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as always, many of these titles are in very limited quantity, so if you're interested in anything listed below and can’t make it to the shop you can make a purchase via paypal or over the phone with a credit card and pick them up later or have them shipped (see more information below). i will no longer hold records. sorry.
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i also offer bike messanger service via timecycle couriers. for the low cost of 10.00usd i can deliver any amount of records and/or cds you wish to purchase to your center city philadelphia location (this includes some parts of south, west and north philadelphia) within two hours (and for those of you who need your records even faster, we also offer ‘rush’ service for the low flat rate of 20.00usd for any amount of records/cds delivered to you within one hour). of course, we are still more than happy to ship records via the usps within philadelphia. orders placed before 5pm/est will ship out that evening and should reach their destination by the following day.
ROCK AND PSYCHEDELIC
PEARL HARBOR- SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHAPARALLS LP (mexican summer, usa)
15.98usd/9.57gbp/10.61eur/1399jpy (approx)
*one-off repress limited to 300 in chipboard disco sleeve coupled with a cassette copy of the release… Pulling together strands of light, synthetic pop with the unmistakable damage of proximity to Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Mexican Summer is proud to present the first release by Los Angeles teens Pearl Harbor. Piper, Sky, and Cody create dreamy, ethereal melodies not dissimilar to heavies of the past few decades (Cocteau Twins, Lush), but with the doomed worldview of today's California, fallin' into the sea, creeping ever so slightly in the background.
REAL ESTATE- REALITY LP (mexican summer, usa)
15.98usd/9.57gbp/10.61eur/1399jpy (approx)
*one-off repress limited to 300 in chipboard disco sleeve coupled with a cassette copy of the release… New Jersey’s Real Estate has successfully captured the sound of a late Sunday afternoon, in the dreaded hours before work or school claims your life again. The band’s sweet, loose pop ballads recall a modern-day Everly Brothers, drifting and dreamlike, as their tales of suburban indifference and insecurity mask your own fears. Six new songs, and not a moment too soon.
KURT VILE- GOD IS SAYING THIS TO YOU LP (mexican summer, usa)
15.98usd/9.57gbp/10.61eur/1399jpy (approx)
*one-off repress limited to 300 in chipboard disco sleeve coupled with a cassette copy of the release… More than a mere odds-n-ends collection, Kurt Vile’s LP is a compilation of tracks from Overnite KV, a tour-only CDR, along with a handful of extra tracks recorded specifically for this release. Here we find Kurt solo, four-trackin’ as usual, and blowing minds with his mix of bluegrass guitar, blazed singer-songwriterisms, and the knowledge of how to balance these contexts out with laidback precision. Psychedelic to its core, these twelve tracks speak to the will of the casual perfectionist, honing his craft with effortless aplomb.
MOUNT CARMEL- MOUNT CARMEL LP (siltbreeze, usa)
12.98usd/7.77gbp/8.62eur/1136jpy (approx)
*The trio of Matthew Reed, Patrick Reed and Kevin Shubak--heretofore known as Mount Carmel--hails from Columbus, Ohio, but if you're expecting lo-fi, greaser's palace pop a la Psychedelic Horseshit or Times New Viking, think again. Mount Carmel is a straight-up blues rock power trio. And by straight-up we mean sans revisionist three-dollar currency, Sub Pop grunge hybridization or ironic posturing. These guys have been weened on a diet almost steadfastly consisting of British blues/rock innovators: Peter Green-era Bluesbreakers, Cream and Ten Years After are immediately recognizable in their sound (in fact, the latter's "Hear Me Calling" is covered on here). This isn't a lark or something these guys are doing between noise projects--it's their life. Good, old-fashioned rock 'n' roll, plain and simple. Some folks never made time for punk, just like you've always snubbed your nose at the drum solo. Hard to believe, right? But just because you didn't live through it the first time doesn't mean you're not doomed to repeat it. The piquancy of '70s-era redbud fusing with the aroma of banana- (or strawberry-) scented paper burning and hanging in the air, the sweet cascade of Ripple hitting the back of your throat, the blurry exotica of Rorer's ubiquitous 714... it's all here, undeniably, unpretentiously and unwittingly realized. In fact, their sound is so genuine, you'll swear you were dead! Or at the very least unborn. Dig it.
