Rolling Reissues 2023

Well yeah they gave examples of rare stuff too, sorry SJR.

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1970 as hell: country soul folk rock, unpretentiously engaging singing and songs and Nashville cats:

Color Me Country (Sun Records 70th / Remastered 2022)
by Linda Martell

The only album from South Carolina’s Linda Martell, 1970’s Color Me Country helped her make musical history as the first Black woman to both debut on the Grand Ole Opry and find success on the country Billboard Charts. Remastered and reissued in celebration of Sun Records’ 70th Anniversary, fans can enjoy timeless tracks like the yodeling “Bad Case of the Blues,” the heart-wrenching “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” and more as they’ve never heard them before.

Zappa was joined in the studio by former Mothers member Ian Underwood (keyboard, saxophone, rhythm guitar), violinist and vocalist Don “Sugarcane” Harris, Wrecking Crew bassist Max Bennett and English drummer Aynsley Dunbar. With Frank also behind the board in the producer role, the five-piece rolled through new originals, interesting cover choices and free-flowing jams. “Largely instrumental, these recordings showcased the guitarist’s virtuosity, while offering what could have easily been the sequel to Hot Rats, had it ever been released,” noted press materials announcing the compilation.

Frank Zappa did pick his favorite takes and mixed the tracks for potential release before mothballing the project. Joe Travers and Ahmet Zappa chose those 11 cuts as the basis of Funky Nothingness. A three-disc expanded deluxe edition adds two discs of outtakes, alternate edits, unedited masters of songs from the era, studio jams and “other bonus nothingness.”

Funky Nothingness has been previewed with the previously unreleased track “Work With Me Annie/Annie Had A Baby.” The medley pairs covers of two Hank Ballard & The Midnighters’ 1954 hits: the Ballard-penned “Work With Me Annie” and its answer song, “Annie Had A Baby,” written by Henry Glover and Sydney Nathan. Don “Sugarcane” Harris provides vocals. Listen to the medley below:

Also track lists for editions.

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Announcing: Rings of Saturn — a new collaborative vinyl series from Shimmy-Disc, featuring six 7" EPs (@33rpm), packaged in an ornate wooden box.

Each record (with cover photography by William Coupon) is a unique "mini-album" collaboration between Kramer and this amazing group of artists:

Britta Phillips (Luna, Dean & Britta)
Paul Leary (Butthole Surfers)
Jad Fair & Danielson
Eerie Wanda
David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol)
Rob Crow (Pinback, etc.)

Pressed on red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple vinyl, respectively; and packaged within a custom wooden laser-etched box.

This box set is limited to just 333 hand-numbered copies, and is only available directly from Shimmy-Disc.

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To help introduce the project, today, Kramer shares his collaboration with Britta Phillips, "Nocturne," alongside an accompanying music video.

"'Nocturne' is a song possessed of deeply personal origins that must remain hidden. But I can illuminate the fictional parameters of its emotional birthplace, as follows, if you can imagine along with me…you have fallen in Love with a woman who is in Love with someone else. That 'someone else' then leaves her, and despite your desire to be the one who can now finally be near her, to hold her, to comfort her, you just can’t bear the thought of her being alone. And if she finds someone else, someone other than you, that’s good enough. So long as she’s no longer alone. It’s your knowing that she’s lonely that’s killing you, and as long as SOMEONE is there for her, at night, you know you’ll both be fine. That’s a Nocturne. And that’s Love."

Nocturnes (w/ Britta Phillips)
Psalms (w/ David Grubbs)
Preludes (w/ Eerie Wanda)
Elegies (w/ Jad Fair & Danielson)
Laments (w/ Paul Leary)
Hymns (by Rob Crow)

from Numero:

Back In Stock: Current - Yesterday's Tomorrow Is Not Today
In case you missed this the first go around last fall. We've restocked the in-demand hardcore piece.

Screaming suburban blues straight from the pages of HeartattaCk magazine, Current exploded out of the early-’90s Midwestern emo scene in a fit of D.C. hardcore-inspired rage. Spread across three LPs, Yesterday’s Tomorrow Is Not Today compiles the quartet’s lone album, two EPs, split 7"s with Indian Summer and Chino Horde, miscellaneous compilation debris, and nine previously unissued alternates, including the infamous KLXU radio show. Remixed and mastered from the original tapes, Current’s complete discography is annotated in Leor Galil’s exhaustive survey, illustrated with period photos, flyers, and cut-n-paste sleeve art across 24 pages.

Pre-Order: Helene Smith - I Am Controlled By Your Love.
Teenage melancholy from the original Miami Sound Machine. Backed by the infamous FAMU Marching 100 Band and Frank Williams’s crack shot players The Rocketeers, I Am Controlled By Your Love compiles sides from Helene Smith’s ’60s tenure with the Deep City, Lloyd, Reid, and Blue Star labels. A sweltering album of 12 deeply soulful, alternate universe hits from the First Lady of Miami Soul.

I recently found a couple boxes of the Eula Cooper LP so throwing up a bundle option available while supplies last. All 3 are necessary.

Helene Smith - I Am Controlled By Your Love
Barbara Stant - My Mind Holds On To Yesterday
Eula Cooper - Let Our Love Grow Higher

Expected to ship early May.

Trey Gruber - Herculean House Of Cards
A tortured songwriter and struggling addict who jolted the tired Chicago DIY scene with his own brand of primal despair, Trey Gruber and his band Parent were on track to join the ranks of Twin Peaks, Mild High Club, and Whitney. His death in 2017 at the age of 26 brought it all to a halt. In his final years Trey wrote and recorded hundreds of previously unheard demos, dandelions in the cracked concrete of 21st century disconnect, an alphabet’s worth of which have been compiled by his family and friends for his only album: Herculean House Of Cards.

For more information on Trey and his story, read our full feature here

Now On Numero: The American Analog Set
We’re thrilled to welcome Austin, Texas mopers American Analog Set to the Numero Universe. You can now safely stream The Golden Band, From Our Living Room To Yours, The Fun of Watching Fireworks[, and Through The ’90s from the comfort of your phone. We’re hard at work on a giant box to stuff all these brilliant records in—stay tuned.

Thanks for your work in this thread! Immediately ordered that Kramer collab set.

You're welcome---haven't noticed anything new by Kramer or any of his collaborators in quite a while (oops this is new stuff, why did I put it here? Automatically associate Shimmy-Disc with the Good Ol' Days, that must be it)

He had a new collaborative project called Let It Come Down a couple of years ago that was really good.

"In a world insatiable for glitz, the music of Daniel Johnston reminds us that the human heart could really give a shit about all that. What it wants is a kind of robust humility, an integrity of purpose, and the love apparent in an artist that puts the all of their humble soul into their work. It’s beautiful in that way, and it’s rare."
- StereoEmbers
On February 10, Shimmy-Disc shared the first-time vinyl release of I Killed The Monster, an 11-track compilation of songs written by the celebrated American music legend, Daniel Johnston, whose classic LPs 1990 and Artistic Vice were produced by Kramer — the former at his legendary Noise New York recording studio and the latter at Daniel's home in West Virginia — and released on Shimmy-Disc in 1990 and 1991, respectively.

