Archive for the Genres Category
Marcia Griffiths “Sweet And Nice” (Be With)
Be With Records present a reissue of Sweet And Nice, the vital debut album from Jamaica’s undisputed first lady of song Marica Griffiths, originally released in 1974. It’s reggae at its most soulful. Slinking through a tight ten tracks of R&B and pop-sourced material, it became an instant best seller. […]
Doug Carn “Adam’s Apple” (Black Jazz)
Doug Carn’s fourth album for the Oakland, CA-based Black Jazz label, originally released in 1974. Carn plays electric piano, organ and moog. Includes a cover of Earth, Wind and Fire’s “Mighty Mighty” and a new version of Weather Report’s “Sanctuary.” This is a 1998 reissue.
Not Waving & Dark Mark “Downwelling” (Ecstatic)
Following Not Waving’s stellar recent recordings with Jim O’Rourke, Colin Potter, and Jay Glass Dubs, Downwelling finds him in a striking Pas de deux with alt. rock god Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, QOTSA). It’s one of those rare link-ups that truly transcends the sum of its parts, with Not Waving’s […]
Various Artists “Seito: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun” (Akuphone)
Includes 24-page portfolio and download card. Seitō: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun gathers Japanese female artists from various electronic and experimental music fields. Like the Tokyo Flashback series issued by P.S.F. in the early 1990s, this collection recorded between 2017 and 2019 exposes the richness of the contemporary […]
Zeitkrater “Performs the Songs from Kraftwerk 1 & Kraftwerk 2” (Karlrecords)
180 gram vinyl; Includes insert and download code. Second volume of “modern composition supergroup” (The Wire) Zeitkratzer’s re-interpretations of early compositions by electronic pioneers Kraftwerk. In more than two decades Zeitkratzer has created an astonishing broad catalog from the obligatory (20th century avant-garde composers like Cage or Stockhausen) to the […]
The New York Contemporary Five “Live At Koncertsal, Copenhagen 1963” (Alternative Fox)
New York Contemporary Five: Live at Koncertsal, Copenhagen, 17.10.1963. The short-lived quintet known as the New York Contemporary Five had a lasting impact on the free jazz movement. It was formed in 1962 with trumpeter Don Cherry, who had been working with free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman; tenor saxophonist Archie […]
Joyce “Joyce” (Alternative Fox)
Alternative Fox present a reissue of Joyce, originally released in 1968. The Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist Joyce Silveira Moreno was born and raised in the middle of Copacabana, a short beach stroll from the epicentre of the bossa nova universe. Her father was a Dane that had settled in Brazil, […]
Special Request “Bedroom Tapes” (Houndstooth)
Double LP version. Bedroom Tapes is comprised solely of lost material from a recently discovered box of cassettes that emerged in the process of a house move. These tracks capture some of Paul Woolford’s most wide-eyed and naïve creative impulses at a tender age. Seemingly lost forever, some were part […]
Pontiac Streator & Ulla Strauss “11 Items” (West Mineral Ltd)
11 Items is the textured first album by Pontiac Streator and Ulla Straus for Huerco S and his pals at West Mineral Ltd. The album sees the American duo expand upon the hazy mindset of their Chat EP (OUEST 097LP, 2018) across a flux of ambient interzones where they transmute […]
Alan Dixon “La Danza” (Running Back)
Alan Dixon’s La Danza EP gives you Italo-house waves that would make Irma and Calypso records proud, washing over you, arpeggiated disco bass lines, boogie swag, and a beautiful ambient composition that makes you dance without beats. The London-based debut for Running Back is at the same time joyous, carefree, […]
Alberto Baldan Bembo “L’Amica Di Mia Madre” (Sonor Music)
Sonor Music Editions present a reissue of Alberto Baldan Bembo’sL’Amica Di Mia Madre, originally released in 1975. This spellbinding soundtrack by the cult maestro Baldan Bembo is another exotica jewel from the Italian film music golden era. Original music for the erotic drama movie L’amica Di Mia Madre starring Barbara […]
Various Artists “Charred Remains” (Radio Raheem)
