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Emerging from the distant light is the new double-LP from John Dwyer’s Thee Oh Sees—the first studio recordings to capture the muscular rhythm section of twin drummers Ryan Moutinho and Dan Rincon with ringer bassist Tim Hellman cracking spines. The groove and bludgeon one has come to expect from the...
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What’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Thee Oh Sees? Probably their riot-sparking live show, right? Visions of a guitar-chewing, speaker-smothering, tongue-wagging John Dwyer careening across your cranium, chased by a wild-eyed wrecking crew that drives every last hook home like it’s a nail in the...
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Pig Lib is the second album by Stephen Malkmus following his ten year stint with Pavement. It sees bandmates The Jicks stretch out further around Malkmus' skewed melodies and arcane wordplay....
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The classic second album from singer/songwriter and harpist JOANNA NEWSOM. Five extended tracks conceived with harp and voice, tracked by STEVE ALBINI, and then meticulously arranged by VAN DYKE PARKS and Newsom over several months. The album features strings, woodwinds, and brass, as well as dulcimer, marimba, various percussive instruments,...
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Bonnie wrote the words, Sweeney wrote music- a Superwolf lies born....
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After producing two albums celebrated by a thirsty underground network of fans, Galaxie 500 released what turned out to be their unexpected swansong, This Is Our Music. The title is an intentionally declarative statement. After being labeled masters of the disengaged and forlorn, Damon Krukowski, Dean Wareham, and Naomi Yang...
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Another slice of perfect synthetic pop again mostly recorded in Chicago with the help of Mcentire, O'Rourke and O'Hagen - a shift back to the more approachable upbeat sound of Dots and Loops or Emperor Tomato Ketchup, but with darker and more impressionistic undertones....
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1984 was a time of redefinition within the punk scene in Washington, DC and RITES OF SPRING more than led the charge. Rites of Spring not only challenged the macho posturing that had become so prevalent, but more importantly they defied musical and stylistic rule. The people that followed the...
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*RITES OF SPRING were among the most important and beloved bands to emerge from the DC underground music scene in the mid-80s. Formed by GUY PICCIOTTO (vocals/guitar), MIKE FELLOWS (bass), BRENDAN CANTY (drums), and EDDIE JANNEY (guitar) in 1984, the quartet released a self-titled LP and a 7” single before...
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MINOR THREAT’s classic self-titled album remastered....
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MINOR THREAT’s classic 1983 Out of Step album remastered and re-released....
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All tracks previously unreleased from projects currently active in the United States. Featuring Pain Appendix, Dead Door Unit, Confounder, Ineffable Slime, Gates Of Janus, Max Julian Eastman, Lidless Eye, Infibulation, Mallard Theory, Hand & Knee, Spykes, and Cost....
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Originally released in 1981, this is Mizutama Shōbōdan's legendary debut album. A wild theatrical mix of avant-post-punk material worked out by one of the most uncompromising women's brigades ever. An outstanding document from "another" Japan! Contains printed inner sleeve and four-page fold-out insert. "Mizutama Shōbōdan were a force of nature...
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Audiopile Review: Another double header in from the recently minted False Aralia imprint, the two newest EPs coming in alongside needed represses of the first two, both of which we initially sold out of before we had a chance to even list them. Like the first two releases, False Aralia...
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Audiopile Review: Where False Aralia 03 shines with its wistful idiosyncrasies, 04 emits a lush but intermittent light. "Track 1" kicks off with a quivery framework, a set of murky sequences intertwined with atmospheric oscillations. At over 130 BPM, it’s a bit of velocity ascent from Schlossman, but it’s surely...
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‘selfsame’, the second 12” on false aralia, mirrors the structure of companion release ‘zero key’ in presenting an iterative exploration of versioning itself, unspooling a line of flight through four ascending rhythmic configurations. the objects at the center remain hard to glimpse: holographic percussion, snatches of breath, contorted blue chords,...
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in the middle of it we instantiate false aralia: a series of recordings growing in all directions, cataloging the work of a group of north american collaborators centered around the studio practices of izaak schlossman (of aught, s transporter, loveshadow etc.) and facilitated by brian foote (of peak oil, kranky,...
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Audiopile Review: Not surprising to find Nate Mercereau & Carlos Niño meetup with International Anthem mainstay Josh Johnson, though it is a bit of shock to see Blue Note stick their nose in such affairs. Yet, that’s been the net positive effect of Andre 3000’s New Blue Sun, which continues...