The compilation, originally shared as a CD-only release in 2006, features standout performances of Johnston classic by some of indie music's greatest talents, including: Danielson & Sufjan Stevens, Kimya Dawson, Dot Allison, Mike Watt, Jad Fair & Kramer, Jeffrey Lewis, LUMBEROB, R. Stevie Moore, and more. Kramer produced and mixed most of the songs on the LP, and he himself delivers one of the most startling tracks on this release, Daniel's great masterpiece, "Bloody Rainbow."

All of the songs included on the compilation were re-mastered by Kramer in 2022, and will be available on vinyl for the very first time, and on a limited edition cassette, which will also feature an additional 10 tracks (for a total of 21), from the original 2006 CD-only release.

To celebrate the recent release, today, Shimmy-Disc has shared a brand new video* for the track "Blue Skies Will Haunt You From Now On" by The Electric Ghosts (Daniel Johnston & Jack Medicine + Kramer). The video was directed by Nicholas Baranek.

I Killed The Monster: The Songs of Daniel Johnston - TRACKLISTING:

Disc 1, Vinyl Version & Cassette Side A

01. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievances (Dot Allison)
02. Worried Shoes (Danielson & Sufjan Stevens)
03. Bloody Rainbow (Kramer)
04. Cathy Cline (R. Stevie Moore)
05. Follow That Dream (Kimya Dawson)
06. Honey I Sure Miss You (Lumberob)
07. True Love Will Find You In The End (Jad Fair & Kramer)
08. Blue Skies Will Haunt You From Now On (The Electric Ghosts)(Daniel Johnston, Jack Medicine, and Kramer)
09. The Adventures of God as A Young Boy (Jeffrey Lewis)
10. Walking the Cow (Mike Watt)
11. It's Over (Tess)

Digital Bonus Tracks & Cassette Side B

01. Held The Hand (Joy Zipper)
02. Tears Stupid Tears (Rope, Inc.)
03. Going Down (Chris Harford)
04. Rowboat (Mad Francis)
05. Mind Contorted (Major Matt Mason USA)
06. Now (Toby Goodshank)
07. Go Fast And Go Some More (The Dick Panthers)
08. Foxy Girl (The Sutcliffes)
09. Cosmic Kid (Kickstand)
10. Love Wheel (Emily Zuzik)
I Killed The Monster - CREDITS:

All Songs Written by Daniel Johnston (BMG Music Publishing)
Except "Blue Skies Will Haunt You From Now On" (Eternal Yip Eye & Bedlam Circus Music)

*videos, other links:
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David Bowie / Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture 50th anniversary edition
“The last reissue we’ll ever do…”
BY PAUL SINCLAIR

The ‘Motion Picture Soundtrack’ to David Bowie’s last gig as Ziggy Stardust will be reissued for the 50th anniversary in July.

Bowie retired his alter-ego on 3 July 1973, at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, and the show was filmed by D.A. Pennebaker who captured the evening’s events, including Bowie’s famous speech just before the final encore, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide’, where he revealed that he was retiring the Ziggy Stardust persona. The announcement shocked and surprised everyone, including members of his own band!

The film and the audio recording were mothballed for a decade as Bowie was keen to leave Ziggy behind, but once he left RCA for EMI in 1982 the label (RCA) were free to release it without worrying about was David did or didn’t want to do, and that’s exactly what happened in 1983. Suspecting this would happen, Tony Visconti and Bowie mixed the audio in 1981 so they at least had some input on how it would sound when released.

t took almost another decade for this live album to be released on CD, when Rykodisc issued it towards the end of their Sound + Vision reissue campaign of the early Nineties. Unlike most of Ryko’s other Bowie reissues, there were no bonus tracks.

Ten years after that EMI released what was then a 30th anniversary 2CD set, with audio newly mixed by Visconti. The concert film was also issued on DVD with a 5.1 surround sound mix.

For this new 50th anniversary reissue, the soundtrack has been newly remastered and finally includes the medley of ‘The Jean Genie/Love Me Do’ and ‘Round And Round’ featuring Jeff Beck. These additions have been newly mixed by Tony Visconti. The film has also been digitally restored by D.A.’s son, Frazer Pennebaker and will be issued on blu-ray and will be shown at over 1000 cinemas worldwide during July 2023.

The Beck cameo is what I still remember, from seeing this on cable in early 80s.

Black Editions Group is reissuing the third High Rise album, Dispersion, as a 2LP set, fully remastered and sounding amazing, with two bonus tracks. You can pre-order it on Bandcamp here.

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From the moment they emerged in the early days of the 80’s Tokyo underground, High Rise set themselves apart as radical outliers, shattering the limits of rock and psychedelic music with a ferocity unmatched even in that heady era. The group’s core duo of Asahito Nanjo on bass/vocals and Munehiro Narita on guitar had an explosive chemistry; they mutated, distorted, amplified the raw velocity, heaviness, and electricity of late 60’s / early 70’s rock into an entirely new, monstrous form. Running in similar circles, their approach paralleled that of Les Rallizes Dénudés, but with a more garage / proto-punk attack and the blistering intensity of a full-on amphetamine rush. While Mizutani’s guitar is what took Rallizes’s to another level, the same can be said for Narita’s guitar work in High Rise- rightfully placing him in the pantheon of psychedelic guitarists and for some to call him “the undisputed king of the motorcycle fuzz guitar”.

The band inspired the launch of the legendary P.S.F. label, giving it its first two releases which along with its third release, the debut of Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha, signaled a new era in the world of Japanese undergound music. High Rise’s second album, 1986’s II, was a triumph and fully lived up to the group’s original “Psychedelic Speed Freaks” moniker, instantly raising the stakes for any band to follow. It carved out a new stream of rock music, rooted in an encyclopedic knowledge of the music’s history and an almost metaphysical understanding of its raw elements and spirit.

High Rise’s third album, 1992’s Dispersion, kept the group’s in-the-red intensity while pushing into new directions. Less grounded in speed, Nanjo along with drummer Dr. Euro build powerful, dynamic riffs that swing with crushing levels of heaviness. Slower pieces rife with blues infused tension appear alongside dissonant no wave inflected passages and rumbling biker rave-ups. All of which provide Narita with the room to create one of rock guitars most compelling high wire spectacles. Throughout the album he creates dizzying torrents of notes with a precision, control and endless inventiveness that crackles with chaotic energy. As P.S.F.’s own description proclaimed at the time “Munehiro Narita's guitar explodes!” this is “Killer-Fuzz-Wah-Wah psychedelic heaven!” Dispersion is “a masterpiece that should be a classic for all psychedelic speed freaks.”

Black Editions is pleased to present the definitive edition of Dispersion, remixed and remastered from the original master tapes by Asahito Nanjo and released in a deluxe gatefold double LP edition housed in a die-cut slipcase printed entirely with spot colors and featuring spot UV gloss and soft touch finishes.

