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Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | Original (Monument)

Caitlyn Smith

High & Low

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | Original (MCA Nashville)

Jordan Davis

Bluebird Days

36,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Never Enough Colored Vinyl Edition

Parker Mccollum

2LP | 2023 | Original (MCA Nashville)

36,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Mais 5)

Jose Alfonso

Enquanto Ha Forca

21,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Jullian)

Ben De La Cour

Sweet Anhedonia

27,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Horton)

Joey Frendo

Bound For Heartache

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Horton)

Carter Sampson

Gold

37,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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4xLP | 2023 | Original (FPE)

Dragonchild

Black

81,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nico Paulo Colored Vinyl Edition

Nico Paulo

LP | 2023 | Original (Forward Music Group)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nico Paulo Black Vinyl Edition

Nico Paulo

LP | 2023 | Original (Forward Music Group)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | Original (Forward Music Group)

Nico Paulo

12,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Drag City)

Suarasama

Timeline

42,99 €*

29 Written In Stone Live From Music City Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2023 marks the twenty-eighth year of Suarasama; it is also the first year for this reissue of their 2013 masterpiece, Timeline. Irwansyah Harahap and Rithaony Hutajulu, Ethnomusicology lecturers at University of Sumatera Utara, founded Suarasama in 1995 after graduating from the University of Washington Ethnomusicology program. Their music, as expressed on both Timeline and Fajar Di Atas Awan (first issued in 1998, reissued by Drag City in 2008) is hypnotic and joyful; progressing ancient North Sumatran music concepts while referencing the music of adjacent ethnic traditions. "Dukkha," for example, was written combining Mandailing and Eastern European musical inspirations. Playing this song on African jembe, Indian sruti box and a European lute known as the mandolin, Suarasama instigate a musical synesthesia in the listener that may honestly earn and truly deserve the title of "world music." Throughout Timeline, this is largely due to Irwansyah Harahap"s master playing on a variety of stringed instruments including acoustic guitars, Malaysian gambus, mandolin, and an invention of his own design, the saz-guitar. Suarasama"s spirit and intention is further elevated by Rithaony Hutajulu"s vocals, as well as the skilled rhythm playing of Muhammad Amin and Horas Panjaitan, with additional percussion and singing from several others. The sound of Suarasama is the sound of people engaged in a deeply spiritual, constantly moving recital in open space. Suarasama"s conception of Timeline was a multifaceted one from the start. It grew from the concept of hemiola, a metric rhythmic structure involving the juxtaposition of a 2-beat time signature upon 3-beat time within the same line. The song "Timeline" itself addresses the history of musical lutes around the world as a means of debuting their custom-made lute, the aforementioned saz-guitar. Finally and perhaps most significantly, a "timeline" charts the passage of time, and therefore references Suarasama"s musical path over the years of their existence. This is especially significant since founder and leader Irwansyah Harahap passed away in 2021 at the age of 60. As difficult as this loss is for his family, friends and fans alike, the reissue of Timeline is seen as a celebration of the vitality and importance of his music career and journey.

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Carly Pearce

2LP | 2023 | Original (Big Machine)

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (BFD)

Dallas Wayne

Coldwater Tennessee

39,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Real World)

Mari Kalkun

Stories Of Stonia

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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17 Honky Tonk Songs 1952-1959

Webb Pierce

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Acrobat)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Blood Harmony-The Country Hits 1955-62

Louvin Brothers

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Acrobat)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Chansons Inédites (Unreleased Songs)

Oum Kalsoum

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elmir)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

Bobby Lee

Endless Skyways

29,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Universal)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Endless Skyways is Bobby Lee’s third full album and second release on Tompkins Square. Returning to the full band sound of his debut, the name Endless Skyways is borrowed from a line in Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land, one of the cornerstones of American music. That song’s mix of the terrestrial (“ribbons of highway”) and celestial consciousness encapsulates Lee’s brand of widescreen cosmic americana; a duality also evident in the album’s split between deep-fried rural rock and ambient country. Dusty boots but third eye open.

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Kenny Rogers

Life Is Like A Song

10,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Disciples)

Maxine Funke

River Said

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mute)

Daniel Blumberg

Gut

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Archangel Hill Indie Exclusive Green Grass Vinyl Edition

Shirley Collins

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Domino)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Archangel Hill Black Vinyl Edition

Shirley Collins

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Domino)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (None More)

Joe Woodham

Worldwide Weather

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Joe Woodham's brand new album 'Worldwide Weather', his first solo album for None More Records, is due out just in time for the Summer Solstice 2023. A musical interpretation of how the moon interacts with our oceans, the album is a hazy, looping soundscape built around warm synths, hypnotic tape loops, cosmiche guitar, ambient washes, field recordings, folk melodies and gentle propulsion and percussive beats, searching for hidden signals in the shipping forecast.

