Rolling Reissues 2018

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Terminal Mind, formed in 1978, was one of the early first-wave punk acts in Austin, TX. Based far from the urban roots of a genre in its earliest stages, the band absorbed influences as disparate as Pere Ubu, Roxy Music, John Cale, and Wire. The life span was short, but their influence touched many of the next generation of Texas noise and hardcore acts as they shared bills with fellow proto-punks The Huns and Standing Waves at Raul's, The Big Boys on the UT campus, and even opened for Iggy Pop at the Armadillo World Headquarters.

Founding members Steve Marsh and the Murray Brothers, Doug and Greg, started as a trio before adding synthesizer player Jack Crow. Steve Marsh moved to New York with his experimental noise band Miracle Room (before eventually returning to Austin and forming space/psychedelic rock band Evil Triplet and beginning an experimental solo project dubbed Radarcave), while Doug Murary joined the Skunks and Greg Murray played in a later version of The Big Boys. Jack Crow passed away in 1994.

This collection of songs is a journey back to the 'anything goes' first steps of American punk as it left the dirty streets of New York and Los Angeles and made its way into the heartland. Like the Austin of 1978, Recordings is a small outpost of musical individualism that planted seeds for the alternative music explosion familiar to later generations.

Recordings will be available on LP, CD and download on January 12th, 2018 via Sonic Surgery Records.

Artist: Terminal Mind
Album: Recordings
Label: Sonic Surgery Records
Release Date: January 12, 2018

01. I Want to Die Young
02. Refugee
03. Sense of Rhythm
04. Zombieland
05. Obsessed With Crime
06. Fear In the Future
07. Radioactive
08. Bridges Are For Burning
09. (I Give Up On) Human Rights
10. Black
11. Missing Pieces
12. Bureaucracy

On The Web:
supersecretrecords.com/bands/terminal-mind

Some albums I didn't mention on RR 17: here's a couple of follow-ups to Omnivore's (legit, expanded) 2016 reissue of Henske & Yester's Farewell Aldebaran:

JERRY YESTER
PASS YOUR LIGHT AROUND
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KEY SELLING POINTS
• 15 previously unissued tracks recorded throughout the 1970s.
• Songwriting collaboration with Larry Beckett (Tim Buckley).
• Liners feature new interviews with Yester and Beckett.
IN THE ’60S AND ’70S, IT WAS NOT RARE TO SEE JERRY
Yester’s name on classic albums. Whether producing acts like The
Association, The Turtles, Tim Buckley, or Tom Waits, or hearing him in
bands like The Modern Folk Quartet, Rosebud, The Lovin’ Spoonful, or
with Judy Henske on the (now) classic Farewell Aldebaran—aside from
a pair of 1967 singles, there wasn’t a Jerry Yester “solo album” from
that period, as he was so busy creating music with and for other artists.
Pass Your Light Around collects the songs recorded in various studios
throughout the 1970s (and even one dating back as far as 1964 from
his Bleeker Street apartment). The songs were written with poet/
lyricist and Tim Buckley collaborator Larry Beckett (who he got to
know while producing Buckley’s Goodbye And Hello and Happy
Sad), and feature performances by Yester, *Rosebud bandmates David
Vaught and John Seiter, future Lone Justice member Don Heffington,
and even Laurel Masse from The Manhattan Transfer, among others.
In true Yester fashion, the instrumentation moves from classic guitar
based instrumentation to strings, celeste, harmonium and synthesizer.
Produced by Jerry Yester with Grammy ® Award-Winner Cheryl Pawelski,
the sources for all the tracks were pulled from Jerry’s personal archives,
and mastered by Grammy ® -winning engineer Michael Graves. These
15 previously unissued tracks act as what could, and should have
been another Yester-tagged classic, but this time under his own name.
Packaging contains photos, lyrics, and a new essay from Barry
Alfonso detailing the genesis of the songs and recordings, augmented
by new interviews with both Yester and Beckett.
While it may have taken over 40 years to hear it, as Alfonso says in his
liner notes, “What matters is that this remarkable music is available after
four decades of obscurity. The light never dimmed. Now it’s finally
ready to be shared.”
1. Pass Your Light Around
2. My Dusty Darling
3. Brooklyn Girl
4. The Whiskey Moon
5. Showboat
6. The Sun Is Like A Big Brass Band
7. Corn Cracker
8. Dance For Me, Anna Lee
9. With A Hickory Pole
10. Seesaw
11. The Minutes
12. The Rose
13. Across The Persian Gulf
14. All I Can Do Is Dance
15. Hip Toad
All tracks previously unissued
JERRY
YESTER
Pass Your Light Around
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*Speaking of Rosebud:

ROSEBUD
ROSEBUD
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KEY SELLING POINTS
• Remastered and expanded reissue of the
1971 classic.
• Contains 10 bonus tracks—7 previously
unissued .
• Packaging contains rare ephemera and
new interviews with band members Judy
Henske, Jerry Yester, and Craig Doerge.
The iconic 1971 release – expanded with 10 bonus tracks!
When Judy Henske and Jerry Yester’s (now revered) Farewell Aldebaran sadly disappeared into legend,
they decided to take a different approach for their next release—becoming a “band.” Adding songwriter
and multi-instrumentalist Craig Doerge (pronounced “Durgee”) and John Seiter (known for his work
with Spanky & Our Gang and The Turtles), Rosebud was born. After recording was done and the album
“fi nished”—the band added Bassist David Vaught. Additional songs were laid down, and others re-
moved in lieu of the new material. Finally, in 1971—Rosebud the album appeared.
In his liner notes, Barry Alfonso (acclaimed author and songwriter) says “French choral numbers, gospel
rockers, nostalgic ballads, angelic lullabies—it sounds like the contents of a greatest hits collection.
In fact, the above tracks are all found on the sole album by Rosebud, an L.A.-based quintet that barely
lasted a year.”
Rosebud, is indeed, all of that and much more. While inching Henske & Yester closer to the main-
stream, Rosebud is just as daring as Aldebaran, as its songs have the same studio sophistication,
hook-laden material, and wit.
To make this reissue even more special, 10 bonus tracks have been added, 7 of which are previously
unissued. The packaging contains photos and ephemera, tracing the changing history in the making
of the album, as well as new interviews with Henske, Yester and Doerge in Alfonso’s essay. Produced
for release by Grammy ® -winning Producer Cheryl Pawelski, and new mastering and restoration by
Michael Graves (who also has won a few Grammys ® himself), Rosebud is ready to take the uninitiated
on a journey, and adds nearly another album’s worth of rare singles and unheard tracks for those who
loved the original.
Named after the sled in Orson Welles’ iconic Citizen Kane, Rosebud is a secret no more.
JERRY YESTER, JUDY HENSKE, CRAIG DOERGE, JOHN SEITER
ORIGINAL ALBUM
Panama
Le Soleil
Reno
Western Wisconsin
Lorelei
Salvation
Lullabye II
(Summer Carol)
The Yum Yum Man
Roll Home Cheyenne
Flying To Morning
BONUS TRACKS
Lazy
Reno (MONO SINGLE VERSION)
Mercury Of Fools *
Hey Old Friend (JUDY VOCAL) *
Le Soleil (DEMO) *
What’s The Matter
With Sam *
Easy On Me, Easy *
Father Of Souls
Mercury Of Fools (DEMO) *
Hey Old Friend
(JERRY VOCAL) (DEMO) *
* PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED
Rosebud
KEY SELLING POINTS
The iconic 1971 release – expanded with 10 bonus tracks!
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Human Sexual Response - In A Roman Mood. Finally has a CD reissue, being sold on eBay along with a new printing of their debut.

More catching up:

The Choir
Artifact: The
Unreleased Album
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KEY SELLING POINTS
• Unreleased material from Cleveland legends, whose
members would eventually form Raspberries.
• Packaging contains liners and rare photos
from band members.
• Restored and mastered by the team behind
Raspberries’ acclaimed Pop Art Live .
Cleveland Ohio is not only the home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but
the birthplace of many classic musical acts. The Choir’s first release was
an acclaimed single on Canadian-American Records (eventually picked up
by Roulette). It gained them opening spots for The Who and The Yardbirds
among others, but the group eventually dissipated and morphed into other
bands including the James Gang, and eventually, Raspberries.
Some of their original recordings have been complied on import EPs, vari-
ous compilations, and on the expanded boxed set of Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets
series, but not much is known about the band’s second wind. Until now.
Artifact: The Unreleased Album showcases 10 tracks, recorded in 1969,
making their first appearance anywhere. They resonate with the original
Choir vibe, adding in post-British Invasion influences like Procol Harum.
Recently unearthed by Suma Recordings operator Ken Hammon’s son
Paul Hammon, they have been lovingly restored by Tommy Allen and
Ducky Carlisle, whose work has been universally lauded after their work
on Raspberries’ Pop Art Live.
The packaging contains liners from Eric Carmen, Al Kaston, and Choir
members Denny Carleton and Phil Giallombardo, plus a family tree, and
rare photos from the bands’ collections. Artifact: The Unreleased Album
is a trip to the late ’60s church of rock ’n’ roll.
the
C hoir
1. ANYWAY I CAN
2. IF THESE ARE MEN
3. LADYBUG
4. I CAN’T STAY IN YOUR LIFE
5. DAVID WATTS
6. HAVE I NO LOVE TO OFFER
7. FOR ERIC
8. IT’S ALL OVER
9. BORIS’ LAMENT
10. MUMMER BAND
I went to see The Choir when I was 16, and
immediately wanted to join their band. They
were a great group that had many lives and
many members. This album was made by one
of the last and final versions of the band. This
recently discovered recording is sure to rekindle
fond memories for the many fans of The Choir,
including myself. Give it a spin, and enjoy a
special piece of Cleveland rock history.
—Eric Carmen
December 2017
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RASPBERRIES
POP ART LIVE
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KEY SELLING POINTS
• Dynamic recording of the Raspberries
fi rst live show in 30 years.
• Liner notes from Academy Award ® -winner
and music scribe Cameron Crowe.
• Memorabilia & ephemera from Raspberries
aficionado Bernir Hogya.
• Perfect renditions of all the hits plus covers of classic
songs by the The Beatles, The Who & The Choir.
Photo by Gene Taylor
“Having waited this long to witness the impossible—Raspberries live—we
showed up two hours early, parking our car in the empty parking lot . . .
[and] moments before the house lights went down, we looked at each other
and said the words that we never thought we would ever say: ‘We’re at a
Raspberries concert.’ Then it began . . . ”
—Ken Sharp and Bernie Hogya from the liner notes to Pop Art Live.
November 26, 2004, the stage was set for a reunion most thought could never hap-
pen—the Raspberries Live In Concert! Over 30 years since the original four members
of Raspberries last played together, Pop Art Live captures opening night, at Cleveland’s
House of Blues, as never before! You will experience the power and magic that led the
group to a successful reunion tour in 2005.
Founding members Eric Carmen, Wally Bryson, David Smalley, and Jim Bonfanti power-
fully muscle through 28 slices of pure rock ’n’ roll heaven, bringing to life the legacy
of power pop’s founding fathers. Brilliantly mixed by longtime Raspberries’ associate
Tommy Allen, the Midwestern quartet has never sounded this good!
Pop Art Live contains live versions of songs from all four of the Raspberries’ classic
original studio albums including the hits “Go All The Way,” “I Wanna Be With You,”
“Let’s Pretend,” and “Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)” as well as perfect renditions of
timeless favorites by The Beatles and The Who.
Also included in this 2-CD package are refl ections and testimonials from Academy
Award ® -winning fi lmmaker and rock scribe Cameron Crowe and longtime Raspberries
afi cionados Bernie Hogya and Ken Sharp. Hogya also contributes a wealth of ephemera
from opening night in Cleveland.
The Raspberries are one of rock’s most treasured bands infl uencing everyone from John
Lennon to Bruce Springsteen to Paul Westerberg!. Pop Art Live is an essential document
of that band, providing another chapter to their lasting impact! The Raspberries Live . . .
they said it would never happen . . . they were wrong.
KEY SELLING POINTS
RASPBERRIES
POP ART LIVE
DISC ONE:
1. I Wanna Be
With You
2. Play On
3. I Can’t Explain
4. Nobody Knows
5. Let’s Pretend
6. Don’t Wanna
Say Goodbye
7. Party’s Over
8. Overnight Sensation
(Hit Record)
9. Might As Well
10. It Seemed So Easy
11. Baby’s In Black
12. If You Change
Your Mind
13. Tonight
14. I Can Remember
DISC TWO:
1. Starting Over
2. Last Dance
3. I Saw The Light
4. No Reply
5. When You Were
With Me
6. It’s Cold Outside
7. Should I Wait
8. Come Around
And See Me
9. Makin’ It Easy
10. Ticket To Ride
11. Hard To Get Over
A Heartbreak
12. Ecstasy
13. I’m A Rocker
14. Go All The Way

that Human Sexual Response record is good fun, I picked it up on vinyl for five bucks, not a lost classic or anything

This reads like a parody, but…

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Solid Space - [/i]Space Museum[/i]
Dark Entries Records
DE-190
January 2018

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"Dark Entries is honored to finally present the first ever official vinyl reissue of Space Museum by Solid Space. Solid Space was the British duo of Dan Goldstein (keyboards, vocals) and Matthew 'Maf' Vosburgh (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals) formed in 1980. Dan and Matthew met at the age of 11 while attending school in north London. In late 1978 at at the age of 14, they formed Exhibit 'A' with Paul “Platypus” and Andrew “Lunchbox” Bynghall. They recorded two EPs in 1979 and 1980, self-released on Irrelevant Wombat Records and appeared on 'The Thing From The Crypt' compilation. After the dissolution of the group, Mathew started taking his guitar over to Dan’s house where he’d play his Casio MT-30 and they would record songs. Eventually a second hand drum machine and Wasp synthesizer were acquired from classified ads in Melody Maker and the Solid Space sound was born. By this time they were just turning 18 and finally found the freedom to make the music they’d had in their heads.

Over the course of the next two years the band assembled eleven bedroom recordings that would become one of the most cherished DIY obscurities of its kind. Their debut album ‘Space Museum’ was released in 1982 on cassette by In Phaze Records. All of the songs were mixed by label boss Pat Bermingham on 8-track tape at The Shed, in Ilford, which was literally a garden shed. The band's music and lyrics were heavily indebted to science fiction, in particular the 1960s television series Doctor Who. ‘Space Museum’ is an unveiling of atmospheric, minimalist post punk supported by bright melodies. The music combines drum machines and synths with acoustic guitar and toy drums whilst also experimenting with samples between tracks. Lyrics deal with space travel and a general sense of dejection. Representing a bubbling spirit within the underground, they foreshadowed an entire world of independent music which would emerge across the 80’s and well into the 90’s. For this reissue we’ve included two bonus tracks from the band’s archive, “Platform 6” originally released on the B-side of the second single by Exhibit ‘A’, this song features only Dan and Matthew and is the first Solid Space track ever recorded. “Tutti Lo Sanno” is a cover of In Phaze label mates Marine Girls, though the lyrics have been changed to suit the gender of the new singer.

Each song has been carefully remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The record is sleeved in a replica of the cassette artwork featuring the Cybermen and Jamie (surely Zoe? - pedantic Jeff) from the Doctor Who episode "The Wheel in Space". Every copy includes a double sided 11x11 insert with lyrics, notes and never before seen photographs of the band taken by Maf as well as a postcard featuring an original advert for the cassette."

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Superstar & Star
“Mastermind E.P”
12 inch, PB019

Superstar & Star are back on Porridge bullet with there first vinyl E.P Proper!: Mastermind E.P!

A collection of seven classic songs from Superstar’s vaults available for the first time on an Estonian Vinyl Record!

Neville Lawrence Immigrated from his home country of Trinidad to New York in the mid 80’s where, a few years later, following his fleeting east coast success, he re-settled with Wife Anne (Star) in Omaha, Nebraska where they continued to perform, produce and record music until the present day.

After releasing a cassette, 7” and 12” single with us in the last year we are happy to present yet another wonderful release from superstar and star! Big Big Hugs!

A1 • Rolling So
A2 • Any Where in the US is a Party
A3 • I Want You
A4 • Kicking at Home
B1 • No More Sorrow
B2 • I Ain't Missing You
B3 • I am Dreaming

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when i pre-ordered this it had a 10/01/2018 release date. the sound clips were very distorted so i fear this will be very lofi pressing but that is admittedly par for the course for Superstar & Star anyways

From Vinyl Factory---interesting site!

Allen Ginsberg’s seminal beat opus Howl And Other Poems gets deluxe box set release
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“A poetic rage against society’s conformism and capitalism.”

Allen Ginsberg’s Howl And Other Poems is being rereleased in a new vinyl box set, this February by Craft Recordings.

Read next: The story of the beat generation in 10 records

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A 1959 recording of Ginsberg reading Howl and Other Poems in Chicago was originally released on translucent red vinyl.

The Howl deluxe box set includes a reissue of this red LP, a replica of the original poetry book published by City Lights in 1956, a photograph of Ginsberg and a booklet with liner notes by Ann Charters and poet Anne Waldman.

Though an unofficial repress was released in March 2017, this is Howl’s first official reissue in over 30 years.

Listen to the 1959 Chicago reading, and check out the track list below ahead of its 22nd February release.

Tracklist

Side A

A1. A Supermarket In California
A2. Transcription Of Organ Music
A3. America
A4. In Back Of The Real
A5. Strange Cottage In Berkeley
A6. Europe, Europe
A7. Kaddish

Side B

B1. Howl
B2. The Sunflower Sutra
B3. Footnote To Howl
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Electronic music pioneer and Can co-founder Holger Czukay 5xLP retrospective box set announced
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With a ‘vinyl video’ 7″ that has film footage stored on the record.

A new 5xLP Holger Czukay box set is being released this March via Gröndland, to coincide with what would have been his 80th birthday.

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A musician who “bridged the gap between pop and the avant garde”, Czukay was a co-founder of German krautrock band Can, as well as pursuing a number of experimental solo projects and collaborations.

These are featured on the new retrospective Cinema box set, with five LPs which include his work with Brian Eno, Conny Plank and Jah Wobble, a 36-page booklet with liner notes plus photographs by Anton Corbijn, and the ’80s made for television film starring Czukay with his original soundtrack.

Cinema also includes Czukay’s ‘vinyl video’ 7″: “a system that makes it possible to store video footage on vinyl”, with an unreleased video of Czukay explaining the recording, and 1979 music video for ‘Cool In The Pool’.

Pre-order a copy here ahead of its 23rd March release, watch ‘Cool In The Pool’ and check out the track list below.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Holger Schüring Quintett – Konfigurationen (1960, previously unreleased)
2. Technical Space Composer’s Crew – Canaxis (1969, Canaxis 5)
3. Technical Space Composer’s Crew – Boat Woman Song (1969, Canaxis 5)
4. Cluster & Eno – Ho Renomo (1977, Cluster & Eno)

Disc 2

1. Holger Czukay – Oh Lord Give Us More Money (1979, Movies)
2. Holger Czukay – Persian Love (1979, Movies)
3. Holger Czukay – Cool In The Pool (1979, Movies)
4. Holger Czukay – Hollywood Symphony (1979, Movies)
5. Les Vampyrettes (Czukay/Plank) – Biomutanten (1980, Les Vampyrettes)

Disc 3

1. Les Vampyrettes (Czukay/Plank) – Menetekel (1980, Les Vampyrettes)
2. Phew (Phew/Czukay/Liebezeit/Plank) – Signal (1981, Phew)
3. Holger Czukay – Witches Multiplication Table (1981, On The Way To To Peak Of Normal)
4. Holger Czukay – On The Way To The Peak Of Normal (1981, On The Way To To Peak Of Normal)
5. Holger Czukay – Ode To Perfume (1981, On The Way To To Peak Of Normal)
6. Holger Czukay – Two Bass Shuffle (1981, On The Way To To Peak Of Normal)
7. Holger Czukay/Jaki Liebezeit/Jah Wobble – How Much Are They? (1982, Full Circle)

Disc 4

1. Holger Czukay/Jaki Liebezeit/Jah Wobble – Trench Warfare (1982, Full Circle)
2. Holger Czukay/Jaki Liebezeit/Jah Wobble – Full Circle R.P.S. (No. 7) (1982, Full Circle)
3. Holger Czukay/Jaki Liebezeit/Jah Wobble – Twilight World (1982, Full Circle)
4. Holger Czukay – The Photo Song (1984, Der Osten Ist Rot)
5. Holger Czukay – Der Osten Ist Rot (1984, Der Osten Ist Rot)
6. Holger Czukay – Das Massenmedium (1984, Der Osten Ist Rot)
7. Holger Czukay – Träum Mal Wieder (1984, Der Osten Ist Rot)
8. Holger Czukay – Hey Baba Reebop (1987, Rome Remains Rome)
9. Holger Czukay – Hit Hit Flop Flop (1987, Rome Remains Rome)

Disc 5

1. Holger Czukay – Perfect World (1987, Rome Remains Rome)
2. Holger Czukay – Music In The Air (1987, Rome Remains Rome)
3. Holger Czukay – Ride A Radiowave (1991, Radio Wave Surfer)
4. Holger Czukay – We Can Fight All Night (1991, Radio Wave Surfer)
5. Holger Czukay – Through The Freezing Snow (1991, Radio Wave Surfer)
6. Holger Czukay w/ Karlheinz Stockhausen – Breath Taking (2008, Second Life, previously unreleased)
7. Holger Czukay & U-She – La Premiere (2008, Second Life)
8. Holger Czukay / Ursa Major – 21st Century (2007, 21st Century)
9. Bison (Czukay/Murphy/Smith) – Mandy (2004, Travellers)
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Any idea how you actually extract the video from that 7"? Do you need one of those old RCA videodisc players? VHD? I guess a laserdisc wouldn't have been esoteric enough.

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PICA044

OMIT – Enclosures 2011–2016 [5xCD]
Pica Disk 2018 • PICA044
Co-released with End of the Alphabet Records
Distribution by Metamkine.

Since his first self-released cassettes in the early 1990s, New Zealand’s Clinton Williams AKA OMIT has been on a singular and personal musical journey. Described as one of the greatest outsider artists currently working in the field, OMIT employs homebuilt instruments constructed from modified electric motors and salvaged sound sources to create a startlingly original soundworld. It is a world he inhabits alone, isolated in the small town of Blenheim in southern New Zealand, but it involves a deep exploration of the human condition. Over the years OMIT’s music has become less noisy and more sparse and minimal, as open signal patterns and oblique textures pass each other in haunted spaces.

“Enclosures 2011-2016” is a 5xCD box-set co-released by Pica Disk (run by Lasse Marhaug out of Norway) and End of the Alphabet (run by Noel Meek in New Zealand) and collects OMIT’s most recent self-released albums, artefacts that originally came in super limited edition CDRs with hand-made covers between 2011 and 2016. Unavailable except directly from the artist, these beautiful works are now available remastered in a deluxe box-set along with OMIT’s famous surrealist drawings and science fiction themed artwork, plus liner notes by close friend and collaborator Bruce Russell (The Dead C/A Handful of Dust).

“Clinton Williams is the hardest-working man in minimal electronic music. He is one of two people I know fairly well who I honestly believe is possessed by genius.”
– Bruce Russell (from the liner notes)

€35 ppd Europe to paypal: mail(at)lassemarhaug(dot)no
€40 ppd World to paypal: mail(at)lassemarhaug(dot)no

Also available from End of the Alphabet (New Zealand)

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NINA SIMONE - THE COLPIX SINGLES

2-CD / Highlights LP Remastered In Mono, Including Seven Singles Available In
Their Original Edits For The First Time Since The 1960s, And Liner Notes By
$tateside DJ And Compiler Dean Rudland

Available February 23 On $tateside Records

LOS ANGELES - Nina Simone started her musical career as a classically trained child virtuoso, whose piano recitals were local events. Strongly rooted in the works of Bach, the musician became a singer almost by accident and the rest is history. In 2018, Simone will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, cementing her role as one of the most important musicians of our time.

Throughout Simone's nearly five decade long career, her recordings reached the top of the charts and earned her cult status and critical acclaim. From 1959 to 1964 she was signed to Colpix, who relinquished all creative control to her. On February 23, $tateside Records will present this integral collection, NINA SIMONE - THE COLPIX SINGLES as a 2-CD set for $24.98, 1-LP for $21.98, and digitally on the same day.

With her voice at her finest during this time, she worked her way through jazz and blues standards such as "The Work Song" and "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)," as well as folk tunes like "Little Liza Jane," "Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair," her very own "Blackbird" and "I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl."

"I played what I wanted and nothing else," said Nina of her Colpix days in her autobiography, I Put A Spell On You. "Hell, they weren't paying me well enough to tell me what to play. There was no proper producer on my records - just an engineer to set everything up, an orchestrator to write out the arrangements, and the rest I did myself."

In recent years, Nina Simone's life and career have been extensively covered in acclaimed biographies and documentaries. However, her early recordings (that do not particularly illustrate her fight for civil rights or her personal life) are often overlooked. Very little is said about her output for Colpix, yet it is with these records that she began to develop her uniqueness. Her time at the label is often distilled down to the successful series of live albums she recorded, but it was in the 7-inch singles that her progress is clearest.

From the pop-tinged opening single "Chilly Winds Don't Blow," to the hauntingly spiritual, self-penned "Blackbird" on the flipside of her final 45 for the label, Nina Simone's creative development can be traced through her Colpix singles. A performer with a breakthrough hit when she joined in 1959, she was an established artist when she left the label in 1964.

Nina Simone's background is well known. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina, in 1933, her prodigious talent as a musician was evident early on. Spotted playing hymns in church at the age of 6, some of the town's prominent residents established the "Eunice Waymon Fund" to pay for her music lessons. A noted musician, Muriel Mazzanovich (who Nina affectionately called Miz Mazzy), trained the budding prodigy to be a classical concert pianist. It was from these humble roots that Eunice developed a lifelong love of Johann Sebastian Bach, Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven and Schubert.

After graduation she studied at Juilliard in New York before applying to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Her application was rejected; something she suspected was due to racism. The blow was devastating. Broken-hearted, she vowed to apply again, but in the meantime needed to make a living and fund her music lessons. In 1954 she took a residency playing in a bar in Atlantic City, where she was also asked to sing. It was at this point Nina Simone was born.

When the owner of the Midtown Bar asked her for her stage name, Eunice told him to call her Nina Simone. "I always liked the name Nina, and I saw the name Simone on a movie poster" (probably the French actress Simone Signoret).

Her unique blend of jazz, classical music and blues soon won her an audience, and in 1958 she signed to Bethlehem Records. Her version of George and Ira Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" went Top 20 on the Billboard pop chart. Her debut album Little Girl Blue followed soon afterwards. It was a bold artistic statement, especially notable for "Love Me Or Leave Me," which incorporated a touch of Bach. The contract Simone signed with Bethlehem reverberated years later when "My Baby Just Cares For Me" went to number one all over Europe and yet, having previously signed them away, she received no royalties.

In 1959 she moved to New York City. "New Year 1959 found me in a creepy marriage stuck in a tiny room with a hit record, a rising reputation, and no idea of how to make the money I needed to finish my classical training," said Nina. However, the success of "I Loves You Porgy" meant she was in demand, and Joyce O'Selznick, the talent scout for Columbia Pictures Records, Colpix, offered her a long term deal. It was an unusual label that released soundtracks, records by actors under contract to the studio, and some jazz and rhythm and blues.

The first single, "Chilly Winds Don't Blow," was written and produced by Hecky Krasnow. Hecky was best known for novelty records with Columbia Records, including Gene Autry's "Frosty the Snowman" and "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer." The follow-up was an adaptation of the spiritual "Children Go Where I Send Thee" backed with "Willow Weep For Me."

In September 1959 she was booked at NYC's Town Hall in Midtown Manhattan. The show, recorded live, mixed folk songs, ballads, jazz, and blues, as well as a couple of originals. "All these club dates had been trashy rehearsals for this, the night belonged to me," said Nina, "if you don't believe me you can listen for yourself, I was a sensation. An overnight success, like in the movies." Released as an album, Nina Simone At Town Hall would define her time at the label and lead to two further live albums. The first single from this session was "The Other Woman," coupled with "It Might As Well Be Spring" from her debut studio album for the label, The Amazing Nina Simone. It was followed by two more tracks from Town Hall, "Summertime" and "Fine And Mellow."

The next single "Since My Love Has Gone" was based on a melody by the composer Verdi, and was backed by "Tomorrow (We Shall Meet Once More)." Both of these were enhanced by dramatic, almost operatic string arrangements. This was then followed by "If Only For Tonight," paired with an exclusive edit of Simone's "Under The Lowest" taken from Nina Simone At Town Hall. Colpix had Nina return to the blues for the next release, and she excels on "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out." The B-side is even better, as she takes on "Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair," a signature song she would return to time and time again.

The Nina Simone At Newport album brings us the next single: an upbeat version of "Cotton Eyed Joe" and a wonderful rendition of "Trouble In Mind." The run of compelling singles continues with her take on Oscar Brown Jr's "Work Song" which she makes her own, just as she does with B-side "Memphis In June" by Hoagy Carmichael. She surpasses herself on her next outing with readings of "You Can Have Him" and "Gin House Blues."

Keen to score a hit with Simone, Colpix sent her back to the studio for an answer to Ray Charles's smash "Hit The Road Jack." A sought-after record nowadays, "Come On Back Jack" didn't chart, and as a follow-up, the next single was "In The Evening By The Moonlight"
from the Nina Simone At Newport album.

Only two more singles followed. The first one's A-side, taken from Nina Simone Sings Ellington, was a version of "I Got It Bad," and on the flipside was one of her own and finest self-penned songs, "I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl." Her final single paired the traditional folk standard "Little Liza Jane" with the astounding Simone original "Blackbird." More than any biography or documentary, this song shows how far she had matured artistically, revealing a glimpse of her future as a civil rights activist, and songs to come like "Mississippi Goddam" and "Young, Gifted And Black."

With these 27 songs, the Colpix singles trace Nina Simone's musical journey from jazz and folk singer to critically acclaimed songwriter.

NINA SIMONE - THE COLPIX SINGLES

CD TRACK LISTING:

CD 1
1. Chilly Winds Don't Blow
2. Solitaire
3. Children Go Where I Send You
4. Willow Weep For Me
5. The Other Woman
6. It Might As Well Be Spring
7. Summertime
8. Fine And Mellow
9. Since My Love Has Gone
10. Tomorrow (We Will Meet Once More)
11. Under The Lowest (Short Version)
12. If Only For Tonight
13. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
14. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair

CD 2
1. Trouble In Mind
2. Cotton-Eyed Joe
3. Work Song
4. Memphis In June
5. You Can Have Him
6. Gin House Blues
7. Come On Back Jack
8. You've Been Gone Too Long
9. In The Evening By The Moonlight
10. I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
11. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
12. Little Liza Jane
13. Blackbird

LP TRACK LISTING:

Side 1
1. Chilly Winds Don't Blow
2. Children Go Where I Send You
3. The Other Woman
4. Summertime
6. Since My Love Has Gone
6. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
7. If Only For Tonight

Side 2
1. Trouble In Mind
2. Work Song
3. Gin House Blues
4. Come On Back Jack
5. In The Evening By The Moonlight
6. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
7. Little Liza Jane

Drawing Room Records reissues New Zealand-based Sandra Bell's second album!

Out March 30th, Net not only will be available on vinyl for the first time but the reissue also compiles two stellar singles, “Angel” and the Chord double 7 inch.

Stream "Trains" now over on Bandcamp!https://drawingroomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/net

Sandra Bell is the type of artist perhaps too easily described by pat phrases. It’s understandable, the human animal needs simplicities, but if I was in a rush, I’d say: “She’s a New Zealand musician and poet.” One might ask if she does ‘spoken word.’ Someone else might be curious as to whether she’s a ‘free spirit.’ A third might wonder what she has to say about ‘women in rock.’ By that time I would ponder another visit to Dunedin to go out to Taiaroa Head to fling myself into the ocean, exclaiming as I went, “Look that’s all too limiting and simple!”

Dunedin isn’t where the South Island-born Bell is originally from, though if you’d like a fuller story of her life and work across the world, it’s best told by Syd Newman’s overview for the Audio Culture site (http://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/sandra-bell). Dunedin is where she’s spent many years off and on recording and working and living and much more, though, and sessions from 1993 to 1995 led to the release not only of Net, her second full length solo release, but two stellar singles, “Angel” and the Chord double 7 inch. All three are collected here for the first time together as Net (Plus).

It’s often been said that New Zealand’s independent music scene, and Dunedin’s in particular, is one of a shared community, and many names familiar to listeners near and far can be found in the credits on this collection. It’s testimony to both Bell’s artistic skills and friendship that they were here supporting her vision, wherever it took her — and it ranged widely.

Recorded over some months in late 1994 and released on the shortlived Dunedin IMD label on CD only the following year, Net starts with a big brawling rocker, “Long Time,” but by the time it reaches “The Trees Can’t Dance,” everything from electric piano to Irish pipes have taken a bow. Beyond the instrumental variety, though, was the demonstration of Bell’s own ear for wry, cool vocals, unusual hooks and remarkable imagery, ranging from the personal to the natural world.

At the time of its own 1995 release on the Colorado- based Zabriskie Point label, “Angel” was the most recently recorded effort, two songs with a rough, growling edge (don’t call it grunge). Meantime, the Belgian Turbulence label, which had previously introduced Bell to Europe via a rerelease of her earlier Dreams of Falling cassette on Xpressway, put out Chord as its own final release, four engaging songs, electric and acoustic, from 1993.

As Bell’s followed her artistic drive over the years, with more releases, collaborations and journeys to her credit through to the present day, this clutch of efforts slipped into second-hand sales and file-trading. First through Bandcamp and now this physical release, it’s a pleasure to see Bell’s mid-1990s work return to the conversation properly — as well as to demonstrate a key point: a true artist can never be summed up in any one phrase, or phase.

— Ned Raggett, San Francisco, September 2017

Holy shit...

ANTI- is re-releasing Tom Waits' entire 1970's Elektra Asylum catalog
Closing Time Available Now For Pre-Order On Vinyl & CD

Tom Waits’ first seven albums, originally released through Elektra Asylum Records in the 1970’s, have been re-mastered and will be released via ANTI-Records.

All titles – many of which have been long out of print – will be re-issued on hi quality 180 gram vinyl throughout 2018. Closing Time vinyl is out March 9 and available for pre-order. CD versions of all Elektra Asylum titles are available for pre-order and will be released on March 23 with all digital releases slated for March 9.

Oh wow. Was wondering what the holdup was on those.

"Leave," by barely remembered Drag City-reissued Your Food, features shed-industrial, bandsaw-jangly (atonal?) guitar support to punk-chant, for kinda catchy results. Not as intense as DC's 4ever hot-breathing prose, but wouldn't mind hearing the rest:

Poke it with a Stick -- the only record by Louisville legends Your Food -- is a sui generis gem of the American underground, now faithfully reissued for the first time by Drag City. Recorded in 1983 by four scarecrows from Kentucky subsisting largely on cheap beer and baked beans, the album is a burbling burgoo of hypnotic rhythm, uncoiling tension, and sharp invective -- a proud bastard of post-punk royalty.
Listen To "Leave" Here! https://yourfood.bandcamp.com/album/poke-it-with-a-stick

In the fall of 1981, the residents of 1069, Louisville's original punk house, began to spy two teenagers lurking outside the decrepit environs. Eventually the teens grew bold enough to approach, and soon John Bailey and Wolf Knapp, were learning guitar and bass in the trashed rehearsal space within. Charles Schultz, who had been the drummer for Louisville's recently defunct Dickbrains (a band described by the Village Voice as freaky weirdos who couldn't fit in if they tried) started playing with John and Wolf. Douglas Maxson, the Dickbrains male singer, was lured back from New York with the promise of beer and cigarettes, and soon Your Food was playing weekly shows at the local Beat Club, mostly for free beer.

Financed by a Pell Grant and what little cash the band could scrounge, the album was cut largely live in the studio by a guy who usually recorded church groups, and self-released on the band's own Screaming Whoredog label. The prevailing themes of restlessness and isolation are palpable in songs like opener "Leave," where ennui morphs into dark comic fantasy. The punk funk of "Don't Be" fits perfectly with the downtown NYC groove of bands like ESG and Bush Tetras.

It was a golden age, but a waning one, an adolescent state before hope or commercial prospect or any plan for the future. Your Food managed three short tours in a world before cell phones, social media, or global positioning, and earned the admiration of the few who heard them. But, it all came to a spectacularly bitter end on the side of some frozen, forlorn highway in West Virginia. After the van broke down three times in four days, the band called it quits. Add this essential reissue to your collection on March 23rd!

Live-sounding, short and too sweet(lively):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vw8nfx46MY

Ditto, tho' more yer basic yip-yip durr-durr than these others: a Dickbrains recycle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emsqKMBnBBM

"short and NOT too sweet," I meant to say.

Smog Veil are releasing a load of Cleveland related lps/cds
https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/platters-du-cuyahoga-series-1-lp-subscription
https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/platters-du-cuyahoga-series-2-lp-subscription
most of the lps have audio files linked to on the site.

looks interesting. Or was this 2017.
I just saw the Hy maya being reviewed in the current Wire

Spiny Norman
Spiny Normen
(RidingEasy Records)
LP/CD/Digi: 3/2/2018

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Spiny Normen is an incredible mid-70's Houston hard rock, progressive, psychedelic rock band (yes, all that and more) that featured mellotron, vox jaguar, crunchy, heavy guitars, flute with echo effects, and lots more. A totally lost relic this album is, recorded at the community college and never released. This band has a very English, dark, mysterious and proggy but very acid drenched feeling to it.

