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A string of rapturously received EPs and singles made Sofia Kourtesis one of the fastest rising stars in the electronic world and beyond She has already graced the cover of Mixmag released a brilliantly energetic and moving Resident Advisor RA Session appeared on End of Year lists from the likes...
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Detroit has a long tradition of being the farm team for the Big Apple jazz big leagues but just as important is the acknowledgement of local legends who left their mark on the city by staying put and releasing amazing music right in Detroit Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz...
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Selvutsletter marks the first new Lost Girls album since their acclaimed debut 2021 album Menneskekollektivet which was named one of the year s best releases by Pitchfork The FADER Brooklyn Vegan Paste FLOOD and more Where Menneskekollektivet was about exploring club beats and expanding and trying out structures Selvutsletter is...
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The original 1987 studio album by the highly lauded Martin Dupont often referred to as a masterpiece Thus far this remastered version of the album has only been available as part of The Complete Collection 1980 1988 5 LP Box Set <iframe title= YouTube video player src= https www youtube...
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Jackie McLean s music weaved in and out of the avant garde throughout the 1960s with the brilliant 1963 inside out dates One Step Beyond and Destination Out eventually leading to full throated free jazz of the 1967 dates New and Old Gospel featuring Ornette Coleman on trumpet and Bout...
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In 2012 LIGHT ASYLUM part of the larger DFA family tree featuring the superhuman vocalist Shannon Funchess who sang on stage with LCD at MSG the year prior and her then collaborator Bruno Coviello released their self titled debut album It remains widely streaming but for whatever reason has flown...
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Sometimes in the course of our exploration of potential titles to reissue we come across a true gem that somehow escaped mainstream popularity Our new all analog HQ 180 of Matador by trumpeter Kenny Dorham and his quintet is the latest and perhaps most crystalline example of this There has...
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Frankfurt s fast rising Ludwig A F Rohrscheid makes mind massaging music that enters realms from afar Here he debuts on UTTU with 4 fantasy house jams for your mind your body amp your soul <iframe style= border 0 width 100 height 120px src= https bandcamp com EmbeddedPlayer album=3161676332 size=large...
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September 29th 2023 50th Anniversary Remaster of the debut album from the band s own label Grateful Dead RECORDS With the recent passing of founding member Ron Pigpen McKernan and temporary exit of drummer Mickey Hart this 1973 release introduces a fresh lineup that includes newest members Keith and Donna...
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Ursula Le Guin s short story Solitude describes a society rooted in the absolute autonomy of the individual In the world she constructs people do almost everything alone and they learn to savor this condition through close deep observation of all the minutiae surrounding them in the woods the dirt...
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The Body Is A Message Of The Universe originally created and released in a small edition in Japan back in 1987 by Shiho Yabuki The Body Is A Message Of The Universe features floating shimmering synthesizer textures It s unique and extra ordinarily serene with shifting tone colours and spatial...
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It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting Two parts easy listening one part jazz a healthy dollop of conga drums a sprinkling of bird calls and a pinch of textless choir Serve garnished with an alluring female on the album...
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Part of only a small and very much underground music scene in his hometown of Venice Gigi Masin self released two modestly pressed LP s Wind 1986 and Wind Collector 1991 and appeared along side Charles Hayward for the Sub Rosa compilation LP Les Nouvelles Musiques De Chambre Volume 2...
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Lifted or the Story is in the Soil Keep Your Ear to the Ground 2002 A Companion EP 2022 The first three are innocent in a way because we didn t have an audience when we were making them Oberst says But from Lifted on I was definitely aware of...
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Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane family home in Dix Hills in 1970 Alice Coltrane s fourth album is a transcendent masterpiece of spiritual jazz The title track is an ode to the Egyptian God Ptah the El Daoud meaning the beloved Many moments on the album reach...
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Reissue There s not another album on the planet that sounds even remotely like vibraphonist Khan Jamal s eccentric one of a kind masterpiece Drum Dance To The Motherland Thirty years after its release the album s tapestry of sound fearless abstractions relentless grooves cool swing flashes of ecstasy and...
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Muriel Grossmann s Union is a great opportunity to experience the energy of a live performance Union was recorded in early autumn of 2019 during a two day recording session in Mallorca studio Caja Del Ruido In the context of this record and the previous ones you can clearly talk...
