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Masayuki Takayanagi / New Direction Unit

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cuts from essential albums like Cowboy In Sweden Features duets with Suzi Jane Hokom, AnnMargret and Nina Lizell Audio remastered from original tapes Unreleased song “I Just Learned To Run” Indepth liner notes & unseen photographs As a true legend of the great American songbook and a rebellious pioneer who left behind a lengthy trail of echo laden pop masterpieces, Lee Hazlewood’s influence continues to reverberate today. Between 196871, Hazlewood not only released his finest solo work, but produced numerous artists on LHI. From acidfolk and countryrock to poppsych and soul, LHI issued dozens of long forgotten 45s and LPs. This series will include material from LHI (remastered for the first time from the original analog tapes), along with Lee’s output for other labels, rarities, and unreleased gems.

With his handlebar moustache and booming baritone, Lee Hazlewood was one of the defining stars of the late ‘60s. Though he’s perhaps best known for his work with Nancy Sinatra (including writing megahit “These Boots Are Made For Walking”), Hazlewood did stunning work away from that particular glamour queen and found latter day champions in Beck, Sonic Youth, and Jarvis Cocker. Now, for Record Store Day 2012, we are kicking off our excavation of the Lee Hazlewood archives with this anthology, Singles, Nudes & Backsides, collecting the best of Lee’s solo songs and duets from his LHI (Lee Hazlewood Industries) imprint.

As a true legend of the great American songbook and a rebellious pioneer who left behind a lengthy trail of echo laden pop masterpieces, Lee’s influence continues to reverberate today. Between 196871, Hazlewood not only released his finest solo work, but produced numerous artists on LHI. From acidfolk and countryrock to poppsych and soul, LHI issued dozens of long forgotten 45s and LPs. This series will include material from LHI (remastered for the first time from the original analog tapes), along with Lee’s output for other labels, rarities, and unreleased gems.

See the sleeve: surrounded by nude girls, each wearing a fake moustache, Hazlewood wears a suit, eversoslightly awkwardly playing the role of the ‘60s playboy. Just like the picture, the songs present a man conflicted; he’s the tenderhearted romantic, the brokenhearted loser and the rugged cowboy, all in one. It’s there in the western swing of “Califia (Stone Rider)”, the loneliness of ”The Bed” and the bleak beauty of ”If It’s Monday Morning.” Hazlewood’s tremulous voice was made for duets (indeed, he wrote ”Some Velvet Morning”, one of the greatest of all time); here, Suzi Jane Hokom, AnnMargret and Nina Lizell play counterpart to his manly tones.

In the wonderful liner notes, written by British journalist Wyndham Wallace, the writer describes his friend Hazlewood as “a curmudgeonly, unpredictable sort at the best of times, as impatient with his own talent as he is with other people.” The Hazlewood Wallace knew was puzzled by the growing interest in him in the last two decades of his life, which was ended by cancer at age 78. That late flurry of interest saw him perform at the Royal Festival Hall in 1999, his first ever solo performance in the UK.

A natural wanderer, Lee lived a big life, fighting in the Korean War, working as a radio DJ in Phoenix, Arizona, setting up Viv Records in the ‘50s, working as a bigshot LA producer in the ‘60s, signing Phil Spector to his Trey Records label and prematurely announcing retirement in the wake of the mid‘60s British invasion. He didn’t: Nancy Sinatra came along, the hits started flowing and he continued producing characterful solo albums into the ‘70s, which saw his move to Sweden. By 2007, Hazlewood was living in Vegas, and begrudgingly enjoying that flurry of latterday interest in his work. This landmark compilation promises to create many more converts.

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Eclipse

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Black Editions)

The Exaltation Of Tom Rapp

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless spirit, deeply engaged with the era's new movements in contemporary art, music, literature, and philosophy. His work, beginning in the late 1960s placed him on the leading edge of these developments; he began expanding on the most radical elements of American and European free jazz, infusing them with the raw feedback and dissonance of electronic and avant-garde music. With his various New Direction groups, Takayanagi broke free of traditional structures and developed a new theory of music that embraced an aggressive and unrelenting style of playing that has remained almost completely unparalleled in its ferocity. Of all the albums to be released during Takayanagi's lifetime, 1975's Eclipse was perhaps the most enigmatic and sought after. Released in an edition of only 100, it almost immediately disappeared and became a holy grail for Japanese connoisseurs of adventurous music, and rightly so. It's first side contained a two-part realization of Takayanagi's "Gradually Projection" modality -- a searching interplay between instruments -- slowly emerging from a sparse open field and building with the tension of a looming thunder storm. The second side contains an epic performance of a "Mass Projection", a high energy, densely layered barrage of sound that in its 25 minutes, never once slackens its intensity. It would be another 31 years before this key album in Takayangi's oeuvre would finally have a (slightly) wider audience through a CD release by Japan's P.S.F. Records. Black Editions present a deluxe vinyl edition of this masterwork, revealingly remastered from the original tapes by Elysian Masters. The album is packaged in a heavy double tip-on gatefold jacket with matte black paper, second tipped-on metallic gold wrap and insert.

