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2022 
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ALDOUS
HARDING
ALVVAYS
ANDERT TYSMA
AROOJ AFTAB
BETH ORTON
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD
BREATHLESS
C DUNCAN
CARLA DAL FORNO
CHIP WICKHAM
DANIEL AVERY
ELLEN ARKBRO & JOHAN GRADEN
GHOST POWER
HYEROGLYPHIC BEING
KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH
KELLY LEE OWENS
KING HANNAH
KNIFEPLAY
MAKAYA MCCRAVEN
NU GENEA
PANTHA DU PRINCE
SOFT PINK TRUTH
SUDAN ARCHIVES
TANIKA CHARLES
TESS PARKS
TOMBERLIN
VIEUX FARKA TOURE & KHRUANGBIN
WEYES BLOOD
WHATEVER THE WEATHER
YARD ACT
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"Warm
Chris"
"Blue rev"
"Children of Trinoom"
"Vulture prince"
"Weather alive"
"Ants from up there"
"See those colours fly"
"Alluvium"
"Come around"
"Cloud 10"
"Ultra truth"
"I get along without you very well"
"S/t"
"There is no acid in this house"
"Let's turn it into sound"
"LP.8"
"I'm not sorry, I was just being me"
"Animal drowning"
"In these times"
"Bar Mediterraneo"
"Garden Gaia"
"Is it going to get any deeper than this?"
"Natural brown prom queen"
"Papillon de nuit: the night butterfly"
"And those who were seen dancing"
"I don't know who needs to hear this..."
"Ali"
"And in the darkness, hearts aglow"
"S/t"
"Overload" |
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[ file under: chamber pop ]
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[ file under: experimental ambient ]
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[ file under: moody americana ]
[ file under: shoegaze ]
[ file under: nu jazz ]
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[ file under: club beats ]
[ file under: electronica ]
[ file under: african rhythms ]
[ file under: nu soul ]
[ file under: alternative ]
[ file under: indie acoustic ]
[ file under: desert blues ]
[ file under: pop alt folk ]
[ file under: electronica ]
[ file under: post-punk ] |
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NEW
RELEASES NOVEMBRE 2022: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
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DANIEL
AVERY
"Ultra truth"
Ultra Truth offers
a very different listening experience to any of Daniel Avery’s
previous records. It inhabits its own world of sound, a construct
built in his Thames side studio with collaborative help from a
host of friends: the production touch of Ghost Culture and Manni
Dee, the vocals of HAAi, Jonnine Standish (HTRK), AK Paul and
the voices of Marie Davidson, Kelly Lee Owens, Sherelle and James
Massiah.
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file under: electronica ]
   
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CARLA
DAL FORNO
"Come around"
Carla dal Forno
resurfaces with the release of her third album, Come Around, via
her own Kallista Records. Now based in the township of Castlemaine,
Central Victoria, the Australian artist returns self-assured and
firmly settled within the dense eucalypt bushlands. Dal Forno
grapples with ideas of home, disorder and insomnia in the swift
pop structures of her DIY/post-punk forebearers such as Young
Marble Giants, Virginia Astley and Broadcast. Three years since
the launch of her label, Kallista Records, dal Forno finds stability
in Castlemaine, her third home city in as many albums.
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file under: diy post-punk pop ]
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EZRA
COLLECTIVE
"Where I'm meant to be"
Where I’m
Meant To Be is a thumping celebration of life, an affirming elevation
in the Ezra Collective’s winding hybrid sound and refined
collective character. The songs marry cool confidence with bright
energy. Full of call-and-response conversations between their
ensemble parts, a natural product of years improvising together
on-stage, the album - which also features Sampa The Great, Kojey
Radical, Emile Sandé, Steve McQueen and Nao will light
up sweaty dance floors and soundtrack dinner parties in equal
measure.
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file under: afrobeat ]
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HYEROGLYPHIC
BEING
"There is no acid in this house"
Hieroglyphic
Being’s third solo album on Soul Jazz Records, a resolute
and powerful statement of Jamal Moss’s raw, vital, pioneering,
Afro-Futurist electronic (dance) music. On his new album, Moss
once again draws upon the vast scope of experimentation that has
defined Chicago’s musical universe over the last half a
century - from the birth of house music with the pioneers Ron
Hardy, Marshall Jefferson, Lil Louis and others to the radical
avant-garde jazz legacy of the city, The Association for the Advancement
of Creative Musicians, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Sun Ra.
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file under: electro techno ]
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JUNIOR
BOYS
"Waiting game"
Canadian duo
Junior Boys will release their sixth album Waiting Game. Six years
since their last album, Waiting
Game finds producers Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus in a tender
and contemplative mood; a switch-up from their punchy, R&B-infused
dance melodics. The album’s additonal musicians are Canadians,
too; Caribou collaborator Colin Fisher performs saxophone throughout
and Bonjay frontwoman Alanna Stuart sings alongside Greenspan
on the song Yes 2. In this, Junior Boys have made an album that
reflects the quiet beauty of the world, so long as you’re
prepared to truly listen.
