As keyboard maestro James Taylor arrives at his 40th year leading his
Quartet, he has re-signed with his original label Acid Jazz and is embarking
on a series of the most radical projects he has ever worked on.

Following his first classical album ‘Shadows and Dreams’ earlier this year,
he brings the Quartet together for a remarkable new album.

‘Te Deum’ sets the ancient, 4th-entury Christian text to intense jazz, funk,
and Latin grooves. The music sees the James Taylor Quartet working
alongside the children of the Benenden Chapel Choir, and a guest horn
section and legendary Acid Jazz percussionist Snowboy.

Lead track ‘Have Mercy On Us’ mixes Brazilian samba with Gregorian
chants, ‘The Comforter’ sounds like a Donald Byrd with voices Blue Note
Records experiment, and last year’s radio favourite ‘Wildflower’ mixes
bossa nova with sunshine pop harmonies and a positive message.

TRACK LISTING

1. Have Mercy On Us
2. We Praise Thee Oh
God
3. Save Thy People
4. The Comforter
5. Wildflower
6. Find A Way
7. Heaven and Earth
8. Glory Of The Father

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Two iconic pop hits first shared by Chappell Roan in live performances, 'The Subway' and 'The Giver' both display her soaring vocals and witty songwriting. With 'The Subway' an anthem for heartbreak, loss, and moving on was born. On the B-side, 'The Giver' serves camp and country, making clear Roan's ability to cover a multitude of genres with ease, authenticity, and individuality. It’ll make you want to cry on public transportation on the A-Side then line dance on the B-side while you sing along to both.

Hip Hop Collected - The Next Chapter continues to honour the pioneers of the genre, which officially celebrated its 50th birthday in 2023. Featuring groundbreaking artists and pioneers of hip hop including De La Soul, Cypress Hill, gangsta- rap by N.W.A, Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg, party-tracks by Digital Underground, Heavy D & The Boyz, female rappers and groups Da Brat, Monie Love, Salt-N-Pepa and many more covering the broad spectrum of Hip Hop.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Stetsasonic - Talkin' All That Jazz
2. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
3. Salt-N-Pepa - Shake Your Thing (It's Your Thing)
4. De La Soul - Say No Go
5. Younc MC - Bust A Move
6. Heavy D & The Boyz - We Got Our Own Thang

Side B
1. Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
2. Monie Love - Monie In The Middle
3. Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man
4. Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day
5. Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)
6. The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By

Side C
1. Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker
2. Redman - Tonight's The Night
3. Onxy - Slam
4. Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
5. Lords Of The Underground - Chief Rocka
6. Da Brat - Funkdafied
7. House Of Pain - Same As It Ever Was

Side D
1. Method Man - Bring Da Pain
2. Rakim - Guess Who's Back
3. Jeru The Damaja - Me Or The Papes
4. Bahamadia - Uknowhowwedu
5. Outkast - ATliens
6. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Shimmy Shimmy Ya
7. Dr. Dre Ft. Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E.

Bold pop hooks, sex positivity, honest songwriting and a heavy dose of glitter make up the world of Chappell Roan, the next multi-faceted force in pop music. A technicolor celebration of self-discovery and transformation, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess tracks Chappell's cinematic journey of falling in queer love for the first time, while embracing all the messy and imperfect moments in-between. Penned by Amstutz alongside Dan Nigro (Olivia Rodrigo).

Selassie is the chapel is a beautiful, spiritual and dream like recording, made by the young Bob Marley when he had first discovered the Rastafarian religion. The single is a song taken from the little-known JAD Records catalogue of Bob Marley recordings, which have remained unexploited for some time. It was a song which held great meaning and significance for him and was always very important to him. It is no coincidence that this song, created more than 50 years ago, should resonate with all of us at this time of intense difficulty and unparalleled adversity that is being felt across the world. Bob Marley's image is known, admired and accepted as a beacon of spiritual hope and unification for people of every race, creed, colour, and gender in every corner of the globe and has been fundamental in connecting people of all countries and faiths for many years. In this dire climate of global distress, deprivation and unrest, world politics is providing us with no solution, but perhaps Bob Marley and this beautiful song will unify us.

