It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about
architecture but what about singing about movies? Sufjan
Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have paired up for a
collaborative project that does just that. ‘A Beginner’s Mind’ is
their debut album and contains 14 songs (loosely) based on
(mostly) popular films. The source material is highbrow, lowbrow and everything in
between. The music is folksy, sweet, sincere and harmonically
effervescent - Simon & Garfunkel with New Age flourishes. This
album runs the gamut and has fun with it, even while its
songwriters remain fully rooted in the melancholy folk idioms
they are known for. Daniel Anum Jasper, a pioneer of Ghanian movie poster
painting, was commissioned to paint a series of new works for
‘A Beginner’s Mind’. His paintings are a graphic simulacrum for
the same sense of wonder, wordplay and intrigue that shape ‘A
Beginner’s Mind’. By transforming old films into vital new songs,
Stevens and De Augustine ask us to consider ourselves from a
previously unconsidered vantage point - a new way of seeing
and hearing - an exercise that’s as necessary and relevant now
as it’s ever been. “In the dizzying chime of his careful fingerpicking and highpitched howls, De Augustine captures love’s bright blaze.” - Pitchfork
“What we find here, on what is arguably the pinnacle of his
output to date, is De Augustine achieving the beautiful balance
between introspection and grandeur; straddling the place where
pain and hope intersect.” - Line of Best Fit
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- A1: The Blowflys - Funky In The Hole
- A2: Funkadelic - If You Don't Like The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause
- A3: Ohio Players - Hustle Bird
- A4: The Armada Orchestra - For The Love Of Money
- A5: The Sylvers - Handle It
- A6: Malone & Barnes & The Spontaneous Simplicity - Road Man
- B1: James Brown - Smokin' & Drinkin
- B2: Kc & The Sunshine Band - I Get Lifted
- B3: T-Connection - Lady Of The Night
- B4: Asha Puthli - Flying Fish
- B5: The Jimmy Castor Bunch - The Mystery Of Me
- A1: Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul - (I've Got) So Much Trouble In My Mind (I've Got)
- A2: Eugene Blacknell & The New Breed - Dance To The Rhythm
- A3: Mavis John - Use My Body
- A4: Betty Wright - All Your Kissin' Sho' Don't Make True Lovin
- A5: Gil Scott-Heron - Lady Day & John Coltrane
- B1: Oby Onyioha - Enjoy Your Life
- B2: Incredible Bongo Band - Apache
- B3: Patrice Rushen - Music Of The Earth
- B4: Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Expansions
- B5: Millie Jackson - I'm Free
Mal Waldron's first tribute to Billie Holiday, titled Left Alone, was recorded in 1959, mere months before the singer's death. He returned to salute the legendary vocalist on several occasions since then, with this recording likely being his final tribute, recorded less than a year before his own death. Waldron, who worked with Holiday during her last years, is intimately familiar with her takes of the six standards heard on this disc, along with her own "Lady Sings the Blues." Archie Shepp's often gritty tenor sax is reminiscent of the texture of Holiday's voice, yet he perfectly complements Waldron's lush piano. They also pack a punch with their stark performance of "Left Alone" (Shepp's occasional reed squeaks seem deliberate, as if to imitate breaks in her voice). Waldron also recites Holiday's lyrics set to his composition at the conclusion of the LP. Shepp switches to soprano sax for an emotional take of "Everything Happens to Me" and "I Only Have Eyes for You," with the latter song sounding as if the unheard singer is being ignored by her love interest. Shepp's "Blues for 52nd Street" is both sassy and swinging. This instrumental salute to Billie Holiday is one of the best albums ever to honour her memory. by Ken Dryden/AMG
- A1: The Banks Of The Ohio
- A2: O What A Beautiful City
- A3: Sail Away Ladies
- A4: Black Is The Color Of My True Love Hair
- A5: Lowlands
- A6: What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby
- B1: Silver Dagger
- B2: East Virginia
- B3: Fare Thee Well
- B4: House Of The Rising Sun
- B5: Donna Donna
- B6: John Riley
- B7: Rake And Rambling Boy
- C1: Wagoner’s Lad
- C2: The Trees They Do Grow High
- C3: The Lily Of The West
- C4: Once I Knew A Pretty Girl
- C5: Lonesome Road
- C6: Railroad Boy
- C7: Plaisir D’amour
- D1: Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You
- D2: Geordie
- D3: Copper Kettle
- D4: What Have The Done To The Rain ?
