Folk 494 Items

Que Pasa / Georgia On My Mind Red Vinyl Edition

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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John 5 & The Creatures

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

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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G. Rag & Die Landlergeschwister

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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Bill Fay / Julia Jacklin

Just To Be A Part

11,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bear's Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt 1973

The Chieftains

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Decca)

11,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Evan Crankshaw & The Dead Mauriacs

Expedition

CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

11,99 €* 19,99 € -40%

Bill Fay / Mary Lattimore

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Expedition is a collaboration between sound artist The Dead Mauriacs (aka Olivier Prieur) and collage artist Evan Crankshaw, based on their mutual interest in treating exotica as both a subject and a material. Evan Crankshaw's 2015 collage book, also entitled Expedition, is assembled and collaged by hand from a vast archive of popular exoticist printed materials, and explores recurring motifs in expedition narratives, simultaneously evoking and alienating the exoticist fantasy.

In 2018, the book was interpreted for a live performance at Festival BBMix (Boulognes-Billancourt, France) in collaboration with The Dead Mauriacs, who created a complete exotica-concrète score accompanying projected images of the book & live narration. That collaboration can be heard on this album, an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of an imagined actual elsewhere, stitched from pieces of narcotizing fabulisms, disturbing actualities, and incomprehensibilities – an interior excursion into the exotic immensity.

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Love Is The Tune

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You Without Sin Cast The First Stone

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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Isaiah Owens

LP | 2015 | US | Original (Mississsippi)

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CD | 2022 | US | Original (Ropeadope)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A truly unique Gospel stylist - Isaiah Owen's plays guitar and sings in his own very distinctive and otherworldly way. Isaiah plays loud and with quite a bit of dissonance, his voice floating above beautifully. This LP features some of his finest performances captured from his radio broadcasts in Montgomery Alabama and from studio recordings. Mississippi is very proud to present this material. Liner notes by Kevin Knutt (of the greatest radio show of all time, Sinners Crossroads, as well as the Case Quarter label).

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Dendê & Band

Agô

12,74 €* 16,99 € -25%

Pape Nziengui Et Son Groupe

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dendê Macêdo is a percussionist, singer, composer, bandleader, teacher, and multi-instrumentalist. He’s been a professional musician since the age of 14, when he appeared in the frontline of Timbalada, Carlinhos Brown’s superstar percussion ensemble. Since 2001, he’s been developing his solo career, splitting his time between the US and Bahia and working with his folkloric group Ologundê and his flagship band Dendê & Band. Now on their second album, Dendê & Band have cultivated a unique sound where Afro-Brazilian traditions like samba de roda and candomble have been seamlessly melded with world rhythms like rumba, afrobeat and mbalax. Dendê & Band have recently performed at venues such as the Glastonbury Festival in the UK, the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles; the KW Latinfest in Canada; the Penang World Music Festival in Malaysia; Summerdance in Chicago and the Chile Pepper Fiesta at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

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Kadi Yombo

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

Eritrea's Guitar Pioneer, 1970-73

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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Tewolde Redda

Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Domino Sound)

Quero Ver Voce Sambar / Mas Nao Deixe De Ir

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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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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Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Marlais

Stream Of Forms

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Black Sweat)

Everest Magma

Alto//Piano

13,19 €* 21,99 € -40%

We May Grow Old But We Never Grow Up

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Everest Magma rediscovers the folk roots of his dreamy alter ego Woodcutter. Once again he appears as a minstrel crossing moonstruck woods inhabited by gnomes, butterflies and crawling creatures. Nature is sublimated into a personal alien vision in which a lysergic approach triumphs in the arrangement of sound material and immersive musique concrète. Pure acid-folk fingerpicking communicates directly with the forest’s humus, steeped in wild and ethereal moods. Between schizoid or more lyrical moments, a persistent taste for subtle subterranean noises, electric flashes, radio and ufological interferences, deviant scents and psychological drifts permeates the flow. The abstracting structure of voices and singing expresses the cyclical beingness of living, a decontextualizing dimension of space and time. It's the pantheistic feeling of a parallel naturalistic universe, which also takes cues from the psychedelic eccentricity of Claudio Rocchi’s ‘Suoni di Frontiera’, the Incredible String Band or Holy Modal Rounders. Co-produced with Maple Death Records

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Example

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

13,59 €* 15,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / 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)

13,59 €* 15,99 € -15%

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Via Parigi)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Limited to 100 copies-

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Catalina Matorral

13,74 €* 24,99 € -45%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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

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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Take Your Time / Marabi Blues

Makgona Tsohle Band

7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Umsakazo)

7" | 2015 | Original (Sundazed Rfd)

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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Greg Martin Group

Groovy Grubworm

Release: 2015 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | NO | Original (Blue Mood)

Trond Svendsen & Tuxedo

Dont Trust The Moon

14,99 €* 19,99 € -25%

Release: 2022 / NO – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Vom Bosphorus Bis Zum Rhein Black Vinyl Edition

Ozan Ata Canani & Karaba

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

14,99 €*

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

14,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Discreet Music)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The first single off of The Crossing album—“A Coal for Caring” and “The Barstow Street Blues (acoustic)”—features Andres Miguel Cervantes alone, singing and playing his acoustic guitar. They were recorded live using only one microphone during the album’s first “demo” recording sessions. Alos includes the instrumental, “The Tales You Tell,” with album musicians Jacob Aranda, Alicia Vanden Heuvel, James KIM and ED Ivey.

