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George Kawaguchi Big Four

Release: 1969 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sharps and Flats, led by Nobuo Hara, has been a driving force in Japan's big band jazz scene with its diverse activities and distinctive musicality. Among the many works produced throughout their long career, 'Little Giant' stands out as one of their most iconic albums. Originally released in 1970 as part of Victor's Japanese Jazz series, this album is notable for the participation of renowned composers and arrangers such as Masao Yagi, Kiyoshi Yamaya, Norio Maeda, and Masahiko Sato. In addition to their original compositions, the album features unique arrangements of pieces by Oliver Nelson, who had a close connection with Sharps and Flats.

The album's intricate and adventurous arrangements, combined with the band's high-level performance quality, are truly remarkable. You'll be captivated by the hipness of "Little Giant," the strength of "Dark Horse," the cutting-edge sound of "Orbit 8:11," and the sophistication of "Flexibility." This dynamic performance, marked by a perfect balance of tension and relaxation, showcases the full potential and allure of Sharps and Flats. This album is a masterpiece that brings out the best in the band.

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George And Sleepy

LP | 1969 | JP | Reissue (Victor Entertainment Japan)

45,99 €*

LP | 1969 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Release: 1969 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the 1950s, the Big Four, led by George Kawaguchi, was a pioneering force in Japan's modern jazz scene, gaining immense popularity. Despite changes in its lineup, the group continued to make a significant impact on Japanese jazz. The album 'George & Sleepy' was originally released in 1969 as part of Victor's Japanese Jazz series. While the original liner notes described it as an attempt to recreate the nostalgia of the George Kawaguchi Big Four, this album is far from just a retrospective. Tracks like "Lover" and "Charade" nostalgically evoke the classic Big Four, offering pure enjoyment. Meanwhile, the album also impresses with more contemporary elements, such as the refined groove of "Tuesday Samba" and the exotic, beat-driven "Vietnam." This thrilling album masterfully showcases the timeless appeal of jazz, blending the past and present through the deep, skillful performances of these jazz veterans.

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The Ballads

The Gift Of Love

Boz Scaggs Gold Vinyl Edition

Release: 1969 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The only original album by West Coast soul vocal group The Ballads, released in 1969, is still a favourite among soul fans, but has only been reissued on vinyl once before, in 1982. P-vine is honoured to be able to reissue it on LP with a Japanese obi.

The album is extremely rich and wonderful, with gems such as Gene Chandler's 'God Bless Our Love' and 'The Gift Of Love', as well as Detroit-style dance numbers, and will also include a bonus track that was only released as a single. The album captures the band's cradle period in the 1970s, when they began to fully embrace a sweet soul style.

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Boz Scaggs

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Friday Music)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Boz Scaggs Blue Vinyl Edition

Boz Scaggs

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Friday Music)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1969 | Reissue (We Are Busy Bodies)

Stefan Gnys

Horizoning

Release: 1969 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Soul)

The Originals

Baby, I'm For Real

12,99 €*

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Legacy)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

seam split. US 1969 repress.

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Jeff Beck

Beck-Ola

11,99 €*

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Sony Music Japan)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: G+, Cover: Near Mint

Still shrink wrapped but opened.
Record is slightly warped but still enjoyable.

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Lisa Ono

Catupiry

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Another Earth Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Gary Bartz

Hey Jude Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
During the pagan hours of an otherwise uneventful Harlem pre-dawn in 1963, Gary Bartz glimpsed a galactic mystery that conventional aeronautics could not explain. Only a few weeks prior, the nascent alto saxophone virtuoso had acquired his first telescope to pursue a newfound passion for astronomy. The purchase was already yielding dividends.

The recent Juilliard graduate’s fascination with the heavens began with astrology, but the then 22-year-old quickly realized that those celestial sketches were just photographs of the sky as captured during a specific orbit. Why bother with the rough blueprint when you could witness the entire electromagnetic spectrum in its full glory?

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Wilson Pickett

Stand By Your Man Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
Let’s start with the scream. We tend to define our singers by how “great” their voice is, how deftly they can ascend and descend major and minor scales, and how they can turn up and turn down the emotion inherent in their voices. But when considering Wilson Pickett, it begins and ends with his scream. He could take you on a journey, he could butter you up, he could make you feel things in your vital organs, but you don’t get a nickname like “Wicked Pickett” because you’re a crooner.

Pickett’s “Hey Jude” forms the spiritual centerpiece and title track of hisfinal trip up to the mountain-top, his last true masterpiece LP. He’d take forays to Philadelphia for the new sound of soul, and even go vaguely disco in the late ’70s. But for his final album of the ’60s, a decade where he dominated the soul charts, he’d unwittingly help start southern rock, and scream his way across one of the most recognizable tunes in the history of song. Not bad for 31 minutes and eight seconds worth of music.

