Folk 404 Items

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sublime Frequencies)

Natik Awayez

Manbarani

22,79 €* 23,99 € -5%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Secret Museum Of Mankind - Guitars Vol. 1: Prologue To Modern Styles

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jalopy)

Release: 2021 / EU – 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 | 2021 | DE | Original (Jazzhaus)

Carrousel

Cinq

Release: 2021 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Be Right Back Red Vinyl Edition

Jorja Smith

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Membran)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection Part 2

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

32,99 €*

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Unrock)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Second compilation by Habibi Funk, following the success of the first part, featuring a wide range of music from North Africa and the Middle East.

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Shalabi Effect

Freinds Of The Prophet 6

Swaying Steady Seamsplit Sleeve Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Follow up to their 2012 "Feign To Delight, Gaiety Of Gods" on Beirut's Annihaya Records, the long history of the band continues. An eclectic multi-instrumentalists delight from Will Eizlini, Anthony von Seck, Alexandre St-Onge and Sam Shalabi. Features the centerpiece "Det. Nussbaum's Worst Case" with the formidable Manuela Giron's vocal-performance, telling a wonderful weird story of true life. . El burro sabe mas que tu...Nadietequiere.. A grown band on the peak of their power on a roundtrip through their extensive musical world, adding analog electronica, echoing guitars, notes from oriental landscapes, Mariachi adaptions and grand piano. Robotic player piano homunculus of Bach - If he was build by Bedouins in Upper Egypt ..and ketamine, cannabis and mushrooms. A Middle-Eastern Frankenstein. Limited edition one time pressing of 300 copies" (label info)

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Megan Siebe

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Shrimper / Grapefruit)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sunstone)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A few copies arrived with split sleeve that we offer at a lower price.

Megan Siebe is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and arranger from Omaha, Nebraska. She’s cut her teeth as a member of bands such as Simon Joyner & the Ghosts, The David Nance Group, Cursive, Sean Pratt & the Sweats, The Jim Schroeder Sextet, and many others, touring nearly non-stop for the last decade. She’s also written string arrangements for albums by Refrigerator, John Davis, the Renderers, Dennis Callaci, L. Eugene Methe, Justin Townes Earle, and Anna McClellan. But all the while she was writing her own intimate, finely-crafted songs in secret, only breaking them out around the occasional Nebraska campfire amongst friends. A break from touring in other bands these last fifteen months has allowed Siebe more time to focus on a powerful cycle of songs she’s had brewing for some time. Grapefruit and Shrimper are proud to join forces to release Megan’s humble yet astonishing debut. Swaying Steady is a gorgeous collection of literate and evocative singer-songwriter, country-tinged, melancholy pop songs about relationships in crisis, bad seeds, family, and emotional endurance. For fans of Lucinda Williams, Harry Nilsson, Elyse Weinberg, Nick Drake, and Sibylle Baier.

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Adam Geoffrey Cole

Fallowing

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Türküola)

Edip Akbayram

Nedir Ne Degildir

Marisa Anderson & William Tyler

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Edip Akbayram & Dostlar-Nedir Ne Değildir? –Türküola This masterpiece is the debut album of Edip Akbayram & Dostlar. The Sayan LP is chronologically the first LP, but it is a more singles compilation. In this context, “Nedir Ne Değildir” is the debut album as it has its own repertoire and has a homogenous LP sound. The music represents the golden psychedelic folk era of Dostlar formed of Galip Kayıhan (guitar and synthesizer), Mithat Danışan (Panço) (bass), Ayzer Danga (drums) and Cudi Koyuncu (2 decked electric saz and other Turkish instruments). Some other companies reissued it, but in this reissue, you will hear the high fidelity sound from the original master tapes remastered with the glamourous efforts of Hamit Akbay and Cüneyt Yalçın Naçar. The front and back covers are also in line with the original cover design. Put your stylus on your vinyl and Enjoy the quality of Türküola.

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Lost Futures

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Thrill Jockey)

31,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Rumi Sounds)

So Duo

So Far

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (New Friends Music)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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SO Duo, Sumru Ağıryürüyen (vocal, mandolin, keyboard) and Orçun Baştürk (panduri, voice, keyboard, electronics, drums) have been creating various projects together, in a spectrum between traditional and avant-garde since 2013. So Far is a collection of the works of SO Duo released on vinyl as a double LP for fans and collectors for the first time.

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Orla Gartland

Woman On The Internet

27,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Shrimper / Grapefruit)

Megan Siebe

Swaying Steady

25,64 €* 26,99 € -5%

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Fat Possum)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Megan Siebe is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and arranger from Omaha, Nebraska. She’s cut her teeth as a member of bands such as Simon Joyner & the Ghosts, The David Nance Group, Cursive, Sean Pratt & the Sweats, The Jim Schroeder Sextet, and many others, touring nearly non-stop for the last decade. She’s also written string arrangements for albums by Refrigerator, John Davis, the Renderers, Dennis Callaci, L. Eugene Methe, Justin Townes Earle, and Anna McClellan. But all the while she was writing her own intimate, finely-crafted songs in secret, only breaking them out around the occasional Nebraska campfire amongst friends. A break from touring in other bands these last fifteen months has allowed Siebe more time to focus on a powerful cycle of songs she’s had brewing for some time. Grapefruit and Shrimper are proud to join forces to release Megan’s humble yet astonishing debut. Swaying Steady is a gorgeous collection of literate and evocative singer-songwriter, country-tinged, melancholy pop songs about relationships in crisis, bad seeds, family, and emotional endurance. For fans of Lucinda Williams, Harry Nilsson, Elyse Weinberg, Nick Drake, and Sibylle Baier.

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Connie Smith

Cry Of The Heart

30,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | UK | Reissue (Acid Jazz)

Matt Berry

Witchazel

Release: 2011 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Country Funk Volume 3 1975-1982 Clear Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Light In The Attic)

Devendra Banhart & Noah Georgeson

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Volume 3 in LITA’s acclaimed Country Funk series! Featuring Dolly Parton, J.J. Cale, Conway Twitty, Larry Jon Wilson, and Billy Swan, amongst many others Includes previously unreleased track by Tony Joe White Newly remastered audio New original artwork by renowned artist J. William Myers (artist for Robert Altman’s Nashville, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson’s Waylon & Willie album, and LP covers for the Charlie Daniels Band) Description: The horse still bucks, the band still funks, and well…the fire still burns.

That’s right—Country Funk is back.

In the summer of 2012, a new sound blew in from the dusty desert. It was a sound difficult to pin down, to codify; a sound that, like some wild horse, resisted one’s grasp. But this was no trend, no flash-in-the-pan movement, no shotgun marriage of styles, no ma’am. This sound went back decades, back to the latter half of the 1960s and early 1970s when adventurous artists started to blend country hoedown harmony with the elation of gospel, the sexual thrust of the blues and a touch of inner-city grit. This was a new sound with a simple name: Country Funk.

