Folk 2151 Items

7,14 €* 10,99 € -35%

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2023 | EU | Original (I Dischi Del Barone)

Eyes Of The Amaryllis

Lunchtime On Earth

7,69 €* 13,99 € -45%

Dessy Lemon/Ready For Drowning

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Four new tracks from Philadelphia's Eyes of the Amaryllis recorded in 2021-2022. Following up their debut album Sift released on Horn of Plenty in 2022, the group continues in the same path with their intimate, earthly and very much homespun music. The sublime title track almost resembles a folky Dadamah while some of the other songs are somewhat looser compositions. Eyes of the Amaryllis consists of Goda Trakumaite, Esther Scanlund, Jesse Dewlow and Jim Strong. 45rpm, mastered by Lasse Marhaug. Edition of 200 copies.

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Nuba Nour

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (30ips)

8,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2023 | EU | Original (BFD)

Tony Jackson

I've Got Songs To Sing

8,99 €* 17,99 € -50%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vom Bosphorus Bis Zum Rhein Colored Vinyl Edition

Ozan Ata Canani & Karaba

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Fun In The Church)

9,59 €* 15,99 € -40%

Embla And The Karidotters

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Limited to 100 copies-

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Howling

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Die With Your Boots On)

9,89 €* 10,99 € -10%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Angel Olsen / Karen Dalton

Something In Your Mind

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

9,99 €*

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Sofaburn)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Angel Olsen covers “Something On Your Mind,” while Karen Dalton’s version is found on the flip The latest release in Light in the Attic’s 7" Covers Series Artwork by Los Angeles-based fine artist Robbie Simon Pressed at Third Man Pressing

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Jeremy Pinnell

Nighttime Eagle

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Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pinnell Is All Shine And Sparkle On The Forthcoming Goodbye La. Produced By Texan Jonathan Tyler, The Tunes Buff The Wax And Polish The Chrome On Country Music's Deeper Roots. Rooted In His Steady Acoustic Guitar, Pinnell's Songs Are Shot Through With Honest And Classic Elements. The Rhythm Section, All Snap And Shuffle, Finds Purpose In Well-Worn Paths. The Pedal Steel And Telecaster Stingers Arrive Perfectly On Cue, Winking At Jp's World-Wise Couplets . Here Slippery Organ Insinuates Gospel Into The Conversation. You Can Feel The Room Breathe And Get A Sense Of These Musicians Eyeballing Each Other As Their Performances Are Committed To Tape. And Through It All Comes This Oaken Identity, The Devastating Centerpiece Of His Work. Honest And Careworn, Jeremy's Voice Can Touch On Wry, Jubilant, And Debauched - All In A Single Line. At His Best, Jeremy Pinnell Chronicles The Joy And Sorrow Of Being Human, Which Is The Best That Anyone Could Do.

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O Morto

Lila

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Zephyrus)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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O Morto, aka Mestre André now presents the full length version of his Lila composition, a collaboration with Moroccan musicians Ayoub ElAyady and Khalid Boulhamam.

Lila is the Arabic word for night and is also the name of the liturgic ceremony manifested in a trance, as a process of healing and therapy, through a ritual of sensory immersion conducted by music (gnawa), incense, colour and dance. From sunset to dawn, seven colours are revealed, associated with different rhythms and stages of ecstasy.

In Lila, Ayoub ElAyady, Khalid Boulhamam and O Morto summarily travel through the seven colours of the nocturnal ritual in all its scope – using both the form of tradition and electronic manipulation.

Limited to 100 units with artwork by Desisto.

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Gaisha

Ghalat

Que Pasa / Georgia On My Mind Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited to 300 copies. Oriental Psychedelic Sounds and Funky Grooves. Gaïsha is a collaboration between the Belgian-Moroccan singer, Aicha Haskal, and Les Cerveaux Lents.

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John 5 & The Creatures

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Big Machine)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Friture Havasi - Le Cocek D'Anderlecht

Bernard Orchestar

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Zephyrus)

7" | 2021 | US | Original (Third Man)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Active for a decade now and soon knocking at the gates of the Walhalla, the sportsmen of Bernard Orchestar present a new repertoire that is both juicy and greasy, just like samurai sauce.

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Bob Dylan

Blind Willie McTell

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Van)

Lindy-Fay Hella

Taag / Otherworld

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Zephyrus)

La Panika

Anapse To Tsigaro

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Martin Hossbach)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Balkan brass interpretation of the Greek Laiko hit song from '58 by Belgo-French orchestra La Panika. Dubby remix by French producer JB Hoste from Le Caravane Electro.

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Michaela Meise

Cemalim

Weakness / Just Like Love (Weakness EP 1/2)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Under the impression of the racially motivated murders on 19 February 2020 in Hanau, her hometown, the visual artist and musician Michaela Meise recorded the piece "Cemalim" by the Turk Erkin Koray in German translation. The production of the song was supported by the Städtische Galerie Nordhorn and the NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, both of which have included the work in their exhibition programmes this year. Erkin Koray is a representative of the psychedelic Anadolu-Rock and published "Cemalim" as an arrangement in 1973. The original composer, Rafik Başaran, came from the Cappadocian town of Ürgüp, which is also mentioned in the song. "Cemalim" means, translated into German, "My darling Cemal", and is a lament for the dead. Meise wrote the German text based on the translation by Fatih Alasalvaroglu, who also comes from Hanau.Besides the mourning of nine young people, solidarity with the relatives and friends of the murder victims is urgently needed. They have organised themselves in the "Initiative 19 February Hanau" - on their website you can find information about what support they would like to receive. Most of the concert programme of the last two years included anti-fascist songs and was a reaction to the increasing right-wing populism. Folk songs, hits and chansons of the 1960s, published in July 2018 on the album "Ich bin Griechin" (Martin Hossbach), dealt with the experience of the Second World War, told of the longing to leave home or the experiences of a seasonal worker. The songs were composed by the anti-fascist Mikis Theodorakis, the musician Barbara, who survived the Shoah with her family in the underground, and George Moustaki and Alexandra, who crossed both national borders.

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Margo Price

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Paper Cowboy / Good Luck (Weakness EP 2/2)

Margo Price

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gone / You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

My Bubba

G. Rag & Die Landlergeschwister

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Produced by Jack White, includes a Bob Dylan cover.

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Der Räuber Und Der Prinz

7" | 2015 | EU | Original (Gutfeeling)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2015 | US | Original (Third Man)

Lillie Mae Rische

Nobody's / The Same Eyes

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2017 | US | Original (1332)

Yotam / Jason Devore

Jason Devore / Yotam

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Le Chatroom)

Agostino

Zona Sisri

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Nate Campany And The Serenade-The Serenade-Nate Ca

The Only Bridge I Need

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Lojinx)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Anatolian Soul I Limited Edition Vinyl Edition

Ipek Yolu

7" | 2023 | Original (Sounds Of Subterrania)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Loose)

Danny George Wilson

We've Got A Lot To Learn

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bortom Naturens Förlat Cs

Aset

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Moloton)

11,04 €* 12,99 € -15%

Tape | 2023 | EU | Original (Elefandes)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Moloton proudly presents the debut release by Aset (in Swedish meaning roughly ‘decomposing animal carcass being scavenged upon’). The constellation have existed for some time now in the Stockholm underground, but have up until now not released anything.

