Folk 5190 Items

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Don Giovanni)

Paisley Fields

Electric Park Ballroom

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Innovative Leisure)

Hanni El Khatib

Flight

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In the life of any interesting artist, there is the perpetual war between the
simplicity of public perception and the complexities of reality. Consider Hanni
El Khatib, a definitive purveyor of visceral, blues-wracked, punk-spiked,
soul-warped, knife fight rock n’ roll over the last decade. You may be familiar
with him through any one of his four acclaimed solo albums on Innovative
Leisure, his work with Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, or as one of the rare
polymaths able to artfully blend serrated guitars and hardcore rap on collaborations with GZA and Freddie Gibbs. And while these are all real things that
could accurately yield a sketch of the multi-dimensional Los Angeles-based
artist, they amount to little more than a black and white pencil sketch.
From 2010 until 2017, there was the usual cycle that consumes most working
21st musicians: make an album, and tour it for the next 18 months. Return
home, rinse and repeat. And with it came the predictable pitfalls that ensnare
too many artists whose professional obligations require high-octane performances before 1,000 or more strangers every night. It is a dream until that
one night when it isn’t any longer, and despite his gratitude for his fans and
station in life, El Khatib found himself wracked by depression and anxiety.
What had once been joyous creative outlet felt like a job. In the wake of the
release of 2017’s Savage Times, it became readily apparent that if El Khatib
didn’t make drastic changes to his lifestyle, there might not be a life to speak
of. So he quit drinking, stopped touring, and took an indefinite hiatus from the
studio. But eventually, the desire to create songs slowly returned.
What would eventually become El Khatib’s fifth studio album, the virtuosic
but characteristically raw FLIGHT began as spontaneous experimentation.
Over the last several years, El Khatib had become close friends with Leon
Michels, best known as the mastermind of the soul controllers, the El Michels
Affair, but who has also quietly racked up producer credits for the likes of pop
juggernauts like Lana Del Rey, Rick Ross, Travis Scott, A$AP Rocky, and
Eminem -- as well as frequently working in sessions with Grammy-winning
super-producer Mark Ronson. The finished result is a rollicking sampledelic
opus that recalls the beautiful chaos that the Dust Brothers created on Paul’s
Boutique and Odelay. It’s the type of thing that Dilla and Madlib would’ve
created if they had come up on The Cramps.
The irony, of course, is that for a record that sounds like little else El Khatib
has ever done, it’s the most complete embodiment of who he is as an artist.
It’s a record both dense and intricate yet direct and spontaneous. It is garage
rock, it is hip-hop, it is soul, it is blues, it is psychedelic, but more than
anything, it’s a brilliant Hanni El Khatib record -- one that taps into the adolescent spirit of creation that first stirred him to make songs in the first place.
Here he is on his fifth album, back for the first time.

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Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Mercury Nashville)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Water From The Wells Of Home Remastered Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mercury)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Mystery Of Life Remastered Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mercury)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town Remastered Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mercury)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Steep Canyon Rangers & Asheville Symphony

Be Still Moses Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Yep Roc)

A Long Way Back: The Songs Of Glimmer

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Steep Canyon Rangers are Asheville, North Carolina's GRAMMY winners, perennial Billboard chart-toppers, and frequent collaborators of the renowned banjoist (and occasional comedian) Steve Martin. The Rangers can now add their hometown Asheville Symphony to their long list of musical companions on the new album Be Still Moses. Each track on Be Still Moses features the Rangers and symphony breathing new life into signature Steep Canyon Rangers songs through newly inspired orchestral arrangements.The album's title track features what is perhaps their most singular musical partnership to date ' Steep Canyon Rangers teaming with not only the Asheville Symphony, but also Philadelphia soul legends Boyz II Men to completely overhaul the Rangers' original 'Be Still Moses,' which was first recorded on their 2007 breakout album Lovin' Pretty Women. The collaboration was recognized for its 'sublime harmonies and soulful ad-libs" by Rolling Stone and resulted in both the Rangers and Boyz II Men performing the song live together in October 2019. The First Edition LP arrives on translucent blue vinyl.

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Kim Richey

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Yep Roc)

Agricultural Tragic Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kim Richey celebrates the 20th anniversary of her album Glimmer with, A Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer, featuring new recordings of the songs from Kim's classic album. Produced by Doug Lancio, who also plays most of the instruments, A Long Way Back. . . allowed Kim to reinterpret these songs and give them a fresh, yet timeless sound. Other musicians on the album include Nielsen Hubbard and Dan Mitchell.

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Corb Lund

LP | 2020 | US | Original (New West)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Chapter Two)

Zoufris Maracas

Blue De Lune

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Rock Bottom Rhapsody Black Vinyl Edition

Pokey LaFarge

LP | 2020 | US | Original (New West)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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North Carolina Songbook Black Friday Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Steep Canyon Rangers

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Full Time Hobby)

Squirrel Flower

I Was Born Swimming

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Holiday Sounds Of Josh Rouse

Josh Rouse

LP+12" | 2019 | US | Original (Yep Roc)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Josh Rouse has recorded an album of original holiday songs, which all feel like a classic 60s jazz-influenced holiday album (think Vince Guaraldi, A Charlie Brown Christmas). This music should appeal to two audiences: Josh Rouse fans and holiday music fans. The First Edition release,on red vinyl, includes a bonus 12"featuring 3 Christmas classics performed acoustically + 3 demo versions of songs from the album.

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Anne Michaela

Desert Dove

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Fires For The Cold Blue & Black Splatter Vinyl Edition

Jonah Tolchin

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Maxine Funke

Felt

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Digital Regress)

Maxine Funke

Lace

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Father / Daughter)

Esther Rose

You Made It This Far

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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'You Made It This Far' is the sophomore album from New Orleans songwriter, Esther Rose. Inspired by the honest writing and timeless melodies of American greats such as Hank Williams Sr. and Joni Mitchell, Esther Rose's songwriting has been called 'The happiest saddest music.' With the release of her 2017 debut recording 'This Time Last Night', the album caught fire as her listeners tuned-in to a storied chronology of this soulful, heart-worn artist. This Time Last Night quickly spread to all corners of the country through fellow travelers and musicians on the touring circuit.

