What’s the wildest marketing promotion you’ve ever worked on for any release?
We haven’t pulled a ton of ‘wild’ marketing stunts, but one moment that sticks out (haunts me?) was when we did Connan Mockasin paper face masks for the audience at our 10 year show - they were eyeless and really fucking creepy….and they were everywhere!
If you had the budget, what would be your dream “outside-the-box” or “crossover” marketing campaign?
How about a Cate Le Bon Super Bowl commercial? Just give her the reins and let her run wild with that outlandish budget…
What is your stance on color vinyl? What’s the most unique color LP or overall packaging you’ve ever seen or released?
How did you personally get started in the music industry?
I bounced around a lot, just trying to figure it out - I interned at CMJ around 1997 and then started working at Bowery Ballroom when it first opened, being a stagehand, ringing out monitors, etc. Then I moved onto labels, interning, temping, etc. One of my first experiences was working the switchboard at BMG, which was a trip. I was at J records, RCA, and eventually landed at Astralwerks around 2001 where I worked for a project manager and the A&R director, and met my future partner, Andres, who was working in the production dept.
When and where did the label begin?
Mexican Summer started in earnest around 2007, but our first release (a 12” w/ Dungen) didn’t drop until Summer, 2008. The label started out of the first Kemado office in Manhattan at the Starrett Lehigh building on W.26th St. What is the meaning behind the name for the label?
I pulled the name from a song I was into; I loved how it looked written, and thought it sounded beautiful, but also kind of foreboding. In other words, there’s no real meaning, but hopefully it sparks the imagination a little...
How has the label changed since it started?
Quite a bit - we started as a subscription service that had 4 of us working the releases. The volume was also insane back then - we probably dropped 25-30 releases one year. We quickly shed that model, opting to become a more ‘traditional’ label, and over time, honed a more realistic release slate, while growing our team and int’l footprint.
Describe the general makeup of your team at the label. We have an A&R crew, creative direction/design, COO and operations, biz dev, commercial team (focused on both physical and digital), project management (across NY and London), Digital marketing, social media and production…
Is the label tied to a specific geographical area? How is this reflected in your releases?
We’re based in NY, and always have been, but I wouldn’t say there’s ever been an A&R strategy that reflects that. We’ve worked with more artists that aren’t from NY over the years.
Where do you go to search for new music? Who or what has been a new find you’d like to rave about?
Hard to say! Not one particular place - I’m getting older, so while I’m always continuing to listen, I’m also very clear that I need a crew w/ younger energy around me! So, I’d say music is sometimes coming from those folks, along with a smaller set of trusted sources… on top of the regular sleuthing I do.
Is there a genre that you would consider to be the label’s “signature style,” or is it a mix?
I think we just try to work with good people who almost always seem to have a skewed take on pop music. I wouldn’t say there’s any particular style or genre we look for, but the connective tissue across our catalog is made up of adventurous writers.
How would you describe your overall ambitions and goals as a label from when you first started compared to now?
The goal remains the same, which is simply supporting art we believe in and (hopefully) putting out compelling records.
We know you can’t choose, but what’s been your favorite label release, and why?
Impossible, but three that I go back to often: L’Rain (Fatigue), Jack Name (Magic Touch) and Jessica Pratt (Quiet Signs) - all records that give more with repeat listens.
We always look to offer a color variant for independent record stores, which seems to get people excited. We’ve also recently done some color editions to celebrate album anniversaries (No Joy, Huerco S., Dungen, Robert Lester Folsom, and Weyes Blood).
Forget about the vinyl boom - how are you and your label responding to the ever-increasing popularity of cassette tapes? CDs??
We never really stopped making either, to be honest, though it happens less often and in smaller quantities (particularly in the case of cassettes). If the project calls for it, we’re game to explore it…
How would you describe the average fan of the label?
Our varied release output from artists all over the world makes this a difficult question to answer (thankfully!). I would say that it’s a goal to continue broadening our reach and diversifying our releases to pull in as wide an audience as we can.
Before working at the label did you have any experience playing in bands or making music of your own?
I did - but let’s keep those bodies buried! Mostly very shitty punk and hardcore bands.
In your opinion, how important is it to be environmentally sustainable within the music industry these days?
Very important, but inherently difficult because we make vinyl. That said, we try to lessen that impact by keeping transport to a minimum and assembling/ printing/pressing in one place. Our paper/board stocks are FSC certified and inks/varnishes are water based. The pressing plant we work with produces and recycles vinyl compound - and offers the option to press using 100% recycled vinyl. All LPs are shipped in recycled cardboard and pallets are made of recycled paper. Lastly, I think our hope is that we’re releasing music that is not disposable, which will hopefully enjoy a long shelf life…
How important are issues like mental health and social justice to you and the label?
Both issues are hugely important to us. We’ve made sure to reflect this through our company culture, creating PTO policies that focus on personal health needs and forming an internal committee dedicated to taking steps towards supporting social justice inside our industry and community.
What in your opinion has been the biggest change in the music industry from when you first started compared to now?
Streaming for sure, but also just the expectation on the artist to ‘create content’. There are so many hoops to jump through, depending on how one chooses to engage. It feels a little like the wild west out there, which can be both exhilarating and overwhelming…
If you had to start a new sub-label, what would it be called and what kind of music would it be geared towards?
Loss Leaders — it’d just be comps of choice bargain bin soft rock/aor. Want to shout out a personal favorite record store or retail establishment? Now’s your chance:
Tough to choose, but will shout out a bunch here that have served us well over the years - End of an Ear, Freakbeat, Rocket Number Nine, Strictly Discs, Brooklyn Record Exchange, Academy, Rough Trade, Music Millenium - too many to list! They say our sun will explode in about 5 billion years or so- how would you like the label to be remembered?
Being remembered is honestly not something I think of. I feel lucky to do what we’re doing now, and am grateful there’s an audience.
“With an exciting roster, skirting outliers in the worlds of psych and experimental, and both new and archival recordings, Earth Libraries is fast becoming one of the most exciting Indies out there.”
-Shindig! Magazine
“Euro-dance
masterpiece” - them 90 Million Streams To Date
CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS
• Features production from Jamie xx, Fred Again.., Stuart Price
• Sold out headline shows in New York, LA, San Francisco, London and more. Recent dates include Coachella 2023
• Radio: World Café (100+ markets), SHEROES (22 markets), WFUV New York, KROQ LA, Sirius XMU
• Out Of Home, Digital, Lifestyle marketing campaign including DJ and Club servicing + in-store play
• Socials: 183K IG, 30K TikTok
PRESS COVERAGE:
• New York Times Feature
• New Yorker Feature
• NPR
• Pitchfork
• FADER
• NPR
• Billboard
• Rolling Stone
• Stereogum
• Paper Mag
• Cool Hunting
• Relix
• them
• Document Journal
“an undeniable jam.”- Stereogum
maximalist
CAT POWER
OVERVIEW
A singularly gifted song interpreter whose catalog includes three acclaimed covers albums (2000’s The Covers Record, 2008’s Jukebox, 2022’s Covers), Marshall holds an especially strong affinity for the songwriter-poet she refers to as “God Dylan.” Like the original concert (and all of Dylan’s 1966 world tour), Marshall kept the first half of her set entirely acoustic, then went electric for the second half with the help of a full band.
As revealed on Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, Marshall approached every song in the setlist with both heartfelt reverence and a deep understanding of the delicate nature of song interpretation. And while Marshall admits to a nervous anticipation prior to the show, a certain sense of devotion helped to carry her through the night. “I had and still have such respect for the man who crafted so many songs that helped develop conscious thinking in millions of people, helped shape the way they see the world,” says Marshall. “So even though my hands were shaking so much I had to keep them in my pockets, I felt real dignity for myself. It felt like a real honor for me to stand there.”
CATALOG NUMBER: WIG524
RELEASE DATE: November 10, 2023
FILE UNDER: Alternative “C”
CD Boxlot: 30 UPC: 887828052424
2xLP w/ DOWNLOAD
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887828052417
Vinyl is non-returnable
2xLP (ltd) w/ DOWNLOAD
(Indie Retail Exclusive)
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887828052431
• Cat Power’s catalog boasts 1M physical sales to-date in the US, 500k sold via Indies. Over 220k physical units sold in the US across 3 covers albums.
• Gatefold 2xLP features embossed and gold foil text & lyrics.
• Gatefold CD with lyric booklet.
• All LP formats include a download card. Indie Retail Exclusive LP (ltd) is a white vinyl pressing.
DOMINO
Contact: Cyrus Lubin cyrus@dominorecordco.com
REDEYE
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Contact: Jill Wheeler jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
It’s been over 20 years since Fuel released their double-platinum album, Something Like Human.
Despite a Billboard Top 40 hit with “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)”, the album managed to evade a release on vinyl format until 2021, when Wargod teamed up with Fuel and Sony/Epic for first ever vinyl release.
Now available to retail on black vinyl the album includes liner notes from founding member and primary songwriter, Carl Bell.
• Includes liner notes from founding member and primary songwriter, Carl Bell.
• Available for the first time to retail stores.
• Single “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)” remains a staple at alternative rock radio.
• FUEL has collectively sold 4 million albums.
A1. Last Time
A2. Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
Easy
ARTIST Fuel FILE UNDER (F) rock, alt
FORMAT LP (single)
TITLE Something Like Human CATALOG # WG025
TARGET MARKETS
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• Arthur Fiedler’s Celebrated, 50-Year Tenure with the Boston Pops Yielded the Most Prolific and Popular Collaboration Between a Conductor and an Orchestra Ever
• Two Holidays Became Closely Associated with Fiedler and the Pops: July 4th and Christmas
• The Ultimate Pops Christmas Party! At Long Last Presents the Definitive Collection of Holiday-Themed Recordings by Fiedler and the Pops
• 2-CD Set
• Leads Off with the First-Ever Recording of Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride,” Which Has Shockingly Never Appeared on CD Before
• Includes Two Complete Albums, the Original 1959 Pops Christmas Party in RCA’s Living Stereo Splendor and 1969’s New-to-CD Christmastime in Carol and Song
• Features Guest Stars Leontyne Price and Beloved Pop Duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme
• Rarities Include the Pops’ Original Version of “The Christmas Festival,” “The Toy Trumpet” with Al Hirt, and Highlights from Babes in Toyland and The Nutcracker Suite
• Liner Notes by The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese
• Mastered at Sony’s Battery Studios
• 35 Tracks of Christmas Cheer Spanning 1949-1971
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UPC: 848064016458
FORMAT: 2-CD Set
PACKAGING: Slimline Jewel Case with Booklet and Tray Card
BOX LOT: 30
SELLING POINTS
• Between 1961 and 1970, Goodyear Stores Offered an Exclusive Annual Series of Christmas Releases
• The First One in 1961 Sold 900,000 Copies, and Goodyear Had to Suspend Advertising by December 1
• Subsequent Volumes Sold 1.5 Million and 2 Million Copies, Respectively
• These High-Quality Albums Not Only Featured the Era’s Top Artists but Frequently Presented Songs and Versions Available Nowhere Else
• The Great Songs of Christmas: Masterworks Edition Follows in the Footsteps of Those Classic Goodyear Albums
• Offers 18 Selections Primarily Drawn from the Original, Long Out-of-Print Series of LPs
• Half of the Tracks Are New to CD, and the Rest Appear on Very Hard-to-Find, Long Out-of-Print Collections
• Features the Most Beloved Carols of All Time Performed by Such Classical Superstars as Leonard Bernstein and The New York Philharmonic, Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Cellist-Conductor Pablo Casals, and Erich Leinsdorf and The London Symphony Orchestra with The Roger Wagner Chorale
• Also Highlights Opera Greats Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, and Anna Moffo
• Track-by-Track Commentary in Liner Notes by The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese
• Remastered by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision
• A Gift for Christmas and Classical Music Collectors
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UPC: 848064016441
FORMAT: Compact Disc
PACKAGING: Jewel Case with Booklet and Tray Card
BOX LOT: 30
STREET DATE: NOVEMEMBER 10, 2023
In his 50-year tenure as conductor of The Boston Pops, Arthur Fiedler transformed the Boston Symphony Orchestra offshoot into perhaps the most renowned pops orchestra in the world. A natural showman, the maestro fervently believed in broadening the reach of classical music to a wide audience. He famously incorporated the music of The Beatles into his programs and began the tradition of the Pops concert and fireworks every July 4th on Boston’s Esplanade. Under his auspices, The Boston Pops made more recordings than any other orchestra in the world. Along with the Fourth, one holiday was closely associated with Fiedler and the Pops: Christmas! The orchestra introduced Leroy Anderson’s now-classic “Sleigh Ride” in 1948, and the very next year recorded it for RCA Victor. That first-ever recording, shockingly never before issued on CD, opens Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records’ definitive celebration of Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops’ holiday recordings. The Ultimate Pops Christmas Party! lives up to its title with 2 CDs and 35 tracks of yuletide cheer in the grand and lavish Boston Pops fashion. Spanning 1949-1971, The Ultimate Pops Christmas Party! includes two full albums: the original 1959 Pops Christmas Party in RCA’s Living Stereo splendor and 1969’s new-to-CD Christmastime in Carol and Song. The latter found Fiedler away from Boston and conducting in New York with some very special guests: legendary soprano Leontyne Price and beloved pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. The Ultimate Pops Christmas Party! also features numerous festive rarities from various singles and albums over the years including such classics as the Pops’ original version of “The Christmas Festival,” “The Toy Trumpet” with Al Hirt, and highlights from Babes in Toyland and The Nutcracker Suite. The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese provides the new liner notes, and everything has been beautifully remastered at Sony’s Battery Studios. Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops’ The Ultimate Pops Christmas Party! is a very merry one, and you’re invited!
DISC 1
1 Sleigh Ride
2 The Christmas Festival
3 Panis Angelicus
4 Ave Maria
5 Ave Maria
6 Fantasia on “Greensleeves”/Babes in Toyland
7 March of the Toys
8 A Christmas Festival: Joy to the World/Deck the Halls/ Good King Wenceslas/God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen/ Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/The First Nowell/Silent Night/Jingle Bells/O Come, All Ye Faithful (Medley)
9 White Christmas
10 Sleigh Ride
11 Winter Wonderland
12 Parade of the Wooden Soldiers/Hansel and Gretel
13 Dream Pantomime/German Dances, K. 605
14 Sleigh Ride, No. 3
15 Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
16 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
17 Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
DISC 2
1 Sleigh Ride
2 Toyland/March of the Toys (Excerpt from “Victor Herbert Favorites” Medley)
3 The Toy Trumpet
4 Joy to the World/Jingle Bells/Away in a Manger/ We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Medley)
5 Carol of the Bells
6 Go Tell it on the Mountain
7 Silent Night
8 Hurry Home for Christmas
9 I Wonder as I Wander
10 Here We Come A-Caroling/O
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Between 1961 and 1970, families across the United States delighted in an annual series of Christmas releases available exclusively through Goodyear stores. A whopping 900,000 copies of the first volume of The Great Songs of Christmas were pressed–and proved so successful that, by December 1, 1961, Goodyear ordered all advertising to stop as the album had already sold out! The following year’s order was for 1.5 million albums, and 2 million the year after that. These high-quality albums not only featured the era’s top artists but frequently presented songs and versions unavailable anywhere else. Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are proud to continue the rich tradition of The Great Songs of Christmas with an all-new volume in the classic spirit. The Great Songs of Christmas: Masterworks Edition brings together 18 lush selections primarily drawn from the original, long out-of-print series of LPs, featuring the most beloved carols of all time as performed by the greatest classical artists of the 20th century. These legends include Leonard Bernstein and The New York Philharmonic, Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, opera greats Richard Tucker, Robert Merrill, and Anna Moffo, cellist-conductor Pablo Casals, and Erich Leinsdorf and The London Symphony Orchestra with The Roger Wagner Chorale. Half of the tracks are new to CD, and the rest can be fiendishly tough to find on out-of-print compilations. This volume of The Great Songs of Christmas has been freshly remastered by Mike Milchner at SonicVision, and features new, track-by-track liner notes by The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese. The Great Songs of Christmas: Masterworks Edition promises to become a cherished part of your family’s annual Christmas tradition…and a treasure trove for Christmas music collectors!
