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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Via Parigi)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Circus of Desire is the much anticipated third studio album from Grammy-nominated folk singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney. Worked up over five eventful years, this collection of lovingly wrought songs was recorded in NYC with long-time collaborator, producer and musician Thomas Bartlett (David Byrne, the Magnetic Fields, Sufjan Stevens, The National, St. Vincent, Father John Misty)

Consisting of ten originals and one cover (a revoicing of Dory Previn’s haunting ballad ‘Lady with the Braid’), this album is Olivia set free. Taking their departure from real life experiences, these songs strain towards the universal. The title track blends the carnivalesque and meditations on ancient wisdom with an anthemic, dancy refrain. ‘Calliope’ is a tribute to Olivia’s daughter, named after the Greek muse of music and epic poetry, picturing this little life as part of the ever-revolving cosmos. ‘To the Lighthouse’ tells the story of her sister who left the capital to live on a remote island. Like ‘Mirror, Mirror’ and ‘Why’, a pair of tracks about erotic love, this song reflects upon our capacity to flee and transcend inherited trauma. ‘Zero Sum’ is a setting of a metaphysical number poem by Olivia’s grandfather, a mathematician and poet. ‘I Wish’ - the album closer, is the ultimate breakup song.

Whilst staying true to her folk roots, Olivia enters new musical territories with Circus of Desire, venturing into the realms of pop and dance. The record features cameos from a number of friends, including string arrangements by Nico Muhly and banjo and guitar from Sam Amidon. The result of this rich blend of musical influences is an album that looks honestly, sometimes despairingly, but primarily hopefully at the carnival that is life - ‘we’re in a dance with death, with fire…we’re all in a circus of desire’.

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Évohé Bègue

Bégayer

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Chrysalis)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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The "evohé" is the song of the Bacchants during the carnival. It is a bloody and humorous song that humiliates everything. In Euripides' work, the evohé is screamed when the city of Thebes is torn apart by fever and masquerade. Everyone laughs and sings, the maenads set the city on fire, masks pierce and disfigure the inhabitants, and Agave eats the head of King Pentheus, her son.

One cannot explain what this song is; one would need to describe the flip side of the sung, its extremity. Perhaps one cannot even hear it... most likely, the song has already affected us before crossing the threshold of our lucidity. It wells up... It glides over memory; one cannot know its melody, there are no lyrics, no notation, no tradition, no learning... no university of the sung abyss can be established. The orgy of matter is sovereign and incommunicable; the song it gives birth to is always alien, foolish, and lost; it is a sung panic. -Pan's panic, offering a pack of blind dogs to Artemis and suggesting, in passing, to send them hunting in her debauchery. The dogs of naked nature run like mad at an impossible speed, devouring every creature they scent in the wind, consuming all flesh within their reach. One can imagine that the pack reappears invariably in too assertive human affairs, facing certainties against which its wildness imposes itself more violently than against anything else. For example: when we are a bit pleased with ourselves, sensing the impression of having composed, of having imposed our order on the order of matter... immediately, it seems we can hear them barking in the distance. We freeze, we listen, we would prefer to believe it's hallucinations. But no. It is indeed the order of matter returning to express itself with the dogs. Order pours over us, the carnival imposes itself, and while the dogs eat our heads, they offer to admit that the foundation of our order was all soft, all foolish and spongy, all decomposed, that the decomposed order from below, the sincerity of matter, had never ceased to be orgiastic. When the dogs devour us, it's because Pan has brought back the mud. He has ladled a large serving of material broth back onto us; he has made all things copulate again. One imagines a song that is not at all solemn but belongs to a kind of cold and sacred-less mystique; it is the grip of the sovereign jester. An apparently disorderly and boldly stammering song that sees itself overturned and enjoys it...

French Chanson, Noise, echoes of music from faraway and long ago, modified radio transistors and other old electronic gear… After releasing several sets of raw, almost entirely improvised direct-to-tape recordings duplicated by hand in a workshop on the border of the Bauges mountain chain, the Bégayer Trio made new friends. Orphans without a home, they were welcomed like brothers by the Parisian label Le Saule, spotted by the chic Geneva-based Bongo Joe Records, and thus were able to devote a year to the making of their debut album, “Terrain à mire. Une maison rétive. Contrainte par le toit.”

Co-produced by the two families mentioned above, the album was a first beam in the musical structure laid by this trio of Alpine fellows: what they sought was the most exact form of mutt-itude, a nomadic journey through intentionally scrambled ancient musical signs by way of French, Italian and Arabic song, gleefully following René Char’s aphorism, later borrowed and translated by Hannah Arendt as “Our inheritance was left to us by no testament.”

