Rolling Reissues 2020

A little late, incl. in finding anything worth mentioning, but now we can start this off with a bang:

Randy Holden's Population II out Friday---heavy breathing and linked preview streams here:
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103023679580&ca=49aea560-d948-42e5-ae61-ed1c2a390291

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I've really been looking forward to this reissue since Riding Easy announced it, but I'm a little confused about the release date since Riding Easy's site itself says it's not due out until April 6th.

Rumours taht there is a box set and deluxe editions of the mid 70s Iggy Pop lps he cut with teh help fo david Bowie have been going around since the latest Robert Plant cover UNcut hasa big feature on the era. Not been able to find anything confiriming that though.
Have been hoping for remasters of teh 2 main lps for ages though.

There is definitely a 15 disc vinyl box based around Funhouse coming including all of the Complete sessions and the Unganos set.
A bit of overkill but it is the 50th anniversary.
Wish I could get some of the packaging on its own though.
Really want a poster with the remastered cover image in the same depth as the vinyl that came out at the time the 2cd set came out. Very sharp

xpost good point Jon, have just queried publicist.

THere wasa good long interview with Randy Holden in Ugly THings a couple of issues ago #51. Goes right into the story behind the Population II lp and why nothings seemed to work for him at that point.He drifted out of music in disgust for decades.

That was a great read, if overall depressing.

Publicist replies: Because the vinyl was delayed considerably, as is the norm these days. It will be out on digital platforms this Friday, but the physical format won’t hit shelves until April 6th. Yeah, prob re the big pressing plant fire in Cali, I should think (but why no CD yet oh well meanwhile we have those streams linked in the press release web page posted above)

Thanks for the clarification!

The Distractions – Nobody’s Perfect (Island/Occultation, 1980) Mar 20
An exciting, relatively rare case where a lost classic (from major label Island no less) is reissued on CD (and digital and vinyl) for the first time ever. It was a long road to get there, as the project was first announced in 2016, then abandoned, then made into a crowdfunded project. You can stream or buy the 14 original tracks of the album now, or buy the physical two disc set with the singles, demos and remixed album to be delivered in March. The amazing Manchester band is the missing link between Buzzcocks and The Jam.
https://fastnbulbous.com/distractions-nobodys-perfect/
https://thedistractionsmcr.bandcamp.com/album/nobodys-perfect-2020-40th-anniversary-expanded-reissue

Nick Haeffner – The Great Indoors (Hanky Panky, 1987) Jan 8
The voice of unsung cult post-punk/psych hero Nick Haeffner is finally being heard thanks to a renaissance of reissues, reunions and new material. Last year he got together with his old post-punk band The Tea Set (1978-81) for some performances, new song and video “Pharoahs,” and the Cleopatra released the compilation of their complete catalog in July, Back In Time For Tea. Then Hanky Panky reissued a double album version of his underrated solo debut, The Great Indoors (1987), a truly original collection that marries his post-punk background with Syd Barrett psych and jangle pop. It was officially released late last year in UK, so Jan is the US date -- mine just arrived this week.

UT – In Gut’s House (Blast First/UT, 1987) Jan 31
UT formed in no wave-era NYC in 1978, but soon relocated to London. Their second album, In Gut’s House, is a masterpiece of spectral, skeletal noise rock and post-punk, one of the most original albums of the time. Had they not disbanded in 1990, perhaps they would have achieved at least a portion of the success that the likes of Swans and Sonic Youth saw. They’ve actually been active since 2010, and with luck we’ll hear new music someday.
https://utmusic.bandcamp.com/album/in-guts-house-2

East Village – Hotrod Hotel (Slumberland) Jan 24
I don’t know that East Village were one of the Great Lost Bands, but they did some nice jangle pop tunes that were in line with what was going on with Flying Nun and Creation label bands. They broke up in 1991, two years before their sole album was released. This collects their late 80s singles.
https://slumberlandrecs.bandcamp.com/album/hotrod-hotel

Pale Saints – The Comforts Of Madness (4AD, 1990) Jan 17
Second tier dream pop & shoegaze from Leeds deserves a fresh listen on this deluxe reissue of their debut album, the first of three in their 7 year existence, 1987-94.

The Flys – Today Belongs To Me: The Complete Recordings 1977-1980 (Warner/Cherry Red, 2019)
This came out last year, but I just got my copy, tacked it on at the bottom of the Distractions review. One of the many Between The Cracks bands who navigated the murky gray areas between glam, pub rock, new wave and punk.
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-flys-today-belongs-to-me-the-complete-recordings-1977-1980-2cd/

ggy Pop – The Idiot (Universal, 2CD, 1977) May
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life (Universal, 2CD 1977) May
Iggy Pop – 1977: The Bowie Years (Universal, 7CD) May

This is exciting news, as I’ve been waiting for deluxe reissues of those albums for decades. No details on what’s on that 7 disc set yet, but I imagine there would be stuff starting with Raw Power era Stooges and some live recordings, possibly with Bowie serving on keyboards.

Pedaljets – Today, Today (Twilight, 1988) TBD - I reviewed their new album: https://fastnbulbous.com/winter-album-rundown-2020/

Yeah, I might well spring for the full Iggy box. Maybe we'll get even more live recordings with the awesome fidelity of TV Eye!

Batiscafo FINALLY being reissued, this is one crazy record and long overdue. It's out 4/3

Munster Records presents a reissue of Batiscafo by Gregorio Paniagua. Immersed in an age of re-releases and the pursuit of rarities, hidden gems and marvels, record labels are constantly rediscovering musical jewels, which previously only collectors have had the chance to own. Batiscafo is one of these elusive treasures. First released in 1980 on the label Hispavox, the album disappeared after a short run and no further editions in any format have been available until now, in spite of the huge level of interest shown by fans to get their hands on a vinyl record in mint condition by this outstanding musical oddity made in Spain. Paniagua is a classically trained musician and scholar of music with an extensive and fruitful history of researching, recording and rediscovering ancient music, varying from Las Cantigas de Santa María del Rey Alfonso X El Sabio (which earned him a gold record in Japan), to Andalusían music from Spain's past or compositions from ancient Greece, as well as playing with the vocal and instrumental ensemble Atrium Musicae, which toured across the world to great critical acclaim. In 1980, Paniagua embarked on a solo project, moving from the classical to the pop department at Hispavox. He shut himself off from the world every night for a whole month to record Batiscafo. Assisted solely by a sound technician at the controls of the latest mixing desk, his instruments and brilliant inventiveness, he managed to create this gem, a record that seeks to emulate Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells (1973) and which vanished all too soon, becoming the Holy Grail of Spanish experimental music. Batiscafo anticipated a wave of avant-garde Spanish music in the '80s with key figures such as Suso Sáiz, Pep Llopis, Ishinoana, or Finis Africae, who are now being rediscovered and admired outside Spain. It is a highly original and imaginative record that continues to surprise listeners forty years on, with its bold combination of early electronic music, classicism, experimentation and psychedelia. It's a masterpiece that endures the test of time.

Oh! I'll order that East Village collection from Slumberland... Paul Kelly went on to form Birdie, who I love. And I guess Martin Kelly went on to marry Sarah Cracknell, who he loves.

ggy Pop – The Idiot (Universal, 2CD, 1977) May
Iggy Pop – Lust For Life (Universal, 2CD 1977) May
Iggy Pop – 1977: The Bowie Years (Universal, 7CD) May

This is exciting news, as I’ve been waiting for deluxe reissues of those albums for decades. No details on what’s on that 7 disc set yet, but I imagine there would be stuff starting with Raw Power era Stooges and some live recordings, possibly with Bowie serving on keyboards.

― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, February 29, 2020 1:35 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Has this been confirmed somewhere now. The word was going around a couple of weeks ago but everything was citing the Uncut article in the Robert Plant cover edition as the source.
Iam looking forward to getting the lps if it is true but just haven't seen anything saying what makes them deluxe.
Have been waiting for an upgrade on the old cd for years.

There's a new African Head Charge box out: Drumming is a Language: 1990-2011. It compiles four albums - Songs of Praise, In Pursuit of Shashamane Land, Vision of a Psychedelic Africa and Voodoo of the Godsent - with a 10-disc set of outtakes, Churchical Chant of the Iyabinghi. I bought the 5CD version from the On-U store on Bleep.com (along with the 2017 Dub Syndicate box Ambience in Dub 1982-1985) and got free downloads (MP3, WAV, or FLAC) of everything.

Now that's what I call talkin' about!
Wonder how this is?

VARIOUS ARTISTS
The All American Powerhouse (Themes)
BE WITH RECORDS
Originally released in 1976, The All American Powerhouse is one of the very best of the Themes library releases. It’s killer. A feast of dramatic jazz, horizontal, melodic funk and bouncing sunshine-y West-Coast feels throughout, there also lurks an intense injection of the Blaxploitation sound. Understandable, given the subject matter and year it was released. Highlights include Alan Parker’s confident, horn-heavy wah-wah-fuelled album-opener “Sweeny Todd”, Hawkshaw’s graceful “Getaway” glide and dramatic, breathless “Speed Run”, Mike Moran’s loose, organ-driven propulsive B-Boy classic “The Pick-Up” and Keith Roberts’ percussive tour de force “Overide” that closes out the LP. Yet, perhaps the most significant track here is Les Hurdle’s long-adored “Soul Train”. A grooving, bass-heavy library classic, it’s all swirling strings, stabbing horns, heavy open drums and melodic funk-rock guitars. Add in the funky clavinet, and the combination works beautifully. Excerpts etc. of this and other label reissues here: https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/various-artists-the-all-american-powerhouse-themes-be-with-records/165104

Another Be With (tho currently Out of Stock on this site)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Visual Impact (kpm) LP
BE WITH RECORDS

Arguably the single greatest album in KPM history. An ensemble piece of staggeringly heavy works from none other than Brian Bennett, John Scott, Steve Gray, Jim Lawless and Johnny Pearson. For our immense pleasure, Visual Impact includes the insanely ace “Nuplex” by Brian Bennett, a nagging, sweeping, punchy funk piece that exists in a world of its own. If you don’t know, get to know - the record’s worth getting for this track alone. The same goes for the beautifully paced, string-drenched, horn-fed LP opener “Canaveral Scape”, courtesy of John Scott. Truly sublime. Other highlights on the A-side include Bennett’s easy, bass-heavy jazz groover “Sequence Of Events” and the spare, building, undercover funk of Steve Gray’s aptly-named “Low Profile”. The B-side is straight-up fantastic. The percussive, vibey exotica of Jim Lawless’s “Keeping Pace” is followed by five tracks of slick, weighty funk breaks from Johnny Pearson. Check the pure groove of “Jaguar” with its head-nod drum break intro, the creeping piano-strings combo and… er… giant neck-snapping breaks of “Giant’s Causeway”, the speaker-smashing progressive bass groove of “Fugitive”, the tense “Rock Climb” and the sheer heft of “Heavy Load". Library largeness. If that isn’t enough, John Scott’s incessant “Flight Of The Phoenix” ends the session, brilliantly pilfered by M.O.P. for their much-loved “We Run New York.”
More samples etc.:
https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/various-artists-visual-impact-kpm-lp-be-with-records/165102

I had a weird mix of going between CDRs of The Cult and The Doobie Brothers today at work.

As RidingEasy Records' highly successful Brown Acid series (now at 10 volumes and counting) proves, there is a massive amount of incredible heavy psych and proto-metal music that has been lost to the sands of time. Case in point, the astoundingly great 50-year-old album The Ice Age by Indianapolis quintet ICE was never even released upon its completion.

In 1970, the band recorded 10 original songs at 8-Track Studios in Chicago, only to break up shortly thereafter. Two of the tracks were eventually released as a 45 in 1972, but confusingly under a different band name, Zukus! The A-side of that single was featured on Brown Acid: The Ninth Trip, which led RidingEasy Records to discover when licensing the track that an entire album had been languishing in obscurity all of this time. The 2-inch master tapes had been shelved and forgotten until recently when The Ice Age tracks were converted to digital and remixed, preserving the sounds of the original vocals & instruments. Finally, half a century later, this 10-song album of radio-ready rock will finally see light of day.

The Ice Age is an exceptional archive of hard edged rock with serious pop hooks akin to something like Grand Funk Railroad meets The Guess Who and The Move. It rocks hard, but is also interlaced with glorious melodic hooks. Had fate been less fickle, this album would've long been a classic rock radio staple.

"Goes back and forth between riffy '70s hard rock and the more mind-bending psych-pop sounds of the '60s. It's not hard to picture this being recorded in 1970 - like a lot of that year's rock records, you can feel the hangover of '60s hippie culture coming on but the sounds of the summer of love aren't completely gone yet." -- Brooklyn Vegan
Links to first single + more words:
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Sir Lord Baltimore finally getting an official reissue of their lps as a 3cd on April 24th. Through Cherry Red .
That includes a 2006 reunion lp.

I think all cd releases to now have been bootlegs.

Any updates on what is on the Iggy Pop 2cds or actual confirmation beyond the Uncut article?

Just reposted your SLB news here, stevolende: Singing drummers
where I prev posted this, without having heard that those CDs were bootlegs(?) Got the legit orig lps, but only heard reissues and reunion on youtube:

Surprised that John Garner of Sir Lord Baltimore isn't on here. SLB's 1971 Kingdom Come is what would now be called proto-metal I guess---tagged as heavy metal when that was still a new, esoteric rock critic category---real good, and the follow-up was okay; way later when they were mentioned in CREEM again, somebody wrote in to say that Garner had become a Christian EMT and wedding singer. Then about 12 years ago the third album was finally released, earlier sessions re-worked with Christian-themed lyrics (considering the title of the debut, maybe this was always in there, but originally over my head if so). Kingdom Come's re-reissue on CD is prob OOP by now but worth looking for.

― dow, Thursday, September 6, 2018 10:30 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Listening again---if you want visionary caveman vocals x drums for the wedding, Garner is your guy! Or was (RIP).

― dow, Thursday, September 6, 2018 1:17 PM

Mercury/Polygram put the first two SLB albums on one CD way back in 1994; I still have a copy (and it might even still be in print). Weirdly, both albums had their sides reversed, so the CD ran

Kingdom Come, Side A
Kingdom Come, Side B
Sir Lord Baltimore, Side B
Sir Lord Baltimore, Side A

I think I'm gonna spring for the Cherry Red box. That third album was good; I interviewed the two surviving members when it came out in 2007.

The Mercury set has been OOP for awhile; Garner himself published a review on Amazon complaining that he'd neither been approached nor compensated for it.

Well, I've just pre-ordered the Cherry Red box (only about $27 including shipping to the US; release date 4/24, which is just far enough in the future that I'll have forgotten I ordered it by the time it lands in my PO box).

From Sounds of the Universe, Soul Jazz Records storefront:

OVER 60% OFF RETAIL PRICE - ESSENTIAL BOOK!

From the writers of 'Last Night A DJ Saved My Life', Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton have come up trumps again with this fabulous book 'The Record Players'!!!

Leading dance music writers Brewster and Broughton detail the visionary DJs who dramatically changed the course of music: from the very first nightclub DJs, to the founders of entire genres, including northern soul, hip hop, disco, techno, drum’n’bass and beyond.

These are the obsessives, the playboys, the musical eccentrics who founded the craft of DJing, developed amazing techniques for performing with recorded music, and revolutionised the way music is conceived, created and enjoyed. They gave us new ways to have the times of our lives and forged a worldwide industry of nightlife and dance music. From unsung pioneers to overheated superstars, all the biggest DJ names are here!

Includes Tom Moulton, Francois Kevorkian, Louie Vega, Marshall Jefferson, John Peel, David Mancuso, Alfredo, Shut Up & Dance, Danielle Badelli and lots, lots more!!!!!
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-record-players-the-story-of-dance-music-told-by-history-s-greatest-djs-by-bill-brewster-and-frank-broughton

also from SOTU:

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/UDRXeEUxME4xbU1QZmJxQnc5dHpsQT09/launderette-vivien-goldman.jpg

(update) SORRY SOLD OUT!!

Absolutely seminal dubby tripped-out POST-PUNK DANCE CLASSIC originally on New York's seminal 99 RECORDS in the USA and Goldman's tiny own label in the UK in 1981.

Recorded at the height of dance/punk crossover, Vivienne's seminal single features John Lydon and Keith Levene from PIL's production, and the flip produced by Adrian Sherwood. It's even got Robert Wyatt on percussion! It's the bomb!

This is a beautiful new exact reproduction of the single with its stunning original sleeve with paper inner and polyurethene plastic outer sleeve. It has been unavailable for 40 years and you have one chance to get this before it gets deleted!

*ONE COPY ONLY PLEASE*!!! Oh well you can still hear some of the a-side: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/vivien-goldman-launderette

Haven't heard from Anthology Editions in years, thought gone!

Anthology Editions Announces 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History Book, Out April 21st
Their journey still occasions wonder and awe. For so many years, it was hardly told. Here it is, in pictures and words. This is the way, step inside.” - Jon Savage

13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History, written and curated by Paul Drummond and published by Anthology Editions, will be released April 21st, and is available for preorder now. Direct orders of the book through the Anthology website will be shipped immediately. 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History tells the complete and unvarnished story of a band, which, until now, has been thought of as tragically underdocumented. Drummond has spent years amassing an unprecedented archive of primary materials, including scores of previously-unseen band photographs, rare and iconic psychedelic artworks, and more. A full list of visual assets can be found belowBorn out of a union of club bands on the burgeoning Austin bohemian scene and a pronounced taste for hallucinogens, the 13th Floor Elevators formed in late 1965 when lyricist Tommy Hall asked a local singer named Roky Erickson to join up with his new rock outfit. Four years, three official albums, and countless acid trips later, it was over: the Elevators’ pioneering first run ended in a dizzying jumble of professional mismanagement, internal arguments, drug busts, and forced psychiatric imprisonments.

In their short existence, however, the group succeeded in blowing the lid off the budding musical underground, logging early salvos in the countercultural struggle against state authorities, and turning their deeply hallucinatory take on jug-band garage rock into a new American institution called psychedelic music. Before the hippies, before the punks, there were the 13th Floor Elevators: an unlikely crew of outcast weirdo geniuses who changed culture. 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History places the band finally and undeniably in the pantheon of innovators of American rock music to which they have always belonged.

13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History Visual Assets:
● Rare photos, including many newly-discovered color shots
● Family scrapbook photos and clippings
● Photography and ephemera from the band’s friends, a who’s-who of the 1960s Austin arts scene
● Stills from the band’s television appearances
● Contemporary newspaper and underground press clippings covering the band’s rise (and fall)
● Materials from the books that inspired the band’s unique iconography
● Internal documents from the band’s label International Artists documenting the disastrous business side of the Elevators’ career in detail
● Materials relating to the band’s legal troubles, from handwritten drug deal letters to Austin Police Department surveillance photos to mugshots and draft cards
● The most complete collection of show flyers and handbills ever assembled, including many rare alternate printings of iconic psychedelic posters

About the Author:
Paul Drummond is a renowned antiquarian bookseller based in London. He has spent years documenting every aspect of the history of the 13th Floor Elevators, and is the author of Eye Mind (2007), the exhaustive and definitive biography of the band.

Order 13th Floor Elevators: A Visual History
https://shop.mexicansummer.com/product/paul-drummond-13th-floor-elevators/ (even if you don't want to pre-order, maybe check their reissues still available, like Tully's Sea of Joy)

I wish Eye Mind would get put back into print. My copy got trashed and it's fetching ridiculous $$$ online.

Matador's promo page for the new Alien Lanes vinyl re-ish includes this teaser at the bottom:

Other Matador Revisionist History Catalog Features Coming in 2020
April 11, 1995 — Pavement Wowee Zowee — 25th anniversary
May 2, 1995 — Yo La Tengo Electr-O-Pura — 25th anniversary
Anniversary releases for Chavez‘s Gone Glimmering, Bailter Space’s Wammo, and Mary Timony‘s Mountains to follow later this year.

New Zealand’s legendary group The Clean have dusted off several releases from their catalog and made them available on all digital platforms! Today marks the digital debut of the band’s 1996 studio album Unknown Country and that of Live Dead Clean, a six-song EP of early live tracks recorded in 1981 and 1982. Pop some “Champagne & Misery” to celebrate.

The Clean’s David Kilgour and Robert Scott on Unknown Country:

DK: The Clean always wanna try something different, but on this LP, we were obsessed with the idea. Tracks like “Wipe Me, I’m Lucky” and “Franz Kafka at the Zoo” are fine examples of the approach, I reckon. Quite a long way from “Tally Ho!” and “Beatnik”!

I remember we generally left vocal ideas to last, after the tracks were recorded, so we never really knew where we were headed. Might also explain all the instrumentals!

Made during the Balkan War, hence the reference. And for the freaks, I think “Balkans” is the only Clean track ever to not actually feature the Clean playing. It’s all Alan Starrett, as we removed the backing track.

RS: This album is very different from our other albums. We didn’t go into the studio with many “song” ideas—a lot of it was written on the spot. I really enjoyed recording this as it was free of expectation. We weren’t playing much live at the time. It does contain some of my favourite Clean songs such as “Twist Top,” “Wipe Me, I’m Lucky,” and “Valley Cab.” Certainly our most experimental album.

In addition to the releases mentioned above, Compilation, Vehicle, Modern Rock, and In-A-Live are available for your listening pleasure on your favorite digital service today!

contact: mike at mergerecords.com

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So last year, Reappearing Records released a listening companion to Love and Death on the New York Dance Floor, the third volume of historian Tim Lawrence's NYC saga--link to stream that is on the below bandcamp page, for upcoming soundtrack of his first book, Love Saves The Day (stream for this not yet available):
With knowledge to share, and a readership as well as a dance floor to feed, Lawrence released Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor as the debut imprint on Reappearing Records. A year in the making, a compilation featuring rare and iconic tracks that appear in his much-loved and heavily-thumbed classic Love Saves the Day amounts to the follow-up. The collection features several tracks selected regularly by David Mancuso, the party host who exerted a prophetic and unparalleled influence on New York City party culture, as charted by Lawrence. It also includes choice picks from groundbreaking DJs such as Michael Cappello, Steve D’Acquisto, Francis Grasso, Richie Kaczor, Larry Levan and Nicky Siano, whose expressive contributions are faithfully recorded in Love Saves the Day. The compilation traces how disco grew out of the record collections and intuitive sensibility of these and other DJs, offering a unique survey of the era’s expansive sonic palette.

releases May 22, 2020, digital and vinyl
tracks:
1.
Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin - Dibwe Diambula Kabanda
2.
Chuck Mangione - Land Of Make Believe
3.
Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love (Part 1)
4.
Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love (Part 2)
5.
James Brown - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
6.
Jackson 5 - Hum Along And Dance (Uncut Version)
7.
Brainstorm - Lovin' Is Really My Game (12" Version)
8.
Domenic Troiano - We All Need Love (12" Version)
9.
Gladys Knight And The Pips - It's Time To Go Now
https://reappearingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/love-saves-the-day-a-history-of-american-dance-music-culture-1970-1979-part-1
Don't know if Part 1 refers only to the book's placement in series or if there will be a another audio release re the book.

PS:
this is how it's divided up on vinyl, according to Vinyl Factory:
Side A

1. Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin – Dibwe Diambula Kabanda
2. Chuck Mangione – Land Of Make Believe

Side B

1. Wilson Pickett – Don’t Knock My Love (Part 1)
2. Wilson Pickett – Don’t Knock My Love (Part 2)
3. James Brown – Give It Up Or Turn It Loose

Side C

1. Jackson 5 – Hum Along And Dance (Uncut Version)

Side D

1. Brainstorm – Lovin Is Really My Game (12 Version)
2. Domenic Troiano – We All Need Love
3. Gladys Knight And The Pips – It’s Time To Go Now

Here's the one that came out last year, with 16 tracks:
https://reappearingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/life-death-on-a-new-york-dance-floor-1980-1983

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This Delta 5 comp came out on CD in '06, then two vinyl editions and cassette were released late last year, but don't think I noticed---either way, listen/order here:
https://delta5.bandcamp.com/album/singles-and-sessions-1979-81
excerpts from post on that page:
Delta 5 - Biography
By Alan Riggs

Ros Allen - Bass guitar & vocals
Kelvin Knight - Drums
Bethan Peters - Bass guitar & vocals
Alan Riggs - Guitar & vocals
Julz Sale - Vocals

Formed in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK 1979.

There was a Leeds music scene at the time that revolved around the Leeds University Art Department, and local bands The Gang of Four and The Mekons were doing well. Kelvin had briefly replaced Hugo in The Gang of Four and was recommended to Delta 5 as a drummer. Kelvin and I played in a band in York together so I went along to audition and joined in May 1979.
...The single came out in December.

John Peel was given a pre-release copy and he decided to play it twice that night. The next day we got a call asking if we'd like to do a session for him - yes please!! Then, we were off and running.

"Delta 5" and "Make Up" included on this CD are from that session of February 1980. We recorded a follow-up, "Anticipation" / "You" in February 1980. We were gigging more often at this point and "You" turned out pretty well. More gigging in Europe and the UK; around 1980 - 81, we played quite a bit at The Lyceum in London and shared the bill with The Gang of Four a few times, Echo and the Bunnymen, B52s, Specials, Teardrop Explodes and U2 to name a few. We toured with The Gang of Four and Pere Ubu in 1980.

In September 1980 we did our second Peel session, which included "Triangle," which is included on this CD. Later in September 1980 we went to the USA.

We played New York and all along the East Coast. Then we went West, and "Shadow," "Circuit," and "Journey" are all from a show we did at the Berkeley Square in Berkeley, CA. Back to England in October and we recorded "Try"/ "Colour" with the Bad Manners horn section who we had met at a festival In Finland.
...We experimented quite a bit on the album and perhaps we should have just recorded the songs as they were - the session versions included here are more a reflection of how we were live as they were all recorded quickly in one or two takes.
...The early days were the best and although we did argue a lot, (what band doesn't!), we also had a lot of laughs - for a couple of years we got to play live and make some records, and then that was enough.

PHIL OCHS
The Best Of the Rest: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
Coming to CD on May 22nd

"As much as has been written about the sixties, it's arguable that no one experienced that defining moment in American history more personally than Phil Ochs" - Steve Earle

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Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter; however, his oeuvre extends far beyond that - to short stories, poetry, criticism, journalism and satire

More than a torrent, less than a flood-the songs poured out of Ochs so quickly in the early days of his career that not all were able to find their place on his albums, leaving a fair few in limbo. Some of those "betwixt and between" songs would only emerge decades later and a few have hitherto languished in the archives.

The Warner/Chappell demos which make up the main portion of this new album represent a time period spanning Ochs' last two albums for Elektra: I Ain't Marching Anymore and In Concert, when Phil was finding his full strength as a songwriter and moving to include the lyrical in his repertoire, alongside the topical and satirical.

Songs such as "In the Heat of the Summer" and "Here's to the State of Mississippi" will certainly be familiar to most Phil Ochs fans. Others, like "The Confession" and "I'm Tired" (the latter with subtlety adjusted lyrics) may be known only to those who have the Farewells and Fantasies and A Toast to Those Who are Gone albums, respectively (or perhaps Shawn Phillips' rare cover of "I'm Tired" on his 1965 album for Capitol, Favorite Things).

Readers of Broadside ("the national topical song magazine") issue 69, in April 1966 would have encountered Ochs' "Take It Out of My Youth. However, if they missed that issue, or did not have the rare good fortune to hear Ochs perform it live, then they might never have even been aware of the song. Rather than paying for a drink from a five or ten ("depending upon one's station in life"), Ochs suggests a more personal, and perhaps more draining, means of payment.

"I Wish I Could Have Been Along" is even more obscure-never published in any magazine, with no known live recordings or cover versions. The song ranges from (barely) repressed wanderlust and the desire for experience on the one hand, to introspection and mournfulness on the other (there are times when one can almost hear Ochs sing, "I Wish I Could Have Been Alone," son of "As I Walk Alone" perhaps?). Another line calls to mind an even more famous Ochs song, of similar vintage, "tell me of the changes in your mind."

"Sailors and Soldiers," perhaps partially inspired by the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Monument in Riverside Park in New York City-with Phil transposing the armed services, either for the sake of emphasis through unfamiliarity or, perhaps more likely for the sake of how the line would scan, lyrically. In any case, it too was completely unknown before being rescued and covered by the Long Ryder's Sid Griffin with Billy Bragg (Phil fans both) on Griffin's solo album Little Victories in 1997. The words ("far from the planners who sent them to die") cut as deeply today as they did when the song was written.

The bonus tracks delve even more deeply into the Ochs Archives. The version of "The War is Over" from a November 20, 1967 WBAI broadcast, in advance of the protest celebration five days later, features almost entirely divergent lyrics ("all the children play with Gatling guns, tattooed mothers with their tattooed sons") from those of the released version and is a wonderful example of Ochs never being satisfied with the merely clever and well-written, forever polishing to a fine poetic point.

"All Quiet on the Western Front," from 1969, was previously only known from incomplete versions recorded live in New York and Philadelphia (both missing, as though through some conspiracy, the opening verses). Ochs was more economical with his songs later in his career and this is a rare example of a lost song saved from those latter days.

