1. Joanna Brouk - Sounds Of The Sea
STP EXCLUSIVE SEAGLASS VINYL
Joanna Brouk's most ambitious recording, Sounds of the Sea is a concept album full of mystery and eroticism. A conch shell bookends this journey into the deep, going down and down and down further, never reaching bottom. Drawing inspiration from various legends of mermaids and sailors, Brouk weaves circling flutes, vocals, drones and whale songs to describe a sense of unfathomable longing more clearly than words could ever express. Sounds of the Sea is a hypnotic and profound achievement by one of new age's greatest composers.
2. Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah
BEAUTIFUL DELUXE EMBOSSED BOX SET
With Pharoah Sanders’ blessing, Luaka Bop present the definitive, remastered version of PHAROAH, his seminal record from 1977. This is the first official rerelease of PHAROAH, which has been bootlegged often since its original release. Includes 2 exceptional live versions of “Harvest Time” which turn the original, beloved composition on its head. This limited first pressing comes with an embossed cover and is accompanied by never-before shared photographs and ephemera, as well as a 24-page booklet featuring rarely seen photographs, interviews with many of the participants, and a conversation with Pharoah himself. For seasoned listeners and new acolytes both, PHAROAH will never sound the same.
3. Tom Waits - Closing Time
50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
CLEAR VINYL 2LP IN DELUXE GATEFOLD JACKET
HALF SPEED MASTERED AT ABBEY ROAD
Closing Time foreshadows the distinctly lyrical storytelling and original blending of jazz, blues, and folk styles that would come to be associated with Waits. It is on this debut album that Waits performs enduring classics of his career “Ol’ 55” (famously covered by the Eagles), the heartbreaking “Martha” and the gentle acoustic folk of “I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You”. Reissued for the first time as a double LP to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark debut with newly half speed mastering at Abbey Road Studios.
4. Codeine - Barely Real
SIGNED COPIES
"UPPER BELVEDERE" BLUE & GREEN SPLATTER VINYL
The slowcore pioneers' classic EP of icy and effervescent tracks. Features drummer Chris Brokaw’s final recordings with the group, plus noisy guitar from Bitch Magnet’s Jon Fine and a solo piano arrangement from Bastro’s David Grubbs. Remastered from the original analog tapes and recreated in painstaking detail, Barely Real is the slowcore classic your therapist warned you about.
5. Cymande - Cymande
+ BONUS CYMANDE MATCHES
ORANGE VINYL
With the release of their self-titled debut album in 1972, Cymande emerged as innovators of the black British music scene. Taking influences from their Guyanese and Jamaican roots, the band fused reggae bass lines, Afro-tinged Nyabinghi percussion, psychedelic touches, and American-style funk into a unique sound they’ve since dubbed as “Nyah-rock.” While they were embraced in the US, back home they were largely ignored and soon forgotten by a music business beset by prejudice against homegrown black talent. Newly remastered at Abbey Road.
6. Various - ...Still Sad
SEAFOAM SWIRL VINYL
Keep that frown upside down. Following Sad About the Times (our 2019 Album of the Year!), Anthology Recordings’ 2019 collection of melancholic music made by maudlin marauders who aspired for 70s AOR radio success but never quite achieved it, arrives ...Still Sad. Featuring music made in North America, mostly in the ‘70s. Scan the track list and you can almost hear the earth tones, and see the studio scene where these artists with nothing else to lose gathered to give everything they had in hope that these songs would be heard.
7. Mort Garson - Journey To The Moon And Beyond
LIMITED MARS RED VINYL
+ BONUS PRINT, POSTER & STICKERS
DIE-CUT SLEEVE WITH REVERSIBLE ARTWORK
When Sacred Bones first began their Mort Garson reissue project in 2019 with a proper reissue of Plantasia, the Garson-naissance began in earnest. Soon after, you could hear Mort Garson and his Moogs bubbling up on TV shows, documentaries, podcasts, hip-hop tracks, or anywhere else, the man a cultural phenomenon once more. Like a perennial that returns with each new spring, the Mort Garson archives have brought to bear yet another awe-inspiring bloom. Journey to the Moon and Beyond finds even more new facets to the man’s sound. The crown jewel of the set is no doubt Garson’s long-thought-lost soundtrack to the live broadcast of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, as first heard on CBS News. That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for Moogkind.