Bégayer’s mission– in the name of those without tradition, the rejects of a culture of scarcity born in the twilight of popular customs amidst the screams of Noise on village squares and in the flow of digital swarms– is to create a hitherto unknown genre of hybrid gypsy rhapsody. The culture of scarcity can be experiences as a kind of cruel joy, an occasion to bridge the unsteady interpretation of ancient practices with contemporary experiments and build upon singular variations and excess. Up to now, every stutter-song intended to produce a joyful though disquieting object whose obstinacy and cruel simplicity triggered a disturbance, a distancing, a studied thing that stares right back at us.

Now the trio has become a quintet working towards a new kind of concert : with no beginning and no end, in which concert-time and quotidian time merge in order to deliberately drain of any autonomy the temporality of performance. Through the vocals, the homemade percussion and numerous strange instruments, two immutable musical activities will be celebrated and brought to bear on each other: the song of the people, whose cry of hunger and togetherness breaks through the barrier between art and life – and the art of performance explored as communal effort to describe our times.

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The Wandering Hearts

Mother

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Nordvis)

Blood And Sun

Love & Ashes

42,99 €*

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Now-Again)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Love and Ashes” by Blood and Sun stands as a testament to the power of dark folk, melding Luke Tromiczak's compelling vocals with a rich array of passionate percussion and heartfelt strings. Produced by Bob Ferbache (Woven Hand, 16 Horsepower, Blood Axis, etc) and crafted with care across various locations, this album offers a journey of introspection and universality, shining a light on the dualistic nature of home and wanderlust.

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Witch

Lukombo Vibes

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Stroom)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Archival reissue of the Afro-prog-psych Zamrock masterpiece Presented For The First Time Ever In An Aged Copper Green Pressing The entirety of WITCH’s fourth album, restored and remastered from master tapes, and presented as an archival reissue in an aged copper green vinyl pressing. WITCH’s musical arc is contained to a five year span and, in retrospect, it is a logical one. The band’s fourth album - recorded after the band toured with Osibisa - makes use of traditional Zambian rhythms and folk melodies alongside progressive rock movements. It is the most "afro-rock" of WITCH’s oeuvre.

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W.A.T.

A Letter To My Love

15,99 €*

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Astral Black)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It's never too late to celebrate love.

"I could climb every mountain. Cross the mighty sea. Refuse water from the fountain. To have you here with me. And I know I'll endure it. I'll be waiting at your gate." A liminal love message between Ad & Frankie from W.A.T.. Both folk country'ish songs made in the mid 80's"

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Samuel Organ & Laucan

Lorcan

32,39 €* 35,99 € -10%

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Apnée Productions)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Vancouver-based vocalist Laucan makes a captivating entrance onto the Astral Black stage with his inaugural LP, 'Lorcan.' Partnering with the accomplished producer Samuel Organ, renowned for his recent collaborations with musical luminaries like Caroline Polachek, Shygirl, Sega Bodega, and others, the album is a sonic journey through the realms of ethereal folk and avant-garde electronica. Samuel Organ, the executive producer behind the entire project, brings his expertise to the forefront, drawing inspiration from his role as the chief practitioner at Northamptonshire’s Nene Valley Sonic Research Centre. His specialization in ethnosonic-archaeology is evident throughout the LP, as he skillfully documents and restores found audio, transforming them into the primary source material for the album's mesmerizing productions. The opening track, 'Aignish On The Machiar,' perfectly exemplifies Organ's unique approach. Laucan's vocals harmonize seamlessly with one of the earliest recordings of the traditional folk classic, showcasing the projects intricate blend of past and present. The album weaves through a diverse tapestry of musical moments, from 'Keeping My Head Down,' where Laucan's vocals shine against Samuel Organ's acoustic guitar, layered atop field recordings from the Nvsrc project, to the sun-soaked 4x4 track 'The Chalk,' which draws inspiration from both the worlds of traditional folk and modern electronic music. In tracks like 'Future Musings' and 'Cyren,' Samuel Organ takes the reins with his electronic-infused production, offering listeners a glimpse into the folk-infused avant-garde electro that defines his distinctive style. Lorcan is available on 12” vinyl, with full colour sleeve designed by Kerrie IRL - limited to 100 copies worldwide.

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Bonye & Klyde

Échappée Belle

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Captain Pouch)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With this new album, Bonye & Klyde open themselves up to a delicate and inspired poetry, tinged with French chanson, folk, jazz...The exploration of new, light-hearted horizons will offer the listener a set of multi-faceted stories, some complex, some singular, some raw.But one thing's for sure, these tales won't leave you unmoved... a breath of fresh air on French folk!Let yourself be carried away in this beautiful escape...

