$48.00
P-Funk and Prince & the Revolution led the world through the last stellar evolutionary stages of soul music as it was transmogrified through the pulverizing lens of the 1980s, when African-American culture gave way to an advanced African-Interplanetary civilization. Self-actualized artists and visionaries followed, reflecting and refracting their own interpretations as if translated by Samuel Delaney or Octavia Butler. This unwieldily titled collection documents ten successful experiments in privately-issued sci-fi soul music, lonely transmissions from a planet in a state of cultural fugue. Packaged in a one-way portal to the further limits of expression. Some assembly required. – Numero Group
Label: Numero Group – NUM104 |
Series: The Cabinet Of Curiosities – |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Partially Mixed |
Country: US |
Released: 27 Sep 2019 |
Genre: Funk / Soul |
Style: Funk, P.Funk, Minneapolis Sound, Psychedelic, Soul |
$55.00
Alounge in the Poconos located just inside a Holiday Inn, 1973. The smoky haze clears to reveal a middle-aged couple on a one-foot high stage, prattling on about the weather or Watergate before launching into a serviceable cover of Burt Bacharach’s “Do You Know The Way To San Jose?” Tens of thousands of such combos littered restaurants, cruise ships, casinos, lobbies, and cocktail bars throughout the ’60s and ’70s, but far fewer cut a record worth buying from the stage, much less listening to on the home hi-fi. Gathered here are 14 lounge originals from across the entire easy listening spectrum. A spent matchbook’s worth of crooners, bossa nobodies, seafood jazzers, and Donca-Matic enthusiasts all in search of their ticket out of a red leather booth hell. – Numero Group
Label: Numero Group – NUM106 |
Series: The Cabinet Of Curiosities – |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo |
Country: US |
Released: 27 Mar 2020 |
Genre: Rock, Pop |
Style: Lounge, Lo-Fi, Folk Rock |
$39.00
A seamless mix of the organic and inorganic, the recent past and distant future, and the possible and impossible, Japanese multi-media artist Masumi Hara’s sophomore album arrived like a fish on the moon in 1984. An album filled with contradiction and purpose, 4 X A Dream is both balearic acid folk and damaged steel drum dub, hi-tech new wave balladry and ambient synth pop. Classical and neoimpressionist vibes haunt and entrance. Quite possibly the most unique LP you’ll ever add to your collection. – Numero Group
Label: Numero Group – NUM811 |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
Country: USA & Canada |
Released: 2020 |
Genre: Electronic |
Style: Synth-pop, Experimental, Ambient |