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Although all of that would have been difficult to ascertain on their jaunty, hippy 1968 Polydor debut Fairport Convention. Recorded in November 1967, it's a lovely sunny, suburban take on the summer of love; the vocal blend of Ian Matthews and Judy Dyble, the guitar interplay of Simon Nicol and...
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By the admission of co-founding member Ashley Hutchings, Fairport Convention weren’t really living in the British folk world when they started. The music was in their genes, but they were spending more time in their formative years admiring the work of North American singer-songwriters such as Joni Mitchell and Leonard...
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A further exercise in musical curation, Child Of Nature is our latest sonic confluence of self-released tracks from the loners, hippies and outsiders of the 70s and early 80s. A collection of privately pressed music, able to breathe and be created free from the constraints of heavy handed commercialism, yielding...
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Reissue, originally released in 1971. Getting their start in the mid-1960s as a covers band, the Surrey-based group that began as The Late and who would be forced to take the name Unicorn mid-way through the recording of this excellent debut LP soon understood that originals made better sense, pointed...
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Born out of the burnout of post-everything, Alien Eyelid assembled the quietest who’s who of the Houston music scene. Their debut album is a testament to music that sounds like it could come from anytime, but squarely in what’s needed now. Features members of Lower Dens and Balaclavas. "Houston’s Alien...
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Spiritual, intimate and revolutionary, yet firmly rooted in Brazil's folklore. Africadeus was the breakthrough album of the mighty Naná Vasconcelos, in which he discovered the berimbau to the world and took the instrument to a universal level. Having played in the shadows for other artists such as Milton Nascimento, Gato...
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"Silk is the fantastic third LP by Maxine Funke, a New Zealand musician whose first recordings were with the legendary $100 Band (Funke, Alastair Galbraith, and Mike Dooley!), whose music was drifting experimental dust of a very high order. Maxine's first two solo albums, Lace (2008) and Felt (2012) (originally...
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"Darkness, Darkness" and “No Services” are two songs performed by Kieran Hebden and William Tyler. This is the first collaboration between Hebden, the producer and electronic musician also known as Four Tet, and Tyler, the Nashville-based guitarist and composer.
William Tyler’s guitar parts for “Darkness, Darkness” were recorded by Jake Davis...
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Originally released in 1971, the Fuchsia album is one of the best examples of British progressive and psychedelic folk-rock, full on inventive arrangements, and songwriting. Produced by David Hitchcock (Caravan, Mellow Candle). Here's a long overdue vinyl reissue. Fuchsia was formed by a group of Exeter University students. They were...
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Prog-psych/acid-folk lost classic from 1969 by this short-lived London trio. Now lovingly reissued on vinyl with fantastic remastered sound and including insert with rare photos/memorabilia and detailed liner notes by Steve Krakow, aka Plastic Crimewave. Named after a Cannonball Adderley track, Synanthesia formed thanks to a Melody Maker ad placed...
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These days, singer-songwriter and actor David Blue tends to be remembered only in relation to Bob Dylan. A member of the supporting cast in mid-60s Greenwich Village and The Rolling Thunder Revue. Yet to categorise Blue in this way is reductionist, and does him an injustice. He was something of...
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Canto A Lo Divino is the sacred music of Chile’s Central Valley. It is a communal form of worship and reflection for the peasants of the remote region, played in packed rooms throughout the night when work is done, hypnotic variations chiming out on the guitar and the celestial, 25-string...
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Teasing out vintage, arcane threads of connection between deep-South porchside styles and their native industrial blooz, Demdike sound at their most red-eyed and pensive in this strung out, liminal mode, spinning Jon Collin’s expressive guitar licks into acres of cranky, ghostly space to offer a starker and more blunted perspective...
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Hive Mind Records are proud to present Colours of the Night, the final studio recordings of deep, hypnotic Gnawa songs from the late, great Maalem Mahmoud Gania.
The recordings see their first release outside of Morocco on 8 September 2017, and are available as a double vinyl LP and digital download....
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Hypnotic guitar playing throughout this superbly melancholic folk rock LP, privately issued in 1976 alongside Crooked Oak's debut. Brilliant songs that edge towards Roy Harper, characterised by exquisite finger picked guitar compositions which are deep, dark and magical, and infused with a sense of sorrow....
