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Protect Your Golden Heart Golden Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Definitive collection of Nancy's rare singles, demos and previously unreleased cuts. Includes 3 previously unreleased tracks, plus 3 tracks making their vinyl debut. Deep booklet includes new Q&As with Nancy & Don Randi (The Wrecking Crew) - both conducted by Grammy®-nominated co-producer Hunter Lea Plus never-before-seen photos from Nancy Sinatra’s personal archive. Features audio freshly remastered from the original analog tapes by Grammy®-nominated engineer John Baldwin. Vinyl pressed at RTI. Double LP housed in a gatefold jacket with 24-page book Light in the Attic continues to celebrate the influential career of singer, actress, activist, and icon *Nancy Sinatra* with a captivating new collection, Keep Walkin’: Singles, Demos & Rarities 1965-1978. Exploring the lesser-known gems from Sinatra’s rich catalog through 25 B-sides, rare singles, covers, demos, and previously-unreleased recordings, Keep Walkin’ was remastered by the *Grammy®-nominated engineer John Baldwin* and available in a variety of formats, including vinyl, CD, 8-track, and digital. The 2LP set, pressed at Record Technology, Inc. (rti), is presented in an expanded gatefold jacket and accompanied by a 24-page booklet featuring an array of photos from the artist’s personal collection, as well as a new in-depth Q&A with Sinatra, conducted by the reissue’s Grammy®-nominated co-producer, Hunter Lea. The booklet also contains a fascinating interview with keyboardist Don Randi (The Wrecking Crew), who recently spoke to Lea about his hit-filled career and his 50 years of work with Nancy. Keep Walkin’: Singles, Demos & Rarities 1965-1978 serves as a companion to the widely-acclaimed 2021 career-spanning retrospective, Start Walkin’ 1965-1976, and marks the latest release in LITA’s ongoing Nancy Sinatra Archival Series, a partnership with the legendary artist, which honors her musical legacy through lovingly curated reissues (including her 1966 debut, Boots and the 1968 classic, Nancy & Lee), limited-edition merch, and other special releases. In 1965, 25-year-old Nancy Sinatra scored her first No.1 hit with “These Boots are Made for Walkin’,” a bold anthem for female empowerment. Brazen, sassy, and utterly infectious, it was a reintroduction of sorts for the eldest daughter of Frank Sinatra, who had been struggling to find a spotlight of her own amid a changing musical landscape. Suddenly, audiences who had initially brushed off Sinatra as too demure or out-of-touch were paying attention. Written and produced by Oklahoma-born songsmith Lee Hazlewood (with swaggering instrumentals, courtesy of Billy Strange and The Wrecking Crew), the song launched the singer’s career, as well as one of music’s most unlikely, yet compelling, creative partnerships. Over the next decade, Sinatra continued to notch multiple hits on both sides of the Atlantic, including “Sugar Town,” “How Does That Grab You, Darlin?,” and a haunting rendition of the Sonny Bono-penned “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down).” The singer also paired up with Hazlewood for a series of popular duets (“Summer Wine,” “Jackson,”* and *“Some Velvet Morning”) and collaborative albums. In between best-selling LPs like Boots (1966), How Does That Grab You (1966), and Nancy & Lee (1968), Sinatra performed the theme song to the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, and collaborated with her father on the global chart-topper, “Somethin’ Stupid.” While these career landmarks are well-documented in the annals of pop culture history, however, much of Sinatra’s catalog remains sorely overlooked. As Keep Walkin’ co-producer Hunter Lea explains, “With the changing taste of the record-buying public in the late 1960s and the counterculture taking over, artists like Nancy Sinatra weren’t in the mainstream as they once were.” Despite that fact, “[Sinatra] kept working, recording, and performing at a voracious pace.” Lea continues, “This compilation is a celebration of some of the many glorious recordings that may have been overlooked, forgotten, or never even released at the time. The obscurity of some of these recordings doesn’t mask the genius, brilliance, and effort that went into them; on the contrary, it’s incredible to learn that some of the lost gems are just as rich as the national treasures.” Among the highlights is the spritely opener “The City Never Sleeps at Night,” which served as the B-Side to “These Boots Were Made for Walkin’.” Overshadowed by the colossal success of its A-side, it’s no surprise that the cinematic tune never had its proper due. Yet, Lea reveals, Hazlewood initially intended to make it the focus single. Another long-lost B-side is “The Last of the Secret Agents?,” which was paired with the Top 10 hit, “How Does That Grab You, Darlin’?” The playful song, written by Hazlewood, served as the theme to the 1966 comedy of the same name, in which Sinatra co-starred alongside Marty Allen and Steve Rossi. Keep Walkin’ also features several choice A-sides that were never included on albums and were overlooked for one reason or another. Among them is 1966’s “In Our Time,” a rebellious anthem for ‘60s youth, which references drug culture and women’s liberation, among other topics. Speaking to the Hazlewood-penned track, Sinatra recalls, “That was a fun song. Lee was starting to do his ‘anti’ stuff. He was cynical and it showed in his writing at some point.” But, despite the themes of the song, Nancy laments that she was never embraced by the counterculture. “[drugs] knocked me out of the picture completely. I was so far removed from the hip people in those days. I think they probably made fun of my stuff.” Another stylistic departure for both artists is “Love Eyes,” a bluesy, soulful single from 1966. The song, Nancy shares, is “one of my favorites. I think what helped Lee’s writing at that point was the bigger sound.… I really love it. I think it holds up to this day.” She adds that her dreamy vocal performance was inspired by early female R&B stars like Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker. The collection also features several outstanding covers, including a previously-unreleased rendition of the Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil classic, “I Just Can’t Help Believing” (a hit for both B.J. Thomas and Elvis Presley). This 1978 recording, reimagined as a duet, marked one of Sinatra’s brief reunions with Hazlewood, following his abrupt move to Sweden not long after 1972’s Nancy & Lee Again. Another choice track finds Nancy interpreting Neil Diamond’s “Glory Road.” Released as a single in 1971, it features one of the singer’s most cherished vocal performances. “After I worked on my voice and improved as a performer and as a singer, I embraced Neil Diamond. Anything I did by Neil Diamond, to me, is my best work.” Nancy also looks back fondly on her moving rendition of Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine," released in 1973 as the B-side to “Sugar Me.” The recording (which features particularly lush orchestral arrangements by Billy Strange) reunited Nancy with another close collaborator, Jimmy Bowen, who produced the singer in the early ‘60s and later introduced her to Hazlewood. “I love Jimmy,” she declares. “The records we did early on…had a depth to them that I appreciated. He heard me and saw me in a different light; he saw me as a much more serious performer, which I appreciated.” Listeners will also be delighted to hear a pair of previously-unreleased demos: “Something Pretty” (the 1968 country hit, made famous by Wynn Stewart) and the theme to the 1965 Richard Rogers/Stephen Sondheim musical, Do I Hear a Waltz?, both of which were intended for a self-described “disco” record. Despite the two catchy takes featured on Keep Walkin’, Sinatra calls the shelved album “A disaster. I called it the disco fiasco!” Offering additional insight into Sinatra’s career is music director, songwriter, and keyboardist, Don Randi. A member of the hallowed *Wrecking Crew* collective, Randi was one of the most prolific session musicians of the ‘60s and ‘70s with hundreds of credits to his name, including The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations,” Linda Ronstadt’s “Different Drum,” and “These Boots are Made For Walkin’” – his first recording with Sinatra. For the next fifty years, he would be a fixture at her sessions and live shows. He also appears on nearly every track in this collection. Speaking to Lea, Randi delves deep into his time with Sinatra, with a palpable admiration for the singer. *“She was easy to work with,”* he shares. “She was always wonderful to musicians; nobody even comes close.” The keyboardist, who met Sinatra through Hazlewood, also recalls the magic of that partnership. “I always liked working with Nancy & Lee. They had something very special that they could get out of each other. It was a good team.” He continues, “Sinatra stood up for herself [around Lee]…He could be so cantankerous…but that’s Lee…. [Nancy] saw through it. She was so lovely and helpful to him a number of times when he really needed someone to talk to.” That said, Randi also appreciates the power of Sinatra’s solo performances. “I never thought she really needed [Hazlewood},”* he reveals. “I thought her shows were just as well with everybody else; they were excellent.” After stepping back from the industry in the ‘70s to focus on her young family, Sinatra returned to the spotlight in the mid-90s, releasing a string of new albums, including the star-studded Nancy Sinatra, which paired the artist with some of her biggest fans, including Morrissey, U2, Calexico, and Sonic Youth. Since then, Nancy’s legacy has only continued to grow. In more recent years, her impact has been recognized by the likes of Pitchfork, NPR, and Rolling Stone, while in 2020, “Boots” was inducted into the Grammy® Hall of Fame*. Today, Sinatra remains a force in the industry, as new generations discover her influential catalog, which boasts nearly 20 studio albums and dozens of charting singles.

