Rolling Reissues 2022

well damn

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Neither those nor these are absolutely necessary, if you can stand anything but the latest vinyl, but these are half-speed:

2022 marks a year of celebration for Roxy Music. Throughout the year, we reissued each of their eight studio albums - all heralded as modern classics - as special anniversary editions. Throughout the year, we reissued each of their eight studio albums - all heralded as modern classics - as special anniversary editions. Their seventh album, FLESH + BLOOD was released in 1980 and will be released as this special edition on July 1, 2022 along with Avalon, via Virgin/UMe.

Greil Marcus wrote of the album "This record, all graceful lust and wistful regret, is pure romance; it’s also the best summer music anyone’s made since oil spills began undermining the concept... Flesh + Blood floats; it drifts; it fades away; it soars back. It captures the easy, endless promises of summer, and it captures the summer you’ve never gotten over; it works as soothing, mindless background music, and it can break your heart. Like a perfect July day, it makes no demands on a listener, yet it can give a listener everything."

Flesh + Blood, like Avalon, has been given a fresh half-speed cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios in London. To reflect the enhanced audio, the album artwork has been similarly revised with lyrics and a deluxe gloss laminated finish.

Both Flesh + Blood and Avalon will be released on July 1, 2022 via Virgin/UMe.

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Both a marketing firm and metaphysical mission, Valley of the Sun synthesized style and spirituality to produce an extensive catalog that at once defines and defies new age music. Founder Dick Sutphen worked with tireless devotion to spread a message he believed could change the world for the better. This 18-track Double LP overview of VOTS’ fertile 1977-1990 period includes music from Upper Astral, Robert Slap & Steve Powell, David Naegele, David Storrs, Steven Cooper, and Gloria Thomas, a 24-page booklet with extensive liner notes, J-card scans, and a hint of Sedona sand. Subliminal hypnosis likely.

Track List
Upper Astral Upper Astral Suite
David Naegele Temple In The Forest
Slap & Powell Sex Drive
David Storrs Channel For The Light (Part II)
Steven Cooper Key West Afternoon VI
Robert Slap Boynton Canyon
Upper Astral Celestial Whispers II
Steven Cooper Crystal Garden I
Robert Slap UFO
Robert Slap Search For Utopia II
Gloria Thomas I AM
Robert Slap Sands Of Time
Celestial Odysseys Daystar
Steven Cooper Key West Afternoon V
David Storrs Aerobic Exercise Music (Driving Beat II)
Robert Martin Great Peace (Guitar)
David Storrs Sedona Sunrise
Robert Slap East of West VIII

Several from Real Gone Records, via Sound of the Universe once again:
Think Andy Bey is still around? Cosmik jazz baritone balladeer, not unlike Cecil Taylor and Screamin' Jay Hawkins intensity-wise, though smoother and I've never heard him scream, alas.
Was also good w the Bey Sisters.

Andy Bey
Experience And Judgement
REAL GONE MUSICJAZZ

New LP (Coloured Vinyl)£34.00
Limited 'sea' blue coloured vinyl edition
Expected 12 AugPREORDER
1. Celestial Blues
2. Experience
3. Judgment
4. I Know This Love Cant Be Wrong
5. Hibiscus
6. You Shouldve Seen The Way
7. Tune Up
8. Rosemary Blue
9. Being Uptight
10. A Place Where Love Is
11. Trust Us To Find The Way
12. The Power Of My Mind
Classic album of wicked funky deep jazz vocals! Includes the AWESOME 'Celestial Blues'

Andy Bey is well known through his association with saxophonist Gary Bartz - his mellifluous barritone graces several of Bartz' most sought after LPs from the early 70s - but it's on this solo album that he really shines the brightest!

These are real songs delivered in a unique and creative style with an early 1970s indy label deep jazz feel!

much later, standards, different label, still that sound...

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Andy Bey
Ballads, Blues & Bey
Ko Ko Music

2×LP£24.99
In stockADD TO BAG
1. Someone To Watch Over Me
2. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
3. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
4. In A Sentimental Mood
5. Willow Weep For Me
6. Yesterdays
7. If You Could See Me Now
8. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
9. Day Dream
10. Embraceable You
First time on vinyl! The 1996 album 'Ballads, Blues & Bey' from one of the most distinctive voices in jazz, Andy Bey!

Back to Real Gone for a while:

Brian Bennett
Voyage (A Journey into Discoid Funk)
Real Gone Music
New LP (Coloured Vinyl)

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1. Voyage
2. Solstice
3. Chain Reaction
4. Pendulum Force
5. Air Quake
6. Ocean Glide
Brian Bennett is one of instrumental music's true cult figures. Drummer for Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Bennett also is the composer of some of the most collectible production music albums ever made, and for over 40 years has been a sought-after composer for TV and film. But of all his projects, his 1978 release "Voyage (A Journey into Discoid Funk)" is probably his most beloved, a truly pioneering "space disco" recording inspired by Brian Eno but wielding a groove all its own. Despite its absolutely eye-popping Discogs stats, our release marks its first vinyl reissue outside of Australia, and its first-ever release on colored vinyl (blue with black swirl), complete with original gatefold jacket art. Limited to 4500 copies!

Darlene Love
The Many Sides of Love—The Complete Reprise Recordings Plus!
REAL GONE MUSIC

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12" (Coloured Vinyl)
In stock
50 years of criminally overlooked recordings by one of the greatest R&B and rock vocalists ever! Darlene Love's work for Phil Spector gets most of the ink, and understandably so, but this 15-track collection captures her rare singles for the Reprise label with the vocal groups The Blossoms and The Wildcats, plus her own solo work. And the bonus tracks are priceless: you get her 1985 Elektra recording of "River Deep, Mountain High," her 2014 duet with Bette Midler on "He's Sure the Boy I Love," and two 1990 recordings for the Sire label! None of this material has ever been on LP, and this release comes with an insert featuring photos and extensive liner notes. An essential addition to the Darlene Love discography, pressed in teal vinyl limited to 3500 copies!

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Airto
Natural Feelings
REAL GONE MUSIC

New LP (Coloured Vinyl)£16.00
Limited pink, green and yellow marbled vinyl edition.
In stock

First vinyl reissue in over 45 years for a long-lost, pivotal jazz fusion record! This album, originally released in 1970 on the thinly-distributed Skye label, marks Airto' s debut as a bandleader and captures the percussionist right at the time he recorded Bitches Brew with Miles Davis, and right before he joined Weather Report for their first album. Indeed, the line-up on this album reflects the fact that Airto had one foot in the NYC jazz scene and one foot in his native Brazil, as bassist Ron Carter joins Airto' s countrymen Sivuca and Hermeto Pascoal, along with Airto' s wife Flora Purim. The music' s a fascinating blend of jazz-funk and Brazilian tropes, housed inside the original wild, Hieronymus Bosch album art!

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Airto
Free (1972)
CTI

CD£11.99
Out of stock
Reissue LP£16.00
In stock

return to forever
2. flora's song
3. free
4. lucky southern
5. creek (arroio)
6. CD Bonus Track – so tender
7. CD Bonus Track – jequie
8. CD Bonus Track – creek (arroio)
Tough Brazilian meets Jazz fusion from Airto Moreira, produced by Creed Taylor in 1972 for CTI! Line-up includes Flora Purim, Ron Carter, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Nelson Ayres, George Benson plus orchestra.

from elsewhere:

Shimmy-Disc Announces First-Time-Ever-On-Vinyl LP of Hunter S. Thompson's The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved, Shares "On Our Way Back To The Motel" Single + Video
via Rolling Stone

ft. All Star Cast Including Tim Robbins, Dr. John, Bill Frisell, Ralph Steadman, Annie Ross, and Others

The Kentucky Derby is Decadent & Depraved LP due 7/15 via Shimmy-Disc/Paris Records
Produced by the Late, Great Hal Willner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oan1AdeW5hc

PRAISE FOR THE 2012 RELEASE

“Produced by Hal Wilner, the Robert Altman of all-star concept LPs, this dramatized reading of Hunter S. Thompson's 1970 essay casts Tim Robbins in the lead, with cameos by Dr. John and Ralph Steadman, Thompson's sidekick and frames illustrator. Basically Fear and Loathing at the Track, this album is a rifle-scope piss-take with a heart of darkness and a soundtrack composed by jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, who colors the tale with skewed Dixieland brass, shivering strings and groaning woodwinds. The joke, per usual, is that monsters are everywhere. "Shit," Thompson writes after examining Steadman's horrifying crowd portraits. "We both look worse than anything you've drawn here."
- WILL HERMES, Rolling Stone

Today, Shimmy-Disc (through exclusive license with Paris Records) announces an exclusive first-time vinyl release of iconic Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's The Kentucky Derby is Decadent & Depraved (originally published in 1970 via Scanlon's Monthly and released as a CD performance via Paris Records in 2012), featuring an all-star cast of musicians and actors including Tim Robbins (as Thompson), Dr. John, Bill Frisell, Ralph Steadman, Annie Ross, John Joyce III, and Will Forte. The release translates the classic piece of reporting through spoken word and music, introduced now with the first segment, "On Our Way Back To The Motel."