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file under: electronic pop ]
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KNIFEPLAY
"Animal drowning"
Knifeplay's sophomore
full-length and first ever studio album Animal Drowning is a sprawling
landscape of shoegaze and lofty slowcore. The album finds the
band in a blend of folk instruments, walls of distortion, orchestral
strings and delicate vocals. With Animal Drowning, Knifeplay goes
deeper into the sonic experimentation and brutally honest lyricism
so beloved on their early bedroom recordings, creating an enrapturing
experience that deftly builds on previous work.
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file under: shoegaze ]
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PLAID
"Feorm Falorx"
Andy Turner and
Ed Handley mark the beginning of their fourth decade as Plaid
with their tenth studio album. Released via the iconic Warp Records,
‘Feorm Falorx’ is one of the most ecstatic and accessible
records they’ve ever made, influenced by their recent work
in film and computer game soundtracking.
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file under: electronica ]
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STR4TA
"Str4tasfear"
Welcome to Str4atasfear,
Gilles Peterson and Jean Paul “Bluey” Maunick’s
sophomore STR4TA album. A collection of songs, melodies, grooves
and sounds that sit perfectly in the brand new music world it’s
part of. Gilles and Bluey are both men who emerged into the Brit-funk
world. They were both part of this truly thrilling chapter in
the story of homegrown music; which manifests itself here in a
sumptuous mixture of twanging basslines, spacey synth melodies,
clicking beats and wispy, ethereal voices.
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file under: jazz funk ]
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CHRISTINA
VANTZOU
"No. 5"
While on the
island of Syros in the Aegean Sea for a film festival performance,
Christina Vantzou experienced what she characterized as a moment
of focus, a specific vision for the sprawl of raw recordings she’d
been amassing for her fifth album. Upon relocating to the Cycladic
island of Ano Koufonisi she situated herself outside at a patio
table with a laptop and headphones, taking brief breaks to swim
and began the reductive process of shaving and shaping the source
material into uneasy but lyrical movements, alternately austere
and adorned with strange inflections. Mixing the pieces herself
without outsourcing to an engineer compounded the intimacy and
autobiographical dimension of the music; she refers to No. 5 as
almost like a first album.
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file under: experimental ]
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WEYES
BLOOD
"And in the darkness, hearts aglow"
The celestial-influenced
folk album is her follow-up to the acclaimed Titanic Rising. (Pitchfork,
NPR, and The Guardian admiringly named it one of 2019’s
best.) While Titanic Rising was an observation of doom to come,
And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is about being in the thick
of it: a search for an escape hatch to liberate us from algorithms
and ideological chaos. “We’re in a fully functional
shit show,” Mering says. “My heart is a glow stick
that’s been cracked, lighting up my chest in an explosion
of earnestness.”
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file under: pop alt folk ]
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NEW
RELEASES OTTOBRE 2022: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
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ALVVAYS
"Blue rev"
Alvvays never
intended to take five years to finish their third album, the nervy
joyride that is the compulsively lovable Blue Rev. In fact, the
band began writing and cutting its first bits soon after releasing
2017’s Antisocialites, that stunning sophomore record that
confirmed the Toronto quintet’s status atop a new generation
of winning and whip-smart indie rock.
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file under: jangle pop ]
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BIBIO
"Bib10"
For his tenth
Bibio album, Stephen Wilkinson marries his project’s long-standing
lo-fi analogue aesthetic with a desire to mimic a polished sound
using synths, electric guitars and drum machines. ‘BIB10’
leans into rhythms and grooves more than any of Wilkinson’s
previous efforts, but it all sounds organic, like electronic music
with a human heart.
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file under: indie pop ]
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BIOSPHERE
"Substrata (alternative versions)"
Substrata was
the third studio album by the Norwegian electronic artist Biosphere,
released 25 years ago by All Saints Records in London. In 2016,
Pitchfork ranked it at number 38 on its list of the 50 Best Ambient
Albums of All Time. Here are ten alternative versions picked from
the Substrata recordings sessions that took place between 1995
and 1996.
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file under: ambient electro ]
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LUCRETIA
DALT
"!AY! "
Lucrecia Dalt
channels sensory echoes of growing up in Colombia on her new album
¡Ay!, where the sound and syncopation of tropical music
encounter adventurous impulse, lush instrumentation, and metaphysical
sci-fi meditations in an exclamation of liminal delight. In sound
and spirit, ¡Ay! is a heliacal exploration of native place
and environmental tuning, where Dalt reverses the spell of temporal
containment. Through the spiraling tendencies of time and topography,
Lucrecia has arrived where she began.
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file under: experimental ]
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DAPHNI
"Cherry"
Cherry is Daphni’s
first release since 2017 and it finds the electronic artist improvising
and tinkering with all manner of different sub genres from house,
techno, disco, funk and a smattering of psychedelia. While working
on new material, Dan Snaith (aka Caribou), didn’t have a
set idea of what new Daphni tunes would sound like, he allowed
his instincts to guide him and for ideas to blossom organically.
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file under: electronica ]
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DRY
CLEANING
"Stumpwork"
Stumpwork, the
follow-up to 2021’s New Long Leg. The South London-based
group’s first studio album, recorded in just two weeks with
producer John Parish at the iconic Rockfield Studios, became a
huge critical and commercial success reaching #4 in the UK Album
Charts and featuring in best-of-2021 polls across the board. Buoyed
by its success, the band returned to rural Wales in late 2021,
partnering once more with Parish and engineer Joe Jones.
