VA – The Afrosound of Colombia, vol. 3 (2022)
It’s been a few years, but Vampisoul is back with the next installment of Colombian tropical bangers from the deep vaults of Discos Fuentes. The term Afrosound denotes an always exciting, sometimes...
View ArticleVA – Are They Hostile? Croydon Punk, New Wave & Indie Bands 1977-1985 (2022)
An 18 track compilation featuring the best of Croydon’s punk and post punk scene 1977-1985! Are They Hostile? Is a new documentary film about the Punk, New Wave and Indie scene in Croydon in the late...
View ArticleVA – Obscure Tape Music of Japan: Vol.05-Vol.27 (2006-2022)
Obscure Tape Music Of Japan Vol.5 – Music For Tinguely Toshi Ichiyanagi is a well-renowned Japanese avant-garde composer who made brilliant pieces of tape music. This release consists of three of his...
View ArticleVA – Live at WOMAD 1982 (2022)
A historic live recording celebrating the 40th anniversary of a landmark cultural moment including performances by Echo & The Bunnymen, Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds, The Beat, The Drummers of...
View ArticleVA – The Library Archive 2: More Funk, Jazz, Beats and Soundtracks from the...
…Founded back in 1937 and originally known as Boosey & Hawkes Recorded Music Library, Cavendish Music is the largest independent Library Music publisher in the UK and also represents a host of...
View ArticleVA – Burning It Up: Australian Reggae [1979-1986] (2022)
Austudy Records present it’s debut release Burning It Up: Australian Reggae (1979-1986). A compilation surveying the influence of Reggae on Australia’s preoccupation with Rock, Pop and New Wave...
View ArticleVA – Soul Jazz Records presents: Disco Reggae Rockers (2022)
Disco Reggae Rockers features wicked reggae disco versions of funk, soul and disco classics! This new album follows on from Soul Jazz Records’ earlier highly successful ‘Hustle: Disco Reggae.’ and...
View ArticleVA – Miles Out to Sea: The Roots of British Power Pop 1969-1975 (2022)
Cruising the dusty side streets and forgotten alleyways of rock & roll history, there are all kinds of treasures to be found if one takes a left turn away from the accepted canon whenever possible....
View ArticleVA – Blue Note Re:imagined II (2022)
The second volume of reinterpreted recordings from Blue Note’s back catalogue confirms both the depth and breadth of contemporary UK jazz, soul and R&B. The 16 tracks range from an early Monk...
View ArticleVA – Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (2022)
4-time Grammy-winning producer Larry Klein, who produced Herbie Hancock’s Grammy Album of the Year winning release River: The Joni Letters, has assembled another extraordinary star-studded project...
View ArticleVA – PUNK 45: I’m a Mess! D-I-Y Or DIE! Art, Trash & Neon – Punk 45s in the...
Soul Jazz Records’ long-lasting Punk 45 series are high-quality editions of early punk 45s. While previous editions have focussed on the early days of punk in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Akron, France, and...
View ArticleVA – The Afrosound of Colombia, vol. 3 (2022)
It’s been a few years, but Vampisoul is back with the next installment of Colombian tropical bangers from the deep vaults of Discos Fuentes. The term Afrosound denotes an always exciting, sometimes...
View ArticleVA – John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop (2022)
In 1964, poet John Sinclair and jazz trumpeter Charles Moore co-founded the Detroit Artists Workshop in response to the Motor City’s then-lack of cultural vitality. With assistance from likeminded...
View ArticleDean Torrence and Friends – The Teammates: Twenty Years of Making Music...
…Back in 2017, Omnivore issued Filet of Soul Redux: The Rejected Master Recordings from Jan Berry and Dean Torrence, the innovative surf-rock duo and Beach Boys pals who transformed the sound of SoCal...
View ArticleVA – Adrian Sherwood Presents: Dub No Frontiers (2022)
Reggae has often been a male dominated scene. Despite the genre’s reputation for calling out injustice and inequality, women have found little opportunity to make their voices heard. Yet, since...
View ArticleVA – Fraser Macpherson from the Pen of… (2022)
Tenor saxophonist Fraser MacPherson was an original. Although he was raised in Victoria, British Columbia, he moved to Vancouver early in his career where he remained throughout his working life. He...
View ArticleVA – Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier, Vol. 2: Deutsche Experimentelle...
For their second foray into the fringes of German pop, Bureau B delve deeper than before, raiding cassette culture, 7″ obscurities, and overlooked album cuts to further frame this free-thinking strain...
View ArticleVA – Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album (2022)
Sleater-Kinney’s seminal 1997 album Dig Me Out passed its 25th anniversary this year, and now, the band has celebrated the record by unveiling Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album. As Sleater-Kinney...
View ArticleVA – Síntesis Moderna: An Alternative Vision of Argentinian Music (1980-1990)...
Soundway’s telescope to forgotten and lesser known musical realms extends to Argentina on a brand new compilation, Síntesis Moderna: An Alternative Vision of Argentinian Music 1980-1990. A digital...
View ArticleVA – hallo 22: DDR Funk & Soul von 1971-1981 (2022)
Considering it’s the German word for ‘radio’, the word ‘Funk’ is more likely to have reminded the comrades in the GDR of exactly that rather than black music But the fact that socialist Germany was...
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