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Now On Vinyl For The First Time With Bonus Track..(a Cover Of Richard Hawley's 'for Your Lover Give Some Time By
Sarah Zeppilli & Hans Ludemann)

Megaphone Label 20th Anniversary Compilation Featuring Tracks From Michael Head & The Strands, Karen Dalton, Blind Blake Etc...
This Compilation Comes With A 12pp Booklet With Unpublished Photographs Of Every Artist, Including Rare Shots From The Personal Archives Of Karen Dalton.

The Megaphone Record Label Was Founded In 1997 In The Wake Of Concert Promoter Ste´phane Bismuth's Matchmaking Of Liverpool Quartet Shack With West-coast Legend Love's Arthur Lee, After A 15- Year Hiatus In The Latter's Career.
Ste´phane Went On To Produce The Classic Michael Head Album 'the Magical World Of The Strands'. In The Late 90s He Discovered, And Released Material By, The Then Little Known Late Folk-blues Singer Karen Dalton, Now Acknowledged By Bob Dylan As His Favorite Singer In The Early 60s Greenwich Village Scene, Quoted By Adele As Her Favorite Singer And Revered By A Large Following In The New Century's Sprawling Folk Scene.
'sing And They'll Sing Your Song' Will Feature The Broad Spectrum Showcased On The Label's Releases Over Twenty Years, Including Bahamian Calypso By Blind Blake, The Singer Who Influenced The First Million Selling Album By A Single Artist, Harry Belafonte's Calypso, Iraqi Oud, Sicilian Young Art-rockers And The First Recording Endeavour By Julien Barbagallo, A Multi-instrumentalist Discovered A Good Seven-hour Drive Into French Countryside, Soon Bound For Fame With Australian Band Tame Impala.
The Title Of The Compilation Is A Quote From Alan Price's 'poor People' Covered Here For The First Time Ever To The Best Of Our Knowledge. It Reflects The Number Of Covers That Made Their Way To The Compilation And The Label's Belief That Covers Have Been Discarded Too Hastily Since The 60s, As Karen Dalton's Oblivion Sadly Exemplifies.

* Rare Private Press Electro And Ambient Synth * Solo Album From Former Cybotron Member Ian Macfarlane * Electronic Outsider Musicpost-nuclear Mind Music Lizard Strategies Void Spirit... These Bizarre Titles Are Just A Few Of The Self-coined Terms That Australian Electronic Musician Ian Macfarlane Has Conjured To Represent His Eccentric Sonic World. An Artist Whose Unique Style Of Electronic Experimentalism Has Balanced Dangerously Close To The Edge Of Popular Convention, Existing Outside The Mainstream And Extending Well Beyond The Fringe Of Any Sanctioned Independent Scene. A Futurist Outsider Whose Extraordinary Musical Vision Has Explored The Uncharted Realms Of Consciousness And Fantasy.following A Brief Stint With The Legendary Australian Krautrockers Cybotron, Macfarlane Produced Three Independent Solo Albums Throughout The Late 1970s And Early 1980s. His Debut Lp Void Spirit, An Experimental Album Issued Under The Pen Name 'violet Lightning', Was Followed By A Further Two Albums Published Under His Own Name, The Cosmic Influenced Back From Beyond And Finally The Privately Issued Electro-ambient Suite Planetarium.presented With Hours Of Unreleased Home Recordings, The Roundtable Has Begun A Dedicated Search Through The Fascinating Archives Of This Under Exposed Artist. Beginning With A Vinyl Release Of The Rare Cassette-only Album Planetarium, This Private Press Sees Macfarlane Armed With A Bank Of Roland Synthesizers, Drum Machines And Field Recordings, Spawning A Mutant Amalgam Of German Kosmische Musik, French Library Electro And Private Issue New Age.surrender To The Stars And Welcome To The First Instalment Of muzak To Moralize By'.

Fatoumata Diawara released her brand new single 'Nterini' on 8th March. A poignant, melodic ode to a distant lover, 'Nterini´(which translates as my love/friend/confidant') musically straddles the traditional and the modern.

