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Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | DE | Reissue (Private)

Zenamon

Release: 2015 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

LP+CD | 2018 | US | Original (Grapefruit)

Pat Ament

Songs

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Anti)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In 1971, at the age of 25, Pat Ament self-released his debut album, Songs By Pat Ament, in a very limited run for friends and local shops. The album is sparse and moody, conjuring a space not unlike the one that Songs Of Leonard Cohen occupies, featuring Ament on Wurlitzer with a jazz drummer and a guitarist alternating between acoustic and electric. It’s dark and at times forlorn, with meditations on yearning and loss and love. It’s ideal long-night-of-the-soul music. The lyricism evokes Dylan, Cohen, Tim Hardin and Bill Fay.

When he released Songs, Ament was already a world renowned mountain climber, and he became famous for pioneering ’60s and ’70s ascents in Colorado and Yosemite. He wrote poetic books and essays on climbing, including biographies of legendary climbers Royal Robbins and John Gill. Through the years he’s balanced multiple simultaneous careers as artist, photographer, filmmaker, chess master, karate black belt, lecturer, teacher, and, yes, singer-songwriter.

Pat Ament’s musical mastery was clear right out of the gate but it was only one of his many interests. Perhaps if he hadn’t been moved to pursue life’s other tempting summits and focused solely on music, he’d be as well known for his songs as for his climbing. Grapefruit is extremely proud to reissue this rare and virtually unknown singer-songwriter masterpiece, sourced from original sources and under Ament’s supervision, with original artwork and deluxe Stoughton tip-on jacket. The record also comes with a bonus career retrospective CD entitled Time Moved On of additional songs hand-picked by the artist.

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Glen Hansard

Didn't He Ramble

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Türküola)

Selda

Yuh Yuh

Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Reissue of German cassette release as vinyl after nearly 40 years. The songs are from the various singles and the debut LP. The title song 'Yuh Yuh' is from Selda's 1977 'Dostum Dostum'/'Yuh Yuh' single. Most of the songs are performed with the Anatolian Rock super group Dadaslar who are known for their works with Ersen. The group consists of Fehiman Ugurdemir (guitars and synthesizer, former Cem Karaca & Kardaslar guitarist), Ozkan Ugur ((bass, former Baris Manço guitarist) and Mehmet Gözüpek (former drummer of Bunalim) and creates a powerful groove with their psychedelic arrangements.

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Matana Roberts

LP | 2015 | CA | Original (Constellation)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Glitterbeat)

Release: 2015 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Matana Roberts is one of the most acclaimed, socio-politically conscious and aesthetically intrepid avant-jazz practitioners of the 21st century. Following the critical accolades that the first two Coin Coin chapters have thus far received, the past year has been marked by further career-defining recognition for her body of iconoclastic work: Roberts was a recipient of both the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts and the Daisy Duke Impact Award in 2014.

Roberts has long employed the phrase “panoramic sound quilting” to describe the process surrounding her Coin Coin work. The third chapter in her Coin Coin series finds Roberts implementing this metaphor most explicitly, constructing a sound art tapestry from field recordings, loop and effects pedals, and spoken word recitations, alongside her saxophone and singing voices. Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee could arguably be considered first and foremost a vocal work, and notwithstanding its experimental and esoteric structure, a deeply narrative work as well.

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Altin Gün

Ask

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Fire)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Red Vinyl Edition.

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Kristin Hersh

Possible Dust Clouds

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Mississippi)

Abner Jay

Folk Song Stylist

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

12" | 2011 | EU | Original (Drag City)

Joanna Newsom

What We Have Known

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Mountain Roads & City Streets

Allan Wachs

LP | 2023 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2023 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Oh Boy - Thirty Tigers)

Tre Burt

Traffic Fiction

Reflections Vol. 1: Let The Moon Be A Planet

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Green vinyl.

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Steve Gunn & David Moore

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Rvng Intl.)

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

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

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Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Vinyl is close to NM.

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Joyce Street

Tied Down

12" | 2010 | CA | Original (True North)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Clear vinyl. With insert.

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Bruce Cockburn

High Winds White Skies

Release: 2010 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Perpetual Obscurity)

Paul Thorn

Don't Let The Devil Ride

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Premium Rec.)

