Rolling Reissues 2018

hunger is doing a reunion gig here in pdx in conjunction with the new reissue of their record. i'm considering it, but i'm kind of old so probably not.

Five Temptations albums from their psychedelic soul period - Puzzle People, Psychedelic Shack, Sky's The Limit, Solid Rock, and Masterpiece - are being reissued June 1 on the Elemental Music label. These are all long out of print, newly reissued on CD with original artwork and track listing/timings and digitally remastered audio, packaged in deluxe gatefold mini-LP style jackets with inner sleeves and info.

Pre-order links:
Puzzle People
Psychedelic Shack
Sky's the Limit
Solid Rock
Masterpiece

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The soundtrack to the 70s BBC TV children's series 'The Changes', with music composed by Paddy Kingsland of the Radiophonic workshop was released in full for the first time yesterday on digital, remastered from the 1/4" mono masters.

There's a limited edition double vinyl edition for RSD:
https://lightintheattic.net/releases/4005-the-changes-unofficial-2018-rsd-release

Rafael Toral
Wave Field
LP
Drag City To Be Released 2018-05-25 Catalog # DC702

All Tracks
Wave Field 5 25:22
Wave Field 5 (continued) / Wave Field 6 21:35
WF Radio Edit 3:01
About this product
1995: new composition methods involving the dirty textures of rock guitar, a synthesis of disparate elements — a nexus where Alvin Lucier, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and Eno blend together. A prescient vision of the next phases of listening space.

CD version released 2/2/1998 on dexter's cigar (dex14).

Originally released on CD in 1995 on Moneyland Records in Lisbon, Portugal

Rafael Toral
Sound Mind Sound Body (30th Anniversary Edition)
2xLP
Drag City To Be Released 2018-05-25 Catalog # DC701
Double LP

All Tracks
A E R 4 16:57
Loopability I 2:26
A E R 7 E 20:25
Soft Energy I 4:00
A E 1 14:24
Textura e Linhas Curvas 3:44
A E 2 13:03
Textura VIII 3:23
About this product
1994: The massive impact of discreet gestures; slow-moving tones and spacious orchestral resonances, drifting and droning with glacial majesty, hardly recognizable as guitar much of the time. 30th anniversary (of inception) edition!

CD reissued 2/21/2000 on Moikai records (M7). (Includes AER4, Loopability I, AER7E, Soft Energy I, AE1)

Original CD release in 1994 on Ananana, Lisbon

nice, those are great records

More from Drag City:

...on June 22nd...John Renbourn Live in Kyoto 1978 comes from a tape made by a private collector who promoted shows for many years in Japan - and taped them immaculately! They came to light after his passing, and one of the many performances deemed release-worthy was this solo show at a coffeehouse in Kyoto by one of the legends of British folk - and really, of roots music in the 20th century! Playing in a style often dubbed 'folk baroque' John Renbourn busted out as a part of a duo with Bert Jansch in the early 60s, after which the two formed Pentangle. Later, John made records with his own John Renbourn Band as well as with Stephen Grossman and as a solo performer. His unique combination of traditional folk, blues, world and early music, all played with feathery-yet-incisive fingers sustained him for over five decades of making records and performing. Live in Kyoto 1978 catches him on a typically sweet evening, in front of an avid crowd whose ardor grows with each passing number, climaxing in a wizardly series of medleys that bring the house down. Beautifully recorded, and with liner notes from The Silence's Masaki Batoh, who was in attendance all those years ago, Live in Kyoto 1978 is a fresh testament to the genius style of John Renbourn.
(And from a few years back, check Renbourn's remarkably adequately-recorded and well-preserved The Attic Tapes, which are also living room/crash pad tapes from hither and yon in early 60s etc., with traces of and finally a full sighting of Davey Graham; Beverly Martyn's in there too.)

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Grönland Records Announce Reissue Of Seminal Ambient Records by

David Sylvian & Holger Czukay

Plight & Premonition (1988)

and

Flux & Mutability (1989)

Release date: 22nd June 2018

Today, Grönland Records are proud to announce the reissue of one of ambient music's hidden gems, by two unique musicians whose paths originally crossed in the early-eighties while working on Sylvian’s debut solo album, 'Brilliant Trees'. In 1986, David Sylvian - of British Art-Pop band Japan - and Holger Czukay - founding member and bassist in legendary German Kosmiche band Can - were ostensibly reconvening for Sylvian to record a vocal for Czukay's forthcoming album 'Rome Remains Rome’. But on arriving at Czukay's studio - a former cinema in Köln - Sylvian began playing freeform, improvising on readily available instruments located in the studio itself. No sooner had Sylvian, on whatever instrument he’d been applying himself, start to structurally define/refine the performance than Czukay would stop the recording he’d surreptitiously been making. Czukay had attempted to capture the process of creation without a musician's inclination for refinement. This process, drawn out over two nights, gave birth to the duo's first, full-fledged, collaboration, 'Plight and Premonition'.

Having been out of print for some time, the parallels between the original release 30 years ago and now are quite stark; at the time of recording the Cold War was lifting - but still very real - after a bitter winter. The names "Plight & Premonition" and "Flux & Mutability" themselves hint at an instability. In Sylvian's words, the sessions seemed to touch on something: “A form of music that seemed to have been created while we were absent by instruments abandoned to the earth and the woods, sounded by the coarse winter elements.”

The version of ‘Plight and Premonition’ included here is a new mix by Sylvian from 2002. All the recordings have been fully remastered. The packaging has been redesigned by Chris Bigg with Art Direction by Sylvian with new, previously unseen, photographs by Yuka Fujii, accompanied by an extensive essay by David Toop.

Originally released separately, they are now packaged in a 2CD / 2LP set.

(text by the man, Sylvian, himself, via fb)

The 2002 mix of "Plight" and "Premonition" comes from "Camphor", a collection of Sylvian's ambient work. I think it's an improvement over the original.

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THE CURE MIXED UP AND TORN DOWN

Remastered 3-CD Deluxe Edition Featuring 16 Brand New Mixes By
Robert Smith And 11 Rare Mixes From 1982-1990 Available June 15 From Rhino

2-LP 180-gram Vinyl Versions Also Available On The Same Day

LOS ANGELES - With the Disintegration album and its accompanying global Prayer Tour, 1989 had delivered a triumphant end to the 80s, but the first year of the 90s found The Cure unexpectedly unsettled.

Determined to keep up the momentum of the band's ongoing success, but knowing there were internal tensions to address before heading back into the studio, Robert Smith decided on a different course of action; curating an album of the band's rarer 12" mixes. As work on Mixed Up progressed, Smith realized that some of The Cure's earlier remixes didn't stand up to the newer ones.

Robert singles out Brian 'Chuck' New's dub style remix of "Pictures Of You" as the one that inspired him to take a more adventurous path. Smith notes, "That mix turned the music on its head, but at the same time left the essential heart of the song intact. As soon as I heard it, I updated the entire Mixed Up plan. My revised ambition was to compile an album that was contemporary without being dated, immediate without being obvious, musically inspiring, rhythmically exciting and sonically great!"

Two tracks on the album, "A Forest" and "The Walk," were not just remixed but entirely re-recorded, as the multi-track tapes for both songs had long been lost. Both songs were reconstructed in the studio with producer Mark Saunders, using original instruments and gear.

The band convened over five days in June 1990 to record a new track for Mixed Up. After a certain amount of fraught experimenting with beats, loops and sequenced bass lines, Smith decided to change the vibe. A demo entitled "PhaseAGE" that had previously been deemed 'too rock' was committed to tape as "Never Enough" and was released as a single in September 1990. The "Closer Mix" of "Close To Me" soon followed this and both songs were accompanied by customarily deranged Tim Pope videos.