JAZZ
ROLAND P.YOUNG- ISTET SERENADE LP (em records, japan)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… Thirty years since Isophonic Boogie Woogie (EM 1045CD/EM 1045HJ-LP), Em Records proudly presents new music from original underground DJ, horn-master, and producer, Roland P. Young. Istet Serenade is a foray into the area of music space that represents the core of Roland's sound philosophy, "isophonics," the theory of composed improvisation, of stillness in the fluidity of constant change. The thingness of actualized sound in the nothingness of acoustic evaporation and recreation from the source of the in-dwelling presence. This occurs at a speed which defies conscious comprehension, but which reveals abundant revelatory, spiritual aspects. It requires a state of immersion and a freedom to reach toward technical trust and semiconscious execution of the revealed composition. Upon returning to a conscious state, one hears what was created as though it is being presented. The thought then thinks about what was thought and executed as a comprovisation of point, with instantly-mixed and remixed sound devices: breath, posture, devotion, bass clarinet, soprano G and Bb clarinets and saxophone, kalimba, Native American flutes, electronic accoutrements, voice, percussion, Mac Book, family, pen, pencil and the One. As the artist himself explains: "The 10 pieces were chosen from 55 comprovisations created over the past year. My travels to and playing in the atmospheres of Israel, Prague, Rome, London, Paris, Istanbul and Santa Fe, New Mexico, combined with my formative years in Kansas City, Missouri, then my years in the Bay Area of Northern California and my current residence in Brooklyn, New York, inform my music with ever-expanding inspirations and creative possibilities. Istet Serenade is a slice of the possible." This is a sound that is thusly described as spaced acid-drones of intense acoustic chill, embracing electronic, ambient, world, avant garde, cosmic, free and chamber jazz. Deeply engrossing, truly far-out, and emblematic of this groundbreaking composer's commitment to his vision and experience of sound as a physical and spiritual process.
ROLAND P.YOUNG- ISOPHONIC BOOGIE WOOGIE LP (em records, japan)
24.98usd/14.95gbp/16.58eur/2187jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… Long-awaited, newly repressed for vinyl LP edition of the legendary 5-track first LP from U.S. horn wizard & original underground FM radio DJ Roland P. Young, featuring soprano sax, clarinet, and electronically-processed bass clarinet. Young's mid-'70s work with jazz/chamber/electronic ensemble Infinite Sound (including members Glenn Howell and Aisha Kahlil) helped form the musical language of Isophonic Boogie Woogie, a solo, jazz/world music-flecked exploration of acoustic and electronic sounds. An enjoyable outing from a neglected musician. Cosmic Afro-minimal electronic winds recorded in late 1970s San Francisco.
DJANGO REINHARDT- THE 1938 LONDON DEBUT AND PARIS SESSIONS LP
(monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… While 1937 came to a close on the notes of the virtuoso 'Tea For Two,' 1938 began with the first appearance of the Quintette du Hot Club de France in England, an even greater sell-out event than Duke Ellington. The London recording sessions for Decca took place a few days after that event. Django played his own compositions, some jazz hits, and accompanied solos, the sound being now improved and more mature. The British episode was short but intense, and three more titles were recorded later, in August. In-between Django also recorded three sides with Benny Carter, who had widely played around Europe beginning in 1935. Packaged in 78 rpm style deluxe plain cardboard sleeve.
DJANGO REINHARDT- THE LAST YEARS OF PEACE: 1936-1937 LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… The British Decca company, who had distributed the early Ultraphone sides in England, was attracted by the sudden success of the band and decided to start, in the autumn of 1935, with new recording sessions, now at the enhanced Polydor studios in Paris. Although dealing with such musicians was often quite challenging for the German Polydor technical engineers, some of the results were musically remarkable, despite some low figure sales. Even during his Polydor-Decca phase Django recorded for other companies, including French Gramophone, and in November 1935 he met modern pianist Garnet Clark and US trumpeter Bill Coleman. Packaged in 78 rpm style deluxe plain cardboard sleeve.
DJANGO REINHARDT- FROM THE ULTRAPHONE SHELVES LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… From December 1934 to late September 1935, the Quintette du Hot Club de France, founded by gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and French violinist Stéphane Grappelli, cut nearly 20 titles for the Parisian based branch of the German Ultraphone label. During the nine months they spent under contract with Ultraphone, their repertoire included some original compositions by members of the band, as well as classic jazz gems. The selections proposed here offer a sample of Django's early genius, who showed the jazz community that the 'American way' of playing jazz was not the only one. Packaged in 78 rpm style deluxe plain cardboard sleeve.
V/A- RAG & STOMP: A RETROSPECTIVE ON 1930S WESTERN SWING LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… During the 1930s in the vast region of the American Southwest, particularly in Texas and Oklahoma, a younger generation gave birth to a new form of popular dance music. In the hard years of the depression, both rural enthusiasts who played by ear, and others who had basic notions of written music joined together and participated in the development of the so-called 'western swing'. The elements which flow into this music are easily detectable on recordings by western swing groups, melting white and black swing across the country (Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, etc.), together with blues, fiddle music and ragtime, which was particularly strong in the regional heritage of Texas. Packaged in 78 rpm style deluxe plain cardboard sleeve.
FOLK, BLUES AND ROOTS
V/A- WILLOWS SONGS LP (finders keepers, uk)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*out of print from the label, in shop for the first time… Finders Keepers presents the traditional British Folk songs that inspired the seminal soundtrack to The Wicker Man. 12 vintage recordings that inspired the soundtrack to the greatest British horror movie of our generation.