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Tammy Wynette

Lonely Weekends Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Why you'll love it...
“Knowing Tammy Wynette’s troubled history, and with 50-plus years of social change since the recording and release of Stand By Your Man, it’s difficult to hear the album and not want to scream: Tammy, get out of there; you’re so much better than him! But that’s not to say that the album, which ascended to No. 2 on Billboard’s Country Albums chart and earned a Country Music Association Album of the Year nomination in 1969, isn’t worth listening to. Wynette’s mournful voice, described by her longtime producer Billy Sherrill as ‘husky and soulful and tearful and dynamic,’ was made for songs like these; frankly, so were her real-life experiences. ‘She lived it, you know. She lived every tear every-body ever heard her sing,’ Sherrill once said of Wynette, and he assembled talented musicians to match her delivery in lush, Nashville Sound-era style.”

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Charlie Rich

Charles Musselwhite Blues Band

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Why you'll love it...
After recording demos with Sam Phillips that he considered "too jazzy" Charlie Rich was given a stack of Jerry Lee Lewis records to study and "come back when [he got] that bad". The single "Lonely Weekends" hit Top 30 and earned a gold record for selling one million copies. The album features classics such as "C.C. Rider," "You're Gonna Be Waiting" and "Apple Blossom Time."

Limited to 1000 copies, the VMP exclusive edition of Charlie Rich's Lonely Weekends is pressed on Sky Blue vinyl at Softwax Record Pressing. The AAA 1LP will arrive in a single, direct-to-board jacket.

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Tennessee Woman Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Fathers And Sons Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
Tennessee Woman is an undervalued Chicago blues masterpiece, a flawlessly executed showcase for Charlie Musselwhite’s unique blues harp sound, an album that perfectly meshed the urban, raucous sounds of Chicago electric blues of Musselwhite’s adult life and the down-home sound of the Memphis blues of his youth. Musselwhite never set out to be a musician; he just wanted to find a job in Chicago that would allow him some spending money to see the blues musicians he loved. When it came time to make his own records, all of Charlie Musselwhite went into Tennessee Woman, and you can hear it from the first notes.

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Muddy Waters

2LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Vinyl Me, Please)

41,99 €*

Singing And Piano Blue Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
The late '60s were a mixed bag for Muddy Waters. In 1969, Waters needed to pivot, and away from the longhairs. He made ‘Fathers and Sons’.

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Nina Simone

LP | 1969 | Reissue

24,99 €*

Release: 1969 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1969 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Spanky Wilson

Spankin' Brand New

29,99 €*

Release: 1969 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

California Mudslide (And Earthquake) Clear Yellow Vinyl Edition

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Lightnin' Hopkins

LP | 1969 | UK | Reissue (Vault)

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Puzzle People (Limited Edition)

The Temptations

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Elemental)

LP | 1969 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Produced entirely by Norman Whitfield, The Temptations’s "Puzzle People" takes the next step along the path that Cloud Nine started, and takes the Detroit band further away from a classic soul sound, and more towards the realm of psychedelic soul. Although a few ballads, including “Running Away (Ain’t Gonna Help You),” are still present, the album is primarily composed of Sly & the Family Stone/James Brownderived proto-funk tracks such as the lead single “Don’t Let the Joneses Get You Down,” and the number-one Billboard Pop hit “I Can’t Get Next to You.” Also included are psychedelic-styled covers (recorded with distorted guitars, clavinets, and spacy reverb and sound effects) of contemporary songs such as The Isley Brothers’ “It’s Your Thing,” The Beatles’ “Hey Jude,” and Roger Miller’s “Little Green Apples.” "Puzzle People" was released on the same day (September 23, 1969) as "Together", a duets album of covers by The Temptations and label mates Diana Ross & the Supremes. It peaked into the Top 5 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and spent fifteen weeks at number one on the R&B Albums chart.

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Kashmere Stage Band

Our Thing

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Craft)

Release: 1969 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kashmere Stage Band (ksb), founded by music teacher Conrad O. Johnson was an elite performing unit of the student band at Kashmere High School, Houston, Texas, from the late 1960s until 1978. All original Kashmere LPs had 1000 copies or less originally pressed, which were sold both locally and around the world as the band toured. And now, P-vine is proud to present the historically renowned albums from the band on limited reissue vinyl! some of them will be reissued on vinyl for the first time.

[Items line-up] Kashmere Stage Band / Our Thing ('69) Kashmere Stage Band / Bumper To Bumper Soul ('70) ※First time reissued on vinyl Kashmere Stage Band / Thunder Soul ('71) ※First time reissued on vinyl Kashmere Stage Band / Zero Point ('72) Kashmere Stage Band / Kashmere "73" Live in Concert ('73) ※First time reissued on vinyl Kashmere Stage Band / Out Of Gas But Still Burning ('74) Kashmere Stage Band / Plays Originals ('74) Kashmere Stage Band / Expo '75 Concert Tour Japan/Okinawa ('75) ※First time reissued on vinyl

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Ralfi Pagan

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (United)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinyl LP pressing.