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Jim Lauderdale

From Another World

Holy Moly Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Two-time Grammy winning Americana icon Jim Lauderdale returns with From Another World, a ten song collection of empathy, love, forgiveness and humility, an antidote to the anger and divisiveness of todays world. McCartney-esque melodies, Dylan-esque lyrics, bluegrass, and twangy psychedelia collide on From Another World. Jim has once again opened his heart wide and delivered a beautiful record where country music still cries with the sound of pedal steel guitar and beautiful lyrics flow through aching indelible melodies.

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Chris Staples

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Barsuk)

Holy Moly Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Following 2015's beautifully written introspective album 'Golden Age', singer-songwriter Chris Staples is back with his upcoming full length release, 'Holy Moly'. While maintaining the authentic reflection Staples is known for in his songwriting, he has embraced a cautiously optimistic outlook for his future. Staples finds gentle melodies with his trademark stripped-back guitar, and also introduces new sounds by integrating keyboards for sonically lush arrangements. Staples' previous releases were met with praise from NPR's All Songs Considered, American Songwriter, Paste, The AV Club, and more.

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Chris Staples

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Barsuk)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Eleni Mandell

Wake Up Again

2LP+CD | 2019 | EU | Original (GMO - The Label)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Inspired by her experience teaching songwriting at a womens prison, Eleni Mandells 11th studio release, Wake Up Again, is a set of compelling personalized musical portraits and vignettes. From the dark, dreamy Circumstance to the noisy Be Together, and the jagged brutality of Whats Your Handle, the album highlights Elenis strengths as a writer and performer going back to her start under the tutelage of Chuck E. Weiss, Tom Waits and other top chroniclers of people in the shadows. Wake Up Again is a probing look into the lives and minds, the regrets and hopes of those she met, but ultimately also of her and us.

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Köster & Hocker

Fremde Feddere

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Glitterbeat)

Altin Gün

Gece

Undressed Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nominated for a Grammy!

Following their hotly tipped 2018 debut album “On” – Altın Gün returns with an exhilarating second album. “Gece” firmly establishes the band as essential interpreters of the Anatolian rock and folk legacy and as a leading voice in the emergent global psych-rock scene. Explosive, funky and transcendent.

The world is rarely what it seems. A quick glance doesn’t always reveal the full truth. To find that, you need to burrow deeper. Listen to Altın Gün, for example: they sound utterly Turkish, but only one of the Netherlands based band’s six members was actually born there. And while their new album, Gece, is absolutely electric, filled with funk-like grooves and explosive psychedelic textures, what they play – by their own estimation – is folk music.

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The Felice Brothers

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (OAR)

Winter & Triptides

Estrela Magica

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (BMG)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Estrela Mágica is a collaboration between Winter (Samira Winter) and Triptides (Glenn Brigman). The duo didn’t plan on making a record together; they simply set out to create the type of music they both loved. Sighting influences from Brazil’s colorful Tropicalia movement as well as the phased out sunshine psychedelia of the American 1960’s, Winter and Brigman started blending together their favorite musical colors into a brand new sonic palette. Two years and a dozen home recording sessions later, they had crafted enough material to form the Estrela Mágica LP.

The pair first met in Los Angeles and immediately bonded over their mutual love of Brazilian music and culture. Winter, growing up in Curitiba, Brazil was exposed to mpb, samba and tropicalia at an early age by her mother Maristela, who used to sing “Ele Dorme” and “Raio De Sol” to young Samira (both appear as new arrangements on the record). Brigman, while attending Indiana University, was introduced to Brazilian music by his roommate Pedro Assad who left him a collection of Brazilian samba, bossa nova and tropicalia LP’s upon moving to Rio de Janeiro.

While Winter and Brigman perform most of the music on the record, they were graced with the guest appearances of some their musical friends; Jason Simon (Dead Meadow), Julian Porte (Levitation Room), Modeste Cobián (The Buttertones), Mason Rothschild (Fever The Ghost), Tiago Lobão (Nevilton).

The music was recorded throughout LA, starting in the basement of Winter’s Echo Park house, traveling to a studio in Highland Park and ending in an apartment in East Hollywood. Brigman’s trusty Tascam 488 Portastudio tape machine travelled with them capturing the nuances of each environment to give each song a unique voice and sound.

Whether or not you speak Portuguese, the nostalgic, hazey sound and classic song crafting of Estrela Mágica will translate into any heart that is willing to open itself to the music. From melancholic ruminations on time and loneliness to blissful statements of friendship and peace, Winter and Brigman are exploring the universal aspects of the human experience. Whether sung in Portuguese, Spanish or English, these songs transcend language and plunge straight into the soul.

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The Waterboys

Out Of All This Blue

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Come Tomorrow: Songs Of Townes Van Zandt

Paal Flaata

LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Blue Mood)

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The seventh solo-album by the Norwegian vocalist of Midnight Choir fame. The selection of Townes van Zandt's songs that can be heard on 'Come Tomorrow' is drawn from the period 1968 to 1978, and bears witness to a profound understanding of the artist and a great deal of research. The songs are presented in arrangements that preserve their poetic and melodic power with acute sensitivity.

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Woody Guthrie

American Folk Legend

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Complete Recordings Volume 3

Jackson C. Frank

2LP | 2015 | US | Original (Ba Da Bing)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Mississippi)

S.E. Rogie

Sounds Of S.E. Rogie

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A reissue full LP of the legendary Palm wine guitarist S.E. Rogie’s early work. Truly beautiful songs from the 1960s ranging from sweet acoustic solo numbers to blazing full band electric music. SE Rogie had a very long and pioneering career in Sierra Leone. His songs are some of the most beautiful ever—gentle and lilting timeless melodies. One of the greats. A co-release with our friends at the Domino Sound label.