From Real Gone:

We search for real gone releases in all genres, but 1995’s Chronicle of Two Losers by Ill Biskits is one of the real gonest! This lost classic from the Golden Age of Hip Hop barely even saw a legit issue before being deleted, which explains why even CD copies go for triple figures (this is its first authorized release on LP). Ill Biskits was a one-and-done, German-born, Virginia-based duo composed of Deeda and Kleph Dollaz (R.I.P.) whose undeniable abilities on the mic and introspective, deep rhymes were mixed into hypnotic beats courtesy of D.I.T.C. producer superstars Buckwild and Lord Finesse. This album captures hip hop really coming of age as an art form; Chronicle of Two Losers has lyrical and sonic layers that unfold with repeated spins. Highly, highly recommended…so grab our coke bottle clear vinyl pressing while you can. It’s limited to 1000 copies, and includes an inner sleeve displaying the original CD booklet’s dreamy artwork.

Complete Studio Albums & Rarities is a new 10CD box set featuring the solo output of Stevie Nicks. The singer-songwriter has released eight solo records since her 1981, and was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, first as a member of Fleetwood Mac and then as a solo artist in 2019.

The box set features the following eight albums, with half of them newly remastered (from the analogue tapes):

Bella Donna (1981)
The Wild Heart (1983)
Rock a Little (1985)
The Other Side of the Mirror (1989)
Street Angel (1994)
Trouble in Shangri-La (2001)
In Your Dreams (2011)
24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault (2014)
Additionally this box set features two CDs of Rarities; 23 hard-to-find recordings, including non-album tracks such as contributions to film and television and B-sides. These have also been remastered.
s well as the 10CD box, there will be a limited-edition, 16LP version, but that will be exclusive to Rhino.com. Street Angel, Trouble in Shangri-La, and In Your Dreams will all receive their vinyl debut as part of this set. The rarities package will be a 3LP set in what is a clear vinyl box set.

Complete Studio Albums & Rarities will be released on 28 July 2023, via Rhino.

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MOUNT WITTENBERG ORCA
EXPANDED EDITION NOW STREAMING
ON ALL DIGITAL SERVICES

The expanded reissue of the collaborative mini-album between Dirty Projectors and Björk, Mount Wittenberg Orca, which was initially released on vinyl for Record Store Day in April, is now streaming on all digital services.

 

" 'Mount Wittenberg Orca' might be my favorite thing from this chapter of Dirty Projectors. It feels like sort of a dark horse in the catalog. which I guess is kinda funny, considering it’s a collaborative record with Björk. We were overwhelmed with the hype around the band at the time and purposely under-messaged it. But I love these songs. And as a basically live-in-studio album, it’s the only official release that shows how this lineup really cooked as a band. The performances and engineering hold up really well. And of course Björk elevates us to a different level of protean majesty. I remember being spontaneously in tears during her vocal takes for “Sharing Orb.” I’m also excited to share the original Housing Works show, in its raw beauty, as well as the writing tapes and rehearsals that show how the whole thing came together. Thanks for listening."

- Dave

Cashing in on the Orca craze

We were overwhelmed with the hype around the band at the time and purposely under-messaged it.

I guess so! First I’ve heard of it

For Immediate Release

D.O.A. ANNOUNCE "WAR ON 45" 40th ANNIVERSARY RE-ISSUE

LIMITED EDITION RED VINYL 500 COPIES ONLY

INCLUDES 12 PAGE WAR ON 45 BOOKLET and

7 BONUS TRACKS WITH CHUCK BISCUITS

n 1982, D.O.A. was ready to record a new album on the heels of their first two alums: Something Better Change and Hardcore 81, which are still both musical landmarks to this day. But their legendary line up had changed, as Randy Rampage was ousted from the band.

The older brother of Chuck Biscuits, Dimwit, stepped in on bass with Chuck still on drums, Joey Shithead on vocals and guitar and Dave Gregg on guitar. While this line up only lasted for 3 months, D.O.A. traveled to L.A. and recorded demos at Mystic Studios. Eventually Chuck quit, Dimwit took over on drums, and Wimpy Roy became the bassist.

So as a grand way of celebrating the 40th Anniversary of War on 45, which many a critic and fan hailed as one of the most innovative albums of it's time and on a par, quality wise with their first two albums, the band decided to add some bonus material.

First off, Sudden Death Records has included a 12 page booklet of unique photos, posters and an extensive history of D.O.A. at that time,. written by Canada's Godfather of punk Joey Shithead. In addition, they put all 8 tracks from the War on 45 1982 release onto Side A of the album and the 7 tracks from the pre War on 45 demos that were recorded at Mystic onto Side B. So you have the Montgomery brothers: Biscuits and Dimwit, two of the greatest drummers of all time (and not just punk rock, any kind of rock music) on the same LP.

TRACKLIST



SIDE A - Original 1982 Release w/ Dimwit on Drums

1. Liar for Hire

2. I'm Right, You're Wrong

3. America the Beautiful

4. Let's Fuck

5. War

6. I Hate You

7. War in the East

8. Class War

SIDE B - 1982 demos w/ Chuck Biscuits on drums

1. Rent-A-Riot (1982 demo)

2. Liar for Hire (1982 demo)

3. Race Riot

4. America the Beautiful (1982 demo)

5. No Way Out (1982 demo)

6. No God, No War (1981 demo)

7. I Hate You (1982 demo)

Photo Credit: Bob Hanham

ABOUT D.O.A.

D.O.A. was formed amidst a whirlwind of controversy and upheaval. In 1978, three guys fresh out of high school from the backwaters of Canada's suburbs heard about the punk rock revolution. In February of that same year the band formed and started playing shows. They soon realized that there were no record deals coming in any time soon.

Keithley (aka Joey Shithead) who was working towards being a civil rights lawyer before he found punk rock, concluded that the band had to take the "do it yourself" approach long before DIY became a popular concept. He formed a fledging record label called Sudden Death Records and the label released D.O.A.'s first snarling slab of vinyl, the Disco Sucks 7" EP.

Disco Sucks soon became an underground hit and the band started touring from Vancouver to their newly adopted "home base" of California five to six times a year. In 1980, Keithley coined the term "hardcore" and the band soon released their landmark album Hardcore 81. The album became a hit, the hardcore movement took off, and D.O.A. pushed that expression into common vernacular.

Over the last four decades, D.O.A. have released 18 studio albums, sold over a million albums, and played 4,500 shows on five different continents. The band's albums, shows, and attitude have won over three generations of fans and influenced the likes of Green Day, Nirvana, Offspring, Henry Rollins, David Grohl and The Red Hot Chilli peppers, to name a few. Keithley has also written two books: I Shithead: A Life in Punk and TALK - ACTION = 0.

From day one, D.O.A. has helped organize and lead hundreds of benefit concerts and protests for good and just causes like environmental issues, women's rights, food bank benefits, First Nations rights and they have organized and stood against war, racism and weapons proliferation, amongst others.

