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Mr. Slowhand ist zurück: Eric Clapton veröffentlicht sein neues Album - Old Sock' am 22. März auf
Polydor Records ++ Das 21. Studioalbum der Gitarrenlegende beinhaltet neben Coverversionen
zeitloser Klassiker auch zwei brandneue Songs.
Bald ist schon das zweite Dutzend voll: Am 22. März 2013 meldet sich Eric Clapton mit seinem neuen
Werk - Old Sock' zurück und legt damit bereits das 21. Studioalbum seiner inzwischen fünfzig Jahre
umspannenden Karriere vor. Nachdem die Gitarrenlegende zuletzt im Herbst 2010 das gleichnamige
Album - Clapton' veröffentlicht hatte - die LP landete in Deutschland wie in diversen anderen Ländern
in den Top 3 und war hierzulande sogar in den Top-100 der erfolgreichsten Alben des Jahres vertreten
(#69) - hatte Mr. Slowhand erst kürzlich seine nächste Welttournee angekündigt, die ihn im Mai und
Juni auch für mehrere Shows nach Deutschland führen wird. Auf dem von ihm, Doyle Bramhall II,
Justin Stanley und Simon Climie produzierten neuen Longplayer, der über sein eigenes Label
Bushbranch erscheint, sind mit - Every Little Thing' und - Gotta Get Over' auch zwei brandneue
Kompositionen des 67-Jährigen vertreten.

1950s R&B & Rockabilly Blasters!

Greasy Rhythm N' Blues And Nasty Soul Party
Side 1:

The Last Chance To Dance: Greasy Rhythm N' Soul Party Yez _Do It!

The Last Chance To Dance: Greasy Rhythm N' Soul Party Girls Round I

Two more catchy popcorn winners paired for your dancefloor delight.
Dean Barlow, a founding member of vocal group the Crickets, decided to go solo as that groups fortunes floundered in the second half of the 50s. 'Come Back' was one of slew of singles Barlow released thereafter, and is a jaunty piece of jazzy R&B perfect for today's popcorn influenced scene.
On the flip side is Carole Bennett's 'He's Coming Home', a cool, laid back stroller with suitably sassy vocals, a snappy arrangement, and a great horn section.

It's well known that throughout the 20th century, fed up with poor working conditions and racism in their home country, many American jazz musicians chose to leave the US in order to live and work in Europe. What's less well known is how their music developed and evolved during their time on the continent, and how the experience of being a musician in Europe was to shape their respective lives.

Over the years countless jazz concerts, festivals and recordings featuring American jazz musicians have taken place all over Europe, yet it's remarkable how few of these musical artifacts have been evaluated by the jazz community. We seek to assess the European experiences of the American jazzmen, with a specific focus on the progressive sounds of modal jazz and the avant garde. We examine the recordings made by those who crossed the Atlantic just to take in a short tour, as well as those who made more frequent trips, and of course those for whom Europe ultimately became their permanent place of residence.

Latest Claremont 56 releases

What's better than a dope 45 with two heavy deep funk tracks~ How about a dope 45 with THREE heavy deep funk tracks!

Catalist heads into the swampy source material of the blues and flips the tracks into two bumpin', raucous cuts. Little Walter's "Up The Line" becomes "Girl I'm Goin Back", & Labi Siffree's "Rocking Chair" becomes "Thinkin' About My Lady

Ltd numbered edition of 120 copies. Heavy 180g coloured vinyl (chrystal clear & white mixed) With downloadcode & unique extra CD with 5 cover. Screen print cover by Smeraldina-Rima.

Brownswood Recordings are delighted to announce the release of their sophomore album Power Punch, coming out on Brownswood Recordings on April 8, 2013. Exploring new influences from techno to electronica, the Nairobi / London based band continue to also embrace the sounds of East Africa.

The Owiny journey began back in 2009 when five London musicians, Jesse Hackett (vox / keys) Louis Hackett (bass), Sam Lewis (guitar), Chris Morphitis (bouzouki/guitar) and Tom Skinner (drums) first travelled to east Africa to record with Joseph Nyamungu, a Nyatiti master musician, and Charles Owoko, a Luo drummer.

The resulting record Owiny Sigoma Band was released in 2011 and saw the band perform at a number of top festivals including Roskilde (Denmark), WorldWide Festival (France) and Dour Festival (Belgium).

