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At its best, harmony duo singing can transform simple math into a magic trick. One plus one, instead of equaling two, suddenly yields an unexpected third thing. An upper-case ONE. A universal hum. A deep vibration that encompasses two different points of view. On their latest release, Every Time I Think About You, brothers Jack Torrey and Page Burkum, aka The Cactus Blossoms, once again prove themselves to be among the most adept - and distinctive – modern practitioners of that magic. But like any great magician, The Cactus Blossoms can’t - or won’t - fully explain the illusion they create.
“Harmonies are a big part of our sound, but in some ways they’re the part we focus on the least,” says Burkum. “We put most of our attention and energy into the songs themselves and then the harmonies just happen.”
There’s all kinds of magic happening on Every Time I Think About You, a record that sounds more like a band than any other in the Cactus Blossoms discography, thanks to contributions from Jeremy Hanson (drums), Jacob Hanson (guitar) and Phillip Hicks (bass). “There She Goes” casts its romantic regret against a danceable bop beat, and the title track is a heart-wrencher about loss and letting go.
“Even if you don’t set out to write songs with a theme in mind it seems like one usually presents itself,” says Torrey. “This record keeps returning to the idea of ‘moving on’ — from one place to another, from people and situations that bring you down, from loss and grief.”
Publicity: Shore Fire Media
Radio: Paul Langton
STREET DATE: AUGUST 30, 2024
Every Time I Think About You Tracklist
1. Something’s Got A Hold On Me
2. Go On
3. Be What I Wanna
4. Every Time I Think About You
5. There She Goes
6. Keep Walkin’
7. Statues
8. Is It Any Wonder
9. Honey I’m Homeless
10. Out Of My Mind (On Sunday)
The Cactus Blossoms Tour Dates
07/05 - Stoughton, WI
07/23 - Rockford, IL
07/24 - Forest Park, IL
07/25 - Springfield, IL
07/26 - Mosinee, WI
07/27 - Welch, MN
09/13 - St. Paul, MN
09/14 - Superior, WI
09/20 - Nashville, TN
09/21 - Atlanta, GA*
09/22 - Asheville, NC*
09/24 - Carrboro, NC*
09/25 - Washington D.C.*
09/27 - Philadelphia, PA*
09/28 - New York, NY*
09/29 - New York, NY*
10/02 - Toronto, ON*
10/03 - Detroit, MI*
10/04 - Three Oaks, MI*
10/05 - Chicago, IL*
*with support from Erin Rae
LIMITED EDITION LP • LTD TO 2000
LP: LP WTR 005C
UPC: 634457185173
PACKAGE: Gatefold, bronze vinyl (pictured) BLACK VINYL
LP: LP WTR 005B
UPC: 634457185180
PACKAGE: Gatefold, black vinyl
COMPACT DISC
CD: CD WTR 005
UPC: 634457185197
PACKAGE: Wallet, 18-panel lyric poster/booklet
LABEL: Walkie Talkie Records
FILE UNDER: Rock / Americana
EXPORT: Worldwide Availability
BOXLOT: 50 CD / 24 LP
Tycho’s latest album Infinite Health, the long-awaited follow-up to the accompanying pair of Weather and Simulcast, will be released on Friday 30th August 2024
The Grammy-nominated producer Scott Hansen, AKA Tycho, has carved a distinct niche for his hypnotic blend of lush synths, atmospheric soundscapes and intricate melodies Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and frequent tour collaborator Zac Brown both joined Tycho to co-produce Infinite Health, with Chris also lending his mixing talents for the album
HIGHLIGHTS
Both Weather and Epoch are GRAMMY-nominated albums (Best Dance/Electronic Album)
Tycho has toured extensively across the globe including festivals Burning Man (Sunrise Set), Coachella x 2 (with interview), Primavera, Outside Lands, Portola, Corona Capital, Bonnaroo and Laneway Festival Tycho has toured alongside Interpol, Khruangbin, Alt-J, Jungle, ODESZA, Channel Tres and more
Tycho has produced remixes for many artists spanning various genres, including ODESZA, Maggie Rogers, MUNA, Spoon, Leon Bridges, Portugal The Man, Death Cab For Cutie, and previous tourmates Little Dragon, as well as having his own work remixed by the likes of LP Giobbi, Bibio, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Poolside, RJD2 and Com Truise
PRESS
Reverb recently interviewed Tycho for their studio tour feature
Latest album Simulcast received incredible reviews from DJ Mag (9/10) (print), CLASH, Exclaim! (9/10), Electronic Sound Magazine (print), and Live4Ever Features include DJ Mag, Wax Lyrical, BEAT (5 pages), FutureMusic (7 pages), with pick up from Consequence of Sound and a MusicTech cover feature
Previous album Weather was also much acclaimed, with Exclaim! giving the album 9/10, The Skinny and Far Out awarding the album 4 stars, CLASH and Northern Transmissions both giving it 8/10, and many more
Previous features and interviews include TapeOp, The FADER, This Song is Sick, Time Out, KCRW, Beats Per Minute, EDM com, Riff Magazine and VICE’s THUMP
Tycho’s tracks have been played on BBC Radio 1 (The Chillest Show with Phil Taggart) and BBC 6 Music (Lauren Laverne, Gideon Coe, Nemone and Tom Ravenscroft, who Tycho also did a special guest mix for)
He has performed fantastic sessions for Boiler Room and KEXP QUOTES
Tycho never loses sight of what he is known for: the skillful mastery of crafting brilliant ambient soundscapes from bare computer programs CLASH
Tycho has continued to evolve and adapt with each new album EXCLAIM!
TRACK LISTING
1 Consciousness Felt
2 Phantom
3 Restraint
4 Devices
5 Infinite Health
6 Green
7 DX Odyssey
8 Totem 9.Epilogue
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Blockhead Music by Cavelight (20th Anniversary Reissue)
Release Date: 08-30-2024
The debut solo studio album by the acclaimed NYC-based hip-hop producer and beatmaker Blockhead originally released in 2004. Initially building a rep via his close association with fellow NewYorker and rapper Aesop Rock and releasing via El P’s cult underground hip-hop label Definitive Jux, it was perhaps inevitable that Blockhead would explore solo instrumental production. The beats on ‘Music by Cavelight’explore moodier tones and textures with lush instrumentation underpinned by trademark tough drums.
This is a record that establishes its own emotional space and holds it from start to finish, establishing Blockhead as a major player in the so-called trip-hop movement alongside the likes of DJ Shadow, RJD2, DJ Krush and Kid Koala. The 20th anniversary edition includes 2 bonus discs featuring classicAesop Rock instrumentals and never-before-released “Lost Files” from ‘99-’03.
Socials
Instagram: @blockheadnyc (42k followers)
Facebook: @blockheadnyc (52k followers)
X: @blockheadnyc (27k followers)
CAT NO: ZEN88XX
UPC: 5054429193862
Genre: Hip-Hop
4LPmarbled forest green vinyl (140g) housed in a gatefold sleeve. Includes bonus Aesop Rock Instrumentals, plus previously unreleased Lost Files ‘99-’03. Download card included.
Key Markets: LosAngeles, NewYork City, Seattle, Denver, Chicago
Recommended if you like… DJ Shadow, RJD2, Mr. Scruff,AmonTobin,TheAvalanches
OriginalAlbum Tracklist
A1. Hello Popartz
A2.You've Got Maelstrom
A3. Carnivores Unite
C1.Triptych Pt. 1 & 2
C2.Triptych Pt. 3
C3. Jet Son
C4. Music by Cavelight
Aesop Rock Instrumentals
Tracklist
E1. Daylight
E2. Nightlight
E3. 11:35
Lost Files ‘99-’03 Tracklist:
G1. Beef & Brocs
G2. Uplifting Corn
G3. NeedATissue
G4. OkayAlright
G5. Dead OrAlive
G6. Checkers
G7. Marvelous
G8. Graveyard Hunt
G9.AnotherTime
naretail@ninjatune.net ninjatune.net
B1. Sunday Seance
B2.ABetter Place
B3. Road Rage Breakdown
D1. Breathe and Start
D2. Bullfight in Ireland
D3. Insomniac Olympics
F1. Maintenance
F2. Forest Crunk
H1. Dreamtime
H2. Organic Beef
H3. Spy Games
H4. Bloop Bloop
H5. Happy Baby
H6. P's Joint
H7. Space Disco
H8. Summertime
H9. Hawkeye
H10. SingAlong
JON HOPKINS RITUAL
TRACKLISTING
1. part i - altar
2. part ii - palace / illusion
3. part iii - transcend / lament
4. part iv - the veil
5. part v - evocation
6. part vi - solar goddess return
7. part vii - dissolution
8. part viii - nothing is lost
CATALOG NUMBER: WIG523
RELEASE DATE: August 30, 2024
FILE UNDER: Alternative “H”
CD
Boxlot: 30 UPC: 887828052325
2xLP w/ DOWNLOAD
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887828052318
is
2xLP (ltd) w/ DOWNLOAD
(Indie Retail Exclusive)
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887828052332
is non-returnable
OVERVIEW
By turns devotional, empowering and nurturing, Jon Hopkins’ RITUAL is a 41-minute electronic symphony built from cavernous subs, hypnotic drumming and transcendent melodic interplay. Tense, immersive and ultimately triumphant, it is a culmination of themes explored throughout his 22-year career, and acts as the kinetic counterpart to 2021’s Music For Psychedelic Therapy.
A single piece unfolding over eight chapters, RITUAL is personified by depth and contrast. Taking ceremony, spiritual liberation and the hero's journey as inspiration, it taps into an ancient and primal energy.
SELLING POINTS
• 2019's Singularity was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 2019 GRAMMY Awards. Jon Hopkins is an Ivor Novello & Mercury Prize nominated electronic producer, composer of film scores and remixer of artists as diverse as Four Tet, Coldplay, David Lynch, London Grammar, Wild Beasts, Nosaj Thing, and Purity Ring.
• Jon Hopkins US catalog sales exceed 25k+ copies, with 13k+ vinyl sales.
• All LP formats include a download. 2xLP (ltd) is a clear vinyl pressing.
PRAISE FOR MUSIC FOR PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY (2021)
“A glacial, continuous ambient piece that draws on the epic beauty of nature, it’s a thoughtful blueprint for what the future of this field might sound like: spacious, delicate, comforting, a pastel mural of sound.”
PITCHFORK
“A 64-minute rhythmless expanse of delicate electronics, immersive natural sounds and celestial choirs” THE NEW YORK TIMES
“one of the best instrumental electronic music composers currently operating” AV CLUB
AS FEATURED ON NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
SEEFEEL •
EVERYTHING SQUARED •
FORMATS
OVERVIEW
After critically acclaimed reissues of their mid-90s material, Seefeel return with their first new music since 2011. Everything Squared is a one-off 6-track mini-album which presents a contemporary evolution of their trademark sound. Mainly composed and performed by the core duo of Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock, with bass on two tracks from Shigeru Ishihara. Mastered by Berlin-based engineer Stefan Betke aka Pole at Scape Mastering, and housed in a sleeve designed by Ian Anderson at The Designers Republic.
TRACKLISTING SELLING POINTS
• Seefeel’s first new music since 2011
• Prominent fans include Aphex Twin and the Cocteau Twins, both of whom collaborated with the band
• A stunning return to their classic sound, subtly evolved to give the tracks a contemporary twist
SEEFEEL •
AVAILABLE CATALOG •
SUCCOUR (REDUX)
CAT • WARPLP28R
UPC • 0801061802813
Seefeel’s second studio album and their debut for Warp. This expanded 3LP edition is the first time it has been available on vinyl since original release and adds an extra LP of bonus material, mastered from original DAT transfers by Stefan Betke aka Pole.
(CH-VOX) REDUX
CAT • WARPLP325
UPC • 0801061032517
Seefeel’s third studio album was recorded for Richard D James and Grant Wilson-Claridge’s Rephlex label, as a return favour for two remixes Aphex Twin (a huge fan of the group) did in their Too Pure period. This is the first time it has been available on vinyl since 1996 and adds an extra LP of bonus material, mastered from original DAT transfers by Stefan Betke aka Pole. Comes housed in a new gatefold sleeve by the Designers Republic.
(CH-VOX) REDUX
CAT • WARPLP325
UPC • 0801061032517
ST / FR / SP
CAT • WARPLP326
UPC • 0801061032616
Seefeel’s third studio album was recorded for Richard D James and Grant Wilson-Claridge’s Rephlex label, as as a return favour for two remixes Aphex Twin (a huge fan of the group) did in their Too Pure period. This is the first time it has been available on vinyl since 1996 and adds an extra LP of bonus material, mastered from original DAT transfers by Stefan Betke aka Pole. Comes housed in a new gatefold sleeve by the Designers Republic.
St / Fr / Sp compiles two non-album EPs that Seefeel recorded for Warp in 1994, Starethrough and Fracture/Tied, alongside a rare Autechre remix of “Spangle” and the unreleased Transition Mix of “Starethrough”. Housed in a gatefold sleeve conceived by The Designers Republic.
“Seefeel twisted conventional rock instrumentation into increasingly arcane shapes, forging a singular fusion of ambient, techno, and dub that still inhabits a class of its own, 25 years later.” Pitchfork [Best New Reissue]
“Perfectly positioned at the juncture of shoegaze, ambient and electronica” Uncut
“Paints a picture of a group both of and ahead of their time. 25 years on, the world is now primed to appreciate Seefeel’s influence” DJ MAG
“Tells a compelling tale. Time has been kind to Seefeel, and the bases they cover, from Cocteau Twins-inspired roots to Basic Channel-adjacent dub techno” THE WIRE
KEELEY FORSYTH LEAF RELEASES
To mark the release of Keeley Forsyth’s new album The Hollow, we are offering a discount on both Leaf LPs for July and August + new MIDPRICE for CDs
15% off vinyl
file under: Rock/pop territory: World ex. Europe
DEBRIS (2020)
Black vinyl LP
BAY 116V
UPC 843190011612
CD
BAY 116CD
UPC 843190011629
LIMBS (2022)
Limited white vinyl LP
BAY 116VX
UPC 843190012435
Black vinyl LP
BAY 124V
UPC 843190012411
CD
BAY 124CD
UPC 843190012428
Keeley Forsyth is a composer, singer and actor from Oldham in the north-west of England.
Built upon sparse arrangements, Forsyth’s music is centred around a singular, emotionally raw and magnetic vocal delivery, by turns devastating and uplifting. The characters who populate her songs tell stories of the high and low tides; of freedom and entrapment, of hard-won triumphs and the darker corners of domestic life.