Hunter S. Thompson’s inimitable non-fiction hysterics are perfectly portrayed here by none other than TIM ROBBINS, with music composed by BILL FRISELL, illustrating the full-on decadence of The Kentucky Derby, as Thompson himself saw it, and felt it… ”Neither of us had brought any strange or illegal drugs, so we’d have to get by on booze.”

The LP, re-mastered by Kramer in 2021, is due July 15 via Shimmy-Disc.

"I remember the day i met Hal Willner in 1979. It was love at first sight. We remained friends, like brothers, til the day he died, when a big part of me died with him.

I wasn't far away when he was making this amazing project come to life in 2011. He played the final mixes for me in his little listening room in NYC, surrounded by his puppets, his records (well, some of them, anyway), and the swirling surgical wit and spirit of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.

'So whaddaya think?', Hal asked. 'Is HST spinning in his grave right now? Did I do something good here, or is he gonna go gonzo on me in my dreams, forever?'

You done good, Hal. You done real good. Rest in Peace."

- Kramer, June 2022

SHIMMY-DISC LINKS
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Release Bio:
Shimmy-Disc (through an exclusive license with Paris Records), is set to release for the first time on vinyl THE KENTUCKY DERBY IS DECADENT AND DEPRAVED - by the father of Gonzo Journalism, HUNTER S. THOMPSON - an all-star cast of musicians and actors lead by Tim Robbins, Dr. John, Bill Frisell, Ralph Steadman, Annie Ross, John Joyce III, and Will Forte, who bring Thompson’s classic Gonzo reportage on the 1970 Kentucky Derby to life through spoken word and musical composition. Conceived by executive producer Michael Minzer, the project was produced by Hal Willner who invited Bill Frisell to compose the music. Bill enlisted the help of an ensemble including Curtis Fowlkes (trombone), Ron Miles (trumpet), Eyvind Kang (viola), Doug Weiselman (woodwinds), Jenny Scheinman (violin), Hank Roberts (cello) and Kenny Wolleson (drums, percussion).

Ralph Steadman does double duty portraying himself in the narration and contributing original artwork for the project.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON's “THE KENTUCKY DERBY IS DECADENT AND DEPRAVED” limited-edition vinyl and streaming/download will be available on July 15, 2022.

In 2005, Paris Records founder Michael Minzer called up his friend Hal Willner with the idea of recording a definitive performance of an all time classic piece of journalism, The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved. Originally published in Scanlon’s Monthly in June of 1970, it’s the quintessential example of Hunter S. Thompson’s uniquely humorous and piercing insight—the article that inspired the term Gonzo Journalism (coined by the late Bill Cardoso). Minzer and Willner had collaborated before on several “wide open” tributes to such literary luminaries as Allen Ginsberg’s "The Lion For Real," William S. Burrough’s “Dead City Radio,” and Terry Southern’s “Give Me your Hump!.” Hal was friends with Ralph Steadman who’s involvement was a major boost in getting the project off the ground. Hal also was able to enlist Tim Robbins as lead narrator and Bill Frisell to oversee the music and the project was off to the races so to speak.

Says Michael Minzer: “The big challenge was to match Bill’s sharply drawn moody vignettes with the perfect segments of a very long reading. When we realized that it all worked out beautifully, Hal just said ‘I told you I had worked on this!’’

Says Tim Robbins: “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be a part of this project—who could say no to such an opportunity to toast the king of Gonzo journalism? It’s been a great pleasure diving into the chaotic, genius prose of Hunter and I feel flattered to be working with such a stellar group of creative folks like Hal Willner, Ralph Steadman, Bill Frisell and Michael Minzer who made it come alive so brilliantly.”

Re-Mastered by Kramer in 2021, this limited-edition LP (on 'Horse-Shit Brown' vinyl) is destined to become the indispensable classic it always deserved to be.

Dedicated to Hal Willner, producer extraordinaire, in Loving Memory.

EP before any of their LPs, and one of their most satisfying releases, in part because it's shorter, succinct, but never sparse---
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R.E.M. - CHRONIC TOWN (40TH ANNIVERSARY) OUT AUGUST 19TH

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.'s debut EP, Chronic Town will be available for the first time ever as a standalone CD with extensive liner notes by original producer, Mitch Easter, as well as on Vinyl Picture Disc and Cassette.

xgau's consumer guide:

Chronic Town [I.R.S. EP, 1982]
This headlong tumble proves them the wittiest and most joyful of the postgarage sound-over-sense bands, probably because they make so little sense that their sound has to be articulate indeed. Physically incomprehensible lyrics make them harder to parse than somebody else's mystical experience, but every so often a chaotic undertow suggests there's more to their romanticism than Spanish moss. A-

Oh shit!

John Adams is not an ilx favorite, far as I've ever noticed, and this is a lot even for hardcore fanz, but Amazon has a 48 % discount on the CD version:

John Adams
Collected Works
The forty-disc box set John Adams Collected Works features recordings spanning more than four decades of composer John Adams's career with the label, plus two extensive booklets with new essays and notes by Timo Andres, Julia Bullock, Nico Muhly, Jake Wilder-Smith, and Nonesuch Chairman Emeritus Robert Hurwitz. Since 1985, when Adams signed exclusively to Nonesuch, the label has released forty-two first recordings and thirty-one all-Adams albums. Collected Works includes thirty-five discs of Nonesuch recordings and five from other labels.

Here tis: http://image.e.warnerrecords.com/lib/fe9812707465037a74/m/3/13d1c6e0-e897-4bed-8756-ed6199ba3b0a.jpg

Announcing PUNK ROCK MOVIE NIGHT
Two Great New Punk Rock Films On One Night

t’s a double bill; a feature film: “Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC" about the formation of the NYC Punk Rock scene at legendary New York City nightclub Max's Kansas City.

Link to NIGHTCLUBBING trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cadFFnd4eIc

And a special bonus short film; “Sid: The Final Curtain" about the last live performance of the Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious featuring rare live footage of that September 1978 show and exclusive interviews from those who witnessed it.

Link to SID trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7kbvTbOc8

“Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC" world-premiered at ‘Dock of the Bay’ Film Festival in San Sebastian on May 5th 2022 where it won the Judges Special Mention award.

“Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC" is the first-ever documentary about the renowned New York City nightclub Max's Kansas City (1965-1981) which had an indelible impact on the worlds of music, fashion, art, culture and the creation of the city’s Punk Rock scene.

...And it’s all covered in "Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC," with unique archival footage and exclusive interviews with Alice Cooper, Jayne County, Billy Idol, Steve Stevens, longtime music journalist / Patti Smith Band guitarist Lenny Kaye, photographer Bob Gruen, Max's Kansas City band booker Peter Crowley, Elliott Murphy, late New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain, Warhol superstars Penny Arcade and Ruby Lynn Reyner, Suicide’s Alan Vega, Bad Brains H.R. and Dr. Know, Stimulators’ Denise Mercedes and Nick Marden (and their then-12-year-old drummer, future Cro-Mag Harley Flanagan), Twisted Sister’s Jay Jay French, D Generation’s Jesse Malin, Blondie’s Frank Infante, the Dead Boys’ Jimmy Zero, The 'B' Girls / New York Junk / Stiv Bators’ girlfriend Cynthia Ross, Joey Ramone’s brother / The Rattlers Mickey Leigh, Shrapnel / Monster Magnet’s Phil Caivano, Punk Magazine founder and Ramones album cover illustrator John Holmstrom, Mink Deville’s Louis X. Erlanger, American Hardcore author / filmmaker Steven Blush and a who’s who of New York’s rock scene of the time, including Neon Leon, Leee Black Childers, Marty Thau, Peter Jordan, Donna Destri, Sonny Vincent, Phillys Stein and the fabulous Jimi LaLumia.

The film features rare footage of Iggy & The Stooges, New York Dolls, Sid Vicious and Wayne / Jayne County as well as classic footage from Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers.

Also showing at PUNK ROCK MOVIE NIGHT:

"Sid: The Final Curtain", a new exclusive short film documenting the final live performance of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious at Max's Kansas City in September 1978 featuring rare live footage and exclusive interviews from those who witnessed it.
“PUNK ROCK MOVIE NIGHT"

“Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC” & “Sid: The Final Curtain"

theatrical film screening schedule for 2022:

Saturday, July 9th - Mockingbird Cinema –Birmingham, UK

Sunday, July 17th - Regent Theater – Arlington, MA

Tuesday, July 19th - Joe’s Pub - New York City – JUST ADDED

Wednesday, July 20th - Joe’s Pub - New York City - SOLD OUT

Thursday, July 21st - Colony Theater - Woodstock, N.Y.