Joe is a long time fellow in the brotherhood of Jouis, spending formative years on the road, evolving within the festival circuits and releasing two studio albums; Dojo (2014 Beetroot Records) and Mind Bahn (2019 None More Records).

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V.A.

Famous Shanties

17,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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G.Rag Zelig Implosion Deluxxe

Komm Schwimmen

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Gutfeeling)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Penny)

Badawi

The Book Of Jinn

16,99 €*

Zango Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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“Ghost Producer” aka Badawi (aka Raz Mesinai aka Bilal ibn Yakub al-Badawi) is a prolific producer and artist whom has been on the forefront of underground experimental jazz and electronic music scenes around the world for over thirty years, with a massive catalog of genre defying albums on such legendary labels as Roir, Asphodel and Tzadik under various monikers dating back to the late 1980’s. Ghost Producer released his first albums starting in the late 80’s under the monikers “Psy Co.” and “Ruff Riddim Productions”, selling his cassette tapes in NYC, he produced, on average, at least one album per week since 1988 till present day. One of the twenty or so monikers was “Badawi”, later being signed to Roir Records and releasing the seminal experimental dub, punk albums “Bedouin Sound Clash” and later “The Heretic of Ether” on Asphodel. Spending time as a child between Occupied Jerusalem, the West Bank (Balata) and New York City (Rock Steady Park) during the height of the B-Boy era in the 70s and 80s informed Ghost Producer’s singular sound of heavy driving Sufi rhythms, sonic experiments, percussion, piano playing and sound design which has connected him to a wide variety of artists ranging from Maryanne Amacher to John Zorn, to added elements of darkness to music by such artists as Hanz Zimmer (Black Hawk Down) and rappers Danny Brown (Pneumonia) and Skepta and Double D (Don) among many others. At age 14, Ghost Producer was discovered by visionary jazz and rock musician, Juma Sultan (Jimi Hendrix) whom later trusted Ghost Producer with producing the archive of over 2000 hours from recordings from “Studio We” and the Free Jazz Loft Movement in NYC in the 60s and 70s. As a composer, he has worked with Kronos Quartet and has had premiers at Carnegie Hall (Cross Fader, The Echo of Decay) and Lincoln Center (String Quartet For Four Turntables). In addition, Ghost Producer has released several albums on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, where he explored producing to the books of Franz Kafka (Before The Law, Resurrections for Goat Skin, Cyborg Acoustics) As a composer for film, he coined the term “score design” to describe his work in conceiving and producing scores for films with particularly demanding needs, working on such films as A Late Quartet (director Yaron Zilberman composer: Angelo Badalamenti), The Fountain, Black Swan and The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky/Clint Mansel), Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott/Hans Zimmer) and many more. In 2014, he was awarded as a fellow in the Sundance Composers Lab. In 2015, Ghost Producer formed the “Underground Producers Alliance”, a unique program for developing producers, performers and composers, with co-founders Scotty Hard (Wu Tang Clan, Medeski Martin and Wood, De La Soul), HPrizm aka High Priest (Anti Pop Consortium), Honeychild Coleman (the 1865, The Slits) and Prince Paul (Jungle Brothers, De La Soul), where Ghost Producer produces entire albums with student participation in his master course on production “The Ghost Program”. This album, The Book of Jinn, is one of many productions done within the course, featuring players/mentors Juma Sultan (percussion), Chandenie (voice) and Shahzad Ismaily (electric bass), with additional student participation from Adam Culbert and Jonah Sollins (aka Goodnight 1500) on synths and percussion as well, then all remixed and rearranged by Badawi into what you hear here, The Book of Jinn.

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Witch

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Partisan)

27,99 €*

Zango Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Witch was the first band in Zambia to release a commercial album — 1973’s Introduction. Blending the rock and roll sounds of The Rolling Stones together with more traditional, African rhythms, Witch pioneered a new genre dubbed Zamrock, and during their brief, yet prolific existence, Witch (an acronym for We Intend To Cause Havoc) released 7 albums and were the most revered band in the country.

In 2023, Witch will release their 8th studio album, Zango, via Desert Daze Sound — a new Partisan imprint A&Red by the founder of the Desert Daze festival, Phil Pirrone. On Zango, bandleader Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda is joined by Patrick Mwondela on keys, Nico Mauskoviç on drums and percussion, Stefan Lilov and JJ Whitefield on guitars, and Jacco Gardner on bass, who is also credited with producing the album alongside Witch. The album features collaborations with Keith Kabwe (Amanaz), Theresa Ng’ambi, Hanna Tembo, and Sampa The Great.

