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ALPHA & OMEGA	Overstanding	LP	STEPPAS RECORDS	AO 018LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/29/2021 UK dub pioneers Alpha & Omega represent the foundation of soundsystem culture and bass music migration from Jamaica, via the UK, to the world. Formed in the 1980s and with over 30 studio albums to their name. Finally, for the first time in three decades Steppas Records has launched the A&O full LP reissue series. The latest in the series is Overstanding a timeless and much sought-after album originally released in 1992 currently only available at sky high prices, if at all. Lovingly re-mastered and presented in the original sleeve featuring the iconic A&O artwork. Overstanding is another genre-defining album and a true piece of musical history. Features Nishka and The Exile.

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LANCELLOTTI, DOMENICO	Raio	LP	BANANA AND LOUIE RECORDS	BL 007LP
$30.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 9/10/2021 Each new record by Domenico Lancellotti (1972, Brazil) must be celebrated as a little gift. The Rio de Janeiro-born in-demand drummer (regular musician for Gilberto Gil) and inspired contemporary songwriters, Domenico owns a short but stunning catalog, either solo or along with his pals Kassin and Moreno Veloso (+2). Raio means his comeback three years after the hailed The Good Is A Big God for Luaka Bop. A brilliant new collection of songs recorded from his new home in Lisbon, where Lancellotti's musical parameters continue the path of his rich musical universe, that is, his personal update on all the best music the MPB has provided, with Joao Donato or Milton Nascimento as main references, sailing always through seductive and playful trademark orchestrations. Domenico explains the reasons on Raio: "In 2018, Lúcia Koch invited me to set up an art installation for the Kansas City Biennial. We chose a vacant lot in the ancient black neighborhood, the same place where Charlie Parker was born, and the first black newspaper was founded in a building close to this lot full of weeds and trash. For this project I created six weeded and cleaned sound mushrooms that were buried in the ground. Each mushroom was made of five speakers set up in circles, with one of the bass speakers in the middle. In order to get an idea of the complete display of the musical themes, people should move around. Some of the tracks on this album were part of this installation which we called Dynamo! I moved to Portugal in 2019 and from here I kept recording. I was almost done with the record when the COVID-19 crisis arose, therefore I started working remotely, Nina Miranda sang two songs from his home in London, the Polish pianist Piotr Zabrodsky recorded piano and keys also from his home in Warsaw, Daniel Carvalho mixed and mastered the album at his studio in Rio de Janeiro. This record, called Raio, was developed since then. It is a record about permanent transformation. Everything needs to change, that is all."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
VA	Right On Time: Trojan Rock Steady	2LP	MUSIC ON VINYL	MOV 2718LP
$37.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/27/2021 "Right On Time: Trojan Rock Steady is the second part of the exclusive Music On Vinyl's Trojan compilation series, which celebrates the best works from the legendary reggae label Trojan Records. It was compiled by Laurence Cane Honeysett, who also wrote the linernotes. Some of Trojan's finest are featured on this compilation; as there are The Gladiators, The Melodians, The Gladiators, Ken Boothe, a.o. 750 individually numbered copies on orange vinyl. The package also includes an exclusive Trojan/Music On Vinyl coaster."

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VA	Tougher Than Tough: Trojan Rude Boy Sounds	2LP	MUSIC ON VINYL	MOV 2717LP
$37.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/27/2021 "Tougher Than Tough: Trojan Rude Boy Sounds is an exclusive release from Music On Vinyl's Trojan compilation series, which celebrates the best works from the legendary reggae label Trojan Records. It was compiled by Laurence Cane-Honeysett, who also wrote the linernotes. Some of the artists featured on this compilation include Stranger Cole, The Pioneers and Alton Ellis. 750 individually numbered copies on orange vinyl. The package also includes exclusive Trojan Records and Music On Vinyl coaster."

