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rastronomicals · 7 months

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11:53 AM EST February 28, 2024:

Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet - "I Faram Gami I Faram" From the album Afro-Latin Soul Ethiopian Quintet (1966)

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denne72 · 6 years

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Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet - Afro-Latin Soul - 1966 - Worthy Records - Reissue 180 grs - US Press - 2005 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #vinyl #collection #33rpm #stereo #lp #denne72 #nowplaying #afrojazz #mulatuastatke #dondiscos #garimpo #worthyrecords #ourcollection #afrolatin #jazz #records #recordcollection #turntable #vinylclub #afro #ethiopianquintet #shagu #recordedinbrooklyn (em Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro)

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prehistoricsounds · 4 years

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This weeks arrivals!

Sorry this is a bit late today, but I had a couple of late deliveries arrive today which I wanted to include in this weeks list. About 130 titles!

New releases from Action Bronson "Only For Dolphins", Beabadoobee "Fake It Flowers", Carcass have released a 10" EP "Despicable", Fuzz featuring Ty Segall have released "III", Glass Animals "Dreamland", Hellripper "Affair Of The Poisons", Hot Chip has put together a new volume of "Late Night Tales", finally got some copies of Kaytranada "Bubba", Laura Veirs "My Echo", Miiesha "Nyaaringu", Mr. Bungle have released a furious thrash album "The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo", Okkervil River "A Dream In The Dark: 2 Decades Of Okkervil River", Sevendust "Blood & Stone", The Budos Band "Long In The Tooth", Troye Sivan "In A Dream" and Yes "The Royal Affair Tour"

New reissues and legacy from Anastacia, Anthrax, Exodus, Guns N Roses, a few Mort Garson releases, PJ Harvey, The Chats, Tedeschi Trucks Band and much much more!!!

