Rolling Reissues 2020

Holy Dancin;, just listened to the xpost Walter Gibbons comp, which, maybe track 2 aside, had almost 0 wasted seconds, and he's def not reliant on Arthur Russell etc. material; he brings generic tracks toward the cosmic carwash as well, in an organic, seamless-seeming way---also has a ear for just the right conga sound, and not like AR is his only weirdo client either. That link again: https://waltergibbons.bandcamp.com/
Just now ordered the olde CD, which has a few more tracks than bandcamp's 12; Amazon digital only has 10.
Saw several complaints about quality of the first pressing, hope this new one is better.

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Ennio Morricone Morricone Segreto
DECCA

2×LP 3521870 £28.00
In stock
CD 3521864 £13.00
In stock

**The hidden, dark-tinged and psychedelic side of the maestro!**

This collection, featuring 7 previously unreleased tracks, explores what is possibly Morricone’s richest creative period, between the end of the 1960s to the early 80s, demonstrating Morricone’s long lasting influence for generations of musicians and film directors to this day.

'Morricone Segreto' is an acid-tinged sonic journey through mysterious voices, fuzz guitars, airy strings, eerie synths and modern grooves from the Academy award-winning composer who was always ahead trends, dictating style in his own way.

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27 tracks. More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/morricone-segreto

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Trio Ternura Trio Ternura
GROOVIE RECORDS

LP
in stock
The second album by the family vocal group, Trio Ternura. Features essential tracks such as 'Sol Quarenta Graus' and 'Sempre Existe Alguem'. Originally released in 1971.

More info: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/trio-ternura-trio-ternura

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Harmonia Musik Von Harmonia
LILITH
LP+CD
LP includes CD version of album
In Stock
The debut Harmonia album 'Musik Von Harmonia' appeared in 1974, marking the first collaborative effort between Cluster's Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius and Neu!'s Michael Rother: a German supergroup and genuine rarity, a colossal artistic success. The three members were skilled keyboard players, guitarists, electronic percussionists and composers. This was a group musically and conceptually miles ahead of its time. Musik Von Harmonia is at once a product of their source bands and a fine new twist on them, resulting in music that captures what for many is the Krautrock ideal, or more accurately, the motorik ideal. It's not Kraftwerk's all-synth, clean, clinical pulse, nor Neu!'s seemingly effortless glide, nor Can's stomping art world funk. Instead it's at once playful and murky, steady and mechanical, a supergroup of sorts who easily achieves and maintains such a seemingly overstated status by embracing a variety of approaches that work wonders.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/harmonia-musik-von-harmonia_2

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Harmonia Deluxe
LILITH

LP+CD
LP includes CD version of album
In Stock
Reissue of 'Deluxe', the second album from the West German krautrock group Harmonia, featuring Neu! guitarist Michael Rother with the duo Cluster (consisting of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius). It was recorded in June 1975 in Harmonia's studio in Forst, Germany and was released on the Brain Records label in 1975. For 'Deluxe', Harmonia worked with producer Conny Plank (who had previously worked with both their main projects Cluster and Neu!). He brought a 16-track recording machine and mixing desk to the band's country studio. Plank brought along drummer and Guru Guru member Mani Neumeier to perform on several tracks.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/harmonia-deluxe_2

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Hiroshi Yoshimura GREEN
LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
New LP (Coloured Vinyl)
Limited, deluxe green coloured vinyl edition
In stock
eissue of this groundbreaking, Japanese environmental/ambient music album from 1986!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/green_2

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The Heshoo Beshoo Group Armitage Road
WE ARE BUSY BODIES
LP
in stock
**Killer South African Jazz album!**

With a unique sound founded on a persuasive mix of American and African jazz, Armitage Road, originally released in 1970, was the only studio recording released by South Africa's Heshoo Beshoo Group.

