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The Waiting Game was the unsung tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks' final album, recorded in 1961 and released in '99 Joined here by Johnny Coles (trumpet), Kenny Drew (piano), Wilbur Ware (bass) & Philly Joe Jones (drums) Brooks penned five tracks, showcasing his unique compositional talent Highlights include the opener "Talkin'...
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Out of stockThe high-spirited soloing of trumpeter Donald Byrd and tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley on “Ghana”—the opening track of Byrd In Flight—lets listeners know that they are in for an exceptional musical experience In addition to Mobley, Byrd is joined by Jackie Mclean on alto saxophone, Duke Pearson on piano, bassists Doug...
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Kurt Vile’s Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (ep) was recorded and mixed in sporadic sessions that spanned four years at The Butcher Shoppe studio in Nashville, TN It includes five songs — covers of John Prine and “Cowboy” Jack Clement as well as two originals — and was recorded alongside a cast of local heavies like Bobby Wood,...
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Out of stockProducer and singer Live releases her classy debut album, called Couldn’t Wait To Tell You…, via In Real Life Drawing on her upbringing in Dallas, across the album Live's album is an emotional, singular sonic experience that melds jazz, neo-soul, R&B and hip-hop The album weaves magic at every turn with her natural...
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Poised to blow the cobwebs off life and unleash some much-needed wit and charm upon us, Sleaford Mods announce the forthcoming release of their astonishing 6th studio album, entitled ‘Spare Ribs’ Recorded in lockdown in a furious three-week studio blitz at JT Soar in July, the polemical Jason Williamson and dexterous...
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It began with ‘Kwaidan’, a simmering study on the lost art of Japanese ghost story-telling Then there was ‘Komachi’, baptized in the earthly winds and static that define its comforting sonics On ‘Kofū’, Meitei masterfully closes his trilogy of lost Japanese moods with an engaging interrogation of artforms and...
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Styles We Paid For is Guided By Voices’ third album of 2020 and it stands as a testament to this Year In Isolation, reflecting these dark days through Robert Pollard’s prism, with the band sounding as confident and authoritative as ever The fifteen tracks were recorded remotely during quarantine from five states (Ohio, New...
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Axioms are essentially postulates from which an abstractly defined structure is based, a statement or proposition which is regarded as self-evidently true…Axioms serve as starting points for further reasoning and arguments It’s difficult to find a more appropriate correlative to Jazz and Expansive Music Stretch Music,...
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From the people who brought you Hillbillies In Hell… Smooth countrypolitan sides of Doom, Apocalyptic Shag-Cowpokes, anti-Vietnam War Freak-Folkies, small-town Hayseed-Vignettes, ambulance-chasing Bluegrass, red-baiting exploitation-jangle-Folk-Pop and wigged-out Nashville space-age Instrumentals – you’ll hear all that and...
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Behold… A river of Booze-soaked Ballads, suicidal Anthems and Apocalyptic Slaloms This Sulphuric collection of withered Nashville legends and battered backwoods-poets features tales of Mournful Desolation, craven Lustmords, delirious Gospel Redemptions and Philosophical Arborist-isms Often originally waxed and distributed in...
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Gone Clear, is the quintessence of reggae and groove, as only Manu Dibango can conceive them After a stay in Nigeria and a great tour with the Ivorian Radio-Television Orchestra, the Cameroonian saxophonist landed for the first time in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1976 Just a few steps away from Bob Marley’s home (taking the...
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Ship to Shore PhonoCo is proud to announce the much-anticipated release of Nathan Halpern’s score to the “masterful” (Variety) psychological thriller Swallow on vinyl Swallow has been hailed as “the horror film for our helpless moment” (Rolling Stone), with Nathan Halpern’s “retro-thriller score as a highlight of...
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Available on vinyl for the first time since 1984, Ship to Shore and Light in the Attic are proud to present Akiko Nakamura’s Hit Album Born in Chiba, Japan in 1948, Akiko Nakamura gained notoriety as a singer and actress during the 1960s and 1970s Starting as a beauty pageant contestant, she soon ventured into music,...
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Gordon Koang is a Nuer musician, hailing from the banks of the River Nile in what is now South Sudan Born blind, he began playing music on the streets of Juba as a young man though has now become a grassroots hero, the voice of the Nuer people, a prominent figure in the fight for cultural independence in South Sudan,...