Sunday, July 24th - The Black Cat - Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, July 27th - Texas Theater - Dallas, TX

Wednesday, July 27th - Metropol - Dusseldorf, DE

Thursday, July 28th - The Grog Shop - Cleveland, OH

Saturday, July 30th - Lichtblick - Berlin, DE

Sunday, July 31st - The Balboa Theater - San Francisco, CA

Wednesday, August 10th - Trylon - Minneapolis, MN

Monday, August 15th - Paradise Theater - Toronto, CN

Thursday, August 18th - Philly Moca - Philadelphia, PA

Monday, August 22nd - Hollywood Theater - Portland, OR

Tuesday, August 23rd - Theater @ The Crocodile - Seattle, WA

Thursday, August 25th - Roverstad - Oslo, NO

Thursday, August 25th - Violet Crown Cinema - Austin, TX

Thursday, August 25th - Violet Crown Cinema - Santa Fe, NM

Thursday, August 25th - Violet Crown Cinema - Charlottesville, VA

Friday, September 23rd - Gman Tavern @ The Metro - Chicago, IL



More screenings to be announced.

"Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC" will be the 6th acclaimed music documentary for Spanish filmmaker Danny Garcia and will add to the list of respected music documentaries he has produced and directed.

Garcia’s other releases include "The Rise and Fall of The Clash", about the later era Clash; "Looking for Johnny", about New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders; "Sad Vacation", a film chronicling the final months in New York City of the Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious & his girlfriend Nancy Spungen; "Stiv: No Compromise, No Regrets", about Stiv Bators, legendary front-man of the iconic Ohio band the Dead Boys & The Lords of the New Church and Danny's most recently released film "Rolling Stone Life and Death of Brian Jones" about founding member of The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones.

These are trailers for our documentary films:

The Rise and Fall of The Clash:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqDsvqpOFA4

Looking for Johnny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx4o2kd4jR4

Sad Vacation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IZUfBXM3xI

Stiv: No Compromise, No Regrets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4qh5Qap3U

Rolling Stone: Life And Death of Brian Jones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E96ZOaesGoQ

Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cadFFnd4eIc

Sid: The Final Curtain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7kbvTbOc8

Luaka Bop Announces The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah,
Third Volume Of World Spirituality Classics Series, Out September 23rd

Watch Video For Lead Single, “Jealousy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCzv-GwZIaU

Luaka Bop announces The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah, the third volume of their World Spirituality Classics series, out September 23rd, and present its blazing lead single/video, “Jealousy.” The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah showcases seven songs of dance and devotion, sung in English, Etsako, and other local languages. A devout Muslim and a pillar in his local community, Alhaji Waziri Oshomah makes a unique form of dance music that’s fused with local folk styles, pan-Nigeran highlife and Western pop, creating a singular sound that epitomises Afenmailand’s ethos of togetherness. His lyrics are reflective and philosophical—they draw on Judeo-Christian and traditional imagery to speak of piety and reverence, conveying Islamic values such as humility and modesty in a way that everybody, no matter their belief or religion, can understand.

Originally initiated to offer some form of positivity, The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah follows the acclaimed World Spiritualty Classics releases of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitanada’s ecstatic music and private press gospel soul compilation The Time For Peace Is Now, both of which were awarded Best New Reissue by Pitchfork. The atmosphere of The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah is one of enjoyment, excitement and pleasure, because to see Waziri perform, is to be addressed, body and soul.

First recorded between the mid-’70s and mid-’80s, The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah spans the years when Waziri first completed the Hajj. Despite drawing comparisons with the electronic sounds of William Onyeabor, the visceral afrobeat of Fela Kuti, and Ebo Taylor’s Ghanian guitar-led highlife, Waziri’s is a world unto itself. It is a world where musical expression and Islamic culture moves hand-in-hand. Soul music in the truest sense of the word.

Born into a Muslim Afenmai/Etsako family in southern Nigeria, Waziri was entranced not only by the highlife sound emanating from Lagos, but by Etsako groups, who favored driving guitar lines over the flamboyant horn sections of the capital. When his parents disowned him for fear he had strayed too far from his faith, Waziri responded by infusing his music with the teachings of Islam.

In 1970, against a backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War, Waziri cut loose and started his own band, pouring Western-influenced instrumentation, electronic flourishes, and soul phrasing into the deep well of the region’s indigenous folk styles. Without transport, the band would regularly walk miles to gigs carrying what equipment they had on their heads. But Waziri was undeterred. “When we played, we didn’t have professional amplifiers,” Waziri recounts. “We used a locally built amp that was powered by ordinary torchlight batteries.” Buoyed by a powerful sense of purpose, he never looked back.

In Waziri’s hometown, Auchi, his message continues to resonate. As Uchenna Ikonne writes in the album’s liner notes, “The people of Auchi may worship in different houses, but they all come together on the dance floor. For in Auchi, as in most societies in sub-Saharan Africa, dancing is a form of communication, energy transmission and prayer. Beyond the churches, beyond the mosques, the dance floor is the holiest place.”

This is what unifies Waziri’s vibrant music and Luaka Bop’s Spirituality Classics series, which illuminates the relationship between music and belief across distinct spiritual communities throughout the world. The scope of Waziri’s music goes beyond fixed notions of religion, instead sharing messages of healing and togetherness, reflecting our shared humanity.

Still performing regularly, and a hugely respected member of the community who has invested in mosques and schools in the area, Waziri’s social and spiritual highlife has the local culture at its core. The Great Daddy of Etsaki, the Oyoyo King, the Godfather of Afemai music, he is the musical preacher who always puts his people first. The time has come for the world to join them in the dance.

The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah Tracklist:
1. Forgive Them Oh God Amin – Amin
2. Jealousy
3. Alhaji Yesufu Sado Managing Director
4. Omhona - Omhona
5. Ovini Omoekeke Alhaji Inu Umoru
6. Okhume Ukhaduame
7. My Luck feat. Madam Hassanah Waziri and Her Velvet Voice

from February, but this rules, as does their more recent Merzbow & Masonna reissues

https://www.discogs.com/release/21992338-Merzbow-Hybrid-Noisebloom

https://urashima.bandcamp.com/album/hybrid-noisebloom

Oho, thanks!
With this year's American Clave Piazzolla set, mentioned upthread, out now on various streaming services:
https://astorpiazzolla.lnk.to/TheAmericanClaveRecordings?eml=2022June10/5728203/6011771&etsubid=33248291,
Nonesuch now reminds us of this, from last year:

Tom Service commemorates the centenary of the birth of Astor Piazzolla with a portrait of the great Argentine bandoneon player and tango composer, and explores his revolutionary style which changed the genre for ever. He also questions his legacy in today's Argentina.

We hear from Piazzolla himself in rare BBC archive material, as well as his widow Laura Escalada Piazzolla; his grandsons Daniel Villaflor Piazzolla, who runs the 'Fundación Piazzolla' and Daniel 'Pipi' Piazzolla, drummer in jazz band 'Escalandrum'. There are contributions, too, from the critic Fernando González, who translated Piazzolla's Memoirs into English and interviewed him for international publications; the pianist Pablo Ziegler, who performed with Piazzolla for 11 years in one of his Quintets; and amongst others, the singers Amelita Baltar, who premiered many of Piazzolla’s songs, and Elena Roger, who offers a new take of Piazzolla's music...

The first three albums by saxophonist Idris Ackamoor's band the Pyramids, plus a live disc, are being released as a 4CD or 4LP box tomorrow. I just found out about this today and immediately ordered the 4CD version.

https://idrisackamoor.bandcamp.com/album/aomawa-the-1970s-recordings

AOMAWA: The 1970s Recordings

A brand new 4LP box set bringing together the incredible 1970s recordings of Afrofuturism pioneers The Pyramids, led by saxophonist Idris Ackamoor. The set features the remastered LPs Lalibela, King Of Kings and Birth / Speed / Merging alongside the first ever vinyl issue of their live session for KQED TV in 1975. The accompanying 12-page 12”-sized booklet features extended interviews with The Pyramids by Francis Gooding and a host of unseen photos.