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file under: alt post-punk ]
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NILS
FRAHM
"Music for animals"
Nils Frahm returns
with an expansive new album, Music For Animals, his first fresh
studio material since 2018’s All Melody’and 2019’s
associated All Encores.
Containing ten tracks and
clocking in at over three hours long, it’s an ambitious
and compelling set different to anything Frahm’s released
to date – in fact, it finds the Piano Day founder declining
to use a piano – but at the same time retains many of the
qualities that have set the influential musician’s work
apart over much of the last two decades.
[ file under: contemporary ambient ]
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ORIELLES
"Tableau"
The Orielles
have created their first genuinely contemporary record - an experimental
double album self-produced in collaboration with producer Joel
Anthony Patchett (King Krule, Tim Burgess). In doing so, the Orielles
have utilised holistic jazz practices, oblique 21st century electronica,
experimental 1960s tape loop methods, otherworldly AutoTuned vocal
sounds, the downer dub of Burial, Sonic Youth’s focus on
improvisation and feedback and Brian Eno’s legendary Oblique
Strategy cards.
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file under: dream pop ]
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SOFT
PINK TRUTH
"Is it going to get any deeper than this?"
Thrill Jockey
is pleased to announce the return of The Soft Pink Truth, the
solo electronic project of Drew Daniel, one half of Baltimore-found
sound duo Matmos. Asked to explain his new album’s gauntlet-throwing
title, Drew Daniel says: “Years ago a friend was DJing in
a club and a woman came into the DJ booth and asked ‘is
it going to get any deeper than this?’ and the phrase became
a kind of mantra for us. What did she really want? This album
was created as an attempt to imagine possible musical responses
to her question.”
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file under: electronica ]
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ANDERT
TYSMA
"Children of Trinoom"
Dutch artist
and composer Andert Tysma come out from behind the shadows to
release his debut album on Apollo Records this autumn. The seasoned
musician has toured the world performing bass and piano with several
artists and bands, and on Children Of Trinoom, Tysma fully immerses
himself in a solo offering of breath-taking quality.
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file under: modern classical ]
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NEW
RELEASES SETTEMBRE 2022: WHAT'S GOING ON MY
MUSIC PLAYER? |
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ELLEN
ARKBRO & JOHAN GRADEN
"I get along without you very well"
Ellen Arkbro
& Johan Graden embody the limitless curiosity and fearless
innovation of the Swedish and Berlin new music scenes they inhabit.
Arkbro is a composer and musician whose work has been presented
around the globe at prestigious institutions such as the Barbican
in London, GRM in Paris and the Kölner Philharmonie in Köln.
Graden is one of Sweden’s most sought-after pianists, moving
freely between classical music and the European contemporary jazz
scene.
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file under: chamber pop ]
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COMET
IS COMING
"Hyper-Dimensional expansion beam"
The Comet is
Coming returns with their second full length album on Impulse!
Records. King Shabaka, Danalogue, and Betamax’s newest effort
finds the Mercury Prize-nominated trio creating a musical landscape
that is equally cerebral as it is physically enthralling. While
containing elements of jazz throughout, this release leans further
into heavy dance-hall themes, providing hypnotic, electronic soundscapes
to dance to while keeping you intellectually stimulated.
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file under: electro jazz ]
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COSEY
FANNI TUTTI
"Delia Derbyshire: the myths and the legendary tapes"
Cosey Fanni Tutti
is one of the great treasures of UK synth and industrial music,
and it's no stretch to consider her legacy as a continuation of
the groundbreaking work of Delia Derbyshire. As such, she was
a natural choice to compose a soundtrack to Caroline Catz's BBC4
docu-drama Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes.
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file under: library music ]
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FKA
TWIGS
"Caprisongs"
FKA twigs‘
mixtape Caprisongs finally available on vinyl, with a limited
edition Glow in the Dark version. Features guest appearances from
The Weeknd, Jorja Smith, Pa Salieu, Rema, Shygirl, Unknown T and
Daniel Caesar as well as a host of twigs’ close friends
and community.
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file under: mixtape ]
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MAKAYA
MCCRAVEN
"In these times"
In These Times
is the new album by Chicago-based percussionist, composer, producer,
and pillar of our label family, Makaya McCraven.
Dedicated followers may note he’s had 6
other releases in the meantime (including 2018’s widely-popular
Universal Beings and 2020’s We’re New Again, his rework
of Gil Scott-Heron’s final album for XL Recordings); but
none of which have been as definitive an expression of his artistic
ethos as In These Times.
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file under: nu jazz ]
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MOTTE
"Cold+liquid"
As a master
violinist, Clark is a favorite of the NZ music scene. She’s
been employed by Nadia Reid, Marlon Williams, Lawrence Arabia
and Maryrose Crook of The Renderers for her skills. Currently,
she plays with The Phoenix Foundation, Luke Buda and Don McGlashan
and The Others. Her skillful reach across genres fuels her popularity
both with the rock under and overground, and she has also built
a rich CV of film soundtracks and contemporary dance compositions.
