Rolling Reissues 2023

Catching up---

2022 marked what would have been the 100th birthday of Jack Kerouac, but, due to production delays, we didn’t quite get his two legendary albums for the Hanover label out in time. But Jack probably regarded punctuality as a bourgeois concept, so maybe we’re off the hook as far as he’s concerned. Anyway, the story behind his debut album Poetry for the Beat Generation is almost as fascinating (but not quite) as the performances it contains. Kerouac had completely bombed in his first set during a 1957 engagement at the Village Vanguard when TV personality, comedian, and musician Steve Allen volunteered to accompany him on piano during the second. The results were so impressive that legendary engineer Bob Thiele then brought the duo into the studio to record an album for Dot Records. However, when Poetry for the Beat Generation was ready for release in March 1958, Dot President Randy Wood was appalled by the then-daring language and subject matter and canceled the release…but not before 100 promo copies got out (and if you have one you’re set for life)! Thiele then left the company over the dispute and got the master tape in the bargain, which he finally released on the Hanover label which he founded with Allen in June 1959. That release still stands as one of the most momentous spoken word albums not just of the ‘50s but of all time…and we at Real Gone Music are proud to bring it to you in a milky clear vinyl version!

But Jack wasn’t satisfied with his first record, and resolved to work with real jazz musicians for his second. And boy, did he get them—big-time post-bop saxophonists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims made their bones in Woody Herman’s band, and on Blues and Haikus they provide effective counterpoint commentary to Kerouac’s readings. As for those who approach this release from a more literary angle, Blues and Haikus reflects Kerouac’s interest in Eastern religion and meditative practices as expressed in his novel The Dharma Bums as opposed to the more On the Road-like exultations of Poetry for the Beat Generation. But whatever your interest, boppish or bookish, Blues and Haikus is an essential document from one of our most iconic American authors, and, after listening to this album, one thing is for sure: no one is having a better time at this recording session than Kerouac himself! Our release of this cult classic record comes in tobacco tan vinyl.

Back with more soon. Happy New Year!

Real Gone Gordon and Gabby

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Sun Ra
Prophet
Modern Harmonic

Featuring what may be his only recordings on the Prophet keyboard, these once lost performances expand the omniverse of Ra across a stellar set of lengthy cuts! All recorded in a single day and fnally making their terrestrial debut! Includes notes from Ranthropologist Brother Cleve and two CD-only bonus tracks!What happens when a Prophet meets a Prophet? The answer lies within these grooves.

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Sun Ra
Ra To The Rescue
MODERN HARMONIC

One of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon, RTTR originally entered our orbit in 1983, mystifying listeners and confounding Ra fanatics with the minimal info on the Saturn pressing.

Recorded at several locations over several years (including legendary avant-garde arts enclave, 'the Squat Theater' in NYC), the tracks here include everything from Ra's sci-fi synthesizer insanity, Marshall Allen's skronking sax, an excellent Arkestra vocal track 'They Plan To Leave,' and so much more.

Limited edition translucent green vinyl

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Morton Subotnick
The Wild Bull
KARLRECORDS

Late 60's synthesizer experiments from the mind of the great Morton Subotnick, exploiting the legendary Buchla synth. Originally released a year after his eaqually pioneering classic 'Siver Apples of the Moon'. Essential.

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Neutral Milk Hotel Announce The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel
Box Set Out February 24th On Merge
& Present “Little Birds”

Today, Neutral Milk Hotel announce The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel, a box set out February 24th on Merge, and present the first official release of “Little Birds.” The work has always come together subconsciously for Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum, even this box set. For years, Mangum collected images for an art box of sorts — would it be a Joseph Cornell-style assemblage? An experimental board game? Only time would tell. In the end, it became a discography-spanning compendium of his musical universe that still left a few treasures floating around in the musical ether. In 2011, Mangum collected nearly all of the band’s recorded output in a limited-edition box set, which he self-released under Neutral Milk Hotel Records, a small operation helmed by Mangum and his mother. The Merge edition of The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel marks the collection’s first digital release, and includes an expanded double LP edition of On Avery Island, an exclusive 12” picture disc of Live at Jittery Joe’s, a previously unreleased live recording of “Little Birds,” plus the “Holland, 1945” / “Engine” 7-inch on black vinyl with brand new art.
“Little Birds” and its 7” present a prayer-like song Mangum wrote quickly in 1998 and played later that day at a friend’s party, shortly before he stopped doing Neutral Milk Hotel. He wouldn’t play the song again for 10 years, but that live recording floated around online. Mangum wrote the song after a confrontation with a street preacher in downtown Athens who was spewing hatred towards LGBTQ people. A small group of five or six people gathered and shouted back. Mangum yelled to the point that the preacher got off his stool and slinked away. That distressing experience reverberated as Mangum wrote “Little Birds,” a song about many things, including how conservative Christianity too often imbues so-called believers with an utterly warped sense of morality. A newer version, recorded live at the Prospect Park Bandshell on Neutral Milk Hotel’s 2014 reunion tour, is included on the 2023 Merge box set.

The two full-length records that Jeff Mangum made as Neutral Milk Hotel sound both in and out of time. Like translations of a shared subconscious, 1996’s On Avery Island and 1998’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea give voice to the perennial spirit of youthful epiphany, of beginning to see the world clearly, to process and express it — no matter when you encounter them. With lo-fi indie rock, accordion, singing saw, tape collages, the so-called “zanzithophone” and beyond, Neutral Milk Hotel created an eternal entry into their Elephant 6 scene and an enduring feeling of possibility.

The remastered 1994 7” Everything Is appears on 10” vinyl as the extended EP that Mangum always envisioned, adding a few extra songs from the period. Newly added to Everything Is, “Unborn” came from a tape that Mangum made for Bill Doss (Olivia Tremor Control) while living in Athens as they traded cassettes like audio letters, filled with songs, field recordings, and conversation. These first unvarnished Neutral Milk Hotel recordings tell the story of Mangum’s genesis as an artist with a subcultural sound and subcultural values.

Also included here is a trio of 7” singles, one of which features early versions of the On Avery Island songs “You’ve Passed” and “Where You’ll Find Me Now” from 1994, recorded on four-track by Mangum on his own. Mangum was initially going to record the whole album at home on a four-track but soon realized that he would need the help of a friend, The Apples in Stereo’s Robert Schneider, to produce. Mangum gave Schenider this cassette (later rediscovered in a shoebox) in advance of those sessions.

The 10” EP Ferris Wheel on Fire, primarily recorded with Schneider in 2010, collects stray songs that Mangum had written many years prior but never set to tape. (The exception is “My Dream Girl Don’t Exist,” recorded live at Aquarius Records in San Francisco in the ‘90s.) In the box set, Ferris Wheel is accompanied by a card denoting the year that each song was written, helping to illustrate how the Neutral Milk Hotel catalog took shape. Ferris Wheel’s “Oh Sister,” for instance, was written on the same day as Aeroplane’s “Oh Comely.” There’s a sense of music building in a world in which words, phrases, images, and chord progressions echo and recur.

A final component of the box portrays that process viscerally: Live at Jittery Joe’s, the live album recorded in 1997 that Mangum first released in 2001. It captures Neutral Milk Hotel at its most profoundly pivotal moment. After the release of On Avery Island in 1996 and a subsequent tour, Mangum and his bandmates — Julian Koster, Jeremy Barnes, and Scott Spillane — found themselves in New York’s West Village where, in October of that year, Mangum wrote “Two-Headed Boy.” The band was about to get kicked out of their apartment, and soon headed south to regroup with friends in Athens. By that point, the scene was in bloom. Olivia Tremor Control had eleased its debut LP; Elf Power was playing. Athens was an easy and fruitful place to live and create. Neutral Milk Hotel happily joined in, moving into a beautiful house on Grady Street where Mangum continued to write In the Aeroplane Over the Sea from January to May of 1997.

If the live recordings, alternate takes, and time stamps of this box set illustrate the process of Neutral Milk Hotel’s world coming into focus, it’s fitting. In a recent conversation, Mangum reflected on a question he’s gotten often: Why didn’t Neutral Milk ever make a video? But, he clarified, the band made millions of videos—all in people’s minds. Everybody has their own Neutral Milk Hotel film in their head. For an artist who took root in the liberating aesthetic of underground tape-trading and DIY punk—whose sense of what music can be was permanently altered by the Minutemen’s non formulaic structures, by their mix of the political and the impressionistic; who announced, at the start of his catalog, “I’m finally breaking free from fear”—it’s an invitation to hear the music, and then become a part of it.

The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel Tracklist:

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1. King of the Carrot Flowers Pt. 1
2. King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 & 3
3. In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
4. Two-Headed Boy
5. Fool
6. Holland, 1945
7. Communist Daughter
8. Oh Comely
9. Ghost
10. [untitled]
11. Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2

On Avery Island
1. Song Against Sex
2. You’ve Passed
3. Someone Is Waiting
4. A Baby for Pree
5. Marching Theme
6. Where You’ll Find Me Now
7. Avery Island/April 1st
8. Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone
9. Three Peaches
10. Naomi
11. April 8th
12. Pree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye

Ferris Wheel On Fire
1. Oh Sister (1995)
2. Ferris Wheel On Fire (1993)
3. Home (1992)
4. April 8th (1992)
5. I Will Bury You in Time (1994)
6. Engine (1993)
7. A Baby for Pree/Glow Into You (1995)
8. My Dream Girl Don’t Exist (Live) [1992]

Everything Is
1. Everything Is
2. Here We Are (For W. Cullen Hart)
3. Unborn
4. Tuesday Moon
5. Ruby Bulb
6. Snow Song
7. Aunt Eggma Blow Torch

Little Birds
1. Little Birds (Live) [1998]
2. Little Birds (Studio Demo) [1998]

You’ve Passed / Where You’ll Find Me Now
1. You’ve Passed (Alternate Version)
2. Where You’ll Find Me Now (Alternate Version)

Live at Jittery Joe’s
1. Intro
2. A Baby for Pree
3. Two-Headed Boy
4. I Will Bury You in Time
5. Gardenhead / Leave Me Alone
6. Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2
7. I Love How You Love Me
8. Engine
9. Naomi
10. King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 2
11. King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 3
12. Oh Comely

MESHUGGAH To Issue Remastered Fifteenth Anniversary Edition Of ObZen Full-Length March 31st Via Atomic Fire

Another masterpiece of musical diversity and surprises standing among an already sonically astounding discography, the 2008-released ObZen contains the band’s monster hit, “Bleed” – the song that tore through the industry like a shockwave leaving fans and musician friends alike simply awestruck. In a glowing review of the record, Blabbermouth accurately surmised of ObZen, “This is a distillation of the band's last fifteen years of mindfucking into a defining statement so cleverly-crafted, it manages to come across as monolithic and opaque even with a million skittering moving parts. Pure MESHUGGAH, pure chaos, pure control.” Metal Injection concurred noting, “The album is laced with all the elements MESHUGGAH fans have come to expect from the band -- the angular riffs; the discordant, eerie guitar solos; the polyrhythms and complex arrangements -- but here these elements are melded together into one seamless product which represents a band at the pinnacle of their career."

In celebration of ObZen’s fifteenth anniversary, Atomic Fire will unleash a sonically updated version of the album, remastered by Thomas Eberger and Sofia von Hage at Stockholm Mastering. The re-release of this masterpiece comes in hi-def audio on all streaming platforms, as well as a beautifully enhanced digipak featuring a twenty-page booklet and stunning 180-gram gatefold double vinyl in several marbled and splatter color variants (limited worldwide to under 1500 of each). The special edition will be released on March 31st.

Preorder yours today at THIS LOCATION.

