Rolling Reissues 2016

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:

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/Qkl5RTBaMjVKZG1KRW45bUtEeGZtZz09/1654-4-echoesofprayer.jpg

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/

http://www.resonancerecords.org/_img/covers/HCD-2023-l.jpg
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

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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
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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.