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file under: modern classical ]
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BETH
ORTON
"Weather alive"
“Through
the writing of these songs and the making of this music, I found
my way back to the world around me – a way to reach nature
and the people I love and care about. This record is a sensory
exploration that allowed for a connection to a consciousness that
I was searching for. Through the resonance of sound and a beaten
up old piano I bought in Camden Market while living in a city
I had no intention of staying in, I found acceptance and a way
of healing.” - Beth Orton
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file under: folktronica ]
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MARK
PETERS
"Red sunset dreams"
Mark Peters’
second solo album ‘Red Sunset Dreams’ is the follow-up
to his hugely acclaimed debut ‘Innerland’, which was
one of Rough Trade’s albums of the year when it came out
in 2018, it features a number of guest musicians, including former
One Dove singer and songwriter Dot Allison and pedal steel legend
BJ Cole.
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file under: drone 'gaze ]
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SUDAN
ARCHIVES
"Natural brown prom queen"
Sudan Archives
was feeling homesick during the pandemic. So, she made an album
about it. Her second
album, Natural Brown Prom Queen, is Brittney Parks' ode to the
home she is building for herself — one that bridges her
birthplace of Cincinnati with Los Angeles, where she currently
lives.The homecoming here is creativity unleashed, with Parks'
technical craft, instrumental inventions and hypnotizing beats
sending listeners through her musical world. The album has received
critical acclaim, including the music outlet Pitchfork, which
gave it a score of nine out of 10.
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file under: african rhythms ]
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VIEUX FARKA TOURE & KHRUANGBIN
"Ali"
Ali Farka Touré
is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists
that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard
to overstate. Ali’s sound merged his much-loved traditional
Malian musical styles with distinct elements of the blues. The
result was the creation of a groundbreaking new genre, now well
known as the ‘desert blues’, earning him three Grammy
awards, widespread reverence and the nickname of the ‘African
John Lee Hooker’. Though
he transcended in 2006, Ali’s musical legacy lives on through
his son, Vieux aka “the Hendrix of the Sahara,” an
accomplished guitarist and champion of Malian music in his own
right. On Ali, his collaborative album with Khruangbin, Vieux
pays homage to his father by recreating some of his most resonant
work, putting new twists on it while maintaining the original’s
integrity.
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file under: desert blues ]
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WHITNEY
"Spark"
Julien Ehrlich
and Max Kakacek could hear the staggering differences in the songs
they were writing for their third album as Whitney, SPARK—the
buoyant drum loops, the effortless falsetto hooks, the coruscant
keyboard lines. They suddenly sounded like a band reimagined,
their once-ramshackle folk-pop now brimming with unprecedented
gusto and sheen. But could they see it, too?
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file under: chicago pop ]
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CHIP
WICKHAM
"Cloud 10"
Chip Wickham
is a jazz musician and producer who divides his time between Spain,
UK and the Middle-East and who has made a name for himself with
a series of beautifully crafted solo albums that draw equally
on the hard swinging spiritual jazz of Roland Kirk, Yusef Lateef
and Sahih Shihab, alongside the music of British jazz legends
such as Tubby Hayes and Harold McNair and the more contemporary
sounds of Jazzanova, Kyoto Jazz Massive and Robert Glasper.
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file under: spiritual jazz ]
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NEW
RELEASES AGOSTO 2022: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
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B.
FLEISCHMANN
"Music for shared rooms"
Music for Shared
Rooms is B. Fleischmann’s eleventh solo album and his first
since 2018. It is also not an album, or at least not in the conventional
sense of the word. These 16 instrumental pieces provide a kaleidoscopic
glimpse of a forward-thinking musician at home in many different
musical worlds, including experimental and abstract music, pop
and more classically-minded compositional forms.
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file under: electronica ]
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CATERINA
BARBIERI
"Spirit exit"
The musical vortexes
of Caterina Barbieri rewire time and space. Spirit Exit is Caterina
Barbieri’s time machine, primarily composed with a modular
synth rig she thinks of more like a mechanical fortune teller.
Whereas previous releases were constructed on lengthy tours, capturing
only snapshots of continually evolving works.
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file under: isolationism ]
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BREATHLESS
"See those colours fly"
Dreamlike and
Hallucinogenic, a hazy luminosity billows from every pore of Breathless'
newest album See Those Colours Fly. The music of Dream-Pop Melancholics,
Breathless has never been the sort to be hurried - after all,
See Those Colours Fly, mixed by Kramer, is only their third new
release this century. But while progress on the group's eighth
album was unavoidably delayed by a stroke of cruel misfortune
- not to mention the realities of the global pandemic - the finished
work is one of their finest, brimming with melody, transfigured
by its long period of gestation and the changes fate imposed on
their creative process.
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file under: indie 'gaze ]
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C
DUNCAN
"Alluvium"
Alluvium is the
fourth album from C Duncan, Glasgow’s classically trained
multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, released through
Bella Union. After the haunting raptures of Architect (2015),
the Twilight Zone-inspired reveries of The Midnight Sun (2016)
and the richly melodic Health (2019), Alluvium is a sublime palate-refresher
for Duncan (C for Christopher), brimming with revitalised fluency:
a warming dispatch from the daylight zone, if you like.
