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Trumpeter, bandleader and composer Matthew Halsall announces landmark new album An Ever Changing View, an expansive, immaculately conceived project which presents Halsall’s signature blend of jazz, electronica, global and spiritual jazz influences An Ever Changing View will be released on September 8th on Gondwana Records...
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Out of stockZach Saginaw consistently grounds his music in a deeply personal, familial context; his grandmother inspired two releases, his producer aliases, Shigeto and Frank Omura, both reference family names and it's not for nothing that his latest release as Shigeto is titled Lineage While only Saginaw could speak to the ancestral...
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Out of stock"2012 was a powerful year for me I released my second LP; I played nearly 180 shows in 360 days; I made the move back home from Brooklyn, NY to Detroit, MI; a six-year relationship of mine came to an end and I made it 30 years on the planet" The music of Zach Saginaw, aka Shigeto, has always been deeply rooted in his personal...
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Ornette Coleman’s second album Tomorrow is the Question! (1959) has been newly mastered by Bernie Grundman from the original tapes for this new SACD format Featuring Don Cherry, Shelly Manne, and either Percy Heath or Red Mitchell on bass, the emphatic, pianoless Tomorrow Is the Question! made it clear that Coleman’s concepts...
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A deluxe, embossed 2 LP box set Alongside a remastered version of PHAROAH, his seminal record from 1977, are two previously unreleased live performances of his masterpiece, “Harvest Time" Includes a 24-page booklet with rarely seen photographs and ephemera, as well as interviews with many of the participants and a conversation...
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Out of stockHiroshima-based artist Meitei announces the reissue of Kwaidan on the 5th anniversary of his groundbreaking debut album A collaboration between 2 labels – KITCHEN LABEL (Kofū I & II) and Evening Chants (Kwaidan), the reissue sees the highly anticipated special 5th Anniversary Edition of Kwaidan with two previously...
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Out of stockNight Rhythms is proud to announce the first vinyl release of Toshimi Mikami's elusive 90s ambient masterpiece " Quimai" ("Chi Dance") Released on his CD in 1996 and again on CD in 2008 This double LP version of his is the first time his album is readily available outside of Japan Mikami said, "This album was mainly produced as...
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Over the past few years, concert patrons have stopped the musician Carlos Niño after gigs to ask two simple questions: “Are you a shaman” “I hear the medicine in your music, can I come to your next ceremony” The queries are fair enough: Looking at Niño, a tall man with a wild beard and kind eyes, one would think he’s...
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Tenderly propelling and full of haunting melodies: Studio Mule reissues Sakura Tsuruta's so far digital-only, self-released debut album C/O from November 2022 An evocative first long player by Tokyo based artist, who was trained in classical piano during childhood, played with brass instruments, studied music production, and is...
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Six Organs of Admittance takes listeners through an extended narcoleptic journey on Sleep Tones, an all-electronic double album of new ambient work Mastered by VDSQ labelmate Chuck Johnson, Sleep Tones was made with a specific effect in mind These new sounds from the Six Organs universe represent an essential creative shift from...
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Out of stockOne can hardly imagine the genre-busting, culture-crossing musical magic of Outkast, Prince, Erykah Badu, Rick James, The Roots, or even the early Red Hot Chili Peppers without the influence of R&B pioneer Betty Davis Her style of raw and revelatory punk-funk defies any notions that women can’t be visionaries in...
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One can hardly imagine the genre-busting, culture-crossing musical magic of Outkast, Prince, Erykah Badu, Rick James, The Roots, or even the early Red Hot Chili Peppers without the influence of R&B pioneer Betty Davis Her style of raw and revelatory punk-funk defies any notions that women can’t be visionaries in the...
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bar italia, the London trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, have announced details of their new album ‘Tracey Denim’, which will be released digitally and on CD May 19th on Matador The album will be available on vinyl September 8 ‘Tracey Denim’ was recorded and produced by bar italia with mixing...
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Resolve acts in dialogue with the minimalist inspirations of the first Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings release, 1982’s Nodal Excitation—in effect, looking beneath the hood of several decades of progression to review and renew the revolutionary intent of their microtonal foundation credo This new...
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The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon over the course of the Pandemic, and was a chance to give their creative friends the ability to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted for release on the label The music had to be great and able to be presented as a stand alone album...