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
VASCONCELOS SENTIMENTO	Furto	LP	FAR OUT RECORDINGS	FARO 226LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/13/2021 LP version. Residing in Rio de Janeiro, Vasconcelos Sentimento is a self-taught composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. A mosaic of lo-fi breaks, cosmic ambient jazz and wonky chromatic funk, the eccentric Brazilian DIY wizard's debut album Furto beautifully pieces together a huge range of seemingly disparate sonic elements. Calling himself an "amateur euphoric sound researcher", he has no formal training in either music theory or production, and it's simply by following his ear that has led him to creating his debut album for Far Out Recordings. It was his fascination with his fellow countryman, the enigmatic, psychedelic '70s folk artist Jose Mauro, that led the young Vasconcelos Sentimento (real name Guilherme Esteves) to first make contact with Far Out. Coincidentally living in the same region as Mauro, Sentimento managed to track him down and put label boss Joe Davis in touch, after Davis had spent years of what felt like hopeless searching for the man many assumed dead. When Joe and the FarOut team heard Guilhermes' own music, there was a sense of shock. "It was unlike anything we'd heard before, but it also sounded curiously at home on Far Out. Like it had taken little pieces of different releases from the catalog, and all the music from the '60s onwards that influences everything we do, and recreated all that magic in such an exciting new way." Indeed, Sentimento is not afraid to admit what he himself sees as acts of theft. (Furto = Theft in Portuguese). But while the debate surrounding the ethics of sampling is a never ending one, Sentimento's music -- while it does contain the odd sample, including an interview with Joe Davis himself, "One For The Masta Digga" -- steals in an entirely different way. His creative process involves an intensive period, in which he'll listen to just one artist or song over and over, for days and weeks on end. Then he'll head to his rudimentary bedroom studio, which, as he puts it, is "built for speed", hit record and "blurt" whatever comes out. "I never spend more than a day working on any one song idea"... Picasso once said "lesser artists borrow; great artists steal." And it's through this process of Furto that Vasconcelos Sentimento has somewhat ironically cultivated a sound that is unmistakably his own.

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MANDUKA	Manduka	LP	VAMPISOUL	VAMPI 234LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/13/2021 Reissue of the first album by Brazilian musician, poet and plastic artist Manduka. Originally released in 1972 on IRT, the album is a sought-after collectors' item, especially among those who seek in its cultural richness, fundamental episodes of Chilean popular musical history. An essential record almost entirely written by Manduka during his exile years in Chile, away from his home in Brazil. It includes improvised jams and songs about Brazilian history, his own exile and the new cultures he got exposed to. A sublime combination of acoustic guitar sounds, percussions and delicate songwriting that may remind you of some other Brazilian artists like Os Novos Baianos or even Caetano. It includes a special cover version of Violeta Parra's "Qué dirá el Santo Padre" and features guest artists like Soledad Bravo, Patricio Castillo, Baltasar Villaseca from Congregación, brothers Gabriel and Eduardo Parra, members of Los Jaivas, and Numhauser himself.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
VASCONCELOS SENTIMENTO	Furto	CD	FAR OUT RECORDINGS	FARO 226CD
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/13/2021 Residing in Rio de Janeiro, Vasconcelos Sentimento is a self-taught composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. A mosaic of lo-fi breaks, cosmic ambient jazz and wonky chromatic funk, the eccentric Brazilian DIY wizard's debut album Furto beautifully pieces together a huge range of seemingly disparate sonic elements. Calling himself an "amateur euphoric sound researcher", he has no formal training in either music theory or production, and it's simply by following his ear that has led him to creating his debut album for Far Out Recordings. It was his fascination with his fellow countryman, the enigmatic, psychedelic '70s folk artist Jose Mauro, that led the young Vasconcelos Sentimento (real name Guilherme Esteves) to first make contact with Far Out. Coincidentally living in the same region as Mauro, Sentimento managed to track him down and put label boss Joe Davis in touch, after Davis had spent years of what felt like hopeless searching for the man many assumed dead. When Joe and the FarOut team heard Guilhermes' own music, there was a sense of shock. "It was unlike anything we'd heard before, but it also sounded curiously at home on Far Out. Like it had taken little pieces of different releases from the catalog, and all the music from the '60s onwards that influences everything we do, and recreated all that magic in such an exciting new way." Indeed, Sentimento is not afraid to admit what he himself sees as acts of theft. (Furto = Theft in Portuguese). But while the debate surrounding the ethics of sampling is a never ending one, Sentimento's music -- while it does contain the odd sample, including an interview with Joe Davis himself, "One For The Masta Digga" -- steals in an entirely different way. His creative process involves an intensive period, in which he'll listen to just one artist or song over and over, for days and weeks on end. Then he'll head to his rudimentary bedroom studio, which, as he puts it, is "built for speed", hit record and "blurt" whatever comes out. "I never spend more than a day working on any one song idea"... Picasso once said "lesser artists borrow; great artists steal." And it's through this process of Furto that Vasconcelos Sentimento has somewhat ironically cultivated a sound that is unmistakably his own.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
MINYO CRUSADERS & FRENTE CUMBIERO	Minyo Cumbiero (From Tokyo to Bogota) (Green Vinyl)	LP	MAIS UM	MAIS 038C-LP
$16.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/6/2021 Green vinyl. Tokyo-based ten-piece and wild Japanese folk-song fusionists, Minyo Crusaders join forces with Colombian cumbia radicals Frente Cumbiero on the history-making Minyo Cumbiero, the first ever Japanese-Colombian collaborative release, and one that fuses ancient Japanese folk songs with heavyweight Colombian styles. Recorded across two days in Bogota in August 2019 Minyo Cumbiero includes versions of an ancient Japanese rap tune, modern cumbia standard and 1980s Chinese computer game theme-song and captures a thrilling exchange between two radical and triumphant groups. Japan and Colombia may be cultural opposites on different sides of the world, yet the countries are bursting at the seams musically and on this EP both groups stridently drive their respective music cultures and histories in exciting new directions with powerhouse horn sections, rippling dub basslines, and rampant Afro-Latin polyrhythms creating carnival grooves, released here via London-based label, Mais Um. For an uncompromisingly contemporary and inventive take on traditional Colombian cumbia, look no further than Frente Cumbiero. Headed by Colombian songwriter and producer Mario Galeano Toro (also a founding member of Ondatrópica and Los Pirañas), the Bogota-based crew have spearheaded Colombia's thriving new-look cumbia movement for well over a decade, fusing cumbia rhythms and bass weight electronics with releases featuring collaborations with the legendary London-based dub producer, Mad Professor and US-based Kronos Quartet. Following the release of their acclaimed debut album, Echoes of Japan in 2019 (MAIS 036CD/LP), Minyo Crusaders -- or MinCru as their Japanese fans know them as -- have won-over a global audience with their unique take on Japanese folk music. A debut European tour in 2019 saw main-stage performances at Le Guess Who and Transmusicales and was soon followed by shows at WOMADelaide and WOMAD New Zealand in early 2020 that saw audiences intoxicated by their mix of traditional Japanese folk songs (min'yō) and Afro-funk, Thai pop, Ethio-jazz and reggae. Fronted by singers "Freddy" Tsukamoto (his nickname comes from his hero, Freddie Mercury) and Megu, with guitarist and bandleader Katsumi Tanaka, the members of the ten-piece are drawn from Tokyo's vibrant and diverse jazz and Afro-Latin scenes.

