Rolling Reissues 2024

Org Music reissues
Bad Brains’ legendary album
I Against I
on July 26, 2024
via LP, CD, Cassette

I Against I is the third studio album from Bad Brains, originally released in 1986 on SST Records, showcasing the band's unique fusion of punk rock, hardcore punk, reggae, and heavy metal influences.


The full-length remains influential to this day, inspiring countless bands with its innovative sound and uncompromising attitude.

This reissue marks the eighth release in the remaster campaign, re-launching the Bad Brains Records label imprint. It will be available in vinyl, CD, and digital formats.

A "Punk Note" edition of the vinyl will be available with alternate package artwork from designer John Yates (Stealworks), as a nod to Reid Miles and Francis Wolff, and their amazing work at the Blue Note label.

In coordination with the band, Org Music has overseen the restoration and remastering of the iconic Bad Brains’ recordings. The audio was mastered by Dave Gardner and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.

Track List:

A1 Intro

A2 I Against I

A3 House of Suffering

A4 Re-Ignition

A5 Secret 77

B1 Let Me Help

B2 She’s Calling You

B3 Sacred Love

B4 Hired Gun

B5 Return to Heaven

Vinyl Variants:

Standard Black (available widely)

“Plutonium” Color (available widely)

“Punk Note” Edition on Black vinyl (available widely)

"Punk Note” Edition on Coke Bottle Clear (badbrainsrecords.com exclusive)
Exclusive vinyl variants are also available from Zia Records, Newbury Comics, Revolver, and Brooklyn Vegan.

Help us celebrate the return of this classic album, and please let us know what else you might need for coverage!

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Out Today:
Margo Guryan - Words and Music 3xLP
Witness to revolutions in jazz and pop, Margo Guryan earned her place in the songwriting pantheon and then some. That she was largely unknown for decades is not the stuff of crushed dreams, but a result of her own choices and priorities. From humble beginnings to the peaks of her 1968 baroque pop masterpiece Take a Picture and the collected Demos to the recent viral ubiquity of “Why Do I Cry”, Words and Music captures the entirety of Guryan’s career, featuring 16 previously unreleased recordings and a 32-page booklet telling the whole story.

The story of Margo Guryan is one of a woman who dug deep from an early age and was never afraid to change. With her keen feel for tone, phrasings, tension, presence, and lyrics that cut, her name today is synonymous with sophisticated songcraft and inimitable 1960s cool.Her ingenuity and technique set her in the tradition of chamber-pop icons like Brian Wilson and Burt Bacharach while the bittersweet candor in her depictions of womanhood suggest a middleground between Carole King's pop-factory and singer-songwriter eras. But the understated rigor of Margo's artistic voice is all her own.

(Also CD, digital, streaming options)

from Real Gone Music:

You probably remember the 1994 album Born to Quit from Smoking Popes…it’s the one with the hit song “Need You Around,” which was “around” pretty much everywhere back then, including in the movie Clueless (for that matter, “Lucky Day” from this album was in Tommy Boy, “Mrs. You & Me” was in Angus, and “Gotta Know Right Now” in Boys)... If you like power pop hooks with heart, look no further…our release comes in pink & white “sunburn” vinyl to honor the front cover photo (put a shirt on, man!) inside a gatefold jacket.

From indie pop to guitar genius we go with Television guitarist and solo artist Tom Verlaine. His self-taught, jazz-influenced style, largely devoid of effects, and vibrato tone (oh, that tone!) makes any Verlaine solo unmistakably a Verlaine solo. That he was quite an accomplished, idiosyncratic songwriter is just a bonus. Real Gone Music is very, very proud to announce that we have arranged with the Verlaine estate to release Tom’s last three solo albums on LP, starting with his 1992 instrumental masterpiece Warm and Cool, which has never been released on vinyl in the U.S. Swirling within this album’s 14 compositions are hints of rock, jazz, country, surf, and even a little bit of the guitar noir found on Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtracks for David Lynch, all given brilliant new life in a fresh mastering for vinyl by long-time Verlaine collaborator Patrick Derivaz, who also played bass on the album. Simultaneously avant-garde and familiar-sounding, Warm and Cool is as contemporary and forward-thinking as any music coming out today, but—as the new liner notes by Verlaine’s life partner Jutta Koether point out—the album fits into a larger modern art and philosophical context. Indeed, reading Koether’s poetic love letter to her dear departed and listening to this gorgeous, daring music makes for a profound experience we are eager to share. Pink vinyl pressing to go with the artful choice of type hue on the front cover!

Finally, Fanny! Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to hear the best live band of the early ‘70s? We at Real Gone Music have been privileged and proud to release Fanny’s classic Reprise albums, each a tuneful testament as to why they were the first all-female band signed to a major label. But there has always been a piece missing from the Fanny fable; for while the band hooked up with big-time producers and engineers like Richard Perry, Todd Rundgren, and Geoff Emerick, their studio albums never really were able to capture the sheer excitement they could generate in concert. However, buried away in a vault thousands of miles away from their Los Angeles base there long lay a recording that could could provide the emphatic answer as to why these four ladies were the hottest ticket on the Sunset Strip during the early ‘70s. Now, over 50 years later, Live at Beat-Club ’71-’72 presents the two sets Fanny recorded for the German TV show, mastered by Mike Milchner of Sonic Vision from hi-res mono files taken from the original videotape. Aside from the incendiary and incredibly tight performances, what immediately becomes apparent is that all four of these women were powerhouses in her own right. June Millington’s stringbending Les Paul wizardry, her sister Jean’s driving, melodic bass lines and Janis Joplin-esque vocals, Nickey Barclay’s intricate yet somehow rocking keyboard work, and Alice de Buhr’s precise, piston-like drumming punctuated by ferocious fills—put together Fanny was an overwhelming display of talent, Yet somehow, as these shows reveal, live they were greater than the sum of their parts. That’s why getting these recordings released has long been a crusade for Alice, and why June tells the story in the accompanying liner notes (which feature contributions from June, Jean, and Alice) that the engineer who was assigned to do the transfers of all the Beat-Club material told her that their material was the best in the vault, better even than Hendrix. We are releasing this invaluable archival recording on juicy peach vinyl and on CD with a bonus track of the soundcheck to boot. Essential for a full understanding of ‘70s rock!

xp that's interesting to see, I had thought that Numero announced years ago that they were out of the CD game.