More info, audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-heshoo-beshoo-group-armitage-road

Heshoo Beshoo sounding pretty damn good! And not that much like anything else I can think of. The audio samples are all 2 minutes long. I'd buy it if could find an affordable record player, any suggestions?

Looking forward to the resissue of post-punk/experimental comp From Brussels With Love on Les Disques Du Crepuscule. Out this weekend.

There's also a 2LP reissue of Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants coming later this month with the Testcard and Final Day EPs on the second record, so that's everything they recorded in there I think.

This is the From Brussels With Love tracklist

1. John Foxx A Jingle *1
2. Thomas Dolby Airwaves
3. Repetition Stranger
4. Harold Budd Children on the Hill
5. Durutti Column Sleep Will Come
6. Martin Hannett The Music Room
7. The Names Cat
8. Michael Nyman A Walk Through H
9. Brian Eno interview
10. Phill Niblock A Third Trombone
11. Jeanne Moreau interview
12. Richard Jobson Armoury Show
13. Bill Nelson The Shadow Garden
14. Durutti Column Piece For An Ideal
15. Kevin Hewick & New Order Haystack
16. Radio Romance Etrange Affinite
17. Gavin Bryars White's SS
18. Der Plan Meine Freunde
19. Gilbert & Lewis Twist Up
20. John Foxx A Jingle *2

Looks good!

Might as well put this here too (already on the laughner/rockets thread)

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Adele Bertei "Peter and the Wolves" book
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I said I wanna walk on down the alley
down where the light shines so very dimly

I wanna shake hands with all the creatures that I meet with Miss Cinderella Backstreet

--Peter Laughner

Peter… I’m listening to your voice and guitar on Pere Ubu’s “Final Solution,” hearing the rusted heart of our town beating inside the tenderness of your reach. And in there too, the foreboding that comes when we can’t make the pieces fit… –

--Adele Bertei

Smog Veil Records is pleased to announce the first paperback edition of Adele Bertei’s infamous, long-out-of-print memoir, Peter and the Wolves.

ADELE BERTEI is a poet, writer, actor, performer, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. She entered the downtown New York scene of the late 1970s as organist for musical insurrectionists, the Contortions. Bertei appeared in lead roles in several indie films, notably Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames, and has toured with, written songs for, and recorded as a vocalist for artists as diverse as Tears for Fears, Sandra Bernhard, Culture Club, Scritti Politti, Whitney Houston, and Lydia Lunch. Bertei’s first solo recording “Build Me a Bridge” on Geffen Records was a dance hit, as were singles “Just a Mirage” and Thomas Dolby’s “Hyperactive!”. She debuted new material in 2017-18 at MoMA, Club Salo Paris, and in Florence at La Compagnia Cinema. Adele has facilitated songwriting workshops for homeless youth at My Friend’s Place in Hollywood, and volunteered with Wayne Kramer’s Jail Guitar Doors. Bertei’s book Why Labelle Matters will be published in 2021 by the University of Texas Press.

Adele’s memoir, Peter and the Wolves, recounts her friendship with the late great Peter Laughner, Cleveland’s answer to all things underground and punk in the 1970s. Adele and Peter’s collaborations appear in Smog Veil’s groundbreaking 2019 box set. The book is Bertei's intimate recounting of the musical education she received from Laughner; of their complex artistic kinship, and the vivid trajectory of the ‘live fast die young’ ethos that extinguished the light of a radiant rock and roll heart.

This first paperback edition contains newly discovered photos, a new forward, and an epilogue penned by original Pere Ubu bassist Tim Wright all contained in 93 pages.

THIS ITEM SHIPS ON OR ABOUT NOVEMBER 10, 2020.