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180g vinyl reissue LP on Rhino. ‘Barrett’ was the eponymous Pink Floyd frontman's second and last solo record, produced by his fellow bandmembers Rick Wright and David Gilmour. It's a collection of blues jams and psych rock that recalls artists such as the Byrds. The record has been reissued courtesy...
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During the 1990s Shizuka self-released a series of four cassettes, barely heard by anyone outside of their inner circle. Culling together live recordings and home demos, these served as companions to the scant amount of proper Shizuka releases at the time (including the recently reissued Heavenly Persona). Concentric Circles is...
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The Oklahoma-raised Karen Dalton (1937-1993) brought a range of influences to her work. As Lenny Kaye writes in the liner notes, one can hear “the jazz of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, the immersion of Nina Simone, the Appalachian keen of Jean Ritchie, [and] the R&B and country that had...
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Ebalunga!!! is thrilled to announce the first official reissue of the self-released, self-produced, and self-titled 1985 LP Scott Seskind. The album is a lo-fi singer-songwriter jewel. Don’t miss it.
“Authentic and personal, at times it reminds this writer of luminaries such as Jackson C. Frank, PF Sloan, Skip Spence, and Phil...
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Ethiopia’s music company Muzikawi reissue the self-titled solo instrumental album of Ethio-jazz composer Dawit Yifru, which offers an exceptional occasion to rediscover one of the most important eras in Ethiopia’s music history.
This 11-track album features a compilation of songs that were restored and remastered from cassettes released throughout the 1970s....
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A haunting folk rock with the exquisite compositions of Bob Hughes, this inexplicably ultra rare private pressing is generally unknown, and includes a stunning version of the fragile and monumentally melancholic "High & Dry", a song that is a genuine masterpiece, predating Radioheads identically titled silly pop tune, and vastly...
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The Serpent Power was the brain-child of beat poet/singer David Meltzer along with wife Tina. The young Meltzer entered the beat circle in company with the likes of Ginsberg and Kerouac in the late fifties. In '66 he formed The Serpent Power along with Tina, guitarist Denny Ellis and bassist...
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Lost recordings that defined the modern sound of the Sahara.
This album contains the first recordings of modern music from the Sahara and mark the birth of the genre that is known in the West as ‘Desert Blues’ or ‘Desert Rock’. Ahl Nana changed the folk music of the Sahara to...
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Czech guitarists Jakub Šimanský and Tomáše Niesner drew their inspiration from the roots of 1950s classic country blues or American folk songs. But also the cross section of the Mississippi Delta and the Appalachian Mountains' traditional music informed by atonal elements of the European avant-garde. This musical style has been...
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Life, is considered pivotal in the development of English folk rock music. The album also gave the band their first UK chart success, reaching #12 in the UK album chart (the second highest position in the band’s career), while the single release, “Si tu dois partir”, climbed to #21 in...
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The definitive reissue of an album equal parts pastoral folk and contemplative psychedelic; perhaps the reason the term “acid-folk” exists; one of rock’s rarest and most sought-after albums. This is the single LP version issued by Now-Again after the Now-Again Reserve Edition of Alice sold out.
The first time since 1971...
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In the mid-sixties, when hippie culture was at its peak, Jaine Roman-Pitt, a 16-year-old girl influenced by Johnny Mitchell and Judy Collins, picks up the guitar. Having started performing at a club near the University of Michigan, she fell into hippie life and traveled through Israel to Greece, where...
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The new album by Maxine Funke divides into two halves - the first side a perfect suite of the kind of beautifully constructed songs that the New Zealand based artist has become known for, acutely observed vignettes framing her voice with a minimal backing of guitar and organ. The second...
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Transparent sun yellow vinyl. "A new edition of this Canadian folk/psych classic -- perfect dreamy, sunshine-infused-yet-with-clouds-passing-by pop psychedelia with a folk bent, originally released by independent Canadian label Allied Records in 1968. When we first issued this terrific album many many years ago, our booklet featured the few scraps of...
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WILL OLDHAM's debut full length under the BPB moniker sets the porch coordinates for some unseen black hole, and sets off at Warble Factor 9. Eleven new tracks of unmistakable PALACE-style moody sweetness, all previously unreleased, and featuring long-time Palace players - DAVID PAJO, PAUL OLDHAM, COLIN GAGON, BOB ARELLANO,...