Lalibela (1973):
IDRISSA ACKAMOOR: Alto saxophone, Soprano saxophone, Bailophone,
Masenqo, Talking drum, Moroccan clay drum
MARGO ACKAMOOR: Flute, Piccolo, Percussion
KWAME KIMATHI ASANTE: Hagstrom bass, Ugandan harp, Ethiopian drum, Bamboo flute
MASAI: Soprano saxophone, Bamboo Flute, Percussion
MARCEL LYTLE: Drums, Percussion
HEKAPTAH: Conga drums, Osi drum, Percussion

King Of Kings (1974):
IDRIS ACKAMOOR: Alto saxophone, talking drum, bailophone,
one-stringed goge, Ethiopian drum, calypso box, vocals
MARGO ACKAMOOR: Flute, percussion, vocals
KWAME MIMATHI ASANTE: Hagstrom bass, Ugandan harp, percussion, vocals
HEKAPTAH: Conga drums, percussion, vocals
DONALD ROBINSON: Drums, bongos, percussion, vocals

Guest artists:
JEROME SAUNDERS: piano, percussion
CHRIS CHAFE: cello

Recorded in March, 1974 at Appalachia Sound Recording Studio, Chillicothe, Ohio
Engineer: Wayne Mitchell

Birth / Speed / Merging (1976):
IDRIS ACKAMOOR AKA BRUCE BAKER: Alto saxophone, Bongos, Ku Cheng, Bamboo flutes, Talking drum, Percussion, vocals
MARGO ACKAMOOR: Flute, Piccolo, Percussion, Vocals
KIMATHI ASANTE: Hagstrom bass guitar, Talking drum, Ugandan harp, Bamboo flutes,
Percussion, Vocals
HESHIMA: Acoustic bass, Vocals
AUGUSTA LEE COLLINS: Drums, talking drum, Percussion
KENNETH NASH: Congas, Bongos, Rosenbow, Percussion, Guatemalan stick drum, Vocals

Guest Artist:
MCHEZA NGOMA: vocals on ‘Aomawa’, steel drum on ‘Reaffirmation’,
Percussion on ‘Black Man And Woman Of The Nile’

Produced by Idris Ackamoor, Kimathi Asante and Heshima
Recorded in November, 1975 at His Master’s Wheels Studio
Recording Engineer: Jim Furman
Mixed at Different Fur Music
Mixing Engineer: John Vieria

THE PYRAMIDS: LIVE AT KQED, 1975

IDRIS ACKAMOOR: Alto saxophone, Bongos, Talking drum, 3-hole flute, Bamboo flute, Vocals, Percussion, Gongs, Cymbal tree, Bailophone, Vocals
MARGO ACKAMOOR: Flute, Vocals, Percussion
KIMATHI ASANTE: Hagstrom bass guitar, Talking drum, Percussions, Bamboo flute, Vocals
HESHIMA: Acoustic bass, Percussion
AUGUSTA LEE COLLINS: Drums, Talking drum, Percussion
MCHEZA NGOMA: Congas, Percussion

Wow--I've heard of them, have you heard them?

Meanwhile,

Four Classic Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Albums Set For CD & Vinyl Re-Release via @OmnivoreRecords
https://t.co/N3B4pGLOXE via @glidemag @MissingPieceGrp

— Cary Baker (@Conqueroo1) July 9, 2022

presumably the Modern Lovers records will also hit streaming? good news

Wow--I've heard of them, have you heard them?

I bought the box but haven't listened yet. Busy, busy, busy.

Pyramids albums are on Apple Music and probably other places too. Pretty good African jazz that sometimes gets downright free and fiery - playing under the sign of Coltrane.

Thanks---this is not a Reissue, but Rolling with thee vintage sounds at heart (prob been on other threads, but worth more exposure)

Cosey Fanni Tutti
Original Soundtrack Recordings from the film 'Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes'
CONSPIRACY INTERNATIONAL

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/L2FRS2pGUGFGaWM3SEVOUFY1ZDBvQT09/7b3fa378-8ef5-1d64-2310-87e5a5eace09.jpg

New LP (Coloured Vinyl)£26.00
Expected 16 Sep PREORDER
CD£14.00
Expected 16 Sep PREORDER

1. Cornet Lament
2. Four Bebe
3. Sirens
4. Delia Tones
5. Animals
6. Psychedelic Projections
7. Reverse Adrenalin
8. Snuff Chorus
9. Cosmic Static Noise Wasps
10. An Individualist
11. Ceiling of Sickening Sound
12. Dream Diner Party
13. Guitar (Twickenham Studio 3)
14. Labyrinthine
15. Tatum Ergo

**Former Throbbing Gristle member Cosey Fanni Tutti has researched the life and music of groundbreaking electronic composer Delia Derbyshire to make 'Original Soundtrack Recordings from the film ‘Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes’.**

In Cosey's own words:

"The music on this album includes the audio explorations and experiments that led to the creation of the finished soundtrack - the used and unused elements as I worked to find the ‘Delia’ sounds I felt best connected not only directly to her life experiences that influenced her music, but were expressive of, and representative of her. The compositions are inspired by my research of the Delia Derbyshire audio archive, Delia's original compositional notes and techniques which in combination with my admiration and love of Delia’s work provided a way to integrate her style and approach to music with my own. An alliance of our sensibilities."

For @aquadrunkard I reviewed "Sharayet El Disco: Egyptian Disco & Boogie Cassette Tracks 1982-1992" @wewantsounds https://t.co/L6kayvSAxq pic.twitter.com/6ybOjrqf7x

— Observations of Deviance AntiFascist (@AtBestIsKorny) July 30, 2022

Photograph by Morris Engel, Boys with Boom Box, 14th Street, New York, 1983. pic.twitter.com/9KKjh1q67G

— Des (@desdelboy) July 30, 2022

Xp There was a box set of the Pyramids 70s lps a few years ago. I don't remember the KQED live set being included but could be wrong. I have it somewhere and should listen to it. I think it coincided with the band reuniting cos there were new lps/cds appearing at the time.
My brother had asked for a copy and I wound up getting one for myself too.

yeah just the 3 lps in a box, THey Play To Music Fire 1973-1976 and released in 2012
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/comp/the-pyramids/they-play-to-make-music-fire-1973-1976/

I see this was put up on youtube around the time the They Play To Make Music Fire! box came out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLfekGPwavs
hope its not just about to disappear

THE BEST OF ROXY MUSIC

TO BE RELEASED ON VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE HERE https://roxymusic.lnk.to/TBORM2022

50TH ANNIVERSARY UK ARENA SHOWS BEGIN OCTOBER 10, 2022

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE https://www.gigsandtours.com/tour/roxy-music

Marking the very first time an all-career-spanning Roxy Music collection has been made available on vinyl, The Best Of Roxy Music will be released this September 2, 2022 via Virgin / UMe.

This iconic collection of songs will be available on 2LP 180-gram black vinyl and limited yellow vinyl D2C exclusive editions. Both include restored and enhanced artwork, lyrics, and have been remastered at half-speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. Pre-order The Best Of Roxy Music HERE.

Since their inception in 1972, multi-platinum Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Roxy Music have left an indelible mark on the worlds of music, fashion, and art, merging the three with a singular and astonishing vision that brought them immediate, global success. Today they are regarded as one of the most influential bands of all time, whose music and iconic imagery continues to inspire new generations of artists.

Arranged in reverse-chronological order, The Best Of Roxy Music track listing bookends their peerless recording career. The set opens with "Avalon" and "More Than This", two iconic compositions that propelled the band’s final album on to multi-platinum success. "More Than This" alone has garnered more than 123 million streams. Elsewhere, songs like "Love Is The Drug" and "Angel Eyes" pioneered a new fusion of rock and disco; "Do The Strand" and "Street Life" blurred the lines between genres, and "Re-Make/Re-Model"and "Virginia Plain" at once birthed and defined the art-rock movement and influenced more than one generation of aspiring young musicians - from St Vincent, Sex Pistols and Grace Jones, to Duran Duran, CHIC, Franz Ferdinand and countless others. Of course, also included are the all-time great ballads "Oh Yeah", "Dance Away" and "Over You" and their sensitive interpretation of John Lennon’s "Jealous Guy" – a UK No. 1 for the band in 1981. Intense and emotive, these 18 songs capture the wide-screen vision of Roxy Music’s restless creativity across eight classic studio albums, recorded between 1972-1982.

2022 is a landmark year. Celebrating both the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music’s ground-breaking self-titled debut album, and 40 years since their eighth and final studio record, Avalon, shot to No. 1 in the UK album charts on its release in 1982.

In celebration, Roxy Music will embark upon their first tour in over a decade. Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Phil Manzanera and Paul Thompson will perform together on stage for the first time since their sold-out and critically acclaimed 2011 For Your Pleasure tour. 10 arena shows across North America will take place in September, before arriving in the UK on October 10, 2022 for three special dates in Glasgow, Manchester and London.

May 2022 saw the publication of Lyrics, the works of Bryan Ferry's evocative lyrics of aspiration and romantic longing, published in one collection for the first time. A celebration of one of the most innovative and influential recording artists in the history of recorded music.

