2003 Reissues

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I can't find a thread for this elsewhere, but there are some interesting looking reissues I don't see being mentioned here.

Joan La Barbara: Voice is the Original Instrument
Elmo Hope Ensemble: Sounds from Rikers Island
Sun Ra: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght 1 & 2
Sun Ra: Live in Paris at the Gibus
Azuquita: Llego y Dijo

Sundar and possibly Julio (among others) should buy the Joan La Barbara CD. (And I should too.) Squiggly vocal abstractions. I'm happy that the Lovely Music label is still going too. I guess the problem with a lot of this stuff is that while I would love to hear it (if I haven't) or have a copy of it (if I've heard it), it's usually not the sort of thing I will play very often.

Elmo Hope Ensemble is an old recording that includes Arkestra members, including John Gilmore.

I'm happy to see that the 70's solo work of Azuquita, a sonero I only discovered in the past few years, is in the process of being reissued (even if Salsa Pura wasn't as good as I expected it to be).

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 7 July 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The reissue of Police and Thieves by Junior Murvin (produced by Lee Perry, lots of bonus stuff) isn't as obscurely sexy as these, but pretty amazing nonetheless-a.

― Neudonym, Monday, 7 July 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

How long has that been out of print? I just bought that a few years ago. Have I lost track of when I bought it? It sounds like this might be a remaster. (Mine doesn't have any bonus tracks.)

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 7 July 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

(Nuits De La Fondation Maeght has been released on CD not so long ago, too, though. In fact, there are certain chunks missing from this reissue. I will probably get it anyway though, because it's too complicated to sort out what else to get, and I'm not a completist.)

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The earlier reissue of the Nuits stuff sounded like complete crap. Pretty sure it was a bootleg; it was definitely mastered from vinyl. I might have to pick up these new ones...

Yeah, I've owned the old Island (or is it Mango?) issue of the Murvin thing for years. I wasn't aware it had gone out of print.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know that the Murvin album did go out of print at all...they just reissued it anyway. Well, it rocks; extended versions, alternate mixes with Dillinger toasting, unreleased track; in a word, heaven.

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Voice Piece: One-Note Internal Resonance Investigation" (From the La Barbara album.)

I just don't know why stuff like this doesn't get commercial airplay!

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

munster records has just reissued two essential albums by james chance.
contortions - buy
james white and the blacks - off white
two albums on one cd (or double vinyl).

and microbe records has reissued kim fowley's "living in the streets".

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I got my copy from Chance a few months ago. Can't stand the way they broke up the sides though, with part of Off-White on the Buy side. WTF?
Cheers to reissues of Glenn Branca The Ascension, Susan Cadogan, Eugene McDaniels, King Sunny Ade, Roger Doyle, and Byard Lancaster.

― abeta, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

''Joan La Barbara: Voice is the Original Instrument''

yeah rockist I'll be getting that soon-ish (when i looked at the latest wire it was the one record that i thought was worth getting).

''I'm happy that the Lovely Music label is still going too. I guess the problem with a lot of this stuff is that while I would love to hear it (if I haven't) or have a copy of it (if I've heard it), it's usually not the sort of thing I will play very often.''

you make it sound as if this is a bad thing when it needn't be. some CDs i will paly it once and then not touch for up to a year and then i'll eventually get into them (or not). I'm not 'worried' by this.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio, it's a bad thing in purely economic terms. Also, it tends to be music that I'm very interested in on a purely auditory level, and maybe on a conceptual level, but it often doesn't connect on an emotional level, which is particularly important to me. However, I still like it.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

I'm very happy that Marcel Khalife's At the Border is now available on CD for the first (along with two other albums).

(Not sure why I haven't mentioned the Neil Young reissues here, but I guess I thought that was too obvious. Not that I have any of them yet myself.)

― Al Andalous, Friday, 12 September 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure if it counts, but Ace Records have a whole load of non-Beach-Boys Brian Wilson productions on their 2003 CD called "Pet Projects", and it's worth getting just for "Guess I'm Dumb" sung by Glenn Campbell which I don't think was [easily] available on CD before. I'm sure everyone knows this already.

And, of course, Corwood Industries reissued "Graven Image" earlier this year.

James.

― James Larcombe, Friday, 12 September 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the thread where we thank whoever is responsible for the atavistic reish program of old FMP releases!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 13 September 2003 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

There have already been some Celia Cruz reissues (along with new compilations and a posthumously released album), since her death, mostly things from early in her career, which I'm starting to think is the material that I like the most, give or take a number of individual songs from later on.

Las Guarachas De La Guarachera - Con La Sonora Matan

Sabor Y Ritmo De Pueblos: Celia Cruz Con La Sonora Matancera

Su Favorita - Con La Sonora Matancera

― Al Andalous (Al Andalous), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Japan/Sylvian reissues

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Sunday, 14 September 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Lost Classics of Salsa, Vol. 1

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 11 December 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Hood did a big compilation of compilation tracks. It's the best album they've ever come out with. Seriously. Everything from Smiths-pop to Aphex-ish ambient music to Dirty Three/Mogwai post-rock to Flying Saucer Attack fuzz to Mum glitch-pop to... really really weird things.

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms, for the remastering, not for the bonus tracks. "Chimacum Rain" is now even more mind blowing, if that's possible.

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Glen Campbell's Guess I'm Done was previously on a 2CD Capital Years set that I think I had to order as an import. Disk 1 is pretty much all the Glen I need.

Thanks for mentioning the Glenn Branca reissue up there, we have another one coming...Lesson No. 1, Dissonance and now Bad Smells, on one CD, remastered(read made even more kickass) by Weasel Walter, liners by Alan Licht and featuring, for the heck of it, a 20 min video of Symphony 5.

Also look for the Metal Boys in February and Dr. Mix in April and we're(Acute) working on a ton of other things I'd rather not say untill it's down on paper, you know?

dan selzer

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

reissues that everyone knows about:
the four uncle tupelo discs
the first two television discs

― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 12 December 2003 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Easily the most revelatory reissue for me by a present day artist was Flowchart's 2-disc Singles and Comp Tracks, Pre-2000. Crammed with inspired strokes, almost none of which I had heard before. I guess his albums and EPs, Cumulus Mood Twang excepted, were his toss-offs, because until now, I had dismissed him as a puerile headcase.

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Memphis Minnie, Me and My Chauffeur Blues

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The Unperverted Pantomime? by Killing Joke (previously only available as a fan-club-released cassette).

The Bunnymen re-releases were nice, though odd after releasing a massive boxset just last year.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Homosexuals Reissue!
and is the Arthur russell reissue out yet?

― Jens (brighter), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Ethiopiques Vol. 14 - Getachew Mekuria
proto free-jazz honking over rhythmic vamps by the king of Ethiopian sax. loverly.

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Willie Nelson Crazy: the Demo Tapes

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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