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Recorded in 1963, The Sheriff features the Modern Jazz Quartet in fine swinging form The program is not as sharply focused as on some of the earlier Atlantic releases, but it is compelling nonetheless There are four originals by pianist John Lewis, including the fleeting, bluesy title cut, and the moody, spacious "In a Crowd" --... -
From its opening bars, with Bill Salter's bass and Rahsaan's flute passionately playing Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine", you know this isn't an ordinary Kirk album (were any of them) As the string section, electric piano, percussion, and Cornel Dupree's guitar slip in the back door, one can feel the deep soul groove Kirk is... -
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With such a tight group as the MJQ is is impossible to single out individual musicians which probably accounts for their long lived success This is a strong recording from the Modern Jazz Quartet, with inventive versions of John Lewis' "Vendome," Ray Brown's "Pyramid," Jim Hall's "Romaine," and Lewis' famous "Django," along... -
The Replacements have announced a deluxe reissue of their 1981 debut album Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash, which will have its 40th anniversary at the end of the month The Sorry Ma, I Forgot To Take Out The Trash box set that’s been put together by Rhino Records will contain 67 previously unreleased tracks that include... -
Pat Metheny has unveiled the latest chapter in his wildly prolific career – SIDE-EYE, a new setting featuring the 20-time GRAMMY winner accompanied by a handpicked and rotating cast of players featuring some of the most exciting and innovative new musicians on the New York scene The new album, SIDE-EYE NYC will be released... -
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Cited by The New Yorker as "One of the most celebrated electronic musicians of his generation", electronic artist, producer and composer Jon Hopkins has forged a reputation for music that marries the dance floor to the devotional, and for live performances that are visceral, generous and charged with a rapt, sensuous beauty Jon... -
Donnie Darko: Music from the Original Motion Picture Score is a soundtrack album by American musician Michael Andrews, released in April 2002 on Enjoy and Everloving Records It contains music from the 2001 science fiction psychological thriller film Donnie Darko, written and directed by Richard Kelly It consists of 16 instrumental... -
Referencing HG Wells’ Things to Come, Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage and Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan, the themes Clinic explore on Fantasy Island are time, music and entertainment In a (coco) nutshell, Clinic have gone funky disco, broadening their sonic palette with the addition of several new gadgets... -
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Danish thrash metal Hell, yes! In fact, Artillery was one of the pioneers in the genre And this 1990 album, their third and last before an eight-year hiatus, is considered a classic, inspired in part by a trip to Tashkent in what was then the USSR (now Uzbekistan) Features the brothers Stützer, Michael and the late Morten, on... -
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For almost thirty years and over the course of countless releases, the American band Pelt has traversed non-idiomatic improv, Eastern-tinged psychoacoustic drones, and—in its earliest incarnation—noisy post rock The group once counted among its ranks the late guitarist Jack Rose, whose spirit continues to imbue Pelt’s music... -
'But Only After You Have Suffered' is a densely layered and deeply personal new work from multidisciplinary artist, composer, percussionist & producer Jamire Williams Conceived as a spiritual, autobiographical artistic statement, Jamire applies sound collage practice to modern jazz composition, beat production, MC/vocalist... -
Natten, which means “The Night” in Danish, draws inspiration from the end of day, that regenerative time under the constellations when our lives look different Listeners might be quick to call it escapist—the music might be a reprieve from our busy lives And while that’s one way to experience Natten, there’s also... -
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Happy Trails is the 1969 follow-up to Quicksilver Messenger Service's self-titled folk-rock inflected debut Largely recorded live in concert, the album opens with a 25 minute, six-part suite of Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" and is anchored with a version of his song "Mono" One of the first releases to successfully capture the San... -
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Leadbelly's last recording sessions for a commercial record label, held in the early fall of 1944, yielded a dazzling 12 songs, embracing virtuoso guitar blues ("Grasshoppers In My Pillow"), pounding piano-driven scatting ("The Eagle Rocks", with Leadbelly himself at the ivories, a talent for which he wasn't usually recognized),... -