In "No More Songs" we close with a familiar song, but something new-a rehearsal take, replete with comments on what instrumentation and countermelodies Phil envisioned. It is a rare glimpse behind the curtain and a fitting last word from Phil.

I'm Gonna Say It Now: the Writings of Phil Ochs (Backbeat Books, May 2020) compiles damn near all of Phil's non-song works, sourced, in part, from the Ochs Archives at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Phil is known primarily as a songwriter; however, his oeuvre extends far beyond that - to short stories, poetry, criticism, journalism and satire, all of which are included in this tome.

Spanning foundational texts written while still in school at Staunton Military Academy and Ohio State University-to the music criticism, polemics and satire penned in New York City (appearing in such diverse magazines as Sing Out, Mainstream, The Realist and Hit Parader). Onward, with ringing calls to action, from an absurdist point of view, for the two War Is Over rallies in Los Angeles and New York City-to exploring Phil's more lyrical side, via his poetry (the majority previously unpublished) to, finally, a recapitulation of sorts, in works written in the early 1970's touching on movies, travel (from his private journal), Bruce Lee and, dare we say it... Impeachment and the fate of presidents.
Track Listing
In the Heat of the Summer
That's What I Want To Hear
The Men Behind the Guns
Days of Decision
Here's To the State of Mississippi
Sailors and Soldiers (previously unreleased)
City Boy
I'm Tired
I Wish I Could Have Been Along (previously unreleased)
I'm Gonna Say It Now
Canons of Christianity
Song of Soldier
Colored Town
The Confession
Love Me, I'm A Liberal (previously unreleased)
Take It Out Of My Youth
Bracero
War Is Over: 20 November, 1967 (previously unreleased)
All Quiet On the Western Front (previously unreleased)
No More Songs (rehearsal, previously unreleased)
"Phil Ochs told the truth before it was ready to be accepted, before it was politically expedient. He was the kind of truth teller that made liberal allies nervous because his truth demanded an accountability to their own compromise."
- Tim Robbins

"Phil Ochs was a tireless crusader for justice. He is one of the all-time great activist troubadours. With wit and fire, his songs skewered the evildoers of his day and remain perfect examples of how to fight the power with guitar in hand."
- Tom Morello

"Phil Ochs was a born writer. He played guitar because that was the language his generation was speaking. Today, his questioning voice chimes as clearly as it ever did."
- Billy Bragg

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Volume 2 of Kyriakos Sfetsas' 1976 "Greek Fusion Orchestra" project. Sfetsas' vision behind the formation of GFO, was to create a piece of work that would expand the boundaries of Greek traditional music. The result was a Progressive-Jazz Fusion masterpiece comprising complex and intriguing compositions, performed by Athens' best musicians of the day.
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Soul Jazz Records’ new Black Riot: Early Jungle, Rave and Hardcore is a brand new collection of heavyweight ragga-influenced hardcore jungle tracks from the early 1990s. Dark and heavy!

Featuring classic and seminal tracks from the likes of Levictus and Krome &Time, alongside a host of rare and little-known ragga & junglist hardcore tunes from the likes of Babylon Timewarp’s hypnotic Durban Poison, Rhythm for Reasons’ mad ‘The Smokers Rhythm’, The Freaky rave-y breakbeat sound of ‘Time and Age,’ Trip One’s super dark ‘Snowball’ and loads more!

Expect super heavy basslines, equally heavy twisted Amen drum loops, even heavier ragga vocals! Original jungle style - roots and culture - from the earliest days of drum and bass.

Included with the album is a free limited-edition graphic mini-novel “Black Riot: The Mysterons save Planet Earth from the Xatheroid Angels.” This is the third collaboration between Soul Jazz Records and writer/illustrator Paulo Parisi, the highly respected author of graphic books on Jean Michel Basquiat and John Coltrane.

This new graphic story continues the story of black electronic dance music – this time set around the birth of Jungle and continues onwards from Soul Jazz’s earlier ‘Invasion of the Killer Mysterons’ (Jamaican electronic Dub, co-compiled by Kevin Martin (The Bug)) and Mysterons Invade the Jackin’ Zone (about Chicago Acid & Experimental House).
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Far Out Recordings reissue Milton Nascimento’s 'Maria Maria'! Recorded in 1974 and unreleased until almost thirty years later, the album was written as the soundtrack to a ballet which dealt with the legacy of slavery in Brazil. Raw, atmospheric and emotionally charged, Maria Maria reveals one of Brazil’s greatest ever songwriters at his creative peak.

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cor just got a crossword I couldn't finish a little closer to completion.
Probably ought to know that name a bit better though.

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A favourite within the rare-groove scene and Latin jazz scene alike, this classic from Eumir Deodato gets reissued via Far Out! At the height of Deodato’s productivity in the early 70s, 'Os Catedraticos 73' was recorded between Rio de Janeiro and New York, featuring a Brazilian rhythm section comprising Azymuth drummer Ivan ‘Mamao’ Conti, percussion master Orlandivo and Sergio Barroso on bass, while the horn section features some of NYC's top players from CTI's in-house brass section.
More info, audio:
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They also have reissues of the Deodato-produced group Caterdraticos, Azymuth, and a bunch of other Brazilain on the Far Out Label.

And speaking of jungle etc

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All Crews: Journeys Through Jungle/Drum & Bass Culture
By Brian Belle-Fortune
Killer book on the evolution of Jungle and Drum and Bass in the UK. The raves, the shops, the djs, the
mcs. Essential!

"The Definitive book on Jungle". GROOVERIDER
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And several, maybe all, Felas on Knitting Factory, incl. The Complete (?) Works[/i]:

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One copy for sale £542 on Discogs! Buy it here for £442 less!

29 cds + dvd! The whole kaboodle, the whole nine yards, the big whammy. Complete indeed! Phew!
Info, no audio (for this particular release):
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More Red Kross reissues/editions, optimistic tour dates----excerpt from Third Man Records press release:

Brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald formed Redd Kross (originally Red Cross) in Hawthorne, CA in the late ‘70s. Rumor has it that the band name was inspired by a prop from the 1973 horror film The Exorcist. Their first show was opening for Black Flag and they released their debut record the mythical Posh Boy EP in 1980 when they were just 17 and 13 respectively. The Posh Boy EP features Black Flag’s 2nd singer, Ron Reyes, on drums and founding member of Circle Jerks, Greg Heston, on guitar. 1982 saw a line up change and the release of Born Innocent, a high water mark of American Punk Rock. Containing nods to Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, Linda Blair, Lita Ford and breakfast cereal as well as a killer cover of Charlie Manson’s "Cease To Exist." Redd Kross loves pop culture.

The brothers have kept Redd Kross going through the decades (and line-up changes), releasing 8 studio albums and a slew of EPs and singles. They have also stayed busy with side projects, production gigs and even occasional acting jobs. What are Redd Kross? Punk Rock? Psychedelia? Heavy Metal? Bubblegum? Power Pop? Whatever they are they are 100% Redd Kross, the catchiest of catchy, chock full of hooks, melodies and harmonies, impossible to not smile and sing along.....maybe even dance. Their live show just keeps getting better. Redd Kross are one of those rare bands who would be equally at home in a dark punk club and on stage at the Enormodome.

Phaseshifter

The McDonald brothers are joined by drummer Brian Reitzell, guitarist Eddie Kurdziel (R.I.P.) and keyboardist Gere Fennelly on 1993’s Phaseshifter. Redd Kross leaves the ‘60s and ‘70s pop culture references at the door (well, most of them) and brings their strong melodies, dreamy harmonies, psychedelic punk/bubblegum metal to the front, tearing through 12 new Redd Kross tunes. Every track is a full-on Redd Kross gem, with standouts like "Crazy World," "Dumb Angel," "Pay For Love" and "After School Special."

Show World

Phaseshifter line-up intact (Gere Fennelly would soon move on, but plays all the keyboards on the recording), Redd Kross came back at us with amps turned up and smiles on their faces on 1997’s Show World. The album starts off with a spot on cover of The Quick’s L.A. power pop classic, "Pretty Please Me," and sets the tone for yet another killer album by the thinking person’s good time band.

Like all RK albums before and since, this one is all killer, no filler, with special highlights "Stoned," "Vanity Mirror," "One Chord Progression" and the absolutely sublime "Follow The Leader."

REDD KROSS

ON TOUR 2020

09-24 Cologne, Germany - Yard Club at Kantine

09-25 Copenhagen, Denmark - Stengade

09-26 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser

09-27 Oslo, Norway - Krosset

09-29 Malmo, Sweden - Plan B

10-02 Hamburg, Germany - Headcrash

10-03 Berlin, Germany - Hole 44

10-05 Epinal, France - La Souris Verte

10-06 Paris, France - Petit Bain

10-07 Antwerp, Belgium - Kavka Zappa

10-08 Brighton, England - The Albert

10-09 London, England - The Lexington

10-10 London, England - The Lexington

10-11 Bristol, England - Exchange

10-13 Glasgow, Scotland – Broadcast

10-14 Leeds, England - Brudenell Social Club

10-15 Manchester, England - The Deaf Institute

Oops. should have started w this info:
Third Man Records has released its reissues of Redd Kross' two beloved 1990s albums, Phaseshifter (1993) and Show World (1997). The 180-gram vinyl-only reissues, which come on the heels of their amazing 2019 album Beyond The Door and after 40 years as a band, mark the first-ever North American vinyl pressings of either album. Exclusive colored vinyl editions are also available -- Phaseshifter is available on red vinyl, and Show World on green. Purchase Phaseshifter HERE and Show World HERE. The band has also scheduled a slate of fall European tour dates, and will have the colored vinyl editions for sale on the road.

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THE MYSTERY KINDAICHI BAND
The Adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke LP

The ‘imaginary’ soundtrack to the adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke, the cult detective book series by writer Seishi Yokomizo is on many DJ want-lists. Arranged by soundtrack master Kentaro Haneda and featuring a mysterious group of the best 70s Japanese Funk musicians, the album is pure undiluted Disco Funk. This reissue is the album's first official release outside of Japan. Remastered from the original tapes, it features artwork by renowned illustrator Ichibun Sugimoto, OBI strip and a 4 page insert with a new introduction by Anton Spice. Writer Seishi Yokomizo is an institution in Japan. He could be compared to Agatha Christie with his series of novels based on the adventures of detective Kosuke Kindaich...a peculiar character. He is a sort of goofy, yet scrupulous detective, not dissimilar to Columbo, and has become legendary in Japan over the decades. Yokomizo's novels have been a prime source for film and TV scenarios, so when, in 1977, Japanese label King Records decided to record a concept album based on the Kindaichi novels, it made complete sense. The writer was slightly surprised though...

The concept album was arranged by pianist Kentaro Haneda, a key TV and film composer who has worked on many anime films and is also famous outside of Japan for composing the music for the video game 'Wizardry'. For "The Adventures Of Kindaichi Kosuke" album, he assembled a supergroup of some of the best Tokyo funk and City Pop musicians. The long list includes jazz pianist Hideo Ichikawa who played on the 1971 'Joe Henderson In Japan' album, Jun Moriya (ds), who is on Joe Hisaichi's cult 'Wonder City Orchestra' album, Tadaomi Anai (perc) who played with Disco singer Eri Ohno, Koji Hadori (tpt) who's featured on Haruomi Hosono's "Pacific" album. Also present on the album are Takeru Muraoka (sax) who plays on many Tatsuro Yamashita cult albums including "For You" and "Spacy", Kimiko Yamauchi (koto) who's on Akiko Yano's landmark "Japanese Girl" and, last but not least, Koji Yamaguchi (fr horn) who plays on Yazuaki Shimizu's "Kakashi" album Together they lay the funk on ten instrumentals filled with pur disco and funk breakbeats, making the album one of the highly-coveted Japanese LPs on international cratedigger scene.
This reissue which Wewantsounds is delighted to officially put back on the market, features OBI strip and a four page insert faithfully reproduces the original artwork plus audio remastered from the original tapes.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS
This Is Mainstream! LP
WEWANTSOUNDS

£24.98
2 x LP

Wewantsounds continues its collaboration with Bob Shad's grandchildren, Mia and Judd Apatow, to present a 2LP selection of 13 turntable-friendly Mainstream Records tracks recorded between 1970 and 1973 and showcasing the label's superb blend of Funk, Soul and Jazz. All tracks remastered from the original tapes, most of them released for the first time since their original release with a few highly sought-after ones. Liner notes by UK journalist Paul Bowler. The Mainstream sound is unmistakable: earthy, rich and funky, it's the signature sound of producer Bob Shad. After working with such geniuses as Charlie Parker, The Platters, Billie Holiday and Janis Joplin over three decades, Shad decided to go back to producing Great Black Music in the early 70s through his label Mainstream Records and started releasing a formidable series of jazz albums known as the 300 series. Released between 1971 and 1974, these albums are the main source of this set. Coincidentally, it opens with one of the two tracks on the tracklist not produced by Shad himself. Saundra Phillips' "Miss Fatback" is nonetheless fascinating as it's one of cult disco producer Greg Carmichael's earliest productions from 1975 (before he went on to produce Inner Life, Bumblebee Unlimited, Universal Robot Band with fellow producer Patrick Adams). The other track not issued by the Shad sound factory is Almeta Lattimore's 7" single "These Memories," a truly great soulful track from 1975 and now a sought-after classic on the international Soul scene. Shad's forte was Jazz, and the sessions usually used the best musicians you could think of, including Bernard Purdie, Billy Hart, Stanley Clarke, Dom Um Romao, Joe Sample, Freddie Robinson, Gordon Edwards, Larry Willis, Wilbur Bascomb to name just a few. Filled with gorgeous Fender Rhodes chords and heavy basslines, they define the unmistakable Mainstream sound which had one foot in the great jazz and bop tradition and the other in the sonic jazz explorations of the early 70s. Oscillating between jazzed-up covers of soul hits like Jay Berliner’s "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" or Afrique’s "Kissing My Love" and more introspective originals such as Hal Galper's "This Moment" or Dave Hubbard's "T.B.'s Delight", They all have this perfect
balance between groove and depth. One perfect example is Pete Yellin's "Bird and The Ouija Board," a superb 12 min opus starting off with a deep abstract improvisation before switching to an up-tempo funk beat fueled by drummer Billy Hart and bass player Stanley Clarke.

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From Numero's Wayfaring Strangers series:

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.
In the fall of 1967, signs of San Francisco’s darkening fell like leaves. The transient young people who’d invaded the Bay Area to cash in on the media’s cheap drugs/free love promises had departed for points east. Haight-Ashbury, what remained of it, had become an open-air market for illicit substances, overrun with speed freaks, panhandlers, and Hell’s Angels motorcycle club adherents. Throughout the summer, leather-clad Hells Angels had become a fixture in the San Francisco scene, their Harleys crowding sidewalks outside the Fillmore West and the Carousel Ballroom, on nights when hometown rock n’ roll heroes the Grateful Dead or Big Brother and the Holding Company crowded the stage.

Hippie harbingers Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters had established ties to the Angels in ’65, introducing the biker brutes to LSD at a house happening in the hills of nearby La Honda. The Angels turned on and, for the most part, got along with psychedelic types who just liked to get high and groove. They loathed Berkeley’s politico set and were far from peaceniks. In less than two decades of activity, Angels had racked up more than 800 felony arrests—for sexual aberrations, drug charges, assault, and even attempted murder. On August 24, 1967, a prominent Hell’s Angel known as Chocolate George cruised Haight and crashed—at high speed and most likely high otherwise—into the back of a ’55 Chevy. For droves of locals, the demise of Chocolate George signified the Summer of Love’s departure.
From his apartment at 369 Haight Street, San Francisco musician Dickie Peterson looked down on the deathscape of Chocolate George’s last ride. At summer’s end, suffused with the Haight’s baddest vibes, Peterson and his bandmates took to Amigo Studios in North Hollywood to capture their fried acid trips on tape. They named themselves Blue Cheer, after a potent strain of LSD cooked up by Grateful Dead engineer and chemist Augustus Owsley Stanley. Vincebus Eruptum—mangled Latin for some kind of conquering eruption—emerged at the dawn of ‘68. The LP’s lead single was a fuzzed-over rendition of Eddie Cochran’s 1954 hit, “Summertime Blues.” On May 4, 1968, the single hit #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, sending fuzz-fueled acid rock into wildfire combustion. With pained ears and expanded minds, early Stateside adopters wasted little time cutting their own lysergic episodes to wax.

In 1968, Ty Gilliland was introduced to hard drugs by a member of the Outlaws motorcycle club after a gig in Columbus, Ohio. “They liked us enough because we played some Stones songs,” Gilliland said. “One of the Outlaws they called Muscles came up to me after a show. He held out his hand and said, ‘This’ll make you feel better.’ It was speed. Boy, I could sure play fast on that stuff.” And so he did. One amphetamine addiction later, Gilliland wrote “Speed Freak” for his band, The Rituals. Four hundred miles away, on the eastern seaboard, Baltimore high schoolers The Cross Blood Experiment were turning on with LSD—Orange Sunshine, specifically, a varietal concocted by the Brotherhood Of Eternal Love. They named their distortion-drenched single after the stuff, and made the drug’s effects sound far less than sunny. The embodiment of a bad trip, it comes on slowly, weaving vivid lyrical trails before speeding on into a rhythmic gallop beside an unhinged guitar solo. Out in Kansas City, Paul Parkinson of Bulbous Creation was having just as little fun, on pot or smack or whatever it was that had him “Hooked.” “I’m sick of hearing myself,” he sang. “My head hurts like hell. My mouth so dry I can’t spit. Oh Lord, I wish I had another hit.”
Darkness billowed out of the psychedelic cloud in the final weeks of 1969. In the months leading up to the West Coast answer to Woodstock, lurid tales of Charles Manson’s deathcult and their affiliations with rock’s literati had spilled across the headlines. The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young were set to share the bill at Altamont Speedway in northern California on December 6. Bad vibes disturbed the air long before sunrise. Concert-goers arrived the night before, ill-prepared for near-freezing temperatures; for warmth, they burned fencing, garbage, and rock show road cases, adding a crusty stench to a cold, dusty valley. As the morning rolled on, the highway leading to Altamont clogged for miles. Hell’s Angels showed up for security duty, parting the dense crowd on 800-pound metal bikes. By noon, the medical tent overflowed with acid casualties. An hour later, when Santana took the stage, the Angels had long since helped themselves to handfuls of uppers, downers, wine, joints, and the $500 beer allotment they’d received in lieu of pay. Power-mad, they descended on any fan who posed even the slightest threat, unleashing flurries of fists and pool cues. At sundown, the Stones mounted the stage, as tension filled the air. "The vibes were bad,” Grace Slick recalled. "It was that kind of hazy, abrasive and unsure day. I had expected the loving vibes of Woodstock but that wasn't coming at me. This was a whole different thing." Breaking point at Altamont and “Under My Thumb” arrived together, when a juiced-up Angel stabbed 18-year-old fan Meredith Hunter repeatedly with a buck knife. Hunter had been armed; he’d been on speed; he died of his wounds. The 1960s were officially fried.

Noxious fumes quickly crossed the Atlantic, as evidenced by Black Sabbath’s emergence from the haze on a Friday the 13th in February of 1970 with their Billboard debut LP. It’s a record that bears the pall of the sunny ’60s into a drug-addled English wood; lyrics are written in Lucifer’s voice, and “The Wizard” is as much an ode to Gandalf as it is to the band’s dealer. Sabbath countrymen Brass Alley and Sardonicus got the memo, dropping pink pills on the way toward eroding their own brains. In Portugal, the like-minded band Xarhanga didn’t even bother to mince words, delivering an actual “Acid Nightmare” that spun at 45 RPM. And a Viennese group called Novak’s Kapelle planted a flag firmly in the drug rock canon with their daring single “Hypodermic Needle,” its message mangled by a language barrier and a misunderstanding of what exactly was happening in the U.S. rock scene.
As the ’70s dragged on, a deep, dark hangover set in. In the American Midwest, Whistler’s Mother, TNS, and Gollum came in dehydrated and fumbling with the child-proof cap on a bottle of expired aspirin before issuing “Dark Dawn,” “Times Up,” and “Prayer of Despair.” In the south, the Shy Guys fretted about the dangers of lightning, Mass Temper wrote an ode to a drunk driving casualty, and The Purple Sun preached of “Doomsday.” Terre Haute, Indiana’s Goliath had made most of their career abusing drugs, but the comedown came at a terrible cost. “I had two guitar players and both of them committed suicide,” said Goliath drummer Steve Peterson. “In those days, it was very hard to keep young guys straight.”

The nightmare is over, but the flashbacks remain.

DROP OUT

Bulbous Creation
YOU WON'T REMEMBER DYING
NUM1227
A truly underground document of the national obsession with heavy, mind-bent psychedelia....
[LP, Digital]
Bulbous Creation
YOU WON'T REMEMBER DYING

Goliath
HOT ROCK & THUNDER
NUM5004
Crib notes from a 12-step confession gone awry. Wasted Terra Haute, Indiana, hard rock for the blue...
[Digital]
Goliath
HOT ROCK & THUNDER

Warfaring Strangers
DARKSCORCH CANTICLES
NUM048
With Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles, the impacts of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath on US...
[LP, CD, Digital]
Warfaring Strangers
DARKSCORCH CANTICLES
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cd?
I thought they totally dropped those.

From MVD Entertainment Group:

FLAMIN' GROOVIES To Reissue
"Now" and "Jumpin' In the Night" This Summer

The band that played a major role in the evolution of power pop and are considered a forerunner of punk rock readies two of their most popular albums.

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The Flamin' Groovies played a major role in the evolution of power pop and are considered a forerunner of punk rock. This summer they will reissue two classic albums: "Now" on July 10th and "Jumpin' In the Night" on August 7th.
NOW (CD, July 10th)

While it took a long and torturous five years for the Flamin' Groovies to find their way back to an American record deal with Shake Some Action, a year and a half later the band had a follow-up ready, and while 1978's Flamin' Groovies Now isn't quite as cohesive as the album that preceded it, in many respects the band sounds at once tighter and more relaxed, with some time on the road firming up the rhythm section while giving the songs a bit more room to swing (which wasn't one of the strong suits of the British Invasion bands that provided their aural template). The band lost guitarist James Ferrell during the post-Shake Some Action tour, but former Charlatans picker Mike Wilhelm proved to be a more than simpatico replacement on these sessions, and while leader Cyril Jordan didn't come up with another new song as transcendent as "Shake Some Action," "All I Wanted" comes pretty close. But it's significant that most of the songs on Flamin' Groovies Now are covers, and while all of them are played with love, enthusiasm, and the right period flair (especially the Beatles' "There's a Place," Paul Revere & the Raiders' "Ups and Downs," and "Move It," an early U.K. hit for Cliff Richard), they give the album a feeling of being padded, and just because covering the Rolling Stones rarity "Blue Turns to Grey" was a good idea didn't mean the Flamin' Groovies had any business tackling "Paint It Black." All in all, Flamin' Groovies Now is a terrific-sounding record that captures a fine band when it was in great form, but it also makes clear that the gremlins that often dogged the Groovies in the studio (namely their inability to make a 100 percent satisfying album) hadn't gone away.

Tracklist:
Feel A Whole Lot Better 2:26 Gene Clark
Between the Lines 4:15 Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
Ups and Downs 3:07 Mark Lindsay/Terry Melcher
Move It 2:57 Ian Samwell
Take Me Back 2:50 Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
Reminiscing 2:03 King Curtis
Good Laugh Mun 2:55 Dave Edmunds/Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
Yeah My Baby 3:55 Dave Edmunds/Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
House of Blue Lights 2:18 C. Miller/Don Raye/Freddie Slack
Blue Turns to Grey 2:29 Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
Paint It Black 3:04 Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
All I Wanted 3:02 Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
Don't Put Me On 4:12 Cyril Jordan/Chris Wilson
There's A Place 1:50 John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Credits:
Cyril Jordan: Lead/rhythm guitars, guitars, mellotron, vocals
Chris Wilson: Vocals, Rhythm guitar, harpsichord
Mike Wilhelm: Lead/rhythm guitars
George Alexander: Bass/vocals
David Wright: Drums
All percussion: David Chris, George
Dave Edmunds: Piano, guitar on "Move It" and Piano, vocals on "Yeah My Baby"
JUMPIN' IN THE NIGHT (CD, August 7th)

The third and last of the Flamin' Groovies late-'70s albums for Sire, Jumpin' in the Night storms out of the gate with the title song, a top-shelf rocker that brings the muscle of the Flamingo-era lineup of the Groovies to the more style-conscious British Invasion sonics of Cyril Jordan's version. Though Jumpin' in the Night never rocks that hard or that well again, it does sound decidedly tighter and tougher than 1978's Flamin' Groovies Now, and guitarist Mike Wilhelm, a new addition to the Now lineup, is much better integrated into their wall of guitars, with the Groovies sounding more solid than they did a year before. But while Jumpin' in the Night finds the Flamin' Groovies sounding better than ever, the material unfortunately lets them down. It's no wonder why the Flamin' Groovies loved the Byrds -- both were American bands who fell in love with the sounds of British rock and crafted their own variation on the style -- but three Byrds covers on this album is about two too many (especially given how clunky David Wright's drumming sounds on "5D"), and though having the Groovies tackle "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and "Please Please Me" sounds good on paper, the audible results are a bit underwhelming. (On the other hand, their cover of "Werewolves of London" is better than anyone had a right to expect.) The production and engineering by Roger Bechirian is crisp and flattering to the guitars, but lacks the resonance of Dave Edmunds' more layered approach on Shake Some Action and Now. A great band, the Flamin' Groovies often seemed to have a hard time reconciling their best qualities with the record-making process, and Jumpin' in the Night is probably the best example of this dilemma, though it has more than enough worthwhile moments to compensate.

Tracklist:
Jumping In the Night (3:24) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
Next One Crying (2:36) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
First Plane Home (3:50) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
In the U.S.A. (3:20) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
Down, Down, Down (2:49) - James Burton
Yes I Am (2:35) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
Werewolves of London (3:37) - LeRoy Marinelli; Waddy Wachtel; Warren Zevon
It Won't Be Wrong (1:57) - Roger McGuinn, Harvey Gerst
Please, Please Me (2:00) - John Lennon; Paul McCartney; Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
Tell Me Again (2:00) - Cyril Jordan; Chris Wilson
Absolutely, Sweet Marie (3:15) - Bob Dylan
5D (Fifth Dimension (2:41) - Roger McGuinn
Lady Friend (2:31) - David Crosby
Credits:
Cyril Jordan: Lead/rhythm guitars, mellotron, vocals
Chris Wilson: Vocals, Rhythm guitar, harpsichord
Mike Wilhelm: Lead/rhythm guitars
George Alexander: Bass/vocals
David Wright: Drums

Expanded Editions added here:
https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/

Ugly things has a review of a compilation of the songs cowritten by the pair of Chris Wilson and Cyril Jordan between 1971 and whatever.