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Pearls Before Swine

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Fire)

3LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Mynina)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The grand masters of acid folk, Pearls Before Swine outline the genius of leader Tom Rapp on an album created from a dusty box of tapes left behind by the incisive tunesmith. Never before heard recordings remastered to create the perfect route into the essential ‘Balaklava’ and ‘One Nation Underground’ albums that kick started a whole genre. This new double vinyl compilation was made in collaboration with, and fully endorsed, by the Tom Rapp estate.

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Davide Van De Sfroos

Quanti Nocc

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Epitaph)

Tom Waits

Bawlers

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shadow Of The Moon Limited Red Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Earmusic)

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)

Somewhere In The Mountains 2

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Roland Van Campenhout

2LP+DVD | 2022 | EU | Original (Meyer)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shadow Of The Moon New Mix Limitedc Edition

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ride Out Black Vinyl Edition

Out On The Eaves

LP | 2023 | Original (Red Curtain)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2021 | JP | Original (HMV Record Shop)

Port Of Notes

Two

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Omnivore)

Linda Perhacs

I'm A Harmony

2LP | 2013 | US | Original (Oh Boy)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2018!

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John Prine

Missing Years

Release: 2013 / US – 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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My Window Faces The South

Sweet Megg

LP | 2023 | Original (Turtle Bay)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vinyl Child / Queen Coyote Turquiose Marble Vinyl Edition

Dirty Dollhouse

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Renaissance)

Smoke & Oakum Black 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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The Longest Johns

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Decca)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Lawson)

Kiyoshi Yamaya

Kyou

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fm Tokyo Pioneer Sound Approach

Doji Morita

Down Home 1985 Green 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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Townes Van Zandt

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Retroworld)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (BFD)

Dallas Wayne

Coldwater Tennessee

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Abstract Logix)

John McLaughlin

Liberation Time

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Diggers Factory)

Paris: Vinyl Story

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Goldenlane)

T.G. Sheppard

Number 1's Revisited

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Number 1's Revisited (Gold Vinyl)

T.G. Sheppard

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Goldenlane)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live In Paris 1956-1960 Remastered

Henri Salvador

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Diggers Factory / Live In Paris)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Garrincha)

Fanfara Station

Boussadia

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fanfara Station will be back with a brand new album on Garrincha GOGO, a Garrincha Dischi’s sub label devoted to world music contamination. The Band’s music is indeed mixing the power of a brass band with the energy of the rhythms and the chants of Maghreb and electronic music, an overwhelming dance party. Fanfara Station are Marzouk Mejri, a Tunisian multi-instrumentalist,
Charles Ferris, an American Horn player and the Italian DJ/producer Marco Dalmasso aka Ghiaccioli e Branzini. “Boussadia”, the new album, is the first chapter of a path that explores the cultures of each member. Nord Africa is the first chapter, a voyage trough the roots of the singer and percussionist Marzouk. He moved from
Tunisia to Napoli in the 90’s, where he worked with the most important artist such as Daniele Sepe, James Senese, Eduardo De Crescenzo, 99 Posse, Peppe Barra and many more up to his latest collaboration on Nu Genea’s latest album.“Boussadia” has been recorded in Tunisia in order to immerse and breath the capture, capture the streets’ vibe and work with local artists such as the rapper VIPA, a full immersion in the cosmopolitan Tunis.

This work is deeply inspired by the Stambeli, the animistic music of the Tunisian slaves. Boussadia is a Tunisian mask, a griot dress with multi color clothes. The result is an album on a fine line in between live and electronic music, enriched by a ritual and transcendental feeling that ressembles the band’s live show, his energy and hypnotic rhythms can lift the listeners and take it to a new dimension. Most of the tracks are created recording the band’s live improvisations in order to capture the energy of their concerts

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Elkar)