Country Funk 1969-1975, first released in 2012 and co-produced by Zach Cowie, Patrick McCarthy and Matt Sullivan, brought together a disparate group of artists that were neither bound by geography nor a shared ideology, but connected through the simple feel of their songs. Country Funk is alternatively playful and melancholic, slow jammin’ and booty-shakin’. It’s a sound both studio slick and barroom raw, as evident in the artists featured on Volume I: Johnny Adams, Mac Davis, Dale Hawkins, Tony Joe White, Bobbie Gentry, Larry Jon Wilson, and many others. Just two years later, we chased Volume I with a new collection of songs for Country Funk 1967-1974 (lita 116, 2014). Volume II didn’t let up, dealing out all the loose-talking and lap-steel twangin’ one could handle. Heavy hitters like Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton and J.J. Cale shared barstools with the lesser-known voices of Bill Wilson, Donnie Fritts and Thomas Jefferson Kaye.

With Country Funk Volume III 1975-1982 (lita 194) we’re here to say there’s more funk left in the trunk yet. This time around, the jeans are tighter, the hair is bigger and the disco ball spins along to a country-synth beat. Produced and compiled by Jason Morgan (Bay Area DJ/collector) and Patrick McCarthy (co-producer/compiler of Volume I & II), the tracklist features regulars Dolly Parton, J.J. Cale, Larry Jon Wilson and Tony Joe White (whose track is released here for the first time) alongside new faces like Steven Soles, Gary & Sandy, Conway Twitty, Travis Wammack, Billy Swan, Rob Galbraith, Brian Hyland, and so many more. As the 1970s began to wane and the 1980s approached, the Country Funk pallet expanded to include disco beats, heavy Moog synth bass lines and more clavinet than you could shake a stick at. Volume III shows artists continuing to buck traditional country tropes and production while embracing modern soul, disco, and coked-up 80s synth-pop. This is the true soundtrack of the Urban Cowboy. Saddle up, partners.

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Refuge Seaglass Wave Transculent Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Dead Oceans)

33,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Last spring, Devendra Banhart and Noah Georgeson started to make a record that was like nothing they had made before _ an ambient album that would be both a haven from a suddenly terrified world and a heartfelt musical dialogue between two artists who have been friends and collaborators for over two decades. Refuge is an album of profound meditative beauty which offers the listener a much-needed sense of peace and renewal. But while it was recorded in 2020 its roots go back much further _ all the way to the start of their friendship and, beyond that, to the shared sounds and ethics of their childhoods. Devendra grew up in Venezuela while Noah, six years older, is a native of Nevada City, California. But as they got to know each other, they realised that they had a similar history in the New Age subculture of the 1980s: a world of meditation, Eastern music, the Bhagavad Gita and The Whole Earth Catalog. Childhood memories were coloured by the aromas of health food stores and the sound of New Age labels like Windham Hill Records. Noah, whose production and mixing credits include Joanna Newsom and the Strokes, came on board as co-producer of Devendra's 2005 album Cripple Crow and they have been working together ever since. It was while making Devendra's 2019 album Ma that the pair finally decided to make their ambient record. Despite complicating logistics, 2020 created an emotional craving for music with this contemplative, therapeutic quality. Inspired by both memories of the past and the needs of the present, Refuge is an act of companionship and generosity which gives the listener room to breathe. "We're hoping to create a sense of comfort and coming back to the moment," Devendra says. "It's really important to have a little bit of space between us and our anxieties and impulses. What you do with that space is up to you." - Dorian Lynskey May 2021

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David Wiffen

Live At The Bunkhouse

LP | 2021 | EU (Mapache)

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Sounds Of Subterrania)

Release: 2021 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One could assume that while David Wiffen was standing on the side of the road hitchhiking across Canada in the mid-60s, he was daydreaming of a successful music career.One could doubt that one of those daydreams would be about an album he recorded in Vancouver in 1965 which would still be in demand 55 years later!

The 'Bunkhouse album' was originally going to be a folk sampler which was very popular in those days butthe other artists pulled out at the last minute due to a major snowstorm and David Wiffen recorded It as a solo effort.

'Live at the Bunkhouse” was, in fact, recorded during a 3-hour session at a small studio on West Broadway in Vancouver and 100 copies were released on the Universal International label.

By the early '70s, David would become known as one of Canada's greatest songwriters and manyartists including;HarryBelafonte,The Byrds & Tom Rush,recorded his songs.

Called the 'Holy Grail' of Canadian folk, the 'Bunkhouse' album has become one of the most difficult albums to find for record collectors around the world and we're proud to bring it back to life.

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Ipek Yolu

Tropical Anatolia

11,99 €* 15,99 € -25%

My Name Is Suzie Ungerleider Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Ipek Yolu is the Turkish name for the Silk Road which connected the East and the West. This band does not deal in silk but they connect flavors, smells and sounds from different corners of the globe, connecting the world.
The band merges bass-heavy electro-tinged cumbia grooves, saz riffs and surf guitar into a multicultural melting pot of South American rhythms, Anatolian folk music and 60s psychedelic rock. A unique universe of sound that bridges the tropical jungles and the dusty deserts in a kaleidoscopic blend of music. Ipek Yolu has used 2020 to write their debut album Tropical Anatolia and are ready to hit the venues and festivals.
The members of Ipek Yolu first got together for an improvised jam session during the Aarhus Roots & Hybrid Festival in 2018. The show was set up as a special one-time-only show merging members from the bands Hudna & Junglelyd. The show ended up lasting for almost three hours. It didn’t take them long to discover they were onto something special. If you know any of these bands mentioned you know you’re in for a body-shaking party, characterised by musical curiosity and improvisation.
The three members of Ipek Yolu have all been part of the Danish music scene for several years. The band leader, Orhan Özgür Turan, is a well-known and respected saz player all over Denmark, and has made a name for himself through his efforts in the Anatolian Folk band Hudna. In 2018 he won an award as Global Roots Artist of the year at The Danish World Music Awards. Olaf Brinch and Lasse Aagaard have worked together for many years making high energy cumbia with their band Junglelyd and Afrobeat with their band African Connection. Olaf is also an integral part of the Danish band AddisAbabaBand. In addition, Olaf and Lasse have toured and recorded with great musicians such as CC Yoyo, former drummer of Fela Kuti, in both Ghana and Denmark. All of the past experiences collided to create Ipek Yolu.