1. For Unto Us a Child is Born – Leonard Bernstein & The New York Philharmonic
2. Angels We Have Heard on High/Good King Wenceslas – The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
3. Joy to the World – The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
4. We Three Kings of Orient Are –The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
5. The Little Drummer Boy – The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
6. We Three Kings of Orient Are – The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
7. The Lord’s Prayer – Richard Tucker
8. Jesu Joy of Men’s Desiring – Pablo Casals
9. March of the Kings – The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
10. Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly –The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
11. Still, Still, Still – The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
12. March of the Kings/Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Robert Merrill
13. Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)– Anna Moffo
14. Joy to the World – Anna Moffo
15. In Dulci Jubilo – London Symphony Orchestra/ Erich Leinsdorf
16. O Sanctissima – London Symphony Orchestra/ Erich Leinsdorf
17. Ave Maria (Schubert) – Anna Moffo
18. O Holy Night – Robert Merrill
SELLING POINTS
• Now We’re Back with Its Predecessor, 1997’s Mega!! Kung-Fu Radio
• Their First Studio Album
• Was Actually Released Two Years Earlier as The Blood Splat Rating System
• When That Album Won the Boston Phoenix Reader’s Poll for Best Rap Album, Best Rock Album, and Album of the Year, DreamWorks Signed Them
• Mega!! Kung-Fu Radio Is a Remixed, Remastered, and Supercharged Version of The Blood Splat Rating System
• Features Two New Tracks, the Title Cut and the Great “20 Miles to Texas 25 to Hell”
• Vinyl Debut
• Includes Printed Inner Sleeve
• Blue with Black Swirl Vinyl
(Blue with Black Swirl Vinyl Edition)
STREET DATE: NOVEMEMBER 10, 2023
UPC: 848064016083
FORMAT: Regular Weight Blue with Black Swirl Vinyl
PACKAGING: Album Jacket with Printed Inner Sleeve
BOX LOT: 60
SIDE
SIDE
4. Standing 8
5. Even Superman Shot
Himself/File Under Action
• Real Gone Music Has Been Proud to Represent the GL-Label Catalog of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme For over 10 Years
• But Now, with the Help of Their Son David Lawrence and His Wife Faye, We Are Embarking on a Complete Catalog Overhaul
• Improved Packaging and Remastered Sound Straight from the Original Tapes
• Steve and Eydie’s 1964 Christmas Album That Holiday Feeling! Is One of the Most Beloved Classics in the Genre
• Features Solo Performances and the Duo’s Trademark Duets
• Under the Supervision of David Lawrence, Eric Boulanger Has Remastered the Entire Album for Vinyl from the Original Two-Track Master Tapes and Restored the Original Sequence
• Includes a Personal Note from David Lawrence
• Enclosed Insert Features Liner Notes by Joe Marchese
• Added Photos
• Green Vinyl Pressing
• Limited to 750 Copies
(LIMITED & REMASTERED GREEN VINYL EDITION)
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 10, 2023
We at Real Gone Music have proudly represented Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme’s GL label for over a decade. But now, we are very, very excited to announce that we are working with Steve and Eydie’s son David Lawrence and his wife Faye to overhaul their entire catalog of recordings, offering updated annotation and fresh remasterings straight from the original tapes! Last year, we inaugurated our reissue campaign with their classic 1964 holiday release…and now we are very proud to announce we are bringing That Holiday Feeling! to vinyl (green vinyl, that is)! You get 12 holiday favorites including solo Steve (“The Christmas Song,”
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UPC: 848064016007
FORMAT: Regular Weight Green Vinyl
PACKAGING: Album Jacket with Insert
LIMITED EDITION: 750 Copies
BOX LOT: 60
“Let Me Be the First to Wish You Merry Christmas”), solo Eydie (“White Christmas,” “What Are You Doing New Years Eve”) and the duo’s trademark duet renditions (e.g. “Sleigh Ride”). We’ve included a personal note from David Lawrence with liner notes by Joe Marchese. Even if you already own this Christmas classic, the sound on this new edition— remastered for vinyl by Eric Boulanger under David’s Lawrence supervision—will indeed spark that holiday feeling.
Limited to 750 copies!
SIDE ONE
1. That Holiday Feeling
2. White Christmas
3. Winter Wonderland
4. The Christmas Song
5. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
6. Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
SIDE TWO
1. Sleigh Ride
2. Let Me Be the First to Wish You Merry Christmas
3. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
4. What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve
5. That Ol’ Christmas Spirit
6. Happy Holiday
NOT CONTENT TO REDO THE SAME OLD FESTIVE STANDBYS, BUCK’S FIRST HOLIDAY ALBUM FEATURES A NEW BATCH OF CHRISTMAS CLASSICS. REISSUED ON LP FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE ITS 1965 RELEASE,EVEN THE LONE TRADITIONAL SONG, "JINGLE BELLS," RECEIVED A BRAND SPANKING NEW ARRANGEMENT COURTESY OF BUCKAROO DON RICH. "SANTA LOOKED A LOT LIKE DADDY," PENNED BY BUCK AND DON, QUICKLY BECAME A PERENNIAL SONG OF THE SEASON, THANKS TO IT HUMOROUS LYRICS AND INFECTIOUS MELODY. THIS ALL ANALOG EDITION IS STUFFED WITH YULETIDE BOOT STOMPERS, BALLADS AND MORE! PRESSED ON
LP
Artist: Buck Owens and The Buckaroos
Title: Christmas With Buck Owens...
Red Vinyl LP
Box Lot Quantity: 30 LP
File Under: Country
LP 5626 UPC: 090771562616
SANTA LOOKED A LOT LIKE DADDY (DADDY LOOKED A LOT LIKE HIM) • BLUE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS • CHRISTMAS AIN’T CHRISTMAS • JINGLE BELLS • ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU • SANTA’S GONNA COME IN A STAGECOACH • CHRISTMAS TIME’S A COMIN’ • BLUE CHRISTMAS TREE • HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS AGAIN • CHRISTMAS MORNING • IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME FOR
THIS ALL ANALOG COLOR VINYL EDITION IS SURE TO GET YOU IN THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT WITH BUCK & THE BUCKAROOS!
Artist: Buck Owens and The Buckaroos
Title: Christmas Shopping
Green Vinyl LP
Box Lot Quantity: 30 LP
File Under: Country
LP 5627 UPC: 090771562715
REIUSSUED ON LP FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE IT’S INITIAL ‘68 PRESSING! TWELVE SONGS OF THE SEASON, WRITTEN AND SUNG BY BUCK OWENS! ONCE AGAIN, BUCK AND THE BOYS COME UP WITH A RICH AND VARIED MIX OF NEW HOLIDAY CLASSICS, SURE TO PLEASE ANY MERRIMENT MAKER. TELECASTERS TWANG, STEEL GUITARS CRY AND THROUGH IT ALL, THAT BUCKAROO SPIRIT SHINES BRIGHTER THAN TINSEL ON THE TREE. "CHRISTMAS SCHOTTISCHE." WHEREVER YOU ARE, WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING FOR THE YULETIDE, LET BUCK OWENS AND HIS BUCKAROOS PROVIDE THE PERFECT HOLIDAY SOUNDTRACK!
SC 6163 UPC: 090771616326 (low stock)
INCLUDES: CHRISTMAS SHOPPING • CHRISTMAS TIME IS NEAR • THE JOLLY CHRISTMAS POLKA • ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY DADDY • MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM OUR HOUSE TO YOURS • GOOD OLD FASHIONED MERRY CHRISTMAS • ONE OF EVERYTHING YOU GOT • HOME ON CHRISTMAS DAY • CHRISTMAS SCHOTTISCHE (INSTRUMENTAL) • A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS • IT’S NOT WHAT YOU GIVE • TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS DAY
le under: indie rock rock shoegaze
Info:
In 2013, Blue Smiley of cially formed in Brian Nowell and John Slavin’s rodent-infested North Philadelphia apartment With Nowell primarily composing from the hammock he used as a bed, Blue Smiley created three short recordings within a year, featuring drummers Gracie Clements, Tim McMonigle, and Joe Veltri Matt McGraw, drummer and childhood friend of Slavin’s, later joined the group to galvanize a sound that helped de ne Philadelphia indie rock of the 2010’s
Blue Smiley’s rst professionally recorded album ok released in 2015, featuring dystopian noise-pop compositions with fuzzy effects, unique for its focus on groove and precipitous tempo changes Slavin then relocated to Austin, TX while close friend and bassist Michael Corso joined Nowell for the next iteration of the group
True to the Blue Smiley ethos, their next full-length return soon followed, replete with snappy, short songs that waste no time getting to the point On return, Nowell’s hushed vocals settle deeper into the band’s tapestry, like an iridescent thread that catches your eye at just the right moment
During their last tour, the band introduced a handful of new songs, but never made it to the studio While celebrating his upcoming 27th birthday with his parents, Nowell expressed his intentions to put these tracks together for a third LP Tragically, Nowell was found unresponsive in his room the following morning on October 8, 2017, a victim of fentanyl poisoning
In spite of the band’s premature ending, their legacy is now immortalized with this physical recording
For Fans of:
LSD and the Search for God, Horse Jumper of Love, Duster, Slowdive, Alex G, Whirr
Selling Points:
LP features jacket with obi strip, download codes, marketing sticker, poster insert, printed dust sleeve, and 180g black vinyl
• CD features digipack with obi strip, mini poster insert, and silkscreened disc face CS is printed on "Light Pink" cassette shells with standard J-card with obi strip
• 25M+ streams catalog-wide to date
• Back-catalog release coinciding with street date
• Coincides with rst vinyl release for revered, in uential band
• 950k monthly listeners on Spotify
28k followers on Spotify
• 330k views on TikTok
• 265k reach on Spotify Playlists
US PR Campaign
• Marketing by Terrorbird Media
“[“ok” and “return”] synthesized a whole new sound by cranking the chorus effect to ungodly levels and using it as frequently as any other orthodox shoegaze band would use reverse reverb or “glide guitar ”
-Stereogum
“[ ] the rare work of music that seems to transcend setting It’s as equally digestible as it is intricate You can sit with it and intently wait for it to reveal its secrets, or put it on and let it work its way through the atmosphere of the room ”
-Post-Trash
le under: indie rock rock shoegaze
Info:
In 2013, Blue Smiley of cially formed in Brian Nowell and John Slavin’s rodent-infested North Philadelphia apartment With Nowell primarily composing from the hammock he used as a bed, Blue Smiley created three short recordings within a year, featuring drummers Gracie Clements, Tim McMonigle, and Joe Veltri Matt McGraw, drummer and childhood friend of Slavin’s, later joined the group to galvanize a sound that helped de ne Philadelphia indie rock of the 2010’s
Blue Smiley’s rst professionally recorded album ok released in 2015, featuring dystopian noise-pop compositions with fuzzy effects, unique for its focus on groove and precipitous tempo changes Slavin then relocated to Austin, TX while close friend and bassist Michael Corso joined Nowell for the next iteration of the group
True to the Blue Smiley ethos, their next full-length return soon followed, replete with snappy, short songs that waste no time getting to the point On return, Nowell’s hushed vocals settle deeper into the band’s tapestry, like an iridescent thread that catches your eye at just the right moment
During their last tour, the band introduced a handful of new songs, but never made it to the studio While celebrating his upcoming 27th birthday with his parents, Nowell expressed his intentions to put these tracks together for a third LP Tragically, Nowell was found unresponsive in his room the following morning on October 8, 2017, a victim of fentanyl poisoning
In spite of the band’s premature ending, their legacy is now immortalized with this physical recording
For Fans of:
LSD and the Search for God, Horse Jumper of Love, Duster, Slowdive, Alex G, Whirr
Selling Points:
• LP features jacket with obi strip, download codes, marketing sticker, poster insert, printed dust sleeve, and 180g black vinyl
• CD features digipack with obi strip, mini poster insert, and silkscreened disc face
• CS is printed on "Blue Tint" cassette shells with standard J-card with obi strip 25M+ streams catalog-wide to date
• Back-catalog release coinciding with street date
• Coincides with rst vinyl release for revered, in uential band
• Back-catalog release coinciding with street date
• 950k monthly listeners on Spotify 28k followers on Spotify
• 330k views on Tiktok
• 230k reach on Spotify Playlists Music video for single 'Coma'
• US PR Campaign
• Marketing by Terrorbird Media
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SOUL POWER • HEEBIE JEEBIES • WELL, WELL, WELL, BABY-LA • HOUSE OF SO MANY TEARS • MAMA TOLD ME COMING TO SEE ABOUT YOU • HEAR WHAT I SAID • DOWN ON BENDING KNEES • I GOT TO GO HOME • I’LL BE AROUND
AIN’T NOBODY’S BUSINESS (BUT MINE) • BABY PLEASE DON’T GO • WORKING MAN’S BLUES (VERSION 2) • PLEASE LET ME KNOW • IT MUSIC BE LOVE • SOMETHING’S UP YOUR SLEEVE • FUNNY FEELING • THAT’S ALL RIGHT LITTLE MAMA
ROCK ME BABY • PROVING TIME • I NEED YOU NOW
UNTITLED #12 • THE STUMBLE • LOVE SONG • MAKING A FOOL OF MYSELF • CUT OFF MY RIGHT ARM • HOOKED, HOGTIED & COLLARED • I FEEL LIKE I WANTA CRY (DEMO)
• AN INFLUENTIAL BLUES
GUITARIST SINCE THE 1950s
• 2-DISC SET FEATURING
THE BEST OF HIS TEXAS
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• DISC 2 CONTAINS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED LIVE RECORDINGS
• CONTAINS 5 TRACKS
PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE ON CD
A collection of good old Texas electric blues and soul tracks mostly recorded by Copeland in the early ‘60s through the mid-’70s, between his first flush of youth and his Rounder Records-sponsored artistic renaissance, JUST ONE MORE TIME is a portrait of an undeniably talented electric guitarist and singer waiting for his big breakthrough. Disc 2 presents a number of rarities and B-Sides, previously unavailable for over 40 years. Three bonus live tracks from 1993 and an unreleased 1968 demo completes this outstanding compilation.