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Touki

Plastic Man

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Danaya)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Touki, the collective created by British-Senegalese musician Amadou Diagne and Franco-American Cory Seznec - is back with the release of their second album Plastic Man. Like their debut Right of Passage, this album was made possible by an Arts Council England grant and recorded at the renowned Real World Studios with final touches performed at producer Oscar Cainer’s London studio. For this new adventure, however, they brought on board virtuosic American cellist/violinist Duncan Wickel to help arrange the music.Plastic Man focuses on climate change, environmental activism and spiritual matters—weaving together West African fables, personal stories and large social, economic and political questions facing our world. The photography for the album, taken by Italian photo-journalist Giulio Piscitelli in the Libyan desert, harks both to the continually unfolding human tragedy of displaced populations, and the plague of plastic pollution.About the music:Touki’s sound infuses East and West African styles and traditions with Appalachian banjo, folk motifs, and orchestral arrangements. Diagne’s powerful percussion, Seznec’s muted guitar-picking, and Wickel’s cello-grooves provide a rhythmic foundation, while vocals, kora and violins add beautiful texture and emotional depth. The scorching sounds of Endris Hassen’s masenqo (one-stringed bowed lute) are peppered throughout the album, providing punctual pitstops at an Ethiopian azmari-bet. The songwriting is steeped in stories and parables. The title track is an mbalax-inspired homage to climate activist Modou Fall, who dresses up as a plastic kankurang (a Mandé protective spirit) to draw attention to the plastic pollution overtaking Senegal’s coastline. Tunes like “Wounded Bird Fly Again” and “God Among Men” are inspired by western Kenyan omutibo acoustic guitar music - the latter a song that rails against society’s obsession with “titans of industry,” pointing out that many who claim to be changing the world for the better are actually responsible for environmental devastation. “Don’t Look Away” is a haunting song about migrants and refugees inspired by the book At Sea There Are No Taxis by Roberto Saviano (in which the artists discovered Piscitelli’s work). “Harit” is a rollicking Malinké-inspired tune about trying to find common ground in a time of bitter divisiveness. The soulful “Yirmane” admonishes political corruption in Senegal. On a lighter note, “Fula Cowboy” puts a West African spin on the American western. Here the Nomadic Fula pastoralists are portrayed as zen cowboys governed by a moral code in which the absence of physical, material and social needs, and the mastery of self are paramount. “Diallo Djeri” is about these same pastoralists and the challenges involved in sustainable livestock farming and keeping their families healthy.Instrumental tunes like “Mabrat Allé” (Is There Light) and “Wenchi Breakdown” are references to Cory’s stint in Ethiopia, where, despite some difficulties - power cuts were a regular occurrence and car troubles in the countryside proved disastrous - he had an intensely rich, unforgettable experience. “La-Hi-La-Ha” and “Tellem Dreams” wed Malian grooves with Appalachian fiddle, while “Djarama” is an up-tempo thank you to hardworking women in Senegal, from rural cultivators of rice in Casamance to Dakaroises mothers raising kids and scraping by making beignets, food and clothing.As they sail through the crosscurrents of our complex world, Touki, which signifies “journey” in Wolof, Amadou’s mother tongue, understands that the musical voyage itself is the destination.

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Sahra Halgan

Hiddo Dhawr

30,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Tierradentro)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sahra Halgan is an iconic artist from Somaliland, a country in the Horn of Africa that has been independent since 1991 but is unrecognised by the international community. During the 1980s, when she is involved in the terrible war against the dictatorship, she earns the nickname "Halgan", the fighter, and her songs win the hearts of an entire people forever. Exiled to France, she starts her group in Lyon with Aymeric Krol, Maël Salètes and Régis Monte. Her third album is the fruit of a sincere search for authenticity and innovation, an unprecedented alliance between Somali song and original rock, thus enriching the most unexpected landscapes of the world music scene with her inspiration. It's called ‘Hiddo Dhawr’ (‘Preserve Culture’), which is also the name of the cultural centre that Sahra founded in 2013 in Hargeisa.

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Cuarteto Tafi

El Infinito Y Un Amor

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Association Mix'arts)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Songs in Spanish, as committed as they are poetic, carried by traveling music with modern sounds. A Greek bouzouki, a guitar with flamenco accents and Afro-Latin percussion. Each song by Cuarteto Tafí sounds like a hymn to life and its essential joys.