Joey Shithead Keithley - Environmentalist, activist politician, D.O.A. founder, writer and troublemaker

Keithley has been called a cultural politician, trying to change the world from outside the system. Well my friends, Joe got elected in October 2018 as a city councillor in his home town of Burnaby (one of the largest cities on the west coast of Canada). Joe ran as a Green and is now changing the system from the inside. He has worked to provide affordable housing, helping the disadvantaged. In other words, changing the system from the inside. Noted film maker Scott Crawford (Salad Days and Boy Howdy) is documenting Joe's journey through politics and music, with a release of the film in 2022, the year when Keithley will be running for re-election.

Many have compared Joe to a modern day Woody Guthrie and he is always looking for a way to push "grassroots democracy" and like his idols Woody and Pete Seeger, he and the band won't give up.

So that in a few words is D.O.A. When they take their wild, unbridled show live show on the road, it's a must see, because this is one of the last real punk rock bands that still gets out there and kicks ass and still tells it like it is. It's always an atmosphere of chaos, veering out of control, but somehow, at the last minute, D.O.A., manages to reign all of it back in. And in an indescribable way, you are not quite the same afterwards.

Hardcore 91 wins CBC Polaris Prize as one of Canada's greatest albums of all time

D.O.A.'s seminal album Hardcore 81 was recently names as one of Canada's all-time great musical accomplishments. Hardcore 81 was the searing piece of vinyl that influenced generations of musicians and spear headed the hardcore movement. In November 2019 the CBC Polaris awards named it as one of the best (punk rock fans knew this all along anyways! Lol) beating the likes of Sarah McLaughlin, The Band, KD Laing and other notable artists.

TIME TO FIGHT BACK AND CHANGE THIS WORLD
TALK - ACTION = 0
Ya Hey! D.O.A. - Forty years and going strong

Follow Joe on Instagram and Twitter, and the D.O.A. gang on Instagram and on Facebook

everything is in print

can't afford any of it

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WHO’S NEXT / LIFE HOUSE SDE – 10-CD/BLU RAY

Disc One: Who’s Next (Remastered)
Disc Two: Pete Townshend’s Life House Demos 1970 - 1971 – Part 1
Disc Three: Pete Townshend’s Life House Demos 1970 - 1971 – Part 2
Disc Four: Record Plant, New York Sessions, March 1971
Disc Five: OIympic Sound Studios, London Sessions 1970 - 1972
Disc Six: Singles & Sessions 1970 - 1972
Disc Seven: Live at the Young Vic, London 1971 – Part 1
Disc Eight: Live at the Young Vic, London 1971 – Part 2
Disc Nine: Live at the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco 1971 – Part 1
Disc Ten: Live at the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco 1971 – Part 2
BLU RAY: Who’s Next & 14 Bonus Tracks: Steven Wilson Mixes Atmos / 5.1 Mix / Stereo

CD ONE: WHO’S NEXT (Remastered)

Baba O’Riley
Bargain
Love Ain’t For Keeping
My Wife
The Song Is Over
Getting In Tune
Going Mobile
Behind Blue Eyes
Won’t Get Fooled Again

CD TWO: PETE TOWNSHEND'S LIFE HOUSE DEMOS 1970 - 1971 – PART 1

Teenage Wasteland (Demo)*
Too Much (Demo) *
Going Mobile (Demo)*
There's A Fortune in Those Hills (Demo)*
Love Ain't For Keeping (Demo)*
Bargain (Demo)*
Greyhound Girl (Demo)*
Mary (Alternate Mix) (Demo)**
Behind Blue Eyes (Demo)*
Time Is Passing (Demo)*
Finally, Over (Demo)**
Baba O'Riley (Original Demo)**

CD THREE: PETE TOWNSHEND'S LIFE HOUSE DEMOS 1970 – 1971 – PART 2

Pure And Easy (Home Studio Mix) (Demo)*
Getting In Tune (Alternate Mix) (Demo)**
Nothing Is Everything (Let's See Action) (Demo)*
Won't Get Fooled Again (Demo)*
Baba O'Riley (Demo)*
Song Is Over (2021 Remix) (Demo)**
Pure And Easy (Olympic Studios Mix) (Demo)**
Mary (Original Mix) (Demo)*
Baba O'Riley (First Editing Demo)**
Song Is Over (Original Demo)*

CD FOUR: RECORD PLANT, NYC SESSIONS MARCH 1971

Don’t Do It (aka Baby Don’t You Do It) [Take 2, Unedited, March 16, 1971]**
Won’t Get Fooled Again [Take 13, March 16, 1971]*
Behind Blue Eyes (Version 1) [Take 15, March 16, 1971]**
Love Ain't For Keeping [Take 14, March 17, 1971]*
The Note (aka Pure and Easy) [Take 21, March 17, 1971]*
I’m In Tune (aka Getting in Tune) [Take 6, March 18, 1971*
Behind Blue Eyes (Version 2) [Take 10, March 18, 1971}*

CD FIVE: OLYMPIC SOUND STUDIOS, LONDON SESSIONS 1970-72

Pure And Easy*
I Don’t Know Myself [B-side with Unreleased Count-in]
Time Is Passing [Stereo Mix]**
Too Much of Anything [Original 1971 Vocal]**
Naked Eye [1971 Remake]**
Bargain (Early Mix)**
Love Ain't For Keeping (Unedited Mix)**
My Wife (Unedited Mix)**
Getting In Tune (Take 1 with Jam)**
Going Mobile (Alternate Mix)**
Song Is Over (Backing Track) [with Nicky Hopkins]**
When I Was a Boy**
Let's See Action (Unedited Mix)**
Relay (Unedited Mix) [Alternate Vocal]**
Put The Money Down [Remix with Original Vocal]*
Join Together [Unedited Remix]**

CD SIX: SINGLES & SESSIONS 1970-72

The Seeker (Original Single Mix)
Here For More [Original Single Mix]
Heaven And Hell [New Stereo Mix]**
Water [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Unedited Mix]**
I Don't Know Myself [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Unedited Mix]**
Naked Eye [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Unedited Mix]**
Postcard [Eel Pie Sound Studio – Original 1970 Mix]**
Now I'm A Farmer [Eel Pie Sound Studio – New Remix]**
The Seeker (Unedited Version)**
Water (IBC Version)**
I Don’t Know Myself (IBC Version)**
Let's See Action (Original Single Mix)
When I Was a Boy (Original Single Mix)
Join Together (Original Single Mix)
Relay (Original Single Mix)
Waspman (Original Single Mix)
Long Live Rock (Original Olympic Mix)

CD SEVEN: LIVE AT THE YOUNG VIC, LONDON – APRIL 26, 1971

Love Ain’t for Keeping*
Pure And Easy*
Young Man Blues*
Time Is Passing*
Behind Blue Eyes*
I Don’t Even Know Myself*
Too Much of Anything*
Getting In Tune*
Bargain*

CD EIGHT: LIVE AT THE YOUNG VIC, LONDON – APRIL 26, 1971

Pinball Wizard**
See Me, Feel Me**
Baby Don’t You Do It*
Water*
My Generation*
(I’m A) Road Runner*
Naked Eye*
Bony Moronie*
Won’t Get Fooled Again*