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RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 10, 2023
ARTIST: JOHNNY COPELAND
TITLE: JUST ONE MORE TIME
CONFIGURATION: DIGI PAK / TWO CD SET
CAT #: CD-SBR-7046
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BOX LOT: 45 UNITS
GENRE: BLUES / SOUL
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SIDE ONE
1 - NOTHING BUT THE DEVIL
2 - I’M A LOVER NOT A FIGHTER
3 - I MADE UP MY MIND
4 - I NEED MONEY
5 - HELLO MARY LEE
6 - YOU’RE GONNA RUIN ME BABY
7 - IF YOU THINK I’VE LOST YOU
SIDE TWO
1 - MY HOME IS A PRISON
2 - TELL ME PRETTY BABY
3 - THE SUN IS SHINING
4 - IRENE
5 - STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN
6 - NOTHING BUT THE DEVIL (LIVE)
ALL OVER YOU is a forgotten gem, remastered, resequenced, and presented here for the first time on vinyl, nearly 25 years to do the day after its original release. Recorded raw with a band pulled from the ranks of Austin’s legendary Antone’s Nightclub, this session finds an older, laid-back Lester revisiting his classic Excello sides and distilling them to their essence. The remastered album features a bonus live recording of the Lightning Slim track, “Nothing But The Devil.” The audio was remastered from original source material and pressed at GZ Vinyl in the Czech Republic.
Tasting notes: leather, freshly-oiled gunmetal, boiled crawfish.
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UPC: 607396351114
Box Lot: 20 Count
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Genre: Blues
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Genre: Blues
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“Les Jardins Mystiques” is Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s magnum opus. 12 years in the making, Vol.1 comprises 3.5 hours of music across 4 vinyl LPs spanning jazz, modern classical and ambient. Composed, arranged and produced by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson with contributions from 50+ friends and family including Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, DOMi & JD Beck, Jeff Parker, Carlos Niño, Austin Peralta, Bennie Maupin, Lara Somogyi, Jamael Dean, Jamire Williams, Burniss Travis II, Deantoni Parks, Brandon Coleman, Marcus Gilmore and more.
Deeply embedded in the LA music scene, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson is quite simply one of the preeminent musicians, orchestrators, arrangers and composers of our time. He has worked with the likes of Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Smokey Robinson, Wayne Shorter, Billy Higgins, Ray Brown, Dr. Dre, Flying Lotus, Austin Peralta, Anderson .Paak, Mary J Blige, Bonobo, Big Boi, Arthur Verocai, Lianne La Havas, Kaytranada, Hiatus Kaiyote, Moses Sumney, Seu Jorge, Common, Questlove/The Roots, The Cinematic Orchestra, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad and many others. A true visionary from the days of his earliest output in the 00s with experimental hip-hop/jazz/electronic outfits like Ammoncontact, The Life Force Trio and creative music ensemble Build An Ark. He is best known to hip-hop fans for his stunning orchestral tribute to the music of James “J Dilla” Yancey – “Mochilla Presents Timeless: Suite for Ma Dukes” in 2009.
A1. Kiseki
A2. Persinette
A3. Narva
A4. Eudaimonia
A5. Porpita
A6. Nazo No Tenkai (Ernok)
A7. Mångata
B1. Ano Yo
B2. Zarra
B3. Kairos (Amor Fati)
CAT NO: BF134
UPC: 5054429173475
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C1. Magnolia (Aisling)
C2. Cho Oyu
C3. Matumaini
C4. Zoticus
C5. Légäsi
D1. Votivus
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UPC: 5054429173482
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￫ Artwork by David Crunelle.
Genre: Jazz / Modern Classical
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Recommended if you like… Flying Lotus; Kamasi Washington; Ryuichi Sakamoto; Ólafur Arnalds
D2. Querencia
D3. Kundinyota
D4. Dragons of Eden
D5. Eunoia
D6. Znaniya (Falkor)
D7. Tzedakah
D8. Apocrypha
E1. Asherah
E2. Plotinus
E3. Kairos (Kefi)
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E4. Qumran
E5. Makaria
E6. Kupaianaha
E7. Taijasa
F1. Vesta
F2. Ziggurat
F3. Ziya
F4. Scar
F5. Let The Light Shine In
F6. Komorebi
F7. Daydream
G1. Dream Dance
G2. Apotheosis
G3. Magnolia (Astronomia Nova)
G4. Moksha
H1. Datsuzoku
H2. Hypatia
H3. Kuleana
H4. Aldous
H5. Jijivisha
H6. Paititi
H7. Airavata
H8. Znaniya (Ahura Mazda)
H9. Nag Hammadi
H10. Halcyon
H11. Sweet Invitation
A. 1980 4:57
B1: (instrumental version) feat. Dave Harrington 5:28
B2: (vocal version) feat. Gaye Su Akyol and Dave Harrington 5:28
CATALOG NUMBER: NUB061
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RELEASE TITLE: 1980
STREET DATES
Digital: September 29, 2023
Physical: November 2023
Oceanvs Orientalis and Ilhan Ersahin first entered each other's orbits by chance at a performance at Turkey's Cappadox Festival in 2018. Oceanvs Orientalis is renowned for his fusion of Eastern musical motifs and traditions with cutting-edge electronica while Ilhan Ersahin has long plowed a unique path uniting assorted musical strains from around the world via an exploratory jazz-improv sensibility. Following two tracks ("Mestre" and "Pire") co-written by Ilhan and OvO and released as collaborations, and two more Ersahin/ OvO co-writes ("Revenge Of The Wankers" and "Television") released under OvO's name alone, a fresh and exciting new song called "1980" now heralds a full-length collaboration slated to land in Spring 2024. The track's title hints at a certain nostalgic bent while still keeping its gaze firmly fixed on the future even as it evokes sundrenched good times gone by. The single adds several extra versions, one of which spotlights the multi-instrumental mastery of Darkside's Dave Harrington while the other features the mesmerizing vocal stylings of Gaye Su Akyol. This single is the perfect soundtrack to the waning days of summer and truly whets the appetite for the fulllength project these musical wizards have been busily concocting.
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STREET DATE: July 28th, 2023November 10, 2023
Continuing the celebrations around the 25th anniversary Fat Of The Land, XL Recordings announce a stacked new silver 12” vinyl and digital, The Fat Of The Land 25th
Not Defined By The Visible Immortelle Lick Your Wounds
Dimensional Spleen (feat. Slikback) The Infinite Chemistry of the Betwixt (Tool) Unborn Yet Alive
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Mind Era The 7th Element Prophet Club Azoth Eyes
Format: 180g Black Vinyl Catalog No. HTH172
UPC/EAN 5060845323585
Release date: 10th November 2023
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As she set out to conceive the music for her third album as a leader, drummer/composer Mareike Wiening [pronounced: Mar-EYE-kuh VEE-ning] glanced around and discovered a wealth of potential inspirations in the tumultuous events of recent years. Of course, there were the global upheavals that we’ve all watched unfold with bated breath: the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, political divisiveness in the U.S., Europe and beyond.
Realizing that such heady subjects could result in a decidedly stark and somber album, Wiening chose not to react but to reveal, searching inward for the warmth and spirit that connected her with music in the first place. On Reveal, her third album for Greenleaf Music, Wiening has crafted her richest and most deeply personal music to date.
Reveal reunites Wiening once again with her longtime working band: tenor saxophonist Rich Perry, pianist Glenn Zaleski, guitarist Alex Goodman, and bassist Johannes Felscher. They are joined on three tracks by esteemed trumpeter and Greenleaf founder Dave Douglas, a fervent supporter throughout Wiening’s career. Multi-faceted and intriguing, moving and exhilarating, the album is ultimately exactly what the title promises: a revelation.
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Album Details:
Artist: Mareike Wiening
Title: Reveal
Label: Greenleaf Music
Catalogue #: GRE-CD-1106
Format: CD
Box lot: 40
Genre: Jazz
UPC: 8 50053 18903 6
Street Date: Nov 10
Track Listing:
1. Time for Priorities
2. Choral Anthem
3. Reveal
4. Encore
5. Declaration of Truth
6. Balada
7. Old Beginning
8. The Girl by the Window
(Total Time: 50:57)
Publicity: Antje Hübner Hubtone
Twin Rocks
Genre: Ambient - Jazz
Item Number: LP-OS-1004
UPC: 634457139954
Standard Edition LP
SIDE A
Buried Palms Garden, Snake Behind Valley, And The Way Back Hill (15:44)
SIDE B
Hidden Village, Sea of B, Red Pine Bridge And The Crystal Clear DeadEnd (16:56)
Street Date: November 10, 2023
Street Date: October 20, 2023
Istanbul born performing artist, producer, composer and instrument builder Berke Can Özcan, in collaboration with critically acclaimed Norwegian trumpet mastermind Arve Henriksen and Brooklyn-based baritone saxophonist Jonah Parzen-Johnson, takes you on a captivating journey through the depths of nature on the Lycian Way, immersing the listener in a mesmerizing soundscape that echoes the wonder and mystery of the trail leading to the ancient Lycia. As Özcan ventures deeper into uncharted territory, he stumbles upon a sight that would spark an artistic flame - the Twin Rocks
This collaboration weaves together a tapestry of sonic explorations that capture the essence of Özcan's journey. The ambient-jazz album's delicate balance between organic sounds and electronic manipulation creates a dreamlike atmosphere that transports the listener to the rugged terrain of the Lycian Way. Mastered by three time Grammy winner Dave Darlington, each track on this ethereal album mirrors a different aspect of the journey to the Twin Rocks, meticulously composed by Ozcan, Parzen-Johnson and Henriksen with each section of the trail in mind.
The album is infused with melodic bird songs and sound walk memories that add depth and texture to the ethereal soundscape. Ozcan’s array of self-crafted instruments made out of bamboos, soda bottle caps, straws, house keys, terracotta flower pots alongside with his long time companions like his steel drums, chimes, gongs, and vibraphone, serve as the medium through which he expressed the reflections of his encounters in his own world of rhythm and melody.
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Track Listing
Four Rays (Anti Divide) Rainbows
Vulcani di fango
Ghosts of Precognition
Troisième noire La Ronde
Other Drag City releases featuring Stephen O’Malley:
Cylene II is the new materialization of the collaboration between François J. Bonnet & Stephen O’Malley, initiated in 2018 and continued without interruption since then, taking form in a myriad of contexts ranging from common practice to recording sessions, concerts and tours.
Cylene II bears witness to these different contexts, offering a multifaceted sound signature developed on different occasions (artist residencies in La Becque, Switzerland and Modena, Italy, live performance excerpts, a studio session at INA-GRM Studios in Paris).
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The epic opening track “Four Rays (Anti Divide)” welcomes, for the first time, other musicians — in this case a wind quintet — expanding the duo’s sonic palette without betraying the fundamental component of their music, namely the driving of sonic energy. Elsewhere, Bonnet and O’Malley propel the energy between themselves, extending the singular climate that has characterized their musical development over the past five years. Among their minimal presentation of tones and resonances, as glacial harmonic intersections slowly elevate with massive physicality to an orchestral degree, new refinements become evident: the music’s relationship to silence, and a brightening of the fine metallic edge glowing at its core.
For the listener, Cylene II is a sound that reaches from the deep and scales up to the far firmament in its careful motion, drawing emotions viscerally from the chest, giving rise to the suggestibility of the soul. A séance of sorts for all who witness it, whether playing or listening.
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Fresh off a tour with The Armed, and on the heels of countless releases and collaborations, Patrick Shiroishi’s music is as vital and stirring as ever on I Was Too Young To Hear Silence. Where his breakout release, 2021’s Hidemi, used choruses of saxophones and vocals to memorialize his grandfather, I Was Too Young To Hear Silence expands the scope of his remembrance. Shiroishi’s chosen instruments are alto saxophone, glockenspiel, and a cavernous parking garage through which the former’s melodies reverberate. It’s an apt setting for Shiroishi’s continuing confrontation of the legacy of Japanese concentration camps.
American Dreams Records is a transcontinental experimental label dedicated to showcasing art inspired by patience, intention, perseverance, hope, and leaving the world a little more beautiful than we found it. Our ethos is rooted in story-telling, inclusivity, community, and cohabitation with the natural world.
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1. stand still like a hummingbird
2. i almost said
3. the soil things grew from
4. tule lake blues
5. how will we get back to life again?
RIYL: Darius Jones, Kaoru Abe, Keiji Haino, Masayoshi
Urabe, Martin Kuchen, Onkyokei
6. rain, after running away
7. is it possible to send promises backwards?
8. hunting the eye of his own storm
9. if only heaven would give me another ten years
File under: Jazz
“The saxophonist funnels a painful and triumphant history into his compositions” - NPR
Selling Points:
• Press in NPR, Pitchfork, PopMatters, Brooklyn Vegan
• Appearances planned at The Met, LAMPO, and others in support of release
• Liner notes by Brandon Shimoda
• Collaborations with The Armed, Tashi Dorji, Jessica Ackerley, claire rousay, Fuubutsushi
• Mastered by Andrew Weathers (claire rousay, Hayden Pedigo, Anthony Braxton)
• Past appearances on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts (with Wild Up), with Jeff Parker, Emma Ruth Rundle, Algiers, Sumac, Bill Orcutt, Eli Winter, and countless others
Catalog #: 70 ADR
Black LP: 727431748782
Box lot of 30
WAS TOO YOUNG TO HEAR SILENCE
RELEASE DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2023
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Title: CELESTIAL LOW
Label: APOLLON RECORDS
Genre: Alternative Post Rock
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CD-ARP-180 CD 7090039727453
LP-ARP-180 LP 7090039727460
Veteran alternative hard Rock band Ribozyme from Bergen, Norway returns with their 8th album “CELESTIAL LOW”.
Ribozyme produced by Spidergawd mastermind Per Borten, you say? What a great idea! The goal with having Per Borten produce this was to capture their live energy, and also to have more of an organic sound to the recordings. So isn’t it pretty awesome that Ribozyme is delivering shamelessly catchy rock tunes in 2023? We think so!
Line-up:
Drums: Cato Olaisen (Ex-Major Parkinson, Trust, Natt)
Bass: Bård Kristinson (Trust Us, Natt)
Guitar/Vocals: Kjartan Ericson (Vestamaran)
Guitar: Thomas Lønnheim (ex-Sahg, ex-Ralph Myers & Jack Herren Band)
MARKETING & PROMOTION / SELLING POINTS
For fans of Foo Fighters, Placebo, Spidergawd & EL CACO
Featuring members from Vestamaran, Trust Us and ex-Major Parkinson
Limited edition LP on orange/black marble vinyl (300 copies)
Digital singles: BLOODWORKS (2/6), CELESTIAL LOW (25/8), SQUARE (22/9)
TRACKLIST:
1. NEWLY DEFEATED
2. BLOODWORKS
3. RAPIDLY CHANGED
4. ORDER
5. CELESTIAL LOW
6. BLEACHER
7. BIGGEST UPSET
8. SQUARE
Band website: www.facebook.com/ribozyme
Label website: www.apollonrecords.no
Link to album: https://promo.theorchard.com/y6V7HQBMn9MMhOcGd3kF?skin=light
For interviews / info / press contact: robin@karismarecords.no
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LP on 180g clear vinyl, printed inner-sleeve, download card included. ‘Interiors’ is the fifth studio album by Brooklyn-based minimalist post-punk/synth-pop duo The Vacant Lots The 8 songs on ‘Interiors’ synthesise all of the band’s past work while pushing forward into the future. It’s Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen’s darkest and most visionary work yet. Ethereal metallic synths and blistering electronics are driven by disco -on-downers dance beats lashed with gutter-rock guitar riffs and icy detached vocals with evocatively concise and lacerating lyrics. Recorded over many sleepless nights and amphetamine -fueled mornings in the project’s isolated Brooklyn bunker home studios, the album follows the band ’s minimal is maximal aesthetic coalescing into dark bedroom anthems for loners and lovers with nods to 70s/80s punk and nightclub music ala Joy Division, Iggy Pop’s The Idiot, Depeche Mode, and New Order. On the lead single “Amnesia,” Jared Artaud says "It’s about dealing with duality and integrating the conflicting feelings within a relationship. It ’s about feeling dissociative and getting burned by the fire. Then coping with how this inevitably leads to the dissolution of the relationship. This is a mantra for all the songs on the album."
