Folk 1371 Items

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Wrasse)

Claude Francois

Soul Songs

52,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Centricity)

Katy Nichole

Jesus Changed My Life

35,14 €* 36,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Monastics

World Island

14,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Signature Sounds)

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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Eilen Jewell

Get Behind The Wheel

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Spaceflight)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Tender Things

That Texas Touch

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Somerset Sessions Record Store Day 2023 Clear Vinyl Edition

Seth Lakeman

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Honour Oak)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Down Home 1985 Green Vinyl Edition

Townes Van Zandt

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Retroworld)

39,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Lamastrock)

Parranda La Cruz

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Disciples)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Parranda La Cruz creates a trance at the crossroads of Afro-Venezuelan rural festivals and Reunionese kabars

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Maxine Funke

River Said

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973-1983

Les Abranis

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

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Balloon Ranger)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Over 11 electrifying tracks, Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973-1983 highlights their legacy as the underground kings of Kabyle rock. Les Disques Bongo Joe return to the scorching Kabyle rock of Abranis, the pioneering Algerian band that blended traditional Berber music with western rock, folk, disco, and funk, all the while proudly celebrating their Kabyle heritage. Amazigh Freedom Rock is a comprehensive look into their discography, from the garage-rock experimentations of their early days to their lushly orchestrated North African fusion masterpieces of the 1980s.

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Ane Brun

Songs 2013-2023

32,99 €*

G.Rag Zelig Implosion Deluxxe

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Komm Schwimmen

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Gutfeeling)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Number 1's Revisited (Gold Vinyl)

T.G. Sheppard

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Goldenlane)

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Goldenlane)

T.G. Sheppard

Number 1's Revisited

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bela Zakir Hussain Edgar Meyer Fleck

As We Speak

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Bela Fleck Productions)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Rumi Sounds)

Erbatur

Ukde

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Turkish underground rock misfit Erbatur Çavusoglu's first solo album is finally here: an intimate collection of previously unreleased songs and new versions, with fresh arrangements by Big Daddy Mugglestone. The result is like Iron & Wine being fronted by a Taksim Square street poet, or a Turkish Crazy Horse.

Erbatur's wavering falsetto delivers heartfelt and tender songwriting, accentuated by an eclectic band of old and new Berlin friends. A must for fans of Indie Americana and Turkish Psychedelic Folk, this is a warm and haunting departure from his previous work with Zardanadam, deeply personal but with open arms.
Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media

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Xylouris White

The Forest In Me

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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More in tune now with the rhythm of the sun and moon, Xylouris White (Dirty Jim White and George Xylouris) speak to each other across great distances with the intuition and fellowship that can only be found over years in each other"s company. With fewer distractions, appreciative of the freedom to play with new sounds and spaces, they carve The Forest In Me from unbelievably thin air.Once you set the needle down on the record and hear for yourself, the intimacies and impressionism, abstraction and unfiltered emotion found in The Forest In Me, you may wonder what was the mood of the room in which this music came to be. George, Jim and long-time producer (and secret third member) Guy Picciotto share their thoughts:Guy Picciotto: "In late 2019, we had begun taking steps to working on new material. In a haphazard fashion, Jim and I started tracking drums in my basement, cutting them up into shapes with no set landing in mind. Some of it we sent to Giorgos in Crete - he responded with his lyra and his lute. Without intention we had initiated a process that would soon become more ruthlessly mandated by the world events that separated and isolated us to three corners of the globe in the following year."Giorgos Xylouris: "While we were recording, I noticed that the music had a certain solitude about it, both from the title and from inside. That led us to find more music from within that we had not yet discovered."Jim White: "The idea emerged, naturally nourished and nourishing a record with none of our usual angles and themes, no verbal language, no angst nor sudden dynamics, a more subtle structure. And we found The Forest In Me."The first revelation from The Forest In Me is "Latin White", in which Jim"s jaunty pattern sets the stage for George"s Cretan lyra and lute figurations, giving this short dance piece the feel of a welcome hoedown around the campfire, warding off the encroaching darkness of an emptied world. The repetitions, gathered to induce joy, have a glassy-eyed mechanical drive to them;...