Katebegiak

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Concord)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Music produced in the 70’s in the Basque Country got trapped between two earth shattering artistic currents; Ez Dok Amairu in the 60s and Basque Radical Rock in the 80’s, and unfortunately, most of the lovely discs and tunes created at that magical time have been pushed to a remote (and sometimes even despised) corner of our collective memory. 60’s and 80’s music currents are almost opposite, and both work as magnetic poles with a very strong power of attraction, and maybe also as a burden for any of the later artistic currents. 60’s generation of artists searched within their rich and ancient cultural roots to acknowledge and update them, in proud, hopeful and unforgettable folk songs. The 80’s one on the other hand, worked in a flammable environment in constant social and political conflict and found in punk the perfect way to express their anger and weariness for so many unfulfilled promises and the lack of opportunities into short, noisy, direct and corrosive songs, technically sparse but full of energy and expressive power. Most of the “classic” names engraved in our memory come from one or the other like Benito Lertxundi, Mikel Laboa, Lourdes Iriondo and Xabier Lete or Kortatu, Hertzainak, Zarama, Las vulpes, Eskorbuto or Cicatriz. 70’s generation and their music works somehow as the “missing link” (“katebegia” in Basque) between the two. They loved folky tunes and don’t forget their ancient roots, but they also look outside for inspiration and experimentation. Just as the 80’s boys and girls found punk the 70’s guys found a completely different sonic and aesthetic landscape in the works of Grateful Dead, Fairport Convention, King Crimson, Soft Machine, Gong,… and worked closely with keen souls in other neighboring regions such as Maquina!, Pau Riba or Sisa in Catalonia or Smash and Triana in Andalusia. This resulted in more abstract and poetic lyrical content, much longer psych-folk-prog-jazz tunes, full of complex instrumental passages and mesmerizing structures of sheer ambition and masterful execution in many cases. But, most important of all, they found a voice of their own, rich, unique, and fascinating, and that’s what makes them so valuable to us. Not only to us, but also to lots of vinyl collectors and crate-diggers around the world, who have in many cases paid fortunes for some of the original editions of LPs that are the source of tunes in this compilation. Mikel Unzurrunzaga Schmitz aka DJ Makala, Dj and producer of worldwide scope and wisdom, noticed this fact first and decided to pay homage to these wonderful tunes through this masterful and dedicated selection for your pleasure and as an open invitation to dig deeper into your adventures in the dark and hidden side of Basque popular music. The album Katebegiak, now published by Elkar, contains 13 tunes on double LP gatefold edition from Haizea, Izukaitz, William S. Fischer, Magdalena, Enbor, Itoiz, Koska, Itziar, Errobi, Lisker, Amaia Zubiria & Pascal Gaigne, Gontzal Mendibil & Taldea and Urria, and the CD-Book edition adds an extra bonus track by the great unknown artist Juan Arkotxa. Along with this compilation, and as a sample of the era, we reissued two more little gems of which we have included a track on the compilation.

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Billy Strings

Renewal

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Synergetic Voice Orchestra

Mios Coloured Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Metron)

The Complete Health & Happiness Shows Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* First ever vinyl pressing * Brand new artwork * Exclusive Lita color vinyl

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Hank Williams

3LP | 2019 | EU | Original (BMG)

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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3 X Vinyl Album 12" (180g), 1st time ever on vinyl Produced by Hank Williams Grammy-Award Winner Cheryl Pawelski Audio freshly transferred, restored & mastered from the original 16” transcription discs by Grammy-Award Winner Michael Graves New liner notes from Colin Escott in bookpack packaging Includes “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”, “I Saw The Light”, “Lost Highway”, and “Mind Your Own Business” & more!

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Eric Clapton

Happy Xmas

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Verve)

Yusuf / Cat Stevens

The Laughing Apple

Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-Shirt

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2017!

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John Frusciante

2LP | 2017 | US | Original (Superior Viaduct)

3LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-Shirt is the first solo record by John Frusciante. Between 1990 and 1992 the guitarist made a series of 4-track recordings, which at the time were not intended for commercial release. After leaving the band Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1992, Frusciante was encouraged by friends to release the material that he wrote in his spare time during the Blood Sugar Sex Magik sessions.

Originally released on Rick Rubin’s American Recordings label in 1994, Niandra LaDes is a mystifying work of tortured beauty. Frusciante plays various acoustic and electric guitars, experimenting with layers of vocals, piano and reverse tape effects. Channeling the ghosts of Syd Barrett and Skip Spence, his lyrics are at once utterly personal and willfully opaque.

Frusciante’s rapidfire, angular playing shows how key he was in the Chili Peppers’ evolution away from their funk-rock roots. His cover of “Big Takeover” perfectly deconstructs the Bad Brains original with laid-back tempo, twelve-string guitar and a fierce handle on melody.

The album’s second part—thirteen untitled tracks that Frusciante defines as one complete piece, “Usually Just A T-Shirt”—contains several instrumentals featuring his signature guitar style. Sparse phrasing, delicate counterpoint and ethereal textures recall Neu/Harmonia’s Michael Rother or The Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly.

On the front cover, Frusciante appears in 1920s drag—a nod to Marcel Duchamp’s alter-ego Rrose Sélavy—which comes from Toni Oswald’s film Desert in the Shape.

This first-time vinyl release has been carefully remastered and approved by the artist. The double LP set is packaged with old style tip-on gatefold jacket and printed inner sleeves.

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J.J. Cale

Collected

Greatest Hits International Version

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This American cult legend has turned his laidback style into a trademark. J.J. Cale has forged an inspiring career that spans four decades. Collected is an essential J.J. Cale compilation on three 180 gram LPs chock full of rootsy Americana songs that will stay in the back of your head long after you turned off the record player.

180g vinyl.

