Tracked in the decade after Duster went on hiatus, Canaan Amber’s debut solo EP CA demonstrates the California-born guitarist’s affection for San Francisco jangle and Santa Cruz surf. Crawling at a banana slug’s pace, Canaan wraps the loneliest one-string guitar solos around a cluster of hollow rhythms and ghostly mumbles. The original 2012 five-song CD has been expanded to include six other demos plundered from the prolific songwriter’s vault. More Wolf Moon than Black Moon, CA continues to explore and map the hidden galaxies that make up the Duster universe.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
Create The Scene
Days Rewinding
Gold Hills
Runaway
No Way

SIDE B
Turn On
Everything Is All In Place
Wander Off
Ghost Girls
Take Off Your Face
Traces

A trailblazing amalgam of elevator-friendly R&B and synth-forward smooth jazz, Tony Palkovic’s 1986 debut goes down easy as a huff of dentist-issued nitrous. Born With A Desire’s silky grooves and bursts of drum machine 1.0 endure as an ’80s vision of future earth where 8-bit graphics and pastel palettes swath a synthesizer Shangri La.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
Born With A Desire
True To Yourself
Breath Of Sound

SIDE B
Better Than Before
Day To Day
Electric Heart
Hoping For A Better World

Set your shoes to gaze mode and rip into this king size cloud of ethereal dream pop. Inspired by the spate of Brits leaning into swirling distortion and punishing volume, San Jose’s Ozean played just two shows in their brief existence, dissolving before the Scene That Celebrates Itself ever broke the silicon barrier. The quartet’s 1993 self-titled demo cassette has been remastered and pressed at 45RPM, a timeless document of late adolescent wonder and experimentation.

STAFF COMMENTS

Liam says: Never ever thought this would see the light of day... Absolutely ESSENTIAL bit of shoegaze history right here. Ozean only ever played two gigs and released this as a demo cassette back in '93. However it is one of the best releases in the whole of the genre, proper ethereal gazy goodness! Copies of the extremely scarce and inferior 2017 press go for upwards of £330 on discogs, so make sure to get your mitts on this!!!

TRACK LISTING

A1 Scenic
A2 Fall
B1 Porcelain

Ethereal dream gloom from a voice so unique they had to create an entirely new genre to contain all four octaves.

Mixing classical music with synthesizer and acoustic guitar, Happy Rhodes’ ‘ecto pop’ never quite broke outside upstate New York, but that didn’t stop gothic Americana queen Marissa Nadler from reinterpreting ‘Where Do I Go’ in 2018.

Both the original and cover have been paired here, housed in an elegant black and silver sleeve, with embossed braille lettering for the visually impaired.

TRACK LISTING

Marissa Nadler ‘Where Do I Go’
Happy Rhodes ‘Where Do I Go’

Atlanta’s original Eccentric Soul labels - Jesse Jones’ Tragar and Note - captured critical regional R&B, soul and funk from 1968-1976.

Compiling 34 tracks and sprawled across two LPs, this 15-year anniversary deluxe edition appears on vinyl for the first time.

Featuring rare-as-hens’-teeth 45s by Eula Cooper, Tee Fletcher, Richard Cook, Frankie & Robert, Tokay Lewis, Nathan Wilkes, Chuck Wilder, Bill Wright, Sonia Ross, Sandy Gaye, Four Tracks, Young Divines, and several others the label can’t fit on a hype sticker.

TRACK LISTING

Tee Fletcher - Down In The Country
Bill Wright - You Got A Spell On Me
Eula Cooper - Shake Daddy Shake
The Knights - Tipping Strings
L. Daniels - Nitecap (inst)
Frankie & Robert - Sweet Thing
Franciene Thomas - I’ll Be There
Richard Cook - Somebody Got’a Help Me
Frankie & Robert - Love (It’s Been So Long)
The Knights - The Hump (inst)
Chuck Wilder - The Clown
Tokay Lewis - Who Wants Me Now
Nathan Wilkes - Now That I’m Wise
Langston & French - Tumbling Down
Eula Cooper - Heavenly Father
Tokay Lewis - What Can The Matter Be
Richard Cook - Love Is So Mean
Bill Wright - You’re The Only Thing I’ve Got Going For Me
Sonia Ross - Every Now And Then
Sandy Gaye - Watch The Dog That Bring The Bone
Bobby Owens & The Diplomats - Messing Around
Bill Wright - How Can I Hit The Ball
Tee Fletcher - All Because Of You
Eula Cooper - Standing By Love
Four Tracks - Charade
The Young Divines - Deep In Your Heart
Eula Cooper - I Need You More
Chuck Wilder - Why
Sonia Ross - Let Me Be Free
Eula Cooper - Try
Young Divines - Ain’t That Sharp
Franciene Thomas - Too Beautiful To Be Good
Sonia Ross - Breaking My Heart
Four Tracks - You Mean Everything To Me