Most detailed description I've seen so far of new Ziggy Stardust box:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/06/13/david-bowie-rock-n-roll-star-box-set/74065693007/

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Master Wilburn Burchette - Opens The Seven Gates Of Transcendental Consciousness 1xLP
California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostica News. On his 1972 sophomore album, Burchette channels dreamy early music, druid folk, electric fingerstyle, psychedelic balladry, and new age ontology to create a visionary guitar technique all his own. This faithful reproduction includes the original 12-page full color instruction book for the secret method of piercing the psychic heart.

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming

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Leon Bridges / Pastor T.L. Barrett - Like A Ship 1x7"
The 6th 7" in our latest round of Numero Classics cover series. This one is a Split 45 straight from the Heavens above. Leon Bridges effortlessly transforms Pastor T.L. Barrett's iconic "Like A Ship," updating the gospel soul classic with a southern soul twist.

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Scientists - You Get What You Deserve (LP)
Bad vibes, habits, and breath collide on this ten-song pile up on the freeway to nowhere. Melting neo-grunge, swamprock, and noise punk in a cauldron of drug-addled psychosis, 1985's You Get What You Deserve continues Australia's prison-as-country tradition of unhinged lunacy in the face of cultural isolation. Nuke nostalgia, femme fatale sharpshooters, demolition derbies, and a vacation at Hell Beach await.

Pre-order: Release date is August 16th - Order will begin shipping in July.

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Super Djata Band - Volume 2 (LP)
Connecting Wasulu hunter music, griot praises, Senufo pastoral dances, Fula and Mandingo repertoire alongside Western psychedelia, blues and afro-beat, Zani Diabaté’s Super Djata Band was among Mali’s top orchestras of the 1980s. On their 1982 album, Diabaté enshrines himself within the pantheon of mythical West African guitarists, hypnotically picking through eight vivid compositions on his path to godhead status.

Pre-order: Release date is August 9th - Order will begin shipping in July!

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Sandy Harless - Songs (LP)
Arriving as the hippy movement was discovering its peaceful easy '70s feelings, Sandy Harless' Songs LP is Chillicothe, Ohio's lone contribution to the Cosmic American Music movement. Financed from a 27-aquarium fish breeding business, the album shows its Appalachian roots with a tight weave of mountain folk, rural rock, and pastoral country. Real people music.

Pre-order: Release date is August 9th - Orders will begin shipping in July.

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Alfonso Lovo
LA GIGANTONA

The son of a prominent Nicaraguan politician, Alfonso Noel Lovo was an obvious target when Sandinista rebels hijacked a Managua-bound flight from Miami in December of 1971, ultimately putting several rounds through the talented musician’s torso and hand. After several years, and as many surgeries, he would break ground on this psychedelic pastiche of Latin jazz and pan-American funk, recorded in his nation’s capital in 1976. The binary stars of the sessions would be the agile Lovo and percussionist Jose “Chepito” Areas, whose timbale work can be heard on watershed records by Carlos Santana, including the Latin-rock milestone, “Oye Como Va.” Lovo’s unreleased masterpiece, combining the talents of Nicaragua’s most notorious players, recalls at once the spiritual funkiness of Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi, the studio trickology of Lee “Scratch” Perry, and the dense propulsion of Billy Cobham’s Spectrum. Fusion begets confusion, as hand-plucked guitar melodies tumble into synthesizer meltdowns with wasted grace. More experimental than Jamaica’s heaviest dub plate, La Gigantona lays in a groove that is, at times, as deep in the pocket as it is in the clouds.
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Antena
CAMINO DEL SOL

1982, Brussels: The former au pair for Rick Wakeman of Yes and two of her teenage friends are at the doorstep of Les Disques Du Crepuscule, ready to cut an album with Gilles Martin. Living on busking wages and next door to Tuxedomoon, their work results in a contemporary bossanova record that would provide a missing link between Antonio Carlos Jobim and Kraftwerk. Camino Del Sol was issued and promptly forgotten, with Isabelle Antena moving toward jazz in Asia and the others returning to France. Twenty years later, it was findable only as a VG+ LP with a sticker price of $4.99. Intrigued by the striking cover’s sunlit patio furniture emptiness basking in the south of France, we scooped up Camino Del Sol and grouped the extant Antena recordings from that exceptional period by session. Our definitive 2LP reissue of the original five-song mini-LP adds the group’s first 12” (a cover of Jobim’s “Girl From Ipanema,” naturally), the Seaside Weekend 12”, compilation tracks, and two previously unissued cuts, recasting this short-lived combo’s forward-thinking milemarker as a modern-day masterstroke.
2xLP
$35.00

From Soul Jazz Records storefront, Sounds Of The Universe:

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Night Train: Transcontinental Landscapes 1968 – 2019 Various Artists

From Dusk, through to Dawn. A collection of tracks to accompany the change of the fields, the coastline, the colour of the sky outside your window as you take your journey. From the compiler of ‘Music for the Stars (Celestial Music 1960-1979)’ comes the next collection from Brighton label Two-Piers. Featuring artists such as J.J Cale, Chris & Cosey, The B-52s, The Asphodells, Bob Lind, Linda Perhacs and the Menahan Steet Band.

