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JOHN
‘For years now, I’ve been taking fugitive snaps of my band, Radiohead. I’ve tried to catch out my friends with my small black Yashica T4 Super. They are so lost in their own moment of performance that they don’t see me with the camera.’ Colin Greenwood
How to Disappear is bassist Colin Greenwood’s stunning portrait of Radiohead in his own photographs. Two decades in the making, he takes us on a journey into the heart of the 21st-century’s most influential band, a maverick collective who have vastly broadened our musical landscape while they dominate and distort it. On stage, backstage, in the rehearsal room, behind the scenes, on tour, at work and at play, Colin’s photographs, and the stories and memories they evoke for him in his accompanying text, form an intimate portrait of the musical and cultural iconoclasts as they travel through ‘our middle years: all the joy and doubt and confidence and uncertainty we would oscillate between’.
Colin Greenwood is from Oxford and has played bass in Radiohead since their formation in 1985. He's also recorded and toured with Tamino, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis and has written for publications including the Guardian and the Spectator.
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- 2xColoured LP
- £26.99
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- BELLA1594VX
- Release date
- Expected 14 Jun '24
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Pink vinyl.
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- £25.99
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- BELLA1594V
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- Expected 14 Jun '24
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- CD
- £10.99
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- BELLA1594CD
- Release date
- Expected 14 Jun '24
Release date: Expected 14 Jun '24
Released 14th June via longtime label Bella Union, The Art Of The Lie is Grant’s most opulent, cinematic, luxurious album yet and confirms Grant’s status as a modern electronic auteur. Grant likens the musical flavours of The Art of the Lie to the sumptuous Vangelis soundtrack for Bladerunner or the Carpenters if John Carpenter were also a member. While undeniably a John Grant record, nestling humour into tragedy, bleeding anger into compassion, there is a musical ambition and nerve to ‘The Art of the Lie’ which offsets its most political and personal moments.
The Art of The Lie was produced by Grant and Grammy-nominated producer Ivor Guest who is perhaps best known for his work with Grace Jones & Brigitte Fontaine. The album features an array of celebrated musicians including Dave Okumu, Seb Rochford and Robin Mullarkey.
TRACK LISTING
1. All That School For Nothing
2. Marbles
3. Father
4. Mother And Son
5. Twistin Scriptures
6. Meek AF
7. It's A Bitch
8. Daddy
9. The Child Catcher
10. Laura Lou
11. Zeitgeist
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- 2xLP
- £28.99
- Cat Number
- DC909
- Release date
- Expected 24 May '24
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- DC909CD
- Release date
- Expected 24 May '24
Release date: Expected 24 May '24
conversation between John Mulaney, a kid in the balcony named Henry, and the rest of the sold-out crowd at Boston’s Symphony Hall. And now, you!
John dominates the chat, of course - and while his cautionary tales are a bit too convulsive to be functionally preventative, you probably aren’t here to be cautioned. So have at it!
TRACK LISTING
1. Miss America
2. Lost In New York
3. Star-Studded Intervention
4. Koala Bank Changing Station
5. Dr. Michael
6. A Call From Al Pacino
7. Baby J
8. John, John And John
9. Breaking Up With
10. Your Dealer
11. Mushing Metals
12. Hello Old Friend
13. A Wide Ranging Conversation
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- Coloured LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- SBR336LPC3
- Release date
- Expected 3 May '24
- Format Info
Transparent Red Vinyl
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- Indies Exclusive LP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- SBR336LPC4
- Release date
- Expected 3 May '24
- Format Info
Tan and Black Marble Vinyl with Limited Clear 7" with Exclusive Bonus Track and Screen Printed B-Side
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- LP
- £21.99
- Cat Number
- SBR336LP
- Release date
- Expected 3 May '24
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- CD
- £13.99
- Cat Number
- SBR336CD
- Release date
- Expected 3 May '24
Release date: Expected 3 May '24
Since the first 'Lost Themes', John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it, as in connected in an emotional way.
The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means 'Lost Themes IV: Noir' runs like a well-oiled machine - the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.
TRACK LISTING
1. My Name Is Death
2. Machine Fear
3. Last Rites
4. The Burning Door
5. He Walks By Night
6. Beyond The Gallows
7. Kiss The Blood Off My Fingers
8. Guillotine
9. The Demon’s Shadow
10. Shadows Have A Thousand Eyes
Indie's Exclusive 7" Bonus Track:
1. Black Cathedral
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- 2xColoured LP
- £30.99
- Cat Number
- 0810075113853 (#RSD24)
- Release date
- 20 Apr '24
IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 22ND.
Includes Dr. John's biggest chart hits. All A & B-sides from U.S. & U.K. singles between 1968-1974. Color vinyl printed inner sleeves. Up Dated cover art
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- 2xColoured LP
- £33.99
- Cat Number
- 5885272 (#RSD24)
- Release date
- 20 Apr '24
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2LP set on 180g limited edition sky blue vinyl. Includes original album, plus newly compiled LP of bonus tracks.
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- 12" EP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- 6517063 (#RSD24)
- Release date
- 20 Apr '24
IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 22ND.
As long-standing supporters of the independent record stores all around the globe, the John Lennon Estate are excited and proud to be able to join the fun with this new, exclusive, limited-edition 4 track 12î EP release. As a teaser to the forthcoming ìUltimate Editionî Anniversary release of the ìMind Gamesî album ñ coming later this year in a collection of incredible new formats ñ this extremely limited-edition EP sets the tone for what will be an extraordinary year for the music and legacy of John Lennon.A1. Mind Games (Ultimate Mix A2. Iím The Greatest (Ultimate Mix) featuring George Harrison and Ringo StarrB1. Aisumasen (Iím Sorry) (Ultimate Mix) B2. You Are Here (Out-take, Take 5)
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- Coloured 12" EP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- 6515183 (#RSD24)
- Release date
- 20 Apr '24
IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8PM ON MONDAY APRIL 22ND.
As long-standing supporters of the independent record stores all around the globe, the John Lennon Estate are excited and proud to be able to join the fun with this new, exclusive, limited-edition 4 track 12î EP release. As a teaser to the forthcoming ìUltimate Editionî Anniversary release of the ìMind Gamesî album ñ coming later this year in a collection of incredible new formats ñ this extremely limited-edition EP sets the tone for what will be an extraordinary year for the music and legacy of John Lennon.A1. Mind Games (Ultimate Mix A2. Iím The Greatest (Ultimate Mix) featuring George Harrison and Ringo StarrB1. Aisumasen (Iím Sorry) (Ultimate Mix) B2. You Are Here (Out-take, Take 5)
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- Ltd LP
- £21.99
- Cat Number
- SYLEM017 (#RSD24)
- Release date
- 20 Apr '24
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE037
- Release date
- Expected 12 Apr '24
- Format Info
Never before released in any shape or form, this is a ten-inch vinyl EP with download codes, a set of postcards (full of previously unseen images from days of yore) and a sleeve essay from The Ferocious Apache.
Never before released in... [ + ]Release date: Expected 12 Apr '24
TRACK LISTING
Loopholes
What Is There To Smile About?
From This Day On
Mirror Breaks
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- 2xLtd 10"
- £20.99
- Cat Number
- PRE037B
- Release date
- Expected 12 Apr '24
- Format Info
Ten-inch vinyl limited edition of 350 copies featuring a set of postcards plus download codes – and a sleeve essay by The Ferocious Apache, Paisley’s answer to the Cappuccino Kid. Also includes Radio Clyde session March 1989 bonus disc.
Ten-inch vinyl limited... [ + ]Release date: Expected 12 Apr '24
Radio Clyde session March 1989 Bonus Disc
Nobody can remember the precise broadcast date but this is a brilliant four-track outing from around the time of the second album ‘Headache Rhetoric’ – never before released and barely ever heard.
What is more, not only does it feature three Lobsters originals, there’s an ultra-rare cover of the Soft Cell classic ‘Say Hello, Wave Goodbye’.
TRACK LISTING
Loopholes
What Is There To Smile About?
From This Day On
Mirror Breaks
Bonus Disc:
Lovely Little Swan
Le Grand Ennui [Knee Trembler]
Nature Thing
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1.Like Someone In Love
2.I Love You
3.Trane’s Slow Blues
Side B
1.Lush Life
2.I Hear A Rhapsody
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE040
- Release date
- 22 Mar '24
- Format Info
Ten-inch vinyl limited edition of 350 copies featuring a set of six postcards with previously unseen images plus download codes – and a sleeve essay by Lora Logic.
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Now officially released for the first time by Precious Recordings of London to coincide with its 45th anniversary, this is that legendary four-song session for John Peel – pre-dating the group’s debut LP, ‘Beat Rhythm News’, for which these tracks would be re-recorded, and a famous 30-date Rough Trade UK tour with Stiff Little Fingers and The Normal.
TRACK LISTING
Wake Up
Shabby Abbott
Alkaline Loaf In The Area
Quality Crayon Wax OK
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE042
- Release date
- 22 Mar '24
- Format Info
Ten-inch vinyl limited edition of 350 copies featuring a set of postcards plus download codes – and a sleeve essay by Max Décharné and cover collage designed by Joe Whitney.
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Never before released in any format, this outing at the BBC’s Oxford Road studios in Manchester finds the band in blistering form with a four-song blast featuring stunning versions of early singles ‘Ten Feet Tall’ and ‘Bury My Heart at Pier 13’.
TRACK LISTING
Ten Feet Tall
Spaghetti Junction
Bury My Heart At Pier 13
Down To You
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE041
- Release date
- 22 Mar '24
- Format Info
Ten-inch vinyl limited edition of 350 copies featuring a set of postcards plus download codes – and a sleeve essay by Max Décharné and cover collage designed by Joe Whitney.
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Six of them were collected on a Vinyl Japan CD at the turn of the century – but this fantastic final session is one of two never released before (the other one is PRE 042!). And what a session it is, featuring the brilliant ‘Cash 22’ (should’ve been a single!) and the noir vision of ‘Killer In The Rain’.
TRACK LISTING
Cash 22
Over And Done
Action Crime & Vision
Killer In The Rain
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- LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- 5054197893940
- Release date
- 1 Mar '24
- Format Info
Includes A2 poster.
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- 5054197893995
- Release date
- 1 Mar '24
Song ideas were soon flowing, and the album took shape with an intuitive intensity while in Los Angeles with the revered producer Greg Kurstin. He played bass throughout the record, while drums were performed by Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M., Atoms For Peace).
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: I think about when I used to listen to Oasis and The Stone Roses back in 'The Day' and imagine how i'd feel if you told me that this would be a collaboration that could happen in the future. It's Squire's unmistakeable songwriting and playing, with Gallagher's vocals over the top. I bet he's even got his arms behind his back. Danceable, baggy psychedelic rock with vox one of the most legendary vocalists of his generation.TRACK LISTING
1. Raise Your Hands
2. Mars To Liverpool
3. One Day At A Time
4. I’m A Wheel
5. Just Another Rainbow
6. Love You Forever
7. Make It Up As You Go Along
8. You're Not The Only One
9. I’m So Bored
10. Mother Nature's Song
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- Coloured LP
- £23.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- BRAMLPC0001
- Release date
- 23 Feb '24
- Format Info
Yellow coloured vinyl.
Yellow coloured vinyl. -
- LP
- £23.99
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- BRAMLP0001
- Release date
- 23 Feb '24
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Standard black vinyl.
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- CD
- £9.99
- Cat Number
- BRAMCD0001
- Release date
- 23 Feb '24
Anyone who has heard John's work with seminal Manchester band I Am Kloot, will be cheered by the news of this impending release. Nominated for a Mercury Prize in 2010 for their acclaimed Sky At Night album, I Am Kloot never quite received the widespread success their music deserved.
This new album is a masterclass in emotionally charged and melodically driven tunes for the adventurous. All 12 tracks were written by John except for 'Nobody Left But You' which he co-wrote with album producer Dave Fidler.
"After both my Mum and Dad died, I started writing these songs to cheer myself up," John admits with typical candour. "The themes are taken from my dreams at the time. Wake up and take whatever impression I had from what I could remember of my dream and write that."
Despite the sentiment, the songs are surprisingly uplifting. And will no doubt sound great live.
