Folk Vinyl 2151 Items

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Meriuba)

Idrissa Soumaoro

Diré

LP | 2023 | Original (Show Dog Nashville)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With this album Idrissa Soumaoro pays tribute to Diré, the town where he met his wife and where his first daughter, who is no longer with us, was born. In 1971, after his studies at the INA in Bamako, Idrissa was transferred to Diré to teach music at the lPEG (Pedagogical Institute of General Education). He was 22 years old when he arrived in Diré. Idrissa has always been nostalgic for this beautiful place in the region of the 333 Saints of Timbuktu. In the difficult situation Mali is living today, the town of Diré has become a symbol of hope for peace.Indeed, with this work, Idrissa Soumaoro reflects deeply on peace, brotherhood and reconciliation in Mali. Idrissa sings in French, Bambara and English and sends messages of love and living together. The album was initiated by Marc-Antoine ‘Marko’ Moreau, who revealed to the world the talent of Amadou and Mariam who were introduced by Idrissa Soumaoro in the group 'Eclipse de l’I.J.A'.

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Toby Keith

100% Songwriter

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shooter Jennings And The Werewolves

Shooter Jennings

LP | 2023 | Original (Black Country)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Rabble Rouser)

The Unthanks

Here's The Tender Coming

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Willie Nelson

Greatest Hits

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Rodina Music)

Bring Me The Hearts

21,99 €*

Mixtape Live Volume 2 Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Cream of the crop" - BBC Introducing

Formed during lockdown in the beautiful Peak District near Manchester, with a shared love of close vocal harmonies and soulful acoustic grooves, Bring Me The Hearts release their eponymous debut album on October 27th on Vinyl / CD and online on Rodina Music.
'Cream of the Crop' - BBC Introducing
Aoife Hearty - vocals, Huw Jacob - Guitars and vocals, Matt Ryan - Drums and vocals and Joe Tatton - keys and vocals

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Angelo Kelly

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Universal)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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M. Mashabi And His Kelana Ria Orchestra

Kafilah Nights: Malay-Arabic Variations From 1960s Indonesia

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elevation)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Balloon Ranger)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In the early 1960s, two of the best talents in the Indonesian music scene, songwriter and band leader Adi Karso, known for his hits "Papaya Cha-Cha-Cha" and "Balonku" and Gambus musician Munif Bahasuan teamed up to form Orkes Melayu (Malay Orchestra) Kelana Ria.

Between 1961 and 1964, Kelana Ria recorded 48 songs that were spread over four records, Kafilah, Yam El Shamah, Ya Mahmud and Ya Hamidah, which become the primary sources for this compilation.

These four recordings changed the trajectory of Indonesian popular music.

Play "Renungkanlah" (Think About It), included in this compilation, a love song with heavenly melodies and lilting harmonies, to an audience in the Western part of Malaysia or people of Malay ethnicity in Singapore and they would immediately hum along the tune.

"Renungkanlah" has been covered by many countless other musicians in Indonesia and Malaysia and it has become a hit many times over. The song has become a go-to song in karaoke bars in the region, with fans oblivious to who actually wrote this song or who performed it the first time.

Or take the song "Ratapan Anak Tiri" (Lament of a Stepchild), a song that has traversed national boundaries and has become a universal sad song in the Malay world, turning into a shorthand for melancholia that permeates this archipelago of nations.

Another stunner is the melancholia-laden "Kesunyian Jiwa" (Silence of the Soul), an operatic tune so majestic that it could open any black and white Kurosawa film from the late 1940s.

"Kesunyian Jiwa" opens with marching percussion and what could pass for a horn section foregrounding an opera finale before settling into a Latin-inspired composition backing one of the most soulful vocal performances from the 1960s.

The songs and the soulful vocal performance belong to Muhamad Mashabi, who despite the popularity of the songs he created is now largely forgotten, whose history was kept alive only in the neighborhood where he grew up in Central Jakarta.

With only a short musical career and only nine recorded songs from almost 40 compositions, Mashabi fell by the wayside in the early 1970s, especially with the rise of pop and rock from bands like Koes Plus, Panbers and God Bless.