SPECIAL PRICING IS AVAILABLE WHEN YOU BUY THIS BOOK AND THE Peter Laughner box set. Click HERE for details.https://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/adele-and-peter-powerpak

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"There are, as Bertei calls them, unholy incantations. Electric guitars, drugs, books of poetry, bullets, queer love, adventures, and misadventures. Real life and sounds that refuse to fade, all wrapped in the most stunning prose." - Camilla Aisa/Shindig

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Soul Jazz Records Present - Studio One 007
Record Store Day Exclusive #1
Licensed To Ska ! James Bond and Other Film Soundtracks and TV Themes
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS

5×7" Boxset SJR 450 BOX £35.00
In stock

This Studio One box set sold out from our site in the first hour when we released it for RSD and was deleted the same day! We've managed to get the last 50 ever back from one of our distributors. So if you want one NOW is your last chance!
STUDIO ONE 007

Licensed To Ska! James Bond and Other Film Soundtracks and TV Themes

Soul Jazz Records are releasing Studio One 007 – Licenced to Ska, a limited-edition one-off pressing exclusive Record Store Day collectors seven-inch box set, featuring ten super rare killer cuts on five 7" singles.

Featuring The Skatalites, Lee Perry, Jackie Mittoo, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Roland Alphonso and The Soul Brothers, rare and classic tracks from Jamaica's no.1 record label, Studio One.

James Bond and Jamaica have very strong links and the films have always been much loved there – it was home for Bond's creator Ian Fleming and provided the setting for Dr. No, Live and Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun and the latest instalment, 'No Time To Die', which will be released in 2020, sees Bond return to the island once more.

Also includes killer tracks from the James Bond 1969 spoof 'Our Man Flint' and the Clint Eastwood-starring Spaghetti Western 'Hang 'Em High'!

All tracks have been digitally remastered and the singles come housed in a thick, heavyweight card box.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/licensed-to-ska-

^^^that looks great, I have that Crime Show Theme comp that Soul Jazz put out some time ago, but don't really return to it very often...

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Ryuichi Sakamoto Hidari Ude No Yume WEWANTSOUNDS

2×LP Deluxe vinyl WWSLP33£34.00
Limited 2xLP edition in a gatefold sleeve. Includes a second disc of instrumental versions of the album.
In stock
LP WWSLP34 £26.00
In stock
2×CD WWSCD33 £16.00
2xCD version. Includes a second disc of instrumental versions of the album.
Reissue of Ryuichi Sakamoto's landmark 1981 album reissued for the first time in decades outside of Japan featuring the rare Japanese edition in a superb blend of electro, funk and ambient music styles

oops--link for more info, audio re Sakamoto: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/ryuichi-sakamoto--hidari-ude-no-yume-left-handed-dream

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Bobby Hutcherson
Oblique (Tone Poet Edition)
BLUE NOTE
LP (180 gram) 884051 £35.00
180g audiophile vinyl reissue in a deluxe gatefold sleeve
In stock
REVIOUSLY JAPANESE ISSUE ONLY BLUE NOTE. Recorded in 1967, not released to 1980. Bobby Hutcherson is joined by Herbie Hancock, Joe Chambers and Albert Stinson.

More info, audio for Hutcherson: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/bobby-hutcherson-oblique

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Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders
The Trance Of Seven Colors
ZEHRA
2×LP ZEHRA001 £27.00

**Back in stock!**

Originally released in 1994 on Bill Laswell's AXIOM imprint, "The Trance Of Seven Colors" is the meeting of two true musical masters: master Gnawa musician Maleem Mahmoud Ghania, & free jazz legend Pharoah Sanders. Recorded in Morrocco in 1994, the album is considered to be one of the most important albums of Gnawa / spiritual, healing ceremonialtrance music. First time on vinyl
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-trance-of-seven-colors

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Jo Bisso
African Disco Experimentals (1974 to 1978)
AFRICA SEVEN

2×LP ASVN078 £27.00
In stock
A compilation of key disco tunes from international star, Jo Bisso! Includes the full, 16 min version of his awesome 'Play Me' from 1978.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/african-disco-experimentals-1974-to-1978

