$30.00
This is 1st LTD vinyl release from Jazzy Sport x Red Bull Music. Here Features collaboration Jazzy Sport's fame cro-magnon and Italy's project Jaxx Madicine. Original version reminds us some like Azymuth's way of Jazz Funk Disco. C/W features remix by Sauce 81 ,and delivers brokenbeat influenced sounds and groove. - hhv
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Label: Jazzy Sport – JSRBJMCR001, Red Bull Japan – JSRBJMCR 001 |
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Format: Vinyl, 12" |
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Country: Japan |
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Released: 11 Nov 2019 |
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Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Funk / Soul |
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Style: House, Broken Beat, Deep House |
$39.00
Twimo Records
Various Artists – Bosporus Bridges - A Wide Selection Of Turkish Jazz And Funk 1968-1978
$39.00
The TWIMO Records project is the result of 6 years of traveling and record collecting in the meeting points between different music cultures; North Africa, the Bosporus and the far eastern parts of Europe. These two first two releases explores what happened when Western music styles such as modal jazz, bossa nova, fusion and funk met Arabic folk music, tone scales, instrumentation and rhythm structures in the late sixties and seventies in Turkey and Egypt. "Bosporus Bridges" is a compilation of turkish jazz, bossa, psych, fusion and funk compiled by Lasarus and Roskow. Four hundred years ago Turkey was the centre that connected Islamic, Byzantine and Persian music and even at this time Haydn and Mozart fused Persian tone scales and colour of rhytm into their compositions. Modern Turkish music history begins in 1923, when Turkey became a republic and the leader Kemal Atatopened the doors to the western world. Musicians in Turkey first adapted the waltz, but it was the tango from Paris that spread widely and became popular throughout the country. Youth in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara started tuning the radio to everything that was happening in London and rock arrived in the mid 50s. The first turkish rock music came from armybands under the leadership of officers, but when The Shadows emerged on the scene, the popularity of rock exploded, since Turkish people was used to hearing instrumental music. In 1961 the magazine Ht arranged the competition Altin Mikrofon where the contestants had to arrange a traditional turkish tune or write a turkish song and perform it in a "western style" with electrical instruments. Altin Mikrofon is the godfather of all the turkish rock, psych, funk, fusion and jazz that came after. Western records by Black Sabbath, Ten Years After, Beatles, The Who, Jimmy Smith and James Brown got distribution in Istanbul and Ankara and the scene exploded during the years 61-78 with names like Erkin Koray, Mogollar, Baris Manco, Siluetler Mavi Iskalar,3 Hl, Selda, Ersen and Mogollar. The blending of the electric loud, arabic percussion, horn instruments and arabic vocals with western jazz and funk rhythm, makes the sound of this forgotten scene unique. - hhv
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Label: Twimo Records – 0001 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Unofficial Release |
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Country: Germany |
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Released: 2005 |
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Genre: Jazz, Rock, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country |
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Style: Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Funk, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic |
$48.00
First time ever official reissue of the second and last album by the legendary oriental and fusion jazz ensemble led by Leonid Atabekov, where folk and ethnic arrangements meet smooth jazz. Mastered from the original tapes, contains full-size insert with the band's history in English and Russian Languages. Check it out!
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Label: Soviet Grail – SG029 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo |
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Country: Russia |
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Released: 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz, Folk, World, & Country |
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Style: Fusion, Folk, Contemporary Jazz, Jazz-Rock |
$48.00
Having established a reputation for hosting ambitious and experimental music in the evocative surroundings of a renovated 13th century church, St. John Sessions have expanded to found their own label ThirtyThree ThirtyThree in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory.
Set up to showcase live recordings from St. John Sessions at home and abroad as the series grows, the label will cut the ribbon with perhaps its most impactful shows to date: Ryuichi Sakamoto and Taylor Deupree.
A multi-disciplinary trail-blazer and Yellow Magic Orchestra founder whose work stretches from Oscar winning film scores to proto-electronic 12″s, Ryuichi Sakamoto was joined by American electronic musician Taylor Deupree for an iconic performance in 2014. Continuing a creative partnership that has seen them release a string of records together in recent years, Live In London represents a rare opportunity to own the pair’s work on vinyl.