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Tigadrine

Tazana

26,09 €* 28,99 € -10%

Bortom Naturens Förlat Cs

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The group Tigadrine - which carries the soul of the desert where it goes - releases its first album Tizana, in the continuity of its EP Dahamis. The group deals through its songs with various universal subjects, such as love, loyalty, attachment to the customs and deep traditions of the desert and history.Musically, this album is a sublime blend of the musical heritage of southern Morocco, with its traditional rhythms and melodies, and modern Rock/funk techniques and rhythms.Tazana is, to conclude, a rich and eclectic work, both in terms of texts and music.

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Aset

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Moloton)

11,04 €* 12,99 € -15%

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Thrill Jockey)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Moloton proudly presents the debut release by Aset (in Swedish meaning roughly ‘decomposing animal carcass being scavenged upon’). The constellation have existed for some time now in the Stockholm underground, but have up until now not released anything.

Behind the name are two experimental scene – by now – veterans: Anja Enerud of Masskultur and Orphan Ann recognition, and Sonja Tofik, who has made a name for herself as an experimental composer-performer, having released music through Moloton, Country Music and recently Northern Electronics as well as been commissioned by Ina GRM.

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Magic Tuber Stringband

Needlefall

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Signature Collection Solid White Vinyl Edition

Patsy Cline

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

17,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Trail Of Flowers Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

Sierra Ferrell

LP | 2024 | Original (Concord)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Big Blue Zoo)

Greensky Bluegrass

All For Money

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I'll Tell You What's Gonna Happen

Kimberly Kelly

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Show Dog)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Perpetual Obscurity)

Paul Thorn

Don't Let The Devil Ride

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Whitey And The Seventy Eights Morgan

Hard Times And White Lines

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Whitey Morgan Music)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Attack Monkey Productions)

The Black Lillies

Stranger To Me

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Wiggy Thump)

Whiskey Myers

30,39 €* 31,99 € -5%

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Triple Tigers)

Scotty Mccreery

Same Truck

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Loose)

Danny George Wilson

We've Got A Lot To Learn

10,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Bread & Butter)

Glorietta

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Country Outlaw-Take This Job & Shove It

Johnny Paycheck

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (Cleopatra)

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kelasea / Colored Vinyl Edition

Kelsea Ballerini

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Black River)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (La Honda)

Local Honeys

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Banjodad)

Trampled By Turtles

Stars And Satellites

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sex, Drugs & Country Music

Wheeler Jr. Walker

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Pepper Hill)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Losing Side)

American Aquarium

Chicamacomico

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Home)

Asleep At The Wheel

Half A Hundred Years

29,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cut A Shine)

Brit Taylor

Kentucky Blue

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Honey Jar)

The Wood Brothers

Heart Is The Hero

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Tennessee Jet Music)

Tennessee Jet

Country

22,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2018 | EU | Original (Banjodad)

Trampled By Turtles

Wildflowers

11,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Cn)

Lori Mckenna

Tree

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Okrahoma)

Parker Millsap

Other Arrangements

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Premium Rec.)

Kelly Willis

Back Being Blue

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Commoner)

John Smith

Hummingbird

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Woods Music)

Steel Woods

Old News

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Dame)

Mandy Barnett

Strange Conversation

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Bismeaux)

Asleep At The Wheel

New Routes

22,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Wiggy Thump)

Whiskey Myers

Mud

29,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Shadowbox)

Lindi Ortega

Liberty

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (East Beach And Tapes)

Chris Shiflett

Hard Lessons

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Roll Call)

River Whyless

Kindness, A Rebel

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Nude)

Juanita Stein

Until The Lights Fade

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Türküola)

Baris Manco & Cem Karaca

2 Büyükler

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Nedjma)

Idriss D

Bled El Fen

24,64 €* 28,99 € -15%

Nate Campany And The Serenade-The Serenade-Nate Ca

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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A very bold statement from Idriss himself, this record sees the Franco-Algerian dj and producer infuse his personal history into what he loves the most and share it with the rest of the world. First track Tsakhbira works as the perfect opener for the album with a melodic ambient-like mood and Arabic chants, with second track Beld el fen following in the same vein with traditional instruments interspersed with synth stabs and eerie atmos. Chazil’s upbeat rhythm spices up the vibe, a mix of ethereal singalongs and bouncy percussions. Mohamed is the first foray into Electronic territory, a downtempo piece featuring French vocals and plenty of analog industrial clanks that lead into subsequent Hey Galbi, an exquisite melodic house number with acid synth melodies and piano keys. Electro (Leila Moon Remix) delves into more experimental landscapes, with darker tones, blurred vocals and pulsating beats, while Elf Leila is quintessential Electroclash Arabic music, blending these two genres together, with a syncopated super catchy bassline. Closing track Harramt is a whirlwind of snare rolls, 303 arpeggios and nods to North African heritage sounds.