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The Shaolin Afronauts
Flight Of The Ancients
FREESTYLE RECORDS

**Repress of this awesome Afrobeat/ethio-jazz album from 2011!**

Heavily inspired by the sounds of 1970's West Africa, Ethiopia and the pioneering avant-garde jazz artists of the same period, The Shaolin Afronauts draw on the this highly innovative and sometimes volatile era in music, using it as inspiration to create music with the same fire and intensity.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/the-shaolin-afronauts-flight-of-the-ancients

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WAMONO A to Z Vol. 1: Japanese Jazz Funk & Rare Groove 1968-1980
Various Artists
180G

An essential primer for those with an interest in Japanese popular music culture and, specifically, the 'Wamono' sound - the cream of the Japanese funk, soul, rare groove and disco music developed throughout the decades since the end of the 60s in Japan. A exemplary selection by Japanese super diggers and Wamono specialists DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite and Chintam!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/wamono-a-to-z-vol-1-japanese-jazz-funk-rare-groove-19681980

oh wow, I might have to pick up that Left Handed Dream reissue

not sure if I want an instrumental LP...wish it instead included the tracks from the US version that wasn't on the original.

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Randy Mundy
Celestial Skies
CORDIAL RECORDINGS

**Previously unreleased blue-eyed/country soul and AOR album! Check the stunning opening track, 'Sunshine'!**

Randy Mundy recorded his album ‘Celestial Skies’ in 1975 in Nashville, Missouri. The album remained previously unreleased until this issue via Cordial Recordings. A beautiful sprinkling of Americana, blending a touch of blue eyed/country soul with some good old AOR!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/randy-mundy-celestrial-skies

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Lucifer (aka Mort Garson)
Black Mass
SACRED BONES

Supernatural and occult-themed electronic music from composer, Mort Garson. Originally released in 1971, it’s his only release under the Lucifer moniker, and it taps into a profound darkness that may surprise fans of his sunnier work. These songs are Garson's synthesizer interpretations of occult and esoteric phenomena ranging from the Satanic black mass, to exorcism, to witchcraft, and beyond, inspiring artists from Coil to Oneohtrix Point Never.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/lucifer-2-black-mass

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Mort Garson
Music From Patch Cord Productions
SACRED BONES
A collection of rare and unreleased recordings from the archives of electronic music pioneer Mort Garson, composer of 'Mother Earth's Plantasia'. The compilation plays like an ultimate Mort Garson playlist, and includes alternate takes of 'Plantasia' tracks, music for never-aired radio advertisements, themes for science fiction films, erotic oddities, and much more from the prolific composer's '60s and '70s synthesizer oeuvre.

More info, audio:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/mort-garson-music-from-patch-cord-productions

Did I paste that cover rong?

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Mort Garson
Didn't You Hear?
SACRED BONES

Reissue of Mort Garson’s long-out-of-print soundtrack for the 1970 experimental film 'Didn’t You Hear?'

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Tantra
Hills Of Katmandu (inc. Patrick Cowley & Jurgen Koppers remixes)
HIGH FASHION MUSIC

12" Single
In Stock
Hi-NRG disco classic remixed by Patrick Cowley and Jurgen Koppers in 1982!
2 mixes

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/tantra-2-hills-of-katmandu

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Talking Heads
Fear Of Music - Unreleased Outakes
SIRE
12" EP
Limited promo 12" featuring four previously unreleased Talking Heads demos from 'Fear Of Music' sessions. Never before available on vinyl!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/fear-of-music-unreleased-outakes

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Sun Ra
Egypt 1971
STRUT
4CD Box Set
in stock

Sun Ra took his legendary Arkestra over to Egypt in 1971 to play a series of concerts which were later released on three LPs throughout the 1970s. This collection includes all of those releases plus two further albums of previously unreleased material. It also includes photos and liner notes as an all encompassing document of the man from saturn's sojourn in the desert. They also have all the individual albums, I think.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/sun-ra-egypt-1971

