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Crowded House celebrate 30 years in 2016, heralding an unprecedented re-issue program spanning their entire career, unlocking a wealth of rare material - personally selected by Neil Finn.



Each of Crowded House's six studio albums (and 1999's rarities album 'Afterglow') are now available as deluxe editions. Each body of work is expanded to include previously unreleased studio recordings, home demos, live tracks, b-sides and other rarities. The albums will be presented in 'fan-deluxe' format (slipcase, 4 panel flexitray), housing the discs and a beautiful 36 page book.

The albums are also available for the first time on vinyl.

Multi-platinum selling rock band KINGS OF LEON return with their hugely anticipated seventh studio album WALLS. The Grammy Award winning group decided to return to their recording roots in Los Angeles and worked with famed producer Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Florence + the Machine). Lyrically, the album will touch on band members' personal stories, which Q Magazine calls goosebump inducing' and worth holding your breath for.'

Shelter is a Hardcore punk band formed by Ray Cappo. After releasing previous works through independent labels, the band signed a deal with the legendary heavy metal and hard rock label Roadrunner Records. Originally released in
1995, the critically acclaimed album Mantra was the first
release by the band on the label.


By the time Shelter released the album Mantra, the punk rock scene was in evidence in America, especially in California, with bands like Bad Religion, Rancid, The Offspring and Green Day achieving mainstream popularity.
With Mantra the band moved away from the more punk pop style and created a melodic hardcore style. The song Here We Go' became an anthem. Lyrically the album focused mainly on Hare Krishna philosophy and the problems the Western Civilization creates. The first song, Message of the Bhagavad', is introduced by an excerpt of a Bhagavad Gita verses reading.

This classic album is now finally available again on vinyl!

On 2012's The Marble Downs, Bonnie Prince Billy provided vocals for an album of songs by Trembling Bells. It was a fruitful meeting of mind and voice, but one that promised the real bounty when those songs were taken on the road.

That was delivered in summer of that year when the Bells & Bonnie revue brought their own brand of rolling thunder to parts of the UK. This live album, The Bonnie Bells Of Oxford, captures the highlights of one of those special shows on vinyl and CD.

The transatlantic recording of The Marble Downs is now distilled to a room on one night in Oxford town, and the force of the songs and performance concentrated similarly. It stands as a more genuinely collaborative record than its predecessor, with songs drawn from the oeuvres of both artists and reworked with a joyous spontaneity. Tensions are dissolved in this heady brew, between warring lovers, goat and ram, dark and light, heaven & hell, country and folk, this world and the next, a rhapsodic dialectic embodied by the ouborous vocals of Bonnie Billy & Lavinia Blackwall. It's a giddy whirling carnival ride over all too soon, which is the supreme advantage of having this on vinyl, when dizzy and reeling and eager for more, just wheel it up and go again.



No live album can substitute for the precious fleetingness of music heard live but the best of them can offer something else, a document, recorded proof almost that something special was created on that stage on that night by those musicians in front of that audience. More importantly, a chance to create and hear something special yourself every time you spin this record.

France's punk rock record label, have now issued a vinyl version of the U.K. Subs' DVD 'Live In Bremen', which was recorded for German TV on 21 September 1982 featuring Charlie, Nicky Garratt, Alvin Gibbs and Kim Wylie. Retitled 'Bremen 82', the LP is limited to 500 copies. Alvin Gibbs has written a back cover introductory piece for the recording and below is some further background information regarding that show...

A compilation of new leftfield pop, rock, folk, electronic, baile-funk, noise and experimental music from artists born or living in the 'Cidade Maravilhosa (the Marvellous City)' to be released by Mais Um Discos on 21 October 2016.

Real Rio was compiled by Chico Dub, curator of Rio de Janeiro's acclaimed experimental music festival Novas Frequencias and the man behind Bandcamp's acclaimed Hy Brazil download series that charted contemporary Brazilian electronic music. Says Chico: The aim with Real Rio is to showcase the best of the independent music scene from Rio: rock, noise, house, drone, new styles of baile funk, afrobeat, pop. We want to dispel the myth of a city dominated by easy listening bossa nova and show just how broad Rio's sound palette is'.