Since forming in 1987 in Umeå, Sweden, MESHUGGAH has developed into one of the most technically complex and virtuosic groups of players the metal realm has ever encountered, their distinctly unique brand of progressive, groove‐infused extreme metal inadvertently launching an entirely new subgenre. Crowned “one of the ten most important hard and heavy bands,” by Rolling Stone, the band has earned the respect and admiration from fans and musicians alike. Stay tuned for more MESHUGGAH news in the coming weeks.

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Cluster
Cluster II
SUPERIOR VIADUCT
LP£32.00
Expected 03 MarPREORDER
1. Plas
2. Im Süden
3. Für Die Katz'
4. Live In Der Fabrik
5. Georgel
6. Nabitte
Simply seminal album of sonic exploration from Moebius and Roedelius, produced with genius by Conny Plank - cosmic machinery for mind travelling, over 6 extended, humming, rotating epics...

THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS
announce 55th Anniversary
Indian War Whoop
Super Deluxe Out March 5th.
Indian War Whoop is the first album from the band to contain originals and was the start of cementing their legacy in the history of Psychedelic America.

"Some people think this record is unlistenable, while others consider this one of the key documents of the American music underground."*
- Byron Coley

For Immediate Release: Don Giovanni Records has announced the upcoming 55th anniversary super deluxe reissue of The Holy Modal Rounders psychedelic masterpiece Indian War Whoop. What started as a psych-folk duo, led by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, had picked up actor/playwright Sam Shepard, Lee Crabtree and Antonia to form a band and record original music for the first time. In addition to their originals, they continued reimagining lost hits from the Harry Smith Anthology and future hits from their contemporaries and future collaborators like Michael Hurley, through the fueled lens of psychedelia–a word first put into print by The Holy Modal Rounders just one year earlier.

The 55th anniversary edition includes fully restored art, a new essay by Jesse Jarnow (Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America, Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America) along with brand new historic track-by-track liner notes by Peter Stampfel. The album itself was remastered at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell. In addition, the deluxe edition includes a remastered version of Live In 1965 –the only surviving recording of the original lineup of the band–on vinyl for the first time.

The 55th Anniversary album will be released Friday, March 5th and orders from the label can be bundled with a new book by Peter Stampfel including two essays on Steve Weber and all of the articles he wrote for the Boston Broadside

Indian War Whoop - 55th Anniversary Edition is available for pre-order now HERE.

The original version is available across all streaming platforms, and Bandcamp now.
ndian War Whoop - 55th Anniversary Deluxe tracklist:

INDIAN WAR WHOOP:

SIDE A (Jimmy and Crash Survey the Universe):
Indian War Whoop (2:54)
Sweet Apple Cider (3:08)
Soldier's Joy (2:49)
Cocaine Blues (2:43)
Sky Divers (5:04)

SIDE B (The Second-Hand Watch):
Radar Blues (5:36)
The I.W.W. Song (4:06)
Football Blues (1:45)
Bay Rum Blues (2:16)
Morning Glory (0:40)

LIVE IN 1965:

SIDE C:

Fishin' Blues (2:58)
Rum Mountain (2:45)
Hold The Woodpile Down (2:31)
Random Canyon (2:31)
Skin Game (1:53)
Indian War Whoop (3:00)
Uncle Joe (2:05)
Flop Eared Mule (3:10)

SIDE D:
Crowley Waltz (1:59)
Goin To Memphis (2:25)
Monday Morning (2:55)
Baltimore Fire (3:27)
Sugar In The Gourd (1:56)
Melinda (2:42)
My Mind Capsized (2:35)
Black Eyed Suzy (2:11)
Press inquiries: joe at dongiovannirecords dot com

*Not nec. mutually exclusive

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Merzbow's Tauromachine is being reissued as a 2CD set remastered by James Plotkin with about 45 minutes of bonus material.

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The BBE label is doing a digital-only reissue of Larry Young's Lawrence of Newark on Friday. They claim it's the first-ever reissue, but Sanctuary put out a CD in the early 2000s. I used to own a copy; wish I still did. An incredible record.

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That is an incredible record, just discovered it last year. Was able to find that 2001 CD issue relatively cheap.

And he's got Blood Ulmer on there!

And Pharoah!

yeah that album is a monster, and I can also confirm it exists on CD

new vinyl:

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Alice Coltrane
Journey in Satchidananda (Acoustic Sounds Series)
DECCA / VERVE
Alice Coltrane’s fourth Impulse! album finds her on piano and harp in the company of saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. "Almost 50 years after [it] was released, the album remains a vision of universal healing, spiritual self-preservation in times of trouble and the god that appears when you seek her out." (NPR)Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.

Release Date
31 March 2023

From Dirty Projectors:

MOUNT WITTENBERG ORCA

RECORD STORE DAY 2023 REISSUE

In 2010, we made an EP with Björk called Mount Wittenberg Orca. It’s been out of print for 13 years and now we’re reissuing it, with 13 bonus tracks! It will be out on Record Store Day next month (4/22) on 2xLP black vinyl. The never-before-released bonus material includes the original live performance at Housing Works bookstore in 2009, early demos, and archival material of the band and Björk rehearsing.
Backstory etc.:
nspired by a conversation between Dirty Projectors band leader David Longstreth and Björk about the small theaters in Italy where opera was born in the 1500s, the original seven-song collection was written to be performed unamplified in a small Manhattan bookstore called Housing Works. The result feels like part children's story, part choral music from some strange future. It's unlike anything else in the Projectors' body of work: drums and guitars are all but absent. It's all about voices here — and the voices are astonishing. Björk sounds seismic and elemental and Longstreth, sharing lead vocal duties, intones with his trademark croon. The Projectors' singers Amber Coffman, Angel Deradoorian and Haley Dekle add magical 3-part vocal harmonies.

The recording was informed by the simple, direct feel of early rock ‘n’ roll recordings from the '50s. The band and Björk rehearsed for three days at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, then recorded the songs as quickly and as live as possible, overdubbing only lead vocals and solos.

The 2xLP Expanded Edition adds 13 bonus tracks of never-before-released material including the live Housing Works performance from 2009, early demos of Mount Wittenberg Orca and archival audio of the band and Bjork rehearsing the material. This is the definitive version of Mount Wittenberg Orca.

1. Intro (Live from Housing Works 2009)
2. Ocean (Live from Housing Works 2009)
3. On and Ever Onward (Live from Housing Works 2009)
4. When The World Comes To An End (Live from Housing Works 2009)
5. Beautiful Mother (Live from Housing Works 2009)
6. Sharing Orb (Live from Housing Works 2009)
7. No Embrace (Live from Housing Works 2009)
8. All We Are (Live from Housing Works 2009)
9 Wave Invocation (MWO I Inverness Demo)
10 Motherwhale Song (MWO II Inverness Demo)
11 Whale Watcher Song (MWO III Inverness Demo)
12 Fugal Swim (MWO IV Inverness Demo)
13 First Duet (MWO V Inverness Demo)
14 Migration (Unfinished MWO VI Inverness Demo)
15 Jubilation (MWO VII Inverness Demo)
16 Benediction (MWO VIII Inverness Demo)
17 When the World Comes To An End (Freewrite Demo)
18 When the World Comes To An End (Vocalise Rehearsal Rough)
19 Beautiful Mother (Vocalise Rehearsal Rough)
20 On and Ever Onward (Full Rehearsal Rough)

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finally, something fucking good is getting reissued

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From Sounds Of The Universe:

Deep jazz Strata-East special & beyond! Pharoah Sanders | Cecil McBee | Stanley Cowell | Piano Choir and loads more!

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The Piano Choir
Handscapes 2
STRATA-EAST
New Audiophile LP (180 GRAM)£36.00
In Stock

The Piano Choir
Handscapes
STRATA-EAST / PURE PLEASURE
2×LP (180g)£50.00
Gatefold sleeve
In stock

SEMINAL & SUPER-RARE STRATA-EAST double album - six pianos! This album is a genre defying mix of deep, deep spiritual jazz with the addition of Steve Reich/Phillip Glass modernism! Heavy tracks like 'Nation Time' and more.

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'Handscapes' is a double live album by The Piano Choir featuring an absolutely HEAVYWEIGHT set of pianists together - Strata-East co-founder Stanley Cowell alongside Nat Jones, Hugh Lawson, Webster Lewis, Harold Mabern, Danny Mixon, and Sonelius Smith recorded and originally released in 1972.

At the time of release Ebony reviewer Phyl Garland said "One needn't be a "piano freak" to appreciate a truly new recording. First of all imagine seven gifted and talented pianists sitting down to seven grand pianos (with electric piano, organ, harpsichord, a few tambourines for spice) and proceeding to tear up these instruments - musically, that is. ...the torrrent of sound springing from their 70 fingers is so powerful and majestic as to be unlike anything one has ever heard."

This one is very fine:

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Pharoah Sanders
Izipho Zam (My Gifts)
New Audiophile LP (180 GRAM)£36.00
In stock

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Stanley Cowell
Musa-Ancestral Streams (1974)
STRATA-EASTJAZZ

LP (180 gram)£36.00
In stock

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The Descendants Of Mike And Phoebe
A Spirit Speaks
PURE PLEASURE

Pure Pleasure reissue of this classic spiritual jazz LP originally released on Strata East in 1974. Bill Lee’s family band is a must have album for all spiritual jazz fans, and includes killer tunes such as ‘Coltrane’ & ‘Attica’. A quality repress on 180g vinyl.

LP (180 gram) £36.00

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Charles Rouse
Two Is One (1974)
PURE PLEASURE JAZZ

LP (180 gram)£36.00
In stock
Heavyweight Strata-East deep and heavy funky jazz bomb - Hopscotch is a KILLER tune + loads more. Airto in the line-up as well as Stanley Clarke with some heavy b-lines!

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Cecil McBee
Mutima
PURE PLEASURE

Just landed! - Super deep jazz from Cecil McBee on Strata-East vinyl new vinyl - boom! Includes the seminal heavy cut 'Tulsa Black'

w/ Dee Dee Bridgewater, Cecil McBee, Michael Carvin, Jimmy Hopps, Billy Hart & more. The real deal!

New Audiophile LP (180 GRAM) £36.00

Pharoah Sanders
Shukuru (1985)
PURE PLEASURE JAZZ

New Audiophile LP (180 GRAM)£36.00
In stock

Super-duper deep spiritual modational (made up word but you get what we mean) vibrations from Pharoah with fellow deep jazz royalty guest Leon Thomas on vocals. Check out 'Jitu'. Uplifting and rare.

Elvin Jones
Midnight Walk (1966)
SPEAKERS CORNER RECORDS

New Audiophile LP (180 GRAM)£36.00
In stock

Classic album, Elvin Jones joined by Thad Jones, Hank Mobley, Dollar Brand, Steve James, Don Moore on Atlantic Records.

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Nathan Davis Sextet
Peace Treaty
SAM REOCRDSJAZZ

LP (180 gram)£44.00
in stock

One of the first true moments of genius from saxophonist Nathan Davis - originally released in the mid 60s for the tiny SFP label - and a record that's even rarer than his early classics for MPS! The sound here is similar to the MPS sides - a mixture of soul jazz and modal jazz - served up with a bit more freedoms than Davis might have gotten on the US scene, and featuring a lineup that includes Woody Shaw on trumpet, Jean-Louis Chautemps on baritone sax, Rene Urtreger on piano, Jimmy Woode on bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums.

Alice Coltrane
Eternity (1976)
SPEAKERS CORNER

New Audiophile LP (180 GRAM) £36.00
In Stock

Later deep jazz album from the legendary Alice Coltrane featuring strings and more!

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Phil Ranelin
The Time Is Now!
PURE PLEASURE

LP (180 gram)£36.00
In stock

Phil Ranelin's first record as a leader differs from his later, 1976 offering, 'Vibes From the Tribe'. 'The Time Is Now' is full of the spirit, determination, and innovation inspired by John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor, Pharoah Sanders, and Archie Shepp. Recorded in 1973 and 1974 (and released at the end of 1974), the set shows Ranelin to be an imposing composer and adept trombonist. The original album contained six compositions that are a deep musical brew of avant-garde improvisation, hard bop jazz esthetics, and soulful melodic ideas that were superimposed as a jump off point for both harmonic and rhythmic invention - the sound of Detroit!

