Rolling Reissues 2012

scary wake of Joy D. *too*, freedom and fraternity *of* consumption.

of Montreal - Daughter of Cloud
On Oct. 23rd, of Montreal will release their rarities collection, Daughter of Cloud, which compiles 17 of Montreal recordings ranging from the Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? era to the present. Ten of the album's songs are previously unreleased, while the other seven were originally issued on limited edition, rare or out-print CDs and 7"s.

It will be available on CD, 180 gram cyan colored 2xLP and digital formats. It will also be released as a limited edition of 200 hand numbered purple cassettes by Joyful Noise Recordings.

The band will also hit the road later this fall starting off with the Filter Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles on October 6th and ending December 15th @ Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC.

One of of Montreal's Daughter of Cloud rarities, "Sails, Hermaphroditic":
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CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s Eye For An Eye To Be Reissued November 6

Candlelight Records today confirms November 6 as the North American release date of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s Eye For An Eye. This special reissue has been remastered/packaged and includes the EP Six Songs With Mike Singing. Both titles have been out of print for years. It follows the successful release of the band’s self-titled album earlier this year. A deluxe digibook edition of the album, limited to 1000 for North America, will be available at limited retailers and via Candlelight’s official webstore. The digibook version includes extended liner notes and a rare pictorial gallery.
Twenty-six songs showcase the early sonic years of the North Carolina-based band. Far more punk than their later recordings, the album found an immediate fanbase. Amazon customers over the years have called the album an “undisputed classic,” while noting it is “for the true skaters of the mid-to-late-‘80s,” and “brings me back to a good time of hardcore/punk.” Guitarist Woody Weatherman comments, “We were just kids when we wrote and recorded these tunes.” Vocalist/bassist Mike Dean notes, “Making that album was our dream and we worked hard to make it happen because it was the vehicle to allow us to go out and play two hundred shows a year, like the bands we looked up to – Black Flag, Bad Brains, D.O.A.”
Originally released in 1984, Eye for An Eye featured the original lineup of Weatherman, Dean, drummer Reed Mullin, and vocalist Eric Eycke. Reissued to incorporate the 1989 EP by Mike Dean (who left the band between 1987-1992), Eye for An Eye is raw in sound but focused on message. The years that followed would see the band rise to worldwide popularity with breakthrough and Billboard-charting releases Blind and Deliverance.
Formed in Raleigh in 1982, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY quickly transformed heavy music. Politically charged and socially aware, the band has influenced countless others and today remains humble about their accomplishments. With over 1.1 million albums sold in the United States, the band continues to find new fans via nonstop touring.
“We had a lot of fun doing it and it’s great to have this album officially back out there again,” says Weatherman. “I had basically written this off as being our sloppy beginner's effort but listening to it now, I really hear a few songs that hold up well,” adds Dean.
Eye For An Eye Track Listing:
01. Tell Me

02. Minds Are Controlled

03. Indifferent

04. Broken Will

05. Rabid Dogs

06. L.S.

07. Rednekkk

08. Coexist

09. Excluded

10. Dark Thoughts

11. Poison Planet

12. What?

13. Negative Outlook

14. Positive Outlook

15. No Drunk

16. College Town

17. Not Safe

18. Eye For An Eye

19. Nothing’s Gonna Change

20. Green Manalishi

21. Eye For An Eye*

22. Center of the World*

23. Citizen*

24. Not For Me*

25. What ?*

26. Negative Outlook*

*Six Songs With Mike Singing

Typical, I finally found a copy of this on CD recently but it was quite expensive.

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REAL GONE MUSIC LATE OCTOBER, NOVEMBER RELEASES FEATURE EL TOPO SOUNDTRACK, BARBARA LEWIS, DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE, SSGT. BARRY SADLER
AND JOHNNY MATHIS MERCURY ALBUMS

Also, Christmas stocking stuffers from Percy Faith, Doris Day
and a Perry Como collection produced by Richard Carpenter

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Real Gone Music is hitting the election season with a slate of releases designed to appeal to every party. The mind-bending soundtrack from the movie El Topo will return as a deluxe CD and 180-gram LP on October 30. Northern soul legend Barbara Lewis’ Atlantic years are collected on The Complete Atlantic Singles. Lower East Side habitué and John Lennon crony David Peel’s Have a Marijuana makes its U.S. CD album reissue debut. On the other end of town (and political spectrum), SSgt. Barry Sadler’s Ballads of the Green Berets album finds new life on compact disc, while Real Gone continues its acclaimed reissue of Johnny Mathis’ Mercury material with a pair of twofers coupling This Is Love and Olé and The Sweetheart Tree and The Shadow of Your Smile. And just in time for Christmas, Real Gone Music offers Percy Faith’s The Complete Music of Christmas, Doris Day’s The Complete Christmas Collection, and Perry Como’s Complete RCA Christmas Collection.

Championed by everybody from John Lennon to Peter Gabriel, though decried by critics, El Topo remains one of the controversial movies ever made. Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s bizarre, blood-soaked blend of spaghetti Western, druggy surrealism, Christian allegory, Zen Buddhist themes and avant-garde sensibilities gave rise to the entire “Midnight Movie” counterculture phenomenon of the early ’70s and forever changed the way adventurous audiences viewed film. Or, for that matter, heard film, for no soundtrack, before or since, has embraced so many styles in its pursuit of spiritual and artistic goals. Atonal, Tibetan Buddhist thighbone trumpets clash with beautiful, even sentimental, chamber orchestra pieces alongside pan flute rhapsodies, brass bands and parlor jazz; that Jodorowsky himself composed the score is nearly as impressive an artistic achievement as the film itself. Real Gone Music, in partnership with ABKCO Music & Records, will issue this one-of-a-kind soundtrack album on LP and as a stand-alone CD for the first time since the original 1971 Apple Records release. All design elements of the original packaging — including a four-page booklet boasting some of the film’s hallucinogenic imagery — will be reproduced on the LP reissue and incorporated into the design of the CD booklet. Out October 30, 2012.

With her purring passionate voice and arrangements both spare and sumptuous, Barbara Lewis recorded some of the best soul-pop of the 1960s. Though best remembered for her hits “Hello Stranger” (which she wrote, along with a number of her early singles), “Baby I'm Yours” and “Make Me Your Baby,” she recorded a wealth of fine material for Atlantic Records throughout the 1960s that remains beloved among devotees of both the Beach Music and Northern Soul scenes, with such esteemed producers as Bert Berns, Arif Mardin and Artie Butler behind the board. The two-CD collection The Complete Atlantic Singles is the most comprehensive anthology of her Atlantic recordings ever assembled (and the only one available), featuring the A-sides and B-sides of all 17 singles she issued for the label, many of which have never appeared on CD. Richie Unterberger’s notes feature exclusive quotes from Barbara Lewis herself. A soul essential, available November 6.

Spawned by the same anarcho-street-folk-punk movement that gave rise to such colorful personalities as the Fugs and Holy Modal Rounders, David Peel has been singing songs and politically agitating on the streets of lower New York for more than 45 years (he recently was a fixture at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations). This album marked his debut; recorded with his band David Peel & the Lower East Side on the streets of New York for Elektra in 1968, it scraped the lower reaches of the charts in 1969 and brought Peel no small measure of notoriety, which culminated with his being signed to Apple Records and produced by John Lennon (the infamous The Pope Smokes Dope) in the early ’70s. Have a Marijuana took no prisoners then and doesn’t now; such songs as “Up Against the Wall,” “I Like Marijuana” and “Here Comes a Cop” may embody for some the worst excesses of the hippie movement while reminding others of the enduring struggle for social justice and personal freedom. Or they might just provoke a guffaw or two—or maybe a Yippie. Have a Marijuana makes its domestic stand-alone CD debut on October 30, with original album art and new liner notes featuring quotes from Peel himself.