FURRY LEWIS- I WILL TURN YOUR MONEY GREEN 2LP (monk, italy) 35.98usd/21.54gbp/23.88eur/3151jpy (approx)
*One of the great Memphis bluesmen of the 1920s, Furry Lewis was one of the only bluesmen of his generation to achieve widespread fame with the blues revival of the 1960s, after a recording hiatus of nearly three decades. He began his recording career in 1927 (his first session is found here) and his prowess on his instrument, along with his natural flair for storytelling, immediately set apart from so many other struggling young bluesmen. Songs like 'John Henry' and 'Casey Jones' are some of the greatest blues narratives ever recorded, and have long since become standard blues fare. Although Lewis remained an amazing musician up until the end of his life, even opening for the Rolling Stones during these later years, and appearing on the 'Tonight Show', these sides represent his best material, recorded at the end of the roaring twenties, when Lewis was a young man and at the height of his abilities.
TOMMY JOHNSON- COOL DRINK OF WATER BLUES 2LP (monk, italy) 35.98usd/21.54gbp/23.88eur/3151jpy (approx)
*Along with Son House and Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson was one of the great early talents of the Delta Blues style. Recorded in Memphis and Wisconsin in 1928 and 1929, these 17 tracks represent Johnson's complete recorded works from 1928 and 1929, and capture Johnson in his prime, when his talents were so great that when he told fans he'd made a pact with the devil... it was difficult not to believe him! Unfortunately Johnson's love for music was only surpassed by his love for 'canned heat' (large quantities of alcohol, in any form he could get it, including Sterno!). In fact, his 'Canned Heat Blues' is one of his better known songs (even lending its name to the well-known sixties blues band), along with 'Cool Drink of Water Blues' (famously covered by Howlin' Wolf as 'I Asked For Water (She Brought Me Gasoline) '). There is also some lesser known material included here, like 'Ridin Horse' and 'Alcohol and Jake Blues', taken from what is believed to be the only remaining copy of the original 78!
DOCK BOGGS- WHEN MY WORLDLY TRIALS ARE OVER LP (monk, italy) 21.98usd/13.16gbp/14.59eur/1924jpy (approx)
*Pioneering singer / banjo player Dock Boggs (b. 1898) got his start playing (while working) in the coal mines all over the poverty-stricken Appalachian region. His earliest recordings, a blend Appalachian old-time music and early blues, come from 1927-1929. During this time Boggs was fairly popular and able to make a living with his music, much to the dismay of his wife who, like many others at the time, considered secular music a sin. By 1930, however, the Great Depression had forced Boggs to pawn his banjo and go back to selling moonshine and working in the coal mines. This would have been the end of Boggs' career had he thankfully not been rediscovered by folk revivalist Mike Seeger in the 1960s and subsequently recorded some great records for Smithsonian Folkways. This record is comprised of some extremely rare alternate takes (recorded between 1927-1929) of some of his greatest songs.
DOCK BOGGS- FALSE HEARTED LOVER'S BLUES LP (monk, italy) 25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… Born in 1898 in Norton, Virginia, singer/songwriter and banjo player Dock Boggs got his start playing in the mining camps while working in the mines all over the Appalachian region. In 1927, he got a contract with Brunswick Records and began recording and playing parties all over the area. This collection represents his complete recordings from 1927-1929 when Dock was at the beginning and height of his short-lived recording career. 1929, however, was also unfortunately the beginning of the Great Depression and, like many musicians, Dock was forced to give up playing professionally due to lack of audience (no one had money for records or parties anymore). He thankfully was rediscovered in the 1960s by the folk revival movement and went on to record three great albums for Folkways, before his death in 1971.
MA RAINEY- THOSE DOGS OF MINE LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*Ma Rainey or 'The Mother Of The Blues' began recording in 1923 for Paramount, making her one of the first blues artists ever to record. Active since 1896 in vaudeville and minstrel shows, she was an incredible character, shocking the audiences with her odd lyrics and performances, often to the limit of decency and above all very uncommon for a woman of those times. This LP contains some of her greatest songs from those long lost recordings.
SKIP JAMES- JESUS IS A MIGHTY GOOD LEADER LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*Born in Bentonia, Mississippi in 1902, Skip James began recording for Paramount in Grafton, WI, in the 1930s after showcasing his unmistakable talent in a series of auditions in Jackson, Mississippi. Particularly interesting was his three finger picking technique, his high pitched voice and the rural blues tales that he put in music for a sub genre of blues that was later called the 'Bentonia school.' This LP includes some of his rarest early tunes from those lost 78 RPMs from the Grafton period.
FRANK STOKES- DOWNTOWN BLUES LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… African American singer and guitar player who got his start playing on the streets of Memphis around the turn of the century. His enormous repertoire of early folk, blues, old time country and popular music, along with his influence on local musicians has made many point to him as the true father of Memphis blues. He began touring the South with a black face Medicine Show comedian in the 1910s where it is said he met and influenced Jimmie Rodgers, among others. He then moved to Tennessee where he began playing with musician Dan Sane with whom he made his first recordings as the 'Beale Street Sheiks' for Paramount in 1927. Throughout this period Stokes recorded a number of sides for Paramount and Victor until his old time style began to lose popularity with the record buying public.
MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS- SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… Formed in 1930 as a trio of guitar and fiddle music, the original lineup was composed of Lonnie, Sam and Armenter Chatmon, the latter best known as Bo Carter, who was also a solo star of the period. The Mississippi Sheiks took their name from Rudolph Valentino's movie The Sheik and became extremely popular in the 1930s despite the fact that the famous country music artists of the day were almost all solo artists. Their first single, 'Sittin' On Top of The World,' was also their biggest success. It went on to become a standard country blues song covered by many artists of the caliber of Frank Sinatra, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan and Cream.
BLIND BLAKE- BACK BITING BEE BLUES LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… Maybe Arthur 'Blind' Blake did not live too long but it was certainly enough to prove to the world that he was one of the blind geniuses the history of blues seems to be made of. Born in Florida in 1893, he died at the age of 40 in controversial circumstances -- booze? Car accident? -- leaving a good number of recordings for Paramount that made him famous as 'the king of ragtime guitar.' His astonishingly odd style made his riffs sound like a ragtime piano and his particular finger picking inspired many modern blues artists, Jorma Kaukonen among the best known.
BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON- I WANT TO BE LIKE JESUS IN MY HEART LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… The epitome of a sort of 'dark' blues, Henry 'Blind Lemon' Jefferson lived a mere 35 years, during which time he became the quintessential bluesman, conjuring a personal mix of rural and urban blues, decrying the conditions of the sharecroppers and city slum dwellers alike. He actually got his start playing in brothels and barber shops, where he developed his theatrical vocal lament. Unfortunately this early genius of the blues allegedly met his premature demise by freezing to death in 1929 in America's Windy City.
CHARLEY PATTON- ELECTRICALLY RECORDED: MOON GOING DOWN LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*One of the earliest figures in American music, Charley Patton is not only often credited with being the father of the Delta Blues, but perhaps equally importantly was one of the first true 'rock stars' of American music. Not that he played rock music (according to musicologist Robert Palmer, he played 'deep blues, white hillbilly songs, nineteenth-century ballads, and other varieties of black and white country dance music'), but he acted like a modern rock star: flashy clothes, flashy stage performances, virtuoso guitar playing, and a 'live fast / die young' lifestyle. The tracks found here feature another giant of the Delta blues: Willie Brown. Although Willie Brown was an accomplished vocalist and his guitar playing was second to none, Brown was perhaps best known as a sideman (and for his seminal 'Make Me A Pallet On The Floor'), accompanying Robert Johnson, Son House and, as heard here, Charley Patton. He appeared on many of Patton's sessions recorded between 1930-1934 and his amazing guitar playing can be heard here on 'Moon Going Down', 'Some Summer Day', as well as on his own 'Dry Well Blues'. Much of the material recorded here was recorded in 1934 in NYC, just months before his death. 'Hang It On The Wall' and 'Poor Me', recorded in February, were the last songs he ever recorded.
CHARLEY PATTON- ELECTRICALLY RECORDED: JESUS IS A DYING-BED MAKER LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… 12 more tunes from Patton's 1929 recording sessions. Here the acknowledged 'King of the Delta blues' performs some of his finest spiritual blues, like the title track, and 'You're Gonna Need Somebody When You Die.' One the most seminal blues artists of all time, this collection helps keep the legend alive. All tracks recorded in Grafton, WI, October 1929.
CHARLEY PATTON- ELECTRICALLY RECORDED: HIGH WATER EVERYWHERE LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… One step further into the life and music of this true superstar of early blues, this compilation features the two-part 'High Water Everywhere,' considered to be one of the greatest blues songs of all time, along with other pearls like 'Devil Sent The Rain Blues,' making this second episode of Monk's retrospective on Patton, another must have. Patton's ability to put the harsh everyday struggle of the Delta dwellers into music makes him one of the most enduring and soulful musicians in the entire history of blues. All tracks recorded in Grafton, WI, October 1929.
CHARLEY PATTON- ELECTRICALLY RECORDED: PRAYER OF DEATH LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… From the granddaddy of Delta blues comes this incredible compilation of his greatest songs. Charley Patton's influence on music cannot be overstated. He began playing music around 1900 and by the time he was 19, about a decade later, he had already written his most popular tune 'Pony Blues' and was on his way to becoming the first superstar of the Delta Blues and a household name. He was soon the most requested performer all over the South and influenced many young musicians, like Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Robert Johnson, to name a few. But it was not only his mastery of the guitar and incredible vocal style that gained him popularity. His rock star-style showmanship and stage antics -- like playing guitar down on his knees or behind his back -- with a girl on each arm and drink in hand after the show, made him the idol of young would-be musicians (and non) everywhere he played. And like a true rock star, by age 42 he was dead, which of course, only fuelled his fame.
