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VA – Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil, 1984-1996...
Outro Tempo II: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil, 1984-1996 documents a wave of experimentalism that emerged in post-dictatorship Brazil, moving the timeframe up a few years from the first...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records presents Brazil USA 70: Brazilian Music in the USA in...
…In the early 1970s North American jazz musicians were eager to work with upcoming Brazilian musicians. Miles Davis invited Airto Moreira to join his new ‘electric’ band, Dom Um Romao (part of Sérgio...
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VA – Putumayo Presents: Acoustic Women (2019)
Journey begins with Brazilian samba-inspired singer-songwriter Fernanda Cunha, whose career has spanned seven solo albums and extensive international tours. We then take a trans-Atlantic journey to...
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VA – Lullabies for Catatonics: A Journey Through the British Avant-Pop/Art...
Previous Grapefruit genre anthologies have shown how the various strands of British psychedelia developed tangentially in subsequent years: I’m A Freak Baby observed how the blues-based, harder-edged...
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VA – The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus [Expanded Edition] (2019)
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is one of those great time capsules of the rock and roll era. Filmed at the Intertel TV Studio in Wembley on December 11, 1968 and directed by Michael...
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VA – Take Us Home: Boston Roots Reggae 1979 to 1988 (2019)
In the 1970s reggae music burst forth from its birthplace of Jamaica and took over the world. Who would have ever thought that one of the first outposts it captured on its way to global domination...
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VA – Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic IX: Pannonica (2019)
A single moment can change a life forever. That happened to the Jewish baroness and heiress Pannonica (Nica) de Koenigswarter (1913-1988), née Rothschild. On hearing Thelonious Monk’s ‘Round Midnight’...
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VA – Self Discovery For Social Survival (2019)
Self-Discovery for Social Survival is a documentary film in three parts, following 16 surfers in three very different countries. Exploring hazy adventures in surfing cultures in Mexico, the remote...
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VA – Putumayo Presents: World Peace (2019)
…World Peace features renowned artists Jackson Browne, Nina Simone, Keb’ Mo’, India.Arie, Richard Bona, David Broza, Wyclef Jean, the international collective Playing for Change, and others who have...
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VA – Jambú e Os Míticos Sons Da Amazônia (2019)
Analog Africa is releasing a compilation featuring Amazonian dance music from Northern Brazil during the 1970s. Jambú e Os Míticos Sons Da Amazônia includes 19 tracks compiled by Samy Ben Redjeb and...
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VA – Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop 78-84 (2019)
Cherry Red’s 4-CD anthology Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop 78-84 focuses on the electronic side of the post-punk era, compiling 80 examples of how musicians embraced technology and...
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VA – Hexadic III (2018)
A few years ago, Ben Chasny reckoned his guitar playing needed a break or a breakthrough. Over the last two decades, recording as the superb Six Organs of Admittance and in a messy web of...
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VA – Mojo Presents Let’s Shake Hands: A Third Man Records Anthology (2019)
1. The Greenhornes – Saying Goodbye 2. Jake Wood – Born to Wander 3. The Raconteurs – Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness) 4. Bush Tetras – Neverending Hum 5. A-Moms – Strawberry Cheesecake 6. Todd Albright –...
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VA – Woodstock 50: Back to the Garden: The Anniversary Experience Day 1-3 (2019)
Woodstock: Back to the Garden (50th Anniversary Experience) rises above its predecessors. A considerable expansion of Rhino’s 2009 six-CD set Woodstock 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur’s Farm, 50th...
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VA – Digital Kabar: Electronic Maloya from La Réunion Since 1980 (2019)
Emanating from the tiny French island La Réunion, nestled some 500 miles off the coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, maloya dates back to the 17th century. Made by the slaves working the island’s...
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VA – Chip & Tony Kinman: Sounds Like Music (2019)
Brothers Chip and Tony Kinman had fronted some of the most influential bands of the last quarter of the 20th century. After forming the seminal punk band, The Dils (and even scoring an appearance in...
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VA – The World of Keith Haring (2019)
…The music collected on The World of Keith Haring is a combination of rare disco, early electro and New York punk/dance tracks reflecting the vibrant and hybrid world of downtown New York in the 1980s....
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VA – Uncut: Sounds of the Times (2018)
1. Israel Nash – Lucky Ones 2. Luluc – Spring 3. Juniore – Magnifique 4. Nathan Salsburg – BB 5. Ty Segall & White Fence – Good Boy 6. Jim James – Throwback 7. Dirty Projectors – Break-Thru 8. RVG...
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VA – Holding Things Together: The Merle Haggard Songbook (2019)
Universally known to his fans and peers as ‘Hag’, the late Merle Haggard was one of the prime exponents of the ‘Bakersfield Sound’, developed in the early ’60s as an alternative to the increasingly...
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VA – Spirit of ’69: Trojan Albums Collection (2019)
…comprising 5 of the most collectable Trojan albums that attracted fans of the new reggae style throughout the latter half of ’69. In 1969 reggae and the skinhead look hit the big time in the UK. The...
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