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BIRTH
On September 18, 1948, the nonet performed for the first time in public, opening for Count Basie's show at the Royal Roost in New York under the title "Nonet by Miles Davis, arrangement by Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans and John Lewis ". An unusual name which betrays the desire to create music based largely on arrangements.
This release is part of the New Ermitage collection available from January 2024: 18 jazz and soul titles reissued on yellow vinyl with new codes and renewed graphics.
TRACK LISTING
1. Move
2. Jeru
3. Moon Dreams
4. Venus De Milo
5. Budo
6. Deception
7. Godchild
8. Boplicity
9. Rocker
10. Israel
11. Rouge
In addition to Kinsella’s work with Birthmark, Nate also plays in two other bands with his cousin Mike Kinsella – American Football and Lies. He’s also collaborated with artists such as Tim Kasher, Joan of Arc, TTNG, and others. Kinsella’s work has been featured in outlets such as Pitchfork, Fader, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, NPR, and many others.
TRACK LISTING
1. Snowflake In My Palm (Not For Long)
2. Butterfly
3. Birthday (Product Of Our Lust)
4. Rodney
5. Baby Woncha Come On Home
6. Boyfriend
7. Green Skies
8. Red Meadow
9. I’m Awake
10. Pretty Flowers
TRACK LISTING
Jeru
Move
Godchild
Budo
Venus De Milo
Rouge
Boplicity
Israel
Deception
Rocker
Moondreams
Darn That Dream
Birth/Speed/Merging was recorded in 1976 after the band's move to San Francisco. The album closes the Pyramids' 70s trilogy and makes more use of studio technology: adding overdubs and other effects, a marked departure from the previous two releases, though at no cost to the urgent message and energy of their earlier works.
TRACK LISTING
1. Aomawa
2. Birth / Speed / Merging - Part 1
3. Birth / Speed / Merging - Part 2
4. Birth / Speed / Merging - Part 3
5. Birth / Speed / Merging - Part 4
6. Reaffirmation - Part 1
7. Reaffirmation - Part 2
8. Reaffirmation - Part 3
9. Reaffirmation - Part 4
10. Jamaican Carnival - Part 1
11. Jamaican Carnival — Part 2
12. Black Man And Woman Of The Nile
The new folk sensation from the States on Tim (White Fence) Presley's new label Birth Records.
“I never wanted to ever start a record label. Ever. But there is something about her voice I couldn't let go of. It's an actual voice. An actual beautiful voice. This ones a classic sounding voice. Not to mention her song writing, recording and guitar playing. Jessica Pratt's music feels like I have found a lost LP of an old forgotten mystical folk singer, that feeling of discovering a record all by myself: Without the help of friends or the Internet. Like Stevie Nicks singing over David Crosby demos, with the intimacy of a Sibylle Baier. I am in love with it. So much, that I saved up and threw all my money to get it into this world. I actually care about it, no matter which way the winds blow.” - Tim Presley, White Fence.
TRACK LISTING
1. Night Faces
2. Hollywood
3. Bushel Hyde
4. Mountain’r Lower
5. Half Twain The Jesse
6. Casper
7. Midnight Wheels
8. Mother Big River
9. Streets Of Mine
10. Titles Under Pressure
11. Dreams
Their 21st regular album is the first since the death of the band mastermind, singer and drummer Bernd Noske. Birth Control has always had a completely unique sound, showing the creativity and range of the current line-up on this album and gets to the heart of their wealth of ideas in 54 minutes, bringing 8 new studio tracks to the turntable, including a reworking of the 1972 hit Gamma Ray. Furthermore, seven new songs from the compositional pen of their songwriter duo Kühn/Ettrich, a brilliant mix of progressive/hard rock, blues and funk.
TRACK LISTING
1. Gamma Ray 2.0
2.The Last Word
3. Wrestling Mama
4. Open Sesame
5. I Don't Mind
6. Wannabe
7. Plans Get Lost
8. These Are The Days
Martin James
French Connections : From Discotheque To Daft Punk - The Birth Of French Touch
Velocity Press
"Updated version features previously unpublished interviews with Daft Punk, Laurent Garnier, Cerrone, Jean Jacques Perrey, Motorbass, Chris Le Friant (aka Bob Sinclar), Air, Etienne de Crecy, La Funk Mob, Cassius, The Micronauts, Stardust, Benjamin Diamond, Modjo, DJ GilbR, i-Cube, DJ Cam and many more...