BLIND WILLIE MCTELL- SCAREY DAY BLUES 2LP (monk, italy) 35.98usd/21.54gbp/23.88eur/3151jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… William Samuel McTier was born in Georgia in 1898 (according to some sources), and despite his blindness was a talented musician since early childhood. He began his recording career in 1927 for Victor Records in Atlanta and is credited with having created an entire blues sub genre by mixing the hard roots of the Delta style with the more refined East Coast style (Piedmont Blues). His unique 'country blues' can be heard on the grooves of this double LP collection brought to you by Monk records.
CHARLIE POOLE- HUSBAND AND WIFE WERE ANGRY ONE NIGHT LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… Born in North Carolina in 1892, singer and banjo player Charlie Poole is often considered to be one of the grandfathers of bluegrass and modern country music. Poole recorded 60 songs during the 1920s for Columbia Records with his wildly popular North Carolina Ramblers, so this LP is a small sampling of some of his very best songs, many of which, like his first big hit for Columbia, 'Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues,' are blues standards. Although Poole died of an alcohol-induced heart failure at just 39 years old, he still had plenty of time to influence bluegrass greats like Bill Monroe, and more indirectly, Hank Williams and the folk singers of the 1960s. Although Poole wrote none of his own material, his genius lay in his unique ability to rework a song, by changing lyrics and tempo, to make it something entirely new. In fact, many fans bought his records just to see 'how Charlie did it.' His North Carolina Ramblers sold huge numbers of records for the time and Poole became one of the first country music stars.
REV. JOHNNY L. "HURRICANE" JONES- JESUS CHRIST FROM A TO Z LP
(parlortone, usa)
25.98usd/11.36gbp/12.60eur/1662jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… Before the Rev. Johnny L. Jones earned the nickname "Hurricane" for whipping sermons into a frenzy, before he recorded a string of gospel LPs for Jewel Records, before his church in Atlanta's West End burned in 1973, and long before his records started showing up again in thrift stores to be discovered and bought by a younger generation, Johnny Jones was just a young boy sitting at a tent revival in Marion, Ala. The year was 1949. "I can't think of the man's name, but he played piano and sang," Jones says. "I guess the audience went wild along with me and I sat back there watching him. At 13 my prayer was, 'Lord, let me play a piano just like he's playing it.'" Called to preach at the young age of 19, Jones preached at country revivals and around LaGrange before settling in as pastor at Second Mount Olive Baptist Church in Atlanta. At the small church on Maple Street in the late '50s, Jones started recording the songs and sermon of each Sunday service on reel-to-reel tape. Jones says that Coretta Scott King and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lived in the neighborhood at the time. Jones started his recording career by putting out his own debut, an LP titled Working For God, financed with cash borrowed from his father. His third self-released LP, Jesus Is In Town, caught the ear of Stan Lewis at Jewel Records. The Louisiana-based record label -- "the largest Gospel one-stop in the business," according to Billboard magazine around that time -- re-released Jesus Is in Town in 1969 and continued releasing Jones' records throughout the '70s. Jones earned such a reputation for building up his sermons from slow teaching into a frenzied power that a local radio DJ started calling him "The Hurricane." Though Jones' congregation quickly outgrew the Maple Street location and moved to a church on Westhaven Drive, a fire that broke out during service on Dec. 9, 1973 stopped Second Mount Olive Baptist from growing larger. Jones says that during the peak, Mount Olive was drawing 1,500 people on a regular Sunday, but the fire almost immediately diminished that to a few hundred congregants. Jewel released Jones' last album in 1978. In the years since, those records have gone out-of-print, eventually circulating into used bins and thrift stores where they've been picked up by younger listeners unfamiliar with Jones or his church. Since being introduced by Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, Dust-to-Digital founder Lance Ledbetter and Jones have worked together, listening to the vast archive of recordings that Jones has never released. Together, they've culled those tapes into Jones' first LP in 31 years, Jesus Christ From A To Z. The collected recordings are striking, loose documents of that Hurricane style: soaring organs, screaming congregants and Jones leading it all in his distinctive moan. The Methodist theologian John Wesley once asked, "Why should the devil have all the good music?" Today, the Rev. Johnny L. Jones is proof that he doesn't. --Wyatt Williams, December 15, 2009
GLOBAL SOUNDS
V/A- TRAVELLING WITH MY PORTABLE ELECTRIC PHONOGRAPH VOLUME 1 LP (monk, italy)
25.98usd/15.55gbp/17.24eur/2275jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… What did South Africa and South East Asia of the 1940s and 50s have in common? In both places the local population was trying to gain independence from British colonialism. Although colonialism is never a good thing, there are always some positive outcomes when two cultures collide, especially when it comes to music. The Zulu of South Africa are the largest ethnic group in the country and are well known for their rich musical traditions. In the 1940s, however, Zulu musicians began fusing traditional Zulu choral music (often sung by migrant mine workers), like Mbube and Isicathamiya, with the instruments and rhythms of Western jazz. A continent away in India, we see that the same kind of musical revolution was taking place during this same period. Calcutta in particular became a musical hotbed beginning in WWII, when it became one of the major ports for the South East Asian Theatre of the War. The jazz scene was mainly centered on the house bands from the various luxury hotels and British social clubs, with these bands often recording for the South East Asian division of E.M.I. Interestingly, one of the hottest stars on this scene during the 1940s was Teddy Weatherford, an African American 'expat' from the Chicago jazz scene. Beginning in 1942, following the Japanese invasion of Burma (Myanmar), hundreds of thousands of refugees poured into India, among these great jazz musicians like Reuben Solomon (of Iraqi Jewish descent) of 'The Rangoon Gymkhana Club' fame. Batuk Nandy, on the other hand, was a well-known steel guitar player who rose to fame by making 'filmi' music for Bollywood films, while Bismillah Khan was an Indian shehnai (a traditional flute-like instrument) master, and one of only three classical musicians to have ever won the Bharat Ratna prize, the highest civilian prize in India. Khan was also one of the few musicians to perform at Delhi's Red Fort in 1947 for India's Independence celebrations. Despite the obvious negative outcomes, different cultures and religions forced together in the face of economic and political adversity has historically been a recipe for great music, and as this album testifies, India and South Africa were no different.
