, and after a stop in Colombia to mingle with the crowd at the Barranquilla carnival, it was California and its Pacific coast they reached, to rest before the peaceful immensity of the ocean. One hundred sixty-five million square kilometers, an infinite expanse to contemplate in order to fling wide open the gates to an even vaster space. A spiritual domain conducive to the search for new sounds. That of the open sea, where measuring miles is neither relevant nor meaningful, and where the only compass becomes the musical tracks the Does follow. Beneath their coppery hooves, to the crystalline sound of the Fender Rhodes and the sweep of electric layers, the path to take revealed itself in this meditative and abstract realm they had never before explored. Invited to join the purely organic textures, the synthetic notes distilled a few aromas of sweetness into an album of ten tracks, where the FPQ abandoned written scores on some pieces in order to be guided only by the inspiration born of a newfound freedom. Blue when they began their journey five albums ago, their coat has now taken on the colors that illuminate the Pacific coast. That moment when, as you gaze at the horizon swallowing the sun, only glowing shades filter through -- reddish, orange, violet. Departing without haste or frenzy from one of the shores bordering the ocean, the voices of Archie Shepp, Iggy Pop, and DjeuhDjoah still resonating in their antlers, the Does may now be on the opposite shore. Carried all the way to the Japanese coast by Hokusai's wave.
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LP version. Wild by nature, the Does of the Florian Pellissier Quintet could never be contained in a creative pen that would have forced them never to cross potential geographical limits. Travelers, spending their energy without restraint to let the hard bop of their jazz wander and export itself wherever the groove guided them, they went as far as Africa or South America, from the Cape of Good Hope to Rio. Rio, precisely where, for their last appearance, exposure to a brief electric current had carried them into outer space. A revelation. Furious strides, exhausting gambols, the Does had done so much that they could not escape the obvious call of calm and serenity. Freed from distances, and after a stop in Colombia to mingle with the crowd at the Barranquilla carnival, it was California and its Pacific coast they reached, to rest before the peaceful immensity of the ocean. One hundred sixty-five million square kilometers, an infinite expanse to contemplate in order to fling wide open the gates to an even vaster space. A spiritual domain conducive to the search for new sounds. That of the open sea, where measuring miles is neither relevant nor meaningful, and where the only compass becomes the musical tracks the Does follow. Beneath their coppery hooves, to the crystalline sound of the Fender Rhodes and the sweep of electric layers, the path to take revealed itself in this meditative and abstract realm they had never before explored. Invited to join the purely organic textures, the synthetic notes distilled a few aromas of sweetness into an album of ten tracks, where the FPQ abandoned written scores on some pieces in order to be guided only by the inspiration born of a newfound freedom. Blue when they began their journey five albums ago, their coat has now taken on the colors that illuminate the Pacific coast. That moment when, as you gaze at the horizon swallowing the sun, only glowing shades filter through -- reddish, orange, violet. Departing without haste or frenzy from one of the shores bordering the ocean, the voices of Archie Shepp, Iggy Pop, and DjeuhDjoah still resonating in their antlers, the Does may now be on the opposite shore. Carried all the way to the Japanese coast by Hokusai's wave.
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Originally released in 1995, Jimmy Somerville's Dare To Love stands as a powerful statement of pride, passion, and pop brilliance, carried by one of the most unmistakable voices in modern music. It embodies Somerville's gift for marrying political conviction with irresistible melodies. Produced by Stephen Hague and other longtime collaborators, the album traverses bass-laden house grooves, slower, dubby reggae numbers and classic pop ballads. Featuring the UK Top 30 hits "Heartbeat" and "Hurt So Good," along with the poignant "Safe in These Arms," Dare To Love explores love, loss, and identity, both on and off the dancefloor. London Records now celebrate 30 years of Dare To Love with a full remaster and expended editions. Collector 2CD version contains 31 tracks and features previously unreleased B-sides, rarities and remixes from the likes of Todd Terry, The Beatmasters and more. Comes as 4/4 digisleeve with three wallets, 20-page booklet, and marketing sticker. 2LP version contains 21 tracks and comes as two crystal-clear blue curaçao vinyl with 5mm spine sleeve and two printed inner sleeves plus marketing sticker.
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Double LP version. Originally released in 1995, Jimmy Somerville's Dare To Love stands as a powerful statement of pride, passion, and pop brilliance, carried by one of the most unmistakable voices in modern music. It embodies Somerville's gift for marrying political conviction with irresistible melodies. Produced by Stephen Hague and other longtime collaborators, the album traverses bass-laden house grooves, slower, dubby reggae numbers and classic pop ballads. Featuring the UK Top 30 hits "Heartbeat" and "Hurt So Good," along with the poignant "Safe in These Arms," Dare To Love explores love, loss, and identity, both on and off the dancefloor. London Records now celebrate 30 years of Dare To Love with a full remaster and expended editions. 2LP version contains 21 tracks and comes as two crystal-clear blue curaçao vinyl with 5mm spine sleeve and two printed inner sleeves plus marketing sticker.
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2025-2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the Happy Mondays, a milestone celebration of one of Britain's most iconic and era-defining bands. To celebrate, London Records presents a series of special anniversary releases, beginning with a fully remastered brand-new compilation: The Factory Singles. This definitive collection captures the band's ground-breaking output from 1985-1992, celebrating their pivotal role in shaping UK music culture. Classic remixes from Paul Oakenfold, Andrew Weatherall, Terry Farley and Jon Carter make up bonus tracks on the 2CD and 2LP. This campaign marks the beginning of an extensive celebration of the Happy Mondays' 40-year legacy, bringing their iconic sound to both devoted fans and new generations. Double CD version includes 6-page, 4/4 digisleeve with 3 wallets, as well as 12-page booklet and marketing sticker. 2LP version comes in 140gr black vinyl (LMS 1725594), and yellow/magenta vinyl (LMS 1725595) with 5mm spine sleeve, 2 white dust inner sleeves, and printed 12" insert.