Real Gone Music continues its reissue campaign featuring CD debuts of Johnny Mathis’ classic Mercury albums with a pair of single-CD twofers streeting November 6. 1964’s This Is Love was one of the last and greatest of the romantic ballad albums Johnny Mathis had been recording throughout his career to that point, with three tracks (“Poinciana,” “The Touch of Your Lips” and “The End of a Love Affair”) paying tribute to another all-time great romantic balladeer and early role model, Nat “King” Cole. 1965’s Olé, meanwhile, marked a daring artistic turn for the artist, as it presented Latin songs sung in their native languages of Spanish and Portuguese (including two from the film Black Orpheus) with authentic, stripped-down accompaniment. Mathis’ next two albums were among his most successful with Mercury: The Sweetheart Tree boasted the Academy Award-nominated title track penned by Mathis and Henry Mancini for the film The Great Race, and The Shadow of Your Smile was, with the exception of his Christmas record, the most popular of the albums Johnny recorded for Mercury, reaching #9 on the charts. Highlights include the singer’s first forays into Beatle-mania (“Michelle” and “Yesterday”) and three songs from the hit Broadway musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Both albums hail from 1965.

You know a Christmas album is classic when it gets re-recorded in stereo five years after its initial release, when that re-recording hits the charts a full five years after its initial release, and when the record company goes to the trouble of giving a subsequent Christmas album the same name a full seven years after its initial release under a different title. There’s only one Christmas album (or one album, period) that fits all these criteria: Percy Faith’s 1954 masterpiece, The Music of Christmas. Majestic and sumptuous, this recording brought the arranging, orchestrating and conducting prowess of the young maestro to bear on some of the most beloved hymns and carols of all time. Yet the original mono recording of this holiday essential — and its iconic cover art — has never been issued on a legitimate CD until now. (The 1959 stereo re-recording, which charted in 1964, has never gone out of print). Disc Two presents the original stereo version of the 1958 release Hallelujah! together with its original cover art; a Christmas classic in its own right, it shows what holiday magic Percy Faith could wield in the stereophonic realm. That album was re-named The Music of Christmas Volume 2 in 1965; Real Gone Music offers both The Music of Christmas and Hallelujah! as The Complete Music of Christmas, a two-CD set featuring new remastering by Maria Triana that just leaps out of the stereo. Street date is November 13.

Given the international success of her 2011 album My Heart, ’tis the season to re-release Doris Day’s The Complete Christmas Collection, a 22-track collection containing Doris’ complete, holiday-themed recordings, plus some real rarities. The first 12 tracks hail from her beloved 1964 release The Doris Day Christmas Album — issued in its entirety here for the first time in the U.S. — followed by two hard-to-find tracks she recorded with Frank DeVol in 1959 and five non-LP Columbia singles. But the next two songs are even rarer — unreleased prior to this collection, in fact — “Silent Night” and “Christmas Greeting from Doris” hail from her early-’50s radio show and her late-’60s CBS-TV show, respectively. The set winds up with an emotionally charged reading of “Let No Walls Divide” taken from the all-star Christmas album We Wish You the Merriest that Columbia released in 1961 to promote stars like Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin and Andre Previn as well as Doris. Release date is October 30.

A roaring fire, something warm to wear (probably a cardigan) and the crooning call of Perry Como — such has been the comforting recipe for countless Christmas celebrations across generations. And now here’s a collection to pass down through those generations: all of the holiday-themed recordings Perry made for RCA over 36 years taken from the original tapes, with notes by longtime admirer (and co-producer of this compilation) Richard Carpenter. The first eight tracks hail from the original 78-rpm album Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas (1946), followed by six non-album singles. Next up is the 1953 album Around the Christmas Tree, plus, as a bonus, two spoken-word radio introductions from Perry. That’s disc one; disc two leads off with three more singles, then the 1959 stereo album Season’s Greetings From Perry Como, which hit the Pop album charts for four straight years and the Christmas album charts for six more years after that! And disc three offers two single sides, then the chart-topping 1968 release The Perry Como Christmas Album, a rare album outtake (“Some Children See Him”) and another single before fittingly winding up with Perry’s final holiday recording from 1982, the appropriately-titled “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever.” Only 1,000 copies of this 53-track collection were made in 2010 before it went out of print, now fetching $400 online for a new copy (don’t worry, this Real Gone Music reissue sells for a lot less than that). The three-CD set Complete RCA Christmas Collection, slated for October 30 release, is destined to become an enduring Christmas classic.

Depending upon your age, political persuasion and/or aesthetic sensibility, the 1966 album SSgt. Barry Sadler’s Ballads of the Green Berets could be viewed as a courageous, patriotic rejoinder to the antiwar fervor then sweeping the nation, or as a jingoistic, war-mongering screed, or as an unintentionally hilarious camp classic. Through any filter, though, it’s a genuine ’60s artifact, proof positive that Richard Nixon’s “Silent Majority” really did exist back in the ’60s, as it sold two million copies in five weeks and the title track reached #1 and #2 in the pop and country charts, respectively. The Real Gone reissue, to be released October 30, includes the original artwork, new liner notes and a bonus track, SSgt. Sadler’s hit follow-up single, “The ‘A’-Team.”

Street date October 30, 2012:
El Topo Soundtrack (LP & CD)
David Peel & the Lower East Side: Have a Marijuana
Perry Como: Complete RCA Christmas Collection
Doris Day: The Complete Christmas Collection
SSgt. Barry Sadler: Ballads of the Green Berets

Street date November 6, 2012:
Barbara Lewis: The Complete Atlantic Singles
Johnny Mathis: This Is Love/Olé
Johnny Mathis: The Sweetheart Tree/The Shadow of Your Smile

Street date November 13, 2012:
Percy Faith: The Complete Music of Christmas
About Real Gone Music
Real Gone Music, formed and helmed by industry vets Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana, is an eclectic and prolific catalog and reissue label with distribution through Razor & Tie. Anderson and Castellana each started businesses in 1993 — Collectors’ Choice Music and Hep Cat Records & Distribution, respectively — that became two of the most important outlets for buyers and sellers of vintage music recordings. They joined forces in 2011 to launch Real Gone Music, which serves both the collector community and the casual music fan with a robust release schedule combining big-name artists with esoteric cult favorites. Real Gone Music is dedicated to combing the vaults for sounds that aren’t just gone — they’re REAL gone.
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Viva Tim Maia! Luaka Bop Throws Worldwide Party for Brazilian Superstar's 70th Birthday

Tim Maia
After a decade of legal wrangling, 'Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia,' the latest installment in Luaka Bop's World Psychedelic Classics series, is out Oct 2, and the entire album is now streaming exclusively via Slate
http://slate.me/QxJsvq

Had he not died of a heart attack onstage in 1998, Maia would turn 70 tomorrow, September 28. Luaka Bop is celebrating with a worldwide birthday celebration spanning four continents over 24 hours, featuring tribute shows, DJ sets and live performances, and more. Click the image at the right to zoom in on Tim's birthday party map and go here for more information on the events: http://www.facebook.com/TimMaiaOfficial/events

Rolling Stone recently called his music a "soul grenade." In an early review SPIN noted that Maia is sometimes called "the Brazilian Sly Stone" adding that "actually undersells his uniqueness."