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Audiopile Review: Farewell transmission from the enigmatic Brannten Schnüre, arriving as the German duo’s grip on the experimental underground has never been stronger, their ascent not coincidentally dovetailing with the likeminded Discreet/Gothenburg scene and their upward trajectory of recent years. Christian Schoppik and Katie Rich haven’t strayed the course much...
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Audiopile Review: After a few years laying low, long-running French drone-rockers France return to the physical format with a two-sided behemoth that captures their legendary live energy like never before. For the uninitiated, over the past two decades France has been piling up a totemic discography via dozens of labels...
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Audiopile Review: Nostalgia is a potent tool that can easily lead an artist into overly familiar terrain. That being said, on their first release under the Disiniblud banner, experimental artist Rachika Nayar and multi-instrumentalist Nina Keith wield it differently: not as a stylistic crutch, but as an emotional compass, channeling...
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Audiopile Review: Three years on from her 2022 breakthrough on Smalltown Supersound, Perpetual Now, French producer rRoxymore lands on K7 with a balmy foray into new age and tropic-laced ambi-techno. While the long-winding futuristic club tunes of Perpetual Now shared much in common with her Smalltown label mates like Kelly...
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Audiopile Review: What if we were to tell you there’s an artist called Ganavya, who has performed live with Sault, is produced by Nils Frahm, and sounds a lot like Arooj Aftab? If you have any sense, you’ll want to hear her new album, ‘Nilam’, like, right away. And when...
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Darkly rendered, high-minded split LP that takes as its inspiration the work of four different poets active in varying degrees during the previous two centuries and with it calls to mind a very particular post-industrial sense of folklorist Olde Europe. The names Militia Aurora and Jota Solo are likely to...
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Audiopile Review: Gigi Masin is a veteran ambient composer whose profile has recently been growing outside his native Italy, thanks in no small part to the estimable Music from Memory label’s patronage. His music is occasionally labelled ‘new age’. This relates less to any association with pantheistic spirituality and more...
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Sublime private-press piano improvisations channeled from another world by Willem Nyland. Remastered from the original tapes and reissued for the first time, with in-depth liner notes by Matt Marble of the American Museum of Paramusicology. A Columbia-educated chemist by profession and a self-taught pianist by affinity, Willem Nyland (1890-1975) is...
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After releases on Ginjoha, Ikuisuus, Mappa and Nonlocal Research such as Collision and Coalescence and Squirlich Stroll, the German/Finnish duo composed by Jani Hirvonen (Uton) and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin) teams up with Artetetra, bringing to light a new sonic wizardry. It has been six years since Grykë Pyje (forest ravine...
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Following the success of last year’s Walks - their first album of completely original compositions - Group Listening release a new 12” vinyl of Tell Everyone Everything via PRAH Recordings. The title track and artwork are informed by decay, expiration and musical renewal. “The title comes from a music festival...
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From the electro-acoustic depth charge of opener 'The Fog Detonator' we're dropped into the queer surroundings of the Jhonn Balance-remixed 'Hobgoblins' where hunchbacked brass cavorts with wheezing synths and sparkling bells somewhere in the ether. 'The Black Drop' hows another dimension to his oeuvre with rich, oaky strings reminding of...
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There are imagined landscapes we all carry within us—dreamed, half-remembered, or just beyond reach. Lofoten, the new album by Cate Francesca Brooks on Clay Pipe Music, is a musical reflection on one such place. Located above the Arctic Circle, Norway's Lofoten Islands are known for their dramatic peaks, open seascapes,...
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Amnesia Scanner’s third full-length album titled STROBE.RIP is a collaboration with the artist and musician Freeka Tet, who joins the album and associated live performances as a vocalist and creative collaborator. Released by Pan records, STROBE.RIP is part of a broader series of live performances, installations, videos and physical products...
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In the mid 90's Audio Science released two CD only albums that have gone on to be well received and lately revered. This LP has been compiled featuring the standout tracks originally released from those recordings on Aural X-Perience and Hypnotic....
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If Paradise was half as nice…by Fabio De Luca Googling “paradise house”, the first results to pop up are an endless list of European b&b’s with whitewashed lime façades, all of them promising “…an unmatched travel experience a few steps from the sea”. Next, a little further down, are the...
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The Chairman of Acid Norwich debuts on Offen with The Caustic Wymondham EP....
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In the summer of 1968, an 18-year-old Genesis P-Orridge (then Neil Andrew Megson) gathered with friends in a modest attic space to experiment with sound. The result was Early Worm, a collection of recordings that capture the nascent creativity of an artist who would later become a pivotal figure in...