Included in an extensive, oversized booklet, Larry Gabriel and Jeff “Chairman” Mao take us through the history of the Tribe, in a compelling story that delves not just into the history of the label and its principals, but into the story of Black American empowerment in the latter half of the 20th Century.

The booklet features never-before-seen archival photos and rare ephemera from Tribe’s mid-1970s heyday.

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Billy Harper
Capra Black
PURE PLEASURE / STRATA-EAST

New Audiophile LP (180 GRAM)£36.00
In stock

...Spiritual Jazz LP with a vocal choir featuring Eugene McDaniels - check the title track and 'Soulfully I Love You (Black Spiritual of Love)'!

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Yusef Lateef
The Doctor Is In...And Out (1976)
ATLANTIC
New Audiophile LP (180 GRAM)£36.00
In stock

Lateef recorded classic soul jazz material at Atlantic during the 1970s that belied some serious experimentalism that lies beneath the music - early sampling and electronics being but two examples. Check out all his Atlantic dates - innovative stuff.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Bright Moments
ATLANTICJAZZ

New Audiophile 2×LP (180 GRAM)£50.00

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Norman Connors
Love From The Sun (1974)
PURE PLEASURE

New Audiophile LP (180 GRAM)£36.00
In stock
Deep, deep album w/ Herbie Hancock, Hubert Laws, Gary Bartz, Carlos Garnett, Dee Dee Bridgewater and more -

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Horace Tapscott
The Call
NIMBUS WEST

LP (180 gram)£36.00
In stoc

Reissue of Horace Tapscott's amazing album 'The Call' from 1978 which was recorded by the 16-piece ensemble the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. A four track delight of spiritual jazz from the pioneering conductor, arranger, pianist and composer at the heart of the Los Angeles jazz scene.

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Horace Tapscott
Live At Lobero Vol. II
NIMBUS WEST RECORDS

LP£36.00
In stock
Recorded Nov. 12 1981 in the Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, California."Lobero Theatre was built in 1872 by Jose Lobero, a local composer and musician. It is presently owned by the community and run as a non-profit entity."

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Horace Tapscott
Live At Lobero
NIMBUS WEST / PURE PLEASURE

LP (180 gram)£36.00
In stock

Reissue of a supremely rare and out of print Nimbus classic, Horace Tapscott "Live At Lobero" recorded as a trio, featuring the man himself on piano, Roberto Miranda on bass & Sonship on percussion. This is a momentous offering from start to finish!

I wish those Piano Choir albums were being reissued on CD as well as LP. They're pretty amazing.

Yeah, seems like I've got an import promo of one of them somewhere? From a previous decade---great stuff, somebody should use the same concept.
speaking of xxxxpost Bill Lee last week, last night the local station played a composition of his from the Do The Right Thing soundtrack: orchestration and themes for Branford Marsalis and Terence Blanchard, fairly brief, watchful, intriguing, burned away by pressure of events in the movie, maybe.

Pitchfork on what's added to Exploding Hearts reissue:

The Exploding Hearts’ power pop classic Guitar Romantic is being reissued for its 20th anniversary. Guitar Romantic (Expanded & Remastered) is out May 26 via Third Man. The reissue features previously unreleased material, including an unheard take of “So Bored,” studio dialogue from the band members, and “I’m a Pretender (King Louie Mix),” which you can hear below.

Stereogum's Dusty Henry on personal takes, associations, basics, incl. appeal and (incl.) arrested development tendencies of power-pop-rock romanticism. somewhat beyond while fitting the safely dead-too-soon forever young legendary-historical status, and enduring sonic appeal (also quotes, links to interview material):

The Exploding Hearts had the power-pop heart of Big Star and the Buzzcocks mixed with the glue-sniffing aesthetics of the Ramones – the song “Jailbird” even ended with the band sniffing their noses against the mics. They were loud, occasionally crass, and never put out a song that didn’t have an insanely catchy hook. The artwork for Guitar Romantic practically glows with its hyper-saturated pink and yellow photo of the band standing in front of a spray-painted wall marked with the album’s title.
...Most of the songs on Guitar Romantic are about heartbreak, one way or the other. And while lots of the songs find Cox scoffing at partners who left him feeling dejected, there seems to be some self-awareness that he may be part of the problem. Just a few lines later on “Modern Kicks” he laments his girlfriend’s indifference to their relationship falling apart, only to find himself alone, stoned, and staring into space. Cox is even blunter on another standout track, “I’m A Pretender,” declaring, “I’m a pretender at the game of love, I need somebody to shatter my heart.” The upbeat, jangling guitar riffs on the song sway like they’re soundtracking an anarchist sock-hop. It’s maybe the quintessential Exploding Hearts song: It doesn’t just describe heartbreak, it’s practically begging for it. Anything to escape the boredom of being 21, loveless, and feeling like your life is passing you by.
...What happened to the Exploding Hearts is tragic. But the tragedy is not Guitar Romantic’s legacy. It’s an album that celebrates life and all of the fuck-ups that come with it.

From Bomp:

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WEIRDOS -Live! At The Club Azteca (1978) FIRST OFFICIAL WEIRDOS BOOTLEG! on ltd ed red vinyl with dbl sided insert

"Live! At The Club Azteca" documents the legendary show the WEIRDOS performed at the SoCa club one hot night of 1978. The set is presented in its entirety. The release is complete with photos taken on the actual night, shot by legendary photographer Melanie Nissen, and includes an insert with liner notes by Weirdos' guitarist/songwriter, and founding member, Cliff Roman. It is an exciting document of an era when punk was young, loud and snotty, but also clever and fun. Destroy all music!

They only have 1 copy of this, but worth noting for future hunts because Ra (no idea what it sounds like)
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SUN RA & His Intergalactic Arkestra-Outer SPace Employment AGency- NER 3021 LP
Total Energy
SKU: 25669
$30.00
Recorded in concert at Otis Spann Memorial Field, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 9th September 1973.

A1 Discipline 99 13:49
A2 Love In Outer Space 4:58
B1 At First There Was Nothing/The Universe Has More To Offer You/Wake Up Angels/Outer Space Employment Agency 20:14

Some from Last Copies that might be worthwhile (aside from all the many I've never heard of)

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STONE THE CROWS -Stone the Crows Featuring Maggie Bell- CD
TALKING ELEPHANT
SKU: 24888
$10.00

STEELEYE SPAN -Please To See The King (1971 reissue) CD
TALKING ELEPHANT
SKU: 24887
$10.00

HERON, MIKE -Smiling Men With Bad Reputations (1971 rock solo debut) CD
TALKING ELEPHANT
SKU: 24881
$14.00

ASHTON,GARDNER,DYKE & CO -WHAT A BLOODY LONG DAY IT'S BEEN(70s Brit power rock trio) CD
GONZO
SKU: 23634
$10.00

And possibly?

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COLOGNE CURIOSITIES -THE UNKNOWN KRAUTROCK UNDERGROUND 1972-1976' - DBL COMP LP
MENTAL EXPERIENCE
SKU: 23550
$30.00

Cologne Curiosities' collects, for the first time on vinyl, all the otherwise unpublished/un-reissued material that originally appeared on the three 'Unknown Deutschland - The Krautrock Archive' CD's, released by Virgin in 1996.

These recordings date from 1972-1976 and were made at studios in Cologne and surroundings. The material was produced by Toby Robinson, mainly to have fun at the studio. Bands would come in for practice sessions, to record demos, and during slack periods impromptu jams would happen. Most of these sessions were recorded by Toby, and they feature Toby himself plus a revolving cast of friends and musicians (some of them apparently big Kraut names using made up monikers).

The music ranges from killer proto-new wave to far-out space rock, proto-ambient electronic, dark kraut psyche and raw kosmische sounds with lots of analogue synths/Moog.

Tracklist
A1 –The Astral Army Interstellar Shortwave 4:32
A2 –Spirulina The Message 10:24
B1 –Chronos (6) Schaudernacht 6:52
B2 –Neil Andersen Feuerwerk 7:17
C1 –Baal (10) No God / Astaroth 6:40
C2 –Ten To Zen Innerst 10:16
D –Fuerrote Ganz Wie Du Willst 14:01

That Sun Ra album above is a pretty decent-sounding live disc from his "synth noise plus chanting" period. I owned it many years ago and liked it at the time.

There's still no consensus on whether those Unknown Deutschland records are authentic products of the 70s or 90s pastiches. My thought is that, at minimum, there was overdubbing and remixing done to older tapes. In more than 25 years, no-one has come up with a single copy of the supposed "original LPs" that were supposedly pressed at the time.
I have one of the Virgin CDs, and the track by Fuerrote is a worthy atmospheric guitar-feedback Amon Düül II type exercise.

I had volume 1 and I remember it being pretty unlistenable

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Experimental Electronic and Acoustic Soundscapes 1961 - 88

Brand new edition of this Soul Jazz Records long out-of-print classic album available now as a new limited-edition one-off pressing triple yellow vinyl album (plus download code), and limited-edition one-off pressing special yellow CD edition.

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Soul Jazz Records’ Space, Energy and Light is a collection of music by early electronic and synthesizer pioneers (from the 1960s through the 1970s), mid-1970s proto-new age gurus and 1980s guerrilla D-I-Y cassette-era electronic artists, spanning in total over a near 30-year time frame. All of these artists used electronic advancements in music technology as a means of exploring not only space and the idea of the future, but also of looking inwards to the soul and of creating music in harmony with the natural world.

From computer software and hardware experimentalists and sound pioneers such as Laurie Spiegel and Kevin Braheny, as well as Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company – the first synthesizer ensemble created in collaboration with Robert Moog – through to musique concrète experimentation, the album shows how technological advancements and creative artistic expression often went hand in hand.

In the mid-1970s artists Steven Halpern and Iaxos were instrumental in creating proto-new age music, experimenting in both the healing properties of sound and its relationship with the natural world. These artists also pioneered a new self-contained and underground D-I-Y approach to music, creating their own record labels, forming new distribution networks (with albums sold in meditation centres, health food stores and ashrams) far away from the commercialism of the mainstream music industry. In the early 1980s after the revolution of punk, these D-I-Y attitudes and ideas appeared once more in the growth of the distinctly anti-commercial and underground cassette-only careers of artists such as Germany’s Stratis and Carl Matthews in Britain.

Artwork includes some of the earliest photography of the Plieades star cluster dating from the 1880s.

REVIEWS

"Listening to Space, Energy & Light in one sitting is a bit like experiencing constellations exploding within constellations inside your brain." Record Collector

"Incredible collection of spacey electronics and meditative soundscapes dating from the early 60s to the late 80s here, lovingly assembled by the Soul Jazz team. This compilation has it all if you like your music deep. Big names such as Iasos and Laurie Spiegel feature, but even if you think yourself a bit of a nerd in this field, there are some lesser known pearls to be found." Bleep

"Quite simply an amazing mix of some quite bizarre and interesting pieces of music, no way to describe it other than to buy it, put on some headphones and drift off to inner space". Music

"New compilation charting almost three decades of experimental electronic and synthesizer music from the most influential and often unsung composers of their generation. Beginning and 1961 and following the story until 1988, Space, Energy and Light connects proto-new age gurus and DIY tape vigilantes who were equally inspired by the advancements of new technology and its potential to unlock utopian futures in both the music and the soul." Vinyl Factory

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Punk 45: The Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976-80
Edited by Jon Savage and Stuart Baker with a new introduction by Bobbie Gillespie
SOUL JAZZ BOOKS

rand new edition of Soul Jazz Records’ massive deluxe 400-page Punk 45s cover art book edited and compiled by Jon Savage (author of the seminal book on punk, England’s Dreaming) and Stuart Baker (founder of Soul Jazz Records).