Behind the name are two experimental scene – by now – veterans: Anja Enerud of Masskultur and Orphan Ann recognition, and Sonja Tofik, who has made a name for herself as an experimental composer-performer, having released music through Moloton, Country Music and recently Northern Electronics as well as been commissioned by Ina GRM.

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Edna Martinez

Memoria Vallenata

11,19 €* 13,99 € -20%

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Edna Martinez pays a heartfelt tribute to her birthplace in Valledupar with another entry of Cintas Elefandes- a colorful showcase of Vallenato, the passionate, accordion-driven genre that spreads from the tributaries of the Cesar river in northern Colombia. A bittersweet mix that sits just right with an open bottle of rum, or the soul remedy of your choice.

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Bill Fay / Julia Jacklin

Just To Be A Part

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bill Fay / Mary Lattimore

Love Is The Tune

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Mapache)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dead Oceans has announced the re-issue of Bill Fay's Still Some Light, a double compilation album made up of 70s album demos and 2009 home recordings. Released in two parts, pressed on vinyl and out digitally for the first time, `Still Some Light Part 2' is released 6th May, 2022. Alongside, Dead Oceans has announced plans of a special series of four 7" singles, consisting of different musicians' interpretations of Bill Fay classics. Number three ( a cover of `Just To Be A Part' by Julia Jacklin) and the fourth, Mary Lattimore's version of `Love Is The Tune') will also be released 6th May, 2022.

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Cactus Lee

Angel / Train Song

Shout Brother, Shout-Trumpet Blues Rockers

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cactus LEE presents his new single with two exclusive tracks. Angel is an alternate version of the song from forthcoming album Texas Music Forever and Train Song is a great cover of Vashti Bunyan. A welcome present to a great band that will bring their Texas songwriting style to Mapache Records. Let’s Welcome them with this special and very limited release. Limited to 200 records.

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V.A.

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Koko Mojo)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Rhythm & Blues House Party Volume 2

V.A.

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Koko Mojo)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows

Damon Albarn

Tape | 2021 | UK | Original (Transgressive)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Saigon Supersound)

Trùc Mai

Sài Gòn

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Emotional Rescue)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Not many cities in the world are gifted with a timeless anthem of their own. We all know “New York, New York”, a song widely known across its city borders. For many Vietnamese, the beautiful Cha Cha Cha tune “Sài Gòn” has a similar reputation. The tune was written by Hanoi-born composer Y-Van. Like many of his generation, he moved to the South in 1954 after The Geneva Accords partitioned Vietnam temporarily into two states. There he became one of the most famous and prolifc songwriters in South Vietnamese pop music. His revered songs are still sung and covered to this day. “Sài Gòn”, which he wrote in 1965, was recorded for the frst time by Saigonese-born singer Trúc Mai for the Sóng Nhạc label. It is one of his most iconic compositions and has been recorded countless times since. Trúc Mai rose to prominence during the late 1950s as a popular headliner in the cabaret circuit of Saigon, earning her the title, "Nữ Hoàng Mambo" (the Queen of the Mambo). Her reputation helped make the 1965 recording of “Sai Gon” an instant hit. It was so successful that it was one of only a few songs to appear on multiple 7” vinyl releases. However, that same year, Trúc Mai took a seven-year hiatus from the music industry to take care of her family. But she returned in 1972 to record “Sai Gon” again, this time with another producer, Duy Khánh – also a successful singer and musician. They released this track on his “reel 2 reel” tape series, “Cỏ May”. After the war ended in 1975, Trúc Mai and her family left Vietnam to begin their new lives in the United States, where she continued her successful music career with the overseas community.The Sài Gòn sung about in the song refers geographically to today's Districts 1 & 3 in Ho Chi Minh City, the name given in 1975, after reunifcation. But colloquially, the city is still afectionately called Sài Gòn by many of its residents, and even the airport retains the ‘sgn’ designation as its abbreviation. Despite being recorded over 55 years ago, the unbroken popularity of this life-afrming ode to the city is proven when, whether in Sài Gòn or Hanoi; the south or north; whether young or old, when the song plays, everyone immediately joins in to sing along to the chorus…Saigon đẹp lắm Saigon ơi! Saigon ơi! (Saigon is so beautiful! Saigon oi! Saigon oi!) The two extensively restored mixes are supplemented with a 2021 edit by Saigon Supersound producer and DJ Jan Hagenkötter, who tries to preserve the vibes of the original and at the same time to wrap it in a contemporary garment.

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Michael James Pollard

Too Confusing

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Emotional Rescue returns to early 1980s Manchester with the previously unreleased music of Michael James Pollard and his beautiful distillation of indie pop in Too Confusing and bedsit cover version of Ashford and Simpson's Surrender. While studying photography at Manchester Polytechnic, MJ) Pollard lived and played in a band in a ramshackle house in Walley Range. In the cellar studio he would write and record his own songs using their guitars, fretless bass and keys, as well as his own Casio VL-Tone Vl-1 and Simmons Clap Trap to augment his drums onto a 4 track Teac. By 1983, and now solo, he was recording out of Dislocation Dance's studio Erc111), had secured a Peel Session and via Factory Records' Lindsay Reade, was discussing with Fundacao Atlantica about releasing an album. Working with singer Sioux Goddard as a duo, they put down 8 songs in 2 weeks in summer '84. However, Fundacao Atlantica's financial difficulties and soon closure meant the songs were lost until now. Recovered off the original tapes and lovingly restored, Too Confusing captures the optimism of the sessions, a summer love melody of forlorn youth. Surrender accompanies, recorded back in that cellar in '81, with friend Stephanie Danziger on vocals, its lo-fi simplicity is a perfect take on an all-time classic, making this a newly prized gem of British indie pop history.

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Lalalar

Mecnun / Hata Benim

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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If The Evening Were Drawn Black Vinyl Edition

Jim Sullivan

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

Perle Rare Cap' Ou Pas Cap' ? 45 Tours

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mastered from the original analog tapes
All tracks previously unreleased
Booklet with liner notes and rare archive photos
Deluxe die cut Stoughton “tip-on” jacket with embossed lettering
Vinyl pressed at RTI

On March 4, 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost. Some think the mafia bumped him. Some even think he was abducted by aliens.

By coincidence–or perhaps not–Jim’s 1969 debut album was titled U.F.O.. Released in tiny numbers on a private label, it too was truly lost until Light In The Attic Records began a years-long quest to re-release it–and to solve the mystery of Sullivan’s disappearance. Only one of those things happened, and you can guess which…

Light In The Attic’s reissue of U.F.O. introduced the world to an overlooked masterwork and won Sullivan, posthumously (presumably), legions of new fans. Those new admirers are in for a real treat: a lavish, first-time release of a previously unheard 1969 studio session.

If The Evening Were Dawn contains 10 acoustic solo recordings that have never seen the light of day. Whereas U.F.O. was bolstered by legendary sessioneers The Wrecking Crew, this is Jim Sullivan on his own terms, stripped down and soulful as ever. Recorded at a Los Angeles studio circa 1969, the session contains acoustic versions of a handful of U.F.O. tracks alongside a half dozen previously unheard songs. This, then, is the closest thing to those fabled Malibu bar performances at which Sullivan was first noticed.