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file under: indie pop ]
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HUDSON
MOHAWKE
"Cry sugar"
Cry Sugar is
Hudson Mohawke’s first original album since 2015’s
Lantern. During the interim he’s produced records for Pusha
T, Drake, A$AP Rocky, and Anohn.Flush with the gaudiest
synth fireworks, orchestral strings and main stage EDM trap-hop,
it reads like a skewed love note to the American culture HudMo
was first inspired by, and has come to be a key part of over the
past decade since his standout production on Ye’s ‘Yeezus’
in 2012.
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file under: new electronica ]
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MOOR
MOTHER
"Jazz codes"
Jazz Codes uses
poetry as a starting point, but the collection moves toward more
melody, more singing voices, more choruses and more complexity.
In its warm, densely layered course through jazz, blues, soul,
hip-hop, ’Jazz Codes’ sets the ear blissfully adrift
and unhitches the mind from habit. Moor Mother - aka the songwriter,
composer, vocalist, poet, and visual artist Camae Ayewa is also
a professor at the University of Southern California's Thornton
School of Music.
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file under: jazz-perimental ]
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NU
GENEA
"Bar Mediterraneo"
Four years after
Nuova Napoli, Nu Genea are back with Bar Mediterraneo, a new album
and journey, which projects the sounds of the Neapolitan duo formed
by Massimo Di Lena and Lucio Aquilina even further.
Nu Genea's Bar Mediterraneo
is an idea of a shared place where people meet and fuse together;
a space that leaves its doors open to travellers and their lives,
always exposed to the whims of fate. Some of this can be experienced
through the multitude of sounds that come together in the tracks,
layers of different acoustic instruments, voices and synthesizers
merging in a unique musical blend.
[ file under: naples disco ]
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PANTHA
DU PRINCE
"Garden Gaia"
Building upon
his passion for nature-inspired electronica, Pantha Du Prince
releases his dazzling seventh album. At times calling back to
the bell-laden techno of Elements Of Light and Black Noise, at
others to the organic clockwork of his previous album Conference
Of Trees, Garden Gaia matches serenity and spirituality with ecstatic
club beats.
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file under: club beats ]
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DAN
SAMSA
"Contours"
Developing an
entirely new technique for each and every one of his critically
acclaimed projects, Dan Samsa's debut at Apollo Records is conceived
entirely within spatial metaphors - the music seems to materialise
and then evaporate through Dan's careful musical craftsmanship,
suspending and weaving the live instruments into atmospheric textures.
[
file under: electro jazz ]
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KAITLYN
AURELIA SMITH
"Let's turn it into sound"
In only a decade,
Los Angeles-based composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has ascended
through the ranks to become one of the most recognizable figures
in modern synthesizer music. Using the Buchla modular system she
found thanks to an interest in Terry Riley's music, she made a
wild left turn from her work in indie folk duo Ever Isles, eventually
snagging a deal with Ghostly International and releasing a bunch
of albums. This latest is her most assured yet, she fully leans
into tweaky IDM-adjacent beats and lavishing them with crashing
waves of modular froth and twisted electronically-assisted vocals.
[
file under: experimental ambient ]
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NEW
RELEASES GIUGNO 2022: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
PLAYER? |
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AROOJ
AFTAB
"Vulture prince"
Vulture Prince
is the third album from Brooklyn-based Pakistani composer Arooj
Aftab. Championed by NPR, who praised her composition as one of
the Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+ and the The New York
Times, who celebrated her work as one of the Best Classical Music
Tracks of 2018, Aftab’s liminal sound floats between classical
minimalism and new age, Sufi devotional poetry and electronic
trance, jazz structures and states of pure being. On Vulture Prince,
the composer’s remarkable voice, backed by a team of renowned
musicians, transports listeners to worlds once known.
[
file under: ethnic world ]
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ANTELOPER
"Pink dolphins"
jaimie branch
and Jason Nazary are Anteloper. When prompted about their name,
branch comes back rhyming: “An Anteloper, is an antelope,
interloper,” adding in a jovial manner, “an antelope
walks up to a party, but you know, people don’t want him
around.” Turns out, she had the name before the band was
formed, and once the duo started rehearsing, it was apparent that
THIS was what an Anteloper sounds like.
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file under: experimental trip hop ]
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BATU
"Opal"
Building on the
promise of nearly 10 years testing limits within club music, Batu
presents his debut album Opal. Through the course of 11 tracks,
rhythmic forms are mutated and manipulated, sonic matter bends
across the frequency range and narrative structures coalesce and
dissolve according to Batu’s own internal logic. Unpredictability
lies at the heart of all this music, bound together by a consistent
modernist glint.
[
file under: electro ambient ]
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YAYA
BEY
"Remember your north star"
Yaya Bey is one
of R&B’s most exciting storytellers. Using a combination
of ancestral forces and her own self-actualization, the singer/songwriter
seamlessly navigates life’s hardships and joyful moments
through music. Bey’s new album, ‘Remember Your North
Star, captures this emotional rollercoaster with a fusion of soul,
jazz, reggae, afrobeat and hip-hop that feeds the soul.