TRACK LISTING
1. Leave No Traces
2. A World Full Of Flowers
3. It's Just You
4. The Light Fantastic
5. Here It Comes
6. A Sky Full Of Thunder And Lightning
7. I Am The Sky
8. Days Go By
9. The Element Of Truth
10. I Feel Me
11. Nobody Left But You
12. Illegalised
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- Hardback Book
- £16.99
- Cat Number
- 9781035033164
- Release date
- 16 Feb '24 (originally released 9 Feb '24)
Dr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence on generations of performance poets and musicians plain for all to see. In WHAT, the original 'People's Poet' comes storming out of the gate with an uproarious new collection, reminding us why he is one of Britain's most beloved writers and performers. James Brown, John F.
Kennedy, Jesus Christ: nobody is safe from the punk rocker's acerbic pen - and that's just the first poem. Hot on the heels of The Luckiest Guy Alive and his sprawling, encyclopaediac memoir I Wanna Be Yours, the good Doctor returns with his most trenchant collection of poems yet. Vivid and alive, with a sensitivity only a writer with a life as varied and extraordinary as Cooper Clarke's could summon, WHAT is an exceptional collection from one of our foremost satirists.
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- Coloured LP
- £25.99
- Cat Number
- IGNLP235CI
- Release date
- 2 Feb '24
- Format Info
Indies exclusive turquoise vinyl.
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- LP
- £23.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- IGNLP235
- Release date
- 2 Feb '24
- Format Info
Black vinyl edition.
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- IGNCD235
- Release date
- 2 Feb '24
“Dylan John Thomas could be Scotland’s next big singer-songwriter.” The Scotsman.
“Scotland’s break out star of 2022” Daily Record.
“Dylan John Thomas looks set for the big leagues.” Notion.
“A unique juxtaposition of heartfelt lyricism, affirming optimism, and a driving energy.” The Line of Best Fit.
TRACK LISTING
1. Fever
2. Feel The Fire
3. What I Need
4. Up In The Air
5. Now And Then
6. Melancholy's Cure
7. Rich Boy
8. Yesterday Is Gone
9. Champs-Élysées
10. When I Get Home
11. Jenna
12. Lovely Day
13. Wake Up Ma (Live At Barrowlands)
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- Coloured LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- VNL22661
- Release date
- 2 Feb '24
- Format Info
Yellow Coloured Vinyl.
Yellow Coloured Vinyl.
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. My Favorite Things
2. Everytime We Say Goodbye
3. Summertime
4. But Not For Me
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- Ltd 7"
- £11.99
Usually ships within: 3-10 days - Cat Number
- 5054197856600
- Release date
- 5 Jan '24
- Format Info
Etched B-side.
Etched B-side.
There will be much more new music to come - and there could well be shows, too - but for now ‘Just Another Rainbow’ lives up to the highfalutin expectations that come with such a collaboration.
STAFF COMMENTS
Andy says: With it's loping groove, backwards guitars and classic chord changes , this could only be a John Squire song. With his trademark Lennon-inspired delivery and customary vocal swagger this could only be the (sorry!) one and only Liam Gallagher. Imagine The Beatles' Rain mixed with perhaps the Roses' Waterfall and you wouldn't be a million miles away. It's great!John Murphy
The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special (Original Soundtrack) (Black Friday 23 Edition)
Disney
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- Coloured LP
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- 8753988
- Release date
- 24 Nov '23
- Format Info
Limited splatter vinyl.
Limited splatter vinyl.
IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25TH).
The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special is the soundtrack to the television special released on Disney+ in November 2022. The album features an original score composed by John Murphy, plus two songs performed by Old 97’s and Kevin Bacon. Available for the first time on vinyl, this color splatter LP is being released exclusively for RSD Black Friday 2023.Releasing internationally in line with the US/Canada RSD release - 2-Colour Splatter Vinyl
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- WIN020CD
- Release date
- 17 Nov '23
“The Last Recordings,” the last known studio recordings from John Denver, recorded in Nashville in 1997 shortly before the singer’s untimely death, is a collection of Denver’s greatest hits reimagined as the singer wished to present them and intended by Denver to take the place of masters recorded under his decades-long run with a major label.
Previously released only in a limited CD pressing in Europe, Denver’s Estate and Windstar Records are excited to present “The Last Recordings” for the first time worldwide, at digital retailers everywhere, and available on CD and blue seafoam wave vinyl.
TRACK LISTING
SIDE A
Whispering Jesse
Dreamland Express
Rocky Mountain High
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Christmas For Cowboys
Love Again
SIDE B
Sunshine On My Shoulders
Perhaps Love
Leaving On A Jet Plane
Windsong
I’m Sorry
Back Home Again
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- Coloured LP
- £17.99
- Cat Number
- 350258
- Release date
- 17 Nov '23
- Format Info
Blue coloured vinyl with 2 bonus tracks.
Blue coloured vinyl with... [ + ]
Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton and by Paris' prestigious Jazz Magazine.
"All aspects of Coltrane's conception during this period are well-illustrated on the album: the classic simplicity and haunting loveliness of the Coltrane ballad technique is here. For sheer beauty of approach and execution, his work has rarely been equalled." - ***** Franz Kofsky, DownBeat
TRACK LISTING
1. Like Someone In Love
2. I Love You
3. Trane's Slow Blues
4. Slowtrane
5. Lush Life
6. I Hear A Rhapsody
7. While My Lady Sleeps
John Preston & Elton John
Watford Forever : How Graham Taylor And Elton John Saved A Football Club, A Town And Each Other
Viking
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- Hardback Book
- £22.00
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 9780241597903
- Release date
- 17 Nov '23
Rundown and rat-infested, Watford were an ailing side with holes in their kit and barely enough fans to fill a stand. Of the 92 clubs in the Football League, spread across four divisions, Watford were in 92nd place. Meanwhile, Elton John was the most successful rockstar in the world.
With six-inch platforms, spangled jumpsuits, and peroxide hair, he was glamorous, gay, and seemingly a world away from the semi-detached house in Pinner where he had supported Watford FC as a child. Many assumed he would move to America. Instead, he bought the football club.
Watford Forever is the remarkable story of Elton John's ownership of Watford FC and its transformational journey to the top of the First Division under iconic manager Graham Taylor. Perhaps most remarkably, four of the same players who had been written off as has-beens went with them all the way from the bottom to the top. Inspiring and infectiously funny, this is a tribute to football's unlikeliest friendship as Elton John and Taylor, a straight-talking former fullback with a love of Vera Lynn, beat the odds and their personal demons to save a club and a community.
Immersed in the grime and glamour of '70s Britain, Watford Forever is one of sport's great underdog stories and a love letter to the beautiful game.
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE039
- Release date
- 10 Nov '23
TRACK LISTING
1. Oh My God! They Killed Kenny
2. (Let’s Get) Raunchier
3. Stardust (Part 3 Ariana In Space)
4. Hanging On The Telephone
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- LP
- £27.99
- Cat Number
- 1811311
- Release date
- 10 Nov '23
John Coltrane’s Prestige years began when he joined the Miles Davis Quintet in 1955. During the next few years, when he was either with Davis or the Thelonious Monk Quartet, he functioned as both leader and sideman for this label. These recordings document the first part of his relatively short but highly influential time in the spotlight. Lush Life, a combination of standards and a blues, treated in the unique Coltrane manner - sound wedded to material in a completely personal way - contains three tracks without a piano. This is the first time he recorded in this manner, other than when Monk was 'strolling,' and it offers another aspect from, and of, Trane.
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- LP
- £27.99
- Cat Number
- 1810201
- Release date
- 10 Nov '23
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Bakai
2. Violets For Your Furs
3. Time Was
Side B
1. Straight Street
2. While My Lady Sleeps
3. Chronic Blues
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- LP
- £21.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- RLR021LP
- Release date
- 10 Nov '23
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- CD
- £10.99
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- RLR021CD
- Release date
- 10 Nov '23
In his frst single, Mole In The Ground, a cover of an American anti-establishment folk song recorded by Bascom Lamar Lunsford in 1928, John allows the surrealism of the song to take centre stage, opting to speak rather than sing the words. His voice, too, lives beneath the ground of the melody, burrowing its way beneath hypnotic drums, dancing guitars, and sliding violins. By taking away the nursery rhyme-like melody of the song, we focus on our narrators' fantasies and desires, but also on "the weirdness of the song, and its aggressiveness. The last line is: I don't like the railroad man/ the railroad man will kill you when he can/ and he'll drink up your blood like red wine, and I wanted to get to grips with that emotion."
TRACK LISTING
1. The Zoological Gardens
2. Mole In The Ground
3. Willie Crotty
4. Kitty
5. The Seasons
6. Within A Mile Of Dublin
7. The Lag Song
8. Dirty Old Town
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- LP
- £17.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 4617LP
- Release date
- 10 Nov '23
- Format Info
Limited edition high-definition 180g audiophile pressing.
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As for the phrase "plays the blues" in the title, it's not so much an indicator that the tunes are conventional blues, but more indicative of a bluesy sensibility.
TRACK LISTING
1. Blues To Elvin
2. Blues To Bechet
3. Blues To You
4. Blues To Elvin [Alternative Take]
5. Mr. Day
6. Mr. Syms
7. Mr. Knight
8. Blues To You [Alternative Take]
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- LP
- £17.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 4618LP
- Release date
- 10 Nov '23
- Format Info
Limited 180g virgin vinyl including 2 bonus tracks.
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TRACK LISTING
1. Say It (Over And Over Again)
2. You Don't Know What Love Is
3. Too Young
4. To Go Steady
5. All Or Nothing At All
6. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
7. I Wish I Knew / What's New?
8. It's Easy To Remember
9. Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
10. Greensleeves
11. Naima
John Grant
Fireflies - Music Box
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- Misc
- £19.99
- Cat Number
- Release date
- 27 Oct '23
Recorded in Texas in collaboration with members of Midlake, the album was heralded as an “Instant Classic” by Mojo Magazine and went on to be selected as their choice for Best Album of that year.
The Independent described it as "a near-perfect marriage of his warm baritone with their lush woodwind and keyboard textures” and the BBC cited it as "one of the most deeply satisfying debut albums of recent times.
This version of this plaintive ballad replays it’s beautiful piano & vocal melodies.
John Dwyer + Heather Lockie, Thomas Dolas, Kyp Malone, Andres Renteria, Brad Caulkins & Archie Carey
Ritual / Habit / Ceremony
Castle Face Records
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- Ltd LP
- £25.99
- Cat Number
- CF148
- Release date
- 20 Oct '23
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- CF148CD
- Release date
- 20 Oct '23
For fans of Steve Roach, Eno, Syrinx, Howard Shore, Current 93, Terry Riley, Tangerine Dream and a proper sage scrub.
“An experiment in symphonic improvisation paired with synthesizerscapes. Strings, reeds, synths and hand percussion all blend sweetly into an odd landscape indeed. The final touch was to bring aboard some singers I have loved over the years. I’m so pleased they were all willing to participate and I’m very tickled by the plane we navigate. Once YoshimiO agreed to be on board I knew we were going to be OK. Recorded and mixed at my home studio (Stu-Stu-Studio in Los Angeles) and remotely, this one was a slow burn to see the light of day. And here it is in its final crystal form. Celebrating the spaces between ritual, habit and ceremony. And all the parallels between. The line is blurred. This is occult adjacent strain of sound. At home in daily ritual, contemplation and meditation.” - John Dwyer.
TRACK LISTING
1. What Do (YoshimiO)
2. Ruths Mouth (Albert Wolski)
3. For Those Who Don’t Get Anything (Gracie Jackson)
4. Memory Mirror Floweth Over (Ciriza)
5. Sound The Unknown (Kyp Malone)
6. Azazel (Brigid Dawson)
7. Debris In The Sky (Azita)
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- 19658844172
- Release date
- 6 Oct '23
TRACK LISTING
Vol. I // Maida Vale // July 25th, 2001
1. Let's Shake Hands
2. When I Hear My Name
3. Jolene
4. Death Letter
5. Cannon
6. Astro / Jack The Ripper
7. Hotel Yorba
8. I'm Finding It Hard To Be A Gentleman
9. Screwdriver
10. We're Going To Be Friends
11. You're Pretty Good Looking
12. Boll Weevil
13. Hello Operator
14. Baby Blue
Vol. II // Peel Acres II November 8th, 2001
15. Lord Send Me An Angel
16. Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
17. I Think I Smell A Rat
18. Lets Build A Home / Goin’ Back To Memphis
19. Little Room
20. The Union Forever
21. The Same Boy You've Always Known
22. Look Me Over Closely
23. Looking At You
24. St James Infirmary Blues
25. Apple Blossom
26. Rated X
27. Little Girl That Says
28. Jumble, Jumble
29. Little People
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Anthology II continues the celebration of his compositional genius via an excellently sequenced collection of some of his most iconic pieces of music from his extensive filmography, all newly recorded with his musical collaborators Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter.