AC/DC - Back In Black [LP] AC/DC - Live [2LP] Action Bronson - Only For Dolphins [LP] Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies / Sap [2LP] (sold) Alice In Chains - MTV Unplugged [2LP] Amy Winehouse - Back To Black [LP] Anastacia - Not That Kind (Pink) [LP] Angie McMahon - Piano Salt [LP] Anthrax - Persistence Of Time (Deluxe) [4LP] Beabadoobee - Fake It Flowers [LP] Ben Harper - Winter Is For Lovers (White) [LP] Billie Eilish - When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go [LP] Black Pumas - Black Pumas (Deluxe) [2LP+7"] (sold) Black Sabbath - Paranoid [LP] Black Stone Cherry - The Human Condition (Red) [LP] (sold) Bob Mould - Distortion: 1989-1995 [8LP Box] (sold) Carcass - Despicable [10"] Carcass - Despicable [CD] (sold) Charles Bradley - Changes [LP] Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming [LP] Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love [LP] Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex [LP] (sold) City And Colour - If I Should Go Before You [2LP] Crack Cloud - Pain Olympics [LP] Datura4 - West Coast Highway Cosmic [LP] Deftones - Ohms (Gold) [LP] (sold) Dennis Cometti - Dennis Cometti (Blue/Wht Split) [LP] Dinosaur Jr. - Swedish Fist (Live In Stockholm) [LP] Distillers - Coral Fang [LP] Donny Benet - Mr Experience (Grape) [LP] Elvis Presley - Elvis 30 #1 Hits (Gold) [2LP] Emma Swift - Blonde On The Tracks [CD] (sold) Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned [2LP] Faith No More - Angel Dust [2LP] First Aid Kit - Lions Roar [LP] (sold) Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac [LP] Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits [2LP] Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo [LP] Funkadelic - Funkadelic [LP] Fuzz - III [LP] Glass Animals - Dreamland [LP] Gorillaz - Presents Song Machine, Season 1 (Orange) [LP] Guns N' Roses - Greatest Hits [2LP] Harry Styles - Harry Styles [LP] (sold) Hellripper - Affair Of The Poisons [LP] Hot Chip / Various - Late Night Tales (Unmixed) [2LP] IDLES - Ultra Mono (Vortex) [LP] Jeff Buckley - Grace [LP] Jimi Hendrix - Songs For Groovy Children [8LP Box] (sold) John Butler Trio - Home [2LP] Kate Miller Heidke - Child In Reverse (Pink) [LP] Kaytranada - Bubba [2LP] Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo [LP] Kim Salmon & The Surrealists - Rantings From The Book Of Swamp [2LP] Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter [LP] Laura Veirs - My Echo (Pink) Lime Cordiale - 14 Steps To A Better You [LP] (sold) Lime Cordiale - Permanent Vacation [LP] Living End - Modern Artillery [LP] Lucifer - Black Mass [LP] Mac Demarco - Rock And Roll Night Club [EP] Metallica - S&M2 (Orange Marble) [4LP] (sold) Meteors - Teenage Heart (Yellow) [LP] Miiesha - Nyaaringu [LP] Mobb Deep - Infamous [2LP] Mort Garson - Didn't You Hear? [LP] Mort Garson - Music From Patch Cord Productions [LP] Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo (Red) [2LP] (1 left, more soon!) Mulatu Astatke & Black Jesus - To Know Without Knowing [LP] Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet - Afro Latin Soul Vol.2 [LP] Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen [2LP] Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree [LP] Nina Simone - And Piano! (Gold) [LP] Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me [LP] Nirvana - MTV Unplugged: Live In New York [LP] Nirvana - Nevermind [LP] Nirvana - Nirvana [LP] Okkervil River - A Dream In The Dark: 2 Decades Of Okkervil River [4LP] Opeth - Watershed [2LP] Osees - Protean Threat [LP] Parkway Drive - Deep Blue [2LP] Phoxjaw - Royal Swan [LP] (sold) Pink Floyd - A Foot In The Door: The Best Of Pink Floyd [2LP] Pink Floyd - The Wall [2LP] Pixies - Trompe Le Monde [LP] PJ Harvey - Dry [LP] PJ Harvey - Dry: Demos [LP] PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me [LP] Queen - Greatest Hits [2LP] Queen - Greatest Hits II [2LP] Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R (Rated X) [LP] Radio Birdman - Living Eyes (Rockfield Version) [LP] Radiohead - King Of Limbs [LP] (sold) Radiohead - Pablo Honey [LP] (sold) Radiohead - The Bends [LP] (sold) Rare Earth - Get Ready [LP] Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik [2LP] Regurgitator - Tu Plang [LP] Rolling Stones - Black & Blue [CD] Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup (Deluxe) [2LP] (sold) Sarah Mclachlan - Surfacing [LP] (sold) Sevendust - Blood & Stone [LP] Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights [LP] Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Give The People What They Want [LP] Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars - Sewele [LP] Skullcrusher - Skullcrusher [LP] Slade - Cum On Feel The Hitz: The Best Of Slade [2LP] Slowdive - Souvlaki [LP] (sold) Soundgarden - Superunknown [2LP] Suede - Beautiful Ones: The Best Of Suede 1992 - 2018 [2LP] (sold) Swamp Dogg - Gag A Maggott (Splatter) [LP] Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator (Yellow) [2LP] The Beatles - Rubber Soul [LP] (sold) The Budos Band - Long In The Tooth [LP] The Chats - Get This In Ya (Gold) [LP] The Chats - The Chats (Blk/Red Splatter) [LP] The Exploited - Live At The Whitehouse [LP] (Green) [LP] Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star [LP] (sold) Troye Sivan - In A Dream [LP] Tyler, The Creator - Scum Fuck Flower Boy [2LP] Various - Daptone Gold [2LP] Various - New Horizons: A Bristol Jazz Sound [LP] Various: World Spirituality Classics - The Time For Peace Is Now [LP] Warren Zevon - Life'll Kill Ya: 20th Anniversary Edition [LP] White Stripes - Elephant [2LP] White Stripes - The Complete BBC Peel Sessions [2LP] Yes - Live From House Of Blues [3LP+2CD] Yes - The Royal Affair Tour [2LP]

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laibfekievva · 5 years

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MULATU ASTATKE & HIS ETHIOPIAN QUINTET Afro-Latin Soul Volume 2 LP on Worthy ( 36 Bids ) https://t.co/Z6HA5Aswpv

— Laibfe.Kievva (@LKievva) June 28, 2019

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rebirthofthecool1 · 7 years

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Wild vibes from the Ethiopian prince, Mulatu Astatke and his Ethiopian Quintet! The closeness of cultures... Mulatu Astatke and his Ethiopian Quintet- Afro-Latin Soul, circa 1966 (2005) #afrolatinsoul #mulatuastatke #mulatuastatkeandhisethiopianquintet #worthyrecords #ethiopianmusic #worldmusic #felixtorres #johnperez #rudyhouston #robertcuadrado #bass #piano #trumpet #vibes #congas #bongo #louisrodriguez #realworldmusic I love this record so much. A real gem! #vinyl #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #vinyligclub #vinylofthenight #musiclife #physicalmusic #goodmusic #blackmusic #jazz #worldofjazz #albumartwork

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deafhard-blog · 7 years

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List of artistes to performance at the Cape Town International Jazz Fest

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List of artistes to performance at the Cape Town International Jazz Fest

We’ve got the list of artistes that will be performing at the 19th Cape Town International Jazz Festival which will take place on 23 and 24 March 2018 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

On Tuesday festival director Billy Domingo announced some of the artists that will be hitting the stage.