Disc one introduces artists such as Ava Rocha, Ricardo Dias Gomes, Negro Leo and Meia Banda who are creating national awareness of Rio's lo-fi alternative scene, whilst B Negão, Abayomy Afrobeat Orchestra and Andre Sampaio are at the forefront of a local Afro-influenced movement with veteran artists Elza Soares and Arto Lindsay bringing elements of these scenes into the Brazilian music mainstream.

On disc two Ceticencias, Superficie and Eric Alves represent Rio's evolving future- electronic scene whilst Leo Justi, Marginal Men and Woo create twisted new club sounds influenced by baile funk as Cadu Tenorio, Bemonio and Chelpa Ferro push local experimental music into unexpected directions.

Whilst the tracks included represent the new wave of Rio music there are links to the older generation - Opala's Maria Luiza Jobim is the youngest daughter of Antonio Carlos Jobim (one of the great Brazilian composers who wrote the music for The Girl from Ipanema), Ricardo Dias Gomes played bass on Caetano Veloso's last three studio albums (and is part of his touring band) and Ava Rocha is the daughter of acclaimed 'Cinema Novo' Brazilian film director, actor and writer, Glauber Rocha.

Real Rio is the fourth compilation from respected UK-based Brazilian label Mais Um Discos, considered internationally as the go-to label for discovering the most thrilling sounds of contemporary Brazil. Their compilations have re-defined the international view of Brazilian contemporary music scene - debut release Oi! A Nova

Musica Brasileira! (2010) Introduced the new generation of Brazilian musicians, Daora: Underground Sounds Of Urban Brazil (2013) represented Brazil's home-grown hip-hop, afrobeat and jazz scenes and Rolê: New Sounds Of Brazil (2014) was heralded as 'an astonishingly diverse selection of tunes from arguably the most musically innovative country in the world' (The Independent on Sunday).

Real Rio is the latest chapter in Mais Um Discos quest to uncover Brazil's astonishing contemporary music scene.

Immortal Light is the debut solo album by guitarist-singer-songwriter Buck Curran. Since 2005, Buck has recorded and performed as one half of the alt-folk duo Arborea. To date, Arborea has released five albums, including 2013's ESP-Disk' release Fortress of the Sun, and produced two various- artist compilations (Leaves of Life: a benefit for the World Food Program and We Are All One, In the Sun: a tribute to Robbie Basho). Buck has also produced a second tribute to Robbie Basho, Basket Full of Dragons, for release on July 5, 2016 on Obsolete Recordings.

Buck's music has developed through a decade of playing with Arborea and the experience of playing Blues and Folk throughout the 1990s. He also draws inspiration from the deep well of Folk and Rock of the 1960s (Robbie Basho, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Buckley), American Blues and Folk music of the 1930s, British Folk and Psychedelic Folk/Rock of the '60s and early '70s (Peter Green, Sandy Denny, Pentangle, Davey Graham, Nick Drake, Led Zeppelin, Martin Simpson), Indian Classical music (Pandit Nikhil Banerjee), and Jazz of the '50s and '60s (Ornette
Coleman and John Coltrane).

Buck Curran says:

The genesis of Immortal Light came about in 2014 during some downtime I had in Maine between tours with Arborea that year. After being half of the psych-folk duo Arborea for nearly a decade, and also being a key songwriter as well as instrumentalist, there was a natural evolution towards creating my first solo album. So during 2014 I was spending a lot of time down by the Androscoggin River near my home, and those sojourns became the catalyst for the album. It was the perfect place for clearing my mind and inspiring creativity...and every time I went down to the river, music seemed to instantly flow in my mind in such a natural, spontaneous way. Sometimes just music would come, other times it might just be poetic lyrics, or a combination of both. It was all very inspiring in such an enigmatic way. I'd always end up rushing home right away after, to grab the guitar and find the music I'd been imagining down the by the water. Oceans, streams and rivers are forever inspiring me artistically, as does the ocean of the universe and the stars, in turn always leading me to create music that reflects the eternal flowing of their waters and space, and the ethereal mystery they symbolize—all these things making up the spiritual essence of my poetry, lyrics, and music. The idea of using the image of Pluto for the cover of Immortal Light is related to the astrology of Pluto and how it represents transformation, renewal and rebirth. Outside a deep focus on prose poetry and songwriting, both the acoustic guitar and electric guitar are fundamental to my music, they both present different possibilities and landscapes of sound. I mostly compose and play the acoustic guitar in a melodic and improvisational way using alternate or modal tunings which provide tonal colors (through the use of sustain, sympathetic overtones and dissonances of musical notes) and creates musical elements which are more aligned with the ragas of Classical Indian music, music that was created to invoke and awaken deep moods and feelings. These are also the same musical elements which, in the 1960s and '70s, inspired American musician Robbie Basho and British acoustic guitarist Davey Graham. Sitarist Pandit Nikhil Banerjee has definitely been a vital inspiration to me, along with Basho, Graham, and Martin Simpson. I play electric guitar in alternate tunings as well (often with a slide or Ebow), but mostly focus on using it as a melodic voice in the way violin players create music or how singers use their voices.

Peter Green, Jimi Hendrix, and The Doors have all been artistic guiding lights for me over the years, both in respect to the poetry of their words and the musical voices conjured with their electric guitars. My music and poetry are primarily influenced by landscapes of nature and have developed through a decade of playing with Arborea and the years prior playing blues and folk, as well as many years reading the inspired and mystical writings of Dylan Thomas, John Keats, Arthur Rimbaud, and Jack Kerouac.

Immortal Light is the debut solo album by guitarist-singer-songwriter Buck Curran. Since 2005, Buck has recorded and performed as one half of the alt-folk duo Arborea. To date, Arborea has released five albums, including 2013's ESP-Disk' release Fortress of the Sun, and produced two various- artist compilations (Leaves of Life: a benefit for the World Food Program and We Are All One, In the Sun: a tribute to Robbie Basho). Buck has also produced a second tribute to Robbie Basho, Basket Full of Dragons, for release on July 5, 2016 on Obsolete Recordings.

Buck's music has developed through a decade of playing with Arborea and the experience of playing Blues and Folk throughout the 1990s. He also draws inspiration from the deep well of Folk and Rock of the 1960s (Robbie Basho, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Buckley), American Blues and Folk music of the 1930s, British Folk and Psychedelic Folk/Rock of the '60s and early '70s (Peter Green, Sandy Denny, Pentangle, Davey Graham, Nick Drake, Led Zeppelin, Martin Simpson), Indian Classical music (Pandit Nikhil Banerjee), and Jazz of the '50s and '60s (Ornette
Coleman and John Coltrane).

Buck Curran says:

The genesis of Immortal Light came about in 2014 during some downtime I had in Maine between tours with Arborea that year. After being half of the psych-folk duo Arborea for nearly a decade, and also being a key songwriter as well as instrumentalist, there was a natural evolution towards creating my first solo album. So during 2014 I was spending a lot of time down by the Androscoggin River near my home, and those sojourns became the catalyst for the album. It was the perfect place for clearing my mind and inspiring creativity...and every time I went down to the river, music seemed to instantly flow in my mind in such a natural, spontaneous way. Sometimes just music would come, other times it might just be poetic lyrics, or a combination of both. It was all very inspiring in such an enigmatic way. I'd always end up rushing home right away after, to grab the guitar and find the music I'd been imagining down the by the water. Oceans, streams and rivers are forever inspiring me artistically, as does the ocean of the universe and the stars, in turn always leading me to create music that reflects the eternal flowing of their waters and space, and the ethereal mystery they symbolize—all these things making up the spiritual essence of my poetry, lyrics, and music. The idea of using the image of Pluto for the cover of Immortal Light is related to the astrology of Pluto and how it represents transformation, renewal and rebirth. Outside a deep focus on prose poetry and songwriting, both the acoustic guitar and electric guitar are fundamental to my music, they both present different possibilities and landscapes of sound. I mostly compose and play the acoustic guitar in a melodic and improvisational way using alternate or modal tunings which provide tonal colors (through the use of sustain, sympathetic overtones and dissonances of musical notes) and creates musical elements which are more aligned with the ragas of Classical Indian music, music that was created to invoke and awaken deep moods and feelings. These are also the same musical elements which, in the 1960s and '70s, inspired American musician Robbie Basho and British acoustic guitarist Davey Graham. Sitarist Pandit Nikhil Banerjee has definitely been a vital inspiration to me, along with Basho, Graham, and Martin Simpson. I play electric guitar in alternate tunings as well (often with a slide or Ebow), but mostly focus on using it as a melodic voice in the way violin players create music or how singers use their voices.