Jackpot Records is coming out with five very special releases on August 29, the rescheduled first date of Record Store Day 2020

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Artist: DUNE - OST
Title: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984)
Format: Limited Edition Color Vinyl
Limited to 2000
Release Date: Aug. 29th, 2020 (Record Store Day)
Catalog Number: JPR063
UPC: 602508565625
LP Suggested List: $34.99
• Soundtrack to David Lynch’s 1984 cult film.
•
Composed by T
OTO and Brian Eno.
• Sourced from the original master tapes.
•
Limited “Spice” colored vinyl.
•
Includes 24 x 24 full color poster.
•
Audiophile Pressing a
t RTI.
• Limited to 2000 copies.
1. Prologue, Main Title
2. Robot Fight
3
. Leto’s Theme
4. The Box
5
.
The Floating F
at Man (The Baron)
6. Trip to Arrakis
7. First Attack
8. Prophecy
Theme
9. Dune (Desert Theme)
10. Paul Meets Chani
11. Prelude (T
ake My Hand)
12.
Paul T
akes The Water Of Life
13.
Big Battle
14. Paul Kills Feyd
15.
Final Dre
am
16.
Take My Hand

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Artist: Martin Denny
Title: Exotic Moog
NEW RELEASE FROM JACKPOT RECORDS
Format: Limited Edition Color Vinyl
Limited to 1500
Release Date: Aug. 29th, 2020 (Record Store Day)
Catalog Number: JPR061
UPC: 602508591679
LP Suggested List: $29.99
• The Inventor of Exotica/Cocktail Music goes
Electronic/Moog.
•
First time ever reissued.
•
Originally released in 1969.
•
“Exotic Moog” starts off
our reissue campaign of
Martin Denny classics coming out in 2020.
•
Colored Vinyl.
•
Audiophile pressing at RTI.
•
Limited to 1500 copies.
•
RSD exclusive.
Track listing
1. Quiet Village
2. I Talk To T
he Trees
3. Yellow Bird
4. The Enchanted Sea
5. Delilah
6. Let Go (Canto de Ossanha)
7. Midnight Cowboy
8. Cast Your Fate To The Wind
9. Let It Be Me (JeT’ Appartiens)
10.A Taste Of Honey
11.Was It Really Love
12.Love Me Tonight (All Fine Della Strada)

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Artist: Ted Cassidy
Title: The Lurch
Format: Limited Edition 7” - Limited to 500
Release Date: Aug. 29th, 2020 (Record Store Day)
Catalog Number: JPR060
UPC: 602508561603
LP Suggested List: $14.99
• Ted Cassidy (Lurch of TV - The Addams Family)
sings as Lurch, the Motown influenced monster
track : “The Lurch”.
•
One of the rar
est US Capitol Records 7”
picture sleeves.
•
Never before reissued.
•
Sourced from the original 1965 master tapes.
•
Limited to 500 copies.
Track listing
1.
The Lurch
2.Wesley

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Artist: Wild Tchoupitoulas
Title: Wild Tchoupitoulas
Format: Limited Edition Color Vinyl Edition
Limited to 1500
Release Date: Aug. 29th, 2020 (Record Store Day)
Catalog Number: JPR062
UPC: 602508630811
LP Suggested List: $29.99
• 1976 New Orleans funk masterpiece of Mardi
Gras Indians backed up by The Meters and
The Neville Brothers.
•
Inducted into the Library Of Congress
National Recording Registry for its cultural,
artistic and historic importance.
• Sourced from the original master tapes.
•
Features liner notes and lyrics.
• Colored Vinyl audiophile pressing at RTI.
•
Limited to 1500.
Track listing
NEW RELEASE FROM JACKPOT RECORDS
1.Brother John
2.Meet De Boys On The Battlefront
3.Indians Here Dey Come
4.Hey Pocky A-Way
5.Indian Red
6.Big Chief Got A Golden Crown
7.Hey Mama (Wild Tchoupitoulas)
8.Hey Hey (Indians Comin’)

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Artist: Wipers
Title: Is This Real? Anniversary Edition: 1980 – 2020
Format: Limited Edition Color Vinyl w/ 7”
Limited to 2000
Release Date: Aug. 29th, 2020 (Record Store Day)
Catalog Number: JPR059
UPC: 843563123706
LP Suggested List: $34.99
• Celebrating the 40 year Anniversary of the debut LP by the Wipers.
•Includes individually AUTOGRAPHED concert poster by Greg Sage.
• Bonus 45 with four songs from the original 4 track sessions.
• Transparent Clear Audiophile Vinyl pressed at RTI
with custom reflective mirror board jacket.
• Limited to 2000 worldwide.
RSD exclusive.
Track listing
1. Return Of The Rat
2. Mystery
3. Up Front
4. Let’s Go Let’s Go Away
5. Is This Real?
6. Tragedy
7. Alien Boy
8. D-7
9. Potential Suicide
10.Don’t Know What I Am
11.Window Shop For Love

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for more info on these releases, check jackpotrecords.com

If they wanted me to publicize those RSD releases, why not let me post the jpegs they sent me---oh well here's some more RSD, from jambase:
Aug. 29 highlights include the archival ChangesNowBowie by David Bowie – spotlighting unreleased acoustic tracks circa 1996 stemming from a number of rehearsals at Madison Square Garden – as well as a 50th anniversary reissue of Paul McCartney’s solo debut, McCartney. Sept. 26 will spotlight Fleetwood Mac’s The Alternate Rumors – with alternate versions of the group’s iconic 1977 release... Also, according to the following linked pages:

ROBBIE BASHO
Selections from Song of the Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes(sampler rom forthcoming box on Tompkins Square)
DAVID BOWIE
I’m Only Dancing (The Soul Tour 74)
PENDERECKI/DON CHERRY & THE NEW ETERNAL RHYTHM
Actions
DON CHERRY
Cherry Jam

For more info, check this list and click on artists/titles:
https://recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/9003

One of my favorite Anthony Braxton albums, Town Hall 1972, has been reissued. It's a live set, obviously, featuring Braxton and John Stubblefield on various reeds, Dave Holland on bass, Phillip Wilson and Barry Altschul on percussion (Altschul also plays marimba), and Jeanne Lee on vocals. It's a Japanese reissue, but it's cheap - I got mine from importcds.com for the price of a regular domestic CD. Maybe my favorite album cover in the whole Braxton corpus:

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Had a japenese version of that way back but I lost it after a couple of years and have wanted a new copy. cool

Third Man Records is excited to announce The Stooges' Live At Goose Lake: August 8, 1970. This previously-unheard, high-quality soundboard recording of the original Stooges lineup's final performance -- recorded just before the release of their earthshaking 1970 album Fun House -- will be available on vinyl, CD and digital on August 7, 2020, nearly 50 years to the day after the performance. Hear "T.V. Eye - Radio Edit" HERE, and pre-save the album HERE. More info: https://thirdmanrecords.com/news/third-man-records-announces-the-stooges-live-at-goose-lake-august-8th-1970-out-on-vinyl-cd-and-digital-on-august-7-2020

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James Williamson
What's this?!!!!
20 hours ago

Well--pre-order and other links leading to blank pages so far, but meanwhile here's the basic news:

Fans of This Heat, the British experimental music group formed in late-1975 in Brixton, London, have never been able to enjoy all seven of the band’s challenging and rewarding releases digitally -- until now.

Multi-instrumentalists Charles Bullen (guitar, clarinet, viola, vocals, tapes), Charles Hayward (drums, keyboards, vocals, tapes) and the late Gareth Williams (keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals, tapes), have their entire discography offered to the world for endless plays for once in perfect sound---a sonic adventurer’s rare downloading delight come true.

RELEASE DATE: August 21, 2020
Includes the initial two studio albums and EP, This Heat, Deceit, and Health and Efficiency; as well as the three live records released from Light in The Attic and not available as downloads before; and more, More info here when I get it.

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Music in Twelve Parts. Concert à Paris​,​1975
by Philip Glass
Lost PHILIP GLASS Recording from 1975 (1h10).

ORTF Recordings by the Philip Glass Sextet,
live at Studio 104, Maison de la Radio, Paris.

Also included a very rare Philip Glass interview from 1974 in his NYC loft during the rehearsals of this piece, produced for the french radio by Daniel Caux.
Remastered from the orginal master tapes (ORTF).
he newly discovered and unreleased concert from 1975 recorded by the Philip Glass Sextet at La Maison de Radio, Paris.
The sextet is composed of Philip Glass, Jon Gibson, Dickie Landry,
Michael Riesman, Joan La Barbara and Richard Peck.

Music in Twelve Parts is a set of twelve pieces written between 1971 and 1974. This performance in France includes part 1, 2, 3, 11 and 12 on a double LP.(+ download code)
© INA 1974-1975
℗ 2019 Transversales Disques
credits
released April 24, 2020
https://transversales.bandcamp.com/album/music-in-twelve-parts-concert-paris-1975

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Live in Paris (1975)
by Pharoah Sanders

Deluxe Edition - Classic Gatefold Tip-On Jacket
including exclusive liner notes and pictures.
First official release.
Mastered from the original master tapes.

ORTF Recordings by the Pharoah Sanders Quartet,
live at Studio 104, Maison de la Radio, Paris.
Concert du Quartet de Pharoah Sanders,
Concert à Paris, 1975 - Enregistrements inédits.

Pharoah Sanders Quartet :
Saxophone ténor : Pharoah Sanders
Piano et Orgue : Danny Mixon
Contrebasse : Calvin Hill
Batterie : Greg Bandy

Enregistré le 17 novembre 1975 au Grand Auditorium / Studio 104 - Maison de la Radio.

Production exécutive : Jonathan Fitoussi & Sébastien Rosat.
Restauration sonore : Ian Debeerst.
Coordination juridique : Léo Puy.
Graphisme : Jean-Philippe Talaga.
Texte : Jacques Denis.

Photos : Pharoah Sanders performs live, 17/11/1975.
© Christian Rose - Fastimage.

© Ina 1975
℗ 2020 Transversales Disques ®
credits
released March 13, 2020
Mastered from the original master tapes.
https://transversales.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-paris-1975

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Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo
by Ennio Morricone
For the first time on LP, Maestro Morricone's full score for "Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo". A 1969 giallo-noir, full of cruel twists, directed by Salvatore Samperi, .

This almost unknown soundtrack wasn't released at the time and the original master tapes were carefully archived in the vault of legendary C.A.M. label.

Conducted by Bruno Nicolai and featuring voices by Edda Dell'Orso.The maestro delivers one his best scores from the late 60's. A psych-baroque journey with typical beat arrangements, crazy organs solos, wah-wah guitars and tense harpsichord phrases.

Including the previously unreleased "Shake introspettivo".

REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES
LIMITED EDITION
credits
released May 22, 2020

Music composed and orchestrated by Ennio Morricone.
Conducted by Bruno Nicolai.
Solo voices : Edda Dell'Orso.
* Previously unreleased.

This reissue : 2020 Transversales Disques.
Executive production by Sébastien Rosat & Jonathan Fitoussi.
Edited by Sébastien Rosat & Romain Turzi.
Mastering : Benjamin Joubert at Biduloscope.
Graphic design : Jean-Philippe Talaga.
(p) & (c) 1969 Creazioni Artistiche Musicali C.A.M. Srl, una società del Gruppo Sugar
https://transversales.bandcamp.com/album/uccidete-il-vitello-grasso-e-arrostitelo

Previous years' reissues on this label: more Morricone, also Luc Ferrari, François Bayle, others:
https://transversales.bandcamp.com/

Smog Veil Records Clearing The Air newsletter
July 2020

A few months back we started our series of FREE streams of entire releases in our catalog. These will run periodically from our SoundCloud site. There, you'll be able to listen to entire albums from our numerous releases for FREE. Enjoy the music in these troubling times.

Here's the next in the series...let it flow my friends...

This week we offer a limited free stream of Peter Laughner original compositions included in our Peter Laughner 5LP+book box set.

Peter Laughner was a singer songwriter from Cleveland like no other. Before his untimely death in 1977, he played in numerous bands, most notably Rocket From The Tombs and Pere Ubu, and also as a solo performer. He wrote for a variety of weekly newspapers and Creem, where he was a contemporary of Lester Bangs. He famously told Jane Scott of the Cleveland Plain Dealer that he wanted to do for Cleveland what "...Brian Wilson did for California and Lou Reed did for New York." In many ways, Peter did in fact put the Cleveland underground on the map.

In cooperation with Peter's estate and his many collaborators, Smog Veil Records worked for 10+ years compiling the material contained in the 5LP+book box set. The box set is the definitive statement of Peter's musical talents and additionally showcases his writings and the many works he created with a variety of talented friends. Smog Veil's research team has looked in every basement, attic, and corner to uncover numerous gems and we are pleased to be able to place Peter's work on display.

More details about the box set are available by clicking HERE.https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/peter-laughner-box-set-5-lps-plus-book

This free stream sampler includes 16 tracks included in the box set, all written by Peter and will be available only until the end of the day on July 5, 2020.

Stream the tracks for free by clicking on this:
https://soundcloud.com/franklisa/peter-laughner-originals-sampler-from-box-set
Thanks fans--stay safe.

Updates for all the new stuff, reviews, mp3 samples and videos available daily at the Smog Veil Facebook fan page. Check it out:

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The new BBC 90-min documentary 'Keith Haring: Street Art Boy' is now streaming on BBC iPlayer.

Soul Jazz Records' ESSENTIAL 'Keith Haring - The World of Keith Haring' CD & LP is available now on triple vinyl, double CD, large booklet, lots of text and exclusive photography. Features music by Sylvester, Jonzun Crew, Talking Heads, Yoko Ono, Fab 5 Freddy and many more! The World of Keith Haring coincides with the presentation of the first major exhibition in the UK of Keith Haring’s work at Tate Liverpool on now.

The album comes in deluxe artwork and three formats: Double CD + 48-page book; 3xLP + download vinyl version.* All formats of the album feature original photography, extensive sleevenotes and interviews.
1. B Beat Girls – For The Same Man
2. Damon Harris – It's Music
3. Pylon – Danger£0.99
4. The Jonzun Crew – Pak Man (Look Out For The OVC)
5. Funk Masters – Love Money£0.99
6. John Sex – Bump and Grind It£0.99
7. Sylvester – Over And Over (12" Disco Mix)
8. The Girls – Jeffrey I Hear You£0.99
9. Johnny Dynell and New York 88 – Jam Hot (Rhumba Rock)£0.99
10. Talking Heads – I Zimbra (on CD version only)
11. Art Zoyd – Sortie 134 (Part 2)£0.99
12. Class Action – Weekend (Larry Levan Mix)
13. Adiche – Chuka-Ja (Get Ready)£0.99
14. The Girls – The Elephant Man£0.99
15. The Golden Flamingo Orchestra – The Guardian Angel Is Watching Over Us
16. Gray – Cut It Up High Priest£0.99
17. Extra T’s – E.T. Boogie£0.99
18. Convertion – Let's Do It
19. Yoko Ono – Walking On Thin Ice
20. Fab 5 Freddy – Change The Beat
More info, audio (*also mp3 album or some individual tracks, on this page):
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/the-world-of-keith-haring

Which reminds me: just now ordered VA - Love Saves the Day : A History Of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979 - 2 X CD (though could get MP3, Flac, etc because bandcamp, but I'm old-fashioned)--Tim Lawrence's listening companion to his book--vinyl is going to be Parts 1 & 2 sold sep and more expensive. You can hear exactly 1 freebie streamer from Pt. 2 (none from 1) here: https://reappearingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/love-saves-the-day-a-history-of-american-dance-music-culture-1970-1979-part-2
And note on upper right rail of that page, link to prev Lawrence comp tie-in:https://reappearingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/life-death-on-a-new-york-dance-floor-1980-1983 His book of that title has some stuff about Haring, but wish there was more---move over, Basquiat!

Scheduled for September 11, a box set covering Richard & Linda Thompson. Official announcement is forthcoming, but Linda Thompson herself let the cat out of the bag on her own Facebook page back in April when she posted some photos of the LP-sized book and told commenters it was for the box set. (The set was originally schedule for an April release before it was pushed back.)

Track list and cover leaked out today:

https://i.imgur.com/DzQHNd8.jpg

Track List:

DISC 1
01 SWEET LITTLE ROCK N' ROLLER / THE BUNCH (ALTERNATE VERSION / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
02 THE LOCOMOTION / THE BUNCH
03 MY GIRL IN THE MONTH OF MAY / THE BUNCH
04 WHEN WILL I BE LOVED / THE BUNCH (DEMO)
05 AMAZON QUEEN / RICHARD THOMPSON (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
06 SHAKY NANCY / RICHARD THOMPSON
07 THE ANGLES TOOK MY RACEHORSE AWAY / RICHARD THOMPSON
08 EMBROIDERED BUTTERFLIES / BRIAN PATTEN
09 AFTER FROST / BRIAN PATTEN
10 SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS (DEMO)
11 RESTLESS BOY
12 THE WORLD IS A WONDERFUL PLACE
13 SHADY LIES (LIVE AT LONDON UNIVESITY COLLEGE 25.10.1972)
14 NAPOLEON'S DREAM (LIVE AT THE MEMPHIS FOLK CLUB, GUILDFORD HOTEL, LEEDS, JANUARY 1973)

DISC 2
01 WHEN I GET TO THE BORDER
02 THE CALVARY CROSS
03 WITHERED AND DIED
04 I WANT TO SEE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TONIGHT
05 DOWN WHERE THE DRUNKARDS ROLL
06 WE SING HALLELUJAH
07 HAS HE GOT A FRIEND FOR ME
08 THE LITTLE BEGGAR GIRL
09 THE END OF THE RAINBOW
10 THE GREAT VALERIO
11 MOTHER & SON (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
12 DOWN WHERE THE DRUNKARDS ROLL (DEMO / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
13 THE END OF THE RAINBOW (LINDA VOCAL VERSION / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
14 A HEART NEEDS A HOME (DEMO / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
15 THE GREAT VALERIO (LIVE AT THE RAINBOW, UK, 16.03.1975)

DISC 3
01 HOKEY POKEY (THE ICE CREAM SONG)
02 I'LL REGRET IT ALL IN THE MORNING
03 SMIFFY'S GLASS EYE
04 THE EGYPT ROOM
05 NEVER AGAIN
06 GEORGIE ON A SPREE
07 OLD MAN INSIDE A YOUNG MAN
08 THE SUN NEVER SHINES ON THE POOR
09 A HEART NEEDS A HOME
10 MOLE IN A HOLE
11 HOKEY POKEY (LIVE ON MARC TIME, 1975 / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
12 A HEART NEEDS A HOME (ALTERNATE VERSION)

DISC 4
01 STREETS OF PARADISE
02 FOR SHAME OF DOING WRONG
03 THE POOR BOY IS TAKEN AWAY
04 NIGHT COMES IN
05 JET PLANE IN A ROCKING CHAIR
06 BEAT THE RETREAT
07 HARD LUCK STORIES
08 DIMMING OF THE DAY / DARGAI
09 WANTED MAN (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
10 LAST CHANCE (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
11 DIMMING OF THE DAY (DEMO / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
12 THINGS YOU GAVE ME (LIVE AT OXFORD POLYTECHNIC, 27.11.1975)
13 IT'LL BE ME (LIVE AT OXFORD POLYTECHNIC, 27.11.1975)
14 CALVARY CROSS (LIVE AT OXFORD POLYTECHNIC, 27.11.1975)

DISC 5
01 DARGAI (LIVE AT QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, LONDON 25.04.1975)
02 NEVER AAGIN (LIVE AT QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, LONDON 25.04.1975)
03 DARK END OF THE STREET (LIVE AT QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, LONDON 25.04.1975)
04 BEAT THE RETREAT (LIVE AT QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, LONDON 25.04.1975)
05 THE SUN NEVER SHINES ON THE POOR (LIVE AT QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, LONDON 25.04.1975)
06 IF I WERE A WOMAN AND YOU WERE A MAN (LIVE AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, LONDON 01.05.1977)
07 THE MADNESS OF LOVE (LIVE AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, LONDON 01.05.1977)
08 NIGHT COMES IN (LIVE AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, LONDON 01.05.1977)
09 A BIRD IN GODS GARDEN (LIVE AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, LONDON 01.05.1977)
10 THE KING OF LOVE (LIVE AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, LONDON 01.05.1977)
11 LAYLA (LIVE AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, LONDON 01.05.1977)

DISC 6
01 RESTLESS HIGHWAY
02 SWEET SURRENDER
03 DON'T LET A THIEF STEAL INTO YOUR HEART
04 THE CHOICE WIFE
05 DIED FOR LOVE
06 STRANGE AFFAIR
07 LAYLA
08 PAVANNE
09 HOUSE OF CARDS
10 FIRST LIGHT
11 STRANGE AFFAIR (DEMO / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
12 DRUNK (DEMO / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
13 THE DUST OF YOUR ROAD (DEMO / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
14 LAYLA (DEMO / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
15 DIED FOR LOVE (DEMO / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
16 FIRST LIGHT (DEMO)

DISC 7
01 CIVILISATION
02 BORROWED TIME
03 SATURDAY ROLLING AROUND
04 YOU'RE GOING TO NEED SOMEBODY
05 WHY DO YOU TURN YOUR BACK?
06 SUNNYVISTA
07 LONELY HEARTS
08 SISTERS
09 JUSTICE IN THE STREETS
10 TRACES OF MY LOVE
11 GEORGIE ON A SPREE (B-SIDE TO 'CIVILISATION'7")
12 LUCKY IN LIFE (DEMO / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
13 SPEECHLESS CHILD (DEMO / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
14 TRACES OF MY LOVE (DEMO / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
15 FOR SHAME OF DOING WRONG (GERRY RAFFERTY VERSION)
16 THE WRONG HEARTBEAT (GERRY RAFFERTY VERSION)
17 BACK STREET SLIDE (GERRY RAFFERTY VERSION)

DISC 8
01 DON'T RENEGE ON OUR LOVE
02 WALKING ON A WIRE
03 A MAN IN NEED
04 IT'S JUST THE MOTION
05 SHOOT OUT THE LIGHTS
06 THE BACKSTREET SLIDE
07 DID SHE JUMP OR WAS SHE PUSHED
08 THE WALL OF DEATH
09 LIVING IN LUXURY (B-SIDE TO 'DON'T RENEGE ON OUR LOVE'7")
10 THE WRONG HEARTBEAT (SHOOT OUT THE LIGHTS VERISON)
11 I'M A DREAMER (GERRY RAFFERTY SESSION / 1996 REMIX)
12 WALKING ON A WIRE (GERRY RAFFERTY SESSION / 1996 REMIX)
13 PAVANNE (LIVE AT SECOND STORY, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, 29.05.1982 / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
14 HIGH SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (LIVE AT SECOND STORY, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA,1982 / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

Anthony Braxton albums, Town Hall 1972, has been reissued

does it have the poster ?

Just wanted to put this wish out there to the reissue gods: An expanded box set of Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980-86. 13 tracks is tooo short. Any other comps that cover this besides of course single artist collections like Grace Jones and Linton Kwesi Johnson? Like more along the lines of Sly & Robbie Ultimate Collection: In Good Company?

To be more specific, the stuff produced by Alex Sadkin in the 80s. Also, beyond the Grace Jones sessions, there must be more stuff backed by Compass Point All Stars than just that track "Peanut Butter"? If not, what a waste of a great studio band! Sly & Robbie, Michael Chung (guitar), Uziah "Sticky" Thompson (percussion), Barry Reynolds (guitar), Wally Badarou (keyboards), Tyrone "Organ D" Downie (keyboards).

You have this, right? https://www.discogs.com/Larry-Levan-Featuring-Sly-Dunbar-Robbie-Shakespeare-Gwen-Guthrie-Wally-Badarou-Darryl-Thompson-Padlo/master/152068

Sorry, that’s Padlock

There’s these Japanese Island comps:

Dream Green Island - An 80's Dubdisco Collection From The Island Vaults

Dream White Island - An 80's Dubdisco Collection From The Island Vaults

I didn't have any of those, and I've managed to track down all three, some great stuff, thanks!

https://d1rgjmn2wmqeif.cloudfront.net/r/b/183389.jp

Strut kick off a brand new deal with the seminal independent black jazz and soul label Black Fire with ‘African Rhythms 1970-1982’, a comprehensive 2CD /3LP compilation of Oneness Of Juju, led by Plunky J. Branch. It's out today on all formats.

‘African Rhythms 1970-1982’ reprises a compilation released on Strut in 2001 and is newly remastered by Frank Merritt at The Carvery. Both formats feature an indepth booklet featuring rare photos and a comprehensive interview with Plunky Branch within liner notes by Chris Menist.
24 tracks---more info & excerpts: https://strut.k7store.com/release/183389-oneness-of-juju-african-rhythms-1970-1982

Strut present the first ever compilation bringing together classics and rarities from the seminal spiritual jazz and conscious soul label Black Fire, spanning 1975 to 1993.

Formed by DJ and record producer Jimmy Gray in Richmond, Virginia, and following in the footsteps of other influential black-owned independent labels like Strata-East and Tribe, the foundation of Black Fire coincided with saxophonist James “Plunky” Branch returning to Richmond from New York to form Oneness Of Juju. The band’s ‘African Rhythms’ album in 1975 was the perfect fusion of jazz, deep African polyrhythms and empowering lyrics and bassist Muzi Branch, a trained artist, created the first of many Black Fire hand-illustrated sleeves for this release. The album set the tone for a series of landmark releases on the label including Oneness Of Juju’s ‘Space Jungle Luv’ (1976) and debuts from soulman Wayne Davis (1976) and early go go pioneers Experience Unlimited (1977). Gray continued to use his influence and strong A&R instincts to bring in more key artists – great jazz players like Byard Lancaster and Hamiet Bluiett, Ghanaian master percussionist Okyerema Asante and talented collectives including Southern Energy Ensemble and music / drama troupe Theatre West. Due to personal and cashflow issues, many releases had to be canned and only surfaced subsequently on CD releases during the early ‘90s.

‘Soul Love Now’ brings together some of the many highlights from the label onto one essential compilation. Opening with Theatre West’s powerful soul message ‘Children of Tomorrow’s Dreams’, the tracks include a Byard Lancaster recording with Tunde Kuboye’s Drummers Of Ibadan in Nigeria and Lon Moshe’s driving jazz dance classic ‘Doin’ The Carvin’ For Thabo’. Wayne Davis brings the explosive gospel rare groove ‘Look At The People’ while Plunky’s JuJu and Oneness Of Juju feature with three tracks spanning their career, including a storming previously unreleased version of the classic ‘African Rhythms’ recorded in DC in 1975. ‘Black Fire’ features extended sleeve notes with extended interviews with musicians from the label and includes a reprint of one of the three Black Fire magazines published by Jimmy Gray which predated the launch of the label.
Current release date: August 14
More info, audio: https://strut.k7store.com/release/190249-black-fire-soul-love-now-the-black-fire-records-story-1975-1993

I got promos on both of those and didn’t like them as much as I’d hoped I would. Black Fire was no Strata-East, let’s put it that way.

Pretty detailed, favorable review here, maybe I'll check it out:
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/oneness-of-juju-african-rhythms-1970-1982/

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“Ace Of Spades” to Enjoy Exciting Anniversary Rebirth

Deluxe Collector’s Box-Set and Special 40th Anniversary Editions of “Ace Of Spades”
to Be Released on October 30th 2020

Watch a New Video for a Previously Unreleased, Live Version of “Ace Of Spades” Plus Preorders
here: https://motorhead.lnk.to/Aos40pr

Upon its release in 1980, the Ace Of Spades album was nothing short of a gamechanger for all forms of hard rock...Now, following on from last year’s fan and media acclaimed anniversary editions of the seminal Overkill and Bomber albums, comes the record that launched Motörhead into the stratosphere and carved their name into the walls of rock ‘n’ roll history forever; Ace Of Spades. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of this milestone album, it is being presented in new deluxe editions. There will be hardback book-packs in two CD and triple LP formats, featuring a previously unheard concert from the ‘Ace Up Your Sleeve’ tour, the story of the album and many previously unseen photos. Also, the album will be released as an ultimate fan, collector edition Ace Of Spades box set, containing a bevy of era-specific treasures and some 42 previously unreleased tracks!

The Ace Of Spades Deluxe box set contains:

The Ace Of Spades album, half-speed mastered and created from the original master tapes.
Two double-live albums of previously unheard concerts from the Ace Up Your Sleeve tour.
A Fistful Of Instrumentals: A 10” EP of previously unreleased, instrumental tracks from 1980.
The Good, The Broke & The Ugly. A double album of B-sides, outtakes and rare tracks.
Ace On Your Screens: A DVD compilation of rare TV appearances from 1980-81, a live concert from 1981 and a 5.1 audio mix of the original album.
The Ace Of Spades story. A 40 page book telling the story of Ace Of Spades through previously unpublished interviews with the people that were there. Includes never before seen photos and memorabilia.
The Ace Up Your Sleeve tour programme
The Motörhead Rock Commando comic.
A set of 5 poker dice that can be played on the game board inside the box set lid.
All encased in a classic Wild West dynamite box.
A limited edition 7" reproduction of the Dutch “Ace Of Spades,” with a previously unreleased instrumental version on Side B. (while stock last!)

In 1980, off the back of two essential albums, Overkill and Bomber the previous year, MOTÖRHEAD continued to get bigger, better, louder and faster by the second. This time, on Ace Of Spades they teamed up with producer Vic Maile and came up with twelve songs; each and every one of which crams a regular band’s ten minutes of playing into an average of three. The song titles alone made ears bleed: “Love Me Like A Reptile,” “Shoot You In The Back,” “The Chase Is Better Than The Catch” and “The Hammer” were a few examples. This landmark album saw the three amigos of Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke and Philthy Animal Taylor at the helm of the juggernaut that was MOTÖRHEAD, gaining phenomenal growth in popularity as they forged onward. The band’s and fans ideas, wants and inspirations, converged at a perfect tangent. Anyone disputing this fact need look no further than any heavy metal gig of the time and play ‘spot the MOTÖRHEAD T-shirt and jacket.’ They outnumbered anyone else by at least five to one. A statistic that is still accurate some forty five years since they first began!

The Ace Of Spades album release was a magical moment in rock’n’roll history, an album which had enormous global impact and continues to resonate and inspire people worldwide. Fans to this day still remember where they were when they first heard it, and it immediately inspired bands worldwide to absorb the album’s energy, speed, and attitude into their own work. Ace Of Spades is ground zero for thrash, speed metal, and punk / metal crossover.

See below for full details of the Ace Of Spades releases and be sure to visit www.iMotorhead.com for news and updates!

