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Shakedown Street is a tenth studio album by rock band the Grateful Dead, released November 8, 1978, on Arista Records. The album came just over a year after previous studio album Terrapin Station. It was the final album for Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, who left the band a few...
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One reviewer said this about Lavender Daydreams: “Blissed out folk psycher in the vein of Tim Buckley or Dan Fogleberg but waaay more psyched out. Richard has certainly dropped a tab or three in his time. A really, really good album to mind-surf to, and also poppy enough that it...
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Mega rare UK private album (99 copies originally pressed in 1969) by singer/songwriter Jeremy Harmer, featuring David Costa of psych-folk band TREES on guitar. Melancholic, introspective psych-folk with chamber/baroque feel. Jeremy Harmer started singing and playing at school and university, where his circle of friends included aspiring folk musicians like...
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2024 repress; gatefold LP version. ""What makes On Your Own Love Again new? Everything, and yet everything woven so subtly into the presentation leaves you unaware that you have been modulated upon. The album was recorded entirely by Jessica in the fashion of 'Night Faces' and 'Dreams,' from her first...
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Bringing together - favorite titles - selected by Françoise Hardy, this edition offers rarities (among which "Nuit d'été" (1972), "Now You Want To Be Loved" (1970 - adapted from "Des ronds dans l'eau "), "C'est il dort" (1969), "Des yeux d'enfants" (1970), "T'es pas poli" with Patrick Dewaere - 1971)...
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In March 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost in the desert. Some think he fell foul of a local family with alleged mafia ties. Some think he was abducted by aliens....
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Townes had just finished the most prolific run of songwriting and recording in his career when he recorded this 1973 double-LP. It’s not just his best live album, but maybe his best album, period: Pancho & Lefty; For the Sake of a Song; Waitin’ ’Round to Die; No Place to...
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Audiopile Review: 2020 album from the UK-based experimental artist Luke Cowan, which has somehow survived staying print the past first years despite being pressed in a micro edition of 100, the final copies recently scooped up by one of our more discerning distributors. Somewhere between the experimental folk axis of...
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Remastered from the original analogue master tapes by original sound engineer john wood at abbey road studios! pink moon, nick drake’s third and final album, was originally released on island records in 1972 and is the record that made him the cult figure he remains to this day. recorded in...
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Audiopile Review: Softening the edges of the doom-drone-folk of his duo Tongue Depressor, New England multi-instrumentalist Henry Birdsey has managed to break through to a wider audience with his Old Saw project, which began with 2021’s sublime Country Tropics. Much like Tongue Depressor, the sound of Old Saw is steeped...
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Guitarist Lee Underwood’s syncretic blend of jazz, folk, and blues was a tremendous force behind Tim Buckley’s genre-stretching late 60s/early 70s music—but his 1988 acoustic guitar opus California Sigh has remained a unsung footnote to his story. Until now! This first time vinyl-edition reveals Lee’s free-floating acoustic moods, with synths...
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A slice of soft psych heaven! Sisters Wendy & Bonnie Flower's radiant sunshine pop, breezy melodic arrangements and sophisticated soft rock flourishes make this a must-hear album! Pressed on green vinyl!...
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California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostica News. On offer: Burchett’s seven-part, block-printed “Psychic Meditation Course,” designed to teach people how to listen to music. To go along with his lessons, Burchette sold...
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California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostica News. On offer: Burchett’s seven-part, block-printed “Psychic Meditation Course,” designed to teach people how to listen to music. To go along with his lessons, Burchette sold...
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California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostica News. On offer: Burchett’s seven-part, block-printed “Psychic Meditation Course,” designed to teach people how to listen to music. To go along with his lessons, Burchette sold...
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Audiopile Review: It seems the well-spring of private-press new age music will never run dry. In all honesty, a lot of pivotal music from this zone is still waiting in the wings. Think about how long we waited for Hiroshi Yoshimura’s ‘Green’ to come into print. This year, we’re finally...
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California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostica News. On offer: Burchett’s seven-part, block-printed “Psychic Meditation Course,” designed to teach people how to listen to music. To go along with his lessons, Burchette sold...