- D5: Lady Mary
Joan Baez – a singer, activist and pacificist committed to the struggle against all segregation – recorded her first album in 1959 at the age of eighteen. The titles on these four sides are taken from the first four records she made, and they all reflected the position she took in the folk movement that was then emerging, together with her militant support of minority groups.
It would be sixty years before she said farewell to the stage, in July 2019 at the Montreux jazz Festival, after a sixty-year career of unrivalled quality that actively showed her sincere commitment to social and political causes. The grace in her exceptional voice, her kindness and admirable personality – and her determination – earned her an exceptional place in the history of popular music, as well as in the hearts of an ever-increasing audience.
- A1: Yyyyyy2222
- A10: B£E (Feat Blackhaine)
- A2: Indigo Grit (Feat Guest)
- A3: Lose You Beau
- A4: Solemn
- A5: Lv
- A6: Preparing The Perfect Response
- A7: Ny (Interlude)
- A8: Rings (Feat Guest)
- A9: Noise Sweet
- B1: Like Orchids
- B2: Meet Me At Sachas
- B3: U (Feat Kinseylloyd)
- B4: Track 14
- B5: Girl Scout Cookies (Feat Bianca Scout)
- B6: Ladybird Drone
- B7: With Your Touch
- B8: Strength (Feat La Timpa)
- B9: Honest Labour (Feat Hforspirit)
After more than 20 years in the business, HD Substance is still here as a full actor in the global scene.
Missing Link is a three-track EP, printed on Vinyl, signing and opening our new Vinyl release series.
TTR006 is a sophisticated piece by HD Substance, delivering Beats & Pieces 7 and 8, which are techno hypnotic vibe tracks with an electro touch; to complete the EP, we have an outstanding breaky electro track called Lady On The Floor.
- A1: Ferdinand Prairie - Old Lady
- A2: Ferdinand Prairie - Bindingsmetal Binds
- A3: Ferdinand Prairie - Asphalte I (Locked Groove)
- A4: Ferdinand Prairie - Asphalte Ii (Locked Groove)
- B1: Hector Mad - Dance Of Resonant Planets
- B2: Hector Mad - Detroit Space Shuttle
- B3: Hector Mad - Ngc 4535 (Locked Groove)
- B4: Hector Mad - Asteroid Rain (Locked Groove)
Matterwave Records presents its faith EP with a combination between new and mature blood of producers to edit "ALLIANCE" release. Specific collaboration series. Ferdinand Prairie and Hector Mad, one side for each one where they express an electronic language balancing minimal techno
forms.
Four original tracks + Locked grooves, high quality limited 12" with a full colour sleeve. 200 copies
DIALOGUE was conceived as a series of musical letters written back and forth between Luke Slater, Anthony Child (aka Surgeon), KMRU, Lady Starlight, Speedy J and harpist Tom Moth (of Florence + the Machine) at the height of the pandemic between 2020 and early 2021. Using the common language of rhythmic ambient electronics, each DIALOGUE features three actors in a sonic conversation of longform improvisation between 15 and 25 minutes in length, with Luke Slater the common denominator. The results are a brooding, psychedelic exchange of melody, texture, bass, oscillation, key changes and volume swells, which organically merge into complete compositions. It’s music that both reflects and transcends the artists' common reality of isolation – a meditative, consciousness-expanding conversion of musical ideas born from necessity. Cosmic but not escapist. And very much of its time.
"One of the quintessential Charles Mingus recordings regardless of label, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus finds a mini-big-band playing some of Mingus’ best-known compositions – albeit with new titles! Features Mingus favorites Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin and Jaki Byard among its all-star cast.
