Rolling Reissues 2016

soundsoftheuniverse.com cont.

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Muddy Waters
Electric Mud (1968)
CADET CONCEPT New LP
Heavy psychedelic funk rock. One of the finest albums recorded on Cadet - Marshall Chess's off-shoot label for Chess Records. Featuring the crack Chicago in-house group; Phil Upchurch, Maurice Jennings, Charles Stepney on organ, Louis Satterfield (later of Earth, Wind and Fire) and Pete Cosey (who went on to work with Miles Davis). Also produced and arranged by the mighty Charles Stepney. Includes "I Just Want To Make Love To You". Essential

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Marlena Shaw
The Spice Of Life (1969)
CADET LP, CD
All-time seminal album from Marlena Shaw recorded for Chess in 1969, arranged and produced by the great Charles Stepney and Richard Evans, featuring the 100% essential tunes 'Woman of The Ghetto', 'California Soul' and much more.

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Johnny Hammond
Gambler's Life (1974)
SALVATION LP

Larry Mizell production on the CTI off-shoot Salvation Records

even more from soundsoftheuniverse enewsletter:

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Lee Dorsey
Yes We Can (1970)
POLYDOR LP

Oh man - one of the funkiest New Orleans sets ever from Lee Dorsey 1970 with on-fire tough, tough tunes throughout from The Meters who supply the backing.

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Nina Simone
Jazz As Played In An Exclusive Side Street Club (1958)
BETHLEHEM RECORDS LP

Nina SImone's debut. This recording session happened in New York City,1957;Nina was 24 at this time;her trio is made of herself,singing and playing great piano,Jimmy Bond on bass and Albert "Tootie" Heath, brother of Percy and Jimmy Heath, on drums.

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Weldon Irvine
Spirit Man (1975)
SONY MUSIC JAPAN LP, CD

Seminal deep fusion jazz from Weldon Irvine. Featuring killer dancefloor tracks such as 'Jungle Juice" and 'We Getting Down'.

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Esther Phillips
From A Whisper To A Scream (1971)
KUDU LP, CD

This is a killer funky soul fusion album on Kudu featuring Phillips' great version of the Gil Scott-Heron classic "Home Is Where The Hatred Is". Line-up includes Airto, Pretty Purdie, Pee Wee Ellis, Hank Crawford and more.

a few more from soundsoftheuniverse.com (Soul Jazz Records associates) enewsletter:

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Mulatu Astatke
Mulatu Of Ethiopia
WORTHY RECORDS Reissue LP

This is perhaps the best album from cult Ethiopian deep jazz hero Mulatu Astake

This highly sought-after rarity is probably the best African deep jazz record there is - imagine a 1970s indy label deep jazz release but recorded in Africa on a label run by the national airline!

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Yusef Lateef
Eastern Sounds (1961)
PRESTIGE CD, LP

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Mulatu Astatke And His Ethiopian Quintet
Afro-Latin Soul
WORTHY RECORDS LP

from 1966...Beautiful vibes, piano, and drumming from Malutu with stirring haunting melodies.

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Islands Announce Return to the Sea 10th Anniversary Reissue
LA & NYC Return to the Sea Anniversary Shows Announced
On Tour this fall with Steady Holiday & Alex Cameron
Two New Albums Taste and Should I Remain Here At Sea? Out Now

"Former Unicorns Nick Diamonds and J'aime Tambeur return with a gorgeous collection of pop songs" - Pitchfork, BNM
“A new, stranger, better band rises from the ashes of The Unicorns” - A.V. Club
“Carries on the freewheeling spirit and sound of the Unicorns as well as that of the Elephant 6 bands of the late '90s” - All Music, 9.0

Stream: "Swans (Life After Death)" remastered at
https://islandsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-the-sea-10th-anniversary-remaster

or here:
https://soundcloud.com/islandsareforever/swans-life-after-death-remaster

“Who knew how warm the islands would be...” Ten years on, Islands is celebrating the release of their seminal debut album Return to the Sea with a classy anniversary reissue due on November 11. Islands has also announced NYC and LA shows where the album will be played in full, featuring a string section and special guests from the album's heyday. Tickets for the NYC and Los Angeles shows are on sale this Friday. Return to the Sea, which is available to pre-order now at BandCamp, has been given a light but firm remaster on all formats; pressed to 2x 180 gram vinyl at 45rpm, it has never sounded better. The artwork has received a tasteful touch-up, with gatefold, printed inner sleeves, archival photos never before released, and an in-depth essay about the album’s creation by Mr. Diamonds himself. The following excerpts are the first and last paragraphs from that essay:

“On December 31st, 2004, I flew down to Los Angeles from Campbell River, B.C. I was at a puzzling intersection: A few days earlier, my band, the Unicorns, had finally combusted onstage in Houston, Texas. I'd just turned twenty-three. I had thrown all of my possessions on the sidewalk a year prior and now had nowhere to live. I was adrift. My friend Adam Gollner convinced me to come down to LA, where he was writing and researching his first book. The idea was to clear my head and get some sun for two weeks. It ended up raining torrentially every day. After the rain cleared, I invited my former bandmate Jamie Thompson to join me. We spent the next three months in LA plotting our next move, knowing we wanted to continue playing music together after the dissolution of the Unicorns....

...For years, I maintained a distance to this record, and considered overhauling it entirely. After Jamie and I had assembled the band to perform the songs live in the fall of 2005, I wanted to re-record everything with them. When the 10th anniversary of the record’s release started rolling around in the spring of 2016, I strongly considered doing a reimagined remix, losing excess instrumentation and caking my vocals in a more professional gloss. For ages I bristled at the record’s flaws; my squeaky, earnest vocals, drums and guitars that sounded meek when I wanted them to sound heavy, precious lyrics, naive melodies. No, this record isn’t anywhere near perfect, and nor should anything earthly be. I’ve only started to realize that this record’s imperfections are exactly what cradles its meaning and curiosities, its heart and spirit. Here it is again. Back in my arms or under my wings, the waves licking our ankles, ready to head back out again. Don’t forget to lift the locked groove.”

After releasing not one but TWO albums on the same day earlier this year, Islands are hitting the road for their second major tour of 2016. The upcoming tour will include shows in stops in Austin, New Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville, Denver and more. The tour will be supported by Alex Cameron and Steady Holiday and the full routing can be found below.

Taste, Islands’ sixth record, is a muscular, crystalline affair, with the majority of the music electronic, buoyed by drum machines, programming and arpeggiated vintage synths. The songs still flirt with Islands’ bread and butter; evergreens such as ennui, remorse, and a general disenchantment with the modern world hover over the tracks, with lines like “we got so thrown, we felt lost at home” and “steal a little moment, lose it like you own it”, to hammer home the point. The songs cut a wide swath, however, and also go in directions that Islands has never tackled, including police brutality and white male privilege (!).

Should I Remain Here At Sea? (a semi-reference to Tarkovsky’s "Solaris") Islands’ seventh album is, in many ways, a spiritual sequel to the debut album, 2006’s Return to the Sea; a natural, raw record, stripped down to it’s essentials, performed live off the floor. Reflecting on the decade that has elapsed, SIRHAS kicks off with a darkly funny tartness, tackling religion, race, addiction, and murderous fantasies, but by midpoint, the songs give way to a resigned and doleful melancholia, tackling heartache, numb disillusionment and emotional disorientation through the guise of stupid parrots, the Internet, sea turtles and perhaps the loneliest maritimer to ever sail the seas. It was recorded as spontaneously as could be, with some of the songs captured live in one take, vocals and all.

Islands Tour Dates

10.11 Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar *
10.13 Dallas, TX @ Three Links *
10.14 Austin, TX @ The Sidewinder *
10.15 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall *
10.16 New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues - The Parish *
10.17 Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder *
10.19 Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West %
10.20 Nashville, TN @ The High Watt %
10.21 Knoxville, TN @ The Concourse %
10.22 Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery %
10.23 Wilmington, DE @ Arden Gild Hall %
10.25 Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe %
10.26 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop %
10.27 Indianapolis, IN @ The Hi-Fi %
10.28 Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room %
10.29 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater %
10.31 Salt Lake City @ Urban Lounge %
12.02 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery # (tickets)
12.10 New York, NY @ Webster Hall # (tickets)

* with Alex Cameron
% with Steady Holiday
# Return to the Sea 10th Anniversary Show

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“For Adult Listeners Only”
Love Is A Drag, The 1962 LP of Love Songs By Men, For Men, to be Reissued
on Gold Vinyl for Record Store Day November 25th

The once shocking LP that bore no vocalist’s name for over 50 years reveals its secrets in the 2016 Modern Harmonic reissue. A Big Band singer, a Hollywood photographer, and an LGBT music and history archivist are at the heart of the story behind Love Is A Drag, the 1962 LP of love songs by men, for men, which remained a mystery for over fifty years.

It starts with JD Doyle, a historian and archivist of LGBT music and history that came upon the record, which resonated with him almost immediately. The songs took classic standards like “The Man I Love” and “Mad About That Boy,” songs that were intended to be from a woman to a man, and changed it from a man to a man. Doyle had the record in his collection for decades and would play the songs on his radio show, Queer Music Heritage.