Edward Hollcraft – South Bound Amtrak 716
2. J.J. Cale – Cherry
3. Bonnie Dobson – Milk & Honey
4. H.P. Lovecraft – Spin Spin Spin
5. The Rationals – Glowin’
6. Linda Perhacs – Hey, Who Really Cares
7. B-52’s – Deep Sleep
8. Nine Circles – Twinkling Stars
9. The Asphodells – Another Lonely City
10. Tangerine Dream – Love on A Real Train
11. Chris & Cosey – Dancing Ghosts
12. Johnny Harris – Fragments of Fear
13. Bill Frisell – 1968
14. Bob Lind – City Scenes
15. Tony Joe White – Rainy Night in Georgia
6. Menahan Street Band – There’s A New Day Coming
17. The Byrds – Goin’ Back
18. Earth, Wind & Fire – Drum Song
19. Leon Russell – Out in the Woods

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Elvin Jones & Richard Davis
Heavy Sounds
DECCA / VERVE
Recorded for Impulse in 1967, a session originally intended to be a trio date morphed into an 11 ½-minute duet on “Summertime” between drummer Jones and bassist Davis when the guitarist did not appear. The following day, saxophonist Frank Foster and pianist Billy Greene joined in to round out the rest of the cuts including “Elvin’s Guitar Blues,” which features Jones’ only recorded guitar performance.

This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit. Expected Aug 08.

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Arthur Baker presents
Breaker's Revenge
Original B-Boy and B-Girl Breakdance Classics
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS
1. Dennis Coffey and The Detroit Guitar Band – Scorpio
2. The Jimmy Castor Bunch – It's Just Begun
3. B.T. Express – Energy Level
4. James Brown – Get On The Good Foot
5. Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force – Planet Rock
6. Manu Dibango – Soul Makossa
7. Esther Williams – Last Night Changed It All
8. The Mohawks – The Champ
9. Herman Kelly & Life – Dance To The Drummer’s Beat
10. Spanky Wilson – Sunshine of Your Love
11. James Brown – Give it Up Or Turnit A Loose
12. Candido – Soulwanco
13. Arthur Baker – Breaker's Revenge
14. Manu Dibango – The Panther
15. Abaco Dream – Life and Death in G & A
16. The Jackson 5 – Dancing Machine
17. Mongo Santamaria – Cloud Nine
18. Edwin Starr – I Just Wanna Do My Thing
19. Badder Than Evil – Hot Wheels
20. Johnny Bristol – Lusty Lady
Compiled by legendary producer Arthur Baker, ‘Breakers Revenge’ is a near-definitive collection of original Funk, Soul, Latin, Disco and Electro classic tracks from 1970-1984.

These tracks, a combination of classics and obscurities, have all since become legendary to Breakdancers everywhere. First played at South Bronx block parties, community halls and park jams in the 1970s and 80s, spun endlessly by the first three major hip-hop DJs - Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa – and found in the record crates of any DJ of note ever since.

Seminal funk and soul tracks such as Dennis Coffey’s ‘Scorpio’, The Jimmy Castor Bunch’s ‘It’s Just Begun’, James Brown’s ‘Get on the Good Foot’, The Mohawks’ ‘Champ’ sit side-by-side here with the ground-breaking classic electro of Afrika Bambaataa’s ‘Planet Rock, and Arthur Baker’s own definitive ‘Breakers Revenge.’

Breakdancing has come a long way from its New York roots to its respected position as an art form today where, for the first time ever, it is to be featured in the Olympics held in Paris this August 2024.

The ‘breakbeat’ remains at the very heart of hip-hop, the mercurial funk, soul and disco tracks, always 100% guaranteed to get B-Boys, B-Girls and Breakdancers moving at any block party, with the percussive breakdown of each track the pinnacle soundtrack to any dance/battle between Breakdancers of any note.

Similarly these tracks have been sampled many 1000s of times over by every hip-hop artist and producer of note. KRS-ONE, Marley Marl, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Public Enemy, Eric B, The Fugees, Outkast, Mos Def, Main Source, Jungle Brothers, LL Cool J, De La Soul and, well, everyone!

Compiler Arthur Baker played a pivotal role in hip-hop history when in 1982 he produced Afrika Bambaataa’s seminal ‘Planet Rock’ (as featured here), introducing electronic instruments into hip-hop for the first time ever and in the process created electro. After ‘Planet Rock’, Arthur Baker went on to remix or produce every major artist of note – from New Order to the Rolling Stones, Al Green to the Pet Shop Boys.

This Soul Jazz Records vinyl release is presented as a deluxe gatefold double vinyl, with two bespoke inner sleeves and download code, the double CD comes in digi-case includes full notes and booklet. Both formats come complete with introduction by Arthur Baker, extensive sleevenotes, including track-by-track breakdown. by hip-hop historian JayQuan, and striking images from photographer Sophie Bramly.

“What I truly loved about early Hip-Hop was that the music thrown down by ‘Bam, Grandmaster Flash, Jazzy Jay and Kool DJ Herc was genre-less, multi-cultural, music from all ends of the world. This is the definitive collection, including all the classics (other than a couple that alas we couldn’t get the rights too), and some real hard to find obscurities.” Arthur Baker

REVIEWS:

Mojo Magazine - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Famed electro producer selects the breakdance tracks that matter before its Olympic debut in Paris.
Marries essential well-knowns with critical obscurities.

Record Collector Magazine: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
These are the breaks.
18 key tracks spun at the earliest parties by Kook Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa … early building blocks for KRS One, Public Enemy, De La soul etc.
Beautiful.