CD NINE: LIVE AT THE CIVIC AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO – DECEMBER 12, 1971

Introduction**
I Can't Explain*
Substitute*
Summertime Blues**
My Wife*
Baba O'Riley**
Behind Blue Eyes*
Bargain*
Won't Get Fooled Again**
Baby Don't You Do It*
Magic Bus**

CD TEN: LIVE AT THE CIVIC AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO – DECEMBER 12, 1971

Introduction To Tommy**
Overture**
Amazing Journey**
Sparks**
Pinball Wizard**
See Me Feel Me**
My Generation**
Naked Eye*
Going Down*

BLU-RAY AUDIO:

Steven Wilson Atmos Mix (48kHz 24-bit)**
Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix (48kHz 24-bit)**
Steven Wilson Stereo Mix (96kHz 24-bit)*
Original 1971 Stereo Mix (96kHz 24-bit)

Baba O’Riley
Bargain
Love Ain’t For Keeping
My Wife
The Song Is Over
Getting In Tune
Going Mobile
Behind Blue Eyes
Won’t Get Fooled Again

Bonus Tracks: Steven Wilson Atmos Mix (48kHz 24-bit) & Steven Wilson 5.1 Mix (48kHz 24-bit)

The Seeker (Unedited Version)**
Here For More*
Now I'm A Farmer**
I Don't Know Myself (Eel Pie Sound Version)**
Water (IBC Version)**
Naked Eye (Olympic Sound Version)**
Pure And Easy**
Too Much of Anything**
Let's See Action**
When I Was a Boy**
Join Together (Unedited Version)**
Put The Money Down**
Relay (Unedited Version)**
Long Live Rock**

* Previously released with new remix
** Previously unreleased tracks

For me personally, I have been waiting around 40 years to hear some of this stuff...and some of it I didn't know existed (they re-recorded "Naked Eye" in 1971?!). The handful of tracks from the San Francisco show that I've heard are among my favorite recordings of anything by anyone ever.

Tarfumes, if you search for the comics artist/writer David Hine on Facebook you will see him sharing lots of tasty photos of this box (David wrote the graphic novel that's part of the package). Apparently Townsend is a bit of a comics fan - and the comics writer Peter Hogan worked at Eel Pie Publishing for a while (Peter tells a hair-raising story about Vivian Stanshall pulling a knife on him at the premiere of Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End).

Wow, thanks for the tip! Just checked out the photos -- very interested to read the whole thing.

I remember the graphic novel was announced at least a year ago, maybe two, and had an entry on Amazon and everything. I wondered why it disappeared, but maybe Townshend decided it would work best as part of this box rather than as a standalone item.

Trumpeter Woody Shaw's 1971 debut, Blackstone Legacy, getting reissued. It's a double LP with a total running time of 82 minutes, so it's never been on CD in full form — two tracks have between a minute and 90 seconds shaved off. I'm hoping there will be a download option.

Yeah, I have the 1999 Contemporary CD version of that and it shaves a little off of both "Lost and Found" and "New World".

That's the same CD I have, and I've never bothered to seek out or download a vinyl rip. I assume I'm probably missing some rhythm section vamping and/or a bass solo.

Today, Shimmy-Disc announces their forthcoming posthumous reissue of Bruce Haack's 1974 record, Captain Entropy, to arrive on August 25.

Captain Entropy, described as "a participation journey for elementary and high-school people — through the soul of space-ship earth — from principles of thermodynamics to folks like the American eagle," was created and totally performed by Bruce Haack. It's an electro-surrealist musical journey from the mind of "The Captain," capturing his inventive genius musically in tandem with tapping into the voice of his inner child. It displays innovative story-songs inspired by Haack's diverse musical interests and a love of Science and explorations of the Natural World, songs to excite the imaginations of listeners, both young and old.

This forthcoming reissue of Captain Entropy was remastered by Kramer for this Archival Reissue. The free digital download that comes alongside purchase of the vinyl also contains an exclusive additional 20 minutes of previously unreleased bonus material. The LP was originally released in 1974 on Dimension 5, the artist’s own label. This new reissue will be on limited edition hand-numbered Black Vinyl (limited to 555 copies), and on Clear Vinyl LP for Retail.

Captain Entropy - TRACKLISTING

SIDE 1:
01. Captain Entropy
02. Army Ants in Your Pants
03. Music
04. Mallangong

SIDE 2:
01. The Universal Unicycle Show (pedal it)
02. Walking Eagle
03. The American Eagle
04. Metric Conversion
05. Catfish

To introduce the new reissue, today, Shimmy-Disc unveils the record's first cut, Bruce Haack's "Music." The narrative-song teaches about 'a beautiful soundwave language,' merging science and history in sound, his musical crystallization of abstract thoughts into concrete feelings. It describes humans creating 'magic switching systems that change the shape of soundwaves.' Haack's vision was always of the future, where 'music is made by just thinking about it.'

In the original 1974 liner notes, Haack described the track as such: "An early soul-beat plus electronic 'strings' gives a space-capsule insight into where music is really at. Believe it or not, people used to scrape strands of animal tissue with hair from a horse's tail to make it."

As Kramer wrote on the forthcoming reissue and this new cut:

"Captain Entropy is not simply a brilliant work of art and a pioneering ingredient in the history of electronic music. It’s also a unique ‘kids’ record and the ideal introduction to Haack’s work for
listeners previously unaware of his extraordinary creations. Like Fred Rogers, everyone loves
Bruce Haack. His spirit is universal, and his musical output is as wide and as far-reaching as
Creation itself.

Haack's work had always focused on tinkering, inventing, innovating, and creating, but at its very core, everything he has done, from start to finish, is about music, with a prime focus on how music can teach, inform, illuminate, and explain what life and what being alive is all about. His connection to kids - and in helping them to understand how the world works - couldn’t be more clearly articulated than it is in Ryan Hover's video for 'MUSIC', premiering today. Bruce Haack truly cared about kids, about community, about culture, and about everything he saw and felt around him. The entire world was his home.

Haack was the consummate musician, but he was a composer first and foremost, and Shimmy-Disc is proud to partner with his estate in spreading the word about the sounds and visions of his life's work. This reissue LP is only the beginning. Captain Entropy is no ‘novelty’ release made solely for kids. This record, like everything else Bruce Haack ever created, is for Everyone."