TRACK LISTING

1. Selassie Is The Chapel
2. Lick Samba

Celebrated composer, performer, saxophonist, soloist, band leader, educator, activist, and mixedmedia artist Matana Roberts returns with a new installment of their acclaimed Coin Coin series. For over a decade, Coin Coin has been the central artistic project for Roberts, a remarkable exploration of American ancestry and the nature of memory through “sound quilting”: modern composition that draws on a wide range of musical sources and traditions, along with researchdriven historical and genealogical narratives that yield prose and poetry both spoken and sung, field recordings, and graphic scores. The Quietus declares “when the 12-album cycle is complete, it will be regarded as a singular masterpiece of 21st century sonic and narrative art” and Pitchfork calls it “one of the most provocative ongoing bodies of work by any American musician.”

Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden... is the first new recorded audio chapter since 2019 and centers upon reproductive rights, summoning the story of a family ancestor who died in early adulthood, from a cause kept obfuscated and hushed, shrouded in disinformation and shame. Roberts reimagines diaristic and oral narratives, delivered in strident streams of spoken word that punctuate the hour-long work, with recurring musical themes frequently accompanied by the declarative refrain "my name is your name / our name is their name / we are named / we remember / they forget.” As Roberts writes in the accompanying liner notes essay:

I find it absolutely disgusting that the same trauma my grand ancestor, whose story we are telling in this chapter, is closely mirroring the experiences of some poor soul today as I write this... Our aforementioned grand, who perished at a young age, leaving her growing children motherless, did not have to die. The negative consequences of her death have reverberated down through generations in my family line, in the same way that a similar resounding might happen for someone else’s ancestral line generations from today. While often jazz-adjacent, and with Matana's inimitable saxophone and indomitable voice at the core, Roberts situates Coin Coin outside the Jazz genre and within heterodox pathways of postmodern composition, electroacoustic music, sound collage, experimental voice, and sound art.

In the garden… undeniably continues to express and expand upon the project’s magnificent iconoclasm, nonetheless being the most jazz-inflected chapter since Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (2013). Recorded in Brooklyn with a stellar acoustic ensemble that includes Stuart Bogie, Gitanjali Jain, Darius Jones, Matt Lavelle, Mike Pride, Ryan Sawyer, Corey Smythe, and Mazz Swift, abetted by some sparkling pieces featuring modular synthesis courtesy of album producer Kyp Malone (Bent Arcana, TV On The Radio), In the garden… traverses a vivid stylistic array of thematic overtures, excursions and set pieces, ranging from spacious textural invocations to gorgeously tempered horn-led compositions to driving free jazz and exhilarating throughcomposed bursts of cacophony. With storytelling spoken-word lead vocals by Roberts channeled recurringly throughout, alongside various other deployments of layered and group voices, the album is alternately a meditation and fever dream of narrative potency.

This is some of the most intense and intensive music Roberts has composed and captured to date, richly conceived and deeply felt, restless yet focused, unflinchingly substantive and unique. Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden... channels epigenetic trauma and tragedy with teeming complexity and fierce beauty — a eulogy, testimony, and celebration, melding music and language in a stunning polychromatic flow of vernaculars and poetics. A powerful work of subjective commemoration and historical-cultural communion that speaks indelibly to the present moment.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Matana Roberts has been at the forefront of the experimental jazz scene for some time now, and their Coin Coin series is one of the mainstays of an exceedingly strong CST roster. A peerless performer and impeccable composer and storyteller.