BOX SET TRACKLISTING

Ace of Spades
Side One
Ace Of Spades
Love Me Like A Reptile
Shoot You In The Back
Live To Win
Fast And Loose
(We Are) The Road Crew

Side Two
Fire Fire
Jailbait
Dance
Bite The Bullet
The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
The Hammer

A Fistful Of Instrumentals
Side One
Ace Of Spades (demo)
Hump On Your Back (demo)
Shoot You In The Back (demo)
Fast And Loose (demo)

Side Two
Dirty Love (demo)
Love Me Like A Reptile (demo)
Dance (demo)

Riders Wearing Black
Live At Whitla Hall, Belfast – 23rd Dec 1981

Side One
Ace Of Spades
Stay Clean
Over The Top
The Hammer
Shoot You In The Back
Metropolis

Side Two
(We Are) The Road Crew
No Class
Bite The Bullet
The Chase Is Better Than The Catch

Side Three
Jailbait
Leaving Here
Capricorn
Too Late, Too Late

Side Four
Overkill
Bomber
Motörhead

Fleetwood Mac 1969-1974

8 CDs comprising Then Play On through Heroes Are Hard to Find, with bonus tracks and a live set. I'm excited! Especially as I can stop searching for some perfect LP copy of Mystery to Me that doesn't get overrun with distortion during "Emerald Eyes."

Milford Graves & Don Pullen: The Complete Yale Concert, 1966

First ever reissue of volume 1 -- volume 2 (aka Nommo) was reissued once in the mid-'70s on Milford's label.

Rhino Records will be releasing the first volume of "The Joni Mitchell Archives" on October 16. No track details yet, but it will be five CD's with liner notes from Cameron Crowe. An announcement should be forthcoming.

Almost ordered xpost The World of Keith Haring last night--hey, it's a Soul Jazz thing!--but last second thought to check youtube, and sure glad: some of it seems laughably lame, and pretty sure I would have thought the same at the time, in most cases (allowing for environmental variables). Some others were good for a while, but (this used to happen on the dance floor pretty often). Fab Five Freddy's "Change The Beat" could've been better if his voice weren't behind the beats or the beats were better---it's early Celluloid trying to get with the program, what can you say---although yes, sampled for "Rockit." And some of the best I already knew, so did you---nevertheless, these would be the keepers if I had 'em:

3. Pylon – Danger£0.99
6. John Sex – Bump and Grind It£0.99
8. The Girls – Jeffrey I Hear You£0.99
10. Talking Heads – I Zimbra (on CD version only)
12. Class Action – Weekend (Larry Levan Mix)
13. Adiche – Chuka-Ja (Get Ready)£0.99
15. The Golden Flamingo Orchestra – The Guardian Angel Is Watching Over Us
16. Gray – Cut It Up High Priest£0.99
19. Yoko Ono – Walking On Thin Ice
That's almost half, better than I thought.

Although "Weekend" is mainly for the good-not-great Levan work, rather than the original songwriting/performance.

The Convertion song on there is one of my favorite Leroy Burgess things

picking up the King Diamond reissues and trying to get copies of the Mercyful Fate vinyl reissues that quickly sold out this year, but the places I order from seem to be out.

also kinda intrigued for the Decibel Napalm Death vinyl reissues.

xpost I liked some of that, but lost patience. Maybe I should try the whole thing again.

But also on YouTube, just now listened to xpost Soul Jazz Records’ new Black Riot: Early Jungle, Rave and Hardcore, which gets better and better, rollic-King, for the most part. Thanks to Gottpunch for the reminder on What Are You Listening to? 2020

Rilo Kiley Announce Release Of Rare Self-Titled 1999 Debut Album;

Rilo Kiley To Be Released On Vinyl & DSPs October 2nd;
Rilo Kiley have announced plans to re-issue their extremely rare self-titled debut album from 1999. The recording, originally pressed only on CD and sold exclusively at the band’s early shows, has been out of print since its original pressing 21 years ago. Rilo Kiley will be made available on limited edition vinyl and digital DSPs on October 2nd via Little Record Company, the label started by Rilo Kiley’s own Pierre de Reeder. The vinyl package includes gate-fold and colored vinyl.

The Los Angeles four piece arrived on the music scene in 1998 with their very first show at Spaceland in Silverlake. In the audience was comedian Dave Foley who was so impressed with their performance that he introduced himself and immediately encouraged them to record some of their music. Recalls Foley of this first encounter with the fledgling Rilo Kiley:

“January 1998, I was a young man, young compared to now, hanging out in L.A’s alt. rock club scene. One night in particular, I found myself at Spaceland, at the bar drinking when a band started playing. They were good, so good that I stopped fighting for the attention of the bartender and turned to see who it was. On stage was a very young, delightfully unpretentious group named Rilo Kiley. Between songs they were charming, smart and funny. During songs they were brilliant. After the set I introduced myself and learned that this was their first public performance. I was astonished. They invited me back to their rehearsal space for Thai food and to hear some songs they didn’t have room for in the set. Dreamily, I filled my belly with noodles and my head with one great song after another. I was in a full on, pop music fan swoon. Having decided to force myself into their lives, I suggested (insisted) that I should fund a demo recording. They relented. I also tried to talk them into changing the band's name. They were unrelenting. A lot of years have passed. I remain proud to know Rilo Kiley and grateful that I had the opportunity and ability to be of some help."

Some of the songs from that initial Foley-funded demo session formed the foundation for Rilo Kiley and the band handmade copies of the CD to sell at shows before signing to Barsuk Records and going on to release some of the most influential and acclaimed albums of the era.
Rilo Kiley tracklist:

Frug
Papillion
Always
85
Glendora
Teenage Lovesong
Sword
Asshole
Gravity

Jenny Lewis (vox, guitar, bass, keys), Blake Sennett (vox, guitar, keys), Pierre de Reeder (bass, guitar, keys, vox) & Dave Rock (drums).

https://www.rilokiley.com/

Just listened to Disc 1 of xpost soundtrack to Tim Lawrence's book, Love Saves The Day: A History of American Dance Culture, 1970-1979, and it's a trip, as expected. New to me: Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin's "Dibwe Diambula Kabanda" is a chattery, charming, caffeine come-all-ye, cruising into Chuck Mangione's "Land of Make Believe," with his fluegelhorn, Jon Faddis's trumpet, beats etc. gliding in and out of the orchestration around Esther Satterfield's calm vocal authority---all seems ready for Broadway in the wake of The Wiz, but why bother when we've already got this, for 12-plus painless minutes---will have to check more Chuck, but suspect context incl. anticipation of live James Brown etc. helps a lot---more than ditto: "We All Need Love," by Dominec Trioano, yes the guitarist for The James Gang and Guess Who, here vocalizing and maybe playing synth? Ultimately okay enough---wonder if Joe Walsh, Randy Bachman ever tried disco? Would like to hear.
Nary a wasted measure of the Jackson 5's epic, mostly (but not too)instrumental "Hum Along And Dance (Uncut Version): "Play it Tito!" Squealy balloon piglet guitar, or something: good! I'd never heard anything from their Dancing Machine etc. era.
Also hadn't heard Wilson Pickett's contributions to that era, like "Don't Knock My Love." Awesome, and although he doesn't sing on "Dont...Pt.2," instrumental's so fine, I don't miss him here quite so bad.
Fave find so far is Brainstorm's brave, hopeful "Lovin' is Really My Game (12" Version)": I love the boogie, but the boogie don't love me"---don't say that, yes it does!

From Lawrence's booklet: With generic boundaries yet to take root, the Jackson 5's "Hum Along and Dance" moved seamlessly between the Bronx, downtown and Brooklyn, the 15-minute version included here is this version's first legal release on vinyl. Brainstorm's "Lovin' Is Really My Game," played by Larry Levan when the Paradise Garage was still in its infancy, reminds us that disco, once it was let loose, could power its way through anything.

(And could keep going long after you weren't supposed to call it "disco" anymore.)

Sometimes, when blissmaster David Mancuso considered last dancers lingering too long in the Loft (his lower-case home, after all), he would play Gladys Knight & The Pips' "It's Time To Go Now," which ends Disc or Part 1. Realness continues at the earnest new beginning of 2., "Brother's Gonna Work It Out," as Willie Hutch or his representative tells a social problem that his business has gotta go too, not just the competition and equivalents in other markets---but hey, change can be fun, just listen to this, and dance along.
Charles Earland's answer is "Leaving The Planet," rising through stratspheres crowded as the streets, but nonstop.
Laura Lee's marching and stomping in a silver elevator, "(If You Want To Try Love Again), Remember Me," she appeals, commands. The Modulations' "I Can't Fight Your Love" has unusual-to-me combo of high voice appeals, gruff voice commands (both male), but we already got Ms. Lee and I'd cut straight from her to Margie Joseph's diamond "Prophecy," one of Nicky Siano's fave peak tracks.
After those two, the voices are more back in the total effect of the builds: Blue Magic have, to my ears re post-Motown 70s, an unusually rich, vivid blend of high male harmonies, here balancing on and in rolling folds of textured rhythm, in "Welcome To The Club." Then, two tours led by prodigal jazzers: Twennynone with Lenny White's "Fancy Dancer," where the details eventually get bigger and closer, almost distended, but not quite: like the original 12", or is it an effect of analog recording, digital remastering? I remember some of Columbia Records' early attempts at digitally remastering Miles Davis vinyl had the same effect (though some others *were* distended. Miroslav Vitous, Herbie Hancock, Airto Morieta and ricochet female voices go all around the town in a dynamic limo, through the shadows at times, basic groundclouds more often, but it is "New York" in the 70s, after all.
"Above And Beyond" is certainly the most sensitive Edgar Winter track I've heard: voices and synths guided through sunset-tinged blue skies by Tom Moulton's production.

From MVD Entertainment:

Johnny Thunders - Que Sera Sera: Resurrected

35th Anniversary 3CD Box Set featuring a remixed version with extra tracks, the live version, the original album plus a 36-page booklet

Coming September 11th
In 1985 Johnny Thunders went into the studio in London, to record his third and final solo album. He gathered friends Mike Monroe, Patti Palladin, John Perry, Wilko Johnson, Henri-Paul Tortosa, Nasty Suicide, JC Carroll,Stiv Bators, Glen Matlock and others, and the resulting album was christened Que Sera, Sera.

It wasn't all plain sailing - with Johnny it rarely was. Johnny had spent the previous two years in relative stability. He'd been gigging around the world, and between tours he was filming in France. Life was a series of nice apartments and hotels shared with his constant companions - his girlfriend Susanne and his manager Christopher.

Now circumstances meant he had neither. Without a new release, touring slowed, and his high-maintenance lifestyle led him to seek friend favors for somewhere to live. The major labels that Christopher hoped would provide financial support hadn't materialized.
In a row with Susanne, she complained that Johnny had never written a song for her. Johnny obliged, and along with new songs from his live set, he recorded "I Only Wrote This Song for You." Before the album was finished, as soon as he had a rough monitor mix of the song, he flew to Sweden to attempt a reconciliation.

Those remaining at the studio were left to put the pieces together. Patti Palladin oversaw the mixing with the engineer, and found there wasn't really enough for an album. Patti added "Tie Me Up" from the b-side of her Crawfish project, and "Blame It On Mom" was found from an earlier session. The title-track was actually an afterthought; recorded as a single 16 months later.

The album was well-received, and it got Johnny touring again, but there was always a sense that it could have been better, and that the guitar was restrained - in '85 many artists were seeking mainstream crossover. Two tracks were left off - Jerry Nolan's "Countdown Love" song was unused as he hadn't yet recorded it; and "Talk About You," a lengthy blues workout that didn't seem to fit.

With those two tracks in mind as bonus tracks for a reissue, Pat Collier, former Vibrators' guitarist, was asked to mix them. When the results came through, it became obvious that Pat should remix the whole album using today's technology and viewpoint.
n the multi-track tapes a few outtakes were discovered, and last year the Resurrected version was released as a Record Store Day double-vinyl with 5 bonus live tracks. After interruptions, the CD version was reappraised and expanded to a three-disc box set. The original album is included, reinstating "Tie Me Up" and the old, familiar mixes. Three live gigs were uncovered, and they became the live version of the album as a bonus CD.

Johnny Thunders' biographer, Nina Antonia, has written new notes with interviews for the 36-page booklet. It also includes lyrics and unseen photos from the recording sessions, the cover session and from one of the featured live gigs.

TRACKLISTS:

DISC 1: Resurrected: Alone In A Crowd, Countdown Love, Blame It On Mom, Talk About You, M.I.A., Little Bit Of Whore, Short Lives, I Only Wrote This Song For You, Cool Operator, Billy Boy, Endless Party, Que Sera Sera. Extras: Copy Cat, Blame It On Mom (outtake),Taking You Up Avenue D, Short Lives (outtake), I Only Wrote This Song For You (outtake), Cool Operator (first version)

DISC 2: Live in Europe: Geneva: Blame It On Mom, M.I.A., Cool Operator, Personality Crisis, Countdown Love, Little Bit of Whore, Amsterdam: Short Lives, So Alone, Sad Vacation, Too Much Junkie Business, Little Bit of Whore, Born To Lose, Chinese Rocks, Lyon: Countdown Love, Just Another Girl, Talk About You, Alone In A Crowd, It’s Alright (Blame It On Mom)

DISC 3: The original album: Short Lives, M.I.A., I Only Wrote This Song For You, Little Bit of Whore, Cool Operator, Blame It On Mom, Tie Me Up, Alone In A Crowd, Billy Boy, Endless Party, Cool Operator (Black Cat mix), Short Lives (Heavenly ver.), Short Lives (Johnny’s remix), Que Sera Sera

More info, audio, pre-order:
https://mvdshop.com/products/que-sera-sera

Okay, I did listen to xxxpost The World of Keith Haring again, and liked most of the other half much much much more than before---main thing might have been that I played it much louder this time. From June 2019, turns out, but hey. I'm gonna get it, probably.

Tracklisting for the Love Saves The Day feels a bit "songs that are mentioned in the book but haven't been comped before". I'll check it out though!

2019-released soundtrack for the second book is even better, and, unlike the first a 2020 release), you can listen to the whole thing on bandcamp:https://reappearingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/life-death-on-a-new-york-dance-floor-1980-1983

Meanwhile,

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/STllTy9FS2lCNG9ud2JuWUxJVy9wQT09/viralata-antonio-adolfo.jp

New edition vinyl reissue of his seminal Brazil/Funk/Jazz fusion CLASSIC LP: Antonio Adolfo's Viralata! Remastered from original tapes and on heavyweight 180 gm vinyl.

An essential album from Brazil's majorly progressive heyday of late seventies jazz-funk. Viralata is a sacred artefact of Brazilian music!

Joe Davis' Far Out label presents this classic album that includes the Brazil jazz dance classic track 'Cascavel' - a BIG Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge tune back in their Dingwalls days.

Viralata sits comfortably on the same pedestal as Azymuth's Light As A Feather and Joao Donato’s Quem É Quem, which is no co-incidence. All three keystone LPs were recorded and engineered by Toniniho, considered by many to be "the Brazilian Rudy Van Gelder" whose magic touches in the studio also helped to produce Marcos Valle's Previsão Do Tempo and Joyce's Água E Luz among many other holy grails and unassailable classics of soulful Brazilian music.

Antonio’s work has been widely performed by his legendary Brazilian contemporaries including Sergio Mendes, Emilio Santiago and Erasmo Carlos, but also by platinum-selling American icons including Stevie Wonder, Herb Alpert and Dionne Warwick. Following an early 70s spell of studying jazz in the USA, Viralata’s release in 1979 arrived at the height of a flourishing period of Antonio’s career. With his late 60s and 70s output following through on his influences of tropicalia, funk, MPB and easy listening, the almost entirely instrumental Viralata marked an apex for Brazilian jazz.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/antonio-adolfo-viralata

BORIS ANNOUNCE SIX-VOLUME 'ARCHIVE’ SERIES

Boris will begin to archive past limited releases on their Bandcamp page.

Tomorrow, and over the course of several months, the archiving of Boris past limited releases will take place on their Bandcamp. They'll start off appropriately with the “Archive” series, 3 live album CD’s released in 2005 from the US label, “aRCHIVE”, limited to 600 copies that sold out immediately.

These 3 live albums were reissued as “Archive I” (Vol. 1, 2, & 3) along with “Archive II” (Vol. 4, 5, & 0) in 2014. Both sets of 3 CD’s each were limited rereleases of 1,000 copies, and thus quite difficult to obtain.

Boris’s early demo tape recordings, as well as a compilation of at the time unreleased live recordings spanning “Heavy Rocks,” “Akuma no Uta,” ”dronevil -final-, ”mabuta no ura,” up through “PINK” can be found on “Archive II”.

These 6 CD’s worth of material, labeled as Boris “Archive” Volume Zero to Five, are a total of 6 releases. Getting a glimpse at a piece of the band from the Boris Book of Genesis to the present, these are some precious recordings indeed.

Details for each Archive release can be found below. Look for more news and music from Boris in the near future.

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Boris Archive Volume Zero "Early Demo"

9 songs selected and compiled from 3 independently produced demo tapes, from the early period of Boris’s formation.
The final 10th track, “Soul Search You Sleep,” was recorded in 1996 during Boris’s first tour of the US west coast, and has been brought out of a long slumber to complete Volume Zero.
(Originally released on March 5, 2014. Included in Archive 2, limited to 1,000 copies)

1. Loudd
2. AYA
3. Spell Down
4. Nods
5. Scar Box
6. Mosquito
7. Matozoa
8. Deep Sucker
9. Water Porch
10. Soul Search You Sleep

Track 1,2 from 1st Demo 1993
Track 3,4 from 2nd Demo 1993
Track 5-9 from 3rd Demo 1994

Recording Engineered by Kokage
Mixed by fangsanalsatan

Track 10 Recorded at Capitol Theater, Olympia, WA. Mar 1st & 2nd 1996

Takeshi: Bass & Vocal
Wata: Guitar & Echo
Atsuo: Drums & Vocal
Nagata: Drums(Track 2,3,4,6,7,8,9)

Mastering: Soichiro Nakamura
Design: fangsanalsatan
Produced by Boris

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Boris Archive Volume One "Live 96-98"

Originally released in 2005 from the US label “aRCHIVE,” limited to 600 copies which sold out immediately. Compiled from live recordings during Boris’s “Power Violence” period 1996 - 1998, including songs from the 1998 studio album “Amplifier Worship” and Archive Volume Zero “Early Demo.”
(Reissued as part of Archive 1 on March 5, 2014. Limited to 1,000 copies)

1. Huge
2. In Hush
3. Soul Search You Sleep
4. Vacuuum
5. Mosquito
6. Mass Mercury
7. Scar Box
8. Hama

Track 1,2 Recorded at Koenji 20000V 21st Dec 1996
Track 3,4,5 Recorded at Koenji 20000V 21st June 1996
Track 6,7 Recorded at Shinjuku Loft 4th Oct 1997
Track 8 Recorded at Koenji 20000V 2nd Aug 1998

Takeshi: Bass & Vocal
Wata: Guitar & Echo
Atsuo: Drums & Vocal

Re-Mastering: Soichiro Nakamura
Design: fangsanalsatan
Produced by Boris

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Boris Archive Volume Two "Drumless Shows"

Originally released in 2005 from the US label “aRCHIVE,” limited to 600 copies which sold out immediately. Includes 2 songs recorded live from Boris’s 1998 studio album “Amplifier Worship” and 1 song from “Early Demo,” all arranged for a drumless performance. The beginning of Drone Metal history in 1997.
(Reissued as part of Archive 1 on March 5, 2014. Limited to 1,000 copies)

1. Huge
2. Mosquito
3. Vomitself

Track 1 Recorded at Nagoya Music Farm 9th Aug 1997
Sound Engineer: Yukihito Okazaki (from ETERNAL ELYSIUM)

Track 2,3　Recorded at Koenji 20000V 8th Aug 1997

Takeshi: Bass & Vocal
Wata: Guitar & Echo
Atsuo: Drums & Vocal

Re-Mastering: Soichiro Nakamura
Design: fangsanalsatan
Produced by Boris

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Boris Archive Volume Three "2 Long Songs"

Originally released in 2005 from the US label “aRCHIVE,” limited to 600 copies which sold out immediately. A precious live recording from their early days, of Boris’s 1996 debut single song release, “Absolutego,” and “flood,” released in 2000, performed live together as “1 song, 1 production.”
(Reissued as part of Archive 1 on March 5, 2014. Limited to 1,000 copies)

1. Absolutego
2. flood

Recorded at Koenji 20000V 3rd May 2001

Takeshi: Bass & Vocal
Wata: Guitar & Echo
Atsuo: Drums & Vocal

Re-Mastering: Soichiro Nakamura
Design: fangsanalsatan
Produced by Boris

www.borisheavyrocks.com

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Boris Archive Volume Four "Evil Stack Live"

Full set live recording that was broadcast on Japanese government-owned radio. The setlist is compiled from songs representative of their “Uppercase BORIS” distinction, including tracks from “Heavy Rocks” (2002) and “Akuma no Uta” (2003).
(Originally released on March 5, 2014. Included in Archive 2, limited to 1,000 copies)

1. Heavy Friends
2. Korosu
3. Ibitsu
4. Death Valley
5. Naki Kyoku
6. Furi
7. Akuma no Uta
8. Dyna-Sore
9. 1970

Recorded at NHK Tokyo 15th May 2003
Sound Engineer: Yasuaki Satake

Takeshi: Bass, Guitar & Vocal
Wata: Guitar & Echo
Atsuo: Drums & Vocal

Mastering: Soichiro Nakamura
Design: fangsanalsatan
Produced by Boris

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Boris Archive Volume Five "Pink Days"

Recorded live in New York during Boris’s 2006 US tour. Selections from “dronevil” "mabuta no ura" and “Akuma no Uta” combined with songs from “PINK,” during the period of its release that transmits wild enthusiasm; the songs in this full set recording could even be called their greatest hits.
(Originally released on March 5, 2014. Included in Archive 2, limited to 1,000 copies)

1. Blackout
2. PINK
3. Woman on the Screen
4. Nothing Special
5. ibitsu
6. Electric
7. A Bao A Qu
8. the evilone which sobs
9. Akuma no Uta
10. Just Abandoned My-Self
11. Farewell

Recorded at New York 31st May 2006
Sound Engineer: Randall Dunn

Takeshi: Bass, Guitar & Vocal
Wata: Guitar & Echo
Atsuo: Drums & Vocal

Mixing: fangsanalsatan
Mastering: Soichiro Nakamura
Design: fangsanalsatan
Produced by Boris

GIANT STEPS: 60th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION will be available on September 18 as a 180-gram double-LP set and as a double-CD set and is available for pre-order now. Both versions include the newly remastered version of the original album plus eight alternate takes. The recordings come packaged in a replica of the original sleeve and labels used for the album’s first stereo pressing, and the packages, each with a booklet, include photos, never-before-seen images of Atlantic Records ephemera, original liner notes and new liner notes written by Grammy®-winning music historian Ashley Kahn. As a special bonus, fans who order the 2-LP set from Rhino.com will receive a limited edition 7-inch vinyl single disc featuring alternate takes of “Giant Steps” and “Naima.”

The other anniversary release is GIANT STEPS: 60th ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION, which will be available to download and stream on September 18. The 35-track collection includes the original album, eight alternate takes, and 20 additional outtakes, all of which are newly remastered. Until now, many of the outtakes were only available on the 1995 set: The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings.

Giant Steps was recorded in 1959 at Atlantic Studios in New York City. The album features Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Paul Chambers on double bass, Tommy Flanagan on piano, and Art Taylor on drums on all songs except for “Naima,” which features Jimmy Cobb on drums and Wynton Kelly on piano. It’s extraordinary to note that Coltranebegan principal recording sessions for Giant Steps less than two weeks after finishing his work with Miles Davis on Kind of Blue, which became the best-selling jazz album in history.

Considered a landmark in modern jazz improvisation, Giant Steps earned a rare honour in 2004 when the album was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Recording Registry. It is well known for Coltrane’s exploration into third-related chord movements, which are now known as ‘Coltrane changes.’ Several compositions on the album have become jazz standards, including the ballad “Naima” (named for his wife) and the title track.

In the new liner notes that accompany the vinyl and CD sets, Kahn details the album’s origins and eloquently writes about its lasting impact, while interweaving quotes and commentary from Coltrane’s peers, critics and family. “And yet…Giant Steps is Exhibit A of how Coltrane’s obsession with the inner mechanics of music could not—and did not—impede his lyrical priority as a soloist, nor his compositional knack for inventing memorable, deeply entrancing melodies, says Kahn. “It never trips over its own intricacies, never loses sight that it is indeed music. The title track connects with an altogether hip, finger-snapping affect. “Cousin Mary” is a marvel of blues simplicity and smoky, late-night vibe; “Mr. P. C.” a burner fired by a toe-curling, R&B feel. “Naima” stands as one of Coltrane’s most wistful romantic statements, and “Syeeda’s Song Flute” one of his most playful. “Countdown” is a dizzying slalom down a mountainside, while “Spiral” thrills with a more relaxed energy, a gear-shifting exercise.”

“People like to talk about Giant Steps as a test for young horn players and how he’s breaking new ground with some of the pieces,’ says Ravi Coltrane, son of John, who was born in 1965 and grew up in Southern California and is one of many reed players who have spent countless hours with the music. “‘But it’s the accessibility that stands out for me. The accessibility, despite how challenging some of the material is. It’s still all very listenable and very joyful. John’s music is a joy to study and to play. It’s a joy to listen to.’”

Kahn concludes, “It remains one of the most talked-about albums of the modern era, a set of music all should have and absorb. It is music that has lived up to the grandiosity of its title: the first, yet not final, of John Coltrane’s fully realized statements, a point along a comet-like path of creative genius, an indelible marker on the timeline of popular music. It is a jazz classic recognized far beyond jazz circles. What more could a true artist hope to achieve?”

GIANT STEPS: 60th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION
LP and CD Track Listing:

Side One / CD 1
1. “Giant Steps”
2. “Cousin Mary”
3. “Countdown”
4. “Spiral”

Side Two / CD 1
1. “Syeeda’s Song Flute”
2. “Naima”
3. “Mr. P.C.”

Side Three / CD 2
1. “Giant Steps” (Alternate, Take 1, Incomplete)
2. “Naima” (Alternate Take)
3. “Like Sonny” (Alternate Take)
4. “Countdown” (Alternate Take)

Side Four / CD 2
1. “Syeeda’s Song Flute” (Alternate Take)
2. “Cousin Mary” (Alternate Take)
3. “Giant Steps” (Alternate Version Two False Start)
4. “Giant Steps” (Alternate Take)

GIANT STEPS: 60th ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION
Track Listing

1. “Giant Steps”
2. “Cousin Mary”
3. “Countdown”
4. “Spiral”
5. “Syeeda’s Song Flute”
6. “Naima”
7. “Mr. P.C.”

The Outtakes
8. “Giant Steps” (Alternate, Take 1, Incomplete)
9. “Giant Steps” (Alternate, Take 2, False Start)
10. “Giant Steps” (Alternate, Take 3, Incomplete)
11. “Giant Steps” (Alternate, Take 4, Incomplete)
12. “Giant Steps” (Alternate, Take 5)
13. “Giant Steps” (Alternate, Take 6, False Start)
14. “Giant Steps” (Alternate, Take 7, Incomplete)
15. “Giant Steps” (Alternate, Take 8)
16. “Naima” (Alternate, Take 1, False Start)
17. “Naima” (Alternate, Take 2, Incomplete)
18. “Naima” (Alternate, Take 3)
19. “Naima” (Alternate, Take 4, False Start)
20. “Naima” (Alternate, Take 5)
21. “Naima” (Alternate, Take 6)
22. “Like Sonny” (Rehearsal 1, False Start)
23. “Like Sonny” (Rehearsal 2, Incomplete)
24. “Like Sonny” (Alternate, Take 1, False Start)
25. “Like Sonny” (Alternate, Take 2, Incomplete)
26. “Like Sonny” (Alternate, Take 3, Incomplete)
27. “Like Sonny” (Alternate, Take 4, False Start)
28. “Like Sonny” (Alternate, Take 5)
29. “Like Sonny” (Alternate, Take 6, Incomplete)
30. “Like Sonny” (Alternate, Take 7)
31. “Countdown” (Alternate Take)
32. “Syeeda’s Song Flute” (Alternate Take)
33. “Cousin Mary” (Alternate Take)
34. “Giant Steps” Take 3 (Incomplete)
35. “Giant Steps” Take 6 (Alternate)

That's way more alternate takes than I need in my life.

John’s music is a joy to study and to play

it's sort of weird that he refers to his father as "John"

I dunno, how old was he when his father died? And whatever memories you might have, might well be subsumed by such a historical figure, presence...Can I get just the original album, with this latest remastering? Maybe with just a *few* alts? On CD or digital?

Re: that Richard & Linda Thompson box set (which actually has a few differences in the officially announced track list), Warner Music has apparently blocked Universal's sale of that set within the U.S. due to rights issues over Shoot Out the Lights.

As some may remember, Rhino Handmade (which was/is owned by Warner) released a two-disc reissue of that album ten years ago, which quickly went out-of-print as all Rhino Handmade releases typically have a very limited pressing.

Apparently this isn't a complete surprise - Universal and Warner have had a long drawn-out discussion about this for quite some time, but the box set's producers continued on with the project simply because those talks were going extremely slow and taking too damn long and the producers didn't want to delay things further.