The band was on the second installment of the Brown Acid anthology of '60s and '70s post-proto-metal nuggets with "Bell Park Loon" that is found on the full-length as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN55-BThniA

Steve Brudniak (Vocals/Guitar) says in the press release, "we were way behind and way ahead of our time," and he was actually right! They sound like they liked prog rock but couldn't play well enough to pull it off, which makes it come off like a proto-punk Hawkwind or Uriah Heep. Anyone remember Apes, the Washington DC noise band that put out several albums in the 00's? This sounds a lot like they did and I am pretty sure Apes never heard of them.

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Solaris: Sound And Vision is a collector's edition box set that includes Edward Artemiev's soundtrack to Andrey Tarkovsky's 1972 masterpiece Solaris in both LP and CD formats as well as a 96-page book of previously unreleased images from the movie set and a Blu-ray Disc of the film in its original Russian (with English subtitles).

The collaboration between Tarkovsky and Artemiev started with Solaris and would extend to two more films, Mirror and Stalker. The director was seeking a film score capable of completing, through sound, the meaningful images of his film. Artemiev was a member of the legendary Experimental Studio of Electronic Music in Moscow, a place of high experimentation in the field of the electronic music, in the context of which the ANS synthesizer was conceived and employed for the first time for music composition. Invented by Soviet engineer Evgeny Murzin, the ANS was used by Artemiev to create the special sound atmosphere that Tarkovsky was looking for.

Made in collaboration with the Andrey Tarkovsky Institute.

https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/song-cycle/products/andrey-tarkovsky-edward-artemiev-solaris-sound-and-vision-box-set

Wow, that looks great. Would like to hear the music by itself, outside the gravitational pull of the movie, which would be great to have on blu-ray, not that it isn't immersive already (grab a coffee or three before descent).

SLEEPYHEAD's 'Future Exhibit Goes Here' Double LP Reissue - Out April 13th on Drawing Room Records!

There’s rock and roll mythology, and then there’s 90’s indie rock mythology…Unfortunately, stories about then NYC’s Sleepyhead are really neither. Michael Galinsky, Rachael McNally, and Chris O’Rourke, NYU students more into music than books, form a band, practice, release singles and an album on a non-descript independent label, tour, and then again practice, release another album, tour and play Lollapalooza’s second stage, and so on…Yeah, it is neither very glamorous nor salacious. It’s simply three individuals playing, recording, and releasing music, as that’s what lady destiny called them to do.

Born in 1988, Sleepyhead was certainly a band of the era, pre-internet, pre-cell phone, and fully dependent on Xeroxed zine culture and passed around hand-written knowledge on all things music. It was definitely slower times in terms of technology, but one that was still full of young adventurers eager to play music and see the world in a used van on their own terms. With things always rapidly evolving, some things will always stay near the same. In a certain sense, it is through the driving culture provided with a used van that really allowed Sleepyhead to discover itself and thrive. Tours (on their own, with rad bands like Polvo, or even for lower-tiered Lollapalooza sets) helped hone the band’s vibe and distinctiveness. Many of these travels of Sleepyhead are the impetus for the stories told in Suki Hawley’s 1994 classic film, Half-Cocked, co-written by Hawley and Michael Galinsky. Additionally, by the time of this awesome visual documentation, Sleepyhead was at its initial apex in terms of sound and creativity with the results recorded on the two mid-90’s albums Starduster (1994) and Communist Love Songs (1996).

Nearly forgotten after over two decades for very uninteresting reasons, Drawing Room brings new life to this era of Sleepyhead with its release of Future Exhibit Goes Here. Presented as a deluxe set, Future Exhibit…contains completely re-mastered versions of both Starduster (LP 1) and Communist Love Songs (LP 2), two albums that showcase the band’s best penchants for noisy and naïve hooky guitar tunes (LP 1) and pure direct power pop (LP 2). Additionally, this new set marks the first time ever release of Communist Love Songs on vinyl. Included with Future Exhibit…is an 11×11” booklet full of Michael Galinsky’s wonderful black and white photography of Sleepyhead’s 90’s road excursions and notes and details from all three members.

Mastered by Josh Bonati and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, the 2xLP of Future Exhibit Goes Here comes in a wide-spine sleeve accompanied by a 14-page 11×11“ booklet full of Michael Galinsky’s black and white photography, and notes and ephemera from all members of Sleepyhead.
A re-mastered digital release is also available.

Future Exhibit Goes Here is out April 13th, 2018 on Drawing Room Records.

Praise for SLEEPYHEAD:

"Alternately silly and sexy, and always tuneful as all get out, Communist Love Songs is a non-stop delight." - AllMusic

"Twinky pop students of Sonic Youth, New York's Sleepyhead wields noisy guitars and some of the airiest vocals on the planet." - Trouser Press

"Nerd punk for now people." - SPIN

"Sleepyhead was a band that "overemphasized the noise over the pop in their noise pop sound." - AllMusic

A CERTAIN RATIO

ANNOUNCE NEXT PHASE OF REISSUES CAMPAIGN

AVAILABLE APRIL 27 ON MUTE

Listen to “Be What You Wanna Be” from acr:mcr here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPTwX_FMwG8&feature=youtu.be

A Certain Ratio announce details of the next phase of their reissues campaign with Mute. On April 27, Mute will release acr:mcr, I’d Like To See You Again, Good Together and Up In Downsville.

The reissues are part of the ongoing collaboration with Mute that started with The Graveyard And The Ballroom, To Each and Force. The forthcoming releases, including the long out-of-print albums acr:mcr and Good Together will be followed by Sextet,Mind Made Up, Change The Station and a new compilation with recently recorded tracks. Additionally, various box sets will include rare and previously unreleased material. The entire campaign is set to run over the next three years.

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Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – Music and Poetry Of The Kesh

Music and Poetry of the Kesh is the documentation of an invented Pacific Coast peoples from a far distant time, and the soundtrack of famed science fiction author, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home. In the novel, the story of Stone Telling, a young woman of the Kesh, is woven within a larger anthropological folklore and fantasy.

The ways of the Kesh were originally presented in 1985 as a five hundred plus page book accompanied with illustrations of instruments and tools, maps, a glossary of terms, recipes, poems, an alphabet (Le Guin’s conlang, so she could write non-English lyrics), and with early editions, a cassette of “field recordings” and indigenous song. Le Guin wanted to hear the people she’d imagined; she embarked on an elaborate process with her friend Todd Barton to invoke their spirit and tradition.

For Music and Poetry of the Kesh, the words and lyrics are attributed to Le Guin as composed by Barton, an Oregon-based musician, composer and Buchla synthesist (the two worked together previously on public radio projects). But the cassette notes credit the sounds and voices to the world of the Kesh, making origins ambiguous. For instance, “The River Song” description reads, “The prominent rhythm instrument is the doubure binga, a set of nine brass bowls struck with cloth-covered wooden mallets, here played by Ready.”

According to writer and long-time friend of LeGuin, Moe Bowstern (who pens the liners for the Freedom To Spend edition of Kesh), Barton built and then taught himself to play several instruments of Le Guin’s design, among them “the seven-foot horn known to the Kesh as the Houmbúta and the Wéosai Medoud Teyahi bone flute.” Barton’s crafting of original instruments lends an other-worldly texture to the recordings of the Kesh, not unlike fellow builders Bobby Brown and Lonnie Holley. Bowstern notes, “Other musician / makers have crafted their own Kesh instruments after encountering the earlier cassette recordings that accompanied some editions of the book.”

Both Barton and Le Guin are sensitive to the sovereignty of indigenous Californians and were careful not to trample the traditions of the Tolowa people who lived in the valley long before the Kesh. “You research deeply, and then you bring your own voice to the table,” said Barton. Within the Kesh culture, the numbers four and five shape the lives, society and rituals. Barton composed loosely around these numbers, patiently listening to the land of Napa Valley for signs and audio signals from the natural elements. Todd incorporated ambient sounds of the creek by Le Guin’s house and a campfire they built together.

The songs of Kesh are joyful, soothing and meditative, while the instrumental works drift far past the imaginary lands. “Heron Dance” is an uplifting first track, featuring a Wéosai Medoud Teyahi (made from a deer or lamb thigh bone with a cattail reed) and the great Houmbúta (used for theatre and ceremony). “A Music of the Eighth House” sends gossamer waves of the faintest sounds to “float on the wind.” Like the languages invented in the vocal work of Anna Homler, Meredith Monk, and Elizabeth Fraser, the Kesh songs and poems play with the shape of voice.

The Music and Poetry of the Kesh cassette was meant to accompany and enhance the experience of reading Always Coming Home. Presented in this edition as a long-playing album, where only traces of the book linger (the jacket offers some of Le Guin’s illustration, and a letterpressed bookmark featuring the the narrative modes of western civilization and the Kesh valley is included), the music alone breaking the silence of what might be. It can transport—offering a landscape for imagining a future homecoming. One in which we are balanced, peaceful, and tend to the earth and its creatures.

A line from “Sun Dance Poem” reminds us, “We are nothing much without one another.” Freedom To Spend gives new life to the recordings of the Kesh people in the first ever vinyl edition of Music and Poetry of the Kesh also availably on digital formats on March 23, 2018. The LP will include a spot printed jacket with Ursula’s illustrations from Always Coming Home, a facsimile of the original lyric sheet, liner notes by Moe Bowstern, a multi-format digital download code and a bookmark letter pressed by Stumptown Printers in Portland, OR.

First edition limited to 1,000 copies.

https://igetrvng.com/shop/fts009/

Get a little vegan buzz just reading that---is it more music than the orginal cassette that came with the book? (Why didn't I ever buy that original set)

Nice---Kill Rock Stars just posted the album that Elliott Smith hadn't quite finished before he died--15 tracks, now on 2-LP vinyl edition:

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https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/album/from-a-basement-on-the-hill

May well be the most extensive re-re-re-etc.-issue of this so far (yes they are squeezing a stone, but what a stone):

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FOREVER CHANGES: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Love's 1967 Masterpiece Celebrated With A 4CD/DVD/LP Collection Packed With
Various Mixes Of The Original, Rare And Unreleased Tracks, Plus A 1968 Promo
Video

The Set Will Be Available On April 6 From Rhino

LOS ANGELES - Love's FOREVER CHANGES is the psychedelic folk-rock pioneers' finest achievement. Mostly overlooked when it was released in 1967, today the album is considered an indispensable masterpiece. In 2008, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and - in 2012 - the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry.

Rhino will celebrate the acclaimed album's golden anniversary with an extensive 4CD/DVD/LP collection housed in a beautifully illustrated 12 x 12 hardbound book that features a newly written essay and track-by-track notes by music historian Ted Olsen. FOREVER CHANGES: 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION will be available on April 6 for $99.98.

The set features a few firsts for the album, including the CD-debut of a remastered version made by its original co-producer and engineer Bruce Botnick, as well as the first-ever release of the mono version on CD. Also included are alternate mixes of the album, as well as a selection of rare and unreleased singles and studio outtakes. Botnick's stereo remaster of the original album also makes its vinyl debut on the LP included with this set. It was cut from high resolution digital audio by celebrated audio engineer Bernie Grundman.

The DVD that accompanies the anniversary collection includes a 24/96 stereo mix of the album version of the original album remastered by Botnick. Also featured is "Your Mind And We Belong Together," a rare promotional video directed by Elektra producer Mark Abramson that was originally released in 1968.

Recorded during the Summer of Love in Hollywood, CA, Forever Changes is the group's most fully realized studio effort, featuring Arthur Lee (vocals, guitar), Johnny Echols (lead guitar), Bryan MacLean (rhythm guitar, vocals), Ken Forssi (bass) and Michael Stuart (drums, percussion). The original album introduced classics like "Andmoreagain," "Red Telephone," "A House Is Not A Motel" and "Alone Again Or."

FOREVER CHANGES: 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION boasts more than a dozen rarities, including single versions of "Alone Again Or" and "A House Is Not A Motel" that are available now for the first time since 1967. Two other recordings on the set have never been released: the backing track for "Live And Let Live" and an outtake backing track for "Wonder People (I Do Wonder)."

For more information about FOREVER CHANGES, please contact Jessica Giordano in the Rhino Media Relations Department at jess✧✧✧.giord✧✧✧@rh✧✧✧.c✧✧ or 818-238-6403.

FOREVER CHANGES: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Track Listing:

Disc One: Original Album
1. "Alone Again Or"
2. "A House Is Not A Motel"
3. "Andmoreagain"
4. "The Daily Planet"
5. "Old Man"
6. "The Red Telephone"
7. "Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale"
8. "Live And Let Live"
9. "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This"
10. "Bummer In The Summer"
11. "You Set The Scene"

Disc Two: Mono Mix

Disc Three: Alternate Mix
1. "Alone Again Or"
2. "A House Is Not A Motel"
3. "Andmoreagain"
4. "The Daily Planet"
5. "Old Man"
6. "The Red Telephone"
7. "Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale"
8. "Live And Let Live"
9. "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This"
10. "Bummer In The Summer"
11. "You Set The Scene"
12. "Wonder People (I Do Wonder)" - Outtake - Alternate Mix

Disc Four: Singles and Outtakes
1. "Wonder People (I Do Wonder)"
2. "Alone Again Or" - Single Version
3. "A House Is Not A Motel" - Single Version
4. "Hummingbirds" - Demo
5. "A House Is Not A Motel" - Backing Track
6. "Andmoreagain" - Alternate Electric Backing Track
7. "The Red Telephone" - Tracking Sessions Highlights
8. "Wooly Bully" - Outtake
9. "Live and Let Live" - Backing Track *
10. "Wonder People (I Do Wonder)" - Outtake, Backing Track *
11. "Your Mind And We Belong Together" - Tracking Sessions Highlights
12. "Your Mind And We Belong Together"
13. "Laughing Stock"
14. "Alone Again Or" - Mono Single Remix

DVD: 24/96 Stereo Mix
1. "Alone Again Or"
2. "A House Is Not A Motel"
3. "Andmoreagain"
4. "The Daily Planet"
5. "Old Man"
6. "The Red Telephone"
7. "Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale"
8. "Live And Let Live"
9. "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This"
10. "Bummer In The Summer"
11. "You Set The Scene"
12. "Your Mind And We Belong Together" - Video

LP: Original Album
Side One
1. "Alone Again Or"
2. "A House Is Not A Motel"
3. "Andmoreagain"
4. "The Daily Planet"
5. "Old Man"
6. "The Red Telephone"

Side Two
1. "Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale"
2. "Live And Let Live"
3. "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This"
4. "Bummer In The Summer"
5. "You Set The Scene"

* Previously Unreleased

more info in orig press release: http://view.e.wbr.com/?qs=1cc9f0a044c2dcef49a2e1d3d2ba53157cc3123441929bb3c6e6607955c92bfb2645be1c448e9447974053bda1661a1a340c807451e885c25bcd35b7f4963135bcf7f65728714301

Just got my double Roxy Music CD in the mail yesterday. Hardcover book style, many pages of liner notes in tiny, tiny text. Second disc is BBC sessions.

I was just randomly looking at the 80s noise chart on RYM, looked to see if High Rise - II is on Bandcamp, and coincidentally it's being reissued on Friday! Japanese heavy noise psych from 1986

https://highrise.bandcamp.com/

Yeah, local record store owner had me listen to a copy, immediately had him order one for me!

American rock & roll band Royal Trux (Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty) have signed with Mississippi label Fat Possum Records which will re-release the entire digital catalog from the duo's 1988 self-titled debut up to 2000's pre-hiatus gem Pound for Pound (not including their two major label releases). Herrema and Hagerty have also confirmed plans to enter the studio this summer to record a new album for Fat Possum. The band have performed spontaneous secret shows across the USA and Europe since picking back up where they left off in 2015. But 2018 will prove to be their busiest year with strategic headlining shows across the US and festival dates across Europe going in to 2019.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO "THE FLAG" (from Cats and Dogs; 1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU98IeueZxo&feature=youtu.be (several other RT on same page)

Kurt Cobain named this 1993 Royal Trux song as his top track of the year in NME

Titles to be re-issued in March, April + May 2018:

Royal Trux s/t (1988)

Hand of Glory (1989)

Twin Infinitives (1990)

Untitled (1992)

Cats and Dogs (1993)

Accelerator (1998)

3-Song EP (1998)

Veterans of Disorder (1999)

Pound for Pound (2000)

Radio Video EP (2000)

Expect the first slate of re-releases from Fat Possum on all streaming sites in March.

Anyway it's on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU98IeueZxo&feature=youtu.be

The first of several from Sounds Of The Universe, Soul Jazz Records' store:

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Donald Alexander Strachan and The Freedom Ensemble
Soul Translation: A Spiritual Suite
Universal Sound

Soul Jazz Records/Universal Sound are releasing “Soul Translation: A Spiritual Suite" a superb lost USA deep jazz independent private-press album originally self-published by Donald Alexander Strachan and the Freedom Ensemble on Triad Music Concepts in 1975.

This great soulful/spiritual jazz album was the only album that Strachan released and consequently has become a lost rarity - a must for fans of Tribe, Strata-East and other conscious jazz from the 1970s and features in Gilles Peterson/Soul Jazz Records' Freedom, Rhythm and Sound book.

Donald Alexander Strachan is composer, conductor, guitarist, vocalist and more leading a large 11-piece line-up that includes Jay Hoggard on vibes.

Strachan studied in New York City in the 1970s with composer/saxophonist Sam Rivers and Ghanaian Drum-master Abraham Adzenyah as well as avant-garde guitarist/composer Bruce Johnson all of who helped shape his unique sound.

In the 1980s Strachan entered into the collaborative world of cinema by composing musical scores and has been involved in cinema ever since both musically, as a scriptwriter and director. Donald Alexander Strachan and the Freedom Ensemble’s “Soul Translation: A Spiritual Suite" is a unique product of Strachan’s multicultural and African-American heritage and aesthetic - polyrhythmically complex and spiritually intense.

This is a bespoke high quality hardback-cased Japanese thick card CD edition with exact-reproduction artwork from the original album.

The 180-gram vinyl thick card exact-reproduction artwork is strictly limted to 1000 copies wordwide.
Other Releases on Universal Sound.
CD, LP, MP3---more info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/donald-alexander-strachan-and-the-freedom-ensemble-soul-translation-a-spiritual-suite

Soul of A Nation
Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power: Underground Jazz, Street Funk & The Roots of Rap 1964-79
Soul Jazz Records

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his album is released this week to coincide with the massive new exhibition Soul of A Nation - Art in the Age of Black Power now on at Tate Modern, London until Oct 2017.

For more information on the TATE MODERN exhibition go here
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/soul-nation-art-age-black-power

Watch Channel 4 news piece here https://www.channel4.com/news/soul-of-a-nation-at-tate-modern?intcmp=search_results_page_bottom_p

The album shows how the ideals of the civil rights movement, black power and black nationalism influenced the evolvement of radical African-American music in the United States of America in the intensely political and revolutionary period at the end of the 1960s following the assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and the rise of the Black Panther party.

Featuring groundbreaking artists such as Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Ayers, Don Cherry, Oneness of Juju, Sarah Webster Fabio, Horace Tapscott, Phil Ranelin and many others, Soul of A Nation shows how political themes led to the rise of ‘conscious’ black music as new afro-centric styles combined the musical radicalism and spirituality of John Coltrane and radical avant-garde jazz music alongside the intense funk and soul of James Brown and Aretha Franklin and the urban poetry and proto-rap of the streets.

The Soul of a Nation exhibition draws on the links between Black art forms – art, music, poetry - and how they came together during the civil rights and black power era as part of the wider black arts movement across the United States.

Iconic African-Amercian revolutionary figures such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Angela Davis, John Coltrane, Muhammad Ali all appear in the radical artworks of Barkley L. Hendricks, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Lorraine O’Grady and Betye Saar.

Stuart Baker (founder of Soul Jazz Records) will appear with the curators on the panel of Jazz for Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power discussion at the gallery as part of the show.

The Soul of a Nation album comes with extensive sleeve-notes and exclusive photography in a large 36-page outsize booklet and slipcase. Double gatefold vinyl album edition comes with full colour inners + bonus download code and includes full sleeve-notes/photography.
2xLP + Download Code, CD, MP3
More info (incl. links to reviews of exhibit), audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/afrocentric-visions-in-the-age-of-black-power

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Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3
Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1971-81
Soul Jazz Records

This latest installment in Soul Jazz Records’ successful Deutsche Elektronische Musik series delves deeper into the German nation’s vaults to bring a fascinating new collection that again brings together a selection of classic German electronic and rock groups, including Neu!, Cluster, Popol Vuh, La Düsseldorf, Agitation Free, alongside a host of rare tracks by lesser known artists which includes Michael Bundt, Bröselmaschine, Dronsz, Achim Reichel and others.

The music of Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 ranges from the introverted pastoralism of Hans Joachim Roedelius and Bröselmaschine, to the angular and futuristic electronic experimentations of Klauss Weiss, Pyrolator, Deuter, Michael Bundt and others, to the proto-punk of La Düsseldorf and the heavy space, progressive and cosmic rock of Missus Beastly, Niagara and Dyzan.

The music on Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 was all recorded in the 1970s up to the early 1980s, at a time when forward-thinking German electronic and rock groups were searching for a new musical identity in order to separate themselves from both the cultural legacy of post-world war two Germany as well the ‘cultural imperialism’ of USA and UK rock. In this process German groups created some of the most unique and inspired music, the defining motorik beat alongside a host of ethno-musical influences from far afield – including Turkey, India, Brazil – as well as the musical and futurist possibilities of developments in electronics and technology itself.

Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 is released as a heavyweight 3xLP, deluxe double CD pack and digital release. The new extensive sleevenotes are by David Stubbs, who is the author of the acclaimed book, ‘Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany’ (Faber & Faber).

Deutsche Elektronische Musik: “A near-definitive guide to some of the world’s most extraordinary music’’ ***** The Guardian
3 LPs * download code
2 CDs
MP3 more info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/experimental-german-rock-and-german-music-197181

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New York Noise 2016 Edition
Dance Music From The New York Underground 1977–1982
Soul Jazz Records

This is the new edition of Soul Jazz Records’ long out of print first New York Noise collection, Dance Music From The New York Underground 1978-82.

This new 2016 edition features classic New York post-punk, punk funk and no wave tracks from Arthur Russell/Dinosaur L, James White and the Contortions, The Theoretical Girls, Mars, Konk, Material, Bush Tetras, Lizzy Mercier Descloux as well as new tracks by Alan Vega (Suicide), Chain Gang and Implog.
2 LPs, CD, MP3 more info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/new-york-noise-2015-dance-music-from-the-new-york-underground-1977-1982

Space, Energy and Light
Experimental Electronic and Acoustic Soundscapes 1961 - 88
Soul Jazz Records

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Soul Jazz Records’ new Space, Energy and Light is a collection of music by early electronic and synthesizer pioneers (from the 1960s through the 1970s), mid-1970s proto-new age gurus and 1980s guerrilla D-I-Y cassette-era electronic artists, spanning in total over a near 30-year time frame. All of these artists used electronic advancements in music technology as a means of exploring not only space and the idea of the future, but also of looking inwards to the soul and of creating music in harmony with the natural world.

From computer software and hardware experimentalists and sound pioneers such as Laurie Spiegel and Kevin Braheny, as well as Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company – the first synthesizer ensemble created in collaboration with Robert Moog – through to musique concrète experimentation, the album shows how technological advancements and creative artistic expression often went hand in hand.

In the mid-1970s artists Steven Halpern and Iaxos were instrumental in creating proto-new age music, experimenting in both the healing properties of sound and its relationship with the natural world. These artists also pioneered a new self-contained and underground D-I-Y approach to music, creating their own record labels, forming new distribution networks (with albums sold in meditation centres, health food stores and ashrams) far away from the commercialism of the mainstream music industry. In the early 1980s after the revolution of punk, these D-I-Y attitudes and ideas appeared once more in the growth of the distinctly anti-commercial and underground cassette-only careers of artists such as Germany’s Stratis and Carl Matthews in Britain.

This album is available as a heavyweight triple vinyl album (plus download code), CD and digital release. Artwork includes some of the earliest photography of the Plieades star cluster dating from the 1880s.

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3 LPs + download code, CD. MP3 more info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/experimental-electronic-and-acoustic-soundscapes-1961-88

In the fertile terrain of New Zealand's 1980s post-punk scene, few figures loom as large as the Jefferies brothers. Graeme Jefferies and Peter Jefferies – the primary forces behind This Kind of Punishment – wrote some of the best music to come out on Flying Nun, Xpressway or elsewhere. A dizzying mix of pastoral ballads and DIY experimentation, TKP's songwriting was at once classic and acutely raw.

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On their self-titled debut, the Jefferies brothers and Chris Matthews eschew the punk-informed modes of their contemporaries for a sound that is decidedly more deliberate / intimate. Rooted in a marriage between simplistic, classically-influenced piano, alternating guitar chime and sparse, subtle violin drone, This Kind Of Punishment is a contemplative, inventive collection of ideas corralled via economic 4-track recordings, minimal instrumentation and an austere performance style entirely of the Jefferies' own making. Songs like "After The Fact," "In View Of The Circumstances" and "Two Minutes Drowning" boast a living quality whereby the listener can act as bystander to these moments of creation – a trait that the band would expand upon throughout the course of their brief tenure.

First-time vinyl reissue since its initial release in 1983.

https://soundcloud.com/superiorviaduct/this-kind-of-punishment-after-the-fact

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Among This Kind Of Punishment's myriad recordings, A Beard Of Bees best outlines the collective vision of the Jefferies brothers. Their classic second album feels more meticulous than its predecessor, proffering a grey, near-Mancunian influence that serves as both touchstone and springboard for the proceedings. The unique maneuvering on "Trepidation" is a marvel: guitar sweetness shifting toward melancholic piano and ending with their combined shimmer. Conversely, the augmented VU-inspired noise of "East Meets West" positions itself as the album's prime moment of severity – creepily building toward horror-show screams that inch to a buried, found-sound resolution.

Originally self-released in 1984, A Beard Of Bees has been out of print for almost 25 years.

https://youtu.be/kA4yjVvOH5g
https://soundcloud.com/superiorviaduct/this-kind-of-punishment-trepidation

https://www.superiorviaduct.com

damn that's cool

Trailed a year ago by Jonny Trunk, and finally out - well, as a download. Vinyl coming soon? (it's currently showing as 'out of stock' on the Trunk Records shop website)

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As the opening track of Trunk’s 2007 Fuzzy Felt Folk compilation, the 'I Start Counting' cue would have seemed to many an exquisite piece of pastoral jazz-licked folk from the master composer Kirchin. Now in situ, heading up the full score to the 1970 horror flick of the same name, it takes on new hues, its ethereal motif repeated throughout the 24-minute soundtrack, melting at one point into Eastern percussion en route to a full free jazz deconstruction. After some particularly doom-laden strings mid-way through the score, the main theme rises back into view, now sporting organ grooves and a country backing. Yes, patently Kirchin heard sound in a way we mere laggards could never really understand.

To further prove his deft mastery, the unreleased score found on tapes labelled “Third World Documentary” drops in on Kirchin in the 80s, but, really, shows us yet more timeless synthesis as dramatic as that on I Start Counting, albeit put to very different ends. Here Kirchin carefully harnesses then-modern electronics to a jazz rhythm section, producing something that straddles time zones, and perhaps even edges towards creating his own.

For further evidence of how ahead of his time he was, the final track sees him pull together some programmed beats that, amazingly, presage Soul II Soul’s Keep On Movin’, with added Kirchin textures on top. Worlds within worlds, indeed…

https://trunkrecords.greedbag.com/buy/i-start-counting-0/
https://bleep.com/release/95013-basil-kirchin-i-start-counting
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079QCQ684

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LORD OF THE RINGS SOUNDTRACKS

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring: The Complete Recordings

Limited-Edition Boxed Sets Available From Rhino Starting On April 6

LOS ANGELES - The Lord of the Rings is one of most successful trilogies in film history earning 17 Academy Awards ® including three for its music. Beyond critical acclaim, the music from the films also enjoyed wide commercial success, collectively selling 7 million copies. Directed by Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings films are based on the popular J.R.R. Tolkien novel of the same name.

Rhino is returning to Middle-earth on April 6 with the first soundtrack from the Trilogy, THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, available on vinyl for the first time as a 5-LP boxed set ($119.98). Housed in a collector's box with red leather style spine, the collection is limited to 5,000 individually numbered copies on red vinyl. The soundtrack will also be available as a 3-CD disc set ($79.98) plus 1 Blu-ray audio disc containing high-resolution 5.1 and Stereo mixes of the entire score, a reactivation of the 2005 box set featuring the entire score from the extended versions of the film. Both versions come with extensive liner notes from author Doug Adams who analyzes many of the themes and motifs used throughout the score.

The music for all three films was composed, orchestrated and conducted by Howard Shore. The music he wrote for The Fellowship of the Ring was performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with contributions by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the London Voices and the London Oratory School Schola. The soundtrack also highlights two original songs written and performed by Enya: "May It Be" and "Aníron (Theme for Aragorn and Arwen)." The soundtrack was certified platinum in the U.S. alone, and sold extremely well around the world. It won the Academy Award ® for Best Original Score, as well as the Grammy ® for Best Score Soundtrack Album.

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS is the first of in a series of three releases that will also feature The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) on color vinyl for the first time. More information on the series of releases will be available at a later date.

The Complete Recordings is last year's most important archival soundtrack release, expanding and preserving one of the finest and most significant recent scores in all of film music. Shore's Lord Of The Rings trilogy is an operatic symphony that is among the finest musical accomplishments of the last half-century. The plethora of unreleased material on this beautifully packaged edition is mouth-watering at the least, and the sonic dynamic achieved on the surround sound DVD of the entire 180-minute score is simply astonishing. - Randall Larson from Music From the Movies, 2005

There's probably never been as ambitious a film score as Howard Shore's 10-hour epic for the "Lord of the Rings" series... the music is rich and complex, drawing on a vast range of styles and exotic instruments to evoke J.R.R. Tolkien's world of elves, hobbits and warlocks. But it's more than just background music: Shore uses an elaborate leitmotif technique (where musical themes are associated with specific characters or ideas, and are developed across the entire series) to hold the sprawling tale together. Lush, beautiful and full of intriguing surprises, it's no wonder that it's become one of the most popular film scores ever written. - Stephen Brookes for the Washington Post, May, 2008

The Lord of the Rings No. 1 Best Movie Score of the 21st Century - IndieWire, February, 2018

For more information about LORD OF THE RINGS, please contact Jessica Giordano in the Rhino Media Relations Department at jess✧✧✧.giord✧✧✧@rh✧✧✧.c✧✧ or 818-238-6403.

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS
Track Listing:

LP 1
SIDE A
1. Prologue: One Ring to Rule Them All
2. The Shire
3. Bag End
4. Very Old Friends
5. Flaming Red hair

SIDE B
1. Farewell Dear Bilbo
2. Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe
3. A Conspiracy Unmasked
4. Three Is Company

LP 2
SIDE C
1. The Passing Of The Elves
2. Saruman the White
3. A Shortcut to Mushrooms
4. Strider
5. The Nazgûl

SIDE D
1. Weathertop
2. The Caverns of Isengard
3. Give Up the Halfling
4. Orthanc
5. Rivendell
6. The Sword That Was Broken

LP 3
Side E
1. The Council of Elrond Assembles Featuring "Aníron (Theme for Aragorn and Arwen)" Composed &
performed by Enya
2. The Great Eye
3. Gilraen's Memorial
4. The Pass of Caradhras

Side F
1. The Doors of Durin
2. Moria
3. Gollum
4. Balin's Tomb

LP 4
Side G
1. Khazad-dûm
2. Caras Galadhon Featuring "Lament for Gandalf" performed by Elizabeth Fraser

Side H
1. The Mirror of Galadriel
2. The Fighting Uruk-hai

LP 5
Side I
1. Parth Galen
2. The Departure of Boromir

Side J
1. The Road Goes Ever On... Pt. 1
2. May It Be Composed & performed by Enya
3. The Road Goes Ever On... Pt. 2 Featuring "In Dreams" performed by Edward Ross

This looks pretty cool, it would be a good to have a well recorded Who live record pre-Tommy.

The Who Live at the Fillmore East 1968 Track List

Disc One:
1. "Summertime Blues"
2. "Fortune Teller"
3. "Tattoo"
4. "Little Billy"
5. "I Can’t Explain"
6. "Happy Jack"
7. "Relax"
8. "I'm A Boy"
9. "A Quick One"
10. "My Way"
11. "C'mon Everybody"
12. "Shakin' All Over"
13. "Boris The Spider"

Disc Two:
1. "My Generation" - 33 minutes, ends with instrument smashing.

Kind of wonder if the 'unreleased' Zep that is supposed to come out this year will also be Fillmore tapes. I say possible.

Excellent, thanks for the tip!

Amazon has the release date of April 20.

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The original Live At Leeds, minus the performance of Tommy added on the reissue, still invades my headspace pretty often, no warning.

And I don't miss the bonus Tommy, though should be dynamic as possible, considering the heat of the night otherwise.

Cool new agey LP from Eblen Macari is being reissued on Seance Centre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9MjRb7UuoE

http://www.seance-centre.com/shop/eblen-macari-musica-para-planetarios-lp

This sounds great:

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Pat Ament "Songs By Pat Ament" LP (Grapefruit)

In 1971, at the age of 25, Pat Ament self-released his debut album, Songs By Pat Ament, in a very limited run for friends and local shops. The album is sparse and moody, conjuring a space not unlike the one that Songs of Leonard Cohen occupies, featuring Ament on Wurlitzer with a jazz drummer and a guitarist alternating between acoustic and electric. It’s dark and at times forlorn, with meditations on yearning and loss and love. It’s ideal long-night-of-the-soul music. The lyricism evokes Dylan, Cohen, Tim Hardin and Bill Fay.

When he released Songs, Ament was already a world renowned mountain climber, and he became famous for pioneering 60’s and 70’s ascents in Colorado and Yosemite. He wrote poetic books and essays on climbing, including biographies of legendary climbers Royal Robbins and John Gill. Through the years he’s balanced multiple simultaneous careers as artist, photographer, filmmaker, chess master, karate black belt, lecturer, teacher, and, yes, singer-songwriter.

Pat Ament’s musical mastery was clear right out of the gate but it was only one of his many interests. Perhaps if he hadn’t been moved to pursue life’s other tempting summits and focused solely on music, he’d be as well known for his songs as for his climbing. Grapefruit is extremely proud to reissue this rare and virtually unknown singer-songwriter masterpiece, sourced from original sources and under Ament's supervision, with original artwork and deluxe Stoughton tip-on jacket. The record also comes with a bonus career retrospective CD entitled Time Moved On of additional songs hand-picked by the artist.

https://grapefruitrecordclub.com/products/ament-pat-song-by-pat-ament-lp-pre-order

Aquarium Drunkard write-up, includes an interview of Ament by Simon Joyner and a stream of the album.

yeah, that pat ament is totally fantastic, very highly recommended!

Rolling Giant Album Covers

(I realize that I am responsible for one giant album cover)

Keep 'em coming.
None such w this, alas:

In advance of Led Zeppelin’s 50th Anniversary celebration, slated to commence this September, the band will wet fan’s appetites with their first ever Record Store Day release on April 21st, 2018.

Produced by Jimmy Page and pressed on yellow vinyl, the limited-edition 7” single will feature two previously unheard studio mixes, handpicked by Page – the “Sunset Sound Mix” of “Rock And Roll” b/w the “Olympic Studios Mix” of “Friends.”

The previously unreleased version of “Rock And Roll” provides an additional peek into the fabled “Sunset Sound Mixes” of “Led Zeppelin IV.” Only two previous “Sunset Sound Mixes” have been released, the first being the version of “When The Levee Breaks” on the original album, and the second the “Stairway To Heaven” mix that debuted on the 2014 deluxe edition.

The previously unheard “Olympic Studios Mix” of “Friends” is a stripped-down version, without the orchestration of the final mix, offering a true fly-on-the-wall feel from the band’s recording sessions for “Led Zeppelin III” at the Headley Grange recording and rehearsal venue in Headley, Hampshire, England.

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THE FLAMING LIPS REVISIT RESTLESS ERA

Rhino Celebrates Oklahoma's Fearless Freaks With Two Newly Remastered
Collections Of Their Early Work

A Single-Disc Compilation Will Be Available April 20
Followed By A Six-CD Boxed Set On May 25

LOS ANGELES - The Flaming Lips have pushed the envelope and bent boundaries for more than two decades with the band's Grammy®-winning music and ground-breaking concerts. This year, Rhino and Warner Bros. Records will celebrate Oklahoma's most famous freaks with an ambitious reissue program, kicking off with two releases that spotlight the joyous weirdness the band recorded for Restless Records before signing with Warner Bros. in 1991.

It begins with SCRATCHING THE DOOR: THE FIRST RECORDINGS OF THE FLAMING LIPS, a single-disc compilation that features music recorded by the band's original lineup. The 19-track collection will be available on April 20 for $14.98. It will be followed by SEEING THE UNSEEABLE: THE COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS OF THE FLAMING LIPS 1986-1990, a six-CD boxed set that includes their four Restless Records studio albums and two discs of rarities, available on May 25 for $34.98. Both releases will also be available on digital download and streaming services, with over 40 tracks making their digital debut. 2018 also sees a slew of vinyl reissues from The Flaming Lips, including remasters of the Restless albums. These will feature some tracks appearing on vinyl for the very first time.