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Label: ThirtyThree ThirtyThree Records – TTTT003 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Blue |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 26 Jul 2019 |
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Genre: Electronic |
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Style: Ambient, Experimental |
$45.00
Taken in its entirety, Pata Pata epitomizes Makeba’s cosmopolitan, international outlook. There are songs that represent the multicultural landscape where she grew up, inspired by the Swazi, Zulu (“Pata Pata,” for example), and Xhosa people (such as the hit “Click Song Number One,” and “Jol’inkomo”) folk songs. But she also looked to other parts of the African continent: on “Ha Po Zamani,” for example, she sings in Swahili, while “Yetentu Tizaleny” is a wonderfully impassioned cover version of a track by Ethiopian singer Tilahun Gessesse.
In this album, and throughout her career, Makeba stayed true to her culture, her conscience, and her integrity, while also introducing the world to the sounds of her continent. - Bandcamp
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Label: Strut – STRUT180LP |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Mono, Pitman Pressing |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 2019 |
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Genre: Latin, Funk / Soul, Pop, Folk, World, & Country |
$39.00
Little Simz is still seeking a sense of direction on her wondrous new album GREY Area. The “grey area” in question is her mid-20s, a “strange place” she’s eager to navigate through and out of, by the sound of it. “I just wrote the album from a place of confusion,” the rapper born Simbi Ajikawo recently told Noisey, making the uncertainty of a quarter-life crisis seem like navigating the fog of war. A similar search for certainty ran through her second album, 2017’s Stillness in Wonderland, a Lewis Carroll-based introspective adventure throughout which she sought a better understanding of self. Armed with lessons from that stumble down the rabbit hole, she is far more assured on GREY Area. It is a coming-of-age marvel.
Wonderland was tangled and overwrought. The album was full of ideas and unsure how to express them. But working on GREY Area, Simz uncovered the source of her disorientation: she was taking in too much outside noise and losing her bearings. In her effort to solve the impossibility of being young and indecisive (coupled with the sensory overload of trekking across Europe), she has improved as a songwriter and storyteller. She is so grounded in her perspective that even her examinations of societal decay feel deeply personal. She buoys these probing looks into the heart of darkness with intimate glimpses from inside her life in motion. The drudgery of touring, the struggle of modern relationships, processing the trauma of a friend getting murdered, each handled with a delicate and deft touch that never dulls her piercing flows. These are the songs of a woman responding to a nebulous time by making her own way forward. “Sometimes we do not see the fuckery until we’re out of it,” she explains on “Therapy.” “Some people read The Alchemist and still never amount to shit.”
The entire album was produced by Simz’s childhood friend, Inflo. Using more live instruments in place of sampling—guitars, strings, pianos, and drums, mostly—they never settle into one space. No two songs on GREY Area sound the same, even when they’re similar the objectives vary, as she probes into their many grooves. - Pitchfork
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Label: Age 101 Music – AGE101001LP |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, White |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 01 Mar 2019 |
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Genre: Hip Hop, Funk / Soul |
$39.00
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Label: Doxy – DAD134 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 2013 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Contemporary Jazz, Easy Listening, Swing |
$48.00
Emerging from the Germantown & Mt Airy neighborhoods of Philadelphia in 1970, the Sounds of Liberation are a noteworthy chapter in the labyrinthine progressions of 1970s jazz. This is in no small part due to the participation of vibraphonist Khan Jamal and saxophonist-flautist Byard Lancaster. Out now on vinyl through Dogtown Records in collaboration with Brewerytown Beats Records and with CDs available through Chicago’s Corbett vs. Dempsey label, Unreleased (Columbia University 1973) documents the group’s unusually wide stylistic reach. Offering what its makers dubbed Black Liberation Music, it’s an enlightening pleasure for the ears.
In addition to Jamal and Lancaster, the Sounds of Liberation consisted of guitarist Monette Sudler, bassist Billy Mills, and drummer Dwight James, with significant input from percussionists Omar Hill and William Brister (aka Rashid Salim). In March of 1972, they first hit the studio for an LP that was issued the same year by Dogtown, initially as New Horizons.
Later pressings, including Porter Records’ 2010 LP/ CD reissue, were eponymous; under either title, the album delivers a killer journey into the funky-spiritual jazz dimension. As it hasn’t inspired much in the way of conversation or articles either in print or on the web, I’d also argue that the set is underrated (it’s OOP physically but currently available for the hearing on digital platforms).
