Folk Vinyl 1808 Items

Lullaby Renditions Of Dolly Parton

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A collection of eleven dreamy, rough, abundant instrumental songs which have the guts to subsist and survive the fluidity of our times. With his melodies Massi Amadori tells the nostalgia and melancholy of a lived, loved and consumed Italy.

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Rockabye Baby!

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Rockabye Baby Music)

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop, Childrens

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Last Night From Glasgow)

Kinnaris Quintet

Free One

34,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Inner Ear)

Thee Holy Strangers

Diary Of Teh Shadow

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Motvind)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Six years after their debut album, Thee Holy Strangers return with their sophomore LP “Diary Of The Shadow”. With a new line-up and a new sound design, they present seven testimonies of an uncertain era and trace its imprints. Drawing on the inexhaustible pool of rock’n’roll, soul and folk, they set up songs for today that speak of resignation and resilience, darkness and light, sadness and hope.

New members of the band are Andreas Lagios (Nightstalker) on bass and Kleon Antoniou (Mode Plagal) on guitar.

“Diary Of The Shadow” includes seven original compositions and was produced by Costas Chrysogelos (Digital Alkemist), Alexis Kalofolias and Dimitris Papanagiotou (Jim Spliff). It was recorded by Costas Chrysogelos and Philip Marinelis at DNA Lab studio in the spring-summer of 2021. The mastering was done by Giannis Christodoulatos at Sweetspot Studio.

The album also features Nikos Fysakis (electric guitar) and Giannis Houstoulakis (pedal steel guitar), members of the group’s previous line-up, Nikos Yousef (musical saw) and Kostis Zouliatis (piano, keyboards, synth).

Thee Holy Strangers are: Flora Ioannidi: Vocals, Alexis Kalofolias (Alex K): Vocals, guitar, Kleon Antoniou: Electric and acoustic guitar, Andreas Lagios: Bass, Costas Chrysogelos: Drums, percussion.

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Andreas Røysum Ensemble

Mysterier

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Motvind)

Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard

Hibernacle

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (1301 Media)

Christoph Bouet

Roadkill Madness

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Roadkill Madness Deluxe Edition

Christoph Bouet

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (1301 Media)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Storma)

Felicia Sjögren

Hulda

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Classical Music

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"This album is written and recorded on a reed organ with two manuals and pedals. The instrument was built by Alfred Cedergren who was a reed organ builder 1870–1925 in Vänge on the island Gotland, Sweden. During this period of time Hulda Veström lived in the same village. When Hulda was 14 years old she left her mother and sisters to travel to her father in Los Angeles. In spring 1912 she boarded the Titanic together with her aunt, who was also named Hulda. There is a picture of the two Huldas in the wooden chapel in Vänge where the Cedergren instruments today are gathered. In 2019 Felicia Sjögren moved to Vänge and the chapel with reed organs became her closest neighbor. Over time she got to know the instruments and stories of the village. When she decided to write music on one of the organs she knew she was going to dedicate it to Hulda, a teenage girl 100 years into space and time of this very place. Hulda is also the name of one of the few women prophets in the Bible, appearing in the Old Testament with warnings of the doomsday. The album is written and recorded in the chapel by Felicia Sjögren."

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Nanci Griffith

Working In Corners

121,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live From Paris Solid White Vinyl Edition

Young Fathers

10" | 2023 | UK | Original (Ninja Tune)

12,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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My Greatest Revenge: Flamenco Recordings, 1904-1938

LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Death Is Not The End)

2LP | 2023 | Original (Big Loud)

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Death Is Not The End presents a limited LP pressing of their collection of haunted, brooding flamenco recordings taken from the early 1900s through to the late 1930s. Focussing in on the cante jondo (or "deep song") style, seen as the original manifestation of flamenco singing - from which other elements emerged, such as dancing and playing - this survey captures and documents tracks from the form's earliest recorded stars.

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Larry Fleet

Earned It

37,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shadow Of The Moon Limited Red Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Earmusic)

40,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shadow Of The Moon Limited Marbled Vinyl Edition

2LP+7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Earmusic)

40,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Smithsonian Folkways)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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No-No Boy

Empire Electric

31,34 €* 32,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Free Dirt)

Mighty Poplar

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Free Dirt)

Cinder Well

Cadence

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Tigadrine

Tazana

26,09 €* 28,99 € -10%

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

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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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 | 2023 | EU | Original (Türküola)

Baris Manco & Cem Karaca

2 Büyükler

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nate Campany And The Serenade-The Serenade-Nate Ca

The Only Bridge I Need

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Lojinx)

10,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – 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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Build Something Better Red/White Smoke Colored Vinyl Edition

Grace Petrie

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

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

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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Outlaws

It's About Pride

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sling Shot To Heaven Silver Vinyl Edition

Richard Edwards

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Profound Discomfort)

33,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (La Ruche)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Joe Bel

