$39.00
'Meitei is a Japanese artist who started out as a freelance composer, making various kinds of music across genres. Having done it for 8 years, his goal was to eventually release his own original music.
Living in Kyoto for the past two years has deeply influenced his current sound, which is a focus on musically crafting a “Japanese mood” called Meitei (冥丁) (thus, his name). Rich in history, Meitei wanted to borrow this lost “Japanese mood” and incorporate a contemporary spin on it. This led to the creation of Kwaidan (怪談).
Kwaidan is a style of Japanese ghost stories. Meitei took it as a challenge of his skill as a musician to transpose the folklore into intricate compositions, capturing this lost “Japanese mood”.
“The shocking elements in the horror have become a staple. It’s functions as entertainment. But I personally felt the mood and ambience from Kwaidan is starting to wither – while the darkness is scary, the beauty is in the curious spirit” - Evening Chants
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Label: Evening Chants – EC-001-V1 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
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Country: Singapore |
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Released: 11 Oct 2019 |
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Genre: Electronic |
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Style: Experimental, Abstract, Ambient |
$130.00
'Blues legend Muddy Waters, born McKinley Morganfield in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, was a sharecropper/tractor driver, and a local blues guitarist when in 1941-42 when fate intervened. The Library of Congress had started its systematic series of field recordings of American traditional music and on a 1941 recording trip through the Delta, led by Alan Lomax and John Work III, they came upon the 26-year-old Muddy, recorded him at his home with a small accompanying combo (guitar, mandolin and violin), and made music history.
Muddy had played harmonica since his early childhood, and learned guitar in his teenage years; his primary musical influence was Son House. A year later in 1942, Lomax made his second trip through the Delta recording the remainder of the tracks, including more of Muddy's songs. The following year, at age 28, Muddy moved to Chicago and a blues legend was born. Muddy Waters would go on to win six Grammy Awards and become an incalculable influence on not just the blues, but rock ‘n' roll.
Analogue Productions is honored to present The Complete Plantation Recordings — Muddy Waters as a newly mastered 33 1/3 200-gram LP reissue. This numbered, deluxe edition, pressed at Quality Record Pressings, is limited to 1,000 copies. The songs presented represent everything listed by the Library of Congress as recorded by Muddy Waters during these historic sessions.
What sets this reissue apart is its authenticity, says Acoustic Sounds/Analogue Productions CEO Chad Kassem. For this reissue the original metal disc recordings created by Lomax were the source for a high-res 192kHz digital file used by Sterling Sound's Ryan K. Smith to master this edition.' - Acoustic Sounds
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Label: Analogue Productions – AAPB 121 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered, 200 Gram, Gatefold |
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Country: USA, Canada & UK |
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Released: 24 Sep 2019 |
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Style: Country Blues, Delta Blues, Field Recording, Interview |
$45.00
'Recorded in 1962, Hub-Tones stands as one of the most significant artistic statements of Freddie Hubbard’s formidable career, and also features one of Reid Miles’ most iconic album cover designs. Presenting the trumpeter at the helm of an excellent quintet with James Spaulding (alto saxophone & flute), Herbie Hancock (piano), Reggie Workman (bass), and Clifford Jarvis (drums), the album opens with a breathtaking performance of the standard “You’re My Everything” followed by 4 captivating Hubbard originals: “Prophet Jennings,” “Hub-Tones,” “Lament for Booker,” and “For Spee’s Sake.”
This Blue Note 80 Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.' Blue Note
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Label: Blue Note – BST-84115, Blue Note – ST-84115, Blue Note – 7764742 |
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Series: Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series – |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, 180g |
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Country: USA & Europe |
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Released: 13 Sep 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Hard Bop |
$65.00
"Byrd and his band took pains not to disappoint a Paris audience they knew to be particularly fickle, and they astutely varied the public’s pleasures throughout the evening. The complicity that united the rhythm section – Walter Davis Jr., Doug Watkins and Art Taylor – was much in evidence on Ray’s Idea; mistrusting the traps of the spectacular at all costs, Donald Byrd, producing brilliant inventions on the trumpet, took the lion’s share of the honours on a theme that was then much in fashion, Dear Old Stockholm, adapted from a Swedish traditional song; on Flute Blues, Bobby Jaspar proved he was still a specialist on that instrument, and Paul’s Pal showed that, on tenor, the playing of Sonny Rollins hadn’t gone unnoticed. It must be said that it didn’t have much effect on the discreet lyricism underlying the choruses he played during his “St. Germain” period. The Olympia spectators weren’t sparing in their applause for the five musicians. How else could they have reacted, faced with the fire the band showed during a tune like The Blues Walk? It wouldn’t take much for us to applaud, too, even if it is fifty-five years later…" - Sam Records
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Label: Sam Records (8) – SR10/1, Brunswick – 87 903 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Mono |
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Country: France |
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Released: 2014 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Hard Bop |
$65.00
'In the words of one of the concert presenters, Frank Ténot, "This is jazz -- a perpetual discovery made in common, a creation in the moment developed in the fire of enthusiasm." Anyone interested in modern jazz from the latter half of the last century and the art and science of record manufacturing should own at least one Sam Records release. Your collection will be immeasurably enriched. With near-mint originals of these albums going for hundreds of dollars on the collectors market, if you’re a Donald Byrd fan or just appreciate intelligent modern jazz, the buying decision is easy to make.' - The Audio Beat
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Label: Sam Records (8) – SR11/1, Brunswick – 87 904 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Repress, Mono |
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Country: France |
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Released: 20 Sep 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Hard Bop |
$45.00
'The soul singer’s latest is a multi-perspective, multi-genre examination of addiction and family breakdown.'