Sounds of Liberation’s name does come up in relation to the Khan Jamal Creative Art Ensemble’s Drum Dance to the Motherland, which was recorded in October of ’72 and also released by Dogtown (with CD and LP reissues by Eremite in 2006 and 2017, respectively). If New Horizons/ Sounds of Liberation resides pretty plainly in the neighborhood of spiritual jazz groove, Drum Dance to the Motherland (which features Sudler, James and Mills in the band) was just as clearly a break from exploratory post-Fire Music norms, featuring in-the-moment sonic processing that’s tangibly and strikingly dub-like.
With Unreleased (Columbia University 1973), the stylistic growth continues down paths of community outreach and betterment (while extant Sounds of Liberation performed for school kids and inmates as well as in clubs). In short, the group tapped into what was being played on household stereos and by radio stations during this period (music that would’ve been “in the air,” y’know?) and then integrated it into an approach that remained undisguisedly descended from the ’60s jazz avant-garde.
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Label: Dogtown Records – DGTWN-02-RE |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress |
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Country: US |
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Released: 12 Jul 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz |
$39.00
Soul Jazz Records are releasing flautist Lloyd McNeill’s album ‘Treasures’ (1980). Originally released on the artists’ own private press Baobab label in New York, the album is a serious collectors’ piece, a heavyweight and fascinating fusion of deep spiritual jazz with Brazilian and rhythms and melodies. The album has been out of print for nearly 40 years. This is a very limited edition pressing of 1000 vinyl + 1000 CDs only.
This groundbreaking album is the culmination of Lloyd McNeill’s many years involved with Brazilian musicians and features the great percussionist Nana Vasconcelos alongside fellow Brazilian’s Portinho and Dom Salvador alongside US jazz musicians including bassist Cecil McBee.
In a 50-year musical career, McNeill has worked with many artists including Nina Simone, Eric Dolphy, Mulatu Asatke and Sabu Martinez.
McNeill grew up during the era of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and his life and work is a reflection of those ideals. All of his music was only ever released on his own private-press record label, echoing the Civil Rights and African-American themes of the era - black economic empowerment and self-sufficiency – and there is a beautiful spirituality in all his music.
In the late 1960s McNeill became teacher of both jazz and painting at the New Thing Art and Architecture Center in Washington and in 1969 was the first African-American professor hired to teach African-American Music History, at Rutgers University.
This is the fourth Lloyd McNeill album that Soul Jazz Records have released and follows on from the recent release of ‘Treasures’ (1976) and the earlier albums ‘Asha’ (1969), ‘Tanner Suite’ (1969) and ‘Washington Suite’ (1970) all of which are being re-pressed to coincide with this new release. - Sounds Of The Universe
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Label: Soul Jazz Records – SJR LP427, Baobab Record Co. – none |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 07 Jun 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz |
$39.00
The iconic Penguin Cafe join the Erased Tapes family and open a brand new chapter to their unique world with new album The Imperfect Sea – out on Erased Tapes 5th May 2017.
A penguin stands in the middle of a scorching desert, far away from its natural habitat. This mirrors composer Arthur Jeffes’ journey and exploration into a new musical territory. Penguin Cafe have evolved into something of their own at the hands of Arthur who started the band in 2009 with the continuation and homage to his father’s legacy, to the late Simon Jeffes’ Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Now, their upcoming album echoes reminiscent sounds that embrace the new.
The album title refers to a saying by his father that “we wade in a sea of imperfections…”, reflecting upon the idea that beauty can be found amongst the chaos. “If there is a narrative to the album it’s coming to the acceptance of the imperfections in all aspects of life; moreover, the recognition that these imperfections and tiny randomnesses are in fact what make up the best parts”, Arthur explains. This has also been highlighted by the striking cover artwork designed by FELD under the art direction of label founder Robert Raths, resembling a lone figure adapting to and accepting its surrounding environment. - Bandcamp
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Label: Erased Tapes Records – ERATP097LP |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: UK & Europe |
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Released: 05 May 2017 |
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Genre: Classical |
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Style: Modern |
$39.00
A collection of 12 fantastic taarab songs from Yaseen Mohammed (Mac & Party) rich in exotic tone colour, full of swing and groove, compiled from the elusive Mzuri catalogue, Mombasa, Kenya 1960’s. Comes with with a large 4 page fold-out insert with extensive background story and never-before-seen pictures. - HHV
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Label: Afro7 Records – AFR7-LP-05 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation |
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Country: Finland |
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Released: 25 Oct 2019 |
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Genre: Folk, World, & Country |
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Style: African |
$39.00
Known for performing live in a bathrobe and with a history of appearing alongside rapping puppet crews and renting out government press houses to stage madcap conferences announcing his campaign for president of the local underground, Gonzales has spent a significant portion of his career immersing himself in a zany universe of his own design, but as the world around him has become increasingly perverse, Gonzales has gradually tempered his resolve, reeling in his persona and lowering the fourth wall that separates him from his audiences.
