Rolling Reissues 2017

What better to start with, than a big ol' assortment of vinyl ltd. eds., varying also in musical quality:

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Meh.

THE DOORS
ANNOUNCE 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION OF THEIR GROUNDBREAKING DEBUT ALBUM

The Band's 50th Anniversary Celebration Continues With 3CD/LP Set Of Their Eponymous Debut, Featuring Remastered Stereo And Mono Mixes, Plus Live Recordings

Available From Rhino On March 31

January 4 To Be Proclaimed “Day Of The Doors” In Los Angeles In Special Ceremony In Venice

January 4 2017 - 50 years ago today in 1967, The Doors broke through to the other side for the first time with its eponymous debut on Elektra Records. The Doors would go on to sell millions of copies and made stars of John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and Jim Morrison. Today, the album is widely considered to be one of the all-time-classic rock and roll debuts.

To celebrate this landmark recording’s 50th anniversary, the band will release THE DOORS: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION. This 3CD/LP set will be available on March 31. In addition, the music will also be available digitally.

To coincide with this, today (January 4) will be declared “Day Of The Doors” in the city of Los Angeles. The proclamation will be made this afternoon by Councilmember Mike Bonin during a public event at the intersection of Pacific and Windward Avenues, the location of the iconic “Venice” sign. Founding Doors members John Densmore and Robby Krieger will be on hand at the event as will family members of the late Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison.

Packaged in a 12 x 12 hardcover book, THE DOORS: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION includes a remastered version of the album’s original stereo mix, available on CD for the first time in a decade and remastered for the first time in nearly 30 years. The album’s original mono mix was also remastered for this set and is making its CD debut here. An LP-version of the mono mix is also included. The third disc features live performance from The Matrix in San Francisco recorded just weeks after The Doors was released. Music journalist David Fricke provides detailed liner notes for the set, which includes a selection of rare and previously unseen photographs.

THE DOORS: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION offers a rare opportunity to hear the band on the verge of superstardom with live performances recorded during a March 7, 1967 show at the Matrix in San Francisco. The Matrix recordings heard on this deluxe edition were sourced from the recently discovered, original tapes, previously thought to be lost. The Matrix recordings originally released in 2008 were from a third-generation source, so the sound quality of the versions debuting here is second to none.

Packed with electrifying performance, the disc contains live versions of eight tracks on The Doors, including “Twentieth Century Fox,” “The Crystal Ship” and “Back Door Man.”

THE DOORS (50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION)

Track Listing

Disc One (Original Stereo Mix)

Disc Two (Original Mono Mix)

“Break On Through (To The Other Side)”
“Soul Kitchen”
“The Crystal Ship”
“Twentieth Century Fox”
“Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”
“Light My Fire”
“Back Door Man”
“I Looked At You”
“End Of The Night”
“Take It As It Comes”
“The End”

Disc Three: Live At The Matrix, March 7, 1967

“Break On Through (To The Other Side)”
“Soul Kitchen”
“The Crystal Ship”
“Twentieth Century Fox”
“Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”
“Light My Fire”
“Back Door Man”
“The End”

LP (Original Mono Mix)

Side One

“Break On Through (To The Other Side)”
“Soul Kitchen”
“The Crystal Ship”
“Twentieth Century Fox”
“Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”
“Light My Fire”

Side Two

“Back Door Man”
“I Looked At You”
“End Of The Night”
“Take It As It Comes”
“The End”

Not strictly a reissue as never previously issued but anyway…

FKR090
GRAEME MILLER & STEVE SHILL
THE MOOMINS
Finders Keepers
LP + D/L CODE* | CD | MP3
Available to order from 3rd February 2017

http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/shop/graeme-miller-steve-shill-the-moomins/

Imagine, if you will, a foreboding homemade electro-acoustic, new age, synth driven, proto-techno, imaginary world music Portastudio soundtrack for a Polish-made animated fantasy based on a Finnish modern folk tale and created for German and Austrian TV, composed in 1982 by two politically driven post-punk theatre performers from a shared house in Leeds!

To even the most perspicacious and adventurous of alternative music fans the genuine bloodline of this previously unreleased record already begins to sound like an entire record collection in one sitting. It would be surprising if this project’s ambitious and exotic credentials didn’t tick at least one box on your musical matrix and without one drop of unnecessary nostalgic hyperbole this project already sounds like the perfect fantasy record that you’ve never heard. Alternatively we could just say The Moomins and, for many, things would instantly begin to make perfect sense.

From the same social landscape as Gang Of Four, The Mekons and Impact Theatre Co-operative – armed with a Wasp synthesiser, an ocarina and a cassette of the Robinson Crusoe music taped off the TV, Graeme Miller and Steve Shill used minimum means for maximum mayhem, instilling over 35 years of dreamlike illusory fuzziness and freakiness into the memories of a generation of school age TV addicts waiting for the next 5 minute fix of outernational fuzzy felt folklore. Collected here, all in one place for the first time, Finders Keepers in close collaboration with the original composers finally bring the original homemade micro-melodies and reintroduce them to a musical landscape where fans of vintage electronics, concrète tape effects, pocket percussion and domestic synths are finally ready to be reunited with the magnetic music of Moominvalley.

The whole thing can be streamed here now:
https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/sets/graeme-miller-steve-shill-the-moomins

Listening to "Partytime" now: kind of an Andes-high pan flute dance, but not quite (tin whistle? Moomins anyway). Thanks!

Expanded 20th Anniversary ed. of Elliott Smith's Either/Or, download, two-CD, two-LP, two options for that last. Adds unreleased live, studio, stray b-side; this links to NY Times story and advance track:
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c21c057faf23c1ac99e070428&id=91c4d398c8&e=fd13844571 Label sez "(North American Only Exclusive)(Ships March/April 2017"

Having last year reissued six of the nine albums Dead Can Dance released on 4AD, the remaining three are scheduled for release this March. All vinyl represses, they are The Serpent’s Egg (1988), Aion (1990) and Spiritchaser (1996). Full details of each repress can be found here:
http://4ad.com/news/11/1/2017/all4adalbumsfinallybackinprintonvinyl
fave cover (if goes away, it's Aion)
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George Harrison box set: complete solo albums on vinyl.
Also included in the set will be the original release tracklists and artwork, 12’ single picture discs of “When We Was Fab” and “I Got My Mind Set On You,” a recording of Harrison’s live album from Japan (1992) and even some copies of handwritten song lyrics. An extended version of Harrison’s autobiography I Me Mine is also being released, which now reaches 632 pages and features lyrics to 50 new songs, as well as previously unpublished photos.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/01/george-harrison-solo-box-set-in-the-works.html?utm_source=PMNL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=170117

Dennis Coffey live trio tapes, Hot Coffey In The D, looks promising:

http://www.npr.org/2017/01/24/511452021/a-club-performance-from-1960s-detroit-holds-one-key-to-motowns-success

Manufactured Recordings
Announce Power Pop Reissues

From Manikins, The Modulators and Smart Remarks
Available February 17

Manikins - From Broadway to Blazes

Listen / Share "Love at Second Sight" on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/manufacturedrecordings-1/manikins-love-at-second-sight/s-9gCC1

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From the same scene that begat the Scientists and the Victims came Perth, Australia's The Manikins. Founded by Neil Fernandes -- a former member of the legendary Cheap Nasties with future Scientists member Kim Salmon -- The Manikins bridged the rawness of their Aussie punk contemporaries with melodic Power Pop. From Broadway to Blazes features all the bands' essential recordings from 1971 to 1981, including the three criminally rare and outrageously expensive self-released 7" singles (Models for Mankind, Mankind, Premonition and Love at Second Sight), their DiY cassette and more unreleased studio recordings as well as detailed liner notes by Fernandes. Manufactured Recordings presents one of the final, untold stories of the original Australian Punk and New Wave scene.

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The Modulators - Tomorrow's Coming

Listen / Share "Tomorrow's Coming" and "She's So Cynical" on Soundcloud
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Formed in 1980, New Jersey's The Modulators are one of the unsung greats of the American powerpop scene. Initially the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Joe Riccardello with help from producer/ lyricist (and Vintage Vinyl Records owner) Rob Roth, Ricardello released his first single Girl Trouble in 1980 just before bringing on friends Mark Higgins (guitar) and Mark "Cakes" Westlake (drums) to join the band. As a fully-formed trio, the Modulators began playing out across New Jersey in the early 80's and recorded tracks for two local compilations and the band's second, enduring single She's So Cynical in 1982. Live gigs and songwriting continued, with the band often writing and recording more material than their release schedule could keep up with.

Finally in 1984, the band released their first and only LP, Tomorrow's Coming on Roth's Vintage Vinyl Records. Full of timeless gems and quintessential 80's power popanthems, the record is now regarded as a genre classic by power pop collectors.

Though the band continued to play the Tri-State area until 1986 (and every now and then since), Tomorrow's Coming was The Modulator's last vinyl release. Bringing together the band's entire discography with an additional 14 unreleased songs and demo tracks and liner notes from power pop collector Steve Borchardt, Manufactured Recordings is proud to present the definitive release of this power pop classic.

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Smart Remarks - Foreign Fields: 1982-1984
Listen / Share "Falling Apart (As it Seems)" on Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/manufacturedrecordings-1/falling-apart-as-it-seems/s-7tzMq

mart Remarks began in 1980 with Todd Ellis (guitar, vocals), Chris Gordon (bass), and Ant Barbalace (drums) as an original punk/power pop trio out of Bordentown, NJ. School friends and co-workers at the local Ocean Spray Cranberry factory, the band was influenced by early powerpop bands like Paul Collins' Beat, The Records, The Knack, and especially the Staten Island, NY three-piece Dirty Looks. Smart Remarks recorded their first single" Was It Something We Said"... in 1982, which spawned the power pop classic "Mary's Got Her Eye On Me." Often the opening act for larger bands that came through town (The Replacements, The Ramones, Joan Jett, Haircut 100), the band became the favorite house band at Trenton, NJ's famous City Gardens Night Club. Smart Remarks re-entered the studio in 1984 to record the five track EP Seriously Speaking with new bassist Steve DeStefano, which would become their final recording together. Collecting Smart Remarks' entire discography and including liner notes from Randy "Now" Ellis, the famed owner of City Gardens, Foreign Fields: 1982- 1984 is a must for fans of classic, catchy US powerpop.

Lambchop's Is A Woman reissued w eight bonus tracks, also touring etc:
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From the Muffs' own thread:

When I like 'em, I really, really like 'em, but on the reissues, more bonus than prev. released grab me---fortunately, there are lots and lots of bonus tracks----from Rolling Reissues '16 and '15:

The Muffs xpost Bigger and Blonder: Shattuck's rough, dry, take-it-or-leave it vocal comes off flat here, more often monotonous than signifying tuff cookie pre-emption, though yeah yeah,she don't want you to think she's vulnerable and girly and trusting, just because she's venting; we get it already. Also, bringing it down to a trio---this trio, that is--- keeps the backing from adding a little variety. Nevertheless, "Red-Eyed Troll," "Ethyl My Love" (a good demo added to the reissued debut reissue) and a few other finished tracks really work. But as with the reissued debut, the breathing room demos (9 here, incl just a couple versions of the original album's cuts) really make the whole thing worth having, or hearing, anyway. Things get just a bit more flexible---and some of the initial release's tracks should be rescued by somebody with a few more musical shrewds.
I'd start with the debut; here's what I said about it last year:
The Muffs’ s/t debut reissue w bonus tracks: "pop-punk," some call them, and I've seen comparisons to Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, but Kim Shattuck sometimes relies more on on vocal scrunchies than hooks---still, good some good chord changes and textures, with a few guest sounds, like theramin and organ: part of the variety of arrangements *eventually* shaking up the 16 tracks of the original album.
But the 10 bonus tracks, mostly four-track demos, provide a lot more breathing room for vocals and guitar, like maybe the studio sessions were more labored, sometimes (not so many direct comparisons; several of these songs didn't show up on the finished product). It might help that most of the demos have only a tambourine behind the slightly echoing, gnarly jangle (but one of the best, "Ethyl My Love," has what sound's like a full trap set). I'd say that, if you like the original album or the band as you knew them, or, even if you haven't heard them, but are into what turns out to be indeed pop-punk, with even a bit of power-pop---but more get-lost gusto than moony romance---then the demos make this worth checking out, for sure.

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nine months pass...
Happy Birthday To Me next up for the reissue treatment: http://omnivorerecordings.com/music/happy-birthday-to-me/

― Elvis Telecom,

Thanks for the headz-up, Elvis!

Guitar Legend Allan Holdsworth 12 CD Box Set Collection and Accompanying Double CD Collection
THE MAN WHO CHANGED GUITAR FOREVER Box Set
EIDOLON-a 2-CD Best Of
To Be Released on Manifesto Records on April 7th.

Los Angeles, CA-based Manifesto Records will release a new, complete 12-CD box set by guitar innovator, jazz, and progressive rock legend Allan Holdsworth titled The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever, along with a 2-CD updated and expanded “best of” collection selected by the artist, titled Eidolon.
Manifesto Records referenced the box set’s seemingly portentous title from the cover story title featuring Holdsworth in Guitar Player magazine’s April 2008 edition. Given his humble nature, Holdsworth is a bit embarrassed by the title and finds the notion that he changed “guitar forever,” somewhat overblown—more befitting of names like Orville Gibson, Leo Fender, or Ned Steinberger.
Holdsworth, born in Bradford England in 1946, embarked on a solo career as composer and bandleader exclusively in 1979. Holdsworth’s career as producer, bandleader, and lead composer is documented in this box set, and with the artist’s 28-track selection of favorites in Eidolon. Both packages include extensive liner notes, and an updated 2016 interview with Holdsworth discussing each release, his history, and approach to the instrument.

From 1982 through 2003, Holdsworth recorded a dozen albums that have been lovingly put together for The Man Who From 1982 through 2003, Holdsworth recorded a dozen albums that have been lovingly put together for The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever collection. Featured on the box set are eleven remastered studio albums, starting with the 1982 studio release, Allan Holdsworth, I.O.U., and the archival 2003 live release, Then!, recorded live in Tokyo in 1990. All feature additional bonus tracks added for special editions or the original Japan releases, along with the original artwork and studio credits. Also included are the Grammy-nominated Road Games, (1983), Metal Fatigue (1985), Sand (1987), Secrets (1989), Wardenclyffe Tower (1992), Hard Hat Area (1993), None Too Soon (1996), The Sixteen Men of Tain (2000), and Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie (2001).

Holdsworth has been recognized by many of the world’s most accomplished and unique rock and jazz guitar virtuosos. Luminaries including Eddie Van Halen, Carlos Santana, Frank Zappa, Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin, Joe Satriani, Tom Morello universally expressed reverence and astonishment at Holdsworth’s pioneering approach to his playing and vast vocabulary of “uncommon” chord voicings.

He further expanded the guitar’s orchestral potential with a range of electronic effects, then moved on to become one of the early innovators of guitar-based synthesizer controllers. In the nearly five decades Holdsworth has been touring, collaborating, and recording, he has created an immense sonic and musical legacy.

In the ‘70s he played with legendary Miles Davis drummer, Tony Williams and Cream bassist Jack Bruce as the band Lifetime, and toured with Soft Machine. He worked with former Yes and King Crimson drummer, Bill Bruford’s first solo project, Feels Good To Me, and subsequent recordings with Jean-Luc Ponty, and Gong. Bruford suggested Allan for the progressive-rock “supergroup,” U.K., which, along with Bruford, also featured John Wetton and Eddie Jobson.
Both The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever and Eidolon will become precious to those who love the world’s great guitarists. Fans of deeply unique, sonically rich and pristine recordings of great musicians taking their music to the next level and beyond, will also be in awe of these collections.

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www.Manifesto.com | facebook.com/allanholdsworthmusic

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KaS Product
Black & Noir: Mutant Synth-Punk from France 1980-83
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

Soul Jazz Records are releasing a collection of lost recordings by French mutant experimental synth group Kas Product, all originally recorded in the period 1980 – 83.

Kas Product formed in 1980 in Nancy, France, as an electronic duo comprising ex-psychiatric nurse Spatsz on electronics and rhythm machines and Mona Soyoc on vocals and guitars.

Kas Product feature on Soul Jazz Records’ recent 'Punk 45 – Les Punks: The French Connection'. Mainly recorded on early tape, synth and drum machines Kas Product’s mixture of Spatsz’ hypnotic, electronic and angular hard-edged beats matched to the spiky vocals and guitar work of Soyoc led to comparisons with Suicide, Liliput/Kleenex, Cabaret Voltaire as well as to the group being forerunners of the cold wave/ synth wave movement. Perhaps closer still is the Industrial sound of bands such as Throbbing Gristle and Einsturzende Neubaten. At the start of the decade Kas Product's 'So Young But So Cold' was also the title track of a defining collection of rare underground electronic French coldwave/synthwave bands on the Tigersushi label.

The recordings here are taken from their early releases on the local Punk label from Nancy, France at the start of the 1980s, mostly recorded on a 2-track recorder in their bedroom, which led to them signing to RCA in 1982. These songs were first put together on CD by the French Fan Club label in 1990. Essentially the group split-up in 1988 but Kas Product still come together to perform live today most recently in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. In 2012 their major label debut album was re-released in France.

On Feb. 17, Soul Jazz Records are releasing this album on limited-edition 1000-copies worldwide vinyl LP (with download), CD and worldwide digital.
more info, audio here: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/black-noir

Reviews and Articles:

Read large feature in Noisey (in French) here
https://noisey.vice.com/fr/article/aux-origines-de-kas-product?utm_source=nfrfb

Also, re-reissue of Edward Larry Gordon/Laraaji's Celestial Vibration:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/edward-larry-gordon-celestial-vibration

JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING
ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK BY ENNIO MORRICONE
TO BE RE-ISSUED BY WAXWORK RECORDS ON DELUXE LP
OUT 2/24

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Waxwork Records is thrilled to present the deluxe soundtrack re-issue to 1982’s sci-fi horror classic, JOHN CARPENTER’S THE THING. Composed by the legendary Ennio Morricone, the soundtrack to THE THING is a landmark musical composition that is cold, dark, minimal, and effective.

Considered to be John Carpenter’s directorial masterpiece, THE THING is praised as one of the greatest films of it’s genre by both fans and critics. Starring Kurt Russel and A. Wilford Brimley, THE THING follows a team of researchers in Antarctica as they are infiltrated by a parasitic extraterrestrial life form that assimilates other organisms and then imitates them. The classic soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone effectively captures the cold, isolated tone of the story and film, and marks one of the few John Carpenter directed films that Carpenter did not score himself.

Waxwork Records worked for two years to ensure that such a highly anticipated and sought after vinyl soundtrack re-issue would meet and exceed expectations of the biggest fan of John Carpenter and his sci-fi / horror tour de force that is THE THING.

Features include the complete Ennio Morricone soundtrack re-mastered from the original master tapes, your choice of two different 180 gram colored vinyl variants, all new artwork by Justin Erickson of Phantom City Creative, deluxe heavyweight packaging including satin coated old-style gatefold jackets with UV spot-gloss, an an 11” x 22” poster, a breakaway “ice” slipcase, and an exclusive interview with the director John Carpenter.

Deluxe “Trapped In The Ice” Edition

• Heavyweight, High-Gloss, Break-Away “Ice” Slipcase

• 180 Gram “Ice” Vinyl (Deep Blue with White Haze)

• Satin Coated Old-Style Gatefold Jacket with UV Spot-Gloss

• 11” x 22” Poster

• New Artwork By Justin Erickson of Phantom City Creative

• Booklet Featuring Exclusive Interview with Director John Carpenter

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Standard “Snow” Edition

• 180 Gram “Snow” Vinyl (True White)

• Satin Coated Old-Style Gatefold Jacket with UV Spot-Gloss

• 11” x 22” Poster

• New Artwork By Justin Erickson of Phantom City Creative

LISTEN:
https://soundcloud.com/waxwork-records/sets/the-thing

ltd. ed. color vinyl of MC5, Elektra & Atlantic tracks:

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Audio, info here: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/2967-the-motor-city-five

Must be about time for a remaster of High Time. Or has that been done remotely recently?
Deluxe versions of the lps with whatever outtakes would be welcome .
Especially if anybody unearthed the studio recordings I heard the band did around teh time of KOTJ but didn't get released because of teh Hudson's incident.

Is the live box set still available from Easy Action. That has some really nice stuff on including the sets once released by Total Energy

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DAIS RECORDS TO RE-ISSUE RAGNAR GRIPPE'S SAND
THE CLASSIC MUSIQUE CONCRÈTE / AMBIENT ALBUM FOR ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY
OUT MARCH 24

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Since its original release in 1977, Ragnar Grippe’s seminal debut album entitled “Sand” has been adorned with immense praise and influenced a myriad of ambient musicians and minimalist composers. Grippe’s unique approach of bonding post-modern classical composition into the tape techniques of musique concrète allowed him to be one of the leading experimental electronic musicians of the late 20th century.

Originally trained as a classical cellist, Grippe had relocated to Paris in the early 70’s to study at the famous Groupe de Recherches Musicales (more commonly known as GRM) founded by musique concrète pioneers Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry and Jacques Poullin. Around the same time, Grippe had struck up a close friendship with French avant-garde minimalist Luc Ferrari. It was under Ferrari’s direction and guidance that the young Grippe started to build a shared experimental music studio, aptly named l’Atelier de la Libération Musicale (ALM), in which Ferrari shared his knowledge and instrumental supplies, thus forging Grippe’s implementation of harmonic tone within the confines of musique concrete.

After a brief stint of electronic music study at McGill University in Montreal, Grippe returned to Paris in 1976 to compose with Ferrari at the now fully-realized ALM studio. One of the visiting artists passing through the creative epicenter of the Cité Internationale des Arts during this time was the painter Viswanadhan Velu. Velu’s recent works consisted of various Sand paintings which were to be exhibited at the Galerie Shandar, the avant-garde art gallery and home to the Shandar record label which was the home to minimalist composers Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Cecil Taylor and Charlemagne Palestine.

Grippe was asked to compose a composition that was to be played during the Sand painting exhibition and was then to be released on the Shandar imprint in 1977. This release would be the first official album that would start Grippe’s career as a modern avant-garde composer and electronic musician. After a celebrated release, “Sand” has since been out-of-print on its original vinyl format for four decades and original copies fetch high prices amongst minimalist listeners and collectors.

Dais Records proudly reissues “Sand” by Ragnar Grippe on vinyl for the 40th anniversary of its original release in a limited edition 500 copy pressing on clear vinyl featuring new liner notes by the artist on March 24, 2017.

BAD COMPANY: DELUXE EDITIONS

Double-Disc Versions Of Run With The Pack and Burnin' Sky Feature The Original Album
Remastered And Expanded With Rare And Unreleased Recordings

Available From Rhino On May 26

LOS ANGELES - Bad Company recorded four classic albums in as many years, giving rise to some of the most recognizable rock songs of the Seventies, including "Rock Steady," "Run With The Pack" and the Grammy-nominated, "Feel Like Makin' Love." After releasing remastered and expanded versions of their first two albums in 2015, the band will return this spring with deluxe editions of their next two albums from that incredible run.

Run With The Pack (1976) and Burnin' Sky (1977) have been newly remastered from the original production tapes. Each has been expanded with rare and unreleased recordings taken from the original album sessions. The CD versions of these Deluxe Editions include all of the new bonus tracks, while their 180-gram vinyl counterparts offer a selection of the bonus material.

The Deluxe Editions of RUN WITH THE PACK and BURNIN' SKY will be available on May 26 for $19.98 (2CD) and $39.98 (2LP). The music will also be released digitally and available through various streaming outlets.

During a rare break from touring, Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell got together in France to record new songs using the Rolling Stones' mobile recording studio. Those sessions produced Run With The Pack, a 10-song album that came out in early 1976 and rose to #4 in England and #5 in America, where it sold three million copies alone. Radio stations embraced the title track along with a cover of The Coasters' "Young Blood," while "Silver, Blue & Gold" became one of the band's signature tracks, even though it was never officially released as a single.

The bonus disc that accompanies RUN WITH THE PACK: DELUXE EDITION includes unreleased early mixes for "Honey Child" and "Simple Man," as well as an extended version of the title track. There's also the previously unreleased "Let There Be Love," an outtake from the recording sessions. In fact, the acoustic version of "Do Right By Your Woman," previously only available as the B-Side of the single release of "Run With The Pack," is the only song on the bonus disc that has ever been previously released.

During the summer of 1976, the band returned to France yet again to record 12 songs for what would become Burnin' Sky. They chose Château d'Hérouville as the studio, which is where David Bowie would record Low later that same year. Burnin' Sky was released in March 1977, and broke into the Top 20 in both the U.K. and U.S.

The BURNIN' SKY: DELUXE EDITION bonus disc features unreleased versions of nearly every song on the album, including alternative takes and mixes of "Man Needs A Woman" and "Morning Sun," plus the full version of "Too Bad." The session tapes also unearthed "Unfinished Story," a song that was completed, but never released.

For more information about BAD COMPANY, please contact Jessica Giordano in the Rhino Media Relations Department at jess✧✧✧.giord✧✧✧@rh✧✧✧.c✧✧ or 818-238-6403.

Run With The Pack: Deluxe Edition
CD Track Listing:

Disc One: Original Album Remastered
1. "Live For The Music"
2. "Simple Man"
3. "Honey Child"
4. "Love Me Somebody"
5. "Run With The Pack"
6. "Silver, Blue & Gold"
7. "Young Blood"
8. "Do Right By Your Women"
9. "Sweet Lil' Sister"
10. "Fade Away"

Disc Two: Bonus Tracks
1. "Live For The Music" - Take 1, Alternative Vocal & Guitar
2. "Simple Man" - Take 3, Early Mix
3. "Honey Child" - Early Mix, Alternative Guitar Solo
4. "Run With The Pack" - Extended Version, Alternative Vocal
5. "Let There Be Love" - Take 1, Previously Unreleased
6. "Silver, Blue & Gold" - Take 1, Early Mix
7. "Young Blood" - Alternative Vocal
8. "Do Right By Your Woman" - Alternative Vocal
9. "Sweet Lil' Sister" - Live Backing Track
10. "Fade Away" - Early Mix, Alternative Guitar Solo
11. "Do Right By Your Woman" - Acoustic Version*
12. "(I Know) I'm Losing You" - Studio Jam
13. "Young Blood" - Alternative Version 2
14. "Fade Away" - Island Studios Demo

* All disc two tracks unreleased except

Burnin' Sky: Deluxe Edition
CD Track Listing

Disc One: Original Album Remastered
1. "Burnin' Sky"
2. "Morning Sun"
3. "Leaving You"
4. "Like Water"
5. "Knapsack (The Happy Wanderer)"
6. "Everything I Need"
7. "Heartbeat"
8. "Peace Of Mind"
9. "Passing Time"
10. "Too Bad"
11. "Man Needs Woman"
12. "Master Of Ceremony"

Disc Two: Bonus Tracks*
1. "Burnin' Sky" - Take 2, Alternative Vocal & Guitar
2. "Morning Sun" - Take 3, Early Version
3. "Leaving You" - Take 1, Alternative Vocal
4. "Like Water" - Take 1, Rough Mix
5. "Knapsack (The Happy Wanderer)" - Early Run Through
6. "Everything I Need" - Rough Mix
7. "Peace Of Mind" - Alternative Version
8. "Passing Time" - Alternative Vocal
9. "Too Bad" - Full Version
10. "Man Needs Woman" - Alternative Vocal & Guitar
11. "Too Bad" - Early Version, Mick Ralphs Vocal
12. "Man Needs Woman" - Take 2, Early Version, Mick Ralphs Vocal
13. "Burnin' Sky" - Take 1, Alternative Vocal
14. "Unfinished Story" - Previously Unreleased

* All tracks previously unreleased

Run With The Pack: Deluxe Edition
LP Track Listing

Side One
1. "Live For The Music"
2. "Simple Man"
3. "Honey Child"
4. "Love Me Somebody"
5. "Run With The Pack"

Side Two
1. "Silver, Blue & Gold"
2. "Young Blood"
3. "Do Right By Your Women"
4. "Sweet Lil' Sister"
5. "Fade Away"

Side Three
1. "Live For The Music" - Take 1, Alternative Vocal & Guitar
2. "Simple Man" - Take 3, Early Mix
3. "Honey Child" - Early Mix, Alternative Guitar Solo
4. "Run With The Pack" - Extended Version, Alternative Vocal
5. "Let There Be Love" - Take 1, Previously Unreleased

Side Four
1. "Silver, Blue & Gold" - Take 1, Early Mix
2. "Young Blood" - Alternative Vocal
3. "Do Right By Your Woman" - Alternative Vocal
4. "Sweet Lil' Sister" - Live Backing Track
5. "Fade Away" - Island Studios Demo
6. "Do Right By Your Woman" - Acoustic Version

Burnin' Sky: Deluxe Edition
LP Track Listing

Side One
1. "Burnin' Sky"
2. "Morning Sun"
3. "Leaving You"
4. "Like Water"
5. "Knapsack (The Happy Wanderer)"
6. "Everything I Need"

Side Two
1. "Heartbeat"
2. "Peace Of Mind"
3. "Passing Time"
4. "Too Bad"
5. "Man Needs Woman"
6. "Master Of Ceremony"

Side Three
1. "Burnin' Sky" - Take 2, Alternative Vocal & Guitar
2. "Morning Sun" - Take 3, Early Version
3. "Leaving You" - Take 1, Alternative Vocal
4. "Like Water" - Take 1, Rough Mix
5. "Knapsack (The Happy Wanderer)" - Early Run Through
6. "Everything I Need" - Take 2, Rough Mix

Side Four
1. "Peace Of Mind" - Alternative Version
2. "Passing Time" - Alternative Vocal
3. "Man Needs Woman" - Alternative Vocal & Guitar
4. "Too Bad" - Full Version
5. "Man Needs Woman" - Take 2, Early Version, Mick Ralphs Vocal
6. "Unfinished Story" - Previously Unreleased

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In keeping with our continued mission to strengthen people’s engagement with their own cultural heritage and enhance their awareness of the cultural heritage of others, Smithsonian Folkways is proud to include new additions to our ever-growing catalog.

George Margitich Collection:

Welcome conductor and music director George Margitich and a 3-album collection of Russian liturgical and choral music. Two albums, Selections of Russian Sacred Music and Folk Songs and The Divine Liturgy Music of the Russian Orthodox Church feature New Jersey’s Russian-Liturgical Singers, who established the group to stimulate and broaden interest in this style of music. Also included is a performance from The Don Cossack Chorus under direction from conductor George Margitich, who began conducting the group in 1980.

Seems Like Romance to Me:

Originally released in 1985 through grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the NEA, Seems like Romance to Me offers a detailed look into the rich Ohioan fiddle tradition, which has continued and evolved since well before statehood in 1803. Original vinyl stock pressings are available for this album while supplies last.
more info, audio: http://www.folkways.si.edu/news-and-press/new-additions-to-the-collection-russian-liturgical-and-choral-music-conducted-by-george-margitich-traditional-ohioan-fiddle-music

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Exciting new albums from GRAMMY-award winners Quetzal and Iraqi-American composer and oud master Rahim AlHaj are on their way. Quetzal’s The Eternal Getdown (available March 10th) and Rahim AlHaj’s Letters from Iraq (available April 7th).
more info, audio
http://www.folkways.si.edu/news-and-press/pre-order-new-albums-from-quetzal-and-rahim-alhaj-explore-the-recent-mcintosh-county-shouters-release

A new AlHaj? I'm all about that.

Yeah, that's very good news.

From Soul Jazz Records' soundoftheuniverse.com:

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Shamek Farrah
First Impressions
SUPERFLY RECORDS

Superfly deliver once again with the reissue of this highly desirable deep jazz LP! An absolute stone cold killer on Charles Tolliver’s Strata East. Check the title track ‘First Impressions’ for some quickfire proof! As always this is a top quality repress with paste on covers made in Japan and 180g vinyl. Limited to 1000 copies only! - Don't sleep!!!
More Info & Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/shamek-farrah-first-impressions_2

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Carl Marshall
I'll Give My Heart To You
SUPERFLY RECORDS

Beautiful Superfly reissue of wicked privately pressed Tennessee Modern Soul LP from 1980, check the killer 'come groove with me', 'since I met you' and 'music', all instant classics! - limited 1000 copies Japan pressed with obi
More Info & Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/carl-marshall-i-ll-give-my-heart-to-you

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Andrew Wartts
There Is A God Somewhere
SUPERFLY RECORDS

Andrew Wartts recorded his landmark gospel album 'There Is A God Somewhere' in the early 1980s and released it on the small Champ imprint based in Nashville, Tennessee. It took funk archivists years to discover this gem, but it’s a timely resurface. Wartts sound – a mixture of soulful, funky, melancholic yet celebratory exhortations to the Lord – belies the music’s age. Another top quality reissue from Superfly - 180g vinyl, limited to 1000 copies worldwide!
More Info & Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/andrew-wartts-there-is-a-god-somewhere

Not technically a reissue, more of an unreleased album from the 70s that finally gets to see the light of day:

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Discom's research on unknown and neglected music from former Yugoslavia continues! This time we go deep into the 70’s electronic, experimental, fusion und prog rock and we present you group 37°C with their album Sidarta. In the time when Gary Numan recorded "Are 'Friends' Electric?" in Gooseberry Studio in London in 1979, a group of skilled musicians, also known as Boban Petrovic's backing band, booked the same studio to record an album. These were the first recordings ever of Bebi Dol and Silva Delovska from KIM band.

The album opens with the track inspired and named by Herman Hesse's novel "Siddhartha". This ambient, psychedelic, experimental 18 min length "epic" piece fits to some extent the cliché how kraut rock and progressive bands perceived electronic music during the 70's. However, the song arrangement is exceptional and includes variety of sounds and textures from alluring hypnotic celesta, expressive guitar, tuneful bass, fascinating keyboards to supernal vocals and lenient sax and flute. The gradation of arrangement is very exciting as well, especially in the way how certain instruments appear. For instance, drums show up almost at the end of song after vocals, flute and sax whose role is to evoke certain images. Quite unusual, but when we take into account that song doesn’t contain a single touch of anything that can be verbally identified, its meaning is even more mysterious. Actually, the structure of the song portrays the action of the of novel: Hesse's hero Siddhartha experiences the perfection as "Brahman" and soon after he steps opposite in order to find his own path and discover himself. In the song, band members are heating the atmosphere involving their complete musical knowledge and skills till the moment when perfection of playing turns into explosion. Likewise in the novel, the part of the song after the explosion is more relevant than part with hundreds of notes before and yet much difficult to play. In that part one may discover itself.

The other songs of the album are on B side. Comparing to the song on A side they have different structure and atmosphere. The first track "Trag" (Eng. "Trace") contains distinctive singing of Bebi Dol and very good 70's groove with two keyboard and one guitar solo. The next is "Pescani Sat" ( Eng. "Sand Watch") an instrumental with very open form and more progressive atmosphere. Then comes the song "Izmoreni Putnik" (Eng. "Weary Traveler") where all band numbers show their musical skills in a full potential. The last song of the album is "Vrteska" (Eng. "Merry-go-round’’) with unusual 11/8 time signature and weird “street organ’’ melody at the end.

Summing up, this material is very attractive for those interested in unknown sounds of the past, especially when experimental electronic comes from highly skilled musicians. Low quality of production, restricted by technological barriers in the 70's, is compensated by great ideas and musical courage. These achievements are more significant due the fact that these artists are not coming from one of important musical centers, yet from the province which shined bright just a few times. We hope those shiny moments are in this album.

