Rolling Reissues 2014

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SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE RECOMMENDS: Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras 'Catholic'
Available Today, November 20

Cowley is known as one of the pioneers of disco in the 1970s, particularly the hi-NRG strain. This material was written and recorded with vocalist (and frequent collaborator) Jorge Socarras in San Francisco between 1975 and 1977, before the latter went to London and Cowley started a gig playing synthesizers for Sylvester. The two artists reconvened in 1979 and re-recorded some of the material, eventually sending an album to Megatone Records who ultimately decided not to sign it.
2-LP, more info & audio here: http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=40441

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BAY AREA RETROGRADE--Various/Vols. 1&2
(Dark Entries)
Both volumes of Dark Entries’ compilation of underground music from San Francisco (and the greater Bay Area) made between 1978-1988 are available here! Collecting tracks from the Bay Area (at the time a hotbed for experimental and quirky new wave, post punk, and synthpop) that draw a comparison to New York’s No Wave scene and Berlin’s Neue Deutsche Welle.
CD, more info & audio here: http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=40439
Tracklisting
1. Nominal State — Middle Class
2. Batang Frisco — Power
3. Necropolis Of Love — Talk
4. Wasp Women — Kill Me
5. Distant Thunder — Tin Soldiers
6. Voice Farm — Voyeur
7. Danny Boy And The Serious Party Gods — Castro Boy
8. Quiet Room — Yangtzee River
9. Los Microwaves — Silent Screamers
10. Standard Of Living — N.F.A.
11. Units — Mission
12. Factrix — Night To Forget
13. Chrome — Meet You In The Subway
14. Red Asphalt — Red Asphalt
15. Tuxedomoon — Day To Day
16. Ki Di Me — Islamatic
17. Indoor Life — Gilmore Of The Fillmore
18. Baby Buddha — Little Things
19. Timmy Spence — Brand New Dance
20. Human Being Men — Human Dub
21. Wonders Of Science, The — Let’s Start A Rumor
22. Zru Vogue — Nakweda Dream

Dennis Brown---Deep Down
(Iroko)

Killer mid 70s roots album from Dennis Brown & Niney The Observer reissued with gatefold sleeve and great liner notes by David Katz. Recorded at Joe Gibbs Studio with The Soul Syndicate band and Niney at the helm. Check 'So Long Rastafari' 'Voice Of The Father' 'Tribulation' and many more.
LP, more info & audio: http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=40681

Jerry Harris---I'm For You
(Wackie's)

Very rare Wackie's deep roots album gets reissued by Deeper Knowledge people from New York. Originally released in 1982, this version has added dubs plus dropping a few weaker tracks from the original release with the added bonus of a unreleased track.
LP, more info & audio: http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=40638

Transllusion

The Opening Of The Cerebral Gate
(Tresor)

**VINYL NOW AVAILABLE**

Long-out-of-print groundbreaking C-L-A-S-S-I-C electro album - an essential lesser-konwn piece of Drexciyan history!

Produced by the late James Marcel Stinson and released in 2001 via Supremat, a short-lived sub label Tresor dedicated to a more abstract and experimental electro sound, “The Opening Of The Cerebral Gate” was conceived as the second part of the so-called Drexciyan Storms – a whopping stack of seven albums by the Detroit pair released under different monikers within a single year (the Tresor album “Harnessed The Storm” being the first). Informed by esoteric concepts, the music on this brilliant album is chock full of hypercharged arpeggios and driving pulse patterns. BRILLIANT.
2-LP, CD, more info & audio: http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=40180

From Smog Veil Newsletter---put this on 2015 by mistake

hearpen.com has a new release this month: a season-appropriate reissue of Monster Walks The Winter Lake by David Thomas and the Wooden Birds. Here's what we know of it: This is the 2014 David Thomas revision of the original 1986 two track digital recordings. Nearly six hours worth of tape were reviewed to come up with the definitive version.

