Rolling Reissues 2021

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Cuba: Music and Revolution: Culture Clash in Havana: Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 1 is the new album compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) that explores the many new styles that emerged in Cuba in the 1970s as Jazz, Funk, Brazilian Tropicalia and even Disco mixed together with Latin and Salsa on the island as Cuban artists experimented with new musical forms created in the unique socialist state of Cuba.

The album comes as a heavyweight 3xLP and deluxe 2xCD set, complete with extensive sleeve notes, and is jam-packed with heavy bass lines, synth and Wah-Wah guitar funk combined with the heavyweight percussion, powerful brass lines and the all-encompassing Latin rhythms of Cuban music known throughout the world.

The album is released to coincide with the massive new deluxe large format book Cuba: Music and Revolution: Original Cover Art of Cuban Music: Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1959-90, published in November, which is also compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records), and which features the music and record designs of Cuba, made in the 30-year period following the Cuban Revolution.

The music on this album features legendary Cuban groups such as Irakere, Los Van Van and Pablo Milanés as well as a host of lesser known artists such as the radical Grupo De Experimentación, Juan Pablo Torres and Algo Nuevo, Grupo Monumental and Orquesta Ritmo Oriental, groups whose names remain largely unknown outside of Cuba owing to the now 60-year old US trade embargo which remains in place today and which prevents trade with Cuba – and thus most Cuban records were only ever available in Cuba or in ex-Soviet Union states.

The music on this album reflects the most cutting-edge of Cuban groups that were recording in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s – who were all searching for a new Cuban identity and new musical forms that reflected both the Afro-Cuban cultural heritage of a nation that gave birth to Latin music - and its new position as a socialist state. Most of the music featured on this album have never been heard outside of Cuba.

Both Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker have been involved in Cuban music for more than two decades – Gilles Peterson with his many Havana Cultura projects for his Brownswood label and Stuart Baker with a number of Soul Jazz Records albums recorded in Cuba. This Soul Jazz Records album is released in conjunction with Egrem, the Cuban state record company, and has been put together after the many crate-digging trips that both compilers have made on the streets of Havana and beyond in Cuba stretching over a 20-year period, searching out rare and elusive original Cuban vinyl records.

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*Please note the vinyl sticker of this album says "+download code" but it's a mistake! There is no download with this particular album. Sorry for this error!
3-LP, 2-CD. More info, audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/cuba-music-and-revolution

Here's the book, looks great: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/original-album-cover-art-of-cuban-music-

This press sheet says the album is Out Today, may mean UK---Amazon US says Feb. 12 (they'll have both the vinyl and CD sets, supposedly).

Catching up w this: Where to Begin with Touch and Go Records on Bandcamp
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/touch-and-go-list

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Continuing the 50th celebrations and following December’s special multi-format release of Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, The Kinks return again with the unveiling of The Moneygoround one-man show live stream - available to watch as a one time broadcast HERE at The Kinks’ YouTube channel on January 29th at 8PM (GMT). Subscribe to the channel now to set a reminder.

Ray commented: “The Moneygoround' is a one-man show documenting a character facing the challenging circumstances of making an album under extreme pressure. This play, similar to a psychodrama, follows the ups and downs of the character as he plays out events in his life. He confronts the dark forces surrounding him after falling into an emotional and financial "hole" eventually he is saved by a song after confiding in his friend, Lola."

The 45-minute play is co-written by Ray and Paul Sirett, who worked with him on "Come Dancing" and the BBC Radio 4 play "Arthur."

This unique audio-visual production has been intimately filmed with the Actor Ben Norris as the leading Character - https://bennorris.net. The presentation will also feature video content inserts of archive footage. The whole show will also include the "Any Time 2020" lyric video, the "Lola" Unboxing Video, and the "Lola" lyric video.

Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, commonly abbreviated to Lola Versus Powerman, or just Lola, is the eighth studio album by The Kinks, recorded and released in 1970. A concept album ahead of its time, it’s a satirical appraisal of the music industry, including song publishers, unions, the press, accountants, business managers, and life on the road. One of the all-time classic Kinks albums.

Although it appeared during a transitional period for The Kinks, Lola Versus Powerman was a success both critically and commercially for the group, charting in the Top 40 in America and helping restore them in the public eye, making it a "comeback" album. It contained two hit singles: "Lola," which reached the #9 US, #2 UK, and Germany - becoming the Kinks' biggest success since "Sunny Afternoon" in 1966 - and "Apeman," which peaked at #5 in the UK and Germany.

The special multi-format release of Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One is out now as a lovingly produced Deluxe Box Set, 1LP, Deluxe 2CD, 1CD, and digitally - order here.

The Moneygoround is a show not to be missed!
https://thekinks.info/

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LIMITED EDITION PURPLE VINYL

CLASSIC and rare Brazilian album from 1973 including the KILLER bossa dance cut Ain't No Sunshine plus tunes by Edu Lobo, Jobim and Sivuca himself. One of the best Brazil/bossa/jazz dance albums ever! Post- Sergio Mendes, Tropicalia, seriously uplifting and beautiful stuff!
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/sivuca-sivuca

T2: It’ll All Work Out In Boomland, 3CD Digipak
T2

£17.99
Released March 26, 2021.

• NEW RE-MASTERED & EXPANDED 3CD DIGIPACK EDITION OF THE CLASSIC 1970 ALBUM BY T2
• EXPANDED TO INCLUDE TWO ADDITIONAL CDs OF ARCHIVE RECORDINGS FROM 1970 & 1971-1972
• NEWLY RE-MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL DECCA MASTER TAPES
• WITH ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET & ESSAY

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a re-mastered and expanded 3CD digipack edition of the cult 1970 album by Progressive Rock power trio T2. Formed in 1970 by PETER DUNTON, a former drummer with GUN, and former members of BULLDOG BREED, guitarist and backing vocalist KEITH CROSS and BERNARD JINKS (bass, backing vocals), T2 officially released one classic studio album during their short career, It’ll All Work Out in Boomland, issued by Decca Records in July 1970. Taking the template established by acts such as THE WHO, CREAM and JEFF BECK GROUP, the maturity of the music belies the young age of the band. Featuring only four tracks, the album’s highlights included No More White Horses, perhaps the piece-de-resistance of the album, an amazingly powerful song with a wonderful horn arrangement, building to a powerful feedback-laden climax and the twenty-minute long Morning.

The album earned much praise upon its release and the band’s live performances hailed the teenager KEITH CROSS as “the new Eric Clapton”, much against his wishes. Despite this, issues with their record company, combined with a general dissatisfaction led to Cross departing the band after the trio had recorded a series of excellent tracks for a potential second album that failed to materialise after the band were dropped by Decca. By 1971 Bernard Jinks had also departed and Peter Dunton formed a new line-up of the band featuring guitarist ANDREW BOWN and bassist JOHN WEIR. This new line-up performed on the UK concert circuit and also recorded a series of fine tracks in the search of a new recording contract. Alas, by the end of 1972 T2 disbanded.

By the new millennium It’ll All Work Out in Boomland had been re-appraised and had attracted a cult following among aficionados of Progressive and Underground rock of the early 1970s, even leading to several tracks being sampled by DJs on Dance tracks. This Esoteric Recordings edition has been newly re-mastered from the original Decca master tapes and has been expanded by a further two CDs featuring their later recordings made in 1970 and 1971-1972. T2’s sole Decca album is presented here as a recognised classic of the era. Open your ears to Boomland!