During the second half of the 1990s, Paris experienced a dance music revolution thanks to groundbreaking artists like Daft Punk, Air, Super Discount, Motorbass, Cassius, Dimitri from Paris, Bob Sinclar and many, many more. It was a scene that became known as French Touch and was heralded throughout the world as the epitome of dance music cool, forever placing Paris on the dance culture map.
Journalist and author Martin James was there right from the start, documenting the scene from its inspirations to its earliest moments and onto its global breakthrough. In the process, he inadvertently provided the French Touch moniker that became adopted throughout the world.
Drawing on a dazzling array of exclusive interviews with the biggest names in French electronic music history, French Connections explores France’s significant contribution to dance music culture that paved the way for the French Touch explosion."
There is a core element to Chelsea Wolfe’s music—a kind of urgent spin on America’s desolation blues—that’s existed throughout the entirety of her career. At the center, there has always been Wolfe’s woeful longing and beguiling gravity, though the framework for compositions has continuously evolved based on whatever resources were available. Her austere beginnings were gradually bolstered by electronics and filled out with full-band arrangements. The music became increasingly dense and more centered around live performances. Her latest album, Birth of Violence, is a return to the reclusive nature of her earlier recordings
“I’ve been in a state of constant motion for the past eight years or so; touring, moving, playing new stages, exploring new places and meeting new people—an incredible time of learning and growing as a musician and performer,” Wolfe says of the era leading up to Birth of Violence. “But after awhile, I was beginning to lose a part of myself. I needed to take some time away from the road to get my head straight, to learn to take better care of myself, and to write and record as much as I can while I have ‘Mercury in my hands,’ as a wise friend put it.“ Birth of Violence is the result of this step out of the limelight. The songs stem from humble beginnings—little more than Wolfe’s voice and her Taylor acoustic guitar. Her longtime musical collaborator Ben Chisholm recorded the songs on a makeshift studio and helped fill them out with his modern production treatments and the occasional auxiliary flourish from ongoing contributors Jess Gowrie (drums) and Ezra Buchla (viola).
The album opens with “The Mother Road,” a harrowing ode to Route 66 that immediately addresses Wolfe’s metaphoric white line fever. It explains the nature of the record—the impact of countless miles and perpetual exhaustion—and the desire to find the road back home, back to one’s roots. Songs like “Deranged for Rock & Roll” and “Highway” offers parallel examinations on the trials and tribulations of her journeys while the ghostly “When Anger Turns to Honey” serves as a rebuttal to self-appointed judges.
While the record touches upon tradition, it also exists in the present, addressing modern tragedies such as school shootings in the minor-key lullaby “Little Grave” and the poisoning of the planet on the dark wind-swept ballad “Erde.” But the record is at its most poignant when Wolfe withdraws into her own world of enigmatic and elusive autobiography. Much like Alan Ginsberg’s hallucinatory long-form poem Howl, the tracks “Dirt Universe” and “Birth of Violence” weave together specific references from her past into an esoteric overview of the state of mankind. Though the lyrical minutiae remain secret, the overall power of the language and delivery is bound to haunt the listener with both its grace and tension.
