Folk 1513 Items

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Signature Sounds)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Playing Americana steeped with potent branches of blues, rock, glam and country music, Mya Byrne is every bit the voice of the outsider that built the foundation of the genre, where we behold stages beaming with the light of those who are so willing to stand tall and confident in the entirety of their truth. Here Byrne stands too. Americana has many champions, but there are scarce few like Byrne; a queer trans woman creating ripples that will find themselves born again and again as waves. On Rhinestone Tomboy, Byrne’s forthcoming record and first release under the Kill Rock Stars Nashville imprint label, we are treated to a portrait painted with shades of Byrne’s youth, one spent listening to stacks of dusty 45s and 8-tracks blasting from blown speakers out the window of a Chevy. Songs that opened the trailhead to a lifelong journey that informed Byrne’s musical landscape.

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Eilen Jewell

Get Behind The Wheel

Shaver, Billy Joe & Eddie

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hailed by American Songwriter as “one of America’s most intriguing, creative, and idiosyncratic voices,” Eilen Jewell rises from the ashes on her captivating new album, Get Behind The Wheel, picking up the pieces of her shattered world and finding new purpose after watching her marriage, her band, and what felt like her entire career fall apart in a series of heartbreaking implosions. Co-produced by multi-instrumental wizard Will Kimbrough (Todd Snider, Hayes Carll), the 11-song collection pushes the acclaimed singer and songwriter’s trademark blend of vintage roots-noir into more psychedelic territory, with spacious, cinematic arrangements complementing her revelatory explorations of grief, loss, resilience, and redemption. The band’s performances are electrifying here, resulting in Jewell’s boldest album yet, a powerful work of artistic alchemy that transforms heartache into genuine creative rebirth.

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Victory

LP | 2023 | US | Original (New West)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (New West)

Shaver

Electric Shaver

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (New West)

Shaver

Earth Rolls On

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Ici D'Ailleurs)

Matt Elliott

The End Of Days

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Easy Lovin Records)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On the ninth solo album from the French-based British musician behind Third Eye Foundation, it is near impossible not to draw comparisons to the late great bard Leonard Cohen. Elliott’s accomplished Spanish infused guitar craft further adds to the resemblance.

Although it remains rooted in darkness, Elliott’s approach to folk is also rich with a sense of warmth folk, embellished with gorgeous classical arrangements of composer David Chalmin, Gaspar Claus’ cello, and Jeff Hallam’s bass.

Of course, one could file Matt Elliott in one genre or another. While “Folk” appears to be the general consensus, the Englishman would be more in line with a long running tradition of lamentation songs that can be found on every single continent. Whether it is Greek rebetic songs, Portuguese Fado, Delta Blues, Balkan fanfares, Yiddish melancholy and Cape Verdean Saudade, you can hear it all in Matt Elliott's music.

Those are the songs of an uprooted and stateless artist, a true musical storyteller who’s voice had never felt so free, rough and sincere. Like no other, on "The End Of Days", Matt Elliot sings the infinitely small space that lies in-between intense joy and absolute sorrow, sitting on a fence at the border that separates the unspeakable and what is shared.

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Miles Miller

Solid Gold

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BFD)

Melonie Cannon

A Tribute To Vern Gosdin

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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10" | 2023 | EU | Original (Doghouse & Bone)

The Cactus Candies

Candle Light Rodeo

Sound Emporium Record Store Day 2023

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"The Cactus Candies" is a sweet and hot combo from Nantes, France.Their music is dedicated to early era of country Music :the 1950"s Hillbilly and Western-Swing."

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Jason Isbell & Amanda Sh

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Southeastern)

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Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition of 11750 copies worldwide. RSD first release.
Single-sided 12" EP featuring two new originals from RSD US Ambassadors Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires, a reimagined version of "Tour of Duty" from the Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit album Here We Rest, and a cover of Richard Thompson's "Beeswing". Side B holds a stunning vinyl etching designed by Pearl Rachinsky-Moreland.

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Bobby Lee

Endless Skywalks

14,99 €*

The Somerset Sessions Record Store Day 2023 Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Scanning the horizons of Americana from its old weird beginnings, Opry outliers and cosmic cowboys through to today’s residents of the honky tonk at the end of the universe. Bobby LEE plays high lonesome folk songs, slow moving outlaws, Nashville oddities, cocaine cowboys, choogling rural rock and ambient country zoners."

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Seth Lakeman

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Honour Oak)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Monument Singles Collection: 1964-1968 Record Store Day 2023 Milky Clear Vinyl Edition

Dolly Parton

LP | 2023 | Reissue (Monument)

32,99 €*

Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Attn.: We did not receive this record in time for RSD, but we will get it this week.

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V.A.

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Numero Group)

33,99 €*

Cedar City Sweetheart Clear With Yellow & Red Swirl Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2xLP Red & Blue VinylTwang reigned, the shitkickers kicked shit, and the vaguely western-sounding guitar records piled up. Country-rock became "the dominant American rock style of the 1970s," as Peter Doggett's comprehensive Are You Ready for the Country put it much later. Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music picks up and dusts off golden ingots from the dollar-bin detritus of that domination, to reconstruct events as seen from the genre's real Wild West - America's one-off private press label substructure.