According to his widow, Barbara, this was the album Jim always hoped to record. It serves as an unprecedented glimpse into the mysterious, larger-than-life figure who’s become the stuff of legends.

While Sullivan’s disappearance remains unsolved, his music endures and is finally gaining him the recognition he deserves, albeit long overdue. This recording serves as an unexpected missing piece of the puzzle; this is Jim Sullivan’s true swan song.

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Les Ogres De Barback

7" | 2024 | Original (Irfan, Le Label)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pedro Mizutani & Skinshape

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Pensando Baixo

7" | 2024 | EU (Nice Guys)

Musica Para 10m2 De Relva Sintetica

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As a true Brazilian music aficionado, Skinshape was naturally captivated by Pedro Mizutani's charm. So, when Pedro visited Europe in the summer of 2023, Skinshape invited him to its London studio. Together, magic effortlessly unfolded. Pedro sets the rhythm, while Skinshape sets the grain. With Skinshape weaving in basslines and other arrangements around Mizutani's mesmerizing guitar playing, the collaboration was a breeze. The two musicians understood each other in the blink of an eye. Together, they crafted a true homage to bossa nova. Without overshadowing Mizutani's style, Skinshape brought out his full musicality. It was a seamless symbiosis. The duo created a one-of-a-kind work. In the spirit of the Afrobeats movement, one could even describe it as "bossa-pop," maintaining the essence of the genre while incorporating British aesthetic elements under Skinshape's discerning ear. A sprinkling of shimmering bells here, kicks dipped in reverb there, and jazzy basslines for that extra touch of groove. As for Pedro Mizutani, he excelled in delicacy as always and did not lose altitude, soaring to even greater heights.

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Niagara

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Indecision Black Vinyl Editoin

Franka Oroza

7" | 2024 | FI | Original (Timmion)

Tape | 2024 | EU | Original (Irrlicht)

Release: 2024 / FI – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The musical Oroza bloodline just seems to keep pumping soul music from Finland for the world to hear. Now it's time for Franka to step to the stage and she comes out from the gate swinging with a sublime beat ballad "Indecision". Backed by the faithful Timmion Records house band Cold Diamond & Mink, Franka's folk jazzy vocal stylings seep into fertile ground.Building from the intro drum roll to the rootsy organ-led groove Franka jumps on the beat with a Joni Mitchell twist and it's immediately apparent that we're in for a treat. The vocal glides effortlessly between firm and delicate tones, perfectly underlining the lyrical content. Franka takes her time in setting the scene, holding a veil before the fact that we're actually listening to a love song.If all you're looking for is good songwriting with a soulful backbeat, with Franka Oroza you'll get a unique voice to boot. This is another sure shot for all fans of independent downtempo soul from the Timmion stable.

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Mats Erlandsson

28/4/23 Cs

Hair & Treasure : Six Soddened Scenes-Juno Lake Loop(S)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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"28/4/23" captures the atmospheric live performance of Swedish composer Mats Erlandsson at Fylkingen, Stockholm on the 28th of April, 2023. With exceptional delicacy, Erlandsson guides the audience through his signature electro-gothic soundscape of continuous tension; 40 minutes of processed field recordings, zither, feedback and Serge modular synthesizer.

Cyanotype prints and woodcut by Håkan Jonson. Released in an edition of 90 copies.

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Blood Stereo

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Discrepant)

12,34 €* 18,99 € -35%

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Kit Sebastian

L'Addio / Hayat

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (83817 Echoe)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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The illustrious, London-based duo Kit Sebastian, aka Kit Martin and Merve Erdem, return with a limited edition 7” single. It features ’L’addio’, a breakbeat driven, sultry ballad, and ‘Hayat’, a hazy, psychedelic scorcher that delves into the band’s Turkish and Azerbaijan influences.

‘L’addio’ saw the band perfecting their production and orchestration, with strings, horns and double bass, and an Italian synth found in a French dump. The music was greatly influenced by Italian soundtracks and Italian female singers, such as Mina or Rita Pavone. The track announces itself with a break that is guaranteed to get samplers twitching. The tone of the melody and lyrics is heartfelt and aching. It has a beautiful, intimate sadness like the closing scenes to a love affair, and it exquisitely rides over the slow, psych-funk-dramatic backing track. The lyrics are inspired by a flat opposite Merve's window that's occupied by drug addicts, with many guests coming in and out every night. Merve elaborated “Being both neighbours and strangers, and with the boredom of a post-tour everyday domestic life and a pinch of urban voyeurism, it was hard not to wonder what was happening in that flat. The words imagine an addict before her/his golden shot as if it's a love relationship between them that comes to an end.”

Having spent much of 2022 touring and writing, ‘Hayat’ was the first original composition the band recorded since their October 2021 album, ‘Melodi’. Here we see them weaving a psychedelic tapestry of Mugham melodies, organ-driven grooves, and jazz-pop harmonies in classic Kit Sebastian fashion. Recorded to Fostex 1/4” tape, the essence of the production is perfectly balanced between being brand new and retro, which is a feat very hard to pull off.

‘Hayat’ is sung in Turkish and the title translates as ‘Life’ in English. The song examines our desire to find one's place in the world and the provisionality of existence. Merve's searching lyrics ask “Where are you? Where is the universe?”. Her vocal delivery perfectly reflects the lyrical focus, its texture is probing and ethereal, almost as if sung from looking above us.

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Francesca Lombardo

Remembrance The Remixes

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (83817 Echoe)

Francesca Lombardo

Rememberance EP

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Eritrea's Guitar Pioneer, 1970-73

Tewolde Redda

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Domino Sound)

The Country Side Of Harmonica Sam

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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From Asmara, Eritrea (formerly Ethiopia) Tewolde Redda revolutionized the sounds of traditional Eritrean music by amplifying his kirar, playing his Eko electric guitar, and recording six singles in the first part of the 1970s. Including the first Eritrean songs to use a horn section, traditional songs reworked into his new sound, and originals influenced by radio broadcasts from the United States military base in Asmara, Kagnew Station, these ten songs originally released on the Philips, Amha, and Yared labels show off his talents with stringed instruments, a talented back up band, and often the hand clapped beat shifting into double time near the song’s end. Tewolde’s thick, deep voice sings songs of love over somber and joyous tunes. Comes in a tip-on sleeve with extensive liner notes, lyrical translations, and unpublished photos. A co-release with Mitmitta Musika of Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.

