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Think!

Teruo Nakamura Group ‎– Unicorn

$120.00

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Super Rare 180g Japanese Import LP Mastered From The Original Tapes!

Unicorn was bassist Teruo Nakamura's first date as a leader. Recorded and issued in Japan on the legendary Three Blind Mice imprint in 1973, Nakamura had been working in New York since 1964. He'd done a lot of hardscrabble work before 1969 when he landed the gig as bassist in Roy Haynes' first group of the time. During that year he formed a band with Steve Grossman and Lenny White, who both appear here. This is an interesting date because it equally divided between very electric fusion tracks and more modal acoustic numbers. – Press Release

Features:

180g Vinyl
Japanese Import
Mastered From The Original Master Tapes
Resealable Outer Sleeve
Includes Original Cover Artwork & Additinal 12" Vinyl Die-Cut White Jacket.
Obi Strip

Musicians:

Teruo Nakamura, bass, electric bass
Alvern Bunn, congas (A1, B2, B3)
Alphonse Mouzon, drums (A2, A3, B1)
Lenny White, drums (A1, B2, B3)
George Cables, electric piano (A1, B2, B3), piano (B2)
Hubert Eaves III, electric piano (A3, B1), piano (A2)
John MIller, piano (B2)
Keiji Kishida, percussion (A1, A2, B1, B2, B3)
Ronald Jackson, percussion (B1)
Steve Grossman, soprano saxophone (A1, B2, B2), tenor saxophone (A3, B3)
Charles Sullivan, trumpet (B2, B3)
Sandy Hewitt, vocals (A2, B1)

Selections:

Side 1:

Unicorn Lady
Understanding
Some Other Blues

Side 2:

Umma Be Me
New Moon
Derrick's Dance

Recorded May 18 & June 8, 1973 at Sound Ideas Studio, New York, USA

Item description:

Artist:	Teruo Nakamura Group
Title:	Unicorn
Label:	Think! Records \| Three Blind Mice
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180g
Pressing:	Japan
Release Date:	This reissue: 2016 \| Original – 1973
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Contemporary Jazz
Catalog No:	THLP411
Condition:	New

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Think!

Motohiko Hino Quartet + 1 ‎– "Ryuhyo" - Sailing Ice

$120.00

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Super Rare 180g Japanese Import LP Mastered From The Original Tapes!

The most important work of Motohiko "Toko" Hino. Recorded "live" in Nemuro, the easternmost city in Japan,in February.

Motohiko Hino is joined by Nobuyoshi Ino, Kazumi Watanabe, Masabumi Yamaguchi, and Yasuaki Shimizu. – Press Release

Features:

180g Vinyl
Japanese Import
Mastered From The Original Master Tapes
Resealable Outer Sleeve
Includes Original Cover Artwork & Additinal 12" Vinyl Die-Cut White Jacket.
Obi Strip

Musicians:

Motohiko Hino, drums
Nobuyoshi Ino, bass
Kazumi Watanabe, guitar
Masabumi Yamaguchi, tenor saxophone
Yasuaki Shimizu, tenor and alto saxophone

Selections:

Side 1:

Ryuhyo - Sailing Ice
Soultrane

Side 2:

New Moon

Recorded February 7, 1976 at Nemuro Shimin Kaikan

Item description:

Artist:	Motohiko Hino Quartet + 1
Title:	"Ryuhyo" - Sailing Ice
Label:	Think! Records \| Three Blind Mice
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180g
Pressing:	Japan
Release Date:	This reissue: 2016 \| Original – 1976
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Hard Bop
Catalog No:	THLP-410
Condition:	New

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Warner Brothers

Lianne La Havas – Blood

$39.00

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A TAV Curator's Pick.

Blood is the second studio album by British recording artist Lianne La Havas, which was released through Warner Bros. Records on July 31, 2015. Following the release of her critically acclaimed debut Is Your Love Big Enough? (2012) La Havas embarked on a variety of tours and festivals before travelling to Jamaica. During La Havas' time in Jamaica, she attempted to regain a connection with her roots, the exploration inspired La Havas to begin writing the follow up to her debut. There, Lianne met with reggae producer Stephen McGregor who would subsequently go on to help produce the album.

As well as working with McGregor, La Havas reunited with past collaborator Matt Hales. La Havas co-wrote each of the album's songs and was credited as a co-producer on one. La Havas cited the album as homage to her Jamaican and Greek bloodline, which in turn inspired the album's title. Blood was seen as departure from the acoustic musical leanings of her debut Is Your Love Big Enough? (2012), taking on a neo soul and jazz style, with elements of R&B, doo-wop, reggae and gospel music. The album's songs were characterised as having heavy basses with electronic flourishes and lyrics focusing on love, relationships and identity.