Peter Green, Jimi Hendrix, and The Doors have all been artistic guiding lights for me over the years, both in respect to the poetry of their words and the musical voices conjured with their electric guitars. My music and poetry are primarily influenced by landscapes of nature and have developed through a decade of playing with Arborea and the years prior playing blues and folk, as well as many years reading the inspired and mystical writings of Dylan Thomas, John Keats, Arthur Rimbaud, and Jack Kerouac.

UK Hard Rock band and YouTube stars DORJE have announced the release of second EP 'Centred and One', set for 14 October.

Fronted by guitar virtuoso and YouTube star Rob Chapman - the internet guitar phenomenon whose channel dedicated to lessons, demonstrations and general guitar nerdery has over 445k subscribers - Dorje are a hard rock four piece fuelled by massive hooks and technical mastery. The line up of muso stars is completed with Dave Hollingworth (Bass), Ben Minal (Drums) and Rabea Massaad (Guitar) who also have a large YouTube following, with the band collectively receiving over 4 Million views per month.

Taking influence from blues, jazz, metal and everything in between, comparisons could be made to Audio Slave, Karnivool, Tool or even Queens of the Stone Age, but with a distinctly modern twist. Solid yet subtly complex drums and big bass grooves lay the foundation for the low-tuned blues inspired riff-wizardry that weave a tight web to support the huge hook-laden vocals. And of course, the occasional face-melting solo.

A single self-titled album -- that's what the California power trio Fields left behind in 1969. GuitaristRichard Fortunato, bassist Patrick Burke, and drummer Steven Lagana had been deeply influenced by Cream, by the sound of things.

Along with the band, Northern soul chanteuse (courtesy of Motown Records) Brenda Holloway and the Raelettes come in from outer space and enter the groove, making this a full-blown psychedelic-soul tune that never, ever gives up its groove, grease, or grit. The vocals here are almost as deliriously powerful and lusty as the screaming six-string and overblown bass groove. Thank the gods that the Fields' LP has been dusted off, remastered, and reissued by Fallout on CD. Simply amazing.

Each of us, every night, have the possibility to travel in other dimensions, creating ones own panorama, own story. FLUIDO ROSA with this new project have translated into music this dreamlike dimension to make it at the same time unusual, yet seem real. Through a profound mix of emotions and music styles, Rock, Prog, and song format FLUIDO ROSA have tried to dig into the human souland past the confines of rational understanding.The stylistic influences come from the diverse tastes and experiences of the band members. The most evident of which, is of course Pink Floyd in virtue of the fact they have played (Tribute Band) this mythical bands music for over twenty years. The Band features some of the Goblin Rebirth members and has been for several years the band playing and accompanies on tour Antonello Venditti. Produced by keyboard player Danilo Cherni, who together with singer, lyricist Gabriele Marciano, penned all the songs. The project reflects the sound the band has developed over all these years.

Acting as the first release since 2015's sold out I Am Material' tape, Royal Hush' reveals a sharper and more emphatic feel to the band's already unrelenting output. These new songs have been recorded with long standing engineer and friend Rory Attwell and mixed by both Rory and Ben Greenberg formerly of 'The Men' who the band met and found an instant affinity for on their 30 date US tour last year. H. Grimace's integral guitar pairing of Marcus Browne and Hannah Gledhill now masterfully hone in on their part shoegaze, part post-punk compositions which lays the foundations for the enigmatic duo, from Yorkshire and Melbourne respectively, to make their mark this year with a vigorously captivating live show to match. (For fans of Pixies, Blonde Redhead, Deerhunter, Women Body/Head)

INXS live on the Coffee Break Concert series at the Cleveland Agora on 27th June 1984.

