Forced Exposure Store Update

FORCED EXPOSURE STORE UPDATE

NEW RELEASES FOR THE WEEK OF 09/11/2017

first section features releases in stock now and ready to be shipped as of MON 09/11/2017

second section features forthcoming releases; release dates are given for reference, but can be approximate, depending on the label

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KOSEMURA, AKIRA: In The Dark Woods LP (SCH 051LP)

LP version. Akira Kosemura's In The Dark Woods combines the electronic and acoustic sounds of piano, Wurlitzer, and synthesizer with a string quartet, similar to the music heard on his previous improvisational solo piano work One Day from 2016. As indicated in the title, the entire album is filled with an obscure darkness and a world of misty sounds ever to be feared of, like a comfortable quietness in the dark where a child in the womb is hearing a mother's heartbeat. As the music goes on, it gradually begins to widen an introspective worldview. The combined sounds of repeated phrases, as seen in minimal music, a sophisticated crossover sound between acoustics and electronics, and an improvisational solo piano present a worldview suggestive of a broader theme, such as the circulation of life or the law of nature. The highlights on the album, "In The Dark Woods" and its variations "Letter From A Distance", will leave listeners with deep emotions and afterglow. In The Dark Woods is released by 1631 Recordings and Schole Records.

$18.99 EAN: 7340149002118 ELECTRONIC

01. DNA
02. Resonance
03. Between The Trees
04. Sphere
05. Kaleidoscope Of Happiness
06. Inside River #1
07. Inside River #2
08. Shadow
09. Dedicated To Laura Palmer
10. Moving
11. Snowy Sky
12. Spark
13. Innocence
14. The Cycle Of Nature
15. Stillness Of The Holy Place
16. In The Dark Woods
17. Letter From A Distance

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TRICKFINGER: Trickfinger II CD (AT 007CD)

The Trickfinger project was recorded ten years ago with no intention of being released at the time, made purely for discovery and learning experience. John Frusciante on the project: "In my opinion, making music with no intention of releasing it is the best thing a musician can do for his own development in this day and age. The Trickfinger LP (AT 005CD/LP, 2015) was made in that mindset, and it was the beginning of a new musical life for me. When I hear it, it sounds like I am opening up doorways to new worlds, and I never have had that feeling listening to music I made for the purpose of releasing it and selling it." All the music was recorded live onto a CD burner, through a cheap mixer. John would sit on a chair, in his living room, surrounded by five to fifteen machines, and just keep programming and jamming until the track was ready to be recorded. There were no overdubs; it was recorded live. Acid Test unearthed these recordings and John agreed to have them released. Trickfinger II is the second part of recordings made during the winter of 2007.

$9.79 EAN: 4260038319307 ELECTRONIC

01. Shift Sync
02. Ruche
03. Exclam
04. Hasan
05. Cuh
06. Stall

TRICKFINGER: Trickfinger II LP (AT 007LP)

LP version. The Trickfinger project was recorded ten years ago with no intention of being released at the time, made purely for discovery and learning experience. John Frusciante on the project: "In my opinion, making music with no intention of releasing it is the best thing a musician can do for his own development in this day and age. The Trickfinger LP (AT 005CD/LP, 2015) was made in that mindset, and it was the beginning of a new musical life for me. When I hear it, it sounds like I am opening up doorways to new worlds, and I never have had that feeling listening to music I made for the purpose of releasing it and selling it." All the music was recorded live onto a CD burner, through a cheap mixer. John would sit on a chair, in his living room, surrounded by five to fifteen machines, and just keep programming and jamming until the track was ready to be recorded. There were no overdubs; it was recorded live. Acid Test unearthed these recordings and John agreed to have them released. Trickfinger II is the second part of recordings made during the winter of 2007.

$15.79 EAN: 4260038319314 ELECTRONIC

01. Shift Sync
02. Ruche
03. Exclam
04. Hasan
05. Cuh
06. Stall

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TWO ANOTHER: Two 12" (ADX 013EP)

Two Another present Two. "Silky and smooth, wrapped up in '90s R&B influences, Two Another add some warmth to their expanding midnight-soul sound on their latest release" -- Line of Best Fit. Pigeons and Planes on Two Another EP (ADX 008EP, 2016): "... the perfect soundtrack for a daydream or a cool spring evening." "The project's second EP is incoming, with Two Another recently sharing twinkling new cut 'Aiming Up'. Spectral production matched to a haunted atmosphere, it's a quietly over-powering return." --Clash Magazine

$8.39 UPC: N/A ELECTRONIC

A1. The World Demands It
A2. Aiming Up
B1. Over My Shoulder
B2. Waiting On You

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PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE: The Lower Depths 3CD (NMN 151CD)

Alga Marghen introduce a historical event, the publication of The Lower Depths, a three-CD set of previously unreleased unique piano sonorities by Charlemagne Palestine. In 1977, Charlemagne Palestine was regularly performing in his red and gold loft on North Moore Street in Tribeca, down the street from Magoos bar where all the local artists hung out back then. He was working on a trilogy called The Lower Depths, a work conceived during the crucial moment when he experienced one of the peaks of his creative power. The trilogy takes its name from the potentials of his Bösendorfer weapon which had lower notes than any other piano. The first section starts in the middle of the piano keyboard and the second section two octaves below, while the third section arrives till the very bottom of the instrument. It's a deep, thunderous, rumbling world that we experience. An extreme immersion in the depths of the dark side of strumming music. The Lower Depths is a central work within the history of musical minimalism, stretching and expanding what is understood and expected of an already singular voice. Edition of 300 (numbered).