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Forager)

Child Of Nature

34,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Türküola)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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

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

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

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Erkin Koray

Silinmeyen Hatiralar

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Never Enough Colored Vinyl Edition

Parker Mccollum

2LP | 2023 | Original (MCA Nashville)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Traces Of Illusion Compiled By Skyrager

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Spacetalk)

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

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

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Bubblewrap)

Georgia Ruth

Kingfisher

24,99 €*

Amatssou White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Tinariwen

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wedge)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Republic)

Leith Ross

To Learn

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Horton)

Carter Sampson

Gold

37,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Amatssou Black Vinyl Edition

Tinariwen

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wedge)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Logan Halstead Records)

Logan Halstead

Dark Black Coal

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mais 5)

José Afonso

Fura Fura

21,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Archangel Hill Black Vinyl Edition

Shirley Collins

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Domino)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Archangel Hill Indie Exclusive Green Grass Vinyl Edition

Shirley Collins

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Domino)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Trikont)

Karmatürji

24,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BFD)

Melonie Cannon

A Tribute To Vern Gosdin

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Horton)

Joey Frendo

Bound For Heartache

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ride Out Black Vinyl Edition

Out On The Eaves

LP | 2023 | Original (Red Curtain)

43,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Worried Songs)

Bob Martin

Seabrook

22,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (On The Corner)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 years. This album began when James Endeacott of 1965 Records sent Jerry David DeCicca to Charlottesville, Virginia to meet Martin, hoping to reissue Martin’s 1972 debut on RCA Records, Midwest Farm Disaster. DeCicca, who had co-produced the final recordings of folk-funk, Heartworn Highways’ songwriter, Larry Jon Wilson, for 1965 Records (and later reissued by Drag City Records) had played the LP for Endeacott several months earlier. Midwest Farm Disaster is that rare album that feels joyful and yet full of sorrow; Martin’s Lowell, Massachusetts voice yearning with a backbeat from Nashville session musicians, Norman Putnam and Kenny Buttrey, the later fresh from his “Heart of Gold” session. The reissue never happened, as Martin was already in the process of rescuing his forgotten masterpiece for his own self-release. But Bob and Jerry’s breakfast led to Martin’s daughter, Tami, hiring DeCicca and engineer, Jake Housh, who also worked on the Wilson album, to capture her father in a similar manner. After Midwest Farm Disaster, a second album for RCA was under contract, but when a record executive there wanted Martin to put his girlfriend’s poetry to music, Bob bailed on the deal. Martin continued to tour around with a pickup band until advice from his father resonated, and he left the road to raise a family. Bob worked as an educator, teaching math and computers, and even founded a school in West Virginia that taught traditional art forms in Appalachia like fiddle playing and weaving. Bob returned to the studio in 1982 to record Last Chance Rider for the June Appal, a label that focused on music from Appalachia and had released albums by Nimrod Workman, Si Kahn, and Betty Smith. In the late-90’s, Bob returned with two self-released CDs, The River Turns The Wheel and Next to Nothin’ that continued capturing stories of people and places that exhale their own mythologies. He wrote novels, cared for his family, and taught, and played only the occasional gig. But it’s this album, Seabrook, that finds Bob at his most wise and wistful; the histories of Lowell and his own life hanging longest in his voice. New songs about the West Virginia coal mines (“Three Miles Beneath This Mountain”) and living in an extended stay motel (“Midway Motel”) sit beside new and more urgent interpretations of late period classics, like “My Father Painted Houses,” and, for the first time, one of his oldest songs he didn’t record for Midwest Farm Disaster called “Give Me Light”, along with “Stay Awhile Sunshine,” which he had been singing to his family for decades and features Gary Mallaber (“Tupelo Honey”) on vibraphone. After DeCicca and Housh returned from the beach with Bob, they all agreed to flesh out the songs with other instrumentation to present as a draft for what the new record could be with a little more money and time. This was the time when the epilogue of musicians’ work was still of interest to labels. Everyone with a guitar over 65 was still in the shadow of Rubin’s Cash, and recent records by Loretta Lynn, Charlie Louvin, Soloman Burke, and Candi Staton were both fashionable and profitable. But Martin wasn’t as well known and his classic debut was only licensed for a limited physical release, proving him a difficult sell. Labels passed or made unreasonable requests, and Bob eventually lost interest; instead, choosing to record a solo acoustic live album, Live at the Bull Run, and tour Europe for the first time. There were hiccups of hope, like a feature in No Depression and a song in the TV show, Justified, but the new recordings quickly began collecting dusk. In the meantime, DeCicca continued producing records for other older artists, like Ed Askew’s For the World (Tin Angel), two Chris Gantry releases (Drag City), Will Beeley’s Highways and Heart Attacks (Tompkins Square), and reissue projects for the Numero Group (Elyse Weinberg, Rob Galbraith). Then, in 2021, DeCicca received a call from Bob’s daughter, Tami, giving him permission to finish the album as Bob’s health was failing. Upon revisiting the tracks with Housh, the album needed very little tidying up and the songs were completed with DeCicca’s former bandmates, The Black Swans, who had previously played on the original mock up back in 2008. With new technology and a new perspective, the album was completed, but not before Martin’s health had deteriorated more. Bob Martin passed away September 21, 2022 at 80 years of age. Sadly, he never heard his final album.