Tim Maia on the Web:

http://www.timmaia.com

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Sorry!
This shows all the bday party events
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WHY DOES THE BALLAD OF THE GREEN BERETS NEED TO BE REISSUED? WHAT KIND OF TWISTED WORLD IS THIS.

makes me think of the estate sale i was at a few weeks ago that had a beaten up seven-inch of the ballad of davy crocket -- for $10! isn't that like the biggest selling seven inch of all time or something?
anyway, reissues -- this looks good: http://www.spin.com/articles/numero-group-worlds-greatest-reissue-label

I thought "Ballad of the Green Berets" would be top on some people's lists to just steal. I mean, it's fun for mix tapes but who would go out of their way. Just rip that thing from YouTube.

Hadn't heard about the vinyl/cd package of the Birthday Party's Junkyard before this week.
sound is based on a 2000 Henry Rollins remaster so presumably means that Infinite Zero/2:13:61 or somwebody had reissued the lp back then.

I've been wondering about Birthday Party remasters for a while so interested to hear about this. Not sure exactly when it came out offhand was it last day of August?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 28, 2012


THE JAM – THE GIFT
Super Deluxe Box Set – Released on November 19th on Universal Records

“Better stop dreaming of the quiet life -
Cos it's the one we'll never know”

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Jam’s final studio album and to mark the 30th anniversary of the bands’ startling split, Universal will release a super-deluxe box set of THE GIFT on November 19, 2012.

“I was very proud of it - I thought it was another advance on what we'd done before.” Paul Weller - 2012

Surprisingly this was the band’s only No. 1 album in the UK and marked the departure from the classic Jam sound to a more soul-influenced style, ushering in Weller’s ideas for the Style Council. THE GIFT includes the classic UK No. 1 single “Town Called Malice” plus other highlights “Running On The Spot” and “Carnation.”

THE GIFT, released in March 1982 was The Jam’s final studio album, in which Weller strove to bring as close to perfection as was humanly possible. Plenty of its songs number among The Jam’s best. It is also a fascinating glimpse of its time: of musical currents that were swirling around London and beyond. THE GIFT’s energy was not just focused on the state of society: it had a lot to say about where music was going, what had happened to the righteous fires lit by punk, and how to remain relevant and vital when music was taking some very wrong turns indeed. The challenge it answered was simple enough: if blaring guitars and rock poses had run out of road, what could embody the kind of passion that The Jam were all about? The answer lay in the soul music that had bled into their collective identity from the start, and a push to make it less of an influence, than a key part of who they were.

Looking back, some of The Jam’s associates have speculated about what lay behind Weller’s frantic drive to put everything he could into THE GIFT: increasingly of the belief that the group should break-up, Weller was simply trying ensure that their last album should be their best.

Since the breakup of The Jam, Paul Weller’s career has thrived and evolved. From his days fronting The Style Council to this year’s critically acclaimed new solo album SONIK KICKS, the reissue of THE GIFT can almost be viewed as the jumping off point for Weller’s long and illustrious career.

Full details of the track listing, artwork, added extras and bonuses of the 4-disc box set listed below which includes a “Live At Wembley 1982” CD and a compilation DVD of videos, Top Of The Pop appearances and other Jam nuggets.

The Jam – The Gift: 30th Anniversary (‘The Gift and beyond…’)

A ‘Super-Deluxe’ box set edition of The Gift album + last few singles (Great Depression, The Bitterest Pill, Beat Surrender)

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‘Gift-box’ ‘super-deluxe’ edition contents:

Four discs, in individual wallets

1. Disc 1 – original album re-mastered
+ 10 singles/b-sides from the period, up to the split.

2. Disc 2 – bonus tracks
15 demos & alternate tracks, 13 previously unreleased, re-mastered

3. Disc 3 – Live at Wembley December 1982
23 tracks, complete concert from the last ever Jam tour (previously unreleased), re-mastered

4. Disc 4 – DVD compilation

Promo clips (Town Called Malice / Precious / The Bitterest Pill)
Trans-Global Unity Express tour – live tracks from Birmingham show:

1. Town Called Malice
2. Carnation
3. Precious
4. Ghosts
5. Move On Up
6. Private Hell
7. Pretty Green
8. “Trans-Global Express”
9. The Gift

Danish TV special (DR) The band play the Gift album live in small studio with audience (previously unseen officially)
Top Of The Pops – 1982 - Town Called Malice / Precious

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Outer box in original striped bag style cover – ‘The Jam – A Gift’!

Hardback 72-page, full-colour book – including period and fan’s memorabilia, magazine cuttings (NME etc.), reviews, photos, new interviews (with Paul Weller and producer Peter Wilson)

Forward by Paul Weller and new essay by John Harris

Set of postcard prints

Replica 1982 tour programme

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Also available as…

2-disc deluxe digi-pak format
Deluxe digital version

Limited Edition 10” Vinyl of Danish TV Concert recorded 23/4/82

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Super-deluxe box tracklisting:

Disc One - Original album / Singles & B-Sides
1. Happy Together
2. Ghosts
3. Precious
4. Just Who Is The 5 O’clock Hero
5. “Trans-Global Express”
6. Running On The Spot
7. Circus
8. The Planner’s Dream Goes Wrong
9. Carnation
10. Town Called Malice
11. The Gift

12. Precious (12”)
13. The Great Depression
14. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
15. Pity Poor Alfie / Fever
16. Pity Poor Alfie (swing version)
17. Beat Surrender
18. Shopping
19. Move On Up
20. Stoned Out Of My Mind
21. War
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Disc Two – Demos & alternate tracks
Skirt (demo) #
Get Yourself Together (demo) Originally released on ‘Extras’
Ghosts (instrumental demo) #
Just Who Is The 5 O’clock Hero (demo) #
Running On The Spot (demo) #
The Planner’s Dream Goes Wrong (demo) #
Carnation (instrumental demo) #
Precious (demo) Originally released on ‘Direction, Reaction, Creation’
The Bitterest Pill (demo) #
Alfie (demo ‘2’) #
We’ve Only Started (‘old version’) #
Only Started (instrumental demo) #
Shopping (AKA ‘Paul’s demo’) #
Beat Surrender (demo) #
Solid Bond In Your Heart (demo) #
# Previously unreleased
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Disc Three - Live at Wembley (Dec. 3rd 1982)
1. Start!
2. It’s Too Bad
3. Beat Surrender
4. Away From The Numbers
5. Ghosts
6. In The Crowd
7. Boy About Town
8. So Sad About Us
9. All Mod Cons
10. To Be Someone
11. Smithers-Jones
12. That’s Entertainment
13. The Great Depression
14. Precious
15. Move On Up
16. Circus
17. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
18. David Watts
19. Mr Clean
20. Town Called Malice
21. But I’m Different Now
22. “Trans-Global Express”
23. In The City
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Disc 4 – DVD
Part 1 – Trans-Global Unity Express
Live video from Birmingham March 1982
Part 2 – The promo videos
1. Town Called Malice
2. Precious
3. The Bitterest Pill
Part 3 - Danish TV special
The Jam play songs from the Gift album. Recorded live in Studio 3,
TV-Byen, Copenhagen April 19 1982, broadcast April 23 1982.