The album fascinated Doyle, and he knew these songs were truly before their time. It was because of this, he couldn’t help but be mystified as to why there was not an artist or producer named on the album. A single line of subtext wrote, “For Adult Listeners Only, Sultry Stylings by a Most Unusual Vocalist.”
Most likely, the record would have remained a mystery, until Murray Garrett reached out to Doyle ready to come forward with the truth about the album.

Garrett was a Hollywood photographer through the late 1940s to the 1970s, and photographed stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra. Through his photography career, he created a partnership with Gene Howard, a Big Band singer, and the two together worked closely with Jack Ames, the founder of Edison International Records.

When Ames asked Garrett and Howard if they had any ideas for a record that Edison International Records could release, Garrett remembered a performance he saw once in Greenwich Village of a man singing love songs addressed to another man in a serious way. That night was unforgettable as the performers of the day were extremely campy and dramatic.

Despite being straight and married to a woman, Howard agreed to sing on the record with a host of Los Angeles session musicians, and Ames released the record under a “fake” label called Lace Records to avoid Edison International being pigeonholed as a gay record label. The record sold well in Hollywood, and Frank Sinatra, Liberace, and Bob Hope were among some of its biggest advocates.

Now, with the mystery solved, and the masters purchased by Sundazed, Love is a Drag will be reissued by Modern Harmonic, available on gold vinyl, as well as a CD format, with original liner notes, and new notes from JD Doyle just in time for Record Store Day, November 26th.

God Save Sex Pistols (Deluxe Edition)
Johan Kugelberg
w/ Jon Savage &
Glenn Terry
October 21, 2016 Anthology Editions
ARC039

An enhanced edition of the original Rizzoli publication, God Save Sex Pistols offers an unseen visual history of the incendiary punk band. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the band’s formation, Johan Kugelberg, noted writer Jon Savage, and premiere Sex Pistols archivist Glenn Terry draw on an unprecedented wealth of material to produce the most comprehensive visual history of the band ever produced. From McLaren’s handwritten letters to never-before-seen photographs of the band, Jamie Reid’s iconic album artwork, and a range of ephemera from concert tickets to fanzines, this book is a definitive celebration of a group that helped define a movement.
Limited run of 2000.

Deluxe Edition Includes:

Hardcover Book (First Edition)
Bondage inspired, 5mm “rubber” slipcase designed by Zevs
Newsprint companion book with rare press clippings
Screen on the Green silkscreened event poster print

An additional ultra deluxe edition of 500 includes silkscreens by designers Jamie Reid and Zevs, 4 new silkscreen prints, clamshell case, tote bag and features a custom safety pin display stand.

About The Editors:

Johan Kugelberg is an editor, curator, and the author of numerous publications, including The Velvet Underground: A New York Art and Punk: An Aesthetic. Jon Savage is the author of England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture. Glenn Terry is the proprietor of Vicious Sloth Collectables in Melbourne, Australia, and considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sex Pistols history.

images of and from book here
http://shop.mexicansummer.com/product/god-save-sex-pistols-deluxe-edition/

Light In The Attic ‏@lightintheattic 4h4 hours ago
Proud to announce #LeeHazlewood's Cowboy In Sweden! Deluxe edition on "Swedish Blue" vinyl w/DVD & poster!

Available: November 25th, 2016

Lee Hazlewood spent a good part of the late 1960s traveling the globe, cutting records and inking business deals. A string of hits with Nancy Sinatra enabled Lee to build a mini media empire Lee Hazlewood Industries and afforded him nearly unlimited resources…for a time. By the end of the decade LHI Records had burned piles of cash, gone through a half dozen distributors and failed to achieve the kind of chart success “Boots" had promised.

Fortunately for Lee there was a land where he was still on the top of the charts, a place where women flowed like Brannvin…Sweden was calling.

While on an LHI promotional tour in Stockholm, Lee crossed paths with Swedish director Torbjörn Axelman. “I met Lee through my script girl, in Stockholm in 1969,” remembers Axelman. "We noticed we had very many similarities, interests, and the same backgrounds. It led to many productions during our 38 years of close partnership and friendship.” The partnership showed Lee the way forward and allowed him an easy exit strategy from the LHI house of cards that was crumbling in Los Angeles.

Light In The Attic Records is proud to continue its Lee Hazlewood Archival Series with this expanded reissue of Cowboy in Sweden. Released as the last LHI LP, Cowboy in Sweden was a soundtrack to the 1970 cult classic film of the same name starring Lee Hazlewood. The film was a surreal psychedelic account of Lee’s journey to his new homeland, while the soundtrack was a perfect compilation of Hazlewood’s strongest songs recorded over a prolific globe trotting three year period. The production scope of the album was the most ambitious of his career, recorded in Paris, London, Los Angeles and Stockholm with a slew of talented session musicians, producers and arrangers.

Cowboy in Sweden is quite possibly the purest distillation of the Hazlewood sound; lush melancholy country pop with a pinch of humor (“Pray Them Bars Away”), a dash of bummer (“Cold Hard Times”), some beautiful ladies to sing with (“Leather & Lace” & “Hey Cowboy”) and even a couple anti-war protest songs to be topical (”No Train to Stockholm” & “For A Day Like Today”). The David “Bitter Sweet Symphony” Whitaker arranged orchestral pop of “What’s More I Don’t Need Her” and the stone cold Hazlewood classic “The Night Before” cement the album as Lee’s peak on LHI Records and ironically the label’s swan song.

Release Notes
Remastered from pristine original LHI master tapes
Includes previously unheard versions of “Pray Them Bars Away” & “Easy & Me"
Liner notes by Hunter Lea including interviews with Torbjörn Axelman, Suzi Jane Hokom, Nina Lizell, Don Randi, Hal Blaine and Shel Talmy
Rare film production photos from the Torbjörn Axelman archive
LP housed in a deluxe gatefold Stoughton tip-on jacket

Deluxe Edition includes exclusive:
27” x 40” folded film poster by Jay Shaw (Mondo/Death Waltz)
DVD of restored Cowboy In Sweden film
“Swedish Blue” color vinyl

5 LP Bundle includes BLACK VINYL copies of:
Trouble Is A Lonesome Town (LITA 096), The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood (LITA 131), Hazelwoodism (LITA 132), Something Special (LITA 133), and Cowboy In Sweden (LITA 153)

more info, audio here:
ightintheattic.net/releases/2699-cowboy-in-sweden

Oh yeah, and the DVD of the movie Cowboy In Sweden is also in Deluxe Edition of There's A Dream I've Been Saving: Lee Hazlewood Industries 1966-1971, with many other fab artistes flashin' down thee Sunset Strip and into commercial Death Valley, for most part (LHI was great at finding, signing, recording, not so good on follow-through):
http://blog.lightintheattic.net/theres-a-dream-ive-been-saving-box-set-out-now/

V/A
The Microcosm: Visionary Music of Continental Europe, 1970-1986

Light In The Attic
LITA 143

Available: November 25th, 2016

The follow up to Light In The Attic’s game-changing I Am The Center box set is finally here. The Microcosm: Visionary Music Of Continental Europe, 1970-1986 is the first major overview of key works from cosmically-taped in artists needing little introduction — Vangelis, Ash Ra Tempel, and Popol Vuh — and unknown masterpieces by criminally overlooked heroes like Bernard Xolotl, Robert Julian Horky and Enno Velthuys.

Whereas I Am The Center called for a reconsideration of an entire maligned genre, The Microcosm requests nothing more than an open mind to consider this ambient, new age, neuzeit, prog, krautrock, cosmic, holistic stuff, whatever one calls it — as a pulsating movement unto itself, a mirror refracting the American new age scene in unexpected, electrifying ways, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt the universality of the timeless quest to express “the Ineffable” through music.

Drawing from major label budgets and homemade cassette distributed circumstances alike, The Microcosm demonstrates a depth of peace profound to behold, and clearly expands the boundaries. Lovingly conceived and lavishly presented by producer Douglas Mcgowan (Yoga Records) and liner notes contributor Jason Patrick Woodbury (Pitchfork, Aquarium Drunkard), The Microcosm features stunning cover paintings by Étienne Trouvelot, and labels by Finnish savant Aleksanda Ionowa.

Release Notes
In depth liner notes by Douglas Mcgowan and Jason Patrick Woodbury
Extraordinary cover art by astronomer / entomologist Étienne Trouvelot
Remastered audio, including a previously unreleased track and several others previously cassette only
3xLP with deluxe Stoughton “tip-on” jackets and slipcase
PRE-ORDER EDITION: “Introspective Indigo” color wax limited to 500 copies. Limit two per customer.

6xLP bundle includes:
I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990 (LITA 107) 3xLP in black vinyl and The Microcosm: Visionary Music of Continental Europe, 1970-1986 (LITA 143) 3xLP in “Introspective Indigo” vinyl

more info, audio:
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/2637-the-microcosm-visionary-music-of-continental-europe-1970-1986

This was orig. released under his full name, James Luther Dickinson

Jim Dickinson
Dixie Fried

Future Days Recordings
FDR 623

“People like Stan Phillips thought I was scary, that I was over the top – but I could play rock’n’roll.” -Jim Dickinson

The late Jim Dickinson is one of the most eclectic personages rock n’roll has ever thrown up: a musical maverick. From Sun Records and Ardent Studios in the 1960s, to sessions with the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder and Bob Dylan, significant productions of Big Star and the Replacements, and the twisted roots rock of his own Mud Boy & The Neutrons, the man was never, ever predictable.