The Wire Magazine: an undeniably handsome package… simply gems that deserve a fresh airing.

************SPECIAL EVENT************

SORRY< THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT >

To launch the album there is a very special event with Arthur Baker in conversation with Stuart Baker (founder of Soul Jazz Records) on Thu 27 Sep at 6.30pm at Sounds of the Universe.

You can buy tickets for this event NOW.

You can buy a ticket+ signed album (LP or CD) bundle or a ticket on its own. The album bundle guarantees you a special copy of the album signed by Arthur Baker which you can up at the event.

Space is limited and this event will sell out.

EVENT INFORMATION:

An Intimate Evening With Arthur Baker

Arthur Baker in conversation with Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records founder)

6.30pm Thurs 27 June at

Sounds of the Universe

7 Broadwick Street

Soho, London W1F 0DA

Before they achieved stardom the world over with “It’s Raining Men,” Weather Girls Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes Armstead made waves in the thriving San Francisco music scene as Two Tons o’ Fun (and, later, The Two Tons). The powerhouse duo began working with gender- and genre-defying artist Sylvester at Fantasy Records, singing background and lead vocals on many of his most memorable recordings. In 1980, they struck out on their own and teamed with legendary Motown veteran Harvey Fuqua (who had also helmed Sylvester’s beloved albums) for two remarkable LPs on his Honey Records imprint. Fusing disco, dance, soul, funk, and R&B with roof-raising, gospel-tinged vocals, both Two Tons o’ Fun and Backatcha put the extraordinary voices of “Queen of Clubland” Wash and Armstead out front. Now, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are proud to celebrate the Two Tons with a complete 2-CD anthology that serves as a companion to last year’s acclaimed Sylvester release, Disco Heat: The Fantasy Years 1977-1981. Two Tons o’ Fun’s Get the Feeling: The Complete Fantasy/Honey Recordings brings together, on 2 CDs, both of the Two Tons’ albums – the first of which features Sylvester himself in the band – plus a host of rare single versions, remixes, and extended versions. Among the highlights are the top five Dance smashes “Earth Can Be Just Like Heaven” and “I Got the Feeling” as well as such R&B and Dance hits as “I Depend on You” and “Never Like This.” Both albums have long been overlooked; their last CD reissue was more than thirty years ago in the U.K.; this collection marks both albums’ U.S. CD debut, while most of the bonus tracks are also new to worldwide CD. For the occasion, all audio has been newly remastered by Mike Milchner, and we are remastering the two albums straight from the original tapes, so this collection will offer a big sonic upgrade. The collection also contains a deluxe booklet featuring liner notes by The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese and unseen photos. With the return of Two Tons o’ Fun, only one exclamation is appropriate: Hallelujah!

Boy, do we have a lot of good stuff coming the next few weeks! Get the feeling!

Real Gone Gordon and Gabby

Numero:

Blondie: Against All Odds (Super Deluxe Edition)
This one deserved a dedicated email. As you've already seen, we have an insane release schedule ahead of us this summer and that doesn't even include 3 more boxset announces coming this fall. I have less than 100 copies of the Super Deluxe version of the Grammy-Nominated Blondie: Against All Odds 1974-1982 boxset and I'm trying to move them ASAP to your house and out of my warehouse. This is THE version to own and a MUST to complete your Numero collection. It'll take you months to get through all this I'm not even joking. It probably weighs almost 20 pounds.

50% off until July 1.

Blondie: Against All Odds (Super Deluxe Edition)
The set includes:
- 124 tracks / 36 previously unissued
- Two volumes of liner notes, track by track commentary, illustrated discography, and dozens of previously unpublished photos
- Remastered from the original analog tapes, vinyl cut at Abbey Road Studios
- Super Deluxe Collectors’ Edition (10xLP, 1x7”, 1x10” on heavy weight black vinyl, 2 hard cover books)

It was eight years ago that we assigned the catalog number 070 to the band Blondie. One of my bosses, Ken Shipley, had just returned from Chris Stein’s Woodstock estate where the band’s historic recording archive sat under a blanket of barn dust for decades. Over the ensuing years, the project has taken many shapes, growing from a humble set of four LPs to the massive Super Deluxe Edition 10xLP+10”+45+2 books boxset.

Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982 gathers the original line-up’s six albums, including Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat To The Beat, Autoamerican, and The Hunter, four additional LPs of session outtakes, B-sides, and demos, a 10” with the 1975 Alan Betrock demo and a previously unissued 1974 rehearsal tape, and a 45 rpm single featuring their rumored-to-exist cover of the Doors’ “Moonlight Drive” and the at-home sketch of “Mr. Sightseer”—a whopping 124 studio tracks.

Erin Osmon’s liner notes tell the group’s story in exacting detail, with session commentary from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Frank Infante, Nigel Harrison, and Gary Valentine, and essays from producers Richard Gottehrer and Mike Chapman all housed in a glorious foil-wrapped, 144-page, hard cover book.

A second 120-page volume gives a discographical overview of the period via hundreds of pic sleeves, 45 labels, international sleeve variants, flexis, cassettes, and even 8-tracks. This behemoth of a box set weighs 17 pounds and is hands down the most in depth physical release we’ve manifested in our 21 year history.

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The Dusty Springfield x Jeff Barry tracks on Real Gone's The Complete Atlantic Singles are intriguing---looking fwd to this!