Well they have the three that were previously released: Dark Myth Equation Visitation, Horizon, and Nidhamu--all on LP, £21.00 each, while the 4CD box is £22.00, with two more albums incl.

from bandcamp:

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Savage Young Krayolas’ is the surprise historic preservation effort of 2020. The recently unearthed space suit album pays tribute to the late Jett Bass, Sal Dana and Freddie Herman who perished in an unsanctioned time travel experiment. Egos and alter-egos combust as soon as the needle touches down -- a rock’n’roll requiem that bends time.

Box Records teams up with Saustex Records on this new 180 gram Vinyl, CD and digital collection that unearths the Krayolas 1980 debut album “that could have been.” This singular Texas act thunders with the fun bliss of then-contemporary acts such as Cheap Trick and Go-Go’s while echoing heroes The Dave Clark Five, Doug Sahm and early Kinks. Play it loud and revel in the carefree, antihero beginnings of these Chicano rockers on a collision course with fruterias, border beheadings and political piñatas.

Restored! Remixed! Remastered! For the first time the original 1970s and 1980 two-inch analog, multi-track source tapes are revealed complete with liner notes, including ‘I Just Wanna’ which pairs the Krayolas with Augie Meyers of the Sir Douglas Quintet on his Vox Continental combo organ.

releases November 27, 2020

More info, audio:https://thekrayolas.bandcamp.com/album/savage-young-krayolas

[Oops, overlooked:
When Elliott Smith's self-titled second album came out in 1995, it was ignored by the press but championed by artists from the Beastie Boys to Fugazi. To commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elliott Smith, the Kill Rock Stars label is releasing a special deluxe package, which includes a new remastering of the original record; a coffee table book of previously unseen photographs by JJ Gonson with handwritten lyrics, and reminiscences from Smith’s friends and colleagues; and a bonus disc documenting the earliest known recording of Smith performing as a solo act. The set is a revelatory look at an under-appreciated work by an artist whose influence continues to expand seventeen years after his death.
credits
released August 28, 2020
More info, audio: https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/album/elliott-smith-expanded-25th-anniversary-edition
Also, vinyl of this is back in stock:
https://elliottsmith.bandcamp.com/album/either-or-expanded-edition

Azure Ray
Azure Ray (20th Anniversary Edition)
Flower Moon Records
16 January 2021
Twenty years ago this January, Azure Ray released their eponymous debut record featuring the hit songs “Sleep” & “Rise." To mark the special anniversary on January 16th 2021, Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink are releasing Azure Ray on vinyl for the first time. In addition to the album being mastered for vinyl, the band also uncovered an unreleased track from the original recording sessions which is included as a bonus track for the digital album.
The album will be available in three different colors including a Flower Moon Records exclusive bundle variant (Maria’s independent label which is now home to Azure Ray’s full catalog), and an independent record store version.

Limited to 100 copies, the exclusive FMR bundle includes a 100 page photobook curated by band which recollects the last 20 years and features never before seen private photos and stories detailing their pre-Azure Ray days, formation, recording and tours and with Bright Eyes, Moby and more.

Pre-order Azure Ray now at the Flower Moon Records Store

Taylor and Fink have been called “indie rock royalty” in more than one publication, and it’s not an undeserving title. After a brief stint with Geffen Records, barely out of their teens, the pair began touring and releasing independent records in 1998, a time when most indie rock clubs had never seen a girl walk into the door carrying her own guitar. While the pair started with a focus on rock, the untimely death of Taylor’s boyfriend quickly changed the duo’s relationship to music from release to catharsis, and Azure Ray rose from the ashes of grief. The duo fearlessly followed their hearts and pioneered a genre, what some affectionately dubbed “whisper core.” But to Maria and Orenda, there was no easy way to describe what they did. Their work was about alchemizing pain into beauty, heartbreak into art, loss to transcendence, a way to walk with the angels — and a style that has left a lasting impact even onmainstream music. Their songs are included on playlists by Phoebe Bridgers and Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift is an admitted fan, and one search on social media shows the comparisons of Swift’s new record with Azure Ray twenty years after their first release.