The line-up:

Corinne Bailey Rae (UK), dubbed the British queen of soul, is a contemporary R&B song-writer who has secured multiple Top Ten UK and US releases. She’s also stacked up an array of Grammy and MOBO Awards. Dedicated fans will be able to imbibe her meditative indie rock and folky neo soul tracks.

Best known as the father of Ethio-jazz, Mulatu Astatke (Ethiopia) is recognised for his unique blend of traditional Ethiopian music, Western jazz and Latin rhythms. The musician/arranger’s captivating sounds which lead with vibraphone and congas have seen his songs sampled by hip artists like Nas, Damian Marley, Kanye West and K’naan – who aptly summarise the man’s contemporary reach.

Vijay Iyer Sextet (USA) – Vijay was voted 2014 Pianist of the Year and 2015 Jazz Artist of the Year in the Down Beat International Jazz Critics Poll. As a piano player, his lineage descends through Ellington, Monk, Randy Weston, Bud Powell, McCoy Tyner and Alice Coltrane, this jazz pianist, electronic musician, and writer is a hot item in New York City where he’s based.

Seu Jorge presents the Life Aquatic/ A Tribute to David Bowie (Brazil). Jorge hooked onto the Ziggy Stardust alter ego after Wes Anderson cast him in his 2004 film The Life Aquatic. He sings Bowie’s covers in Portuguese, with only an acoustic guitar for accompaniment.

With his move to the Ninja Tune label, Jordan Rakei’s (NZ) soulful, jazzy hip hop palette has settled into a grander sound on his second LP, Wallflower. The 25-year old’s balladry and mid-tempo grooves are shaped by his skills as multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer.

Blinky Bill & Sibot’s Afrofunk Spaceship (SA/Kenya) unites Kenyan musician, producer and DJ “Blinky” Bill Sellanga with Sibot, a veteran of the South African electro music scene. Sellanga fronted the Just A Band, a collective who created self-described “super-nerdy,” music which embraced hip hop, electronica and funk?—?all with an African inflection. Combined with Sibot’s love of performance, this collab promises a playful mish-mash of jet-fuelled electronica.

Trombone Shorty (USA), aka Troy Andrews, is best known as a trombone and trumpet player, but also stretches out on drums, organ and tuba. He’s worked with some of the biggest names in rock, pop, jazz, funk, and hip hop and this year Blue Note Records announced the label had signed Trombone Shorty for his Blue Note debut – Parking Lot Symphony, which dropped in April 2017.

The Louiz Banks Quartet (India) brings the weight of Indi pop, progressive jazz and Indo jazz fusion to the bandstand. Dubbed ‘The Godfather of Indian Jazz’, Banks was an early member of Weather Report, later performing with John McLaughlin, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pam Crain, Ramamani, and Dizzy Gillespie. His 2008 collab as co-producer, arranger and pianist/keyboards on Miles from India, was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Jazz Album category.

Vocalist, upright bassist, composer and arranger Miles Mosley (USA) was named after Miles Davis. This Hollywood producer is respected for his out-the-box approach, which sees him use effects pedals and a bow on his upright for his forward leaning solo projects, embracing jazz, soul, funk and rock; Trumpeter Nicholas Payton: Afro-Caribbean Mixtape (USA) digs deep as he fuses traditions from his hometown New Orleans with modern jazz, hip hop, mixtape and spoken-word. His playing is steeped in trad jazz, but he frequently flies free in search of new terrain. Bebop, swing, The Great American Songbook, R&B, plus dialects from Central America and the Caribbean.

Together with Swiss colleagues from The Umgidi Trio, pianist Nduduzo Makhathini recorded an 11-track album in Switzerland in 2016. This Inner Dimensions Collective (SA/Swiss) plumbs ancestral depths using chordal deconstruction reminiscent of early South African jazz styles from the Sophiatown era. Their specific dimensions span contemporary gospel and jazz choral, funky liturgical, indigenous African chants and free flow improvisation. The ensemble scooped a 2017 SAMA Award.

R+R=NOW (USA) is an exciting collaboration of some of the music industry’s most talented artists. The multi-award-winning pianist, record producer Robert Glasper, together with multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, actor and record producer Terrace Martin who will bring his saxophone to the A-game, along with Grammy-Award nominated trumpeter Christian Scott Atunde Adjua, and celebrated bassist Derrick Hodge, multi-instrumentalist keyboardist and beatboxer Taylor McFerrin and Berklee College of Music alumnus and drummer Justin Tyson.

Mi Casa (SA) the trio return with soulful urban house grooves guaranteed to bring us together as one big Familia. Expect trademark highlights, like Nana, from their latest soul jazz release.