Upon release, Blood was met with positive reviews from music critics, who praised the musical transition and its overall progression from La Havas’ debut album. Commercially, the album was successful, peaking at number two in the United Kingdom and number one in the Netherlands and Norway as well as making appearances on other charts. It received a nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 2016 Grammy Awards. – Wiki

“The English songwriter Lianne La Havas' voice marries youthful lightness with a gravitas most often ascribed to artists well beyond her 25 years. Her complex, layered second album is dynamic and poignantly self-assured…

Blood is an almost seamless album. Tracks flow into one another with the fluidity and serenity of rain into a freshwater pond—light, refreshing, natural. But there is substance moving here, weight in the currents. La Havas' even, powerful vocals ride syrupy strings with grace and latch onto sharper rhythms with authority. She is deft and adaptive, at once inspiring dancing and melancholy reflection: La Havas is always in motion.” – Pitchfork

“Blood’s most engaging moments come when La Havas pierces through the layer of polish that’s coated her work to date. She has a penchant for adventure, and her risks pay off here; her talent doesn’t just lie in her ability to hit all the right notes with perfect timbre, but in the way she manages to play off her production and corner her own voice into moments of danger. Blood lets her edge away from safety, and it wouldn’t be surprising if her next move takes an even sharper turn.” – Consequence of Sound

Item description:

Artist:	Lianne La Havas
Title:	Blood
Label:	Warner Brothers Records
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album
Pressing:	Europe
Release Date:	2015
Genre:	Funk/Soul
Style:	Funk
Catalog No:	0825646117789
Condition:	New

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Matador Records

Perfume Genius ‎– No Shape

$45.00

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A TAV Curator's Pick.

2014's Too Bright showcased Mike Hadreas stepping out saucily onto a bigger stage, expressing, with the production help of Portishead's Adrian Utley, emotions arranged all along the slippery continuum from rage to irony to love. Here in 13 new ferocious and sophisticated tracks, Hadreas and his collaborators blow through church music, make out music, an array of the gothier radio popular formats, rhythm and blues, art pop, krautrock, queer soul, the RCA Studio B sound, and then also collect some of the sounds that only exist inside Freddy Krueger.

Tremolo on the electric keys. Nightclubbing. Daywalking. Kate Bushing, Peter Greenawaying, Springsteening, Syreetaing. No Shape was produced by Blake Mills, the man behind Alabama Shakes' Grammy Award winning album. He added precision and expansion. Some things are pretty and some are blasted beyond recognition. Records like this, records that make you feel like you're 15 and just seeing the truth for the first time, are excessively rare. They're here to remind you that you're divine. – Press Release

“Mike Hadreas’ fourth record is pure decadence. It’s his most realized album yet, a tender and transcendental protest record of love and devotion.” – Pitchfork

“Mike Hadreas' goth-glam songs of longing uncoil like someone who's waited a long goddamn time for things to go right; when they finally rise to a crescendo, the release is thrillingly palpable. They do this often on his fourth Perfume Genius LP, which by his standards feels startlingly optimistic, with pop and rock tropes queered into dreamlike scenarios. "Go Ahead" conjures "Kiss"-era Prince and mid-Sixties Dionne Warwick ("say a little prayer for me/Baby") over dyspeptic electro-funk. "Die 4 You" is goth Sade, while the darkly ecstatic "Wreath" invokes Kate Bush ("Running up that hill/I'm gonna peel off every weight") over harpsichord gilt. And who knew dude had a penchant for yodeling?” – Rolling Stone

Item description:

Artist:	Perfume Genius
Title:	No Shape
Label:	Matador Records
Format:	2 × Vinyl, LP
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	2017
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Glam, Ethereal
Catalog No:	OLE 11131
Condition:	New

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All City Records

Onra ‎– Fundamentals

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A TAV Curator's Pick.

Fundamentals, Parisian producer Onra’s third solo LP with All City Records, is a paean to 90s hip-hop and R&B long players, an album that wears its Golden Era inspirations proudly on its sleeve.

Far more than the sum of its influences, it’s a retro-futuristic sound, looking back but thinking forward. A collaborative project with a busy line up, which has taken a while to cook up, the features run the gamut from back-in-the-day heads to fresh up-and-comers. Taking the production levels up a notch with a more crafted, polished sound across the whole LP, the album was produced entirely on an MPC with no computer software used.

Young Harlem MC Perrion kicks off proceedings, making the step up from mixtapes to vinyl effortlessly.Chuck Inglish flies solo on “So Long” and long time Onra friend Olivier Daysoul pairs up with Daz Dillinger of Dogg Pounder on one for the Lowriders – “We Ridin”. Cult Chicago rap group Do or Die also team up with a soul singer – their old collaborator Johnny P – “Over & Over” has the whole Rap-A-Lot crew in action and the soulful theme continues with a Suzi Analogue slow jam and Dutch MC Melodee on a Love Tip. KC of bubbling up London collective Last Night in Paris shows why he can count Pharrell among his devotees and other guests include rap crew the Doppelgangaz and Black Milk, who brings it to a close, ending a very personal project for the French producer, built on hip-hop and R&B foundations and flipped in his own signature style. – Press Release

“Representing Paris, France, Onra finds many different influences to make his sound. He has sampled from different influences his entire career. From his soul music influenced first album (the Quetzal collab called Tribute) to the Vietnamese Pop stylings of his Chinoiseries, Onra has made use of what moves him. Now, he wants to make a desirable dedication to 90’s hip hop. Fundamentals is aptly titled due to its fundamental ground work in funky rhythms and slow grooves.

Onra showcases production that would make west coast and Midwest music lovers excited with nostalgia. MC Melodee spits over rolling funky sampled melodies on Love Tip. Meanwhile, Chuck Inglish rides the slow, low riding production of So Long. Yet, when Over and Over drops with Johnny P singing while Do or Die spits those rapid fire pimp raps, it is understood what Onra truly enjoys.” – Wordplay

Item description:

Artist:	Onra
Title:	Fundamentals
Label:	All City Records
Format:	2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	2015
Genre:	Hip Hop
Catalog No:	ACOLPX3
Condition:	New

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Dreamville

J. Cole ‎– 4 Your Eyez Only

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A TAV Curator's Pick.