Track Listing:

DISC ONE:
IT’LL ALL WORK OUT IN BOOMLAND
THE ORIGINAL ALBUM RE-MASTERED

1. IN CIRCLES
2. J.L.T.
3. NO MORE WHITE HORSES
4. MORNING

DISC TWO:
T2 – 1970 SESSIONS

1. HIGHWAY
2. CAREFUL SAM
3. TIMOTHY MONDAY
4. CD
5. THE MINSTREL
6. FANTASY
7. T2

DISC THREE:
1971 – 1972

1. AND TIME
2. LOOKING BACK
3. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
4. SEVENTY-TWO
5. THE CLOWN
6. THE GAMBLER
7. CLOSING YOUR EYES
8. INTO THE RED
9. PDQ

nice!!

Sacred Reich's The American Way, Surf Nicaragua, and Ignorance are all being reissued by Metal Blade on CD and LP on February 12.

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LP
Reissue of 'Spring', the classic 1968 debut album by pianist Ibrahim Khalil Shihab!

This edition of Shihab’s stunning debut is the first time it has been properly available in over forty years, and the first time it has ever been available outside South Africa. Restored and presented with new liner notes by Valmont Layne, Spring can now be seen for what it is: a peerless masterwork of Cape Jazz, blessed by the presence of the great Mankunku, but truly animated by the subtle vision and original musical spirit of its creator, Ibrahim Khalil Shihab.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/_36

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LP
Kirk Lightsey and Rudolph Johnson with the All Stars
Habiba

Never released outside South Africa, and out of print even there since its original release in 1974, Outernational Sounds reissue one of the most sought-after international jazz exclusives ever to appear on South Africa’s famous Gallo imprint – the funky, spiritual and outward bound Habiba. Features Black Jazz records legend, Rudolph Johnson!
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/habiba

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2xLP
being
Broxburn Funk
FIRECRACKER RECORDINGS

Firecracker release this archive material from cult UK techno producer, being, who released some sought-after releases on Andrew Weatherall's Emissions Audio Output sub-label, Special Emissions and also collaborated with Detroit's Claude Young.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/broxburn-funk

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LP in stock, CD out of stock
Nahawa Doumbia
Kanawa
AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA

Awesome Tapes From Africa release 'Kanawa' by Malian singer Nahawa Doumbia, recorded in Bamako with a full ensemble produced by longtime collaborator N'gou Bagayoko.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/kanawa

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Andrew Weatherall: A Jockey Slut Tribute
JOCKEY SLUT

Book
DON'T MISS OUT on this ESSENTIAL book! An extensive, informative book on main man Andy Weatherall from those who knew him best including ... Bobby Gillespie, Danny Rampling, David Holmes, Keith Tenniswood, Terry Farley and many more!

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Andrew Weatherall was the acid house generation’s most inspiring DJ and producer, renowned for his work on Primal Scream’s epoch-defining ‘Screamadelica’ and his own bands Sabres Of Paradise and Two Lone Swordsmen. As a DJ he was peerless and unpredictable, helming club nights that played techno, rockabilly or music that “never knowingly exceeded 122 bpm.”

Weatherall featured in seminal dance music magazine Jockey Slut many times during its lifetime. All his interviews from the publication are included within this tribute to The Guv’nor. Further articles cover the tenure of his professional life from the mid-80s to 2020. They include his beginnings at the influential Boy’s Own fanzine, his DJ sets at landmark nights Shoom and Sabresonic, and the plethora of ventures he still had running including the Woodleigh Research Project, A Love From Outer Space and festival Convenanza.

Jockey Slut magazine ran from 1993 - 2004. The influential club culture publication was started by John Burgess and Paul Benney as a self published Manchester based fanzine. It became a monthly when it moved to London in 1999. Jockey Slut was notable for being more music-centric, left-field and irreverent than other dance music magazines. It also bagged some real exclusives during its tenure giving first ever interviews to The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk and The Avalanches.

Included in the 160 page, perfect bound book edited by founding Jockey Slut editor John Burgess is:

- All Andrew Weatherall's Jockey Slut interviews collated (1993-2004) including Weatherall Gets His Tats Out, I’m A Classic Underachiever, Two Lone Swordsmen and An Audience With... and more.
- Further new features and classic articles from Luke Una, Richard Norris, Kris Needs, Joe Muggs, Jim Butler, Mandi James, Lee Brackstone and more.
- Brand new 10,000+ word oral history of Andrew Weatherall’s early years from Shoom & Screamadelica to Sabres of Paradise featuring interviews with Bobby Gillespie, Ed Simons, Danny Rampling, Justin Robertson, Andrew Innes, David Holmes, Keith Tenniswood, Anna Haigh, Terry Farley and more.
- Retrospective of Andrew Weatherall’s club nights Sabresonic, Bloodsugar, Double Gone Chapel, Wrong Meeting, A Love From Outer Space by John Burgess.
All proceeds from the book will go to the charities that were important to Andrew Weatherall: Amnesty International, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Thrombosis UK, Crisis.

More info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/andrew-weatherall-a-jockey-slut-tribute

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GAS
Zauberberg
KOMPAKT

CD
CLASSIC Wolfgang Voigt production from 1997 reissued via Kompakt! 'Zauberberg' laid the foundations for the GAS sound - a noxious blend of dragging orchestral arrangement with the weight of dread-heavy dub.

More info, audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/gas-zauberberg

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CD
GAS
Königsforst
KOMPAKT

Following the 1997 release of ZAUBERBERG, Wolfgang Voigt’s ambient GAS project returned with KÖNIGSFORST, a full length that has stood the test of time as a template for introducing fundamentals of 90’s techno into the principles of contemporary electronic music.

KÖNIGSFORST brings glimmers of light into Voigt’s dark, magnificent forest. Melodic strings and brass are added to his signature layers of ominous intensity. The forest path is laid out by distant, muffled kick drums as deeply detuned classical music loops incessantly swirl with no direction.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/gas-knigsforst

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CD
GAS
Pop
KOMPAKT

Classic material from Wolfgang Voigt's GAS project that originally surfaced on the cult Mille Plateaux label in 2000. An opiated haze that nods to Wagner with ambient techno and drone touches - one to get utterly lost in!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/gas-pop

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New LP
Limited red vinyl edition
Out of stock

RZA
Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (Music From The Motion Picture)
36 CHAMBERS

Classic RZA score to Jim Jarmusch's meditative tale of honour and code of conduct starring Forest Whitaker and the great Henry Silva. Features appearances by Wu Tang Clan.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/rza-ghost-dog-the-way-of-the-samurai-music-from-the-motion-picture

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CD
In stock
MP3
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100% Dynamite (New Edition)
Ska, Soul, Rocksteady & Funk in Jamaica
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

This is the new digitally remastered expanded edition of Soul Jazz Records’ biggest ever selling reggae release, 100% Dynamite: Ska, Soul, Rocksteady and Funk in Jamaica.

If you didn't get it the first time now's your chance to find out where it all began - all killer no filler!. If you did and wore it out get it now with bonus tracks and free download code!

Since the album’s original release nearly twenty years ago, 100% Dynamite has become a cornerstone of funky reggae music: Eighteen killer tracks that show the influence that American Jazz, Funk and Soul music had on Jamaican Reggae.

100% Dynamite features come serious Jamaican funk by Jackie Mittoo, The Upsetters and Toots & The Maytals, the cream of Jamaica's jazz musicians such as Tommy McCook, Cedric Brooks and Lennie Hibbert. Also included here are heavyweight Reggae versions to Soul classics by Marlena Shaw’s ‘Woman of the Ghetto’, Aretha Franklin’s ‘Rocksteady’, Syl Johnson’s ‘Is It Because I’m Black’, William DeVaughan’s seminal ‘Be Thankful’ and more.

100% Dynamite also features revolutionary tunes such as Johnny Osbourne’s ‘We Need Love, Sound Dimension’s ‘Drum Song’ and Lloyd Robinson’s ‘Cuss Cuss’, songs that helped define a unique sound for Jamaican music in the sixties and seventies.