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Jon Collin

Bridge Variations

15,39 €* 21,99 € -30%

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Don Giovanni)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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On Bridge Variations, the now Stockholm-based English guitarist Jon Collin changes his guitar for a keyed fiddle. Mostly recorded to tape under different bridges around Stockholm during 2021, partly for the sound but also because of their importance to the geographical make-up of the place, the album is like a modern take on traditional Swedish folk music made by an outsider looking in. The sound is pretty much a continuation of the palette explored on 'Dream Sequence, End Of Summer', Collin's contribution to the Contemporary Homemade Music compilation put out by Discreet Music last year. Slowly moving and drawn-out melodies evolve into immense droning beauty, rich of texture and with the environmental sounds from the sites becoming an integral part of the recording. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi and pressed in an edition of 1000 copies. Comes with a 12-page colour-coded booklet of photos of the recording locations.

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Up Around The Sun

Self Taught

15,39 €* 27,99 € -45%

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Rebel Up)

Deli Teli

Tsifteteli Club

15,74 €* 20,99 € -25%

Art Of Primitive Sound (W. Maioli)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bongos, bouzouki and Farfisa organ galore! The explosive cocktail of rock'n'roll and traditional Tsifteteli hailing from 1960's Greece is still alive thanks to Deli Teli: the Marseille-based quartet performs a string of forgotten hits that once set Athens on fire, with a contagious energy and a subtle dose of Mediterranean drama.

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Strumenti Musicali Della Preistoria: Il Paleolitico

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Black Sweat)

15,99 €* 19,99 € -20%

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Art Of Primitive Sound is a sensational journey to the origin of Music. In his crucial research chapter on the Paleolithic, Walter Maioli between 1986 and 1991 investigates the soundscape of different geographical, climatic and botanical environments, in which the mystery of the ancient human-nature relationship resides. What emerges is an expanded and unprecedented Paleorganology, with a range of acoustic and natural instruments from all over the World. Rubbing of fossils, animal artefacts, plant elements of all sorts, everything becomes sound and each object opens up forms of imaginary communication, psychic effect and unexplored languages. Whistles, flutes, leaf and shell rattles, rhombuses, horns, bone pipes, slate slabs, bamboo arches, stones, vertebrae, seeds, stalagtites etc...how great can be the Natural Orchestra inherent in the spirit of forests, rivers, caves, seas, swamps or Amazon jungles? Thanks to an interdisciplinary partnership (Anthropology, Archaeology, Botany, Ethnomusicology) of collaborating friends, Maioli directs an Opera of universal character inspired by the archaic essence of sound and infrasonic dimension.

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The Shires

10 Year Plan

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Kitchen Label)

Aspidistrafly

Altar Of Dreams

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Aspidistrafly, the Singaporean duo comprising April Lee and producer Ricks Ang, return with Altar of Dreams, their first studio album in a decade.

While their last album A Little Fable introduced the world to their bucolic and wispy brand of folk songwriting, Altar of Dreams sees the duo – also the founders of Kitchen. Label – harness their experiences over the past decade to create a wholly new and inspired vision. In this new and third album, they drew upon a rich palette of shapes, sounds and movement: straddling between the visionary photography of Serge Lutens and Dora Maar, 80s Japanese ambient pop, musique concrète and the mournful strings of Béla Bartók.

The world in which Aspidistrafly once inhabited was foggy and awash in faded memory. A feeling of being suspended in time felt inescapable with each listen. In Altar of Dreams, the fog is clearing up. At nine songs under 35 minutes, the album possesses all the defining hallmarks of Aspidistrafly – poetic lyricism, cosmic introspection, lush strings, surrealism, tenderness and texture. But what was once seemingly inscrutable has now been explored with astounding clarity, the duo maneuvering through a space-time continuum with delicate leaps.

‘How To Find A Marblewing’, the opening track, is a heady sound collage of early internet sounds, film, anime, and chopped-and-screwed 90s J-pop. It’s a presence deeply embedded throughout the record, a method Lee describes as “a form of environmental/tape treatment”.

The compositions glimmer with sincerity, addressing all at once destruction, mystery, uncertainty, hopes and dreams. The resulting music is backed by an opulence only possible with a line-up of guest musicians. ‘The Voice of Flowers’ is stirring in its balance of flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone and piano, bolstered by a string quartet. Kitchen. Label artist haruka nakamura features on the track alongside Kyo Ichinose (who arranged the strings for the album) and wind instrumentalist Araki Shin.

‘Interlude: Chrysalises and Larvae’ takes the heavy path downward, adopting its name from the 1973 surrealist odyssey The Hourglass Sanatorium. It leads into ‘Companion to Owls’, a gothic pop paean to mortality inspired by the Book of Job.

Before the namesake centrepiece of the album, another interlude arrives in ‘A Ceremonial Ode’, both of which were stirred by a series of regal Shiseido ads from the 1980s starring model Sayoko Yamaguchi. ‘Altar of Dreams’ is haunted by the lucid dreams that once provided escapism for Lee. Its tranquility belies a simmering tension, just as how a lucid dream would offer control in the face of the unknown. “In one of them, I was floating in a vast darkness safe and secure, and then I fell into a turbulent mirage where I willingly allowed myself to be swept away further and further from reality, hoping that I would never wake up,” she says. “Needless to say I did, and ended up writing this song on one of these dead nights.”