Full listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X4h-Ko8LBw

soteric records are reissuing all of Patto's material, starting with the 1st 2 lps on April 28th.
S/t comes with 3 extra tracks
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/patto-remastered-and-expanded-edition/
1. THE MAN
2. HOLD ME BACK
3. TIME TO DIE
4. RED GLOW
5. SAN ANTONE
6. GOVERNMENT MAN
7. MONEY BAG
8. SITTIN’ BACK EASY

BONUS TRACKS
9. HANGING ROPE

RECORDED AND MIXED 16th JULY 1970

10. LOVE ME
11. GOVERNMENT MAN

BBC RADIO ONE “SOUNDS OF THE 70s” SESSION
3rd NOVEMBER 1970 - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

2nd lp
Hold Your Fire is expanded to 2cds including various BBC material and outtakes. These include an IN Concert set.
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/move-into-the-light-the-complete-island-recordings-1969-1971-remastered-edition/
DISC ONE “HOLD YOUR FIRE”
THE ORIGINAL ALBUM RE-MASTERED:
1. HOLD YOUR FIRE
2. YOU, YOU POINT YOUR FINGER
3. HOW’S YOUR FATHER
4. SEE YOU AT THE DANCE TONIGHT
5. GIVE IT ALL AWAY
6. AIR RAID SHELTER
7. TELL ME WHERE YOU’VE BEEN
8. MAGIC DOOR

BONUS TRACKS
9. BEAT THE DRUM
10. BAD NEWS

“HOLD YOUR FIRE” SESSIONS
RECORDED & MIXED 4th MAY 1971

DISC TWO: BBC SESSIONS & OUT-TAKES:
1. SAN ANTONE
2. GOVERNMENT MAN
3. BEAT THE DRUM
4. SITTIN’ BACK EASY
5. SO COLD

BBC RADIO ONE “IN CONCERT”
4th MARCH 1971 - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

6. GIVE IT ALL AWAY
7. AIR RAID SHELTER
8. YOU, YOU POINT YOUR FINGER

BBC RADIO ONE “SOUNDS OF THE 70S” SESSION – 28th JUNE 1971 - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

9. DON’T SHOOT ME (“HOLD YOUR FIRE”) (FIRST VERSION)
10. GIVE IT ALL AWAY (ALTERNATIVE VERSION)
11. AIR RAID SHELTER (ALTERNATIVE VERSION)

“HOLD YOUR FIRE” SESSIONS
RECORDED & MIXED 29th JULY 1971

TRACKS 9 & 10 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

I have the old repertoire version of the 1st lp and it's pretty great. This Esoteric version is the first one fully sanctioned by the band..

The same date , 28th April sees a 2cd set off the material that Quintessence released on Island compiled as Move Into The Light
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pretty groovy Notting Hill Hippie rock stuff.

Stevo

This first album (compilation) is apparently new, but goes back 40 years, so seems to fit:

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Spiritual Jazz 7: Islam
JAZZMAN (CD, LP)

The seventh volume of Jazzman's acclaimed 'Spiritual Jazz' series examines the influence and impact of Islam on four decades of jazz innovation. Featuring sought-after, spiritual contributions from the likes of Yusef Lateef, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Creative Arts Ensemble and more. Essential release!
More Info & Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/spiritual-jazz-7-islam

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Manu Dibango
Ceddo (Bande originale du film)(LP)
AFRICA SEVEN

Now available on vinyl! Killer re-issue of this afro funky jazz soundtrack from 1977 by one of Africa's most respected artists, the Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango!
More Info & Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/manu-dibango-ceddo-bande-originale-du-film

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Din A Testbild
Programm 3 (Reissue)(LP)
MANNEQUIN

Early pioneers of the German New Wave music scene, Din A Testbild were formed in 1978 by Mark Eins and Gudrun Gut (former member of Einstürzende Neubauten, Mania D. and Malaria!). Din A Testbild played a significant role in defining the avant-garde music of Berlin. Legendary is their partecipation at the “Festival Genialer Dilletanten" in 1981.'Programm 3’ is their third album. Mixed and auto-produced by Mark Eins with help of Ziggy Schöning, it was originally released on Klaus Schulze’s record label Innovative Communication in 1983.
More Info & Audio https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/din-a-testbild-programm-3

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Early pioneers of the German New Wave music scene, Din A Testbild were formed in 1978 by Mark Eins and Gudrun Gut (former member of Einstürzende Neubauten, Mania D. and Malaria!). Din A Testbild played a significant role in defining the avant-garde music of Berlin. Legendary is their participation at the “Festival Genialer Dilletanten" in 1981.'Programm 4’ is their fourth album. Mixed and auto-produced by Mark Eins near the Wall in West/Berlin in 1983, the album was rejected at the time by Innovative Communication, considered too much “synth/punk/techno”, while the new label managers were looking more into new age stuff. In fact Schulze eventually sold the label in 1983, which started to release a plethora of acts loosely grouped around the NAM genre.
More Info & Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/programm-4-reissue

Programme 4 is also vinyl-only, at least on soundsoftheuniverse.

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Far Out follow up the long overdue reissue of Jose Mauro's 'Obnoxious" with another gem from the Quartin catalogue - Victor Assis Brasil Plays Jobim.

Unlike Jose Mauro, whose biography is almost completely shrouded in mystery, Victor Assis Brasil’s tragically short life is a better known story. He passed away aged just thirty-five, but by this point his status was already cemented as one of Brazil’s top players. Gifted his first saxophone by his aunt at the age of fourteen, his debut LP was recorded just four years later, alongside some mercurial greats of Brazilian jazz, Tenorio Jr and Edson Lobo. Following the release of his first two albums, Victor was granted a place to study at Berklee College of Music, and it was during this period he recorded toca antonio carlos jobim upon returning to Brazil in the summer of 1970. At a time in Brazil when the smooth n’ easy groove of the bossa beat no longer reflected the inflamed politics of a nation under the cosh of military dictatorship, Victor Assis Brasil morphed Jobim’s soothing originals into raw, deep jazz cuts, with the help of Brazilian legends Edison Lobo, Helio Delmiro and Edison Machado. The album’s influences span both American continents, finding a meeting point for Latin jazz and North American post-bop, with Roberto Quartin’s perfectionist approach to sound elevating the already incandescent music to divine new heights.
More Info & Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/victor-assis-brasil-toca-antonio-carlos-jobim I gotta check that one.

Single of the week!

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Tony Allen & Africa 70
Afro Disco Beat (Disco Afro Reedit Vol.2)(12" vinyl)
COMET

Comet release the second 2nd part of the Tony Allen & Africa 70 'Disco Afro Series' featuring remastered original versions of the dancefloor smash 'Afro Disco Beat' and remixes by Africaine 808 & Mexican Institute of Sound - massive!
More Info & Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/afro-disco-beat-disco-afro-reedit-vol2

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When Young Marble Giants imploded in 1980, founder Stuart Moxham was at something of a loss. He played both guitar and organ in the band, wrote nearly all their material and was largely responsible for their beguilingly original aesthetic sensibility, which - despite their paucity of output - manages to sound as fresh and mysterious as it did when it appeared.

At first, Stuart’s future success seemed assured. He was the first artist to sign a long-term contract with Rough Trade. In the wake of the success of “Colossal Youth,” calls came in from a variety of successful musicians who wished to work with him. The output of Young Marble Giants grew continuously in stature.

The Gist started slowly, with the recording of five songs at the same session which produced the last recordings made under the Young Marble Giants’ name, though tellingly these were instrumentals which did not feature Alison Statton’s bewitching vocals. The Gist’s debut single, “This Is Love” / “Yanks” owed plenty to the wistful nature of Young Marble Giants, with Stuart’s warm baritone complementing the songs, which were originally intended as Young Marble Giants tunes. The single sold well.

Work began on an album, with Stuart recording demos at home and later polishing them up in Cold Storage with the assistance of Phil Legg and a number of post-punk luminaries (among them Swell Maps’ Epic Soundtracks, This Heat’s Charles Bullen, artist Wendy Smith, Viv Goldman . . . not to mention both Alison and Phil from Young Marble Giants.)

Years after its release, Stuart spoke of The Gist’s “Embrace The Herd” album as one in which he felt he had little to say, which is why the album featured a large number of instrumentals and songs with minimal lyrics. “Embrace The Herd” does not grab the listener in the same way as Young Marble Giants’ “Colossal Youth.” While the latter album presented a unique sonic world, “Embrace The Herd” sounds shattered somehow - not so much a lack of anything to say as much as a thousand possibilities, a difficulty in choosing. These days, Stuart contends that he simply wasn’t ready to express what was in his head.

The album sold in disappointing numbers, though today its originality and freshness is readily recognised, with multiple reissues and a greater understanding of its Eno-esque pop songs. The single which preceded the album (and was included on it), “Love It First Sight” has belatedly become a standard of the era, with both a well-loved cover by shoegazers Lush, and a genuine pop smash in France by Etienne Daho, where the lyrics were sung in French in highly-altered form under the name “Paris Le Flore.” It’s frequently used in film soundtracks, including two more this year.

Yet “Love At First Sight” did not trouble the charts. One single, “Fool For A Valentine,” followed. It too stalled. Somehow summoning up a tremendous amount of nerve, Stuart assembled old friends from Cardiff and went into the studio to demo his next release for Rough Trade. The results - included here - point towards a new and fresh direction that would have beautifully bridged the divide between the direct commercial appeal Rough Trade would soon chase and the to-thine-own self-be-true nature which can be found in all of Stuart’s work. Assured and confident, Stuart entered Rough Trade, only to be told that his contract was a “meaningless bit of paper” and that he was, henceforth, dropped from the label. Most of the remaining artists who defined Rough Trade’s early days suffered the same fate, and for Rough Trade is was soon the era of The Smiths and licensing American college acts.

What part the relative market failure of “Embrace The Herd” played into all this is hard to say, but it’s not as if Stuart had lost his touch with the economical and heartfelt pop song. During this period, he had written and recorded dozens and dozens of potential masterpieces which, with few exceptions, went unheard. “Embrace The Herd” would have been a totally different album had Stuart included many of the songs now presented here, on what amounts to the unreleased second album by The Gist, recorded back then but released more than a third of a century later.

“Holding Pattern” will be distributed throughout the world as a 14-track LP or CD. A limited number of early orders through Bandcamp will be available with several bonuses - A SMALL BOOK written and SIGNED by Stuart himself, detailing this period of his history with pictures anecdotes and more, A SET OF FOUR GIST BADGES and half a dozen or so FREE DOWNLOADS of songs not on the album, sent now and again in the coming months. Vinyl buyers will also receive their copy on GREY VINYL, as opposed to the regular black vinyl which will be available elsewhere.

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I just spent $87 (including shipping) on a reissue of Santana's live album Lotus. Here's the story:

- limited edition, Japan-only;
- comes in 7" square packaging with a miniature version of the original giant foldout artwork (the vinyl is actually bigger, fully unfolded, than Hawkwind's Space Ritual, if that gives you any idea);
- remastered (in 4.0 if you've got a multi-channel system) from the original Japanese master tapes from 1973;
- expanded to 3 CDs (it was originally a triple LP, then reissued as a 2CD set);
- includes 35 minutes (seven tracks) of previously unreleased music

I know I buried the lede there a little.

Full track listing of the new version:

Disc 1:
01. Meditation
02. Going Home
03. A-1 Funk
04. Every Step of the Way
05. Black Magic Woman　
06. Gypsy Queen
07. Oye Como Va
08. Japan (previously unreleased)
09. Bambele (previously unreleased)
10. Umm/Uumuu (previously unreleased)　
11. Yours is the Light

Disc 2:
01. Batuca
02. Xibaba
03. Stone Flower
04. Waiting
05. Castillos de Arena, Part 1
06. Free Angela
07. Samba de Sausalito
08. Mantra
09. Kyoto
10. Castillos de Arena, Part 2
11. Light of Life (previously unreleased)
12. Se a Cabo

Disc 3:
01. Samba Pa Ti
02. Mr. Udo
03. The Creator Has a Master Plan (previously unreleased)
04. Savor (previously unreleased)
05.Conga Solo (previously unreleased)
06. Toussaint L'Overture　　　
07. Incident at Neshabur

Lotus was already my favorite Santana album, and one of my favorite albums ever, period. I seriously can't wait to hear this expanded version. Here's where to order one, if you're of a mind. It'll be out April 19.

There's video footage from the same period in Japan I think. Had it a few years ago, think it was Japan anyway. Definitely same era. Not seen it in a while.

That video was around on torrent sites a few years back. Think it was from same visit as the lp recording but not got access to computer right now.

Dang, I want that. That was always the coolest Santana release, kind of the classic rock mirror of Hawkwind's Space Ritual. A friend goes to Japan sometimes and can get stuff cheaper while there, but probably not for a few months.

BTW you can get it here for $69.

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In conjunction with Cirith Ungol's first ever live show on European soil at the Keep It True festival in Lauda-Konigshofen, Germany, Metal Blade Records will release the Ultimate Edition of Cirith Ungol's King Of The Dead album on the weekend of the fest, April 28th! To hear the classic track, "Atom Smasher", please visit: http://metalblade.com/cirithungol - where the King Of The Dead - Ultimate Edition can be pre-ordered in the following formats:
--CD/DVD Digipak
--180g black vinyl
--clear ice blue vinyl (limited to 300 copies - EU exclusive)
--turquoise green/black-marbled vinyl (limited to 200 copies - EU exclusive)
--blood-red vinyl (limited to 200 copies - USA exclusive)
*plus digital options are also available!

The King Of The Dead - Ultimate Edition digipak CD features a full re-mastering by Patrick W. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony, five bonus tracks, expanded packaging and a bonus-DVD! The King Of The Dead - Ultimate Edition LP will be released as part of the Metal Blade Originals series; featuring 400 g spine sleeves, a 12-page booklet and an A1 sized poster, the vinyl was also mastered and fully restored by Patrick W. Engel in January 2017. This version reflects the original sound of the 1st vinyl pressing, released on Enigma in 1984!

King Of The Dead - Ultimate Edition track-listing:
1. Atom Smasher
2. Black Machine
3. Master of the Pit
4. King of the Dead
5. Death of the Sun
6. Finger of Scorn
7. Toccata in D minor
8. Cirith Ungol
9. Last Laugh (Live)*
10. Death of the Sun (alt mix)**
11. Master of the Pit (Live)***
12. King of the Dead (Live)***
13. Cirith Ungol (Live)***
* Live 1984 (bonus Track on original CD)
** alternative version (taken from Metal Massacre I)
*** Live at Frost & Fire Fest II at the Majestic Ventura Theater in Ventura on October 8th, 2016

Bonus-DVD track-listing (Live at The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA on January 19th, 1983):
1. Atom Smasher
2. I'm Alive
3. Black Machine
4. Master of the Pit
5. King of the Dead
6. Death of the Sun
7. Finger of Scorn
8. Cirith Ungol

Max's Kansas City: 1976 & Beyond coming to CD and Vinyl on May 5th via Jungle Records

The original Max's Kansas City 1976 pioneering punk club album, extended with an extra 30 tracks and historical notes

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In 1976 Peter (Crowley) compiled a studio album of acts associated with the club, Max's Kansas City 1976, to help promote the club. It featured the first released recordings of Suicide, The Fast and Warhol-era veteran Wayne County, whose title-track gave a roll-call of many of the famous acts who'd regularly performed there.

Now the original album is reissued as Max's Kansas City 1976 & Beyond, greatly extended to 40 tracks on a double-CD and a selection of 25 tracks on a double-LP. As well as the aforementioned Suicide, Fast and Wayne County, the new extended album features the New York Dolls, the Stillettos, the Offs, the Senders, Philip Rambow, VON LMO, Iggy Pop, Knots, Roland Alphonso, Cherry Vanilla, Nico, Joy Ryder, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers and Sid Vicious amongst many others. It includes many previously unreleased tracks and rarities. Compiled by Peter Crowley, who also contributes notes detailing the history of the album. Writer, musician and Max's scenester Jimi LaLumia provides historical overview sleeve-notes along with biographies of the artists in a 20-page booklet.

Track Listing

Disc 1

• Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys - Max's Kansas City
• The Fast - Boys Will Be Boys
• Harry Toledo - Knots
• Cherry Vanilla and her Staten Island Band - Shake Your Ashes
• Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys - Cream In My Jeans
• The Fast - Wow Pow Bash Crash
• Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys - Flip Your Wig
• John Collins Band - The Man In Me
• Suicide - Rocket USA
• The Fast - Kids Just Wanna Dance
• Philip Rambow - Night Out
• Suicide - Ghost Rider
• New York Dolls - Bad Girl
• The Stilettos - Pink Stilettos
• The Knots - Heartbreaker
• The Senders - 6th Street
• Jimi Lalumia & the Psychotic Frogs - Death To Disco
• The Brats - First Rock Star on the Moon
• The Offs - You Fascinate Me
• The Terrorists - Riis Park
• Roland Alphonso & the Terrorists - Sax Skandal

• Von LMO - This Is Pop Rock
• Fast Floyd & the Famous Firebirds - Frogs Legs
• Cellmates - Everybody Wants
• Science - Twisco
• BMTs - Clothes & Alchohol
• Keiran Liscoe & the Attitude - Hello St. Vincents
• Freddy Frogs - Days On Earth
• Joy Ryder - Johnny Was A Fireman
• Sea Monster - Halloween In Detroit
• Ruby & the Rednecks - Ruby From The Wrong Side of Town
• Joey Kelly Allstars - Amanda
• Philippe Marcade - All Quite Wasted
• Jayne County - Max's Kansas City (reprise)
• Iggy Pop - Rock Action
• Nico - Saeta
• Gang War - These Boots Are Made For Walking
• Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers - M.I.A.
• Sid Vicious & The Idols - Take A Chance

Ha, just now came here to paste that, rat on! Would def like to check the expanded Lotus too.

I'm in the middle of this, which would be a good companion to that comp. It starts out shaky (oh no, yet another half-assed oral history), but when it covers the more obscure nearly forgotten clubs and the forgotten artists better than anything previously.

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For reasons that will become lysergically clear once you’ve heard the samples, Midori Takada's sublime debut album Through The Looking Glass [1983] is widely regarded the holy grail of ‘80s Japanese ambient & minimalist music. Perhaps it’s no wonder that 2nd hand copies are known to trade for over £600, and, therefore this deluxe reissue is welcomed by a whole new generation of listeners tracing this enchanted sound back to source.

Rooted in Midori Takada's fascination with Asian and African percussion traditions, Through The Looking Glass documents the Japanese musician navigating syncretic channels of practice between floating fantasy kingdoms and parallel ambient dimensions whilst guided by a deeply ethereal, oneiric spirit that’s utterly key to the album’s appeal. While it broadly falls under the ambient banner, the results are far too grand and ambitious to be considered sonic wallpaper - they’re more like widescreen tableaus that open out exponentially the deeper in you dive.

The image of a Lady Godiva-like character riding a hare-sheep-horse chimera on the cover symbolises the surreal confluence of ideas and gestures within; a Japanese musician translating Victorian psychedelic fantasies into a language of rippling rhythmelodies and softly pealing harmonics that nod to Pygmy music as much as gamelan traditions, the soundtracks of Cocteau films and precise marimba patter.

The rest, we’ll leave for your dilated discovery. Take it on trust that this is especially spellbinding and sui generis stuff without complete comparison. A dream.

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^ indeed. A beautiful record and very proud of my friend who's behind this reissue as well as a few other great ones (Mariah and Woo).

Intriguing, thanks for the news.

Colourbox: 'Music of the band (1982-1987)' 4AD Store Exclusive LP

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24th March 2017
To coincide with Wolfgang Tillmans' first major exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, Music of the band (1982-1987), a celebration of Colourbox, is available as a limited double LP. An HD audio version is also now available to stream / download via Bower & Wilkins. You can buy the LP edition from the 4AD Store, and the LP is also available from the Tate Modern in London.

The 16 tracks chosen by Wolfgang were originally selected to be played on loop at a conceptual playback listening space at Tillmans’ Berlin gallery, Between Bridges, in 2014, where lyrics and samples were pasted on the walls and where copies of the v23-designed records sat alongside original session ½” and ¼” tape reels, seeking to provide a unique environment for the audience to immerse themselves in the band’s modest but potent legacy. A limited number of CDs featuring those exhibition tracks were made available at this 2014 exhibition.

Both Colourbox and the Playback Room now form part of Tillmans’ exhibition in London (running until June 11th 2017) and this gatefold 2xLP edition of the compilation is now available exclusively through both the Tate shops and via the 4AD online store. This version features a new variation of the Tillmans-designed CD sleeve, a previously unreleased photograph series of his that features his prized Canon Colour Laser Copier, ripped apart and dismantled after a decade of service; “Eighties technology has influenced me a lot. When I won the Turner Prize I bought this copier with the money. Ten years later it was no longer repairable and I made this 'deconstruction' of it." You can find full details of the exhibition at the Tate Modern here.http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/wolfgang-tillmans-2017

Previously speaking of the band, Wolfgang said, "Brothers Martyn and Steven Young together with Ian Robbins, Lorita Grahame and Debian Curry were pioneers of experimental pop music. They created an eclectic sound drawing from reggae and soul influences, beat-box driven hip-hop rhythms, blue-eyed soul, as well as a fusion of far-ranging influences spanning from classic R&B, to dub and industrial. Using montages of analogue magnetic tape pieces and experimenting with tape machines, Colourbox were at the fore-front of sampling, which in its digital form would become ubiquitous in the course of the 1980's. The band worked in a seeming contrast of pure artistic research in the studio and an anti-intellectual stance towards the outside world.”

Between the initial exhibition in Berlin and this, Steven Young has sadly passed away. This release is also being pressed as a tribute to him and to Ian Robbins, who left us in 2014, and the wonderful music they made.

Colourbox - Music of the band (1982-1987)
TADD3443
A1 - Looks Like We’re Shy One Horse / Shoot Out (7:57)
A2 - Sleepwalker (2:16)
A3 - Just Give ‘em Whiskey (4:19)
A4 - Baby I Love You So [7” version] (3:20)

B1 - Edit The Dragon (2:43)
B2 - Hipnition (3:06)
B3 - We Walk Around the Streets (0:24)
B4 - Nation (10:00)

C1 - Justice (4:51)
C2 - Sex Gun (4:08)
C3 - Shotgun (4:50)
C4 - The Moon Is Blue [7” version] (4:34)

D1 - Keep On Pushing (5:18)
D2 - Fast Dump (5:40)
D3 - Arena I (4:22)
D4 - Hot Doggie (2:58)

From Rhino: a real whole bunch of vinyl for Record Store Day, mixed bag incl. musical quality-wise of course, but (get the 7" of Patti Smith's "Piss Factory"/"Hey Joe" even if you have it; a spare can't hoit): http://view.e.wbr.com/?qs=9747d2ac29ae3c05b318849a452b453bd4ae8262ac14a3f675f19827070f0f18105438b121f26c2b2854a368f14c1077856eefb2281f3d880a64effb380eda7d

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Everloving Records announces the US reissue Super Furry Animals’ 1996 debut album, Fuzzy Logic, for Record Store Day 2017!

On Saturday April 22nd, Fuzzy Logic will be available on 180g LP with an additional 35 bonus tracks and on 2xCD. Gruff Rhys says: “The reissue is radically different to the original, some songs have alternative beginnings and endings and people will notice the difference in definition, especially in high resolution digital and the new vinyl cut.”

Despite the Lennon-aping antics of their peers, Wales’s Super Furry Animals were the closest Britpop came to the adventuring spirit of the Beatles. Their indie rock, psychedelic pop, dance, country, glam and space-folk mashup was as pioneering as their aesthetic was madcap … These homecoming gods showed us the old magic.” — The Guardian

The madness and the majesty of Super Furry Animals’ chaotic emergence as an indefinable, thrillingly exciting addition to the innovative margins of mainstream rock and roll is irresistibly encapsulated in the US reissue of their 1996 debut album, Fuzzy Logic for Record Store Day 2017 on Saturday April 22nd via Everloving Records. From the two-decade deep well of their adventurous catalogue come B-sides, a legendary festival performance and demo versions from low-key 1995 recording sessions, revealing the genesis and winding roads taken by many of their early hits.

Super Furry Animals are comprised of Huw Bunford (Guitar/Vocals), Cian Ciaran (Keyboards/Effects/Vocals), Dafydd Ieuan (Drums/Vocals), Guto Pryce (Bass) and Gruff Rhys (Vocals/Guitar). This is the original lineup that burst onto the music scene in 1995 with the release of their first EP Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (In Space). They were quickly recognized as being amongst the most interesting and inventive bands of the ‘90s British music boom and a string of lauded albums. Renowned for an energetic and exhilarating live show, the band has become synonymous with their native Wales and are considered a bona fide national treasure.

The significance of the reissue and the forensic remastering process was heightened as the band learned of the tapes’ near destruction in a storage fire sometime between the original Rockfield Studio sessions in late 1995 and their retrieval in 2016. Official Furries Archivist and Co-Compiler, Kliph Scurlock dusted off the smoke-tinged reels and led a fingertip search for each and every track, working with Mastering Engineer, Donal Whelan to unpeel layers of primitive, mid-nineties digitization, correct subtly corrupt edits and expose the warmth and ingenuity of the original, analogue recordings in superior, high resolution.

Gruff Rhys says: “The reissue is radically different to the original, some songs have alternative beginnings and endings and people will notice the difference in definition, especially in high resolution digital and the new vinyl cut. 1995/6 was an overwhelming whirlwind of touring, gimmickry and mayhem for us so it’s been a real treat to take some time to relive and reassess all these songs and compile everything that we recorded in that short, magical period in one place. In the unfamiliar environment of a big studio, Fuzzy Logic didn’t end up sounding anything like what we’d had in our heads for those years of songwriting building up to it, but it does have that undefinable vigor and energy of youth which isn’t included in the price of hiring a multitrack studio.”

Super Furry Animals spent six weeks in Rockfield Studios, South Wales completing the album, which was then released on Creation Records in May of 1996, climbing to 23 in the UK charts. The productivity of the time is evident in a separate collection of eight rock-solid b- sides, including the boisterous, fan favorite, Guacamole, creating parallels with bands such as The Beatles, The Smiths and The Jam, all renowned for the songs on the flipside being of the same, unquestionable quality as the lead.

Super Furry Animals
Fuzzy Logic
April 22, 2017
Everloving Records – EVE055 – 180g LP & 2XCD

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Game Theory - Two Steps From The Middle Ages
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Following up 1987’s Lolita Nation (whose reissue appeared on numerous year-end “best of” lists for 2016) would be no easy task for Game Theory. But, Scott Miller and company were certainly up for the task. Re-teaming with producer Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Marshall Crenshaw, Velvet Crush), 2 Steps From The Middle Ages was released in 1988, and showed the band had no shortage of energy, experimentation, and excellent material.

This reissue contains the original 13 songs supplemented with a whopping 11 bonus tracks—demos, live performances and covers—all previously unissued. The translucent orange, first pressing of the LP (on vinyl for the first time since its initial release), contains a download card for the entire CD/Digital program.

Packaging includes rare and previously unseen photos from the band’s photographer, Robert Toren, as well as essays from Easter, Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, Big Star), and Franklin Bruno (The Village Voice, Salon.com). The band’s drummer, Gil Ray, who was involved in all aspects with the Game Theory reissue series including this title, sadly passed away earlier this year. This reissue is lovingly dedicated to him.

As the first track says, there’s “room for one more, honey.” That 1 more is 2 Steps From The Middle Ages.

Can - The Singles
Released 16th June 2017

Pre-order now:
Buy: http://smarturl.it/CanTheSinglesBuy
Stream: http://smarturl.it/CanTheSinglesStream

This unique document is the first time the singles have been presented together and shows the breadth of their influential career, from well loved tracks like Halleluwah, Vitamin C and I Want More to more obscure singles such as Silent Night and Turtles Have Short Legs.
The tracks are all presented in their original single version, many of which have been unavailable for many years and not presented outside of the original 7" release.

The triple vinyl comes packaged in a trifold sleeve, decorated with a beautiful spot gloss lamination, and is designed by the award winning Julian House from Intro, a long time design collaborator of Can's.

CAN - THE SINGLES - TRACKLISTING:
Soul Desert
She Brings The Rain
Spoon
Shikako Maru Ten
Turtles Have Short Legs
Halleluwah (Edit)
Vitamin C
I’m So Green
Mushroom
Moonshake
Future Days (Edit)
Dizzy Dizzy (Edit)
Splash (Edit)
Hunters And Collectors (Edit)
Vernal Equinox (Edit)
I Want More
...And More
Silent Night
Cascade Waltz
Don’t Say No (Edit)
Return
Can Can
Hoolah Hoolah (Edit)

streams and more info at the Smog Veil site:

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Smog Veil has a small limited number of the Brad Warner (0DFX, Dimentia 13) directed documentary film double DVD set, "Cleveland's Screaming!" Our friends at Red Hour Records produced this release and also licensed to us The Guns double LP.

"Cleveland's Screaming!" is a documentary film about the hardcore punk rock scene in northeast Ohio in the era of Reaganomics (1981-1984). A new breed of punk rock music came about named hardcore, which led to kids forming bands and building scenes around the country, networking a community of people from all over the world. This film shows the beginnings of NEO hardcore punk's scene to its demise a few years later, as told first hand by the people and bands that were there, including interviews, rare concert footage, photos and fliers, never before seen until now. Even yours truly, Frank Smog Veil, makes an appearance in the film!!

DVD 1 - Full Length Documentary
DVD 2 - Special Bonus DVD with rare 80s concert footage, interviews and other extras

Our double LP retrospective of Cleveland's greatest hardcore band, The Guns, went out of print nearly immediately after release in 2012. We constantly get questions about it, and now we're happy to report that a repress is on the way.

For the uninitiated, hands down the top-end standard by which all other Cleveland hardcore bands should be measured, Cleveland hardcore history could not have been the same without The Guns. Scott Eakin and Dave Araca formed the band originally as a 2-piece, later adding to the lineup some amazing rippers in the form of Sean Saley, Bob Ries, and Scott Silverman. Though a couple compilation appearances is all they managed back in the day, this release collects those tracks plus all other studio recordings, as well as some choice live cuts. The LP also features Vince Rancid's original cover art as commissioned by the band in the 80s and informative liners penned by Scott's brother, Tom Dark, and Sean Saley.

"The Guns is a fitting tribute to an excellent band." --Hunter Bennett/Ugly Things #34

"This is a definite must-have for any old-school hardcore punk..." --Janelle Jones/AMP#111

The numbers: double LP with free download code, 43 songs, 2nd press limited to 500 copies, black and red marble vinyl.

Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 update Masters for the 3rd entry in series 2 are being assembled now at SUMA Studios in Painesville, Ohio. Parts for Allen Ravenstine's "Terminal Drive" studio album from 1975 are off to the pressing g plant within the week. The same can be said for the super secret 3rd entry, a double LP retrospective of Cleveland's groundbreaking electronic improv troupe that existed in 1972 and 1973. This release will include both studio and live tracks and extensive liners and photos. The whole series can be ordered by clicking the links below.

Praise for the first of our Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 releases: the legendary and never before released 1967 studio demo from Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade "Sunday Morning Revival":

"...destined to bring a smile to the face of Butterfield and Musselwhite fans far and wide while deepening the already rich history of its municipality..." --Joseph Neff/The Vinyl District

"...the band winds you up and leaves you begging for more". --Elmore Magazine

"As I grew to love the blues, I wanted to try to see if we could come up with something worthy of recording, and the only way to do that was to actually try it."
- Jimmy Fox (James Gang/Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade)

Though once believed to have been lost or to only exist in theory, the lone 1967 studio demo recording by The Schwartz-Fox Blues Crusade featuring Mr. Stress - consisting of Cleveland legends and then members of the James Gang and Mr Stress Blues Band, Glenn Schwartz (guitar/vocals), Jimmy Fox (drums) Bill "Mr. Stress" Miller (vocals/harmonica), Tom Kriss (bass), Rich Kriss (guitar/vocals), and Mike Sands (piano) - is finally being released for music fans to savor and enjoy.

9 studio tracks of pure post-teen garage rock blues are accompanied by extensive liners and and never before published photos. The LP features colored vinyl, a free download code, and is limited to 1500 copies. Both the CD and the LP contains extensive liner notes penned by Nick Blakey and never before published photos.

Want to order the entire series 2 at a discount? Here's the details:

The three releases comprising Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 are: (1) Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade: "Sunday Morning Revival" (1967); (2) Allen Ravenstine: "Terminal Drive" (1975) (spring 2017 release); and (3) a soon to be announced double LP release of studio and live recordings from the first and most influential improvisational electronic outfit that called Cleveland home (1972-1973 recordings). All the releases will be formatted on vinyl as well as CD and download/streaming. A hallmark of the series will be that each release contains extensive liner notes, all carefully crafted and researched.

Praise for our recent Platters du Cuyahoga Series 1 releases:

ROBERT BENSICK BAND "French Pictures In London" LP/CD/digital:

"...deepens the already labyrinthine rewards of its region and rescues its namesake from footnote status." --Joseph Neff/The Vinyl District

MR. STRESS BLUES BAND "Live At The Brick Cottage 1972-1973" LP/CD/digital:

"At the risk of mythologizing a past I wasn't there for, Live at the Brick Cottage captures a particular scene and time, and Nick Blakey's extensive liner notes help to contextualize it. But it's not just a valuable time capsule, it's more important as a fun listen." --Justin Cober-Lake/
Dusted

X_X "Albert Ayler's Ghosts Live At The Yellow Ghetto" LP/CD/digital:

"I love how it starts off in chaos before it coalesces toward the end." --Ron Kretsch/Dangerous Minds

Pere Ubu and Rocket From The Tombs have announced a series of special gigs. Note that Cheetah Chrome will make a special appearance with Rocket From The Tombs at the Austin gig. Here's the dates:

May 11: Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland (Rocket From The Tombs)
May 13: Ace Of Cups, Columbus (Rocket From The Tombs)
May 19: Beerland, Austin (Rocket From The Tombs)
May 20: Beerland, Austin (Pere Ubu)
Aug 24: London, The Lexington (Pere Ubu Moon Unit)
Aug 28: Prague, Palace Akropolis (Pere Ubu Moon Unit)
Aug 29: Dresden, Jazzclub Tonne (Pere Ubu Moon Unit)

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JETHRO TULL - SONGS FROM THE WOOD

40th Anniversary Edition Featuring Mixes By Steven Wilson

3CD/2 DVD Set With Rare Live Records And Footage Available On May 19

Vinyl, Digital, And Standalone CD Versions Will Follow In July

Contents, many other details here:
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Numerophiles-

It’s that time of the year again. Wait, that’s exactly how we started this off last year. We’ve run out of ideas, folks. From here on out it’s going to be one rehash after another, as we trot out both tired tropes and borderline product in a vein attempt at maintaining RSD cred. We’ve tried to do interesting things in the past, be it WTNG or Los Alamos Grind! Our hope was that the average RSD chud-thumber might need a break from flipping past 311 triple 11” box sets, Feldman & Haim rap 12”s, and Mac Demarco reading fan tweets EPs. But it turns out that most people just want the same reheated garbage every year. You’ve been burned before with long lines and punishing prices, and if we get our way it’ll be more of the same, with hopefully longer lines and even higher prices. Who are we to argue with your terrible life choices?

But this is Numero, after all, and if we’re going to go big, we’re going to do it in a way that surely frustrates record buyers. In the past when we trotted out Hüsker Dü and Dinosaur Jr. sets, we pressed them in quantities that insured against the flipper economy. We wanted to make enough so that average fans who didn’t set up tents on the street the night before RSD would have a chance to buy our wares at an affordable price. Not this year. This year we’re pressing just enough copies to make you wonder if we actually pressed anything at all. The only way you’ll know for sure is if you come to one of our pop up stores (details below), pop a tent, or get a bowl of Pop Secret in your lap for the long, dark night of eBay refreshing for the soul.
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Telefon Tel Aviv's Map of What is Effortless reissued digitally today & original pressing vinyl available via Ghostly
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STREAM: Map of What is Effortless -
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By 2004, New Orleans friends Joshua Eustis and the late Charles Cooper had fixed their flag in the landscape of the American electronic underground as Telefon Tel Aviv. The duo’s acclaimed 2001 debut Fahrenheit Fair Enough, released by John Hughes III’s Chicago-based Hefty imprint, offered a deep Southern sweep on glitchy IDM and pastoral post-rock, drawing as much from bounce rap, R&B, and jazz as it did Autechre and Aphex Twin. The follow-up, Map of What Is Effortless, managed to both expand and refine the sound. Signature polyrhythmic programming met new vocal presences on seven of the nine tracks. The Loyola University Chamber Orchestra contribute to the title track; a sumptuous centerpiece exemplifying Telefon Tel Aviv’s craft for wordless, cinematic storytelling.