All of the music on SCRATCHING THE DOOR and SEEING THE UNSEEABLE has been remastered from original sources by the band's longtime musical foil and producer, David Fridmann with help from the Lips' Wayne Coyne and Michael Ivins.

SCRATCHING THE DOOR highlights tracks recorded by The Flaming Lips' original line-up, which featured Wayne Coyne's brother Mark on vocals. The album includes the band's first and second cassette demos, in addition to The Flaming Lips first self-released EP, which has been remastered from the original 1/4" analog tape master. This marks the first time all of these recordings have been collected together on a single release. Among the other featured tracks are covers of The Who's "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere," Led Zeppelin's "Communication Breakdown" and the theme song from the 1960's Batman television series, which previously appeared on Rykodisc's 2002 compilation, Finally The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid.

SEEING THE UNSEEABLE brings back into print (physically - they are available digitally) all four studio albums that the band released on Restless Records between 1984 and 1990: Hear It Is (1986), Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips (1987), Telepathic Surgery (1989) and In A Priest Driven Ambulance (With Silver Sunshine Stares) (1990). All of these have been remastered from the original 1/4" analog tape masters and include sonic treasures such as "Godzilla Flick," "Unconsciously Screaming," "One Million Billionth Of A Millisecond On A Sunday Morning" and their cover of the classic "(What A) Wonderful World."

The set is also packed with rare recordings originally released as b-sides, flexi discs, and on various compilations like, the Sub Pop single "Strychnine/Peace, Love And Understanding" and a cover of "After The Gold Rush" from a 1989 Neil Young tribute album Also included is The Mushroom Tapes, the series of demos for the band's final Restless album, In A Priest Driven Ambulance, only previously issued on the Rykodisc compilation CD, The Day They Shot A Hole In the Jesus Egg.

SCRATCHING THE DOOR: THE FIRST RECORDINGS OF THE FLAMING LIPS
Track Listing:
1. "Bag Full Of Thoughts"
2. "Out For A Walk"
3. "Garden Of Eyes"
4. "Forever Is A Long Time"
5. "Scratchin' The Door"
6. "My Own Planet"
7. "Killer On The Radio"
8. "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere"
9. "Batman Theme"
10. "Handsome Johnny"
11. "Flaming Lips Theme Song 1983"
12. "The Future Is Gone"
13. "Underground Pharmacist"
14. "Real Fast Words"
15. "Groove Room"
16. "Jesus Shootin' Heroin"
17. "Trains, Brains & Rain"
18. "Communication Breakdown"
19. "Summertime Blues"

SEEING THE UNSEEABLE: THE COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS OF THE FLAMING LIPS 1986-1990
Track Listing:
Disc One: Hear It Is
1. "With You"
2. "Unplugged"
3. "Trains, Brains and Rain"
4. "Jesus Shootin' Heroin"
5. "Just Like Before"
6. "She Is Death"
7. "Charlie Manson Blues"
8. "Man From Pakistan"
9. "Godzilla Flick"
10. "Staring At Sound/With You (Reprise)"

Disc Two: Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips
1. "Everything's Explodin'"
2. "One Million Billionth Of A Millisecond On A Sunday Morning"
3. "Maximum Dream For Evil Knievel"
4. "Can't Exist"
5. "Ode to C.C. (Part I)"
6. "The Ceiling Is Bendin'"
7. "Prescription: Love"
8. "Thanks To You"
9. "Can't Stop The Spring"
10. "Ode To C.C. (Part II)"
11. "Love Yer Brain"

Disc Three: Telepathic Surgery
1. "Drug Machine In Heaven"
2. "Right Now"
3. "Michael, Time To Wake Up"
4. "Chrome Plated Suicide"
5. "Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon (Fuck Led Zeppelin)"
6. "Miracle On 42nd Street"
7. "Fryin' Up"
8. "Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory"
9. "U.F.O. Story"
10. "Redneck School Of Technology"
11. "Shaved Gorilla"
12. "The Spontaneous Combustion Of John"
13. "The Last Drop Of Morning Dew"
14. "Begs and Achin'"

Disc Four: In A Priest Driven Ambulance (With Silver Sunshine Stares)
1. "Shine On Sweet Jesus - Jesus Song No. 5"
2. "Unconsciously Screamin'"
3. "Rainin' Babies"
4. "Take Meta Mars"
5. "Five Stop Mother Superior Rain"
6. "Stand In Line"
7. "God Walks Among Us Now - Jesus Song No. 6"
8. "There You Are - Jesus Song No. 7"
9. "Mountain Side"
10. "What A Wonderful World"

Disc Five: Restless Rarities
1. "Death Valley '69"
2. "Thank You"
3. "Can't Stop The Spring" - Remix
4. "After The Gold Rush"
5. "Death Trippin' At Sunrise"
6. "Drug Machine In Heaven" - Sub Pop 7" version
7. "Strychnine/Peace, Love And Understanding"
8. "Lucifer Rising"
9. "Ma, I Didn't Notice"
10. "Let Me Be It"
11. "She's Gone Mad Again"
12. "Golden Hearse"
13. "Stand In Line"
14. "I Want To Kill My Brother; The Cymbal Head"
15. "Five Stop Mother Superior Rain"

Disc Six: The Mushroom Tapes
1. "Take Meta Mars"
2. "Mountain Side"
3. "There You Are"
4. "Five Stop Mother Superior Rain"
5. "Rainin' Babies"
6. "Unconsciously Screamin'"
7. "Stand In Line"
8. "God's A Wheeler Dealer"
9. "Agonizing"
10. "One Shot"
11. "Cold Day"
12. "Jam"

Hate to admit it but that Flaming Lips box is actually kind of appealing, especially since it's apparently pretty cheap (Amazon had it for $35 pre-order). I could tolerate them all the way up to Hit To Death In The Future Head.

Still haven't heard Scratch Acid---good?

From Kill Rock Stars:

MARNIE STERN'S CLASSIC ALBUM THIS IS IT & I AM IT...

GETS REPRESSED FOR RECORD STORE DAY 2018

"Her songs always at least suggest pop, and the sense of tune at their core adds an inviting thrill to Stern's fitful guitar and Zach Hill's ridiculously, miraculously agitated drums" - The AV Club

Visionary guitarist Marnie Stern's critically acclaimed 2008 album, This Is It & I Am It & You Are It & So Is That & He Is It & She Is It & It Is It & That Is That, has been repressed on clear w/ electric yellow swirl vinyl for this year's Record Store Day, April 21st, 2018! This Is It... was produced and features drumming by Zach Hill (of Hella and Death Grips) and includes fan-favorite songs like "Transformer," "The Crippled Jazzer," and "Ruler." This is the first time the album has been available on vinyl since its initial 2008 pressing of 1,000 copies.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR "RULER"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-waJkiflb0

On March 23, Craft Recordings will release The Thousand Incarnations Of The Rose: American Primitive Guitar and Banjo (1963-1974) on 2LP, CD, and digital. This new compilation celebrates the groundbreaking, inventive approach to traditional instrumentation brought forward by an impressive group of maverick artists whose interpretations of folk, blues, and traditional song gave rise to one of American music's most unique and influential stylistic schools, known today as American Primitive. Featured artists on the compilation, which serves as a "Who's Who" of the genre, include John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho, Harry Taussig and more. The two-LP vinyl edition features deluxe gatefold packaging, and a tipped-in booklet containing new liner notes by compilation producer Glenn Jones and illustrations by Drew Christie. The CD configuration comes housed in a softpack and features a booklet containing both Jones' notes and Christie's artwork.

Preorder the release on Amazon or find it at your local record store.

The Craft Recordings release comes in connection with a three-day festival by the same name, The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose, which promises to be a music festival unlike any other. Taking place at multiple venues in Takoma Park, MD from April 13th - 15th, the festival brings together for the first time more than 25 acoustic fingerstyle guitar and banjo players from every era of the American Primitive/Guitar Soli movement and every corner of the United States; pairing legends such as Peter Lang, Max Ochs, Harry Taussig, and Peter Walker with modern day heavy hitters like Glenn Jones, Marisa Anderson, Daniel Bachman, and Nathan Bowles. There will also be documentary screenings and rare footage of John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Jack Rose, plus panel discussions with scholars and musicians. It is only fitting that Takoma Park, Fahey's boyhood home, will host the festival this year, which commemorates the 60th anniversary of his very first recordings.

For tickets and additional information, including lineup and event schedule, please click here.

MORE ABOUT AMERICAN PRIMITIVE GUITAR:

When guitarist John Fahey sat down to record The Takoma Park Pool Hall Blues for Fonotone Records in 1958 he could not have imagined that he was starting an artistic movement or that generations of players would follow in his footsteps. The number of players who have since taken up the American Primitive mantle has grown exponentially year-by-year and album-by-album. The term has come to refer to a certain approach to playing the guitar (or banjo) that favors emotion and mood over virtuosity for its own sake. With his minimalistic, self-taught approach to writing and recording, incorporating folk, blues, American roots music, and sound collage, Fahey laid the foundation for others to follow in his style. Leo Kottke, Peter Lang, and Robbie Basho, Fahey's labelmates on the Takoma label, all shared aspects of Fahey's approach to fingerstyle acoustic guitar, expanding and building upon the sounds that Fahey brought forward with his inventive approach to the instrument. Later, contemporary artists like Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Ryley Walker, and Vetiver, among many others, would cite Fahey as being highly influential on developing their own signature styles and approaches to music.

Track Listing:

LP

Side One:

1. John Fahey -- Night Train to Valhalla (2:14)

2. Leo Kottke -- The Ice Miner (1:54)

3. Leo Kottke - Anyhow (2:04)

4. Peter Walker - April In Cambridge (3:11)

5. Harry Taussig - Water Verses (1:52)

6. Harry Taussig - Children's Dance (3:48)

7. Sandy Bull - Little Maggie (4:08)

Side Two:

1. John Fahey - On the Banks of the Owchita (3:50)

2. Peter Walker - Gypsy Song (3:41)

3. Max Ochs - Raga (1) (4:53)

4. Max Ochs - Raga (2) (4:13)

5. Billy Faier - Longhorn Express (4:35)

Side Three:

1. Robbie Basho - The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose (13:56)

2. Fred Gerlach - Eyrie (5:52)

Side Four:

1. George Stavis - Winterland Doldrums (9:31)

2. Peter Lang -- When Kings Come Home (4:35)

3. John Fahey -- The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California (4:26)

CD

1. John Fahey -- Night Train to Valhalla (2:14)

2. Leo Kottke -- The Ice Miner (1:54)

3. Leo Kottke - Anyhow (2:04)

4. Peter Walker - April In Cambridge (3:11)

5. Harry Taussig - Water Verses (1:52)

6. Harry Taussig - Children's Dance (3:48)

7. Sandy Bull - Little Maggie (4:08)

8. John Fahey - On the Banks of the Owchita (3:50)

9. Peter Walker - Gypsy Song (3:41)

10. Max Ochs - Raga (1) (4:53)

11. Max Ochs - Raga (2) (4:13)

12. Billy Faier - Longhorn Express (4:35)

13. Robbie Basho - The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose (13:56)

14. Fred Gerlach - Eyrie (5:52)

15. George Stavis - Winterland Doldrums (9:31)

16. Peter Lang -- When Kings Come Home (4:35)

17. John Fahey -- The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California (4:26)

For more info, visit CraftRecordings.com on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Spotify.

Thanks, I should have read that press release, thought would just be about the festival.

xp A few more re National Record Store Day:

Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2018
Release Date: 4/21/2018
Format: LP
Label: ORG MUSIC
Quantity: 1600
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release
MORE INFO

An Evening With Ornette Coleman (Part 2) is taken from a 1965 concert at Fairfield Hall in Croydon, England. This album captures Coleman during a transitional period that showcases his experimentation with contemporary classical forms. The recordings have been released in various forms over the years, though the last US vinyl pressing is now over 40 years old. Presented as the second in a two part series, this reissue shines a new light on the fantastic recording from a world-renowned jazz great. Pressed on 180gram color vinyl at Pallas in Germany, this limited edition release features new artwork and is exclusive to Record Store Day 2018.

A1 Falling Stars 8:35 A2 Silence 9:27 B1 Happy Fool 7:21 B2 Ballad 5:27 B3 Doughnuts 6:19
Didn't know about Part 1!

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The Allman Brothers Band
Live At The Atlanta Pop Festival, July 3 & 5, 1970

DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2018
Release Date: 4/21/2018
Format: 4 x LP
Label: Legacy
Quantity: 3000
Release type: 'RSD First' Release
MORE INFO

The Allman Brothers Band was one of Georgia's top live acts still looking for a break when they were hired to open the three-day Atlanta International Pop Festival. The band's Southern-blues style, bolstered by jams that stretched to epic lengths, won over audiences--and two days later, after legends like Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter and B.B. King took the stage, the Allmans were invited back for a second set. Recorded nearly a year before At Fillmore East established them as one of America's hottest bands, fans can now discover these landmark nights in Allman Brothers Band history with this individually numbered, limited edition box set, available on vinyl for the first time and packaged in an oversize slipcase with an eight page booklet of photos and liner notes.

7/3/70 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Statesboro Blues 1.3 Trouble No More 1.4 Don't Keep Me Wonderin' 1.5 Dreams 1.6 Every Hungry Woman 1.7 Hoochie Coochie Man 1.8 In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed 1.9 Whipping Post 1.10 Mountain Jam Part I 1.11 Rain Delay 1:14 1.12 Mountain Jam Part II
7/5/70 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Don't Keep Me Wonderin' 2.3 Statesboro Blues 2.4 In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed 2.5 Stormy Monday 2.6 Whipping Post 2.7 Mountain Jam
Have heard the CD of this, maybe a decade ago; the parts I remember were incredible, esp, Oakley's bass.

Neil Young
Tonight's The Night Live At The Roxy

DETAILS
Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2018
Release Date: 4/21/2018
Format: 2 x LP
Label: Warner Bros.
Quantity: 7500
Release type: 'RSD First' Release
MORE INFO

The legendary first live performance of Tonight's The Night from Los Angeles' Roxy Theatre in 1973. Side 4 of this double LP contains an etching of the Roxy logo. Previously unreleased. The Record Store Day 2018 edition includes a collectible photo reprint.

Side A- Intro, Tonight's The Night,Roll Out the Barrel, Mellow My Mind, World On A String, Band Intro Side B Speakin' Out, Candy Bar Rap, Albuquerque, Perry Como Rap, New Mama, David Geffen Rap, Roll Another Number (For The Road), Candy Bar Rap 2 Side C Tired Eyes Rap, Tired Eyes Rap, Tonight's The Night-Part II, Walk On, Outro Side D (Etching) Tylerw mentions rough sound not being too much of a prob.

Royal Trux (Neil Hagerty/Jennifer Herrema) are making their entire cumulative catalog (40 lps including Royal Trux, NMH, RTX, Howling Hex, and Black Bananas) available via their new home at Fat Possum. The releases will be made available to the public via streaming for the first time and the scheduled roll out has the first 3 chosen albums arriving on all streaming outlets including Spotify, TIDAL, Amazon, Google Play and Deezer this Friday, March 9th.

1993's Cats and Dogs, 1998’s Accelerator and 1999’s Veterans of Disorder

are the first 3 albums the duo have chosen to roll out. Since picking up where they left off, Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty have gone back to work on their first studio LP in nearly 18 years. The band will self-produce, but will include an impressive roster of unexpected co-producers and collaborators on the new record's rumored 15 new tracks.

Stay tuned for the announcement coming via Instagram launching Royal Trux TV which will unleash a vault of previously unseen films, videos and live footage as well as the band's long out-of-print scripted films What Is Royal Trux? and Live At Gettysburg along with newly created content for the forthcoming new record created by Herrema and Hagerty.
https://www.instagram.com/therealroyaltrux/

A bunch of Rhino vinyl for National Record Store Day, Lou Reed and Hawkwind most inneresting to me, but quite a few others somebody might like, orig. press release here:
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The Yachts finally get their due:

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/yachts-suffice-to-say-the-complete-yachts-collection-3cd-box-set/

Great new wave / power pop.

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This initial volume of the band’s complete recorded output comes in a limited-edition CD box set, each featuring Def Leppard’s first four studio albums — along with some choice bonus live and studio material — all spread across 7CDs. The Volume One collection contains all of Def Leppard’s iconic 1980s recordings – On Through The Night, High ‘N’ Dry, Pyromania and Hysteria - with reproductions of the original packaging. Furthermore, this collection includes a replica 3-inch CD of the band’s original independent EP, the self-titled The Def Leppard E.P. The Volume One collection also houses bonus material including Live At The LA Forum 1983, originally released as a bonus disc in the deluxe CD version of Pyromania. The box set also includes Rarities Volume 1 which has been specially compiled by Joe Elliott, containing rare B-sides and recordings from Def Leppard’s early years, all in a newly commissioned sleeve. Each album in the Volume One box set was mastered by longtime band producer/soundmaster Ronan McHugh and frontman/vocalist Joe Elliott at Joe’s Garage in Dublin, Ireland, and cut by Greg Moore. Housed in rigid boxes, the Volume One collection also contains a hardback book with rare photos by longstanding band confidant Ross Halfin and liner notes by Classic Rock’s Paul Elliott. Def Leppard bandmembers Joe Elliott, bassist Rick Savage, drummer Rick Allen, and guitarist Phil Collen have all also contributed their personal introductions to the collection.

Major upheavals at Sony Legacy, one of the best reissue/box set/catalog operations in the industry.

For 28 years, [Sony] has been host to one of the most popular catalog labels in the business, Legacy, which has won multiple Grammy Awards for beautifully curated collections from Sony’s vast repertoire — which includes Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson and many others — as well as new releases from heritage artists like Willie Nelson and Earth, Wind & Fire. But in recent months management found the business to be too oriented toward physical releases, and a major reorganization is under way, a source close to the situation tells Variety. By mutual consent, Legacy president Adam Block agreed to step down earlier this year, and longtime publicity chief Tom Cording is transitioning to a consulting role; several other staffers have or will leave the company.

Yet Legacy, which is housed within Sony’s Commercial Music Group under the direction of president Richard Story, is also staffing up in the digital space, with nine new roles and more likely to come. The source tells Variety that the company felt renewed urgency in realizing it did not have sufficient staffers specializing in deep catalog, streaming, marketing and analytics. The insider stressed that the company will continue to release lavish boxed sets and other physical product, but it has moved to correct that imbalance.

Promoting catalog on streaming is a dramatically different proposition than pushing physical product, according to music-retail veteran Amy Dietz, exec VP and GM of global distribution and services platform InGrooves, who spent 15 years as an executive at Warner Music’s Alternative Distribution Alliance. “Format changes have always given catalog a bump,” she says. “But what’s different now is the idea of lifetime value — before, you were trying to get people to buy something once, but now you’re trying to get people to keep coming back.”

Reminds me of somebody quoted in Goldmine Magazine long ago: "How many times do they expect me to buy my collection?"

DAIS RECORDS ANNOUNCES RE-ISSUES + RARITES FROM
LEGENDARY NEW ZEALAND POST PUNK OUTFIT
NOCTURNAL PROJECTIONS -
COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS LP

INMATES IN IMAGES LP

OUT APRIL 27

Formed in Stratford, near New Plymouth, New Zealand in 1981, Nocturnal Projections was the explosive project of legendary and prolific brothers Graeme and Peter Jefferies (who would later form This Kind of Punishment before launching their solo careers), who along with friends Brett Jones and Gordon Rutherford, created some of the most energetic and influential avant-garde punk rock to emerge from the country.

Largely ignored during their tenure (but revered and referenced in the years after their breakup) and often compared to UK contemporaries like Joy Division, Comsat Angels, The Fall, or Wire, Nocturnal Projections stood well apart - never enjoying the luxuries of unlimited studio time, music videos or international fame, the NPs possessed a driven, rough-hewn serrated edge that cut through the lot comparisons to the UK post-punk exports of the era. They were ahead of their time, completely singular, and for those that had the benefit of seeing Nocturnal Projections play live – formative, with a dedicated cult following to this day.

As residents of New Plymouth’s Lion Tavern during their first year as a band, they perfected their soaring, impactful live set locally (often as the only band, without an opener and 3 hours to fill!) before heading off to Auckland in January of 1982, performing with bands like The Fall, John Cooper Clarke, and New Order at venues like The Mainstreet Cabaret, The Rumba Bar and Reverb Room. *The band recorded three EPs at Stebbing Studios in Auckland: The self-titled and self-released 7” single released April 1st of 1982, with the “Another Year” 12” EP following later that year. Their self-titled three song 12” was recorded in 1983, and released by the band posthumously that June, after the band called it quits. The Jefferies would move on and regroup with Rutherford and sound engineer Andrew Frengley shortly after the NPs fell apart to work under the This Kind of Punishment banner.

Complete Studio Recordings comprises the three original Nocturnal Projections studio records, direct to board recordings on a 24 track and not a synthesizer to be found! This release is a crucial part of New Zealand’s punk history, remastered and collected for existing fans and new audiences.

Frantic and fast punk anthems like Nerve Ends In Power Lines, Isn’t That Strange, and In Purgatory are a shot in the gut, while slower, more introspective tracks like Difficult Days and You’ll Never Know reveal what the band had in store later with TKP. Nocturnal Projections are hard to pin down: bright, slashing, and prominent guitars with driving solid basslines and drums in tight lockstep, all with Peter Jefferies’ urgent signature baritone vocals soaring alongside – the result is still perhaps the most energetic, unique, and fresh music to ever emerge from the post-punk scene.

Inmates In Images pulls the best of the best from board recordings of live sets between 1981 and 1983, including the never-before-released tracks: “Blank Faces” and “Late Night”, along with unheard versions of previously released songs - and includes Peter and Graeme’s song “Walk In A Straight Line”, written in October of 1980 and originally intended for their earlier band The Plastic Bags.

We were better live. If you went to the shows that’s when you really got Nocturnal Projections. What you have here is an attempt to document those performances. Much debate, trawling of archives, and careful re-mastering has gone into this set. If you weren’t there, then this is probably as close as you’re gonna get to it. If you were, then I hope this album brings back some memories. Certainly works for me.
- Peter Jefferies. December, 2017

Listen: Nocturnal Projections (samples from both LPs)
https://soundcloud.com/daisrecords/sets/dais-records-presents/s-rid1T

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Nocturnal Projections
Complete Studio Recordings
April 27, 2018
Dais Records

1. You'll Never Know
2. Isn't That Strange?
3. Could It Be Increased?
4. Difficult Days
5. Out Of My Hands
6. Understanding
7. Another Year
8. In Purgatory
9. Nerve Ends In Power Lines
10. In Darkness

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Nocturnal Projections
Inmates In Images
April 27, 2018
Dais Records

1. Inmates in Images
2. Walk In A Straight Line
3. Moving Forward
4. Blank Faces
5. Don't Go
6. Restoration
7. Alone In The Corner
8. Words Fail Me
9. Late Night

The final Pere Ubu catalog box set will be out next Friday; it includes The Tenement Year, Cloudland, Worlds In Collision, and about a dozen other tracks.

Like Cher's next final farewell tour?

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Newly Remastered And Back In Print!

Deutsche Elektronische Musik
Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1972-83
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

Newly remastered, fully licensed and back in print! Out next Friday worldwide in all good record stores or direct from us early right now!

AVAILABLE AGAIN! Soul Jazz Records new 2018 edition of their long out of print classic first “Deutsche Elektronische Musik – Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1972-83” is ‘a near-definitive guide to some of the world’s most extraordinary music’ (The Guardian).

Featuring a stunning line-up of groups including Cluster, Can, Faust, Popol Vuh, Neu!, Amon Düül, Harmonia, La Düsseldorf and Tangerine Dream as well as a host of lesser known groups such as Kollectiv, Ibliss, Between and many more. This new edition is fully re-mastered and features all the original artwork and tracks.

The first seeds of German rock and experimental electronic music were planted in 1968, as students and workers in Paris, Prague, Mexico and throughout the world demonstrated against mainstream society, the war in Vietnam, imperialism and bourgeois values. The birth of a counter-culture, drug experimentation and social change expanded musical worlds. Germany experienced its own cultural revolution fuelled by these worldwide student and worker revolts and by a generation’s desire to rid itself of the guilt of war.

German rock and experimental electronic music grew out of this worldwide counter-cultural revolution of 1968. The objectives were to create new music, ‘free’ from the past, many German youth turning their back on mainstream society. From the opening of the first collective/cooperative, Kommune 1, in Berlin, to the formation of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group and the bombings, kidnappings and killings of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (RAF), young Germans sought out new values and a lifestyle outside of ‘the system’.

These cooperative and communal experiences led to a number of new collective German bands forming such as Amon Düül, Faust, Can (all featured here) and others and these ideals drove this new movement. A music that gave seed out of the cultural ‘nothingness’ that young Germans felt as a consequence of Germany’s role in the Second World War. A generation who grew up stifled by the recent history of Nazi atrocities, the guilt of their parents’ generation and their disillusionment at the reintegration of old Nazis into mainstream society.

Influenced equally by the electronic experimentalism of Stockhausen, the progressive rock of Pink Floyd and the black American jazz and soul music played at the occupying armed forces bases, young German artists seamlessly created out of this a new unique music with its own unique identity.

Double CD pack with large 36-page outsize booklet encased in slipcase. The vinyl edition is made up of TWO separate volume heavyweight loud gatefold double albums (+ free download codes) featuring all sleevenotes and text.

Double Vinyl Record A is tracks 1-13

Double Vinyl Record B is tracks 14 - 24

Digital download does not include track 3 and 23 which are physical only

***** GUARDIAN REVIEW (John Savage)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2010/mar/30/elektronische-musik-krautrock

***** GUARDIAN REVIEW (Dave Simpson)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/apr/01/elektronische-musik-review

2x LP Record A/CD1:

1. Can – A Spectacle
2. Between – Devotion
3. Harmonia – Dino
4. Gila – This Morning
5. Kollektiv – Rambo Zambo
6. Michael Bundt – La Chasse Aux Microbes
7. E.M.A.K. – Filmmuzik
8. Popol Vuh – Morgengruss
9. Conrad Schnitzler – Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal
10. La Düsseldorf – Rheinita
11. Harmonia – Veterano
12. Faust – It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl
13. Neu! – Hallo Gallo

2x LP Record B/CD2:

1. Cluster – Heisse Lippen
2. Ibliss – High Life
3. Moebius – Hasenheide
4. Amon Düül II – Fly United
5. Popol Vuh – Aguirre 1
6. Ash Ra Tempel – Daydream
7. Tangerine Dream – No Man's Land
8. Amon Düül II – Wie Der Wind Am Ende Einer Strasse
9. Roedelius – Geradewohl
10. Can – I Want More
11. Deuter – Soham

Also available on 2CD, MP3---more info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/deutsche-elektronische-musik-experimental-german-rock-and-elect

Chris Squire’s FISH OUT OF WATER Limited Edition Boxed Set & 2CD Set To Be Released April 27, 2018!
Official limited edition deluxe boxed set includes 2CD, 2DVD, 1LP and 2×7-inch singles!

Esoteric Recordings are proud to announce the release of an official limited edition deluxe boxed set of Yes founder CHRIS SQUIRE’s legendary 1975 solo album FISH OUT OF WATER. Recorded in the late Spring and Summer of 1975 whilst Yes was on hiatus as members recorded their respective solo albums, FISH OUT OF WATER was a breath-taking work, and equal in standard to any Yes album in terms of sheer invention and creativity. The album was essentially a collaboration between Chris Squire and his friend Andrew Pryce Jackman, a gifted arranger who had been a member of The Syn, Squire’s pre-Yes group. The sessions saw contributions from former Yes drummer BILL BRUFORD, Yes keyboard player PATRICK MORAZ and noted musicians MEL COLLINS and JIMMY HASTINGS. Released in November 1975, FISH OUT OF WATER was a Top 30 chart hit in the UK and made the US Billboard Top 75 album chart, going on to sell nearly 500,000 copies worldwide.

The highlight of this limited edition deluxe boxed set is a stunning new 5.1 Surround Sound mix (exclusive to this set on an NTSC / Region Free DVD), along with a new stereo mix, from the original multi-track master tapes by JAKKO JAKSZYK and a new re-master of the original 1975 mix by Paschal Byrne. FISH OUT OF WATER also includes four bonus tracks of the single edits of “Lucky Seven” and “Silently Falling”, along with both sides of the 1981 single by CHRIS SQUIRE and ALAN WHITE; “Run With the Fox” and “Return of the Fox” (appearing on CD for the first time).

The boxed set also includes a replica 180 gram gatefold LP with poster of FISH OUT OF WATER (mastered and cut from the original tapes at Abbey Road studios), along with two seven inch singles of “Lucky Seven” b/w “Silently Falling” and “Run With the Fox” b/w “Return of the Fox”, both in picture sleeves. To complete the content is a visual DVD (NTSC / Region Free) featuring the 1975 FISH OUT OF WATER promotional film featuring the songs “Hold Out Your Hand” and “You By My Side”, along with a 2006 interview with Chris Squire conducted by Jon Kirkman and a 2006 audio commentary by Chris Squire. Finally, the set also contains a 36-page book with an essay by Sid Smith featuring exclusive interviews with BILL BRUFORD, PATRICK MORAZ, GREGG JACKMAN and JAKKO JAKSZYK.

Also available as a 2CD set which features a stunning new Stereo mix from the original multi-track master tapes by JAKKO JAKSZYK and a new re- master of the original 1975 mix by Paschal Byrne.

Always justly proud of his first solo album, it was Chris Squire’s long held wish that a 5.1 Surround mix would be undertaken of the work someday. This Esoteric Recordings edition finally brings this to fruition and is a fitting tribute to the artistry of Chris and his collaborator, Andrew Pryce Jackman.

Track Listing:
DISC ONE: CD
FISH OUT OF WATER - THE NEW STEREO MIX
1. HOLD OUT YOUR HAND
2. YOU BY MY SIDE
3. SILENTLY FALLING
4. LUCKY SEVEN
5. SAFE (CANON SONG)

DISC TWO: CD
FISH OUT OF WATER - THE ORIGINAL 1975 MIX
1. HOLD OUT YOUR HAND
2. YOU BY MY SIDE
3. SILENTLY FALLING
4. LUCKY SEVEN
5. SAFE (CANON SONG)
BONUS TRACKS
6. LUCKY SEVEN (SINGLE VERSION)
7. SILENTLY FALLING (SINGLE VERSION)
CHRIS SQUIRE & ALAN WHITE:
8. RUN WITH THE FOX
9. RETURN OF THE FOX

DISC THREE: DVD
FISH OUT OF WATER - THE NEW 5.1 SURROUND SOUND MIX (96 KHZ / 24-BIT)/THE NEW STEREO MIX (96 KHZ / 24-BIT)/RE-MASTERED ORIGINAL STEREO MIX (96 KHZ / 24-BIT)
1. HOLD OUT YOUR HAND
2. YOU BY MY SIDE
3. SILENTLY FALLING
4. LUCKY SEVEN
5. SAFE (CANON SONG)

DISC FOUR: DVD
FISH OUT OF WATER - VISUAL CONTENT
1. FISH OUT OF WATER 1975 PROMOTIONAL FILM FEATURING HOLD OUT YOUR HAND, YOU BY MY SIDE
2. 2006 INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS SQUIRE BY JON KIRKMAN
3. 2006 FISH OUT OF WATER
AUDIO COMMENTARY WITH CHRIS SQUIRE

DISC FIVE: LP
FISH OUT OF WATER
180 GRAM GATEFOLD VINYL LP WITH POSTER
SIDE ONE
1. HOLD OUT YOUR HAND
2. YOU BY MY SIDE
3. SILENTLY FALLING
SIDE TWO
1. LUCKY SEVEN
2. SAFE (CANON SONG)

DISC SIX: 7″SINGLE
LUCKY SEVEN
7” SINGLE IN PICTURE SLEEVE
CHRIS SQUIRE:
SIDE ONE
LUCKY SEVEN (TOM DOWD EDIT)
SIDE TWO
SILENTLY FALLING (SINGLE VERSION)

DISC SEVEN: 7″SINGLE
RUN WITH THE FOX
7” SINGLE IN PICTURE SLEEVE
CHRIS SQUIRE & ALAN WHITE:
SIDE ONE
RUN WITH THE FOX
SIDE TWO
RETURN OF THE FOX

Eh dunno if I've ever heard exotica, but this is Numero so maybe

Numero Group’s Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights 3 LP in stores 5/25
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In the late ’50s to the mid-’60s, somewhere between Elvis’ last Ed Sullivan Show appearance and the Beatles’ U.S. invasion, a strange musical movement surfaced in America seemingly from some fantasy island in the South Pacific. Known as Exotica, the music blended together wildly disparate musical styles — easy listening and lounge; jazz and surf — to concoct a fizzy colorful sound that felt both marvelously mysterious and delightfully fun. While originally a rather short-lived phenomenon, Exotica (and its stars, such as Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Esquivel, Yma Sumac, and Les Baxter), has never disappeared from the cultural radar.
Come to think of it, maybe Brian Wilson was tripping to some of this.
More info, audio here (at least they're Numero-thorough, got various subsubgenre groupings etc)
http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/storefront/2018/04/tvd-radar-numero-groups-technicolor-paradise-rhum-rhapsodies-exotic-delights-3-lp-stores-5-25/

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As Royal Trux's Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty are officially holed up a private studio in Orange County, California to begin their first new LP in over 18 years, the band's next slate of reissues, 1989's Hand of Glory, 1990's Twin Infinitives, 1992's Untitled and 2000's Pound for Pound, will be live on all streaming sites this Friday, April 6th.

The band's new label Fat Possum are helping unleash the classic Trux catalog into the streaming world. The new LP (which is yet to be titled) is slated for an early 2019 release on Fat Possum.
ROYAL TRUX on SPOTIFY

ROYAL TRUX on TIDAL

ROYAL TRUX on APPLE MUSIC

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lol that is such a disjointed selection of releases

hunger is doing a reunion gig here in pdx in conjunction with the new reissue of their record. i'm considering it, but i'm kind of old so probably not.

Five Temptations albums from their psychedelic soul period - Puzzle People, Psychedelic Shack, Sky's The Limit, Solid Rock, and Masterpiece - are being reissued June 1 on the Elemental Music label. These are all long out of print, newly reissued on CD with original artwork and track listing/timings and digitally remastered audio, packaged in deluxe gatefold mini-LP style jackets with inner sleeves and info.

Pre-order links:
Puzzle People
Psychedelic Shack
Sky's the Limit
Solid Rock
Masterpiece

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The soundtrack to the 70s BBC TV children's series 'The Changes', with music composed by Paddy Kingsland of the Radiophonic workshop was released in full for the first time yesterday on digital, remastered from the 1/4" mono masters.

There's a limited edition double vinyl edition for RSD:
https://lightintheattic.net/releases/4005-the-changes-unofficial-2018-rsd-release

Rafael Toral
Wave Field
LP
Drag City To Be Released 2018-05-25 Catalog # DC702

All Tracks
Wave Field 5 25:22
Wave Field 5 (continued) / Wave Field 6 21:35
WF Radio Edit 3:01
About this product
1995: new composition methods involving the dirty textures of rock guitar, a synthesis of disparate elements — a nexus where Alvin Lucier, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and Eno blend together. A prescient vision of the next phases of listening space.

CD version released 2/2/1998 on dexter's cigar (dex14).

Originally released on CD in 1995 on Moneyland Records in Lisbon, Portugal

Rafael Toral
Sound Mind Sound Body (30th Anniversary Edition)
2xLP
Drag City To Be Released 2018-05-25 Catalog # DC701
Double LP

All Tracks
A E R 4 16:57
Loopability I 2:26
A E R 7 E 20:25
Soft Energy I 4:00
A E 1 14:24
Textura e Linhas Curvas 3:44
A E 2 13:03
Textura VIII 3:23
About this product
1994: The massive impact of discreet gestures; slow-moving tones and spacious orchestral resonances, drifting and droning with glacial majesty, hardly recognizable as guitar much of the time. 30th anniversary (of inception) edition!

CD reissued 2/21/2000 on Moikai records (M7). (Includes AER4, Loopability I, AER7E, Soft Energy I, AE1)

Original CD release in 1994 on Ananana, Lisbon

nice, those are great records

More from Drag City:

...on June 22nd...John Renbourn Live in Kyoto 1978 comes from a tape made by a private collector who promoted shows for many years in Japan - and taped them immaculately! They came to light after his passing, and one of the many performances deemed release-worthy was this solo show at a coffeehouse in Kyoto by one of the legends of British folk - and really, of roots music in the 20th century! Playing in a style often dubbed 'folk baroque' John Renbourn busted out as a part of a duo with Bert Jansch in the early 60s, after which the two formed Pentangle. Later, John made records with his own John Renbourn Band as well as with Stephen Grossman and as a solo performer. His unique combination of traditional folk, blues, world and early music, all played with feathery-yet-incisive fingers sustained him for over five decades of making records and performing. Live in Kyoto 1978 catches him on a typically sweet evening, in front of an avid crowd whose ardor grows with each passing number, climaxing in a wizardly series of medleys that bring the house down. Beautifully recorded, and with liner notes from The Silence's Masaki Batoh, who was in attendance all those years ago, Live in Kyoto 1978 is a fresh testament to the genius style of John Renbourn.
(And from a few years back, check Renbourn's remarkably adequately-recorded and well-preserved The Attic Tapes, which are also living room/crash pad tapes from hither and yon in early 60s etc., with traces of and finally a full sighting of Davey Graham; Beverly Martyn's in there too.)