- Kramer, July 2023

for pix, links, press contacts:
https://mailchi.mp/tellallyourfriendspr.com/legendary-producer-kramer-is-joyful-noise-artist-in-residence-2020-shimmy-disc-revives-l-first-release-let-it-come-down-lp-out-june-12th-552509?e=3d078fd008

From Real Gone Music:

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Little Richard: The Complete Atlantic & Reprise Singles LP
$ 26.99

ittle Richard’s one-of-a-kind career veered wildly from the sacred to the profane, but everything he did was profound; he was one of the greatest gospel AND rock and roll singers of all time. And you can scale the dizzying heights of both sides of the man’s mountainous talent on this 15-track collection, which brings his Atlantic and Reprise singles back to vinyl, almost all for the first time since they originally came out on 45s. Richard recorded and self-produced the Atlantic material in 1962 and leased it to the label for release the following year, right before his return to rock and roll with two triumphant UK tours. Only “Crying in the Chapel” has seen reissue since; the other three tracks (esp. the uptempo gospel numbers “Hole in the Wall” and “Travelin’ Shoes”) hit that glorious balance between spiritual fervor and emotional frenzy that only he could pull off. The Reprise material dates from 1970 to 1972 and was helmed by famed Specialty producer Bumps Blackwell as well as by Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Quincy Jones (“Money Is” from the soundtrack to The Heist), with musical contributions by legendary Richard sidemen Lee Allen and Earl Palmer as well as folks like Travis Wammack. The non-LP side “Shake a Hand (If You Can)” is the rarity, but tracks like “Freedom Blues,” its B-side “Dewdrop Inn,” and “Mockinbird Sally” testify that Richard’s brilliance remained unabated. Mastered, like many of our Real Gone singles collections, by Aaron Kannowski, The Complete Atlantic & Reprise Singles features liner notes by Little Richard expert Bill Dahl, and comes in ruby red vinyl. A timely release to go along with the new Little Richard documentary!*
A1. Crying in the Chapel
A2. Hole in the Wall
A3. Travelin’ Shoes
A4. It Is No Secret
A5. Freedom Blues
A6. Dewdrop Inn
A7. Greenwood, Mississippi
A8. I Saw Her Standing There
A9. Shake a Hand (If You Can)
B1. Somebody Saw You
B2. Green Power
B3. Dancing in the Street
B4. Money Is
B5. Mockinbird Sally
B6. Nuki Suki

Also from Real Gone:

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Hamza El Din: Al Oud LP
$ 23.99

WEBSTORE EXCLUSIVE VARIANT IS LIMITED TO 1 PER CUSTOMER/HOUSEHOLD IF YOU PURCHASE MORE THAN 1 YOU WILL BE REFUNDED.

Hamza El Din: Al Oud (Metallic Tellus Edition) LP Real Gone Music Webstore Exclusive LIMITED TO 100 COPIES

Hamza El Din: Al Oud (Limited Clear Vinyl Edition) LP Regular Version

It’s fair to say that what Ravi Shankar did for the sitar, Hamza El Din did for the oud (the short-necked Arabian lute): bringing a little-known instrument to the attention of the West and popularizing it. Indeed, he ended up playing oud with everybody from the Grateful Dead to the Kronos Quartet to his one-time roommate Sandy Bull. But El Din’s gifts went beyond that of an oud virtuoso; he was also an accomplished singer and composer, and you will hear all of those talents on full display on this seminal album, released on Vanguard in 1965 soon after his star-making appearance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival that attracted the attention of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Meditative, mesmerizing, and haunting, Al Oud features nine original compositions based on Nubian folk traditions; at first it’s the exotic sound of the oud that draws you in, but it’s the rhythmic pulse of the music and the expressive quality of El Din’s voice that keeps you riveted. Our first-ever American LP reissue of this classic record comes in a clear vinyl pressing limited to 900 copies, complete with original artwork featuring liner notes by Jamal Mohammed Ahmed, at the time Sudan’s Ambassador to the United Nations. A richly rewarding listen.

A1. CHILDHOOD (Assaramessuga)
A2. THE SPIRITS (Shortunga)
A3. GRANDFATHER’S STORIES (Annun Sira’)
A4. DID NURA REMEMBER? (Gillina Nura)
B1. THE MESSAGE BEARER (Hoi To Irkil Fa Giu)
B2. THE GONDOLA
B3. CALL FOR UNITY (Nuban Uto)
B4. THE FORTUNE TELLER (Kogosh)
B5. GREETING CARD (Abdin)

Deutsche Grammophon has reissued their Avant-Garde Series of LPs (1968-71) as a 21CD box.

https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/composers/the-avantgarde-series/the-avantgarde-series-2472

Various Artists The Avantgarde Series
Release on: 08/18/2023
The legendary DG Avantgarde vinyl series (1968-1971) is turning 55! In order to celebrate this occasion, the series is now released on 21 CDs for the first time. The Avantgarde series serves as a historical document for a time of radical change in musical thinking and the breaking of artistic boundaries. The question "What is music?" confronted many of the composers and musicians involved in the series, and the anti-authoritarian spirit of the 1960s and 1970s was a palpable influence. Deutsche Grammophon's Avantgarde Series reflects all the currents that thus arose, without aesthetic demarcations and across genres and instrumentations: large orchestral works stand alongside chamber music and solo forms, electronic music and improvisations.

The edition is presented in its original colourful designs by renowned graphic designer Holger Matthies, accompanied by a 186-page booklet with original commentaries (available in English & German) by composers and experts as well as photos of the artists from the DG archive.

Highlights include canon works by György Ligeti such as his choral work "Lux aeterna," Luciano Berio's "Sequenza V" with Vinko Globokar on trombone, a simultaneous recording of three works by John Cage, and some groundbreaking and monumental electronic works such as Luigi Nono's "Contrappunto dialettico alla mente" and Leo Küpper's "Automatismes sonores."

Tracklist:

CD 1
WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI: String Quartet
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI: Quartetto per archi
TOSHIRO MAYUZUMI: Prelude for String Quartet

CD 2
MAURICIO KAGEL: Phantasie für Orgel mit Obbligati
JUAN ALLENDE-BLIN: Sonorités
GYÖRGY LIGETI: Volumina
Etüde Nr. 1 (»Harmonies«)

CD 3
DAVID BEDFORD: 2 Poems for Chorus on Words by Kenneth Patchen
GYÖRGY LIGETI: Lux aeterna
ARNE MELLNÄS: Succsim
MAREK KOPELENT: Matka

CD 4
VINKO GLOBOKAR: 1-5 Discours II
LUCIANO BERIO: Sequenza V
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN: Solo für Melodie-Instrument mit Rückkopplung
CARLOS ROQUÉ ALSINA: Consecuenza op. 17

CD 5
MAURICIO KAGEL: Match für 3 Spieler
Musik für Renaissance-Instrumente

CD 6
IMPROVISATIONEN: »... e poi?«
Quasiraga
Light Music
Ancora un trio
Credo

CD 7
BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN: Présence
Intercomunicazione

CD 8
JOHN CAGE: Atlas Eclipticalis & Winter Music
electronically amplified after Cartridge Music
DIETER SCHNEBEL: Glossolalie

CD 9
MAURICIO KAGEL: Hallelujah
DIETER SCHNEBEL: für stimmen (... missa est)

CD 10
GOTTFRIED MICHAEL KOENIG: Terminus II
Funktion Grün
ZOLTÁN PONGRÁCZ: Phonothese
RAINER RIEHN: Chants de Maldoror

CD 11
MAURICIO KAGEL: Der Schall

CD 12
GYÖRGY LIGETI: String Quartet No. 2
EARLE BROWN: String Quartet
WOLF ROSENBERG: String Quartet No. 3