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BCUC

Millions Of Us

Live In San Francisco Late 1969

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A stone"s throw from the church where Desmond Tutu organised the escape of the most wanted anti-Apartheid activists of Soweto, Bcuc rehearses in a shipping container-turned-community restaurant, where their indomitable outspokenness echoes in a whole new way. Like its elders, Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness sees its music as a hedonistic trance, but also as a weapon of political and spiritual liberation. "Millions Of Us" is their first full-length album and most ambitious work to date - distilling their magic on record, summoning mainstage festival-energy and stewing down, casting spells for the intimate audience.

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Sandy Bull

LP | 2023 | EU (Trading Places)

21,99 €*

Zango Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sandy Bull’s unorthodox approach to guitar was as unique as his personal circumstances. Son of jazz harpist Daphne Hellman and brother to the sitarist Daisy Paradis, Bull became part of the bourgeoning Greenwich Village folk circuit. A move to San Francisco in 1963 found him sharing an apartment with Nubian oud master, Hamza El Din, which had a profound effect on his playing, spurring early world music experiments. The previously unreleased Live In San Francisco features bluesy electric ‘Memphis, Tennessee’ and ‘Instrumental Blues,’ plus the abstract ‘Untitled Instrumental’ and ‘Solo Experimental,’ all classic morsels of Bull wizardry.

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Witch

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Partisan)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Zango Colored Vinyl Edition

Witch

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Partisan)

Dancing In The Dark Random Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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

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

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Ziggy Alberts

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Commonfolk)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Universal)

Kenny Rogers

Life Is Like A Song

10,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Bloodshot)

Layng Martine jr.

Music Man

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mute)

Daniel Blumberg

Gut

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Curb)

The Desert Rose Band

True Love

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Keaton Henson

House Party

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Subject To Change Yellow Vinyl Edition

Kelsea Ballerini

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

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nico Paulo

LP | 2023 | Original (Forward Music Group)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | Original (MCA Nashville)

Jordan Davis

Bluebird Days

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mongolian Music From 70's Volume 1

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Everland Psych)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Marathon Artists)

Baaba Maal

Being

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

Ahmed Ben Ali

Subhana

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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

Kit Sebastian

L'Addio / Hayat

18,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

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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Bobby Lee

Endless Skyways

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mercury)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Willie Nelson

The Great Divide

12,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (None More)

Joe Woodham

Worldwide Weather

Supernatural Thing Eco Mixed Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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

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M. Ward

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Anti)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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

38,99 €*

Smoke & Oakum Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Soundtracks

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

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The Longest Johns

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Decca)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret

Beauties

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Domino Sounds)

LP | 2023 | US | Original (No Coast)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For many years, this has been on the Domino Sound reissue wish list, and finally the wish has been granted. A reissue in cahoots with Mississippi Records of a 1976 gem of a record from Ethiopia. Aselefech Ashine and Getenesh Kebret met in Addis Ababa at the Hager Fikir Theater, a music and dance icon of Africa. They released one 45rpm single, and this album under the musical direction of Tishome Sisay. Ten beautiful songs, each of them sung as closely intertwined duets between the two “beauties”, backed by the tip top sounds of the Army Band. The LP comes in a Stoughton “Tip-On” sleeve with lyrical translations and a short interview with Aselefech Ashine. A split release with Mississippi Records, we are ecstatic to have more copies for the world to enjoy. Dig in!