With Mixed Up finally released, Smith felt he could at last move on, confident in a reenergized and reintegrated band. Smith continues, "The whole of 1990 was essentially spent emerging from the shadow of Disintegration, and we managed to do it in a creatively satisfying way; by the end of the year, I couldn't wait to start work on new songs for the next record."

Once the remaining 1981 to 1990 12" / extended mixes were compiled, Robert realized that there were too many for one CD and too few for two CD's. His solution was to deliver an entire disc of brand new mixes.

"I wanted a 3-disc package, but we didn't have enough 'historic' remixes - for a while I thought the 'extra-extras' CD would be Cure songs re-mixed by choice artists, rather than by choice re-mixers... that then got me thinking maybe I should have a go at one... so in early August 2017, I decided to experiment with Three Imaginary Boys. It is a pretty sparse multi-track; I pulled it apart at home and finished the initial re-mix in one session - and I really enjoyed the whole process," says Smith.

By choosing favorite songs rather than the usual singles, one of Smith's objectives was to illustrate the variety of the Cure catalogue, and by October of 2017 working on songs in chronological release order, he had remixed entirely the 16 songs that appear on Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018.

For the Torn Down cover, Robert decided on a self-portrait painted in oils during the summer of 1990 which was originally intended as the sleeve for Mixed Up. He chose Torn Down as the title for the 'extra-extras' album inspired by the way he had 'torn down' Never Enough, stripping the song back to resemble his original 1990 PhaseAGE demo. "I felt it was a good way to bring the project back full circle...in a Mixed Up kind of way," states Smith.

The Cure's MIXED UP [DELUXE EDITION] will be available on June 15 as a 3CD set for ($24.98). Also available the same day, are the 2LP vinyl sets of Mixed Up ($34.98) and Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018 ($34.98). Both albums have been Half Speed Mastered by Robert Smith and Tim Young at Metropolis Studios, London and are pressed on 180-gram vinyl and are housed in Gatefold Sleeves.

For more information about THE CURE please contact Jessica Giordano in the Rhino Media Relations Department at jess✧✧✧.giord✧✧✧@rh✧✧✧.c✧✧ or 818-238-6403.

MIXED UP [DELUXE EDITION]
Track Listing:

Disc One - Mixed Up - Remastered by Robert Smith 2018
1. Lullaby - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
2. Close To Me - Closer Mix - 2018 remaster
3. Fascination Street - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
4. The Walk - Everything Mix - 2018 remaster
5. Lovesong - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
6. A Forest - Tree Mix - 2018 remaster
7. Pictures of You - Extended Dub Mix - 2018 remaster
8. Hot Hot Hot!!! - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
9. The Caterpillar - Flicker Mix - 2018 remaster
10. Inbetween Days - Shiver Mix - 2018 remaster
11. Never Enough - Big Mix - 2018 remaster

Disc Two - Remixes 1982-1990: Mixed Up Extras 2018
1. Let's Go To Bed - Extended Mix 1982 - 2018 remaster
2. Just One Kiss - Extended Mix 1982 - 2018 remaster
3. Close To Me - Extended Remix 1985 - 2018 remaster
4. Boys Don't Cry - New Voice Club Mix 1986 - 2018 remaster
5. Why Can't I Be You? - Extended Mix 1987 - 2018 remaster
6. A Japanese Dream - 12" Remix 1987 - 2018 remaster
7. Pictures of You - Extended Version 1990 - 2018 remaster
8. Let's Go To Bed - Milk Mix 1990 - 2018 remaster
9. Just Like Heaven - Dizzy Mix 1990 - 2018 remaster
10. Primary - Red Mix 1990 - 2018 remaster
11. The Lovecats - TC & Benny Mix 1990 - 2018 remaster

Disc 3 - Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018
1. Three Imaginary Boys - Help Me Mix by Robert Smith
2. M - Attack Mix by Robert Smith
3. The Drowning Man - Bright Birds Mix by Robert Smith
4. A Strange Day - Drowning Waves Mix by Robert Smith
5. Just One Kiss - Remember Mix by Robert Smith
6. Shake Dog Shake - New Blood Mix by Robert Smith
7. A Night Like This - Hello Goodbye Mix by Robert Smith
8. Like Cockatoos - Lonely In The Rain Mix by Robert Smith
9. Plainsong - Edge Of The World Mix by Robert Smith
10. Never Enough - Time To Kill Mix by Robert Smith
11. From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea - Love In Vain Mix by Robert Smith
12. Want - Time Mix by Robert Smith
13. The Last Day of Summer - 31st August Mix by Robert Smith
14. Cut Here - If Only Mix by Robert Smith
15. Lost - Found Mix by Robert Smith
16. It's Over - Whisper Mix by Robert Smith

MIXED UP - 2-LP
A1: Lullaby - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
A2: Close To Me - Closer Mix - 2018 remaster
A3: Fascination Street - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster

B1: The Walk - Everything Mix - 2018 remaster
B2: Lovesong - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
B3: A Forest - Tree Mix - 2018 remaster

C1: Pictures of You - Extended Dub Mix - 2018 remaster
C2: Hot Hot Hot!!! - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster
C3: Why Can't I Be You ? - Extended Mix - 2018 remaster

D1: The Caterpillar - Flicker Mix - 2018 remaster
D2: Inbetween Days - Shiver Mix - 2018 remaster
D3: Never Enough - Big Mix - 2018 remaster

TORN DOWN: MIXED UP EXTRAS 2018 - 2-LP
A1: Three Imaginary Boys - Help Me Mix by Robert Smith
A2: M - Attack Mix by Robert Smith
A3: The Drowning Man - Bright Birds Mix by Robert Smith
A4: A Strange Day - Drowning Waves Mix by Robert Smith

B1: Just One Kiss - Remember Mix by Robert Smith
B2: Shake Dog Shake - New Blood Mix by Robert Smith
B3: A Night Like This - Hello Goodbye Mix by Robert Smith
B4: Like Cockatoos - Lonely In The Rain Mix by Robert Smith

C1: Plainsong - Edge Of The World Mix by Robert Smith
C2: Never Enough - Time To Kill Mix by Robert Smith
C3: From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea - Love In Vain Mix by Robert Smith
C4: Want - Time Mix by Robert Smith

D1: The Last Day of Summer - 31st August Mix by Robert Smith
D2: Cut Here - If Only Mix by Robert Smith
D3: Lost - Found Mix by Robert Smith
D4: It's Over - Whisper Mix by Robert Smith

source (w contact info etc)
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The Breeders: 4AD Catalogue Back In Print On May 18

All of the Breeders’ previous albums – Pod, Last Splash, Title TK, and Mountain Battles – will be re-issued on vinyl on 18th May. Available to pre-order from today, this is the first time Pod and Last Splash will be released by 4AD in North America.

The Breeders continue to tour their latest album All Nerve with further European dates announced for November. The group will also play two shows before FYF Festival in July. Currently on the road in North America, The Breeders will tour the UK and Europe throughout the Spring and Summer.

Pod, the 1990 debut featuring the line-up of Pixie’s Kim Deal, Throwing Muses’ Tanya Donelly, the Perfect Disaster’s Josephine Wiggs and Slint’s Britt Walford, was recorded by Steve Albini. Kurt Cobain listed the record as one of his top three favourite albums saying, “the way they structure [the songs] is totally unique.” Critically acclaimed when it came out, Pod’s legacy lives on – Pitchfork called it a “blissful mindfuck of a record,” and ranked it in their Best Albums of the 90s.
Last Splash was recorded in 1993 by what is now regarded as the ‘classic’ Breeders line-up of Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson. Including the twisted pop singles ‘Cannonball’ and ‘Divine Hammer’, it has become one of the defining albums of the 90s.