'The R&B legend still stays close to the sounds that raised him, as on the straight-up gospel song “Belongs to God.” But even that inclusion belies an artist more willing to embrace loose ends, disorienting interruptions, and the unknown. On Jimmy Lee, Saadiq shout-sings, whispers, and croons with new abandon. It feels like a refutation of his old reserve, and it also represents a welcome stretch from Saadiq before he takes his sound all the way back to his beginnings: He recently announced that a Tony! Toni! Toné! reunion is in the works.' - Pitchfork
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Label: Columbia – 19075965501 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: US |
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Released: 23 Aug 2019 |
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Genre: Funk / Soul |
$39.00
Fantastic album on the Black Jazz label, originally released in 1974. The highlight is a great vocal version of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage". Produced by Gene Russell, this is lovely, subdued soul-jazz.
$39.00
'The New York group Ghost Funk Orchestra are aptly named. The songs on their latest full-length fulfill both major aspects of their moniker: the songs are wreathed in misty reverb, making them feel distant, mysterious and, well, ghostly. They’ve got the other major component, funk, in spades as well. In a recent interview, Terry Cole of Colemine Records—who released A Song For Paul—said that in order to qualify for a Colemine stamp of approval, “The funk stuff has to be nasty as fuck.” Paul is exactly that: the basslines are fat and greasy, the horns on songs like “Slow Down” are bleary and bold, and the guitars feel like they’ve been plunged in a deep-frier with month-old oil. So far, so Colemine—the label has excelled at excavating the best in modern funk, and if Ghost Funk Orchestra was merely that, it would be yet another feather in the label’s plumage-crammed cap.' - Bandcamp Daily
$39.00
Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of Umm Kulthum' 1961 LP The Twinkling Star. A legendary Egyptian vocalist, she was one of the biggest celebrities of the 20th century Arab world. Considered a National Treasure, she's been dubbed "the voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's fourth pyramid".
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Label: Fantôme Phonographique – OME 1021 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Numbered |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 2019 |
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Genre: Folk, World, & Country |
$45.00
'Some wrestle with it, some deny it, and many just accept it with scant investigation, but your cultural heritage defines who you are. The places, language, and traditions that you grew up with invariably stay with you, shaping your values and beliefs, whether you grew up in Lusaka, New York or Plymouth.'
'Born in Zambia, raised in Botswana and now based in Melbourne, Sampa the Great understands better than most what it means to be a young, black, southern African woman trying to forge a music career in 2019. On her debut album The Return, she embarks on a defining, introspective journey that sees her steadily chiselling away at personal, professional and musical barriers. In the process, she has challenged herself to understand her cultural heritage through her music better.' - Pop Matters
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Label: Ninja Tune – ZEN258 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 13 Sep 2019 |
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Genre: Hip Hop |
$39.00
'...one cannot imagine Paul Ngozi without this album, a full-on aural assault that sounds as wild nearly forty years after its release as it must have sounded in the developing Zamrock landscape from which it emerged. We listen to this anachronistic yet prescient album now as a wholly original, completely unpredictable album in line with those from mavericks from across the world – from the Ramones to the Sex Pistols to Death. And, though it’s been over two decades since Paul Ngozi’s passing, his voice and vision still seem exciting, powerful, unique, unvarnished, new.' - Now Again Records
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Label: Now-Again Records – NA 5115 |
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Format: Vinyl, Album, LP, Reissue |
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Country: US |
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Released: 2014 |
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Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country |
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Style: Psychedelic Rock, African, Garage Rock |
$39.00
'Extremely hard-to-find Ghanaian LP from legendary musician Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, originally released in 1980. Tough Highlife, funk and boogie moods with added synthesizer! Ambolley is still actively touring today, keeping these vibes alive – he will be touring Europe throughout 2019.'
