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In the early 1960s, a young British folksinger from London read about the budding folk boom in the USA and wanted a piece of the action. As he and his wife already had travelled through Europe, the Middle East and Africa they didn't hesitate to pack up and go. So, this folksinger added an "O" to his name and became Charles O'Hegarty. Charles and Anna arrived in Canada in 1963 and stayed until early 1965. Then they entered the USA, lived in San Francisco and Los Angeles before they crossed the whole country to go to New York. By then it was early autumn of 1965 when Charles became part of the Greenwich Village scene -- and continued to do so until 1970. This is a very brief sketch of Charles O'Hegarty's life in the 1960s -- and if you have an "in the right place at the right time" notion, you're absolutely correct. Charles connected to several important folk scenes in Canada and the USA, played the Berkeley Folk Music Festival and many famous folk clubs of the day, recorded a folk-rock single for Verve-Folkways and became a singer-songwriter with his own repertoire. But nowadays only a few people remember Charles O'Hegarty (who died in 2010). And he's not a household name in the annals of '60s folk music -- obviously due to the lack of available recordings. Through the Lollipoppe Shoppe's association with John Townley, the label got to hear three unreleased songs by Charles, recorded by John at his Apostolic Studio in 1969. These wonderfully written and sublimely arranged originals cried out to be released -- so the label started to dig deeper in the hope of finding enough material for a whole LP. Now, after two years of work the Lollipoppe Shoppe can present a retrospective LP+CD-set of '60s studio and live recordings by Charles O'Hegarty, gathered together from six different sources, recorded between 1964 and 1970. Of the 16 tracks on the LP only one has been previously released -- and the CD includes seven additional tracks (also unissued). With this release -- organized in collaboration with Anna and Marika Hegarty -- the label hope to set the record straight and put Charles O'Hegarty back on the map of 1960s folksingers/singer-songwriters. Color vinyl; includes four-page insert with exclusive liner notes by Anna Hegarty and John Townley, also including many pictures (archival photos and posters); reprint of Charles' info/bio-flyer from 1964; edition of 300 (hand-numbered copies).
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Multumult, based in Romania, has started as a project in 2015 and continues with its original aspiration, the practice of free music and creating a group where different improvising artists can meet and manifest. This explains the changing avatars, sometimes acoustic, sometimes electric, taking the ever-changing shapes of duets, trios or quartets. A main source of inspiration for the group is Romanian folk music, an important area of improvisation and oral culture. This is also reflected in the use of some traditional musical instruments. The nucleus around which all these stories spin is composed of: Calin Torsan (wind instruments), Vasile Gherghel (bass guitar, electronics, acoustic scenography) and Marius Achim (percussion). The violinist Marina Pingulescu joined the group in 2019. The group has played in Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Macedonia and Turkey. Multumult has been involved in connecting artistic events (literary encounters or the opening of exhibitions), composed and interpreted music for two silent films and for a short artistic movie. Cultural sonic landscapes blends with electronic sound processing. "Small bits of information, coded in a language that transcend the world of words. We are a strange tribe without houses. Our animals have inappropriate colors and their milk sometimes drains from the sky. Like white rain. Sometimes we gather in the sockets around the sacred fire and make sounds happen; it's the gift that we'll leave to this world. The shaman's dream is the illusion of illusions. Like rainy white."
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We Will Never Die is Yat-Kha's eight studio album. Centered around the huge voice of charismatic singer Albert Kuvezin from the remote Russian republic of Tuva (latitude: London, longitude: Bangladesh), the group's long international career started out during the collapse of the USSR in 1991 with the release of Antropofagia on celebrated writer and art critic Artemy Troitsky's General Records (Moscow). The release of the legendary Yenisei-Punk album recorded for Global Music Centre (Helsinki) in 1994 saw them gain worldwide recognition. Under the management of then bassist Lu Edmonds (3Mustapha3, Mekons, The Damned, PiL, etc.), Yat-Kha signed to Paddy Moloney's Wicklow Records (BMG Classics) and performed at all major music festivals in Europe, North America and the Far East. Kuvezin's ultra-low variant of Tuvan throat singing, the kargyraa or kanzat stayle, still remains the unique feature of Yat-Kha's mixture of traditional music and experimental roots rock and whereas there are many great khoomeiji singers this style is unique to Yat-Kha. Recorded after the 2019 European tour, the album We Will Never Die was recorded in Southern Germany in the studios of German krautrock legends Hans-Joachim Irmler and in some ways follows Kuvezin's Poet and Lighthouses album which itself was recorded on the remote Scottish whiskey island of Jura by British producer Giles Perring, reaching #1 of the World Music Charts in 2010. On this new album, Kuvezin is accompanied by his long-term Tuvan friend and musical accomplice, Sholban Mongush on igil (a bowed horsehair two-string cello) and backing vocals. Due to the usual pandemic and travel bans, some additional tracks were later recorded by Kuvezin in Abakan, Khakassia in spring 2020. Besides original compositions, the album features words gathered from the sayings and incantations of Tuvan shamans -- whose traditions form an unbroken lineage dating back to the neolithic period -- as well as Black Sabbath's "Solitude" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" written by George Harrison, two songs sometimes played as an encore on live shows. The Lollipoppe Shoppe continue their involvement with this extraordinary band who in many ways blazed a trail since the early 1990s many new and interesting emerging East Asian rock music artists and experimenters for example the Mongolian metal-rock band The Hu.