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The Only Bridge I Need

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Lojinx)

10,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Greatest Hits Red Vinyl Edition

Justin Moore

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Valory)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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20 (20th Anniversary) Black Vinyl Edition

Celtic Woman

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Celtic Woman)

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sarah Shook & The Disarmers

Revelations

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Abeyance)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Late August)

Cody Jinks

Change The Game

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Six Shooter)

Whitney Rose

South Texas Suite

14,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Soundly Music)

Will Hoge

My American Dream

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Scriptorium Rex)

Stryker Brothers

Burn Band

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Soundly Music)

Will Hoge

Tiny Little Movies

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Compass)

Robbie Fulks

Bluegrass Vacation

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Curb)

Sawyer Brown

Desperado Troubadours

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cold Sea Sea Glass Vinyl Edition

Iosin Leech

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Outside)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Beside Trawbreaga Bay, in Co. Donegal, on the north coast of Ireland, in an old schoolhouse, with a suitcase full of hired recording gear, Oisin Leech strums gently on an acoustic guitar and watches the tide pull the water away from the ancient inlet. The thickness of Oisin’s voice soothes the room as the sound waves bounce around in the land where his ancestors still live and still wander.

With a musical history that led Leech from the street punk bands of yesteryear through an ongoing stint with folk duo The Lost Brothers, he found himself for the first time working on songs to sing alone. In his mind, the songs became imagined vignette films playing behind closed, guitar eyes. After writing nearly 40 new songs in this fashion, Leech wrote “October Sun” which would become the foundation for his debut solo record, Cold Sea.

Cold Sea was produced by guitarist/songwriter Steve Gunn. Leech dreamt of making the record in Donegal Ireland, a county significant to him because it is the home of his ancestors. Pitching this idea to Gunn sparked the first of several serendipities circling the Cold Sea sessions - Gunn had always wanted to visit Donegal to connect with his own familial roots in the region.

Cold Sea is perhaps most notable for its tremendous warmth. Each song was recorded in a few takes and adorned gently with synthesizers and guitar from Gunn. Several songs feature contributions on the upright bass by Bob Dylan band stalwart Tony Garnier. M. Ward plays guitar on October Sun and there are strings by Roisín McGrory and bouzouki by the legendary Dónal Lunny throughout. It is a friendship record but even at its most collaborative, Cold Sea remains centered around the humble acoustic guitar and wool blanket vocals of Leech.

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Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What Good's The Medicine?

Croy & The Boys

LP | 2024 | IS | Original (Spaceflight)

LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Fysisk Format)

Release: 2024 / IS – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One of Stereogum’s Top 10 Country Albums of 2023 now on vinyl! Construction worker cum Country singer Corey Baum leads his populist two-step quartet Croy & The Boys through another set of insightful, catchy odes to the plights of capitalism and gentrification. “Your and my favorite antifascist Austinites returned this year with another collection of candid, plain-spoken, good-timing tracks, and there are none better when it comes to capturing what it feels like to be a person in 2023. Rebuking nostalgia on “Did It Happen That Way,” singing party songs about being poor on “I Get By” and “I Know About No Money,” singing sad songs about being poor on “Damn The Working Man” and “What I Had To Do” — Croy covers them all, with unvarnished feeling and a well-honed honky-tonk swing. “Throw ‘Em Out” indeed! - Natalie Weiner, Stereogum

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Hornorkesteret

Jehovas Vinter

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Afenginn)

Afenginn

Bastard Etno

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Meril Wubslin

Faire Ça

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Shukai)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After a successful tour following the release of "Alors quoi!" on Bongo Joe records, accompanied by a drummer/percussionist change, the prospect of what comes next naturally arose. Elements surfaced, including a desire for more low frequencies, a fascination with the marimba/vibraphone, and a liberating indifference to the difference between recorded and live performances. To evolve, the team collaborated with outsider Kwake Bass, known for collaborations with Kae Tempest, Tirzah, Mica Levi, and others. Despite aesthetic differences from Meril Wubslin"s previous albums, this divergence was seen as key-an enriching risk that resulted in a unique blend of influences. The acoustic core of Meril Wubslin now embraces electronic elements, revealing a more powerful and urban dimension. While maintaining a commitment to French lyrics, the themes explore the concrete yet remain grounded in the intimate and the sensitive, avoiding overly clear and univocal messages.