Track-list: 1. Amnesia 2. Paradise 3. Ashes 4. Evacuation 5. Destruction 6. Scars 7. Endgame 8. Damaged GoodsLP 4AD-0679-LP
Indie Exclusive Pink Vinyl 4AD-0679-LPE
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The surprise companion to The National’s April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Reveling in the license to radically upend its creative process, The National honed most of this material in live performances on tour, and captured those invigorated versions in impromptu sessions at producer Tucker Martine’s Portland studio. Two nights later in Vancouver, the nearly eight-minute album closer “Smoke Detector” was recorded during soundcheck, completing a body of work bristling with spontaneity and vintage rock energy that makes a perfect complement to the songs found on its more introspective predecessor
Alphabet City
Deep End (Paul’s in Pieces)
Weird Goodbyes (feat. Bon Iver)
Turn off the House
Dreaming
Laugh Track (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
Space Invader Hornets
Coat on a Hook
Tour Manager
Crumble (feat. Rosanne Cash)
Smoke Detector
• Following ‘First Two Pages of Frankenstein’ in April, The National surprise-release a brand new companion album, ‘Laugh Track’
• The 12 track record leans closer towards their earlier, grittier post-punk direction, hinted at by early single ‘Space Invader’
• The songs were written around same period as ‘Frankenstein’, but performing them at recent shows added a dynamic new live element which was then captured during recording sessions in Portland
• They played made their debut at iconic Madison Square Garden to a sold-out audience, as well as playing the biggest shows of their career worldwide
• The new album includes previously released Bon Iver collaboration ‘Weird Goodbyes’, plus features by Rosanne Cash and Phoebe Bridgers.
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▶ Beggars Arkive will release a vinyl reissue of THE CULT’S third album Electric on November 17th. Two editions will be available. Both are a single LP with a gatefold sleeve. Blue is exclusive to independent retail, Black vinyl will be available everywhere.
THE CULT is fronted by Ian Astbury on vocals and Billy Duffy on guitar.
Electric, their third album, came out in 1987 and really caused the band to explode to new levels of fame. It contains the massive hits “Love Removal Machine”, Wild Flower” and “Lil’ Devil” and was produced by Rick Rubin.
A1. Wild Flower
A2. Peace Dog
A3. Lil’ Devil
A4. Aphrodisiac Jacket
A5. Electric Ocean
A6. Bad Fun
B1. King Contrary Man
B2. Love Removal Machine
B3. Born To Be Wild
B4. Outlaw
B5. Memphis Hip Shake
Electric is a seminal work, featuring some of the band’s most iconic songs. It is a departure from the band’s previous work, with a raw, agressive and stripped-down sound. The album’s opening track, “Wild Flower,” sets the tone with its pounding drums, blistering guitar riffs, and Ian Astbury’s powerful vocals.
Electric was a commercial and critical success, propelling The Cult to the forefront of the hard rock scene and cementing their status as one of the most influential bands of the era. The album remains a touchstone for hard rock and heavy metal fans, a classic work that captures the spirit of rebellion and the power of rock and roll.
The Cult has remained an important and enduring force in the rock music world. The band has sold millions of records worldwide and has earned critical acclaim for its powerful live performances. The Cult continues to tour and record new music, and their influence on rock music shows no signs of diminishing.
BBQ-2298-LP
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Bathed in a green haze, the crowd oozed to the mutant rock and roll roaring from the basement’s dusty depths — everything and everyone was sweaty and sticky. But as Speedy Ortiz crammed into the back corner, their grins just inches away from ours, D.C.’s Dougout became a moshed-andsloshed sauna of 20-somethings delirious on rock euphoria.
After spending much of the new millennium bored out of my skull by network soap indie, Speedy Ortiz was rock’s wild howl. The songs were unpredictable, yet weirdly memorable, swaggering with a winky and wry sense of self. Riffs would twist with a topsy tenderness, then slam a ruptured discord. Sadie Dupuis’ sphinxian-yet-sensitive lyrics were not only matched but accentuated by her coil-sprung vibrato. How could Speedy Ortiz not immediately become my new favorite band?
What began as a short-lived solo project recorded in Dupuis’ off-hours as a rock camp counselor became a four-piece band in Northampton, Mass., by the end of 2011. They made cool mixtapes, cracked inside jokes and gushed about teenagers that opened for them on tour. They freaked out (via LiveJournal) when they met the bassist from Polvo or Helium’s Mary Timony, but also rolled their eyes at ‘90s indie-rock comparisons. The band’s first single — the gender-bending gotlaid grunge yowler “Taylor Swift’’ — elicited that rare response of the simultaneous giggle and headbang. The Sports EP amped up the taut yet rubbery riffery.
Released July 9, 2013, Major Arcana is filled with wedding chapel exorcisms, oiled-down attractants and criminally twisted puny little villains — this is Dupuis’ haunted lexicon as she scales the toxic Aggro Crag of a breakup. And while Dupuis wrote these songs, the band’s convulsing arrangements and diverse influences sprawled the squigglier edges of feedbacked fuzz to mete out matters of the heart. Falcone — who, it’s worth noting, has a knack for vocal harmony — swung as much as he smashed the drums. In easily tipoverable songs, Ferm’s burly bass and percussive overdubs gave the unruly glee its momentum. Robidoux ripped skronky guitar solos and countered Dupuis’ riffs with decorative splatter. Over a four-day marathon session at Sonelab in Easthampton, recording engineer Justin Pizzoferrato sparked the studio imagination of Speedy Ortiz — not only leaning into gritty tones but layer-caking dense dynamics that made these songs pop and pulverize.
For all her sweet-toothed seething, Dupuis was not easy on herself. Everyone’s allowed the idiot growing pains of your 20s and the misery that follows, but I can only imagine the emotional exhaustion that playing these songs on the road, night after night, must have wrought. “But you left something on my lips: a mark so sick,” she repeats over the doomy destruction that ends the album. Thinking back to the many Speedy Ortiz shows I caught in those early years, including an unofficial after-after party for my own wedding, “MKVI” often served as the noisy down-and-out closer — heads would bang in solidarity as the crowd became co-authors in the chaos, the biting phrase now a hex, Speedy Ortiz forever our coven. —Lars Gotrich
To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Major Arcana, Speedy Ortiz will release a remastered edition, out November 17th, 2023 on Carpark Records.
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SPEEDY ORTIZ
MAJOR ARCANA
CAK87X
Street Date: November 17, 2023
File Under: Alternative/Indie
LP (The Star’s Sky vinyl) UPC 677517008739
DISTRIBUTION CONTACT jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
TRACKLISTING
1. Pioneer Spine
2. Tiger Tank
3. Hitch
4. Casper (1995)
5. No Below
6. Gary
7. Fun
8. Cash Cab
9. Plough
10. MKVI
RIYL
Liz Phair
The Breeders Bully Chastity Belt
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On The Beths’ new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships -- platonic, familial, romantic -- and more importantly, their aftermaths. The shapes and ghosts left in absences. The question that hangs in the air: what do you do with how intimately versed you’ve become in a person, once they’re gone from your life?
The third LP from the New Zealand quartet houses 12 jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that worm their way into your head, an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz. With Expert, The Beths wanted to make an album meant to be experienced live, for both the listeners and themselves. They wanted it to be fun in spite of the prickling anxiety throughout the lyrics, the fear of change and struggle to cope.
Most of Expert was recorded at guitarist Jonathan Pearce’s studio on Karangahape Road in Ta–maki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand) toward the end of 2021, until they were interrupted by a four-month national lockdown. They traded notes remotely for months, songwriting from afar and fleshing out the arrangements alone. The following February The Beths left the country to tour across the US, and simultaneously finish mixing the album on the road, culminating in a chaotic three-day studio mad-dash in Los Angeles. There, Expert finally became the record they were hearing in their heads.
The album’s title track “Expert In A Dying Field” introduces the thesis for the record: “How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field? How do you know it’s over when you can’t let go?” Stokes asks. “Love is learned over time ‘til you’re an expert in a dying field.” The rest is a capsule of The Beths’ most electrifying and exciting output, a sonic spectrum: “Silence is Golden,” with its propulsive drum line and stop-start staccato of a guitar line winding up and down, is one of the band’s sharpest and most driving. “Knees Deep” was written last minute, but yields one of the best guitar lines on Expert
Stokes strings it all together through her singular songwriting lens, earnest and selfeffacing, zeroing in on the granules of doubt and how they snowball. Did I do the wrong thing? Or did you? That insecurity and thoughtfulness, translated into universality and understanding, has been the guiding light of The Beths’ output since 2016. In the face of pain, there’s no dwelling on internal anguish -- instead, through The Beths’ music, our shortcomings are met with acceptance. And Expert In A Dying Field is the most tactile that tenderness has been.
• North American publicity by Pitch Perfect PR
• College/Non-Commercial, Commercial Specialty radio and sync licensing by Terrorbird
• Alternative Commercial Radio by U.N.C.L.E.
• Named one of 2022’s Best Albums by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Paste, Brooklyn Vegan, and more
• Extensive touring in 2023, including dates supporting Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service, and The National, and festival appearances at Primavera, Newport Folk Festival, Bonnaroo
• Pressed on Evergreen vinyl
CAK164
Street Date: Novvember 17, 2023
File Under: Alternative/ Indie Rock
LP (Evergreen vinyl)
UPC 677517216400
CD UPC 677517016420
CS UPC 677517116403
Distribution Contact jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
1. Expert In A Dying Field
2. Knees Deep
3. Silence Is Golden
4. Your Side
5. I Want To Listen
6. Head In The Clouds
7. Best Left
8. Change In The Weather
9. When You Know You Know
10. A Passing Rain
11. I Told You That I Was Afraid
12. 2am
RIYL
Alvvays
Courtney Barnett
Lucy Dacus
Death Cab For Cutie
Phoebe Bridgers
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Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 LP
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On Rock Island, their second LP, Palm produces evidence of a distinct musical language, developed over time, in isolation, and out of necessity. On the island, melodies are struck on what might be shells or spines. Rhythms are scratched out, swept over, scratched again. Individual instruments, and sometimes entire sections, skip and stutter. There is the sense of a music box with wonky tension or a warped transmission in which all the noise is taken for signal.
Like other groups so acclaimed for their compulsive live show, Palm has been burdened by the constant comparison between their recorded material and their touring set. On Rock Island, they render this tired discussion moot, using the album form to present that which could never be completely live, reserving for performance that which could never be completely reproduced.
Despite appearing behind the instruments typical of rock music, Palm trades in sounds of their own making. On these songs, one of the guitars and the drum kit are used as MIDI triggers, producing an index that can be combed through later and replaced with new information. The percussion is sometimes augmented so as to suggest a multiplication of limbs. The strings are manipulated to choke, crack, and hum like other instruments, or other bodies, might.
Working again with engineer Matt Labozza, the band spent the better part of a month in a rented farmhouse in Upstate New York. With the benefits of time and space, Palm recorded the various elements piecemeal, only rarely playing together in groups larger than two or three. While some members tracked, others holed up in the next room, experimenting with quantization, beat replacement, and other methods borrowed from electronic music. Even accounting for the many labors that brought them to be, these materials seem produced by an organic logic. Their complex friction forms a habit of thought, scores a network of grooves on the floor of the mind.
This is music with dimensionality. Sonic objects are deployed, developed, and dissected in various states of mutation. The listener flits about between the field and the lab. The tone is warm in a way only the sun could make, the pace as forceful and as variable as a gale. Whether one locates Rock Island in a sea or in a refinished attic (as in Greg Burak’s album cover), whether one escapes to there or is banished, its psychic environs are charted clearly enough. Only at this remove from the mainland can we sense the conditions necessary for such a strange species of sound.
PALM ROCK ISLAND
CAK124
Street Date: Nov 17, 2023
File Under: Alternative/ Indie Rock
LP (Milky Clear vinyl) UPC 677517012491
CD UPC 677517012422
DISTRIBUTION CONTACT
jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
TRACKLISTING
1. Pearly
2. Composite
3. Dog Milk
4. Forced Hand
5. Theme From Rock Island
6. Bread
7. Color Code
8. Swimmer
9. Heavy Lifting
10. 20664
11. (Didn’t Want You Want) Happen
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UPC 677517012217
Shadow Expert CD UPC 677517012422
TRACKLISTING
1. F22
2. Promises
3. u all the time
4. their Love
5. No Limit
6. today
7. Stars
8. he made
9. 2 D I C U V
10. 6 Phrazes
11. nightmare
CATALOG NUMBER: WIG514
RELEASE DATE: November 17, 2023
FILE UNDER: Electronic “T”
CD
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887828051427
LP w/ DOWNLOAD
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887828051410
Vinyl is non-returnable
Indie/D2C exclusive LP (ltd) w/
DOWNLOAD
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887828051434
Vinyl is non-returnable
trip9love…??? is the third album from Tirzah, produced by long-time musical collaborator Mica Levi.
It was written and recorded at both their homes and various corners of South East London and Kent.
After several recording sessions over roughly a year, eventually the music suddenly came into a sound that they wanted to follow. The tracks were built using piano loops on top of one beat, distortion added, then romantic vocal toplines. Poems center on themes of love, both real and imagined. The world the record finds space in is a lazy club fantasy zone.
The speed, the connection and similarity between all of the instrumentals led the record to feel like one song, a diary entry of a moment or a fascination with one sound that they felt was important to go with. The nature of trip9love…???‘s release reflects how it was made.
10-12 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
10-14 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
10-15 Vancouver, BC - Cobalt
10-16 Seattle, WA - Substation
10-18 Chicago, IL - Metro
10-20 Miami, FL - III Points Festival
10-22 Queens, NY - Knockdown Center
SELLING POINTS
• Tirzah's Colourgrade (2021) and Devotion, her 2018 debut album placed on best of year end lists from Pitchfork, NPR, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Stereogum, Harper's Bazaar, Rough Trade, Bandcamp and more.
• North American headline tour dates in October.
DOMINO RECORDING COMPANY
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718.797.4229 / dominorecordco.com
Contact: Cyrus Lubin cyrus@dominorecordco.com
REDEYE
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Contact: Jill Wheeler jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
• All LP formats include a download card. Limited edition Indie/D2C exclusive LP is a gold vinyl pressing.
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upc: 655173221112
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Death Cab for Cutie
Transatlanticism (20th Anniversary) 2xLP (bark32lpe)
UPC 655173303214
The American Analog Set Know By Heart LP (bark141)
UPC 655173114117
Benjamin Gibbard Former Lives LP (bark130lp)
UPC 655173113011
The Wooden Birds Magnolia LP (bark85lp)
UPC 655173108512
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 17, 2023
The fifth and final volume of the early-’00s Home series of short split albums is getting its first North American vinyl release
The album, originally released in 2003, features exclusive, stripped-down recordings by two artists closely associated with Barsuk – Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service) and Andrew Kenny (The American Analog Set, The Wooden Birds).
This CANARY YELLOW indie-store exclusive color variant is limited to 1700 copies worldwide, and features beautiful artwork borrowed from the album’s only previous – and long out-of-print – vinyl pressing (a 2005 European pressing on beloved German imprint Morr Music).