4 Your Eyez Only is the fourth studio album by American rapper J. Cole. It was released on December 9, 2016, by Dreamville Records, Roc Nation and Interscope Records. The album was Cole's first release with Interscope—his previous albums were released by Columbia. The album also serves as Dreamville's president Ibrahim Hamad first executive producer credit for a Cole album. Most of these recordings took place from 2015 to 2016, while the production on the album was primarily handled by Cole himself, alongside several other record producers such as Vinylz, Boi-1da, Cardiak, Ron Gilmore, Frank Dukes, Chargaux and Elite, among others. Promoting the release, Cole released a one-hour documentary (by the same name) on April 15, 2017 on HBO, featuring music from the album. 4 Your Eyez Only was released exactly two years after Cole's previous studio album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive.

The album received generally positive reviews from critics, some of whom called it Cole's best album to date. 4 Your Eyez Only debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 363,000 copies in its first week (492,000 with additional album-equivalent units) earning Cole his fourth consecutive number-one album in the country. It had the third-largest weekly sales for an album in 2016. On January 12, 2017, 4 Your Eyez Only was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, and was certified platinum on April 7, 2017. The album also debuted at number one on Billboard's Canadian Albums Chart. The album was supported by two singles: "Deja Vu" and "Neighbors". – Wiki

“4 Your Eyez Only is ten tracks, no features and perfect ingredients. It's simple, confident, assured…Eyez is about trying to be a good man, even though circumstances don't permit you to. It's about how the people you love view you; how you may want to impress them, but might not be able to. It's a love letter, and yet, it's astonishing just how hard-hitting it is…

It could have been pretentious, but Cole has always been one of the most slept-on songwriters in hip-hop, and on this record, he's better than he's ever been. Listening to him spit over the menacing harpsichord of "Immortal," or dropping confident, searing lines on "Neighbours" is a joy. The album's standout, "Folding Clothes," will probably spur a thousand new memes. The production — courtesy of some bubbling-under beatmakers, along with Cole himself — bangs.” – Exclaim!

“Supported by some of his best songwriting and an openness that adds real credence to his message. He has been on a path of gradual evolution ever since he appeared to lose his way upon signing to a major label at the turn of the decade and realising the weight of success was a heavy burden to carry. He has matured into a one of the most important figures in modern hip hop and 4 Your Eyez Only is the evidence of this. We can only hope his message can inspire hope and change in communities across the world.” – Popmatters

Item description:

Artist:	J. Cole
Title:	4 Your Eyez Only
Label:	Dreamville ‎\| Roc Nation \| Interscope Records
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	2017
Genre:	Hip Hop
Catalog No:	B0026313-01
Condition:	New

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Spanish Prayers

Cigarettes After Sex ‎– I.

$38.00

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A TAV Curator's Pick.

Cigarettes After Sex is an ambient pop collective led by songwriter Greg Gonzalez & is currently based out of Brooklyn, NY.

In a feature for Noisey by Vice, Christina Cacouris describes Cigarettes After Sex as "elemental, hazy and romantic, but with a noir edge underneath Gonzalez’s androgynous voice" as well as "sweet and sentimental". "As the band’s name suggests, it’s reminiscent of lying in bed, but its ambient qualities don’t prevent it from being music you can dance to." Gonzalez cites Françoise Hardy as his favorite singer and Miles Davis as having great impact. The band also includes The Cowboy Junkies' album The Trinity Session, Julee Cruise and Cocteau Twins as influential. The music blog Eardrums Music describes the band as "slow, dreamy and beautiful with gorgeous, tender vocals and very good lyrics." and compares it to Mazzy Star and early Red House Painters. Music bloggers behind Swell Tone describe Cigarettes After Sex as a band producing "melancholy, slow pop that will sweetly rock any listener into a listless stupor." – Wiki

Item description:

Artist:	Cigarettes After Sex ‎
Title:	I.
Label:	Spanish Prayers
Format:	Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	2016
Genre:	Indie, Pop
Style:	Indie Pop
Catalog No:	SP-001EP
Condition:	New

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Arts & Crafts

Kid Koala ‎– Music To Draw To: Satellite

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Kid Koala’s Music To Draw To: Satellite is an uncharted musical journey: an expansive work of ambient electronic soundscapes and chilling ballads in collaboration with Icelandic artist Emilíana Torrini. This inaugural volume in the Music To Draw To series is Kid Koala's first non-sample-based record, instead using an array of synthesizers, keys, guitars, strings, turntables, and inventive recording techniques to portray this heartrending musical story about a couple separated by a mission to Mars. The output is over 72 atmospheric minutes of stardust settling like fresh snow over Kid Koala’s trove of turntables and sentiment. – Press Release

“Music to Draw to: Satellite is all about the minimalist ambience with lots of purring and moaning. This is cold music too; we are not talking about warm, happy ambient here. The album cover really says it all: an aerial view of what might be a snow-covered field, or what might be a blank piece of white paper. It is fitting that this record came out in late January; this is winter music for sure. Kid Koala and Emiliana Torrini give us a delightful surprise with Music to Draw to: Satellite that will provide a fitting soundtrack to snow gradually accumulating on your front porch.