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Andrew Gabbard

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Karma Chief)

Cedar City Sweetheart Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Andrew Gabbard has announced the release of his sophomore effort as a soloartist, Cedar City Sweetheart. The songs evoke a familiar feel for fans of his debutalbum, but new instrumentation and country-leaning lyrics give us a glimpse ofanother side of Andrew. "I love when a rock band makes a country album," heexplained, pointing to The Byrds as a major source of inspiration.Andrew played every instrument on his solo debut, Homemade. This time around,he called on some local musicians to add color. "Originally, I didn't have access tomuch recording equipment. I tracked my parts with an iPhone. My friendsrecorded their parts professionally, so I was able to piece it together and takeanother stab at recording the core of each song." The final product is a bettersounding, polished group of songs that fit together to make a country album.The songs were written over the course of several years, but they're all very freshin Andrew's mind. "I can remember a specific moment from writing each one ofthese tunes. They're simple songs that came naturally to me."Even though Andrew has written and contributed on countless albums over theyears, this one truly feels like his second.

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Andrew Gabbard

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Karma Chief)

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Dead Oceans)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Tallest Man On Earth

There's No Leaving Now

23,99 €*

Little Plastic Castle Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP version comes with download of the album."There's No Leaving Now", the newest record from Kristian Matsson's aptly titled moniker, The Tallest Man On Earth, finds the Swedish troubadour trading in the sense of urgency that fueled his first two records for a confidently relaxed approach. The results are paralyzing. Drums, piano, baritone guitar, woodwinds and pedal steel layer this collection of songs that never compromise virtuosity for immediacy. The songwriting is every bit as detailed and captivating as his previous work, but this time around, Matsson is showing a few more cards. The music of the Tallest Man on Earth has traditionally centered around the power of performance and has served as a reminder that directness is the best course of action. However,...

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Ani Difranco

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Righteous Babe)

46,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Little Plastic Castle Black Vinyl Edition

Ani Difranco

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Righteous Babe)

43,99 €*

Hard Working Man (1960-1964) Record Store Day 2023 Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dorsey Burnette

LP | 2023 | US (Iron Mountain Analog Research)

38,69 €* 42,99 € -10%

Green Record Store Day 2023 Green Transparent Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Record Store Day 2023 exclusive release on Gold or Black vinyl (Randomly Inserted). From the makers of 'Hillbillies In Hell'...

Full Throated, Big Chested Country, Hollyweird Pop and Velveteen Popcorn for the working stiffs. Best known as one of the original Godfathers of '50s Rockabilly, Dorsey Burnette had a fascinating 1960s solo pivot to epic, widescreen vistas of Existential Incarcerations, Serpentine Temptations, Cold War Escapees, Luciferian Combats, Eco-Armageddons and Creationist Heavens. Blessed with a bold set of tonsils and a song-writing genius, Burnette is largely forgotten today but his hits (and misses) offer a brash landscape of Spiritual-Crooner Belters and Hillbilly Backwoods Swelters. Lusty, loud and proud, this set examines unheard and underrated sides cut for various mid-'60s labels as Burnette sought a home for his unique Hillbilly Popcorn Pop. Antediluvian Survivalism and Biblical Environmentalism, Ancient Traditionalism and Passionate Hedonism. The best of Dorsey Burnette's 1960s sides stand alone as Wry Depression-Era Fables, Swinging Tower of Babel Ballads, Devilish Tribulations and Forceful Masculine Declarations.

Eons in the making – ‘Hard Working Man' captures and chronicles the stellar output of a prodigious wordsmith and eccentric, arcane thinker. Fundamental Questions and Timeless Revelations, Dorsey Burnette channelled Eternal Wisdom through Blood, Sweat and Big Beat Ballads.

Many of these sides are impossibly rare and are reissued here for the very first time. All for your primal listening pleasure.

*Limited Edition Deluxe Gatefold LP with exclusive scholarly liner notes by Alvin Lucia! *Full dynamic range 2023 remasters direct from the first generation analogue master tapes! *Limited Edition 500 LPs – 250 ‘Sugar Mountain’ Gold LPs! / 250 ‘Restless Rollin’ Black LPs! (randomly inserted)

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Ali Farka Toure

LP | 2023 | Reissue (World Circuit)

33,99 €*

My Favorite Children's Folk Song 2

Release: 2023 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Record Store Day 2023 exclusive release limited to 1100 copies.
Green transparent vinyl & the first vinyl pressing by World Circuit – exclusive to Record Store Day. In the 1970s, Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré worked as a sound engineer for national Radio Mali and broadcasts of his own performances earned him a formidable local reputation. He sent some recordings to the Sonodisc record company in Paris, resulting in one of the first ever commercial releases of Malian music - a 12" vinyl album titled Ali Toure 'Farka'. Between 1975 and 1988 a total of seven albums were released, all titled only with variations on the artist's name and with no information other than a photo and the song titles. The last two albums released became known as the 'Red' and 'Green' albums due to the colours of their original album sleeves. In the mid-1980s a few copies of these albums found their way to Anne Hunt of World Circuit Records, prompting her to travel to Mali and broadcast an appeal over the airwaves of Radio Mali to find Ali. As luck would have it Ali was visiting the capital Bamako and he heard the broadcast. Thus began Ali's hugely successful international career and his long relationship with the World Circuit label.

Digitally remastered from the original tapes, Ali Farka Touré’s ‘Green’ album showcases Ali's acoustic guitar and vocals, both alone and accompanied by calabash and ngoni (traditional four string guitar). It’s one of many in Ali’s catalogue that demonstrate his continuing importance to African music. A must-have for both fans and collectors alike.

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Saho Terao

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

35,99 €*

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

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

35,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Play It Again Sam)

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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Keaton Henson

House Party

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Hummus)

Quentin Sauve

Enjoy The View

35,99 €*

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Bubblewrap)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hyperactive since his first steps into music at a very young age, he’s always been a defender of the DIY rock scene as he encompasses all sorts of influences. Coming out of an intense period that saw the consecration of Birds In Row, his punk-hardcore band in which he plays the bass, he unveiled, in 2019, “Whatever It Takes”, his debut solo album and most personal work.