“These songs came to me in a whirlwind and I knew I needed to record them soon, and also really needed a break from the road,” Wolfe says. “I’ve spent the past few years looking for the feeling of home; looking for places that felt like home. The result of that humble approach yields Wolfe’s most devastating work to date.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: I've been a big fan of Chelsea Wolfe for a while now, and it's absolutely true that the beauty of these compositions really shines when stripped back to Wolfe's haunting vox and an acoustic guitar. Pieces like 'American Darkness' certainly harbour more than a nod to classic folk psychedelia of the late 60's but imbued with a gothic gloom and echoic spookiness that is uniquely hers.TRACK LISTING
1 The Mother Road
2 American Darkness
3 Birth Of Violence
4 Deranged For Rock & Roll
5 Be All Things
6 Erde
7 When Anger Turns To Honey
8 Dirt Universe
9 Little Grave
10 Preface To A Dream Play
11 Highway
12 The Storm
Taking cues from Terry Riley, LaMonte Young as well as Spacemen 3 (Dreamweapon) – minimalist artists who offer no concessions to the listener except to surrender yourself to the drone. Grant creates swirling cyclic passages via analogue synthesizer and tape machine loops as Nik conjures subliminal notes via guitar and space echo. Over 25 minutes they create an experience of devotional music influenced by Middle Eastern and Sufism cultures – as notes bleed and swirl together in a lysergic haze. Its fluidity is its greatest strength as the piece offers no navigation points – all they ask is that through a mixture of drone, repetition and simple melodies that you surrender yourself to the trance-like and hallucinatory delirium created. It is captivating.
Live in Tucson is a one off 300 pressing – all black vinyl. Housed in a 350gsm sleeve and given a private press like presentation via the sleeve and labels. Download Code Included.
Various Artists
Birth Of A Nation - Inevitable Records: An Independent Liverpool 1979-1986
Cherry Red
TRACK LISTING
Disc 1
1. Better Scream - Wah! Heat
2. Joe - Wah! Heat
3. Black Leather – - Nightmares In Wax
4. Shangri-La - Nightmares In Wax
5. Girl Song - Nightmares In Wax
6. Euthenics - Modern Eon
7. Waiting For The Cavalry - Modern Eon
8. Seven Minutes To Midnight… To Be Continued - Wah! Heat
9. Don't Step On The Cracks - Wah! Heat
10. I’m Falling - Dead Or Alive
11. Flowers - Dead Or Alive
12. Faction - Faction
13. Wrong Again - Faction
14. Number Eleven - Dead Or Alive
15. Namegame (Live Version) - Dead Or Alive
16. A Giant Raft - It's Immaterial
17. No Place For A Prompter - It's Immaterial
18. African And White - China Crisis
19. Be Suspicious - China Crisis
Disc 2
1. Your Voice - Freeze Frame
2. Conversation Piece - Freeze Frame
3. I'm Thinking Of You Now - Box Of Toys
4. Old Man Rome - Box Of Toys
5. Foxhole - Freeze Frame
6. Furnished Heart - Freeze Frame
7. Precious Is The Pearl - Box Of Toys
8. It Goes Without Saying - Box Of Toys
9. Seeking Professional Advice - Freeze Frame
10. My 10,000 Mile Home - Freeze Frame
11. Touch - Freeze Frame
12. Personal Touch - Freeze Frame
13. Jimmy’s Grin - Margox
14. Daytime Assassins - The Builders
15. Burning Arrows - Venus Adore
16. Contrasting Strangers - The Light
17. Monument - The Light
18. Today, Tomorrow - Freeze Frame
19. Only A Boy - Freeze Frame
20. Pride Of Winning - The Light
21. Ten Million Years - The Light
Disc 3
1. Nowhere To Nowhere - Dead Or Alive
2. Running Wild - Dead Or Alive
3. Number Eleven - Dead Or Alive
4. Flowers - Dead Or Alive
5. A Gigantic Raft - It's Immaterial
6. Imitate The Worm - It's Immaterial
7. White Man's Hut - It's Immaterial
8. Rake - It's Immaterial
9. Number Twelve - Dead Or Alive
10. Untitled - Dead Or Alive
11. Misty Circles - Dead Or Alive
12. Misty Circles Pt 2 - Dead Or Alive
13. Fox Hole - Freeze Frame
14. Personal Touch - Freeze Frame
15. Your Voice - Freeze Frame
16. Today Tomorrow - Freeze Frame
17. Precious In The Pearl - Box Of Toys
18. When Daylight Is Over (Sunset) - Box Of Toys
19. Time Takes Me Back - Box Of Toys
20. Thinking Of You Now - Box Of Toys
TRACK LISTING
Disc One: The Beginning Of A New Birth:
1. The Beginning Of A New Birth
2. The Prayer
Disc Two: As Time Flows On
1. Rain
2. Nine Degrees And Cold
3. Intro
4. Black Woman
5. To Do Nothing
6. The Mind
STAFF COMMENTS
Ryan says: I've been following Amida for a while now, I've loved everything they've done and now there's this. Packed full of short and precise Flying Nun-esque jangly masterpieces. You need this!A heaping helping of proto-metal chops meets paranoid sci-fi fantastical ravings, replete with some tasty synthesizer werk that breaks it up just so. Close-mic’d to perfection by Total Control’s own Mikey Young, these epics swing with demonic swagger and crackle with the static of a menacing future, twisting and churning through loose-limbed riffery, all punctuated by a wail that sounds as if it’s coming from every hidden camera outside the Ministry of Love. A proggy but in-the-pocket head-trip hard rock record for the table, and hopefully these Aussies will be bringing their dystopian groove your way soon.