Following the April 1984 release of their fourth album, The Swing, INXS began to make commercial headway outside Australia. They toured relentlessly to promote the album, and had an international hit with Original Sin.
The performance captured here, on 27th June 1984, was part of the WMMS Coffee Break Concert series, a live radio simulcast on 100.7 WMMS in Cleveland. It captures them at the peak of their early game, and is presented here with background notes and images

Comes out officially Assud (Mediterranean Psychedelic Session Vol.1), the album of Louis Bruno & Mediterranean Psychedelic Orkestra, for Bajun Records, in collaboration with Irma Records and the first single from the album is Surfinikta, with the featuring of Nandu Popu of South Sound System and airplay from August. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the CD will go to the non-profit Franco-Senegalese Ibrahima House, which has as main purpose the protection of and respect for the universal rights of children and finds its full justification in the difficult environment and of great distress situations where many children living in Senegal. Luigi Bruno, former frontman Muffx, works with important names of the Italian experimental rock, worked, for example, with Claudio Simonetti (Goblin), Aldo Tagliapietra (Le Orme) and Richard Sinclair (Caravan) .Bruno is also the creator of the Devil's Festival, a highlight of the summer of Salento. The Assud songs they know of Africa, but also to the Balkans, are rock without forgetting tradition. It starts from the land of Louis Bruno, Apulia, he expressed in song Surfinikta, where even on Chiché joked that characterize the region, to take a musical journey in the southern hemisphere, in order to grasp the colors, shades, moods.

Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On is the fourth album by hard rock band Mountain. Released following the band's first breakup in 1972, Mountain would later reform in 1974. The title comes from J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit.

Live performances were where Mountain always shone, and this document of some of their concert fare shows how they took a rather ordinary song and expanded it with lots of jamming and improvising. The side-long (on vinyl) "Nantucket Sleighride" does show signs of the excess that would plague the band for the rest of its career. A fair example of Mountain live.

Roxy's fourth studio album in just over two years continued the band's mission to provoke, delight and entertain in equal measure. From its controversial sleeve shot (censored in the United States) to its breathtakingly varied music, it became yet another era-defining statement from the band, leading Rolling Stone magazine to remark that the record represented the zenith of contemporary British Rock. 'Out Of The Blue', 'The Thrill Of It All' and chart smash 'All I Want Is You' are among the highlights.

'Flesh & Blood' marks the point where we see the sonic sharp turns and hard angles gradually giving way to the deep atmospherics and seductive textures that would characterize the remainder of Roxy's 8-album career. It's just a gorgeous artefact from start to finish, spawning further megahits in the shape of 'Same Old Scene'. 'Oh Yeah' and 'Over You'.

With its perfect blend of atmospheric electronics, driving rock 'n' roll and startling lyrics Roxy's second album is usually critically held to represent the consummate achievement of Roxy Music MK I. Highlights include the glammy classic 'Do The Strand', the dystopian nightmare 'In Every Dream Home A Heartache' and the chilling epic 'The Bogus Man'.

During Roxy's three-year hiatus the entire musical landscape of the 70s had changed with both punk and disco seizing the zeitgeist during their absence. While some of their peers floundered, Roxy - who were always the future anyway - flourished with one of their biggest and best albums yet. Includes the classic Top 3 singles 'Angel Eyes' and 'Dance Away'.

'Love Is The Drug' and 'Both Ends Burning' were the two big singles from 'Siren' but there were plenty more treats in-store , like the delicious 'Sentimental Fool' and poignant final track 'Just Another High'. As seductive, start to finish, as its classy Jerry Hall-featured cover shot.

The poised, confident 'Stranded' remains the favourite for many fans of the band's earlier works and it's not difficult to see why. From the hurtling urban alienation of album opener 'Street Life' to the soulful, contemplative closer 'Sunset' it's a perfect example Roxy's expert balance between style and substance. To all intents and purposes it's probably the most Roxy Music' of the band's peerless catalogue.