Adorned with more elaborate arrangements (percussive components, layers of vocal harmonies…), Quentin Sauvé’s guitar/voice proposal remains above all refined, intimate and sincere. He keeps on diving deeper while expanding his sonic palette working in the studio with Amaury Sauvé (his brother and long-time music producer).

They recorded “Enjoy the View” on real tape, with old-school mics and amps, analog reverbs and delays... This production and all the additional material captured during the process (like 16mm video, film pictures...) make a coherent assemblage that physically transcribes the feeling of nostalgia present in every song.

This new album is a breathtaking immersive experience. Sadness is hidden in plain sight, radiating beneath minimalist performances. Light slink in every breach to join the tale.

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Georgia Ruth

Kingfisher

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Bubblewrap)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The five songs on the Kingfisher EP deal in nostalgia, lost time, and the peculiar pleasure of sadness. It was recorded in StudiOwz in Pembrokeshire in December 2021, engineered by Iwan Morgan (who co-produced along with Georgia, and with whom she worked on her last album Mai). Musicians include Stephen Black (Group Listening, Sweet Baboo) and Iwan Huws, and with additional percussion by Osian Williams, and string arrangements by Owain Roberts. Georgia’s one-year-old son Idris features in the background of a few of the songs, if you listen closely enough! Glassy electronic beats and improvised vocals sit alongside dreamy Americana.

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Georgia Ruth

Week Of Pines

36,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free)

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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Zavoloka

Amulet

Letters To Bach Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ukrainian folk instruments dissolve into abstract psychoactive sounds from the improvisational universe. The meditative engine of multi-instrumental music drives the magical means of influencing perception. This is the sonic amulet, which is decorated with radiant tones and the colorful ceremonial musical outline. Mythological music is spirited by epic historical times and ideas of freedom, dignity, and bravery. The acquired knowledge of ancient generations is infused into the present tense and crystallized into the art of liberation.

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NOA

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Naive)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Diggers Factory)

V.A.

Paris: Vinyl Story

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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If I Could Only Fly / Let Me Ride In Your Big Cadillac

Blaze Foley

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Mapache)

15,29 €* 16,99 € -10%

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (No Format)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Back in 1979, Blaze Foley presented his first single. If I Could Only Fly / Let Me Ride Your Big Cadillac was released by short life label Zephyr Records and A side song became one of most loved songs from Blaze. The 7” became a high collector’s item and Mapache Records brings for the first time a stand alone reissue of this legendary 45 r.p.m. record.

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Msaki X Tubatsi

Synthetic Hearts

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Bretford)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With Synthetic Hearts, Tubatsi Mpho Moloi, Msaki and Clément Petit issue an invitation to the listener and lover to journey to another place. Here, hearts, experiences, and sounds meet, shift and evolve across an inventive nine track album. Experimental, playful and complex, the project merges voices, instruments and sounds, across geographies and genres, creating sparse, yet lush atmospherics that spin on the universal themes of love. As skilled musical shapeshifters, Synthetic Hearts melds Msaki and Moloi"s folk sensibilities with electronic elements, as Petit teases out distinct textures from his cello across the record. On Synthetic Hearts, love, longing, confusion, sorrow, despondency and queries are opened up and negotiated in songs that vibrate with their naked, honest and tender vulnerability.

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Oska Wald

Motel Reno

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Discreet Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Welcome to Motel Reno, situated on a purgato-rial stretch of the Highway to Hell, where the amenities include cable TV, a door mat for dust-ing off your cowboy boots, running water that works most of the time, a bed with a pillow and a couple of blankets with mysterious stains - well, okay, so not much, but enough to launch a series of dreams both good and bad_ Oska Wald, frontman of Berlin garagesters Chuckamuck, here on his solo outing. Motel Reno gives old-fashioned lo-fi neo-folk craftsmanship, reminding us that the art of songwriting might have yet another day to live. And perhaps that's all we can really ask for, in these troubled times, which Wald gets to the very bottom of, only to come back up to the surface with the hope and irony we need to breathe. The Eagles might have their Hotel California, Leonard Cohen his Chelsea Hotel, but Motel Reno will always be Oska Wald's home away from home.

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Blod

Där Ska Barnet Vara

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Beatservice)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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New album from Blod recorded during the second half of 2022 by Gustaf Dicksson. Där Ska Barnet Vara is a continuation of the themes explored on Pilgrimssånger and contains nine more songs dealing with faith in different forms, with a strong presence of death. Compared to Pilgrimssånger, the sound is slightly more lo-fi and fucked up and the approach is somewhat looser and more desperate, but here are some of the strongest and most fragile and heartfelt Blod songs to date. Additional players on the record are Astrid Øster Mortensen (vocals, flute, saxophone & piano), Anna Johannesson (vocals) and Magnus Jäverling (organ and flute). Mastered by Joakim Karlsson and pressed in an edition of 1000 copies. Note: All covers are screenprinted and assembled using old record sleeves so there can be tiny defects like worn out corners, marks and occasional seam splits.

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Flunk

Cover Ups, Volume 1 & 2

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Normaltown)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Cover Ups vinyl edition is a double LP consisting of the first Cover Ups (digital only release 2016) and the new Cover Ups 2 (released April 2023).
Recorded mostly on Flunk's annual Christmas parties, "julebord" in Norwegian, with a big dinner and plenty of drinks, rounding off with an acoustic recording of a favourite cover version.
Cover Ups / LP1 consists of coversongs from New Order, Yazoo, Depeche Mode and Fink.
Cover Ups 2 / LP2 consists of coversongs from Rod Stewart / Everything But The Girl, Simon & Gafunkel, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Stranglers, Soft Cell and Radiohead, and some new acoustic versions of old Flunk-songs.
The acoustic downbeat version of Yazoo's "Only You" was featured on the Designated Survivor TV-series.