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Suzie Ungerleider

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (MVKA)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Western Vinyl)

Chorusing

Half Mirror

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Wah Wah)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On his debut album Half Mirror, Matthew O'Connell superimposes warm analog synths onto self-described "confessional folk" with a simultaneously cosmic and earthly outcome. Tracked at home in the mountains of North Carolina using a vintage tape delay, electric guitar, and a self-designed synthesizer named `Balsam,' Half Mirror is at once a lonesome push-pull of electronics humanized by folk elements, and folk music made alien by electronic adornments. O'Connell's own story is just as captivatingly segmented. While growing up on a farm in Palmyra, Indiana, he became obsessed with metal drumming and spent most of his free time practicing in the garage, occasionally recording on four-track tape machines with his brother Joe (Elephant Micah). Reflecting on those formative years, O'Connell says, "I think that period instilled two things in me: a long attention span, and the ability to work obsessively on something in solitude." It's these monastic inclinations that helped form the spirit of Half Mirror. While in college, his interest in math led him to participate in a six-month intensive study program in Budapest, Hungary. There, he continued writing song fragments on a borrowed guitar and fiddling with musical electronics at the Kitchen Budapest_a collective of artists, theorists, and coders. In 2011, his interest in electronics and engineering led him to Asheville, North Carolina, where he worked for Moog Music calibrating and building synthesizers, and testing vintage analog delay chips by day. At night he would spend his time building homemade synths and writing songs. It was here in Asheville that he began the bulk of the work on Half Mirror, imbuing his music with the qualities of his environment almost by necessity. O'Connell made a deliberate effort to keep the album's production sparse. His interest in restraint stems in part from his love of albums like Nearly God by Tricky and Ghost Tropic by Songs: Ohia, both of which feature uncomfortably bare vocals and uncanny production that commands the listener's attention. Additional inspiration came from Mark Hollis' striking minimalism, and the freeform songwriting of Arthur Russell and John Martyn. Filtering the poetry of fractured, imperfect memories through a lush, yet sparse palette of sounds, Half Mirror evokes a profoundly moody sense of place: the fog heavy in the mountain peaks, the dew present on early morning walks, and the musky smell of rhododendrons in the air.

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Bazali Bam

Action

Neil Young & The Crazy Horse

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Extremely rare, under the radar afro-psychedelic LP from South Africa. This mysterious band was produced by African funk master, composer, guitarist and producer Almon Sandisa Memela, who was active since the mid 1950s, first as a musician and guitar teacher and then also as a producer. He is famous for his 1970s Afro funk works Funky Africa and the very sought after Broken Shoes.

Action features a cool mixture of incipient afro-funk and garage pop/psych, with one of its songs having been compiled on the famous Next Stop... Soweto compilation series that helped ignite the current fever for African music.

Riyl: Ofege, Blo, Aktion, The Apostles, Sjob Movement, Soweto and the likes.

First ever vinyl reissue, reproducing the original sleeve artwork and with remastered sound. 500 copies only.

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Live In Nagoya Japan 1976

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (DBQP)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Outre-National)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Neil Young’s extensive tour with Crazy Horse in 1976 comes after the release of On The Beach in 1974 and two albums, Tonight’s The Night and Zuma, the following year. The first live appearances with the new Crazy Horse with Frank (Poncho) Sampedro replacing the deceased Dan Whitten consist of four shows in ten days in little clubs and bars in northern California, dubbed the “Rolling Zuma Revue.” An extensive world tour was booked, called “The Year Of The Horse,” beginning on March 3rd, 1976 in Nagoya. This was Young’s first visit to Japan and he played seven shows in Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, and Tokyo.

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Hocine Chaoui

Ouechesma

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Basin Rock)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Chaoui is a genre of Berber music that originated in the Aurès region of Algeria. It is a mixture of Saharan and Atlas mountain music marked with dancing rhythms and is part of the oral living tradition of the Aurès region. The first recordings on magnetic tape date back to the 1930s when Aissa Jermouni’s music was introduced and published internationally. Over the years, Chaoui has given birth to various sub-genres. The genre was popularized in the 1930s and 1940s, and still generates a strong following of fans across the country and especially in the Aurès region in the 2000s. In its most frequent instrumental configuration, a chaoui music group includes a zorna, a gasba flute, a bendir and one or more singers.

Originally, Chaoui musicians were shepherds who lived in the Aurès mountains, and they sang their own localized poetry of personal and regional topics. But also, joyful themes such as local or religious festivals or in the context of Chaoui weddings.

Hocine Chaoui is one of the genre’s most famous and respected musicians and poets. ,Hocine modernized his sound with drum machines, incorporating intense and modern production techniques with phased gesba flute, reverbed out vocals, taking the genre to its logical new phase. This LP is a reissue of one of the most “in demand” of the genre’s cassettes originally released by Oriental Music Production, a cassette label dedicated to the some of the best regional releases during the heyday of the 80’s and 90’s golden era of rai and local Algerian music cassettes. These releases were only ever released on cassette and now command a premium on the collector’s market.

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Johanna Samuels

Excelsior!

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Night Bloom)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With a special knack for balancing bright pop melodies with a drifting sense of melancholy, LA based Johanna Samuels new album Excelsior! is a tender, honest document of the importance of companionship above all else. Named after Dylan’s “Visions of Johanna”, Samuels grew up on the classic songwriters of yesteryear (George Harrison, Tom Petty, Neil Young) and after a healthy dose of Elliott Smith and Jon Brion, has spent the best part of the last decade honing her craft.

Excelsior! was recorded in a small cabin in West Shokan in NY State, in the middle of the winter with her band and producer Sam Evian but it's songs are full of West Coast sunshine. It's Evian's first full album production at his own Flying Cloud Studios. Recorded mostly to tape, the album is as a gorgeous combination of vintage instrumentation, strong melodic hooks, killer harmonies and Samuels’ elegant voice.

Samuels seeks those answers through companionship, exploring the depths of her relationships and then calling upon a handful of womxn to provide the album’s backing vocals - a task she’d always performed herself until now. As such, Excelsior! makes a space for the voices of Courtney Marie Andrews, Hannah Cohen, Lomelda’s Hannah Read, A.O. Gerber, Louise Florence and Olivia Kaplan.

The album takes its name from the signature that Samuels’ grandpa would use before he sadly passed away last December. “He was a very important person to me and he helped raise me,” Johanna explains. “He signed all of his letters and emails ‘Excelsior!’, including the exclamation point. It means ‘ever upward’ and that’s what I wish for everyone: to grow from listening with more empathy and from hearing each other out. I hope this record makes people want to be gentler with each other and themselves.”

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Alex Bleeker

Heaven On The Faultline

Janet & Jak Esim And Ensemble

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I’ve known Alex Bleeker my entire life. Well, okay, maybe not since I was born, but there’s no doubt that I’ve shared a fair bit of memories with him over the years. We’ve acted in high school productions of Shakespeare together, gone on late-night diner runs, argued about which Weezer album is the band’s best, and swapped mutual appreciation for the music of Yo La Tengo on car rides careening around the snaky suburbia of our hometown. Just like his Real Estate bandmates Martin Courtney and Julian Lynch, we attended high school in the New Jersey enclave of Ridgewood, a place where sticky summer days yielded cool nights with a glow so nocturnal that you can practically hear the fireflies buzzing off of this sentence alone.