The 18 tracks that make up Music to Draw to: Satellite fade in and out of each other, never actually reaching anything that could be called a climax, but hitting moments of particular beauty.” – Popmatters

Item description:

Artist:	Kid Koala ft. Emilíana Torrini
Title:	Music To Draw To: Satellite
Label:	Arts & Crafts
Format:	2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Pressing:	Canada
Release Date:	2017
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Ambient
Catalog No:	A&C 129
Condition:	New

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Pro Era | Cinematic Music Group

Joey Bada$$ ‎– All-Amerikkkan Bada$$

$45.00

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A TAV Curator's Pick.

All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ is the sophomore album from Joey Bada$$. The project features some high profile artists. Joey Bada$$ is coming off the heels of starring in the award-winning TV show Mr. Robot and his latest single, "Devastated" being RIAA certified gold. – Press Release

“Joey has always been labeled as a conscious rapper with a heavy reliance on third eye perspectives on beats, rhymes and life. This liberated logic of music making is coupled with strong technical rap skills—a deadly combo for any artist. However, it’s taken Joey over five years of releases to get this complete arsenal. In a way, his past projects, like B4.Da.$$, have collectively groomed his expressive prowess to make an album of this importance. All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ encompasses everything we’ve come to love about Joey over the past few years with an added sense of social responsibility that is needed in times like these.

One of the most noticeable features on All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ is Joey’s wildly evolved sound. The lead single “Devastated” is a dead giveaway to the fact that Joey displays growth in his sound, as the grandiose production pumps a heavy rhythmic bass and a rattling chant-a-long chorus. As his biggest song to date plays through, it’s almost hard to believe that the boom bap-obsessed skater kid from Brooklyn made this type of anthem-laden track a mere five years after his debut. However, the sentiments of struggle turning into strength promoted on “Devastated” have very much been a part of Joey’s music since 2011, and are taken to the next level on this album.” – XXL

“All-Amerikkan Bada$$, the New Yorker's second full length record, feels like a culmination of all of the years spent working away at his craft. 'For My People' and 'Temptation' set the stall out early. Bada$$’s signature soul -infused samples are pasted all over the place, creating a almost surreally calm landscape for the man’s smooth yet vitriolic bars.” – Drowned In Sound

Item description:

Artist:	Joey Bada$$ ‎
Title:	All-Amerikkkan Bada$$
Label:	Pro Era ‎\| Cinematic Music Group
Format:	2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Pressing:	USA & Europe
Release Date:	2017
Genre:	Hip Hop
Style:	Conscious
Catalog No:	CNMTLP2550
Condition:	New

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RCA

Khalid ‎– American Teen

$39.00

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19-year-old singer/songwriter Khalid, releases his long awaited debut album, American Teen, which includes such buzzed about tracks as "Location," "Let's Go," "Hopeless," "Coaster," "Saved," "Shot Down" and the title cut, along with a number of highly anticipated unreleased songs. Khalid wrote all of the music on American Teen, an album which paints a modern picture of growing up in the age of Uber and Instagram. With its dreamy production and shimmering synths, the title track sums up the central theme. The New York Times has called American Teen "a promising amalgam of bedroom art-soul and 1980s new-wave pop maximalism, and a union of lonely-boy mirror gazing with a sense of larger cultural purpose."

Khalid has been surrounded by music his entire life. He grew up in a military family, his mother is a singer with the Army and he was introduced to music at an early age. Khalid spent most of his childhood in Germany before moving to Watertown, NY for High School. The summer going into his senior year of High School, Khalid's family was ordered to relocate to El Paso, TX. By 18-years-old, Khalid, who is classically vocal trained, had drawn on his experiences with moving often and the unique experience of growing up having lived in two continents and parlayed them into the creation of his viral smash, "Location" which helped him to land a major label deal with Right Hand Music Group/RCA Records. – Press Release

“American Teen generally plays things straight up, not too concerned about chasing bleeding edge sounds but resting nicely in the pocket between conventional R&B and a future-pop-minded audience. "Living a good life full of good vibes," as he sings on the title track, Khalid is on to something on his debut album, a solid intro to a talented teen.” – Exclaim

Item description:

Artist:	Khalid ‎
Title:	American Teen
Label:	RCA \| Sony Music \| Right Hand Music Group
Format:	2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	2017
Genre:	Funk / Soul
Style:	Contemporary R&B
Catalog No:	88985-41432-1
Condition:	New

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Columbia

Syd ‎– Fin

$45.00

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A TAV Curator’s Pick.

The Internet's frontwoman and producer Syd releases her first solo album, entitled Fin. It was written and produced by Syd, and also features production from Melo X (Lemonade), Hit Boy, Haze, and Rahki. Fin is the first new music written and produced by Syd since the release of The Internet's Grammy-nominated album, Ego Death, in 2015. Indeed, Fin is the bold next step in Syd's musical evolution, a brilliant album packed full of dark R&B bravado, and anchored by her smooth-as-silk voice. Esquire writes, "12 sultry, beat-heavy tracks that call to mind her heroes like Aaliyah, Erykah Badu, and Lauryn Hill." – Press Release

“Syd, the charismatic songwriter and performer at the center of R&B group the Internet, sounds more comfortable and focused than ever on her slinky, confident solo debut.” – Pitchfork, 8.1

“Syd is many wonderful things on solo debut Fin - singer, producer, all-around seductress—but most importantly, she is human, and her album is filled with all that entails. Fin is full to the brim with sex and style, a slow-motion bacchanal that feels like a VIP party in spite of how low-key Syd keeps it. Steady beats underscore Syd’s effortless vocal delivery, itself so low-key that it makes even her most hyperbolic claims (“I would tell you that I am the greatest, but you knew that”) sound like casual statements, unpretentious and entirely factual.” – Popmatters

Item description:

Artist:	Syd
Title:	Fin
Label:	Columbia
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	2017
Genre:	Hip Hop, Funk / Soul, Pop
Style:	Contemporary R&B, Female Vocals
Catalog No:	0889854207212
Condition:	New

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Modern Harmonic

Sun Ra And His Arkestra ‎– Thunder Of The Gods

$48.00

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A new Sun Ra LP touches ground in the earthly bins, 50 years after its creation!

