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This Issue: Tim Putnam from Partisan Records
How did you personally get started in the music industry?
I was always drawn to music. I played music, but was never very good at it. So, those who can’t do, teach… and those who can’t teach work in the music industry.
When and where did the label begin?
We started it out of my apartment in Brooklyn, NY in 2006.
What is the meaning behind the name for the label?
It comes from the Leonard Cohen song, The Partisan.
How has the label changed since it started?
We’ve added more people, and signed more bands, and though the ethos and mission of the label has evolved, the spirit has remained the same.
Is the label tied to a specific geographical area?
How is this reflected in your releases?
We have our main offices in Brooklyn and London, though we have people working / satellite offices in LA, Virginia, Berlin, etc… and teams globally throughout the world. So I wouldn’t say our releases are necessarily tied to a specific geographical area. Great music comes from all over, and so do our artists.
Is there a genre that you would consider to be the label’s “signature style,” or is it a mix?
It is a mix.
How would you describe your overall ambitions and goals as a label from when you first started compared to now?
I never wanted to be the biggest label. I wanted us to
keep improving what we do, for the artists we do it for. I also wanted the label to be a place where people who share a passion for great art could work, grow, and pursue their own dreams. Ultimately, if I do my job right, I’ll put myself out of a job. I think those ambitions have just become more solidified over the years.
How would you describe the average fan of the label?
I wouldn’t because I think everyone is different given our roster, which is eclectic.
What in your opinion has been the biggest change in the music industry from when you first started compared to now?
The emergence of digital / streaming.
If you had to start a new sub-label, what would it be called and what kind of music would it be geared towards?
It would be called Party-san Records and we’d release music about partying and such.
They say our sun will explode in about 5 billion years or so- how would you like the label to be remembered?
As a safe harbor for humans before AI took over.
I’ll set the scene – we’re all passed out face-down in the lawn of the first Bush term, scratching our heads after 9/11 and wondering how much more dystopian it’s about to get. Ash hangs in the air as we march toward endless war, and the activities of the post-hippie, post-beat, post-punk, post-jazz, post-industrial, post-experimental bohemian underground flail against the avalanche with a mystic fire you can’t get your arms around, let alone bottle up for consumption. Jars of tears, rockets from another world. Sunburned Hand of the Man was a part of all that.
Sunburned appeared from time to time (occasionally at my invitation) in Western Massachusetts, a mongrel mob from Beantown, inscrutable in the extreme, their music governed by an internal logic, or by no logic, a bearded octopus with spider legs on stilts moonwalking with a limp. I’d see a set, then listen to a recording of it and swear that it was not the music I had witnessed earlier. As far as I can figure, the music actually had a mind of its own. And yet, in a shockingly conflicting truth, I knew in my heart that the music hadn’t changed – I had. These early encounters left me wondering why exactly these people were making this music, and very glad that they were.
They were driven by drums, bass, and guitars, and were obviously in love with groovy riffs, but to call them a rock band seemed even stupider than calling them a jam band. There were hand drums, shruti boxes, and plenty of moaning, but they were far from a hemp-bracelet-clad circle of evolutionary regressives spouting peace and love bullshit. There were weird electronics and some odd costumes once in a while, but it wasn’t anything resembling conceptual theater made for tight-assed, chinstroking academic prudes. They chewed through every leash imaginable, and went bolting off into the wilds of a confounding and glorious wilderness.
Headdress was the group’s first proper vinyl release and, appropriately, clarified absolutely nothing. Now it’s back, nearly old enough to walk into a bar and get toasted on cheap piss, ready to confront and confuse and enrapture and enlighten all over again.
Like Sunburned itself, you catch Headdress already in process. The needle hits the groove and it roars in out of nowhere, an affirmative “OH YEAH” heralding its arrival. The tracks bleed into one another, and the stylistic shifts in the edits can be sudden, but there’s a magic in the editing that mirrors the magic of seeing a live set. It coheres and evaporates at its own pace. Elements emerge, converge, diverge, divulge, and obscure. A riff might erupt, daring the rest of the swarm to hang on it, to join it, or to swirl it. The vocals are summoned sermons, by turns muffled and clear.
The iteration of the band we get here is true old school Sunburned. Over the years an audacious rogue’s gallery of maniacs has passed through the ranks, and it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that at one time there was a relatively tight-knit gallery of maniacs fusing together and forging the group’s sound and spirit. Most notable among this crew is the recently-departed Marc Orleans, to whom this reissue is dedicated. His bombastically loud, searing guitar leads were a defining feature of this era, and this record presents startling examples of the profound, crazed ecstasy he was capable of conjuring.
This reissue offers a snapshot in time, neon time, mylar time, slipping time, dripping time, stepping hither and yon, feet growing and vanishing like time with each welltimed step. Freedom isn’t real, but it’s everywhere, and we’re fools if we don’t try to grasp it during the cosmic windows when it makes itself briefly available.
Now everybody—
--Matt Krefting—
20th Anniversary Remaster
NOW THE SUBJECT OF AN 8-PART PODCAST SERIES ON THE TALKHOUSE NETWORK
LP-TLR-141 – on 20% discount through end of Sept.
Format: Gatefold Black Vinyl LP (with download) UPC: 634457104372
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1. Shitless (4:09) 2. Sense of the Senseless (5:28) 3. The Illness (4:44)
4. Headdress (3:17) 5. Yes, Your Highness (3:22) 6. A Second Guess (1:20)
7. The Underground Press (8:46) 8. Unless You Confess (3:35) 9. End Of The Endless (2:08)
- “No Way Out: An Oral History of Sunburned Hand of the Man” is an 8-episode podcast series focused on Sunburned coming in July from Aquarium Drunkard on the Talkhouse Podcast Network. Episode 1 is dedicated entirely to this album.
- Out of print since its original release, “Headdress” is widely seen as not one of the most important albums in the broadly influential Sunburned catalog but also of the early 2000s underground. Prior titles on Ecstatic Peace!, Eclipse, Smalltown Supersound, and many more labels.
- Pitchfork 9.0, Best New Music. “…the music flows so readily with complete and utter disdain for trend and fashion that it feels simultaneously primitive and advanced…”
- Newly remastered from the master tapes by Carl Saff, this already magical album has new vitality and power and is ready to knock folks down who only know the original release.
- Presented in a gatefold jacket re-worked from the original art elements and incorporating new archival photography. Pressed on 160g black vinyl by Smashed Plastic. (Also available on limited 160g “Luxury” Purple vinyl for indie accounts.)
- RIYL: Sonic Youth, No Neck Blues Band, Sun City Girls, krautrock, instrumental rock, out music, free jazz, having a damn fine time, self-improvement.
Three Lobed Recordings
PO Box 2345
Jamestown, NC 27282
www.threelobed.com
After five releas es in just over two years, We Are Busy Bo dies announc es its final two releas es of its King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Bo otlegger Series; Infest The Rats Nest and Murder of the Univers e ‘Live At Re d Ro cks 2022 ’ The s eries allowe d the lab el the opp ortunity to exp eriment with c onc epts or vinyl formats it had always wante d to try, but never had To share our appre ciation of your supp ort, we are offering a 15% dis c ount on remaining inventory through Re deye
Infest The Rats Nest was re c ently releas e d on glow in the dark gre en vinyl Hold it up to a light then turn out said light and b e prep are d for an exp erienc e that only this sp e cific re c ord can offer!
Murder of the Univers e was releas e d on transluc ent sp arkle vinyl and is p ackage d with a 100-pie c e puzzle featuring artwork by Jas on G alea Listen to the album while c ompleting a puzzle s e ems pretty on brand for the band
Both albums c ompile live tracks from each album p erforme d at the multi-day Re d Ro cks p erformanc es that saw the band play multi-hour s ets and not rep eat any s ongs during their s ets.
We Are Busy Bo dies previously releas e d Te enage Lizard on multi-c olor vinyl with a hidden 7” s eale d inside the gatefold sle eve only ac c essibly by p opping the sle eve.
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• LIMITED PRESSING ON “PURPLE LIGHTING” VINYL PRINTED INNER SLEEVE WITH PHOTOS AND CREDITS RECORDED AND PRODUCED BY HOOST, AKA JUSTIN TAILOR, (RINA SAWAYAMA, THE MANOR, JORDS)
Shamir's art is a synthesis of the full spectrum of human emotion; sensual, furious, yearning, joyful and yet tethered together by a very distinct style (similarly entirely in a hyper-specific, fully autonomous, embodied expression of personhood.
On his forthcoming album, Homo Anxietatem, Shamir takes the Latin translation of the title, “anxious man”, and transmutes his anxiety to pop songs. The creation process serves as a balm or elixir, converting internal anxieties to an 11-track sonic playground.
release date: AUGUST 18, 2023
label: LUAKA BOP
side a
catalog number: LP-BOP-0048 format: LP, LIMITED 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
1. La Noche y El Día
2. Si me Quitaran…
3. Caracunde
4. El Fusil del Poeta
5. Se me Van los Pies
side b
1. 13 de Mayo
2. Toro Mata
3. Afro-blue/Zum Zum
4. The Anchor Song
The tracks on this album may arouse a number of emotions; they were not sung purely for the pleasure of making music, but to convey, with drama and joy, that life is stronger than ever and continues with a live Spirit…
Recorded in New York after 9/11 in front of a small audience, Espíritu Vivo marries Susana Baca’s wonderful vocals and Peruvian backing band with the downtown sounds of John Medeski and guitarist Marc Ribot—for a recording that transcends time and place, with Baca giving every iota of herself to the music. This is the 20th anniversary edition, on vinyl for the very first time.
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format: lp, limited 25th anniversary edition
side a
1. sofrimento
2. rainha ginga
3. muxima
4. kuribôta
side b
1. morro do kussava
2. minha família
3. menina
4. querida angola
5. kanguru
Hailed as “one of the great, overlooked records of 1998,” by the New York Times, this worldwide debut of the Angolan artist Waldemar Bastos was recorded and produced by Arto Lindsay and David Byrne in New York. Its title, which means “blacklight” in Portuguese, is a hint to the powerful sorrow the music holds: Pretaluz is an elegiac response to the Angolan Civil War, drawing on influences near and far like the fado, semba, zouk, and morna, to create indelible songs. “With his dramatic pauses and dynamic vibrato rising above subtle rhythms picked out on nylon-string guitars, everything Mr. Bastos sings emerges as a lament of enormous sadness,” wrote the Times.
Now on vinyl for the very first time, this limited 25th anniversary edition of Pretaluz is a contender for the bestsounding record on Luaka Bop.