New album The Hollow is out now on FatCat imprint 130701
on Debris:
“The new Scott Walker” The Guardian
“Arid and beautiful debut” 7.6, Pitchfork
“Forsyth’s album Debris is one of the most remarkable in years” The Sunday Times
“Debris is an astonishing debut, not just for the power of the songs, but for the journey they trace” 8/10, Uncut
“Reminiscent of Nico, or Karen Dalton, Beth Gibbons at the edgesleaving the deepest impression” 4/5, Mojo
“This deeply melancholic brand of haunting, sparse folk is as intoxicating as it is unsettling” 4/5, Q
on Limbs:
“Keeley Forsyth returns with another uniquely powerful album. Sharing some tonal similarities with the recent explorations of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, it’s a sparse and stark record but also tender, poignant and potent” 9/10, Uncut
“Extraordinary” 4/5, The Sunday Times
“Remarkable” 4/5, Mojo
“Keeley Forsyth is a world builder and Limbs is an outstanding record” The Quietus
“Her voice is a spectacular thing: a cut-glass vibrato that brings to mind ANOHNI, or the unearthly tremble of late-period Scott Walker” Pitchfork
Ty Segall Love Rudiments
DC831 LP/CS
Street Date: August 30, 2024
NO SALES TO UK, EU, AUSTRALIA, NZ — PLEASE SEND LOVE RUDIMENTS EVERYWHERE ELSE
Track List: First Look / First Conversation/ Walk Home Pt. 1
Getting Ready/ Arrival/ The Dance/ Walk Home Pt. II/ First Touch Honeymoon/ Life/ Confrontation/ Argument / Separation/ Realization
Love Rudiments
Love Rudiments is a meditation by Ty Segall on his first love: the drums. Known popularly as a singing guitar player, he generally starts the recording of his songs by laying down a drum track. Love Rudiments kicks off with drums and percussion, then adds a few other percussive and production aspects. It travels a great journey in this configuration. However, Love Rudiments wasn’t written or performed to present as some kind of solo drums album it’s just another music album, with vibes (figurative as well as literal), feels, a theme and a through-line.
Never one to shy away from a challenge, Ty’s made an instrumental album of percussive music that rides the wild surf of a waxing-then-waning love affair from the first blinding look, to the eventual recognition, that look back at love’s rudiments, viewed from beyond and outside that seemingly infinite sensation.
And why not? Drums are a melody instrument too. Ty plays them with precision and sensitivity, delving deep into the textures of timpani, vibraphone, xylophone, percussion and e-drums, all of them occupying space within the luxe stereo spread of the drumkit. In the process, a psychological space is opened — a private emotional location where only two can meet.
Love Rudiments reembodies the passion and compulsion that drives all of Ty Segall’s music in a suite of moments played on orchestral batterie to explore the most delicate passages of human interaction — playing on the bones of love.
TY SEGALL & CORY HANSON
“She’s a Beam” 10" Single DC804
WHIRLYBIRD OST LP DC847
TY SEGALL & EMMETT KELLY
“Live at Worship” 12"EP DC878
THE PEEL SESSIONS
DC912 LP STREET: AUGUST 30, 2024
No Export to UK/EU, Australia, NZ Peel Off Copies to All Other Territories Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl for First Pressing Only!
TRACK LISTING: 1. Skrag Theme (13:02) 2. Vivea (6:18) 3. Safeless (12:03)
For those of you who’ve mislaid your history goggles, this archival release recalls an ancient time in the world of recorded music. Yes, back in the dinosaur days of the 1990s, a creature known as Aerial M walked the earth, before evolving into Papa M and PAJO and beyond and back. Even then, the music of M had a next-wave vibe, walking upright among the knuckle-draggers (and having drinks in the evening with others of its genetic detatchment). It was too much to last very long, of course but some things end up lasting forever, don’t they? Fuck! So it is today that Drag City, an organization largely set up to bring you the best of all available M recordings, is proud to be there for the release of the only Aerial M session ever recorded for John Peel’s BBC Radio One show, as it was originally recorded on 4th February 1998 and broadcast on 3rd March of the same year.
The studio versions of these songs, which appear on Aerial M’s self-titled album ( DC114) and Papa M’s Hole of Burning Alms comp ( DC231), were played by “M” himself (now revealed to be David Pajo!), which makes this album a rare alternative view of the canonical M , played by an actual Aerial M band who, all too briefly, embodied the sound for a year or so before Papa brought a brand new bag.
This Session found them fortuitously roadburned from several weeks in the European Theatre. So much the better for our archival ears, as OG-M’s signature minimalist long-fuse sizzle is thrillingly intact here; in fact, even more so, as the tunes are jammed out past the studio versions’ originally delineated borders, reaching rudely across the table in moments of liveness that the studio-bound project might have decided against when conferring only with the walls.
For fans of their epic version of “Turn Turn Turn,” this is more sweetmeats from that raucous old skull but if you’ve not been down this road before, be prepared: the taste will set you slowly aflame. And then, before you know it, the band is dined and dashed just like the band that Aerial M was, all too briefly amok on the earth that was too. Salute!
Full-Length PAPA M For You on Drag City Records
DOROTHY CARTER TROUBADOUR
DC908 LP
Street Date: August 30, 2024
TRACK LISTING
Export Ban: No Sales To UK/EU, Australia/NZ; Allow Troubadour Safe Passage to All Other Territories
Troubadour Song / Binnorie / Troubadour Songs on the Psaltery / Make a Joyful Sound
Lark in the Morning / Balinderry / Tree of Life / Visiting Song / The King of Glory
The Morning Star / Ukrainian Carol / The Cuckoo / Masquerade / Shirt of Lace
Drag City presents the first official reissue of Dorothy Carter ’s 1976 album debut, her folk-music exegesis, Troubadour. In her lifetime, Dorothy, a self-made traveling musician and folklorist, brought forth masterful evocations on hammered dulcimer and psaltery from a myriad of times and places. Her music was played, produced and sold outside of that era’s mainstream music distribution.
It’s been 20 years since Dorothy ’s passing but thanks to last year’s reissue of her second album, Waillee Waillee (1978), and this edition of Troubadour, her music is surging forward ever more powerfully. 2035 will mark the centennial of her birth; the mythos and arcana she pursued in relative obscurity is now inspiring an audience larger than Dorothy ever knew. At the time of that centennial, some will, no doubt, look back to the good old days of the early ’20s, when they first heard her music.
Others, like Troubadour reissue producer Eric Demby, can look back to a childhood spent off the grid: the early ’70s in rural Maine, and later on, in Boston wherever his freewheeling father brought the family, at one point or another, there too was Dorothy, as she lived and breathed, playing her hammered dulcimer. Her presence was always friendly and warm, yet “ethereal” her mind far away, her focus seemingly deep within the music, the instruments and the world from which they’d come.
As for the world from which she came: following a childhood spent around New England, Dorothy traveled abroad for her higher education. She found herself in the late 1950s in Mexico, intent on becoming a nun at the Cuernavaca monastery. Instead, she fell in with a group of expats including David Demby ( Eric’s father), his soon-to-be-wife Constance (her moment of New Age musical breakthrough still three decades hence) and aspiring artist and musician Bob Rutman . These were her people, looking for their place in the world.
From Mexico City, they made it back up to New York, to Greenwich Village, where Rutman opened an art and “happenings” gallery while Dorothy delved deep into the mystic things of traditional music and sounds, living the bohemian life while bringing up two dearly-loved children with her itinerant lifestyle.
As the ’60s became the ’70s, Eric recalls, “She was always coming from somewhere or on her way somewhere else, transporting instruments and folklore from Eastern Europe, Appalachia, and beyond that felt ancient and unearthed, which she would channel into our universe.”
The early ’70s found everyone living up on the farm up in rural Maine; it was here that Rutman , Constance, Dorothy and some others formed Central Maine Power Company, a troupe of almost feral improvisers playing on a combination of self-made and found instruments, with live video feedback to boot. Self-documentation wasn’t on their minds; simply BEING was enough. And so they were for several years, playing at planetariums around the northeast and even MoMA and the nascent World Trade towers.
In 1976, Dorothy had been playing music for decades, but had yet to record any of it. That year, she went to Cambridge’s Studio B with Rutman and friend Steve Baer at the console. Constance and Sally Hilmer accompanied her. The performances captured there were released later that year as Troubadour. In addition to hammered dulcimer and psaltery, Dorothy played the flute and sang. She chose songs from all over: Appalachian folk tunes, old and ancient psalms and hymns, Scottish, Irish, French and Israeli melodies, with a few of her own songs for good measure.
They all flow together effortlessly under Dorothy and friends’ hands in a syncretic space that we can identify today as a garden of world musics a highly energized, alternately meditative and proselytic recital whose vitality has only burgeoned in the decades since it appeared. As it should be: the music of Dorothy Carter is akin to a portal, linking her and us with the eternal.
This edition of Troubadour reproduces the original album package, adding an insert adorned with additional photos of Dorothy and her collection of instruments, as well as notes from Eric Demby exploring the era his childhood from a vantage point of some 50 years. This reissue is a long-held family dream come true, and it is dedicated in loving memory to Bob Rutman , Constance Demby, David Demby and Dorothy Carter
“ALTHOUGH
ARTIST: DR. JOHN
TITLE: BRIGHTEST SMILE IN TOWN
BOX LOT QUANTITY: 30 LP / 60 CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
LP-SUND-5659 UPC: 090771565914
ITʼS UNLIKELY, ONE GETS THE SENSE THAT DR. JOHN POURED A DRINK, LIT A CIGARETTE, CRACKED HIS KNUCKLES AND JUST STARTED TO PLAY. IT IS THIS CHARMING SALOON QUALITY THAT MAKES BRIGHTEST SMILE SO SPECIAL.” - ERIC SNIDER (JAZZIZ, 1984)
Upon the release of The Brightest Smile in Town, the reviews were effusive. Chicago critic Bill Knight’s comparisons to Fats Waller and James P. Johnson were high compliments indeed. Downbeat’s Jim Roberts called the playing “graceful”; noting that the LP had a broader scope than its predecessor. Jazz Times’ Rhodes Spedale summarized: “He’s never been in better form than here.”
We kept in touch over the years. Mac was always generous and encouraging. Little did we know when The Brightest Smile in Town was released, what accolades lay ahead for Mac Rebennack and Dr. John. From the innovative guitar triumph “Storm Warning” on the Rex label in 1959, to his 2012 Grammy-winning Locked Down album, Mac’s musical light shone brightly for seven decades. We were fortunate he chose to play for us. I’m sure he’d say that he was lucky too.
- Jack Heyrman October 2023
Clean Cuts Producer
unissued
CD-SUND-5659 UPC: 090771565921 2LP BLACK
• Cut by Kevin Grey from the original Clean Cuts masters and pressed at Citizen Vinyl for optimal enjoyment.
• A double LP edition featuring tracks previously only available on CD and another that was unheard until now!
• A gatefold jacket featuring new liner notes from the albums producer, Jack Heyrman!
The Cow
Professor Longhair, howlin’ Wolf
VINYL COMPACT DISC
ARTIST: KATHARINE WHALEN’S JAZZ SQUAD
TITLE: LET’S GET LOST: SONGS CHET SANG
BOX LOT QUANTITY: 30 LP / 60 CD
FILE UNDER: JAZZ
LP-MH-8306 UPC: 090771830616
CD-MH-8306 UPC: 090771830623
Katharine Whalen of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame, makes a triumphant return with her Jazz Squad featuring Austin Riopel on guitar, Danny Grewen on trombone, and the great Griffanzo on piano. This time the chanteuse delivers an entire album of breezy west coast jazz sounds in the form of a tribute to Chet Baker.
It was around 1996 when Katharine Whalen first made her grand entrance onto culture’s collective radar as the sultry, yet effervescent voice of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, where she remained until their initial disbandment around the turn of the century. In addition to the Zippers putting dixieland jazz on the pop charts in the 1990s, they sneakily introduced an unsuspecting "alternative" crowd to jazz music. Her cultural impact was also felt when she voiced the song "You You You You You" a standout track from Stephin Merritt's (The Magnetic Fields) project titled The 6ths. That song would also find its way into commercials and the film Pieces of April.
After recording one solo album for Mammoth Records shortly after leaving the Zippers, Whalen stepped out of the public eye. However, she’s remained very much in the spotlight of one unique small town; Hillsborough, NC, which has been referred to as Twin Peaks meets Northern Exposure. It’s a surreal literary, liberal Mayberry. If you find yourself in this Southern portal, you can find Katharine Whalen's Jazz Squad playing monthly in a cocktail bar appropriately named Yonder. On most nights, the Modern Harmonic staff is in attendance. Katharine's Squad is the always–stellar crew of trombone player
Danny Grewen, guitarist
Austin Riopel, and the colorful Griffanzo on piano.
• An all new album in tribute to chet baker from the original Squirrel nut zippers chanteuse! .
• Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent and pressed in the us at citizen vinyl!
• Put to tape by Jerry Kee (Polvo, Superchunk, The Kingsbury Manx)
• CD includes two bonus tracks!
Compare to the active ingredients in: Chet baker, squirrel nut zippers, Julie London, Annie Ross
CD WITH BONUS TRACKS BLACK VINYL LP
JANA MILA CHAMELEON
When the Amsterdam singer-songwriter Jana Mila (pronounced Yah-nuh MEElah) began writing a song called “Chameleon,” she thought she was writing about someone else—a friend who seemed to be changing her colors to please other people. “But the more I lived with the song, the more I felt like I was writing about myself,” she admits. “Doesn’t everybody try to reflect other people? Don’t I change my own colors in order to be accepted? Especially when you’re young, you can lose yourself in other people if you don’t know who you are.”
That is the central idea behind her debut album, also titled Chameleon, which introduces Mila as an artist deeply committed to self-reckoning and self-possession. Our innate desire to belong and to be loved can lead to a kind of self-annihilation, making us strangers to ourselves. Writing songs is her means of finding and sustaining her identity.“The album is a conversation with myself, a way of getting to know myself better. There are little fears woven into every lyric, but there’s also advice to myself. I’m writing to find a part of myself that has some wisdom.”
Musically, Mila is the best kind of chameleon. The album draws from a wild array of sources, entertaining new ideas on every song: dusty Laurel Canyon folk on “It’s True,” catchy Nashville country on “Let Me In,” driving ‘70s rock on “I Wasn’t Gonna.” She puts her stamp on every note, turning those fears into an album of remarkable confidence, eloquence, and power. Chameleon is a self-portrait rendered in vibrant detail.