A solo album had not been at the forefront of Jim Dickinson’s mind then, but once the idea was put in place by Jerry Wexler at Atlantic, he reacted conceptually, and with gusto. Dickinson always shot from the hip. He could be coarse on a rocker like “Wine,” or dignified and joyous when celebrating “The Strength of Love.” Inebriated laments like "Wild Bill Jones” contrast sharply with the carny talk of “O How She Dances,” and a shifting, indignant anti-war recitation entitled “John Brown.”

As a music maker who could relate equally to both the intellectual and the visceral aspects of popular culture, anything Dickinson lent his hand to was at least interesting and frequently rewarding. Such is the case with Dixie Fried, his solo debut from 1972. Unsuccessful upon release, the record now is now a cult item that, for many, mirrors the deliciously unexpected twists and turns of Dickinson’s subsequent career.

Release Notes
Limited to 1000 copies
Remastered from the original tapes
Features seven unreleased tracks
Liner notes by Alec Palao, plus excerpts from unpublished memoirs
Rare ephemera from Dickinson archives
Expanded 2xLP housed in a deluxe gatefold Stoughton “tip-on” jacket

more info, audio:
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/2430-dixie-fried

Another xpost Tim Buckley set:

Tim Buckley
Lady, Give Me Your Key: The Unissued 1967 Solo Acoustic Sessions

Future Days Recordings
FDR 631

In 1967, the face of rock was changing. In that year alone there were debut albums from The Velvet Underground, The Doors, and Pink Floyd, to name a few. The Beatles had combined orchestration with their music—the result was Sgt. Peppers in June, the same month that Tim Buckley recorded Goodbye & Hello.

Buckley was no longer just another singer-songwriter with an acoustic guitar; he was drenched in acid-folk tinges of harpsichord and harmonium. Lyricist Larry Beckett embellished Tim’s songs with introspective lyrics at times, worldly views at others. It was the first major triumph for Tim as an album artist, partially because there were a remarkable amount of pre-production demos that led to it.

Available here for the first time are these newly discovered master tapes, recorded by Goodbye & Hello’s producer Jerry Yester, along with an ultra-rare acetate, found to be in co-songwriter (and best friend) Beckett’s possession.

Of the 13 previously unreleased solo acoustic songs contained here, six of them did eventually appear with more expansive instrumentation on Goodbye & Hello (along with another four not included here). However, the crown jewel of this package is seven never-before-heard compositions. These will be new to even the most devoted Buckley fan. Arguably, two of them crept out decades after Tim’s death (albeit, much different recordings than what you have here) but with little fanfare.

So much has been written about Tim Buckley but so little of it by people who actually knew him. This booklet, however, includes a detailed interview with both Larry Beckett and Jerry Yester, providing real insight on how these recordings came to be and attempting to uncover the man behind all the myths, the real Tim Buckley.

Several rarities releases in the 1980s and ‘90s shed light on his talent, especially the live recordings, but all of the studio material has generally been alternative versions of songs that fans already knew—until now. This is the first-ever posthumous release that reveals a wealth of previously unreleased and unheard tracks from Tim at the peak of his career. In short, you need this!

Release Notes
13 previously unissued solo acoustic demos
Remastered from the original analog tapes and acetate
Book includes in-depth interview with Buckley’s lyricist Larry Beckett

more info, audio:
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/2631-lady-give-me-your-key-the-unissued-1967-solo-acoustic-sessions#

Listening to Mortal Micronotz reissues on kmuw's "Strange Currencies" now, reminds me I forgot to mention them sorry:
http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/storefront/2016/08/graded-on-a-curve-the-micronotz-the-barnone-records-reissues/

WAXWORK RECORDS ANNOUNCES DELUXE RE-ISSUES OF
SALEM'S LOT
& MAD MONSTER PARTY SOUNDTRACK LPs

Waxwork Records is thrilled to announce the double LP soundtrack release of SALEM’S LOT. Directed by TOBE HOOPER (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) and adapted from the novel by STEPHEN KING, SALEM’S LOT originally aired as a two-part miniseries on CBS in 1979. Since then, the film has reached cult classic status and is regarded as one of the greatest vampire films ever made thanks to it’s creepy atmosphere, gripping story-line, and chilling climax.

Waxwork Records presents, for the first time ever on vinyl, the complete, re-mastered score of SALEM’S LOT. Featuring all 84 musical cues from the film, this two record set clocks in at over one hour of atmospheric, old-fashioned horror film music. Composed and conducted HARRY SUKMAN, the classic score to SALEM’S LOT was his final work before his death in 1984.

Waxwork has commissioned art from FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA (Afterlife with Archie, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics) for the entire LP package.

SALEM’S LOT is available as two variants:

2 x LP 180 Gram Blue Moonlight Vinyl
Complete and Re-Mastered 84 Cue Soundtrack
Heavyweight Old-Style Tip On Gatefold Jacket
Art by Francesco Francavilla

2 x LP 180 Gram Vampire Blue, Black Cloak, & Yellow Swirl Vinyl
Complete and Re-Mastered 84 Cue Soundtrack
Heavyweight Old-Style Tip On Gatefold Jacket
Art by Francesco Francavilla

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Waxwork Records is also proud to announce the debut vinyl soundtrack release of 1967’s MAD MONSTER PARTY. Featuring film-movie stars Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller, the Rankin / Bass stop-motion animated musical horror-comedy has become a holiday cult-classic.

The classic 1967 film centers around Baron Boris Von Frankenstein (Boris Karloff) and a group of ghastly monsters including Frankenstein’s Monster, Count Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, The Hunchback, The Invisible Man, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and more. The energetic soundtrack features horror-centric, yet whimsical instrumental tracks with a selection of performer credited lyrical compositions such as Never Was A Love Like Mine (Gale Garnett) and The Mummy (Little Tibia And The Fibias).

Believed to never receive an actual official physical release, the soundtrack to Mad Monster Party has been mastered for vinyl from the original source material and given the deluxe treatment from Waxwork Records. Features include heavyweight colored vinyl, old style tip-on gatefold jackets, printed inserts, all new artwork by illustrator Rich Kelly, and an essay on Mad Monster Party from Finders Keepers Records founder, Andy Votel.

Waxwork Records is honored to officially debut the classic soundtrack, in its entirety, to the beloved cult-classic film, MAD MONSTER PARTY. The deluxe LP package is perfect listening for the Halloween season.

Release details include two variants:

Count Dracula (Heavyweight Black and Green Swirl Colored Vinyl)
Deluxe Packaging
Old Style Tip-On Gatefold Jacket
All New Artwork by Rich Kelly
Printed Insert
Mad Monster Party Essay by Andy Votel of Finders Keepers Records


The Hunchback (Heavyweight Pink and Yellow Swirl Colored Vinyl)
Deluxe Packaging
Old Style Tip-On Gatefold Jacket
All New Artwork by Rich Kelly
Printed Insert
Mad Monster Party Essay by Andy Votel of Finders Keepers Records

more info & scary cover etc art here:
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a088e1e7fb68010cf6ad8ff4a&id=bebee36c45&e=32e64a6326

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OUT TODAY! BETTY HARRIS - The Lost Queen of New Orleans Soul
On Soul Jazz Records

Betty Harris’ The Lost Queen of New Orleans Soul features all of her classic deep soul, sister funk and northern soul songs recorded in New Orleans in the 1960s - all written, produced and arranged by the legendary Allen Toussaint, and featuring the cream of New Orleans musicians and the incredible Meters.

All of these singles featured here were released on Allen Toussaint and his business partner Marshall Sehorn’s local New Orleans label Sansu, widely distributed in the southern city but in only limited quantities elsewhere. As a consequence, Betty Harris’ music failed to achieve the commercial success of other New Orleans artists such as Lee Dorsey (who she recorded with) and The Meters (who backed her). And so at the end of the decade she stopped recording, retired from the music business to raise her family in Florida.

This is no reflection of the stunning musical quality of all these songs which encompass everything from southern soul, heavy funk, deep soul ballads and northern soul. Betty Harris has been a cornerstone of Soul Jazz Records’ New Orleans Funk and New Orleans Soul compilations.

Always soulful and always funky, Betty Harris’ music contains the essence of New Orleans music. She is the Lost Soul Queen of New Orleans.

This collection is released on CD, heavyweight gatefold double LP vinyl (+ download code) and digital and comes complete with full biography, original label artwork.

More info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/the-lost-soul-queen-of-new-orleans

JACK LEE TO RELEASE RETROSPECTIVE DOUBLE-ALBUM BIGGER THAN LIFE: ANTHOLOGY NOVEMBER 25TH ON VINYL AND CD VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS

FEATURES 23 MEMORABLE SONGS, ALL REISSUED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE 1980s!
(may not all be that memorable, but did write some hits for others)

Legendary singer/songwriter Jack Lee has been on the radar of rock fans since the late '70s, when he formed the iconic power pop band The NERVES, alongside Paul Collins and Peter Case.