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In 1971, Atlantic Records released a pair of Dusty Springfield singles produced by the legendary songwriter/producer Jeff Barry (one-time songwriting and romantic partner of Ellie Greenwich, and author of too many hits to name): "Haunted"/"Nothing Is Forever" and "I Believe In You"/"Someone Who Cares." A restless Dusty, freshly relocating to America from her native England, then departed the label and left an additional 9 songs recorded with Barry in the can, where they stayed until Rhino issued one track, "Faithful" (in mono), as a bonus track on the 1990s CD release of Dusty's 1970 Atlantic album A Brand New Me. The other tracks didn’t surface until a subsequent deluxe reissue of Dusty’s landmark 1969 album Dusty in Memphis included them as bonus cuts.

Then, reissue producer Jim Pierson—who tracked down the missing masters after being lost for over two decades —assembled Dusty’s Barry-produced masters and put them together in a single package for the first time to create the third Dusty Springfield Atlantic Records album as planned in 1971. Real Gone Music’s release of Faithful on LP presents these historic Barry-Springfield collaborations exactly as they were originally intended to be heard, with the 12 tracks meant for the album release out on vinyl over 50 years later. All tracks are in stereo, while the liner notes on the new gatefold spread, penned by The Second Disc's Joe Marchese, feature a number of rarely-seen photos of the legendary singer. These stunning pop, soul and gospel flavored selections showcase the iconic singer at the height of her vocal magic. A missing/jumbled part of Dusty’s august recorded legacy, finally set right and available in its intended format. Out on metallic gold and purple “royalty” vinyl as befitting The Queen of Blue-Eyed Soul…limited to 1500 copies!

I'll Be Faithful
Live Here With You
Haunted
Someone Who Cares
Make It With You
Love Shine Down
I Believe In You
Have A Good Life Baby
Natchez Trace
All The King's Horses
You've Got A Friend
I Found My Way Through The Darkness

From Forcefield PR:

Birdie’s debut album, 1999’s Some Dusty, is the culmination of a series of fortuitous events, set in motion in 1992 when members Debsey Wykes (Dolly Mixture) and Paul Kelly (East Village) were both members of Saint Etienne's live band. Wykes and Kelly became fast friends and then a couple, bonding over their shared love for sunshine pop and soft rock of the 60s and 70s. They soon began spending hours together strategizing a new band, eventually forming Birdie in 1994, and releasing their "Spiral Staircase" 7" single in 1997 on legendary indie label, Summershine.

Some Dusty was recorded during the summer of 1998 with the estimable Brian O’Shaughnessy (Denim, Moose, The Clientele). Deep and beautiful, its melodic, understated yet sophisticated arrangements provide an ideal setting for Debsey’s sweet and soulful soft-pop vocals. There’s a quest for the perfect pop moment here, something Birdie realise effortlessly on each of the ten songs of Some Dusty. Often this perfection is etched into the song’s details, from the gleaming chimes of “Port Sunlight," to the way the acoustic guitar, trumpet and keyboards thread together on “Let Her Go," to the gentle wah guitar that underpins “One Two Five." Add in gorgeous string arrangements from The High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan and you have all the makings of a pop classic.

Birdie followed Some Dusty with a run of essential singles -- "Let Her Go," "Such A Sound," and "Sidewalk" -- culminating in the release of their second album, Triple Echo, in 2001. Family life and other artistic pursuits called, and Birdie has only been sporadically active since, gigging occasionally and releasing a few terrific singles and compilation tracks. Their small but perfectly formed discography has become the stuff of legend, charming savvy pop fans around the world with its timeless songcraft and flawless production. Summer 2024 will see the long overdue vinyl reissue of Some Dusty on US indie label Slumberland Records, making this classic available again, now in deluxe remastered form.
1. Birdie - Laugh

2. Birdie - Dusty Morning

3. Birdie - Let Her Go

4. Birdie - Port Sunlight Focus track

5. Birdie - Lazy Day

6. Birdie - Folk Singer

7. Birdie - One Two Five

8. Birdie - Blue Dress

9. Birdie - Linus

10. Birdie - I Can't Let Go

TOUR DATES

July 24 - London, UK @ The Lexington

FOR FANS OF:
Dolly Mixture, East Village, Belle and Sebastian, Saint Etienne

press contact dgill at forcefieldpr.com

Numero:

V/A - Eccentric Soul: Minibus 2xLP

A double album boil down of Numero's 2012 45 x 45RPM art object Eccentric Soul: Omnibus. Gathering 25 loose remnants from across the American soul diaspora, Minibus connects the dots between group harmony, funk, disco, and modern soul, 1966-1980. Housed in a deluxe gatefold, tip-on jacket and illustrated with copious notes and photographs, the first ever LP pressing fills in a crucial hole on your Numero shelf.

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming

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Modesto Duran - Fabulous Rhythms of Modesto (1xLP)

A disciple of mambo innovator Perez Prado, the Cuban-born Modesto Duran was a pivotal figure in Latin dance music’s transitionary mid-century period. His gentle slaps can be heard across dozens of 1950s mega-sellers, from Esquivel to Belafonte, Eartha Kitt to Lena Horne. On his 1960 solo debut, Duran gathers a who’s who of conga-men, including Mongo Santamaría, Willie Bobo, and Juan Cheda, delivering a cinematic and percussive melange of afro-cuban, cha cha, and exotic jazz styles for the discerning listener.

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Barbara Stant - My Mind Holds On To Yesterday
Eventually crowned Queen of the Norfolk Sound, Barbara Stant was just a teenager when she auditioned for Shiptown impresario Noah Biggs in 1970. A dozen sides were tracked throughout the decade, producing a body of work that stretched from deep soul to northern soul to sister funk. By 1978 disco was in overdrive, Noah Biggs was in the ground, and Stant’s career on hold. My Mind Holds Onto Yesterday is what remains.

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humbnail - Lesson In Mind Control
As the Chicago scene evolved with them, these newfound aesthetics and translations of heaviness are immediately apparent with the opening track, “Lesson in Mind Control,” which lurches and howls with noise stacked on thunderous rhythms, and with complex experimentations teetering on traditional song structures.