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Little is known about Norman Feels…but we do know that he was an underground soul sensation in the 1970s He released two classic albums on Just Sunshine Records (the label that was also responsible for putting out milestone recordings by artists like Betty Davis, Karen Dalton and Arica) Over the years, Norman’s songs have...
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Lothar And The Hand People emerged as one of the earliest pioneers to mix electronics into rock, incorporating theremin and synthesizers into their sonic onslaught Led by Lothar (a theremin) and his cast of digit possessing musicians wielding guitar, bass, drums, and one of the first (and largest) modular Moogs! This, their first...
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Jazz Is Dead falls deeper down the rabbit hole of unsung greats with the fifth release of this on-going series Helmed as always by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, the tragically overlooked hero of Jazz Is Dead 005 is Doug Carn, who first rose to prominence in the 1970s, pioneering fusion and funk as he went Known primarily...
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Around the making of Mouthfuls, Fruit Bats had coalesced into a duo with Gillian Lisée and myself It was sort of like our own mini cocaine-free version of Rumors She wrote the bridge to 'Magic Hour,' which is totally about her We also co-wrote 'Track Rabbits' together which is still one of my favorite things I've ever done and...
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Ally Records reissues the influential and long out of print "Messages For The Cakekitchen" ' the seminal 1988 Flying Nun album from internationally known, legendary multi-instrumentalist Graeme Jefferies ' his first solo record and the bridge to his main recording project, The Cakekitchen "Messages'", out-of-print for nearly...
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Putting something back is how Will Holland (Quantic) described the reason for starting The Quantic Soul Orchestra Having released two successful albums on Tru Thoughts under his Quantic guise - The 5th Exotic and Apricot Morning (which fused jazzy and breakbeat sounds), he felt his next musical adventure would be to focus on the...
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Kamixlo has experienced a lot of loss in the last two-and-a-half years His long-awaited debut LP, Cicatriz, is named after the Spanish word for “scar”, taking its intense and energetic tone from the tough times in the Brixton-based producer’s life An extremely personal album that follows 11 songs with titles like “Sick”,...
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Out of stockDBT released The Unraveling on Jan 31st 2020 and set out for what was supposed to be a full year of touring We completed the first leg of the tour at DC’s beloved 9:30 Club on Feb 29th We all went home for a brief break before resuming at Vogue in Indianapolis on March 12th We were two songs into the soundcheck for that show...
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Vinyl includes 2XLP with 16-page booklet and poster Massey Fucking Hall, the upcoming live album from Japandroids, captures the power and intensity that have made the band one of Indie Rock's most beloved live acts The Canadian duo on guitar and drums, bring a wall of sound that delivers a full dose of raw and unhinged emotion to...
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Rap legend Nas - who’s career spans over three decades as one of the undisputed greatest MC’s of all time - has announced his highly anticipated forthcoming album King’s Disease Produced by Hit-Boy (JAY-Z, Beyoncé, Travis Scott) and co-executive produced by Hit-Boy and Gabriel “G Code” Zardes, King’s Disease marks...
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Raised by hippie parents in Ann Arbor, Michigan, smack between the Hash Bash and the car factories - Hawthorne's old man taught him to play bass guitar at age five He would play records in the house all while Mayer was growing up He put him up on game He’d say, “You hear him singing there That’s David Ruffin” Or, “You...
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Drift Up To Space is AMBIANCE’s second album released in 1980 on Da Mon Records, Los Angeles Sublime from the beginning to the end, it has become a sought-after collector’s item Some of the best fusion on record! "Influenced by the modal jazz of John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner and Rahsaan Roland Kirk,...
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Reflection is a collection of 8 tracks from Polish beatmaker Emapea that were originally found spread across various now out of print 7 inch and compilation releases All songs have been remastered for this special 'inside-out' vinyl and digital release This special 12 inch vinyl plays from the I N S I D E - O U T Place the...
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Kumail is a musician, producer, performing artist Mumbai, India Over the last four years, he has ascended to the very top of India's burgeoning culture of electronic music on two parallel paths - as a gifted musician and bandleader drawing expansive canvases of rhythm, texture and emotion, and as a roughneck DJ notorious for...
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In his follow-up to the underground classic Soundtrack of Autumn, on Sooner Than Later, Marv Won brings a more focused sound and threads themes on the impacts of time on our lives How it changes us, how we battle conflicting obligations between work and family with limited time, how through time we see ourselves achieving and...
