April 19th Newsletter
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  • Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ Hopkins
    Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ Hopkins
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    Texas bluesman Samuel “Lightnin’” Hopkins’ musical career was reignited by this 1959 release. With the aid of a little gin and a borrowed acoustic guitar, musicologist Sam Charters recorded [...]

    GENRE: Blues
  • The Bill Evans Trio – Bill Evans Trio At Shelly’s Manne-Hole
    The Bill Evans Trio – Bill Evans Trio At Shelly’s Manne-Hole
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    Although the Scott LaFaro-Paul Motian lineup of the Bill Evans Trio is generally considered to be the strongest, Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker make a strong case of their own […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Prine – The Tree Of Forgiveness
    John Prine – The Tree Of Forgiveness
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    The man looking out from the cover of The Tree of Forgiveness is 71 years old and just a bit worse for wear. He clearly has his wits about him, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dave Van Ronk – Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues & A Spiritual
    Dave Van Ronk – Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues & A Spiritual
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    Dubbed “The Mayor of MacDougal Street,” Dave Van Ronk (1936–2002) was an iconoclastic folksinger and an influential figure in the American folk music revival of the 1960s. Because of his […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Elizabeth Cotton – Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar
    Elizabeth Cotton – Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar
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    This reissue of Elizabeth Cotten’s 1958 debut album, “Folksongs and Instrumentals with Guitar” is best known for containing the original recording of her classic “Freight [...]

    GENRE: Blues
  • Tuareg – Tuareg Music Of The Southern Sahara
    Tuareg – Tuareg Music Of The Southern Sahara
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    In the 21st century, the music of the Tuareg people, a diverse group spread across the Sahara encompassing Mali, Niger, and beyond, has reached an unprecedented international audience. Groups [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball
    Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball
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    Wrecking Ball is a leftfield masterpiece, the most wide-ranging, innovative, and daring record in a career built on such notions. Rich in atmosphere and haunting in its dark complexity, much […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Lucinda Williams – Ramblin’ On My Mind
    Lucinda Williams – Ramblin’ On My Mind
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    American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’ Southern blues roots are unmistakable on her debut record Ramblin’ on My Mind, showcasing the artistry that would make her an icon. Recorded in [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Charles M. Bogert – Sounds Of North American Frogs
    Charles M. Bogert – Sounds Of North American Frogs
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    The amphibian song revival begins here! This classic of both biological fieldwork and natural sound recordings, originally released by Folkways in 1958, presents 57 species of frogs and toads on [...]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • McCoy Tyner – Today And Tomorrow
    McCoy Tyner – Today And Tomorrow
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    McCoy Tyner’s fourth studio album has a split personality, with three tracks featuring an intriguing sextet of all-stars, and the rest with his trusty trio, done eight months apart. Perhaps [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Astrud Gilberto – Look To The Rainbow
    Astrud Gilberto – Look To The Rainbow
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    This was a beautiful bossa nova record of Astrud Gilberto’s vocal stylings…All the material (32:13) here, with the exception of “Learn to Live Alone” and “Pretty [...]

    GENRE: Latin
  • Matmos – Return To Archive
    Matmos – Return To Archive
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    In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Prine – Now Playing
    John Prine – Now Playing
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    Introducing John Prine Now Playing on Cobalt Blue vinyl – This Now Playing John Prine’s tracklist features a collection of deeply personal and storytelling songs that span folk and [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
    Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
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    Released by the Kapp label in 1970 and produced by the Oscar-winning Leonard Rosenman, Parallelograms was the first and only album by American psychedelic folk singer Linda Perhacs until the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The New Stan Getz Quartet ft. Astrud Gilberto – Getz Au Go Go
    The New Stan Getz Quartet ft. Astrud Gilberto – Getz Au Go Go
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    Recorded in 1964 during two concerts in the venerable Greenwich Village venue, the Café Au Go Go, two months after Astrud Gilberto’s “Girl From Ipanema” became a Top Five pop [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – The Magic Of Ju-Ju
    Archie Shepp – The Magic Of Ju-Ju
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    Opening with the 18+ minute track of the same name, Archie Shepp’s The Magic of Ju-Ju takes on a fevered pace as the centerpiece of this date from 1968. Shepp […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Pharoah Sanders – Love In Us All
    Pharoah Sanders – Love In Us All
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    Comprising of two extended length compositions – “Love Is Everywhere” and “To John”, this 1974 release through Impulse is evidence of Pharaoh Sanders’ ability during this time to force [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cherub Scourge / The Twerps – Split
    Cherub Scourge / The Twerps – Split
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    Label: Small Town Kids Records – STK 03 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM Country: US Released: 1995 Media: VG+ Jacket: VG+ Notes: Clean Copy w/ Insert  