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Greatest Hits & Favorites

2LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Devil's Tower)

Jack Shit

Another Fucking Party

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The dynamic debut album from Nashville’s Jack Shit, Another Fucking Party, is exactly what it sounds like: the musical version of a hangover—the morning after, when we have to decide whether to own up to the headache or to crack a cold one early and roll it on over. Is it good? Is it bad? Really, it's a cycle that we all find ourselves falling into sometimes, when the good times last forever, until it almost feels like torture.

Recorded in an explosive, single-day session by the band’s Jack Evan Johnson (who also co-produced the Record Store Day tribute to John Prine, Kiss My Ass Goodbye), and mastered by John Baldwin (Lou Reed, Nancy Sinatra), Another Fucking Party hangs on vintage muscular rockers, shuffles, boogies, a pinch of snarl, even—but this is counterbalanced by the rest of it, heart peeling ballads of reflection, set starkly in the most intimate moments and memories. After a brief respite in the eye of the storm, this album is what happens when you realize that ''I'm in love with you, but you're in love with a party.''

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Bob Dylan

LP | 1985 | EU | Reissue (CBS)

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Inner Ear)

Nalyssa Green

Bloom

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Inner Ear)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mπλουμ (Bloom) is the third album in Nalyssa Green’s short but impressive discography. It comes six years after her sophomore “The Seed” and is her first record in her mother tongue.

The ten songs were written in 2015, while most of the album was recorded in 2016 in Lagia, which is her hometown in East Mani. The recordings of the vocals plus additional recordings followed in Athens and the album was completed in the beginning of 2018. Through her intense need to express herself with Greek lyrics, the singer-songwriter not only wins the bet, but manages to strengthen her musical identity.

The songs of Μπλουμ have a double meaning value just like the felicitous album title (Μπλουμ has the same pronunciation as Bloom but in greek slang means plunge. Blooming eerie vocals and dream melodies meet diving-baptisms in the dark bottom of the soul. Personal but at the same time everyday stories that strongly bear the feminine energy of their creator.

The tracks met the most suited sound with the production of Vasilis Dokakis (No Clear Mind). The euphoric artwork was created by Kakia Konstantinaki.

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Lolek

Agria (Wild)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Inner Ear)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Lolek’s fourth album, entitled “Agria (Wild)”, was written in Athens at intervals from 2019 to 2021. Lolek has written the music in nine tracks and has covered the track “Aftos O Anthropos (This Man)” by songwriters Likourgos Markeas and Maro Bizani. He has done all the recordings and mixing, except for the cello and percussion recordings made by Nikos Veliotis, who is co-producer and co-arranger of the album. The mastering was done by Giannis Christodoulatos (Sweetspot Productions).

“Agria” is the sound of turmoil that gives birth to the truth. 10 tracks where lyricism coexists with noise and romance with violent honesty. A confession about the daily life of disappointment, the despair of love, the prison of the family, the game of social acceptance, the self-destructive human nature.

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Kristof

Psychagogia

Genesis Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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(Psychagogia): 1. the recall of souls (from Hades) by magical means 2. the attraction of souls, the fun, the indulgence.

After 3 english-speaking albums, “Psychagogia (Entertainment)” is Kristof’s first album in his native language.

Associative writing, verses full of images from mythology, movements and sounds direct the listener to relaxation and emotional outburst. The ten pieces transport us to other worlds, interrupting contact with everyday and petty reality.

In combination with eerie vocals and prose, teased pianos and synthesizers, a pure fantasy of the dream is built, creating the impression that within us there is another part of existence, different from the body.

Most of the songs were written during the first quarantine period of 2020 and were completed at the end of it. The album was recorded in 2021 at Lotus studio with producer Vassilis Dokakis. The album’s artwork was art directed by Petros Aronis.

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Wendy & Bonnie

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Cinedelic)

2LP | 2020 | FR | Original (Ici D'Ailleurs)

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Enchanting and sunny 1969 psych folk by San Francisco teenage sisters Wendy & Bonnie Flower. A cult album that would later inspire bands like Stereolab, with dreamy vocal harmonies as the main attraction, laced with Brazilian splashes and soft-rock strains. Pure timeless psychedelic pop perfection, awash in serenity and haunting reverie floating in the ether above airy soundscapes that convey a sophistication that belies the artists' tender age: 15 and 18. Alongside them are top-notch musicians such as guitarist Larry Carlton, drummer Jim Keltner, bassist Randy Sterling and organists/pianists Mike Melvoin and Mike Lang. Originally produced by Gary McFarland, Gábor Szabó and Cal Tjader.

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Matt Elliott

Farewell To All We Know

Release: 2020 / FR – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Türk Pop Müzik Tarihi Lp1

V.A.

LP | 2024 | WW | Original (Yapi Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayincilik)

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Greatest Hits Limited Summer Tour Edition 202

Shania Twain

LP | 2024 | Original (Mercury)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Storma)

Felicia Sjögren

Hulda

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Classical Music

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"This album is written and recorded on a reed organ with two manuals and pedals. The instrument was built by Alfred Cedergren who was a reed organ builder 1870–1925 in Vänge on the island Gotland, Sweden. During this period of time Hulda Veström lived in the same village. When Hulda was 14 years old she left her mother and sisters to travel to her father in Los Angeles. In spring 1912 she boarded the Titanic together with her aunt, who was also named Hulda. There is a picture of the two Huldas in the wooden chapel in Vänge where the Cedergren instruments today are gathered. In 2019 Felicia Sjögren moved to Vänge and the chapel with reed organs became her closest neighbor. Over time she got to know the instruments and stories of the village. When she decided to write music on one of the organs she knew she was going to dedicate it to Hulda, a teenage girl 100 years into space and time of this very place. Hulda is also the name of one of the few women prophets in the Bible, appearing in the Old Testament with warnings of the doomsday. The album is written and recorded in the chapel by Felicia Sjögren."

