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Cover of Venus And Mars - 50th Anniversary Half-Speed Master Edition by Paul McCartney & Wings.

Paul McCartney & Wings

Venus And Mars - 50th Anniversary Half-Speed Master Edition

UMR

    To celebrate the 50th anniversary of 'Venus and Mars', this special vinyl edition was cut at half speed using a high-resolution transfer of the original master tapes from 1975 by Miles Showell at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. The album is presented as a meticulous reproduction of the original UK pressing, with recreations of the original “Venus and Mars are alright tonight” circular sticker and “comparative sizes of sun and planets” bookmark sticker, and comes with two posters with photography by Aubrey Powell and Sylvia de Swaan. The iconic album artwork by Hipgnosis has been meticulously recreated and presented in a gatefold sleeve.



    TRACK LISTING

    1. Venus And Mars
    2. Rock Show
    3. Love In Song
    4. You Gave Me The Answer
    5. Magneto And Titanium Man
    6. Letting Go
    7. Venus And Mars (Reprise)
    8. Spirits Of Ancient Egypt
    9. Medicine Jar
    10. Call Me Back Again
    11. Listen To What The Man Said
    12. Treat Her Gently – Lonely Old People
    13. Crossroads

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    Cover of One Hand Clapping by Paul McCartney And Wings.

    Paul McCartney And Wings

    One Hand Clapping

    UMR

      The wait is over: With the release of One Hand Clapping, one of the most bootlegged live albums in musical history will finally receive a proper release.

      In August 1974, when Band on the Run was enjoying a seven-week consecutive #1 stint at the top of the UK album charts, Paul McCartney and Wings headed to Abbey Road Studios for the filming of a video documentary and possible live studio album – One Hand Clapping. Despite overwhelming demand for newly recorded material from the biggest band in the world at that time, One Hand Clapping was never officially released.

      50 years after their initial recording, the sessions for Wings One Hand Clapping is released for the very first time. Discs 1 and 2 are newly mixed with 12 tracks that didn’t appear in the original film, including reworked extracts of Beatles classics. The package includes original artwork, plus a TV sales brochure created for the film.

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      2LP
      Disc 1
      One Hand Clapping (Side A)
      Jet (Side A)
      Soily (Side A)
      C Moon (Side A)
      Maybe I’m Amazed (Side A)
      My Love (Side A)
      Bluebird (Side B)
      Let’s Love (Side B)
      All Of You (Side B)
      I’ll Give You A Ring (Side B)
      Band On The Run (Side B)
      Live And Let Die (Side B)
      Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five (Side B)
      Baby Face (Side B)

      Disc 2
      Let Me Roll It (Side C)
      Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Side C)
      Power Cut (Side C)
      Love My Baby (Side C)
      Let It Be (Side C)
      The Long And Winding Road/Lady Madonna (Side C)
      Junior’s Farm (Side D)
      Sally G (Side D)
      Tomorrow (Side D)
      Go Now (Side D)
      Wild Life (Side D)
      Hi, Hi, Hi (Side D)

      2CD
      Disc 1
      One Hand Clapping
      Jet
      Soily
      C Moon
      Maybe I’m Amazed
      My Love
      Bluebird
      Let’s Love
      All Of You
      I’ll Give You A Ring
      Band On The Run
      Live And Let Die
      Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
      Baby Face

      Disc 2
      Let Me Roll It
      Blue Moon Of Kentucky
      Power Cut
      Love My Baby
      Let It Be
      The Long And Winding Road/Lady Madonna
      Junior’s Farm
      Sally G
      Tomorrow
      Go Now
      Wild Life
      Hi, Hi, Hi

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      Cover of Moth Wings / FB Trap by Natty Wylah.

      Natty Wylah

      Moth Wings / FB Trap

      Scenic Route

      Scenic Route follow up their now classic Nourished By Time album with the debut 7" from London's Natty Wylah. Tip for fans of Cobey Sey / Curl, Young Fathers and Wu Lu.

      This year Natty Wylah has been cementing himself in London’s rich contemporary music scene with festival performances at Glastonbury, We Out Here with Silhouettes Project and a headline Southbank show as part of Nabihah Iqbal’s ‘Glory To Sound’ series. As well as contributions to Rhythm Sections, compilation ‘Shouts’ all in the run up to his next EP, "Willowisp".