Ghostly International, having reissued Fahrenheit Fair Enough at its 15th anniversary in 2016, will update Map of What Is Effortless on April 14th. The digital release, noticeably absent in most streaming libraries until now, features three bonus tracks: “Jouzu Desu Ne,” “Sound In A Dark Room,” and a remix of the latter by legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Also, there is a modest amount of original vinyl pressings from 2004 available for purchase at The Ghostly Store. Hefty Records were kind enough to help us source an unsold batch of the original pressing (long since unavailable). Stored for over a decade, the LPs have some character.

Track List:
01. When It Happens, It Moves All By Itself
02. I Lied
03. My Week Beats Your Year
04. Bubble And Spike
05. Map Of What Is Effortless
06. Nothing Is Worth Losing That
07. What It Is Without The Hand That Wields It
08. What It Was Will Never Again
09. At The Edge Of The World You Will Still Float
10. Jouzu Desu Ne (Digital Bonus)
11. Sound In A Dark Room (Digital Bonus)
12. Sound In A Dark Room (Ryuichi Sakamoto Remix) [Digital Bonus]
TOUR DATES:

Sad Lovers And Giants - Where The Light Shines Through – 1981-2017: 5CD Box Set Apr 28
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Formed in 1980, Watford band Sad Lovers & Giants carved a unique furrow through the 1980s independent music scene, creating music which was haunting, atmospheric, melodic and evocative and which somehow straddled post-punk, synth pop, psychedelia and indie.

Compiled, designed and curated by the band, WHERE THE LIGHT SHINES THROUGH is the first comprehensive anthology of the band’s recordings.

After singles on their own Last Movement label, they signed to Midnight Music, issuing two albums – Epic Garden Music (1982) and Feeding The Flame (1983) – before splitting. This period also witnessed a John Peel session and a live concert for Dutch Radio Hilversum (subsequently issued as Total Sound in 1986). All of these recordings appear here.

Sad Lovers & Giants returned with a revitalised line-up in 1987 – still fronted by ever- present vocalist Garce (Simon) Allard. New albums followed – The Mirror Test (1987), Headland (1990) and Treehouse Poetry (1991) – as the band found new audiences in the Netherlands, Spain and France.

When Midnight Music dissolved, so too did the band. But Sad Lovers & Giants reunited in the noughties, playing to loyal fans and recording a new album, Melting In The Fullness Of Time. Since then, Sad Lovers & Giants have stayed active, culminating in a short tour of North America in spring 2016, during which they were invited to showcase at the prestigious SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.

WHERE THE LIGHT SHINES THROUGH spans the band’s entire career, with every recording of note, sleeve-notes by Garce and design by ex-member Simon Blanchard.

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Studio One Hi Fi Special
Ltd. Edition Collectors Edition 7" Record Store Day Box Set
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

Studio One Hi-Fi Special super-limited Record Store Day 5x7" Box Set special!

This record is only available direct from independent record stores on Record Store Day Sat 22nd April. So you need to get on down to one to ensure you get a copy!
This is the second of three Soul Jazz Records RSD Specials! - you will receive info on the third one tomorrow!

Unique Soul Jazz Records’ Record Store Day seven-inch box set comprising five separate singles featuring ten killer rare collectors tracks from Studio One Records, featuring Ska, Roots, Rocksteady, Dub.

Seminal, rare and classic tunes! These singles have only ever ever been available exclusively direct from Soul Jazz Records' Soho shop in London and are available worldwide only for this collectors box set RSD special release.

This unique box-set edition is only available as a one-off pressing especially for Record Store Day 2017.

Release Date
22 April 2017
5×7" Boxset
Cat. No.: SJR 377 BOX
Barcode: 5026328003771
Tracklisting
1 Joseph Hill – Behold The Land
2 Tommy McCool & The Skatalites – Full Dread
3 Roland Alphonso – Drums Of Fue Man Tru
4 Tommy McCook and The New Establishment – Blues For I
5 The Traps – Higher
6 The Traps – Higher Version
7 Larry Marshall – I've Got To Make It
8 The Skatalites – Coconut Rock
9 The Magnificent Seven – Jack Johnson
10 Dobby Dobson – Seems To Me I'm Losing You
More Info & Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/press/kqg1uy7mjm7y

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Nigeria Soul Power 70
Record Store Day 7" Box Set
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

Nigeria Soul Power 70 super-limited Record Store Day 5x7" Box Set special!

This record is only available direct from independent record stores on Record Store Day Sat 22nd April. So you need to get on down to one to ensure you get a copy!
This is one of three Soul Jazz Records RSD Specials! - you will receive info on the next one tomorrow!

Soul Jazz Records’ Record Store Exclusive Limited-Edition Soul 7” Box Set comprising five heavyweight 70s Afro-Funk, Afro-Disco & Afro-Rock seven-inch singles all with unique bespoke label artwork and all digitally re-mastered. Seriously rare, killer and classic Nigerian 70s Afro-Funk, Afro-Disco & Afro-Rock tunes bought together here in this unique one-off Record Store Day box-set edition.

Release Date
22 April 2017
5×7" Boxset
Cat. No.: SJR 379 BOX
Barcode: 5026328003795
Tracklisting
1 Geraldo Pino – Heavy, Heavy, Heavy
2 Geraldo Pino – Africans Must Unite
3 Wings – We'll Get Home
4 Wings – Single Boy
5 Tony Grey and The Ozimba Messengers – You Are The One
6 Don Bruce and The Angels – Sugar Baby
7 Geraldo Pino – Shake Hands
8 Geraldo Pino – Power To The People
9 MFB – Beware
10 Colomach – Kassa Kpa Sama Kpa
More Info & Audio:
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Soul 70
Record Store Day 7" Box Set
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

Soul 70 super-limited edition collectors Record Store Day 5x7" Box Set special!

This record is only available direct from independent record stores on Record Store Day Sat 22nd April. So you need to get on down to one to ensure you get a copy!
This is the third of three Soul Jazz Records RSD Specials!

Soul Jazz Records’ Record Store Exclusive Limited-Edition Soul 7” Box Set comprising five fantastic 70s soul seven-inch singles reproduced here in exact replica bespoke label artwork and all digitally re-mastered. Previously only available individually and direct from Soul Jazz Records website. Seriously rare, killer and classic soul tunes brought together here in this unique one-off pressing Record Store Day box-set edition.

Release Date
22 April 2017
5×7" Boxset
Cat. No.: SJR 378 BOX
Barcode: 5026328003788
Tracklisting
1 Arnold Blair – Trying To Get Next To You
2 Arnold Blair – I Won The Big Deal
3 Brief Encounter – Total Satisfaction
4 Brief Encounter – Human
5 Johnny Adams – Feel The Beat, Feel The Heat
6 Johnny Adams – Spanish Harlem
7 Norma Jean – I've Taken Over
8 Norma Jean – Raising Hell
9 Richard Brown – Sweet and Kind
10 Richard Brown – Don't Listen To The Grapevine
More Info & Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/press/hdtawbsgmrbh

The track listing for the deluxe reissue of Prince's Purple Rain has leaked; it's a 3CD set that may also contain a DVD/Blu-Ray, since it's supposed to include two concert films as well. Street date is supposedly June 9.

JOHN COLTRANE

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Rhino's New Compilation Spotlighting Coltrane's Atlantic Years Will Be Released
On June 9
The Acclaimed Documentary Chasing Trane In Theaters Now

Five Individual Releases Of The Pioneering Saxophonist's Mono Albums For Atlantic
Records Out June 16

LOS ANGELES - John Coltrane will take the spotlight this year when John Scheinfeld's highly anticipated Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary begins its theatrical run on April 14. Shortly after, Rhino will focus on the revolutionary music the "heavyweight champion" of jazz recorded for Atlantic Records with a series of releases.

It all begins on June 9 with the arrival of a new anthology that includes nine tracks selected from recordings the saxophonist made for Atlantic Records between 1959 and 1961. TRANE: THE ATLANTIC COLLECTION will be available on LP ($19.98), CD ($14.98) and digitally.

The compilation will be followed by mono reissues for five Coltrane studio albums: Giant Steps, Olé Coltrane, Coltrane Plays The Blues, Bags & Trane and The Avant-Garde. Each will be available on 180 gram LP ($21.98), and digitally on June 16, with the mono CD of the classic Giant Steps ($11.98) coming July 7. These albums were recently issued together as part of Rhino's boxed set John Coltrane: The Atlantic Years In Mono. The set received critical acclaim in 2016 including five stars from Downbeat which noted, "With no alternate takes and presented verbatim and presented as the albums were originally issued song-by-song, there is certainly a warmth, clarity and a sense of wholeness that can give new fans a fresh way to listen to Coltrane."

The mono albums and new compilation cover the time when Coltrane - after playing on Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue - was moving away from the life of a sideman and embracing the role of bandleader. The music he recorded at Atlantic features some of his finest work, including the wise blues of "Equinox," a bright, swinging version of "My Shining Hour," the exuberant "Giant Steps," and the hit single "My Favorite Things."

In the liner notes that accompany TRANE: THE ATLANTIC COLLECTION, author and noted jazz critic Ben Ratliff writes: "You can listen through this 46-minute collection of romantic or purposeful or slightly mysterious music...and get it clearly: the sense of a strikingly original sound and intelligence."

Coltrane is poised to reach a new audience this year thanks to Chasing Trane. Written and directed by critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker John Scheinfeld, it is the definitive documentary film about an outside-the-box thinker with extraordinary talent whose boundary-shattering music continues to impact and influence people around the world. Some the film's notable appearances include Bill Clinton, Sonny Rollins, and Common, with Coltrane's own words spoken by Denzel Washington. Following its theatrical launch in New York, the film will be shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, with additional cities planned.

TRANE: THE ATLANTIC COLLECTION
Track Listing

1. "My Favorite Things" (Part I) - Single Version
2. "Like Sonny"
3. "Cousin Mary"
4. "Giant Steps"
5. "Central Park West"
6. "Equinox"
7. "Naima"
8. "My Shining Hour"
9. "Mr. Syms"

I just bought the deluxe double edition of X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents, which apparently was reissued in 2009. It's one of my alltime favorite albums, how did I not know about this? I checked and it wasn't mentioned in the rolling 2009 thread. Anyone know of deluxe reissue plans for Lust For Life/The Idiot, Low/Heroes, Blank Generation or New York Dolls, pipe up!

Trying to decide whether it's worth it to buy the Coltrane mono CD box set. Leaning towards no.

Oh yeah, guess I should put this here too (just now on Rolling Jazz)--note forthcoming reissue and single (check Luaka Bop to order):

Alice Coltrane Tribute show on May 21st!
RBMA Festival New York: As you may have heard, we are working very hard on a large celebration of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. This year marks the 80th year since she was born, and the tenth year after she passed to another place. We just announced a large tribute concert and ceremony in her honor, which will take place In New York at the stunning performance and arts space called The Knockdown Center, as part of Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York. The first part of the show (that we are involved with) is inspired by the Sunday ceremonies Alice held at her Sai Anantam Ashram in California. Timed to coincide with sundown, the powerful, spiritual music will be performed by an ensemble led by music director Surya Botofasina, who grew up at the Ashram. The latter half will be a concert led by her son, Ravi Coltrane, featuring an all-star band playing music from throughout Alice's career. Tickets are available here.

A few weeks prior to that, we will be releasing the compilation of her spiritual music, which we told you about last time. Titled World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, it features a lot of beautiful artwork, photos and essays. You can pre-order it here.

Ps. if you have read this far, you may also find it interesting to learn that we have a handful of the very limited Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda 7"s we made for the "Come Together" Record Fair last weekend. If you would like to order one, you can do so here.

I just bought the deluxe double edition of X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents, which apparently was reissued in 2009. It's one of my alltime favorite albums, how did I not know about this? I checked and it wasn't mentioned in the rolling 2009 thread. Anyone know of deluxe reissue plans for Lust For Life/The Idiot, Low/Heroes, Blank Generation or New York Dolls, pipe up!

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I have that XRay Spex double cos it turned up in HMV when they were having the closing sale. Had the previous cd so hadn't picked it up previously.

Would love an update on the 2 late 70s Iggy lps. But not sure there's even a remaster around though have seen that there is a 2 fer iof the 2 lps on cd from 2011. Thought there may be another version around. THink the 2011 thing is just a repackaging of the previous cds which I think may be late 80s.

I thought that people were slowly working through the Bowie lps and making them doubles with a loto f bonus, but that was possibly on the basis of Ziggy Stardust coming out followed by at least Aladdin Sane and that might be 15 odd years back.
Is there likely to be a Berlin era thing like the recent set that covered the build up to Young Ameriocans and Station to Station. Who Can I be Now?

I think Blank Generation was done as a single cd with some bonus tracks an age ago and that there have been some other anthologies mopping up various bits of Richard Hell's history.

Only thing I know about NY Dolls semi rarities is a llive box set from sometime around that era, Sanctuary 2008. But I think t hat covers some later stuff too by ex members.

The long-deleted Ryko Bowie CDs' bonus tracks are listed and described here: http://bowiesongs.tumblr.com/post/29565725664/a-bowie-rykodiscography

Yeah I got the deluxe sets of everything up to Station To Station, which was in 2010. Then they stopped.

What's Rhino's reputation these days?

Rhino's Wilson Pickett set was really nice. I've been debating whether it's worth getting the Sabbath Paranoid Super Deluxe set, I might pick it up used. They did Otis' Dictionary of Soul in October, and Led Zep's 3 disc BBC Sessions reissue was cool. Stevie Nicks and later Fleetwood Mac deluxes. Everything is tip top quality that I can tell. But they also do a lot of vinyl only reissues which I have no interest in. It's just a matter of time 'til they revive 8-tracks (I think I saw a glimmer of that), then 78s and wax cylinders.

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Happy Record Store Day!
Vic Chesnutt's West of Rome now available for the first time on vinyl
New West Records is proud to present Vic Chesnutt’s second studio album, West Of Rome. Meticulously remastered and pressed on vinyl for the very first time, West Of Rome is widely regarded by fans and hailed by critics as Chesnutt’s best record. Produced by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, this vinyl pressing features an alternate tracklisting curated by Vic and Stipe in which “Latent/ Blatant” no longer kicks off the album and is moved to the bonus tracks. In addition, the closing instrumental which was “hidden” in the original release is now titled “Little Fugue” and has been resequenced as the fourteenth track. West Of Rome’s two studio outtakes, “Nathan” and “Where’s The Clock,” appear in the bonus tracks. Also included are four-track demos and live versions of songs from the same time period. This pressing is West Of Rome as it was meant to be.

You can pick up a copy of West of Rome at your favorite independent record store, exclusive for Record Store Day.

Also Available:
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Drunk
“On his third and maybe most conceptually complete album, Vic Chesnutt emerges as that rare kind of artist who can see right into the living room of small-town America. Drunk is an example of how he can turn seemingly self-absorbed songs into something strangely universal. In the end, it is probably that ability which makes his genius the most readily apparent.”
– All Music

Little
“Little served notice of Chesnutt’s singular gift for finding deep truths in the commonplace, and unfurled his affectionate embrace of the sad and funny foibles that comprise the bulk of our lives.”
– No Depression

“The most elemental of any of Chesnutt’s albums.”
– Pitchfork

Coming Soon

Silver Lake
“Chesnutt’s stories always strike an honest and recognizable emotional chord, no matter how oddball the situations that surround them.”
– All Music

“Vic Chesnutt might never be famous, but his songs touch on inner truths that lurk around us. They strike something deep inside their listeners’ beings.”
– Pop Matters

Ghetto Bells
“These songs are ultimately and admirably patient and fluid, building not to grandiloquent climaxes but to a greater and greater complexity of meaning.”
– Pitchfork

“The songs are all-encompassing. They sweep you up. They really get to you.”
– Washington Post

Pre-order Now

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PAUL COLLINS' BEAT TO RELEASE LONG TIME GONE / TO BEAT OR NOT TO BEAT ALBUM APRIL 28TH VIA LOLIPOP RECORDS!

THIS MARKS THE FIRST TIME THESE TWO LONG LOST EPS WILL BE RE-ISSUED ON ALL FORMATS (VINYL, CD, CASSETTE & DIGITAL)

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE PREVIEW OF PAUL COLLINS' TRACK "ALWAYS GOT YOU ON MY MIND" https://soundcloud.com/lolipoprecords/always-got-you-on-my-mind

THE KING OF POWER-POP KICKS-OFF SOLO EUROPEAN TOUR MAY 6TH IN FRANCE!
Paul Collins' (from The Nerves, The Breakaways) two long lost EPs with his band The Beat from the early '80s make it to Lolipop Records as the first re-issue on all formats in over 30 years, from the "king of power pop" himself. To Beat Or Not To Beat was recorded in New York in 1983 at The Ranch with John Mathias (The Romantics) and Paul Collins/Steven Huff producing. It was released in the U.S. by Jem/Passport Records and then it was later released in Europe on Closer Records France and Dro Records Spain. The single "All Over The World" was featured regularly on KROQ in Los Angeles and got a lot of airplay in France and in Spain. Steve and Paul toured in Europe off that record for several years until they wound up in London where they recorded their follow-up EP Long Time Gone, just before returning to the States. Long Time Gone was released in 1985 on Closer France and Dro Spain, and both records were released as a two-fer on Wounded Bird Records in 2004. Paul recalls those days fondly, “I remember getting an $800 royalty check for 'All Over The World' when I was living in San Francisco so I went out and bought a used green Datsun B210! I would always hum 'All Over The World' as I drove up and down all those hills in SF!"

Paul Collins' Beat's Long Time Gone / To Beat Or Not To Beat will be released on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats April 28th via Lolipop Records (distributed by Cobraside Distribution).
LONG TIME GONE / TO BEAT OR NOT TO BEAT TRACK LISTING:
Broken Hearted
Long Time Gone
Working On A Good Thing
Find Somebody Else
Standing In The Rain
Good Times
All Over The World
Dance Dance
Making You Mine
Burning Desire
Give Me The Drugs
Always Got You On My Mind
PAUL COLLINS 2017 TOUR DATES

FRANCE
5/6 Clermont-Ferrand @ Bombshell
5/7 Marseille @ Le Jam
5/8 Toulouse @ Dispensary
5/10 Rouen @ 3 Pieces
5/11 Vannes @ Jam Session
5/12 Paris @ La Mecanique-Ondulatoire

ENGLAND
5/13 London @ The Finsbury
5/14 Adam Smith's Black Wax Radio Live Show

BELGIUM
5/16 Kortrijk @ Den Trap

NETHERLANDS
5/17 Rotterdam @ V11
5/18 Haarlem (Amsterdam) @ Patronaat

GERMANY
5/19 Düsseldorf @ The Tube
5/20 Berlin @ Cortina Bob
5/21 Hamburg @ Monkeys Music Club

SWEDEN
5/23 Malmo @ Folk & Rock
5/24 Gothenburg @ Liseberg Amusement Park Power Pop Festival
5/25 Eskilstuna @ Ölkultur
5/26 Karlskoga @ Rockbar
5/27 Stockholm @ Pet Sounds record shop show!

SPAIN
5/30 Madrid @ Fun House
5/31 Burgos @ Matarile
6/1 Leon @ Chelsea Bar
6/2 Zarragoza @ Teatro Arbolé
6/8 Barcelona @ A Wamba Buluba
6/22 Elche @ Hotel Galicia
6/24 Fuengirola @ Fuengirola Pop Weekend with The Beach Boys

PORTUGAL
6/28 Algarve, TBC
6/29 Lisbon @ Popular Alvalade

FRANCE
7/21 Tourville-Sur-Mer "Le Sable, Les Mouettes et Les Guitares Electriques" Festival

FOR MORE INFO ON PAUL COLLINS:
http://www.thepaulcollinsbeat.com
https://www.facebook.com/Paul-Collins-Beat-46392812761

Diggin' deep---don't think they had the best rep album-wise, but maybe better live?

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Plasmatics - Live! Rod Swenson's Lost Tapes 1978-81
coming to DVD and VOD on May 19th

The rare Wendy O. Williams / Plasmatics live footage in this DVD has, in the main, never been released before.

During the early years Plasmatics creator Rod Swenson, who directed and shot all the Wendy O. / Plasmatics conceptual videos (AKA known for his footage of the Ramones, Dead Boys, Blondie, and Motorhead among others) shot numerous Plasmatics shows the footage from which was never edited or released. Except for some short excerpts most of it until the discovery of this footage was thought to be lost or degraded (shot on tape which has been shown as with audio tape to degrade over time).

Recently during the moving of WOW / Plasmatics archive material the footage here was found unlabeled in buried boxes. While much had degraded producer / director Randy Shooter was able to discover, relabel, and with additional editing and restoration, salvage the rare and remarkable footage in this DVD. A lot of it is raw (and much of the audio is the audio from ambient video deck mics, noise and all) but the energy and power is there straight through.

The material includes two tracks from CBGBs the first of which was among the first Plasmatics shows ever as well as other footage from benchmark shows. A bonus track (Monkey Suit) features footage shot by Swenson when he was shooting the iconic album cover for "New Hope for the Wretched," but never released.

Complete details, hi-res cover art, specs, etc can be found HERE
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Track Listing:
Want You (Baby) (July 26, 1978
Tight Black Pants (June 9, 1979)
Dream Lover (May 17, 1980)
Sometimes I Feel It (May 17, 1980)
Squirm (May 17, 1980)
Butcher Baby (May 17, 1980)
Living Dead (May 15, 1981)
Summer Night (May 15, 1981)
Fast Food Service (May 15, 1981)
Nothing (June 19, 1981)
Summer Night (June 19, 1981)
Sex Junkie (September 22, 1981)
Squirm (September 22, 1981)
Lunacy (September 22, 1981)
Black Leather Monster (September 22, 1981)
Monkey Suit (June 18, 1980)

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Speaking of Motorhead, think Wendy O. did at least a single with them, or a track meant for one.

Yeah, they duetted on "Stand By Your Man."

Just got deluxe 2CD reissues of Uriah Heep's Look At Yourself, Demons and Wizards, and The Magician's Birthday in the mail. Remastered, with the second disc of each a shit-ton of supposedly previously unreleased alternate versions (not sure about that; the Castle remasters from the early 2000s had a ton of alternates, too, and realistically, how many could there actually be?). I'm waiting for the publicist to send me the 2CD versions of Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble and Salisbury and then I'm gonna write a whole big thing about Uriah Heep for Burning Ambulance.

See Smog Veil site for more info, incl. orders:

Smog Veil Records is pleased to announce that the 2nd entry in our Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 releases, Allen Ravenstine's electronic sonata, "Terminal Drive" is now available for pre-order.

Terminal Drive is studio recording of a mythical piece of electro-acoustic music composed and performed in 1975 by Allen Ravenstine with assistance from Albert Dennis on string bass. Terminal Drive's significance in terms of Cleveland underground music cannot be understated and has been cited as partially responsible for Ravenstine's invitation to co-form the musical unit Pere Ubu in September 1975. Ravenstine gained recognition for his unusual and inventive synthesizer work in Pere Ubu, which he would also contribute to other groups such as Red Crayola and David Thomas & The Wooden Birds as well as his solo work.

Despite Terminal Drive's legendary status, it is a piece very few have heard in its complete state. Terminal Drive has never been officially released in its entirety and no complete recording of the piece could be located for many years. There have also been numerous inconsistencies as to what Terminal Drive's origins and sources were. The Pere Ubu box set Datapanik In The Year Zero (released on DGC in 1996) included a bonus disc of various Pere Ubu-related bands and projects - itself entitled Terminal Drive - that contains a 6:43 track called "Home Life" stated to have been extracted from Terminal Drive. This excerpt was all the world would hear of this fabled yet somewhat mysterious piece of music...until now.

The origins of Terminal Drive lie within the Cleveland band Hy Maya, which was centered around multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Robert Bensick, working most prominently and consistently with synthesist Ravenstine, bassist Albert Dennis, and drummer Scott Krauss. Despite playing only a handful of gigs, Hy Maya's purely experimental and highly improvisational nature working within the contexts of art rock and electronica were unlike anything that Clevelanders - used to the likes of Dragonwyck, Glass Harp, Left End, and Raspberries - had never really seen or heard before. Hy Maya, perhaps unconsciously, built upon the wilder aspects of Tonto's Expanding Headband, parts of the 1969 album An Electric Storm by White Noise, and the Sun Ra Arkestra, as well as the collective improvisation methodology of Oregon, prefiguring elements of the industrial music scene that Pere Ubu would later have considerable influence upon.

The single-sided LP is pressed on red vinyl and includes extensive liner notes written by Nick Blakey and never before published photos along with a free download card.

Hey--we recently cleaned our warehouse and found 3 (as in three and three only, if the link is bad that means they are all sold) sealed copies of the Easter Monkeys CD/DVD. First come, first served, nice price.

Smog Veil has a small limited number (we have 5 left and will not restock!!) of the Brad Warner (0DFX, Dimentia 13) directed documentary film double DVD set, "Cleveland's Screaming!" Our friends at Red Hour Records produced this release and also licensed to us The Guns double LP.

"Cleveland's Screaming!" is a documentary film about the hardcore punk rock scene in northeast Ohio in the era of Reaganomics (1981-1984). A new breed of punk rock music came about named hardcore, which led to kids forming bands and building scenes around the country, networking a community of people from all over the world. This film shows the beginnings of NEO hardcore punk's scene to its demise a few years later, as told first hand by the people and bands that were there, including interviews, rare concert footage, photos and fliers, never before seen until now. Even yours truly, Frank Smog Veil, makes an appearance in the film!!

DVD 1 - Full Length Documentary
DVD 2 - Special Bonus DVD with rare 80s concert footage, interviews and other extras

Our double LP retrospective of Cleveland's greatest hardcore band, The Guns, went out of print nearly immediately after release in 2012. We constantly get questions about it, and now we're happy to report that a repress is on the way.

For the uninitiated, hands down the top-end standard by which all other Cleveland hardcore bands should be measured, Cleveland hardcore history could not have been the same without The Guns. Scott Eakin and Dave Araca formed the band originally as a 2-piece, later adding to the lineup some amazing rippers in the form of Sean Saley, Bob Ries, and Scott Silverman. Though a couple compilation appearances is all they managed back in the day, this release collects those tracks plus all other studio recordings, as well as some choice live cuts. The LP also features Vince Rancid's original cover art as commissioned by the band in the 80s and informative liners penned by Scott's brother, Tom Dark, and Sean Saley.

"The Guns is a fitting tribute to an excellent band." --Hunter Bennett/Ugly Things #34

"This is a definite must-have for any old-school hardcore punk..." --Janelle Jones/AMP#111

The numbers: double LP with free download code, 43 songs, 2nd press limited to 500 copies, black and red marble vinyl. Test pressings have been approved and we are waiting in line at the pressing plant. Details, song stream and special sale code are available from here:

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Praise for the first of our Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 releases: the legendary and never before released 1967 studio demo from Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade "Sunday Morning Revival":

"...destined to bring a smile to the face of Butterfield and Musselwhite fans far and wide while deepening the already rich history of its municipality..." --Joseph Neff/The Vinyl District

"...the band winds you up and leaves you begging for more". --Elmore Magazine

"As I grew to love the blues, I wanted to try to see if we could come up with something worthy of recording, and the only way to do that was to actually try it."
- Jimmy Fox (James Gang/Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade)

Though once believed to have been lost or to only exist in theory, the lone 1967 studio demo recording by The Schwartz-Fox Blues Crusade featuring Mr. Stress - consisting of Cleveland legends and then members of the James Gang and Mr Stress Blues Band, Glenn Schwartz (guitar/vocals), Jimmy Fox (drums) Bill "Mr. Stress" Miller (vocals/harmonica), Tom Kriss (bass), Rich Kriss (guitar/vocals), and Mike Sands (piano) - is finally being released for music fans to savor and enjoy.

9 studio tracks of pure post-teen garage rock blues are accompanied by extensive liners and and never before published photos. The LP features colored vinyl, a free download code, and is limited to 1500 copies. Both the CD and the LP contains extensive liner notes penned by Nick Blakey and never before published photos.

Want to order the entire series 2 at a discount? Here's the details:
The three releases comprising Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 are: (1) Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade: "Sunday Morning Revival" (1967); (2) Allen Ravenstine: "Terminal Drive" (1975); and (3) a soon to be announced double LP release of studio and live recordings from the first and most influential improvisational electronic outfit that called Cleveland home (1972-1973 recordings). All the releases will be formatted on vinyl as well as CD and download/streaming. A hallmark of the series will be that each release contains extensive liner notes, all carefully crafted and researched.

oh man i really want that ravenstine

hopefully there will be an opportunity to purchase it as a download without buying the vinyl

Yeah, and I want to check out some of his other solo releases, the ones on Spotify recently for inst.

More on the aforementioned Alice C. comp, and note at end about additional booklets etc.; this is from Soul Jazz Records' soundoftheuniverse.com

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Alice Coltrane
World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
LUAKA BOP

**Shipping this Friday**

Essential Alice Coltrane recordings issued for the first time on vinyl by Luaka Bop!

Alice Coltrane was a legendary pianist, composer, spiritual leader, and the wife of John Coltrane, the most venerated and influential saxophonist in the history of jazz. In 1967, four years after meeting John, he died of liver cancer, leaving Alice a widow with four small children. Bereft of her soul mate, Alice suffered sleepless nights and severe weight loss. At her worst, she weighed only 95 pounds. She had hallucinations in which trees spoke, various beings existed on astral planes, and the sounds of “a planetary ether” spun through her brain, knocking her into a frightening unconsciousness.

The critical event of this period was not that Alice fell into the nadir of her existence, but rather that she experienced tapas, a vital period of trial. These tapas (a Sanskrit term she used to describe her suffering) helped prepare Alice for the spiritual ally she found in Swami Satchidananda, an Indian guru, with whom Alice made her first trip to India. On her second trip there, Alice had a revelation instructing her to abandon the secular life and become a spiritual teacher in the Hindu tradition – so she moved out West – eventually opening the Shanti Anantam Ashram on 47 acres she’d bought in Agoura Hills, California.

Music was the foundation of Alice’s spiritual practice. From the mid 1980’s to mid 1990’s, Alice Coltrane self-released four brilliant cassette albums. These cassettes contained a music she invented, inspired by the gospel music of the Detroit churches she grew up in, mixed together with the Indian devotional music of her religious practice, and even finds Alice singing for the first time in her recorded catalog. Originally only made available through her ashram, they are her most obscure body of work and possibly the greatest reflection of her soul.

“World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda”, is the first-ever compilation of her recordings from this period, making these songs available to the wider public - well played Luaka Bop!

This First Pressing includes two extra booklets of essays, photos, stories and a hand painted first pressing stamp - Don't sleep!

*LP version only

2xLP + Download Code

CD

More Info & Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/world-spirituality-classics-1-the-ecstatic-music-of-alice-coltrane-turiyasangitananda

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Ethiopiques Box/7"

Many of the tracks were later included on the iconic Ethiopiques series of albums and compilations, which brought the treasures of the Ethiopian music scene of the 60s and 70s to a wider audience. Includes tracks by Mulatu Astatke, Getatchew Mekurya, Mahmoud Ahmedm Girma Bèyènè, and Alemayehu Eshete. The original 7"s are almost impossible to track down these days and sell individually for jaw-dropping amounts online, including one for over £600!
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Amos and Sara
The Private World of Amos

Originally released in 1981 as a cassette on the It's War Boys label - this is a precious, thrilling reminder of UK post-punk DIY at its most inspired! According to one of the performers, its themes are "moral negotiation, mistrust, social class, distress, comedy, wild adventure, chemical derangement, as well as anarchic joy, and love". Huge SOTU recommendation!
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Like Nashville In Naija: Nigeria's Romance with Country Music, Yesterday and Today
COMB & RAZOR SOUND

Country music is big in Africa. Yes, we realise how absurd that probably sounds to most ears, but it’s really true: American country & western records have been tremendously popular and deeply beloved across the continent for almost a century. The people of the West African nation of Nigeria have long been not only voracious consumers of country music, but fairly enthusiastic performers of it as well. Cowboy songs have remained a consistent part of most bands’ live repertoire, but relatively few artists have dedicated themselves to actually recording country music. They did exist, though; mostly in the1970s and 80s, but they were rarely heard outside the country, and in the intervening years, most of their output has fallen through the cracks of posterity, forgotten even by ardent music fans at home. Until now. Like Nashville in Naija: Nigeria’s Romance with Country Music, Yesterday and Today collects some of the best country recordings as a loving tribute to Nigeria’s cowboy troubadours of yore. To the best of our knowledge, only in Nigeria.
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Function Underground: The Black And Brown American Rock Sound 1969-1974
NOW-AGAIN RECORDS

This anthology – which has its origins in the Dante Carfagna bootleg Chains and Black Exhaust release - focuses on the Black & Latino American rock bands that spread their wings after Jimi Hendrix came to prominence, in unlikely locales such as Dayton, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Indiana and Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the music here is being reissued for the first time. Comes with an illustrated cover by French illustrator Sanghon Kim and a booklet detailing the history of Black and Latino contributions to American rock music by leading music historians and collectors. This collects private pressings from the late 60s / early 70s. There was a bootleg of many of these selections, but that was in 2002. It features 1984, Purple Snow, Jimi Macon, Ebony Rhythm Band, The Revolution, Black Maffia etc.
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Tewolde Redda
Eritrea's Guitar Pioneer
DOMINO SOUND

Drawn from his six monumental singles for the Philips, Amha and Yared labels between 1970-73, revolutionising traditional Eritrean music via the innovations of amplified kirar, electric guitar and horns.Thick, deep declarations and considerations of love over a mixture of sombre and joyous tunes (with the hand-clapped beat often shifting into double-time near the end).Co-released with Mitmitta Musika in Addis Ababa; handsomely presented in a tip-on sleeve, with extensive liner notes, translations and exclusive photos.
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Golden Afrique: Highlights & Rarities From The Golden Era Of African Pop Music (1971-1983)
Various
NETWORK

Rare treasures from the golden age of African pop music from 1956-1982. A comprehensive collection of the highly divers African music, originating from the independence-movements of the African continent in the mid 20th century. Featuring songs of legends such as Youssou N’Dour, Salif Keïta, Idy Diop and many more. Available for the first time on vinyl!!!
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Carl Craig
Versus
INFINE

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1. Darkness
2. Sandstorms
3. At Les
4. Desire
5. Barceloneta Trist
6. Domina
7. The Melody
8. Technology
9. At Les (Acoustic Version)
10. Desire (Acoustic Version)
11. The Melody (Acoustic Version)
12. Sandstorms (Acoustic Version)
Monumental symphonic versions of Carl Craig’s classic material, reinforced and magnified by Les Siecles Orchestra. Iconic French conductor François-Xavier Roth is at the helm of the symphony whilst InFiné mainstay Francesco Tristano supports on piano. Support from Lefto and Gilles Peterson!
Info (track listings for 3-LP and CD differ) https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/versus_2

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Hudson Mohawke
Dedsec - Watch Dogs 2 OST (RSD 2017)
WARP RECORDS

2LP in printed inners in 5mm spine sleeve, download card insert. First time on vinyl. Following the maximalist hymns of 2015’s Lantern, HudMo once again proves his versatility, applying his signature style to the soundtrack of Ubisoft’s video game Watch Dogs 2. Cinematic melodies are at the heart of his 15 original compositions, bringing the action adventure’s open world to life. Between the gothic minor chord progression of Haum Sweet Haum and the playful glistening reverie of Balance, the Glaswegian producer has a real talent for conjuring a wide set of moods to fit different scenarios. The thick bass lines and syncopated rhythms of tracks like Eye For An Eye allude to his more beat-focussed earlier work. Yet, the intricacy of the percussion throughout sets this soundtrack apart from his albums and EPs – showing HudMo progress to the next level.
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The Rolling Stones
The Stones In The Park (Live 1969)
NETWORK
DVD
A documentary record of the free Rolling Stones concert which took place in Hyde Park on 5th July 1969, two days after the death of guitarist Brian Jones. Includes interview footage and a number of classic performances.
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Desert Blues: Ambiances Du Sahara
Various
NETWORK
2-LP
First ever vinyl release of this classic, comprehensive collection of songs and music in the tradition of the Sahara, Sahel and the surrounding territories. Featuring artists such as Baly Othmani, Dimi Mint Abba, Youssou N’Dour and more.
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Moodymann
Mahogany Brown (2017 Reissue)
PEACEFROG RECORDS

Long awaited reissue of Detroit pioneer Moodymann's second LP from 1998 - 'Mahogony Brown'. This is laid back, deep grooved, Jazzy, funked out deep house at it's very best. Quite simply - Everyone should have one of these.
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Television Personalities
...And Don't The Kids Just Love It (RSD 2017)
FIRE RECORDS

Ahead of its time, And Don’t The Kids Just Love It was Television Personalities’ influential debut album released in 1981 and features I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives. The legendary lo-fi release sees them produce British inspired 60s pop and post-punk that captured the period and ‘sounds remarkably prescient’ (Pitchfork’s Best 100 albums of the 1980s). With the formidable Daniel Treacy at its core, Television Personalities remain one of new wave’s longest serving and seminal artists with a career spanning over three decades.