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Double LP version. 2025-2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the Happy Mondays, a milestone celebration of one of Britain's most iconic and era-defining bands. To celebrate, London Records presents a series of special anniversary releases, beginning with a fully remastered brand-new compilation: The Factory Singles. This definitive collection captures the band's ground-breaking output from 1985-1992, celebrating their pivotal role in shaping UK music culture. Classic remixes from Paul Oakenfold, Andrew Weatherall, Terry Farley and Jon Carter make up bonus tracks on the 2CD and 2LP. This campaign marks the beginning of an extensive celebration of the Happy Mondays' 40-year legacy, bringing their iconic sound to both devoted fans and new generations. 2LP version comes in 140gr black vinyl (LMS 1725594), and yellow/magenta vinyl (LMS 1725595) with 5mm spine sleeve, 2 white dust inner sleeves, and printed 12" insert.
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Double LP version. Yellow and magenta color vinyl. 2025-2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the Happy Mondays, a milestone celebration of one of Britain's most iconic and era-defining bands. To celebrate, London Records presents a series of special anniversary releases, beginning with a fully remastered brand-new compilation: The Factory Singles. This definitive collection captures the band's ground-breaking output from 1985-1992, celebrating their pivotal role in shaping UK music culture. Classic remixes from Paul Oakenfold, Andrew Weatherall, Terry Farley and Jon Carter make up bonus tracks on the 2CD and 2LP. This campaign marks the beginning of an extensive celebration of the Happy Mondays' 40-year legacy, bringing their iconic sound to both devoted fans and new generations. 2LP version comes in 140gr black vinyl (LMS 1725594), and yellow/magenta vinyl (LMS 1725595) with 5mm spine sleeve, 2 white dust inner sleeves, and printed 12" insert.
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The incredibly beautiful album Shinsekai, released in 1994, is finally being reissued. Long considered a phantom masterpiece and a cornerstone of Japanese techno, the album had been out of print for many years due to the business circumstances of its original label, Rising High. Now reissued by Sublime and Musicmine.
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Having ended the '90s with the spirited Laughing Mostly compilation of singles and demos, Delta finally released their debut studio album of twelve songs in the summer of 2000 on the Dishy Recordings label. Accepting that this might be their sole studio album the band threw everything at these recordings allowing it to exist in its own sphere, unbothered by their contemporary generation and disregarding the idea of even releasing a single. Recorded at DEP International there was a notable difference to the scruffier, looser charm of their 1990s recordings, a tighter focus developed by having the experienced Lenny Franchi mixing the LP with them. Lenny had been working with a number of Island artists including My Bloody Valentine and Tricky so knew his way around a desk. There was also the question of budget, so every day counted. Ultimately though you can hear the joy in the recordings, even amongst the melancholy and angst. As James recently recalled in an interview in Shindig! Magazine: "It was such a big deal for us. It's one of my fondest memories doing that record. Everyone was happy. If there's anything that I'd stand by, I think it would be that." Louis Clark Jr joined the band towards the end of the '90s and brought a classically-trained element to the recordings particularly with his string arrangements. For "Cuckoo," "I Want You," and the prophetic "We Come Back" Louis brought in eight players from the Birmingham Conservatoire; the baroque style is partly why the record often receives comparisons to Love's "Forever Changes." On release Slippin' Out was a big favorite with writers at the NME, Mojo, and The Guardian again and before long the band were signed to Mercury/Universal for their second studio album Hard Light, a far more expensive and expansive love affair. It was a temporary palatial home where things quietly fell apart again, but that's another chapter.
"If long-term memory is nothing more than selective editing and only pop's most weighty visceral works are built to last then it's quite possible that in 50 years the Britpop era will be best recollected for the two bands it ostracized. Earlier this year we met Shack and thought their story of mercurial brilliance indicated the biggest music biz oversight of the '90s. We were wrong because we hadn't met Delta yet. This is richer and more engrossing than anything by Shack." --The Guardian
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Double LP version. Having ended the '90s with the spirited Laughing Mostly compilation of singles and demos, Delta finally released their debut studio album of twelve songs in the summer of 2000 on the Dishy Recordings label. Accepting that this might be their sole studio album the band threw everything at these recordings allowing it to exist in its own sphere, unbothered by their contemporary generation and disregarding the idea of even releasing a single. Recorded at DEP International there was a notable difference to the scruffier, looser charm of their 1990s recordings, a tighter focus developed by having the experienced Lenny Franchi mixing the LP with them. Lenny had been working with a number of Island artists including My Bloody Valentine and Tricky so knew his way around a desk. There was also the question of budget, so every day counted. Ultimately though you can hear the joy in the recordings, even amongst the melancholy and angst. As James recently recalled in an interview in Shindig! Magazine: "It was such a big deal for us. It's one of my fondest memories doing that record. Everyone was happy. If there's anything that I'd stand by, I think it would be that." Louis Clark Jr joined the band towards the end of the '90s and brought a classically-trained element to the recordings particularly with his string arrangements. For "Cuckoo," "I Want You," and the prophetic "We Come Back" Louis brought in eight players from the Birmingham Conservatoire; the baroque style is partly why the record often receives comparisons to Love's "Forever Changes." On release Slippin' Out was a big favorite with writers at the NME, Mojo, and The Guardian again and before long the band were signed to Mercury/Universal for their second studio album Hard Light, a far more expensive and expansive love affair. It was a temporary palatial home where things quietly fell apart again, but that's another chapter.
"If long-term memory is nothing more than selective editing and only pop's most weighty visceral works are built to last then it's quite possible that in 50 years the Britpop era will be best recollected for the two bands it ostracized. Earlier this year we met Shack and thought their story of mercurial brilliance indicated the biggest music biz oversight of the '90s. We were wrong because we hadn't met Delta yet. This is richer and more engrossing than anything by Shack." --The Guardian
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After a long hiatus, Prins Thomas drops his 10th studio album. Picking up where the last record ended, it's an introspective but celebratory and uplifting affair. One-man-band jams turning into mini epics, like coming up for air or seeing the bright lights at the end of a long dark tunnel.
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Live recordings of Humble Pie featuring both Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton are rare. These seven tracks, record-ed in excellent quality by the BBC, show Humble Pie in their element onstage. The setlist includes cover versions such as "Four Day Creep," "Hallelujah I Love Her So," and "I Walk On Gilded Splinters" which were not included on any studio LP. Comes with full recording details and extensive sleeve notes.
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Smallville welcomes Lb Honne from Switzerland to the label's circle, bringing a superb four-tracker for the special dancefloors. Including a full cover artwork by Stefan Marx.