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In the past, Mapache recording sessions have been pretty laid-back affairs, with friends coming and going, the sessions starting and stopping at the band’s discretion—as relaxed a process as the immaculately sunny vibes that their four albums would suggest. But on their dynamic and ambitious fifth album of cosmic-folk, Swinging Stars, Sam Blasucci and Clay Finch decided to take a trip and hunker down somewhere particularly special.
“It’s a pretty impactful place,” Finch says of the Panoramic House, the artist retreat where Swinging Stars was recorded. “It’s kind of dramatic. It’s a castle-y building on a hill, way up overlooking the Bay.”
Located in Stinson Beach in Marin County, California, the Panoramic House has recently hosted acts like My Morning Jacket, the War on Drugs, and Cate Le Bon, and was the ideal combination of scenic beauty and self-imposed confinement to allow Mapache to settle in for their most cohesive album yet. “That environment yields itself to a higher level of focus because everybody’s together for a week,” says Finch, explaining that the band stayed there during the process, sharing every bit of their time and energy on a shared vision. “We were all captive. No one could escape,” he laughs.
Swinging Stars, an album of calm, second-nature swagger, is the natural result of a band that’s existed in one form or another for its founders’ entire adult lives. Finch and Blasucci first met as students at La Cañada High School, just north of Los Angeles, where they both had a guitar class: “There wasn’t much supervision or anything,” remembers Blasucci. “It was really nice. And we got to just play guitars together.”
The two stayed friends through their college years—Finch went to Chico State and Blasucci spent two years as a missionary in Mexico—and eventually they ended up back in L.A., spending their days playing guitar together once again, just like old times. Working with producer/engineer Dan Horne (Cass McCombs, Allah-Lahs), they recorded four albums —2017’s Mapache, 2020’s From Liberty Street, 2021’s 3, and 2022’s Roscoe’s Dream. Often trading solos, and occasionally switching from English to Spanish, Finch and Blasucci are perfectly in sync together.
But the duo have also been developing their own personal voices in recent years as well—partially the result of the two of them living in separate cities for the first time in years. (Blasucci now lives in Ojai, and Finch in Malibu.) As Finch explains, that means the “meat and potatoes” of the songs were cooked up more on their own than they had been in the past. “What a Summer,” a slow-burn that sounds something like Bob Weir fronting Crazy Horse, is unmistakably Finch, for instance; “French Kiss,” with its Toussaint swing and Parsons shine, is Blasucci all the way. “Swinging Stars was probably the first Mapache record where each of us really leaned into our personal, distinct styles,” Blasucci explains.
Still, many of the songs on Swinging Stars are the result of a significant amount of group work on the road, sharpening and refining them, getting them just so before hitting the studio with their trusted collaborator Horne, who produced the set. Swinging Stars is also notable for its introduction of drummer Steve Didelot as a formal member of the band, with him playing on every track, and contributing an original song as well—“Reflecting Everything,” a cowboy-chord ballad sparkling with Finch and Blasucci’s guitars, and with Horne’s impeccable slide guitar.
There are also two special features: one from the Allah-Lahs’ Spencer Dunham, who plays bass on “French Kiss,” and another from David Rawlings, who graciously took the call to play acoustic guitar on the album’s finale, “Where’d You Go,” recording his part remotely. “He’s someone who Sam and I look up to in a pretty serious way,” Finch says. “So it was cool to have him.”
Mapache is so easygoing that their vibe belies their prolificness at times. Swinging Stars is their fourth album in as many years, and they show no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Blasucci chalks it up partly to the fact that, when you have two principal songwriters in a band, “the songs come in quickly and they stack up quickly.” It helps, too, that they’re just in the right place to be making music. “We’re just trying to make hay while the sun shines,” as Finch puts it. “None of us have any babies or anything and we’re all pretty committed to playing as much music as we can. And really focused on making something beautiful.”
CD Box Lot: 30
Packaging: 4 Panel Digipak
"Wayfaring strangers with an out-of-time sensibility and a penchant for evoking beloved sounds and moods of the past, Mapache have matured into an entity with its own accomplished sound." - Shindig
"easy like Sunday Morning" - Mojo Magazine
“A groove so strong you can basically hear the sunshine.” — NPR Music
LP Box Lot: 30
Packaging: Standard Jacket, Printed Inner Sleeve& Download Card
Vinyl is non-returnable
“If the Everly Brothers cruised back from a high desert road trip and landed at County Line beach and cracked a beer to watch the sunset – you’d have these guys...Mapache’s chemistry is undeniable and their creative circle seems to be flourishing.” — KCRW
"Cosmic California Country." — THE CURRENT
Catalog: CALICO-015
Release Date: August 18, 2023
Genre: Indie/Alternative/Singer-Songwriter
For Fans Of: Allah-Las, Father John Misty, Kurt Vile, War On Drugs, Kevin Morby, Drugdealer, Mild High Club, Holy Hive, Cut Worms, Cass McCombs, CSNY, Gram Parsons, Real Estate, Eagles, The Everly Brothers, Grateful Dead, The Nude Party, The Arcs, Khruangbin
Box Lot: 20
UPC: 810874026422
Format/Packaging: Repressed in Calico Discos branded printed paper sleeve. Big hole 7" vinyl @ 45 RPM.
• Produced by Grammy-nominated Will Yip (Turnstile, Title Fight, Code Orange, Superheaven, and more), who had this to say about the band: “They deserve to be huge. Honest, real, but massive songs.”
• First single currently featured on 17 Spotify editorial playlists with a total reach of over 11 million listeners
• Upcoming 2023 full EU/UK headlining tour
• Previously featured on publications like SPIN, Under The Radar, Flood Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, The Alternative, New Noise Magazine, DSCVRD, All Punked Up, Highlight Magazine, and more.
If you’ve ever watched David Lynch’s classic 2001 film Mulholland Dr., you might just recognize the title of Pærish’s third full-length, You’re In Both Dreams (And You’re Scared). It’s a line spoken by one of the two men having a conversation in that movie’s incongruous diner scene. Pærish vocalist/guitarist Mathias Court was watching the film for maybe the tenth time last year, and that line stood out to him like it never had before.
“I was having a very rough year,” he says, “and watching that scene really made me think about how my life was divided into two things. I was trying to live for the music, but at the same time have a good job. I ended up burning out. So I was struck by that line because it really felt that that’s what was going on in my life. So watching the movie again kind of decided the name of the album for me.”
Given that Pærish was formed when Court was at film school with bassist Martin Dupraz, it’s little surprise that the band—now completed by guitarist Frédéric Wah and drummer Loic Fouquet—would use a cinematic reference for its title. After all, the first two records were peppered with them, and many of their songs started life by Court fiddling with his guitar while watching something in the hopes that he’d capture or channel the emotion of whatever was on the screen. This time around, the title is the only thing directly inspired by the moving image. Whereas on 2016’s Semi Finalists and 2021’s Fixed It All, Court would utilize other people’s art to draw parallels to how he was feeling, this time it was purely his own internal wranglings that influenced his songwriting.
At the heart of that was an uncertainty about the band itself. Unable to tour Fixed It All because of the pandemic, Court wondered if being in a band was worth it. They’d recorded that album with their dream producer, Will Yip, in Philadelphia, but what should have been cause for celebration was anything but.
“A year after recording Fixed It All, I still didn’t know when it was going to come out,” Court says, “and I just started writing sadder songs. It was actually very comforting to write when you had like two full months of doing nothing, and I started writing like I never had before.”
By December 2021, Court had demoed the whole album. Almost a year later, Pærish flew to Philadelphia to record it with Will Yip. The band’s familiarity with the producer, plus the fact he and Fouquet hit it off instantly, lends a natural confidence to this album that disproves the very insecurities that inspired it. In fact, it turned into the album Pærish have always wanted to make.
“When I listen to these songs,” says Court, “I almost don’t realize this is our album. I feel like we got even closer to our final form. This is the one we’ve been wanting since we were kids. I’m so proud of it.”Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, The Alternative, New Noise Magazine, DSCVRD, All Punked Up, Highlight Magazine, and more.
Licensed To Ska: James Bond and other Film Soundtracks & TV Themes
Expanded Edition
18th August 2023
Soul Jazz Records are releasing this new 2xLP expanded version of Studio One 007 – Licenced to Ska: James Bond and other Film Soundtracks and TV Themes, originally only ever available as a long deleted 7” RSD box set. This new edition is fully remastered and expanded to a massive 18 super rare and killer cuts from the Studio One empire.
Featuring the Skatalites, Lee Perry, Jackie Mittoo, Bob Marley, The Wailers, Roland Alphonso and The Soul Brothers, rare and classic tracks from Jamaica's no.1 record label, Studio One.
Extensive sleeve-notes discuss the connections between James Bond, Jamaica and Ska music. Jamaica was the setting for Dr. No, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun and the recent ‘No Time to Die’, and the home for Bond’s creator Ian Fleming. There is also an extended essay on The Skatalites and their post-modern love and ska-ification of all styles of music – from classical music to TV themes, from detective movies to Fiddler on the Roof!
Aside from the James Bond-related cuts this album also includes killer tracks from the secret agent 1969 spoof ‘Our Man Flint', the Clint Eastwood-starring Spaghetti Western ‘Hang ‘Em High’, the Brazilian movie masterpiece ‘Black Orpheus’ and more besides.
The vinyl album is presented in superb gatefold sleeve, with full inner and house bag. The album is also available for the first time ever on CD and comes in double walled-slipcase with 28-page outsized booklet.
1. Jackie Mittoo and The Soul Brothers - James Bond (3.01)
2. The Skatalites - Dick Tracy (2.45)
3. The Soul Brothers - James Bond Girl (2.58)
4. The Skatalites - Guns Of Navarone (3.14)
5. Roland Alphonso and The Studio One Orchestra - From Russia With Love (4.20)
6. The Soul Brothers - Thunderball (3.21)
7. Jackie Mittoo - Hang 'Em High (3.52)
8. The Soul Brothers - Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (3.13)
9. The Soul Brothers - 007 (3.14)
10. Lee Perry and The Wailers - Pussy Galore (2.50)
11. The Soul Brothers - Mr. Flint (2.46)
12. The Skatalites - Ball Of Fire (3.09)
13. The Soul Brothers - James Bond Danger Man (2.09)
14. The Soul Brothers - Lawman (3.13)
15. The Skatalites - Black Orpheus (2.56)
16. The Skatalites - Exodus (2.50)
17. The Skatalites - Dr. Kildare (2.34)
18. The Soul Brothers - Fiddler On The Roof (2.34)
Street date: 18th August 2023
Artist: Soul Jazz Records presents
Title: STUDIO ONE 007 – Licensed to Ska: James Bond and other Film Soundtracks & TV Themes
Label: Soul Jazz Records
Format: 2xLP
UPC: 5026328005157
Cat. No. LP-SOJR-515
Format: CD
UPC: 5026328105154
Cat. No. CD-SOJR-515
Nick Stamey, 877-733-3931 x277
nick@redeyeworldwide.com
No shipments outside of USA & Canada
Soho, London, UK | souljazzrecords.co.uk
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Get Live ’83 (The Senior Rap)
12” Single
18th August 2023
Out of print for over 40 years this is a true rare 12” party hip-hop classic re-issued by Soul Jazz Records in a one-off edition of 1000 copies.