2002’s Title TK saw the band work with Steve Albini once more, with the Guardian saying it was “a welcome return to punky pop that knows how to flex some melodic muscle.” The album has been out of print on vinyl since its release.

Fourth album Mountain Battles, a perfectly formed album of 13 miniatures in 36 minutes engineered by Steve Albini, was originally released in 2008. Like Title TK before it, Mountain Battles has been out of print since its release.

All Nerve, the Breeders’ fifth studio album, saw the iconic line-up of Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson reunite for the first time since the release of the platinum-selling album Last Splash. Released earlier this year, critics and fans welcomed them back with open arms and they scored their highest chart positions – including top 10 in the UK – in 25 years

Exclusive Soul Jazz Records RSD 2018 7" Deluxe Box Sets!
Our 3 new deluxe box sets are available ONLINE NOW TODAY direct from independent record stores!

You can buy the PUNK 45 Box Set and the CONGO Box Set direct from us here right now. The Studio One Box Set is already sold out - so you will need to try and get this from your friendly local record store and quick!

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Punk 45 RSD BOX SET - Approaching The Minimal With Spray Guns
An Edition Of Five Independent Singles: classic punk rarities from the likes of X_X, The Bizarros, Rubber City Rebels, Hollywood Squares and more, all in original stunning artwork!
more info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/an-edition-of-five-independent-singles-in-original-cover-art

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Africa Latin, Jazz and Funk: Sounds From The Two Congos (1957-73)
Soul Jazz Records’ Record Store Day seven-inch box set which brings together a stunning five-single/ ten track selection of mind-blowingly groovy selection of African, Latin, Jazz and Funk music from the Congo.

Absolutely killer and essential tracks (mostly unknown) from the masters of the vibrant Congo scene in the 1960s – featuring the groups Franco & OK Jazz, Rock-A-Mambo, African Jazz, African Fiesta and more.

Roots African meets Cal Tjader, James Brown, Ray Barretto & more. The bomb!

more info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/afrolatin-jazz-and-funk-evolutionary-and-revolutionary-sounds-from-the-two-congos

Soul Jazz puts out some crazy stuff. Got a few of the Punk 45 comps but they got bunches of compilations I would like to check out.

Have not yet checked out that Who at the Fillmore collection. Still curious but haven't gotten to the local store to pick it up yet.

One of these days those Led Zeppelin Fillmore/Winterland recordings are going to come out. I got to figure that the bad blood between LZ and Bill Graham might be one historical reason why those recordings have been on ice and never really been formally released. They had them up online for a bit on that garage website, but that I think is it except for the bootlegs.

Have not yet checked out that Who at the Fillmore collection. Still curious but haven't gotten to the local store to pick it up yet.

ok that's a bit hyperbolic but it's good! i've long loved the bootleg i had from fillmore '68 (which might be from a different show? not sure, but "shakin' all over" is only seven minutes on this release) and i'm glad it came out. the who didn't suddenly become an amazing live band in 1970... there's also some nice acetates from their first attempt at a live album from fall of '69, but the '68 who is really my jam.

i was just listening to a mingus boot from the adams-pullen era and while entwistle may be the greatest bassist in rock i'd never confuse him with mingus!

Third Man's putting out Trout Mask Replica on vinyl:
Out of print on vinyl for nearly ten years, this remaster was helmed by industry legend Bob Ludwig and cut by the estimable Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. Utilizing crystalline-quality safety masters kept in the Zappa family vault for decades by the trustworthy Joe Travers, the audio here is positively glorious. Every last skronk breathes full life into the room. Every twisted guitar figure uncurls onto paths previously unpaved. Every last bark and howl shines resolute through the vast emptiness of your mind.

Previous countless Trout Mask Replica repressings used scans of scans of scans of the cover image, but for Vault Package #36 the original Cal Schenkel cover photo has been tracked down and reproduced here at its clearest — its resolution from the original release in 1969. If you’ve only ever seen a jpg online or fuzzy, smeared-looking CD issues from the 90’s, be prepared to be wowed by the fully engaging spectrum this iconic image casts. This 2xLP is pressed on heavyweight 180-gram fruitcake fish-scale colored vinyl for that full-on frenetic feeling.

The French-only 7-inch single of “Pachuco Cadaver” b/w “Wild Life” will also be included as part of this overreaching package. As the only single ever pulled from this admittedly dense album, this is the first time EVER that “Pachuco Cadaver” has been repressed and comes wonderfully housed in a replica glue-pocket picture sleeve and pressed on a white colored vinyl. ALL vinyl in this package is lovingly pressed at Third Man Pressing’s state-of-the-art plant in Detroit, Michigan for that extra-special attention to detail. Simmer down now! More details and art bits they prob won't let stand for long as C&P :
https://thirdmanrecords.com/news/introducing-vault-package-36-trout-mask-replica

glue-pocket o baby!

disappointing, that's not really a "reissue" per se, more like a subscription-only collector-only boutique release

i was just listening to a mingus boot from the adams-pullen era and while entwistle may be the greatest bassist in rock i'd never confuse him with mingus!

Yeah I gotta hear that! One I missed last fall: reissue of PSF's oft-molten maiden comp, a wake-up call to Westword noizeheads ov yore---tell it, Marc Masters:
The most immediately exciting material on Tokyo Flashback is drenched with fiery guitars and mammoth rhythms, mixed into a cacophonous lava pouring from speakers. High Rise, Marble Sheep & the Run-Down Sun’s Children, and Fushitsusha (whose first two albums on PSF, released before Tokyo Flashback, are legendary for their bleeding psych bombast) all stomp on the gas pedal until it breaks. But there are other gears on Tokyo Flashback too: Ghost’s seance-like acoustics, White Heaven’s Blue Cheer-style string wrangling, Kousokuya’s slow-burning metal, and a closer by Fushitsusha’s Keiji Haino that consists solely of his harrowing vocal calisthenics.
from https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/various-artists-tokyo-flashback/

Czukay box---so was he a better Eno Zappa?
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/holger-czukay-cinema/

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From Northern Spy:

A bunch of us purchased Marvin Pontiac’s Greatest Hits back in 1999 on CD, and some of us totally bought into the story: Marvin Pontiac was an enigmatic genius of modern music. He was the son of an African father from Mali and a white Jewish mother from New York. Having been killed by a bus, this was a posthumous collection. Jackson Pollock listened solely to Marvin. Flea, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop, Beck, Angelique Kidjo, Mike Gordon and Michael Stipe were fans.

John Lurie’s story was deeply amusing and his music was extraordinary. The whole thing was characteristically ahead of its time and guaranteed to leave a permanent mark on your consciousness. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it still is and still does! We’re blissfully psyched to bring this music to vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day and to compact disc for a one-time pressing. Check out the music if you haven’t already and please help spread the word. The package, co-designed by John Lurie and Adam Downey, features a detail of Lurie's painting The sky is falling. I am learning to live with it.

We also asked John Lurie to take over our weekly Spotify playlist called Office Ephemera. Listen here.

“I have never used Spotify and don’t know what Record Store Day is, but I am releasing Marvin Pontiac’s Greatest Hits on vinyl with the people at Northern Spy. They asked me to make a playlist. They are nice people, so I did it.” – John Lurie

Read a feature by Marc Masters in the Washington Post here.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/lifestyle/cult-favorite-john-lurie-makes-way-for-an-alter-ego/2018/04/12/4fb378f6-3825-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html?noredirect=on

For a long time, John Lurie was everywhere. If you cared about American independent art and culture between the mid-’70s and the late ’90s, you probably knew about his acting in films such as “Stranger Than Paradise,” “Paris, Texas,” and “Down by Law.” Or maybe as the host of his absurdist nature show “Fishing With John.” Or perhaps you heard his music as the composer of scores for “Get Shorty” and “Mystery Train,” or as the leader and saxophone player for his raucous jazz group, the Lounge Lizards.