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Artists like Jalen Ngonda come around once in a lifetime, so it is our privilege and distinct pleasure to announce the release of his debut album Come Around and Love Me Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Jalen perform live knows that he is one of the most captivating performers on today's soul scene His voice, equal...
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Glenn Branca’s first full-length album The Ascension is a colossal achievement After touring much of 1980 with an all-star band featuring four guitarists (Branca, fellow composers Ned Sublette and David Rosenbloom, and future Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo) along with Jeffrey Glenn on bass and Stephan Wischerth on drums, Branca...
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Selected Songs 1997-2003 compiles some of the finest moments in the recording history of Hydroplane, the Melbourne-based indie-pop three-piece that operated alongside The Cat’s Miaow through the second half of the nineties It’s the third release in what feels, now, like a loosely planned series by World Of Echo, documenting...
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Following on the somnambulant heels of When I See The Sun, our massive, near-complete Codeine overview, comes What About The Lonely, an eight-track LP recorded at the group’s live zenith Captured direct from the mixing board at a stop on Codeine’s November 1993 swing through the Midwest, opening for Mazzy Star, this document...
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Amazing album by Brian Leeds aka Huerco S! Seriously good collection of corrugated, rough, and decompositional pieces Working cheaply, Leeds conscientiously uses low-end software, synths and cassettes so as to subvert the gloss of so much urban dance music, giving tracks an impressionistic, emotive feel Colonial Patterns plays...
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The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon over the course of the Pandemic, and was a chance to give their creative friends the ability to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted for release on the label The music had to be great and able to be presented as a stand alone album...
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Out of stockBarely known outside of his home country during his lifetime, the late Japanese ambient music pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura has seen his global stature rise steadily in the past few years The 2017 reissue of his lauded debut, Music For Nine Post Cards, along with a slow building cult internet following has helped ignite a...
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Unconventional rhythmic structures, improvisation, jazz harmony, and Rhodes-soaked psychedelic soundscapes are woven together with samples, synths and found sounds to create the rich and dreamlike universe of Brown Calvin On his debut, d i m e n s i o n // p e r s p e c t i v e, the Portland-based, Philly-born, Puerto Rico-reared...
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Out of stockDaucile Moon, which follows Unknown Mobile's releases on No Bad Days, Normals Welcome and Young Adults, started four years ago in Vancouver when Levi Bruce was recovering from a broken toe and collecting MIDI files he found in an old Geocities archive It was finished earlier this year in Montreal with help from Mike Silver, AKA...
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Ken Downie, Ed Handley, and Andy Turner split their talents across numerous solo aliases on the trio’s previous Warp album Bytes; their 1995 album Spanners saw them recombine into a macrocosm of constantly shifting, expert electronic creations The Black Dog were not ones for interviews during the 90s, preferring to let...
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Spurred on by emergent footage of a recent live performance, Efficient Space delves deeper into the world of Spanish shoegaze outfit Bélver Yin, now solely helmed by founding member Pedro L Ortega An intimate collection of new recordings, Para Mi Madre is a parting gift to his mother, fulfilling a promise made in her final days...
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“Beloved by both die-hards and passing fans of the band, Stereolab’s second record was the one that really cemented their status as well as spawning some of their best-known tracks With Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements, Stereolab showed themselves to be adept at conjuring rose-tinted and somewhat...
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Neu! were formed by Kraftwerk members Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger who took the sparse early Kraftwerk electronic sound and utilized many effects like lock-groove rhythms and minimalist melodies currently used by today's electronic artists Neu! created a new kind of rhythm that bridged the gap between rock n roll's syncopation...
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Anticipation has been building for this 2023 EP from British electronic musician Richard D James, better known as Aphex Twin In June 2023, he made a rare appearance in social media photos with Arca He has put up posters in the LA area with a QR code linking to an augmented reality app called YXBoZXh0d2lu The four-track EP is his...
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Out of stockPairing two of his earliest out of print releases, the good folks at WeMe serve up a double LP of acid greatness from Andy Jenkinson Released in 2000, FSK005 and Acid Quakers 1000 run a gauntlet of raw, punching rhythms, opening with a hurricane of crashes on ‘Turrican’ followed by dizzying lasers on ‘Ramsden Health’ with...
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New Future City Radio is the first duo collaboration of longtime creative partners Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek In a hyperactive 40-minute, 18-track suite that runs like a boombox mixtape, the two prolific multi-media artists contemplate community, transformation, and the future through the programmatic format of a pirate radio...