This new edition comes with a new introduction from Bobbie Gillespie, founder of Primal Scream (who has recently also published his memoirs Tenement Kid).

Contributors include Peter Saville, Richard Hell, Richard H Kirk, Seymour Stein, Geoff Travis, Martin Moscrop, Glenn Branca, Jamie Reid, Dave Robinson, Roger Armstrong, Martin Mills, Gee Vaucher, Savage Pencil, Dennis Morris and more.

This book is a revelatory guide to hundreds and hundreds of original 7” record cover sleeve designs – visual artefacts found at the heart of the most radical and anarchistic musical movement of the 20th century.

As well as the encyclopaedic visual imagery featured inside, the book also includes interviews with a number of significant figures in punk music: artists and groups including Richard Hell, Martin Moscrop (A Certain Ratio), Richard H Kirk (Cabaret Voltaire), Glenn Branca and David Thomas (Pere Ubu); record label owners including Seymour Stein (Sire Records), Geoff Travis (Rough Trade), Roger Armstrong (Chiswick), Martin Mills (Beggars Banquet), Dave Robinson (Stiff Records), David Brown (Dangerhouse); and the celebrated designers involved in creating punk’s original iconic imagery – Peter Saville (Factory Records), Gee Vaucher (Crass Records), Jamie Reid (Sex Pistols), Gee Vaucher (Crass Records) and Dennis Morris (Public Image Limited).

The revolutionary do-it-yourself ethic of punk was applied to the aesthetic of design as much as it was to music, and record sleeves acted as lo-fi signifiers of anarchy, style, fashion, politics and more with an urban and suburban invective courtesy of the 1000s of new bands - punk, post-punk, pre-punk, nearly-punk and more - that emerged at the end of the 1970s.

This book is an exhaustive, thorough and exciting celebration of the stunning artwork of punk music – everything from the most celebrated and iconic designs through to the stark beauty of the cheapest do-it-yourself lo-fi obscurities.

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/punk-45-the-singles-cover-art-of-punk-1976-80-edited-by-jon-savage-and-stuart-baker

Early Independent Hip Hop, Electro and Disco Rap 1979 - 83
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

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o! Boombox is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ Boombox series on the early days of hip-hop on vinyl and features some of the many innovative underground first-wave of early rap and disco rap records made in the USA in the period 1979-83.

The album includes the first releases of seminal groups such as Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five and The Funky Four Plus One through to a host of rarities and little-known obscurities such as the Carver Area High School band’s ‘Get Live 83’, an awesome record made at a Chicago high school.

The album is released as a deluxe triple LP complete with 3x full inner sleeves of extensive sleeve notes, exclusive photography and original label artwork. There is also a very-limited one-pressing indies-only special deluxe version that comes with an extra bonus super-rare 7” single of ‘Magic’s Rap’ by Magic’s Trick, aka ex-marine Magic Fraga, a record that was only ever available on US military bases! The album also comes as a deluxe double CD pack with 30-page booklet and slipcase.

Yo! Boombox also features the stunning photography of Sophie Bramly one of a very select group of photographers (alongside Henry Chalfant, Martha Cooper, and Joe Conzo) who were allowed full access to document the exciting early days of hip-hop in New York.

These first exuberant wave of innocent, upbeat, party-on-the-block rap records were the first to try and create the sounds heard in community centres, block parties and street jams that first took place in the Bronx in the mid-1970s. Where the first DJs - Flash, Kool Herc and Bambaataa - were back-spinning, mixing and scratching together now classic breakbeat records like The Incredible Bongo Band’s Apache or Babe Ruth’s The Mexican, these first pre-sampling rap records were all made using live bands, often replaying then current disco tunes. As Chic’s ‘Good Times’ was to ‘Rappers’ Delight’, the songs here feature then-current dancefloor hits such as the Tom Tom Club’s ‘Genius of Love’, Cheryl Lynn’s ‘To Be Real’, MFSB’s ‘Love Is the Message’ while MCs rapped over the top, creating a unique new sound. In fact, the links between disco and rap date back earlier to the ‘party style’ MCing of figures such as the legendary DJ Hollywood or radio DJs like Frankie Crocker.

Flashing the hits there, but I've never heard many, maybe most of these (2-CD, 3LP etc.)

Wow, thanks for the tip! Just checked out the photos -- very interested to read the whole thing.

I remember the graphic novel was announced at least a year ago, maybe two, and had an entry on Amazon and everything. I wondered why it disappeared, but maybe Townshend decided it would work best as part of this box rather than as a standalone item.

Trumpeter Woody Shaw's 1971 debut, Blackstone Legacy, getting reissued. It's a double LP with a total running time of 82 minutes, so it's never been on CD in full form — two tracks have between a minute and 90 seconds shaved off. I'm hoping there will be a download option.

Yeah, I have the 1999 Contemporary CD version of that and it shaves a little off of both "Lost and Found" and "New World".

That's the same CD I have, and I've never bothered to seek out or download a vinyl rip. I assume I'm probably missing some rhythm section vamping and/or a bass solo.

Today, Shimmy-Disc announces their forthcoming posthumous reissue of Bruce Haack's 1974 record, Captain Entropy, to arrive on August 25.

Captain Entropy, described as "a participation journey for elementary and high-school people — through the soul of space-ship earth — from principles of thermodynamics to folks like the American eagle," was created and totally performed by Bruce Haack. It's an electro-surrealist musical journey from the mind of "The Captain," capturing his inventive genius musically in tandem with tapping into the voice of his inner child. It displays innovative story-songs inspired by Haack's diverse musical interests and a love of Science and explorations of the Natural World, songs to excite the imaginations of listeners, both young and old.

This forthcoming reissue of Captain Entropy was remastered by Kramer for this Archival Reissue. The free digital download that comes alongside purchase of the vinyl also contains an exclusive additional 20 minutes of previously unreleased bonus material. The LP was originally released in 1974 on Dimension 5, the artist’s own label. This new reissue will be on limited edition hand-numbered Black Vinyl (limited to 555 copies), and on Clear Vinyl LP for Retail.

Captain Entropy - TRACKLISTING

SIDE 1:
01. Captain Entropy
02. Army Ants in Your Pants
03. Music
04. Mallangong

SIDE 2:
01. The Universal Unicycle Show (pedal it)
02. Walking Eagle
03. The American Eagle
04. Metric Conversion
05. Catfish

To introduce the new reissue, today, Shimmy-Disc unveils the record's first cut, Bruce Haack's "Music." The narrative-song teaches about 'a beautiful soundwave language,' merging science and history in sound, his musical crystallization of abstract thoughts into concrete feelings. It describes humans creating 'magic switching systems that change the shape of soundwaves.' Haack's vision was always of the future, where 'music is made by just thinking about it.'

In the original 1974 liner notes, Haack described the track as such: "An early soul-beat plus electronic 'strings' gives a space-capsule insight into where music is really at. Believe it or not, people used to scrape strands of animal tissue with hair from a horse's tail to make it."

As Kramer wrote on the forthcoming reissue and this new cut:

"Captain Entropy is not simply a brilliant work of art and a pioneering ingredient in the history of electronic music. It’s also a unique ‘kids’ record and the ideal introduction to Haack’s work for
listeners previously unaware of his extraordinary creations. Like Fred Rogers, everyone loves
Bruce Haack. His spirit is universal, and his musical output is as wide and as far-reaching as
Creation itself.

Haack's work had always focused on tinkering, inventing, innovating, and creating, but at its very core, everything he has done, from start to finish, is about music, with a prime focus on how music can teach, inform, illuminate, and explain what life and what being alive is all about. His connection to kids - and in helping them to understand how the world works - couldn’t be more clearly articulated than it is in Ryan Hover's video for 'MUSIC', premiering today. Bruce Haack truly cared about kids, about community, about culture, and about everything he saw and felt around him. The entire world was his home.

Haack was the consummate musician, but he was a composer first and foremost, and Shimmy-Disc is proud to partner with his estate in spreading the word about the sounds and visions of his life's work. This reissue LP is only the beginning. Captain Entropy is no ‘novelty’ release made solely for kids. This record, like everything else Bruce Haack ever created, is for Everyone."

- Kramer, July 2023

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Little Richard: The Complete Atlantic & Reprise Singles LP
$ 26.99

ittle Richard’s one-of-a-kind career veered wildly from the sacred to the profane, but everything he did was profound; he was one of the greatest gospel AND rock and roll singers of all time. And you can scale the dizzying heights of both sides of the man’s mountainous talent on this 15-track collection, which brings his Atlantic and Reprise singles back to vinyl, almost all for the first time since they originally came out on 45s. Richard recorded and self-produced the Atlantic material in 1962 and leased it to the label for release the following year, right before his return to rock and roll with two triumphant UK tours. Only “Crying in the Chapel” has seen reissue since; the other three tracks (esp. the uptempo gospel numbers “Hole in the Wall” and “Travelin’ Shoes”) hit that glorious balance between spiritual fervor and emotional frenzy that only he could pull off. The Reprise material dates from 1970 to 1972 and was helmed by famed Specialty producer Bumps Blackwell as well as by Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Quincy Jones (“Money Is” from the soundtrack to The Heist), with musical contributions by legendary Richard sidemen Lee Allen and Earl Palmer as well as folks like Travis Wammack. The non-LP side “Shake a Hand (If You Can)” is the rarity, but tracks like “Freedom Blues,” its B-side “Dewdrop Inn,” and “Mockinbird Sally” testify that Richard’s brilliance remained unabated. Mastered, like many of our Real Gone singles collections, by Aaron Kannowski, The Complete Atlantic & Reprise Singles features liner notes by Little Richard expert Bill Dahl, and comes in ruby red vinyl. A timely release to go along with the new Little Richard documentary!*
A1. Crying in the Chapel
A2. Hole in the Wall
A3. Travelin’ Shoes
A4. It Is No Secret
A5. Freedom Blues
A6. Dewdrop Inn
A7. Greenwood, Mississippi
A8. I Saw Her Standing There
A9. Shake a Hand (If You Can)
B1. Somebody Saw You
B2. Green Power
B3. Dancing in the Street
B4. Money Is
B5. Mockinbird Sally
B6. Nuki Suki

Also from Real Gone:

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Hamza El Din: Al Oud LP
$ 23.99

WEBSTORE EXCLUSIVE VARIANT IS LIMITED TO 1 PER CUSTOMER/HOUSEHOLD IF YOU PURCHASE MORE THAN 1 YOU WILL BE REFUNDED.

Hamza El Din: Al Oud (Metallic Tellus Edition) LP Real Gone Music Webstore Exclusive LIMITED TO 100 COPIES

Hamza El Din: Al Oud (Limited Clear Vinyl Edition) LP Regular Version

It’s fair to say that what Ravi Shankar did for the sitar, Hamza El Din did for the oud (the short-necked Arabian lute): bringing a little-known instrument to the attention of the West and popularizing it. Indeed, he ended up playing oud with everybody from the Grateful Dead to the Kronos Quartet to his one-time roommate Sandy Bull. But El Din’s gifts went beyond that of an oud virtuoso; he was also an accomplished singer and composer, and you will hear all of those talents on full display on this seminal album, released on Vanguard in 1965 soon after his star-making appearance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival that attracted the attention of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Meditative, mesmerizing, and haunting, Al Oud features nine original compositions based on Nubian folk traditions; at first it’s the exotic sound of the oud that draws you in, but it’s the rhythmic pulse of the music and the expressive quality of El Din’s voice that keeps you riveted. Our first-ever American LP reissue of this classic record comes in a clear vinyl pressing limited to 900 copies, complete with original artwork featuring liner notes by Jamal Mohammed Ahmed, at the time Sudan’s Ambassador to the United Nations. A richly rewarding listen.

