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Various Artists
Scotch Bonnet Presents Puffers Choice Vol. 2 [ Scotch Bonnet / CD - released 29/Jun/2018 ] Scotch Bonnet Presents: Puffer's Choice Vol. II (Various Artists) on CD Following the success of 2016's Puffer's Choice Vol. I (SCOB 007CD/LP), the label arm of Glasgow's Mungo's Hi-Fi has selected more cream cuts from their globe-trotting link-ups... |
Various Artists
Stand Up, People: Gypsy Pop Songs From Tito's Yugoslavia 1964 - 1980 [ Asphalt Tango / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Stand Up, People is an astonishing collection of rare Pop songs by Roma Gypsy musicians from Tito′s socialist Yugoslavia, 1960-1980. Combing rootsy Gypsy Folk rhythms with the new influences of Bollywood film music, Turkish psychedelia and British... |
Various Artists
The Time For Peace Is Now (LP) [ Luaka Bop / LP - released 13/Sep/2019 ] World Spirituality Classics 2 from Luaka Bop These undeniably soulful, passionate, and urgent songs from obscure 45's, dug up from a long dormancy in attics, sheds and crates across the American south, are a subset of 70s-era gospel, focusing not... |
Various Artists, On-U Sound
Pay It All Back Vol. 7 (LP) [ On-U Sound Records / 2 LP - released 29/Mar/2019 ] 18 track showcase of new Adrian Sherwood productions featuring previews of several forthcoming On-U releases, unique mixes, deep cuts, and unreleased tracks from Roots Manuva, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Coldcut, Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart's Magic Band),... |
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
Ali (Limited Jade Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Ali Farka Touré trekked the world, bringing his beloved Malian music to the masses. Dubbed "the African John Lee Hooker," one could hear strong connections between the two; both employed a bluesy style of play with gritty textures that elicit calm... |
CYRILLUS KREEK
Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel Vox Clamantis [ ECM / CD - released 8/May/2020 ] "The singing breathes with a collective, gentle inevitability…The final impression is abiding solace for these distracted times." BBC Music Five Stars. Choral & Song Choice July 2020 |
Wajatta
Don't Let Get You Down (Double LP) [ Brainfeeder / 2 LP - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Wajatta (pronounced wa-HA-ta) - the musical duo of Reggie Watts and John Tejada - return with their second album, Don't Let Get You Down, on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder. Coming from different worlds, but sharing a passion for the rich history of... |
The War On Drugs
A Deeper Understanding [ Atlantic / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] This is the band's first album since 2014's universally acclaimed 'Lost In The Dream'. For much of the three and a half year period since the release of 'Lost In The Dream', The War On Drugs' frontman, Adam Granduciel, led the charge for his... |
Wes Montgomery w/ the Wynton Kelly Trio
Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966) (LP) [ Resonance / LP - released 22/Apr/2017 ] Previously unreleased live sets featuring jazz guitar icon Wes Montgomery with piano legend Wynton Kelly's Trio featuring bassist Ron McClure & drummer Jimmy Cobb Recorded at Seattle's Prestigious Jazz Club, the Penthouse, on April 14 and 21,... |
Wes Montgomery with The Wynton Kelly Trio
Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966) [ Resonance / CD - released 19/May/2017 ] Previously unreleased live sets featuring jazz guitar icon Wes Montgomery with piano legend Wynton Kelly's Trio featuring bassist Ron McClure & drummer Jimmy Cobb Recorded at Seattle's Prestigious Jazz Club, the Penthouse, on April 14 and 21,... |
Westerman
Your Hero Is Not Dead [ Pias / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] Your Hero Is Not Dead is full of supremely crafted songs about moral, political, and ethical grey areas. It is an album about empathy and compassion, struggle and release, and all the ways we contradict and battle within ourselves. Recorded... |
Westerman
Your Hero Is Not Dead (Limited Edition LP) [ Pias / LP - released 12/Jun/2020 ] Limited Edition white vinyl. Your Hero Is Not Dead is full of supremely crafted songs about moral, political, and ethical grey areas. It is an album about empathy and compassion, struggle and release, and all the ways we contradict and battle within... |
Whitney
Light Upon The Lake [ Secretly Canadian / Cassette - released 3/Jun/2016 ] To say that Whitney is more than the sum of its parts would be a criminal understatement.Formed from the core of guitarist Max Kakacek (ex-Smith Westerns) and singing drummer Julien Ehrlich (ex-Unknown Mortal Orchestra),the band itself is something... |
Willis Earl Beal
Acousmatic Sorcery [ XL Recordings / CD - released 16/Apr/2012 ] The debut album from the 28-year-old Chicago based bluesman, 'Acousmatic Sorcery' consists of lo-fi demos recorded while Beal was homeless in Albuquerque. |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Songfest (with works by Gershwin & Copland) Wolf Trap Opera, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, James Judd [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] An American in Paris is one of Gershwin's most vivacious works, an orchestral ballet saturated in homesickness and the blues. This recording, however, uses the new 2019 critical edition and offers Gershwin's original orchestration. |
Yo La Tengo
This Stupid World [ Matador / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Times have changed for Yo La Tengo as much as they have for everyone else. In the past, the band has often worked with outside producers and mixers. In their latest effort, the first full-length in five years, This Stupid World was created all by... |
Young Fathers
Cocoa Sugar [ Ninja Tune / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] "We've just finished a new album, and it's about fucking time", Young Fathers declared late last year. Now the Mercury Prize winners have confirmed their third album; something typically unique and exhilarating, but leaner, more muscular and... |
Young Fathers
White Men are Black Men Too [ Big Dada / CD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] When the sci-fi 20's 'Urban' might as well be the atomic 50's 'Race', when R&B has no blues and hiphop is a boom bip with a shorty, it's off to the street corner we go… where does a group like Young Fathers, who 'picknmix from the popular music... |
Yves Tumor
Heaven To A Tortured Mind [ Warp / CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] Just over eighteen months on from the critically acclaimed Safe in the Hands of Love, Yves Tumor pushes visceral sonic boundaries with his new album Heaven to a Tortured Mind. In a sense, Heaven to a Tortured Mind occupies the anthemic soundworld... |
Yves Tumor
Safe in the Hands of Love [ Warp / CD - released 12/Oct/2018 ] Yves Tumor shows the world that it's Safe in the Hands of Love with his debut album for Warp. Released with no fanfare or prior warning, following astonishing singles Noid, Licking an Orchid and Lifetime. Whereas each of these showed a different... |