14 tracks. Limited edition, black on white marbled vinyl, DL card, 1000 only. Single sleeve - download card included.
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Noise Addict
10,000 Kids With Guitars (RSD 2017)
NUMERO GROUP
2-LP

What does teen spirit smell like, anyway? It might smell something like Noise Addict. Like the real life stars of some sort of choose-your-own-adventure book about pursuing rock stardom, few bands ever led a more charmed existence, springing from the Sydney suburb of Bondi into seemingly overnight international fame as friends and collaborators of Sonic Youth, Fugazi, and the Beastie Boys. Through a combination of relentless drive, luck, and an admirable lack of self-doubt, Noise Addict spanned puberty(?) to surpass the haters and join Radio Birdman and Nick Cave as a strange but permanent piece of Australian punk history. The entire sordid adolescent tale is covered in incredible detail inside the black and white 16 page zine. And finally, for the first time in the history of record pressing, and for no good reason at all, the cover for 10,000 Kids With Guitars doubles as a working chalkboard. 25 tracks. Limited to 2000 copies on black vinyl.
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Klaus Dinger
2000! (RSD 2017)
GRÖNLAND RECORDS

Previously unreleased album from German Kosmische Musik legend Klaus Dinger (NEU!, La Dusseldorf, et al). Beautifully manufactured LP sleeve with artistic ‘inside out’ paper. Released for Record Store Day because it's the last album of Klaus Dinger that isn't available yet. For this special recording, Klaus Dinger teamed up with various musicians in order to create a new recording experience, “turning documentary into art” would indeed be the best way to describe this album.
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If that's not truly old enough:

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Harmonia
Documents 1975
GRÖNLAND RECORDS

Issue of the previously unreleased 'Documents 1975' tape that captured Moebius, Roedelius, Rother and Eno playing in a rare, live capacity.
More Info, Audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/harmonia-documents-1975

oh hey a standalone CD for Documents 75! That's awesome! Will buy.

Raymond Scott - Three Willow Park: Electronic Music from Inner Space, 1961-1971

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In 2000, Basta issued Manhattan Research Inc., a 2-cd set of 69 tracks recorded 1953–69, spotlighting Scott’s groundbreaking electronica — a gallery of strange sounds seemingly beamed down from UFOs. MRI also presented some of the earliest TV & radio commercials to feature electronic music, as well as early film soundtrack collaborations with Jim Henson.

Basta is now releasing Three Willow Park: Electronic Music from Inner Space, 1961–1971, containing 61 previously unissued gems by Scott. Many feature hypnotic rhythm tracks played by Scott’s Electronium — an invention which composed and performed using programmed intelligence. That Scott produced beat-oriented proto-techno before the 1970s explosion of electronic music and rhythms on the pop charts is a significant achievement that should not be overlooked.

Willow Park Center was an industrial rental complex of offices and warehouses in a Long Island suburb. Following his 1965 marital breakup, Scott set up shop at WPC. He operated a musical lab — researching, experimenting, testing, and measuring. He twirled knobs, flipped switches, and took notes. He installed equipment and machines, and used them to build new equipment and machines. This makeshift compound remained Scott’s workspace and bedroom until 1971, when he decamped for L.A. to work for Berry Gordy at Motown.

Scott was a highly qualified engineer who also happened to be a conservatory-trained (Juilliard) musician. He could compose, arrange, perform, improvise and edit, but given a shelf of hardware and a soldering iron, he could also rig an appliance to further his musical aims. Like many visionaries, Scott foreshadowed the future. He developed technological processes which were pivotal in the evolution of the fax machine. He composed a “silent” piece years before John Cage‘s 4′ 33″. He predicted (in 1944) that composers would someday reach audiences via thought transference. He applied for and was awarded numerous patents. Foremost, he developed electronic and automated sound-generating technology to craft the elements of pop music at a time when circuit-made sound was largely a novelty, used in “serious” works, or cranked-up for special effects in science fiction films.

In 1946, while still leading jazz bands, Scott established Manhattan Research, Inc., billed as “Designers and Manufacturers of Electronic Music and Musique Concrète Devices and Systems.” By the 1950s, he was using his inventions to produce commercials with electronic soundtracks, as well as developing automated sequencer technology. His friend and colleague Bob Moog said, “Scott was definitely in the forefront of developing electronic music technology and using it commercially as a musician.”

Besides the Electronium, sounds heard on Three Willow Park were generated by the Circle Machine; Clavivox; Bass-Line Generator; Bandito the Bongo Artist (a drum machine); tone, melody, rhythm and sound effects generators (some controlled, others random); oscillators, sequencers, and modulators; tape montages; and acoustic instruments and voices. These recordings, like those on MRI, define and establish Scott’s legacy in electronic music history.

Produced by Gert-Jan Blom and Irwin Chusid; Associate Producer: Jeff Winner
Release: June 30, 2017 (Basta Music)
formats: 3-LP / 2-CD / Digital

(Manhattan Research Inc. is now also available on vinyl btw)

Awesome! Will def check that out, thanks!

Light In The Attic has several things for National Record Store Day:

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V/A - Ciao! Manhattan
Ciao! Manhattan Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
vailable: April 22nd, 2017

Edie Sedgwick was the true “It Girl” of the Pop Art age; a woman who famously said she wanted “to turn the world on just for a moment”. Part of Andy Warhol’s Factory for a year in the mid-‘60s, she is widely believed to have inspired The Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale” as well as Bob Dylan’s “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat” and “Just Like A Woman”.

1973’s Ciao! Manhattan, the model and actor’s final film, gave some indication of why she inspired such devotion. Written and directed by Factory affiliates John Palmer and David Weisman, the movie tells a quasi-fictionalised account – a chronicle à clef in Weisman’s words – of Sedgewick’s journey from New York to Santa Barbara.

In the film, Sedgwick is Susan Superstar, a New Yorker who winds up living in a drained Santa Barbara swimming pool in a narcotic daze, life and art just a hair away from each other. Shot over a five year period, Sedgwick died of a barbiturate overdose at the age of 28 before filming wrapped in 1971.

For a movie starring some of rock’s great muses, the soundtrack fittingly features cult figures of the era: Richie Havens (“Shouldn’t All The World Be Dancing”, “To Give All Your Love Away”, “I Can’t Make It Anymore”), John Phillips (“Malibu People”) and Byrds/Flying Burrito Brothers member Skip Battin, who performs Kim Fowley’s “Citizen Kane”. Other artists are less well-known, including actor Kim Milford, who sings the stirring “Justice”, and Factory man Gino Piserchio, an artist and dear friend of Weisman, whose synthesizer compositions anchor the score.

Never before released in any format, this long-overdue pressing includes all of the above plus selected dialogue from the film, each snippet like a beat poem in its own way. The Village Voice once called Ciao! “The Citizen Kane of the drug generation"; deeply evocative of the era, the mood of the soundtrack captures the psychedelic spirit of the film, as well as the darkness and tragedy that characterized Edie’s life.
Cinewax
CINE809
BUYING OPTIONS
Release Notes
Official Record Store Day title
Limited to 3,000 copies on “Angel Shock” color wax
Never before released in any format
Audio restored and remastered from original film transfers
LP housed in a deluxe gatefold Stoughton tip-on jacket
Includes 20-page book with rare archive photos and liner notes Q&A with writer/director David Weisman
More infor, audio samples: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/3007-ciao-manhattan-original-motion-picture-soundtrack

Don't know her movies, but did read Jean Stein and George Plimpton's dark panorama, Edie: An American Biography; so did Megan Abbott, at an even more impressionable age:
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/02/251651304/a-suburban-teen-saw-the-sparkle-of-edie-but-not-the-pain

THE CARS: EXPANDED EDITIONS

Remastered And Newly Expanded Versions Candy-O And Panorama Feature The Original Album Plus Rare And Unreleased Recordings

CD, Vinyl, And Digital Versions Available From Rhino On July 28

LOS ANGELES - Following the massive success of The Cars' multi-platinum debut in 1978, the band kept its platinum-album streak rolling with Candy-O and Panorama, releases that include memorable hits like "Let's Go," "It's All I Can Do" and "Touch and Go."

For the first time ever, the band has expanded those classics to create versions that include rare and unreleased recordings taken from the sessions for each album. Band member Ric Ocasek recently supervised the remastering of these albums for last year's boxed set The Cars: The Elektra Years, ensuring superior sound quality on these new versions.

Expanded editions of CANDY-O and PANORAMA will be available on July 28 for $14.98 (CD) and $24.98 (2LP). Presented in gatefold sleeves, the vinyl versions include music on three sides with an etching on the fourth. In addition, the music on these expanded editions will be released digitally and available via streaming outlets.

For the follow-up to its eponymous debut, The Cars teamed up one again with producer Roy Thomas Baker (Queen) to record Candy-O. The album was released in the summer of 1979 and became a huge hit, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Album Chart and eventually earned quadruple-platinum certification in the U.S. alone. One of the singles, "Let's Go," was the band's first Top 15 hit on the Billboard singles chart.

CANDY-O: EXPANDED EDITION goes beyond the original album's 11 tracks with seven bonus tracks. Among the highlights are unreleased alternate mixes of "Let's Go" and "Lust For Kicks," as well as the previously unissued song "They Won't See You (The Northern Studios Version)." The album's liner notes were written by David Wild and include a new interview with guitarist Elliot Easton.

The Cars returned in the summer of 1980 with Panorama, which became the band's third consecutive platinum album and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Album Chart. The album became a fan favorite thanks to songs like "Touch And Go," "Up And Down," and "Gimme Some Slack."

PANORAMA: EXPANDED EDITION builds on the original album's 10 songs with four bonus tracks. They include the B-side "Don't Go To Pieces," as well as unreleased songs like "Shooting For You," and "Be My Baby." For this release, Wild once again pens the liner notes, along with reminisces from keyboardist Greg Hawkes.

CANDY-O
Track Listing:

1. "Let's Go"
2. "Since I Held You"
3. "It's All I Can Do"
4. "Double Life"
5. "Shoo Be Doo"
6. "Candy-O"
7. "Night Spots"
8. "You Can't Hold On Too Long"
9. "Lust For Kicks"
10. "Got A Lot On My Head"
11. "Dangerous Type"
Bonus Tracks
12. "Let's Go" - Roy Thomas Baker Monitor Mix
13. "Candy-O" - Northern Studios Version
14. "Nights Spots" - Northern Studios Version
15. "Lust for Kicks" - Roy Thomas Baker Monitor Mix
16. "Dangerous Type" - Northern Studios Version
17. "They Won't See You" - Northern Studios Version, Previously Unissued
18. "That's It" - "Let's Go" B-side

PANORAMA
Track Listing

1. "Panorama"
2. "Touch and Go"
3. "Gimme Some Slack"
4. "Don't Tell Me No"
5. "Getting Through"
6. "Misfit Kid"
7. "Down Boys"
8. "You Wear Those Eyes"
9. "Running Up To You"
10. "Up and Down"
Bonus Tracks
11. "Shooting For You" - Previously Unissued
12. "Be My Baby" - Previously Unissued
13. "The Edge" - Previously Unissued
14. "Don't Go To Pieces" - "Don't Tell Me No" B-side

out June 9:

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Lynn Castle
Rose Colored Corner

Light In The Attic
LITA 157

Available: June 9th, 2017

Though most of the world may not know the songs of Lynn Castle, she is an artist whose work stretches across seven decades. She has created a diverse and vast (albeit mostly unreleased) discography of pop, folk, country, gothic, rock, punk, blues, and children’s songs. Light In The Attic Records is very excited to continue its Lee Hazlewood Archive Series with Rose Colored Corner, a collection of intimate recordings Lynn Castle made with Jack Nitzsche in 1966 and her complete recorded output with Lee Hazlewood on LHI Records. For the first time ever Lynn is sharing recordings from her personal archive and telling her story.

In the 1960s Lynn became the first lady barber in LA just as long hair on men became hip. By day she was styling The Monkees, Boyce and Hart, Del Shannon, Sonny & Cher, the Byrds and countless others…by night she was writing songs. Despite lacking the desire to self promote and a crippling insecurity that made it hard to sing in front of anyone, her songs managed to bend the ears of such industry heavyweights as Phil Spector, Jack Nitzsche and Lee Hazlewood. “It was so hard to get me to sing,” explained Castle. “I had buried it so low, I didn’t think I was good at all. Lee heard my songs and thought I was fabulous. He said, ‘Oh my god, you’re really good! Let’s cut a record.’

Her sole 1967 45 “The Lady Barber" b/w "Rose Colored Corner,” released on Lee Hazlewood Industries is a slice of psychedelic pop heaven. A full length album was never completed, but her sparse demos with Jack Nitzsche give the listener a peek of what one might have sounded like. If you are familiar with Nitzsche’s mid-60s work with Tim Buckley, Bob Lind, and Buffalo Springfield…you can squint your ears and imagine her songs bejeweled with lush strings, finger cymbals, and delicate harpsichord. Instead, the songs remained unheard until now.

Just because her songs weren’t recognized at the time doesn’t diminish their magic. This music is meant to be found and heard. Though commercial success may remain elusive, sometimes strange premonitions are realized… “When I was young, making music in the ‘60s, I had this strange thought that one day I would be this old woman, and young people would come find me and tell me that my music meant something to them.” – Lynn Castle
More info, audio: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/3091-rose-colored-corner
(also see those other LHI reissues at the bottom of the page, Lee Hazlewood and omg Honey Ltd)

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Release Notes
This bundle includes the following albums:

1. Paul Parrish – Forest Of My Mind (MAPACHE0010)
2. Goldberg – Misty Flats (FDR612LP)
3. Bert Jansch – Live In Australia (EARTH017LP)
4. Sylvie Simmons – Sylvie (LITA122LP)
5. Scott Fagan – South Atlantic Blues (CEC003LP)

Fagan is Stephin Merritt's father. The only one of these I've heard is Sylvie, by the journo/L. Cohen biographer. It's fine, just her searching voice and strings for the most part, with a few tweaks from Howe Gelb.

More info: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/3223-folksie-five

Keiji Haino's classic debut album Watashi Dake? will be available on vinyl for the first time since 1981 and for the first time ever as originally intended by the artist- in a special gold and silver edition.

Coming June 16

Over the last fifty years few musicians or performers have created as monumental and uncompromising a body of work as that of Keiji Haino. Through a vast number of recordings and performances Haino has staked out a ground all his own- creating a language of unparalleled intensity that defies any simple classification. For all this, his 1981 debut album Watashi Dake? has remained enigmatic. Originally released in a small edition by the legendary Pinakotheca label, the album was heard by only a select few in Japan and far fewer overseas. Original vinyl copies became impossibly rare and highly sought after the world over.

Watashi Dake? presents a haunting vision – stark vocals, whispered and screamed, punctuate dark silences. Intricate and sharp guitar figures interweave, repeat and stretch, trance-like, emerging from dark recesses. Written and composed on the spot – Haino's vision is one of deep spiritual depths that distantly evokes 1920's blues and medieval music- yet is unlike anything ever committed to record before or since. Coupled with starkly minimal packaging featuring the now iconic cover photographs by legendary photographer Gin Satoh, the album is a startling and fully realized artistic statement.

Produced in close cooperation with Keiji Haino as well as Gin Satoh, Black Editions is proud to make this masterpiece of underground music its inaugural release. Re-issued on LP for the very first time, it is also the first ever edition to feature the originally intended metallic gold and silver artwork. The release also presents the first ever translation of the lyrics and titles by Alan Cummings. Each album also includes a digital download with an extended bonus live track from that era.

This special edition was meticulously remastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters and cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Pressed to high quality vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI).

It comes housed in specially printed heavy Stoughton tip-on jackets with custom printed matte metallic gold and silver covers with black on black inserts and extras.

http://www.theblackeditions.com/

xpost. Candy-O is such an amazing album. While I'm happy for a reissue, I really want some crazy huge box set with demos, live, etc. I could listen to multiple versions of Shoo-Be-Doo happily for a full day. Probably one of the best follow ups to a theoretically unfollow-up-able debut. Cars stinginess with extra stuff = annoying.

Legit excited about the Haino reissue

10th anniversary reissue and tour performances of Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer, details here:

http://mailchi.mp/polyvinylrecords/8mbcyn147s?e=e256bac75c

Few will care but this is great news. A reissue of Matt McGinn's first four albums, the first time available in over 40 years. This is not something you hear too often but good ol' Cherry Red!

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-road-to-aldermaston-complete-transatlantic-recordings-1966-1969/

Just got this from Soundohm

gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza
Azioni/Reazioni 1967-1969 (Deluxe Box Set)
€ 180.00
LABEL: DIE SCHACHTEL
GENRE: Experimental | FORMAT: 5Lp, 4Cd, Dvd, Book BOX | CATALOG N. DS33-Box LP limited | YEAR. (2017)
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**Shipping in mid June - Art Edition of 100 copies** The year 2007 saw one of the most remarkable findings in the long treasure-hunting history of Die Schachtel: the complete set of recordings of the early manifestation (1967-1969) of one of the most legendary improv group of all times, the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. Rescued by the private archives of Mr. Walter Branchi, one of the original founding members – alongside with Franco Evangelisti, Ennio Morricone, Ivan Vandor, Roland Kayn, Egisto Macchi, Mario Bertoncini and John Heineman – the tapes were then restored in their entirety, but only a part of them were published in an epic 500 copies -CD-only boxset titled "Azioni 1967-1969", which also featured a DVD with the original film "Nuova Consonanza" shot by Theo Gallher during the rehearsal and the concert that the group held on March 19th and 20th, 1967, at the Galleria d'arte Moderna in Rome. Spanning from free-jazz to total abstract noise to wild electronic sounds (thanks mainly to the wizardry of Roland Kayn and Walter Branchi), their music was – and remains – one of the most dynamic, original and uncompromising expression of a period defined by intense experimentation and musical bravery, that anticipated a lot of the experiments to come in later years. Or, to put it simple, "They were utterly unique", as per the words that John Zorn – a long time admirer of the Gruppo – expressely wrote for this edition.

To mark the 10-years anniversary of its original release, and to finally make it available for the vinyl aficionados throughout the world, Die Schachtel is proud to present AZIONI/REAZIONI 1967-1969, the complete cycle of improvisations (which in fact means thirteen additional inedit pieces, spanning over 2 and a half LPs and two CDs ), taken from the original tapes, lovingly remastered by Mr. Giuseppe Ielasi and masterly cut to five black vinyls, with a new design and an even more complete information apparatus, that includes a 64 page LP-size book in English and Italian, complete with essays, memories from the members of the Group, a new article by Valentina Bertolani exploring in detail the techniques of the group (based on the enclosed DVD), a chronology and a collection of original reviews by Maurizio Farina, and – to add an additional cherry on the almost rather juicy cake - a set of stunning (and inedit) black and white photos of the group playing in the glorious Venice "Teatro della Fenice" in 1968, taken from the archives of the Venice Biennale.

This is your unique opportunity to grab one of the 100 Limited Collector Edition, the only ones complete with both 5LPs, 4CDs and 1DVD, the coffee-table book, an exclusive large poster and – to add an even more appealing dimension to the whole thing – hosted in a hand made (in Italy) custom wooden boxset designed by Dinamomilano, whose stunning tactile, "arte-povera" inspired artwork (by Dinamomilano as well) is in fact made by two laser-cut pieces of black rubber and white felt, complete with a matt grey foil-stamped title on the side. You can almost feel the weight of the edition (in metaphorical terms too).

To sum it up, the monumental "AZIONI/REAZIONI" boxset includes:

- 5 vinyl LPs

- 4 CDs

- 1 DVD (with English and Italian subtitles)

- 1 large poster on high-quality paper

- a 64-page sewn-bound large book

- handmade wooden boxset with rubber and felt motif

Please consider that this Limited Edition will be followed by a "regular" one, comprised by 5 LPs+DVD+book (hence no CDs and poster), hosted in a standard cardboard boxset, and a 4CD+DVD+book (hence no vinyls) edition. Please also bear in mind that this is going to be a 1-timer pressing: no further pressing are foreseen for the years to come.

We suggest you don't delay and act now... the expression has never been more appropriated.

Wow! Think I'll wait for the 4CD/DVD/book version (no turntable, no place to hang a poster).

Awww man that Haino album is my favorite of his. Psyched.

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Yep Roc is excited to announce that for the first time in decades, you can now own Nick the Knife, The Abominable Showman, Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit, The Rose of England, Pinker and Prouder Than Previous, and Party of One on CD and LP! Bundle all of them together and get a great discount PLUS a limited edition Nick Lowe lunchbox for free!

These albums mark the period in Nick Lowe's career where he was experimenting with numerous genres, ranging from roots rock to country to reggae to the pub rock and power pop sounds that he made so famous. These albums are absolutely worthy of second listen and showcase his collaborations with artists such as Elvis Costello, Huey Lewis, Paul Carrack, and many more.

more info, links: http://mailchi.mp/yeproc/thank-you-for-following-yep-roc-records?e=1acce46fd4

Not a fan of his more recent albums, but seems to be one of those artists who gets better the farther back you go.

So a bunch of vinyl comps coming out on Rhino, mostly well-known tracks, but this one has me curious:

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TRANSPARENT DAYS: WEST COAST NUGGETS
2LP Track Listing

Side One
1. "Transparent Day" - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
2. "Time Is After You" - The Peanut Butter Conspiracy
3. "Linda's Gone" - The West Coast Branch
4. "I Could Be Happy" - The Dovers
5. "My Race Is Run - The Motleys
6. "The Happiness Song" - Gerry Pond
7. "Here's Today" - The Rose Garden
8. "Bye Bye Bye" (Warner Bros. Single Version) - The Tikis

Side Two
1. "Make It Easy" - The Collectors
2. "I'll Sell My Soul" - The Allies
3. "Goin' Down" - The Waphphle
4. "Out Of Sight Out Of Mind" - Limey & The Yanks
5. "Where You Gonna Go" - Art Guy
6. "Got Love" - The Front Line
7. "She's My Baby" - The Mojo Men
8. "Going Home" - Butch Engle & The Styx

Side Three
1. "Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies" - The Association
2. "If You Could Be Him Instead" - Wayne Stewart
3. "Candlestickmaker" - Ron Elliott
4. "Smiling" - M.C. 2
5. "Momentarily Gone" - The Truth
6. "Degeneration Gap" - Tandyn Almer
7. "Baby Please Don't Go" - The Ballroom

Side Four
1. "Come Alive" - Things To Come
2. "House Of Glass" - The Glass Family
3. "The Eagle Never Hunts The Fly" - The Bonniwell Music Machine
4. "Dawn Lights The Way" - Clear Light
5. "Shadows" - The Electric Prunes
6. "Changes (Tygstl)" - The Ceyleib People
7. "Your Mind & We Belong Together" - Love

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Boombox 2
Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro and Disco Rap 1979 - 83
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS
(3-LP, CD, mp3)

Out this Friday worldwide in all good retail and internet stores.

Soul Jazz Records’ new Boombox 2 is a new selection of early rap music from the period 1979-83, with barely a household name in sight. Featured here are some the earliest hip-hop records that came out of New York City following the enormous commercial success of the first ever rap record, ‘Rapper’s Delight’ by the Sugarhill Gang, in September 1979. Artists and producers alike tried to jump aboard the new commercial possibilities of hip-hop. By the end of the year there were 30 hip-hop singles, all released by independent New York labels. The following year there were over 100 more, and so on.

Boombox 2 tells the story of how hip-hop went from its evolutionary roots in the Bronx through DJs Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa through to this second phase where veteran music producers – Paul Winley, Peter Brown, Joe Robinson and others – all based in Harlem, began to put rap on vinyl for the first time.

Harlem is also where the separate worlds of disco and hip-hop met through the styles and influence of earlier ‘uptown’ DJs - DJ Hollywood and Eddie Cheba. In similar fashion these veteran Harlem-based producers instinctively tapped into a long lineage of African-American rhythm and blues, soul and disco.

The album features many early and rare cuts from the first generation of early rap artists including Lovebug Starski (as Little Starsky), Busy Bee, Eddie Cheba, Kool DJ AJ as well as many other little known artists.

Boombox 2 is a triple-vinyl set (+ download code) LP and double CD pack that features extensive text, exclusive interviews and stunning photography by Jamel Shabazz, Martha Cooper and others.

Reviews of Boombox 1:

‘The vital launch pad between hip-hop’s birth and its worldwide impact’ THE WIRE

‘This compilation of early rap is a legit party in a box, one of the best Soul Jazz Records releases in years.’ FACT

‘A brilliant compilation of first wave underground rap records made in New York circa 1979-83' TWISTED SOUL

Release Date
31 May 2017

Tracklisting
1 Harlem World – Let's Rock
2 Lonnie Love – Young Ladies
3 Kool DJ A.J. – Ah, That's The Joint
4 Terry Lewis and Wild Flower – The Peoples Message Take Two
5 Rappers Rapp Group – Rappin' Partee Groove (Club Version)
6 Eddie Cheba – Lookin' Good
7 MC Rock Lovely – One Time Two Time Blow Your Mind
8 Little Starsky – Dancin' Party People
9 Manujothi – Shake Your Body
10 Busy Bee – School Days
11 TJ Swann, Pee Wee Mel and Swann Controllers – Maximus Party
12 Margo's Kool Out Crew – Death Rap
13 Grand Master Chilly T and Stevie G – Rock The Message Rap
14 Zoot II – Dr. Ice Rap
More Info & Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/ejyybbqmn

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Lloyd McNeill is a multidisciplinary artist – a painter who lived in Paris in 1965 and was a friend of Picasso, a musician who has worked with Nina Simone, Nana Vasconceles, Ron Carter, Cecil McBee and many more and a music anthropologist, poet and teacher.

In the 1960s he was involved in the civil-rights movement and produced music for ballet, paintings and installations. His music mixes jazz with Latin, Brazilian and African rhythms that McNeill learnt was studying anthropology in his travels through much of Africa and Brazil (where he joined with Dom Salvador, Paulinho da Viola, Paulo Maura and Martinho da Vila).

The album comes with extensive sleevenotes and interview with Lloyd McNeill as well as exclusive photos and text. Vinyl is heavyweight vinyl pressing + download code limited to 1000 worldwide.

Lloyd McNeill features on two earlier Soul Jazz releases, 'New Thing' and 'Freedom, Rhythm and Sound". Soul Jazz Records have also recently reissued Lloyd McNeill's stunning 'Washington Suite' album recorded in 1970.

Lloyd and Nina
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Oops, forgot the More Info & Audio link for Lloyd:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/lloyd-mcneill-quartet-asha

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Vodou Drums in Haiti 2
The Living Gods Of Haiti : 21st Century Ritual Drums & Spirit Possession
Drummers Of The Societe Absolument Guinin

Soul Jazz Records’ new album features the truly intense, hypnotic and fascinating Vodou drums of Haiti, a stunning collection of trance-like rhythms and beats traditionally used to induce spirit possession in the Vodou religion.

Soul Jazz Records first journeyed to Haiti in 1996 to record a series of three albums about Haitian Vodou music and culture. One of these, ‘Voodoo Drums’, featuring the drum rhythms used to bring about spirit possession struck a striking chord with listeners, and amazingly went on to become one of their best-selling albums.

"I haven't heard anything quite like this; the rhythms are very deeply orchestrated yet it also sounds like improvisation. There are tonalities and textures coming from this album like I've never heard. A great album by Soul Jazz, very well recorded. Some of the sounds I have no idea how they are getting them! This album is bending my ear and setting off the dancing devils in my soul!! Unreal!" Guardian

In 2016 Soul Jazz Records returned to Haiti once more to record a new second volume of the same intense Vodou drumming. Recorded in the capital of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, some 20 years after their first visit, this album also features the very same musicians, the Drummers of the Société Absolument Guinin.

"This record, which consists entirely of recordings of vodou drumming made in Port-Au-Prince, is one of a series of Soul Jazz releases exploring Haitian music, all of which are worth your attention. Nonetheless there's something about the intensity and virtuosity of this particular drums-based album that's particularly transportive. It captures the extraordinary complexity and sophistication of these ceremonial rhythms, which shift, interlock and switch angle of attack with a logic that's near-indecipherable as a listener unable to see visually how they unfold.

These drum rituals are central to Haitian vodou, their power to awe and mesmerise isn't dimmed through being relatively unfamiliar with the traditions that underlie them; these recordings are dynamic and riveting in their intricacy and power." Quietus

Like the first album, these new recordings somehow manage to walk the line between serious ethnological authenticity and a connection with the energy and intensity of the dance rhythms of techno and house music that make them quite unique:

"Soul Jazz yet again come correct with the roots and culture. This amazing set of ritual breakbeats Haitian style has to be the most phenomenal, left field battle breaks album you could imagine. The rhythms used cause spirits to manifest themselves in the physical world, all powerful, some benevolent, others less so. Enjoyable and really quite mind expanding, this is recommended to anyone who thinks traditional music is not for them. Really unparallelled, both in terms of quality and the competition." Boomkat

This album is released worldwide on heavyweight double LP + download code, deluxe CD and digital.
More Info, Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/vodou-drums-in-haiti-2

all over that Boombox 2 thing thx

First one's good too.

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The Skatalites
Independence Ska and The Far East Sound - Original Ska Sounds From The Skatalites 1963 - 65

Fantastic new collection of rare and classic killer ska from the legendary Skatalites, one of the most important groups in the history of Reggae.

This album was first released only as a limited-edition collectors 7-inch box set (now deleted) and is now available for the first time as a double LP edition (+ Download Code), CD and digital release - complete with 10 extra bonus tracks and new extensive sleeve notes!

The Skatalites brought the sound of Jamaica to the world. At the start of the 1960s, in the space of just a couple of years Don Drummond, Tommy McCook, Jackie Mittoo, Ernest Ranglin, Johnny ‘Dizzy’ Moore, Lloyd Knibbs, Lloyd Brevett and others defined the exciting beat of ‘Ska’ as the sound of newly independent Jamaica.

As the house band at Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd’s newly launched Studio One Records at 13 Brentford Road, the group comprising the finest jazz musicians on the island played on literally 1000s of recordings – Bob Marley and The Wailers, Toots and The Maytals, Delroy Wilson, Ken Boothe, Alton Ellis and many, many more.

During their existence (1963-65) The Skatalites also recorded 100s of their own songs, released either under their own name, or The Studio One Orchestra, or that of band members Drummond, McCook etc. This is the first collection on Soul Jazz Records to bring you some of their finest material – from classics such as ‘Guns of Navarone’, ‘El Pussy Cat Ska’, ‘Christine Keeler’ through to some serious rarities such as Dizzy Johnny and The Studio One Orchestra’s ‘Sudden Destruction’ and Don Drummond’s ‘Coolie Boy’.

The Skatalites’ ska sound brought together aspects of jazz, latin, rhythm and blues, proto-Rastafarianism (tracks such as ‘Full Dread’, ‘Beardsman Ska’) and more. The intensity and energy of their sound was matched by the experimentation of the troubled genius of Don Drummond whose ‘far east’ modal trombone sound added a complex melancholy to the music of the Skatalites (the group split-up after Drummond was charged with murdering his wife, dancer Margarita Mahfood).

More Info, Audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/independence-ska-and-the-far-east-sound_2

The soundtrack album to Robert Altman's Popeye is reportedly being reissued as a 2CD package, including Harry Nilsson's original demos on the second disc, due July 28.

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CAN

THE SINGLES OUT JUNE 16

LISTEN TO RARE TRACK
"SHIKAKO MARU TEN"

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CAN The Singles - a collection of all of the band’s single releases - is out June 16 on triple vinyl, download, CD and streaming services.

“Shikako Maru Ten” was the B-side to “Spoon,” which was a Top 10 hit in Germany in 1972. The singles on this compilation are all presented in their original 7” version and “Shikako Maru Ten,” which never appeared on a studio album, is available here for the first time on vinyl outside its original release.

This unique document is the first time the singles have been presented together and shows the breadth of CAN’s influential career, from well-loved tracks like “Halleluwah,” “Vitamin C” and “I Want More” to more obscure singles such as “Silent Night” and "Turtles Have Short Legs". Preorder The Singles HERE.

The Barbican in London recently hosted a very special event to mark CAN’s 50th anniversary year: Irmin Schmidt conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, presenting the world premiere of an original orchestral work composed by Schmidt and Gregor Schwellenbach called CAN Dialog while a specially curated supergroup brought together by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and featuring CAN’s first singer Malcolm Mooney performed a set of CAN tracks, including “She Brings The Rain,” “Yoo Doo Right” and “Mother Sky.”

CAN, founded in 1967, released their debut album Monster Movie (1969) which set them apart from the mainstream, carving out a sound that transcended the boundaries of experimental electronic, jazz and modern classical music. CAN’s influence extends from post-punk musicians such as Joy Division and Primal Scream, through avant-garde composers including Bernhard Lang and Radiohead. Schmidt himself began his musical career as a pupil of Stockhausen and Ligeti, and conducted numerous high-profile orchestras in his native Germany and abroad. Hearing the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa in the ‘60s led to the formation of CAN but Schmidt never lost touch with his avant-garde classical upbringing, and it is to Schmidt that CAN owed much of its musical eclecticism.

In spring 2018, Faber & Faber will publish a new book devoted to CAN titled All Gates Open. The special edition will come in two volumes: one will be the first complete, authorized biography of the band written by Rob Young and the second, CAN Kiosk by Irmin Schmidt, is a collage of thoughts, visuals and interviews (interviews collated by Max Dax and Robert Defcon).

CAN – THE SINGLES TRACKLISTING
1. Soul Desert
2. She Brings The Rain
3. Spoon
4. Shikako Maru Ten
5. Turtles Have Short Legs
6. Halleluwah (Edit)
7. Vitamin C
8. I’m So Green
9. Mushroom
10. Moonshake
11. Future Days (Edit)
12. Dizzy Dizzy (Edit)
13. Splash (Edit)
14. Hunters And Collectors (Edit)
15. Vernal Equinox (Edit)
16. I Want More
17. ...And More
18. Silent Night
19. Cascade Waltz
20. Don’t Say No (Edit)
21. Return
22. Can Can
23. Hoolah Hoolah (Edit)

Dunno deal with link--if don't see it, check youtube.

Why is it that Rhino has put out at least half a dozen Nuggets followups (Nuggets II, Children of Nuggets and the San Francisco and L.A. boxes, plus a few Rhino Handmade single-disc Sunshine Pop comps), but never a sequel to the One Kiss Can Lead To Another girl group box?