Recorded in the same studio in Zambia where the band’s sensational 1975 album Lazy Bones had been made some 46 years prior – DB Studios – Zango tells the story of the band’s phoenix-like rebirth into its current supergroup-like state. The album is full of international and inter-generational collaborations that chart musical histories from Zambia and beyond.

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Witch

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Partisan)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Republic)

Leith Ross

To Learn

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Only The End Blue Vinyl Edition

Ashley Shadow

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Felte)

26,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Balloon Ranger)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ashley Shadow winks at darkness, but she won't lead you towards it. It's easy to fall under the spell of Ashley's haunting voice. The Vancouver, B.C. based songwriter forged her own identity as a songwriter with 2016's eponymous self-titled debut. Her sophomore effort, Only the End, maintains the moody introspection that is ingrained in Pacific Northwest life, but now comes armed with a palpable hope complementing her signature melancholy. Ashley explains, "I wanted to make a more upbeat album, something you could play with some friends over. Some of the songs I wrote were initially bummers, but when we went to record them, we lightened them up." Balancing a couple of jobs and navigating life and love in increasingly unstable times, the album was written over two years by Ashley at her apartment. Her confident vibrato above lightly, distorted guitars mirrors the album's theme of resilience, if not triumph, over adversity. There is comfort in these warm songs that endorse the realism of contented acceptance, rather than the naïve search for non-existent utopias. While the songs were conceived in contemplative solitude, Ashley invited some very capable collaborators for their journey into the studio. Ashley's first album saw her take center stage after more than a decade of gracing friends' projects in a supporting role. The move to the front was a cautious one. "First record was, can I do a solo album? This time, I know what I'm doing. It's way more clear." "Don't Slow Me Down" reunites Ashley with Bonnie "Prince" Billy for the first time on record when she sang vocals on Bonnie's Lie Down In Light album in 2018. The album also includes contributions from Paul Rigby (Neko Case), Colin Cowan (Elastic Stars), Joshua Wells (Black Mountain, Lightning Dust) and Ryan Beattie (Himalayan Bear). It's clear to anyone listening. It's Only the End. If only all endings were so glorious.

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Ane Brun

Songs 2013-2023

32,99 €*

Music From The Foggy Mountain Top

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2xLP, 180g Vinyl.It's ten years since ANE BRUN marked her first decade as a recording artist with the release of SONGS 2003-13, a career-encapsulating double album. Now, with her international reputation flourishing, SONGS 2013-23 allows the distinguished, platinum-selling Norwegian singer songwriter to celebrate her second decade in the business - not to mention her multiple Norwegian and Swedish Grammy awards - while also illustrating the ongoing, fascinating evolution of her singular, compelling talent. Combining tracks from 2015's extrovert When I'm Free and the pandemic era's twin releases, 2020's richly textured After The Great Storm and the more fragile, intimate How Beauty Holds The Hand Of Sorrow, the collection also offers a possible indication of Brun's next moves with a brand new song, '...

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The Carter Family

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Acrobat)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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To Know Where It's Going Clear Vinyl Edition

Athos

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ajabu!)

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Murailles Music)

Sourdurent

L'herbe De Détourne

26,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Marathon Artists)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Following in the footsteps of "L"Espròva", a record released in 2018 by and "Mantras", a body of long instrumental pieces, Ernest Bergez joins Jacques Puech, Elisa Trebouville and Loup Uberto to explore the possibilities of a collective energy. L"Herbe De Détourne achieved to catch the vivid energy of the band playing live and combined it with all the sonic explorations the musicians had in mind for a long time, in a completely free state of mind.

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Baaba Maal

Being

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (We Are Busy Bodies)

Kiwiro Boys

Vijana Wa Kazi

34,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Yuma Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Gold Vinyl Edition

Justin Townes Earle

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Bloodshot)

32,29 €* 33,99 € -5%

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (New West)

Rodney Crowell

Chicago Sessions

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Chet Atkins

The Very Best Of

17,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mercury)

The Bosshoss

Electric Horsemen

26,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Smoke & Oakum Orange Vinyl Edition

The Longest Johns

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Decca)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Twenty One Eighty Two)

Derek Monypeny

Cibola

30,99 €*

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cibola is in some ways a continued exploration/distillation of the approach and methodology that Monypeny first introduced on The Hand As Dealt: the 15-string Indian electric banjo known as the shahi baaja again features prominently, and many of the tracks could be called "drone-based." Limited Edition black vinyl LP. Cibola was mastered by Charlie Stavish and Mark Gergis. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500.