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Grönland Records Announce Reissue Of Seminal Ambient Records by

David Sylvian & Holger Czukay

Plight & Premonition (1988)

and

Flux & Mutability (1989)

Release date: 22nd June 2018

Today, Grönland Records are proud to announce the reissue of one of ambient music's hidden gems, by two unique musicians whose paths originally crossed in the early-eighties while working on Sylvian’s debut solo album, 'Brilliant Trees'. In 1986, David Sylvian - of British Art-Pop band Japan - and Holger Czukay - founding member and bassist in legendary German Kosmiche band Can - were ostensibly reconvening for Sylvian to record a vocal for Czukay's forthcoming album 'Rome Remains Rome’. But on arriving at Czukay's studio - a former cinema in Köln - Sylvian began playing freeform, improvising on readily available instruments located in the studio itself. No sooner had Sylvian, on whatever instrument he’d been applying himself, start to structurally define/refine the performance than Czukay would stop the recording he’d surreptitiously been making. Czukay had attempted to capture the process of creation without a musician's inclination for refinement. This process, drawn out over two nights, gave birth to the duo's first, full-fledged, collaboration, 'Plight and Premonition'.

Having been out of print for some time, the parallels between the original release 30 years ago and now are quite stark; at the time of recording the Cold War was lifting - but still very real - after a bitter winter. The names "Plight & Premonition" and "Flux & Mutability" themselves hint at an instability. In Sylvian's words, the sessions seemed to touch on something: “A form of music that seemed to have been created while we were absent by instruments abandoned to the earth and the woods, sounded by the coarse winter elements.”

The version of ‘Plight and Premonition’ included here is a new mix by Sylvian from 2002. All the recordings have been fully remastered. The packaging has been redesigned by Chris Bigg with Art Direction by Sylvian with new, previously unseen, photographs by Yuka Fujii, accompanied by an extensive essay by David Toop.

Originally released separately, they are now packaged in a 2CD / 2LP set.

(text by the man, Sylvian, himself, via fb)

The 2002 mix of "Plight" and "Premonition" comes from "Camphor", a collection of Sylvian's ambient work. I think it's an improvement over the original.

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THE CURE MIXED UP AND TORN DOWN

Remastered 3-CD Deluxe Edition Featuring 16 Brand New Mixes By
Robert Smith And 11 Rare Mixes From 1982-1990 Available June 15 From Rhino

2-LP 180-gram Vinyl Versions Also Available On The Same Day

LOS ANGELES - With the Disintegration album and its accompanying global Prayer Tour, 1989 had delivered a triumphant end to the 80s, but the first year of the 90s found The Cure unexpectedly unsettled.

Determined to keep up the momentum of the band's ongoing success, but knowing there were internal tensions to address before heading back into the studio, Robert Smith decided on a different course of action; curating an album of the band's rarer 12" mixes. As work on Mixed Up progressed, Smith realized that some of The Cure's earlier remixes didn't stand up to the newer ones.

Robert singles out Brian 'Chuck' New's dub style remix of "Pictures Of You" as the one that inspired him to take a more adventurous path. Smith notes, "That mix turned the music on its head, but at the same time left the essential heart of the song intact. As soon as I heard it, I updated the entire Mixed Up plan. My revised ambition was to compile an album that was contemporary without being dated, immediate without being obvious, musically inspiring, rhythmically exciting and sonically great!"

Two tracks on the album, "A Forest" and "The Walk," were not just remixed but entirely re-recorded, as the multi-track tapes for both songs had long been lost. Both songs were reconstructed in the studio with producer Mark Saunders, using original instruments and gear.

The band convened over five days in June 1990 to record a new track for Mixed Up. After a certain amount of fraught experimenting with beats, loops and sequenced bass lines, Smith decided to change the vibe. A demo entitled "PhaseAGE" that had previously been deemed 'too rock' was committed to tape as "Never Enough" and was released as a single in September 1990. The "Closer Mix" of "Close To Me" soon followed this and both songs were accompanied by customarily deranged Tim Pope videos.

With Mixed Up finally released, Smith felt he could at last move on, confident in a reenergized and reintegrated band. Smith continues, "The whole of 1990 was essentially spent emerging from the shadow of Disintegration, and we managed to do it in a creatively satisfying way; by the end of the year, I couldn't wait to start work on new songs for the next record."

Once the remaining 1981 to 1990 12" / extended mixes were compiled, Robert realized that there were too many for one CD and too few for two CD's. His solution was to deliver an entire disc of brand new mixes.

"I wanted a 3-disc package, but we didn't have enough 'historic' remixes - for a while I thought the 'extra-extras' CD would be Cure songs re-mixed by choice artists, rather than by choice re-mixers... that then got me thinking maybe I should have a go at one... so in early August 2017, I decided to experiment with Three Imaginary Boys. It is a pretty sparse multi-track; I pulled it apart at home and finished the initial re-mix in one session - and I really enjoyed the whole process," says Smith.

By choosing favorite songs rather than the usual singles, one of Smith's objectives was to illustrate the variety of the Cure catalogue, and by October of 2017 working on songs in chronological release order, he had remixed entirely the 16 songs that appear on Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018.

For the Torn Down cover, Robert decided on a self-portrait painted in oils during the summer of 1990 which was originally intended as the sleeve for Mixed Up. He chose Torn Down as the title for the 'extra-extras' album inspired by the way he had 'torn down' Never Enough, stripping the song back to resemble his original 1990 PhaseAGE demo. "I felt it was a good way to bring the project back full circle...in a Mixed Up kind of way," states Smith.

The Cure's MIXED UP [DELUXE EDITION] will be available on June 15 as a 3CD set for ($24.98). Also available the same day, are the 2LP vinyl sets of Mixed Up ($34.98) and Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018 ($34.98). Both albums have been Half Speed Mastered by Robert Smith and Tim Young at Metropolis Studios, London and are pressed on 180-gram vinyl and are housed in Gatefold Sleeves.

For more information about THE CURE please contact Jessica Giordano in the Rhino Media Relations Department at jess✧✧✧.giord✧✧✧@rh✧✧✧.c✧✧ or 818-238-6403.

MIXED UP [DELUXE EDITION]
Track Listing:

Disc One - Mixed Up - Remastered by Robert Smith 2018
1. Lullaby - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
2. Close To Me - Closer Mix - 2018 remaster
3. Fascination Street - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
4. The Walk - Everything Mix - 2018 remaster
5. Lovesong - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
6. A Forest - Tree Mix - 2018 remaster
7. Pictures of You - Extended Dub Mix - 2018 remaster
8. Hot Hot Hot!!! - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
9. The Caterpillar - Flicker Mix - 2018 remaster
10. Inbetween Days - Shiver Mix - 2018 remaster
11. Never Enough - Big Mix - 2018 remaster

Disc Two - Remixes 1982-1990: Mixed Up Extras 2018
1. Let's Go To Bed - Extended Mix 1982 - 2018 remaster
2. Just One Kiss - Extended Mix 1982 - 2018 remaster
3. Close To Me - Extended Remix 1985 - 2018 remaster
4. Boys Don't Cry - New Voice Club Mix 1986 - 2018 remaster
5. Why Can't I Be You? - Extended Mix 1987 - 2018 remaster
6. A Japanese Dream - 12" Remix 1987 - 2018 remaster
7. Pictures of You - Extended Version 1990 - 2018 remaster
8. Let's Go To Bed - Milk Mix 1990 - 2018 remaster
9. Just Like Heaven - Dizzy Mix 1990 - 2018 remaster
10. Primary - Red Mix 1990 - 2018 remaster
11. The Lovecats - TC & Benny Mix 1990 - 2018 remaster

Disc 3 - Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018
1. Three Imaginary Boys - Help Me Mix by Robert Smith
2. M - Attack Mix by Robert Smith
3. The Drowning Man - Bright Birds Mix by Robert Smith
4. A Strange Day - Drowning Waves Mix by Robert Smith
5. Just One Kiss - Remember Mix by Robert Smith
6. Shake Dog Shake - New Blood Mix by Robert Smith
7. A Night Like This - Hello Goodbye Mix by Robert Smith
8. Like Cockatoos - Lonely In The Rain Mix by Robert Smith
9. Plainsong - Edge Of The World Mix by Robert Smith
10. Never Enough - Time To Kill Mix by Robert Smith
11. From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea - Love In Vain Mix by Robert Smith
12. Want - Time Mix by Robert Smith
13. The Last Day of Summer - 31st August Mix by Robert Smith
14. Cut Here - If Only Mix by Robert Smith
15. Lost - Found Mix by Robert Smith
16. It's Over - Whisper Mix by Robert Smith

MIXED UP - 2-LP
A1: Lullaby - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
A2: Close To Me - Closer Mix - 2018 remaster
A3: Fascination Street - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster

B1: The Walk - Everything Mix - 2018 remaster
B2: Lovesong - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
B3: A Forest - Tree Mix - 2018 remaster

C1: Pictures of You - Extended Dub Mix - 2018 remaster
C2: Hot Hot Hot!!! - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
C3: Why Can't I Be You ? - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster

D1: The Caterpillar - Flicker Mix - 2018 remaster
D2: Inbetween Days - Shiver Mix - 2018 remaster
D3: Never Enough - Big Mix - 2018 remaster

TORN DOWN: MIXED UP EXTRAS 2018 - 2-LP
A1: Three Imaginary Boys - Help Me Mix by Robert Smith
A2: M - Attack Mix by Robert Smith
A3: The Drowning Man - Bright Birds Mix by Robert Smith
A4: A Strange Day - Drowning Waves Mix by Robert Smith

B1: Just One Kiss - Remember Mix by Robert Smith
B2: Shake Dog Shake - New Blood Mix by Robert Smith
B3: A Night Like This - Hello Goodbye Mix by Robert Smith
B4: Like Cockatoos - Lonely In The Rain Mix by Robert Smith

C1: Plainsong - Edge Of The World Mix by Robert Smith
C2: Never Enough - Time To Kill Mix by Robert Smith
C3: From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea - Love In Vain Mix by Robert Smith
C4: Want - Time Mix by Robert Smith

D1: The Last Day of Summer - 31st August Mix by Robert Smith
D2: Cut Here - If Only Mix by Robert Smith
D3: Lost - Found Mix by Robert Smith
D4: It's Over - Whisper Mix by Robert Smith

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The Breeders: 4AD Catalogue Back In Print On May 18

All of the Breeders’ previous albums – Pod, Last Splash, Title TK, and Mountain Battles – will be re-issued on vinyl on 18th May. Available to pre-order from today, this is the first time Pod and Last Splash will be released by 4AD in North America.

The Breeders continue to tour their latest album All Nerve with further European dates announced for November. The group will also play two shows before FYF Festival in July. Currently on the road in North America, The Breeders will tour the UK and Europe throughout the Spring and Summer.

Pod, the 1990 debut featuring the line-up of Pixie’s Kim Deal, Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donelly, the Perfect Disaster’s Josephine Wiggs and Slint’s Britt Walford, was recorded by Steve Albini. Kurt Cobain listed the record as one of his top three favourite albums saying, “the way they structure [the songs] is totally unique.” Critically acclaimed when it came out, Pod’s legacy lives on – Pitchfork called it a “blissful mindfuck of a record,” and ranked it in their Best Albums of the 90s.
Last Splash was recorded in 1993 by what is now regarded as the ‘classic’ Breeders line-up of Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson. Including the twisted pop singles ‘Cannonball’ and ‘Divine Hammer’, it has become one of the defining albums of the 90s.

2002’s Title TK saw the band work with Steve Albini once more, with the Guardian saying it was “a welcome return to punky pop that knows how to flex some melodic muscle.” The album has been out of print on vinyl since its release.

Fourth album Mountain Battles, a perfectly formed album of 13 miniatures in 36 minutes engineered by Steve Albini, was originally released in 2008. Like Title TK before it, Mountain Battles has been out of print since its release.

All Nerve, the Breeders’ fifth studio album, saw the iconic line-up of Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson reunite for the first time since the release of the platinum-selling album Last Splash. Released earlier this year, critics and fans welcomed them back with open arms and they scored their highest chart positions – including top 10 in the UK – in 25 years

Exclusive Soul Jazz Records RSD 2018 7" Deluxe Box Sets!
Our 3 new deluxe box sets are available ONLINE NOW TODAY direct from independent record stores!

You can buy the PUNK 45 Box Set and the CONGO Box Set direct from us here right now. The Studio One Box Set is already sold out - so you will need to try and get this from your friendly local record store and quick!

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Punk 45 RSD BOX SET - Approaching The Minimal With Spray Guns
An Edition Of Five Independent Singles: classic punk rarities from the likes of X_X, The Bizarros, Rubber City Rebels, Hollywood Squares and more, all in original stunning artwork!
more info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/an-edition-of-five-independent-singles-in-original-cover-art

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Africa Latin, Jazz and Funk: Sounds From The Two Congos (1957-73)
Soul Jazz Records’ Record Store Day seven-inch box set which brings together a stunning five-single/ ten track selection of mind-blowingly groovy selection of African, Latin, Jazz and Funk music from the Congo.

Absolutely killer and essential tracks (mostly unknown) from the masters of the vibrant Congo scene in the 1960s – featuring the groups Franco & OK Jazz, Rock-A-Mambo, African Jazz, African Fiesta and more.

Roots African meets Cal Tjader, James Brown, Ray Barretto & more. The bomb!

more info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/afrolatin-jazz-and-funk-evolutionary-and-revolutionary-sounds-from-the-two-congos

Soul Jazz puts out some crazy stuff. Got a few of the Punk 45 comps but they got bunches of compilations I would like to check out.

Have not yet checked out that Who at the Fillmore collection. Still curious but haven't gotten to the local store to pick it up yet.

One of these days those Led Zeppelin Fillmore/Winterland recordings are going to come out. I got to figure that the bad blood between LZ and Bill Graham might be one historical reason why those recordings have been on ice and never really been formally released. They had them up online for a bit on that garage website, but that I think is it except for the bootlegs.

Have not yet checked out that Who at the Fillmore collection. Still curious but haven't gotten to the local store to pick it up yet.

ok that's a bit hyperbolic but it's good! i've long loved the bootleg i had from fillmore '68 (which might be from a different show? not sure, but "shakin' all over" is only seven minutes on this release) and i'm glad it came out. the who didn't suddenly become an amazing live band in 1970... there's also some nice acetates from their first attempt at a live album from fall of '69, but the '68 who is really my jam.

i was just listening to a mingus boot from the adams-pullen era and while entwistle may be the greatest bassist in rock i'd never confuse him with mingus!

Third Man's putting out Trout Mask Replica on vinyl:
Out of print on vinyl for nearly ten years, this remaster was helmed by industry legend Bob Ludwig and cut by the estimable Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Utilizing crystalline-quality safety masters kept in the Zappa family vault for decades by the trustworthy Joe Travers, the audio here is positively glorious. Every last skronk breathes full life into the room. Every twisted guitar figure uncurls onto paths previously unpaved. Every last bark and howl shines resolute through the vast emptiness of your mind.

Previous countless Trout Mask Replica repressings used scans of scans of scans of the cover image, but for Vault Package #36 the original Cal Schenkel cover photo has been tracked down and reproduced here at its clearest — its resolution from the original release in 1969. If you’ve only ever seen a jpg online or fuzzy, smeared-looking CD issues from the 90’s, be prepared to be wowed by the fully engaging spectrum this iconic image casts. This 2xLP is pressed on heavyweight 180-gram fruitcake fish-scale colored vinyl for that full-on frenetic feeling.

The French-only 7-inch single of “Pachuco Cadaver” b/w “Wild Life” will also be included as part of this overreaching package. As the only single ever pulled from this admittedly dense album, this is the first time EVER that “Pachuco Cadaver” has been repressed and comes wonderfully housed in a replica glue-pocket picture sleeve and pressed on a white colored vinyl. ALL vinyl in this package is lovingly pressed at Third Man Pressing’s state-of-the-art plant in Detroit, Michigan for that extra-special attention to detail. Simmer down now! More details and art bits they prob won't let stand for long as C&P :
https://thirdmanrecords.com/news/introducing-vault-package-36-trout-mask-replica

glue-pocket o baby!

disappointing, that's not really a "reissue" per se, more like a subscription-only collector-only boutique release

i was just listening to a mingus boot from the adams-pullen era and while entwistle may be the greatest bassist in rock i'd never confuse him with mingus!

Yeah I gotta hear that! One I missed last fall: reissue of PSF's oft-molten maiden comp, a wake-up call to Westword noizeheads ov yore---tell it, Marc Masters:
The most immediately exciting material on Tokyo Flashback is drenched with fiery guitars and mammoth rhythms, mixed into a cacophonous lava pouring from speakers. High Rise, Marble Sheep & the Run-Down Sun’s Children, and Fushitsusha (whose first two albums on PSF, released before Tokyo Flashback, are legendary for their bleeding psych bombast) all stomp on the gas pedal until it breaks. But there are other gears on Tokyo Flashback too: Ghost’s seance-like acoustics, White Heaven’s Blue Cheer-style string wrangling, Kousokuya’s slow-burning metal, and a closer by Fushitsusha’s Keiji Haino that consists solely of his harrowing vocal calisthenics.
from https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/various-artists-tokyo-flashback/

Czukay box---so was he a better Eno Zappa?
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/holger-czukay-cinema/

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From Northern Spy:

A bunch of us purchased Marvin Pontiac’s Greatest Hits back in 1999 on CD, and some of us totally bought into the story: Marvin Pontiac was an enigmatic genius of modern music. He was the son of an African father from Mali and a white Jewish mother from New York. Having been killed by a bus, this was a posthumous collection. Jackson Pollock listened solely to Marvin. Flea, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop, Beck, Angelique Kidjo, Mike Gordon and Michael Stipe were fans.

John Lurie’s story was deeply amusing and his music was extraordinary. The whole thing was characteristically ahead of its time and guaranteed to leave a permanent mark on your consciousness. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it still is and still does! We’re blissfully psyched to bring this music to vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day and to compact disc for a one-time pressing. Check out the music if you haven’t already and please help spread the word. The package, co-designed by John Lurie and Adam Downey, features a detail of Lurie's painting The sky is falling. I am learning to live with it.

We also asked John Lurie to take over our weekly Spotify playlist called Office Ephemera. Listen here.

“I have never used Spotify and don’t know what Record Store Day is, but I am releasing Marvin Pontiac’s Greatest Hits on vinyl with the people at Northern Spy. They asked me to make a playlist. They are nice people, so I did it.” – John Lurie

Read a feature by Marc Masters in the Washington Post here.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/lifestyle/cult-favorite-john-lurie-makes-way-for-an-alter-ego/2018/04/12/4fb378f6-3825-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html?noredirect=on

For a long time, John Lurie was everywhere. If you cared about American independent art and culture between the mid-’70s and the late ’90s, you probably knew about his acting in films such as “Stranger Than Paradise,” “Paris, Texas,” and “Down by Law.” Or maybe as the host of his absurdist nature show “Fishing With John.” Or perhaps you heard his music as the composer of scores for “Get Shorty” and “Mystery Train,” or as the leader and saxophone player for his raucous jazz group, the Lounge Lizards.

During this prolific run, one of Lurie’s ventures was a little less visible. In 1999, his record label Strange and Beautiful released “Greatest Hits,” by someone called the Legendary Marvin Pontiac. According to press materials, Pontiac was a hard-luck drifter who made music in Mali, Chicago and Detroit before being killed by a bus in 1977. But since the album included a supporting cast of Lurie’s fellow New York musicians and featured a singing voice that sounded a lot like him, it wasn’t hard to guess who Pontiac actually was.

RELEASE INFO
CATALOG #: NS 097
VINYL: Record Store Day Exclusive, Available only in stores April 21st, 2018
CD: in stores June 22nd, 2018
PRE-ORDER CD: northern spy website, bandcamp

BACKGROUND

MARVIN PONTIAC was hit and killed by a bus in June 1977 ending the life of one of the most enigmatic geniuses of modern music. He was born in 1932, the son of an African father from Mali and a white Jewish mother from New Rochelle, New York. The father's original last name was Toure but he changed it to Pontiac when the family moved to Detroit, believing it to be a conventional American name.

Marvin's father left the family when Marvin was two years old. When his mother was institutionalized in 1936, the father returned and brought the young boy to Bamako, Mali where Marvin was raised until he was fifteen. The music that he heard there would influence him forever.

At fifteen Marvin moved by himself to Chicago where he became versed in playing blues harmonica. At the age of seventeen, Marvin was accused by the great Little Walter of copying his harmonica style. This accusation led to a fistfight outside of a small club on Maxwell Street. Losing a fight to the much smaller Little Walter was so humiliating to the young Marvin that he left Chicago and moved to Lubbock, Texas where he became a plumber's assistant.

Not much is known about him for the next three years. There are unsubstantiated rumors that Marvin may have been involved in a bank robbery in 1950. In 1952, he had a minor hit for Acorn Records with the then controversial song "I'm a Doggy." Oddly enough, unbeknownst to Marvin and his label, he simultaneously had an enormous bootleg success in Nigeria with the beautiful song "Pancakes."

His disdain and mistrust of the music business is well documented and he soon fell out with Acorn's owner, Norman Hector. Although approached by other labels, Marvin refused to record for anyone unless the owner of the label came to his home in Slidell, La and mowed his lawn.

Reportedly Marvin's music was the only music that Jackson Pollack would ever listen to while he painted, this respect was not reciprocated. In 1970 Marvin believed that he was abducted by aliens. He felt his mother had had a similar unsettling experience, which had led to her breakdown. He stopped playing music and dedicated all of his time and energy to amicably contacting these creatures who had previously probed his body so brutally.

When he was arrested for riding a bicycle naked down the side streets of Slidell, La, it provided a sad but clear view of Marvin's coming years.

Marvin held the tribal belief that having a photograph taken of yourself could steal your soul, thus these candid shots are the only ones known to exist.

In 1971 he moved back to Detroit where he drifted forever and permanently into insanity.

WHAT OTHER GREAT ARTISTS HAVE SAID ABOUT MARVIN PONTIAC.....

"In my formative years, as an aspiring bass player, there was nothing I listened to more than Marvin Pontiac." -Flea

"A dazzling collection! It strikes me that Pontiac was so uncontainably prescient that one might think that these tracks had been assembled today." -David Bowie

"A Revelation." -Leonard Cohen

"This record has changed my life." -John Lurie

"Marvin would kick your ass for nothing. A true genius, Marvin was a pure original." -Iggy Pop

"The innovation and possibility in this music leaves me speechless." -Beck

"Marvin is good." -Angelique Kidjo

"...beds of eerie, hypnotic, textural rhythm with that tragic voice of the American male floating on top, or actually below." - Mike Gordon, Phish

CREDITS

Recorded At – The Magic Shop
Mixed At – RPM Studios
Mastered At – Classic Sound, New York

I'm A Doggy
Bass – Tony Scherr
Drums – Kenny Wolleson
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Harmonica – Marvin Pontiac
Piano, Organ – John Medeski
3:30

Small Car
Acoustic Guitar – Erik Sanko
Backing Vocals – Adele Bertei, Eszter Balint, Kate Fenner, Kyrie Tinch, Liz Riley, Meaghan Gannett, Veronica Bryant
Bass – Tony Garnier
Cello – Jane Scarpantoni
Drums – Calvin Weston
Electric Piano – Evan Lurie
Guitar – Jaime Scott, Marc Ribot
Marimba – Bill Ware
Percussion – Mauro Refosco
Shekere – Billy Martin
Tenor Saxophone [Tenor] – Michael Blake
Trombone – Art Baron
5:45

Now I'm Happy
Baritone Saxophone – Doug Wieselman
Bass – Tony Garnier
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Marc Ribot
Guitar, Alto Saxophone – Marvin Pontiac
Organ – John Medeski
Percussion, Gong – Mauro Refosco
Tenor Saxophone – Michael Blake
Trombone – Art Baron
Trumpet – Steven Bernstein
3:49

Power
Bass, Drums, Chair – Erik Sanko
Cello – Jane Scarpantoni
Drums [Murds] – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Keyboards [Casio] – Marvin Pontiac
Organ, Clavinet, Mellotron – John Medeski
4:02

Runnin' Round
Bass – Tony Scherr
Drums, Backing Vocals – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Guitar [Wah Wah Guitar] – Marvin Pontiac
Organ – John Medeski
Percussion – Mauro Refosco
Piano – Evan Lurie
3:39

Pancakes
Backing Vocals – Adele Bertei, Calvin Weston, Eszter Balint, Kyrie Tinch, Liz Riley, Renee French
Bass – Tony Scherr
Drums, Balafon [Balaphone] – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Harmonica, Keyboards – Marvin Pontiac
Marimba, Balafon – Bill Ware
Percussion – Kenny Wolleson
Shaker – Billy Martin
4:34

Bring Me Rocks
Alto Saxophone, Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Marvin Pontiac
Backing Vocals – Calvin Weston, Jaime Scott, Steven Bernstein, Tony Scherr
Baritone Saxophone – Doug Wieselman
Bass – Tony Scherr
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Marimba – Bill Ware
Tenor Saxophone – Michael Blake
Trombone – Art Baron
3:32

Rubin
Bass – Erik Sanko
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Marimba – Bill Ware
Percussion – Billy Martin
Trombone – Art Baron
Vocals – Angelique Kidjo
3:36

Wanna Wanna
Backing Vocals – Adele Bertei, Angelique Kidjo, Calvin Weston, Eszter Balint, Kate Fenner, Kyrie Tinch, Liz Riley, Meaghan Gannett, Sharon Niesp, Veronica Bryant
Baritone Saxophone – Doug Wieselman
Bass – Erik Sanko
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott, Marvin Pontiac
Percussion – Billy Martin, Kenny Wolleson
Piano, Organ – John Medeski
Tenor Saxophone [Tenor] – Michael Blake
Trombone – Art Baron
Trumpet – Steven Bernstein
4:49

Sleep At Night
Harmonica – Marvin Pontiac
Piano – John Medeski
3:25

Arms & Legs
Bass – Tony Scherr
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Keyboards, Sitar – Marvin Pontiac
Mellophone [Melophone] – Steven Bernstein
2:40

She Ain't Going Home
Backing Vocals – Calvin Weston, Erik Sanko, Jaime Scott, Marvin Pontiac, Tony Scherr
Banjo, Harmonica – Marvin Pontiac
Bass, Slide Guitar – Tony Scherr
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Percussion [Sticks] – Calvin Weston
3:12

Little Fly
Backing Vocals – Eszter Balint, Kate Fenner, Kyrie Tinch, Liz Riley, Meaghan Gannett, Veronica Bryant
Bass – Erik Sanko
Drums [Disco Drums] – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Lyrics By – Pontiac
Ocarina – Doug "The Hank" Wieselman
1:39

No Kids
Acoustic Guitar – Marvin Pontiac
Backing Vocals – Angelique Kidjo*, Meaghan Gannett, Melanie Rock
Bass, Guitar – Erik Sanko
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Marimba – Bill Ware
Percussion – Billy Martin
3:05

I haven't bought these because they've previously only been available as way overpriced CD/DVD or CD/Blu-Ray sets. If they release a reasonably priced CD-only version of this box, I might consider it, even though I don't really like the Wilson mix of Topographic:

YES: THE STEVEN WILSON REMIXES

Celebrate The Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer's 50th Anniversary With A Vinyl Set Featuring Steven Wilson's Remixes Of Five Classic Albums: The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, Relayer And The Double Album, Tales From Topographic Oceans

Available June 29 From Rhino

LOS ANGELES - Yes mark their 50th anniversary this year and release YES: THE STEVEN WILSON REMIXES which spotlights five studio albums that helped secure the band's recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

YES: THE STEVEN WILSON REMIXES will be available June 29 as a five album set. It includes remixed versions of: The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971), Close To The Edge (1972), the double album Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973), and Relayer (1974). Each album features remixed audio by renowned producer Steven Wilson, released on vinyl for the first time.

The record case features artwork created specifically for the set by Roger Dean, whose artwork and trademark calligraphy are synonymous with the band's identity, two of the albums, Close To The Edge and Tales From Topography Oceans have new cover art, while the remaining three covers have been reworked by Dean.

After their initial release in the 1970's,Wilson's articulate remix shines a light on the stellar performances that run deep through each of these the albums, from hits like "Roundabout" and "I've Seen All Good People," to album-side length epics like "Close To The Edge" and "The Gates Of Delirium."

The music included in this collection confirms the band's standing as the most enduring, ambitious, and virtuosic progressive band in rock history. It also follows the band through a number of personnel changes. Starting in February 1971 with Yes's third studio release, The Yes Album, the band featured vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Tony Kaye and drummer Bill Bruford. Released just nine months later, Fragile was Yes's first release with keyboardist Rick Wakeman. The same line-up returned on 1972's Close To The Edge. A year later, drummer Alan White made his Yes debut on Tales From Topographic Oceans. And finally, keyboardist Patrick Moraz joined for Relayer in 1974.

YES: THE STEVEN WILSON REMIXES
LP Album Listing:

The Yes Album (1971)
Fragile (1971)
Close To The Edge (1972)
Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973)
Relayer (1974)

The music included in this collection confirms the band's standing as the most enduring, ambitious, and virtuosic progressive band in rock history.

xp Boy the brainy 80s NYC hipster rollcall of Marvin's musical attendants---"the downtown crowd," as Lou Reed used to say---really takes me back, though they're a bit underemployed here, despite the alert, expert zigzag elevator groovage---underemployed compared to some other ventures, though not quantity-wise, would be better at half the length---about 25 minutes---or less (an excellent bonus EP w Lounge Lizards box, for inst). "Small Car" gets him out of the neighborhood or ward for a few minutes: it's about tiny farmers with "inch-long dogs" who are happy but one night they start to wonder where the stars come from, so they get in their cars made from cans and drive and drive, happy in the starlight and saying, "Hi farmer" to each other, 'til they come to the giants, us, or people our size, and agree that they don't belong here/there, so get in their can-cars and drive back home, but they enjoyed the trip and they're happy ever after to remember the night. Nice music.
Otherwise, in the usual fedoraheadspace, my fave line is "I put a piece of fur in my shoe to hide it from you. " Last track, "No Kids," has an intriguingly more serious vibe, or back and forth, coulda used a few more like that (although I kept getting interrupted, took most of the day so far to hear it all, so some may take hold later).

Numero Group announces Ectotrophia, the first authoritative compilation of American dream pop artist Happy Rhodes' earliest recordings from 1984-87, out June 29

The first authoritative compilation of American dream pop artist Happy Rhodes, whose singular songwriting and four-octave vocal range emanated from the pastoral confines of upstate New York in the 1980s. Her melding of classical music influences with synthesizer and acoustic guitar, and her enchanting and idiosyncratic singing, are favorably compared to heralded English chanteuse Kate Bush.

Fans of such artistic pop music would be remiss to overlook Rhodes’s similarly remarkable and otherworldly sonic transmissions, traversing tales of dreamers, outsiders, lovers and other lovely and terrifying creatures born of a wellspring of wild creativity and bold imagination.

Affectionately remastered from the original tapes, Ectotrophia gathers essential songs from Rhodes’s mid-'80s salad days, many written when she was just a teenager—wildly ahead of her time and unafraid to bare her soul to regional audiences, the ectophiles who’d eventually coin an entire subgenre of pop music in her honor. Dive deep into ecto, with the woman who started it all.

"When The Rain Came Down" (not my cuppa, but maybe yours)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP8Nv8XWMgU&feature=youtu.be

Aw crap--anyway it's on YouTube

So Guns N' Roses are putting out a 4-CD/1-Blu-Ray super deluxe edition of Appetite For Destruction in June. There are various versions, the biggest of which costs $999 and comes in a crate with about a hundred stupid things nobody needs. But here's the track listing, which includes new remasters of the album and the Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide and G N' R Lies EPs, plus a bunch of previously unreleased tracks:

Disc One - Appetite For Destruction

01 “Welcome To The Jungle”
02 “It’s So Easy”
03 “Nightrain”
04 “Out Ta Get Me”
05 “Mr. Brownstone”
06 “Paradise City”
07 “My Michelle”
08 “Think About You”
09 “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
10 “You’re Crazy”
11 “Anything Goes”
12 “Rocket Queen”

Disc Two – B-sides N’ EPs

01 “Reckless Life”
02 “Nice Boys”
03 “Move To The City (Live)
04 “Mama Kin”
05 “Shadow Of Your Love” (Live)
06 “You’re Crazy” (Acoustic Version)
07 “Patience”
08 “Used To Love Her”
09 “You’re Crazy”
10 “It’s So Easy” (Live)
11 “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” (Live)
12 “Whole Lotta Rosie” (Live)

Disc Three – 1986 Sound City Session

01 “Welcome To The Jungle” (1986 Sound City Session)
02 “Nightrain” (1986 Sound City Session)
03 “Out Ta Get Me” (1986 Sound City Session)
04 “Paradise City” (1986 Sound City Session)
05 “My Michelle” (1986 Sound City Session)
06 “Think About You” (1986 Sound City Session)
07 “You’re Crazy” (1986 Sound City Session)
08 “Anything Goes” (1986 Sound City Session)
09 “Rocket Queen” (1986 Sound City Session)
10 “Shadow Of Your Love” (1986 Sound City Session)
11 “Heartbreak Hotel” (1986 Sound City Session)
12 “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1986 Sound City Session)

Disc Four – 1986 Sound City Session and More

01 “Shadow Of Your Love”
02 “Move To The City” (1986 Sound City Session)
03 “Ain’t Goin’ Down No More” (Instrumental Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
04 “The Plague” (1986 Sound City Session)
05 “Nice Boys” (1986 Sound City Session)
06 “Back Off Bitch” (1986 Sound City Session)
07 “Reckless Life” (1986 Sound City Session)
08 “Mama Kin” (1986 Sound City Session)
09 “New Work Tune” (1986 Sound City Session)
10 “November Rain” (Piano Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
11 “Move To The City” (Acoustic Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
12 “You’re Crazy” (Acoustic Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
13 “November Rain” (Acoustic Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
14 “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (Acoustic Version- 1986 Sound City Session)
15 “Move To The City” (1988 Acoustic Version)

Blu-Ray Audio

01 “Welcome To The Jungle”
02 “It’s So Easy”
03 “Nightrain”
04 “Out Ta Get Me”
05 “Mr. Brownstone”
06 “Paradise City”
07 “My Michelle”
08 “Think About You”
09 “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
10 “You’re Crazy”
11 “Anything Goes”
12 “Rocket Queen”

Bonus Tracks

01 “Shadow Of Your Love”
02 “Patience”
03 “Used To Love Her”
04 “You’re Crazy”
05 “Move To The City” (1988 Acoustic Version)

Music Videos

01 “Welcome To The Jungle”
02 “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
03 “Paradise City”
04 “Patience”
05 “It’s So Easy” (Brand New Video From 1989)

Did you notice what's missing from Disc Two? That's right - "One In A Million" is not included on this box. Axl is woke now. (Well, kinda - "Used To Love Her" is still there.)

Five Temptations albums from their psychedelic soul period - Puzzle People, Psychedelic Shack, Sky's The Limit, Solid Rock, and Masterpiece - are being reissued June 1 on the Elemental Music label. These are all long out of print, newly reissued on CD with original artwork and track listing/timings and digitally remastered audio, packaged in deluxe gatefold mini-LP style jackets with inner sleeves and info.

Sky's The Limit is by far my favorite of theirs, followed by All Directions and 1990, which were on CD not too long ago I guess.

There are various versions, the biggest of which costs $999 and comes in a crate with about a hundred stupid things nobody needs.

Including a life-size replica of Slash's hat or GTFO.

Axl is woke now. (Well, kinda - "Used To Love Her" is still there.)

It’s about his dog, remember? ;)

I watched the unboxing video for this and could only see a succession of sad living rooms where this product serves as some kind of altar or shrine.

I’m slightly interested in the 2CD version they’re putting out – I’ve never actually owned Appetite, in any form – but spending any amount of money on it feels like a failure of imagination (and sense).

TheVinylFactory.com has beaucoup news, about first-timers and reissues; here's some, starting last month:

Far Out reissues two cult ’70s Brazilian albums featuring original members of Azymuth

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With Victor Assis Brazil, Orlandivo, and legendary producer and multi-instrumentalist Durval Ferreira.

Far Out Recordings is reissuing two 1970s Brazilian “comedy concept” albums from television duo Chico Anysio and Arnauld Rodrigues this June.

Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos (1974) and Azambuja & Cia (1975) are based on characters created by Anysio and Rodrigues, with sounds that mix jazz-funk, soulful samba-rock and MPB.

Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos is a satire on Brazil’s Tropicália movement, while Azambuja & Cia tells the story of Carioca conman Paulo Maurício Azambuja.

Both albums have been remastered for these new viny reissues, with original album artwork.

More pix and full albums streams linked here:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/far-out-cult-70s-brazilian-albums-featuring-members-azymuth/

South African kwaito jazz

A future-facing hybrid of jazz, broken beat and afro-synth.

Composer and pianist Moses Taiwa Molelekwa’s 2000 album Genes And Spirits has been reissued on vinyl for the first time by Matsuli Music.

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Released a year before his death at the age of 29, Molelekwa forged a unique international sound with a band that included Cuban legend Chucho Valdez, Cameroonian drummer Cuba Brice Wassy and Brazilian singer and fusion star Flora Purim.

