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Melody As Truth is proud to announce “Melodies In The Sand”, a collection of works from Czech artists Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi The husband-and-wife duo began working together in the mid 80’s as part of experimental ensemble Capella Antiqua e Moderna, a unique association of musicians whose repertoire spanned various... -
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Basic Channel heads Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald keep the burial mix series going with its most ambitious release to date - a collection of one-rhythm tracks featuring vocal contributions from Basic Channel collaborators old and new "See Mi Yah" is a classic collection of one-rhythm tracks, typical format and production...
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All-time classic, life-changing biz The hallmarks are all there; Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald have already set the world ablaze once, twice, three, four times with their work as Basic Channel and the splintering into microscopic, heavyweight offshoots by way of the M series, Main Street, Chain Reaction, Rhythm and...
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Versions' leaves out the vocal accompaniment and exposes the production as it drifts off into instrumental effervescence This second breathtaking CD leaves out the vocal accompaniment and exposes the terryfingly deep Basic Channel production as it drifts off into instrumental effervescance The hallmarks are all there; Mark...
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Moby’s Play is renowned for being the first album ever to totally sell-out, in that every last one of its 18 tracks was licensed for commercial use in ads and films Given that level of exposure you may know all the tunes here anyway, but in case you want to treat them to a proper listening experience, here is a 2LP reissue on...
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In the late ‘80s, a wave of British musicians raised on ‘70s UK pop, Caribbean sound system culture, reggae, lovers rock and Motown/Philly soul music fell in love with synthesisers, drum machines and 8-track recorders The street soul generation had arrived Originally released as a white label 12” in 1989, ‘You’ve...
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Dam-Funk swings back to his Garrett alias for a smoking 2nd ‘Private Life’ session on Music From Memory after the project debuted in 2017 Vibes for eons on this one, hustling pure dusky hues from his synths and coaxing some of his smoothest drum machine patterns across seven tracks of gilded deep soul bliss Listen up for...
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"Garrett came from the inside of his own mind, from within a home recording studio somewhere on planet Earth The Private Life of creative awareness and the music captured here is the visceral offering to all outside Every one of us has a Private Life This is...
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Compiled by Hunee, 'Sounds from the Far East' features highly sought after material by legendary Japanese house producer Soichi Terada and fellow producers Shinichiro Yokota, Manabu Nagayama! Soichi Terada is an adventurous multitalent and over all a good sport He was born in the sixties, and as a child he loved to play on his...
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Backatcha Records presents Swave Villi Us, a collection of sixteen sought after independent soul cuts, recorded between 1971-1984 from across the US and beyond The album comes as a 2xLP, complete with extensive sleeve notes, featuring top-shelf rarities end-to-end Whilst soul 45 aficionados will be familiar with the titles,...
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Following up to his studio companion Trenton Chase’s latest LP ‘Planar Array’ released earlier in 2020, half of Manie Sans Délire June turns up on Artificial Dance with his anticipated new mini-album, ‘Horizons’ True to the signature synth-splattered sound of his and his duo, June’s newest wave-imbued manifesto has us...
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A quintessential work of Japanese big band jazz recorded by the New Herd, headed by one of Japan’s foremost jazz musicians, Toshiyuki Miyama It is a further concretized continuation of Miyama’s exploration of ‘Wa (Japanese) jazz’ that drove his previous record, ‘Nio and Pigeon’ By intentionally eschewing the use of...
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Esbe, is an multi-genre music producer from Los Angeles, California He is known for his atmospheric instrumental production which incorporates sound elements from extensive use of jazz and soul samples His latest release, Bloomsday, is a collection of 19 essential instrumentals "If you were to grab tracks at random from...
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Libyan artist Ahmed Ben Ali makes what he terms Libyan-style reggae The description certainly holds for ‘Sibhana’s title-track, a rocksteady strut that is full of digi-dub tricks However, while the other tune here, ‘Damek Majeb’, has some dancehall-indebted dembow about its beat, the overall effect of this slow dancefloor...
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Tone Poem is the third full-length album by Charles Lloyd & The Marvels, the genre-straddling quintet that features the master saxophonist with Bill Frisell on guitar, Greg Leisz on pedal steel guitar, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Eric Harland on drums Following the band’s 2016 debut I Love To See You and their 2018...
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A brand new reworks album, staggered in various ep releases, including unreleased original compositions and reflecting the original compositions in new arrangement, re-interpretations by Vikingur and various other artists After the success of the previous Bach Reworks Album Vikingur and his Label have embarked on a new album...
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Few musicians have embodied the romantic, and ultimately tragic, jazz figure as totally as Chesney "Chet" Baker Unschooled yet eloquent in his music, the Baker mystique has only reinforced one of the most haunting trumpet styles and ingenuous singing approaches Chet Baker Sings: It Could Happen To You is his classic 1958 vocal...
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Santana's self-titled debut album announces the arrival of a new Guitar God Made during the legendary bandleader's most fruitful and creative period, the classic 1969 set functions as an accessible entry point into the tangy worlds of Latin music by way of an intoxicating blend of Afro-Cuban percussion, jazzy tempos, exotic leads,...