Absolutely stunning very rare old school party disco rap 12” performed by members of the Chicago public highschool Carver High. Originally released in 1982 on their own private-press Challenger Records. The track is the opening highlight of Soul Jazz Records’ recent Yo! Boombox collection and is featured here in its full glorious seven and a half minutes and comes complete with exact-replica of the striking original hand-drawn artwork.
Release date: 18th August 2023
Artist: Carver Area High School Seniors
Title: Get Live ’83 (The Senior Rap)
Label: Soul Jazz Records
Tracklist: A: Get Live ’83 (The Senior Rap) / B: The Carver Senior Song (Class of ’83)
Format: 12” Single
Cat. No. LP-SOJR-531-12
UPC: 5026328005317
Contact: Nick Stamey
877-733-3931 x277
nick@redeyeworldwide.com
No shipments outside of North America
Soho, London, UK / souljazzrecords.co.uk
IG / FB / Twitter: @souljazzrecords
Release Date: 18th August 2023
Simon Green aka Bonobo presents the 20th Anniversary Edition of Dial M for Monkey, nine perfectly formed tracks on a perfectly formed album. Now housed in beautiful packaging, with a rotating viewfinder, cyrstal clear vinyl and newly designed inners, it's outer beauty matched the beauty contained within the music. From the opener, 'Noctuary', with its creepy stoned-Hammer feel, through the headnod sitar-funk of 'Flutter', on into the Rhodes-meets-Gamelan of 'D Song', the first third of the record sets out the tone for what is to follow – all beautifully melodic and perfectly assembled but with enough of a creeping undertow to stop the music becoming empty or saccharine. 'Change Down' is all double bass folk and cut-up drums, 'Wayward Bob' is a devilish waltz, while single 'Pick Up' is a straight funk ‘n’ flute throw down. 'Something For Windy' sounds like a dub of a postman on his rounds, 'Nothing Owed' is epic pastoralia, while 'Light Pattern' rounds things off with what sounds like the theme to the best TV programme never made. With all instruments played, sampled and sequenced by Green’s own fair hand, there is a consistency here, both within the tunes and across the record that crate diggers can only dream of.
SIDE A
1. Noctuary
2. Flutter
3. D Song
SIDE B
1. Change Down
2. Wayward Bob
3. Pick Up
SIDE C
1. Something (Longer) For Windy
CAT NO: ZEN80XX
UPC: 5054429176711
Box Lot: 10
- 140g crystal clear 2LP in printed card inners housed in a 12” sleeve
- rotating view mechanism - - all new anniversary artwork.
2. Nothing Owed
SIDE D
1. Pick Up (Four Tet Remix)
2. Behind the Light
Genre: Electronic
Key Markets: Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Dallas
Recommended if you like… Caribou, Bicep, Floating Points, Four Tet, Tycho, Boards of Canada
naretail@ninjatune.net
ninjatune.net
Street Date: Aug. 18, 2023
Following several releases over the past decade of archival Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings material and collaborations with other ensembles, on labels including Black Truffle, Choice Records, Megafaun and Superior Viaduct, Drag City is excited as well to be able to introduce Resolve , the first release of new Excited Strings music from Arnold Dreyblatt since 2002.
Resolve acts in dialogue with the minimalist inspirations of the first Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings release, 1982’s Nodal Excitation in effect, looking beneath the hood of several decades of progression, reviewing and renewing the revolutionary intent of their foundation credo.
The reference points, then as now, include La Monte Young , Tony Conrad and Phill Niblock , as well as Jim O’Rourke , whose support for Arnold ’s music in the 1990s sparked new life. Konrad Sprenger, Joachim Schütz and Oren Ambarchi form the current Orchestra of Excited Strings , first initiated in Berlin in 2009 but the story of Arnold Dreyblatt ’s conception (a rhythmic drone played by Dreyblatt on a double-bass strung with piano wire, playing in concert with other stringed instruments performing in 20 unequal microtones per octave and changing key but keeping the same fundamental pitch) dates back to the 1970s, when Arnold evolved his interests in media arts to include acoustic sound while studying under Young and Pauline Oliveros before forming his first Orchestra in 1979 (from 1980 he studied with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University, where the second Orchestra was formed). Two years after Nodal Excitation was released on India Navigation, Arnold moved to Berlin, where the second Orchestra was formed. The release of Propellers In Love (1985, Künstlerhaus Bethanien/ Stasch 1986 Hat Art, reissued 2017 by Superior Viaduct), the opera project “Who’s Who in Central and East Europe 1933” and the release of Animal Magnetism (2010, 1995 Tzadik) demonstrated further developments in his music. After dexter’s cigar arranged for Nodal Excitation ’s first reissue on CD, Arnold returned to the United States to lead a new iteration of The Orchestra , (performing at Tonic on a bill with Tony Conrad and Jim O’Rourke) preserved on the 2002’s The Adding Machine (Cantaloupe Music).
Each phase of Arnold ’s music with The Orchestra of Excited Strings requires several overlapping periods of
gestation. In the initial writing of the music, the expectation is that the musicians be there to allow the instruments to sound; later, in playing the music with the orchestra, free interaction among the players results in the fixing of additional parts in the final pieces. And so, each Orchestra brings their selves to the project. In the case of Resolve , each of the members, as composers, producers, D.J.s, and artists in their own right, brought their own unique angles. Konrad Sprenger (aka Jörg Hiller)’s treatments involved solenoids, sine waves and a computer-controlled multi-channel electric guitar (as well as a relentless style behind the drum kit and overseeing the sound production), while Joachim Schütz ’s individual conception of electronics and electric guitar and Oren Ambarchi ’s undeniable innovations with signal path work together with Arnold ’s Excited Strings bass as magnetic component parts of Resolve
Side one features three potent new compositions demonstrating the Orchestra’s unique feel incorporating rhythmic accents that act as microbeats within Dreyblatt ’s microtones, implying shuffling funk and metallic rock at times, yet never deviating from the driving intensity of the harmonic play. Side two is taken up by the piece “Auditoria,” in which Ambarchi and Sprenger ’s production methodologies turn the Orchestra inside out, working expansively backwards through harmonic overtones to Dreyblatt ’s original tempo in a mesmerizing spatial redistribution of the music. The music of Resolve uses a variety of vehicles to find avenues back to the inaugural intent of the Orchestra of Excited Strings
This effort is, in ways both tactile and inadvertent, a timely one. With over 40 years of work as a solo artist, collaborator, composer, educator and bandleader, and with his 70th birthday approaching, Resolve is an important expression for Arnold Dreyblatt . The album title’s tendency to mean different things is an indicator of the dynamic qualities of his music with The Orchestra of Excited Strings an evolution that continues to produce new dimensions in acoustic sound with every new release.
ALSO AVAILABLE ON DRAG CITY: Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings
Nodal Excitation DC529 LP / dex15CD
DC877 LP NO EXPORT TO U.K., E.U., AUSTRALIA, N.Z.; SELL WITH RESOLVE EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLDThe anticipation is there in Elizabeth Stokes’ solo guitar riff under the opening lines of “I’m Not Getting Excited”: a frenetic, driving force daring a packed Auckland Town Hall to do exactly the opposite of what the track title suggests.
As the opener of The Beths’ Auckland, New Zealand, 2020 expands to include the full band, the crowd screeches and bellows. It’s a collective exhalation, in one of the few countries where live music is still possible.
The album title, and film of the same name, deliberately include the date and location, lead guitarist Jonathan Pearce says. “That’s the sensational part of what we actually did.” In a midpandemic world, playing to a heaving, enraptured home crowd feels miraculous.
In March 2020, everything seemed on track for another huge year for The Beths. Home after an 18-month northern hemisphere tour, they had just finished recording sophomore album Jump Rope Gazers and were primed for more extensive touring. But within days, New Zealand’s lockdown split the band between three separate houses. All touring was cancelled.
“It was existentially bad,” Stokes says. As well as worrying about economic survival, they lost something crucial to the band’s identity: live performance. “It’s a huge part of how we see ourselves... What does it mean, if we can’t play live?”
The band found an outlet through live-streaming, returning to the do-it-yourself mentality of their early days to connect with a global audience. The album and film have their genesis in that urge to share the now-rare experience of a live show, as widely as possible.
The fuzzy-round-the-edges live-streams pointed the way aesthetically. Native birds, wonkily crafted by the band from tissue paper and wire, festoon the venue’s cavernous ceiling while house plants soften and disguise the imposing pipes of an organ. The presence of the film crew isn’t disguised: much of the camerawork is handheld; full of fast zooms and pans.
With much of the material still fresh, the band was less focused on re-invention than playing “a good, fast rock show”, Pearce says. The tempo is up on crowd favourites “Whatever” and “Future Me Hates Me” (released as a live single on its third anniversary) as both band and audience feed off the mutual energy in the room.
Certain songs have taken on special resonance post-Covid. Pearce has found “Out Of Sight”, a tender rumination on long-distance relationships, hits particularly hard with live audiences. Album closer “River Run” visibly brings Stokes to tears as a mix of achievement and relief kicks in. “You can finally relax at that point … You play the last note, breathe out a sigh and look up - and you’re in a giant room full of people happy and smiling.”