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Third in a trilogy from Now-Again Records with Forge Your Own Chains (2009), Tickets for Doomsday (2021), Pale Shades of Grey is a Various Artists compilation of rare, largely un-compiled, and sometimes barely heard heavy psych-rock. Pounding drums, scathing fuzz guitar and morose, contemplative lyrics will bring you up on...
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WRWTFWW Records presents Bamboo Night, the steamy new album from French producer, Astral Soda Records owner, and illustrator, Albinos. The eight-song ambient house/cool jazz/deep chill electronic intimate marvel is available as a limited-edition LP housed in a heavy 350gsm sleeve. Originally self-released on cassette (25 copies only!), Bamboo Night, now...
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A humanity-reminding suite of miracle moments, Someone Like Me unites a geographically unbound cast of real people in pursuit of a meaningful connection. Taping their lived experience in economic studios in quiet English counties, Pacific Northwest woodland retreats and the big city bustle of Sydney and Los Angeles, these kindred...
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MESTIZX is Bolivian-born singer and multi-medium performer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and renowned Chicago expat jazz drummer Frank Rosaly's debut album as co-composers, arrangers and musicians. Partners in both marriage and art, the Amsterdam-based Ferragutti and Rosaly dove into the sounds of their respective ancestral roots in Bolivia, Brazil, and Puerto...
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A collection of haunted, brooding flamenco recordings taken from the early 1900s through to the late 1930s. Focussing in on the cante jondo (or “deep song”) style, seen as the original manifestation of flamenco singing - from which other elements emerged, such as dancing and playing - this survey captures...
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An assorted collection of recordings from Constantin Brăiloiu's World Collection of Folk Music archive, originally broadcast on NTS Radio in July 2017, issued here as part of DINTE's 10th anniversary series. Comprising field recordings made by the pioneering Romanian ethnomusicologist of English, Irish, Gaelic, Norwegian, Breton, Japanese, Italian, Swiss, Basque,...
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The definition of the word 'fado' is technically 'fate', though the Portuguese meaning bound up with this term is more complex. The music itself can be fairly closely compared with that of Greek rebetika - also the American blues or the original working-class tango music of Argentina and Uruguay -...
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South-Asian vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Ganavya releases her new studio album “Like the sky I've been too quiet” on Shabaka Hutchings’ Native Rebel Recordings. The album features contributions from artists including Kofi Flexxx, Floating Points, Carlos Niño, Leafcutter John and Mercury-nominated bassist Tom Herbert. Since graduating from Berklee College of...
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Audiopile Review: Among a certain sub-set of music heads, Myriam Gendron’s name is spoken with hushed reverence. These are folks who really go deep. They’re more likely to recommend some lost Peruvian prog rock outsider than a contemporary folk singer from Quebec. So, what gives? Sometimes, folks who really know...
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“It’s time. Africa, it’s time. It’s time that Africa changes. It’s time our leaders change. Everything that happens in Africa is extraordinary. We have everything: water, earth, sun, fields of oil, gas. We have all this in Africa, but Africa is still poor. It’s time we change our way of...
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Audiopile Review: After a few releases on labels like Blackest Ever Black and AD93, the artist formerly known as тпсб adopts a new moniker, Firnis DC, and slides in nicely to the slowly growing Felt Records crew. Certainly comparable to the recent albums from Civilistjävel! that have popped up on...
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The collaboration between renowned drummer Jim White and acclaimed guitarist Marisa Anderson is a natural union of two of the most intuitive players and listeners working in music. Jim White is known for his groundbreaking trio, Dirty Three, as well as duo, Xylouris White. His list of collaborations is...
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Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements are two of contemporary music's most renowned innovators. Each has managed to expand the perception of their instrumentals capabilities. Lattimore inventive harp processing and looping has brought the instrument to a new audience. Her prolific run of celestial solo albums and evocative film scores have...
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"With Time is Glass, Six Organs of Admittance is captured once again in the intricate tangle of the fretboards, soaring in open skies above. Like lens flare cutting through the speakers; spiderwebs cracking the windshield that holds back all the onrushing reality. Blowing the dust away, cutting a new path...
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Michael Atherton is a writer, composer and educator from Sydney, Australia. Originally born in Liverpool, England, to Welsh-Irish and German parents, his family later migrated to Australia in 1965. Moving to the suburbs in La Perouse, he grew up in a mixed, multicultural community, where he fostered friendships with existing...