Family Tree

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru

Jerusalem

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Mississippi)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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My Window Faces The South

Sweet Megg

LP | 2023 | Original (Turtle Bay)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Centripedal Force)

Luke Schneider

It Is Solved By Walking

LP | 2023 | Original (BFD)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Centripetal Force is excited to announce It Is Solved By Walking, the second solo release from pedal steel guitarist Luke Schneider. Luke Schneider is a pedal steel guitarist based in Nashville. An Ohio native, Schneider moved to Tennessee to go to college with dreams of becoming a folk-rock stylist but has recently found his place in the landscape of New Age and pastoral Americana. His well-received debut solo album, Altar of Harmony (Third Man Records), is a collection of ambient compositions created entirely by pedal steel. His work on It Is Solved By Walking continues the recent experimental elevation of the pedal-steel guitar and delves deeper into the worlds of ambient sounds and moods. Like Altar of Harmony, the inspiration for this new collection of songs is rooted in Schneider's daily meditation practices, as well as his own spiritual journey. The album reflects his deepened understanding of how sound can help listeners transcend their current space and guide them in directing their energies inward. There is a sharpened focus to the songwriting on It Is Solved by Walking, a move that unclouds the troubled eye and opens the doors of clarity. Where Schneider's initial works were offered at the altar, his space for inner contemplation, these compositions mark a step in Schneider's spiritual journey that sees him ready to direct his energies in more outward directions. He has done the hard work of examining his inner self and is now prepared to share his message with others. It Is Solved by Walking is an invitation to listeners to join him on the journey towards a better world, a stronger community, and the universal truths we all seek. Amongst others, Luke Schneider has performed and collaborated with William Tyler, Margo Price, Orville Peck, Peter One, Kyle Hamlett Duo, and Nashville Ambient Ensemble.

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Dallas Wayne

Coldwater Tennessee

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | US | Original (New West)

Sir Douglas Quintet

Live From Austin, tx

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Garou

Garou Joue Dassin

LP | 2023 | EU (Fonta)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hey Good Lookin': Hits Collection 1947-55

Hank Williams

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Acrobat)

19,19 €* 23,99 € -20%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nico Paulo Colored Vinyl Edition

Nico Paulo

LP | 2023 | Original (Forward Music Group)

19,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Wtw Music)

Ward Thomas

Music In The Madness

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nowhere To Go But Out Of My Mind

Billy Gray

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Americana Anthropology)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Normaltown)

The Pink Stones

You Know Who

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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All The Birds And A Telephone Ringing

Susana Santos Silva

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Thanatosis Produktion)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mama Bird Recording Co.)

Dean Johnson

Nothing For Me, Please

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shot In The Dark Colored Vinyl Edition

Ashley Cooke

3LP | 2023 | Original (Big Loud)

44,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Anatolian Soul I Limited Edition Vinyl Edition

Ipek Yolu

7" | 2023 | Original (Sounds Of Subterrania)

10,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live Silver Vinyl Edition

William Shatner

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cleopatra)

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Carbon / Feeding Tube)

Liam Grant

Amoskeag

35,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Smithsonian Folkways)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Although only 23 years old, Liam Grant's become a leading force in a much needed third wave revival of American Primitive music. The path was paved from the blues by Fahey, Basho, Kottke and so on, followed with a second coming heralded by folks like Jones, Rose, Basho-Junghans and others. Despite his age, Liam's the very definition of "an old soul" and while he draws on a wide variety of contemporary influences, he also channels a comprehensive history of the blues as well as a deeper energy that informs both his playing and songwriting. Features contributions from Mike Gangloff of Pelt, Grayson McGuire, and Ethan WL.

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Jake Blount

The New Faith

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Rounder)

Sarah Jarosz

Polaroid Lovers

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | Original (RCA International)

Luke Combs

Gettin' Old

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shadow Of The Moon New Mix

2LP+DVD+7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Earmusic)

36,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shadow Of The Moon New Mix Limitedc Edition

2LP+DVD+7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Earmusic)

40,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Nordic Notes)

Jenni Venäläinen

Melkutus Party

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Glad Christmas Comes Royal Blue Vinyl Edition

Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Hudson)

50,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live At The Whole Coffeehouse, Minneapolis Mn, November 1973 - Fm Broadcast

Townes Van Zandt

LP | 2023 | EU (Mind Control)

16,99 €*

The Tinker And The Crab / Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Mono)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Whole Coffeehouse set is nothing but the man and his guitar. The focus here is acute and sharp, the Whole Coffeehouse in 1973 is an essential addition to the late great Van Zandt discography. Van Zandt's lyrics and melodies were filled with the kind of haunting truth and succulent beauty that were instinctive.

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Donovan

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (The state51 Conspiracy)

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Just Add Water)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A special 7 inch single presentation of the classic Donovan tracks (The Tinker and the Crab / Wear Your Love Like Heaven) taken from his seminal double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden.