Kelly Willis

Back Being Blue

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Soundly Music)

Will Hoge

My American Dream

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Dame)

Mandy Barnett

Strange Conversation

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Shadowbox)

Lindi Ortega

Liberty

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ne Okreci Se, Sine / Don't Look Back Son

Rade Serbedzija

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Croatia)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Ballad Of Shirley Collins

V.A.

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Earth)

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Hump Head)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Soundtracks

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Still in shrink but opened, with OBI. Pink vinyl limited edition. Original inner sleeve. Vinyl seems unplayed.

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Ryan Bingham

Fear And Saturday Night

Dolenz Sings R.E.M. Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Micky Dolenz

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (7A Records)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Rumi Sounds)

Cherry Bandora

Back To The Taverna

Wnew Fm Broadcast Woodstock Festival Ii Suagerties Ny 14th August 1994 Red / White Splatter Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cherry Bandora is an oriental jewish princess singing in poetic Greek, rhythmical Turkish and Hebrew slang. The fresh combination of the greek blues guitar, the bouzouki, with the psychedelic hammond organ, accompanied by lively middle eastern grooves on drums creates an exciting clash of tradition and rebellious attitude.
Supported by Initiative Musik GmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media

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Bob Dylan

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Second)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Meriuba)

Idrissa Soumaoro

Diré

LP | 2018 | Reissue (Secretly Canadian)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With this album Idrissa Soumaoro pays tribute to Diré, the town where he met his wife and where his first daughter, who is no longer with us, was born. In 1971, after his studies at the INA in Bamako, Idrissa was transferred to Diré to teach music at the lPEG (Pedagogical Institute of General Education). He was 22 years old when he arrived in Diré. Idrissa has always been nostalgic for this beautiful place in the region of the 333 Saints of Timbuktu. In the difficult situation Mali is living today, the town of Diré has become a symbol of hope for peace.Indeed, with this work, Idrissa Soumaoro reflects deeply on peace, brotherhood and reconciliation in Mali. Idrissa sings in French, Bambara and English and sends messages of love and living together. The album was initiated by Marc-Antoine ‘Marko’ Moreau, who revealed to the world the talent of Amadou and Mariam who were introduced by Idrissa Soumaoro in the group 'Eclipse de l’I.J.A'.

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Phosphorescent

C'est La Vie

Release: 2018 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For Lovers Only / Rain Suite

SG (Andrew Pekler)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Faitiche)

A Cat In The Rain Opaque Tan Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. »For Lovers Only / Rain Suite« features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.

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Turnpike Troubadours

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Bossier City)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mixtape Live Volume 3 Colored Vinyl Edition

Angelo Kelly

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Universal)

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)

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Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Glitterbeat)

Altin Gün

Ask

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The first thing that grabs you about Altin Gün"s new album is the energy. With Ask, the Amsterdam-based sextet turn away from the electronic, synth-drenched sound of their 2021 albums, Alem and Yol. While those two, created at home during the pandemic, paid homage to the electronic pop of the 80s and early 90s, Ask, marks an exuberant return to the 70s Anatolian folk-rock sound that characterised Altin Gün"s first two albums, On (2018) and Gece (2019). But there’s development here too. Ask is the closest the band have come so far to capturing the infectious energy of their live performances. "It"s definitely connecting more with a live sound - almost like a live album," says bassist Jasper Verhulst. "We, as a band, just going into a rehearsal space together and creating music together instead of demoing at home." "We didn't record it like we did the last album," agrees vocalist Merve Dasdemir. "We basically produced that one at home because of the pandemic. Now we've gone back to recording live on tape." How many more worlds do Altin Gün visit in this joyful expedition? "Rakiya Su Katamam" is glowering space rock, as though Gong had taken a stopover on the Bosphorus. "Canim Oy" is a psychedelic freak-beat stomper from a world where Istanbul's Kadiköy district was the Carnaby Street of the east. "Güzelligin On Para Etmez" is a dreamy acid-folk anthem. And the finale, "Doktor Civanim," is an irresistible slice of sci-fi disco camp with lava-lamp synth squiggles that wouldn't sound out-of-place next to Baris Manço"s "Ben Bilirim." Fresh yet timeless. Rooted in antiquity yet yearning for heavenly futures. Ask wants to take you places.