Yet his songs, inspired by Malay traditional songs but performed in the modern studio setting, lay the foundations for what would become the biggest musical genre in the country, dangdut, especially the kind that was popularized by the self-styled king of the genre, Rhoma Irama.

"Mashabi's distinctive vocal style and soul-searching lyrics helped give rise to dangdut, Indonesia's most popular music genre," University of Pittsburgh music professor Andrew N. Weintraub write in the liner notes.

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Ane Brun

Rarities 2

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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My Window Faces The South

Sweet Megg

LP | 2023 | Original (Turtle Bay)

39,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Wheel 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Rosanne Cash

2LP | 2023 | Original (Rumblestrip)

45,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | Original (Big Loud)

Larry Fleet

Earned It

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shot In The Dark Colored Vinyl Edition

Ashley Cooke

3LP | 2023 | Original (Big Loud)

43,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Wouldn't Waste)

Hjalte Ross

Waves Of Haste

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wouldn't Waste)

Hjalte Ross

Less

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live At The Capitol Theater Oct 21, 1978 Marble Vinyl Edition

Harry Chapin

3LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Renaissance)

49,99 €*

Live At The Capitol Theater Oct 21, 1978 Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Clear Marble Vinyl.Harold Forster Chapin was an American singer, songwriter, philanthropist, and hunger activist best known for his folk rock and pop rock songs. He achieved worldwide success in the 1970s. Chapin, a Grammy Award-winning artist and Grammy Hall of Fame inductee, has sold over 16 million records worldwide. This is an intimate concert with just Harry and his guitar.

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Harry Chapin

3LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Renaissance)

43,99 €*

Vinyl Child / Queen Coyote Turquoise Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Natural Clear Vinyl.Harold Forster Chapin was an American singer, songwriter, philanthropist, and hunger activist best known for his folk rock and pop rock songs. He achieved worldwide success in the 1970s. Chapin, a Grammy Award-winning artist and Grammy Hall of Fame inductee, has sold over 16 million records worldwide. This is an intimate concert with just Harry and his guitar.

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Dirty Dollhouse

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Renaissance)

Vinyl Child / Queen Coyote Turquiose Marble Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dirty Dollhouse is the multi-genre music of Philadelphia-based artist Chelsea Mitchell, a folk chanteuse with classical training and a retro-pop composer with a soft spot for country. After releasing her first lo-fi EP, Married in the Aviary, Mitchell received the Tri-State Indie Vocalist of the Year award and the lyrics to her song Nobody's Daughter were showcased in American Songwriter Magazine. Her follow-up EP, 25 Shades, saw a departure from traditional folk and embraced a Nashville vibe while 2017's full-length album Vinyl Child was a mixture of darkly contemplative pop songs and quiet, intimate confession. Drawing from many muses has produced a uniquely diverse catalogue, but it has also made it near-impossible to pin down who Mitchell sounds like. In sultry-toned moments you might hear Nicole Atkins, a soft bird-like peak could make you think of Kacey Musgraves, and a certain belt may summon Brandi Carlile. Though her vocals range from soft twang to unabashedly operatic, it would suffice to say that Mitchell's songs all fit under the same 'singer-songwriter' umbrella as her lyrics weave a diary page to life and her band expands on structural simplicity with subtle grace. As bassist Joshua Machiz, drummer Eric Lawry, and lead guitarist August John Lutz II are now full-time members, Dirty Dollhouse has found a new and exciting momentum, opening for rising stars like Nikki Lane and Amanda Shires and playing to a wider audience.