TRACK LISTING

1 We Said
2 Different Rings
3 Unbeknownst
4 Predestined Confessions
5 How Prophetic
6 A Caged Dance
7 I Have Long Been Fascinated
8 Enthralled Not By Her Curious Blend
8 No Way Chastened
9 But I Never Heard A Sound So Long
10 The Promise
11 Shake My Bones
12 A(way) Is Not An Option
13 For They Do Not Know
14 Others Each
15 ...ain't I...your Mystery Is Our History

The British shoegaze band Chapterhouse released two albums during their existence, Whirlpool (1991) and Blood Music (1993). Blood Music spawned the single “We Are The Beautiful”, which was released during that same year and also appeared as a 12”. The 1993 EP We Are The Beautiful features the title track, a mix of the title track, and two additional tracks: “Frost” and “Age”. Except for “We Are The Beautiful”, none of the tracks have been released on Chapterhouse’s studio albums.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. We Are The Beautiful
2. We Are The Beautiful (Spooky's Extravaganja Dub Mix)

Side B
1. Frost
2. Age

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The Classic 1977 Folk album now reissued on 180m gram vinyl. Feat: Mick Ronson (David Bowie) Andy Latimer (Camel) & Keef Hartley. Insert with extensive sleeve notes by Andru Chapman. Recorded during 1977 at Sawmills Studios, Cornwall, Tapestry Studios, London and Fairview Studios, Hull. Michael Chapman - Guitar and vocals. Keef Hartley - Drums. Rod Clements - Bass. Pete Wingfield - String Synthesiser (Track 1), Organ (Track 2) and Electric Piano (Track 3). Johnny Van Derek - Violin (Track 1). John McBurnie and Vivienne McAuliffe - Backing vocals (Tracks 1,5,6 and 8). Mick Ronson - Guitar (Track 2). Andy Latimer - Electric Guitar Intro (Track 3) and Guitar (Track 9). B.J. Cole - Steel Guitar (Track 5,6,7,8,10).

The third album from Dutch punk-laced noiseniks adds new maturity and a conceptual feel that pulls the extremes of their sound together. A psychefuelled journey into the id punctuated with rhythmic kabuki modal mood swings, thunderstorms, digital beeps, traffic noise, and just plain old beautiful cacophonous reverb-drenched sound when needed.

The ‘third chapter’ refers to the last five years that the Dutch band have spent creating their “difficult” third album. Each song spins a yarn; there are plagues, dreams, wind and fire, ‘mythical’ characters, and the search for the secret government warehouse. Lead single, Tokyo Music Experience, resonates with a conveyor belt-propelled modal guitar, reflecting the halcyon days of Japanese super-productivity; a mesmerising mantra, infected with news bulletin on-thehour bleeps underlining its time-sensitive nature; a pristine super-commercial anthem to drive loyalty and reinforce solidarity with the party!

Having been described as creating “underground noise with a bracing, warped pop appeal” (Mojo), their new album is a coming-of-age post-classic with a unique worldview - inspired by Van Dyke Parks (Song Cycle) Scott Walker (3 & 4), Moondog (Elpmas), White Noise (An Electric Storm) and Beach Boys (Smile).

If their previous effort (Tape Hiss) was their very own sketch of a sketch for an incomplete concept album, a noisy reaction to their previous life, then ‘Excerpts From Chapter 3..’, with all its interlaced intricacies, is the realisation of their transition from punk-spiked-pop to psyche-pop protagonists. Evolving, testing, infectious...

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: This wild and superb outing from Rats On Rafts shows that the bands playful spirit and whimsical melodies don't have to give way when things get serious. A brilliantly deep and eminently enjoyable third outing.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1 Prologue: Rain
2 A Trail Of Wind And Fire
3 Second Born Child
4 Tokyo Music Experience
5 The Rise And Fall Of The Plague
6 Another Year

Side B
7 Fragments
8 The Disappearance Of Dr. Duplicate
9 Excerpt Taken From Chapter 3
10 Where Is My Dream?
11 Part One: The Long Drought
12 Part Two: Crossing The Desert
13 Epilogue: Big Poisonous Shadows

Bonus Dinked Edition 7":
1. Tokyo Music Experience (Single Edit)
2. Osaka

Drawing upon traditions as varied as Messiaen, Xenakis, Ligeti, Bach, Tournemire,Ives, Korla Pandit and The Phantom of the Opera, Zorn’s organ improvisations are transcendent, inspiring, ecstatic experiences, offering a direct line to the workings of his rich compositional imagination. Performed at St. Paul’s Chapel at a time when the organ was undergoing extensive reconstruction, the limited number of stops available to him focused his imagination to new heights, resulting in Zorn’s most revelatory recital to date. The second volume documenting these legendary organ recitals is a transcendent experience filled with moments of passion, tenderness,
fragility and extraordinary power.