These influences went both ways – check Brentford All Stars massive ‘Greedy G’, the basis for Boogie Down Productions’ ‘Jack of Spades’, or Willie Williams’ ‘Armagideon Time’ later covered by The Clash.

This new expanded edition features seminal tracks from the greatest Jamaican producers – Clement Dodd, Lee Perry, Winston Riley (Techniques) and many more.

The album is available as CD, heavyweight double vinyl (+download), plus digital.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/100-dynamite-2015-edition-ska-soul-rocksteady-funk-in-jamaica

No idear about this, except the hype shouts up my alley,*and* album gets extra points for ugly cover:

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LP
American Gypsy
Angel Eyes (1974)
MUSIC ON VINYL

This record is so heavy! An absolute bomb! 'Inside Out' is an AWESOME tune! - one of the heaviest bass lines of all-time, super tough Fender Rhodes keys and vocalist Steve Clisby sounds more like Gil Scott-Heron than well Gil Scott-Heron!

'Golden Ring' is like Jon Lucien meets Terry Callier before dropping in and out of wild jazz dance sections. 'Stuck on You' is an UNBELIEVABLY uplifting soulful tune!

This album is one of the most in-demand rare groove releases ever from a group that most people have never heard off.

Pre-order special limited edition GOLD coloured vinyl
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The Original Sound Of Mali (Ltd. Blue Vinyl Edition)
Various Artists
MR BONGO

2xLP

Killer comp showcasing the rich history of musical innovation from Mali - arguably the most sophiscated form of African music. Vik Sohonie & Dave Buttle have put together a collection of tracks from across the country steeped in Malian culture, and, in particular, the immense hypnotic beauty of Malian music. Featuring Malian musical legends such as Sory Bamba, Rail Band, Mory Kante and Salif Keita, as well as lesser known gems from Idrissa Soumaoro et L’Eclipse de L’Ija.

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CD in stock
Antoinette Konan
Antoinette Konan
AWESOME TAPES FROM AFRICA

Reissue of Antoinette Konan's self-titled, electro-Baoulé blaster from 1986! This eponymous album features nothing more than her ahoko on the cover. The deceptively simple traditional percussion instrument transformed Ivory Coast’s Baoulé music scene when Konan deployed it against a roaring electrified backdrop of synth, bass guitar and drum machines. This album is a veritable UFO of instrumental force and contemporary pop sensibility landing in a boiling pot of diverse, creative characters inhabiting Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire).

More info, audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/_19
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‘Let’s Take It To The Stage’ is basically an album of offcuts but it always sounded really coherent to me...probably my favourite

^^ sorry wrong thread

I agree, though!

Mr Bongo has a tracklisting for a cd of that Original Sound of Mali but I couldn't find a cd copy on their site.
Has that come and gone already or something?

I just now checked that soundoftheuniverse store link in the post: CD still in stock.

couldn't find it there when I looked. Looks like it is actually an older release getting a special coloured vinyl release. looks like it actually came out in 2017 from discogs. Looked ion there and they had cd copies but didn't see them on either MR Bongo the release label's page or that Sounds of the universe. maybe search engine needed another specific cos I just got taken to the 2 different vinyl versions

I'm still seeing it here: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/_19

That's where it says "CD in stock" and has excerpts of all tracks.

Original Sound of Mali? That's come up as a different cd on my computer.

Sorry! It's this of course: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-original-sound-of-mali: limited edition blue vinyl, 2-LP, in stock. Orig release was a while back, but new pressing seems worth a new post.

Don't know this guy (or movie), but also did music for the awes Get Carter (then again, so much going on in that, don't remember the music) Must check some of his (incl. maybe this) on 'Tube:

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**Limited blue vinyl edition and deluxe gatefold, tip-on sleeve!! Expensive but worth it!!**

SUPER-RARE soundtrack to the 1974 crime thriller 'The Marseille Contract' scored by the great Roy Budd! First time EVER on vinyl!

The score is a prime example of Roy Budd’s signature action thriller jazz / crime sound but only ever had a release in France on 7” for promotional use. Undoubtedly one of Budd's greatest; tough, dark, tense, biting, orchestrated jazz-funk (check the incredible 'Jazz It Up'!) with some absolutely monster BREAKS - don't miss!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/roy-budd-the-marseille-contract-original-motion-picture-soundtrack

Aw man the Get Carter score is sooo good, will check this out

for reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kMhcf8eyiA

^yess also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrV3WB9YlZU

Wow! Any relation to Harold Budd?

A Record Store Day feature:

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Golden Age: 25 Years Of Signature Sounds
Artist: Various Artists
Format: CD
On January 29, 2021 Signature Sounds will release a double-album collection, celebrating 25 years as a record label. The 37-song compilation, Golden Age: 25 Years of Signature Sounds features Signature artists old and new like Josh Ritter, Lake Street Dive, Chris Smither, Eilen Jewell, Lori McKenna, Heather Maloney, The Suitcase Junket, and Winterpills. Labelpresident Jim Olsen writes, 'To celebrate 25 unpredictable years as a record label, we've put together a 37-song collection. The approach was to make it a really good sounding album, rather than just the biggest hits. We wanted to make it a really nice listen all the way through and showcase the artists to their best effect.' Described as 'The ultimate destination for independent-minded folk, Americana, roots and rock artists', Signature Sounds is based in Northampton, MA and has released over 175 albums of singer-songwriter, Americana, modern folk and rock music.
DISC: 1

1. Josh Ritter/Me & Jiggs
2. Eilen Jewell/Rain Roll In
3. Birds Of Chicago/Superlover
4. Chris Smither/Seems So Real
5. Kris Delmhorst/1000 Reasons
6. Winterpills/Freeze Your Light
7. Amy Rigby/Dancing With Joey Ramone
8. Joy Kills Sorrow/Was It You?
9. Heather Maloney /All In Your Name
10. Richard Shindell/Confession
11. Bridget Kearney/Wash Up
12. Barnstar!/Darling
13. The Sweetback Sisters/Looking For A Fight
14. Taylor Ashton/Straight Back
15. Sometymes Why/Glorious Machine
16. Redbird/Ships
17. Zoe Muth/Mama Needs A Margarita
18. Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem/Joy Comes Back

DISC: 2

1. Lake Street Dive/You Go Down Smooth
2. Parsonsfield/Weeds Or Wildflowers
3. Erin McKeown/La Petite Mort
4. The Suitcase Junket/Beta Star
5. Crooked Still/Undone In Sorrow
6. Jeffrey Foucault/Everybody’s Famous
7. And The Kids/No Way Sit Back
8. The Mammals/Follow Me To Carthage
9. Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer/Ordinary Town
10. Lori McKenna/Bible Song
11. Peter Mulvey/Sad Sad Sad Sad (And Faraway From Home)
12. Twisted Pine/Right Now
13. The Sacred Shakers/Taggin’ Along With Jesus
14. Mary Gauthier/Good-bye
15. Dustbowl Revival/Busted
16. Mark Erelli/Five Beer Moon
17. Jim Henry & Brooks Williams/Gender Bender
18. Philip B. Price/Whiskey Bells
19. Caroline Herring/True Colors

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Amancio D'Silva
Konkan Dance
THE ROUNDTABLE

LP
Reissue of guitar genius' Amancio D’Silva’s 1972 recording 'Konkan Dance'! The Roundtable reissue this lost long player which is one of the most beguiling examples of D’Silva’s blend of jazz, rock and Indian music. On these sessions Amancio is accompanied by an all-star line-up including Stan Tracey, Don Rendell, Alan Branscombe and Clem Alford. 'Konkan Dance'
More info, audio:
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Sun Ra and His Outer Space Arkestra
A Fireside Chat With Lucifer
MODERN HARMONIC

LP, CD
While the most renowned track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled, proto-hip hop classic 'Nuclear War,' there is so much more to this dark mysterious journey through the mind of Sun Ra.
More info, audio:
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The Sun Ra Arkestra
Thunder Of The Gods (Coloured Vinyl Edition)
MODERN HARMONIC

LP
**Limited, coloured vinyl edition!**

A new Sun Ra LP touches ground in the earthly bins, 50 years after its creation!