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LP | 2024 | Original (Powerstation)

Songbook With Friends

Dreaming Of You (1971-76)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Johnny Cash was one of the most influential figures in the history of country music. With his unmistakable deep voice and rebellious image, he not only left a lasting mark on the music world, but also on pop culture in general. With over 90 million records sold worldwide, Cash is one of the best-selling artists of all time. His cross-genre music encompassed country, rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk and gospel. This crossover appeal earned him the rare honor of being inducted into the Country Music, Rock and Roll and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. In the 1960s, Johnny Cash began to present himself as the "Man in Black" and to wear only black clothing during his performances. This choice was not only a stylistic statement, but also a political one. It cemented his reputation as an "outlaw" and country music rebel. Johnny Cash's legacy spans generations and genres. His influence ranges from country and rock to punk and alternative. Artists of various styles have cited Cash as a source of inspiration, and numerous tribute albums have been released in honor of his music. SONGBOOK WITH FRIENDS is a collection of his most beautiful songs, some interpreted in extraordinary versions by other artists.

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Karen Black

LP+7" | 2021 | US | Original (Anthology)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (No Format)

Blick Bassy

1958

Between The Earth And Sky

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

White vinyl seems unplayed. Original inner sleeve.

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Lankum

2LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Rough Trade)

The Blind Boys Of Alabama

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Records are close to NM.

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I'll Find A Way

LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Masterworks)

LP | 2020 | Reissue (La Honda)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Clear 180gr vinyl seems unplayed. Tiny corner wear. Limited edition. With insert

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Colter Wall

Songs Of The Plains

Dumskallarnas Vind Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs

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Petter Alatalo

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Supertraditional)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Mesquite St.)

The Vintage Yell

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Darkness Is A Bright Sound

Jeremy Ferrara

LP | 2024 | Original (American Standard Time)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1977 | JP | Original (Capitol)

The Band

Islands

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Via Parigi)

Release: 1977 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing without OBI, but with insert.

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Évohé Bègue

Bégayer

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Now-Again)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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The "evohé" is the song of the Bacchants during the carnival. It is a bloody and humorous song that humiliates everything. In Euripides' work, the evohé is screamed when the city of Thebes is torn apart by fever and masquerade. Everyone laughs and sings, the maenads set the city on fire, masks pierce and disfigure the inhabitants, and Agave eats the head of King Pentheus, her son.

One cannot explain what this song is; one would need to describe the flip side of the sung, its extremity. Perhaps one cannot even hear it... most likely, the song has already affected us before crossing the threshold of our lucidity. It wells up... It glides over memory; one cannot know its melody, there are no lyrics, no notation, no tradition, no learning... no university of the sung abyss can be established. The orgy of matter is sovereign and incommunicable; the song it gives birth to is always alien, foolish, and lost; it is a sung panic. -Pan's panic, offering a pack of blind dogs to Artemis and suggesting, in passing, to send them hunting in her debauchery. The dogs of naked nature run like mad at an impossible speed, devouring every creature they scent in the wind, consuming all flesh within their reach. One can imagine that the pack reappears invariably in too assertive human affairs, facing certainties against which its wildness imposes itself more violently than against anything else. For example: when we are a bit pleased with ourselves, sensing the impression of having composed, of having imposed our order on the order of matter... immediately, it seems we can hear them barking in the distance. We freeze, we listen, we would prefer to believe it's hallucinations. But no. It is indeed the order of matter returning to express itself with the dogs. Order pours over us, the carnival imposes itself, and while the dogs eat our heads, they offer to admit that the foundation of our order was all soft, all foolish and spongy, all decomposed, that the decomposed order from below, the sincerity of matter, had never ceased to be orgiastic. When the dogs devour us, it's because Pan has brought back the mud. He has ladled a large serving of material broth back onto us; he has made all things copulate again. One imagines a song that is not at all solemn but belongs to a kind of cold and sacred-less mystique; it is the grip of the sovereign jester. An apparently disorderly and boldly stammering song that sees itself overturned and enjoys it...

French Chanson, Noise, echoes of music from faraway and long ago, modified radio transistors and other old electronic gear… After releasing several sets of raw, almost entirely improvised direct-to-tape recordings duplicated by hand in a workshop on the border of the Bauges mountain chain, the Bégayer Trio made new friends. Orphans without a home, they were welcomed like brothers by the Parisian label Le Saule, spotted by the chic Geneva-based Bongo Joe Records, and thus were able to devote a year to the making of their debut album, “Terrain à mire. Une maison rétive. Contrainte par le toit.”

Co-produced by the two families mentioned above, the album was a first beam in the musical structure laid by this trio of Alpine fellows: what they sought was the most exact form of mutt-itude, a nomadic journey through intentionally scrambled ancient musical signs by way of French, Italian and Arabic song, gleefully following René Char’s aphorism, later borrowed and translated by Hannah Arendt as “Our inheritance was left to us by no testament.”

Bégayer’s mission– in the name of those without tradition, the rejects of a culture of scarcity born in the twilight of popular customs amidst the screams of Noise on village squares and in the flow of digital swarms– is to create a hitherto unknown genre of hybrid gypsy rhapsody. The culture of scarcity can be experiences as a kind of cruel joy, an occasion to bridge the unsteady interpretation of ancient practices with contemporary experiments and build upon singular variations and excess. Up to now, every stutter-song intended to produce a joyful though disquieting object whose obstinacy and cruel simplicity triggered a disturbance, a distancing, a studied thing that stares right back at us.

Now the trio has become a quintet working towards a new kind of concert : with no beginning and no end, in which concert-time and quotidian time merge in order to deliberately drain of any autonomy the temporality of performance. Through the vocals, the homemade percussion and numerous strange instruments, two immutable musical activities will be celebrated and brought to bear on each other: the song of the people, whose cry of hunger and togetherness breaks through the barrier between art and life – and the art of performance explored as communal effort to describe our times.

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Witch

Lukombo Vibes

Samantha Ohlanders & Linnea Aall Campbell

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Archival reissue of the Afro-prog-psych Zamrock masterpiece Presented For The First Time Ever In An Aged Copper Green Pressing The entirety of WITCH’s fourth album, restored and remastered from master tapes, and presented as an archival reissue in an aged copper green vinyl pressing. WITCH’s musical arc is contained to a five year span and, in retrospect, it is a logical one. The band’s fourth album - recorded after the band toured with Osibisa - makes use of traditional Zambian rhythms and folk melodies alongside progressive rock movements. It is the most "afro-rock" of WITCH’s oeuvre.