Taken from her forthcoming album, the single was co-produced by Diawara and Matthieu Chedid (better known by his stage name -M-). Chedid, a superstar in his native France, recently won the 'Best World Music Album' award at the French Grammy Awards for his 'Lamomali' project, which also featured Fatoumata.

Hailed as one of the most vital standard-bearers of modern African music, Fatoumata Diawara is boldly experimental and yet respectful of her roots. A modern day storyteller, her songs cover such timeless subjects as respect, humility, love, migration, family and how to build a better world for our children.

Not Long After Recording Her 10th Album, Ruins, Liz Harris Traveled To Wyoming To Work On Art And Record Music. She Found Herself Drawn Towards The Pairing Of Skeletal Piano Phrasing With Spare, Rich Bursts Of Vocal Harmony.

A Series Of Stark Songs Emerged, Minimal And Vulnerable, Woven With Emotive Silences. Inspired By the Idea That Something Is Missing Or Cold,' The Pieces Float And Fade Like Vignettes, Implying As Much As They Reveal. She Describes Them As small Texts Hanging In Space,' Impressions Of Mortality, Melody, And The Unseen - Fleeting Beauty, Interrupted. Grid Of Points Stands As A Concise And Potently Poetic Addition To The Grouper Catalog.

From Liz Harris: Grid Of Points Is A Set Of Songs For Piano And Voice. I Wrote These Songs Over A Week And A Half, They Stopped Abruptly When I Was Interrupted By A High Fever. Though Brief, It Is Complete. The Intimacy And Abbreviation Of This Music Allude To An Essence That The Songs Lyrics Speak More Directly Of. The Space Left After Matter Has Departed, A Stage After The Characters Have Gone, The Hollow Of Some Central Column, Missing.

Japanese vocal performer Hatis Noit will release her enigmatic EP Illogical Dance via Erased Tapes worldwide on 23rd March 2018.
The arresting 4-track record creates unique song-worlds with transcendent vocal interpretations that at once deconstruct and recombine Western Classical, Japanese folk and nature's own ambience atmosphere. Illogical Dance also features Björk-collaborators Matmos, who were so impressed with Hatis Noit's recordings, they volunteered to edit the lead track Illogical Lullaby.

Hailing from the distant Shiretoko, a small town in Hokkaido, which is the largest island in north Japan, Hatis Noit's accomplished range is astonishingly self-taught, inspired by everything she could find from Gagaku — Japanese classical music — and operatic styles, Bulgarian and Gregorian chanting, to avant-garde and pop vocalists. The sounds she created on Illogical Dance, co-produced by Haruhisa Tanaka and Matmos, bring to mind the experimental vocal patterns of Meredith Monk with the attentive production of Holly Herndon.

It was at the age of 16, during a trek in Nepal to the Buddha's birthplace, when she realised singing was her calling. While staying at a women's temple in Lumbini, one morning on a walk Hatis Noit heard someone singing. On further investigation it was a female monk singing Buddhist chants, alone. The sound moved her so intensely she was instantly aware of the visceral power of the human voice, a primal and instinctive instrument that connects us to the very essence of humanity, nature and our universe.

The name Hatis Noit itself is taken from Japanese folklore, meaning the stem of the lotus flower. The lotus represents the living world, while its root the spirit world, therefore Hatis Noit is what connects the two. For Hatis Noit, music represents the same netherworld with its ability to move and transport us to the other side, the past, a memory, our subconscious. It is the same for Illogical Dance, a set of transformative songs that taps into our most primal instincts.

The human voice is our oldest, most primal yet most powerful instrument. I use it to describe nature's many sounds, a language that isn't logical. Yet it forms a beautiful conversation that isn't restricted to words like the human language is. I want my music to remind us of that.' — Hatis Noit

Wanting to interpret and mimic the sounds Hatis Noit hears in nature, Illogical Dance is as unpredictable, beautiful and mysterious as the world around us. Each track is made up from multi layers of vocals, all improvised and without words, before being carefully pieced together. Astonishingly no samples are used throughout, even the sound of crushing leaves came from Hatis Noit's own vocal chords.