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Citizen Tim

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Barhill)

21,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Beast In Its Tracks Purple Vinyl Edition

Josh Ritter

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Pytheas)

44,99 €*

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Miles Of Aisles 2022 Remaster

Joni Mitchell

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Elektra)

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Elektra)

Joni Mitchell

Hissing Of Summer Lawns

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Court And Spark 2022 Remaster

Joni Mitchell

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Elektra)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Broken Bow)

Dustin Lynch

Killed The Cowboy

18,59 €* 30,99 € -40%

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Absolute Label Service)

Finbar Furey

Moments In Time

49,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Pan Am)

Willie Nelson

And Then I Wrote

16,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Alien Transistor)

Gratin Carnival

Such December

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Alien Transistor announces a reissue of Such December, the fourth album by Japanese indie folk-pop artist, Gratin Carnival. Listeners might already know Gratin Carnival from their appearance on the Alien Parade Japan compilation of indie pop groups working with brass and woodwind. Gratin Carnival's "Just Watching" was one of the many highlights of that compilation, and its gentle bossa-folk glide reappears on Such December. Originally released in 2020, Such December captures beautifully the happy-sad charm of Gratin Carnival. The project of Koreyuki Mitsunaga, Gratin Carnival started in 2011; Mitsunaga had been home recording for some time and decided on the name as an umbrella for his music-making. Mitsunaga's main instruments are guitar, which he uses to great effect throughout, his gorgeous acoustic playing reminiscent of players like Ueno Takashi of Tenniscoats or João Gilberto, and alto saxophone and clarinet. Those three instruments make up the core of Gratin Carnival's sound, along with Mitsunaga's charmingly doleful singing. Recording at his parents' home, with a four-track cassette recorder and a MacBook, Mitsunaga created Such December during 2020, though the songs on it stretch back to 2016. As with plenty of musicians from the Japanese underground, Mitsunaga is involved in other music, too -- he's been working with The Otoasobi Project, which performs music in collaboration with individuals with learning disabilities, and their families; and he's also involved in improvised music. With Such December, though, you get to hear Mitsunaga's music at its most personal and individual, ten songs of still, gorgeously poised indie folk-pop, where the swooning clang of six strings meets the breathy bliss of woodwind and brass.

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Todd Rundgren

Now Playing

LP | 2023 | UK (Rhino)

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Elektra)

Ilsey

From The Valley

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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LP | 2023 | CZ | Original (Take 5 Music)

DJ Markarian

Oasis Lounge Volume II

Release: 2023 / CZ – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Sme Nashville)

Colby Acuff

Western White Pines

36,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Roc Nation)

Victory

Glory Hour

22,74 €* 34,99 € -35%

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Mooncrest)

Jackson C. Frank

My Name Is Carnival

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Valley Of Heart's Delight

Margo Cilker

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Missing Piece)

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Universal)

Tim McGraw

Standing Room Only

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sony Music Catalog)

Willie Nelson

Pretty Paper

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | Reissue (Secretly Canadian)

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pressed on colored vinyl. Color unknown. Not on label.

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Phosphorescent

C'est La Vie

24,99 €*

Release: 2018 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Smoke & Oakum Black Vinyl Edition

The Longest Johns

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Decca)

39,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For Lovers Only / Rain Suite

SG (Andrew Pekler)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Faitiche)

24,99 €*

This River Only Brings Poison

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. »For Lovers Only / Rain Suite« features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.