      "Moth Wings / FB Trap" is the perfect introduction to Natty’s world where magic, slime and reality all mix together. With his cinematic lyrics on "Mothwings", Natty conjures up the imagery of celestial moths, who when seeking the moonlight end up stuck chasing flickering artificial light bulbs. The track features the unmistakable characteristics of Natty’s sound: traipsing across hip-hop, the psychedelic and punk, all adorned with ethereal vocals and woozy synths from Poppy and Finn Billingham.



      STAFF COMMENTS

      Matt says: Scenic Route continue to scout out the hottest new sounds from the underground. After slaying us with that Nourished By Time album earlier in the year they now turn the spotlight on the charismatic Natty Wylah.

      TRACK LISTING

      A. Moth Wings
      AA. FB Trap

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      Cover of Fly Away Paul : The Extraordinary Story Of How Paul McCartney Survived The Beatles And Found His Wings by Lesley-Ann Jones.

      Lesley-Ann Jones

      Fly Away Paul : The Extraordinary Story Of How Paul McCartney Survived The Beatles And Found His Wings

      Coronet Books

        the remarkable account of Paul McCartney's time in Wings and ascent into solo stardom, by renowned music biographer Lesley-Ann JonesNo comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published, until now. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the status as the biggest live band in the world. Band on the Run sold over 6 million copies worldwide and became EMI's biggest selling album of the 1970s in the UK.

        Music biographer Lesley-Ann Jones has met McCartney many times and knew his late wife Linda. Here she shows how crucial Linda was to the evolution of Wings - at great cost to herself given the ridicule she was to encounter. But Linda saw that McCartney needed the band in the wake of the break up of the Beatles.

        Drawing on extensive interviews and her trademark meticulous research, the author shows how this period in Paul McCartney's career was to become crucial not only to his development as an artist, but to his very survival.

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        Cover of Waiting In The Wings by Marion Javius.

        Marion Javius

        Waiting In The Wings

        Athens Of The North

        Sometimes after hoping and dreaming for so long, miracles really do happen. Athens of the North have gifted us this marvelous Marion Javius track and we couldn’t be more grateful.

        ‘Roll on 15 years and I was speaking to my record fiend and friend David Haffner who helps with releases on AOTN. It turned out he had been sitting on the multi-track tapes for Marion Javius for some time and was cool with us doing a 45. Having multi-track was an opportunity for me to fix the little bug bears with the OG mix. On first listen, I was delighted to hear a vocal take without the "Shamwooon" on the chorus, so myself and Linkwood got on the case to rebuild an ECLA version without the Game Show bar ends and "Shamons" that had been haunting me for years.’

        Enjoy this special seven knowing all is right in the world now this is here!


        TRACK LISTING

        1. Waiting In The Wings (East Cost Love Affair Mix)
        2. Waiting In The Wings

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        Cover of Wings / Back To Africa by Theon Cross.

        Theon Cross

        Wings / Back To Africa

        Marathon

          High-flying composer and tuba player Theon Cross returns with soaring new single, Wings.

          Explaining the inspiration behind Wings, Cross says: "Conceptually, the song speaks of the metaphorical wings needed to take flight and embrace new changes and directions in life. It captures a feeling of freedom and symbolises a sense of progressive movement which feels significant as I move into a new chapter in my career." The single comes with a second track; an easy-going, bassheavy cover version of reggae heroes Aswad's Back To Africa.

          TRACK LISTING

          Wings
          Back To Africa

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          Cover of When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings by The Wave Pictures.

          The Wave Pictures

          When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings

          Moshi Moshi

            The Wave Pictures, industrious and prolific as ever, return on Thursday 18 November with ‘This Heart Of Mine’. Following two albums in 2018, ‘Brushes With Happiness’ and ‘Look Inside Your Heart’, this is the first track to be made available from their new double album ‘When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings’, due for 2022 release.