$38.40 UPC: 769791715127 CLASSICAL

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TENNISCOATS: Music Exists Disc 3 LP (N 060LP)

The third release in Alien Transistor and Tokyo-based label Afterhours' series of four vinyl-only releases documenting the Tenniscoats' four part masterpiece, Music Exists. Disc 3 was originally released on CD in 2016. Disc 3 reunites the couple with their old friends and colleagues, the Swedish musicians from Tape, and sees them concentrate once more on their very own language of making music, offering another collection of essential Tenniscoats songs. Tenniscoats have devoted followers all over the world, but their releases were always hard to find outside of Japan. Except for their album Tokinouta (2011), which saw a very limited run on vinyl, and the seminal Two Sunsets, their collaboration with the Pastels (and a small handful of 7"s), there were never any vinyl-releases, and also the CDs were hard to get for anyone who doesn't speak or read Japanese. In their 20 years, the band has collaborated with the Pastels, Jad Fair, Norman Blake, and others. This set of vinyl releases provides a chance to dive deep into the beautiful, unique world of the Tenniscoats and their opus magnum Music Exists. "It may even be their greatest ever music, essential plus" --Monorail Music, Glasgow. "Whatever's ailing you, Tokyo's Tenniscoats have got something for that" --Boomkat, Manchester. The eventual Disc 4 release will come with a limited box, either for putting the other previously purchased three records in, or as a glorious four-LP package. Includes a double-sided fold-out insert.

$12.99 UPC: 880918228198 ROCK

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LOW LIFE: Dogging LP (ALT 036LP)

Dogging crawled into the world desperately and painfully. Originally slated for release on Brisbane's singular Negative Guest List Records in 2012, the label's owner sadly passed away before it got there. It eventually emerged two years later as a split between two labels from the band's home turf of Sydney, Disinfect Records and R.I.P. Society. It's fitting that the latter had reissued Venom P. Stinger's Dugald McKenzie-era material the year prior -- arguably the only other Australian band that compares to the tough, shit-kicking intensity found on Dogging. Comprised of Mitch Tolman, Cristian O'Sullivan, and Greg Alfaro at this point (the current 2017 line-up includes Dizzy from Oily Boys), the reckless ferocity and defeatist's humor is pointedly nihilistic. It's not kitsch nihilism either, it's the kind that enlivens. Indexing happiness, fear, lust, grief, and sorrow, the wry indulgences outlined in Tolman's coded and scheming lyrics amount to white-knuckle sincerity. It's disarming, but it's blunted by a weighty smirk. If all this weren't delivered through a sardonic curled lip, the violence at the edge of it all would perhaps come off a little less real. There's a bitterly angry confrontation with the contemporary Australian psyche once you enter Low Life's estate. Thugged-out and at pace, there's a genuine rush to Dogging. The mindless logic of "harder and faster" could never get you to where they were at this point. Even at the marginally calmer moments, the guitars glance you like a headache revealing just how bad it is. There's no respite, but on the whole, it's a very functional arrangement between the three of them. Each song is belted out with a short, sharp fit, with some synthesizers occasionally glistening out at the edges. The restraint is all the more fierce as it amplifies everything that's fucked about them. Low Life pull you through it all on all their terms, and that impact feels as untimely and excessive now as it did then.

$12.39 UPC: 724190342091 ROCK

01. Dogging
02. Hammertime
03. Speed Ball
04. Down At The Dogs
05. DNA
06. Dream Machine
07. Emmie
08. Friends

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LOFT: Heffalump/I Am Bouyant 12" (APRWH 001EP)

Named by Resident Advisor as the number eight song of 2016, "Heffalump" introduced many to Loft's distinct push-pull approach, throwing listeners into a world of disarmingly charming melodic elements and a rhythmic quotient that brilliantly unfolds over the track's seven-minutes. "Heffalump" which makes its vinyl debut here, is backed by the equally jarring "I Am Bouyant", a hair-brained proto-jungle track that will be familiar to fans of Loft's all-originals mix work and his lauded live sets around the Manchester area. This is the Los Angeles label Astral Plane Records' debut on wax.

$9.79 EAN: 5055300394323 ELECTRONIC

01. Heffalump
02. I Am Bouyant

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FUNCTION: Recompiled I/II 2LP (ATON 002LP)

First part of a two-part Function retrospective from Ostgut Ton sublabel A-Ton. A mixture of released and previously unreleased tracks, including Function's remix of "Falling The Same Way" by Sandwell District and "Golden Dawn (feat. Stefanie Parnow) (Version)" by Function. "Once a cathedral, now a mall, Limelight was last in the line of Manhattan clubs whose lineage could be traced back to New York's fertile club era of the '70s and '80s, which included the East Village punk and no wave scenes, the Mudd Club, Danceteria and the Paradise Garage. It's connected to a storied New York history -- sometimes holy, sometimes notorious. . . . 'A lot of things that were worlds apart met in that deconsecrated Episcopal church,' recalls David Sumner. 'I used to practically live in that club, going two or three nights a week for years. I knew this was what I was going to do with the rest of my life.' In many ways Limelight was America's rave incubator. On a New Music Seminar night in July of 1992, the revolution was about to take hold. 'Walking in, I didn't know what was going on. Then I started to see xeroxed Underground Resistance 8 1/2 x 11s all around the club, like the kind of inserts that came inside their EPs,' Dave recalls. He would go on to see Mike Banks, Rob 'Noise' Hood, and Jeff Mills perform for an electrified crowd as UR. 'That night straight up changed my life.' . . . New York itself is a major influence for Dave, as is its history of clubs -- from discos and house music, to techno and raves. Think of Todd Terry's 1988 Black Riot record or Boyd Jarvis' 1983 release 'The Music Got Me' as milestones on this journey. 'It's a DJ's approach to music. I remember in the early '90s when the music was changing so rapidly and it felt so revolutionary, separating my records into piles and thinking "I need more of this -- there needs to be more of this kind of record."' It's passion that drives this story of a life in music, and it's a desire to blow your mind the same way his inspirations blew his. Function is always innovating and finding new ways to connect the dots, to continually pursue the art of storytelling through giant slabs of sound." --Brendan M. Gillen, Interdimensional Transmissions, Detroit, 2017

$18.99 UPC: 880319799310 ELECTRONIC

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SAIZ, HENRY: Balance Presents Natura Sonoris 2CD (BAL 021CD)