This album was recorded live in the studio to two-track digital tape at Suma on November 18, 20 and 21, 1985. No overdubs or drop-ins. If something went wrong then we started again. Fostex X-15 and Tascam 144 multitrack cassette recordings were used as real time accompaniments for Coffee Train, My Town, Monster Magee and Monster Thinks About The Good Days.
more info & audio:http://hearpen.com/hr181.html

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Great album, one to play on special occasions. Hope he doesn't do anything too bloody-minded to it.

The Bangles: early 80s demos, live tracks, their first EP, all in new collection:

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WARDRUNA's mesmerizing debut full-length, Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga, finally gets the reissue treatment in North America via Indie Recordings. Originally released in 2009, Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga serves as the first release in the band's stunning Runaljod trilogy, a musical rendition of the twenty-four runes in what is often referred to as the "elder futhark." Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga incorporates some of the oldest of Nordic instruments such as primitive deer hide frame drums, kraviklyra, tagelharpe, mouth harp, goat horn and lur, poetic metres and lyrics written in Norwegian, Old Norse and Proto-Norse tongue. Some of the recordings are captured outdoors or under circumstances of significance to each rune while other sources of sound like trees, rocks, water and torches are used. All of these elements are carefully woven into a rich musical landscape and complemented with whispering voices, melodic song and mighty choirs. Although WARDRUNA's sound shares characteristics with music typically labeled as folk, world and/or ambient, none of these genres can accurately describe their unique style. It truly must be experienced. Music from Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga is featured in the soundtrack to both seasons of The History Channel's Vikings series.

Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga Track Listing:

1. Ar var alda

2. Hagal

3. Bjarkan

4. Løyndomsriss

5. Heimta Thurs

6. Thurs

7. Jara

8. Laukr

9. Kauna

10. Algir - Stien klarnar

11. Algir - Tognatale

12. Dagr

WARDRUNA:

Kvitrafn: vocals, all instruments (except fiddle), songwriting

Lindy Fay Hella: vocals

Gaahl: vocals

WARDRUNA was founded by Einar Kvitrafn Selvik and in 2009 and enchanted listeners with Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga. In the ensuing years the group has spent a great deal of time adapting their music to a live format and establishing a live band, resulting in a handful of very special concerts, perhaps most notably when they performed in front of the majestic 1100-year-old Gokstad ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Norway. The second album in the Runaljod trilogy, Yggdrasil, was released in 2013. Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Selvik, together with vocalists Kristian Espedal (aka Gaahl) and Lindy-Fay Hella, managed to create a strikingly beautiful and intense continuation of what was started with their first album, but without falling into the trap of merely repeating themselves. The band is currently working on Ragnarok, the final release of the series.

Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga is available on CD, black double vinyl gatefold and
digitally via Indie Recordings.

from Luaka Bop:
William O box
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William Onyeabor
CD/LP Box Set

William Onyeabor self-released 8 albums between 1978 and 1985 and then became a Born-Again Christian, refusing ever to speak about himself or his music again. Various biographies can be found online. Some say he studied cinematography in the Soviet Union and returned to Nigeria in the mid-70s to start his own film company, Wilfilms. Some say he was a lawyer with a degree from a university in Great Britain. Others portray him as a businessman who for years worked on government contracts in Enugu, Nigeria.
Now for the first time Luaka Bop will release ALL of Onyeabor's creative output, 9 albums in total. Available as 2 hand-numbered LP boxes or 1 CD box with 9 CDs. Get them while they last!

---also noteworthy

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Light In The Attic playlist starts w new track by amazing Sylvie Simmons, but think all the rest are from reissues, incl many if not all mentioned on this thread, like Native North America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7zphev_6Wk&list=UUPFJl-I-PhIonNPBGUK0Aog

124 videos, it says here.

5-Disc Kinks box, releases & demos 1964-71 just out, http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-1964-1971-5CD-Box/dp/B00NJADEJ2/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1419558209&sr=1-1&keywords=the+kinks+anthology+1964-1971

Fresh Air interview w Ray Davies (orig Nov. 26), w backstory of several early tracks: http://www.npr.org/2014/12/25/372906846/naive-yet-revolutionary-ray-davies-on-50-years-of-the-kinks

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Damn, pretty good interview! And the songs are real short, so get to hear concentrated excerpts.