The result is a stunning array of sound sculptures that see her switching between multiple styles with great ease. From the sweet operatics on Illogical Lullaby, the manipulated vocal loops duplicating electronic production on Anagram c.i.y. to the primordial chanting call to arms of Angelus Novus, a 10-minute odyssey that features whispering and leaves crunching, it showcases Hatis Noit's full range and introduces a truly original artist.

Previously only available in Japan, Illogical Dance will receive a worldwide release on 23rd March 2018 including a first edition on 12' vinyl. After participating in a ceremony for memorial and appreciation tailored to the withdrawal of the evacuation area in Fukushima on 31st March 2017, Hatis Noit collaborated with renowned visual artist Nobumichi Asai on a project titled INORI (prayer) which they premiered live as part of an Erased Tapes showcase at Mutek Japan in Tokyo.

Having recently moved to London and performed a first string of UK shows, followed by a special live performance at the Milan Fashion Week and Mutek Japan appearance, Peter Broderick has invited Hatis Noit to support him at the Jazz Cafe on April 15th. She's also been announced as part of this year's Sea Change Festival line-up, and asked to participate in a workshop with the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Singer-songwriter And Multi-instrumentalist Natalie Evans Is Set To Release Her Debut Lp, Which Is Due On May 25th Via Small Pond. The First Single in Trees', Has Gained Radio Support From Bbc Introducing, And Props From Clash, Women That Rock, Punktastic And Beyond. While Winning New Fans, Evans's New Material Has Also Been Met With Excitement By Existing Followers Of Her Work (which Has Included Guest Vocals On Delta Sleep's camp Adventure'.

Fusing Her Virtuosic Talent On Guitar, Harp And Piano With Finely Tuned Songwriting Sensibilities, Natalie Evans's Songs Glow With A Rare Self-contained Grace, As She Wraps Her Minimalist And Deceptively Simple Lyrical Lines In Winning Hooks And Harmonies.

i Like Putting Pop-sounding, Catchy Vocals Over More Complicated Guitar. I Just Feel It Creates Something Fun', Says Evans. the Style Of Guitar I Play Now Probably Comes From Listening To A Lot Of Emo And Math Rock As A Late Teenager, But Even Before Then I Liked To Learn Fingerpicking Songs That Used Alternate Tunings. I Also Enjoy The Technical Aspect Of Writing Music That I Find Difficult To Play - I Like To Challenge Myself.'

Influenced As A Songwriter By Eclectic Artists Including Jeffrey Lewis, Warpaint, Björk, Sufjan Stevens And Ttng, Natalie Evans Has Herself Inspired Comparisons With Folk Sensation And Fellow Harpist Joanna Newsom. Her Early Career Has Seen Her Winning Fans Via Self-releases Including The houses' Ep, And The Aforementioned Delta Sleep Hook-up. She Has Also Worked With Ttng (sargent House) Side-project The Otter Years, And Apidae (dumont Dumont), And Released A Split Single With Us Rising Star Yvette Young, Which Tied In With A Joint Tour Of California. Also Playing Extensively In The Uk, Evans Has Performed Alongside Acts Including Laucan (sunday Best), Tall Ships (fatcat) And Delta Sleep (big Scary Monsters).

Although She'd Had No Classical Training, A Fascination With Classical Music Inspired Evans To Learn Piano And Harp In Recent Years, Her Talent And Studious Approach Leading Her To Achieve An Astonishingly High Level. These Instruments Add To Her Mastery Of The Guitar, Which Began As A Teen Hobby And Became Something Of An Obsession When She Discovered The Finger-picking Style That She Has Gone On To Make Her Mainstay.

A Constantly Surprising Artist And A Captivating Live Performer, Her New Album And Accompanying Live Shows.

Sophie Hunger Returns With Her Brand New Album 'molecules'.