Sun Ra is still trying to get our attention 50 years after dispatching this transmission. Humanity’s path since then makes his message even more urgent today. Years after Herman Poole “LeSony’r Ra” Blount “left the planet” he’s still trying to reach us, to wake us up and to change our destiny.

Sun Ra and the Arkestra weren’t a traditional studio band, and every star in the vast galaxy of their discography reflects this. The origins of these records can be hard to pinpoint at times, but when it comes to Thunder Of The Gods, it’s a bit easier. “Calling Planet Earth – We’ll Wait For You” was discovered on tapes from Ra’s, Universe In Blue, believed to be recorded in ’71. The raucous title track and “Moonshots Across the Sky” are unearthed from the ’66 Strange Strings sessions. Modern Harmonic has once again paired Ra’s sonic art with the visual art of “The Father of Modern Space Art,” Chesley Bonestell, whose 1952 work ”Formation of the Earth’s Continents” spralls across the front and back covers. – Press Release

"Thanks to Modern Harmonic, in partnership with Sun Ra LLC, soon you will be holding an album of unreleased Sun Ra music 50 years after it was recorded! That this music survived to reach our ears after all of this time is quite a miraculous gift. It sounds as though it could have come from either the ancient past or the distant future, yet most perfectly, it’s the music of right now.” — Christopher Eddy (Sun Ra Arkive)

“This new set of unheard songs is gripping and challenging, as to be expected from the the free jazz legend. Using oddball orchestrations, Sun Ra unfurls more complexities of the astral realm.” – Pitchfork

“Thunder of the Gods is an exercise in ignorance, in trust, and in patience. It is different from everything else in the Sun Ra discography in its willingness to fully accept and embrace the unknown. In their unfamiliarity with stringed instruments, the band finds a freedom even greater than the freedom normally inherent in free-jazz. That freedom depends on their trust in their fearless leader and in their own ability and knowledge. They know where they are going and they trust that they can arrive there. This is the story of “Calling Planet Earth” as Sun Ra ventures beyond the known and into the strange. But it isn’t simply that they venture there themselves, alone. They will wait for the rest of us, and each member says so as a group and also as individuals. Waiting is the real trick of Thunder of the Gods. Listening to this music is often challenging, often exhausting, often requires great patience, but when it finally opens itself up, the listener can take that journey to another realm alongside the Arkestra and see the new lands and the shore on which the band has been waiting for 50 years. It takes time and effort, but that’s ok. We’ll wait.” – Popmatters

Item description:

Artist:	Sun Ra And His Arkestra
Title:	Thunder Of The Gods
Label:	Modern Harmonic
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Mono, Clear
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	2017
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Avant-garde Jazz, Free Jazz
Catalog No:	MH-8021
Condition:	New

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Capitol Records / Analogue Productions

Nat King Cole ‎– The Nat King Cole Story | 45 RPM Analogue Productions Box Set

$275.00

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A TAV Essential Listening Album.

Re-Pressed at Quality Record Pressings on 200g Vinyl! Cut from the Original 3-Track Master Tapes!

Mastered by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman at AcousTech Mastering.

One of Nat "King" Cole's crowning achievements and a fittingly lavish celebration of a cultural and musical icon, The Nat "King" Cole Story offers a glorious overview of the career of one of the greatest and most beloved performers in popular music history. 38 tracks, many re-recorded in stereo for this anthology, offer a selection spanning his popular career.

His beginnings leading the popular jazz-oriented Nat "King" Cole Trio are represented with selections including "Route 66" and "I Love You (For Sentimental Reasons)." Hits including "Nature Boy," "Mona Lisa," "Unforgettable," "Orange Colored Sky," "Night Lights" and "Looking Back" are here to represent his unparalleled string of memorable hits as a popular vocalist. "Calypso Blues" and "Ay Cosita Linda" help illustrate the range his projects could cover. More contemporary to this anthology, selections including "Wild Is Love" are augmented here with two huge hits as a special bonus, "Ramblin' Rose" and "Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer" to further expand the scope.

A talent and voice for all times with a body of work that could and did help define their eras, Nat "King" Cole's career offers some of the finest, most enduring and treasured recordings ever made. Nat "King" Cole could never be fully served by any one set. But this wonderful cornucopia stands as a fantastic celebration for the enthusiast and a good starting point for someone just beginning to explore The Nat "King" Cole Story.

Using the original first generation 2-track and 3-track session tapes from Capitol's vaults and all-analogue systems including custom headstacks, 3-track preview heads, console and monitoring chain installed at AcousTech specially for these releases, mastering engineers Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman realize the stunning beauty of these recordings in this 45-RPM 200 gram five album set.

Originally presented as a deluxe box set of 3 LPs in a canvas-bound embossed box with essays and pictures included in a album-sized booklet, The Nat "King" Cole Story was a prestigious release Capitol took obvious pride in. Complete with 5 LPs, canvas-bound embossed box and booklet with essays and pictures, Analogue Productions proudly recreates the experience for a new generation to cherish with this deluxe release. This truly is a no-expenses-spared project, resulting in the ultimate version of this title and a historic reissue.