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Stoned Cold Country

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Warner)

Brandy Clark

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mais 5)

José Afonso

Fura Fura

21,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Shapes Of Rhythm)

Mldva & Cinar Timur

20,99 €*

San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 Volume 2

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Shapes of Rhythm is proud to present the self-titled debut LP of Turkish psychedelic pop from Mldva & Çınar Timur. This record is a celebration of the classic music and culture typically of the 70s and 80s, but which also leans into western jazz funk and soul jazz moments. If you're into the Turkish music legends of the 70s and 80s such as Barış Manço and more recently Altın Gün or Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, you've come to the right place.
Mldva were formed in Krakow, Poland in 2013 as a DJ and production outfit. Under the influence of Greek and Turkish folk and psych-rock music they began to transform into a band, taking up instruments including the Saz which is one of the most recognisable trademarks of the Turkish sound. Two years later in 2015 they invited Turkish instrumentalist Çınar Timur to join them and this completes the line up on their debut. This electric album is packed with excellently-recorded expansive tracks which are full of energy, psychedelic deep grooves, hard-hitting breakbeats and everything else you'd expect with classic Turkish sounds.
The instrumental double-header of Neşat Erkaş' Zülüf Dökülmüş Yüze, moving into the time-honoured traditional Kozan Dağıis the perfect opening track. The introduction is an overture of sorts with two minutes of Çınar Timur's pondering guitar. This tees up the record perfectly before heading into a break-beat driven workout with the band matching Çınar's evocative and energetic riffing. The result is a tight sound and a heavy groove that sets the tone for what's to come.
With the band unveiled, Sarı Çizmeli Mehmet Ağa, written by Barış Manço (a legend in Turkish popular music), hits a relaxed, deeper and more psychedelic groove, dominated by Wojciech Długosz's dreamy Rhodes piano, set against choppy wah-wah guitar licks that characterize that classic electric Turkish pop sound. We're introduced to Ulaş Çıbuk's vocals for the first time, telling the historic tale of a charitable village lord Mehmet Ağa from 19c Anatolia known for his generosity. He shared his fortune with people inneed and as a result, died penniless. This track also features the unique sound of Çınar's Mictrotonal electric guitar.
Bir Adım Öte is Mldva & Çınar Timur's magnificent mellow moment, marking the halfway point in their debut. The group shows that it's not all about the frenetic in a nod to western Soul-Jazz constructs. They showcase restraint, emotion and that joy in repetition of a wonderful guitar refrain. Not content with holding this down, Wojciech Długosz's Rhodes solo steps into a world that's US-influenced Soul jazzand is a lesson in reduction and feeling. Çınar Timur then takes a solo turn, keeping it western-influenced with an on the spot improvisation. When the three minutes of solos are over, we're brought back out of thedream and towards the East again.
Adımız Miskindir Bizim kicks off like a hip hop/funk crossover tune, until the chord changes muscle in, to remind you where you are in the world. As with other tracks on the debut, the tune is marked by recurring motifs, this time from Çınar's microtonal electric guitar. We've more solo Rhodes action, thist ime busier and more urgent. The lyrics–originally written by Yunus Emre – criticizevalues such as holding grudges that destroy ideas of love, friendship and peace among people which causes hostility. Adımız Miskindir Bizim concludes with an uplifting vocal vamp which switches it up unlike any of thetracks on the LP.
In Fesupanallah– made most popular by Erkin Koray – Ulaş Çıbuk sings about the simple subject ofbeing patient with never ending problems in life, and trying to find a solution for them. This cut takes a rhythmical side-step to the rest of the album. The kick drum maps out a solid four-four, but the vocals and guitar lines move around it to impose Fesupanallah as being the record's most traditionally Turkish-sounding cut.
The album's closing track Ölüm Allah'ın Emri (another Manço classic) was recorded live in the band's more familiar surroundings of Krakow's Cheder Cafe during 2020's Jewish Culture Festival. The lyrics tell the tale of someone who has accepted death but cannot accept the separation that comes with it. We open with a dreamy, psychedelic mood before progressing into a heavy-riffing rock feeling with probing synths. Ulaş delivers his vocals over the top of a stripped back, shuffling groove. As the track progresses towards a frenetic conclusion, drummer Szymon Piotrowski cuts loose, combining with Grzegorz Dąbek's synth lines.
Mldva & Çınar Timur's debut LP is not the sound of a band starting out. Taking time to hone their craft and let influences across the global spectrum of music mature, this is the result of years of jamming, gigging and collaborating. Now, after prestigious festival appearances and their place on Saz Power – an essential modern Turkish music compilation – they're making a lasting contribution to a rich, time-honored culture. Mldva & Çınar Timur releases Friday 30 June 2023 on limited edition vinyl LP and digital download/streaming services on Shapes of Rhythm. Global distribution by Kudos Records.

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Doug McKechnie

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Vg+)

27,99 €*