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lp 2011/1969 new Araujo is a Jovem Guarda singer who switched styles frequently enough that he had time to run down a side road into a whole album of uptempo shakin R&B. Gritty Otis Redding-style... |
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lp 2010/1966 new Bossa's answer to Sarah Vaughan, with an exacting intonation, control over vocal color & intricate sense of rhythm. As a child she trained to be a classical pianist, but gave it up... |
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2cd 2012/1998/1994-96 new Friend, the stars are always falling on Alaburma, and blood & mud are still the only truths to tell. Plenty of all of that on this thick-ass slab, wherein the... |
Abduction |
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cd 2011/2005-11 new If you haven't been waiting for the next message from Al. B- & waiting like you're crouched behind a tomb and the shuffling noises won't go away- then I warn you little one,... |
Abduction |
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cd 2006/1994/1981-9 new One-eyed pirate attacks on a guitar with six extra holes in it recorded onto a shitty cassette recorder hanging from a rope in the middle of an old shed. A few breaks for... |
Abduction |
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lp 2009/1973 new Interminable hippie from Buenos Aires. Pals with a lot of the 60s musicians around town but not one himself, Abuelo met a record producer, & bluffed that he had his own band. It... |
Abuelo |
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cd 2012/1975 new Ghanian forerunner of hiplife (highlife + hip hop + dancehall), which is just another way of saying that Ambolley is commonly known as the first guy in West Africa to flat out talk... |
Academy/Voodoo Funk |
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cd 2011/2010 new Beirut-based trio of trumpet, bass & acoustic guitar, but they mostly sound like helicopters trying to break out of a cage, or doves having an ugly argument. Lots of threatening... |
Al Maslakh |
$16.00
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cd 2006 new Moody floating laptop drones and blackened tape murk from Washington state. Tracklisting: Standing, Panterns, Cavern. |
Audiobot |
$6.50
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cd 2010/1968-69 new Jap band that plays hard but simple 'tardo bar blues suddenly crimps itself into a flash fire of blister-riddled psych with the vocalist acting as fuzz bomber by singing through... |
Bamboo |
$16.00
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8cd 2012/1979-95 new After a short career in Chicago's hard bop scene, Abrams founded the AACM, playing with Anthony Braxton, members of the Art Ensemble, Marion Brown, etc. He moved to New York in... |
Black Saint/Soul Note |
$48.00
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lp 2007/1969 new Dorothy grew up in Detroit & discovered the harp in highschool, using it to play be-bop (!) around town. As the fad for trippy sounds hit the mainstream in the late 60s, Ashby... |
Cadet |
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lp 2011/1970 new Inviting hippie cash-in that boasts jazzfunk grooves played by electric harp, koto, vibes, kalimba, flute, oboe & more. Dot wrote the lyrics based on the 1859 Edward Fitzgerald... |
Cadet |
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cd+dvd+7 inch 2001/1998/1977 new LAFMS' first businessman & label-owner Joe Potts decided during the late 70s that he needed a project that was meant to deliver subliminal messages. His basic idea... |
Cortical Foundation |
$30.00
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cdr 2011/1978 new Buchla 200 pieces made for dancers & at the Columbia Princeton Electronic music studio when the means to make this kind of oscillator gorp was very new & clunky. The dance piece was... |
Creel Pone |
$10.00
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cdr 2005/1955 new Short (it was a ten inch originally) musique concrete parable for children in french. Weird sound effects, stultifying delivery. My french isn't great, but the story is by Rudyard... |
Creel Pone |
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cd 2004/1978-79 new Live in SF just a few shows before they broke up, at a club that was way too polite for a real punk show. Penelope Houston was the real deal, and you can still hear the jumble of... |
DBK |
$17.00
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lp 2010/1957 new Laid back & arpeggiated piano with lots of old timey class, plus a little bit of R&B singing that's slow & so, so smooth. Very Charles Brown meets King Cole, touch of barrelhouse as... |
Doxy |
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lp 2011/1984 new Tender plinking on 10 string ukulele & harpsichord. Every chord is arpeggiated across a constant stream of eighth notes, so that you slip along a fanciful river of lonesome. Askew... |
Drag City |
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cd 2004/1984 new The second I heard this, it became one of my favorite releases of the year, and I'm completely stoked to have it back around after several months of unavailability. Fried and... |
EM |
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2cd 2006/1974-2004 new Mostly early 70s afro-freedom big band by the guy from the legendary Pyramids. A bunch from their best album ("Birth Speed Merging") and even some unreleased material. Unlike... |
EM |
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cd 2008/1965 new Albert Ayler is pretty much the Plato of experimental jazz- sometimes it seems like everything else is just a footnote in his story. A rollercoaster of raw energy, tears of sax that... |
ESP |
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cd 2005/1964 new The visceral clarion call for the entire world of free jazz, and still one of it's clearest expressions. Ayler's tone is so rough & vibrato so wide that most of the time it sounds... |
ESP |
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lp 2007/1971 new Absolutely top shelf Santana rip off with hot dark fuzz wailing all over the place, interspersed with a few echoed-out bits of hash-fried CSNY. English lyrics with heavy Peruvian... |
GDR |
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lp 2009/1978 new ATV could've been a slightly darker answer to the Buzzcocks, but almost immediately they began to implode under the headstrong cantankerousness that made them want to hang out with... |
Get Back |