Bill Sullivan, former tour manager of The Replacements and co-owner of Minneapolis’s 400 Bar, said it best after watching the young duo calmly stare down a rowdy crowd until the last voice laid silent, then serenade a rapt crowd for hours with voices barely above a whisper. “That,” he said backstage, as he set out two shots of whiskey for the girls “was the most punk rock thing I’ve ever seen.”

Always looking forward, this special 20th anniversary package has given them time to reflect on their past.

Maria & Orenda say: “This is a very special anniversary for us, and we know it will be one for our long-time fans too. One thing is especially clear and that is how grateful we are to all of our collaborators, fans and supporters.Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We hope you will enjoy the book and hearing Azure Ray on vinyl for the first time!”

About Flower Moon Records:

Flower Moon Records was founded in 2016 by Maria Taylor (Azure Ray) and is now home to Taylor, Orenda Fink and Azure Ray’s complete discography. FMR has also released records from Radnor & Lee (actor/director Josh Radnor and Australian pop-folk singer Ben Lee), Taylor Hollingsworth (of Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band), Louis Schefano (singer-songwriter, producer/engineer), as well as reissuing O+S and Art In Manilla’s catalog.

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Jay Dee aka J Dilla
Welcome 2 Detroit - The 20th Anniversary Edition
BBE
2x7" Deluxe Box Set BBEBG001SLP £100.00
Limited edition 12x7" box set with book
Expected 05 Feb
J Dilla’s classic 'Welcome 2 Detroit', reissued and presented in a deluxe 7” vinyl box set boasting instrumentals, two brand new interpretations by Azymuth and Muro, a stash of previously unreleased alternative mixes and studio outtakes pressed over 12 discs, plus a book revealing the album’s hidden story, told by those who were there!

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/welcome-2-detroit-the-20th-anniversary-edition

That's 37 tracks.

This will go w book of same title (prev. mentioned, out this month) written by compilers Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker:

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Cuba: Music and Revolution - Compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker
Culture Clash In Havana Cuba - Experiments In Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 1
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS
3×LP SJRLP461 £26.00
Expected 22 Jan
2×CD SJRCD461 £12.99
Expected 22 Jan
...album compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) that explores the many new styles that emerged in Cuba in the 1970s as Jazz, Funk, Brazilian Tropicalia and even Disco mixed together with Latin and Salsa on the island as Cuban artists experimented with new musical forms created in the unique socialist state of Cuba.

The album comes as a heavyweight triple vinyl and deluxe double CD, complete with extensive sleeve notes, and is jam-packed with heavy bass lines, synth and Wah-Wah guitar funk combined with the heavyweight percussion, powerful brass lines and the all-encompassing Latin rhythms of Cuban music known throughout the world.

The album is released to coincide with the massive new deluxe large format book Cuba: Music and Revolution: Original Cover Art of Cuban Music: Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1959-90, published in November, which is also compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records), and which features the music and record designs of Cuba, made in the 30-year period following the Cuban Revolution.

The music on this album features legendary Cuban groups such as Irakere, Los Van Van and Pablo Milanés as well as a host of lesser known artists such as the radical Grupo De Experimentación, Juan Pablo Torres and Algo Nuevo, Grupo Monumental and Orquesta Ritmo Oriental, groups whose names remain largely unknown outside of Cuba owing to the now 60-year old US trade embargo which remains in place today and which prevents trade with Cuba – and thus most Cuban records were only ever available in Cuba or in ex-Soviet Union states.

