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Beauty is the eighth solo studio album by Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. First released in 1989, this album incorporates influences from funk, rock, flamenco, African, Japanese traditional and classical, techno, R&B and dance music, to create a collage of styles, rather than a seamless whole.
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Japan’s leading super guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka’s memorable solo debut album is now being reprinted on LP!
A masterpiece of Japanese music with tropical grooves unfolding throughout. First released in 1976.
Contributing artists include: Hiroshi Imai, Tsugutoshi Goto, Tatsuo Hayashi, Shigetoya Hamaguchi, Nobu Saito, Yosui Inoue, TAN TAN, Yukihiro Takahashi...
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Reissue on LP of the only album by this Jamaican reggae duo active between 1977 and 1979, mostly known for the number one hit ‘Uptown Top Ranking’. Originally released in 1978....
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The odds were stacked against “Je T’Aime… Moi Non Plus,” the song that opened the album Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg and which still defines Gainsbourg’s career today. Initially recorded with Brigitte Bardot in 1967, in response to her request that Serge Gainsbourg write the world’s most beautiful love song, it was...
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Music for Films is the seventh solo studio album by British musician Brian Eno. It is a conceptual work intended as a soundtrack for imaginary films, although many of the pieces had already appeared in actual films.
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By 1970, pianist Ahmad Jamal's style had changed a bit since the 1950s, becoming denser and more adventurous while still retaining his musical identity and signature elegance. Jamal’s trio - bassist Jamil Nasser (whose double-timing lines are sometimes furious) and drummer Frank Gant, deliver intriguing performances, showing that Jamal was continuing to...
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Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman And The Ravens. Out of print on LP for a number of years, this re- issue faithfully replicates the original 1971 Island Records UK release with gatefold sleeve and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.
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Sandy Denny's second post-Fairport solo offering, produced by then-future husband Trevor Lucas, is a beautiful blend of the traditional style with which she is most often associated and a slightly more lavish sound that would become more prevalent in her later work. Lucas does an excellent job of balancing the...
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With Like an Old Fashioned Waltz, Sandy Denny expands on the more polished moments that her previous work, Sandy (1972), had suggested. The tone throughout most of the record is melancholy and personal, with gentle piano, rich strings, and barely a trace of her British folk roots. "Solo," one of...
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Brasilian Skies is the fourth studio album by Japanese jazz fusion guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka, released via Kitty Records on July 21, 1978. The album includes several songs recorded in Brazil with Brazilian musicians. Notable tracks on the record include, “Star Wars Samba”, a samba arrangement of Star Wars and...
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2012 reissue of The Smashing Pumpkins' 3rd studio album, originally released in 1995.
Boxset contains 4 LP's + 2 Books in a hardcover slipcase.
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Adore is the fourth album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released in June 1998 by Virgin Records. After the multi-platinum success of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and a subsequent yearlong world tour, their follow-up Adore was considered "one of the most anticipated albums of 1998"...
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Scott 4 is one of those albums that gets touted as one of the very best ever to be made within the parameters of popular music, and it's an accolade that's richly deserved, even if in certain quarters Scott 3 is regarded with greater affection.
Originally issued under his birth name,...
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The first Scott Walker solo record is not an understated affair by any measure. Under any circumstances, it would be hard to restrain that profound, impossibly rich baritone of his, but Walker matches the flamboyance of his voice with vast orchestral arrangements and a music hall sense of theatricality.
From Jacques...
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Probably Scott Walker's first real masterpiece as a solo artist, Scott 3 begins with the incredible 'It's Raining Today', a song ushered in by micropolyphonic orchestrations serving as a wonderfully left-of-centre backdrop to that impossibly characterful voice.
This was how Walker announced his departure from the showboating and fancies of his...
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Yokobue player Michiko Akao’s 1983 publication “Yokobue: Michiko Akao’s World”, which was also published in the “New Age Music Disc Guide” (published by DU BOOKS), is reproduced for the first time! A new age work that greatly transcends the realm of pure Japanese music, created with Shigeaki Saegusa...
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Features Japanese soft rock by genius Yasuo Higuchi (Pico)! The original soundtrack of the movie “Did the Red Bird Escape?” Starring Kaori Momoi and Yoshio Harada, was released in 1973. The soundtrack for this film reaches the highest peak of rare grooves. First time on vinyl.