CD 13
LUC FERRARI: Presque rien No 1
Société II

CD 14
LUKAS FOSS: Paradigm (“for my friends”)
LEJAREN HILLER: Algorithms I, Version I
Algorithms I, Version IV
ELLIOTT SCHWARTZ: Signals

CD 15
ROLAND KAYN: Cybernetics III
LUIGI NONO: Contrappunto dialettico alla mente

CD 16
FRANCO EVANGELISTI: Die Schachtel
HEINZ HOLLIGER: Der magische Tänzer

CD 17
CORNELIUS CARDEW: The Great Learning

CD 18
ROMAN HAUBENSTOCK-RAMATI: Symphonie “K”
VINKO GLOBOKAR: Étude pour Folklora II

CD 19
HEINZ HOLLIGER: Siebengesang
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN: Spiral

CD 20
SYLVANO BUSSOTTI: Cinque frammenti all’Italia
NICOLAUS A. HUBER: Versuch über Sprache

CD 21
LEO KÜPPER: L’enclume des forces
Électro-poème
Automatismes sonores

The cheapest price I've found is at grooves-inc.com, a German website — they want $103 and shipping to the US is free.

Just ordered that.

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From Luaka Bop on Bandcamp:

A deluxe, embossed 2 LP box set. Alongside a remastered version of PHAROAH, his seminal record from 1977, are two previously unreleased live performances of his masterpiece, “Harvest Time." Includes a 24-page booklet with rarely seen photographs and ephemera, as well as interviews with many of the participants and a conversation with Pharoah himself.

Includes digital pre-order of Pharoah. The moment the album is released you’ll get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
shipping out on or around September 15, 2023.

already streaming on there:
https://pharoahsanders.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-beginning-1963-1964

https://pharoahsanders.bandcamp.com/album/pharoah-sanders-quintet

More about the xpost original 1977 LP:

For those of you who already know this record, you’ll be surprised to learn its origin story. It was born out of a misunderstanding between him and the India Navigation producer Bob Cummins, and was recorded when he was at a crossroads in his career with a group so unlikely they were all never in the same room again. Among them was the guitarist Tisziji Muõz, who was in the process of becoming a spiritual guru, the organist Clifton “Jiggs” Chase, who would go on to co-write and produce “The Message,” and a classically trained pianist—his wife at the time, Bedria Sanders—who played the harmonium despite never having seen one. At times ambient and serene, at others funky and modal, Pharoah radically departed from his earlier work. And it became beloved. (You can read a little bit more about it on the site Pitchfork.)
We were working with Pharoah on this project last fall when he unexpectedly passed away. At first, it was hard to know what to do. We loved him, and the reason you do all of this is not solely for the music, but also for the person who made it. It’s their personality, their humor, and their wishes that drive you forward. So, we decided to go deep into the research. We set out to create something that showed Pharoah and his music in a new light.

Over the next few months, we’re going to share with you all the amazing things we found, many of which are the result of the extensive research we did throughout Europe and North America to support this release. We’re calling it The Harvest Time Project, and it will be based on his website at PharoahSanders.com/HarvestTime.

There, we’ll share the insights made by a dedicated research team, including essays by Harmony Holiday, Marcus J. Moore, and Pierre Crépon—whose writing appears in the box set—among many others. You can sign up to get updates.
As part of this, we’re also very excited to announce the live show The Harvest Time Project: A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders, a bespoke concert series featuring the original guitarist Tisziji Muñoz and a selection of different musical ensembles who will come together in different iterations to reinterpret the composition “Harvest Time.” Each performance will diverge from each other as much as Pharoah’s own wildly different performances.

The world premiere will take place at Le Guess Who? (Nov 12), featuring Irreversible Entanglements, Domenico Lancellotti, and special guest Tisziji Muñoz, under the musical direction of Joshua Abrams. And a special workshop performance will take place at National Sawdust (Oct 14), in honor of Pharoah's birthday.

In some ways, these live concerts will be a reflection of what Pharoah was able to achieve in the live versions of “Harvest Time,” which you find in this box set. Performed during a short but intense European tour that he took in the summer of ’77, they turn the original piece on its head.

Whether this album is new to you—or whether you’ve got a bootleg (or even an original) at home—Pharoah will never sound the same.

Love,

Luaka Bop

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wow that's great news! love that recording

There's a Chick Corea box coming out in November (on streaming services now): The Chick Corea Elektric Band: Complete Studio Recordings 86-91. Five LPs/CDs of the most garish, tasteless, fuzoid splatter you'll ever hear in your life. I'm tempted to review them just for horrified laughs.

kinda want to hear that. frank gambale!

Wow, Frank Gamble was in that? I only remember him in more of a Guitar World blues-rock vein, pretty hot. DO IT UNPERSON!

First Ash Ra Tempel album getting a reissue, thank god cuz originals are expensive as hell

https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/ash-ra-tempel-50th-anniversary-re-edition

just stunning
https://melodiesinternational.bandcamp.com/album/ill-show-you-how

Our next release, “I’ll Show You How” by the Cinnamon Soulettes is by far one of the most beautiful love songs we’ve ever heard. Close to no information is available about it other than it was published and released in the 1970s as a private press through the late legendary Seattle producer Kearney Barton. Unfortunately, most information the estate had was lost in a flood and none of the collectors and music historians from the PNW area we contacted, nor the University of Washington State who inherited a large part of Barton’s tape collection knew anything about the band or its mysterious songwriter “L. Leavy”. We are still searching for the band, anyone who knows anything, give us a shout! Mrs./Mr. Leavy, where are you..?

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“MEAT JOY were the DIY jewel of the Austin weirdo punk scene of the early 80’s—essential, uncategorizable, and entirely insane.” -Steve Shelley, SONIC YOUTH (US, 2022)

from Bandcamp: Meat Joy was difficult to categorize. They were a leaderless collective. Often
improvisational, they moved fluidly among many genres seeking joy and truth. Their sound was alternately queer and straight, dark and funny, heartfelt and biting. Loud soft fast slow beautiful ugly music, sometimes all in the same song.

Out October 13th, listen to "Another Pair" now:

Fans in Austin have two chances to see the reunited band play live:

October 19, 2023 at Cheer Up Charlie’s

October 21, 2023 at The Museum Of Human Achievement

more hype & info here:
https://riotactmedia.disco.ac/view-campaign-email/601f0be3-bc3b-4cf4-bb7e-fe9514ea3a05/100536/

50th Anniversary

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/king-crimson-larks-tongues-in-aspic-complete-recording-sessions/

Talked to Darren Hill years ago about this and let him know I had to resort to buying a pirate copy. He was fine, didn't expect a legit reissue. Glad to see it finally is happening.

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Preorder now! This title will be available October 20th, 2023. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock.

“Red Rockers sound like they’ve been locked in a cupboard with the Clash’s first album for three years. Yeah, great isn’t it?”