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Debut album from this fantastic Dublin based singer and musician. Stirring and beautiful songs, with a consistent optimism underlying even the murkiest moments. Recorded in Connemara and Dublin (in a studio space shared with mates). Mixed by Brendan Jenkinson. Mastered by The Bastard....
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Cold Fact is the debut album from American singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. The album sold very poorly in the United States (Rodriguez was himself an unknown in the US), but managed to sell well in both South Africa...
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The official debut album from gifted singer, songwriter, and harpist JOANNA NEWSOM. Twelve engaging tracks rooted in the folk of the 1960s and the current bluegrass revival, but on a plane all its own. Whimsical themes meet with a playful approach, the harp's plucked beauty and Newsom's one-of-a-kind vocal delivery....
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Adult Contemporary singer-songwriter BILL CALLAHAN returns with another love-and-loss classic. Rain On Lens is a unique soundtrack for the new depression and SMOG's strongest effort since 1993'sWild Love....
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The acclaimed 1998 album featuring Chan Marshall backed by two-thirds of the Dirty Three (the two-thirds that don't play violin). A breathtakingly beautiful, hypnotic record. If Cat Power were Van Morrison, this would be her "Astral Weeks."...
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Lo-fi Tuareg guitar from renowned Timbouctou musician Abba Gargando. Original compositions and folklore classics from hypnotic electrified weddings to quiet fireside recordings in the refugee camps. Collected and recorded on cellphones, sparse recordings in the medium where he is best known....
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Happy End's second album, the timeless masterpiece "Kazemachi Roman" released on colored vinyl (clear) for the first time! Latest 2023 cutting from the original master. Pressed at Sony's Shizuoka factory....
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Vancouver-based Laucan makes a captivating entrance onto the Astral Black stage with his inaugural LP, 'LORCAN.' Partnering with the accomplished producer Samuel Organ, renowned for his recent collaborations with musical luminaries like Caroline Polachek, Shygirl, Sega Bodega, and others, the album is a sonic journey through the realms of ethereal...
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Formed in suburban Maidenhead by singer Tony Pook, guitarist/pianist Roy Apps, and guitarist Robert Collins, Heron solidified when Collins was replaced by guitarist/mandolin player GT Moore. After a debut album recorded at the Pook family farm, specially priced double LP Twice As Nice And Half The Price achieved a fuller...
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Sitar-laden raga rock-xotica! Light the incense, turn on and tune out to this acid folk blend of electric oud, minitar and melodica - its genuine organic blend of both Eastern and Western sounds make this band truly sound like no other. Pressed on seaglass blue vinyl!...
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A slightly revised & edited take of our Jamaican Gospel special for NTS Radio, originally broadcast for the station back in late 2016. A dusty heap of JA gospel from the 60s and early 70s. Split across two sides - all vinyl and all 45s - played through...
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‘Reet’ is a lost treasure of late 1960s folk/psych-folk. The only album she ever put to tape, with clear pure voice and guitar. luckily recorded by Andres Raudsepp in 1969. Reet will be loved in the same breath as ;Sibylle Baier, Vashti Bunyan, Molly Drake & Bridget st John. Reet...
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Hold on to your mind! Led by Belfast-born phenom David Lewis, Andwella made three LPs circa 1970 for London’s Reflection label, redolent with Cream-y rock workouts, soaring post-Sgt. Pepper psych experimentation, and earthbound laments The Band might’ve dreamt up at Big Pink. Barely heard back then, they now conjure a...
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Intervention Records presents Judee Sill's classic 1971 debut, Judee Sill, and her stellar followup Heart Food. Each album is cut as a double 45 RPM LP set and pressed on dead-quiet 180-gram vinyl.
The astonishing Judee Sill was the first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records, and Judee...
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Here In the Pitch, the fourth album from the beloved, beguiling songwriter Jessica Pratt, was written and recorded between her home of Los Angeles and Brooklyn over the course of three years. Pratt enlivens her timeless, placeless folk sensibilities with newfound instrumentation and an expanded ensemble, both under the influence...
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"Happy 20th birthday to Family Album, the third recording of Faun Fables and the first one released on Drag City. These songs belong to sons and daughters, entwined and orphaned, domesticated and feral; to all the family vines unraveling from a ball of yarn. In this family album, runaways graze...
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