TRACK LISTING
1. Iron Mountain
2. Reflection
3. New Moon
4. First And Last Men
5. Electric Blanket
Rokabirii may resemble US rockabilly, but this Nipponese version is a more varied dish. Hirao and his band’s covers of Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley and Little Richard are not kitsch renditions, but raw, desperate rockers. Hear a Paul Anka makeover, but put through a rocking mangle; a smattering of jazz; a twist of New Orleans; and some Japanese folk songs with a greased-down quiff. American occupation a distant memory, these boys wanted to party.
Country and hillbilly music was a mainstay of young Japanese musicians working the GI base and jazz café circuit of the 1950s. Following the runaway success of a Japanese cover of ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ (Hirao’s version here has dynamite in its teeth), demand grew for more of this strange, new music. The need was met with a huge gala, the Nichigeki Western Carnival, which showcased the new rokabirii groups to thousands of screaming Japanese teenagers. Wild footage of the concerts, alongside that of burgeoning radical student movements, put fear of a wave of delinquency into the heart of the establishment.
The studio numbers here are hardboiled, with unkempt live recordings that really rock. Tough drums back up honking sax, in a pedal steel pandemonium with slap bass. In the words of Elvis: these guys “get real gone”.
TRACK LISTING
01. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Live)
02. Itsuki No Komoriuta Rock
03. Hoshi Wa Nandemo Shiteru 2 (Live)
04. Crazy Love (Live)
05. Jailhouse Rock
Side 2
01. Jenny Jenny (Live)
02. Ooh My Soul (Live)
03. One Way Ticket
04. Miyo-chan
05. Blues De Memphis
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- Release date
- 4 Apr '11
The new set casts its net even wider than the first, corralling sonic marauders such as Germany’s Faust, New York’s wilfully shambolic Godz, George Clinton’s barrier-trampling Parliament, original folk activist Woody Guthrie and deathly 60s electronic trailblazers United States Of America. The set stretches back to primitive rock‘n‘roll‘s early salvos, including Bo Diddley and Johnny Thunders’ favourite Eddie Cochran, plus the hot-wired tremors of UK outfits such as Kilburn and the High Roads, Doctors Of Madness, Stack Waddy, Hammersmith Gorillas and the Edgar Broughton Band. New York City is represented by Patti Smith, Blondie, the mighty Jayne County, demented Holy Modal Rounders and Dizzy Gillespie representing the bebop movement which flame-blasted cool jazz’s rigid trouser-seat, leaving a wide open orifice for the raw, spiritual anarchy of Albert Ayler.
Needs also exercises his long-standing fixation with obscure, unhinged 60s US garage-psych with the Misunderstood, Zachary Thaks, Human Expression and high-energy Detroit garage bands Unrelated Segments and Tidal Waves.
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- DOC045LP
- Release date
- 14 Mar '11
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- Release date
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Akron/Family spent the end of 2009 and half of 2010 exploring the future of sound through bent acid punk diamond fuzz and underground Japanese noise cassettes, lowercase micro tone poems and emotional Cagean field recordings, rebuilding electronic drums from the 70s and playing them with sticks they carved themselves.
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- £1.99
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- Release date
- 27 Jun '05