Chicago’s Magic Touch label gets the Numero treatment. This Windy City Holy-Grail 2-sider featuring early Boogie Rap on the A Side and stone cold rare groove disco killer on the flip. Available on 7” for the first time and housed in Official Magic Touch Double Disco Smash 7” Company Sleeve. One listen and you’ll be checking for flights and hotels because Chi-C-A-G-O (Is My Chicago) shows that the Second City produced First Rank funky soul jams.

TRACK LISTING

A. Chi - C - A - G - O (Is My Chicago)

B. Sexy Lady

Chicago’s Magic Touch label gets the Numero treatment. Legendary rare groove selector & DJ Red Greg’s edit of Disco Holy-Grail “Why Do I Love You” is now available on 7” for the first time and housed in official Magic Touch Double Disco Smash 7” Company Sleeve. This tune has been making waves in the DJ community for years only after Red Greg introduced his crucial edit eliminating the studio fluff and dialing in the raw disco meat. Certified Floor Filler with a groove guaranteed to answer all questions on love.

TRACK LISTING

A. Why Do I Love You (Red Greg Edit)

B. Why Do I Love You (Instrumental)

Thirteen wah-drenched acid-fried Hendrix-worshipping blown-out free love-fueled black rock jams that’ll change your life.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Three Days Ahead LPF - Rolling Love [Part 2]
2. Little Ed & The Soundmasters Band - It’s A Dream
3. The Basement - Funky Music (Messin’ With My Mind)
4. Directory - World And Creation
5. Stone Coal White - You Know
6. Creations Unlimited - Chrystal Illusion
SIDE B
8. Solid Gold Ft. Alexander Love - Message To Planet Earth
9. Iron Force - Sweet Poison
10. Sir Stanley - I Believe
11. Flying Wedge - I Can’t Believe
12. Muse - Sunshine Road
13. Iron Knowledge - Show-Stopper
14. The Young Senators - Ringing Bells (Sweet Music) [Part 2]

Provocative post-punk from Israel’s undercover goth prince. Megira’s lone album with the Modern Dance Club showcased a grimier, more driving vision of his brand of trashy no wave. Spread across 31 tracks and two LPs, Love Police schizophrenically mixes industrial soundscapes, surf ditties, hardcore, swamp pop, bubble grunge, screaming, ecstasy, and enough fuzz to warrant a needle check.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. The Return Of The Russian Frogmen That Died And Came Back To Life As
Strange Looking Radioactive Creatures
2. Sababa One
3. Rhythm Of Hate
4. At The Elvis Inn
5. No Wave Exercise
6. Existence
7. The Wall Of Death
8. U.S.F.

SIDE B
9. And Now I Wanna Drown In Your Dark Dreamy Eyes
10. Boo
11. Beach Bums Must Die
12. The Strange And Bizarre Tale Of The Boy Who Had One Testicle Too Many
13. 333
14. (Used To Be...) Psychic Youth
15. Elvis Is Not Dead
16. Smack Dab

SIDE C
17. Beneath The Underground
18. Valley Of Tears
19. Mao/Mao
20. Here Comes Your Mama
21. Ode To A Cocksucker
22. Homesless Body
23. Sababa?