STREET DATE: August 30, 2024
TRACK LISTING
Side A:
1. Like Only Lovers Could
2. Somebody New
3. Chameleon
4. Love Let Go
5. I Wasn’t Gonna
Side B:
1. It’s True
2. Let Me In
3. In Between
4. Rosie
5. The City
LP
Sel. #: NW5817
CONFIG: 1LP, Jacket, Marketing Sticker,
Crystal Blue Vinyl
UPC: 607396581719
Box Lot: 30 Count
Genre: Folk, Americana
***OTHER VARIANTS - Rough Trade Exclusive
CD
Sel. #: NW6587CD
CONFIG: Digipak, Marketing Sticker
UPC: 607396658725
Box Lot: 30 Count
Genre: Folk, Americana
VARIOUSARTISTS-NIGERIA70
TheDefinitiveStoryof1970'sFunkyLagos (25thAnniversaryEdition)
“One of the most contextually important collections of the genre.” Pitchfork,
9/10
Strut proudly presents a special edition repress of the groundbreaking ‘Nigeria 70’ compilation, now available on translucent green vinyl 3LP to celebrate the label’s 25th Anniversary.
First released in 2001, Nigeria 70 was a pioneering compilation that delved deeply into Lagos' vibrant music scene, where local artists blended highlife and traditional rhythms with soul, funk, rock, and jazz While Western audiences were already acquainted with Fela Kuti, this album highlighted other influential Nigerian musicians and bandleaders of the '70s: Joni Haastrup, Peter King, Segun Bucknor, Bala Miller, Blo, King Sunny Ade, Tunji Oyelana, and many more Subsequent volumes continued to explore the rich landscape of Afrobeat, juju, funk, and soul, unearthing a treasure trove of Nigerian tracks
‘Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970’s Funky Lagos’ showcases the vibrant diversity of the Lagos scene, reflecting the eclectic musical influences of the time. The compilation includes elements of psychedelic rock, from the heavily fuzzed-out sounds of Ofo & the Black Company's "Allah Wakbarr" to BLO's hauntingly serene "Chant to Mother Earth." The influence of late 1970s and early 80s disco can be heard in tracks like Joni Haastrup's 1977 "Greetings" and Shina Williams & His African Percussionists' 1984 electro-funk track "Agboju Logun," all while maintaining a strong Afrobeat foundation
Beloved by collectors and dancefloor enthusiasts, Nigeria 70 is rich with soul, humanity, and a broad spectrum of the region's musical talent It has inspired a new wave of labels and releases, introducing the 1970s Lagos scene to a new generation of soul, funk, and dance music fans
This special edition of ‘Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970’s Funky Lagos’ features the original artwork and liner notes, pressed on translucent green vinyl across 3LPs.
Key Points
STRUT044LPC
A1 Orlando Julius & His Afro Sounders–Alo Mi Alo (Parts 1 & 2 )
A2 Segun Bucknor & His Revolution–La La La
A3. Lijadu Sisters– Orere Elejigbo
B1 Peter King– Shango
B2 Sahara All Stars Band Jos– Enjoy Yourself
C1 Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Africa 70– Jeun Ko Ku (Chop 'N' Quench)
C2. Tunji Oyelana & The Benders– Ifa C3 Ofo The Black Company– Allah Wakbarr
D1 The Funkees– Dancing Time
D2 Monomono– Tire Loma Da Nigbehin
D3 Bala Miller & The Great Music Pyrameeds Of Afrika–Ikon Allah
E1 Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestroes– Akayan Ekassa
E2 Shina Williams & His African Percussionists– Agboju Logun
F1. Gasper Lawal– Kita Kita
F2 King Sunny Ade & His African Beats – Ja Fun Mi (Instrumental)
New pressing of influential Strut compilation ‘Nigeria 70: The Definitive Sound of 1970’s Funky Lagos’
Pressed on translucent green vinyl 3LP in celebration of Strut’s 25th anniversary
Housed in gatefold sleeve with full liner notes
RELEASE DATE: 30th August 2024
ARTIST: Various Artists
TITLE: Nigeria 70 (Special Edition Green Vinyl 3LP)
CAT NO.: STRUT044LPC
FORMAT: Vinyl 3LP
For more information, contact Adam Calman: adam@k7 com www strut-records com
BARCODE LP: 4062548085563
TERRITORY: WW
STEVE WYNN MAKE IT RIGHT
OUT AUGUST 30th 2024 ON FIRE RECORDS
The brand-new solo album from The Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn, released in tandem with his memoir. Make It Right is a commentary between literal and metaphorical ruminating – a dialogue between memoirist and musician - a vulnerable, more reflective Wynn than previously heard
‘Make It Right’ features notable contributions from Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Vicki Peterson (The Bangles), Chris Schlarb (Psychic Temple), Emil Nikolaisen (Serena Maneesh), Linda Pitmon (The Baseball project) and a cast of dozens
“I wrote and recorded these songs in tandem with working on “I Wouldn’t Say It If It Wasn’t True,” my memoir which comes out on Jawbone Press the same week as “Make It Right,” my first solo album since 2010. With each chapter, I would get ideas for songs inspired by the deep dive into my past and vice versa. The reflections became intertwined after a while, a mutual commentary between literal and metaphorical ruminating. It was a dialogue between the memoirist and the musician, a one-man Q&A, a gentle volley in the tennis court of my mind. 40-love, game, set and match.”
Although ‘Make It Right’ isn’t autobiographical, it begins with Santa Monica - the city and boulevard where he was born and concludes with “Roosevelt Avenue”, the main thoroughfare of the Queen’s neighbourhood in New York City that he calls home today.
Wynn will also be touring across the UK, Europe & the USA this Autumn in support of the release which promises to be a one-man show blending songs that inspired by the book along with a narrative structure of readings and storytelling
"The Dream Syndicate frontman's a veritable Ph.D. of timeless rock songcraft" Chicago Tribune
instagram.com/satanssatyrs
EllenReid BigMajestic
Ambient Maximalism in Synths, Strings, Harps, and Horns.
A sonic excursion, taking inspiration from public parks across the globe, Big Majestic features Kronos Quartet soaring above desert vistas on West Coast Sky Forever, Shabaka Hutchings' kaleidoscopic shakuhachi and tenor saxophone meditations on Spiritual Sun and Primrose Hill, James McVinnie performing an electrifying synth organ epic on Blue Sky | Mirrored Glass, and the otherworldly voice of Lisel beckoning the listener into the unknown.
American Pulitzer Prize winning composer and sound artist Ellen Reid is set to release ‘Big Majestic,’ an album of music written for her acclaimed GPS-enabled work of public art, Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK, that reimagines urban parks as interactive soundscapes. The album features performances by the Kronos Quartet and Shabaka Hutchings. SOUNDWALK premiered in New York's Central Park, and continues to expand to urban parkland around the world, including Los Angeles' Griffith Park, London's Regent's Park & Primrose Hill, and Tokyo's Ueno Park. The project has already been featured on NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times.
NWAM188-LP
A1.BIGMAJESTIC
A2.SPIRITUALSUN (FEAT.SHABAKAHUTCHINGS)
A3 SUNRISEINCENTRALPARK
A4.ALONEONMULHOLLAND
A5.WESTCOASTSKYFOREVER(FEAT. KRONOSQUARTET)
B1.PRIMROSEHILL(FEAT.SHABAKAHUTCHINGS)
B2.STRAWBERRYHILLDESCENT(FEAT.NADIASIROTAAND GABRIEL CABEZAS)
B3.SUNSETINUENOPARK
B4.BLUESKY|MIRROREDGLASS(FEAT.JAMES MCVINNIE)
B5.PAVILIONINTHETREESPT.2(FEAT.LISEL)
B6 MT LEE+STEPLIGHTLYNOW(FEAT RILEY MULHERKAR)
RELEASE DATE: 30TH August 2024
ARTIST: Ellen Reid
TITLE: Big Majestic
CAT. NO: NWAM188-LP
BARCODE: 4062548093247
FORMAT: LP
TERRITORY: WORLD
AMSTERDAM
August 30, 2024
Topshelf Records & Babe City Records
TSR210
Home market: Connecticut
Track List:
1. Sleepwalk
2. Blonde Blood
3. Nova Scotia 500
4. Marco Polo
5. Sinking Down
6. RIP Sophie Moore
7. Killer Whale
8. Lake House
9. Embarrassingly Enough
10. Sleepaway
• Download Code Yes
• LP UPC 634457126589
• Export Worldwide
• Box Lot 30 LP / 15 CS / 30 CD
Topshelf Records
540 NE Tillamook Street Portland, OR 97212 United States info@topshelfrecords.com
Boyscott Goose Bumps
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Info:
Redeye Distribution 505 Eno Street Hillsborough, NC 27278 United States abelsm@redeyeworldwide.com
Attending college in Nashville, TN in 2015, Scott Hermo never really pictured himself as a full-time musician when writing and recording songs in various bedrooms. There was no plan, direction or goal. Yet meeting friends John Lewandowski, Tiger Adams, and Noah Miller changed all of that when the songs started to take more form with energy and live drums. Suddenly, there was a live band and like-minded folks with a similar outlook and collective goal to make the best music possible, for no one but themselves. Before ever even playing a show, they �nished their debut album in yet another bedroom.
After word of mouth spread, a band was formed so they could play the shows they were offered. --- and with that came a love for playing shows, meeting musicians, digesting more bands, and perfecting their craft. Over the next few years, John, Tiger, Noah + countless others moved on, but Scott kept the band going with a rotating cast of over 20 musicians — always friends — who were available and shared the love of the music. And in that rotating cast, Scott met Emma Willer who became a permanent addition to the band, with major contributions to their self titled and �rst release, Goose Bumps, released November 17th 2015.
On Goose Bumps, Connecticut's Boyscott present ten upbeat tracks that forge together elements of surf rock and bedroom pop. Weaving the supple sounds of yore into the techniques of today, Boyscott's distinct bedroom-recorded bops betray the limitations of their modest studio situation with a sonic depth not commonly associated with lo-� projects.
For Fans of:
Beach Fossils, Real Estate, Triathalon, Chastity Belt, Boy Pablo, The Drums, Frankie Cosmos, and other Topshelf artists: addy, Another Michael, Bellows, Clearance, Cool Original,Eerie Summer, Jay Som,Moller,No Vacation,Really Big Pinecone,Stand Up Get Down, supernowhere
Selling Points:
• Extensive North American touring history in the last �ve years.
• 716,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
• LP features green and blonde swirl, gatefold jacket, marketing sticker, download codes, and obi strip.
• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions.
• Press campaign handled by Will Osiecki.
[A] fun, beachy collection of songs that is still a great listen for a casual bedroom dance party or sunny summer drive ... [an] upbeat yet artistically mature and fullbodied sound.
-Melted
Thank you for your interest in our catalog! Over the last thirteen years, Topshelf has released 250+ albums by 100+ artists from all around the world. Our roster’s catalog spans a wide and eclectic array of musical styles and genres. To check out hand-picked suggestions for other artists on our roster we think you might also enjoy, visit: topshelfrecords.com/like
TRACKLISTING
SIDE A
1. Hi, How Are You
2. The Bed, The Room, The Rain and You
3. Boom Boom Back (ft. Beck)
4. Stranger (ft. Grian Chatten)
5. Superstar SIDE B
6. Mala Vista
7. On My Own
8. Coffee
9. En Forma
10. Bon Voyage
FORMATS
Limited Edition Magenta in Transparent Clear Vinyl, with Interactive Printed Insert and Belly Band CAT NO: LUCKY175LPX
UPC: 689492224219
Black Vinyl with Interactive Printed Insert and Belly Band CAT NO: LUCKY175LP
UPC: 689492224110
Gatefold wallet with Interactive Printed Poster Insert and Belly Band
CAT NO: LUCKY175CD
UPC: 689492223823
VIVA HINDS
STREET DATE: 9/6/2024
GENRE: ALTERNATIVE / INDIE / ROCK
OVERVIEW
A rollercoaster four years since the release of their last album, Hinds have returned, back in their original line-up of co-founders, co-vocalists, co-guitarists and co-songwriters Ana Perrote and Carlotta Cosials, and totally re-energised with their triumphant and strongest record yet, VIVA HINDS. Recorded in rural France, produced by Pete Robertson (The Vaccines, beabadoobee), engineered by the GRAMMY-nominated Tom Roach and mixed by the Grammy-winning Caesar Edmunds (The Killers, Wet Leg), VIVA HINDS is a glorious technicolour return, packed full of trademark Hinds energy. Alongside the joyful first single “Coffee” there are the band’s first ever features, with Beck on “Boom Boom Back” and Grian Chatten (of Fontaines DC) on “Stranger”, as well as two Spanishlanguage tracks in “En Forma” and “Mala Vista”.
“Hinds are vibrant and infectious on ‘Boom Boom Back,’ and a feature from Beck only adds to the party. It’s the perfect summer anthem” - Stereogum “The perfect comeback record, the track melts together Hinds’ blistering garage-pop sound with subtle psychedelic aspects, and bvs from Beck.”
- Clash
“The band’s return is one worth celebrating. And, given how good “Coffee” was earlier this year, it’s clear that Cosials and Perrote’s chemistry is at an all-time high.” - Paste
SELLING POINTS
• North American Tour September 2024 (dates below)
• Previously supported The Strokes (2020), European Stadium tour with 5 Seconds of Summer (2022), opened for Coldplay in Barcelona x 2 (2023)
• International Festivals played include: Glastonbury (UK), SXSW (US), Pitchfork Paris (France), Coachella (US), Bonnaroo (US), Lollapalooza (US), Fuji Rock (Japan), Outside Lands (US), Primavera (Spain), Reading and Leeds (UK), Bumbershoot (US), Treasure Island (US), Austin City Limits (US) and more.
• Forthcoming Features: Rolling Stone US, Paste (Digital Cover), Pitchfork, The Face, The Fader, Atwood, Dork (Digital Cover), DIY, Crack, The Forty Five, Last Bus, Easyjet Traveller, Alt Citizen.