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• Full-length concert film available on YouTube
• Features music from Jump Rope Gazers, Future Me Hates Me and Warm Blood
CAK128
Street Date: August 18, 2023
File Under: Alternative/ Indie Rock
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1. I‘m Not Getting ExcitedLive
2. Great No One - Live
3. Whatever - Live
4. Mars, the God of War - Live
5. Future Me Hates Me - Live
6. introduction
7. Jump Rope Gazers - Live
8. Uptown Girl - Live
9. bird talk
10. Happy Unhappy - Live
11. Out of Sight - Live
12. thank you
13. Don’t Go Away - Live
14. Little Death - Live
15. Dying to Believe - Live
16. River Run - Live
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Every Lucius song is an act of enchantment, a spell cast by the indelibly harmonized voices of Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig. Onstage, the performance becomes an invitation to be witness to their transformation; the dance between two individuals becoming one voice, one vision and bound by psychic symmetry. And while the effect of this spectacle is hypnotic and gloriously strange, the songwriting continues to be the hand that reaches out from behind the curtain to hold the audience, bringing together everything that makes you nostalgic for the past, while looking to the future. |Lucius’ newest album ‘Second Nature’ produced by Brandi Carlile and Dave Cobb and featuring tracks “Next to Normal,” “Dance Around It” feat. Brandi Carlile and Sheryl Crow & more is now in print in a dancefloor-ready disco ball silver color!
COLLABS
Featured on songs with: Harry Styles, Sheryl Crow, John Legend, Black Pumas, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Killers, Ozzy Osbourne & more
TOURING
Upcoming Headline Tour in 2022 across North America & Europe. Previous shows with: Roger Waters, Jack White, Mavis Staples, Jeff Tweedy, Sara Bareilles, Tegan & Sara, David Byrne & more
SYNC
FIFA, Bose, Roadies, Grey’s Anatomy, Girls, Samsung Galaxy, This is Us and Billabong
TV
Performances include The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Ellen Degeneres Show, and two episodes of Showtime’s Roadies PRESS
Lucius has landed on Best of the Year lists from NPR’s All Songs Considered, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, Paste & more
Sweet, soulful and smothering
- ROLLING STONE
Especially gorgeous, moving..
- THE NEW YORK TIMES
...Seemingly impossible harmonies with flawless grace
- THE NEW YORKER
6/25/2023 - Out and About Festival - Vienna, VA
7/6/2023 - Arrowood Farms - Accord, NY
7/7/2023 - Levitate Music & Arts Festival - Marshfield, MA
7/22/2023 - FairWell Music Festival - Redmond, OR
7/27/2023 - Out of Space - Evanston, IL
8/5/2023 - PIER 17 Seaport - New York, NY
10/7/2023 - Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA
10/8/2023 - Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA
10/14/2023 - Franklin Music Hall - Philadelphia, PA
LABEL REDEYE
RADIO PRESS Mari Gunn Lori Miller mari@momandpopmusic.com lori@redeyeworldwide.com
1. Second Nature - 3:31
2. Next to Normal - 3:11
3. 24 - 4:15
4. Heartbursts - 3:56
5. Dance Around It (feat. Brandi Carlil & Sheryl Crow) - 3:27
6. The Man I'll Never Find - 4:02
7. Promises - 3:59
8. LSD - 3:40
9. Tears in Reverse - 3:56
10. White Lies - 4:07
Gatefold
See-Through Pink Vinyl w/ 24"x36" Poster
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David Jacobs Asha Goodman david@momandpopmusic.com asha.goodman@sacksco.com
TZA CD 9303
Archival Series
Brian Marsella, Julian Lage, Jorge Roeder, Ches Smith.
Blue Equinox * Somnambula * The Three Wands * Nocturnals * The Week with Nine Mondays * A Wilderness of Mirrors * Emerging Light * A Luminous Parable of Indeterminate Import * Patience
Featuring four of the most accomplished musicians in the rich firmament of modern jazz, Incerto is one of Zorn’s newest and most exciting projects—a chamber ensemble of striking virtuosity that is capable of covering the full range of Zorn’s deepest passions and wildest fantasies. Their fourth CD is a touching tribute to the magical surrealist painter Remedios Varo. Filled with exotic juxtapositions, lush harmonies, lyrical explorations, and fiery solos, this music is a soulful and quirky homage to one of the world’s greatest alchemical artists.
File Under: Jazz
Street Date: August 18, 2023
Export: Do not export to France, Italy, Spain and Japan.
Box Lot: 30 CD
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18th August 2023
STREET DATE: 4th August 2023
5056321682574
Nondi_ is the alias of Tatiana Triplin, a US producer based in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, who also runs the net label HRR, releasing the music of friends and herself under various aliases. Her brother is the up and coming MC, Eem Triplin.
Side A: FCD (FLoaty Cloud Dream)
Orchid Juke
Sun Juke
Nondi Shadow
Euphonic Daydream
01-25-2022
Side B: Healing Rain
Dusty
Nostalgic Vision
Long Ago
Sentimental Juke
Harmoyear
The music Nondi_ makes is informed by footwork, breakcore and Detroit techno. However, as she's only experienced them via the internet, she has has filled the gaps with her imagination and consequently the music is rendered from a dreamlike solitude that feels adjacent to other internet genres such as vaporwave. Her tracks are gauzy and abstract, smeared with gentle melody, rusty tones and occasional shafts of sunlight, sometimes set to a distant pulse, sometimes collapsing as if the music itself is falling apart.
Of the album she says:
"Flood City Trax is music that captures the mood of living in a town like Johnstown, and more broadly the isolation of poverty. That's the environment these tracks came out of, after all. Johnstown is a very poor isolated small factory town in Western Pennsylvania which has a dark history of deadly floods, the most well known being the 1889 flood which was like something out of a horror story and the 1977 flood which the Triplin family survived. Johnstown has never moved past its floods, hence the nickname "Flood City". There's very little to do and every year the town shrinks more, and more buildings are knocked down or condemned. Everything is old but simultaneously the past seems like it has just disappeared."
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HEATWAVES
Title: Kappa
Label: APOLLON RECORDS
Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie
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CD-APR-160
CD 7090039727095
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The name Heatwaves describes the music well: Warm waves of delicious music, which give summer vibes even on a chilly November evening. The band who hails from Bergen, Norway, moves in a landscape of nostalgic indie and beckons slightly to jazz, soul and neo-psychedelia, where beats, chill and coziness are in focus. The philosophy is simple: If it sounds good to you, it becomes a song. Now they are ready to unleash their debut album “Kappa”.
In the band you will find a group of seasoned musicians who you may have seen on stage with artists such as Young Dreams, Miss Tati, John Olav Nilsen & Nordsjøen, Birgitta Alida, Lint, Shaman Elephant, Atari and more.
Featuring members from Young Dreams, Shaman Elephant, Lint, John Olav Nilsen & Gjengen.
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Label website: www.apollonrecords.no
Band website: https://www.facebook.com/heatwavesheatwaves
Sun’s Signature is the current project of vocalist Elizabeth Fraser and percussionist Damon Reece. Their stunning, self-titled debut EP was originally released as a Record Store Day exclusive in 2022.
Fraser and Reece’s early careers in some of the world’s most heralded musical groups are well documented. Elizabeth, the unforgettable voice of Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil’s “Song to the Siren,” is also internationally recognized for her vocal contributions to Massive Attack’s trail-blazing ‘Mezzanine’ LP - most notably their biggest hit, “Teardrop”. Damon, the long-time drummer with political art-rock giants Massive Attack, also spent the ‘90s as a member of Spiritualized and Echo and the Bunnymen. He has also recorded and performed with Baxter Dury, Goldfrapp, The Flies, and Butch Vig’s 5 Billion in Diamonds & many more.
The songs on ‘Sun’s Signature’ have been ruminating in the background of Fraser and Reece’s lives in some form for 20+ years, ever since Cocteau Twins broke up in 1997. It marks the first artistic collaboration between these life and musical partners that isn’t a film score or soundtrack. This EP is the sound of a true creative partnership. Highly evolved, yet simultaneously primal - the music is an utterly original, compelling, and lush collection of songs that has developed through an Alice in Wonderland journey through life and music.
For this re-release the vinyl will be pressed on marbled yellow vinyl and on Compact Disc for the first time, with a bonus disc of remixes by John Grant, CUTS, Will Gregory, Gwenno, LUMP, and Hinako Omori.
Elizabeth and Damon have sold over 1.6 million albums and have streamed 70 million tracks over their combined careers
They have both contributed to dozens of soundtracks and film scores in the last two decades including Cruel Intentions , The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings , The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , The Living and the Dead , and The Nightmare World of H.G. Wells
Previously recording and performing members of Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jonsi, Goldfrapp, Massive Attack, Oneohtrix Point Never, Baxter Dury, Butch Vig and Spiritualized
The first ever CD pressing includes a bonus CD of remixes by by John Grant, CUTS, Will Gregory, Gwenno, LUMP, and Hank Omori
The original Record Store Day 2022 black vinyl pressing of 8000 sold out upon release
The vinyl repress of EP is marbled yellow vinyl
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Compact Disc - Double CD with 6 remixes
• CINDY WILSON OF THE B-52S SOPHOMORE SOLO ALBUM
• LIMITED EDITION TURQUOIS VINYL
Cindy Wilson has always been on the forefront of music’s cutting-edge: As a founding member of The B-52's, she was a pioneer of the New Wave sound that redefined music in the 1970s and ‘80s. Cindy is known for her distinctly melodic voice and her remarkable ability to deliver powerful emotions in her music. She has made a fresh name for herself that extends beyond her band’s legacy, establishing herself as a singular force in her own right.
Nowhere is this more readily apparent than on Realms, Wilson’s spirited sophomore studio album and her most ambitious effort to date. Once again working with Suny Lyons (with Sterling Campbell contributing drums and Maria Kindt on strings), Wilson invites her audience on an immersive, enchanting ten-track journey that peels back the layers of our common humanity.
Realms demands our undivided attention as Wilson takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through our own minds and souls. Through a series of colorful, dramatic outpourings and dynamic, finessed upheavals, it’s a carefully crafted record proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Cindy Wilson continues to have her fingers on the pulse of modern music. Pop in style and indie at heart, Realms is the next new wave of Wilson’s already storied legacy.
For his latest solo album, Buck Meek, lead guitarist of Big Thief, went back to Texas with his band – Adam Brisbin (guitar), Austin Vaughn (drums), Ken Woodward (bass), Mat Davidson (pedal steel, vocals), and Dylan Meek (keys) - to record the eleven songs that make up Haunted Mountain over the course of two weeks at Sonic Ranch studio. Produced by Davidson and engineered and mixed by Adrian Olsen, the album follows Meek’s 2018 self-titled debut and 2021’s Two Saviors, with records as a part of Big Thief in-between - U.F.O.F. and Two Hands (2019), and Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (2022).