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The 2nd album “Ame agari no Machi”, which was released in 1973 by Tomio Terada, a rare melody maker who made his major debut as the first Japanese artist on the MGM label in 1972, has been highly acclaimed as a masterpiece of cafe rock. The first LP...
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The only work of the progressive rock band Strawberry Path by the legendary Japanese rock world, Shigeru Narumi (g, key, b) and former food brain Hiro Tsunoda (vo, ds). “The day when he came to the earth” is officially decided to reprint the LP for the first time in...
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At long last: the classic Steely Dan catalog is back on vinyl. Led by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan released 7 albums from 1972-1980. The vinyl series will kick off with Can’t Buy A Thrill, now in its 50th anniversary year, which features the band’s breakthrough hits “Do It...
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‘Blemish’ was David Sylvian’s first solo album to be released on his own Samadhisound label following his departure from Virgin Records in 2003. This is the first official release on 180gram vinyl. Working primarily as a solo artist, Sylvian created an impromptu suite of songs for guitar, electronics...
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A reprint of the original work released in 1984, in which Akiko Mizuhara, who is also known for being in charge of the theme song for the movie “Space Runaway Ideon”, fully demonstrated her talent as a singer / composer.
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The 3rd album released in 1977 by jazz singer Yasuda Minami, whose original with obi is very difficult to obtain as a popular wamono album, is the first LP reprint! It is a masterpiece in the history of Japanese music, backed by Naoya Matsuoka (Key), Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (Key), Kenji...
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A jazz work on the theme of traditional Japanese music, which has been gaining momentum for re-evaluation in recent years. Among them, the work that attempts to combine folk songs and jazz rock is a series of addicts at home and abroad with a stronger stimulus. This work, which...
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David Sylvian's 2nd solo album, Manafon, via UMC.
"David Sylvian describes Manafon, first released on his own Samadhisound label, as being: “A modern kind of chamber music. Intimate, dynamic, emotive, democratic, economical”.
Recorded in London, Vienna and Tokyo, the 8 songs and 1 instrumental on ‘Manafon’ bring together “the world’s leading improvisors, and innovators,...
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Nellyville the 7x platinum follow up to Nelly’s debut album Country Grammar. This 2LP standard configuration represents the first time in twenty years the album is on vinyl. Groundbreaking hits include, "Hot In Herre," "Pimp Juice," "Dilemma," and "Air Force Ones."...
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Each Roxy Music album has been Re-Issued with a fresh Half-Speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. London. To reflect the audio, all eight of the Roxy Music studio albums have had their artwork revised and with a gloss laminated finish so that each album is not just...
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Avalon is the final studio offering from Roxy Music, which would draw upon a smoother, more adult orientated sound, giving us the now iconic single "More Than This." Each Roxy Music album has been Re-Issued with a fresh Half-Speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, London. To reflect the...
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Siren released in 1975 produced the singles “Love Is the Drug” and “Both Ends Burning”, which peaked at numbers two and 25 respectively on the UK Singles Chart. “Love Is the Drug” became Roxy Music’s highest-charting single in the US, reaching number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100. Siren a...
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In 1979 Roxy Music released Manifesto, almost four years since the last album and with it brought one of the bands biggest hits the second single and disco tinged ‘Dance Away’ and was a Top 10 selling single of 1979. The album also peaked in the UK chart at No’7...
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Universal Music/Polydor will release 30th anniversary editions of Nirvana‘s classic 1991 album Nevermind album.
Even though it only feels like yesterday when the 20th anniversary sets were released, UMC are going for it 5CD+blu-ray and 8LP vinyl (+seven-inch) super deluxe editions.
The 8LP super deluxe: The album itself has been remastered from...
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Tron: Legacy Reconfigured is a remix album of music by Daft Punk, originally released 5 April 2011. The album features remixes of selections of the Tron: Legacy film score by various contemporary electronic musicians such as M83, Avicii, Boys Noize, Moby, Paul Oakenfold and many more. Tron: Legacy Reconfigured charted...