'she Makes President', The Album's First Offering, Was Written Before The Us Presidential Election, With Hunger Having Listened To A Radio Programme That Declared That The Female Voters Would Wield The Deciding Vote On Election Day Owing To Their Greater Numbers And Likelihood Of Voting. I Wrote That Song Trying To Portrait This Future Female Identity And Then Trump Got Elected,' She Says, Still Audibly Stunned. Knowing That Women Had It In Their Hands Not To Elect Trump, But They Proved To Be Yet Again Unreliable When It Came To Standing Up For Their Own Rights.'
'molecules' Is Hunger's First Full Album In English, And Is What She Describes As Minimal Electronic Folk'. Her Most Compelling Qualities - An Ingenue-like Delicacy And Contrasting Solitary Darkness - Haven't Changed. Familiar Trickles Of Funfair Weirdness Still Permeate The Music, Calling To Mind Beth Orton And Regina Spektor. Moreover, She's Still Enigmatic And Self-possessed To The Point Where It Feels Too Intrusive To Ask Certain Questions.

(a) A1. She Makes President
(b) A2. Silver Lane
(c) A3. There Is Still Pain Left
(d) A4. Tricks
(e) A5. Let If Come Down
(f) B1. I Opened A Bar
(g) B2. Oh Lord
(h) B3. The Actress
(i) B4. Electropolis
(j) B5. That Man
(k) B6. Coucou

After Ten Years During Which She Bore Witness To Some Of Her Life's Greatest Joys And Deepest Sorrows - And The Publication Of Her Acclaimed 2015 Memoir, Detla Lady - Rita Coolidge Is Back With Safe In The Arms Of Time, Her 18th Solo Album And A Reaffirmation Of Her Indomitable Spirit And Unquenchable Creative Thirst. Safe In The Arms Of Time Marks Rita's Triumphant Return To The Songwriting That Gave The World Her Shimmering (and Still Uncredited) piano Coda' To Derek & The Dominoes' layla.' Three Of The Album's 12 Songs Were Co-written By Rita And Draw Inspiration From Her Personal Journey.

Safe In The Arms Of Time Is Colored By Rita's Pivotal Role In The Los Angeles Singer-songwriter Scene Of The 1970s, Where She Made Her Bones As A Top Backup Singer - That's Rita On The Refrains Of Stephen Stills's love The One You're With' And Eric Clapton's after Midnight' - Before Embarking On A Platinum-selling Solo Career. the Idea Was Making An Album That Had The Same Appeal Of My Early Records - To Make A Roots Record About My Own Roots,' Rita Says. Rita And Producer Ross Hogarth Gathered An All-star Lineup Of The Era's Top Musicians - Guitarist Dave Grissom, Bassist Bob Glaub, John j.t.' Thomas On Keyboards And Drummer Brian Macleod - At L.a.'s Sunset Sound, The Famed Recording Studio Where Rita Recorded Her First Solo Albums. Rita Traveled To Nashville And The Studio Of Keb' Mo' To Write, With Singer-songwriter Jill Colucci, Two Of The Album's Most Intimate Songs, walking On Water' And naked All Night.'

* 180 gram audiophile vinyl
* Including insert

The American Jazz, Soul And Folk Guitarist Terry Callier Released His Fifth Studio Album In 1978. On The Album, Callier Delivers Nine Songs With His Usual Combination Of Thoughtfulness, Emotion And Passion. His Powerful Lyrics And Effective Music Plays A Huge Part In The Nine Songs Which This Albums Consist About. Terry Was Joined On The Album By A Number Of Well-known Artists, Including Minnie Riperton, Cynthia Wright, Eddie Harris And Larry Wade. All Of Them Play Their Part In Helping Terry Make This Such An Attractive Album. His Deep Chicago Soul Is Influenced By The Coming Years Of Disco Music. His Most Stunning Tracks Are The Poetic "african Violet" And The Phenomenally Written "martin St. Martin".