• US Publicist - Grandstand
• US Radio - Dauntless and Shine On PR (NACC)
• VIVA HINDS #1 Album on SubModern Top 200 Chart
• “Boom Boom Back” #1 Most Played at KEXP
• Sync placements with Flaked (Netflix), Broad City (Comedy Central), Valeria (Netflix), Control Z (Netflix), Invincibles (Netflix), Love Sick (Channel 4), All About Nina (Film), The Intervention (Film)
• Brand Collaborations: Stella McCartney, Urban Outfitters, Steve Madden, 3INA make up, Mahou.
TOUR DATES
10/9 Mexico City - Foro Indie Rocks
10/12 San Diego, CA - Casbah
10/15 San Francisco, CA - The Chapel
10/17 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
10/18 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
10/20 Madison, WI - High Noon
10/21 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
10/22 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
10/23 Toronto - Lee’s Palace
10/25 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian
10/26 Washington DC - Union Stage
10/28 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
10/29 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
“Stunning”
—Gilles
Peterson,
BBC Radio 6 “Music has seldom sounded so life confirming.”
—Popmatters
Kosmos is the third full-length record for Luaka Bop from the uncategorizable Danish band of Jonathan Bremer (on acoustic bass) and Morten McCoy (on keys and tape delay). It is, as its name would suggest, a vibe:
“We decided to call it Kosmos,” Morten said, “because for us, it's this feeling of being able to transcend time and space and just be, which is a very important thing for humans. Even though it's quiet music, it's music that you're able to just dream: have your own dreams, your own inner images.”
In his 2023 review of Bremer/McCoy's sold-out residency at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, David Dyrholm of Politiken wrote:
“It is one of the most beautiful things you can imagine. The long sinewy fingers slide over the strings of the double bass and send deep tones into the room. The vibrations can be felt throughout the body. The piano chimes in, first with swinging dub, soon laid back, calmly, in broken chords and with a melody seasoned with the blue tones on which both American jazz and Nordic folk songs are based. Overwhelming.
Bremer/McCoy
are
for good reason one of the country's most popular duos.”
EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BREMER/M C COY
These Danes have been making music that defies categorization since 2012.
They started as a dub group, bringing their own sound system to shows.
Now their sound hovers between jazz, ambient, and dub, with contemplative, propulsive melodies that capture the Nordic woods they play in.
Kosmos follows Natten (2021), which the SF Chronicle called, “celestial,” and “a mighty salve”—and the Taz (DE) said, “you can get lost in these songs and still never be lost.”
Utopia (2019) gained them a cult following in the U.S. and a roster of notable fans, including Nils Frahm and Gilles Peterson. In 2024, they'll hit the road, touring Scandinavia, Germany, France, and other far corners of Northern Europe, continuing their extensive touring, including select shows in the U.S. in 2025.
German PR by Daniela Simeon (Der Promotor)
Worldwide PR by James Rainis (Twnty Three)
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
CATALOG NUMBER: LBOP-0101
LABEL: LUAKA BOP
FORMAT: LP, CD
TRACKLIST: Higher Road Dream
Mere Liv
Hvor Du Er
Alting Løser Sig 6
Bøn
Blomsten Du Sår
Regnen Falder Snart
Vuggevise
Universal Love
DATE: Oct 29, 2021
SELLING POINTS
• Over the Years, Real Gone Music Has Established Itself as the Go-To Label for Vintage HalloweenThemed Recordings
• But Its Long-Awaited Reissue of Vincent Price’s Witchcraft-Magic—An Adventure in Demonology Takes Things to a Whole Other Level
• It Is Perhaps the Scariest Spoken Word Record Ever Made
• Price Became Famous for His Appearances in Such Horror Films as House of Wax, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and Theatre of Blood
• And, of Course, His Narration of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” Video
• In 1969, He Cut This Double-LP for Capitol Offering a Chilling Tutorial in the History and Practice of the Black Arts
• What Makes the Record So Transfixing Is Price’s Obvious Glee as He Recounts Horrifying Incidents of Witchcraft and Demonic Possession
• And His Sinister Satisfaction Only Mounts as He Narrates Such Tracks as “How to Make a Pact with the Devil” and “Curses, Spells, Charms”
• Fittingly, the Source of This Record Remains Mysterious, as the Author, One Terry d’Oberoff, Has Only One Other Credit to His Name, as the “Mascot” of an Early ‘70s Band Called Black Magic
• Our Real Gone Reissue Reproduces the Full Size Eight-Page Booklet That Accompanied Some Copies
• It’s a Combination History Textbook and How-To Manual in Witchcraft
• Its Title Page Depicts a Particularly Unsettling Spell called “The Hand of Glory” Involving the Severed, Salted, and Dried Hand of a Convicted Felon
• Gatefold Jacket
• First Reissue in 50 Years
• Issued in Two Versions
• Clear with Orange “Pumpkin” Pigment Swirl Vinyl
• And an Exclusive for Independent Record Stores Featuring Black Brick “Gates of Hell” Vinyl and Limited to 666 Hand-Numbered Copies
• Happy Halloween to All Who Celebrate
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
This is going to be the scariest spoken word record you’ve ever heard. We’re not joking…and neither is Vincent Price. The star of such horror classics as House of Wax, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and Theatre of Blood (and, of course, narrator of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video) can barely hide his delight while he takes his audience through a graphic and occasionally grisly history lesson in witchcraft from the Bible through the Middle Ages, the Spanish Inquisition, and Nazi Germany. Then, accompanied by occasional eerie, abstract electronic music, Price’s sinister satisfaction only mounts as he provides instruction in the dark arts, with such tracks as “How to Make a Pact with the Devil” and “Curses, Spells, Charms.” It’s all in good fun, of course…or is it? The mysterious writer of the script, one Terry d’Oberoff, has only one other credit to his name: as the “mascot” of an early ‘70s band called…wait for it…Black Magic.
This 1969 double-LP release has long been coveted by collectors of the curious and macabre, and for its first reissue in over 50 years, we are giving it the Real Gone treatment, reproducing the gatefold jacket and the full-size, 8-page booklet that accompanied some copies. It’s a combination history textbook and how-to manual in witchcraft, with a title page depicting a particularly unsettling spell called “The Hand of Glory” involving the severed, salted, and dried hand of a convicted felon. We are releasing this one-of-a-kind album in two ways: on clear with orange “pumpkin” swirl vinyl, and, for independent record stores only, on black brick “gates of hell” vinyl limited to 666 hand-numbered copies.
Happy Halloween.
Side One
1. Prologue/The Tale of Master Seth
2. Hitler and Witchcraft/ Witchcraft in History
3. Women as Witches/ Witch Burning
4. Witch Tortures
Side Two
1. Witch Tortures (Cont.)/The World of Spirits and Demons
2. Preparation for Magic/ Instruments of Magic
3. How to Invoke Spirits, Demons, Unseen Forces/ The Magic Bloodstone
4. The Witches Cauldron/How to Communicate with the Spirits
Side Three
1. How to Communicate with the Spirits (cont.)/Gerald Yorke and Necromancy
2. How to Make a Pact with the Devil/How to Become a Witch
3. Curses, Spells, Charms
Side Four
1. Curses, Spells, Charms (Cont.)/Potions
2. The Hand of Glory/The Witches Sabbat
(CLEAR WITH ORANGE “PUMPKIN” SWIRL 2-LP VINYL EDITION) (INDIE EXCLUSIVE HAND-NUMBERED BLACK BRICK “GATES OF HELL” 2-LP VINYL EDITION) UPC: 848064017523
3. Witchcraft Today/Epilogue
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
SELLING POINTS
• The Five Albums in the Frankie Stein and His Ghouls Are Among the Most Cherished and Collectible Halloween Novelty Releases of All Time Originally Released for the Power Records Imprint of the Children’s Specialty Label Peter Pan
• After Years of Searching, Real Gone Music Is Finally Exhuming These Classic Albums for the First Time
• Among the Most Unhinged Recordings of Their Kind
• And with the Best Artwork
• Power Records Enlisted the Services of ‘60s Rock Stalwarts The Blues Project and Free Jazz Avatar Sun Ra for Previous Recordings, and Legend Has It They Also Appear Here
• Other Musicians Rumored to Play on These Records Include Guitar Twang-Meister Duane Eddy and Jazz Saxman Max Greger
• Driving Arrangements of Rock and R&B Tunes Dedicated to Various Dance Crazes and Punctuated by Unearthly Howls and Unnerving Sound Effects
• Now that Real Gone Has Reissued All Five Albums on LP, It’s Time for a CD Release
• The Complete Ghoul-lecton Presents All Five Records on Two CDs
• Features Introducing Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, Shock! Terror! Fear!, Ghoul Music, Monster Melodies, and Monster Sounds and Dance Music
• Every ‘60s Dance Craze Is Well Represented, from the Twist to the Frug to the Watusi
• Joe Marchese’s Liner Notes Explore the Birth of the Ghoul
• Never Released on CD Until Now!
THE COMPLETE Ghoul-lection
(2-CD Set)
Hey CD fans—you didn’t really think we were gonna leave you, er, hanging!? Here, on a two-CD set, is The Complete Ghoul-lection, featuring all five Frankie Stein and His Ghouls albums: Introducing Frankie Stein and His Ghouls, Shock! Terror! Fear!, Ghoul Music, Monster Melodies, and Monster Sounds and Dance Music. Joe Marchese’s liner notes explore the birth of the ghoul with the president of Peter Pan, Donald Kasen. One final “twist” in our Frankie Stein reissue series!
SELLING POINTS
• The Five Albums in the Frankie Stein and His Ghouls Are Among the Most Cherished and Collectible Halloween Novelty Releases of All Time
• Originally Released for the Power Records Imprint of the Children’s Specialty Label Peter Pan
• After Years of Searching, Real Gone Music Is Finally Exhuming These Classic Albums for the First Time
• Among the Most Unhinged Recordings of Their Kind
• And with the Best Artwork
• Power Records Enlisted the Services of ‘60s Rock Stalwarts The Blues Project and Free Jazz Avatar Sun Ra for Previous Recordings, and Legend Has It They Also Appear Here
• Other Musicians Rumored to Play on These Records Include Guitar Twang-Meister Duane Eddy and Jazz Saxman Max Greger
• Driving Arrangements of Rock and R&B Tunes Dedicated to Various Dance Crazes and Punctuated by Unearthly Howls and Unnerving Sound Effects
• 1965’s Monster Melodies Offers Such Delightful Ditties as “Ain’t Got No Body” and “Ghoulish Heart”
• A Hallowed Horror Rock Release Pressed in Radioactive Green Vinyl
• Limited to 900 Copies
Also from 1965, Monster Sounds and Dance Music Offers “De-Compositions” for Dancing Like “Be Careful, It’s My Throat” and “Saturday Evening Ghost” Pressed in Coke Clear with Yellow “Serpentine” Swirl Vinyl to Match the Snake on the Front Cover
• Also Limited to 900 Copies
• A Ready-Made Playlist for a Halloween Hootenanny
Sounds and Dance Music (Limited Coke Clear with Yellow “Serpentine” Swirl Vinyl Edition)
After years of visiting graveyards, combing through haunted houses, and pursuing (heh heh) dead ends, we finally tracked down the rights to the legendary Frankie Stein and His Ghouls series! Why did we risk life, limb, and livelihood to find these records? Well, first of all, long-time Real Goners know we LOVE these campy ‘60s takes on horror rock—witness our previous macabre moves into the Zacherle, Munsters and Groovie Goolies franchises. But there’s something extra special about these Frankie Stein and His Ghouls records. You wouldn’t think that Halloween records released by a subsidiary (Power Records) of a children’s specialty label (Peter Pan Records) would be so…er…visceral, but these records are definitely the most out there of their kind. And there might be a reason for that…you see, it has been revealed that the Power label enlisted the aid of some very, very interesting musicians for some of its projects. For instance, the imprint’s 1966 album Batman and Robin by The Sensational Guitars of Dan and Dale was actually produced by Tom Wilson of Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, and Mothers of Invention fame—and the band was made up free jazz legend Sun Ra and members of The Blues Project! Which has led to all sorts of speculation about who Frankie Stein and His Ghouls actually were; among the names bandied about are guitarist Duane Eddy, jazz saxophonist Max Greger, and, yes, Sun Ra and the Blues Project again. At any rate, prepare yourself for frenetic rock-and-twist workouts punctuated by deranged howls and shattering sound effects. And with a back story like this, it’s no wonder original copies of these albums sell for downright horrifying prices…here come the last two for a truly fiendish finale!
FRANKIE STEIN AND HIS GHOULS: Monster MELODIES
(Limited Radioactive Green Vinyl Edition)
Sporting an all-star crew of movie monsters on the front cover, this 1965 slab from the vinyl vault features perhaps our favorite song title from the entire Frankie Stein series: “Ain’t Got No Body.” Though “Ghoulish Heart” is not far behind! Never reissued in any format, here in radioactive green vinyl limited to 900 copies!
FRANKIE STEIN AND HIS GHOULS: Monster SOUNDS AND DANCE MUSIC
(Limited Coke Clear with Yellow “Serpentine” Swirl Vinyl Edition)
The album art proves nobody can do The Twist quite like a giant snake! This never-before-reissued 1965 classic offers “de-compositions” for dancing like “Be Careful, It’s My Throat” and “Saturday Evening Ghost,” pressed in coke clear with yellow “serpentine” swirl vinyl limited to 900 copies!