The compilation opens with “Chariots of Pumpkins” from Halloween III that perfectly captures the eerie essence of the cult classic film with its pulsating synths and haunting melodies. The listener is engulfed by a sense of unease and anticipation, before being thrust into “69th St. Bridge” from Escape From New York, a dynamic track that encapsulates the futuristic and gritty nature of the film via the use of throbbing bass lines, driving rhythms, and electronic textures. The record has also an isolating tone as it skulks through ambient leaning tracks such as “Fuchs” and “To Mac’s Shack” from The Thing, and “Walk to the Lighthouse” from The Fog, all of which display a slower tempo, foreboding undertones and an ethereal atmosphere that feels like a distant whisper. All of which has been cautiously laid in preparation to the grand finale. The iconic and instantly recognizable ”Laurie’s Theme” from the original Halloween. Its simple yet menacing piano melody which has become synonymous with the horror genre, concludes the album by striking fear into the hearts of listeners.
These tracks represent just a fraction of John Carpenter’s impressive musical repertoire. With each haunting note and pulsating beat, his soundtracks continue to resonate with audiences, forever etching his name in the annals offilm music history.
TRACK LISTING
1. Chariots Of Pumpkins (Halloween III)
2. 69th St. Bridge (Escape From New York)
3. The Alley (War) (Big Trouble In Little China)
4. Wake Up (They Live)
5. Julie’s Dead (Assault On Precinct 13)
6. The Shape Enters Laurie’s Room (Halloween II)
7. Season Of The Witch (Halloween III)
8. Love At A Distance (Prince Of Darkness)
9. The Shape Stalks Again (Halloween II)
10. Burn It (The Thing)
11. Fuchs (The Thing)
12. To Mac’s Shack (The Thing)
13. Walk To The Lighthouse (The Fog)
14. Laurie’s Theme (Halloween)
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- LP
- £23.99
- Cat Number
- HIQLP 112
- Release date
- 6 Oct '23
Their first outing on Flying Dutchman was “Flight For Four” as the Carter Bradford Quartet that was released in 1969. This is the second album they recorded where Carter and Bradford were supported by Tom Williamson (bass), Buzz Freeman (drums) and another uncredited bass player on four extended improvisations – ‘The Sunday Afternoon Jazz Blues Society’, ‘The Eye Of The Storm’, ‘Loneliness’ and ‘Encounter’.
The album has been out of print on vinyl since 1971 and Ace are delighted to release it with audio taken from hi-res digital transfers from the original masters.
TRACK LISTING
Side One
1. The Sunday Afternoon
Jazz Blues Society
2. The Eye Of The Storm
Side Two
1. Loneliness
2. Encounter
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- Signed LP
£23.99£16.99- Cat Number
- BYREC50LPC1 (JAN24SALE)
- Release date
- 29 Sep '23
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Limited edition includes signed print. Special edition "metallic sand" vinyl with a gatefold sleeve plus an exclusive poster and a customised architect’s ruler designed by the band.
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- £19.99
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- BYREC50LP
- Release date
- 22 Sep '23
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- £23.99
- Cat Number
- BYREC50LPC1
- Release date
- 22 Sep '23
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- BYREC50CD
- Release date
- 22 Sep '23
The album – which features collaborations with award-winning actor Simon Pegg, and Barry Adamson (formerly of The Bad Seeds and seminal post-punk act Magazine) – is released via Brace Yourself Records & Pets Care Records, and is the follow-up to 2021’s Nocturnal Manoeuvres LP which crashed the top 75 of the main UK album chart.
“Limitations are key for us,” says drummer and vocalist John Newton. “I never view being a two-piece as a minus - it’s a key idiosyncratic element of what the project is.”
For the last decade, and now over four albums, the duo of Newton and Johnny Healey have constantly redefined and expanded the role, function and parameters of what a guitar and drum two-piece can be. No more so is this apparent than on their latest A Life Diagrammatic, a record that harnesses the punch and intensity of their blistering live shows with the band’s increasingly textural, cinematic and expressive sensibilities. “We knew the direction we wanted to go in after the last record,” Healey says of Nocturnal Manoeuvres. “We had started moving towards soundscapes rather than straight-up noise and four to the floor structure.”
The level of thought, ambition and scope is what makes JOHN such a captivating and genre-defying band, and A Life Diagrammatic such a rich and evocative listening experience. And the album artwork is perhaps a perfect metaphor for the band itself: a surface level glance may only reveal the basic function of an ostensible two-piece rock band but undertake a full service and you’ll discover a wealth of complexity, technicality, skill and function. Or quite simply, as Healey himself says, “we're not just a rock band. There's more to it than that.”
Seth Manchester (Big Brave, Battles, METZ) was brought in to mix the album, with Frank Arkwright (Mogwai, Arab Strap, Squarepusher, Autechre) mastering it at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. The aim being to merge the powerful live presence of the band whilst also honing in on some of the more varied dynamics at play. “We wanted to further explore the space and ambience of our instrumentation,” says Newton. “To offer an album that deliberately pushes and pulls in a multitude of directions throughout its duration.”
STAFF COMMENTS
Laura says: On their fourth album John continue to evolve their sound, adding more experimentation to their driving guitar and drums onslaught. As with previous releases, the taut guitar riffs create a tension throughout the album as it sweeps between brooding atmospherics and explosive outbursts, but there’s a more nuanced, cinematic feel this time around. This is typified on “Media Res” which features a strange, slightly unnerving monologue from Simon Pegg - a distorted conversation that you only hear one side of. Typical of the whole album there’s an ambiguity to the narrative that sucks you in and forces you to listen. There’s no snappy sloganeering here, the lyrical depth is integral to the sound as a whole, it’s an album that demands your attention. Still not convinced? Then surely a nod of approval, in the shape of a collaboration on “Riddley Scott Walker”, from the king of cinematic noir, Barry Adamson, should surely seal the deal.TRACK LISTING
1. At Peacehaven
2. Media Res
3. Côte D’Adur
4. A Submersible
5. A Whole House
6. Service Stationed
7. Construction Site/Summer_22
8. Trauma Mosaic
9. Riddley Scott Walker
10. The Common Cold
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- LP
- £37.99
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- 3896370
- Release date
- 15 Sep '23
This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.
TRACK LISTING
1. Let 'Em Roll (Side A)
2. Latona (Side A)
3. The Shadow Of Your Smile (Side A)
4. The Turnaround (Side B)
5. Jakey (Side B)
6. One Step Ahead (Side B)
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE034
- Release date
- 8 Sep '23
A version of much loved single ‘Blue Eyes Deceiving Me’ is backed by three tracks never before released on vinyl, including the lovely ‘(All You Find Is) Air’, which features wonderful sax from Louise Elliott of fellow Aussies, The Moodists. As for ‘The Revenge of Ella Mae Cooley’ … well, you gotta hear it.
Package includes sleeve essay by Julian Knowles and a set of five postcards with rare pics from a Melody Maker session – plus free download codes. Limited to 350 copies.
TRACK LISTING
Blue Eyes Deceiving Me
The Revenge Of Ella Mae Cooley
(All You Find Is) Air
Coz I Like It
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE033
- Release date
- 8 Sep '23
Released to coincide with their 2023 UK tour – their first visit for five years – this is the band’s first session for Peel, featuring a version of the indie hit ‘Falling Down The Stairs’ and two other songs from the LP plus ‘Stay With Me’, never before released on vinyl.
Precious package includes sleeve essay by Matt Love and a set of five postcards with rare pics from the session – plus free download codes. Limited to 350 copies.
TRACK LISTING
Stay With Me
Falling Down The Stairs
Straight As An Arrow
Sailors’ Graves
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- Coloured LP
- £22.99
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- FREUDLP141
- Release date
- 1 Sep '23
- Format Info
Limited edition ‘duck egg’ blue vinyl. Inner bag with unseen photos.
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE032
- Release date
- 4 Aug '23
Package includes sleeve notes from Manda Rin and a set of five postcards with rare pics – plus free download codes.
Limited to 500 copies.
TRACK LISTING
Sweet Shop Avengerz
Antiseptic Poetry
Rebel Soul
Keroleen
We Love John Peel
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- Coloured LP
- £21.99
- Cat Number
- WAST006LPC
- Release date
- 4 Aug '23
- Format Info
Clear vinyl with printed inner sleeve and digital
download card.
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“‘Words For The Dying’ has at its heart The Falklands Suite, Cale’s baroque if heartfelt response to the Anglo-Argentinian War, which finds him setting the poems of his beloved Dylan Thomas to music. When building songs around another’s words, the results often sound forced, but Cale does a magnificent job of compressing Thomas’s lyricism into neat melodic phrases, themselves just components of a vast harmonic mega-structure scored for the USSR’s Orchestra of Symphonic & Popular Music of Gostelradio. A project that could easily have collapsed under the weight of its own ambition is instead a late masterpiece, thanks to Cale’s deep-seated compositional genius, and unobtrusive but resonant production from Brian Eno.” - Kiran Sande
TRACK LISTING
The Falkland Suite
Introduction
There Was A Saviour
Interlude I
On A Wedding
Anniversary
Interlude II
Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
Do Not Go Gentle Into That
Good Night
The Soul Of Carmen
Miranda
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- 10" LP
- £17.99
- Cat Number
- JBH098LP
- Release date
- 4 Aug '23
John Samson (1946 - 2004) was a truly great documentary maker. He must be as I’ve been obsessed with his work for many years. Educated first at Glasgow School Of Art (circa 1963) and then finally in the art of film making at The National Film And Television School in Beaconsfield - he headed there in its opening year of 1971 having made a short film that got him a scholarship. It was at the NFTS that Samson met Mike Wallington, who was to become his right hand man and eventual producer; together as a quite brilliant team they made a handful of inspiring, entertaining and hugely prescient films about important, overlooked, unseen and marginal fringes in society.
Tattoo (1975) Exploring the rather clandestine world of tattooing in the UK.
Dressing For Pleasure (1977) Exploring the rather clandestine world of festish in the UK.
Brittania (1979) A film about railway enthusiasts and a steam train restoration. Arrows (1979) The life of dart player Eric Bristow.
Drag Ball (1981) An unreleased film about the annual Porchester Hall Drag Ball.
The Skin Horse (1983) BAFTA winning film about The Outsiders Club, a dating agency for disabled people.
The subject matter in all films was always unusual for the time, and Samson managed to navigate his way with compassion, interest and subtlety, immersing himself in the chosen scene and producing moving, fascinating and sometimes darkly amusing situations. His documentaries also do not rely on traditional voiceovers, with stories, facts and narrative threads being dictated by the subjects.
I’ve tried for a long time to find the music for a couple of his early films (there was actually an original 7” for Arrows) - so far this is the only unreleased soundtrack I have found. This one was written by Steve Jolliffe, who met Samson at the NFTS. Joliffe was the resident composer and had a room at the college complex where he could work on scores for the fledgling film makers. Jolliffe was and still is a multi-instrumentalist and prolific composer who had met Edgar Froese at the Berlin Konservatorium in the late 1960s and played in an early incarnation of Tangerine Dream. He toured with blues rock outfit Steamhammer, before hanging out at the NFTS, making this recording (and many others) and eventually rejoining Tangerine Dream in the late 1970s. Jolliffe still writes, records and releases today and once i had made contact with him we traced the original Tattoo master tape to a box at his brother’s house. Musically it’s charming, slightly folky, a touch baroque, there’s a whiff of prog too, and it perfectly suited this early documentary about the art and desire of tattoos. I only wish it was longer. But the film is only 16 minutes long. Seek it out if you can. Try and find all the Samson films, they really are a joy.
As well as featuring intimate footage of tattooed people, the film also includes a rare and very early interview with Alan Oversby (better known as Mr Sebastian), a seminal character in the development of tattoos and body modifications worldwide - it was he who eventually was to tattoo and pierce Genesis P-Orridge.