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Ahmed Ben Ali

Subhana

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Najib Alhoush & The Free Music

Free Music Part 1

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (BML)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Blisteringly groovy collection of completely off-the-radar songs by Libyan composer / producer Najib Alhoush’s group The Free Music, circa 1976. Releasing an astonishing 10 albums, all impressively strong and equally infused by soul, funk, disco and reggae, The Free Music created a distinctly infectious groove that unfortunately didn’t make an impact outside of Libya due to the complex political situation at the time. There is a reason it says “Part 1” in the title.

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Bukahara

Strange Delight

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Ninja Tune)

Fink

Perfect Darkness

Greenbroke Limited Edition

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ninja Tunes folk hero Fink's full-length for 2011!

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Jackson Dean

LP | 2023 | Original (Universal)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Far Out)

Fabiano Do Nascimento

Mundo Solo

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Far Out Recordings proudly presents the new album from Brazilian guitarist and composer Fabiano do Nascimento: Mundo Solo. Recorded at his home studio in Los Angeles (2020) the album is fundamentally the sound of a man alone with his instruments.

Utilizing a variety of guitars, including 6, 7 and 10 strings, Oktav guitar and electric baritone guitar, alongside a host of pedals and synthesizers, Fabiano tracked imagined landscapes with expressive, expansive improvisations, which tend toward the more ambient and atmospheric reaches of his recent output.

Adopting Hermeto Pascoal’s concept of Universal Music, a rejection of nationalistic tendencies in order to express all of one’s musical influences all at once, Fabiano avoided leaning too heavily on any particular musical language, without denying his own musical roots.

After studying classical piano as a child, the Rio de Janeiro native discovered the guitar aged 10. Studying under his late uncle, Lucio Nascimento, he eventually left Brazil for LA, where he soon became an in-demand player for his distinct and authentic sound. He has since released seven albums under his own name and collaborated with renowned Brazilian artists including Arthur Verocai and Airto Moreira, as well as experimental US saxophonist Sam Gendel.

Mundo Solo (Do Nascimento’s eighth), was recorded in one take per track, with occasional overdubs and a few appearances from collaborators and friends Julien Canthelm (drums on Etude 1), Ajurinã Zwarg, (percussion on CPMV) and Gabe Noel (Bass on Curumim).

Fabiano Do Nascimento’s consummate mastery of his instrument has afforded him a freedom of expression few can claim. Blending the emotional with the elemental, Mundo Solo is a stunning snapshot of solitude and the beauty which can blossom within it.

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Roger Fakhr

East Of Any Place

Holy Tongue / Beatrice Dillon / Lamin Fofana / Labour

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"East of Any Place,” out December 1st via Habibi Funk, is a treasure trove of songs discovered alongside Rogér Fakhr's acclaimed 2021 album, "Fine Anyway." These tracks, hidden for decades and only passed between a handful of people, offer a glimpse into Rogér’s musical genius and the vibrant scene of Lebanon during a period marked by civil war and social upheaval. This release serves as a companion to "Fine Anyway," feat studio tracks that didn't make it into the previous album.

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Dey Sey / 2020 / Niary Ngorong / Etu Keur

2x12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Transilvania Smile (1994)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Four dazzling, extended engagements with mbalax master-drumming.

The contribution from Holy Tongue is chase-the-devil steppers — thumping, clangorous, reverberating — super-charged with energy and atmosphere. From the off drummer Valentina Magaletti detonates a hard rain of small bombs, rounds of fire, ticking fuses. Musical co-ordinates are somewhere between classic On-U Sound crew like African Head Charge, The Mothmen, and Creation Rebel, and the experimental funk of the Pop Group and 23 Skidoo, at their funkiest. Thrillingly, the two dubs are increasingly deranged.

Adjusting the same wavelengths as her superb Workaround LP, Beatrice Dillon plays spaced-out, abstract synth-work against the bodily physicality of the ancient, shifting mbalax rhythms. The music is poised, mindful, tentative; but also limber, fleet, and magical.

Phantasmagorical and efflorescent, Lamin Fofana’s one-two is simply stunning. Both excursions are wide-open, beautiful, epic, and propulsive — the first mix is banging and headlong, the second more syncopated and serpentine — teeming with freshly sublime, funkdafied updates on Jon Hassell’s Fourth World possible musics.