Some background: Austin, TX indie label Post-Parlo started the Home series in 2000, including short contributions from such varied artists as Kind of Like Spitting, Britt Daniel (Spoon), Bright Eyes, Pavo and Super XX Man. The Gibbard/Kenny installment (originally titled Home Vol. 5) came out during a prolific era for both writers: The American Analog Set had released the classic Know By Heart album in 2001 and followed it in 2003 with the acclaimed Promise of Love, while Gibbard’s profile was rising significantly via the critical and commercial success of The Postal Service’s Give Up and Death Cab’s Transatlanticism
Kenny and Gibbard took a simple approach for their entry into the series, recording on cassette four-track machines in their respective living rooms in New York and Seattle and each performing four exclusive stripped-down tracks (including a cover of one of the other’s songs – Kenny choosing a rendition of Death Cab’s “Line of Best Fit” and Gibbard delivering his version of AmAnSet’s “Choir Vandals”).
• Death Cab for Cutie are everywhere this fall. Not only did they release a recent acclaimed album (Asphalt Meadows) but they've set off on tour for the double-bill Postal Service Give Up / Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism tour, celebrating the 20th anniversary of those generation-defining albums. Gibbard is pulling double duty each night of the tour, fronting both bands as they perform these beloved albums front-to-back. The 23-date tour includes two sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden in New York, two sold-out dates (with a third nearly sold-out) at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and sold-out multiple date stands in San Francisco, Boston, Washington DC, Seattle and Denver.
• The American Analog Set has announced an early-2024 vinyl box set via The Numero Group, featuring the band's out-of-print Emperor Jones releases – 1996’s The Fun of Watching Fireworks, 1997’s From Our Living Room to Yours, and 1999’s The Golden Band
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism CD (bark32)
UPC 655173103227
Benjamin Gibbard Former Lives CD (bark130)
UPC 655173113028
The Wooden Birds Two Matchsticks CD (bark111)
UPC 655173111123
The Wooden Birds Magnolia CD (bark85)
UPC 655173108529
Acetone - I’m still waiting. is a definitive, career-spanning 11 LP box set featuring the band’s debut EP Acetone (first ever vinyl release outside of the UK), Cindy (expanded to a double LP and available in the US on vinyl for the first time), I Guess I Would (available on vinyl for the first time commercially in the US), If You Only Knew (on vinyl for the first time ever), Acetone LP (featuring the band’s original mix), York Blvd. (expanded to a double LP), and Prime Cuts (featuring 8 previously unreleased recordings). Each box set includes a 60 page, full-color book featuring extensive liner notes by J Spaceman (Spiritualized) and Drew Daniel (Matmos/ The Soft Pink Truth), never-before-seen photos, and more.
This limited edition box set features records pressed on crystal clear vinyl. Each record has been mastered for vinyl at RCA Studio A with lacquers cut at the world famous Abbey Road Studios. All full length LPs are packaged in gatefold jackets.
“Acetone made music with a deep affection for all that preceded it. Hui Ohana, Kris Kristofferson, The Wailers (both sets), John Prine, Gram Parsons, The Velvet Underground, Brian Wilson... full of frailty, love, pain, satisfaction, and disquiet.” - J
Spaceman(Spiritualized)
“Acetone is a great band, a timeless one, and a band whose records deserve to be out there for a new generation of fans to discover.” - Colin Meloy (The Decemberists)
I’M STILL WAITING. VINYL BOX SET
Sel. #: NW5731LP
CONFIG: 7 Records, 11xLP, Crystal Clear Vinyl, 60-pg perfect-bound book, “Slip and Slash”
Slipcase, Vinyl Cut at Abbey Road and mastered at RCA Studio A.
UPC: 607396573110
Box Lot: 1 Count
Genre: Alternative, Rock Limited to 750 Copies Worldwide No Variants
6 07396 57311 0
CINDY This is the first pressing since Hut Recordings’ 1993 limited UK release. The audio is now expanded across a 2-disc version and is packaged in a full art gatefold for the first time.
Sel. #: NW5733
CONFIG: 2xLP, Gatefold, Black Vinyl
UPC:607396573318
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre: Alternative, Rock
6 07396 57331 8
IF YOU ONLY KNEW is now pressed on vinyl for the first time ever. This 2-disc version is pressed on black vinyl and inserted into a full art gatefold. Originally slated for a vinyl release, the audio was eventually released solely on CD and promo cassette.
Sel. #: NW5735
CONFIG: 2xLP, Gatefold, Black Vinyl
UPC: 607396573516
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre: Alternative, Rock
6 07396 57351
ACETONE was originally released on vinyl in 1997. This new pressing is the first since 1997. Originally pressed on 2 discs and packaged in a wide-spine jacket, this release is now pressed on black vinyl and inserted into a full art gatefold.
Sel. #: NW5736
CONFIG: 2xLP, Gatefold, Black Vinyl
UPC: 607396573615
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre: Alternative, Rock
6 07396 57361
YORK BLVD. is available on vinyl for the first time since the Vapor Records 2000 pressing. The original was a single-disc LP. This pressing has been expanded across two-discs with a 4th-side single song to honor the bands final song / release of their career. York Blvd. is packaged in a full art gatefold.
Sel. #: NW5737
CONFIG: 2xLP, Gatefold, Black Vinyl
UPC: 607396573714
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre: Alternative, Rock
6 07396 57371
Are You Sure (The Staple Singers)
They All Ask’d For You (The Meters)
Crawdad (Traditional)
Old Blue (Traditional)
Beulah Land (Public Domain)
Old Hen (Traditional)
Turkey in the Straw (Public Domain)
Chicken (Mississippi John Hurt)
Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker)
Pay Day (Mississippi John Hurt)
Whatever River (Luther Dickinson)
As a father and touring musician I made this album to keep my kids company in my absence, hopefully for them to sing along with in their mom’s car. These songs evoke memories of my mother playing her Martin parlor guitar and of my father, at the family turntable, telling stories about Furry Lewis and Gus Cannon or explaining a song’s meaning. I wanted to share these childhood favorites with my kids. This collection of childhood favorites was recorded for fun, at home, with family and friends in the spirit of sharing. Everyone is welcome. I wanted to share these songs with my kids and my friend’s kids as well as expose my daughters to the joy of learning, performing and recording music that my father shared with me. The recording was largely done in 2017 during dinner parties, sleep overs and play dates, either in a family style social setting or while the kids slept. After burning rough mix CDs for the family car, I set the project aside until 2023. Finishing the album with fresh ears album benefitted from my film score work done in 2020 and 21. I love letting projects simmer on the back burner until the time is right. The perspective of time can’t be bought or faked. My daughters sang on the album, both in 2017 and in 2023. Overdubbing my daughters on top of their younger vocals, 6 years later, was a unique sensation and document of their youth. You can hear my youngest daughter sneeze and improvise wordless melodies but my oldest daughter stole the show after her first overdub party, taking me aside and asking ‘don’t you get paid for singing on a record?’ - Luther Dickinson
Featuring: Allison Russell, Yola, Amy LaVere, Lillie Mae Rische
VINYL Sel. #: ANT3512LP
CONFIG: 1xLP, Jacket, Sleeve, Black Vinyl, 2 marketing stickers
UPC: 607396351213
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre: Children’s Music, Folk, Americana No Other Variants
CD Sel. #: ANT2512CD
CONFIG: CD, Digipak, 2 marketing stickers
UPC: 607396251520
Box Lot: 30 Count
Genre: Children’s Music, Folk, Americana
GUIDED BY VOICES - LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX CONFIG: 2XLP, GATEFOLD, STICKER RED SPLATTER VINYL, 500 UNITS
UPC: 607396577019
DWIGHT YOAKAM - LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX (1984)
CONFIG: 2XLP, GATEFOLD, STICKER
BABY BLUE VINYL, 500 UNITS
UPC: 607396576913
DAVID BYRNE - LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX CONFIG: 2XLP, GATEFOLD, STICKER CLEAR SPLATTER VINYL, 750 UNITS
UPC: 607396576715
NEKO CASE - LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX CONFIG: 1XLP, JACKET, STICKER CRYSTAL ROSE VINYL, 750 UNITS UPC: 607396577118
DOUG SAHM - LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX CONFIG: 2XLP, GATEFOLD, STICKER TRANSPARENT GREEN VINYL, 750 UNITS UPC: 607396576814
SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET - LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX CONFIG: 2XLP, GATEFOLD, STICKER CRYSTAL PINK VINYL, 750 UNITS
UPC: 607396577217
SUSAN TEDESCHI - LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX CONFIG: 2XLP, GATEFOLD, STICKER DEEP PURPLE VINYL, 750 UNITS
WAYLON JENNINGS - LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX (1989)
CONFIG: 2XLP, GATEFOLD, STICKER BUBBLEGUM VINYL, 1500 UNITS UPC: 607396566815
2023 limited edition vinyl variants - get em before they’re gone!
CONFIG: 1XLP, JACKET, RED AND BLACK SPLIT VINYL, 800 UNITS
JASON ISBELL - SIRENS OF THE DITCH (DELUXE EDITION)
CONFIG: 2XLP, WIDE-SPINE JACKET, BONUS TRACKS, TRANSPARENT GREEN VINYL, 700 UNITS
UPC: 607396577712
JD MCPHERSON - UNDIVIDED HEART AND SOUL
CONFIG: 1XLP, GATEFOLD, YELLOW & RED MARBLED VINYL, 500 UNITS
UPC: 607396578917
ALL THEM WITCHES - SLEEPING THROUGH THE WAR DELUXE (FEATURING TASCAM DEMOS)
CONFIG: 2XLP, GATEFOLD, TRANS GREEN & BLACK MARBLE VINYL, 1200 UNITS
UPC: 607396577514
THE NUDE PARTY - RIDES ON CONFIG: 2XLP, WIDE-SPINE JACKET, LIME GREEN VINYL 300 UNITS
UPC: 607396576517
KACY & CLAYTON - STRANGE COUNTRY
CONFIG: 1XLP, JACKET, COKE BOTTLE CLEAR VINYL, * FIRST TIME COLOR PRESSING 400 UNITS
UPC: 607396578115
CONFIG: 1XLP, JACKET, TRANS ORANGE VINYL, * FIRST TIME COLOR PRESSING 400 UNITS
UPC: 607396578016
CONFIG: 1XLP, JACKET, ELECTRIC DENIM VINYL, 400 UNITS
UPC: 607396578313
PYLON - GYRATE
CONFIG: 1XLP, JACKET, METALLIC GOLD VINYL, 400 UNITS
UPC: 607396578412
CONFIG: 1XLP, JACKET, OPAQUE YELLOW VINYL * FIRST COLOR PRESSING 400 UNITS
UPC: 607396578610
CONFIG: 1XLP, JACKET, OPAQUE YELLOW VINYL, 300 UNITS
UPC: 607396576616
LILLY HIATT - TRINITY LANE
CONFIG: 1XLP, JACKET, CLEAR W/ RED & BLACK SPLATTER VINYL, 400 UNITS
UPC:607396578214
TZA CD 9305
Archival Series
John Medeski, Brian Marsella, Matt Hollenberg, Kenny Grohowski.
In the Footsteps of Hermes * The Evental Devalorization of the Perhaps * Form, Object, and Desire
This fifth CD by the Chaos Magick band is one of Zorn’s greatest recent achievements. Three extended compositions that run the gamut from Funk, Metal, Contemporary Classical, and more blended into a dramatic narrative that is constantly surprising and yet deepy inevitable. Featuring four of the most accomplished performers in Zorn’s inner circle, this is a mind blowing document of Zorn’s kaleidoscopic compositional vision. Astonishing and utterly essential!
File Under: Jazz
Street Date: November 17, 2023
Export: Do not export to France, Italy, Spain and Japan.
Box Lot: 30 CD
by david byrne
RELEASE DATE: September 16, 2022
LABEL: Luaka Bop
FORMAT: Double LP with a gatefold jacket
CATALOG NUMBER: LP-LBOP-0001B
Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical was Luaka Bop’s first release, and in many ways it started the trend to compile music from other places. Here’s what the guy who put this retrospective together has to say about it:
Wow when did this first come out? 1989? Over 30 years ago! I listened to some of the songs yesterday and, well, they hold up, they’re truly timeless songs.
Beauty can be pointed.
-David Byrne, March 2021 três
um
I. Ponta de Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)
JORGE BEN
2 Sonho Meu MARIA BETHANIA E GAL COSTA
3 Só Quero um Xodó GILBERTO GIL
4 Um Canto de Afoxé Para O Bloco do Ilê (Ilê Ayê)
CAETANO VELOSO
I. O Leãozinho CAETANO VELOSO
2 Caçada
I. Quilombo, o el Dorado Negro GILBERTO GIL
2. Caramba! …Galileu Da Galileia JORGE BEN
3 Caixa de Sol NAZARÉ PEREIRA
4 Maculelê NAZARÉ PEREIRA
5 Queixa CAETANO VELOSO
I. Andar Com Fé GILBERTO GIL
2 Fio Maravilha JORGE BEN
3 Anima MILTON NASCIMENTO
4 Terra CAETANO VELOSO
LP: 680899100113
6 80899 10011 3
WORLD
LABEL: Luaka Bop
FORMAT: CD | LIMITED Gatefold LP in EVERYTHING IS YELLOW | Black Vinyl
CATALOG NUMBER: LP-LBOP-2036
RELEASE DATE: November 17, 2023
Mutantes - Live at the Barbican Theatre 40% off!
CD: 680899006828
Two key Scritti Politti albums, 2006’s Mercury Prize-nominated White Bread, Black Beer and Early will both finally be available again on vinyl on Nov 17th after being out of print for several years, and in some places never available at all.
Early brought together a series of formative recordings from the late 70s and early 80s, for an US-only vinyl release in 2005. The collection, accompanied by sleeve notes from Green Gartside, included the band’s debut single “Skank Bloc Bologna”, along with seminal tracks including “The Sweetest Girl”, “27/8/78” and “Lions After Slumber”, and offered a stunning chance to enjoy the long-overlooked musical foundations of Scritti Politti again.
Emerging from the scene around Leeds Art School, with fellow travellers The Mekons and The Gang Of Four, and recorded while the band were residing in a Camden squat organised along Marxist principles, these post-punk rallying cries which prefigured Green & co’s pop-leaning rebirth several years later, were the songs that grabbed the attention of John Peel, Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis and a generation of music fans who helped bring the indie music scene – and the labels that accompanied it – into existence. A musical community in which Scritti Politti played an influential and formative role.
Fittingly, for the release of White Bread, Black Beer, which was a beautiful expression of the creative energy Gartside had sustained over two decades at that point, Scritti Politti returned to Rough Trade for the first time since the mid-1980s.
Humbly described by Green on release as “an album of me playing around in the back room... just me alone at home”, White Bread, Black Beer was universally acclaimed. Described as “a return to the top” by The Guardian, “the best record of this restlessly self-critical career” by Uncut and “a sophisticated, gloriously gentle thing” by Pitchfork, the record was duly nominated for the 2006 Mercury Prize (and was only pipped by Arctic Monkeys’ debut).