The brainchild of original Ultimate Spinach member Steven Cataldo, the album is a fine example of the "Boston" sound of 1969 and was conceived and recorded against the backdrop of social and political unrest of America in the late 1960's. With the Vietnam War at its height and the assassination of Robert Kennedy a recent memory, this legendary album juxtaposed fine rock music with audio excerpts from US television news and is a true one-off. With master tapes thought to have been lost, an exhaustive search by Eclectic Discs has resulted in the discovery of the master in an archive in England. Eclectic Discs is proud to present Over the Hills / The Bastich to a new and discerning audience, an album sure to receive attention in the quality music press.

"Journey Through Mine" is the third studio album of SUBMARINE SILENCE, side project of the founding members of Moongarden, Cristiano Roversi and David Cremoni. With this album we reform the original line-up (Roversi, Cremoni, Pizzocoli) of the debut self-titled album that has received many positive reviews from the Genesis matrix of progressive rock fans and critics of the industry. The original trio plus the talented voice of GUILLERMO GONZALES who besides composing all the melodic lines of the singing was also involved in all the lines of the album. Manufactured by Maracash Records and Cristiano Roversi, recorded at Studio Tiny Castle (IT), "Journey Through Mine" collects itself all the love for the Genesis universe by musicians without literally copying the English lesson but rather rewriting the contained in a personal way. Beautiful Artwork by ED UNITSKY. Music lovers of Genesis, Yes, Camel and Anthony Phillips will only be pleasantly satisfied.

The Tears of Blood are an alternative metal band based in Treviso. Already to the test bench with a first single presented in September 2015 "In My Hands", followed by the lyric video for "Demon of the world", October 3, 2016 release "Drown", anticipation of new single "A new way of life ", the debut of the Venetian training, identifying their musical references in bands like Trivium, Bullet for my Valentine, or Five finger death punch, the ToB, offering a high-impact sound, rough and scratchy. Alternating granite riffs and catchy melodies, the chemistry between the band members, powerful sound and aggressive, extremely clean melodic lines and cured, form the basis of their new compositions.

The Beach Boys, live from Sankei Hall, Osaka, Japan on 13th January 1966.

As 1966 got underway, Brian Wilson was crafting Pet Sounds in Los Angeles, while his bandmates continued to tour.
Mike Love, Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson and Bruce Johnston started the year by flying to Japan, where they toured from January 7th to the 23rd. The superb performance from Sankei Hall, Osaka, Japan on 13th January 1966, broadcast on NHK Radio, finds them on excellent form as they tackle a cross-section of their most popular material to date, both originals and covers. It's presented here together with background notes and images, and a bonus rare interview.

Havana Moon captures the historic, once in a lifetime concert by The Rolling Stones in Havana, Cuba on 25th March 2016. Directed by Paul Dugdale (Adele, Coldplay) this epic, record breaking concert is packed with hits and classic tracks. Filmed at the end of the América Latina Olé Tour, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood performed a truly spectacular set to an estimated 1.2 million adoring fans. The highly anticipated free show attracted a huge audience in the same week as President Obama became the first serving US President to visit Cuba in 88 years. TV News reported that Obama was 'the warm up act' for the Rolling Stones and Obama paid tribute to the Stones in his first speech to the world's media in Havana. As the Stones took to the stage under a perfect 'Havana Moon' for a show that will forever go down in history books as a life changing moment for a country on the brink of change, there was nothing that was going to come between the band and their fans including the Vatican in Rome who had objected to rock n roll in Havana on Good Friday.