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Klingande Festsalar

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Supertraditional)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Forever Gamblin' On You HHV Exclusive Orange Vinyl Edition

V.A.

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Forager)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Strut)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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HHV Exclusive edition on orange wax, limited to 200 copies worldwide.

A full tank of gas, the gentle glow from the radio dial, & stretches of open highway await, Forever Gamblin’ On You meanders through miles of soulful AOR, funky folk, & dusty soft rock obscurities. A follow up to Sky Dust Drifter, this compilation was gleaned from American private press oddities & rarities of the 70s & 80s, all of which are seeing their first official reissues on this album. A celebration of love, rebirth, and exploration radiating like the warmth of a loved one from the passenger seat.

Featuring “Feeling The Fire”, a jazzy, AOR grooving declaration of love and desire taken from the sole release from The Mad Brother. The compilations’ title track “Forever Gamblin On You” by Petroc And Pals, features an echo-laden folk rock recollection of hard feelings delivered with swelling guitar in a mournful soft psychedelia. Angie Pepper’s “Miss You Too Much” dwells on a past love, rolling along with an effortlessly cool rhythm section, while Roy McComas croons of his manifested “angel of love” on the swirling psych folk cut “Girl Of My Dreams”.

Forever Gamblin’ On You unfolds as a hopeful yet equally melancholic collection of nomadic anthems, primed for a memorable journey along the back roads of familiar American landscapes.

Original artwork by Arina Kokoreva. House in a case wrapped style jacket for a period correct look & feel. Includes a 12”x24” fold out poster insert.

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Kondi Band

We Famous

LP | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Mercury)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Medium: Sealed, Cover: VG+

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John Mellencamp

Scarecrow

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dylan Golden Aycock & Joshua Massad

Two Improvisations

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Scissor Tail Editions)

LP | 2023 | Original (Wtw Music)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“The first full length LP by Joshua Massad and Dylan Aycock. Massad is a tabla player living in India and studying under Zakir Hussain. Massad and Aycock came together in Tulsa to record live at the legendary Church Studio which was founded by Leon Russell in the ’70s. Over a few nights they captured some moments in the studio before it came under new ownership and just before Joshua moved to India.

“Aycock improvising on 12-string with Massad accompanying tabla and sitar. A flowing river of sound, a meeting of the minds. The little touches that Dylan’s brother Jesse Aycock adds (bits of synth) really sweeten the deal as well. Track two recorded in Leon Russell’s legendary Church Studio.” —Aquarium Drunkyard

“Track one is an improvisation recorded at the home of Joshua Massad’s friend who he was house sitting for and invited me to come play. When I showed up the door was open and he was deep in practice so no words were spoken. I set up a mic and just started playing. We played for forty-five minutes straight and the twenty mins of the first track was culled from that moment. We clicked immediately and that was the first time we ever played together. Joshua is studying and teaching in India now where he’s been since 2019.”

—Dylan Golden Aycock

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Ward Thomas

Music In The Madness

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | Original (Curb)

Sawyer Brown

Desperado Troubadours

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | Original (Ride)

Steve Azar

My Mississippi Reunion

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Devilduck)

Merlin Hydes

In Plain Sight

LP | 2018 | Original (Go Danish Folk Music)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Open Mics might not always have a great reputation but for Merlin Hydes it brought some good things. On one hand he met his producer Jon Kenzie who is hosting "Bring Your Own Song" in Hamburg and on the other hand playing that Open Mic put him in touch with DevilDuck Records because they are good friends with Jon Kenzie and he told them to check this boy out.A couple of months later the debut album "In Plain Sight" was recorded at Kenzie"s home studio in just three days and is now ready to conquer the world... or at least a little part of it. The idea was to just record the songs in a cosy and easy set up just as in the good old days without thinking too much about it and avoid any perfectionism."In Plain Sight" describes the balancing act between the peaceful country life, the desire to have a yard and a garden and the supposedly exciting and urban city in which you always might feel a bit strange and as you have chicken poop under your shoes", as Hydes explains....

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Basco

Interesting Times

Release: 2018 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What Good's The Medicine?

Croy & The Boys

LP | 2024 | IS | Original (Spaceflight)

Darkest Darks, Lightest Lights

Release: 2024 / IS – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One of Stereogum’s Top 10 Country Albums of 2023 now on vinyl! Construction worker cum Country singer Corey Baum leads his populist two-step quartet Croy & The Boys through another set of insightful, catchy odes to the plights of capitalism and gentrification. “Your and my favorite antifascist Austinites returned this year with another collection of candid, plain-spoken, good-timing tracks, and there are none better when it comes to capturing what it feels like to be a person in 2023. Rebuking nostalgia on “Did It Happen That Way,” singing party songs about being poor on “I Get By” and “I Know About No Money,” singing sad songs about being poor on “Damn The Working Man” and “What I Had To Do” — Croy covers them all, with unvarnished feeling and a well-honed honky-tonk swing. “Throw ‘Em Out” indeed! - Natalie Weiner, Stereogum

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The White Buffalo

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Earache)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Elmir)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Original inner sleeve. Vinyl is close to NM.

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Malik Adouane

After Raï Party

I'll Tell You What's Gonna Happen

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Except from Rachid Taha, who allowed himself a few forays into the teeming, vibrant heaths of techno, no raï singer other than Cheb Malik has ever ventured into this terrain known for its abundance of sound. If you know about Malik Adouane's ancestry, this is hardly surprising. Born in Librecourt, near Lens, he comes from a union between an Italo-Celtic mother who instilled Western sounds into his ears and a father, a former miner born in Biskra (north-east Algeria), a palm grove near the desert, musically renowned for its lively diwan that could be called Saharan opera. In addition, the town is renowned for its chakhchouka, a dish called after its rich blend of various ingredients and spices. Just like Malik’s music, as he was a fan of James Brown, Barry White, classical Arabic and raï music. He had been thinking about it from the beginning, but the dream took a long time to materialize.