In addition to the newly pressed The Best Of Roxy Music, each of Roxy Music’s eight studio albums are also reissued this year as special anniversary editions with a new half-speed cut, revised artwork and a deluxe gloss laminated finish. All albums are available HERE.https://roxymusic.tmstor.es/?utm_source=OriginalLink&utm_campaign=RoxyMusic20180125&utm_medium=genericlink&utm_content=&utm_umguk=www.roxymusic.co.uk%2F&lf=d79dfa3a035365e83f264f04986b8d96

The Best Of Roxy Music Track Listing

1. Avalon
2. More Than This
3. Jealous Guy
4. Over You
5. Same Old Scene
6. Oh Yeah!
7. Angel Eyeshttps://youtu.be/kOnde5c7OG8
8. Dance Away
9. Both Ends Burning
10. Love Is the Drug
11. Out of the Blue
12. All I Want Is You
13. Mother of Pearl
14. Street Life
15. Do the Strand
16. Pyjamarama
17. Virginia Plain
18. Re-Make/Re-Model

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
09/07 - Scotiabank Arena - Toronto, ON
09/09 - Capital One Arena - Washington, DC
09/12 - Madison Square Garden - New York City, NY
09/15 - Wells Fargo Center - Philadelphia, PA
09/17 - TD Garden - Boston, MA*
09/19 - United Center - Chicago, IL
09/21 - Moody Center - Austin, TX
09/23 - American Airlines Center - Dallas, TX
09/26 - Chase Center - San Francisco, CA
09/28 - The Forum - Los Angeles, CA

U.K TOUR DATES
Oct 10 - OVO Hydro - Glasgow, UK
Oct 12 - AO Arena - Manchester, UK
Oct 14 - The O2 - London, UK

Not a reissue, an archival recording, but still, extremely good news:

https://transversales.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-paris-1971

A previously unreleased French radio session from 1971 by the Ahmad Jamal Trio with Jamil Nasser on bass and Frank Gant on drums. This was an absolutely killer group that made several of Jamal's best albums, including Outertimeinnerspace, Freeflight, and The Awakening, in this era. He was also switching back and forth between acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes, at times getting into some incredible trance zones. Really excited about this one.

I almost feel like this deserves a poll:

Life Moves Pretty Fast: The John Hughes Mixtapes

A 4CD box (deluxe version comes with a cassette and a 7") of music from John Hughes movies.

CD 1
Kajagoogoo – Kajagoogoo (Instrumental)
Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – If You Leave
Oingo Boingo – Weird Science
Furniture – Brilliant Mind
Dave Wakeling – She’s Having A Baby
The Flowerpot Men – Beat City
The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty In Pink
Flesh For Lulu – I Go Crazy
Dr. Calculus – Full Of Love
Lick The Tins – Can’t Help Falling In Love
Steve Earle & The Dukes – Six Days On The Road (Album Version)
Kirsty MacColl – You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby (Soundtrack Version)
Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson – Left Of Center
Pete Shelley – Do Anything (Soundtrack Version)
Carmel – It’s All In The Game
The Dream Academy – Power To Believe (Instrumental)
Kate Bush – This Woman’s Work
New Order – Elegia (2015 Remaster)

CD 2
The Beat – March Of The Swivelheads (Rotating Heads – Dub Version)
Nick Heyward – When It Started To Begin
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Tesla Girls
Big Audio Dynamite – BAD
Killing Joke – Eighties
The Specials – Little Bitch
Gene Loves Jezebel – Desire (Come and Get It) (US Club Mix)
Flesh For Lulu – Slide
Love And Rockets – Haunted When The Minutes Drag
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11 (Ultraviolence Mix)
Lords Of The New Church – Method To My Madness
The Jesus And Mary Chain – The Hardest Walk (Single Version)
Echo & The Bunnymen – Bring On The Dancing Horses
General Public – Tenderness
The Blue Room – I’m Afraid
Belouis Some – Round, Round
Thompson Twins – If You Were Here
The Dream Academy – Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental) 3.07

CD 3
Yello – Oh Yeah
Book Of Love – Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)
Otis Redding – Try A Little Tenderness
Patti Smith – Gloria: In Excelsis Deo
Westworld – Ba-Na-Na-Bam-Boo
Divinyls – Ring Me Up
Topper Headon – Drummin’ Man
Billy Idol – Catch My Fall
The Association – Cherish
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Music For A Found Harmonium
Zapp – Radio People
The Blue Room – Cry Like This
Ray Charles – Mess Around
Joe Turner – Lipstick, Powder and Paint
Darlene Love – (Today I Met) The Boy I’m Gonna Marry
Marvin Gaye – How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
Perry Como With Mitchell Ayres And His Orchestra And The Ray Charles Singers – Juke Box Baby
The Chordettes – Mr. Sandman
Ray Anthony And His Orchestra – The Peter Gunn Theme

CD 4
Lindsey Buckingham – Holiday Road
Emmylou Harris – Back in Baby’s Arms
Hugh Harris – Rhythm Of Life
Spandau Ballet – True
Propaganda – Abuse – Here
The Dream Academy – The Edge of Forever
Yello – Lost Again (Album Version)
Bryan Ferry – Crazy Love
The Rave-Ups – Positively Lost Me
Los Lobos – Don’t Worry Baby
Steve Earle – Continental Trailways Blues (Album Version)
The Revillos – Rev Up!
Boston – More Than A Feeling
Balaam And The Angel – I’ll Show You Something Special
The Rave-Ups – Rave Up/Shut Up
Pop Will Eat Itself – Beaver Patrol
The Vapors – Turning Japanese
Silicon Teens – Red River Rock

Very cool concept

It does deserve a poll!

Don't recall these guys, but do like some of the music of some of the bands they're compared to in the following, so here tis:

IF THESE TREES COULD TALK Self-Titled EP to be re-issued by Metal Blade Records on August 12

Available as a Digipak and on Vinyl

Metal Blade Records is pleased to announce the official reissue of the debut EP from Akron, OH’s IF THESE TREES COULD TALK. The first release from this instrumental post rock band was recorded in 2006 at NE Meadow Studios in Bath, OH and originally released independently by the band on September 27, 2006.

The self-titled release that has been out of print for over 10 years has been mastered for vinyl by Patrick Engel (Temple of Disharmony) and features brand new artwork and packaging.

IF THESE TREES COULD TALK self-titled EP is now available for preorder and will be available as a Digipak and with multiple vinyl variants.

TRACKLIST:
Malabar Front - 8:05

Smoke Stacks - 6:24

The Friscalating Dusklight - 4:32

Signal Tree - 5:24

The Death of Paradigm - 4:06

41°4'23n, -81°31'4w - 3:30

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 32:01:00

US Vinyl Variants:
Gold

Smoky Black

EU Vinyl Variants:

180g Black

Marbled Gold / Black Vinyl (ltd. 500)

Milky White (ltd. 500)

4.5/5 user rating AllMusic.com

“If These Trees Could Talk is a band with a slightly heavier sound which is often compared to bands like Joy Wants Eternity, Red Sparowes or even Explosions In The Sky at their heaviest. Highly recommended for fans of the bands mentioned and Post-Rock in general.” progarchives.com

“With a sound reminiscent of Mogwai and Russian Circles, the band’s delay-heavy sound is constantly exploring sonic peaks and valleys as the band’s three-guitar attack surrounds listeners in a swirling sea of sparkling sound.” postart.rocks

Lineup:
Tom Fihe – bass guitar

Jeff Kalal – guitar

Cody Kelly – guitar

Mike Socrates – guitar

Zack Kelly – drums

About the band:

... IF THESE TREES COULD TALK... have captured...the attention of celebrated chef Chris Santos, who in turn played the group for friend and Metal Blade label guru Brian Slagel.

...As part of inking a deal with Metal Blade, debut full-length Above the Earth, Below the Sky (2009) and its lauded successor Red Forest (2012) were re-issued...

Follow the band:

https://www.facebook.com/treescouldtalk

https://twitter.com/treescouldtalk

https://spotify.com/

http://www.youtube.com/

https://www.instagram.com/ifthesetreescouldtalk/

https://www.metalblade.com/ifthesetreescouldtalk/

Smog Veil has become known mainly or largely for reissues, the Laughner box etc., so I'll put this here:

Friends, fans, and associated rockers:

As you may recall, after years of bringing you the best, sometimes most obscure, and deeply researched music and stories of underground Cleveland, we felt we had reached some sort of plateau and decided to close the business.
While by and large this has been a positive experience for us, we were informed today by the label’s bank that our distributor, Amped Distribution/Alliance Entertainment has failed to pay us since mid-April of this year.
What that means in real terms is that, despite repeated written demands to the company to honor its obligations, we never saw any revenues after April 2022 for what was sold, even the meager digital monies that somehow was enough through the years to keep our lights turned on. You may have noticed that some of your favorite Smog Veil releases are no longer available for download or stream—well, we couldn’t continue a situation where fans are paying for the music and Amped Distribution/Alliance Entertainment isn’t paying the label.
Fortunately, we managed our past revenues in such a way that all the bands and licensors and everyone who worked for us were paid in a timely manner. Luckily in years past we had some amazing distributors who always paid us: Revolver, Forced Exposure, Get Hip to name a few. Entertainment One paid us every penny owed in a timely manner. But, since Amped Distribution/Alliance Entertainment failed to pay us, we weren’t able to pay ourselves.
Never fear, we’ve moved on to new challenges and new businesses, albeit, outside of independent music. We’ll be fine.
But, this has reiterated a very important lesson: support your local musicians and favorite bands, your favorite record shops, the local club owner, and have fun collecting records or streaming if that floats your boat. Independent record labels need your help and understanding of the hustle that labels have to go through just to have normal business practices. A recent tweet from Michaela (I withheld the last name) perfectly encapsulates this issue:
“Every musician I know who's out touring, releasing records & looking like their careers are going great...when we talk 1 on 1, every single one shares how financially, emotionally, logistically stressful & challenging it really is behind the scenes...I personally think the only way to keep on keeping on is through honesty & community.”