The result is an album of genre-defying dexterity, created by a process of “finding a range of rhythmic alternatives”, of which the jazzy broken beat of second track ‘Spirits Of Tembisa’ is a particularly strong example.

The album will be reissued ion gatefold vinyl by Matsuli Music, who have already been responsible for reviving South African jazz gems by Batsumi, Black Disco and Ndikho Xaba And The Natives.

More info, audio here:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/south-african-kwaito-jazz-by-moses-taiwa-molelekwa-reissued-on-vinyl/

Read next: An introduction to 10 of South Africa’s most important labels
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/south-africa-record-labels-ranger/

Little-known Turkish female singers from the ’70s and ’80s collected in new LP

“With eccentric synthesisers, mesmerising arabesque string orchestras, wakawaka funky guitars and narcotising rhythm sections of darbukas and drum sets.”

A new compilation called Turkish Ladies showcases female singers from Turkey in ’74 – ’88.

Spanning classical Türk Sanat, Argentinian tango, and Egyptian classical orchestras to disco, psychedelia, funk, the album is curated by Ladies on Records, from the archives of labels Elenor, Türküola and Şah Plak.

It features lesser-known female singers who never achieved international fame outside of Turkey such as Huri Sapan, Handan Kara, Gönül Yazar, and Esmeray, with liner notes telling their stories, in both Turkish and English.
More info, audio:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/turkish-ladies-female-singers-from-turkey-1974-1988-lp/

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Dreamy Fourth World inspired soundscapes meet Balinese instrumentals.

Spencer Clark’s 2010 record Make Mine, Macaw, originally released under the Monopoly Child Star Searchers moniker will be reissued on vinyl for the first time, this June via Discrepant.

Second in the Tropical Bird Romance Audio trilogy between 2010’s Bamboo For Two and 2011’s The Garnet Toucan, Make Mine, Macaw is also the rarest. While the other releases had vinyl pressings on Olde English Spelling Bee and Underwater Peoples, Macaw was a tour-only CDr.

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The trilogy features some of Clark’s most hypnotic soundscapes, melding exotica, Fourth World music, gamelan and more. It also includes contributions from his Skaters partner James Ferraro, Dolphins Into The Future’s Lieven Martens Moana and Orphan Fairytale.

More info, audio:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/spencer-clark-make-mine-macaw-vinyl-monopoly-child-star-searchers/

Read more: An introduction to Jon Hassell in 10 records
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/introduction-jon-hassell-10-records/

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From “the James Brown meets Fela Kuti of Sudan.”

Habibi Funk has launched a new series showcasing little-known music from Sudan’s jazz scene, starting with the first ever release of Kamal Keila’s album Muslims and Christians.

The label discovered Keila while on a recent trip to curate a collection of Arabic zouk tracks, where Keila’s name repeatedly came up in conversations.

For decades in Sudan, radio stations were not allowed to play label recordings on air, so stations hosted live sessions for musicians.

To prevent artists from self-releasing these sessions they rarely received copies of the tapes; however Keila managed to attain the studio reels of two, 5-track performances from the 12th of August 1992.

According to the label, “some of the songs were already written in the 1970s and have been part of Keila’s sets ever since, with only small changes for contemporary references in the lyrics and musically sometimes adopting to “new” sounds here and there.”

“Both sessions stand as a testament to how he stuck to a sound aesthetic from decades ago, while incorporating current events into his lyrics.”

Muslims and Christians includes Keila’s ‘Al Asafir’ which appeared on Habibi Funk 007: An Eclectic Selection of Music From The Arabic World, alongside nine previously unreleased songs.

The series will continue with albums by The Scorpions and Sharhabeel, forthcoming later this year.

more info, audio:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/habibi-funk-sudan-jazz-kamal-keila-muslims-and-christians-2xlp/

Soul Jazz collects the best unknown rap records from ’70s-’80s in new Boombox installment

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The ode to independent hip-hop, electro and disco rap returns.

Soul Jazz is releasing the third edition of its Boombox series this June on triple vinyl.

According to the label the compilation was “created with just one thing in mind – to get this party jumping!”

As with previous editions, Boombox 3 showcases lesser known artists who released some of the first rap and hip-hop records on vinyl.

Boombox 3‘s 18-tracks include “New York rap artists, classic disco breaks...proto- electro and more,” shares Soul Jazz.

Boombox 3‘s triple vinyl release also includes a 44-page book with photographs, original artwork and images discussing “hip-hop’s trajectory from the first wave of Bronx creativity..."
Tracklist

1. Majestics – Class A
2. Brother’s Disco – Thumpin
3. Mifflin Ensemble – On The Move
4. Sherod – Schooling (Put Your Mind To The Message)
5. Sugar Daddy – Another One Bites The Dust
6. Family Four – Rap Attack
7. She-MsD.J.RapItUp!
8. The Caution Crew – Rhythm Rock (Part 1)
9. Poor Boy Rappers – The D.J. Rap
10. Family – Family Rap (6.56)
11. Bobby Deemo – Bugs-B-Skate Rap
12. Teen-Machine – Teen-Machine Rap
13. T.J. Swann & Company – Get Fly
14. Poor Boy Rappers – Low Rider Rap
15. Sicle Cell & Rhapazooty – Rhapazooty In Blue
16. Mr. Fox – Smooth Talk
17. Solid C, Bobby D & Kool Drop – Wack Rap
18. Disco Daddy & Capt. Rapp – The Gigolo Rapp

More Info, Audio:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/soul-jazz-boombox-3-rap-records-70s-80s/

Read more: Worldwide Underground: 10 records that define Soul Jazz
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/10-records-that-define-soul-jazz/
(More about Soul Jazz releases than a subgenre, ranging even unto their first hardcore punk comp)

Wow, that's one infodump of must-have releases up there.

Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos is a satire on Brazil’s Tropicália movement, while Azambuja & Cia tells the story of Carioca conman Paulo Maurício Azambuja.

Dunno if this needs explaining to any of the heads here, but the joke here is they conflated the band Novos Baianos ("new guys from Bahia") with Caetano Veloso.

the first two volumes in the Boombox series have been great, looking forward to the third

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A CERTAIN RATIO have announced the final phase in their studio album reissue series. Sextet (1982) will be released on orange vinyl in textured sleeve replicating the original Factory release, Change The Station (1997) will be released on double blue vinyl and Mind Made Up (2008) is out on double purple vinyl. Change The Station and Mind Made Up will appear on vinyl for the first time. CD and digital copies will also be available on July 27.

This is the latest installment in an ongoing collaboration with Mute and follows the release of The Graveyard And The Ballroom, To Each and Force. This Friday will see the release of I’d Like To See You Again, Good Together, Up In Downsville and ACR:MCR.

Sextet (1982) - Dark and brooding, yet bright and funky, Sextet is a firm favorite amongst the critics. The album saw A Certain Ratio refine the experimentation of the first two albums and deliver a masterpiece that is as off-kilter and weird as it is commercial and pop. Listen to “Crystal” here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWTAtkuVs0E&feature=youtu.be

Change The Station (1986) - An abstract album that sees A Certain Ratio bring the funk to laid back ambience in a way that only they could. The party is still there and it's more hypnotic than ever. Listen to “Yeah Boy” here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLY_0GNqAv0&feature=youtu.be

Mind Made Up (2008) - To date, this is A Certain Ratio’s last album release, and one that sees them explore pop closer than ever before - short sharp bursts of classic sing-a-long post-pop funk. Listen to “Bird to the Ground” here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bow8z-J3-f8&feature=youtu.be

A new compilation will follow later in the year and various box sets will be released in 2019 to mark the 40th anniversary of the first releases by the band.

Known for their carnival atmosphere live performances, A Certain Raito have been playing blistering sold out shows throughout 2017 and 2018. A new series of dates have been announced. See below for an itinerary.
A Certain Ratio embraced the ethic and culture of the late seventies post-punk explosion, but sounded like nothing else around them and refused to fit in. Formed in 1978, the band had various members throughout their career and a core line-up comprised of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson.

Hailed universally as pioneers of what became known as “punk funk” thanks to the success of “Shack Up” on both sides of the Atlantic, their sound is not easily pigeon-holed and their influence can never be understated. The band introduced the avant-garde elements of funk, jazz, electronics, tape loops and technology to the pop song, wrapping it in a post punk aesthetic.

They have gone on to influence generations of musicians including Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem, Happy Mondays, Franz Ferdinand, ESG, Factory Floor and Andrew Weatherall.

The Guardian’s Dave Simpson paid tribute to the band, once described as “James Brown on acid” in a recent Cult Heroes piece: “Once you start listening to A Certain Ratio, it’s difficult to stop”.

For a look inside the band’s early days, watch the inspiring short film Tribeca, directed by Michael Shamberg, here.

A CERTAIN RATIO UK TOUR
May 25 – Leeds, England – Belgrave Music Hall
June 30 – Birmingham, England – Hare and Hounds (w/ Sink Ya Teeth)
September 7 – Portmeirion, Wales – Festival Nº6
September 15 – Dublin, Ireland – The Sugar Club
September 22 – Helsinki, Finland – Aaniwalli
September 29 – Edinburgh, Scotland – Voodoo Rooms
November 24 – Manchester, England – Gorilla
December 1 – Clitheroe, England – The Grand
A Certain Ratio are supporters of Artists Against Hunger and will donate £1 for each ticket sold in 2018. For further details, please go to http://againsthunger.uk/acr

(Those promo tracks are all on YouTube)

Disciples of California is one of my favorite records of the aughts, nice to see this:

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The Skygreen Leopards
The Jingling World of The Skygreen Leopards
SAB086 | LP, DL
PRE-ORDER FOR JUNE

“The Jingling World of The Skygreen Leopards” is a collection of songs from the first two Skygreen Leopards CDRs on Jewelled Antler; two mini albums written & recorded in the distant days of 2001, a year with a name that evokes a psychedelic future but which now seems very much part of the psychedelic past. Guided by Tall Dwarfs, The Monkees & The TVPs, the early SGLs concept was to mix automatic songwriting, two voices, California 12-string and put it on reverb smothered 1/4″ tape. The restrictions were that no songs could break the 3 minute mark, no jamming allowed, and you never went back to fix mistakes. All songs were written and performed by Glenn Donaldson and Donovan Quinn; both switching instruments and overdubbing until Glenn’s Tascam 388 had run out of open tracks.

From the womb of fanzines, flea market record crates of the 90’s and San Francisco’s fading victorians, it’s “The Jingling World of The Skygreen Leopards”!

https://softabuse.com/catalog/the-skygreen-leopards-the-jingling-world-of-the-skygreen-leopards/

Light in The Attic Records is ecstatic to announce the release of their Hauromi Hosono 5-album series, coming out this Summer/Fall.

“A basking adventure through exquisite & intricate melodies & grooves.” -Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

"Amazing sound presence in his voice and in his musical arrangements...a gifted sound artist for sure." -Laraaji

“I personally think he is beyond being a musician, more like a philosopher. He creates a borderless mindset with his music portraying a deep understanding of the world with his wit and elegance.” -Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto)

There is perhaps no figure more towering in the history of modern Japanese music than Haruomi “Harry” Hosono. From the groundbreaking folk rock of Happy End and the pioneering techno pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra, to the countless influential solo works that have touched on exotica, funk, country, electronic, ambient, and everything in between.

Light in the Attic is beyond proud to present a comprehensive archival series of Hosono’s key albums from throughout his solo career. These highly influential and sought-after albums have never been reissued outside of Japan, until now.
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Philharmony (1982) – RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2018
* First ever vinyl reissue and first ever release outside of Japan
* Translated interview with Haruomi Hosono
* Originally released in 1982
* LP housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket & limited to 1500 copies on black vinyl
* 3xLP Bundle includes "Philharmony", "omni Sight Seeing", and "Paraiso"

Philharmony is one of the most well-loved of Hosono’s albums, and a favorite of the artist himself. Admired by artists ranging from Van Dyke Parks to Mac DeMarco, Hosono continues to forge ahead as he heads into his fifth decade as a musician. With the re-release of his key albums for the first time outside of Japan, his genius will be discovered by a whole new generation of fans around the world.

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omni Sight Seeing (1989) – RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2018

* First ever vinyl release
*Originally released in 1989
* Translated interview with Haruomi Hosono
* LP housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket & limited to 1500 copies pressed on black vinyl
* 3xLP Bundle includes "omni Sight Seeing", "Philharmony", and "Paraiso"

Omni Sight Seeing, originally released in 1989 during YMO’s initial hiatus, is an exhilarating musical journey around the world as filtered through Hosono’s kaleidoscopic lens. This work stands as a manifestation of his concept of “Sight Seeing Music,” putting his own tasteful spin on the “world” music encountered during his explorations of global cultures.

Paraiso (1978) – RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2018

* First ever vinyl reissue and first ever release outside of Japan
* Originally released in 1978

* Translated interview with Haruomi Hosono
* LP housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket & limited to 1500 copies pressed on black vinyl
* 3xLP Bundle includes "Paraiso,” "Philharmony,” and "omni Sight Seeing"

The album can be seen as a turning point in Haruomi Hosono’s career, having been newly signed to Alfa Records by label head Kunihiko Murai. Hosono expands on the Van Dyke Parks-inspired tropical funk styles explored in the previous albums, and arrives at a captivating fusion sound that’s at times equally earthy and exotic.

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Hosono House (1973) – RELEASE DATE: September 28, 2018

* First ever release outside of Japan
* Remastered form the original analog master tapes
* 2xLP Bundle (both on Color & Black vinyl) includes "Hosono House" & "Cochin Moon"

After Happy End’s amicable break up in 1973, Hosono released Hosono House, an intimate slice of Japanese Americana recorded at home with a back-to-basics approach akin to Music from Big Pink or McCartney. While his former band helped pave the way for the rise of “city pop” that reflected upon urban themes and city life, Hosono took a 180 degree turn towards the countryside for his highly-regarded first solo album.

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Cochin Moon (1978) – RELEASE DATE: September 28, 2018

* First ever release outside of Japan

* Translated interview with Haruomi Hosono
* Remastered form the original analog master tapes

* Originally released in 1978
* 2xLP Bundle (both on Color & Black vinyl) includes "Cochin Moon" & "Hosono House"

Cochin Moon is a clear precursor to the groundbreaking synth and sequencer-dominated sounds that would come to define the iconic trio. Credited to Hosono and Pop Art legend Tadanori Yokoo (who created the cover art), Cochin Moon is a fictional soundtrack to a journey into unknown worlds, inspired by Hosono and Yokoo’s trip to India.

I think all of these will be available on CD as well, not seeing digital. For more info:
https://lightintheattic.net/artists/2475-haruomi-hosono

Missed a cover!

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here's the trailer for the series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsD_iVrLETI
a bunch of other HH on that page

Sweet, they send these images and won't let us post---anyway, I overlooked some of the news:

As he approaches his 50th anniversary as a working musician, Hosono will play his first ever UK shows as

Solo act in June 2018:

June 23: London – Barbican Centre*

June 25 – The Old Market

* with Acetone + Willie Thrasher & Linda Saddleback in celebration of Light In The Attic's Sweet 16 Year Anniversary!

Manu Dibango

Electric Africa

TIDAL WAVES MUSIC

www.tidalwavesmusic.com

i✧✧✧@tidalwavesmu✧✧✧.c✧✧

Afrobeat-Afrofunk genius MANU DIBANGO’s 1985 Electric Africa has been reissued by One Way Static Records, distributed through Light in The Attic in North America

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Manu Dibango needs litle introduction, born in Cameroon in 1933, Manu developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. He’s definitely among the best known African

artists outside of Africa. Collaborations were numerous and include top acts like Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Sly & Robbie, Don Cherry and Bernie Worrell.

In addition to selling hundreds of thousands of copies of the albums he recorded, he played such huge venues as Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden. In 1972, at 40 years of age, Manu Dibango did something almost unheard of for an African

artist – he had a pop hit. His song “Soul Makossa” became an enormous hit which influenced popular music for decades to follow. First picked up by David Mancuso (The Loft), “Soul Makossa” took New York dancefloors by storm & in July 1973 it became the first disco record to enter the Billboard Top 40 —an early instance of Western pop experiencing a paradigm shift thanks to Africa. The song’s chant of “ma-mako ma-ma-sa mako-mako sa” echoes through the greatest-selling pop album of all-time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and it’s in the DNA of the music of Kanye West, Rihanna, A Tribe Called Quest, Akon and The Fugees.

Side A

01.

Pata Piya

02.

Electric Africa

Side B

03.

Echos Beti

04.

L’Arbre A Palabres

·Back on vinyl for the first time since 1985 – BLUE VINYL now!

·Comes with the original 1985 artworks & obi strip

·All-star line-up featuring Herbie Hancock, Mory Kante & Bernie Worrell

·Strictly limited to 500 copies worldwide (that sweet Blue Vinyl)

SUNN O))) Releases Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998 Limited Edition LP
SUNN O))) has unleashed the earliest recording of the band's monolithic tones, revamped for a limited edition pressing via Southern Lord Recordings, as the label celebrates its twentieth anniversary, as a split label release together with Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ imprint.

The Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998 dates back to the earliest rehearsals during the genesis of the SUNN O))) project. The source is a C60 cassette tape recorded on a boombox, and the result is essentially an extremely raw noise/drone record. It was taped in the band's early practice space at Downtown Rehearsal (RIP), Los Angeles, in a practice room which the band shared with The Melvins and Goatsnake at the time. The LP sees SUNN O))) founders Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley on guitars and stacks of amps, the original cassette was mastered by Brad Boatright February 2018.

Longtime/old school diehard listeners of SUNN O)))'s massive sound and those who have watched the collective's transformation over the past two decades can find the brutal practice tape revamped as Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998, available only through Southern Lord and directly from the band in a limited run on 180-gram vinyl LP - 900 black, 500 silver, 100 white, with machine numbering on the front cover - and digitally.

Find SUNN O)))'s Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998 at Bandcamp HERE
https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/downtown-la-rehearsal-rifftape-march-1998

Other buying options at band's website.

Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998 Track Listing:
Side A:
1. Room 206 pt.1
2. Room 206 pt.2
3. B-Witch

Side B:
1. Room 206 pt.3
2. The Grimm Robe / Black Wedding
3. Mustaine / Thorns
4. M & D I.L.F.
5. The DJs

The celebration of twenty years of SUNN O))) and Southern Lord this year will continue with reissues of the band's lauded White1 and White2 albums in the coming weeks.

SUNN O))) will perform live at the Psycho Las Vegas festival on August 19th alongside Godflesh, Goblin, Enslaved, All Pigs Must Die, Wolves In The Throne Room, and scores more.

Watch for further updates on SUNN O))) in the coming days.

SUNN O))) Live:
8/19/2018 Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Las Vegas, NV @ Psycho Las Vegas

more news from The Vinyl Factory:

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Soundway collects under-the-radar Brazilian synth hits on new compilation

Samba boogie, synth wave and electro oddities from ’80s and ’90s Brazil.

Globe-trotting label Soundway Records touches down in Brazil for the first time this summer with the release of Onda De Amor, charting the “synthesized Brazilian hits that never were” on gatefold double vinyl.
Released in July, the compilation covers a ten year period between ’84 and ’94 of Brazilian music not yet extensively explored by reissue labels, and follows Music From Memory’s superb Outro Tempo last year, which exposed the country’s rich history of synthesized pop to a wider audience for the first time.

https://soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/onda-de-amor-synthesized-brazilian-hits-that-never-were-1984-94

Onda De Amor is compiled by DJ Millos Kaiser, one half of Brazilian duo Selvagem, who says, “the idea is to do justice to these songs. Songs that combine all the right ingredients that should have put them on radio playlists when I was growing up, or at least in the case of more adventurous DJs.”

Onda De Amor: Synthesized Brazilian Hits That Never Were (1984​-​94) is out on 6th July via Soundway Records.
Tracklist:

1.Ricardo Bomba – Você Vai Se Lembrar
2.Vânia Bastos – Tabu (The Sweetest Taboo)
3. Rosana Mendes & Grupo Veneno – Reague
4. Grupo Controle Digital – A Festa É Nossa
5. Villa Box – Break De Rua (Versão Longa)
6. Batista Junior – Cheira
7.Dado Brazzawilly – Saramandaia
8. Anacy Arcanjo – Toque Tambor
9. Fogo Baiano – O Fogo Do Sol
10.Dodô Da Bahia & As Virgens De Porto Seguro – Africamerica 05:00
11.Via Negromonte – Love Is All
12. Electric Boogies – Electric Boogies
13. Os Abelhudos – Contos De Escola (Millos Kaiser Edit)
14. Nanda Rossi – Livre Pra Voar (Millos Kaiser Edit)
15. André Melo – Onda De Amor
16. Região Abissal – Feminina Mulher (Instrumental)

Read more: How Brazil is reclaiming its record culture
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/brazil-reclaiming-records/

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Experimental Brazilian records from 1976-1985 collected in vibrant new book

Sights and sounds from the underground.

Journalist and record collector Bento Araujo has launched a new crowdfunding campaign to help publish the second instalment of his Lindo Sonho Delirante book series.

A follow-up to Lindo Sonho Delirante Volume 1, – one of our favourite music books of 2017 – which looked at rare Brazilian psychedelic records released between 1968 – 1975, Volume 2 delves into 100 avant-garde and progressive psychedelic records from 1976–1985.

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As with the first edition, the book features fully illustrated cover art reproductions for all albums, with a review written in both Portuguese and English, alongside comprehensive original release information.

Lindo Sonho Delirante is currently crowdfunding on Catarse, head here for more info.
https://www.catarse.me/lsd2

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French Caribbean label Disques Debs collected in new 2xLP series

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From early biguine and bolero to zouk, reggae and créole.

Strut is releasing a new multi-volume vinyl series featuring archival music from Guadeloupe imprint Disques Debs, on June 25.

Launched by Henri Debs in the late ’50s, the studio released over 300 7″ singles and 200 LPs during its time.

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Volume 1, compiled by Hugo Mendez of Sofrito and Emile Omar of Radio Nova, includes 21 tracks taken from the first decade of the label’s existence, with percussive biguines, big bands like Orchestre Esperanza and Orchestre Caribbean Jazz, poet and radio personality Casimir “Caso” Létang and folkloric gwo ka artist Sydney Leremon.

Disques Debs International: An Island Story: Biguine, Afro Latin & Musique Antillaise 1960 – 1972 2xLP release also includes rare and unseen photos, extensive liner notes and interviews with Phillpe Debs and Max “Maxo” Severin from Les Vikings.

listen to Guy Conquette’s ‘Assez Fait Cancan’:
https://strut.bandcamp.com/album/disques-debs-international-vol-1

Tracklist

Side A

1. Daniel Forestal Et Sa Guitare – Ces P`Tits Je T`aime
2. Casimir Lètang – Travail Zènfants! Chantez Après!
3. Cyril Diaz Et Son Orchestre – Feeling Happy
4. Georges Tinedor Et Manuela Pioche – Colliè Et Zanno
5. Henri Debs Quintet – Douce Kombass
6. Joseph Lacides – Mr. Morin

Side B

7. Geno Exile – Lan Misè
8. Dolor Et Les Diables Du Rythme – Salvana
9. Syndey Lèrèmon Et Ses Amis Du Calvaire Baie-Mahault – You You Matayango
10. Raymond Cicault Et Son Orchestre Volcan – À Mon Ami Lucien Jolibois
11. Orchestre Esperanza Et Jean Leroy – Ou Pas Bel
12. Henri Debs Sextet Et Paul Blamar – Moin Çé On Maléré

Side C

13. Le Ry-Co Jazz – Si I Bon Di I Bon
14. Remy Mondey – Meringue Mondey
15. Henri Guedon Et Les Contesta – Van Van
16. Les Shupa Shupa D`Haiti – Batterie Shupa

Side D

17. Paul Blamaret Vèlo – Lovency
18. Eric Virgal – Stanislas
19. Les Aiglons – Les Aiglons Ka Satisfait
20. Tutus De La Guyane – Nanao Nanao
21. Guy Conquette – Assez Fait Cancan

Read more: Island Digging with Ruf Dug: The disco funk sound of Guadaloupe in 10 records
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/island-digging-with-ruf-dug-the-disco-funk-sound-of-guadeloupe-in-10-records/

Elusive disco, dub, ambient and electronics collected on new Isla of Jura 2xLP

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Norwegian tropico-funk, Legowelt space synth, ’80s hip-hop breaks and more.

Australian label Isle of Jura is releasing a new double vinyl compilation of elusive reissues, edits and originals from around the world.

Jura Soundsystem Presents Transmission One is the first in a series of compilations from Jura Soundsystem, aka label head Kevin Griffiths.

Highlights from Transmission One include a stellar edit of Ken-Dang’s 1983 percussive super jam ‘Born in Borneo’, the first ever vinyl release of Legowelt’s Smackos alias ambient tune ‘We Can Watch Alf In The Hotel Room’, Minus Group’s elusive 1979 Italian psych 7″ ‘Black Shadow’, and the eighties Baltimore booty shake of Mix-O-Rap’s ‘All Party People’.
Ken Dang--'Born In Borneo"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3RTjuMYhK0

The collection also features four “soothing” Jura Soundsystem ambient tools, and follows the release of ‘Dear Adrian’ / ‘Udaberri Blues’ – one of our favourite dance 12″s of April – on sub-label Temple of Jura, as well as The Voice of Q 12″ reissue on the main imprint.

Smackos---'We Can Watch Alf In the Hotel Room'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=YuEjvC9mKWI

Tracklist

Side A

A1. Smackos ‘We Can Watch Alf In The Hotel Room’
A2. Astral Engineering ‘Seashore Dub’
A3. Minus Group ‘Black Shadow’

Side B

B1. Ken Dang ‘Born In Borneo’ (Jura Soundsystem Edit)
B2. Trevor Bastow ‘Integration’

Side C

C1. Kash ‘Percussion Sundance’
C2. Tabou Combo Superstars ‘Ooh La La’ (Jura Soundsystem Edit)

Side D

D1. Blindboy ‘Traumerei’
D2. Mix-O-Rap ‘All Party People’ (Special Mix) (Go-Go Style)
D3. Jura Soundsystem ‘Jungle Ambient Tool’
D4. Jura Soundsystem ‘Ocean Ambient Tool’
D5. Jura Soundsystem ‘Time Ambient Tool’
D6. Jura Soundsystem ‘Pyramids Ambient Tool’

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Kuniyuki Takahashi
Early Tape Works (1986-1983) Vol. 2
(Music From Memory)
Listen:
https://soundcloud.com/music-from-memory/sets/mfm-032-kuniyuki-takahashi

Soothing ’80s synthscapes and breezy tropical samples abound, in this second instalment of Music from Memory’s compilation series showcasing the music of Japanese producer Kuniyuki Takahashi. Whereas the first instalment, one of the records had a more club orientated feel, Vol. 2 delves into cinematic territory that carries a Joe Hisaishi touch. An emotive and ethereal essential, whether you’re previously familiar with Takahashi’s tunes or not.

Giorgio Moroder’s elusive 1975 Einzelgänger LP reissued on vinyl for the first time.

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“A look into the experimental side of his disco synth.”

Italian maestro composer and producer Giorgio Moroder’s seventies album Einzelgänger is being rereleased on vinyl for the first time.

Regarded as the “Father of Disco” Moroder created some of the era’s most popular singles with artist Donna Summer, including ‘I Feel Love’, ‘Love to Love You Baby’, and ‘On The Radio’.

Originally released in 1975 on Moroder’s own Oasis label under his Einzelgänger alias (German for individualist), the 9-track LP was composed, performed and produced by Moroder in collaboration with Reinhold Mack.

Though it failed to achieve commercial success, later that year Summer and Moroder released ‘Love To Love You Baby’ – one of the first hit disco singles to be released as an extended version, and the track that catapulted the duo to international fame.

In 2015, The Vinyl Factory released Moroder and Bruce Sudano’s track ‘Willoughby’ on limited 12″, as part of Doug Aitken and the Barbican’s Station to Station.

Tracklist

1. Einzelgänger
2. Aus (The End)
3. Warum (Why)
4. Percussiv
5. Good Old Germany
6. Basslich
7. Untergang (Ruin)
8. Liebes-Arie (Love Song)
9. Einzelganger

yessss

Alice Coltrane’s Lord of Lords reissued on vinyl for the first time

The last in her Universal Consciousness and World Galaxy trilogy.

Alice Coltrane’s 1972 album Lord of Lords is being reissued for the first time, via Superior Viaduct this June.

Its five tracks were recorded over the course of one week in a Los Angeles studio during July of 1972, following the release of her seminal albums World Galaxy and Journey in Satachidananda featuring Pharaoh Sanders.

Lord of Lords was released by Impulse! in the US and Canada that same year, with a UK release in 1976.

The album’s reissue follows last year’s World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitnanda, our favourite reissue of 2017.

Tracklist

Side A

A1 Andromeda’s Suffering
A2 Sri Rama Ohnedaruth
A3 Excerpts From The Firebird

Side B

B1 Lord Of Lords
B2 Going Home

'Amdromeda's Suffering'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=hfsYmrqB8EE

A Short Documentary About Alice Coltrane's Spiritual Journey
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/alice-coltrane-documentary-spiritual-journey/

from 2017:

Joe Henderson and Alice Coltrane’s rare 1973 LP The Elements reissued for the first time

A soulful and celestial voyage to otherworldly music realms.

Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson rose to stardom releasing iconic post-bop jazz on Blue Note in the sixties, but it was in the seventies when Henderson branched out into inspiring and experimental terrain.

The Elements is one of the most exciting examples of Henderson’s innovative creative directions.

Mixing jazz with funk, soul, psych, latin, Indian and beyond, the LP is a four-part improvisation based on compositions written by Henderson, exploring fire, air, water and earth.

For this journey, Henderson enlisted a heavyweight group of likeminded, intrepid musicians including Alice Coltrane on piano and harp, Charlie Haden on bass, Michael White on violin, and Kenneth Nash on percussion.

What followed was a unique album, captured over the course of two days at Village Recorders studio in Los Angeles.

Remastered from the original tapes for this first ever reissue, The Elements is an essential sonic exploration, that still sounds as fresh and forward-thinking over 40 years later.

Henderson/Coltrane: "Earth"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub3gH9IlVgs

John and Alice Coltrane’s Cosmic Music reissued on vinyl

With the original private press cover artwork.

Spiritual jazz power couple Alice and John Coltrane’s collaborative album Cosmic Music is to be reissued on vinyl via Superior Viaduct, on 5/26/17.

Self-released by Alice Coltrane in 1968 following her husband’s death, Cosmic Music was subsequently re-released by Impulse! who introduced the recognisable moon motif on the sleeve.

Featuring two tracks by John Coltrane’s legendary final quintet (‘Manifestation’ and ‘Rev. King’) that were recorded in San Francisco on February 2nd, 1966 and two from Alice Coltrane’s very first session as a bandleader after her husband’s passing (‘Lord Help Me To Be’ and ‘The Sun’), it’s a joint monument to the pair’s vast influence on spiritual jazz, giving a platform to heavyweight contemporaries like Jimmy Garrison, Rashied Ali and Pharoah Sanders.

John Coltrane Quintet w Alice Coltrane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=xJXJmXf1f6M

This whole "reissued on vinyl for the first time" thing is such utter sucker-baiting horseshit it makes me froth with rage.

The Elements has been in print on CD since the 1990s. Lord of Lords is just as readily available, as half of a budget twofer CD (it's paired up with Universal Consciousness). But hey, pay $25 for the LP if that's what you wanna do with your life.

I don't even have a working turntable, but find these items good for info, since I never heard of most of these Vinyl Factory news objects. Always look for the most affordable option anyway.

That David Bowie live album, Waiting for the Blackout: Live London '78, that came out as a 3LP set for Record Store Day, is being released as a 2CD set on June 29. I'm listening to it now and other than the inclusion of a version of "Sound and Vision" that's inferior to the studio version, there's literally no point to it if you already have Stage. Same tour, virtually identical set list. But I'm agnostic-to-skeptical w/r/t Bowie in general, so.

From latest Smog Veil newsletter:

European fans: many of our releases are now available from Soundohm, a quality distributor of electronic, psych, cinematic, and otherwise fantastic reissue releases. Check 'em out!
https://www.soundohm.com/

AT THE PRESSING PLANT and out soon:

Chris Butler/Ralph Carney: Songs For Unsung Holidays LP/CD
Obnox: Bang Messiah LP/CD

Speaking of Chris Butler, take a gander at his newest release, a Smog Veil digital exclusive "Get It Togehter". A collection of demos, works in progress, and all things Chris. Think a little bit of Tin Huey, a little bit of The Waitresses, and of course, all Akron all the time. Check it out at your favorite online download/stream source (or check smogveil site)

So, say hello to these 7" records that we recently unearthed in our warehouse:

Rocket From The Tombs "I Sell Soul"
HG Lewis and the Amazing Pink Holes "2000 Maniacs" splatter wax
Rubber City Rebels "Annoyed, Destroyed, Unemployed"
2 Bobs "Papa Oom Mow Mow/Roll On Big O"
This Moment In Black History "Family Day At Euclid Beach" etched
Defnics "Look At Me Mom I'm Not Dead" green vinyl
Van Failin' (aka FYPM) "Panama" pic disc

These records are available for sale. 3 7"s for 1 low price plus postage. But, act now as on June 30, anything left over will be gifted to the guys that pick up the trash. If you don't see the 7" available in the drop down box or if the link is dead, that means we are sold out. No special code needed. We have very limited quantities on these, so this is the last chance forever and once June 30 rolls around, well, say goodbye.

And a few from xp Soundohm:

Nurse With Wound
Sinister Whimsy For The Wretched (2Cd)
LABEL: DIRTER PROMOTIONS
GENRE: Experimental | FORMAT: 2 x CD | CATALOG N. DPROM140 | YEAR. (2018)
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Sinister Whimsy For The Wretched contains the long out-of-print albums, Sugar Fish Drink (1992) and Large Ladies With Cake In The Oven (1993). Both discs are remastered by Andrew Liles. You will never hear these better. Sugar Fish Drink, "Cod Surrealism", is a distinctly wet aberration on paranoid aesthetics occasionally coordinated by John Balance and Steven Stapleton. For Large Ladies With Cake In The Oven, all tracks were previously released in some form or another. Songs titles have been altered from their original forms on their original releases. "Head Cold" is very close to being the exact song as the Miss Ticker remix of "Cold" from the Thunder Perfect Mind CD reissue and "Steel Dream March Of The Metal Man".
more info, audio: https://www.soundohm.com/product/sinister-whimsy-for-the-wretched-2cd/pid/31949/

Anthony Braxton - Derek Bailey
Royal (2Lp)
LABEL: Honest Jon's
GENRE: Jazz | FORMAT: LPx2 | CATALOG N. HJR 201LP | YEAR. (2018)
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2018 small repress. Honest Jon's Records present a reissue of Derek Bailey and Anthony Braxton's Royal, expanded to include both intended volumes. Volume 1 was originally released in 1984; the second volume was never issued. The second release in a series of collaborations between Honest Jon's Records and Incus: three double-LPs of the legendary free-improvising guitarist Derek Bailey, solo (HJR 200LP) and in duos with Anthony Braxton and Han Bennink (HJR 202LP), augmenting the original releases with marvelous, previously unissued music. Recorded in 1974, at the Royal Hotel in Luton, with Braxton playing soprano and alto saxophones, and Bb and contrabass clarinets. Two volumes were planned; only one was issued, till now. This was an early transatlantic meeting between the leading free improvisers. Many of Braxton's signature techniques and ideas were gestated in such sessions. It still brims with inquisitive musical creativity and knockabout jazzbo allusiveness. Newly transferred from tape at Abbey Road, and remastered by Rashad Becker. The records are manufactured by Pallas.
more info, audio: https://www.soundohm.com/product/royal-2lp/pid/31945/

Aleister Crowley
Original Wax Recordings (LP)
LABEL: Fantome Phonographique
GENRE: Sound Art | FORMAT: LP | CATALOG N. OME 1007LP | YEAR. (2018)

Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of the only known recordings from the infamous occultist, mystic, magician, poet, novelist, sexual deviant, and all-around misfit, Aleister Crowley. Recorded onto wax cylinder in the early 1910s, and later transferred to 78 RPM discs. The tracks include Crowley's recitation of the first two Enochian Keys, original poetry, incantations, and songs. An absolutely essential piece of occult history. This collection was originally compiled and released on LP in 1986.
more info, audio: https://www.soundohm.com/product/original-wax-recordings-lp/pid/31886/

Antonin Artaud
Pur En Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu (LP)
LABEL: Fantome Phonographique
GENRE: Sound Art | FORMAT: LP | CATALOG N. OME 1006LP | YEAR. (2018)
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Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of Pur En Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu by Antonin Artaud. Antonin Artaud was a French poet, dramatist, and director and one of the most important figures in 20th century European theater, and especially the avant-garde. His piece "Pour En Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu" was recorded in 1947 to be aired on French radio. But the project was shelved not only for its scatological, anti-American, anti-religious content, but also for its avant-garde sound, with screams, cries, grunts, glossolalia, and general cacophony, all of which the radio thought would be too shocking for the listeners of post-WWII France. Now regarded as one of his most brilliant works, the piece is finally available again on vinyl courtesy of Fantôme Phonographique. Features the voice actors Maria Casarès, Roger Blin, and Paule Thévenin.
more info, audio: https://www.soundohm.com/product/pur-en-finir-avec-le-jugement-de-dieu-lp/pid/31885/

Robbie Basho
Land of Our Fathers: Rarities 1967-1983 (Lp)
€ 22.00
LABEL: Holographic Ontological Networks
GENRE: Folk | FORMAT: LP | CATALOG N. HON 40 | YEAR. (2018)
In STOCK

Land Of Our Fathers' is a stunningly beautiful compilation of never-before-released and hard-to-find recordings by America's great guitar mystic Robbie Basho. Spanning 16 years, this is 42 minutes of essential and extremely rare music from throughout Basho's multifaceted career. 'Land Of Our Fathers' provides further illumination of Basho's mysterious and incomparably poetic soul.
more info, audio: https://www.soundohm.com/product/land-of-our-fathers-rarities-1967-1983-lp/pid/31791/ (good related at bottom of this page, though may be older reissued: Tibbets, Jansch, Fahey, Tompkins Square excavations etc.)