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BOMBA, RICARDO	Eu Sei/Flutando	7"	FAR OUT RECORDINGS	JD 051EP
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/6/2021 Far Out Recordings presents two previously unreleased tracks of glorious Brazilian sunshine music. Written and recorded in 1978 by pianist, composer, sound engineer, studio owner and former amateur skateboarding champion Ricardo Bomba, "Eu Sei" and "Flutuando" were almost doomed to total obscurity when the master tapes were binned following a ruthless studio clear out. Luckily, Bomba kept a cassette tape copy from which Far Out has remastered the release for 7" vinyl. Throughout a varied career, which included a four year stint as bandleader of Jorge Ben's live show (78-82), Ricardo Bomba had a string of idiosyncratic, underground pop hits throughout the '80s, including "Você Vai Se Lembrar" which recently featured on Soundway's Onda De Amor (Synthesized Brazilian Hits That Never Were 1984-94) compilation, as well as his then award-winning, now obscure solo album Ultralight (1988). With the stunning vocals of Mariana Couto (the first wife of Chicago percussionist Laudir de Oliveira), legendary drummer Peninha who has recorded with the likes of Jorge Ben, Quarteto Em Cy, Lincoln Olivetti, Tony Bizarro and Gal Costa, and Brazilian guitarist Blimba Buarque, "Eu Sei" and "Flutuando" truly are lost gems of the late '70s Rio de Janeiro MPB scene. *Disclaimer!: This release was mastered from cassette tape, so the sound quality may differ from other releases on Far Out Recordings.

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DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE	Serpiente Dorada (Gold Vinyl)	LP	ENCHUFADA	ENLP 049C-LP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2021 LP version. Gold vinyl. After more than a decade at the forefront of the global club music scene with several celebrated albums and EPs under their belt, Peruvian duo Dengue Dengue Dengue's seminal 2014 Enchufada EP Serpiente Dorada is still one of the most impactful of their exciting career. Capturing the vitality of their early genre-defining work, where the traditional and hypnotic rhythms of cumbia were modernized through a collage of electronic music styles, Serpiente Dorada is still at the top of their most played music on streaming platforms to this day, and has motivated their fanbase to continuously demand a physical edition since its initial digital release. The wait is finally over as in 2021, just as the band completed ten years of activity, Enchufaded press a beautiful 12" vinyl, freshly remastered for vinyl to give this essential release the quality it deserves. Serpiente Dorada remains an absolutely infectious and colorful mixture of global sounds, where genres and styles are used as a starting point on their ongoing hybrid exploration of the interaction between traditional Latin American music and modern electronic music, where the total is much more than the sum of its parts.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
OJAH FEAT. NIK TORP	Over Yonder/Over Yonder Dub	7"	ALCHEMY DUBS	ALDBS 7015EP
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2021 For Alchemy Dub's twentieth vinyl release, and fifteenth 7", the label presents a new collaboration between Ojah and Nik Torp. The A side contains the track "Over Yonder", an instrumental track featuring wonderful melodica melodies courtesy of Nik Torp, keyboard player from The Specials. It's an introspective and meditative track with a positive twist that was written during the first UK lockdown, and that invites the listener to look to the future, to the other side, to look over yonder. On the B side you find "Over Yonder Dub", a minimalist dub version mixed live by Ojah with analog effects that takes you on a trip deep down the echo chamber.