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Emily Nenni

On The Ranch

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Universal)

Florida Georgia Line

Greatest Hits

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Goldenlane)

T.G. Sheppard

Number 1's Revisited

39,99 €*

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)

39,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Secret)

Fairport Convention

Live At The Marlowe

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Joseba Agirrezabalaga & Mikel Vega

Lepok

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Urpa I Musell)

22,94 €* 26,99 € -15%

Tied Down Mississippi Moonshine Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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The album consists of improvisation from a duo, in which both musicians play guitar and effects. Joseba and Mikel are good friends and know each other very well but, at the same time, they had never played together before. This mutual ambivalent (un-) knowledge creates an unrepeatable situation of intimate distrust. They interact vigilantly, very close to one another, neither artist able to escape. Compact tension crosses the album and the friction of its content takes them to irrepressible eruptions. In doing so, their interplay becomes arid. Lepok drags us with them until we are irremediably buried.

Defining such complex musicians and their scene seemed very difficult to us. A closer point of view may be warmer and more precise. Because of that, we asked two relevant personalities of this milieu to help us: journalist Antton Iturbe and musician Ibonrg, who kindly agreed to shed some light on the subject.

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Joyce Street

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Tied Down Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A '70s homemaker stuck between the studio and a getting dinner on the table, Joyce Street eked out an arresting countrypolitan discography in the margins of an otherwise traditional American life. With lyrics drawn from the pages of her diary, Street's stirring Mississippi warble led her into the fly-by- night world of custom studios, cutting tracks for upstart country concerns like Reena, Sonobeat, Revelation, and Arc. Channeling the honky tonk angel energy of Bobbie Gentry, Lorretta Lynn, and Jeannie C. Riley, Tied Down compiles a decade's worth of melodies disguised as lottery tickets.

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Joyce Street

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Numero Group)

LP | 2018 | TR | Original (Bayar Müzik)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Müslüm Gürses

Paramparca

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Fire)

Release: 2018 / TR – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This album was first released on CD and MC in 2000 and on LP in 2018. Turkish Arabesk king Müslüm Gürses approached the pop sound with songs like "Paramparça" and "Sonuna Kadar" on this album. Or if you want, he sang pop songs in a unique oriental tone.

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Josephine Foster

Domestic Sphere

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (El Gran E)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For her austere new solo album, Domestic Sphere, Josephine Foster performs solely with her electric guitar and then subverts the usual range of her voice to embody other frequencies and sounds beyond the surface layer of the songs. She communes so completely with every sound on the record, with the past and the future, animals and insects and birds, those so tenderly dead, and those of us who are alive. Listening to the record is a transcendent experience. It's an exorcism, one that exorcises you.

Domestic Sphere, produced by Foster and collaborator Daniel Blumberg, is an altar cloth of songs stitched together as liturgical music for a restless homestead, whose values insist simply that everything is music and that our daily life is a sacred, innately creative practice. In such a world creaking door reveal natural orchestras with wailing cats in service of melodic collaborations with Tennessee songbirds, Foster's world is an extra-sensory radio play in two acts, where songs overlay structures like creeping vines.

A seance by song, Josephine channels sounds from her interior and exterior landscapes, whether integrating field recordings reflecting daily life in a Spanish village and other moments in her life as a nomadic musician, or, as in one tender cameo, the voice of her great-grandmother comes from the other side. These songs are vigils, melodies sung intently, to be set aflame and sung off with the wind.

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Monastics

World Island

14,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Monastics was active in New York City in the late 2000s / early 2010s. While the trio of EJ Fry, Don Chase, and Jeremy Hurewitz have scattered to different parts of the country, they have remained close and during the pandemic connected through the isolation of quarantine and began swapping tracks. With tape loops, beats, electronics, and guitar (which listeners might recognize from Jeremy’s Rootless project), “World Island” reflects a changing world that is being eclipsed by darkness but where fragments of light emerge, beguiling and beautiful. The voices of south Asian children on “I come from nowhere,” the soft rain loops recorded on a hutong on Beijing on “For K, Parts 1&2,” and the stark ache of “contactless delivery” strangely offer a feeling of global solidarity for a moment in time when everyone was experiencing some version of the same thing, a “World Island” that we were all temporarily placed on.

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Alice

L'oiseau Magnifique

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Corduroy Punk)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Armed with a thrift-store synth, bizarre wit and arresting vocals, the intergenerational, all-female micro-choir Alice release their second album L"Oiseau magnifique. Hailing from Geneva, Alice"s music subverts French and Occitan folk music to create a playful and poignant blend of intricate harmony and storytelling lyricism - a unique sound that is deep yet deceptively minimal.

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Josienne Clarke

Onliness

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Morphine)

Gamut Inc

Sum To Infinity

A New Directive From The Bureau Of Compulsory Entertainment

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Excellent works here, do not miss! TIP!

The sum to infinity of a sequence is the sum of an infinite number of terms in the sequence. It is only possible to compute this sum if the terms of a sequence converge to zero. “Sum To Infinity” is also the second release from Gamut Inc, the retro-futuristic ensemble around composers and curators Marion Wörle and Maciej Śledziecki.

This second album by Gamut Inc combines custom-built autonomous music machines with haunting classical synthesiser sounds to create a dense musical kaleidoscope.