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Featuring Svetlana Spajić-Latinović on vocals (also lead singer for the amazing trio Gordan featuring Guido Möbius and producer Rabih Beaini), Back to Hermetics and Martial Arts Vol. 1 is an epic adventure through the invisible worlds of Neoplatonic cinema. From mockumentaries about the lost books of occult correspondences, through psychedelic surf noir chambers with ritual suppers, and giallo screams of the world squished by the chthonic grasp, to the original footage of the victorious Belgrade-Dharamsala bicycle marathon of 1931, Morriconesque spaghetti western theophanies, and the saving grace of the Heart pierced by Seven Swords, the album delivers nine movie themes that combine various musical elements into a unique work of cinematic alchemy. Also available on color vinyl (SSR 162LTD-LP).
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Color vinyl version. Featuring Svetlana Spajić-Latinović on vocals (also lead singer for the amazing trio Gordan featuring Guido Möbius and producer Rabih Beaini), Back to Hermetics and Martial Arts Vol. 1 is an epic adventure through the invisible worlds of Neoplatonic cinema. From mockumentaries about the lost books of occult correspondences, through psychedelic surf noir chambers with ritual suppers, and giallo screams of the world squished by the chthonic grasp, to the original footage of the victorious Belgrade-Dharamsala bicycle marathon of 1931, Morriconesque spaghetti western theophanies, and the saving grace of the Heart pierced by Seven Swords, the album delivers nine movie themes that combine various musical elements into a unique work of cinematic alchemy.
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This is the debut release from Laguna Seca, a new project from Porto based Mike Jefford. It foreshadows a new body of work, steeped in '70s nostalgia, refracted though sounds that could belong to krautrock, disco, electronica, noisy alt rock and everything in between. Named after the California raceway, this project fuses 1970s recording techniques, modern electronics and psychedelic retrofuturism. Die-cut sleeve with printed inner. This debut is released on electronic music legend Clark's Throttle Records.
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Following their widely-acclaimed album Union, JUNO-nominated duo ÈBONY rematerialize on the dancefloor with the otherworldly Shades of Meridian EP, projecting a waking futurist dream haunted by echoes of Detroit techno, Chicago house, South African melodies, and the rich mythology of Ancient Toronto. Opener "Break My Skin" explores a hidden pocket of after-hours techno space-time with an ethereal vocal by James Baley, leading into the tense, disembodied jack of "Forever." Next, "Dull Side First" rides a spectral break through a sepulchral warehouse trip, "RIFT" invokes peak-time witchcraft, and closer "My Daylight" entrances even the most self-possessed sound-and-lighting guys to spam the smoke machine until reality itself is occluded.
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Hidden Traffic is the debut album by Hard To Tell via their own imprint, Vitrage Records. Spanning eight tracks, the album blends Detroit-influenced house, breakbeat textures, warm analog tones and subtle hypnotic techno nods. From the atmospheric opener "Last Night Jam" to the emotional closer "Solid Love," Hidden Traffic showcases the full spectrum of the duo's sound -- introspective, danceable, and deeply personal.
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Volume 2 of this series focused on the amazing sonic treasures Bollywood music has to offer. This second volume is centered on the incredible instrumental gems that populate Hindi cinema soundtracks. 14 tracks of pure Bollywood instrumental genius to continue the dive into the mind-blowing world of Hindi cinema music. Covering a time span of three decades, this compilation mixes well-known names with lesser-known talents from the endlessly thrilling vaults of Hindi movie soundtracks and throws a couple of delicious covers for a truly unforgettable sonic experience. Includes liner notes. Featuring Charanjit Singh, R.D. Burman, Sapan & Jagmohan, Raghunath Seth, Chic Chocolate, S. D. Burman, Van Shipley, Kalyanji Anandji, O.P. Nayyar, Govind Naresh, Usha Khanna, S. Hazarasingh, Babla & His Orchestra, and Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
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The Jamaican Recordings Allstars have gone back to the Reggae heydays of 1968/1969 as a strong influence on their snappy instrumental track. The flash points of Harry J Allstars "The Liquidator" and Dave and Ansell Collins "Double Barrel" come to mind. No reggae 7" single would be the same without its version B-side, so please flip the single over for part two where the beat is pulled up to the fore. Hope you enjoy rocking to this future classic.
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Dharmacide is a Spanish band known for their eclectic fusion of genres, blending elements of shoegaze and dreampop music. Tougher Than the Rest is their awaited second album. They take a step forward with a darker sound with gloomy riffs and ethereal voices in which they describe perfectly how the sound of a night full of random events would be like. "The Cigs, The Light, The Coffee and Crying," the LP's first single, features a powerful reverb-laden riff with a solo vocal melody in the middle of the chaos until breaking into a powerful chorus. Dharmacide's sound is marked by intricate guitar riffs, powerful drumming, and deep, emotive vocals that create a unique atmosphere. The band, with members of Alcalá Norte and Depresión Sonora, has made a huge impact on various stages, performing at renowned venues and festivals, including iconic spots in their home country as well as internationally, earning praise for their high-energy performances and thoughtful compositions. Their latest singles have been produced, mixed and mastered by Mark Gardener from Ride. Their sound is influenced by today's bands like Diiv, Warpaint, or Beach House but also by classic artists like Cocteau Twins, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Tom Waits.
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European edition with exclusive Ed Colver photo-poster, width 60 cm x height 30 cm. Few records from the American punk underground have echoed as far and wide -- or as enduringly -- as the Adolescents' self-titled debut, first released by Frontier Records in 1981. Known to fans simply as "The Blue Album," this landmark release captured the raw pulse of Southern California's teenage rebellion at a time when hardcore was beginning to take shape yet still holding onto the infectious urgency of punk's first wave. Formed in Fullerton, California, Adolescents brought together members of earlier OC punk outfits like Social Distortion and Agent Orange, fusing their varied influences into something uniquely their own. With songs like "Amoeba," "Kids of the Black Hole," and "No Way," the album offered more than just speed and volume -- it spoke directly to suburban alienation, youthful frustration, and the search for identity in a world that felt increasingly hostile and conformist. This new edition offers longtime listeners and new fans alike a chance to revisit -- or discover -- an album that helped define the West Coast punk sound. From its striking blue cover to its mix of melody, defiance, and urgency, Adolescents remains a vital listen, as relevant today as it was over four decades ago. It's an album that didn't just reflect its moment -- it shaped what punk could be: loud, smart, emotional, and unflinchingly real. Reissued with care and respect for its original spirit, "The Blue Album" stands not only as a milestone in punk history, but as a testament to the enduring power of youth in revolt.