Running On The Spot
Circus
Happy Together
Ghosts
In The Crowd
Town Called Malice
Pity Poor Alfie / Fever
Precious
Just Who Is The 5 O’clock Hero
The Gift
Move On Up
Trans-Global Express
Part 4 – Top Of The Pops
Recorded February 18 1982
1. Precious
2. Town Called Malice

Not saying this doesn't sound cool, but ANOTHER Jam reissue/box set/etc?!

Yep. So the original Bat Chain Puller did finally ship in Feb, courtesy the Zappa site? Only seen a couple reviews, a rave from David Fricke, a confusing description in Pitchfork (describing versions from Shiny Beast, or is that a typo) Interesting point though: if more conventional original version had come out, and if it had been more commercially sucessful, "it might have taken the edge off the man", and we wouldn't have gotten the incisive final three albums, as we know them. Anyway, anybody heard the 2012 legit BCP? Thoughts?

'Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard : Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music : 1923-1936' Available as a 3LP/3CD box set November 6th, 2012

WH

Work, play, pray - the lifecycle of the rural America that created our greatest generation of country music, 1923 to 1936. These volumes survey songs of labor and occupation, hardship and loss; dance tunes, comic numbers, and novelties that provided distraction and fun; and the hymns and sacred pieces that reached beyond the raw material of daily existence for something enduring. Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard features 19 previously un-reissued sides and is largely drawn from the collection of the late Don Wahle of Louisville, Kentucky. A hillbilly 78 collector for many years, his records were hours away from the dump when producer Nathan Salsburg recovered them. Compiled and annotated by Salsburg with accompanying essays by Sarah Bryan (editor of the Old Time Herald), Amanda Petrusich (New York Times; author of It Still Moves), and John Jeremiah Sullivan (Southern editor of the Paris Review; author of Blood Horses and the essay collection Pulphead).

Work Hard:
Side A 1. Earl McCoy, Alfred Meng, and Clem Garner: John Henry the Steel Drivin' Man (1930) * 2. David McCarn: Poor Man, Rich Man (Cotton Mill Colic No. 2) (1930) 3. Allen Brothers: I've Got the Chain Store Blues (1930) * 4. Fiddlin' John Carson: The Farmer Is the Man Who Feeds Them All (1923) 5. Oscar Ford: The Farmer's Dream (1930) * 6. Earl Johnson: When the Roses Bloom Again for the Bootlegger (1930) * Side B 1. Harry "Mac" McClintock: Jerry, Go Ile that Car (1928) 2. & 3. Red Gay & Jack Wellman: Flat Wheel Train Blues, parts 1 & 2 (1930) * 4. Pierre La Dieu: Driving Saw Logs on the Plover (1928) * 5. Darby & Tarlton: All Bound Down in Texas (1929) 6. Buell Kazee: Poor Boy Long Ways from Home (1928) * 7. Georgia Crackers: Diamond Joe (1927)
Play Hard:
Side A 1. Gid Tanner and band: Work Don't Bother Me (1930) 2. North Carolina Hawaiians: Soldier's Joy (1928) * 3. Bill Chitwood and His Georgia Mountaineers: Fourth of July at the Country Fair (1927) * 4. Warren Caplinger's Cumberland Mountain Entertainers: McDonald's Farm (1928) * 5. Carolina Ramblers String Band: Barnyard Frolic (1932) * 6. Cherokee Ramblers: Home Brew Rag (1935) * 7. Herschel Brown and His Boys: Corn-Shucking Party In Georgia (1928) Side B 1. Charlie Wilson & His Hayloft Gang: The Beer Party (1933) * 2. Aiken County String Band: Charleston Rag (1927) * 3. Whit Gaydon: Tennessee Coon Hunt (1929) * 4. Hack String Band: Too Tight Rag (1929) 5. Allen Brothers: Cheat 'Em (1928) 6. Oscar Ford: Hide Away (1927) 7. Tennessee Ramblers: The Preacher Got Drunk and Laid Down His Bible (1928)
Pray Hard:
Side A 1. Gid Tanner: You've Got to Stop Drinking Shine (1930) * 2. Happy Four: Climbing the Golden Stairs (1927) * 3. McDonald Quartette: Oh Declare His Glory (1927) * 4. Dixon Brothers: Easter Day (1936) 5. Georgia Yellow Hammers: I'm S-A-V-E-D (1927) 6. Corley Family: Way to Glory Land (1929) * 7. Fields Ward and the Grayson County Railsplitters: You Must Be A Lover of the Lord (1929) 8. Sid Harkreader & Grady Moore: The Gambler's Dying Words (1927) Side B 1. Kentucky Holiness Singers: I'm On My Way (1930) * 2. Snowball & Sunshine: Leave It There (1931) * 3. Alfred G. Karnes: Where We'll Never Grow Old (1927) 4. Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers: If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul (1928) 5. Taylor-Griggs Louisiana Melody Makers: When the Moon Drips Away Into the Blood (1928) * 6. Red Brush Singers: Beyond the Starry Plane (1928) * 7. Elder G. P. Harris: My Christian Friends In Bonds of Love (c. 1933)

* First issue since 78-rpm release.

Available Nov 6, 2012
3CD Set : TSQ 2776 / 3 LP Set : TSQ 2783
Distributed by INgrooves/Fontana in the US, Cargo UK for Europe, FUSE for Australia

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from Numero: http://numerogroup.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/chepito-full.jpgre Alfonso Lovo's La Gigantona (The Gigantic Lady) with friends incl Chepito Areas of Santana
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La Gigantona is of the Latin cosmos, reviewed here:
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/7369

hey you guys keep up with reissues can one of u alert me (via remote electrocution of penis) when this thing gets reissued on vinyl:

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BIKINI KILL S/T FIRST EP 20TH ANNIVERSARY REISSUE ON S/T LABEL

Track Listing
1) Double Dare Ya
2) Liar
3) Carnival
4) Suck My Left One
5) Feels Blind
6) Thurston Hearts The Who
Bikini Kill Records, the label formed in 2012 by feminist punk band Bikini Kill, is excited to announce its first release on November 20th, 2012: a 20th anniversary reissue of the band's debut 12" EP. The vinyl reissue will include a new fanzine in the form of a 34" x 21" poster featuring interviews with Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi) and Molly Neuman (Bratmobile), liner notes by Layla Gibbon (Skinned Teen, MRR), excerpts from the band's zines (Bikini Kill #1 and #2, Jigsaw #4), and photos from bandmembers' personal archives.

The self-titled EP, originally released in the fall of 1992, comprises four songs recorded by Ian MacKaye at Inner Ear Studios; one song from the band's 1991 demo cassette, record by Pat Maley (Yo-Yo Studios); and one song recorded during Bikini Kill's live performance April 4th, 1992, at Washington, D.C.'s Sanctuary Theater.

This EP marks the beginning of a larger campaign to release the complete Bikini Kill catalog, including previously unreleased material, on vinyl and CD, in addition to the digital downloads that are available now at www.bikinikill.com.
Bikini Kill are available for interviews.

news from forcedexposure.com

Streaming Soundcloud previews from the forthcoming Analog Africa compilation, Diablos Del Ritmo - The Colombian Melting Pot 1960 - 1985

Bajo El Trupillo Guajiro - Sexteto Manaure http://soundcloud.com/analog-africa/bajo-el-trupillo-guajiro
Busca la Careta - Andrés Landero http://soundcloud.com/analog-africa/busca-la-careta-andr-s-landero
Lumbalú - Calixto Ochoa y Los Papaupas http://soundcloud.com/analog-africa/11-lumbal
Schallcarri - Grupo Abharca http://soundcloud.com/analog-africa/schallcarri-grupo-abharca

Released 11/20/2012 on double CD and 2 x Double LP
After half a decade in which seven expeditions were made to Barranquilla, Analog Africa is honored to present “Diablos del Ritmo”, an anthology of - and tribute to - the immense sound of 1970s Colombia. Thousands of records were collected and boiled down to a colorfully diverse selection of 32 tracks (available on Double CD, 2 x Double LP and digital format), Split between Afrobeat, Afrofunk, Psychedelia-inspired rhythms on Part 1 and an array of danceable tropical rhythms on Part 2.

