Rolling Reissues 2018

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)
In Stock
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)
In Stock
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)
In Stock
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:

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/MWdLQkJKL3EvWDBIb0JQb0tVRnpSQT09/mutima-cecil-mcbee.jpg

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.:
http://view.e.wbr.com/?qs=dfa6ba5efaac2fe0ff27459271d7ff904e14068829547b403b61d7af337af886a04129ee5e764a6761884f44cc2f9df7a3439dfa3b98481c87b5e9e38da51684341e4b392383c70b

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:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/bobby-hutcherson-happenings-1967

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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!

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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.)

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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".

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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!)

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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?