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Jimmy Campbell

Lonely Norman

17,99 €*

Recorded In Miami 1989-1991

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For all intents and purposes this is simply Rockin’ Horse backing their co-lead singer Jimmy Campbell. “Lonely Norman” was originally only issued on an extremely obscure Vertigo Records compilation LP in 1971 and has never been released on a single before. This track also features Eddy Grant of our all-time favorites THE Equals on lead guitar. Eddy just happened to be the landlord of Rockin’ Horse producer HAL Carter and agreed to sit in on the session. B-side “Frankie Joe” has only ever appeared as the b-side on an obscure 1970 single. This is original recipe power pop by one of the biggest “should have beens” ever. Seek out every release you can find by Rockin’ Horse, Jimmy Campbell, and co-lead singer/bassist Billy Kinsley. Edition of 300 copies on black vinyl.

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Watt

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Palilalia)

37,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I was hanging out with Bill Orcutt at the 930 Club nearly 30 years ago, watching a famous post-rock band (who shall remain nameless, but whose moniker contained two-and-a-half times more articles and conjunctions than nouns) when he said: 'This band is like my band in college—all major 7th and 9th chords.' I relate this to emphasize that in the case of Bill Orcutt and Harry Pussy, the seemingly untutored ooze of 'Please Don't Come Back From the Moon' and 'Girl With Frog' had its genesis in something far more Apollonian than is usually understood. It's debatable whether or not Watt, the duo of Orcutt and drummer Tim Koffley featured on Recorded in Miami, is the above referenced grad-school band. Watt is not resplendent with jazz chords, but it's certainly more tutored, offering a mannered link between the contemporaneous Thunders-esque punk of Orcutt's Trash Monkeys and Harry Pussy's mayhem. The continuity with Harry Pussy is more than temporal. Recorded in Miami is Orcutt's first use of the four-string guitar, and Harry Pussy claimed the same amp and drum kit. The resemblance more or less ends there. To further put Recorded in Miami—made on Orcutt's Walkman, Rat Bastard's North Miami studio, and South Miami's Natural Sound (total bill $289)—into context, consider the fecundity of the underground music world as the '80s rolled into the '90s. It's hard to relate to those who missed it, but it was a time when post-hardcore hadn't quite given way to the bloat of grunge, when the Minutemen held sway (for the moment) over Led Zeppelin. The indie world was ruled by an ever-propagating compost heap of jagged guitar bands like Tful282, Truman's Water, and (to crank it back a couple years) Phantom Tollbooth. And in some ways (although Orcutt swears Watt's prime influences were James Blood Ulmer and Fred Frith's Massacre ), this record seems very much cut from that decade-ending cloth, seemingly only one vocal overdub away from a Homestead catalog number. Track after track (mostly titled after episodes of Art Clokey's slyly Buddhist TV masterwork, Gumby), Recorded in Miami 's tracks spill over with right angles, rockist tropes, and verse / chorus structures, from the Minutemen oid funk of 'Band Contest' to the stroked Moore-Ranaldo-isms of 'The Young and the Decoding.' Yet Orcutt's fretboard-spanning angular melodic runs are right up front in the latter, and the final two tracks introduce a bit of the explosive chaos that would follow when Adris finally claimed the drum kit. Consider 'Wattstock,' where Koffley forms the bedrock for an extended Orcutt hotbox of instantly-composed harmolodics. Or 'God Are You There, It's Me, Watt,' where we can hear the spontaneous vocal bursts (the only vocals on the album) that would re-emerge on Orcutt's early solo records. Watt began to crumble when Koffley, as drummers will do, yearned for rhythmic grids of increasing complexity, while Orcutt instead wanted to 'smoke more pot and improvise.' For a few records with Harry Pussy, Orcutt would get his wish (though some of the structuralism of Watt would creep into later records). But we shouldn't regard Recorded in Miami as mere transitional scraps of juvenalia, or stunt-rock delivered for the mere thrill of pulling it off. Rather, it's an early, major piece of the unfolding and complex puzzle of Orcutt's music. A foundation. And without the earth beneath our feet, how can we ever reach the sky?"—Tom Carter

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Nina Simone

The Jazz Queen

42,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Steel Woods

On Your Time

30,59 €* 33,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fm Tokyo Pioneer Sound Approach

Doji Morita

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

Two Sad Little Islands Drift Together, Two Lonely Little Monkeys Find A Tree (Rare And Unreleased) 2015-2023 Orange Creamsicle Splatter Vinyl Edition

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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Richard Edwards

3LP | 2023 | US | Original (Profound Discomfort)

66,99 €*

The Moon Also Rises Moon Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"The most underrated songwriter of our times" - Los Angeles Review Of Book.