There are 38 songs in this collection. Of those, three are the same recordings included on other Analogue Productions Nat "King" Cole reissues. "Stardust" (track 28) is the same version included on Love Is The Thing. "St. Louis Blues" (track 30) is the same version included on the album of that title. And "Paradise" (track 33) is the same version included on The Very Thought Of You. Three more songs - "Sweet Lorraine," "It's Only A Paper Moon" and "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" - are songs that appear on After Midnight, however these versions are stereo re-recordings of the original arrangements from the 1940s.

"...mastered from the original three-track work tapes is a sonic spectacular that outdoes the original by a wide margin - as does its packaging... A major reissue." - Stereophile Records To Die For - Michael Fremer, Stereophile, February 2010

"The results on this (five) 45rpm 180g [now 200g] LP set are simply astonishing, particularly if you’ve heard the originals. The transparency, dynamics and three-dimensionality create the intense sensation of being in the studio with the musicians and especially with Cole who appears as a visceral, floating apparition between the speakers. The size and three-dimensionality of the vocal image produces the sensation of the listener being a “fly on the microphone mike stand” listening to Cole perform, surrounded by the musicians." - Michael Fremer, www.musicangle.com, Music 10, Sound 11

Features:

5 LP box set
200g 45rpm
Cut from the Original 3-Track Master Tapes!
Mastered by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman at AcousTech Mastering
Canvas-bond Embossed Box
Booklet features essays and pictures
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings – Press Release

Item description:

Artist:	Nat King Cole
Title:	The Nat King Cole Story
Label:	Capitol Records \| Analogue Productions
Format:	5 × Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Compilation, Stereo, Remastered, 180g
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	This reissue: 2010 \| Original - 1961
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Male Vocals, Easy Listening
Catalog No:	SWCL1613 \| AAPP 1613-45
Condition:	New

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Deutsche Grammophon

Max Richter ‎– Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works

$55.00

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A TAV Curator's Pick.

Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works, as the name suggests, draws from Richter's score for Wolf Works, a critically acclaimed three-act Royal Ballet production from Wayne McGregor inspired by the works of the influential English writer Virginia Woolf. Described as featuring "a vast palette of sounds—from solo instrumental and orchestral episodes, to electronic textures and music for wordless soprano," the score makes use of themes from three of Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves. It also employs a rare 1937 BBC recording of Woolf reading an essay called "Craftsmanship," reportedly the only surviving recording of Woolf's voice, along with the farewell note she left her husband before committing suicide in 1941, which is read by Gillian Anderson. – Resident Advisor

“Three Worlds is morose and cryptic, like the best Richter. It begins with “Words” containing a beautiful church bell and a sample of Woolf reading. It is tragic, mostly because it’s difficult to hear outside of her painful suicide letter. The calm piano on “In the Garden” which follows contrasts completely, as if to comfort those who know the end of Woolf’s story. The violin accompaniment is simple, but flowering, the passages build and blend and crescendo with ardent movement…

Three Worlds is rewarding as a background record as well as cognitive listening. Richter’s sound is best served without real pictures but paired with your dreams” – Popmatters

“You could easily apply Woolf’s musings on words to music, as after centuries of music-making instruments, notes, chords, styles, genres and sounds are loaded with meaning and memory. But to his credit, Max Richter has crafted something that feels like a timeless nod to the past, and yet an inventive ode to Woolf’s modernism. He has followed up the exceptional Sleep with yet another dazzling work that is “full of echoes, of memories, of associations” that celebrate and reflect this towering writer.” – Drowned In Sound

Item description:

Artist:	Max Richter
Title:	Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works
Label:	Deutsche Grammophon
Format:	2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, 180gr
Pressing:	Germany
Release Date:	2017
Genre:	Electronic, Classical
Style:	Modern Classical
Catalog No:	479 6953 \| 00289 479 6953
Condition:	New

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Universal Music Group International

Francis Albert Sinatra [ Frank Sinatra ] & Antonio Carlos Jobim | 50th Anniversary Edition

$48.00

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A TAV Essential Listening Album.

Remastered & Pressed On 180g Vinyl LP!

Frank Sinatra recorded the Bossa Nova album with the master, Carlos Jobim. Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim sees Sinatra performing originals by Jobim plus three American standards. In celebration of this classic album's 50th anniversary, the tracks have been remastered and now appear on 180g heavyweight vinyl.

Features:

180g Vinyl
Remastered
50th Anniversary
Arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman – Press Release

“The result was a subdued, quiet album that used the Latin rhythms as a foundation, not as a focal point. Supported by a relaxed, sympathetic arrangement of muted brass, simmering percussion, soft strings, and Jobim's lilting guitar, Sinatra turns in an especially noteworthy performance; he has never sounded so subtle, underplaying every line he delivers and showcasing vocal techniques that he never had displayed before. Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim doesn't reveal its pleasures immediately; the album is too textured and understated to be fully appreciated within one listen. After a few plays, the album begins to slowly work its way underneath a listener's skin, and it emerges as one of his most rewarding albums of the '60s.” – Allmusic

Item description:

Artist:	Francis Albert Sinatra [ Frank Sinatra ] & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Title:	Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Label:	Universal Music \| Signature Sinatra ‎\|
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Remastered, Stereo, 180 Gram
Pressing:	USA, Canada & Europe
Release Date:	This reissue: 2017 \| Original - 1967
Genre:	Jazz, Latin, Pop
Style:	Bossa Nova, Ballad, Vocal
Catalog No:	5727618
Condition:	New