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True Lieslookout Heart

7" | 2016 | EU | Original (El Toro)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Quero Ver Voce Sambar / Mas Nao Deixe De Ir

Homero Franca / Silvinha

7" | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Mr. Bongo)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Babau

Stock Fantasy Zone

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

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

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Organic Music Tapes Volume 1

Tiago Sousa

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

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

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Pape Nziengui Et Son Groupe

Kadi Yombo

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

Cloud Of Smoke Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Kadi Yombo, published in 1989, is the most successful album in the quest for a fusion between tradition and modernity in Bwiti harp music of the Tsogho people of Gabon. Combining beating rattles with a layer of synthesizers, Papé Nziengui blends in a contrapuntal dialogue characteristic of harp playing: male song in appeal and female choir in response, male voice of the musical arc and rhythms of female worship. But above all it's Tsogho ritual music and modern studio orchestration. The result is an initiatory itinerary of 10 musical pieces which are all milestones likely to be simultaneously listened to, danced, meditated on, and soon acclaimed. In the years since, Nziengui has traveled he world from Lagos to Paris, from Tokyo to Cordoba, from Brussels to Mexico City to become a true icon, the emblem of Gabonese music. Like Bob Dylan, "electrifying" folk and Bob Marley mixing rock with reggae, some purists have criticized Nziengui for having distorted the music of harp by imposing a cross with modern instruments. They even went so far as to claim that Nziengui was just an average harpist covering his shortcomings with stunts that were only good for impressing neophytes; like playing a harp placed upside down behind his back or playing two or three harps simultaneously. Sincere convictions or venomous defamations, in any case, Nziengui never gave in to such attacks, imposing himself on the contrary to pay homage to the elders (Yves Mouenga, Jean Honoré Miabé, Vickoss Ekondo) while instructing the maximum of young people. He is thus the promoter of many young talents, the most prominent of which is certainly his nephew Jean Pierre Mingongué. In a conservative society where the sacred is confused with secrecy, exposing the mysteries of Bwiti in broad daylight can be punished by exclusion or even execution. Papé Nziengui has always claimed that he faces such risks because he never felt enslaved to a community that governs his life, that regulates his conduct, that has a right of censorship over his activities. Like Ravi Shankar, the famous sitarist, Papé Nziengui is a man of rupture but also of openness, a transmitter of culture. As proof, he has established himself in Libreville, Gabo's capital, as the main harpist for sessions and concerts, accompanying the greatest national artists (Akendengué, Rompavè, Annie-Flore Batchiellilys, Les Champs sur la Lowé, etc.) as well as foreign artists (Papa Wemba, Manu Dibango, Kassav', Toups Bebey, etc.). In 1988, he was the first harpist to release an album in the form of a cassette produced by the French Cultural Center (Papé Nziengui, Chants et Musiques Tsogho). At the same time, he created his own group (Bovenga), combining traditional music instruments (musical bow, drums, various percussion instruments, etc.) in the framework of a true national orchestra, which gave the first concert and the first tours of a traditional music that was both modern and dynamic, thus "democratizing" the harp, to the dismay of certain purists. On the other hand, in modern music, dominated by the logic of profit or even commercialism, artistic creation must often be adjusted for a specific audience based on reason rather than heart. But instead of allowing himself to be distorted, Papé Nziengui has always tried to produce music that is not a caricature, worthy in its expression as in its content, of the sacredness and transcendence of the music of the Origins. This is what makes Nziengui-not only the musician, but the man-someone whose age hasn't altered any of his freshness or authenticity.

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Andrew Gabbard

7" | 2021 | US | Original (Karma Chief)

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Rumi Sounds)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Musician Whose Influences Span Hard Rock, Psych, Garage Rock, And Energetic Pop, Andrew Gabbard Has Long Been A Force On Thesouthwestern Ohio Music Scene. Working With Thee Shams, The Buffalo Killers, And Currently As The Gabbard Brothers With His Brother Zach, Andrew Is Truly A Prolific Artist Covering A Wide Range. The Buffalo Killers Caught The Attention Of Dan Auerbach Who Produced Their Debut Lp And Andrew Is Currently Part Of The Touring Band For The Black Keys. Now Joining Forces With Another Ohio Establishment, Colemine Records, Andrew Hopes To Hone His Sound And Grow His Reach. His First Single As Andrewgabbard Is "Cloud Of Smoke", A Mix Of Hazy Pop Infused With Alt-Country Vibes That Feels Part Neil Young, Part Wilco, And Part Flaming Lips All At The Same Time.For Fans Of...Neil Young, Michael Nau, Wilco, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Byrds, Gene Clark.

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Erbatur

Kacacagim / Seyyah

Veda EP Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Erbatur is a Turkey-born singer/songwriter most recognized as the lead singer of the Turkish rock bandZardanadam. However, these two tracks are melancholic ballads dealing with the desire to leave, to run away, and find a peaceful place on earth.
Both "KaÃ§acaÄŸÄ±m" and "Seyyah" have been known to his fanbase from live gigs, radio and TV appearances since the 1990s, but are recorded here with a super-group of international musicians living in Berlin. Fans of Erbatur and the songs will be surprised by these beautiful versions complete with pedal steel, cello and tar arranged and produced by Big Daddy Mugglestone.

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Mustafa Kus & Imece

7" | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Ironhand)

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Nunorthern Soul)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited to 300 copies on red vinyl.

Ironhand Records is proud to announce the EP of Mustafa Kuş & İmece, musically at the crossroads of funk, jazz, and psychedelic, with Anatolian rhythms.
Mustafa Kuş, who went to Germany for his education and founded his band İmece in 1976, released three albums and one single until 1985.
Compiled from those, the 4 songs in this EP blend Anatolian rhythms with funk and jazz, entertaining bass lines, crazy drum attacks, saxophone, and keyboard solos.
Remastered from the original master tapes, limited to 300 copies exclusive for hhv.de on red vinyl. You will hear the idol of today’s many popular bands!

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El Turronero

New Hondo

7" | 2016 | EU (Akuphone)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Those who pay close attention to DJ Harvey’s sets should already be familiar with NuNorthern Soul’s next single, a fully licensed reissue of a sought-after 1980 promotional seven-inch from legendary Spanish Flamenco singer Manuel Mancheño Peña, better known as El Turronero (‘The Nougat’). Both ‘Las Penas’ and ‘Si Yo Volviera A Nacer’ have long been secret weapons in the sets of dusty-fingered Balearic DJs, with Harvey regularly dropping the tracks during his sessions at Pikes Hotel on the White Isle. Both tracks first appeared on Pena’s 1980 album New Hondo, a set that updated the then veteran Flamenco artist’s sound for the disco era. Whereas most of his previous albums were more traditional Flamenco affairs, New Hondo combined his throaty, effervescent Flamenco singing style with the driving grooves, swooping orchestration and spacey synthesizer sounds of European disco. To promote the album, Spanish label DB Belter pressed up a promotional “45” featuring two of the most club-friendly cuts on the album. It’s this release that is being reissued for the very first time by NuNorthern Soul. A-side ‘Las Penas’ is undoubtedly an off-kilter, late-night disco classic. Built around a flanged, action-packed disco-funk bassline, metronomic beats. soaring and layered female backing vocals, intergalactic synth sounds and stirring strings, the track steps up a level when ‘El Turronero’ takes to the microphone to belt out an infectious, energetic vocal in his trademark Flamenco style. It’s the kind of cut that’s as haunting and intoxicating as it is funky and floor friendly. Flipside ‘Si You Volviera A Nacer’, another of New Hendo’s most sought-after tracks, is another unique and righteous concoction. Looser, groovier and warmer in tone, it sees another sublime, Flamenco style lead vocal from Pena accompanied by even funkier bass, spiralling ’70s synthesizer sounds, sweaty drums and some seriously exotic instrumental flourishes (think sitar and kalimba). It’s every bit as alluring as the more driving A-side, and equally as playable. Both tracks may be unusual in comparison to the artist’s other releases, but they expertly capture a moment in time, when disco dominated dancefloors all over the world and inspired even the most traditional and historic of European musical styles. Quite a number of flamenco-disco records were made in Spain during the late ’70s and early ’80s, but very few are quite as magical as these.