Spanish musical genius Henry Saiz provided one of Balance Music's most memorable efforts with Balance 019 (BAL 003CD, 2011), utilizing vinyl, cassette, reel-to-reel tapes, and over 100 field recordings to create an incredible patchwork of sounds. Saiz returns for Balance Presents Natura Sonoris, an expansive mix comprised completely of exclusives from his award-winning label. Saiz has used only exclusive and unreleased tracks from his label family, many specially commissioned for this continuous 140-minute mix. Upcoming releases get a debut airing; favorites get new reworks; and Saiz provides his own new productions. The ghosts of dark '80s electro-pop like Depeche Mode hover in the tortured vocals and dramatic mood of Saiz-penned opener "Lone Wolf". Muted chimes on Hal Incandenza's "Contacto" provide the perfect segue into the marimba arpeggios of Bufi's "Bird Song". Things take a global twist with the African and Latin rhythms and melodies of R.I.P. Bestia and Landikhan and deeper turns via A Friend Of Marcus and Saiz's shimmering remix of Damabiah. Joep Mencke's "Sonder" picks up the energy with its driving beats and strong melodies before Brassica gives the mix a more intense, direct edge, with healthy doses of breaks and acid over two remixes. The mix takes on a more chugging, energetic feel with Marc Marzenit's "The Walrus" and the detuned 8-bit melody madness of Victoria Rodriguez's "Moon On A Bright Day", followed by an ascent into euphoric melody with Brian Cid's "Luminous Black" and Saiz & Tentacle's synth-tastic "The Prophetess". The mellifluous vocals of Saiz's "The Light" get a gorgeous, piano-heavy update from bRUNA, contrasting with Saiz's remix of Sistema's "Entreé", a near-beatless interlude that again recalls '80s emotive melodies. The final third of the mix comprises largely of a masterclass in production from Saiz, such as the glistening chimes of his Petar Dundov collaboration and the warped hooks of his remix of NVBSL's "Woodhouse". It's punctuated by a brooding, sprawling epic from Voltaeric, with the intense sound design and deep atmospheres of Sandman, and closed with another mesmerizing trio of Saiz productions that culminates in the epic chug of "Spiricom (See You Soon)". Throughout, Saiz peppers the mix with samples from his own productions, layering them subtly with other tracks to great effect, ensuring this is a captivating listen that captures a range of moods. Also features: JMII, Tuff City Kids, NVSBL, Eduardo De La Calle, Cora Novoa, and Brynjolfur.

$12.39 EAN: 9340813702519 ELECTRONIC

1.01. Henry Saiz - Lone Wolf (A Reality Medley)
1.02. Hal Incandenza - Contacto
1.03. Bufi - Bird Song
1.04. R.I.P. Bestia - African Wedding Ceremony (JMII's Sagrada Familia Remix)
1.05. Landikhan - Veneno Mortal (R.I.P. Bestia Acid Antidote JP 8080)
1.06. A Friend Of Marcus - She Who Annihilates (Samples from Henry Saiz - Our Discovery)
1.07. Damabiah - Sur Les Genoux De L'Automne (Henry Saiz Remix)
1.08. Joep Mencke - Sonder
1.09. Tentacle - Goliath (Brassica Remix)
1.10. Henry Saiz - Secrets (Tuff City Kids Remix) + (Brassica Remix)
1.11. Marc Marzenit - The Walrus (Samples from Henry Saiz - The Nothing)
1.12. Victoria Rodriguez - Moon On A Bright Day
1.13. Brian Cid - Luminous Black (Samples from Hal Incandenza - Ventura)
1.14. Henry Saiz & Tentacle - The Prophetess

2.01. Henry Saiz & Tentacle - The Prophetess
2.02. Henry Saiz - The Light (bRUNA Remix 2017 Master)
2.03. Sistema - Entreé (Henry Saiz Remix)
2.04. Henry Saiz - Rave Flute (Samples from Henry Saiz - Moonlight Wolf)
2.05. Petar Dundov & Henry Saiz - Infinite Promises (Samples from Henry Saiz - Sleepwalk)
2.06. NVSBL - Woodhouse (Henry Saiz Remix)
2.07. Henry Saiz - Death Drive (Eduardo De La Calle Remix) + Henry Saiz - The Pendulum (Melody from Voltaeric - Sandman)
2.08. Henry Saiz & Cora Novoa - Golden Dawn (Brynjolfur Dream Mix)
2.09. Henry Saiz - September (Samples from Marc Marzenit - Track For The End)
2.10. Henry Saiz - Spiricom (See You Soon) (Hal Incandenza Remix)

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PIOULARD, BENOIT: Lignin Poise LP (BNSD 022LP)

After the sold-out cassette release of Stanza / Stanza II on Beacon Sound in 2015 (a co-release with Baro) and 2016's The Benoit Pioulard Listening Matter on Kranky, Seattle's Thomas Meluch returns with a brand new Benoit Pioulard album of ambient bliss. Floating on a plume of pure shoegaze, Lignin Poise conjures nature, specifically the waters and forests of the Cascadia bioregion, as ecstatic reverie. It is a work of deliberate renewal in a time of global tumult. A golden oasis of deep memory open to all seekers; hallucinogenic, like stumbling into one of the verdant. highly-oxygenated upper canyons of the Columbia River Gorge on a late spring morning, soaking in the warm humidity and cool mist. In Tom's own words: "I recorded this album during the fall and winter of last year, and it's thematically meant to trace a path through decay, death, and regeneration over the course of the tracks. My flat/studio is surrounded by deciduous trees (a huge deal for me especially since I live in the heart of the city) so those patterns were right in my face every day while I was recording. Lignin forms the support systems of vascular plants, so the title is intended to convey the posture and temporariness of life in full bloom."

$14.99 UPC: 769791967069 ELECTRONIC

A1. Hawk Moth Mirage
A2. &c.
A3. Same Time Next Year
A4. Vesperal
B1. On Form
B2. Rook
B3. Lignin Poise

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COLE & OREN AMBARCHI, CRYS: Hotel Record 2LP (BT 029LP)