Mainly recorded during the sessions for the Black Saint And The Sinner Lady, this 1964 classic featured many of Mingus’s greatest compositions including ‘Celia’, ‘Theme For Lester Young’ and ‘Better Git Hit In Yo’ Soul’
Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging."
Once again we teamed up with Ubisoft to bring the music of high-tech action game Watch Dogs: Legion to good ol’ fashioned vinyl. This triple LP set features original score tracks by Stephen Barton and tracks “Rainfall (feat. Tiana Major9)” by Brit Award-winning Stormzy and “In the Jungle” by Baby Knoxx.
Watch Dogs: Legion builds on the open-world stealth-action gameplay of its predecessors, delivering a never-before-seen gameplay innovation. Players can recruit and play as anyone they see in the iconic city of London: an MI6 agent, a tough bare-knuckle fighter, or an inconspicuous old lady.
Composer Stephen Barton has amassed an enviable AAA credits list, including co-composition on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (with Harry Gregson-Williams), the Titanfall series, Apex Legends, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. For Watch Dogs: Legion’s pulse-pounding original score, Barton blends a dizzying array of electronic and percussive elements, with flashes of breakbeat and layers of atmospheric ambience.
25 tracks specially mastered for vinyl will be pressed onto three audiophile-quality, heavyweight 180g discs.
Five sides include music, with the sixth side featuring a custom etching of the iconic DedSec pig mask. LPs will be housed in a deluxe triple gatefold.
- A1: Time Machine
- A2: Heartbreaker
- A3: Mr. Limousine Driver
- A4: Closer To Home (I’m Your Captain)
- B1: Sin’s A Good Man’s Brother
- B2: Aimless Lady
- B3: Mean Mistreater (Live At Jacksonville Coliseum, Fl, 1970)
- B4: Gimme Shelter
- B5: Feelin’ Alright
- C1: Footstompin’ Music
- C2: Upsetter
- C3: Rock & Roll Soul
- C4: We’re An American Band
- C5: Walk Like A Man
- C6: Shinin’ On
- D1: The Loco-Motion
- D2: Bad Time
- D3: Some Kind Of Wonderful
- D4: Take Me
- D5: Sally
- D6: Stuck In The Middle
- D7: I’m So True
Few bands manage to release seven studio albums plus a live album in the first four years of their career and turn them all into million sellers. Grand Funk Railroad was such a band. Grand Funk played an unprecedented blend of rock, soul and funk, with that creating classics such as “Closer To Home”, “We’re An American Band”, “Bad Time” and “Some Kind Of Wonderful”. These and many other great Grand Funk songs can be found on this brand new double-LP Grand Funk Railroad Collected. MOV proudly presents new Collected compilation albums in collaboration with Universal Music.
- A1: I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
- A2: Broadway
- A3: Almost Like Being In Love
- A4: Sextet
- A5: Lady Be Good
- B1: Too Marvelous For Words
- B2: Lover Man
- B3: I'll Remember April
- B4: These Foolish Things
- B5: All The Things You Are
"Three giants of West Coast Jazz came together in this deeply swinging session recorded for the Pacific Jazz/World Pacific label in 1953. Alto saxophone master Lee Konitz joins with the great Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone and legendary trumpeter Chet Baker on a half-live, half-studio program of standards along with one Mulligan original.
The group is supported by bassists Carson Smith and Joe Mondragon with Larry Bunker on drums for this spontaneous and inventive jazz treasure.
Blue Note Records’ Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series is produced by Joe Harley and features all-analog, mastered-from-the-original-master-tapes, 180g audiophile vinyl reissues in deluxe packaging. Mastering is by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) and vinyl is manufactured at Record Technology Incorporated (RTI)."
Originally released on the Ovide label from Houston, Texas in 1970 and currently going for around £175, if you can find a copy.
‘Get Your Point Over’ is a brass-led funky dancer that beautifully compliments Sebastian Williams’ soulful vocal style, while the flipside, ‘I Don't Care What Mama Said (Baby I Need You)’, is a slower
groove that lets that vocal really soar, arriving complete with a groovy psychedelic guitar break before Williams testifies to his lady amid some punchy brass stabs.