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Cukor Bila Smert'

46,99 €*

Aurora Black / Gold Marble Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The founders of Cukor Bila Smert’ (Ukrainian: Цукор– Біла Смерть, English: Sugar – White Death) band were Svitlana Okhrimenko (a.k.a. Svitlana Nianio), Oleksandr Kohanovs’kyi, and Tamila Mazur, who studied at the Reinhold Glier Kyiv Academy of Music in 1984-1988. In the summer of 1988, they got acquainted with Eugene Taran, a young guitarist and artist. He joined the band and also became the ideologist of Sugar – White Death. Moreover, Eugene coined the name for the band: the irony towards the Yellow Press. The musicians gathered at Kohanovs’kyi’s house, where they spent their free time not only playing music but also listening to and discussing new records and thinking about the conception of their new project.

For two years, the band recorded a few home-made albums, such as “Rhododendrons Coral Aspides” in 1988 (which is considered lost), where Kostyantyn Dovzhenko took part as a guitarist and sound engineer. He also replaced Taran during the recording session because Eugene was passing an exam at that time. The band also recorded another album – “Lilies and Amaralises,” in 1989, which is also considered lost. Eugene remembers that the band made a lot of recordings but did not pay so much attention to them. Sugar – White Death played live occasionally but spent more time creating their own sound, which was named by Oleksii Dekhtyar (a founder of “Ivanov Down”) as a “sugar calypso sound.” At that time, the music was mostly created by Oleksandr Kohanovs’kyi, and the lyrics were written by Svitlana Okhrimenko and Eugene Taran.

In February 1990, a quartet came to the Scientists House Studio in Kyiv, where they had one studio session only, recorded by Valerii Papchenko. Musicians played live for about one take. This session was represented on the “Mannered Music” compilation by several blocks – “Venus with Long Neck,” “The New Sissies,” and “Rhododendrons Coral Aspides,” which was shortened to “Rhododendrons” on the cassette (two songs from which – “Summer Will Not Come” and “The Great Hen-Yuan’ River,” dedicated to Grigorii Khoroshylov, the sinologist from Kyiv). The compilation cover design was created by Eugene Taran. Later, this tape got to Vlodek Nakonechnyj, the founder of Koka Records, a young Polish label, who released “Mannered Music” on cassettes and made efforts to invite Sugar – White Death to play several gigs in Poland.

In November 1990, Sugar – White Death played their last gig as a quartet in Kharkiv. They were invited by Sergii Myasoyedov, who curated the art association “Nova Scena” (The New Scene). The band played selected tracks from the albums “The New Sissies” and “The Shellfishes in Gold Wrappers” (the last one is also considered lost). Due to Sergii Myasoyedov's efforts, the performance was documented: he saved a lot of photos and fragments of soundboard recordings on reel-to-reel tape.

Later, Oleksandr Kohanovs’kyi and Tamila Mazur left Sugar – White Death: Oleksandr founded his own project Pan Kifared, and Tamila became a bass player of Shake Hi-Fi (whose co-founder was Eugene Taran). Sugar became a duo of Svitlana and Eugene. They started to focus on their next work: “Antinoy Is Leaving” in late 1990.

In 1992, they were also invited by Sergii Myasoyedov for a studio session in Kharkiv, where due to the efforts of Oleksandr Vakulenko, Sugar recorded the new album called “All Secrets Of A Poem”. Some tracks from the work (“Dead Ceremony,” “Vienna Is Sleeping,” and “Untitled”) were released on their next and last album, “Selo” (“The Village”). The rest compositions were published as a part of the compilation for the first time.

In the autumn of 1992, the musicians went to Poland, where Vlodek Nakonechnyj, who wanted Sugar to come to a “real” studio, organized their last recording session. Although the journey’s beginning was unsuccessful (Eugene’s guitar was taken away by a customs officer when crossing the border), the musicians worked fast during the session at the Arek Was studio at Marki on an 8-track reel-to-reel machine. Boleslav Blazhchyk took part as a cellist, playing the parts created by Svitlana. The album was completed in three days – the musicians spent two days recording and one-day mixing, mostly done by Eugene Taran. In 1993, this work was released as “Selo” (“The Village”) album on cassette tapes by Koka Records (remastered by Tadeusz Sudnik). Later, Sugar – White Death was disbanded.