The Feya Faku Spirit Unit (SA) sees the trumpet legend making more space for duets and solo performances. Saxman Sisonke Xonti (SA) is set to impress with thoughtful lyricism drawn from the nuances of seminal reedmen like Ezra Ngcukana;

Billy Monama: GrazRoots Project (SA), who revisit local classics in a celebration of mbaqanga and maskandi; Armed with her guitar and compelling voice, Belhar’s Claire Phillips (SA) delivers a forceful repertoire of funk, R&B and fusion; Jarrad Ricketts (SA) was crowned the espYoungLegend 2018 winner and the Cape-based singer will up the game with a dynamic pop showcase; Keenan Ahrends Quintet (SA) places the guitarist centre-stage as he airs his compositional approach to deeply toned ballads, local jazz and grungy rock.

Amanda Black’s (SA) balladry on her 14-track Amazulu release secured her platinum status three weeks after release. The sensational singer will show why she’s been dubbed ‘the new queen of ballads’; Nicky Schrire’s (SA) vocal work has drawn comparisons to Esperanza Spalding and Tori Amos. Her inventiveness has landed her spots with the likes of two Grammy-nominated pianists Gerald Clayton and Gil Goldstein; A familiar face on Cape stages, veteran entertainer Alistair Izobell (SA) has captivated audiences in musicals like Kat and the Kings – he’s guaranteed to stir up some dust as he unpacks a classic Cape party;

Sekunjalo Edujazz Band (SA) have been reeling in fans with their impressive interpretation of evergreen standards and local classics. Helmed by new director Kelly Bell, the ensemble’s varied playlist includes numerous memorable highlights; Bellville scholars from The Settlers High School Band (SA) are regular participants in the CTIJF Sustainable Training and Development Programme, and have also wowed at the CTIJF 2017 Music & Careers Live Performance – now they’re beyond excited to graduate to the main festival stage.

Originally from Soweto, prize-winning three-part a cappella group The Soil (SA) dazzle with a repertoire of township jazz, hip hop and Afro-pop. The trio’s beatboxing and polyphonic harmonies gel together as warm kasi-soul with subtle echoes of the kwaito of Mandoza and Zola; MABUTA (SA) is award-winning double bassist Shane Cooper’s latest and much-anticipated quintet. The Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz builds on his moniker as electronic producer Card On Spokes, now assembling sidemen Bokani Dyer on piano and synths, Sisonke Xonti tenor sax, Robin Fassie-Kock trumpet and Marlon Witbooi on drums; Louis Moholo-Moholo presents 5 Blokes 1 Doll (SA) – The only surviving member of The Blue Notes, Moholo-Moholo’s intense stick work continues to inspire. A long, illustrious career has seen him work with everybody from Evan Parker to Keith Tippett, and once again he’ll add his avant-garde flair to 5 Blokes 1 Doll.

Ticket information:

The 19th Cape Town International Jazz Festival will take place on 23 and 24 March 2018 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Tickets are available at Computicket outlets.

Some of the first artists announced for @CTJazzFest including @CorrineBaileyR, @MiCasaMusic, @TheSoilMusic and @AmandaBlackSA ! pic.twitter.com/arqKs4sHin

— TheJuiceSA (@TheJuiceSA) November 28, 2017

#Cape Town International Jazz Fest

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stormyrecords-blog · 8 years