During this prolific run, one of Lurie’s ventures was a little less visible. In 1999, his record label Strange and Beautiful released “Greatest Hits,” by someone called the Legendary Marvin Pontiac. According to press materials, Pontiac was a hard-luck drifter who made music in Mali, Chicago and Detroit before being killed by a bus in 1977. But since the album included a supporting cast of Lurie’s fellow New York musicians and featured a singing voice that sounded a lot like him, it wasn’t hard to guess who Pontiac actually was.

RELEASE INFO
CATALOG #: NS 097
VINYL: Record Store Day Exclusive, Available only in stores April 21st, 2018
CD: in stores June 22nd, 2018
PRE-ORDER CD: northern spy website, bandcamp

BACKGROUND

MARVIN PONTIAC was hit and killed by a bus in June 1977 ending the life of one of the most enigmatic geniuses of modern music. He was born in 1932, the son of an African father from Mali and a white Jewish mother from New Rochelle, New York. The father's original last name was Toure but he changed it to Pontiac when the family moved to Detroit, believing it to be a conventional American name.

Marvin's father left the family when Marvin was two years old. When his mother was institutionalized in 1936, the father returned and brought the young boy to Bamako, Mali where Marvin was raised until he was fifteen. The music that he heard there would influence him forever.

At fifteen Marvin moved by himself to Chicago where he became versed in playing blues harmonica. At the age of seventeen, Marvin was accused by the great Little Walter of copying his harmonica style. This accusation led to a fistfight outside of a small club on Maxwell Street. Losing a fight to the much smaller Little Walter was so humiliating to the young Marvin that he left Chicago and moved to Lubbock, Texas where he became a plumber's assistant.

Not much is known about him for the next three years. There are unsubstantiated rumors that Marvin may have been involved in a bank robbery in 1950. In 1952, he had a minor hit for Acorn Records with the then controversial song "I'm a Doggy." Oddly enough, unbeknownst to Marvin and his label, he simultaneously had an enormous bootleg success in Nigeria with the beautiful song "Pancakes."

His disdain and mistrust of the music business is well documented and he soon fell out with Acorn's owner, Norman Hector. Although approached by other labels, Marvin refused to record for anyone unless the owner of the label came to his home in Slidell, La and mowed his lawn.

Reportedly Marvin's music was the only music that Jackson Pollack would ever listen to while he painted, this respect was not reciprocated. In 1970 Marvin believed that he was abducted by aliens. He felt his mother had had a similar unsettling experience, which had led to her breakdown. He stopped playing music and dedicated all of his time and energy to amicably contacting these creatures who had previously probed his body so brutally.

When he was arrested for riding a bicycle naked down the side streets of Slidell, La, it provided a sad but clear view of Marvin's coming years.

Marvin held the tribal belief that having a photograph taken of yourself could steal your soul, thus these candid shots are the only ones known to exist.

In 1971 he moved back to Detroit where he drifted forever and permanently into insanity.

WHAT OTHER GREAT ARTISTS HAVE SAID ABOUT MARVIN PONTIAC.....

"In my formative years, as an aspiring bass player, there was nothing I listened to more than Marvin Pontiac." -Flea

"A dazzling collection! It strikes me that Pontiac was so uncontainably prescient that one might think that these tracks had been assembled today." -David Bowie

"A Revelation." -Leonard Cohen

"This record has changed my life." -John Lurie

"Marvin would kick your ass for nothing. A true genius, Marvin was a pure original." -Iggy Pop

"The innovation and possibility in this music leaves me speechless." -Beck

"Marvin is good." -Angelique Kidjo

"...beds of eerie, hypnotic, textural rhythm with that tragic voice of the American male floating on top, or actually below." - Mike Gordon, Phish

CREDITS

Recorded At – The Magic Shop
Mixed At – RPM Studios
Mastered At – Classic Sound, New York

I'm A Doggy
Bass – Tony Scherr
Drums – Kenny Wolleson
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Harmonica – Marvin Pontiac
Piano, Organ – John Medeski
3:30

Small Car
Acoustic Guitar – Erik Sanko
Backing Vocals – Adele Bertei, Eszter Balint, Kate Fenner, Kyrie Tinch, Liz Riley, Meaghan Gannett, Veronica Bryant
Bass – Tony Garnier
Cello – Jane Scarpantoni
Drums – Calvin Weston
Electric Piano – Evan Lurie
Guitar – Jaime Scott, Marc Ribot
Marimba – Bill Ware
Percussion – Mauro Refosco
Shekere – Billy Martin
Tenor Saxophone [Tenor] – Michael Blake
Trombone – Art Baron
5:45

Now I'm Happy
Baritone Saxophone – Doug Wieselman
Bass – Tony Garnier
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Marc Ribot
Guitar, Alto Saxophone – Marvin Pontiac
Organ – John Medeski
Percussion, Gong – Mauro Refosco
Tenor Saxophone – Michael Blake
Trombone – Art Baron
Trumpet – Steven Bernstein
3:49

Power
Bass, Drums, Chair – Erik Sanko
Cello – Jane Scarpantoni
Drums [Murds] – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Keyboards [Casio] – Marvin Pontiac
Organ, Clavinet, Mellotron – John Medeski
4:02

Runnin' Round
Bass – Tony Scherr
Drums, Backing Vocals – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Guitar [Wah Wah Guitar] – Marvin Pontiac
Organ – John Medeski
Percussion – Mauro Refosco
Piano – Evan Lurie
3:39

Pancakes
Backing Vocals – Adele Bertei, Calvin Weston, Eszter Balint, Kyrie Tinch, Liz Riley, Renee French
Bass – Tony Scherr
Drums, Balafon [Balaphone] – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Harmonica, Keyboards – Marvin Pontiac
Marimba, Balafon – Bill Ware
Percussion – Kenny Wolleson
Shaker – Billy Martin
4:34

Bring Me Rocks
Alto Saxophone, Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Marvin Pontiac
Backing Vocals – Calvin Weston, Jaime Scott, Steven Bernstein, Tony Scherr
Baritone Saxophone – Doug Wieselman
Bass – Tony Scherr
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Marimba – Bill Ware
Tenor Saxophone – Michael Blake
Trombone – Art Baron
3:32

Rubin
Bass – Erik Sanko
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Marimba – Bill Ware
Percussion – Billy Martin
Trombone – Art Baron
Vocals – Angelique Kidjo
3:36

Wanna Wanna
Backing Vocals – Adele Bertei, Angelique Kidjo, Calvin Weston, Eszter Balint, Kate Fenner, Kyrie Tinch, Liz Riley, Meaghan Gannett, Sharon Niesp, Veronica Bryant
Baritone Saxophone – Doug Wieselman
Bass – Erik Sanko
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott, Marvin Pontiac
Percussion – Billy Martin, Kenny Wolleson
Piano, Organ – John Medeski
Tenor Saxophone [Tenor] – Michael Blake
Trombone – Art Baron
Trumpet – Steven Bernstein
4:49

Sleep At Night
Harmonica – Marvin Pontiac
Piano – John Medeski
3:25

Arms & Legs
Bass – Tony Scherr
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Keyboards, Sitar – Marvin Pontiac
Mellophone [Melophone] – Steven Bernstein
2:40