Haunted Mountain is about love and... something other. Something bigger than love, a soulfulness, or a soul seeking fullness. In the songs, five co-written alongside longtime friend and musical hero Jolie Holland and one set to the words of Judee Sill’s final journal entry, love often assumes a natural form, sometimes it becomes artificial, sometimes cosmic. It is a consciousness here, interacting with the lovers, watching them sometimes, becoming them sometimes. Yet romance is not the only form of love Haunted Mountain explores. The epic ‘Lullabies’ examines the inexhaustible connection between mother and son; a platonic bond appears in ‘Where you’re coming from’; and grief leads to communion with the dead in ‘Lagrimas’.
The songs were written in mountains; by cold springs in the Serra da Estrela of Portugal, on the submerged volcano of Milos in the Cyclades, Valle Onsernone in the Swiss Alps (where the cover photo was taken), and the Santa Monica range where Buck now calls home - all where his new love was born. “Love inhabits your environment, animates the inanimate, charging everything around you with a sense of meaning,” Meek says. Haunted Mountain asks, “is love a form of magic?”
Mood Ring
Haunted Mountain Paradise
Cyclades
Secret Side
Didn’t Know You Then
Undae Dunes
Where You’re Coming From
Lullabies
Lagrimas Image
The Rainbow
• Member of GRAMMY-nominated 4-piece Big Thief
• Album includes a collaboration (“The Rainbow”) with the late Judee Sill, whose documentarians approached Meek to set her unfinished lyrics to music
• On tour throughout 2023 and 2024
Available from: August 25th, 2023
Made up of Lida Fox (bass), Veronika Vilim (guitar), Chase Lombardo (drums), and Avishag Rodrigues (guitar), the band started as an art collective in 2019 before coming together to create a boundary-less sound, drawing from the likes of ESG, Cocteau Twins, Suicide, CSS, B-52s, The Shangri-Las, Chris & Cosey, Madonna, and many more. As reflected in their name, cumgirl8’s work pushes against the status quo by satirizing themes in popular culture surrounding femme objectification, social media sensationalism, and capitalism. The band’s new EP and 4AD debut phantasea pharm takes both the conceptual and musical elements of their project to a whole new level; across the six tracks that make up phantasea pharm, the band is as raw and daring as ever.
Tracklist
cicciolina
dead pixels
cursed angel
picture party (feat. Christeene)
gothgirl1
pritney llc
“Four girls brewing up chaotic, subversive postpunk.”
NYLON
Catch them live; their shows are one of the most immersive and engaging post-punk experiences to be had in this current generation of bands.
-Creem
NYC quartet cumgirl8 placed themselves at odds with the powers that be the second they gave their group its salacious name. It gets them booted from social media platforms and largely precluded from the pages of music’s major broadsheets, but their story doesn’t end with shock value. They may be provocateurs, but they also make a fiery brand of post-punk that would sound just as good under a tamer moniker.
-Fader
Listening to NYC quartet cumgirl8 feels like going back in time and catapulting to the year 2040 all at once. It’s a heady, latex-clad future-nostalgia that’s part dial-up chatroom, part pioneering punk, and three parts sex-positive dreamgirl from outer-space.
-Hero
Available from:
August 25th, 2023
Info:
Ratboys have been recording and releasing music for over a decade, but their newest album, The Window marks a number of rsts for the band For starters, it was the rst time they’d ever traveled outside their home base of Chicago to record an album, journeying to Seattle to work with producer Chris Walla for three weeks It was also the rst time they’d ever written an album collaboratively from start to nish, having added full-time members Sean Neumann on bass and Marcus Nuccio on drums in recent years The new approaches to writing and recording are immediately apparent on The Window, which showcases the fullest, most expansive version of Ratboys’ sound
Lyrically, The Window sees Steiner at her most personal, re ecting on love and grief with occasional humor and levity She frequently leans on windows as a theme the idea of an interrupted connection, the feeling of being near someone without being fully present Sometimes the looking-glass imagery is metaphorical, like on the nearly nine-minute epic, “Black Earth, WI,” or on the pounding lead single, “It’s Alive!” Other times, the windows are literal, like on the album’s titular centerpiece “I wrote that song a few days after the death of my grandma in June of 2020,” Steiner explains “She didn’t have Covid, but because of the pandemic my grandpa wasn’t able to visit her in person at the nursing home to say goodbye He ended up standing outside her room and saying goodbye through an open window A lot of the lyrics are direct quotes of things he said to her in those moments ”
After more than ten years and four studio albums together, The Window nally captures Ratboys as they were always meant to be heard expansive while still intimate, audacious while still tender But most importantly, The Window is the sound of friends operating as a single, cohesive unit “My dream ever since I started writing songs was to be in a band a proper band with a consistent lineup,” Steiner says “To nally have the chance to play with dear friends who are fully committed, it was all I could ever ask for ”
For Fans of:
Land of Talk, Wye Oak, PUP, Rilo Kiley, Soccer Mommy, Hop Along, Great Grandpa, Built to Spill, Waxahatchee, and other Topshelf artists: addy, Aeroplane, 1929, Another Michael, Cool Original, Doe, Donovan Wol ngton, Dowsing, Gregory Uhlmann, Jay Som, Kind of Like Spitting, Mock Orange, Olivia Kaplan, Poppies, Really Big Pinecone
Selling Points:
• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions and Terrorbird
• Press campaign handled by Pitch Perfect
• Digital marketing campaign handled by Rareform
• LP features 2xLP gatefold jacket with OBI, download codes, marketing sticker, printed dust sleeve, and reworks splatter vinyl
• Features exi disc with bonus track
Pre-save campaign through symphonyos co Music videos for singles "It's Alive!" and "The Window" by John TerEick
Wide press support on "Black Earth, WI" from Stereogum, NPR Music, Vulture, Paste, and more
CS is printed on light pink cassette shells and white ink, including standard J-Card and obi strip CD is packaged in Digipak and features OBI strip North American tour dates booked around release of album for August to December 2023
• UK and Europe tour booked for November 2023
• "Go Outside" featured in recent Walmart ad spot
• "Happy Birthday, Ratboy" peaked at #3 on NACC Top 200 charts and charted for 16 weeks
• "Printer's Devil" peaked at #5 on NACC Top 200 charts and charted for 14 weeks
• "GN" peaked at #15 on NACC Top 200 charts and charted for 11 weeks
• 153K monthly Spotify listeners as of April 28, 2023
-MTV News
"fantastic " -Stereogum
"a perfect, single organism of rock ‘n’ roll "
-Paste
"Many of the biggest heartland rockers from Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty to the War on Drugs aren’t from anywhere close to the heartland, so it’s a bit of a special thing when a song that channels the Midwest is by a band that’s actually from there Ratboys carry the torch with pride on 'Black Earth, WI,’ a song that stretches out as far as you can see on a clear day "
-Vulture
“An incredible song, probably my favorite song of the year so far ”
-Steven Hyden for Uproxx on "Black Earth, WI"
"Chicago's post-country troubadours "
vinyl: August 2023
With I Will Make a Baby in this Damn Economy, Fat Tony embodies the kind of quixotic figure he would rap about; a singular entity who’s motivated, confident, and hungry; a perpetual-motionmachine locked in a staring contest with his country. It’s the latest album in his catalog produced entirely by L.A-based producer Taydex since 2020’s Wake Up. Later that same year Fat Tony released Exotica, and ever since he’s demonstrated he is in his own lane as a professional rapper with the mind of a magician, as quick to conjure an image as pull it out from under you, deftly maneuvering through so many details and references a listener feels as if they have witnessed the work of an illusionist. He paints these canvases inside of songs that rarely spill past three minutes; they’re pocket-sized diaries replete with acute observations, character studies, microdoses of storytelling, and single-minded ruminations on a topic that bud, blossom, and fade before too long. Fat Tony & Taydex’s I Will Make a Baby in this Damn Economy cements Tony’s status as someone whose albums are not so much lyrically-lyrical as they are picaresque.
As with any Fat Tony project, the bars are tight as ever, but are so fluid for the 34-yearold it’s almost easy to take for granted the details, warmth, and humanity inside his freeassociative tales of day-one friends who’ve passed, edgelord grifters who want to spit game, and nights on ketamine. Taydex’s production sprints through disparate yet simpatico styles, dipping its toes into Pi’erre Bourne-esque bass (see lead single “Spectacular”), house (“Loosen Up”), and even hyperpop. Meditations on loss and grief are woven throughout, but Tony throws a few curveballs as well: Consider “Alexis,” which sweetly reflects on a long-term platonic friendship. Taydex finds a Teddy Riley-indebted New Jack Swing groove just deep enough for the feeling to land and underlines the song’s sincere candor. This is the appeal of Fat Tony writ-large: his boisterous voice and genial personality invite you to the party, then you stick around to hear what he’s saying, which is frequently more introspective and complex than one assumes.
Written and recorded in Taydex’s new studio in North Hollywood, Tony says, “We had much more freedom and flexibility in making this album and you can hear it. It felt like a family project.” If the album is comfortable and loose, it is also dense and substantial. The album’s final two tracks contextualize the immediacy of what came before it—the mezcal with ices drank, Paul Wall swangin’ through to drop knowledge, the Polaris Prize-winning rapper Cadence Weapon providing a vibe check. “Make a Baby” accounts for Tony who’s seen everything, and knows he’s met the one to be a father with, and yet chooses to take his time to get it done. Taydex’s beat recalls turn-of-the-century R&B and the millennial promise of an endless good time. Somber closer “Jasper, TX” is Tony coming to grips with the story of James Byrd, Jr., a Black man from East Texas dragged to his death by three white supremacists in 1998. These songs are not only trademarks of Tony’s fastidious rapping—they are deeply personal examples of his approach to artistry and life itself, where every decision is made in the shadow of history. It’s here the mission statement of I Will Make a Baby in this Damn Economy comes into focus—you get the sense he means it, he’s ready for it, he’ll fight for it. He’s waiting to take the world at its word.