Not that it answers your question, but I think they haven't done a various artists box set since the L.A. Nuggets one in 2009. I understand some of the Rhino people went to work elsewhere amidst greater Warner downsizing; some of them I think went to RockBeat Records, where they have done further "nuggets" collections (Surf Age Nuggets, Halloween Nuggets, Los Nuggets).

I pre-ordered the Purple Rain set. It's about damn time!

Thinking of getting Uriah Heep reissues, and this: Doctors Of Madness - Perfect Past: The Complete Doctors of Madness

Doctors Of Madness were the missing link between Bowie and the Sex Pistols. Formed in 1974, they were too early for punk but their music was abrasive, angular and uncompromising. Members of The Adverts, The Damned, Penetration and The Skids were in their audiences. The Sex Pistols were their support band. After they split in 1978, Doctors Of Madness were tagged “punk before punk”: as author Simon Reynolds put it in his 2016 book Shock And Awe: Glam Rock And Its Legacy.

Perfect Past: The Complete Doctors Of Madness is the first ever all-inclusive anthology of this important British band. Over three discs, their three albums – Disc One: Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms (March 1976); Disc Two : Figments Of Emancipation (October 1976); Disc Three: Sons Of Survival (March 1978) – are supplemented with never-before-heard recordings from June 1975 and late 1976, along with live recordings of songs they never tackled in the studio, including those with The Adverts’ TV Smith, and a prospective 1978 single made with The Damned’s David Vanian on vocals. All tracks are newly remastered.

In-depth liner notes by MOJO magazine’s Kieron Tyler, the author of Damned biography Smashing It Up: A Decade Of Chaos With The Damned, draw on exclusive new interviews with the band’s charismatic, outspoken frontman and songwriter Richard Strange and their violin/guitar player Urban Blitz.

Presented in a clam shell box, including LP facsimile wallets, and a fully illustrated booklet featuring illustrations from Richard Strange’s personal archives.

The band-approved Perfect Past: The Complete Doctors Of Madness is the last word on Doctors Of Madness and essential for anyone with any interest in British rock and how punk evolved. Watch out for reunion shows in 2017.

DISC ONE:
LATE NIGHT MOVIES, ALL NIGHT BRAINSTORMS (MARCH 1976)
1. WAITING
2. AFTERGLOW
3. MITZI'S CURE
4. I THINK WE'RE ALONE
5. THE NOISES OF THE EVENING
6. BILLY WATCH OUT
7. B-MOVIE BEDTIME
8. MAINLINES

BONUS TRACKS
9. DOCTORS OF MADNESS **
10.BALLAD OF A THIN MAN *
11.WE DON’T GET BACK *
12.B-MOVIE BEDTIME *
13.OUT *

* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DEMO’S
** OUTTAKE

DISC TWO:
FIGMENTS OF EMANCIPATION (OCTOBER 1976)
1. BROTHERS (FOR JOHN & BRIAN)
2. SUICIDE CITY (FOR JACQUELINE)
3. PERFECT PAST (FOR RENE)
4. MARIE & JOE (FOR MARIE & JOE)
5. IN CAMERA (HUIS CLOS)
6. DOCTORS OF MADNESS (FOR ME & YOU)
7. OUT (FOR MITZI)

BONUS TRACKS
8. FRUSTRATION * 9. I MAKE PLANS *
10.TRIPLE VISION **

* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DEMO’S
** ACOUSTIC DEMO

DISC THREE:
SONS OF SURVIVAL (MARCH 1978)
1. 50s KIDS
2. INTO THE STRANGE
3. NO LIMITS
4. BULLETIN
5. NETWORK
6. SONS OF SURVIVAL
7. BACK FROM THE DEAD
8. TRIPLE VISION
9. KISS GOODBYE TOMORROW 10.COOL (LIVE IN THE SATIN SUBWAY)

BONUS TRACKS
11.DON’T PANIC ENGLAND
12.WILLIAM BURROUGHS INTRO TAPE (LIVE)
13.TROUBLE (LIVE)
14.MAKING MACHINES (LIVE)*
15.WHO CRIES FOR ME? (LIVE)*

* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

I was offered a promo of that but I'd never heard of them so I passed.

Yep, they continue to be a band lost between the cracks. Ultravox, Simple Minds and OMD have cited them as an influence.

Got an advance of it -- great set!

Describe please (within discreet bounds, if you might be covering it)!

"the missing link between Bowie and the Sex Pistols" sounds like Cheech and Chong's band from Up in Smoke

Lawl

Too late for glam, too early for punk *kinda* describes it but it's more like these characters would have been weirdos in any scene. But they didn't eschew catchy songs either.

Come to think of it, Mark Sinker once told me that really early on (with Matlock, I take it), the live (and maybe demo?) Pistols did sometimes sound kinda like frayed Bowieoid glam fans---and if them then, why not others?

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Formed in Sydney in 1976, VOIGT/465 was a truly unique band from the exciting days of the Australian post-punk scene. Heavily influenced by such luminaries as the Velvets, Stooges, Syd Barrett, Pere Ubu, Can, Faust, Henry Cow, Slapp Happy and Eno’s Roxy Music, they created an abrasive sound in which Krautrock, DIY, avant-garage, post-punk, psych, art-rock and free improv-noise combined to form a sound unlike any other.

In 1978 they released one of the first DIY 45s from Australia, “State” / “A Secret West”, which showed their “pop-psych” side and was played by John Peel in the UK.

The following year, their bass player Lindsay O’Meara decided to leave the band and join Crime & The City Solution in Melboune. Before parting ways, Voigt/465 decided to record one last album as a testament. “Slights Spoken”, saw the light in 1979 and it’s without doubt one of the most fascinating albums from the post-punk /DIY era. Here it is including the two tracks from their first 45 as bonus tracks.

*LP and CD come with free digital download coupon, featuring the complete album plus five studio / live bonus tracks from '78-79, including killer covers of Faust, Can and Roxy Music.

*Remastered sound

*Insert with rare photos and liner notes by band member Phil Turnbull

RIYL: CAN, FAUST, PERE UBU, ROXY MUSIC, FAMILY FODDER, THE HOMOSEXUALS, SLAPP HAPPY, THIS HEAT, POP GROUP, PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS...

“An interesting schizophrenic mix of punk, krautrock, psychedelia with RIO/Homosexuals/This Heat weirdness.” – Mutant Sounds

“These guys and gals were something like a psychedelic meeting of This Heat, Krautrock and the Homosexuals, with a healthy dose of that good old English-born DIY spirit thrown in.”
- Dominique Leone (Pitchfork)

LP Tracklist:

Side A: 1. State* - 2. Voices A Drama - 3. A Welcome Mystery - 4. Red Lock On See Steal - 5. Imprint - 6. Many Risk

Side B: 1. A Secret West* - 2. Is New Is - 3. 4 Hours - 4. P - 5. F1 - 6. Winchsoul

* Bonus tracks.

CD and DIGITAL Tracklist:

01. State* - 02. A Secret West* - 03. Voices A Drama - 04. A Welcome Mystery - 05. Red Lock On See Steal - 06. Imprint - 07. Many Risk - 08. Is New Is - 09. 4 Hours - 10. P - 11. F1 - 12. Winchsoul - 13. And The Following Page* - 14. So Long As One Knows* - 15. Remake / Remodel (Live)** - 16. Connection (Live)** - 17. It's A Rainy Day (Live)**

*Bonus Tracks
** Digital only bonus tracks.

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CHIMERA MUSIC AND SECRETLY CANADIAN ANNOUNCE SECOND BATCH OF YOKO ONO REISSUES

FLY, APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE, & FEELING THE SPACE TO BE REISSUED JULY 14TH

WATCH A TRAILER FOR THE SECOND BATCH OF REISSUES
https://youtu.be/WYhhhBsE19c

LISTEN TO "WHAT A BASTARD THE WORLD IS"
Via SoundCloud - http://bit.ly/2s4g7Ao
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Secretly Canadian is honored to partner with Chimera Music on releasing Yoko Ono’s musical output from 1968 to 1985. Comprised of eleven studio albums, the reissue project’s focus is to painstakingly reconstruct the original vinyl packaging, to thoroughly excavate and appropriately curate the treasure-laden archives of never-before-seen photos and ephemera, and to re-master the audio, all for the purpose of creating the definitive editions of this timeless work. In addition to making the vinyl available for the first time in decades, each album will also be available digitally for the first time ever.

Secretly Canadian and Chimera Music couldn’t be more proud to be a part of re-introducing Yoko Ono’s seminal work. The first batch was reissued last year and included 1968's Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, 1969's Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions, and 1970's Plastic Ono Band. The second batch, which will see release on July 14th, will feature 1971's Fly, 1973's Approximately Infinite Universe, and 1973's Feeling The Space.

In the meantime, you can watch the reissue trailer and stream the re-mastered version of "What A Bastard The World Is" off of Approximately Infinite Universe.

FLY
What you hear on Fly is Ono’s disarming combination of opacity and visceral, personal transparency in full bloom. It’s also one of the most unbridled, most captivating soul albums ever made. And that’s right where she wants you: Vulnerable, wide open to any-and-everything, ready to have your world tipped onto its head. She’s a master of spinning your head around. First, you get the Bar Band from Hell of “Midsummer New York” to kick things off. It’s about the last thing you’d expect from Ono coming off Plastic Ono Band. But here you are, listening to Ono channeling Elvis. At 16-minute-plus, the tranced-out, motorik-inspired boogie “Mind Train” is rough-and-ready for your next basement get down. Movement and perspiration required. Ono’s band of session heavy hitters burrows deep in a sort-of locomotive raga while Ono’s punchy vocables and rhythmic syllables do interpretive dances around one another. If Ono’s voice were Miles Davis’s trumpet, “Mind Train” might not sound totally out of place on Davis’s Jack Johnson or On The Corner. Then, we have the absolutely gutting blues of “Don’t Worry, Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking For Her Hand in The Snow).” Full of ache and raw emotion, the song is a love note, a plea for forgiveness, to her estranged daughter Kyoko shot across the universe on a flaming arrow. “Don’t Worry...” is the only song on Fly to feature the truly legendary line-up of John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voorman — all masters laying down a totally crude assault on the blues form. Ono follows this stampede of emotion with the self-referential torch song “Mrs. Lennon,” a wounded — personally wounded, spiritually wounded — song that gets right into the Universal Loneliness. And so here you are. You’re devastated. You're exhausted. You're exhilarated. And you’re only 1/4 of the way up the mountain that is Fly. Dig deep, traveler, it’s worth the climb.

APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE
There’s a fury at the core of Yoko Ono’s 1973 rock opus Approximately Infinite Universe that was not apparent on previously recorded efforts. Ono has always been a master of turning pain and sadness into art, but here, there’s a clenched-fist intensity that sets it apart in her deep, unparalleled catalogue. Ono is angry. She proved that one can carry a boundless love for humanity and still be furious — furious at male/female relationships, at war, at your partner. Meanwhile, on a sonic level, Ono ups the ante on the more centered rock-n-roll sounds she approached with 1971’s Fly. Backed by members of New York band Elephant's Memory, with limited guitar contributions from John Lennon (listed as "Joel Nohnn"), the album is also one of the most traditional-sounding rock chapters in Ono's sprawling catalogue. There are moments here that absolutely rival Jersey legends the E Street Band, though of course Ono’s vision leads her band down darker, more mystical paths than the E Street Band ever dared tread. Approximately Infinite Universe is an essential and progressive piece of Ono’s output, both in the advancements she made as a songwriter/conceptualist, and as a solidified statement of her staunch feminist role within the very male-dominated mainstream rock ghetto of the mid-1970's. Add this powerful feminist statement to the fact that the music business in 1973 was in its post-Woodstock explosion: A&R men, radio programmers, marketing execs, booking agents: men with a chokehold over the business, and Yoko's entry into it a complete question mark to them all. Ono absolutely intended to boggle the boys' club of the music industry. Fast-forward to today, and Approximately Infinite Universe stands as a template for powerful female artists to follow in the years ahead.

FEELING THE SPACE
The fact that the once-reviled Yoko Ono is inspiring a new generation of activists comes as no surprise if you’ve listened to Feeling the Space, her personal-is-political 1973 album that resonates remarkably forty-four years later. On such songs as the righteous chant “Woman Power,” the empathetic ballad “Angry Young Woman,” the hilarious proto-grrrl “Potbelly Rocker,” and the satirical “Men Men Men,” Ono sings in surprisingly straightforward fashion about the burdens carried by women and the mandate for feminism. Supported by such skilled studio vets as guitarist David Spinozza, sax player Michael Brecker, and drummer Jim Keltner, this is perhaps Yoko’s most accessible album, and her most intimate. Feeling the Space was recorded during the time when the avant-garde visionary artist became estranged from her rock-star husband John Lennon. He plays only briefly on the album (billed as Johnny O’cean); she produced and wrote all the songs. The result is a definitive soundtrack/document of the era of consciousness raising and of radical critique of the family structure. Yoko and company deliver this hard message soft rock style, or as soft as Yoko could get – think of Feeling the Space as Tapestry with talons, or the second-wave godmother of Lemonade. Yoko was on the front lines of the women’s liberation movement. Dedicated “to the sisters who died in pain and sorrow and those who are now in prisons and in mental hospitals for being unable to survive in the male society,” it’s an emotional exploration of the psychological toll of oppression.

YOKO ONO DISCOGRAPHY TO BE REISSUED
Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (1968) - out now
Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions (1969) - out now
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band (1970) - out now
Fly (1971) - out July 14th
Approximately Infinite Universe (1973) - out July 14th
Feeling the Space (1973) - out July 14th
A Story (recorded in 1974)
Season of Glass (1981)
It’s Alright (I See Rainbows) (1982)
Starpeace (1985)
Unfinished Music No. 3: Wedding Album (1969)

Pre-order Yoko Ono Reissues:
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https://yokoonoplasticonoband.lnk.to/approximately
https://yokoonoplasticonoband.lnk.to/feelingthespace

Download hi-res images and one-sheets here: http://www.secretlycanadian.com/press/onoyoko

Yoko Ono Online:
http://imaginepeace.com/
https://twitter.com/yokoono/
https://www.facebook.com/yokoonopage/
https://www.instagram.com/yokoonoofficial/

Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition
July 7, 2017
k.d. lang's Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition marks the double platinum-selling, Grammy-winning album's silver anniversary. The new two-disc set includes remastered versions of the album's original ten tracks, including its huge hit "Constant Craving," along with eight previously unreleased performances from lang's 1993 MTV Unplugged episode, recorded in New York City's famed Ed Sullivan Theater. Nonesuch Store pre-orders include an exclusive, limited-edition print signed by lang.

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Shelleyan orphan complete works coming out as Limited edition box sets in cd and vinyl.

From THE DRAG CITY NEWSLETTER---as ever, please adjust your shades to dig this prose:

MAGICAL MIYASHITA TOUR
We're always on about the weirdness of time and vagaries of fate, but it's not entirely our fault - time and fate continue to demonstrate new aspects of the improbable way it all works! Take our other July release (yes, please), Fumio Miyashita's Live On the Boffomundo Show. We're not sure what's more unlikely - us putting out edited performances from two thirtysomething-year-old performances by Fumio on LA's obscure cable-access
"Boffomundo Show" or the fact that Fumio Miyashita appeared twice on an LA cable access show in 1979 and 80! Because see, first of all, Fumio Miyashita is a well-known name in Japan, but still a cult figure over here even today. After debuting with Far Out in 1973, then morphing to the equally proggy Far East Family Band
(with Kitaro!) in 1974, Fumio was on his way to a prolific solo career, with over 50 album releases from the eighties through the aughties. Sure, people know what the Far East Family Band were about, and groups like Tangerine Dream were known to be about in 1979. But still! Somehow fate brought Fumio to the attention of Aaron Weiner and Ron Curtiss and he duly appeared, with his synthesizers, tapes, flute and percussion in full flight. A second trip produced a session featuring guitar and bass in addition to Fumio's arsenal. Our good friend Brian Weitz brought this to us, and we absolutely did not say no! A nice combination of seeming amazing on paper and also playing AWESOME in the ear, the "Boffomundo Tapes" are bound to please kraut collectors, new age enthusiasts and just plain ol' tripheads alike! Root Strata blog has remarkably clear video footage of the shows, but even without the pristine black and white images of Fumio attending his keyboards, this music is a deep recital of experimental and spiritual vibes, prefiguring the new age drifts of the decade to come with a nice early edge still on the music. That the sands of time have shifted to allow us all to hear this just tickles us! Hats off to sticking around - the honor of still being here for this is all ours. But the pleasure is something we're determined to share.

PET SHOP BOYS ANNOUNCE CATALOGUE: 1985-2012

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Landmark Series Of Remastered Parlophone Studio Albums Packaged With "Further
Listening" Albums Of Additional And Previously Unreleased Material Out July 28

press release: http://view.e.wbr.com/?qs=aa5300a735c9e73da9b720a246bc049be2036895cfdb6042d891deb772f3cd27bb61a5e8138bb75696a14053042708e5207253b3ac0774bf28b2543291a5ac0b

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At long last, Black Gladiator and Slovenly boldly present the first ever reissue of the infamous “Eat Hot Lead” LP from San Fernando Valley’s PUKE SPIT & GUTS! Fully authorized by the band’s surviving members, this project was ten years in the making, and originally slated for re-release by Alternative Tentacles. Here’s Jello Biafra, as quoted from Re/Search’s “Incredibly Strange Music vol. II” tome:

“Most extreme of all in music and attitude was PUKE SPIT & GUTS from Southern California - their album was subtly titled Eat Hot Lead. They’re none to subtle about how much they hate having to play with punk bands, even though they sound like them. In L.A. they even had a run-in with an original D.C. hardcore band, The Teen Idles (Ian MacKaye pre-Minor Threat; Henry Rollins was their roadie). Seems Ian borrowed their bass amp and blew it up. P.S.& G. chased them all over the parking lot outside Madame Wong’s (a punk club)!”

A crew of spirited So. Cal. weirdos, as opposed to mere punks, Puke Spit & Guts released the LP on their own Important Records label in 1980. Members Donny Death, Captain Worm, Dick Head (real name!), Marie Manslaughter and Stuicide assembled this absurdist and raunchy LP with the unholy shrieks of human victims being fed into a countertop blender between each track. On the opening cut - the PS&G theme - Death declares most bizarrely and brazenly “Sex Pistols couldn’t their liquor, Ramones wear tennis shoes! Alice Cooper is a party pooper, we’re the punk band for youuuu!” On “Kill for Kicks” he proclaims “I’m so tired, I’m so bored, I don’t wanna live no more! Life is a fucker and I’m a whore!” And it only gets weirder from there. Marie Manslaughter lets you know if you wanna get some of her fine lovin’ you gotta self-mutilate on “Send Me Your Ear,” and even then, anal sex is outta the question on “You Ain’t Never.” We’re not even gonna attempt to tell you What Captain Worm is yelling about on the title track.

This one-in-a-million scumbag rarity makes a killer companion to your Mentors, Jabbers, Broken Talent, and We’re Loud records. Check the full story / interview by Laurent Bigot in the upcoming issue of Ugly Things Magazine (#45) and as a Bandcamp ONLY download exclusive, there are 24 rare photos + 10 bonus tracks: live material from 1979, outtakes from the ERRATIC session (Capt. Worm’s post-PS&G project), one track from Worm’s last ever recording session (1984), a KROQ album giveaway aircheck, and a 2001 recording by DONNY DEATH JR. and the PUTZ.

Such a beautiful record, all-time for me.

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Available: July 28th, 2017

Recorded in a shaky makeshift chicken shack in rural Maryland, Link Wray’s eponymous 1971 solo album is a compelling and forward-looking piece of honest, handmade Americana. This album is vastly different from his previous work, foregoing instrumentals entirely. Instead, Wray, left with only one lung following a bout with tuberculosis in 1956, gives us his raw voice, full of spit and vinegar, as he blends elements of country, rock ‘n’ roll, roots, folk and gospel marked with fuzzy guitar and booming percussion. He kicks off with a track, “La De Da”, that may be the greatest song the Stones never wrote. Elsewhere, the single “Fallin’ Rain” channels Dylan at his most political, with lyrics about “stabbings and shootings and young men dying all around.” Link Wray proved to be the only album that the guitarist issued in his own name to hit the American charts during his nearly 50-year recording career. Although it didn’t receive much critical acclaim at the time of its release, Link Wray has seen a resurgence in recent years and developed a cult following, with artists from Nick Cave to The Neville Brothers recording versions of its tracks.

Link, along with brothers Vernon and Doug began playing together professionally in 1942, their rowdy instrumental single “Rumble” charting at number 16 in 1958. Following a string of hits on Philadelphia-based Swan Records, Vernon began to serve as the family’s producer, eventually starting his own studio; first in the basement of his home and then–after his wife Evelyn complained about the noise–in a converted shack on the property. It was there that Link, Vernon and producer Steve Verroca found a sound that marked “a return to simplicity.” This carefully remastered reissue will take you right back to that chicken shack, and to sessions so electric you can almost feel the atmosphere.

Release Notes

PRE-ORDER EDITION:
“Juke Box Mama Gold” wax. Limited edition of 400. Limit two per customer.
First official vinyl reissue
Reproduction of original die-cut LP gatefold jacket
New liner notes by Chris Morris
Newly remastered
The 4xLP bundle includes: standard black vinyl copies of Mordicai Jones (TWM06), Beans & Fatback (TWM07), Be What You Want (TWM08), and the gold wax color variant of Link Wray (FDR 633) – See photo below

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pep llopis reissue owns

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Noothgrush / Corrupted
Noothgrush/Corrupted split

Release date: Friday, August 25th 2017

Airplay Date: Tuesday, July 18th 2017

20 Buck Spin is proud to re-unleash one of the most corrosive and damaging split albums, and one of the earliest landmark sludge metal releases, with a reissue of the long out-of-print NOOTHGRUSH / CORRUPTED split LP. The album has been remastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (Vastum, Acephalix, Nightfell) and bears new artwork by Hal Rotter of Rotting Graphics (Atriarch, Vehemence, Vallenfyre).

View a trailer for the remastered NOOTHGRUSH / CORRUPTED split LP at THIS LOCATION.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf3AJMe7IH0&feature=youtu.be

It's hard to believe that twenty years have passed since two of the bleakest purveyors of doomed psychosis, namely NOOTHGRUSH and CORRUPTED, unleashed thirty-five minutes of suffering on one split LP. Perhaps thought buried by grime and rust, the much sought-after release has now been excavated in 2017 and given a fresh layer of tar via remastered audio and new artwork.

Today there's countless bands mining every single facet of what is mostly incorrectly called “doom.” Initially released in 1997 through Reservoir Records, the NOOTHGRUSH / CORRUPTED split reminds us that “sludge,” doom's most nihilistic offshoot, wasn’t about upbeat warm waves of stoner’ riffs and top dollar vintage tees, but about landfills of hatred, misery, and self-loathing, a total negation of life and a completely uncompromising and untrendy sound. Music that wants to punish you and itself.

Oakland's Hal Rotter has provided this seminal split with new art appropriately conveying the grim atmosphere within, and Brad Boatright's remaster enhances the all-consuming dread that makes even the bleakest Vitus moments sound cheerful by comparison.

The monumental NOOTHGRUSH / CORRUPTED will be resurrected by 20 Buck Spin on LP and digital platforms on August 25th. Find both clear and black vinyl preorders HERE and digital preorders HERE.

NOOTHGRUSH / CORRUPTED Split LP Track Listing:

NOOTHGRUSH - Hatred For The Species
NOOTHGRUSH - Draize
CORRUPTED - Inactive

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I tweeted that I hoped this was the beginning of a full-on Corrupted reissue campaign, and the 20 Buck Spin dude replied, "I wish!"

SEPULTURA: CHAOS A.D. AND ROOTS EXPANDED EDITIONS

CD And Vinyl Sets Feature Newly Remastered Versions Of The Original Albums
Expanded With Rare And Unreleased Studio And Live Recordings

Available This Fall From Rhino

expanded track listings got messed up when I tried to paste the whole thing, but here's orig press sheet:
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Most of the bonus tracks on the Chaos A.D. reissue were originally issued on a Roadrunner compilation called Blood-Rooted.

Two Ornette Coleman albums that have never been on CD before, not even in Japan, are being released in September. Crisis and Ornette At 12 are coming out as a 2-for-1 from Real Gone Music. Fully remastered, new liner notes, artwork nicely reproduced, etc., etc.

Pre-order link.

I like Emerson, Lake & Palmer a lot, but this is fucking nuts.

FANFARE: EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER 1970-1997

Super-Deluxe, career-spanning Box Set featuring the classic original albums, a wealth of unreleased ELP recordings on CD and LP, hardback book, audio Blu-Ray, 7” Singles, tour programmes and memorabilia

Released by BMG on September 29th, 2017

Pre-order now from the official Box Set Store: www.elpfanfarebox.com

Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy Tour 2017 Summer Tour Dates Announced - Appearing on the Yestival tour


BMG’s comprehensive Emerson, Lake & Palmer release series continues with ‘Fanfare: Emerson, Lake & Palmer 1970-1997’ available from September 29th 2017. This lavishly produced impressive box set collates nearly 3 decades of work from the immense musical talent of keyboardist Keith Emerson, bassist/vocalist Greg Lake and drummer Carl Palmer.

The Fanfare box set offers a wealth of ELP treasure for their ever increasing fanbase: All of ELP’s remastered 11 albums; 5 previously unreleased CDs of never issued recordings; a never before issued triple vinyl set (‘Live In Italy, May 1973’); 1 x Surround Sound Blu Ray audio, plus some high quality memorabilia including a 40-page hardback book with rare band photos, as well as tour programmes and a must-have repro 7” of ‘Fanfare For The Common Man’. An expansive set befitting for one of rock’s great super groups.

ELP were one the most commercially successful rock bands of the 1970s, their wild stage act and dynamic music achieved global sales of over 40 million albums. Their first 7 album releases all made the U.K. chart Top 10 and U.S. Top 20. Their penchant for appropriating themes from classical music and the group's more nuanced, textured approach to symphonic arrangements set ELP apart from their more bombastic guitar-based contemporaries of the time.

Despite the sad recent deaths of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake, Carl Palmer continues to play sell-out shows all over the world with his group Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy and they will be appearing in the US August 2017 (see dates).

FANFARE 1970-1994: BOX SET CONTENTS:

*The remastered 11 classic original ELP albums (1970-94), on CD, with original sleeve artwork reproduced:
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER (1970)
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION (1971)
TARKUS (1971)
TRILOGY (1972)
BRAIN SALAD SURGERY (1973)
WELCOME BACK, MY FRIENDS, TO THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS (1974) (2CD)
WORKS VOLUME 1 (1977) (2CD)
WORKS VOLUME 2 (1977)
LOVE BEACH (1978)
BLACK MOON (1992)
IN THE HOT SEAT (1994)

Previously unreleased, gatefold, triple vinyl LP album:
LIVE AT VELODROMO VIGORELLI, MILAN, ITALY, MAY 4TH,1973 & STADIO FLAMINIO, ROME, ITALY, MAY, 2ND 1973

*Previously unreleased CD albums, mastered by the internationally celebrated studio engineering team of Andy Pearce and Matt Wortham:
LIVE AT POCONO INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, LONG POND, PA, U.S.A., 9TH JULY 1972
LIVE AT WATERLOO CONCERT FIELD, STANHOPE NEW JERSEY, U.S.A., 13TH AUGUST 1992
LIVE AT BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONIC HALL, U.K., 27TH NOVEMBER 1992
ON THE BBC: THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST 1979, POP GOES SUMMER 1993
LIVE AT ÉLYSÉE MONTMARTRE, PARIS, FRANCE, 2ND JULY 1997

*Audio Blu-Ray, containing the stereo 5:1 and surround sound mixes of the albums:
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER (STEVEN WILSON, 2012)
TARKUS (STEVEN WILSON, 2012)
TRILOGY (JAKKO M JAKSZYK, 2015)
BRAIN SALAD SURGERY (JAKKO M JAKSZYK, 2014)

*Remastered 7” singles with reproduced original sleeve artwork:
LUCKY MAN / KNIFE-EDGE (1970)
FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN / BRAIN SALAD SURGERY (1977)

*Deluxe, hardback 12” book with band photos and extensive notes from acclaimed journalist Chris Welch, featuring quotes from Keith Emerson, Greg Lake & Carl Palmer

*Reprinted original 1970 promo poster, 1972 promo brochure, 1974 and 1992 tour programs

*Metal & enamel ELP logo pin badge

We are excited to announce SV's reissue campaign of electronic music pioneer Franco Battiato. Often heralded as Italy's answer to Brian Eno, Battiato turned pop music upside down in the early '70s with perfectly oblique vocals, infectious melodies, analog electronics and his unique, forward-thinking ideas on rock 'n' roll.

Three classic albums – Fetus (1971), Pollution (1972) and Sulle Corde Di Aries (1973) – are scheduled to be released this September, with more coming later in the year!

https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/franco-battiato?mc_cid=a89fc490f5&mc_eid=2e56297982

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF ROLLING STONES’
THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST COMING SEPTEMBER 22 FROM ABKCO

LANDMARK 1967 ALBUM TO RECEIVE DOUBLE VINYL / DOUBLE HYBRID SACD TREATMENT, INCLUDING MONO AND STEREO VERSIONS WITH RESTORED ORIGINAL LENTICULAR COVER ART

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones album Their Satanic Majesties Request, ABKCO Music is releasing a limited edition deluxe double vinyl/double hybrid Super Audio CD (compatible with all CD players) package on September 22. The set contains both the stereo and mono versions of every song, all newly remastered by Bob Ludwig. Their Satanic Majesties Request 50th Anniversary will include Michael Cooper’s original 3-D lenticular cover photograph, featuring the band in peak psychedelic regalia.

Originally released in December of 1967, Their Satanic Majesties Request is the first self-produced album in the Stones’ vast catalog. Experimental in nature, it was such a departure from the band’s rhythm & blues roots that it threw critics for a loop. Initially derided by Rolling Stone Magazine for being “too infused with the pretentions of their musical inferiors” (namely the Beatles), the record was simultaneously lauded by DownBeat with a five star review declaring the album “a revolutionary event in modern pop music.”* Over the ensuing decades, it has proven to be a highly influential body of work; generations of bands have covered Satanic songs, from punk legends The Damned, Bad Brains, and Redd Kross, to hard rockers KISS and Monster Magnet, as well as indie taste makers Cibo Matto and Arcade Fire. Music from the album can be heard in Wes Anderson’s directorial debut Bottle Rocket.

The title was derived from a pun based on the inside of British passports at the time which read, “Her Britannic Majesties Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Requests and Requires . . .” Their Satanic Majesties Request was recorded in pieces between February and October of 1967. It was a tumultuous period for the Rolling Stones – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones were arrested for drug possession, with Jones spending three weeks in a nursing home. Stones’ original manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham quit halfway through recording sessions, leaving the band to finish the album on their own. A chaotic spring European tour that involved a riot in Poland also interrupted work flow. Very rarely were all five members in the studio at the same time but despite these impediments, Charlie Watts recalled, “The sessions were a lot of fun because you could do anything. It was so druggy—acid and all that.”

Grammy award winning music historian Rob Bowman writes in the liner notes for the new set, “Their Satanic Majesties Request should be recognized as an important stepping stone in the Rolling Stones’ development from an r&b-inspired band to the inventors of modern rock for the 1970s.” Falling between Between the Buttons and Beggars Banquet, it was the first of their albums to have identical tracklists in the U.S. and UK. Satanic Majesties’ ten tunes are saturated with studio effects, non-traditional instruments such as mellotron and theremin, ambient sounds created using oscillators, string arrangements by John Paul Jones (who went on to help establish Led Zeppelin the following year) and more percussive devices than can be named. “Citadel” foreshadowed the direction towards straight-forward rock the Stones would take, while “2000 Light Years From Home” and “She’s a Rainbow” (a minor hit in the U.S.) capture the band in all its psychedelic glory at that moment in time. They remain the only two songs from the album the band has ever played live. “Sing This All Together,” its looser reprise “Sing This All Together (See What Happens),” “Gomper” and “On With the Show” transition from traditional song structure to free form freakout – a trademark of that era, also heard on records by the Mothers of Invention and Pink Floyd.

Offered as a single just before the album’s release, “In Another Land” is the only song in the Rolling Stones canon both written and sung by Bill Wyman, who took advantage of the fact that he was the lone member who showed up to the studio one day. The Small Faces happened to be recording next door, so Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane were invited to contribute backing vocals, with Marriott also providing 12-string acoustic guitar. With Brian Jones on mellotron, Stones cohort Nicky Hopkins on harpsichord and Charlie Watts on drums, Mick and Keith laid down backing vocals, making it a complete Stones affair.

Michael Cooper, who had created the immaculate art for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band earlier in 1967, was hired by the Stones to make something equally striking for the cover of Their Satanic Majesties Request. All four Beatles’ likenesses can be seen popping out of flowers, surrounding a photograph of Charlie, Keith, Mick, Brian and Bill in technicolor garb. Cooper used a rare 3-D camera, employing lenticular technology – when the cover is tilted, the image changes, and every member except for wizard-hatted Mick appear to be moving their heads. Reproduction of the lenticular cover proved costly, and it was eliminated from many subsequent pressings of the album, being replaced by a still image. Their Satanic Majesties Request 50th Anniversary restores the original lenticular art, and the discs are housed in a bespoke fold out album limited edition numbered package with a 20 page book including more of Michael Cooper’s photos from the original session, expanding on what the record-buying public saw in 1967.

Their Satanic Majesties Request was originally mixed in both stereo and mono, as was standard practice in 1967. The limited edition 50th anniversary edition will include the entire album on 180 gram vinyl in stereo, another 180 gram vinyl record in mono, and two hybrid Super Audio CDs (one in stereo and one in mono). Each of these discs includes the entire musical content in both Super Audio CD (SACD) as well as standard CD, providing for complete backward and forward hardware compatibility. The discs will play flawlessly on any SACD compatible or standard CD player. In an SACD player, the laser pick-up automatically reads the SACD layer in Direct Stream Digital (DSD) format, while a standard CD player’s laser pick-up will automatically read through the SACD layer to the CD layer in Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) format. Recently remastered by eleven time Grammy winner Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios, the SACD audio is the exact product of his work.

Their Satanic Majesties Request 50th Anniversary track list:

Vinyl

Side A (stereo)
Sing This All Together
Citadel
In Another Land
2000 Man
Sing This All Together (See What Happens)

Side B (stereo)
She’s a Rainbow
The Lantern
Gomper
2000 Light Years from Home
On with the Show

Side C (mono)
Sing This All Together
Citadel
In Another Land
2000 Man
Sing This All Together (See What Happens)

Side D (mono)
She’s a Rainbow
The Lantern
Gomper
2000 Light Years from Home
On with the Show

Hybrid SACD
Disc 1 (stereo)
Sing This All Together
Citadel
In Another Land
2000 Man
Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
She’s a Rainbow
The Lantern
Gomper
2000 Light Years from Home
On with the Show

Disc 2 (mono)
Sing This All Together
Citadel
In Another Land
2000 Man
Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
She’s a Rainbow
The Lantern
Gomper
2000 Light Years from Home
On with the Show

Two from Numero:

Jackie Shane: Any Other Way

Recognized by genre aficionados as one of the greatest singers and most riveting stage presences in soul music, Jackie Shane has remained largely unknown outside Toronto, where her career briefly flowered in the 1960s. Ms. Shane is a star without parallel—a pioneer of transgender rights born in a male body, living her entire life as a woman at a time when to do so seemed unthinkable.

Any Other Way is the first artist-approved collection of Ms. Shane’s work, collecting all six of her 45s and every highlight from the legendary 1967 live sessions at the Sapphire Tavern, including three mind blowing, previously-unreleased tracks. Any Other Way marks Jackie Shane’s first communication with the public in nearly half a century. Grammy award winner Rob Bowman’s extensive liner notes tell, for the first time ever, Ms. Shane’s story in her own words, copiously illustrated with never-before-seen pictures from a career and life unlike any other.