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SPIRITS REJOICE	African Spaces	LP	MATSULI MUSIC	MM 121LP
$36.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2021 "At a distance of more than forty years, the radicalism and significance of African Spaces can be seen more clearly. Ambitious, uncompromising, and resolutely progressive, it represents a unique high-water mark in South Africa's long musical engagement with the newest developments in American jazz -- a response to the cosmic call of Return To Forever, and an answer to Miles' On the Corner. Spirits Rejoice drew together some of South Africa's most abundantly talented and forward-thinking jazz players and created a complex and challenging jazz fusion that shifted the terms of South Africa's engagement with jazz towards new music being made by pioneers such as Chick Corea, Weather Report, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny and others. African Spaces, their debut recording, is one of the key documents in the South African jazz canon. Emerging in the aftermath of the 1976 Soweto uprising, and taking its place alongside the crucial mid-1970s music of Malombo, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Batsumi, it is a defining but unsung musical statement of its era."

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VAUDOU GAME	Noussin	CD	HOT CASA	HC 071CD
$13.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2021 African, funky, sarcastic, bewitching, green, ecstatic: these words collide to describe Vaudou Game and all of them are true. Noussin is the fourth album of the French Afro funk band. Forced into lockdown, like much of the planet, Peter Solo and his Vaudou Game had no choice but to retreat into the studio. A reunion to once again invoke the spiritual forces of the Voodoo Deities. A reunion that was Initially imagined for an EP -- yet these spiritual forces behind that imagination yearned for something more, and as we all know, these forces are impossible to push away once they have decided to stay. Under the strain enforced by the current socioeconomic climate, as much as by the environmental peril that faces us all today -- they diverted the course of the groove towards daring new vibrations. Without extinguishing or diminishing its highly communicative power, they released Vaudou Game from its origins of pure Afro funk to gradually engage into compositions which crystallized themselves into tones resembling more rock than funk. On this fourth album, with an entirely revisited line-up, Peter Solo separates for the first time in his career from his brassy guard, leaving saxophone, trumpet and trombone outside to invite an arsenal of keyboards to define, with him, this new voodoo sound. A sound, as usual, built on vintage and precise analogical material -- grime even on the white side of the tape, a blunt instrument used to blanket anything that strived to shine too much in the mix. Graced with tapered guitars stringing out rhythmic bumps or withdrawing a few beats to indulge in infectious solos, this album is boisterously alive with vintage '70s funk, infused with a few digressions into other ethers of the funk timeline, nicking different sounds and frequencies to render the black and white keys of an inspired keyboard to reach new euphoric levels of melodic acidity. Tearing off the enigmatic mask to reveal his true face: on a few titles, Peter Solo ventures outside of his sacred voodoo range to reconnect with his London years, these titles feature small nods to the time he spent in "The Smoke" where the incantations of British music culture were written within him. "Noussin". Which means "Stay strong" in Mina, a dialect spoken in the south-west of Togo. "Noussin". A message of hope as much as a call to come together to weather the turmoil and to come out better on the other side. Don't let them grind you down -- Noussin.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
MEIRELLES, HELENA	A Rainha da Viola Caipira	2LP	VAMPISOUL	VAMPI 235LP
$34.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2021 It's about time to uncover the most unknown Brazilian music style. Unlike other Brazilian musical traditions as samba and bossa-nova, never ever anything of Caipira music has been released outside Brazil. Repairing this huge gap, Vampisoul presents A Rainha da Viola Caipira, a stunning 25-track compilation of the revered "Queen Of The Viola Caipira", Helena Meirelles. To start with, what is a viola? It looks like an acoustic guitar but is not. It has nearly the same shape but it is slightly smaller. Instead of the six or twelve strings, it has ten strings, paired in duplets of five strings. It has a very distinctive sound, having an enhanced treble, and a sharper reverb. The sound must be played with a hard pick because its original steel strings are thicker than the ordinary ones. The viola is the main symbol of música caipira or, may we call it, caipira sound. Caipira music cannot easily be portrayed as country music or, directly, encapsulated in folk patterns, even though it contains ingredients from both of them. On top of that, it also bears an influence of guarânia (a Paraguayan slow polka played in minor scales) and corrido and ranchera (specific variations of the Mexican folklore). There's also a shadow of Mexican mariachi-style. Everything on Helena's life or art was exquisite and unique to say the least. Mother of 11 sons, estranged from all of them for 30 years, mid-wife by trade and a very late musician to debut in public (she was 68 years old when she started to record her debut album), she was born on the August 13th, 1924, and passed away in 2004. Considered by the Guitar Player Magazine, one the 100 greatest guitar players of all time, don't miss the chance to discover a brand-new kind of (Brazilian) folk music.