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Mol Kamach & Bck

Je Te Quitterai

Isyanlar / Yalniz Olu Balikar

Release: 2016 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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1st guitar band in Cambodia

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Lalalar

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2019 | EU | Original (Cree)

Ben Molatzi

No Way To Go

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Ben ’Tukumazan’ Molatzi (1954 -2016), a self-taught singer and songwriter from Tsumeb, Namibia, wrote timeless, beautiful ballads drawing on the distinctive melodies and harmonies of his Damara and Sotho heritage.
His music recordings have been slumbering in oblivion in Namibian radio archives. His songs were consciously censored and damaged as its messages did not please the South African apartheid regime. The album contains field and studio recordings that were made in 1981 by SWABC. To this day, these recordings have never been commercially released. In his liner notes, Thorsten Schütte describes his ultimately successful search for Ben Molatzi and further meetings with the artist, who talks in detail about his life, his songs and the life circumstances in his country.
On these recordings he accompanies himself on the guitar. The lyrics are reprinted in the enclosed booklet in the original tribal language as well as in English translation.

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Kit Sebastian

Mantra Moderne

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Grapefruit)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Mantra Moderne' is a stunning, contemporary masterpiece that fuses Anatolian Psychedelia, Brazilian Tropicalia, 60’s European pop and American jazz. A must for fans of Khruangbin, Portishead, Arthur Verocai, Goat, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Os Mutantes, Cortex and co.
The duo is formed of Kit Martin, who lives between London and France and plays all instruments on the album, and Merve Erdem, vocalist and multi-disciplinary artist from Istanbul, now based in London. This is their debut album.
The album explores universal themes such as love, loss, decay, language and ideology, mixing three different languages: English, Turkish and French. Written and recorded by the duo - Kit composed all the songs and Merve wrote the lyrics - in rural France during 2018, each song was completed within a 12-hour window, pawning contemplation for spontaneity.
Dubbed by Kit and Merve as ‘lo-fi-hi-fi’ in reference to the high-end tube equipment that helped it find its way to 8-track cassette tape. The style owes its sound to narrow tape width, valve distortion, spring reverb, the mixture of high end gear with lo-fi equipment as well as a disregard to the norms of hi-fi studio techniques. All instruments were analogue and no samples were used. The instruments that are used range from tablas to darbukas, balalaikas to ouds, MS20 synths to Farfisa organs and a lot of cuica. The mixing techniques were done on-the-fly, tracking immediately to tape: compression, EQ, delay and reverb; meaning mixing could not be revisited!

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Noah Sterba

The 13-Bar Blues

12,99 €* 19,99 € -35%

7" | 2017 | US | Original (Jealous Butcher)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Noah Sterba is one of Omaha’s underground music heroes, literally performing most of his songs and poetry into dented Radio Shack microphones in the subterranean basements of tornado alley for the last decade. Beside releasing several solo cassettes on Unread Records, he was a founding member of short-lived critical darlings Yuppies, lo-fi local legends The Prairies (which also featured David Nance), and The Subtropics (whose posthumous double cassette is seeing vinyl reissue in 2017), and has been an important member of Simon Joyner’s Ghosts since 2011. He is also involved in a multimedia art/publishing collaboration called Slowed Soul with fellow local Omaha artist and musician Jeff Sedrel.

In a time when so much music is fueled by self-congratulatory irony, The 13-Bar Blues is refreshing for its unapologetic sincerity. The album distills folk, blues, punk rock and country influences and merges them with poetry, allowing Sterba to graciously tear up his hat in the face of those who have come before him as he claws through America’s gnarly 21st century landscape with his tongue, pen, busted guitar, and wide open eyes.

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Laura Gibson

The Easy Way / Animals

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Live From Paris Solid White Vinyl Edition

Young Fathers

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

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Indecision Transparent Violet Vinyl Editoin

Franka Oroza

7" | 2024 | FI | Original (Timmion)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Black Truffle)

Release: 2024 / FI – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dagar Brothers

Berlin 1964 - Live

Tape | 2023 | Original (Forward Music Group)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Following on from last year’s acclaimed Vrindavan 1982 by rudra veena master Z.M. Dagar, Black Truffle is thrilled to present a pair of archival releases from the Dagar Brothers, among the most revered 20th century exponents of the ancient North Indian dhrupad tradition. The vocal duo of Moinuddin and Aminuddin Dagar (sometimes referred to as the ‘senior’ Dagar Brothers to distinguish them from their younger siblings, Zahiruddin and Faiyazuddin Dagar), belonged to the nineteenth generation of a family of musicians in which dhrupad tradition has been kept alive through patrilinear transmission, each generation undergoing a rigorous education of many years’ duration that can include singing up to twelve hours each day. Famed for the meditative purity of their approach to dhrupad, the Dagar Brothers helped to keep the tradition alive in the years after Indian independence in 1947, when the royal courts that had traditionally patronised dhrupad musicians were abolished. Many Western listeners were first introduced to dhrupad by the Dagar Brothers’ tour of Europe in 1964-65 and their LP in UNESCO’s ‘Musical Anthology of the Orient’ collection, both organised by pioneering musicologist and scholar of Indian culture Alain Daniélou. Documents from this tour are especially precious, as Moinuddin Dagar passed away in 1966. Unheard until now, Berlin 1964 – Live (released alongside Bt114, a newly discovered studio session from the same trip) documents a concert held at the Charlottenburg Palace in September 1964. Accompanied only by Moinuddin’s wife Saiyur on tanpura and Raja Chatrapati Singh on pakhawaj (a large double-headed drum), the brothers present stunning performances of two ragas stretching out over 65 minutes, exemplifying what a journalist at the time called the ‘pristine severity’ of their style. Much of each piece is taken up by the alap, the highly improvised exposition section where the notes of the raga are gradually introduced as the singing builds in intensity. As Francesca Cassio points out in her extensive liner notes, both performances are somewhat unorthodox in beginning with the raga scale being sung in its entirety, ascending and descending; this is probably, as she suggests, a strategy to introduce the European audience to the language of the music they are about to hear. From there, both ragas settle into alaps of breathtaking beauty, with the two brothers trading long solo passages that move gradually from extended held notes at the bottom of the scale to animated melodic variations as it ascends in pitch. Within the atmosphere of meditative attention, the range of melodic, rhythmic, and timbral invention is remarkable. Especially on the opening ‘Rāga Miyān kī Todī’, the final moments of the alap find the voices at a peak of intensity, their microtonal ornamentation taking on an ecstatic, warbling quality. Only once the wordless, free-floating alap is over and the composition proper begins to the brothers sing in unison, joined by the pakhawaj for a rhythmic section that in both ragas develops gradually into a propulsive display of melodic invention and metrical nuance. Accompanied by detailed liner notes and striking archival images, Berlin 1964 – Live is a rare document of these masterful exponents of one of the world’s most profound musical traditions.