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Remastered reissue of the classic 1992 CHRIS CONNELLY album, Phenobarb Bambalam. Includes liner notes from Chris as he recounts the making of Phenobarb. This edition is pressed on clear with black swirls. Only 400 were pressed...
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For the celebration of their 35th anniversary year of existence in 2016, Belgian electronic music pioneers FRONT 242 decided to re-release several of their albums together with Alfa Matrix, their partner in crime over the last 15 years now… These remastered versions showcase FRONT 242’s innovative and unmatched sound in...
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Grinderman formed in 2005 when Nick Cave was writing material for the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album 'Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus'. Featuring Martyn Casey on bass, Warren Ellis on violin and guitar, and Jim Sclavunos on drums, the band crafted songs together. In 2006, they entered a...
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When Grinderman released their debut in 2007, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos, and Martyn Casey created a reckless, drunken animal of an alter ego to the Bad Seeds. The album bridged territory mined by everyone from the Stooges to Suicide to Bo Diddley. Again recorded in the company of...
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Featuring a new foreword by David and Stephen Dewaele, better known as Soulwax and 2manydjs. Daft Punk featured often in the formative years of Jockey Slut magazine (including their first front cover). This tribute to the duo collates all the interviews and photos from the seminal magazine - covering their...
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On Heavy Metal - the debut solo album from Cameron Winter - the Geese frontman unravels his eclectic influences into a surreal mosaic of modern songwriting. Rumored to have been composed in abandoned basements, taxi back seats, and in impromptu jam sessions in public spaces, Heavy Metal draws on both...
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Conceived and compiled by Robert Smith, new remix collection from 2024 album Songs Of A Lost World, featuring remixes from Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, Orbital, and more. Deluxe edition with three 180g heavyweight black bio half-speed mastered LPs in tri-gatefold sleeve, includes large foldout poster. ...
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"Headlights is Alex G’s tenth full-length album and first with RCA Records. Written by Giannascoli and recorded across various locations in Philadelphia and New York, the album was co-produced alongside his longtime collaborator Jacob Portrait. A gorgeous collection of surreal storytelling over twelve new songs, Headlights sees Giannascoli delve further...
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Trouble is a patchwork of sorts: its 11 songs are not only eclectic in genre, but play like stitched-together vignettes, fly-on-the-wall scenes in which Gina describes meeting a stranger on a train, or a flare up with her teenage daughter, or the nostalgia of driving past a certain part of...
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A founder member of Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers embarked on a solo career in 1969, signing to EMI’s Harvest label, for whom he would record a series of wonderful and stylistically eclectic albums. ‘Shooting at the Moon’ was issued in October 1970 and featured the band Kevin had formed to...
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Clutch is celebrating the 30th anniversary of their self-titled album with a limited edition Collector Series double LP! This product has newly remastered audio, an autographed numbered insert & etching of the original artwork on Side D. The Clutch Collector's Series is a series of Clutch catalog releases reimagined and...
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Spawned from the breakup of Napalm Death, Godflesh took an altogether different approach to extremity with their debut album 'Streetcleaner', setting up their industrial strength urban sprawl sound with a bone-crushing intensity....
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Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio Delivers Electrifying Second Volume, A Bold, Experimental Fusion of Density and Dialogue The wait is over. If you’ve been holding your breath since hearing Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio, Vol. 1, it is time to let it out. To complete the trio, she chose her longtime comrade and collaborator of some...
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Steeped in equal parts golden age hip-hop sensibilities and lost 60s and 70s film scores, the debut LP from Leroi Conroy weighs in heavy and has been years in the making. The first two tracks from the album were released in 2017 as a 45, which were sampled in the...
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"From his early-'60s days as hip shaker Twistin' Harvey to his late-'70s nights on the light up dance floor in search of a "Disco Lady," Harvey Scales survived scrapes with the pop charts, bankrupt record companies, walk outs, sit ins, strikes, price hikes, lay offs, and under table payoffs over...
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Kokoroko, have announced the release of their forthcoming second studio album entitled ‘Tuff Times Never Last’ and unveiled its first entree ‘Sweetie’. Set for release on July 11th via Brownswood Recordings, ‘Tuff Times Never Last’ is a spirited and vibrant collection of songs serving as an optimistic reminder to tightly...
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Sly & The Family Stone were true pioneers on so many levels: black/white, male/female, rock/soul, the act shattered all preconceptions of what popular music could be and would go on to become one of the most innovative and influential groups the world has ever witnessed. Originally released as a sold-out,...