Mad River
Mad River (LP)
LABEL: SUNDAZED
GENRE: Psych | FORMAT: LP | CATALOG N. LP5243 | YEAR. (2018)
In Stock

180gram High Definition Vinyl, originally released in 1968 on Capitol; by far the most ominous-sounding of the Bay Area’s 1960s psychedelic bands, the music of Berkeley’s Mad River comes across like a spiralling, acid-spiked descent into hell. With a raw, garagey style marked by Lawrence Hammond’s quavering vocals and the interlocking exchanges of guitarists David Robinson and Rick Bockner, Mad River’s sound conjures a darker, more menacing version of Quicksilver Messenger Service or early Country Joe and The Fish. No wonder the quintet’s self-titled 1968 debut has long been at the top of many collector’s want lists! Presented in sealed & stickered picture sleeve).
more info, audio:https://www.soundohm.com/product/mad-river-lp/pid/31858/
(CREEM's ancient mention of this debut quoted lyrics, imploring "Merciful monks from your caves of ether" to do some stuff incl. "sweep the burning nostrils into the sea...and no one looks to me like they've come here," followed by a typesetter's note, "I can't go on this, stuff is too awful. Historian added that the second album went to an opposite extreme of mellow, even incl. a guest appearance by Richard Brautigan," and it's a classic of its kind too.")

I've loved this band and its later incarnation as mad River since I discovered them a few decades back. My teens coincided with the Ultimate Action coming out on Edsel which i got when i was like 14.
Now all of their material hopefully in best possible sound is coming out next October in one box set

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-action-shadows-reflections-the-complete-recordings-1964-1968-4cd-digibook/

Sixties Mod band THE ACTION only released six singles in their lifetime – or seven, if you count a pre-Action single by The Boys – but their legend has grown exponentially since their demise in 1968.

THE ACTION was the first band signed by Beatles producer George Martin after he left EMI to set up his own company AIR Productions. In due course, he produced the band’s five singles issued on Parlophone between 1965 and 1967 as well as tracks intended for a never-released album.

SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS is far and away the most comprehensive tribute to THE ACTION so far assembled, boasting all their known recordings in the studio and live on radio/TV.

Many of the original Parlophone single mixes have never been reissued in their original form on compact disc – until now. The fresh discovery of multi-tracks and rehearsal tapes has led to a whole disc’s worth of previously unheard mixes and performances.

The box set includes numerous photos of THE ACTION in their heyday, with 16,000 words of sleeve-notes by David Wells and a 36-page booklet within a handsome 4-CD ‘digibook’.

Includes all previous material issued from the band’s BBC sessions and post-Parlophone period, suitably remastered by Alec Palao.

DISC ONE
THE PARLOPHONE MASTERS
THE SINGLES
1. LAND OF ONE THOUSAND DANCES
2. IN MY LONELY ROOM
3. I’LL KEEP HOLDING ON
4. HEY SAH-LO-NEY
5. BABY YOU’VE GOT IT
6. SINCE I LOST MY BABY
7. NEVER EVER
8. TWENTYFOURTH HOUR
9. SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS
10. SOMETHING HAS HIT ME
11. THE HARLEM SHUFFLE
12. WASN’T IT YOU
13. THE PLACE
14. THE CISSY
15. I LOVE YOU (YEAH!)
16. COME ON, COME WITH ME
17. JUST ONCE IN MY LIFE (New Mono Mix) *

BONUS TRACKS
18. MINE EXCLUSIVELY (BBC Session)
19. REG KING INTERVIEW / BABY YOU’VE GOT IT (BBC Session)
20. TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS (ROCK ME A LITTLE WHILE) (BBC Session)
21. I SEE YOU (BBC Session)
22. SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS (BBC Session)

* Previously unissued

DISC TWO
AT ABBEY ROAD
NEW STEREO MIXES
1. I’LL KEEP HOLDING ON
2. THE CISSY
3. NEVER EVER
4. SINCE I LOST MY BABY
5. SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS
6. HEY SAH-LO-NEY
7. SOMETHING HAS HIT ME
8. BABY YOU’VE GOT IT
9. I LOVE YOU (YEAH!)
10. WASN’T IT YOU
11. THE HARLEM SHUFFLE
12. THE PLACE
13. TWENTYFOURTH HOUR
14. COME ON, COME WITH ME
15. JUST ONCE IN MY LIFE

OUTTAKES
16. SOMETHING HAS HIT ME (Rehearsal)
17. I LOVE YOU (YEAH) (Backing Track Take 1)
18. NEVER EVER (Rehearsal)
19. COME ON, COME WITH ME (Backing Track Take 4)
20. TWENTYFOURTH HOUR (Alternative Version)
21. THE PLACE (Backing Track Take 2)
22. JUST ONCE IN MY LIFE (Take 2)
23. SOMETHING HAS HIT ME (Alternative Backing Track)
24. SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS (Backing Track)

All tracks previously unissued

DISC THREE
ROLLED GOLD PLUS:THE 1967-68 RECORDINGS
1. COME AROUND
2. SOMETHING TO SAY
3. LOVE IS ALL
4. ICARUS
5. STRANGE ROADS
6. THINGS YOU CANNOT SEE
7. BRAIN (Full Length Version)
8. LOOK AT THE VIEW
9. CLIMBING UP THE WALL (SEE ME) (Full Length Vers.)
10. REALLY DOESN’T MATTER (Full Length Version)
11. I’M A STRANGER
12. LITTLE BOY (Full Length Version)
13. FOLLOW ME
14. IN MY DREAM (George Martin Orchestrated Version)

ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN…
15. ONLY DREAMING
16. DUSTBIN FULL OF RUBBISH
17. AN UNDERSTANDING LOVE
18. MY FAVOURITE DAY
19. A SAYING FOR TODAY

BONUS TRACK
20. IN MY DREAM (Demo Version)

DISC FOUR
ACTION EXTRAS
1. IT AIN’T FAIR – The Boys
2. I WANT YOU – The Boys
3. FINE LOOKING GIRL – The Boys
4. GIRL (WHY YOU WANNA MAKE ME BLUE) (Decca Audition)
5. IN MY LONELY ROOM (Decca Audition)
6. YOU’LL WANT ME BACK (Decca Audition)
7. I’LL KEEP HOLDING ON (Live)
8. LAND OF ONE THOUSAND DANCES / UPTIGHT (EVERYTHING’S ALRIGHT) (Live)
9. GOING TO A GO-GO (BBC Session)
10. NEVER EVER (BBC Session)
11. INDIA (BBC Session)
12. LOVE IS ALL (BBC Session)
13. I’LL KEEP HOLDING ON (“Edsel” mix)
14. BABY YOU’VE GOT IT (“Edsel” mix)
15. THE HARLEM SHUFFLE (“Edsel” mix)
16. JUST ONCE IN MY LIFE (“Edsel” mix)
17. NEVER EVER (“Edsel” mix)
18. TWENTYFOURTH HOUR (“Edsel” mix)
19. SOMETHING HAS HIT ME (“Edsel” mix)
20. SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS (“Edsel” mix)

Mighty Baby not Mad river. Think I got that from the entry immediately above.

Also should have just said taht there are a couple of tracks included there better known as recorded by Mighty Baby.

I think some members wound up in Habbibiya after going through the same Sufi conversion as Richard and Linda Thompson.

From a Pitchfork news item about the next reissue of Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same:

Jimmy Page supervised the remastering process, according to Rolling Stone. The reissue will be available as a digital release, as well as on Blu-ray audio, CD, and vinyl. Additionally, the vinyl will include the entire nearly-30-minute rendition of “Dazed and Confused” on one side for the first time. A super deluxe edition is also available, and comes with two CDs, four 180-gram vinyl LPs, DVD audio of the entire album, two DVDs of the original film plus extras, a numbered art print of the album cover, a 20-page replica of the 1977 Japanese Cinema Programme, and more.

That bolded part seems...unwise. Also, "Dazed And Confused" always did take up one whole side - it's just that the reissued version is about two and a half minutes longer.

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Drivin’ N Cryin’ are set to reissue their long out of print, 1997 eponymous album as Too Late To Turn Back Now on July 27th via New West Records. The record was produced by Kosmo Vinyl (associate to The Clash, The Jam, and Stiff Records) and features the Drivin’ N Cryin’ trio of founding members Kevn Kinney on vocals/guitar, Tim Nielsen on bass/mandolin, along with Jeff Sullivan on drums. The newly christened Too Late To Turn Back Now was remastered by Chris Griffin and features new, original artwork by Kosmo Vinyl which was assembled by Kosmo and longtime Drivin’ N Cryin’ tour poster artist Mike Sears. Available for the first time on vinyl, the album was pressed at Kindercore Vinyl in Athens, GA. Following their departure from Geffen Records, Drivin’ N Cryin’ returned to their hometown, independent roots. Of this time, longtime tour manager Scott Munn said, “The band was firing on all cylinders going into the studio, and there was a feeling that this was their truest representation and the record they had always wanted to make. Producer Kosmo Vinyl offered, “...I’d been around enough musicians, and in enough recording studios, to know what didn’t work. I wanted to make a record that sounded, and felt, like the Drivin’ N Cryin’ you would go see live. If I could do that, then I knew it would be good. All told, we spent about two weeks at Casino Studio, and I think we got what we wanted.” Upon its initial release, the album had success at radio with their cover of John Denver’s iconic “Leaving On A Jet Plane.” Relix Magazine has premiered the newly remastered lead off track “Keepin’ It Close To My Heart” which can be heard HERE. Too Late To Turn Back Now is available for pre-order now via NEW WEST RECORDS.

Drivin N Cryin’ frontman Kevn Kinney says of the album’s inception, “Too Late to Turn Back Now started out as a series of 45 rpm 7 inches. It was recorded in Clay Harper’s little Five Points studio and produced by Kosmo Vinyl. Kosmo had done a couple of Clay’s singles...production and artwork, and I asked him if he’d be interested in working with us for a 45? The first single was about Lenny Bruce! ‘Let Lenny B’ was a song from my early 80s punk band The Prosecutors. As well as the song Drivin N Cryin’. Kosmo IS real life rock and roll legacy. Not only his tenure with The Clash but his early days working at Stiff Records. I owned every Stiff 45 and would drive from Milwaukee to Chicago to get the newest ones! I was so honored to have his energy collaborating with us in this small, hot studio!! This is why I do this. This is who I am. Gone are the major labels. Gone are the tour buses. And the trappings of big empty studios and expenses. Well boys, it’s just us...None of those things have anything to do with making art. Well, one single turned to two and since we were already four songs in, let’s add a few more and make an album…’album’ refers to a collection of recorded music by the way. But it took 23 years to debut in all its vinyl glory!! We can’t thank everyone at New West Records enough for this. It sounds amazing. I toured Kindercore Vinyl last week and was blown away. I got my copy hot off the presses (literally) and I’ve played it every day. It’s too late to turn back now...I’m ready!”

Drivin’ N Cryin’ Too Late To Turn Back Now Track Listing:

1. Keepin’ It Close To My Heart
2. Roof Garden
3. I’ve Got A Message
4. Drivin’ N Cryin’
5. Around The Long Way
6. Let Lenny B
7. Paid In Full
8. Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
9. Beneath The Undertow
10. Passing Through
11. Leaving On A Jet Plane
12. Nothing To Lose

Another one from Soul Jazz Records' store Sounds of the Universe:

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Just landed - Mutima. Super deep jazz from Cecil McBee on Strata-East vinyl new vinyl. Includes the seminal heavy cut 'Tulsa Black.'

w/ Dee Dee Bridgewater, Cecil McBee, Michael Carvin, Jimmy Hopps, Billy Hart & more.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/cecil-mcbee-mutima_2

want a few of the overpriced Fall albums to be reissued personally over this but still this is a great collection being reissued: https://archive.beggars.com/fall-the-458489-a-sides/

I think I preferred the b-sides compilation but yeah nice enough

Alice Coltrane's three Warner Bros. albums - Eternity, Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana, and Transcendence - are being gathered up on a new 2CD set, Spiritual Eternal, from Real Gone Music. Real Gone releases are always physical-only, but all three of these albums are on Spotify, I believe.

July marks the launch of Rhino's first ever Back To the 80's vinyl campaign. This year's vinyl release list includes 18 reissues from the era's definitive artists including: a-ha, Alice Cooper, Gang Of Four, Los Lobos, Madonna, Richard Hell And The Voidoids, Rod Stewart, Spandau Ballet, The B-52's, The Pogues, The Time, YES and more. Also featured are two new vinyl compilations - New Wave Hits, and Not Good For Your Health: Punk Nuggets 1972-1984. The campaign kicks off Tuesday, July 3 and continues with new releases every Tuesday throughout the month.

Full details on all titles are listed below, including quantities available worldwide. All releases will be available exclusively at participating brick and mortar retail outlets.
More info, album covers etc.:
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from Drag City News:

A CONVENTION OF COSMIC PROPORTIONS

In 1996, Masaki Batoh, who'd spent the previous decade recording, playing and living in a hippie communal environment with the heavy chamber folk outfit Ghost, formed a new unit to play in a different manner. He'd just finished making an incredible new Ghost album, Lama Rabi Rabi, but making music with Ghost was a spiritual endeavor; and for a change, Batoh wanted just to enjoy the playing of the kind of music that he and his musical friends had grown up with; the '70s sounds of British, American and Japanese rock.

Help Your Satori Mind is a result of things they just naturally jammed on during a couple of sessions! Along with Batoh were fellow Ghost members
Fuji on congos and Michio Kurihara (a modern psychedelic rock guitar god, previously in White Heaven, and eventually joining with Damon and Naomi). Also invited were notoriously crazy drummer virtuoso Futoshi Okano from Osaka's heavy rock trio, Subvert Blaze, bassist Chiyo Kamekawa from Yura Yura Teikoku and organist/pianist Jun Koto from Kakashi. Together, they were Cosmic Invention!

Originally, Help Your Satori Mind was released by The Now Sound, who'd previously issued two Batoh solo records, both of which became available on Drag City (as Collected Works), which folded not long after the Cosmic Invention release. The sound of Cosmic Invention was equal parts exploratory and explosive, accessing classical modes of psychedelic and progressive rock and roll music. It is the kind of item to be unearthed in a sarcophagus many years later - and at 20 years and counting, now is a good time! This marks Help Your Satori Mind's first appearance on LP, the vinyl giving new depth to their multi-hued, raw rock performances. It's the first appearance of the aptly-titled "Long Jamming", which wasn't included on the original release.

Get dancing to the free feeling and fathomless rock spirit of Cosmic Invention's Help Your Satori Mind, out August 17th!

Cosmic Invention Online:
Drag City-http://www.dragcity.com/artists/cosmic-invention
Linkfire-https://lnk.to/satorimind

https://cosmicinvention.bandcamp.com/track/blue-link-sky-was-falling

oh man that is a GREAT record.

whoa I never knew about that one!

Wow, that Cecil McBee record is fantastic. I've had this previous vinyl reissue for years but haven't played it recently. The recent reissue looks pretty sharp, too.

Cosmic Invention album kinda close to the Sweet & Honey one in style but it has Kurihara and a better drummer so it's, y'know, better.

July marks the launch of Rhino's first ever Back To the 80's vinyl campaign. This year's vinyl release list includes 18 reissues from the era's definitive artists including: a-ha, Alice Cooper, Gang Of Four, Los Lobos, Madonna, Richard Hell And The Voidoids, Rod Stewart, Spandau Ballet, The B-52's, The Pogues, The Time, YES and more.

half of these are dollar bin records

Dunno about dollar bin but £/$5 would probably get most of them. I doubt you'd get the Richard Hell LP for cheap anyway, cheapest copy on discogs is $15.

I do still need the first B-52's and Flush The Fashion but not for $22, I think I'll wait for the five quid bin on those.

Vaguely interested in the Punk Nuggets 72-84 comp but I've probably got it all already by this point

That Gang of Four compilation is great - was my introduction to the band - but it's from 1990.

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Bobby Hutcherson
Happenings (1967)
BLUE NOTE

Hardcore deep jazz with Bobby joined by Herbie Hancock, Bob Cranshaw and Joe Chambers

LP
More Info & Audio:
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Dom Um Romao
Dom Um Romao
MUSE
Killer, killer Brazil - jazz fusion with the incredible Batucada of 'Braun Blek Blue'. Essential!
(Can't read all those names, no matter how enlarged, but Joe Beck and Stanley Clarke are in there, also some that seem like they might be Brazilian.)
More Info, Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/dom-um-romao-dom-um-romao

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Elvin Jones With Joe Farrell
The Ultimate
BLUE NOTE

Classic Elvin Jones LP with Joe Farrell on fire, switching between tenor, soprano and flute.

More Info, Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/elvin-jones-the-ultimate

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Paul Jackson
Black Octopus (1978)
EASTWORLD

Absolutely seminal album of rare groove funk jazz from Headhunters' bass player Paul Jackson. All-star line-up featuring Herbie Hancock, Bernie Maupin, Webster Lewis. Only ever released in 1978 in Japan this is an absolutely must-have album!

More Info, Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/paul-jackson-2-black-octopus

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Esther Phillips
From A Whisper To A Scream (1971)
KUDU

his is a killer funky soul fusion album on Kudu featuring Phillips' great version of the Gil Scott-Heron classic "Home Is Where The Hatred Is". Line-up includes Airto, Pretty Purdie, Pee Wee Ellis, Hank Crawford and more. (They've also got a reissue of her 1972 Alone Again, Naturally.)

More Info, Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/esther-phillips-from-a-whisper-to-a-scream-1971

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Baby Huey
The Baby Huey Story - The Living Legend
CURTOM

His only solo album, recorded just before his untimely death: great psychedelic soul featuring a cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Hard Times" and Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come".

More Info, No Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/baby-huey-the-baby-huey-story-the-living-legend

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Erasmo Carlos
Sonhos E Memórias 1941 - 1972
LIGHT IN THE ATTIC

Sonhos E Memórias ('Dreams And Memories') is a unique blend of Brazilian pop, rock, soul and jazz but often in an intimate singer-songwriter style. Built around the future fusion trio Azymuth, the album includes "Mundo Cao", "Sorriso Dela" and "Mane Joao" (which featured on Soul Jazz Records' Brazil 70 compilation!)

More Info, No Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/erasmo-carlos-sonhos-e-memrias-1941-1972_2

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Dom Um Romao
Spirit Of The Times (Espirito du Tempo) (1973)
MUSE

Incredible album! Legendary Brazilian drummer, and founding member of both Sergio Mendes' group and Weather Report, gets well deep with an allstar line-up - Sivuca, Lloyd McNeil, Dom Salvador, Mauricio Smith and more for this superlative Brazilian fusion album.

More Info, Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/dom-um-romao-spirit-of-the-times-espirito-du-tempo-1973

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Norman Connors
Dance Of Magic (1972)
COBBLESTONE

Norman Connors' debut album with Herbie Hancock, Gary Bartz, Cecil McBee, Stanley Clarke, Airto, Eddie Henderson, Carlos Garnet and Billy Hart. As you can probably tell from this line-up, this is a seriously heavyweight KILLER album of deep, funky spiritual jazz!

More Info, Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/norman-connors-dance-of-magic-1972_2

Happenings is such a killer record. Love that stuff.

I've always known about that Baby Huey record, but I've never actually heard the whole thing. Maybe I should change that.

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Oneness Of Juju
Space Jungle Luv (1976)
BLACK FIRE

Amazing sought-after record from the brainchild of one J. Pluncky Branch and one of the greatest underground jazz groups. Space Jungle Luv goes on a slightly different tangent from African Rhythms (1975) heavy funk, to a more spiritual soul jazz (and soul vocals provided by Eke-Eta Jackie Lewis), technical playing, mixing fusion, funk and Coltrane's modal style - expanding styles. Check out "River Luvrite", "Space Jungle Funk", "Soul Love Now", but all the tracks are killer!

More Info, No Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/oneness-of-juju-space-jungle-luv

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Ray Barretto
Hard Hands
FANIA

Killer funky latin album featuring "Hard Hands", "Abidjan" and the cult classic "Love Beads" ( a jazz dance classic!). Alongside "Acid" this is Ray Barretto's most complete album from the early 1970's. Essential Recommendation!

More Info, No Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/ray-barretto-hard-hands

the Baby Huey record is about half great. The Change is Gonna Come cover is p interminable imo.

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Roy Ayers
He's Coming (1972)
POLYDOR

Featuring "We Live In Brooklyn Baby" and "Sweet Tears"! Surely the most essential Roy Ayers album - everyone a killer. Super deep, heavy funk jazz. Essential album.

More Info, Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/roy-ayers-he-s-coming-1972

Oh, and here's one of the best I've heard this year---amazing how much he finds in songs I'd never cared about, like "Eleanor Rigby" and "Midnight Mover," and other selections are as good-to-great as hoped (except the Meters cover, which so far seems redundant, at a distance, although the Meters weren't there that night, so there and then I woulda said hey keep on killin it club band). Guitar, organ, drums=full orchestra here.

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Dennis Coffey
One Night At Morey’s: 1968
Release date: June 8, 2018

Previously unissued live set from Detroit in 1968.
From his early work with ’50s/’60s hit makers The Royaltones (who also backed other artists like Del Shannon)—to his run through the Motor City’s independent labels as a session ace—to his pioneering and legendary work with The Funk Brothers, backing band to massive Motown hits like “Just My Imagination,” “Ball Of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today),” “War,” “Cloud Nine,” “Someday We’ll Be Together” and “Band Of Gold” among many others—Dennis Coffey is a guitar legend.

The ’70s didn’t slow him down for one second as he struck out on his own and had a million selling hit with “Scorpio,” in 1971. He continued his studio session work (notably appearing on “Boogie Fever” by The Sylvers), scored films and produced other artists’ albums like Gallery’s Nice To Be With You and Rodriguez’ Cold Fact.

The 2000s have found Dennis appearing on the big screen including the 2002 film Standing In The Shadows Of Motown and the 2012’s Searching For Sugarman. And to this very day you can find him playing every Tuesday night in Detroit.

One Night At Morey’s: 1968 is drawn from the residency at Morey Baker’s Showplace Lounge in Detroit by the Lyman Woodard Trio. The trio consisted of Coffey on guitar, brilliant organist, Lyman Woodard, and drummer Melvin Davis, and could be found at Morey’s once a week. They played to a dedicated, often repeat, audience so the band kept the repertoire fresh and changing. One Night At Morey’s: 1968 follows last year’s Hot Coffey In The D: Burnin’ At Morey Baker’s Showplace Lounge released by Resonance Records, also drawn from the Morey’s residency, but with an entirely different track list.

All tracks on One Night At Morey’s: 1968 are previously unissued and come directly from the vaults of Dennis Coffey and producer partner, Mike Theodore. Tracks include original compositions, “Big City Lights,” “Mindbender,” and “Union Station,” as well as surprising and funky covers of “Billie’s Bounce” by Charlie Parker, “Burning Spear” by The Soul Strings, “Cissy Strut” by The Meters, “Eleanor Rigby” by The Beatles, “Groovin’” by The YoungRascals, and “I’m A Midnight Mover” by Wilson Pickett from the pen of both Pickett and Bobby Womack.

CD / DIGITAL TRACK LIST:
I’M A MIDNIGHT MOVER
ELEANOR RIGBY
CISSY STRUT
GROOVIN’
BURNING SPEAR
IT’S YOUR THING/UNION STATION
MINDBENDER
BIG CITY LIGHTS
BILLIE’S BOUNCE
All tracks previously unissued.
Cat: OV-284

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man there are a lot of cool reissues

Still hoping that things getting reissued are coming outon cd though seems like so much stuff is just lp/dl.
Would still love physical copies of teh van Morison 70s catalogue. & the PSF stuff on cd.

Judging by discogs, most of Van's 70s have come out on CD, I think, though some must be due for reremastering now. Would especially like to get discs of It's Too Late To Stop Now, Saint Dominic's Preview, and Into The Music. The 2-CD The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison is incredible. The Bang Masters is a fun CD, being more what he had in mind for his early solo tracks (somewhat messed-with by the suits on first release).

All of Morrison's​ albums have been on CD at one time or another, it's just that a lot of them are OOP now, partially due to a couple stalled/slow moving reissue campaigns.

I was thinking especially of the recent reissues of his material. I think everything came out as paid for downloads and i hoped that the individual lps might appear as cds.
It's Too Late To stop Now came out as a reissue of its original triple lp and also added another set with a couple of cds and a dvd of the Rainbow performance that I think is partially on the original lps. I missed the St Dominic's Preview from the 2006 reissue campaign which only appeared to be around for a short while anyway. Think I missed a couple of others too. & my Veedon Fleece from that time got a bit scratched because of it being mishandled.
So definitely looking for remasters of the 70s stuff, maybe Common one.

There was a recent reissue of the them material too adding a 3rd cd with BBC stuff on. I managed to pick that up in a sale somewhere. Astral Weeks & Band and Street choir were both reissued by whatever label had rights only to them out of the back catalogue.
Moondance got a several disc reissue a few years ago. I think Tupelo Honey came out too.

but it was mainly wondering if the physical counterparts to the digital downloads were going to happen.
& preferably on cd but is that format becoming defunct?

Check out the reissue of Mkwaju Ensemble's first album on WRWTFWW. I believe it's Midori Takada's first project, recommended if you're into Fourth Worldy percussion music with a few ambient tracks in there too

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Gryphon, weird medieval folk meets prog stuff. getting the 1st 4 lps reissued next month. Wish somebody'd find a copy of the Magpie appearance.

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RED 2 CD ANTHOLOGY BY THE LEGENDARY PROGRESSIVE / TRADITIONAL ROCK BAND GRYPHON

GRYPHON PLAY A REUNION CONCERT IN LONDON ON 14th SEPTEMBER ALL TRACKS REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL TRANSATLANTIC RECORDS MASTER TAPES

WITH AN ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET FEATURING ESSAY & EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE BAND

REVIEWS & FEATURES IN NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS, “UNCUT”, “MOJO”, “SHINDIG!”, “RECORD COLLECTOR” & “PROG” MAGAZINES

COVERAGE ON RELEVANT WEBSITES & FANZINES

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of “Raindances”, a 2 CD anthology featuring every track from the four albums released by Gryphon on the Transatlantic label between 1973 and 1975.

One of the most original groups to emerge in the Progressive era, Gryphon came together at the instigation of Royal College of Music students Richard Harvey and Brian Gulland, initially as a vehicle to fuse traditional English music with Medieval and Renaissance music influences. Utilising various traditional instruments such as Crumhorns, Recorders, Bassoons and Mandolins, Gryphon expanded with the addition of Graeme Taylor on guitar and Dave Oberle on drums and percussion.
Singing to Transatlantic Records, Gryphon released their eponymous debut album in June 1973, adorned in a striking cover designed by Dan Pearce. The uniqueness of their musical style led to a commission to write a score for a stage production of The Tempest in 1974, parts of which formed the band’s next album, “Midnight Mushrumps”, released in April 1974. By this time bass guitarist Philip Nestor had joined the fold, and the band began to explore more progressive influences (with the album’s title track being an 18 minute opus).

The progressive rock influences became even more apparent on Gryphon’s acclaimed third album, “Red Queen to Gryphon Three”, released in December 1974. The album was one of the most successful of Gryphon’s career and the diversity of their music saw Gryphon earn the distinction of being the first artists to appear on all four BBC radio networks in one week. During this time Gryphon also toured as the support act to the legendary band YES, gaining new followers as a result. “Raindance” was Gryphon’s final album for Transatlantic Records. Issued in 1975, the record saw Philip Nestor replaced by Malcolm Bennett and was another successful record.

“Raindances” gathers together all the material from Gryphon’s four albums recorded for Transatlantic Records and has been newly re-mastered from the original master tapes. This anthology features an illustrated booklet with an essay by Malcolm Dome and includes exclusive interviews with Richard Harvey, Brian Gulland, Graeme Taylor and Dave Oberle.

DISC ONE
1. KEMPS JIG
2. SIR GAVIN GRIMBOLD
3. TOUCH AND GO
4. THREE JOLLY BUTCHERS
5. PASTIME WITH GOOD COMPANY
6. THE UNQUIET GRAVE
7. ESTAMPIE
8. CROSSING THE STILES
9. THE ASTROLOGER
10.TEA WRECKS
11.JUNIPER SUITE
12.THE DEVIL AND THE FARMER’S WIFE
TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM “GRYPHON” – RELEASED AS TRANSATLANTIC TRA 262 IN 1973

13.MIDNIGHT MUSHRUMPS
14.THE PLOUGHBOYS DREAM
15.THE LAST FLASH OF GABERDINE TAILOR
16.GULLAND ROCK
17. ETHELION
TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM “MIDNIGHT MUSHRUMPS” RELEASED AS TRANSATLANTIC TRA 282 IN 1974

DISC TWO
1. OPENING MOVE
2. SECOND SPASM
3. LAMENT
4. CHECKMATE
TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM “RED QUEEN TO GRYPHON THREE” – RELEASED AS TRANSATLANTIC TRA 287 IN 1974

5. DOWN THE DOG
6. RAINDANCE
7. MOTHER NATURE’S SON
8. LE CAMBRIOLEUR EST DANS LE MOUCHOIR
9. ORMOLU
10.FONTINENTAL VERSION
11. WALLBANGER
12.DON’T SAY GO
13.(EIN KLEIN) HEIDENLEBEN
TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM “RAINDANCE” – RELEASED AS TRANSATLANTIC TRA 302 IN 1975

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ET SHOP BOYS ANNOUNCE FOURTH AND FINAL SET OF RELEASES IN
CATALOGUE: 1985-2012, THE LANDMARK SERIES OF REISSUES OF THEIR
PARLOPHONE STUDIO ALBUMS

The Albums Behaviour, Very And Bilingual Will Be Remastered And Reissued With 'Further
Listening' Albums Of Additional Bonus Material

Reissues Out August 31 From Rhino

LOS ANGELES - Pet Shop Boys will release the final set of albums in their definitive CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 series of reissues of all their Parlophone studio albums. This fourth batch of releases will see the PSB albums Behaviour from 1990, the 1993 album Very and the 1996 album Bilingual reissued on August 31. The albums have been remastered and repackaged, and will be accompanied by 'further listening' albums of master quality bonus tracks - including demos, extended mixes and remixes of tracks from the albums and others created in the same period as each record.

Behaviour was Pet Shop Boys' fourth studio album, recorded mostly in Munich, Germany at co-producer Harold Faltermeyer's studio. The album was then completed at London's Sarm West Studios, and was released in October 1990 - hitting number 2 on the UK Album Chart and going on to earn platinum certification in the UK.

The LP is seen by some as one of Pet Shop Boys' most contemplative and moving records, and features the singles "So Hard," 'How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?' and their classic track "Being Boring." This catalogue release of Behaviour features 'further listening' bonus tracks such as an extended mix of "Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)" and an ambient mix of "Music For Boys" - both of which are previously unreleased on CD.

The 1993 album Very was a number one record for Pet Shop Boys in the UK, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland, and has to date sold in excess of five million copies worldwide. It contains 5 singles, including their cover of "Go West" - a number 2 hit for PSB - and lead single "Can You Forgive Her?"

Stylistically, Very could be said to serve as an antithesis to Behaviour, insofar as the production and lyrical themes are generally more upbeat and positive than those of the previous album. PSB also reinvented their image to incorporate more vivid colors and brightness, including Very's now-iconic "Lego" album cover. The album is also the first to be produced almost entirely by Pet Shop Boys themselves - with additional programming and production courtesy of Pete Gleadall and Stephen Hague. This CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 issue of Very includes a 'further listening' disc of bonus material, such as the previously-unreleased tracks "Falling" (a demo for Kylie Minogue), and a 1992 twelve-inch mix of "Go West."

Released in September 1996, Bilingual was the sixth studio album to be released by Pet Shop Boys. It was a UK top 5 record upon release and included 5 singles, all of which were UK Top 20 singles. As is often the case with PSB records, Bilingual comprises many influences, including those of the music of Latin America, due partly to the Spanish and Latin music Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe had been listening to prior to recording the album.

The album was recorded by PSB with Danny Tenaglia and Chris Porter, and has since gained platinum certification in Spain, and Gold in the UK. This CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 release of Bilingual includes a 'further listening' CD of bonus tracks, with previously-unreleased new versions of "Discoteca" and "A Red Letter Day."

The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 reissues of Behaviour, Very and Bilingual will go on sale August 31. The three albums will be packaged with an extensive booklet in which Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe discuss each song, illustrated with many archive photographs. The entire project is designed by Farrow.

The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 reissue series began last year with the release of Nightlife, Release, and Fundamental, followed by re-issues of Yes and Elysium and later Please, Actually, and Introspective.

The reissues of Please, Actually, Introspective, Behaviour, Very, and Bilingual were originally released with bonus 'further listening' albums in 2001 and are being newly remastered with their original track-listings for this project.

Behaviour/Further Listening 1990-1991:

CD 1

1. Being Boring
2. This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave
3. To Face The Truth
4. How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?
5. Only The Wind
6. My October Symphony
7. So Hard
8. Nervously
9. The End Of The World
10. Jealousy

CD 2

1. It Must Be Obvious
2. So Hard (Extended Dance Mix)
3. Miserablism
4. Being Boring (Extended Mix)
5. Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend
6. We All Feel Better In The Dark (Extended Mix)
7. Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You) (Extended Mix) **
8. Jealousy (Extended Version)
9. Generic Jingle *
10. Dj Culture (Extended Mix)
11. Was It Worth It? (Twelve-Inch Mix)
12. Music For Boys (Ambient Mix) **
13. DJ Culture (Seven-Inch Mix)

* Previously unreleased
** Previously unreleased on CD

Very/Further Listening 1992-1994:

CD 1

1. Can You Forgive Her?
2. I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
3. Liberation
4. A Different Point Of View
5. Dreaming Of The Queen
6. Yesterday, When I Was Mad
7. The Theatre
8. One And One Make Five
9. To Speak Is A Sin
10. Young Offender
11. One In A Million
12. Go West

CD 2

1. Go West (1992 Twelve-Inch Mix) *
2. Forever In Love *
3. Confidential (Demo For Tina)
4. Hey, Headmaster
5. Shameless
6. Too Many People
7. I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (Seven-Inch Version)
8. Violence (Haçienda version)
9. Falling (Demo For Kylie) *
10. Decadence
11. If Love Were All
12. Absolutely Fabulous (Single Version)
13. Euroboy
14. Some Speculation
15. Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Single Version)
16. Girls And Boys (Live In Rio)

* Previously unreleased

Bilingual/Further Listening: 1995-1997:

CD 1

1. Discoteca
2. Single
3. Metamorphosis
4. Electricity
5. Se a Vida é (That's The Way Life Is)
6. It Always Comes As A Surprise
7. A Red Letter Day
8. Up Against It
9. The Survivors
10. Before
11. To Step Aside
12. Saturday Night Forever

CD 2

1. Paninaro '95
2. In The Night (1995)
3. The Truck-Driver And His Mate
4. Hit And Miss
5. How I Learned To Hate Rock 'N' Roll
6. Betrayed
7. Delusions Of Grandeur
8. Discoteca (Single Version) *
9. The Calm Before The Storm
10. Discoteca (New Version)
11. The Boy Who Couldn't Keep His Clothes On
12. A Red Letter Day (Expanded Single Version) *
13. The View From Your Balcony
14. Disco Potential
15. Somewhere (Extended Mix)

* Previously unreleased

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Links etc. in orig press email:
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Dammit I want that whole series!

Meanwhile, this comes out Friday, still quite the gateway:

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Arthur Russell
The World Of Arthur Russell
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

New fully remastered re-release of Soul Jazz Records’ ‘The World of Arthur Russell’, the seminal collection of Arthur Russell’s essential music is being released on limited-edition heavy deluxe triple vinyl and deluxe CD edition.

This album brings together some of Russell’s best-loved and most accessible works including his wide-ranging music both solo and in groups including Dinosaur L (the essential ‘Go Bang’), Loose Joints (the equally classic ‘Is It All Over My Face’) as well as rarities such as the 7” only ‘Pop Your Funk’, Indian Ocean’s ‘Schoolbell/Treehouse’, Lola’s ‘Wax The Van’ and more.

Arthur Russell’s music effortlessly crossed musical boundaries making it timeless. His dance music credentials are faultless and this collection features mixes from Larry Levan, Françcois Kervorkian and Walter Gibbons. Similarly, his song-writing, musicality and performance skills are equally cherished as composer Philip Glass wrote, ‘this was a guy who could sit down with a cello and sing with it in a way that no one on earth has ever done before or will do again.’

When Soul Jazz Records’ The World of Arthur Russell first came out in 2003, Russell’s music had slipped into near obscurity. Nearly 15 years later there are over a dozen releases of his music, reissues of his original albums and more. ‘The World of Arthur Russell’ is the classic first collection of his work available once more.