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Nico Paulo

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Artefactes Sonors De L'Underground Catala 1964-1979

Ricky Gil & Biscuit

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Chesapik)

13,19 €* 23,99 € -45%

Fog On My Brain / Figure It Out

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This record is a jewel for followers of the more obscure sounds of the 1960’s and 1970’s. In Catalonia, at the end of Franco’s dictatorship, a group far-out singers and musicians experimented with genres such as folk-rock, rhythm&blues, garage rock, psychedelia or Catalan rumba. Their names were Pau Riba, Sisa, Ia & Batiste, Toti Soler, Gato Pérez, Guillermina Motta and many others, who were responsible for the creation of masterpieces such as Dioptria, Galeta Galàctica, Chichonera’s Cat or the Miniatura EP. Now, Barcelona’s power-pop mainstay Ricky Gil teams up with high-energy rockers Biscuit to recreate the repertoire of those pioneers. Together they have unearthed a dozen nuggets and have recorded a powerful, intense and fully enjoyable album, featuring the collaboration of some of the surviving original artists.

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Thistle Group & P Wits

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (I Dischi Del Barone)

13,29 €* 13,99 € -5%

Sigarasi Yaldizi / Mastika

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Match made in heaven collaborative hit single from New Zealand-based artists Claire Mahoney (Thistle Group) and Benedict Quilter (P Wits). Recorded and mixed by Stefan Neville, mastered for vinyl by Lasse Marhaug. 45rpm, edition of 200 copies.

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Oldu O Zaman

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

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Space Echo)

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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Randomized Coffee

Mariama Feat Kora Hero

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Kill Rock Stars)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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The meeting of Alieu and Randomized Coffee gives light to this new project, in which the Roman duo tackles a production that skillfully links Mediterranean influence to ancestral Africa in a patchwork woven of typical African ethnic elements to those of house and electronica in a "groovy" body that enhances the classical side of the African country in a modern musical mood and rhythm. The story tells about the day before an arranged marriage ceremony. Masanneh is a handsome and well-known man in his village of the Mandinka Tribe, born and raised in the village of Kudang, near the river that flows through the entire country; the Gambia. Many in the village believe him to be charismatic and generous, others believe him to be a venal materialist devoted to money. Masanneh decides to consult Cherno Jallow, a wise Marabout, to figure out how to deal with his future. He therefore moves westward to the village of Bondali, in Foni, where before practicing his work as a skilled trader he talks to Landing Sawo, the district chief, from there he hears the sound of a Kora played by Jali, while across the road he sees a beautiful woman Mariama Gomez passing by.

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Roanoke

Selene / Juna

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2022 | US | Original (Anti-Corp)

Lost Dog Street Band

Glory

LP | 2012 | US | Original (Tiny Engines)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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45rpm 7'' of the 2 namesake songs from the Lost Dog Street Band full length album 'glory'. 'Until I Recoup (Glory I)' recounts time wasted as a youth and the urge to reclaim one's path to righteousness, set to a heavy handed minor waltz. On the reverse side, 'I Believe (Glory Ii)' gives an optimistic nod towards a destiny attainable, backed with traditional style clawhammer banjo and bluegrass banjo.

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Best Practices

EP LP

13,99 €* 19,99 € -30%

Take Your Time / Marabi Blues

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Featuring current/former members of Light The Fuse And Run, Wow, Owls!, Weak Teeth and Jesuscentric, Best Practices is a return to the fundamentals of punk rock. On the band's Tiny Engines debut, The EP LP, the quartet lets loose a whirlwind of (garage power pop) punk fury. Recorded with Will Killingsworth (Orchid, Ampere) at Dead Air Studios, Best Practices pummel their way through 9 songs in 12 glorious minutes. The band comes close to careening off the edge at points but never seem to overtake themselves. Chock full of razor sharp hooks Best Practices lays down a furious gauntlet that is as catchy as it is exhausting. All your left with as The EP LP fires towards the finish line is the feeling that you just want to do it all over again.

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Makgona Tsohle Band

7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Umsakazo)

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Iriai-A)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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• Fully licensed and restored from the original master in the Gallo Record Company vault. • Featuring Teaspoon Ndelu, West Nkosi and Michael Xaba on saxophones and Marks Mankwane on lead guitar. • Includes new liner notes and full recording personnel on sleeve rear. • Strictly limited run of 500 copies!

'Umsakazo Records is proud to present the first in a series of limited-edition replica 45rpm records. This collection of ‘seven singles’ has been carefully curated from key holy-grail recordings made during the golden age of South African township jive. It is fitting that the first in this series comes from the band so closely identified with the genesis of the style – the Makgona Tsohle Band, the hardest working session team in apartheid-era South Africa.

Under the guidance of talent scout and producer Rupert Bopape, the Makgona Tsohle Band (“The Band That Can Do Anything”) would underpin literally hundreds of recording sessions as the house band of Gallo Africa’s Mavuthela Music subsidiary from its launch in 1964 right through to 1977. This included all of the hit records made by Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens, as well as classic hits from the Mthunzini Girls, Irene Mawela, Abafana Baseqhudeni, Lemmy ‘Special’ Mabaso, Reggie Msomi, Sipho Bhengu, Teaspoon Ndelu and so many more artists essential to the sound of urban jive music.

The Mavuthela operation formed the core of Gallo’s ‘black music’ production and, by the mid-1970s, accounted for as much as 20% of the organisation’s total income. Mavuthela’s market dominance was usually attributed to the resourcefulness of director Bopape, along with the well-oiled machine that was Gallo Africa. True enough, Mavuthela releases were of a high musical and technical quality and were always well publicised, be it through Gallo’s promotions department or the countless stage performances made by Mavuthela artists in South Africa and neighbouring countries.

But the Makgona Tsohle Band was the real secret to Mavuthela’s success. Its repertoire stretched from traditional sax and accordion jive right through to disco and ‘English pop’, and this 45rpm sees them effortlessly tackling the burgeoning 1970s Soweto soul-jazz sound. Ironically, the musical influence behind this recording was almost certainly Michael Xaba, the seasoned African jazz veteran who had scornfully referred to the newer strains of jive in the late 1950s as ‘mbaqanga’. As the Makgona Tsohle began making history as the country’s first all-electric ensemble, that epithet would resurface and was eventually ‘reclaimed’ as a term of endearment for the music they had largely created. By the 1970s, Xaba and a number of other longstanding jazzmen found themselves employed by Mavuthela as musical directors, under the initiative of Bopape who was not particularly musically inclined himself. The Makgona Tsohle Band members consequently gained a rich musical education and were fully equipped to move into arranging and producing roles when Bopape retired in 1977.

Issued only once on a 45rpm single in 1972 - and restored from the original master in Gallo’s Johannesburg tape vault - “Take Your Time” and “Marabi Blues” both offer new insight into the diverse catalogue of this greatest of all mbaqanga bands.'

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Tacita Trjj

Meeting On Purpose

The Warrior / It Don't Matter To Me

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Trjj, Trjj & Trjj again - we can't get enough of this artist's stuff here. TIP!