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Just as the hippie era came to an end in America, a second '60s began. In what is now Zimbabwe, young people created a rock and roll counterculture that drew inspiration from hippie ideals and the sounds of Hendrix and Deep Purple. The kids in the scene called their music "heavy," because they could feel its impact, and it resonated from Zambia to Nigeria. At its peak in the mid-'70s, the heavy rock scene united tens of thousands of young progressives of all racial and social backgrounds. The country was called Rhodesia then, one of the last bastions of white rule in Africa, and heavy rockers defied segregation laws and secret police to make a stand for democratic change. Wells Fargo was at the forefront of the scene, and the title track of this album, "Watch Out," was the anthem of the counterculture. Following previous collaborations with Now-Again Records, Munster are thrilled to reissue now Wells Fargo's Watch Out!, a curated collection of songs intertwining rock and funk with Zimbabwean folkloric melodies, taken from the band 45s discography, never available outside of Zimbabwe at the time the singles were originally released.
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Originally released in 1972 on the Odeon label, Quarteto Em Cy stands as a high-water mark in the group's prolific discography -- and a hidden gem for collectors of Brazilian vinyl. Known for their intricate vocal harmonies and deep roots in the bossa nova movement, the quartet ventures into post-bossa territory here, where sophistication meets groove in all the right ways. Arrangements by Edu Lobo and Luiz Eça (of Tamba Trio) lend the album a richly layered sound -- elegant, jazzy, and emotionally resonant -- while the group's harmonies remain as mesmerizing as ever. It's a masterclass in vocal interplay and tasteful orchestration, with an unmistakable Brazilian soul running through every track. Highlights include their stunning interpretation of Milton Nascimento's "Tudo Que Você Podia Ser," along with deep cuts like "Quando o Carnaval Chegar," "Canto de Obá," and "Cantoria." These recordings capture a moment when the group, already respected collaborators of Vinícius de Moraes, Jobim, and Chico Buarque, hit a new creative stride. Long out of print and often cited as their finest work, this self-titled LP has become a sought-after piece among collectors of MPB, bossa, and '70s harmony pop. For those drawn to groups like The Free Design or The Mamas & The Papas -- but with a distinctly Brazilian elegance -- this album offers a rare and rewarding listen. Reissue on 180g vinyl.
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Money Chicha, the Austin-based collective featuring members of the Grammy-winning Latin orchestras Grupo Fantasma and Brownout, unveils their third full-length album, Onda Esotérica. Recorded at New Orleans' Marigny Studios, the album deepens their signature psychedelic cumbia amazónica sound with exotic textures, vintage organ swells, and inventive reinterpretations of classics such as "Cumbia Arabe." As KUTX puts it, "Listening to Money Chicha feels a bit like taking a hit of acid, downing a couple shots of Tequila, and hopping a plane to 1960s Peru -- it's the kind of music that rewires your brain, awakens your spirit animal, and takes you places you've never been." Add in some South Texas swagger and bruising Latin funk, and Onda Esotérica emerges as the band's most adventurous and transportive work to date -- a kaleidoscopic journey equal parts ritual and revelation.
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Released in 1967, Jazz Raga is more than just an album -- it's a fearless leap into uncharted musical territory. Gábor Szabó, the Hungarian jazz guitarist known for his boundary-pushing style, delivers one of the most captivating records of his career with this genre - masterpiece. Blending jazz, rock, psychedelic folk, and Eastern influences -- with sitar-laced melodies and Latin-infused rhythms courtesy of legendary funky drummer Bernard Purdie -- Jazz Raga defies categorization. It's a hypnotic fusion where European tradition meets the counterculture spirit of the '60s, all woven together by Szabó's unmistakable guitar tone. From the dreamy groove of "Walking On Nails" to the swirling mysticism of "Mizrab," and his hauntingly original take on the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black," Szabó creates a sonic landscape that is both daring and deeply soulful. His playing here is electric -- full of offbeat chords, flowing improvisations, and a voice all his own. Decades later, Jazz Raga still stands as a landmark of creative freedom and global influence -- a must-hear for anyone seeking music that transcends borders and expectations. If you haven't experienced this cult classic yet, now's the time to let Gábor Szabó expand your musical horizons. Reissue on 180g vinyl.
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From the heights of the Andes come two incredible recordings that show how local folklore has embraced international hits -- resulting in fun, unexpected fusions with a distinct Andean twist. "Do You Think I'm Sexy?," Rod Stewart's 1978 classic, is transformed into a powerful huayno anthem -- complete with driving percussion and bold brass that almost echo the sound of a New Orleans street parade. On the flip side comes a playful nod to "Saturday Night Fever" -- retitled "El Travoltoso" -- infused with infectious rhythms of huayno and cumbia. Once again, wind instruments take center stage in this track, just like in the flip-side cut. Reissued for the first time ever.
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Magnus Carlson and The Moon Ray Quintet join forces for a new album of inspired vocal jazz versions of some of their favorite music. Carlson is known as the vocalist of Weeping Willows, and The Moon Ray Quintet features members of top Swedish jazz acts Oddjob, Goran Kajfe, Tropiques, La La Lars, and more. Together they form arrangements that capture the beauty of each song while bringing something fresh to the table. The Moon Ray Quintet was formed in 2009 around singer Magnus Carlson during a break from the band Weeping Willows which had been his musical habitat for over a decade. In the artistic vacuum he experienced then, he met jazz musician and producer Goran Kajfe in a bar. The two gentlemen had crossed paths musically before although this moment resulted in ideas that would lead Magnus career in a whole new direction. Also, it given birth to a brand-new band consisting of a number of highly sought-after jazz musicians. With Goran by his side, Magnus could challenge himself in a jazz setting that was more than the crooner type of songs that he already brilliantly mastered. As a matter of fact, all the members of the band contributed to the sound that still makes the perfect blend of rootsy jazz with a twist, '60s soul and echoes of the great crooners.