[
file under: r.&b. rap & soul ]
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FLUME
"Palaces"
Palaces began
to take shape when Flume returned to his native Australia after
struggling to write music in Los Angeles at the beginning of the
pandemic. Settling in a coastal town in the Northern Rivers region
of New South Wales, Flume quickly found the inspiration he needed
through reconnecting with the nature around him—the rolling
hills, walking around barefoot, the green colour the sky turns
before a big storm, growing and eating his own vegetables, the
smell of rain.
[
file under: electro techno ]
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MICHAEL
HEAD & THE RED ELASTIC BAND
"Dear Scott"
Michael Head
debuted his Red Elastic Band back in 2017 with the Adios SeNor
Pussycat album on Violette Records, following in the wake of his
earlier success with bands like Shack. The Liverpudlian singer-songwriter
is back with a new long player called Dear Scott, which finds
him and his stretchy backing band on stellar form as they run
through the likes of lead single Newby Street. It's breezy, jangly
indie with acoustic guitar upfront and all the sentimental compositional
chops you could wish for, an album to hold close to your heart
and songs to carry through your life.
[
file under: acoustic indie ]
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MR.
FINGERS
"Around the sun pt. 1"
Mr. Fingers returns
on Alleviated Records with a new album! Larry Heard (under his
most notable monniker) continues on the path he's set with Cerebral
Hemispheres in 2018. Encompassing all his influences from Jazz,
R&B to Techno and Ambient these lush tracks with a feel that
no one else expresses quite like Mr. Fingers. Right from the start
with Around the Sun the ten track album pulls you in with these
lush produced tracks and effortlessly captivates you with the
always infectious grooves and perfectly spaced arrangements.
[
file under: electro chill house ]
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KELLY
LEE OWENS
"LP.8"
Arriving to snowglobe
conditions and sub-zero temperatures, she began spending time
in the studio with esteemed avant-noise artist Lasse Marhaug.
Together, they envisioned making music somewhere in between Throbbing
Gristle and Enya, artists who have had an enduring impact on Kelly’s
creative being. In doing so, they paired tough, industrial sounds
with ethereal Celtic mysticism, creating music that ebbs and flows
between tension and release.
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file under: minimal techno ]
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KAITLYN
AURELIA SMITH & EMILE MOSSERI
"I could be your dog / I could be your moon"
"His music
filled me with the urge to connect with the world," Kaitlyn
Aurelia Smith says of Emile Mosseri. She first heard his work
while watching the 2019 film The Last Black Man In San Francisco;
just minutes in, she paused it to look up who did the score and
wrote to him immediately. "I love Emile's ability to create
melodies that feel magically scenic and familiar like they are
reminding you of the innocence of loving life.”
[
file under: modern classical ]
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TOSCA
"Osam"
For Richard Dorfmeister
and Rupert Huber, the idea of rebirth is a creative driving force
– an artistic device which not only informs their work,
but anchors it. As the avant-garde electronic group Tosca, the
two artists have lived many musical lives, from their early electronic
experiments with tape decks to the blissed-out dub compositions
with which they have made their name. Their latest project, Osam,
takes this idea of renewal even further.
[
file under: downtempo ]
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NEW
RELEASES MAGGIO 2022: WHAT'S GOING ON MY MUSIC
PLAYER? |
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BRANDON
COLEMAN
"Interstellar black space"
An LA-based keyboard
maestro, vocalist, composer, producer, arranger and astral traveller,
Brandon Coleman is certified Brainfeeder family, collaborating
with label founder Flying Lotus and Thundercat, he is a regular
fixture in Kamasi Washington’s incredible band. Fingers
dancing across the keys or wielding his keytar, Kamasi has been
known to introduce him onstage at gigs as “Professor Boogie”.
[
file under: soul spacey jazz ]
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GHOST
POWER
"S/t"
"Ghost Power
are Jeremy Novak [Dymaxion] and Timothy Gane [Stereolab, Cavern
of Anti-Matter and Turn On] Duophonic Super 45s have previously
released music by both artists - Novak via a Dymaxion compilation
album and 7", Gane via various Stereolab, Cavern of Anti-Matter
and Turn On releases. Having
previously released a limited edition 7" in 2020, Ghost Power
by Ghost Power brings the two musicians together for a full length
album."
[Boomkat]
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file under: experimental ]
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IBEYI
"Spell 31"
Ibeyi are French
Afro-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kainde and Naomi Diaz. Performing
from a young age, the daughters of famed Cuban percussionist Ánga
Diaz, have released two critically acclaimed albums, a self-titled
debut in 2015 and Ash in 2017. Ibeyi’s Spell 31 is their
boldest offering yet, an antidote to apathy in a divided world.
[
file under: french afro alternative ]
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JAZZANOVA
"Strata records - the sound of Detroit"
n association
with DJ Amir and 180 Proof Records, BBE Music proudly presents
‘Strata Records - The Sound of Detroit - Reimagined by Jazzanova’,
a brand new celebration of the iconic imprint. Not unlike the
original Strata collective, Jazzanova is a creative musical community
in a constant state of evolution. Strata Records rose from the
ashes of Detroit’s tumultuous 1960s decline. Motor City
famously burned in 1967 and then again in 1968, leading to mass
exodus of those who could afford to relocate out of the city.
