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VA – Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986 (2020)
Japan’s bubble years feel like a fantasy in 2020. During that period, which played out over the course of the 1980’s, the country’s economy soared and the mood was jubilant. It was a decade defined by...
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VA – Dreams to Fill the Vacuum: The Sound of Sheffield 1977-1988 (2019)
By the late 1970s Sheffield was on the edge. The erstwhile industrial powerhouse was crumbling under the weight of recession, the decline of manufacturing, rising unemployment and the degradations of...
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VA – Moris Zekler: Fuzz & Soul Sega from 70’s Mauritius (2020)
A tax haven and dream destination for wealthy travelers, the Republic of Mauritius is a multi-ethnic country that is currently experiencing full economic and social ascension. Banking, textile, tech,...
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VA – Africa Airways Six: Mile High Funk 1974-1981 (2020)
The Africa Airways series on the Africa Seven label returns with its 6th instalment. Africa Airways Six: Mile High Funk 1974-1981 is a scintillating 10-track collection featuring the likes of...
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VA – I Still Play (2020)
One of the rewards from working with living composers is that they might write something just for you. When Bob Hurwitz, long-term chairman of Nonesuch Records, announced he was standing down from the...
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VA – Mojo 2020: Music for Homes (New Sounds For New Times) (2020)
1. James Elkington – Ever-Roving Eye 2. CASSOWARY – Superhiro 3. Bonny Light Horseman – The Roving 4. Laura Marling – Song for Our Daughter 5. Alabaster dePlume – Visit Croatia 6. Kaitlyn Aurelia...
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VA – Tales of Wonder: A Jazz Celebration of Stevie (2020)
There aren’t many songwriters who have reached a level of success comparable to Stevie Wonder. He is one of the most important figures in American music, and to celebrate his 70th birthday, Posi-Tone...
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VA – Anthology of Contemporary Music from Indonesia (2020)
In his personal and professional quest to find and document underground experimental music in all corners of our planet, Raffaelle Pezzella (of Sonologyst / Unexplained Sounds Group) has compiled this...
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VA – Imaginational Anthem, Vol. X: Overseas Edition (2020)
Playing music on a wooden box that is strung with guts or metal wires is an age-old tradition across all cultures in the world. In the Western world, the guitar became a symbol for serenading an adored...
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VA – O Aperto da Saudade: Heartfelt Music from Brazil 1965-2018 (2020)
Saudade is a word with no direct English translation. In the Portuguese language it describes a sense of nostalgia for something that may never return. But in longing for that certain something,...
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VA – The Liz Swados Project (2020)
“I’m not a legitimate theatrical composer like Steve Sondheim, that sort of thing,” insisted Elizabeth Swados to New York in 1980. “I’m not such a good musician, but I do have an excellent ear. People...
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VA – Radio Uncut: 15 Tracks of The Month’s Best New Music (2020)
1. Oh Sees – Footsteps 2. Wilco – Love Is Everywhere (Beware) 3. Bon Iver – Naeem 4. Jenny Hval – High Alice 5. CFM – Black Cat 6. One Eleven Heavy – Wild Hair 7. Devendra Banhart – Memorial 8. Gruff...
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VA – You Can’t Sit Down: Cameo Parkway Dance Crazes 1958-1964 / You Got the...
You just can’t sit down when one of those Cameo-Parkway classics comes on the stereo. Cameo Records – launched by Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe, the team that penned the Elvis hip-shaker “Let Me Be Your...
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VA – Gargano’s Garage: Lavender, Magenta, Indigo, & Blue Fin Labels (2020)
“Who the hell was Vic Gargano? This question hung in the already stale air of our Little Village office at the tail end of 2017. We were deep into the compiling of Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies...
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VA – Mojo Rising 2019: The Best New Music of the Year (2019)
1. Amyl and The Sniffers – Some Mutts (Can’t Be Muzzled) 2. Fontaines D.C. – Boys in the Better Land 3. Jamila Woods – Muddy 4. Faye Webster – Jonny 5. Sarathy Korwar – Mumbay 6. Black Midi – Western...
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VA – Love Saves the Day: A History Of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979...
For the last 20 years London-based author and party organiser Tim Lawrence has dedicated himself to excavating the history of New York City party culture and bringing some of the most powerful aspects...
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VA – The First Circle (2020)
…Timeless is as cliched an adjective as “soulful” or “uplifting” when it comes to describing the sort of house music Enrico Crivellaro, AKA Volcov, has specialized in for as long as many of us have...
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VA – The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1 (2020)
John Hartford‘s nimble, whit-fueled songs have long been a focal point of the bluegrass and newgrass canon and Hartford’s musicianship, on both the banjo and fiddle, has now been doted over for...
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VA – The Mojo Festival 2020: 15 Rare and Unreleased Live Tracks (2020)
1. Foo Fighters – For All the Cows 2. The Black Keys – Gold On the Ceiling 3. Tinariwen – Wartilla 4. Michael Kiwanuka – Black Man in a White World 5. Paul Weller – Brushed 6. New Order – Atmosphere...
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VA – We Were Living in Cincinnati: Punk and Underground Sounds from Ohio’s...
We Were Living In Cincinnati a “Killed By Death’ or “Bloodstains’ style compilation covering the golden era of Cincinnati, OH punk and underground music from Southwest Ohio 1975-82. It is the...
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