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new arrivals 3-17-17

hello friends of stormy!!we will be closing up shop EARLY on saturday march 18th to attend a family function. please make a note of it in case you are planning on stopping by!! thank you for understanding that every now and then we have to leave early to do other things!! we will be back open regular hours as of march 20th, 2017, at 11am. in FRIDAY TAKADA, MIDORIThrough The Looking Glass cd $17.99Palto Flats and We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records present the highly-anticipated reissue of Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's sought after and timeless ambient/minimal album Through The Looking Glass, originally released in 1983 by RCA Japan. Considered a holy grail of Japanese music by many, Through The Looking Glass is Midori Takada's first solo endeavor, a captivating four-song suite capturing her deep quests into traditional African and Asian percussive language and exploring contemplative ambient sounds with an admirably precise use of marimba. The result is alternatively ethereal and vibrant, always precise and mesmerizing, and makes for an atmospheric masterpiece and an unparalleled sonic and spiritual experience. Midori Takada is a composer, multi-percussionist, and theater artist renowned in Japanese vanguard circles. Midori has released two solo albums: Through The Looking Glass and Tree Of Life (1999) and wrote music for Tadashi Suzuki's theater plays. Her hypnotic, minimalist music is based in the concept of coherence between sound and the human body. She performs solo on marimba and other percussion instruments. She debuted on the scene of Berlin Philharmonic, performing with the RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin just after graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1974. She continued her career with solo concerts in Japan and abroad. In the 1980s, Midori began to explore the traditional music of Asia and Africa. Her fascination resulted in joint projects with Kakraba Lobi from Ghana, Lamine Konte from Senegal, Farafina Band from Burkina Faso, and Korean musicians: zither player Chi Seong-Ja, flute player Won-Il, and saxophone player Kang Tae-Hwan. She also led Mkwaju Ensemble's innovative percussion project and still performs with free-jazz band Ton-Klami with Kang Tae-Hwan and jazz pianist Masahiko Satoh. Takada's compositions have a remarkable way of affecting the imagination. Her minimalist, contemplative music is filled with the concept of infinity and reminds us of a moon voyage, falling stars, a journey into the ocean, or a walk in the garden. The trans melodies, initially simple, begin to loop and splinter, their rhythm breaking and thickening, slowly drawing the listener into another reality. This fully licensed reissue comes with extensive liner notes. CD version is the first ever available CD version; Comes with an eight-page booklet and fold-out poster. TAKADA, MIDORIThrough The Looking Glass lp $28.99LP version. Comes in a Stoughton "Tip-On" jacket; Includes printed inner sleeves. Palto Flats and We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records present the highly-anticipated reissue of Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's sought after and timeless ambient/minimal album Through The Looking Glass, originally released in 1983 by RCA Japan. Considered a holy grail of Japanese music by many, Through The Looking Glass is Midori Takada's first solo endeavor, a captivating four-song suite capturing her deep quests into traditional African and Asian percussive language and exploring contemplative ambient sounds with an admirably precise use of marimba. The result is alternatively ethereal and vibrant, always precise and mesmerizing, and makes for an atmospheric masterpiece and an unparalleled sonic and spiritual experience. Midori Takada is a composer, multi-percussionist, and theater artist renowned in Japanese vanguard circles. Midori has released two solo albums: Through The Looking Glass and Tree Of Life (1999) and wrote music for Tadashi Suzuki's theater plays. Her hypnotic, minimalist music is based in the concept of coherence between sound and the human body. She performs solo on marimba and other percussion instruments. She debuted on the scene of Berlin Philharmonic, performing with the RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin just after graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1974. She continued her career with solo concerts in Japan and abroad. In the 1980s, Midori began to explore the traditional music of Asia and Africa. Her fascination resulted in joint projects with Kakraba Lobi from Ghana, Lamine Konte from Senegal, Farafina Band from Burkina Faso, and Korean musicians: zither player Chi Seong-Ja, flute player Won-Il, and saxophone player Kang Tae-Hwan. She also led Mkwaju Ensemble's innovative percussion project and still performs with free-jazz band Ton-Klami with Kang Tae-Hwan and jazz pianist Masahiko Satoh. Takada's compositions have a remarkable way of affecting the imagination. Her minimalist, contemplative music is filled with the concept of infinity and reminds us of a moon voyage, falling stars, a journey into the ocean, or a walk in the garden. The trans melodies, initially simple, begin to loop and splinter, their rhythm breaking and thickening, slowly drawing the listener into another reality. This fully licensed reissue comes with extensive liner notes. ASTATKE & HIS ETHIOPIAN QUINTET, MULATUAfro-Latin Soul Vol. 2 lp $18.99Exact repro; originally released in 1966. Tracks: "The Panther (Boogaloo)," "Konjit (Pretty)," "Soul Power," "Lover's Mambo," "Love Mood For Two," "Jijiger," "Girl From Addis Ababa," "Karayu," "Raina." "For those who might not be familiar, Mulatu Astatke is as important to the