The images for this vinyl release were all found in Mike Wallington’s Tattoo documentary research folder from 1974, and were photos sent in to Mike and John by people who wanted to feature in the film. Most answered an advert in Time Out, and others included people from my home town of Aldershot where tattooist Bill Skuse and his wife, Rusty (the most tattooed woman in Britain at the time, and featured in the film) were based. His parlour was situated at the back of the arcade where we all used to lose all our pocket money in the slot machines.
The Musicians:
Steve Jolliffe - keyboards, flute, sax Geoff Jolliffe - bass guitar Julian Furniss - guitar Mick Kirby – drums.
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- Ltd 10"
- u/avbl
- Cat Number
- PRE031
- Release date
- 4 Aug '23
Package includes sleeve notes from Sci-Fi Steven and a set of five postcards with rare pics – plus free download codes.
Limited to 500 copies.
TRACK LISTING
Icky-Poo Air Raid
Kandy Pop
Teen-C Power
Super James
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE0208
- Release date
- 14 Jul '23
Ten-inch vinyl release includes a set of postcards with previously unseen pics, sleeve notes by Violins crooner John Wood and free download codes.
Limited to 350 copies.
TRACK LISTING
I Was Depending On You To Be My Jesus
Almost Dead And Nigh On Forty Years To Go
If I Were A Bullet (Then For Sure I’d Find A Way To Your Heart)
No-One Was Saving The World
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE027
- Release date
- 14 Jul '23
Ten-inch vinyl release includes a set of postcards with previously unseen pics, sleeve notes by main man Colin Gregory and free download codes.
Limited to 350 copies.
TRACK LISTING
Why Is It Always December?
The Candle Man
Though It Poured The Next Day, I Never Noticed The Rain
The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
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- LP
- £35.99
- Cat Number
- 5551419
- Release date
- 14 Jul '23
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- CD
- £15.99
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- 5551418
- Release date
- 14 Jul '23
In addition to some well-known Coltrane material (“My Favorite Things”, “Impressions”, “Greensleeves”), there is a breathtaking feature for Dolphy’s bass clarinet on “When Lights Are Low” and the only known non-studio recording of Coltrane’s composition “Africa”, from the Africa/Brass album. This recording represents a very special moment in John Coltrane's journey—the summer of 1961—when his signature, ecstatic live sound, commonly associated his Classic Quartet of '62 to '65, was first maturing and when he was drawing inspiration from deep, African sources— and experimenting with the two-bass idea both in the studio (Olé) and on stage. This truly rare recording of "Africa" captures his expansive vision at the time.
TRACK LISTING
My Favorite Things
When Lights Are Low
Impressions
Greensleeves
Africa
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- LP
- £25.99
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- UMCLP051
- Release date
- 14 Jul '23
- Format Info
This re-issue is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.
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Released in October 1967, London Conversation was the first album by the first 'rock' signing to Chris Blackwell's Island Records. With eight of the twelve tracks written by Martyn, it is easy to see why Blackwell was such a champion of his work. The five- minute plus sitar drone of Rolling Home pointed the way to the possibilities that lay ahead. The sleeve captured the earnest folky sitting among the capital's chimney tops, strumming his acoustic. At once Martyn was part of it; Martyn was above it.
TRACK LISTING
Fairy Tale Lullaby
Sandy Grey
London Conversation
Ballad Of An Elder Woman
Cocaine
Run Honey Run
Back To Stay
Rolling Home
Who's Grown Up Now
Golden Girl
This Time
Don't Think Twice
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- LP
- £25.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- UMCLP052
- Release date
- 14 Jul '23
- Format Info
This re-issue faithfully replicates the original 1968 Island Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 180g vinyl.
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Produced by fellow London scenester Al Stewart, The Tumbler was a huge step forward, presenting Martyn as the questing soul he would become; yet, for the abstraction of The Gardeners, there was the simple folk ditty of Fishin' Blues. With the exemplary flute playing of Harold McNair, Fly On Home is clear in its influence on Martyn's peer, Nick Drake. Knuckeldy Crunch and Slippledee- Slee Song demonstrates what would have happened if Syd Barrett had gone folk.
The Tumbler can be viewed also as the beginning of Martyn's slurred vocal style and sweet sentiment that was to chime with thousands of his aficionados in the UK.
TRACK LISTING
Sing A Song Of Summer
The River
Goin' Down To Memphis
The Gardeners
A Day At The Sea
Fishin' Blues
Dusty
Hello Train
Winding Boy
Fly On Home
Knuckledy Crunch And Slippledee-Slee Song
Seven Black Roses
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- 2xLP
- £28.99
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- STH2480LP
- Release date
- 30 Jun '23
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- STH2480CD
- Release date
- 30 Jun '23
Blowout contains all the hallmarks of the signature sound John Carroll Kirby has finessed over six solo albums and dozens of collaborations – playfulness, humour, and lushness.
TRACK LISTING
1) Oropendola
2) Mates
3) The Takedown
4) Hotel Jonny Chingas
5) Vertigo
6) So So So
7) Sun Go Down
8) Gecko Sun
9) Flying Cat
10) Mates (Dub)
11) So So So (Dub)
12) Hotel Jonny Chingas (Dub)
Various Artists
Yebo! Rare Mzansi Party Beats From Apartheid's Dying Years Compiled By John Armstrong
BBE Africa
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- 3xLP
- £37.99
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- BBE421CLP
- Release date
- 30 Jun '23
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- CD
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- BBE421CCD
- Release date
- 30 Jun '23
Unique diversity producing musical excellence was nothing new for South Africa, even in the 80s: both traditional and jazz music of various genres had been performed, showcased and recorded for decades with the assistance of some of the most skilled and ingenious sound-engineers and producers in the world, the jazz players rivalling their American peers in many cases. But what makes Mzansi 80s popular music unique is that it had to – and for the most part, did- appeal to a multi-ethnic, multilingual population almost like no other in the world, for its geographical size. There may have been many tribal and political differences between Zulu, Sotho, Xhosa, Tsonga and others day-to-day, but when it came to the weekend, those differences often melted away for a while on the dancefloor. Paul Ndlovu had kwaZulu fans as well as Shangaan followers; Black Moses and the Soul Brothers had followers and fans with everyone..and so on. And everyone- detractors and lovers alike- were content to settle on the monicker ‘Bubblegum’ as a general description. Mzansi took disco- and slowed it down a bit.. ..exactly as 90s and early 2000s South African DJs and mixers took House- and slowed it down a bit to develop Kwaito, Gqom and – later – Amapiano. The Roland TR-707 sampler came along in 1985- at just the right time for the flowering of Mzansi disco and boogie. And in the artful hands of arrangers, engineers and producers such as Peter “Hitman’ Moticoe, whose work figures on several of the tracks here, it became something unique to South Africa.
TRACK LISTING
1. Tsakane
2. Johnny Boy
3. Crocodile's Rock
4. I Was Born In Africa
5. Don't Follow Me
6. Special Angel
7. Blackout
8. Ximamane
9. Dayshift
10. Khombora Mina
11. Pusa Twala
12. Nwananga Washanesera
13. Ku Hluvukile Eka Zete
14. Chomesa
Mark Volman & John Cody
Happy Forever : My Musical Adventures With The Turtles, Frank Zappa, T. Rex, Flo & Eddie, And More
Jawbone
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- Paperback Book
- £16.95
- Cat Number
- 9781911036197
- Release date
- 23 Jun '23
Alice Cooper. This book is a puzzle. The outside frame pieces are about me, but the picture wouldn t be complete without the perspectives of all the people telling you about me.
Mark Volman. Mark Volman has led a storied life, and many of those stories are contained in Happy Forever. A true son of southern California, he has gone from topping the charts with The Turtles ( Happy Together ) to underground cred with Frank Zappa and beyond.
As Flo & Eddie, Mark and his longtime singing partner Howard Kaylan were the not-so-secret ingredient on many other artist s records, taking Bruce Springsteen into the Top 10 for the very first time and helping T. Rex dominate the British charts. Then came The Ramones, U2, Blondie, Duran Duran, and so many more; the list of credits is long and varied.
Happy Forever covers all of that, along with subsequent forays into animation, a stint as a radio personality in Los Angeles and New York, and a midlife return to academia, which led Mark to create and run innovative college programs in LA and Nashville. But this is not the world according to Mark Volman, and it is not your average musical autobiography. Alongside his own comments, this uniquely insightful book contains contributions from more than one hundred of Mark s peers, friends, and lovers who share their thoughts on the man himself and on topics that span the social and cultural landscape of past half-century.
Happy Forever s cast list reads like a who s who of popular music, featuring members of The Doors, The Monkees, The Byrds, The E Street Band, and many more; producers Tony Visconti, Bob Ezrin, and Hal Willner; voice actors from The Simpsons and the Firesign Theatre; and key figures from the worlds of radio, animation, and academia. The book also includes previously unseen photographs and forewords by Alice Cooper and Chris Hillman.
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- Hardback Book
- £30.00
- Cat Number
- 9781529308082
- Release date
- 23 Jun '23
It is a biography to be treasured' Joe Boyd'The Drake completist could ask for nothing else' Telegraph'Illuminating. The definitive word on Drake' ObserverIn 1968 Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of a loving, creative family and a privileged background, he was not only a handsome and popular Cambridge undergraduate, but also a new signing to the UK's hippest record label, Island.
Three years later, however - having made three well-reviewed but low-selling albums - Nick had been overwhelmed by a mysterious mental illness. He returned to live in his family home in rural Warwickshire in 1971, and died in obscurity in 1974, aged just 26. In the decades since, Nick has become the subject of ever-growing fascination and speculation.
Combined sales of his records now stand in the millions, his songs are frequently heard on TV and in films, and he has become one of the most widely known and admired singer-songwriters of his generation. Nick Drake: The Life is the only biography of Nick to be written with the blessing and involvement of his sister and Estate. Drawing on copious original research and new interviews with his family, friends and musical collaborators, as well as deeply personal archive material unavailable to previous writers - including his father's diaries, his essays and private correspondence - this is the most comprehensive and authoritative account possible of Nick's short and enigmatic life.
Includes a foreword by Gabrielle Drake and over 75 photos, many rare or previously unseen.
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- 2xColoured LP
- £38.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- THRILL578LPX
- Release date
- 23 Jun '23
- Format Info
Double turquoise vinyl.
Double turquoise vinyl.
The first full length collaboration from two artists who have expanded the field of rock through their work over the last three decades, both as individuals and in their time together in The Sea and Cake.
John McEntire is known for his work as a musician playing with Tortoise, Jim O’Rourke, Stereolab and others. Owner and operator of Soma Electronic Music Studios, he is also known for his pioneering work as a producer and engineer, working with Stereolab, Archer Prewitt, Yo La Tengo, Bright Eyes, The Fiery Furnaces and Chicago Underground, among many others.
‘Sons Of’ finds two master craftsmen working at the nexus of pristine production and skilful improvisation, forging compelling narrative arcs into glistening metropolises of infinite pulse. The resulting sound is one of transformative fluidity; each passing beat marking a sense of familiarity while the surrounding atmospheres are in constant flux. Ever-shifting tonalities and magnetic grooves propel the music with persistent momentum without feeling hurried buoyed by the steady pace, creating the framework that allows space for new sounds to breathe and evolve.
TRACK LISTING
1. A Ghost At Noon
2. Crossing At The Shallow
3. A Yellow Robe (Part 1)
4. A Yellow Robe (Part 2)
5. A Drink At The Banquet
6. Ascending By Night
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- Coloured LP
- £34.99
- Cat Number
- JPR051LP
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23 (originally released 13 May '22)
- Format Info
Limited Green Vinyl.
Limited Green Vinyl.
While “Gris Gris” contains moments that make it a type stamped symbol of its era, it might have well been made in outer space. Recorded in its own psychic and stylistic vacuum, the album borrows as heavily from the New Orleans’ musical culture in which he grew up as it does the looming continuous pulse of war, heavy drugs, and the end of the free love/hippie movement. The album was taken under the wing of a small percentage of the “underground” upon its release in 1968 and did not find a true following for years.
TRACK LISTING
1. Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya
2. Danse Kalinda Ba Doom
3. Mama Roux
4. Danse Fambeaux
5. Croker Courtbullion
6. Jump Sturdy
7. I Walk On Guilded Splinters
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- Ltd 7"
- £8.99
- Cat Number
- BRS73LP
- Release date
- 16 Jun '23
TRACK LISTING
1.One Of These Things First - Emeli Sandé
2. Day Is Done - John Grant
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- 2xLtd LP
- £28.99
- Cat Number
- 4050538799682
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
Double 180 gram vinyl.