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Johnny Flynn

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Transgressive)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood's Guitar Soli Chanukah Record

Jeremiah Lockwood

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Reboot)

Beginnings: Colleted Pedal Steel Guitar Works

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood’s Guitar Soli Chanukah Album, a solo guitar tribute to the holiday, is now available on Reboot Records. With heartfelt appreciation of the 1968 classic The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Record, Jeremiah Lockwood has sweetly crafted eight songs, one for each night of Chanukah, to celebrate the dancing candlelight with his new, blues-inspired takes on the most beloved melodies of the holiday’s canon. Lockwood’s career has followed a unique path, with deep musical inspiration coming from two mentors. His grandfather Cantor Jacob Konigsberg (1921-2007) infused in him the melodies of the Jewish liturgy, with Lockwood performing in his choir. Lockwood credits his career as a guitarist to a decade-long apprenticeship with the legendary blues musician Carolina Slim, aka Elijah Staley (1926-2014), who passed down to Lockwood the Piedmont blues tradition of Brownie McGhee and Buddy Moss. Lockwood also leads the band Sway Machinery, which features Jordan McLean of Antibalis and at one point Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The Great Miracle is the ultimate realization of both sides of Lockwood’s learning, as he translates the major Chanukkah melodies into a blues language, through his fingers and the strings of his Gibson guitar.

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Gary Peters

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Scissor Tall Editions)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Putojefe)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Beginnings: Collected Pedal Steel Guitar Works, is the first full length album by UK-based pedal steel guitarist and improviser Gary Peters. As there seems to be a slew of pedal steel guitar albums coming out in the last five years, this one is unlike any one has heard. There’s no use of reverb pedals or ambient swells, yet it still has so much atmosphere and emotion. The majority of the compositions and improvisations are solo pedal steel guitar, but there are a couple tracks with accompaniment by upright bassist Christopher Williams and pianist Veryan Weston.

Gary Peters has been quietly and prolifically releasing recordings over the years. This grouping of songs Scissor Tail Editions spent about a year working towards narrowing down and mixing and are very honored to present this album of collected pedal steel guitar works.

“The ambient country cabinet is filling up pretty quickly these days and we’re in a golden age of pedal steel, but there’s always room for one more. Rstb faves Scissor Tail offer up a new record from UK steel slinger Gary Peters and while not as overtly awash in the trappings of ambient country, the record still hovers in the humid space between waking and dreams. A halfway hitch between the jazz steel of Dave Easley and the more cosmically aligned works of Suss, the record promises to carve out its own corner of the genre.” —Raven Sings The Blues

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Dorothy Carter

Waillee Waillee

Espiritu Vivo 20th Anniversary Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Reverse board tip on with silver pantone print. The first ever reissue of Dorothy Carter's 1978 folk/psych/drone masterpiece. A truly unique album in Dorothy's catalog of otherwise traditional psaltery folk music, Waillee Waillee's essence sits in the confluence of Dorothy's mastery of the dulcimer; its shimmering notes fully enmeshed with the tremulous, cavernous drones of Bob Rutman's bowed steel cello. The core of this album, Dorothy's only with a full band, lies in the contradiction of traditional psych-folk idioms and the minimal avant-garde, referencing Henry Flynt and Laraaji as much as Karen Dalton. This LP version includes 12 page booklet with unpublished manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and songbooks of the songs from the album, as well as extended liner notes from friends and family of Dorothy Carter, including notable musicians such as Laraaji, Bob Rutman, and Alexander Hacke (of Einstürzende Neubauten). Drops soon - a joint release between Palto Flats & Putojefe Records.

Dorothy Carter was many things - a virtuoso player, storyteller, historian of Celtic and Appalachian folk music, avid lifelong busker, avant-garde musician, and itinerant troubadour, laying a framework for music that existed both within and outside of standard folk idioms - never better represented than on her 1978 masterwork, Waillee Waillee. Underscored by Bob Rutman’s cavernous bowing of the steel cello, the richness of Waillee Waillee’s sound produces an album unlike any other in her discography. In particular, its two side-ending pieces, “Summer Rhapsody” and “Tree of Life,’’ glide with the shimmering filigree of hammered dulcimer and Dorothy Carter’s ephemeral voice floating over Rutman’s droning buzz of the steel cello. The elements of these two tracks suggest something akin to a transcendental Appalachian raga or whirling cosmic folk music, an effortless combination that serves to add additional substance to the remaining tracks on the album.

The title track is one of her most enduring compositions, often performed in stripped down versions throughout her career, and one of her sole recordings featuring a full band, with the contrapuntal interplay of tremulous flute, vibrating steel cello, bass and drums. Lyrically and tonally, her voice would never sound as stirring and refi ned as on this, her most outwardly accessible song.