And as Gonzales locates the Ontario provincial election within the context of the zeitgeist with a biographical tidbit, it sets the tone for conversation about his new record — the third (and apparently final) instalment in his celebrated Solo Piano records.
"I didn't create Chilly Gonzales," he'll eventually say, "so much as it became obvious that if I want to create a connection with audiences, I need to carefully choose certain parts of myself that I think are going to make my music more powerful." Gonzales is an enigma wrapped in a bathrobe, but as he tracks the evolution of his Solo Piano records, a clearer portrait begins to take shape.
Born Jason Beck, Gonzales grew up at the keys of the family piano, but in the time leading up to the release of his seminal Solo Piano, he'd been without access to one for years. Hightailing for Berlin and adopting his stage name after he became disenfranchised with the Canadian music industry, most of his output involved a series of vaudeville hip-hop performances mainly revolving around wonky keyboards, only approaching the ivories after happening upon a piano in a studio while recording session tracks in France. - Exclaim
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Label: Gentle Threat – GENTLE012V |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 2018 |
$48.00
Jungle take the reins for an after hours Back To Mine session that delves through the band’s personal collection of
leftfield-pop, deep house, modern jazz, Afro-funk and symphonic soul. From bedroom studio duo to talent-filled seven-strong live collective, Jungle – led by Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland – shot to success in 2014 with their self titled debut album. Online word-of-mouth, IRL buzz, rave reviews, and a Mercury Music Prize nomination led to half a million sales, burgeoning DJ careers, and a global tour that lasted two years. In 2018 Jungle released their second album ‘For Ever’, a lush, psychedelic, kaleidoscopic, romantic record defined by their journeys simultaneously geographical, professional and personal.
Their Back To Mine mix kicks off with Barbara Moore’s evocative Steam Heat, fittingly originally written for De Wolfe music library as a cue for a journey down a jungle river, before Inflo, Jungle’s producer on For Ever, drops an addictive bump of Afro-funk. Picking things up, Jungle switch from 90s disco by Merle to more recent house tracks by Manuel Darquart and Drumtalk. Bristol DJ Admin provides the percussion heavy Space Cadet and the irrepressible Mocky supplies good vibes on How It Goes. - Decoded Magazine
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Label: Back To Mine – BACKLP030 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 18 Oct 2019 |
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Genre: Electronic |
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Style: Downtempo |
$45.00
The exceptional solo debut from the Alabama Shakes singer-songwriter is a thrilling opus that pushes the boundaries of voice, sound, and soul to new extremes.
Brittany Howard tends to get a little restless when things get too comfortable. Just when she and her band Alabama Shakes were branded as innocuous roots-rock revivalists after their 2012 debut, Boys & Girls, she started pushing their retro-soul sound to its outer reaches and beyond. Sound & Color, from 2015, sprawled out into blues and funk and psychedelia, and won three Grammys doing it. Amid the Shakes’ growing popularity, Howard deviated from the course. In 2018, emotionally spent, she called a meeting of her Shakes bandmates to announce that she’d be stepping away for a bit after a spell of writer’s block; she didn’t know what she’d be doing next, but she’d be doing it on her own. In retreating from Alabama Shakes, Brittany Howard found herself on a voyage of self-discovery.
From that process comes her solo debut, Jaime, which is full of that same restless energy. Unlike her work with her bands—including the amped-up rock group Thunderbitch and the alt-country outfit Bermuda Triangle—it speaks solely to the life she’s led, the love and hatred she’s faced, and the way they’ve shaped her worldview. Jaime is a daring turn in just about every way imaginable: bolder, freakier, riskier, more experimental, not just deeply personal but cuttingly political, sometimes quietly tender, sometimes brutally direct. Working in a greenhouse in Topanga Canyon, she mined her complicated personal history, first writing out a memoir of her life up until the founding of Alabama Shakes, then transposing it to songwriting. Howard has said that she needed to be in full control to make this record, and it’s easy to see why: It is the kind of soul-baring opus that first requires soul-searching.