The core of the album is formed by Risset rhythms – cyclic accelerations and decelerations, in which rhythmic layers repeatedly fade in and out, setting in motion a seemingly endless process of rhythmic movement. The motifs are taken from geometric and arithmetic series that create urgency and restlessness. The rigour of the construction is obscured by an orchestra whose timbres are reminiscent of a retro-futuristic indigenous ensemble. Gamut Inc translate strategies of electronic music like pulse-width modulation to music machines such as automated accordion, automated percussion or glockenspiels and create an intense atmosphere that is idiosyncratic, original and modern at the same time.

Gamut Inc build their music machines, play electronic music festivals internationally, curate the Aggregate festival for automated pipe organs and composes for film, radio drama, and theatre. Their first opera, “Rossums Universal Robots”, premiered in 2022. Since 2011, at the intersection of electronic club culture and experimental music, they have produced live music, music theatre, film and theatre scores (including for the Junge Staatstheater Berlin) with their specially developed musical robots. They composed for ensembles like the Rias chamber choir or the robot orchestra Logos Foundation and received invitations and commissions from international festivals and venues such as Sónar, CTM, Berghain, Sonic Acts, Technosphärenklänge or Numusic (no). Gamut Inc has received numerous scholarships, including the Villa Kamogawa scholarship from the Goethe Institute in Kyoto, Japan, 2022. Their first release, “Ex Machina” was produced exclusively with music robots and released in 2014 in cooperation with Bôłt Records.

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Jonny Dillon

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (All City Dublin)

Strange Strangers Teal Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Full length double LP from contemporary Irish guitarist Jonny Dillon. Beautifully recorded blues / folk guitar pieces. Full info soon. TIP!

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Devon Church

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Felte)

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Strolling Bones)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Devon Church ist ein aus Winnipeg, Manitoba, stammender und in New York City lebender Singer-Songwriter. Er war viele Jahre lang Multiinstrumentalist, Co-Autor und Produzent des Dreampop-Duos Exitmusic, dessen Album Passage 2012 bei Secretly Canadian erschien und von Pitchfork als "aufrührerisch, cineastisch und manchmal brillant" beschrieben wurde. 2018, im selben Jahr, in dem Exitmusic ihren Abgesang The Recognitions auf felte veröffentlichte, brachte Church sein Solodebüt We Are Inextricable ebenfalls auf felte heraus, das die texturalen elektronischen Elemente, die er während der Exitmusic-Jahre genutzt hatte, in den Dienst eines Songwriting-Stils stellte, der in der Folk-Rock-Tradition verwurzelt ist. Nachdem Church 2019 in den gesamten USA aufgetreten war (im Vorprogramm von Orville Peck, Adam Green, Kirin J Callinan und Black Marble), machte er sich an die Arbeit, um sein neuestes Werk, Strange Strangers, aufzunehmen, während er in einer Scheune im ländlichen Pennsylvania Zuflucht vor der globalen Pandemie suchte. Das größtenteils selbst produzierte Album klingt, als hätte Eno aus der Apollo-Ära Phil Spector auf halbem Wege zu den Aufnahmen von Death of a Ladies Man die Regler (und die Pistole) entrissen. Die atmosphärischen Elemente von Churchs früheren Produktionen werden auf dem Album sublimiert und in den Dienst von bandgesättigtem Gesang, Combo-Orgeln und Gitarren gestellt. Seine Stimme, die seit seinem Debüt selbstbewusster und zurückhaltender geworden ist, ist immer noch irgendwo zwischen einem lakonischen Lee-Hazelwood und einem rauchigen Tom Waits, aber sie wird bei Stücken wie dem intensiv melodischen und treibenden "Flash of Lightning in a Clear Blue Sky" deutlich ruhiger. Die engelsgleichen Backing Vocals von Churchs Partnerin, der Künstlerin Ada Roth, verleihen dem Bariton des weltmüden Erzählers eine Aura von traumhafter Leichtigkeit. Wenn Roth in gedämpften, an Hope Sandoval erinnernden Tönen in den Vordergrund tritt und einen Text wie "We're so bored of the apocalypse" vorträgt, nehmen die Dinge eine subtil bedrohliche Wendung in Richtung Pop-Surrealismus. Ein Sinn für kosmischen schwarzen Humor hat sich in Churchs Texte eingeschlichen. Strange Strangers leiht sich den Titel von dem Öko-Philosophen Timothy Morton: "The strangeness of strange strangers is itself strange, meaning the more we know about an entity the stranger it becomes.”

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Say Zuzu

No Time To Lose

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Signature Sounds)

Rachel Baiman

Common Nation Of Sorrow

All Of This Chance Silver Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On March 31, acclaimed songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Baiman will release Common Nation of Sorrow. Baiman explores American capitalism and the devastation it manifests, while finding hope in these stories as a mechanism for activism. Baiman produced and recorded the album in her hometown of Nashville. “In some ways, this is a homecoming project for me”, she says. “I wanted to explore these songs based on who and where I am, with the people who have raised me musically.” The album was recorded with Grammy winner Sean Sullivan and mixed by famed engineer Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, First Aid Kit). Baiman has garnered a reputation for her specific brand of political and personal lyricism, which Vice’s Noisey described as ‘Flipping off authority one note at a time”. This album is no exception, with Baiman pushing to new heights and delivering a heartbreaking, albeit beautiful, assessment of her country.

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Lisa O'Neill

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Rough Trade)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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My Baby Just Cares For Me

Nina Simone

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

17,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lisa O'Neill

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Rough Trade)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Portrayals 180g Vinyl Edition

Ane Brun

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Balloon Ranger)

Trench Of Loneliness Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Two decades into her career, Norway's Ane Brun has come a long way from busking other people's songs on the streets of Barcelona. And yet, in some respects, not that far after all. Now a much-loved singer-songwriter in her own right, with ten studio albums and multiple awards to her name, Brun continues to lend her singularly expressive voice and i...