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Shania Twain

2LP | 2023 | CZ | Original (Mercury)

Release: 2023 / CZ – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tredici Canzoni Urgenti Black Vinyl Edition

Vinicio Capossela

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Space-Time Dreatime: The Four Dimensional Music Of

Lori Vambe

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Strut)

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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Awaaz Original Soundtracks Recordings From The Archives Of Cbs Gramophone Records & Tapes India 1982-1986

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Naya Beat)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Soundtracks

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Bollywood rarities handpicked and remastered on a double LP release with laminate gatefold and multi-layered flower petal foldout. Featuring rare, overlooked or not-previously-on-vinyl music from Bappi Lahiri, R. D. Burman, Ilaiyaraaja, Kalyanji-Anandji, Anand Milind, Raamlaxman and Kirti Anuraag released between 1982 and 1986. Mastered for and cut to vinyl by multi Grammynominated Frank Merritt at his mastering studio The Carvery. Naya Beat is incredibly proud to present the first in our series of ‘Awaaz’ (‘sound’ in Hindi) archival projects focused on uncovering the sounds of 1980s Bollywood Original Soundtrack Recordings (OSTs). Series 1 focuses exclusively on the musical output of CBS Gramophone Records & Tapes (India) Ltd. Active during India’s peak disco era – a time when synthesisers and drum machines became a mainstay in Indian popular music – CBS India became a home for established composers to be experimental, up-and-coming composers to get their start, B-movie soundtracks, and straight-to-VHS releases. Expertly curated by Naya Beat co-founders Turbotito and Ragz, who were given unprecedented access to the original label archives, this compilation is not just a collection of four-to-the-floor Bollywood disco (although there are plenty of those). ‘Awaaz’ is designed to take listeners on a musical journey that includes everything from leftfield electronic and mood music to outrageous proto house. Be it classic and hard to find cuts like Ilaiyaraaja's "Aye Zindagi Gale Lagaa Le" and “Mere Jaisi Mehbooba” (Bappi Lahiri’s Hindi remake of Herbie Hancock's “Rockit”), or the instrumental mood music of Kirti Anuraag’s VHS movie soundtracks, to the proto house of Raamlaxman’s “Dil Gadbad Jhala” and Kalyanji-Anandji’s “Aage Bhi Dushman,” or the synth and guitar drenched breakdance madness of R. D. Burman’s “Dekho Idhar Jano Jigar,” the music on this compilation captures the output of a label that was unique as it was unconventional. An homage to the genre, every detail in this stunning release has been lovingly crafted. From the laminate cover to the absolutely incredible foldout, to the cut-out and collage design, to the font type and layout, there are countless authentic details and nods to classic Bollywood releases of the era. As much of the album has been made in India as is possible. The sleeves have been handmade in New Delhi. The liner notes have been compiled by music archivist Nishant Mittal (aka Digging In India).

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Where Rock 'N' Roll Was Born: Celebrating 100 Years Of Sam Phillips

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Sun)

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Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Where Rock 'n' Roll Was Born: Celebrating 100 Years of Sam Phillips[2 LP] Determination and passion drove Sam Phillips to create Sun Records and change music forever, and Sun is celebrating his 100th birthday with a 2-lp anthology of songs he brought to life. The gatefold features archival photos and liners from Grammy-winning writer Robert Gordon about Phillips' legendary legacy. Known as "The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll," tracks from artists like Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis remind listeners what the Big Bang of rock and roll sounded like in 1950s Memphis.

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Michael Nesmith

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (7a)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | EU | Original (USM)

The Zen Circus

Nati Per Subire

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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And Then There Were Three

Michael Chapman

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Lantern Heights)

OST Music For Airplanes Egypt 1973-80

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fully licensed, ltd to 500 copies double 180 gr. vinyl. Here’s Lantern Heights’ personal tribute to the one and only Michael Chapman, a hero in his own right, a ‘Fully Qualified Survivor’ (just to mention one of his most successful creations). An unreleased live album on vinyl in the form of an astonishing trio.” A live set recorded at Nottingham’s Playhouse Theatre on July 23rd 1977 by Chapman and a power house rhythm section in Lindisfarne bassist Rod Clements and former John Mayall drummer Keef Hartley. Some of his best-loved songs are showcased in “And There Were Three” – a jocular reference to Chapman’s ever-shrinking band, also known as ‘a beast with three heads’.

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Hany Mehanna

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Souma)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bon Iver 10th Anniversary Edition

Bon Iver

2LP | 2011 | UK | Reissue (4AD)

I Still Miss Theresa Benoit

Release: 2011 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Diesen Juni feierte das zweite Bon Iver Album „Bon Iver, Bon Iver“ seinen 10. Geburtstag. Um das, wenn auch ein wenig verspätet, zu feiern, veröffentlicht 4AD am 14.01.2022 die „Bon Iver, Bon Iver (10th Anniversary Edition)“ dieses Klassikers auf CD und Doppel-LP. Neben dem Originalalbum enthält die limitierte Neuausgabe fünf bis dato unveröffentlichte Aufnahmen aus der AIR Studios Session. Eingespielt wurden die Songs gemeinsam von Justin Vernon und Sean Carey als Duo mit Klavier und Gesang.

Das ikonische Artwork der LP und CD wurde gänzlich neu gestaltet. Statt dem ursprünglichen Aquarell des Originals ziert bei der Anniversary-Edition nun eine Blindprägung auf weißen Grund das Cover. Dazu gibt es noch ein persönliches Essay von Phoebe Bridgers über ihre Liebe zu diesem Album und wie es sie als Künstlerin geprägt hat.

