Rolling Reissues 2017

Cool! last year's Rolling Reissues incl. Ashby reissues via Sound Of The Universe, Soul Jazz Records' store site. Also here: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/historical-jazz-releases-2016/ And Night Lights did a really good presentation of her music history: http://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/fantastic-jazz-harp-dorothy-ashby/

Tompkins Square label has reissued Meredith Monk's groundbreaking 1971 debut album, Key. Pitchfork named it "Best New Reissue" (8.7)

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Composer, singer, director/choreographer, creator of new opera, musical theater works, films and installations, Meredith Monk is one of the most unique and influential artists of our time. Awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Obama in 2015, Monk has blazed her own trail through music and movement over the past 50 years. Pitchfork noted : "Meredith Monk's influence as a singer and composer extends through Björk, Joanna Newsom and beyond."

Key contains Monk's earliest compositions for voice, composed and performed from 1967-1970. In her words:
"In Key I wanted to create a constantly shifting ambience. Each song dealt with a different vocal character, landscape, technical concern or emotional quality. I was trying for a visceral, kinetic song form that had the abstract qualities of a painting or a dance. I knew that I didn't want to set music to a text: for me, the voice itself was a language which seemed to speak more eloquently than words. I chose certain phonemes for their particular sound qualities. In a sense, each song became a world in itself with its own timbre, texture and impulse."

The Tompkins Square reissue faithfully reproduces the original 1971 LP on Increase Records, with textured cover and original insert images and notes.

TSQ5371 - Tompkins Square is distributed by INgrooves and Revolver in NA, Cargo UK for Europe.
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Dolmen Music [ECM, 1980]
Monk has classical voice training, but I expect it was her folk and rock experience that taught her how to make these almost wordless songs sound so demotic, so literally unrefined--they obviously don't merely "express" emotion, but they don't merely distill it either. On record, the ostinato structures mean that the four shorter pieces composed between 1972 and 1975 come across better than the title work, which lasts 23:39 and features six voices with intermittent accompaniment. But anybody who wants to go further than Lora Logic and Pere Ubu will listen to it all. A-

Been listening to the U-Men s/t anthology on Sub Pop a lot lately, highly recommended if you like scabrous Birthday Party/Grong Grong/Bloodloss style blues-garage-punk-abilly.

+1. I'd heard a lot of the U-Men stuff at the time, but totally kind of forgot about 'em. Sort of a missing link between BP/Scientists and Gun Club/Scratch Acid. Great comp.

From Soul Jazz Records' storefront Sound Of The Universe:

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Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3
Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1971-81
Soul Jazz Records

Available worldwide in all good retail and internet record stores this Fri 1 Dec or direct from us right now! Buy the 3xLP and get a free limited edition poster (direct from us only here). Buy the 2xCD and get a free limited edition badge (direct from us only here).

This latest instalment in Soul Jazz Records’ successful Deutsche Elektronische Musik series delves deeper into the German nation’s vaults to bring a fascinating new collection that again brings together a selection of classic German electronic and rock groups, including Neu!, Cluster, Popol Vuh, La Düsseldorf, Agitation Free, alongside a host of rare tracks by lesser known artists which includes Michael Bundt, Bröselmaschine, Dronsz, Achim Reichel and others.

The music of Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 ranges from the introverted pastoralism of Hans Joachim Roedelius and Bröselmaschine, to the angular and futuristic electronic experimentations of Klauss Weiss, Pyrolator, Deuter, Michael Bundt and others, to the proto-punk of La Düsseldorf and the heavy space, progressive and cosmic rock of Missus Beastly, Niagara and Dyzan.

The music on Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 was all recorded in the 1970s up to the early 1980s, at a time when forward-thinking German electronic and rock groups were searching for a new musical identity in order to separate themselves from both the cultural legacy of post-world war two Germany as well the ‘cultural imperialism’ of USA and UK rock. In this process German groups created some of the most unique and inspired music, the defining motorik beat alongside a host of ethno-musical influences from far afield – including Turkey, India, Brazil – as well as the musical and futurist possibilities of developments in electronics and technology itself.

Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3 is released as a heavyweight 3xLP, deluxe double CD pack and digital release. The new extensive sleevenotes are by David Stubbs, who is the author of the acclaimed book, ‘Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany’ (Faber & Faber).

Deutsche Elektronische Musik: “A near-definitive guide to some of the world’s most extraordinary music’’ ***** The Guardian

Release Date
01 December 2017
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1 Klauss Weiss – Wide Open Space Motion
2 A.R. & Machines – I'll Be Your Singer, You'll Be My Song
3 Deutsche Wertarbeit – Deutscher Wald
4 Dzyan – Khali
5 Missus Beastly – Geisha
6 Alex – Derulé
7 Agitation Free – In The Silence Of the Morning Sunrise
8 Georg Deuter – Pearls
9 Michael Bundt – The Brain Of Oskar Panizza
10 Popol Vuh – Ja, Deine Liebe Ist Sußer Als Wein
11 Novalis – Dronsz
12 Bröselmaschine – Schmetterling
13 Neu! – Neuschnee
14 Between – And The Waters Opened
15 La Düsseldorf – White Overalls
16 Klauss Weiss – Constellation
17 Achim Reichel – Tanz Der Vögel In Den Winden
18 Roedelius – Lustwandel
19 Pyrolator – Die Haut Der Frau
20 Cluster – Hollywood
21 Streetmark – Passage
22 Niagara – Rhythm Go
23 Michael Bundt – Neon

More Info & Audio
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/experimental-german-rock-and-german-music-197181

I got the Rhino deluxe 2 disc master of Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation which was only available in b&m stores for Black Friday. It's inexplicably missing "I'm Your Man," "All The Way," and the Ork single of "Blank Generation," even though it has the other track, "Another World." However, the liner notes are nice, and I just added the missing tracks to my flac folder, shrug.

PET SHOP BOYS ANNOUNCE THE THIRD SET OF RELEASES IN
CATALOGUE: 1985-2012, THE LANDMARK SERIES OF REISSUES
OF THEIR PARLOPHONE STUDIO ALBUMS

The Albums Please, Actually And Introspective Are Remastered And
Reissued With "Further Listening" Albums Of Additional And
Previously Unreleased Material

Reissues Out March 2 From Rhino

LOS ANGELES - Pet Shop Boys will release the third set of albums in their definitive CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 series of reissues of all their Parlophone studio albums. This third set sees the PSB albums Please from 1986, Actually from 1987 and 1988's Introspective, and will be reissued on March 2. The albums have been remastered and repackaged, and will be accompanied by "further listening" albums of master quality bonus tracks - including demos, extended mixes and remixes of tracks from the albums and others created in the same period as each record.

The three albums will be packaged with an extensive booklet in which Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe discuss each song, illustrated with many archive photographs. The entire project is designed by Farrow.

Please was the debut album by Pet Shop Boys and produced by Stephen Hague. Released in March 1986, the album hit Billboard's Top Ten, was certified Platinum, and has sold over three million copies worldwide. Comprising of ten tracks in its original release, the album's track-listing includes the duo's debut single "West End Girls" - PSB's first number one single in the USA. Singles "Love Comes Quickly," "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" and "Suburbia" are also featured on Please. The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 re-issue of the album features a remastered and repackaged vinyl and double CD, featuring 7" and 12" mixes and remixes of tracks from Please and the album's period.

In 1987, Pet Shop Boys released their second album Actually. The album was produced by Julian Mendelsohn, Stephen Hague, Shep Pettibone, Andy Richards and Pet Shop Boys. This period saw Pet Shop Boys reach new critical and commercial heights and included singles, "It's A Sin," "Always On My Mind And Heart," and "What Have I Done To Deserve This," their single featuring Dusty Springfield which climbed to number two on the US singles chart. The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 re-issue of Actually includes the remastered original album, with the 2-CD version featuring bonus material including the Shep Pettibone mix of "Heart," and demo versions and alternative mixes of tracks including "One More Chance" and "Always On My Mind."