After Terry Callier's Rediscovery During The Early 90's He Gained The Recognition He Deserved As A Musician. During His Lifetime, He Died In 2012, He Recorded Spiritual Music Influenced By The Folk And Jazz Of The '60s And '70s. From The '90s On He Recorded A Couple Of New And Successful Albums.

Jerry Garcia created an unparalleled legacy across the American landscape, most notably in his role as a founding member, singer, songwriter and lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead. Jerry's unmistakable guitar tone enchanted multitudes of "Deadheads" throughout the band's 30-year career and beyond. The prolific nature of Garcia is evident in the breadth of albums he released throughout his iconic musical career which in addition to the Dead included work with the Jerry Garcia Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Old and in the Way, Legion of Mary, Garcia/Grisman, projects with Merl Saunders and as a solo artist. Considering Jerry was the most recorded musician of all time, there's always some overlooked gem just waiting to be discovered.

Originally issued in 1982, Run for the Roses is Garcia's fourth and final solo studio album. Produced by Garcia and John Kahn, it features several new Garcia/Robert Hunter originals, including the album's extraordinary title track, "Midnight Getaway" and "Valerie," plus choice covers Bob Dylan ("Knockin' on Heaven's Door") and The Beatles ("I Saw Her Standing There"). Recorded at the Grateful Dead's Club Front studio and Devonshire Studios in Los Angeles, Garcia and Kahn were joined on the sessions by organists Merl Saunders and Melvin Seals, pianists Jimmy Warren and Michael O'Martian, drummer Ron Tutt, horn player Roger Neuman, and vocalists Liz Stires and Julie Stafford. The album's artwork was created by legendary psychedelic visual artist Victor Moscoso.

Ronson was much, much more than just Ziggy's guitarist. A natural and bold musician, his contribution to rock throughout the Seventies and onwards is only recently being fully acknowledged, the film and its diverse, dynamic soundtrack playing a major part in this overdue reappraisal!


The Soundtrack -
* First official career encompassing compilation for the guitar virtuoso.
* As well as key tracks from Ronson's solo records, the compilation includes material from his key collaborations with David Bowie, Elton John, Ian Hunter, Queen & Michael Chapman.
* Also includes a previously unreleased cover version of 'This Is For You' by Def Leppard's Joe Elliott.
* Rounding out the tracklist is a piano tribute to Mick Ronson from David Bowie's piano-man & band alumni Mike Garson.
* The soundtrack is available on CD & LP, includes extensive essay & liner notes.
* Exclusive limited edition coloured vinyl pressing coming as a D2C & Retail exclusive.
The Film -

* Also coming June 8th, the home-video DVD & Blu-Ray release of the acclaimed documentary film BESIDE BOWIE: THE MICK RONSON STORY from producer/director Jon Brewer.
* Music icon David Bowie narrates this unprecedented celebration of the life and works of guitar virtuoso Mick Ronson - a rock hero virtually unknown despite his direct contribution and involvement in countless compositions, lyrics and recordings that changed the face of music forever.
* His humble beginnings in Hull, England underpinned the values and modest, unpretentious personality of Mick Ronson, who worked with the city's council while he pursued his craft with consummate dedication. Soon word of his talent reached David Bowie, who grabbed at the chance to work with Ronson, in what would become a career-long association, alongside collaborations with other greats such as Bob Dylan, Ian Hunter, Lulu and Lou Reed.
* Sadly in 1993, while working on a solo album, Ronson passed away before receiving the recognition he so richly deserved or before taking that final bow. Now, with unprecedented access to archival backstage footage - never before released - and iconic imagery from superstar photographer Mick Rock, this fascinating and at times controversial special reveals the ultimate authentic chronicle of the career of a cornerstone of rock.
* The DVD & Blu-Ray release of the documentary includes exclusive bonus material.
* The DVD & Blu-Ray release is cleared for UMG World ex. US & Canada.
* The broadcast & theatrical rights are being worked externally of UMG, with Amazon Prime & Netflix deals already secured.