[
file under: nu soul ]
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KEHLANI
"Blue water road"
In February 2021,
during an interview with Rolling Stone, Kehlani shared that they
recorded songs originally meant for the deluxe version of their
previous album, It Was Good Until It Wasn't (2020), but felt as
though the songs would fit better on a separate album. Kehlani
formally revealed the album's official title through a trailer
on September 14, and revealed that it would be released in the
winter. Hours later, they announced the album's lead single, "Altar",
which was released the following day. On December 14, Kehlani
announced that the album will be delayed due to "a lot [of
work] needed before finishing."
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file under: nu soul ]
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MELODY'S
ECHO CHAMBER
"Emotional eternal"
Emotional Eternal,
the third studio album from Melody’s Echo Chamber, is a
deeply human collection of songs full of prolonged moments of
sonic transcendency, a record that clearly exhibits its maturity
but still regards the world with a childlike wonder. Having swapped
Paris for the clean air of the Alps, Melody hopes “the record
has that uplifting quality. I made some big and impactful decisions
and changes to my life. It took me to where it is peaceful and
I think the record reflects this.”
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file under: dream pop ]
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TESS
PARKS
"And those who were seen dancing"
Toronto-born,
London-based artist Tess Parks will return with her long-awaited
new album ‘And Those Who Were Seen Dancing’ on May
20th 2022 via Fuzz Club Records and Hand Drawn Dracula (CA). Following
years of international touring and a lengthy list of critically-acclaimed
collaborations with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe
in recent years (most recently the duo’s self-titled 2018
LP), the new album will be Parks’ first full-length solo
offering since her much-loved debut album, ‘Blood Hot’,
was released back in 2013 on Alan McGee’s 359 Music label.
[
file under: alternative ]
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PROJECT
GEMINI
"The children of scorpio"
A cinematic musical
journey that plays out like a long-lost soundtrack (think cult
B-movies of the 60s and 70s); 'The Children of Scorpio’
was formed from Paul's love of a myriad of genres; from European
library music, acid folk, psych-funk, vintage soundtracks and
the contemporary breaks scene. The album draws on iconic classics
such as the masterful cinematic funk of Lalo Schifrin's 'Dirty
Harry', Ennio Morricone's 'Vergogna Schifosi’ and Luis Bacalov’s
'The Summertime Killer’, to name but a few.
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file under: library music ]
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TOMBERLIN
"I don't know who needs to hear this..."
Tomberlin is
Sarah Beth Tomberlin, a pastor’s kid born in Florida, raised
in rural Illinois. She wrote the majority of her debut, At Weddings
(2018), while living at home. For a while after leaving home and
church, she lived in Louisville, Kentucky. She worked a day job
and kept writing songs. She posted some of these songs to Bandcamp,
which led to her signing a record deal with Saddle Creek.
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file under: indie acoustic ]
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SHARON
VAN ETTEN
"We've been going about this all wrong"
Since the release
of Remind Me Tomorrow, Van Etten has collaborated with artists
ranging from Courtney Barnett and Joshua Homme to Norah Jones
and Angel Olsen. Earlier releases were covered by artists like
Fiona Apple, Lucinda Williams, Big Red Machine and Idles, celebrating
Sharon as a legendary songwriter from the very beginning.
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file under: alt folk ]
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RICERCA NEL SITO
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MUSIC TARGET
( OBIETTIVO MUSICA ) |
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| Listening
Wind |
| Sounds
& Visions |
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| Sabato
pomeriggio |
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ARCHIVIO
(SENTIRE ASCOLTARE) |
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| PILLOLE
2022 |
| Ottobre/Novembre |
| Agosto/Settembre |
| Maggio/Giugno |
| Marzo/Aprile |
| Gennaio/Febbraio |
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| PILLOLE
2021 |
| Dicembre |
| Ottobre/Novembre |
| Agosto/Settembre |
| Giugno/Luglio |
| Aprile/Maggio |
| Febbraio/Marzo |
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| PILLOLE
2020 |
| Ottobre/Novembre |
| Agosto/Settembre |
| Giugno/Luglio |
| Aprile/Maggio |
| Febbraio/Marzo |
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| PILLOLE
2019 |
| Novembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Agosto |
| Aprile/Maggio |
| Febbraio/Marzo |
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| PILLOLE
2018 |
| Novembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Agosto |
| Aprile/Maggio |
| Febbraio/Marzo |
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| PILLOLE
2017 |
| Novembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Agosto |
| Aprile/Maggio |
| Febbraio/Marzo |
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| PILLOLE
2016 |
| Novembre/Dicembre
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| Giugno/Agosto |
| Aprile/Maggio
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2015 |
| Ottobre/Novembre
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| PILLOLE 2014 |
| Novembre/Dicembre
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| PILLOLE 2013 |
| Novembre
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| Novembre*/Dicembre
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| Ottobre*/Novembre* |
| Agosto*/Settembre* |
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PILLOLE
2010 |
| Novembre* |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
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PILLOLE
2009 |
| Novembre/Dicembre |
| Settembre/Ottobre |
| Giugno/Luglio |
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PILLOLE
2008 |
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2002 |
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2001 |
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MEMORABILIA |
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| Boxed
Set |
| Canterbury
Classics |
| Celebration |
| Disco
Discharge: |
| Groove
Collection |
| History
never repeats |
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DISSONANZE |
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MATERIA D'ESAME |
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order: from Manchester |
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ELECTRONIC
"S/t"
Bernard Sumner
and Johnny Marr's debut album as Electronic gets the deluxe
treatment with this expanded 2CD special edition. The release
features the original album (remastered) plus a 2nd disc of
rarities including 8 previously unreleased tracks of alternate
versions, edits & instrumentals.