If the title track replicates the feeling of falling deep into that spiral, ‘Silk and Satins’ is a direct analysis of the phenomenon. Warped frequencies collide with nature and television sound effects – the latter sourced from 80s Singaporean horror series Mystery – within an inter-dimensional music world. The track was made with featured artist Sugai KEN, whose own work is an endless scroll of intoxicating found sounds.

‘Quintessence’, the sweeping closing track, distills all the elements scattered across the album into a coda that beautifully refuses to resolve. At first an exercise in guitar looping, the song was then written without a beginning and end in mind. “I’d like to think of it as poetry that’s sung,” says Lee.

In Altar of Dreams, Aspidistrafly are renewed and hopeful. They’ve emerged from a decade spent reframing the world they see through vivid dreams and memories. Now, it’s all yours to experience.

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Amália Rodrigues

The Queen Of Fado

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Slam! Years (1983-1988)

Hamid El Shaeri

CD | 2022 | US | Original (Habibi Funk)

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (EM)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Full album dedicated to Hamid El Shaeri’s work on the Egyptian Slam! label. Hamid El Shaeri is the artist behind Habibi Funk’s most popular song to date, “Ayonha”, originally re-released in 2017 on the first Habibi Funk Compilation (habibi007). If you were to ask for a defining Habibi Funk track, there are a few that come to mind: from Fadoul’s “Sid Redad,” Dalton’s “Soul Brother” to Ahmed Malek’s “Omar Gatlato.” However, none are as widely connected with us at this point as Hamid Al Shaeri’s “Ayonha.” We heard the track for the first time when we were working on selecting tracks for your first compilation and we instantly loved it. We obviously had heard of Hamid El Shaeri’s music before, but only material from his Al Jeel phase when he was already the full-blown superstar he is now. Listening to his releases from the early 1980’s opened a whole new door for us. At the time, Hamid had just left Libya to pursue his career in Egypt via a detour in London, where he recorded his first album. Hamid’s distinct sound of the sound is quintessentially reliant on heavy synths and so it was particularly important to purchase these synths in a timely manner. “Whenever a new one [synthesizer] would come out, we would have to buy it immediately, otherwise someone else would get their hands on that sound.” London also played an important role for Hamid as a musical epicenter. He fondly reminisces about the many live shows he attended there, including some of the biggest international musicians like Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson. After returning to Cairo where he also recorded his following albums, he connected with Slam! for the release of his debut, laying the foundation of a collaboration that lasted for 5 albums. Luckily, we were able to connect with Hamid through our friend Youssra El Hawary, whose extensive network has opened many doors for us within the Egyptian music scene. We met Hamid for the first time probably in 2016 at his office / rehearsal studio in the outskirts Cairo. We were expecting a larger-than-life character in-line with his status as a certified superstar, yet the actual person turned out to be very approachable and super easy to connect with. He liked the idea of an effort to amplify his early works again, which, when originally released, were far from an economic success. While he was down to assist with an interview and his blessing for the project he also told us that for any license we needed to speak with the original label Slam! who released these songs, still held the rights and also remained in business over the decades though they didn’t actively release any new music. Hany Sabet had started Slam! Records in the early 1980s and focused on cassette tape releases, the format that expedited the success of a new generation of record labels in Egypt. By the mid 1980’s, Slam! had become one of the most successful and economically dominant record labels in Egypt, with Hamid El Shaeri being just one of their key artists, alongside Mohamed Mounir, Hanan, Hakim, Mustafa Amar and many more. Luckily, Hany Sabet turned out to be a friend of our colleague Malak Makar’s father, which probably helped to warm him to the idea of licensing “Ayonha” to this - in the scale of his world - tiny label from Germany. Eventually “Ayonha” ended up b ecoming a widely successful release and either Hany or we brought up the idea of a full album dedicated to Hamid El Shaeri’s work on Slam!. "Maktoub Aleina” is the first single and will be released January 14th. Following the massive success of "Ayonha,” “Maktoub Aleina” is another mid-tempo groover with a beautiful, synth-forward melody, that brings together a lovely combination of soul, disco and Arabic pop music of the highest order, giving a taste of full album. The second single, “Yekfini Nesma Sotak” will be released January 28th and combines Hamid’s unique formula of soul and pop, held together by a catchy synth melody. “Yekfini Nesma Sotak” picks up the pace a bit, making the uplifting mood of the track even more powerful. Third single, arriving February 11th, is “Dari Demou’ek,” one of the stand out tracks of Hamid’s early recordings done for Slam! in the early 1980s. Dominated by a disco infused bassline, the track offers a lot of space of the funky production to shine while Hamid inserts his vocals at all the right moments. A masterpiece of disco touched by Arabic pop music. Full album arrives February 25th. This release is dedicated to Hany Sabet, the founder of Slam! and his wife Rosemary Jane Sabet (who took the photos we used for the cover and the booklet), who sadly passed away during the time it took us to prepare the release. As always both vinyl and CD come with an extensive booklet with an interview with Hamid as well as unseen photos.