• College/Non-Commercial and Commercial Specialty radio by Terrorbird
• Sync licensing by Terrorbird
• Follow-up to 2020’s collaboration with Taydex Wake Up
• Music videos in the works
• Featured artists include Paul Wall, B L A C K I E, Cadence Weapon, Harriet Brown, and B.K. Habermehl
• Collaborative parties in major markets with Fat Tony and local creative folks
• Pressed on DJ Screw Purple vinyl includes digital download card
FAT TONY & TAYDEX I WILL MAKE A BABY IN THIS DAMN ECONOMY CAK170
Street Date: August 25, 2023
File Under: Hip Hop/Rap / Indie
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DISTRIBUTION CONTACT jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
TRACKLISTING
1. Spectacular
2. Best Believe
3. Vibe Check (ft. Cadence Weapon)
4. Baby Boy (ft. Paul Wall)
5. Loosen Up (ft. B.K. Habermehl)
6. Alexis (ft. Harriet Brown)
7. We Still Here (ft. Harriet Brown)
8. Opportunist Convention
9. Kickin’ In
10. Don’t Tap In / Contusion (feat. B L A C K I E)
11. Boss Up
12. Make a Baby
13. Jasper, TX
RIYL
Open Mike Eagle, Danny Brown, Quelle Chris, JPEGMAFIA, R.A.P. Ferreira
Exotica LP - 677517014846
Exotica CD - 677517014822
Wake Up LP - 677517014112
Wake Up CD - 677517014129
SELLING POINTS
• THE CLASSIC DOUBLE ALBUM ON LIMITED YELLOW VINYL FOR THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY
• PART OF MATADOR’S 2023
REVISIONIST HISTORY CATALOG SERIES
• 160m GLOBAL STREAMS, 260k EQUIV. UNITS TO DATE
• WORLDWIDE TOURING IN ‘23
• BEST ALBUMS OF 2013: NME, PITCHFORK, ROLLING STONE, STEREOGUM, SPIN, UNCUT
Praise for WakinOnAPrettyDaze
"Kurt Vile’s most spacious, becalmed record yet."
- Pitchfork
(Best New Music)
“Completely glorious.”
- NME
“[Kurt Vile] is very much his generation’s chapter of the evolution of rock.”
- AllMusic (*****)
“A beautiful sinkhole of meditative guitar mysticism.”
- RollingStone
AUGUST 25, 2023
Artist: Huerco S.
Album: Colonial Patterns
Street Date: August 25, 2023
Genre: Electronic
Format: DBL LP
TRACK LISTING
1. Struck with Deer Lungs
2. Plucked From the Ground, Towards the Sun
3. Quivira
4. Anagramme of My Love
5. 'Iińzhiid
6. Ragtime U.S.A. (Warning)
7. Monks Mound (Arcology)
Colonial Patterns, the debut full-length album from electronic music stalwart Huerco S., captures a wide-eyed artist learning the tools of their trade before mercurial ascendence. This ten year anniversary, double LP edition arrives on Bone Color vinyl in an ultra limited pressing of 1000 copies.
“Kansas City producer Brian Leeds’ impressive debut album as Huerco S follows a handful of 12”s and cassettes. Filtering his work through yesterday’s technology, he makes techno folk music in the traditional sense: a music that carries remnants of the past into the future.” - Pitchfork (7.9)
SFT037-0: Limited DBL LP (Bone color vinyl limited to 1000 units)
UPC: 184923203707 Box Lot: 20
“While so much of today's gritty beat experiments feel urban, ‘Colonial Patterns’ feels rural, like a sort of corrupted pastoral…. As a collection of tracks made from short loops and otherworldly samples, Colonial Patterns is an easy fit for Oneohtrix Point Never's label, Software Records.” - Resident Advisor
8. Prinzif
9. Hopewell (Devil)
10. Fortification III
11. Skug Commune
12. Canticoy
13. ChunKee Player
14. Angel (Phase)
• Long out of print first LP from Huerco S.
• 10th anniversary edition pressed on bone color vinyl
• Edition limited to 1000 LPs
“It’s top-drawer stuff, taking the new age ambience and rugged, smoke-choked house rhythms du jour and turning them inside out, opening up new zones of dubwise introspection. ‘Plucked From The Ground, Towards The Sun’ is a 90s Chain Reaction cut inspected through a smeared microscope lens, but it’s the minor key shifts and almost Autechre-ish edits of ‘Quivira’ that really get the show on the road, building to ‘Anagramme Of My Love', the oneiric house choppage of ‘linzhiid’ and the Newworldaquarium-esque codeine boogie of ‘Ragtime U.S.A. (Warning)’ - a total kille r.”Boomkat
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1 Hello Babe *
2 ahooah
3 Adventures Pt 2
4 Tree Huggin’ And Other Fun Activities With Friends On The Mountain feat Asaf Yuria and Yonatan Voltzok
5 Love Me Tender*
6 New Day Rag feat Avishai Cohen
Release August 25, 2023
I n t h e i r s e c o n d t r i o a l b u m , T h a n k Y o u T r e e , M a y a D u n i e t z , B a r a k M o r i a n d A m i r B r e s l e r d i v e d e e p e r i n t o t h e m u s i c a l u n i v e r s e s t h e y ’ v e e x p l o r e d o n t h e i r p a s t a l b u m . T h e m u s i c e x p l o r e s t e x t u r e s , c o l o r s a n d a b s t r a c t l a n d s T h e p l a y i s w i l d a nd f r e e D u n i e t z ’ s n e w c o m p o s i t i o n s g o b e y o n d t h e c o n v e n t i o n a l s o n g s t r u c t u r e s , a n d t h e i m p r o v i s a t i o n i s i n s p i r e d b y t h e r o o t s o f J a z z , w h i l e a l l o w i n g i t s e l f t o b e s t i m u l a t e d b y o t h e r s o u r c e s s u c h a s v o i c e s o f b i r d s a n d t r e e s . T h e a l b u m h a s s e v e r a l f r e e i m p r o v i s a t i o n p i e c e s , b r i n g i n g f o r t h a f r e s h s i d e o f t h i s v e r y s w i n g y r h y t h m s e c t i o n A s a s p e c t r a l m u s i c i a n a n d a r t i s t , D u n i e t z t e n d s t o f o c u s o n t h e p h e n o m e n o n a n d a c o u s t i c s o f s o u n d r a t h e r t h a n i t s p o t e n t i a l s e m a n t i c q u a l i t i e s . P l a y i n g t r i o m u s i c f r o m t h i s p e r s p e c t i v e , c r e a t e d a v e r y c r i s p a n d d e e p s o u n d , b e a u t i f u l l y c a p t u r e d i n t h e r e c o r d i n g .
M a y a D u n i e t z i s a m u l t i t a l e n t e d c o m p o s e r , p i a n i s t , p e r f o r m e r a n d a r t i s t D u n i e t z p e r f o r m s a n d r e c o r d s i n a w i l d r a n g e o f c o l o r s , t o o l s a n d m u s i c a l s t y l e s b o t h a s a s o l o m u s i c i a n a n d i n c o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h a r t i s t s s u c h a s E m a h o y T s e g u é - M a r y a m G u è b r o u , R o s c o e M i t c h e l l , J o h n
T i l b u r y , H ab i l u i m , C h e v e u , G h é d a l i a T a z a r t è s , L o r i G o l d s t o n e , F r i t z W e l c h a n d m a n y m o r e H e r c o m p o s i t i o n s h a v e b e e n c o m m i s s i o n e d a n d p e r f o r m e d b y H y p e r i o n E n s e m b l e , S a a r B e r g e r ( E n s e m b l e M o d e r n ) , R e f l e x E n s e m b l e , M e i t a r E n s e m b l e , T e l A v i v A r t E n s e m b l e , N e w E n s e m b l e ,
2 1 s t C e n t u r y E n s e m b l e , S h a l e m O r c h e s t r a a n d o t h e r s
Written by Maya Dunietz Love Me Tender written by George R Poulton Adventures pt1 and Adventures pt2 written by Maya Dunietz, Barak Mori and Amir Bresler Maya Dunietz - Piano Barak Mori - Bass Amir Bresler - Drums On tracks 4 5 and 6Avishai Cohen - Trumpet Sefi Zisling - Trumpet KerenDun - Saxophone Asaf Yuria - Saxophone Yonatan Voltzok - Trombone Yuval "Tuby" Zolotov - Tuba Aviv "Sol Monk" CohenPercussion Haggai Fershtman - Percussion Recorded by Nomok, Adir "the Doctor" Dadia, Rejoicer at Arpad Studios Produced by Rejoicer Mixed by Rejoicer Master by Asaf Shay
B l a c k i ty B l a c k B l a c k I s B e a u t i f u l is the very first solo record by Fay Victor, whose 30-year-long music career has covered everything from House, New Music, Jazz/Blues and Free Improvisation. Her deep history with dance music, her genreless output, and her lived experience as a Black woman in the world shaped the brand new process she used to create this prismatic album which touches on all the decades of her life like diary snapshots. It’s a mesmerizing collection of composed work that could only be made by an extraordinary improviser.
From hearing the raw, almost gospel vocal style over a heavy beat of Donna Summer and Sylvester, to obsessing over shows like Soul Train, Solid Gold, and Dance Fever on TV, to experiencing the sweat and groove, the freedom of bodies moving at NYC clubs like Danceteria, The Loft, and the Paradise Garage – her life changed forever. As she was developing as a jazz singer in Amsterdam in the 90s, she danced to trance music in clubs like Mazzo and The Soul Kitchen. She landed on the Billboard charts with a club hit “You Make Me Happy” in ’91. Stoned on the sacred dance floor, Fay found ecstasy in the moving body, the groove, the beat.
As she entered deeper into the world of jazz, she was attracted to the rhythmic qualities of Thelonious Monk, Eddie Harris, Eric Dolphy, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Betty Carter, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Nicole Mitchell, Milford Graves, Julius Hemphill, Charles Mingus, Herbie Nichols. Their confrontational rhythm sends her soul leaping, connecting her back to her clubheadheart.
With Mavin Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up” as a template, Fay started thinking about how her solo album might unfold. She sang, played keyboards, added textures and further dimensions with no other humans, without electronics. That was her process. Thoroughly creative, composed with music and words straight from her spirit.
catalog number: NS 161
street date: August 25th, 2023
format: CD, Digital upc: 309272739039 territory: Worldwide
genre: Jazz, Electronic, Spoken Word, Poetry
mood / vibe: confident, spiritual, hypnotic, searching, intense, stylish, sensual, reflective, sophisticated, improvisatory, cerebral
subject matter: the lived experience as a Black woman, Stacey Abrams, diary snapshots of a lifetime in creative music
RIYL: Gil Scott-Heron, Moor Mother, Betty Carter, Shabazz Palaces, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Eddie Harris, Meshell Ndegeocello
Late Music and Disciples are pleased to present the first and second volumes in an archival series of selected electronic and acoustic works by Sarah Davachi, all previously unreleased in the vinyl format. Featuring (way) back catalogue material from various CDs, cassettes, and EPs; singles and original film scores; as well as miscellaneous live and studio recordings.