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B.B. King

The Blues

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: G+, Cover: G+

Cover has corner and edge wear but artwork looks great. Clean labels. Quite a few superficial marks and signs of use, however plays without skiping and with only low crackling noise audible in quiet parts.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Sunshine Of Your Love

18,99 €*

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (Universal)

Glen Campbell

Galveston

29,99 €*

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1969 | Reissue (Sony)

Harry Nilsson

Nilsson Sings Newman

Release: 1969 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Acid Vinyl Me, Please Edition

Ray Barretto

35,99 €*

LP | 1969 | US | Reissue (ATCO)

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why you'll love it...
Ray Barretto’s songs are cinematic. Artfully composed, richly orchestrated, each one feels like something deserving of big-screen wonderment. And, indeed, from Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets (''Ritmo Sabroso'') and Oliver Stone’s JFK (''El Watusi'') to Lee Daniels’ Precious (''Teacher of Love'') to Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight (''Cocinando Suave''), his music as a bandleader made it into movies of major importance across the decades. Of course, you don’t need to be a card-carrying cinephile to appreciate the moods and magnitudes expressed by his work, especially his seminal 1968 album Acid for Fania Records.

It takes more than a minute into ‘’Acid'' before Barretto begins showing off on the congas, leading into a nearly three-minute solo marked by fabulous flourishes that culminates with the full band, including pianist Cruz, showing their united might. Elsewhere on Acid, the group would have dutifully jumped headfirst into this mode, but here it is just a spectacular finish to a rhythmic story — Barretto’s story — told like the best film you’ve never seen.

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Buffalo Springfield

Last Time Around

Release: 1969 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Blues Obituary Golden Vinyl Edition

The Groundhogs

LP | 1969 | UK | Reissue (Fire)

25,99 €*

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (RCA)

New Birth

The new birth

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Brunswick)

Barbara Acklin

Someone else's arms

15,99 €*

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow

Funkadelic

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Westbound)

21,99 €*

2LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Elektra)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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- "Eulogy and Light" sampled by Above the Law for "Black Triangle"

- "Free Your Mind" sampled by JCD and the Dawg lb for "Bon Appetit",
Kris Kross for "Freak da Funk" and
X-Clan for "Earth Bound" & "Shaft's Big Score"

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The Stooges

Fun House

42,99 €*

2CD | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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14 tracks

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Miles Davis

Bitches Brew

13,99 €*

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Brunswick)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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... that groundbreaking album that changed jazz music ... sampled by Aceyalone, Black Moon, Chi-Ali, Fabe, Heavy D, Lootpack and others!

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Hysear Don Walker

Complete expressions

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Columbia)

Herbie Mann

Big Boss Mann

7,99 €*

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Rhino)

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Seam split top. Ring wear. Minor writing on back cover.

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The Doors

Morrison Hotel

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Reprise)

Stovall Sisters

The Stovall Sisters

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Warner)

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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includes all time soul classic 'Hang On In There'!

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Grateful Dead

American Beauty

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ray Stephen Oche And His Mutambo

Interpretation Of The Original Rhythm

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Favorite)

15,99 €*

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Orchestra

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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High on everyones afro-jazz wishlist!

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Consummation

LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Bureau B)

Kluster

Klopfzeichen

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Kent)

Rudy Ray Moore

Eat Out More Often

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | DE | Reissue (Columbia)

Sweet Smoke

Just A Poke

37,99 €*

LP | 1970 | DE | Reissue (Motown)

Release: 1970 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Reissue. Tiny tear in opening.

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Nick Drake

Bryter Layter

Release: 1970 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Poppy)

Mandrake Memorial

Puzzle

25,99 €*

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Spectator)

Tordenskjolds Soldater

Peace

39,99 €*

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Vanguard Apostolic)

Larry Coryell

Spaces

6,99 €*

The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: G+, Cover: G

Splits in seams.

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Remains To Be Heard

LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Not Bad)

37,99 €*

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Creedence Clearwater Revival

Cosmo's Factory

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Fantasy)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Babs Robert & The Love Planet

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Alpha)

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Spoon)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Folks, this is a must have for any Spiritual Jazz fan! Despite its modest role on the world stage, Belgium has produced a number of internationally renowned musicians and composers. There is the iconic gypsy jazz guitar maestro Django Reindhart, whose position remains unassailable, and guitarist/harmonica player Toots Thielemans, who became an internationally renowned artist performing and recording with Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Shirley Horn and Quincy Jones. The other key Belgian figure is composer/arranger Francy Boland, co-leader with US bebop drumming legend Kenny Clarke of Europe's leading big band of the 60s, the Clarke-Boland Big Band.

Whereas the post-war modern jazz scene produced a few notable successes, trad and New Orleans style jazz remained popular and bebop and swing were still played during the peak post-bop and free jazz years of the late-60s and early-70s. Despite the overwhelming popularity of ‘historic’ forms, there were a few worthy exceptions who pointed the way to the future: composer and pianist Marc Moulin formed his first trio in 1961 as a backing band for expatriate American musicians such as Johnny Griffin and Don Byas. He later collaborated with Philip Catherine to form Placebo, a group that mixed jazz, funk, rock and electronic sounds. Their influences ranged from Jimi Hendrix to James Brown, via Herbie Hancock and Soft Machine, and they experimented with the Moog and early synthesizers. Between 1971 and 1975 Placebo released three albums that have become much sought after by DJs and producers for beats and grooves to sample.

