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Beautiful reissue of the hottest Japanese Jazz Rock LP around, killer psychedelia all the way.

Check Youtube for the incredible progressive tune 'Clair Deluge' . Once again a beautiful gatefold pressing with insert and obi, strictly limited to 1000 copies.

Ace Records marks its 40th anniversary with a release that celebrates the way we started: the seven-inch single. It also pays tribute to the original concept of an album - which was a book of singles.

We've chosen a cross-section of the musical styles we've been releasing for the past forty years. Each single is housed in an authentic replica sleeve accompanied with illustrations and sleeve notes, bound into a book-type hard cover box.

A limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide - you'll probably only get one chance to order this highly desirable and collectable artefact.

DISC ONE
1A) CONFESSIN' THE BLUES (ALT) - B.B. King
1B) TOUGH LOVER (ALT) - Etta James

DISC TWO
2A) ONE CUP OF COFFEE AND A CIGARETTE - Glen Glenn
2B) YOU'RE UNDER ARREST - The Shirelles

DISC THREE
3A) NOT MY GIRL - The Platters
3B) NO OTHER GUY - Lou Johnson

DISC FOUR
4A) TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS (ALT) - Otis Redding
4B) YOU GOTTA HAVE SOUL - James Carr

DISC FIVE
5A) PSYCHEDELIC SALLY - Eddie Jefferson
5B) KEEP ON BROTHER KEEP ON - Johnny King and Fatback Band

DISC SIX
6A) I GOT MINE - The Charlatans
6B) GET THE PICTURE (ALT) - The Scot Richard Case

DISC SEVEN
7A) DON'T CRY FOR ME - The Zombies
7B) KEYS TO YOUR HEART - The 101'ers

REPRESSED !!

Erland´s second album has a playful, richly visual mood, but is also quite dark and menacing in places. Elements of krautrock, drone music, ambient music and contemporary music are woven together here with dark, rock-inspired energy.

The album is named after the legendary instrument-maker Pete Engelhart's unusual chromatic set of bells, "Blossom Bells", which Erland plays in several places on the album. He also plays a variety of percussion instruments, saw, electronic instruments and some specially constructed instruments, such as cake moulds with springs. The collection of instruments used on the album is extensive, imaginative and unique. His new compositions are often inspired by improvisations based on the exploration of fascinating sounds.

Erland plays all the instruments himself, as on the previous record, but has produced the album with Johnny Skalleberg as well as with Jens Petter Nilsen and Hallvard W. Hagen from the electronica duo Xploding Plastix - a group Erland has worked together with for over a decade.

Furulund' is a collection of atmospheric, low-key and evocative instrumental pieces,

recorded in analogue at the Norwegian guitarist and self-taught multi-instrumentalist Geir Sundstøl's home studio.

Sundstøl has been making music for a living since 1988. He has left his unique musical mark on 260 records featuring everyone from a-ha to Nils Petter Molvær. 'Furulund' is the first record he is releasing under his own name, and is a long-awaited debut from an extremely popular musician.

Sundstøl has toured all over the world, and has been the most frequently played performer on Norwegian radio for several years. A concert he held with country artist Jimmie Dale Gilmore in the USA in the 1990s gave film directors and brothers Joel and Ethan Coen the inspiration for Gaear Grimsrud, Peter Stormare's character in the film 'Fargo'.

His music draws inspiration from jazz, blues, roots and country, but can be characterised most of all as original, eccentric and lovely. Sundstøl is an avid collector of instruments, and his home studio is full of rare and unusual finds. He plays most of the instruments on the record himself, but has also enjoyed the input of a few colleagues representing what can without exaggeration be called the upper echelon: keyboardist David Wallumrød (Bernhoft) and drummers Erland Dahlen and Michael Blair (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Lou Reed). Dahlen and Sundstøl have played together in a number of contexts, including Nils Petter Molvær's group and the band Morris.

For the past fifteen years pianist and keyboardist Morten Qvenild has been one of the most creative musicians in the Norwegian music scene. Qvenild has both an unusual flair for pop and a passion for experimentation and improvisation. Now, at last, his long-awaited solo debut album has arrived.



Qvenild is probably most well known as a member of the unusual piano trio In the Country, half of the duo SpaceMonkey with drummer Gard Nilssen, and Susanna Wallumrød's partner in Susanna & the Magical Orchestra, but he has also played in a number of other bands. Altogether Qvenild has appeared on at least 50 albums with artists such as the National Bank, Solveig Slettahjell Slomo Quintet, Susanne Sundfør, Arve Henriksen, Thomas Dybdahl, Marit Larsen, Nils Petter Molvær, Shining, Jaga Jazzist, Frida Ånnevik and Trinity as well as many others.



