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VA – Borga Revolution! Ghanaian Music in the Digital Age, 1983-1992 [Volume...
Kalita are proud to unveil the first ever compilation focussing on the phenomenon of ‘Burger Highlife’, a crossover of West African melodies with synthesizers, disco and boogie that took over Ghanaian...
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VA – Americana Railroad (2022)
This ambitious 74-minute train song compilation – 10 years in the making is an array of traditional & contemporary railroad songs by varied artists. The only thing missing – the late Boxcar Willie...
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VA – Can the Glam: 80 Glambusters (2022)
Subtitled “80 tracks of Rockers, Shockers & Teenyboppers!” a four CD clamshell box set is exactly that! Over two years in the planning, this release provides a ‘bridge’ between the well- known and...
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VA – Valley of the Sun: Field Guide to Inner Harmony (2022)
Valley of the Sun was established as a publishing company in the 1960s by Scottsdale, Arizona resident Dick Sutphen, who was referred to as America’s leading past-life therapist. He started releasing...
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VA – Silberland: Kosmische Musik, Vol. 1 [1972-1986] (2022)
Hamburg-based label Bureau B has put an astonishing amount of work and care into providing proper representation for a wealth of obscure sounds from the strangest corners of the Krautrock map. Though...
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VA – Blowing Free: Underground & Progressive Sounds of 1972 (2022)
Cherry Red Records’ extensive compilations have established a format of presenting lesser-known artists alongside some of the more popular acts of any given genre. Blowing Free: Underground and...
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VA – Early Works, Vol. 2: Music from the Archives (2022)
Early Works Vol.2: Music from the Archives, a compilation of tracks recorded in the fledgling days of the label paired with some rediscovered treasures from more recent years. While the majority of...
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VA – Hello Operator! The Songs Jack White Taught Us (2022)
1. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – A Child of a Few Hours Is Burning to Death 2. Hello=Fire – Parallel 3. Son House – Death Letter Blues 4. Blind Willie Johnson – Jesus Is Coming Soon 5....
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VA – Heroes and Villains: The Sound of Los Angeles 1965-68 (2022)
A four-hour, 90-track overview of the Los Angeles music scene between 1965 and 1968. Featuring a dazzling combination of major league LA players, enduring cult acts and ultra-rare garage punk 45s....
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VA – Crossroads Kenya: East African Benga and Rumba, 1980-1985 (2022)
First international compilation of rare, sizzling 45s from the golden era of benga and rumba, circa the ‘70s/‘80s and the East African epicentre of Nairobi’s studios and recording facilities. Required...
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VA – Earl’s Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl Mcgrath, 1970-1980 (2022)
“Earl was a wonderful man with a great eye for new and innovative art. And such an amusing companion, too.” – Mick Jagger Earl McGrath was the ultimate ’70s jet setter, an art collector and comic bon...
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VA – Samuel Barber: The Complete Songs (2022)
Writing songs brought out the best in Samuel Barber. He had an ear for good texts and responded to them concisely and precisely, an impression reinforced by this double CD, which brings together all...
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VA – Lovers Rock: The Soulful Sound of Romantic Reggae (2022)
An episode of Steve McQueen’s acclaimed BBC television series Small Axe stimulated renewed interest in lover’s rock, the Black British reggae subgenre that was largely based on songs of teenaged...
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VA – Brasil Novo (2022)
Brasil Novo is an energetic, uplifting and wonderfully-eclectic compilation that celebrates Afro Brazilian music. Via eight contemporary tracks, the record reveals the rich and percussive legacy of...
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VA – Stick in the Wheel present Perspectives On Tradition (2022)
Don’t let the title fool you – this collaborative release of covers from UK future-folk duo Stick in the Wheel is anything but traditional. The concept behind the project was simple: Stick in the Wheel...
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VA – Jon Savage’s 1977-1979: Symbols Clashing Everywhere (2022)
The title borrows from the lyrics of Siouxsie and the Banshees’s August 1978 debut single “Hong Kong Garden”: “Harmful elements in the air, Symbols clashing everywhere.” It also refers to Marcus...
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VA – Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Fell from the Sun: Downtempo and After...
1989 had been a long hot summer, but 1990 felt longer and hotter. Since the house music explosion of 1987, Britain had had a whistle in its mouth, and it needed a lie down. February 1990 brought two...
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VA – The Ocean of Eternity. The Songs of Lori Laitman. (2022)
American composer Lori Laitman has issued numerous art song-oriented albums since her debut album Mystery appeared in 2000, which might make it difficult to choose one over another. Yet in bringing...
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VA – Break It Up! New York Art, Rock, Poetry and Noise 1956-2022 (2022)
1. Richard Hell and the Voidoids – Blank Generation 2. Glenn Branca – Lesson No 1 3. Alan Vega – Nothing Left 4. Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith – Eternity 5. Moondog – All Is Loneliness 6....
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VA – The Rough Guide to Jewish Music (2022)
…During its near-thirty years in existence, the Rough Guide music range has released several Klezmer-themed albums, but never an album which includes some of the other different facets of Jewish music....
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