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Brother Dege

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Prophecy)

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Aurora Black Vinyl Edition

Brother Dege

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Prophecy)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Astigmatic)

Jaubi

Nafs At Peace 6th Press

LP | 2024 | Original (Third Floor Music)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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JAUBI continue the Nafs journey, which commenced with the single “Satanic Nafs” (featuring the remix by legendary LA producers The Gaslamp Killer & Mophono) released in March 2021. Now JAUBI draw on the elements of North Indian classical music, Hip-Hop and modal/spiritual jazz in their debut LP entitled “Nafs At Peace”.

The journey officially began back in April 2019 when London’s multi- instrumentalist and 22a Record label boss Ed “Tenderlonious” Cawthorne and Polish pianist/composer Marek “Latarnik” Pędziwiatr of EABS/Błoto, visited the group to record in Lahore.

Together they channelled their personal struggles at that time into the two recording sessions allowing the musicians to find a spiritual path to transcendence through this musical purge.

Nothing whatsoever was written down during the recording sessions - no sheet music and no song titles, which allowed the six musicians to forget about their worldly issues. In many ways, the journey represents a struggle for purity, an expression of gratitude, and an acknowledgement that the musician's inspiration comes from a higher power.

The album cover portrays the mother of JAUBI’s bandleader, tearfully praying to God to get her son through that dark period of his life, which is what the mothers of the other musicians also did for their children.
The first step of the journey can be heard on “Satanic Nafs” which refers to the lowest level of the Self which was released 26th March 2021 through Astigmatic Records.

The album title ‘Nafs At Peace’ refers to the last purification step the self has been through. At this level, the Self no longer struggles because one has complete love of God, by becoming at peace and tranquil with God’s will. We hope all can achieve the stage of “Nafs At Peace” … Inshallah.

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Clannad

Clannad In Concert

38,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Curb)

Bobbie Gentry

Greatest Hits

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Box Set | 2024 | EU | Original ([Pias] Le Label)

Jean-Louis Murat

Parfum DAcacia Au Jardin

122,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Build Something Better Red/White Smoke Colored Vinyl Edition

Grace Petrie

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Grace Petrie & Robot Needs Home)

Odkud A Kam - To Nejlepsi 1969-2022

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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It’s two years since Connectivity (2021) smashed into the top 40 and debuted at #1 in the UK download chart, propelling the fiercely independent voice of Grace Petrie from critics’ choice to the main stages of major festivals across The UK and Ireland, Australia and Canada.

For a seasoned road dog who spent almost 15 years clocking up tours with the likes of Billy Bragg, Frank Turner and Hannah Gadsby, the Covid lockdowns were like a cage for Petrie and when restrictions lifted, she hit the road harder than ever, armed with her most searing and successful record to date, and determined to make up for lost time. Sell-out headline tours across the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand followed, with audiences from Melbourne to Toronto mesmerised by the ferocity of her socially urgent lyricism and the barnstorming power of her live show. But travelling the globe hasn’t diminished her laser focus on the political issues plaguing the UK, with two more Prime Ministers, endless blunders and evermore division seen since she last swapped microphone for pen and paper.

Now the songwriter is back - stronger, older and a whole lot angrier than ever before. As right wing ideologues trade in suspicion and cynicism, tearing communities apart against a backdrop of crumbling public services, the ordinary folk of Britain continue to suffer the consequences of corruption and individualism.

From within this maelstrom of despair comes Build Something Better - the new, uncontainable album from Grace Petrie.

Recorded raw and unflinchingly with folk-punk legend Frank Turner in the producer’s seat, Build Something Better is a return to blistering protest form for Britain’s most relevant political songwriter, a decade after being hailed as “a powerful new voice”, (The Guardian) and “a millennial’s Billy Bragg” (Huffington Post). In a world that seems to make less sense than ever, these are songs made to both holler along to from the crowd barrier and to tear up with on a lonely latet night train. A record for everyone whose broken heart beats for, and whose boots stomp in time with, the hope a brighter tomorrow.

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Hana A Petr Ulrychovi

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Supraphon)

22,09 €* 25,99 € -15%

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | Original (Hoehnie)

Paddy's Punk

Slainte Mhaith EP

17,99 €*

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | Original (True North)

Old Man Luedecke

Easy Money

22,99 €*

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Magokoro Brothers / Sokabe K

Heihei Boogie / Kaimono Boogie

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Nippon Columbia)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Jenny Don't And The Spurs

Broken Hearted Blue

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Fluff And Gravy)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Everry New Beginning Clear Coke Bottle Vinyl Edition

Kim Richey

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Yep Roc)

LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Purple Pyramid Rec.)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Grammy-nominated Kim Richey returns with her first album of new music in six years. The album's 10 tracks share a common thread of nostalgia and longing for times gone by. The album, except for one song, was produced by Doug Lancio in Nashville. Piano, flugel horn, pipe organ and acoustic guitars elevate these songs to a place that defies genre, but live somewhere in the folk, country, rock universe and illustrate what an incredible songwriter and singer Kim Richey is. Pressed on Clear Coke Bottle Vinyl!