8. The Ahmad Jamal Trio - The Awakening
VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES AUDIOPHILE 180G VINYL
Ahmad Jamal is a jazz giant and The Awakening is his iconic masterpiece. The landmark deep trio session - recorded in NYC and released on Impulse! in 1970 - is an essential album and perennially sought-after on vinyl. As a "Zen master of jazz piano" and one of its greatest innovators, Jamal evolved his elegant sound with this adventurous record. The Awakening showcased his fast, richly melodic chops in remarkable variation.
9. Arthur Russell - Picture of Bunny Rabbit
A new album of previously unreleased material by the cult hero recorded in 1985/86, around the time of his career-defining masterpiece ‘World of Echo’. Here Arthur had found his voice and a fresh direction with a set of new, transformative material, unlike anything he or anyone else had previously released. "Unintelligible" echo drenched cello and voice experiments; heartrending, tender and out-there as can be.
10. Various - Wig Out! Freak Out!
FREAKBEAT & MOD PSYCHEDELIA FLOORFILLERS 1964-1969
EXCLUSIVE NEON PINK MARBLE & ORANGE VINYL
Two-Piers, the label who brought you Pop Psychedelique, Garage Psychedelique & more, dives into the world of Freakbeat, Psych and Mod from 1964-1969. Pulling the cream of tracks from the UK & United States Freakbeat and Garage scenes of the time, ‘Wig Out! Freak Out!’ is packed full of classics as well as rare sought after nuggets. Featuring tracks from The Sonics, The Kinks, The Action, Chocolate Watch Band, The Haunted, The Standells, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Shadows of Knight, The Yardbirds, The Seeds and more.
11. Sudden Death - Sudden Death
UK EXCLUSIVE RED VINYL
A hard-hitting and gloomy heavy rock band comprised of Pasadena youth who were selected as finalists in a nationwide artist search called "America's Answer To Black Sabbath" recorded this lost demo album in Spring of 1972. The tracks resurfaced in the mid 90s as a mysterious proto-metal record, released by pioneering reissuers Rockadelic records. Sudden Death's music is now being released broadly for the first time, and with full disclosure of the band's journey.
RIYL : Black Sabbath, Granicus, Sir Lord Baltimore. Sourced from the master tape. Made in collaboration with band members. Includes big format 8-page booklet.
12. Various - Studio One Space-Age Dub Special
Soul Jazz Records draw on more rare and classic dubs taken from the mighty vaults of Studio One Records. Most of these tracks are taken from Studio One’s superb long out-of-print series of dub albums released between 1974 and 1980, many of which were originally released only in Jamaica in short-run pressings which now fetch many, many hundreds of pounds. These tracks, credited to the Dub Specialist, use the original music tracks to seminal Studio One rhythms, which are broken down, reconstructed, and manipulated using the studio mixing desk as an instrument. With these albums, producer Clement Dodd and engineer Sylvan Morris helped create some of the finest dubs ever known.
13. Magnolia Electric Co. - Sojourner
First time on vinyl for four essential Jason Molina sessions which chart the celestial map of Magnolia Electric Co.: its constellations and shooting stars, its Americana stompers and lean folk dirges. And, of course, the center of gravity that is Jason Molina’s mournful, incomparable voice. Housed in a beautiful wooden box with a vibrant constellation map.
14. Alain Goraguer - La Planète Sauvage
50th anniversary deluxe edition of this incredible soundtrack to the cult classic French animated film. Celebrated composer Alain Goraguer unleashes a haunting melodic main theme, soaring and hypnotic atmospheres, and funky wah-wah guitar rhythms. Sampled by generations of hip hop producers, from J Dilla and Madlib to Little Simz.