SIDE D
24. Freak Junior
25. Psychic Youth-2
26. Another No Wave Exercise
27. Street Machine
28. Da Homogreaser Stomp
29. All Tuned Up And Ready To Go
30. Je Ne Parle Pas Francais
31. Dead Girl Blues

Billed as “Canada’s All Indian Band,” the Tsimshian Nation garage band The Chieftones stormed the U.S. in the mid-’60s with their own brand of native rock n’ roll. More Buddy Holly than Link Wray, The New Smooth and Different Sound compiles their debut single for Wisconsin’s lauded Cuca label and adds a dozen previously unissued demos from their brief time in the Driftless region.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Don’t Let It Bother You
2. Don’t Dare
3. Indian Wedding
4. You’re My Angel
5. I Need Your Lovin’
6. I Won’t Be Around
7. Do Lord

SIDE B
8. I Shouldn’t Have Did What I Done
9. The Sun Is Shining
10. Ebony Eyes
11. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
12. Cutie From The Beauty Shop
13. You Don’t Need Me Anymore
14. Don’t You Leave Me Behind

Best listened to from inside the womb, Duster’s 1998’s debut Stratosphere simultaneously capped off and reinvented the slow core’s first wave. A four track dreamscape that will wake the neighbors and then lull them back to sleep. Hazy, arpeggiated guitars layer over a deliberate drummer with no real place to be, as semi-inaudible vocals warn of millennial malaise and subtly encourage the listener to “rock out, rock out, rock out, rock out.”

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1 Moon Age
2 Heading For The Door
3 Gold Dust
4 Topical Solution
5 Docking The Pod
6 The Landing
7 Constellations
8 The Queen Of Hearts

SIDE B
9 Two Way Radio
10 Inside Out
11 Stratosphere
12 Reed To Hillsborough
13 Shadows Of Planes
14 Earth Moon Transit
15 The Twins/Romantica
16 Sideria
Bonus Track: Echo, Bravo *CD Only

Crashing at the unlikely intersection of posthardcore, slowcore, and jazz-rock, Karate spent a dozen years producing peerless recordings in their adopted hometown of Boston.

Collected here are their six albums - ‘Self-Titled’, ‘In Place of Real Insight’, ‘The Bed Is In The Ocean’, ‘Unsolved’, ‘Some Boots’, ‘Pockets’, plus the ‘Cancel’ / ‘Sing’ and ‘In The Fish Tank’ EPs, singles, and split 7”s, a whopping 69 tracks spread across eight glorious compact discs.

Leor Galil’s career spanning essay is illustrated with dozens of period-appropriate photos in the accompanying 80-page book.

TRACK LISTING

CD1 - ‘Self-Titled’, ‘Death Kit’ Single, ‘The Schwinn’ &
‘Cherry Coke’
Gasoline
If You Can Hold Your Breath
Trophy
What Is Sleep?
- - -
Bad Tattoo
Every Sister
Bodies
Caffeine Or Me?
Death Kit
Nerve
The Schwinn
Cherry Coke

CD2 - ‘In Place Of Real Insight’ & ‘Operation: Sand’ /
‘Empty There’ Single
This, Plus Slow Song
New Martini
Wake Up, Decide
It’s 98 Stop
New New
The New Hangout Condition
On Cutting
Die Die
Today Or Tomorrow
Operation: Sand
Empty There

CD3 - ‘The Bed Is In The Ocean’
There Are Ghosts
The Same Stars
Diazapam
The Last Wars
Bass Sounds
Up Nights
Fatal Strategies
Outside Is The Drama
Not To Call The Police

CD4 - ‘Unsolved’
Small F Ires
The Lived-But-Yet-Named
Sever
The Roots And The Ruins
Number Six
One Less Blues
The Halo Of The Strange
The Angels Just Have To Show
This Day Next Year

CD5 - ‘Cancel’ / ‘Sing’
Cancel
Sing

CD6 - ‘Some Boots’
Original Spies
First Release
Ice Or Ground
South
In Hundreds
Airport
Baby Teeth
Corduroy
Remain Relaxed

CD7 - ‘Pockets’
With Age
Water
“The State I’m In” Aka “Goode Buy From Cobbs
Creek Park”
Cacophony
Alingual
Tow Truck
Pines
Concrete

CD8 - ‘In The Fishtank 12’
Strange Fruit
The Only Minority
Tears Of Rage
Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
Need A Job
This Ain ’t No Picnic
Colors
A New Jerusalem