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Dirty Dollhouse

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Renaissance)

39,99 €*

Where The Flowers Meet The Dew

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Zach Russell

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Carlboro)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Crank It, We're Doomed Orange Vinyl Edition

Todd Snider

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Aimless)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Crank It, We're Doomed Yellow Vinyl Edition

Todd Snider

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Aimless)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Sme Nashville)

Tenille Townes

Worktapes

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I've Seen A Lot Of Highway

Billy Don Burns

LP | 2023 | Original (Black Country)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Moon Also Rises Moon Colored Vinyl Edition

Johnny Flynn

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Transgressive)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sounds Of Subterrania)

Addisabababand

Addis Airlines

16,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Ravi Shankar

Shankar Family & Friends

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | CZ | Original (Capitol)

Darius Rucker

Carolyn's Boy

22,99 €*

Release: 2023 / CZ – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tredici Canzoni Urgenti Orange Vinyl Edtion

Vinicio Capossela

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (La Cupa Srl)

49,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tredici Canzoni Urgenti Black Vinyl Edition

Vinicio Capossela

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (La Cupa Srl)

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Agua Blue Transparent Vinyl Edition

Inti-Illimani

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (The Saifam Group)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Claudia Buzzetti And The Hootananny

7 Years Crying

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Edone' Dischi)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Everything Is Like It's Meant To Be Black Vinyl Edition

Street Clerks

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Duduc)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (L'autre)

Crimi

Scuru Cauru

42,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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More Than A Whisper: Celebrating The Music Of Nanci Griffith

V.A.

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Rounder)

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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Pioneer Works Swing (Live)

Hailu Mergia

LP | 2023 | CZ | Original (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

21,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Hyperjazz)

Release: 2023 / CZ – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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It's been a little over ten years since Hailu Mergia reemerged on the international music scene. Following the first in a series of his classic recordings reissued in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Mergia assembled a band and began performing live again after many years driving a cab in Washington, DC. His first show back appeared on the front page of the New York Times along with a stellar review and he took off from there performing his flavor of Ethiopian jazz all over the world in the years since, including Radio City Music Hall and Montreal Jazz Festival. Finally, we have a recorded document of the keyboard player's powerful DC-based trio _ which practices each weekend in his basement _ featuring Kenneth Joseph on drums and Alemseged Kebede on bass. Beautifully captured at one of their fiery live shows at the venerable Brooklyn non-profit cultural center Pioneer Works on July 1, 2016, the concert was recorded by PW staff and mixed by Ted Young with mastering by ATFA's expert audio extraction collaborator Jessica Thompson. The performance clarifies what many people across the globe already know: in his fifth decade of music-making Hailu Mergia continues to push the boundaries of his remarkable abilities. Mergia and his veteran band energetically and playfully unpeel layer after layer of harmonic and rhythmic interest out of a spectrum of Ethiopian repertoire. Modern jazz demands constant reinvention and improvisation, night after night creating new works out of known modes and classic standards. This band is unstoppable when it comes to turning age-old melodies (like "Tizita" or "Anchihoye Lene") upside down and inside out until they emerge as molten new works, often spontaneously. Mergia's original compositions (like "Yegle Nesh") shine brighter than ever here as well. Moving from keyboard to organ to accordion to melodica, he deftly switches instruments _ often during the same song. Mergia at 77 years old seems to be working harder than musicians half his age. "Pioneer Works Swing (Live)" brings into focus the kind of onstage group improvisation and deadly solo passages that reach for places Mergia and the band have never gone, on festival and club stages across four continents. Now that Mergia has released two new recordings along with four classic reissues, he is eager to let everyone hear what he's been doing on the road since he re-took the global stage for his victory laps. So much more than an old act from yesteryear, Mergia balances his legendary Ethiopian recordings with good old fashioned sweat-soaked live concert triumphs such as the one we have here.