That’s a lesson apparently Amped/Alliance Entertainment hasn’t learned.

Thanks everyone again for the support through the years, keep on rocking!

Frank/Smog Veil Records

Joe Meek’s Tea Chest tapes finally reveal some of their secrets. Major stuff, with an amazing real-speed Telstar. The Telstar Story and The Heinz Sessions Vol. 1 are out on @CherryRedGroup. I’ve looked at them today for @theartsdesk: https://t.co/n9ZBsovVQL pic.twitter.com/3SyBwbzIMT

— Kieron Tyler (@MrKieronTyler) August 14, 2022

Good morning to everybody, but especially the person who left this in the little free library box up the street pic.twitter.com/6fDfq2KFbg

— Matthew Specktor (@matthewspecktor) August 20, 2022

With any luck this'll be in there tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/u6t8SFWaHI

— Jon Butcher (@JonButc80716822) August 20, 2022

Tinariwen Announce Reissue of Kel Tinariwen,
Cassette-Only Album Originally Released in 1992, Out November 4th via Wedge

Craft Recordings To Also Reissue Aman Iman: Water Is Life (2007) and Imidiwan: Companions (2009) For The First Time On Vinyl on November 4th

North American Tour Kicks Off September 9th

(Photo courtesy of Tinariwen)

Touareg collective Tinariwen are thrilled to announce the reissue of Kel Tinariwen, marking the project's first-ever official release since it appeared in 1992 locally in Mali on cassette, out November 4th via Wedge. In conjunction, they share its lead single and album closer, “Arghane Manine.” The track skips with percussion, grooving bass, and twangs of electric guitar. Across “Arghana Manine,” vocals call back and forth to each other. Kel Tinariwen will see release alongside two additional Tinariwen reissues, Aman Iman: Water Is Life and Imidiwan: Companion, out for the first time on vinyl the same day via Craft Recordings.

Listen to “Arghane Manin” by Tinariwen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EmR6VHliD8

A revelatory discovery in the Tinariwen archives, Kel Tinariwen is an early cassette tape recorded in the early 90s that never received a wider release, and sheds new light on the band's already rich history. Not having yet developed the fuller band sound they became internationally established with, Kel Tinariwen features their trademark hypnotic guitar lines and call-and-response vocals weaving in between raw drum machine rhythms and keyboard melodies that almost evoke an Arabic take on 80s synth-pop.

In the summer of 1991, four members of Tinariwen traveled to Abidjan in Ivory Coast to record the band’s first official release, Kel Tinariwen. They were Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni, Hassan Ag Touhami aka ‘Abin Abin,’ Kedou Ag Ossad and Liya Ag Ablil aka ‘Diarra.’ The project was the brainchild of Keltoum Sennhauser, a painter, poet and songwriter of mixed parentage (her father was a Sonhrai, her mother a Touareg), who grew up partly in Bamako, partly in the Kidal region of north-eastern Mali, the homeland of all the members of Tinariwen. Like so many Touareg from that region, Keltoum and her family had been forced to emigrate by the droughts that tore the Touareg world apart in the mid-1970s and 1980s, as well as all the oppression and suffering that had followed independence in 1960. Keltoum became deeply involved in the Touareg struggle for freedom and self-determination and saw music in general and music of Tinariwen in particular as an essential part of that struggle.

Kel Tinariwen was never heard outside of the local community that traded cassettes back in 1992 - an activity that was important to the movement, as Keltoum explains: “I think the cassette played a crucial role as a tool of communication, a tool that was very dear to us. It served to raise awareness and awaken the consciences of those who felt that everything was already lost, or that we didn’t have the wherewithal to win our struggle. It allowed the Touareg world to develop its own conscience and move forward. In our milieu, the only thing that can make us question ourselves is music. Because we listen to a lot of music, we love music, we love poetry. We don’t read. We’re not a people who read. So, the only reading we have, about ourselves and about the outside world, is music.” Thirty years later, the album is finally seeing an official release, on vinyl, CD, and cassette to pay homage to its original format.

There's distinct parallels with the sounds found on this tape and the work uncovered in recent years by crate-digger labels such as Awesome Tapes From Africa, Sahel Sounds and Sublime Frequencies. Aman Iman: Water Is Life and Imidiwan: Companion are Tinariwen’s third and fourth studio albums respectively. It’s a blend of West African traditional music and electrified rock’n’roll – a sound that critics have called “desert blues.”

Alongside Kel Tinariwen, Tinariwen are also reissuing Aman Iman: Water Is Life and Imidiwan: Companions - their third and fourth studio albums respectively. A blend of West African traditional music and electrified rock’n’roll –a sound that critics have called “desert blues.” Aman Iman: Water Is Life was Tinariwen’s third studio album, originally released in 2007, and recorded in Mali’s capital, Bamako. Produced by Justin Adams (Robert Plant’s guitarist and producer of the Tinariwen’s debut album The Radio Tisdas Sessions), and recording engineer Ben Findlay. The whole Tinariwen story breathes through its twelve songs, beginning with the first Touareg rebellion of 1963, which lies at the root of so much pain and trauma in the Malian Touareg mindset and which is vividly recalled by Ibrahim in his brooding song ‘Soixante Trois..’

Imidiwan: Companions was the band's fourth album, and it possesses all the elements that have made them so alluring; raw simplicity, melodic beauty, songs ranging from the epic and universal to the intimate and personal. The 13-track album, produced by Jean-Paul Romann, was recorded in Tessalit, the Malian desert village home of band members Ibrahim Ag Alhabib and Hassan Ag Touhami.

In advance of the three reissues’ release, Tinariwen will return stateside for a North American tour this September and October. After appearances at End of the Road, Manchester Psych Fest, and The Spree Festival in the UK, Tinariwen will kick off their North American tour in Chicago on Fri. Sept. 9th. Tickets are on-sale now and available at tinariwen.com/tour.

Pre-order Kel Tinariwen, Aman Iman: Water Is Life and Imidiwan: Companions Reissues

Kel Tinariwen Tracklist:
1. À L'Histoire
2. Khedou Khedou
3. Adounia Tarha
4. Matadjem Yinmexan
5. Awa Idjan War Infa Iman
6. Sendad Eghlalan
7. Sendad Eghlalan
8. Arghane Manine

Aman Iman: Water Is Life Tracklist:
1. Cler Achel
2. Mano Dayak
3. Matadjem Yinmixan
4. Ahimana
5. Soixante Trois
6. Toumast
7. Imidiwan WinakaliN
8. Awa Didjen
9. Ikyadarh Dim
10. Tamatant Tilay
11. Assouf
12. Izarharh Tenere

Imidiwan: Companions Tracklist:
1. Imidiwan Afrik Tendam
2. Lulla
3. Tenhert
4. Enseqi Ehad Didagh
5. Tahult In
6. Tamodjerazt Assis
7. Intitlayaghen
8. Imazighen N Adagh
9. Tenalle Chegret
10. Kel Tamashek
11. Assuf Ag Assuf
12. Chabiba
13. Ere Tasfata Adounia

Tinariwen Tour Dates:
Fri. Sept. 2 - Sixpenny Handley, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Sat. Sept. 3 - Manchester, UK @ Manchester Psych Fest
Sun. Sept. 4 - Paisley, UK @ The Spree Festival
Fri. Sept. 9 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
Sat. Sept. 10 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Cedar Cultural Center
Mon. Sept. 12 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
Tue. Sept. 13 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
Thu. Sept. 15 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
Fri. Sept. 16 - Vancouver, BC @ Imperial Theatre
Sat. Sept. 17 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
Mon. Sept. 19 - Berkeley, CA @ The UC Theatre
Tue. Sept. 20 - Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre
Wed. Sept. 21 - Phoenix, AZ @ Musical Instrument Museum Theater
Fri. Sept. 23 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk - Indoor
Sat. Sept. 24 - Fort Worth, TX @ Tulips
Sun. Sept. 25 - Houston, TX @ The Heights Theater
Tue. Sept. 27 - New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
Thu. Sept. 29 - Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom
Fri. Sept. 30 - Alexandria, VA @ The Birchmere
Sat. Oct. 1 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
Mon. Oct. 3 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Tue. Oct. 4 - Providence, RI @ Columbus Theatre
Wed. Oct. 5 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair Music Hall
Fri. Oct. 7 - Montreal, QC @ Rialto Theatre
Sat. Oct. 8 - Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall

(Kel Tinariwen Cover Artwork)

Artist Site | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Youtube

For more information, contact:
Sam McAllister | Pitch Perfect PR -
sam at pitchperfectpr.com,

From Numero:

Branko Mataja - Traditional Folk Songs of Yugoslavia

We've now made available for the first time in it's entirety, Branko Mataja's album Traditional Folk Songs of Yugoslavia. Branko Mataja created his glorious one and only LP by himself, at home. An entirely switched on, plugged in affair, every single note comes directly from Mataja’s fully customized guitar. All of which is to say that Traditional and Folk Songs of Yugoslavia sounds less like a dry history lesson in the folk music of Mataja’s homeland and more like an intimate, one to one communication between artist and listener. Earlier in 2022, Numero Group released “Over Fields And Mountains”, a compilation of Branko Mataja’s greatest hits, to great acclaim. (“An album of sublime, spooky beauty,” wrote The Guardian.) Now you can listen to the full album in its original sequence, and join the debate about whether or not we should have included Mataja’s epic rendition of “Tuzna Je Nedelja” (“Gloomy Sunday”) — was it just right, or too much?

And if digital isn't your thing, check out the physical LP compilation that dropped earlier this year. Read more about it over at The Guardian and if you need some recommendations for more, peep the YNFAH Playlist.

Album on many services:
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Three Lobed Recordings remasters Sunburned Hand of The Man's seminal album, Headdress, in honor of its 20th anniversary

Recorded 21 years ago this month as America transformed overnight, the album was the group's first proper vinyl release gaining them a nod from Pitchfork naming it Best New Music. Out October 28th, listen to "The Illness" now:

American Dreams Records Announce 40-Year Anniversary Reissue of ONO’s 1982 Debut
Kate Cincinnati out November 18, 2022

RIYL: Duma, Moor Mother, Gastr Del Sol, This Heat, Sun City Girls, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, The Pop Group, Buthole Surfers, Mort Garson, Clipping, Nurse With Wound
There are few groups as singular as ONO, and fewer still who can loop history into the present in such a visceral, immediate way””
–Bandcamp Daily

“This Chicago avant-garde group are one of the great bands, and their story is endlessly fascinating.” –Chicago Reader

“ONO are perhaps the Chicago underground’s most outré secret. The shapeshifting ensemble rarely surface in media discussion outside the Windy City – perhaps because they can’t easily be pegged… Whatever the case, ONO have toiled in obscurity for 40 years. That stretch of underrecognition should end”
–The Wire Magazine
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American Dreams Records Announce 40-Year Anniversary Reissue of ONO’s 1982 Debut
Kate Cincinnati out November 18, 2022

RIYL: Duma, Moor Mother, Gastr Del Sol, This Heat, Sun City Girls, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, The Pop Group, Buthole Surfers, Mort Garson, Clipping, Nurse With Wound

September 13, 2022
For Immediate Release

ONO (the Chicago, IL based industrial avant-gospel group founded in the ‘80s) today announced that their 1982 debut full-length album, Kate Cincinnati, will be released for the first time digitally and on vinyl as a 40-year anniversary reissue out on November 18, 2022 via American Dreams.

For forty-two years and counting, the long-running experimental Chicago group ONO has been committed to—as their mission statement says—exploring gospel's darkest conflicts, tragedies and premises as an experimental, noise, and industrial poetry performance band, charting a defiant course through a sea of seemingly disparate influences. One of few Black bands taking part in the ‘80s industrial and experimental underground, ONO’s first album Kate Cincinnati is a crucial document, showcasing them as a trio composed of bandleader P. Michael Grego, multi-instrumentalist Ric Graham, and enigmatic frontperson travis. Kate Cincinnati was originally self-released in 1982 in an edition of 300 tapes alongside an accompanying libretto/zine. The trio traverse a variety of sonic environments - travis' singing, bass, and lap steel move effortlessly between gospel, blues, opera and noise suggestions; Graham plays a maelstrom of music on horn and guitar; Grego quietly orchestrates arrangements while adding keyboards, electronics, and percussion. This important archival release follows their acclaimed 2020 album Red Summer, which earned praise from Pitchfork, Treble, Post-Trash, The Chicago Reader, The Quietus and landed on numerous year-end lists including Bandcamp Daily, Artforum, Slug Magazine, Rough Trade, and The Wire Magazine.

With the reissue announcement, ONO shared a single edit of “I Wonder Why” available digitally for the first time ever. Of the track, P. Michael Grego provided the following statement: "We deconstructed 'Good Times' and 'I Want Your Love' by Chic for this song - travis changed the words. 'I Wonder Why' lightens the mood in between 'Kate Cincinnati' and 'Oppenheimer' - it was also a respite during our intense sets. I put together the music, and the others added layers on top."

Those who have seen ONO's recent concerts know their performances emphasize travis' striking stage presence and Grego's penchant for deconstructing soul and funk. travis may undergo costume changes, beat a trash can lid, shake chains, dance with audience members, and set off electronic rhythms, sounds, and noises; Grego conjures rich, throbbing basslines, plays keys, and layers samples on top of each other. Together they foreshadow full-frontal, all-ONO exploratory overlays. The title track on Kate Cincinnati is an early example of ONO's evocative performance style, with choral chanting, drum beats, speak-singing, and ambient saxophones—almost like blues meets New Music America. "I Wonder Why" and "Oppenheimer" merge gospel, punk and blues elements, and a characteristic, anthemic seething, combining socio-political incision, history, and religion: "10.5 million non-whites!" "Give me Jezebel!"

Links
ono1980.com
ono1980.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/onoband
american-dreams.zone

Out Now
DARK HORSE RECORDS RELEASES JOE STRUMMER 002:

THE MESCALEROS YEARS FEATURING NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD TRACKS

FIRST-EVER COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF STRUMMER’S WORK WITH HIS BAND THE MESCALEROS

NEW BOX SET INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS INCLUDING THE NEWLY DISCOVERED COVER OF “SECRET AGENT MAN”, “FANTASTIC”, & “OCEAN OF DREAMS”, FEATURING STEVE JONES FROM THE SEX PISTOLS, ALONGSIDE REMASTERED EDITIONS OF THE COMPLETE MESCALEROS CATALOG, EXCLUSIVE NEW INTERVIEWS, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN IMAGES, AND MUCH MORE

JOE STRUMMER 002: THE MESCALEROS YEARS

OUT NOW VIA DARK HORSE RECORDS

If you think you miss Joe Strummer now, by the time you get to the end of this boxset, you are really going to miss the guy. What an impact, what an amazing musician, what an amazing human being, a great artist, and this boxset perfectly captures the man, the music and the moment, I’m so glad this came out.

–HENRY ROLLINS

Today Dark Horse Records releases Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years, the first-ever comprehensive collection highlighting Strummer’s work with his post-Clash band, The Mescaleros. The collection includes remastered editions of all three of the band’s studio albums, plus 15 rare and unreleased tracks spanning the first demos Joe wrote for the Mescaleros, as well as the previously unheard cover of ‘Secret Agent Man’ from 2002 that was discovered in the Joe Strummer archives and was identified as one of the last songs he recorded, along with other unreleased tracks including ‘Fantastic’ and ‘Ocean Of Dreams’, featuring Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols on guitar, as well outtakes from Joe’s final sessions with the Mescaleros. This richly curated boxset was executive produced by Joe’s widow Lucinda Tait and produced by David Zonshine and features exclusive new interviews with Joe’s friends, collaborators and Mescaleros band mates, plus never-before-seen handwritten notes, lyrics, and drawings by Strummer taken from the Joe Strummer Archive. The release arrives everywhere today on 4 CD w/72-page book and 7 LP w/32-page book, special edition packaging and exclusive 12”x12” art print.

While best known as the front man for The Clash, Strummer produced some of the most exciting work of his career with The Mescaleros. “All that’s happening for me now is just a chancer’s bluff,” Strummer said during this period. “I learned that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I’m far more dangerous now, because I don’t care at all.”

Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years highlights this intense period of creativity from 1999-2002, collecting for the first time such extraordinary albums as Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (1999), Global A Go-Go (2001), and the posthumous Streetcore (2003), along with Vibes Compass, a brand-new compilation of 15 B-sides and rarities, spanning early demos of some of the first tracks Strummer wrote for The Mescaleros (such as “The Road To Rock ‘N’ Roll,” “X-Ray Style,” and “Techno D-Day,” as well as the previously unreleased “Secret Agent Man”) to the original recordings from Joe’s last ever sessions, including outtakes of “Get Down Moses,” “Coma Girl,” and the never-before-heard new song, “Fantastic.” All albums are remastered by three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer Paul Hicks (The Beatles, John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie) especially for the release and are packaged with extensive new liner notes, unreleased images, and four reproduction lyric sheets and chord charts from the Strummer archive.