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Dakota Suite

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Karaoke Kalk)

35,99 €*

Real To Reel: Garech Browne And Claddagh Records

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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»This River Only Brings Poison« was released in 2002 as the sixth full-length album of Chris Hooson’s Dakota Suite project. This first-ever vinyl edition of the record includes four bonus pieces and makes it possible for fans to re-evaluate one of the most crucial Dakota Suite albums in the project’s vast discography while also providing new listeners with an entry point into its intricate musical cosmos. »This River Only Brings Poison« turns out as a sonically rich and stylistically versatile as it is emotionally multi-layered.

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James Morrissey

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Decca)

110,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Bloodshot)

Jason Hawk Harris

Thin Places

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Javelin Black Vinyl Edition

Sufjan Stevens

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Gold Label)

Pat Boone

Country Jubilee

37,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mot Aykerim (You Can't Cheat Death) Red Vinyl Edition

Ayalew Mesfin

LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (Now-Again)

No Ordinary Crown Opaque Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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NOW Available IN A Limited Edition RED Vinyl Pressing Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin’s music is some of the funkiest to arise from this unconquerable East African nation. Mesfin’s recording career, captured in nearly two dozen 7” singles and numerous reel-to-reel tapes, shows the strata of the most fertile decade in Ethiopia’s 20th century recording industry, when records were pressed constantly by both independent upstarts and corporate behemoths, even if they were only distributed within the confines of this East African nation. Though Mesfin was forced underground by the Derg regime that took control of Ethiopia in 1974, he has returned almost 50 years later with this triumphant set albums – the first time that his music has been presented in this form. These albums give us a chance to discover a rare and beautiful moment in music history, in anthologies built from Mesfin’s uber-rare 7” single releases and from previously unreleased recordings taken from master tapes. Mot Aykerim gives us a chance to discover a rare & beautiful moment in music history, in an anthology built from his uber-rare 7” single releases. Contains an oversized 11” x 11” 16 page book that tells the story of modern Ethiopian music and Mesfin’s role within it.

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Will Johnson

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Keeled Scales)

No Ordinary Crown Black Vinyl Ediiton

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Will Johnson's ninth solo album, No Ordinary Crown,hums with palpable motion. Travelers, runners andconductors fill its lyrics, and gesticulating storms andemotional highs and lows seep through the instinctualquality of its rock 'n roll performances. It's also cabledby ephemeral momentum.The songs were conceived in stolen moments and briefwindows of time between the responsibilities of familyand a multi-hyphenate career. The singer, songwriter,multi-instrumentalist, painter and novelist describes thedemo process as "fairly jagged," a gathering andstitching of audio snippets recorded via cell phone anddictaphone over a year and half. "I finalized the songson short tours where I could hear my thoughts a bitmore clearly," he says."Somewhere along the line someone advised me tonever be afraid to hurt my characters, that I will alwaysbe able to get them out of it," he says. "I do want thereto be these small victories and small portals of hope."With No Ordinary Crown, people may behave badly,and the road may get rough, but the reward is in thejourney.

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Will Johnson

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Keeled Scales)

Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Al Hadaoui

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Habibi Funk)

22,99 €*

LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Habibi Funk)

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Habibi Funk is back with another album from Casablanca. Completely unreleased album which was recorded in Morocco in 1973 by three generation family band. A unique blend of Gnawa, Funk and Rock. Traditional Moroccan music meets electronic guitars and dense layers of percussion by a band that used to run in the same circles as Fadoul (And actually wrote one of his songs).

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Ahmed Malek & Flako

The Electronic Tapes

22,99 €*

Southern Star Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Unreleased early Algerian synth electronic by Ahmed Malek, compiled and co-produced by Flako

In the early 1980s, Ahmed Malek was already in his 50s , when he discovered synthesizers and electronic music for himself and started to experiment with sounds. The result was a mixture of ambient synth music, field recordings he made in Cuba and a wide variation of different sound experiments that he also presented as different avanguarde music festivals in Cuba and the US. None of it was ever released but we got a huge box of master tapes from his family and we're happy to present this different side of Ahmed Malek's music. It was compiled and co-produced by Flako, a fan of early electronic and synth music. This is not a remix album though, Flako's aim was to create an album out of 2 hours of material that sounds like it might have if Mr. Malek would have finished it himself before of his death. Fully approved and licensed from the artists family.

The album comes with an informative booklet with liner notes, an interview with Flako regarding his approach towards the production and unseen photos. We will also release a third album by Ahmed Malek which will be more in the vein again of the music he is known for and this album will also be previously unreleased.

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Brent Cobb

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ol' Buddy)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original

Tre Burt

Traffic Fiction

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Oh Boy - Thirty Tigers)

Tre Burt

Traffic Fiction

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I Killed Your Dog Black Vinyl Edition

L'Rain

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mexican Summer)

26,99 €* 29,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I Killed Your Dog Oxblood Vinyl Edition

L'Rain

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mexican Summer)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Along The Way Teal Vinyl Edition

Colbie Caillat

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BFD)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Along The Way Black Vinyl Edition

Colbie Caillat

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BFD)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elevation)

Gombloh

Sekar Mayhang

Space-Time Dreatime: The Four Dimensional Music Of

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gombloh’s forgotten masterpiece

What if you have Brian Wilson and Bruce Springsteen rolled into one? And what if he came of age as an poor buskers in in Surabaya, Indonesia, but then summoned enough strength to record six albums that flew in the face of everyone in the country’s rock scene back in the early 1980s?

Genius, be they Brian Wilson or Soedjarwoto “Soemarsono” Gombloh, don’t conform to rules written for us mere mortals. They have their own way of doing things and in the case of Gombloh, writing music, conducting recording session and spending cash from his music, must be conducted on his own terms and his terms only. Studio time was expensive back in the early 1980s, yet Gombloh could be three-hour late for his session, and while engineers, session musicians and producers were jittery about the prospect of another botched session, Gombloh took his time for a nap before the recording begun.

Yet, some of his greatest works came into being in the wake of this napping session. Recording session for Sekar Mayang is no exception, despite the fact there’s foreboding sense of doom with Gombloh being unsure about the possibility of selling enough units to help his label break even. This is, after all, this is his last record with his band Lemon Tree’s. No one knew that Gombloh was operating with all his cylinders running and what came out of this Indra Record session, in the waning days of 1980, were some of the best compositions ever committed to magnetic tapes (to wax, if now you’re holding this on vinyl).