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cd 2012/2011-12 new Mattias Gustaffsson works out of a little town in Sweden, & his reel-to-reel collages are appropriately solitary & haunted. Wind blowing on a mic or droning electronics are the... |
Hasten & Korset |
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cd 2012/1987 new Atlanta Coltrane-worshippers who have somehow not figured out that they traveled forward 20 years in a time machine to 1987. They're at their best when they're taking it slow rather... |
Jazzman |
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lp 2011/1964 new 2nd session, and his 1st in NYC after coming home from Copenhagen. Cecil Taylor's rhythm section (Sunny Murray and Henry Grimes) plus a couple of Clevelanders on trumpet & a 2nd... |
Klimt |
$21.00
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lp 2011/1969 new Slobbering, slugging UK fuzz bombs that you could easily pass off as being by the Groundhogs, and on the comedown cuts there's some acid-drenched Phantom of the Opera organ. Resume... |
Klimt |
$23.00
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cd 2009/2006 new Recorded alone in a cabin, but the result is closer to Sic Alps' burned & buried pop than anything you'd associate with going blind from too much moonshine. Fuzzed out, but light... |
Locust |
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2cd 2010 new Ashley and Jacqueline Humbert mumble bits of stories that have been chopped up & re-ordered so that you have to put the plot back together like a puzzle. One is about a long moment &... |
Lovely |
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cd 2013/1976 new Credible, tasteful mix of West Coast influences, and therefore greatly beloved by Acid Archives & seemingly every record collector over the age of 50. Same sorts of vocal harmonies... |
Machu Picchu |
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lp 2008/1968 new Simple but poppy Mamas & Papas light psych that occasionally spotlights a Grace Slick style female singer. Band was from Massachuetts (Newton, I think) & there's a Tim Hardin cover.... |
Mainstream |
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cd 1993 new Keith Rowe, John Tilbury, Eddie Prevost. One of the great AMM records, probably my favorite besides the 'Yellow Truck'. Considering it was made after the band had been around for 25... |
Matchless |
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cd 2008 new Even after 40 years, AMM is so subtle it makes other improvised records seem like they were put together with jackhammers. Never just a drone, never just chirping, but curling waves of... |
Matchless |
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cd 2012 new As usual, Ambarchi puts on a new hat. Supertaut moog-bass & ticky trap drums make for a long one-note-riff that is hypnotic & krautrocky but oddly slick. Almost the entire record is taken... |
Mego |
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cd 2012/1971 new Manuel Gotsching & Klaus Schulze (who'd already done time in Tangerine Dream) discover the floating power of the chord that never moves. Their 1st, best, & most cosmically melted.... |
MG Art |
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cd 2012/1973 new Klaus Schulze rejoins the band after a spell with a solo career, and impressively it's his drums rather than his famed EMS synthi that make this one the krautrockinest of all their... |
MG Art |
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cd 2011/2002-11 new About ten years ago, Rudiger Carl & Oliver Augst put out an FMP record ('Blank', with Christoph Korn) which is one of my top faves on the label, even if it's an extrememly late... |
Mille Plateaux |
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lp 2005/1990/1958-63 new Nick Tosches is a smarter guy than me, and as he says, the Haze is as essential as toilet paper. The one & only one-man rockabilly band, with truly sick homemade guitar... |
Norton |
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cd 2007/1973 new Large, horn heavy funk ensemble from Indiana that was born when two earlier bands merged. Starts off in an Earth Wind & Fire mode (and that trumpet is wayyyy too high in the mix,... |
Now Again |
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cd 2012/1973-77 new Heavy psych from India, by one of the precious few groups to form outside of the Bollywood film industry. Compilation that switches uneasily between both of the band's very... |
Now Again |
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2lp 2010/1982 new The French answer to the Young Marble Giants or Y Pants. Frilly, cool-hearted girls with rudimentary drum machines that pop & pitz out compressed clicks. Leader Isabella Powaga also... |
Numero |
$21.00
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cd 2008/1994-95 new Contemporary Japanese sound poet Adachi plays electronics, builds his own instruments, runs a punk acapella choir (which is quite a bit better than that sounds), and seems to be... |
Omega Point |
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cd 1998/1974-76 new Bedbug snortin' crazy 70s free jazz from Kansas City, led by Dwight Frizzell on sax & clarinet. Unequaled in the history of album concepts, in that it's supposed to evince the... |
Paradigm Discs |
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cd 2008/1963-65 new The most perfectly squaretastic girl group song of all time is the twisted, soulless & chirpy 'Dumbhead'. How many hours have I spent staring in happy awe at Ginny's frozen fake... |
Poker |
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lp 2010/1958 new Dot went to the same high school as Kenny Burell & Donald Byrd, had her own radio show & put on plays in Detroit with her husband/drummer. She's probably best known as a much-sampled... |
Prestige |
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cd 2013/1970 new Couple of UK guys were in a heavy rock band, and whenever they broke down & did their metal ballad, the crowd would go wild. So they quit & decided to just do acoustic songs instead.... |
Prog Temple |
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cd 2008/1975 new Lots of African psych doesn't blend influences so much as it stacks up strikingly different ones next to each other, but this one's a fascinating missing link. Cream-type rhythm... |
QDK |
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2 cd set 2006/1968-71 new Spanish easy listening soundtrack composer who nearly won Eurovision a few times, and is the spitting image of Peter Sellers. By our ears anyhow, his best album would be "Mi... |
Rama Lama |
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