The music on this album reflects the most cutting-edge of Cuban groups that were recording in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s – who were all searching for a new Cuban identity and new musical forms that reflected both the Afro-Cuban cultural heritage of a nation that gave birth to Latin music - and its new position as a socialist state. Most of the music featured on this album have never been heard outside of Cuba.

Both Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker have been involved in Cuban music for more than two decades – Gilles Peterson with his many Havana Cultura projects for his Brownswood label and Stuart Baker with a number of Soul Jazz Records albums recorded in Cuba. This Soul Jazz Records album is released in conjunction with Egrem, the Cuban state record company, and has been put together after the many crate-digging trips that both compilers have made on the streets of Havana and beyond in Cuba stretching over a 20-year period, searching out rare and elusive original Cuban vinyl records.

More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/cuba-music-and-revolution

Third Man Records has released Southeast of Saturn, a collection of music from Detroit’s space-rock/shoegaze/dream pop scene of the ‘90s. Stream the album or purchase standard black vinyl HERE. Exclusive limited edition copies of Southeast Of Saturn on Deep Space Dark/Aqua Wave colored vinyl are available in select independent record stores across the US and in UK/EU, as well as in both Nashville and Detroit storefronts. Watch a video on the making of the compilation HERE. links: https://mailchi.mp/thirdmanrecords.com/tmr-news-69221?e=ad0f175359

Wonder how similar that cuba lp is to Nu Yorica. are they parallel developments leading to similar sounds or is the difference in geography enough of an influence and is Nu Yorica more puerto rico.

CD booklet and/or book may deal w that.

Limited copies going fast - all deep funky spiritual jazz classics on Black Jazz!
Black Jazz in stock NOW! Doug Carn/Awakening/Walter Bishop/Roland Haynes/Kellee Patterson Albums on the Black Jazz label. My hand hurts after going back and forth through a list of thousands of albums for Uproxx ballot, so here's link to the press release:
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SEX: Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die
Various Artists
STRANGER THAN PARADISE

2×LP STPR01LP £34.00
Black vinyl version
In stock
CD STPR01CD £11.00
In stock
**First time ever on vinyl, the legendary compilation taken from Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's infamous Kings Road, London ‘SEX’ shop jukebox!**

Compiled by SEX shop regular Marco Pirroni (Siouxsie & the Banshees/Adam & the Ants), 'SEX: Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die' is treasure trove of underground/outsider classics from the likes of The Sonics, Alice Cooper, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Screaming Lord Sutch And The Savages, Johnny Hallyday and more!

This brilliant debut release/edition from Stranger Than Paradise includes new updated artwork plus testimonials from Don Letts, Jon Savage, Paul Cook and more!
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/various-sex-too-fast-to-live-too-young-to-die

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Tokyo Dreaming
Various Artists
WEWANTSOUNDS

2×LP WWSLP40 £30.00
In stock
CD WWSCD40 £13.00
In stock
A superb, extensive exploration of Tokyo's cutting edge 80s sound through the music of cult Japanese label Nippon Columbia and its Better Days imprint - all selected by British radio presenter and DJ, Nick Luscombe.

The selection mixes electro, synth-pop, funk and ambient and features such artists as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mariah, Shigeo Sekito, Juicy Fruits, Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama and Yumi Murata. The tracklist includes many sought-after rarities and hidden gems which have never been released outside of Japan.
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/tokyo-dreaming

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Mogollar
Anatolian Sun Part 1
NIGHT DREAMER
LP ND009part1 £20.00
Expected 11 Dec PREORDER

Legendary Turkish psych innovators Mogollar grace the Night Dreamer label for a masterclass in the original Anadolu psych roots, cutting a compendium of their rawest hits and most-wanted psychedelic rock classics; including the J Dilla-sampled 'Halic'te Gunesin Batisi.'
More info, audio: https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/anatolian-sun-part-1

Part 2, also an LP, will be released the same day---more info, audio:
https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/anatolian-sun-part-2