This is Gombloh at the peak of his creative genius. You can argue that his debut album Nadia & Atmospheer (what’s with the spelling mistake?) is the most sprawling and complex album (both sonically and thematically), but Sekar Mayang certainly had the best songs and I can make the argument that this album’s 10 songs are strong contenders for biggest hits in blues, country, psychedelic rock charts. “Prahoro & Prahoro” is one of those impossible song which appears to have sprung from a bottomless well of inspiration, encompassing King Crimson’s sprawling epic, Deep Purple’s deepest blues and Genesis’ most progressive tendencies. Or “Sekaring Jagat”, which begins as Lennon-McCartney lullaby before launching a thousand ships traveling to the end of the rainbow with children choir singing heavenly melodies backed by droning harpsichord and synclavier, while a buzzing Hammond B3 tightly locks with Gombloh’s guitar strumming.

For many of his fans, Gombloh is known as generous man of the people. A Robin Hood type if you please. He spent his royalty checks to buy foods for beggars and buskers and dish out some more to buy undergarments for Surabaya’s prostitutes. In Sekar Mayang, Gombloh went full Springsteen mode in “Mitra Becakan,” a social commentary that cut so deep you can end up with tears in your eyes and lump in your throat (even if you don’t understand any of its Javanese language lyrics). This is one the most devastating social commentary ever recorded for a pop song, and even if you discount the greatness of its musical composition, you chalk this up as a great social-realism poetry. His years of hanging out with pedicab drivers, street vendors and street-bound prostitutes certainly gave him enough insight into their (in)human condition.

Yet, a record this stellar was largely forgotten. First, this record was a flop upon its release in 1981. Indra Records reportedly only did one pressing on cassette tape and be done with it. For those who were lucky enough to have come across one of songs from this album on the radio were likely growing up in East Java, where Gombloh had a massive cult following early in the 1980s. Nothing was heard from this record again.

There were only a handful of cassette tapes from the first pressing found on second-hand market and I recently stumbled upon one online with a price tag of Rp 50 million (US$3,500). It’s no longer available now.

In Sekar Mayang, Gombloh harbours an obsession for a long-lost utopia, Java’s distant past, where farmers have their barn full of rice and corn, where blacksmith working around the clock making tools and children singing and dancing in their seminaries. Or the fact that he opens the song with stanza from Serat Weddhatama, arguably the most monumental poem in neo-classic Javanese literature, could be his pledge of allegiance. The question for him is should a modern-day Indonesia, rife with poverty, corruption and environmental degradation not be an anathema to that utopia?

In the end, you don’t need to be someone fluent in Javanese to enjoy this majestic record. And if this record turns out to be the last in Elevation Records catalogue and we shut down this label tomorrow, we will be very happy. Mission accomplished!

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Lori Vambe

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Strut)

38,99 €*

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Olivia Chaney)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Occasionally, you find music outside the commercial mainstream, outside of everything - the music of visionaries, eccentrics, inventors, loners, the keepers of secrets, the path-finders. Moondog, Daphne Oram, Harry Partch are from this mould. And so too is Lori Vambe. This is the first ever reissue of Vambe"s privately pressed original albums from 1982, Drumland Dreamland and Drumgita Solo, packaged in a deluxe slipcase and featuring both albums in their original artwork!

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Olivia Chaney

Six French Songs

Feel Good Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Six French Songs is Olivia Chaney’s spontaneous and celebratory review of the French chanson, from medieval ballad to 60s yé-yé pop classic.

Finding themselves with a few spare evenings during a trip to NYC, Olivia and her long term collaborator and producer Thomas Bartlett set themselves the challenge of making an EP. Over two balmy summer evenings at Reservoir Studios (formerly Chic’s studio), they set down as many of Olivia’s arrangements as they could. Playing all the instruments themselves, with haunting violin parts from Sam Amidon, who happened to be in town, these recordings are a celebration of friendship, fuelled by wine, laughter and affection.

Most of the recordings are based on arrangements Olivia worked up over the previous decade, as her French catalogue expanded. After putting her version of Auprès de ma blonde on youtube, a war torn love song arranged unexpectedly with her Indian harmonium, it quickly gained a quarter of a million views. A fan in Lyon sent Olivia a field recording of Montagne, que tu es hautes, which she then recorded to acclaim with Kronos Quartet. L’homme armé, a mystical 15th century chanson, and Marguerite, a sailor’s folksong from the Channel Islands, had found their way into her regular touring repertoire. Ballade is Olivia’s take on Brassens’ setting of Villon’s homage to the brave and iconic women of the past, tinged with the transience of life. Tous les garçons et les filles updates this 60s pop hit into her ravishing and contemporary soundworld.

The distinctive and playful arrangements on Six French Songs frame afresh the unbroken tradition of French chanson–with their ‘formes fixes’ and full-blooded themes of life, death, love and longing.

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Jaime Wyatt

LP | 2023 | US | Original (New West)

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Bloodshot)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“I’m still learning how to experience joy, how to be free, how to be comfortable in my own skin,” says Jaime Wyatt. “A lot of us grow up feeling like we have to hide who we are just to be accepted, but that comes from a place of fear and judgment. I wrote these songs as a way of letting go of all that, as permission to feel good.” Feel Good, Wyatt’s extraordinary new album, is more than just a permission slip, though: it’s an invitation. Recorded with Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, the record is bold and ecstatic, built on tight, intoxicating grooves that belie the songs’ substantial emotional stakes. Wyatt’s writing is raw and intuitive here, tapping into the deep recesses of her subconscious as she reckons with grief and growth, and her delivery is visceral to match, cutting straight to the bone with equal parts sensitivity and swagger. Taken as a whole, the collection stands as a radical act of creative liberation from an artist already known for pushing limits, a genre-defying work of healing and self-love that tips its cap to everything from Al Green and Otis Redding to Waylon Jennings and Bobbie Gentry in its relentless pursuit of peace and pleasure.

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Wayne Hancock

A-Town Blues

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Lawson)

Kiyoshi Yamaya

Kyou

39,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elise Leavy Music)

Elise Leavy

A Little Longer

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (RCA International)

Tyler Childers

Rustin' In The Rain

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Cat In The Rain Opaque Tan Vinyl Edition

Turnpike Troubadours

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Bossier City)

24,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What Is It Even? Pink Vinyl Edition

Joshua Ray Walker

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Joshua Ray Walker)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Warp)

Bibio

Sunbursting EP

25,19 €* 27,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Strolling Bones)

Say Zuzu

Every Mile

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Matthews Southern Comfort

The Woodstock Album

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Must Have Music)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Nordic Notes)

Pekko K:H:H:L Käppi

Credo

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Come On Over Diamond Edition

Shania Twain

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mercury)

43,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Nordic Notes)

Svavar Knutur

Bil - Between

21,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Warner Bros.)