This is the third Gyedu Blay Ambolley LP that we have reissued on Mr Bongo, following on from his seminal ‘Ambolley’ and ‘Simigwa’ recordings.' - Mr Bongo
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Label: Mr Bongo – MRBLP199 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
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Country: UK & Europe |
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Released: 2019 |
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Genre: Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country |
$39.00
UMC / Virgin EMI Records
Massive Attack V Mad Professor – Massive Attack V Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98)
$39.00
'The trip-hop pioneers released their third album, Mezzanine, over 21 years ago, on April 1998. They have now announced a release date for a previously unreleased dub version of the album put together by Mad Professor. They were first created as a follow up to the original album’s release. Mad Professor’s dubs were meant to be released as a companion piece to Mezzanine just as the band had done with their previous LP Protection (Mad professor’s dub cut was titled No Protection and came out in 1995). The full release, however, was ultimately held back and only a few of them appeared as single B-sides.' - Vinyl Of The Day
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Label: UMC – 00602508137853, Virgin EMI Records – 08137853 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Pink Transparent |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 20 Sep 2019 |
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Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop |
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Style: Dub |
$45.00
'On his fourth album, Justin Vernon reassembles the familiar Bon Iver elements like a cubist collage, with his voice fearlessly front and center. The result is his most honest and forthright music ever.' - Pitchfork
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Label: Jagjaguwar – JAG350 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: USA & Europe |
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Released: 30 Aug 2019 |
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Genre: Rock |
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Style: Alternative Rock |
$45.00
'With original pressings so hard to come by, the fiendishly elusive LP has been badly bootlegged in the past. However, it’s via a quirk of the deep digging YouTube algorithm that the album’s ‘Aaj Shanibar’ track has reached a wider audience, gathering over a million plays and pushing demand for the LP through the roof.'
'Recorded at Calgary’s Living Room Studios by a combination of Indian and Canadian musicians, the LP hears the sarod (a stringed instrument used in Hindustani music) pick out intricate melodies around a disco beat, reminiscent of the great synth-led Bollywood boogie soundtracks of the ’80s.' - The Vinyl Factory
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Label: Numero Group – NUM 805 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue |
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Country: US |
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Released: 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country |
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Style: Disco |
$39.00
'See You Soon’ is the third album from Tokyo-based UK native submerse on the Project: Mooncircle imprint. A mélange of Slow-Jams, R&B, Hip Hop and Soul created while on a steady diet of 90’s NBA basketball and Dreamcast games. ’See You Soon’ features collaborations from fellow Tokyo-based artist Fitz Ambro$e and L.A.-based Devin Morrison and Pink Siifu.' - Project Mooncircle
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Label: Project: Mooncircle – PMC169 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Gold Marbled |
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Country: Germany |
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Released: 27 Sep 2019 |
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Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop |
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Style: Instrumental, Downtempo, Chillwave |
$39.00
'The second full-length LP, ‘Full Circle’, from Jungle Brown. The album features collaborations with Sampa The Great, Fliptrix (High Focus) and Terri Walker amongst other talents.'
'The trio – Ric Flo, MAEAR & Tony Bones – have spent the last two years redefining soulful hip-hop – the sound is bigger, more thought-provoking, and it has matured with a rich soulful underpinning. They have also entered territories fans are yet to hear from them as they glide effortlessly over Tony Bones’ productions that introduce trap and house into their repertoire. The project is an eclectic array of their influences, twisted and blended together to create a ground-breaking release for UK music.' - Mr Bongo
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Label: Mr Bongo – MRBLP194 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: UK |
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Released: Oct 2019 |
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Genre: Hip Hop |
Here’s the get down for our in store session, a journey inspired by his travels to Sri Lanka and Singapore, the chaos and tranquility in contrast to the urban plateau of the ambience of Singapore at night. Here C Kidd plays some of his personal favourites that don’t get played enough - Have a listen!
PS. Recording was a little hot so excuse the peaks!
![Outin 014 - Guided Meditation + Daniel Peters [Selector Special]](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1164/2296/articles/TAV_OI-014-190107_008_IG-1073x1073_medium.png?v=1563958720)
The 14th edition of our intimate in-store series OutIn saw Guided Meditation (Nigel Lopez) and Daniel Peters take to our decks for a Selector Special.
The last time these two got together was back in 2016, for the official Daido Moriyama exhibition afterparty at the Singapore International Photography Festival. They were joined by The Analog Vault Selectors for an evening of eclectic selections, making for a journey through numerous windows and alleyways of music throughout. If you've missed it, here is your chance to check it out!
OutIn 013 - Horizon99
Establish connections. Take what you will, make what you will. Our associates Horizon99 came through The Analog Vault with their strong passion and love for music with Sant (Head Honcho) on the decks taking us on a sonic journey through various styles.
Here is the get down of what happened!