A1. CHILDHOOD (Assaramessuga)
A2. THE SPIRITS (Shortunga)
A3. GRANDFATHER’S STORIES (Annun Sira’)
A4. DID NURA REMEMBER? (Gillina Nura)
B1. THE MESSAGE BEARER (Hoi To Irkil Fa Giu)
B2. THE GONDOLA
B3. CALL FOR UNITY (Nuban Uto)
B4. THE FORTUNE TELLER (Kogosh)
B5. GREETING CARD (Abdin)

Deutsche Grammophon has reissued their Avant-Garde Series of LPs (1968-71) as a 21CD box.

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Various Artists The Avantgarde Series
Release on: 08/18/2023
The legendary DG Avantgarde vinyl series (1968-1971) is turning 55! In order to celebrate this occasion, the series is now released on 21 CDs for the first time. The Avantgarde series serves as a historical document for a time of radical change in musical thinking and the breaking of artistic boundaries. The question "What is music?" confronted many of the composers and musicians involved in the series, and the anti-authoritarian spirit of the 1960s and 1970s was a palpable influence. Deutsche Grammophon's Avantgarde Series reflects all the currents that thus arose, without aesthetic demarcations and across genres and instrumentations: large orchestral works stand alongside chamber music and solo forms, electronic music and improvisations.

The edition is presented in its original colourful designs by renowned graphic designer Holger Matthies, accompanied by a 186-page booklet with original commentaries (available in English & German) by composers and experts as well as photos of the artists from the DG archive.

Highlights include canon works by György Ligeti such as his choral work "Lux aeterna," Luciano Berio's "Sequenza V" with Vinko Globokar on trombone, a simultaneous recording of three works by John Cage, and some groundbreaking and monumental electronic works such as Luigi Nono's "Contrappunto dialettico alla mente" and Leo Küpper's "Automatismes sonores."

Tracklist:

CD 1
WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI: String Quartet
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI: Quartetto per archi
TOSHIRO MAYUZUMI: Prelude for String Quartet

CD 2
MAURICIO KAGEL: Phantasie für Orgel mit Obbligati
JUAN ALLENDE-BLIN: Sonorités
GYÖRGY LIGETI: Volumina
Etüde Nr. 1 (»Harmonies«)

CD 3
DAVID BEDFORD: 2 Poems for Chorus on Words by Kenneth Patchen
GYÖRGY LIGETI: Lux aeterna
ARNE MELLNÄS: Succsim
MAREK KOPELENT: Matka

CD 4
VINKO GLOBOKAR: 1-5 Discours II
LUCIANO BERIO: Sequenza V
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN: Solo für Melodie-Instrument mit Rückkopplung
CARLOS ROQUÉ ALSINA: Consecuenza op. 17

CD 5
MAURICIO KAGEL: Match für 3 Spieler
Musik für Renaissance-Instrumente

CD 6
IMPROVISATIONEN: »... e poi?«
Quasiraga
Light Music
Ancora un trio
Credo

CD 7
BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN: Présence
Intercomunicazione

CD 8
JOHN CAGE: Atlas Eclipticalis & Winter Music
electronically amplified after Cartridge Music
DIETER SCHNEBEL: Glossolalie

CD 9
MAURICIO KAGEL: Hallelujah
DIETER SCHNEBEL: für stimmen (... missa est)

CD 10
GOTTFRIED MICHAEL KOENIG: Terminus II
Funktion Grün
ZOLTÁN PONGRÁCZ: Phonothese
RAINER RIEHN: Chants de Maldoror

CD 11
MAURICIO KAGEL: Der Schall

CD 12
GYÖRGY LIGETI: String Quartet No. 2
EARLE BROWN: String Quartet
WOLF ROSENBERG: String Quartet No. 3

CD 13
LUC FERRARI: Presque rien No 1
Société II

CD 14
LUKAS FOSS: Paradigm (“for my friends”)
LEJAREN HILLER: Algorithms I, Version I
Algorithms I, Version IV
ELLIOTT SCHWARTZ: Signals

CD 15
ROLAND KAYN: Cybernetics III
LUIGI NONO: Contrappunto dialettico alla mente

CD 16
FRANCO EVANGELISTI: Die Schachtel
HEINZ HOLLIGER: Der magische Tänzer

CD 17
CORNELIUS CARDEW: The Great Learning

CD 18
ROMAN HAUBENSTOCK-RAMATI: Symphonie “K”
VINKO GLOBOKAR: Étude pour Folklora II

CD 19
HEINZ HOLLIGER: Siebengesang
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN: Spiral

CD 20
SYLVANO BUSSOTTI: Cinque frammenti all’Italia
NICOLAUS A. HUBER: Versuch über Sprache

CD 21
LEO KÜPPER: L’enclume des forces
Électro-poème
Automatismes sonores

The cheapest price I've found is at grooves-inc.com, a German website — they want $103 and shipping to the US is free.

Just ordered that.

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From Luaka Bop on Bandcamp:

A deluxe, embossed 2 LP box set. Alongside a remastered version of PHAROAH, his seminal record from 1977, are two previously unreleased live performances of his masterpiece, “Harvest Time." Includes a 24-page booklet with rarely seen photographs and ephemera, as well as interviews with many of the participants and a conversation with Pharoah himself.

Includes digital pre-order of Pharoah. The moment the album is released you’ll get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
shipping out on or around September 15, 2023.

already streaming on there:
https://pharoahsanders.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-beginning-1963-1964

https://pharoahsanders.bandcamp.com/album/pharoah-sanders-quintet

More about the xpost original 1977 LP:

For those of you who already know this record, you’ll be surprised to learn its origin story. It was born out of a misunderstanding between him and the India Navigation producer Bob Cummins, and was recorded when he was at a crossroads in his career with a group so unlikely they were all never in the same room again. Among them was the guitarist Tisziji Muõz, who was in the process of becoming a spiritual guru, the organist Clifton “Jiggs” Chase, who would go on to co-write and produce “The Message,” and a classically trained pianist—his wife at the time, Bedria Sanders—who played the harmonium despite never having seen one. At times ambient and serene, at others funky and modal, Pharoah radically departed from his earlier work. And it became beloved. (You can read a little bit more about it on the site Pitchfork.)
We were working with Pharoah on this project last fall when he unexpectedly passed away. At first, it was hard to know what to do. We loved him, and the reason you do all of this is not solely for the music, but also for the person who made it. It’s their personality, their humor, and their wishes that drive you forward. So, we decided to go deep into the research. We set out to create something that showed Pharoah and his music in a new light.

Over the next few months, we’re going to share with you all the amazing things we found, many of which are the result of the extensive research we did throughout Europe and North America to support this release. We’re calling it The Harvest Time Project, and it will be based on his website at PharoahSanders.com/HarvestTime.

There, we’ll share the insights made by a dedicated research team, including essays by Harmony Holiday, Marcus J. Moore, and Pierre Crépon—whose writing appears in the box set—among many others. You can sign up to get updates.
As part of this, we’re also very excited to announce the live show The Harvest Time Project: A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders, a bespoke concert series featuring the original guitarist Tisziji Muñoz and a selection of different musical ensembles who will come together in different iterations to reinterpret the composition “Harvest Time.” Each performance will diverge from each other as much as Pharoah’s own wildly different performances.

The world premiere will take place at Le Guess Who? (Nov 12), featuring Irreversible Entanglements, Domenico Lancellotti, and special guest Tisziji Muñoz, under the musical direction of Joshua Abrams. And a special workshop performance will take place at National Sawdust (Oct 14), in honor of Pharoah's birthday.

In some ways, these live concerts will be a reflection of what Pharoah was able to achieve in the live versions of “Harvest Time,” which you find in this box set. Performed during a short but intense European tour that he took in the summer of ’77, they turn the original piece on its head.

Whether this album is new to you—or whether you’ve got a bootleg (or even an original) at home—Pharoah will never sound the same.

Love,

Luaka Bop

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wow that's great news! love that recording

There's a Chick Corea box coming out in November (on streaming services now): The Chick Corea Elektric Band: Complete Studio Recordings 86-91. Five LPs/CDs of the most garish, tasteless, fuzoid splatter you'll ever hear in your life. I'm tempted to review them just for horrified laughs.

kinda want to hear that. frank gambale!

Wow, Frank Gamble was in that? I only remember him in more of a Guitar World blues-rock vein, pretty hot. DO IT UNPERSON!

First Ash Ra Tempel album getting a reissue, thank god cuz originals are expensive as hell

https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/ash-ra-tempel-50th-anniversary-re-edition

just stunning
https://melodiesinternational.bandcamp.com/album/ill-show-you-how

Our next release, “I’ll Show You How” by the Cinnamon Soulettes is by far one of the most beautiful love songs we’ve ever heard. Close to no information is available about it other than it was published and released in the 1970s as a private press through the late legendary Seattle producer Kearney Barton. Unfortunately, most information the estate had was lost in a flood and none of the collectors and music historians from the PNW area we contacted, nor the University of Washington State who inherited a large part of Barton’s tape collection knew anything about the band or its mysterious songwriter “L. Leavy”. We are still searching for the band, anyone who knows anything, give us a shout! Mrs./Mr. Leavy, where are you..?

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“MEAT JOY were the DIY jewel of the Austin weirdo punk scene of the early 80’s—essential, uncategorizable, and entirely insane.” -Steve Shelley, SONIC YOUTH (US, 2022)

from Bandcamp: Meat Joy was difficult to categorize. They were a leaderless collective. Often
improvisational, they moved fluidly among many genres seeking joy and truth. Their sound was alternately queer and straight, dark and funny, heartfelt and biting. Loud soft fast slow beautiful ugly music, sometimes all in the same song.

Out October 13th, listen to "Another Pair" now:

Fans in Austin have two chances to see the reunited band play live:

October 19, 2023 at Cheer Up Charlie’s

October 21, 2023 at The Museum Of Human Achievement

more hype & info here:
https://riotactmedia.disco.ac/view-campaign-email/601f0be3-bc3b-4cf4-bb7e-fe9514ea3a05/100536/

50th Anniversary

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/king-crimson-larks-tongues-in-aspic-complete-recording-sessions/

Talked to Darren Hill years ago about this and let him know I had to resort to buying a pirate copy. He was fine, didn't expect a legit reissue. Glad to see it finally is happening.

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Preorder now! This title will be available October 20th, 2023. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock.

“Red Rockers sound like they’ve been locked in a cupboard with the Clash’s first album for three years. Yeah, great isn’t it?”

- Lester Bangs

It sounded like nothing else released in 1982 – not Signals by Rush, Avalon by Roxy Music, the Cure’s Pornography, Rio by Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, Toto IV, Donald Fagan’s The Nightfly, nor Robert Plant’s Pictures At Eleven. It didn’t even seem akin to such ‘82 punk classics as the Circle Jerk’s Wild In The Streets, the Descendents' Milo Goes To College or Fear’s The Record. And it sure as hell didn’t sound like the Clash’s Combat Rock.

Rather, Condition Red, the debut album from New Orleans punk band Red Rockers, echoed the power, aggression, and highly charged political anger of the Clash’s early work. And deliberately so.

Eventually, the Red Rockers joined their inspirations on a few US tour dates, showing audiences how the Clash used to do things as they leaped about in spray-painted shirts before hammer and sickle-festooned amps, screaming about “Guns Of Revolution.” Both Creem and Rolling Stone featured them, the latter beknighting them “the American Clash,” telling of plans to tour Cuba and release a vicious new single called “Voice of America.” The song instead surfaced the following year as a B-side to massive MTV pop hit “China,” an echo of what Red Rockers had been just the year before and were no longer.

"The missing 24” master tapes were found in a garage by Johnny Colla from (Huey Lewis &) The News at Sandy Pearlman’s estate sale. Thanks to Cris Cohen they were returned to us. We were able to mix the 80’s out of the record and discovered a missing track that wasn’t included on the original 1981 release."