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LP version. We Will Never Die is Yat-Kha's eight studio album. Centered around the huge voice of charismatic singer Albert Kuvezin from the remote Russian republic of Tuva (latitude: London, longitude: Bangladesh), the group's long international career started out during the collapse of the USSR in 1991 with the release of Antropofagia on celebrated writer and art critic Artemy Troitsky's General Records (Moscow). The release of the legendary Yenisei-Punk album recorded for Global Music Centre (Helsinki) in 1994 saw them gain worldwide recognition. Under the management of then bassist Lu Edmonds (3Mustapha3, Mekons, The Damned, PiL, etc.), Yat-Kha signed to Paddy Moloney's Wicklow Records (BMG Classics) and performed at all major music festivals in Europe, North America and the Far East. Kuvezin's ultra-low variant of Tuvan throat singing, the kargyraa or kanzat stayle, still remains the unique feature of Yat-Kha's mixture of traditional music and experimental roots rock and whereas there are many great khoomeiji singers this style is unique to Yat-Kha. Recorded after the 2019 European tour, the album We Will Never Die was recorded in Southern Germany in the studios of German krautrock legends Hans-Joachim Irmler and in some ways follows Kuvezin's Poet and Lighthouses album which itself was recorded on the remote Scottish whiskey island of Jura by British producer Giles Perring, reaching #1 of the World Music Charts in 2010. On this new album, Kuvezin is accompanied by his long-term Tuvan friend and musical accomplice, Sholban Mongush on igil (a bowed horsehair two-string cello) and backing vocals. Due to the usual pandemic and travel bans, some additional tracks were later recorded by Kuvezin in Abakan, Khakassia in spring 2020. Besides original compositions, the album features words gathered from the sayings and incantations of Tuvan shamans -- whose traditions form an unbroken lineage dating back to the neolithic period -- as well as Black Sabbath's "Solitude" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" written by George Harrison, two songs sometimes played as an encore on live shows. The Lollipoppe Shoppe continue their involvement with this extraordinary band who in many ways blazed a trail since the early 1990s many new and interesting emerging East Asian rock music artists and experimenters for example the Mongolian metal-rock band The Hu.
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You may have heard about a Scottish postman who started an online-shanty-craze on some video platform earlier this year -- but why not listen to the real McCoy? -- please excuse the pun... John Townley's life has been linked to the sea for as long as he can remember -- he was raised on a ship. And his love for the oceans also had (and keeps on having) a massive influence on his musical career. Having studied guitar with Rev. Gary Davis in the early '60s John Townley played the blues and folk circuit of coffee houses in New York City. There he played in a duo with David Blue, joined The Magicians, build up the Apostolic Studios and recorded the Family of Apostolic album (1968) and its follow-up with Ocean (1969, unreleased until 2020, LLP 006LP). After those folk and psychedelic adventures John started playing and producing maritime folk music from the '70s onward. He played and recorded with the X-Seamen's Institute, produced albums by the Starboard List and worked for the Mariner's Museum in Virginia and New York's South Street Seaport Museum. But as John never tires to point out: Maritime folk songs shouldn't be museum pieces! Those songs and tunes have all the elements of real hits -- they're very melodious, full of hooks and have danceable rhythms. Therefore, they should be played with much verve and at high volume. John also knows this first hand as he traveled on American, Canadian and European tall ships as a musician. Naturally he also recorded during his journeys -- documented by his albums Sailor! (1991) and A Chesapeake Sailor's Companion (2000). As Sailor! was only released on tape in a very limited quantity, The Lollipop Shop give it a proper release on CD. But this is not a straight re-issue. The album now is an enhanced sea adventure in two chapters dealing with life on sea and the temptations of mermaids. Eight unreleased songs have been added, recorded by John and friends during their travels in Poland and England in 1992 and 1996. Above that all the music has been recently mastered to the volume level that John had originally envisioned. Now, haul away with the seafaring boys and let yourself be lured by Maggie the mermaid... Includes insert with liner and song notes by John Townley.