“Arthur Russell fused the avant-garde with disco and sounds like nothing else on earth.” The GUARDIAN

“Russell is the great enigma of the New York music scene” THE WIRE

“Simply one of the best compilations of this or any year.” RECORD COLLECTOR

Release Date
06 July 2018

3×LP
Cat. No.: SJRLP83

CD
Cat. No.: SJRCD83

Tracklisting
1 Dinosuar L – Go Bang (Francois K Mix)
2 Lola – Wax The Van
3 Loose Joints – Is It All Over My Face (Larry Levan Mix)
4 Keeping Up
5 In The Light Of The Miracle
6 A Little Lost
7 Loose Joints – Pop Your Funk
8 Lets Go Swimming (Walter Gibbons Mix)
9 Dinosuar L – In The Cornbelt (Larry Levan Mix)
10 Treehouse
11 Indian Ocean – Schoolbell/Treehouse (Walter Gibbons Mix)

More Info & Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/arthur-russell-the-world-of-arthur-russell

Yeah was glad to finally get a cd with GO Bang on it after having had it on 12" in the 80s, when that Souljazz Arthur Russell came out. Do love that song. There's some other great stuff on there too.

good lord, that Dennis Coffey live set is absolutely awesome!

Amem.
Numero stuff:

Step By Step: Time After Time b/w Now She’s Gone

45/Stream http://www.numerogroup.com/products/step-by-step-time-after-time-bw-now-shes-gone

Soaring falsetto lead from 13-year-old Johnnie Gee, who, alongside brothers Jerome and Dewitt and a handful of kids from their Milwaukee stomping grounds, formed Step By Step in 1969. Gee and company’s 1972 sweet soul double sider for Jim Kirchstein’s regional powerhouse Cuca Records is among the rarest singles produced by the Sauk City outfit over its 13-year run, barely making it outside of Wisconsin before appearing on 2007’s Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul album. Step By Step’s “Time After Time” has since become a highly sought after single on the low rider circuit, and was prominently featured in season two of Aziz Ansari’s breakout Netflix series Master of None. Both sides have been remastered from the original analog Cuca 1/4" tape, with two previously unreleased songs tacked onto the digital version.

Scientists: Weird Love

LP/Stream http://www.numerogroup.com/products/scientists-weird-love

Unhinged Aussie grunge captured just as the Scientists were imploding/attempting to explode. Recorded over three days in February 1986, Weird Love is the band’s last ditch effort to bring their bad vibes to bedrooms the world over, a colossal failure and brilliant mistake that sounds best when blasting out of a 1982 Corolla’s blown Alpine tweeters.

Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label

2LP/CD/Stream http://www.numerogroup.com/products/teen-expo-the-cleopatra-label

From a basement in New Jersey, Tommy Falcone remade himself into a DIY Phil Spector. From 1962 to 1970, he founded and ran Cleopatra Records, discovered and mentored young Garden State talent, wrote songs and produced wild studio effects, and quit his day job to promote it all himself. Trained as an accordionist, Falcone had a whirlwind imagination and an omnivorous approach to genre, expressed through acts like the Centuries, the Tabbys, Johnny Silvio, the Inmates, Bernadette Carroll, the Hallmarks, Vickie & the Van Dykes, the Shandillons, Eugene Viscione, the Shoestring, and more. Cleopatra became a time-capsule of every 1960s pop style imaginable—garage rock, psychedelia, surf, girl groups, soul, novelties, exotica, even a crooner—a kaleidoscope of sound in search of the ever-elusive hit record.

Do you stream?

Every week we take one record from our extensive vault and issue it digitally. Some of these might become physical products in the future, but for most of them their fate resides in the cloud. Follow along with our most adventurous project on Spotify, Apple Music, or Bandcamp.

Out July 27---haven't heard the Lighting Hopkins s/t, but the Guthrie and Spence collections are well worht checking out.

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Say hello to the Smithsonian Folkways Vinyl Reissue Series! After plunging deep into our unrivaled collection, we have selected some of our most influential recordings for long-awaited vinyl reissue. The first installment includes three classic albums:

1. Struggle - Woody Guthrie

Originally release: 1976
Features "Hang Knot", "Pretty Boy Floyd", "Ludlow Massacre", and more!
2. Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' Hopkins

Originally release: 1959
Considered one a catalyst for the "blues revival" of the 1960s
3. Bahaman Folk Guitar - Joseph Spence

Originally release: 1959
"Cult favorite" for such noted performers as Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal, the Incredible String, and Brian Wilson
The series offers fans and collectors a chance to own these masterpiece albums; meticulously redesigned from original prints and materials, photos, and remastered from original LP master tapes. Each record also features the classic black textured Folkways tip-on style album jackets and the liner notes booklet that was included in the initial release.

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Out now on Strut, vinyl and CD:

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CARIBBEAN FUNK LEGENDS THE BEGINNING OF THE END RECEIVE THE FULL STRUT REISSUE TREATMENT!

Remastered editions of Beginning of the End’s two albums, 'Funky Nassau' (1971) and 'Beginning Of The End' (1976 - released on 2LP for the first time). All official releases in conjunction with bandleader Ray Munnings. Nassau gone funky!

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These definitive official reissues of ‘Funky Nassau’ and ‘Beginning Of The End’ are remastered by The Carvery from original tapes and feature full length tracks from the studio sessions. Both albums feature a history of the albums and the band by Munnings, alongside rare photos. ‘Beginning Of The End’ appears on loud- press 2LP for the first time. The CD edition features both albums + extra singles recorded by the band.
http://www.youtube.com/user/strutrecords

Also from Strut---if you're into Ethopian jazz etc. grooves at all, this guy shouldn't be slept on (unless you're a close personal friend):

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We continue our work with the “Godfather Of Ethio Jazz”, Mulatu Astatke, with the first official reissues of his early classics ‘Afro Latin Soul’ Volumes 1 and 2 from 1966, recorded as The Ethiopian Quintet.

The albums were the first experiments in Astatke’s pioneering sound, fusing Ethiopian cultural music with Afro Latin and jazz forms. “I have always felt a deep connection between Latin and African music,” he explains. “I travelled to Cuba and listened to their musicians; the tempo, rhythm and feeling was very similar to different African forms.”

Astatke would start to perfect his Ethio jazz sound on his later album for Worthy in 1972, ‘Mulatu Of Ethiopia’ (STRUT129) but the two volumes of ‘Afro Latin Soul’ stand as important recordings documenting his early career.

‘Afro Latin Soul’ Volumes 1 and 2 come in their full original artwork and are painstakingly remastered by The Carvery. All formats feature personal liner notes by Mulatu Astatke.

More Info, Audio: https://strut.k7store.com/release/104151-mulatu-astatke-his-ethiopian-quintet-afro-latin-soul-volume-1-2

i saw those discs yesterday! shoulda grabbed em.

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Strut present a brand new edition of Oneness of Juju’s Afro-jazz classic ‘African Rhythms’, originally released on Black Fire in 1975 and first reissued on Strut in 2002.

Remastered from the original sessions and featuring rare photos and extensive liner notes, this new repress also features Part 1 and Part 2 of the original 45 version of ‘African Rhythms’ and the previously unheard ‘Afrobeat’, recently unearthed from the original tapes. Back out on Strut on 21st September!

Luaka Bop Announces Preacherman Reissue, Universal Philosophy: Preacherman Plays T.J. Hustler’s Greatest Hits, Out October 12th Listen To “Feel It” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35waZLUTbU0&feature=youtu.be

Tim Jones is known by several different monikers; Preacherman, Midi Man and Ironing Board Band to name a few. Though perhaps his most notable is the one that describes him best, T.J. Hustler. In 1979 as T.J. Hustler, Jones self-released one extremely rare LP, Age Of Individualism. In the years since, he’s released two even rarer CD’s as Preacherman, of which the tracks on this forthcoming reissue, Universal Philosophy: Preacherman plays T.J. Hustler’s Greatest Hits (out October 12th on Luaka Bop), are taken.
Watch Universal Philosophy Teaser Video —
http://youtu.be/S4xHRkwlWUY

n the 1980’s Jones was a technician for IBM in both Las Vegas and San Jose where he repaired Selectric Typewriters and word processors during the day. At night he world perform in the Las Vegas lounges. Thoroughly fascinated by technology and also an engineer in his own right, Jones adapted a Hammond B3 organ to play a Moog synth with some of the organ's keys (some still played the organ) and also adapted the organ's foot controlled bass levers to play two Moog synth bass pedals (a failed item Moog made for a few years). Thinking he wasn't much of a live performer, he had a custom wooden puppet made named T.J. Hustler. Together, Tim Jones/Preacherman and T.J. Hustler would perform long philosophical soliloquies.

These days Jones, (“pronounced JOANZ”, says Tim), is CEO and founder of Up Productions and lives with his 103 year-old mother — the eldest living person in Oakland — in a stunning apartment overlooking Lake Merritt. With his Casio CTK-7200 keyboard, equipped with five wireless mics, a P.A., Jones performs karaoke, easily matching whatever song request you might have. Unfortunately, T.J. Hustler (the puppet) live in a storage unit in Las Vegas, Nevada, along with the modified organ

Perhaps even more so than his first album, Universal Philosophy grants listeners access, virtually for the very first time, to Jones’ outlook, his purpose, and the way he lives and experiences life on this planet. The music presented here is otherworldly, homespun, folk art funk; concise and stream-of-consciousness simultaneously.

Universal Philosophy will be released on vinyl (with gatefold jacket), CD and digital.

Universal Philosophy: Preacherman Plays T.J. Hustler’s Greatest Hits Tracklist:
01. That’s Good

02. Feel It

03. Tell Me Why

04. Out Of This World

05. Age Of Individualism

06. Up And Down

07. The Wrong Way (CD Version Only)

That "Feel It" link again
https://youtu.be/35waZLUTbU0

https://pitchfork.com/news/the-kinks-are-the-village-green-preservation-society-box-set-announced/

Bobbie Gentry 'The Girl From Chickasaw County - The Complete Capitol Masters' Available September 21 Via Capitol/UMe
Career-Defining Deluxe Eight-Disc Box Set Featuring Seven Remastered Studio Albums And A Wealth Of Rarities

Includes 75 Unreleased Recordings And Never Before Issued Live Tracks Taken From Her BBC TV Series

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In 1967, an enigmatic singer, songwriter and producer named Bobbie Gentry rose out of the Mississippi delta and enchanted audiences around the world with her beautiful, captivating voice and her "Ode To Billie Joe." An unconventional, beguiling song with simple acoustic guitar and sparse production, and notably without a discernible chorus, the song introduced Gentry and her style of storytelling that was very different to the confessional song writing of other emerging female singers. The song caused a lot of commotion as it shot to number one in America and knocked The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" off the top spot. When the album Ode To Billie Joe was released the following month, it topped the charts and was the only record to displace Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band from its 15-week reign. Over the next several years, Gentry, whose birthday was this past Friday, July 27, released seven studio albums and broke ground in numerous ways as one of the first female musicians to write, produce and even publish her own music. She also produced her elaborate stage shows via her own production company and was the first female singer songwriter to be afforded her own BBC TV series in the UK where she was wildly popular. She became one of the most iconic and influential artists of the 1960s and 70s, and then in the early '80s she made her final appearance and disappeared from the public eye completely, never to return.

Capitol/UMe are proud to announce that on September 21, they will release the first major retrospective of this most groundbreaking artist with The Girl From Chickasaw County – The Complete Capitol Masters, an eight CD box set that includes all seven of Gentry's studio albums sensitively remastered from the original tapes, supplemented by over 75 previously unreleased recordings including her 'lost' jazz album, outtakes, demos, rarities and an eighth disc of live performances taken from her celebrated series for the BBC. The release has specially commissioned cover art by David Downton and includes an 84-page book with a comprehensive essay by boxset compiler Andrew Batt, rare and unseen photos, eight postcards and a facsimile of her original handwritten lyrics for "Ode To Billie Joe." Pre-order The Girl From Chickasaw County now: https://ume.lnk.to/BobbieGentry

Gentry's seven albums for Capitol Records featured some exceptional material. She was an artist who could turn her hand to fit country, folk, soul, pop, Americana, blues and jazz, and this box set brings all the magic together. Pick outs include the classic originals of "Ode To Billie Joe," swamp funk mover "Mississippi Delta" (complete with an alternative version), classy Glen Campbell duet "Mornin' Glory," her definitive cover of "Hushabye Mountain," pop-soul triumph "Fancy," and from her final album, the melancholy "Lookin' In."

In addition, there are superb previously unreleased recordings including originals like "I Didn't Know" and "Joanne" alongside essential covers of "Conspiracy Of Homer Jones," "God Bless The Child," and "Spinning Wheel." Also included are intimate acoustic performances of "The Seventh Son," "Feelin' Good," "Seasons Come, Seasons Go" and "Belinda." For the rarities and obscurities fan, making their appearance on CD/digital for the first time are "La Siepe," Bobbie's Italian-language entry to the 1968 San Remo song festival, UK number one single "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" sung in Spanish, and a little-known duet with Kelly Gordon; "Love Took My Heart And Mashed That Sucker Flat." Lastly there's disc eight featuring live recordings from her BBC TV series, including an inspired pairing of "Niki-Hoeky with Barefootin'," and dazzling takes of "Refractions," "Ode To Billie Joe," "He Made A Woman Out Of Me," and an extended "Your Number One Fan."

Gentry's career blazed brightly for a few short years, but only now is the full extent of her artistry coming into focus. When we think of empowered female stars we think of Beyoncé, Madonna, or even Dolly Parton, but before all of them there came the girl from Chickasaw County. When she emerged in the late 60's women were just starting to make their mark in the music industry, but female identity was polarized between the light entertainment star and the confessional singer-songwriter. Gentry developed her own unique persona, which was a hybrid of both; part creative songwriter, and part musical theatre performer. A storyteller at heart, Gentry created characters and situations that were often inspired by her Southern childhood, and the media and public alike were fascinated by the contrast between her glamorous appearance and the rural simplicity of her origins. Romanticized over time, these stories have coalesced into a classic version of the American dream; a rags-to-riches story that took Gentry from the Delta backwoods to the world's most glittering stages.

Her disappearance intrigues us quite as much as what was thrown from the Tallahatchie Bridge: Why did she disappear? What has she been doing? Where is she now? But 'Where is Bobbie Gentry?' is not the question we should be asking: Gentry was a trailblazer who was years ahead of her time; a successful writer, singer, musician, performer, producer, publisher, and businesswoman. What we should really be asking ourselves is 'Who was Bobbie Gentry?' - The Girl From Chickasaw County provides more answers to that question than ever before, definitively re-appraising the musical legacy of this influential and iconic artist.

Intriguing, but no idea if could sustain my interest for that long (I've got the original Ode To Billy Joe LP; it's okay but overuses the title track instrumental approach just a bit, not on every track though.)

From Drag City, watch out now:

...why, it was just around the time that rock met its end - back in '96 or so - groups around the world were still pushing the music
forward, despite the problem being environmental, which meant that a band like Ghost was taking rock and folk and the traditional sounds of music from before the time of nations and making new things that one might JAM OUT to - but the magnetic pull of the Earth was twisting against their noble actions with a violent, vertiginous pull. Still, they persisted - but following the epic sessions for
Lama Rabi Rabi, their fourth album in six years, head Ghost
Batoh needed to CHILL - and so he assembled a group to make some good old rock and roll the way it had been when he was growing up. Maybe that's what Cosmic Invention were thinking
in their heads or feeling in their hearts---Help Your Satori Mind
may be rooted in great American, British and Japanese rock of the 60s and 70s, but it explodes through our speakers like a now sound! After the original release - on, you guessed it, The Now Sound - several Cosmic Inventors joined Batoh back in Ghost, and the CD-only release of Help Your Satori Mind faded into the memory that inspired it in the first place. Now that the past is dead again, it seems a perfect time to push this record into the public eye once more - this time on vinyl, with previously unreleased material! It's OUT NOW and the future is only a moment away - what are you waiting for?

Also from Drag City:

A IS FOR BOXSET
(well, technically it's a binder)
B IS FOR REBAJAS

..C is for CDs! As in, no Bitchin Bajas release has ever been issued on CD - until this new boxset! Rebajas is the name of the boxset, which collects all their albums up to this point for the first time on non-LP or -CS format - and while the album title doesn't mean what you think it does, the collection does: nearly seven hours of organs, synths, saxes, field recordings, ambience, drone and minimalism, inducing equilibrium with a seemingly limitless onslaught that begs to be thrown into the multi-disc CD changer and NEVER removed! Specially packaged to replicate the eternal essence of listening to Bitchin Bajas, which includes sitting around with a 12" jacket in front of you, Rebajas is definitive, adding via quantitative measures in a way that equals their qualitative streak (still unbroken). There aren't many of these being made (because, you know, CDs) - so don't sleep! Preorder Rebajas today.

Southern Californian groove metal kings DEVILDRIVER are set to reissue revamped editions of their first five albums via BMG on CD on September 28, 2018. Limited edition LP versions will be available as part of Rocktober promotions in the U.S. with DevilDriver, The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand, and The Last Kind Words on October 2 and Pray For Villains and Beast on October 16. For more information and updates, please visit www.devildriver.com.

Formed in Santa Barbara, CA in 2002 when vocalist and frontman Dez Fafara's previous band Coal Chamber were winding down, DEVILDRIVER became Dez's new focus in the world of heavy music. The five-piece have since become a constant and dynamic force in the metal world over the best part of the last two decades. Originally signed to Roadrunner Records, in 2003 the group then featured guitarists Jeff Kendrick and Evan Pitts (who was replaced by Mike Spreitzer later that year), bassist Jon Miller and drummer John Boecklin. It's been a constant uptick for the quintet since they first blasted a hole through the zeitgeist in 2003 with their pivotal self-titled debut. Their almost psychotic dedication to the road is legendary and their mastery of the circle pit beyond dispute. Now their fans can get their hands on their catalogue in revamped, remastered form, with all but one title being pressed on vinyl for the very first time.

The five albums being reissued are DevilDriver (originally released in 2003), The Fury Of Our Makers Hand (2005), The Last Kind Words (2007), Pray For Villains (2009) and Beast (2011). The releases have been remastered by Andy Pearce (Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Anthrax, Kreator) and will be available to buy on limited edition colored vinyl and in deluxe CD format, many featuring bonus tracks and all featuring expanded liner notes and exclusive interview material with frontman, Dez Fafara. For all albums, with the exception of Beast, it'll be the first time ever they've been available in vinyl form (each will be limited to 1500 copies in the U.S.). The Fury of Our Makers Hand features six rare bonus tracks, Pray For Villains includes four bonus tracks and Beast includes three additional cuts. Full details and track listings are below.

DEVILDRIVER - Gatefold digipak CD, Vinyl LP (White, Orange & Gold splatter)

Tracklisting:
1) Nothing's Wrong
2) I Could Care Less
3) Die (And Die Now)
4) I Dreamed I Died
5) Cry For Me Sky (Eulogy of The Scorned)
6) The Mountain
7) Knee Deep
8) What Does It Take (To Be A Man)
9) Swinging The Dead
10) Revelation Machine
11) Meet The Wretched
12) Devil's Son


THE FURY OF OUR MAKER'S HAND - Gatefold digipak CD, Gatefold vinyl LP (Blue & Orange splatter)

Tracklisting:
1) The End Of The Line
2) Driving Down The Darkness
3) Grinfucked
4) Hold Back The Day
5) Sin & Sacrifice
6) Ripped Apart
7) Pale Horse Apocalypse
8) Just Run
9) Impending Disaster
10) Bear Witness Unto
11) Before The Hangman's Noose
12) The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand

CD Bonus Tracks
13) Unlucky 13
14) Guilty As Sin
15) Digging Up The Corpses
16) I Could Care Less (Live)
17) Hold Back The Day (Live
18) Ripped Apart (Live)



THE LAST KIND WORDS - Gatefold digipak CD, Vinyl LP (Yellow, beige & green half/half splatter)

Tracklisting:
1) Not All Who Wander Are Lost
2) Clouds Over California
3) Bound By The Moon
4) Horn of Betrayal
5) These Fighting Words
6) Head On To Heartache (Let Them Rot)
7) Burning Sermon
8) Monsters of the Deep
9) Tirades Of Truth
10) When Summoned
11) The Axe Shall Fall




PRAY FOR VILLAINS - Gatefold digipak CD, Gatefold vinyl LP (White, red & black splatter)

Tracklisting;
1) Pray For Villains
2) Pure Sincerity
3) Fate Stepped In
4) Back With A Vengeance
5) I've Been Sober
6) Resurrection Blvd
7) Forgiveness Is A Six Gun
8) Waiting For November
9) It's In The Cards
10) Another Night In London
11) Bitter Pill
12) Teach Me To Whisper
13) I See Belief

CD Bonus Tracks;
14) Self-Affliction
15) Dust Be The Destiny
16) Damning The Heavens
17) Wasted Years


BEAST - Gatefold CD Digipak, Gatefold vinyl LP (green & purple swirl)

Tracklisting:
1) Dead To Rights
2) Bring The Fight
3) Hardened
4) Shitlist
5) Talons Out
6) You Make Me Sick
7) Coldblooded
8) Blur
9) The Blame Game
10) Crowns of Creation
11) Before The Hangman's Noose
12) Lend Myself To The Night

CD Bonus Tracks
13) Lost
14) Fortune Favours The Brave
15) Grinfucked (Live)

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The Rough Guide To Barrelhouse Blues
Various

Jazz And Blues Legends, RGNET1375CD, 28 September 2018
Barcode: 6.05633E+11
Named after the rough and ready bars where labourers gathered to drink and dance, barrelhouse was a raucous form of piano blues that got the juke joints swinging. From early pioneers such as Cow Cow Davenport and Speckled Red to the boogie-woogie legends Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons, this collection charts the rise and incredible influence of this good-time blues.

Track List
ListenSpeckled Red: The Dirty Dozen
ListenJimmy Yancey: Slow And Easy Blues
ListenCripple Clarence Lofton: Strut That Thing
ListenWill Ezell: Heifer Dust
ListenWalter Roland: Watcha Gonna Do?
ListenCow Cow Davenport: Cow Cow Blues
ListenRomeo Nelson: Head Rag Hop
ListenRoosevelt Sykes: 32-20 Blues
ListenClarence "Pinetop" Smith: Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
ListenSkip James: If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down The Road
ListenTurner Parrish: Fives
ListenBert Mays: You Can't Come In
ListenMeade Lux Lewis: Honky Tonk Train Blues
ListenCharlie Spand: Soon This Morning Blues
ListenHerve Duerson: Avenue Strut
ListenVictoria Spivey: Hoodoo Man Blues
ListenHenry Brown: Henry Brown Blues
ListenLittle Brother Montgomery: Vicksburg Blues
ListenJabo Williams: Pratt City Blues
ListenPete Johnson & Albert Ammons: Barrelhouse Boogie
ListenBob Call: 31 Blues
ListenFreddie ìReddî Nicholson: You Gonna Miss Me Blues
ListenMontana Taylor: Detroit Rocks
ListenLouise Johnson: On The Wall
ListenLeroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell: Barrelhouse Woman No.2
The term ‘barrelhouse’ derives from the cheap bars or ‘juke joints’ of the rural South where African-American labourers gathered to drink and dance at the edge of small towns and levee camps. It was in these rough wooden shacks where the liquor was served directly from the barrels that the piano came into its own, as roving musicians hammered out high-spirited tunes for the drinkers and dancers and got the bar swinging. In turn, the style of up-tempo piano blues that developed in these establishments came to be known as barrelhouse.

The raucous playing style of the opening track by Speckled Red perfectly sets the scene for this rough and ready world, with his classic ‘The Dirty Dozen’ being based on a game of exchanges of insults and vulgar remarks that have long been a part of African-American folklore. In some respects a precursor of rap music, he was told to ‘clean it up for the record’.

Cow Cow Davenport was another key pioneer of the style, and whilst his seminal 1928 recording of ‘Cow Cow Blues’ owed much to a ragtime style, it was perhaps the first recorded example of the style that was to become known as ‘boogie-woogie’, with its infectious left-hand bass pattern and right-hand melodic improvisation. Within months, Clarence “Pinetop” Smith recorded ‘Pinetop's Boogie Woogie’, which was the first known use of the term ‘boogie-woogie’ on a record and cemented the term as the moniker for the genre. Consisting entirely of instructions to dancers, ‘Pinetop's Boogie Woogie’ was adapted by Ray Charles for his song ‘Mess Around’.

Other popular blues pianists to emerge from the barrelhouse circuit include Jimmy Yancey, Roosevelt Sykes and Cripple Clarence Lofton, an artist famed for his energetic stage presence. Although born with a limp, from which he derived his stage name, it could be said that it was somewhat exploitative as he started his career as a tap dancer. Lofton’s rough and ready approach is in great contrast to other featured gems including the precise ragtime-infused playing of Will Ezell on ‘Heifer Dust’ and Walter Roland’s slick accompaniment to ‘Watcha Gonna Do?’, his comical duet with blues diva Lucille Bogan. Leroy Carr was another incredibly influential blues piano pioneer whose life was cut short in 1935 by acute alcoholism, and here he closes out the album with his long-time sidekick Scrapper Blackwell on the fittingly titled ‘Barrelhouse Woman’.

Tracks from this release and a lot more:
https://soundcloud.com/world-music-network

From Sound Of The Universe

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Harold McKinney (Tribe)
Voices And Rhythms Of The Creative Profile
TRIBE / PURE PLEASURE

Deep, Detroit jazz from 1974! A reissue of this CLASSIC release on cult label, Tribe by pianist, Harold McKinney! Features Wendell Harrison on flute and Marcus Belgrave on trumpet - and includes the ESSENTIAL cut 'In The Moog' as featured on the Soul Jazz release 'Black Fire! New Spirits! Radical And Revolutionary Jazz In The U.S.A. 1957-1982' + heavyweight Ode To Africa + version of Freedom Jazz Dance!
More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/harold-mckinney-voices-and-rhythms-of-the-creative-profile_2

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An absolute stone cold killer on Charles Tolliver’s Strata-East label, originally released in 1974. Check the haunting, funky title track ‘First Impressions’ for some quickfire proof! An ESSENTIAL deep jazz reissue pressed on 180g audiophile vinyl!
More info (incl. on other Strata-East reissues), audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/shamek-farrah-first-impressions

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Palm Unit
Hommage A Jef Gilson
SUPER-SONIC JAZZ

Back in the day, French pianist, composer and all-round jazz superstar Jean-François Quiévreux, a.k.a. Jef Gilson, was up there alongside the likes of peers John Coltrane, Oscar Peterson, and Sun Ra. In a fitting homage to the decades worth of sublime music, and his sad passing away in 2012, Palm Unit have released a lively, honest tribute, upbeat and contemporary re-interpretative vision of his legacy.
More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/palm-unit-hommage-a-jef-gilson

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The 24 Carat Black
Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth
STAX

HEAVY, HEAVY, HEAVY break-heavy deep, deep funk - check out the incredible vocal cut Ghetto Misfortunes Wealth and the moody left-field instrumental cut 24-Carat Black theme.
More info (incl. re other Stax reissues), audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-24-carat-black-ghetto-misfortune-s-wealth

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Billy Parker's Fourth World
Freedom Of Speech (Remastered 2017 Edition)
PURE PLEASURE

BILLY PARKER'S FOURTH WORLD w/ Dee Dee Bridgewater, Cecil Bridgewater, Cecil McBee, Donald Smith (Lonnie Liston's brother). 180 gm gatefold sleeve vinyl reissue.
More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/billy-parker-s-fourth-world-freedom-of-speech

psyched for this, these tapes/records are very cool and super hard to find

Dark Entries is honored to reissue the first 4 full-lengths from Carolyn Fok / CYRNAI, an Asian-American female solo artist from the Bay Area. The 6xLP box set contains all of Carolyn’s officially released music as CYRNAI between 1980-1990, as well as bonus materials. Most of these songs will see their first vinyl appearance ever in a deluxe edition limited boxed set (333 copies). Remastered by George Horn, the set features an exclusive 48-page booklet with photos, quotes, interviews and liner notes written by Carolyn and introduction by Greg Allen (author of ‘Klaus Schulze, Electronic Music Legend’). Over 70 songs, 4 hours of music, spread across six records plus an exclusive bonus 7” of cover songs by The Cure and Gang Of Four all packaged in a black matte wrap box with crimson red foil stamping.

Carolyn’s adventures in sound began with recording stories on a tape recorder at age 9 in 1976. A short time later, exploring the scattering of musical instruments and effects units her father left lying around the family home. She became especially fascinated by his TEAC reel-to-reel recorder that set off a lifelong fascination with sound design. By the age of 16 Carolyn had become inspired by industrial electronic act Cabaret Voltaire, as well as anarcho-punks Crass. Creating the stage name CYRNAI, a rearranging alphabet of Carolyn Fok, she played in several Bay Area bands including Treason, A State Of Mind, Trial and Rhythm & Noise between 1983 and 1991. Her debut release as CYRNAI, 1985’s 12” EP ‘Charred Blossoms’, followed by the cassette albums ‘Parts of The Insomnic Wheel’ in 1986, ‘Hypno-Seizure’ in 1987 and two versions of ‘To Subtle-Drive’ in 1989/1990.

Despite having been featured in publications including Electronic Musician, Keyboard and with a long term association with Industrial music, Carolyn has remained an intensely private musician, artist and writer until now. However, she has launched an ambitious project that involves releasing her vast archive of music as a ‘memoir’ via her website memoirofsound.com. Having spent extensive time in the studio amassing around 100 albums worth of electronic and experimental music, field recordings, collaborations, band projects and more, these are now being released in one place. “Her time is beyond due to be recognized, represented and attributed for her contributions to experimental analogue culture with sounds still fresher than tomorrow.” Eloise Leigh (New Age Rage, Berlin Community Radio)

http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/cyrnai-1980-1990-6xlp-box-set/#tab-description

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News
Mott The Hoople / Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-1971

August 31, 2018 by Paul Sinclairtags: 1960s, 1970s, Mott The Hoople
6CD box set • Island albums + bonus tracks • disc of unreleased outtakes

Universal Music will, in November, issue Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-1971, a new six-disc Mott The Hoople box set which delivers everything the band recorded during their time at Island Records including many bonus tracks and unreleased material.

Mental Train includes the four albums – Mott The Hoople (1969), Mad Shadows (1970), Wildlife (1970) and Brain Capers (1971) – each of which include eight or nine bonus tracks, including A-sides, B-sides, demos, rehearsals and alternate takes.

The fifth CD includes more unheard and unreleased music from the Island archive while the final disc features live material recorded at Fairfield Hall, Croydon on 13 September 1970 and a BBC Radio One In Concert from the Paris Theatre, London on 30 December 1971.

The studio albums have all been remastered from the original tapes (where available) by Andy Pearce and this set comes in what looks like the familiar Universal ‘shoebox’ package (Tears For Fears, Simple Minds etc.) with a a 50-page booklet designed by Phil Smee with sleeve notes by Kris Needs.

Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-1971 will be released on 2 November 2018.
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Box Summary

Disc One: Mott the Hoople plus bonus tracks
Disc Two: Mad Shadows plus bonus tracks
Disc Three: Wildlife plus bonus tracks
Disc Four: Brain Capers plus bonus tracks
Disc Five: The Ballads of Mott The Hoople
Disc Six: It’s Live and Live Only

CD1 – MOTT THE HOOPLE
Originally released November 22 1969 – Island Records ILPS 9108

You Really Got Me

At the Crossroads

Laugh at Me

Backsliding Fearlessly

Rock and Roll Queen

Rabbit Foot and Toby Time

Half Moon Bay

Wrath and Wroll

Bonus Tracks

If Your Heart Lay with the Rebel (Would You Cheer the Underdog?) (Instrumental Take 2)

Rock and Roll Queen (Single A side)

Road to Birmingham (Single B side)

Road to Birmingham (Guy Steven’s Mix)

You Really Got Me (Complete take)

You Really Got Me (Vocal mix)

Rock and Roll Queen (Guy Steven’s Mono Mix)

Rock and Roll Queen (Kitchen Sink Instrumental)

Little Christine (2 Miles)

CD2 – MAD SHADOWS
Originally released September 1970 – Island Records ILPS 9119

Thunderbuck Ram

No Wheels to Ride

You Are One of Us

Walking with a Mountain

I Can Feel

Threads of Iron

When My Mind’s Gone

Bonus Tracks

Thunderbuck Ram (BBC Session)

Thunderbuck Ram (Original Take with Organ)

No Wheels to Ride (Demo)

Moonbus (Baby’s Got a Down on Me)

The Hunchback Fish (Vocal Rehearsal)

You Are One of Us (Take 9)

Going Home (2 Miles)

Keep A-Knockin’ (Studio version)

CD3 – WILDLIFE
Originally released March 1971 – Island Records ILPS 9144

Whiskey Women

Angel of Eighth Avenue

Wrong Side of the River

Waterlow

Lay Down

It Must Be Love

The Original Mixed Up Kid

Home Is Where I Want to Be

Keep A-Knockin’ (Live)

Bonus Tracks

Midnight Lady (Single A side)

The Debt (Single B side)

Downtown (Single A side)

Brain Haulage (Whiskey Woman)

Growing Man Blues (Take 10)

Long Red (Demo)

The Ballad of Billy Joe

Lay Down (Take 8

CD4 – BRAIN CAPERS
Originally released December 1971 – Island Records – ILPS 9178

Death May Be Your Santa Claus

Your Own Backyard

Darkness, Darkness

The Journey

Sweet Angeline

Second Love

The Moon Upstairs

The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception

Bonus Tracks

Mental Train (The Moon Upstairs)

How Long? (Death May Your Santa Claus)

Darkness, Darkness

Your Own Backyard (Complete Take)

Where Do You All Come From (Backing Track)

One of the Boys (Take 2)

Movin’ On (2 Miles)

Black Scorpio (Mommas Little Jewel)

CD5 – THE BALLADS OF MOTT THE HOOPLE
Unheard and unreleased music from the Island archive

Like a Rolling Stone (Fragment)

No Wheels to Ride (1st House)

Angel Of 8th Avenue (Tape 816)

The Journey

Blue Broken Tears (Tape 816)

Black Hills (Full Ralph’s Version)

Can You Sing the Song That I Sing (Full Take)

Till I’m Gone (2 Miles)

The Original Mixed Up Kid (BBC Session)

Ill Wind Blowing (2 Miles)

I’m A River (Vocal Rehearsal)

Ride on The Sun (Sea Diver) (2 Miles)

CD6 – IT’S LIVE AND LIVE ONLY
– Tracks 1 – 7: Fairfield Hall, Croydon, 13 September 1970
– Tracks 8 to 12: Paris Theatre, London, BBC Radio One, In Concert, 30 December 1971

Rock and Roll Queen

Ohio

No Wheels to Ride / Hey Jude

Thunderbuck Ram

Keep A-Knockin’

You Really Got Me

The Moon Upstairs

Whiskey Women

Your Own Backyard

Darkness, Darkness

The Journey

Death May Be Your Santa Claus"

Good news, thanks! Rock and Roll Queen rounded up some of that, an LP's-worth of singles edits, but don't think it ever did come out on legit CD---The Ballad of Mott prob did, and is a pretty good overview.

Don't think this one came out on CD either! Xgau nails it:
Shades of Ian Hunter: The Ballad of Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople [Columbia, 1979]
Exemplary discophilia. The Mott 45s on side one are all the young stiffs--great album tracks edited down for an AM exposure that was rarely forthcoming, they race along with an almost punky punch on LP. The B sides and miscellaneous on side two are uneven, natch, but worth getting to know (as owners of Greatest Hits have already learned with two of them). Those circumspect enough to have passed up Ian's two solo albums are now rewarded with side three's best-of. And side four excerpts the solo Ian that was never released here, to impressive effect. A genuinely obsessive compilation. A-

Atlantic put Rock and Roll Queen out on CD back in the 80s. It's OOP and doesn't sound very good. When Rhino started their Atlantic Remasters series in the 90s, they did those four Mott albums (which Atlantic had in the US,and Island issued everywhere else) plus a new best of that era called Backsliding Fearlessly, which had some rarities as bonuses.

The Ballad of Mott was a two-disc set by Colombia Legacy that mainly focused on their post-Atlantic/Island work, but it did included four tracks (one per album) from that period. And yes, that Shades comp hasn't actually been reissued on CD (although there is another, less in-depth Hunter comp on CD w/that title), although pretty much everything that's on it has been either reissued on its on own or as bonus tracks on Mott/Hunter albums. It is a really good collection, and still can be had on nice vinyl for $5-10.

I should also note that the Atlantic/Island Mott albums have all been OOP for awhile on CD, so this box is most welcome!

Also, Re:Shades--there is nothing from the Atlantic/Island era on it. It starts with "All The Young Dudes" and proceeds in chronological order from there.

Initially released in 2014, Jane Weaver’s The Silver Globe was a conceptual delicacy – a mythical jaunt set to a motorik rhythm, played out in an overgrown forest of ideas. Described in the album’s original press release, it was “a synth-ridden post-apocalyptic prog-pop opus based on tightly embroidered, non-linear recurring themes inspired by esoteric stories, cosmic imagery and re-filtered past experiences.” After a minimal stateside release, Fire Records is now reissuing the album on November 9th on limited-edition clear vinyl with the existing artwork updated by Andy Votel and on CD in a card wallet.