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Outlaws

It's About Pride

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | Reissue (Rc1 - Thirty Tigers)

Rodney Crowell

Triage

Release: 2021 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (Anthology)

Karen Black

Dreaming Of You 1971-76

30,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bell Bottom Country Watermelon Swirl Vinyl Edition

Lainey Wilson

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

34,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sayin' What I'm Thinkin' Pearl

Lainey Wilson

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sling Shot To Heaven Silver Vinyl Edition

Richard Edwards

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Profound Discomfort)

Blame The Vain Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The definitive, reimagined, version of Sling Shot To Heaven.

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Dwight Yoakam

LP | 2020 | US | Original (New West)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Deboutslz)

Debout Sur Le Zinc

L'importance De L'hiver

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Berlin 1964 - The Lost Studio Recording

Dagar Brothers

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Forward)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Following on from last year’s acclaimed Vrindavan 1982 by rudra veena master Z.M. Dagar, Black Truffle is thrilled to present a pair of archival releases from the Dagar Brothers, among the most revered 20th century exponents of the ancient North Indian dhrupad tradition. The vocal duo of Moinuddin and Aminuddin Dagar (sometimes referred to as the ‘senior’ Dagar Brothers to distinguish them from their younger siblings, Zahiruddin and Faiyazuddin Dagar), belonged to the nineteenth generation of a family of musicians in which dhrupad tradition has been kept alive through patrilinear transmission, each generation undergoing a rigorous education of many years’ duration that can include singing up to twelve hours each day.

Famed for the meditative purity of their approach to dhrupad, the Dagar Brothers helped to keep the tradition alive in the years after Indian independence in 1947, when the royal courts that had traditionally patronised dhrupad musicians were abolished. Many Western listeners were first introduced to dhrupad by the Dagar Brothers’ tour of Europe in 1964-65 and their LP in UNESCO’s ‘Musical Anthology of the Orient’ collection, both organised by pioneering musicologist and scholar of Indian culture Alain Daniélou. Documents from this tour are especially precious, as Moinuddin Dagar passed away in 1966. Berlin 1964 – The Lost Studio Recording (released alongside Bt115, a newly discovered concert recording from the same trip) presents two unheard side-long performances in crystalline fidelity, recorded at the International Institute for Comparative Studies and Documentation in Berlin headed by Alain Daniélou. These stunning recordings were consigned to the archive because, as Peter Pannke explains in his liner notes, which recount his meeting with Danielou many years after these recordings were made, the tape ran out during ‘Raga Jaijaivanti’, which terminates abruptly soon after the entry of the pakhawaj. Accompanied only by Moinuddin’s wife Saiyur on tanpura and Raja Chatrapati Singh on pakhawaj (a large double-headed drum), the brothers present stunning performances of the severe, serious midnight ‘Raga Malkauns’, set to a ten beat cycle once the pakhawaj enters, and the complex early evening ‘Raga Jaijaivanti’, set to a fourteen beat cycle in its rhythmic section. True to the traditional dhrupad structure, both performances are dominated by the long free-floating alap section, where the notes of the raga are gradually introduced, slowly climbing in pitch and intensity as the two singers trade improvisations that display a stunning range of vocal tones and remarkable subtlety in mictrotonal nuance. The performance of ‘Raga Malkauns’ is divided roughly in half, with the pakhawaj and unison singing entering around thirteen minutes through; Raja Chatrapati Singh’s performance is particularly striking in its endlessly inventive metrical nuance within the overall crescendo and acceleration. On ‘Raga Jaijaivanti’, the alap lasts almost twenty minutes, with Singh joining only for a few minutes of sparse pakhawaj hits before the tape cuts off, the absence of the more active concluding section serving only to magnify the mystical calm the Dagar Brothers establish in this setting of a 16th century love poem. Illustrated with a striking full colour concert photograph, Berlin 1964 – The Lost Studio Recording is accompanied by extensive liner notes by Peter Pannke celebrating musicologist Alain Daniélou, whose study, documentation and promotion of dhrupad was so important for spreading awareness of this great musical tradition, ready to be discovered anew in this stunning recording from two of its master exponents.

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Paper Beat Scissors

Parallel Line

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Improved Sequence)

Ed Askew

2020

19,99 €*