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Arriving seemingly perfectly formed from nowhere, Roxy Music’s self-titled debut instantly propelled the band into the affections of both the music-buying public and the serious music press – no mean feat in 1972. Frontman Bryan Ferry’s lyrical evocations of romance and glamour, pop-art references and allusions to both old Hollywood...
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Critically ”Country Life” is deemed to be Roxy Music’s most consistent and sophisticated album, the albums artwork is still to this day considered controversial in certain countries but is non the less iconic around the World. Musically and lyrically “Country Life” has been considered more cynical and hard rocking than...
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A facsimile LP edition of the classic 1971 album from Van der Graaf Generator heralded as one of the groundbreaking albums of the progressive era.
Newly remastered from the original first-generation master tapes....
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A facsimile LP edition of the classic 1975 album from Van der Graaf Generator newly remastered from the original first-generation master tapes.
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Arriving seemingly perfectly formed from nowhere, Roxy Music’s self-titled debut instantly propelled the band into the affections of both the music-buying public and the serious music press – no mean feat in 1972. Frontman Bryan Ferry’s lyrical evocations of romance and glamour, pop-art references and allusions to both old Hollywood...
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Roxy Music's second album For Your Pleasure is arguably the greatest Art Rock release of all-time.
The questing Bogus Man nestles alongside the breathless Do The Strand and the truly epic In Every Dream Home A Heartache.
2022 re-Issue with a fresh half-speed master by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. London.
The...
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During the early 1960s, Duke Ellington made many collaborative recordings with jazz greats. He paired up with Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus, but his album with John Coltrane was among his most successful.
This was in due in no small part to the brilliance of...
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Announced in 1981, this is an album produced by Kazuharu Honjo, who disbanded Minoya Central Station and became her first solo return.
An album full of high-quality AOR and pop music written by Yoshiko Miura, composed by Yoshihiro Yonekura, Takeru Sato, Teruo Goto, Mitsuo Hagita, Yasuhiro Abe, and Hirofumi...
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Atsuko Niina’s original album released in 1987.
Produced by Yoshihiko Ando, a parachute keyboard player and lyricist. Arranged by Motoki Funayama, Mitsuo Hagita, Tsuyoshi Kon, Yuki Togashi and others.
A masterpiece of city pop with many gorgeous musicians such as Masaki Matsubara / Fujimaru Yoshino (G), Kenji Takamizu (B), Hideo Yamaki /...
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On ‘Ambient 4 (On Land)’ – the final edition in Eno's ambient series – his palate shifted from electro-mechanical and acoustic instruments towards “non-instruments” like pieces of chain, sticks and stones.
“One of the big freedoms of music had been that it didn't have to relate to anything – nobody listened...
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After 23 years out of print, FSOL’s definitive early ‘90s ambient-epic Lifeforms now returns to its natural habitat. Serving near-dangerous levels of nostalgia for almost anyone who came thru in the ‘90s, Lifeforms is set to soundtrack myriad afterparties and claim its place on a whole new generation of record...
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CINDY is a female vocalist who has worked with Tatsuro Yamashita and Yumi Matsutoya as a backing singer.
Her music has been used in many scenes in the anime “Mezong Ikkoku” as background music, probably due to the fact that she debuted in the opening theme song of “Urusei Yatsura”....
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The culmination of 30 years: Road Apples 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition - Featuring Live at the Roxy from May 3rd, 1991, which includes the iconic Killer Whale Tank performance. As well as Hoof - Hearted, an album of rarities and outtakes. A 5 LP set + Blu Ray
Includes:
Road Apples 2021...
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The Wailers’ “Catch A Fire (Original Jamaican Version)”, the world’s first analog LP with a zippo lighter jacket, will be reissued!
This is the original Jamaican version of their 1973 major-label debut, “Catch A Fire”. This album features the dynamic Jamaican sound without the guitar and organ overdubs of the UK...
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Produced by Tadataka Watanabe, Kyohei Tsutsumi, Tetsuji Hayashi, Mayumi Olympics, Kazuhiko Kato and other writers and Tsugutoshi Goto, Ray Ohara, Tatsuo Hayashi, Kiyoshi Sugimoto, Masayoshi Takanaka and other gorgeous musicians and mellow singing voices. This work, which is full of grooves, has been re-evaluated as a masterpiece of CITY POP...
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