Track listing:
A1. Skank Bloc Bologna
A2. Is And Ought The Western World
A3. 28/8/78
B1. Messthetics
B2. Hegemony
B3. Scritlocks Door
B4. Opec - Immac
C1. Bibbly-O-Tek
C2. Doubt Beat
C3. Confidence
C4. P.A.S
D1. The “Sweetest Girl”
D2. Lions After Slumber
Track listing:
A1. The Boom Boom Bap
A2. No Fine Lines
A3. Snow In Sun
A4. Cooking
A5. Throw
A6. Dr. Abernathy
A7. After Six
B1. Petrococadollar
B2. E Eleventh Nuts
B3. Window Wide Open
B4. Road To No Regret
B5. Locked
B6. Mrs. Hughes
B7. Robin Hood
LP: RT-188-1
2XLP
File Under: Alternative non-returnable
LP: RT-270-LP LP
File Under: Alternative non-returnable
Captured Alive
A LOST MASTERPIECE FROM THE UNDISPUTED MASTER OF JAZZ HARMONICA
FEATURING JOANNE BRACKEEN, CECIL McBEE, & FREDDIE WAITS
“STUNNING INTERPLAY” —ALLMUSIC REMASTERED & RESTORED TO ITS ORIGINAL FORM FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE ITS RELEASE
Simply put, Toots Thielemans brought the harmonica to jazz, single-handedly defining and legitimizing the instrument’s place in the genre.His distinctive playing also helped Billy Joel’s “Leave A Tender Moment Alone” and Brook Benton’s “Rainy Night In Georgia” become #1 pop hits, while generations of kids grew up to his closing theme for Sesame Street.
Captured Alive is a stellar, straight-ahead jazz session elevated by Joanne Brackeen, whose writing and playing pushes Toots to new expressive heights.
Candid is proud to restore CapturedAlive with its original title, sequence, and artwork for the first time since its original release.
Remastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering. Vinyl cut by JeffPowellat Take Out Vinyl.
A REVELATORY ALBUM OF AFRICAN & ASIANINFLUENCED SOUL-FOLK SPIRITUAL JAZZ
After a string of groundbreaking albums dating back to the ’50s, jazz pioneer Jimmy Giuffre abruptly stopped recording. Music for People, Birds, Bu erflies and Mosquitoes, marked his return to the studio after a 10-year, self-imposed hiatus.
Released in 1973, Music For People is both of and ahead of its time, fusing world-music influences seamlessly in a sparse, free exchange between bass, drums, and Jimmy’s own tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute, and bass flute lines
Candid is proud to reissue Music For People, Birds, Bu erflies & Mosquitoes as Giuffre intended with its original title, sequence, and artwork for the first time since its original release.
Remastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering Vinyl cut by JeffPowellat Take Out Vinyl.
Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire
An established international superstar, Stacey Kent’s artistry has earned her #1 albums, platinum sales, a Grammy nomination, and even honored as a member of l’Ordre des Arts et des Le res by the French Ministry of Culture.
1998’s Let Yourself Go features songs from The Great American Songbook made famous by Fred Astaire on film. Like Astaire, Kent seamlessly and easily takes the audience along with her, creating an elegant intimacy in her performances.
Produced by Kent’s long time companion and collaborator Jim Tomlinson and recorded at Curtis Schwartz Studios, England, the album has been remastered and is available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade as a 2xLP set Remastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering. Vinyl cut by JeffPowellat Take Out Vinyl.
Tenorlee
REMASTERED & RESTORED TO ITS ORIGINAL FORM FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE ITS RELEASE
KONITZ HAS BACKED LEGENDS RANGING FROM MILES DAVIS TO ELVIS COSTELLO
“AS ORIGINAL A PLAYER AS THERE IS IN JAZZ” BENRATLIFF, NEWYORKTIMES
Long admired by aficionados and musicians, Lee Konitz evolved across 8 decades of jazz, from his work with Miles Davis on Birth Of The Cool through collaborations with Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Ornette Colman, Elvin Jones, and Gerry Mulligan, all the way up to a late-career resurgence backing Elvis Costello, Brad Mehldau and Charlie Haden.
Tenorlee, originally released on the Choice label in 1978, is a standout in the staggering catalog of Lee Konitz: an intimate recording with Konitz exclusively on tenor saxophone, accompanied by greats Jimmy Rowles on piano and Michael Moore on bass
Candid is proud to reissue Tenorlee as Konitz intended with its original title, sequence, and artwork for the first time since its original release
Remastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering. Vinyl cut by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl
Release Date: 17 November 2023
Limited transparent vinyl edition
Two clear vinyl LPs in a screenprinted clear PVC outer bag
Clear poly-lined inner sleeves
Limited to 2,000 copies worldwide
REDISC7LPC | 5056614706147
Boxlot: 12
Label: Disciples [R.A.T.S Series]
originally released on WéMè Records 2013 mastered and cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
FILE UNDER N / ELECTRONIC
Standard CD edition in 4 panel digisleeve
REDISC7CD | 5056614706246
Boxlot: 30
With Daniel Bachman’s new album, When the Roses Come Again, he exits the steel string world where he started and tiptoes into a new one, where apparitions and nature inhabit compositions in a musical, genealogical garden.
Self-recorded in the spring of 2023 on a laptop in a cabin that leans against the border of Shenandoah National Park, When the Roses Come Again is culled and composed from a week of 8-hour a day improvisations. Bachman worked as a carpenter’s assistant in this cabin and borrowed it for a makeshift studio. He extended his handywork into repurposing and building his own instruments as tools for this creation. He pulled the frets off an old Hondo banjo, sanding it down, in search of new sounds and learned to build his own Appalachian mouth bow from reading an instructional manual. He cut-andpasted free-form jams into compositions, choosing notes and passages that resonated and connected with himself and each other, sometimes altering their speed and pitch.
But this isn’t an album about living off the land or sustainable solitude. Bachman dug into the dirt of his own musical DNA. On his mother’s side of the family, who lived in the Laurel Highlands of the Alleghany Mountains, were his literal musical descendants, the Hostetler Blind Family Band. A mid-19th century string band, all born blind (including some born without eyes), the Hostetlers performed both original and traditional music on concertina, violins, cello, and dried corncobs for percussion. Bachman doesn’t try to replicate his ancestral past, he does breathe contemporary life into it through its inspiration, using oscillators and drum apps on his phone, as well as fiddle, banjo, and guitar to construct his own string band compositions. All the music was performed, arranged, and mixed entirely by Bachman, except for some of the handbells and harmonium samples played by Tyler Magill (Grand Banks/Carry).
Integrating technology as a tool for collage, as well as acoustic instruments that pre-date all of us, Bachman creates an album that has as much to do with Terry Riley, Laraaji, Eno’s late 70’s ambient albums, and 75 Dollar Bill, as it does the Carter Family, Stanley Brothers, and Hobart Smith. And though this music has an undeniable intensity at times, it grounds the listener in an otherworldly mosaic of memory and experience. “My intention with this record was to represent the spiritual machinery that moves through all life, samsara, the wheel of life, etc. starting with birth, then death, and ending in rebirth,” writes Bachman. “I see this process moving in our garden through the seasons, and through intense personal experiences I’ve had. I see it in the churning of centuries within my own family, and through exploring these intergenerational connections I hope to better understand my own place within these intangible cycles.”
This cycle of life is indicated not just by the textures and sounds of the music but by the compositions’ titles, which originate from the Carter Family’s lyrics to “When the Roses Come Again”, itself a song about life after death. The music remains light and cyclical, re-born as it reverently sings and hums. When the Roses Come Again is an album of not just musical leitmotifs, but re-occurring personal and natural histories that bloom long after their perennial promise is deceased.
-Jerry David DeCicca, Bulverde TX 2023Street Date: November 17, 2023
Format: black vinyl LP (with Bandcamp download) UPC: 634457152908
Format: “Newly Bloomed Rose” red vinyl LP (with Bandcamp download) UPC: 634457152915
Format: CD UPC: 634457156883
1. Neath The Shadow, Down The Meadow (0:37), 2. Leaves Lying On Each Side (2:41), 3. By The River, Flowers Shiver (Fading Dying In Their Pride) (2:57), 4. Someone Straying, Long Delaying (3:45), 5. Sad The Parting Down The Lane (1:24), 6. I Must Leave You Someone's Saying (4:14), 7. Till The Roses Come Again (3:15), 8. As I Wander, I Will Ponder (On A Happy By And By) (2:48), 9. On A Summer Over Yonder (With Joy To You And I) (3:25), 10. Sunshine Over Clover Blossom On The Meadow Wide (2:43), 11. Summer's Fingers Sweetly Linger (Everywhere On Every Side) (4:21), 12. Someone's Roaming In The Gloaming (2:26), 13. Happy Hearts That Feel No Pain (2:38), 14. All Their Sadness Turned To Gladness (1:21), 15. Now The Roses Come Again (4:08)
- The latest boundary-expanding album by this trendsetting guitar composition luminary. This is the sixth Bachman album on Three Lobed.
- 140g black or “Newly Bloomed Rose” red vinyl housed within a jacket bearing new photography by Bachman and artwork by his sister, Sarah Bachman (with Bandcamp-enabled download).
- “(Bachman is) …one of his form’s best new practitioners…” Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork
- “One of the great constants in music right now is that Bachman will always release a better album than his last. That’s more comfort than a challenge.” Lars Gotrich, NPR
- “Bachman continues to see past the limits of acoustic guitar... revealing a quiet virtuosity that’s always subservient to mood and tone.” Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
- RIYL: Jack Rose, William Tyler, John Fahey, Eno’s 70s, Terry Riley, LaMonte Young, guitar soli, acoustic guitar, a nice glass of red wine at the end of a *long* day, adventure.
Three Lobed Recordings
PO Box 2345
Jamestown, NC 27282
www.threelobed.com
CD OUT OCTOBER 6TH, 2023 / LP COMING SOON
The Rise & The Fall is the fth studio album from charged folk-rock trio The Rural Alberta Advantage. It is the rst album featuring the return of original band member, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Amy Cole alongside Paul Banwatt (drums) and Nils Edenlo (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard). The album will be released on digital and CD formats on October 6th, 2023 with the much anticipated limited edition vinyl coming soon.
“All of our music is rooted in a certain amount of heart and honesty. The songs themselves come from a very earnest place and they are really extensions of who we are. Sometimes we hide those emotions with a lot of noise and sonic energy, while other times we leave them raw and bare. I see our albums more as diary entries, or snapshots in time and this one certainly ts that bill,” says Edenlo .
The Rise & The Fall is a culmination of navigating songwriting through forced zoom meetings, trading les of song ideas over email, managing rehearsals in borrowed warehouses that allowed for more personal space, and proving that the specialness of the band and their songs could only be found with them all together in one room and especially on stage. Getting back to live performances across North America one small tour leg at a time in 2022 gave The RAA back the chance to rework, cancel and perfect these new songs and bring them back home into studios around Toronto for recording with Gavin Gardiner (All Day Coconut). For the rst time, the band focused on writing and recording a few songs at a time, taking their tradition of roadtesting new music to a whole new level of real-time collaboration with their fans. Over the past couple of years, some of the new music has been shared in real time in the form of multiple singles (‘CANDU’, ‘Plague Dogs’) and The Rise EP released in 2022. The Rise & The Fall is the rst full length album from The Rural Alberta Advantage since 2017.
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Artist: The Rural Alberta Advantage
Title: The Rise & The Fall Catalog #: LBJ-358
Formats: CD
Street Date: October 6th, 2023
Box Lot Quantity: 50 CD
Genre: Alternative
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Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84
17th November 2023
You are about to embark on a new intergalactic journey into black space, fuelled by funk, powered by computers.
Soul Jazz Records’ new second collection of twisted hyperspace electro/funk ‘Space Funk 2: Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84’, continues its intergalactic journey. Featuring rare and off-the-wall space funk and electro rarities and obscurities, all released on small independent USA record labels in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Artists on this release include Alien Starr, Bobby Demo, Maggatron, Mid -City Crew, Tribe, Junie, Rich Cason and the Galactic Orchestra and many more intergalactic space warriors!
The 2xLP and CD album comes in striking deluxe artwork featuring the radical African-American model Pat Evans who graced numerous album covers for The Ohio Players in the 1970s.
The space shuttle program has been altered, there are no star-wars – only electro jam joyriders in space! Reactors are reacting, boosters are boosting, the countdown has started.
This is space age bionic funk, programmed to make you dance!!!
1. Alien Starr - Music-A-Lizer (3.38)
2. Chance - Master Groove (Instrumental) (6.05)
3. The Bobby Deemo Band - More Ounce Rap (5.26)
4. Mack Simmons - Skin Tight (3.24)
5. Maggotron - Computer Pop (5.58)
6. Tribe - Vulcan Voyage (4.01)
7. Command Performance - Breakdance (4.12)
8. Junei - Let's Ride (4.08)
9. The Graingers - Shine Your Light (5.31)
10. Mid City Crew - Get Right (3.00)
11. Chapter Three - Smurf Trek (8.04)
12. X-Ray Vision - Video Control (8.28)
13. Rich Cason and The Galactic Orchestra - Year 2001 Boogie (5.48)
14. Frank James and Shadow - Summer Time (4.01)
Street date: 17th November 2023
Artist: Soul Jazz Records Presents
Title: Space Funk 2: Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84
Label: Soul Jazz Records
Format 1: 2xLP
Cat. no. LP-SOJR-521
UPC: 5026328005218
Format 2: CD
Cat. no. CD-SOJR-521
UPC: 5026328105215
Nick
- Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker has been putting out records for the past two decades, flitting between monikers including Frankie Reyes, The Steoples, The Reflektor and The Abstract Eye. This year, he brings one of his long standing and prolific projects Gifted & Blessed to Stones Throw.
- Gifted & Blessed’s music has earned a loyal fanbase and has been heard in film and tv
Artist Gifted and Blessed
Title Heard and Unheard
Label Stones Throw Records
Cat # STH2485 (Single LP)
UPC 659457248512
Genre Instrumental Electronic
Format Standard Black LP
Date November 10th, 2023
November 17th, 2023
Tracklist
1. Invitation
2. Conditioning
3. Recognition
4. The Heretic
5. The Waiting Breath
6. Neutrino Stream
7. My Not-Self (Bitterness)
8. The Investigator
9. Yellow Ji (feat. AFTA-1)
10. Guidance
- Cult following gained from previous albums most recently under Frankie Reyes and The Steoples on Stones Throw inc. Clash, Loud & Quiet, Consequence of Sound, BBC 6 Music, KCRW, and more.
Description
- Gifted & Blessed is a producer who's been making music under monikers such as Frankie Reyes, The Reflector and is half of the duo The Steoples.
- Heard and Unheard was realized with only a semi-modular synthesizer and a pair of analog drum machines; in many ways a continuation of the more technoand electro-oriented music tradition that inspired Gifted & Blessed’s output over the last twenty years.
- Heard and Unheard is a trip down memory lane with its minimal yet complex compositional styles, and a celebration of Gifted & Blessed’s career thus far.
LABEL: PLANET MU RECORDS
STREET DATE: 17th November 2023
LTD. BLACK VINYL LP: ZIQ458
UPC: 5056321682598
DJ Manny's new album 'Hypnotized' is full of fresh ideas which push the footwork format of 160bpm hyper-rhythmic music in really enjoyable new directions.