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LP version. Magnus Carlson and The Moon Ray Quintet join forces for a new album of inspired vocal jazz versions of some of their favorite music. Carlson is known as the vocalist of Weeping Willows, and The Moon Ray Quintet features members of top Swedish jazz acts Oddjob, Goran Kajfe, Tropiques, La La Lars, and more. Together they form arrangements that capture the beauty of each song while bringing something fresh to the table. The Moon Ray Quintet was formed in 2009 around singer Magnus Carlson during a break from the band Weeping Willows which had been his musical habitat for over a decade. In the artistic vacuum he experienced then, he met jazz musician and producer Goran Kajfe in a bar. The two gentlemen had crossed paths musically before although this moment resulted in ideas that would lead Magnus career in a whole new direction. Also, it given birth to a brand-new band consisting of a number of highly sought-after jazz musicians. With Goran by his side, Magnus could challenge himself in a jazz setting that was more than the crooner type of songs that he already brilliantly mastered. As a matter of fact, all the members of the band contributed to the sound that still makes the perfect blend of rootsy jazz with a twist, '60s soul and echoes of the great crooners.
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James Baker aka ReKaB passed away very recently and so unexpectedly. He had only submitted the music for his new EP for YORE less than two weeks before his sudden passing. The original title was meant to be Let the Machines Talk, but the label decided to change it to The Last Talk of the Machines. It feels not only sad but also surreal to hear music that was created only shortly before, knowing James is no longer with us in embodied existence. This is the very last talk of his loved Machines.
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Blu-ray version. DVD is region 0. "In the heart of Kingston's music scene, reggae drummer Horsemouth (Leroy Wallace) dreams of making it big by distributing records on his brand-new motorcycle. But when the bike is stolen, Horsemouth rallies a group of legendary musicians to track it down and take on the corrupt elite exploiting their community. Packed with raw energy, unforgettable performances, and a pulsating soundtrack, Rockers is a vibrant, rebellious ride through the streets, sound systems, and soul of 1970s Jamaica." Brand New 2025 4K High Definition restoration presented in 1080p in 1.78:1 Aspect Ratio. Audio: English LPCM 5.1 Surround. Audio commentary with Writer/Director Ted Bafaloukos (4K & Blu-ray). Includes Jah No Dead: The Making of Rockers -- feature length documentary about the making of the film featuring interviews with Eugenie Bafaloukos, Todd Kasow, Kiddus I, Eddie Marritz, and many more! (HD, 1:59:37) (Blu-ray). Includes archival interviews with Writer/Director Ted Bafaloukos and Producer Patrick Hulsey (SD) (Blu-ray). The recording studios shown in the film are the famous 'Harry J Studios' and 'Channel One Studios' where many roots reggae artists recorded during the 1970s including Bob Marley. Several popular reggae artists star in the movie, including Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace, Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Big Youth, Dillinger, Robbie Shakespeare, and Jacob Miller. DVD is region 0.
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"In the heart of Kingston's music scene, reggae drummer Horsemouth (Leroy Wallace) dreams of making it big by distributing records on his brand-new motorcycle. But when the bike is stolen, Horsemouth rallies a group of legendary musicians to track it down and take on the corrupt elite exploiting their community. Packed with raw energy, unforgettable performances, and a pulsating soundtrack, Rockers is a vibrant, rebellious ride through the streets, sound systems, and soul of 1970s Jamaica." 2025 4K (2160p) restoration from the Original 35mm Camera Negative, HDR presentation in 1.78:1 Aspect Ratio. Audio: English TBD 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo (4K & Blu-ray). Audio commentary with Writer/Director Ted Bafaloukos (4K & Blu-ray). Includes Jah No Dead: The Making of Rockers -- feature length documentary about the making of the film featuring interviews with Eugenie Bafaloukos, Todd Kasow, Kiddus I, Eddie Marritz, and many more! (HD, 1:59:37) (Blu-ray). Includes archival interviews with Writer/Director Ted Bafaloukos and Producer Patrick Hulsey (SD) (Blu-ray). The recording studios shown in the film are the famous 'Harry J Studios' and 'Channel One Studios' where many roots reggae artists recorded during the 1970s including Bob Marley. Several popular reggae artists star in the movie, including Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace, Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Big Youth, Dillinger, Robbie Shakespeare, and Jacob Miller. DVD is region 0.
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The definitive 2LP reissue of a landmark in British jazz fusion. Analogue October Records presents the long-awaited reissue of Kaleidoscope of Rainbows, Neil Ardley's 1976 masterpiece, originally released on Gull Records. Produced by Neil Ardley and recorded at London's famed Morgan Studios, the sessions were engineered and mixed by Martin Levan, capturing one of the most ambitious and beloved works in British jazz. Following the acclaimed reissues of Courtney Pine's Journey to the Urge Within and Neil Ardley's Harmony of the Spheres, this third release confirms Analogue October as one of today's most meticulous and exciting reissue labels. Commissioned for the 1975 Camden Jazz Festival, Kaleidoscope of Rainbows is structured as a seven-part suite, each movement reflecting a color of the spectrum. Ardley's composition weaves together jazz improvisation, progressive rock energy, and orchestral elegance in one of the most imaginative British jazz recordings of the era. Featuring Ian Carr, Barbara Thompson, Tony Coe, Trevor Tomkins, and Geoff Castle, the album is a who's who of the UK's vibrant 1970s jazz scene. For this definitive edition, Analogue October worked directly from the original Gull master tapes. Mastering was entrusted to Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, using his renowned half-speed process to extract every detail and dynamic from Ardley's score. To give the music the headroom it deserves, the reissue has been expanded to a deluxe 2LP set, pressed on the highest-quality vinyl at Record Industry in Haarlem, Netherlands. The result is a presentation that finally does justice to the scope and brilliance of Ardley's vision. The artwork has been meticulously restored from the original film elements, ensuring a sleeve of unmatched vibrancy and fidelity. Inside, a 12-page booklet printed on heavyweight card features an in-depth essay on Neil Ardley and the making of Kaleidoscope of Rainbows, written by Jazzwise magazine editor Mike Flynn, alongside rare photographs from the period. As with every Analogue October release, Kaleidoscope of Rainbows has been curated and produced by label founder Craig Crane with a collector's eye for detail and a deep respect for the music's legacy. This reissue is not only the definitive vinyl edition of one of the great British jazz fusion albums -- it also continues the label's mission to restore and celebrate the most vital recordings of the era.