- Darren Hill (Red Rockers) 2023

Also available on CD!

INCLUDES:

Guns of Revolution • Teenage Underground • Peer Pressure • Can You Hear • Grow Up • Know What I Think • United We Stand* • Voice Of America* • Dead Heroes • Folsom Prison Blues • Condition Red • Hold On • White Law • Live Or Die • Missing In Action*

*LP bonus tracks

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/the-west-coast-pop-art-experimental-band-a-door-inside-your-mind-the-complete-reprise-recordings-1966-1968-4cd/

4 cd West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band compilation. have had the first one on my amazon wishlist since about 2005...

A major Airto Moreira/Flora Purim compilation coming in November...37 tracks on either 3 CDs or 5 LPs.

http://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/airto-flora-a-celebration-60-years-sounds-dreams-other-stories

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I have a bunch of Flora's 1970s albums but very little by Airto...might need to buy this.

BBE is also putting out the 4th volume in their J Jazz series in November:

https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/j-jazz-vol-4-deep-modern-jazz-from-japan-nippon-columbia-1968-1981

From Real Gone Music:

Al Stewart Songs on the Radio Complete U.S. Singles 74-81 CD

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The Vietnamese Lunar New Year identifies 2023 as The Year of the Cat…and the timing couldn’t be better! Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are proud to announce a definitive, first-ever singles collection from legendary singer-songwriter Al Stewart. In 1976, Stewart took “Year of the Cat” to the top ten of the Pop and AC charts, inaugurating a run of timeless hits still heard on radio today. Now, for the very first time, each and every one of the British troubadour’s seminal A- and B-sides from his halcyon period has been brought together. Songs on the Radio: The Complete U.S. Singles 1974-1981 brings together 20 tracks which catapulted the artist from folk clubs to the mainstream. Often in collaboration with producer-engineer Alan Parsons, Stewart bridged the gap between FM rock and AM pop. He brought his passion for historical events and flair for lyrical invention to these singles originally issued on the Janus and Arista labels, including “Nostradamus,” “Carol,” “On the Border,” “Midnight Rocks,” “Year of the Cat,” “Song on the Radio,” and the record-breaking, chart-topping “Time Passages.” And the B-sides (“Terminal Eyes,” “Sirens of Titan,” “A Man for All Seasons,” “Merlin’s Time”) are every bit as compelling as the A-sides! Every track is presented in its original U.S. single version (most of which are new to CD and not even included on Stewart’s massive The Admiralty Lights box set) as newly remastered by Mike Milchner at SonicVision. The deluxe 20-page booklet features Joe Marchese’s extensive interview with Al Stewart as well as rare photos and memorabilia. As a special bonus, the unique U.K. single edit of Al’s signature song “Year of the Cat” is also included. With vivid lyrics, captivating melodies, crisp guitars, and, yes, smooth saxophone, these Songs on the Radio celebrate the remarkable discography of a master musical storyteller. Limited edition of 2500…and they’re gonna go fast!

1. Nostradamus
2. Terminal Eyes
3. Carol
4. Sirens of Titan
5. Year of the Cat
6. Broadway Hotel
7. On the Border
8. Flying Sorcery
9. Time Passages
10. Almost Lucy
11. Song on the Radio
12. A Man for All Seasons
13. Midnight Rocks
14. Constantinople
15. Paint by Numbers
16. Optical Illusion
17. Running Man
18. Merlin’s Time
19. Indian Summer
20. Soho (Needless to Say)
21. Year of the Cat (UK Single Version)

Soul Jazz Records

Originally available as a very limited-edition (sold out) coloured vinyl for RSD23 and now available as a black double vinyl edition (gatefold sleeve, bespoke inners, download code) and also for the first time on CD.

Ships for rel date 22 Sep 2023

PRE-ORDER: Holy Church Of The Ecstatic Soul: A Higher Power: Gospel, Funk & Soul At The Crossroads 1971 - 83

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oul Jazz Records’ Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul: Gospel, Funk and Soul at the Crossroads 1971-83 draws upon the extensive links between black American gospel music and soul music, showing how the sensibilities of gospel artists such as Shirley Caeser, Dorothy Norwood, Andrae Crouch and others crossed over into secular soul music during this period.

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Many of the most successful soul artists - from Aretha Franklin to Al Green, The Staple Singers to Sam Cooke - all drew upon their upbringing in the church for their musical inspiration. This album discusses how important the links between the black church and soul music were in creating soul music and spotlights some of the many important (and also little-known) gospel artists who walked this line between sacred music and soul, funk and disco in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul shows how sacred gospel music was at home with Stevie Wonder, Blaxploitation-style funk and produced music celebrated both in New York’s underground discos (The Paradise Garage, Studio 54, etc) and later sampled by the likes of Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Mary J Bilge.

REVIEWS

"Curated with an obvious passion and sense of history, Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul serves as the perfect intro to the funky spirituals that once served as the foundation for various schools of sound (Philly R&B, disco, soul) over the last 50 years" The Wire

Andrae Crouch & The Disciples – Satisfied
2. Shirley Caesar – Jesus Children Of America
3. The Meditation Singers – Trouble's Brewin'
4. The Clark Sisters – You Brought The Sunshine
5. Dorothy Norwood – Let Your Feet Down Easy
6. Shirley Caesar – Jesus Is Coming
7. Swan Silvertones – If You Believe Your God Is Dead
8. The Alvin Darling Ensemble – Is There Anybody Here ?
9. Roscoe Robinson – There's A Creator
10. Destiny – Nothing Can Stop Me Now
11. The Meditation Singers – Good Old Gospel Music
12. Keith Barrow – Everything Is Gonna Be Alright
13. Roscoe Robinson – Elijah
14. Dyson's Faces – Till I've Got This Feelin' Of Love
15. The Violinaires – The Upper Way
16. Leomia Boyd and The Gospel Music Makers – Higher in Jesus' Love
17. Keith Barrow – The Right Road Now

Anybody else pre-order that Luaka Bop Pharoah reissue? I got an notice that is shipped back on August 18th and that it should arrive by September 1st, but the tracking still shows that it's just sitting at the "label created" stage. I'm assuming it has to do with the 9/15 official release date, but wondered if anyone else saw the same thing.

Fwiw, I get that it's the USPS and not the labels, but I really hate getting a "Your order has shipped!" email when it's just the label and will still sit somewhere for weeks before it actually ships.

Lush’s 3 albums were reissued on vinyl last monrh

Fwiw, I get that it's the USPS and not the labels, but I really hate getting a "Your order has shipped!" email when it's just the label and will still sit somewhere for weeks before it actually ships.

Yeah, I ignore every email about something I've ordered until I get the one that says "Your order has been delivered!" And even those are bullshit sometimes — it can take two days for the USPS to actually put something in my PO box.

More from Real Gone Music (Sept. newsletter)

We have a trio of modern rock gems for you today, vinyl debuts all around!

Rooney (named after the principal in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) was formed in high school by singer-songwriter Robert Schwartzman, whose list of celebrity connections is long: brother to actor Jason Schwartzman, cousin to actor Nic Cage and director Sofia Coppola, and nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. But it wasn’t just celebrity that turbocharged Rooney’s rise; songs like “Blueside,” “I’m Shakin’,” and “I’m a Terrible Person” blend power pop with British Invasion and punk influences to create a sort of rock and roll classicism in the best sense of the word. That’s why none other than Johnny Ramone selected them for the Ramones tribute album We’re a Happy Family, and why the band were tabbed to tour with such cult faves as Weezer, The Strokes, and The Donnas (they also appeared as themselves in the first season of The O.C.). That’s also why their 2003 self-titled debut (produced by Jimmy Iovine among others) sold a cool half million copies…but somehow it’s never been out on LP. Our Real Gone release of Rooney comes in gold vinyl housed inside a jacket with printed inner sleeve. Another one of those early aughts records that’s way, way overdue for wax.

Before Butch Walker produced and/or wrote for such huge acts as (gulp) Pink, Fall Out Boy, Avril Lavigne, Weezer, Green Day, Katy Perry, and (double gulp) Taylor Swift, he fronted the fondly-remembered power pop trio Marvelous 3. Hey!Album actually first came out as an independent release in 1998, but the band re-recorded almost half of it when they signed to Elektra, who released it in 1999. The extra TLC proved well worth it, as the record scored a hit with “Freak of the Week” and introduced Walker’s hooky and sardonically self-deprecating songwriting to the masses (it also landed Marvelous 3 fashion spreads for Abercrombie & Fitch and Calvin Klein…they were, as the saying goes, easy on the eyes). This Real Gone reissue marks the FIRST time Hey!Album is making it to music retail on vinyl, and for its debut we’re pressing it pretty in pink vinyl, with a printed inner sleeve featuring lyrics. A ‘90s classic!

Want a little history lesson along with your thrash metal? The 1989 release Heresy from the German band Paradox was a full-fledged concept album, commemorating the 13th century Albigensian Crusade that sought to eliminate the heretical Cathar sect. And truly, no foe could withstand the twin guitar attack, soaring harmonies, and machine-like rhythm section of this band. Other like-minded members of this particular metal horde include Anthrax, Testament, and Exodus, but really, Heresy is a one-of-a-kind record, and a hard act to follow, as this was the last release from Paradox for eleven years. For its U.S. vinyl debut, we’ve pressed up a limited edition of 1000 copies in dark gray “inquisitor’s robe” vinyl, which comes in an album jacket with inner sleeve featuring lyrics. Thinking man’s thrash!

Grab these while you can and get ready…something very, very big is coming your way next week!

Real Gone Gordon and Gabby

That Paradox album really is good.

This too! The original, anyway, haven't heard the bonus tracks:

In celebration of his legacy, Shimmy-Disc has announced a remixed and remastered reissue of Allen Ginsberg's 1989 album of spoken-word pieces, entitled The Lion For Real, Re-born.

This forthcoming release, due November 3, finds Allen Ginsberg — the voice of a generation, fierce, gentle, profound and profane — paired with music created especially for his work, by some of the guiding lights of Jazz in the modern era: Mark Bingham, Bill Frisell, Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, and others. All masterfully coordinated and produced by the mad scientist of collaborations, Hal Willner.

First released as The Lion For Real in 1989, this time capsule surges forth into the now with 8 additional tracks never included on the original release. These are timeless works, a garden of eden on vinyl to wander through repeatedly, guided by the founding father of Beat Poetry. Graced by an irresistible coda co-written with Shimmy-Disc founder Kramer, his lyrical mantra of "Don’t Grow Old."

Damn! Here's the vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qct4pmWnBtk

Just seen this is happening
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/high-tide-the-complete-liberty-recordings-3cd-box-set/
do wish live audio or video footage would appear.
First lp is really really good anyway.

High Tide: The Complete Liberty Recordings, 3CD Box set
High Tide

£23.99
Released September 29, 2023.

• NEW REMASTERED 3CD CLAMSHELL BOXED SET FEATURING ALL OF THE RECORDINGS BY PROGRESSIVE ROCK BAND HIGH TIDE.

• WITH AN ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET FEATURING AN ESSAY AND A REPRODUCTION POSTER.

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• NEW REMASTERED 3CD CLAMSHELL BOXED SET FEATURING ALL OF THE RECORDINGS BY PROGRESSIVE ROCK BAND HIGH TIDE.

• FEATURING THE ALBUMS ‘SEA SHANTIES’, ‘HIGH TIDE’ AND AN ADDITIONAL CD OF DEMOS AND STUDIO OUT-TAKES RECORDED IN 1969 AND 1970.

• REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES.

• WITH AN ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET FEATURING AN ESSAY AND A REPRODUCTION POSTER.

• REVIEWS AND FEATURES IN NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS, UNCUT, MOJO, RECORD COLLECTOR AND CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINES WITH COVERAGE ON RELEVANT WEBSITES AND FANZINES.