Sun Ra and the Arkestra weren’t a traditional studio band, and every star in the vast galaxy of their discography reflects this. The origins of these records can be hard to pinpoint at times, but when it comes to Thunder Of The Gods, it’s a bit easier. “Calling Planet Earth – We’ll Wait For You” was discovered on tapes from Ra’s, Universe In Blue, believed to be recorded in ’71. The raucous title track and “Moonshots Across the Sky” are unearthed from the ’66 Strange Strings sessions.
More info, audio:
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The Sun Ra Arkestra
The Antique Blacks
ART YARD

CD
In this album Sun Ra blends elements of free jazz, off-key synth explorations, and experimental theatre into an other-worldly concoction that doesn’t crop up anywhere else in the Arkestra’s massive discography.

Although Sun Ra wouldn’t have called Earth home, there were a couple of cities that proved to have considerable significance on him and his music, and Philadelphia was one of the places that he really felt in his element. The vitality you can hear on Antique Blacks is a testament to the unique energy of the community around The Foxhole Cafe in Philly.

More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-sun-ra-arkestra-the-antique-blacks

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Klaus Schulze
Next of Kin
THE ROUNDTABLE

LP
Soundtrack to the 'ozploitation' classic 'Next of Kin' from '82 - a highly stylised psychological thriller scored by none other than ex-Tangerine Dream / Ash Ra Tempel drummer and German electronic music pioneer, Klaus Schulze. The music featured in the film is a unique hybrid of pulsing Giallo-moods and hypnotic 'Berlin-School' electronica.

This is the first time time these recordings have been made available. Remastered from the original master tapes

More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/next-of-kin

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Vis-A-Vis
Odo Gu Ahorow
WE ARE BUSY BODIESAFRICAN

LP
Reissue of the second, 1976 album by Ghanian group, Vis-A-Vis! Led by vocalist Isaac 'Superstar' Yeboah and featuring Sammy Cropper on guitar, Slim Manu on bass and Gybson 'Shaolin Kung-Fu' Papra on drums, Vis-A-Vis helped propel K. Frimpong to fame as one of Ghana's most popular stars of the 1970s. On some of Frimpong's albums, they also overlapped as part of his other recording band, the Cubano Fiestas.

More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/odo-gu-ahorow

*Steve Reid* w Brandon Ross, whom I know from his work w Henry Threadrill and Harriet Tubman (jazz-rock-hip-hop power trio):

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New Life Trio
Visions Of The Third Eye
EARLY FUTURE RECORDS

LP+Download Code
Official super limited-edition bespoke independent press release of this SEMINAL and iconic, 1979, spiritual jazz classic!

Super-rare, spiritual jazz masterpeice from the legendary drummer Steve Reid with Brandon Ross on guitar and David Wertman on bass.

This stunning release includes a 20 page fanzine featuring an in-depth testimonial and interview with Brandon Ross, and an essay by Finders Keepers' Andy Votel, as well as archival photos, scores and reviews. ESSENTIAL!

This album was originally released on Steve Reid's own Mustevic Sound label in New York.

The hypnotic 'Empty Streets' featured on Soul Jazz Records' early Universal Sounds of America release. You may also recognise the cover art as the basis for our book/album project Freedom, Rhythm and Sound made with Gilles Peterson back in 2009.

More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/visions-of-the-third-eye

Back in stock:

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Trojan---The Story of Trojan Records
By Laurence Cane-Honeysett
TROJAN

Book
MASSIVE new book (300+ pages!)

A lavish, fully illustrated deluxe book, an official history, from the label’s archivist, historian Laurence Cane-Honeysett

Includes hundreds of photographs, record sleeves, labels and archive material, much of it not seen for many years.

More info:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/by-laurence-canehoneysett

Coming in April, supposedly. No tracklist yet. Dunno the source of the hyper-capitalized notes below.

Following Recent Super-Deluxe Editions And Multi-Format Releases Of Classic Who Albums – ‘My Generation’, ‘Tommy’ And ‘Quadrophenia’, And The Success Of ‘Live At Fillmore’, We Follow With The Who Sell Out – This Set Shaping Up To Be The Most Superlative Of All…!!

Released In December 1967 – The Album Reflected A Remarkable Year In Popular Culture. As Well As Being Forever Immortalised As The Moment When The Counterculture And The ‘Love Generation’ Went Global, 1967 Produced Tremendous Musical Upheavals As “Pop” Metamorphosed To “Rock”.

Originally Planned By Pete Townshend And The Band’s Managers, As A Loose Concept Album Including Jingles And Commercials Linking The Songs Styled As A Radio London Broadcast – Born Out Of Necessity As The Band’s Managers Wanted A New Album And There Weren’t Enough Songs.

The Original Plan Was To Sell Advertising Space On The Album – Jaguar Cars, Coca-Cola Etc. The Jingles Pay Tribute To The Pirate Radio Stations And Expose The Myths Of ‘Pop-Culture’ And Mock Consumer Society – Way Ahead Of Their Time…

The Homage To Pop-Art Is Evident In Both The Advertising Jingles And The Iconic Sleeve Design – Created By David King (Art Director At The Sunday Times) And Roger Law (Who Invented Spitting Image) Producing Four Giant Images For Each Band Member – Odorono Deodorant, Medac Spot Cream, Charles Atlas And Heinz Baked Beans (Roger Apparently Caught Pneumonia From Sitting In The Cold Beans For Too Long).

Photography By Renowned Portrait Photographer David Montgomery (Rare Out-Takes Included)

The Album Is A Bold Depiction Of The Period In Which It Was Made – The Tail-End Of The ‘Swinging-60s’ Meets Pop-Art Mixed With Psychedelia And Straight-Ahead Pop Craft. It’s Glorious Blend Of Classic Powerful Who Instrumentation, Melodic Harmonies, Satirical Lyrical Imagery Crystallised For What Was Only The Group’s Third Album – The Ambition And Scope Is Unrivalled By The Who, Or Any Others From That Period.

Within The Bold Concept, Were A Batch Of Fabulous And Diverse Songs – I Can See For Miles (A Top Ten Hit) Is A Who Classic, Rael, A Townshend ‘Mini-Opera’ With Musical Motifs That Reappeared In Tommy And The Psychedelic Blast Of Armenia City In The Sky And Relax Are Among The Very Best Material Of The 1960s.