The two parts of LABOUR’s Etu Keur Gui engage the same sequence of drum patterns (called bakks) from different perspectives. The duo performed portions of this piece at the opening ceremony of the Dakar Biennial in 2022, at the Grand National Theater, with thirty sabar players from the family of Doudou Ndiaye Rose. This Wolof phrase for the inner-court of a home — a meeting-place — doubles here as a metaphor for inner space on a metaphysical level; and Pan Sonic, Muslimgauze, Zoviet France, early Shackleton… all ghost across the threshold.

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Svitlana Nianio

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Shukai)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Melody As Truth)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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(First official release) Original soundtrack for the dance-theatre performance 'Transilvania Smile' by Svitlana Nianio recorded in phantonstudio, Cologne, 1994-1995This album is one of the most personal and insightful works of Svitlana Nianio from the 90s, which you can now get to know in its original form and sound.

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Jonny Nash

Point Of Entry

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Air Rytmo)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Melody As Truth founder Jonny Nash returns to action with his first solo album in four years.

Over the course of eleven mesmerising tracks, Nash points the compass gently inwards, casting aside any conceptual frameworks in favour of exploring an imaginative and idealised “personal folk music” that combines elements of traditional acoustic music with the producer’s richly immersive interpretation of ambient, a sound he has been developing for well over a decade.

From the smudged acid-folk bliss of ‘Theories’ and ‘Eternal Life’, to the layered acoustic guitars of ‘All I Ever Needed’ and the delay-soaked, Durutti Column-esque ‘Light From Three Sides’, a wide variety of musical textures weave their way throughout the album.

Point of Entry is much more than a mere ‘guitar album’ – it draws on a rich and diverse palette to achieve its purpose. The delicate saxophone work of ambient-jazz contemporary Joseph Shabason swells on ‘Ditto’ and ‘Light From Three Sides’. Cascading piano lines ripple through the crystal clear sonic waters of ‘Face of Another’, whilst echoes of Nash’s work with Gigi Masin and Young Marco as Gaussian Curve appear in the dancing synth sequences of ‘Ditto’ and ‘Golden Hour’. Nash’s reverb-laden voice also appears for the first time since 2016’s critically acclaimed Exit Strategies, used delicately throughout the album to conjure up a world of dusk and golden light.

Combining the delicate human touch and naivety of earlier Melody As Truth releases with widened scope and vision, Point Of Entry is arguably Nash’s most complete work to date – an album that’s as much a statement of his “personal folk” vision as a future ambient classic.

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Mick Strauss

Southern Wave

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Spaceflight)

Tender Things

That Texas Touch

Release: 2023 / EU – 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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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Logan Halstead Records)

Logan Halstead

Dark Black Coal

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Rhinestone Tomboy Deep Purple Vinyl Edition

Mya Byrne

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

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

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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Miles Miller

Solid Gold

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

The Cactus Candies

Candle Light Rodeo

The Somerset Sessions Record Store Day 2023 Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Seth Lakeman

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Honour Oak)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

Alice

L'oiseau Magnifique

A New Directive From The Bureau Of Compulsory Entertainment

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Jonny Dillon

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

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mapache)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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

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Cactus Lee

Perfect Middle Hall

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Loose Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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

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Mary Elizabeth Remington

In Embudo

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Love Is Still Alive Colored Vinyl Edition

Laibach

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Mute)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sakla Samani Gelir Zamani Picture Disc Vinyl Edition

Baris Manco

LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Guerssen)

Annie Girl And The Flight

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In 1976, Baris released his third album which was actually also a compilation of songs previously released in 45s, as happened with his debut. For this LP release, and basically because of contractual reasons, we are presenting you this compilation with a few changes: two of the original songs are not there, and we added four new ones. So, what we get here is a scorchin’ collection of funky psychedelics Turkish way in a cool picture disc that will knock you out.

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Pilot Electric

12" | 2015 | US | Original (Calar Music)

Canciones Que Un Hombre No Debería Cantar

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Described as “slow, hypnotic folk and/or loud, trance-inducing art-rock” by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Annie Girl AND THE FLIGHT’s intense, almost psychedelic live performances have been making a mark on the San Francisco rock scene. Four-song EP.