“Something for everyone”. All formats released 25 August 2023.
DISC24 Selected Works I
1LP Vinyl | Boxlot: 20
5056614705195
A1 Alms Vert
A2 In The Grand Luxe Hall (Excerpt)
B1 In The Littlefield Choir Loft (Excerpt)
B2 Gathers IV
DISC25 Selected Works II
1LP Vinyl | Boxlot: 20
5056614705201
A1 First Triad
A2 A Woman Escapes Cue 4
A3 Neustadt
B1 Composition Of Flowers (Excerpt)
B2 Olsun
B3 Gathers VI
DISC26 Selected Works I & II
2CD | Boxlot: 36 5056614705218
Disc One
1) Alms Vert 2) In The Grand Luxe Hall (Excerpt) 3) In The Littlefield Choir Loft (Excerpt) 4) Gathers IV
Disc Two
1) First Triad 2) A Woman Escapes Cue 4
3) Neustadt 4) Composition Of Flowers
Auger Incorporated is a career spanning triple vinyl / double CD compilation of the legendary Brian Augers’ music Lauded and loved by artists as diverse as Mose Allison to Emma-Jean Thackray, his tracks have been sampled by Mos Def & Common, his original compositions covered by Sarah Vaughan, Richard 'Groove' Holmes and The Main Ingredient He is a Grammy nominee and recipient of a US Congressional Certificate of Special Recognition for his ‘contribution to the American art form of Jazz’
Auger Incorporated includes classic album tracks, rarities and live concerts performances, some of which have never released before from Brian’s ground-breaking, genre busting catalogue, and reaches back to his early 60’s debut as an poll-winning jazz piano prodigy, his transformation into swinging London’s premier Hammond Organ player via his groups’ The Steam Packet and Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity, and his flagship 70’s band – The Oblivion ExpressAuger's blend of jazz, R&B and pop idioms saw him credited as one of the earliest protagonists of jazz fusion
Particularly rare highlights include The Steam Packet’s blistering instrumental version of Robert Parkers’s R&B smash Watch Your Step, the 2 tracks by Sonny Boy Williamson backed by Brian The Trinity with a young Jimmy Page as guest, the live 1960’s versions of Save Me & Red Beans & Rice and the recently unearthed version of the jazz dance classic Jeannine featuring the unmistakable voice of Julie Driscoll.
From The Oblivion Express era, there’s an intense and driving live version of Freedom Jazz Dance, and the alternative mix/radio edit of Marvin Gaye’s Inner City Blues, Brian’s mid 80’s Italo-disco hit ‘Night Train To Nowhere’ – Auger Incorporated has something for the die hard fan and all those new to this extraordinary musicians unmatchable 60 year career.
For fans of:
Horace Silver Jimmy Smith, Sonny Boy Williamson, Traffic, The Headhunters, Sly And The Family Stone, The Average White Band
A1/ 1 The Preacher
A2 / 2 Poinciana
A3 / 3 Watch Your Step – The Steampacket
A4/ 4 The Sidewinder - The Steampacket
B1 / 5 Walkin’ - Sonny Boy Williamson
B2/ 6 I See A Man DownstairsSonny Boy Williamson
B3 / 7 In & Out
B4 / 8 Red Beans & Rice LIVE (Ce Soir On Danse, Paris)
B5 / 9 I Wanna Take You Higher
C1 / 10 Indian Rope Man
C2 / 11 Light My Fire
Key Points:
C3 / 12 This Wheels On Fire
C4 / 13 Save Me (Live - Piper Club, Rome)
C5 / 14 Jeanine
D1 / 15 Total Eclipse
D2 / 16 A Better Land
D3 / 17 Fill Your Head With Laughter
E1 / 18 Whenever You’re Ready
E2 / 19 Straight Ahead
E3 / 20 Inner City Blues - alternative mix
E4 / 21 Freedom Jazz Dance (Live at Winter Garden)
F1 / 22 Planet Earth Calling
F2 / 23 Night Train To Nowhere
F3 / 24 Splatch
F4 / 25 Freddie' s Flight
Triple vinyl LP in gatefold sleeve – double CD
Expansive new sleeve notes by Greg Boraman and Brian
Auger
Includes rare and unreleased tracks never available on vinyl/CD previously
RELEASE DATE: 25TH AUGUST 2023
ARTIST: BRIAN AUGER
TITLE: AUGER INCORPORATED
CAT NO: SBM009LP / SBM009CD
BARCODE: 4062548055108 / 4062548057089
FORMAT: 3LP / 2CD
FOR MORE INFORMATION: ADAM@K7 COM
Roll the tape! Roll whatever you got, if you got ‘em! Rock and roll! It’s time to take a trip to Prison. You ready to go Upstate?
Nah...you’re not. Unless...are you ready to set yourself free, no matter what the consequences? Cause if you are, then yeah, you’re ready to party with Prison.
Straight outta Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York City, USA, THE WORLD, Prison is a state of mind, an experience, a loose collective, a band, a jam band and a bunch of psychedelic dudes who aren’t your average bunch of jambanders. All that, all at once, ALL THE TIME. You get what you’re dealing with here?
No...you don’t. The only way to REALLY get it is to go to Prison -–and if you’re not from greater NYC and haven’t showed at any of the shows, here’s your best bet: their breakout album, Upstate. And whatta breakout! So high, you can’t get under it; so wide, you can’t get over it! How wide? Every song has two titles, that’s how wide. And almost everybody sings, like, all the time. That wide.
Sure, you can break down the numbers -– five guys, five songs and four sides of vinyl in one gatefold sleeve -– but that won’t get you Upstate, either. Prison is the sound of everybody in the room figuring out where to go, individually and collectively. As they go through it, the meaning changes, the destination changes, the words mean something different. It’s meaning and no meaning, rising and falling, sinking and flying on the back of something massive cacophonized by three guitars, four vocals, a bass and drums. A lot of information bouncing around and enough time to really get you out of yourself! Take a look at the titles: each one a dichotomous inquest that the assembled Prison-ers march upon with fervor, glee, vengeance -– a whole spectrum of feels and perspectives woven into the jam for you to see.
This’ll take you places!
The Prison population changes with the seasons, and during the season this album was recorded, Sarim Al-Rawi, Mike Fellows, Sam Jayne, Matt Lilly and Paul Major were in Prison. Sarim you might know from Liquor Store, Mike’s made a bunch of scenes and records as Mighty Flashlight, Sam, who passed away in 2020 (R.I.P., brother) was in Love as Laughter –- and Paul Major you know from Endless Boogie, who Matt had roadied for -– and despite being “just a skateboarder who loves music” with no previous experience on the drums, he and Sarim inaugurated the Prison experience, like, seven years ago. Since then, it just fell together and it keeps doing so. A free thing called Prison.
Just go for it! Follow the signs, listen up, have fun. That’s how Prison got Upstate.
Artist: Euglossine
Cat#: HAUSMO136
Album: BugPlanetIstheCurrentTimeline
Label: HausuMountain
Formats: CD,Cassette
Cassetteedition CDedition InaminiLPjacket C50-greentapew/imprints
“Overthepastfewyears,theprolificFlorida-based musicianandvisualartistTristanWhitehillhashadhis eyesonthesky.ThemusicthathemakesasEuglossine— whichhaspoppedupontastemakingexperimental imprintslikeOrangeMilk,PhineryTapes,andBeeronthe Rug—isweightlessanduplifting,billowingupwardson thebacksofglitteryguitarlinesandsatinysynth sequences.Eachlithemelodyislikeahitoffuelinahot airballoon,pushinghispiecesfurtherintothelow-oxygen zonesinbetweencrustandspace.”
-Vice/Noisey
“…apeaceful,trippymélangeoffusionjazzandsmooth funk,aswellastheknottyintricaciesofIDMandprog rock.Trainedinjazzandclassicalmusic,Whitehill's virtuosityisobvious,andhiscompositionsarerichly detailed,yetthey'resofluidthatitcanbeeasyto overlooktheircomplexity.”- AllMusic
Gainesville,FL-basedcomposer/multi-instrumentalist TristanWhitehill releasesmusicunderthemoniker Euglossine.Whitehillenvisionseach Euglossine releaseasanoutletforaparticularsubsetofdiscrete genreexplorations,applyinghisprodigiousmusicaltrainingandvast depthoftheoryknowledgetostylesasfar-flungasbreezyjazzfusion, technoidbeatexcursions,bleep-heavymodularsynthsketches,and hushedacousticguitarreveries. BugPlanetIstheCurrentTimeline,the second Euglossine albumon HausuMountain,followsthesublime Coriolis andjoinsarichcatalogofdiversereleasesonlabelsincluding OrangeMilk,BeerontheRug,andGenotCentre.BugPlanetbalances hyper-high-fidelitysyntharrangementsandbusydrumpatternswith Whitehill’sever-bewitchingperformancesonguitar,bass,piano,and flutes.Thealbumoffersusahybridstrainof Euglossine musicthat movesawayfromhismorecompartmentalizedgenreexperimentsto spreaditsprogressivecontoursoutbeforeusoverineverydirectionhe canimagine,landingsomewhereinterritoriesthatWhitehilldescribes as:“Biodub,DigitalFusion,orMutantJazz.”Ifourcurrenttimelineis bugplanet,Euglossinestandsattheentranceintheunderbrush,waiting totakeoursix-to-eightfeelersandleadusintoaminiature subterraneancivilizationofhisowndesign.Speakingonthethemes thatinformthealbum,Whitehillexplains,“InsectsarethemostbiodiversekingdomonEarth.Overhalfoftheorganismspeciesonearth areinsects.Iwantedtosharethisfeelingthatjustmaybewearenotin controlofthisplanetandahiddenancientforcewilllongoutlastour weirdstruggle.”