The album is named after Howard’s sister, who died at 13 after being diagnosed with a rare form of eye cancer. It was Jaime who first taught Brittany to write a song, and now she’s writing her most unyielding and vulnerable ones, songs about coming to terms with personal identity, guarded secrets, spiritual and social and sexual awakenings, deep-rooted family traumas. Though Howard feels united with her sister’s spirit, the album isn’t about Jaime. Instead, it is a boundless study of inner character, someone so used to speaking for others—the Shakes as a unit, the struggling masses on songs like “Hold On”—finally taking the opportunity to speak for herself. - Pitchfork
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Label: Columbia – 1907595693L |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, 180G |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 2019 |
$39.00
FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise is the much-anticipated follow-up to composer, trumpeter, and (now) singer jaimie branch's debut Fly or Die, which was dubbed one of the “Best Albums of 2017” by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR Music, WIRE, Stereogum, Aquarium Drunkard, and more. Written (mostly) while on her first European tour with Fly or Die in November 2018; and recorded (mostly) in studio at Total Refreshment Centre and live at Café OTO in London UK at the end of that tour, bird dogs of paradise is the result of a never-satisfied branch pushing her distinct style of progressive composition to new heights — while also stepping forward as a vocalist for the first time. “So much beauty lies in the abstract of instrumental music,” says branch in the album’s liner notes, “but being this ain’t a particularly beautiful time, I’ve chosen a more literal path. The voice is good for that.” - Bandcamp
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Label: International Anthem Recording Company – IARC0027 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: US |
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Released: 11 Oct 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Contemporary Jazz |
$39.00
Ryuichi Sakamoto has a way with collaborators. His reflective and emotional piano compositions are timeless and seem tailor-made for an array of electronic treatments. Which is why, for an artist who began his career in the 1970s, he has remained so vital in this new musical era. Following successful collaborations with Alva Noto and Fennesz, in which each artist provided his signature sonics to a suite of piano melodies, Sakamoto moved to Ghostly International to work with label mainstay Christopher Willits, a graduate of Mills College’s prestigious electronic music program and a product of the 2000s lap-pop movement ...
... My favorite moments on Ancient Future involve the combination of piano and guitar. Behind the frets, Willits reminds me so strongly of jazz guitar virtuoso Jim Hall that I had to fight the urge to ascribe the piano accompaniment to Bill Evans. The collaborators find a way to let their instruments breathe without slipping into New Age dullness. Especially on “Abandoned Silence” — a track that does not betray nearly as much darkness as implied by the title — Willits and Sakamoto, strings and keys, create magic. I hope that these two musicians were proud enough of their work, as they should be, to make more records together. - Pop Matters
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Label: Ghostly International – Gl-159, Ghostly International – Gl-159 LP, Ghostly International – Gl-159 LP / SMM-XVI |
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Series: SMM – XVI |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: US |
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Released: 30 Jul 2012 |
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Genre: Electronic |
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Style: Experimental, Ambient |
$39.00
Led by producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive Lowe, Tokyo’s Rōnin Arkestra brings together some of the most supreme and innovative players in Japan’s Jazz and electronic scene, featuring members of Kyoto Jazz Sextet, WONK, Cro-Magnon, Root Soul, Sleepwalker, Sauce81 and Kyoto Jazz Massive.
Formed in 2017, the collective’s debut album ‘Sonkei’, released 27th September via Albert’s Favourites, fuses ’60s deep and spiritual jazz with experimental electronica. The album follows the release of their critically acclaimed debut EP ‘First Meeting’, released earlier this year.
The super-group takes their name from Rōnin, the masterless samurai of a time gone by. Deadly master swordsmen who, without lords to serve, roamed Japan offering their skills wherever needed. As the need for their swordsmanship declined, they became master artisans making textiles, crafting poetry, painting and writing books.
It’s a fascinating evolution that has a parallel to each member in the Rōnin Arkestra collective - master musicians from different bands and clans coming together to create a vagabond band of like-minded musicians - weaving the stories of their lives into a collective sound. “The members of Rōnin Arkestra are some of my favorite musicians anywhere and the way we all come together in battle formation with so much heart and soul is making magic,” says de Clive Lowe.