Moulin also contributed sleeve notes to one of the most sought after European deep jazz recordings of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and it’s a Belgian recording no less: ‘Babs Robert and the Love Planet’ (Alpha 7003, 1970) is one of the few examples of Belgium avant-garde jazz and was originally released on the Alpha label, a tiny enterprise based in Jette, Belgium. Alpha released renaissance / baroque music and the Babs Robert album is a wonderful aberration that is such an outlier as to be seemingly from another planet – the very Love Planet name-checked in the title perhaps?

The initial original quartet line-up was Babs Robert (sax), Paul Dubois (bass), Johnny Brouwers (piano), and Johnny Peret / Robert Pernet (drums). On the album session, the quartet was augmented with the addition of John Van Rjimenant (saxes) and Michel Gobbe (bass). As well as their main instruments, the band members also played an array of unusual instruments, principally percussion.

This is the first official re-release of the ‘Babs Robert and the Love Planet’. Original copies of the album fetch many hundreds of Euros on the collecting circuit and it remains a curious and fascinating window into a moment in time that still resonates some forty years later.

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Can

Soundtracks

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Parlophone)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Remastered from the original tapes, 180g vinyl!

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Syd Barrett

Madcap Laughs

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Le Orme

L'Aurora

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Acme)

Megaton

LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Kent)

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Originally released in 1970 killer driving UK progressive with keyboards, superb guitars, and original UK copies goes for stupid money! Underrated cool album with lengthy tracks and well-crafted songs. Groovy psychedelic DJ's must look at this album! Remastered 180 gram vinyl.

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Preston Love

Omaha Bar-B-Q

23,99 €*

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Hot Casa)

Stanislas Tohon

Dans Le Tchink Systeme

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Prestige)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Afro-Soul Holy Grail by the “Soul Brother from Benin“, featuring the famous “Vis à Vis” band from Ghana and recorded in Kumasi in 1979.

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Sonny Phillips

Black Magic

16,99 €*

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Speakers Corner)

Antonio Carlos Jobim

Stone Flower

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Around the year 1970, almost everything appeared to have been said about the style of music over the past two decades, which was a mix of samba and cool jazz. Adventurous musicians such as Luis Bonfa, Baden Powell, Charly Byrd, João and Astrud Gilberto, and the saxophonist Stan Getz lent fire and sentiment to the “new trend”. First and foremost among them was Carlos Antonio Jobim, whose catchy tunes such as the ticking, shuffling song "Desafinado" and the genial "One Note Samba" were heard all over the globe.
That the man from Ipanema still had a lot to say is proved by the present album, which presents Jobim’s creativity at the height of his maturity. Right from the very first number, where Urbie Green on the trombone 'sings' "Tereza My Love" so purely in the top register, it is clear that the late bossa with its typical rhythm is structurally far more refined than the early hot dance numbers. The melodies are woven through, as it were, with shining gold and silver threads of rhythm, and clusters of sound are light and airy. However, here and there, the musicians let their hair down, such as in the Latin classic "Brazil".
With that magician of sound Deodato as arranger and conductor, and Rudy van Gelder as recording engineer, this LP is certainly a Bossa masterpiece. There’s no more to be said!

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Pendulum

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Fantasy)

21,99 €*

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Warner)

The Velvet Underground

Loaded

24,99 €*

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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UK reissue of this classic Velvet Underground album (their fourth), originally released on Cotillion in 1970. Edition on 180-gram vinyl.

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John Lennon

Plastic Ono Band

30,99 €*

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Sony)

Miles Davis

Bitches Brew

Lightnin' Hopkins In New York

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram pressing!

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Lightnin' Hopkins

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Barnaby)

18,99 €*

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Polydor)

Lee Dorsey

Yes We Can

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Repertoire)

Leaf Hound

Growers Of Mushroom

23,99 €*

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Parlophone)

Deep Purple

Deep Purple In Rock

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Man Who Sold The World 2015 Remastered Edition

David Bowie

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Parlophone)

30,99 €*

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Epic)

Catfish

Get Down

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Legacy)

Santana

Abraxas

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | CA | Reissue (Rhino / Warner)

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath Opaque

Release: 1970 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Symposium)

Leo Kottke

Circle Round The Sun

16,99 €*

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Sonor Music Editions)

Amedeo Tommasi

OST Thomas

37,99 €*

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Soundtracks

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“Thomas” is an Italian Soundtrack milestone and pure masterpiece of Italian Giallo Thriller exploitation. It’s the infamous and legendary score for the film directed by cult Italian director Pupi Avati and originally released on Gemelli label in 1970. Check out he mind-blowing scary Giallo vibes, stunning cinematic sinister beats with the participation of Edda Dell'Orso who gives some astonishing frightful vocals with dope thrilling vibes allover. “Thomas” aka “Thomas E Gli Indemoniati” is a horror-thriller, fantasy-drama and grotesque film cult from 1969, originally not distributed due to the bankrupt of film publisher. Mythical item for record collectors and fundamental piece for any Italian Giallo thriller enthusiast. This release is limited to 500 copies!