His songs have been covered by a multitude of artists (BLONDIE, SUZY QUATRO, CAT POWER, PAUL YOUNG), but fans have found his solo work very hard to come by prior to this release

BIGGER THAN LIFE: ANTHOLOGY TRACKLISTING:
01 Good Times
02 Give Me Some Time
03 Come Back And Stay
04 Any Day Now
05 Stand Back And Take A Good Look
06 Hangin' On The Telephone
07 Women
08 I'm Gonna Have Fun
09 Crime Doesn't Pay
10 Paper Dolls
11 It's Hot Outside
12 Sex
13 Somebody Else To Love
14 Bird In A Cage
15 Why Am I So Lonely
16 From Time To Time
17 Between Two People
18 Play With Me
19 Time Machine
20 The Girl In The Picture
21 Breaking Into My Heart
22 Bigger Than Life
23 Small World

trailer for album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8FGDFZKFbU&feature=youtu.be

second try
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8FGDFZKFbU&feature=youtu.be

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Super Deluxe Edition featuring unreleased songs, demos, mixes, remasters, new notes from Pete Townshend, an 80-page book, rare memorabilia and much more!

5-CD Super Deluxe box set, 3-LP Edition* and 2-LP Edition*

Released 18 November / 10 February*

In the half century since its release The Who’s debut album MY GENERATION has lost none of it’s raw visceral power and still stands as the ultimate musical declaration of teenage rebellion. The title track alone has been covered innumerable times by the likes of Oasis, Green Day, Patti Smith, Billy Joel, Alice Cooper and Iron Maiden amongst many more.

Back in 1965 the band were considered to be so dangerous that the tailors tasked with turning a Union Jack into a pop art mod jacket for the cover feared that they would be jailed for desecration of the nation’s flag.

The Who’s surly demeanour that day in 1965 at London’s Surrey Docks and the brazen appropriation of the symbol of state is the best advert possible for MY GENERATION It’s an album that sounds like it looks: terse, confrontational and full of youthful angst and energy.

Brunswick Records first issued MY GENERATION in the UK in December 1965, and later in the US, under the title THE WHO SINGS MY GENERATION, in April 1966. It was produced by Shel Talmy who shot to fame with his work with The Kinks, a group that the teenage Pete Townshend admired greatly.

During a break in touring in 2015 Pete Townshend discovered tapes in his audio archive featuring previously unheard demos for the album which also included three totally unreleased songs that the other members of The Who hadn’t ever even heard, ‘The Girls I Could Have Had’, ‘As Children We Grew’and ‘My Own Love’.

The spectacular 79-track five disc super-deluxe edition of MY GENERATION features these unheard songs as well as unreleased demos, unreleased alternate mixes, new remasters and a stereo remix which was created using new overdubs from Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. For this mix Pete used exactly the same guitars and amps as the original album and Roger used the same type of microphone.

The super deluxe edition also features a stunning 80-page colour book with many rare and unseen period photos, candid and insightful new notes from Pete Townshend and period memorabilia.

Of the super deluxe box set Pete Townshend commented “Gathering these demos for this collection has been enjoyable; it’s wonderful for me to have these tapes made fifty-two years ago to listen to. I hope you enjoy them. They have a naiveté and innocence, a simplicity and directness, and an ingenuousness that reveals me as a young man struggling to keep up with the more mature and developed men around me. What an incredible group of strong, talented, young and engaging men they were!”

MY GENERATION SUPER-DELUXE Audio details:

CD1: Original album (mono mixes)

Originally released 1965
Re-mastered 2016
CD2: Original album (new stereo mixes)

Previously unreleased on CD or vinyl. Released on iTunes 2014.
Remixed by the band in 2014 – For the missing overdubs Pete used exactly the same guitars and amps as the original album, Roger used same type of microphone.
Overdubs recorded at Pete’s home studio and Yellowfish Studio.
CD3: Mono mixes – bonus tracks

Tracks 1–12 originally released 1965-1966. Reissued 2002.
Tracks 13-23 remixed in 2000, previously unreleased
Re-mastered 2016
CD4: Stereo mixes – bonus tracks

Tracks 1-17 previously unreleased on CD or vinyl. Released on iTunes 2014.
Tracks 18-21 previously unreleased.
Re-mastered 2016
CD5: The Demos

Track 1 previously released as 45 rpm flexi-disc with Richard Barnes’ Maximum R&B book (re-mastered 2016)
Tracks 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, & 11 previously unreleased demo versions
Tracks 3, 5, & 9 previously unreleased songs – ‘The Girls I Could’ve Had’, ‘As Children We Grew’, ‘My Own Love’
Track 10 previously released on SCOOP (re-mastered 2016)

MY GENERATION SUPER-DELUXE Feature details:

Stunning 80-page colour book with many rare and unseen period photos and memorabilia.
Candid and insightful new notes from Pete Townshend illustrating the genesis of the demos and creative process.
New essay by acclaimed music writer Mark Blake with additional track annotation by Who biographer Andy Neill.
Six replica inserts:
Flyer for The Who’s Tuesday night residency at the Marquee Club 1965.
Admission card to the Scene Club in Ham Yard.
Calling card for The Who’s management, New Action Ltd. with a photo of the group
Admission card to the televising of The Who’s first appearance on Ready Steady Go! at Rediffusion TV Studios.
20″ x 30″ poster from a 1966 gig.
20″ x 30″ poster of The Who’s last ever gig at the Goldhawk Social Club.
Hardback 12 x 12 album size slipcase.

MY GENERATION SUPER-DELUXE Track listing:

Release date – 18 November 2016

CD1: Original album (mono mixes)

Out In The Street
I Don’t Mind
The Good’s Gone
La-La-La Lies
Much Too Much
My Generation
The Kids Are Alright
Please, Please, Please
It’s Not True
I’m A Man
A Legal Matter
The Ox

CD2: Original album (new stereo mixes)

Out In The Street
I Don’t Mind
The Good’s Gone
La-La-La Lies
Much Too Much
My Generation
The Kids Are Alright
Please, Please, Please
It’s Not True
I’m A Man
A Legal Matter
The Ox

CD3: Mono mixes – bonus tracks

I Can’t Explain
Bald Headed Woman
Daddy Rolling Stone
Leaving Here
Lubie, Come Back Home
Shout And Shimmy
(Love Is Like A) Heatwave
Motoring
Anytime You Want Me
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Instant Party Mixture
Circles
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (French EP Mix)
Out In the Street (Alt guitar break)
Out In the Street (Alt early vocal)
I Don’t Mind (Full Length)
The Good’s Gone (Full Length)
My Generation (Alt version)
I’m A Man (V2 – Early vocal)
Daddy Rolling Stone (alt. take)
Lubie (Alt Mix)
Shout And Shimmy (Alt mix)
Circles (Alt Mix)

CD4: Stereo mixes – bonus tracks

Out In The Street (Alt – Take 1)
I Don’t Mind (Full Length Version)
The Good’s Gone (Full Length Version)
My Generation (Instrumental Version)
The Kids Are Alright (Alt – Take 1)
I Can’t Explain
Bald Headed Woman
Daddy Rolling Stone
Daddy Rolling Stone (Alt version)
Leaving Here
Lubie, Come Back Home
Shout And Shimmy
(Love Is Like A) Heatwave
Motoring
Anytime You Want Me
Instant Party Mixture
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Circles (New Mix)
Daddy Rolling Stone (Alt Take B – New Mix)
Out In The Street (Alt Take 2)
I’m A Man (Alt – New Mix)

CD5: Primal Scoop – The Demos

My Generation (V 3)
My Generation (V 2 – fragment)
The Girls I Could’ve Had
It’s Not True
As Children We Grew
Legal Matter
Sunrise (V 1)
Much Too Much
My Own Love
La-La-La- Lies
The Good’s Gone

Would like to hear some more takes of "The Ox" (wonder if they ever played it live, ooo-weee).

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Chinatown (1974 Original Soundtrack) Standard

Cinewax
CINE 807

Release Notes
Newly remastered audio
Housed in a deluxe Stoughton tip-on jacket

Also available in a deluxe Black Friday edition (in-store only) pressed on gold wax! Click here to preview.
(cover art is even better)
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/2743-chinatown-1974-original-soundtrack-black-friday-edition

Available: November 25th, 2016

Sometimes, it doesn’t take very long to create something brilliant. When producer Robert Evans rejected Phillip Lambro’s original score for Chinatown, Jerry Goldsmith was hired to create another, from scratch, in just 10 days.

To say he rose to the challenge is an understatement. Goldsmith, a 20 year veteran of the TV and movie industry with credits including Dr Kildare, Planet Of The Apes and even The Waltons theme, turned in a work that was both a career peak for him and the saviour of Roman Polanski’s masterpiece of neo-noir.

What was clever about it? It wasn’t quite straight jazz, it wasn’t quite classical. It was identifiably a movie soundtrack, but an unusual one at that, leaning heavily on Uan Rasey’s mournful trumpet solos, sparingly using pianos, harps, strings and percussion, and employing sounds and crashes as overtures. It doesn’t try to speak to the film’s 1930s setting so much as to the mood and feel of the movie, a piece about political and moral corruption in a water-starved LA featuring Jack Nicholson at the absolute top of his game.