Formed in London in 1969, High Tide featured the intense guitar playing of Tony Hill (formerly with The Misunderstood), the violin and keyboard skills of Simon House, bassist Peter Pavli and drummer Roger Hadden. The band was managed by Clearwater, also home to Hawkwind, Skin Alley and Cochise and were signed to Liberty Records soon after their formation. Their debut album, the stunning ‘Sea Shanties’ was recorded at Olympic studios and some of the heaviest gothic psychedelic rock record ever recorded. Issued in a striking sleeve designed by artist Paul Whitehead, the album is now regarded as a true classic of the era.

Their second album, ‘High Tide’, was recorded in 1970 and was another wonderful work. Despite their originality both critical acclaim and commercial success eluded the band and by the close of 1970 they had disbanded. Tony Hill would continue to plough his own musical furrow as one of Britain’s most original guitarists while Simon House would join the Third Ear Band before becoming a member of Hawkwind. Peter Pavli would go on to join author Michael Moorcock’s band Deep Fix.

Five decades on from their release, the two albums are now regarded by aficionados of this musical era as essential listening. ‘The Complete Liberty Recordings’ features both albums released on the label along with ten bonus tracks drawn from demos and studio out-takes from sessions in 1969 and 1970 and has been newly remastered from the original master tapes. The set features an illustrated booklet with an essay and a rare reproduction poster.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
Sea Shanties
Released as Liberty LBS 83264 in December 1969
1 Futilist’s Lament
2 Death Warmed Up
3 Pushed, But Not Forgotten
4 Walking Down Their Outlook
5 Missing Out
6 Nowhere

DISC TWO
High Tide
Released as Liberty LBS 83294 in 1970
1 Blankman Cries Again
2 The Joke
3 Saneonymous Bonus track
4 The Great Universal Protection Racket (Recorded at Morgan Studios 10 April 1970)

DISC THREE
Demos & Studios Sessions 1969 & 1970
1 Pushed, But Not Forgotten (demo) (Apple Studios March 1969)
2 Death Warmed Up (demo) (Apple Studios March 1969) 3 Dilemma (Apple Studios March 1969)
4 The Great Universal Protection Racket (Recorded at Olympic Studios 18 June 1969)
5 Time Gauges (Recorded at Olympic Studios 8 July 1969) 6 The Joke (first version) (Recorded at Olympic Studios May 1970)
7 Blankman Cries Again (first version) (Recorded at Olympic Studios May 1970)
8 Ice Age (Recorded in 1970)

Superior Viaduct is putting out several early Milford Graves titles on LP in November: Bäbi and the two live albums with Don Pullen, Nommo and In Concert at Yale University. There's also a 2LP set that combines both the live albums (the same way Corbett vs Dempsey combined them on CD a couple of years ago). The disc of bonus material that was on CvsD's CD reissue of Bäbi is not part of this run, though.

https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/milford-graves

you alluded to it but just want to emphasize that it's all already available on CD and has been

Welllll...those CDs went out of print fast. A few online stores (Squidco, Wayside) might still have copies, but you'll have to do some searching.

Kirsty MacColl: See That Girl 1979-2000
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/kirsty-maccoll-see-that-girl-1979-2000/

CD 1: The Singles
They Don’t Know (03:01)
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (02:58)
There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis (03:08)
See That Girl (02:57)
You Still Believe In Me (02:57)
Terry (03:56)
A New England (03:50)
He’s On The Beach (03:29)
Fairytale Of New York (The Pogues Feat. Kirsty MacColl) (04:31)
Free World (Radio Version) (02:38)
Days (02:59)
Innocence (Remix) (04:02)
Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim! (03:47)
Walking Down Madison (7″ Mix) (04:40)
My Affair (Radio Edit) (03:34)
All I Ever Wanted (Single Mix) (03:31)
Angel (Single Edit) (03:40)
Caroline (02:57)
Perfect Day (Kirsty MacColl & Evan Dando) (03:50)
Mambo De La Luna (Single Edit) (03:31)
In These Shoes? (03:39)

CD 2: 1979 – 1983
Turn My Motor On (02:27)
I Don’t Need You (02:56)
There’s A Guy Works Down The Truck Stop Swears He’s Elvis (03:08)
Nothing To Do (The Clock Goes Round Demo)* (02:19)
Falling For Faces (Demo)* (02:25)
The Real Ripper (Demo)* (04:13)
Teenager In Love (02:37)
Mexican Sofa (03:14)
Until The Night (03:50)
Over You (02:35)
Queen Of The High Teas (02:27)
Bad Dreams* (04:48)
Time* (03:45)
Sticked and Stoned (03:46)
Annie (04:30)
Camel Crossing (05:21)
Berlin (03:34)
Man With No Name* (03:28)
Lullaby for Ezra* (03:50)
Up the Grey Stairs* (06:38)
Roman Gardens (04:58)
Tracks 12-21 are the 1983 Polydor album ‘Real’, presented here complete and sequenced for the first time.

CD 3: 1983-1989
Terry (Extended Version) (05:20)
Quietly Alone (02:39)
One Little Lie (Demo)* (04:08)
A New England (Extended Version) (07:57)
Patrick (03:09)
I’m Going Out With An Eighty Year Old Millionaire (02:55)
Trouble With People (Demo)* (03:03)
Man Of Steel (Demo)* (02:59)
He’s On The Beach (Extended Version) (08:08)
Please, Go To Sleep (02:33)
You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby (She’s Having A Baby Version) (03:40)
Closer To God (03:53)
The End Of A Perfect Day (Original Demo Version) (03:23)
La Forêt De Mimosa (03:36)
Fifteen Minutes (03:12)
What Do Pretty Girls Do? (02:37)
Dancing In Limbo (02:51)
You And Me Baby (02:31)
Happy (02:33)
El Paso (03:46)
Still Life (02:57)

CD 4:
Innocence (The Guilt Mix) (04:09)
No Victims (Guitar Heroes Mix) (04:23)
Clubland (04:04)
Other People’s Hearts (03:37)
One Good Thing (03:37)
He Never Mentioned Love (03:50)
The Hardest Word (04:38)
My Way Home (04:30)
My Affair (Olive Groove Mix) (06:26)
All The Tears That I Cried (03:31)
A New England (Live At Glastonbury 26/06/92)* (03:55)
Innocence (Live At Glastonbury 26/06/92)* (04:10)
You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby (Live At Glastonbury 26/06/92)* (03:28)
Fifteen Minutes / Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim! (Live At Glastonbury 26/06/92)* (05:40)
Happy (Live At Glastonbury 26/06/92)* (02:40)
Tread Lightly (Live At Glastonbury 26/06/92)* (03:15)
Train In Vain / Walking Down Madison (Live At Glastonbury 26/06/92)* (07:15)
Free World (Live At Glastonbury 26/06/92)* (02:30)
There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis (Live At Glastonbury 26/06/92)* (03:35)

CD 5: 1993-1996
Soho Square (04:25)
Last Day Of Summer (04:20)
Can’t Stop Killing You (04:10)
Titanic Days (05:43)
Big Boy On A Saturday Night (03:56)
Angel (Stuart Crichton Piano Edit) (03:17)
King Kong (Demo) (03:56)
Dear John (Demo) (02:43)
Fabulous Garden (03:13)
Touch Me (03:36)
Free World (Live at Belly Up, Solana Beach, California 01/12/93) (02:43)
Miss Otis Regrets (Live at Belly Up, Solana Beach, California 01/12/93) (03:01)
Irish Cousin (04:49)
The Butcher Boy (03:57)
As Long As You Hold Me (Electric Version)* (04:39)
Eu So Quero Un Xodó* (03:15)
In These Shoes? (Demo)* (03:40)
Things Happen (Demo) (02:58)
Treachery (Demo) (a.k.a. Stalking A Fan)* (03:51)
Siempre Tu Rosa (Always Your Rose)* (02:35)

CD 6: 1999-2000
1. Mambo De La Luna (Mint Royale Mix) (05:36)
2. In These Shoes? (UR Crazy Remix) (06:04)
3. Good For Me (03:34)
4. Autumngirlsoup (03:54)
5. Us Amazonians (04:09)
6. Nao Esperando (04:04)
7. Wrong Again (04:20)
8. I Believe In Love* (02:47)
9. Sun On The Water (Demo) (04:07)
10. Here Comes That Man Again (Live at The Jazz Café, London, 12/10/99)* (05:10)
11. Head (Live at The Jazz Café, London, 12/10/99)* (03:50)
12. Celestine (Live at The Jazz Café, London, 12/10/99)* (03:45)
13. England 2 Colombia 0 (Live at The Jazz Café, London, 12/10/99)* (03:50)
14. Designer Life (Live at The Jazz Café, London, 12/10/99)* (02:40)
15. Days (Live at The Jazz Café, London, 12/10/99)* (03:10)
16. Walking Down Madison (Live at The Jazz Café, London, 12/10/99)* (06:25)
17. How Insensitive (Live at The Jazz Café, London, 12/10/99)* (03:25)
18. My Affair (Live at The Jazz Café, London, 12/10/99)* (08:30)

CD 7: BBC recordings 1981 – 2000
I Don’t Wanna Play House (Something Else, BBC TV 23/10/81)* (03.35)
Queen Of The High Teas (Something Else, BBC TV 23/10/81)* (02.30)
You Can Have My Husband (Something Else, BBC TV 23/10/81)* (02.10)
Don’t Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim! (BBC Radio 1 session for Nicky Campbell, 08/11/89) (03.41)
What Do Pretty Girls Do? (BBC Radio 1 session for Nicky Campbell, 08/11/89) (02.36)
Don’t Run Away From Me Now (BBC Radio 1 session for Nicky Campbell, 08/11/89 (02.56)
Still Life (BBC Radio 1 session for Nicky Campbell, 08/11/89 (03.05)
There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis (BBC Radio 1 Session for Nicky Campbell, 26/06/91) (03:48)
Walk Right Back (BBC Radio 1 Session for Nicky Campbell, 26 June 1991) (03.37)
Darling, Let’s Have Another Baby (with Billy Bragg) (BBC Radio 1 Session for Nicky Campbell, 26 June 1991) (02.39)
Angel (Later… BBC TV 19 November 1992)* (04.10)
Can’t Stop Killing You (BBC Greater London Radio Session for Peter Curran, 07/03/94)* (03.54)
Soho Square (BBC Greater London Radio Session for Peter Curran, 07/03/94)* (04.13)
Bad (BBC Greater London Radio Session for Peter Curran, 07/03/94)* (01.56)
My Affair (BBC Radio 1 Session for Simon Mayo, 07/03/94) (03.44)
16. Miss Otis Regrets (with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards) (Later… BBC TV 31 December 1994)* (03.13)
Caroline (BBC Greater London Radio Session for Peter Curran, 16 February 1995)* (02.29)
Free World (BBC Greater London Radio Session for Peter Curran, 16 February 1995)* (02.46)
A New England (Acoustic) (BBC Radio 1 Session for Kevin Greening, 20/02/95) (03.29)
He’s On The Beach (Acoustic) (BBC Radio 1 Session for Kevin Greening, 20/02/95) (03.27)
Tread Lightly (Live at The Fleadh, Finsbury Park 10/06/95) (04.18)
I Wanna Be Sedated (Live at The Fleadh, Finsbury Park 10 June 1995) (02.32)
In These Shoes? (Later… BBC TV 15/04/00)* (03.57)

CD 8: Other People’s Songs (Guest Appearances & Collaborations)
Peggy Seeger – Darling Annie (4.09)
Jane Aire & The Belvederes – Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache (2.54)
Jools Holland & Kirsty MacColl – Shutting The Doors (4.22)
Tracey Ullman – You Broke My Heart in 17 Places (2.49)
Billy Bragg With Johnny Marr & Kirsty MacColl – Greetings To The New Brunette (3.30)
David Byrne – Make Believe Mambo (Orisa) (5.23)
Ewan MacColl – The Manchester Rambler (4.42)
Happy Mondays – Hallelujah (MacColl Mix) (2.39)
Mary Coughlan – Invisible To You (4.28)
Alison Moyet – Wishing You Were Here (3.57)
Holly Johnson – Boyfriend ’65 (3.08)
Kirsty MacColl & Billy Bragg – Darling Let’s Have Another Baby (2.39)
The Wonder Stuff – Welcome To The Cheap Seats (Naked Mix) (2.41)
Engine Alley – Song For Someone (3.46)
Anthony Thistlethwaite – Red Jeans (2.36)
Sharon Shannon & Kirsty MacColl – Libertango (4.23)
Chucho Merchán, Kirsty MacColl and Phil Manzanera – People Uniting (5.05)
Ghostland & Kirsty MacColl – Sail Away (3.14)
*Tracks marked * are previously unreleased recordings.

now THIS is what i'm talking about

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Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble - Funky Donkey Vol. 1 (1973) LP

Wewantsounds, in collaboration with Corbett vs. Dempsey, reissues one of the great albums out of the BAG galaxy recorded by Luther Thomas

From Sony Legacy:

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hollywood Bowl August 18, 1967
Live at The Hollywood Bowl: August 18, 1967 has never before been released or bootlegged. It captures the Jimi Hendrix Experience at a unique moment in their illustrious career. Before a sold out audience of 17,000 people, the Experience overwhelmed an unsuspecting audience with a superb show that encompassed his renditions of songs by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters as well as signature songs such as “Purple Haze” and “The Wind Cries Mary.” Out November 10th, the album is currently available for pre-order on CD, vinyl, and digitally.