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Iterum Nata

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sound Pollution / Nordvis)

41,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Trikont)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Trench of Loneliness" is the fourth album of Iterum Nata - a psychedelic folk-rock project by Finnish multi-instrumentalist Jesse Heikkinen. While the music is occasionally upbeat, the general atmosphere has more in common with neo-folk than Jesse's former band: Hexvessel, for whom he played lead guitar for five years. All aspects of Iterum Nata are profoundly inspired by the pagan worldview, esotericism, and the dark regions of the human mind; the result is something that could easily pass as the bastard offspring of Rome, Tenhi, Of the Wand & the Moon, Linda Perhacs, Espers, and early King Crimson.

"Trench of Loneliness" was recorded at Studio Beyond North Star. With the exception of Hiski Pajuniemi's appearance on tin whistle, Jesse handled everything - from the composition to tracking and mixing - entirely by himself.

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Karmatürji

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Forager)

V.A.

Child Of Nature

34,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mapache)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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A further exercise in musical curation, Child Of Nature is our latest sonic confluence of self-released tracks from the loners, hippies and outsiders of the 70s and early 80s. A collection of privately pressed music, able to breathe and be created free from the constraints of heavy handed commercialism, yielding a pure vision of artistic expression. Child Of Nature features ten songs of brooding soft rock and psychedelic folk steeped in melancholia. Some ache for better times or past lovers, while others seek spiritual fulfillment or social progress.

A compilation to evoke the raw and unobstructed, to summon the occult, to fundamentally conjure a vivid portrait of our untamed natural environment. Recorded on the north coast of California, Luellen Reese’s ethereal “Silvery Waterfalls” drifts and swirls with electric guitar as her unearthly vocals transcend across a seven minute opus, fit for the golden age of labels like 4AD or Dedicated. “The flowers are dancing just for you …”, Reggie Russell croons over glistening Key Of Creek’s title track “Child Of Nature”, evoking a utopian world of natural harmony free from the present day realities of industrial decay.

Tap into your inner primal being, to embrace wholeheartedly, with frivolity and without reserve, your own child of nature.

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Cactus Lee

Perfect Middle Hall

Rubinho E Mauro Assumpcao

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Recorded in Austin at Vine Studios with Kyle Crusham (Paul Simon, Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians), Cactus Lee has returned with a six song album titled “Perfect Middle Hall.” This album signals a change in approach to Dehan’s previous self recorded albums and yields a fuller sound. In addition to Dehan on guitars and vocals is John Bush (New Bohemians) on conga / percussion / drums and Alice Stewart (Shinyribs) with added vocals.

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Perfeitamente, Justamente Quando Cheguei

CD | 2023 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

16,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Hargrove)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Rubinho E Mauro Assumpção's 'Perfeitamente, Justamente Quando Cheguei' has to be up there as one of the finest Brazilian-psych-folk-MPB records we know. Unfortunately, it's very hard to find in the wild; even on digging trips to Brazil, an original copy rarely shows up, and when it does, it comes with a hefty price tag.

This highly sought-after rarity was released on the Brazilian label Tapecar Records in 1972 and is the one and only album by the sensational pairing of Rubinho and Mauro Assumpção. Effortlessly blending folk, MPB, funky-psych, rock, and relaxed, swaggering samba, this record ought to be heralded as a true Brazilian classic. However, maybe due to its scarcity and the previous reissue predominantly being only available to the Brazilian market, it has not had a chance to fully shine and find the wider audience it deserves. Through our reissue we hope to put things right. Fans of records by Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges are sure to enjoy the same magic and allure in 'Perfeitamente, Justamente Quando Cheguei'.

In addition to being the album’s songwriters, Mauro Assumpção took on the role of producer and Rubinho was co-producer as well as playing piano, organ, acoustic guitar and performing vocals. The record features the drummer Gegê who worked with Milton Nascimento, Edu Lobo, Nana Caymmi, Dom Um Romão and more. It also features guitarist Rick Ferreira, who played with Erasmo Carlos, Gal Costa and other greats. Rounding off the players on the album are Darcy Da Cruz and Formiga who have graced many a fine recording on horns.

'Perfeitamente, Justamente Quando Cheguei' is a truly stunning work that washes over you with beauty. Delve in and savour.

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Drayton Farley

Twenty On High

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Kraak)

Jef Mertens

No Mathematics

Vivre La Mort Du Vieux Monde

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Circling Ragas OF Resounding Power From THE Beating Heart OF Belgian Dronevolk

Hailing from Geel, Jef Mertens has been researching, documenting and subtly exploring the experimental music scene in Belgium and beyond for the better part of two decades. As a filmmaker, he’s dug deep in the realm of Flemish primitive fringe (Dronevolk) and chronicled the makings of giants like Sonic Youth and Borbetomagus. After running the now-defunct free tape label Dadaist Tapes, Mertens comes with a release of his own: NO Mathematics, the first record collab between Kraak and Feeding Tube. It’s an entrancing debut, where shruti box and guitar conjoin to create circling ragas of solemn yet resounding force.

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Maajun

CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Souffle Continu)

15,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Before Mahjun (of which Souffle Continu reissued, in 2016, the two albums released on Saravah), there was… Maajun. Five musicians (Jean-Pierre Arnoux, Cyril and Jean-Louis Lefebvre, Alain Roux and Roger Scaglia) and three times as many instruments at the service of an electric-poetic guerrilla group moulded from folk and blues. The group’s unique album, “Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde” evokes an (imaginary) association of Frank Zappa and Jacques Higelin, of Sonny Sharrock and the Art Ensemble Of Chicago. Under these conditions, Long Live Death!