            Formed over twenty years ago by Franic Rozycki and David Tattersall in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, and joined by Jonny ‘Hudderfield’ Helm since 2005, The Wave Pictures have released over twenty albums of their own, along with exciting side projects such as garage rock supergroup The Surfing Magazines, several albums with Stanley Brinks, and Dave’s recent guitar contributions to Billy Childish albums, with whom they also collaborated on their 2014 album ‘Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon’. Across these varied releases, accommodating Dave’s free flowing fountain of songwriting, The Wave Pictures have shown their deep affection for rock and roll, blues, jazz, classic rock, and of course Dave’s legendary love of good guitar solo.

            With a nuance of autumn, ‘This Heart Of Mine’ references time and space travel & memory all rolled into one. Musically inspired by classic Neil Young, ‘This Heart Of Mine’ witnesses The Wave Pictures going full-on country and features cowboy harmonica from Dominic ‘Hotdog’ Brider, Franic Rozycki on mandolin, alongside Dave Tattersall’s gentle acoustic guitar strum.

            TRACK LISTING

            A1. River Of Gold
            A2. Back In The City
            A3. French Cricket
            A4. Never Better
            A5. Blink The Sun
            B1. Samsun
            B2This Heart Of Mine
            B3. Douglas
            B4. Jennifer
            B5. Smell The Ocean
            C1. I'd Be Doing Anything
            C2. Hazel Irvine
            C3. Don't Forget Me
            C4. Winter Baby
            C5. Flight From Destruction
            D1. When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings
            D2. Never Let You Down
            D3. Dale It's A Damn Shame
            D4. Walking To Wymeswold
            D5. Secret Messages

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            Cover of Wild Life (Half Speed Master) by Paul McCartney & Wings.

            Paul McCartney & Wings

            Wild Life (Half Speed Master)

            UMC/EMI

              Following the eclectic charm and intimacy of 1970's solo McCartney and 1971's homespun lo-fi indie-pop progenitor RAM credited to Paul and Linda McCartney, Wild Life found Paul once again redefining his post-Beatles creative identity, this time beginning his tenure as a founding member of Wings. A rollicking left turn from its predecessors, Wild Life was recorded in barely more than a week, with more than half of the songs captured in a single take. The end result would be eight songs running the gamut from joyous freewheeling jams to proto-chamber pop to spare introspective musings — all bristling with a raw, jagged energy akin to the grungiest of garage bands—whether on the careening blues-rock rave-up of opener "Mumbo," a reggae-tinged reimagining of Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange," or the plaintive and heart wrenching ballad "Dear Friend."

              Cracking the top 10 and going gold in the US, Wild Life faced an admittedly uphill battle as the debut of Paul's first post-Beatles band. In a recent reassessment, Billboard noted that modern-day Wild Life listeners "can throw out all this cultural baggage and just enjoy the tunes… by not reaching for any obvious Beatles tropes, Wings achieved something fresh and inviting…" And in fact, Wild Life would prove to be the first spark of the Wings phenomenon that would develop and flourish into one of the defining sounds of '70s rock n roll. The streak of #1 albums from Red Rose Speedway, Band On The Run, Venus And Mars, At The Speed Of Sound through the 3LP live opus Wings Over America, and the sold-out shows that provided the blueprint for the '70s arena rock experience—can all be traced back to the big bang of those first eight months during which Wings would form, release Wild Life in December 1971 and play their first-ever live shows in February 1972.


              TRACK LISTING

              Side A

              Mumbo
              Bip Bop
              Love Is Strange
              Wild Life

              Side B

              Some People Never Know
              I Am Your Singer
              Tomorrow
              Dear Friend

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              Cover of Piggy Wings by The Yummy Fur.

              The Yummy Fur

              Piggy Wings

              Rock Action

                Beloved Scottish band, The Yummy Fur, are releasing a 14-track ‘best of’ album, Piggy Wings, on Glasgow's Rock Action Records. Singer / guitarist, John McKeown, fronted the band from their 1992 inception (scores of cartoon melodies under a minute long delivered at high velocity) until their demise in 1999. Along the way they recorded three albums: Night Club (1996), Male Shadow at Three O'Clock (1998) and Sexy World (1999). Firm favourites of John Peel, they recorded two sessions for the much revered DJ and regularly featured on his show.

                TRACK LISTING

                1. Department
                2. Plastic Cowboy
                3. In The Company Of Women
                4. Kirsty Cooper
                5. The Canadian Flag
                6. Roxy Girls
                7. Sexy World
                8. Policeman
                9. St John Of The Cross
                10. The Career Saver
                11. Supermarket
                12. Colonel Blimp
                13. Chinese Bookie
                14. Death Club

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                Cover of Explains by Little Wings.