Dan + Shay

Bigger Houses

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ladaniva Yellow Vinyl Edition

Ladaniva

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Jiguli)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (April)

Nana Rashid

Music For Betty

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Spaceflight)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With a timeless, emotive vocal quality reminiscent of the great Nina Simone, Danish vocalist Nana Rashid is proud to present "Music For Betty", her debut on April Records, this spring. Backed by critically acclaimed trio Little North, the record presents 8 gems which showcase an artist with a commanding stage presence and a knack for storytelling that belies her youth. Walking a tightrope between an homage to her idols and an undeniably modern, self-assured performance, the vocalist places herself in the present through her charged lyricism, and political/spiritual undertones.The heart and soul of everything Rashid does is rooted in the belief that music can remind us of what we have in common - our humanity. A reference to the first track "Poor Blue Betty", the album"s name is a tribute to the parts of ourselves we dismiss but still so badly desire as they are what make us whole. The eight tracks on the record were written and chosen out of a wish to make music for the dismissed parts of Rashid"s soul as a tool to reintegrate them into herself.A follow-up to her 2016 release "Sorrow In Sunlight", her use of piano trio Little North adds an extra dimension to the cohesion of the music. Appearing on the cover of Spotify"s "State of Jazz" playlist (twice!) and with a glowing review in Downbeat Magazine for their 2022 album "Familiar Places", their subtle musicianship shines a light on Rashid"s power-ful vocal and allows the lyricism and songwriting to speak for themselves.The arrangements are naked and raw, yet elegant. The piano trio has a dusty and at times almost cinematic sound to it. In other places, the trio slides into punchy, organic pression supporting the wailing messages of unfairness and sorrow. From the spacious, Scandinavian-jazz tinged "Goodbye My Love", to the world of texture and extended techniques from pianist Benjamin Norholm Jacobsen in "Johnny Guitar" to the laid-back groove of "Mother, Father" with an American attitude, the album flows through a sea of influences, grounded by i...

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Garrett T. Capps

People Are Beautiful

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hank 100: Greatest Radio Hits

Hank Williams

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Crammed)

Nihiloxica

Source Of Denial

Louis Le Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain Jucker

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Source of Denial is the second LP from Nihiloxica, the Bugandan techno outfit hailing from Kampala, Uganda. It comes after more than three long years since Kaloli, their acclaimed debut on Crammed Discs. The album points a (middle) finger at the hostile immigration and freedom of movement policies implemented in the UK, as well as across the world. Fueled by their frustrations with this intentionally convoluted system, the group have produced their most cataclysmic effort to date.

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Suitcase Suite

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Hummus)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Rumi Sounds)

Sousta Politiki

Ondamania

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (RCA International)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Between tradition and contemporary aesthetics, Sousta Politiki forcefully and uniquely revisits the repertoire of Smyrneiko (Greek rebetiko from Asia Minor) and the songs of Istanbul, adding their own compositions.
Formed in Strasbourg in 2016, Sousta Politiki is a Franco-Turkish music group that draws inspiration from various urban and marginalized music genres of Greece and Turkey. The repertoire they explore is diverse, including Smyrneiko from Asia Minor, Kanto from Istanbul, rebetiko from Athens or Piraeus, and traditional songs from Thrace. However, they all share a common connection to the post-Ottoman traditions of the early 20th century. These songs primarily consist of vocals, and their themes often touch upon of daily life such as alcohol, drugs, prison, and prostitution.
The songs are approached with a sense of irony and celebration. One can find both joy and melancholy, as in Argentine tango or American blues. The five members of Sousta Politiki come from diverse musical backgrounds, including rock, Ottoman music, opera singing, rebetiko, and improvised music. The process of creation and reinterpretation knows no limits, and the unique instrumentation of the group (cello, Ottoman tanbur, accordion, bouzouki, percussion, and vocals) allows for surprising and unprecedented rearrangements.

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Colter Wall

Little Songs

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sahel Black Vinyl Edition

Bombino

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Partisan)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Honu Lani)

Claudia Koreck

Kalender

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For The Fkn Love Black Vinyl Edition

Arrested Development

2LP | 2022 | Original (Ruff Nation)

31,44 €* 36,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mixtape Live Volume 3 Colored Vinyl Edition

Angelo Kelly

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Universal)

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Colored Vinyl Edition

Marty Robbins

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Vinyl Passion)

18,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What's My Name (1967-1970)

Henson Cargill

LP | 2023 | Original (Iron Mountain Analogue Research)

Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Volume Two

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* Limited Edition Deluxe Gatefold LP with exclusive scholarly liner notes! * Full dynamic range 2023 remasters direct from the first-generation analogue master tapes! * Limited Edition 500 LPs – 250 ‘Plastic People’ Red LPs! / 250 ‘Gnashville Nihilist’ Black LPs! (randomly inserted) From the people who brought you 'Hillbillies In Hell'... Stellar songs, heartfelt performances, the finest Nashville players and the greatest set of tonsils to ever wrap themselves around Activist Country-Pop... Here are the almost forgotten masterpieces of Henson Cargill, sourced directly from the Monument Records vault and presented together for the first time on LP. Hear Henson's smooth baritone lambast apathy ('None of My Business'), chide neglectful parenting ('Skip A Rope'), ponder the byzantine tableaux of love ('Four Shades of Love'), dismiss the space race and dissect de-evolution ('Going Backwards') and name-check both Adolph Eichmann and Cecil B. DeMille in one very lysergic song ('What's my Name?'). Across 1967-1970, Cargill pioneered a unique and radical New Nashville Sound. Swinging, dobro-led shuffles with controversial, cosmic/striking themes and insightful lyrics. Dystopian and defiant anti-war laments. Tender and timeless brooding ballads of regret. Wise, worldly and weary. 16 prime cuts of Psyche-Gnashville brilliance. Witness the Hillbilly Zen of 'Row Row Row', the Apocalyptic revelations of 'This Generation Shall Not Pass' and the acerbic disestablishmentarianism of 'Reprints (Plastic People)'. Nashville 1967, something was in the water and Henson Cargill drank his fill.