The box set will still be available overseas as this deadlock only impacts U.S. distribution. Universal's own online store did have this available though, so I'm guessing it wasn't impacted by the rights issue, but the limited number of sets that were reserved for pre-orders have already sold out. Amazon.com doesn't list it, but Amazon.co.uk and elsewhere do, and some vendors like importcd's are appropriately enough importing any available stock. Reportedly more pressings will be made if the set sells very well, and that's presumably going to happen as pre-orders have already exceeded expectations.

I guess Shoot Out The Lights is tied up via Hannibal who where bound to Rykodisc who were bought by (and folded into) Rhino?

The box set will still be available overseas as this deadlock only impacts U.S. distribution.

In semi-related news, the Thelonious Monk album Palo Alto, containing a previously unreleased quartet live set from 1968, is not coming out in the US but is available in Europe. You can buy it from grooves-inc.com if you want (and you should; it's great). Importcds doesn't have it (yet).

Re: Giant Steps, I have a feeling that reissue will be completely redundant for most Coltrane fans. Before the market for physical media came crashing down to niche levels, that album had been remastered several times in a fairly short period of time, always from the original master tapes. There was the older (first?) CD release that also had many of those alternates, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's Ultradisc II reissue, and then a new CD remaster under Rhino's imprint that probably upgraded the old CD to the new mastering used for Rhino's Heavyweight Champion box set (though it's possible it's another new mastering by the same reissue team). Since then there's been good vinyl reissues cuts of that album as well.

Anyway, that Rhino box set also scooped up the remaining alternates. The booklet laments that more unreleased recordings have been lost forever due to the notorious Atlantic warehouse fire in 1978, which was similar to the 2008 Universal fire that wiped out who knows how many master tapes. Giant Steps was actually very, very lucky - copying from Wikipedia:

"Although master tapes of the material in Atlantic's released back catalog survived due to being stored in New York, the fire destroyed or damaged an estimated 5,000–6,000 reels of tape, including virtually all of the company's unreleased master tapes, alternative takes, rehearsal tapes and session multi-tracks recorded between 1948 and 1969. Atlantic was one of the first labels to record in stereo; many of the tapes that were lost were stereo 'alternates' recorded in the late 1940s and 1950s (which Atlantic routinely taped simultaneously with the mono versions until the 1960s) as well as almost all of the 8-track multitrack masters recorded by Tom Dowd in the 1950s and 1960s...Reissue producers and archivists subsequently located some tapes that were at first presumed 'lost', but which had survived because they had evidently been removed from the New Jersey archive years earlier and not returned. During the compilation of the Rhino-Atlantic John Coltrane boxed set, producer Joel Dorn located supposedly destroyed outtakes from Coltrane's seminal 1959 album Giant Steps...Atlantic archivists have since rediscovered other 'lost' material including unreleased masters, alternative takes and rehearsal tapes by Ray Charles, Van 'Piano Man' Walls, Ornette Coleman, Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz."

I guess Shoot Out The Lights is tied up via Hannibal who where bound to Rykodisc who were bought by (and folded into) Rhino?
That's my guess. I don't know the exact details of what happened to Rykodisc - it used to be a pretty great label - but from what I can tell, the former owner and co-founder has moved on to others while blogging every now and then about his former label, including some interesting stories about the Bowie catalog. (For example, RCA vastly undervalued its worth, a big reason why Bowie went shopping elsewhere.) I noticed that some of Rhino's reissues from a decade ago (like the 2008 remasters of the Replacements' Twin/Tone catalog) carry a Rykodisc logo, right when there wasn't really any more Rykodisc product, so I'm guessing that was when Warner acquired all things Rykodisc as well as existing licensing agreements that were still made out to Rykodisc.

I'd never heard of Pete Yellin (alto sax/flute) or the album Dance of Allegra until this week, but Mainstream reissued it on Bandcamp and I grabbed it. It's from 1972 and sounds uncannily like Miles Davis circa 1970/71, but a little more melodic. The band is Eddie Henderson on trumpet and flugelhorn, Kenny Barron on electric piano, Stanley Clarke on bass, Dom Um Romao on percussion and Billy Hart on drums, and it fucking rips.

https://peteyellin.bandcamp.com/album/dance-of-allegra

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2938675747_10.jpg

Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder! I posted about the Mainstream resurrection upthread, forgot to check more Yellin---he's on this sampler, as described at the end of the press release, which also has a link to excerpts:
VARIOUS ARTISTS
This Is Mainstream! LP
WEWANTSOUNDS

£24.98
2 x LP

Wewantsounds continues its collaboration with Bob Shad's grandchildren, Mia and Judd Apatow, to present a 2LP selection of 13 turntable-friendly Mainstream Records tracks recorded between 1970 and 1973 and showcasing the label's superb blend of Funk, Soul and Jazz. All tracks remastered from the original tapes, most of them released for the first time since their original release with a few highly sought-after ones. Liner notes by UK journalist Paul Bowler. The Mainstream sound is unmistakable: earthy, rich and funky, it's the signature sound of producer Bob Shad. After working with such geniuses as Charlie Parker, The Platters, Billie Holiday and Janis Joplin over three decades, Shad decided to go back to producing Great Black Music in the early 70s through his label Mainstream Records and started releasing a formidable series of jazz albums known as the 300 series. Released between 1971 and 1974, these albums are the main source of this set. Coincidentally, it opens with one of the two tracks on the tracklist not produced by Shad himself. Saundra Phillips' "Miss Fatback" is nonetheless fascinating as it's one of cult disco producer Greg Carmichael's earliest productions from 1975 (before he went on to produce Inner Life, Bumblebee Unlimited, Universal Robot Band with fellow producer Patrick Adams). The other track not issued by the Shad sound factory is Almeta Lattimore's 7" single "These Memories," a truly great soulful track from 1975 and now a sought-after classic on the international Soul scene. Shad's forte was Jazz, and the sessions usually used the best musicians you could think of, including Bernard Purdie, Billy Hart, Stanley Clarke, Dom Um Romao, Joe Sample, Freddie Robinson, Gordon Edwards, Larry Willis, Wilbur Bascomb to name just a few. Filled with gorgeous Fender Rhodes chords and heavy basslines, they define the unmistakable Mainstream sound which had one foot in the great jazz and bop tradition and the other in the sonic jazz explorations of the early 70s. Oscillating between jazzed-up covers of soul hits like Jay Berliner’s "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" or Afrique’s "Kissing My Love" and more introspective originals such as Hal Galper's "This Moment" or Dave Hubbard's "T.B.'s Delight", They all have this perfect
balance between groove and depth. One perfect example is Pete Yellin's "Bird and The Ouija Board," a superb 12 min opus starting off with a deep abstract improvisation before switching to an up-tempo funk beat fueled by drummer Billy Hart and bass player Stanley Clarke.

Audio etc.:
https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/various-artists-this-is-mainstream-lp-wewantsounds/162609

― dow, Monday, May 11, 2020

From Smog Veil newsletter---think at least some of this has been released before? So I'll put it here"

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0075/9892/products/SV142_HarveyGold-ItsMessyVol1-frontcover-3000px_large.jpg?v=1595942833

(ships by Sept.18)
Harvey Gold "It's Messy, Vol. 1" CD
Describing the musical output of the eclectic Harvey Gold, a founding father of Tin Huey and Half Cleveland, Gold has offered, “We are what we eat and we’ve eaten a lot of different stuff.”
Careening from power pop, to electronic, to “West Akron Appalachian,” this solo album includes an emotional protest/love song in “The Fence,” a sizzling rocker with horns, “In Consideration of Joe Strummer,” a dark take on The Beatles’ “I’ve Just Seen a Face,” AND a nod to Vivian Stanshall with a Music Hall style tune about a hard-boiled egg, “Song For Joanne.” It’s even been suggested that the track, “March of the Elephants,” might be Gold’s instrumental sequel to his Huey’s opus, “Chinese Circus.”

So, he’d like to think he says it all in the title, “It’s Messy Vol. 1.”

Four songs are recorded with Half Cleveland, Gold’s band with mates from Tin Huey, Chris Butler and Bob Ethington.
Another four tracks are with Harvey in the Hall, comprised of Debbie Smith Cahan (Chi Pig), Ethington, and Gold—with a couple of those tunes aided by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, and Byrd and Burrito Brother, Chris Hillman.
“Lemon Beazly” is an epic reunion of the three original members of Tin Huey: Michael Aylward, Stuart Austin, and Gold.
The rest of the album—well, someone mistakenly left him alone in a room with toys, so…

Of note: the song “The Fence” has been remastered for this release and everything Gold receives from it is donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Additionally, proceeds from the song “Eidola (inadvertently for Ralph)” go to Sweet Relief in memory of his dear collaborator and friend, Ralph Carney (who briefly appeared on “The Fence”).
More infor, audio:
https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/harvey-gold-its-messy-vol-1-cd

Received my copy of The Stooges - Live At Goose Lake, August 8th, 1970. As with all live Stooges recordings, it sounds terrible, but at least there's interesting liner notes.

I also received the first two The Primevals albums directly from LTM. The reissues were from 2015, but I was not aware of them until recently. RIYL The Gun Club, Cramps, Crazy Horse, Eleventh Dream Day.I wrote about Sound Hole (1986) here.

Earlier I was talking about Compass Point in Nassau, and I recently finished Chris Frantz' book Remain In Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and Tina, and he gives a good snapshot of what it was like to work and stay down there, and talked about many of the artists who recorded down there, including their surprisingly close friendship with Robert Palmer and his wife. He talked about when James Brown attempted to record there in 1982. Most accounts were that it was Brown's ego that was the problem, but it was Robbie Shakespeare who put his bass in Brown's hands, said, "You play that bumbaclaat part" and walked out. With his 30 year trailblazing career at that point, he could be forgiven for assuming he'd get more respect than that, but to his credit, Brown came back the next day and was conciliatory with the musicians and open to listening to their ideas. The real problem was that he wanted to claim all the songwriting credits, and for Blackwell that was a no go and cut it off after the fourth day. Another big personality that didn't really mesh well at Compass Point was Lee Perry. "Bed Jamming" lol. One musician who everyone had great things to say about was Wally Badarou. His Echoes (1983) and Words Of A Mountain (1989) are long overdue for reissue. I'd think Grace Jones' third in her Compass Point trilogy, Living My Life (1982) would also get a deluxe treatment.

David Katz wrote a great piece on that era:
http://racketracket.co.uk/music/compass-point-story/

Thanks for all that! Will have to check out The Primevals, and prob Frantz book too, sounds better than expected.
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Brazil Funk Power - Brazilian Funk & Samba Soul
Limited Edition Record Store Day 7" Boxset
Soul Jazz Records

This release features some of the funkiest Brazilian music ever made - music by Jorge Ben, Banda Black Rio, Tim Maia, Toni Tornado, Cassiano performing some of the best tunes ever to come out of Brazil!

Classics from the superb 70s Afro-Brazilian Funk & Soul era of Brazil’s own Black Power Movement (‘Movimento Negro’) sit alongside a dancefloor-heavy selection of Samba Soul and Boogie, Afro-percussive Brazilian funk and more!

All tracks have been digitally re-mastered and the singles come housed in a thick, heavyweight deluxe card box.

This box set is a one-off pressing exclusively for Record Store Day.

Release Date
29 August 2020

1. Jorge Ben – Meus Filhos, Meu Tesouro
2 Brasil Ritmo – Novo Dia
3 Azymuth – Manha
4 Donato & Deodato – Whistle Stop
5 Tim Maia – Gostava Tanto De Voce
6 Jorge Ben – Taj Mahal
7 Cassiano – Onda
8 Luiz Gonzaga Jr – O Comeco Da Festa
9 Novos Baianos – Tinindo Trincando
10 Dom Um Romao – Kitchen (Cosinha)

More Info & Audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/press/ic6m0heocly9

I'm sure you must want to know this is coming out but not sure why it is.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik: Flaunt It, 4CD Deluxe Capacity Wallet

£19.99
Released October 9, 2020.

**LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS BADGE AVAILABLE WITH PRE-ORDER WHILE STOCKS LAST**

 Deluxe 4CD set showcasing one of the most notable albums of the mid-1980s, and the phenomenon that surrounded it.

 The Giorgio Moroder produced album, B-sides, remixes and rarities (including many never before on CD) PLUS A COMPLETE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED LIVE SHOW recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios in front of an invited audience.

 Includes the international hit singles ‘Love Missile F1-11’, ‘Sex Bomb Boogie’, ‘21st Century Boy’ and ‘Massive Retaliation’, plus remixes and versions.

 Produced with input from band members Tony James and Neal X.

 Material remastered from the original tapes.

In the mid-1980s, former Generation X founder Tony James pieced together a pop group like no other. Taking the greatest rock ‘n roll traditions and clichés and fusing them with a utopian vision of modernism, commercialism and the future, Sigue Sigue Sputnik brought together a previously unknown and inexperienced collection of would-be musicians and faces and turned them into the must-see band of the era. Under James’ strategic masterminding, Sputnik were hyped in the media before a note had been released, were courted by major labels and television stations, became regulars on London’s glittering social circuit and developed a reputation for chaos and grandiosity which appealed to the mainstream tabloid press as much as it did the music papers.

Working with studio legend Giorgio Moroder, the band crafted a club-oriented, electronic rock ‘n roll sound littered with immovable basslines, pop culture samples, familiar licks, self-glamorising lyrics and a futurist aesthetic. Marketing and advertising were warmly embraced – the album included paid-for adverts between tracks – and Sputnik resolutely insisted on their own brilliance, whether you liked it or not. THE ULTIMATE PRODUCT FROM THE ULTIMATE GROUP, they declared, and they weren’t far wrong.

This celebratory package brings together “Flaunt It” and its many remixes, B-sides and rarities, alongside a brilliant and chaotic live recording made at London’s Abbey Road Studios, providing the perfect counterpoint for the rule-bending studio manipulation found elsewhere. Sputnik’s star burned brightly, and their influence stretched into the late 1980s and 1990s as technology and globalisation

brought their crossover sound and bold visual aesthetic into the mainstream. This set is a must-have for fans of the band and 1980s pop culture, and for believers in a glittering future.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

FLAUNT IT
1. LOVE MISSILE F1-11
(RE-RECORDING PART II)
2. ATARI BABY
3. SEX-BOMB-BOOGIE
4. ROCKIT MISS U.S.A.
5. ADVERTISEMENT:
THE SPUTNIK CORPORATION
6. 21ST CENTURY BOY
7. MASSIVE RETALIATION
8. ADVERTISEMENT: THE SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK COMPUTER GAME
9. TEENAGE THUNDER
10. SHE’S MY MAN
11. ADVERTISEMENT: EMI RECORDS
BONUS TRACK
12. FROM THE GUTTER TO THE STARS

DISC TWO

REMIXES
1. TRAILER MIX
2. LOVE MISSILE F1-11 (7” SINGLE MIX)
3. LOVE MISSILE F1-11 (THE BANGKOK REMIX)
4. LOVE MISSILE F1-11 (DANCE MIX)
5. LOVE MISSILE F1-11 (EXTENDED ULTRA VIOLENCE VERSION)
6. LOVE MISSILE F1-11 (VIDEO MIX)
7. LOVE MISSILE F1-11 (JAPANESE REMIX)
8. LOVE MISSILE F 1-11 (WESTBAM REMIX SHORT VERSION)
9. MASSIVE RETALIATION (THE SUPER MASSIVE UK REMIX)
10. MASSIVE RETALIATION (SHUT UP DUB REMIX)
11. SEX BOMB BOOGIE (MAGIC FLUTE) 12. SEX BOMB DANCE

DISC THREE

REMIXES, RARITIES AND B-SIDES
1. HACK ATTACK
2. BUY EMI
3. DANCERAMA (1986 VERSION)
4. SUICIDE (LIVE IN LONDON SEPT’ ’86)
5. 21ST CENTURY BOY (EXTENDED T.V. MIX)
6. 21ST CENTURY BOY (GERMAN REMIX)
7. 21ST CENTURY BOY (DANCE MIX)
8. BUY EMI (£4,000,000 MIX)
9. SHE’S MY MAN (REMIX)

DISC FOUR

LIVE AT ABBEY ROAD
1. SEX BOMB BOOGIE
2. 21ST CENTURY BOY
3. TWIST & SHOUT
4. SHE’S MY MAN
5. SHOOT IT UP
6. JAYNE MANSFIELD
7. ROCKIT MISS U.S.A.
(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)

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Brooklyn, New York (August 25, 2020) - Other Music, a documentary about the legendary NYC record store that closed in 2016 is available today in a wide digital release via Factory 25. The store helped launch the careers of countless indie stars and served as a cultural hub in New York City for 21 years. The film is now available on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play, Kanopy, etc.

The film was slated to have a theatrical run in April which was cancelled just as Covid hit. The filmmakers made lemonade out of lemons by partnering with over 200 temporarily-shuttered record stores and theaters on a Virtual Cinema release, which raised over 25k dollars for those places in a time when it was desperately needed. Tickets to stream the film were sold via the partners with 50% of the proceeds going to the store or theater in need. The cancelled April theatrical release was planned for the week of Record Store Day, and this wide digital release coincides with the week of Record Store Day's rescheduled 'RSD Drops' event.

The film delves into the iconic New York City record store's influence with appearances by Tunde Adebimpe (TV On the Radio), Jason Schwartzman, Martin Gore (Depeche Mode), Matt Berninger (The National), Janeane Garofalo, Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend) and more.

"It's a story about record stores, sure, but moreover it's about the power of community, and the changing face of our cities and towns and culture. The film is a joyous celebration of creativity and the people and places that matter in this life. And it feels all the more relevant today." - Josh Madell, Former Owner of Other Music

Other Music was an influential and uncompromising New York City record store that was vital to the city’s early 2000s indie music scene. But when the store is forced to close its doors due to rent increases, the homogenization of urban culture, and the shift from CDs to downloadable and streaming music, a cultural landmark is lost. Through vibrant storytelling, the documentary captures the record store’s vital role in the musical and cultural life of the city, and highlights the artists whose careers it helped launch including Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, William Basinski, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sharon Van Etten, The Rapture and TV On The Radio.

***THE DIRECTORS & SELECT INTERVIEW SUBJECTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PRESS***

Contacts, trailer, other links in here:
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One Little Independent Records has revealed details on the Crassical Collection, a collection of seminal avant-punk collective CRASS’ legendary albums, restored from the original analogue studio tapes.

Set for release in North America on October 30, the Crassical Collection includes Stations of the Crass(1979), Feeding of the Five Thousand (The Second Sitting) (1981), Penis Envy (1981), Christ – The Album (1982), Yes Sir, I Will(1983), Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day(1986) and Best Before 1984(1986). Each of the records have been repackaged and bolstered by rare and unreleased tracks, and stunning new artwork from Gee Vaucher, who has lovingly created what could only be considered a true artifact.

The first six albums include two CDs, with the first disc being the main album remastered by Alex Gordon at Abbey Road Studios and the second being a mixture of rare live and remastered studio recordings. Each package also includes a fold-out poster and a high-quality 60-page booklet featuring all lyrics along with extensive liner notes from band members Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, which shed light on the making of the records.

The Best Before 1984 Crassical Collection is brand-new and has also been remastered and features five fold-out posters and a 52-page booklet.

“Number seven – the one that almost got away,” CRASS’ Penny Rimbaud notes. “This final Crassical Collection double CD re-mastered by Alex Gordon and Penny Rimbaud at Abbey Road Studios in 2018 contains the original album plus a further album’s worth of related material; good, bad and indifferent. Half the band want it out, while the other half wanted out, but hey, here it is in all its glory.”

Leading up to the release of the Crassical Collection, CRASS has embarked on the ambitious The Feeding of the Five Thousand Remix Project. Beginning in late 2019, CRASS took the step of making the original separate track stems of their seminal debut album The Feeding of the Five Thousand available as a free download. With a call to take the original 16 track recording in its pre-mix state, the intent was for people to create their own remixes and interpretations and breathe fresh life and ideas into this revolutionary music.

The resulting Normal Never Was series has just released its third installment, featuring remixes by legendary producer Steve Aoki and Japanese outsider musician Mikado Koko. All proceeds from the Normal Never Was series are being donated to the Refuge charity (www.refuge.org.uk).

Resonance Records To Issue Set of Sonny Rollins Discoveries From the Dutch Jazz Archive, "Rollins in Holland," As a Limited 3-LP Record Store Day Exclusive On November 27

Collection of Unheard "Take-No-Prisoners" Live & Studio Recordings From the Tenor Sax Master's 1967 Netherlands Tour Will Arrive as a 2-CD Set On December 4

On Nov. 27, “Black Friday,” independent jazz label Resonance Records will continue its ongoing tradition of releasing previously unissued archival recordings as limited-edition Record Store Day exclusives with a stellar new three-LP collection of historic Sonny Rollins performances, Rollins in Holland: The 1967 Studio & Live Recordings.

Featuring more than two hours of music, this stunning collection, drawn from tenor saxophone master Rollins’s Netherlands tour of May 1967, will also be presented as a two-CD set, due Dec. 4.

In a new interview with Feldman included in the set, the 89-year-old Rollins says, “I’m so happy that Resonance is putting it out because it really represents a take-no-prisoners type of music. That’s sort of what I was doing around that period of time; that was sort of Sonny Rollins then—a wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am approach. It was very much me. And I loved it and I loved playing with those guys.”

The music heard on the Resonance album is drawn from a little-documented period in Rollins’s career. The musician’s 1966 Impulse! album East Broadway Run Down was his final record date before a studio hiatus that lasted until 1972. In 1969, mirroring a celebrated public exit of a decade earlier, he began a two-year sabbatical from live performing.

Rollins in Holland captures the then 36-year-old jazz titan in full flight, in total command of his horn at the height of his great improvisational powers. He is heard fronting a trio, the same demanding instrumental format that produced some of the early triumphs of his long career: the live A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1957) and the studio dates Way Out West (Contemporary, 1957) and Freedom Suite (Riverside, 1958).

During his brief but busy 1967 stay in the Netherlands, the saxophonist was supported by two of the nation’s top young players, bassist Ruud Jacobs and drummer Han Bennink. The pair had together supported such visiting American jazzmen as Johnny Griffin, Ben Webster, Wes Montgomery, and Clark Terry, among others. Jacobs was a celebrated straight-ahead accompanist, while Bennink had developed a reputation as an avant-garde lion, having backed Eric Dolphy on 1964’s Last Date. The pair jelled magnificently behind their celebrated leader.

Rollins in Holland brings together material drawn from three separate appearances by the trio: a freewheeling May 3 concert at the Arnhem Academy of Visual Arts, at which Rollins stretched out in expansive performances that sometimes topped the 20-minute mark; a four-song May 5 morning studio session at the VARA Studio in Hilversum, where Dolphy and Albert Ayler had also cut unforgettable dates; and two live shots captured during the band’s stand that evening on “Jazz met Jacobs,” a half-hour national NCRV TV show presented from the Go-Go Club in Loosdrecht and hosted by bassist Jacobs’s pianist brother Pim and his wife, singer Rita Reys.

In his essay for the collection, Dutch jazz journalist, producer, and researcher Frank Jochemsen notes that while recordings of the Arnhem show (presented here with carefully restored sound) had been passed hand-to-hand by Dutch jazz buffs over the years, the rest of the music was only recently unearthed.

In 2017, the four stereo tracks from VARA Studio were discovered by Jochemsen, and they were authenticated by Ruud Jacobs and Han Bennink as they were being digitized for the Dutch Jazz Archive (NJA). In 2019, Jochemsen also discovered the audio from the “Jazz met Jacobs” appearance in the Dutch Jazz Archive, along with a unique set of photos shot at the sound check and live broadcast of this lost TV show.

Jochemsen says, “I find it an exciting idea that so much has been recovered and documented from this modest tour and that the music is indeed of such high quality. Even more sensational is the fact that the whole world can listen to it now. The great Sonny Rollins at his best, accompanied by a great rhythm tandem, which makes me, as a Dutchman, extra proud.”

Rollins in Holland also includes an in-depth interview by Levy with Han Bennink and Ruud Jacobs, conducted a year before Jacobs’s death from cancer in July 2019. In it, the late bass virtuoso recalled the experience of playing with the American legend as “something spiritual. [There was] a very special atmosphere on the stage where I felt I could do anything.”

Looks great, never heard him in a trio.

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Dudu Phukwana and the Spears: s/t

Original Dudu Phukwana and the Spears album recorded in 1968 and only released in South Africa via Trutone’s Quality label in 1969. Features acetatere recording produced at the same time but never released. 19 tracks. 2xLP £26.00
More info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/dudu-pukwana-spear-dudu-phukwana-and-the-spears

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Zorro Five: Jump Uptight
MATSULI MUSIC
Reissue of this killer funk/beat album, 'Jump Uptight' by Zorro Five - a South African band who won the “Best Beat Group” at the 1971 South African Recording Industry Award for this album. The single 'Reggae Shhh!' b/w 'Reggae Meadowlands' was an underground hit in the UK! 12 tracks. LP MM116LP £18.00
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/zorro-five-jump-uptight

Cosmic Discotheque Vol. 3: 12 Junkshop Disco Funk Gems from the 70s
Various Artists
NAUGHTY RHYTHM RECORDS
After the second volume's Afro oriented atmospheres, this new chapter will take us right back to the heart of 70's disco-funk/proto-disco/cosmic. A glorious decade made of lots of "cheap" records, obscure B sides, and forgotten or even unreleased instrumental versions. Tons of often ignored and yet stellar studio productions...
12 tracks. LP NRR003LP £19.00
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/cosmic-discotheque-vol-3

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The Upsetters with Vin Gordon
Musical Bones
Recorded at The Black Ark Studio in 1975
STUDIO 16

Very rare Upsetters & Vin Gordon album 'Musical Bones' was first released in the U.K. in 1975 only on a white-label pressing without a sleeve on Dip records (£400+). Only 300 were made at the time.

Superb Studio One rhythm recuts, deep, deep funk cuts - sparse, raw and edgy - CLASSIC Lee Perry!

The title is a play on word 'Trombone' being the instrument of the lead artist Vin Gordon. Produced by Lee Perry at The Black Ark, Kingston, raw Jamaican roots music 1975. Don't miss... 10 tracks.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/musical-bones

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Horace Tapscott Quintet
The Giant Is Awakened
FLYING DUTCHMAN
This album has been out of print for near on 50 years and is a 100% essential cornerstone deep, deep spiritual jazz release - don't miss out!

Seminal spiritual jazz masterpiece from 1969! Horace Tapscott's debut (and only) release for a major label - Flying Dutchman - occurred at the height of the civil rights/black power movement in the USA. Soon after the Watts Riots (65), Tapscott was the central figure at the heart of the community music scene (a precursor to that of Thundercat, Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus almost 50 years later).

Flying Dutchman was the only major label that Tapscott trusted to release his music - a testament to founder Bob Thiele who had produced John Coltrane's seminal Impulse releases throughout the 1960s. At the same time as Tapscott, Flying Dutchman signed Gil Scott Heron and Leon Thomas.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/horace-tapscott-quintet-the-giant-is-awakened_2

Musical Bones was reissued on this 2CD set by Sanctuary in 2005, but credited to Lee Perry.

Sound Of The Universe: ltd. quantity August releases re Record Store Day, vinyl only? We shall see, when I've made all my extremely selective selections from a boatload:

Hawkwind At The BBC 1972

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Recorded live by the BBC on 28th September 1972 at the BBC’s famed Paris Theatre in London, this is the classic “Space Ritual” era Hawkwind featuring Dave Brock, Nik Turner, Lemmy Kilmister & Stacia Blake. This 11 track, hour long show of the stereo version features Hawkwind classics “Born To Go”, “Seven By Seven” & "Master of the Universe". The release also includes two bonus tracks recorded for Johnny Walker’s BBC Radio 1 show the same year; “Brainstorm” & “Silver Machine”. 13 tracks, 2 LPs.
More info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/at-the-bbc-1972

Kuumba-Toudie Heath:
Kawaida

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Limited 40th anniversary edition. An essential piece of spiritual jazz history featuring legends Herbie Hancock and Don Cherry. Pressed on heavyweight vinyl in original gatefold sleeve format. 5 tracks. More info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/kawaida

This is out of stock at the moment, but worth checking back:

Linton Kwesi Johnson: Bass Culture / LKJ In Dub

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40th anniversary 2-LP edition of 'dub poet' Linton Kwesi Johnson's classic 1980 album, released on Island Records, with additional LP - 'LKJ in Dub', featuring dub versions of tracks from Bass Culture and previous studio LP 'Forces Of Victory'.Produced by Linton Kwesi Johnson and the legendary Dennis Bovell ('Blackbeard'), the album is a fierce, politically-charged view of Britain at the time.The music however is both highly accessible and experimental, going beyond traditional reggae arrangements to include free jazz and avant-garde elements.Remastered at Abbey Road, released on heavyweight coloured vinyl:GREEN for Bass Culture / RED for LKJ In Dub.Features expanded artwork in a bespoke gatefold sleeve.Both albums out of print on vinyl for years.Includes download card.
More info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/bass-culture-lkj-in-dub

Kuumba-Toudie Heath
This was Tootie Heath’s name at the time? I have heard of this project through some of the other guys involved like Herbie Hancock, still need to listen to it.