Indie rock—a type of music that can easily be made or listened to in someone’s garage—often dominates teenage suburban preoccupations, and both Alex and I were no exception. You can hear this legacy of listening on his new album Heaven on the Faultline, which departs from his last full-band outing as Alex Bleeker and the Freaks, 2015’s Country Agenda. Whereas that album had a more full-bodied explicitly folk-y feel, Heaven on the Faultline finds Bleeker getting back to his homespun roots over the course of its 13 songs, from the jangly guitar pop of New Jersey heroes the Feelies and YLT’s hushed, acoustic reveries to the open-hearted folk rock that marks so much of the Grateful Dead’s early catalog.

Written and recorded over the last several years, Heaven on the Faultline’s songs were initially recorded straight to GarageBand in Bleeker’s bedroom before receiving further studio refinement in co-producer Phil Hartunian’s Tropico Beauty space in Los Angeles. With contributions from Confusing Mix of Nations’ Josh Da Costa, Cameron Stallones of Sun Araw, singer-songwriter Kacey Johansing, and Parting Lines’ Tim Ramsey, Heaven on the Faultline achieves a warm and intimate feel that defines Bleeker’s mission for the album: “I wanted to capture the moment in which I fell in love with making music to begin with. This is music for myself—me getting back to music for music’s sake.”

The unsteady times we live in certainly creep into view on Heaven on the Faultline. The deceptively easygoing “D Plus” was written on the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration with the cursed event in mind, while the anxiety of climate change hovers just above the lovely guitar loops of “Felty Feel.” “The album is very much about dealing with the anxiety of a sense of impending doom,” Bleeker states while discussing the album’s portentous vibes. “When is the hammer going to fall? How do we go forward in the face of such anxiety and experience the complexity of life?”

Tough questions with few answers, but try not to stress too much. It’s possible to experience such existential doubt while also enjoying the simple pleasures that life has to offer, and that ethos is square at the heart of Heaven on the Faultline. It defines who Alex Bleeker is, too, and is one of many reasons why I’m proud to have known this special person and artist for so long.

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Sefardim

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Rumi Sounds)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Die True)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Melodic fragments from medieval Spain with a Judaeo-Spanish version of a Turkish sharki. An Argentinian tango adapted to the dervish tradition. Orthodox church rites in Turkey meet an Andalusian secular repertory in Morocco.

Sefardim is a compilation of popular romansas (love ballads) by ladino-speaking Jews in Istanbul. Forced out of the Iberian Peninsula by the end of the 15th century, the music of the Sephardim survived 500 years in exile and greatly influenced Turkish Art Music. Janet and Jak Esim are accompanied by fretless guitar virtuoso Erkan Oğur and percussion maestro Okay Temiz. They have meticulously collected songs, melodies and lyrics from the last ladino speakers alive.

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Jesse Daniel

Beyond These Walls

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Last Animals Yellow Vinyl Edition

A. Smyth

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Lover)

15,59 €* 25,99 € -40%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Concord)

Yola

Stand For Myself

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Jorma Kaukonen & John Hurlbut

The River Flows Volume 2 Record Store Day 2021 Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Culture Factory)

32,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.
Limitation: 1500.

The second volume of a series started by the RSD Black Friday release of The River Flows Vol. 1, which completely sold out and garnered a lot of positive reviews. This deluxe Vol. 2 package features Jorma Kaukonen and John Hurlbut performing their versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons and more, with an original from John Hurlbut as well.

The deluxe package, designed by Kevin Morgan, features an OBI side spine on a gatefold jacket, an inner sleeve with celebrity pictures from Jorma’s Fur Peace Ranch. The record itself is clear vinyl with five-color splatter.

Photographer: Lincoln Castricone
Executive Producer: Vannessa Kaukonen
Producer: Jorma Kaukonen
Engineered and Mixed: Justin Guip

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My Jazzy Child

Inneisme

17,24 €* 22,99 € -25%

10" | 2021 | EU | Original (Le Pop Club)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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« Innéisme » : The title alone sums up perfectly the 8th album of French artist My Jazzy Child. Inspired by Noam Chosmky's "universal grammar", it refers to man's innate ability to develop language. It is that English, Occitan, French patois, Hindi, Pygmy or French cohabit on this record, juxtaposing on rhythms and beats that appear as a fantasized primordial tradition.

If My Jazzy Child aka Damien Mingus, questions languages about Innéisme, he also questions musical languages, mixing Asian rites and free jazz, electronic wanderings and traditional percussions. A virtuoso and experimental collage that nevertheless knows how to remain melodic and, in the end, strangely pop.

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Concrete Jane

Sole Mio EP

18,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Meadows)

Fuzzy Lights

Burials

19,99 €*

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Ie Too)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After a hiatus of over eight years Fuzzy Lights are making a welcome return. Burials is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed album Rule of Twelfths, and the fourth album from the Cambridge-based post-folk collective.

Their sound has been stripped back to its component parts, deconstructed and rebuilt under less obvious influences. There’s a bedrock of folk-rock - predecessors like Trees and Fairport Convention - but this is then built upon through multiple layers, from the stillness of Talk Talk to the orchestral chaos of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. With Burials Fuzzy Lights have cultivated these sounds and influences into something new and fresh that distances the album from the rest of the folk-rock crowd.

The most striking element of these songs is how intimate they are. Lyricist Rachel Watkins has revealed a lot about herself in these seven songs, which have been written from a very personal perspective. Raw experiences have been distilled into each piece, her translucent vocals often betraying the content of the songs themselves. The album is bookended with the most personal of these. Opener ‘The Maidens Call’ reveals her loss from suffering a miscarriage, whilst album closer, ‘The Gathering Storm’ frames the rallying cry of women’s rights around how individuals must work together now, and in future generations, to destroy prejudice. There is also engagement with humanity’s immediate surroundings and the environment. ‘Under The Waves’ deals with devastation of coral reefs, ocean resources and our natural world, and ‘The Graveyard Song’ imagines the perception of time from the juxtaposed views of a yew tree and a young woman.

As scenarios, paths, and outcomes shift around us, Burials’ amalgam of glowering, intense instrumentation, timeless, weightless melody, and exactingly revealing lyricism carves a very particular path through the world. This is music that tears us away from the everyday not just as a form of escapism, but as a means of self-reflection on hardship and the strategies we develop to overcome it. It is the band’s rawest yet most accomplished statement to date.

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Saint Sisters

Shape Of Silence

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Saint Sister's debut record Shape of Silence, brilliantly presents their ability to create a unique blend of electronic, folk and pop. Exploration of the capabilities of the Irish harp - experimenting with effects and loops pedals and blending with subtle electronica opened up the pathway to the sonic palette of this record. Nominated for the Northern Irish Music Prize and the Choice Music Prize it established them as one of Ireland’s brightest acts.