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Paul Hillery Presents

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Re:Warm)

44,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Muslimgauze Vs The Rootsman

The Return To The City Of DJinn

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Via Parigi)

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Woods Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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The second part of the famous collaboration between two UK based electronic pioneers: John Bolloten aka The Rootsman and Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze. For this album the original The Rootsman material from his albums “Into The Light” and “52 Days to Timbuktu” was remixed and deconstructed by Muslimgauze. As always with Bryn Jones, all material is inspired by Arab culture. We hear distorted dub rhythms, sawn-off loops, traditional music, male and female voices and then distorted rhythms again. Closing your eyes, you can find yourself in the middle of an eastern city, walk along its noisy streets, admire the ancient architecture. This noise can tell amazing stories!

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Steel Woods

On Your Time

28,04 €* 32,99 € -15%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Folklore Des Weltalls 2 2023 Repress

Die Welttraumforscher

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Les Giants)

22,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Discreet Music)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Die Welttraumforscher is an enigmatic Swiss musical and artistic project. Active since 1981, when the first cassette came out on Das Moniflabel, they have an archive with more than 30 albums, but also stories, films and fanciful illustrations. Die Welttraumforscher is a sonority exploration that translates energy and sounds from outer space. Its music is the transfiguration of the Galaxy’s complexity and its inspection audio-graphics includes, and give us, the space connections as pure melody. Like a game, it makes us partake of the power of the expression and the World and Celestial bodies’ mysteries. Perpetually in a journey, die Welttraumforscher tells us how there’s always something to discover inside and outside of ourselves. Folklore des Weltalls 2 comes out for his 40th artistic anniversary, with two songs for every celestial body in our solar system, including Pluto and the Moon; on the A-Side a so-called "Dance Song" and on the B-Side a "Dream Song". The songs appear on the record in the same order in which the bodies circle around the Sun. That means that the centre of the record (the label) represents the Sun, and is surrounded by the planets and other bodies, giving us a map of our solar system as we look at the record. 20 new (instrumental) songs, from die Welttraumforscher are included, giving an extraordinary glimpse of the recording work of die Welttraumforscher in their hidden studio. It is deeply connected with one of their favourite ideas: that outer space and especially our solar system is full of music which is only waiting to be discovered. Isti mirant stella (these men wonder at the star). Love is gravity.

Silkscreen print by Legno.

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Leda

Neuter

Kym Register + Meltdown Rodeo

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sofie Herner (Enhet För Fri Musik, Neutral) returns with Neuter, the first proper album since the Gitarrmusik Iii-x LP released on Förlag För Fri Musik back in 2017. Neuter was recorded between 2018 and 2021 and is the culmination of a very distinctive and unmistakable sound Sofie has developed and refined during close to 10 years now. The music of Leda is based on primitive guitar loops of various lenghts, loops that intervenes and creates peculiar rhythms and subtle harmonies. Slow-burning proto-industrial basement buzz with occasional vocals buried in the mix. The connection to the sullen soundscapes of Neutral is of course there, but the skeletal, monotonous compositions and austere nature of things sets this apart widely. Years has passed and Neuter is ultimately more Malmö than Gothenburg. Hints has been thrown out on a handful of limited in-between releases on labels like Knotwilg and Kashual Plastik during the last few years, but Neuter is the pinnacle of Herner's body of solo work. Nine tracks, 37 minutes.

Mastered by Linus at Elementstudio and comes packaged in a cover jacket with full colour printed inside. Edition of 750 copies. Discreet Music 14.

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Meltdown Rodeo

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Don Giovanni)

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Signature Sounds)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kym Register + Meltdown Rodeo (formerly Loamlands) is a transgressive and distorted country music outfit based in North Carolina that places queer storytelling at the forefront. Their music intimately grapples with identity, retribution, reconciliation and queer existence in both modern-day and historical (inclusive of mostly all) southern culture. Register is also contributing a queer lens to the southern rock ethos. By way of supporting cast, Sinclair Palmer (bass), Joe Westerlund (drums), and Matt Phillips categorically deliver. Check out the title track for a perfect example of the band’s ability to travel between gritty responsiveness and tendern reflection at Register’s lyrical instruction. Whether grappling with the constrictions of gender expressions on dating apps (“How Do You See Me”), evoking the semi-autobiographical loneliness of Dorothy Allison’s Carolina bastards (“Maureen”), or daring white folks to “get right with their history of compliance in racial capitalism” (“Loamlands”), Register affirms that songwriting, at its best, is a gross but necessary confrontation. Ultimately Register and Meltdown Rodeo (both the newly named band and album) have achieved in eleven songs something the south has only half-heartedly attempted – undoing generational curses by retiring “bless your heart” lip service.

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Taylor Ashton

Stranger To The Feeling

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Dear Life)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Recorded over the course of a 4,000-mile cross-country roadtrip, Canadian Taylor Ashton’s new album is a sonic odyssey through the heart of America, one that works its way geographically from coast to coast as it meditates on the meaning of closeness and connection. The performances are warm and inviting, anchored by Ashton’s deft guitar and banjo work and rich, easygoing melodicism, and the recordings—helmed by producer Jacob Blumberg and captured with a broad range of collaborators including Courtney Hartman, Big Thief’s Buck Meek, Lake Street Dive’s Rachael Price, Vulfpeck’s Theo Katzman, and Late Show bandleader Louis Cato—are alternately sparse and lush. From a blanket in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park to a spiritual vortex in Sedona, AZ, the settings are inextricable from the songs, and the result is a moving collection that evokes both the gentle virtuosity of Nick Drake and the buoyant wit of Paul Simon.

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Florry

The Holey Bible

Viva La Revolucion! Reissue Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For Francie Medosch, leader of rag tag Philly country-rock outfit Florry, the 11 songs on their Dear Life Records debut “The Holey Bible” urgently radiate a place of hard-won optimism, and pull no punches in laying out the patient road it sometimes takes to get there. “The Holey Bible” aspires to the special feeling of raucous intimacy achieved by the best records in the outlaw country canon, and strikes that rare balance between a display of careful honesty, and an invitation to a party.