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Eve

7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Munster)

Tapan Meets Generation Taragalte

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This Single Contains Two Previously Unreleased Tracks From 1970 By Eve (Formerly Mama Cats, Honey Ltd.), The Legendary Detroit Girl Group Who Were Signed By Lee Hazlewood For His Lhi Label.'The Warrior' Is A Delicate And Beautiful Dance Song That Combines A Contagious Rhythm With The Subtlety Of The Girl Group's Vocal Harmonies.The Backing Band Includes Members Of The Eagles, The Wrecking Crew And Elvis'tcb Band.Description:In The Late 1960s, Four Teenage Girls From Detroit Hitch-Hiked To Los Angeles To Follow Their Dream. Known As The Mama Cats, Their Combined Voices, Created A Magical Instrument, A Holy Harmonic Vehicle Built Upon The Inspiration And Improvisation Of Four Close Friends. Their Ethereal Voices And Heavenly Harmonies Sounded Like No One.Upon Meeting Lee Hazlewood In Los Angeles, He Was Bowled Over, Offering Them A Recording Contract On His Label, Lee Hazlewood Industries (Lhi), Renaming Them, Honey Ltd. Their Sole 1968 Lp Never Saw The Light Of Day. Out Of The Ashes Of The Group, The Three Remaining Members Continued On Under The Name Eve.They Went On To Record A Country Rock Lp With An All-Star Band Featuring Members Of The Eagles, The Wrecking Crew, Elvis' Tcb Band, Ry Cooder And Sneaky Pete. The Two Tracks Included In This Single Have Remained Unreleased Until Now Despite 'The Warrior' Had Been Previously Recorded By Honey Ltd. In A More Folky Style. Eve Transforms It Here Into A Delicate And Beautiful Dance Song That Combines A Contagious Rhythm With The Subtlety Of The Group's Vocal Harmonies.This Release Anticipates A New Series Of Full Albums Reissues From The Lhi (Lee Hazlewood Industries Records) Catalogue That Munster Will Be Releasing Over The Next Months In Spring/Summer/Autumn 2021

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Atlas

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Soundway)

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Warm Winters Ltd.)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Soundway presents the unique results of a one-off 2018 meeting in Marrakech between Belgrade-based tribal/techno/industrial outfit Tapan and the nomadic Touareg electrified desert-blues group Generation Taragalte.
Tapan is not an ordinary “techno” project, rather it escapes easy categorization. It is the Belgradebased production duo of 20/44 club resident Nebojša Bogdanović (Schwabe), and Goran Simonoski, a producer behind music projects such as Belgradeyard
Sound System, Piece of Shh and more. Both have been active in the Belgrade music and nightlife scenes since the 1990s, and since 2015 have brought together their diverse musical experience under the collaborative moniker of Tapan.
While performing at the Atlas Electronic festival in Morocco in 2018, they encountered Generation Taragalte of southern Morocco, and recorded the initial music for the Atlas EP in an improvised studio on the festival grounds, followed by final production
on returning to Belgrade. The result was the 4-track EP “Atlas”, a dark, desolate and potent collision of the electronic drone-jazz of Belgrade and the windswept, desiccated psych-guitar riffs of the Moroccan Sahara.

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Isabell Gustafsson-Ny

Rosenhagtorn

Ma Belle Fille / Solar Heart

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Isabell Gustafsson-Ny joins Warm Winters Ltd. with Rosenhagtorn, a suite of short pieces for piano, violin and voice. Absorbing in its profound focus on listening, this collection is a striking exploration of these sound sources; their repetitions, harmonics and oscillations. Conceiving of the release as a house, a different song is playing in each room, Gustafsson-Ny was able to explore the rawness and fragility of each instrument with incredible freedom and sensibility. She describes the album in the following words: "In the music there is both repetition and flow, but also the creak of the pedal organ. Here are Radigue traces and slow slow piano. Here is the violin again, resumed after many years of almost fallow. Here are the overtones and the scratchy strings. Here I dare to open the door to the voice." A unique kind of dusty, intimate folk music.

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Saturno 4000

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Batov)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (So)

Hamish Hawk

A Firmer Hand

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Discreet Music)

Sewer Election

Psychic Drama Volume 2

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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7" | 2015 | Original (Sundazed Rfd)

Greg Martin Group

Groovy Grubworm

Release: 2015 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Perdi' Mis Temores - Conjunto Media Luna

Conjunto Media Luna

7" | 2024 | Original (Little Beat More)

7" | 2024 | Original (Little Beat More)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Take part in the sound of Bogota's eclectic cumbia scene that permeates the ritual sonido of this new 7" Vinyl by Conjunto Media Luna, out now on Little Beat More!

Enter the labyrinth that transcends the danceable and psychedelic, guided by the Colombian accordion and ecstatic percussion of their slow-pitched beat.

The 7" includes 2 songs taken from the debut album "Noches de media luna", with the iconic "Conjunto Media Luna" and "Perdi´ mis temores" featuring colombian rappers N. Harden & Mismo Perro!

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Conjunto Media Luna

Noches De Media Luna

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Conjunto Media Luna invites Turbo Sonidero to remix one of their most recent songs: "Noches de Media Luna," which also serves as the title for the album it is a part of.
While it is also a Cumbia song, it originates from another contemporary branch of this genre: the tropicanibalistic sound of Bogota´. These two styles blend in a powerful Kumbiero track that is perfect for dance floors around the world where cumbia has established its unique hypnotic vibe.

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Muireann Bradley

I Kept The Old Blues

Imaginational Anthem XII: I Thought I Told You - A Yorkshire Tribute To Michael Chapman

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Muireann Bradley is a young blues, ragtime, roots and folk guitarist and singer based in Ballybofey in County Donegal Ireland. Tompkins Square actually signed her when she was 13, but because of Covid and just “growing up", the process of recording took place over three years. She will be 17 in December, 2023. "This is my first album. Most of these tunes were originally recorded by the great blues men and women who were making records from the 1920s and 1930s right up in some cases to the early 1970s. I have also found inspiration for the renditions recorded here in the playing of some of the musicians who began recording this music in the 1960s and later, and who in some cases learned at the feet of the greats. Many of these guitarists played pivotal roles in the 1960s blues revival and subsequent 'rediscovery' of many of the greats of country blues. I grew up steeped in these old blues in the hills overlooking the valley of the River Finn just outside the town of Ballybofey in County Donegal. My father would play this music constantly at home and wherever we went in the car and talk about it endlessly whether anyone was listening or not, telling stories about the lives of these musicians as if they were legend, mythology or the evening news. My father could of course play all this stuff on guitar, I remember watching him when I was very young and thinking 'I want to be able to do that'. When I was nine he agreed to teach me and bought me my first little travel guitar. I worked hard to learn how to play but as time wore on I seemed to have less and less time to practice as I became more and more invested in the combat sports I was regularly training and competing in. Then in March 2020 the first Covid lockdowns happened and all contact sports were shut down. I was lost for a while but soon found my way back to the guitar. I was now listening, playing and practicing with a new intensity and focus. In a very serious moment I wrote out a list of tunes I was going to learn. The first tune on that list was Blind Blake’s 'Police Dog Blues'. I’m not sure now how long it took to get that arrangement together but when it was ready we videoed me performing it and posted it on YouTube. It ended up getting a lot of attention, I remember my parents being quite shocked and soon after that Josh Rosenthal got in touch… and here we are! Each individual track on this album was recorded live in the studio and represents one entire take with me singing and backing myself up on guitar simultaneously. Most are either first or second takes. Nothing has been added or taken away, no overdubs or modern recording tricks of any kind have been used at all so at least in some respects this album has been recorded in the same way as those classics of the 1920s and 1930s. I hope you enjoy the record."—Muireann Bradley May 2023

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V.A.