Here's a new remix record from Aaron Spectre, an American producer known for building bridges. Nearly a decade after his first "Amen, Punk" vinyl was released in Japan and became a worldwide underground staple, he's back refining the energetic hybrid sound further. Jungle Boots is four tracks of genre-unifying white label goodness, flawlessly cut to vinyl and ready to rock.

arachute is proud and excited to release art rock unit Starfuckers' legendary "Sinistri" LP, remastered and pressed on vinyl for the very first time since its original version in 1994 on Underground Records.
Formed in 1987, Starfuckers is an Italian avant-garde band primarily from the 1990s, considered a notable part of the experimental rock scene and one of the more "out there" acts during their active tenure. Originally inspired by '80s post-Stooges noise and New York City No Wave, Starfuckers eventually carved their path to their own distinctive sound by following in the footsteps of Xenakis, John Cage, Maderna and Stockhausen - all without ever abandoning their own attitude and raw personality.
n incredibly important record for us here at the label, "Sinistri" feels just as fresh in 2016 as it did in 1994.

Amidst their stellar discography, The Renderers are best known for their album A Dream Of The Sea, released in the mid-nineties by Siltbreeze, and now issued for the first time ever on vinyl in a gatefold jacket on the band's own label. Various forces were at work - a revered label, increased attention towards New Zealand artists - but the greatest achievements were within the band itself. Maryrose and Brian Crook reached a new level of insight and honesty with their lyrics, forming a wave of insight and metaphor that is as forceful today as when first written. Songs draw from ghostly sea tales and personal demons, where the specters as much rise from the waters as emerge from within oneself.

- Brand new third album of this excellent heavy rock-stoner Greek band
- 800 pcs limited edition
- 180g vinyl

- Brand new 12' mini-LP
- 300pcs limited 180g vinyl
- Deluxe heavy cover
- Previously unreleased on vinyl

Now for some Japanese psyche and experimental music of the mid 1970s. Do not expect any lush pop harmonies from this music collective formed in 1974 which was at least active up to the early 90s. GEINOH YAMASHIROGUMI approach psychedelic music with from a rather krautish point of view and their first album from 1976 about which I write this review is rather a collage of strange noises, screams, a few rhythms patterns and wide open structures that seem to be borrowed from late 1960s psyched out free jazz. And you can bet, this is an ever flowing freak out but definitely an intense and mind bending experience. I recall German oddities like ORGANISATION (pre KRAFTWERK), FAUST and others but there is another aspect in the music that is more difficult to trace down. Funk and jazz rock with a breathtakingly smouldering atmosphere you would rather expect from English groups emerging from the Canterbury scene like SOFT MACHINE or some of the rather jazz oriented Italian progressive acts. But all in all GEINOH YAMASHIROGUMI find an even more radical way to express their feelings and make their inner visions manifest in sound despite a sweet smoothness coming with these rocking jazz elements. Oh dear, this is definitely far from being ordinary. Choirs with typical Japanese chants add some wicked exotic tinges to the whole musical picture. If you dig progressive, krautish psychedelic jazz rock, this is exactly what you are looking for. The whole album is divided into two parts of which - Osorazan' comes closest to rock music while - Doh no kembai' seems to be a live performance of a stage play by this music and theatre collective based nearly entirely on vocals. Open minded lovers of truly progressive music from the 1970s will go nuts.

Red vinyl! IT IT ANITA is a Noiserock/Postpunk band from Liege, Belgium.In 2016 the band played The Great Escape(UK), Eurosonic(NL) and Le Printemps de Bourges (FR). Think of a dynamic hybrid of Fugazi, Metz, At The Drive In, Mogwai and Sonic Youth.This debut was recorded and produced by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile, Dinosaur jr.)

On Friday November 4th, the Noise band IT IT ANITA will release their debutalbum 'Agaaiin'. The album will be released in the BeNeLux by Luik Records / N.E.W.S. but also will come out in Canada, Japan, Spain, France and Poland later on this year.

With their '90s Noise rock riffs and primal screams coming from every fibre of their being, IT IT ANITA might seem pretty simple. But if you take the time to really listen, you'll find some subtle nuances and intriguing depth. Besides seething fire there's also intense desire, crippling fear, anger and restlessness.

Agaaiin was recorded at Water Music Studios in New York earlier this year, recorded and produced by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile, Dinosaur jr.) and mixed at The Magic Shop. John Agnello is no stranger to the band, he also recorded their previous EP.