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V.A.

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

15,99 €*

The Capitol Years 1956-1963 Clear Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A tribute album of revolutionary songs to celebrate the 60 years of the end of the Cuban revolution.The album cover features the original photo of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, "Guerillo Heroico", taken by Alberto Diaz Guttierez aka "Korda" in 1960.A fine selection of committed songs, including traditional ones such as "Hasta Siempre" and Tributes to "El Che" with "Comandante Che Guevara"

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Wanda Jackson

LP | 2023 | EU (Destination Moon)

17,09 €* 17,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wanda Jackson is a true pioneer of American popular music. One of the first women in history to record country and western music, as well as rock ‘n’ roll, and a brief romantic liaison with Elvis.This collection reminds of the greatness of her peak years at Capitol Records. From the mournful twists of “Sinful Heart,” to the hard-rocking thrills of “Let’s Have A Party” and “Riot In Cell Block Number Nine,” Wanda Jackson attacks the material in her distinctive way, with a wry glance at innocence left somewhere behind. All hail the Queen, and long may she reign!

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Christy Moore

The Early Years 1969-81

2LP | 2023 | EU (Tara)

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Playground)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Named Ireland’s greatest living musician in 2007 by RTÉ, no one has come within an ass’s roar of challenging him for that title. Be it with Planxty, Moving Hearts, or solo as a chronicler of our times, a poke in the side of our conscience, a jester commemorating joyous events, or simply the owner of the most wondrously lilting voice, Christy Moore has been delighting audiences for over 50 years.

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Dina Ögon

Mellan Slagen

18,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (ATO)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Two of Sweden's most interesting artists collaborate on this brand-new version of "Mellan slagen" from Dina Ögon's celebrated album "Oas". The song - which was originally inspired by glaciers and fjords lit up with neon lights and permeated with a smokey club feel - weaves together Broder John's nasal, soft flow with the slow, almost ghostly groove which brings to mind the 90s Bristol trip hop scene. Broder John has made quite a name for himself as a force to be reckoned with on the Swedish music scene. This Umeå-bred artist has contributed to shaping the music of today and leading the way for a new generation of artists. Following his debut album "Cool" and the sophomore album "drift", he was picked as the first-ever artist singing in Swedish to perform on the international platform Colorsxstudios. Broder John says, "Dina Ögon is the best thing to have happened to Sweden in the last 10 years and 'Oas' is an instant classic. I don't think I've ever been as quick to accept an invitation as I was when this one came in." Broder John on the new lyrics: "If you've listened to my previous lyrics, you can see that I'm often drawn to writing about different contradictions in life. I'm very inspired by Anna's lyrical writing, and I heard her words in the chorus "finns inga krav" ["there are no requirements"] and I wanted to explore if there was something I could take from that into my world. I've had this idea for quite a long time about the scenario in which someone says that "everyone is lying" and what that means for the person saying it - are they lying too in that case? So, in combination with Anna's world and the incredible production, it felt like a perfect painting to continue painting. I think the last sentence ties it together nicely, "Kan inte lita på nån här, det är sjukt, så tro mig när jag säger att det är sant - alla ljuger" ["Can't trust anyone here, it's insane, so believe me when I say that it's true - everyone is lying"]. Dina Ögon on the collaboration: "Broder John is one of the best ones we have, we like that stuff, please listen!"

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Old Crow Medicine Show

Jubilee

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Vadi)

Tommy Khosla

Vignettes

27,89 €* 30,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Good Aderegechegn (Blindsided By Love) Blue Vinyl Edition

Ayalew Mesfin

LP | 2020 | Reissue (Now-Again)

Greatest Hits And Favorites

Release: 2020 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Good Aderegechegn is now available in a Limited Edition Blue Vinyl Pressing Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia. Mesfin’s music is some of the funkiest to arise from this unconquerable East African nation. Mesfin’s recording career, captured in nearly two dozen 7” singles and numerous reel-to-reel tapes, shows the strata of the most fertile decade in Ethiopia’s 20th century recording industry, when records were pressed constantly by both independent upstarts and corporate behemoths, even if they were only distributed within the confines of this East African nation. Though Mesfin was forced underground by the Derg regime that took control of Ethiopia in 1974, he has returned almost 50 years later with this triumphant set albums – the first time that his music has been presented in this form. These albums give us a chance to discover a rare and beautiful moment in music history, in anthologies built from Mesfin’s uber-rare 7” single releases and from previously unreleased recordings taken from master tapes. Good Aderegechegn gives us a chance to discover a rare & beautiful moment in music history, in an anthology built from his uber-rare 7” single releases. Contains an oversized 11” x 11” 16 page book that tells the story of modern Ethiopian music and Mesfin’s role within it.

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Johnny Cash

2LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Passion)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (No Coast)

Wristwatch

Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Meaner and mightier, Wristwatch returns with the followup to their oft-sold-out debut self-titled LP! Aptly titled II, the upcoming album features a more nuanced collection of songs than the first...with a heavier focus on varying the tempos, moods and songwriting. There's even a ballad! Never Fear all you punk rock aficionados/snobs!!!! II still stays true to Wristwatch's signature sound: A hyper kinetic and disfigured backbone chock full of mutated punk rock vertebrates, with searing guitar leads as the cartilage and cacophonous electronic drums as the brittle joints holding the whole thing together. A year of playing shows around the Midwest with the likes of Agent Orange, Bongzilla, MDC, Starcrawler, etc really morphed the band's DNA quite a bit. Tyler SPATZ's bass playing has truly come to the forefront over the top of Bobby HUSSY’s signature yowl and guitar mangling on tracks like the leadoff, "Rules" and punk-pop morsel "Sweet Tooth." Have a good look... it only gets gnarlier from here on out

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Beauties

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Domino Sounds)

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For many years, this has been on the Domino Sound reissue wish list, and finally the wish has been granted. A reissue in cahoots with Mississippi Records of a 1976 gem of a record from Ethiopia. Aselefech Ashine and Getenesh Kebret met in Addis Ababa at the Hager Fikir Theater, a music and dance icon of Africa. They released one 45rpm single, and this album under the musical direction of Tishome Sisay. Ten beautiful songs, each of them sung as closely intertwined duets between the two “beauties”, backed by the tip top sounds of the Army Band. The LP comes in a Stoughton “Tip-On” sleeve with lyrical translations and a short interview with Aselefech Ashine. A split release with Mississippi Records, we are ecstatic to have more copies for the world to enjoy. Dig in!

