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Ursula Le Guin’s short story, “Solitude,” describes a society rooted in the absolute autonomy of the individual In the world she constructs, people do almost everything alone, and they learn to savor this condition through close, deep observation of all the minutiae surrounding them in the woods, the dirt, the sky A favored... -
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The Body Is A Message Of The Universe, originally created and released in a small edition in Japan back in 1987 by Shiho Yabuki "The Body Is A Message Of The Universe features floating shimmering synthesizer textures It's unique and extra ordinarily serene with shifting tone colours and spatial textures bringing the listener to...
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It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir Serve garnished with an alluring female on the album jacket for best results Exotica! The soundtrack for a mythical air conditioned Eden,...
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Part of only a small and very much underground music scene in his hometown of Venice, Gigi Masin self released two modestly pressed LP's 'Wind' (1986) and 'Wind Collector' (1991) and appeared along side Charles Hayward for the Sub Rosa compilation LP "Les Nouvelles Musiques De Chambre Volume 2" (1988) Having met with little...
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Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002) - A Companion EP (2022) “The first three are innocent in a way, because we didn’t have an audience when we were making them,” Oberst says “But from Lifted on, I was definitely aware of an audience Lifted was well-received right away, and then...
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Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane family home in Dix Hills in 1970, Alice Coltrane’s fourth album is a transcendent masterpiece of spiritual jazz The title track is an ode to the Egyptian God, Ptah (the El Daoud meaning “the beloved”) Many moments on the album reach what Coltrane herself defined the term Turiya...
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Reissue There's not another album on the planet that sounds even remotely like vibraphonist Khan Jamal's eccentric, one-of-a-kind masterpiece, Drum Dance To The Motherland Thirty years after its release, the album's tapestry of sound, fearless abstractions, relentless grooves, cool swing, flashes of ecstasy, and pan cultural...
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Muriel Grossmann's Union is a great opportunity to experience the energy of a live performance Union was recorded in early autumn of 2019 during a two-day recording session in Mallorca studio, Caja Del Ruido In the context of this record and the previous ones, you can clearly talk about Muriel Grossmann's music as a style of music...
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Liai's debut LP, Pome, via Quiet Time Tapes "On “Pome”, Liai has given us a stunning work of expertly crafted rhythmic ambience, inspired by the intimacy and solitude of the midwestern countryside Having grown up in rural Missouri, Liai channels the mixed feelings that can accompany solo contemplation in nature -...
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Limited 2022 restock Exact repro, originally released in 1982 Featuring John Hicks (piano), Walter Booker (bass) and Idris Muhammad (drums) "Sanders performs 'It's Easy to Remember' (in a style very reminiscent of early-'60s John Coltrane), an original blues, and two of his compositions, including the passionate 'You've Got to...
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The fifth release in the BBE Music J Jazz Masterclass Series has the perfect combination of rarity and exceptional musicality that inspires seasoned collectors to break out in a sweat ‘Animals Garden’ by Miyasaka + 5 was originally issued in 1979 on the cult private Japanese label ALM and is reissued for the first time on LP,...
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The musical partnership of Joseph Shabason and Nicholas Krgovich orbits around a shared center of earnestness, slice-of-life poeticism, and the subtle everyday banality that becomes beautiful, even absurd, under their slight redirection Where 2020's Philadelphia placed domestic interiors under a microscope, documenting the indoor...
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"I'll never forget the first time I heard JJulius I was stumbling down the waxed marble steps of the Sunset Marquis, sipping in vain from my empty flask, when David Bowie pulled up in a tangerine Hummer H3 he "borrowed" from one of those Kraftwerk guys, either Hans or Franz Michael Stipe was sitting shotgun (this was his pre-fame,...
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Wayne Shorter had already set a high bar over the course of his first several Blue Note albums, which included all-time jazz classics including Night Dreamer, JuJu, and Speak No Evil, but 1966’s Adam’s Apple featuring Herbie Hancock on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums immediately joined the ranks of the...
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Life Goes On Records present a reissue of Joe Chambers's The Almoravid, originally released in 1974 Terrific session just released on influential independent Muse A modal masterpiece verging on spiritual jazz with a series of excellent players: from Richard Davis and Cecil McBee on bass to Ray Mantilla on congas and percussion,...
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We Are Busy Bodies is proud to reissue two albums by Ian Carr's Nucleus, starting with 1975's Alleycat Originally released on Vertigo as the group's final release for the label, the album has been remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel Recording The album was released the same year as Snakehips Etcetera and finds the same...