“I remember Evans speaking about the music having a contemporary feel, contemporary meaning the ‘30s,” Goldsmith said in an interview before his 2004 death. “I said, ‘Bob, I don’t think so – you see that on the screen, why should I do that in the underscore? … Emotions are timeless.’”

Originally released as a soundtrack in 1974, and long out of print, Cinewax’s reissue is remastered from the original tapes and is presented with brand new artwork by acclaimed illustrator and painter Sterling Hundley, with layout by Jay Shaw. Drop the needle and hear why Chinatown is, reportedly, David Lynch’s favorite soundtrack. Goldsmith was right about emotions…
More info, audio: http://lightintheattic.net/releases/2711-chinatown-1974-original-soundtrack-standard

Also on that page: links to some of their other reissues of soundtracks, like Howard Shore & Ornette Coleman's Naked Lunch.

Would like to hear some more takes of "The Ox" (wonder if they ever played it live, ooo-weee).

They sort of did, or at least they quoted it a handful of times. Entwistle quoted it in his "5:15" bass solos in '99-'00.

Biggest disappointments of that set are no live material (there's some, not a lot, from that era), no High Numbers tracks, and the omission of a studio jam of indeterminate origin where the run through "Green Onions" and snake their way around to distinctly proto-Tommy progressions.
(part of it here https://youtu.be/OieXtE7NFHk)

Thanks! More predictable approach on this live '64 High Numbers set, which starts with "Gotta Dance"("to keep from cryin'"), original may or not be better, but here it's kind of ho-hum Frankie-Bobby teen idol fare, then an okay run at "You Really Got Me" and narsty "Smokestack Lightin", my fave rave here, uh-oh then they "Gotta Dance" again etc. (two shows?), so haven't listened to all of it yet, but some of it's cool so far (certainly better sound quality than I expected)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnd1IdwFLU

Latest from Sound Of The Universe:

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Stunning compilation (every track is a winner!) of obscure and oddball tracks that range from rare African disco to the freakiest of jazz workouts and psychedelic kosmiche! Features one of the most sought-after afro-disco cuts, the jaw-dropping minimal electronics of Steve Monite's 'Only You (Disco Jam)'!

A brilliant compilation focusing on the more fun and weird - an essential label debut from small Scottish collective, Triassic Tusk!

more info. audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/various-screamers-bangers-cosmic-synths

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The French electronic music pioneer behind Black Devil Disco Club, released three seminal library albums in the seventies: Suspense (1975), Cosmos 2043 (1977) and The Strange World of Bernard Fevre (1977). A fourth album called Orbit Ceremony, produced just a few months after remained in his home studio and never saw the light; sentenced to almost 40 years in the devil’s vault. By chance, while working on the re-issues, Bernard Fevre recently found the original lost tapes of Orbit Ceremony, including the multi-tracks, which he remixed and remastered himself. Spacy moogs, weird clavinet, and cosmic analog drum machines: it’s all here. The quirky, cosmic library music found on this long deleted 70′s science-fiction-themed album if full of burbling synths and off-kilter melodies.

more info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/bernard-fevre-orbit-ceremony-77

This one from Sounds Of The Universe is the original LP, apparently never reissued in any format, according to discogs, but incl. here because omg the elusive GMIII *and* JCOA, has to be worth some amount of cratedigging, to be determined later:

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AWESOME deep, deep latin tinged jazz from trombonist Grachan Moncur and Jazz Composers Orchestra. HARDCORE & ESSENTIAL.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/grachan-moncur-iii-echoes-of-prayer

Ravenstine release scheduled for next Spring is my main interest so far:
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Smog Veil Records Clearing The Air Newsletter
#134
October 2016
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HERE WE GO:

We are pleased to announce the debut of Platters du Cuyahoga, series 2. For this of you who subscribed to series 1 or bought one or more of the individual releases of that series, thank you!! For those new to the series, Platters du Cuyahoga is a deeply researched exploration into the unreleased and/or long-unavailable music of Northeast Ohio and each release explores the cultural happenings surrounding the area during the period 1966 through 1977 (or, thereabouts). Each of the 3 releases of series 1, ROBERT BENSICK BAND "French Pictures In London," MR. STRESS BLUES BAND "Live At The Brick Cottage 1972-1973," and X_X "Albert Ayler's Ghosts Live At The Yellow Ghetto" were the subject of much critical acclaim, fan interest, and radio spins. You don't want to miss out on series 2.

So, without further delay, the first of the three releases of series 2: the legendary and never before released 1967 studio demo from Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade "Sunday Morning Revival" is now available for presale. Here's the details:

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

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

Taped one Sunday morning in the Spring of 1967, this is a piece of true Cleveland folklore that grew out of the Sunday jam sessions at the east side's The Coffeehouse. This recording could be considered a soundtrack for the University Circle district (a then gathering place for motorcycle gangs, beatniks, hippies, counter-culture personalities) as it became the center of Cleveland's underground from roughly 1965 through 1968.

Glenn Schwartz, Jimmy Fox, and Tom Kriss were three of the then five members of the James Gang who respectively played lead guitar, drums, and bass. By the spring of 1967 the James Gang were quickly becoming one of the most beloved bands in Cleveland and the surrounding areas. When Schwartz left the James Gang suddenly in late 1967 to eventually join Pacific Gas & Electric in California, his guitar pupil, Joe Walsh (The Eagles), took over for him and soon led the James Gang to international success.

Guitarist Rich Kriss was between being a member of Chuck Bates & The Barons (whose drummer, Steve Nemeth, would go on to local fame as progressive Cleveland radio DJ Doc Nemo) and The Joyful Wisdom, led by the late Dave Griggs who, next to Schwartz and Robert Jr. Lockwood, was considered one of the finest blues guitarists in Cleveland.

Blues harpist and vocalist Bill "Mr. Stress" Miller and pianist Mike Sands were members of an up and coming hard Chicago-style blues group called The Mr. Stress Blues Band. Formed in the late summer of 1966, the group would soon become a long running Cleveland institution through which such luminaries as Chrissie Hynde, Peter Laughner (Pere Ubu/Rocket From The Tombs), and Anton Fier (Feelies/Lounge Lizards/X__X) would pass through.

This fine piece of living, breathing Cleveland audio history is much more than just another blues jam session, and is the first entry of Smog Veil's continuing Platters du Cuyahoga series 2.

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

Note that this release will ship on or before November 18, 2016. The CD and LP are done and we are awaiting shipment to our warehouse.

The three releases comprising Platters du Cuyahoga series 2 are: (1) Schwartz Fox Blues Crusade: "Sunday Morning Revival" (1967) (November 18, 2016 release date); (2) Allen Ravenstine: "Terminal Drive" (1975) (spring 2017 release); and (3) a soon to be announced double LP release of studio and live recordings from the first and most influential improvisational electronic outfit that called Cleveland home (1972-1973 recordings) (spring 2017 release). All the releases will be formatted on vinyl as well as CD and download/streaming. A hallmark of the series will be that each release contains extensive liner notes, all carefully crafted and researched.

Telefon Tel Aviv announces 15th anniversary reissue of debut LP, Fahrenheit Fair Enough, on Ghostly
Long out-of-print, classic IDM LP gets remastered w/ 8 bonus tracks added

STREAM: "Fahrenheit Fair Enough" (Archive '99 version & remastered version) -
https://soundcloud.com/ghostly/sets/telefon-tel-aviv-fahrenheit

Telefon Tel Aviv is an experimental electronic duo formed in 1999 by two New Orleans high-school friends, Joshua Eustis and Charles Cooper. Following years of playing in various local bands and learning the ropes of electronic music production, Eustis and Cooper wrote the demos for what would become Telefon Tel Aviv in 1999. After sending them to John Hughes III, who operated the Chicago-based Hefty Records, they were offered an album deal in January 2000. They spent the rest of that year writing their debut album, Fahrenheit Fair Enough, released in September 2001, as well as the soundtrack for the movie New Port South, written by Hughes’ brother James and released the same year.
Shaped by a diverse set of influences that included British electronic music (Autechre, Aphex Twin, Jega) and Black American music (house, techno, bounce rap), Telefon Tel Aviv were the latest in a growing lineup of American musicians that sought to carve their own lane and add something meaningful to a growing international conversation about what the meeting point between hip-hop, soul, and electronic music could be. But while Eustis and Cooper emerged within a specific context that provided their continuing work with a solid foundation, they spent the next decade taking risks and grappling with the idea of what an electronic duo could be.
In 2004, they released their second LP, Map Of What Is Effortless, a bold attempt at solidifying the romantic elements of their debut into a modern r&b sound and featuring vocal contributions from Damon Aaron and Lindsay Anderson. Three years later, Hefty released a compilation of Telefon Tel Aviv remixes that included their take on Nine Inch Nails, Ammoncontact, Slicker, and Apparat among others.
In 2009, ten years after they first began working together, the duo returned with Immolate Yourself, via Ellen Alien's BPitch Control label. Darker and synth-driven, this third album took yet another dramatic left turn, this time towards a more unabashedly pop-minded sound.
In between the German and U.S. release of Immolate, Charles Cooper passed away unexpectedly. Following Cooper’s death the Telefon Tel Aviv project went on hold. In 2014, Eustis released a solo album on Audraglint Recordings as Sons of Magdalene called Move To Pain. After years of self-doubt, Eustis decided to revive the Telefon Tel Aviv alias in 2016. This return coincides with a reissue of the debut album on Ghostly International and Eustis’ first live shows under the name, which began in the spring of 2016 with a North American tour alongside Moderat. New material under the Telefon Tel Aviv moniker is currently being written.