Begleitend zum Release spielen Bon Iver im Oktober zwei Shows im neu eröffneten YouTube-Theater in Inglewood in Kalifornien. Es sind Bon Ivers erste Shows seit Beginn der Pandemie und stellen das zweite Album und seine Produktion in den Fokus.

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Catch Prichard

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Lion Productions)

Thai Elephant Orchestra Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* 'Gebauer sings, his shredded, husky voice like someone dragging the needle on a Nick Cave record.' - Consequence OF Sound

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Thai Elephant Orchestra

LP | 2021 (Northern Spy)

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Transgressive)

Release: 2021

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Record Store Day 2021 Release. Thai Elephant Orchestra, originally released on CD in 2001, features performances by 6 elephants living at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang. The elephants’ poignant phrases and beautiful melodies are meditat

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The Antlers

Green To Gold

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Strut My Stuff Green Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Modern Harmonic)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Verve)

Blake Mills

Look

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Why The Mountains Are Black - Primeval Greek Village Music: 1907-1960

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Third Man)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Alison Krauss & Union Station

Paper Airplane

LP | 2011 | US | Original (Rounder)

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Animal Music)

Vladimir Misik

Nocni Obraz

37,99 €* 39,99 € -5%

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Recorded In Miami 1989-1991

Watt

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Palilalia)

Bakirköy Akil Hastanesi'nde Remastered Edition

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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Zen

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Zel Zele)

Shooter Jennings And The Werewolves

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Zel Zele is thrilled to announce the first-time vinyl issue of Turkish improv band ZeN"s iconic album "Bakirköy Akil Hastanesi"nde". Performed live in Istanbul"s Bakirköy Psychiatric Hospital for an audience of patients, doctors and visitors, this exceptional recording offers an entrancing blend of krautrock, psychedelic and free anatolian sounds. Perhaps one of the most unusual albums of Turkey"s underground musichistory, "Bakirköy Akil Hastanesi"nde" is a testament to improvisation in its purest form. Originally released in 1999 in cassette and CD, this co-release with Ada Müzik brings the album back into the spotlight:

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Shooter Jennings

LP | 2023 | Original (Black Country)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Spirit Voyage)

Ajeet Kaur

Let It Breathe

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

Pat Boone

Country Jubilee

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Horton)

Carter Sampson

Gold

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Polydor)

Eric Clapton

I Still Do

37,04 €* 38,99 € -5%

Mariko Goto Acoustic Violence Pop

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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This is Eric Clapton's 23rd Studio album for which he teamed up with star-producer Glyn Johns once more.

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Pops

LP | 2021 | JP | Original

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Dear Life)

Shane Parish

Liverpool

Water Cycle Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After months of developing elaborate acoustic guitar versions of the songs for what he at first intended to be a solo acoustic guitar album, a burst of inspiration hit and he rearranged the music for electric guitar, where he has long been at home with his two decades of work as composer and bandleader for morphing avant-prog outfit Ahleuchatistas. What Parish ended up with are arrangements in his intuitive, intense, and intimate style, more directly aligned with his flagship electric band. While acoustic guitar produces resonance through tactile manipulation, the electric guitar harnesses the flow of electricity, allowing Parish to cut a more urgent and colorful slice through our historical moment with these haunting melodies which were first formed under the most ruthless of working conditions, defiantly affirming the creative human spirit’s ability to burst forth from any circumstances.

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Taner Öngür & 43,75

2x10" | 2021 | EU | Original (Tantana)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As we continue our half-joke-verbal agreement of "one album per year" with Taner Öngür, here we go with "Water Cycle". Like many musician in the world, lock down home, early 2020 Taner Öngür got back to his own song books and merge them with some new ideas and brought us this exceptional instrumental album. It's quite hard to classify it within one genre but we can say it takes off from progressive sounds and explore around Öngür's latest band 43,75's own swing-surf-rock style (of course with some little psychedelic touches). These 14 tracks consist 3 special covers such as the Beatles' "I am the Walrus", Bollywood's famous "Mera Joota Hai Japani" and "Ya Mustafa" which featured in various works of middle eastern cinema. Taner Öngür, the legendary bass player of Moğollar (the iconic group of 1970’s Anadolu Pop movement), is producing solo projects since 90's. "Water Cycle" is his 4th opus of his collaboration with his latest band 43,75 and Tantana Records. During lockdown days of 2020, Öngür got back to his own song books and surfed between UK and India -and of course over fly central Asia- got together this very special instrumental guitar trip. Considering he is the "baptist" of the "anatolian rock" movement of 70's, his beyond-genres-eclectic view to the music fits perfectly to the swinging guitars, progressive touches, tribal beats, melancholic moments of “Water Cycle"... It's also a great "introduction to Taner Öngür's universe". Back in 2016 he formed this project: 43,75. Their first album “Elektrik Gramofon” (2017) was a beautiful selection of 20's - 50's Istanbul songs, distilled by Öngür's surf-swing-rocknroll appoach (it's LP's sold out within 48 hours!). Nowadays, most of the vinyl collectors knows about Anatolian Rock; but not many knows that Taner Öngür was on many cult records of the era and the definition of "anatolian pop" and "anatolian rock" are actually Taner Öngür's own wording, that became the name for it - since 70's. So, on "Sayko Ana” (2018) Öngür did not hesitate to have fun with it; browsing between forgotten Turkish folk songs and psych them. In 2019, he got back into archives, to dig "strange stories" from newspapers and vintage novels of 1930's-1960's, which gave birth to "Asrî Sadâ" album, that its LP consisting a superb - rich contented 16 pages tabloid newspaper; with "news" and "articles" related to the songs... and many other bizarre details of our "dusty days”. So, please welcome to Taner Öngür's own psych-surf-swing flavored universe!