- Lester Bangs

It sounded like nothing else released in 1982 – not Signals by Rush, Avalon by Roxy Music, the Cure’s Pornography, Rio by Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, Toto IV, Donald Fagan’s The Nightfly, nor Robert Plant’s Pictures At Eleven. It didn’t even seem akin to such ‘82 punk classics as the Circle Jerk’s Wild In The Streets, the Descendents' Milo Goes To College or Fear’s The Record. And it sure as hell didn’t sound like the Clash’s Combat Rock.

Rather, Condition Red, the debut album from New Orleans punk band Red Rockers, echoed the power, aggression, and highly charged political anger of the Clash’s early work. And deliberately so.

Eventually, the Red Rockers joined their inspirations on a few US tour dates, showing audiences how the Clash used to do things as they leaped about in spray-painted shirts before hammer and sickle-festooned amps, screaming about “Guns Of Revolution.” Both Creem and Rolling Stone featured them, the latter beknighting them “the American Clash,” telling of plans to tour Cuba and release a vicious new single called “Voice of America.” The song instead surfaced the following year as a B-side to massive MTV pop hit “China,” an echo of what Red Rockers had been just the year before and were no longer.

"The missing 24” master tapes were found in a garage by Johnny Colla from (Huey Lewis &) The News at Sandy Pearlman’s estate sale. Thanks to Cris Cohen they were returned to us. We were able to mix the 80’s out of the record and discovered a missing track that wasn’t included on the original 1981 release."

- Darren Hill (Red Rockers) 2023

Also available on CD!

INCLUDES:

Guns of Revolution • Teenage Underground • Peer Pressure • Can You Hear • Grow Up • Know What I Think • United We Stand* • Voice Of America* • Dead Heroes • Folsom Prison Blues • Condition Red • Hold On • White Law • Live Or Die • Missing In Action*

*LP bonus tracks

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4 cd West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band compilation. have had the first one on my amazon wishlist since about 2005...

A major Airto Moreira/Flora Purim compilation coming in November...37 tracks on either 3 CDs or 5 LPs.

http://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/airto-flora-a-celebration-60-years-sounds-dreams-other-stories

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I have a bunch of Flora's 1970s albums but very little by Airto...might need to buy this.

BBE is also putting out the 4th volume in their J Jazz series in November:

https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/album/j-jazz-vol-4-deep-modern-jazz-from-japan-nippon-columbia-1968-1981

From Real Gone Music:

Al Stewart Songs on the Radio Complete U.S. Singles 74-81 CD

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The Vietnamese Lunar New Year identifies 2023 as The Year of the Cat…and the timing couldn’t be better! Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are proud to announce a definitive, first-ever singles collection from legendary singer-songwriter Al Stewart. In 1976, Stewart took “Year of the Cat” to the top ten of the Pop and AC charts, inaugurating a run of timeless hits still heard on radio today. Now, for the very first time, each and every one of the British troubadour’s seminal A- and B-sides from his halcyon period has been brought together. Songs on the Radio: The Complete U.S. Singles 1974-1981 brings together 20 tracks which catapulted the artist from folk clubs to the mainstream. Often in collaboration with producer-engineer Alan Parsons, Stewart bridged the gap between FM rock and AM pop. He brought his passion for historical events and flair for lyrical invention to these singles originally issued on the Janus and Arista labels, including “Nostradamus,” “Carol,” “On the Border,” “Midnight Rocks,” “Year of the Cat,” “Song on the Radio,” and the record-breaking, chart-topping “Time Passages.” And the B-sides (“Terminal Eyes,” “Sirens of Titan,” “A Man for All Seasons,” “Merlin’s Time”) are every bit as compelling as the A-sides! Every track is presented in its original U.S. single version (most of which are new to CD and not even included on Stewart’s massive The Admiralty Lights box set) as newly remastered by Mike Milchner at SonicVision. The deluxe 20-page booklet features Joe Marchese’s extensive interview with Al Stewart as well as rare photos and memorabilia. As a special bonus, the unique U.K. single edit of Al’s signature song “Year of the Cat” is also included. With vivid lyrics, captivating melodies, crisp guitars, and, yes, smooth saxophone, these Songs on the Radio celebrate the remarkable discography of a master musical storyteller. Limited edition of 2500…and they’re gonna go fast!

1. Nostradamus
2. Terminal Eyes
3. Carol
4. Sirens of Titan
5. Year of the Cat
6. Broadway Hotel
7. On the Border
8. Flying Sorcery
9. Time Passages
10. Almost Lucy
11. Song on the Radio
12. A Man for All Seasons
13. Midnight Rocks
14. Constantinople
15. Paint by Numbers
16. Optical Illusion
17. Running Man
18. Merlin’s Time
19. Indian Summer
20. Soho (Needless to Say)
21. Year of the Cat (UK Single Version)

Soul Jazz Records

Originally available as a very limited-edition (sold out) coloured vinyl for RSD23 and now available as a black double vinyl edition (gatefold sleeve, bespoke inners, download code) and also for the first time on CD.

Ships for rel date 22 Sep 2023

PRE-ORDER: Holy Church Of The Ecstatic Soul: A Higher Power: Gospel, Funk & Soul At The Crossroads 1971 - 83

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oul Jazz Records’ Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul: Gospel, Funk and Soul at the Crossroads 1971-83 draws upon the extensive links between black American gospel music and soul music, showing how the sensibilities of gospel artists such as Shirley Caeser, Dorothy Norwood, Andrae Crouch and others crossed over into secular soul music during this period.

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Many of the most successful soul artists - from Aretha Franklin to Al Green, The Staple Singers to Sam Cooke - all drew upon their upbringing in the church for their musical inspiration. This album discusses how important the links between the black church and soul music were in creating soul music and spotlights some of the many important (and also little-known) gospel artists who walked this line between sacred music and soul, funk and disco in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul shows how sacred gospel music was at home with Stevie Wonder, Blaxploitation-style funk and produced music celebrated both in New York’s underground discos (The Paradise Garage, Studio 54, etc) and later sampled by the likes of Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg and Mary J Bilge.

REVIEWS

"Curated with an obvious passion and sense of history, Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul serves as the perfect intro to the funky spirituals that once served as the foundation for various schools of sound (Philly R&B, disco, soul) over the last 50 years" The Wire

Andrae Crouch & The Disciples – Satisfied
2. Shirley Caesar – Jesus Children Of America
3. The Meditation Singers – Trouble's Brewin'
4. The Clark Sisters – You Brought The Sunshine
5. Dorothy Norwood – Let Your Feet Down Easy
6. Shirley Caesar – Jesus Is Coming
7. Swan Silvertones – If You Believe Your God Is Dead
8. The Alvin Darling Ensemble – Is There Anybody Here ?
9. Roscoe Robinson – There's A Creator
10. Destiny – Nothing Can Stop Me Now
11. The Meditation Singers – Good Old Gospel Music
12. Keith Barrow – Everything Is Gonna Be Alright
13. Roscoe Robinson – Elijah
14. Dyson's Faces – Till I've Got This Feelin' Of Love
15. The Violinaires – The Upper Way
16. Leomia Boyd and The Gospel Music Makers – Higher in Jesus' Love
17. Keith Barrow – The Right Road Now