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Artless – How Much Punk Rock Do You Hear In Russia?
    Artless – How Much Punk Rock Do You Hear In Russia?
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    Label: The Only Label In The World – OL 452 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: US Released: 1984 Media: VG+ Jacket: VG+ Notes: w/ insert

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Alley Cats – Nothing Means Nothing Anymore / Give Me A Little Pain (1978 First Press)
    Alley Cats – Nothing Means Nothing Anymore / Give Me A Little Pain (1978 First Press)
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    Label: Dangerhouse – LOM-22 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: Mar 1978 Media: VG+ Jacket: VG+ Notes: Clean Copy – Fold over Sleeve intact with only minor […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
    Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
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    M as in mysterious. A group of sounds recorded in Louisville KY. Smooth blue instrumental guitar music. In the musical alphabet, what comes after rock?

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba
    Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba
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    Koln, Germany around 1991. After a 40-minute train ride from Aachen, Christoph Heemann and Jim O’Rourke are sitting around with Jan St. Werner, C-Schulz, Frank Dommert and George Odjik. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Smog – Knock Knock
    Smog – Knock Knock
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    Featuring string quartet and children’s choir, just like The Wall. We don’t need no stinkin’ education, just the new Smog album (and our front teeth back).

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gentle Leader XIV – Joke in the Shadow
    Gentle Leader XIV – Joke in the Shadow
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    End days pop. Electronic extinction rock. No future for sure, surf’s up dude. Gentle Leader XIV (jen-tul lee-der ex-ivy) is a post-punk synth-pop band from the ends of Ohio. The […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • SiP – Leos Ultras
    SiP – Leos Ultras
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    [Out Nov 1st!] A full four years after Chicago organ maestro Jimmy Lacy’s maiden voyage as SiP (Leos Naturals, 2020), he returns with a lush, layered, long-awaited sequel: Leos Ultras. […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
    Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
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    The second album from Nick Drake came in 1970, and while not quite as melancholy as his debut, Five Leaves Left, there are certain brooding qualities that continued to propagate […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
    Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
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    “I never wanted to ever start a record label. Ever. But there is something about her voice I couldn’t let go of. It’s an actual voice. An actual beautiful voice. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – 1/2 Mensch
    Einstürzende Neubauten – 1/2 Mensch
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    This is the third album by Einstürzende Neubauten, also known as Halber Mensch, originally released in 1985. The album opens with the startlingly oppressive, almost fully a cappella title track, [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – Ende Neu
    Einstürzende Neubauten – Ende Neu
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    On this release, the quintessential scientists of the post-avant-garde abstain from focusing on listener disintegration tactics as they did on prior albums, but opt instead to hone their [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – Haus Der Luege
    Einstürzende Neubauten – Haus Der Luege
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    This is the fifth album by Einstürzende Neubauten, originally released in 1989, now remastered. Highly energetic and possessed of a certain level of danceability, Haus Der Lüge was perhaps the [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps
    Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps
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    Originally released in 1981, Kollaps is the seminal, form-destroying debut album by German industrial pioneers Einstérzende Neubauten (trans. “Collapsing New Buildings”). The [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Gong – Camembert Electrique
    Gong – Camembert Electrique
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    Remastered & fully restored from the master tapes by Nick Robbins – Insightful essay by long-term Gong fan Mark Paytress (Mojo magazine) – LP original gatefold sleeve with classy [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Abner Jay – Folk Song Stylist
    Abner Jay – Folk Song Stylist
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    Long awaited follow up to the “True Story of Abner Jay” LP. Abner Jay was a man who had a grand sweeping vision of what folk music was. In his […]