history of Ethio-jazz as Fela Kuti is to Afrobeat, defining the genre from it's inception. . . . On 'Soul Power', we find another great example of Astatke's signature sound, blending together traditional Ethiopian music with Latin-jazz. Simply put, just another classic composition from one of the genre's most influential and legendary musicians." --Pat Les Stache, American Athlete CONSTANTINEHades LP $25.99"The expression of two years' field recording on the Greek islands of Kalymnos and Lesbos -- deep inside a network of caves, and in the teeth of torrential winter storms -- with added strings, grand piano, live drumming and orchestral percussion, in its confluence of 'modern classical, metallic drone, dark ambient, and fuzz'. Guided by Steve Reich, Mika Vainio and Henri Bergson; haunted and spurred by the refugee crisis." SCORPION VIOLENTEThe Stalker 12" $21.99A tribute to the peaks of low-budget Italian crime novels and to lubed-up synth-wave, Scorpion Violente feel up their synths with all the vigor of a manic depressive on a downward slope. Scorpion Violente emit their dirty feedback-washed discharge, adding Ich Bin and Le Syndicat Electronique to their holiday activity books. The tempo is even slower than before, with echoes more distant than In Aeternum Vale and Ike Yard dripping from their stabbing loops. Cold cyclo-rhythmic blues, sure to make Alan Vega turn in his grave. MERZBOW & OREN AMBARCHICat's SquirrelLP $26.992017 repress. "Cat's Squirrel is a live recording of Masami Akita and Oren Ambarchi's performance in Campbelltown, Australia in May 2012. Although Akita and Ambarchi have known one another since 1993 and performed together as part of larger ensembles, this was their first performance as a duo. Together they create a massive wall of sound that moves from the cavernous to the blisteringly psychedelic, laying down shifting low-end structures over which pointillist details ricochet across the stereo field. Akita and Ambarchi's voices blend together into a sonic morass, Ambarchi's set-up expanded to include extra electronics and a spring reverb unit in addition to his signature guitar textures, and Akita utilizing both analog and digital sound sources. Moving through a number of episodes, from deluges of reverberated metal screeches to rapid-fire iterations of visceral electronic tones, the record reaches a high point midway through the second side, where Akita's electronics gradually thin out into a stream of skipping chirps and screeches while around him Ambarchi builds up a dense mass of phasing low-end guitar tones, the duo patiently developing an impenetrable wall of ecstatic, psychedelic noise." --Francis Plagne, Jan. 2013; Deluxe, limited edition vinyl with artwork by Shunichiro Okada and design by Stephen O'Malley. AMBARCHI, ORENSleepwalker's ConvictionLP $26.992017 repress. "Sleepwalker's Conviction documents a 2014 performance by Oren Ambarchi in collaboration with a 20-piece ensemble conducted by Ilan Volkov and featuring members of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Speak Percussion. Foregoing the rhythmic propulsion and distortion-saturated harmonics that have featured in much of Ambarchi's recent work, the LP's single 40-minute piece inhabits a hushed, almost static space of extended tones, percussive shimmer, and creaking strings. Rather than adopting the position of a soloist, Ambarchi allows his sub-bass guitar tones and swirling Leslie textures to blend seamlessly with the ensemble, made up of double basses, horns, and percussion. The group sound has a near-cavernous depth, as waves of low beating tones and distant percussive textures gently wash over one another, coalescing into an undulating mass. Steering clear of bombast and new music clichés, the result is a work of meditative beauty that touches on the haunted ambience of late Luigi Nono, the submerged sonics of Bryars's The Sinking of the Titanic, and the melancholy rituals of Christoph Heemann and Andrew Chalk's Mirror, while remaining unmistakably marked by the singular sensibility Ambarchi has developed over countless performances and recordings" --Francis Plagne. Design by Stephen O'Malley with cover artwork by crys cole. Vinyl cut made by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. VAGhost Woman BluesLP $16.992017 repress. "Compilation of absolutely must have country blues. A mix of well-known artists playing their signature songs and more obscure musicians. Highlights include Bukka White's elemental 'Fixin' to die', Lottie Kimbroughs' seldom heard 'Don't Speak To Me', George Carters' haunting 'Ghost Woman Blues', Willie Browns' existential 'Future Blues', Monroe Moe Jackson's wild 'Go Away From My Door' and many more hits. The real stuff and some of Mississippi Records all time favorite tunes." WIRE, THE#398 April 2017MAG/CD $10.50"Stuck to the cover of this month's issue: The Wire Tapper 43 CD, featuring 21 tracks by Electric Sewer Age, Cozmic Corridors, Ulan Bator, Heinali, Ghikas & Walshe, Grails, and more. Meanwhile, inside the issue: veteran San Francisco underground pranksters The Residents; world jazz traveller Brother Ah; UK improvisor Seymour Wright; grime guru and Rinse FM founder Slimzee; and more!" LAVEY, ANTON SZANDORThe Devil Speaks (& Plays)LP $24.99Known to the world as the founder of the Church of Satan and author, among other cult esoteric texts, of the Satanic Bible (1969), Anton Szandor LaVey was also a skilled musician with a taste for weird, creepy and old-timey sounding tunes. Presented in this compilation are six of his best recordings and the first ever recording of a satanic mass conducted by the very high priest himself in 1968. A compendium of the words and music of one of the most singular and demonized (and rightfully so) characters pop-culture has ever seen. Let yourself go with the suave and eerie sounds of