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RESTLESS MASHAITS	Kingston Sessions - 1992-2002	LP	PARTIAL RECORDS	PRTL 010LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2021 Restless Mashaits hailing from Geneva is based around the core of Jil and Stuf. They released a sizeable amount of new roots classics throughout the '90s and 2000s. This set comprises of the bulk of the instrumental sessions they recorded in Kingston, Jamaica in the mid/late '90s and early 2000s with legendary musicians such as Dean Fraser, Flabba Holt, Deadly Headly, Dwight Pinkney, Bongo Herman, and more. Originally released on CD only in 2002. Edition of 500.

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TARIQUA ALAWIYA, THE	The Imara (The Danse Of The Stars)	LP	VIA PARIGI	VIA 003LP
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2021 Recorded by Charles Duvelle in 2001 in Mostaganem (Algeria). This version of the 'imâra starts with the qahili introduction in the form of a prayer to the prophet, then the tawhid (the affirmation of divine unicity) : "lâ illâha illah llah". This same dikhr (psalmody) quickens its pace, at first very slowly, then more and more rapid until the name of Allah is repeated to a binary rhythm. The fuqâra will shortly retain only hu (from Allahu) as it is gradually imposed by the qutb (the pole). The hu is transformed by this special 'imâra alchemy into the unique breath of the spirant hamza (the sound emission technique is purely abdominal), and then, when the qutb claps his hands, it becomes more and more prominent. Associated with the name of Allah, the hu asserts itself by accelerating and quickening the pace to the point of metamorphosing itself into hamza. The balance between the soloist who sings the mystical poems and the rest of the assembly is progressively established, and then the acceleration of the hamza finally throws the participants into the abyss of ecstasy. White vinyl.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE	Serpiente Dorada	LP	ENCHUFADA	ENLP 049LP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2021 After more than a decade at the forefront of the global club music scene with several celebrated albums and EPs under their belt, Peruvian duo Dengue Dengue Dengue's seminal 2014 Enchufada EP Serpiente Dorada is still one of the most impactful of their exciting career. Capturing the vitality of their early genre-defining work, where the traditional and hypnotic rhythms of cumbia were modernized through a collage of electronic music styles, Serpiente Dorada is still at the top of their most played music on streaming platforms to this day, and has motivated their fanbase to continuously demand a physical edition since its initial digital release. The wait is finally over as in 2021, just as the band completed ten years of activity, Enchufaded press a beautiful 12" vinyl, freshly remastered for vinyl to give this essential release the quality it deserves. Serpiente Dorada remains an absolutely infectious and colorful mixture of global sounds, where genres and styles are used as a starting point on their ongoing hybrid exploration of the interaction between traditional Latin American music and modern electronic music, where the total is much more than the sum of its parts.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
TRAFFIC SOUND	A Bailar Go Go	3x7"	MUNSTER RECORDS	MR 7324EP
$38.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2021 Peru enjoyed a thriving and exciting music scene since the mid-1960s. Bands such as Los Saicos, Los Shain's and Los York's, to name just a few, released a number of brilliant records that drove young fans crazy and set an example for many to follow. The end of the decade brought about an evolution in sound and new music genres, as Peruvian bands kept an eye on the groundbreaking British and US artists exploring baroque pop, psychedelic rock and early prog. One of them was Traffic Sound, founded in Lima in 1967. Over a very short period of time the band managed to successfully develop their career. Virgin, its brilliant debut album, released in 1970, showed the band swimming like a fish in the acid waters of psychedelia and experimentation. This LP also showcased the group's skill at developing their own quality repertoire, which was rare on the Peruvian rock scene at that time. Suddenly, that same year, Peruvian record stores received another musical delivery signed by the band, but with a title and simple design that contrasted with the intricate graphics of their first album. The six songs on the vinyl record were already familiar to diehard fans of the band, as they had been Traffic Sound's first three singles released sometime between the end of 1968 and halfway through 1969. A Bailar Go Go was the title of this mini-LP which included the first three singles recorded in the early days of the band before Virgin was released, and solely comprised cover versions of songs by artists such as Cream, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Jimi Hendrix and Iron Butterfly. These six tracks deserve to be placed in the right spatial and temporal context, as three of the best singles of electrifyingly advanced rock from 1968-1969. A Bailar Go Go is the portrait of one of the best rock bands in Peru taking its first steps and is reissued here on separate vinyl 45s for the first time.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
VAUDOU GAME	Noussin	LP	HOT CASA	HC 071LP
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2021 LP version. African, funky, sarcastic, bewitching, green, ecstatic: these words collide to describe Vaudou Game and all of them are true. Noussin is the fourth album of the French Afro funk band. Forced into lockdown, like much of the planet, Peter Solo and his Vaudou Game had no choice but to retreat into the studio. A reunion to once again invoke the spiritual forces of the Voodoo Deities. A reunion that was Initially imagined for an EP -- yet these spiritual forces behind that imagination yearned for something more, and as we all know, these forces are impossible to push away once they have decided to stay. Under the strain enforced by the current socioeconomic climate, as much as by the environmental peril that faces us all today -- they diverted the course of the groove towards daring new vibrations. Without extinguishing or diminishing its highly communicative power, they released Vaudou Game from its origins of pure Afro funk to gradually engage into compositions which crystallized themselves into tones resembling more rock than funk. On this fourth album, with an entirely revisited line-up, Peter Solo separates for the first time in his career from his brassy guard, leaving saxophone, trumpet and trombone outside to invite an arsenal of keyboards to define, with him, this new voodoo sound. A sound, as usual, built on vintage and precise analogical material -- grime even on the white side of the tape, a blunt instrument used to blanket anything that strived to shine too much in the mix. Graced with tapered guitars stringing out rhythmic bumps or withdrawing a few beats to indulge in infectious solos, this album is boisterously alive with vintage '70s funk, infused with a few digressions into other ethers of the funk timeline, nicking different sounds and frequencies to render the black and white keys of an inspired keyboard to reach new euphoric levels of melodic acidity. Tearing off the enigmatic mask to reveal his true face: on a few titles, Peter Solo ventures outside of his sacred voodoo range to reconnect with his London years, these titles feature small nods to the time he spent in "The Smoke" where the incantations of British music culture were written within him. "Noussin". Which means "Stay strong" in Mina, a dialect spoken in the south-west of Togo. "Noussin". A message of hope as much as a call to come together to weather the turmoil and to come out better on the other side. Don't let them grind you down -- Noussin.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
ALIZADEH, SABA	I May Never See You Agai	LP	30M RECORDS	30M 003LP
$33.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/30/2021 With I May Never See You Again, the Iranian composer, musician and virtuoso of the Kamanche violin Saba Alizadeh will release his first album on the newly founded Hamburg label 30M. As on his debut album Scattered Memories from 2019, the 37-year-old Saba Alizadeh mixes his instrumental virtuosity with spherical electronics, samples of Persian musical instruments and field recordings from his hometown Tehran. Born in Tehran in 1983 to world-renowned tar and setar virtuoso Hossein Alizadeh, Saba studied the Iranian Kamanche violin with Saeed Farajpoury and Keyhan Kalhor, as well as photography and later experimental sound art with Mark Trayle at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Influenced by the conceptual approaches taught there, Saba Alizadeh's music is based on Iranian traditions and scales, only to deconstruct and abstract them in the next step. As a result, the nine mostly instrumental tracks on If I Ever See You Again inspire as sonically differentiated meditations on the subject of memory. For example, in the track "Silences Inbetween", Saba proceeds highly conceptually, when he amplifies the breathing pauses of silence in speeches of dictators from past times in historical acoustic reverberation rooms to such an extent that this silence becomes audible as distortion. The silence of the masses, "Silences Inbetween" reports, is thus by no means merely neutral sound or noise, but consists of highly charged vibrations that, amplified beyond recognition, tell of a utopia (that did not occur), a different course of world history. In this sense, it is probably a twist of fate that Saba Alizadeh befriended Andreas Spechtl, the singer of the band Ja, Panik, in Berlin in 2016, shortly before Spechtl moved to Tehran for some months as part of an artist residency. Andreas Spechtl became famous in the German-speaking world primarily thanks to his song lyrics, in which he deconstructs words in a similarly abstract way as Saba Alizadeh does the music. On If I Ever See You Again, Spechtl and Alizadeh collaborate on the two tracks "Phasing Shadows" and "Touch". Saba Alizadeh also collaborated with electroacoustic sound artist Rojin Sharafi, a native of Iran who now lives in Vienna. With her, Saba composed the track "Hybrid". Not least because of the ongoing pandemic, the two collaborated virtually, exchanging sound tracks over the Internet -- hence the title "Hybrid".