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"Intervention Records presents the first vinyl release in its Intervention Sun Records Hi-Fi Series, Carl Perkins' groundbreaking rockabilly classic, 1957's Dance Album of Carl Perkins. This premium vinyl release commemorates the 70th anniversary of Sun's Sam Philips recording Carl Perkins' smash 'Blue Suede Shoes,' which was released as a single on New Year's Day 1956. Dance Album isn't just full of legendary songs that gave birth to rock n' roll itself, many of these tunes are now rock standards that have stood the test of time. These iconic songs have been covered by Elvis Presley, The Beatles (as a band plus George, Paul and Ringo solo), Johnny Cash and so many more! As great as many of these versions are from over the decades, arguably no one ever did these tunes with more swag than Carl himself on Dance Album! The SMASH hits include Perkins-written classics like 'Blue Suede Shoes,' 'Honey Don't,' 'Matchbox,' and 'Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby.' The album also includes Carl's covers of 'Only You' and 'Wrong Yo Yo.'"
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Delayed... "Duke Ellington was one of the most important and influential figures in the entire history of jazz, as pianist, bandleader, composer and innovator, his career spanned the evolution from the early days of electric recording. However, while critics and commentators focus on his over-arching significance as a giant of the medium, it's easy to forget that he was a genius at composing tune and songs for the medium of the three-minute, 78rpm single, and during the first three decades of his career before rock 'n' roll changed the pop landscape irrevocably, he had more than 70 records that were credited as chart hits. The Duke himself preferred not to have his work referred to as 'jazz' but liked people to see it as he himself saw it, as being 'beyond category,' simply 'American music.' In a career lasting six decades, he attracted the very best musicians to his orchestras, and gifted to the world many of the jazz standards we know and love today This LP brings together some of his most iconic compositions, including timeless classics such as the Billboard R&B No.1 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore,' alongside stalwarts of the jazz canon 'Mood Indigo,' 'Sophisticated Lady,' 'Solitude,' 'Caravan,' 'Take The 'A' Train,' and 'It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing).' It's a fantastic insight into his most successful output during a primary era of his career, and a great showcase for the artistry which made the Duke such a revered and iconic personality."
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Tragic Magic brings together Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore, two of contemporary ambient, experimental and electronic music's most celebrated composers, for a unique collaboration at the Philharmonie de Paris, with extraordinary access to the Musée de la Musique's instrument collection, in partnership with the French label InFiné. The album features seven immersive, evocative compositions guided by the human spirit -- intimate, grounded in friendship, both earthly and cosmic -- and part of a greater continuum, reflecting the solace and transformative power of artistry across generations. Co-produced by Trevor Spencer (Fleet Foxes, Beach House), Tragic Magic was created in just nine days, a testament to the "musical telepathy" that has developed between Barwick and Lattimore over years of touring and friendship. Arriving in Paris from Los Angeles shortly after the 2025 wildfires, their sessions combined improvisation with the emotions and experiences they carried, in a setting both inspiring and deeply supportive. Lattimore selected harps tracing the instrument's evolution from 1728 to 1873, while Barwick chose several iconic analog synthesizers, including the Roland JUPITER and Sequential Circuits PROPHET-5. In freeform dialogue between voice and instrument, they create a meditation on tragedy, wonder, and the restorative power of shared experience. The duo, often joined by Spencer, also explored the city, sharing meals and visiting museums and landmarks, each encounter leaving an impression on their next session. The experience allowed them to work intimately with rare instruments, blending their personal sensibilities with centuries of history, resulting in music that honors the past while remaining a deeply authentic expression of the present. Throughout Tragic Magic, Barwick and Lattimore find something beyond themselves: a sense that while everything may not be okay, beauty persists. Their approach -- transforming life into music, observing, feeling, and creating -- continues a lineage of creative expression and visionary invention, embodied in the very instruments they employed for this project. LP version (IF 1100LP) comes in forest green biovinyl and includes 30x60cm poster, printed inner-sleeves.
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LP version. Forest Green biovinyl. Includes Poster 30x60 cm, printed inner-sleeves. Tragic Magic brings together Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore, two of contemporary ambient, experimental and electronic music's most celebrated composers, for a unique collaboration at the Philharmonie de Paris, with extraordinary access to the Musée de la Musique's instrument collection, in partnership with the French label InFiné. The album features seven immersive, evocative compositions guided by the human spirit -- intimate, grounded in friendship, both earthly and cosmic -- and part of a greater continuum, reflecting the solace and transformative power of artistry across generations. Co-produced by Trevor Spencer (Fleet Foxes, Beach House), Tragic Magic was created in just nine days, a testament to the "musical telepathy" that has developed between Barwick and Lattimore over years of touring and friendship. Arriving in Paris from Los Angeles shortly after the 2025 wildfires, their sessions combined improvisation with the emotions and experiences they carried, in a setting both inspiring and deeply supportive. Lattimore selected harps tracing the instrument's evolution from 1728 to 1873, while Barwick chose several iconic analog synthesizers, including the Roland JUPITER and Sequential Circuits PROPHET-5. In freeform dialogue between voice and instrument, they create a meditation on tragedy, wonder, and the restorative power of shared experience. The duo, often joined by Spencer, also explored the city, sharing meals and visiting museums and landmarks, each encounter leaving an impression on their next session. The experience allowed them to work intimately with rare instruments, blending their personal sensibilities with centuries of history, resulting in music that honors the past while remaining a deeply authentic expression of the present. Throughout Tragic Magic, Barwick and Lattimore find something beyond themselves: a sense that while everything may not be okay, beauty persists. Their approach -- transforming life into music, observing, feeling, and creating -- continues a lineage of creative expression and visionary invention, embodied in the very instruments they employed for this project.