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Spinning Coin

LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Rc1)

Rodney Crowell

Triage

21,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Been Here And Gone Gold Vinyl Edition

Thalia Zedek

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Thrill Jockey)

31,99 €*

Alasdair Roberts Og Völvur

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release legendary singer/ guitarist Thalia Zedek's Been Here and Gone, Thrill Jockey is proud to present the album unlike it has ever been heard before: on vinyl, re-mastered by Sarah Register. Thalia Zedek has been one of the most enduring rock musicians of the past four decades. From her auspicious beginnings in bands Uzi, Live Skull, and Dangerous Birds to her wider recognition in Come, Zedek established herself as a singular voice accruing accolades from critics and contemporaries including J. Mascis, Kurt Cobain, and Bob Mould. Been Here and Gone, her debut solo release originally released on Matador in 2001 on CD, marked a turning point in Zedek's music. As Come was coming to a close, Zedek began exploring writing and performing as a solo artist, eventually backed by violist David Curry, pianist Mel Lederman (both of which went on to perform with Zedek for two decades), as well as former Come bandmates Chris Brokaw and Daniel Coughlin. The idiosyncrasies of her voice were laid bare for the first time, revealing an even greater depth to her unique songwriting. The more spacious and rich arrangements sprawl and whisper with powerful vulnerability. "There was definitely something magical about the making of Been Here and Gone," says Zedek. "I'm not sure if it was because it was made at a studio called Higher Power in a recently desanctified church in Stuyvesant, NY, or if it was because it was the end of a century, not to mention a millennium, the end of a decade of being in Come, the longest running band I'd had up to that point, and the end of 5 years of unhappy breakups and tumultuous relationships in my personal life." The eleven tracks that comprise Been Here and Gone embody that tension of uncertainty with a hopeful edge of renewal. Zedek's indelible resilience lifts even the somberest laments into triumphs. Even on the album's three cover tunes, including a haunting rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love," Zedek's voice and guitar color every note with raw emotion, making each passing gesture personal. Been Here and Gone channels the thunder and roar of Zedek's past into a fragile magnificence.

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The Old Fabled River

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Drag City)

20,99 €* 29,99 € -30%

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Solanaceae Red Vinyl Edition

Solanaceae

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Heidrunar Myrkrunar)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tom Liwa Singt Texte Von Axel Ressler

6 / 8 Rot

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Tom Liwa)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Red Wig)

Howie Reeve

Cracks

15,29 €* 17,99 € -15%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kumio Kurachi / Howie Reeve

Double Rainbow

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Red Wig)

14,44 €* 16,99 € -15%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Place To Be: A Tribute To Nick Drake

Danny Cavanagh,

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Accelerator)

15,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Van)

Lindy-Fay Hella

Taag / Otherworld

10,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

El Turronero

New Hondo

12,99 €*

Jokerman / I And I The Reggae Remix Ep Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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

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Bob Dylan

12" | 2021 | Original (Legacy)

How Long Will I Love You 2021 Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Reggae & Dancehall

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Record Store Day 2021 Drop 2 release limited to 7000 copies worldwide. This 12” features two reggae remixes each of “Jokerman” and “I And I” by Doctor Dread. The original versions of both tracks appeared on Dylan’s ‘Infidels’ album with Sly & Robbie as the rhythm section. The two “I And I” remixes were previously released on ‘Is It Rolling Bob: A Reggae Tribute To Bob Dylan’ (2003) while the ‘Jokerman’ remixes are newly commissioned and previously unreleased. Doctor Dread has worked withBob Marley, Black Uhuru, Jimmy Cliff, Inner Circle, Gregory Isaacs, Luciano, Mad Cobra, Freddy Mcgregor, Sly and Robbie, Steel Pulse, The Wailers and many others.

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The Waterboys

12" | 2021 (Chrysalis)

16,99 €*

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

Release: 2021

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Record Store Day 2021 Release. The Waterboys 1990 single has been remixed for 2021, featuring new vocals by Mike Scott. This new version is bring released as new single ahead of an upcoming multi disc box set of the album ‘Room To Roam’. The track was

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Erbatur

Kacacagim / Seyyah

12,99 €*

Night Pillers Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Carleton Melton

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Agitated)

31,99 €*

I May Never See You Again

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.

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Saba Alizadeh

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (30m)

27,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

Tasos Stamou

Antiqua Graecia

16,99 €*

Along The Sun And The Rain

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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“Antiqua Graecia” is the third of the trilogy of electroacoustic compositions inspired by Greek music culture. It comes to complete a vinyl trilogy of Greek-based themes by capturing the essence of the rural mainland countryside. With a title is taken from an old Italian gravure map, this album combines original acoustic recordings and highly electronic experiments and synthetic compositions, creating an abstract surreal music fairytale. While references of antique folk instruments and voices are present all across the album, the narrative is also conducted by the presence of analogue synthesizers and computer music structures, reassembling the pieces of the originals to a new music collage.

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Keijo & Jarmo

Tape | 2021 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

6,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Rey Sapienz & The Congo Techno Ensemble

Na Zala Zala Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Hakuna Kulala)

Rey Sapienz & The Congo Techno Ensemble

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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When Rey Sapienz was eight years old, the Democratic Republic of Congo was plunged into the Second Congo War. The conflict last five years and was the bloodiest since World War II, leaving an indelible mark on East Africa and creating mass displacement and loss of life. But Sapienz endured, cutting his teeth as a young rapper at twelve, first performing to celebrate Congo's independence day. When he finished school, he headed to nearby Kampala to hone his craft and collaborate with local producers. But civil war broke out back home and he was forced to extend his stay in Uganda. Since then, Sapienz has established himself as a force to be reckoned with, co-founding the Hakuna Kulala label, teaching his Ableton Live skills to Kampala's young producers and releasing two acclaimed EPs. For his debut album, Sapienz embarks on an ambitious project that travels beyond the avant beatscapes of his early material. Alongside traditional percussionist, vocalist and dancer Papalas Palata and rapper Fresh Doggis, he has formed The Congo Techno Ensemble, utilizing their skills and experience to offer a statement that speaks to the past, present and future of the DRC. On "Eza Makambo", the trio channel rich musical traditions and historic tension, evolving electronic and traditional forms into boundless sci-fi mutations. The track breaks open the stories all three artists accumulated in the DRC, augmenting radioactive techno-dancehall beats with radical, open-hearted words and rhymes. "Eza Makambo" is a heady cocktail of stylistic futurism and harsh reality that could be compared with Zizou Bikaye's seminal "Noir et Blanc or Danis Mpunga & Paul K.'s genre-breaking electronic experiments. But marked by the DRC's recent scars, it's a critical work that stands painfully alone.