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Liai s debut LP Pome via Quiet Time Tapes On Pome Liai has given us a stunning work of expertly crafted rhythmic ambience inspired by the intimacy and solitude of the midwestern countryside Having grown up in rural Missouri Liai channels the mixed feelings that can accompany solo contemplation in...
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The fifth release in the BBE Music J Jazz Masterclass Series has the perfect combination of rarity and exceptional musicality that inspires seasoned collectors to break out in a sweat Animals Garden by Miyasaka + 5 was originally issued in 1979 on the cult private Japanese label ALM and is...
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The musical partnership of Joseph Shabason and Nicholas Krgovich orbits around a shared center of earnestness slice of life poeticism and the subtle everyday banality that becomes beautiful even absurd under their slight redirection Where 2020 s Philadelphia placed domestic interiors under a microscope documenting the indoor minutiae society was...
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I ll never forget the first time I heard JJulius I was stumbling down the waxed marble steps of the Sunset Marquis sipping in vain from my empty flask when David Bowie pulled up in a tangerine Hummer H3 he borrowed from one of those Kraftwerk guys either Hans or...
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Wayne Shorter had already set a high bar over the course of his first several Blue Note albums which included all time jazz classics including Night Dreamer JuJu and Speak No Evil but 1966 s Adam s Apple featuring Herbie Hancock on piano Reggie Workman on bass and Joe Chambers...
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Life Goes On Records present a reissue of Joe Chambers s The Almoravid originally released in 1974 Terrific session just released on influential independent Muse A modal masterpiece verging on spiritual jazz with a series of excellent players from Richard Davis and Cecil McBee on bass to Ray Mantilla on...
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We Are Busy Bodies is proud to reissue two albums by Ian Carr s Nucleus starting with 1975 s Alleycat Originally released on Vertigo as the group s final release for the label the album has been remastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel Recording The album was released the...
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Ndikho Xaba left South Africa in 1964 an exile from his homeland who eventually found his place in San Francisco s vibrant spiritual jazz scene of the late 60s A songwriter bandleader pianist and inventor of percussion and woodwind instruments Xaba played alongside contemporaries like Pharoah Sanders Alice Coltrane and...
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180 gram gatefold double LP Remastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering Lyndhurst Hall London Fifth part of the Strata East Dolphy Series Glass Bead Games is arguably the crown jewel of the Strata East movement an amorphous genre that treads an unusual path between post bop 1970s avant garde...
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The music of TMROTR is channeling the spirit of the Finnish forests and nature combining shepherd music with hypnotic and subtle elements of spiritual jazz and nyabinghi rhythms Their instrumentation includes various self built and custom made instruments such as a log percussion setup and many different kinds of flutes...
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Double LP version A stunning survey of the 1970s heyday of great Japanese singer and countercultural icon Maki Asakawa 1942 2010 Deep indigo dead of night enka folk and blues inhaling Billie Holiday and Nina Simone down to the bone A traditional waltz abuts Nico style incantation defamiliarized versions of...
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The unreleased 1984 follow up to the groundbreaking albums Kakashi and Mariah s Utakata No Hibi Kiren is Yasuaki Shimizu s work for experimental dance music Employing cutting edge production to create lush new wave soundscapes it bridges the gap between his early 80s recordings and his later work with...
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New World Science s Osmos Movements is a sincere foray into forth world fantasy where disparate synthesizer styles are tied together by harmonized saxophone musings Comprised of four recordings jams between Francis Latreille Priori mastermind behind the project Adam Feingold Ex Terrestrial and Emmanuel Thibau and featuring appearances by Phoebe...
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Even in the increasingly crowded field of electronic music Kelly Lee Owens debut album arrives as a wonderful surprise An album that bridges the gaps between cavernous techno spectral pop and krautrock s mechanical pulse Kelly Lee Owens brims with exploratory wonder establishing a personal aesthetic that is as beguiling...
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This year Rhino Parlophone is kicking off Jazz Appreciation Month with one of the most influential figures in 20th century American music Charles Mingus who would have turned 100 on April 22 This year Mingus legacy will be in the spotlight with the release of a deluxe edition of his...
