Light In The Attic: can they do no wrong?

i have the darin rekkerd that is taken from.. it's pretty cool even if it seems like dylan aping sometimes.

Yeah, we had that pass through the shop a while ago and I wish I had checked it out now!

Fun read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/garden/touring-the-farm-where-the-emerson-brothers-recorded-their-1979-album.html

d'angelo - voodoo reissue coming in time for christmas. I love these guys.

Guys. They're doing an LHI Singles Box for Record Store Day 2:

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/768-you-turned-my-head-around-lee-hazlewood-industries-1967-1970

So fucking cool. The fact that they put Honey Ltd. on there leads me to hope they'll reissue that album.

How do I get that thing? I've never shopped at a record store day. Do I have to wait in line or something?

And wow, that Jim Sullivan U.F.O. record is soooo good.

That Lee Hazlewood box set looks amazing!! I wish it wasn't a record store day release and something you could actually buy.

oh man i would love a proper reish of the honey ltd. i have that 45 and it is so distorted

How do I get that thing? I've never shopped at a record store day. Do I have to wait in line or something?

I'd recommend going to your local shop and asking them if they can get it for you. That's probably your best shot. It is kind of ridiculous, and RSD feeds into the Pokemon Record Collector mentality I really hate, but it is a pretty cool looking set.

I'm hoping LITA does a re-release after a while, like they did with last years Hazlewood Record Store Day release.

that box set looks great. I just got the LHI Years 2lp comp. over the weekend. between that and Country Funk I'm on a big Light in the Attic kick lately. they are awesome.

Wow @ that singles box. Pity my RSD-friendly local record store has just closed down.

incredible comp

https://light-in-the-attic.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/release_image/18705/image/large_550_tmp_2F1465402231368-jyq56zukrwhb5qc3-e7b8f73a81af735465c915af28e9949b_2Fcover%2BDigital%2BZandoli.png

zouk-not-zouk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGstYzQCMT0

Considering they shipped four Lizzy Mercier Descloux CDs to me in unsealed box, they can definitely do wrong. (They actually sent two packages to me like that—the first time the CDs got lost on the way across the U.S.)

New compilation of Japanese folk (with the marvellous title of Even A Tree Can Shed Tears) is an absolute stunner. So much gorgeous music, so many artists I've never heard of who I'll now need to check out. Big recommendation.

Absolutely lovely comp with invaluable lyric translations by Hisham Bharoocha, whose name is unfortunately misspelled in the liners.

2nd Pacific Breeze comp announced!

In very, very welcome news, Hiroshi Yoshimura's 'Green' is getting a reissue: https://lightintheattic.net/releases/6773-green

green owns

Hello friends.
We would like to take this time to announce a very special live stream, this Friday, April 3rd to benefit @MusiCares COVID-19 relief fund. Full lineup below, and more information here: https://t.co/VaK0YdCj5g pic.twitter.com/FXnQYPwjyF

— Light In The Attic 🌱 (@lightintheattic) March 31, 2020

Acetone!!

Even a Tree Can Shed Tears has been my quarantine soundtrack so far. love it.

Gigi masin!

so relieved to hear that gigi was keeping well

New Pacific Breeze comp is pretty great. Not sure it's as great as the first volume, need a few more spins to determine.

THIS TRACK is dope as hell

Paul, you'd like the "Tokyo Nights" compilation.

i had this on repeat for longer than i care to say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDKXlXzjWLE

Liking Pacific Breeze 2 almost as much as the first... that was more than enough for me to order the CD and dig a bit deeper on some of this stuff. All these compilations are getting me back into Japanese music after a long time away ٩(◕‿◕)۶

Spring Cleaning 20202 Sale happening. Lots of interesting looking stuff here. Anyone have any favorites from this list they'd recommend? I have a few things in my cart already but I'm gonna spend at least $75 to get the free shipping. Not a huge fan of horror soundtracks (though I can be convinced if there's one that's especially good or unique) but everything else is fair game:

https://lightintheattic.net/shelves/Vinyl%20Distancing%20and%20Spring%20Cleaning%202020

Oh, and I did love that link above, maffew12! Thank you. If the whole comp is of that caliber I'm going to have to pick it up.