This time, Owiny Sigoma Band reversed the dynamic. The UK based musicians invited Joseph and Charles to record in London in the summer of 2012. Introduced to variety of new influences and confronted with a different recording environment, the Kenyan musicians were left invigorated. On hearing shangaan electro for the first time Charles insisted that the band played at even higher tempos. Fierce, hand-played nyiduonge drums can be heard beside Tom Skinner's dextrous stick work. Joseph's Nyatiti (a Kenyan classical instrument) is sounding at home amongst groups widening influences.

Power Punch deftly straddles continents, steering through the Luo influenced Nagalo Ni Piny Odag to acid basslines in Owiny Techno and onto the Afro pop of Harpoon Land.

Ltd ed 4 track 7" on JUMP UP from the SPECIALIZED TRIBUTE CD, a UK charity album with bands covering songs by THE SPECIALS. Endorsed by THE SPECIALS, proceeds go towards the TEENAGE CANCER TRUST. Tracks from ROLAND GIFT, KING HAMMOND, LEE THOMPSON of MADNESS, ORANGE STREET. Repressed on WHITE VINYL

Just As I Am is the 1971 debut of soul legend, Bill Withers. Produced by Booker T. Jones, and featuring backing from L.A. stalwarts Jim Keltner, Chris Ethridge, and Stephen Stills, Just As I Am features the outright, stone cold, classic 'Ain't No Sunshine' along with other, lesser known, but equally powerful tracks such as 'Grandma's Hands' and 'Better Off Dead. A very, very, heavy and powerful debut from one of soul music's greatest songwriters. Reissued here on 180 gram vinyl in a deluxe tip-on jacket.

Still Bill is the second studio album from Bill Wither, originally released in 1972 and featuring the mega-hit 'Lean On Me' (the first track ever to reach #1 on the Soul chart and the Billboard Hot 100). Featuring members of the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band, Still Bill also features the funky classic, 'Use Me', amongst a handful of other powerful songwriting and performance efforts. Possibly Withers' finest album from start to finish. Reissued here with a reproduction of the original bi-fold sleeve.

Crows in the Basilica is from an edition of approximately 750 hand-numbered copies and is pressed on 140 gram Dutch vinyl by Record Industry. The album is housed within a handsome multi-color silkscreened jacket bearing new artwork from Michael Elrod (based on a photograph by Chuck Johnson) and includes Johnson's informative liner notes.
*The album is accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free digital files of the downloader's
choice.
*Crows in the Basilica was recorded both with Phil Manley at San Francisco's Studio SQ (six
tracks) and within Mills College's Littlefield Concert Hall (two tracks) and subsequently mastered by Patrick Klem.
'At first glance, the titles on Chuck Johnson's Crows in the Basilica suggest an artist both aware of and in touch with his surroundings. There are mountains, creeks, sand; towns, streets, basilica; crows, geese. Skim Johnson's liner
notes and this sense of outward attention expands. Songs are based on raga improvisations and Chinese melodies, the Piedmont Blues of Carolina pioneer Elizabeth Cotten and the mountain guitar of Appalachian legend Roscoe
Holcomb.
*But despite how conscious Johnson is of what's going on outside-both outside his window and outside our borders-his journey on Crows in the Basilica is as much internal as external. Johnson's references to the elements around him
and the art that inspires him are launching points toward the wider realms of nature and music, but they also propel him inward, toward introspection and self-reflection. In fact, for much of these eight masterful tunes, inside and outside
are mirror images, each influencing and guiding the other in a recursive loop of creativity.
Which is to say that Crows in the Basilica makes you hear, see, think and feel.

The person behind Urpf Lanze is Belgian visual artist Wouter Vanhaelemeesch (B), who is mainly known for his large-scale ink drawings that offer a hermetic blend of weirdo characters, medieval iconography and surrealist decors. His artwork started gaining some attention a few years ago when renowned avant-garde lutenist Jozef Van Wissem (NL) started using Vanhaelemeesch's work to decorate many sleeves of his recorded output, including his collaborations with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (US), noise legends Smegma (US), free folkband United Bible Studies (IE) and fingerpicker James Blackshaw (UK). Next to doing exhibitions in places like Tokyo, New York and Paris, his drawings appear regularly in zines and underground publications all over the world. He also runs the audioMER label together with designer Jeroen Wille (BE) and has provided artwork for records by Jack Rose (US), Robbie Basho (US), Mauro Antonio Pawlowski (BE), Cian Nugent (IE), Graveyards (US), Second Family Band (US) and many others.