Hotel Record is the second release from the duo/couple of crys cole and Oren Ambarchi, following on from Sonja Henies vei 31 (PLANAM 031LP, 2014). Where their debut recording presented a disquieting portrait of the erotic dimension of romantic intimacy, the follow-up continues to explore the pair's simultaneously musical and romantic relationship in a more subtle fashion, presenting four long-form pieces that touch on the variety of forms the life of this couple takes: as a musical duo, as a pair of travelers to exotic locations, as opponents in a game of cards... Each of the double LP's four sides presents a distinct sound-world, yet each manages to attain the same suspended, half-sleeping feeling, outlining a space where improbable combinations of the electronic and the acoustic, of extreme closeness and amorphous distance, occurring with the gentle insistence of a dream. The opening "Call Myself" calmly unfolds a fabric of long tones from electronic organ and guitar, combining the sliding, aleatoric effects of classic David Behrman with a more hands-on feel. Over the top of this slowly shifting tonal bed, cole's voice mutters unintelligibly into a Buchla synth, teasing the listener by suggesting a meaning that remains always out of the ear's reach. "Francis Debacle (Uno)" builds on the foundations of a heavily amplified session of the titular card game, overlaying vocal murmurs and exhalations and mysterious room-sounds to create an impossible aural environment. On "Burrata", a palette of vintage 1980s digital synthesizer sounds combined with guitars create an irregular texture of lush chords and bubbling melodic details, into which cole's voice processed by a vocoder, is interwoven, reading fragments of romantic correspondence. Finally, on "Pad Phet Gob", field recordings made in Thailand become an ambiguously acoustic/electronic rainforest, eventually giving way to a mysterious, wavering electronic tone-field punctuated by sibilant, popping mouth-sounds. Carving out an intimate and human sonic space across a diverse array of compositional approaches, sound sources, fidelities, and textures, Hotel Record is the latest dispatch from the continuing explorations of a unique duo. Ambarchi and cole reimagine electro-acoustic music, not simply as "abstract" sound, but as a diary, a love poem, a dream. Comes in deluxe gatefold sleeve with photography by crys cole and LP design via Stephen O'Malley; Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering.

$21.79 UPC: 880319855139 EXPERIMENTAL

Disc 1

Side A
01. Call Myself
Side B
02. Francis Debacle (Uno)

Disc 2

Side C
01. Burrata
Side D
02. Pad Phet Gob

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ALLIEN, ELLEN: Nost RMXS 1 12" (BPC 332EP)

Earlier in 2017, Ellen Allien dropped her seventh solo album, Nost (BPC 330CD/LP). The album provided a link between the past and the future, blending influences from the very early days of Berlin techno with contemporary sounds and, of course, a vision of the future. Now BPitch Control present the first batch of specially commissioned remixes, taking Ellen's original works in a new direction with four artists delivering their own interpretations of music featured on the album. Emmanuel Top, ROD, K-Hand, and Skudge are the first ensemble of techno titans to administer the remix treatment to tracks from Nost.

$8.39 UPC: 673790033482 ELECTRONIC

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NOYES/ALEXANDER, ROB: Rob Noyes/Alexander Split 7" (C-S 016EP)

Fresh off 2016's The Feudal Spirit LP on Poon Village (PV 010LP), Rob Noyes brings a breakneck-paced, attention-demanding number to his side. Noyes's style and finger work fills space with a density and heaviness that may harken back to his hardcore/punk roots. Alexander has been quietly amassing a catalog of cassettes over the years, many of which are reminiscent of Alan Bishop (as Alvarius B) in their homespun, improvisational style. On this split, Alexander eases into a coy and sentimental tune that unwinds across five-and-a-half minutes, his keen grasp of intricacy and minimalism cementing him as a top player.

$5.79 UPC: N/A ROCK

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CAHN, PABLO: Soul Rain 12" (CADENZA 113EP)

Colombian producer Pablo Cahn presents a long, attractive, dancefloor tune with an overwhelming bass line and a deluge of vocal grains that shape fills and breakdowns all over the track. As the journey goes further, a complex twist of harmonies and resonances arises. Paco Osuna's remix recaps all the rhythmic elements and shrinks the vocal drizzle, intertwining the relentless bassline and stinging hi-hats before a magnificent outbreak of the dense original chords.

$9.79 EAN: 4260544820540 ELECTRONIC

A1. Soul Rain (Original Mix)
B1. Soul Rain (Paco Osuna Remix)

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#/TAU - BORIS HEGENBART: First / Dew, The Hikuioto Selection LP (CO 001LP)

2013 release. Boris Hegenbart takes a dub-like approach to musique concrète. Rich contrasts, drawn between synthetic and recorded sounds, allow texture and space to flourish in place of melody. First / Dew branches away from the very beginnings of Hegenbart's [#/TAU] series. It takes his debut album, Hikuioto (a self-published CD released in 1996), and reimagines it on vinyl.

$12.99 UPC: 769791967410 ELECTRONIC

A1. Grounded
A2. Tripel
A3. Tacet
A4. Folded
A5. Drone
A6. Pond
B1. Musicforcicadas (Cut)

CAZAN, SCOTT: Swallow LP (CO 002LP)

2013 release. Scott Cazan's music is driven by a fascination in the fullness of sound as well as an interest in network and information theory. Like the writings of those who inspire him, such as Deleuze, Baudrillard, and Alexander Galloway, his work, for all its directness, has a dark and seductive aura. Swallow is an album that lingers at the borders between memory, ambience, and feedback.

$12.99 UPC: 769791967427 ELECTRONIC

A1. Swallow
B1 In Rooms
B2. Bodies

BUCHLA, EZRA: At The Door LP (CO 003LP)

2013 release. Henning Lahmann on Ezra Buchla's At The Door: "Ezra Buchla creates immersive, intricate, and at times overwhelming soundscapes carried by masterful viola and synth renditions, broken up only by his dark yet soft, almost hushed voice."

$12.99 UPC: 769791967434 ELECTRONIC

A1. A Cruel Man
A2. His Thirsts
A3. Hail Nothing
B1. Black Box

SABAT, MARC: Les Duresses LP (CO 004LP)

2014 release. Les Duresses emerges through a prism of speculative intonation. Marc Sabat uncovers an opening of tonal possibilities that he roots in an unfinished composition for solo violin by Morton Feldman. From its enigmatic notation and the conceptual tendencies expressed by Feldman, Sabat determines that the fragment is written in an alternate tonal space. Throughout Les Duresses, this space is given shape and consideration. Sabat draws on a sound world, not from Feldman, but like Feldman, that invites listeners to absorb themselves in longer durations where patterns can unfold. It comes from an imaginary American folk music, full of meandering, drifting, and at times, exuberance.