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2023 repress. LP version with bonus 7"; one of the great Drag City releases (and one of the great American music solo albums) finally on vinyl again. "In 1970, Mayo Thompson (once-and-future leader of The Red Krayola) recorded an album entitled Corky's Debt To His Father. Walt Andrus' Texas Revolution...
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Cassette mixtape of a vast array of Jean Ritchie’s career. From Alan Lomax to mid 70s.
Jean Ritchie was born in Viper, Kentucky in the Cumberland Mountains in 1922. She was the youngest of a family of fourteen children. Her family were some of the first pioneers in the Troublesome Creek...
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Cassette reissuse of Jean Ritchie’s 1975 LP “At Home” – Recorded with Peter Pickow, Alice Backer & Jonathan Pickow.
Jean Ritchie was born in Viper, Kentucky in the Cumberland Mountains in 1922. She was the youngest of a family of fourteen children. Her family were some of the first pioneers in...
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The second volume in a survey of a form of Brazilian country music known as música caipira ("hillbilly music") - a stripped-back forerunner to música sertaneja, the Brazilian equivalent to US country & western which in it's contemporary form has come to dominate the domestic music industry in recent decades....
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WRWTFWW Records present the first official worldwide reissue of the sophomore album from fabled Japanese folk singer-songwriter/actress/writer Hako Yamasaki, Tsunawatari. Recorded right after her outstanding debut Tobimasu (WRWTFWW 079CD/LP), Tsunawatari was released in 1976 on Elec Records, one of the first independent labels in Japan, and solidified Hako Yamasaki as...
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WRWTFWW Records present the first official worldwide reissue of the debut album from fabled Japanese folk singer-songwriter/actress/writer Hako Yamasaki, Tobimasu. Originally released in 1975 on legendary independent label Elec Records, Tobimasu is a masterpiece of melancholy carried by one of the most beautiful, moving, melodic, and haunting voices in the...
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Mississippi Delta blues artist Skip James, known for his career during the Great Depression and subsequent decades, played primarily in a minor key, featuring complex fingerpicking. He was "rediscovered" and became much more widely recognized during the 1960s when he was in very poor health nearing the end of his...
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Horn of Plenty casts its gaze into the thriving contemporary Belgian underground with Annelies Monseré’s Mares, a remarkable body of experimental compositions that taps the deep well of raw, emotive expression rumbling below numerous traditions of European folk music.
As a member of Ghent’s experimental music scene, over the past two...
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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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Four distinct recording sessions that Magnolia Electric Co. undertook following the release of their debut studio album, What Comes After the Blues.
From those recording sessions, the band’s second album Fading Trails was born. But the four sessions, in full, chart the celestial map of Magnolia Electric Co.: its constellations and...
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The Blackpool-raised songbird, guitarist and painter Joanne Robertson is among the most precious artists of her generation. Since the 2008 release of her solo debut ‘The Lighter’, produced by General Strike and This Heat’s David Cunningham, Robertson has been a regular collaborator of Dean Blunt, lending her silvery folk lilt...
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Ethereal and atmospheric, first ever record consisting of unreleased material recorded between mid 80’s and 90’s by musician Alberto Lizarralde in Zaldibia, Basque Country.
"Haizetxe" by Alberto Lizarralde...
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Let the Moon Be a Planet marks the first volume of Reflections, a new series of contemporary collaborations orchestrated by RVNG Intl., and documents an inspired exchange between guitarist and songwriter Steve Gunn and pianist and composer David Moore of Bing & Ruth. Conjured by a mutual curiosity,...
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"Jonny Dillon’s debut acoustic LP ‘Songs For A One-String Guitar’ took the listening public by surprise and the critics by storm when it dropped out of the blue on All-City in 2019. It represented a departure for an artist who was renowned for having the Midas touch when it came...
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"Amish Records is pleased to finally announce an expanded and remastered edition of P.G. Six's 2001 debut album, Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites, to be released as a gatefold double LP and digitally on Feb 24, 2023. Fully remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, artist Meredyth Sparks reimagines the beautiful Chris Krol...
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