SIDE ONE 1. The Creep 2. Be Careful, It’s My Throat
Dreamin’ and Screamin’ 4. Chills 5. Dance of Doom
SIDE TWO 1. Mummy’s Little Monster 2. Kiss of Death
Body Twist
Bat and Cat
Saturday Evening Ghost
SELLING POINTS
• Several Years Ago Real Gone Music Reissued the Fabled Black Jazz Records Label to Great Acclaim
• With Four Releases to His Credit, Keyboardist/Composer Doug Carn Was the Biggest Star on the Label Roster
• Now, Real Gone Takes You All the Way Back to the Beginning of His Career with Its Reissue of The Doug Carn Trio
• Never Reissued on LP
• Came Out on the Legendary Savoy Label in 1969
• Original Copies Are Impossible to Find
• So Impossible That Real Gone and Carn Commissioned His Daughter Eroniffa Ibrahim to Create Illustrations Based on the Original Cover Photos for This Reissue
• But We Did Find the Original Master Tapes
• So This Is an All-Analog Release
• Pressed at Gotta Groove Records with Their Proprietary GrooveCoated Stampers to Minimize High-Frequency Loss with Each Successive Pressing
• A Tight Organ Trio Set with a Mixture of Carn Originals and Well-Chosen Covers (e.g. “Walk Right In”)
• Includes an Insert Featuring Notes by Aaron Cohen Based on an Exclusive Interview with Carn
• The Opening Salvo from a Scintillating Career
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FORMAT: Regular Weight All-Analog Black Vinyl
PACKAGING: Album Jacket with 2-Page Insert
BOX LOT: 60
POINTS
• First Through His Recordings with Television and Then with His Solo Work, Tom Verlaine Is on the Short List of the Most Brilliant and Original Guitarists in Rock History
• His Self-Taught, Jazz-Inflected Style, and Largely Effects-Free, Vibrato Tone Make Any Verlaine Guitar Solo Unmistakably His
• Now, Real Gone Music Is Very Proud to Announce That We Have Reached a Deal with the Verlaine Estate to Release His Final Solo Three Albums on Vinyl
• Released in the Same Year (2006) as the All-Instrumental Around, Songs and Other Things, Was, as the Title Indicates, a Return to Songs with Lyrics (Though There Were Some Instrumentals Among the “Things”)
• Possibly the Strongest Set of Songs to Appear on Any of His Solo Albums, Highlighted by “Nice Actress” and “The Earth Is in the Sky”
• The Usual Enigmatic, Intuitive Lyrics
• Backed by Fred Smith of Television Fame and Jay Dee Daugherty of The Patti Smith Group Among Others
• Amazing Guitar Work as Befits the Last Record He Ever Made
• Vinyl Debut
• Newly Mastered for Vinyl by Bassist and Original Engineer Patrick Derivaz
• The Enclosed Insert Features Poetic Liner Notes by Verlaine’s Life Partner Jutta Koether
• Pressed in Teal Vinyl
• A Fitting Capstone to a Legendary Career iBarcoder Trial
THE DOUG CARN TRIO: The Doug
Carn Trio
(All-Analog Vinyl Edition)
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Keyboardist/composer Doug Carn was the biggest star on the legendary Black Jazz Records label, with four releases to his credit (all reissued by us at Real Gone Music), and remains a touchstone for spiritual jazz fans and musicians alike. But very, very few folks have heard his debut record, cut for the venerable Savoy label back in 1969. In fact, it’s so rare that we couldn’t even find a copy to use for artwork, so, with Doug’s help, we enlisted his daughter Eroniffa Ibrahim to create illustrations for our reissue based on the original cover photos. But you know what we did find? That’s right…the original master tapes! So, not only is this the first LP reissue for The Doug Carn Trio, but it’s an all-analog edition to boot, pressed at Gotta Groove Records with their proprietary GrooveCoated stampers to minimize high-frequency loss with each successive pressing. And, we’ve added an insert with liner notes by Aaron Cohen based on an exclusive interview with the man himself. As for the music, it’s a tight organ trio set that starts cooking right from the get-go with a groovin’ cover of Gus Cannon’s “Walk Right In,” which became a folk hit for The Rooftop Singers. Carn’s fluid, forward-thinking playing anticipates Larry Young’s future keyboard forays, and originals like “Butter from the Duck” and “Yna Yna’s Delight” presage the compositional prowess he flashed on the Black Jazz releases (note: that’s Don Hales on guitar, not Gary Starling as credited on the original record). The opening salvo from a scintillating career, finally available again!
tom verlaine: songs and other things
(Teal Vinyl Edition)
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
The true test of originality for any musician comes when you hear an instrument being played and you instantly know who’s playing it. For electric guitarists, certainly Hendrix qualifies; Page and Clapton, too. Maybe Eddie Van Halen before the legion of imitators. You probably have your own list, but to us, standing toe-to-toe (or pick-to-pick) with those legends is Television guitarist and solo artist Tom Verlaine. His self-taught, jazz-influenced style, largely devoid of effects, and vibrato tone (oh, that tone!) makes any Verlaine solo unmistakably a Verlaine solo. That he was quite an accomplished, idiosyncratic songwriter is just a bonus. Real Gone Music is very, very proud to announce that we have arranged with the Verlaine estate to release Tom’s last three solo albums on LP; Songs and Other Things was the last record he released, in the same year (2006) as the all-instrumental Around. As the title indicates, this was indeed a return to lyrics and vocals, the first record with “songs” since 1990’s The Wonder (although the first track, “A Parade in Littleton”—one of the “Other Things”—is a low-key, funky instrumental that would have been home on a late Talking Heads album). The time off clearly allowed Verlaine to build up a strong cache of compositions, with “Nice Actress” and “The Earth Is in the Sky” among the highlights. The record also marks a welcome return of Verlaine’s enigmatic lyrics, which as always prompt head scratching while somehow making intuitive sense. But in the end, it’s the amazing guitar work—ably supported by Fred Smith of Television fame and Jay Dee Daugherty of The Patti Smith Group among others—that elevates Songs and Other Things to essential status, worthy of its exalted position as the final release of Tom Verlaine’s career. Bassist and original engineer Patrick Derivaz has mastered the album for its vinyl debut; Verlaine’s long-time partner Jutta Koether contributes notes. Teal vinyl pressing!
Walk Right In
Butter from the Duck
My One and Only Love
TWO
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless
SIDE ONE
1. A Parade in Littleton 2. Heavenly Charm
Orbit
Blue Light 5. From Her Finger 6. Nice Actress 7. A Stroll 8. The Earth Is the Sky
SIDE TWO
Lovebird Asylum Seeker
Documentary
Shingaling
All Weirded Out
The Day on You
Peace Piece
SELLING POINTS
• With His Innovative Multi-Percussion Set-Ups and Tunable Congas, Cándido Camero Guerra a.k.a. Candido Brought the Conga into the Modern Age
• Played with the Bands of Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton Among Many Others
• But Even with That Long and Storied Career, Nobody Could Have Foreseen That at Age 58, Candido Would Make a Legendary Disco Recording
• 1979’s Dancin’ and Prancin Introduced Latin Conga Beats into Disco-Fied 4 x 4 Syncopated Rhythms
• The Combo Proved Irresistible and Revolutionized the Sound of Underground Disco as Well as Paving the Way for the House Music to Come
• Candido’s Version of Babatunde Olatunji’s “Jingo” and His Own “Thousand Finger Man” Became Club Classics That Are Dancefloor Staples to This Day
• A Seminal Release from the Salsoul Label
• Released on Black Vinyl to Aid DJ Queueing and Spinning
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PACKAGING: Album Jacket
BOX LOT: 60
SELLING POINTS
• Willie Tee’s Album I’m Only a Man Is One of the Rarest and Most Valuable Soul Records Around Even Though It Received Major Label Distribution
• The Reason for That Is That It’s the Perfect Blend of Raw R&B Passion and Smooth Soul Sophistication
• Willie Tee Was a New Orleans Pianist and Singer Best Known for Recording a Series of Burnin’ 45s (Some Cut for Harold Battiste’s Short-Lived AFO Label) During the ‘60s
• I’m Only a Man Was Willie’s Album Debut, Cut for Capitol in 1970, and He Brought the Same Deep-Seated Intensity to the Record That He Did His Singles
• But This Time His Warm, Raspy Voice Was Bathed in Spectacular Arrangements by H.B. Barnum
• And Produced by the Legendary David Axelrod
• Strings, Brass, Xylophone, Bluesy Guitar Licks, and a Funky Rhythm Section All Percolate Inside This Record’s Grooves
• Offers a Daring Choice of Material That Ranges from Cannonball Adderley’s “Walk Tall” to the Bacharach-David Nugget “Reach Out for Me” to the Album Closer “People” from Funny Girl
• Also Features the Self-Penned Highlights “Mirror” and “Bring On the Heartaches”
• First LP Reissue of This Cult Classic
• Purple Vinyl Pressing
• Limited to 1000 CopiesiBarcoder Trial
CANDIDO: Dancin’ and Prancin’
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
As the man who basically brought the conga into the modern age with his innovative multipercussion set-ups and tunable congas, and as a former member of Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton’s bands, Cándido Camero Guerra a.k.a. Candido already had a long and storied career when he cut Dancin’ and Prancin’ for the Salsoul label in 1979 at the age of 58. So, you might have been excused at the time for assuming this was just another case of an old-timer trying to cash in on the disco craze, right? But you would have been very, very wrong…the record was pure brilliance, as the infusion of Candido’s Latin conga beats into the disco-fied 4 x 4 syncopated rhythm proved irresistible, revolutionizing the sound of underground disco while pointing the way to the house music to come. Indeed, both “Jingo” (an unstoppable version of the Olatunji classic) and “Thousand Finger Man” are still DJ favorites. Speaking of DJs, we’re putting this one out on black vinyl, perfect for queueing up and spinning. for A must for any dance music library!
WILLIE TEE: I'm Only a Man
(Limited Purple Vinyl Edition)
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Even though it came out on a major label, this record sells for hundreds of dollars if you can find it at all (we know…we paid for a copy), and it’s no wonder… it’s the perfect blend of raw R&B passion and smooth, sophisticated soul production. First, the passion part… Willie Tee was a New Orleans pianist and singer best known for recording a series of burnin’ 45s (some cut for Harold Battiste’s short-lived AFO label) during the ‘60s. I’m Only a Man was Willie’s album debut, cut for Capitol in 1970, and he brought the same deep-seated intensity to the record that he did his singles. The difference was, for I’m Only a Man, Willie’s warm, raspy voice was lovingly bathed in spectacular arrangements by H. B. Barnum and produced by the great David Axelrod. Strings, brass, xylophone, bluesy guitar licks, and a funky rhythm section are all percolating inside this record’s grooves, with a daring choice of material that ranges from Cannonball Adderley’s “Walk Tall” to the Bacharach-David nugget “Reach Out for Me” to the self-penned highlights “Mirror” and “Bring On the Heartaches” to the album closer “People” from Funny Girl. Capitol wasn’t known for breaking soul acts at the time, which may explain why this record remains a cult classic; we’re happy to give it the exposure it deserves, with a purple vinyl pressing limited to 1000 copies. First-ever LP reissue!
SIDE ONE
1. Dancin’ and Prancin’ 2. Jingo SIDE TWO
1. Thousand Finger Man
2. Rock & Shuffle (Ah-Ha)
UPC: 634457177048
Item: LP-RH-04X
Format: Vinyl
1. Outer Spaceways Incorporated - Georgia Anne Muldrow & Kronos Quartet
2. Maji - Jlin
3. Images -Laurie Anderson Marshall Allen Sexmob
4. Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie - Laraaji
5. Phenomenon - Laurie Anderson
6. The Furthest Out Things - Nicole Lizée
7. Love in Outerspace - Secret Chiefs 3, Trey Spruance
8. Blood Running High - RP Boo & Armand Hammer
9. The Wuz - Laurie Anderson
10. Black Body Radiance - Zachary Watkins
11. Secrets of the Sun - 700 Bliss
12. Three Seasons on the Tempestuous Twelve Inch Planet - Victoria Shen
13. Kiss Yo Ass Goodbye - Terry Riley, Sara Miyamoto
Outer Spaceways Incorporated : Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra
Release Date: Sep 6, 2024
Individually, Kronos Quartet and Sun Ra are two of the most groundbreaking names in contemporary music. The former is the legendary San Francisco-based string quartet that laid a blueprint for what concert music could become, working with the likes of John Cage, Tanya Tagaq, and Astor Piazzolla. The latter was a singular jazz and avant-garde bandleader, as well as a philosopher and poet, who honed an extraordinary strain of cosmic experimental music from the 1950s until his ascension in 1993. As a capstone to Kronos Quartet’s 50th anniversary, the group has joined forces with the Red Hot Organization for the new album Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra. It’s stacked with some of the most innovative artists active today — everyone from multidimensional electronic musician Jlin, to Moor Mother and DJ Haram’s radical noise / rap project 700 Bliss, to abstract hip hop luminaries Armand Hammer, to avant-garde hero Laurie Anderson, to minimalist pioneer Terry Riley. Distributed by Red Eye info@redhot.org redhot.org
CASS McCOMBS
Not The Way | A | PREfection
The Debut Works by Cass McCombs Finally Back in Print from September 6 2024
4AD are proud to be reissuing the first three records by unparalleled contemporary American songwriter Cass McCombs. Released by the label outside North America in the early-2000s (Monitor released Stateside), his debut EP (Not The Way) and first two albums (A and PREfection) have all been out of print on vinyl since and are now highly-sought after titles.
Twenty plus years on and 4AD are making all three records available again worldwide, having remastered them all at Abbey Road. The vinyl editions are being pressed on black vinyl and will come in their original sleeves with an OBI strip and new printed inner art added. CD versions of both albums are also being released.
Not The Way
“Heavy-lidded tunes that sound like they were recorded post-bender, pre-afterglow.” Alternative Press
Cass McCombs’s 2002 debut EP Not The Way, a song-suite of narcotic lullabies, acutely observed lyrics, and preternatural hooks, introduced the world to a gifted songwriter possessed with a fully-formed vision and mission.
His first release, the self-recorded 6-track EP was originally released on CD and was subsequently pressed by 4AD in the UK as a double 7” a few years later. Now finally getting the 12” pressing that will make collectors happy, this version also marks the first time Not The Way has been released on vinyl in North America.
A1. Not the Way
A2. So Damn Pure
A3. Opium Flower
B1. Your Mother and Father
B2. Nobody’s Nixon
B3. It’s Getting Colder
“A most compelling, sad and beautiful record. (Cass) eschews Nick Drake or Elliot Smith’s hushed delivery for the ramshackle, worn beauty of the Velvet Underground by way of Alex Chilton.”
The Times
Cass McCombs’s insta-classic 2003 debut album A is a formidable collection of story-songs and magnetic melodies that stands up today as a foundational document of independent rock ‘n roll to come.
Featuring deep cuts ‘I Went to The Hospital’, ‘When the Bible Was Wrote’ and ‘Bobby, King of Boys Town’, A has become a rare find on vinyl and title many have asked him to repress over the years.
A1. I Went to the Hospital
A2. Bobby, King of Boys Town
A3. What Isn’t Nature
A4. AIDS in Africa
A5. A Comedian is Someone Who Tells Jokes
B1. Gee, It’s Good To Be Home
B2. Meet Me Here at Dawn
B3. When The Bible Was Wrote
B4. My Pilgrim Dear B5. Bedding Down Post-Xmastime
B6. My Master
PREfection
“While McCombs the lyricist roams geographically and emotionally, McCombs the songwriter meanders through musical periods.”
Pitchfork
With 2005’s flawless second LP PREfection, Cass McCombs entered the pantheon of singer-songwriters dealing in a signature thematic and sonic universe studded with effortless catchiness, singular mood, and literary lyrics of rare distinction.