Repressed. “In the annals of early 80’s American hardcore, no compilation holds more seminal weight than Charred Remains. Initially released in 1982 on cassette through Bob Moore’s Version Sound label and available in limited supply, the release served the world the first earfuls of such groundbreaking and legendary bands such […]
Fennesz “Agora” (Touch)
Agora is Christian Fennesz’s first solo album since Mahler Remix (TONE 052LP, 2014) and Bécs (EMEGO 165CD/LP, 2014). Fennesz writes: “It’s a simple story. I had temporarily lost a proper studio workspace and had to move all my gear back to a small bedroom in my flat where I recorded […]
Bongzilla “Gateway” (Relapse)
With a Sabbath-on-downer-encrusted sound that blends billowing rock, clenched-teeth blues and an underground punk attitude, psychedelic sludgecore masters BONGZILLA fire up thunderous mega-rock with a pronounced emphasis on the big riff. Gateway showcases a BONGZILLA sound fertilized tenfold – simultaneously aggressive and mellow – with thunderous percussion, smoke-seared vocals and […]
75 Dollar Bill “I Was Real” (Thin Wrist)
75 Dollar Bill is one of the essential groups at the heart of NYC’s underground. Driven by the telepathic union of Che Chen’s microtonal electric guitar and Rick Brown’s odd metered percussion their long-form sound is unmistakable and compelling. On their third album I Was Real, the group expands in […]
Rob “Make It Fast, Make It Slow” (Soundway)
2019 repress. Soundway present a reissue of Rob’s second album for the first-time outside Ghana, originally released in 1978. Rob was an enigmatic recording artist from Ghana who cut two albums for the legendary Essiebons label in 1977. Neither of these were big domestic hits at the time and have […]
Bongzilla “Methods For Attaining Extreme Altitudes” (Relapse)
This remastered, repackaged, reissue of BONGZILLA’s first full-length album and Relapse EP will give you a contact buzz all over again. Stash/ Methods… proves that BONGZILLA was as far ahead of their time as they were behind it.
Bongzilla “Stash” (Relapse)
In 1999, the hemp-friendly horticulturists returned from the stratosphere once again, bringing with them some of the best THC-powered rock ever exhaled.
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble “Where Future Unfolds” (International Anthem)
Where Future Unfolds is a new work spirited by Chicago-based sound & visual artist Damon Locks. Starting as a solo sound collage piece (where Locks pulled samples from Civil Rights era speeches and recordings to create an improvisational pallet for performance on his drum machine), over 4 years the project […]
Mayhem “Wolf’s Lair Abyss” (Souseller)
Mayhem need no introduction. The legendary band has been a league of their own ever since their formation in the eighties. “Wolf’s Lair Abyss” was originally released in 1997 and is now proudly being re-issued on all formats via Soulseller Records. Carefully constructed from its original release, including original hand-written […]
Nems “Gorilla Monsoon” (Lyfer Gang)
cBorn and raised in the infamous Coney Island section of Brooklyn, Nems started writing at the age of 15, when he hit the gas and never slowed down, winning almost every notable freestyle battle and performance based competition in NYC. At age 17 Nems participated in the MTV series “Fight […]
Panopticon “Social Disservices” (Nordvis)
Social Disservices is quite possibly Austin Lunn’s most scathing and pained album to date. Sonically, in performance/execution and of course in the very content lyrically, every nuance of this album screams with the agonizing reality of mental health issues and the often broken inner workings of the institution born to […]
Abstract Orchestra “Madvillain Vol. 1” (ATA)
Coming off the back of their successful album of J Dilla interpretations (and a single with Dilla’s younger brother, Illa J), this time Abstract Orchestra focuses on MF DOOM and Madlib’s collaborative work as Madvillan. Led by Saxophonist Rob Mitchell, the UK group explores jazz, TV soundtracks and film scores, […]
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah “Ancestral Recall” (Ropeadope)
Ancestral Recall seeks to de-colonialize sound; to revise history by creating a sonic tapestry illuminating the harmony within rhythm and obliterating the previous context. Rather than bring rhythm into his sound, Adjuah begins with Rhythm, sampling West African, Indian, and other cultural rhythms and interweaving live drumming in the studio. […]