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Khalab

Layers

20,69 €* 22,99 € -10%

Tejon Street Corner Thieves

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Every person we meet, every moment we live through, all the love we feel, and the losses we endure, add another layer to the intricate pattern of our lives. Like multicolored threads, these layers twist together to form a complex, vibrant tapestry — a reflection of our life journey until this point. On his new album Layers, Khalab acknowledges and celebrates the encounters that have shaped his ever-evolving musical vision. The record, out on August 25th with his own Hyperjazz Records, represents the culmination of a creative journey that began with his Eunoto EP (Black Acre Records, 2015), evolved with the Afro-Futuristic soundscapes of 2018’s highly acclaimed album Black Noise 2084 (On The Corner Records/!K7), and has since developed further through a series of experiences and deep musical collaborations. Layers summons all the alchemy of Khalab’s live performances, and embodies the transcendental power of music making as a collective art form. Over the past five years, Khalab has shared the stage at Italian and International festivals with many exceptional musicians, an experience which has sharpened the musicality of his compositions and enhanced the depth and complexity of his sound. “Since the release of Black Noise 2084 I’ve increasingly developed the stage and band dynamic, focusing on arranging with the musicians in mind, and this album was almost entirely conceived together with musicians I’ve collaborated with” says Khalab. In a testament to the label’s close-knit and highly collaborative nature, Khalab's live band includes a cadre of musicians from the Hyperjazz family, including David Paulis and Enrico Truzzi of Phresoul, as well Pietro Santangelo, Fabio Sasso, and longstanding creative-partner Nicola Guida. The album’s nine tracks feature an impressive lineup of collaborators old and new, including UK drummer and producer Emanative, Burkinabe singer, guitarist, and m’bira player Gabin Dabiré (passed away a few weeks ago), Italian producer Clap! Clap!, multi-wind instrumentalist Tamar Osborn, drummer and producer Tommaso Cappellato, British-Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed, Bristol’s vocalist and producer Grove, multi-instrumentalist Tenderlonious, Italian jazz singer Alessia Obino and British-born Nigerian spoken-word artist Joshua Idehen. Layers still revolves around the key components of Khalab’s sound — dark and trancey electronics and his research into Black music and all its evolutions — but with a bigger emphasis on harmonic arrangements. Across the album, Khalab’s productions twist and pulsate into mesmerizing motifs, as the interplay between different instruments coalesce into focused melodies and rich, complex textures. Khalab and his collaborators masterfully blend gloomy and radiant tones, eliciting feelings of both doom and hope. The album will be preceded by three lead singles: “Layers” feat. Joshua idehen, “Tunnel Of Jealousy” feat. Lady Blue Eyes, and “Female Side” feat. Tommaso Cappellato.

For Khalab, Layers represents the end point of a journey that began with the synthesis of ancestral rhythms and electronic experimentation on Black Noise 2084, and has taken him on a meandering route through a Mauritanian refugee camp (M’berra, Real World Recordings, 2021), and deep into the catalogs of legendary Italian labels Soul Note and Black Saint (for the Hyperituals compilations, released on his own Hyperjazz label). In Khalab’s own words: “For me this feels like coming full circle, because everything will be more experimental going forward”. Credits All tracks written & arranged by Khalab Produced by Khalab & DJ Knuf With the vital contribution of these amazing musicians: A1. Yazz Ahmed (flugelhorn, trumpet), Alessia Obino (voice), Nicola Guida (synths), Fabio Sasso (drums) A2. Emanative (drums), Tamar Osborn (baritone saxophone), Grove (lyrics, voice) A3. Lady Blue Eyes (voice) A4. Cristiano Crisci (synths), Pietro Santangelo (tenor saxophone) A5. Joshua Idehen (lyrics, voice), Cristiano Crisci (additional synths) B1. Tommaso Cappellato (synths), Enrico Truzzi (drums), David Paulis (electric bass), Cristiano Crisci (additional synths) B2. Gabin Dabiré (voice, m’bira) B3. Tenderlonious (flute) B4. Magnus PI (percussion), Alessia Obino (voice), Pietro Santangelo (tenor saxophone), Enrico Truzzi (drums) Mix by DJ Knuf at Studio 33, Rome Remix by Khalab at Studio 33, Rome Megamix by Satori Stereo Saiyan Mastered by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, London Visual project design by Marco Klefisch

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Juxtaposition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Liars Club)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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From Skopje With Love Yellow Vinyl

Baklava

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cpl Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lösrivelse Tekster Av Edvard Munch Edition

Kari Bremnes

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Kirkelig Kulturverksted)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Baby, You're The Man Who Would Be King

Jerry Joseph

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cosmo Sex School)