She Ain't Going Home
Backing Vocals – Calvin Weston, Erik Sanko, Jaime Scott, Marvin Pontiac, Tony Scherr
Banjo, Harmonica – Marvin Pontiac
Bass, Slide Guitar – Tony Scherr
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Percussion [Sticks] – Calvin Weston
3:12

Little Fly
Backing Vocals – Eszter Balint, Kate Fenner, Kyrie Tinch, Liz Riley, Meaghan Gannett, Veronica Bryant
Bass – Erik Sanko
Drums [Disco Drums] – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Lyrics By – Pontiac
Ocarina – Doug "The Hank" Wieselman
1:39

No Kids
Acoustic Guitar – Marvin Pontiac
Backing Vocals – Angelique Kidjo*, Meaghan Gannett, Melanie Rock
Bass, Guitar – Erik Sanko
Drums – Calvin Weston
Guitar – Jaime Scott
Marimba – Bill Ware
Percussion – Billy Martin
3:05

I haven't bought these because they've previously only been available as way overpriced CD/DVD or CD/Blu-Ray sets. If they release a reasonably priced CD-only version of this box, I might consider it, even though I don't really like the Wilson mix of Topographic:

YES: THE STEVEN WILSON REMIXES

Celebrate The Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer's 50th Anniversary With A Vinyl Set Featuring Steven Wilson's Remixes Of Five Classic Albums: The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge, Relayer And The Double Album, Tales From Topographic Oceans

Available June 29 From Rhino

LOS ANGELES - Yes mark their 50th anniversary this year and release YES: THE STEVEN WILSON REMIXES which spotlights five studio albums that helped secure the band's recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

YES: THE STEVEN WILSON REMIXES will be available June 29 as a five album set. It includes remixed versions of: The Yes Album (1971), Fragile (1971), Close To The Edge (1972), the double album Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973), and Relayer (1974). Each album features remixed audio by renowned producer Steven Wilson, released on vinyl for the first time.

The record case features artwork created specifically for the set by Roger Dean, whose artwork and trademark calligraphy are synonymous with the band's identity, two of the albums, Close To The Edge and Tales From Topography Oceans have new cover art, while the remaining three covers have been reworked by Dean.

After their initial release in the 1970's,Wilson's articulate remix shines a light on the stellar performances that run deep through each of these the albums, from hits like "Roundabout" and "I've Seen All Good People," to album-side length epics like "Close To The Edge" and "The Gates Of Delirium."

The music included in this collection confirms the band's standing as the most enduring, ambitious, and virtuosic progressive band in rock history. It also follows the band through a number of personnel changes. Starting in February 1971 with Yes's third studio release, The Yes Album, the band featured vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Tony Kaye and drummer Bill Bruford. Released just nine months later, Fragile was Yes's first release with keyboardist Rick Wakeman. The same line-up returned on 1972's Close To The Edge. A year later, drummer Alan White made his Yes debut on Tales From Topographic Oceans. And finally, keyboardist Patrick Moraz joined for Relayer in 1974.

YES: THE STEVEN WILSON REMIXES
LP Album Listing:

The Yes Album (1971)
Fragile (1971)
Close To The Edge (1972)
Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973)
Relayer (1974)

The music included in this collection confirms the band's standing as the most enduring, ambitious, and virtuosic progressive band in rock history.

xp Boy the brainy 80s NYC hipster rollcall of Marvin's musical attendants---"the downtown crowd," as Lou Reed used to say---really takes me back, though they're a bit underemployed here, despite the alert, expert zigzag elevator groovage---underemployed compared to some other ventures, though not quantity-wise, would be better at half the length---about 25 minutes---or less (an excellent bonus EP w Lounge Lizards box, for inst). "Small Car" gets him out of the neighborhood or ward for a few minutes: it's about tiny farmers with "inch-long dogs" who are happy but one night they start to wonder where the stars come from, so they get in their cars made from cans and drive and drive, happy in the starlight and saying, "Hi farmer" to each other, 'til they come to the giants, us, or people our size, and agree that they don't belong here/there, so get in their can-cars and drive back home, but they enjoyed the trip and they're happy ever after to remember the night. Nice music.
Otherwise, in the usual fedoraheadspace, my fave line is "I put a piece of fur in my shoe to hide it from you. " Last track, "No Kids," has an intriguingly more serious vibe, or back and forth, coulda used a few more like that (although I kept getting interrupted, took most of the day so far to hear it all, so some may take hold later).

Numero Group announces Ectotrophia, the first authoritative compilation of American dream pop artist Happy Rhodes' earliest recordings from 1984-87, out June 29

The first authoritative compilation of American dream pop artist Happy Rhodes, whose singular songwriting and four-octave vocal range emanated from the pastoral confines of upstate New York in the 1980s. Her melding of classical music influences with synthesizer and acoustic guitar, and her enchanting and idiosyncratic singing, are favorably compared to heralded English chanteuse Kate Bush.

Fans of such artistic pop music would be remiss to overlook Rhodes’s similarly remarkable and otherworldly sonic transmissions, traversing tales of dreamers, outsiders, lovers and other lovely and terrifying creatures born of a wellspring of wild creativity and bold imagination.

Affectionately remastered from the original tapes, Ectotrophia gathers essential songs from Rhodes’s mid-'80s salad days, many written when she was just a teenager—wildly ahead of her time and unafraid to bare her soul to regional audiences, the ectophiles who’d eventually coin an entire subgenre of pop music in her honor. Dive deep into ecto, with the woman who started it all.

"When The Rain Came Down" (not my cuppa, but maybe yours)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP8Nv8XWMgU&feature=youtu.be

Aw crap--anyway it's on YouTube

So Guns N' Roses are putting out a 4-CD/1-Blu-Ray super deluxe edition of Appetite For Destruction in June. There are various versions, the biggest of which costs $999 and comes in a crate with about a hundred stupid things nobody needs. But here's the track listing, which includes new remasters of the album and the Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide and G N' R Lies EPs, plus a bunch of previously unreleased tracks:

Disc One - Appetite For Destruction

01 “Welcome To The Jungle”
02 “It’s So Easy”
03 “Nightrain”
04 “Out Ta Get Me”
05 “Mr. Brownstone”
06 “Paradise City”
07 “My Michelle”
08 “Think About You”
09 “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
10 “You’re Crazy”
11 “Anything Goes”
12 “Rocket Queen”

Disc Two – B-sides N’ EPs

01 “Reckless Life”
02 “Nice Boys”
03 “Move To The City (Live)
04 “Mama Kin”
05 “Shadow Of Your Love” (Live)
06 “You’re Crazy” (Acoustic Version)
07 “Patience”
08 “Used To Love Her”
09 “You’re Crazy”
10 “It’s So Easy” (Live)
11 “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” (Live)
12 “Whole Lotta Rosie” (Live)

Disc Three – 1986 Sound City Session

01 “Welcome To The Jungle” (1986 Sound City Session)
02 “Nightrain” (1986 Sound City Session)
03 “Out Ta Get Me” (1986 Sound City Session)
04 “Paradise City” (1986 Sound City Session)
05 “My Michelle” (1986 Sound City Session)
06 “Think About You” (1986 Sound City Session)
07 “You’re Crazy” (1986 Sound City Session)
08 “Anything Goes” (1986 Sound City Session)
09 “Rocket Queen” (1986 Sound City Session)
10 “Shadow Of Your Love” (1986 Sound City Session)
11 “Heartbreak Hotel” (1986 Sound City Session)
12 “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1986 Sound City Session)