Captured direct from the mixing board at a stop on Codeine’s November 1993 swing through the Midwest opening for Mazzy Star, What About The Lonely was recorded at the group’s live zenith. The trio of Stephen Immerwahr, John Engle, and Doug Scharin are joined by Gastr Del Sol’s David Grubbs on two of this album’s eight songs, cutting through a crowd of chatty midwestern 120 Minutes fans at Chicago’s notorious Lounge Ax.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Cave-In
Loss Leader
Jr
Pickup Song

Side B
Ides
Tom
Wird
Smoking Room

An antidote to the tough-guy hardcore spreading from CBGB’s, emo outliers Native Nod’s unique genre juxtaposition of damaged art-rock, daring/naive songwriting, and raw, poetic vocals have set them apart from the glut of early-’90s post-hardcore. Compiled here are the band’s trio of seminal 7” EPs for the Gern Blandsten label, with liner notes by Jenn Pelly and scores of unseen photographs and ephemer a.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Bread
High Tide In Alaska
Back To Mimsey

Side B
Answers
Crossings
Tangled
Lower GI Bleed
Runner

Former Mind & Matter bandmates James “Jimmy Jam” Harris and Michael Dixon teamed up for 1978’s gospel-boogie banger “You’re All I Need” b/w “You’re Everything” on the private Mad label.

TRACK LISTING

A. You’re Everything
B. You’re All I Need

The tenth volume of Numero’s elaborately packaged Cabinet of Curiosities series, L80s finds the group exploring the far-flung corners of the global downtempo underground. This 12-song mix tape weaves icy hot coldwave, Sausalito seafood jazz, Glaswegian goth, makeshift Madonna, Sade spoofs, and Brat Pack balearic into a high-waisted, party-ready pair of danceable denim.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Cheryl Glasgow - Glued To The Spot
2. Dianne Mower - The Secret Sign
3. Phoebe Cates - Feels So Good (Feels So Right)
4. Isabelle Antena - Naughty Naughty
5. Nika Rejto - More Than Just A Dream
6. Crow Johnson - You Got Me
SIDE B
7. Terry Garthwaite - Me To You
8. Suse Millemann - Patterns
9. Vazz - Breath
10. Elisa Waut - Being Strong
11. Antoinette & Jeff Phelps - Hear My Heart
12. DeMonica Flye - Someday You’ll See

While Duster went into hibernation in the year 2000, Clay Parton’s four-track never stopped rolling. Recorded alone at home over several years, Birds In The Ground is an album of 30-something, post-9/11 malaise. Under his Eiafuawn (Everything Is All Fucked Up And What Not) acronym, Parton hides beneath layers of fuzzy and clean guitars, his hesitant, cottony vocal disappear into noise. 

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Bunny
2. No More Like That
3. Birds
4. The Voice Of Music
5. Bees
6. The Coffin Was So Light I Thought It Might Float Away

Side B
7. Good God Y’all
8. Secret Gypsy Language
9. On A Peoplemover
10. Two Thousand Twelve
11. The Drunk Pilot And The Romantic Passenger
12. Modulator Hustle

In late 1996, after two years of persistent touring, Chisel was eager to document its quickly evolving sound. Decamping from their native D.C. to Brooklyn’s Rare Book Room, the power trio of Ted Leo, Chris Norborg, and John Dugan teamed with engineer Nicolas Vernhes and came away with Set You Free, a remarkable, but largely overlooked, classic of the era. Originally issued on the venerable Gern Blandsten imprint in April 1997, Set You Free presaged the turn of the century 60s rock revival, providing a counterpoint to second-wave emo. This deluxe 25th anniversary edition has remastered and expanded the original’s 17-song track list with five period alternates and rarities, plus a booklet of lyrics, photos, and an essay by Jes Skolnik. Get ready for the invasion.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1 On Warmer Music
2 All My Kin
3 It’s Alright, You’re O.K.
4 The Mutable Mercury
5 The Town Crusher
6 The Unthinkable Is True

SIDE B
7 River High
8 Every Is A Good Trip
9 Do Go On
10 Privileged & Impotent
11 Oh Dear Friends

SIDE C
12 An Amateur Thief
13 In Our Time
14 Morley Timmons
15 The O.T.S.
16 Rip Off The Gift
17 The Last Good Time

SIDE D
18 The Guns Of Meridian Hill
19 The Town Crusher (live)
20 Morley Timmons (early Version)
21 Every Is A Good Trip (extended)
22 The O.T.S. (early Version)

After Belgian electro-samba wunderkinds Antena split at the end of 1985, singer Isabelle Antena immediately shed her cold wave crown for a sophisticated pop princess tiara.