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Geffen)

Rhythm Country & Blues

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2017 | US | Original (Cody Jinks Music)

Cody Jinks

Adobe Sessions

(I've Got) Trouble In Mind 7" & Rare Stuff 2009/2014

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cody Jinks' credible grit and meaningful tattoos are no fad. They define exactly who he really is: someone who was raised on the sounds of country music and metal. Ultimately, Jinks found himself back to where it all began. His father loved the outlaw country icons: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and The Hag. That never ending consistency of incredible music growing up laid some very deep seeds and those early influences shine through his music. Jinks' beloved 2015 album Adobe Sessions, his fourth overall, is available on vinyl for the first time with bonus track "Fast Lane" and Side-D etching. "In 2015 a great crop of fresh faces in country and Americana arose on many people's radars," writes Country Perspective. "Hands down one of the best artists to emerge amongst this group was Cody Jinks...[His] 2015 album Adobe Sessions felt like the awaited breaking out of the next big star in the independent country scene. The album is full of traditional country, plenty of steel guitar and ballads on life and love."

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The Liminanas

2LP+CD | 2018 | EU | Original (Because Music)

2LP | 2015 | US | Original (Mercury)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This Reissue has never before been releases as 2LP+CD and Poster. The Liminanas are a couple and a band. They have produced records in their own garage in Cabestany located in the south of France for about ten years. They played in Australia, the US and toured Europe regularly. United Kingdom included. The first opus of the now series “I have trouble in mind” was released on the initiative of Bill and Lisa Roe (iconic label “trouble in mind") in the US in 2014. It combines all the 45t , unreleased songs recorded by the couple for “Mojo magazine", tribute to Beach Boys, fanzines, micro labels. All the titles which were difficult to find and that fans were looking for. And now, here it is: I ve got trouble in mind vol 2.

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Chris Stapleton

Traveller

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2015 | US | Original (Republic)

James Bay

Chaos And The Calm

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991 2024 Repress

2LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Music From Memory)

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe, 1980-1991' is compiled by record connoisseur Raphael Top-Secret and label man Jamie Tiller that brings together twenty one tracks from across the continent; exploring the more unusual and unexpected sides of pop music produced during that period. Printed Inner sleeves.
Drawing material from cult experimental artists alongside one-off independent musical projects rescued from the fringes, ’Uneven Paths’ focuses on a selection of tracks that go beyond the confines of mainstream pop music but which also transcend expectations of much of the ’experimental’ music of the time. This is music with one foot in the avant-garde and another foot firmly rooted within the sensibilities of Pop; where Jazz musicians detour into Synth-Pop, Punk bands break into Boogie jams, and student doctors jam out on odd melodies with synthesizers and drum machines during their night shifts.

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Shadow Of The Moon New Mix

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Supraphon)

Divokej Bill

Bazilisek

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Earth)

Bert Jansch

Avocet Art Print Edition

LP | 2023 | Original (Show Dog Nashville)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The vinyl edition comes with 6 high-quality lithograph art prints (by UK illustrator Hannah Alice) representing each of the birds on the album, held in a heavy board die-cut gatefold sleeve. This unique packaging is fully interactive - the cover image is interchangeable with any of the prints. Remastered by Brian Pyle from original tapes. Bert Jansch was often quoted as saying "I'm not playing for anyone, just myself" and this feels no more apparent than on 1979's 'Avocet', his beautifully meditative paean to British birds. For fans of Jansch this is often the album that is singled out as his best work. The freedoms...

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Toby Keith

100% Songwriter

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Colby Acuff

Western White Pines

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Irish Rock N Roll Pink Vinyl Edition

The Mary Wallopers

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BC)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Dan + Shay

Bigger Houses

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Subject To Change Yellow Vinyl Edition

Kelsea Ballerini

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Black River)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | UK | Original (Annihaya)

Rabih Beaini

Albidaya

36,79 €* 39,99 € -8%

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Superb album revisiting the traditional and early psychedelic Arabic music, all through distorted paths and instruments, remashed and deconstructed sounds, recreating patterns with diverse instruments to give a different perspective of the sound itself.

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America Dream Reserve 2023 Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Smiling C)

My Favorite Children's Folk Song 2

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

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

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2023 edition with new artwork and sleeve. Come with insert/liner notes.