Side A:
Hard Drive
WTF Goin On
Hypnotized
Ooh Baby (ft. DJ Rashad)
I Can Luv U
You N You (ft. DJ Phil)
Side B:
Overnight Flight
Want U Bad
Turn Me Up
Opera
Lost In Da Jungle
Depp In My Mind
He builds on the romantic themes of his last album 'Signals In My Head' and evolves them with shades of blue, taking very natural sounding experimentation into new moods and musical colour while never making the album inaccessible. Arguably this is a fine successor to the ground broken by DJ Rashad's 'Double Cup' album, which of course Manny also worked on. 'Hypnotized' solidifies Manny's style, from relaxed r'n'b rollers to moments of romantic distress - like 'WTF Goin On' and the reflective 'You N You (ft. DJ Phil)', to more intense moments like the dubstep inflected 'Ooh Baby' from the vaults, co-produced by DJ Rashad himself. Other tracks like 'Want U Bad' retool Robert Hood style minimal techno whereas dark, nervous belters like 'Turn Me Up' sound like Paul Johnson at his most wild but welded to footwork rhythms and a pumping jump up drum & bassline. There are also moments of enjoyably hype daftness like the acid and diva head-fuck of 'Opera' or the old school Bukem style jungle homage 'Lost In Da Jungle'. 'Hypnotized' is an album that expands footwork's template with natural ease and outstanding skill.
Release Date: 17th November 2023
H31R (pronounced heir/air) is an experimental electronic hip hop duo composed of New Jersey producer/composer JWords and Brooklyn rapper/vocalist maassai.
Blending together their worlds, new album ‘HeadSpace’ due for release on Friday 17th November via Big Dada, creates an enigmatic but complementary sonic experience that pushes the fickle boundaries of genre. Limited pressing, available on 1LP black vinyl with custom artwork featuring H31R on the cover.
The LP maneuvers through its 14 tracks with blazing speed. “Glitch In Time” sets the tone for the album with gritty bass, groovy drums and quirky melodies resonating throughout. It contains moments of introspection and self-reflection on songs like “Static” and “Reflection” while the edifying diptych of “Rotation” – an oscillating track capturing the essence of dark and light – and “All Over The Place”, which transcends duality and expands to a multidimensional self, signify markers of growth. Elsewhere is “Backwards” which, despite its name, is a propulsive track that seeks to move forward from things holding someone back, and “Train of Thought”, that examines the mechanisms of thinking, starting off more concrete before gradually becoming abstract by the song’s end.
‘HeadSpace’ also features contributions from the likes of rising Chicago-based rapper and producer semiratruth on the affirming “Glass Ceiling”, and a playful verse from Detroit-based GRAMMY-nominated producer and rapper Quelle Chris on “Down Down BB”
Previous press for H31R includes articles from Pitchfork, The Wire, Bandcamp, Brooklyn Vegan, Okayplayer, Slug Mag and Quarantine Content
Past live dates include tour support for keiyaA at Songbyrd (Washington, DC), Baby's All Right (Brooklyn, NY), The Underground (Detroit), Beachland Tavern (Cleveland, OH), and PhilaMOCA (Philadelphia, PA), support for Rahill at Rough Trade (NY).
CAT NO: BD311
UPC: 5054429175905
Box Lot: 15
￫ 1x 140g black vinyl
￫ Includes download code
Side A
1. Glitch in Time
2. Backwards
3. Reflection
4. Big Bang
5. Glass Ceiling (feat. Semiratruth)
6. At Ease (Interlude)
7. Train of Thought
Side B
1. Shadow Self
2. Rotation
3. All Over The Place
4. Right Here
5. Down Down Bb (feat. Quelle Chris)
6. Static
7. Air it Out
Genre: Electronic, Alternative, Hip Hop
Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco
Recommended if you like…keiyaA, Lorraine James, Nappy Nina, Coby Sey, Space Afrika
Originally self-released in limited quantities in 2003, Just Another Ordinary Day is the first set of Patrick Watson recordings featuring the band’s current lineup. At the time this album was made, the band was playing regular two-set gigs at the now defunct but legendary Cafe Sarajevo in Montreal, drawing bigger and bigger crowds. Fans of both Wooden Arms and Close to Paradise will find plenty to love hear, as it features plenty of ethereal soundscapes and also some of the band’s most accessible, playful pop.
Patrick Watson composes, performs and records his albums with his long-time bandmate and collaborator Mishka Stein. The recipients of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize, in addition to multiple JUNO and Polaris nominations, Watson and his band have toured on all continents, on occasion playing with full orchestras to bring their rich music to life. They have been playing some of their largest venues to date, including the Barbican (London), L’Olympia (Paris), Coliseu (Lisbon), El Plaza Condesa (Mexico City), and more. Raised and still living in Montreal, Watson has composed several scores for both film and TV, including a trailer for The Walking Dead and Wim Wenders’ 3D film Everything Will Be Fine. Watson has been getting a new wave of fans following the viral “Je te laisserai des mots”, that has over 25 billion views on creations on TikTok only, and 680 million streams.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS / SELLING POINTS:
• Over 850 million streams worldwide
• Viral hit with “Je te laisserai des mots” driving over 25 billion views on creations on TikTok and 680 million streams
• Produced, wrote, and performed on the hit single “To Build A Home” by The Cinematic Orchestra, which was certified Gold in the USA (500,000+ sales)
• Winner of the 2007 Polaris Music Prize in Canada. Award nominations and/or wins at the JUNOs, ADISQ, GAMIQ, Étoile Galaxie, and Polaris Music Prize
• Wrote for and performed in Wim Wenders’ 3D film Everything Will Be Fine. Composed over 15 film scores, including for the film The 9th Life of Louis Drax (Miramax), C’est pas moi je le jure (Philippe Falardeau), Les 4 Soldats (Robert Morin), and more. Composed and recorded a song for the trailer of TV series The Walking Dead (AMC)
• Festival performances include Sasquatch Festival, Bonaroo, Pickathon and more
Secret City Records 7665 Blvd Saint-Laurent, Ste 200, Montreal, QC H2R 1W9
info@secretcityrecords.com (514) 658-5962
Socials: @secretcityrecords
Artist: Patrick Watson
Album: Just Another Ordinary Day
Release Date: Nov. 17, 2023
Genre: Alternative
Label: Secret City Records
Distro: Redeye Distribution
Tracklisting:
1. Just Another Ordinary Day
2. Woods
3. Mary
4. Silent City
5. Shame
6. Brigitte's Theme
7. Gealman
8. Fall
9. Sunday
Cat. Number: SCR006LPS
Packaging Details: 12-inch black vinyl in a standard jacket with a printed inner sleeve. Digital download included.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS / SELLING POINTS cont’d:
• Sync placement in hundreds of TV shows and films, including Grey’s Anatomy, This Is Us, The Walking Dead, The Blacklist, The F Word, American Teen (Paramount Pictures), One Week, Polytechnique, The High Cost of Living, and many more
UPCOMING USA TOUR DATES:
October 12 - World Cafe Live - Philadelphia, PA
October 13 - Higher Ground - South Burlington, VT
December 11 - Union Stage - Southwest, DC
December 12 - The Sinclair - Cambridge, MA
December 13 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
TEAMS:
• US Press handled by Missing Piece
Redeye Distribution
505 Eno St, Hillsborough, NC 27278 USA
Contact: Lanie Graettinger lanie@redeyeworldwide.com
6 80341 06004 0There was always something sexy about Purgatory. No one wants to hang out in Hell, but was Heaven ever really that appealing, either? How does that Talking Heads song go? “Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens…” Close to Paradise is one of those rare gems of an album that can stand as a gateway to wherever you want it to take you.
On the one hand it’s impossible to ignore PATRICK WATSON as a classic singer-songwriter; the charming young piano-player with the haunting voice. The big impact of an otherwise simple song like “The Great Escape” is a testament to the attention that Patrick’s voice, delivery and sensibility command. Just try and avoid vocal comparisons to Jeff Buckley on “Luscious Life” (inflected with just a bit of Sufjan Stevens-like orchestration), or the penetrating stripped-down gospel of “Bright Shiny Lights”. In some ways Close to Paradise is the coming-out party for one of Canada’s most exciting young vocalists.
But on the other hand, Close to Paradise also features three other incredibly strong musicians just beginning to enter their prime, both in terms of skill and contributing song ideas. Robbie Kuster might be the best drummer in Montreal, and between him and Mishka Stein on bass, the band has the ability to bolt from dreamy ballad to all out intricate rock assault and back again without blinking an eye. Simon Angell is among that rare breed of guitarist that can do more with one subtle and well-timed chord as others can with a whole song of throw-away notes. He can stand and slay with the best of them, but it’s when he’s patiently seated and kneeling at his arsenal of effects pedals that you’ve really got to be on your guard. Consider that Kuster co-wrote the ethereal electronics of “Daydreamer”, that Stein laid the foundation to “Luscious Life” (arguably the album’s most accessible moment of pop assault), and that Angell adds songwriting to his banjo credit on the apocalyptic dustbowl of “The Storm”, and it’s clear that we’re dealing with a two-headed monster – at least. Close to Paradise is also a serious trip of a record by as tight a four piece band as you’ll find.
Recorded in part by both Jace Lasek at Montreal’s Breakglass Studios and Jean Massicotte at Master Cuts, the album also features guest appearances by two of Montreal’s most exciting up-and-coming female vocalists: Land of Talk’s Liz Powell, and country sweetheart sensation Katie Moore. Even electronic guru Amon Tobin adds a few touches.
Maybe most importantly, in age of records as mp3 cookie-cutter compilations, Close to Paradise is actually an album. Make no mistake, there are pop gems that are happy to stand on their own like “Giver” or “Drifters”, but “Bright Shiny Lights” is that much more uplifting after you take the trip that is “Sleeping Beauty”. Records used to do that kind of thing. They still can. You know, if you want them to."
Patrick Watson composes, performs and records his albums with his longtime bandmate and collaborator Mishka Stein. The recipients of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize, in addition to multiple JUNO and Polaris nominations, Watson and his band have toured on all continents, on occasion playing with full orchestras to bring their rich music to life. They have been playing some of their largest venues to date, including the Barbican (London), L’Olympia (Paris), Coliseu (Lisbon), El Plaza Condesa (Mexico City), and more. Raised and still living in Montreal, Watson has composed several scores for both film and television, including a trailer for The Walking Dead and Wim Wenders’ 3D film Everything Will Be Fine. Watson has been getting a new wave of fans following the viral “Je te laisserai des mots”, that has over 25 billion views on creations on TikTok only, and 680 million streams.
UPCOMING USA TOUR DATES:
October 12 - World Cafe Live - Philadelphia, PA
October 13 - Higher Ground - South Burlington, VT
December 11 - Union Stage - Southwest, DC
December 12 - The Sinclair - Cambridge, MA
December 13 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
Secret City Records 7665 Blvd Saint-Laurent, Ste 200, Montreal, QC H2R 1W9 info@secretcityrecords.com (514) 658-5962
Socials: @secretcityrecords
Artist: Patrick Watson
Album: Close to Paradise
Release Date: Nov. 17, 2023
Genre: Alternative Label: Secret City Records Distro: Redeye Distribution
6 80341 02008
Cat. Number: SCR002LPS
Packaging Details: 12-inch black vinyl in a standard jacket with a printed inner sleeve. Digital download included.
Tracklisting:
1. Close to Paradise
2. Daydreamer
• Over 850 million streams worldwide
• Viral hit with “Je te laisserai des mots” driving over 25 billion views on creations on TikTok and 680 million streams
• Produced, wrote & performed on the hit single “To Build A Home” by The Cinematic Orchestra, certified Gold in the USA (500,000+ sales)
• Winner of the 2007 Polaris Music Prize in Canada. Award nominations and/or wins at the JUNOs, ADISQ, GAMIQ, Étoile Galaxie, and Polaris Music Prize
• Wrote for and performed in Wim Wenders’ 3D film Everything Will Be Fine. Composed over 15 film scores, including for the film The 9th Life of Louis Drax (Miramax), C’est pas moi je le jure (Philippe Falardeau), Les 4 Soldats (Robert Morin), and more. Composed and recorded a song for the trailer of TV series The Walking Dead (AMC)
• Sync placement in hundreds of TV shows and films, including Grey’s Anatomy, This Is Us, The Walking Dead, The Blacklist, The F Word, American Teen (Paramount Pictures), One Week, Polytechnique, The High Cost of Living, and many more
• Festival performances include Sasquatch Festival, Bonaroo, Pickathon and more
TEAMS: US Press handled by Missing Piece
Redeye Distribution
505 Eno St, Hillsborough, NC 27278 USA
Contact: Lanie Graettinger lanie@redeyeworldwide.com
Wooden A rms is Patrick Watson ’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed Close to Paradise, which vaulted the man and his band to international stardom in 2007. The Montreal band toured non-stop for two years following initial Canadian release of Close to Paradise in 2006, and in many ways Wooden Arms is the story and sound of a band waking up in strange places all around the world.
Whether it’s the bicycle-city sound of “Beijing,” or the warmth of “a hole in the wall” in “sweet New Orleans” on “Big Bird in a Small Cage,” or the haunting European waltz of the title track, you can’t help but feel in listening to Wooden Arms like you’re on the road with the band. Sometimes it’s dirty, sometimes it’s wild, but it’s never, ever boring.
When the dust had settled the band had written enough songs on the road to lay down a new record in a few short months at the end of 2008 in Montreal. On the album’s opener, “Fireweed,” Watson sings, “So we dug ourselves a hole, and planted all our skin; like a seed in the ground, to grow again.” And you can hear stripped down rejuvenation all over Wooden Arms; Watson’s voice and orchestrations shine brighter against a rhythmic percussive foundation that has been brought to the forefront.
But Wooden Arms isn’t just the sound of a band learning how to build a slicker wall of sound together. The playful album closer “Machinery of the Heavens” is almost a full on swing-tune; “Big Bird in a Small Cage” proves they’re capable of producing a perfect country-pop song, and fans of “The Great Escape” from Close to Paradise will have a hard-time resisting the heart-wrenching just-voice-and-guitar of “Man of Like You.”
Perhaps most importantly though, Wooden Arms showcases both Watson and his bandmates as genuine composers, and the serious musicians that they are – from the orchestral pull of “Tracy’s Waters,” to Simon Angell’s noisetwang on “Traveling Salesman” to drummer Robbie Kuster’s jaw-dropping performances and his string piece “Hommage,” to the anchor of Mishka Stein’s bass on the instrumental freak-out number, “Down at the Beach.”
Patrick Watson composes, performs and records his albums with his long-time bandmate and collaborator Mishka Stein. The recipients of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize, in addition to multiple JUNO and Polaris nominations, Watson and his band have toured on all continents, on occasion playing with full orchestras to bring their rich music to life. They have been playing some of their largest venues to date, including the Barbican (London), L’Olympia (Paris), Coliseu (Lisbon), El Plaza Condesa (Mexico City), and more. Raised and still living in Montreal, Watson has composed several scores for both film and TV, including a trailer for The Walking Dead and Wim Wenders’ 3D film Everything Will Be Fine. Watson has been getting a new wave of fans following the viral “Je te laisserai des mots”, that has over 25 billion views on creations on TikTok only, and 680 million streams.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS / SELLING POINTS:
• Over 850 million streams worldwide
• Viral hit with “Je te laisserai des mots” driving over 25 billion views on creations on TikTok and 680 million streams
• Produced, wrote & performed on the hit single “To Build A Home” by The Cinematic Orchestra, which was certified Gold in the USA (500,000+ sales)
• Winner of the 2007 Polaris Music Prize in Canada. Award nominations and/or wins at the JUNOs, ADISQ, GAMIQ, Étoile Galaxie, and Polaris Music Prize
Secret City Records 7665 Blvd Saint-Laurent, Ste 200, Montreal, QC H2R 1W9
info@secretcityrecords.com (514) 658-5962
Socials: @secretcityrecords
Artist: Patrick Watson
Album: Wooden Arms Release Date: Nov. 17, 2023
Genre: Alternative
Label: Secret City Records
Distro: Redeye Distribution
Tracklisting:
1. Fireweed
2. Tracy's Waters
Cat. Number: SCR012LPS
Packaging Details: 12-inch black vinyl in a standard jacket with a printed inner sleeve. Digital download included.