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Wristwatch

Tape | 2023 | Original (Forward Music Group)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Meaner and mightier, Wristwatch returns with the followup to their oft-sold-out debut self-titled LP! Aptly titled II, the upcoming album features a more nuanced collection of songs than the first...with a heavier focus on varying the tempos, moods and songwriting. There's even a ballad! Never Fear all you punk rock aficionados/snobs!!!! II still stays true to Wristwatch's signature sound: A hyper kinetic and disfigured backbone chock full of mutated punk rock vertebrates, with searing guitar leads as the cartilage and cacophonous electronic drums as the brittle joints holding the whole thing together. A year of playing shows around the Midwest with the likes of Agent Orange, Bongzilla, MDC, Starcrawler, etc really morphed the band's DNA quite a bit. Tyler SPATZ's bass playing has truly come to the forefront over the top of Bobby HUSSY’s signature yowl and guitar mangling on tracks like the leadoff, "Rules" and punk-pop morsel "Sweet Tooth." Have a good look... it only gets gnarlier from here on out

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Nico Paulo

12,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Christy Moore

The Early Years 1969-81

2LP | 2023 | EU (Tara)

The Capitol Years 1956-1963 Clear Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Named Ireland’s greatest living musician in 2007 by RTÉ, no one has come within an ass’s roar of challenging him for that title. Be it with Planxty, Moving Hearts, or solo as a chronicler of our times, a poke in the side of our conscience, a jester commemorating joyous events, or simply the owner of the most wondrously lilting voice, Christy Moore has been delighting audiences for over 50 years.

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Wanda Jackson

LP | 2023 | EU (Destination Moon)

17,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Vadi)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wanda Jackson is a true pioneer of American popular music. One of the first women in history to record country and western music, as well as rock ‘n’ roll, and a brief romantic liaison with Elvis.This collection reminds of the greatness of her peak years at Capitol Records. From the mournful twists of “Sinful Heart,” to the hard-rocking thrills of “Let’s Have A Party” and “Riot In Cell Block Number Nine,” Wanda Jackson attacks the material in her distinctive way, with a wry glance at innocence left somewhere behind. All hail the Queen, and long may she reign!

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Tommy Khosla

Vignettes

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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America Dream Reserve 2023 Edition

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

35,99 €*

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

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

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

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

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

Compiled by: Charles Bals & Henry Jones.

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Mldva & Cinar Timur

20,99 €*

Mi Rehabilitacion / No Seas Malo

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Chupameeldedo

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

13,59 €* 15,99 € -15%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ain't Through Honky Tonkin' Yet

Brennen Leigh

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Signature Sounds)

25,19 €* 27,99 € -10%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Lloyd Pack

I Can't Remember

LP | 2023 | US | Original (New West)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Over the course of the last decade, Messrs. Russell Walker and Daniel Melchior have collaborated under the guise of THE Lloyd Pack. While much ink has been spilled about their work apart from each other [das Menace, THE Pheromoans, countless solo dispatches], their conjoined effort has a bit of a cloaked rep. Perhaps it’s their insistence on bucking genre constraints that thickens the shroud, as their lone commitment lies in coaxing each other’s instincts into wondrous tracks. I Can’t Remember, the latest assemblage of said tracks, imparts bright buzz with a decidedly late-night air. An odd bit of cynical groove runs throughout, all the way to sunrise.

"The finest moments of The Lloyd Pack essentially equate Russ and Dan completing each other’s sentences, relating and reacting on equal terms. I Can’t Remember is replete with such moments. Many of the entries begin with simple rhythm programming as bedrock, expanding through all manner of pile- on riffing. The waltzing, madcap “Pagsy” shoves several recognizable tenants of classic Uk-diy pop into the circus tent. The romantic escapism that feeds “The Firs Hotel” eventually concludes as mere routine. “Crossroads Mason Simulator” acts as centerpiece, undeniable with its gorgeous lights-off sound, recalling a lost entry from After The Heat. Every tune offers surprise and something to cling to.

"Digital Regress is pleased to present I Can’t Remember, the fifth LP from The Lloyd Pack." - Mitch Cardwell

Riyl: Bobby Would, The Rebel, The Shadow Ring, Nathan Roche, Itchy Bugger

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Shaver

Electric Shaver

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (True North)

Bruce Cockburn

O Sun O Moon

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sonic Soul Surfer Gold Vinyl Edition

Seasick Steve

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (There's A Dead Skunk)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Happy Woman Blues Clear Vinyl Edition

Lucinda Williams

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Floating World)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Endless Coloured Way: The Songs Of Nick Drake Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Chrysalis)