For the past few years Qvenild has been working on developing "the HyPer(sonal) Piano". By integrating various types of electronics into the grand piano he has radically expanded the instrument's sonic palette. The inventive tunes and improvisations on his solo debut, 'Personal Piano', create a platform that highlights a unique and heavily processed world of sound and a remarkably intense musical idiom. The music is primarily instrumental, but Qvenild also sings on a few tracks.

Finally, after much wrangling, the Blank Recording Company is truly chuffed to be able to make available again for the first time since their original releases the three highly sought after and extremely rare albums by John Sangster, originally released on Festival Records from 1967-1969. October sees the release of the first two, December sees the release of the third and final album from 1969, Ahead Of Hair. All three of these albums are mastered from the original analogue master tapes. All three sport the original cover art All three are sounding better than ever.

John Sangster is known the world over as a legendary Australian jazz multi instrumentalist, composer and arranger. Aside from releasing his own records, his name is on credits on many other albums from straight ahead jazz, prog, psych, country rock, soul and all points between. Copperwine, Tully, Don Burrows, Ray Brown / Moonstone, Sven Libaek, Judy Bailey. The list goes on.... Here's where it all came together on the solo tip...

First album, originally released in 1967. An all cover affair. A mixed bag of current pop hits from the likes of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Rolling Stones with Brazilian bossa nova, jazz and takes on soundtrack themes. Players on this album are John Sangster, George Golla, Sven Libaek (who also handles arrangements), Ed Gaston and Len Hutchinson. Produced by Pat Aulton.

The genre-crossing eight track album is the frst of a trilogy, inspired by a Colombian local legend Jaime Llano Gonzalez, a Hammond organist famous for playing traditonal Colombian music such as Pasillos, Bambucos, Cumbias, and foreign rhythms such as foxtrots or waltzes, in an ambient style.
'The album was writen as an ambient record but at the same tme searching for an image of a impossible virtuoso organist' says Eblis Javier Alvarez Vargas, the man behind The Meridian Brothers. Gonzalez's style of playing traditonal rhythms on the Hammond organ inspired Vargas to build a whole synthesizer ensemble simulatng this sound and developing intricate textures and counterpoint. This style of play is ofen impossible for a single
organist, giving rise to Vargas' descripton of the genre as 'impossible organ music'.
Requiring some digital sequencing techniques to achieve the result in the album, Vargas also chose to utlize an acoustc rhythm secton, including acoustc Bass, percussion or drums, also adding electronic drums and samplers.
Album opener 'Vertgo' is streaming ahead of the release. Inspired by Gyorgy Liget's piano studio of the same name, the track simulates an eternal fall in melody, with the listener feeling the efects of vertgo. Elsewhere on the record 'Contenda' is inspired an Anibal Velazquez tune, called 'Kung-Fu', 'Ilidio' is inspired by a vintage romantc bolero, 'Lágrima' and 'Amargura' are based on traditonal rhythms Bambuco and Pasillo, and 'Cazador', a fast
Cumbia, was inspired by a poem about a hunter and his daily habits.

Agharta was recorded on the afternoon in 1975, at one of two concerts Miles Davis performed at the Osaka Festival Hall in Japan. He performed with his septet—flautist and saxophonist Sonny Fortune, bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Al Foster, percussionist James Mtume, guitarist Reggie Lucas, and Pete Cosey, who played guitar, synthesizer, and percussion.

Produced and recorded by Teo Macero, the album's four seemingly unstructured segments emphasize the playing of Davis' sidemen rather than his own trumpet. It eschews both melody and harmony in favor of a combination of riffs, crossing polyrhythms, and Funk-oriented grooves for soloists to improvise throughout.

The album has received retrospective acclaim as an important and influential Jazz-Rock record. Its abrasive music and Cosey's innovative playing influenced a generation of young musicians, including those in the British Jazz scene.

Very early 1962 recordings featuring a very young Janis Joplin. Recorded part at the Folk Theatre in San Jose, 1962 where Janis is joined by Steve Talbot on stage, and part at the Coffee Gallery in San Francisco, 1962, this collection of raw blues tunes (most of which on vinyl for the first time!), is essential for any fan of the iconic performer. Limited edition on splatter yellow vinyl with green speckles, in stickered deluxe transparent sleeve with flap. Handnumbered to 300 copies only!

The LA based group explore new soul / jazz / electronic ground, with a penchant for exquisite arrangment they create textured and catchy rifs which will excite everyone from post-bop jazz lovers to
contemporary neo-soul crowds.
This long player tes together ten chilled out grooves which ooze soul-jazz rhythms, horns and sweltering, heart-flled vocals. