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2022 repress. Pleasure For Music present a reissue of Bobbie Gentry's Fancy, originally released in 1970. Fancy is American singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry's sixth studio album. A dense and inspired selection of songs, mostly covers, as vivid portraits of different female characters in American culture. The album includes highly personal renditions of songs such as Bacharach's "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", Leon Russel's "Delta Man", James Taylor's "Something In The Way He Moves", and Laura Nyro's "Wedding Bell Blues". A major statement from a great artist and a true American classic.
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Pleasure For Music present a reissue of spoken-word artist Ken Nordine's was 1957 album, Word Jazz. His debut album is strongly influenced by jazz. A highly eclectic mix of smooth voice narration, sort of zen-beatnik texts, and west coast jazz arrangements as results of a fruitful collaboration with cellist Fred Katz group featuring the likes of Paul Horn on sax, flute and clarinet, and Chico Hamilton on drums and percussion. Still an innovative piece of work between spoken word, poetry, and jazz.
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2022 repress. Pleasure For Music reissues Scott Walker's The Moviegoer, originally released in 1972. Produced in summer 1972 and released in autumn of the same year by Phillips Records, this is one of the most obscure and controversial albums in Scott Walker's discography. The album was poorly received by critics and if we exclude a 1975 reissue on Contour Label, it has since been deleted till this very welcomed re-release. The Moviegoer is a declared journey through pop arrangements of iconic film music themes. The album includes mainstream oriented versions of classic themes like Nino Rota's love theme from the Godfather, Lalo Schifrin's theme from The Fox, Michel Legrand's theme from "Summer of 42", and Baez / Morricone's anthemic song from Sacco and Vanzetti.
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Pleasure For Music present a reissue of Elisabeth Waldo's Maracatù, originally released in 1959. Maracatù marked the beginning of Elisabeth Waldo's individual creative path. A unique musical exploration of Indigenous Central and South American music tradition. The music of violinist Elisabeth Waldo evokes the spirit of an ancient, mysterious world of Afro-Hispanic origins. A dazzling exotic sound tapestry performed on acoustic instruments including violins, woodwinds, guitar and percussion. In one word: Magic!
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Pleasure For Music present a reissue of Dick Hyman's The Age of Electronicus, originally released in 1969. In his long career, Dick Hyman has covered a great variety of music fields, from Broadway through music for film and television to jazz, classical, pop, and electronic music. The Age of Electronicus is one of his electronic pop jewels. A breathtaking sequence of reworked hits of the day including outstanding electro-versions of Lennon/McCartney's classics such as "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" and "Blackbird" and Bacharach's "Alfie". A whole feast of analog Moog sounds, primitive drums machines, repetitive bass lines, and lots of robotic beats. All packaged in a memorable, colorful album cover.
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Pleasure For Music present reissue of Linda Jones's Let It Be Me, originally released in 1972. Born and rooted in the Newark Gospel scene, Linda Jones was a true and splendid soul sister active between 1963 and 1972 when she suddenly died too young of diabetes complications. Her strong gospel-influenced vocal style shines through the magnificent songs contained in Let It Be Me, her classic album originally released on Turbo Records in 1972. A powerful work full of love and deep soul vibrations.
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Repressed. Pleasure For Music present a reissue of Martin Denny's A Taste Of India, originally released in 1968. This is the one and only Martin Denny diving into the highly exotic sounds of India. Originally released on Liberty Records, A Taste Of India stands as one of the best later Denny's work. Here the king of exotica injects his gorgeous instrumental arrangements with tons of sitars and tanpuras as the main ingredients of another stylized sound trip. The album highlights include a memorable version of The Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints" and Denny's own masterpiece, "Hypnotique".
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Pleasure For Music present a reissue of Terri Rae's It's Raining, originally released in 1968. Here's another unearthed gem from the late sixties American jazzy pop scene. Terri Rae was a quiet and yet creative girl from Ohio, and this is her first and definitive classic album. Backed by a fine orchestra arranged and directed by pianist Sammy Beskin, Rae's fresh voice interprets a superb selection of little known but excellent songs. The perfect record to bring the sunshine on a rainy day.
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Pleasure For Music present a reissue of Don Sebesky's The Distant Galaxy, originally released in 1968. Donald John Sebesky was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA, on December 10, 1937; his father worked in a steel-cable factory, his mother was a housewife. At the age of eight he started learning the accordion; he later came to realize that this instrument was the best possible choice he could have made because, as he says, "the accordion is a 'mini-orchestra' and teaches the principles of harmony from the very beginning." In 1965, Don Sebesky joined Verve Records when Creed Taylor was still a producer for the label. One of his most distinctive and successful arrangements was for Wes Montgomery's album Bumpin' released the same year. In 1967, when Taylor left the company to launch his own CTI, Sebesky joined the newborn label as staff arranger, giving his precious contribution in creating many hit records. During the late '60s/early '70s, his orchestral backgrounds helped make artists like Montgomery, George Benson (Shape of Things To Come, 1968), Paul Desmond (From the Hot Afternoon, 1969), and Freddie Hubbard (First Light, 1971) acceptable to audiences outside of jazz. Originally released on Verve in 1968, The Distant Galaxy is quite a hybrid of soul jazz and space-age music, an influential cornerstone fully sampled by a who's who of hip-hop and R&B superstar like Rakim, Madlib, and Buck 65. Such an obscure and terrific album that features a blend of jazz, psych and good old '60s light pop with brief "cosmic" audio tidbits inserted between most of the main tracks.
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Pleasure For Music present a reissue of Enoch Light and the Light Brigade's Permissive Polyphonics, originally released in 1970. As if the title doesn't give it away, Permissive Polyphonics finds the king of studio kings attempting to make it in the groovy, quadraphonic age. Featuring the gassy "Puppet Man", a futuristic rendition of Sergio Mendes's "Mas Que Nada" -- with bass flute courtesy of veteran Don Ashworth -- and "Pass and I Call You" with Dick Hyman's stunny organ and Vinnie Bell's fuzzy guitar, this album is an extraordinary example of easy listening at the turn of the revolutionary flower power era. Originally released in 1970 on Project 3 Total Sound.
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Pleasure For Music present a reissue of Mike Melvoin's The Plastic Cow Goes Moooooog, originally released in 1969. With sound engineer and synth wizard Bernie Krause and Paul Beaver on board, this record falls easily in the realm of space-age pop. Originally released in 1970 on Dot Records and distributed by Paramount Pictures, the album would have been a DJ tool favorite for quite a while thanks to some heavy breaks and proto-electro loops. Featuring amazing rendition of pop-rock classics such as "Born To Be Wild", "Sunshine Of Your Love", "Lay Lady Lay", and "The Ballad Of John And Yoko" this is a truly welcomed reissue!
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Pleasure For Music present a reissue of the fourth studio album by the American solo artist Scott Walker, originally released in June 1969. The album does not include original compositions by Walker and consists of performances of ballads and big band standards. The record is an accompaniment to his BBC TV series, the simply named Scott, aired during Walker's self-described "wilderness years." Released between Scott III (1969) and IV (1969), TV Series was a collection of songs Walker performed on the show re-recorded in studio.
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Pleasure For Music present a reissue of Dick Hyman's The Man From O.R.G.A.N., originally released in 1965. Can you truly believe this record was released in 1965? Forging a brand new hybrid of space-age, easy listening, and spy jazz, the American pianist and composer born in New York in 1927, put together one of the cornerstones of the genre. Before switching to the Moog synthesizer (right on time with the moon landing in 1969), Hyman had some very influential theme music releases on MGM Records and Command. But The Man From O.R.G.A.N. was a monster in itself. How could you go wrong with this trio of guitars, a bassist and three guys playing percussion? And Dick himself bringing the Lowery Organ (and the Theater Model in particular) to the front of the stage... Dig yourself!
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Pleasure For Music present a reissue of Tamiko Jones's I'll Be Anything For You, originally released in 1968. Tamiko Jones -- born Barbara Tamiko Ferguson in 1945 in Kyle, West Virginia -- debuted in 1967 on Atlantic with flautist and mentor Herbie Mann on the soul-jazz-bossa flavored A Mann & A Woman. Her solo career took off in 1968 with the rare groove inflected I'll Be Anything For You, released on A&M/CTI and produced by label owner Creed Taylor. Recorded and engineered by master Rudy Van Gelder at his own Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, the album is such a lovely combination of soul-funk jams and R&B ballads with craft strings arrangements by Artie Butler and Don Sebesky. Featuring a who's-who line-up of classy session men -- Bernard Purdie on drums and Eric Gale on guitar just to name a few -- I'll Be Anything For You is namely one of the best soul-pop crossovers ever.
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