Available on limited deluxe double CD, double LP, or digital on October 20, 2017.

Wayfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares

As the hippie movement hurtled towards its imminent demise, bad vibes infiltrated the rock world. Tainted LSD, loud motorcycles, and a series of brutal deaths spawned inspiration for guitar-wielding teenagers across the globe. Implementing deafening fuzz and satanic screams to create their proto-metal monstrosities, short-lived stoner bands pressed their lysergic experiments in microscopic quantities before blacking out entirely. Lifted from the ashes of the acid rock hell fire are 18 distorted tales of dope fiends, pill poppers, and the baddest of trips.

Deluxe 2LP comes housed in a blacklight poster-style jacket illustrated by Benjamin Marra, replete with flocking and lysergic neon. 24 pages documenting the creeping existential dread of the hard rock underground are tucked into the gatefold pocket alongside two dead dinosaur-heavy LPs. Compact disc is packaged in standard Numero slipcase, with digipak and 40-page book, limited to 2000 copies.

Turn on, tune in, and drop out.

I missed this great reissue last year - Rico - Man From Wareika / Wareika Dub. Double disc has some nice bonus tracks, still waiting for my order after a few weeks. Any other good reggae reissues this year?

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It's been announced (and then not released on said date) before but in this interview Bryan Ferry mentions a box set release of Roxy Music's debut:

This November, we are releasing a new special edition box set of the first Roxy Music album, complete with the original demo recordings and loads of previously unpublished photographs.

About the photographs/cover:

I guess the first Roxy Music album cover is still my favorite. There is a certain purity and simplicity there which makes it memorable. I thought at the time it would be a good idea to have an eye-catching "pin up" kind of image on the cover, rather than a shot of me and the band. This, of course, relates to my Pop Art background, when I studied under Richard Hamilton at Newcastle University in the 1960s. The fashion designer Antony Price, the photographer Karl Stoecker and the artist Nick de Ville all worked with me on this cover. There were numerous outtakes from this session, which are featured in the new box set I mentioned.

One of the earliest Kyuss acolytes from Sweden, along with Dozer, Mammoth Volume and Truckfighters, is Lowrider. They put out a deluxe vinyl version of their Ode to Io (2000) album.

Obelisk review: http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2017/07/20/lowrider-ode-to-io-deluxe-edition-review/
https://lowriderofficial.bandcamp.com/album/ode-to-io-deluxe-edition

http://esotericrecordings.com/newreleases.html

Any thoughts on the recent and upcoming reissues from Esoteric? I've been eyeing the Second Hand, Clear Blue Sky and Colosseum.

I got the Anthony Phillips and Rick Wakeman sets; they're both awful. I'm kind of interested in that John McLaughlin et al. When Fortune Smiles. Probably check it out on Spotify before paying for it, though.

Both Second Hand lps are pretty good.
So are the Colosseum

Generally I've heard the music via MP3s or previous issues, so looking more for comments on the mastering quality, extra tracks of interest, liner notes. Import CDs have them all at fairly reasonable prices, and I'm also considering previous reissues of Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Patto and Quintessence - Move Into the Light: Complete Island Recordings 1969-71.

I like that Quintessence. Sounds pretty good to me. Got it a couple of months back.

I thought there wasa pretty recent issue of the 2 Second Hand lps possibly alongside the Chillum one. I don't think the copy of Death May Be Your Santa Claus I got was that long ago. Probably find out it was 10 years now.

Actually 7 years and it was through Sunbeam as I was thinking it probably was. Was thinking Richard Morton jack in relation to it.
That version was pretty decent.

Also the Blonde On Blonde reissues seem promising. Enjoying "Circles" from Rebirth (1970) right now, some nice fuzzy psych prog.

Another titbit of Drag City News:

It's been fifty years since Pearls Before Swine first appeared. A genteel, oft-hushed missive from a far corner of the psychedelic hive mind, One Nation Underground was released on an independent outlier of a record label,--- and still its spirit came to be deeply appreciated by a generation and more. Today, this music has been reissued by labels around the world dozens of times, but it hasn't been heard properly in decades! This 50th-Anniversary edition, however, has been returned to the hands of its creators, restoring the original mono mix that made such an impact in 1967, freed from the muffling veils that time eventually wrapped around it.

Originally released on ESP-Disk and recorded at Impact Sound with provisional ESP-house man (as well as sound-man on Dylan's '66 world tour) Richard Alderson, this was THE cult album of its time, loved by artists as divergent as Leonard Cohen and Iggy Pop. Fassbinder's 1969 film Rio Das Mortes used two songs in its soundtrack and featured the album cover on one of its characters' walls. Alderson also oversaw the restoration and remastering of the tapes, allowing us to hear with jolting clarity the original sound of Pearls Before Swine.

Two hundred thousand copies were pressed over the next couple years, and by 1969, Pearls Before Swine were an underground legend, recording their third album for a major label. The mysterious glow around their first two ESP-Disk releases has never faded, even in the past several decades, when the albums' sound was botched and undermined by technology. Notes from Richard and PBS leader Tom Rapp lend historical perspective, and Tom adds his reflections on each of the songs as well. Listen again - and hear for the first time, perhaps - the definitive sound of One Nation Underground on October 20th!

Pearls Before Swine Online:
Drag City- http://www.dragcity.com/artists/pearls-before-swine
Pre Order-http://www.dragcity.com/products/one-nation-underground
Bandcamp-https://pearlsbeforeswineusa.bandcamp.com/album/one-nation-underground
iTunes-https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1270307773

Cool, I'd definitely be interested to hear that!

Re: Esoteric reissues I've never been disappointed with their remastering nor particularly excited by it. It's fine! And that Clear Blue Sky record is pretty great if you like British hard rock from the era played with youthful enthusiasm.

I just bought a box of Whitesnake's early albums, but I will not be buying this in any format:

WHITESNAKE'S CLASSIC 1987 ALBUM
GETS SUPER DELUXE EDITION FOR 30TH ANNIVERSARY

4CD/DVD Collection Includes A Newly Remastered Version Of The Original Album,
Plus Unreleased Live and Studio Recordings, Music Videos, And Documentary;
Several Versions Will Be Available On October 6 From Rhino

New Whitesnake Deal With Rhino Entertainment Puts Significant Catalog
With Warner Music Group Worldwide For The First Time

LOS ANGELES - Whitesnake had already released a string of Top 10 albums in England before the band conquered the world in 1987 with their eponymous record, also known in some countries as 1987, which was certified multi-platinum and featured the smash single "Here I Go Again." The classic album turns 30 this year and Rhino is celebrating with four new versions, including an expansive boxed set.

WHITESNAKE: SUPER DELUXE EDITION will be available on October 6 for $49.98. The 4-CD/DVD collection includes the original album with newly remastered sound, unreleased live and studio recordings, classic music videos, concert footage, a 30 minute documentary, featuring a new interview with David Coverdale, Whitesnake's founder and lead singer. The music comes with a 60-page hardbound book that's filled with rare and unseen photos from the era, an extended essay based on new interviews with Coverdale, plus a booklet of the album's lyrics, handwritten by Coverdale. The audio will also be available via digital download and streaming services.

Three other versions of WHITESNAKE will also be available the same day. A Deluxe Edition will be available in both 2-CD ($19.98) and 2-LP ($29.98) versions, each including the newly remastered album expanded with a selection of unreleased bonus recordings. A single-disc version of the newly remastered album will also be available.

This also marks the first release under a newly signed catalog deal with Whitesnake and Rhino Entertainment, the catalog division of Warner Music Group. This new deal includes both the North American and Japanese rights, marking the first time a substantial amount of the Whitesnake catalog will reside under Warner Music Group worldwide.

"It gives me great joy to finally have so much of my Whitesnake catalog all under the same roof with the Warner family and I'm thrilled to be now working with this tremendous team on a worldwide basis," says Coverdale. "I have great memories of being with Warner back in my days with Deep Purple then when I was with Geffen, when they were distributed by Warner, so it feels like coming home to now have Whitesnake there. This elaborate reissue is the perfect project to kick off the new relationship."

"Whitesnake is one of the all-time great rock 'n' roll bands, with David being an absolute icon as a vocalist and front man," says Rhino President Mark Pinkus. "We are absolutely thrilled to now have so much of the Whitesnake catalog with Warner on a global basis and are excited for the fans to see what great releases we have planned for the coming years."

Soon after its release in April 1987, WHITESNAKE became a huge success around the world, selling multi million copies. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard album chart and spawned four popular singles: "Still Of The Night," "Give Me All Your Love," "Is This Love" (which reached #2) and the #1 hit "Here I Go Again."

WHITESNAKE: SUPER DELUXE EDITION comes with an entire disc of unreleased live performances featuring Adrian Vandenberg, Vivian Campbell & Tommy Aldridge, recorded during the band's 1987-88 tour. The music includes live versions of several tracks from "1987", plus Whitesnake classics "Slide It In," "Love Ain't No Stranger," and "Slow An' Easy."

An additional disc spotlights the creative process behind WHITESNAKE with a selection of 11 unreleased demo and rehearsal recordings, including early versions of nearly every song on the album called 87 Evolutions. The final disc introduces newly remixed versions the album's four singles, and includes rare radio mixes, as well as songs from 87 Versions, an EP released exclusively in Japan.

The DVD from WHITESNAKE: SUPER DELUXE EDITION includes music videos for the four singles, all of which have been carefully restored and remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound for the first time ever. In addition, the DVD also features a new 30 minute documentary about the making of WHITESNAKE, a new promo video made especially for this set of the 1988 version of "Here I Go Again" and unreleased live footage from the 1987-88 tour.

For more information about WHITESNAKE, please contact Jessica Giordano in the Rhino Media Relations Department at jess✧✧✧.giord✧✧✧@rh✧✧✧.c✧✧ or 818-238-6403.

WHITESNAKE: SUPER DELUXE EDITION
4CD/DVD Track Listing

Disc One: Original Album 2017 Remaster
1. "Still Of The Night"
2. "Give Me All Your Love"
3. "Bad Boys"
4. "Is This Love"
5. "Here I Go Again 87"
6. "Straight For The Heart"
7. "Looking For Love"
8. "Children Of The Night"
9. "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again"
10. "Crying In The Rain"
11. "Don't Turn Away"

Disc Two: Snakeskin Boots [Live On Tour 1987-88]
1. "Bad Boys/Children Of The Night" *
2. "Slide It In" *
3. "Slow An' Easy" *
4. "Here I Go Again" *
5. "Guilty Of Love" *
6. "Is This Love" *
7. "Love Ain't No Stranger" *
8. Guitar Solo - Adrian and Vivian *
9. "Crying In The Rain" *
10. "Still Of The Night" *
11. "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City" *
12. "Give Me All Your Love" *

Disc Three: 87 Evolutions [Demos and Rehearsals]
1. "Still Of The Night" *
2. "Give Me All Your Love" *
3. "Bad Boys" *
4. "Is This Love" *
5. "Straight For the Heart" *
6. "Looking For Love" *
7. "Children Of The Night" *
8. "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again" *
9. "Crying In The Rain" *
10. "Don't Turn Away" *
11. "Crying In The Rain" (Lil' Mountain Alternate Take Ruff Mix) *

Disc Four: 87 Versions [2017 Remixes]
1. "Still Of The Night" - Remix *
2. "Is This Love" - Remix *
3. "Give Me All Your Love" - Remix *
4. "Here I Go Again 87" - Remix *
5. "Standing In The Shadows" - 1987 Versions, Japanese Mini-Album
6. "Looking For Love" - 1987 Versions, Japanese Mini-Album
7. "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again" - 1987 Versions, Japanese Mini-Album
8. "Need Your Love So Bad" - 1987 Versions, Japanese Mini-Album
9. "Here I Go Again" - Radio Mix
10. "Give Me All Your Love" - Single Version

DVD
1. "Still Of The Night" - Music Video, Restored and Remixed in 5.1
2. "Here I Go Again 87" - Music Video, Restored and Remixed in 5.1
3. "Is This Love" - Music Video, Restored and Remixed in 5.1
4. "Give Me All Your Love" - Music Video, Restored and Remixed in 5.1
5. Documentary about the making of 1987 Album *
6. "Here I Go Again" - Purplesnake Video Jam *
7. "Crying In The Rain" - 1987 Tour Video Bootleg *
8. Band Intros - 1987 Tour Video Bootleg *
9. "Still Of The Night" - 1987 Tour Video Bootleg *

WHITESNAKE: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
2LP Track Listing

Side One
1. "Still Of The Night"
2. "Bad Boys"
3. "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again"
4. "Straight For The Heart"
5. "Here I Go Again 87"

Side Two
1. "Give Me All Your Love"
2. "Is This Love"
3. "Children Of The Night"
4. "Crying In The Rain"
5. "Don't Turn Away"

Side Three
1. "Still Of The Night" - 2017 Remix *
2. "Is This Love" - 2017 Remix *
3. "Give Me All Your Love" - 2017 Remix *
4. "Here I Go Again 87" - 2017 Remix *
5. "Looking For Love"

Side Four
1. "Bad Boys/Children of the Night" - Live *
2. "Here I Go Again" - Live *
3. "Is This Love " - Live *
4. "Give Me All Your Love" - Live *
5. "Still of the Night" - Live *

WHITESNAKE: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
2CD Track Listing

Disc One: Original Album 2017 Remaster
1. "Still Of The Night"
2. "Give Me All Your Love"
3. "Bad Boys"
4. "Is This Love"
5. "Here I Go Again 87"
6. "Straight For The Heart"
7. "Looking For Love"
8. "Children Of The Night"
9. "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again"
10. "Crying In The Rain"
11. "Don't Turn Away"

Disc Two: Snakeskin Boots [Live On Tour 1987-88]
1. "Bad Boys/Children Of The Night" *
2. "Slide It In" *
3. "Slow An' Easy" *
4. "Here I Go Again" *
5. "Guilty Of Love" *
6. "Is This Love" *
7. "Love Ain't No Stranger" *
8. Guitar Solo - Adrian and Vivian *
9. "Crying In The Rain" *
10. "Still Of The Night" *
11. "Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City" *
12. "Give Me All Your Love" *

*Previously unreleased

The iconic 90's noise-pop band Medicine are set to reissue 2.0 Extraneous -- out 9/22/17 on Drawing Room Records.

Reissue of 2.0 Extraneous will be announced the week of 8/21 with single "Machine Inna Garden".

Medicine
2.0 Extraneous (Reissue)
Drawing Room Records
22 September 2017
The below info is provided by Medicine's own Brad Laner:
The LP gathers most of the non-LP songs used on UK singles released in 2003 of Wall of Sound along with a few unreleased items. Although initially released as B-sides, "The Table and the Bed", "Machine Inna Garden, "A Flying Fuck" and the Devo song "The Day My Baby Gave me a Surprize" all represent the earliest tracks created for Medicine 2.0.

‘Talk to A Rock” came into fruition after completion of The Mechanical Forces of Love, and it has never found a home until now. “Best Future (acoustic)”, meant to be part of a proposed EP of acoustic versions of songs from the LP, is also new to this collection. The Medicine Re-Make/Re-Model version Themroc’s “Into the Light” saw light of day on a 2003 single of theirs.

Lastly, created over a long weekend during the making of the LP and deemed by all involved to be too unwieldy and confusing to go on the album, “Close-up of Family’s Dream” sees fresh breath here. I adore it and am thrilled to have the chance to finally release it in its entirety.

First Edition Medicine/Kid 606 / Electric Company / Origins
Since the first edition of Medicine broke up in 1995, my work as Electric Company became a frontal concern. Eventually, I ended up in very inspiring surroundings on Kid 606’s Tigerbeat Label, for whom I made a large number of full length releases, compilation tracks and remixes. Despite my desire to utterly ignore my “glorious” past, Miguel (Kid606) was always challenging me to make a new Medicine record that didn’t necessarily need to sound anything like the old band. At some point in early 2001, I decided to give it a shot. I spent most of that year writing a bunch of songs that would become the basis for the new Medicine and felt very encouraged by the people I played them for.

Shannon Lee and Medicine 2.0
Later in 2001, Shannon Lee got back in touch with me. I had met her a few years earlier via my friend Ken Andrews (producer and leader of the band Failure) when he had asked me to help write and produce songs for a possible album project with the two of them. For a variety of reasons, that project never happened. However, Shannon and I really hit it off. Her vocal prowess blew me away, and I learned that she had a master’s degree in vocal performance.
Shannon and I also conversed about the coincidence that the first version of Medicine worked with her late brother, Brandon, on The Crow movie, and as such, it seemed inevitable that we would work on something more substantial at some point. When she called, it clicked that Shannon should come aboard for Medicine 2.0, and thus, we started a very happy collaboration writing a slew of new songs and adding her vocals to the songs I already started.

Wall of Sound and The Mechanical Forces of Love
At the same time, with all of this coming together, it came to my attention that a London dance music duo was starting to release records and do gigs under the name Medicine. I got in touch with their manager who admitted that I had the rights to the name and proceeded to offer me 5 thousand dollars for it, an offer I rejected.

He, apparently, then decided to carry on as if we had never spoken, and I found out that they had planned to release their next record on the respected Wall Of Sound label. With this information in hand, I wrote an email Mark Jones, the head of WOS, and explained my predicament. Mark promptly replied, saying something to the effect of “Those guys screwed me over and are signing with a major. Why don’t you put out your new Medicine album with us?” These results culminated into The Mechanical Forces of Love.

Mark also offered to help us fight the false Medicine duo legally in the UK. My hero! Ultimately together, we forced them to change their name to something considerably less cool, and they promptly vanished from the face of the earth after a couple of releases with that designation.

Working with Wall of Sound was quite fun as they were very much a party-oriented organization. Suddenly, I found myself DJing at Fabric in London alongside Photek and Soulwax and hanging out with Banksy (Mark Jones was his earliest supporter) in Miami in between his covert graffiti missions during the 2003 Winter Music Conference. Memorable times indeed.

Now
Once the project had run its course, Shannon and I amicably parted ways and both had kids at roughly the same time with our spouses, spending the next few years dealing more in diapers and baby-proofing than in art music. I eventually started releasing solo records in 2007 and Shannon now runs the Bruce Lee Foundation.

- Brad Laner, 2017

Cover pic

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Dan Deacon
Spiderman of the Rings
Carpark
25 August 2017

2017 marks the 10th anniversary of the record that changed everything for Dan Deacon. Spiderman of the Rings found the Baltimore-based musician transitioning from a dumpster-diving experimental artist playing house shows on the noise circuit to a major voice in electronic music. Across its 9 exuberant, still-fresh tracks, it merges Dan’s academic background in modern composition with a newly embraced pop sensibility and the ecstatic energy of his live shows. Carpark Records is proud to re-release this landmark record, coupled with the first-ever soundtrack release of the video-art collaboration that further refined Dan’s signature sound, Ultimate Reality.

Dan moved to Baltimore in 2004, with a small discography of dissonant releases under his belt. Living in a warehouse and attempting to eat on $5 a day, he toured hard, playing shows that might pay enough for him to pack his gear and green skull onto a Greyhound bus to the next town. He had no computer, no phone, and no bank account. But in the midst of those dark George W. Bush years, feeling that the world had turned into a Philip K. Dick novel—and fearing that it was destined to end in 2012 anyway—Dan figured the life he’d built in the underground was as sustainable as any.

At the same time, something shifted in Baltimore. In other cities, Dan had to work to get an audience moving by the end of his set; in Baltimore, the crowds broke into aggressive dancing from track one. This changed his writing process. Influenced by bands like Lightning Bolt and Boredoms, Dan sought to make sounds that were frenetic and extreme but also joyful. He used the tools available to him—namely, computers borrowed from his roommates while they were at work. He began writing songs for drums, songs with vocals on all tracks, songs that pushed the melodic aspects of his music to the forefront. This new music came from a place of “positive nihilism”: everything may be fucked, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun. For the very first time, he wanted to make a record that faithfully reflected his frenzied live show—a show that increasingly, flying in the face of bummer scenes hampered by crossed arms and implicit dress codes, delivered a one-man Devo or Talking Heads.

Spiderman of the Rings did all that and more. Touring in the weeks leading up to the album’s release, Dan noticed his crowds grow from 20 to 200 people. The album, he slowly gathered, had leaked, and there was major buzz (which Dan largely ascribes to its emphatically WTF reception on a high-traffic Radiohead discussion board). When it finally dropped, listeners’ ears were ready.

Spiderman of the Rings is Dan’s first fully formed statement, and the record that put him on the path he’s on today. From the euphoric squeals of single “The Crystal Cat” (#84 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of 2007) to the gorgeous, soaring “Pink Batman,” the gentle chimes and abrasive bleeps of “Big Milk,” and the swirling, moment-defining anthem “Wham City” (#30 on Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks of 2007), sophisticated compositional concepts blissfully collide with dada word-craft and a child-like sense of play. With Spiderman, Dan bridged the gap between party performer and confident composer, in the process landing on both Pitchfork’s Best New Music and their top 50 records of 2007.

As a perfect complement to this pivotal record, Carpark offers, for the first time, an audio release of the soundtrack to Dan’s collaboration with video artist Jimmy Joe Roche, 2007’s Ultimate Reality. Featuring Jeremy Hyman (ex-Ponytail, Boredoms) on drums, these three singular tracks find Dan back in Baltimore, fleshing out his new sound and enjoying the enhanced set of tools Spiderman’s success afforded him. Together, they comprise the origin story of the Dan Deacon we know and love today.

09.02 - Hampton, VA @ Bass Center X
09.24 - Cincinnati, OH @ Midpoint Music Festival
09.29 - Darlington, MD @ Luna Light Music Festival
10.07 - Edmonton, AB Canada @ The Starlite Room
11.09 - Providence, RI @ AS220
11.10 - Somerville, MA @ Hassle Fest 9
11.11 - Holyoke, MA @ Gateway City Arts
11.12 - Portland, ME @ SPACE Gallery

MULTI-FACETED ARTIST ISAAC HAYES TO BE HONORED WITH NEW RETROSPECTIVE

THE SPIRIT OF MEMPHIS (1962-1976) CELEBRATES THE ARTIST'S ENDURING LEGACY AS A PRODUCER, SONGWRITER, MUSICIAN, ARTIST, AND CULTURAL ICON

4 CD, 7" VINYL BOX SET DUE OUT SEPTEMBER 22

Los Angeles, CA - Craft Recordings is proud to announce the forthcoming release of The Spirit of Memphis (1962-1976), chronicling the ascension of one of the most influential creative talents in music history, Isaac Hayes, who would have turned 75 this year. Due out September 22nd, the four-cd collection examines the various avenues of Hayes' prolific career; each disc offering an in-depth look at his distinct musical contributions to both Memphis-based Stax Records and to the world at large: from his foundational presence as a songwriter and producer at Stax, to his artistic metamorphosis and subsequent rise to stardom. The set also includes a wide range of previously-unreleased material, as well as a replica 7" vinyl single of the artist's first commercially-released recordings. Housed in a 60-page hardcover book, the retrospective incorporates a wealth of archival photos and ephemera, as well as an essay by author Robert Gordon (Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion) which includes new interviews with Stax luminaries Deanie Parker and Jim Stewart. Contributions from Floyd Newman, Mickey Gregory, Sam Moore (Sam & Dave), and compilation producer Joe McEwen round out the package. Track listing below.

From his humble beginnings as an orphaned sharecropper to his rise as a session musician, house songwriter, and producer for Stax Records, to his arrival as a star in his own right, Isaac Hayes (1942-2008) became a symbol of what was possible for Black America. Dubbed "Black Moses" during the height of his popularity, Hayes revolutionized soul music, leading it out of the era of the three-minute single and into new territory: that of the fully-orchestrated concept album, complete with extended cuts that, in some cases, spanned nearly the entire side of an LP. The artist also broke barriers in the film industry, scoring the 1971 film Shaft. The soundtrack became Hayes' fourth consecutive platinum LP, and also earned him an Academy Award® for Best Original Song ("Theme From Shaft"). The musician became the first African American to win the Oscar in a non-acting category, and was also the first recipient of the Best Original Song category to both write and perform the winning track. Hayes' success opened the door for other artists and composers, like Curtis Mayfield and Norman Whitfield, to score music for the screen.

Each disc of The Spirit of Memphis (1962-1976) examines a different facet of Hayes' career. Disc one covers his early work as a songwriter and producer at Stax, including many of his legendary collaborations with David Porter, such as Carla Thomas' "B-A-B-Y" recently featured in the hit film Baby Driver, and Sam & Dave's "Soul Man," which celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year.

Disc two spotlights Isaac Hayes as a solo artist, featuring his singles recorded for the Volt and Enterprise imprints; from his breakthrough track "By The Time I Get To Phoenix," off Hot Buttered Soul, to his subsequent chartbusters, including "Never Can Say Goodbye," "Do Your Thing" and the iconic, ubiquitous chart-topping hit, "Theme from Shaft."

The third disc, aptly titled "Cover Man," examines Isaac's uncanny ability to transform tunes by songwriting greats such as Burt Bacharach and Hal David and make them entirely his own. This disc also includes previously unreleased material, including a studio version of "Windows of the World" and live covers of "Stormy Monday," "I Stand Accused," and "The Ten Commandments of Love," all recorded at a 1972 concert in Chicago.

The final disc, entitled "Jam Master," offers fans a seat in the studio with Isaac Hayes, showcasing extended jams from his classic LPs, including a full, 33-minute freeform psychedelic Bar-Kays jam on "Do Your Thing." This disc also includes unreleased work-in-progress versions of "You've Made Me So Very Happy," the Bill Withers-penned classic "Ain't No Sunshine," and a never-before-heard composition from the Shaft soundtrack entitled "Black Militant's Place."

This collection marks a cornerstone in a year-long initiative celebrating Stax Records' 60th anniversary and comes on the heels of a recent digital release of Hayes' Enterprise albums re-mastered from the original analog tapes by renowned engineer Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters earlier this year. LP reissues cut from these new masters, including the best-selling Hot Buttered Soul, Black Moses, and Shaft will be available later this year.

The cross-label collaboration between Concord Music Group and Rhino Entertainment has highlighted the hits, deep cuts and rare tracks from the Memphis label's heyday of the '60s and '70s. Indeed, Isaac Hayes was an integral part of "The Memphis Sound," and helped to not only shape the sound of a genre, but also helped it explode into mainstream pop culture. 75 years after Hayes' birth, and nearly a decade after his passing, his music, style and influence still live on today. Many of the most recognizable Hip-Hop beats and drops have been born from Hayes' original tracks and a collaboration with WhoSampled.com launching in connection with the release of the box set will showcase his lasting effect on popular music.

"The Spirit of Memphis (1962-1976) is an attempt to frame a career that doesn't always fit neatly together. This box set is a little idiosyncratic, like its subject and the desire is to tell a story, put together in chapters," writes box set producer Joe McEwen in his Producer's Note, "hopefully to give context to a visionary talent who came of age in Memphis, Tennessee among a generational eruption of musicians that moved mountains..."

Oh man, I wanna hear that!

Meanwhile, from Yep Rock:

For the first time in multiple decades, you can now own Nick the Knife, The Abominable Showman, Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit, The Rose of England, Pinker and Prouder Than Previous, and Party of One on CD and LP! Purchase the bundle of all six reissues together and get a great discount PLUS a limited edition Nick Lowe lunchbox!

If purchasing the LP versions of these reissues, Nick the Knife, The Abominable Showman, Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit, and Party of One LPs come with a bonus 45 of live tracks, demos, and rarities, as well as a digital download card. If purchasing the CD versions, the 45 tracks are included as bonus tracks.

These albums mark the period in Nick Lowe's career where he was experimenting with numerous genres, ranging from roots rock to country to reggae to the pub rock and power pop sounds that he made so famous. These albums are absolutely worthy of second listen and showcase his collaborations with artists such as Elvis Costello, Huey Lewis, Paul Carrack, and many more.
More details here: http://yeproc.11spot.com/nick-lowe-reissues-lunch-box-bundle-pre-order.html?mc_cid=9619923a02&mc_eid=00b37b4eae&

a couple of releases from Jimmy Page's own label

http://shop.jimmypage.com/products/599248-yardbirds-68-double-cd-edition-pre-order
Yardbirds '68 - Double CD edition (Pre-order)

“We thought this might be lost forever, but we’ve rediscovered it, re-mixed it. It’s of great historical importance. We’re delighted to see the release.”

- Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja and Jimmy Page

Details

2 x CDs
1 x Art book with liner notes from The Yardbirds
1 x Double gatefold sleeve
1 x Slipcase

Tracklisting

LIVE AT ANDERSON THEATER
Train Kept A Rollin’
Mr, You’re A Better Man Than I
Heart Full of Soul
Dazed And Confused
My Baby
Over Under Sideways Down
Drinking Muddy Water
Shapes of Things
White Summer
I’m A Man (contains Moanin’ And Sobbin’)

STUDIO SKETCHES
Avron Knows
Spanish Blood
Knowing That I’m Losing You (Tangerine)
Taking A Hold On Me
Drinking Muddy Water (Version Two)
My Baby
Avron’s Eyes
Spanish Blood (Instr.)

Pre-order open now
Release date: 5th November 2017
Available exclusively via JimmyPage.com

Chris Farlowe & The Thunderbirds: The Beginning... (Standard Edition)
JPRLPBX2
£19.61

Available now for the very first time, Chris Farlowe and The Thunderbirds: The Beginning…presents a 12-song demo recording produced by legendary guitarist and producer Jimmy Page. Recorded in 1961 at RG Jones Sound Studio in Morden, London, this historic session marks the launch of a highly successful career for Chris Farlowe.

It was also the very first official turn in the producer’s chair for Jimmy Page who went on to capture the timeless studio and live performances of Led Zeppelin that today serve as a blueprint for all modern rock recordings that followed in their formidable wake.

“Jimmy suggested that he wanted to record a demo album of the band, so he booked the RG Jones studio in Morden, London, and now after 56 years, it is to see the light of day.”

Chris Farlowe and The Thunderbirds: The Beginning is now available in two editions: Standard and Deluxe. The 1-LP, 1-CD set is also available signed by Chris Farlowe and Jimmy Page in a limited edition release bringing the signatures of two music legends together for the very first time.

Yardbirds '68 - Double Vinyl edition (Pre-order)
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http://www.queenonline.com/news/news-of-the-world-the-40th-anniversary-the-details-so-far

News Of The World - The 40th Anniversary. The details so far...

Queen are celebrating the 40th Anniversary of their 1977 News Of The World album.

- Roger talks about the album on Episode 22 of the Official Queen Podcast.
- Brian was seen wearing a News Of The World T-shirt during rehearsals in the lead up to the current North American Tour
- The Queen + Adam Lambert live show is currently celebrating the album visually and has seen the band play five tracks from the album: We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Spread Your Wings, Get Down, Make Love and It's Late.
- Planet Rock Magazine have run a Queen front cover and a News Of The World feature mentioning a "expanded anniversary edition."
- The Offical Freddie Mercury Birthday is to have an exclusive first viewing of the 2017 ‘News of the World’ documentary to be "released as part of the News Of The World 40th Anniversary BOX SET release that is being issued in November this year."
- Classic Rock Magazine also runs a News Of The World front cover and feature which confirms the expanded release is on it's way.

Tim Buckley 2 titles for different medium releases of recordings from a September 1969 series of sets from the Troubadour.
THis is up at Spin so far with a release date of 20th Octtober through Esdsel

In early September 1969 Buckley played five sets over two days at LA club The Troubadour, all of which were recorded. These shows featured him at his improvisational best, each performance of every song being different from other performances of the same song. A selection of these recordings was issued in 1994 as “Live At The Troubadour 1969”.

Producers Pat Thomas and Bill Inglot have gone through the remaining recordings and have put together two more packages– this 2 CD set “Venice Mating Call” and a single CD set “Greetings From West Hollywood”, which although they both feature two performances in common with each other, do not duplicate any recordings from the 1994 release."

Venice Mating Call
1. Buzzin’ Fly 5:49
2. Strange Feelin’ 5:48
3. Blue Melody 5:42
4. Chase The Blues Away 6:53
5. Venice Mating Call 6:53
6. Gypsy Woman 13:05
7. I Don’t Need It To Rain 11:42

1. Driftin’ 8:09
2. (I Wanna) Testify 9:07
3. Anonymous Proposition 8:07
4. Lorca 11:10
5. I Had A Talk With My Woman 7:24
6. Nobody Walkin’ 8:25

Greetings From West Hollywood
1. Buzzin’ Fly 6:18
2. Chase The Blues Away 6:32
3. I Had A Talk With My Woman 7:25
4. Blue Melody 5:41
5. Nobody Walkin’ 12:32
6. Venice Mating Call 3:07
7. I Don’t Need It To Rain 8:37
8. Driftin’ 8:01
9. Gypsy Woman 10:35

Ooh man disc 2 of that first set!!!

https://tangerinedreamofficial.bandcamp.com/album/ultima-thule

compilation of early singles and unreleased tracks by Tangerine Dream and their precursor the Ones.
2nd Ones track appears to be a Troggs rewrite
available on vinyl & cd. Vinyl is ltd.

Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

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A superb collection of rare early tracks from electronic pioneers Tangerine Dream!

Features 2 tracks from the ’60s psych-rock band that preceded Tangerine Dream, The Ones, plus rare tracks from the early ’70s era of the band when they were at their most adventurous, composing epic pieces that clocked in at over 10 minutes each such as “”Asteroid Agenda”" and “”Overture!”"

Vinyl version comes in a special clear jacket with screen-printed insert and pressed on clear vinyl!

Includes unlimited streaming of Ultima Thule via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 2 days
edition of 25
$24 USD or more

Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

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Includes unlimited streaming of Ultima Thule via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 2 days
$14 USD

1.

The Ones - Lady Greengrass (7" Single 1967) 02:43



2.

The Ones - Love Of Mine (7" Single 1967) 03:05



3.

Oszillator Planet Concert (1971) 08:02


buy track

4.

Ultima Thule Part 1 (7" Single 1972) 03:26



5.

Ultima Thule Part 2 (7" Single 1972) 04:23



6.

Asteroid Agenda (1972) 11:19



7.

Overture (1974) 11:00


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A superb collection of rare early tracks from electronic pioneers Tangerine Dream!

Features 2 tracks from the ’60s psych-rock band that preceded Tangerine Dream, The Ones, plus rare tracks from the early ’70s era of the band when they were at their most adventurous, composing epic pieces that clocked in at over 10 minutes each such as “”Asteroid Agenda”" and “”Overture!”"

Vinyl version comes in a special clear jacket with screen-printed insert and pressed on clear vinyl!
credits
released April 27, 2016
(actually just hearing about this for the first time now. Both of the order options on the page seem to still be working)

DAIS RECORDS PRESENTS A DELUXE RE-ISSUE OF
COIL - TIME MACHINES
THE LEGENDARY ALBUM WILL BE RE-ISSUED ON 2xLP & CD
LISTEN TO "7-Methoxy-β-Carboline- (Telepathine)" HERE*
https://soundcloud.com/daisrecords/7-methoxy-carboline-telepathine

OUT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13

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“4 Tones to facilitate travel through time.” So begins the listeners’ journey into what has become one of the most treasured and revered pieces of COIL history ever released.
Each of the four pieces on Time Machines is named after the chemical compound of the hallucinogenic drug that they were composed for, and the album was meticulously crafted to enable what John Balance referred to as "temporal slips" in time and space, allowing both the artist and audience to figuratively "dissolve time".

Inspired by long form ceremonial music of Tibet and other religions, where the intent is to lose oneself in the music – to meditate or achieve a trance state – Time Machines became Drew McDowall, John Balance, and Peter Christopherson’s “electronic punk-primitive” answer to this tribal concept.

Starting as a rough demo tape recorded solely by Coil member Drew McDowall, Time Machines started to take full form when McDowall enthusiastically delivered these demo recordings to Balance and Christopherson as sketches for a new Coil project with the primary goal of shifting Coil’s sound further into a more conceptually abstract direction. Largely recorded in 1997 using single takes with minimal post production, these four drones contain every intended fluctuation and tone, along with every glitch of the original – “Artifacts generated by your listening environment are an intrinsic part of the experience.”