“The most French of all the French groups, determined to take Maurice Chevalier’s place in American hearts.” This was how Rock&Folk presented Mahjun in 1977. So be it. But when “Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde”, was issued, it was 1971, and the name, though the same group, was still spelled Maajun. So, let’s look back at the story. At the end of the sixties, five blues fans decided to form a French group ready to break down the barriers: Jean-Pierre Arnoux (drums, vibraphone, saxophone), Cyril Lefebvre (guitar, organ), Jean-Louis Lefebvre (bass, violin, guitar, vocals), Alain Roux (saxophone, flute, harmonica, vocals) and Roger Scaglia (guitar, vocals). This was Maajun, and Vivre la mort du vieux monde would be their only album, but which would (nevertheless) be followed by those of Mahjun created later by Lefebvre (Jean-Louis) and Arnoux. Recorded for the Vogue label, “Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde” would disturb a number of people. This is mostly due to the lyrics, many of which were written by Gérald Escot-Bocanegra, who, while summoning the spirit of Lautréamont and Rimbaud, turned the Maajun musicians on to rock and free jazz. Add a bit of politics into the mix, and the release of the album was delayed for several months. But then, wasn’t it worth waiting for? Because “Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde”, a real concept-album, is an important and iconoclastic statement made directly in the face of (francophone) dreamers of all countries. Over heavy guitar riffs, psychedelic interludes or fantasy-fuelled digressions, Maajun built mazes on the advice of alchemists known only to themselves before heading off on a long march on the “cracking walls”. It was an ambitious project, but Maajun could handle it, going so far as to proclaim: “Tomorrow will be a huge party!” But as we can see “tomorrow”, is now!

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Fuji-Yuki

One Butoh

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Sound Pollution / Threeman)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Classical Music

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Akuphone is proud to present Fuji-Yuki’s last masterpiece, One Butoh. A musical immersion into the most exciting avant-garde dance style of the past century. Created in Japan in the 1960s by Tatsumi Hijikata, butō is the "dance of the obscure body". It broke with the traditions of classical Noh and Kabuki Theater, which, at the time, seemed outdated in the national context. Nourished by a European artistic avant-garde, butō stands out as a mirror of the socio-political turmoil of a post-World War II Japan. One Butoh resonates as a perfect acoustic introduction to this subversive art and propels the listener deep into his own soul.

Fuji-Yuki is a Japanese vocalist who uses her voice like an instrument. With special vocal techniques, glossolalia and electronic pedals, she creates a wide variety of sounds. Inspired by the spirits of Buddhism and Shintoism, she creatively transforms her vocals into an ambient drone or prayers resonating in a church-like space. Her live performances are always different, depending on the place and space they take place in. She is also known as the vocalist of the experimental band Sarry.

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Fredlös

34,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Compass)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fredlös came together in the Spring of 2021, rising from the ashes of previous musical adventures, based in the country around Nortallje, northeast of Stockholm. United by a deep sense of their historical roots and a love of dark sounds, they create a truly epic landscape, blending heavy guitars with more traditional instruments and a need to relate history true to the facts. The result is a brooding yet effortlessly melodic sound where the listener can survive and thrive in the dark. Fredlös' self-titled debut album will be released in the Spring of 2023 and contains 9 dark, heavy, intense songs. Lyrically the album is a journey through the late Middle Ages, recounting the historical events from the perspective of the common people. Musically it's a tour de force that defies any one description, weaving metal, rock, folk, and traditional music themes into a rich and varied tapestry. Before the album, Autumn 2022 will see the release of the band's first single Warm Wet Soil - 7 minutes 22 seconds of swirling, dynamic, beautiful heavy music introducing the first chapter of Fredlos, where you are implored to reject the light and embrace the wet warm soil.

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Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley

Living In A Song

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Vampisoul)

Ray Y Sus Kenyas Perez

Ra! Ra!

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Johnny Cash

Greatest Hits

17,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Diggers Factory)

Akalé Wubé

Anbessa

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sony Music/0472)

Max Von Milland

Eisack

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Powder River)

Ned Ledoux

Buckskin

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2023 | UK | Original (Victory March)

R.D Thomas

What Circus Is This ?

19,99 €*

The Exit And Gaslight Years 1965-1969

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What Circus Is This? is the debut LP from Cornish songwriter/producer R. D. Thomas. Produced remotely in 2021 between home studios in London, Cornwall and Sweden.

The record features collaborations with Mickey Smith & Nat Wason (Ben Howard, A Blaze Of Feather) and Rob Hall (Catfish And The Bottlemen) on drum duties. For fans of Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Phosphorescent. What Circus.. skirts the dreaded singer-songwriter genre, with a mixture of sincerity and self-deprecation whilst making room for a playful dose of irony.

‘Paint By Numbers You’ takes a wry smile at modern concerns. ‘Sugar Coated Brain’ rattles through a 60’s style strum, with tongue in cheek to balance more trademark vulnerabilities of moments such as ‘This Bloom’ and ‘Salt’.

The penultimate track ‘And I’m Gone’ would have made for an obvious bookmark to the LP, but it is perhaps more telling that ‘Numbers Game’ should be the lingering sentiment ; a musing over the contradiction of modern meritocracy, suggesting ‘a sense of humour’ as a suitable tonic.

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Randy Burns

LP | 2023 | EU (Improved Sequence)

Sigarasi Yaldizi / Mastika

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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When it comes to post-Dylan psychedelic folk with acid-tinged dreams look no further than legendary 60s Greenwich Village figure Randy Burns. His beautiful string of albums released beetwen ’66 and ’71 on New York’s mythical ESP-Disk are all you need if you’re a loner folk fanatic.