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After a six-year hiatus, Efdemin returns with Poly -- his fifth studio album, released on the recently revived Berghain-affiliated label, Ostgut Ton. As the title suggests, Poly explores multiplicity: of rhythm, texture, style, and emotion. Across eleven meticulously sculpted textures, the album weaves a multidimensional web of sonic references, nodding to the origins of techno while pushing resolutely into uncharted terrain. Poly feels like an afterglow -- of decades on the dancefloor, of restless sonic exploration, and of a profound connection to the spaces and communities that have shaped Efdemin's sound. Over the course of 60 minutes listeners are taken through different territories and landscapes of sound. Mysterious and swirling, abstract and droning textures over at times fast and stoic rhythmic concepts. Sometimes the sunlight breaks into the opaque and mysterious soundscapes before the pulse is taken over and sucks listeners back straight into the club. The overall tone of Poly is mild and playful, introvert and at times dreamy. The music is rich in sonic expression and breathes the spirit of musical concepts that have been refined over the course of decades. What Sollmann has condensed here feels like a culmination of his multilayered and polyphonic personality situated between club, museum, studio and academy. The album cover features a striking photograph of a human ear by renowned German artist Isa Genzken. Known for her radical visual language, Genzken's work here functions as a metaphor for deep listening. The ear symbolizes the layered complexity and immersive quality of the music on Poly -- an invitation to perceive sound in all its depth, fragility, and force and unlock it's potential to unite different voices in a distorted reality.
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"Dormancy comes in many forms. For some it is a break from the world of stress and the constant demands one finds oneself under. For others it is a much-needed respite from the grind, a time to disengage from the wheel and collect oneself for the next challenge. If The Sun Dies, Greg Weeks' seventh release, is a signal that his respite is over. Pursuing creativity once again, Weeks finds himself in a period of explosive productivity. He has written an enormous number of songs over the past few years, enough to fuel five separate projects, including If The Sun Dies. In addition, he has rebuilt his Hexham Head Studio (still all analog, still twenty-four tracks) and resuscitated his label Language Of Stone (sans imprint status). If The Sun Dies, which takes its title from an Oriana Fallaci novel, is every bit a Weeks album: cryptic-poetic lyrics over melancholic melodies strummed on acoustic guitar and ornamented with the analog instruments he has forever treasured (Hammond Organ, Mellotron, Mini-Moog, and effects-laden guitars). However, the album feels like a departure, a maturation in both content and approach despite its many echoes from the past. The album's running thread is melancholia, but lyrically the tunes couldn't be more disparate. 'If The Sun Dies' is an anthem that posits the end of things being the only means by which two people can find time to truly connect. 'The Heathen Heart' speaks to one's desire for salvation yet underscores a different, more frightening reality. The more narrative 'A Narrow Star' follows a young woman's journey into entropy, while 'Tail Lights Burn The Hillside Red' explores the depression that likely drove her there. Shifting gears, 'Dream You Awake' investigates the more archetypal territory of the star-crossed lovers, while 'Driven' attempts, unsuccessfully, to put the genie back into the bottle. 'Ridley Street,' a song about a stalker, is juxtaposed to 'Rainless,' a song that believes in the transcendent power of love. While 'A Million Ways To Die' and 'Gone Darkside' tread quite literal territory, the album's closer, 'What It Takes' questions identity in the face of pharmaceuticals. Taken in total, the album amounts to a complete return to form."
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The music of the duo Parajekt is created on electronic instruments. Drum machines, samplers, modular synths, and effects devices all culminate in a tape recorder, whose limitations invite them to work with great musical and sonic precision. The resulting pieces serve as the first layer and as a sound score, which is then overwritten, mixed, and refined with dub techniques in a subsequent step. Elements inspired by electronic beat music, musique concrete, and noise merge in a musical performance that brings the studio action onto the stage and places it front and center.
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closer is Sepalot's soulful mosaic of beats and unity, where hip-hop grit meets human connection. The album blends sample-based production with classic songwriting -- like a sonic mosaic of warmth and groove. Lyrically "hippiesque," Sepalot explores natural beauty, unity, equality, and self-determination. Guest features shine: Blu delivers sharp lyricism, and Illa J surprises with soulful vocals on "My Own Way." For fans of The Avalanches, Caribou, and Madlib. closer is lush, human, and unforgettable. Sepalot is one of those rare artists whose sonic palette refuses to be boxed in. His music exists in the fertile space between multi-layered sophistication and playful unpredictability -- a quality rooted in his eclectic upbringing. From skate-punk beginnings to soul all-nighters, from obsessive vinyl digging to deep immersion in hip-hop's golden era, Sepalot has carried the art of sampling like a badge of honor. His beats are mosaics -- meticulously pieced together fragments of sound forming an intricate whole. Beyond the studio, he's explored these influences as DJ, producer, and live performer, leading the Sepalot Quartet across Europe's jazz festivals, and more recently with his experimental band Tikhet alongside Angela Aux.
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RELEASE DATE: 1/30/2026
Lande Hekt has quietly become one of the UK's best underground songwriters. On her 2021 debut full-length Going To Hell and 2022's House Without a View, she explored her queer identity, sobriety, and childhood trauma through the lens of heartfelt, conversational indie-pop, which led to spots opening for the likes of Alvvays, Throwing Muses, and The Beths. Her new album Lucky Now, written and recorded with producer Matthew Simms (Wire, It Hugs Back), reflects the most mature and confident version of Lande Hekt yet. Hekt's musical touchstones -- The Wedding Present, The Sundays, The Replacements -- remain the same, but at the same time she's delved deeper into other influences. Lucky Now is indebted to 1980s twee-pop and jangle-pop like The Pastels, Tallulah Gosh and The Bats, plus more modern iterations of the sound such as Autocamper and Jeanines, in its ecstatic, soaring melodies and gorgeous, tactile guitars. The sound is fitting for Hekt's new lyrical outlook, where, though despair and anxiety rear their heads, she digs deep to find the gratitude. "I wanted to try and push for something slightly more positive, which I'm trying to do more of generally -- just to not fall apart," Hekt says. In keeping with that, opening track "Kitchen ii" is a love song about sharing simple, domestic moments with a partner, while "Rabbits" is a song about hope inspired by one summer solstice spent on Glastonbury Tor. Meanwhile, the slower, acoustic-based "Middle of the Night" is about "reeling from a realization of being properly happy for the first time in my life," Hekt says. Hekt also returns to more politically-based songwriting, after largely avoiding politics in both life and music during a disillusioned period, on "Circular" and "A Million Broken Hearts". During the process of making the album, Hekt also moved from Bristol back to her hometown of Exeter. She wrote Lucky Now's closing track, "Coming Home", about the experience of returning there after a long tour; smelling the familiar smells, spotting the familiar faces. In a lot of ways, Lucky Now is about return -- return to joy, return to places and parts of the self once left behind. Who you once were can seem unreachable, but sometimes you can build a bridge.