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Na Zala Zala Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Hakuna Kulala)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (State Fair)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Jackson Scribner

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (American Dreams)

Mute Duo

Lapse In Passage

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Mikado Koko

Maza Gusu

Hardcore From The Heart Gold Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On Maza Gusu, Mikado Koko transforms into Mother Goose, hissing Perrault's fairy tales from her native tongue in your ears. Her unsettling, regressive voice is backed up by a subtle and chilling electronic soundscape sprinkled with traditional Japanese instruments, creating a realm of sound that feels both weirdly familiar and deeply unknown. Mother Koko hurls you deep down the rabbit hole, back to your darkest childhood anguishes, before gently leading you by the hand to a joyful catharsis. As you slowly get used to its disturbing familiarity, Koko’s music feels like waking up in the pale morning light, shaky but relieved after a feverish dream.

In summer 2017 Mikado Koko started her solo career as a club music producer with the elements of Japanese traditional music. After many releases, remixes and compilations such as Seitō: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun (aku1016), she now focuses on avant-garde poetry reading related to feminism and gender equality.

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Joana Serrat

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Loose Music)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Rhythm & Blues House Party Volume 2

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

11,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

The Jaguars

Rock With The Jaguars EP

11,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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At Pioneer Works Black Vinyl Edition

Les Filles De Illighadad

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Sahel Sounds)

Amsterdam (Unreleased Live Tracks 1965) Beige Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The first new album from Les Filles de Illighadad in four years At Pioneer Works is the highly anticipated new album by the Tuareg Avant-rock group. Les Filles de Illighadad recorded the album in Brooklyn at the tail end of a two-year-long world tour. At Pioneer Works finds Les Filles at the height of their powers, creating a sound that transcends all known genres. This is a heavy and meditative set of music from one of the world's most exciting bands. "If you listen long enough, and make yourself open enough, it is possible to reach a kind of holy place while experiencing the music of the Tuareg quartet." - The New Yorker // "Les Filles de Illighadad are taking the world by storm" - The Guardian // "Les Filles de Illighadad is Revolutionizing Traditional Tuareg Music" - She Shreds

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Jacques Brel

LP | 2021 | Original (Diggers Factory / Inasound)

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Indie)

Gate

Til Nord

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With their new EP "Til Nord" (Eng.: "Northward") legendary Norwegian folk rockers Gåte achieve a stunning transformation. The band from Trøndelag, the area surrounding the ancient harbour city of Trondheim, is delivering an emotive, epic collection of tracks revisiting some of their own classics and adding a new track as a taste of great things to come. What Gåte have done to their songs is both breathtakingly bold and amazing to hear. The first single and opening track 'Kjærleik' is the perfect example of how they have reimagined their sound. Taking away keyboards, electric guitar, and rock drumming, Gåte have added an archaic percussion style and used acoustic instrumentation. Gunnhild Sundli, has stripped some of the technical complexity from her singing style and placed emphasis upon folk attitude and expression. In stylistic terms, we see a shift from their energetic folk rock to a darker, more down to earth, Norse-atmospheric folk expression. Gåte were founded in 1999 by violin player and keyboardist Sveinung Sundli, recruiting his sister Gunnhild as singer. Sveinung's violin and Gunnhild’s folk song technique “kveding” brought to the sound a firm base in traditional music, which was complemented and contrasted by modern bass, drums, and electric guitars. The resulting folk rock blows both minds and ears!

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Dorothea Paas

Anything Can't Happen

19,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Mapache)

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Anything Can’t Happen is the long-awaited debut album from Dorothea Paas, one of Canada’s most beloved singer-songwriters. For over a decade, Paas has played her unique, prismatic style of folk songcraft for audiences across North America, and lent her talents as a guitarist and vocalist to artists like Jennifer Castle, U.S. Girls and Badge Epoque Ensemble. The songs on this album have been through a near-infinite number of forms – Paas has played them solo and with a full band, electric and acoustic, at house shows and in sold-out venues. they manage to fit inside each context, like water taking the shape of its container. All of this makes Anything Can’t Happen feel far more mature and complex than a debut album. It’s a statement of purpose, a next step in a decade-long process of artistic growth and evolution, and a bridge between the DIY style of Paas’s previous cassette releases and a more refined studio sensibility. Recorded in studios in Hamilton and Toronto, and mixed by Max Turnbull of Badge Epoque and U.S. Girls and Steve Chahley, these songs bring a diverse range of musical influences into conversation: inflected with the layered reverberations of Grouper, shot through with the piercing harmonies of the Roches, electrified with the searing energy of Sonic Youth. You can hear Neil Young in the grittiness of the title track’s guitar; Joni Mitchell’s Hejira in the album’s lyrics, Fairport Convention in Paas’s voice. The influence of Stevie Wonder - one of Paas’s greatest musical role models - is present too, in the album’s conceptual foundations.

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Naomi Lewis

Cottage Songs

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Platoon)

Leslie Jordan

Company's Coming

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Universal)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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feats. Chris Stapleton, Eddie Vedder, Dolly Parton, Brandi Carlile, etc

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Bobby Womack

The Poet

17,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Universal)

Bobby Womack

The Poet II

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Trujillo, Peru 1971 - 1974

Manzanita Y Su Conjunto

LP | 2021 | Original (Analog Africa)

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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I was in Lima, hanging out with collector-extraordinaire Victor Zela, who had spent the previous few years pouring his passion for Peruvian Cumbia into the blog „la cumbia de mis viejos“, a trove of incredible music. But after the birth of his first child, his priorities shifted and he decided to part with some of his rarest LPs. I was one of the lucky few given an early chance to examine his treasures, and when I picked up the album Manzaneando com Manzanita, Victor said: “Take it! its one of the best LPs ever recorded in Perú … easily in the top five”. That was all the encouragement I needed … two years later many of the songs from that masterpiece have made it onto Manzanita y su Conjunto, a compilation of electrifying Cumbia sides from Manzanita’s golden era.

Berardo Hernández – better known as Manzanita – first surfaced during the psychedelic Cumbia craze. At the head of the scene were the magnificent Los Destellos, whose leader, Enrique Delgado, was such a six-string wizard that other guitarists found it impossible to escape his shadow. But when Manzanita arrived, his electric criollo style sent shockwaves through Lima’s music scene and posed a serious threat to Delgado’s dominance as king of the Peruvian guitar.

Manzanita had come to Lima from the coastal city of Trujillo, five hundred miles up the coast – a place where Spanish, African and indigenous populations had been living and making music together for centuries – and came of age at a time when the first wave of psychedelic rock from the US and UK was starting to sweep the airwaves. But the sounds of Cream and Hendrix disappeared from the radio just as quickly in 1968 when Juan Velasco seized control of the country in a military coup. The new regime, which favoured local traditions over cultural ‘imports’ from the north, was a blessing in disguise for the Peruvian music scene.

Record labels flourished as new bands, raised on a hybrid diet of electric guitars and Cuban rhythms, rushed in to fill the vacuum created by the lack of imported rock. A new genre, known as Peruvian cumbia, was born and Manzanita quickly became one of its most original voices.