Digital / Streaming

Recent Drops on NEWmero:

This should do it:
https://numerogroup.com/collections/newmero

From The Line Of Best Fit, written by Tyler Damara Kelly:

Almost forty years after its release, The Moon and the Melodies by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is being reissued on vinyl for the first time – remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself.
o coincide with the announcement of the repress, Cocteau Twins have also shared, for the first time, a full HD library of their music videos, upgraded using original masters found in both 4AD and Universal Music’s vaults. From 1984’s "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" to 1996’s "Tishbite," these new uploads span the history of the band and bring a clarity that’s far closer to their original productions than anything that was previously available.

With the arrival of these videos, the band have also launched a new YouTube channel that brings them all together in one place, with over half of them having never been officially uploaded before.

Said videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

Phew, that was weird. C/P here:

www.youtube.com/@cocteautwinsofficial/videos

“ remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself.”

noooooooooooo!!!

Why no?

There's been a fair amount of grief given to his various remasterings of the catalog over time.

His remastering job on Lullabies to Violaine was pretty bad, I just wish actual mastering engineers did this stuff. Maybe it’s like Jimmy page and someone else is ghost mastering.

I don't think a mastering engineer would ever say this in print for good reason, but I've heard some claim that one problem with remastering back catalog items under the supervision of a now-much-older artist is that their hearing is shot. In other words, they're mastering for ears that have been severely damaged from years of touring. One common result is that they'll often want a boost in the top end or upper midrange because that's the frequency range that's pretty much decimated for them.

i just read a huey lewis interview where he says his bandmates tell him the recent dolby mix of fore is great, but he can't say for himself because of how bad his hearing loss is now

Real Gone:

Even though it came out on a major label, this record sells for hundreds of dollars if you can find it at all (we know…we paid for a copy), and it’s no wonder…it’s the perfect blend of raw R&B passion and smooth, sophisticated soul production. First, the passion part…Willie Tee was a New Orleans pianist and singer best known for recording a series of burnin’ 45s (some cut for Harold Battiste’s short-lived AFO label) during the ‘60s. I’m Only a Man was Willie’s album debut, cut for Capitol in 1970, and he brought the same deep-seated intensity to the record that he did his singles. The difference was, for I’m Only a Man, Willie’s warm, raspy voice was lovingly bathed in spectacular arrangements by H. B. Barnum and produced by the great David Axelrod. Strings, brass, xylophone, bluesy guitar licks, and a funky rhythm section are all percolating inside this record’s grooves, with a daring choice of material that ranges from Cannonball Adderley’s “Walk Tall” to the Bacharach-David nugget “Reach Out for Me” to the self-penned highlights “Mirror” and “Bring On the Heartaches” to the album closer “People” from Funny Girl. Capitol wasn’t known for breaking soul acts at the time, which may explain why this record remains a cult classic; we’re happy to give it the exposure it deserves, with a purple vinyl pressing limited to 1000 copies. First-ever LP reissue!

SIDE ONE

1. Bring On the Heartaches

2. I’m Only a Man

3. Loneliness

4. Reach Out for Me

5. No Answer Came

6. Walk Tall (Baby, That’s What I Need)

SIDE TWO

1. Mirror

2. By the Time I Get to Phoenix

3. Take Your Time

4. I’m Related to You

5. People

As the man who basically brought the conga into the modern age with his innovative multi-percussion set-ups and tunable congas, and as a former member of Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton’s bands, Cándido Camero Guerra a.k.a. Candido already had a long and storied career when he cut Dancin’ and Prancin’ for the Salsoul label in 1979 at the age of 58. So, you might have been excused at the time for assuming this was just another case of an old-timer trying to cash in on the disco craze, right? But you would have been very, very wrong…the record was pure brilliance, as the infusion of Candido’s Latin conga beats into the disco-fied 4 x 4 syncopated rhythm proved irresistible, revolutionizing the sound of underground disco while pointing the way to the house music to come. Indeed, both “Jingo” (an unstoppable version of the Olatunji classic) and “Thousand Finger Man” are still DJ favorites. Speaking of DJs, we’re putting this one out on black vinyl, perfect for queueing up and spinning. for A must for any dance music library!

SIDE ONE

Dancin’ and Prancin’
Jingo

SIDE TWO

Thousand Finger Man
Rock & Shuffle (Ah-Ha)

The last of their Tom Verlaine reissues:

...You probably have your own list, but to us, standing toe-to-toe (or pick-to-pick) with those legends is Television guitarist and solo artist Tom Verlaine. His self-taught, jazz-influenced style, largely devoid of effects, and vibrato tone (oh, that tone!) makes any Verlaine solo unmistakably a Verlaine solo. That he was quite an accomplished, idiosyncratic songwriter is just a bonus. Real Gone Music is very, very proud to announce that we have arranged with the Verlaine estate to release Tom’s last three solo albums on LP; Songs and Other Things was the last record he released, in the same year as the all-instrumental Around. As the title indicates, this was indeed a return to lyrics and vocals, the first record with “songs” since 1990’s The Wonder (although the first song, “A Parade in Littleton”—one of the “Other Things”—is a low-key, funky instrumental that would have been home on a late Talking Heads album). The time off clearly allowed Verlaine to build up a strong cache of compositions, with “Nice Actress” and “The Earth Is in the Sky” among the highlights. The record also marks a welcome return of Verlaine’s enigmatic lyrics, which as always prompt head scratching while somehow making intuitive sense. But in the end, it’s the amazing guitar work—ably supported by Fred Smith of Television fame and Jay Dee Daugherty of The Patti Smith Group among others—that elevates Songs and Other Things to essential status, worthy of its exalted position as the final release of Tom Verlaine’s career. Bassist and original engineer Patrick Derivaz has mastered the album for its vinyl debut; Verlaine’s long-time partner Jutta Koether contributes notes. Teal vinyl pressing!