In January 1986, many raï idols turned up in Bobigny, France, for a historic and seminal festival. In the midst of the audience, the young man, dressed in black leather, provided security for the concerts of many stars before becoming one himself. He would rub his eyes, not because he was dazzled, but because they were clouded by a nostalgia that remained him of itself. So, with his head full of sounds warmly recommended by the best DJs, he set out, a little provocatively, to position himself at the cutting edge of music with a new concept called "After raï". It combined the sweet and precious past with an almost uncontrollable creative audacity. It's a balm made in a test-tube-studio from a mix of Arabic melodies and lyrics - a kind of "Arabeat", and the arrogant modernity produced by samplers, electronic spinning, roaring bass and guitars made for house music. The pinnacle of the record is a masterful cover of Isaac Hayes' Shaft, which set dancefloors on fire in Paris, London, Ibiza and New York, and became internationally known thanks to its presence on a Paris Dernière compilation curated by French musician and DJ Béatrice Ardisson along with Claude Challe's iconic Buddha Bar series. Now, shall we dance?

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Kimberly Kelly

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Show Dog)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Shadowbox)

Lindi Ortega

Liberty

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Supraphon)

Karel Gott

Bílé Vánoce

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

Roger Fakhr

East Of Any Place

2LP | 1973 | NL | Original (Ariola)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"East of Any Place,” out December 1st via Habibi Funk, is a treasure trove of songs discovered alongside Rogér Fakhr's acclaimed 2021 album, "Fine Anyway." These tracks, hidden for decades and only passed between a handful of people, offer a glimpse into Rogér’s musical genius and the vibrant scene of Lebanon during a period marked by civil war and social upheaval. This release serves as a companion to "Fine Anyway," feat studio tracks that didn't make it into the previous album.

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The Flying Burrito Bros

Live In Amsterdam

Release: 1973 / NL – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2012 | US | Original (Bathetic)

Angel Olsen

Halfway Home

LP | 2010 | US | Original (Bathetic)

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

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Angel Olsen

Strange Cacti

Beginnings: Colleted Pedal Steel Guitar Works

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

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Gary Peters

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Scissor Tall Editions)

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Clay Pipe Music)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Beginnings: Collected Pedal Steel Guitar Works, is the first full length album by UK-based pedal steel guitarist and improviser Gary Peters. As there seems to be a slew of pedal steel guitar albums coming out in the last five years, this one is unlike any one has heard. There’s no use of reverb pedals or ambient swells, yet it still has so much atmosphere and emotion. The majority of the compositions and improvisations are solo pedal steel guitar, but there are a couple tracks with accompaniment by upright bassist Christopher Williams and pianist Veryan Weston.

Gary Peters has been quietly and prolifically releasing recordings over the years. This grouping of songs Scissor Tail Editions spent about a year working towards narrowing down and mixing and are very honored to present this album of collected pedal steel guitar works.

“The ambient country cabinet is filling up pretty quickly these days and we’re in a golden age of pedal steel, but there’s always room for one more. Rstb faves Scissor Tail offer up a new record from UK steel slinger Gary Peters and while not as overtly awash in the trappings of ambient country, the record still hovers in the humid space between waking and dreams. A halfway hitch between the jazz steel of Dave Easley and the more cosmically aligned works of Suss, the record promises to carve out its own corner of the genre.” —Raven Sings The Blues

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Vic Mars

The Beacons

Toshiko Yonekawa, Kiyoshi Yamaya & Contemporary Sound Orchestra

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Clay Pipe Music is thrilled to announce The Beacons by Vic Mars - the enigmatic producers third LP for the label. Since 2019s Inner Roads and Outer Paths his music has found a new audience having been used as the soundtrack to the game I am Dead by British interactive studio Hollow Ponds.

While his previous two albums were inspired by the pastoral landscapes of Herefordshire, The Beacons, embarks on a journey westward into Wales, inviting listeners into the rugged terrain of the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountains. Using a darker more ominous sonic palette, and pushing the sound of the Moog synthesizer to the fore, The Beacons captures the feel of mountains silhouetted against dramatic skies, craggy summits and the overall grandeur of the landscape and its rich folklore.

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Tapestry: Koto & The Occident Country

LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Cinedelic)

Toshiko Yonekawa, Kiyoshi Yamaya & Contemporary Sound Orchestra

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Following the release of the first volume of the Koto: Tapestry series, Cinedelic completes the series of 3 with the release of the remaining two valuable albums. 'Tapestry: Koto' is a 3-album series produced by Nippon Columbia in the mid-1970s dedicated to one of the main instruments of Japanese traditional music: Koto. The beauty of the trilogy curated by composer Kiyoshi Yamaya, whose chapters are respectively dedicated to Sea, Hillside and Country, lies in the fact that they are a modern translation of tradition using newer and more avant-garde sound idioms, integrating the koto with jazz musicians. An original mix, a 'crossover’ that allows for the awakening and the consequential spread of traditional music in larger contexts. The extreme accuracy of the marvellous recordings is also remarkable. The performers on this fabulous album are: Toshiko Yonekawa - learned to play the koto at an early age, performing in a public concert as early as 8 years old. For three years, from 1941 to 1944, she won prizes as the best performer in the Japanese Cultural Federation's competition for traditional trios. She also received an award from the Prime Minister. Many other important recognitions followed until she became president of the Reichokai and executive director of the Sankyoku Association. In 1996, she was appointed Living National Treasure. As a koto player, her best-known characteristics are her extreme precision of intonation and rhythm and the unparalleled beauty of her sound. Kiyoshi Yamaya - born March 1932. He attended the Kunitachi College of Music. Between 1956 and 1960, he performed with 'Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats' (clarinet, saxophone, etc.) and was responsible for composition and arrangement. In 1959, he formed the 'Modern Jazz Three Association' with Norio Maeda and Keitaro Miho, which contributed to the improvement of the level of composition and arrangement in Japanese jazz. In 1965, he became conductor of the 'Tokyo Union Orchestra' and received the Japan Record Award's Arrangement Award. His name appears on more than 100 albums. An unmissable session for those seeking new sounds. Original masters licensed by Nippon Columbia for the first ever reissue. Includes OBI and insert.