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Thelonious Monk

Monk.

Stars / Time / Bubbles / Love

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Cover is close to VG+!

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The Free Design

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Project 3)

18,99 €* 19,99 € -5%

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Elton John (2017 Remaster)

Elton John

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Mercury)

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Supraphon)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Pop

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Remastered from the original analogue tapes and pressed on 180-gram vinyl!

“Elton John” is the second album by English singer-songwriter Elton John, released in 1970. However, because it was his first album released in America, many people there assumed it was his first album, as Empty Sky was not released in the US until 1975. Elton John includes his breakthrough hit, "Your Song", and helped to establish his career during what was considered the "singer-songwriter" era of popular music. In the US, it was certified gold in February 1971 by the RIAA. In the same year, it was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

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Blue Effect

Meditace

LP | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Parlophone)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A reissue of one of the top titles from Eastern Europe's rock history. Blue Effect's 1970 debut-album consists of progressive rock with a touch of blues and some serious underground atmospheres. Recorded in 1969, the line-up comprised Vladimír Misk (vocals), Radim Hladík (guitar), Jirí Kozel (bass) and Vlado Cech (drums). This LP comes on 180-gram vinyl and is presented in a gatefold cover.

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Jethro Tull

Stand Up

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Sony)

Bob Dylan

New Morning

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Capitol)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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New Morning is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, originally released in 1970.

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Paul McCartney

McCartney

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Afreaka! Black Vinyl Edition

Demon Fuzz

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Columbia)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Demon Fuzz's only album, the extraordinary Afreaka!, demonstrates their excellence in playing psychedelic soul, dub-heavy funk, progressive rock, Afro-jazz and black acid rock.

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Herbie Mann

Big Boss Mann

8,99 €*

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Welcome Back A Foolish Man / Lovin' Hard, Livin' Good

Bobby Jones

7" | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Rocafort)

11,99 €*

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Conforming to the usual high standards we've come to expect, Rocafort Records have got their hands on another sublime soul 7inch. Originally released in 1970 on the amusingly named Kack label, soulman Bobby Jones assures us that there's nothing but the smell of sweet soul music happening here.
Written and produced by well-known Chicago music veteran, Maurice Lee Simpkins, "Welcome Back A Foolish Man" does everything an early 70s mid-tempo two-stepper should. Urgent, pleading lyrics telling of unspeakable heartache, sweeping strings, twangy guitars, heavenly backing vocals that lift everything towards the Gods. All solidly crowned by the raw, expressive vocal talent of Bobby Jones – a consistantly worthy bluesy/soul singer who never really got the recognition he deserved.
Interesting to note that both "Welcome Back A Foolish Man" and the similarly veined B side, "Lovin' Hard, Livin' Good" were sung by soul siren Ruby Andrews a few years prior but with different lyrics, different composers and label. A mystery worth solving for any of you musos out there !

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The Meters

Struttin'

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Wah Wah)

107-34-8933

Numbers

20,99 €*

2LP | 1970 | DE | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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If you check the credits of The Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup LP from 1973 you'll find a certain "Pascal" listed on the percussion section. That is none other than Los Angeles based artist Nicolas Pascal Raicevik (1933-1994), aka 107-34-8933, aka Head, aka Nik Pascal, aka Nik Raicevic. Besides his hitting the bongoes on the Stones album, Nik was a great artist on his own, both as a painter and as a musician. As a musician, he was a pioneer in the use of synthesizers, preceeding the Berlin school by some years when his Head LP was released on on Buddah in 1970. Buddah probably saw in Head the opportunity to cash in some money from the remains of the psychedelic scene - the three tracks on the LP are named after drugs used in the late sixties. The sounds, however, are accomplished works that show Raicevic as one of the most interesting pioneers in the use of synths. The album probably didn't do too well, since Buddah didn't renew the contract with Raicevic, who instead took his own way releasing his works on his very own Narco Records and Tapes label. Between 1968 and 1975 Narco would issue 4 LPs credited either to Nik Raicevic (Beyond The End... Eternity) or Nik Pascal (The Sixth Ear, Magnetic Web and Zero Gravity) plus one credited to 107-34-8933 (Numbers, which is in fact the same LP as Buddah's Head, albeit with different cover art). Copies of these LPs came with an ironic sticker over the shrinkwrap that read "Do not listen to this LP if you are stoned".

Numbers was the first reference in the Narco catalogue (NR101), each of the three tracks it contains is named after a drug: Cannabis Sativa, Methedrine and Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. The album was credited to 107-34-8933, there is no date of release on the disc, some sources take it as back as 1968 - in any case, this is the same record that was issued on Buddah in 1970 credited to Head and eponymously-titled. The Wah Wah reissue features the original cover artwork from the Narco edition.