Double 180 gram vinyl. -
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- £12.99
- Cat Number
- 4050538799712
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
Mediabook edition.
Mediabook edition.
The audio has Expertly restored and remastered in superlative HD audio; The Montreux Years is released on superior audiophile heavy weight vinyl, MQA quality CD and in HD digital. The release includes brand new liner notes and rare photos from his Montreux shows.
TRACK LISTING
1. Professor Longhair Boogie (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1986) 03:35
2. You Ain't Such A Much (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1986) 04:52
3. Sick And Tired (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1986) 03:30
4. Stack-A-Lee (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1986) 04:11
5. Accentuate The Positive (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2007) 03:50
6. Right Place, Wrong Time (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2004) 04:04
7. Rain (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2007) 04:53
8. Going Back To New Orleans (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1993) 10:34
9. Makin' Whoopee (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1995) 04:01
10. Big Chief (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2011) 07:18
11. In A Sentimental Mood / Mississippi Mud / Hard Times (Medley) (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2012) 07:35
12. Love For Sale (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2007) 08:34
13. Let The Good Times Roll (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1995) 06:07
14. Good Night Irene (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1986) 05:41
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- Coloured 12"
- £21.99
- Cat Number
- PRR02
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
- Format Info
Pink vinyl.
Pink vinyl.
Much of the album is also somewhat reflective. A personal and emotional reflection on John's life - the tracks a nod to John's varied musical pasts. Sounds, a pondering upon his collection of global influences and his life experiences over the years; Genre, the pulse of today, societal, musical or otherwise - but not easy to place as is John's character; Lyrics, the present dilemmas we face as humanity, whilst reflecting on our own private and deepest human feelings, of life and, of love in all its wonderous forms.
Musically, the 'Reflections of the Sun' album casts a glimpse back to Rocca's Brit Funk roots growing up amongst 1970s classic Jazz Funk and Soul, while also blending inspiration from his 1980-90s electronic influences topped off with everything else he has seen and heard on his life travels since then.
Giving a nod to John's own past while bringing Reflections of the Sun up to date was completed by adding elements of London's re-surgent and vibrant jazz scene. Not so different from John’s own early days jamming with Freeez, he is accompanied on all the album's tracks by his two young nephews and highly respected jazz musicians, Benjamin Rocca on keyboards and Joel Rocca on Saxophone. The two youngsters are known on the current London Jazz scene as the "Rocca Brothers".
The album's title track, "Reflections of the Sun" refers to how humanity, gorging on the sunshine that brings life to everything, also has a tendency to reflect the hellishness of the sun itself. Comparing our self-destructive nature with our planet's volumes of un-ending beauty.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Angel
A2. Close Your Eyes (Take The Ride)
A3. Dream, LoveB1Reflections Of The Sun
B2. I’ve Known Love (the Feeling Of Love)
B3. Open Spaces, Open Minds
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- 2xLtd LP
- £27.99
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- RCM101120LP
- Release date
- 2 Jun '23
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- Deluxe LP
- £41.99
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- 7247906
- Release date
- 26 May '23
Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at RTI with all-analog mastering from the original tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio it is presented in a Tip-On Jacket with obi. In addition to Monk and Coltrane the album also features the talents of Art Blakey (drums), Wilbur Ware (bass), Gigi Gryce (alto sax) and more.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
1. Ruby, My Dear
2. Trinkle, Tinkle
3. Off Minor
Side B
1. Nutty
2. Epistrophy
3. Functional
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- LP
- £15.99
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- 772336
- Release date
- 19 May '23
It includes a selection of hard- to- find recordings Hooker made with his electric guitar during different sessions in the 1950s. All of the dates were produced by Bernard Besman, the man who helped define Hooker's recorded sound, which often relied upon heavy walking beats, boogies, and an eerie atmosphere. Most of LP contains raw solo recordings like the opener 'Might As Well Say We're Through', 'Left My Wife and My Baby', and 'Fire at Natchez, among others, combined with some full band performances such as 'Lost My Job', and the great 'Shake It Up and Go'.
TRACK LISTING
1. Baby, You Ain't No Good (Bonus Track)
2. Ballad To Abraham Lincoln
3. My Mother-In-Law Moved In
4. Mad With You Baby
5. The Sweetest Girl I Know
6. Fire At Natchez
7. Shake It Up And Go
8. Let's Talk It Over (Bonus Track)
9. Deep Down In My Hear T
10. Travelin' Day And Night
11. Left My Wife And My B Aby
12. Lost My Job
13. Risin' Sun (Louisiana Voo-Doo)
14. Might As Well S Ay We're Through
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- 2xColoured LP
- £31.99
- Cat Number
- 4050538862454
- Release date
- 5 May '23
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- 2xCD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- 4050538872323
- Release date
- 5 May '23
His international breakthrough came in 1974 with the hugely popular ‘1000 Volts of Holt’ album, which fused raw reggae rhythms with sophisticated orchestral arrangements.
The highlight of the long-player was a reworking of Kris Kristoffersson’s country hit, ‘Help Me Make It Through The Night’, which the following year became a global hit, with the single, peaking at Number 6 in the UK charts. Over the years that followed, Holt remained a giant of the reggae scene with further best sellers and numerous sell-out shows around the world.
The very best of his solo work has been brought together on this ‘Essential Artist’ compilation, the latest release in Trojan Records’ newly launched range that showcases the work of Jamaica’s best-loved ‘foundation’ artists.
Available as a 28-track double vinyl LP and a comprehensive 2CD compilation, the collection superbly illustrates the talent that made John Holt one of the reggae music’s most popular and enduring singers.
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: A nice catch-all / best of from one of reggae music's most popular and enduring singers. Mainly dealing with issues of love and longing, it's a light-hearted alternative to some of the more political and riotous music also being at the time. Lover's rock heads are certainly gonna dig this.TRACK LISTING
Vinyl Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Help Me Make It Through The Night
2. Pledging My Love
3. Stealing Stealing
4. My Heart Is Gone
5. Looking Back
6. I'll Be Lonely
7. I Wanna Dance
Side B
1. Ali Baba
2. Stick By Me
3. Strange Things
4. Tonight
5. The Further You Look
6. Wild Fire
7. Sweetie Come Brush Me
Side C
1. Sister Big Stuff
2. My Desire
3. I'll Take A Melody
4. Time And The River
5. Let's Get It While It's Hot
6. Ghetto Queen
7. Reggae From The Ghetto
Side D
1. You Baby
2. You Will Never Find Another Love Like Mine
3. I See Your Face
4. The Tide Is High
5. Let's Build Our Dreams
6. Before The Next Teardrop
7. Just The Way You Are
CD Tracklisting:
CD 1
1. Help Me Make It Through The Night
2. Pledging My Love
3. Stealing Stealing
4. My Heart Is Gone
5. Looking Back
6. I'll Be Lonely
7. I Wanna Dance
8. Anymore
9. I Want You Closer
10. Morning Of My Life
11. Sometimes
12. What You Gonna Do Now
13. I’d Love You To Want Me
14. Ungrateful Lady
15. Keep It Up
16. My Eyes
17. In The Springtime
18. Tell Me Why
19. Ali Baba
20. Stick By Me
21. Strange Things
22. Tonight
23. The Further You Look
24. Wildfire
25. Sweetie Come Brush Me
26. Just The Way You Are
CD 2
1. Sister Big Stuff
2. My Desire
3. I'll Take A Melody
4. Time And The River
5. Let's Get It While It's Hot
6. Ghetto Queen
7. Reggae From The Ghetto
8. Riding For A Fall
9. All My Life
10. Love So Right
11. Winter World Of Love
12. Memories By The Score
13. Have You Ever Been To Heaven
14. Wasted Days And Wasted Nights
15. Try A Thing
16. The Treasure Of Love
17. I’m The One To Be Blamed
18. A Love Like Yours
19. You Baby
20. You Will Never Find Another Love Like Mine
21. I See Your Face
22. The Tide Is High
23. Let’s Build Our Dream
24. Before The Next Teardrop Falls
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- LP
- £25.99
- Cat Number
- WOODSIST105
- Release date
- 28 Apr '23
Love For The Underdog, his aptly titled fourth release with the Woodsist label, was tracked live to tape in various studios and apartments across the Empire State with help from his bandmates in Cut Worms’ touring outfit, Max Clarke, Keven Lareau and Noah Bond. Buoyant melodies are supported by timeless string arrangements, translated from Andrews’ head to page with the help of friend Simon Hanes. The string quartet follows the tradition of Francoise Hardy, Harry Nilsson, Margo Guryan and Belle and Sebastian, giving the whole thing a cinematic ambience with stark shadows of an Edward Hopper painting. The lyrics tie together narratives of cynical heroes and troubled lovers. Put on the record and sink into well-worn red velvet theater seats, when the lights go down and the flickering of projectors run the title: Love For The Underdog, indeed.
TRACK LISTING
1. Checks In The Mail
2. Never Go Away
3. Fourth Wall
4. Starving Artist
5. Walking Under My Loves Ladders
6. Cloudy
7. Only Heart
8. I Want To Believe
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- Coloured LP
- £23.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- ORBIT092LP (#RSD23)
- Release date
- 22 Apr '23
A brand-new John Massoni LP that was produced by his good friend, Grammy nominated producer, Hunter Lea. This is another John Massoni and Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, EAR, Spectrum) collaboration. It will have one side completely mixed by Sonic Boom. Featuring the excellent track ìGreat Godís Giftî this will be pressed in heavy weight 180g solid mustard coloured vinyl.
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- Dinked Edition LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- CSR008LP
- Release date
- 14 Apr '23
- Format Info
• "Rusty Solenoid" orange vinyl. *
• Stanley Donwood pencil drawing art print. *
• Augmented Reality Artwork Experience (scan QR code).
• 2 bonus tracks (download). *
• Hand numbered sleeve. *
• Limited edition of 250. *
• "Rusty... [ + ]
The ghost in Ghost Notes refers to a robot drummer, although its appearance is less corporeal than it might sound. In fact, it employs quite crude technology not too different from your set of automatic car keys. John Matthias and Jay Auborn used solenoid magnets to convert audio signals sent from their computer into voltages that could fire hammers that would in turn hit a real drum kit. “It looks like a science experiment, all covered in wires”. Despite the rudimentary looks, ghost-drummer does an impressive job; allowing for digital collaboration with real instruments. In other words, instead of working with samples played off speakers, these can now be reproduced live, in a physical space.
As if straight out of a scene in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the first time John Matthias and Jay Auborn brought their creation to life was a haunting experience. They fed it complex rhythmic information from a 1950s jazz recording of drum solos and lo and behold the drum kit came alive in the room with shocking resemblance to the original performance. That chilling encounter which, in the musician's eyes took technological appropriation to new, terrifying levels, pivoted the musician’s ideas: “We realised that we could use the method to extract the low level often overlooked rhythmic patterns within our own recorded or live material. [...] We now focused on creating Ghostly echoes of our own performances rather than invoking the dead to be in our band”.
This process became the bare bones behind the composition of Ghost Notes, rather than playing acoustic instruments and later digitally manipu- lating these recordings, these two stages were brought together in one moment and place in time, “The digital elements of our music were in the room with us during the improvisational stage, and in binding them together, we could create a live album of sorts”.
Just like a live session is filled with and shaped by factors such as the energy emanating from the audience on any given night, or the acoustics of a particular venue, Ghost Notes also embraces and plays on the undetermined. As the computer struggled under the demands of interpreting John Matthias and Jay Auborn’s improvisations live, it would sometimes act unexpectedly, hitting the drums as if possessed by its own agency. “Errors in the digital processing became fruitful diversions, like John Cage’s Ghost in the machine”. The result of this cyborgian jam session? A high-energy album featuring a wide range of sounds and tempos. In this regard, Ghost Notes stands in stark contrast to the more minimal, ambient output of other artists experimenting with similar frameworks of digital- acoustic interplay. Perhaps it’s because of this immersive quality, where textures, layers and emotional dramaturgy all combine to create unheard of worlds and make it impossible for partial listening, that Ghost Notes’ first track is named Dive Into This. Matthias' soaring violin lures listeners into shifting landscapes of syncopated drum beats and cycling synths. Classical structures are deconstructed into electronica and back, all the while Auborn is distorting acoustic sounds beyond recognition. “It’s about screwing with the materi- ality of it,” he says.