Also remastered, repackaged and re-issued as part of the CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 is Pet Shop Boys' 1988 release Introspective. This album has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide to date and was the first to feature production by Trevor Horn, whose lavish orchestrations marked a new sonic direction for PSB. House music legend Frankie Knuckles created the mix of "I Want A Dog," while "Domino Dancing" was recorded in Miami with hit producer Lewis Martinée. Introspective also saw Pet Shop Boys introduce a new approach to the format of an album and its respective singles: each of the 6 tracks on the album's original track-listing is over six minutes in length, and they were later edited to fit the more traditional format of a seven-inch single. The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 re-issue features, along with the newly-remastered original album, bonus material such as demo versions of "Don Juan" and "Domino Dancing," seven-inch and disco mixes of "Losing My Mind" and "Left To My Own Devices."

The CATALOGUE: 1985-2012 reissue series began earlier this year on July 28 with the release of Nightlife, Release, and Fundamental, followed by re-issues of Yes and Elysium, which were released on October 20. The series will continue until all PSB Parlophone albums have been released with "further listening" albums:

Behaviour/Further listening: 1990-1991
Very/Further listening: 1992-1994
Bilingual/Further listening: 1995-1997

The reissues of Please, Actually, Introspective, Behaviour, Very, and Bilingual were originally released with bonus "further listening" albums in 2001 and are being newly remastered with their original track-listings for these projects.

Please / Further Listening: 1984-1986

CD 1:
1. Two Divided By Zero
2. West End Girls
3. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)
4. Love Comes Quickly
5. Suburbia
6. Opportunities (Reprise)
7. Tonight Is Forever
8. Violence
9. I Want A Lover
10. Later Tonight
11. Why Don't We Live Together?

CD 2:
1. A Man Could Get Arrested (Twelve-Inch B-Side)
2. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (Full Length Original Seven-Inch Mix)
3. In The Night
4. Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (Twelve-Inch Mix)
5. Why Don't We Live Together? (Original New York Mix)
6. West End Girls (Dance Mix)
7. A Man Could Get Arrested (Seven-Inch B-Side)
8. Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix)
9. That's My Impression (Disco Mix)
10. Was That What It Was?
11. Suburbia (The Full Horror)
12. Jack The Lad
13. Paninaro (Italian Remix)

Actually / Further Listening: 1987-1988:

CD 1:
1. One More Chance
2. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (with Dusty Springfield)
3. Shopping
4. Rent
5. Hit Music
6. It Couldn't Happen Here
7. It's A Sin
8. I Want To Wake Up
9. Heart
10. King's Cross

CD 2:
1. I Want To Wake Up (Breakdown Mix)
2. Heart (Shep Pettibone Version)
3. You Know Where You Went Wrong
4. One More Chance (Seven-Inch Mix)
5. It's A Sin (Disco Mix)
6. What Have I Done To Deserve This? (with Dusty Springfield) [extended mix]
7. Heart (Disco Mix)
8. A New Life
9. Always On My Mind (Demo Version)
10. Rent (Seven-Inch Mix)
11. I Want A Dog
12. Always On My Mind (Extended Dance Mix)
13. Do I Have To?
14. Always On My Mind (Dub Mix)

Introspective / Further Listening: 1988-1989

CD 1:
1. Left To My Own Devices
2. I Want A Dog
3. Domino Dancing
4. I'm Not Scared
5. Always On My Mind/In My House
6. It's Alright

CD 2:
1. I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too)
2. Don Juan (Demo Version)
3. Domino Dancing (Demo Version)
4. Domino Dancing (Alternative Version)
5. The Sound Of The Atom Splitting
6. What Keeps Mankind Alive?
7. Don Juan (Disco Mix)
8. Losing My Mind (Disco Mix)
9. Nothing Has Been Proved (Demo For Dusty)
10. So Sorry, I Said (Demo For Liza)
11. Left To My Own Devices (Seven-Inch Mix)
12. It's Alright (Ten-Inch Version)
13. One Of The Crowd
14. It's Alright (Seven-Inch Version)
15. Your Funny Uncle