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Modesto, CA’s influential indie-rock group Grandaddy celebrates the 20th-anniversary of their classic second LP, 2000’s The Sophtware Slump with a brand-new solo piano recording of the album by principal songwriter Jason Lytle The candid arrangements reveal new layers of meaning embedded in The Sophtware Slump’s melancholy...
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Originally released as a digital only download on Bandcamp in March 2020 to raise funds for New York City Food Bank at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, On Hold is a series of 10 pieces derived entirely from call waiting music Recorded through the phone and manipulated to achieve a wider enveloping soundscape to both ease and...
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We can’t think of many artists that have had as diverse a career and who have been involved in as many different genres of music as Asha Puthli A musical pioneer who forged a path through 60's psych, free-jazz, pop, rock, disco, and more Asha's 1976 album 'The Devil Is Loose' is maybe her most well-known record Featuring the...
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Following “La Contra Ola” (BJR015), Bongo Joe is pleased to present LA OLA INTERIOR, a compilation exploring the ambient side of the Spanish electronic music produced in the 80’s It gathers musicians from various horizons and of many generations, who shared the desire to create an immersive soundscape and to combine...
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Ground-breaking percussive ambient recordings to induce altered states of consciousness through ecstatic dance Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors were a world unto themselves Despite featuring an extraordinary cast of musicians (with credits including Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis, Santana, Stevie Wonder, Milton Nascimento...
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Takk is a warmer, more orchestral take on the band's defining sound, and easily their most instantly accessible record to date (shockingly, over a third of the album's songs clock in at under five minutes each) The cheerless drones of ( ) are replaced by more bass, drums, piano, horns, and samples, strings are more prominent...
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Originally released in 1996, The Clean’s Unknown Country makes its debut appearance on vinyl in the US on March 26, 2021 Of this album, The Clean's David Kilgour writes, “The Clean always wanna try something different, but on this LP, we were obsessed with the idea” Bandmate Robert Scott agrees, saying, “I really...
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Legendary indie pop group, The Clean [David Kilgour, Hamish Kilgour & Robert Scott (The Bats)] released their fifth full length, Mister Pop on September 4, 2009 The album was recorded by Tex Houston (3Ds, Look Blue Go Purple) in Dunedin, NZ, during February of 2009 except for “Back in the Day,” which was recorded at...
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When is dance music not really dance music, but still makes you want to shake everything your were given at birth PLO Man and C3D E provide a perfect example with 'Public Static V (Part 1-5)', the opening track here While never committing to labels, the track moves through a number of different arrangements, peaking with a sense...
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The second solo album from Krautrock legend Michael Rother (Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Neu!), originally released in 1978 Featuring Jaki Liebezeit of Can on drums and produced by Conny Plank (Kraftwerk, Ash Ra Tempel, Brian Eno, Devo), Sterntaler is wildly ahead of its time Rother himself handles duties on guitar, syth, piano, bass...
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Reissue of Katzenmusik, the third studio album by the German solo artist Michael Rother It was released in 1979 and includes the single "Katzenmusik 9" b/w "Katzenmusik 2" "The album was recorded between March and July 1979 in Germany at Rother's own studio in Forst and Conny's Studio Receiving positive reviews the album was...
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Pete Rock is widely recognized as one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time His name is oft included in the pantheon of the greatest, alongside DJ Premier, RZA and J Dilla In addition, Pete has one of the world’s most extensive vinyl collections, the sort of collection who’s size can only be estimated – and that...
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Fresh off of their 2020 offering Adult Themes, El Michels Affair is back with a new full-length release Titled Yeti Season, this newest album has everything we've come to expect from EMA’s patented cinematic style of instrumental soul music Where Adult Themes inspired a soundtrack to an imaginary film, Yeti Season brings us...
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Four Tet's 2017 album New Energy is gorgeous, lush, subtle, tonally satisfying Kieran Hebden’s pursuit of new sounds has found him digging into his own catalog New Energy is a wide-ranging album that connects the warmth of his early work to his latest club experiments There’s the low-key warmth of 2003’s Rounds, the free...
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O’Jays road manager, Don King prison chauffeur, window washer, house painter, Ink Spot, Domino, engineer, label owner, guitorgan technician, and one-time steward of a coveted Jet Magazine delivery route, Lou Ragland is Cleveland’s Eastside success story Suffocated by Lake Erie’s nitrate-rich waters and the burning oil from a...
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The first album released by the most sought-after label, bar none, among jazz collectors! And since keyboardist Gene Russell was at the artistic helm of Black Jazz, it was only natural that the label's debut record featured Russell himself, with the fitting title New Direction Oft-bootlegged, with original copies commanding...
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Recorded in Gendel’s native California, the album features three musicians—Gendel on saxophone, Gabe Noel on electric bass, and Philippe Melanson on electronic percussion—engaging in simultaneous synchronized sonic construction/destruction of well-known jazz standards, including Miles Davis’ “Freddie Freeloader,”...
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Portico Quartet return with Memory Streams, their fifth studio album and one that continues the journey that first started with 2008’s Mercury nominated debut Knee Deep in the North Sea It’s a creative path that has seen the band embrace new technology and explore ambient and electronic influences alongside minimalism, jazz...
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