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WARGUI, HASSAN	Tiddukla	LP	HIVE MIND RECORDS	HMRLP 013LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/23/2021 Hassan Wargui is a self-taught musician, composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and an expert in the songcraft and poetry of the Tachelhit speaking Amazigh tribes of the Anti-Atlas mountains in the south of Morocco. He was born in 1985 in the rural community of Issafen, which lies between Taroudant and Tafraoute in the Anti-Atlas mountains of Southern Morocco. His music draws from the deep well of Amazigh, or Berber, cultures that have long been suppressed across North Africa after the region underwent a process of Arabization following the Arab invasions of the 7th Century. Hassan grew up in an isolated mountain community in which art and music is embedded into daily life. This allowed him to develop an excellent musical sense, a deep understanding of the complex poly-rhythms that underpin Amazigh music, and time to become proficient on the banjo which, since the ascendency of the popular modern folk movement involving groups such as Nass El Ghiwane and Jil Jilala in the late '60s and early '70s, has been the preferred instrument of the region. Like many musicians from the region, Hassan built his first instruments himself, and it wasn't until he moved to Casablanca in his teens to find work which was scarce in his local community, that he was able to save for his first real banjo. Since then, Hassan has been active in the Amazigh musical community and has worked with a number of groups, notably Groupe Lbouchart, Imanaren and Etran Tiznit, as well as recording prolifically as a solo artist at his home studio. In 2009, Jace Clayton (DJ/Rupture) stumbled across a CD by Imanaren which led to a fruitful series of collaborations in 2009 and 2011. Tiddukla (which translates to "Friendship") is one of Hassan's numerous group projects and he recorded the album with friends in 2015 and self-released it through YouTube due to the lack of music infrastructure in Morocco. The Tiddukla album is raw and hypnotic and sees Hassan and his group channeling the deep and contemplative sounds of classic Amazigh groups such as Izenzaren, Archach, Izmaz, all of whom risked their freedom by daring to sing in Tachelhit at a time when the language was still forbidden, and when Amazigh people were fighting for their rights to be recognized. Hive Mind release Hassan's beautiful music, and to introduce the fascinating rhythms of the Anti-Atlas Mountains into the wider world. Mastered by Julian Tardo at Church Road Studio, Hove. Art & Design by Theo Payne.

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LOS PIRANAS	Infame Golpazo en Keroxen	LP	KEROXEN	KRXN 014LP
$23.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/23/2021 Los Pirañas' "Greatest Hits", with an added brass section, in a disused kerosene tank, what else! The Colombian trio return with an echo blast after their last delivery Historia Natural (GB 081CD/LP, 2019) to make their own way through the psychedelic tunnel visions of cumbia, champeta, psych surf rock, and everything else in between. Made up of Bogota natives, Eblis Alvarez (Meridian Brothers, Chupame El Dedo), Pedro Ojeda (Romperayo, Chupame El Dedo) and Mario Galeano (Frente Cumbiero, Ondatropica), the trio have been playing their own brand of tropical music together for over two decades now. Infame Golpazo en Keroxen reunites the trio's subversive way of making music as they re-configure and re-record their sound live in a disused gasoline tank situated in the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands. As that wasn't enough they meet with local brass players Pablo Arocha on trumpet, Pablo González on trombone, and Eduardo Martín on tuba to mash up the already mucho tropical humid vibe into a unique gasoline implosion of tropical fervor. After three unique albums showcasing their trajectory as a trio through the South American music ethos the Colombian powerhouse return to the scene of the crime with a solid set of high energy reversions of their most memorable tunes. Features tracks from their last three albums: Toma Tu Jabón Kapax (VAMPI 148CD), La Diversion que Hacia Falta en mi País (STAUB 145LP), and Historia Natural. Part of a new collaboration between Discrepant and Keroxen labels, firing up the less obvious island-made music into the wide world. Artwork by Paco Guillén Abrante. Recorded live by Jorge Lorenzo. Mixed and Mastered by Eblis Alvarez.