Starting in 1969, Manzanita y su Conjunto released a steady stream of singles that used Cuban guaracha rhythms as the foundation for dazzling electric guitar lines. After countless 45s and several years on the touring circuit, the band signed to Virrey, an important Peruvian label, and recorded two LPs acknowledged as masterpieces among aficionados of tropical music. Most of the songs on Analog Africa’s new compilation Manzanita y su Conjunto are drawn from those legendary sessions of 1973 and 74.

Although he scored a few more hits in the later 70s, his dissatisfaction with the music industry caused him to withdraw from the scene for several years; and when he finally retired for good, the golden age of Peruvian cumbia was a distant memory. But when Manzanita was at the top of his game he had few equals. Victor Zela was right: this is some of the best music ever recorded in Perú.

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Russell Potter

Neither Here Nor There

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“The two latest reissues to spin off from our acclaimed Imaginational Anthem Volume 8: The Private Press feature the solo guitar compositions of Russell Potter, recorded in the last waning days of the initial American Primitive explosion. A then obsessed teenaged devotee of John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke at a time when Punk and New Wave were ascendant, Potter harnessed a similar DIY ethos to his own ends by starting his own label & self-publishing his first record, 'A Stone’s Throw’, while a freshman enrolled at Goddard College in Vermont in 1979. Assembled at the legendary Boddie Records in Potter’s hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, and sprinkled liberally with references to his heroes, from the initial record label name of Fonytone (which more than a little recalls Fahey’s earliest record label, Fonotone), to the arcane song titles and references to obscure rags. Even as he looks to his elders, Potter’s debut release nimbly evinces a complete mastery of his form and is all the more remarkable for one of such tender years, as only the chutzpah of youth can account for such moves as successfully grafting one of your own composition to one of John Fahey’s, as he does here. There’s a very immediate, lovely, and real homespun quality to Potter’s chiming twelve-string compositions that puts it in the realm of those classic records that seem to simply exist outside of time. Shortly after ‘A Stones Throw’, Potter produced & released a 45rpm single by an Ohio bluegrass band featuring the cult singer songwriter Bob Frank performing a cover of Devo’s ‘Mongoloid’, before moving on to his second (and sadly final) album the following year, ‘Neither Here Nor There’. Following an independent study with a Goddard College ethnomusicologist, Potter’s compositions and performance only deepened on his second release — the recording quality steps up a little but loses none of the immediacy, the playing gets more exuberantly virtuosic —but then more reflective too, particularly on the tunes that are influenced by the gorgeous traditional Irish slow airs. He’s still tipping his hat to Fahey occasionally as well, this time with an audacious electric guitar setting of the classic “Dance of the Inhabitant of the Palace of King Philip XIV of Spain.” Though these albums landed at a time when American Primitive guitar music’s 1960s & 1970s heyday was in the rear view mirror, they absolutely look ahead to the genre’s eventual 21st Century resurrection, anticipating both in form & content many of the same concerns you find in the great contemporary work of the last two decades by Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, Daniel Bachman, et al., and as such provide about as fine a stepping stone between these two eras as you’re likely to find.”—Michael Klausman

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Russell Potter

A Stone's Throw

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Munster)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Toti Soler

17,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Husky Pants)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Like A Long Drag Of Hashish In The Morning When The Alarm Clock Rings In The Open Air, The Synthesis That Works In This Album Is Aromatic, Hypnotic, Luminescent_ Somewhere Between Hispalis And The Catalan Mediterranean. Spanish Guitar And Flamenco Metonymies Flourish On This Transitional Instrumental Work That Ablutions In Flamenco Waters, Scented With Folk-Blues Salts. This 1973 Album Is Seminal In Creating Flamenco Fusion. The Arid But Magnetic Notes Of The First Track On The Album, 'Sardana Flamenca' Delve Deeper Into The Subconscious, Which Soler Recorded On His Own With His Spanish Guitar, Except The Electric Pieces Where Members Of The Band Om Helped Out. Reissued On Vinyl For The First Time. Includes An Insert With Notes And A Rare Toti Soler Photo. * * * Detailed Description:Toti Soler's Self-Titled Second Album Together With Sabicas, Smash From 1971-72 And The Recording Paco De Lucía Made With Jazzman Pedro Iturralde, Were Seminal In Creating Flamenco Fusion, A Blend That Has Travelled Far. They Altered The Perception Of Said Music Redefining Its Limits And Possibilities. Soler's Syncretism Between Hispalis And The Catalan Mediterranean, Another Form Of Fusion, Was Released Perhaps Paradoxically By Edigsa, The Label That The Guitarist Worked With The Most, The Founding Spirit Of Which Was To Safeguard The Local Language, Catalan. In 1972, The Ancient Call Of Flamenco Took Soler To Andalusia, Where He Studied Under The Renowned Guitarist Diego Del Gastor. When He Returned To Barcelona, He Commenced A Long Parallel Chapter As Acoustic Accompanist For The Singer-Songwriter Ovidi Montllor From Alcoy, Leaving Rock And The Electric Guitar Behind. However, Watts And Rock Still Pulse Through In His Second Lp (Self-Titled But Also Referred To As "El Gat Blanc"), 1973, But Play A Minor Role. Spanish Guitar And Flamenco Metonymies Flourish On This Theoretically Transitional Instrumental Work, Which Would Become One The Most Popular Of His Discography. The Arid But Mag...

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Ryley Walker

Course In Fable

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Merge)

Hiss Golden Messenger

Quietly Blowing It

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Zephyrus)

La Panika

Anapse To Tsigaro

10,99 €*

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Sacred Bones)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Indigo Sparke

Echo Red Vinyl Edition

Planet (I) Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Australian Artist Indigo Sparke Brings Her Deeply Personal Lived Experiences To Her Music, Highlighting The Spaces Between The Polarity Of Softness And Grit. Pulling From Her Experiences Of Addiction, Of Healing, Of Queerness, Of Heartbreak, Of Joy, Of Connection, Of The Softness And Of The Grit Alchemizing It All Into Tenderness Through Her Music, She Conjures Up A Myriad Of Feelings That Is Undeniably Potent.It Was In 2019 That Indigo Lived And Travelled Across America, In Places Like Nyc, Minneapolis, Topanga, Taos, In Many Hotel Rooms And Amidst The Vast Stretching Landscapes On The Never Ending Highways, Channelling Her Creative Energy Into The Completion Of Her Debut Album, Echo. Echo Was Recorded Between La, Italy And New York, Co-Produced By Sparke, Adrianne Lenker (Of Big Thief), And Andrew Sarlo (Producer Of Big Thief, Nick Hakim, Bon Iver, Hand Habits, Etc). The Record Was Completed At Figure 8 Studio In New York City, Studio Of Musician Shahzad Ismaily. Phil Weinrobe (Producer/Engineer For Leonard Cohen, Damien Rice, Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Etc) Engineered And Mixed The Album."Indigo's Writing And Voice Are Ethereal And Angelic And Guide Me Through Internal Canyons And Plains. I'm Deeply Grateful To Have Been Part Of This And To Have Gotten To Play And Sing Along Side Indigo, And To Have Been Able To Eternalize A Very Special Space And Time With Her, Which I Will Always Cherish." -Adrianne Lenker"With These Songs And Her Filament Voice, Indigo Brings Us In To A Private Place And Lights A Fire There."-Feist

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Squirrel Flower

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Full Time Hobby)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Boy From Michigan Deluxe Edition

John Grant

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Bella Union)

56,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Boy From Michigan Black Vinyl Edition

John Grant

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Bella Union)

27,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ready The Astronaut Clear Vinyl Edition

William Fitzsimmons

LP+CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Grönland)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania

Damien Jurado

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Marapoqa)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Melody As Truth)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Damien Jurado simply refuses to stop releasing new albums of hushed, heart-breaking indie folk, and he'll do it again with a new album called The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania next month.