Featuring single ‘Sacred Heart’ and favourites ‘Equinox’ and ‘She’s Still Suffering’, PREfection set the scene for Cass’s 2007 breakthrough album Dropping The Writ, rounding off a golden period when Cass was in his ascendance.
A1. Equinox
A2. Subtraction
A3. Multiple Suns
A4. Tourist Woman
A5. Sacred Heart
B1. She’s Still Suffering
B2. Cuckoo
B3. Bury Mary
B4. City of Brotherly Love
B5. All Your Dreams May Come True
TRACKLISTING
1. Vigilante
2. Closer to God
3. Wither
4. Clowns
5. King of the Slugs
6. All the Same
7. I Am the King
8. Running
9. And So It Came To Pass
CATALOG NUMBER: WIG527
RELEASE DATE: September 6, 2024
FILE UNDER: Alternative “F”
CD
Boxlot: 30 UPC: 887828052721
LP w/ DOWNLOAD
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887828052714
Vinyl is non-returnable
Indie/D2C Exclusive LP (ltd) w/ DOWNLOAD
(Indie Retail Exclusive)
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887828052738 Vinyl is non-returnable
FAT DOG WOOF.
OVERVIEW
Fat Dog are the most exciting breakthrough band of the past few years, conjurers of the sort of frenzied and wild live shows not seen in the capital for years and now the creators of WOOF., a brilliant and mind-bending debut album. A thrilling blend of electro-punk, rock’n’roll snarling, techno soundscapes, industrial-pop and rave euphoria, WOOF. is music for letting go to or, in the words of frontman Joe Love, “screaming-into-a-pillow music.”
SELLING POINTS
• NME cover stars on April 22, 2024.
• Featured as a “Band To Watch” with DIY, Dork, Clash, Rolling Stone UK, Music Week, Evening Standard, the Observer, and more.
• “Fat Dog are one of the most exciting and original bands on the scene right now” - God is in the TV
• US tour dates.
• US radio campaigns to impact at Specialty and College formats.
• All LP formats include a download card. Indie/D2C Exclusive LP (ltd) is a red vinyl pressing.
The Deslondes Roll It Out
The Deslondes Roll It Out
The Deslondes are a five-piece group of dudes from New Orleans. The band splits up songwriting and lead vocal duties among its five members, continuing its democratic ethos and musical versatility. Multiple members have released solo recordings between their sophomore release, Hurry Home (2016) and their previous release Ways & Means (2022). Now, with their latest record, Roll It Out the band continues to build on their inventive take on New Orleans country and R&B. Roll It Out finds the band leaning on the countryfolk of their debut along with the sometimes-psychedelic, electrified gospel-soul sound of their previous records The sound will continue to draw comparisons to the country-funkiness of The Band, Link Wray, and others but Roll It Out is the sound of a band that understands the history of American music, while embracing their own contemporary approach.
Street Date: September 6, 2024
Track Listing
Side A:
1. Hold On Liza
2. Take Me Back
3. Lies I’ve Told
4. I’ll Do It
5. Grand Junction
6. Find The Ground
CD
Sel. #: NW6582CD
CONFIG: Digiwallet
UPC: 607396658527
Box Lot: 30 Count
Side B:
1. Pour Another Round
2. Old Plank Road
3. Who Really Loses
4. Go Out Tonight
5. Mercury On Parade
6. Line To Go
7. Drifter’s Wife
Genre: Rock N Roll, Americana
Vinyl
Sel. #: NW5820LP
CONFIG: Jacket, Sleeve, Marketing Sticker, Black
Vinyl
UPC:607396582013
Box Lot: 20
Genre: Rock N Roll, Americana
Vinyl - Indie Only
Sel. #: NW5853LP
CONFIG: Jacket, Sleeve, Marketing Sticker, Color
Vinyl, One Time Pressing
UPC: 607396585311
Box Lot: 20
Genre: Rock N Roll, Americana
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SETUP: 1 Coolie for each indie only vinyl purchased
MOCKUP: Scan the QR Code > Mockups
For Fans of: Link Wray, John R. Miller, Ted Lucas, Phosphorescent, The Band
LUKE WINSLOW-KING FLASH-A-MAGIC
Bloodshot is proud to welcome acclaimed folk-blues singer/songwriter Luke Winslow-King back to the label with Flash-A-Magic.
The new album contines Luke’s world-wandering evolution, from Michigan to New Orleans to Spain, absorbing and integrating his experiences and collaborations to create something unique and new.
Flash-A-Magic is co-produced by Tuscan Slide Guitar Maestro Roberto Luti—a founding member of the Playing For Change band who has collaborated with legends such as Taj Mahal, Keb Mo, Keith Richards, Ringo Starr, Dr. John and accumulated over 100 million plays on YouTube. His unorthodox, angular and evocative slide guitar style is based on Mississippi and Chicago blues and is infused by soul and African roots traditions and perfectly compliments Winslow-King’s musical ambitions.
The duo’s partnership reaches back more than 15 years to it’s beginnings on the streets of New Orleans, and has taken them to dozens of countries around the world. Their approach to rural and hill country blues contains a certain reverence, a respect, and a bittersweetness not often heard in the modern day. The new album features several co-writes and showcases the unique style and dynamic synergy they have fostered.
Luke Winslow-King’s return to Bloodshot Records
Co-produced with Roberto Luti, a founding member of
Playing For Change
“I’m Glad Trouble Don’t Last Always” has racked up over
10 million streams
“His
inventive, creative composition and songwriting breathes freshness and new life into American musical traditions.” — Americana Highways
Claude Fontaine La Mer
There is a mythical island that exists only in Claude Fontaine’s imagination. It’s somewhere off the coast of France but the trade winds blow a soothing tropical breeze. The inhabitants converse in an alluring mélange of French and Portuguese. The air is fragrant and sweet. The water is the color of Lapis Lazuli. The stone citadels of this invisible city are scarred by time, but the natives exist in a velvet eternity.
If you wander at night amidst the starlit cobblestone roads, you might chance upon the official house band of this halcyon offshore republic. A mysterious ensemble fronted by an American girl with a French name singing a romantic collection of spells assembled under the name, La Mer.
With their dulcet fusion of ‘60s French ye-ye pop, slinky Studio One reggae, and liminal Brazilian tropicalia, Claude Fontaine’s songs embody the best kept dreams of a globally connected world. The second album from the Los Angeles artist reflects the dream of creating the soundtrack for this utopia by the sea.
“The island was a complete figment of my imagination, but it’s where I found myself living while writing the songs,” Fontaine says. “A fantasy place where I could be surrounded by the people I wanted to be around, the people I already loved, and a love that I had never had. The songs felt like prayers or a manifestation about what I was hoping to put forward. ”
Released on Innovative Leisure, La Mer is a mesmerizing portal. It’s impossible for it to exist outside of the modern moment, but it floats on the gilded dust of the past. At times, Fontaine channels Jane Birkin as backed by Jorge Ben. Francois Hardy locked into sonic reverie with Mulatu Astatke, or Margo Guryan making lovers rock.
None of this is a happy accident. For her second opus, Fontaine assembled some of the most gifted musicians of the last five decades. First and foremost is her co-writer and producer, the multi-platinum Grammy-Award winning Lester Mendez, whose resume includes everyone from Grace Jones and Baaba Maal to Shakira and Nelly Furtado.
As with Fontaine’s self-titled first album, the legendary Tony Chin appears on guitar, bringing the orphic tones expected from someone who has played with some of the greatest reggae musicians of all-time (King Tubby, Dennis Brown, Lee Perry, Jackie Mittoo, Max Romeo, Sly & Robbie). On bass, there’s Ronnie McQueen, one of the co-founders of Steel Pulse. Sergio Mendes’ percussionist, Gibi Dos Santos, supplies propulsive locomotion. So does Ziggy Marley’s drummer, Rock Deadrick. And that’s just the abridged list of storied instrumentalists who appear on La Mer.
In the middle of the axis mundi lies Fontaine, building an orchestral escape to paradise. If her debut found her exploring a newfound love of Jamaican and Brazilian music, the passage of time has allowed for an enhanced familiarity and intimacy. Bandcamp called the first record “a spiritual sequel to Serge Gainsbourg’s late ’70s Jamaican sabbatical…the kind of dimly lit hideaway where Hunter S. Thompson might have guzzled Cuba Libres.” And her latest experiment in timeless rhythms yields even richer and more vibrant results.
“I write love songs. That’s what compels me,” Fontaine says. “I’m needlessly inspired by love, but in a deeper way than just pure romance. As you evolve, your understanding of the greater themes of life evolve too.”
On “Vaquero,” Fontaine spins the tale of a gaucho, a hardened man on horseback, a tortured soul who refuses love and sweats out his pain from the isolation of a chaparral-strewn ranch. “Love the Way You Love” is a prayer for an ardor then unrealized, but later fulfilled – a levitating hymn of golden sand and coral blue waters, heartache with only one antidote. “Green Ivy Tapestry” was written on an old mahogany bed in an ancient hotel room in London, in which the enchanted beauty of this tiny chamber symbolized the walled off possibilities within.
With a polychromatic lilt, Fontaine sings in English, French, and Portuguese. But regardless of which language is used, the translations tap into a universal Esperanto. What’s matters most is how welcome and inviting these songs feel. They tap into a communal experience that unites cultures – a sensibility nurtured by travel and crate-digging, and produced with the help of pioneers of these forms.
La Mer is a hidden treasure, a dusty gem waiting to be discovered in an attic or right now, at your convenience. It’s a vulnerable work that taps into a profound wellspring of imagination, unbeholden to trends or popular whim. Something romantic in the essentialist sense of the world, one that opens you up to a new realm of possibilities and wonder. Something that allows you to close your eyes and effortlessly time travel through the past, present, and future. A trip to the pristine island of the mind, but one made immaculately real.
"A stunning album and one of the year's highlights already" - DJ MAG (9/10*)
“If you’re looking for a real blast of aural sunshine you’ll not find anything better” - CRACK
"A love song to classic reggae and Brazilian music, honoring that feeling of finding a home away from home" - LA TIMES
"American singer who channels classic rocksteady reggae and Tropicalia influences on her retrofitted tunes of heartache" - ALL MUSIC
"Mesmerizing debut album ... The record is neatly divided between lilting reggae and Brazilian-style pop, and, while there is nothing new about a modern singer performing those styles individually, it is unusual to combine them in such a coolly seductive way." - LA WEEKLY
"Her airy, yé-yé-style vocals make the dub and rocksteady on the album’s first half feel like a spiritual sequel to Serge Gainsbourg’s late ’70s Jamaican sabbatical, while its final five tracks of retro bossa nova evoke seductive, after-dark, if-these-walls-could-talk lounges—the kind of dimly lit hideaway where Hunter S. Thompson might have guzzled Cuba Libres. What we’re left with is a highly personal pocket guide to multiple, timeless musical styles"BANDCAMP
Catalog: IL2117
CD Box Lot: 30
Packaging: 4 Panel Digipak
LP Box Lot: 30
Packaging: Standard Jacket
Vinyl is non-returnable
Release Date: September 6, 2024
Genre: World/Reggae/Bossa-Nova
For Fans Of: Hollie Cook, Allah-Las, Khruangbin, Gal Costa, Jane Birkin, Lee Scratch Perry, Susan Cadogan, King Tubby, Lana Del Rey, Julie Byrne, Jessica Pratt, Charlotte Day Wilson, Francois Hardy, Sade
Distributor Redeye
Territory North America, South America
Cat No. ERATP167LE
Format Clear LP
RRP $32.99
EAN / UPC 3700551785834
Masayoshi Fujita Migratory
Erased Tapes
Cat No. ERATP167LP
Format Black Bio LP
RRP $29.99
EAN / UPC 3700551785827
Cat No. ERATP167CD
Format CD
RRP $17.99
EAN / UPC 3700551785810
Track List
A
1. Tower of Cloud
2. Pale Purple
3. Blue Rock Thrush
4. Our Mother’s Lights 5. Desonata
B
1. Ocean Flow
2. Distant Planet
3. In a Sunny Meadow
4. Higurashi
5. Valley
6. Yodaka
Formats Ltd Edition Clear LP (first pressing), Black Bio LP, CD
Extras
Download code + postcard (LP only)
File under Ambient, electronic, classical For fans of KMRU, Hiroshi Yoshimura, Laraaji, Harold Budd Box lot 45 CD / 20 LP
Release date 6th September 2024
Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player Masayoshi Fujita returns with Migratory , his masterful new solo album, where his sonic explorations into the unknown continue.
In 2019, after 13 years of living in Berlin, Fujita returned to his native Japan with his wife and their three children, fulfilling his life-long dream of living and composing music in the midst of nature. The family found their new home in the mountain hills along the coast of Kami-cho, Hyōgo, three hours west of Kyoto.
Once settled in, Fujita spent his time turning an old kindergarten into his own music studio, Kebi Bird Studio, which became the birthplace of Migratory. On his new album, the composer and producer masterfully reimagines and mesmerises with his trademark sounds of vibraphone, and resumes his experimentation with the marimba and synthesisers that he first incorporated on his 2021 album, Bird Ambience, which followed the release of his acclaimed vibraphone triptych: Stories (2012), Apologues (2015) and Book of Life (2018).
On Fujita’s ever-evolving list of collaborators, Migratory introduces vocals from Moor Mother on ‘Our Mother’s Lights’ and Hatis Noit on ‘Higurashi’, as well as shō and saxophone to its soundscapes. Whilst at a music residency in Stockholm in 2021, Fujita met Swedish shō player Mattias Hållsten. Although it was a brief encounter, the two musicians stayed in touch. During a visit to Japan, Hållsten stopped by the studio and played on three of the tracks, including the alluring album closer ‘Yodaka’, exceeding Fujita’s own expectations.
Another collaborator, American poet Moor Mother asked Fujita to contribute vibraphone to her upcoming album, and in return lent her powerful voice to the Migratory’s centrepiece, Our Mother’s Lights “it carries a kind of African and Asian vibe, a perfect match for the energy of the piece,” he adds.