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LP version. Lande Hekt has quietly become one of the UK's best underground songwriters. On her 2021 debut full-length Going To Hell and 2022's House Without a View, she explored her queer identity, sobriety, and childhood trauma through the lens of heartfelt, conversational indie-pop, which led to spots opening for the likes of Alvvays, Throwing Muses, and The Beths. Her new album Lucky Now, written and recorded with producer Matthew Simms (Wire, It Hugs Back), reflects the most mature and confident version of Lande Hekt yet. Hekt's musical touchstones -- The Wedding Present, The Sundays, The Replacements -- remain the same, but at the same time she's delved deeper into other influences. Lucky Now is indebted to 1980s twee-pop and jangle-pop like The Pastels, Tallulah Gosh and The Bats, plus more modern iterations of the sound such as Autocamper and Jeanines, in its ecstatic, soaring melodies and gorgeous, tactile guitars. The sound is fitting for Hekt's new lyrical outlook, where, though despair and anxiety rear their heads, she digs deep to find the gratitude. "I wanted to try and push for something slightly more positive, which I'm trying to do more of generally -- just to not fall apart," Hekt says. In keeping with that, opening track "Kitchen ii" is a love song about sharing simple, domestic moments with a partner, while "Rabbits" is a song about hope inspired by one summer solstice spent on Glastonbury Tor. Meanwhile, the slower, acoustic-based "Middle of the Night" is about "reeling from a realization of being properly happy for the first time in my life," Hekt says. Hekt also returns to more politically-based songwriting, after largely avoiding politics in both life and music during a disillusioned period, on "Circular" and "A Million Broken Hearts". During the process of making the album, Hekt also moved from Bristol back to her hometown of Exeter. She wrote Lucky Now's closing track, "Coming Home", about the experience of returning there after a long tour; smelling the familiar smells, spotting the familiar faces. In a lot of ways, Lucky Now is about return -- return to joy, return to places and parts of the self once left behind. Who you once were can seem unreachable, but sometimes you can build a bridge.
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RELEASE DATE: 2/3/2026
Delayed until 2026... "A massive photographic archive of Lee 'Scratch' Perry's legendary recording studio. A 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where producer Lee 'Scratch' Perry created music from 1973 onward. The eclectic and constantly evolving decoration of the studio provides an enduring visual counterpart to Perry's expansive musical catalog. From mural paintings to shape-shifting assemblages of records, instruments, found objects, posters and newspaper clippings, the artworks layer upon one another as they intertwine with the studio building itself. Perry created his own dense and diverse world in which to work: memorialized in this volume before the Black Ark disappears for good. The photographic documentation of the studio in the spring of 2021 was supplemented by efforts to secure and preserve Perry's works, objects and recordings as part of a joint project with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Black Ark reflects the rhythm and layering effects of collage both in its content and the materials used to craft the book. Perry was involved in the development of this publication until his death in August 2021. The book closes with memorial essays from Ishion Hutchinson, David Katz, Kodwo Eshun, and John Corbett. Lee 'Scratch' Perry (1936-2021) was a musician and producer best known for pioneering the dub genre in the 1970s. He worked with well-known Jamaican artists such as Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Heptones, the Congos, and Max Romeo. In 2003 he won a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album."
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Delayed further... until early 2026.."Pioneering media artist and concrete poet Ferdinand Kriwet's 1971 cult artist's book in a facsimile edition. A monumental, three-volume encyclopedia of alphabetically organized images, Ferdinand Kriwet: Stars was first published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1971. In the 1960s, German author and media artist Ferdinand Kriwet (1942-2018), inspired by concrete poetry and its interest in the visual quality of linguistic signs, began to approach the literary medium of the book in a new way. Imagining new ways of reading that resisted linearity, Kriwet experimented with alternatives, encouraging a rapid back-and-forth between the pages of the book and the texts and images on them. In Stars, he treats images like words and arranges them in alphabetical order in an epic encyclopedia format. For years, Stars has only been available, at considerable cost, in antiquarian book catalogs. This new facsimile edition of Ferdinand Kriwet: Stars brings Kriwet's pioneering vision and his seminal book back into print." 416 pages. 2.5 pounds. 5.50(w) x 8.75(h).
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Paperback. 150 pages. "One of the towering figures of 20th-century art holds forth on his controversial life and career in a previously unpublished set of interviews. Over six sessions between September 1951 and November 1952, Marcel Duchamp sat down with collectors and gallerists Harriet and Sidney Janis for a wide-ranging conversation about his inspirations and working processes, and his many opinions on the workings of the modern art world and its histories. The Janises, owners of the influential Sidney Janis Gallery, were ardent supporters of modern art and close friends with Duchamp. Harriet, an accomplished author, led the interviews with an eye toward writing a monograph on Duchamp, though this was never realized. Now, this previously unknown chronicle is available for the first time through the efforts of Carroll Janis, Sidney and Harriet's son. Under Harriet's expert guidance, Duchamp holds forth on his artistic philosophies, his career, his friends, his rivals and his lifelong obsession with chess. He provides an inside look at some of his most famous works, from his controversial 'Readymades' to 'The Large Glass.' Contextualized with illustrations, annotations and an introduction by Carroll Janis, this publication is a rich treasure trove of information on one of the 20th century's most controversial, groundbreaking and larger-than-life artists. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) dismantled the boundaries of what constitutes a work of art. Although he began his career as a painter, Duchamp was also a curator, conservator, art advisor, professional chess player, writer, inventor and celebrity. Following the completion of his conceptual masterpiece, 'The Large Glass' (1915-23), he abandoned traditional artmaking altogether. Today he is best known for his 'Readymades' -- ordinary objects such as a urinal or bicycle wheel, elevated to works of art -- which challenged traditional aesthetics and redefined authorship."
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