Although Ghost Notes is rich, layered and textured, it’s not one inch impenetrable. What could otherwise feel dense gets pierced by enthralling melodies such as virtuosic violin segments that pull on 19th-century romanticism, or soulful piano grooves à la Alice Coltrane or Marvin Gaye. At other times, the music tells imaginative stories, “In Christmas at the Twisted Wheel, we created a mini violin concerto which begins in an imagined Christmas advert for John Lewis through a dissonant landscape to The Twisted Wheel Northern Soul Club in Manchester”.
Ghost Notes is a testament to the enormous artistic freedom John Matthias and Jay Auborn have achieved together. Within the conceptual framework they set for themselves, they trusted sound to be their one and only guide, a model which led the duo on a vast exploration between extremes and nuances, like the collision and subtleties laid out on Vodka and Coke. In the track, emotional violin comes together with raw, brutal textures – “caveman beats” as the duo calls them. White-washed static noises are heard as the track progresses, the result of the computer’s own interpretations of what it was being fed, creating a surprising unison between the two contrasting worlds. “The sounds were a kind of digital shadow of ourselves. An in-betweenness of acoustic and digital”. It’s in that in- betweenness which doesn't sit comfortably in either classical nor electronica that Ghost Notes succeeds. It’s within that grey space between humans programming robots, and robots breaking down and erring like humans that the album achieves its finest, most original aesthetic expression, opening a new path for human-robotic collaboration in music-making.
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THIS EDITION:
The album cover was created by artist, Stanley Donwood, using a copper verdigris technique in which the original drawing is printed on a copper sheet and undergoes a chemical decay process.
The original pencil drawing by Stanley Donwood is what is used for the print in our Dinked Edition. 6” x 6” with augmented reality experience information on the back.
On the inside cover of the vinyl, the artist Mike Phillips has developed 100 new images using a Generative Algorithmic Network (GAN) - an algorithmic AI technique for which Mike Phillips used the AI to compare the front cover copper verdigris image with the pencil drawing and produce the new set of twisted forms. You can see these 100 new forms concatenated together in an Augmented Reality animation developed by Chris Price of Zubr with sound designed by John Matthias and Jay Auborn by pointing to a QR code on the reverse of the Donwood print in the Dinked vinyl edition.
TRACK LISTING
Side A
Dive Into This
Long Time Dead
Auto Psalm Engine
Lovelaced
Side B
No Parable
A Silver Solenoid
Christmas At The Twisted Wheel
Vodka & Coke
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- 2xLP
- £47.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- MOND279C
- Release date
- 7 Apr '23
TRACK LISTING
SIDE A
1. Main Title 1:14
2. Far From Home / E.T. Alone 6:57
3. The Encounter 1:49
4. Bait For E.T. 1:45
5. Meeting E.T. 2:08
6. E.T.’s New Home 1:28
7. The Beginning Of A Friendship 2:53
8. Toys 3:13
SIDE B
1. I’m Keeping Him 2:20
2. E.T.’s Powers 2:44
3. The Closet 0:53
4. E.T. And Elliott Get Drunk 2:57
5. Frogs 2:21
6. The Kiss 0:49
7. Levitation 0:41
8. At Home 5:38
9. The Magic Of Halloween 2:55
SIDE C
1. Sending The Signal 3:58
2. Searching For E.T. 4:18
3. Invading Elliott’s House 2:24
4. Stay With Me 2:24
5. Losing E.T. 2:04
6. E.T. Is Alive 4:22
SIDE D
1. The Rescue And Bike Chase 8:07
2. The Departure 7:07
3. End Credits 3:55
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- Paperback Book
- £19.99
- Cat Number
- 9781526173201
- Release date
- 23 Mar '23
- Format Info
Limited SIGNED by John Robb edition.
Limited SIGNED by John... [ + ]
Finally, after a decade of work, countless interviews and immersing himself into the culture, John Robb's definitive book is a journey far into The Art Of Darkness. The first in-depth book on Goth is a deep dive into the enduring culture and the social, historical and political backdrop that created the space for The Art Of Darkness to thrive.
680 pages with interviews with the likes of Andrew Eldritch, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, The Cult, The Banshees, The Damned, Einsturzende Neubauten, Danielle Dax, Johnny Marr, Trent Reznor, Adam Ant, Laibach, The Cure, Nick Cave and many others, this is a deepdive and walk on the dark side and into the very heartland of Goth.
Every generation has got to deal with the blues - embrace the melancholy. Find a beauty in the darkness, a poetry in sex and death...Whether it’s the Roman love of ghost stories, European macabre folk tales of the Middle Ages, Romantic poets, or the original Gothic tribes sacking the Eternal City, a walk on the dark side has always had its attractions. In the post-punk period, Generation Xerox saw music, clothes and culture come together to create one of the most enduring pop cultures of them all that still resonates to this day..
Goth.
It may have been a retrospective term for a scene that was already thriving, but its back story goes back millennia. The book starts with the fall of Rome and ends with Instagram and Tik Tok influencers, taking diversions through Lord Byron, European folk tales, Indian sadhus, Gothic architecture, Romantic poets, philosophers and idealists before coalescing through the dark end of the Sixties’ youthquake, and then blooming like Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs Du Mal in the post-punk period.
Defying the broken heartland of the post-industrial cities, the semi-forgotten satellite towns and the grim real politic of the Thatcher years, this was a post-punk culture full of dark dance and a death disco. The music soundtracked the style and a Stygian obsidian soundtrack fused the many fragments of culture that had been flirted with in the post-war pop narrative; a darker culture that began to coalesce around the holy trinity of the Doors, the Velvets and the Stooges in the late Sixties before flirting with glam rock, being amplified by punk, exploding as Goth, and then splintering into electronic dance music, industrial, psychobilly and new Goth, before finally filtering through dystopian Hollywood blockbusters, modern literature and throughout the modern world.
In the late Seventies, Goth culture emerged around a clutch of bands who found a new form of beauty in the apocalyptic foreboding, as a new youth tribe took glam rock from the catwalk to the cobbles and onto their own dance floors, creating their own art of darkness.
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- Coloured 7"
- £7.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- BYREC45
- Release date
- 17 Mar '23
- Format Info
Clear vinyl 7”, limited to 500 copies.
Clear vinyl 7”, limited... [ + ]
Set to undulating guitar riffs and a greater sense of dynamics than ever before, 'Theme New Bond Junior' finds JOHN tackling the questioning feelings that arose as the band returned to the live circuit once venues began to open their doors as they embarked on a rapturous 30-date UK tour in autumn 2021, as well as recent festival slots at Green Man, End of the Road, Latitude, a main stage appearance at Bearded Theory’s Spring Gathering and a memorable return to the mainland at Belgium’s historic ROCK HERK.
“The arts function as a mirror of our wider culture, and it’s been interesting to see how the acceleration of the present affects most aspects of our lives - including the production of art and music," says Newton. "The track was a gestation on the speed of consumption: this includes both the constant update/obsolescence of physical products and their resulting affect on the human attention span.”
“Recently, it’s been concerning to see individuals - who have been pillars of creative action - questioning their ability to continue their jobs (and passions). Especially amongst the, quite frankly ridiculous, calls to ‘retrain’. I felt like the track helped us to keep our own momentum, continuing to stay positive and move forward despite the challenging scenery around us. With this in mind, it felt like the perfect track to act as a call-to-arms, introducing a new chapter as the first glimpse of a barrage of new stuff we’ve been focussing on.”
'Theme New Bond Junior' also marks a change in production personnel: beginning a collaboration between South London recording engineer Tom Hill of The Bookhouse Studio and mixing engineer Seth Manchester (Battles, METZ, The Hotelier) of Machines With Magnets, Rhode Island, USA.
STAFF COMMENTS
Laura says: How good is this?! Piccadilly's favourite noise makers return with this superb two tracker. Theme New Bond Junior is a typically JOHN thundering guitar and drum assault while Hopper On The Dial is a more brooding affair that slowly builds to a crescendo of soaring guitars, rumbling drums and half-spoken vocals.TRACK LISTING
A1 Theme New Bond Junior
B1 Hopper On The Dial
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- CD
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- 7242459
- Release date
- 24 Feb '23
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Hooker’s electrifying blues classic, Burnin’, this 180-gram reissue offers newly remastered audio from the original analog tapes. Featuring a stereo mix of the album, as it was first released in 1962, the set includes the King of the Boogie’s signature hit, “Boom Boom,” and features members of the legendary Funk Brothers (Motown Records’ celebrated house band). A tip-on jacket, which replicates Vee-Jay Records’ original designs, rounds out the package.
CD
This expanded 60th anniversary edition of Hooker’s electrifying blues classic, Burnin’, offers both stereo and newly mixed mono versions of the album. Audio has been remastered from the original analog tapes. The tracklist features the King of the Boogie’s signature hit, “Boom Boom,” plus a previously unreleased alternate take of “Thelma,” captured during Hooker’s 1961 session. Includes new liner notes by the GRAMMY®-nominated music historian, Bill Dahl, offered in an 8-page poster booklet.
TRACK LISTING
LP Tracklisitng:
Side A
Boom Boom
Process
Lost A Good Girl
A New Leaf
Blues Before Sunrise
Let’s Make It
Side B
I Got A Letter
Thelma
Drug Store Woman
Keep Your Hands To Yourself
What Do You Say
CD
1. Boom Boom (Stereo)
2. Process (Stereo)
3. Lost A Good Girl (Stereo)
4. A New Leaf (Stereo)
5. Blues Before Sunrise (Stereo)
6. Let’s Make It (Stereo)
7. I Got A Letter (Stereo)
8. Thelma (Stereo)
9. Drug Store Woman (Stereo)
10. Keep Your Hands To Yourself (Stereo)
11. What Do You Say (Stereo)
12. Thelma (Alternate Take)
13. Boom Boom (Mono)
14. Process (Mono)
15. Lost A Good Girl (Mono)
16. A New Leaf (Mono)
17. Blues Before Sunrise (Mono)
18. Let’s Make It (Mono)
19. I Got A Letter (Mono)
20. Thelma (Mono)
21. Drug Store Woman (Mono)
22. Keep Your Hands To Yourself (Mono)
23. What Do You Say (Mono)
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- Coloured LP
- £22.99
- Cat Number
- RIP106
- Release date
- 17 Feb '23
- Format Info
700 copies clear / rosa coloured vinyl UK exclusive.
700 copies clear / rosa... [ + ]
For fans of Niagra, Black Pus, Container, Bruce Ditmas and all things beat driven and drum craven.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: You never expect John Dwyer to stay still for too long, but I really didn't expect his foray with Ryan Sawyer & Andres Renteria to be quite this *drummy*. It's a beautifully expressive and brilliantly organic sounding suite of rhythms punctuated with incidental synth stabs and jagged groove. Unsurprisingly inventive and unique.TRACK LISTING
Intro
The Spent Sadist
Chit Chat
Scavenger
Red Clay Wall
Dungeon Crawler
Bug City
The Sythe Is Remorseless
Bricked Rune
Scatter
The Hostile Womb
More Will Be Revealed
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE 023
- Release date
- 10 Feb '23
TRACK LISTING
Caveman
Frank De Salvo
Dirty Clothing
And When I Wake Up
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE024
- Release date
- 10 Feb '23
TRACK LISTING
Patience Is Mine
Waiting Seems Vain
A Living Ken And Barbie (Back To Basics Mix)
The Searching
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- 2xColoured LP
- £26.99
- Cat Number
- DS122LPX
- Release date
- 20 Jan '23
- Format Info
Transparent violet vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.
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- 2xLP
- £25.99
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- DS122LP
- Release date
- 20 Jan '23
- Format Info
Double LP in gatefold jacket.
2 x black vinyl.
Printed inner sleeves.
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- CD
- £10.99
- Cat Number
- DS122CD
- Release date
- 20 Jan '23
- Format Info
Gatefold CD jacket.
16-page booklet.
Gatefold CD jacket.
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On MERCY, Cale enlists some of music’s most curious young minds: Animal Collective, Sylvan Esso, Laurel Halo, Tei Shi, Actress. They’re only some of the astounding cast here, brilliant musicians who climb inside Cale’s consummate vision of the world and help him redecorate there. Cale turned 80 in March, and he’s watched as many peers have passed away, particularly during the last decade. MERCY is the continuation of a long career’s work with wonder. Cale has always searched for new ways to explore old ideas of alienation, hurt, and joy; MERCY is the latest transfixing find of this unsatisfied mind.