Dais Records announces the official remastered reissues of Time Machines on both LP, CD, and digital formats. The reissued CD edition includes reproductions of the 6 original vinyl stickers and comes in a double-pocketed brown board digipack. The reissued double vinyl LP will feature deluxe double pocket gatefold, matte with gloss overlay with printed eurosleeves inserts. Vinyl will come in standard black as well as limited edition color versions in red, grey and clear vinyl.

Don't miss Drew McDowall performing Time Machines in its entirety at the Dais Records 10 Year Anniversary in NYC (9/22), info and tickets here.https://www.facebook.com/events/863742523777635/

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Coil
Time Machines
Dais Records
Friday, October 13th, 2017
2xLP / CD / Digital

1.
7-Methoxy-β-Carboline: (Telepathine)
2.
2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethyl-Amphetamine: (DOET/Hecate)
3.
5-Methoxy-N, N-Dimethyltryptamine: (5-MeO-DMT)
4.
4-Indolol, 3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl], Phosphate
5.
Ester: (Psilocybin)

http://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/547854997/first-listen-husker-du-savage-young-du

Thanks, hadn't seen that!

Motörhead
Under Cöver
Silver Lining Music/Motörhead Music
1 September 2017
One thing Lemmy Kilmister, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee liked to do throughout their years together in MOTÖRHEAD was grab a favorite song by another artist and give it a good old fashioned ‘Motörheading’. To run them through the Motörizer, if you will. To rock them, roll them and even give them an extra twist and edge.

In celebration of some of those finest moments, the band have released Under Cöver, a collection of some of their best covers, and a collection which includes the previously unreleased version of David Bowie’s timeless classic “Heroes”. Recorded during the Bad Magic sessions in 2015 by Cameron Webb, it was one of the last songs the band recorded together.

“It’s such a great Bowie song, one of his best, and I could only see great things coming out of it from us, and so it proved to be,”says Phil Campbell, “and Lemmy ended up loving our version.”

“He was very, very proud of it,”says Mikkey Dee, “not only because it turned out so well but because it was fun! Which is what projects like this should be – fun!”

To that ethic, the rest of the album contains loud and proud, raucous and raging rock ‘n’ roll takes on the likes of “God Save The Queen” (Sex Pistols), “Cat Scratch Fever” (Ted Nugent), “Rockaway Beach,” (The Ramones), Breaking The Law” (Judas Priest) and “Whiplash” (Metallica) which earned the band a Grammy in 2005 for Best Metal Performance.

“We were happy with them at the time and we’re happy with them now!”affirms Campbell, whilst Dee says, “We should remember that it’s about having some fun with songs that we all loved.”

Under Cöver Track listing
1. Breaking the Law (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2008
2. God Save the Queen (Produced by Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet) 2000
3. Heroes (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2015
4. Starstruck (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2014
5. Cat Scratch Fever (Produced by Peter Solley) 1992
6. Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Produced by Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet) 2001
7. Sympathy for the Devil (Produced by Cameron Webb) 2015
8. Hellraiser (Produced by Billy Sherwood) 1992
9. Rockaway Beach (Mixed by Cameron Webb) 2002
10.Shoot 'Em Down (Produced by Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet) 2001
11. Whiplash (Produced by Bruce Bouillet and Bob Kulick) 2005

All songs performed byMOTÖRHEAD.

MOTÖRHEAD is:
Lemmy Kilmister – Bass/Vocals
Phil Campbell – Guitar
Mikkey Dee - Drums

More from Drag City News:

A CHILD IN THE SUN RETURNS!

If you, the discerning record collector, has even a passing interest in the posthumously named genre "acid folk", surely the name Ed Askew is in your golden pantheon. Askew recorded the sublimely gorgeous LP Ask the Unicorn in 1968 for the legendary proto-DIY label ESP records, which has now been recognized as a god-damn underground classic. Armed only with a tiple (sort of a South American mandolin), Askew spun tales of doomed sisters, crashing universes, budding gay love, and a serious fondness for roses on his rare, precious and beautiful album.
After this lone release, Ed Askew seemingly vanished in the romantic mists of time....until a second, previously unreleased album, surfaced in 2003, Little Eyes - recorded but a few years after Ask the Unicorn, and every bit as honey-dipped by the musical gods. Since then, Askew has undergone a rightful resurgence, so Ed's obscure 1984 cassette Imperfiction was also reissued by Galactic Zoo Disk/Drag City in 2011 - and quickly sold out!

Ed has since resumed making music, and has released several albums over the last decade - but meanwhile, it appears the Askew historical goldmine had not been fully tapped! To wit, Ed unearthed four reels of radio sessions taped in 1969-70, performing songs from his first two albums (and the totally previously unreleased track, "Green Song")! The tapes were meticulously studied and the best versions were extracted for this release - absolutely stunning renditions of Askew standards like "Fancy That" or "Red Woman-Letter to England"-- which are perhaps even more gorgeous than the originals.

In short folks, this new archival Ed Askew release A Child in the Sun, which features never-before-seen vintage photos, is friggin ASTRAL FOLK GOLD. We're (literally) psyched, and as for you - you're welcome! Out 11/17 on Drag City and Galactic Zoo Disk!

Ed Askew Online:
Drag City-http://www.dragcity.com/artists/ed-askew
Pre Order-http://www.dragcity.com/products/a-child-in-the-sun
Bandcamp- https://edaskew.bandcamp.com/album/a-child-in-the-sun
iTunes-https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1278451363

LISTEN TO "MARIGOLDS" HERE
https://edaskew.bandcamp.com/track/marigolds-3

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So in case y'all didn't see the Husker Du Reissues thread, NPR's First Listen is streaming all three discs of Numero's Savage Young Du, 69 tracks from 1979-82, preceded by x-ilxor Matos' brimming, bracing backstory (links to the second and third disc are in his intro). Takes a while for them to get it together in any noteworthy, non-dated way, though do really like "Statues," "Industrial Grocery Store", and several others are pretty good on Disc 1, which is as far as I'll get tonight, most likely:
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/05/547854997/first-listen-husker-du-savage-young-du

Disc 2 sounds quite a bit better right from the start---I'd prob follow playlisted "Statues" with "Wheels", which is like a battered Gary Numan vehicle, tho doubt he could scream like this--- shortfastones in the middle eventually blur (but vocal bits, esp. chants, jostle and jump out for a second), strong finish, especially "Don't Try It", "Private Hell" (I'd put that right after "Statues" and "Wheels"), "Diane" and "Sex Dolls'. These are all longer than the blurry muddy ones.

Okay, Disc 3 coughs up another crusted mittful for the playlist, especially when the guitar and drums are in effective contrast, bass fits both, on "Gravity" and this first version of "Target", for inst (the remakes or retakes, incl this one of "Wheels", a highlight of prev disc, not so hot). Also dig the warped groove of "Travel In Opposite Car", vocal interjections of "Blah Blah Blah", several others---enough keepers (incl, ones that might grow on me) could fit one CD, no prob, considering how many of these 69 are 1-2 minutes long---some others might sound better in a different setting.

could fill out one CD, i meant.

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RONI SIZE & REPRAZENT ANNOUNCE DELUXE REISSUE OF THE MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE WINNING ALBUM

NEW FORMS

Label: Mercury Records / Universal Music
Release Date: November 10th, 2017

“We never set out to make a crossover” – Roni Size

This November, New Forms by Roni Size & Reprazent celebrates its 20th anniversary with a deluxe 4CD / 2LP reissue. To commemorate this era-defining drum ‘n’ bass album, the package will feature a New Forms 20th anniversary live hardware mix programmed by Roni featuring previously unreleased remixes and re-edits, remixes from drum ‘n’ bass legends such as Grooverider, Source Direct and Krust (previously only released on vinyl) and the 2017 remaster of the original 2CD / LP.

One of the definitive electronic albums of the 90s, New Forms brought drum ‘n’ bass into the mainstream. Fighting off industry heavyweights including the Spice Girls, The Prodigy, Suede, Radiohead, Primal Scream and The Chemical Brothers, Roni Size & Reprazent won the 1997 Mercury Music Prize, going on to sell 300,000 units in the UK with its release on BBC Radio 1 DJ Gilles Peterson’s Talkin’ Loud records.

Reprazent were a Bristol-based collective brought together by Roni that included DJs Die, Suv and Krust as well as Dynamite MC and vocalist Onallee. Akin to their fellow Bristolians Massive Attack, they grew up on a diverse diet of influences including street soul, hip hop, electro, reggae and dub. They weaved elements of each with the new electronic sounds of jungle and break-beats to create drum ‘n’ bass - of which New Forms is one of the defining masterpieces.

20 years since being propelled into the mainstream, drum ‘n’ bass continues to thrive with artists including Chase and Status, Sigma, and Wilkinson dominating the charts, all of whom acknowledge Roni Size & Reprazent as forefathers of the scene. Whilst Grime, a genre with a similarly unique cultural heritage, enjoys its moment – it feels like perfect timing to honour New Forms as the seminal milestone in British music as it is.

This Autumn to further celebrate 20 years of New Forms, Roni Size will take his ground breaking audio-visual live show to Hospitality in the Park, London on Saturday 23rd September before widely touring throughout the world (full schedule TBA). Having debuted earlier this year at the Oval Space and since showcased at Moovin Festival and The Downs, the combined live instrument and hardware show features state of the art production and 3D effect projection mapping in the form of the “light box;” and marks the first time Roni has performed the Mercury Prize winning album New Forms as a solo performer.
New Forms will be reissued November 10th, 2017.

PRE-ORDER NOW

New Forms Deluxe Reissue Track Listing

LP1

A1 Railing
A2 Brown paper bag
A3 Heroes
A4 Matter of fact
B1 New forms
B2 Digital
B3 Watching windows

New Forms - Disc 1 (Remastered)

01. Railing
02. Brown paper bag
03. New forms
04. Lets get it on
05. Digital
06. Matter of fact
07. Mad cat
09. Share the fall (Full vocal mix)
10. Watching windows
11. Beatbox
12. Morse code

Reforms - Disc 3

01. Brown paper bag (Roni Size full vocal mix)
02. Heroes (Origin Unknown remix)
03. Watching Windows (DJ Die gnarly vocal mix)
04. New forms (Krust’s wide screen version)
05. Share the fall (Grooverider’s jeep style mix)
06. Brown paper bag (Photek remix)
07. Down (Bel Air remix)
08. Heroes (Kruder’s long loose bossa)
09. Watching windows (Roni Size meets Nuyorican Soul)
10. Brown paper bag (Roni Size sound is the music remix)
LP2

C1 Share the fall (Full vocal mix)
C2 Beatbox
C3 Trust me
C4 Destination
D1 Morse code
D2 Let’s get it on
D3 Change my life

New Forms – Disc 2 (Remastered)

01. Into
02. Hi-potent
03. Trust me
04. Change my life
05. Share the fall
06. Down
07. Jazz
08. Hot stuff
09. Ballet dance
Bonus Forms
10. Electricks (B-side of Heroes)
11. Western (B-side of Brown paper bag)
12. Sounds fresh (Reasons for sharing EP)

Live Forms – Roni Size's New Forms 20th Anniversary Live Hardware Set - Disc 4

01. Morse code 2017 remix
02. Railing 2008 remix
03. Brown paper bag 2017 remix
04. New forms 2008 remix
05. Lets get it on 2017 remix
06. Trust me 2017 remix + 2017 VIP remix
07. Elecrics 2017 remix
08. Heroes Kruder’s long loose bossa + 1997 album version + 2008 remix
09. Down 2017 re-edit
10. Western 2017 remix
11. Watching windows 1997 radio edit + 1997 instrumental + DJ Die gnarly instrumental mix
12. Sounds fresh 2017 re-edit
13. Digital 2008 remix
14. Hold the front page
15. Hi-potent 2017 re-edit
16. Share the fall 2017 remix + Grooverider’s jeep style mix (Roni Size re-edit)
17. Destination 2017 re-edit
18. Share the fall (Full vocal mix) 2017 remix

I like the xpost Möterhead Under Cöver collection, although Lemmy seems to have some trouble with the words of "God Save The Queen", or maybe it's just that Rotten's flair is so different, so definitive too. Was gonna say that L. sounds uncharacteristically vulnerable on "Heroes" (where Philthy Animal's guitar-flares take off from Fripp's fluorescent drones), but he always sounds vulnerable on some level, heaving his sweaty, scarred leatherlungs up to the mic one more time, for 40 years or whatever.

Rhino Rocktober vinyl reissues:
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A CERTAIN RATIO

ANNOUNCE REISSUES SERIES LAUNCH

OUT NOVEMBER 24 ON MUTE

LIVE SHOW IN MANCHESTER ON DECEMBER 16

A Certain Ratio and Mute are pleased to announce the launch of a long-awaited series of reissues, out on November 24, 2017.

The series will launch with the reissue of a selection of the Manchester band’s albums and will continue into 2018 with a compilation in April, followed by further releases and a rarities box set.

The first albums set for release on November 24 include the band’s debut release, The Graveyard And The Ballroom, which originally came out on Factory Records in December 1979. The album will be available here on limited edition vinyl with colored PVC sleeve, CD and - mirroring its original release - on cassette. In addition, albums To Each (1981) and Force (1986) will be released on colored vinyl and CD.

Listen to “Do The Du” (taken from The Graveyard And The Ballroom) here.

NOVEMBER 24, 2017
The Graveyard And The Ballroom – Vinyl with limited edition color PVC sleeve / CD / cassette (Limited to 500 packaged in colored PVC sleeve, includes digital copy)
To Each – Limited edition red vinyl / CD
Force – Limited edition yellow vinyl / CD
All vinyl releases include digital copies

Following a series of festival dates that included Dekmantel in Amsterdam and Baleapop in France, plus an incredible performance in London earlier in the year, the band will close 2017 with a special performance in their hometown of Manchester on December 16 to support these releases.

December 16 – Manchester, England 02 Ritz with Gramme – tickets available from
bandonthewall.org/events/certain-ratio-gramme

In 2018, the rest of the A Certain Ratio’s catalog will be re-released, including the long out of print albums Good Together and acr:mcr.

FEBRUARY 23, 2018
I’d Like To See You Again - vinyl / CD
Good Together - vinyl / CD
acr:mcr - vinyl / CD

A Certain Ratio embraced the ethic and culture of the late seventies post-punk explosion, but sounded like nothing else around them and refused to fit in. Formed in 1978, the band had various members throughout their career, and a core line-up of Jeremy Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson.

Hailed universally as pioneers of what became known as “punk funk” thanks to the success of “Shack Up” on both sides of the Atlantic, their sound is not easily pigeonholed and their influence can never be understated. The band introduced the avant-garde elements of funk, jazz, electronics, tape loops and technology to the pop song, wrapping it in a post-punk aesthetic, adding great clothes and the coolest haircuts.

They have gone on to influence generations of musicians - from Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem, Happy Mondays, Franz Ferdinand, ESG, Factory Floor and Andrew Weatherall. The Guardian’s Dave Simpson paid tribute to the band, once described as “James Brown on acid” in a recent Cult Heroes piece: “Once you start listening to A Certain Ratio, it’s difficult to stop”.

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Listen to a 4-song A Certain Ratio sampler
https://soundcloud.com/muterecords/sets/a-certain-ratio-4-track/s-mX7bR

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I wish Mute would reissue Cabaret Voltaire as often as ACR. Seems to happen every few years. CV don't seem to have had the 1st 3lps remastered in 25 years if that.

JUst seen this coming on October 13th according to Amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Album-Collection-Tim-Buckley/dp/B0752BL3BD/ref=pd_sim_15_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=76YHZ93CQM2N3YY7T3FV

Tim Buckley Complete lp collection, though not seeing Sefronia and Look At The Fool
http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/tim-buckley-complete-album-collection-8cd-box-set/

am seeing Works in Progress though.
Have been hoping that individual lps might get the same treatment as the Rhino Handmade version of the 1st lp at some point. BUt there's been a major interval if anything along those lines was planned.

Would definitely like a complete release of Boboquivari.

I'll fucking buy that!

Dream Letter and Live/Troubador are as essential as the studio albums of course... but I've already got those so I won't cavil much

First four Jazz Butcher albums getting a box, but it doesn't look like there's any non-lp material included:
http://www.firerecords.com/product/the-jazz-butcher-the-wasted-years/

I think Edsel just released a bunch of the Tim Buckley live sets together as a box. Seeing ads for the box in the monthly music mags

Oh man that Jazz Butcher box better have singles tucked in on each disc. Not including the stuff from The Gift Of Music would be a missed opportunity.

Also the Big Questions comp.

https://thejazzbutcher.bandcamp.com/album/the-wasted-years

None of the singles are included, f**k! That's b.s.

I mean, why go through all that effort and then exclude the original "Southern Mark Smith" single and "JB Meets Count Dracula," and "Roadrunner," and MFin' "The Devil Is My Friend"? WTFF?

I'm guessing they'll do a nice 2CD comp of all that stuff next.

Cherry Red is putting out a 4CD Atomic Rooster box, Sleeping For Years: The Studio Recordings 1970-1974 in December.

That Queen - News of the World box pre-order is $200+, WTF.

I'm also looking at this box, but I'm gonna wait and see what one of my favorite webstores, importcds.com, wants for it when it comes out.

PENTANGLE – THE ALBUMS: 1968-1972
Released October 6, 2017.
For the first time ever, these PENTANGLE albums are available as a deluxe 7CD box set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the band’s formation. Each record has been remastered from the best available sources, referencing original tapes and vinyl where relevant. Each album has been expanded with a wealth of bonus material, including choice selections from contemporaneous solo LPs by Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, out-takes and live tracks. Across the package, there are an impressive 22 recordings which are previously unreleased.

DISC ONE:
THE PENTANGLE
1. LET NO MAN STEAL YOUR THYME
2. BELLS
3. HEAR MY CALL
4. PENTANGLING
5. MIRAGE
6. WAY BEHIND THE SUN
7. BRUTON TOWN
8. WALTZ
BONUS TRACKS
9. KOAN (TAKE 2)
10. THE WHEEL
11. THE CASBAH
12. BRUTON TOWN (TAKE 3)
13. HEAR MY CALL (ALTERNATE VERSION)
14. WAY BEHIND THE SUN (ALTERNATE VERSION)
15. WAY BEHIND THE SUN (INSTRUMENTAL)
16. BRUTON TOWN (TAKE 5) *
17. KOAN (TAKE 1)
18. TRAVELLING SONG (NON-LP SINGLE VERSION WITH STRINGS)
19. POISON
20. I GOT A FEELING *
21. MARKET SONG *
* PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED

DISC TWO:
SWEET CHILD – DISC 1 (LIVE AT THE FESTIVAL HALL)
1. MARKET SONG
2. NO MORE MY LORD
3. TURN YOUR MONEY GREEN
4. HAITIAN FIGHT SONG
5. A WOMAN LIKE YOU
6. GOODBYE PORK-PIE HAT
7. THREE DANCES (BRENTZEL GAY/LA ROTTA/THE EARL OF SALISBURY)
8. WATCH THE STARS
9. SO EARLY IN THE SPRING
10. NO EXIT
11. THE TIME HAS COME
12. BRUTON TOWN
BONUS TRACKS
13. HEAR MY CALL
14. LET NO MAN STEAL YOUR THYME
15. BELLS
16. TRAVELLING SONG
17. WALTZ
18. WAY BEHIND THE SUN
19. JOHN DONNE SONG

DISC THREE:
SWEET CHILD – DISC 2 (STUDIO)
1. SWEET CHILD
2. I LOVED A LASS
3. THREE PART THING
4. SOVAY
5. IN TIME
6. IN YOUR MIND
7. I'VE GOT A FEELING
8. THE TREES THEY DO GROW HIGH
9. MOON DOG
10. HOLE IN THE COAL
BONUS TRACKS
11. HOLE IN THE COAL (ALTERNATIVE VERSION)
12. THE TREES THEY DO GROW HIGH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION)
13. HAITIAN FIGHT SONG (STUDIO VERSION)
14. IN TIME (ALT. VERSION)
15. A WOMAN LIKE YOU (UNABRIDGED TRIO VERSION) *
16. I’VE GOT A WOMAN (TRIO MIX) *
17. I AM LONELY (JANSCH SOLO MIX) *
18. POISON
19. BLUES
20. SALLY GO ROUND THE ROSES (ALT. VERSION 2)
21. MOONDOG (FULL BAND VSN) *
* PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED

DISC FOUR:
BASKET OF LIGHT
1. LIGHT FLIGHT (THEME FROM “TAKE THREE GIRLS”)
2. ONCE I HAD A SWEETHEART
3. SPRINGTIME PROMISES
4. LYKE WAKE DIRGE
5. TRAIN SONG
6. HUNTING SONG
7. SALLY GO ROUND THE ROSES
8. THE CUCKOO
9. HOUSE CARPENTER
BONUS TRACKS
10. SALLY GO ROUND THE ROSES (ALTERNATIVE VERSION)
11. COLD MOUNTAIN (B-SIDE)
12. I SAW AN ANGEL (B-SIDE)
13. HOUSE CARPENTER * (LIVE IN ABERDEEN)
14. LIGHT FLIGHT (LIVE IN ABERDEEN) *
15. PENTANGLING (LIVE IN ABERDEEN)
* PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED

DISC FIVE:
CRUEL SISTER
1. A MAID THAT'S DEEP IN LOVE
2. WHEN I WAS IN MY PRIME
3. LORD FRANKLIN
4. CRUEL SISTER
5. JACK ORION
BONUS TRACKS
6. WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN (TAKE 1, NO HARMONICA) *
7. RAIN & SNOW (TAKE 2) *
8. OMIE WISE (TAKE 2, LIVE VOX) *
9. JOHN’S SONG (TAKE 7) *
10. REFLECTION (OLYMPIC STUDIOS TAKE 1) *
11. WHEN I GET HOME (ALTERNATIVE VOCAL) *
* PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED

DISC SIX:
REFLECTION
1. WEDDING DRESS
2. OMIE WISE
3. WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN?
4. WHEN I GET HOME
5. RAIN AND SNOW
6. HELPING HAND
7. SO CLEAR
8. REFLECTION
BONUS TRACKS
9. SHAKE SHAKE MAMA
10. KOKOMO BLUES
11. FARO ANNIE
12. BACK ON THE ROAD AGAIN
13. WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN (TAKE 3, LIVE VOX) *
14. REFLECTION (COMMAND STUDIOS, TAKE 1, WORDLESS VOX) *
15. JOHN’S SONG (TAKE 5, FUZZ GUITAR) *
16. WONDROUS LOVE *
* PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED

DISC SEVEN:
SOLOMON’S SEAL
1. SALLY FREE AND EASY
2. THE CHERRY TREE CAROL
3. THE SNOWS
4. HIGH GERMANY
5. PEOPLE ON THE HIGHWAY
6. WILLY O’ WINSBURY
7. NO LOVE IS SORROW
8. JUMP, BABY, JUMP
9. LADY OF CARLISLE
BONUS TRACKS
10. WHEN I GET HOME (LIVE AT GUILDFORD CIVIC HALL 11/72) *
11. SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR (LIVE AT GUILDFORD CIVIC HALL 11/72) *
12. TRAIN SONG (LIVE AT GUILDFORD CIVIC HALL 11/72) *
* PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED

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There is no word on physical versions, but Anthony Braxton's Arista albums from the 1970s - New York, Fall 1974; Five Pieces, 1975; Duets 1976; Creative Orchestra Music 1976; The Montreux/Berlin Concerts; Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979; For Trio; and For Four Orchestras - are all now on Spotify, iTunes and Tidal. They've been unavailable since the Mosaic boxed set went out of print.

that's interesting - UMG must have retained the rights for the digital market for mosaic's mastering. you see this with film score specialty labels too - the label does the work of locating and working with the tapes, puts out an edition of 2000 or so, and then the rights holder gets to take those masters and put them for sale on itunes etc.

correct me if im wrong in remembering that arista = umg today

More from the xpost latest Drag City News:

....(on September 22) there's Fumiyo Miyashita's Live On the Boffomundo Show, which, while never before issued as a music release, has been available to experience on YouTube as part of the archives of The Boffomundo Show. This cable-access program of the late 70s and early 80s brought a decidedly proggy bent to the Los Angeles community - interviews with Robert Fripp, Phil Collins, John Wetton, Al Di Meola, Larry Carlton, Bernardo Lanzetti and others are all available up there - along with several segments from '79 and '80 featuring the Far East Family Band's Fumio Miyashita, working up rhythms from banks of synthesizers, gongs, percussion and other electronics, then adding devotional vocal chants to create an esoteric mood of monolithic (if not monophonic) primitivism! Fitting tightly in between the kraut movement and the new age revolution, Fumio's performance here comes off with the wondrous nature of a missing piece, now happily restored! For drone-heads, prog-o-philes and the seeking types among us - Fumio Miyashita Live On the Boffomundo Show! (LP/MP3/Flac) http://www.dragcity.com/products/live-on-the-boffomundo-show

German Oak 3cd of the released lp with titles corrected and long tracks extended (presumably edits removed)
http://www.nowagainrecords.com/german-oak-the-definitive-reissue-now-again-reserve/

1. Screaming Skeletons
2. Missile Song
3. Belle's Song
4. Nothing

Disc: 2
1. Belle's Song (Extended)
2. Missile Song (Extended)

Disc: 3
1. Bear Song
2. Happy Stripes (On Cats)
3. Ghost Guitar
4. Bear Song
5. Harpy & Peregrine
6. Python V.s. Tiger
7. Giant Rock/Boulder Golem

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Calculated, Heavens To Betsy's debut album*, back in print on vinyl, and added to KRS bandcamp:
https://heavenstobetsykrs.bandcamp.com/album/calculated

*First release: 3/1/94
Corin Tucker - guitar, vocals, drums on #6
Tracy Sawyer - drums, bass, guitar on #6, screams on #5

FIFTY FOOT HOSE - CAULDRON
THE LEGENDARY PSYCH LP FINALLY TO BE RE-ISSUED ON AGUIRRE RECORDS
OUT OCTOBER 25
Cauldron is the legendary psychedelic jazzy rock & electronic album by Californian band Fifty Foot Hose. First-time official vinyl reissue since its release in 1967 on the Limelight label.

Fifty Foot Hose formed in San Francisco in 1967. Like few other acts of their time they consciously tried to combine the contemporary sounds of rock with electronic instruments and avant-garde compositional ideas. They were one of the most radical groups of the psychedelic era, and their experimentalism still has the power to shock and surprise even now.

What set them apart were the pioneering experiments in electronic music, like the band they are often compared to, The United States of America. Incorporating theremin, siren, audio generators, and other various electronic effects as Cork Marcheschi, the band's original bass player had developed an acute interest in the dadaist/futurist experiments of composers like John Cage and Edgar Varese. David and Nancy Blossom brought both psychedelic and jazz influences to the band. Cauldron, their only album, was released in December 1967, including "Fantasy”, “Red the Sign Post” and “God Bless the Child”, a Billie Holiday cover. An intriguing mix of jazzy psychedelic rock tunes with fierce and advanced electronic sound effects. These sound experiments differentiated them from their contemporaries and most audiences didn't quite know what to make of them.

So fans of flowery, psychedelic 60's music must beware of this odd gem, Fifty Foot Hose’s music leans more towards White Noise, Silver Apples and specially United States of America than to the whole flower power movement. After only one album, the proto-cyber psych outfit passed as quickly as they came. Their only mention would be a name-check in Ralph J. Gleason’s 1969 book, “The Jefferson Airplane And The San Francisco Sound” published over a year after their demise. Ralph J. Gleason wrote: “I don’t know if they’re immature or premature.” History has proven them to be the latter. Today the original album is very collectable and considered a touchstone of avant garde rock music.

"The concept was to expand what contemporary popular music was. I thought the avant-garde could have had a home with this new group of listeners but they turned out to be pretty conservative - intellectually . Drugs were fine - sex was fine - stop the wars was good but when challenged with abstract art., they reacted like conservative people look at a Jackson Pollock painting." (Cork Marcheschi)

Listen: Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJNxwAbFyV8
(this is what's at the official youtube link: version posted in 2014--dunno if all these bonus tracks are on here again [this post is from the 1996 reissue])
1996 edition. Plus rare and unissued tracks. 1. And After 00:00 2. If Not This Time 02:08 3. Opus 777 05:47 4. The Things That Concern You 06:09 5. Opus 11 09:39 6. Red the Sign Post 10:05 7. For Paula 13:05 8. Rose 13:32 9. Fantasy 18:39 10. God Bless the Child 28:53 11. Cauldron 31:39 Plus 12. If Not This Time (demo) 36:35 13. Red The Sign Post (demo) 40:15 14. Fly Free (demo) 42:34 15. Desire (demo) 45:16 16. Bad Trip - THE ETHIX (33 rpm) 56:57 17. Skins - THE ETHIX 1:00:22 18. Bad Trip - THE ETHIX (45 rpm) 1:02:48

I don't know how the poster came up with the times on those tracks; even with the bonus material, this 1996 versio is 65 minutes long, not x hours, as would have to be as total of the times listed.

It's not totally divorced from flower power, often in there between United States of America and Jefferson Airplane, like Grace Slick's moodier, broodier more discursive excursions: flowers in the smog and fog of SF (San Francisco, Science Fiction).

If you dig this approach, see also: Laser Pace - Granfalloon (Takoma - 1974) Wow!

Expanded edition of MTV Unplugged Listen Without Prejudice, reviewed here:
http://www.albumism.com/reviews/george-michael-listen-without-prejudice-mtv-unplugged-deluxe-editions
Faith's modish, urban-pop soundscape—with polite downtempo intermissions—was exchanged for an awe-inducing amalgam of funk, folk, jazz and reggae on Listen Without Prejudice, produced and written by Michael. Focusing on the album's lyrical content— which touched on life, love and Michael's sexual orientation—the songs here remain as genuinely arresting and exploratory now as they were in 1990.

Oh yeah, and despite title, it's not just more from MTV Unplugged:

Following the equally lush 2011 multi-format remaster of Faith, Listen Without Prejudice has been revived this week in 3-CD+DVD, 2-CD, vinyl and digital editions. The triple-CD package includes the remastered original album, Michael's 1996 MTV Unplugged live LP, a collection of various remixes, B-sides and unreleased tracks from and surrounding the Prejudice period, and a DVD comprised of bonus promotional content. The other formats include the remastered album and MTV Unplugged performance.

Most intriguing part of this pitch: “Too Funky,” originally included on Red Hot + Dance (1993)—a star-studded AIDS benefit project—was originally set for inclusion on the scrapped secondary installment along with its B-side, “Crazy Man Dance.” Though “Too Funky” has been anthologized on prior Michael retrospectives, it joins, for the first time, the early ‘90s house and urban-pop grooves “Crazy Man Dance,” “Do You Want to Know” and “Happy” to tell (some of) the story of the follow-up to Listen Without Prejudice that never was. Originally recorded in the late '80s, “Fantasy" has been revamped here by the iconic Nile Rodgers and serves as the reissue project's promotional single.

I should get back to Red Hot + Dance, at least.

Lotta those Red Hots, for that matter.

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"Chicago pastor and activist T.L. Barrett's rare gospel soul classic Like A Ship... (Without A Sail) is finally receiving a much-needed reissue. Long revered by record collectors, this album remains one of the holy grails of gospel soul. Self-released in 1971, Like A Ship was the result of Barrett channeling his passion for music, a determination to keep children off the streets, and his charismatic preaching (which attracted the likes of Earth, Wind & Fire and Donny Hathaway to his sermons at Mount Zion Baptist Church) into the production of the album, a project bolstered by the saxophonist and arranger Gene Barge of the famed Chess Records, and backed by a cast of players that included Richard Evans, Phil Upchurch and the rapturous vocals of the Youth For Christ Choir. Like A Ship is filled with sanctified grooves and spiritual praise delivered with a righteous, infectious chorus."

Hadn't heard of him, intriguing.

RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS
CELEBRATE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF BLANK GENERATION

40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Of The Influential Punk Album
Includes A Remastered Version Of The Original,
Plus Rare And Unreleased Studio And Live Recordings

Available On Limited Edition CD And Vinyl On November 24

LOS ANGELES -Richard Hell and the Voidoids' Blank Generation is an iconic album that has influenced countless rock bands with its image, its attitude, and its blistering performances. Released in 1977 on Sire Records, the album was received ecstatically by critics such as Lester Bangs and the New York Times' Robert Palmer (who called it one of the ten best albums of the decade), but as was the case with most original "punk" albums, it wouldn't get mainstream recognition for decades. Now its place in music history is secure as one of punk's most significant records. Recently, Rolling Stone magazine lauded Blank Generation as one of the "40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time," giving the innovative and literate band its well deserved credit on the cusp of its 40th anniversary.

This seminal album is being recognized on its 40th anniversary this year with limited edition double-CD and double-LP deluxe editions to be released on Record Store Day's Black Friday. BLANK GENERATION: 40th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION will be available at independent music retailers worldwide November 24 on CD (limited to 5,250 copies) for $19.98 and vinyl (limited to 4,500 copies) for $31.98.

Produced for release by Richard Hell, the album has been expertly remastered-by Greg Calbi of Sterling Sound, who mastered the original LP-as well as restored to its original 1977 track listing and sleeve imagery. BLANK GENERATION: 40th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION includes a second disc, with previously unreleased, alternate studio versions, out-of-print singles, and rare bootleg live tracks from the band's first appearance in 1976 at CBGB. The booklet also contains many previously unpublished photos of the band by Roberta Bayley (the renowned CBGB photographer who shot the LP's original cover), a revealing essay by Hell along with compelling images from his notebooks and private papers, and an extensive new interview with Ivan Julian by Hell.

After establishing his reputation as founder of legendary bands the Heartbreakers and Television, Hell went onto to lead the Voidoids which included Robert Quine (who later played in Lou Reed's Blue Mask band, as well as for Tom Waits, John Zorn, and many others), Ivan Julian (who would record for Matthew Sweet and numerous other artists) and Marc Bell ("Marky Ramone"). Along with the Ramones, Television, Blondie and Talking Heads, Hell and his band helped to define the early New York "first wave" punk scene. The song "Blank Generation" became a slogan and an anthem and later was emulated by the Sex Pistols for their track, "Pretty Vacant."

Such songs as "Love Comes In Spurts" and "Blank Generation" were originally recorded at Electric Lady Studios, but were re-recorded prior to release at Plaza Sound during Sire Records' transition to Warner Bros. Records in 1977. At Plaza Hell reworked the album, leaving behind alternate versions and outtakes from Electric Lady that now appear on the second discs of these deluxe editions. The music sounds as fresh and abrasive today as when it was first released.

Hell retired from music in 1984, refocusing on writing as his vocation. He's the author of two novels and several books of nonfiction including his acclaimed autobiography, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp.

For more information about RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS please contact Jessica Giordano in the Rhino Media Relations Department at jess✧✧✧.giord✧✧✧@rh✧✧✧.c✧✧ or 818-238-6403.

