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VA – Would It Sound Just As Bad If You Played It Backwards? A Collection of...
Would it sound just as bad if you played it backwards? assembles a collection of audio experiments created at the Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES) from 1959 to the beginning of the millennium....
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VA – The Rough Guide to the Music of Yunnan (2022)
Perhaps the closest Chinese equivalent to La France profonde is the province of Yunnan. In the country’s south-west, bordering Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Tibet, its landscape ranges from mountains to...
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VA – Tanamur City: Indonesian AOR, City Pop, and Boogie 1979 to 1991 (2022)
…Tanamur City: Indonesian AOR, City Pop, and Boogie 1979 to 1991 – a compilation of Indonesian music full of groove and infectious rhythm, released on the label Cultures of Soul, features tracks by the...
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VA – A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa (2022)
A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa is an album of music inspired by endangered birdsong. Each featured artist was challenged to make an original track using and inspired by the song of an...
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VA – Luke Schneider Presents Imaginational Anthem vol. XI: Chrome Universal –...
There are few instruments that suit a hot day better than the pedal steel guitar. Based on the laptop guitars of tropical Hawaii, and forged in the blazing sun of the deep south, its distinctive sound...
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VA – Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson (2022)
Phase two in Dan Auerbach’s John Anderson revival project — the first was producing Years, the excellent 2020 comeback album by the hardcore country singer — Something Borrowed, Something New: A...
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VA – Rise Jamaica: Jamaican Independence Special (2022)
Jamaica’s independence in August 1962 marked not just the sovereignty of a new nation but the arrival of a new music destined to become a global force. Reggae as a genre lay a few years down the line,...
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VA – Soul Jazz Records presents Studio One Music Lab (2022)
…This new release delves deep into the unique melting pot sound of reggae, funk and dub created throughout the 1970s at the Studio One music lab situated at 13 Brentford Road, Kingston, where the...
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VA – Putumayo Presents Afro-Cubano (2022)
Afro-Cubano is the new compilation from world music label Putumayo. This fascinating collection brings together African, Cuban and African diaspora artists and genres that share common roots. Indeed,...
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VA – Scarface: Expanded Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2022)
…This limited edition 2-CD set marks the world premiere official release of Moroder’s original film score to 1983’s landmark big-screen gangster drama, Scarface starring Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer...
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VA – Music from Saharan WhatsApp (2022)
When you think of the Sahara, you probably think of majestic dunes, solitude and silence – and less of music. A lot of very exciting music can actually be found there from desert rock to hip hop and...
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VA – Anthology of Experimental Music from Japan (2022)
Modern-day noise music has escaped the preserve of academics and avant-garde thinkers, uniting conservatory-trained and untutored participants from the worlds of punk, jazz, metal, contemporary...
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VA – Jem Records Celebrates Pete Townshend (2022)
Fifty years ago, an avid Who fan named Marty Scott and his two childhood friends from NJ began to sell records in their college dorms. They traveled to England after graduation and went searching to...
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VA – Ladies Sing The Boss: Songs of Bruce Springsteen (2022)
In his 2016 autobiography, “Born To Run”, Bruce Springsteen reveals the essence of his songwriting: “Most of my writing is emotionally autobiographical. I’ve learned you’ve got to pull up the things...
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VA – Afro Psych: Journeys Into Psychedelic Africa 1972 – 1977 (2022)
Whilst the continents contribution to the global funk, boogie and disco canon has been well documented for decades, the strong presence of rock and psychedelia in 1970’s African music has been a more...
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VA – Eccentric Soul: The Shiptown Label (2022)
For a brief moment in the mid-20th century, Norfolk, Virginia was the center of a musical universe led by Noah Biggs. The freewheeling wanderer originally came to the city at the height of the Great...
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VA – Before the Day Is Done: The Story of Folk Heritage Records 1968-1975 (2022)
…Third instalment of Grapefruit’s underground British folk triptych that started with much- acclaimed releases Dust On the Nettles and Sumer Is Icumen In. Founded in the Greater Manchester area in 1968...
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VA – Songs of Slavery and Emancipation (2022)
Ending slavery in the United States took much more than a civil war. Decades of conflict between enslaved Africans and white supremacist slaveowners culminated on the battlefield, yet a prolonged...
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VA – Putumayo Presents Blues Café (2022)
…The musical genre that has come to be known as the blues has made quite a journey. The blues has traveled back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean and meandered up the Mississippi River from the rural...
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VA – Visions of Darkness: Volume II (2022)
When the anthology Visions of Darkness (In Iranian Contemporary Music) was released in 2017 and then co-published in collaboration between Unexplained Sounds Group and Cold Spring, it was immediately...
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