With this new work Maurizio Abate recovers the discourse started with Loneliness, Desire and Revenge (2016) but with a different narrative sensitivity. The symbolic air that you breathe suggests a personal and universal experience in which thoughts and perceptions remain as enveloped in an eternal cosmic wheel. It's a condition that flows sincerely into an emphatic introspection and identification between the stasis of an inner soul and the flowing vitality of stagnant aquatic landscapes. In this direction the music of Abate always condenses multiple ranges of different emotional spectra evoked by profound naturalistic references. The airy openings of the strings, the distant whispers of the harmonica, cascades of phrasings more calm or more torrential can lead into the magnificent climax of the Nostalgia. The string arrangement for violin and cello by Lucia Gasti introduces in a dimension of idyll, in elegiac passages of touching poetry almost of chamber music but at the same time wet by the pastoral and bucolic moods of autumn landscapes, they are paintings imbued with different flavors and colours that recall the light and the candor of the Venetian tonalisms or the moving paintings full of meaning of Tarkoski. In the darkest and saddest moments the open chords are like suspensions of unresolved questions and torments, but the cathartic finale with a free and minimalist piano prelude to possible future glares, almost to perceiving that even where there's stasis the sun can still shine the hope for the new on the clearing of the pond. Remains the feeling with that stylistic "freedom of expression" dear to the visionaries Fahey and Basho, but also a clear interpretation of the expressive possibility of the lead guitar, absolutely lyrical and contemporary for refinement of the crystalline sound, which places this work in parallel with the basic acoustic tests of others great like Jim O'Rourke, Jack Rose or James Blackshaw.

Optimo Music is thrilled to release the new album from Jacob Yates. Not only is he one of our all-time favourite artists from Glasgow, but he is one of our favourite artists from anywhere. Criminally unknown except to a few who have been long transfixed by his recordings and performances, we hope this release will open a few more ears to his wondrous musical world.

The Hare, The Moon, The Drone' is the third album from Jacob Yates. This recording finds the band exploring dark hawthorn hedged lanes, moors and suburban, new build estates. There's something more earthy about the songs but the menace and darkness remains. Musically there is a big shift on this album, a field recording of a folk band from a dark, pine filled glen. The opener, The Car sets the scene for the rural side of the album, dank and stone cold. The tracks then shift through the woods, people turn into animals, we pass a sunlit glade, do you hear a love song Cassie Ezeji closes the side sweetly lamenting in Gaelic as the snow falls.

Side two is a more urban affair opening with despair in a bedroom in Belgium, we visit a faith healer and drop in on your lonely mother. Lovatt recounts the story of a karaoke addicted murderer before we finally go home to our new build just outside of town where the pylons tower over Michael and his sister Rachel. It's a journey you can go on, looking out of the window of the bus, glimpses of lives glide by, cards on seats promise to help you. Ding! It's time to get off.

Long Island's AIR only made one album. As solitary statements go, it's exceptional. Divinely elevated by Googie Coppola's beautiful voice, this transcendent masterpiece of soulful jazz-rock fusion has become increasingly tricky to track down. 45 years on from its initial release, Be With Records finally make it available again on vinyl.

The highlights are many and memorable. From the irresistible groove of "Mr. Man" to the heavenly piano vocal of "Jail Cell", from the funk-fuelled brass breaks in "Man Is Free" to the haunting, unforgettable "Sister Bessie", it is easy to understand why this record has been long revered amongst aficionados.

Yet the entire record is without weakness and, therefore, selecting standout tracks seems redundant. If ever there was an album to surrender to in full, this is it. A perfect blend of rock and jazz, the record's greatest asset is surely Googie's uniquely expressive voice - the like of which we'll never hear again.

Much like the music contained within, the original jacket was a thing of total beauty, presented as a lavish gatefold with a distinctive die-cut logo on the front flap. Accordingly, in keeping with the quality of all Be With reissues, this has been painstakingly recreated, along with the original liner notes. Sonically, Simon Francis' dextrous mastering adds real clarity and muscle throughout and, as ever, it has been pressed at a reassuringly weighty 180g.