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The third album from London-based multi-instrumentalist, Robohands ‘Shapes’ fuses elements of jazz, krautrock, hip hop and ambient music For fans of Khruangbin, Yusef Dayes, CAN, Coltrane and 70s library music moods Shapes is the solo project of London based composer, instrumentalist and producer Andy Baxter His debut LP...
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Reissue, originally released in 1987 Astaron from Vienna Austria were a music and art performance duo made up of Angie Mörth (member of Viele Bunte Autos) and Martina Aichhorn who existed from 1984 to 1989 Influenced by the Viennese Actionism, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Kate Bush and armed with a big dose of black humor and a...
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180 gram pink vinyl; heavy gatefold sleeve with full movie gallery, obi strip, video store stickers, bonus 7" vinyl WRWTFWW Records announce the first ever release of Richard Band's full uncut soundtrack for cult horror comedy classic Ghoulies (1985) One of the most sought-after soundtracks from horror/sci-fi/fantasy film scoring...
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WRWTFWW Records announces the official reissue of Richard Band's director's cut soundtrack for sci-fi horror comedy classic, TerrorVision (1986) People of Earth Your planet is about to be destroyed We're terribly sorry for the inconvenience Conceived as a late 1960s Lost in Space type score with an '80s electronic twist,...
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Double LP version Gatefold sleeve Welcome to the second instalment of Colin Curtis's Jazz Dance Fusion compilation series for Z Records Curtis looks back into the story and history of the UK jazz dance and jazz music scene; a movement that started, according to Curtis, back in the '70s The sounds of funk and soul mixed with jazz,...
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Christoph de Babalon has relished the two years since his last full-length outing for A Colourful Storm, crossing paths with a new guard of prodigies while maintaining ties with a legion of disciples Aphex Twin, his old foe, even played "Realistic Riot Ritual Routine" at the now-infamous Warehouse Project set, smashing it to bits...
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Bureau B present a reissue of Der Plan's Es Ist Eine Fremde Und Seltsame Welt, originally released in 1987 A cynic might propound the notion that to reissue an album entitled Es Ist Eine Fremde Und Seltsame Welt at this particular moment would be to hit the nail on the head with painful exactitude No cynics here, however, only...
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Originally recorded in Seattle, in 2000 and released on CD only later the same year, The Sundowner Sessions is a recording featuring John Massoni (electronics) and Sonic Boom (custom human voice synthesizer) "[Sonic} can make something out of almost anything He'd just pick out a tape of mine (I have a bunch of tapes with sound and...
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Neuzeitliche Bodenbeläge is the musical vehicle of Niklas Wandt and Joshua Gottmanns They released a single -- "Ich verliebe mich nie" -- in 2018 and an EP entitled Leben in 2019 on the Düsseldorf label, Themes For Great Cities Now the time has come for the Berlin duo's long-awaited debut album The seven tracks comprising Der...
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Out of stockRepress forthcoming Abstrakce Recods present a reissue of Nurse With Wound's Rock 'n Roll Station, originally released in 1994 First time on vinyl since 2006 and first time with its original track listing Limited one-off pressing with letter press cover and bonus track Rock 'n Roll Station began life with Steven Stapleton asking...
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"First in a series of three records of library music miniatures from composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel O'Sullivan (Æthenor, Ulver, This is Not This Heat, etc) For heads, the term 'library music' in 2020 might evoke dodgy Italian gray market LPs and crate diggers hunting for 'funky breaks' -- but London's venerable KPM...
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Out of stockSunbeam Records present a reissue of Raw Material's self-titled release, originally released in 1970 Raw Material made little impact on the crowded London scene in the late '60s and early '70s, but their blend of prog, psych, and jazz has gone on to become a firm favorite with cognoscenti all over the world Their classic debut...
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WRWTFWW Records announce the full official reissue of two major works from the great Somei Satoh gathered into one LP: the mystic and meditative Emerald Tablet (1978) and Echoes (1981) Sourced from original masters and available on vinyl with liner notes by passionate Japanese music connoisseur/collector/critic/DJ, Masaaki Hara...
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WRWTFWW Records announce the full official reissue of Somei Satoh's magnificent Avatamsaka Sutra inspired Mandala Trilogy with one additional never-released piece Sourced from original masters and available on double vinyl in heavy 350gsm sleeve with liner notes by passionate Japanese music connoisseur/collector/critic/DJ, Masaaki...