15. Dorothy Carter - Waillee Waillee
The first ever reissue of the work of American composer Dorothy Carter. Carter was many things - a virtuoso player, storyteller, historian of Celtic and Appalachian folk music, avid lifelong busker, avant-garde musician, and itinerant troubadour, laying a framework for music that existed both within and outside of standard folk idioms - never better represented than on this 1978 masterwork.
16. Ash Ra Tempel - 50th Anniversary Edition
CLEAR VINYL
QUADRO FOLD OUT SLEEVE
The debut studio album from Manuel Göttsching, Klaus Schulze and Hartmut Enke. One the holy grails of Psychedelic Rock and early Electronic Music – the German variant which was later also named “Krautrock”. Remaster carefully overseen by Manuel Göttsching.
17. De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
MAGENTA VINYL W/ COMIC
+ FOLD OUT POSTER
Finally back in print! The 1989 debut studio album by American hip hop trio De La Soul, often viewed as the stylistic beginning of 1990s alternative hip hop (and especially jazz rap). Contains the absolute classic singles Me Myself and I, The Magic Number, Buddy, and Eye Know.
18. Various - Searchlight Moonbeam
Another essential Efficient Space compilation curated by beloved NTS DJs Time Is Away. An autumnal dreamscape, intimate and vespertine, pensive and irresolute. Associative, intuitive, borderless. Emotional and mysterious. Endowed with the tactility of Braille. A private language that is both unknowable and understood. It is a record of the seasons, for the seasons.
19. Nucleus
- Solar Plexus
Under bandleader Ian Carr, Nucleus existed as a fluid line-up of inventive, skilled musicians. This constant evolution and revolution was all part of the continuous musical exploration and discovery that took jazz to new levels. And the music has kept relevant. To steal a line from a review of our re-issue of Roots, when it comes to anything Nucleus “it’s basically already hip-hop”. Truly sophisticated soulful jazz. An absolute masterclass. We could easily listen to this all day long.
20. Bobby Gillespie Presents I Still Can't Believe You're Gone
SIGNED COPIES
Titled after and kicking off with the Willie Nelson track of the same name, ‘I Still Can’t Believe You’re Gone’ leads us through a darker and deeper exploration than it’s predecessor, featuring Nick Cave’s funereal version of ‘By The Time I Get To Phoenix’ and Ry Cooder’s sparse and beautiful reworking of ‘Dark End Of The Street’. And we get there via such greats as Bob Dylan, JJ Cale, Donnie Fritts, Crazy Horse, Lee Hazlewood, Al Green, Thin Lizzy and so many more.
21. Meiko Kaji - Hajiki Uta
Incredible 1973 album by cult Japanese exploitation actress and Tarantino muse Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood), with original artwork, remastered audio and new liner notes.
Atmospheric songs displaying Meiko's sombre singing over superb slow-burning grooves and blazing funk with wah wah guitar, a breakbeat-like rhythm section and slick string arrangement, shaping the unique Meiko Kaji signature sound.
22. Jezz Woodroffe - Wonders of the Underwater World
+ DIY SLEEVE STICKER SHEET
Jonny Trunk presents a sublime electronic underwater score from 1981 by former member of Black Sabbath. A beautiful wash of submersible ambience, emotions and more created in his own cutting edge studio. One-off pressing with sticker sheet to design your own cover!
23. Various - Lounge Psychédélique
A journey into the world of Lounge, Exotica and Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, from its early days in the 1950s and 1960s to the current crop of artists championing those sounds today. A perfect introduction to this fantastic and beautiful music for any newcomers out there.
24. Various - Hidden Waters
Mr Bongo present a snapshot into the pulse of contemporary Rio de Janeiro and the vibrant musicians that live in it. 'Hidden Waters' collates tracks from a wide spectrum of musical genres from the avant-garde edge to bossa nova, samba, Candomblé, lo-fi rock, jazz and funk.