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Henry Kawahara

Minami-Kaze A Wave

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

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

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

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Special! Limited** One-sided 7-inch. Cover art is printed on specialty paper with aluminum vapor deposition.

"Minami-kaze α Wave (Southerly wind alpha wave)“ is a very rare ‘vocal piece’ that Henry Kawahara has produced, and released under the name HMD (H Music Deperception) in 1993. The song is a vocal version of the cyber-occult exotic instrumental piece "Nanpu“ included in the compilation “Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm: The Essential Henry Kawahara” [em1197tcd/dlp]. This track is a rare example that proves he had also a genius for producing ‘pops’ in the general sense of the word, and which seems to have challenged head-on the pop songs produced by Haruomi Hosono or Tetsuya Komuro in the 80s-90s.

The Henry Kawahara project on EM Records was developed only with the enthusiasm of proving Kawahara's existence if he is to be erased as nothing in the current art context, and we have confirmed that there are a lot of supporters all over the world for our opinion when we released "Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm" (several articles and interviews have been given). This single is a 'prescription' for the sequel, tentatively titled "Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm 2: Other Sides of Henry Kawahara," which is currently in the process of being prepared.

This 7” is a limited one-off release, not included in the full compilation released in 2021

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Lost Dog Street Band

Glory

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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Bill Fay / Kevin Morby

I Hear You Calling

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 1' is released 14th Jan, 2022. Alongside, Dead Oceans has announced plans of a special series of four 7" singles, consisting of different musicians' interpretations of Bill Fay classics. The first two (one a cover of `Dust Filled Room' by Steve Gunn and the second, Kevin Morby's version of `I Hear You Calling') will also be released 14th Jan, 2022.

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Bill Fay / Steve Gunn

Dust Filled Room

King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal I

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Bill Fay's music was a revelation to me when I first discovered it: the commanding power of his words; the modest, universal language of his sorrow. And listening to his music still makes me feel as if an old friend had been lingering in the shadows, emerging at just the right time. It was a real honor to record one of my favorites of his, "Dust Filled Room". - Steve Gunn, Brooklyn, NY 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 1' is released 14th Jan, 2022. Alongside, Dead Oceans has announced plans of a special series of four 7" singles, consisting of different musicians' interpretations of Bill Fay classics. The first two (one a cover of `Dust Filled Room' by Steve Gunn and the second, Kevin Morby's version of `I Hear You Calling') will also be released 14th Jan, 2022.

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Talazo Fuji Music Party!

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Decca)

17,24 €* 22,99 € -25%

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Impatience)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Back in Nigeria in 1995 everybody knew King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal I. Just
about every house party and club floor, every shop front and car window,
pulsed to such megahits as ‘Talazo’ and ‘Consolidation’; to the percussion-rich
polyrhythms and Yoruba chants typical of Fuji music, a genre this one-time
roadie (for Fuji music icon Ayinde Barrister) had customised by adding more
percussion – congas, the sakara frame drum – and an attitude straight off the
street.
Wasiu Ayinde had nearly twenty years’ worth of national fame under his floor
length robes (and occasional zebra-striped jumpsuits) when he played his first
ever WOMAD Festival that same year. Booked in for a session at Real World
Recording Week shortly afterwards, the artist and his 16-piece band were
inadvertently delayed and pulled in to Real World Studios in Box, Wiltshire eight
hours late. The recording went ahead regardless. Against the clock. On-thefly. With a small live audience in party mode and microphones placed about
the floor, Wasiu Ayinde and his crew rode the adrenalin, summoning a set that
moved from trance-like call-and-response and vibrant Afropop ballads to those
aforementioned megahits, all of it soaked in groove and feeling. A kingly feat,
that seems even more majestic now.

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A.R. Wilson

Old Gold

17,39 €* 28,99 € -40%

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Svart)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Melbourne auteur Andrew Wilson (Andras, A.R.T. Wilson, Wilson Tanner) soils the 'Australian songbook' with a collection of fragile, private and deranged songs of parrots, pancakes and gelignite amidst the Victorian Gold Rush of 1850s.

Old Gold is filled with fakes and fools, rumbling stomachs and acousmatic terrors - a lonely, self-pitying search evoked by faintly medieval folk music that sounds almost period-perfect but somehow, oddly, wonderfully spoiled.

Gut string guitars, water-logged mandolins, bar room banjos and no-fidelity piano all sound perfectly organic - except they're not. No acoustic instruments were handled in the making of the record, including environmental sounds which were generated during a residency at Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio. The reproduction of familiar sounds via inorganic means situates the record in a moonlit, melancholy hole of its own.

Old Gold was written, played and recorded by Andrew Wilson, and mastered by Mikey Young. Artwork is by Luca Schenardi.

Andrew Wilson has released records as Andras, A.R.T. Wilson, Berko and House Of Dad and he is one half of Wilson Tanner. His work has appeared on labels including Beats In Space, Efficient Space, Growing Bin Records, Public Possession, Dopeness Galore, Mexican Summer and his own Punp imprint.