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Gabo Ferro

LP | 2010 | US | Original (Calar Music)

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (By Norse Music)

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gabo Ferro was an Argentinean musician, poet, historian and university professor. He was known in the Buenos Aires underground scene as the frontman of Porco, an experimental / hardcore band the recorded two albums in the late '90s., leaving the group in 1997. Ferro spent the next seven years studying and teaching 19th century Argentinean history and publishing a series of acclaimed books on the subject. In 2005 he reappeared in the music scene with Canciones que un hombre no deberia cantar, a collection of twelve acoustic songs recorded in one afternoon. The record was named one of the best albums of 2005 by publications like Rolling Stone and Inrockuptibles. Gabo Ferro died of cancer October 8, 2020 in Buenos Aires.

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Wardruna

Skald

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (BMG)

Django Reinhardt

Echoes Of France

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Complete Recordings Volume 3

Jackson C. Frank

2LP | 2015 | US | Original (Ba Da Bing)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Greatest Hits & Favorites

Johnny Cash

2LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Rough Trade)

This Is The Kit

Careful Of Your Keepers

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Fat Possum)

Jake Xerxes Fussell

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | Original (Wtw Music)

Ward Thomas

Music In The Madness

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | Original (Go Danish Folk Music)

Basco

Interesting Times

Release: 2018 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Cn)

Lori Mckenna

Tree

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Okrahoma)

Parker Millsap

Other Arrangements

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2010 | US | Original (Bathetic)

Angel Olsen

Strange Cacti

Beginnings: Colleted Pedal Steel Guitar Works

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. Still in shrink, but opened, with hype sticker

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Gary Peters

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Scissor Tall Editions)

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Clay Pipe Music)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Beginnings: Collected Pedal Steel Guitar Works, is the first full length album by UK-based pedal steel guitarist and improviser Gary Peters. As there seems to be a slew of pedal steel guitar albums coming out in the last five years, this one is unlike any one has heard. There’s no use of reverb pedals or ambient swells, yet it still has so much atmosphere and emotion. The majority of the compositions and improvisations are solo pedal steel guitar, but there are a couple tracks with accompaniment by upright bassist Christopher Williams and pianist Veryan Weston.

Gary Peters has been quietly and prolifically releasing recordings over the years. This grouping of songs Scissor Tail Editions spent about a year working towards narrowing down and mixing and are very honored to present this album of collected pedal steel guitar works.

“The ambient country cabinet is filling up pretty quickly these days and we’re in a golden age of pedal steel, but there’s always room for one more. Rstb faves Scissor Tail offer up a new record from UK steel slinger Gary Peters and while not as overtly awash in the trappings of ambient country, the record still hovers in the humid space between waking and dreams. A halfway hitch between the jazz steel of Dave Easley and the more cosmically aligned works of Suss, the record promises to carve out its own corner of the genre.” —Raven Sings The Blues

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Vic Mars

The Beacons

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elevation)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Clay Pipe Music is thrilled to announce The Beacons by Vic Mars - the enigmatic producers third LP for the label. Since 2019s Inner Roads and Outer Paths his music has found a new audience having been used as the soundtrack to the game I am Dead by British interactive studio Hollow Ponds.

While his previous two albums were inspired by the pastoral landscapes of Herefordshire, The Beacons, embarks on a journey westward into Wales, inviting listeners into the rugged terrain of the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountains. Using a darker more ominous sonic palette, and pushing the sound of the Moog synthesizer to the fore, The Beacons captures the feel of mountains silhouetted against dramatic skies, craggy summits and the overall grandeur of the landscape and its rich folklore.

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Gombloh

Live Gila

Thank God We Left The Garden

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Most of Gen X-ers who grew up in the mid-1980s Indonesia must have seen Soedjarwoto Soemarsono, known with his nom de guerre “Gombloh” performing on a state-run television station, playing some of his biggest hits from that era, pop gems like “Kugadaikan Cintaku (I Pawn Off My Love)”, “Setengah Gila (Half-Crazy).”

But of course, it is not fair to judge Gombloh only from these hits. Dig deeper and you will find buried treasure in his early stuff from Indra Records, and there are many of them.

