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VA – Bunny Lee’s Kingston Flying Cymbals 1974-1979 (2015)
Bunny Lee’s Flying Cymbals or flyers rhythms dominated the Dancehalls and the charts during 1974 and 1975. The style based around the Philadelphia disco or the Philly Bump, the sound of an open and...
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VA – Mojo Presents: A Collection of Unfaithful Music (2015)
1. Georgie Fame – Lil Pony 2. Johnny Cash – She Used To Love Me A Lot 3. Gene Austin – Lonesome Road 4. Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell 5. Otis Rush – It Takes Time 6. Larkin Poe – Overachiever 7....
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VA – Putumayo Presents Afro-Caribbean Party (2015)
This collection from the Putumayo label offers a breezy selection of dance-oriented songs from the Caribbean region. As the title suggests, the music reflects the cultural melting pot of influences on...
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VA – Morton Feldman, Erik Satie, John Cage: Rothko Chapel (2015)
“Stillness, silence, contemplation. These are the characteristics of Rothko’s paintings and of the chapel that was created for his work,” writes Sarah Rothenberg in the CD liner notes. “If Jackson...
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VA – Kitsuné Maison Compilation 17: World Wild Issue (2015)
Kitsune Maison remains one of the most vital hubs for new music in Europe. Blessed with impeccable Gallic style, the Parisian imprint manages to see beyond trend and fashion, remaining ahead of the...
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VA – Kitsuné America 4 (2015)
The French label’s flirtation with America continues on this fourth volume of stylish Yankee indie music. As on Kitsuné America, Vol. 3, the focus is on lesser-known acts; the collection’s biggest...
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VA – Magic Moments 8: Sing Hallelujah (2015)
The eighth edition of the popular series Magic Moments is a 71-minute musical joyride through the current ACT release schedule, and features not just the stars of the label but also its newcomers and...
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VA – Punk 45: Extermination Nights in the Sixth City – Cleveland, Ohio: Punk...
Soul Jazz Records’ new Punk 45 album charts the rise of underground punk in the mid-west city of Cleveland, Ohio, which for many people is the true birthplace of punk music in the mid-’70s. Featuring a...
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VA – Reggae Anthology: King Jammy’s Roots, Reality and Sleng Teng (2015)
King Jammy – initially Prince Jammy but crowned after a sound system dance in 1985 – is one of Jamaica’s most successful and influential producers and mixing engineers responsible for several...
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VA – Feeling Nice, Volume 3 (2015)
Put together by soul and funk aficionados Tobias Kirmayer and Daniel Wanders at Tramp Records, this is the third compilation in the Feeling Nice series, dedicated to rare and lesser-known tracks from...
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VA – Unlock the Lock: The Kent Records Story 1958-1962, vol. 1 (2015)
The Bihari Brothers obtained the rights to Kent Records from Lee Silver in 1954 — Silver never released more than two singles on the imprint — but didn’t turn it into their primary concern until 1958,...
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VA – Uncut: Back to the Garden (2015)
1. Sufjan Stevens – No Shade in the Shadow of… 2. Mattew E White – Rock ‘N’ Roll Is Cold 3. Ryley Walker – Primrose Green 4. Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian at Best 5. Steve Gunn & The Black Twig...
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VA – Coxsone’s Music: The First Recordings of Sir Coxsone, The Downbeat...
Coxsone’s Music is a stunning new collection featuring over two and half hours of early Jamaican proto-ska, rhythm and blues, jazz, rastafari and gospel music – charting the earliest recordings...
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VA – Muddy Waters 100 (2015)
When a local guitarist and blues singer in Clarksdale, Mississippi named McKinley Morganfield made his first field recording at the Stovall plantation, on August 31, 1941, he had no idea where this...
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VA – Sources: The P&P Records Soul & Disco Anthology (2015)
There is an oft-parroted theory that hip-hop began as a kind of reaction to disco. It was music made by and for people who felt disenfranchised by disco’s dominance of black music in the 70s, who...
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VA – Pop Ambient 2016 (2015)
In the liner notes to his 1978 album Music for Airports, Brian Eno wrote that ambient music should be able to “accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it...
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VA – Music from Love & Mercy: The Life, Love and Genius of Brian Wilson (2015)
The Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy wasn’t exactly an enormous hit, boasting modest reviews from critics. That said, whether you like the movie or not Brian Wilson’s story is all about music....
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VA – [Cease & Desist] DIY!: Cult Classics from the Post-Punk Era 1978-82 (2015)
The British DIY scene that arose in the wake of punk had a weird relationship with mainstream pop, one that continues to this day: This compilation was originally supposed to be called Now That’s What...
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VA – Parallelogram (2015)
Three Lobed Recordings operates from the brightly lit basement of a one-floor midcentury home in a quiet subdivision of modest ranches outside of Greensboro, the third largest city in North Carolina....
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VA – Lows in the Mid Sixties, Volume 54: Kosmic City, Part 2 (2015)
In the spirit of AIP’s dodgy regional garage rock series Highs in the Mid Sixties comes Lows in the Mid Sixties Volume 54: Kosmic City Part 2. This set of roughhewn cobblestones was culled from the...
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