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Lasten Hautausmaa

Kevät Green Vinyl Editon

17,54 €* 26,99 € -35%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Vampisoul)

Wganda Kenya

Africa 5000

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Kitto)

Nyamakye Junction

Dasein

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Ici D'Ailleurs)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Born of chance meetings in Accra, the band brings together a Burundian producer and vocalist, Betina Quest; with a Ghanaian singer-songwriter, Eli A Free; and a German percussionist and multi instrumentalist, Ma.ttic. Nyamekye Junction take their name from a bustling junction in the Ghanaian capital, where a number of major roads merge, embodying the musical approach of the band: a singular sound at the junction of their cultural heritages.

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Yann Tiersen

Avant La Chute

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Curb)

Judds

Love Can Build A Bridge

17,99 €* 23,99 € -25%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Resan White Vinyl Record Store Day 2022 Vinyl Edition

Urferd

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sound Pollution / Black Lodge)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Radicalis)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

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String Theory

Origin

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Ella Fitzgerald

How High The Moon ?

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Exile On Mainstream)

Arne Heesch

Demons Are Scared

17,99 €* 19,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Corduroy Punk)

Josienne Clarke

I Promised You Light

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Cactus Rock)

Peter Post

Wachablösung

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Reconstruction Of Na Mele A Ka Haku

Compuma Meets Haku

LP | 2015 | JP | Reissue (EM)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Release: 2015 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Compuma, a.k.a. Koichi Matsunaga, reaches back through time to 1970s Hawaii to perform a mind meld, his old-school Roland drum machines and present-era compumagic vulcanizing and reshaping Haku's original home-grown analog synth madness. Not merely a remix, this a synergistic reconstruction, a transformation at the molecular level in which Haku's source-code DNA is reborn in 2015.

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V.A.

Famous Shanties

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Astor Piazzolla

Tango Argentino

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Dubliners

Greatest Hits

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Slow Grind Fever Volume 5

V.A.

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Stag-O-Lee)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Elephantine Orange Vinyl Edition

Maurice Louca

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sub Rosa)

LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Discrepant)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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On »Elephantine«, Cairo-based Maurice Louca guides a 12-piece ensemble through a 38-minute work that might best be described as panoramic. Elements of free improvisation, Sun Ra's cosmic jazz, gorgeous Arabic melody, trancelike African and Yemeni music and minimalism meet in his wholly unique compositional vision. Louca also makes vital contributions on guitar and piano, and inspires stirring performances from a global lineup.

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Kink Gong

Xinjiang

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (La République Des Granges)

Borguefül

Horst

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Dackelton)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Borguefül is a double bass and voice solo, imagined and composed by Mélanie Loisel. Borguefül is sensations, mountains, stones, rain, faults, wind, fluids, monsters, nights. Lots of land. Lots of dust.

It's a voice that sings, whispers, rattles, shouts, in a distant language, a revisited patois. It is a double bass with a raw sound, developing small melodic and rhythmic fragments, variations of timbre, textures, dirty vibrations, repetitions and breaks in frank motifs, without too much fuss.

Hear the relief of the spaces by the sounds rolled in the mouth, the strangeness, the accents, the dissonances, the attacks, the roundness. And then breath and silence.

The language that unfolds there under the blows of the bows and the drones of the double bass, is that, harsh and persuasive, of a patois of Haute-Loire. The texts of these surly songs evoke sensations, mountains, rain, wind, faults, monsters. In this earthy landscape, powerful vibrations emerge, from which escape melodic fragments, rhythmic and percussive patterns.

Borguefül grabs and holds to the body. In these strange interstices between traditional song and contemporary music, Borguefül carries a raw and hoarse breath, marked by the exercise of free improvisation.

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Jamie Clarke's Perfect

Monkey See, Monkey Do

19,54 €* 22,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cry With Tears: Greek-Albanian Songs Of Many Voice

Isokratisses

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Third Man)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bbc Paris Theatre London 1972

Judee Sill

LP | 2022 | EU (Chush)

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Green Cookie)

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A singer-songwriter who wrote for the Turtles, Sill - in her early 1970s heyday - was compared to Asylum label contemporaries like Joni Mitchell, though her music had stronger spiritual overtones. This nearly forgotten performance reveals a true talent that deserved so much more during her short lifetime. Judee Sill grew up in a very troubled home and came through it with some truly great music to tell so many stories that many of the more sentient listeners will appreciate.

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Ojibo Afrobeat

Ojiboland

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Yunis

Mulid El-Magnoun

Methusalem - Popcorn Sound Of Vienna 1954-1964

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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"Mulid El-Magnoun” addresses the term ‘moulid’ and its various manifestations it takes on in Egyptian folk music. Here, the word ‘moulid’ does not exclusively refer to Sufi moulids: rather also the intertwined artistic spaces that lie between the moulid in its Sufi sense and what it carries in distinctive rhythmic patterns, musical instruments, and artistic forms, and the moulid as a musical genre originating from folk weddings that enjoy special aesthetics and unique styles.

Through this project, Yunis tries to explore the spaces where those two concepts collide through producing an original musical composition which reflects his own vision and understanding of ‘moulids’ as well as the manifestations the word carries within him.