[
file under: madchester ]
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CRISPY
AMBULANCE
"The plateau phase"
Factory Benelux
presents a new CD edition of The Plateau Phase, the debut album
by Manchester postpunk group Crispy Ambulance, originally issued
in March 1982. Recorded at Strawberry 2 with producer Chris
Nagle, this acclaimed album captured Crispy Ambulance at the
peak of their creative powers. Bonus tracks include extended
12"single The Presence Concorde Square, produced by the
legendary Martin Hannett, and farewell single Sexus.
[
file under: factory sounds ]
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THE
NAMES
"Swimming"
Factory Benelux
presents a new CD edition of Swimming, the debut album by Belgian
new wave group The Names, originally issued in June 1982. Swimming
has come to be regarded as a European cold wave classic. Bonus
tracks include the popular singles Calcutta and Nightshift (also
produced by Hannett) and the band's John Peel session from February
1982. This new Factory Benelux CD edition also features original
artwork and poster design by Benoit Hennebert.
[
file under: factory sounds ]
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RIP
RIG + PANIC
"God"
Named after a
Roland Kirk album, Rip Rig + Panic were one of the most exciting
bandsof the 1980s, fusing funk, jazz, punk and world music influences
into a unique whole. With lead singer Neneh Cherry, the band
recorded three albums for Virgin Records which have never been
legitimately available on Cd. All three LPs are now remastered
from the original master tapes with a raft of bonus tracks taken
from non-album singles. Original band members Gareth Sager (ex-Pop
Group) and Mark Springer are involved with these releases, with
the blessing of Neneh Cherry and (current PiL) drummer Bruce
Smith.
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file under: white jazz funk ]
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ANNETTE
PEACOCK
"I'm the one"
In 2010 Annette
Peacock quietly reissued her 1972 album I'm The One on CD via
her own Ironic label. It was only available via her site or
CDBaby, but now I'm The One is being given a full reissue shakedown
by Light In The Attic. Peacock
collaborated with Salvador Dali, bought a Moog direct from Robert
Moog, was confidant to Timothy Leary, and turned down an offer
to tour with David Bowie, telling him to buy his own synthesizer.
[
file under: essential avant-funk ]
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THE
POP GROUP
"For how much longer do we tolerate
mass murder?"
Reissue of The
Pop Group’s ‘For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate
Mass Murder’ - one of the most challenging records of
the post-punk era. Upon its release in 1980, For How Much Longer
received mixed reviews, with publications at the center of post-punk
discourse (such as the NME) dismissing its agit-prop didacticism
in favor of the fevered mysticism of the group's debut album,
Y.
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file under: post-punk ]
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LIZZY
MERCIER DESCLOUX
"One for the soul"
Remastered from
original tapes. Housed in heavyweight, tip on-style gatefold
with essay by Vivian Goldman and download code including 2 bonus
tracks “By the time poet, singer-songwriter, and artist
Lizzy Mercier Descloux recorded 1984’s Zulu Rock, she’d
marked herself out as both a globe trotter with more passport
stamps than Tintin and a musical innovator whose loose, arty
spirit could be applied to styles as varied as no wave, Bavarian
oompa and Soweto jive.
[
file under: no wave ]
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VIVIEN
GOLDMAN
"Resolutionary (Songs 1979-1982)"
Vivien Goldman
went from being a musical participant of the early-'80s London-New
York fusion of dub, post-punk, reggae, hip-hop and African sounds
to a keen, informative critic and professor of those genres
in general. This excellent album is the first collection of
Goldman's brief yet vibrant musical explorations. Included among
the various talents are members of the Slits, PiL, the Raincoats,
Robert Wyatt, Steve Beresford, David Toop, and Adrian Sherwood.
These tracks combine a pop sensibility with the avant-dub deconstructionist
mindset that lends her work that rare and special mix of accessibility
and experimentation.
[
file under: dub post-punk ]
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SECTION
25
"Always now"
Factory Benelux
presents a deluxe double disc edition of Always Now, the debut
album by cult Factory Records group Section 25, produced by
legendary sonic architect Martin Hannett in 1981. Recorded as
a trio at Pink Floyd's Britannia Row studio in London, Always
Now combined austere post-punk rhythms with elements of Can,
Krautrock and modern psychedelia. Key tracks include non-albums
singles Charnel Ground, Je Veux Ton Amour and Girls Don’t
Count. This new Factory Benelux 2xCD edition is housed in a
miniature version of the folding pochette wallet designed by
Peter Saville - famously one of the most expensive sleeves produced
by Factory.
[
file under: factory sounds ] 
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