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VA – An American Troubadour: The Songs of Steve Forbert (2017)
Even 40 years after he first emerged, a young, fresh-faced man/boy from Mississippi, Steve Forbert still remains the quintessential American journeyman. Although mainstream success has eluded him for...
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VA – Don’t Mess with Cupid, ‘Cause Cupid Ain’t Stupid (2018)
Like Warp Records, Factory, and even Motown before it, Nina Kraviz’ трип (Trip) has the three defining characteristics of a great record label: a distinct but ever-evolving sound, a staunch core of...
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VA – Max’s Kansas City: 1976 & Beyond (2017)
Before there was CBGB’s, there was Max’s Kansas City. Having opened in December 1965 in NYC and operational until 1981, it is now known as “the first landmark ‘underground’ nightclub” in American...
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VA – Tribute: Newly Recorded Blues Celebration of Delmark’s 65th Anniversary...
In 1953, at the age of 20, Bob Koester recorded a traditional jazz group called the Windy City Six in his tiny record store on Delmar Street in St. Louis. Soon relocated to the actual Windy City,...
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VA – C89 (2018)
C86 was a compilation of UK indie bands given away with the July 1986 issue of NME, and although its collection of performers demonstrated a wide swath of the assorted scenes brewing the time, the...
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VA – Uncut: The New Year Starts Here! 2018 (2017)
1. HC McEntire – Baby’s Got the Blues 2. La Féline – Comité Rouge 3. No Age – Soft Collar Fad 4. Tyler Childers – Whitehouse Road 5. Roy Harper – Freak Suite 6. The Limiñanas – Pink Flamingos 7....
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VA – Classic English and Scottish Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways (2017)
Smithsonian Folkways 21-track compilation Classic English and Scottish Ballads features giants of the 20th-century folk scene — including Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Ewan MacColl, Jean Ritchie, and the...
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VA – Disques Debs International Vol. 1 (2018)
Strut present the first ever compilation series to access the archives of one of the greatest of all French Caribbean labels, Disques Debs out of Guadeloupe. Set up by the late Henri Debs during the...
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VA – Eccentric Soul: The Cash Label / The Saadia Label (2017)
Eccentric Soul: The Cash Label – From the most affordable studio on Chicago’s west side comes a document of unknown and remarkably eccentric soul music, all produced in late-night sessions after day...
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VA – Mojo Presents: MERSEY PARADISE the Fab Sound of Liverpool (2018)
1. Pete Wylie – Is That What Love Is All About? 2. Half Man Half Biscuit – Every Time A Bell Rings 3. The Wild Swans – Liquid Mercury 4. The Coral – Eyes Of The Moon 5. Deaf School – What A Way To End...
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VA – For Discos Only: Indie Dance Music from Fantasy and Vanguard Records...
Craft Recordings/ Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company release For Discos Only: Indie Dance Music From Fantasy & Vanguard Records (1976–1981), a comprehensive collection of...
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VA – The B-Music of Jean Rollin 1968-1973 (2018)
French director Jean Rollin’s cult sexploitation vampire films are a specialist interest. Fans love pop surrealist details like the crotch-sucking vampire bats, incongruous clown costumes, and...
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VA – John Zorn: The Book Beri’ah (2018)
The Book Beri’ah is the final 92 compositions from Zorn’s Masada cycle. It’s coming in a limited edition box set of 11 CDs. CD1: Keter – SOFIA REI CD2: Chokhma – CLERIC CD3: Binah – SPIKE ORCHESTRA...
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VA – Jack Ashford: Just Productions Volume 2 (2018)
This second and final volume of Jack Ashford’s independent soul productions, spanning 1967 to the mid-70s, is an equal to the first well-received compilation. It opens with the revered original...
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VA – Studio Barnhus Volym 1 (2018)
Eight years ago, Stockholm’s Studio Barnhus label got its start with Good Children Make Bad Grown Ups, a showcase for founders Axel Boman, Petter Nordkvist (aka Pedrodollar), and Kornél Kovács. The...
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VA – Uncut: Sonic Truth, 15 Classic Tracks from the Edges of Sound (2018)
1. My Bloody Valentine – Only Shallow 2. Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag 3. Yoko Ono, Plastic Ono Band – Touch Me 4. Tim Hecker – The Piano Drop 5. Flying Saucer Attack – Standing Stone 6. Neu! –...
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VA – Uncut: Turn Me On, I’m a Radio (2018)
1. Graham Coxon – Angry Me 2. The Low Anthem – Give My Body Back 3. Gwenno – Tir Ha Mor 4. Guided By Voices – Flight Advantage 5. Joan Baez – The Great Correction 6. David Byrne – This Is That 7....
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VA – Chicago Plays the Stones (2018)
They’ve been celebrating this music since the ’60s, but the Rolling Stones really amped up their adulation of the songs and giants of Chicago blues with their acclaimed 2016 album Blue and Lonesome....
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VA – Nicola Conte presents Cosmic Forest: The Spiritual Sounds of MPS (2018)
The description “spiritual jazz” means different things to different people. It was first applied to the predominantly African American style platformed by the Strata-East and Muse labels in the early...
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VA – Battleground Korea: Sounds and Songs of America’s Forgotten War (2018)
Where previous Bear Family box sets found new ways to anthologize familiar pop culture subjects, like the Vietnam War (Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War on Record 1961-2008) or the Cold War (Atomic...
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