About Yunis:

Yunis (b. 1994 - Kafr El-Dauwar) is an Egyptian musician and music Producer. He has produced two albums until now; «The Blue Djinn Dance» which was his first solo album, and «Ya Khal» which was a collaborative work with Ibrahim X. He is also a co-founder of Kafr El-Dauwar Records, an independent digital record label interested in contemporary and experimental music, founded by a group of young artists with the aim of creating a musical movement in the city, by supporting a group of artists to start their music from Kafr El-Dauwar with the potential of going with the music to the farthest point it could arrive.

In his music, Yunis seeks inspiration from the popular Egyptian folkloric heritage, which boasts many instruments, tools, and musical styles. He then reads and analyzes the musical legacy and presents it with the forms of his contemporary time.

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V.A.

10" | 2022 | EU | Original (Club Methusalem)

Sergio Messina & The Four Twenties

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Incredible 1954-1964 black pre-pop dance music. The Club Methusalem, Nomen est Omen, is musically dedicated entirely to the biblical times of modern popular music. In our definition it sounds like this: We are playing mid 1940s to early 60s rhythm´n blues, rumba, mambo, cha-cha-cha, rock´n roll, early soul, ska, jazz, schlager, doo wop, gospel, twist – vinyl only. Founded in summer 2016, the Methusalem DJ collective was the musical host in Vienna’s most beautiful urban garden location, the Volksgarten Pavilion, for three summers every thursday. Other locations followed. The Methusalem sound refers to the 500 year old African diaspora, which produced countless musical blossoms in the middle of the twentieth century (see definition). We also shed light on the shock waves of these then new styles on the European music market. Our goal is to show everyone when pop music was at its most beautiful: At the time it was created! Vinyl only is a matter of honor for us. The trend of rediscovering the old dances of the era before, such as Lindy Hop, Shag, Charleston etc., takes us further to the times when all these styles merged into one, the “Rockin an Rollin”, the harbingers of soul and funk, and thus modern pop music. Methusalem DJs: Mrs. Lovett, Don Arno, Turner T., Nikola, Bunani, Levi, Fernando Terror, Scott, Darking Max

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Sensual Musicology

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Hell Yeah)

Kensuke Ide with His Mothership

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Legendary Italian musician Sergio Messina serves up his 13 track Sensual Musicology on Hell Yeah this March. It comes a couple of years after he first released on the label's Buena Onda compilation and takes in everything from demented waltz to grown-up jazz, groovy beach music to heart-aching melancholia with artwork by virtuoso Italian AD DeeMo. Now based in Lombardy, Sergio was there at the birth of pirate radio in the mid-seventies and eventually produced Radio art for national broadcaster Rai. At the same time, his DJ career took off and he helped establish Hip hop in Rome before taking his own live show to the stage with a mix of PCs, samplers and tape recorders as early as 1989. Frank Zappa declared himself a fan and in the years since Sergio has done everything from radio art to producing Neapolitan reggae and hip hop band 99 Posse, producing his own solo albums and writing for monthly music magazine Rumore.

On top of this, he has both written books about and delivered lectures on the digital porno revolution, as well as teaching History of Pop Culture at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan. All this makes him a truly original creative thinking who has long been immersed in many niche facets of popular culture. Sensual Musicology took several years and four different locations to happen. Its release has been delayed by the pandemic, during which Sergio lost many friends and relatives close to him. As a result, the album is dedicated to all of them. It is a record that addresses many topics from economic migration to jazz piano, 60s blues motifs to corruption, pollution and racism via Michael Jackson covers, odes to West Coast guitar albums and spaced-out pieces of electronica. Opening with the beautifully delicate Mingus melodies of 'Goodbye Porkpie Hat' the album roams through the bluesy Italo-American-Jamaican groove of 'Amara,' slow melancholy of 'Sometimes Remember' with classy vocals from chanteuse Valeria Rossi and 'The Way You Make Me Feel', an acoustic rebuild of Michael Jackson's hit song. Then comes the serenade that is 'Just Because You're Dead,' and ‘Sono Stufa di Tutto’ which is based around a protest speech recorded from the radio in the 1980s. Jon Hassell Beach Bar' is a musical hybridisation for dancing pleasure. The second half of the album takes in 'Ouana Di lambo' which is the Four Twenties taking you to a cocktail bar in the tropics, 'Benjamino Placido' which is a melody for a man who inspired Sergio to start writing his columns, and 'Nowhere Special' which is a tribute to West Coast guitar albums. Closer ‘Switchblade Bolero' has a Zappaesque theme. Sensual Musicology is a rich and diverse musical world that is as thought-provoking and deep as it is emotionally rewarding.

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Madam The Whisper / Landline Boogie

7" | 2022 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Monstruos Y Duendes Volume 3: Medyn

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Madam the Whisper” is the lead single lifted from Ide Kensuke’s second album Contact From Exne Kedy And The Poltergeists. It is paired with “Landline Boogie” on this new limited edition 7” inch release on P-vine records.

Fans of the melody-driven snarl of Shintaro Sakamoto records and the Japanese folk-rock traditions of Happy End will surely find much to like in the crunching leads of “Madam the Whisper”. Always shape-shifting to avoid being boxed into a sound, the opposing tension in the guitars of “Landline Boogie” finds Ide’s reaching for the falsetto, and his catchy multi-layered vocals draw pleasing comparisons to of Montreal and Ezra Furman.

