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There are few saxophonists who were able to hold their own against the late great Eric Dolphy Clifford Jordan is one of them As a member of the Charles Mingus sextet on his legendary 1964 European tour with Eric Dolphy Jordan is featured on iconic albums such as The Great...
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Soundtrack of the documentary program for Japanese art history Japan Its Heart and Form which was aired on NHK educational channel from 1987 to 1988 Akira Mitake worked on it and after the dissolution of Ippudo he produced music for the media and provided music to many artists mainly pop...
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Recorded in a all night session at Studio 1 Kingston Jamaica in November 1964 The Skatalites are on SKA fire there s no overdubs here just pure rocking musicians having fun being fed a little drink a little smoke money in their pocket...
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Alice Coltrane remains a singular figure on the fringe of American music but her appeal is growing While Coltrane s music is gaining wider acceptance there is an entire era of her recorded output that remains obscure almost as if by design Her four self published devotional albums of the...
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With Gentle Confrontation Loraine s third album for Hyperdub she lets us into a new chapter of her real and sonic life in which she examines her past and present She says this is the record a teenage Loraine would like to have made with musical tendencies that reflect that...
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We ve all experienced earworms those phrases or riffs that spiral through your head for an eternity materializing when you least expect it On Models Brummie producer Lee Gamble lets these sonic spectres inform a suite of illusory anthems subliming vulnerable half remembered fragments of dream pop Soundcloud rap and...
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Other Phases Of Sleep is Amsterdam based artist Kennedy s first excursion beyond his ever consistent imprint Dream Machine On this EP he further explores the ethos behind his creative process he describes as a series of thoughts sensations and sounds occurring from a person s mind translated by machines...
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Cool Underground Music presents the lazy deejay EP four foggy joints pressed on wax rolling basslines hypnotic rhythms familiar echoes from our past right on time the deed is done warm transmissions have begun with CUM001...
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My favorite singer in the place was Karen Dalton She had a voice like Billie Holiday s and played the guitar like Jimmy Reed Bob Dylan Karen Dalton s 1969 Capitol debut is finally back in print Light in the Attic is thrilled to present a brand new edition of...
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Acclaimed vibraphonist Joel Ross returns with his remarkable fourth Blue Note release nublues an album of blues and ballads as refracted through the prism of one of the most creative modern jazz groups of our time Communication is a key element of the album both the communication between the musicians...
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With its tenth record from Fortunato Durutti Marinetti Quindi continues to celebrate songwriting and storytelling framed by curious musicality In the case of Toronto based Daniel Colussi the man behind Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean his melancholic poetry cuts through with a clarity which calls to mind all...
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A collection of rare 60 s sound sources mainly by the Skatalites that shows the heat of Kingston in the heyday of Ska Selections from Indian Jamaican Dada Tewari s Caribou and Down Beat labels Caribbean Recording Company owned by Dada Tewari was one of the first Jamaican studios to...
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Presented here is Happy End s eponymous third album that was originally released in 1973 on Bellwood Records Happy End was a Japanese folk rock band which existed between 1970 and 1973 The band s pioneering avant garde sound is highly revered and they are considered to be one...
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18 years on from its original release Studio One Dub remains super hard hitting featuring classic + rare Dub tracks from Studio One many available on vinyl for the first time in over thirty years Studio One Dub includes the dubs of many classic tracks such as Horace Andy s...
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Studio One Story is a documentary this is both a staggering slice of musical history and a definitive guide to Studio One Jamaica s greatest ever record company and its legendary founder Clement Coxsone Dodd Often described as the Motown of Jamaica or The University Of Reggae Studio One is...
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Lovingly compiled this album features only the finest Lovers from Jamaica s finest label From Blues parties in London Birmingham Bristol etc Lovers Rock quickly became one of the UK s finest ever musical movements Sweet harmonies soulful reggae love songs the key...
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Belle and Sebastian s beloved third album The Boy With The Arab Strap returns ...
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Audiopile Review We always seem to be waiting for Hiroshi Yoshimura Arguably the Japanese ambient music genius cannot be held personally responsible for this as he sadly passed away in 2003 But a lot of people are complaining that his ghost is distinctly tardy We re not saying...
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From his appearance on Alan Watts This Is It to his epic piece on I Am The Center the prolific Joel Andrews is the suzerain of new age harp And what Vision Songs is to Laraaji s catalog Paradise Bird is for Joel Andrews the outlier the beautiful odd one...
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Audiopile Review <span data sheets root= 1 data sheets value= quot 1 quot 2 quot 2 quot quot A recurring theme around here is the phenomenon of the artists who are so consistently brilliant it s almost annoying You know the type every album is great and just different...
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Inner Roads and Outer Paths is Herefordshire born Vic Mars third release on Clay Pipe Music It follows last years The Soundtrack To The Hospice commissioned by Gideon Coe for BBC 6 Music and 2015s critically acclaimed The Land and the Garden Inspired by in part by Alfred Watkins words...
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If you purchased a snake plant asparagus fern peace lily or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears you also took home Plantasia an album recorded especially for plants Subtitled warm earth music for plants and the people...
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Driving is Sam Wilkes Indie Rock record Out October 6th 2023 it is the first release on Wilkes Records an imprint borne of the artist s emergent need to self release The songs presented here exist comfortably within the ever expanding Wilkesian cosmos characterized as they are by virtuosity torqued...
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Artist and multi instrumentalist Flaer looks to the landscape to explore pastoral melancholy on debut release Preludes Ensconced in his family home in rural Leicestershire in the early months of 2020 painter and musician Realf Heygate b 1994 picked up his childhood cello for the first time in several years...