Treasured by 'selector' luminaries such as Jeremy Underground, MCDE, Floating Points and Hunee, this startling record is beloved by everyone who has heard it. Buying the original - if you can find it - would set you back a small fortune so Be With's latest archival release is one that is already being warmly welcomed from all corners of the global record-buying community.

'It seems great opportunities come in blessings as well as tragedies' Kacey Johansing sings on the title track of her third album, 'The Hiding'. After the breakup of her band Yesway, and an abrupt falling out with her closest musical collaborator, Johansing set out to record a new batch of songs that resulted from the sea change in which she had now found herself. Instead of drawing from her regular band, Johansing pulled from a wider cast of players that she'd come to know in the community of musicians throughout California and the West Coast. The resulting sound is one based wholly and unabashedly in pop. Nods to Christine McVie and Fleetwood Mac can be heard, but Johansing brings these sounds to a modern stage, blending her ethereal vocals with effervescent synthesiser washes and reverberating open-tuned guitar.

Recorded at Panoramic House in Stinson Beach, where Kacey worked as caretaker, as well as at home in Bolinas, on a ridge above the cloud layer in Big Sur, and at a friend's studio in Portland, the album also serves as a document of Kacey's time spent traveling in search of the sound she was after. After finishing initial tracking, and still reeling from the heartbreak of losing her musical community, Johansing found a necessary move was in order. Landing somewhat-blindly in Los Angeles, she continued to work on the album and hold it close. The end result is 'The Hiding', a tone poem about loss, growth and 'leaving the insular beauty of a tight-knit community,' as Johansing describes it. The release of 'The Hiding' comes at a time when Johansing is deeply longing to emerge from her extended absence and reconnect with her desire to create and share her music.

Kacey Johansing was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and raised in the mountain towns of Colorado. After leaving Berklee College of Music in Boston, Johansing relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she spent a decade creating a community of musicians, artists and filmmakers, co-founded the duo Yesway, and released two solo albums. She has toured internationally and shared the stage with such acts as Kings of Convenience, Angel Olsen, Chris Cohen and Little Wings, and has collaborated with members of My Morning Jacket, Real Estate, Fruit Bats and The Range of Light Wilderness. Johansing lives and works in Los Angeles.

Die Americana Lieblinge Birds of Chicago nahmen Love in Wartime in einer Zeit von politischer Spaltung und Bedrohung auf. Heraus kam eine Rock'n'soul Suite unter dem Einfluss der Musik von Künstlern der 60er und 70er Jahre.
Produziert von Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars)

Singer/Songwriters I'm Kingfisher , aka Thomas Jonsson kehrt im April mit seinem neuen Album Transit zurück, welches von dem neu gegründeten Fading Trails Recordings Label herausgegeben
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Durch vorherige Unterstützung von internationalen Publikationen wie Uncut, sowie durch die Hilfe von Ryley Walker, Richmond Fontaine und vielen mehr wurde I'm Kingfisher zu einem der gefeiertsten skandinavischen Künstlern in seinem Genre neben The Tallest Man on Earth, First Aid Kid und Daniel Norgren.
Transit ist seine bislang beste und intensivste Darbietung.

Psych-Folk album of the 21st Century... for the first time on Vinyl (contains CD).
Limited edition of 400 copies.
Originally released on CD format in 2007.
If you like Incredible String Band, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci... from Wales: Soft Hearted Scientists.

Reissue of the rare 70's folk-jazz record from Toronto based artist Beverly Glenn-Copeland previously released on the Canadian GRT imprint. Comes in a heavy tip-on sleeve. More info soon.

After the release of his self-titled debut in 1962, Dylan spent the rest of that year and 1963 working on songwriting demos of his various publishing company clients. This wonderful LP compiles the best songwriting demos from that fruitful period. Along with early versions of stone cold classics like "Masters Of War", "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright", and "The Times They Are-A-Changin'" this collection of a young Dylan at the start of his brilliant half-century plus career also includes long-forgotten beautiful obscurities like "All Over You", and "Walkin' Down The Line". Essential early demos from America's greatest 20th century songwriter.