$12.99 UPC: 769791967441 ELECTRONIC

A1. Intonation After MF1
A2. Intonation After MF2
A3. Two Commas
B1. Duas Quintas
B2. Composition

DALT, LUCRECIA: Ou LP (CO 005LP)

2015 release. Along the arc of Lucrecia Dalt's music, beyond what steers her so allusively away from self-repetition, there is an undefinable forward inertia. What can explain, for instance, the near absence of her voice? Is it personal interest, renunciation, an embrace? Is she driven by a backdrop of conceptualism, or is this a lyrical wandering? What is known, for starters, is that she made Ou immersed in a cinema of her own, curatorial creation. Ou's filmic quality is a direct consequence of her turning her studio into a screening room for classic works of new German cinema, pulling influence from directors such as Helke Sander and Werner Schroeter. As she works, she absorbs, and Ou results from a conscious staging of this process. The impact can be felt both at the levels of surface and structure. While the sound quality reflects these evocative, multi-layered scenarios, the larger departure from any of her previous works is the album's spatial, mix-like composition, with each track being made up of several companion titles.

$12.99 UPC: 769791967458 ELECTRONIC

A1. Over Unity
a. Meontic Voice
b. Taquión)

A2. Iot
a. Roto
b. Quebrado
c. Suelto

B1. Floto
a. Diamagnet
b. Cae
c. Cathexis

B2. Eleanore

KIDDER, JIB: New Works For Realistic Mixer LP (CO 006LP)

2016 release. Following 2015's Teaspoon To The Ocean, Jib Kidder delivers an uncanny dance LP featuring no-input mixer sequenced together with drum machine. It steers the chaotic atmosphere of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (1975) towards an emotive tide of information that, whether too much or too little, makes it hard to grasp but easy to eat up. If electronic music has been made familiar (through musique concréte or Lee Gamble) with the conversion of noise into dance, New Works For Realistic Mixer circumscribes this progression within a less stable relationship: what might be called, after Stella, the marriage of reason and squalor.

$12.99 UPC: 769791967465 ELECTRONIC

A1. 01 VT200508
A2. 06 DopR2RNAi;+
A3. 09 w1118 (isoCJ1)
A4. 03 G419 2-35
A5. 08 fmn;+
A6. 05 OK371
B1. 07 KC-abp
B2. 04 Sechellia
B3. 02 PPL-ab
B4. 10 KC-gain\

KITCHER, MIKE: Processed Snippets: Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957 LP (CO 007LP)

Mike Kitcher's Processed Snippets falls firmly into the category of new exotica, a music created from a very specific location that becomes placeless through abstraction. Kitcher reworks moments recorded from the SWP Records re-mastered release of Congo Traditional 1952 & 1957 (SWP 046LP, 2014), a collection of recordings by Hugh Tracey. Tracey, a pioneering documenter of traditional music across the continent of Africa was notable for the extent of his travels and the breadth of his work, as well as his technique of live mixing multi-instrumental tracks with a hand-held microphone. This method produces tracks that focus on specific instruments with a shifting of foreground and background. In his work he, aimed to reflect the listening experience in the field. Kitcher's album reflects on Tracey's process by limiting each track to a limited sample and using basic EQ-ing alongside only one software processor: IRCAM's "the scrub". He foreshortens the landscape, by zooming in onto moments of breath, the moment of the release of contact from the instrument, bursts of silence, or processed modifications that transform vocals into the echo of ivory horns. Within this magnified view, the richness of the original material is turned over and seen from an array of angles. Kitcher notes that "inflections, harmony, expression, and pulsing modulations all grab my attention, frequently expressed through voice, conical drums, luma pipes or lamellaphones, among other instruments."

$12.99 UPC: 769791967472 ELECTRONIC

A1. Three Girls's Party Songs #2
A2. Three Girls's Party Songs #1
A3. Three Girls's Party Songs #3
A4. Amabele-o-o
A5. Amabele-o-o
A6. Amabele-o-o
A7. Iyo-o-o
A8. Amabele-o-o
A9. Luma Pipes1
B1. Amabele-o-o
B2. Mali Ta Kangana
B3. Lumpungu
B4. Four Flute Tunes
B5. Iyo-o-o
B6. Chindol Wa Mukaleng
B7. Iyo-o-o
B8. Chindol Wa Mukaleng
B9. Chindol Wa Mukaleng

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RIMBAUD, PENNY: Kernschmelze II: Cantata For Improvised Voice CD (CSR 239CD)

Kernschmelze: "the dying gasps of the Age of Enlightenment". Kernschmelze II is a cantata for voices, in this case the voice of Crass songstress Eve Libertine, processed by Charles Webber to almost choral proportions. Working on Kernschmelze II alongside Eve Libertine, Penny Rimbaud has been able to produce a classic album on par with their 1984 album Acts Of Love released by Crass Records. Libertine's sparse, vulnerable poetics counter the almost Wagnerian scale of the work, challenging preconceptions of what music should be and making strong suggestions as to what it might yet become. Extreme electronics sourced solely from vocal sounds to create noise music of an intense and highly demanding nature. Comes in an ecopak with artwork by Gee Vaucher.

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WEB WEB: Oracle CD (COMP 499CD)

Oracle, the first album by the German supergroup Web Web, is very uncut, raw, live, and direct. Their initial idea was to record a spiritual-jazz type of album, with all its imperfection as far as intonation, sound, influences of tunes, just like the big jazz-heroes of the '70s. Web Web's idea was to record a jazz jam session while to found and proclaim being a fictive band, a formation, which did not exist, while telling people, it would be a secret jam session recording of the '70s. But they decided to reveal their real identities: Roberto Di Gioia (piano, synth, percussion), Tony Lakatos (tenor and soprano saxophone), Christian von Kaphengst (upright bass), and Peter Gall (drums). Oracle was recorded in one day, and only first takes were used. Oracle is the first live jazz release on Compost. Roberto Di Gioia has been working with numerous jazz-legends, such as Woody Shaw, Art Farmer, James Moody, Johnny Griffin, Charlie Rouse, Clifford Jordan, Clark Terry, Roy Ayers, Gregory Porter, and many more and from 1990-2008, he was a member Klaus Doldinger's Passport. He started his own group Marsmobil in 2003. Since 2007, he has been working together with Samon Kawamura and Max Herre as KAHEDI. Tony Lakatos originates from the world famous Lakatos-familiy from Budapest, Hungary. His father was a famous violinist, as well as his younger brother Roby. Tony studied at the Bela Bartok Conservatory in Budapest. Since then he played on over 350 jazz albums. Tony was a member of Jasper Van't Hof's Pili Pili. Christian von Kaphengst learned the piano at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz when he was six years old. From 1988 to 1995 he studied upright-bass at the "Musikhochschule" in Cologne. He was touring with his own Jazzquartett "Cafe du Sport" to Pakistan, India, Turkey, and West-Africa. Peter Gall won some important German awards when he was a youngster, like the "Jugend Jazzt". He was touring with the famous Bundesjazzorchester conducted by German jazz legend Peter Herbholzheimer. He studied at the Berlin University Of Fine Arts and at the Jazz Institute Berlin with John Hollenbeck. Produced by Roberto Di Gioia and Michael Reinboth. Oracle was engineered, recorded, and mixed by Jan Krause (Beanfield, Poets Of Rhythm).