BLANK GENERATION: 40th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION
CD Track Listing:

Disc One: Original Album Remastered
1. "Love Comes In Spurts"
2. "Liars Beware"
3. "New Pleasure"
4. "Betrayal Takes Two"
5. "Down At The Rock And Roll Club"
6. "Who Says?"
7. "Blank Generation"
8. "Walking On The Water"
9. "The Plan"
10. "Another World"

Disc Two: Bonus Album
1. "Love Comes In Spurts" - Electric Lady Studios Alternate Version
2. "Blank Generation" - Electric Lady Studios Alternate Version
3. "You Gotta Lose" - Electric Lady Studios Outtake Version
4. "Who Says?" - Plaza Sound Studios Alternate Version
5. "Love Comes In Spurts" - Live at CBGB, November 19, 1976
6. "Blank Generation" - Live at CBGB, November 19, 1976
7. "Liars Beware" - Live at CBGB, April 14, 1977
8. "New Pleasure" - Live at CBGB, April 14, 1977
9. "Walking On The Water" - Live at CBGB, April 14, 1977
10. "Another World" - Ork Records Version
11. "Oh" - Original 2001 Release
12. 1977 Sire Records Radio Commercial

LP Track Listing
Side One
Side Two
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. "Love Comes In Spurts"
"Liars Beware"
"New Pleasure"
"Betrayal Takes Two"
"Down At The Rock And Roll Club"
"Who Says?" 1.
2.
3.
4. "Blank Generation"
"Walking On The Water"
"The Plan"
"Another World"

Side Three
1. "Love Comes In Spurts" - Electric Lady Studios Alternate Version
2. "Blank Generation" - Electric Lady Studios Alternate Version
3. "You Gotta Lose" - Electric Lady Studios Outtake Version
4. "Who Says?" - Plaza Sound Studios Alternate Version
5. "Love Comes In Spurts" - Live at CBGB, November 19, 1976
6. "Blank Generation" - Live at CBGB, November 19, 1976

Side Four
1. "Liars Beware" - Live at CBGB, April 14, 1977
2. "New Pleasure" - Live at CBGB, April 14, 1977
3. "Walking On The Water" - Live at CBGB, April 14, 1977
4. "Another World" - Ork Records Version
5. "Oh" - Original 2001 Release
6. 1977 Sire Records Radio Commercial

More Rhino reissues for National Record Store Day

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John Carpenter
Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998

Release date: Friday, October 20th 2017

John Carpenter has announced Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998, a collection of 13 of his classic movie themes newly recorded with the collaborators that worked on his Lost Themes studio albums and subsequent tours: his son, Cody Carpenter, and godson, Daniel Davies. Set for release on October 20 via Sacred Bones, Anthology… is a near-comprehensive survey of John Carpenter’s greatest themes, from his very first movie (the no-budget sci-fi film Dark Star) to 1998’s supernatural Western, Vampires. Those sit alongside the driving, Led Zeppelin-influenced Assault on Precinct 13 theme, Halloween’s iconic 5/4 piano riff, and the eerie synth work of The Fog. Carpenter and his band also cover Ennio Morricone’s bleak, minimalist theme for The Thing. “I asked Morricone to please compose something with a very few notes,” Carpenter says. “And brilliantly, he did.”

To accompany the announcement, Carpenter has shared the theme from 1994’s “In The Mouth of Madness”. Reminiscing on the original composition he states, "I worked on the soundtrack for In the Mouth of Madness with Jim Lang. We never came up with a great main title theme. In a rented house on Woodrow Wilson (my house was being remodeled), I came up with a heavy metal theme inspired by Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” My friend Dave Davies played lead guitar, and now, over 20 years later, his son Daniel is playing the lead. One of my favorite themes."

John Carpenter is a legend. As the director and composer behind dozens of classic movies, Carpenter has established a reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of modern cinema, as well as one of its most influential musicians. The minimal, synthesizer-driven themes to films like Halloween, Escape From New York, and Assault on Precinct 13 are as indelible as their images, and their timelessness was evident as Carpenter performed them live in a string of internationally sold-out concert dates in 2016.

In the weeks following Anthology’s October 20 release, Carpenter will return to the road, playing both classic movie themes and material from his two Lost Themes albums. Tickets for the tour go on sale this Friday at 10:00am local time, including special VIP packages that include meet and greets with John Carpenter and exclusive merchandise (for more details check www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com). The performances will once again affirm the power of the Horror Master’s brilliant work as a composer and musician, and undoubtedly send audiences rushing home to their DVD libraries to dive yet again into the most rewarding filmography in genre cinema.

1. In the Mouth of Madness

2. Assault on Precinct 13

3. The Fog

4. Prince of Darkness

5. Santiago (Vampires)

6. Escape From New York

7. Halloween

8. Porkchop Express (Big Trouble in Little China)

9. They Live

10. The Thing

11. Starman

12. Dark Star

13. Christine

JOHN CARPENTER US TOUR DATES

10/29/17 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint at Hard Rock Casino
10/31/17 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
11/2/17 - Anaheim, CA @ City National Grove
11/4/17 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
11/5/17 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
11/7/17 - Maplewood, MN @ Myth Live
11/9/17 - Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
11/10/17 - Detroit, MI @ El Club
11/12/17 - Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall
11/13/17 - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
11/15/17 - Boston, MA @ Royale
11/16/17 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5
11/18/17 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
11/19/17 - Syracuse, NY @ The Palace Theatre

From Drag City News:

This is the story of Chris Gantry's At the House of Cash. Chris was a Nashville songwriter and one of the first of the wildman outlaws running through the streets of Music City USA in the 60s and 70s. By the early 70s, Chris' fellow travelers, guys like Kris Kristofferson, Mickey Newbury, Dennis Linde, Shel Silverstein and a bunch of others, had already brought their generation's new perspectives to the scene (not to mention Dylan, whose Nashville work in '66 and '67 helped light the fuse). In fact,
Gantry's second album, 1970's Motor Mouth, was fairly tripped-out country rock - maybe the only record out of Nashville EVER with a Gurdejeff quote on the cover - but there was something else again about the recordings he made at Johnny Cash's place in '73. Gantry's belief in the industry that he'd been feeding songs '73. Gantry's belief in the industry that he'd been feeding songs to for the past decade was at an all-time low, and he'd recently sojourned in Mexico, where peyote played a significant role in his evolving state of mind. Seeking the kind of freedom in his music that he'd been chasing with so many others through the chaos of the late 1960s, Chris was ready to break OUT, and did so by adopting a jazz-inspired improvisatory quality to his lyric phrasing, which, along with an evangelical zeal to communicate his good news, plus his veteran's understanding of songcraft, led to an unusual session, stripped of conventional arrangements and delivered with a rawness that wasn't heard (or even striven for) around town in those days. With familiar Nashville cats on the session like Bobby Thompson, Buddy Spicher, Spady Brannan,
Bergen White and engineer Charlie Bragg, the songs on At the House of Cash sound a bit mad but utterly explicable today; at the time, they were a little too free to find a taker. That's fine, today needs these visions as much as yesterday did! At the House of Cash comes all the way out on November 17th.

Of course even more for xpost National Record Store Day, various genres and subgenres, from various labels----still need to check out Sonny Clark, also this:
a live recording of the night Walter Lure (The Heartbreakers), Clem Burke (Blondie), Tommy Stinson (The Replacements) and Wayne Kramer (The MC5) took on Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers’ L.A.M.F. album are just the tip of the messy, beautiful pile of rock releases hitting the racks at record stores starting November 24.
http://mailchi.mp/tellallyourfriendspr/record-store-day-announces-black-friday-2017-titles-528421?e=3d078fd008

Grand Funk Railroad's catalog has been reissued in two budget boxes - Trunk of Funk Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. The first one has 1969's On Time; 1970's Grand Funk, Closer to Home, and Live Album; and 1971's Survival and E Pluribus Funk. The second has 1972's Phoenix; 1973's We're An American Band; 1974's Shinin' On and All the Girls in the World Beware!!!; 1975's Caught in the Act; and 1976's Born to Die. I bought 'em both on eBay for $32 each, since I don't currently have physical versions of the catalog in the house.

Another for National Record Store Day, vinyl ed. of CB box---

Chris Bell
Complete Chris Bell [Boxed Set]

DETAILS
Event: BLACK FRIDAY 2017
Release Date: 11/24/2017
Format: Vinyl Box Set
Label: Omnivore Recordings
Release type: 'RSD First' Release

After co-founding and subsequently leaving Big Star, Chris Bell only issued two tracks of new music during his short lifetime. For RSD Black Friday 2017, Omnivore Recordings, with the help of the Estate of Chris Bell, are releasing his complete recordings, titled The Complete Chris Bell! This magnificent six LP set of Chris Bell's recorded output contains everything he ever recorded, including Looking Forward: The Roots Of Big Star Featuring Chris Bell, Rock City's See Seven States, I Am The Cosmos (Expanded), and two LPs of Outtakes and Alternate versions. Rounding out the box set is an exclusive unissued London interview from 1975 conducted by Barry Ballard, and a 20 page color booklet with previously unseen photos. This release should serve as the definitive collection of the massively influential Chris Bell, and would make a wonderful gift for any Big Star fan!

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/A - Even A Tree Can Shed Tears
Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973
Light In The Attic
LITA 156
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PRE-ORDER EDITION INCLUDES:
- “Weeping Sakura” wax limited to 300 copies. Limit two per customer.- SOLD OUT
- 18×24 folded poster featuring original cover artwork
First-ever fully licensed compilation of this music to be released outside Japan
Double LP housed in a deluxe gatefold Stoughton tip-on jacket
Original artwork by illustrator Heisuke Kitazawa
Includes book with extensive liner notes and bios by Yosuke Kitazawa and Jake Orrall
Compiled and produced by Jake Orrall, Yosuke Kitazawa, Matt Sullivan, and Patrick McCarthy

Available: October 20th, 2017.

There was something in the air in the urban corners of late ‘60s Japan. Student protests and a rising youth culture gave way to the angura (short for “underground) movement that thrived on subverting traditions of the post-war years. Rejection of the Beatlemania-inspired Group Sounds and the squeaky clean College Folk movements led the rise of what came to be known in Japan as “New Music,” where authenticity mattered more than replicating the sounds of their idols.

Some of the most influential figures in Japanese pop music emerged from this vital period, yet very little of their work has ever been released or heard outside of Japan, until now. Light In The Attic is thrilled to present Even a Tree Can Shed Tears, the inaugural release in the label’s Japan Archival Series. This is the first-ever, fully licensed collection of essential Japanese folk and rock songs from the peak years of the angura movement to reach Western audiences.

In mid-to-late 1960s Tokyo, young musicians and college students were drawn to Shibuya’s Dogenzaka district for the jazz and rock kissas, or cafes, that dotted its winding hilly streets. Some of these spaces doubled as performance venues, providing a stage for local regulars like Hachimitsu Pie with their The Band-like ragged Americana, Tetsuo Saito with his spacey philosophical folk, and the influential Happy End, who successfully married the unique cadences of the Japanese language to the rhythms of the American West Coast. For many years Dogenzaka remained a center of the city’s “New Music” scene.

Meanwhile a different kind of music subculture was beginning to emerge in the Kansai region around Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe. Far more political than their eastern counterparts, many of the Kansai-based “underground” artists began in the realm of protest folk music. They include Takashi Nishioka and his progressive folk collective Itsutsu No Akai Fuusen, the “Japanese Joni Mitchell” Sachiko Kanenobu, and The Dylan II, whose members ran The Dylan cafe in Osaka, which became a hub for the scene.

Even a Tree Can Shed Tears also includes the bluesy avant-garde stylings of Maki Asakawa, future Sadistic Mika Band founder Kazuhiko Kato with his fuzzy, progressive psychedelia, the beatnik acid folk of Masato Minami, and the intimate living room folk of Kenji Endo.

Nearly 50 years on, this “New Music” is born anew.
More info, audio: https://lightintheattic.net/releases/3178-even-a-tree-can-shed-tears-japanese-folk-rock-1969-1973
In-depth backstory: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/arts/music/japan-archival-series-folk-rock.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmusic&action=click&contentCollection=music®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA’S LAST STUDIO ALBUM, UNION CAFE, WILL BE REISSUED
ON DECEMBER 1ST VIA ERASED TAPES

REISSUE MARKS THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF BAND LEADER SIMON JEFFES’ PASSING

LISTEN TO “NOTHING REALLY BLUE”
https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/penguin-cafe-orchestra-nothing-really-blue

Erased Tapes has the huge privilege of reissuing the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s last ever studio album Union Cafe including a first-time vinyl edition, out December 1st 2017 to coincide with the 20th Anniversary of founder Simon Jeffes’ passing in 1997.

It was 1972 in the South of France when Simon had an unfortunate experience with food poisoning which lead to a much more fortunate circumstance when a vivid dream, induced from his illness and depicting a dystopian future, conceived the Penguin Cafe; a charming place where solace, harmony, and the orchestra’s unique music could be found amidst brutal concrete structures and darkness. For the following 25 years, Simon carried out this vision bringing brightness into a world full of noise. Sadly, after his passing, the original orchestra disbanded, but the doors to this happy place reopened when his son Arthur decided to continue his father’s legacy under the name Penguin Cafe.

The continuation of the PCO began at London’s Union Chapel in 2007 when Arthur and the original musicians commemorated Simon 10 years after his death. Another 10 years forward, 2017 will see Penguin Cafe pay tribute to him once again at the Union Chapel on December 11th where they will perform Union Cafe in full – a union from all corners of this magical world.

Union Cafe was the fifth, and the last studio album by Penguin Cafe Orchestra. It was initially released in 1993 merely on cassette and CD, and will now be given a new breath of life, for the first time available on vinyl, and another chance to reach old and new fans alike.

"The first song from Union Cafe that I’d unknowingly heard was Nothing Really Blue, performed live by Arthur and his successor band Penguin Cafe at the Barbican in summer 2016. He simply announced it as “another one of my dad’s”, and left me wondering all night about which record it was from… It wasn’t until summer 2017, a whole year later, that Arthur shared his father’s last studio recordings with me. Union Cafe is a record that somehow missed me, simply because it wasn’t available on vinyl like the other records I had gathered over the years. I couldn't help but feel privileged for the chance to discover another original PCO album. And so I put my headphones on and lay down at the foot of the small lake in Victoria Park to listen to this box of treasures. And as with all of Simon’s works, a whole world appeared in front of my closed eyelids — a world full of love and wonder, that manages to put tears in my eyes, shivers down my spine and a smile on my face. Scherzo And Trio would become the song that manages to brighten up my days, no matter how grey London sometimes gets. Organum would become the piece that Arthur played at my wedding. Cage Dead with its déjà vu-like character would become the theme song to a series of live sessions with artists from all around the world performing in the Sound Gallery, our new home on Victoria Park Road. Songs like Silver Star Of Bologna and Kora Kora, just like all the classic PCO songs, would feel familiar, though I’d never heard them before. Lie Back And Think Of England sounded like the work of a seasoned composer and yet unfamiliar at the same time — it made me wonder if Simon was planning a new adventure for his orchestra. Lastly, Passing Through would remind me that having a hidden track on your album was very popular with bands in the 90s, but finishing your album with the sound of water dripping out of a sink, slowly forming a musical pattern within all the chaos before the record suddenly ends, surely must be the most perfect way to say goodbye.” – label founder Robert Raths

“Union Cafe was the last studio album recorded by the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra and marked a move towards a definitive English pastoral sound combined with larger string arrangements set against longer solo piano pieces. With this last album they got even closer to the PCO idea of squaring the circle of intellectually challenging modern music that is still actually beautiful. For me this has always been a contender as my favourite PCO album, and the fact that it never ended up on vinyl was more to do with the way things were in the early 90s, and chance rather than it being deliberate. So in that sense this release is righting an old wrong. The slow development of the pieces means that you can really get lost in them and vinyl is of course the perfect way to do that.” — Arthur Jeffes

Arthur very kindly gave access to the original Union Cafe painting that currently lives in his North London home studio, created by Arthur’s mother Emily Young and now photographed by Alex Kozobolis for this special reissue edition.

Listen to Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s “Nothing Really Blue” –
https://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/penguin-cafe-orchestra-nothing-really-blue

Pre-order Union Cafe:
http://phonofile.link/union-cafe

Union Cafe Tracklist:
1. Scherzo And Trio
2. Lifeboat (Lovers Rock)
3. Nothing Really Blue
4. Cage Dead
5. Vega
6. Yodel 3
7. Organum
8. Another One From Porlock
9. Thorn Tree Wind
10. Silver Star of Bologna
11. Discover America
12. Pythagoras On The Line
13. Kora Kora
14. Lie Back And Think Of England
15. Red Shorts
16. Passing Through

Union Cafe is really good. It's crazy that PCO only did five studio albums! He really made a little world for himself.

Smog Veil November newsletter:

The 3rd and last entry in the Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 releases offers to fans of Cleveland underground rock, private press aficionados, and electronic/prog/improvisational music devotees the first ever glimpse into the much mythologized but never before released in any form 1972-1973 studio and live recordings of Hy Maya.

The experimental Cleveland musical collective Hy Maya was first conceived and visualized by Robert Bensick [The Robert Bensick Band/Fins/Berlin West], in the Spring of 1972 as a performance piece debuting at Robert's Cleveland State University artist of the year show. The group's core members included drummer/percussionist Scott Krauss [Pere Ubu/Home & Garden/Cinderella Backstreet], synthesist Allen Ravenstine [Pere Ubu/Red Crayola], and electric and acoustic bassist Albert Dennis [Cinderella Backstreet/Wolves]. Pianist Bob Friedhofer [Froggy & the Shrimps], conga player/percussionist Richard Schneider, and Mellotron player Cynthia Black [Cinderella Backstreet/Peter & the Wolves] also contributed significantly to the collective at various times.

Hy Maya created sounds that were heavily driven by an artistic and spiritual foundation and were undeniable and pivotal influence upon Pere Ubu (and, for that matter, related bands that came in between such as the aforementioned Fins and The Robert Bensick Band). Hy Maya were usually namechecked as a mere footnote in Ubu's pre-history despite the fact that two of Hy Maya's members (Ravenstine and Krauss) would go on to co-form Pere Ubu in September 1975. Few had witnessed Hy Maya perform; fewer remembered them or even knew who or what they had been, sadly a re-occurring issue for influential artists who languish in obscurity due to limited available information.

"The Mysticism of Sound & Cosmic Language" is an attempt to right these wrongs and to give as much of a complete portrait of Hy Maya in its various incarnations as possible. While portions of the group's history are still somewhat uncertain in regards to timelines, the discovery of numerous live and studio recordings with a variety of Hy Maya's line-ups tells the story of the group's progression in a way, perhaps, that is much closer to the band's overall intent and philosophy. The recordings captured on this release have never before been issued and represent a landmark in the history of Cleveland underground music. A perfect accompaniment to both our recent Allen Ravenstine release* as this record includes Allen's earliest studio recordings and Robert Bensick Band's "French Pictures In London" as many of the musicians performing on that record also perform on this.

This double LP is pressed on stunning blue marbled vinyl and includes a free download code with bonus tracks and extensive liner notes from Nick Blakey along with never before published photos. The double CD version contains all the same tracks plus the same liners and photos. More information, song streams, and ordering information can be found here:https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/hy-maya-the-mysticism-of-sound-cosmic-language-double-lp
*More on Ravenstine's (w Albert Dennis) Terminal Drive:
https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/allen-ravenstine-terminal-drive-lp

We have a limited supply of Allen's recent collaborations with Robert Wheeler. Spread over 2 CDs and offered at 1 low price, "City Desk" and "Farm Report" represent a pleasing mix of electronic improvisation and expert composition skills honed over many years from these Pere Ubu veterans.
https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/allen-ravenstine-and-robert-wheeler-city-desk-and-farm-report-cds

OW INVENTORY ALLERT!: Our Director of Shipping and Receiving, Cheese Borger, has informed me that we have exactly 2 remaining copies left in stock of the Mr Stress Blues Band "Live at the Brick Cottage 1972-1973" CD. So, first come, first served on those, but since we have just 2 left, these will only be offered as part of our Platters du Cuyahoga series 1 CD subscription. The good news is that we lowered the price on that bundle, so act quick!!

Our double LP retrospective of Cleveland's greatest hardcore band, The Guns, went out of print nearly immediately after release in 2012. We constantly get questions about it, and now we're happy to report that a repress is now shipping! Though a couple compilation appearances is all they managed back in the day, this release collects those tracks plus all other studio recordings, as well as some choice live cuts. The LP also features Vince Rancid's original cover art as commissioned by the band in the 80s and informative liners penned by Scott's brother, Tom Dark, and Sean Saley.

"The Guns is a fitting tribute to an excellent band." --Hunter Bennett/Ugly Things #34

"This is a definite must-have for any old-school hardcore punk..." --Janelle Jones/AMP#111

The numbers: double LP with free download code, 43 songs, 2nd press limited to 500 copies, black and red marble vinyl. Test pressings have been approved and we are waiting in line at the pressing plant. Ordering details, song stream are here, we have less than 100 left:
https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-guns-double-lp
More on Platters du Cuyahoga releases, individually and otherwise:
https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/platters-du-cuyahoga-series-2-lp-subscription
https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/platters-du-cuyahoga-series-1-lp-subscription

Finally got the Jazz Butcher - Wasted Years box in the mail. Nice little hardcover book. However, in the liner notes, Pat Fish admits that Distressed Gentlefolk (1986) is short on good songs because the best ones were being put out at singles. To mention that, yet give no indication if those will ever be reissued, is perverse. I guess that's one expects from the world's most semi-competent band.

Also, the fact that people on here have not heard of Richard Hell confirms the world is broken.

Was Shirley MacLaine a jazz butcher single? I'd like to hear that again

Also, the fact that people on here have not heard of Richard Hell confirms the world is broken.

― Fastnbulbous

oh come on, richard hell is great but we're not all born with complete world knowledge you know

Tim Buckley, reissues and prev. unreleased, reviewed here: http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/music/album-reviews-tim-buckley-venice-mating-call-greetings-from-west-hollywood-the-dream-belongs-to-me-sefronia-look-at-the-fool/

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This has been subject to a third edition reissue, sick album ino.

imo, even!

I just interviewed her for a podcast which will go live on Friday - we talked about that trio quite a bit.

King Crimson
Earthbound - 40th Anniversary Edition

Boz Burrell: Vocals, Bass
Robert Fripp: Guitar, Mellotron
Mel Collins: Saxes, Flute
Ian Wallace: Drums

Earthbound, originally released in 1972, was one of the earliest (if not the first) “official bootleg” released by a major rock band, consisting of a series of deliberately lo-fi live recordings of King Crimson’s Islands era line-up on tour in the USA. When issued, because of its mid-price it was excluded from the main album charts in the UK but topped the mid-price charts rubbing shoulders with Jim Reeves & Mantovani. Atlantic in the USA didn’t even bother to release it. By then, the band had broken up & the label had already been alerted to the likelihood of a new King Crimson line-up promised for later in the year. Like the later live album, USA, Earthbound remained unavailable in the early CD era, with both finally being released in 2002 on CD. Ironically this non-availability served to enhance interest in the album while DGM’s live releases made fans aware that there was a larger story to be told of this line-up’s history. When Robert Fripp was asked to guest on the second Grinderman project, Nick Cave noted: “I wanted to work with Robert Fripp because he has done some of the most uniquely unsettling guitar work I have ever heard along with some of the most delicate and finessed” explained Cave. “I grew up listening to a lot of the King Crimson stuff. The vinyl copy of the phenomenal live album Earthbound, is one of my most treasured possessions.”

The new version of Earthbound features an expanded version of the original album on CD & DVD. As a series of stereo only/low-fi recordings, a 5.1 edition was neither possible nor appropriate. However, also included on the DVD of this release is the full performance from Summit Studios, captured on the same US tour in 1972, appearing in both new stereo & quadraphonic mixes, providing the only live surround recordings of this line-up. This release also features 15 minutes of material not included on the original mail order only CD of Summit studios as issued by DGM in 2000. The DVD also features the “Schizoid Men” sequence from the Ladies of the Road live album & a transfer of a 1972 vinyl edition of the Earthbound LP.

• Earthbound – is the twelfth release in the acclaimed King Crimson 40th anniversary series.
• The album has been expanded ON CD & DVD
• CD features an expanded 12 track version of the original 5 track album.
• DVD features the 12 track expanded album in 24/96 hi-res stereo audio.
• DVD also features the Summit Studios performance in a new stereo mix & in quadraphonic.
This is the only surviving multi-track performance from the 1972 tour.
• DVD features the album length “Schizoid Men” sequence of edits of 21st Century Schizoid Men taken from the Ladies of The Road live album
• A transfer of the original vinyl album completes the audio selections.
• Presented as a 2 x digi-pack format in a slipcase with new sleeve notes by King Crimson biographer Sid Smith along with rare photos & archive material.
• Continues the highly collectable King Crimson series.

Out 11/17. I ordered one, because I have all the other 40th anniversary CD/DVD editions from Court through USA and wanted to complete the set. (I hate the Belew-era 80s version of the band, and the albums from the '90s and beyond bore me.)

Music on Vinyl is reissuing Dorothy Ashby's 1969 album Dorothy's Harp in a few weeks. It's a really killer funky jazz harp record.

https://lightintheattic.net/releases/3725-dorothy-s-harp

Cool! last year's Rolling Reissues incl. Ashby reissues via Sound Of The Universe, Soul Jazz Records' store site. Also here: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/historical-jazz-releases-2016/ And Night Lights did a really good presentation of her music history: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/fantastic-jazz-harp-dorothy-ashby/

Tompkins Square label has reissued Meredith Monk's groundbreaking 1971 debut album, Key. Pitchfork named it "Best New Reissue" (8.7)

BUY LP

Composer, singer, director/choreographer, creator of new opera, musical theater works, films and installations, Meredith Monk is one of the most unique and influential artists of our time. Awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Obama in 2015, Monk has blazed her own trail through music and movement over the past 50 years. Pitchfork noted : "Meredith Monk's influence as a singer and composer extends through Björk, Joanna Newsom and beyond."

Key contains Monk's earliest compositions for voice, composed and performed from 1967-1970. In her words:
"In Key I wanted to create a constantly shifting ambience. Each song dealt with a different vocal character, landscape, technical concern or emotional quality. I was trying for a visceral, kinetic song form that had the abstract qualities of a painting or a dance. I knew that I didn't want to set music to a text: for me, the voice itself was a language which seemed to speak more eloquently than words. I chose certain phonemes for their particular sound qualities. In a sense, each song became a world in itself with its own timbre, texture and impulse."

The Tompkins Square reissue faithfully reproduces the original 1971 LP on Increase Records, with textured cover and original insert images and notes.

TSQ5371 - Tompkins Square is distributed by INgrooves and Revolver in NA, Cargo UK for Europe.
xgau:
Dolmen Music [ECM, 1980]
Monk has classical voice training, but I expect it was her folk and rock experience that taught her how to make these almost wordless songs sound so demotic, so literally unrefined--they obviously don't merely "express" emotion, but they don't merely distill it either. On record, the ostinato structures mean that the four shorter pieces composed between 1972 and 1975 come across better than the title work, which lasts 23:39 and features six voices with intermittent accompaniment. But anybody who wants to go further than Lora Logic and Pere Ubu will listen to it all. A-

Been listening to the U-Men s/t anthology on Sub Pop a lot lately, highly recommended if you like scabrous Birthday Party/Grong Grong/Bloodloss style blues-garage-punk-abilly.

+1. I'd heard a lot of the U-Men stuff at the time, but totally kind of forgot about 'em. Sort of a missing link between BP/Scientists and Gun Club/Scratch Acid. Great comp.

From Soul Jazz Records' storefront Sound Of The Universe:

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Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3
Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1971-81
Soul Jazz Records

Available worldwide in all good retail and internet record stores this Fri 1 Dec or direct from us right now! Buy the 3xLP and get a free limited edition poster (direct from us only here). Buy the 2xCD and get a free limited edition badge (direct from us only here).

This latest instalment in Soul Jazz Records’ successful Deutsche Elektronische Musik series delves deeper into the German nation’s vaults to bring a fascinating new collection that again brings together a selection of classic German electronic and rock groups, including Neu!, Cluster, Popol Vuh, La Düsseldorf, Agitation Free, alongside a host of rare tracks by lesser known artists which includes Michael Bundt, Bröselmaschine, Dronsz, Achim Reichel and others.

The music of Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 ranges from the introverted pastoralism of Hans Joachim Roedelius and Bröselmaschine, to the angular and futuristic electronic experimentations of Klauss Weiss, Pyrolator, Deuter, Michael Bundt and others, to the proto-punk of La Düsseldorf and the heavy space, progressive and cosmic rock of Missus Beastly, Niagara and Dyzan.

The music on Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 was all recorded in the 1970s up to the early 1980s, at a time when forward-thinking German electronic and rock groups were searching for a new musical identity in order to separate themselves from both the cultural legacy of post-world war two Germany as well the ‘cultural imperialism’ of USA and UK rock. In this process German groups created some of the most unique and inspired music, the defining motorik beat alongside a host of ethno-musical influences from far afield – including Turkey, India, Brazil – as well as the musical and futurist possibilities of developments in electronics and technology itself.

Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 is released as a heavyweight 3xLP, deluxe double CD pack and digital release. The new extensive sleevenotes are by David Stubbs, who is the author of the acclaimed book, ‘Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany’ (Faber & Faber).

Deutsche Elektronische Musik: “A near-definitive guide to some of the world’s most extraordinary music’’ ***** The Guardian

Release Date
01 December 2017
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1 Klauss Weiss – Wide Open Space Motion
2 A.R. & Machines – I'll Be Your Singer, You'll Be My Song
3 Deutsche Wertarbeit – Deutscher Wald
4 Dzyan – Khali
5 Missus Beastly – Geisha
6 Alex – Derulé
7 Agitation Free – In The Silence Of the Morning Sunrise
8 Georg Deuter – Pearls
9 Michael Bundt – The Brain Of Oskar Panizza
10 Popol Vuh – Ja, Deine Liebe Ist Sußer Als Wein
11 Novalis – Dronsz
12 Bröselmaschine – Schmetterling
13 Neu! – Neuschnee
14 Between – And The Waters Opened
15 La Düsseldorf – White Overalls
16 Klauss Weiss – Constellation
17 Achim Reichel – Tanz Der Vögel In Den Winden
18 Roedelius – Lustwandel
19 Pyrolator – Die Haut Der Frau
20 Cluster – Hollywood
21 Streetmark – Passage
22 Niagara – Rhythm Go
23 Michael Bundt – Neon

More Info & Audio
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/experimental-german-rock-and-german-music-197181

I got the Rhino deluxe 2 disc master of Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation which was only available in b&m stores for Black Friday. It's inexplicably missing "I'm Your Man," "All The Way," and the Ork single of "Blank Generation," even though it has the other track, "Another World." However, the liner notes are nice, and I just added the missing tracks to my flac folder, shrug.

PET SHOP BOYS ANNOUNCE THE THIRD SET OF RELEASES IN
CATALOGUE: 1985-2012, THE LANDMARK SERIES OF REISSUES
OF THEIR PARLOPHONE STUDIO ALBUMS

The Albums Please, Actually And Introspective Are Remastered And
Reissued With "Further Listening" Albums Of Additional And
Previously Unreleased Material

Reissues Out March 2 From Rhino

LOS ANGELES - Pet Shop Boys will release the third set of albums in their definitive CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 series of reissues of all their Parlophone studio albums. This third set sees the PSB albums Please from 1986, Actually from 1987 and 1988's Introspective, and will be reissued on March 2. The albums have been remastered and repackaged, and will be accompanied by "further listening" albums of master quality bonus tracks - including demos, extended mixes and remixes of tracks from the albums and others created in the same period as each record.

The three albums will be packaged with an extensive booklet in which Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe discuss each song, illustrated with many archive photographs. The entire project is designed by Farrow.

Please was the debut album by Pet Shop Boys and produced by Stephen Hague. Released in March 1986, the album hit Billboard's Top Ten, was certified Platinum, and has sold over three million copies worldwide. Comprising of ten tracks in its original release, the album's track-listing includes the duo's debut single "West End Girls" - PSB's first number one single in the USA. Singles "Love Comes Quickly," "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" and "Suburbia" are also featured on Please. The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 re-issue of the album features a remastered and repackaged vinyl and double CD, featuring 7" and 12" mixes and remixes of tracks from Please and the album's period.

In 1987, Pet Shop Boys released their second album Actually. The album was produced by Julian Mendelsohn, Stephen Hague, Shep Pettibone, Andy Richards and Pet Shop Boys. This period saw Pet Shop Boys reach new critical and commercial heights and included singles, "It's A Sin," "Always On My Mind And Heart," and "What Have I Done To Deserve This," their single featuring Dusty Springfield which climbed to number two on the US singles chart. The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 re-issue of Actually includes the remastered original album, with the 2-CD version featuring bonus material including the Shep Pettibone mix of "Heart," and demo versions and alternative mixes of tracks including "One More Chance" and "Always On My Mind."

Also remastered, repackaged and re-issued as part of the CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 is Pet Shop Boys' 1988 release Introspective. This album has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide to date and was the first to feature production by Trevor Horn, whose lavish orchestrations marked a new sonic direction for PSB. House music legend Frankie Knuckles created the mix of "I Want A Dog," while "Domino Dancing" was recorded in Miami with hit producer Lewis Martinée. Introspective also saw Pet Shop Boys introduce a new approach to the format of an album and its respective singles: each of the 6 tracks on the album's original track-listing is over six minutes in length, and they were later edited to fit the more traditional format of a seven-inch single. The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 re-issue features, along with the newly-remastered original album, bonus material such as demo versions of "Don Juan" and "Domino Dancing," seven-inch and disco mixes of "Losing My Mind" and "Left To My Own Devices."

The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 reissue series began earlier this year on July 28 with the release of Nightlife, Release, and Fundamental, followed by re-issues of Yes and Elysium, which were released on October 20. The series will continue until all PSB Parlophone albums have been released with "further listening" albums:

Behaviour/Further listening: 1990-1991
Very/Further listening: 1992-1994
Bilingual/Further listening: 1995-1997

The reissues of Please, Actually, Introspective, Behaviour, Very, and Bilingual were originally released with bonus "further listening" albums in 2001 and are being newly remastered with their original track-listings for these projects.

Please / Further Listening: 1984-1986

CD 1:
1. Two Divided By Zero
2. West End Girls
3. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)
4. Love Comes Quickly
5. Suburbia
6. Opportunities (Reprise)
7. Tonight Is Forever
8. Violence
9. I Want A Lover
10. Later Tonight
11. Why Don't We Live Together?

CD 2:
1. A Man Could Get Arrested (Twelve-Inch B-Side)
2. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (Full Length Original Seven-Inch Mix)
3. In The Night
4. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (Twelve-Inch Mix)
5. Why Don't We Live Together? (Original New York Mix)
6. West End Girls (Dance Mix)
7. A Man Could Get Arrested (Seven-Inch B-Side)
8. Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix)
9. That's My Impression (Disco Mix)
10. Was That What It Was?
11. Suburbia (The Full Horror)
12. Jack The Lad
13. Paninaro (Italian Remix)

Actually / Further Listening: 1987-1988:

CD 1:
1. One More Chance
2. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (with Dusty Springfield)
3. Shopping
4. Rent
5. Hit Music
6. It Couldn't Happen Here
7. It's A Sin
8. I Want To Wake Up
9. Heart
10. King's Cross

CD 2:
1. I Want To Wake Up (Breakdown Mix)
2. Heart (Shep Pettibone Version)
3. You Know Where You Went Wrong
4. One More Chance (Seven-Inch Mix)
5. It's A Sin (Disco Mix)
6. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (with Dusty Springfield) [extended mix]
7. Heart (Disco Mix)
8. A New Life
9. Always On My Mind (Demo Version)
10. Rent (Seven-Inch Mix)
11. I Want A Dog
12. Always On My Mind (Extended Dance Mix)
13. Do I Have To?
14. Always On My Mind (Dub Mix)

Introspective / Further Listening: 1988-1989

CD 1:
1. Left To My Own Devices
2. I Want A Dog
3. Domino Dancing
4. I'm Not Scared
5. Always On My Mind/In My House
6. It's Alright

CD 2:
1. I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too)
2. Don Juan (Demo Version)
3. Domino Dancing (Demo Version)
4. Domino Dancing (Alternative Version)
5. The Sound Of The Atom Splitting
6. What Keeps Mankind Alive?
7. Don Juan (Disco Mix)
8. Losing My Mind (Disco Mix)
9. Nothing Has Been Proved (Demo For Dusty)
10. So Sorry, I Said (Demo For Liza)
11. Left To My Own Devices (Seven-Inch Mix)
12. It's Alright (Ten-Inch Version)
13. One Of The Crowd
14. It's Alright (Seven-Inch Version)
15. Your Funny Uncle