His album with the band Lemon Tree’s Anno ‘69 (yes, that’s the name of the band) is all remarkable, but what he did for Chandra Records was no less spectacular. How can you go wrong with songs like “Kebyar-Kebyar”, the unofficial national anthem for Indonesia, dan “Berita Cuaca” one of the better epic songs in a catalogue full of epochal songs? These were all long out of print and in our journey to source the original master for these albums we met Bob Djumara of Nirwana Records, the Surabaya, East Java-based label which broke Gombloh into the mainstream in the mid-1980s. Almost all albums Gombloh recorded for his early labels, Indra Records and Chandra Records were critically acclaimed, but commercially they bombed, big time. Nirwana Records came up with an ingenious plan. What if they recorded Gombloh performing live and release it as is. After all, the first song in Gombloh debut record Nadia & Atmospheer is him strumming on his guitar backed by the cheering of a crowd, who could be heard going wild when he hurled that epithet “bastard” at the end of the song

The end result is a brilliant recording which despite being recorded live the sound quality so pristine leading many to doubt the claim of being live. Regardless, Nirwana shipped a decent number of units and Gombloh could buy his first car, a Katana Jeep, with money from the royalty.

One of the best things about Live Gila is its perfect sequencing, beginning with Gombloh’s social commentary on the rich’s debauched lifestyle of preying on young boys and girls, one of the most popular subjects allowed by the censoring machine of the New Order authoritarian government. The second song “Untuk Persada” is a soaring ode to the nation. For this song, Gombloh could be heard drawing his inspiration from The Police, which was undoubtedly popular in the early 1980s, even in a faraway port city like Surabaya.

Listening to this record as a whole (we omitted the last song from the original master tape “Bagimu Negeri” which sounds too jingoistic), we could not help but point to some of similarities it has with Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks. Not a single composition in this record sound indigenous (the Malay-influenced rock of Panbers or Koes Plus come to mind); they all sound modern and effortlessly catchy, and had it not been for the language, this album could be mistaken for a musical output from someone growing up in Laurel Canyon or Southern France.

There are only limited copies of vinyl records in the second-hand market today available for Gombloh music, if at all. For his ardent fans, they have to scavenge for old cassettes to continue to be able to enjoy his music and have to pay top dollar for that. In Indonesia, where he was a superstar in the early 1980s, Gombloh was largely forgotten. With this project, we can only hope that the time is ripe for Gombloh to reemerge and now, more than ever, his music could speak to a bigger audience.

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Jeffrey Martin

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Loose)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tre Burt

Traffic Fiction

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elevation)

Gombloh

Sekar Mayhang

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Olivia Chaney)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gombloh’s forgotten masterpiece

What if you have Brian Wilson and Bruce Springsteen rolled into one? And what if he came of age as an poor buskers in in Surabaya, Indonesia, but then summoned enough strength to record six albums that flew in the face of everyone in the country’s rock scene back in the early 1980s?

Genius, be they Brian Wilson or Soedjarwoto “Soemarsono” Gombloh, don’t conform to rules written for us mere mortals. They have their own way of doing things and in the case of Gombloh, writing music, conducting recording session and spending cash from his music, must be conducted on his own terms and his terms only. Studio time was expensive back in the early 1980s, yet Gombloh could be three-hour late for his session, and while engineers, session musicians and producers were jittery about the prospect of another botched session, Gombloh took his time for a nap before the recording begun.

Yet, some of his greatest works came into being in the wake of this napping session. Recording session for Sekar Mayang is no exception, despite the fact there’s foreboding sense of doom with Gombloh being unsure about the possibility of selling enough units to help his label break even. This is, after all, this is his last record with his band Lemon Tree’s. No one knew that Gombloh was operating with all his cylinders running and what came out of this Indra Record session, in the waning days of 1980, were some of the best compositions ever committed to magnetic tapes (to wax, if now you’re holding this on vinyl).

This is Gombloh at the peak of his creative genius. You can argue that his debut album Nadia & Atmospheer (what’s with the spelling mistake?) is the most sprawling and complex album (both sonically and thematically), but Sekar Mayang certainly had the best songs and I can make the argument that this album’s 10 songs are strong contenders for biggest hits in blues, country, psychedelic rock charts. “Prahoro & Prahoro” is one of those impossible song which appears to have sprung from a bottomless well of inspiration, encompassing King Crimson’s sprawling epic, Deep Purple’s deepest blues and Genesis’ most progressive tendencies. Or “Sekaring Jagat”, which begins as Lennon-McCartney lullaby before launching a thousand ships traveling to the end of the rainbow with children choir singing heavenly melodies backed by droning harpsichord and synclavier, while a buzzing Hammond B3 tightly locks with Gombloh’s guitar strumming.