V/A- THAI BEAT A GO-GO VOLUME 2 LP (subliminal sounds, sweden)
27.98usd/16.75gbp/18.57eur/2450jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… Finally on vinyl, volume two of the legendary Thai Beat compilation including 7 (!) awesome, previously-unreleased tracks! Incredible and ultra-rare recordings from Thailand in the 1960s. The amazing Thai Beat A Go-Go Volume 2 concentrates on Shadow music string bands, cosmic surf instros, mad garage/beat, mystic go-go organs, wild guitar rave-ups, psychedelic mind-benders, and exotic female singers -- funky and soulful, with extreme sensuality and emotions, surreal and groovy, all with a totally otherworldly Thai flavor. Experience the blossoming Bangkok night club scene with the exotic bar and lounge go-go bands! These recordings have a sound that's completely inexplicable despite the use of standard rock instrumentation and song structures, combining a fascinating and primal version of rock n' roll, surf, and RnB, sometimes all in one song. Don't miss this ultimate, wild rockin' Thai '60s compilation. Limited edition of 1,000 copies worldwide. Housed in a beautiful full-color gatefold sleeve.
V/A- THAI BEAT A GO-GO VOLUME 1 LP (subliminal sounds, sweden)
28.98usd/17.35gbp/19.24eur/2538jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… Finally on vinyl, volume 1 of the legendary Thai Beat compilation, originally released in 2004, including two awesome previously-unreleased tracks! Incredible and ultra-rare recordings from Thailand in the 1960s. The amazing Thai Beat A Go-Go, which concentrates on red-hot Thai curry rock n' roll, Shadow music string bands, cosmic surf instros, mad garage/beat, mystic go-go organs, wild guitar rave-ups and psychedelic mind-benders, exotic female singers, funky and soulful with extreme sensuality and emotions, surreal and groovy, all with a totally otherworldly Thai flavor. Experience the blossoming Bangkok night club scene with the exotic bar and lounge go-go bands! These recordings have a sound that's completely inexplicable despite the use of standard rock instrumentation and song structures, combining a fascinating and primal version of rock n' roll, surf, and r 'n' b -- sometimes all in one song. Don't miss this ultimate wild rockin' Thai '60s compilation. Limited edition of 1,000 copies worldwide. Housed in a beautiful full-color gatefold sleeve.
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PETER GABRIEL- GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS 12” (slow to speak, usa)
13.98usd/8.37gbp/9.28eur/1224jpy (approx)
*A master at maneuvering between the vastly rewarding world of pop & the creative demands of experimental music, Peter Gabriel stands as one of the chief inheritors of uncompromising popular music of the 1960s, not so much in his aesthetic inheritances as much as his fortitude to uphold & maintain artistic integrity in the face of mass popularity and major label demand. As the founding member of the ever-popular Genesis, by 1980 Gabriel had already accumulated the experience and technique that would later inform his superior solo work with a sort of uncanny ability to translate the esoteric oddities of experimental, ambient and synth music with a formidable aptitude at pop writing and production that allowed him to live his notorious double life: part modern pop icon, part ambient & international music curator, founding the Real World label & creating one of the most influential soundscape full-length's of the 20th century in The Last Temptation of Christ. Even some his most well know work exudes the same imaginative, haunted & dream-like melancholy of his most abstruse music, alternating from cheerful lyrical insightfulness & unsettling melodic darkness, comprising one of the most powerful and intelligent musical legacies of the 1980s and beyond. 'Games Without Frontiers' has taken the step beyond super-hit into the cult reverence it now enjoys today, a classic example of eternal pop-rock brilliance: the supreme parody of the dangerous absurdities of European nationalism and a direct response to the dawning of a massive conservative backlash in his homeland of the United Kingdom. Ironically 'Games Without Frontiers' was most successful in the two leading nations of imperial might at the time, the United States and the U.K., a shining example of the powers wielded by an artist balancing the paradoxical status of massively famous and critically unbendable. Indeed, it is this uncompromising creative militancy, one that Gabriel has steadfastly honored and harbored with adamant resolve, that has elevated him from the typical ineffectuality of most top-40 artists to the reputable champion of the creative edge that operates as the vanguard of good pop music, without which the genre and the concept itself withers away in irrelevance and artificiality.