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James Brown

Once Upon A Time

15,99 €*

Release: 1970 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Wah Wah)

Siloah

20,99 €*

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Wah Wah)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Coming out of the boiling Munich scene of the sixties that also gave us the original Amon Düül (Thom Argauer had played in a dixieland band with Chris Karrer in the late 60s, actually), Siloah are one of the best kept secrets of the krautrock production. Siloah had a hard core including Thom Argauer, Manuela von Perfall, Heinrich 'Tiny' Stricker and Wolfgang Görner, plus a host of guests coming and going, everybody was free to join and play at any time, guest members often joining from the Baumstassen commune around which the band was living before they eventually moved to an abandoned farm on the outskirts of town.

Their first LP is a trippy acid psychmasterpiece recorded in 1970 and privately issued on German Blues and Undergrund. It showed a strong influence from US West Coast psychedelic music and has a lovely acoustic approach. It's sound is free, full of improvisation and with a charming amateurish feel all through it. It will appeal to lovers of free spirits like Amon Düül themselves, Kalacakra or even Música Dispersa.

The Wah Wah reissue is made in cooperation with Thom Argauer family, it has been cut from the original master tapes, has original artwork (improved by printing it over a mirror finish silver cardboard), has two bonus track not on the original LP added, features an insert with photos and liner notes and comes in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies only.

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Wynder K. Frog

Into The Fire

20,99 €*

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Bear Family)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Wynder K. Frog story evolves around Mick Weaver. After he switched from piano to organ he joined a band named The Chapters that would soon be renamed Wynder K. Frog and perform material from James Brown's Flames, Booker T. and The MGs or even songs learned through Georgie Fame's recordings and Graham Bond's repertoire. Wynder K. Frog moved to London and became regulars in the city's R&B scene playing at Swingin' London's clubs like the Tiles or The Marquee. A contract with Island Records was secured and -under the wings of producers like Chris Blackwell, Guy Stevens, Jimmy Miller or Gus Dudgeon- Wynder K Frog, a name that would eventually be used as a pseudonym for Weaver more than a proper band name, did some some amazing Hammond organ-ized recordings and issued in three LPs and a bunch of cool 45s.

At the end of the 1960s, Weaver would quit the "band scene" to become one of the most in demand session musicians and throughout his career he'd be heard backing names such as Eric Burdon, Roger Chapman, Dave Gilmour, Keef Hartley, Alexis Korner, Ralph McTell, Taj Mahal or Otis Rush a.o, but his LPs as Wynder K Frog are classic Hammond sound from the 1960s UK and will appeal to those into Brian Auger, Graham Bond, The Artwoods, Zoot Money, Jimmy McGriff, Booker T. & The MGs and the likes.

INTO THE FIRE
The third Wynder K Frog album was released only in the USA in 1970, once Weaver had already abandoned the project and started his session musician career. Out Of The Frying Pan was doing well in the States, copies still selling steadily since it had appeared, and United Artists thought it'd be a good idea to release it under the Into The Fire title in order to present it as kind of a sequel to Frying Pan. The material, mostly written by Weaver and his side men for the sessions, takes the sound one step further adding heavier sounds and funkier rhythms, not far from what was being done in USA studios like Muscle Shoals at that time.

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The Petards

Hitshock

23,99 €*

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Capitol)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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With their first, self-titled album for Liberty, The Petards from the state of Hessen in Germany had produced a real hit. The year 1969 meant for Klaus and Horst Ebert, Roger Waldmann and Arno Dittrich above all a wealth of appearances; at that time there was
probably no band harder working in Germany than The Petards. In September 1969 producer Sigi Loch called the band back to Munich's Trixi Ton Studio to record the next album. And as one would expect from the band, the musicians came to the studio well prepared. Within five days, enough new songs were recorded to create four singles in addition to the new album. All the titles were written by the two Ebert brothers, who apparently never ran out of ideas. The musicians used whatever kind of tools the studio gave them: synthesizers, Mellotron and piano were skillfully integrated into the Petards sound. As with the previous albums, the band captivated with an enormous amount of variety and talent. Progressive rock, Krautrock - everything was in the Petards songs - and yet with less than four minutes of running time they remained deeply suitable for airplay.
In early 1970 the new album 'Hitshock' was released on Liberty and continued the track of success of the four Hessians. For many people 'Hitshock' is the most mature and best produced album of the four from Schrecksbach. Fans and critics agreed. In April 1970, The Petards made it into the arts pages! Director Charles Lang had selected the band from 70 applicants and invited them to the Bremen Theatre. There they took part in the play 'Was ihr wollt', freely adapted from Shakespeare (’Twelfth Night’, or ’What You Will’). All arrangements were made by the musicians, some titles were rewritten. Unfortunately no recordings have been preserved. The play was not a great success, but The Petards got off well with the critics, and of course this also meant a good promotion for their new album. At least the four musicians had a lot of fun participating, but still they found time to carry the songs from 'Hitshock’ live through the republic. Bear Family releases this album for the first time again in the original artwork on 180 gram vinyl and adds a reproduction of the original poster to 'Hitshock'. This record is the third of four scheduled vinyl re-releases of the great Petards on Bear Family.