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Black, Brown, & Beige is Duke Ellington’s musical representation of the African American experience in the United States It is arguably The Maestro’s greatest work The triumph of telling so important a story so well through music alone makes Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown, & Beige a masterpiece Black, Brown, &... -
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LET MY CHILDREN HEAR MUSIC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization created in 1986 to promote the compositional legacy of musician and composer Charles Mingus through publishing, education, archival preservation, and performanceCharles Mingus is recognized as a major 20th century composer, whose entire works have been acquired by... -
Even back in the early '50s, Columbia Records took Duke Ellington seriously enough to place this album on its prestigious Masterworks label, heretofore reserved mostly for highbrow classical music and Broadway shows Also, this LP explodes the critical line that the early '50s was a relatively fallow period for the Duke; any of... -
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Mingus Dynasty, like its predecessor and Columbia companion Mingus Ah Um, was recorded in 1959, a watershed year for the insuperable, eruptive bassist-composer Charles Mingus Leading what amounted to a repertory company comprising some of New York’s best and most creative improvisers, Mingus musically challenged two ensembles (a... -
"Criss-Cross" - Thelonious Monk's second album for Columbia Records – features some of the finest work that Monk ever did in the studio with his '60s trio and quartet Whether revisiting pop standards or reinventing Monk's own classic compositions, Monk and Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), John Ore (bass), and Frankie Dunlop (drums)... -
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The arrangements by Tommy Newsom for strings, brass, and woodwinds may be a bit sweet and the 12 performances may be overly concise (often under three minutes), but the resulting music is strangely pleasing Acoustic guitarist Charlie Byrd always had a strong affinity for Brazilian jazz, and he sticks exclusively to Antonio Carlos... -
THouse’s recording session ran over a few days and saw the studio set up like a small club with an invited audience I remember John (Hammond) running around crazed, as was Son’s manager, Dick Waterman (a man to whom Son owed everything) Al Wilson of Canned Heat was sat alongside Son, and once the recording started occasionally... -
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"Burning Hot" is one of the hottest tune from Peven's discography, one of the biggest anthem in the NY dancefloor since the Summer of 2010 On the B-side "Burning Groove", an unreleased demo taken from the original song... -
Larry and Bell are two musos from the east and west of the Atlantic, who met on a scuba trip in Belize in '99 Larry plays Bongos, Bell is on the organic sampler and echo pedal, and a local cast of musicians backed them up on Guitar, Double Bass, and Kick Drum After a few Rum Daiquiris and many spliff, these are the sessions... -
After his debut LP ‘Temmuz’, released at the beginning of last year, Houschyar is back on Macadam Mambo with his new album: a less danceable but more personal opus Being locked up on the rooftops of Istanbul, Houschyar repurposed a satellite dish, making use of its perfectly round and concave shape to create strange... -
Portal to the underworld: five pulsating tracks transport you between heaven and hell, featuring a collaboration with NAP and a remix by DTiffany A Potion Activated Give in to the temptation of The Forbidden Plum Take a bite and let the juice drip Your journey begins with a hypnotic seduction, stoking the flames of desire as... -
Effortlessly funked up, classic 1998 Detroit tekkers from the master, making us absolutely gag to get jacking under strobes and smoke ‘Black Man’s Word’ is pure 313 gospel, ticking up to a classic ‘90s pace and layered with signature strings and nagging organ code that can’t help but make us fling a limb ’Sleep Is The... -
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A killer but hard-to-find track, In Love was originally released on the highly respected Smallfish Records Now, its re-released with some excellent additions as a new 4-track 12in EP 300 limited run Four tracks that mix Techno/Deep House groove with rock-solid bass, Spaced-out Dub, Detroit and Acid influences, all uniquely... -
My Morning Jacket will release its first new studio album in nearly six years, an 11-track, self-titled affair via ATO Records First single “Regularly Scheduled Programming” is out now, accompanied by a video directed by frontman Jim James (pictured in center) in tandem with George Mays “This song really hits home for me... -