$10.99 UPC: 673794249926 JAZZ

BREXIT JAZZ: Brexit Jazz Remix EP 12" (COMP 501EP)

The original "Brexit Jazz" track was recorded and programmed, played live at the Beanfield Studio Munich in 2016, right after the British government announced the Brexit on (black) Friday morning. Compost announced a remix competition of the track and got over 90 remixes. Here are the winners of the "Brexit Jazz" remix competition and a brand new version made by Roberto Di Gioia (Marsmobil/Web Web), Jan Krause (Beanfield), and Michael Reinboth (Compost). Remixes by Konvex & The Shadow + Melokolektiv, Letryp, and CRS & BRG.

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BOHLENDER, LUKAS: Golden Hour EP 12" (COMP 503EP)

After meeting at the Black Label Sessions parties at Munich club Harry Klein, Lukas Bohlender sent the label his tune "Club Chateau" in the autumn of 2012. The label featured the track on Black Label #94 (2013). In 2013, Lukas remixed Robinn's "The Game Is Now Over". In 2016, Lukas played the label "The Sublime" and "Curly Bun". Backed up by a floor friendly remix by Beanfield and Thomas Herb, the tracks were released in 2016 (COMP 486EP). Golden Hour EP offers two powerful and emotive deep house joints, padded with layers of elegant synths and crafty percussions.

$8.39 UPC: 673794250311 ELECTRONIC

Side A
01. Golden Hour
Side B
02. Portamento

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PIPELINE: Pipeline CD (CVSD 010CD)

2013 release. In 2000, saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and curator John Corbett organized a 16-piece free music big-band, featuring key members of the Chicago and Swedish scenes. The ensemble debuted in Chicago, playing and recording two compositions that had been commissioned, "Codeine Picasso" by Ken Vandermark, and "In This Very Room" by Fredrik Ljungkvist. Soon thereafter, the musicians convened in Sweden for a tour of the country that ended at the legendary Stockholm club Fasching. Gustafsson had intended for the music to be issued on his label Crazy Wisdom, which existed for a short, beautiful moment as an imprint of Swedish Universal. Indeed, the recording of Pipeline was mixed and mastered, but the label pulled the plug on Crazy Wisdom just before the release, and it sat dormant for more than a decade. Listening to it again, the music has all the power and originality it did when it was recorded, at the crest of a wave in Chicagoan creative music history. A panoramic group, Pipeline included the Konitz-inflected sax and clarinet of Guillermo Gregorio, the spiky guitar of David Stackenäs, the percussion thicket of Michael Zerang, Raymond Strid, and Kjell Nordeson, and Jim Baker's unearthly ARP synthesizer sounds, all mixed into an ecstatic, explosive Scanda-Chicagoan spread -- a veritable smörgåsm. Recorded by John McCortney at Airwave Studios, Chicago, on September 26, 2000. Mastered by McCortney and Gustafsson, January 28, 2001; Produced by John Corbett and Mats Gustafsson.

$9.79 UPC: 769791967090 JAZZ

MCPHEE, JOE: Nation Time: The Complete Recordings (1969-70) 4CD BOX (CVSD 011CD)

2013 release. In 1971, multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee waxed one of the landmark free-funk records: Nation Time. Recorded in concert at Vassar College and originally released on McPhee's own CjRecord Productions label, Nation Time culled elements of post-Coltrane spiritual jazz, greasy organ funk, and expressive R&B into a previously unknown brand of Poughkeepsie stew. When the LP was finally reissued on CD a dozen years ago, it became an instant hit, drawing fans from the British soul scene and denizens of free jazz alike. Corbett Vs. Dempsey present Nation Time: The Complete Recordings (1969-70), a four disc box set, featuring all the music leading up to and around the seminal album. With 17 tracks previously unreleased on CD, most of which have never been issued at all, the set provides an expansive picture of the vibrant up-state New York free jazz/new thing scene, centered as it was on Joe McPhee. Nation Time: The Complete Recordings helps contextualize the original album, exploring the special milieu in which tracks like "Shaky Jake" and "Scorpio's Dance" took shape. Along with the album, complete and remastered, Nation Time: The Complete Recordings presents additional tracks recorded during the original two day performances in December 1970, including a version of James Brown's "Cold Sweat", as well as the full LP Black Magic Man (1975), which was released on vinyl as the very first issue of the fledgling Hat Hut Records record label in 1975, but has never been reissued on CD. Two fascinating concert recordings from 1969 are released here for the first time, one featuring McPhee on trumpet playing jazz standards, and the other recorded at a local bar called the Paddock, including the first incarnation of what would become the track "Nation Time". The four CD box set includes: One CD of Nation Time, the complete original album, remastered; One CD of Black Magic Man, the complete original album, complete with two alternate takes of "Song for Lauren"; One CD of The Vassar Sessions, 1970, comprising six unreleased tracks from the Nation Time recording sessions; One CD of Nation Time Preview, 1969, two concert recordings in the run-up to Nation Time; 60-page liner booklet, full-color, with never-published vintage photos; A definitive Nation Time interview with Joe McPhee by John Corbett; Comes in hardshell case, with separate cardboard sleeves for all four discs.