Alone in the world, we find ourselves. Inside ourselves, we find something to share with the world.

The Essential John Moods, a solo album in all senses of the word, is what Jonathan Jarzyna of Fenster found in himself during a summer spent hiking along the Iberian coast, and he now wants to share it with you. A mini-guitar on his back and a copy of GarageBand on his phone allowed Jarzyna to record songs each evening as he arrived in a new town after a long day traveling by foot. (He did, admittedly, add live drum tracks and some additional instrumentation back in Berlin.) The album preserves this peripatetic feeling, each song relating to the next as one city or village relates to its neighbor, its unique situation contrasting with the shared architectural vernacular. Blipping instrumental interludes ( Trainride,' Pontevedra,' Coastal Way') even capture the disordered, delirious feeling of transit hubs and the sleep-bleared mystery of waking on an unfamiliar road.

I just came alive completely' are the first words Jarzyna murmurs on New Spring,' invoking the spirit of the album. He speaks not of the liveliness of manic activity, but the heightened, tender sensitivity of presence. It's a fullness of living captured by the transition from the lush, jangling groove of The Weight' to the spacious contemplation of Pawns.' The dreamy echo of the 60s' and 70s' soft rock and folk troubadours suffuses the album, and the organ-soaked Where In The World' even has a psychedelic tinge. But the overall effect is quite contemporary, from the back-of-the-nightbus lounge funk of Take It Home' (featuring an amazing turn from arch-crooner Sean Nicholas Savage) to the mournful cupboard jazz of Almost Gone.' Dark Wall' sounds like a honkytonk ramble alongside a robot tentatively learning to play lap steel. Leap of Love,' an early album highlight, passes over the listener in shimmering waves, a love song which remains a mystery even to its creator.

In the meditation tape coda Relax Your Foot,' Jarzyna selects the perfect sample to encapsulate The Essential John Moods' hopeful receptivity: the late Professor Carl Sagan reminding us that despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.'

Under The Yew Possessed is the debut album by Sorrow, a group comprised primarily by Rose McDowall and her then husband Robert Lee. Originally released on World Serpent in 1993, Under The Yew Possessed was a stylistic jump from an artist associated primarily with sparkling pop music and a cult hit in the growing neo-folk movement. Self-recorded by the duo with guest musicians from the hidden reverse of the U.K.'s post industrial landscape, this is the first time this work has been available on vinyl. 500 copies GOLD VINY

15 dead, 15 funerals, 16 funeral processions, 1 procession with no dead, 5 churches, 1 cemetery, 1 wake. 15 hours of recorded sounds are condensed into a vivid sound portrait depicting the way funerals and burials are lived in the Caribbean island of Haiti.

Recorded in Port au Prince by sound artist Félix Blume in early December 2016, Death in Haiti plunges the listener into a world of pain, loss and solemn celebration as each funeral comprises of its own live jazz band as well as a plethora of characters like the joker (le blaguer) who cracks jokes and tales about the recently deceased.

A beautiful document of a thriving tradition, a counterpart or updated version of those famous Dirge Jazz records such as the New Orleans' Eureka Brass Band on Folkways.

- Lost psychedelic folk classic
- Recorded in August 1970
- First ever reissue
- Super-thick gatefold sleeve
- 16pp booklet
- Rare photos
- Detailed band history
- Bonus flier
- Licensed from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Despite having completed their debut for Columbia just weeks earlier, in August 1970 Cedric Smith, Richard Keelan, Michael Butler and other Conspirators recorded another album, exclusively for Canadian radio broadcast. For it they'd assembled a fine batch of new material, as well as striking arrangements of songs by Bob Dylan, Donovan and Smokey Robinson. Warm, atmospheric, and slightly mystical, it's re-issued on LP for the first time here, together with a large-format booklet including a detailed group history and previously unseen images. It also comes with a reproduction of a vintage flier.