She counted musical colleagues as diverse as Constance Demby, Einstürzende Neubauten and Laraaji, as well as her lifelong artistic partner and friend Bob Rutman, whose imprint is felt throughout the grooves of this record. The master tapes for this recording were fortuitously discovered in Rutman’s Berlin studio, many, many years later. As recounted in Laraaji’s contribution to the liner notes, Dorothy was “someone who really influenced my early zither exploration and vocabulary and inspired my shift toward hammered zither performance and recording,” after encountering him busking on the sidewalk one day in the 1970s. Later, when living in Berlin in the early 1990s, Dorothy would begin work on manuscripts detailing the history of the dulcimer family and providing extensive sheet music, selected material of which is reproduced in the twelve page booklet included with this release. Dorothy would find later success touring and performing in the late 90s with the ensemble Mediæval Bæbes, which she led with British musician Katherine Blake, playing a prominent role on their first four albums.

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Susana Baca

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

Shirley Hurt Transparent Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The tracks on this album may arouse a number of emotions; they were not sung purely for the pleasure of making music, but to convey, with drama and joy, that life is stronger than ever and continues with a live Spirit... Recorded in New York after 9/11 in front of a small audience, Espíritu Vivo marries Susana Baca"s wonderful vocals and Peruvian backing band with the downtown sounds of John Medeski and guitarist Marc Ribot-for a recording that transcends time and place, with Baca giving every iota of herself to the music. This is the 20th anniversary edition, on vinyl for the very first time.

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Shirley Hurt

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Melodic)

Along The Way Teal Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Temple, Bassey, MacLaine and now, Hurt; in a world of Shirleys, the name Sophia Ruby Katz has chosen for her music is perhaps prophetic as it captures her stunningly emotive vocal approach. And whilst Shirley Hurt might be the perfect nom de plume for the creative Toronto-based artist, it’s her self-titled debut album which positions her as protagonist of her own universe.

Traversing sonic landscapes, Shirley Hurt’s vocals ebb and flow like lyrical Ley lines tracking the contours of her own well-travelled map. By the age of 18, Hurt had travelled extensively, having lived in upwards of 20 different apartments and houses, as a result never really feeling “at home” anywhere. At this age was when Hurt found herself in New York, dipping her toes into various scenes and musical realms. The first and only place she ever felt at home, and a partial home-base for her, she travelled between Toronto and New York until the age of 26.When the project she was working on in New York reached a dead-end she returned West, moving in with musicians Harrison Forman (Hieronymus Harry, Zones) and Patrick Lefler (Roy, Possum). Being surrounded by their improvising at all hours, a new approach emerged. “Harrison is a virtuosic guitar player, and I hadn't picked up a guitar in any serious way since I was 16,” she says, “by osmosis I started playing again for fun.” Without agenda, the process grew organically from there.

Hurt and Forman decided to travel across the US and Canada in a trailer for half a year, with the entire album written in the final months of their trip. Hurt had been writing loose ideas here and there but felt blocked creatively. When the pair reached Berkley, they wound up house-sitting for a tuned-in friend who recommended she pray, in a very direct way, to remove the block. “I took her advice and to my surprise it worked. The album was conceptualized and finished within a couple of months.” Shapeshifting in tone and phrasing, Hurt’s music alchemizes the furthest corners of experimental indie folk, pop, and country into a singular sound with elegant unpredictability.

Whilst Shirley Hurt’s lyrical and structural ideas may have emerged on the road, the album was self-produced and recorded at Joseph Shabason (The War on Drugs)’s Aytche studio in Toronto’s West End. It was engineered by Nathan Vanderwielen and Chris Shannon (Bart), and Hurt enlisted collaborators Jason Bhattacharya, Nick Dourado, Patrick Lefler, and Harrison Forman to hone her vision. “I wasn’t sure what was going to happen with the songs until we returned to Toronto,” she recalls. “Joseph and I had been talking about working together after sending across some demos and Jason happened to recommend his studio at the exact same time, so everything came together naturally at that point.”

Whilst her most recent adventures may have seen Shirley Hurt bound for Texas as an official Sxsw artist (hand-picked by Gorilla Vs Bear to perform at their own showcase), she currently resides in her native Canada, more specifically rural Ontario, close to friends and family, and is already working on her second album. The ties to lineage are interwoven in the fabric of the music. Hurt’s mother, artist Leala Hewak, instilled a lust for life and innate value of creativity in her from a young age as she explored the role of gallery owner, vintage jewellery show host, mid-century modern furniture expert, real estate agent, painter. Hurt’s father, a civil litigation lawyer and new-wave obsessed music lover with an extensive vinyl collection, introduced Hurt to a wide-range of artists at a young age such as Nina Hagen, Laurie Anderson, Tom Tom Club, and endless others.