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Pacific Rhythm is elated to announce the forthcoming release of Exiles a deeply life affirming and introspective four tracker from one of electronic music s most prolific duos Frank amp Tony This EP also marks the first release from the pair outside of their own imprint Scissor amp Thread Back...
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Combining the spirit of Mort Garson s Plantasia the generative approaches of Brian Eno and the inspiration of the bestselling The Secret Life of Plants Field Notes is the new album by West Coast musician and producer Tarun Nayar aka Modern Biology due out for Earth Day April 21 2023...
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Akira Miyazawa a tenor saxophonist is one of the musicians who laid the foundation for the Japanese jazz scene We are Japanese so I think we have to make someone who can only be Japanese said Miyazawa who said For Units Iwana and Kiso from 1969 to 1970 He will...
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A vacation through an imaginary pleasure dome by means of ambient house airy dub and at times schizophrenic breakbeat Fantastic Man teams up with Tokyo s Mule Musiq to deliver his debut LP Comprising of nine tracks Utopioid advances further into the realm of sci fi influenced club and esoteric...
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Mule Musiq present the first vinyl release of Kuniyuki s Walking In The Naked City originally released in 2009 on CD It s a first class mixture of jazz African soul and modern electronic music It could be considered a masterpiece of its scene...
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Dreamland is the debut studio album by Robert Miles Originally released on 7 June 1996 to critical acclaim The US version of the album which the NAD release replicates features the single ÄúOne and One Äù with Maria Nayler on vocals <iframe title= YouTube video player src= https www youtube...
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New edition of Beth Lesser Äôs seminal Dancehall Äì The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture Features a new introduction by Duro Olowu New 15th anniversary edition on Soul Jazz Records of this now classic large format deluxe book the definitive photography book and essential guide to Jamaican Dancehall in the...
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Saxophonist Marion Brown ended his 70s stint at Impulse Records with this serene and colorful album It features musicians such as drummer Ed Blackwell and bassist Reggie Workman plus Stanley Cowell on acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes While Brown wrote the blissful coaster Vista the five other compositions are well...
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Released on the Cadet label in 1968 The Peace Maker was the first of ten collaborations between the great tenor saxophonist Harold Land and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson With a group including pianist Joe Sample the session results in a lively lyrical and high quality session The Verve By Request Series...
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Don Cherry reunites with his bandmates Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins from the original Ornette Coleman Quartet along with ÄòTeaxs tenor Äô saxophonist James Clay on this stellar session from 1989 This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180 gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit nbsp <iframe title=...
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Jackie Mittoo is one of the most important artists in the history of Jamaican music As founding member of the legendary Skatalites as in house arranger producer at Studio One and as a solo artist in his own right leading groups such as The Soul Brothers Sound Dimension and Soul...
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Before British house and techno found its Äô distinctive groove at the turn of the 1990s one act led the way Bang The Party a trio who emerged from London Äôs vibrant underground party scene in the mid 1980s and proved beyond any doubt that UK producers could make music...
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Recorded at the iconic ORTF studios Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française for the Sound and Vision program in Paris in 1971 this remarkable LP features one of the paramount Jazz figures of all time Don Cherry interpreting Turkish rhythms This release serves as the sequel to Okay Temiz s magnum...
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Moon Glyph Records head Steve Rosborough returns as Omni Gardens with a brand new album entitled Golden Pear The fuzzy warm and buoyant moog timbres of Moss King return but Golden Pear is a dreamier and more lush affair incorporating a wider palette including mellotron flutes vibraphones marimbas and self...
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Balmat co founders Philip Sherburne and Albert Salinas have been fans of Shy Layers Äô lilting Balearic pop for years so when Shy Layers Äô JD Walsh asked us to listen to a set of demos he was working up with fellow Atlanta multi instrumentalist Jeff Crompton we jumped at...
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Honestly Same is an amplified acoustic and synthetic quintet from Chicago They improvise patient contemplative and distinctly contemporary music harnessing the sounds of cello clarinet electronics piano bass recorder percussion synths and accordion The group is Zachary Good Lia Kohl Mabel Kwan Zach Moore and Sam Scranton On their second...
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This three LP collection was the final live title to have been released by the Grateful Dead during their active performance life The contents were compiled from a six month window that included some of the Dead s most uniformly strong shows from the fall of 1989 and the spring...
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Imagined instigated and produced by Miller who ties the diverse sounds into an expansive coherent whole Resavoir features a wide and vibrant cast of collaborators including Elton Aura Whitney Akenya Matt Gold Eddie Burns Lane Beckstrom Jeremy Cunningham Irvin Pierce Macie Stewart Peter Manheim and more Rooted in the collaborative...
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Freestyle Records proudly present a reissue of Gloria Weems ace 1983 long player Lovelight previously only available on a rare South African pressing and featuring the single Wanna Dance With You licensed for a 12 on storied NYC label Prelude in the same year The record was written and produced...
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2023 repress originally released in 1997 The sixth Smog album and the first one produced by Jim O Rourke Tracks include the single Ex Con and I Was A Stranger later covered by Cat Power Like Wild Love and Knock Knock Red Apple Falls represents...
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We re proud to present Ibrahim Hesnawi release The Father of Libyan Reggae out October 6th Kingston meets Tripoli in this fiery collection Hesnawi crafts restless grooves with evident buttressing from a reggae foundation Highlighted across the LP is how Hesnawi essentially pioneered such an effortless synthesis between traditional Libyan...
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It s 6am on Sunday the 24th of January and I m driving vaguely towards the beach Suitcase in the water is a tapestry of musical vignettes field recordings and fragmented anecdotes that blur diary and fiction On Monday 23rd of March 2020 police in England dyed the Buxton Blue...
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