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VA – Soul Jazz Records presents KALEIDOSCOPE: New Spirits Known & Unknown (2020)
Soul Jazz Records’ new album Kaleidoscope – New Spirits Known and Unknown brings together many of the ground-breaking artists involved in the new jazz scene that has developed in the UK over the last...
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VA – TCHIC TCHIC: French Bossa Nova 1963/1974 (2020)
Bossa nova was created in 1958 when one of its pioneers, Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, recorded a song called “Chega de Saudade” that became immensely popular in Rio. The term “bossa nova”...
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VA – Electro Acholi Kaboom from Northern Uganda (2019)
Electro acholi is a modern reinterpretation of traditional acholi music from the Luo region of Northern Uganda. Much like the Sound of Sisso compilation from Nyege Tapes, which rounded up many of...
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VA – Rough Guide to African Beats (2020)
Nowhere is the beat of a drum more symbolic of a culture than in Africa, where it’s forever been the heartbeat of daily life. From the trance percussion of South Sudan to the gnawagroove of Morocco,...
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VA – All Aboard: The C.N. Express, Rock Steady & Boss Reggae Sounds from 1967...
Despite having an evocative sleeve illustration that screams late sixties Jamaica, All Aboard: The C.N. Express has been newly put together to compile Clancy Eccles’ productions just before he hit the...
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VA – Curt Boettcher & Friends: Looking for the Sun (2019)
As a songwriter, producer, or vocalist, Curt Boettcher had a hand in some of the most unique and memorable songs of the late ’60s, whether it was the bubblegum of Tommy Roe’s Sweet Pea,” the baroque...
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VA – Saint Etienne Present Songs for the Fountain Coffee Room (2020)
The latest in the popular Saint Etienne Present series – soundtracks for places both real and imaginary. This time, Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs have put together a selection to fit a...
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VA – Dirty Work Going On: Kent & Modern Records Blues Into the 60s Vol. 1 (2020)
20 years after the release in Japan of P-Vine’s limited-edition “Modern/Kent Blues Treasures” CD series, the anniversary isn’t going to spark a lot of commemorations, but it does make a renewed...
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VA – NWOBHM Thunder: New Wave of British Heavy Metal 1978-1986 (2020)
The sequel to their excellent 2018 box set, NWOBHM: Winds of Time, Cherry Red Records offers up the nearly as mighty NWOBHM Thunder: New Wave of British Heavy Metal 1978-1986, another searing stockpile...
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VA – Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993 (2020)
On the night of October 28th, 1975, Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium was packed. Oneness of Juju had made the drive from Richmond to play this show, which was no ordinary gig: this was Howard...
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VA – Peephole in My Brain: British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1971 (2020)
1971 stands as an odd, rather surreal year in British pop history: while American soft-rockers and singer-songwriters were dominating the album charts, the year in which the country changed over to...
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VA – Willie Nile Uncovered: 40 Years of Music (2020)
Willie Nile is one of the most honest, driven songwriters in rock but remains under the radar for way too many as indicated by the word in the title – “uncovered.” His body of work across four decades,...
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VA – Musik Music Musique: 1980 The Dawn of Synth Pop (2020)
Cherry Red issue Musik Music Musique, a new three-disc various artists compilation that explores the arrival of synth-pop. This collection – subtitled ‘1980 The Dawn of Synth Pop’ – focuses on that one...
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VA – Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Occasional Rain (2020)
As the ’60s gave way to the seventies, psychedelia prepared to kiss the sky and say goodbye as it exited stage left. However, all wasn’t well despite all the groundbreaking music released during the...
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VA – In My Life: Mojo Presents the New Singer-Songwriters (2020)
1. Soccer Mommy – Bloodstream 2. Waxahatchee – Can’t Do Much 3. Mike Polizze – Do Do Do 4. Phoebe Bridgers – Chinese Satellite 5. Blake Mills – Vanishing Twin 6. Nadia Reid – Get the Devil Out 7....
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VA – 1978: The Year the UK Turned Day-Glo (2020)
1977 was the year that British punk rock burst out of the underground and became the new big thing in the U.K. music scene (not to mention a new youth movement to outrage the tabloid media’s readers)....
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VA – A Slight Disturbance in My Mind: The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds of...
Another lovingly curated rock & roll gem from Cherry Red’s archival Grapefruit Records imprint, A Slight Disturbance in My Mind is an expansive 3-disc set entirely devoted to the opening phases of...
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VA – Psyche Oh! A Go Go: Lost Gems of Malaysia / Singapore Pop Music ’64-’74...
…Psyche Oh! A Go Go details some of the forgotten songs and musicians of the Malaysian and Singaporean pop music scenes from 1964 to 1974. “Our hope is that this book would inspire more people to come...
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VA – Back to Paradise: A Tulsa Tribute to Okie Music (2020)
The migration of people of Oklahoma, ‘the Okies’, to California from the mid-’30s to the mid-’50s, stirred by the Dust Bowl era, is a huge part of American history captured in the award-winning...
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VA – Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex (2020)
In the often lamentable field of multi-artist tribute albums, no one put together better or more interesting ones than the late Hal Willner. While Willner had a real gift for matching artists to...
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