The B.E.F. return with a shape-shifting prog-rock indietronica record. March 26th will see the return of The British Expeditionary Force with their highly anticipated next installment on Erased Tapes Records, entitled 'Chapter Two: Konstellation Neu'. The British Expeditionary Force, short The B.E.F., was formed in 2007 by Northerners Aid Burrows, Justin Lockey and his brother James Lockey. Whilst their trademark indie-electronica marriage 'Chapter One: A Long Way From Home' was solely created via email, the long-awaited sequel 'Chapter Two: Konstellation Neu' was recorded in one room, with two drummers and mad professors on synthesisers contributing to an even broader sonic palette. A sound that producer and ex-Yourcodenameis:milo mastermind Justin Lockey likes to describe as 'prog rock, innit'. 'The tactic we've used is the 'more' method. More sounds, more layers, more people. More face to face, more angles, more songs. If we've done our sums right, it should total more than the individual pieces', explains singer Aid Burrows.

The Chap, a pan-European modern pop group based in London and Berlin, began life at the beginning of the last decade. In their quest to create music which “sounds wrong”, they pre- empted the current flavour for lo-fi prog-pop by several years and spawned a legion of fans who couldn’t believe how a band that revelled in the multilayered detachment and precision of their recordings could dive headlong into the realms of hard rock n roll immediacy, gaining themselves a reputation as one of the most exciting, challenging, and engaging live acts around. After two seminal bedroom-produced albums, “The Horse” and “Ham” - the latter in particular gathering considerable acclaim from the likes of Errol Alkan, Kissy Sellout and The Wire Magazine - The Chap delivered a third album, the masterpiece that is “Mega Breakfast”. This album featured corporate motivational style anthems about “proper music” and wanting to clone oneself.

Despite being lauded by Pitchfork and many others, commercial success and world domination continued to evade The Chap, so they finally decided to “sell out” by recording a collection of pop classics that constitute their fourth album “Well Done Europe”. Needless to say, it’s another masterpiece featuring hit after hit, quite a few of which mention love and death and stuff like that. It sounds like the coolest new wave pop album ever recorded by a group of teachers (almost nobody in The Chap is a teacher).

TRACK LISTING

01. We’ll See To Your Breakdown
02. Even Your Friend
03. We Work In Bars
04. Obviously
05. Gimme Legs
06. Well Done You
07. Nevertheless, The Chap
08. Pain Fan
09. Torpor
10. Maroccan Nights
11. Few Horoscope
12. Chalet Chalet

This latest Kotchy EP features an eye-wideningly expansive five tracks of new and remixed material from the multi-faceted genius songwriter-producer. Harnessing the more sinister side of "Superstar", Hrdvsion's jacking techno monster morphs Kotchy's sleazy vocals and killer drum breaks into a dark twisted club stinger. "Holla" is Kotchy's call to arms; a track for the everyman, its heavy beats, synth stabs and screamed vocals add up to a raw and experimental strain of wonky hip hop, with a lyrical mixture of struggle, pressure, humour ridicule and revolt. London and Berlin outfit The Chap turn their dial to smooth on their mix of "Check Out My Keychain", delivering a version that's clean and crisp and as strange and enchanting as it is stunning. Parisian wonky-hop master Debruit gets his KeeClac alter ego out on another take on the same track for more of a fidget house sounding party version. Rounding off the EP, "Party Your Blues Away" features Philly rapper Benni E, with her slick flows backed by Kotchy's hushed vocals. This cut is a lyrical drugstore built on spooky Mo' Wax-esque skewed dope downbeats, awash with strings and horns.