On 1986’s Martin Hayles-produced ‘En Cavale’, echos of Madonna and city pop abound, with a lipstick stain of L80s Euro dance and spilled cosmopolitan’s worth of bossa nova stirred in for good measure.

This elegant second chapter of a French pop diva has been expanded to include Antena’s shelved Island Records demo, adjacent B-sides and rarities, plus an expansive essay and previously unpublished photographs.

TRACK LISTING

Isabelle Antena - Play Back
Isabelle Antena - Easy Street
Isabelle Antena - Seaside Weekend
Isabelle Antena - Ten Minutes
Isabelle Antena - How Can They Tell
Isabelle Antena - Be Pop
Isabelle Antena - Magic Words
Isabelle Antena - Booby Trap
Isabelle Antena - Life Is Too Short
Isabelle Antena - Mummy’s Not At Home Tonight
Isabelle Antena - Don’t Think About It
Isabelle Antena - Time To Work
Isabelle Antena - Blow The World Away
Isabelle Antena - Behind The Door
Antena - Be Pop (12” Mix)
Antena - Life Is Too Short (New Dance 12”)
Antena - Mummy’s Not At Home Tonight (1983 Island Demo)
Antena - Achilles (1983 Island Demo)
Antena - Be Pop (1983 Island Demo)

Rex’s seminal 1996 sophomore album C , now on deluxe double vinyl for the first time. Every one of C ’s 66 minutes is a delightful exploration at the intersection of slowcore and alt- country, weaving heartfelt Americana, stately strings, progged-out rhythms and crashingly heavy climaxes into captivating epics. Remastered from the original analog tapes, C has been given a second life beyond the CD- era, and comes housed in a tip-on jacket with restored artwork from guitarist Curtis Harvey

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1 Morning
2 Ride Home
SIDE B
3 New Son
4 Critella
5 Audrey La ‘Mort
SIDE C
6 Jubin
7 C
SIDE D
8 All Waves
9 Porcelain
10 New Dirge / Farther Along

Cosmic American Music from the far flung reaches of rural Oregon. Issued in 1979 on Allan Wachs’ own True Vine imprint, Mountain Roads and City Streets gathers a decade of songs written while hitchhiking up and down the west coast. Screeching pedal steel, lilting flute, and tingly dulcimer are peppered throughout Wachs’ tales of brief affairs, invisible dogs, and getting lost in a changing America.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A

1. Adventures Of The Invisible Dog
2. Least Of My Strangers
3. Anna Lena
4. Pretty Face
5. Dancer

SIDE B

6. Mountain Man Breakdown
7. The Lord Will Provide
8. Travelin’ Light
9. Mountain Roads
10. Northwest Passage

On his 2000 debut, Da Abtomatic Meisterzinger Mambo Chic , Megira channels the optimism of post-war America, narcoleptic surf, and the Twin Peaks soundtrack into a lo- fi lo-rider masterpiece all his own. Sung in both Hebrew and English, Mambo Chic moves at a deliberate pace, unconcerned by the traffic of the modern world and wrapped in a blanket of Tascam 4-track hiss. On “Tomorrow’s Gone” Megira achieves the feat of being so far back in time that he’s somehow living in the future and waiting for the rest of us to arrive. Hear our 2 favorite cuts in back- saving, crate-flavoring 7” format ripe and ready the dive bar soundsystem hosting your favorite BYOV night.