'Recording with John Agnello is like a godsend, last year we invited him in Liege and immediately we had this click.
We worked very hard on the album and meanwhile we showed him the city and made him taste our famous 'boulets sauce lapin'.
But this time he invited us to come to New York to record the album in his natural habitat. Water Music is a top studio with a great atmosphere and history.
The same applies to the legendary 'The Magic Shop' where our album was one of last album mixed before it finally closed their doors."

- frontman Mike Goffard.

Quotes
"An incredible concert and the Belgians exceeded all expectations."
Never Mind The Hype - Eurosonic '16

"It It Anita just blew our collective minds at Queens Hotel. Highly recommended"
TLMB - The Great Escape '16

Chicago born Jeff Liberman is a guitar player in the best tradition of 70s guitar Gods like Hendrix, Trower, Clapton or Zappa. The perfect mix between virtuosity and feeling with a gift for brilliant songwriting. Between 1975 and 1978, Liberman self-released three albums on his own Librah label which were some of the first private pressings to gain recognition amongst psych collectors in the 80s.

For his third album, released in 1978, guitar wizard Jeff Liberman incorporated to his heavy guitar psych style some cool cosmic funk, soul-jazz and A.O.R influences.

Superb musicianship, psych / prog-rock flashes, acid guitar soloing, soulful vocals, occasional synths & analog keyboards, flowing rhythm section...featuring the Balearic classic Transformation' (compiled by Psychemagik) plus other choice cuts.

*Remastered sound
*Insert with liner notes by Klemen Breznikar (It's Psychedelic Baby)
*First ever legit vinyl reissue
*Includes digital download coupon

This album is full of strong instrumentals and a myriad of guitar styles, all impressively performed' - Aaron Milenski (Acid Archives)

The Pentangle was the 1968 debut album of the band Pentangle: Terry Cox, Bert Jansch, Jacqui McShee, John Renbourn and Danny Thompson. It brought together their separate influences of folk, jazz, blues, early music and contemporary song-writing. One of the band's most commercially successful albums, it reached number 21 in the British charts.

By the time that the album was produced, the members of Pentangle were already accomplished musicians, in their own fields, and had played together in various combinations. Jansch and Renbourn were recognised as solo artists and played together regularly, including their recording of the Bert And John album. McShee had sung folk and blues in pubs and clubs, and had recorded with Renbourn on Another Monday. Cox and Thompson were experienced session musicians and had played together in Alexis Korner's band.

The Warm Morning come from Piacenza and are the result of genuine musical passion of the brothers Simone e Andrea Modicamore, active under this name for eight years now. The dualism of Warm Morning is expressed in Pop timeless songs, which rework the tradition of four decades of music, getting an elegant and contemporary blend with which you can easily feel the sense of joyful nostalgia that these sounds create: just close your eyes to be carried away in a very distant past now, speckled by the vivid colors of a summer lost in the memory. These characteristics are even more evident in their work, "Too Far From The Stars", released in 2010 and never previously distributed, since the choice of its initial self-production in only on limited edition vinyl. The eleven tracks included in the edition vinyl of "Too Far From The Stars" are already more than enough to confirm the inclination of Warm Morning for melodic sketches in pastel colors, through which pay homage to pop out of time, narrating with disarming simple stories of everyday life, ordinary failings and delicate snapshots that immortalize places, feelings and atmospheric phenomena. It is not, however, a collection of songs resigned or monotonous, because the pop nature of Simone e Andrea cloaked their clear tones and sparkling songs, while their ambition to deal with ever-changing sound solutions leads them to a ' instrumental articulation is not limited to the classic formula voices-and-guitar, but capable of alternating melancholic piano melodies, basslines and electric extensive review of airy and measured arrangements.
Rich and well kept orchestral arrangements perfectly match to easy listening of the songs that they write Warm Morning, in a continuous comparison with the giants of the genre: from Burt Bacharach to Van Dyke Parks, by Lee Hazelwood to late Beatles, the Moody Blues to Barclay James Harvest, the "Brothers" seem to keep their hearts in the past but the very soul anchored in the present