Dunno! Reminds me: now that my library has partially re-opened, better snake in there and check out that Heath brothers memoir/

Ennio Morricone---Peur Sur La Ville OST

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Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the very special reissue of one of Ennio Morricone's most striking soundtracks composed for Henri Verneuils' 1975 film Peur Sur La Ville (Fear Over The City). This special edition includes the original score released in 1975 plus a second vinyl worth of bonuses which have never been out on vinyl. These includes two tracks making their official debut after 45 years.

Approved by Ennio Morricone and remastered from the original tapes with liner notes by fellow musicians AM and JB Dunckel (air). Gatefold sleeve designed by Eric Adrian.
2 LPs, 31 tracks.
More info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/peur-sur-la-ville-ost

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Milton Nascimento---Ultimo Trem

First time on vinyl! Following the release of Milton Nascimento's Maria Maria, Far Out Recordings proudly presents Nascimento's 1980 follow up.With the success of Maria Maria in 1976 behind them, Nascimento reunited with his writing partner Fernando Brant in 1980 to produce another ballet, 'Ultimo Trem (Last train)'.This time, they chose to tackle a more contemporarily relevant subject, the impact of the closure of a train line that connected certain towns and cities in the North East of Minas Gerais to the coast."The military government shut down the route and the whole region began to fade away," explains Milton."I love train rides" adds the composer, "But today there are almost no trains to Brazil.So when I go to the US and Europe, any time I can, I go by train.The longer the journey the better." Featuring much of the same all-star line-up as Maria Maria - including legendary Brazilian musicians Nana Vasconcelos, Joao Donato, Paulinho Jobim and members of Som Imaginario, amongst many others, like Maria Maria, the album holds what Milton himself considers to be the definitive versions of some of his most beloved tracks, including 'Saidas E Bandeiras' and 'Ponte de Areia'. The title track, 'Ultimo Trem' - performed exquisitely by ZezE Mota with a choir and piano - is a mournful lament about the human consequences of the axed line.The ballet brought great media attention to the campaign against closure."Most of Fernando's lyrics have some political tone," says Milton, "This one helped the area a lot because the politicians grew concerned about the subjects." Fernando's and Milton's shared passion for the sounds, smells and memories of trains, inspired the soundtrack for the production which premiered in 1980.'A Viagem (The trip)', launched with a train's steam whistle, sees Milton's guitar moving to a train's rhythm.In contrast to the usual lyricism, 'Bicho Homen (Beastly man)' and 'Decreto (Degree)' are atypically upbeat and funky, their vocals a mesh of wordless male voices resembling the then fashionable Swingles Singers' renderings of Bach.'E Dai? (And so what?)', and 'Olho d'Agua (Water's Eye)' were both drawn from 'Clube Da Esquina'.'Olho d'Agua' is mellow and delicate and Milton's homage to the great voices of Brazil whilst 'E Dai? (And so what?)' is a stunning mosaic of voices.The unusual 'O Velho (The Old Man)' conjures up an image of an old shaman singing alone into the wind against the cries of nature.Perhaps the most affecting songs are Nascimento's 'Itamarandiba' and 'OraCao (Prayer)'.The latter is a cry for a change in the situation whilst 'Itamarandiba' ends with an upbeat, whirling Hammond organ and guitar timepiece.The closing track 'Ponta de Areia (Sand Edge)', was based on one of Fernando's newspaper stories and became one of Milton's most famous pieces, covered by musicians across the planet, including Wayne Shorter and Earth, Wind and Fire.It reappeared as a ghostly 45-seconds memory on the 'Milton e Gil' album, his millennial collaboration with Gilberto Gil. After 27 years of being locked inside contracts and record company legalities, these sublime songs were finally released in 2003 as a double CD package, along with Maria Maria.Set for its first ever vinyl release for this year's Record Store Day, on limited edition red vinyl, Ultimo Trem sounds as fresh and relevant now as when Brazilian music was still a South American secret. 2 LPs, many tracks.
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Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul: s/t
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Official Mr Bongo re-issue for Record Store Day 2020 with a gatefold cover.The self-tiled Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul album from 1973 was the only album recorded by the group.The success of the hit song and album enabled the band to share the stage with big-name acts such as James Brown and Earth Wind & Fire.The album track '(I've Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind' even became a regular feature on the legendary TV show, Soul Train.These triumphs also drew the attention of record company executives who wanted to sign Joe as a solo artist; an offer he refused as he was not willing to abandon the band.The group members for the recording were neighborhood musicians and school friends from the Washington D.C area - George "Jackie" Lee (Guitar), Gregory Hammonds (Bass), Charles Steptoe (Drums), Karrissa Freeman (Keyboards), Johnny Freeman (Trombone), Leon Rogers (Sax/Vocals) and Joe (Trumpet/Vocals).The simple cartoon-like almost pre-Basquiat style record cover artwork has become iconic in its own right, but this was not the original intention.Joe had prepared a quick illustration for a photographer to depict in a collage for the album art, however, the label ended up using his original sketches for the final cover.Whatever was in the water, things all came together and aligned at the right time, and a true soul-funk classic record was born. 9 tracks.
More info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/sir-joe-quarterman-free-soul

Still in stock at the moment, unlike some other Exclusives:
Soul Jazz Records Present Studio One Rockers
Record Store Day Exclusive
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS
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Soul Jazz Records are releasing this 20th anniversary edition of their classic Studio One Rockers on unique Record Store Day edition EXCLUSIVE coloured vinyl + download code.

This new edition is a one-off pressing exclusively for Record Store Day

Owned and founded by Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, Studio One's output serves as a comprehensive guide to the history of Reggae music.

The music on Studio One Rockers covers all areas of Reggae such as Ska, Rocksteady, Roots and Dancehall, all areas in which Studio One led the field and has become the essential introduction to reggae fans throughout the world.

Included in this compilation are classic Ska tracks ("Phoenix City"), Rocksteady ("Feel Like Jumping"), Roots music ("Truth and Rights"), Dancehall (Freddy McGregor, Michigan and Smiley) and many more. Featured here are many of the classic tracks from Studio One. From Dawn Penn's legendary "No, No, No" to classics such as Horace Andy's "Skylarking" and Marcia Griffith's "Feel Like Jumping".

"Compilation of the year. 100% Essential” Time Out
"Compilation of the year. A compilation of unbelievable quality. Awesome” DJ
"A who's who of Jamaican music” The Times
"An essential slice of musical history" Wire 15 tracks.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/studio-one-rockers-studio-one-rockers_2

Uriah Heep are releasing 50 Years in Rock, a giant box set with all 18 of their studio albums plus their 1973 live album, 4 compilation CDs curated by individual members, a book, a couple of Roger Dean art cards, and an LP of The Magician's Birthday (aka "the one with 'Easy Living' on it").

I really like Uriah Heep's early albums and their 21st century albums, but am largely ignorant of everything from roughly 1975-2000. I'm still not gonna buy this box set.

NightFlightPlus streaming service has a new documentary about TV Party, also individual episodes---here's synopsis of doc:
n 1978, two revolutionary trends emerged in New York City, public access cable TV and punk rock. These two phenomena came together spectacularly in Glenn O'Brien's TV Party. Hipsters tuned in to follow the antics of the TV Party gang and such guests as Iggy Pop, David Bowie, P-Funk's George Clinton, The Clash's Mick Jones, Kid Creole, Klaus Nomi were featured; also live performances.

Synopsis of an ep:There were two TV Party Heavy Metal Shows: one taped at the Mudd Club, now lost, and this live studio sequel featuring a "Mock Penis Envy" backdrop by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and a guitar line up of Chris Stein, Lenny Ferrari, Patrick Geoffrois of the Contortions, plus Glenn, Basquiat, Snuky Tate and Walter Steding on guitar and vocals, and Bradley Field on electronic drums. As Glenn and Walter send up rock clichés and discuss the nature of electricity, the band churns out a harrowing electronic miasma. Highlights include an actual fight between Fab Five Freddy and Jean-Michel Basquiat over a guitar and Walter Steding destroying his "extra wide deluxe" guitar.

one more:he first 10% of this show sums up what we don't get on TV anymore. Technical difficulties. TV Party was live and improvised, and this meant casual disaster. This early episode gets off to an artistically agonizing start--the sound person is late, overdosing on drugs or both. Or it was the broken down equipment. Once the sound kicks in the show gets lively. Compton Maddux, a droll singer songwriter, is backed up by Debbie Harry and Glenn; the unique futurist countertenor Klaus Nomi does one of his post-modern arias; Adny Shernoff, of the Dictators, plays the Beach Boys' "Be True to Your School" backed up by pom pom girls Tish and Snooky, the Manic Panic designers. Downtown legend director Eric Mitchell announces the opening of the now famous New Cinema theater and shows a clip from his film "Kidnapped" with Arto Lindsay, Duncan Smith and Anya Phillips. Brit director David Silver and photographer Kate Simon do the "white people talk about reggae" segment. Blondie's Chris Stein and Debbie Harry and the Patti Smith Group's Richard Sohl drop in to smoke a reefer and take calls from all the crazies in cable land. Chris explains all this isn't chaos, it's art.
Before signing up, if you can stand to wait, can watch some TV Party, and the Debbie Harry/Amos Poe film Unmade Beds, via this:https://mailchi.mp/nightflight/tescovee-971158?e=42851f1305

Getting toward autumn, maybe tyme for these Drag City reissues:

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The first Espers album (2004) is back in print and circulation and the world. As a trio with some featured guests Meg Baird, Greg Weeks and Brooke Sietinsons created delicate-yet-full-toned arrangements strewn with classical and traditional touches, acid leads and a melancholy, folkish air. Espers idealism was rooted in an ongoing flow of ideas that continue to this day, and their debut album retains their mystic air, early two decades later.

Und also,

In the wake of their celebrated first album, Espers recruited a few more members in 2005 and set to making an album interpreting some of their favorite inspirational songs — not just traditional folk numbers, but songs by Nico, Michael Hurley, Durutti Column, Blue Öyster Cult and even Espers! After years out of print, The Weed Tree has grown back again.

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this looks fucking rad.

Anyone know when Matador’s reissue of Mary Timony’s first solo album is coming out?

xp Thanks for posting that, Austin – it does look cool.

This is cool too, think I listened on YouTube---reposted from upthread cos deserves it:

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Soul Jazz Records’ new Black Riot: Early Jungle, Rave and Hardcore is a brand new collection of heavyweight ragga-influenced hardcore jungle tracks from the early 1990s. Dark and heavy!

Featuring classic and seminal tracks from the likes of Levictus and Krome &Time, alongside a host of rare and little-known ragga & junglist hardcore tunes from the likes of Babylon Timewarp’s hypnotic Durban Poison, Rhythm for Reasons’ mad ‘The Smokers Rhythm’, The Freaky rave-y breakbeat sound of ‘Time and Age,’ Trip One’s super dark ‘Snowball’ and loads more!

Expect super heavy basslines, equally heavy twisted Amen drum loops, even heavier ragga vocals! Original jungle style - roots and culture - from the earliest days of drum and bass.

Included with the album is a free limited-edition graphic mini-novel “Black Riot: The Mysterons save Planet Earth from the Xatheroid Angels.” This is the third collaboration between Soul Jazz Records and writer/illustrator Paulo Parisi, the highly respected author of graphic books on Jean Michel Basquiat and John Coltrane.

This new graphic story continues the story of black electronic dance music – this time set around the birth of Jungle and continues onwards from Soul Jazz’s earlier ‘Invasion of the Killer Mysterons’ (Jamaican electronic Dub, co-compiled by Kevin Martin (The Bug)) and Mysterons Invade the Jackin’ Zone (about Chicago Acid & Experimental House).

More infor, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/black-riot

I don't know if I need this, but I kinda want it...

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of UNCONSCIOUS POWER – AN ANTHOLOGY 1967 – 1971, a newly remastered 7 CD boxed set featuring all of the albums and singles recorded by the legendary American acid / progressive rock band IRON BUTTERFLY recorded for Atlantic’s Atco label between 1967 and 1971 and additional recordings made at the Fillmore East in New York City in April 1968.

Iron Butterfly first came together in San Diego, California in 1966 with a line-up of Doug Ingle (vocals, organ), Danny Weis (guitar), Greg Willis (bass), Jack Pinney (drums) and Darryl DeLoach (vocals). After performing in the San Diego area the band relocated to Los Angeles in search of a recording contract, with Willis soon departing to be replaced by Jerry Penrod on bass. Jack Pinney also departed and was eventually replaced by Ron Bushy.

The band’s psychedelic and acid rock style was honed during regular appearances at LA venues such as the Whisky a Go Go and the Galaxy Club, which saw Iron Butterfly develop a loyal following and led to the band signing with Atlantic’s Atco label in 1967. In October that year the band recorded their debut album, HEAVY, but the group would endure further line-up changes prior to its release as Jerry Penrod, Danny Weis and Darryl DeLoach departed soon after recording sessions were completed. Faced with the possibility of the album remaining unreleased, Ingle and Bushy recruited 17 year old guitarist Erik Brann and bassist Lee Dorman to the band.

HEAVY was released in January 1968, entering the US Billboard charts and eventually earning gold disc status. The album IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA, issued in June 1968, would break the band into star status. Dominated by the side long title track featuring the instrumental dexterity of the new line-up, it was a masterpiece of acid rock and reached a height of number 4 in the US charts and went on to sell a million copies. An edited version of the title track was issued as a single and reached the US top thirty.

The band’s third album, BALL, was released in January 1969 and was even more successful, reaching number 3 in the US and spawning the hit singles Soul Experience and In the Time of Our Lives. The band undertook a punishing touring schedule and a series on concerts were recorded in May 1969, finally to be issued as LIVE in April 1970. Erik Brann departed the band in December 1969 and was replaced by guitarist and vocalist Mike Pinera and additional guitarist Larry Reinhardt.

This line-up would record the album METAMORPHOSIS in May 1970 which saw the band take a heavier direction. The dominant track on the record was the excellent thirteen minute Butterfly Bleu which saw one of the earliest uses of a “talk box” on a guitar solo. Following a tour with YES in early 1971, Doug Ingle announced his departure from the band. After releasing a final single, Silly Sally in April 1971. Iron Butterfly disbanded. Although they would reform in the mid-1970s and continue to perform and record sporadically afterwards, their recorded work for Atco Records remains their main legacy.

UNCONSCIOUS POWER – AN ANTHOLOGY 1967 – 1971 features all of the albums issued on Atco, all newly re-mastered from the original master tapes, and additionally includes the rare mono mixes of the albums HEAVY and LIVE, (the only true separate mono mixes of their albums), both previously unreleased on CD, along with two CDs of recordings made at the Fillmore East in New York City on the 26th and 27th April 1968. It also includes all of the band’s US non-album singles and single edits and a lavishly illustrated booklet with a new essay featuring interviews with Ron Bushy and Mike Pinera and a poster.

Erik Brann's approach to vocalizing later seemed like a foretaste of Hetfield's, but maybe better, prob. not worse. Never thought of them as prog, but haven't heard all thee albums---must check xpostMetamorphosis, with Larry "El Rhino" Reinhardt, who I hope also played with Wino, did play w Captain Beyond. Mike Pinera!
Mike Pinera and his group Blues Image were co-founders and house band at Thee Image, a Miami Beach concert venue they opened and co-headlined on weekends, playing with such groups as Cream, Grateful Dead, The Yardbirds, The Animals, Frank Zappa and many more. [1] Blues Image soon signed with Atlantic Records where they scored the major hit "Ride Captain Ride" which Pinera co-wrote and sang
[while he was with Butterly]... he and Lee Dorman produced the band Black Oak Arkansas, which went platinum. In 1972 Pinera and Jimi Hendrix's drummer Mitch Mitchell formed the band Ramatam on Atlantic Records and was produced by the legendary Tom Dowd, who was quoted as saying this album was one of his all time favorites.
In 1973 Pinera helped formed The New Cactus Band. They recorded the album Son of Cactus on Atlantic Records...He was the lead guitarist for Alice Cooper from 1980 to 1982. He is currently performing with his solo band and The Classic Rock All Stars.
Much more here, with links---did not know he did an album for Capricorn, wonder what that's like?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera

Bassist Lee Dorman also went to Captain Beyond after Metamorphosis

Xgau (from 1972 Zep concert review "A Power Plant," archived on his site):The idea for Led Zeppelin's name, as well as perhaps half of its musical concept, relates to Iron Butterfly, which, on the strength of its classic "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida," remained the premier American heavy rock band until the advent of Grand Funk Railroad. Always heard that the name came from Keith Moon, and some of the musical concept, when he and Beck and Page and JP Jones and Nicky Hopkins cut "Beck's Bolero," but maybe mega-successful early sound of IB was an influence too.

Never trust Christgau on anything relating to heaviness.

Yeah, that's almost complete bullshit on Xgau's part.

I have that Ramatam album. It's pretty good post-Hendrix rock. They had a female guitar player who was rumored to be trans; however the reasoning I've seen on that was sketchy to say the least.

There's a remastered Gun Club Miami coming. Apparently from tapes given to the JLP family estate by Chris Stein.
Not sure how imminent but been told this from somebody involved over last few days.

Does anyone have any experience with Vinyl Me Please reissues? They are coming out with Jorge Ben's Africa Brasil that I am interested in.

Feedback on discogs is mainly positive. No reissue, but I bought a translucent green copy Yaeji's What We Drew recently (didn't particularly look for this version, I just wanted a copy and this was the one they had at my record store) that sounds absolutely fine.

UFO's Strangers In The Night is being blown up into an 8CD box set containing the original double live album (which I could swear fit on a single CD) plus six complete concerts, as follows:

CD1: Original album
1. Natural Thing
2. Out In The Street
3. Only You Can Rock Me
4. Doctor Doctor
5. Mother Mary
6. This Kid's
7. Love To Love

CD2: Original album
8. Lights Out
9. Rock Bottom
10. Too Hot To Handle
11. I'm A Loser
12. Let It Roll
13. Shoot Shoot

CD3: Chicago, Illinois 13/10/78
1. Hot N Ready
2. Pack It Up (And Go)
3. Cherry
4. Let It Roll
5. Love To Love
6. Only You Can Rock Me
7. Ain't No Baby
8. Out In The Street
9. Doctor Doctor
10. Lights Out
11. Rock Bottom
12. Too Hot To Handle
13. Shoot Shoot

CD4: Kenosha, Wisconsin 14/10/78
1. Hot 'N' Ready
2. Pack It Up (And Go)
3. Cherry
4. Let It Roll
5. Love To Love
6. Only You Can Rock Me
7. Ain't No Baby
8. Out In The Street
9. Doctor Doctor
10. Lights Out
11. Rock Bottom
12. Too Hot To Handle

CD5: Youngstown, Ohio 15/10/1978
1. Hot N Ready
2. Pack It Up (And Go)
3. Cherry
4. Let It Roll
5. Love To Love
6. Natural Thing
7. Out On The Street
8. Only You Can Rock Me
9. On With The Action
10. Doctor Doctor
11. Lights Out
12. Rock Bottom
13. Too Hot To Handle
14. Shoot Shoot

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CD6: Cleveland, Ohio 16/10/78
1. Hot And Ready
2. Pack It Up And Go
3. Cherry
4. Let It Roll
5. Love To Love
6. Natural Thing
7. Out In The Street
8. Only You Can Rock Me
9. On With The Action
10. Doctor Doctor
11. I'm A Loser
12. Lights Out
13. Rock Bottom
14. Too Hot To Handle
15. Shoot Shoot

CD7: Columbus, Ohio 17/10/78
1. Hot And Ready
2. Pack It Up And Go
3. Cherry
4. Let It Roll
5. Love To Love
6. Natural Thing
7. Out In The Street
8. Too Hot To Handle
9. I'm A Loser
10. On With The Action
11. Doctor Doctor
12. Lights Out
13. Rock Bottom
14. Shoot Shoot

CD8: Louisville, Kentucky 18/10/78
1. Hot N Ready
2. Pack It Up (And Go)
3. Cherry
4. Let It Roll
5. Love To Love
6. Natural Thing
7. Out In The Street
8. Only You Can Rock Me
9. On With The Action
10. Doctor Doctor
11. I'm A Loser
12. Lights Out
13. Rock Bottom
14. Too Hot To Handle
15. Shoot Shoot

I love UFO's early to mid 70s Chrysalis albums, but I don't know if I need six full concerts with barely varying set lists.

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From Riot Act Media, Sept. 25:

The first international archival release from Azerbaijan’s gitara psych pioneer Rüstəm Quliyev arrives today on Bongo Joe

"Rüstəm Quliyev’s blazing, psychedelic guitar music sprang from one of the most tumultuous and transformative periods in Azerbaijan’s history, capturing both the spirit and the contradictions of its time. In the years since, Quliyev has become the emblem of Azerbaijan’s gitara music—a unique subculture that developed around the electric guitar. And while his life was cut short by lung cancer in 2005, his legacy endures. 'He was really special,' says Vasif Javadli, Quliyev’s nephew. 'Many people try and follow Rüstəm’s way, but no one can replace him. And no one can play like him."
- Bandcamp Daily - "The Psychedelic Sound of Rüstəm Quliyev, King of Azerbaijani Guitar" by Megan Iacobini de Fazio

Rüstəm Quliyev was born in 1969 in the village of Kosalar, Nagorno Karabakh. At the age of seven he had already mastered the tar before moving on to play the saz. He first encountered guitar during his military service for the USSR in Russia and quickly made a name for himself as a guitarist after returning to Azerbaijan. During the early 1990s, after years of intense fighting, he had to flee his home due to the conflict in Karabakh and settled in the capital city Baku. There his guitar playing took on a new character. He played at weddings, made TV appearances, and recorded numerous cassettes with small local labels.

Rüstəm’s guitar playing not only drew on the rich traditional music of Azerbaijan but his thirst and passion for music also meant that he incorporated styles from across the globe into his repertoire: from Bollywood disco tunes and Afghan pop songs to Iranian street melodies and Spanish flamenco. He crafted a unique sound within an already idiosyncratic subculture of Azerbaijani electric guitar music. Sadly, his career was brought to a sudden end in 2005 after a short battle with lung cancer. His music, however, lives on remaining popular throughout the country.

This release of archival recordings, produced in collaboration with Rüstəm Quliyev’s family and Moutains of Tongues, marks the first international release of this guitar legend's music.
Selections from the archives of Rüstəm Quliyev
Recorded between 1999-2004 in Azerbaijan
Research & Liner notes by Ben Wheeler and Stefan Williamson Fa
Analog Mastering by Tim Stollenwerk
Artwork by Félicité Landrivon
Artistic Supervision by Cyril Yeterian
Vinyl Cut by Adi Flück
Special Thanks to Vasif Javadli and the Quliyev Family, Ben
Wheeler and Stefan Williamson Fa at Mountain of Tongues
Stream: https://rustemquliyev.bandcamp.com/album/azerbaijani-gitara

Soon to drop on Soul Jazz:

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Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4
Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1971-83

3×LP + Download Code SJRLP459 £26.00
Expected 16 OctPREORDER
2×CD SJRCD459 £13.00
Expected 16 Oct
Pre-Order
This is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ ground-breaking Deutsche Elektronische Musik series, ‘A near-definitive guide to some of the world's most extraordinary music’ (The Guardian).

This latest edition features many of the classic German electronic and Krautrock groups from the 1970s & 80s – including Can, Amon Duul II, Harmonia, Conrad Schnitzler, Agitiation Free, Roedelius – as well as a host of lesser known artists such as Dzyan, Klauss Weiss, Gruppe Between and many more.

Deutsche Elektronische rarities unearthed on the album include Kalacakra (whose fan-base included the great Moondog!) and their superb ‘Nearby Shiras,’ taken from their super-rare spiritual/psychedelic private press concept album Crawling to Lhasa, from 1972.

Deutsche Elektronische 4 includes a wealth of German electronic experimental artists – the seminal pioneering group Harmonia (Roedelius, Moebius and Michael Rother), avant-garde guru Conrad Schnitzler as well as lesser known synthetic artists such as Klauss Weiss, Deutsche Wertarbeit, E.M.A.K. (Electronische Musik Aus Koln), Gunter Schickert and others.

Finally, the album also features an array of heavy and progressive German cosmic rock groups – Dzyan, Virus and the amazing Turkish/German tripped out sound of Alex’s ‘Patella Black’, recorded at Can’s Inner Space in 1973, produced by Holger Czukay and Jackie Liebezeit.

Deutsche Elektronische 4 comes with extensive newly commissioned sleevenotes by David Stubbs, author of the seminal books ‘Future Days: Krautrock and the building of Modern Germany’, ‘Mars By 1980: The story of Electronic Music’, and ‘Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its Legacy’.

This album comes as a heavyweight triple vinyl edition with full colour inner sleeves, as well as a deluxe double CD edition with outsize booklet and slipcase. Both formats include full liner notes and extensive rare photography.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/deutsche-elektronische-musik-4

yeah, just saw that on the boomkat mailout. didn't they say 3 would be the last? no complaints here though.

(boomkat are saying 30th october now)

I missed volume 2 of the Deutsche Elektronische Musik series somehow and now it seems like it's the only really difficult one to find at a reasonable price, on CD or LP

3 is my favorite, though

Lola Versus Powerman and The Moneygoround Part One

50th Anniversary, Multi-Format, Album Re-issues

Out December 18 on BMG

Available to Order Now: https://thekinks.lnk.to/Lola50AnniversaryPR

New Track "The Follower - Any Time 2020" https://thekinks.lnk.to/AnyTime2020PR

Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, commonly abbreviated to Lola Versus Powerman, or just Lola, is the eighth studio album by The Kinks, recorded and released in 1970. A concept album ahead of its time, it’s a satirical appraisal of the music industry, including song publishers, unions, the press, accountants, business managers, and life on the road. One of the all time classic Kinks albums.

Let the 50th anniversary celebrations begin, as The Kinks unveil special multi-format release plans for the album as a lovingly produced Deluxe Box Set, 1LP, Deluxe 2CD, 1CD and digitally - to be released on December 18 via BMG.

Limited Edition, Deluxe 10” Slipcased book pack (containing 60 page book, 3 X CDs, 2 X 7” singles, 4 X color prints)
1LP Gatefold
2CD Hardback Book
1CD Softpack
Digital
HD Digital
D2C Limited Edition Exclusives (free with boxset orders): 7” Single, Enamel pin badge

Although it appeared during a transitional period for The Kinks, Lola Versus Powerman was a success both critically and commercially for the group, charting in the Top 40 in America and helping restore them in the public eye, making it a "comeback" album. It contained two hit singles: "Lola", which reached the #9 US, #2 UK and Germany - becoming the Kinks' biggest success since "Sunny Afternoon" in 1966 - and "Apeman", which peaked at #5 in the UK and Germany.

Ray says: “The album is a celebration of artistic freedom (including my own) and the right for anyone to be gender free if one wishes. The secret is to be a good and trusting person and friend.”

Ahead of its time, the track "Lola" was written by Ray Davies in early 1970 and recorded at Morgan Studios in London. The track supposedly tells the romantic tale between a young man and a transgender person whom he meets in a club in Soho, inspired by an alleged encounter by the band’s manager. Released with Village Green Preservation Society outtake "Berkeley Mews" in the UK and the Dave Davies-penned "Mindless Child of Motherhood" in the US, the iconic hook has been sung around the world for decades.

The Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One release plans follow the recent successful #LolaDay, celebrating 50 years of the seminal hit single. Fans were able to ‘Lolafy’ their individual photos with 10 new custom-made stickers available via The Kinks website. Throughout the day some of the finest acts such as The Amazons released their interpretations of the track via The Kinks’ channels, and various exciting Kinks archive audio, video and printed material was shared with fans.

The ‘Lolafy’ site has been updated from today to include four new stickers of the band members, Dave, Mick, Pete and Ray.

The 50th Anniversary box set campaign launches with a brand new Ray Davies’ remix / medley of the Kinks track "Any Time" (titled "The Follower - Any Time 2020 Feat: Anytime by The Kinks"). https://thekinks.lnk.to/AnyTime2020PR

Originally written by Ray as a possible B-side for "Apeman", "Any Time" includes previously unreleased versions and excerpts of several Kinks tracks from the Lola album as well as added spoken word and sound effects. It is a concept piece about which Ray states “The isolation caused by Coronavirus can give people time to re-evaluate the world and re-assess their lives. Music can comfort the lonely, transcend time and it’s not the future or the past, yesterday, today or tomorrow. It’s anytime”. He adds, “I saw a way of making this unreleased 1970s track connect to an audience in 2020. I also saw a way of showing that music can time-travel, that memory is instantaneous and therefore can join us in the ‘now’. I put this together as something surreal then realized that it was really happening. The song has found its place - after its 50th Birthday!”