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ECM Records

Colin Vallon Trio ‎– Danse

$45.00

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The Colin Vallon Trio has found its own space in the crowded world of the piano trio by quietly challenging its conventions. On its third ECM album Vallon again leads the group not with virtuosic solo display but by patient outlining of melody and establishing of frameworks in which layered group improvising can take place. With this group, gentle but insistent rhythms can trigger seismic musical events. Although Vallon (recently nominated for the Swiss Music Prize) is the author of nine of the pieces here, the band members share equal responsibilities for the music’s unfolding. The gravitational pull of Patrice Moret’s bass and the intense detail supplied by Julian Sartorius’s drums and cymbals are crucial to the success of Vallon’s artistic concept and the range of emotions the music can convey. – Press Release

“This is highly original music… Vallon’s project has something to with how we perceive time in music – and music in time. It’s fascinating and accrues more and more interest with repeated listening.” - Paul De Barros, Downbeat

“Pianist Colin Vallon seems on the verge of a creative breakthrough with his new trio album Danse. With his third ECM trio release Vallon has cemented a personal approach to his music; it is one that has taken time to unfold much like many of his compositions. In his writing, as well as group interplay, the pianist has made a science of exploring open spaces and filling them with nuanced textures or opting for minimalism.

The eleven compositions on Danse do not so much move the needle forward for Vallon and company as they do further refine the composer's excellent compositions. Having written nine of the eleven tracks on the album he clearly keeps the strengths of Moret and Sartorius in mind. The opening "Sisyphe" is an exquisite piece that demonstrates the perfect synergy between Vallon and Moret. Classical influences are apparent in "Tsunami" even as Sartorius' propulsion creates a tautness and—eventually—alters the motif. The title track offers a more intentionally disjointed relationship between piano and bass surprisingly held together by Sartorius while "L'onde" is more upbeat and pleasantly off-kilter. The drummer's light and musical touch can be best be appreciated on the beautiful "Kid" and that atmosphere bleeds into the brief "Reste." The album closes out with the hypnotic "Morn" and a second variation of "Reste."” – All About Jazz

Featured artists:

Colin Vallon - Piano

Patrice Moret - Double Bass

Julian Sartorius - Drums

Item description:

Artist:	Colin Vallon Trio
Title:	Danse
Label:	ECM Records
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album
Pressing:	Germany
Release Date:	2017
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Contemporary Jazz
Catalog No:	ECM 2517 \| 572 3589
Condition:	New

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Death Waltz

Angelo Badalamenti ‎– Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

$65.00

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A TAV Curator's Pick.

Director approved artwork
Composer approved audio
Sleeve notes By film critic Mark Kermode (approved by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti)
Vinyl re-master by Tal Miller at Warner Archives
Laquers cut by David Cheppa at Plush Vinyl
2 x 180G Cherry Pie vinyl
425gsm Gatefold sleeve housed inside a bespoke black die cut outer jacket with black spot varnish finish, complete with obi strip.

From the brooding opening bars of the main Fire Walk With Me Theme, Angelo Badalamenti’s gorgeous, eerie score introduces us to a cinematic experience which significantly begins with the smashing of a television screen. Just as the Main Title from Blue Velvet echoed the Hitchcockian hues of Bernard Herrmann, so here we have just the slightest touch of Taxi Driver, as Jim Hynes’ plaintive, keening trumpet soars above a landscape of melancholy keyboards, drawing us into a world which is at once alien and familiar. – Press Release

“Badalamenti handles all the production, arrangements, and orchestrations; he plays keyboards, even contributing some gruff vocals to the set. Tucked into its 12 tracks are a curious array of players, from bassist Ron Carter and hard bop drummer Grady Tate to the voice most often associated with the man’s music, Julee Cruise. The nearly seven-minute main theme might not readily pair to images of Agent Cooper or Laura Palmer, but it’s brooding and melancholic in its own right. Badalamenti’s keyboard chords haunt in the distance as a muted trumpet lead, walking bassline, and barely grazed ride cymbal conjure dark and lonesome images of their own. For a solo turn at the synthesizer, Badalamenti moves through a spectrum of sadness, distress, love, and resolve on closer “The Voice of Love.”” – Pitchfork

Item description:

Artist:	Angelo Badalamenti
Title:	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Label:	Death Waltz Recording Company
Format:	2 × Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Remastered, Red/Black Marbled [Cherry Pie]
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	This reissue: 2017 \| Original - 1992
Genre:	Electronic, Jazz, Rock, Soundtrack
Style:	Abstract, Smooth Jazz, Ambient, Score
Catalog No:	DW51
Condition:	New

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Universal / Verve

Ella Fitzgerald ‎– Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book | 100th Anniversary Box Set

$380.00

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A TAV Essential Listening Album.

Ella's collaboration with Nelson Riddle that is highly regarded as the pinnacle of her legendary Song Book series, will be released as a limited edition 6LP vinyl box set. A replica of the rare 5LP set originally released in 1959, the Ella 100 edition recreates for the first time since its initial release the original stereo box set on vinyl, the originally included five lithographs by French impressionist painter Bernard Buffet, as well as the hardcover book, Words And Music, which for this set has been updated with additional historical information and an afterword by noted author David Ritz.