The writings and recordings that shaped MERCY piled up for years, as Cale watched society totter at the brink of dystopia. Trump and Brexit, Covid and climate change, civil rights and right-wing extremism—Cale let the bad news of the day filter into his lines, whether that meant contemplating the sovereignty and legal status of sea ice melting near the poles or the unhinged arming of Americans. Lessons from a life (still being) richly lived floated to the fore, too, nodded to on the previously released “NIGHT CRAWLING.” If we’re always regretting our past, aren’t we conscripting ourselves to permanent disappointment?
During “STORY OF BLOOD,” after the piano prelude gives way to a frame-rattling beat and synthesizers that feel like sunshine splashed across a snowfield, the voices of Cale and Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering slide past one another, two phantoms trying to find a partner amid the modern din. “Swing your soul,” they both sing in aspiration. In the final verse, Cale remembers this existence is not just about himself. “I’m going back to get them, my friends in the morning. Bring them with me into the light.” The accompanying video by Emmy-winning director Jethro Waters is a mix of disturbing and serene featuring both Cale and Weyes Blood. Its deep tones and religious images emphasize the track’s dark, spiritual mood.
Cale elaborates: “I’d been listening to Weyes Blood’s latest record and remembered Natalie’s puritanical vocals. I thought if I could get her to come and sing with me on the ‘Swing your soul’ section, and a few other harmonies, it would be beautiful. What I got from her was something else! Once I understood the versatility in her voice, it was as if I’d written the song with her in mind all along. Her range and fearless approach to tonality was an unexpected surprise. There’s even a little passage in there where she’s a dead-ringer for Nico.”
TRACK LISTING
1. Mercy Feat. Laurel Halo
2. Marilyn Monroe’s Leg (Beauty Elsewhere) Feat. Actress
3. Noise Of You
4. Story Of Blood Feat. Weyes Blood
5. Time Stands Still Feat. Sylvan Esso
6. Moonstruck (Nico’s Song)
7. Everlasting Days Feat. Animal Collective
8. Night Crawling
9. Not The End Of The World
10. The Legal Status Of Ice Feat. Fat White Family
11. I Know You’re Happy Feat. Tei Shi
12. Out Your Window
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, And Daniel Davies
Halloween Ends Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Sacred Bones
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- Coloured LP
- £21.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- SBR315LPC3
- Release date
- 20 Jan '23
- Format Info
Pumpkin orange vinyl.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
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- LP
- £20.99
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- SBR315LP
- Release date
- 20 Jan '23
- Format Info
Black vinyl.- Includes MP3 Download Code.
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- CD
- £13.99
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- SBR315CD
- Release date
- 20 Jan '23
When the franchise relaunched in 2018, Halloweenshattered box office records, becoming the franchise’s highest-grossing chapter and set a new record for the biggest opening weekend for a horror film starring a woman. In 2021, Halloween Killsearned the biggest opening weekend for any horror film in the pandemic era and simultaneously set a new record for a non-live event premiere streaming on Peacock.
As Halloween Endsmarks the last chapter of the David Gordon Green trilogy, so it ushers the essential return of original director and composer John Carpenter to score the iconically hair-raising soundtrack alongside Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies. Together they once again bring the celebrated music score to the horror movie series, one of the most distinctive aspects of the franchise to date
Similarly to the last two soundtracks, Halloween Endswas recorded in its entirety at John Carpenter’s home studio and Daniel’s studio. “The three of us compose,perform, and record all the music, and everything is mixed by Daniel together with John Spiker” says John Carpenter.
The unmistakable mix of software synths, vintage analogue equipment, and live instrumentation is utilized once again to provide the signature sound of Halloween. However, rumors have it that Halloween Ends is going to be somewhat different from the previous two films in the trilogy. With that comes an expanded soundtrack, one that matches the tone of a tangible rise in stakes and conveys the climatic feel of the film. The soundtrack of the third installment broadens old themes whilst creating new ones in an effort to bring renewed life to one of the most epic horror scores ever written. Carpenter elaborates, “The main themes have all been passed down from the original Halloween. We have refined them and created new themes for new characters.
”The soundtrack was tracked scene by scene but the album itself plays like a standalone piece of music. The general atmosphereis one of dread yet the record includes some groove laden moments reminiscent of Escape From New York or some of Carpenter’s other more dance-able scores. Exquisite and delicate ambient pieces weave their way between some of the score’s more arresting moments and yet maintain a subtle pop sensibility. The overall achievement showcases three master musicians, one of whom invented the entire horror-synth genre, crafting an evocative, playful and deeply listenable score that honors a legacy and expands on the decades of work that have been leading to this triumphant climax.
Carpenter is known for directing the original 1978 Halloween, as well as other horror classics like The Thing, The Fog, Escape From New York, Christine, Big Trouble in Little China, andThey Live. However John Carpenter is not only a cult movie-maker, he’s also a pioneering electronic composer. Halloween Endsis the soundtrack of the final battle against evil. Watch your back this Halloween, Michael may be near you.
STAFF COMMENTS
Barry says: One of the most legendary soundtrack writers and directors of all time, in his newest guise with both Cody (his son) and Daniel Davies bring us the third and final bout of dystopian synths and tense atmospheric drone. A blistering, and perfectly fitting instrumental tour de force.TRACK LISTING
1 Where Is Jeremy?
2 Halloween Ends (Main Title)
3 Laurie’s Theme Ends
4 The Cave
5 Cool Kid
6 Drags To The Cave
7 Evil Eyes
8 Transformation
9 Because Of You
10 Requiem For Jeremy
11 Kill The Cop
12 Corey And Michael
13 Corey’s Requiem
14 The Junk Yard
15 Where Are You?
16 Bye Bye Corey
17 The Fight
18 Before Her Eyes
19 The Procession
20 Cherry Blossoms
21 Halloween Ends
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE018
- Release date
- 9 Dec '22
TRACK LISTING
Too Shy To Say
Whole Wide World
Learning To Fall
Just Mind Your Step Girl
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- Ltd 10"
- £14.99
- Cat Number
- PRE022
- Release date
- 9 Dec '22
Find out for yourself with Boyracer’s only session for the legendary John Peel featuring the band in typically feisty form with three of their own songs (under pointed alternate titles, one of them a version of ‘He Gets Me So Hard’) plus a cover of a single by beloved Sarah stablemates Even As We Speak. Package includes sleeve notes and a set of six postcards with vintage flyers and other stuff – and we’ve stuck a Peel interview with Nicola Hodgkinson as a bonus hidden track on the download (thanks Stew!)
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- Coloured 12" EP
- £14.99
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- IGN216TC
- Release date
- 4 Nov '22
- Format Info
Clear vinyl.
Clear vinyl.
Mentored by Gerry Cinnamon, the singer-songwriter made history selling out King Tut’s quicker than any other artist in the venue’s history. Having played gigs with Sam Fender, Liam Gallagher, Stereophonics and Courteeners, Dylan also played a sold-out headline show at Glasgow’s legendary Barrowland earlier this year. Fresh from making his Glastonbury debut, he will be appearing at festivals throughout the summer, including a main stage slot at TRNSMT, with a headline tour to follow this November.
TRACK LISTING
1. Battle Of Alesia
2. Fever
3. If I Didn’t Laugh
4. What A Shame
5. Now And Then
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- LP
- £24.99
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- BB394LP
- Release date
- 4 Nov '22
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- CD
- £12.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- BB394
- Release date
- 4 Nov '22
TRACK LISTING
Intro
Thomson Colour
Tour De Repechage
Glück
This Sandy Piece
Prado
A Little Asphalt Here And There
Rocket Fuel
Telema
Esther
Glas
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- 2xColoured LP
- £26.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- DFLP27
- Release date
- 28 Oct '22
From the height of his 64-year career, he has had the honor of composing the soundtracks of Harry Potter, Jaws, ET, Jurassic Park, Superman, Schindler's List and more.
A composer with multiple awards, he is undoubtedly one of the pioneers of the international music scene.
TRACK LISTING
A1. Jaws Main Theme (from Jaws)
A2. Suite Of Raiders Of The Lost Ark (from Raiders Of The Lost Ark)
A3. Suite Of Jurassic Park (from Jurassic Park)
A4. Hedwigs Theme (from Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone)
B1. Star Wars : A New Hope Main Titles (from Star Wars IV : A New Hope)
B2. Cantina Band (from Star Wars IV : A New Hope)
B3. The Imperial March (from Star Wars Episode V : The Empire Strikes Back)
B4. Duel Of The Fates (from Star Wars Episode 1 : The Phantom Menace)
B5. Across The Stars (from Star Wars Episode II : Attack Of The Clones)
C1. Schindlers List Main Theme (from Schindlers List)
C2. Hymn To The Fallen (from Saving Private Ryan)
C3. The Float (from Catch Me If You Can)
C4. The Tale Of Viktor Navorski (from The Terminal)
D1. Adventures On Earth (from E.T. : The Extra-Terrestrial)
D2. Resolution And Finale (from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind)
D3. Where Dreams Are Born (from Artificial Intelligence)
John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies
Firestarter Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Sacred Bones
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- Coloured LP
- £20.99
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- SBR308LPC3
- Release date
- 14 Oct '22
- Format Info
Yellow and bone splatter vinyl.
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- SBR308CD
- Release date
- 14 Oct '22
The film is a new take on the thriller examining a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers and her fight to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her. The film releases theatrically on May 13th, 2022 and stars Zac Efron, Sydney Lemmon, Ryan Kiera, is directed by Keith Thomas (The Vigil) and created by the producers of The Invisible Man. The story has become a classic and the intense nature of the film creates a canvas for a dynamic soundtrack.
The Firestarter soundtrack utilizes some of the best elements of Carpenter’s famous musical repertoire and charts exciting new territory. The tracks range from fist pumping sci-fi anthems to slow reverb drenched piano ballads and each utilizes a variety of sonic applications. Skulking beats, skittering synths, crushing guitars and an ever-lurking echo come together to create an album that is atmospheric and also deeply melodic, cohesive and eclectic. These three musicians are all working in the peak of their individual and collaborative creativity and this soundtrack further solidifies them as masters of the craft.
TRACK LISTING
1. Mother’s Love
2. Lot 6 (Main Titles)
3. Are You Scared Of Me?
4. Dodge Ball Heats Up
5. Corporate Menace
6. Burned Hands
7. Rainbird Fights Vicky
8. Bless Mommy
9. Flashback Kills
10. Police Arrive
11. Sniper Attack
12. Charlie Alone
13. Charlie’s Powers
14. I’ll Find You
15. Charlie’s Rampage
16. Rampage Ends
17. Firestarter (End Titles)
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- 2xLP
- £24.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- STRUT158LP
- Release date
- 14 Oct '22
“In the mid-‘60s, Detroit was nowhere,” explains Sinclair. “A decaying jazz scene, no community of poets, painters or writers so a group of young Detroit artists, most of us students at Wayne State University, got together in the late Summer of 1964.” Led by Sinclair and trumpeter Charles Moore, the Artists Workshop Society was formed as a co-operative community, drawing upon the resources of every participating individual in order to perpetuate itself. They began to provide spaces in Detroit for musicians to rehearse and to promote live concerts showcasing a range progressive jazz artists across the city.
Between the mid-‘60s and the early ‘80s, Sinclair amassed a huge archive of recordings from the Workshop concerts featuring Detroit residents like Moore’s Contemporary 5, Ron English and Lyman Woodard alongside many other US jazz luminaries including Donald Byrd, Sun Ra Arkestra and Herbie Hancock. Dormant in the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Brooklyn for many years, Strut and Art Yard began their research into the archives in 2017.
This first compilation of Detroit Artists Workshop is a revelation for any fan of jazz, featuring previously unreleased recordings by Byrd, Moore, English, Woodard, Bennie Maupin and Teddy Harris accompanied by extensive sleeve notes from John Sinclair, Robin Eichele and Herb Boyd. All tracks are remastered from the original tapes by Technology Works.