THE KINKS LOLA VERSUS POWERMAN AND THE MONEYGOROUND, PART ONE
Available to Pre-order here: https://thekinks.lnk.to/Lola50AnniversaryPR

RELEASE FORMATS:

DELUXE 10” SLIPCASED BOOK PACK

Rigid, matte laminated, open one end card slipcase, with foil and metallic special cover effects, containing: 60 page hardback book with notes, band quotes, Ray Davies ‘1970 Diary’, rare photos / memorabilia; 3CDs in card wallets containing the remastered original album and bonus audio including many unreleased tracks: front and back pocket pages containing 2 reproduced original international 7” picture sleeve singles ("Lola" & "Apeman") and 4 x printed 5” sq rare band photocards.

CDs x 3

Stereo original album newly remastered from original master tapes, singles (stereo and mono mixes), B-sides, alternate original mixes.

Exclusive to the boxset: new medleys with Ray & Dave Davies in intimate conversation in Ray’s kitchen, plus nine new Ray Davies remixes and out-takes from the original session tapes, previously unreleased session and live tapes, instrumental and acoustic versions, previously unreleased demos and BBC material. Track lists curated and produced by Ray Davies.

7” Singles x 2

"Lola / Berkeley Mews" Italian picture sleeve.
"Apeman" / "Rats" Portuguese picture sleeve, (with alternate version of "Apeman")

Reproduced original artwork, remastered audio, black vinyl.


Book

Deluxe 60 page, 10” square, gloss-art hardback book with extensive notes by renowned Kinks expert Andy Neill, interviews / new band quotes (from Ray Davies, Dave Davies, Mick Avory and John Dalton and John Gosling), rare photos and memorabilia. Includes full, detailed tracklist information and historical background.

Photos

4 x 5” sq, light card, gloss-art photos:

GATEFOLD 1LP
Newly remastered original album (Stereo), original gatefold sleeve, heavyweight vinyl, booklet with notes, new band quotes, rare photos and memorabilia. Officially available for the first time since 1983.

DELUXE 2CD

Newly remastered original album (Stereo), deluxe hardback book 2CD, booklet with notes, new band quotes, rare photos and memorabilia.

1CD

Newly remastered original album + key bonus tracks from the box set. Digi-pack,
booklet with notes, new band quotes, rare photos and memorabilia.

DELUXE DIGITAL

Newly remastered original album (Stereo) plus other key tracks from the box set, including the IGs / e-singles

D2C EXCLUSIVES (LIMITED EDITION, FREE WITH BOX SET ORDERS)

"Lola / Berkeley Mews" original Danish picture sleeve 7” single: Remastered, reproduced original artwork, clear vinyl
Bespoke round metal & enamel pin badge featuring album cover art.
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PRESS CONTACT:
Jim Merlis
Big Hassle Media
jim at bighassle.com

Put this on Tompkins Square a while back, just got reminder, worth putting here:

Robbie Basho - Song of the Avatars : The Lost Master Tapes - 5CD set Available December 4th, 2020

All tracks previously unreleased

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Robbie Basho (1940-1986) is widely regarded as one of the progenitors of what's commonly known today as American Primitive guitar. Growing up in Maryland alongside neo-traditional guitar explorers John Fahey and Max Ochs, Basho's path would take a decidedly different turn, bringing Hindi, Indian, Japanese and Native American musical traditions into his work. His albums for Takoma and Vanguard have left an indelible trail of influence across generations of musicians, from William Ackerman and Pete Townshend to Ben Chasny and William Tyler.

Liam Barker first became aware of Basho having purchased Tompkins Square's reissue of Venus in Cancer, released in 2006. This led him on an incredible fact-finding expedition, unraveling the many layers of mystery surrounding Basho's life and death, all deftly compiled and depicted in his documentary film, Voice of the Eagle : The Enigma of Robbie Basho.

During the research process, Barker came across a large cache of unheard Basho tapes recorded throughout his career, ranging roughly from 1965-1985. By arrangement with Basho's Estate and the original custodians of the tapes, Tompkins Square is set to release Song of the Avatars : The Lost Master Tapes, a 5CD set of previously unreleased material, on December 4th, 2020. The set includes notes by Barker, Henry Kaiser, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Glenn Jones and Richard Osborn, as well as many unseen photographs. The box set package featuring gold foil inlay, poster and extensive booklet, was designed by Barbara Bersche, known for her work on the 2009 Grammy-nominated Alan Lomax in Haiti box, as well as the new Dust-To-Digital Harry Smith B-Sides box.

TSQ 5715 - Robbie Basho / Song of the Avatars : The Lost Master Tapes - 5CD set

Tompkins Square is distributed by INgrooves/Universal and Revolver in NA, Cargo UK for Europe

Tompkins Square 15th Anniversary playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4uiu05uzg7qB17xNRBee7c?si=a_B35QixTxCJSFeSRo0qug

New Decembrists vinyl editions, more info and streams here:
https://thedecemberists.bandcamp.com/

from fania.com via Downbeat email:

Ray Barreto, Barreto Power---

Featuring ALL-ANALOG mastering by Kevin Gray
at Cohearant Audio, this 50th Anniversary reissue marks the first
return to vinyl since its original 19T0 release.

GRAMMY-winning Nuyorican bandleader and
conguero Ray Barretto was an incomparable force
in Latin and jazz music. He was a long-time
member of the Fania All-Stars, and played conga
in recording sessions for major artists including
the Rolling Stones and the Bee Gees. Barretto
appeared on albums with jazz giants such as
Gene Ammons, Red Garland and Sonny Stitt,
and recorded regularly with Kenny Burrell,
Dizzy Gillespie and Wes Montgomery.

Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back)
by Oli Freke
Book (350g)£18.00
Expected 25 NovPREORDER
Synthesizer Evolution: From Analogue to Digital (and Back) celebrates their impact on music and culture by providing a comprehensive and meticulously researched directory of every major synthesizer, drum machine and sampler made between 1963 and 1995. Each featured instrument is illustrated by hand and shown alongside its vital statistics and some fascinatingly quirky facts.

From its invention in the early 1960s to the digital revolution of the 1980s right up until the point that analogue circuits could be modelled using software in the mid-1990s, this book tells the story of synthesizers from analogue to digital – and back again.

Tracing that history and showing off their visual beauty with art-book quality illustrations, this a must for any self-respecting synth fan. The book has 128 pages, is 23cm x 17.4cm in size and printed on high quality 130gsm matt art paper.

Author Oli Freke says: “This book has grown out of a life-long obsession with synthesizers and electronic music, and it’s fantastic to be able to share this with my fellow synth obsessives and music fans who celebrate the synth’s role in modern music.”
Ships in Mid-November
More info, cover, pages: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/jriocxsu

(i work with oli freke)

is this book good?

i have no idea. he's in the same department as me, different team, but i've not seen any of them for 7 months, except via zoom.

he's been selling the poster version of the book, with all the illustrations, for some time but i guess this has writeups of the individual synths as well (based on the 3 pages on that link)

https://www.synthevolution.net/

Your link's missing the final letter btw
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/jriocxsus

Sorry, thanks!
Related docudrama:

LE CHOC DU FUTUR
(aka The Shock of the Future)

The story of the forgotten female pioneers of electronic music

Coming to DVD and Digital Formats on November 10th

PRE-ORDER HERE - TRAILER BELOW

"This day-in-the-life portrait of a struggling electronic musician circa 1978 is never happier than when it gets to fix a loving, lingering gaze on the drum machines, synths, sequencers and reel-to-reel tapes that crowd its heroine's apartment."
- Variety
On November 10th, Cleopatra Entertainment will release Marc Collin's directed electronic music drama LE CHOC DU FUTUR (The Shock Of The Future), which premiered at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival. The DVD release also includes an exclusive interview with Collin, a slide show, and other bonus features.

LE CHOC DU FUTUR takes place in the Paris of 1978, when old formulas do not charm listeners anymore, creating the need for new music to arise in its place. In an extremely male-dominated industry, Ana (Alma Jodorowsky) uses her electronic gadgets to make herself heard, creating a new sound that will mark the decades to come: the music of the future.

Mixmag, the world's biggest dance music and clubbing destination, says "As electronic music ages and develops, more moves are being made to look into the cultural history that initially bred it. This film aims to shine a light on the under-appreciated and somewhat forgotten female pioneers of electronic music."

PRESS QUOTES:

"Driven by a great turn from Alma Jodorowsky, it celebrates the creation and possibilities of music through a distinctly female filter.
- Empire

"A beguiling central performance and a near-numinous belief in the transformative power of music are the highlights of this modest yet perfectly formed French-language drama about the origins of synthesizer pop."
- The Times (UK)

"Explores the thrilling possibilities of electronic music in a drama with a timely feminist slant."
- The Guardian
Relieved it's not an untimely Feminist slant.
Hmm, Cleopatra can have some pretty cheesy offerings, but maybe---links to trailer, press contact etc. in here: http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1102557630070&ca=b0abd388-e055-4ea3-9ec4-11bfb569281c

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Fourteen years ago, four young Atlanta women picked up instruments without any prior musical experience or lofty aspirations and decided that they were going to start a band so that they could play a friend’s party. The house-show led to more shows around town, and the fiery live sets of this feisty new band known as The Coathangers begat a self-titled album. Recorded during a single graveyard shift at a local studio and mixed the following night, The Coathangers was a raw, rowdy, and revelrous affair. What it lacked in polish it made up for in its undeniable energy and charisma. “We didn’t think anyone was going to listen to it,” says vocalist/guitarist Julia Kugel. “We knew our friends in Atlanta would get it, but we didn’t think it was going to go anywhere. We were just excited to make a record.” Little did Kugel or her bandmates—vocalist/drummer Stephanie Luke, bassist/vocalist Meredith Franco, and keyboardist Candice Jones—know that their scrappy house show-anthems would catch on, prompting years of international tours, a slew of excellent LPs and singles, and, eventually, a deluxe re-mastered version of their boisterous, long out-of-print debut, The Coathangers.

The first thing the listener hears when the needle drops on The Coathangers is a sample of a man’s voice asking “Why this record? Why should you listen to a full-scale discussion of the magic of thinking big?” Given the band’s modest initial aspirations, the soundbite was obviously tongue-in-cheek, and yet given the triumphs and accolades bestowed upon the band in the thirteen years since the album’s initial release, there is something a little prescient in that opening statement. Revisiting the album in hindsight, it’s surprising to hear both how little has changed and how much The Coathangers have grown. On the one hand, the band has always been multi-faceted, able to switch from their rousing rockers like album opener “Tonya Harding” to caustic no-wave scorchers like “Don’t Touch My Shit!” to Americana-tinged pop songs like “Buckhead Betty.” This diversity stems from having multiple songwriters in the band who each brought their own tastes and styles to the group. “It’s cool too to see how genre-fluid we‘ve always been,” Kugel says. “We got labeled as punk, and that was cool because that set us up as being against something, going against the grain. But it’s always been a weird dynamic of different tastes, and it still ultimately comes across as a bunch of girls having fun.”
Fun is key. While the mash-up of approaches continues to be a part of the band’s repertoire, there is a reckless abandon and irreverence to The Coathangers that was dialed back on subsequent albums. That brings us back to the initial question posed on the album: why this record? If The Coathangers have evolved into more nuanced sounds and sophisticated lyrical commentary, why dust off and revisit the fledgling anthems of their youth? The answer is simple. We live in difficult times, and there is a spontaneity and carefree spirit on The Coathangers that is as invigorating and inspiring now as it was thirteen years ago. The band may have merely been a vehicle for having a good time, but in the process of making music they also made a space for friendship and laughter, created an environment for people to be free and independent, and helped foster a sense of community in the Atlanta music scene.

“We were just brash and making fun of things,” Kugel says. “We weren’t thinking about lyrics. We weren’t thinking about the industry. There was no thought about ‘making it’ or how people were gonna perceive it.” Consequently, the album was treated more as a private conversation between friends, full of various in-jokes and frivolities that reflected the group’s insular audience and casual approach. “With this band I’ve felt like we have to speak for all woman-kind and as the records went on it became more and more at the forefront, but with the first record it was more like ‘ugh, these fuckin’ haters!’ It’s stuff we thought was hilarious and that felt really good to say because we felt safe. We didn’t think anyone was going to listen to it.” This was The Coathangers at their most spontaneous and unfiltered. From the deliciously fractured kiss-off garage rocker “Shut the Fuck Up” to the jubilantly nasty “Nestle in My Boobies,” there’s a wild, untamed heart at the center of every track on the album. It’s a record that celebrates being young, independent, and full of life.
Ultimately, the eponymous debut album by The Coathangers is a whirlwind ride of a band at the most frenzied, celebratory, and free moment of their existence. As a standalone record, it’s a brash and bawdy rocker sure to please anyone who likes their rock n’ roll sweaty and messy. As a piece in the band’s legacy, it’s an exhilarating reminder of the band’s youthful carefree beginnings. Suicide Squeeze Records is proud to offer up the deluxe version of The Coathangers to the world on December 4th, 2020. This latest version of the album includes the bonus tracks “Wife Eyes” from the Hard Candy EP and the title track from the Never Wanted You EP. The Coathangers will be available on vinyl featuring expanded artwork with an initial pressing of 1000 copies (500 on Confetti Crush Splatter Vinyl, 500 on Neon Strawberry Banana Pinwheel Vinyl). The album will also be available on digital formats.

(one for the striking covers thread)

Matador just announced a lavish Gang of Four box set.

Btw - I preordered that American Jangle Underground 2CD. Will let ya know how it is...

It's... ok. Very samey sounding (by design I imagine) and the best bands are very well known to those of us into that scene (28th Day, Salem 66 - but they picked a weak track). Lots of off-key singing, lots of energy, and some great discoveries like Primitons and Holiday. Worth hearing but not a keeper for me. I was hoping for something akin to "Yellow Pills: Prefill".

Hmm, I trust your judgement... maybe I should cancel the order? (FWIW, I don't have any real familiarity with the scene.)

Ahhh, I really don't want to dissuade you. Look up a handful of those tracks on Youtube first - one's man trash something something.

Cool... I had listened to the clip of the first track (Reverbs) and liked it.

Ha, just posted this on The Mountain Goats thread by mistake!

Don't know how far back you want to go w the jangle, morrisp, but you might like Fields/Aquamarine, which is a reissue of the album and EP by the Individuals, who were one of the Hoboken Three, along with the Bongos and dBs, back in the late 70s and maybe early 80s, real good and you can read all about them on bar-none.com, along with other releases of related interest, like ones by the Feelies and Alex Chilton.
Also I'd try the Bongos and dB's, and reissue comp of pre-dBs' incarnation the Scruffs, along with Big Star, the Shoes' Black Vinyl Shoes, the Bangles, the Records, 20/20, prob a lot more on YouTube etc. I haven't thought of.

― dow, Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:43 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

And speaking of the dBs, Holsapple and Stamey have reworked some band material for the mostly acoustic Our Back Pages in Omnivore's MusiCares Covid-19 Relief Fund series (which also incl. an NRBQ set):
...Signature dB’s songs, including “Black and White,” “Big Brown Eyes,” and “Happenstance,” are ably propelled here by lyric and guitar energy alone, and the hooks remain — it’s easy to find one’s self singing along. Tunes such as “Dynamite” and “From a Window to a Screen” are revealed as precursors to the music the two made together later, as they feature “dual lead,” close-harmony vocals as essential elements. Others, such as Peter’s “Today Could Be the Day” and “Molly Says,” were originally recorded by the band after Stamey’s departure, so this marks the first time he’s gone on record with them. When going through the material in preparation for mastering, they even discovered a forgotten track, “Depth of Field,” and completed it for this release; although a version had appeared on a Stamey solo record, it fits in here because it was originally written and rehearsed contemporaneously with the rest for The dB’s’ second album, Repercussion.

Another song, “Picture Sleeve,” is both old and new. A song by this title was in the band’s sets circa 1978, but all that anyone could remember, years later, were the first few lines, some chords, and the subject matter. Using those elements as a jumping-off point, it was rewritten for a Record Store Day single release three decades later, and a duo version is part of this release. Peter’s classic ballad “Nothing Is Wrong,” a staple of their live duo sets, was overlooked during the original sessions and sadly missed. Fortunately, it’s included on this new collection in a version The dB’s themselves recorded during a rehearsal in New York City in 2008.

“We’re still proud of the electric versions of the songs,” Stamey insists, “but a sturdy song should be able to handle a bit of reinvention from time to time...In most cases, it’s a trip back in time to the songs’ origins of being written on acoustic guitars in apartments or hotels..."

A few special guests joined Holsapple and Stamey on the sessions: John Teer (Chatham County Line) and Libby Rodenbough (Mipso) both contribute violin, and Andy Burton (Little Steven, John Mayer, Cyndi Lauper) plays keys on “Nothing Is Wrong” with, of course, Rigby (drums) and Holder (bass). The mastering by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound is a homecoming of sorts as legendary mastering engineer Calbi had previously mastered the pair’s influential Mavericks outing as well as Falling Off the Sky, the last dB’s album. For the most part, it’s Peter and Chris around the campfire at Modern Recording in Chapel Hill, N.C., grabbing whatever was in the room at the time: a toy piano, a ukulele, a banjo, a harmonium, an upright or an old Silvertone bass, and of course, guitars, guitars, guitars.

In addition to 1991’s Mavericks (RNA Records), Holsapple and Stamey also paired up for 2009’s hERE & nOW (Bar/None). For more insight into the genesis of some of these songs, see A Spy in the House of Loud: New York Songs and Stories (University of Texas Press), Stamey’s 2018 “songwriting memoir.” Be on the lookout for A Brand-New Shade of Blue, Chris’s new audio-and-songbook collection, currently slated for a summer 2020 release.

― dow, Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:56 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's... ok. Very samey sounding (by design I imagine) and the best bands are very well known to those of us into that scene (28th Day, Salem 66 - but they picked a weak track). Lots of off-key singing, lots of energy, and some great discoveries like Primitons and Holiday. Worth hearing but not a keeper for me. I was hoping for something akin to "Yellow Pills: Prefill".

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, October 28, 2020 3:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Had the same reaction. Was looking forward to hearing this because I don't really know much about this scene outside of the Paisley Underground bands, but I was disappointed. Man, a lot of these bands had some pretty terrible singers, huh?

as a proud contributor to yellow pills volume 4, and a terrible singer, i demand they put my single on the next jangle comp thing!

also is it just my digital copy or did they not do a great job cleaning up the audio on this? Lots of sibilance on some of the vocals, like a really bad mp3

The Crassical Collection, a collection of seminal avant-punk collective CRASS’ legendary albums restored from the original analogue studio tapes, is available today (Oct. 30) via One Little Independent Records.

The Crassical Collection includes Stations of the Crass (1979), Feeding of the Five Thousand (The Second Sitting) (1981), Penis Envy(1981), Christ – The Album (1982), Yes Sir, I Will(1983), Ten Notes on a Summer’s Day (1986), and Best Before 1984 (1986). Each of the records have been repackaged and bolstered by rare and unreleased tracks, and stunning new artwork from Gee Vaucher, who has lovingly created what could only be considered a true artifact.

“There are those who believe that things should be left just as they are because any intervention after the event might in some way dilute or even corrupt original intentions,” says CRASS’ Penny Rimbaud. “It was on this basis that some of the band members objected quite strongly to the ‘Crassical Collection’ which, in short, was Gee’s and my own attempts to find new ways of smartening up the act. For many years we’d been updating everything into new formats as they came along, so what was the problem? I’d made concerted efforts to keep up with advances in mastering and playback technology and had applied these many times before, so questions of ‘originality’ appeared to me to be purely academic. What I do know is that the ‘Crassical Collection’ remasters were closer to how CRASS actually sounded than anything we’d released before. Notwithstanding, some of the band made efforts to prevent us from releasing them, at one point even threatening us with legal action. This hampered operations at Southern Studios, where we were then operating, and created severe financial difficulties which was in part the reason that the ‘Crassical Collection’ version of ‘Best Before’ was never released. The first remastering had been finished by 2010, but ready cash had now become a problem and we had to call a halt to it. And so it festered, gathering dust in a North London storage unit like modern day Dead Sea Scrolls.”

The first six albums include two CDs, with the first disc being the main album remastered by Alex Gordon at Abbey Road Studios and the second being a mixture of rare live and remastered studio recordings. Each package also includes a fold-out poster and a high-quality 60-page booklet featuring all lyrics along with extensive liner notes from band members Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, which shed light on the making of the records.

The Best Before 1984 Crassical Collection is brand-new and has also been remastered and features five fold-out posters and a 52-page booklet. Watch a video for “Sheep Farming 3,” a previously unreleased track available on Best Before 1984 (Crassical Collection), at https://youtu.be/LfWWr477tN4.

In addition to the CRASS releases, Rimbaud’s latest solo record, HOW?, was released in August. HOW? is available at https://oli.lnk.to/How.

Ace of Spades Box Set
BMG
30 October 2020
Upon its release in 1980, the Ace Of Spades album was nothing short of a gamechanger for all forms of hard rock. Like lightning in a bottle, it perfectly captured everything great about hard rock, heavy metal, and punk, amped it all up to 11, and came racing out of the gates at what felt like a million miles an hour, pushing at every musical boundary. Nothing was harder. Nothing was faster. And certainly nothing was louder.

Now, following on from last year’s fan and media acclaimed anniversary editions of the seminal Overkill and Bomber albums, comes the record that launched Motörhead into the stratosphere and carved their name into the walls of rock ‘n’ roll history forever; Ace Of Spades. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of this milestone album, it is being presented in new deluxe editions. There will be hardback book-packs in two CD and triple LP formats, featuring a previously unheard concert from the ‘Ace Up Your Sleeve’ tour, the story of the album and many previously unseen photos. Also, the album will be released as an ultimate fan, collector edition Ace Of Spades box set, containing a bevy of era-specific treasures and some 42 previously unreleased tracks!

The Ace Of Spades Deluxe box set contains:

The Ace Of Spades album, half-speed mastered and created from the original master tapes.
Two double-live albums of previously unheard concerts from the Ace Up Your Sleeve tour.
A Fistful Of Instrumentals: A 10” EP of previously unreleased, instrumental tracks from 1980.
The Good, The Broke & The Ugly. A double album of B-sides, outtakes and rare tracks.
Ace On Your Screens: A DVD compilation of rare TV appearances from 1980-81, a live concert from 1981 and a 5.1 audio mix of the original album.
The Ace Of Spades story. A 40 page book telling the story of Ace Of Spades through previously unpublished interviews with the people that were there. Includes never before seen photos and memorabilia.
The Ace Up Your Sleeve tour programme
The Motörhead Rock Commando comic.
A set of 5 poker dice that can be played on the game board inside the box set lid.
All encased in a classic Wild West dynamite box.
A limited edition 7" reproduction of the Dutch “Ace Of Spades,” with a previously unreleased instrumental version on Side B. (while stock last!)

In 1980, off the back of two essential albums, Overkill and Bomber the previous year, MOTÖRHEAD continued to get bigger, better, louder and faster by the second. This time, on Ace Of Spades they teamed up with producer Vic Maile and came up with twelve songs; each and every one of which crams a regular band’s ten minutes of playing into an average of three. The song titles alone made ears bleed: “Love Me Like A Reptile,” “Shoot You In The Back,” “The Chase Is Better Than The Catch” and “The Hammer” were a few examples. This landmark album saw the three amigos of Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke and Philthy Animal Taylor at the helm of the juggernaut that was MOTÖRHEAD, gaining phenomenal growth in popularity as they forged onward. The band’s and fans ideas, wants and inspirations, converged at a perfect tangent. Anyone disputing this fact need look no further than any heavy metal gig of the time and play ‘spot the MOTÖRHEAD T-shirt and jacket.’ They outnumbered anyone else by at least five to one. A statistic that is still accurate some forty five years since they first began!

The Ace Of Spades album release was a magical moment in rock’n’roll history, an album which had enormous global impact and continues to resonate and inspire people worldwide. Fans to this day still remember where they were when they first heard it, and it immediately inspired bands worldwide to absorb the album’s energy, speed, and attitude into their own work. Ace Of Spades is ground zero for thrash, speed metal, and punk / metal crossover.

See below for full details of the Ace Of Spades releases and be sure to visit www.iMotorhead.com for news and updates!

BOX SET TRACKLISTING

Ace of Spades

A Fistful Of Instrumentals

Side One

Ace Of Spades

Love Me Like A Reptile

Shoot You In The Back

Live To Win

Fast And Loose

(We Are) The Road Crew

Side Two

Fire Fire

Jailbait

Dance

Bite The Bullet

The Chase Is Better Than The Catch

The Hammer

Side One

Ace Of Spades (demo)

Hump On Your Back (demo)

Shoot You In The Back (demo)

Fast And Loose (demo)

Side Two

Dirty Love (demo)

Love Me Like A Reptile (demo)

Dance (demo)

Riders Wearing Black

Live At Whitla Hall, Belfast – 23rd Dec 1981

Dead Man’s Hand

Live At Parc Expo, Orleans – 5th March 1981

Side One

Ace Of Spades

Stay Clean

Over The Top

The Hammer

Shoot You In The Back

Metropolis

Side Two

(We Are) The Road Crew

No Class

Bite The Bullet

The Chase Is Better Than The Catch

Side Three

Jailbait

Leaving Here

Capricorn

Too Late, Too Late

Side Four

Overkill

Bomber

Motörhead

Side One

Ace Of Spades

Stay Clean

Over The Top

Metropolis

Shoot You In The Back

Side Two

The Hammer

Jailbait

Leaving Here

Fire Fire

Love Me Like A Reptile

Side Three

Capricorn

Too Late, Too Late

(We Are) The Road Crew

No Class

Side Four

Bite The Bullet

The Chase Is Better Than The Catch

Overkill

Bomber

The Good, The Broke & The Ugly

Ace On Your Screens DVD

Side One

Ace Of Spades (Alternative Version)

Dirty Love

Love Me Like A Reptile (Alternative Long Version)

Shoot You In The Back (Alternative Version)

Side Two

Hump On Your Back

Fast And Loose (Alternative Version)

(We Are) The Road Crew (Alternative Version)

Fire Fire (Alternative Version)

Jailbait (Alternative Version)

Side Three

Waltz Of The Vampire

The Hammer (Alternative Version)

Dirty Love (Alternative Long Version)

Bastard

Godzilla Akimbo

Side Four

Love Me Like A Reptile (Alternative Version)

Dirty Love (Alternative Version)

Please Don’t Touch (Performed by Headgirl)

Bomber (Performed by Girlschool)

Emergency

Part 1: MOTÖRHEAD on TV 1980-1981

Part 2: BBC In The City; Live In Belfast ‘81

Part 3: 5.1 audio

Repress of this 2010 comp is good enough excuse to mention it again (also avail in MP3/FLAC) (and here: https://waltergibbons.bandcamp.com/

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Jungle Music
Mixed With Love:Essential and Unreleased Remixes 1976-1986
Walter Gibbons

A first ever retrospective of one of New York’s most important DJ remixers, the late, great Walter Gibbons. Deconstructing disco tracks for the dancefloor in his own unique way, Gibbons re-works Saloul Orchestra, Gladys Knight, Arthur Russell and more on this essential compilation.
1. Sun Sun Sun (Walter Gibbons Original 12 Edit) Jakki 9:21
2.Ten Percent (Walter Gibbons 12 mix) Double Exposure 7:04
3.Get Up On Your Feet (Keep On Dancin') (Walter Gibbons 12 mix) TC James & The Fist-O-Funk Orchestra 11:07
4. It's A Better Than Good Time (Walter Gibbons Acetate Mix) Gladys Knight 12:27
5. Magic Bird Of Fire (Firebird Suite) (Walter Gibbons 'Disco Madness' mix) Salsoul Orchestra 8:04
6.You Are My Love (12 version) Sandy Mercer 7:33
7. Doin' The Best That I Can (Walter Gibbons 12 mix) Bettye Lavette 11:05
8.Go Bang (Walter Gibbons mix) Dinosaur L (Arthur Russell) 12:28
9. I've Been Searching (Walter Gibbons 12 mix) Arts & Craft 9:56
10.Moon Maiden (12 mix) Luv You Madly Orchestra 8:48
11.Calling All Kids Arthur Russell 7:17
12.Play With Me Sandy Mercer 7:25
13.Calling All Kids Arthur Russell 7:17
14. Play With Me Sandy Mercer 7:25

One of the most important producer / remixers of the disco era, Walter Gibbons changed the rules of the remix with his work for Salsoul, creating stripped back arrangements for the dancefloor. His best work is collected together by Strut for the ‘Jungle Music’ compilation including mixes for Strafe and Double Exposure.

Walter Gibbons remains one of the most important and unheralded DJ / remixers in New York dance music history, a pioneer of reel to reel edits and the art of the remix and a tangible link between early hip hop and disco through his quickfire turntable skills developed during the mid-‘70s.

At his famed residency at Galaxy 21 (alongside a then young percussionist, Francois Kevorkian), Gibbons perfected his turntable prowess, mixing two copies of records seamlessly at a similar time to Kool Herc’s famed block parties across town in the Bronx in 1975. He was among the first to make his own reel to reel edits of tracks, extending breaks and restructuring tracks specifically for the dancefloor. As a direct result, he was the first DJ to be granted access to multi-track tapes as Ken Cayre’s Salsoul Records brought him in to re-work Double Exposure’s ‘Ten Percent’ in ‘76, a mix that would set the blueprint for disco, the 12” format and all future dance music mixes.