One Of The Most Extraordinary Albums Of Any Era – It’s The Who’s Last ‘Pop’ Album. Two Years Later Came Tommy – A Double Concept Album About A Deaf, Dumb And Blind Kid…

“We Were Hoping To Get Free Jaguars. We Got Fifty Tins Of Free Baked Beans”
Pete Townshend

Super-Deluxe Edition

Disc 1 – Original Mono Mix, Mono As & Bs And Unreleased Mono Mixes
Disc 2 – Original Stereo Mix And Stereo Bonus Tracks
Disc 3 – Studio Out-Takes, ‘Fly-On-The-Wall’ Versions Of Early Takes Of Songs From The Album Sessions, ‘Studio Chat’ Etc. – Previously Unreleased
Disc 4 – ‘The Road To Tommy’ Will Contain Stereo Mixes Of The Studio Tracks Recorded In 1968 – Some Previously Unreleased – Plus 1968 As And Bs Mono Mixes (All Tracks Remixed From Original 4 And 8-Track Session Tapes In The Who Vault)
Disc 5 – 14 Of Pete Townshend’s Original Demos – Previously Unreleased & Exclusive To This Set…

Bonus 7” Discs:

Track UK 45 Repro:
Decca USA 45 Repro:

112 Tracks – Many Unreleased!
80-Page, Hard-Back Full-Colour Book, Including Rare Period Photos, Memorabilia &
Track Annotation And New Liner Notes By Pete Townshend
Comments From From Pete Drummond (Radio Caroline DJ), Chris Huston (Talentmasters Studio), Richard Evans (Designer), Roy Flynn (Speakeasy Club Manager), Arnold Schwartzman (Designer) & Andy Neill (Who Biographer)

Nine Posters & Inserts, Including Replicas Of…

20” X 30” Original Adrian George Poster
Gig Poster – City Hall, Newcastle: The Who, Traffic, Tremeloes Etc.
Saville Theatre 8-Page Programme.
Business Card For The Bag O’ Nails Club, Kingly Street.
Fan Club Photo Of Group.
Flyer For Bath Pavilion Concerts Including The Who.
Crack-Back Bumper Sticker For Wonderful Radio London.
Keith Moon’s Speakeasy Club Membership Card
Who Fan Club Newsletter.

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Doctor my eyes!

once again, would love to just have the CDs without all that other crap

bag o nails business card aside

Appealing description: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/nancy-sinatra-start-walkin-1965-1976 Also talks about her earliest singles, way before Lee, and I'm intrigued by this passing mention: In fact, the most substantial retrospective, 2011’s Cherry Smiles: The Rare Singles, was released on her own Boots label.

US release: March 12
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Seconding the Phuong Tam record. (and that Delta 5 comp!)

Speaking of bounteous bandcamps, omg Analog Africa
---top row incl. 2021 releases, incl. this:

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Yaoundé, in the 1970´s, was a buzzing place. Every neighbourhood of Cameroon´s capital, no matter how dodgy, was filled with music spots but surprisingly there were no infrastructure to immortalise those musical riches. The country suffered from a serious lack of proper recording facilities, and the process of committing your song to tape could become a whole adventure unto itself. Of course, you could always book the national broadcasting company together with a sound engineer, but this was hardly an option for underground artists with no cash. But luckily an alternative option emerged in form of an adventist church with some good recording equipment and many of the artists on this compilation recorded their first few songs, secretly, in these premises thanks to Monsieur Awono, the church engineer. He knew the schedule of the priests and, in exchange for some cash, he would arrange recording sessions. The artists still had to bring their own equipment, and since there was only one microphone, the amps and instruments had to be positioned perfectly. It was a risky business for everyone involved but since they knew they were making history, it was all worth it.

At the end of the recording, the master reel would be handed to whoever had paid for the session, usually the artist himself..and what happened next? With no distribution nor recording companies around this was a legitimate question. More often then not it was the french label Sonafric that would offer their manufacturing and distribution structure and many Cameroonian artist used that platform to kickstart their career. What is particularly surprising in the case of Sonafric was their willingness to take chances and judge music solely on their merit rather than their commercial viability. The sheer amount of seriously crazy music released also spoke volumes about the openness of the people behind the label.

But who exactly are these artists that recorded one or two songs before disappearing, never to be heard from again? Some of the names were so obscure that even the most seasoned veterans of the Cameroonian music scene had never heard of them. A few trips to the land of Makossa and many more hours of interviews were necessary to get enough insight to assemble the puzzle-pieces of Yaoundé’s buzzing 1970s music scene. We learned that despite the myriad difficulties involved in the simple process of making and releasing a record, the musicians of Yaoundé’s underground music scene left behind an extraordinary legacy of raw grooves and magnificent tunes.

The songs may have been recorded in a church, with a single microphone in the span of only an hour or two, but the fact that we still pay attention to these great creations some 50 years later, only illustrates the timelessness of their music.
credits
released September 3, 2021
https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/cameroon-garage-funk
--and going back to the earliest Analog Africa comps I've ever heard/heard of/seen---

Three Earthless albums are being reissued in January via Nuclear Blast — Sonic Prayer, Rhythms From a Cosmic Sky, and From the Ages, all previously on Tee Pee. They've got a new album, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, coming out a week later. I pre-ordered the whole batch.

Don't know where to put this, as this is a collection and not a straight reissue, but the new Joel Vandroogenbroeck comp on Drag City, out today, is fantastic

oh yeah, forgot to post:

TAKING THE FAR VIEW WITH JOEL VANDROOGENBROECK

Looking at history the wrong way round through the telescope, objects may appear closer than they actually were! Yeah, life's a Rashomon even in reverse. Sometimes you have to take the long view - or in this case, the Far View, which compiles tracks from Joel Vandroogenbroeck’s legendary Coloursound library music series — a uniquely trippy catalog of sonic vignettes, freshly remastered from the original analog reels and long overdue for their day in the library music sun!

The late Joel Vandroogenbroeck was among that rare breed of musician who defy all categorization, using music conventions to explore the far reaches of human and cosmic consciousness. After traveling through the realms of jazz, rock, traditional and experimental music in 1950s, 60s and 70s, notably with Brainticket thoughout the 70s, Joel found new outlets for his expansive vision with Swiss library music label Coloursound in the 1980s. Far View draws tracks from those releases, whose fusion formed a unique entry in the genre of library music. For the uninitiated, this is just one way to begin a musical trip through Vandroogenbroeck’s undersung career.

Joel Vandroogenbroeck passed away in December 2019, while work was being done assembling this collection. Curated by David Hollander, whose Unusual Sounds album and book of the same name extensively explore the library music world, Far View draws from ten of Joel’s Coloursound albums with lovely cohesion. Featuring brilliantly remastered sound, liner notes from Hollander and album art designed by Robert Beatty, Far View is a special entry point to Joel Vandroogenbroek’s mind-bending body of work — sonic soma to expand your consciousness and vibrate with the cosmos.

What's a good definition for library music? Seems to vary by context ov reference, which may be the point---still, just in case I refer to it, or should---

Yeah, I can never pin down exactly what it is, except that it seems to always run the gamut from psych funk to fuzak to ambient and even rock, occasionally. I think as a genre name it's useless because it seems like it covers anything that was recorded for a specific - but initially unknown - purpose, but I know there are some people here who are experts on this stuff and I am decidedly not so I will cede the floor

Vandroogenbroeck's Coloursound series is remarkably consistent for music that is, by its very nature, eclectic. But I think the tracks on the LP are well-chosen and it flows together beautifully

Library music is music created for and licensed to an organization that provides these recordings to film and TV producers for use in their works. It's used when a production doesn't have a composer of original music or isn't using commercially available recordings, for budgetary or other reasons. The library recordings are not available commercially, but are provided to producers categorized by genre or musical description. The process has probably changed in the post-physical media era.