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ANGELOPOULOS, JAN VAN	Streams	LP	TERANGA BEAT	TBLP 012LP
$25.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/16/2021 Teranga Beat presents the drummer-composer Yannis Angelopoulos, aka Jan Van and his project Streams. Jan Van started as a drummer in clubs playing popular Greek music (laïka) even before he was 18, a typical first step for a musician in Greece. In this way he experienced the underground and in fact the surrealistic atmosphere of the laïka Greek clubs. At the age of 20, he started working as a roadie (installing drums) and it was then that he realized a drummer can be a musical director-producer and not just a session musician. So, he decided to continue his education and in 1996 he went to study at the Rotterdam's Conservatorium's (Codarts) Jazz Department, where he stayed for seven years. Soon after his return to Athens he started wondering how to fuse jazz with laïkodimotiko (lumpen, popular music), something detectable in his recent discography. Since the mid '00s, Jan Van has been working on various jazz projects in Athens, even though the years preceding the 2010s were something of a tough period for the local scene, with limited live opportunities. Furthermore, since 2010, Greece has famously been at the epicenter of the global financial crisis. In an already dysfunctional cultural system during this decade, culture eventually became a luxury. Following ten years of recession, in March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic destroyed the efforts of the country that was struggling to recover and took away any hope. Under high psychological pressure, Jan Van had the idea of a jam session as a way-out for expression. At the same time, the particular concept of water and its properties were stuck in his mind. Water's fluidity and momentum and the idea of a quiet streaming state, shaped the only concept he eventually shared with his fellow musicians before starting to play. He only wanted them to have the energy of the water as a reference. By the end of May, a few days after the end of the lockdown, they gathered in a studio and recorded a live session of spontaneous compositions and improvisations. During that session each musician took a step back to listen and give space to one another. None of the tracks was composed before the recording. The result is a deep album which consists of organic beats with spiritual jazz vibes, sometimes exploring fusions with demotika (traditional) elements, sometimes leaning to cinematic atmospheres. The recording was mixed on two-inch reel tape with analog equipment, to achieve the best possible sound quality. Gatefold cover; includes download code.

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LU, RENATA	Renata Lu	LP	MAD ABOUT RECORDS	MAR 029LP
$32.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/16/2021 Mad About Records present a reissue of Lu Renata's self-titled album, originally released in 1971. Includes the killer funky "Faz Tanto Tempo". Renata Lu is a bit of a mystery figure... She only made a few albums in the 1970s and sang backup on many more such Tim Maia and Nonato Buzar but for whatever reasons never seemed to make it into the MPB upper echelons. Debuted solo in 1971 on her self-titled album for Copacabana Records with a heavyweight fusion of US style soul and funk with added Latin percussion. This features Renata Lu singing over a hybrid samba/boogaloo backing track rich in jaunty bass, rasping horns and jazzy electric piano riffs. Rare LP finally reissued on a deluxe edition. One of the landmarks of funk carioca. 180 gram vinyl; deluxe hard-cardboard sleeve with obi.

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DAL:UM	Similar & Different	CD	TAK:TIL/GLITTERBEAT	GB 112CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/16/2021 Dal:um is a musical duo based in Seoul, who challenges the sonic possibilities of Korea's most well-known traditional string instruments: the gayageum and geomungo. Ethereal and otherworldly, Dal:um create a compelling soundworld that treasures subtle dynamics and the space between the notes. Two musicians. Two weighty acoustic stringed instruments. A dialogue between traditional and experimental practices. Dal:um was founded in 2018 by Ha Suyean (gayageum) and Hwang Hyeyoung (geomungo). Suyean notes that they first met as members of Seoul Metropolitan Youth Traditional Music Ensemble. While both Suyean and Hyeyoung had been performing Korean traditional music since their childhoods, upon meeting they discovered a shared desire to extend the techniques and boundaries of their instruments and to develop their own distinctive repertoire. The music of Dal:um is the result. "Dal:um's literal meaning is 'keep pursuing something' and it conveys our passion for music" says Hyeyoung. "In Korean its pronunciation could also mean 'different'. Dal:um represents the sounds of two similar and different instruments -- geomungo and gayageum..." When laid flat for performance, the two instruments played by Dal:um appear to be quite similar. However, a closer examination reveals both visual and sonic individualities. These instruments are ancient in origin, have silk strings that are plucked and can emit both melodic tonalities and percussive resonances. But their size difference, as well as the fact that they have a different number of strings, gives each of them a distinctive musical character. There is a refined and patient minimalism in Dal:um's compositions and musical expression. In part this can be attributed to their deep investigation of contemporary composition. The duo specifically notes that "this album contains the results of conversations about our music with three young Korean composers: Jang Taepeyong, Choi Jiwoon and Lee Aro." Dal:um's music could also be seen as sharing aesthetic concerns with Asian traditional painting and its inherent dialogue (and harmony) between emptiness and fullness. Dal:um's beautifully balanced and expansive music is defined by inspired dialogue and creative paradox. Silence and expression. Contemporary and traditional. Fullness and emptiness. Similar and different.

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