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Jazzmatazz Vol.1 was one of the first albums to draw a direction connection between hip hop and its jazz roots. Guru was able to enlist an all-star cast of jazz musicians including saxophonist Branford Marsalis, trumpeter Donald Byrd, vibraphonist Roy Ayers, guitarist Ronny Jordan and keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith. The...
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Born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, trumpeter Eddie Henderson’s exceptional childhood was shaped by parents who counted Miles Davis as a family friend and enrolled him at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. After obtaining a medical degree from Howard University, the multi-talented Henderson got the...
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Donald Byrd’s 1974 fusion masterpiece Stepping Into Tomorrow was a high-water mark of the legendary trumpeter’s vibrant latter Blue Note years. Byrd had begun recording for Blue Note in 1958, and over the course of his tenure evolved from a top-notch hard bop trumpeter into a pioneer of R&B/Funk fusion,...
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Dom Salvador's influence on Brazilian music is immeasurable. As the architect behind the groundbreaking album Som, Sangue e Raça (1971) and the leader of the pioneering group Abolição, he carved out a space for Black consciousness in Brazil’s music scene, fusing American...
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A number of sessions recorded by Sun Ra from 1978 to 1980—issued on the albums Lanquidity, On Jupiter, and Sleeping Beauty—reflect the influence on Ra of commercial musical and production trends of the mid- and late-1970s, especially heavy, studio-enhanced dance floor grooves (traceable from soul and funk to disco), and...
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After releasing two astonishing albums of original material with his remarkable debut Fuchsia Swing Song (1964) and the follow-up Contours (1965), multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers went another direction on his third Blue Note album A New Conception (1966) by presenting a set of standards that were given riveting interpretations with a...
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The first collab album between Willie Colón and Rubén Blades, released in 1977, is a record that catapulted Blades to fame, and changed the history of salsa music with social narratives about the struggles of urban Latinos. Produced by Colón, it features Tite Curet Alonso’s “Plantación Adentro,” “Pablo Pueblo”...
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‘Extra Soul Perception’ hails from 1968 and it is a masterpiece of late 60’s Soul Jazz. Saxophonist Monk Higgins is in fine fettle and sounds not unlike Houston Person/ Stanley Turrentine. The title song, ‘The Look Of Slim’ and ‘A Good Thing’ give that Soul groove some wellie. ‘Collision In...
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Stanley Turrentine’s 1960s Blue Note output was reliably excellent, but this 1964 session featuring his thick, blues-drenched tenor saxophone backed by organist Shirley Scott, guitarist Kenny Burrell, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Otis Finch, surely ranks with his very best. From the relentless groove of “Trouble (No. 2)” to the...
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"Now-Again Records presents limited edition deluxe reissues of the lauded black fire catalog in 2020. First up in the series, this previously unreleased live session recorded at the legendary Brooklyn venue The East in 1973. Magical, mystical, Afrocentric, progressive -- words that could be used to describe any number of...
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Taped live in 1970 amidst the growing Black Nationalist movement and borrowing its title/opening refrain from poet/writer Amiri Baraka, Joe McPhee's Nation Time combines strains of funk and free jazz in a way that feels like Pharaoh Sanders sitting in with James Brown's backing band. A legendary figure...
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A cymbal riff from Clarence Becton introduces this respectable outing from Mal Waldron and company as bassist Isla Eckinger and the bandleader jump in for some enjoyable interplay. Yet what begins as an energetic ride turns somber through Eckinger’s rumination. Such solos lend deeper insight into the goings on, underscored...
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Paris-born, New England-raised, long-time Chicago-residing Makaya McCraven has been at the forefront of genre-redefining movements in jazz since 2015, when he introduced the world to his unique brand of ‘organic beat music’ on the breakout album In The Moment. Culled, cut, post-produced & re-composed by Makaya using recordings...
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"One of the most important recordings to date in the modern jazz world." – Turntable Lab Makaya McCraven's early 2015 offering In The Moment was pared from nearly 48 hours of live, improvised performance recorded at 1 venue over 12 months and 28 shows. Working with instrumental contributions from an...
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Drummer/producer Makaya McCraven traveled to London in October of 2017 to record material for a new album (which has since been titled Universal Beings & will come out on International Anthem in Fall of 2018). Over the course of 3 days in London, Makaya connected with first time collaborators (Theon...
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“I’m always looking for ways to be surprised,” says composer and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Parker as he explains the process, and the thinking, behind his new album, Suite for Max Brown, released via a new partnership between the Chicago–based label International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. “If I sit down at the...