Disc Four – 1986 Sound City Session and More

01 “Shadow Of Your Love”
02 “Move To The City” (1986 Sound City Session)
03 “Ain’t Goin’ Down No More” (Instrumental Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
04 “The Plague” (1986 Sound City Session)
05 “Nice Boys” (1986 Sound City Session)
06 “Back Off Bitch” (1986 Sound City Session)
07 “Reckless Life” (1986 Sound City Session)
08 “Mama Kin” (1986 Sound City Session)
09 “New Work Tune” (1986 Sound City Session)
10 “November Rain” (Piano Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
11 “Move To The City” (Acoustic Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
12 “You’re Crazy” (Acoustic Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
13 “November Rain” (Acoustic Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
14 “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (Acoustic Version- 1986 Sound City Session)
15 “Move To The City” (1988 Acoustic Version)

Blu-Ray Audio

01 “Welcome To The Jungle”
02 “It’s So Easy”
03 “Nightrain”
04 “Out Ta Get Me”
05 “Mr. Brownstone”
06 “Paradise City”
07 “My Michelle”
08 “Think About You”
09 “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
10 “You’re Crazy”
11 “Anything Goes”
12 “Rocket Queen”

Bonus Tracks

01 “Shadow Of Your Love”
02 “Patience”
03 “Used To Love Her”
04 “You’re Crazy”
05 “Move To The City” (1988 Acoustic Version)

Music Videos

01 “Welcome To The Jungle”
02 “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
03 “Paradise City”
04 “Patience”
05 “It’s So Easy” (Brand New Video From 1989)

Did you notice what's missing from Disc Two? That's right - "One In A Million" is not included on this box. Axl is woke now. (Well, kinda - "Used To Love Her" is still there.)

Five Temptations albums from their psychedelic soul period - Puzzle People, Psychedelic Shack, Sky's The Limit, Solid Rock, and Masterpiece - are being reissued June 1 on the Elemental Music label. These are all long out of print, newly reissued on CD with original artwork and track listing/timings and digitally remastered audio, packaged in deluxe gatefold mini-LP style jackets with inner sleeves and info.

Sky's The Limit is by far my favorite of theirs, followed by All Directions and 1990, which were on CD not too long ago I guess.

There are various versions, the biggest of which costs $999 and comes in a crate with about a hundred stupid things nobody needs.

Including a life-size replica of Slash's hat or GTFO.

Axl is woke now. (Well, kinda - "Used To Love Her" is still there.)

It’s about his dog, remember? ;)

I watched the unboxing video for this and could only see a succession of sad living rooms where this product serves as some kind of altar or shrine.

I’m slightly interested in the 2CD version they’re putting out – I’ve never actually owned Appetite, in any form – but spending any amount of money on it feels like a failure of imagination (and sense).

TheVinylFactory.com has beaucoup news, about first-timers and reissues; here's some, starting last month:

Far Out reissues two cult ’70s Brazilian albums featuring original members of Azymuth

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With Victor Assis Brazil, Orlandivo, and legendary producer and multi-instrumentalist Durval Ferreira.

Far Out Recordings is reissuing two 1970s Brazilian “comedy concept” albums from television duo Chico Anysio and Arnauld Rodrigues this June.

Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos (1974) and Azambuja & Cia (1975) are based on characters created by Anysio and Rodrigues, with sounds that mix jazz-funk, soulful samba-rock and MPB.

Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos is a satire on Brazil’s Tropicália movement, while Azambuja & Cia tells the story of Carioca conman Paulo Maurício Azambuja.

Both albums have been remastered for these new viny reissues, with original album artwork.

More pix and full albums streams linked here:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/far-out-cult-70s-brazilian-albums-featuring-members-azymuth/

South African kwaito jazz

A future-facing hybrid of jazz, broken beat and afro-synth.

Composer and pianist Moses Taiwa Molelekwa’s 2000 album Genes And Spirits has been reissued on vinyl for the first time by Matsuli Music.

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Released a year before his death at the age of 29, Molelekwa forged a unique international sound with a band that included Cuban legend Chucho Valdez, Cameroonian drummer Cuba Brice Wassy and Brazilian singer and fusion star Flora Purim.

The result is an album of genre-defying dexterity, created by a process of “finding a range of rhythmic alternatives”, of which the jazzy broken beat of second track ‘Spirits Of Tembisa’ is a particularly strong example.

The album will be reissued ion gatefold vinyl by Matsuli Music, who have already been responsible for reviving South African jazz gems by Batsumi, Black Disco and Ndikho Xaba And The Natives.

More info, audio here:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/south-african-kwaito-jazz-by-moses-taiwa-molelekwa-reissued-on-vinyl/

Read next: An introduction to 10 of South Africa’s most important labels
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/south-africa-record-labels-ranger/

Little-known Turkish female singers from the ’70s and ’80s collected in new LP

“With eccentric synthesisers, mesmerising arabesque string orchestras, wakawaka funky guitars and narcotising rhythm sections of darbukas and drum sets.”

A new compilation called Turkish Ladies showcases female singers from Turkey in ’74 – ’88.

Spanning classical Türk Sanat, Argentinian tango, and Egyptian classical orchestras to disco, psychedelia, funk, the album is curated by Ladies on Records, from the archives of labels Elenor, Türküola and Şah Plak.

It features lesser-known female singers who never achieved international fame outside of Turkey such as Huri Sapan, Handan Kara, Gönül Yazar, and Esmeray, with liner notes telling their stories, in both Turkish and English.
More info, audio:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/turkish-ladies-female-singers-from-turkey-1974-1988-lp/

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Dreamy Fourth World inspired soundscapes meet Balinese instrumentals.

Spencer Clark’s 2010 record Make Mine, Macaw, originally released under the Monopoly Child Star Searchers moniker will be reissued on vinyl for the first time, this June via Discrepant.

Second in the Tropical Bird Romance Audio trilogy between 2010’s Bamboo For Two and 2011’s The Garnet Toucan, Make Mine, Macaw is also the rarest. While the other releases had vinyl pressings on Olde English Spelling Bee and Underwater Peoples, Macaw was a tour-only CDr.

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The trilogy features some of Clark’s most hypnotic soundscapes, melding exotica, Fourth World music, gamelan and more. It also includes contributions from his Skaters partner James Ferraro, Dolphins Into The Future’s Lieven Martens Moana and Orphan Fairytale.

More info, audio:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/spencer-clark-make-mine-macaw-vinyl-monopoly-child-star-searchers/

Read more: An introduction to Jon Hassell in 10 records
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/introduction-jon-hassell-10-records/

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From “the James Brown meets Fela Kuti of Sudan.”

Habibi Funk has launched a new series showcasing little-known music from Sudan’s jazz scene, starting with the first ever release of Kamal Keila’s album Muslims and Christians.

The label discovered Keila while on a recent trip to curate a collection of Arabic zouk tracks, where Keila’s name repeatedly came up in conversations.

For decades in Sudan, radio stations were not allowed to play label recordings on air, so stations hosted live sessions for musicians.

To prevent artists from self-releasing these sessions they rarely received copies of the tapes; however Keila managed to attain the studio reels of two, 5-track performances from the 12th of August 1992.

According to the label, “some of the songs were already written in the 1970s and have been part of Keila’s sets ever since, with only small changes for contemporary references in the lyrics and musically sometimes adopting to “new” sounds here and there.”

“Both sessions stand as a testament to how he stuck to a sound aesthetic from decades ago, while incorporating current events into his lyrics.”

Muslims and Christians includes Keila’s ‘Al Asafir’ which appeared on Habibi Funk 007: An Eclectic Selection of Music From The Arabic World, alongside nine previously unreleased songs.

The series will continue with albums by The Scorpions and Sharhabeel, forthcoming later this year.

more info, audio:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/habibi-funk-sudan-jazz-kamal-keila-muslims-and-christians-2xlp/

Soul Jazz collects the best unknown rap records from ’70s-’80s in new Boombox installment

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The ode to independent hip-hop, electro and disco rap returns.