BugPlanet finds Euglossine buildingonhismanifoldtalentsover multipleoverlappingtrajectories.Whilethealbum’spercussion programmingskirtstheclosestintheproject’scatalogtowhatcouldbe called“IDM,”Whitehillneversacrificestheorganicqualitiesofhiswork forthesakeofrotecomplexity.Hisbeatsconstantlyevolveandreject repetition,jitteringalongtheirownfluctuatingpathsasindividualdrum elementswarpintheirpositionsaroundthemixandsurgeinintensity intocompactflashesofdrumn’bass,acidtechno,downtempo,anddub. Inthealbum’smoreabstractmoments,Whitehillshiftsthemagnifying glassawayfromhislabyrinthinerhythmstoconjureuppassagesof jazzyharmonythatreachusinbothelectronicandhands-on-instrument flourishes.Sunnysynthphrasespouroutinarpeggiatedhelixesand meltintotranquilpianoperformancesorblanketsofbillowingpads. Sinuousbasslinesperformedonbothguitarsandkeyboardsbumpas rhythmicfoundationsforornatepercussionworkouts.Whitehill’sguitar playing,whichfrequentlytakescenterstageon Euglossine albumsas theleadmelodicvoice,popsintoviewasamorestrategically deployedcounterpointtoBugPlanetIstheCurrentTimeline’soften alienspreadsoftone,liketheartistblastingoutofthehiveinguitarist modeforabriefbutdazzlingsolobeforeflyingoffintothedistance. Withouttheuseofexternalsampledmusic,Whitehillimbues BugPlanet IstheCurrentTimeline withtheatmosphereofafast-shiftingaudio collage.Mosttracksspeedovertwoorthreeminutetimelinesandrise alonglinearsongstructuresthatintroducemomentaryriffs,synth surges,andbeatsthatonlyappearoncebeforegivingwaytofurther developments—livinguptothehallmarkoftruly“progressive”music. Euglossine laysoutmeticulousarrangementsthatjuxtaposecontrasting fidelities,frombulbouskickdrumcyclestocrystallinesynthandguitar phrasestogarbledglitchnoisetexture,withouteverlosingthesenseof humanwarmthpresentatthecoreofhiswork.Hismusicdelightsuswith itsflightsofdexterityanditsstructuralinventivenessjustasoftenasit tugsonourheartstringswithamoretraditionalmelodydrippingwith unabashedsentimentalism.Whitehillchannelsthedepthofhis knowledgeinmusictheoryandproductionnottobowlusoverwithhis technicality,butrathertogivelifetohisideasinalltheirwidescope andtolayoutmusicalnarrativesinunpredictablearcsthatonlyhe coulddevise.
Cat No: RGNET1417LP
Label: World Music Network
Format: LP
UPC: 605633141740
Street date: 25 August 2023
Box lot: 20LP/ct
File Under: Blues
Compiled by: Neil Record
Marketing points:
• Highlighting how the Delta blues became the most influential of all the blues forms
• A classic collection of tracks by artists who laid the foundations for the electric blues and rock explosion to come
• Featuring many blues legends including Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James and Tommy Johnson
The origins of the Mississippi Delta blues are as deep and wide as the river itself. From the towering influence of Charley Patton and Son House to lesser-known artists shrouded in mystery, these seminal recordings helped lay the foundations for the electric blues and rock explosion to come.
• An album which traces the development of the Delta blues during its 1920s/30s heyday
• Featuring classic tracks by blues divas Memphis Minnie and Mattie Delaney
• An album which highlights how grand culture can emerge from the most horrendous conditions
• Lovingly remastered using pioneering restoration techniques
• Following on from the success of other blues titles in the Rough Guide range
• Legendary artists who inspired future bluesmen such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf
Lovingly remastered using pioneering restoration techniques
The mountains of Tajikistan are home to an incredibly rich musical heritage which has largely remained a mystery to the wider world. Recorded by Lu Edmonds, these remarkable performances by local musicians offer a never-before-heard insight into both its ancient and innovative sounds.
• Original recordings by artists never-before heard outside of Tajikistan
• A unique insight into the richness and diversity of Tajikistan’s musical treasures
• Recorded by Lu Edmonds (The Damned, Public Image Ltd, Mekons, Billy Bragg & the Blokes)
• Following on from the success of Lost In Mali (TUG1091CD) and Lost In China (TUG1098CD)
• Includes remarkable tracks recorded in the Pamir mountains, otherwise known as the “Roof of the World”
• An album which pays respect to Tajikistan’s musical traditions whilst also highlighting some of its exciting new musical directions
• Featuring an array of traditional string instruments including the setor, dotar, rubob, tanbur and ghijak
• Tajikistan has soaked up the traffic of the Silk Roads and beyond for thousands of years
• Featuring artists who are reviving the folk traditions of Tajikistan and rediscovering what is lost or dying
• A one-of-a-kind compilation of some of Tajikistan’s best kept musical secrets
• New release in Riverboat Records’ ‘Lost In’ series which uncovers the hidden local sounds from around the world
Title: Lost in Tajikistan
Artist: Various
Catalogue No: TUGCD1138
Barcode: 605633013825
Box lot: 61 CD/ct
Label: Riverboat Records
Street date: August 25th 2023
File under: World
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Delivering therapy through noise. The Guardian One of the best hard rock bands in the UK. ” Uncut “Momentous.” Kerrang!
“The real deal.” The Quietus “Utterly enthralling.” Classic Rock “Double dipped in acid.” Metal Hammer “These Pigs are flying.”
MOJO “Massively brilliant.” BBC 6 music “Revel in extreme heaviness.” Pitchfork
Building on the momentum this band has built since their January 2017 debut Feed The Rats, this opus sees them entering a new phase as a sleeker and still more dangerous swineherd. The Iggy-esque drive to dementia, Sabbath-esque squalor and Motörhead-style dirt may still be present and correct, yet the songs are leaner, the long-drawn-out riff-fests sharpened into addictive hammer blows and the nihilis tic dirges of yore alchemically transformed into an uplifting and inviting barrage of hedonistic abandon. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig,and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which ” So George Orwell noted at the end of a certain slim volume. King Of Cowards is nothing less than just such a metamorphosis, one in which - in a blur of primal urges and beastly physicality - this band shows us just which animals are really in charge of the farm. This 2023 repress is available on a special, limited edition ‘Regal Splatter’ vinyl.
EASY ACTION EARS190 2CD 5060446073803
• The Latest solo album by Australian band The Church head honcho
• Issued for the first time outside of Australia where it was released to high critical acclaim as arguably Kilbey ’s finest solo album to date, claiming ‘Counterfeits’ to be A SPRAWLING MASTERPIECE !
• Profile is high due to the success of the Church comeback album ‘The Hypnogogue’ and its subsequent 2 U.S tours.
• Issued as a Remastered 2 x CD set in deluxe card gatefold sleeve and full colour 16 page booklet featuring photos of the band in the studio recording the album.
Arcadia (Kilbey/Koch/Mason)
Swinging On The Moon (Kilbey)
Karnak (Kilbey/Koch Mason)
Warren (Kilbey)
Horizon (Kilbey/Koch/Mason/Price)
Brass Razoo (Kilbey)
I've Been Here Before (Kilbey)
Euphoric Recall (Kilbey/Koch/Mason)
Anglesea (Kilbey)
Amorous Plethora (Kilbey/Koch/Mason)
I Wish (Kilbey)
Bound In Servitude (Kilbey/Koch/Mason)
Unrule (Kilbey)
Ariadne (Kilbey/Koch/Mason/Price)
More Or Less (Kilbey)
Tears Of Mer Ek (Kilbey/Koch/Mason)
Everything For Sale (Kilbey)
I Shall Not Want (Kilbey/Koch/Mason)
Tantric Hammer (Kilbey)
A Temple (Kilbey/Koch/Mason)
Beginning Of Mercy (Kilbey)
A Gone Dream (Kilbey/Koch/Mason)
Love Song Yet To Be Named (Kilbey)
"When everyone left NYC, the sewer opened and we crawled out. ” Prolific Brooklyn institution The Men return with their ninth studio album which marks a return to the more scuzzy and abrasive rock ploughed over their decade and a half spent coursing through the grimy sewers of NYC. Here, nocturnal proto-punk meets a timeless, all-guns-blazing rock’n’roll gusto. That the album leans into a more primitive, back -to-basics sound owes largely to the way in which was forged, an earlier version of the record scrapped in favour of four people playing in a room together. “The New York City album was revised, reorganized and shaped until it became clear that things fall into place like the hammer driving the nail or the scythe's swipe through the tall grass.” The end result is a series of cuts played live and recorded to 2" tape in Travis Harrison ’s (Guided By Voices, Built To Spill) Brooklyn studio.
‘New York City’ is a record that doesn’t stop moving for a second, packed full of the kind of energy you can only really capture in a live setting. “These songs became the blood of the band as the band could only exist for and of these songs. There was no place else to hang their hats.. ”
Throw Down Bones - Throw Down Bones (Remastered Edition)
Fuzz Club Records 2LP FC210V12
5060978391550
Pressing Info: 180g milky clear vinyl, 45 rpm double LP, gatefold sleeve, limited to 300 hand-numbered copies, remastered, alternative artwork. The long sold-out selftitled debut album from Italian instrumental band Throw Down Bones is being reissued by Fuzz Club with a new master by long-term producer and collaborator James Aparicio. The 2023 reissue arrives with alternative album artwork and on a 180g gatefold double LP limited it 300 hand-numbered copies. Originally released in 2015 and quickly becoming an underground classic in the European psych scene, the debut album from Throw Down Bones serves up 8 hypnotic tracks blending minimal industrial soundscapes and experimental coldwave, born from a monthlong jam session in their Alpine studio with handmade instruments and effects.
1) Exposure 2) Our Home, The Holy Mountain 3) A Premise To Action 4) Inner Lights 5) Emitters 6) Saturator 7) Bones 8) It's All Around Us
LP LOBE007LP 5055869550284
CD LOBECD7 5055869550291
Toronto 1970, three young guys, heavily influenced by Blue Cheer & Hendrix, get together to form a band. Featuring Charles Gadsby on guitar & vocals, Rick Skol on drums & vocals, and Drew Tjernstrom on bass, the nascent outfit call themselves 'Gadsby & Skol'. After much rehearsing they start to play local shows, but soon decide they need to do some more work on their sound. In the end, the project stalls and they go their separate ways. Then in 1995 Charles Gadsby finds an old rehearsal tape, and contacts the other two guys to suggest that they get back together to record the album they would have made back in 1970 if they'd ever got a recording deal. Using the rehearsal tape as a template, they re -create their original sound and a little while later the recordings you have here are completed, and an album's worth of material is ready and waiting. The album eventually makes its' one and only brief appearance on a limited edition British CD in 2001. So now here it is on vinyl for the very first time, with a new, improved sleeve, just how it was meant to be. So if you like Thunder & Roses, Blue Cheer, Third Power, Sir Lord Baltimore and other such hard rocking psych guitar bands, you're going to love this! That's as close to a promise as we can make.
1 Guitar Dog 2 Jam & Guts 3 Stop! 4 Fools Like You
5 I Don't Know 6 Getting Used To It 7 You Could Have 8 Just A Little Bit 9 Who Calls You 10 The Feel 11 Number Six
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