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Tapestry: Koto & The Occident Hillside

LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Cinedelic)

M. Mashabi And His Kelana Ria Orchestra

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Kafilah Nights: Malay-Arabic Variations From 1960s Indonesia

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elevation)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Pasaj / Garaj Müzik)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In the early 1960s, two of the best talents in the Indonesian music scene, songwriter and band leader Adi Karso, known for his hits "Papaya Cha-Cha-Cha" and "Balonku" and Gambus musician Munif Bahasuan teamed up to form Orkes Melayu (Malay Orchestra) Kelana Ria.

Between 1961 and 1964, Kelana Ria recorded 48 songs that were spread over four records, Kafilah, Yam El Shamah, Ya Mahmud and Ya Hamidah, which become the primary sources for this compilation.

These four recordings changed the trajectory of Indonesian popular music.

Play "Renungkanlah" (Think About It), included in this compilation, a love song with heavenly melodies and lilting harmonies, to an audience in the Western part of Malaysia or people of Malay ethnicity in Singapore and they would immediately hum along the tune.

"Renungkanlah" has been covered by many countless other musicians in Indonesia and Malaysia and it has become a hit many times over. The song has become a go-to song in karaoke bars in the region, with fans oblivious to who actually wrote this song or who performed it the first time.

Or take the song "Ratapan Anak Tiri" (Lament of a Stepchild), a song that has traversed national boundaries and has become a universal sad song in the Malay world, turning into a shorthand for melancholia that permeates this archipelago of nations.

Another stunner is the melancholia-laden "Kesunyian Jiwa" (Silence of the Soul), an operatic tune so majestic that it could open any black and white Kurosawa film from the late 1940s.

"Kesunyian Jiwa" opens with marching percussion and what could pass for a horn section foregrounding an opera finale before settling into a Latin-inspired composition backing one of the most soulful vocal performances from the 1960s.

The songs and the soulful vocal performance belong to Muhamad Mashabi, who despite the popularity of the songs he created is now largely forgotten, whose history was kept alive only in the neighborhood where he grew up in Central Jakarta.

With only a short musical career and only nine recorded songs from almost 40 compositions, Mashabi fell by the wayside in the early 1970s, especially with the rise of pop and rock from bands like Koes Plus, Panbers and God Bless.

Yet his songs, inspired by Malay traditional songs but performed in the modern studio setting, lay the foundations for what would become the biggest musical genre in the country, dangdut, especially the kind that was popularized by the self-styled king of the genre, Rhoma Irama.

"Mashabi's distinctive vocal style and soul-searching lyrics helped give rise to dangdut, Indonesia's most popular music genre," University of Pittsburgh music professor Andrew N. Weintraub write in the liner notes.

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Cem Adrian

Gökyüzümün Yidizlari

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elevation)

Gombloh

Live Gila

2LP | Original (Memphis Industries)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Most of Gen X-ers who grew up in the mid-1980s Indonesia must have seen Soedjarwoto Soemarsono, known with his nom de guerre “Gombloh” performing on a state-run television station, playing some of his biggest hits from that era, pop gems like “Kugadaikan Cintaku (I Pawn Off My Love)”, “Setengah Gila (Half-Crazy).”

But of course, it is not fair to judge Gombloh only from these hits. Dig deeper and you will find buried treasure in his early stuff from Indra Records, and there are many of them.

His album with the band Lemon Tree’s Anno ‘69 (yes, that’s the name of the band) is all remarkable, but what he did for Chandra Records was no less spectacular. How can you go wrong with songs like “Kebyar-Kebyar”, the unofficial national anthem for Indonesia, dan “Berita Cuaca” one of the better epic songs in a catalogue full of epochal songs? These were all long out of print and in our journey to source the original master for these albums we met Bob Djumara of Nirwana Records, the Surabaya, East Java-based label which broke Gombloh into the mainstream in the mid-1980s. Almost all albums Gombloh recorded for his early labels, Indra Records and Chandra Records were critically acclaimed, but commercially they bombed, big time. Nirwana Records came up with an ingenious plan. What if they recorded Gombloh performing live and release it as is. After all, the first song in Gombloh debut record Nadia & Atmospheer is him strumming on his guitar backed by the cheering of a crowd, who could be heard going wild when he hurled that epithet “bastard” at the end of the song

The end result is a brilliant recording which despite being recorded live the sound quality so pristine leading many to doubt the claim of being live. Regardless, Nirwana shipped a decent number of units and Gombloh could buy his first car, a Katana Jeep, with money from the royalty.

One of the best things about Live Gila is its perfect sequencing, beginning with Gombloh’s social commentary on the rich’s debauched lifestyle of preying on young boys and girls, one of the most popular subjects allowed by the censoring machine of the New Order authoritarian government. The second song “Untuk Persada” is a soaring ode to the nation. For this song, Gombloh could be heard drawing his inspiration from The Police, which was undoubtedly popular in the early 1980s, even in a faraway port city like Surabaya.

Listening to this record as a whole (we omitted the last song from the original master tape “Bagimu Negeri” which sounds too jingoistic), we could not help but point to some of similarities it has with Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks. Not a single composition in this record sound indigenous (the Malay-influenced rock of Panbers or Koes Plus come to mind); they all sound modern and effortlessly catchy, and had it not been for the language, this album could be mistaken for a musical output from someone growing up in Laurel Canyon or Southern France.

There are only limited copies of vinyl records in the second-hand market today available for Gombloh music, if at all. For his ardent fans, they have to scavenge for old cassettes to continue to be able to enjoy his music and have to pay top dollar for that. In Indonesia, where he was a superstar in the early 1980s, Gombloh was largely forgotten. With this project, we can only hope that the time is ripe for Gombloh to reemerge and now, more than ever, his music could speak to a bigger audience.

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The Cornshed Sisters

Honey & Tar

Release: Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original

Tre Burt

Traffic Fiction

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elevation)

Gombloh

Sekar Mayhang

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Bubblewrap)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gombloh’s forgotten masterpiece

What if you have Brian Wilson and Bruce Springsteen rolled into one? And what if he came of age as an poor buskers in in Surabaya, Indonesia, but then summoned enough strength to record six albums that flew in the face of everyone in the country’s rock scene back in the early 1980s?