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Ndikho Xaba left South Africa in 1964, an exile from his homeland who eventually found his place in San Francisco’s vibrant spiritual jazz scene of the late 60s A songwriter, bandleader, pianist, and inventor of percussion and woodwind instruments, Xaba played alongside contemporaries like Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, and...
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180-gram gatefold double LP Remastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London "Fifth part of the Strata-East Dolphy Series, Glass Bead Games is arguably the crown jewel of the Strata East movement, an amorphous genre that treads an unusual path between post-bop, 1970s avant-garde and spiritual jazz, with a...
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The music of TMROTR is channeling the spirit of the Finnish forests and nature, combining shepherd music with hypnotic and subtle elements of spiritual jazz and nyabinghi rhythms Their instrumentation includes various self-built and custom-made instruments such as a log percussion setup and many different kinds of...
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Double LP version A stunning survey of the 1970s heyday of great Japanese singer and countercultural icon Maki Asakawa (1942-2010) Deep-indigo, dead-of-night enka, folk, and blues, inhaling Billie Holiday and Nina Simone down to the bone A traditional waltz abuts Nico-style incantation; defamiliarized versions of Oscar Brown Jr...
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Freaks Frequency is the sort after analogs classic that was original released on Colin Dale’s Abstrakt Dance label in 1998 Its an essential purchase for any electronic music lover All tracks were recorded live without the use of computer - Transparent Sound show their raw and minimal side of electro on this EP, and call up...
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The unreleased 1984 follow-up to the groundbreaking albums Kakashi and Mariah's Utakata No Hibi, Kiren is Yasuaki Shimizu's work for experimental dance music Employing cutting edge production to create lush new wave soundscapes, it bridges the gap between his early 80s recordings and his later work with the Saxophonettes, filling...
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New World Science's Osmos (Movements) is a sincere foray into forth-world fantasy, where disparate synthesizer styles are tied together by harmonized saxophone musings Comprised of four recordings/jams between Francis Latreille (Priori-mastermind behind the project), Adam Feingold (Ex-Terrestrial), and Emmanuel Thibau, and...
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Even in the increasingly crowded field of electronic music, Kelly Lee Owens’ debut album arrives as a wonderful surprise An album that bridges the gaps between cavernous techno, spectral pop, and krautrock’s mechanical pulse, 'Kelly Lee Owens' brims with exploratory wonder, establishing a personal aesthetic that is as...
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This year, Rhino / Parlophone is kicking off Jazz Appreciation Month with one of the most influential figures in 20th-century American music, Charles Mingus, who would have turned 100 on April 22 This year, Mingus’ legacy will be in the spotlight with the release of a deluxe edition of his album, Mingus Three, just in time for...
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Universounds, HMV Record Shop and 180g team up for an exceptional release: from blazing hard bop to free jazz, to introspective saxophone solos and massive big band sounds, renowned Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa presents an essential 14 track collection of “WaJazz” music taken from the Nippon Columbia vaults Featuring Jiro...
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Containing newly remastered audio, Genesis Of Genius: The Contemporary Albums combines legendary Jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman's albums for Lester Koenig's Contemporary Records This deluxe box set features Coleman's first albums as a bandleader, Something Else!!!! and Tomorrow Is The Question! Both albums were originally...
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Travellng beyond the tropical waters of the South Pacific, Afro-Desia showcases Martin Denny’s foremost foray into the sounds and rhythms of the African continent Pressed on flame-orange color vinyl, Afro-Desia’s twelve tracks burn bright and bring the groove with a chorus of marimbas, timbales, congas, and the sounds of the...
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Coming hot off the heels of his iconic debut, Martin Denny’s follow-up to the original Exotica is the ultimate companion piece Originally released in mono in 1957—mere weeks after the first Exotica album kick-started the new lounge craze—Exotica Volume II further demonstrated Denny’s unique imagination as both a musician...
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Originally released in 1958, Primitiva is a rhythmically rich and inimitably exotic Martin Denny experience Reissued by Jackpot Records on limited edition ocean blue color vinyl, Primitiva highlights the burgeoning sound of ’50s exotica music, with Denny’s diverse soundscape ranging from vibraphones and marimbas, to Burmese...
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Dean Blunt x Arca x Mica Levi x made-up Idris Elba quotes x Hyperdub: it’s a lot Fronted by that image and opening with the most unsettling, unrelenting mantra “this makes me proud to be british”, set to harp, leisure centre noise and bleeping mobiles; Dean Blunt’s got us by the gullet with his debut LP...
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Vision Songs Vol 1 is the Laraaji album like no other, located at the intersection of new age and gospel, his outlier and magnum opus, the feel-good DIY tape of the century Casio synth jams recorded at spiritual retreat guest rooms and a tiny bedroom on the Upper West Side in 1984, lysergically-spectacular anthems for a...