Featuring tracks co-produced by David Holmes, guest appearances by Australian vintage space-rockers Cybotron, a recycled chunk of a Hawkwind track, an intricate Damon Gough guitar solo, some Suzanne Ciani waves and post production, plus remix flourishes by Andy Votel, The Silver Globe is a shiny beautifully polished gem. It’s “a full-scale leap into the cosmic void of contemporary space rock” (Quietus).

“As a child of the 1970s I can thank my friends’ brothers for their space rock record collections and concept album sleeves that I would spend hours looking at, then my first love for Kate Bush followed by a heavy dose of disco and synth pop,” says Weaver. “I guess The Silver Globe is just a subconscious inspired imprint of those things that have never left me, married with an accidental viewing of a vintage Polish sci-fi film that was so bizarre I couldn’t stop thinking about it and so it became my muse.”

Since those heady beginnings, Weaver has been celebrated for her Modern Kosmology, “an album that melds cult cornerstones into a lean and thrillingly addictive slice of unearthly pop” (Guardian). It was named a top 10 album of 2017 by the likes of MOJO, Rough Trade and Drowned in Sound, while the Guardian, Uncut, The Quietus, and Q placed it in their top 25.

advance track: https://janeweaverfire.bandcamp.com/album/the-silver-globe

Praise for The Silver Globe:

"One of those cut-glass, unfailingly true English voices, completely untouched
by even the slightest tinge of R&B, that have the ability to make a song sound like
the soundtrack to a chilly drawing room. . . Weaver’s voice is the key to [The Silver Globe]:
she can’t help but add melody, even when what lies beneath is the drone."
– The Guardian, 4/5 stars

“Atmospheric, deeply odd, funky and wistful, but never less than superb.” – Uncut, 8/10

"The Silver Globe [leaves] no doubt that she is amongst today's most striking sonic auteurs." – MOJO, 4/5 stars

“[Jane Weaver’s] main achievement here is the fact that she effortlessly distills aspects of both the early electronic/library music/hauntology craze, and her psych folk grounding, into one highly accessible album. This is no mean feat – while these genres can prove to be notoriously esoteric and abstract, there are inventive moments here which wouldn't sound out of place on mainstream alternative radio.”
– All Music, 4.5/5 stars

Jane Weaver – Loops In The Secret Society UK Tour Dates:
Oct. 17 – The Pleasance, Edinburgh
Oct. 18 – Leaf, Liverpool
Oct. 21 – Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Oct. 30 – City Varieties, Leeds
Nov. 6 – Hackney Arts Centre, London
Nov. 7 – Trinity Centre, Bristol
Nov. 8 – Komedia, Brighton
Nov. 9 – Arts Theatre, Nottingham

BAUHAUS - THE BELA SESSION - “BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD" OFFICIAL REISSUE BY LEAVING RECORDS

Pre-order available at Stones Throw and Bauhaus' Bandcamp for Nov. 23 release. Official reissue, produced entirely by the band with Leaving Records, and distributed by Stones Throw.

The Bela Session captures the first time Bauhaus recorded together, January 26th, 1979, just six weeks after forming as a band. This is the first release of that complete recording session, including three previously unreleased tracks. This also marks the first official reissue of the single “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” on vinyl for over thirty years. The audio has been newly mastered from the original analogue tape by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon Studios.

Bauhaus are a four-piece from Northampton, England: Peter Murphy (vocals), Daniel Ash (guitar), Kevin Haskins (drums), and David J (bass). The band emerged from the post-punk alternative music scene of the early 80s with a string of innovative albums and a powerfully dramatic live presentation.

“Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is considered the original gothic rock record and a cornerstone of the specific genre.

Originally released as a 12-inch single in August 1979 by Small Wonder Records, “Bela Lugosi's Dead” failed to make the pop charts but remained a staple of the U.K. independent singles chart for many years. “Bela” has widely influenced contemporary goth culture as well as popular culture at large. Among many highlights, a live recording of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” was the soundtrack to the opening scene of 1983 horror film The Hunger (David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon); it’s been covered by Nine Inch Nails, Massive Attack, Nouvelle Vague, Chvrches and others; cited as an influence on authors Chuck Palahniuk and Neil Gaiman; used on Saturday Night Live’s skit “Goth Talk”; and the band itself was parodied on Beavis & Butthead and South Park.

Three months after releasing “Bela,” the group signed with label 4AD who released their debut album In The Flat Field. They then moved to the larger parent company, Beggars Banquet and between 1981 and 1983 released a further three studio albums, as well as peaking at #15 with their cover of David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” in the UK singles chart. After disbanding in 1983, members of the band went on to form Love And Rockets and Tones On Tail while Peter Murphy enjoyed a successful solo career.

40th anniversary: Late 2018 will also mark the ruby anniversary of Bauhaus. Beggars Banquet/4AD will be reissuing records from the band’s catalog on limited edition color vinyl, details to be announced.

Leaving Records: a Los Angeles-based label founded in 2008 by Matthew “Matthewdavid” McQueen. Leaving Records has partnered with Stones Throw Records since 2013.

Vinyl details: The Bela Session will be issued on 180 gram white vinyl (ltd. 1000) and 180 gram Black vinyl; Printed inner sleeve with facsimile of the recording session's tape box; 20 x 20-inch poster of the original "Bela" 12-inch cover. Pre-order at Stones Throw or Bauhaus Bandcamp.

Track List:
“Bela Lugosi’s Dead” (9:36)
“Some Faces” (2:29) previously unreleased
“Bite My Hip ”(2:57) previously unreleased; later reworked, re-recorded as “Lagartija Nick” in 1983
“Harry” (2:56) later released as a B-side in 1982
“Boys” (3:03) previously unreleased; later re-recorded and released as the B-side of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”

http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2018/09/bauhaus

Harmony In My Head: UK Power Pop & New Wave 1977-81:
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/harmony-in-my-head-uk-power-pop-new-wave-1977-81-various-artists-3cd-boxset/

Cherry Red's been on a roll, though this one is a bit too narrow for my tastes compared with their recent punk and post-punk boxes.

From Numero:

Basement Beehive is the product of a dream we had years ago. Feverish from Rhino’s excellent One Kiss Can Lead To Another box, we started making piles of girl group tracks that were mere whispers in the collector abyss. It started out as a Sweet 16 45 box shaped like a birthday cake (replete with a carton of Numero-branded candles). Then it was a series of regional surveys. Finally we boiled it down to a kick-ass mix tape of 28 crucial tracks, with an additional 28 on the compact disc version. That process took four years. The world has fallen apart in less time.

From the work we started on Basement Beehive a dozen other projects have come into focus as well, all collecting the complete output of wildly obscure girl groups, available for your streaming pleasure, and perhaps someday on a physical format. You never know. The important thing is that we found these groups and are telling their stories for the first time. We’re not hoarders of obscurity, nothing has to stay in the basement forever.
http://www.numerogroup.com/products/basement-beehive-the-girl-group-underground
(2LP, 2CD, various digital formats, also spotify playlist)
Who do we become when we live our dreams? It’s all here—the high hairdos, the dreams and schemes, the tender camp, the wedding bell fantasias and chaste tragedies. Sister acts, studio receptionists, classmates, angelic voices of the 1960s; some legendary, many hidden in the basement of expired rainbows. Gathered on this deluxe double CD are 56 (28 on the 2LP) foiled escape attempts, now free to soar in girl group heaven. also streaming mini-sets
Trailer, though may have to go via above link, ditto mini-sets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=20&v=sSLz5Z7kU4Q

Just got a new CD of Roscoe Mitchell's Sound in the mail - his debut, and the first AACM-affiliated album, originally released on Delmark in 1966. This new edition features the "Original Analog Mix"; I don't know what that means 'cause I don't have a previous CD edition in the house to compare it with, but I asked Chuck Nessa, who produced the album, so maybe he'll let me know. Anyway, it also includes two bonus tracks, and it's an essential free/avant jazz document, so get one if you're into that stuff.

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Mønk is a live album recorded in Denmark in 1963, with Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, John Ore on bass and Frankie Dunlop on drums - one of his best bands IMO. Out today on Gearbox; the tapes were literally found in a dumpster 20 years ago.

I have never listened to Kate Bush, but I know she has many fans here.

KATE BUSH REMASTERED

Studio Album Catalogue Remastered For The First Time On Vinyl And CD As Four Vinyl Boxes And Two CD Boxes, With Many Rare Tracks Making Their Vinyl Debut

Vinyl Boxes 1 + 2 And CD Box 1 Out On November 16

Vinyl Boxes 3 + 4 And CD Box 2 Will Follow On November 30

The Original Album Artworks Are Retained Within New Artwork For The Boxes, Although The Artwork For The CDs In Box 1 Have Been Redesigned Using Elements From The Originals

LOS ANGELES - Kate Bush will release remastered versions of her album catalogue on vinyl and CD in November. This is the first (and definitive) program of remastering undertaken by the artist and includes the release of many rarities and cover versions on the vinyl and CD formats for the first time.

The vinyl albums - all Kate's studio work - will be released in four separate boxes, the first two, VINYL BOX 1 (4LP, $99.98) and VINYL BOX 2 (3LP, $74.98) will be available on November 16, and the latter two VINYL BOX 3 (6LP, $149.98) and VINYL BOX 4 (4LP, $99.98) will be available on November 30. CD BOX 1 ($99.98) and CD BOX 2 ($89.98) will also be available in November. The live album Before The Dawn is included in CD Box 2 in its original mastered form.

The albums, many of which have been unavailable on vinyl for a decade, have been remastered by Kate Bush and James Guthrie. Kate's ten studio albums are spread over three vinyl boxes, whilst the fourth box contains many rarities previously unavailable on vinyl, including a whole disc of cover versions. The total number of vinyl discs is 18.

KATE BUSH - REMASTERED IN VINYL
Album Listing:

KATE BUSH REMASTERED IN VINYL 1
The Kick Inside
Lionheart
Never For Ever
The Dreaming

KATE BUSH REMASTERED IN VINYL 2
Hounds Of Love
The Sensual World
The Red Shoes

KATE BUSH REMASTERED IN VINYL 3
Aerial
Director's Cut
50 Words For Snow

KATE BUSH REMASTERED IN VINYL 4
12" Mixes
The Other Side 1
The Other Side 2
In Others' Words

The track-listing for the fourth vinyl box and the final 4 CDs of the second CD box:

KATE BUSH - REMASTERED IN VINYL 4
12" MIXES
1. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
2. The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix)
3. Cloudbusting (The Orgonon Mix)
4. Hounds Of Love (Alternative Mix)
5. Experiment IV (Extended Mix)

THE OTHER SIDE 1
1. Walk Straight Down The Middle
2. You Want Alchemy
3. Be Kind To My Mistakes
4. Lyra
5. Under The Ivy
6. Experiment IV
7. Ne T'Enfuis Pas
8. Un Baiser D'Enfant
9. Burning Bridge
10. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) 2012 Remix

THE OTHER SIDE 2
1. Home For Christmas
2. One Last Look Around The House Before We Go
3. I'm Still Waiting
4. Warm And Soothing
5. Show A Little Devotion
6. Passing Through Air
7. Humming
8. Ran Tan Waltz
9. December Will Be Magic Again
10. Wuthering Heights (Remix / New Vocal from 'The Whole Story')

IN OTHERS' WORDS
1. Rocket Man
2. Sexual Healing
3. Mná na hÉireann
4. My Lagan Love
5. The Man I Love
6. Brazil (Sam Lowry's First Dream)
7. The Handsome Cabin Boy
8. Lord Of The Reedy River
9. Candle In The Wind

CELEBRATING AMERICA'S GREATEST ROCK 'N' ROLL BAND, CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL

THE COMPLETE STUDIO ALBUMS (HALF-SPEED MASTERS) 7-LP DELUXE BOX SET AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 30th

The arrival of Creedence Clearwater Revival's 50th anniversary brings an unprecedented celebration of everything the band contributed in their short but startlingly epochal time together (1968 - 1972). To commemorate this milestone, Craft Recordings is releasing a deluxe box set comprising the band's complete seven-album studio output: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willy and the Poor Boys, Cosmo's Factory, Pendulum and Mardi Gras.

Each album in this collection has been mastered at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios, benefiting from an exacting process that allows for an exceptional level of sonic clarity and punch, bringing these classic recordings a new vibrancy. The 180-gram LPs come housed in handsome tip-on jackets replicating the packaging of the original pressings. Along with the complete studio album collection comes an 80-page book featuring new liner notes from music journalist Roy Trakin, archival photos and reproductions of band ephemera - offering something for both new and the most diehard of Creedence fans.

Using high-res transfers from the original analog tapes, the half-speed mastering process involves playing back audio at half its recorded speed while the cutting lathe is turned at half the desired playback speed. The technique allows more time to cut a micro-precise groove, allowing more accuracy with frequency extremes and dynamic contrasts. Abbey Road Studios' award-winning engineer Miles Showell explains, "I've tried to be as authentic as I could, and just make it sound like music. Not over-hyped, not over-processed. Up until now a lot of processing has been done on these recordings, so my approach was to strip them right back and just expose them for what they are - because what they are is great music."

Although the band members were together for only four years under the Creedence Clearwater Revival appellation, they managed to accomplish more than many artists do in a lifetime. Powered by John Fogerty's visceral growl, along with Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook and Doug Clifford's gritty, in-the-pocket punch, they've sold over 30 million records in the U.S. alone, releasing 14 Top 10 hits, six Platinum albums (two of which went to number one) and one Gold album. They also managed to play over 150 tour dates around the world, including a headlining spot at Woodstock.

Over the last 50 years, Creedence Clearwater Revival's canon has become a part of the Great American Songbook. Songs like "Bad Moon Rising," "Down on the Corner," "Fortunate Son," "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?," "Proud Mary," "Born on the Bayou," "Travelin' Band" and "Up Around the Bend" have been ingrained into pop culture - not just as rock staples, but as classic standards.

This hardworking band offered beautifully simple and relatable music for the every-man or -woman. Blue-collar Americans saw their experiences and sociopolitical concerns reflected in Creedence's class-conscious broadsides ("Run Through the Jungle," "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Fortunate Son") and portraits of working class life ("Cotton Fields," "Proud Mary").

In 1993 Creedence Clearwater Revival were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. During his speech honoring the band, Bruce Springsteen noted, "I stand here tonight still envious of that music's power and its simplicity. They were hits filled with beauty and poetry and a sense of the darkness of events, of history. An American tradition shot through with pride, fear and paranoia. They rocked and played great together... they weren't the hippest band in the world, just the best."

Creedence also had a gift for transforming other musicians' songs in their own image. Impressive covers of classic tracks from all genres are dotted across their albums; from Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You," Dale Hawkins' "Susie Q" and Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly," to the Leadbelly--popularized, blues-gospel evergreen "Midnight Special" and the Marvin Gaye-popularized Motown hit "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."

With so many memorable songs that continue to grace our radio waves and television and movie screens, plus lyrics that still resonate today, Creedence Clearwater Revival is, truly, America's greatest rock 'n' roll band. This lovingly remastered and restored Complete Studio Albums (Half-Speed Masters) box set represents a package worthy of the Creedence legacy, marking 50 years since the Fogertys, Clifford and Cook brought us a body of work that has inspired and electrified generations of fans.

House Of Love anyone?

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-house-of-love-30th-anniversary-deluxe-hardback-edition/

ECM is putting out a 21CD box of all their Art Ensemble of Chicago releases, plus albums featuring AEOC members, next month.

New alb and reissues from The Glands, also prev unreleased Jonny Polonsky; see their own threads.

And this here:

https://www.mergerecords.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/9/b6fecbf576b5d8edde1db63877effc9f/thumb/reddkross_peaklp_bundle_news.jpg

On December 7, Merge Records will make two elusive classics by California legends Redd Kross widely available for the first time!

Hot Issue contains a dozen turn-of-the-century new digs and old finds recorded by the band in Hollywood between 1980 and 2007. Available on limited-edition translucent fluorescent green Peak Vinyl, licorice black vinyl, and CD, this collection of top-quality recordings features Redd Kross rarities and focuses on the band’s most explosively creative period from the early ’90s straight through to Researching the Blues, all mastered from the original source tapes for optimal audio fidelity by Bill Inglot and Dave Schultz at d2. An energetic compilation created to be a complete play experience with unreleased and rare tracks unearthed from the Jeff McDonald archives, Hot Issue is a total must for all Redd Kross fans around the world!

Hotter than anything printed by a Hearst daily, the 12-song “Versión Especial" of Redd Kross’ Teen Babes from Monsanto is all art, no filler, direct from the source, pure from the tap. Available on CD or engraved on your choice of virgin black vinyl or limited-edition translucent pink Peak Vinyl, the album features specially designed packaging that allows you to choose between two different front covers with just a flip of the wrist! Experience vintage teenaged Redd Kross as presented by Monsanto: 100% genuine, chemically inspired brilliance fueled by processed junk food.

Pre-order these albums individually in the Merge store, or reserve both as a Peak Vinyl bundle on the cheap! Love live Redd Kross!

(Are these guys good?)

They're great.

Will check thx.

As featured on prev RRs:

Brown Acid: The Seventh Trip
compilation out on Halloween, hear C.T. Pilferhogg's 1973 rager "You Haul"
Rare 60s-70s pre-metal, hard rock singles series curated by L.A.'s Permanent Records & RidingEasy Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSg99bAYMKw

"So rare that diehard fuzz junkies say you'd have a better chance of winning the lottery than finding a physical 45 rpm single by one of the bands featured on their latest installment." -- Dangerous Minds

"Will do for hard rock, proto-metal and heavy psych what Nuggets did for garage rock, and bring it to a wider audience of collectors and music fans." -- The Guardian

"We're huge fans of the Brown Acid series... Think of it as a companion to the essential Nuggets compilation but covering artists and records that never made it out of their hometowns." -- Ultimate Classic Rock
"So rare that diehard fuzz junkies say you'd have a better chance of winning the lottery than finding a physical 45 rpm single by one of the bands featured on their latest installment." -- Dangerous Minds

"Will do for hard rock, proto-metal and heavy psych what Nuggets did for garage rock, and bring it to a wider audience of collectors and music fans." -- The Guardian

"We're huge fans of the Brown Acid series... Think of it as a companion to the essential Nuggets compilation but covering artists and records that never made it out of their hometowns." -- Ultimate Classic Rock

Loudwire recently premiered the first single, "Peace of Mind" by Blizzard from 1973 HERE.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/NSQdzNsWNvc

"The Sorcerer" from Pegasus dropped last month on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT3l3A5yILI&feature=youtu.be

The Brown Acid series is curated by L.A. label RidingEasy Records and retailer/label Permanent Records. The Quietus hosted a full album stream of the previous edition Brown Acid: The Sixth Trip HERE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOKFzVB7Bho

About Brown Acid: The Seventh Trip:

Everybody's favorite source for the hard stuff is back in business, with ten more lethal doses of rare hard rock, heavy psych and proto-metal! These obscure tracks have all been licensed, the bands have been paid, and the sources are all analog. The quality of tracks seems to increase along with the number of Trips and this cohesive collection comes outta the gate with both guns blazing!

Pegasus recorded one single in Baltimore in 1972 and they made it count. "The Sorcerer" is a throbbing ripper that prior to this was basically unknown. However, it doesn't seem too far fetched to speculate that Black Flag lifted the riff for "No Values" from this track eight years later. Unlikely, but possible, especially considering how big a Black Sabbath fan Greg Ginn is. Pegasus was lauded back in the day for "how much they delivered that Black Sabbath feel."

You may not already be familiar with Schizo, but you should know at least one of the French freaks behind this short-lived group. Richard Pinhas was the co-writer and uncredited, wah-wah abusing guitarist in Schizo after his stint in Blues Convention. Schizo recorded just two singles, the first being the heavier of the two, before Pinhas went on to record with Heldon and then going solo. The band had a unique vibe that didn't sound unlike Lemmy fronting a gang of stoned Martians.

Youngstown, Ohio is the most commonly referred to city of the entire Brown Acid series. This town of just under 150,000 people may've had the highest (literally and figuratively) per capita output of heavy 45s. Blue Amber recorded this in 1971 at Gary Rhamy's analog Mecca, Peppermint Recording Studios. This two-riff boneheaded banger sounds like a caveman protest song with an extraordinary amount of delay on the vocals. No wonder this 45 fetches three-figures on the rare occasion it comes up for sale.

Batting clean-up, we have Negative Space, the only LP sourced track on this album. This crunchy jam comes off the band's 1970 record entitled Hard, Heavy, Mean, & Evil. At over six and a half minutes, "The Calm After the Storm" is the longest track included on this volume, but it never gets dull. Fun fact: before changing the name to Negative Space, Rob Russen called his band Snow and released the "Sunflower" 45 in 1969 - you might recall that groover from the First Trip.

We generally stick with American artists for this series, but every now and again something foreign grabs us and shakes us to the core. One example is the Schizo record from France, another is this Swedish 45 by Zane. These crazy Swedes did one incredibly damaged (hence the title) record on the MM label in 1976. These proto-punkers relied heavily on synth for this tune and mixed the drums so obnoxiously loud, you might think the kit is in the room with you. This is a weird one that somehow sounds like Zolar X covering Wicked Lady. Brown Acid material all the way!

B must be short for Bangers, 'cuz this side is full of 'em! The flip of this Trip begins with a virtually unknown Oklahoma record from 1973. Blizzard was Rod McClure's high school band, but you couldn't possibly guess that teenagers recorded this heavy slab on the Token (should've been Toking) label. It's one of the best we've comped and it sounds like a hypothetical MC5/Hendrix collaboration. The "Under the Ice" level drum fills will knock your socks off if the heavy shred doesn't first.

OOOOk-lahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain and apparently where the fuzz goes seepin' in your brain! Third World is the second Okie inclusion on this Trip and we couldn't be more stOOOOOked to be sharing this very obscure single with y'all. If the heavily distorted two-note riff doesn't grab ya, the apocalyptic Grand Funk vibes will. Once they get their mitts on ya, Third World will take you back to 1971 and leave ya there. Can we hitch a ride too?

Ever heard of Virginia, Minnesota? We hadn't either until we got in touch with Calvin Haluptzok and got the back story on his band Sweet Wine. This bitchin' one-off 45 must've melted the snow off the roofs of the households brave enough to play it when it came out in 1970 and it's still red hot nearly 50 years later. This vino may be sugary, but it packs an incendiary punch! Sadly, Calvin passed before we could get his music re-released, but it was nice to have reached him before it was too late. The Sweet Wine legacy lives on thanks to the Brown Acid archivists.

C.T. Pilferhogg wins the award for most puzzling band name in our series. What's not puzzling is how righteous both sides of their self-released 1973 single are! Featured here is the A-side "You Haul" which is one of the best examples of a poor man's Deep Heep (Deep Purple meets Uriah Heep) we've ever heard and the demonic Echoplex-laden laughs mixed into this track are out of control. The band was touted as "Southwest Virginia's Finest Boogie Band", but don't let that fool ya.vThey could bang heads with the best of 'em.

The closer on the Seventh Trip is one we hold very near and dear. Not only is this record the one that's taken us the longest to secure the rights to, it's also one of the very best examples of heavy psych you'll ever hear. The track rings your bell (literally) straight out of the gate and the dank psychedelic vibes kick in immediately. Summit's "The Darkness" was recorded in a basement studio in Kansas City in 1969 when the lead guitarist was only 16. The band was from a rural Missouri town, played only one impromptu gig in Clinton, and pressed only 125 copies of this, their only single. It should come as no surprise that it sells for hundreds of dollars when it's offered. That's a small price to pay for such greatness.

About the Brown Acid series:

Some of the best thrills of the Internet music revolution is the ability to find extremely rare music with great ease. But even with such vast archives to draw from, quite a lot of great songs have gone undiscovered for nearly half a century -- particularly in genres that lacked hifalutin arty pretense. Previously, only the most extremely dedicated and passionate record collectors had the stamina and prowess to hunt down long forgotten wonders in dusty record bins -- often hoarding them in private collections, or selling at ridiculous collector's prices. Legendary compilations like Nuggets, Pebbles, ad nauseum, have exhausted the mines of early garage rock and proto-punk, keeping alive a large cross-section of underground ephemera. However, few have delved into and expertly archived the wealth of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock tracks collected on
Brown Acid.

Lance Barresi, co-owner of L.A./Chicago retailer Permanent Records has shown incredible persistence in tracking down a stellar collection of rare singles from the 60s and 70s for the growing compilation series. Partnered with Daniel Hall of RidingEasy Records, the two have assembled a selection of songs that's hard to believe have remained unheard for so long.

"I essentially go through hell and high water just to find these records," Barresi says. "Once I find a record worthy of tracking, I begin the (sometimes) extremely arduous process of contacting the band members and encouraging them to take part. Daniel and I agree that licensing all the tracks we're using for
Brown Acid is best for everyone involved," rather than simply bootlegging the tracks. When all of the bands and labels haven't existed for 30-40 years or more, tracking down the creators gives all of these tunes a real second chance at success.

"There's a long list of songs that we'd love to include," Barresi says. "But we just can't track the bands down. I like the idea that Brown Acid is getting so much attention, so people might reach out to us."

Brown Acid: The Seventh Trip will be available everywhere on LP, CD and download on October 31st, 2018 via RidingEasy Records. Pre-orders are available for digital (with immediate download of the first single) at Bandcamp, physical pre-orders at RidingEasy Records.
Artist: Various Artists
Album: Brown Acid: The Seventh Trip
Label: RidingEasy Records
Release Date: October 31, 2018

01. Pegasus "The Sorcerer"
02. Nobody's Children "Good Times"
03. Blue Amber "We Got Love"
04. Negative Space "The Calm After The Storm"
05. Zane "Damage"
06. Blizzard "Peace of Mind"
07. Third World "End of Time"
08. Sweet Wine "Things You Told Me"
09. C.T. Pilferhogg "You Haul"
10. Summit "The Darkness"

On The Web:
www.ridingeasyrecords.com

Reissues on vinyl and cassette, just added as stream (all 12 tracks):
https://heavenstobetsykrs.bandcamp.com/album/calculated

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A fucking great record. Gut-wrenching and powerful. Corin (Sleater-Kinney) and Tracy (the Lies) caught many people's ears off guard with their loud & passionate early 90's debut. Now it's your turn.
credits
released March 1, 1994

Recorded and engineered by John Goodmanson Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, 1993 in Seattle.

Produced by Heavens To Betsy.

All songs copyright Heavens To Betsy.

Corin Tucker - guitar, vocals, drums on #6

Tracy Sawyer - drums, bass, guitar on #6, screams on #5

Also added (17 tracks):

https://bratmobile.bandcamp.com/album/pottymouth

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Another recent add on Kill Rock Stars' bandcamp---handy for a rainy day:

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2017 repress of The Raincoats' self-titled debut album.

“Within a minute, they seem to have trashed every female stereotype in rock and roll… I was amazed” – Greil Marcus, ‘Rolling Stone’ 1980.

The Raincoats, seminal post-punk band, ‘godmothers of grunge’ and inspiration to a generation of riot grrrls, are celebrating over three decades of breaking rules and doing things the way they think they should be done with a film that maps the band from its formation in the late 1970s when Gina Birch met Ana da Silva, and their journey to becoming one of the most important underground bands Britain has ever produced. Made up of rare archive footage, much of it unseen, and a series of new interviews with people who knew the band in the late seventies as well as artists and musicians who have been affected or inspired by their work, The Raincoats, Fairytales – A Work in Progress documents how Ana and Gina, along with their manager Shirley O’Loughlin and the various musicians who flowed in and out of the band’s many formations, created a sound that, while inspired by punk and rock music that had come before, was uniquely and uncompromisingly powerful and female, and which has held a fascination over all those lucky enough to have stumbled across it. The famous story is of course that of Kurt Cobain travelling to the Rough Trade shop in Talbot Road in 1992 in an attempt to replace his worn out copy of The Raincoats LP, a trip that in the end led to reissues of the band’s back catalogue and the offer of a tour with Nirvana that sadly never took place. The Raincoats have always impressed; in 1980 John Lydon announced in Trouser Press, “Rock’n’Roll is shit…music has reached an all-time low – except for The Raincoats.”

The band’s first gig was in November 1977 and by 1978, with a line-up including Palmolive of The Slits and Vicky Aspinall, they were an all-female band. Rough Trade Records released the band’s first single, "Fairytale in the Supermarket"/ "In Love"/ "Adventures Close to Home" in May 1979 and the women went on their first tour. The Raincoats, Odyshape, The Kitchen Tapes and Moving had all been released by 1984 and Ana and Gina turned to solo projects. It wasn’t until 1994 that The Raincoats performed together again on stage, to celebrate the reissues of their albums and since then they have only made rare live appearances, most noteably at Robert Wyatt’s 2001 Meltdown where they performed as the four-piece we will see them as tonight – Ana and Gina are joined by Anne Wood on violin and Jean-Marc Butty on drums.

The Raincoats inspire in their fans a kind of generous enthusiasm and genuine respect that is rare and difficult to explain. Delia of the band Mambo Taxi put it best in the sleeve-notes to the 1993 reissue of Moving, “How do you explain love at first sight? How can I put into words how much I like The Raincoats without falling into a sea of superlatives? … I love them and I don’t care if it’s sycophantic because it’s true.”

-Nazmia Jamal
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released February 6, 2012
https://killrockstars.bandcamp.com/album/the-raincoats

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Martin Dupont - The Complete Collection 1980-1988

Minimal Wave is proud to present The Complete Collection 1980-1988, a five LP box set by the highly lauded French group Martin Dupont. The band formed in Marseille in 1980 and consisted of Alain Seghir, Brigitte Balian, Beverley Jane Crew, and Catherine Loy. They were immensely talented with a rare dynamic between them that was likely inspired by a combination of their magnetic personalities, creative vision and and the home studio where they recorded. The music they made was colorful, enthusiastic and delicate, but also melancholy and mysterious. A mixture of hot and cold, light and dark. They made electronic music that incorporated guitars and clarinets and are described by many as a New Wave band yet they truly transcended genres. They had some mainstream success finding themselves opening for bands like The Lotus Eaters, The Lounge Lizards and Siouxsie and the Banshees, without any intention of ever being a commercial enterprise. In Beverley Jane Crew’s words, “the songs just tumbled out in a completely organic and spontaneous way and as soon as they were recorded on the four track, they were shared with friends on tapes, openly and excitedly.”

They released three studio albums: Just Because, Sleep Is A Luxury and Hot Paradox, one cassette entitled Inédits 1981-1983 and one 7” single entitled Your Passion. In 2008, Minimal Wave released a compilation of selected tracks entitled Lost And Late. Now one decade later, we are excitedly releasing our first box set for this phenomenal band.

The Complete Collection 1980-1988 consists of all of Martin Dupont’s recorded material to date in the form of five 180 gram vinyl LPs and spans 60 songs recorded between 1980 and 1988. Along with the five LPs, the box contains a 12 page LP-sized full color booklet featuring previously unpublished photographs of the band, their history, and select song lyrics. The box itself is bound in platinum grey linen, with black foil type and both booklet and box are designed by NYC based artist Peter Miles. All five LPs are pressed on black 180 gram vinyl and feature the original artwork of the French artist Yves Cheynet. The box set is limited to 500 copies, limit one per customer please. Pre-order information will be available very soon. In the meantime, please email your full name along with subject line “Martin Dupont Box Set” to info at minimal wave dot com if you are interested in securing one.

http://minimalwave.com/articles/article/martin-dupont-the-complete-collection-1980-1988

xp

um, this part:

Made up of rare archive footage, much of it unseen, and a series of new interviews with people who knew the band in the late seventies as well as artists and musicians who have been affected or inspired by their work, The Raincoats, Fairytales – A Work in Progress documents how Ana and Gina, along with their manager Shirley O’Loughlin and the various musicians who flowed in and out of the band’s many formations, created a sound that, while inspired by punk and rock music that had come before, was uniquely and uncompromisingly powerful and female, and which has held a fascination over all those lucky enough to have stumbled across it.

seems to refer to a film, and not the debut LP? any insight there?

The ninth Melodies International release is a reissue of Bobby Wright's sought-after 1974 7-inch, Blood Of An American.
ad seen on https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/41009

it's quite stunning: https://open.spotify.com/track/5mzg92y6Twcay0OUlRLuRK?si=u7aTPgM8Rdq7zlu1CBFioA

any relation to Willie Wright?

xp dunno why ref to the film was stuck in there, but intriguing:
From Wiki On 28 March 2009, The Raincoats-Fairytales-A Work in Progress, directed by Birch and produced by the Raincoats, was screened at the British Film Institute in London.
From BFI

Cast
interviewee Geoff Travis
interviewee Caroline Coon
interviewee Lucy O'Brien
interviewee Vivien Goldman
interviewee Robert Wyatt
interviewee Ditto, Beth
interviewee Peaches
interviewee Viviane Albertine
interviewee Green
interviewee Andy Gill
interviewee Ana da Silva
interviewee Gina Birch
interviewee Shirley O'Loughlin
interviewee Jean-Marc Butty
interviewee Anne Wood
interviewee Vicky Aspinall
interviewee Jane Woodgate
Credits
Direction:
Directed by Gina Birch
Production:
Production Company Gina Birch
Producer Gina Birch
Producer Ana da Silva
Producer Shirley O'Loughlin
Photography:
Live Footage Filmed by Maria Helena da Silva
Live Footage Filmed by Manuel Castilho
Live Footage Filmed by Paulo Castilho
'Scream', 'Jumps', 'USA' Super 8 by Gina Birch
'Roadsigns' & 'Burning' Super 8 by Gina Birch
'Her Room' Photography Ana da Silva
Stills:
Still Photographs Shirley O'Loughlin
Additional Stills by Janette Beckman
Additional Stills by Carlos van Hijfte
Additional Stills by Annette Weatherman
Additional Stills by Rocco
Additional Stills by Carmen Knoebel
Additional Stills by Pat Kepic
Editing:
Edited by Gina Birch

trailer may still be here, although "this plug-in is not supported" (on my Chrome, anyway)
http://www.ginabirch.net/theginabirchexperience/trailer_fairytales_work_in_progress.html

from https://davidchiumusicwritings.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/245/"> https://davidchiumusicwritings.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/245/:
Birch says she also plans to interview Sonic Youth members Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley and Thurston Moore for the documentary during her visit to America.

“The film will weave together films made from the ’70s onward,” she says, “both of our live footage and segments from Super 8 films that were made at art school as well as new creative sections — with work about gender, feminism, clothes and creativity.”

A couple I've been digging in recent Tweets (longer takes on Rolling Country and Charlie's own thread)
Both done right by Ace:
Charlie Rich, Too Many Teardrops - The Complete Groove & RCA Recordings: Choirs, strings oops upside your head, get bearable and even occasionally useful, incl. killing weakest songs. Always we get Big Ol Charlie on lil cat feet---that voice, them keys! 40 tracks---I like a lot, love several.

George Jones/Jones Boys: Live in TX '65: Brave ballads of self-torture x "C Jam Blues," "White Lightnin'," "Bony Maronie," "B Bowman Bop." Panhandle Rag," "Jole Blon," JB trusty/Bladerunner crooner also cool w girl part on "We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds," heavy guests too Guests are steel guitarist Buddy Emmons and fiddlers Red Hayes and (on "Jole Blond") Rufus Thibodeaux ("Two-By-Four," George calls him). The JBs crooner is Don Adams---android-sounding, strangely satisfying.

After buying those and related, this popped up in my Amazon Recommends:

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Marianne Faithfull--Come and Stay with Me: The UK 45s 1964-1969

Also
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Jackie DeShannon, Stone Cold Soul--The Complete Capitol Recordings

And! Another one on Ace:
Cover Me--The Eddie Hinton Songbook

A cult hero among those who know and love their Muscle Shoals music, Eddie was a fixture of the Shoals recording scene in the mid-late 60s. As well as being a prolific and immediately recognisable session guitarist, and a great singer who sadly recorded far too infrequently, Eddie regularly wrote fine songs with a peer group that at various times included Donnie Fritts and Dan Penn. 'Cover Me' features a comprehensive selection of Eddie's best-known copyrights, many of which are now regarded as classics of 60s southern soul. Not all of Eddie's songs are as well-known as his biggest hit, the much-recorded 'Breakfast In Bed', but there are several others here that could and should have been just as commercially successful.

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Breakfast in Bed - Dusty Springfield
2. Down in Texas - Oscar Toney JR
3. Cover Me - Jackie Moore
4. A Little Bit Salty - Bobby Womack
5. Sure As Sin - Candi Staton
6. 300 Pounds of Hongry - Tony Joe White
7. Masquerade - Don Varner
8. Always David - the Sweet Inspirations
9. Poor Mary Has Drowned - Brick Wall
10. It's All Wrong But It's Alright - Eddie Hinton
11. Help Me Make It (Power of a Woman's Love) - Mink Deville
12. Save the Children - Cher
13. Every Natural Thing - Aretha Franklin
14. If I Had Let You in - the Box Tops
15. Satisfaction Guaranteed - Judy White
16. Standing on the Mountain - Percy Sledge
17. I Got the Feeling - the Amazing Rhythm Aces
18. Home for the Summer - the Hour Glass Featuring Greg and Duane Allman
19. Lay It on Me - Gwen McCrae
20. People in Love - Lou Johnson
21. Where You Come from - Bonnie Bramlett
22. Seventeen Year Old Girl - Mickey Buckins & the New Breed
23. Love Waits for No Man - Al Johnson
24. Where's Eddie - Lulu