In her video for ‘Problem Child’ Hurt’s grandmother walks her through a generationally revered pie-making process. One would be tempted to hear this, and other songs, as autobiographical. Yet, Hurt’s lyrics are rarely pulled from her relationships or personal history––at least not consciously. Rather, they arise from somewhere less tangible or defined. “Lyrics tend to come to me when I am doing non-musical things - washing dishes, brushing my dogs, walking to the grocery store. I have a lot of voice memos on my phone and half-filled notebooks and when I hear something, I have to stop what I'm doing to get the idea down. Usually it’s bits and pieces. It's rare a full song comes to me in one go, but it's great when they do, and those are often my favourites.”

Carving out a space of her own in an all-encompassing universe, Shirley Hurt is the introduction to a long artistic story, and if the journey so far is anything to go by, it will be stippled with evermore unpredictable chapters.

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Colbie Caillat

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BFD)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Blood Harmony-The Country Hits 1955-62

Louvin Brothers

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Acrobat)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90: Live At The Hollywood Bowl

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sony Music Catalog)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Guitarists Of Istanbul (Orient & Occident)

LP | 2023 | TR | Original (Rainbow45)

19,79 €* 21,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / TR – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2023 | TR | Original (Rainbow45)

Evrencan Gündüz

Yine Yol Gönündü Gurbete

14,99 €*

Release: 2023 / TR – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Matjéasso)

Matje

Sur Mon Dos

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (TMK)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In this new album, Matjé delivers stories sung or rapped in French on tropical music. His light and poetic words but heavy with meaning mingle, among others, with Colombian Cumbia, Brazilian Forro, African Soukous, Reunion Maloya, Malagasy Salegy...Although drawing on traditional music, this new opus is anchored in modernity and we sometimes feel Hip hop influences in the flow or production of certain titles.His solar and catchy music exudes a positive energy inviting to dance while the careful and poetic writing leads to take a step back and reflect.

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Balaphonik Sound System

Blood & Sap

20,79 €* 31,99 € -35%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I Don't Like My Chances On The Outside Red Vinyl Edition

Lilo

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Dalliance)

19,19 €* 23,99 € -20%

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Bella Union)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Folk duo lilo's ascent continues with second EP, I Don’t Like My Chances On The Outside. Having met at school aged 11, Christie Gardner and Helen Dixon’s friendship runs over a decade deep. Starting out with homespun recordings and YouTube covers, by the time they moved to London in their late-teens, they had an unshakeable creative bond that forms an incredible bedrock for them to flourish from. Their exceptional debut EP Sleep Country (Practise Music) came out in late-2021. Taking cues from alt-folk and classic country, it showed a maturity and dexterity that belied their years. As Loud & Quiet said of the band in a recent interview, "what sets them apart from their contemporaries is a real understanding of Americana-influenced folk’s lineage as a genre. Think Emmylou Harris’ soul bearing and the pitchperfect vocal glide of Karen Carpenter." New EP, I Don’t Like My Chances On The Outside, is a truly brilliant follow-up that underscores that we're no longing talking about promise with this duo. Working with producer friend Joseph Futák, they're now firmly in their stride, deftly counterbalancing delicate moments and harmony-led pop highs across a full-bodied band sound. Their lyrics speak for their generation too, encapsulating the panic, anxiety and love of twenty-somethings at a time of great uncertainty; from single 'Settled' where the financial realities of needing to move back in with your parents to the sheer relief of ending a relationship on 'I Don't Love You Anymore' and 'Just A Thought's failing attempts to pull a friend away from a bad person ("It's your hill to die on," they warn), nothing is off the plate.

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Harp

Albion

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Box Set | 2023 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Yoshiko Sai

Sai Yoshiko Live Box

51,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (No Quarter)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After 2 years of hiatus from releasing "Yoshiko Sai Complete Works", P-vine delighted to announce the release of another special LP box (Cardboard box + OBI-strip) that can hold her live albums of Yoshiko Sai! The item includes a double-sided B3 poster and a limited LP featuring her live performances on FM Tokyo in 1979, and previously unreleased demo takes recorded at her home! This item will be out with completely limited pressing, don't miss out on this opportunity!

Yoshiko Sai also commented on the release of this analog box!

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James Elkington

Me Neither

33,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Clay Pipe Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Me Neither is a 29 track double album of instrumental guitar music. While juggling a number of other projects James Elkington began writing "music for which there was no purpose." It became a new way of working for him - waking up each morning and improvising and recording the first thing that came into his head. "The only rules I gave myself were that I should make most of the sounds with a guitar, changing the speed or processing the recordings afterwards to get the effect I was looking for." Before long he had an albums worth of material. About mid-way through the second album Elkington had a liberating thought: he was making his own version of library music "if you're writing library music, you don't have to know what it's for - that can be someone else's job."

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Vic Mars

The Beacons

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Vap)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Clay Pipe Music is thrilled to announce The Beacons by Vic Mars - the enigmatic producers third LP for the label. Since 2019s Inner Roads and Outer Paths his music has found a new audience having been used as the soundtrack to the game I am Dead by British interactive studio Hollow Ponds.