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Lloyd Pack

I Can't Remember

Fm Tokyo Pioneer Sound Approach

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Over the course of the last decade, Messrs. Russell Walker and Daniel Melchior have collaborated under the guise of THE Lloyd Pack. While much ink has been spilled about their work apart from each other [das Menace, THE Pheromoans, countless solo dispatches], their conjoined effort has a bit of a cloaked rep. Perhaps it’s their insistence on bucking genre constraints that thickens the shroud, as their lone commitment lies in coaxing each other’s instincts into wondrous tracks. I Can’t Remember, the latest assemblage of said tracks, imparts bright buzz with a decidedly late-night air. An odd bit of cynical groove runs throughout, all the way to sunrise.

"The finest moments of The Lloyd Pack essentially equate Russ and Dan completing each other’s sentences, relating and reacting on equal terms. I Can’t Remember is replete with such moments. Many of the entries begin with simple rhythm programming as bedrock, expanding through all manner of pile- on riffing. The waltzing, madcap “Pagsy” shoves several recognizable tenants of classic Uk-diy pop into the circus tent. The romantic escapism that feeds “The Firs Hotel” eventually concludes as mere routine. “Crossroads Mason Simulator” acts as centerpiece, undeniable with its gorgeous lights-off sound, recalling a lost entry from After The Heat. Every tune offers surprise and something to cling to.

"Digital Regress is pleased to present I Can’t Remember, the fifth LP from The Lloyd Pack." - Mitch Cardwell

Riyl: Bobby Would, The Rebel, The Shadow Ring, Nathan Roche, Itchy Bugger

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Doji Morita

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

39,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Yep Roc)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dōji Morita, who debuted in 1975 with the single "Sayonara Boku no Tomodachi / Mabushii Natsu," was a unique and enigmatic presence in Japanese folk scene with her characteristic sunglasses and curly hair. Starting with "good Bye" in the same year, she went on to release a series of masterpiece albums, including "Mother Sky: Can You Fly Alone in the Sad Blue Sky?" (1976) and "a Boy" (1977).

This album is a live recording from the spring of 1978, during the peak of Mori's career, when she appeared on the popular FM Tokyo radio program "Pioneer Sound Approach." With a selection of her best songs, delicate singing and playing, and valuable on-stage banter, this is a must-have live album not only for fans but for anyone. Despite its brevity, this album captures the richness of her career.

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Steep Canyon Rangers

Morning Shift

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Kill Rock Stars)

Lindsay Lou

Queen Of Time

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Discreet Music)

JJ Band

Live I Kungsten

18,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Alien Transistor)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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While working on his solo albums, JJulius put together a live band consisting of Clara Flygare (Standard) on drums and vocals, Gustav Danielsbacka (Incipientium) on guitar and Mattias Rörström (Happiest Place Records) on bass. The all star incarnation debuted in Gothenburg in October 2021 and the following year the group recorded a couple of songs in Kungsten. The heavy ballad opener '500 spänn' sort of evokes the spirit of prime time Felt while the angular Ukdiy bizarro blast of 'Sorg I Göteborg' and the late era Skiftande Enheter noddings of 'u2" shows a more energetic side. The galloping, life-affirming instrumental closer 'Vargen' is one of those epics you could easily see the band expand and just doing longer and longer versions of live until it finally takes over the whole set.

45rpm white label 12" with risograph paste-on sleeves and insert. Edition of 490 copies. Mastered by Lasse Marhaug.

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Minhwi Lee

Borrowed Tongue

Jump For Joy Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Borrowed Tongue is the debut solo album by Korean singer-songwriter Minhwi Lee. It’s a mysterious, strangely compelling thing, an album of rare poetry, and remarkably self-assured. Originally released in November 2016, the album made waves, winning best folk album of 2016 at the 14th Korean Music Awards. Its eight songs, written and predominantly arranged by Lee, don’t reveal their secrets easily, or at first blush; rather, they take their time slowly to unfurl in her listeners’ worlds. There are hints of other music here, from time to time: the intimacy of Stina Nordenstam, perhaps; the gauzy haze of Hope Sandoval, on the blissed-out pop of “Broken Mirror”; there are touches of acid-folk, and ECM jazz, and a slyly filmic approach to songwriting and arrangement that makes every song fit perfectly into the album’s arc.

Lee arrived at her solo music through a complex, circuitous route. After studying musicology in Seoul, she learned her trade, film scoring, in New York and Paris. She also studied classical music, blowing off steam in a wild punk duo, Mukimukimanmansu, who released one album, 2012, on Korean indie label Beatball. Subsequently, Lee has been refining her music, focusing both on her solo songs, and on writing for television series and films; she’s written scores for films by such directors as Sangmoon Lee, Jeongwon Kam, and Wanmin Lee. She also plays in the jazz outfit Cubed, and recently joined doom metal group Gawthrop on bass.

Since its release in 2016, Borrowed Tongue has slowly bewitched listeners with its idiosyncratic arrangements and evocative songwriting. It’s an album that hints at plenty, but refuses to make grand statements, something Lee seems intent to pursue: in correspondence, she’s very clear that she wants these songs to enact a kind of transmutation, to be adopted into the listeners’ lives and exist within their own imaginings. She does, however, offer a few hints to what propels these mercurial songs, explaining, “this album is about a person who again opens their mouth, which was once shut. The album deals with what it means to speak: things that are known but not said, things that should be said but are not, things that cannot be said but nonetheless are.”

This may well explain the curious mood of Borrowed Tongue, the multiple ‘voices’ that inhabit the album; Lee’s singing voice is pliable and mutable, approaching each song as its own diorama and ensuring the song is sung with just the right tone. The arrangements Lee conjures for her songs are all in service to narrative and melody; they appear to her alongside the composition, which is surely why everything here fits together so beautifully. From there, Lee approaches her songs carefully, in deference to their ‘need to be sung’ a certain way. There isn’t a moment wasted: everything on Borrowed Tongue is as it needs to be, whether a melancholy folk song taking to the air, or a psychedelic reverie dreamed into being. It’s a beautiful, poised and confident debut.

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Hiss Golden Messenger

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Merge)