Diablos Del Ritmo release details:

There are a number of theories as to how, in the mid-20th century, African music made its way to Colombia's vibrant port city of Barranquilla, today's mecca of Caribbean tropical music. Some maintain that a man named "Boquebaba" remains responsible. Others claim that seafaring traders and merchants imported the first sizeable amount of African vinyl. An absolute certainty is that in March 2007 Analog Africa-founder Samy Ben Redjeb arrived in Barranquilla, by some still considered the "Golden Gate of Colombia". After half a decade in which seven expeditions were made to Barranquilla, Analog Africa is honored to present Diablos del Ritmo, an anthology of -- and tribute to -- the immense sound of 1970s Colombia. Thousands of records were collected, boiling down to a colorfully-diverse selection of 32 tracks split between Afrobeat, Afrofunk and psychedelia-inspired rhythms on Part 1 and an array of danceable tropical rhythms on Part 2. Colombian music in general, especially the music from the Caribbean coast, is heavily influenced by the drums, percussion and chanting of African rhythms. Music from big players of the day -- from Nigeria, The Congo, The Ivory Coast and Cuba -- entered Barranquilla constantly. Afrobeat, terapia and lumbalú clashed effortlessly with the tropical sounds of puya, porro, gaita, cumbiamba, mapelé and chandé to create a rich amalgam of irresistible dance music while traditional styles were refined by an elite cadre of accordion players that included Alejandro Duran, Alfredo Gutierrez, Calixto Ochoa, Anibal Velasquez and Andres Landero. The heights Afro-Colombian music had reached by the early '80s was nothing short of exceptional. But, none of it could have been possible without two vital engines. One was the Picó sound systems -- roaming street clubs dedicated to mobilizing and spreading the rawest music of Africa, the Caribbean and the rest of the transatlantic black world. The second were forwarding-thinking producers. Discos Tropical, Felito Records and Machuca, amongst several other key players, governed and diversified the psychedelic and coastal music scene of Colombia. Alongside an all-encompassing 60-page booklet including 40 vintage photographs, 24 interviews and documented first-hand knowledge, the deep cuts of Analog Africa's 12th compilation will instantly transport any listener to Colombia's thriving Caribbean coast to indulge in the succulent belly of tropical music's untold historic tales.

Ike & Tina: On The Road: 1971-72
comes to DVD on November 20

An intimate look at the dynamic Ike and Tina Turner at their creative peak...
From the lens of legendary rock photographer BOB GRUEN

By combining soul music with an explosive stage show, complete with the high energy dance choreography of Tina Turner and the Ikettes, and an ingredient sorely missed in today's soul - gritty rock n' roll - Ike & Tina Turner gained a reputation as one of the great live acts of all-time. In the early 70's, legendary rock photographer Bob Gruen and his wife Nadya toured with Ike & Tina, filming them performing, on the road, and behind the scenes. Now for the first time ever this footage is available to the public... This is a look inside a hardworking band as well as an iconic couple

With portable video recorders not as prominent during that era as they are nowadays, no one has seen scenes like this. But with the release of Ike & Tina: On The Road: 1971-72, fans are finally treated to a must-see behind-the-scenes view of the band, at the peak of their powers. Similar to an earlier DVD set, The New York Dolls: All Dolled Up, the Gruens toured with Ike & Tina and documented everything in black and white (and some color as well). Now, 40 years later, fans get to experience what it was like to be with one of the most popular touring/recording bands of this time period.

In addition to simply awesome renditions of several Ike & Tina classics, we also get a glimpse of the group at work in the recording studio, Tina and the Ikettes practicing their dance routines (and primping their wigs!), and goofing around on airplanes and in airports. We even get to see inside Ike & Tina's house and the couple's funky retro '70s home décor, as Tina cooks dinner for her kids.

A lot has been written about Ike and Tina's relationship over the years (mostly in the negative light). But for many years, they were able to coexist together in the public eye, and in the process, created some of the most exciting and gripping soul/rock music ever recorded. Now with Ike & Tina: On The Road: 1971-72, we have a more than worthy visual accompaniment to their classic sounds.

"The film Whats Love Got To Do With It? shows why Ike and Tina Turner broke up," says Gruen. "Ike & Tina: On The Road: 1971-72 shows why Ike and Tina were together for twenty years before that."

Track Listing
River Deep, Mountain High
Pick Me Up (Take Me Where Your Home Is)
Oh Devil
Gulf Coast Blues
Shake A Tail Feather
There Was A Time
Heard It Through the Grapevine
Respect
A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knockin' Every Day)
Under The Weather
I've Been Loving You Too Long
Walking the Dog
You've Got to Get That Feeling
Try a Little Tenderness
Proud Mary
I Smell Trouble
Shine
Instrumental Theme Song
I Want to Take You Higher

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Update on Numero Omnibus box:

Numerophiles-

Yesterday (Wednesday) two massive trucks showed up at Numero HQ. Inside were 14 pallets of books and boxes for our gigantic Eccentric Soul: Omnibus 45x45 box set. Three harrowing hours of bucket-brigade style box moving later, we are finally ready to begin collating and shipping this beast of a project out the door early next week. Still haven't pulled the trigger? Fear not, there's still time! Just not much.

As only 1500 copies of Omnibus were manufactured, the pressing is technically already sold out. However, mailorder customers have always held a spot in our hearts, and we like to reward that direct support with special offers, bonus material, and other crap we make up on the spot. Buying Omnibus from our website today almost guarantees you the bonus pre-order only 46th 45. We say almost because we have very few left. Once we rip through those 500, the plates go into the vault and you'll have to fight bare-knuckle in the secondary market for a copy to complete your Numero run. Or, you could just pre-order the damn thing.

To be clear. We are sending copies to the finest retailers the world over, however, most shops will get only two copies. Do you want to fight bare-knuckle at the record store with your arch nemesis for a box of limited edition singles? (If this does happen, please video tape and send us a copy). I mean, look at that thing! Is it not beautiful? Could you not see it boiling the blood of Frankie and Johnny?

Perhaps you've not heard of Omnibus. We'll explain: Back in early 2003, when Numero was still in an embryonic state, our inaugural release was envisioned as a 10-record, 20-artist pile of peculiar soul 45s, packaged in a cardboard clamshell mailer. It was cobbled together from what, at the time, seemed like a unique selection of singles: off-key vocalists and over-the-top guitar soloists, one-piece string sections and piecemeal brass lines, each of them ostensibly helmed by a savant mad-scientist producer working in jury-rigged, barely functional studio conditions. Its working title was Eccentric Soul.