While his previous two albums were inspired by the pastoral landscapes of Herefordshire, The Beacons, embarks on a journey westward into Wales, inviting listeners into the rugged terrain of the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountains. Using a darker more ominous sonic palette, and pushing the sound of the Moog synthesizer to the fore, The Beacons captures the feel of mountains silhouetted against dramatic skies, craggy summits and the overall grandeur of the landscape and its rich folklore.

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Vsq No Sporta

Avatama

56,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Show Dog Nashville)

Toby Keith

100% Songwriter

36,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shooter Jennings And The Werewolves

Shooter Jennings

LP | 2023 | Original (Black Country)

37,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gombloh

Live Gila

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elevation)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Most of Gen X-ers who grew up in the mid-1980s Indonesia must have seen Soedjarwoto Soemarsono, known with his nom de guerre “Gombloh” performing on a state-run television station, playing some of his biggest hits from that era, pop gems like “Kugadaikan Cintaku (I Pawn Off My Love)”, “Setengah Gila (Half-Crazy).”

But of course, it is not fair to judge Gombloh only from these hits. Dig deeper and you will find buried treasure in his early stuff from Indra Records, and there are many of them.

His album with the band Lemon Tree’s Anno ‘69 (yes, that’s the name of the band) is all remarkable, but what he did for Chandra Records was no less spectacular. How can you go wrong with songs like “Kebyar-Kebyar”, the unofficial national anthem for Indonesia, dan “Berita Cuaca” one of the better epic songs in a catalogue full of epochal songs? These were all long out of print and in our journey to source the original master for these albums we met Bob Djumara of Nirwana Records, the Surabaya, East Java-based label which broke Gombloh into the mainstream in the mid-1980s. Almost all albums Gombloh recorded for his early labels, Indra Records and Chandra Records were critically acclaimed, but commercially they bombed, big time. Nirwana Records came up with an ingenious plan. What if they recorded Gombloh performing live and release it as is. After all, the first song in Gombloh debut record Nadia & Atmospheer is him strumming on his guitar backed by the cheering of a crowd, who could be heard going wild when he hurled that epithet “bastard” at the end of the song

The end result is a brilliant recording which despite being recorded live the sound quality so pristine leading many to doubt the claim of being live. Regardless, Nirwana shipped a decent number of units and Gombloh could buy his first car, a Katana Jeep, with money from the royalty.

One of the best things about Live Gila is its perfect sequencing, beginning with Gombloh’s social commentary on the rich’s debauched lifestyle of preying on young boys and girls, one of the most popular subjects allowed by the censoring machine of the New Order authoritarian government. The second song “Untuk Persada” is a soaring ode to the nation. For this song, Gombloh could be heard drawing his inspiration from The Police, which was undoubtedly popular in the early 1980s, even in a faraway port city like Surabaya.

Listening to this record as a whole (we omitted the last song from the original master tape “Bagimu Negeri” which sounds too jingoistic), we could not help but point to some of similarities it has with Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks. Not a single composition in this record sound indigenous (the Malay-influenced rock of Panbers or Koes Plus come to mind); they all sound modern and effortlessly catchy, and had it not been for the language, this album could be mistaken for a musical output from someone growing up in Laurel Canyon or Southern France.

There are only limited copies of vinyl records in the second-hand market today available for Gombloh music, if at all. For his ardent fans, they have to scavenge for old cassettes to continue to be able to enjoy his music and have to pay top dollar for that. In Indonesia, where he was a superstar in the early 1980s, Gombloh was largely forgotten. With this project, we can only hope that the time is ripe for Gombloh to reemerge and now, more than ever, his music could speak to a bigger audience.

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Gombloh

Sekar Mayhang

Marjaa: The Battle Of The Hotels

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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Mayssa Jallad

LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Ruptured)

24,99 €*

Good Luck With The Music White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels” is a concept album born of the idea of merging singer/songwriter Mayssa Jallad’s two vocations: music and urban research/architectural history. Written in collaboration with producer Fadi Tabbal, the music builds upon Tabbal’s spatial approach to sound and Jallad’s research on Beirut’s Hotel District.

The album is a reference to Jallad’s Historic Preservation master's thesis, in which she detailed the history of the “Battle of the Hotels”, a 5-months battle that took place in Beirut at the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War, from October 22nd, 1975 to March 29th, 1976.
Jallad saw architecture as a main protagonist of the battle, as she discovered it was the first high rise urban battle in the world. The close of the battle resulted in the 15-year Green Line, an urban rift which split Beirut into “East and West”, restricting movement and communication and creating a violent divide that still resonates today.

The album comprises two parts. Part A: Dahaliz, is a stroll in the city, where Jallad tries (and fails) to follow an old map. Musician Youmna Saba is a companion in this journey of remembering the once winding corridors (“Dahaliz”) of the city, destroyed by new developments since the 1960s. Empty skyscrapers propel her onto a past filled with the violence of snipers, and a present filled with the glamorous injustice of empty luxury real estate endorsed by powerful warlords-turned-politicians.