The musical ‘stories’ contained in ‘Sonkei’ are each named after episodes from Samurai Champloo, an Edo-era, Japanese anime series following two ronin and their charge in search of the elusive "samurai who smells of sunflower”. “It’s a favourite of mine, with its two main characters being such juxtaposed personalities, but their only way to succeed is to work together - the lessons and reflection in that alone is self-evident,” adds de Clive Lowe. - Bandcamp
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Label: Albert's Favourites – ALBF-LP05 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 25 Sep 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul |
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Style: Contemporary Jazz |
$39.00
The late Deben Bhattacharya was a noted Bengali record producer, ethnomusicologist, poet, documentarian, radio producer and all around renaissance man. Having moved from Northern India to London as a young man, Bhattacharya began working for the BBC as a radio producer. In 1955, having worked all possible angles to securing funding Bhattacharya traveled to India to record musicians. The success of this trip allowed him to travel again soon after to the countries of the Middle East. With recordings from Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, as well as India and Pakistan, this LP is one of the best and earliest documents of the diverse and rich musical traditions of the Middle East. - Linear Notes
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Label: Fantôme Phonographique – OME1014 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 22 Mar 2019 |
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Genre: Folk, World, & Country |
$45.00
In the summer of 1986, inspired by gypsies from Turkey and the Balkan region, a Kurdish immigrant and six Austrians locked themselves in a small rehearsal room in Vienna's 5th district. What came out of these sessions sounded rather unusual for the local music scene.
Using songs from the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East as a vehicle for improvisations based on odd scales and rhythms, and looking for ways to adapt them to their instruments and European feel, the band gave birth to its own sound signature. Delivering some of the tightest oriental jazz fusion recorded that decade.
Submitted by soundman Michael Fitsch as his end of the year project at audio engineering school, the album was ultimately released on his teacher Hans Hartel's Ha Ha Soundwave imprint. Mostly sold in venues during legendary performances, Oriental Groove fatally faded from memory since the group disbanded a few months after its release.
To conclude a year of investigation and continuous efforts to put the band members back in touch 30 years later, Hot Mule Records is proud to bring this groundbreaking record back to life with an official reissue, carefully remastered from the original source. - Bandcamp
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Label: Hot Mule – HTML004 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue |
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Country: France |
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Released: 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country |
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Style: Contemporary Jazz, Folk, Jazz-Funk, Disco, Fusion |
$39.00
Matana Roberts returns with the fourth chapter of her extraordinary Coin Coin series — a project that has deservedly garnered the highest praise and widespread critical acclaim for its fierce aesthetic originality and unflinching narrative power. The first three Coin Coin albums, issued from 2011-2015, charted diverse pathways of modern/avant composition — Roberts calls it “panoramic sound quilting”—and ranged sequentially from large band to sextet to solo, unified by Roberts’ archival and often deeply personal research into legacies of the American slave trade and ancestries of American identity/experience. Roberts also emphasizes non-male subjects and thematizes these other-gendered stories with a range of vocal and verbal techniques: singspeak, submerged glossolalic recitation, guttural cathartic howl, operatic voice, gentle lullaby, group chant, and the recuperation of various American folk traditionals and spirituals, whether surfacing in fragmentary fashion or as unabridged set-pieces. The root of this vocality comes from her dedication to the legacy of her main chosen instrument, the alto saxophone.
On Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, Roberts convened a new band, with New Yorkers Hannah Marcus (guitars, fiddle, accordion) and percussionist Ryan Sawyer (Thurston Moore, Nate Wooley, Cass McCombs) joined by Montréal bassist Nicolas Caloia (Ratchet
Orchestra) and Montréal-Cairo composer/improviser Sam Shalabi (Land Of Kush, Dwarfs Of East Agouza) on guitar and oud, along with prolific trombonist Steve Swell and vibraphonist Ryan White as special guests. Memphis unspools as a continuous work of 21st century liberation music, oscillating between meditative incantatory explorations, raucous melodic themes, and unbridled free-improv suites, quoting archly and ecstatically from various folk traditions along the way. Led by Roberts’ conduction and unique graphic score practice, her consummate saxophone and clarinet playing, and punctuated by her singing and speaking various texts generated from her own historical research and diaristic writings, Coin Coin Chapter Four is a glorious and spellbinding new instalment in this projected twelve-part Gesamtkunstwerk. - Bandcamp
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Label: Constellation – CST145 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: Canada |
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Released: 18 Oct 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Free Improvisation, Free Jazz |
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!
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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!
