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vinyl -- selection OCTOBER 2005 |
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| Artist: |
TETRIX |
| Title: |
S/T |
| Label: |
ME WE |
| Format: |
12” |
| Price: |
9,50 euros |
| Catalog #: |
Me we04 |
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This record is a 'Best-Of' of what TETRIX can do, serving great, raw and attitude-heavy avant-rock and smashing new ground in the realm of improvised performance. It retraces the band's history and is a compilation of tracks coming from the six CD-Rs they have released on their own label. With this record, Tetrix spreads for the first time their music across the ocean, while on their side they already enjoy a certain popularity. Tetrix will destroy what you thought was possible. The future is now. LOWLANDS |
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| Artist: |
VARIOUS |
| Title: |
New thing ! |
| Label: |
SOULJAZZ |
| Format: |
3xLP |
| Price: |
26,5 euros |
| Catalog #: |
JAGBR001 |
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Soul Jazz Records latest release New Thing! tells the story of Deep Jazz in the USA. Post-Civil Rights, Post- Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Post-John Coltrane, this album shows how radical musicians developed musically, politically and spiritually at this time.
New Thing! shows how these musicians redefined themselves and their music to present a new Black American music that encompassed Jazz with Eastern music and philosophies, space travel, classical music, ballet and African music alongside other American musics such as Gospel, Funk, Soul and Blues.
The period of music covered on New Thing is from 1970-1985. (One exception and a forerunner to much of this music, the Sun Ra track "Angels and Demons at Play" is from 1957! and clearly shows a man ahead of his time in his music and ideas).
New Thing! features heavyweight Jazz artists such as Alice Coltrane, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra and Archie Shepp alongside many other less-well known, but equally important artists such as Rashied Ali (who played alongside John Coltrane) and Stanley Cowell (who started one of the first independent labels for this music, Strata-East Records, along with Charles Tolliver).
The music on New Thing! ranges from the deep street funk of "Street Rap" and "Funky AECO" to hypnotic eastern-influenced tracks such as "Tibetan Serenity" and radical left-field tracks such as Rashied Ali and Frank Lowe’s "Duo Exchange".
The album comes with extensive sleevenotes and exclusive photos (many by celebrated photographer Val Wilmer, herself an important chronicler of this peri music). SOULJAZZ
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| Artist: |
HRSTA |
| Title: |
Stem Stem in Electro |
| Label: |
CONSTELLATION (CANADA) |
| Format: |
LP |
| Price: |
21,5 euros |
| Catalog #: |
CST 036LP |
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"Hrsta (her-shta) is the latest addition to the Constellation roster and Stem Stem In Electro is the band's second record, following a critically-acclaimed debut album release on Montreal's Fancy Recordings in 2001. The band's ring leader is guitarist and singer Mike Moya, who was a founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor back in 1995 and played on that band's first two records. Stem Stem In Electro is a gorgeous collection of songs painted in psych-rock tones and timbres, minor key progressions, and unsettling invocations of haunted transcendentalism. The opening track, with its trance-like group chorus of 'we climb to the light,' is akin to a cultish hymn, with Maya's guitar howls and washes underscoring the disquieting downwards chord structure. This sets the stage for 'Blood On The Sun,' a chilling ballad delivered in Maya's otherworldly voice, like a sedated Daniel Johnson or Wayne Coyne. The trip continues with a delicate instrumental and the tremulous swing of 'Folkways Orange,' which would not be out of place on a more sparkly orchestrated Devendra Banhart record." |
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| Artist: |
YELLO |
| Title: |
Solid Pleasure |
| Label: |
HIT THING (GERMANY) |
| Format: |
LP/12" |
| Price: |
23.50 euros |
| Catalog #: |
HIT 011LP |
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Hit Thing re-releases the first two albums on vinyl by the Swiss band Yello (Dieter Meier and Boris Blank) circa 1980 and 1981: Solid Pleasure and Claro Que Si. At last these two classic albums of early electronic atmospheric pop madness can return to the turntables of another generation. Crazy disco sound-choppers and original sample-stealers, Yello were, to quote Meier: "bombastic Mahleresque sound painters!" Originally released by Ralph Records in 1980, Solid Pleasure was the debut LP that introduced the world to Yello, and featured the legendary singles "Bimbo" and "Bostich." Claro Que Si was the group's second LP and their last for Ralph Records. It contained their first huge hit "Pinball Cha Cha," which opened the door to their well-known career. Both LPs are packaged as deluxe gatefolds with expanded original-era artwork. Each release contains extensive historical liner notes that reveal a fascinating portrait about the Swiss band and their mysterious connection with Ralph Records. Both sought-after albums vanished into vinyl collector-land in the U.S. after they were sold to Phonogram in Europe, and both have been re-mastered for 150-gram vinyl and cut at Dub Plates in Berlin. Each LP is a limited edition of 1,000 copies, with a bonus 12" 45 rpm single. |
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| Artist: |
ESMERINE |
| Title: |
Aurora |
| Label: |
MADRONA (CANADA) |
| Format: |
LP |
| Price: |
22 euros |
| Catalog #: |
MADA 002LP |
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LP version. "Aurora is Esmerine's second album, and the first exclusive release for Madrona Records. The band's debut, If Only a Sweet Surrender to the Nights to Come be True, an extremely well-received, majestic record, was co-released by Madrona and Resonant. Esmerine is the duo of Bruce Cawdron and Beckie Foon, known for their work with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Set Fire to Flames, and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band. Aurora consists of six tracks, 40 minutes of sweepingly cinematic music arranged for cello, drums, glockenspiel, marimba, melodic percussion, and found sounds. Mike Moya (Hrsta), Harris Newman (solo, Hrsta), Jessie Carrot (Jackie-O Motherfucker) and Howard Bilerman also contribute occasional outbursts of electric guitar, bass, and percussion." |
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