Thanks for the spring cleaning tip. I picked up the 8LP Giant Sand box for $54!

Yeah, the Giant Sand box is an incredible deal. I snagged a couple of the Bevis Frond records from them recently too.

Spring Cleaning pages are staggering, but---The ones I'm most familiar with here are the Blaze soundtrack, if you're into outsidery Texas singer-songwriters (not too outsidery: Blaze was cherished and covered by ornery inside-outside stars like the latter-day Merle Haggard etc). This one made my Nashville Scene Top Ten. Also, even more in thee same vein, because vintage and various artists who are smokey pillars of East Nashville etc, the Heartworn Highways soundtrack, from the classick 70s documentary, with Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe, Guy and Susanna Clark and so on. Country Funk Vol. 2 has some keepers, though also some "OMG we're white stoned country *and* funky!" self-amazed goobers.
A friend of mine used to play Bernard Hermann's Taxi Driver quite a bit, and though I never heard it when my friend wasn't talking, the music came over and around him pretty well.
Only heard The Exorcist in the theater, but music and sound design by far the best elements of that otherwise lurid-to-ludicrous/70s-as-hell-flick (not nec. a bad thing, but sonics best of all).
Haven't heard those particular Goblin soundtracks, or other titles, but how bad could they be? Ditto those Lizzy Mercier Descloux titles, judging by the ZE reisses I do have.
Early 70s live Funkadelic, Bert Jansch, maybe This Heat, The Camberwell Now.

alas the shipping to canada is unspeakable

worth checking out imo:

bobby brown - prayers of a one man band
sam waymon - ganja & hess
charles wain - the last wave
albert washington - sad & lonely
caeser frasier - 75
aleke kanonu - aleke
aktion - groove the funk
the apostles s/t

thanks!

If you're at all interested this edition of the Taxi Driver Soundtrack is the one to own. It's the only release that contains the complete score. The original release is sort of a train wreck; the first side is some chirpy shit that wasn't even in the movie IIRC.

I am so excited about this reissue of Yoshimura's Green. This new / restored version without the dumb sound effects is a revelation. Usually that stuff doesn't bother me ("Humming The Sea" by Yutaka Hirose is one of my favorite ambient tracks ever and there's the sound of surf all over it), but losing the stock birds-and-water sounds of the previous issue of this album really puts a different perspective on it. Now it sounds like an all-time classic. Love love love this record.

Any word about a reissue of Soundscape 1?

Please, please let there be a Soundscape 1 reissue.

green has been my lockdown s/t

Yeah, it's ideal for lockdown for sure (especially right before bedtime)

Two months later I am still listening to Green on an almost nightly basis. It's so beautiful, but it's also become my pandemic anti-anxiety medication. Like many of you I have heard my share of chill ambient and new age but I swear the middle of this record - the run from "Sleep" through "Feet" - feels like it actually slows down my heart rate a little.

It's still on order at my record store. Have been streaming it for months now but I don't think I've ever reached the end of the album as I mostly put it on when I go to bed lol

Yes, this and Kankyo Ongaku, which I only just got into this year, have been *immensely* helpful over the past few months

Very hard agree. Green operates in its own space & overall the Japanese ambient scene has been a godsend these last few months.

do you all prefer the SFX version or the clean version? i used to be a 100% clean advocate, but the SFX enhance the napping experience even more, sometimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38q7p2c3eSE

I think it’s time for a critical re-evaluation of CAKE. Deeply weird songwriting, an absolute shredder playing guitar, and a surprising pop sensibility. They also take an intermission when they play a show and I like that

— Light In The Attic (@lightintheattic) September 11, 2020

CAKE were my favorite band in high school but the last time I listened to Fashion Nugget my impression was "the critics might've been right about these guys"

Haven't played in in forever, but looking at the tracklist now I feel like just removing "I Will Survive" and "The Distance" would instantly make it a much better record. I think I'd still like most of the debut, but WXRT absolutely killed this band for me by (still, I'd imagine) playing "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" every hour.