the satanic empire and hail the dark lord! Edition of 300. Abdul Mogard and Mauricio Bianchi: Nervous LP $22.99Ecstatic's stunning split release between Maurizio Bianchi, godfather of the Italian industrial noise scene, and Abul Mogard, the much loved and hyperstitious synthesist, conjures a spellbinding testament to the transcendent and transportive energies of electronic music. Although appearing to starkly contrast on the surface, both artists' work patently shares a lust for the suggestive abstraction of raw current and its pareidolia-like capacity to generate rich and uncanny emotional responses from the end user. On the A-side, Maurizio Bianchi serves the obfuscated, coruscating atmosphere of "Nervous Hydra"; a 17-minute piece of sunken, desiccated harmonic structures and warped greyscale tones rinsed with ET radio signals and distant percussion that recall the sound of embers landing on tinfoil or snow. It evokes the experience of being caught in a quietly raging whiteout with only a dying fire for company, or equally a sense of subaquatic, amniotic serenity prior to being evacuated into a much colder world. Listeners can trust that the Italian artist's first new work in several years is faithful to his ever-uncompromising oeuvre, but there's also a tantalizingly elusive sense of redemption buried deep in there which marks it out from the rest of his canon and close to the work of his antecedents such as Kevin Drumm and Jim Haynes. In that piece's tempestuous wake, Abul Mogard brings a sense of soothing, glacial calm with "All This Has Passed Forever" on the B-side. For 16 blissed minutes, Mogard spells out a nostalgic fantasy in creamy strokes of Farfisa organ and Serge modular synthesizer recorded at EMS studios, Stockholm, and later combined with field recordings to elicit a wistfully widescreen paean to his days on the workshop floor accompanied by the harmonious drones and cacophony of heavy machinery. No matter the piece's provenance, though; it's simply a sublime example of Abul Mogard's gift for illusive, suspenseful ambient music which has seen his previous releases sky-rocket in second hand value since their earliest, sold-out editions. Over 30 minutes of ostensibly contrasting yet subtly, similarly spirited pieces that speak to the mystery and enigma of electronic music's tortured, searching and romantic soul in equal measure. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering; Edition of 500. GROWINGDisorder LP $32.99Disorder marks a few milestones for the band Growing; it is their ninth full-length release, in the fifteenth year of their band, as well as their first record in almost six years. Though this is their first record in quite some time, this by no means a reunion record. When asked, Joe DeNardo stated "We never 'stopped' doing Growing, it's just that it was tough living on two different coasts. We work kinda slow so I think it just took us a while to adjust to how to make it work with the distances. As Kevin kind of built up his home studio in Olympia over the years, it got to a place where we couldn't not use it for Growing - it's such a great isolated spot to hunker down and chisel out some tunes." With an entire country between the them, Kevin Doria has been focusing his energy on his Total Life project, releasing a handful of releases and touring with Fuck Buttons, GodSpeed You Black Emperor and a host of others. DeNardo has spent the last few years making various music-themed films and performing under the Ornament moniker. At first listen, one may be tempted to refer to this as "return to form" for the band: sonically heavy side-long pastoral excursions being a hallmark of their earlier recordings. But Disorder stands more as a refinement of Growing's evolving sonic palette, employing dissonance as liberally as harmony, delivering the listener's ear to a rather unsettling "comfort zone". The effect could be stated as one of submersion. "Kevin's Total Life records and live set really inspired me to take a look at a much simpler setup." DeNardo went on to suggest, "I don't think I succeeded necessarily, but the way he maximizes his sound sources really blew me away. And I think it affected what I was recording for Ornament, and so when we got to jamming for the record, it sort of evolved from that. We recorded to four-track reel-to-reel, it was a pretty minimal setup. It seems like a heavy record to me, these slow, subtle shifts that feel like a bad trip sometimes." Disorder is neither revival nor bookend for Growing. Disorder is another mile marker on the long open road, both figuratively and literally. Double-sided, screen printed jacket by Neil Burke @ Monoroid; Heavy duty virgin vinyl; Edition of 250 copies. FERRARI, LUCHeterozygote/Petite Symphonie... LP $25.99In the field of biology Heterozygous (Hétérozygote) means: a plant whose heredity is mixed. It implies that Hétérozygote, composed between December 1963 and March 1964, is an attempt to engineer a language located both on the musical and on the dramatic plane. You could call this music "Anecdotal Music" for if the organization of events is purely musical, their choice suggests situations justified at two levels: the music and the anecdote. Luc Ferrari explains the piece Petite Symphonie Intuitive Pour Un Paysage De Printemps (1973-1974) in 2002: "This electroacoustic music is part of a series that could be called 'imaginary soundscape'. Unlike 'Presque Rien Ou Le Lever Du Jour Au Bord De La Mer (Almost Nothing Or Daybreak By The Seaside)', where the landscape narrates itself, here a traveller discovers a landscape which he tries to convey as a musical landscape. Brunhild and I were in the Gorges du Tarn area. We chose to take a small path that was going up a rocky mountain for about ten kilometres. After a last turn, a totally unexpected landscape opened