"Welcome to the America Dream Reserve, home to husband & wife duos, pub legends, one-man-bands, preachers’ sons, and country-lounge entertainers..."

About: America Dream Reserve is a home for kindred souls. An hour-long journey into the world of lo-fi drumcomputer folk, disco-pop-lounge, haunting ballads, obscure vanity pressings, and synthesized string ensembles. A collaborative compilation between Charles Bals, creator of the inimitable Club Meduse, and Smiling C.

Compiled by: Charles Bals & Henry Jones.

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Saho Terao

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The second installment in Japanese singer-songwriter Saho Terao’s reimagining of Japanese folk songs! In Terao’s hands, the traditional music of Japan takes on completely new forms, transforming from lullabies to pop songs; from children’s play songs to somber piano ballads; from work songs to folk arias.

Across 16 tracks, Terao serves as both performer and archivist, chronicling music that’s being threatened by an aging population and youth gathering in urban centers. She preserves the melodies and lyrics perfectly, but modernizes many of these songs, occasionally giving them lush band arrangements that only a musician of her caliber could pull off.

“Tori ni Naritaiya” (lit. I want to be a bird), a song from Shiga prefecture with lyrics that are almost incomprehensible to a modern Japanese speaker, is given a west coast jazz spin, with a hard bop bass line that Mingus himself would have been proud of. “Nakunaiyo” (lit. Don’t Cry) a lullaby from the Amami Islands, sees Terao’s modern sensibilities meld perfectly with more traditional arrangements. The intro, in which Terao sings a capella over hand claps in a call and response between herself and a male choir. You can’t help but imagine that this is how this song has been performed for centuries, and when the rhythm section comes crashing in, the marriage of traditional melody and modern arrangements is complete.

The study of folk music often paints it as music of the past - stuck in the form that it was practiced in at its conception. But folk music, more so than any other genre, should evolve with the people and their music. Terao brings the traditional music of Japan to the 21st century, using her voice and arrangements to breathe life into music that faces the threat of extinction. Released on vinyl for the first time ever, Saho Terao’s My Favorite Children’s Songs 2 is an album you absolutely must not miss.

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Saho Terao

Going North

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Bubblewrap)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Perhaps more than any other musician of her generation, Japanese singer-songwriter Saho Terao has pursued the perfect “song”. In the 16 years since her debut album, Terao has made songs ranging from Joni-mitchell inspired folk ballads to pop renditions of traditional Japanese lullabies. Saho Terao’s ninth original studio album, Kita e Mukau (Going North) is a celebration of her history, but sounds fresh from beginning to end.

The diverse cast of supporting musicians should be familiar to fans of Terao, with musicians such as Reizaburo Adachi (ds, sax.), Wataru Iga (b.) (who form the three piece band Fuyu ni Wakarete along with Terao), Shuta Hasunuma (arr.), U-zhaan (Tabla), Mahito The People (gt.), Wakana Ikeda (fl.), and more appearing on the record. Although Terao’s soothing voice and piano playing form the basis of each of the songs, the arrangements are at times times fun and upbeat, at times bordering on avant-garde, and at times so beautiful that you’ll find yourself teary-eyed.

At first listen, the relaxed atmosphere and laid back beat of title track “Kita e Mukau” (“Going North”), devoted to Terao’s late father, makes it feel like a song perfect for a cloudy day. But repeated listens reveal the kind of stirring allegories that other words can’t do justice. The emotional power imbued in the song is concealed at first glance by a modern arrangement, but careful listeners will be rewarded with an emotional gut punch of a song. “Asadoya Yunta” is a folk song from the islands of Okinawa that’s been covered extensively, including versions by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yuta Orisaka, and Haruomi Hosono. But where the YMO members turn the tune into tropical electronica, and Orisaka turns it on its head with his psych folk interpretation, Terao keeps it simple. Perhaps it’s her extensive experience covering traditional folk songs in her Favorite Children’s Songs series, but Terao’s sparse piano accompaniment highlights the beautiful melody and her own voice. Despite the plethora of covers by some of Japan’s best musicians, Terao succeeds in making the song her own, while somehow keeping to its folkloric roots.

But perhaps the best example of Terao’s musicianship is in the album closer, “Yumagure (electric guitar version)”. The song was originally included on Ai no Himitsu (2009), and it’s a shining example of contemporary folk. Played over a simple piano arrangement, the song received high praise for its use of everyday imagery (“At twilight, I’ll gaze at the blurry moon”). But over a decade after its initial recording, Terao revisited the song, enlisting the help of Gezan’s Mahito the People on guitar. Mahito’s playing is delicate, coiling and intermingling with the melody and piano, and making expert use of reverb to create an atmosphere altogether different from the original.

What Kita e Mukau accomplishes may not be the perfect “song”, but it unifies the often disparate parts of Terao’s discography into one cohesive project. Pressed on black wax, this record from one of Japan’s foremost singer-songwriters is sure to be one of the essential releases of 2023.