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

Pioneer Woks Swing (Live)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Michael Chapman (1941-2021) released his debut album Rainmaker in 1969 on Harvest. He went on to release over fifty albums and influence many with his evocative songwriting and guitar prowess. From heady jams to expressive ballads to experimental noise, Chapman’s work continues to inspire. Tompkins Square recruited Henry Parker to curate a collection of covers by working musicians from Chapman’s home turf in Northern England. With stunning artwork by local artist Bunty Marshall mapping the important places in Michael’s life, this 12th volume of Tompkins Square’s Imaginational Anthem series is the ultimate tribute to a very dearly missed artist. Features tracks from Parker, Dean Mcphee, Katie Spencer, Bobby LEE, Holly Blackshaw, Andrew DR Abbott, Hawthonn, and Chris Brain.

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Hailu Mergia

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

Paid Testimony Atlantis Sessions

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Baba Stiltz

CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Public Possession)

14,39 €* 17,99 € -20%

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Keroxen)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Available for the first time and on CD only, the live sessions of Baba Stiltz second LP „Paid Testimony“ recorded earlier this year at the legendary „Atlantis Studios“ in Stockholm. Full Music info below: When he‘s not writing or recording, Baba Stiltz immerses in fearless fiction by the likes of Denis
Johnson and Dodie Bellamy; prose where pedestrian details become transcendent in aggregate and the inner lives of marginal characters are examined as though they were kings. A similar thesis runs through „Paid Testimony“, the essential second tape of minimalist guitar music from the Filipino-American-Swedish artist.
In recent years, Stiltz has made like Lee Hazelwood‘s Cowboy In Sweden in reverse, making annual pilgrimages from Stockholm to California and reconnecting with his roots via a guitar and a Fostex 4- track. He‘s drawn to the less glamorous corners of the golden state, an observant habitué of unkempt
streets and dive bars stretching from LA to Vacaville. It‘s a long stretch from the jetset techno clubs where Baba originally plied his musical trade, but it‘s where he finds characters and ideas worth writing about.
The characters on „Paid Testimony“ are on the edge and on the run. Surrounded by flawed men with big schemes since childhood, he extrapolates characters who plot bank heists and order milk and vodka in AM hours, the type of confrontation- prone characters who „say some shit, make everyone
uncomfortable and then just split.“ To focus on the rawness of this document would discount the humor and sympathy with which he treats his characters, not to mention the subtly- psychedelic songwriting recalling David Berman, early Smog, the original indie rock minimalist poets.
On the final song, Stiltz looks back on the city that raised him, „Stockholm,“ referencing „young professionals carelessly living“ before adding „I can‘t say I‘m not jealous even though I live my life just like they do.“ There‘s an honesty in the small details revealed on „Paid Testimony“, and a defined
sense of place, be it Stockholm, Sacramento or some dim barroom across from the Bank Of America. Baba doesn‘t quite fit in anywhere. This outsider quality has often been used as a marketing tool, yet here, it lends a writerly aspect to the proceedings, an unreality to the everyday.

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Za!

Za! & La Transmegacobla

14,94 €* 22,99 € -35%

CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Fördämning Arkiv)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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A retro-futuristic journey from folk to free exploring the shores of the Mediterranean, claiming its power as a living core, never as a deadly border. The TransMegaCobla fuses traditional Mediterranean culture –from bulería to kopanitsa, from gnaoua to sardana– with contemporary culture to create a fictional but deeply human and festive universe. Resurrecting the Phoenician language, the octet seeks common roots to fuse and remake them with contemporary molds such as rock, punk, free jazz and conducted improvisation. A timeless orchestra ready to invent, with real elements, a science-fiction Mediterranean in a parallel reality.

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Troth

Uncut Flowers

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Hot on the heels of their third album Forget The Curse (Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox, 2023), Fördämning Arkiv presents a Troth anthology compiling early non-album material and other odds and ends from the Australian duo. A massive 15-track retrospective, Uncut Flowers consists of the tracks from the Our Opaque Wreath cassette (Moontown Records, 2019), The Optimist (Essential Minerals, 2019), the Garland And Gauze 7" (Altered States Tapes, 2020) as well as various compilation contributions. 74 minutes.

"In evidence throughout is Troth’s penchant for capturing and collecting sounds from their environments, transforming field recordings, organic and non-organic sonic sources into textures of a palette that they then compose and improvise with. There’s a virtuosity of sampling and sound manipulation. The recurrent sounds from Besseny and Bowman’s intrepid field and bush explorations often verge on an indistinguishability between the synthesised and the concrete-organic. Permutated hand percussion or the throbbing of a waterfall; xylophonic melody or the tape loop of a bird call. The clank and tings of unidentified objects, matter itself writhing in the veggie garden. An environment starts speaking from iron gates in a paddock anywhere, close to the damp leaf and loam of a forest floor far below unseen birds and their cacophony of song and chatter. Tracks often collapse into a grey zone stretched between composition and improvisation." - Chris Colla

Digipack in an edition of 500 copies including a 8-page booklet with liner notes, photos etc. Mastered by Joakim Karlsson. Artwork by Charlott Malmenholt. Fördämning Arkiv 10.

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Bobby Lee

Endless Skywalks

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

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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Monastics

World Island

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Sferic)

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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Giovanni Napolano

Le Macerie Di Babilonia

14,99 €* 24,99 € -40%

Vom Bosphorus Bis Zum Rhein Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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sferic mark 5 years of operations with a special deep dive into ancient/modern Mediteranean culture by Giovanni Napolano, usually known for crankier industro-dancehall output as Nplgnn (Reel Torque, Youth) as well as programming the wonderful MBE label (Beatrice Dillon, Conor Thomas, Evol) - a proper Riyl Jay Glass Dubs, Christos Chondropoulos, Alan Lomax, DJ Screw, Coda Lunga.

Unfolding along two sprawling 15 min sides, Napolano stitches threads of chopped & screwed folksong with a discrete dub strategy, seamlessly leading the mind down labyrinthine ginnels of his imagination in a sort of uchronic regression session where the ghosts of the past inform the present. In the process it humbly speaks to Naples’ position at the frontier of the current migrant crisis, and necessarily takes a standpoint against Italy’s resurgent, nationalist fascism, revealing the beauty and energy of its indigenous mixture of peoples, rather than erecting borders between them.

Taking his native Naples as a locus of Mediteranean culture, Napolano plunges the port city’s palimpsest of energies embedded by successive waves of Greek, Northern African & Eastern migration to discover an underlying, rhizomic connection and commonality linked by dub and hip hop as a contemporary iteration of folk music.

Under its titular, mythical metaphor for the fall of Babylon, and usage in Rastafari culture, ‘Le Macerie Di Babilonia’ imaginatively examines a sense of self via a historic lens, drawing on Napolano’s upbringing in the chaotic port city and his autodidactic research into the rich mosaic of Napolitan heritage, to model how a folk class solidarity and shared character, with its own rules and rituals, has emerged from its syncretic milieu.

Variously a treatise on provenance; an impressionistic tale of the European north meets a global south; a dub-abstracted, allegoric, ethnomusicological collage; ‘Le Macerie Di Babilonia’ is a fascinating and immersive listen that presents its maker’s dilated world view at its most mesmerising.

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Ozan Ata Canani & Karaba

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Fun In The Church)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2022 | US | Original (Speakeasy Studios Sf)

Andres Miguel Cervantes

A Coal For Caring