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Universounds HMV Record Shop and 180g team up for an exceptional release from blazing hard bop to free jazz to introspective saxophone solos and massive big band sounds renowned Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa presents an essential 14 track collection of WaJazz music taken from the Nippon Columbia vaults Featuring...
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Containing newly remastered audio Genesis Of Genius The Contemporary Albums combines legendary Jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman s albums for Lester Koenig s Contemporary Records This deluxe box set features Coleman s first albums as a bandleader Something Else and Tomorrow Is The Question Both albums were originally recorded by legendary...
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Travellng beyond the tropical waters of the South Pacific Afro Desia showcases Martin Denny s foremost foray into the sounds and rhythms of the African continent Pressed on flame orange color vinyl Afro Desia s twelve tracks burn bright and bring the groove with a chorus of marimbas timbales congas...
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Coming hot off the heels of his iconic debut Martin Denny s follow up to the original Exotica is the ultimate companion piece Originally released in mono in 1957 mere weeks after the first Exotica album kick started the new lounge craze Exotica Volume II further demonstrated Denny s unique...
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Originally released in 1958 Primitiva is a rhythmically rich and inimitably exotic Martin Denny experience Reissued by Jackpot Records on limited edition ocean blue color vinyl Primitiva highlights the burgeoning sound of 50s exotica music with Denny s diverse soundscape ranging from vibraphones and marimbas to Burmese gongs and Buddhist...
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Dean Blunt x Arca x Mica Levi x made up Idris Elba quotes x Hyperdub it s a lot Fronted by that image and opening with the most unsettling unrelenting mantra this makes me proud to be british set to harp leisure centre noise and bleeping mobiles Dean Blunt s...
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Vision Songs Vol 1 is the Laraaji album like no other located at the intersection of new age and gospel his outlier and magnum opus the feel good DIY tape of the century Casio synth jams recorded at spiritual retreat guest rooms and a tiny bedroom on the Upper West...
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Robert Fripp amp Brian Eno s timeless 1975 electronic music classic Evening Star on vinyl for the first time in nearly 30 years The album s return to the 12 format is cut from masters approved by the artists manufactured on 200g super heavyweight vinyl and presented in a re...
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Carmen Villain turns out a career best with her fourth album a confidently conspicuous co mingling of dub fourth world jazz ambient and kosmische modes Brilliantly eroded soft focus music that s wide ranging thematically but completely coherent landing somewhere between Jon Hassell and Rhythm and Sound It s fitting...
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Donald Byrd s 1975 fusion classic Places and Spaces was the culmination of the legendary trumpeter s vibrant latter Blue Note years Byrd had begun recording for Blue Note in 1958 and over two decades evolved from a top notch hard bop trumpeter into a pioneer of R amp B...
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In 2020 like everyone else I was just a private person says Hval No artists were allowed to perform I was reduced to just me As a result Hval questioned what just me could mean Was it the version that never got away from her hometown Was it the idea...
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Sometimes a single is released that reaches such dizzying heights of success that it becomes a pinnacle of the decade they re indelibly tied to Groove Is In The Heart by dance house trio Deee Lite is one such single The infectiously quirky and eminently danceable track is prominently based...
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Communion privately released in an impossibly small edition of twenty five cassettes in 1986 is a beguiling politically underpinned meditation of cosmic improvisation and wayward folk music from Cleveland s Universal Liberation Orchestra Universal Liberation Orchestra s Communion arrives January 28 2022 as part of uncommon¢ uncommon sense an open...
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For five decades Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant garde Born in Los Angeles he studied with Schoenberg pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970 While searching for his own voice he was influenced as much by abstract expressionist painters as by...
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Forevernevermore was originally released in 2000 and is the second full length on Peacefrog from Kenny Dixon Jnr Gathering together the best strands of Moodymann s late 90s tracks on KDJ Forevernevermore re interprets these rare and sought after gems twisting and blending them into a new mesmerizing and idiosyncratic...
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Silence In The Secret Garden is an intensely personal and spiritual journey into the heart amp soul of black music From the reckless dark minimalism of the title track Silence In The Secret Garden to the irresistible funk of Yesterday s Party this classic album...
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