Soul Jazz is releasing the third edition of its Boombox series this June on triple vinyl.

According to the label the compilation was “created with just one thing in mind – to get this party jumping!”

As with previous editions, Boombox 3 showcases lesser known artists who released some of the first rap and hip-hop records on vinyl.

Boombox 3‘s 18-tracks include “New York rap artists, classic disco breaks...proto- electro and more,” shares Soul Jazz.

Boombox 3‘s triple vinyl release also includes a 44-page book with photographs, original artwork and images discussing “hip-hop’s trajectory from the first wave of Bronx creativity..."
Tracklist

1. Majestics – Class A
2. Brother’s Disco – Thumpin
3. Mifflin Ensemble – On The Move
4. Sherod – Schooling (Put Your Mind To The Message)
5. Sugar Daddy – Another One Bites The Dust
6. Family Four – Rap Attack
7. She-MsD.J.RapItUp!
8. The Caution Crew – Rhythm Rock (Part 1)
9. Poor Boy Rappers – The D.J. Rap
10. Family – Family Rap (6.56)
11. Bobby Deemo – Bugs-B-Skate Rap
12. Teen-Machine – Teen-Machine Rap
13. T.J. Swann & Company – Get Fly
14. Poor Boy Rappers – Low Rider Rap
15. Sicle Cell & Rhapazooty – Rhapazooty In Blue
16. Mr. Fox – Smooth Talk
17. Solid C, Bobby D & Kool Drop – Wack Rap
18. Disco Daddy & Capt. Rapp – The Gigolo Rapp

More Info, Audio:
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/soul-jazz-boombox-3-rap-records-70s-80s/

Read more: Worldwide Underground: 10 records that define Soul Jazz
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/10-records-that-define-soul-jazz/
(More about Soul Jazz releases than a subgenre, ranging even unto their first hardcore punk comp)

Wow, that's one infodump of must-have releases up there.

Baiano & Os Novos Caetanos is a satire on Brazil’s Tropicália movement, while Azambuja & Cia tells the story of Carioca conman Paulo Maurício Azambuja.

Dunno if this needs explaining to any of the heads here, but the joke here is they conflated the band Novos Baianos ("new guys from Bahia") with Caetano Veloso.

the first two volumes in the Boombox series have been great, looking forward to the third

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A CERTAIN RATIO have announced the final phase in their studio album reissue series. Sextet (1982) will be released on orange vinyl in textured sleeve replicating the original Factory release, Change The Station (1997) will be released on double blue vinyl and Mind Made Up (2008) is out on double purple vinyl. Change The Station and Mind Made Up will appear on vinyl for the first time. CD and digital copies will also be available on July 27.

This is the latest installment in an ongoing collaboration with Mute and follows the release of The Graveyard And The Ballroom, To Each and Force. This Friday will see the release of I’d Like To See You Again, Good Together, Up In Downsville and ACR:MCR.

Sextet (1982) - Dark and brooding, yet bright and funky, Sextet is a firm favorite amongst the critics. The album saw A Certain Ratio refine the experimentation of the first two albums and deliver a masterpiece that is as off-kilter and weird as it is commercial and pop. Listen to “Crystal” here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWTAtkuVs0E&feature=youtu.be

Change The Station (1986) - An abstract album that sees A Certain Ratio bring the funk to laid back ambience in a way that only they could. The party is still there and it's more hypnotic than ever. Listen to “Yeah Boy” here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLY_0GNqAv0&feature=youtu.be

Mind Made Up (2008) - To date, this is A Certain Ratio’s last album release, and one that sees them explore pop closer than ever before - short sharp bursts of classic sing-a-long post-pop funk. Listen to “Bird to the Ground” here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bow8z-J3-f8&feature=youtu.be

A new compilation will follow later in the year and various box sets will be released in 2019 to mark the 40th anniversary of the first releases by the band.

Known for their carnival atmosphere live performances, A Certain Raito have been playing blistering sold out shows throughout 2017 and 2018. A new series of dates have been announced. See below for an itinerary.
A Certain Ratio embraced the ethic and culture of the late seventies post-punk explosion, but sounded like nothing else around them and refused to fit in. Formed in 1978, the band had various members throughout their career and a core line-up comprised of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson.

Hailed universally as pioneers of what became known as “punk funk” thanks to the success of “Shack Up” on both sides of the Atlantic, their sound is not easily pigeon-holed and their influence can never be understated. The band introduced the avant-garde elements of funk, jazz, electronics, tape loops and technology to the pop song, wrapping it in a post punk aesthetic.

They have gone on to influence generations of musicians including Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem, Happy Mondays, Franz Ferdinand, ESG, Factory Floor and Andrew Weatherall.

The Guardian’s Dave Simpson paid tribute to the band, once described as “James Brown on acid” in a recent Cult Heroes piece: “Once you start listening to A Certain Ratio, it’s difficult to stop”.

For a look inside the band’s early days, watch the inspiring short film Tribeca, directed by Michael Shamberg, here.

A CERTAIN RATIO UK TOUR
May 25 – Leeds, England – Belgrave Music Hall
June 30 – Birmingham, England – Hare and Hounds (w/ Sink Ya Teeth)
September 7 – Portmeirion, Wales – Festival Nº6
September 15 – Dublin, Ireland – The Sugar Club
September 22 – Helsinki, Finland – Aaniwalli
September 29 – Edinburgh, Scotland – Voodoo Rooms
November 24 – Manchester, England – Gorilla
December 1 – Clitheroe, England – The Grand
A Certain Ratio are supporters of Artists Against Hunger and will donate £1 for each ticket sold in 2018. For further details, please go to http://againsthunger.uk/acr

(Those promo tracks are all on YouTube)

Disciples of California is one of my favorite records of the aughts, nice to see this:

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The Skygreen Leopards
The Jingling World of The Skygreen Leopards
SAB086 | LP, DL
PRE-ORDER FOR JUNE

“The Jingling World of The Skygreen Leopards” is a collection of songs from the first two Skygreen Leopards CDRs on Jewelled Antler; two mini albums written & recorded in the distant days of 2001, a year with a name that evokes a psychedelic future but which now seems very much part of the psychedelic past. Guided by Tall Dwarfs, The Monkees & The TVPs, the early SGLs concept was to mix automatic songwriting, two voices, California 12-string and put it on reverb smothered 1/4″ tape. The restrictions were that no songs could break the 3 minute mark, no jamming allowed, and you never went back to fix mistakes. All songs were written and performed by Glenn Donaldson and Donovan Quinn; both switching instruments and overdubbing until Glenn’s Tascam 388 had run out of open tracks.

From the womb of fanzines, flea market record crates of the 90’s and San Francisco’s fading victorians, it’s “The Jingling World of The Skygreen Leopards”!

https://softabuse.com/catalog/the-skygreen-leopards-the-jingling-world-of-the-skygreen-leopards/

Light in The Attic Records is ecstatic to announce the release of their Hauromi Hosono 5-album series, coming out this Summer/Fall.

“A basking adventure through exquisite & intricate melodies & grooves.” -Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

"Amazing sound presence in his voice and in his musical arrangements...a gifted sound artist for sure." -Laraaji

“I personally think he is beyond being a musician, more like a philosopher. He creates a borderless mindset with his music portraying a deep understanding of the world with his wit and elegance.” -Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto)

There is perhaps no figure more towering in the history of modern Japanese music than Haruomi “Harry” Hosono. From the groundbreaking folk rock of Happy End and the pioneering techno pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra, to the countless influential solo works that have touched on exotica, funk, country, electronic, ambient, and everything in between.