As with Bird Ambience, Fujita continues to be inspired by our feathered friends. The album’s title, Migratory, originates from an image that came to him of migratory birds, travelling somewhere between Africa, East Asia and Japan, imagining them hearing the music from the land underneath, and how their point of view of the world from above blurs the boundaries of music and land. Expanding on this, Fujita says: “these ideas and images were inspired by my experiences of living abroad and returning to my homeland, as well as by the artists featured on this album who also somehow travelled or lived in other countries across the boundaries, and being influenced by the music of other lands but at the same time somehow led to their roots”
Masayoshi’s parents too made a life abroad in Thailand for over 15 years. After returning to Japan, Fujita’s mother passed away in the beginning of 2023. So he invited his father to come for a visit, to spend time with him and his grandchildren. A lifelong musician in his own right, the two of them soon found themselves holed up in Kebi Bird Studio. Fujita senior had brought his saxophone, which he played on top of the then unfinished recordings, resulting in three breathtaking pieces. The slow jazz-tinged ‘Blue Rock Thrush’ stands out, with the saxophone and marimba blending harmoniously reaching new artistic heights.
Nature has always been a source of inspiration for Fujita, and on Migratory it takes centre stage. You can hear it on the album’s peaceful and considered field recordings, but most importantly, Masayoshi highlights – “nature is there as the image to be evoked by the listener from the music.” On the record’s sleeve notes, written by renowned novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer, we learn about the Japan that he hears as he sits down and listens to the music. It educates and encapsulates us, in the same way Fujita’s imaginary birds vividly depict the essence of musical migration.
Fu Manchu –
The Return Of Tomorrow
At The Dojo Records
NEW COLOR VARIANT AVAILABLE NOW!
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The Return Of Tomorrow is Fu Manchu’s first new album in 6 years, and they made sure that it was worth the wait. Their 14th album is their 1st double LP of new material and it was conceived of as a vinyl listening experience The first LP features 7 songs in their iconic heavy fuzz sound including the first single, “Hands Of The Zodiac” and the relentlessly catchy “Loch Ness Wrecking Machine.” The second LP sees the band mellowing out with 6 slower tempo jams including the synth inflected “Solar Baptized” and the title track Both LPs are 45RPM for the thickest possible sound. CD listeners need not worry, as this version of the album was mastered specifically for the format.
Like the band’s most recent album, Clone Of The Universe, and the band’s 3 part Fu30 EP series, The Return Of Tomorrow was recorded at The Racket Room in Santa Ana, California by Jim Monroe (Adolescents, Ignite) and co-produced with Fu Manchu. This new color variant 2LP is packaged in a glossy gatefold jacket with printed sleeves featuring live photos of the band and includes one Blue colored LP and one White colored LP.
Tracklist: 1. Dehumanize 2. Loch Ness Wrecking Machine 3. Hands Of The Zodiac 4. Haze The Hides 5. Roads Of The Lowly 6. (Time Is) Pulling You Under 7. Destroyin’ Light 8. Lifetime Waiting 9. Solar Baptized 10. What I Need 11. The Return Of Tomorrow 12. Liquify 13. High Tide
Gnod –Spot Land
Rocket Recordings
GNOD, the ever-transient psychedelic musical unit from northern England with over 15 years and dozens of releases under their belt, return in 2024 with a recalibrated sound and a new sense of freedom. Spot Land’s five songs are tender and detailed, unfolding slowly with wistful guitar textures, brushed drums and interjections of lap steel, piano and kalimba.As founder member Paddy Shine says, the results sound like old GNOD and new GNOD at the same time. On the face of it, Spot Land is a big step away from the intense, loud, sludgy offerings found on the group’s more recent studio albums, such as 2022’s Hexen Valley – nevertheless, these too are heady fogs to lose yourself in, with on-record personnel starting at different points and meeting on the same wavelength. Its exploratory sense might make seasoned GNOD heads think of 2014 triple LP Infinity Machines, or really early oddities like The Somnambulist’s Tale from 2008, but you can also jump in right here if needs be because Spot Land has its own unique vibe too.
The album was recorded in a Rochdale mill over four days in August 2023, with Paddy handling all the production and mixing – the first time he’s been fully in the hot seat for any GNOD release. He’s also the only member to feature on each of the five tracks, with others coming and going in suitably informal manner. Everyone – Paddy, fellow GNOD founder Chris Haslam, Alex Macarte, Raikes Parade and Al Wilson – plays at least two instruments over these 40 minutes.
RICHARD LAVIOLETTE ALL WILD THINGS ARE SHY
CATALOG: YC-063
FORMAT: 2xLP/CD/DIGITAL
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
TRACKLIST:
Milkweed and Motherwort / Welcome Back Don’t Quit On Me / Florence and Delilah Catacombs / All Wild Things Are Shy Carter and Cash / Pack It Up / Captain Of The Nighttime / Saved By Rock and Roll Train Of Death / Constant Love
gatefold black vinyl double LP 2xLP with download - LP-YC-063
All Wild Things Are Shy is the final studio album from beloved singer-songwriter Richard Laviolette, a powerful collection completed in the final months of his life.
As with much of Richard’s earlier work (including 2 previous You’ve Changed Records releases: All Of Your Raw Materials (2010) and Taking The Long Way Home (2017)), the songs on All Wild Things Are Shy confront death and mortality bravely and directly, while bursting with guts and glory, with love, justice, honesty, and a beautiful and fundamental belief in the ability of music to bring people together. This is an immediate, essentialist, community-grounded vision of folk-based DIY rock music, both specifically intimate and mortally epic.
Constantines singer Bry Webb and Steph Yates of Cots share guest lead vocals on the title track; long-time collaborator Jessy Bell Smith (of the Skydiggers) can be heard in powerful and sympathetic voice throughout.
With the rapid acceleration of Huntington’s Disease symptoms compounded by complex long-term health issues, Richard chose to receive medical assistance in dying (MAID) on September 5, 2023. We miss him dearly.
All Wild Things Are Shy is available in 2x12” (45 RPM) black vinyl housed in a gatefold jacket, or on deluxe CD. Both formats contain full handwritten lyrics.
RIYL: Magnolia Electric Co., Vic Chesnutt, Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Black vinyl. Tip on gatefold jacket.
limited edition compact disc CD-YC-063
Black vinyl. Tip-on gatefold jacket.
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Nathan Micay - Industry Season 2 OST
Release Date: 06 September 2024
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Nathan Micay returns with his soundtrack to the second season of acclaimed HBO/BBC Drama Industry - which both compliments the TV show, and excels as standalone art.
Industry gives an insider's view of the blackbox of high finance following a group of young bankers as they forge their identities within the pressure cooker environment and sex and drug fueled blitz of international bank Pierpoint & Co's London office. Micay’s soundtrack echoes the spirit of Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre and the late, great Vangelis. Although his background is in the world of dance/techno scoring for TV/Film was a natural progression for the multi-instrumentalist:
As The Quietus highlighted “Micay’s strength as a composer and producer comes from how he keeps this narrative flowing”
“Industry season 2 has the best TV soundtrack of the year ” GQ “The Industry Season 2 Soundtrack Makes High Stakes Finance Sexy as Hell” Men's Health “Electrifying, visceral, immersive and intense” Daily Beast
File Under: Soundtracks
In my experience, some albums simply wind up as a pair of psychic bookends. Music for Walks, the first Silver Scrolls album, began when I was taking classes in an analytic institute and would walk to class from my therapy office. I had the idea for an album that was simultaneously about the action of taking a walk and also made explicitly to listen to while on a walk. Around this same time I was introduced to the psychoanalytic work of Christopher Bollas and gravitated to his thoughts on the ‘receptive unconscious’ (which is in addition to repressed unconscious functions). In one chapter he wrote about how during leisure walks, the mind can float in and out of conscious awareness creating a reverie which receives generative associations fueling the receptive unconscious, the genesis of dreamwork and creativity. The daydreaming we do on leisure walks. This coalesced the whole project. While this conceptual thinking was integral, I didn’t forget that I was really ‘just’ making a rock record; riffs are king. That first Scrolls album was written and recorded in that (fill in the blank) time right before Covid with Brian Quast (more on him in a sec) and released into the void of that first Covid summer.
Fast-forward a few years to 2023. I wasn’t necessarily thinking about a bookend at that point in time, but as the tentative post-Covid re-entry progressed I found myself doing what I have done for years - sitting on the edge of my bed plunking out riffs and then trading them with Brian “BQ” Quast. I have been playing with BQ off and on for over a decade, a process that started with Polvo’s In Prism He is formidable, versatile and can seemingly do everything - he is the glue and the real musician in the group. Both Scrolls albums were recorded after one real ‘together’ practice and he was a lot of the reason why this was possible. Our styles just fit together, (including the one we like to call ‘Bread Zeppelin’). The easy and generative elements of our collaboration reemerged as we started recording again.
Back to bookends, that brings us to the second Silver Scrolls record, Mind Lines BQ and I once again joined forces to make an album that plants you firmly in your most rock feelings. All the rocks: Classic rock, psych-rock, indie rock, folk-rock, post rock, pre-rock. Rock and Roll High School all through Post-Graduate. Harkening back to Polvotimes, I enjoy when albums echo the experience of listening to the radio and hopefully Mind Lines can take the listener there as well. We recorded Mind Lines in a few places but the most *together* time was spent with our friend Greg Elkins in Raleigh. Greg is someone who in the olden days would likely be classified as a “producer”, but we feel he is effectively the third Scroll handling a lot of the segue-magic and what we call ‘interstitials’ (small connective pieces between songs).
I hope Mind Lines does what a band’s second record sets out to do: maintain continuity and demonstrate new thoughts. To that end - and in the same cosmic vein as Polvo’s bookends In Prism and Siberia - I think Mind Lines makes a good bookend to this chapter of the Silver Scrolls experience. To keep the bookend ties consistent, the album’s title is a nod to Bollas’ concept of ‘ramifying lines’ of thought (likened to train tracks coming together at junctions) in the unconscious mind where associations are born and raised.
-Dave Brylawski, June 2024-
Silver Scrolls MIND LINES
LP-TLR-151, LP-TLR-151LE (Red Vinyl) Street Date: September 6, 2024
Format: 160g black vinyl LP (with Bandcamp download) UPC: 634457179899
Format: 160g “Mental Clarity” red vinyl LP (with Bandcamp download) UPC: 634457179912
1. Indoor Cat (9:14), 2. It’s Hot (3:75) 3. Rollin’ Scrolls (3:14) 4. Crow’s Nest (5.10) 5 Visiting The Twelfth Bar (3:54) 6 Talking To Myself, Feeling Old (1:52) 7. Super(!)Sitar (2:03) 8. Mind Lines (3:30)
SALES POINTS
- The second album from the duo consisting of Dave Brylawski (Polvo, Idyll Swords, Black Taj) and Brian Quast (Polvo, The Cherry Valence, BQs, Vanilla Trainwreck). Another slab merging all sorts of rock –psych, 90s indie, math, classic – into a delicious slice. Ideal for fans of Polvo and any of the rock styles outlined above.
- 160g black or “Mental Clarity” red vinyl housed within a jacket bearing artwork by legendary gig poster artist Ron Liberti (with Bandcamp-enabled download).
- “These songs stretch out and travel their own highways and byways, at times sparking a connection with the chiming guitars of Murray Street-era Sonic Youth, at others getting into a moody drum-machine driven groove.” Aquarium Drunkard
- “Gnarled and inherently rhythmic, the songs beat like an internal metronome, but spiral off into vibrating tangents of sound, both tense and amniotic.” Raven Sings The Blues
- “Each song is already beautifully suited for taking your thoughts on a journey, so the moment when you slip your earphones on and walk out your door, your mind is already miles away thanks to the band’s heavy beats and hypnotic guitar solos.” Record Crates United
- “Quast’s drumming is especially intricate and powerful. Hell, ‘Old Solace’ has what I’d describe as a bona fide drum solo in it!! Brylawski follows suit and is able to switch time signatures and launch into epic guitar heroics in a blink of an eye.” Down In The Bunker
RIYL: Psych rock, heavy rock, math rock, 90s indie, classic rock, pre-rock, post-rock, Polvo.
Three Lobed Recordings PO Box 2345 Jamestown, NC 27282
www.threelobed.com
September 4,
Topshelf
Home market: Los Angeles, CA
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14. Ocean
Credits:
Producer: Joseph Stevens
Co-Production: Ian Gibbs
Mixer on all tracks except "Migratory Patterns": Joseph Stevens
Mixer on "Migratory Patterns": Omar Yakar
Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches
Cover artist: Liz Moser
Composer: Joseph Stevens
Performers: Joseph Stevens, Olivia Bubaka Black, Ian Gibbs, Lu Coy, Lina Tullgren
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Peel Dream Magazine Rose Main Reading Room
�le under: dream pop experimental indie pop pop
Info:
Rose Main Reading Room, the fourth full length by Peel Dream Magazine, is a lush, inviting headphones record; the kind of album made to accompany city bus rides and rainy-day solo trips to accidental destinations. The band, whose name nods to the BBC Radio 1 legend John Peel — arbiter of all things underground, quality, and (it must be said) "cool" — has since its inception been a genre-hopping experiment, jumping from motorik krautrock to shoegaze and space age pop, and their newest work is a perfect starting point for the uninitiated, beckoning toward a newfound romance and nostalgia with their catchiest collection of songs to date.
Set to the backdrop of New York City and its towering landmarks — The American Museum of Natural History, Grand Central Station, and the like — songwriter Joseph Stevens weaves personal stories into the wider fabric of the natural world, touching on themes of instinct, animality, and evolution. On tracks such as “Central Park West” and “Migratory Patterns,” Stevens and his principal contributors, vocalist Olivia Babuka Black and multi-instrumentalist Ian Gibbs, evoke a woodland sound palette juxtaposed against drones and various electronics, like on side one closer “Gems and Minerals.”
Pre-release singles “Wish You Well” and “Lie In the Gutter” conjure the driving feel of the band’s earlier output, which often draws comparisons to Stereolab and Yo La Tengo, while songs like “Dawn” revel in arpeggiating woodwinds and mallets, recalling the wide-eyed contemporary classical of Steve Reich and Sufjan Stevens. Rose Main Reading Room also touches on Y2K indie pop nostalgia by incorporating breakbeats and acoustic guitar-driven ear candy, as heard on tracks like “Counting Sheep” and “Four Leaf Clover”.
Across its �fteen songs, Rose Main Reading Room ultimately proposes a world of marvels and compelling complexity: “Oblast” cheekily prods at mutually assured destruction; “Ocean Life” explores the in�niteness within ourselves; while “R.I.P. (Running in Place)” unpacks an all too familiar stagnation. It’s all part of, and crucial to, Rose Main Reading Room’s transportive power, ever reaching for the wonder and magic of the world we live in.