The 2017 collection was newly mastered by Ron McMaster at Capitol Studios in Hollywood where the album was originally recorded in 1959 under the supervision of Verve Records founder Norman Granz. A sixth LP enlarges the original 10-inch instrumental EP with orchestra tracks on Side One and additional material from the sessions on Side Two. One of the bonus tracks, a mono alternate take of "Oh! Lady Be Good!" is on vinyl for the first time. – Press Release

“The Verve album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book was a lavish five-album set, arranged by Nelson Riddle, that became the crowning achievement of the singer’s series of albums celebrating the composers and lyricists who gave us the Great American Songbook.” – Gershwin

“A monumental achievement that finds Fitzgerald and Nelson Riddle, the greatest arranger of the era, tackling nearly the entire catalog of arguably America's premier songwriting team, George and Ira Gershwin. Ira's oft-repeated line serves as the best endorsement for these recordings: "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them."” – All About Jazz

Item description:

Artist:	Ella Fitzgerald
Title:	Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book
Label:	Verve Records \| Universal Music
Format:	6 × Vinyl, LP, Album Book Box Set
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	This reissue: 2017 \| Original - 1959
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Female Vocals, Easy Listening
Catalog No:	B0026256-01
Condition:	New

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Resonance Records

Bill Evans ‎– Another Time, The Hilversum Concert | RSD2017

$45.00

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A TAV Curator's Pick.

Resonance Records is proud to announce the release of Bill Evans - Another Time: The Hilversum Concert, a spectacular never-before-heard live recording by the Bill Evans Trio featuring bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette recorded in Hilversum, Holland, by the Netherlands Radio Union (NRU) in the summer of 1968. Another Time is Resonance's first follow-up release to the widely celebrated Bill Evans Trio album, Some Other Time: The Lost Session from the Black Forest. Resonance is pleased once again to release this entirely new Bill Evans discovery in full cooperation with the Bill Evans Estate and Eddie Gomez and Jack DeJohnette and Universal Music Group, the parent company of Verve Records, the label Evans was signed to in 1968.

Bill Evans - Another Time: The Hilversum Concert, recorded on June 22, 1968, just two days after Some Other Time, provides a fitting counterpoint to that remarkable album. Interestingly, these two recordings were made one day on either side of the summer solstice and they each seem to embody attributes of their respective seasons. Where Some Other Time, recorded at the legendary MPS studios in Villingen, Germany, is imbued with an introspective, vernal beauty, Another Time was recorded as a live concert, and is a recording remarkable not only for the three musicians' ebullience, freedom and summer-infused heat; but notable also for its exceptional recording quality utilizing the then state of the art recording techniques of the NRU. Producer Zev Feldman and Executive Producer, George Klabin, regard Another Time as the best-sounding Bill Evans album on Resonance; perhaps one of Evans's best sounding live recordings ever.

The configuration of this special edition of the Bill Evans Trio - featuring Jack DeJohnette newly introduced as a co-equal counterpart to Evans and the redoubtable Eddie Gomez was not widely recorded before Some Other Time. Indeed, before Resonance released Some Other Time, only one previous aural document existed memorializing this version of the trio, which had a life-span of only six months: a live recording made at the Montreux Festival, a concert that was held roughly a week before Some Other Time and Another Time were recorded.

Marc Myers, a Wall Street Journal contributor, music columnist, and Anatomy of a Song author, writes that Another Time "is a frighteningly flawless and dynamic work by Evans." In his essay for 2016's Some Other Time, Myers noted that the trio with Jack DeJohnette represented a new model for Evans, observing "During the musical discourse between Mr. DeJohnette and Evans, we hear clearly the sound that Evans wanted on drums going forward." Dutch jazz authority Bert Vuijsje cited Brian Priestly's notes from the Montreux album, noting that DeJohnette is, "above all, a listening drummer . . . much more extroverted than Evans's previous [drummers]." And Jack DeJohnette's view of this album is sunny: "All of the tracks on this album are really cool. I liked what was happening there." – Press Release

Item description:

Artist:	Bill Evans
Title:	Another Time, The Hilversum Concert
Label:	Resonance Records
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Numbered, 180 Gram
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	2017
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Contemporary Jazz
Catalog No:	HLP-9031
Condition:	New

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Omnivore Recordings

Art Pepper Quartet ‎– The Art Pepper Quartet | RSD2017

$45.00

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A TAV Curator's Pick.

Recorded in late 1956 and released in early 1957, the same year as the landmark Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section, The Art Pepper Quartet (Art Pepper: saxophone; Russ Freeman: piano; Ben Tucker: bass; Gary Fromer: drums) is back on vinyl for Record Store Day 2017. Mastered from the original mono tapes by Kevin Gray, this is not only a reissue for the (multi-generational) ages, it's the album's first appearance on vinyl in far too long. Now on clear wax, reproducing the original art and liner notes on an era-correct "tip-on" jacket, the project was overseen by Art's widow, Laurie Pepper, and Grammy-winning producer Cheryl Pawelski. To make this pressing even more special and unique, the alternate take of "Blues At Twilight" has been included as a bonus track. A gem on all fronts--this is how Jazz should be experienced. All analog chain from tape to vinyl, with beautiful packaging. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Art Pepper Quartet. – Press Release

Item description:

Artist:	Art Pepper Quartet
Title:	The Art Pepper Quartet
Label:	Omnivore Recordings
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, Special Edition, 180 gr.
Pressing:	US
Release Date:	This reissue: 2017 \| Original - 1957
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Contemporary Jazz
Catalog No:	OVLP-214
Condition:	New