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Now-Again reissue of Oneness Of Juju's deep spiritual jazz masterpiece 'Chapter Two: Nia', which was originally released on Strata-East Records in 1974....
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Riding the ripples of their debut single “Escalator” (which BBC’s Gilles Peterson called “a winner,” and Supreme Standards’ Tina Edwards likened to “Radiohead on a Jazz trip”), Chicago collective Resavoir return with their first full length effort. The self-titled album presents a juicy suite of elegantly-orchestrated lo-fi jazz instrumentals germinated...
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The Tenderlonious led jazz quartet Ruby Rushton and their 22a imprint have been at the forefront of the UK jazz scene since the release of their debut album Two For Joy in 2015. The band transport you back to the 70s Headhunters era, whilst still adopting the spiritual concepts of...
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“We’d like for you all to help us get in the groove, let your hair down, and come on and get in the music with us,” says Horace Silver in the spoken introduction to Doin’ The Thing, the only live album the great pianist made during his remarkable 3-decade tenure...
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Athens of the north is not just here to release great music but to support our artist development and experimentation, to this end we always try to bring good people together to work on new music. This LP fuses two massive talents, for the first time to AOTN we introduce...
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By the time drummer Pete La Roca recorded his debut album Basra in 1965 he had already appeared on 9 Blue Note sessions as a sideman and spent time in bands led by Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. But it was another tenor titan, Joe Henderson, that La Roca brought...
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For all kinds of reasons, Cape Verdean Blues is a much more modernist offering than Horace Silver’s previous release, Song For My Father, and slightly less well-regarded, but it should not be. Given the addition of 20-year-old trumpeter Woody Shaw – playing on his first Blue Note date – and...
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Given her extensive and varied recording catalog, if you're looking for a place to explore the talents of the late Nina Simone, then 1965's I Put a Spell On You is a great place to dip your toes - particular if you want to start with her more pop oriented...
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In the late fifties, Nina Simone made such a profound debut in the jazz field that the label “jazz singer” threatened to bind in her infinite and many-faceted talent.
Now, this album sets the record straight with a varied repertoire ranging from blues and ballads to...
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Double vinyl LP pressing. Recorded in May 1970, this smoldering set of funky soul jazz by the great organist Lonnie Smith went unreleased until 1995. Captured live at Club Mozambique in Detroit just 5 months after Smith recorded his excellent Blue Note album Drives, this live...
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The BGP release schedule over the last few months has been dominated by compilations focusing on Bob Thiele’s Flying Dutchman label. Our Gil Scott-Heron box-set has gained rave reviews and our Leon Thomas and Lonnie Liston Smith collections have been welcomed by fans and DJs alike. However, Flying Dutchman was...
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The tenor firebrand and avant-garde hero’s second Impulse! album, released in 1965, was an ensemble masterpiece featuring an original tune dedicated to Malcolm X (“Malcom, Malcolm Semper Malcolm”) plus unique takes on Antonio Carlos Jobim (“The Girl From Ipanema”) and Duke Ellington (“Prelude To A Kiss”)....
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One of the funkiest & most inventive organists to ever walk the earth, Dr. Lonnie Smith made his name on Blue Note beginning with his 1968 label debut Think! Produced by Francis Wolff, the album featured trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist David Newman, guitarist Melvin Sparks, and drummer Marian Booker...
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Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Ron Carter on bass, and Al Foster on drums captured live in 1985 playing at the peak of their respective powers at NYC’s historic jazz shrine, The Village Vanguard....
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Leon Thomas debut as a leader was this classic of spiritual jazz recorded for Bob Thiel’s Flying Dutchman label. Originally pressed in 1969 it features an all-star band including Pharoah Sanders (under the name Little Rock), Lonnie Liston Smith (piano), James Spaulding (alto sax), Cecil McBee (bass), Roy Haynes...
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Californian composer Terry Riley’s In C, first issued on vinyl in 1968, is widely acknowledged as a Minimalist landmark that altered the course of twentieth-century music. His influential album A Rainbow In Curved Air, which appeared the following year, is a vivid fusion of rock and raga, jazz and psychedelia...
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Your Queen Is a Reptile is the third album by British jazz group Sons of Kemet, released in March 2018 on Impulse! Records. Band leader Shabaka Hutchings wrote and plays saxophone on all tracks, Theon Cross plays tuba, and Seb Rochford and Tom Skinner play drums. It also features toaster...
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