    GENRE: Blues, Folk / Country
  • Clifford Thornton – Ketchaoua
    Clifford Thornton – Ketchaoua
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    Official BYG Records release: one of the defining labels of the Free Jazz era – Follow-up release of Live at the Panafrican Festival by Archie Shepp. After appearing with Archie […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
    13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
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    New 96KHZ-24bit transfer from an original mixed master – Facsimile stereo edition . 1967 second studio album by the Texan pioneers of psychedelia. This ground-breaking album not only [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Charlie Haden – The Golden Number
    Charlie Haden – The Golden Number
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    “In this collection of bass-led duets, Charlie Haden enlists Don Cherry (trumpet/flute), Archie Shepp (tenor), Hampton Hawes (piano) and a trumpet playing Ornette Coleman on the four [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gene Clark And Carla Olson – So Rebellious A Lover
    Gene Clark And Carla Olson – So Rebellious A Lover
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    “A feeling of spontaneity and warmth of spirit fills So Rebellious A Lover, Gene Clark & Carla Olson’s only collaboration before Clark’s sudden passing in 1991. [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Pere Ubu – Song Of The Bailing Man
    Pere Ubu – Song Of The Bailing Man
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    “Originally released in 1982, ‘Song of the Bailing Man’ is an ‘inspired, invigorating, confounding, disturbing… yeah, one hell of a swinging way to go. Still the futility Ubu must have […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Catherine Howe – What A Beautiful Place (Purple Vinyl)
    Catherine Howe – What A Beautiful Place (Purple Vinyl)
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    “A true rainy-day affair, What A Beautiful Place is the Brit folk autobiography of Howe, aged 20, one that appeared only fleetingly in 1971. Most artists are too young for […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts (180g Reissue)
    Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts (180g Reissue)
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    “Tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers (also heard on soprano and flute) teams up in a quartet with trombonist George Lewis, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Thurman Barker (doubling on marimba) for [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Mötley Crüe ‎– Shout At The Devil
    Mötley Crüe ‎– Shout At The Devil
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    “Shout at the Devil displays Mötley Crüe’s sleazy and notorious (yet quite entertaining) metal at its best. When compared to its predecessor, Too Fast for Love, one can see that […]

    GENRE: Metal, Rock / Pop
  • Everything But The Girl – Eden
    Everything But The Girl – Eden
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    “The debut effort by multi-instrumentalist Ben Watt and vocalist and songwriter Tracey Thorn took the alterna-pop world by surprise in 1985. And rightfully so. Watt’s lush chamber [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Suicide ‎– Suicide: Alan Vega · Martin Rev
    Suicide ‎– Suicide: Alan Vega · Martin Rev
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    “The Ric Ocasek-produced second album from Suicide is less confrontational and more contemporary than the duo’s terrifying debut. Vega’s rockabilly snarl and Rev’s [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Amon Düül II – Pyragony X
    Amon Düül II – Pyragony X
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    “By 1976, Amon Duul had transitioned from a highly experimental unit to an almost traditional pop-rock act, with lyrics sung in English and a decidedly (and unexpectedly) rockist approach [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Big Boys – No Matter How Long The Line Is At The Cafeteria, Theres Always A Seat!
    Big Boys – No Matter How Long The Line Is At The Cafeteria, Theres Always A Seat!
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    “This post-mortem (?) LP recorded in August ’84 is a potpourri of the many directions this band was heading. Sometimes, the record seems incohesive, but there’s great talent here. They […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Mandrill ‎– Mandrill Is
    Mandrill ‎– Mandrill Is
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    “Apparently learning from the mistakes of its debut, Mandrill crafted a follow-up with fewer stylistic detours than the first record, but much more energy and greater maturity. The two [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Essential Logic ‎– Beat Rhythm News – Waddle Ya Play ?
    Essential Logic ‎– Beat Rhythm News – Waddle Ya Play ?
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    “Never released in America, this is a stunning record that remains a benchmark of the punk era. From the bubbling, herky-jerky rhythms of “Quality Crayon Wax OK” to the gleeful [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • V/A  ‎– No New York
    V/A ‎– No New York
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    “After seeing a series of benefit shows held for the Artist’s Space in Soho, producer Brian Eno convinced Island Records to release an anthology album featuring several bands from New [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Iron Maiden – Piece Of Mind
    Iron Maiden – Piece Of Mind
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    “The second of three straight iconic Iron Maiden albums, Piece of Mind marks the debut of what many regard as the definitive Maiden lineup, with the arrival of new drummer […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Hallows Eve – Monument
    Hallows Eve – Monument
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    Atlanta based classic thrash metal. Label: Metal Blade Records – D1-73290 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1988 VG+/VG. Still in shrink with some noticeable sleevewear  

    GENRE: Metal