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Myrddin

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Zephyrus)

LP | 2011 | DE | Original (Grönland)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Volume three of his four part solo album set. (Monstruos Y Duendes)The music of Myrddin goes through marrow and bone and is both complex, passionately rhythmic and profoundly emotional.

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William Fitzsimmons

Gold In The Shadow

Release: 2011 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Inner Ear)

Tango With Lions

You.Me.

20,24 €* 26,99 € -25%

LP | 2022 | Original (Cracked Anegg)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tango with Lions releases her fourth album entitled “you.me.”.

“you.me.” was created in Berlin and recorded in Athens, Greece, between September 2021-January 2022, at Lotus studios with producer Vasilis Dokakis. The nine songs of the album build a tale of reflection on heartbreak and significant life changes, written shortly after the artist’s permanent relocation in Berlin, amid the pandemic.

The lyrics express the need of introspection and of processing the impact of various interactions with different people, time passing and global events. The songs observe, address questions or come to realisations about a different “you”, from the perspective of a different “me” in each tale.

The arrangements are rich in synthesisers, nostalgic bass lines and distinct piano sounds. Some of the songs are built on outgoing beats and instrumentations, other songs are earthly, low-key and acoustic.

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Die Strottern

Schau Di An

20,24 €* 26,99 € -25%

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (La Familia)

Alexis Hk

Bobo Playground

20,39 €* 23,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lady For Sale Black Vinyl Edition

Lola Kirke

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Third Man)

20,39 €* 23,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Balloon Ranger)

Ane Brun

When I'm Free

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU (La Munai)

Benyamin S.

Funky Kromong Volume 1

The Discomfort Of Evening

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Funky Kromong is a compilation from the multitalented Legendary Betawi artist Benyamin Suaeb. Consisting of 10 tracks from the 70s, this compilation is rich with Benyamin Suaeb’s eccentric vocals with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and walled with funk and psychedelic and traditional sounds. He made is own humorous style of psychedelic music that everyone could relate. We really hope you enjoy this record with beautiful nostalgia in mind. Don’t miss it.

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Michiel De Malsche

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Meakusma)

I Go To The Railroad Tracks And Follow Them To The Station Of My Enemies

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

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

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The Discomfort Of Evening is the incredible and original soundtrack by prolific Belgian composer Michiel de Malsche to 2020 International Booker Prize winner The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. Visceral and virtuosic, Rijneveld's novel follows Jas, a girl growing up in a devout Christian family that runs a Dutch dairy farm, whose brother dies in an accident after she wishes he would die instead of her rabbit. Lost in grief, her family falls apart as she becomes consumed by increasingly dangerous fantasies.

Michiel de Malsche has captured the atmosphere and spirit of Rijneveld's book perfectly, moving through moments of confrontation and introspection, sinking into spirals of despair, stasis and subtle hope and change. Brooding ambient basslines, driven by droning murmurs, are offset with melismatic electro-acoustic pieces that embody the novel's haunting and dissonant world, whilst also incorporating manipulated field recordings such as animal sounds and a church service, allowing for a full manifestation of Jas’s world in a completely new way.

De Malsche achieves this by rallying an unusual combination of acoustic instruments (16 in total) played by top-of-their-field musicians, creating a truly unique sound world and tonal palette, including an Ondes Martenot, a 7-stringed Chinese instrument called a guqin, a marimba, a string 6-tet, a toy piano and a bass flute.

De Malsche always confronts all emotional levels of his source material head-on, making his soundtrack into much more than just a fever dream. It is a precise description of, and accompaniment to, a devastatingly impactful book.

Michiel De Malsche is a Belgian composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer. He studied classical composition at the conservatories of Rotterdam and Ghent. His music has been performed all over the world and he has composed and produced dozens of soundtracks for contemporary dance, theatre, movies and documentaries.
Besides his work as a contemporary classical composer, he is active as a studio musician and producer in the world of electronic music.

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Tongo Eisen-Martin

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Rocks In Your Head)

20,99 €* 29,99 € -30%

Persian Girl Yellow Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"I came across Tongo saying something in passing in an interview with Mayor London Breed. It was so insightful, poetic and deeply felt I wanted to know who he was. I devoured the poetry books that were available and then set out to invite him to make a recording. I had no idea what the session would be like. We were strangers. He showed up, there was no small talk, and he went to the microphone. He then created a 22 minute poem, no notes in his hands, and I looked at the engineer, and our minds were blown. It was flawless, and it was meaningful, and it was channeled from some other place. I said, do you have anything else to say? And he began another piece that lasted another 22 minutes or so. And it was also flawless,and incredible. And so I looked at the engineer and I said, 'I think we have a record.' Now I’ve never seen a record cut in one sitting, I figured it was reserved for geniuses like Thelonious Monk or Robert Johnson or something. And so I realized Tongo is a genius too. The poetry is so loud and crisp and clear and fueled with energy. It has a connection back to Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets, Langston Hughes but it is also not derivative in the least, but new and of it’s own time."—Sonny Smith, Rocks in your head records “Tongo’s words are bricks-with which he builds houses, breaks windows, and - strangely- enticesyou to take a bath in. I first heard his poetry and got scared of dying. Like- I better figure shit out because this is the new shit and he’s on somethingI’m not. He’s noticing shit that I better notice if I want to experience life in color. He knows that to live- you gotta make shit aroundyou move. You can’t just watch. I’m thrilledthat this album is coming out so y’all can be scared of not living too.”—Boots Riley "Words are a kind of architecture – where the bricks exist on page or spoken into the either. A form is built and becomes a body that will not soon wilt… the spoken word is timeless and immortal. Here in this collection Tongo kicks the new jazz – a classic sense of form ad stylethat is dare I say it smolderingly masculine, drumming, with someone who clearly has an old ear for dialogue. This coolection read icadest and with a heavy hand in the past not withstanding, still boasts verbage that is very very fresh. Bravo."—Brontez Purnell