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Telefon Tel Aviv
Fahrenheit Fair Enough
[Ghostly]
Release Date: Dec. 2, 2016
Formats: LP / CD / Digital

1. Fahrenheit Fair Enough
2. Ttv
3. Lotus Above Water
4. John Thomas On The Inside Is Nothing But Foam
5. Life Is All About Taking Things In and Putting Things Out
6. Your Face Reminds Me Of When I Was Old
7. What's The Use Of Feet If You Haven't Got Legs
8. Introductory Nomenclature
9. Fahrenheit Far Away

bonus tracks:
10. Reak What (Archive '99)
11. Fahrenheit Fair Enough (Archive '99)
12. Cliccum (Archive '99)
13. 7 8 (Archive '99)
14. Eight Track Project (Archive '99)
15. Rittle Alpha (Archive '99)
16. Rittle Beta (Archive '99)
17. What's The Use Of Feet If You Haven't Got Legs? (Archive '99)

Somehow I'd never checked this thread before----good for unexpected bargains re reissues:

Oh Mr Amazon, with this cheap box set / bargain item, etc...

Bangles fans should def consider this cool collection, but don't think that Disc 1 of the Big Star box would work (for me) as a stand-alone LP. Haven't listened to the very-early-to-early Beach Boys set yet. Prob won't seek out the Jaco, but looks like a valiantly, somewhat intriguingly wide-ranging effort; I didn't know he recorded with Ian Hunter....

OMNIVORE RECORDINGS’
RECORD STORE DAY/BLACK FRIDAY OFFERINGS
INCLUDE VINYL FROM BIG STAR, BEACH BOYS, BANGLES
AND JACO PASTORIUS
From Big Star, a vinyl version of the first disc
from critically acclaimed Complete Third;
the highlights from Becoming the Beach Boys;
the entire Ladies and Gentlemen … The Bangles!;
and Jaco: Original Soundtrack.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Although every day is a great day to visit your local brick-and-mortar record store, a visit on Record Store Day/Black Friday (November 25th) is essential. Omnivore Recordings has four vinyl titles available that day at record stores only: Big Star’s Complete Third, Vol. 1: Demos to Sessions to Roughs; the Beach Boys’ Becoming the Beach Boys: Highlights from the Hite & Dorinda Morgan Sessions; the Bangles’ Ladies and Gentlemen … The Bangles!,; and Jaco Pastorius’ Jaco: Original Soundtrack.

In September 1961, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, and Dennis Wilson stepped up to a microphone together for the first time at the home of Hite and Dorinda Morgan to demo The Beach Boys’ first three songs, under the Morgans’ direction. Between that date and the following March, before signing a seven-year contract with Capitol Records in July 1962, the group committed nine songs to tape. Some of these tunes became iconic, others remained obscure. Omnivore recently released a two-CD set of this material, including various takes. Uncut noted, “This pastiche of past and present contains the seeds of a predominant strain of ’60s music.” NPR’s Fresh Air spotlighted the package. And now, available for the first time on vinyl will be Highlights From Becoming the Beach Boys: The Complete Hite & Dorinda Morgan Sessions, a distillation of the initial package. The set comes in blue, red, or yellow vinyl variations.

Ladies and Gentlemen … The Bangles!, featuring 16 tracks hand-selected by the band members from their personal music archives, is a collection of remastered ’80s-era rarities, demos, live recordings and more, including the band’s debut single and all of the tracks from their self-titled 1982 EP helmed by legendary Ramones/Blondie producer Craig Leon. The album was previously available as a download and a CD issued earlier this year by Omnivore Recordings. PopMatters said: “This compilation serves as a good introductory tool for new fans, those interested in exploring the group’s work, as well as die-hards interested in rarities and outtakes.” Due to popular demand, Omnivore is releasing the set again, this time on beautiful red vinyl for Record Store Day/Black Friday.

A special first-time-on-vinyl, limited-edition release of Jaco: Original Soundtrack features music drawn from the critically acclaimed full-length documentary film chronicling the life, music and ongoing influence of the mythic electric bass pioneer Jaco Pastorius. Produced by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo and Jaco’s eldest son Johnny Pastorius, Jaco: Original Soundtrack brings together 16 essential recordings including solo tracks, Weather Report masterpieces and musical collaborations with Joni Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Herbie Hancock, and more. This special one-time vinyl pressing of the soundtrack (previously available on CD and digital) features three brand-new recordings including two riveting interpretations of Jaco classics. Trujillo and album co-producer Chuck Doom penned the liner notes.
# # #
More information and track listings at http://www.omnivorerecordings.com

Watch (and feel free to post) the Omnivore Recordings Record Store Day/Black Friday trailer:

http://youtu.be/Q7uVIIfz8x0

Got my copies of the Tad reissues in today's mail. They come in really nice mini-LP gatefold sleeves (slightly larger than a digipak); each one has a big foldout poster with the album art on one side, and interviews with all the bandmembers about the record in question, plus complete lyrics, on the other side. The sound quality is fantastic - these were always well-recorded albums, built for maximum impact, and the remastering doesn't brickwall them or push the sound past the pain threshold, it's just louder, clearer, and heavier. Really, I don't see how they could have done a better job on these.

that Monite song on that Screamers, Bangers, & Cosmic Synths comp is a god damned JAM. infuriating that it's already sold out; the only copy available anywhere is going for $100 on Discogs.

From Cowboy Junkies:

It’s taken us a couple of years to untangle all of the bureaucratic red tape but it’s finally here; a re-mastered Trinity Session on vinyl and SACD. Peter Moore went back to the original session tapes (it was recorded on an extremely primitive early digital format) and did his voodoo thang, cleaning, eqing and re-clocking and giving a whole new life to that magical day. The highly respected audio-file label Analogue Productions then got involved and the result is a pristine, 2 disc release on 200 gm vinyl with a gatefold sleeve and liner notes by Jason Schneider. It’s an expensive item, but it’s a quality item…and it makes a great Christmas/Holiday present….especially if you are buying for yourself.

The Super Audio CD (which is also compatible with a regular CD player) won’t be available for another month or so and we are hoping to also get approval for an HD download. We will let you know when they are available.

Enjoy.

show info:
http://www.cowboyjunkies.com/tour/

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This re-issue is my most fave live jazz album since Wes Montgomery's Full House.
"In early 1966 three terrific acts appeared at the famed Village Vanguard jazz club in New York. Two of them were up-to-the-minute small groups led by Miles Davis and John Coltrane respectively. Those are the ones history remembers. The one that tends to be forgotten was the debut of a big band formed by ex Basie-band trumpeter and conductor Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis.."

Yeah, that's a great set (and I'm not a big-band guy at all, generally speaking).

It doesn't often sound like a big band, much of it sounds like an on fire quintet or trio.

From Smog Veil newsletter

HERE WE GO:

Hey friends--seems like we always have something special happening at the end of the year, and I for one can use a little levity and gathering of friends.

So, if you are in Cleveland on November 13, 2016, head on out to the Beachland Ballroom for a very special celebration of the lives and music of Robert and Jack Kidney and Terry Hynde, otherwise known as 15-60-75, that is, The Numbers Band.

A number of Smog Veil artists and friends will be on stage that night, including Scott Krauss, Albert Dennis, Lamont "Bim" Thomas, Chris Butler, Harvey Gold, Tony Maimone, and Charlie Wiener.

Proceeds from the event support Purple Heart Homes and the Cleveland Rocks project.

Click HERE for more information.(also incl. Tiny Alice reunion)
http://www.beachlandballroom.com/events/in-celebration-of-a-tribute-to-the-life-and-music-of-robert-kidney-jack-kidney-and-terry-hynde-of-the-numbers-band-15-60-75-cleveland-2016-11-13

GIGS!

Be sure to get out and see a gig where you live.

X_X

Dec 10: Knockdown Center, Flushing, Queens, NY (w/Parquet Courts)

Updates for all the new stuff, reviews, mp3 samples and videos available daily at the Smog Veil Facebook fan page. Check it out:
https://www.facebook.com/Smog-Veil-Records-66696836527/?fref=ts

http://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/slapphappy/

^ these worry me—not a fan of the Epic Soundtracks reissues they did...

errrrr, scratch that—Mapache vs. Tapete—hopefully the Slapp Happys are great!

Got a Herbie Hancock budget set in today's mail that combines 1974's Thrust, 1975's Man-Child, and 1976's Secrets on two CDs, but the really cool thing about it is that it includes all the singles from those albums as bonus tracks. Some of them just start like the album versions, then fade out, but others are more complex single edits which are pretty cool, and they've never been reissued before. (It sounds like they were remastered from the cleanest vinyl they could find, but again, you're not gonna find 'em anywhere else, period, so.)