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John Townley is associated with various musical projects by different groups of people. For some, he's the driving force behind the double-album by The Family of Apostolic (1968), for others the guitarist of folk-rock garage-heroes The Magicians (1965-66). Yet other folks think of him as the musician/producer behind maritime albums like his own Sailor! (1991) and A Chesapeake Sailor's Companion (2000) or the two albums by The Starboard List (1976-77). But in the end it's always the one and only John Townley -- a man of many talents with an incredible scope of musical abilities and sensibilities. Having studied guitar with Rev. Gary Davis in the early 1960s, John played the blues and folk circuit of coffee houses in New York City, meeting almost everyone you could imagine in that scene. He played in a duo with David Blue, formed an all-electric folk-band in 1965, The Psychedelic Rangers, before joining The Magicians. His next venture was to found the Apostolic Studios, the first 12-track-facility in New York. There he recorded The Family of Apostolic-album and the follow-up with Ocean (1969) as well as various projects for Vanguard Records and other labels. From the 1970's onward John's been researching, playing and producing mainly maritime folk music, making the aforementioned albums and sailing (often literally) around the USA and Europe. Now he's back with this new solo album -- and being the multi-instrumentalist that he is, he played every instrument you can hear on it by himself. The project started in 2014-15 with recordings at Marc Greene's studio in Brookville, NY and it was finished when Grammy-winning engineer John Kilgore did the final mixes in New York City in 2019-20. As John always has been fond of eclectic album concepts (just listen to the albums by the Family of Apostolic and Ocean) this new album also covers a lot of ground. His folk and blues roots are represented by new interpretations and re-inventions of some real classics, on top there are also some wonderful new original songs. Everything is tied together by John's incredible guitar playing -- acoustic and electric -- and his great voice (plus harmony vocals and around ten other instruments). John Townley returns with a folk n' blues-pickin' smasher of an album. Deluxe fold open cover. Includes insert with liner and song notes by John Townley.
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In 1968 an album by The Family of Apostolic was released on Vanguard Records -- and a lot of people consider that double-LP to be a great work of folk-rock and psychedelia. If songs from that album like "Won't Be Sad Again", "Dholak Gheet", or "Fiddler A Dram" made you howl for more you're in for a surprise now. After the Family of Apostolic album three of its key musicians -- Lyn Hardy, Jay Ungar, and John Townley -- teamed up with bass player Peter Smith and drummer Jim Willis to form Ocean. This short-lived band was in a way the follow-up to John Townley's Family of Apostolic, in another way the starting point of Jay Ungar's songwriting career as well as a showcase for Lyn Hardy's incredible voice. But no matter how you want to look at Ocean, they recorded a wonderfully eclectic album in the summer of 1969 which remained unreleased until now. The album contains mostly original songs and it has influences which reach from old-time/bluegrass to Middle-Eastern music -- apart from that some of the songs even have a British folk-rock feel to them. Needless to say, the album is full of virtuoso playing and gorgeous female/male vocal harmonies. This LP is taken from the only remaining reference-copy of the final mix -- and even if it is not taken from the original reels (which are lost) it still sparkles with the crystal clear 12-track-sound that was typical for the Apostolic Studios in New York City. For anyone who needs some more credentials: Fiddler, guitarist and singer Jay Ungar for sure is famous for writing "Ashokan Farewell" -- before that he recorded albums with Cat Mother, The Putnam String County Band, and Lyn Hardy. Today, he plays in a duo with Molly Mason. Singer and guitarist Lyn Hardy recorded with Jay Ungar and The Putnam String County Band, these days she performs with Skye Trio and works as a luthier. Multi-instrumentalist and singer John Townley founded the Apostolic Studios after he studied guitar with Rev. Gary Davis and played with David Blue and The Magicians. Today, he's an expert on maritime folk music and plays as a solo act doing folk, blues, and original songs. A lost '60s folk-rock gem on vinyl for the first time... Includes insert with archival photos and liner notes by John Townley; also includes postcard with download code. Ocean blue vinyl; edition of 300 (hand-numbered).
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