In 2006, Israeli garage-nik Charlie Megira took a sonic turn while partnered with Israeli multi- instrumentalist Michal Kahan. The duo wasted no time forging a new path, swapping Megira’s trademark reverb for echo, and guitar-noir for new wave. Charlie Megira Und the Hefker Girl is an unabashed continuation of gothy ’80s archetypes employed by Joy Division, JAMC, and The Cure. Originally self-released on CD-R, we’ve remastered the 12-track disc for maximum Crosley crush.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Till I’ll Break Again
2. Nothing
3. Fear And Joy
4. Kiss Of Death
5. Direct Exercise No. 1

SIDE B
6. Psyche And Apollo
7. The Vally Of Tears (Drum Pattern)
8. Thrown Key
9. Song No.8
10. Saturn Return
11. Another God
12. Tower Of Tongues

It's always summer somewhere, but especially so wherever Cheryl Glasgow's carefree clubber "Glued To The Spot" plays. An absolute ear worm from its first nylon strums, Glasgow's Sade-adjacent, jazz vocalese sweeps into a warm-up tempo groove and l never quite breaks a sweat. Issued on Ross Anderson' short-lived, London-based Live label. “Glued To The Spot" swept through the club scene briefly in 1987, disembarking for warmer shores when the season changed.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Glued To The Spot (Club Mix)
B1. Glued To The Spot (Instrumental)

"After receiving regional praise for his 1976 debut Abrabo, Dan Boadi set his sights on leaving Ghana and bringing his highlife sensibilities to an American audience. Recorded at Paul Serrano namesake studio on E. 22rd St. in Chicago, Boadi's U.S. debut showcased the true scope of his musical range weaving in and out of funk, highlife, afrobeat, and reggae. The title track immediately demands the listener' attention with a chugging drum lead by The African International's King Tuch setting the pace for Boadi's colorful orchestration to follow. Money Is The Root of Evi claims t's own space as a musical melting pot and reflects the excitement Boadi waslearningto harness as a musician in his newfound home of Chicago."

TRACK LISTING

A1. Money Is The Root Of Evil (Edit)
B1. Duodo (Edit)

Heavy metal? Glam? Hard rock? Make your own fuckin’ call, you poser. We’re not gonna do it for you. Bound for Hell is early ‘80s L.A. rock as it actually was: a California cataclysm of drunk and horny headbangers, dressed in sharp, shiny, leather androgyny and fire, kicking crowds in the teeth to clear the way to that one big shot. This set delivers 21 tracks by 21 artists detailing the Sunset Strip’s most razor-sharp heathens. Drumsticks burned. Hands were severed. Faces bled. Heavy was HELL for a half decade and it was a long, long way down.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
A1. Going To The City - Stormer
A2. Cocaine - L.A. Rocks
A3. Bound For Hell - Max Havoc
A4. Rock ‘N’ Roll Ain’t Pretty - Jaded Lady
A5. Ready To Explode - Steeler
A6. No Time To Lose - Lizzy Borden
SIDE B
B1. On The Run - SIN
B2. Give Em The Old 1, 2, 3 - Black ‘N Blue
B3. Damnation Alley - Bitch
B4. Feeling To Rock - Romeo
B5. Savage Kind Of Girl - V.V.S.I.
SIDE C
C1. Up From The Depths - Hellion
C2. Blade Of Steel - Angeles
C3. Cold Reception - Knightmare II
C4. Cinderella (In Black Leather) - Witch
C5. Liquid Lady - Reddi Killowatt
SIDE D
D1. Lesson Well Learned - Armored Saint
D2. We Came To Kill - Leather Angel
D3. Take It Or Leave It - Rough Cutt
D4. Fool Of Lies - Lisa Baker
D5. Judgement Day - Odin