‘Of Love And War’, ‘Evening Of The Magician’ & ‘Song For An Uncertain Lady’ are the source, eerie acoustic ballads, folk-rock that travels wide and distant over melancholy flute arrangements and country grooves. “The Exit And Gaslight Years 1965-69” collects all the best cuts from that an era, opening a crystal clear window on the inspiring work of Randy Burns.

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Oldu O Zaman

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

13,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Maple Death)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cansu Ak, Tolga Horasanli and Mehmet Koray Erol came together in 2019 to produce their own music with creating the band "oldu o zaman". Since they gathered as a band, 2 songs written, composed and arranged by them have been released by Avrupa Müzik. After that, the band decided to make their mutual dream which is covering and arranging Turkish traditional well-known folk songs with psychedelic and electronic elements to create a unique sound with their own touch. There was a psychedelic music trend in 70"s used in traditional Anatolian folk songs. Oldu o Zaman rearranged famous tavern song "Sigarasi Yaldizli" and a well known Turkish gipsy song "Mastika" by using this trend in electronic form.

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Everest Magma

Alto // Piano

21,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Maple Death)

Dead Horses

Sunny Days

18,19 €* 25,99 € -30%

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hayday Black Vinyl Edition

Feeble Little Horse

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Saddle Creek)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (BC)

The Mary Wallopers

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Johnny Cash

Best Of

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Derya Yildirim, Graham Mushnik

Hey Dostum.Cak!

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Buback)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming

Pearla

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Spacebomb)

LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Mississippi)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pearla's music radiates with indiscriminate awe. Whether it's the befuddling depths of nature or the profoundly strange spark of a dreaming mind_she takes it all as equal magic. Her debut album is populated by eccentric creatures and quixotic scenes, her takes on mortality, intimacy, and personal freeness glowing with an air of mystique. 'Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming' is a world unto itself.Pearla's music is a rich blend, rooted in the folk canon of Neil Young or Joni Mitchell, embracing the darker quirks of a Connie Converse, Bjork, or Will Oldham, and pulsating with the emotional palpability of an Angel Olsen or Sharon Van Etten. Her recording process glitters with detail. Sentiment precedes every sound; she and her longtime collaborator/co-producer Tyler Postiglione craft melodies, structures, and experimental noises not to carry the lyrics, but to emphasize their meaning. On "Unglow The," Pearla engages her feverish imagination to grapple with the oddity of death. She equates a mountain's immensity with a body in a casket (all those things you can't wrap your mind around) in an attempt to fathom the unfathomable. The song's production sparkles chaotically as it builds into a psychedelic cacophony of shrieking horns and dissonant synths, conveying her internal unrest.Oh Glistening Onion_ artfully sways between the natural and the surreal. On the rollicking "About Hunger, About Love," Pearla suffers "a new kind of lonesome" and summons nature's omniscience: Nobody told the woodpecker to knock all day for bugs / So what should I know? What do I do for love? On the darkly explosive "The Place With No Weather," she wills herself free from earthly limitations into a bodiless projection, stable and indifferent. Her voice escapes its visceral vessel and reaches core-shaking peaks as she distantly echoes: You stole my universe. On "Funny In Dreams," she lifts off into stream-of-conscious light and puts forth some of her best questions_What's the opposite of a star anyway? / Are there places in...

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Abner Jay

Folk Song Stylist

23,99 €*

Happy Woman Blues Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Long awaited follow up to the "True Story of Abner Jay" LP. Abner Jay was a man who had a grand sweeping vision of what folk music was. In his lifetime his expression of what folk music could be encompassed some serious stylistic variations. Sometimes he was a one man band traveling troubadour playing an electric banjo, harmonica, & drums who tried to hoodwink audiences into believing that he was 150 years old & the standard bearer for authentic Americana. Sometimes he played in electric straight up R&B bands such as "Koko Joe & the Jobhunters". Culled from a mix of Abners' 45's & LPs spanning the period 1964 - 1973, including Abner's first LP. We hope that this release will help to further the current wave of understanding that Abner Jay is an important artist who deserves a wider audience than he ever received during his lifetime.

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Lucinda Williams

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Floating World)

29,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Loose Music)

Mary Elizabeth Remington

In Embudo

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Through The Deep, Dark Valley 10 Years Anniversary Edition

The Oh Hellos

LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (No Coincidence)

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (World Music Network)

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band's first full-length studio album, The Oh Hellos present a special re-mastered LP reissue of Through The Deep, Dark Valley on black 180g vinyl.Remastered for the occasion, the reissue offers fans a chance to hear the music in a new light, and refresh their relationship with the album.Through The Deep, Dark Valley is a self-contained concept album, so for best results should be listened to in its entirety, in order, in one sitting."When we first wrote Through the Deep, Dark Valley, we wanted the album to flow like a narrative," says Tyler Heath. "Ever since, it's been a pattern we've found ourselves leaning into more and more with every record. To celebrate that original narrative spirit a decade later, we wanted this anniversary reissue to feel a little like a pop-up storybook that draws you in for the journey. We also enlisted the talented Charlie Kramsky to shine up our old recordings into a new Ten Year Anniversary Remaster."

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Don Kipper

Seven Sisters

17,99 €*

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Love Is Still Alive Colored Vinyl Edition

Laibach

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Mute)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The O'Reillys And The Paddyhats

Sign Of The Fighter Yellow Vinyl Edition

LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Metalville)

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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International Submarine Band

Safe At Home

LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Sundazed)

33,99 €*

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Aguirre)

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