Holy shit, Dead Magick is finally getting a reissue on Fuzz Club. Gonna sell out faaaaaaaaaast

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BUSH TETRAS - RHYTHM AND PARANOIA: THE BEST OF BUSH TETRAS

Box Set Details

VINYL BOX SET SPECIAL FEATURES:

Rigid Lift-Off Box w/Lift Ribbon
3 x 180 Gram Vinyl LPs
46-Page LP-Sized Perfect Bound Booklet w/Never-BeforeSeen Photos & Orignal Essays
29 Remastered Tracks

CD DIGIPACK SPECIAL FEATURES:

2 x CD / 4-Panel Digipack
40-Page Booklet w/Never-Before-Seen Photos & Original Essays
30 Remastered Tracks

Tracklist

1. Too Many Creeps !
2. Snakes Crawl !
3. You Taste Like the Tropics !
4. Punch Drunk !
5. Cold Turkey [Live in London] !
6. Things That Go Boom in the Night !
7. Das Ah Riot !
8. Cowboys in Africa !
9. Rituals !
10. You Can’t Be Funky !
11. Moonlite !
12. Dum Dum !
13. Stand Up and Fight !
14. Page 18 !
15. Color Green !#$
16. Mr. Lovesong [Alternate Version] !#$
17. World @
18. Motörhead !
19. Pretty Thing !
20. You Don’t Know Me !
21. Heart Attack !
22. Ocean !
23. Nails !#
24. True Blue
25. Red Heavy
26. Out Again
27. There Is a Hum
28. Seven Years
29. Sucker Is Born
30. Run Run Run [Live in San Francisco] @+
31. Cutting Floor @+

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+ ONLY AVAILABLE DIGITALLY
@ PREVOUSLY UNRELEASED
# PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED (VINYL)
$ PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED (DIGITAL)

This can be preordered at their Bandcamp page:
http://bushtetrasnyc.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-paranoia-the-best-of-bush-tetras

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXlNtNV362o
Lots of organ. No guitar. The Mam’selles, Sharon Walker, Janice and Pat Plinzke will triple your pleasure as they present you possibly the must unique band to record in Nashville’s historic Woodland Sound Studios. These three versatile girls pack a power house of diversified talent. All the girls can switch instruments from drums to Cordovox, Bass, all three are talented pianists, and Sharon is second to none on trumpet, as you will hear for yourself.
https://sundazed.com/mam-selles-the.aspx

Trost Records has been reissuing a bunch of Peter Brötzmann's albums for the Okka Disk label. The latest one to reappear is The Wels Concert, featuring Maleem Mahmoud Gania on guimbri and vocals and Hamid Drake on frame drum, tablas, and drums. Digital only for now, but maybe a CD later?

From Numero duh---adjust yr. shades, jades:
Basement Beehive - The Girl Group Underground

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.
We hear who these girls, these young women are, who they become behind that mic. Voice big, authoritative, divining sure devotion, dejection, and longing. The joy cuts through the rawness. Some of these women, that is all we know of them; all we know is their voice. Not a name. Were they a group, a fantasy, did they go on to other glory, were they receptionists in the studio or some cousin from around the way?

That’s what fascinates me about these Beehive girls, what I imagine most. What was this moment to them, this minute or three we hear them on here. For some we know it was a transformative moment, a first, this space and place, this point in time where they reached out for something with their big voice and the world met them. For some of them it was sheer ambition, others it took goading, others we encounter here at a moment that feels like the dawning of an obvious fate before they swept up the charts or became a voice we would hear sampled for decades. So did because they liked to sing with their friends. You could do it anywhere.

What we encounter in these girls and their life stories is the mutability of young womanhood. We get a survey of the prospects and possibilities of teenage girl life. We see all the impossible doors that had to open again and again for them to even have something small, and as importantly we see what a superhuman feat it was to surmount all the sureness of these sealed girlfates. The young married mothers went on the road and stayed, I wonder what were the circumstances that availed that, when the same circumstances stopped another girl’s career cold. To be your own person as well care for your family, your husband, and then babies of your own was not a thing that was easily reconciled then. Until the mid-’70s, for young women to pursue a careers was still unconventional. You might do secretarial work or study until you got married. If you worked after you were married it might be at your husband’s discretion. It’s hard to imagine the teen-geniuses you heard in this box of Beehives all living grim lives, but merely suggest we consider the baseline state of girl existence then, the premium put on keeping one’s girlhood respectable and modest, as well as the racialized expectations that enclosed their lives.

Girl groups specialized magic was the energized projection of chastity—they stood starkly against all the reckless resolutions and temptation inherent to rock n’ roll. Young women were often essentially passed from their father to their husband, who were tasked with their protection and keep. How far your dreams extended outside your head were pursuant to parental permission, their attitudes and relationships with music, how far your singing strayed from church singing. Marriage and babies were a predetermination, the regular route; straying from it was a sign of a moral corruption, selfishness, or infirmity.

What circumstances had to align for the girls who got further? A husband who loved their voice? A husband in a band? Did her hope float on his ambition? A husband who saw the little bit of ends she was making and deemed the effort worthwhile? A brother who needed a singer for his songs? A mom or sister at home who could take that baby while she toured? A mom at home who lived to see her daughter thrive? A father who did not fret about what applause and stage lights might draw his daughter into?

Did these girls threaten and cajole? Did they bargain? Did they plot? Did they do it anyway? What were the stakes and the trade-offs and the risks? And what of the girls with their dreams deferred, muted by marriage and babies and band break-ups? Did those dreams live out in church choirs and lullabies? What becomes a dream in a time when the fullness of your talents, your desire, the mere existence of your ambition is not yet permissible—how do you live? How do you stake this for yourself? What of yourself do you mute? What ways do you origami-fold your dreams into being?

Girl dreams need a thousand contingencies.

Girl dreams need a thousand contingencies because they had to pass through other people’s expectations. What good girls do. What’s the wrong idea you could give someone about who you are in a song. What is good enough. What is godly enough. Girls are the guardians, but not the gatekeepers, of their own dreams. These girls dreams were liable to be crushed soon as their leapt from their throats.

For decades we have cited the looming Svengalis, high hair, the tender camp of chaste tragedies of the songs, these tenth grade loves and wedding-bell fantasia made brilliant by the eager young voices that carried it; But how much consideration have we ever given of their girls own cunning and their artistry? The premium work being one of authenticity, and authenticity always seemed to mean it has to be yours, it had to come from you, your experience. Not crafted in another room and applied as a loose pop science in a studio. But what about these girls, their groups was this not as real? How to accord them what is due to them, for what imagination they capture these songs? Who do these women, these artists, become in our minds and in music history when we believe what they are expressing is their own thought and feeling?

Girl groups were considered unsellable, unmarketable, and a fad. Managers and many record labels believed they were a gimmick, despite evidence to the contrary. Though the Chantels were the first girl group to prove they had the longevity of more than one hit, and the Bobbettes before them made it to the Top 10 and #1 on the R&B charts simultaneously, with their own composition “Mr. Lee,” yet these precedents didn’t become standards, or accord teen girls their own genius. The Svengalis around girl groups were often the ones that insisted that they perform and record gimmick songs and novelty answer backs; and yet teenage girls were supposed to trust these men’s expertise. Ageism, racism, and sexism of the era often combined to keep these young women from being able to advocate for their own talents.

Careers were run by managers and label men who believed that the role of girls was relegated to fandom; to scream for Frankie Lyman, to scream for their Beatle, to scream for Dion. Their conception was that girls wouldn’t sell to other girls, no matter the image. They did not account for what girls see, they can be; girls as iconic to other girls is the very origin of this thing, but they also provide a sense of permission. Sometimes loving Frankie Lyman is not enough, and you want those screams for yourself. Girls were supposed to be the frenzy, not cause it.

We claim and reclaim these girls post-facto; in 2018 an awakened reconciliation for these talents, talents that were considered interchangeable to the point of disposability then, is progress. We read the stories again and again of names not even being right and try to root them out and, better still, know them. Even here, we have mystery girls, their identities lost to history (Will they ever hear their voices? What would it be to find yourself here decades later?) Often the only verifiable truth of the thing is the tape; the only history is what’s audible, what they conjure in those notes.