33,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Real World)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Endless Coloured Ways is a collection of songs by legendary singer/ songwriter, Nick Drake, performed and recorded by over 30 incredible artists from a range of different backgrounds, genres, age groups and audiences From Fontaines D.C. to Guy Garvey, Aurora to Feist, and Self-Esteem to David Gray, each artist has offered their own incredible take on a timeless classic "Nick Drake was not that concerned with promoting himself as an artist but I think he would have been overjoyed to hear his art promoted by so many vibrant and talented artists such as the ones we approached. Each track is an example of a fellow artist adopting Nick's art as if it was their own, submitting to the song, and the results prove to me that talent can so often win out over mere skill or 'personality'. We are honoured and so grateful to all our friends, old and new, who took part in the making of this set." - Cally Calloman, Bryter Music "Having initially exchanged a list of our favourite artists and realised how much our tastes overlapped, Cally and I set out on this venture with one simple brief - to ask the artists to ignore the original recording of Nick's in terms of arrangement, production and singing style; basically, we were asking them to reinvent the song. First of all, it was humbling to hear so many similar responses, saying how important Nick's music was to them, and how much they wanted to be part of this project. But as the results came in one by one, we were staggered by the brilliance and invention that each artist had shown. They had done what we asked - they had made the song their own." - Jeremy Lascelles, Chrysalis Records

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Mari Kalkun

Stories Of Stonia

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Endless Coloured Way: The Songs Of Nick Drake Grey Vinyl Edition

2LP+7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Chrysalis)

47,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Americana Anthropology)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kentucky Colonels

1966

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Les Disques Magnétiques)

Pekodjinn

Dharba

20,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Rhinestone Tomboy Deep Purple Vinyl Edition

Mya Byrne

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Kill Rockstars Nashville)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Alien Transistor)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Minhwi Lee

Borrowed Tongue

23,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Nordic Notes)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Borrowed Tongue is the debut solo album by Korean singer-songwriter Minhwi Lee. It’s a mysterious, strangely compelling thing, an album of rare poetry, and remarkably self-assured. Originally released in November 2016, the album made waves, winning best folk album of 2016 at the 14th Korean Music Awards. Its eight songs, written and predominantly arranged by Lee, don’t reveal their secrets easily, or at first blush; rather, they take their time slowly to unfurl in her listeners’ worlds. There are hints of other music here, from time to time: the intimacy of Stina Nordenstam, perhaps; the gauzy haze of Hope Sandoval, on the blissed-out pop of “Broken Mirror”; there are touches of acid-folk, and ECM jazz, and a slyly filmic approach to songwriting and arrangement that makes every song fit perfectly into the album’s arc.

Lee arrived at her solo music through a complex, circuitous route. After studying musicology in Seoul, she learned her trade, film scoring, in New York and Paris. She also studied classical music, blowing off steam in a wild punk duo, Mukimukimanmansu, who released one album, 2012, on Korean indie label Beatball. Subsequently, Lee has been refining her music, focusing both on her solo songs, and on writing for television series and films; she’s written scores for films by such directors as Sangmoon Lee, Jeongwon Kam, and Wanmin Lee. She also plays in the jazz outfit Cubed, and recently joined doom metal group Gawthrop on bass.

Since its release in 2016, Borrowed Tongue has slowly bewitched listeners with its idiosyncratic arrangements and evocative songwriting. It’s an album that hints at plenty, but refuses to make grand statements, something Lee seems intent to pursue: in correspondence, she’s very clear that she wants these songs to enact a kind of transmutation, to be adopted into the listeners’ lives and exist within their own imaginings. She does, however, offer a few hints to what propels these mercurial songs, explaining, “this album is about a person who again opens their mouth, which was once shut. The album deals with what it means to speak: things that are known but not said, things that should be said but are not, things that cannot be said but nonetheless are.”

This may well explain the curious mood of Borrowed Tongue, the multiple ‘voices’ that inhabit the album; Lee’s singing voice is pliable and mutable, approaching each song as its own diorama and ensuring the song is sung with just the right tone. The arrangements Lee conjures for her songs are all in service to narrative and melody; they appear to her alongside the composition, which is surely why everything here fits together so beautifully. From there, Lee approaches her songs carefully, in deference to their ‘need to be sung’ a certain way. There isn’t a moment wasted: everything on Borrowed Tongue is as it needs to be, whether a melancholy folk song taking to the air, or a psychedelic reverie dreamed into being. It’s a beautiful, poised and confident debut.

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Lena Jonsson Trio

Elements

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Magic Lady Black Vinyl Edition

Mandy Morton & Spriguns

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Guerssen)