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VA – From Another World: A Tribute to Bob Dylan (2014)
This is the bravest and strangest Dylan tribute album to date, with musicians from around the world interpreting his songs in their own languages and styles. It starts with the Buena Vista guitar hero...
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VA – Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China (2013)
At latest count, China has a population of 1.344 billion people. Ninety-three percent of them are Han, the dominant ethnicity. If you look to official government documents, there are 55 other ethnic...
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VA – Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD (2013)
2CDs, 42-track retrospective of the 4AD label from the 80s and 90s comes with the limited edition of the book Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD by Martin Aston (curated by the author himself). The...
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VA – The Big Beat 1963 (2013)
22 never-before-released, almost impossibly rare tracks featured on The Big Beat 1963. Brian Wilson’s friend Bob Norberg and his friend Sheryl Pomeroy, as Bob & Sheri, recorded the Wilson song that...
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VA – Dues Paid: The Bluestime Story (2013)
Bluestime is not a storied label, not in the way Sun and Chess are. An offshoot of ABC, Bluestime launched in 1969 and the intent of the imprint was to take old bluesmen and freshen them up for the new...
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VA – The Soul Fire Box Set (Rare Sides from the Soul Fire Catalog) (2014)
Back in the late 1990s, there was a burgeoning underground scene for soul and funk licks that sounded dirty and raw. No, it wasn’t Daptone; it was Soul Fire Records. It endured for approximately four...
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VA – Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978 (2014)
Haitians have been making lemonade out of lemons since at least 1804. In that year, they were the first nation on Earth to officially rise up and toss their French colonial slave masters kicking and...
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VA – Vamps et Vampire: The Songs of Serge Gainsbourg (2014)
Part of Ace Records’ Songwriter Series, Vamps et Vampire: The Songs of Serge Gainsbourg takes listeners on a sprawling journey through the songs of one of the most celebrated figures in French pop,...
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VA – Song, by Toad Records: 5 Year Anniversary Box Set (2014)
Independent music is built on independent voices – and there are few more independent than Song, By Toad. The Scottish label has built up a reputation for valuing quality over hype, with releases...
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VA – Bluesin’ By the Bayou (2013)
Hardly have we savoured the full taste of Rhythm ’n’ Bluesin’ By the Bayou than here comes another bucketful of steaming South Louisiana gumbo and this time it’s Bluesin’ By the Bayou – a spicy mix of...
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VA – A Psych Tribute to the Doors (2014)
The Doors have already been the subject of multiple tribute albums, but the folks at Cleopatra Records have put together a new one that promises to see “the original riders on the psychedelic storm get...
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VA – Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration [Deluxe Edition] (2014)
In 1992, the 30th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s career was celebrated with a star-studded tribute concert at Madison Square Garden. The entire show was broadcast live on Pay-Per-View and later partially...
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VA – Putumayo Presents: A Jewish Celebration (2013)
On A Jewish Celebration, Putomayo employs its trademark approach to assembling a wide yet representative variety of the music of the global Jewish diaspora. Collecting 13 songs that range from the...
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VA – Island Records Presents: 37 Essential Roots Anthems 1974 to 1978 (2014)
Jamaica was at a dangerous and combustible spot as the 1970s rolled in, beset by class disparity, crushing poverty, increasingly barbed friction between the country’s two political parties, and...
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VA – Divergent OST [Deluxe Edition] (2014)
The soundtrack to Divergent, the first film adapted from Veronica Roth’s dystopian young adult novel series, reflects the story’s high-tech future — in which people are separated into factions based on...
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VA – The Tabu Records Box Set (2014)
After more than a year of reissues of the Tabu Records catalogue by Edsel - reissues that have been relatively lavish but particularly divisive for their occasional lapses in audio quality – the label...
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VA – Jason Molina Tribute: Just Be Simple / Samo budi jednostavan (2014)
An year ago, on March 16th 2013, Jason Molina (Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co. etc) died. Somewhere in November, the Serbian radio show PopDepression invited the musicians from neighbouring...
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VA – Inner City Beat!: Detective Themes, Spy Music and Imaginary Thrillers...
Soul Jazz Records new release Inner City Beat! Detective Themes, Spy Music and Imaginary Thrillers is a unique release that comes with an exclusive limited-edition specially created 60-page graphic...
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VA – Sweet Dreams: Where Country Meets Soul vol 2 (2013)
Sweet Dreams: Where Country Meets Soul, Ace’s second dip into the country-soul well, is every bit as good as its 2012 predecessor. Basically, it’s cut from the same cloth as the first volume,...
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VA – Bob Dylan in the 80s: Volume One (2014)
Bob Dylan in the 80s: Volume One collects contemporary artists covering tracks from Dylan’s most maligned period. It was a time when he was shapeshifting, finding religion, reposturing. But, as many...
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