Screaming suburban blues straight from the pages of HeartattaCk magazine, Current exploded out of the early-’90s Midwestern emo scene in a fit of D.C. hardcore-inspired rage. Spread across three LPs, Yesterday’s Tomorrow Is Not Today compiles the quartet’s lone album, two EPs, split 7”s with Indian Summer and Chino Horde, miscellaneous compilation debris, and nine previously unissued alternates, including the infamous KLXU radio show. Remixed and mastered from the original tapes, Current’s complete discography is annotated in Leor Galil’s exhaustive survey, illustrated with period photos, flyers, and cut-n-paste sleeve art across 24 pages.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1 Representation
2 Dial
3 Pave
4 Bag Of Threads
5 Two And A Dime
Side B
1 Ruin
2 Outside Is Better
3 Coliseum
4 She Can’t Write
5 Hark
6 Member
Side C
1 Basis
2 Repetition
3 Continued Rantings
4 Leech
5 Bastille
6 Frayed Ends
7 Overbearing
Side D
1 Member (Demo)
2 A Place
3 Past Time
4 Key
5 Monument
Side E
1 Could I
2 Slivered Lead
3 Come Down
4 Left At The Right
5 Happy As I Am
6 The River
Side F
1 Chairtied
2 Bag Of Threads (Instrumental)
3 Hark (KXLU Session)
4 Key (KXLU Session)
5 Monument (KXLU Session) 

The fourth Express Rising LP (and second featuring the expanded lineup of William Suran and Kevin Blagg, in addition to leader Dante Carfagna) finds the trio largely eschewing percussion in favor of twelve concise, three-minute-or-so-long bittersweet excursions that nevertheless retain the restrained, measured, and highly melodic scaffolding of their previous work. There’s more than a bit of Santo & Johnny at their most somnambulant here, slightly glazed, definitely reverb’d out, mysteriously bottling the flaring, saturated light of the desert at dusk.

TRACK LISTING

A
1. Smooth False Foxglove
2. Canary Folded
3. Area Man
4. Drawing Of A Lake
5. Mansion
6. Asunder

B
1. Focus Puller
2. No Trace Of You
3. Unfamiliar Lights
4. Pass From View
5. The Apache Door
6. Touch Of Goodbye

Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta From his studio in central Bobo-Dioulasso, photographer Sory Sanlé documented a nation’s transformation from colonial foothold to cosmopolitan oasis. Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta provides an intimate look into the landlocked nation’s pop culture explosion of the 1970s. A melange of community elders and emboldened youth spill from the brightly lit confines of Sanlé’s Volta Photo into the dimly lit nightclubs of Upper Volta’s cultural capital. Accompanying this hardbound monograph are dozens of rare and evocative recordings spread over three discs by Bobo-Dioulasso’s musical titans: Volta Jazz, Dafra Star, Echo Del Africa, and Les Imbattables Léopards.

TRACK LISTING

1. Volta Jazz - Air Volta
2. Volta Jazz - Bi Kameleou
3. Volta Jazz - Fitri Mawaly
4. Volta Jazz - Djougou Toro
5. Volta Jazz - BB Peyrissac
6. Volta Jazz - Mama Soukous
7. Volta Jazz – Fintalabo
8. Volta Jazz - Wêrê Wêrê Magni
9. Volta Jazz - Nâgô Fâla
10. Volta Jazz - Mousso Koroba Tike
11. Volta Jazz - Dounya Te Soyé *
12. Volta Jazz - Beni Djarabi *
13. Volta Jazz - Chérie Nawa *
14. Volta Jazz - Ma Douce Ledy *
15. Volta Jazz - Djougou Malola *
16. Volta Jazz - Na Dalo *
17. Dafra Star** - De Nwolo 
18. Dafra Star - Sie Koumgolo19. Dafra Star – Dounian
20. Dafra Star - Si Tu Maime 
21. Dafra Star – Tjiranama
22. Dafra Star – Yafamma
23. Dafra Star – Foli
24. Dafra Star - Ram Passomayé 
25. Dafra Star - Bombossi *
26. Dafra Star - Sondja Magni * 
27. Dafra Star - Limaniya *
28. Echo Del Africa – Gentlemen Doromina
29. Les Imbattables Léopards - Bissongo Lebguinw 
30. Les Imbattables Léopards - Dja Tigui Kie 
31. Les Imbattables Léopards – Milaoba 
32. Echo Del Africa - Yiri Wah 
33. Les Imbattables Léopards - Néné 
34. Ouedraogo Youssef - He Ya Wannan 
35. Idy OIdrissa - Arindo 
36. Les Imbattables Léopards – Ne Toumdé *
37. Les Imbattables Léopards - Boudou Nyida *

* Available On CD Only 

** Full Band Name Is Coulibaly Tidiani & Dafrastar