The imagined box of ten 45s was scrapped, replaced by Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label, the project that became Numero 001. From the wreckage of the original set, Altyrone Deno Brown turned out to be a bedrock voice, a central story, and the cover image on 003, Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label; the Dynamic Tints brightened one small corner of Twinight’s Lunar Rotation; and Lady Margo’s “This Is My Prayer” later found a home inside Pepper’s Jukebox, the double LP that accompanied Michael Abramson’s photography in 2009’s Light: On The South Side hardcover book.

All 14 volumes of Eccentric Soul that pre-date this Omnibus sketch a given skein of connective tissue, but fully fleshed out here are the colorful strands linking any given record to untold others: untimely deaths, racial injustice, kid groups dimmed of charm by oncoming adulthood, military base installment, the bitter duty of Vietnam, the state of Alaska, tantalizing flirtations with fame. All of it is evidence that the darkened corners of the music business looked much the same in the pale light of Fresno, California, or Owensboro, Kentucky, or Benton Harbor, Michigan: record labels run by wannabe gangsters, managers with sticky fingers, radio promotion men funneling payola into disc jockey pet projects, marching bands turning into stage bands, youth centers turned into soul schools, and master tapes lost to fire, storm, and flood. Most of these 45s appear austere and simple at a glance, but every crude, hand-drawn logo, every missing or misspelled bit of crucial information, every malapropism-laden band name belies a deep well of unique history. PVC footholds in an uphill battle against badly stacked odds, these were records willed into existence through pure determination.

Omnibus Vol. 1 is an attempt at laying bare a tangled mess of loose ends that Numero (and cohorts) have been tripping over for years. Too disconnected and isolated from one another for expansion into full-length CD or LP projects, we’ve bound together 90 songs and 45 stories, cross-referencing each town and year of issue, and gathering it all into a compact and elegant monument to America’s soul diaspora.

And the package itself? It's only 45 7” singles from the dustiest corners of the United States, replicated down to the tiniest detail. Housed in a custom Numero-patterned 45 box, replete with metal hardware and handle in 19 different color combinations. Clothbound hardback book with a word count of almost 50,000, covering the bizarre histories of each group, the early history of Numero, plus an absurdly detailed series of indices.

Still not convinced? Watch this video

Isn't that a gorgeous case? Want to order it separately? You can. We also made some rad little spindles for the spindly challenged. Is it the lack of a track listing that's holding you back? Do you need sound clips? Fine, go here:

13th Amendment "Hard To Be In Love" b/w "The Stretch"
Aggregation "A Child Is Born" b/w "Can You Feel It"
Black Fur "When We Get Together Soon" b/w "Feel The Shock"
Black Soul Express "Party Time" b/w "When I Left You"
Crystal's Image "A Friend" b/w "Crystal's Image (Cold Crush Theme)"
Darker Shades LTD "Trackin' Down Jody" b/w "Part 2"
Deep Heat "Do It Again" b/w "She's A Junkie (Who's The Blame)"
Directory "Feel It In Your Bones" b/w "World And Creation"
Duracha "Jody Is Gone" b/w "Ghet-To Funk"
Elements of Peace "Together" b/w "Part II"
Energettics "You Make Me Nothing" b/w "Rainy Days And Monday"
Everyday People "(Loose Booty) Is A Real Thing" b/w "Get Next To You"
Family Connection "This Time" b/w "Lost Her Love"
Flack & Company "Disco-TNT" b/w "Been Loving You So Long (Don't Want To Stop)"
Free Mind "Just Jammin'" b/w "After We’re Gone (The World Keeps On Turnin’)"
Hifadelics "Hifidelics Groove" b/w "Quiptown"
Hot Snow "Four Times The Love" b/w "Me & You"
Inbassador "Everyday" b/w "Everybody's Doing It"
Intentions "Dig It (Shovel)" b/w "Blowing With The Wind"
Curtis Indications Liggins "Funky Monkey Right On" b/w "What It Is?"
Majestees "Take Back All Those Things" b/w "Let Her Go"
Mixed Breed "Gotta Get Home" b/w "Wise"
Morning After "Hey Girl" b/w "Disco-Tick"
Now "Land Of Now" b/w "Lovin' You Is Easy"
Procedures "Magic Mirror" b/w "Give Me One More Chance"
Prophets of Peace "The Max" b/w "You Can Be"
Rokk "Patience" b/w "Don't Be No Fool"
Sag War Fare "Don't Be So Jive" b/w "Girl You Better Change"
Sky's The Limit "Don't Be Afraid" b/w "Part 2"
Soul Walkers "Can I Say It Again" b/w "Stay Ahead"
Pat Stallworth "Questions" b/w "Part 2"
Stone Creations "Hands On A Golden Key" b/w "The 'It' Song"
Super Soul Movement "Bad Bad Bad" b/w "Part 2"
Suspicious Can Openers "Fever In Your Hot Pants" b/w "Tuesday In The Rain"
Techniques "Get Technified" b/w "When You're Away"
Third Generation "Mother Nature" b/w "Love Is Gonna Rain Down On Me"
Three Days Ahead "Face It Man" b/w "Rolling Love Part 2"
Tickled Pink "Reach Out (And Give Me Your Hand)" b/w "Never Can Say Goodbye"
Trinikas "Black Is Beautiful" b/w "Remember Me"
Trust "Funk Power" b/w "Explosion"
Two Plus Two "I'm Sure" b/w "Look Around"
Union "Strike" b/w "Come Over To My House For Lunch"
Volumes "I've Never Been So In Love" b/w "I'm Gonna Miss You"
Walter & the Admerations "Life Of Tears" b/w "Man Oh Man (What Have I Done)"
Clifton White "The Grade A" b/w "Ain't No Love"

And with that, we're out of enticements. We'll let peer pressure and and the natural anxiety that comes with collecting do the rest.

Get Omnibus.

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Pagan Altar - Judgement Of The Dead (Cruz Del Sur, 1982)
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks (Comm Mktg, 1977) [2CD]

Is this an actual remastered version of Never Mind, finally?

from Riot Act Media (so a little giddy)

CALIFONE REISSUES EXPANDED DOUBLE VINYL LP VERSION OF "SOMETIMES GOOD WEATHER FOLLOWS BAD PEOPLE" ON JEALOUS BUTCHER, 11/6!!!!

This double LP is an expanded edition of a CD of the same name. That disc—originally issued by Glitterhouse in 2000—collected Califone’s first two EPs (on Perishable and Road Cone), plus two new songs. Four more songs – unreleased outtakes from the final Red Red Meat recording sessions—have been added here, to this new and expanded version. It’s all you need when it comes to the genesis of this well-regarded Chicago-based group. Califone started as the solo project of singer/ guitarist Tim Rutili in the late 1990s, after the dissolution of his band Red Red Meat. Soon enough, Red Red Meat members Ben Massarella and Tim Hurley joined the group, who recorded with RRM’s Brian Deck as well as at their own space and with Warren Defever in Livonia, MI.

These songs appear to fall apart and come back together again while you are listening to them. The first song on their first EP, the sleepwalking “On The Steeple W/ The Shakes (XMas Tigers),” sounds like a blues-rock anthem that got dosed at the Christmas party. Rutili says that the song was “made with a drum machine that I stole from my four-year-old son and a brown air organ from the thrift store. We were trying to make our own version of dub music.” Naturally it is followed immediately by a gorgeous, largely acoustic folk-pop number, “Silvermine Pictures.” Rutili and company were superb at giving you what you didn’t expect. Remember, Sub Pop had expected RRM to be the next Pearl Jam based on the success of their first record for them… and their last album was a Christmas-themed banjo-prog record released in late February of 1997.