before my eyes. It was sunset. Before us, a vast plateau spread open with soft curves up to the horizon, up to the sun. The colours ranged from dry grass yellow to purple, in the distance, with the darkness of a few small groves punctuating the space. The almost bare nature was presenting itself to the eye, free from any obstacle. We could see everything. Later, when I recollected this place and the sensations I had experienced there, I tried to compose a music that could revive this memory. The 'Causse Méjean' is a high plateau, about 1000 m high, in the Massif Central mountain range. It is dotted by scattered farms. A few people bring their flocks of sheep home. I thought about evoking this solitary and hazy human presence by including snippets of conversations I had had with some of the shepherds. Human language is woven into the musical texture; the sound of the voice says more than its actually meaning. Once, a shepherd told me '... I am never bored. I listen to the landscape. Sometimes I play my flute and then I listen to the echo responding...' Thinking of him, I used the flute and its echo in my music." Suzanne Ciani cd Lixiviation $16.992017 repress. The American Delia Derbyshire of the Atari generation. With a sonic portfolio that boasts commissions for the Xenon classic pinball machine, the sounds for the Meco Star Wars theme, the Atari TV commercials, and the electronic sound effects in the original Stepford Wives film (1975), amongst many others, the mutant electronic music CV of Suzanne Ciani is proof that in a 1970s commercial world of boys toys, monopolized by a male dominated media industry, a woman's touch was the essential secret ingredient to successful sonic seduction. A classically trained musician, with an MA in music composition, this American-Italian pianist was first introduced to the synthesizer via her connections in the art world when abstract sculptor and collaborator Harold Paris introduced Suzanne to synthesizer designer Don Buchla who created the Buchla Synthesizer, the instrument that would come to define Ciani's synthetic sound. Cutting her teeth providing self-initiated electronic music projects for art galleries, experimental film directors, pop record producers, and proto-video nasties, Suzanne soon located to New York where she quickly became the first point of call for electronic music services in both the underground experimental fields and the commercial advertising worlds alike. Counting names like Vangelis and Harald Bode amongst her close friends, Suzanne and her Ciani Musica company became the testing ground for virtually any type of new developments in electronic and computerized music amassing an expansive vault of commercially unexposed electronic experiments which have remained untouched for over 30 years... until now. Finders Keepers Records present a new creative archive based relationship with Suzanne Ciani, who, as one of the very few female composers in the field (save Chicago's Laurie Spiegel, Italy's Doris Norton, and a post-op Walter Wendy Carlos) turned a hugely significant wheel behind-the-screens of many early computerized music modules throughout the 1980s, dating back to her formative years studying at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Labs in the early '70s. Suzanne Ciani's detailed and academic approach to music and electronics coupled with an impeccable sense of timing and melody (and a good sense of humor) shines throughout this new collection of previously unreleased recordings. Lixiviation complies and re-contextualizes both secret music and commercial experiments of Suzanne Ciani made for microcosmic time slots and never previously documented on vinyl or CD VA - Spiritual Jazz 7: Islam CD on Jazzman $16.99lp also available $29.99Esoteric, modal, and progressive jazz, inspired by Islam and recorded between 1957-1988. Songs ancient and divine - the seventh volume of Jazzman Records' acclaimed Spiritual Jazz series examines the influence and impact of Islam on four decades of jazz innovation. Through Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, the civil rights era in America saw African American liberation politics famously associated with Islamic belief. This was not the first time that radical developments in African American cultural life had been widely and famously associated with Islam - that distinction belongs not to political or sporting giants, but to the progressive jazz musicians of the bebop generation. Kenny Clarke, Art Blakey, Sahib Shihab, Gigi Gryce, Idrees Sulieman, Ahmad Jamal, Yusef Lateef; all these legendary jazz pioneers - and countless more - were early converts to the spiritually charged Ahmadiyya school of Islam. Their faith profoundly influenced the music that they made, and the presence of prominent and innovative Muslim musicians at the heart of jazz culture in America has been recognized ever since. The tracks on this collection follow the story of Islam and jazz from the 1950s to the 1980s. Recorded by Muslim jazz musicians, they often draw specifically on Middle Eastern or Islamic music, dream of an esoteric or spiritual Afro-East, or invoke the landscape and sound worlds of Islamic Africa. Spiritual Jazz 7 presents a selection of visionary music - inspired by faith, powered by jazz. Many tracks never before reissued. Features: Maurice McIntyre, Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio with Malachi Favors & Ari Brown, Pharoah Sanders, Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim, Creative Arts Ensemble, East New York Ensemble De Music, Idrees Sulieman, Jamila Sulieman, Yusef Lateef, Sabu Martinez & Sahib Shihab, Abdelrahman 'Abdo' Elkhatib, Solar Plexus, The Lightmen Plus One, Ahmed Abdul-Malik, and Dawan Muhammad. CD version comes with a 24-page color booklet.

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