“There’s so much great music that Joe left us in his archive,” says Strummer’s widow and Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years Executive Producer, Lucinda Tait. “We started this work last year with ‘001’, so to focus on Joe’s work with The Mescaleros was the natural second step on ‘002’ because those songs he made with them just seemed to resonate so strongly and reinvigorated his connection with his audience at a level he hadn’t experienced since his days with The Clash.

“He was so excited to work with the Mescaleros and the reception he got from the press and fans was incredible, it gave him a whirlwind of energy and confidence and he was creatively fulfilled and happy.

“His words are so beautiful and honest and together with the Mescaleros some fantastic tunes were created and to listen to some of the tunes recorded as outtakes for me was really special.”

2022 marks twenty years since the passing of the legendary Joe Strummer. Punk poet, musician, composer, actor, and style icon, Strummer spent his life smashing musical and cultural boundaries both as the singer of The Clash and as a solo artist. His songs sound as urgent and vital today as when they were written. Calling out social injustices and giving a voice to the struggles of the working class, Strummer’s politically charged lyrics struck a chord with legions of fans and the press alike, with Rolling Stone calling The Clash “the greatest rock & roll band in the world.” He famously once said, “Without people, you’re nothing.” Through his art, Joe Strummer played his part in shaping the musical landscape of the world and with it left an unrivaled and timeless legacy.

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JOE STRUMMER

JOE STRUMMER 002: THE MESCALEROS YEARS

(Dark Horse/BMG)

Release Date: Friday, September 16

TRACKLISTING

Rock Art and the X-Ray Style

1. Tony Adams

2. Sandpaper Blues

3. X-Ray Style

4. Techno D-Day

5. The Road to Rock 'N' Roll

6. Diggin' The New

7. Nitcomb

8. Forbidden City

9. Yalla Yalla

10. Willesden To Cricklewood

Global A Go-Go

1. Johnny Appleseed

2. Cool ’N’ Out

3. Global A Go-Go

4. Bhindi Bhagee

5. Gamma Ray

6. Mega Bottle Ride

7. Shaktar Donetsk

8. Mondo Bongo

9. Bummed Out City

10. At The Border, Guy

11. Minstrel Boy (full-length version)

Streetcore

1. Coma Girl

2. Get Down Moses

3. Long Shadow

4. Arms Aloft

5. Ramshackle Day Parade

6. Redemption Song

7. All In A Day

8. Burnin' Streets

9. Midnight Jam

10. Silver and Gold

Vibes Compass

1. Time And The Tide

2. Techno D-Day (Demo)

3. Ocean Of Dreams (feat. Steve Jones)

4. Forbidden City (Demo)

5. X-Ray Style (Demo)

6. The Road To Rock ‘N’ Roll (Demo)

7. Tony Adams (Demo)

8. Cool ‘N’ Out (Demo)

9. Global A Go-Go (Demo)

10. Secret Agent Man

11. All In A Day (Demo)

12. London Is Burning

13. Get Down Moses (Outtake)

14. Fantastic

15. Coma Girl (Outtake)

ABOUT DARK HORSE RECORDS

George Harrison’s passion for introducing the world to new music expressed itself in May of 1974 when he created his own new label – Dark Horse Records. The label contained a variety of talented artists on its roster, including George himself. Alongside Joe Strummer, the newly relaunched Dark Horse Records roster also includes Billy Idol, Leon Russell, Benmont Tench and others. For more information, please visit www.darkhorserecords.com.

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FOLLOW JOE STRUMMER

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PRESS CONTACT:

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Universal is putting out an 8CD Humble Pie box, 1970-1975: The A&M Box Set, in December. Seven remastered albums and a disc of rarities. Track listing:

Disc One HUMBLE PIE
1. Live With Me
2. Only A Roach
3. One Eyed Trouser-Snake Rumba
4. Earth And Water Song
5. I’m Ready
6. Theme From Skint
7. Red Light Mamma, Red Hot!
8. Sucking On The Sweet Vine

Disc Two ROCK ON
1. Shine On
2. Sour Grain
3. 79th And Sunset
4. Stone Cold Fever
5. Rolling Stone
6. A Song For Jenny
7. The Light
8. Big George
9. Strange Days
10. Red Neck Jump

Disc Three PERFORMANCE: ROCKIN’ THE FILMORE
1. Four Day Creep
2. I’m Ready
3. Stone Cold Fever
4. I Walk On Gilded Splinters
5. Rolling Stone
6. Hallelujah (I Love Her So)
7. I Don’t Need No Doctor

Disc Four SMOKIN’
1. Hot ‘N’ Nasty
2. The Fixer
3. You’re So Good To Me
4. C’mon Everybody
5. Old Time Feelin’
6. 30 Days In The Hole
7. Road Runners ‘G’ Jam
8. I Wonder
9. Sweet Peace And Time

Disc Five EAT IT
1. Get Down To It
2. Good Booze And Bad Women
3. Is It For Love?
4. Drugstore Cowboy
5. Black Coffee
6. I Believe To My Soul
7. Shut Up And Don’t Interrupt Me
8. That’s How Strong My Love Is
9. Say No More
10. Oh, Bella (All That’s Hers)
11. Summer Song
12. Beckton Dumps
13. Up Our Sleeve
14. Honky Tonk Women
15. Road Runner

Disc Six THUNDERBOX
1. Thunderbox
2. Groovin’ With Jesus
3. I Can’t Stand The Rain
4. Anna (Go To Him)
5. No Way
6. Rally With Ali
7. Don’t Worry, Be Happy
8. Ninety-Nine Pounds
9. Every Single Day
10. No Money Down
11. Drift Away
12. Oh La-De-Da

Disc Seven STREET RATS
1. Street Rat
2. Rock ‘N’ Roll Music
3. We Can Work It Out
4. Scored Out
5. Road Hog
6. Rain
7. There ‘Tis
8. Let Me Be Your Lovemaker
9. Countryman Stomp
10. Drive My Car
11. Queens And Nuns

Disc Eight BONUS TRACKS (B-Sides & Rarities)
1. Big Black Dog (first A&M single)
2. Mister Ring (German B-side)
3. I Don’t Need No Doctor (edit)
4. Chopper (with The Blackberries)
5. You’ve Been In Love Too Soon (with The Blackberries)
6. Twist And Shout (with The Blackberries)
7. Don’t Change On Me (with The Blackberries)
8. The Outcrowd (B-side)
9. Funky To The Bone (from UK version of Street Rats)
10. Tell Me The Truth (previously unreleased)
11. Gimme Some Lovin’ (previously unreleased)
12. Illegal Smile (previously unreleased)
13. Hurts So Good (previously unreleased)
14. She Belongs To Me (instr/vocal/final vocal)

Also on Real Gone: new release of Little Beaver's excellent Party Down, back on vinyl-- https://t.co/lWdDQfmBmC https://t.co/xYsYHkypDY

— Don Allred (@0wlred) October 18, 2022

(but it's not on sale)

I can definitely recommend that Roland Haynes LP and both Awakening albums. And Doug Carn, obviously

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COIL'S QUEENS OF THE CIRCULATING LIBRARY TO BE RE-ISSUED BY DAIS RECORDS
THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL VINYL RE-ISSUE SUPERVISED BY THIGHPAULSANDRA
OUT JANUARY 13, 2023

Queens Of The Circulating Library stands alongside Time Machines and Nurse With Wound’s Soliloquy For Lilith as a post-industrial pinnacle of sensory-warping long-form drone. Crafted by the distilled duo of Thighpaulsandra and John Balance, the 49-minute piece unfurls in swirling, cyclical waves, tidal as much as textural, channeling the spirit of levitational minimalism pioneered by La Monte Young. Touted as the first part in "a continually mutating series of circulating musickal compositions” upon its initial release in 2000, the album remains a compelling case study in Coil’s exceptional capacity for mutation and extremes.

The theatrical introductory monologue delivered by Thighpaulsandra’s mother – a career opera singer, in her 80’s at the time of recording – sets the stage for a grandiose ascension. Written by Balance, the text is declamatory but dreamlike, refracted through megaphone echo: “Return the book of knowledge / Return the marble index / File under "Paradox" / The forest is a college, each tree a university.” As her voice fades, the lulling synthetic infinity deepens, congealing into transient crests of volume and haze, like slow-motion surf misting in moonlight.

Thighpaulsandra describes their aesthetic intention as a “bliss out,” static but shape-shifting, an amniotic drift towards an eternal vanishing point. A supreme sonic embodiment of the slogan on the sleeve of Time Machines, two years prior: "Persistence is all."

links etc.: https://mailchi.mp/leftfieldpr/coilqueens?e=32e64a6326