“On the first two Califone EPs, we were definitely trying to allow some deep change and possibility into what we were doing, and the door was always wide open to accidental music and automatic writing,” Rutili explains. “We built a lot of this music on accidents and chance occurrences. Some of the songs are really good; some of it sounds like an expedition that got lost in the woods. I was still playing with toy drum machines, cheap or borrowed synths and a cassette 4track, trying to make songs out of all these insane sounds.”

This music is catchy and kind of weird. It’s aged as well as any of your favorites from the 1990s, from the Lily’s ‘Better Can’t Make Your Life Better’ to Bell Biv Devoe’s “Poison”—which is to say, awesomely.

DID YOU KNOW?!?! THIS IS:
• The first time this collection has been available on vinyl
• Double LP with deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket with all new artwork
• Side D contains 4 previously unreleased songs
• Includes code for digital download of the entire record

SIDE A
1. ON THE STEEPLE WITH THE SHAKES (X-MAS TIGERS)
2. SILVERMINE PICTURES
3. PASTRY SHARP
4. TO HUSH A SICK TRANSMISSION
5. DIME FANGS

SIDE B
6. RED FOOD OLD HEAT
7. DOWN EISENHOWER SUN UP WITH MULE
8. TO HUSH A SICK TRANSMISSION [UNEDIT]
9. WHEN THE SNAKEHANDLER SLIPS

SIDE C
10. ELECTRIC FENCE
11. ST. MARTHA LET IT FOLD
12. BENEATH THE YACHTSMAN
13. DON'T LET ME DIE NERVOUS
14. DOCK BOGGS

SIDE D (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
15. BATHWATER
16. JUNE RAT
17. PASTRY SHARP (DOWNLOAD)
18. A HORSE-SIZED PILL

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Yes, from Drag City (yall know about the reissue of Accelerator from that Royal Trux thread rat?)
Speaking of reissues! We're not just back at you with the forward-singing music of Royal Trux on this fine date, we're also here with something barely-remembered from 1990! To have the album Its Cosy Inside by Woo brought to our attention by the weirdos at Yoga has been odd for us, since we recall scouring the bins back in those days and being fond of Independent Project, the label that originally released this record! We must have been high! (no comment - ed.) Ore maybe we were just distracted trying to keep the "Demolition Plot J-9" 7" in print. Whatever, the reason, who cares? This is the beauty of recorded music and the glory of the object - twenty-two years after the release of this record, we're talking about it again. And it sounds very in tune with today's vogue for kraut-inflected, post new-wave ambient music. Woo's muse is realized on It's Cosy Inside via guitars, electronic percussion, clarinet, bass, treatments, voices and violin. Mark and Clive Ives seemed to enjoy working in miniature - there are sixteen pieces on the album, varied in nature, but all of which ripple rhythmically through the speakers. Sometimes the beat is a pulse, sometimes it has a crisp accent. The classic flavors of exotica are filtered and modulated into something newer in the process, something that predicts the moves of Stereolab and High Llamas, but something that sits very comfortably next to Blues Control as well! So, also new on October 9th: something borrowed, something Woo. It's Cosy Inside - get in there!
Also Woo-related on this day is a 7" single that serves as an appeteaser for anyone who is turned on by the description of It's Cosy Inside but isn't sure they want to buy it and they don't know how to pluck it like an apple from the ripe young internet - a split single with a Woo song that didn't make it onto the album and a Nite Jewel piece that doffs her eponymously-encrusted cap in the direction of the Woo sound. Buy that and make up your mind about the album later! Or buy both and ask your local shopkeep for a discount. Woo, we'd like to be there when that deal goes down.

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So yeah - Tony Caro and John. Their lone album All On the First Day has been blowing up the brains of the private press crew for the past decade and more. What can we say? People love their folk music hybrids. In the 90s, if some old record had "Sally Free and Easy" on it, you had to have it! While Tony Caro and John weren't quite that pure of a traddy folk outfit, they have that angle. There's an early Incredible String Band-quality to the singing, but the they were firmly folk-rocky with sweet sexy guitar leads (that burned as often as they twinkled) and odd electronic keyboard touches, all of it captured in a primitive, home-recorded process that allow the trippy elements to shine though in uncompromising sheets of mono sound. Blue Clouds projects slides mostly from the years following All On the First Day's "release" (they made 100 copies and spray-painted jackets and sold them at shows): recordings of a more accomplished quality but retaining their wide-eyed essence. The song "Forever and Ever" has an straight-up pop-rock appeal! Plus, there's an outtake from All On the First Day, and a 1974 live rendition of "There Are No Greater Heroes," but Blue Clouds charts the road beyond for Tony Caro and John - and provides a second, distinctive listen from the fantastic three!

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And Mad Music is definitely like, mad! Like most of the records brought to us by Yoga Records, the music of Mad Music Inc has a distinctly outsider quality to it, as if made by folks who couldn't or wouldn't fit in to the world as it was, so they didn't! At the same time, these albums from such varied types as Dwarr, Jeff Eubank, Social Climbers, Matthew Young and yeah, Woo are all examples of places and times that while gone, have left traces in the new generations - all of whom will be thrilled to experience a straight taste of those odd DNA strands that exist within them. Wait, what are we talking about here? Music baby - Mad Music Inc. And that's just about all we have to say on the topic - because the story of Mad Music Inc is that there isn't a story. Ah, thank god - I was gonna go blind if I had to read one more set of liner notes telling me why this record that no one ever heard actually changed the world (note to self: idea for a sci-fi story?)! All there is to say is that the record showed up in racks around the Boston area in 1977, elaborately packaged with random inserts and no other information. The music revolves around a nicely-reverbed piano, but over the course of the title-less first side, sounds come and go, briefly making their play: guitar, harp, flutes, gong, wah-wah, cymbals, sitar, wordless female vocals and tabla, massed vocals and a saxophone and kick drum, finally giving way to a transcendent moment of pure synthetic/progressive art-disco. Side two comes down easy from these heights - primarily spent in a shimmery solo piano wilderness with a bit of flute etc coming in for a bit), the open space of which is dreamy. The artists who made this and purpose for releasing remain unknown. And really, should that ever matter (of course! - discography-scouring ed.)? Get Mad - Mad Music, that is.

Well this looks like a good idea, and approved by Toussaint. From Ace, out Nov. 6 (in the States, anyway)
ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES--THE ALLEN TOUSSAINT SONGBOOK
1. HERE COME THE GIRLS - Ernie K-Doe
2. HERCULES - Boz Scaggs
3. WHAT IS SUCCESS - Bonnie Raitt
4. OCCAPELLA - Lee Dorsey
5. LET'S LIVE - Aaron Neville
6. EVERYTHING I DO GONH BE FUNKY (FROM NOW ON) - Don Covay
7. RIDE YOUR PONY - The Meters
8. SOUL SISTER - Allen Toussaint
9. WORKING IN THE COAL MINE - The Judds
10. GET OUT OF MY LIFE WOMAN - Solomon Burke
11. SWEET TOUCH OF LOVE - Irma Thomas
12. SHOORAH - Frankie Miller
13. YES WE CAN CAN - The Pointer Sisters
14. FORTUNE TELLER - Benny Spellman
15. FREEDOM FOR THE STALLION - Bill Medley
16. SNEAKIN' SALLY THRU' THE ALLEY - Robert Palmer
17. WHOEVER'S THRILLING YOU (IS KILLING ME) - Z.Z Hill
18. BRICKYARD BLUES (PLAY SOMETHIN' SWEET) - Maria Muldaur
19. WHAT DO YOU WANT THE GIRL TO DO - Lowell George
20. I'LL BE ROLLING (WITH THE PUNCHES) - Millie Jackson
21. TAMPIN' - The Rhine Oaks
22. A CERTAIN GIRL - Warren Zevon
23. HOLY COW - Lee Dorsey
24. SOUTHERN NIGHTS - Glen Campbell