For many of his fans, Gombloh is known as generous man of the people. A Robin Hood type if you please. He spent his royalty checks to buy foods for beggars and buskers and dish out some more to buy undergarments for Surabaya’s prostitutes. In Sekar Mayang, Gombloh went full Springsteen mode in “Mitra Becakan,” a social commentary that cut so deep you can end up with tears in your eyes and lump in your throat (even if you don’t understand any of its Javanese language lyrics). This is one the most devastating social commentary ever recorded for a pop song, and even if you discount the greatness of its musical composition, you chalk this up as a great social-realism poetry. His years of hanging out with pedicab drivers, street vendors and street-bound prostitutes certainly gave him enough insight into their (in)human condition.

Yet, a record this stellar was largely forgotten. First, this record was a flop upon its release in 1981. Indra Records reportedly only did one pressing on cassette tape and be done with it. For those who were lucky enough to have come across one of songs from this album on the radio were likely growing up in East Java, where Gombloh had a massive cult following early in the 1980s. Nothing was heard from this record again.

There were only a handful of cassette tapes from the first pressing found on second-hand market and I recently stumbled upon one online with a price tag of Rp 50 million (US$3,500). It’s no longer available now.

In Sekar Mayang, Gombloh harbours an obsession for a long-lost utopia, Java’s distant past, where farmers have their barn full of rice and corn, where blacksmith working around the clock making tools and children singing and dancing in their seminaries. Or the fact that he opens the song with stanza from Serat Weddhatama, arguably the most monumental poem in neo-classic Javanese literature, could be his pledge of allegiance. The question for him is should a modern-day Indonesia, rife with poverty, corruption and environmental degradation not be an anathema to that utopia?

In the end, you don’t need to be someone fluent in Javanese to enjoy this majestic record. And if this record turns out to be the last in Elevation Records catalogue and we shut down this label tomorrow, we will be very happy. Mission accomplished!

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Olivia Chaney

Six French Songs

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Honu Lani)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Six French Songs is Olivia Chaney’s spontaneous and celebratory review of the French chanson, from medieval ballad to 60s yé-yé pop classic.

Finding themselves with a few spare evenings during a trip to NYC, Olivia and her long term collaborator and producer Thomas Bartlett set themselves the challenge of making an EP. Over two balmy summer evenings at Reservoir Studios (formerly Chic’s studio), they set down as many of Olivia’s arrangements as they could. Playing all the instruments themselves, with haunting violin parts from Sam Amidon, who happened to be in town, these recordings are a celebration of friendship, fuelled by wine, laughter and affection.

Most of the recordings are based on arrangements Olivia worked up over the previous decade, as her French catalogue expanded. After putting her version of Auprès de ma blonde on youtube, a war torn love song arranged unexpectedly with her Indian harmonium, it quickly gained a quarter of a million views. A fan in Lyon sent Olivia a field recording of Montagne, que tu es hautes, which she then recorded to acclaim with Kronos Quartet. L’homme armé, a mystical 15th century chanson, and Marguerite, a sailor’s folksong from the Channel Islands, had found their way into her regular touring repertoire. Ballade is Olivia’s take on Brassens’ setting of Villon’s homage to the brave and iconic women of the past, tinged with the transience of life. Tous les garçons et les filles updates this 60s pop hit into her ravishing and contemporary soundworld.

The distinctive and playful arrangements on Six French Songs frame afresh the unbroken tradition of French chanson–with their ‘formes fixes’ and full-blooded themes of life, death, love and longing.

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Claudia Koreck

Kalender

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kym Register + Meltdown Rodeo

Meltdown Rodeo

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Don Giovanni)

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (ATO)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kym Register + Meltdown Rodeo (formerly Loamlands) is a transgressive and distorted country music outfit based in North Carolina that places queer storytelling at the forefront. Their music intimately grapples with identity, retribution, reconciliation and queer existence in both modern-day and historical (inclusive of mostly all) southern culture. Register is also contributing a queer lens to the southern rock ethos. By way of supporting cast, Sinclair Palmer (bass), Joe Westerlund (drums), and Matt Phillips categorically deliver. Check out the title track for a perfect example of the band’s ability to travel between gritty responsiveness and tendern reflection at Register’s lyrical instruction. Whether grappling with the constrictions of gender expressions on dating apps (“How Do You See Me”), evoking the semi-autobiographical loneliness of Dorothy Allison’s Carolina bastards (“Maureen”), or daring white folks to “get right with their history of compliance in racial capitalism” (“Loamlands”), Register affirms that songwriting, at its best, is a gross but necessary confrontation. Ultimately Register and Meltdown Rodeo (both the newly named band and album) have achieved in eleven songs something the south has only half-heartedly attempted – undoing generational curses by retiring “bless your heart” lip service.