Sorry not to get this in sooner. Omnivore is having one of their flash sales: albums by or featuring Peter Holsapple (ends tomorrow, the 28th)"
https://omnivorerecordings.com/holsapplesale/
The sessions with Chilton incl. a couple I'd want to keep, The Continental Drifters many more, as well it might, for inst with the Psycho Sisters. Vicki Petersen and Susan Cowsill, singing the best tracks. Also, despite not being a big seasonal music fan, I like a lot of The dB's & Friends' Christmas Time Again!, which has had tracks added several times over the years, and keeps getting better. Have not heard the PH Combo xmas alb, the solo, or duet set w Stamey.

Also on Omnivore--hadn't heard of this!

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Terry Adams & Steve Ferguson
Louisville Sluggers
Release date: May 12, 2023

Expanded reissue of the 2006 release from co-founders of NRBQ
In 1966, Terry Adams and Steve Ferguson, two musicians from Louisville, Kentucky, formed the New Rhythm And Blues Quartet after playing together in earlier bands. From the release of their 1969, self-titled debut, NRBQ became not only one of the greatest genre-defying bands on the planet, but also a band whose live shows were as unpredictable as they were unparalleled in the joy they brought their audiences. Although Ferguson left the band in 1971, he was never far away—periodically showing up at gigs (much to the delight of fans), and playing with Adams on various releases keeping their musical friendship alive and well.

The pair got together in the mid 2000s to re-explore that kinship. They brought along NRBQ drummer Tom Ardolino, Terry’s brother Donn (of The Whole Wheat Horns, whose work is prevalent on many NRBQ releases), and some other friends. Donn says in the album’s liner notes, “No outside producers. No time constraints. No budget influences. Just Terry and Steve and friends.”

Louisville Sluggers appeared in 2006 to the delight of the NRBQ faithful. In addition to originals from both Adams and Ferguson, the friends also explored the music they loved: Thelonious Monk, Jimmie Rodgers, Louis Armstrong, Hank Williams, and more. No matter the writer or influence, Louisville Sluggers was totally inventive, and a whole lot of fun.

Now, Louisville Sluggers returns, with updated artwork (retaining Donn Adams original liner notes) and four previously unissued bonus tracks including recordings of “Turkey In The Straw” and Allen Toussaint’s “Java.” This reissue expands the wonder and merriment of Louisville Sluggers for the new and old generations of fans of NRBQ and beyond.

CD / DIGITAL TRACK LIST:
PEANUT VENDOR
OUTER SPACE BOOGIE (Alternate Mix)
SAME TRAIN
MULE SKINNER BLUES (Take 1)
ICHABOD
PLEASE DON’T TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I’M GONE
IT’S TOO SOON TO KNOW
KNUCKLEHEAD
DUTCHESS COUNTY JAIL
SOUTH OF THE ORIENT
HI-HEEL SNEAKERS
TURKEY IN THE STRAW *
BLUE MONK
JAVA *
DUET FOR COUSINS *
HEY GOOD LOOKIN’
ICHABOD (Take 1) *
* Previously unissued bonus tracks.

my fave single album of Omnivore's ongoing NRBQ series is groovy speculative rowdy backyard Louisville s/t debut, finally reissued in 2018:

The return of their classic debut album!
The New Rhythm And Blues Quintet formed over 50 years ago, and after playing together for a few years, the band began recording with Eddie Kramer and inked a two-record deal with Columbia Records. Their eponymous debut appeared on shelves in 1969, featuring the band’s wide-ranging originals peppered with versions of songs from artists as wide-ranging as Eddie Cochran and Sun Ra, plus a co-write between the band’s Terry Adams and Jazz experimentalist Carla Bely. It was, and is, a wildly original and influential release.

For all of its stature, it’s hard to believe in its 49-year existence, it has never been reissued, nor ever appeared on CD or Digital. That changes in March when NRBQ is available once again, on CD (for the first time), Digital, and as a gatefold LP. Combining elements of the original, with additional photos and new liner notes from Jay Berman, the package has never looked, nor sounded better.

The band is still going strong, and this reissue follows hot on the heels of their 5-CD boxed set, High Noon – A 50-Year Retrospective, and last year’s critically acclaimed EP, Happy Talk.

Big Tina Turner compilation coming in November:

Tina Turner
Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll
A Collection Of All Her Singles From 1975-2023
55 Tracks Presented Chronologically On 5-LP & 3-CD Sets With A Foreword From Bryan Adams

CD1
Whole Lotta Love
Acid Queen
Root, Toot Undisputable Rock ‘n’ Roller
Viva La Money
Sometimes When We Touch
Music Keeps Me Dancin’
Let’s Stay Together
Help
What’s Love Got To Do With It
Better Be Good To Me
Private Dancer
I Can’t Stand The Rain
Show Some Respect
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)
One Of The Living
It’s Only Love (with Bryan Adams)
Typical Male
Two People
What You Get Is What You See
Girls

CD2
Break Every Rule
Paradise Is Here
Afterglow
Tearing Us Apart (with Eric Clapton)
Addicted to Love (Live in Europe)
A Change is Gonna Come (Live in Europe)
Tonight (with David Bowie) (Live in Europe)
River Deep, Mountain High (Live in Europe)
The Best (Edit)
Steamy Windows
I Don’t Wanna Lose You
Look Me In The Heart
Foreign Affair
Be Tender With Me Baby
It Takes Two (with Rod Stewart)
Nutbush City Limits (The 90’s Version)
Love Thing
Way Of The World

CD3
I Want You Near Me
I Don’t Wanna Fight
Disco Inferno
Why Must We Wait Until Tonight?
Proud Mary
Goldeneye
Whatever You Want
On Silent Wings
Missing You
In Your Wildest Dreams (with Barry White)
Cose della Vita (with Eros Ramazzotti)
When The Heartache Is Over
Whatever You Need
Open Arms
Teach Me Again (with Elisa)
What’s Love Got to Do With It (Kygo remix)
Something Beautiful (2023 Version)

Laibach's Nova Akropola is being reissued as a 3CD set in December. Discs 1 and 3 are crucial — it's a great album, and they were incredible live back in the old days — but Disc 2 is probably pretty skippable.

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DISC ONE
1. VIER PERSONEN
2. NOVA AKROPOLA
3. KRVAVA GRUDA – PLODNA ZEMLJA
4. VOJNA POEMA
5. TI, KI IZZIVAŠ (OUTRO)
6. DIE LIEBE
7. DRŽAVA
8. VADE RETRO
9. PANORAMA
10. DECREE

DISC TWO
LIVE IN EUROPE 1997-2020
1. VADE RETRO (LIVE IN LJUBLJANA, 1997)
2. NOVA AKROPOLA (LIVE IN ZAGREB 2019)
3. VIER PERSONEN (LIVE IN LJUBLJANA, 2019)
4. KRVAVA GRUDA – PLODNA ZEMLJA (LIVE IN SERBIA, 2021)
5. TI, KI IZZIVAŠ (LIVE IN SERBIA, 2021)
6. DIE LIEBE (LIVE IN SKOPJE 2018)
7. DRŽAVA (LIVE AT LJUBLJANA CASTLE, 2020)

DISC THREE
LIVE IN LONDON 1985-1987
1. VIER PERSONEN (LONDON, 1985)
2. NOVA AKROPOLA (LONDON, 1985)
3. VADE RETRO (LONDON, 1985)
4. KRVAVA GRUDA – PLODNA ZEMLJA (LONDON, 1986)
5. DIE LIEBE (LONDON, 1985)
6. TI, KI IZZIVAŠ (LONDON, 1985)
7. DRŽAVA (LONDON, 1985)
8. VOJNA POEMA (LONDON, 1985)
9. DRŽAVA (LET’S MAKE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE FIRST AGAIN!) (LONDON, 1987)

10CD or 10LP box: The Complete Obscure Records Collection

** Limited Collector Edition of 1.000 copies. Includes hand-numbered certificate, 10 LPs in faithful replicas of the original covers and polylined inner sleeves, a 80-page LP-sized book in English, all housed in a custom lavish linen box. ** In a very special Soundohm exclusive, we’re thrilled to announce pre-orders for the first ever box set gathering the entire ten album collection of Brian Eno’s Obscure Records, originally issued between 1975 and 1978. Containing the debut releases of Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman, John Adams, David Toop, Max Eastley, Harold Budd, Christopher Hobbs, Jan Steele, and Simon Jeffes / The Penguin Café Orchestra, in addition to important works by John Cage, Tom Phillips, and John White, not to mention Eno’s seminal “Discreet Music”, the label’s output collectively amounts to a monument in the history of minimalist experimental music that has captivated audiences since it first appeared - a rare bridge between the avant-garde and popular realms. This remarkable collection, coming as a deluxe box set designed by Bruno Stucchi / dinamomilano, and issued by Dialogo in CD and vinyl editions completely remastered by Andrea Marutti - both including a book filled with rare photos, archival material and texts by, among others, Gavin Bryars, Bradford Bailey, David Toop, Max Eastley, Richard Bernas, and Tom Recchion - marks the first time this seminal series has received a complete repress on any format, with a number of the albums within having never been reissued on vinyl and/or CD since their original release. You can't get any better than this, simply a dream come true.

Mighty tempting... I have seven of those albums in one form or another already; it was one of those collector impulses that eventually subsided. Still haven't heard Machine Music, Ensemble Pieces or Voices and Instruments.

Think that the vinyl version comes with downloads?

Hmmm. Probably not.

In my latest newsletter, I write about three new South African jazz reissues:

South Africa '75

Three early '80s Henry Threadgill albums — 1982's When Was That?, 1983's Just The Facts And Pass The Bucket, and 1985's Subject To Change, have popped up on Bandcamp, which is notable because Subject To Change was only ever available on LP. The other two were reissued on CD at one point but have been out of print for decades. You can get them all at https://about-time-records.bandcamp.com/ along with some other great records by trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah, percussionist Jerome Cooper, Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, and others.

Anyone hear the new Brinsley Schwarz box set? It's basically a reissue that collects all of their albums, remastered with bonus tracks. (The old CD's were really hit-or-miss in the mastering department, so I'm hoping these are done right.)