3. Beijing
4. Wooden Arms
5. Hommage
6. Traveling Salesman
7. Big Bird in a Small Cage
8. Down at the Beach
9. Man Like You
10. Where the Wild Things Are
11.Machinery of the Heavens
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS / SELLING POINTS cont’d:
• Wrote for and performed in Wim Wenders’ 3D film Everything Will Be Fine. Composed over 15 film scores, including for the film The 9th Life of Louis Drax (Miramax), C’est pas moi je le jure (Philippe Falardeau), Les 4 Soldats (Robert Morin), and more. Composed and recorded a song for the trailer of TV series The Walking Dead (AMC)
• Festival performances include Sasquatch Festival, Bonaroo, Pickathon and more
• Sync placement in hundreds of TV shows and films, including Grey’s Anatomy, This Is Us, The Walking Dead, The Blacklist, The F Word, American Teen (Paramount Pictures), One Week, Polytechnique, The High Cost of Living, and many more
UPCOMING USA TOUR DATES:
October 12 - World Cafe Live - Philadelphia, PA
October 13 - Higher Ground - South Burlington, VT
December 11 - Union Stage - Southwest, DC
December 12 - The Sinclair - Cambridge, MA
December 13 - Webster Hall - New York, NY
TEAMS:
• US Press handled by Missing Piece
Redeye Distribution
505 Eno St, Hillsborough, NC 27278 USA
Contact: Lanie Graettinger lanie@redeyeworldwide.com
The 11 Guys Quartet were gratified by the response to their 2020 album of live studio recordings, Small Blues and Grooves, which was their first release since 1985 – it’s a long story, but briefly: friends and bandmates since the 70s, Paul Lenart (guitar) Bill “Coach” Mather (bass) Chuck Purro (drums) and Richard “Rosy” Rosenblatt (harmonica) got together in VizzTone’s basement studio to create 14 original blues instrumentals, and fans, radio, and press from around the world responded lovingly:
”Masterful, understated, and just plain cool” (Canada), “Heat of sound, fairness of the game, and intimate knowledge of the territory” (France),
“A treasure trove of great music” (UK),
STREET DATE: 11/17/23
TRACKS:
1. Lightning Road
2. Black Cat Bone
“The close chemistry in the playing breathes right through the CD” (Elmore Magazine, USA).
After that reception they weren’t about to let one little pandemic stop them, so they dug in with remote recordings and produced eight new singles accompanied by wildly creative videos. (Check out their YouTube channel!) The guys even sang a couple songs (Chuck on “Driving A Fast Car,” and Paul on “He Ain’t Got You.”)
11 x 11 comprises those eight singles plus three brand new tracks. So make yourself comfortable or roll up the rug, the 11 Guys Quartet is back!
3. Blues Beyond Midnight
4. Drivin’ A Fast Car
5. Texicali Mojo
6. Stompin’ Blues
7. He Ain’t Got You
8. Jokers Blues
9. Possum Blues
10. Rona Stomp
11. Rockin’ The Blues
11 GUYS QUARTET
11 x 11
Label: VizzTone
Territory: Worldwide
Compact Disc - Eco Wallet Cat. # VT-11412
UPC: 634457157460
Street Date: 11/17/23
Woof Woof has existed somewhere for a long time, throbbing underneath the surface and masquerading as anything other than the pure energy it is, waiting to be extracted and molded into a form that can be consumed by you and me. With Woof Woof, ARTHUR beams pure-pop-liminality straight into the world, full of contradictions and twists, confusion and magic.
This is an album that thrives in the in-betweens it creates then slips itself into. Decisions that may seem off-kilter or strange to other artists seem effortless to ARTHUR, pulled from another world, a world hidden to the average listener, hidden maybe for good reason. Woof Woof leaves you wondering from what dimension ARTHUR crossed over and how you can get there as soon as possible.
There is a valley between sound and music that Woof Woof fills in with objects seemingly grabbed at random, from voicemails to dog barks, an uneasy path is created to bridge the divide.
There is a maze in ARTHUR's debut LP and he doesn't care if you make it out in one piece.
Label: PLZ Make It Ruins
Street date: 17 Nov 2023
UPC: 5056614706871
Format: Vinyl
Cat no: PLZ019LPP
Limited Edition purple vinyl in printed inner, and full colour sleeve.
A1 Woof Woof (1:23)
A2 Ivy League (3:02)
A3 Where's Ur Eyes (1:30)
A4 Julie vs. Robot Julie (1:34)
A5 Food (1:04)
A6 Sweet Memory (2:13)
A7 I'm Too Good (2:28)
A8 Snowbird (1:00)
A9 September Dark Planet (1:38)
A10 Finally I Will Know Myself (1:32)
A11 God (1:09)
A12 Wow Fuck (1:32)
A13 Twist (0:39)
A14 Make It Easy (1:07)
A15 Evil Me (1:13)
A16 I've Seen It (2:06)
STREET DATE : Nov. 17, 2023
TRACK LISTING
Out Of Sight
Heartbeat
Star 51
All About Love
Straight Down to Heaven
L'Aventure Moderne
All of This is Fake
(I Don't Give a Sh*t about) Summertime Behind the Wall
Odd Things (Part 1&2)
LISTENING LINKS
ALBUM PRIVATE LINK
WAV DOWNLOAD
MP3 DOWNLOAD
SOCIALS : IG / FB / TW
PROMOTION
UK :TBD
FRANCE : La Mission
USA : TBD
F I D E L (Further Individual Delusions) is the avatar project of Paris-based composer/producer/A&R, R.DIlouya (Omar, Sly Johnson, N’Dea Davenport, Gystère, Oxmo Puccino etc - Blue Note Records, Universal Jazz, Heavenly Sweetness).
UK Funk & Soul and Northern Soul Legend, John Turrell (Smoove & Turrell - BBC Fantasy Funk Band - Jalapeño Records) and French Hip-Hop, Soul and Jazz major force, Sly Johnson (aka Sly the Mic Buddha - Multi-Platinum selling supergroup Saïan Supa Crew - BBE Records).
Hailing from North Paris and Northern England, F.I.D.E.L pays tribute with Out Of Sight to the great Post-Disco, Boogie and New Wave pop songs that shaped the world’s collective unconscious at the twilight of the Thatcher / Cold War Era.
F.I.D.E.L takes this as a jumping off point and channels its sound through the care and the musical craft of the past to a yet more modern soundscape using Prophet Synthesizers, Clavinets and Drum Machines to create a fast, nervous, funky, ironic and intoxicating satire of modern-days in our now post-COVID western societies. While most of the musical heavy lifting is done by Dilouya himself, Turrell lays down socially anchored lyrics, rooted firmly in the gritty, no-nonsense world of a working-class man, tracks such as All About Love , Straight Down to Heaven or (I Don’t Give a Sh*t About) Summertime show the depths of this man’s repertoire.
Sly Johnson lets his soul rip with a gut reaction to 21st century tech-infused populism on Out of Sight and Star 51
This musical connection fused the fun-loving, loud-speaking, trouble-making friends and made them explore with irony and sarcasm the paradoxes of their time to produce what will remain as a unique body of work, testifying to the ambivalence of a generation oscillating between social concern and the desire to party!
Recorded over two week-long studio sessions in Paris, Out Of Sight showcases Dilouya’s timeless songwriting and bold production style, setting the perfect ground for John Turrell’s instant classic vocal performances and Sly Johnson’s revered musicianship and versatility. Electrifying performances from German songstress Noraa (Out of Sight , Heartbeat) and SciFiobsessed DKO Records’ front man Larry Houl (Odd Things) complement F.I.D.E.L’s take on how and why music shapes our critical sense and appetite for escapism
"Between delusions of grandeur and social disappointment, fantasized nostalgia and neon statues bearing its effigy, F I D E L imposes with Out Of Sight its ideal for Civilization to a world that ultimately never changes."
F.I.D.E.L -
DiGITAL MKT
TBD
PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION
UK/EU/ROW: Kudos (ex France,NA & SA)
N&S America : Redeye
FRANCE : Modulor
VINYL
Catalogue Number : BJLP-42
Config : LP Black Vinyl Standard Jacket w/ Black Inner Sleeve
Genre : Funk / Electronic
UPC : 674276688059
Label: WHIRLWIND RECORDINGS
Cat. no: WR4810LP
Format: LP
Barcode: 5065014356111
RELEASE DATE: 22/09/2023
17/11/2023
The solo piano album has a long and noble tradition in jazz - it's a challenge for any pianist to rise to - Ivo Neame took time out from his demanding schedule as one of Europe's busiest and most acclaimed pianist/composers to tackle that challenge
Ivo's intense preparation shows itself paradoxically in the r elaxed, focused spontaneity of the six performances, with the ambiance of the room brought in as a part of the creative process. Live at Turner Sims is an unedited portrait of a musician at work, alive and in the moment, each take flawlessly rendered, with a sureness of touch, a limitless flow of melodic inspiration, and a use of space and silence alongside the wealth of ideas that demonstrates the creative confidence of a master.
Audio Link: Click to listen
Tracks: OK Chorale / Bittersweet/Clowns / Strange Meeting/Rag / Soul Love / I Got It Bad / Phasing Song
Black Vinyl (ltd 250 copies) LP TLV165LP 5055869550345
Cream Vinyl (ltd 250 copies)
Babydoll is the fifth Rat Columns album and, following 2021’s Pacific Kiss, the second to be released on Tough Love. The recordings took place in Perth, Western Australia, partially by engineer Jason Hayles in a 1960's office building that formerly housed the secretarial pool of a successful mattress company, and partially by DW in an industrial unit, and feature the ensemble cast of Taylah McLean, Chris Grunwaldt, Scott Payne, Richard Ingham, Cohen Bourgault and, of course, DW himself. It was then mixed and mastered in Melbourne by Mikey Young and Joseph Carra, respectively
Babydoll seems to mark a return to a murkier, dirgier Rat Columns format. Distortion is fetishized again and many small amplifiers were tortured in the album's production. Tempos have drifted down and the lyrical concerns move ever inward, in an inverse bloom. The mood is dour, introspective, circular, the songs long, and short attention spans are neglected.
'Cerulean Blue' churns through a crystalline memoryscape, homaging low-brow grunge auto-fiction and a partial history of mid-period rave. 'Life In The Jungle' is a fever dream of imperialist wartime fantasy projection. 'Heavenly Assault' attempts a crushing density amid visions of transcendent devotion. 'Virtual Sweden' takes us ever northwards into the frosted tip of Scandinavian détente. 'Babydoll', like 'Cerulean Blue', homages a primarily imagined low-cosmopolitan world of alt-lit digipoets, bedroom fantasists, underwater prisons for gorgeous, gorgeous girls. 'Bees Make Honey' lets more sophisticated music machines into the conversation, and marks the first use of vocal tuning software on a Rat Columns album, albeit in an avant-amateurist fashion. 'Jane, I Live For You' enters the space-ballad race, dreaming of synthetic folk-rockers, leaning on sampler keybeds in the halflight. 'December' is yet another tribute to fallen Stars, mansions on the hill, winter skin in cashmere sweaters, truth in education, love, faith, (im)purity. In all these respects, it is a classic Rat Columns record. Because all Rat Columns records are classic records.
Fika Recordings
FIKA097LP
Transparent Red Vinyl – ltd 500 copies. File under: Indie, Folk, Antifolk, GER/FR.
11/17/23
5057998043712
In West Africa, where the only water you can find is in the Ocean, Stanley Brinks & Freschard put on their best carnival costumes to get to the bottom of every bottle of rum they could find. They found a lot. Iron Eye is an irresistibly charming collection of late night tales, woozy ballads and uptempo sing-alongs. Clemence Freschard’s beautiful vocal tones lend this a rich, French indiepop/chanteuse vibe, complemented by Stan’s wistful timbre and characteristic warm instrumentation. tanley Brinks is renowned for his unique anti-folk style: both playful and suggestive, insightful and entertaining. Brinks was born in Paris, France, in 1973. He studied a bit of biology and worked as a nurse for a while. Half Swedish, half Moroccan, strongly inclined to travel the world, he soon began spending most of his life on the road and developed a strong relationship with New York. By the late 90s he’d become a full time singer-songwriter – André Herman Düne – as part of three piece indie-rock band, Herman Düne alongside his brother, David-Ivar. Several albums and Peel sessions later and after a decade of touring Europe, mostly with American songwriters such as Jeffrey Lewis, Calvin Johnson and early Arcade Fire he settled in Berlin. The early carnival music of Trinidad became a passion, and in the early 21st century he became the unquestioned master of European calypso, changing his name to Stanley Brinks. Under this moniker he has recorded well in excess of 100 albums, collaborated with the New York Antifolk scene on numerous occasions, recorded and toured with traditional Norwegian musicians, and played a lot with The Wave Pictures.
Tracklist:
A1) Save Me A2) Great Mind A3) Prize A4) Caramba A5) Bar Piscina A6) Swimming B1) Song of Moses B2) Magic of Love B3) Iron Eye B4) Cold Beer B5) JMJ B6) Waiting
STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 17TH 2023
Taipan Tiger Girls’ third and final LP is a hypnotic, cosmic freakout that combines analogue electronics, drums, guitar and the mammoth drones of the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ Recorded live at Melbourne Music Week in 2017 in front of an ecstatic sold out hometown crowd, this record marks the zenith of the short but incendiary career of an extraordinary band
An instrumental outfit with a relentless drive to experiment, Taipan Tiger Girls are composer, producer and all-round electric statesman Ollie Olsen (WhirlyWirld / Max Q / NO / Third-Eye / Psy-Harmonics), experimental drummer and synth obsessive Mat Watson
(Boredoms BoaDrum / E.S.G / ULMD / Other Places), and feedback guitar
droner and organist Lisa MacKinney (Mystic Eyes / Hospital Pass / Super-Luminum) On Live At the Melbourne Town Hall they are joined by very special guest guitarist Bonnie Mercer (Grey Daturas/Hospital
Pass/Breathing Shrine) with MacKinney commanding the historic Melbourne Town Hall pipe organ
Live at the Melbourne Town Hall is a monument to the combined talents of a group of phenomenal musicians whose fusion created a magic elixir made all the more precious by its temporary nature Showcasing the improvisatory prowess of the band at the peak of their powers and bolting off into the stratosphere in a thrilling surge of psychedelic expansion.
IT RECORDS Melbourne, Australia
Label Contact: Kate Reid itrekkids@gmail com
TRACKLIST: 1 Part I
2. Part II
LIVE AT THE MELBOURNE TOWN HALL IS AVAILABLE IN AN ULTRA LIMITED EDITION OF 300 WW BLACK VINYL
GENRE: EXPERIMENTAL, DRONE, ELECTRONIC, ANALOGUE SYNTH, LIVE, PSYCHEDELIC, IMPROVISED
Released in conjunction with Heavy Machinery Records
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