As mentioned toward the end, all of this is in the 2001 LiliPUT box, but here's new vinylist refreshment anyway:

Kleenex/LiLiPUT First Songs 2LP compilation due 12/09/16

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“You can't dispute LiLiPUT's status as pioneers of feminist art-punk. Along with fellow travelers like the Slits and the Raincoats, this (mostly) female Swiss group took advantage of punk's anything-goes attitude and created jittery, spirited pop that was both in step with the times and completely singular. The early material is a riot of exuberant energy, taking stylistic cues from peers like Gang of Four and Wire-- propulsive bass, skittering pop rhythms, slashing guitars-- and adding distinctive overlapping vocal patterns, which are sung, shrieked, and hiccupped in three languages and made- up dadaistic slang. More than 20 years on, it still sounds fresh.” - Lisa Gidley

Kill Rock Stars is excited to announce the December 9th, 2016 release of First Songs, a 2LP set of recordings from the legendary punk bands Kleenex and LiLiPUT. First Songs combines all the pre-1982 material, all 3 Kleenex singles, the first 2 Liliput 7"’s and all the originally unreleased material prior to Liliput’s debut LP.

Click here to watch Kleenex perform the track "Hedi's Head":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuYYe3T2IGk

The Ballad of Kleenex/Liliput

The fact that punk rock could capture the imaginations of young people around Europe and America in the late '70's was embodied in the five-year output of Switzerland's Kleenex (later renamed Liliput). The music meant empowerment for many people to take chances and not worry about consequences. This was especially so for women like guitarist Marlene Marder and bassist Klaudia Schiff, the two constants/mainstays of the group

When punk groups began springing up in Zurich, it was a very small scene with a handful of bands that all knew each other, not many places to play and virtually no support from radio stations or the press there. Marder (originally a saxophonist) had played with a group called the Nasal Boys. Two experimental film-makers, Schiff and drummer Lislot Ha had been bouncing around the idea of forming group before hooking up with the appropriately-named vocalist Regula Sing and a male guitarist who had much more ambitious musician plans. Marder liked what she heard from the band and was glad to step in to replace him. Indeed, the group's aim was to have fun, more than to become rich and famous. Armed with a repertoire of four-songs and three chords, Kleenexwowed the local crowds with their simple, child-like rock ditties, filled with joyful chants and nonsense words in the tradition of Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" but musically more in the noisy, exuberant spirit of their British comrades the Sex Pistols.

Kleenex had local friends who decided to start up a label (Sunrise) where the band put out their first (self-financed) EP in 1978, which included the same four songs from their live sets ("Beri-Beri," "Ain't You," "Hedi's Head," "Nice"). The response was such that the first pressing sold out in weeks. A copy of the EP managed to get to John Peel, the famous English DJ, who fell in love with it and played it over and over for his radio listeners. Rough Trade got wind of their strange, wonderful music and signed the group to a record contract. Their first single ("Ain't You" and "Hedi's Head" from the EP) made a splash with the UK press and led the label to organize a group of dates around Europe with label-mates Scritti Politti and Red Krayola. Not even a year after their formation, the group was already an international sensation even though, at the time, they still held various clerical jobs back in Zurich.

Coming to England, they were unimaginatively dubbed the 'Swiss Slits' by the press and made their next single ("You"/"U", 1979) with Krayola leader/Rough Trade producer Mayo Thompson. Soon, they were off headlining an English 'package tourí with local favorites like the Raincoats, Swell Maps, Subway Sect and Spizz Energi.

After the tour ended in late '79, Sing left the group to be replaced by Chrigle Freund, a recent high school dropout, much younger than the rest of the group. With the loss of their original singer and threats to destroy all their records by the tissue company, which they took their name from, the group rechristened itself as Liliput in 1980, soon adding saxist Angie Barrack to their ranks. This five-piece line up recorded their next single 'Die Matrosen/Split' with its famous nonsense cheers/shouts ('Hotch-potch, Hugger-mugger, Bow-wow, Hara-kiri!'), making a splash on the UK indie/alternative charts.

Despite their success, Ha and Barrack left the group, reducing them to a trio. Their next single, 1981's politically-motivated 'Eisiger Wind' (with its Hugo Ball parody sleeve) caught the attention of noted American rock critics Robert Christgau and Greil Marcus, who praised the innovative trio. By the time the single was released, the band was in the middle of another personnel crisis with Freund now leaving the group. Marder and Schiff closed ranks and assembled a new band with singer Astrid Spirit, drummer Beat Schlatter and saxist Christoph Herzog. After a successful German tour, the later two left the band (though Schlatter continued to help on drums) and the group was a trio again.

After four years, the group finally released a full-length album ('Liliput') for Rough Trade in 1982, leading into another tour. After another single ('The Jatz'/'You Did It', 1983), Marder and Schiff were tired, not having fun anymore and ready to quit. Spirit rallied them to do another record with an advance from Rough Trade Germany. Their second album (Some Songs, which Marder thinks is some of their best work), with various guests helping out and Spirit now playing violin, turned out to be their swan song. Spirit decided that she wanted to raise a family instead of being in a band, spelling the end of the group in late '83. Marder had her own record shop, worked at a jazz club and had a band in the late '80's called Danger Mice. Schiff returned to painting, which she had done for many flyers and sleeves for the band.

First Songs tracklist

Ain’t You
Beri-Beri
Madness
Krimi
1978
Nighttoad
Hedi’s Head
Ü
You
Nice
DC-10
Die Matrosen
Split
Hitch Hike
Eisiger Wind
Igel
Türk
Wig-Wam
Thmlerdoll
Tisko
Turn The Table
Dolly Dollar
I Had A Dream
When The Cat’s Away

First Songs is a vinyl only release. Kleenex/LiLiPUT's complete discography is available digitally on 2001's LiLiPUT compilation.

First Songs is a co-release between Kill Rock Stars and Mississippi Records.

13CD Vangelis box, Delectus, coming in February 2017

A 13-disc boxed set which will see all of Vangelis’ classic works recorded for the Vertigo and Polydor labels gathered together and remastered in a lavish box with essay and many photographs. The discs are housed in two die-cut, gatefold disc holders within a rigid 242mm square slipcase and alongside a substantial (probably 64-page) book, much like the recent Steve Hackett ‘Premonitions’ set. Featuring the albums “Earth”, “L’Apocalypse Des Animaux”, “Opera Sauvage”, “See You Later”, “Chariots of Fire”, “Antarctica”, “Mask”, “Invisible Connections” and his collaborative albums with Jon Anderson as JON & VANGELIS; “Short Stories”, “The Friends of Mr Cairo” & “Private Collection”. Includes rare B-sides and previously unreleased tracks.

This is the first ever collection of music remastered under the supervision of Vangelis himself.

Tracklist:
Earth:
1. Come On
2. We Are All Uprooted
3. Sunny Earth
4. He-O
5. Ritual
6. Let It Happen
7. The City
8. My Face In The Rain
9. We Are All Uprooted
10. A Song

L’Apocalypse Des Animaux:
1. La mer recommence
2. Apocalypse des animaux - Générique
3. La petite fille de la mer
4. Le singe bleu
5. La mort du loup
6. L'ours musicien
7. Création du monde

China:
1. Chung Kuo
2. The Long March
3. The Dragon
4. The Plum Blossom
5. The Tao Of Love
6. The Little Fete
7. Yin & Yang
8. Himalaya
9. Summit

Opera Sauvage:
1. Hymne
2. Rêve
3. L'enfant
4. Mouettes
5. Chromatique
6. Irlande
7. Flamants roses

See You Later:
1. I Can't Take It Anymore
2. Multi-Track Suggestion
3. Memories Of Green
4. Not A Bit - All Of It
5. Suffocation
6. See You Later
7. Neighbours Above
8. My Love
9. Domestic Logic 1

Chariots Of Fire:
1. Titles
2. Five Circles
3. Abraham's Theme
4. Eric's Theme
5. 100 Metres
6. Jerusalem
7. Chariots Of Fire

Antartica:
1. Theme From Antarctica
2. Antarctica Echoes
3. Kinematic
4. Song Of White
5. Life Of Antarctica
6. Memory Of Antarctica
7. Other Side Of Antarctica
8. Deliverance

Soil Festivities:
1. Soil Festivities: Movement 1
2. Soil Festivities: Movement 2
3. Soil Festivities: Movement 3
4. Soil Festivities: Movement 4
5. Soil Festivities: Movement 5

Mask:
1. Mask: Movement 1
2. Mask: Movement 2
3. Mask: Movement 3
4. Mask: Movement 4
5. Mask: Movement 5
6. Mask: Movement 6

Invisible Connections:
1. Invisible Connections
2. Atom Blaster
3. Thermo Vision

Short Stories:
1. Curious Electric
2. Each And Every Day
3. Bird Song
4. I Hear You Now
5. The Road
6. Far Away In Baagad
7. Love Is

The Friends Of Mister Cairo:
1. I'll Find My Way Home
2. State Of Independence
3. Beside
4. The Mayflower
5. The Friends Of Mr. Cairo
6. Back To School
7. Outside Of This (Inside Of That)
8. One More Time
9. Thunder
10. Play Within A Play