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The Engineers

7" | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Juzz)

2x10" | 2022 | EU | Original (Okraïna)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Engineers, Abas Miraftab and Reza Agah, recorded and produced this 7’ "Persian Girl" sometime in the late 60s or early 70s. The first edition was independently pressed outside of Iran and only a few copies exist today. Little else is known about the band's music or history.

This stereo recording by far is the best & strongest rhythmic Persian music ever recorded the power burned in the grooves is immense. Turn the volume up, it will make you feel happy to listen & dance to.

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Maher Shalal Hash Baz

Je Est Un Autre

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Het Vlier, Een Hommel Op Aarde

Linus Vandewolken

2x10" | 2022 | EU | Original (Okraïna)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Summer Sun / Like Stone (Sean Ono Lennon Remix)

Matt Berry

12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Acid Jazz)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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10" | 2015 | EU | Original (! A N G R R !)

Senyawa / Melt-Banana

Split-Serie

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Oh Boy)

John Prine

September 78

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Musakayike Red Clay Vinyl Edition

Madalitso Band

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Black Hen Music)

John Wort Hannam

Long Haul

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tini Trampler & Playbackdolls

Chansons 2084

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Medienmanufaktur Wien)

21,24 €* 24,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Nie X Nine)

Whelligan

In The Mean Mean Time

21,24 €* 24,99 € -15%

Me Without You, The Spring Without You Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Songwriter and singer Jamie Whelligan is a pop troubadour in the classic late 1960s mode. A busker on the London Underground, an actor in arthouse film. One of those ever present characters who seems weirdly displaced in the modern world. • Whelligan’s songs mine that vein of melodic, psychedelic guitar pop that a certain type of English band are famous for. With songs spinning effortlessly from one genre to another, fans of XTC, Syd Barrett, and even The Rutles won’t be disappointed. • Recent years have seen Whelligan focus on a project called ‘Annexe The Moon’. A modern-psyche collaboration with award winning BBC Sound Designer/Producer Phil Channell (#1 podcast Death In Ice Valley). Their single ‘Full Stop’ was a firm favourite on Bbc6 Music, with notable plays from Guy Garvey, Radcliffe and Maconie, Vic Galloway, Marc Riley and Steve Lamaqc. • 2021 saw the first of a new crop of Whelligan tunes, and his forthcoming album ‘In The Mean Meantime’ is lined up for release in April ‘22. Co-produced by long term collaborator Nick Frater (Big Stir Records/Great Sheiks) whose trademark sonic fairy-dust brings the magic of Whelligan’s tunes to your ears. • Sweet vocals harmonise over warm and wiry guitars, while inventive lyrics are matched with floating melodies. The album promises an enjoyable trip down a psyche-pop rabbit hole

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Touraj

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Fun In The Church)

21,59 €* 26,99 € -20%

Songs My Friends Wrote Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One of the most proliftic and influential works within Iranian pop music. "Me without you, the spring without you" is a collection that is a refined and remastered version of Touraj's songs performed between 1973 and 1978. All songs were arranged and orchestrated by Eric Arconte.

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Corb Lund

LP | 2022 | US | Original (New West)

21,69 €* 30,99 € -30%

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Lusofonia Record Club)

Banda Monte Cara

Re: Imaginar EP

21,74 €* 28,99 € -25%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Miramar/Universal Portugal)

Frankie Chavez & Peixe

Miramar Ii

21,74 €* 28,99 € -25%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Beamorose Purple Vinyl Edition

Penelope Antena

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Youngbloods)

21,74 €* 28,99 € -25%

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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God Created Everything Black Vinyl Edition

Linda Ayupuka

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mais Um Discos)

21,99 €*

Look At It In The Light Dark Blue Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pulsing electro-Fra Fra and DIY afro-gospel combine on God Created Everything, the debut album by Ghanaian singer Linda Ayupuka. Reminiscent of recent releases by Otim Alpha (Nyege Nyege) and Ata Kak, God Created Everything captures the rawness and immediacy of early-career recordings from the likes of Oumou Sangaré and Rokia Traoré, and heralds a new West African vocal talent - Linda Ayupuka. Produced by Francis Ayamga, (King Ayisoba, This Is FraFra Power!), at his locally renowned Top Link Studio in Bongo, Northern Ghana, God Created Everything features eight highly charged exchanges of polyrhythmic dancefloor beats where Linda and Francis channel traditional Guren+¢-language, Frafra ceremonial music with rapid fire tempos and hypnotic drum loops, referencing an international palette of dance styles from Malian DJ-led Balani Show street sound, electro-acholi to modern dancehall/RnB.

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Kate Bollinger

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Ghostly International)

21,99 €*