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Ike & Tina Turner

Her Man... His Woman

8,99 €*

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Gordy)

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Small punch hole in cover.

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The Temptations

Psychedelic Shack

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Vinyl close to NM

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Celia

LP | 1970 | JP | Reissue (Apple)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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MRBLP188 Beautiful debut album from the incredible, Célia. Conducted & arranged by Arthur Verocai and Rogério Duprat; featuring songs by Lo Borges, Antonio Adolfo and Joyce amongst others. Célia recorded four self-titled albums for Continental between 1971 and 1977, ‘Amor’ in 1982 plus several more before she sadly passed away late in 2017, aged 70. This is her debut album from 1970. Célia was a Brazilian vocalist who worked frequently with master arranger-composer Arthur Verocai in her early years and many other heavyweights over the course of her extensive career. Joyce was particularly supportive in the making of this album, writing the beautiful “Abrace Paul McCartney” and her husband at the time, Nelson Ângelo, recorded some of the songs.
Features an exclusive insert of a translated interview with Celia, completed in 2011 in her hometown of São Paulo. Focusing, in particular on her recording work with Arthur Verocai, it showcases her wonderful sense of humour and how she was embracing her new legion of fans, particularly in the world of hip hop. Official Mr Bongo reissue. Licensed from Warner Music.

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The Beatles

Let It Be

The Gospel According To Zeus

Release: 1970 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop, Soundtracks

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

1976 Japanese reissue. OBI is missing. With insert. Vinyl is Close to VG+.

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Power Of Zeus

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

LP | 1970 | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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* Record Store Day Europe / UK 2019 Exclusive Release!
* Transferred from 2 x 1/4"" analog reels at 192kHz/24-bit.
* Half-speed cut at Abbey Road Studios.
* One of the most sampled breaks in hip hop history - including KRS-One, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Cyprus Hill, Tribe Called Quest and Eminem to name a few.
* 180gm vinyl

Seminal funk-rock album originally released on Rare Earth in 1970. Featuring the monster breakbeat on 'The Sorcerer Of Isis’.

Formed in Detroit in 1968, Power of Zeus became the first rock band to be signed by Motown subsidiary label, Rare Earth. The group drew inspiration from British hard rock and heavy metal giants like Cream, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin when they created this well-produced, seminal post-hard rock album. After ‘The Gospel According to Zeus’, the group never made another album and the band slipped into obscurity, until it was discovered by the hip hop diggers. The drum beat from "Sorcerer of Isis" has been one of the most sampled in hip-hop music, including KRS-One, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Cyprus Hill, Tribe Called Quest and Eminem to name a few.

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The Delfonics

Release: 1970 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Amercia)

Noah Howard

Space Dimension

41,99 €*

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Arhoolie)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Noah Howard was born in 1943 in New Orleans and, like many of his contemporaries, first played music in church as a child. In his 2010 book, 'Music in My Soul', Howard reflected upon his childhood in New Orleans and the influence the city had on him: “Growing up in New Orleans was like receiving a steady diet of music, and my taste in music became increasingly more sophisticated. In the neighborhood where I grew up kids around me were listening to Rhythm and Blues and Jazz; Rock came only much later. One of the great moments of my life was when I was around 13 years old and heard Duke Ellington with Paul Gonsalves playing a twenty-some minutes chorus solo on tenor sax at Newport. We had never heard anything like this before; a saxophone player doing so many choruses, this was years before Coltrane opened up. That experience meant there was no turning back; my ears were open and my desire was burning for music.”
He first learned to play the trumpet before moving on to alto, tenor and soprano saxophone. And his musical journey initially took him to Los Angeles where he worked with Dewey Johnson and then later moved to New York to join the Sun Ra Arkestra. Like most forward thinking saxophonists of the time, Howard was influenced by the evolving expressionism of John Coltrane and Albert Ayler and it wasn't long before he became a key member of the mid-60s free jazz movement, a stepping stone to his elevation into one of the world’s most notable saxophonists.
Howard's debut LP as leader, 'Noah Howard Quartet' was recorded in 1965, and the follow up, 'Noah Howard at Judson Hall', in 1966 but not issued until 1968, both for the groundbreaking ESP Records label (incidentally, both albums featured British trumpeter Ric Colbeck). However, Howard's view of ESP was not positive, calling it “ a monster of deception... I am aware of ESP's adventures...they continue to make money off the artists and they refuse to pay any royalties.”