Light in the Attic is beyond proud to present a comprehensive archival series of Hosono’s key albums from throughout his solo career. These highly influential and sought-after albums have never been reissued outside of Japan, until now.
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Philharmony (1982) – RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2018
* First ever vinyl reissue and first ever release outside of Japan
* Translated interview with Haruomi Hosono
* Originally released in 1982
* LP housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket & limited to 1500 copies on black vinyl
* 3xLP Bundle includes "Philharmony", "omni Sight Seeing", and "Paraiso"

Philharmony is one of the most well-loved of Hosono’s albums, and a favorite of the artist himself. Admired by artists ranging from Van Dyke Parks to Mac DeMarco, Hosono continues to forge ahead as he heads into his fifth decade as a musician. With the re-release of his key albums for the first time outside of Japan, his genius will be discovered by a whole new generation of fans around the world.

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omni Sight Seeing (1989) – RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2018

* First ever vinyl release
*Originally released in 1989
* Translated interview with Haruomi Hosono
* LP housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket & limited to 1500 copies pressed on black vinyl
* 3xLP Bundle includes "omni Sight Seeing", "Philharmony", and "Paraiso"

Omni Sight Seeing, originally released in 1989 during YMO’s initial hiatus, is an exhilarating musical journey around the world as filtered through Hosono’s kaleidoscopic lens. This work stands as a manifestation of his concept of “Sight Seeing Music,” putting his own tasteful spin on the “world” music encountered during his explorations of global cultures.

Paraiso (1978) – RELEASE DATE: August 10, 2018

* First ever vinyl reissue and first ever release outside of Japan
* Originally released in 1978

* Translated interview with Haruomi Hosono
* LP housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket & limited to 1500 copies pressed on black vinyl
* 3xLP Bundle includes "Paraiso,” "Philharmony,” and "omni Sight Seeing"

The album can be seen as a turning point in Haruomi Hosono’s career, having been newly signed to Alfa Records by label head Kunihiko Murai. Hosono expands on the Van Dyke Parks-inspired tropical funk styles explored in the previous albums, and arrives at a captivating fusion sound that’s at times equally earthy and exotic.

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Hosono House (1973) – RELEASE DATE: September 28, 2018

* First ever release outside of Japan
* Remastered form the original analog master tapes
* 2xLP Bundle (both on Color & Black vinyl) includes "Hosono House" & "Cochin Moon"

After Happy End’s amicable break up in 1973, Hosono released Hosono House, an intimate slice of Japanese Americana recorded at home with a back-to-basics approach akin to Music from Big Pink or McCartney. While his former band helped pave the way for the rise of “city pop” that reflected upon urban themes and city life, Hosono took a 180 degree turn towards the countryside for his highly-regarded first solo album.

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Cochin Moon (1978) – RELEASE DATE: September 28, 2018

* First ever release outside of Japan

* Translated interview with Haruomi Hosono
* Remastered form the original analog master tapes

* Originally released in 1978
* 2xLP Bundle (both on Color & Black vinyl) includes "Cochin Moon" & "Hosono House"

Cochin Moon is a clear precursor to the groundbreaking synth and sequencer-dominated sounds that would come to define the iconic trio. Credited to Hosono and Pop Art legend Tadanori Yokoo (who created the cover art), Cochin Moon is a fictional soundtrack to a journey into unknown worlds, inspired by Hosono and Yokoo’s trip to India.

I think all of these will be available on CD as well, not seeing digital. For more info:
https://lightintheattic.net/artists/2475-haruomi-hosono

Missed a cover!

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here's the trailer for the series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsD_iVrLETI
a bunch of other HH on that page

Sweet, they send these images and won't let us post---anyway, I overlooked some of the news:

As he approaches his 50th anniversary as a working musician, Hosono will play his first ever UK shows as

Solo act in June 2018:

June 23: London – Barbican Centre*

June 25 – The Old Market

* with Acetone + Willie Thrasher & Linda Saddleback in celebration of Light In The Attic's Sweet 16 Year Anniversary!

Manu Dibango

Electric Africa

TIDAL WAVES MUSIC

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Afrobeat-Afrofunk genius MANU DIBANGO’s 1985 Electric Africa has been reissued by One Way Static Records, distributed through Light in The Attic in North America

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Manu Dibango needs litle introduction, born in Cameroon in 1933, Manu developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. He’s definitely among the best known African

artists outside of Africa. Collaborations were numerous and include top acts like Fela Kuti, Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Sly & Robbie, Don Cherry and Bernie Worrell.

In addition to selling hundreds of thousands of copies of the albums he recorded, he played such huge venues as Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden. In 1972, at 40 years of age, Manu Dibango did something almost unheard of for an African

artist – he had a pop hit. His song “Soul Makossa” became an enormous hit which influenced popular music for decades to follow. First picked up by David Mancuso (The Loft), “Soul Makossa” took New York dancefloors by storm & in July 1973 it became the first disco record to enter the Billboard Top 40 —an early instance of Western pop experiencing a paradigm shift thanks to Africa. The song’s chant of “ma-mako ma-ma-sa mako-mako sa” echoes through the greatest-selling pop album of all-time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and it’s in the DNA of the music of Kanye West, Rihanna, A Tribe Called Quest, Akon and The Fugees.

Side A

01.

Pata Piya

02.

Electric Africa

Side B

03.

Echos Beti

04.

L’Arbre A Palabres

·Back on vinyl for the first time since 1985 – BLUE VINYL now!

·Comes with the original 1985 artworks & obi strip

·All-star line-up featuring Herbie Hancock, Mory Kante & Bernie Worrell

·Strictly limited to 500 copies worldwide (that sweet Blue Vinyl)

SUNN O))) Releases Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998 Limited Edition LP
SUNN O))) has unleashed the earliest recording of the band's monolithic tones, revamped for a limited edition pressing via Southern Lord Recordings, as the label celebrates its twentieth anniversary, as a split label release together with Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ imprint.

The Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998 dates back to the earliest rehearsals during the genesis of the SUNN O))) project. The source is a C60 cassette tape recorded on a boombox, and the result is essentially an extremely raw noise/drone record. It was taped in the band's early practice space at Downtown Rehearsal (RIP), Los Angeles, in a practice room which the band shared with The Melvins and Goatsnake at the time. The LP sees SUNN O))) founders Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley on guitars and stacks of amps, the original cassette was mastered by Brad Boatright February 2018.

Longtime/old school diehard listeners of SUNN O)))'s massive sound and those who have watched the collective's transformation over the past two decades can find the brutal practice tape revamped as Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998, available only through Southern Lord and directly from the band in a limited run on 180-gram vinyl LP - 900 black, 500 silver, 100 white, with machine numbering on the front cover - and digitally.

Find SUNN O)))'s Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998 at Bandcamp HERE
https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/downtown-la-rehearsal-rifftape-march-1998

Other buying options at band's website.

Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998 Track Listing:
Side A:
1. Room 206 pt.1
2. Room 206 pt.2
3. B-Witch

Side B:
1. Room 206 pt.3
2. The Grimm Robe / Black Wedding
3. Mustaine / Thorns
4. M & D I.L.F.
5. The DJs

The celebration of twenty years of SUNN O))) and Southern Lord this year will continue with reissues of the band's lauded White1 and White2 albums in the coming weeks.

SUNN O))) will perform live at the Psycho Las Vegas festival on August 19th alongside Godflesh, Goblin, Enslaved, All Pigs Must Die, Wolves In The Throne Room, and scores more.

Watch for further updates on SUNN O))) in the coming days.

SUNN O))) Live:
8/19/2018 Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Las Vegas, NV @ Psycho Las Vegas