The Friends Of Mister Cairo
1. I'll Find My Way Home
2. State Of Independence
3. Beside
4. The Mayflower
5. The Friends Of Mr. Cairo
6. Back To School
7. Outside Of This (Inside Of That)

Private Collection:
1. Italian Song
2. And When The Night Comes
3. Deborah
4. Polonaise
5. He Is Sailing
6. Horizon
7. Song Is

From Numero:

UNWOUND

The definitive Unwound. All seven of their studio albums, nine singles, 24 compilation tracks, complete Peel Sessions, original demo tape, original Fake Train recorded with Tim Green, Live Leaves (on CD for the first time), a disc of live rarities, and pre-unwound band Giant Henry’s complete recordings (including their 2001 reunion show), plus a 90-minute DVD filled with live footage, videos, and other detritus of the VHS era. Foil-wrapped hardcover book contains David Wilcox’s complete 40,000 word liner notes, reflections by Justin Trosper, Sara Lund, and Brandt Sandeno, map of Olympia punk houses, dozens of previously unpublished photographs, a flyer gallery, and annotated discography.
Complete contents:

11 compact discs
> Giant Henry
> S/T
> Fake Train
> New Plastic Ideas
> The Future of What
> Repetition
> Challenge For A Civilized Society
> Leaves Turn Inside You
> Live Leaves
> Live Detritus
1 DVD
192 tracks
256-page hard bound book
Foil-wrapped slipcase

This box set was manufactured in a strictly limited edition of 1000 and will not be available in stores. Pre-order guarantees a copy to ship by December 12.

Saturday Night In America, and what am I doing here, with my sort of life?
Oh yeah:

The Magnetic Fields’ first two albums, The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees, will make their debut appearance on vinyl in December 2016, packaged together as a two-LP set.

Distant Plastic Trees, the Magnetic Fields’ first album, was originally released in England and Japan in 1991. Merritt’s accordion player, the novelist Daniel Handler, later noted that “this tinny and intimate recording, in quiet defiance of the reigning roar of pop music, recalls both the early, scratchy field recordings of folk music and the first experiments in electronic music—precisely the sort of stylistic balance the Magnetic Fields liked to achieve.” The album includes the early-’90s college radio single “100,000 Fireflies” which had earlier appeared as a single on Harriet Records and was later covered by Superchunk.

The album artwork on both Distant Plastic Trees and The Wayward Bus was created by watercolorist Wendy Smith. Her beautiful wrap-around paintings, now printed in a larger format, along with remastered audio make this two-LP set an exciting addition to the Magnetic Fields discography.

TRACK/SONG TITLE ARTIST DURATION
When You Were My Baby The Magnetic Fields 2:42
The Saddest Story Ever Told The Magnetic Fields 2:13
Lovers From the Moon The Magnetic Fields 2:53
Candy The Magnetic Fields 2:32
Tokyo Á Go-Go The Magnetic Fields 3:13
Summer Lies The Magnetic Fields 2:59
Old Orchard Beach The Magnetic Fields 2:54
Jeremy The Magnetic Fields 3:01
Dancing in Your Eyes The Magnetic Fields 2:57
Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave The Magnetic Fields 3:19
Railroad Boy The Magnetic Fields 3:00
Smoke Signals The Magnetic Fields 3:29
You Love to Fail The Magnetic Fields 2:30
Kings The Magnetic Fields 2:15
Babies Falling The Magnetic Fields 3:19
Living in an Abandoned Firehouse With You The Magnetic Fields 3:59
Tar-Heel Boy The Magnetic Fields 2:26
Falling in Love With the Wolfboy The Magnetic Fields 4:06
Josephine The Magnetic Fields 3:08
100,000 Fireflies The Magnetic Fields 3:20

view all
The Magnetic Fields On Tour
11/19 North Adams, MA MASS MoCA
12/02 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Academy of Music
12/03 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Academy of Music
03/15 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
03/16 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
View All Tour Dates (and other info)
http://www.mergerecords.com/the-magnetic-fields-the-wayward-bus-distant-pl

trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obm4CNfyAzE

Let Them Eat Vinyl and Rock Classics is proud to announce the official North American release date for the following vinyl titles. Pick up these titles on December 2 at your favorite retailer.
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DIAMOND HEAD / All Will Be Revealed is the 2005 comeback album by the NWOBHM legends. It was the band's first release since their 2002 Acoustic First Cuts EP and the first studio album since 1993's Death and Progress. It was first album to feature vocalist Nick Tart. RCV204LP

Track Listing: 1. Mine All Mine, 2. Give It To Me, 3. Nightmare, 4. Fallen Angel, 5. Alimony, 6. Lost At Sea, 7. Broken Pieces, 8. All Will Be Revealed, 9. Dead Or Living, 10. Drinking Again, 11. Come Alive, 12. Muddy Waters

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DIAMOND HEAD / What's In Your Head? is the second and final album with singer Nick Tart. The album was produced by Dave Nicholls (Slipknot, Stone Sour). RCV203LP

Track Listing: 1. Skin On Skin, 2. I Feel No Pain, 3. This Planet And Me, 4. Reign Supreme, 5. Killing Me, 6. Tonight, 7. Pray For Me, 8. What’s In Your Head, 9. Nothing To Lose, 10. Calling Out, 11. Victim

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CHELSEA / Traitors Gate is the band's seventh studio originally released 1994. LETV499LP

Track Listing: 1. Streets Of Anarchy, 2. Be What You Want To Be, 3. Traitor's Gate, 4. Power For A Day, 5. Fireworks, 6. S.A.D., 7. My Hotel Room, 8. Guns In Paradise, 9. We Dare, 10. Floating In The Dark, 11. This Is Now, 12. Nightmares, 13. Be What You Wanna Be, 14. Fireworks, 15. Floating In The Dark, 16. Guns In Paradise, 17. Power For A Day, 18. Build An Ark, 19. Streets Of Anarchy, 20. My Hotel Room, 21. We Dare

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CHELSEA / Faster, Cheaper and Better Looking is the band's eighth studio album originally released in 2005. It was their long awaited new release since reuniting in 1999. LETV501LP


Track Listing: 1. Living In The Urban UK, 2. SOD The War, 3. Bad Advice, 4. New Utopia, 5. Cosy Family Way, 6. Sliding Down A Stream, 7. K.X.L.U., 8. We Don't Want It, 9. 45 RPM, 10. Ritalin Kid, 11. And I Love You, 12. If We Knew Then, 13. Mr. Ferry's Son, 14. Home, 15. Answer To The Question (bonus), 16. I Fought The Law (bonus), 17. White Riot (bonus), 18. Do We Really Care (bonus), 19. Linoleum (bonus)

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LAST IN LINE / Heavy Crown features guitarist Vivian Campbell, drummer Vinny Appice, bassist Jimmy Bain, and renowned vocalist Andy Freeman. The debut from this mega-group takes its name from Dio's 1984 fan-favorite album.

Track Listing: 1. Devil In Me, 2. Martyr, 3. Starmaker, 4. Burn This House Down, 5. I Am Revolution, 6. Blame It On Me, 7. In Flames (bonus track), 8. Already Dead, 9. Curse The Day, 10. Orange Glow, 11. Heavy Crown, 12. The Sickness

Watch for announcement on new vinyl titles for early 2017 shortly!

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New compilation by legendary Colombian cumbia/vallenato accordionist Andrés Landero, Yo Amanecí, coming on Vampisoul. Track listing:

1. La cigarrona
2. Mara del Carmen
3. Tambó tambó
4. Virgen de la Candelaria
5. Perdí las abarcas
6. Mi machete
7. La muerte de Eduardo Lora
8. Marta Cecilia
9. Cuando lo negro sea bello
10. Así se goza
11. Cumbia en la India
12. Que te vaya bien
13. Por ahí es que va la cosa
14. La mochila terciá
15. Rosa y Mayo
16. La pava congona
17. Yo amanecí
18. Las mellas
19. Mercedes Elena
20. La Sanjacintera

http://www.fatbeats.com/collections/frontier-records/products/lilys-in-the-presence-of-nothing-2xlp-reissue

!!

Couple of interesting end-of-the-year items:

Punk 45: Les Punks, The French Connection (The First Wave Of French Punk 1977-80): https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/the-first-wave-of-french-punk-197780
- The best review of French punk I've heard

Kollektion 06: Cluster 1971-1981: https://shop.tapeterecords.com/records/bureaub/kollektion-6-cluster-compiled-by-john-mcentire.html
- Single disc career overview

Also, this lovely 4CD box covering underground UK punk:
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/action-time-vision-a-story-of-uk-independent-punk-1976-1979/

out today:
WAXWORK RECORDS ANNOUNCES DELUXE VINYL RELEASE OF
THE HOWLING ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE
COMPOSED BY PINO DONAGGIO
won't let me paste the artwork here for long, but link leads to that and other details of a lavish edition (a la others posted about upthread):
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a088e1e7fb68010cf6ad8ff4a&id=f55057ec3c&e=32e64a6326

Thanks for those links, Gerald. Would esp. like to check that French comp; the only ones I've heard on there are Metal Urbain and Metal Boys (when they featured China), both ace.

"others posted about upthread"--others on Waxwork Records.