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VA – Kulintang Kultura: Danongan Kalanduyan and Gong Music of the Philippine...
Kulintang Kultura pays homage to the late Danongan “Danny” Kalanduyan, a talented musician and generous teacher who championed traditional Filipino kulintang gong music in the United States, helping to...
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VA – Choctaw Ridge: New Fables of the American South 1968-1973 (2021)
“Saunders’ Ferry Lane” elegantly paints a picture of revisiting an empty, out-of-season neighbourhood to reflect on an old relationship. It’s cloudy and begins raining. The grass where the couple lay...
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VA – Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik...
Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier exploring the explosion of wealth of music springing from the squats and bedsits and artschools of Cologne, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and West Berlin in the aftermath of punk...
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VA – In the Echo: Field Recordings from Earlsfort Terrace (2021)
In 2014 – long before playing to an empty room became the pandemic-era norm – Ross Turner began curating and producing a live album with a difference. The renowned Irish multi-instrumentalist, who was...
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VA – The Harmonic Series II (2021)
In a 1959 educational recording titled the Theory and Practice of Just Intonation musicologist J. Murray Barbour wrote, “The ideal ‘Just Intonation’ may be fully attainable in some musical fourth...
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VA – Country Funk III 1975-1982 (2021)
One of the unsung qualities of Country Funk Vol. I and Country Funk Vol. II was their casual disregard for history. Documenting a scene that wasn’t really a scene and not even much of a movement, they...
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VA – Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2 (2021)
Not to sound like Emily Dickinson or even Wednesday Addams over here, but life is impermanent. You’re alive and then, one day, you aren’t. What’s left is your legacy and the impact you had on others....
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VA – Fire Draw Near: An Anthology of Traditional Irish Song and Music (2021)
Released on River Lea Records (a division of Rough Trade), Fire Draw Near: An Anthology of Traditional Irish Song and Music is an important and commendable collection of Irish songs and tunes. Curated...
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VA – Molten Mirrors: A Decade of Livity Sound (2021)
Bristol’s Livity Sound was founded in 2011, a year in which it was not at all clear where UK dance music might go next. The last big upstart style, dubstep, was almost a decade old, and long since old...
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VA – Shake the Foundations: Militant Funk & the Post-Punk Dancefloor...
Shake the Foundations is a compact outgrowth of earlier Cherry Red boxed sets such as To the Outside of Everything and Optimism/Reject. Across three discs, it emphasizes the post-punk bands who, in the...
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VA – Broadside Hacks: Songs Without Authors Vol. 1 (2021)
Last month, the drummer of Fontaines DC released an Irish folk anthology, and now the bassist from London indie band Sorry unleashes his second anthology in four months of (primarily) non-folk artists...
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VA – Stand Up Now: Songs from the Landworkers’ Alliance. (2021)
Folk music’s broad dissident streak is one of its attractions. Its songs often fight yesterday’s battles – miners’ strikes, the lot of 19th-century sailors – but folk’s connection to the natural world...
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VA – The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film By Todd Haynes (2021)
2CD soundtrack is curated by the documentary’s director, Todd Haynes, and music supervisor Randall Poster. It includes well-known and rare tracks from the band as well as songs and performances that...
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VA – Home in This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dustbowl Ballads (2021)
There’s been no shortage of tributes to the original American journeyman, Woody Guthrie. That’s easy to understand; after all, with the exception of the late Pete Seeger, Guthrie remains the most...
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VA – Remezcla/PE (2021)
Remezcla is ‘remix’ in Spanish; Pe is the URL country code of Peru. Each of the 15 songs on this compilation album pairs a Latin American DJ with a Peruvian musician; the latter, however, are an...
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VA – Under the Influence Vol. 9: A Collection of Rare Funk & Disco (2021)
Z Records continues its commitment to unearthing the obscure and long forgotten tracks from the last 40 years through the ever-popular Under The Influence series. Following on from Red Greg, Paul...
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VA – 10 Years of Acid Test (2021)
“The idea of Acid Test was originally a compilation where I got people to submit something acid-influenced. No rules. Just something that involved a 303,” Oliver Bristow, the man behind Acid Test, told...
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VA – Reggae Africa: Roots and Culture 1972-1988 (2021)
African reggae got a big push towards the mainstream when Bob Marley and the Wailers played Rufaro Stadium in a newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980, but the back-beated, bass-heavy music of Jamaican...
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VA – It’s a Good Good Feeling: The Latin Soul of Fania Records (The Singles)...
…Craft Latino’s newest tour of the Fania vault is invaluable as a study of the 20th-century American melting pot in action. While the process of assimilation and adaptation often diluted the proverbial...
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VA – Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal (2021)
Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal is a tribute to the life and music of the gifted singer, songwriter, musician, and friend to many. Featuring 41 of Neal’s songs on 5 LPs or 3 CDs, the...
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