                Little Wings

                Explains

                Woodsist

                “Kyle Field, professionally known as Little Wings, is a living legend. He is the modern embodiment of the traveling bard and the singing troubadour. Kyle’s discography is vast and impressive, full of tunes plucked from the lexicon of great American songwriting. On his latest effort, Explains, he crafts melodies so haunting and familiar, it’s as if he’s not composing them at all. He is tapping into something greater, acting as a vessel for the collective unconscious that is folk music.

                “This is an album that is immediately accessible and also unfolds slowly, revealing greater depth with each listen. Kyle’s lyrics are direct yet poetic, funny yet sad. Explains is a fantastic record that celebrates the enduring spirit of a great artist. Its release on Woodsist is all too fitting - a label whose very foundation seems based on lasting creative integrity.”  - Alex Bleeker.

                TRACK LISTING

                1. By Now
                2. Light Brang
                3. Fat Chance
                4. Hill Hidden Nog
                5. Old Apocalypse Style
                6. A Blade Of Grass
                7. A Sky
                8. Around This World
                9. Hollowed Log
                10. This Evening
                11. Where

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                Cover of Letting Go / You Gave Me The Answer by Wings.

                Wings

                Letting Go / You Gave Me The Answer

                UMC

                  Vinyl re-pressing of classic mid 70s period Wings release.

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                  Cover of Love's Spring by Two Wings.

                  Two Wings

                  Love's Spring

                  Tin Angel

                    As the noughties came to a close, Two Wings (whose core members are singer/multi- instrumentalist/visual artist Hanna Tuulikki and guitarist/singer Ben Reynolds) formed. Having spent years bumping into each other in Glasgow's burgeoning folk scene, the pair finally took some time out to explore and develop their own compositions together, following in the direction of their many musical passions - from traditional folk (rock) to rock n' roll to psychedelia to soul and beyond. Glasgow has always been fertile ground for those seeking to synthesize traditional/ popular musical forms with a more progressive approach, and Hanna and Ben have long been travellers on this path. Hanna's experimental song-based project Nalle was described by Wire Magazine as "easily some of the most convincing free-folk the UK has ever produced". She was also a member of free form jazz folk ensemble Scatter and The Family Elan. Ben has been a solo artist for many years and his numerous releases include the 2009 solo guitar album How Day Earnt Its Night, released by New York's Tompkins Square Records. Ben was also the original lead-guitarist in critically acclaimed Glasgow folk-rockers TREMBLING BELLS and has collaborated with a number of other artists including Glasgow's Alasdair Roberts and Tin Angel Records' Baby Dee.

                    Tin Angel Records has made quite a noise with some of its recent signings, and Two Wings join an already fabulous roster. On tracks like the album opener Eikon, Hanna's utterly unique vocals steal the show, while the seven minute title track is progressive, haunting, even unsettling at times. Elsewhere, Alters & Thrones marries twinkles and chimes with ethereal vocals and the 8 minute epic album closer Forbidden Sublime purposefully meanders its way to a spellbinding climax. Two Wings are quite simply impossible to ignore.

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                    Little Wings

                    Magic Wand

                    K

                      Little Wings is a diverse musical palette Kyle Field uses to paint stories with sound. With this album Kyle worked with producer Calvin Johnson at Dub Narcotic Studios, recruiting a variety of other artists, musical and visual, Phil Elverum (Microphones) Bobby Birdman, Lee Baggett amongst others. This album fits in perfectly with the current new-folk scene that has taken the USA and world by storm. File alongside Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Cocorosie, White Magic, Six Organs Of Admittance and Joanna Newsom.

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                      Santa Carla

                      Motion Picture

                      Digital Wings

                        Debut album from this Liverpool five piece. The album showcases the band's distinctive blend of folksy melodicism and economical songwriting.

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                        Somehow Hollow

                        Busted Wings And Rusted Halos

                        Victory

                          Somehow Hollow are a Canadian based band who play slightly metallic, melodic punk. If you are looking for aggressively melodic riff-heavy punk rock, this is the album you want to start with.

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