Ovals & Emeralds serves as a companion EP to Vignetting The Compost, releasing shortly after that album was released in 2009 on Mush This marks its first ever physical release and arrives on emerald green... -
Chansons d’Ennui Tip-Top is the companion release to the soundtrack for Wes Anderson’s latest film The French Dispatch The album expands on the Anderson and Jarvis Cocker cover collaboration of Christophe’s pop hit “Aline” for the film, and is an entire album of French material from the same period Jarvis Cocker’s... -
London-based saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia, whose critically-acclaimed album, SOURCE, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Mercury Prize, returns with a new remix album to be released on October 22, 2021 Through musical collaboration, Nubya has teamed up with an exciting and innovative array of artists... -
Another album of rose-tinted nostalgia from Bibio, who've made a remarkably fertile career out of making the kind of music you'd hear buried at the bottom of Boards Of Canada records The price they pay for their art is forever being condemned to reviews starting out exactly as this one has, making associations with the faded,... -
Days Of Speed is an acoustic, double live album featuring songs from across Weller’s career including the Jam classics; “That’s Entertainment” and “Town Called Malice,” The Style Council’s “Headstart for Happiness” and “Down in The Seine” and solo hits, “You Do Something to Me” and “Wild... -
It's been a minute since Perfect Toy Records last hooked you up with a wild ride down that ol' psych-soul highway but the blacktop beckons once more with the sourcing of material for Down & Wired Vol 5 by veteran follower of the 'way of the dusty crate' - Chan The Man! This one begins, aptly enough, with an irresistible cover... -
ANOTHER DOSE OF PSYCHEDELIC FUNK & BLUE-EYED SOUL !!! Es ist schon eine Minute her, dass Perfect Toy Records euch das letzte Mal mit einer wilden Fahrt auf dem alten Psych-Soul-Highway beglückt hat, aber jetzt erneut mit der Beschaffung von Material für Down & Wired Vol 6 durch den Veteranen des "Weges der staubigen... -
"KILLER!!!! These Melbourne boys have been in the analogue kitchen and dinner is ready Damn it tastes good, perfectly seasoned with the drums and bass cooked just as they should be Complex arrangements: psychedelic, uncompromising and rugged Left me hungry for more" - Miles Cleret (Soundway Records) "Wonderful! Another triumph" -... -
The enigmatic Manila-via-British Columbia ensemble SeekersInternational returns to Tokyo-based label Diskotopia for the follow up to 2016's Ragga Preservation Society SeekersInternational Presents Ragga Preservation Society – Worldwide Sound comes after a prolific five-year creative journey exploring different sonic avenues... -
It was inevitable that Dan Berkson (formerly of electronic dance duo Berkson & What) would make a jazz album like Dialogues: joyful, danceable, entertaining, driven by the pleasure principle, and filled with virtuosity It represents Berkson's experiences in London, where jazz is a living, breathing, dancing scene It's his love... -
"With all that has happened in 2020 and 2021, music continues to allow me to focus on only that as I create it It helped me get through this pandemic" Jon has brought to us yet again, a one-of-a-kind EP This EP features the unique vocals of Detroit's own Moodymann and Britt Frappier It also features the smooth voice of Jazz singer... -
Fog FM is a house music transmission filtered through fluorescent static, from a station out of place and... -
Ark To Ashes label boss Shadi Megallaa got some down-time from his Dubai record shop, The Flip Side, to produce this EP It features 2 original productions with one being a collaboration with fellow Egyptian & Dubai resident Omar Fayyad The remixes on the EP come courtesy of Rhauder with his signature subaquatic dub techno... -
The legendary Steven Rutter, one half of the seminal UK bleep techno duo B12, returns to De:tuned to present Close Your Eyes And Breathe Across three tracks, it’s a nostalgic and expertly crafted glance back at the warehouse, bleep and rave scene of the early nineties when it was in full swing, staying faithful to the original... -
Timeless classics Three tracks from house music masters: Ron Trent and Chez Damier All hard to find versions... -
Back To Life is pleased to re-press these two classics by Orlando Voorn aka FIX "Flash" originally released in 1992 and "From The Ghetto" released in 1994 in collaboration with Blake... -
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Finally, after a long time, a new edition of this timeless classic of deep house music Back to Life together with Chez Damier has done a long research work: for the first time all versions of the original EP are repressed on the same vinyl with accurate version names and some hidden gems Don't miss it! For true...
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