$40.40 UPC: 769791967106 JAZZ

Disc 1

Nation Time
01. Nation Time
02. Shakey Jake
03. Scorpio's Dance

Disc 2

Black Magic Man
01. Black Magic Man
02. Song For Lauren
03. Hymn Of The Dragon Kings
04. Song For Lauren (Alternate 1)
05. Song For Lauren (Alternate 2)

Disc 3

Nation Time Preview, 1969
01. Nation Time
02. Untitled
03. Milestones
04. My Funny Valentine
05. Bag's Groove
06. Breakaway Theme

Disc 4

The Vassar Sessions, 1970
01. Cold Sweat
02. Contemplation
03. Spring Street
04. Hymn Of The Dragon Kings
05. Sunshower
06. Untitled

GUSTAFSSON, MATS: Torturing The Saxophone CD (CVSD 012CD)

2014 release. One of the most celebrated folks in improvised music, Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson made three ultra-limited edition vinyl LPs, each featuring a different dedication to a favorite musician from the past. Released in batches of 99, these records found Gustafsson playing compositions by Duke Ellington, Albert (and his brother Donald) Ayler, and the important post-bop baritone player Lars Gullin. Long out-of-print, these priceless slabs of free music have quickly become sought after collector's items. Torturing The Saxophone compiles all three LPs, plus some extra material, featuring Gustafsson at both his most experimental and his most lyrical. He purrs his way through Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood", then demolishes "Come Sunday". He draws out Gullin's "Danny's Dream", rendering it truly dreamlike, perhaps nightmarish. Gustafsson shared the LPs with his new friend R. Crumb, the famous comics artist and shellac enthusiast. Crumb's stunned response provides liner notes for the CD ("... I was kind of shocked at what a negative, unpleasant experience it was... "), and the perfect title. Only one way to hear what rubbed Crumb so hard the wrong way -- listen in to hear what pain and possible injury Mats Gustafsson inflicts upon his horns.

$11.79 UPC: 701017953845 JAZZ

MAZUREK, ROB: Mother Ode CD (CVSD 013CD)

2014 release. In July 2013, a few months after the passing of his mother, cornetist Rob Mazurek performed solo at the Corbett Vs. Dempsey gallery in Chicago. Mazurek is one of the highest profile figures in contemporary creative music, leading bands like the Exploding Star Orchestra, Skull Sessions Octet, and Starlicker. On this occasion, he brought a box filled with various implements -- his cornet, naturally, but flutes, bells, books, maracas, apples, and little electronics. This box became an inexhaustible resource as he pulled new soundmakers from it and performed a profoundly intense dedication to his mom, culminating in a durational event that found him shaking the remaining contents of the box over his head until he could no longer hold his arms aloft. It was one of the most moving musical happenings that anyone at the gallery could remember, and Corbett Vs. Dempsey have taken the opportunity to release it as a CD. Often, such potent live events don't translate to a recording, but on Mother Ode, the emotional impact of Mazurek's dedication appear just as vividly, a deep mourning of death rubbing elbows with a joyous celebration of life.

$9.79 UPC: 701017953852 JAZZ

DAVIS, GEORGE: Scapula: Bop Acetates, Chicago, 1949 CD (CVSD 014CD)

2014 release. Saxophonist George Davis is an enigmatic figure in postwar jazz. He's best known for leading the band in which Jackie & Roy met -- young singer Jackie Cain encountered pianist Roy Krall in the mid-1940s, playing together under Davis in a club on the south side of Chicago called Jump Town. They cut two 78-rpm records for Aristocrat as the George Davis Quartet; these sides followed Davis into obscurity. In 1948/49, Jackie & Roy went on to work with Charlie Ventura. At the same time, Davis cut a very unusual set of acetates with an unidentified band (bass, drums, piano, trumpet, guitar, with Davis on alto and tenor sax), playing some standards and a selection of compositions identified as original but which turn out to have been pilfered from the Fats Navarro songbook. The unique 78-rpm records, which were rediscovered in a record shop in Chicago a few years ago, had not been previously issued. Awkwardly announced by Davis, who pretends that there is an audience though it is clear that they're being waxed in solitude, these privately recorded bop and R&B tracks are pure Chicago jazz, hot, swinging, and bristling with attitude. Another lovely missive from the dustbin of music history.

$8.39 UPC: 701017953869 JAZZ

MOORE, THURSTON: Sonic Street Chicago CD (CVSD 015CD)

2014 release. An epic outing on electric guitar, recorded in November 2013, as part of an evening of music and film at the Art Institute of Chicago. The CD features a single magnificent improvisation, ranging from brittle, delicate passages to full-throttle flame-throwing. Performing an accompaniment to James Nares's brilliant film Street (2001), Thurston Moore played with his back to the screen, letting the sounds and images converge and diverge of their own accord. The result was an extraordinary stand-alone live recording that shows Moore at peak power, one of the most confident and original guitarists of his generation. Cover artwork by Nares.

$9.79 UPC: 701017953876 JAZZ

KOWALD/KENT KESSLER/FRED LONBERG-HOLM, PETER: Flats Fixed CD (CVSD 016CD)

2014 release. In 1998, at WNUR Radio, Evanston, the legendary German bassist Peter Kowald met two Chicagoans in the studio for a brisk set of string trios. Fellow-bassist Kent Kessler and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, essential members of the Chicago scene, are well known as international improvisers too, and the threesome dug in for a fierce face-off. The session was closely recorded in the studio's intimate confines, which could barely contain their energy. Kowald proposed a set of six miniatures, all ranging around a minute in length, as a counterpoint to the longer tracks. When Kessler left, Kowald and Lonberg-Holm stayed on playing a few duets, more conversational in tone. The musicians all loved the results, a CD was planned, delayed, as happens, and then Kowald died suddenly in 2002, almost to the day four years since recording Flats Fixed. Corbett Vs. Dempsey finally present this glorious music, which had been prepared and shelved more than a decade ago. Dedicated to the memory of Comrade Kowald.

$9.79 UPC: 701017953883 JAZZ

REID, TOMEKA: Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists CD (CVSD 017CD)

2014 release. Chicago-based cellist and composer Tomeka Reid, a mainstay on the Windy City scene and an important contemporary member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, was commissioned to create original music for the first documentary to chronicle the Imagists, Chicago's hometown post-surrealists who exhibited together starting in the mid-1960s. Reid composed theme music for the film and made a wide range of multi-track improvisations based on moods, creating a tableau from which the film drew as it unwound the artists' circuitous tale. For the CD, Reid returned to the studio to make new versions of some of the tracks and to transform the extant material into a fully realized suite of music. It retains a sense of light-heartedness and depth, whimsy and melancholy, adding voice and percussion to her indelible cello.