GIL SCOTT-HERON- ANGEL DUST: LIVE 12” (slow to speak, usa)
13.98usd/8.37gbp/9.28eur/1224jpy (approx)
*Gil Scott-Heron: the voice of inner city malaise; the champion of transparent honesty in musical expression; the man who lived the dark, wretched existence of addiction and 'Inner City Blues' he so eloquently described in his music. Refusing to divorce his music from the objective realities surrounding him, he tackled the most wretchedly unspeakable aspects of human suffering without a moment of flickering doubt or hesitation, dissecting and decimating systematically the pseudo-academic justification for Black America's continued wallowing in the depths of poverty, crime and disenfranchisement. Scott-Heron lived the darkness: always on the verge of death, one foot in the coffin, one firmly planted on the cracked concrete of inner city America, he managed to stand firm against the tide unaware and unconscious thought typical of the mindless rabble in favor of a markedly witty and free-spirited, joyous assault on the dominant social relations of 1970s America, all the while battling a stupendous heroin addiction. Indeed, Scott-Heron knew that of which he chronicled in his songs, ascribing words to previously inexplicable miseries plaguing the downtrodden masses of the world. This newest 12" from Slow To Speak's Francis Englehardt and Paul Nickerson features three of his dopest and most powerful songs, including two live takes -- 'Angel Dust' and 'The Bottle' -- in addition to the breathtaking 'We Almost Lost Detroit.' Highly limited, highly recommended.
PATTI SMITH- WAVE/GHOST DANCE/BECAUSE THE NIGHT 12” (slow to speak, usa)
13.98usd/8.37gbp/9.28eur/1224jpy (approx)
*Poet, punk-rock evangelist and unwavering proponent of authentic rock n' roll, Patti Smith is one of the most brilliant minds of modern music. Making her start in the burgeoning anti-art communities of 1970s New York City, Smith was one of the few figures that maintained the continuum of the 1960s avant-garde, invigorating it with the disillusioned and enraged outlook of post-Nixon-era youth, and in the process reinventing major label rock forever. Basking in the helpless fury of the first legitimately apolitical generation in the United States, Smith & her loyal circle of collaborators pushed their confrontational sonic warfare with fearless confidence and an unparalleled lyrical expressiveness, inspired by the total freedom of punk-rock and resolute in infusing its aesthetic populism and accessibility with a firm intellectual vivacity that did battle with the increasingly grim social landscape of neo-consumerism. Countering rampant alienation with the rejuvenating act of basic musical articulation, Smith affirmed cathartic release through song, word & collective performance, elevating her work from standard punk-rock radicalism to authentic social philosophy, an essential chronicling of the dark shadows of isolation-turned-communal transcendence and self-actualization that always lay at the heart of punk's essentially democratic culture.
NEIL YOUNG- WILL TO LOVE/CORTEZ THE KILLER: LIVE 12” (slow to speak, usa)
13.98usd/8.37gbp/9.28eur/1224jpy (approx)
*Neil Young is one of the greatest singer/songwriters of our era, a man of bare-knuckled will and innate, self-reliant artistic talent that has ascended from unsophisticated origins to epitomize the uncompromising major label artist that retains total creative autonomy -- a league that he and few others belong to. Originally a member of the legendary Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young folk-rock supergroup of the 1960s, Young broke away after their initial successes to concentrate on his own unmitigated self-actualization, a devastatingly sincere emotional illumination through song that circumvents celebrity and ego to deliver the core spirit of Young's vast, poetic and always piercingly relevant universe of expression: timeless, soulful, objectively flawless music. Young's work wields an inarticulable emotional poignancy, leaving the definite sensation that each song not only eternalizes the temporal emotional states of the artist himself, but speaks for all things -- sentient and inanimate -- all emotions -- joyful or despairing -- all the tragedies, triumphs and uncertainties of the human condition, united in a universal expression of the master's collective embodiment. Part of what has enabled Young's talent to flourish is his determination to maintain an impassible distance between his music and the poisonous superficialities and distractions of fame and profit. Keeping small company and focusing tirelessly on his music, Young is the greatest example of true, unfettered and unsoiled artistic integrity, a fact that has been proven constantly over the last four decades of his career: he is one of the seldom artists that cannot be separated from his work, his music a direct outpouring of his worldview. With heart-wrenching, totally unique vocals and raw, expressive, guitar-driven genius, Neil Young has lead the way for all introspective, forward-thinking individuals that know that something's not quite right in this strange world -- but assured that, at the end of the day, everything will be alright, if we can only take up our sorrows in the realm of dream, desire and song; this is Young's eternal contribution to universal spirit. "Will To Love" taken from the album American Stars 'N Bars; "Cortez The Killer" taken from the album Live In San Francisco; also included (but not listed on the cover) is "Dead Man Theme [Infinite].