The album follows 2020's What's New, Tomboy? and, depending on your count, is either his 16th, 17th or 20th full-length. Regardless of how you view the discography, it's a stunning and deep well.

A press release explains that the album includes "ten intense stories of people determined not to be broken by dire circumstances." The album was produced by Jurado himself, who will release it on his own new Maraqopa Records imprint.

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Suzanne Kraft

About You

Under The Pepper Tree Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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About You is a set of hazy-haloed pop songs crackling with the flutters of fresh love amidst a mind full of memory flashes. Written in the whirlwind of a hopeful affair, instantly transformed into long distance romance, it’s a head rush of affection with the universe bending blurrily around it — an archive of yearning from a year that rifted warm bodies adrift; an outline of the in-betweens, the familiar and foreign, hopeful promise and heartbreak. Suzanne Kraft has shaved silver linings from cloud formations and ignited them into crackling flames. It’s a full circle journey that floats on shimmering guitar tones, fluid vocals, and gently persuasive drum tracks chugging towards their destiny while revelling in the unknown. About You is a folding of time and space in album form and stands aloft as Suzanne Kraft’s next big step in fully becoming himself.

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Sara Watkins

LP | 2021 | US | Original (New West)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Water Cycle Clear Vinyl Edition

Taner Öngür & 43,75

2x10" | 2021 | EU | Original (Tantana)

36,99 €*

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Unisono)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As we continue our half-joke-verbal agreement of "one album per year" with Taner Öngür, here we go with "Water Cycle". Like many musician in the world, lock down home, early 2020 Taner Öngür got back to his own song books and merge them with some new ideas and brought us this exceptional instrumental album. It's quite hard to classify it within one genre but we can say it takes off from progressive sounds and explore around Öngür's latest band 43,75's own swing-surf-rock style (of course with some little psychedelic touches). These 14 tracks consist 3 special covers such as the Beatles' "I am the Walrus", Bollywood's famous "Mera Joota Hai Japani" and "Ya Mustafa" which featured in various works of middle eastern cinema. Taner Öngür, the legendary bass player of Moğollar (the iconic group of 1970’s Anadolu Pop movement), is producing solo projects since 90's. "Water Cycle" is his 4th opus of his collaboration with his latest band 43,75 and Tantana Records. During lockdown days of 2020, Öngür got back to his own song books and surfed between UK and India -and of course over fly central Asia- got together this very special instrumental guitar trip. Considering he is the "baptist" of the "anatolian rock" movement of 70's, his beyond-genres-eclectic view to the music fits perfectly to the swinging guitars, progressive touches, tribal beats, melancholic moments of “Water Cycle"... It's also a great "introduction to Taner Öngür's universe". Back in 2016 he formed this project: 43,75. Their first album “Elektrik Gramofon” (2017) was a beautiful selection of 20's - 50's Istanbul songs, distilled by Öngür's surf-swing-rocknroll appoach (it's LP's sold out within 48 hours!). Nowadays, most of the vinyl collectors knows about Anatolian Rock; but not many knows that Taner Öngür was on many cult records of the era and the definition of "anatolian pop" and "anatolian rock" are actually Taner Öngür's own wording, that became the name for it - since 70's. So, on "Sayko Ana” (2018) Öngür did not hesitate to have fun with it; browsing between forgotten Turkish folk songs and psych them. In 2019, he got back into archives, to dig "strange stories" from newspapers and vintage novels of 1930's-1960's, which gave birth to "Asrî Sadâ" album, that its LP consisting a superb - rich contented 16 pages tabloid newspaper; with "news" and "articles" related to the songs... and many other bizarre details of our "dusty days”. So, please welcome to Taner Öngür's own psych-surf-swing flavored universe!

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Belina

Music For Peace

30,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop, Soundtracks

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CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Meril Wubslin

Alors Quoi

15,99 €*

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Mississippi)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Recorded between Lausanne and Brussels during summer 2019, this new series of songs by Meril Wubslin dig deeper into this tribal, rustic and minimal tendency that they had in the two previous albums. It is the desire to search for sounds, to manipulate matter: sound matter, rhythmic matter, to knead it to its hottest point, that guided the work of composition. All vintage guitars were recorded without amps. Tambourines and other maracas were approached as a drum kit. But the harmonies and melodies are still present and sometimes event enhanced by the occasional participation of a choir of female voices or a minimal synth line. Always with this desire to use French, their mother tongue, while trying to avoid the trap of « variété française ».

With this new album, we wanted to try something slightly different with the sound. Explore new ways to record our instruments and voices. Thus we decided to put away the amplifiers that we used for rockier moods. And we tried the acoustic option. We were surprised by the wide range of possibilities, much more direct and much more emotional actually. About the texts, we still insist on this open way of writing, a mixture of abstract and concrete which offers several understandings. With this liberty in the structure, we avoid the predominance of the message, to go towards a more sensitive and open meaning.

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Sávila

Mayahuel

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Whale Watch)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sávila is a medicinal plant that grows wild in tropical climates all over the world as well as the name of cumbia/latin/world/r&b project by guitarist Fabiola Reyna, vocalist Brisa Gonzalez and percussionist extraordinaire Papi Fimbres. Mayahuel is the follow up to their stunning self-titled debut, and further explores their singular melding of cumbia, dream-pop, spirited vocals, hallucinatory riffing and driving percussion. "Mayahuel is based on time spent before the pandemic immersed in the music, traditions, people and environment of Oaxaca. Lots of these songs are integrated with field recordings from musicians we met along the way, incorporating pre-hispanic percussion elements and field recordings taken from the streets during our time there. Meant more as a reflection on what we encountered though some songs evolved into something more elaborate as we explore the genre of ancestral club. Music for our ancestors made for the club.”—Sávila. Mastered loud at 45 RPM, and packaged in special soft-touch matte finish tip-on jackets printed by Stoughton with one page color insert.

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Assorted Orchids