SIDE ONE
1. A Parade in Littleton
2. Heavenly Charm
3. Orbit
4. Blue Light

5. From Her Finger
6. Nice Actress
7. A Stroll
8. The Earth Is the Sky

SIDE TWO
1. Lovebird Asylum Seeker
2. Documentary
3. Shingaling
4. All Weirded Out5. The Day on You
6. Peace Piece

Robin Guthrie should get in touch with whoever remastered the Dead Can Dance catalog and let them do the Cocteau Twins, those SACD remasters (including the normal CD versions) sound fucking fantastic

Suede / Dog Man Star 30th anniversary
3CD and 2LP vinyl

By Paul Sinclair

Suede’s second album Dog Man Star will be reissued for its 30 anniversary later this year.

The band’s 1994 long-player would be the last to feature guitarist and co-songwriter Bernard Butler and includes the singles ‘We Are The Pigs’, ‘The Wild Ones’ and ‘New Generation’.

Sadly, there’s no SDE blu-ray edition, which we did last year for the band’s debut, but there will be a brand-new half-speed master in 2LP gatefold packaging and a 3CD deluxe edition seven-inch packaging.

he 3CD set includes B-sides and the full-length version of the non-album single ‘Stay Together’ and other bonus tracks and rarities from the period.

The reissue features revised cover art, with design undertaken for Suede’s by official designer and photographer Paul Khera. There’s also new sleeve notes by Simon Price.

Dog Man Star will be reissued on 4 October 2024 via Demon Music. A seven-inch picture disc of ‘We Are The Pigs’ will also be issued on 13 September.

what the hell… is that not literally just this reissue spread out across 3 CDs and with no videos?

https://www.discogs.com/release/2945360-Suede-Dog-Man-Star

Major announcement from...me! Just sent this announcement out to DownBeat, The Wire, Pitchfork, Stereogum and some writers I know...

BURNING AMBULANCE MUSIC PARTNERS WITH LEO RECORDS FOR LANDMARK DIGITAL REISSUE PROGRAM
Legendary Avant-Garde Label’s Catalog Arrives On Bandcamp For The First Time

Independent label Burning Ambulance Music has partnered with legendary UK-based avant-garde jazz label Leo Records for a digital reissue program that will see the majority of the Leo catalog come to Bandcamp for the first time.

Leo Records, founded in 1979 by producer Leo Feigin, was launched with the Amina Claudine Myers album Song For Mother E, which came to CD for the first time in 2023. Over the 45 years since its founding, the label has released hundreds of titles by Anthony Braxton, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Crispell, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ivo Perelman, Joëlle Léandre, Joe and Mat Maneri, and many others, including legends of avant-garde Russian jazz like the Ganelin Trio, Sainkho Namchylak, Simon Nabatov and Sergey Kuryohkin.

The first wave of digital reissues will focus on albums by well-known US jazz artists like Braxton, Crispell, Sun Ra, Taylor and others. The second wave will be devoted to the work of Brazilian saxophonist Perelman (amounting to more than 60 titles). The third wave will showcase Russian artists, and the fourth wave will draw from the rest of Leo’s vast output. Some titles will be available digitally for the first time, and there are tentative plans for archival releases of previously unavailable music as well.

“Leo Records releases have often been difficult to come by in the US, because of distribution issues and the challenges faced by record stores,” says Philip Freeman, Burning Ambulance Music co-founder and author of the new book In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor. “These artists have made brilliant music for decades, and it deserves to be heard by as many people as possible. Bandcamp’s global reach makes that a reality.”

The first Leo Records releases will be available on Bandcamp in September 2024, including titles by Marilyn Crispell (who will be honored as an NEA Jazz Master in April 2025), Amina Claudine Myers (a 2024 NEA Jazz Master), Sun Ra, and Anthony Braxton. In subsequent months, more albums by Braxton and Ra will be added, along with titles by Cecil Taylor, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Evan Parker and others. Approximately 20 new titles will arrive at leorecords.bandcamp.com each month.

For more information, contact Philip Freeman at burningambula✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧.

AWWWWESUM! WHAT A COUP FOR YOU, UNPERSON, AND FOR JAZZHEADZ EVERYWHERE---I'm maintaining a Cadence Magazine mailorder section flashback while reading your announcement yet again.

Meanwhile
https://www.depechemodeboxsets.com/assets/images/boxset-spirit.jpg

Was supposed to incl. text:

Spirit | The 12" Singles, a collector's edition deluxe box set, contains seven 12" vinyl discs including custom replicas of the original three double 12" singles from Spirit (Depeche Mode's 14th studio album): “Where's the Revolution” (originally released 3 February 2017, in advance of the album), “Going Backwards” (released 23 June 2017), and “Cover Me” (released 6 October 2017). As a bonus for Depeche Mode fans, Spirit | The 12" Singles premieres a special seventh disc: the first-ever 12" vinyl pressing of the band's legendary Highline Sessions, recorded live in New York City on 3 August 2016.

Also available the numbered, limited edition, vinyl box set series.
Depeche Mode | The 12" Singles
Reproduced from the original artwork and master tapes. Each box set includes an exclusive poster and download codes. Out now.

The Faces
Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings (1970-1973) (8CD + Blu-ray)

The Faces are set to make fans “Shake, Shudder, Shiver” with a comprehensive boxed set compiling all of the group’s BBC concerts and surviving studio sessions. This new collection – much of it previously unreleased – has been remastered with the full participation of band members Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones.