What these girls gave in situations where there was no credit, little or no money, a finite chance. What they gave so fully are their voices and their talents, claiming this chance to harmonize along with their sisters, cousins, friends, classmates. To give it everything despite knowing what would likely elude them: credited by name, a chance to pursue opportunity with the same doggedness as the men in their backing band, dynamic material that reflected their lived experiences, the ability to make music the substance of their lives, their hope. Is that not the very definition of true artistry? To abandon the outcome and sing the song for the sheer sake of giving life to the thing? They sing because it’s all they can do. You don't know that.
More info:
https://numerogroup.com/products/basement-beehive-the-girl-group-underground

Should have excerpted that, sorry. Their conception was that girls wouldn’t sell to other girls, no matter the image. Not necessarily: in their joint autobio, Lieber & Stoller emphasize that their Girl Group peak era colleague George Goldman, a middle-aged gambling addict in bespoke Loodon suits, was prized in the biz for having musical taste and ears of a 14-year-old girl (at oldest).

*London* suits, sorry George (prob was, they hadda flee partnership when his gambling debts led to goodfellas using conference rooms etc., also partnership)

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Live in Brighton 1975 is the second installment of the CAN Live album series. On this particular release, which unfolds over seven sections, listeners are invited to join an interstellar journey: from a rare and evocative Michael Karoli vocal on “Brighton 75 Drei,” to Jaki Liebezeit’s incredible drum lead emerging through a fog of audience noise to take centre stage on “Brighton 75 Vier,” before the final track lands us in an incredible “Vitamin C” jam for “Brighton 75 Sieben.
CD, LP, Digital---more info:
https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-brighton-1975-2

Orders ship from US
digital album releases December 3, 2021
item ships out on or around December 2, 2021

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Telex – This Is Telex
(released April 30)

Telex formed at a time when electronic pop was regarded as novelty, with suspicion, as a harbinger for future dystopia and alienation. This is Telex features singles from across the Belgian synthpop pioneers' career. The collection of newly mixed and remastered tracks includes their best-known work, “Moskow Diskow,” alongside unreleased covers of The Beatles’ “Dear Prudence” and Sonny & Cher’s “The Beat Goes On.”

"Delightful...a fine introduction to Telex’s quirky spirit and breezy sound." – PITCHFORK
Stream it here:
https://thisistelex.bandcamp.com/

May have to get this, on CD prob--- all formats"expected 03 Dec.":

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Soul Jazz Records’ classic ‘Studio One Groups’ collection is being re-released in three new one-off limited-edition coloured pressing 15th anniversary format editions!

Firstly a heavyweight special limited edition one-pressing only red 2xLP vinyl + download.

Secondly, there is also a new special limited-edition one-off pressing edition red-pressed CD enclosed in jewel case and slipcase.

And thirdly there is a very limited unique new one-off pressing unique super high-quality RTM tape red cassette format (200 copies only)!
(Fourthly: MP3.)

15 years on from its original release, Studio One Groups remains one of the toughest of all Soul Jazz/Studio One releases and features some of the biggest groups in the history of Reggae music including Bob Marley and The Wailers, Toots and the Maytals and The Heptones who all began their careers at 13 Brentford Road, under the guidance of the great producer and label owner Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd.

Featuring many, many classic and killer tunes from The Wailing Souls, Carlton and His Shoes, The Gladiators, The Ethiopians, The Mad Lads and more. Studio One Groups brings together numerous classic artists alongside a number of rarities and delves into Studio One’s musical output in its prime in the 1960s and 70s featuring Ska, Roots, Rocksteady, Dub and more. Clement Dodd’s role in launching and nurturing Reggae groups and singers is unsurpassed and Studio One’s success was due to Dodd’s ability to see talent, surround himself with it and nurture artists.

Launching Bob Marley and The Wailers career at Studio One also meant housing Marley in a flat in the studio compound, as well as employing Marley in an A&R role, checking out the latest American soul and jazz 45s that came out for Studio One artists to cover. In similar fashion Leroy Sibbles, lead vocalist with the Heptones, became the key in-house bass player after being taught from scratch by Jackie Mittoo.

Studio One Groups were at the heart of the label’s success. The sweet three-part harmonies, so close to the heart of Jamaican music, can be heard throughout every stylistic change of Reggae music – Ska, Rocksteady, Roots and beyond - all of which are featured here in all their vocalised glory.

The album comes with excellent informative sleevenotes by the author and Studio One discographer Rob Chapman, and exclusive photography including the stunning colour picture of Bob Marley and the Wailers on the front of the release.

REVIEWS:

‘The Soul Jazz label once again proves how smart they are with excellent Studio One Groups, an almost overwhelming set of killer cuts from bands and singing groups affiliated with Clement Coxsone Dodd’s ‘University of Reggae.’ There’s an amazing, deep history to be explored and even when you focus on just the groups, one disc isn’t enough to tell the whole story, but this collection functions as both a killer mixtape and exciting introduction for novices.’ All Music

‘Featuring Bob Marley and the Wailers, Toots and the Maytals, the Heptones - just three of reggae’s greatest groups who all started at Clement Dodd’s Studio One records’ Rough Trade
More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/studio-one-groups

^^ Indespensible for lots of reasons but most of all the 12" version of the Silvertones' Cheating and Lying.

was hoping this would get a reissue!

(link appears broken, FYI - likely temporary)

That link is still broken, but this one works:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/studio-one-gro

Well, now it doesn't! Seems like the best way is to the site search Studio One Groups.

Here's some more:

Essiebons Special 1973 – 1984: Ghana Music Power House
Various Artists
ANALOG AFRICA

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2×LP£29.00
In stock
CD + Book (200g)£20.00
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1. Kofi Psych - Ernest Honny
2. Dee Mmaa Pe - Joe Meah
3. Yeaba - CK Mann & His Carousel 7
4. Shakabula - Santrofi-Ansa
5. Tinitini - Seaboy & Nyame Bekyere
6. Ahwene Pa Nkasa - Joe Meah
7. Ernest Special - Ernest Honny
8. Africa - Seaboy
9. Medley - Nyame Bekyere
10. Say The Truth - Ernest Honny
11. Wonnin a Bisa - Black Masters Band
12. Egye Tu Gbe - Sawaaba Soundz
13. Fa W‘akoma Ma Me - CK Mann Big Band
14. Odo Mframa - Ernest Honny

For most of the 1970s Essilfie-Bondzie's Dix and Essiebons labels were synonymous with the best in modern highlife, and his roster was a who's-who of highlife legends. C.K. Mann, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Kofi Papa Yankson, Ernest Honny, Rob 'Roy' Raindorf and Ebo Taylor all released some of their greatest music under the Essiebons banner.

Essiebons Special features a selection of obscure workouts from some of the label's heaviest hitters. But in the course of digitising his vast archive of master tapes, Essilfie-Bondzie found a number of Afrobeat and Instrumental masterpieces tracks from the label's mid-70s golden age that, for one reason or another, had never been released. Those songs are included here for the first time.

More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/essiebons-special-197

Wow, that one's messed up too! I swear the page exists. Maybe this computer? Not having trouble with links to other sites, though.

Meanwhile

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Life Between Islands
Soundsystem Culture : Black Musical Expression In The UK 1973 - 2006
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS
3×LP£28.00
Expected 28 JanPREORDER
2×CD£13.00
Expected 28 JanPREORDER
1. Black Slate – Sticks Man
2. Dee Sharp – Rising To The Top
3. Asher Senator – One Bible
4. Cymande – Fug
5. Digital Mystikz – Misty Winter
6. Winston Curtis – Be Thankful For What You've Got
7. Trevor Hartley – It Must Be Love
8. Shut Up and Dance featuring The Ragga Twins – Java Bass
9. Brown Sugar – Black Pride
10. The Terrorist – RK1
11. Black Harmony – Don't Let It Go To Your Head
12. Pebbles – Positive Vibrations
13. The Ragga Twins – Ragga Trip
14. Janet Kay and Alton Ellis – Still In Love
15. Funk Masters – Love Money
16. Cosmic Idren – Compelled
17. Harry Beckett – No Time For Hello
18. Sandra Reid – Ooh Boy
19. Tabby Cat Kelly – Don't Call Us Immigrants
20. Brown Sugar – I'm In Love With A Dreadlocks

Soul Jazz Records new ‘Life Between Islands’ collection coincides with the launch of Tate Britain’s exhibition of the same name. This landmark exhibition explores the links between Caribbean and British art and culture from the 1950s to now.