$9.79 UPC: 759624575332 JAZZ

LACY/STEVE POTTS, STEVE: Tips CD (CVSD 018CD)

2015 release. A reissue of Steve Lacy and Steve Potts's Tips, originally released on Hat Hut Records in 1981. Soprano saxophonist Lacy wrote the suite of tunes for Tips to feature the aphorisms of painter Georges Braque, as sung by Irene Aebi. Together with his right-hand-man, alto saxophonist Potts, he and Aebi recorded these 14 anthemic tracks in Paris in 1979, and the young hat Hut Records label issued them on a now-rare LP. The music allowed Lacy to extend and deepen his longstanding interest in setting text to music, and at the same time it provided a perfect context for extrapolated duets with Potts, whose dedication to Lacy over twenty years of collaboration somewhat overshadowed his own creative output. This CD is the first release of Lacy's full Hat Hut Records oeuvre, mastered from the original tapes. Personnel: Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone; Steve Potts - alto saxophone; Irene Aebi - voice. Music by Steve Lacy; text by George Braque. Recorded in Paris, December 14, 1979. Remastered at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, January 2015; Reissue produced by John Corbett.

$10.99 UPC: 701017953890 JAZZ

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WEISEMANN, SVEN: Bilateral Relations EP 12" (ECHO 075EP)

Sven Weisemann releases Bilateral Relations EP, comprising four originals from the German producer. "Lunation" opens and sees Weisemann fuse emotive string melodies and cavernous vocal echoes with off-kilter rhythms and rounded sub hits. "Bilateral Relations" embraces a more direct four-four approach via sparse percussion and tumbling toms alongside choppy bass stabs and echoing dub chords. "Monistic" is an airy ethereal number employing billowing pads, bright synth chimes, and a dropped-tempo dubbed-out feel. "Decimation (Valvle tR9 Mix)" closes things on a darker tip with looming stab swells, heavily swung drums, and sporadic growling bass drones.

$8.99 UPC: 880319875410 ELECTRONIC

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TOMS DUE: Magma 12" (ETB 042EP)

Italian duo Toms Due return to Etruria Beat with two banging original tracks and remixes by Ambivalent and Cosmin TRG. "Magma" a powerful track with a big-room kick and an old-school melody that grows together with a simple one-note chord to create a destructive tool. "Stratum" is characterized by powerful melodic chords and an energetic groove. Ambivalent's remix of "Magma" is all dark synths and raw drums, with sharp 909 rhythms. Cosmin TRG's remix of "Stratum" is a powerful techno tool that wraps hypnotic chords in a techno drum groove.

$9.79 EAN: 4260544820533 ELECTRONIC

A1. Magma
A2. Magma (Ambivalent Remix)
B1. Stratum
B2. Stratum (Cosmin TRG Remix)

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ADOLFO, ANTONIO: Viralata LP (LPA 003LP)

Far Out Recordings present the first vinyl reissue of Antonio Adolfo's Viralata, originally released in 1979. Far Out Recordings are working again with master composer, arranger, and pianist, Antonio Adolfo for the first time since releasing his Destiny album in 2007 (FARO 121CD). This time the label present his era-defining Viralata album: An essential album from Brazil's majorly progressive heyday of late seventies jazz-funk. Viralata is a sacred artefact of Brazilian music, which Antonio himself describes as "a product of my hybrid musical influences that joins together flavors of marchinhas de carnaval, frevo, toada, classical, baião, mpb and jazz, etc." The album's first track "Cascavel" is the emotionally charged, celebratory dance anthem, which became a London jazz-dance classic in the early '90s after Far Out Recordings label boss Joe Davis discovered a handful of copies in a second hand shop in Sao Paulo and brought them back to London to sell to DJs like Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge. In recent years the track has been played out by the likes of Floating Points, Mr Scruff, and Andrew Ashong, it was also the last song ever to play on the hallowed soundsystem of London's beloved club Plastic People. Sean McAuliffe of Plastic People & NTS Radio on its play at the club: "Saturday nights at Plastic People wouldn't have been the same without this album. 'Cascavel' was such an important track for the club, it was the last tune we played there before the doors were closed forever." Viralata sits comfortably on the same pedestal as Azymuth's 1979 album Light As A Feather (FARO 170CD) and Joao Donato's Quem É Quem (1973), which is no coincidence. All three keystone LPs were recorded and engineered by Toniniho, considered by many to be "the Brazilian Rudy Van Gelder", whose magic touches in the studio also helped to produce Marcos Valle's Previsão Do Tempo (1973) and Joyce's Água E Luz (1981), among many other holy grails and unassailable classics of soulful Brazilian music. Antonio's work has been widely performed by his legendary Brazilian contemporaries including Sergio Mendes, Emilio Santiago, and Erasmo Carlos, but also by platinum-selling American icons including Stevie Wonder, Herb Alpert, and Dionne Warwick. Following an early '70s spell of studying jazz in the USA, Viralata's release in 1979 arrived at the height of a flourishing period of Antonio's career. With his late '60s and '70s output following through on his influences of Tropicalia, funk, MPB, and easy listening, the almost entirely instrumental Viralata marked an apex for Brazilian jazz. Comes on 180 gram vinyl.

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A1. Cascavel
A2. Paraiba Do Sul
A3. Brincadeira Em Ré
A4. Brincadeira Em Mi Bemol
A5. Caminhada
A6. Vermelhinho

B1. Nordeste
B2. Alegria De Carnaval
B3. Diana E Paulo
B4. Viralata
B5. Assanhada
B6. A Marcha

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HERB LF: Decades EP 12" (FAROTRS 025EP)

Mastering engineer and producer Herb LF (Westpark Unit, Gush Collective, Discoshit) opens this EP with the hugely soulful and epic "Where are the Young Men?", a reminiscence to the early '80s era of punk and new wave, while Henry L & Ingo Sänger's remix of the track adds a dose of funk, disco, and Detroit techno. Herb LF's "Real Pong, Madrid" has a demanding groove with beautiful, spacey chords, as soulful as it gets. Ambient monster "Air" closes the EP with deep breaths.

$8.39 UPC: 673797302512 ELECTRONIC

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