The Blu-ray includes newly restored footage of the Faces’ April 1972 appearance on Sounds for Saturday. The concert finds the “Borstal Boys” in peak form, radiating their swaggering, joyous spirit of rock ’n’ roll that continues to inspire generations.

The hardback set includes a 48-page booklet with new commentary from surviving band members and archival quotes from Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, and legendary BBC broadcaster John Peel. Lavishly illustrated with many previously unseen photos, the booklet details every Faces BBC session, concert, and broadcast. BBC broadcaster Gary Crowley wrote the detailed liner notes, which include a new interview with Jeff Griffin, who produced all of the Faces’ BBC concert appearances.

Once thought lost, many of the band’s BBC recordings were recovered from the Faces’ own archives and private collections. (Notably, only one BBC session of three songs remains missing.) Rarities include a stereo mix of the May 13, 1971, Paris Cinema concert, which was only broadcast in mono, and a February 1973 show that was never aired due to the BBC’s concerns over the band’s on-stage banter with the rowdy audience.

FACES AT THE BBC — COMPLETE BBC CONCERT & SESSION RECORDINGS 1970-1973 spans the band’s formation and meteoric rise. Exploring a period of intense creativity, which included four Faces studio albums (FIRST STEP, LONG PLAYER, A NOD IS AS GOOD AS A WINK...TO A BLIND HORSE..., and OOH LA LA) and several solo albums that Stewart recorded with most of the band (GASOLINE ALLEY, EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY, NEVER A DULL MOMENT, and SMILER). It includes live versions of fan favorites like “Bad ’n’ Ruin,” “Had Me A Real Good Time,” “Miss Judy’s Farm,” “Too Bad,” and “Stay With Me,” a gold-certified single in the U.S. and a Top 10 smash in the U.K. Several of Stewart’s solo songs were performed as well, including, “(I Know) I’m Losing You” and the U.S. and U.K. No. 1 hit, “Maggie May.”

John Peel’s Christmas Carol Concert rounds out the collection. Originally broadcast on Boxing Day 1970, this unique holiday performance features Stewart singing “Away In A Manger” and a Christmas carol medley sung by a choir that includes the Faces, their roadies, John Peel, Marc Bolan of T-Rex, and others.

Maybe not up to that level, but----Man Or Astroman? also have a BBC box coming:

...The fact that a decidedly obtuse and dorky band from Auburn, Alabama, would perform on Peel’s show more times than The Jesus Lizard, Fugazi, and Nirvana combined is proof positive that Astro-Man truly put in the work...especially on the British airwaves. What the BBC documented in its studios peppered across the country was a band that evolved in plain view from a spazzy surf band into a shit-hot post-punk powerhouse.

More than a decade ago, with my daughter, still in diapers, resting on my lap, I had a sit-down with Coco. He gave my outrageous idea of doing an extended Astro BBC retrospective a cautiously enthusiastic thumbs-up. Flash ahead to 2024: my daughter is now a teenager, and that preposterous idea is finally materialized. Thank the heavens. Thank the stars. The first (and hopefully not the last) Astro box set is now a full-blown reality. To see this completed is a thrill and a privilege, and a highlight of my charmed lifetime as a die-hard Astro fan. — Henry H. Owings (aka The Boo Yaa Boy)

Man or Astro-Man?
ROYGBIV (Recordings From The BBC)
Format: vinyl box set - 8 7" singles & bonus flexi
(Chunklet)
Street Date: Sept. 1, 2024

Track List:

1. Rocketship XL-3
2. Invasion of the Dragonmen
3. Nitrous Burnout
4. Transmissions From Venus
5. A Mouthful of Exhaust
6. Sadie Hawkins Atom Bomb
7. Theme from The Munsters
8. Gargantua's Last Stand
9. Name of Numbers
10. Special Agent Conrad Uno
11. Time Bomb
12. Put Your Finger In The Socket
13. __________ (Classified)
14. Sferic Waves
15. Inside the Head of Mr. John Peel
16. Inside The Atom
17. 24 Hours
18. Maximum Radiation Level
19. U-Uranus
20. Man Made of CO2
21. 9-Volt
22. Television Fission
23. Welcome to the Wicky Wacky World of John Peel (The Wayward Meteor)
24. Lo Batt
25. The Miracle of Genuine Pyrex
26. Jonathan Winters Frankenstein
27. With Automatic Shut Off
28. Rovers
29. Transmissions from Venus
30. Max Q view
31. Don't Think What Jack view
32. Birdstuff reading excerpts from “A Scanner Darkly” by Philip K. Dick
dgill at forcefieldpr dot com

stream: 1993 Peel Session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me1HZ8I8rc0

The first 20 Leo Records titles are available for preorder at leorecords.bandcamp.com; they are:

Anthony Braxton, Quartet (London) 1985
Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Birmingham) 1985
Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Coventry) 1985
Anthony Braxton, Quintet (London) 2004
Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Moscow) 2008
Anthony Braxton/Evan Parker, Duo (London) 1993

Marilyn Crispell, Live in Zurich
Marilyn Crispell, Gaia
Marilyn Crispell, For Coltrane
Marilyn Crispell, Santuerio
Marilyn Crispell, Stellar Pulsations/Three Composers
Marilyn Crispell, Dream Libretto
Marilyn Crispell, Selected Works 1983-1986

Amina Claudine Myers, Song For Mother E
Amina Claudine Myers, Salutes Bessie Smith

Sun Ra, What Planet Is This?
Sun Ra, Live At Praxis '84
Sun Ra, Second Star To The Right (Salute To Walt Disney)
Sun Ra, Stardust From Tomorrow
Sun Ra, The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab In Egypt