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VA – Third Noise Principle: Formative North American Electronica 1975-1984...
Following previous volumes which concentrated on the United Kingdom and Europe, Cherry Red’s Close to the Noise Floor compilation series set its sights on the North American experimental electronic...
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VA – Los Angeles Modern & Kent Northern Soul (2019)
Black music collectors have revered the output of the Modern and Kent labels since the early days of B.B. King, the Ikettes and Ike & Tina Turner. Much of the soul was crossed with R&B –...
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VA – Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit’s ‘The Midnight Organ...
This covers album, on which artists from Biffy Clyro to Chvrches reimagine songs from the late Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison, is a truly special tribute to a wonderful songwriter. In the...
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VA – The Rough Guide to the Best Country Blues You’ve Never Heard (2018)
Mysteries abound for many of these obscure country blues artists who cut a handful of sides in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although just the nicknames alone will fire any blues connoisseur’s...
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VA – Festival international Nuits d’Afrique 2019: 33ème édition (2019)
Summer is music festival season in Canada and the rest of North America too. And while it’s easy to lose share of voice in the skirmish to attract mainstream media the Festival International Nuits...
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VA – Sunny Side Up (2019)
Comprised of tracks from a diverse lineup of musicians, Brownswood Recordings’ Sunny Side Up compilation is a powerful document of Melbourne, Australia’s bubbling contemporary jazz scene. Incubated in...
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VA – Bad Education, Vol. 1: “Soul Hits” of Timmion Records (2019)
Daptone Records takes its longstanding kinship with Finland’s Timmion label to the next level with Bad Education, Vol. 1. Daptone distributes the label stateside and assists in extending its creative...
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VA – Spell Songs: The Lost Words (2019)
The Lost Words: Spell Songs is the album of the best-selling and, now, Greenaway-Prize-winning book, a collaboration between the writer Robert Macfarlane, who composed brief, acrostic “spells” or...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Mali Blues (2019)
Situated in the heart of West Africa, Mali is one of the world’s great musical treasures and widely acknowledged as a primary source of the music that America would remake into the blues. From its...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Island Radicals (2019)
1. John Martyn – Goin’ Down to Memphis 2. Fairport Convention – Tale in Hard Time 3. Quintessence – Giants 4. Free – On My Way 5. Nick Drake – Free Ride 6. Richard Thompson – Roll Over Vaughn Williams...
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VA – Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2019)
In the 1960s, Paul Revere & the Raiders were a goofy garage-rock band popular with well-behaved tweens. Calling the band square doesn’t go far enough; they were altogether edgeless. Among the...
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VA – Hallelujah: The Songs of Leonard Cohen (2019)
…Far from the simplistic view of Leonard Cohen as somewhat of a miserablist, his work is full to the brim with warmth, deep sensuality and wry humour. His songs sit with you like companions, so...
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VA – Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969, Vol. 1 & 2 (2019)
Mentions of music festivals in the summer of 1969 usually bring one name to mind for most – Woodstock. Blues fans, however, point to the Ann Arbor Blues Festival, the first American festival totally...
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VA – Fingertracks: Vol 1 (2019)
…Andrew Hogge, AKA Lovefingers, a native of Southern California, has spent a lot of time listening to music while navigating LA traffic. Fingertracks: Vol 1, a compilation of tracks posted between 2006...
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VA – Siya Hamba! 1950’s South African Country and Small Town Sounds (2019)
American enthusiasm for the popular music of South Africa has waxed and waned over the decades. The late 1950s brought Miriam Makeba and the ubiquitous “Lion Sleeps Tonight”. In the mid-1980s Paul...
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VA – Sacred Sounds: Dave Hamilton’s Raw Detroit Gospel (2019)
Detroit guitarist, producer and label-owner Dave Hamilton worked in the city from the mid-’40s to the end of the century. He was involved in most fields of black music; gospel was no exception....
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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 – Columbia Groovy Songbirds (2019)
A totally wonderful little collection – one that looks at obscure singles issued by Columbia Records in the 60s – all by female singers with a strong dose of jazz in their style, but often working...
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VA – 1977: The Year Punk Broke (2019)
This triple-CD box set follows the success of the 4-CD compilation Action Time Vision (2016), documenting Punk on indie labels, and 2017’s Power Pop/New Wave set Harmony In My Head. Punk’s Year Zero...
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VA – Patterns: Chamber Works (2019)
Patterns, a multi-composer compilation of contemporary chamber music, accentuates the richness, intricacy, and minimal sound that can be found in works written for small ensembles. Included on the...
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