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Frontier's Edge is the 2023 EP by the fiery, energetic, genre-defying group The Budos Band Their first release after departing their two-decade-long home of Daptone Records and joining Diamnd West Records — founded by the Budos' own Thomas Brenneck and Jared Tankel — Frontier's Edge finds the group hungry, passionate and...
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Out of stockIt was the lonely, overwhelming early days of the pandemic Topu Lyo was living in Georgia, feeling distant from his home in New York City, and Salenta De Badisdenne was in Wisconsin helping an elderly relative When Topu sent Salenta the files of Moon Set, Moon Rise, the project of wistful, contemplative cello and piano music they...
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Out of stockOm Unit and TM404 have both been researching production and compositional elements in the crosshairs of dub and acid for the last few years - Om Unit most notably with his Acid Dub Studies 1 & 2, and TM404 with his Acidub album in particular Om Unit has been a longtime fan of TM404’s use of the TB-303 and the...
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Out of stockThe last, outstanding release of the London based experimental duo (Tom Relleen and Valentina Magaletti), accomplished just before Tom’s passing in August 2020, is the distillate of two years of new creative enhancement Mostly recorded at Tom’s “Bunker” – as he called his house in London – during the days off from...
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Ebo Taylor “Twer Nyame” is being reissued on vinyl by Comet Records, pressed on high quality vinyl, with label designs and artwork as per the original release Originally released in 1978 on Philips-West African-Records Classic highlife sounds; uptempo grooves, vocals, tons of percussion, guitar, horns and organ lines...
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A Ghanaian funk LP from the afrofunk master one of Ebo Taylor's rarest and most sought-after! Ebo Taylor and The Pelikans is being reissued on vinyl by Comet Records, pressed on high quality vinyl, with label designs and artwork as per the original release Originally released by Ghanian Abookyi label in 1976, Ebo Taylor and The...
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“1994’s Mars Audiac Quintet may have seen a shift in Stereolab’s lineup – Katharine Gifford joined on keys while guitarist Sean O’Hagan went from full-time to part-time during the recording process – but the band continued with their unique brand of post-rock regardless of these changes Their core Motorik style subtly...
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Verve By Request Series — Monthly releases from Verve Label Group's jazz catalog! Handpicked rarities and fan favorites include out-of-print titles and first-ever vinyl pressings Verve Records/UMe and Third Man Records have partnered to resurrect the popular reissue series, Verve By Request, with a vinyl twist Focusing on...
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The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon over the course of the Pandemic, and was a chance to give their creative friends the ability to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted for release on the label The music had to be great and able to be presented as a stand alone album...
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Paisajes Para Torcer al Reloj (“landscapes for bending the clock”) is a collection of six collaborative improvisations between keyboardist / DJ Lorena Álvarez and multi-instrumentalist Alejandro Palacios recorded at the Nieve & Smog arts residency in Santiago, Chile in the spring of 2022 Theirs is a wispy, whispered...
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Out of stock"The Heliocentrics' debut album, Out There (2007) was a confounding piece of work Drawing equally from the funk universe of James Brown, the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra, the cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone, the sublime fusion of David Axelrod, Pierre Henry's turned-on musique concrète, and Can's beat-heavy krautrock, Out...
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Out of stockFunkadelic's self-titled debut may have touched upon drug-induced acid rock, but on their 1970 follow-up, Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow, the band blows the door off its hinges Look no further than the album-opening ten-minute title track - perhaps the most spaced out composition witnessed by rock and roll since the...
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In 1960, the free jazz pioneered by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Horace Tapscott and a very few others was rejected by many musicians and most listeners For the visionary saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist Eric Dolphy, it was simply new music fed by the mainstream, a logical extension of the jazz tradition In Far Cry without...
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Out of stockDoubling the label’s tally after 7FO’s ‘Moment’ 2LP, ‘Komachi’ yields a more serene angle to Meitei’s music in 12 instrumental parts rippling with fleeting melodies, fringed by delicate location recordings, and arranged in a naturally time-slipping ebb and flow While super pretty and functional as ambient scenery to...
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Out of stock“Honour our roots, honour our dead” This mindset found perfect expression in the group’s 2003 debut full-length, DE-LOUSED IN THE COMATORIUM, a song cycle inspired by the life and death of the duo’s old friend, artist and provocateur Julio Venegas Driven by furious, muscular, syncopated drums and frenetic guitar parts,...