Genius, be they Brian Wilson or Soedjarwoto “Soemarsono” Gombloh, don’t conform to rules written for us mere mortals. They have their own way of doing things and in the case of Gombloh, writing music, conducting recording session and spending cash from his music, must be conducted on his own terms and his terms only. Studio time was expensive back in the early 1980s, yet Gombloh could be three-hour late for his session, and while engineers, session musicians and producers were jittery about the prospect of another botched session, Gombloh took his time for a nap before the recording begun.

Yet, some of his greatest works came into being in the wake of this napping session. Recording session for Sekar Mayang is no exception, despite the fact there’s foreboding sense of doom with Gombloh being unsure about the possibility of selling enough units to help his label break even. This is, after all, this is his last record with his band Lemon Tree’s. No one knew that Gombloh was operating with all his cylinders running and what came out of this Indra Record session, in the waning days of 1980, were some of the best compositions ever committed to magnetic tapes (to wax, if now you’re holding this on vinyl).

This is Gombloh at the peak of his creative genius. You can argue that his debut album Nadia & Atmospheer (what’s with the spelling mistake?) is the most sprawling and complex album (both sonically and thematically), but Sekar Mayang certainly had the best songs and I can make the argument that this album’s 10 songs are strong contenders for biggest hits in blues, country, psychedelic rock charts. “Prahoro & Prahoro” is one of those impossible song which appears to have sprung from a bottomless well of inspiration, encompassing King Crimson’s sprawling epic, Deep Purple’s deepest blues and Genesis’ most progressive tendencies. Or “Sekaring Jagat”, which begins as Lennon-McCartney lullaby before launching a thousand ships traveling to the end of the rainbow with children choir singing heavenly melodies backed by droning harpsichord and synclavier, while a buzzing Hammond B3 tightly locks with Gombloh’s guitar strumming.

For many of his fans, Gombloh is known as generous man of the people. A Robin Hood type if you please. He spent his royalty checks to buy foods for beggars and buskers and dish out some more to buy undergarments for Surabaya’s prostitutes. In Sekar Mayang, Gombloh went full Springsteen mode in “Mitra Becakan,” a social commentary that cut so deep you can end up with tears in your eyes and lump in your throat (even if you don’t understand any of its Javanese language lyrics). This is one the most devastating social commentary ever recorded for a pop song, and even if you discount the greatness of its musical composition, you chalk this up as a great social-realism poetry. His years of hanging out with pedicab drivers, street vendors and street-bound prostitutes certainly gave him enough insight into their (in)human condition.

Yet, a record this stellar was largely forgotten. First, this record was a flop upon its release in 1981. Indra Records reportedly only did one pressing on cassette tape and be done with it. For those who were lucky enough to have come across one of songs from this album on the radio were likely growing up in East Java, where Gombloh had a massive cult following early in the 1980s. Nothing was heard from this record again.

There were only a handful of cassette tapes from the first pressing found on second-hand market and I recently stumbled upon one online with a price tag of Rp 50 million (US$3,500). It’s no longer available now.

In Sekar Mayang, Gombloh harbours an obsession for a long-lost utopia, Java’s distant past, where farmers have their barn full of rice and corn, where blacksmith working around the clock making tools and children singing and dancing in their seminaries. Or the fact that he opens the song with stanza from Serat Weddhatama, arguably the most monumental poem in neo-classic Javanese literature, could be his pledge of allegiance. The question for him is should a modern-day Indonesia, rife with poverty, corruption and environmental degradation not be an anathema to that utopia?

In the end, you don’t need to be someone fluent in Javanese to enjoy this majestic record. And if this record turns out to be the last in Elevation Records catalogue and we shut down this label tomorrow, we will be very happy. Mission accomplished!

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The Gentle Good

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Release: 2023 / EU – Original

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Olivia Chaney

Six French Songs

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Spaceflight)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

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Six French Songs is Olivia Chaney’s spontaneous and celebratory review of the French chanson, from medieval ballad to 60s yé-yé pop classic.

Finding themselves with a few spare evenings during a trip to NYC, Olivia and her long term collaborator and producer Thomas Bartlett set themselves the challenge of making an EP. Over two balmy summer evenings at Reservoir Studios (formerly Chic’s studio), they set down as many of Olivia’s arrangements as they could. Playing all the instruments themselves, with haunting violin parts from Sam Amidon, who happened to be in town, these recordings are a celebration of friendship, fuelled by wine, laughter and affection.

Most of the recordings are based on arrangements Olivia worked up over the previous decade, as her French catalogue expanded. After putting her version of Auprès de ma blonde on youtube, a war torn love song arranged unexpectedly with her Indian harmonium, it quickly gained a quarter of a million views. A fan in Lyon sent Olivia a field recording of Montagne, que tu es hautes, which she then recorded to acclaim with Kronos Quartet. L’homme armé, a mystical 15th century chanson, and Marguerite, a sailor’s folksong from the Channel Islands, had found their way into her regular touring repertoire. Ballade is Olivia’s take on Brassens’ setting of Villon’s homage to the brave and iconic women of the past, tinged with the transience of life. Tous les garçons et les filles updates this 60s pop hit into her ravishing and contemporary soundworld.

The distinctive and playful arrangements on Six French Songs frame afresh the unbroken tradition of French chanson–with their ‘formes fixes’ and full-blooded themes of life, death, love and longing.

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Garrett T. Capps

People Are Beautiful

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

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Claudia Koreck

Kalender

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Transilvania Smile (1994)

Svitlana Nianio

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Kym Register + Meltdown Rodeo

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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(First official release) Original soundtrack for the dance-theatre performance 'Transilvania Smile' by Svitlana Nianio recorded in phantonstudio, Cologne, 1994-1995This album is one of the most personal and insightful works of Svitlana Nianio from the 90s, which you can now get to know in its original form and sound.

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Meltdown Rodeo

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