Soul Jazz Records album, sub-titled “Soundsystem Culture – Black Musical Expression 1973-2006,” focuses on the most important Black British musical styles to emerge out of the distinctly Caribbean world of sound systems. The album features an all-star line-up including Dennis Bovell, Shut Up and Dance, Cymande, Digital Mystikz, Brown Sugar, Funk Masters, Janet Kay, Ragga Twins and more.

The album is a lightning-rod journey across Roots Reggae, Jungle/Drum & Bass, Jazz-Funk, Lovers Rock, Jazz, Dubstep and more. Much of Soul Jazz Records’ catalogue comes out of these genres and this album is partly an overview of some of Soul Jazz’s earlier releases (including Digital Mystikz’ long-deleted groundbreaking and now highly-collectible single, ‘Misty Winter’) alongside some choice rare and classic tunes that span over 30 years of sound system culture.

Many of the tracks represent how Black British artists defined their own identity with songs such as Brown Sugar’s righteous ‘Black Pride’, ‘I’m In Love with A Dreadlocks’ and Tabby Cat Kelly’s powerful ‘Don’t Call Us Immigrants’. Aside from being musically rooted in the distinctly Jamaican-born phenomenon of the sound system, much of this identity is also shaped by the triangular relationship of being British-born, of Caribbean heritage, and with an equal love of African-American Jazz, Funk and Soul, as evidenced with many Lovers Rock tunes reggae covers of American soul tunes (such as those of Jean Carn, William de Vaughan and Rose Royce featured here). This stateside influence can also be heard in groups such as the Funk Masters, a group formed by reggae radio DJ Tony Williams, whose jazz-funk music successfully crossed over into New York’s clubland, as well as the great Cymande, whose unique street-funk became staple material for numerous US hip-hop artists in the years that followed.

In the early 1990s, jungle and drum and bass artists took the essence of reggae’s soundsystem culture – MCs, dubplates, crews – and applied them to their own music, applying heavy reggae bass lines to intense double-speed drum breakbeats. At the forefront of this new movement were the duo Shut Up and Dance, working closely with The Ragga Twins, aka Deman Rocker and Flinty Badman, both MCs for North London’s infamous Unity reggae soundsytem. In the early 2000s, dubstep, spearheaded by Digital Mystikz, became the latest instalment in this ever-evolving soundsystem culture.

Soul Jazz Records’ ‘Life Between Islands’ shows how these many styles are interconnected. The album comes as a heavyweight triple vinyl (+ download), deluxe double CD with slipcase and digital release. Lloyd Bradley (author of the classic book on reggae ‘Bass Culture’, and ‘Sounds Like London’), provides the excellent sleevenotes, which are also accompanied with exclusive and striking photography.

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"There is probably no better or more appropriate way to celebrate the Tate Britain’s exhibition, Between the Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now, than with an accompanying compilation album. As with the art itself, music has all the possibilities to reflect its surroundings through an array of lenses limited only by the creator’s imagination. Hence this astutely conceived and compiled soundtrack is as beautiful and as varied as the art itself, offering stories of immigration and settlement that can exist without filters or outside interference, providing a vivid snapshot of one of the cornerstones of black British culture.” Lloyd Bradley

Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now is at Tate Britain 1 Dec 2021 until 3 April 2022.

Basil Kirchin
Abstractions Of The Industrial North
TRUNK RECORDS

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1. Prelude & Dawn
2. Heart Of The North
3. The Observer
4. Conclusion
5. Neutral Background
6. Reflection
7. Packing Printing & Light Assembley
8. Research Laborator
9. Communication
10. Lunch Hour Pops
11. Heavy Machinery
12. Mind On The Run
13. Where To Go
14. Paranoia
15. Two And Two Are One (part 1)
16. Viva Tamlin Motown
17. The Lonely Ones
18. Pageing Sullivan
19. Interaction
20. Four Against Seven
**Repressed in replica 10" De Wolfe sleeve!**

Haunting melancholic, deep, avant garde British jazz from 1966 by the legend of British library music, Basil Kirchin!

Smog Veil Going Out of Business sale update:
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Smog Veil Clearing The Air #180
December 2021

FINAL SALE! NEW WAREHOUSE FINDS!
continues until 12/31 only
55% off ALL releases on our site!
FREE U.S. SHIPPING

Thank you fans for the amazing response to our closing shop 55% OFF FINAL SALE!

We couldn't have made it this far if it wasn't for the fans, our team, and the amazing musicians that you've listened to on record and on stage. We hope over the years we kept your toes tapping!

While supplies last, everything on the Smog Veil web site is now 55% off! PLUS: free shipping in the USA!

Act quick, sales limited to supplies on hand and prior sales excluded! SALE STARTS NOW AND ENDS on December 31, 2021.

Please note that all of the Peter Laughner box sets are sold out. You may still find them in the wild at your favorite record shop, online retailer, or by download and stream.

NO CODES NEEDED! DISCOUNT TAKEN AT CHECKOUT: 55% OFF THESE TITLES as well as ALL in-stock Smog Veil titles, HERE's LINKS TO EVERYTHING WE HAVE REMAINING IN STOCK:

WAREHOUSE FINDS--VERY FEW OF THESE REMAIN:

Easter Monkeys "Splendor of Sorrow" CD/DVD

Pagans "Blue Album" CD **NEW FIND!**

Guns double LP retrospective **NEW FIND!**

x_x "Albert Ayler's Ghosts Live at the Yellow Ghetto" LP

REGULAR STOCK, ACT QUICK FIRST COME FIRST SERVED ON THESE TITLES:

ADELE BERTEI'S PETER and the WOLVES book

CLEVELAND STEAMERS:
"Best Record Ever" LP
"Who's Next" CD
"Terminal" LP or CD
"Mega MAGA Moron" 7"

Chris Butler "Got It Togehter" CD

Ralph Carney & Chris Butler "Songs for Unsung Holidays" LP

Lair Matic Assembly 7"

Pink Holes 7" (pink vinyl, note that orange vinyl copies are sold out)

Mr Stress Blues Band "Live at the Brick Cottage 1972-1973" LP

Obnox "Bang Messiah" CD

Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade "Sunday Morning Revival" LP

If a link doesn't work, that means the release is sold out.

Thanks everyone, enjoy the holiday weekend!

Pretty sure it's their third album, not their second, but anyway, rejoice:

Australian trio Dirty Three began astounding / confounding listeners in 1992 and have not let up since. Violinist Warren Ellis (who is also a member of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds), guitarist Mick Turner and drummer's drummer Jim White make wholly unique post-rock that is as beautiful as it is unsettling.

Originally released in 1996, Horse Stories is Dirty Three's second album and arguably their best. Like the soundtrack to a postmodern Western, these wistful and feedback-ridden instrumentals are simply gripping.

Touch & Go's limited 25th Anniversary Edition surely won't last long. Don't sleep.

https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/touch-go/products/dirty-three-horse-stories-2xlp?mc_cid=a00eca4a6f&mc_eid=0f24ac7b12

xp Reading Peter and the Wolves right now (and listening to the Laughner box) and I'd highly recommend, she's a great writer. Look forward to reading Why Labelle Matters, her other book.

Fuck yes, Dead Magick is shipping!