Rolling Reissues 2020

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