Two stellar tunes from Sebastian Williams (aka Roger Williams of no-hit wonders The Quarter Notes), whose solo recording career amounted to just three 45s, all five years apart, along with a couple of releases as Sebastian And The House Rockers and finally, in 1975, just Sebastian.
Imagine vintage Tavares lead singer Chubby Tavares at his gritty best with a funky brass section in a soulful Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes styled blast.
Both tracks mastered from the original sound source for maximum soul sound.
Givin' It Back is the ninth album released by The Isley
Brothers on their T-Neck imprint in 1971. After years of having white Rock acts covering their most famed material, particularly, 'Shout' and 'Twist And Shout', the Isleys decided to do the same to music made famous by white artists such as Stephen Stills, Eric Burdon and Neil Young.
Among the songs they covered were 'Spill The Wine',
'Love The One You're With', the social commentary medley of 'Ohio' and 'Machine Gun' (from Jimi Hendrix), 'Fire And Rain' by James Taylor and Bob Dylan's 'Lay
The Isleys' perseverance paid off when their covers of 'Love
The One You're With', 'Lay Lady Lay' and 'Spill The Wine' became charted hits. Bill Withers plays guitar on the Isleys
3 + 3 is the eleventh studio album by American musical group The Isley Brothers, released under T-Neck/Epic Records. It marked the first time the group officially included six members instead of three: older brothers Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly Isley were joined by younger brothers Ernie and Marvin as well as their brother-in-law Chris Jasper. The album was very successful, which can be attributed to the successful singles “That Lady”, “What It Comes Down To” and “Summer Breeze”. 3 + 3 ultimately became the band’s first platinum album. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and was also ranked #464 in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list in 2020
When his mother brought Stanley Turrentine’s Salt Song LP back from a trip to Canada, Julien Lourau, then a teenager, was impressed by the scope of the sound and the groove of the saxophone. He was also charmed by the lush arrangements and funky sound of the record, typical of releases on the CTI label. Created by producer Creed Taylor, CTI left an imprint in the minds of 70s jazz fans much like Blue Note did in the 60s, and it even ended up releasing work by artists who started out on this mythical label such as Stanley Turrentine and Freddie Hubbard. The two even shared the same sound engineer, the great Rudy van Gelder.
Yet CTI, though highly prolific during its 15 years of activity, has not benefitted from the same aura as its predecessor. “To breathe life into this album, I listened to a wealth of CTI releases and discovered some I had never heard before. I noticed, oddly, that many of today’s musicians know very little about CTI - a label unfairly considered as minor.”
The choice of tracks was determined by Julien’s personal tastes, always keeping in mind a desire to help people discover them yet focusing on the joy of actually playing them too.
"The album is made up of 9 pieces. Mathieu Débordes got everything down to the nearest note before we even attempted to play them. CTI didn’t hold back in fuelling their compositions with brass and violins, but I erased this aspect and pared things down to a bass, drums and two keyboards."
English drummer Jim Hart, someone Julien worked with during his London years, propels the group - from hard-bop polyrhythms with “drum & bass” inflections to a reworking of classic Red Clay.
Sylvain Daniel on the bass and Arnaud Roulin on the analogue keys are two musicians close to the saxophonist, and that he met when they were students in 1999 while organising a master class at the Conservatoire de Nantes. Since then, they have become his esteemed companions.
The collaboration with young pianist Léo Jassef began on this recording, where he also plays the Prophet 5. The dynamic and overlap of the many keyboards played by Arnaud and Léo bring the record a richness of timbre and harmony that the strings and brass provided on the CTI recordings.
For the final track on the record, Julien called upon his friend of 30 years, guitarist Bojan Z, for a fresh, Gospel take on Love and Peace, a track recorded by Quincy Jones in 1969, which here, is dedicated to Bojan’s recently departed brother.
“When it comes down to it, this album really is as I had imagined it, with, luckily, a few unexpected turns. I created a playlist I then claimed as my own. But in the end, I must admit that I would have loved to have composed some of these tracks.”




