Gibbons would become a prolific remixer for Salsoul and developed a style his contemporaries called ‘Jungle Music’, a raw, uncompromising approach to DJ-ing and mixing which often extended tracks to 10 minutes plus with tribal percussion breaks and off-the-cuff, unexpected production touches. This compilation focuses on some of the more adventurous and ground-breaking mixes that Gibbons produced during the disco era including a freeform treatment of Dinosaur L’s ‘Go Bang’, Paradise Garage favourite ‘You Are My Love’ by Sandy Mercer and underground disco rarity, ‘I’ve Been Searching’ by Arts & Craft.

Into the ‘80s, Gibbons continued to break new ground. One of his recognised classics, ‘Set It Off’ by Strafe, fused electro, disco and New York post-punk in a genius re-work, later reprised on the proto-house version he recorded as Harlequin Fours with a young Barbara Tucker on vocals. He also worked with Arthur Russell during the mid-‘80s and became one of the only remixer / producers that Russell would trust with his work. Gibbons’ mixes of Indian Ocean’s ‘Treehouse / School Bell’ and Russell’s ‘Let’s Go Swimming’ are now acknowledged classics.

Walter Gibbons found religion and had stopped producing by 1986, although he continued to DJ with a much heavier slant towards gospel. He died of AIDS-related illness in 1994.
More info: https://strut.k7store.com/walter-gibbons and on the bandcamp page above.

Same excuse: new orange vinyl of The Raincoats + digital code:

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stream/download/order here: https://killrockstars.bandcamp.com/album/the-raincoats

(If you can't see the cover, a cartoon fella passing shot-up mansion w long gun under his arm sez "Roll up your sleeves and look at your arms.")

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Metrobolist (aka The Man Who Sold The World)
Artist: David Bowie
Format: Vinyl
New: Available 24.98
(also on CD 16.98)
Label: RHINO / PARLOPHONE
Rel. Date: 11/06/2020
UPC: 190295198787
1. The Width of a Circle (2020 Mix)
2. All the Madmen (2020 Mix)
3. Black Country Rock (2020 Mix)
4. After All (2015 Remaster)
5. Running Gun Blues (2020 Mix)
6. Saviour Machine (2020 Mix)
7. She Shook Me Cold (2020 Mix)
8. The Man Who Sold the World (2020 Mix)
9. The Supermen (2020 Mix)

MORE INFO: 2020 release. Originally titled Metrobolist, the album's name was changed at the last minute to The Man Who Sold The World - the original stereo master tapes were in fact labeled Metrobolist, with the title ultimately crossed out. The 2020 re-release of the album under its Metrobolist moniker has been remixed by original producer Tony Visconti, with the exception of the track 'After All' which Tony considered perfect as is and is featured in it's 2015 remaster incarnation.
https://schoolkidsrecords.com/UPC/190295198787

Holy Dancin;, just listened to the xpost Walter Gibbons comp, which, maybe track 2 aside, had almost 0 wasted seconds, and he's def not reliant on Arthur Russell etc. material; he brings generic tracks toward the cosmic carwash as well, in an organic, seamless-seeming way---also has a ear for just the right conga sound, and not like AR is his only weirdo client either. That link again: https://waltergibbons.bandcamp.com/
Just now ordered the olde CD, which has a few more tracks than bandcamp's 12; Amazon digital only has 10.
Saw several complaints about quality of the first pressing, hope this new one is better.

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Ennio Morricone Morricone Segreto
DECCA

2×LP 3521870 £28.00
In stock
CD 3521864 £13.00
In stock

**The hidden, dark-tinged and psychedelic side of the maestro!**

This collection, featuring 7 previously unreleased tracks, explores what is possibly Morricone’s richest creative period, between the end of the 1960s to the early 80s, demonstrating Morricone’s long lasting influence for generations of musicians and film directors to this day.

'Morricone Segreto' is an acid-tinged sonic journey through mysterious voices, fuzz guitars, airy strings, eerie synths and modern grooves from the Academy award-winning composer who was always ahead trends, dictating style in his own way.

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27 tracks. More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/morricone-segreto

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Trio Ternura Trio Ternura
GROOVIE RECORDS

LP
in stock
The second album by the family vocal group, Trio Ternura. Features essential tracks such as 'Sol Quarenta Graus' and 'Sempre Existe Alguem'. Originally released in 1971.

More info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/trio-ternura-trio-ternura

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Harmonia Musik Von Harmonia
LILITH
LP+CD
LP includes CD version of album
In Stock
The debut Harmonia album 'Musik Von Harmonia' appeared in 1974, marking the first collaborative effort between Cluster's Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius and Neu!'s Michael Rother: a German supergroup and genuine rarity, a colossal artistic success. The three members were skilled keyboard players, guitarists, electronic percussionists and composers. This was a group musically and conceptually miles ahead of its time. Musik Von Harmonia is at once a product of their source bands and a fine new twist on them, resulting in music that captures what for many is the Krautrock ideal, or more accurately, the motorik ideal. It's not Kraftwerk's all-synth, clean, clinical pulse, nor Neu!'s seemingly effortless glide, nor Can's stomping art world funk. Instead it's at once playful and murky, steady and mechanical, a supergroup of sorts who easily achieves and maintains such a seemingly overstated status by embracing a variety of approaches that work wonders.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/harmonia-musik-von-harmonia_2

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Harmonia Deluxe
LILITH

LP+CD
LP includes CD version of album
In Stock
Reissue of 'Deluxe', the second album from the West German krautrock group Harmonia, featuring Neu! guitarist Michael Rother with the duo Cluster (consisting of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius). It was recorded in June 1975 in Harmonia's studio in Forst, Germany and was released on the Brain Records label in 1975. For 'Deluxe', Harmonia worked with producer Conny Plank (who had previously worked with both their main projects Cluster and Neu!). He brought a 16-track recording machine and mixing desk to the band's country studio. Plank brought along drummer and Guru Guru member Mani Neumeier to perform on several tracks.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/harmonia-deluxe_2

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Hiroshi Yoshimura GREEN
LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
New LP (Coloured Vinyl)
Limited, deluxe green coloured vinyl edition
In stock
eissue of this groundbreaking, Japanese environmental/ambient music album from 1986!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/green_2

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The Heshoo Beshoo Group Armitage Road
WE ARE BUSY BODIES
LP
in stock
**Killer South African Jazz album!**

With a unique sound founded on a persuasive mix of American and African jazz, Armitage Road, originally released in 1970, was the only studio recording released by South Africa's Heshoo Beshoo Group.

More info, audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-heshoo-beshoo-group-armitage-road

Heshoo Beshoo sounding pretty damn good! And not that much like anything else I can think of. The audio samples are all 2 minutes long. I'd buy it if could find an affordable record player, any suggestions?

Looking forward to the resissue of post-punk/experimental comp From Brussels With Love on Les Disques Du Crepuscule. Out this weekend.

There's also a 2LP reissue of Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants coming later this month with the Testcard and Final Day EPs on the second record, so that's everything they recorded in there I think.

This is the From Brussels With Love tracklist

1. John Foxx A Jingle *1
2. Thomas Dolby Airwaves
3. Repetition Stranger
4. Harold Budd Children on the Hill
5. Durutti Column Sleep Will Come
6. Martin Hannett The Music Room
7. The Names Cat
8. Michael Nyman A Walk Through H
9. Brian Eno interview
10. Phill Niblock A Third Trombone
11. Jeanne Moreau interview
12. Richard Jobson Armoury Show
13. Bill Nelson The Shadow Garden
14. Durutti Column Piece For An Ideal
15. Kevin Hewick & New Order Haystack
16. Radio Romance Etrange Affinite
17. Gavin Bryars White's SS
18. Der Plan Meine Freunde
19. Gilbert & Lewis Twist Up
20. John Foxx A Jingle *2

Looks good!

Might as well put this here too (already on the laughner/rockets thread)

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Adele Bertei "Peter and the Wolves" book
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I said I wanna walk on down the alley
down where the light shines so very dimly

I wanna shake hands with all the creatures that I meet with Miss Cinderella Backstreet

--Peter Laughner

Peter… I’m listening to your voice and guitar on Pere Ubu’s “Final Solution,” hearing the rusted heart of our town beating inside the tenderness of your reach. And in there too, the foreboding that comes when we can’t make the pieces fit… –

--Adele Bertei

Smog Veil Records is pleased to announce the first paperback edition of Adele Bertei’s infamous, long-out-of-print memoir, Peter and the Wolves.

ADELE BERTEI is a poet, writer, actor, performer, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. She entered the downtown New York scene of the late 1970s as organist for musical insurrectionists, the Contortions. Bertei appeared in lead roles in several indie films, notably Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames, and has toured with, written songs for, and recorded as a vocalist for artists as diverse as Tears for Fears, Sandra Bernhard, Culture Club, Scritti Politti, Whitney Houston, and Lydia Lunch. Bertei’s first solo recording “Build Me a Bridge” on Geffen Records was a dance hit, as were singles “Just a Mirage” and Thomas Dolby’s “Hyperactive!”. She debuted new material in 2017-18 at MoMA, Club Salo Paris, and in Florence at La Compagnia Cinema. Adele has facilitated songwriting workshops for homeless youth at My Friend’s Place in Hollywood, and volunteered with Wayne Kramer’s Jail Guitar Doors. Bertei’s book Why Labelle Matters will be published in 2021 by the University of Texas Press.

Adele’s memoir, Peter and the Wolves, recounts her friendship with the late great Peter Laughner, Cleveland’s answer to all things underground and punk in the 1970s. Adele and Peter’s collaborations appear in Smog Veil’s groundbreaking 2019 box set. The book is Bertei's intimate recounting of the musical education she received from Laughner; of their complex artistic kinship, and the vivid trajectory of the ‘live fast die young’ ethos that extinguished the light of a radiant rock and roll heart.

This first paperback edition contains newly discovered photos, a new forward, and an epilogue penned by original Pere Ubu bassist Tim Wright all contained in 93 pages.

THIS ITEM SHIPS ON OR ABOUT NOVEMBER 10, 2020.

SPECIAL PRICING IS AVAILABLE WHEN YOU BUY THIS BOOK AND THE Peter Laughner box set. Click HERE for details.https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/adele-and-peter-powerpak

$18.98

"There are, as Bertei calls them, unholy incantations. Electric guitars, drugs, books of poetry, bullets, queer love, adventures, and misadventures. Real life and sounds that refuse to fade, all wrapped in the most stunning prose." - Camilla Aisa/Shindig

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Soul Jazz Records Present - Studio One 007
Record Store Day Exclusive #1
Licensed To Ska ! James Bond and Other Film Soundtracks and TV Themes
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

5×7" Boxset SJR 450 BOX £35.00
In stock

This Studio One box set sold out from our site in the first hour when we released it for RSD and was deleted the same day! We've managed to get the last 50 ever back from one of our distributors. So if you want one NOW is your last chance!
STUDIO ONE 007

Licensed To Ska! James Bond and Other Film Soundtracks and TV Themes

Soul Jazz Records are releasing Studio One 007 – Licenced to Ska, a limited-edition one-off pressing exclusive Record Store Day collectors seven-inch box set, featuring ten super rare killer cuts on five 7" singles.

Featuring The Skatalites, Lee Perry, Jackie Mittoo, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Roland Alphonso and The Soul Brothers, rare and classic tracks from Jamaica's no.1 record label, Studio One.

James Bond and Jamaica have very strong links and the films have always been much loved there – it was home for Bond's creator Ian Fleming and provided the setting for Dr. No, Live and Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun and the latest instalment, 'No Time To Die', which will be released in 2020, sees Bond return to the island once more.

Also includes killer tracks from the James Bond 1969 spoof 'Our Man Flint' and the Clint Eastwood-starring Spaghetti Western 'Hang 'Em High'!

All tracks have been digitally remastered and the singles come housed in a thick, heavyweight card box.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/licensed-to-ska-

^^^that looks great, I have that Crime Show Theme comp that Soul Jazz put out some time ago, but don't really return to it very often...

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Ryuichi Sakamoto Hidari Ude No Yume WEWANTSOUNDS

2×LP Deluxe vinyl WWSLP33£34.00
Limited 2xLP edition in a gatefold sleeve. Includes a second disc of instrumental versions of the album.
In stock
LP WWSLP34 £26.00
In stock
2×CD WWSCD33 £16.00
2xCD version. Includes a second disc of instrumental versions of the album.
Reissue of Ryuichi Sakamoto's landmark 1981 album reissued for the first time in decades outside of Japan featuring the rare Japanese edition in a superb blend of electro, funk and ambient music styles

oops--link for more info, audio re Sakamoto: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/ryuichi-sakamoto--hidari-ude-no-yume-left-handed-dream

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Bobby Hutcherson
Oblique (Tone Poet Edition)
BLUE NOTE
LP (180 gram) 884051 £35.00
180g audiophile vinyl reissue in a deluxe gatefold sleeve
In stock
REVIOUSLY JAPANESE ISSUE ONLY BLUE NOTE. Recorded in 1967, not released to 1980. Bobby Hutcherson is joined by Herbie Hancock, Joe Chambers and Albert Stinson.

More info, audio for Hutcherson: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/bobby-hutcherson-oblique

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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders
The Trance Of Seven Colors
ZEHRA
2×LP ZEHRA001 £27.00

**Back in stock!**

Originally released in 1994 on Bill Laswell's AXIOM imprint, "The Trance Of Seven Colors" is the meeting of two true musical masters: master Gnawa musician Maleem Mahmoud Ghania, & free jazz legend Pharoah Sanders. Recorded in Morrocco in 1994, the album is considered to be one of the most important albums of Gnawa / spiritual, healing ceremonialtrance music. First time on vinyl
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-trance-of-seven-colors

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Jo Bisso
African Disco Experimentals (1974 to 1978)
AFRICA SEVEN

2×LP ASVN078 £27.00
In stock
A compilation of key disco tunes from international star, Jo Bisso! Includes the full, 16 min version of his awesome 'Play Me' from 1978.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/african-disco-experimentals-1974-to-1978

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The Shaolin Afronauts
Flight Of The Ancients
FREESTYLE RECORDS

**Repress of this awesome Afrobeat/ethio-jazz album from 2011!**

Heavily inspired by the sounds of 1970's West Africa, Ethiopia and the pioneering avant-garde jazz artists of the same period, The Shaolin Afronauts draw on the this highly innovative and sometimes volatile era in music, using it as inspiration to create music with the same fire and intensity.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-shaolin-afronauts-flight-of-the-ancients

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WAMONO A to Z Vol. 1: Japanese Jazz Funk & Rare Groove 1968-1980
Various Artists
180G

An essential primer for those with an interest in Japanese popular music culture and, specifically, the 'Wamono' sound - the cream of the Japanese funk, soul, rare groove and disco music developed throughout the decades since the end of the 60s in Japan. A exemplary selection by Japanese super diggers and Wamono specialists DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite and Chintam!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/wamono-a-to-z-vol-1-japanese-jazz-funk-rare-groove-19681980

oh wow, I might have to pick up that Left Handed Dream reissue

not sure if I want an instrumental LP...wish it instead included the tracks from the US version that wasn't on the original.

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Randy Mundy
Celestial Skies
CORDIAL RECORDINGS

**Previously unreleased blue-eyed/country soul and AOR album! Check the stunning opening track, 'Sunshine'!**

Randy Mundy recorded his album ‘Celestial Skies’ in 1975 in Nashville, Missouri. The album remained previously unreleased until this issue via Cordial Recordings. A beautiful sprinkling of Americana, blending a touch of blue eyed/country soul with some good old AOR!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/randy-mundy-celestrial-skies

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Lucifer (aka Mort Garson)
Black Mass
SACRED BONES

Supernatural and occult-themed electronic music from composer, Mort Garson. Originally released in 1971, it’s his only release under the Lucifer moniker, and it taps into a profound darkness that may surprise fans of his sunnier work. These songs are Garson's synthesizer interpretations of occult and esoteric phenomena ranging from the Satanic black mass, to exorcism, to witchcraft, and beyond, inspiring artists from Coil to Oneohtrix Point Never.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/lucifer-2-black-mass

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Mort Garson
Music From Patch Cord Productions
SACRED BONES
A collection of rare and unreleased recordings from the archives of electronic music pioneer Mort Garson, composer of 'Mother Earth's Plantasia'. The compilation plays like an ultimate Mort Garson playlist, and includes alternate takes of 'Plantasia' tracks, music for never-aired radio advertisements, themes for science fiction films, erotic oddities, and much more from the prolific composer's '60s and '70s synthesizer oeuvre.

More info, audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/mort-garson-music-from-patch-cord-productions

Did I paste that cover rong?

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Mort Garson
Didn't You Hear?
SACRED BONES

Reissue of Mort Garson’s long-out-of-print soundtrack for the 1970 experimental film 'Didn’t You Hear?'

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Tantra
Hills Of Katmandu (inc. Patrick Cowley & Jurgen Koppers remixes)
HIGH FASHION MUSIC

12" Single
In Stock
Hi-NRG disco classic remixed by Patrick Cowley and Jurgen Koppers in 1982!
2 mixes

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/tantra-2-hills-of-katmandu

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Talking Heads
Fear Of Music - Unreleased Outakes
SIRE
12" EP
Limited promo 12" featuring four previously unreleased Talking Heads demos from 'Fear Of Music' sessions. Never before available on vinyl!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/fear-of-music-unreleased-outakes

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Sun Ra
Egypt 1971
STRUT
4CD Box Set
in stock

Sun Ra took his legendary Arkestra over to Egypt in 1971 to play a series of concerts which were later released on three LPs throughout the 1970s. This collection includes all of those releases plus two further albums of previously unreleased material. It also includes photos and liner notes as an all encompassing document of the man from saturn's sojourn in the desert. They also have all the individual albums, I think.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/sun-ra-egypt-1971

Well they have the three that were previously released: Dark Myth Equation Visitation, Horizon, and Nidhamu--all on LP, £21.00 each, while the 4CD box is £22.00, with two more albums incl.

from bandcamp:

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Savage Young Krayolas’ is the surprise historic preservation effort of 2020. The recently unearthed space suit album pays tribute to the late Jett Bass, Sal Dana and Freddie Herman who perished in an unsanctioned time travel experiment. Egos and alter-egos combust as soon as the needle touches down -- a rock’n’roll requiem that bends time.

Box Records teams up with Saustex Records on this new 180 gram Vinyl, CD and digital collection that unearths the Krayolas 1980 debut album “that could have been.” This singular Texas act thunders with the fun bliss of then-contemporary acts such as Cheap Trick and Go-Go’s while echoing heroes The Dave Clark Five, Doug Sahm and early Kinks. Play it loud and revel in the carefree, antihero beginnings of these Chicano rockers on a collision course with fruterias, border beheadings and political piñatas.

Restored! Remixed! Remastered! For the first time the original 1970s and 1980 two-inch analog, multi-track source tapes are revealed complete with liner notes, including ‘I Just Wanna’ which pairs the Krayolas with Augie Meyers of the Sir Douglas Quintet on his Vox Continental combo organ.

releases November 27, 2020

More info, audio:https://thekrayolas.bandcamp.com/album/savage-young-krayolas

[Oops, overlooked:
When Elliott Smith's self-titled second album came out in 1995, it was ignored by the press but championed by artists from the Beastie Boys to Fugazi. To commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elliott Smith, the Kill Rock Stars label is releasing a special deluxe package, which includes a new remastering of the original record; a coffee table book of previously unseen photographs by JJ Gonson with handwritten lyrics, and reminiscences from Smith’s friends and colleagues; and a bonus disc documenting the earliest known recording of Smith performing as a solo act. The set is a revelatory look at an under-appreciated work by an artist whose influence continues to expand seventeen years after his death.
credits
released August 28, 2020
More info, audio: https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/album/elliott-smith-expanded-25th-anniversary-edition
Also, vinyl of this is back in stock:
https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/album/either-or-expanded-edition

Azure Ray
Azure Ray (20th Anniversary Edition)
Flower Moon Records
16 January 2021
Twenty years ago this January, Azure Ray released their eponymous debut record featuring the hit songs “Sleep” & “Rise." To mark the special anniversary on January 16th 2021, Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink are releasing Azure Ray on vinyl for the first time. In addition to the album being mastered for vinyl, the band also uncovered an unreleased track from the original recording sessions which is included as a bonus track for the digital album.
The album will be available in three different colors including a Flower Moon Records exclusive bundle variant (Maria’s independent label which is now home to Azure Ray’s full catalog), and an independent record store version.

Limited to 100 copies, the exclusive FMR bundle includes a 100 page photobook curated by band which recollects the last 20 years and features never before seen private photos and stories detailing their pre-Azure Ray days, formation, recording and tours and with Bright Eyes, Moby and more.

Pre-order Azure Ray now at the Flower Moon Records Store

Taylor and Fink have been called “indie rock royalty” in more than one publication, and it’s not an undeserving title. After a brief stint with Geffen Records, barely out of their teens, the pair began touring and releasing independent records in 1998, a time when most indie rock clubs had never seen a girl walk into the door carrying her own guitar. While the pair started with a focus on rock, the untimely death of Taylor’s boyfriend quickly changed the duo’s relationship to music from release to catharsis, and Azure Ray rose from the ashes of grief. The duo fearlessly followed their hearts and pioneered a genre, what some affectionately dubbed “whisper core.” But to Maria and Orenda, there was no easy way to describe what they did. Their work was about alchemizing pain into beauty, heartbreak into art, loss to transcendence, a way to walk with the angels — and a style that has left a lasting impact even onmainstream music. Their songs are included on playlists by Phoebe Bridgers and Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift is an admitted fan, and one search on social media shows the comparisons of Swift’s new record with Azure Ray twenty years after their first release.

Bill Sullivan, former tour manager of The Replacements and co-owner of Minneapolis’s 400 Bar, said it best after watching the young duo calmly stare down a rowdy crowd until the last voice laid silent, then serenade a rapt crowd for hours with voices barely above a whisper. “That,” he said backstage, as he set out two shots of whiskey for the girls “was the most punk rock thing I’ve ever seen.”

Always looking forward, this special 20th anniversary package has given them time to reflect on their past.

Maria & Orenda say: “This is a very special anniversary for us, and we know it will be one for our long-time fans too. One thing is especially clear and that is how grateful we are to all of our collaborators, fans and supporters.Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We hope you will enjoy the book and hearing Azure Ray on vinyl for the first time!”

About Flower Moon Records:

Flower Moon Records was founded in 2016 by Maria Taylor (Azure Ray) and is now home to Taylor, Orenda Fink and Azure Ray’s complete discography. FMR has also released records from Radnor & Lee (actor/director Josh Radnor and Australian pop-folk singer Ben Lee), Taylor Hollingsworth (of Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band), Louis Schefano (singer-songwriter, producer/engineer), as well as reissuing O+S and Art In Manilla’s catalog.

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Jay Dee aka J Dilla
Welcome 2 Detroit - The 20th Anniversary Edition
BBE
2x7" Deluxe Box Set BBEBG001SLP £100.00
Limited edition 12x7" box set with book
Expected 05 Feb
J Dilla’s classic 'Welcome 2 Detroit', reissued and presented in a deluxe 7” vinyl box set boasting instrumentals, two brand new interpretations by Azymuth and Muro, a stash of previously unreleased alternative mixes and studio outtakes pressed over 12 discs, plus a book revealing the album’s hidden story, told by those who were there!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/welcome-2-detroit-the-20th-anniversary-edition

That's 37 tracks.

This will go w book of same title (prev. mentioned, out this month) written by compilers Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker:

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Cuba: Music and Revolution - Compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker
Culture Clash In Havana Cuba - Experiments In Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 1
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS
3×LP SJRLP461 £26.00
Expected 22 Jan
2×CD SJRCD461 £12.99
Expected 22 Jan
...album compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) that explores the many new styles that emerged in Cuba in the 1970s as Jazz, Funk, Brazilian Tropicalia and even Disco mixed together with Latin and Salsa on the island as Cuban artists experimented with new musical forms created in the unique socialist state of Cuba.

The album comes as a heavyweight triple vinyl and deluxe double CD, complete with extensive sleeve notes, and is jam-packed with heavy bass lines, synth and Wah-Wah guitar funk combined with the heavyweight percussion, powerful brass lines and the all-encompassing Latin rhythms of Cuban music known throughout the world.

The album is released to coincide with the massive new deluxe large format book Cuba: Music and Revolution: Original Cover Art of Cuban Music: Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1959-90, published in November, which is also compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records), and which features the music and record designs of Cuba, made in the 30-year period following the Cuban Revolution.

The music on this album features legendary Cuban groups such as Irakere, Los Van Van and Pablo Milanés as well as a host of lesser known artists such as the radical Grupo De Experimentación, Juan Pablo Torres and Algo Nuevo, Grupo Monumental and Orquesta Ritmo Oriental, groups whose names remain largely unknown outside of Cuba owing to the now 60-year old US trade embargo which remains in place today and which prevents trade with Cuba – and thus most Cuban records were only ever available in Cuba or in ex-Soviet Union states.

The music on this album reflects the most cutting-edge of Cuban groups that were recording in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s – who were all searching for a new Cuban identity and new musical forms that reflected both the Afro-Cuban cultural heritage of a nation that gave birth to Latin music - and its new position as a socialist state. Most of the music featured on this album have never been heard outside of Cuba.

Both Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker have been involved in Cuban music for more than two decades – Gilles Peterson with his many Havana Cultura projects for his Brownswood label and Stuart Baker with a number of Soul Jazz Records albums recorded in Cuba. This Soul Jazz Records album is released in conjunction with Egrem, the Cuban state record company, and has been put together after the many crate-digging trips that both compilers have made on the streets of Havana and beyond in Cuba stretching over a 20-year period, searching out rare and elusive original Cuban vinyl records.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/cuba-music-and-revolution

Third Man Records has released Southeast of Saturn, a collection of music from Detroit’s space-rock/shoegaze/dream pop scene of the ‘90s. Stream the album or purchase standard black vinyl HERE. Exclusive limited edition copies of Southeast Of Saturn on Deep Space Dark/Aqua Wave colored vinyl are available in select independent record stores across the US and in UK/EU, as well as in both Nashville and Detroit storefronts. Watch a video on the making of the compilation HERE. links: https://mailchi.mp/thirdmanrecords.com/tmr-news-69221?e=ad0f175359

Wonder how similar that cuba lp is to Nu Yorica. are they parallel developments leading to similar sounds or is the difference in geography enough of an influence and is Nu Yorica more puerto rico.

CD booklet and/or book may deal w that.

Limited copies going fast - all deep funky spiritual jazz classics on Black Jazz!
Black Jazz in stock NOW! Doug Carn/Awakening/Walter Bishop/Roland Haynes/Kellee Patterson Albums on the Black Jazz label. My hand hurts after going back and forth through a list of thousands of albums for Uproxx ballot, so here's link to the press release:
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SEX: Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die
Various Artists
STRANGER THAN PARADISE

2×LP STPR01LP £34.00
Black vinyl version
In stock
CD STPR01CD £11.00
In stock
**First time ever on vinyl, the legendary compilation taken from Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's infamous Kings Road, London ‘SEX’ shop jukebox!**

Compiled by SEX shop regular Marco Pirroni (Siouxsie & the Banshees/Adam & the Ants), 'SEX: Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die' is treasure trove of underground/outsider classics from the likes of The Sonics, Alice Cooper, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Screaming Lord Sutch And The Savages, Johnny Hallyday and more!

This brilliant debut release/edition from Stranger Than Paradise includes new updated artwork plus testimonials from Don Letts, Jon Savage, Paul Cook and more!
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/various-sex-too-fast-to-live-too-young-to-die

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Tokyo Dreaming
Various Artists
WEWANTSOUNDS

2×LP WWSLP40 £30.00
In stock
CD WWSCD40 £13.00
In stock
A superb, extensive exploration of Tokyo's cutting edge 80s sound through the music of cult Japanese label Nippon Columbia and its Better Days imprint - all selected by British radio presenter and DJ, Nick Luscombe.

The selection mixes electro, synth-pop, funk and ambient and features such artists as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mariah, Shigeo Sekito, Juicy Fruits, Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama and Yumi Murata. The tracklist includes many sought-after rarities and hidden gems which have never been released outside of Japan.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/tokyo-dreaming

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Mogollar
Anatolian Sun Part 1
NIGHT DREAMER
LP ND009part1 £20.00
Expected 11 Dec PREORDER

Legendary Turkish psych innovators Mogollar grace the Night Dreamer label for a masterclass in the original Anadolu psych roots, cutting a compendium of their rawest hits and most-wanted psychedelic rock classics; including the J Dilla-sampled 'Halic'te Gunesin Batisi.'
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/anatolian-sun-part-1

Part 2, also an LP, will be released the same day---more info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/anatolian-sun-part-2