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: From percussive heavy tribal dancers and boppin' funk that'd make New Orleans take note; to spiritual jazz so deep it'll change your religion! A breath taking comp from the city which seems intrinsic in the story of the jazz. For some the sixties are its golden age and when listening to this double disc spectacular it's hard not to see why.TRACK LISTING
A1. John Sinclair Introduction / Yusef Lateef - Happy Ology
A2. Donald Byrd - Christo Redentor
A3. Donald Byrd - Blackjack
B1. Detroit Contemporary 4 - Effi
B2. Detroit Contemporary 4 - The Promise
B3. Detroit Contemporary 4 - Three Flowers (Cd Only)
C1. Bennie Maupin Quartet - Water Torture
C2. Ron English - Bees
D1. Teddy Harris - Passion Dance
D2. Lyman Woodard - Deja Vu
D3. Lyman Woodard Organisation - Help Me Get Away
John Rocca
I Want It To Be Real (Late Nite Tuff Guy & Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk Remixes)
South Street
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- 12"
- £12.99
- Cat Number
- SOUTH009
- Release date
- 7 Oct '22
The main man behind jazz funk favourites, Freeez, John Rocca took to the studio in ’84 and whipped up an electrofied steamer in the form of ‘I Want It To Be Real’. Tantalizing synthwork, beefed up basslines, gated snares and pure ‘80s vocals, it’s a melting pot of influences with a catchiness that caused a serious stir, not least informing Derrick May’s infamous bootleg ‘Simply Just A Vantage’.
This special double header of remixes kicks off with a brand new mix from Late Nite Tuff Guy. He builds up the brilliance with masterful effect, keeping the vocal in the back pocket till the final frontier whilst adding in some buttery new synth magic and deft filtering to the mix.
On the flip, Chicago house don Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk’s 1987 remix homes in on those blissful piano and vocal stabs for a dubbed out ‘Hot House Piano Mix’. Spiritual keys laid down with passion that will be sure to get any dancefloor hot under the collar.
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Two ridiculously strong remixes of this proto-dance anthem (as sampled by Derrick may!). Late Nite Tuff Guy has a smooth, rippling effect running through it, late night deepness that wouldn't sound outta place at Fabric! Meanwhile, Farley Funk's oft-overlooked but absolutely killer mix is remastered and included for our delight. Astonishing that this is from '87 - it still sounds fresh to this day.TRACK LISTING
A1. I Want It To Be Real (Late Nite Tuff Guy Edit)
B1. I Want It To Be Real (Farley Hot House Piano Mix)
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- 2xLtd LP
- £58.99
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- 4548107
- Release date
- 16 Sep '22
- Format Info
Complete master edition featuring a second disc of alternate and incomplete takes.
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- LP
- £39.99
- Cat Number
- 4548105
- Release date
- 16 Sep '22
- Format Info
Original album on single disc.
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- 2xCD
- £16.99
- Cat Number
- 4806203
- Release date
- 16 Sep '22
- Format Info
Complete master edition featuring a second disc of alternate and incomplete takes.
Complete master edition... [ + ]
A 1-LP mono pressing of the original album will be presented in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket, while the 2-LP stereo collection Blue Train: The Complete Masters will include a second disc featuring seven alternate and incomplete takes, none of which have been released previously on vinyl, and four of which have never been released before on any format. The Complete Masters comes with a booklet featuring never-before-seen session photos by Francis Wolff and an essay by Coltrane expert Ashley Kahn. Both Tone Poet Vinyl Editions were produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI.
Blue Train: The Complete Masters will also be released as a 2-CD set and digital collection.
“Few studio experiences I’ve had can compare with the thrill of listening to the original master tapes—mono, stereo and alternate takes—of Blue Train,” says Harley. “I consider these two new versions the definitive editions of this masterpiece performance by John Coltrane.”
TRACK LISTING
2CD
Blue Train
Moment’s Notice
Locomotion
I’m Old Fashioned
Lazy Bird
Blue Train (false Start)
Blue Train (take 7)
Moment’s Notice (alternate Take 4)
Lazy Bird (take 1)
Blue Train (alternate Take)
Moment’s Notice (incomplete Alternate Take 5A)
Lazy Bird (alternate Take)
1LP
LP 1 | Blue Train | Original Album | Studio
Side A
Blue Train
Moment’s Notice
Side B
Locomotion
I’m Old Fashioned
Lazy Bird
2LP
LP 1 | Blue Train | Original Album | Studio
Side A
Blue Train
Moment’s Notice
Side B
Locomotion
I’m Old Fashioned
Lazy Bird
LP 2 | Blue Train | Alternate And Incomplete Takes
Side A
Blue Train (false Start)
Blue Train (take 7)
Moment’s Notice (alternate Take 4)
Lazy Bird (take 1)
Side B
Blue Train (alternate Take)
Moment’s Notice (incomplete Alternate Take 5A)
Lazy Bird (alternate Take)
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- Ltd 12"
- £17.99
- Cat Number
- BST-X090
- Release date
- 2 Sep '22
STAFF COMMENTS
Matt says: Can you believe this sat unreleased for 33 years? Can you believe it's actually 33 years old?! Unfathomable questions to a record that, if it had been released, would be WAY ahead of its time. Instead, we get it now, and it makes complete sense. Devil Dee - a timing genius.TRACK LISTING
01 And The Beat Goes On (marco Magrini Extended Edit)
02 And The Beat Goes On (instrumental)
03 Devil Dee Ft Joan Faulkner And The Beat Goes On Club Version
04 And The Beat Goes On (electro Dub By Devil Dee Claudio Casalini)
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- LP
- £23.99
- Cat Number
- 501551
- Release date
- 5 Aug '22
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- LP
- £23.99
- Cat Number
- 502151
- Release date
- 5 Aug '22
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- LP
- £22.99
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- AAGR156
- Release date
- 5 Aug '22
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- 2xLtd 7"
- £14.99
Usually ships within: 3-28 days - Cat Number
- PRE017
- Release date
- 5 Aug '22
From Perth in Scotland, This Poison! released two classic late 80s singles on the Wedding Present’s Reception Records and that was it. Apart from this stunning Peel session, featuring four songs that never saw the light of day on vinyl during the band’s lifetime. “Rip-roaring stuff!” said John Peel, and he wasn’t wrong. Package also includes download codes, sleeve notes from Derek Moir and a set of postcards – among them one from the great man himself sent to the band, a must for any Peel devotees.
TRACK LISTING
1. Question Mark (Peel Session) 02:13
2. St Johnstoun (Peel Session) 02:45
3. Driving Skills (Peel Session) 02:15
4. It'll All Work Out (Peel Session) 02:07
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- LP
- £25.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- STH2471LP
- Release date
- 5 Aug '22
TRACK LISTING
1. Dawn Of New Day (ft. Laraaji)
2. Pan’s Dance
3. Repettos For You My Lord
4. Pause On The Ancient Ballcourt
5. Frog Life
6. Ghost In A Mist
7. Messages In Water
8. Tiptoe To The Grave
9. Gabriel’s Gig
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- 2xLtd 7"
- £14.99
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- PRE015
- Release date
- 5 Aug '22
TRACK LISTING
1. I Confess (Peel Session) 03:25
2. Angel In The Snow (Peel Session) 04:18
3. Bad Dreams (Peel Session) 04:16
4. Capital L (Peel Session) 04:55
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- 2xLtd 7"
- £14.99
Usually ships within: 3-28 days - Cat Number
- PRE011
- Release date
- 5 Aug '22
TRACK LISTING
1. Slash/Oblique (Peel Session) 04:19
2. Deanshanger (Peel Session) 04:59
3. Outside Of It (Peel Session) 06:34
4. Place Called Clock (Peel Session) 03:56
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- 2xLtd 7"
- £14.99
Usually ships within: 3-28 days - Cat Number
- PRE010
- Release date
- 5 Aug '22
TRACK LISTING
1. Serpico (Peel Session) 05:40
2. Doorstop Rhythmic Bloc (Peel Session) 04:49
3. When Space Invaders Were Big (Peel Session) 04:25
4. Broken Cormorant (Peel Session) 05:21
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- Ltd 12"
- £18.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- TR510
- Release date
- 15 Jul '22
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- Coloured LP
- £17.99
- Cat Number
- 950724
- Release date
- 1 Jul '22
- Format Info
Green vinyl edition.
Green vinyl edition.
TRACK LISTING
1. Out Of This World
2. Soul Eyes
3. Impressions
4. The Inch Worm
5. Tunji [toon-Gee]
6. Miles' Mode
7. Up 'gainst The Wall
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- Coloured LP
- £20.99
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- META72LP
- Release date
- 1 Jul '22
- Format Info
Grey vinyl and signed insert.
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- CD
- £11.99
- Cat Number
- META72CD
- Release date
- 1 Jul '22
TRACK LISTING
Vinyl
1. The Marvellous Notebook
2. Remember
3. The Quiet Man
*bonus Track On Download Coupon, Under London
CD
1. The Marvellous Notebook
2. Remember
3. Under London
4. The Quiet Man
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- Coloured LP
- £17.99
Usually ships within: 2-10 days - Cat Number
- 350242
- Release date
- 1 Jul '22
- Format Info
Blue coloured vinyl
Blue coloured vinyl
"Since its release in 1960, the fascination with Giant Steps has never wavered. This is a true masterpiece that should be in everyone's collection." - DownBeat
TRACK LISTING
1. Giant Steps
2. Cousin Mary
3. Countdown
4. Spiral
5. Syeeda’s Song Flute
6. Naima
7. Mr. P.C.
8. Harmonique
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- Coloured LP
- £23.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- BBQ2223LP
- Release date
- 3 Jun '22
- Format Info
Splattered orange vinyl
Splattered orange vinyl
TRACK LISTING
1. ‘Once Upon A Time In
2. N.Y.C.’
3. I Dub U (Freeez Feat. John Rocca)
4. Once Upon A Dub (John Rocca)
5. I Want It To Be Real (Instrumental) (John Rocca)
6. Englishman In New York(Extended) (John Rocca)
7. Move (Extended Mix) (John Rocca)
8. The Dream (Radio Edit) (John Rocca)
Bonus 7”
1. I.O.U. (7” Version Remastered) (Freeez)
2. I Want It To Be Real (John Rocca)
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- LP
- £19.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days - Cat Number
- DC849
- Release date
- 20 May '22
This is the first official collaboration between the two veteran music-makers, though their connection goes back to 1999. As John recalls, “[Dean] was in a high school arts program at CalArts. A friend and I were recording the first Sissy Spacek demo in the design studios there, and taking a tape to my car over and over again to check the mix. Dean was walking through the parking lot with a Locust shirt on, we said hello, and he immediately got into a car with two strangers to ‘listen to a tape’.
"The tape-listening ended well, apparently. Dean and John became friends and fellow travellers in LA circles and beyond: in 2005, John did a remix for Dean’s first band, Wives; in 2007, Dean played percussion with Sissy Spacek’s 13-Tet Los Angeles; John toured with No Age several times and collaborated live with them in 2010.
Under the Sissy Spacek name as well as his own, John’s recordings for his own Helicopter label and many others kicked things off for him around the end of the century; since then, he’s been constantly engaged in solos and collaborations on record, performances, and installations around the world. In addition to Dean’s ever-growing discography with No Age, he curates his own label, Post Present Medium. In 2018, Radical Documents released Dean’s solo debut ‘EE Head’, which explored concrète and experimental techniques in a four-part, album length piece.
‘The Echoing Shell’ is born of Dean and John’s shared understanding, using John’s process common to Sissy Spacek: elaborate sound-collage works using source material originating from punk, hardcore and improvised music. A series of impositions, tape manipulation and edits recompose the material, cracking open the crust of the source, freeing its implied guts to steam forth in gushes of extreme noise. On ‘The Echoing Shell’, this is as often noise as it is extreme intimacy, seeming at times to be sourced from within Dean’s drumkit, at other times appearing to emanate from the capsules of microphones and the circuits of the signal path itself.
One may read these collaged sounds as abstraction, but there is a unique language conveyed in their assembly, forming something like word-shapes and meaning. And intention: the two side-long pieces, comprised of many short sections, form a linear whole, creating alternately ripping and discriminating music - and meaning - in the process.
‘The Echoing Shell’ is a fantastic conception in contemporary musique concrète, combining incendiary post-rock power, dry humour and astonishing depth of field. Whether projecting the sound through headphones, ear buds, bookshelf speakers or your own personal amp stack, crank up ‘The Echoing Shell’.
TRACK LISTING
1. Fruit From Color Vapor
2. Black Fruit
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