Like many of the black jazz musicians of the 60s, Howard left the USA and settled in Europe (making the permanent move to Paris in 1972). In an interview in 2005, Howard explained his move: “When I first came to Europe it was 1969 and I came to play in a big festival and after that we had a lot of concerts, recalls Howard. "Then we left and we came back to the States, I was based in New York at that time. About six months later, we had some more concerts, we came back and this went on for years, going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth... I decided that instead of going back and forth all the time, it was more advantageous for me to stay over here and live and work.”
It was in Paris that Howard took part in sessions for the Frank Wright albums 'One For John', cut for the leading French free jazz label BYG Actuel and another Wight session, 'Uhuru Na Umoja', for the America label. Another album on America that featured Howard was Archie Shepp's 'Black Gipsy'. This session also featured , among others, Sunny Murray on drums and Clifford Thornton on trumpet.
America Records was to be home to Howard's third album, 'Space Dimension'. On this album, Frank Wright was reunited with Howard once more, and Wright also composed one track, 'Church Number Nine' (Wright would also do his own version as the title track on his 1970 album, initially only released in Japan. That album would also feature Howard.) 'Space Dimension' also features bop drummer Art Taylor on three tracks, with Muhammed Ali (brother of Rashid), on one. They're joined by alongside pianist Bobby Few, longtime member of Frank Wright's group and an alumnus of Archie Shepp's band.
'Space Dimension' has never seen an official reissue since its original release in 1970 and remains, among a few aficionados, one of the most in demand - and little known - albums in Howard's discography. The blend of free improvisation with a tough rhythmic foundation make for an edifying listening experience. The spectral disjointed afro-blues of the title track, with Howard's soaring, searing horn, introduces an exceptional album of weight and significance, a real statement piece. 'Viva Black' starts as a lush groove, rich with texture and tone. Bobby Few's piano is sparse and disciplined, allowing space for the interweaving angles of the horns and drums to cross and jostle and build in intensity, with Muhammad Ali's drum solo acting as a cathartic release.
'Song for Poets' is blistering in its attack, an intense assault from the whole group – urgent and imperative, a call to action that seemed to resonate with the tumult of the late 60s and early 70s and, perhaps, still resonates now. The album closes with the extended piece 'Blues for Thelma'. It starts like a sort of angular, shattered New Orleans first line march band; Howard visceral horn and Few's piano joust and punch like fighters in a ring; Ali's drums hammer a solid undertow of power and energy, relentless in its fire.
All in all, 'Space Dimension' announced Howard's arrival into a new decade, a decade that was to see not just jazz but music and wider society undergo profound change.
Howard's third record was the widely acclaimed 'Black Ark', which featured Arthur Doyle on his first recording. 'Black Ark' soon became a landmark free jazz recording and elevated Howard into the first division of globally renowned free jazz players.

He spent much of the next decade or so exploring new ideas and places to work, including Europe and Africa, moving to Nairobi in 1982 and finally Brussels, where he had a studio and ran a jazz club.
In his autobiography, Howard described going to Africa: “It was a Sunday morning with bright blue skies and I reached down and grabbed a handful of earth, holding it in my hands. It was red earth. As the first of my family to make this voyage back to my community, I was filled with emotion and started to cry – thinking about all those before me who didn’t survive the middle passage and slave trade. I thanked the few strong survivors of which I’m a descendant and was grateful to be a live and to make it back to Africa in my lifetime. The feeling of coming back home, after generations had gone through abuse and suffering, was upon me. I would put some of this into music later on when recording with James Emmanuel, the poet on 'Middle Passage'”
He recorded steadily through the 1970s and 1980s, mostly with his own label AltSax and continued to expand his repertoire, exploring a range of sounds from ethno-funk to world music in his latter decade. He returned to his free jazz roots in the 90s, mixing the myriad of influences and styles he had encountered throughout his journey.
Noah Howard recorded 35 albums, and their styles reflect the ceaseless musical searcher he was: blues, free jazz, world music. He covered it all.
Noah Howard died on September 3rd, 2010 while on holiday in the South of France. He died a day before finishing the first draft of his autobiography.

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Sonny Boy Williamson

King Biscuit Time

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Paul Baillargeon & Dean Morgan

Viens, Mon Amour

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Tresor National)

21,99 €*

LP | 1970 | US | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tresor Notional is a new Montreal-based record label dedicated to reissuing long lost gems recorded in Quebec (Canada). Their inaugurational release will be o 180g vinyl-only official reissue of the 1970 cult classic “maple syrup porn” soundtrack “Viens, mon amour’ (Love in a 4 letter World), composed by Paul Baillargeon (Star Trek TV series, Jean- Pierre Ferland's Soleil, Curious Georges) and Dean Morgan.
Between 1968 and 1974, Quebec was exposed to unabashed exploitation cinema. Erotic and taboo, these B-movies took on the name of films de fesses (titty films) or “maple syrup porn”. The genre produced some of the most delectable and collectable soundtracks at the time while “Viens, mon amour” easily stands out as one of the sexiest example ever recorded in La Belle Province! Original pressings are scarce and have been highly sought-after for decades by collectors from around the world. This remastered reissue highlights every sensual, psychedelic and
funky side, where rare grooves mix with delicate pop songs and Moog- infused, fuzz-driven titles with hard-hitting brass. A true gem for cinephiles, DJs and all diggers of exotic sounds... with a distinctive Québécois feel.
This first-ever reissue also includes extensive liner notes, rare artwork and exclusive commentaries from the composers. Pressed at 1000 copies, the album will be released in June 2019.

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Reuben Wilson

Blue Mode

25,99 €*

2LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Guerssen)

Release: 1970 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This Blue Note 80 Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

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Julian's Treatment

A Time Before This