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Georgia Ruth

Week Of Pines

Tucker Zimmerman & Joshua Burkett

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Revisit the 2013 Welsh Music Prize’s winning album, released on vinyl for the first time. 2xLP Heavyweight Transparent Green Vinyl in a Gatefold Sleeve.

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Tunnel Visions

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Idea)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In The 1970s, Tucker Zimmerman made some low-key acoustic guitar records in England. He was raised in Caifornia, and sang like it. And between those two circumstances, Zimmerman happens to have sat in with a whole lotta famous people; The Spiders From Mars, guys from Yes & Traffic & T Rex, Mary Hopkin, Paul Butterfield, Aynsley Dunbar, Ricky Fataar, and plenty more. The seriously famous are always moving along to whatever's new. But Zimmerman has kept his hand in. There were a couple records in the 80s, an interest in novels and words, one in the 90s, an 00s collaboration with another American expat who works on the Belgian version of The Voice, etc. Now he has a new record for the teens. Of himself reading poetry no less. And that is exactly the sort of project that could easily degenerate into the underground dude's answer to a Stan Lee cameo. The reason it doesn't is less about the words chosen (though they're fine) and more about the obvious lived grit in the mucinex-wracked glottis that is Zimmerman's voice these days. The sensitive folk rocker has given way to a grizzled gentleman. Zimmerman is more confident as his 77 years and sounds like a paisley Sam Elliott who spends days wandering outside dispensing advice to clouds & dogs. Zimmerman has also found a precise complement in accompanist Josh Burkett, whose life reads like an indie update to the performer Zimmerman was in the 70s. Joshua Burkett runs a record store in Western Mass, and has been a heavy in interesting underground projects of one sort or another for roughly 30 years (vermonster, Bimbo Shrineheads, Tarp, playing with Ed Askew, & his array of solo records). The seams are allowed to show on these recordings. You can hear Zimmerman stop and go back to correct himself, and the sound levels vary. That puts things firmly in the contemporary camp, ensuring that this ain't no greatest hits that never were. In fact, Josh nips in with his acoustic guitar so subtly, and gets the rhythm of each talking point so just right so that the two performers dovetail again and again. And so the record can exist between them both, a new thing all it's own.—Thanks much, Angela Sawyer, 2022

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Isato Nakagawa

Solar Wind

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Palilalia)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Known as one of the greatest fingerstyle guitarists of his generation, the late Isato Nakagawa’s “Solar Wind” is getting a long awaited analog reissue!

With incredible technical talent and an ear for beautiful melodies, Nakagawa was a pioneer of Japan’s fingerstyle guitar scene, mentoring world-renown guitarists such as Kotaro Oshio and Masaaki Kishibe. Originally released over two decades ago, ‘Solar Wind’ saw Nakagawa at the height of his powers, a guitarist confident in both his compositional skills and unrivaled technical ability. Of course, this talent is disguised, with melodies often so simple they could be from lullabies. Yet at times, his talent is on full display, with moving harmonies so complex it seems impossible that he’s playing with only two hands. Whether you want to sit down and study the music of a master, or simply sit back and listen to beautiful guitar melodies, this album is perfect. Reissued on vinyl for the first time ever with an obi strip, this album has never looked or sounded this good! Don’t miss Isato Nakagawa’s Solar Wind, only from P-vine Records.

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Bill Orcutt

Music For Four Guitars

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In a trajectory full of about-faces, Music for Four Guitars splices the formal innovations of Bill Orcutt's software-based music into the lobe-frying, blown-out Fender hyperdrive of his most frenetic workouts with Corsano or Hoyos. And while the guitar tone here is resolutely treble-kicked—or, as Orcutt puts it, 'a bridge pickup rather than a neck pickup record'—it still wades the same melodic streams as his previous LPs (yet, as Heraclitus taught us, that stream is utterly different the second time around). Although it's a true left-field listen, Music for Four Guitars is bizarrely meditative, a Bill Orcutt Buddha Machine, a glimpse of the world of icy beauty haunting the latitudes high above the Delta (down where the climate suits your clothes)..."—Tom Carter

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Wewantsounds Presents Pierre Barouh And The Saravah Sound

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wewantsounds)

Jose Louis And The Paradox Love

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wewantsounds is delighted to present the first retrospective on vinyl of Saravah Records, one of the most influential French labels founded in Paris by singer, songwriter and producer Pierre Barouh in 1966. Featuring Brigitte Fontaine, Jacques Higelin, Alfred Panou, and many rare tracks reissued on vinyl for the first time, the set gives a glimpse of the free-form, groovy sound of the label between 1965 and 1976. Supervised by Pierre Barouh's son and Saravah historian, Benjamin Barouh, The 2-lp Gatefold set comes with a 4p insert featuring liner notes (Eng/Fr) by Benjamin plus an exclusive interview of Barouh's partner Fernand Boruso by Jacques Denis telling fascinating anecdotes around the label.

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Pierre Kwenders

LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Arts & Crafts)

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Forager)

Cleveland Francis

Beyond The Willow Tree