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Old Crow Medicine Show

Jubilee

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Johnny Cash

2LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Passion)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Linus Entertainment)

Gordon Lightfoot

At Royal Albert Hall

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Black Major)

Bongeziwe Mabandla

Amaxesha

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Adeem The Artist

Cast-Iron Pansexual

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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Chansons Inédites (Unreleased Songs)

Oum Kalsoum

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elmir)

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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G.Rag Zelig Implosion Deluxxe

Komm Schwimmen

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Gutfeeling)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Witch

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Partisan)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Purple Pyramid Rec.)

Outlaws

It's About Pride

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT

Darling The Dawn

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Anti)

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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ALL Hands_make Light is the recently minted duo of Ariel Engle (La Force, Patrick Watson, Broken Social Scene) and Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion). Longtime friends, collaborators, and stalwarts of the Montréal post-punk community, this is their first full-fledged project together. Ah_ml weaves these two unique voices through lustrous tendrils of blown-out tones and drones, expanding on Menuck's eponymous modular and analog synth-based work of recent years, now imbued with an additionally searing, soulful warmth and melodicism through Engle's singing. "Darling The Dawn" is a spellbinding album of preternaturally genre-bending sonics and songwriting: a sort of electronic shoegaze suffused with freak-folk, kosmische, darkwave and post-industrial, flowing from ambient minimalism to pulsing maximalism, conjuring traditionals sung in the haze of earliest light accompanied by overdriven circuit boards powered with ungrounded wires. Engle and Menuck see ALL Hands_make Light in a folk lineage traced through the likes of Pentangle and Trees to White Magic and Amps For Christ. While there's no discernable guitar or acoustic instrumentation on the album (warm distorted synths provide the palette, along with signal-processed violin from fellow-traveller Jessica Moss), off-kilter drone incantations like "A Sparrow's Lift" and "A Workers' Graveyard (Poor Eternal)" perhaps sit most overtly within these seams of the skewed-folk substratum. The dichotomic ritualism of Can is an adjacent signpost, where methodical longform soundscaping combines with a feeling of extemporized immediacy. The album's tremendous 10-minute centerpieces "We Live On A Fucking Planet And Baby That's The Sun" and the motorik-driven "The Sons And Daughters Of Poor Eternal" also make this influence explicit thanks in part to the resplendent drumming of guest Liam O'Neil (Suuns), who helps propel both tracks to their spiralling peaks. Above all it's the singing and lyrics, in method and melodic delivery, that conjure certain freak-folk furrows. Engle calls this "music inspired by ancestor music, sea shanties for seas we've never sailed" and the duo have indeed forged a collection on "Darling The Dawn" where vocals often feel strangely rooted in traditionals, while the instrumentation resonates out-of-time, in a liminal space at once glisteningly synthetic and oxidized in analog patina. As the album title suggests, sleepless anxiety/euphoria and a sense of somatic channeling is vital to these songs: "I mostly kept the first thought I had, like a cold read, I wanted the melodies to be immediate and to surprise me, not a laboured process; it's about being a weather vane, guided by preconscious impulses" says Engle. For Menuck, the record started "with an idea of making a long thing about `the Dawn', the different weights of its radiance, the way it kisses our dumb faces when we rise and leave the night behind, the heaviness of that light when you haven't slept." "Darling The Dawn" captures a wholly compelling collaboration between Engle and Menuck in an album of genuine thematic power, thrumming with alternately tender and serrated beauty as only their combined strengths and sensibilities could conjure. Thanks for listening.

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Tom Waits

Bastards

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Anti)

Tom Waits

Brawlers

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Columbia)

First Aid Kit

Ruins

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

Leonard Cohen

Songs From The Road

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Espiritu Vivo 20th Anniversary Edition

Susana Baca

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)