33,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Believe)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Portland"s Jerry Joseph is a bonafide "triple-threat", a prolific and accomplished songwriter, a powerful singer and a memorable performer. In his four-decade career; as a solo artist, with the Jackmormons, supergroup Stockholm Syndrome, his two-piece The Denmark Veseys, his beloved 80s cult band, Little Women, or most recently with Drive-by Truckers backing him; he has continuously toured the world, including such unlikely locales as Lebanon, Israel, Kurdish Iraq, India, Cambodia and Afghanistan, and released a steady stream of albums.Baby, You"re The Man Who Would Be King was recorded in NYC and produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, and features a band made up of some of New York"s best players.

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James Senese

Stiamo Cercando Il Mondo

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Rachel Unthank & The Winterset

The Bairns

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Rabble Rouser)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elevation)

Gombloh

Live Gila

Keep Walkin': Singles, Demos & Rarities 1965-1978 Blue Vinyl Edition

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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Nancy Sinatra

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

46,54 €* 48,99 € -5%

Keep Walkin': Singles, Demos & Rarities 1965-1978 Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Nancy Sinatra

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

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Protect Your Golden Heart Golden Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Citizen Tim

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Barhill)

21,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Beast In Its Tracks Purple Vinyl Edition

Josh Ritter

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Pytheas)

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Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

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Joni Mitchell

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Elektra)

41,99 €*

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Joni Mitchell

Hissing Of Summer Lawns

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Release: 2023 / US – Original

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Joni Mitchell

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Elektra)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

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Dustin Lynch

Killed The Cowboy

18,59 €* 30,99 € -40%

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Finbar Furey

Moments In Time

49,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Pan Am)

Willie Nelson

And Then I Wrote

16,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Alien Transistor)

Gratin Carnival

Such December

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Todd Rundgren

Now Playing

LP | 2023 | UK (Rhino)

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ilsey

From The Valley

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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DJ Markarian

Oasis Lounge Volume II

Release: 2023 / CZ – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Colby Acuff

Western White Pines

36,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Victory

Glory Hour

22,74 €* 34,99 € -35%

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Jackson C. Frank

My Name Is Carnival

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Valley Of Heart's Delight

Margo Cilker

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Missing Piece)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tim McGraw

Standing Room Only

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Willie Nelson

Pretty Paper

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | Reissue (Secretly Canadian)

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Phosphorescent

C'est La Vie

Release: 2018 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For Lovers Only / Rain Suite

SG (Andrew Pekler)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Faitiche)

This River Only Brings Poison

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Dakota Suite

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

35,99 €*

Real To Reel: Garech Browne And Claddagh Records

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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James Morrissey

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Decca)

110,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

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Jason Hawk Harris

Thin Places

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Javelin Black Vinyl Edition

Sufjan Stevens

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Asthmatic Kitty)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pat Boone

Country Jubilee

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Ayalew Mesfin

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

No Ordinary Crown Opaque Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Will Johnson

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Keeled Scales)

No Ordinary Crown Black Vinyl Ediiton

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Will Johnson

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Keeled Scales)

Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Al Hadaoui

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Habibi Funk)

22,99 €*

LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Habibi Funk)

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Ahmed Malek & Flako

The Electronic Tapes

22,99 €*

Southern Star Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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

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

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Brent Cobb

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original

Tre Burt

Traffic Fiction

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Tre Burt

Traffic Fiction

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I Killed Your Dog Black Vinyl Edition

L'Rain

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mexican Summer)

26,99 €* 29,99 € -10%

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Genre: Rock & Indie

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L'Rain

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mexican Summer)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Along The Way Teal Vinyl Edition

Colbie Caillat

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BFD)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Along The Way Black Vinyl Edition

Colbie Caillat

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BFD)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gombloh

Sekar Mayhang

Space-Time Dreatime: The Four Dimensional Music Of

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gombloh’s forgotten masterpiece

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lori Vambe

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Strut)

38,99 €*

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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

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Olivia Chaney

Six French Songs

Feel Good Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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

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

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

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (New West)