This is weird to say but the Weird Al parody almost ruined them for me, it was so on the nose that I couldn't hear them the same way

i'm listening to green and trying not to doom scroll atm. wait why the hell are you guys talking about cake

yeah, that yen comp looks cool... but damn, vinyl is so expensive and I have a lot of that stuff already too...

speaking of things that are expensive, there's also a new-ish japanese "blu-spec CD" that collects all of the tamao koike yen stuff:
https://www.discogs.com/release/29252209-Tamao-Koike-Tamao-Complete-Yen-Years

oh that’s great, the stuff of hers I’ve heard on various YEN/Alfa comps is marvelous

Coming soon, a nifty compilation of Yen Record's YMO and related bands:

https://lightintheattic.net/products/alfa-yen-records-1980-1987-techno-pop-and-other-electronic-adventures-in-tokyo

Alan Jackson reissues, sick

Oh cool! Are they doing more than one album?

This guy was always in the background of my adolescence, it never occurred to me that he was worth paying attention to.

You people are going to have me listening to Garth Brooks next, wtf.

Oh cool! Are they doing more than one album?

Cow art, there’s a good thread on his album Like Red on a Rose, one of my favorite country albums ever

so back in my youth...

the biggest alan jackson album with "chattahoochee" was the blockbuster and in those days, the record stores would often put the artist's prior pre-blockbuster catalog albums on budget price. we were poor, so my mom bought don't rock the jukebox on cassette and we rocked it (er, didn't... you know what i mean). if you like that sort of thing, yeah it's damn good. the title track is a new nasville standard, the ballads are great (esp "midnight in montgomery"), and his voice is just what it's always been: not overbearingly impressive, but strong and familiar. i'm far from a proper fan and i don't know most of his catalog, but i absolutely have fond memories of that album.

I always think this thread is about the Shel Silverstein poetry collection

Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996

 
Over the last five years, we’ve been working closely with our friends in Kyiv to bring you something incredibly special. The process has been politically fraught and not without extreme challenges, to say the least. There were times when we honestly thought this album would never see the light of day; it’s nothing short of a small miracle that we can finally reveal it all today...
• The first comprehensive collection of its kind
• Explores the flourishing Ukrainian music scene of the late 20th century—much of which was recorded under strict Soviet control
• Carefully curated with full support from each artist
• A portion of proceeds will be donated to Livyj Bereh, a Kyiv-based volunteer group working to rebuild in the regions affected by ongoing war in Ukraine
• Available October 18, 2024 on 2xLP, CD + 64-page hardbound book, & digital

Very cool. Shukai has been releasing some great Ukrainian archival stuff and they're part of the team behind this.

thread title answered: https://lightintheattic.net/products/tokyo-midnight

:puke emoji:

Is Octave a LITA sublabel? I'll be honest, for ages now I periodically think "what are they up to?", go on the site and am faced with a bunch of coloured vinyl anime soundtracks nobe of which seem to be put out by LITA themselves.

It's sad because their work on Marcos Valle, Erasmo Carlos and Hosono was exemplar.

oh good question, it looks like maybe they just distribute that label?

hm I can't figure out who Octave are at all, so apologies if LITA aren't directly involved. I'd prefer they not even distribute AI-generated city pop (which seems bad for their business tbh!), but admittedly that is not the same thing as producing & publishing it

did they just pull it? that link just takes me to the homepage

they must have. I saw this getting blasted all over the place; here, bluesky, reddit