U2- BLOODY SUNDAY 12” (slow to speak, usa)
13.98usd/8.37gbp/9.28eur/1224jpy (approx)
*今、音を操るメッセンジャーとして最も目が離せないレーベル『SLOW. TO SPEAK』からのREMIX盤。本作は72年北アイルランド紛争に関するU2のメッセージソング"Sunday Bloody Sunday"をオリジナルに忠実ながらも原曲に内包する緊迫感を引き出した一枚。他にBJORK"ALL FULL IS OF LOVE"のREMIXなど今年のベスト・リミックス・ワーク。
NEIL YOUNG- WILL TO LOVE/CORTEZ THE KILLER: LIVE 12” (slow to speak, usa)
13.98usd/8.37gbp/9.28eur/1224jpy (approx)
*Neil Young is one of the greatest singer/songwriters of our era, a man of bare-knuckled will and innate, self-reliant artistic talent that has ascended from unsophisticated origins to epitomize the uncompromising major label artist that retains total creative autonomy -- a league that he and few others belong to. Originally a member of the legendary Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young folk-rock supergroup of the 1960s, Young broke away after their initial successes to concentrate on his own unmitigated self-actualization, a devastatingly sincere emotional illumination through song that circumvents celebrity and ego to deliver the core spirit of Young's vast, poetic and always piercingly relevant universe of expression: timeless, soulful, objectively flawless music. Young's work wields an inarticulable emotional poignancy, leaving the definite sensation that each song not only eternalizes the temporal emotional states of the artist himself, but speaks for all things -- sentient and inanimate -- all emotions -- joyful or despairing -- all the tragedies, triumphs and uncertainties of the human condition, united in a universal expression of the master's collective embodiment. Part of what has enabled Young's talent to flourish is his determination to maintain an impassible distance between his music and the poisonous superficialities and distractions of fame and profit. Keeping small company and focusing tirelessly on his music, Young is the greatest example of true, unfettered and unsoiled artistic integrity, a fact that has been proven constantly over the last four decades of his career: he is one of the seldom artists that cannot be separated from his work, his music a direct outpouring of his worldview. With heart-wrenching, totally unique vocals and raw, expressive, guitar-driven genius, Neil Young has lead the way for all introspective, forward-thinking individuals that know that something's not quite right in this strange world -- but assured that, at the end of the day, everything will be alright, if we can only take up our sorrows in the realm of dream, desire and song; this is Young's eternal contribution to universal spirit. "Will To Love" taken from the album American Stars 'N Bars; "Cortez The Killer" taken from the album Live In San Francisco; also included (but not listed on the cover) is "Dead Man Theme [Infinite].
NEIL YOUNG- SOUTHERN MAN 12” (slow to speak, usa)
13.98usd/8.37gbp/9.28eur/1224jpy (approx)
*shop favorite restocked… The Feed.back series has never been focused on making the rare and obscure once again commercially available for record collectors and DJs to own. As demonstrated by the previous two selections, U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday and Loggins & Messina's Pathway To Glory, the Feed.back series is intended to really showcase some of the dopest as well as most urgently relevant classics of our recent times. More than just a music showcase, Feed.back highlights records that actually concern serious conditions of the modern era up to this day, both spiritual and political/material, records that speak to the everyday conditions that we live through in our day-to-day existence on this earth. Music has the potential to become something beyond personal healer, a social tool both for political organization and propaganda, but also for the necessary expression of mass frustration and collective purpose. Feed.back strives for the rejuvenation of this intent in the creation and playing of music. The 3rd edition of this series, Neil Young's Southern Man, articulates a marked disgust with the reactionary and inherently racist tendency of regional nationalism. Everyone is familiar with the alleged animosity between Young and Alabama's Lynyrd Skynyrd over the blatantly condemnatory articulation of the South's almost fascistic obsession with local heritage -- sic. blood & soil, the completely fallacious belief in a national story, a legacy of firm local traditionalism that fuels so much of the racism in the south. Past, present, and future is accounted for, and the legacy of slavery is carried on through demented 'local pride' that goes largely unquestioned, disguised as it is. Young put out a song that sought to openly and aggressively single out the violent legacy of Southern racism and its influence still operating strong within Southern social thought, refusing to let it fade away from the popular memory, just as the most influential and high-ranking of apologists were beginning to formulate and put into action the notion of equality finally achieved in the 'new America.'
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