For Fans of:
Sufjan Stevens, Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, Crumb, Broadcast, Steve Reich
Selling Points:
• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions.
• Press campaign handled by Tyler Andere.
• Stereogum interview feature to coincide with album announce on June 26, 2024.
• Past press support in Pitchfork, Aquarium Drunkard, KEXP, Exclaim!, Stereogum, NPR Music, Paste, and more.
• NA booking: Mahmood Shaikh @ Concerted Efforts
• LP features 180g black vinyl, obi strip, gatefold jacket, fully printed dust sleeve, and marketing sticker.
• CD features digipak and obi strip.
• Cassette features standard J card, obi strip, and download codes.
• Past support tours includes Soccer Mommy, Wild Nothing.
"a soundtrack of tropicaliá, motorik, and library music."
-Pitchfork on Agitprop Alterna
"fuzz bliss"
-NPR Music (Viking's Choice)
"[Agitprop Alterna is] an album that intends to challenge norms of rock music, while acknowledging those that came before."
-KEXP
"an intoxicating wave" -Paste
"hooky, harmonic rock that seems to glow softly" -Exclaim!
The Undreamt-of Centre is the fourth solo album by prolific Australian drummer/composer/producer Laurence Pike, an evocative, contemporary reimagining of the requiem mass.
The album draws on the sounds of modern classical music, Japanese environmental ambient music, fourth world electronics, free jazz and the choral traditions of Estonia, with particular influence from Tallinn-based composer Tonu Korvits. Produced in collaboration with the Vox Sydney Philharmonia Choir, conducted by Pike’s childhood friend, composer Sam Lipman and recorded in a 19th century Gothic church.
Laurence Pike on The Undreamt-of Centre:
I first had the thought of working with voices a number of years ago. I had the strange notion of making a requiem mass for drums, electronics and choir. It sat with me since then, until it felt the time was right to realise the idea.
Why a requiem? Initially I simply liked the idea of a structural format that had existed and been reimagined again and again over hundreds of years. Ultimately, it’s a ritual set to music. The processes and ecstatic outcomes of rituals, were something I had explored in making the Holy Spring album in 2019. I became interested in subverting the religious musical construct of a requiem into something far more contemporary, using language and sounds not readily associated with it. It also seemed a ready-made vehicle to explore the sound of a choir with my electro-acoustic drum kit performances. I had begun searching for a narrative structure or text that I might set a choir to, while not adhering to the text of a Latin mass. I began reading the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, in particular his ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’, inspired by the classical Greek myth of Orpheus.
LAURENCE PIKE THE UNDREAMT-OF CENTRE
street date: Friday 6 September 2024
file under: Jazz/Electronic territory: World ex. Europe
Limited Forest Green vinyl LP
BAY 135VX
UPC 843190013531
CD
BAY 135CD
UPC 843190013524
• The Undreamt-of Centre is the fourth solo album by Laurence Pike, following Distant Early Warning (2018), Holy Spring (2019) and Prophecy (2020)
• The album will be released on limited edition CD (500 copies for the world and Forest Green vinyl LP (700 copies), in a stunning gatefold sleeve which features neoclassical painting ‘Orphée et Eurydice’ by Michel Martin Drolling (1820)
• The album will be preceded by two digital singles: ‘Introit’ and ‘Mountains Of The Heart’
• The campaign will be accompanied by artwork and video material from acclaimed Australian artist, filmmaker and longtime collaborator Clemens Habicht - plans for a concert film with choir are also underway
• The project will launch with a live performance at a highprofile Australian arts festival in August, with plans to perform it internationally in collaboration with local choirs
• The percussionist, composer and producer - currently a member of Liars - made his name with Triosk, PVT and Szun Waves, and has collaborated with Bill Callahan, Jan Jelinek, Mike Nock, Burnt Friedman, D.D Dumbo, Sarah Blasko and many others
• Previous support at BBC 6 Music from Mary Anne Hobbs, Tom Ravenscroft and Gideon Coe, at NTS from James Holden and at BBC Radio 3 from Late Junction
On Laurence Pike:
“Full of morphing grooves and moods of imminent revelation, it’s a quicksilver delight” 4/5 The Observer
“A sumptuous, sonic world… rich with spiritual under-tones” 4/5 Mojo
“Celestial minimalism… A puzzle that has endless permutations” 8/10 Uncut
Hania Rani
Live from Studio S2
Limited Black BioVinyl EP, in printed coated board sleeve, packed in a resealable protective bag Limited to 500 units
Portico Quartet / Hania Rani
Portico Quartet / Hania Rani
Limited Black BioVinyl 12”, in printed coated board sleeve, packed in a resealable protective bag Limited to 500 units
Hania Rani
Live from Studio S2
The now iconic ‘Live from Studio S2’ memorizing performance gets a sought after limited BioVinyl Edition and features all four tracks from the session. First premiered on the Gondwana Records YouTube channel on Sunday March 28th 2021, it has since become a global success reaching a near 7 million views and counting and has earned Rani many more devoted fans.
"At the beginning of February 2021, I was invited by the Berlinale Film Festival to record a live set as a part of the EFM sessions which became the motivation to document this live performance.
I thought that bringing back my piano and equipment to the hall where I first recorded my live session videos for my debut album 'Esja' would be a nice idea and the right cinematic choice. This time, I wanted to use not only an upright piano, but also a grand piano and some other keyboards including a Prophet 08 synthesizer and a Roland stage piano
Studio S2 is one of the recording studios inside the Polish Radio building in Warsaw and used primarily for recording classical and film music. The hall is fully covered with light wood, which reminds me of other Radio Studios all around the world – like Funkhaus in Berlin. It felt very special to be in the hall again where we recorded the music video for "Glass", one of my most liked videos. There is a kind of intimacy when playing the little piano in this huge and also very high venue.
I decided to rearrange some of my favourite songs, which I have been performing live for years. The set starts with 'Hawaii Oslo', which is built on a piano loop, followed by 'Glass' with a new intro and outro and closing with 'Leaving' and 'Buka' – this time accompanied with new layers which change the mood and rhythmic pattern of both songs"
Portico Quartet / Hania Rani
Portico Quartet / Hania Rani
Portico Quartet / Hania Rani brings the singular Polish pianist and composer, Hania Rani, and East-London based widescreen minimalists, Portico Quartet, together for a unique collaboration.
The idea was simple, each artist would rework one of each other's tunes. The result is a beautiful collaborative work that feel less like straight forward remixes and more like a new recording that brings the two acts distinctive sound worlds to a new place.
The first track to be shared is Hania Rani - Nest (Portico Quartet remix), which finds Portico Quartet reworking a track from Hania's most recent album Home. Portico Quartet saxophonist and keyboardist Jack Wyllie says:
"We've been fans of Hania since her first album album Esja, so it was a pleasure to get to work with her. Our remix took fragments of her voice and piano, and from that we extrapolated and composed an almost entirely new piece of music. The result was (hopefully) that her sound world became another instrument in the band…"
Both releases are pressed on high quality black BioVinyl at Optimal in Germany for maximum sound quality, and strictly limited to 500 copies each.
Label: Gondwana Records
Catalogue No: GONDEP048BLK GOND121003BLK
Barcode (EAN): 4062548090031 4062548090048
Contact: adam@k7.com
File GONDEP048BLK under: Classical Crossover / Electronic Ambient
File GOND121003BLK under: Electronic Ambient / Electronic / Classical Crossover / Remix
Street Date: 09/06/24 – September 6th 2024
Track Listing:
A1. Hawaii Oslo A2 Glass
B1. Leaving B2. Buka
A1. Nest (Portico Quartet Remix)
B1. With, Beside, Against (Hania Rani Remix)
B1. Tvillinger
B2. Tide
A1. Superkilen
B2. Tide
Official Websites: https://haniarani.com https://porticoquartet.com https://gondwanarecords.com
Track Listing:
PREWN Through The Window
9.06.2024
Release Information: EIS132
Genre: Indie Folk, Alternative, Singer-songwriter
Configuration: LP - Blue Jay Colored Vinyl
Street Date: 9.06.2024
Vinyl UPC: 843563174173
Vinyl Box Lot: 30
Key Markets: New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia
Artist: Leif Vollebekk
Title: North Americana
Release Date: May 3, 2024
September 6, 2024
Genre: Folk/Alternative
Label: Secret City Records
Distro: Redeye
Tracklisting:
1. Southern United States
2. Off The Main Drag
3. Cairo Blues
4. Photographer Friend
5. At The End Of The Line
6. A Wildfire Took Down
Rosenberg
7. Takk Somuleidis
8. Pallbearer Blues
BIOGRAPHY:
North Americana, Vollebekk's second album, was a “long search for perfect takes” recorded in Montreal, New York and France, with production from Tom Gloady (Sigur Rós, Patti Smith), Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire, Cœur de Pirate), and John Simon (the man behind The Band's Music From Big Pink and Songs of Leonard Cohen).
Now available via
Catalog #: SCR067LP
Product Description:
Single standard 12" 140g black vinyl in a gatefold jacket. Download card incl. 6 80341 67002 7 6 80341 67001 0
Catalog #: SCR067CD
Product Description: CD inserted in a cardboard gatefold – including a poster with lyrics.
9. When The Subway Comes Above The Ground
10. From The Fourth
Secret City Records
7665 Blvd Saint-Laurent, Ste 200, Montreal, QC H2R 1W9
lesley@secretcityrecords.com (514) 658-5962
Socials: @secretcityrecords
KEYPOINTS AND CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
Leif Vollebekk’s latest album New Ways has over 21 million streams, got support from Pitchfork, Uncut, NPR/World Cafe, The New York Times and obtained a credible Polaris Music Prize 2020 Long List nod. His previous one, Twin Solitude, had landed a spot on the Polaris Music Prize 2017 shortlist, got a Juno nomination and is now at 40 million streams. It was critically acclaimed by Uncut, NPR Music, The Fader, The Sunday Times Culture, The Line of Best Fit, Paste, Brooklyn Vegan, WXPN, KCRW and Exclaim! to name a few.
UPCOMING CONCERTS:
New tour dates will be announced soon.
Redeye Distribution
505 Eno St, Hillsborough, NC 27278 USA
Contact: Lanie Graettinger
lanie@redeyeworldwide.com
Oracle Sisters Hydranism
Based in Paris, Oracle Sisters is composed of childhood friends Lewis Lazar and Christopher Willatt, and Finnish musician Julia Johansen At the tail end of 2020 amidst the pandemic and second lockdown, Oracle Sisters decamped to Hydra, Greece to write and record their debut album, Hydranism Recorded over the course of two months, the 11-track album reflects a world suspended in time between the future and the past, and embraces larger than life ballads, intimate folk songs and table thumping rousers spun with the silk of poetic reveries. Their debut album, Hydranism, was released in early 2023.
“‘Hydranism’ is an undeniable masterpiece which is ready to set
“‘Hydranism’ is an undeniable masterpiece which is ready to set
“‘Hydranism’ is an undeniable masterpiece which is ready to set new standards whilst radiating elegance and class ” - new standards whilst radiating elegance and class.” - new standards whilst radiating elegance and class.” - CCLASH CLASH LASH
“‘Seemingly suspended in time and place, they conjured a world of their own
“‘Seemingly suspended in time and place, they conjured a world of their own
“‘Seemingly suspended in time and place, they conjured a world of their own making – and across two months a debut album was realised ” - making – and across two months a debut album was realised.” - making – and across two months a debut album was realised.” - HHERO HERO ERO
“‘The song’s are just crisp enough, with the versatility of their writing shinning
“‘The song’s are just crisp enough, with the versatility of their writing shinning
“‘The song’s are just crisp enough, with the versatility of their writing shinning through the recordings ” - through the recordings.” - through the recordings.” - SO YOUNG SO YOUNG SO YOUNG
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Had their headlining US tour including festivals like
Had their headlining US tour including festivals like
Had their headlining US tour including festivals like SSXSW SXSW XSW,,, End of the Road End of the Road End of the Road &&& BBonnaroo Bonnaroo onnaroo as well as opening as well as opening as well as opening Declan McKenna’s Declan McKenna’s Declan McKenna’s US tour US tour US tour
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ANA EGGE SHARING IN THE SPIRIT
TOUR DATES
8.13 The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI + 8.14 Buskirk Chumley, Bloomington, IN + 8.16 The City Winery, Nashville, TN + 8.17 Bijou Theater, Knoxville, TN + 8.18 Peace Concert Hall, Greenville, SC + 9.04 JCC Center Stage, Rochester, NY ++ 9.06 UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, VT + 9.07 River Roads Festival, Easthampton, MA ++ 9.08 Bethel Woods Events Gallery, Bethel, NY + 9.25 Rialto Theater, Montreal, Canada + 11.08 The Park, Hayward, WI
11.09 JAMF Theater, Eau Claire, WI + Support for Iris DeMent ++ in Iris DeMent’s band
Artist: Ana Egge
Title: Sharing in the Spirit
Item: SSS-058
Genre: Folk
Box Lot: CD 40 / LP 50
Export: N. America Only
CD UPC: 634457161665
LP UPC: 634457161672
“Ana Egge is the Nina Simone of Folk.” – LUCINDA WILLIAMS
“With Sharing in the Spirit Egge hit the studio with a confidence that comes with experience and a commitment to accepting nothing less than the best from herself. Egge has been a striking songwriter for some time — on her latest she and producer Lorenzo Wolff (Taylor Swift, Bartees Strange, Teddy Thompson) have crafted intentional soundscapes that make every song a gem.” – NO DEPRESSION
“Egge’s work has always been about celebrating individuality and humanity in general with an overriding sense of respect and compassion. Sharing in the Spirit follows in this tradition and adds to Egge’s stellar reputation as one of our most talented and treasured singer-songwriters. Not only is it one of 2024’s best, its point of view, its grace, empathy, and warmth are a refreshing counterpoint to our chaotic and quickly judgmental and malevolent culture. Long may Ana Egge write, sing and create. We need her and more artists like her more than ever.” –
AMERICANA HIGHWAYS
“Unafraid to expose her vulnerabilities and confront her personal and political fears, Sharing in the Spirit is a testament to Ana Egge’s emotional depth. It’s a calming and thought-provoking listen that defies easy categorization, as is the case with her other recordings. This may be why Egge’s name is less widely known, as her music may be too unique for traditional folk or country music fans. This is another exciting gateway into the creativity of a hugely gifted artist, and it is well worth your investigation.” – LONESOME HIGHWAY
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