In Part B: Maaraka, Jallad inhabits the building of the Battle of the Hotels, as its events unfold. She calls the fighting militias the Blues and Reds, respectively the Lebanese Front (Christian Nationalists) and the Lebanese National Movement (Pro-Palestinian leftists), leveling the playing field, and drawing a map of the battle through songwriting. Sary Moussa produces the conclusion of the battle in “Holiday Inn (March 21 to 29)”, which ends with the ultimate severance of the city of Beirut.

The music caters to post-war youth who have never been taught this difficult history. Once we consider the “Battle of the Hotels” as our common heritage, it provides an opportunity to teach the value of civil peace. It is also a call to protest for the renewal, rather than the recycling of the political class that has once destroyed the country and holds us, to this day, hostage of its violence.

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Jonny Morgan

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Good Luck With The Music)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Far Out)

Fabiano Do Nascimento

Mundo Solo

I've Seen A Lot Of Highway

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Far Out Recordings proudly presents the new album from Brazilian guitarist and composer Fabiano do Nascimento: Mundo Solo. Recorded at his home studio in Los Angeles (2020) the album is fundamentally the sound of a man alone with his instruments.

Utilizing a variety of guitars, including 6, 7 and 10 strings, Oktav guitar and electric baritone guitar, alongside a host of pedals and synthesizers, Fabiano tracked imagined landscapes with expressive, expansive improvisations, which tend toward the more ambient and atmospheric reaches of his recent output.

Adopting Hermeto Pascoal’s concept of Universal Music, a rejection of nationalistic tendencies in order to express all of one’s musical influences all at once, Fabiano avoided leaning too heavily on any particular musical language, without denying his own musical roots.

After studying classical piano as a child, the Rio de Janeiro native discovered the guitar aged 10. Studying under his late uncle, Lucio Nascimento, he eventually left Brazil for LA, where he soon became an in-demand player for his distinct and authentic sound. He has since released seven albums under his own name and collaborated with renowned Brazilian artists including Arthur Verocai and Airto Moreira, as well as experimental US saxophonist Sam Gendel.

Mundo Solo (Do Nascimento’s eighth), was recorded in one take per track, with occasional overdubs and a few appearances from collaborators and friends Julien Canthelm (drums on Etude 1), Ajurinã Zwarg, (percussion on CPMV) and Gabe Noel (Bass on Curumim).

Fabiano Do Nascimento’s consummate mastery of his instrument has afforded him a freedom of expression few can claim. Blending the emotional with the elemental, Mundo Solo is a stunning snapshot of solitude and the beauty which can blossom within it.

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Billy Don Burns

LP | 2023 | Original (Black Country)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

Roger Fakhr

East Of Any Place

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"East of Any Place,” out December 1st via Habibi Funk, is a treasure trove of songs discovered alongside Rogér Fakhr's acclaimed 2021 album, "Fine Anyway." These tracks, hidden for decades and only passed between a handful of people, offer a glimpse into Rogér’s musical genius and the vibrant scene of Lebanon during a period marked by civil war and social upheaval. This release serves as a companion to "Fine Anyway," feat studio tracks that didn't make it into the previous album.

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Platform 23)

Ethniques Psychedliques

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

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

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Platform 23 reunites once more with Vox Man Records to dig deep into their archives and shine a new light on. In the past they have done some mega well loved Alternative Funk compilations which got the label off to a fine start and now they dig into an array of cult cassette releases to bring us treasure from Audiologie N-4 - The Independant Psychedelic Trip and Audiologie 5 et 6 - Ethniques Urbaines. This is music from the avant-garde and post punk scenes that draws on wave, spoken word, dark dub and industrial for its eerie yet alluring charms, all with a real edge. Ethnic, idiosyncratic and psyched out, this is another great overview.

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Folkadelic Volume 2 - The Acid Jam

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mood Mosaic)

32,99 €*

Where The Flowers Meet The Dew

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Powerfull nice grooves from a series that might be beer named: "Acid folk renaissance " – as most of the work here come from the 70s, and a lot from those great years of the UK and US scene where it also seemed like there was plenty of folk in the music as well! A few of these cuts are downright acid , and all are filled with great instrumenta&on – in an approach that's a nice change from some of the more familiar Brit and US manners of the same genera&on. The &tles include, among the others: Nirvana’s Nova Sketch , Fi.y Foot Hose’s Rose, Pyranha ‘s Clepsydre , Kaleidoscope’s Keep your mind open, and more .

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Zach Russell

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Carlboro)

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)

29,44 €* 30,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Todd Rundgren

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LP | 2023 | UK (Rhino)

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK (Rhino / Warner)

Gordon Lightfoot

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