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Also out Nov. 6: import box, as pictured above--a dollar a song, no track listings yet:
Due to the phenomenal and totally unprecedented demand for Island's complete Sandy Denny Box Set, released in November 2010, Universal Music is issuing a limited edition four CD version. The original box set has become one of the most collectible box sets of all time, changing hands for between œ1000 - œ1500 but now, for fans that missed out, this new four disc edition will include many of the original 19 discs highlight. It will be limited to 3500 copies worldwide and boasts 75 of the cream of the rarities, demos and outtakes from the box set, including 17 demos taken from Sandy's home recording tapes. Among these is the first known recording of Who Knows Where The Time Goes', a home demo recorded in 1967, plus demos and alternate version of many Fairport and Fotheringay classics as well as outtakes and demos from her solo albums.

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Tony Caro and John had a fav track on one of the Love, Peace and Poetry comps IIRC.

How was it? Also wondering about this:

Out Nov. 13--is it good?
1. Entierro Del Primer Juguete (Burial of the First Toy)
2. Bajo Tierra (Under the Earth)
3. La Catedral De Los Puercos (The Pigs Monastery)
4. Los Mendigos Sangrados (The Holy Beggars)
5. La Muerte Es Un Nacimiento (Death Is Birth)
6. Curios Mexicano (Mexican Curios)
7. El Agua Viva (Living Water)
8. Vals Fantasma
9. El Alma Nace en la Sangre (The Soul Born in the Blood)
10. Topo Triste
11. Los Dioses De Azucar (The Sugar Gods)
12. Las Flores Nacen En El Barro (Flowers Born in the Mud)
13. El Infierno De Los Angeles Prostitutos (The Hell of the Prostituted Angels)
14. Marcha De Los Ojos En El Triangulos (March of the Eyes in the Triangles)
15. La Miel Del Dolor (The Pain of the Honey)
16. 300 Conejos (300 Rabbits)
17. Conocimiento A Traves De La Musica (Knowledge Through Music)
18. La Primera Flor Despues Del Diluvio (The First Flower after the Flood)
Championed by everybody from John Lennon to Peter Gabriel and decried by "Establishment" critics ranging from Vincent Canby to Gene Siskel El Topo remains one of the controversial movies ever made. Director Alejandro Jodorowsky's bizarre, blood-soaked blend of spaghetti Western, druggy surrealism, Christian allegory, Zen Buddhist themes and avant-garde sensibilities gave rise to the entire "Midnight Movie" counterculture phenomenon of the early '70s and forever changed the way adventurous audiences viewed film. Or, for that matter, heard film; for no soundtrack, before or since, has embraced so many styles in its pursuit of spiritual and artistic goals. Atonal, Tibetan Buddhist thighbone trumpets clash with beautiful, even sentimental, chamber orchestra pieces alongside pan flute rhapsodies, brass bands and parlor jazz; that Jodorowsky himself composed the score after, no doubt, intently studying the work of Morricone--is almost as impressive an artistic achievement as the film itself.

Almost bought It's Cosy Inside yesterday but put it down when I came across Accelerator. Maybe I will go back for it today cuz it really is lovely.

El Topo soundtrack is good, but I got it as part of the Jodorowsky boxed set that came out a couple of years ago.

"There Are No Greater Heroes" is the song and yes it (and the comp in general) are quite good.

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OMNIVORE RECORDINGS TO RELEASE NEWLY REMASTERED
30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE LONG LOST, OUT-OF-PRINT
1982 BERT JANSCH ALBUM HEARTBREAK

Available on limited edition vinyl and as a two-CD set combining the original
with a previously unissued 14-track live show from 1981

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Omnivore Recordings will release a newly remastered 30th Anniversary limited edition LP and two-CD set of the long lost, out-of-print, landmark 1981 album Heartbreak, by seminal Scottish folk guitarist, singer, and composer Bert Jansch on November 6. The first pressing of the LP will be issued on 1,500 pieces of clear vinyl (with subsequent pressings on black vinyl), while the two-CD collection includes the original Heartbreak album in its entirety along with 14 previously unreleased tracks recorded during an intimate live show in June 1981 at the storied venue inside McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, Calif.

Set for release just days after what would have been Jansch’s 69th birthday (November 3), this is a collector’s must-have, featuring extras including special photos and liner notes by legendary English folk musician Ralph McTell and the album’s original producers.

Recorded in June 1981 (and released in 1982), Heartbreak was produced by two enthusiastic fans, Rick and John Chelew. This was the first time in the studio for Rick and his brother John (producer of the pivotal John Hiatt album Bring the Family, three Grammy award-winning albums for The Blind Boys of Alabama, and many others). They borrowed money from their mother to finance the sessions and to pay enlisted musicians like renowned guitarist Albert Lee (Eric Clapton, Emmylou Harris, The Everly Brothers, Bill Wyman) and noted singer/songwriter Jennifer Warnes to accompany Bert in the small Silverlake Studio where the album was recorded. During the sessions, Bert played a few live solo shows around California, including the legendary folk club McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. Fortunately, Rick and John had the foresight to document these concerts, and now the 30th Anniversary Edition of Heartbreak has been further enhanced by a previously unreleased, complete live show from McCabe's Guitar Shop.

Bert Jansch was one of the most important and central figures in folk music, both for his solo recordings and his work with influential British folk group, Pentangle. Born in Scotland, he was steeped in American blues and jazz, North African music, and folk early in his career, and by the beginning of the ’60s he was playing the British folk clubs, extending his musical education. Artists like Martin Carthy and Anne Briggs turned him on to songs in the British folk tradition.

By the mid-’60s Jansch had set up residence in London where he began and playing live shows, and began making the studio recordings that would come to influence a generation of songwriters, singers, and guitar players. Classic artists like Jimmy Page, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Donovan, Elton John, and Nick Drake, all the way up to present artists like Fleet Foxes and Devendra Banhart, have acknowledged Jansch as a major influence and innovator of acoustic guitar playing.
By his second album, Jansch was collaborating with John Renbourn, another seminal British folk guitar giant. Together in 1967, they formed Pentangle, one of the most important British folk groups of the ’60s. Bert Jansch is listed as one of Rolling Stone magazine’s “Top 100 Guitar Players of All Time.”
According to McTell on his liner notes, “Around this time, Bert was in a very dark place. . . Heartbreak marked an opening up in Bert’s approach to his work, and from here on, although times were often difficult, Bert began to sort out his life through his music.”

Jansch died on October 5, 2011.

About Omnivore Recordings:
Founded in 2010 by longtime, highly respected industry veterans Cheryl Pawelski, Greg Allen, Dutch Cramblitt, and Brad Rosenberger, Omnivore Recordings preserves the legacies and music created by historical, heritage, and catalog artists while also releasing previously unissued, newly found “lost” recordings and making them available for music-loving audiences to discover. Omnivore Recordings is distributed by EMI.

John (producer of the pivotal John Hiatt album Bring the Family)

lol (but still excited for this and thanks for posting!)

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