Urpf Lanze is the moniker of his rather unorthodox solo guitar project, under which he has been playing for several years now. With an acoustic guitar that lays flat on his lap, tuned to unwieldy scales, he brutalises the instrument in an oddly musical way. As if this wasn't enough he lays down some vocal work that goes from ventriloquist-like whines and mumbles to deep and guttural grunts.



The result is a rather unhinged and demented music. Imagine the rawness of Bill Orcutt, the more frightening sides of Loren Mazzacane Connors and the absurd stylings of Wilburn Burchette all wrapped into a Lovecraftian sonic nightmare. 'Procession of Talking Mirrors' is his first full lenght solo album. Recorded live on a 4-track tape recorder, these 6 tracks offer a mixture of Japanese folk music, free psych, scratchy delta-blues recordings, damaged lo-fi and aggressively percussive fingerpicking. While some tracks may carry a more melancholy tone, others seem closer to acoustic death metal than than any kind of folk music. However you may describe it, it is most definetly not a record for the faint of heart.



Urpf Lanze has performed all over Europe and played several editions of the Jozef van Wissem curated 'New Music For Old Instruments' festival. He is also featured on the recently issued 'New Music For Old Instruments' compilation CD. Next to that he has recorded a live session for Dutch radioshow VPRO's Dwars in 2011.



In 2011 Morc Records put out a split tour EP of Urpf Lanze together with Silvester Anfang ofshoots Hellvete (BE) and Edgar Wappenhalter (BE). Some choice words about his featured track here:



Attributed to a single individual on guitar, the percussive guitar work and incomprehensible, cathartic vocals (disembodied and peculiar, the only generic signifier perhaps being traditional forms of throat singing) represent this artist's first recorded work under this pseudonym. The material accompanying the record classifies the piece as 'outsider folk', appropriately citing Bill Orcutt's solo work as precedent. But the track extends beyond this attribution into genuine anti-folk, not in a trite generic sense, but in a resistance to notions of tradition and lineage and rejection of endless Takoma School debates. The repeating, overlapping finger-picked phrases, merging, shifting in volume and intensity and sporadically subjected to abrupt re-tunings (the accumulated pressure suddenly abating as the guitar pegs are wrenched as if he despises the thing) is a sound of genuine guitar 'otherness'; a distinctly atypical approach to an instrument with such historical baggage. Brutally repetitive, the physical, visceral process on display, the deconstruction of technique and negation of assumptions about the capabilities of the guitar, all resonate with an exhausting exertion and sense of unfettered release that bodes well for an upcoming LP release. - Foxy Digitalis



Urpf Lanze's tune 'The Wandering Sick' is surprisingly engaging, the chiming resonance of battered strings zinging off on some bent trajectory into your face is quite thrilling, the whole thing coming off like some fucked psych-folk experiment that, despite the discordance, becomes quite tripped-out & meaningful. - Norman Records

Dean Blunt is an artist and member of the band Hype Williams. ' The Narcissist II ' is Dean Blunt's mixtape re-issue and debut LP . The LP version comes as a limited edition pressing on 180g vinyl , and includes a digital download voucher inside each copy from Procards.com!!
"The Narcissist" is a heavy dose of drifter blues, the most soulful of swan songs. ' - Pitchfork

LP VInyl 12" + CD and 12 pages booklet included!My Boat Easily recognizable by his impassioned Johnny Cash-meets-Charlie Feathers vocals, the French-born Don Cavalli began to get any notice in the greater music and blog community when he released his full-length Cryland (2007), which featured his amalgamation of swamp blues, lo-fi pop, country gospel, and early rock & roll. In 2013, Don Cavalli will release his new studio album 'Temperamental", staying on blues track while dismantling the traditional codes of the field. Indeed, thanks to an old fashioned sound take and a contemporary production, Don Cavalli makes his new album sound old but incredibly modern And if Temperamental goes through many kinds of sounds, in the end it always goes straight to the point: a unique Cajun blues from the bayou serving a soul and sophisticated voice. A must-have!

2 Classic 6Ts Northern Soul/Mod Sides From The Legendary Philly Label Cameo-Parkway

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