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Robert Fripp & Brian Eno’s timeless 1975 electronic music classic Evening Star on vinyl for the first time in nearly 30 years The album’s return to the 12″ format is cut from masters approved by the artists, manufactured on 200g super-heavyweight vinyl and presented in a re-print of the original sleeve With King...
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Carmen Villain turns out a career best with her fourth album, a confidently conspicuous co-mingling of dub, fourth world jazz, ambient and kosmische modes Brilliantly eroded, soft-focus music that's wide-ranging thematically, but completely coherent, landing somewhere between Jon Hassell and Rhythm and Sound It's fitting that...
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Donald Byrd’s 1975 fusion classic Places and Spaces was the culmination of the legendary trumpeter’s vibrant latter Blue Note years Byrd had begun recording for Blue Note in 1958, and over two decades evolved from a top-notch hard bop trumpeter into a pioneer of R&B/Funk fusion, leading the label’s own creative direction...
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“In 2020, like everyone else, I was just a private person,” says Hval “No artists were allowed to perform I was reduced to ‘just me’” As a result, Hval questioned what “just me” could mean Was it the version that never got away from her hometown Was it the idea that there is an obvious truth behind a work of art Is...
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Sometimes a single is released that reaches such dizzying heights of success that it becomes a pinnacle of the decade they're indelibly tied to "Groove Is In The Heart" by dance-house trio Deee-Lite is one such single The infectiously quirky, and eminently danceable track is prominently based around samples of "Bring Down The...
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Communion, privately released in an impossibly small edition of twenty five cassettes in 1986, is a beguiling, politically underpinned meditation of cosmic improvisation and wayward folk music from Cleveland’s Universal Liberation Orchestra Universal Liberation Orchestra’s Communion arrives January 28, 2022 as part of...
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For five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970 While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by abstract expressionist painters as by John Cage and Morton Feldman In his work,...
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Forevernevermore was originally released in 2000 and is the second full length on Peacefrog from Kenny Dixon Jnr Gathering together the best strands of Moodymann's late-'90s tracks on KDJ, Forevernevermore re-interprets these rare and sought after gems twisting and blending them into a new mesmerizing and idiosyncratic stew which...
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Silence In The Secret Garden is an intensely personal and spiritual journey into the heart & soul of black music From the reckless dark minimalism of the title track Silence In The Secret Garden to the irresistible funk of Yesterday’s Party… this classic album has continued to surprise and inspire in the 14 years since...
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An incredible session from the legendary Tribe Records scene — an equal effort from leader Doug Hammond and keyboardist David Durrah, who contributes some ground breaking Fender Rhodes and moog work to the set! Hammond handles drums plus a bit of vocals and synthesizer on the session — working alongside Durrah in a groove that...
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Sudi Wachspress returns to Tartelet Records with Dance Planet, a third LP of emotionally-charged house music to welcomes you back to the dancefloor The spirit of true house runs deep in the sound of Space Ghost Oakland native Sudi Wachspress is intuitively plugged into the romantic, mystical energy of 4/4 club music as a unifying...
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For outsider gospel visionary and Detroit native Otis G Johnson, the Holy Ghost was in the machinein this case a rhythm-equipped Hammond organ Everything - God Is Love 78, a singular 1978 mid-fi document, features android percussion against chords of Otis’s own invention, possessed by minor tonality and frequent bum notes...
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Aphex Twin's third studio album, originally released in 1995, is regarded as Richard D James' greatest work under his Aphex Twin guise; whereas 'Selected Ambient Works Vol II' consummated Aphex Twin's analogue era, 'I Care Because You Do' was the beginning of more intricate, lengthy, abstract digital compositions Quite different...
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Anthony Naples returns after two and a half years to bring to those interested, a new album of twelve songs titled Chameleon This album represents the first time Anthony wrote the songs on instruments first - guitar, bass, synthesizer, drums, et cetera Through changing well worn musical habits and endless jammin’, a new side of...
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Some artists have gained huge recognition, some records have been idealized to the point of becoming cult albums… and that’s exactly the case of Marine Flowers, by Japanese multi artist Akira Ito An album that is unique, delicate, exploratory… a true one-of-a-kind sonic adventure that 35 years after its first release comes...
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Third installment of one of the most stunningly good compilations we've ever encountered Glorious American soul music, both ballads and rockers; in gold-foiled sleeves, with twelve pages of notes Mississippi about its new imprint Cairo: ‘It’s just the deepest soul music It’s not all obscurities either- there’s some...
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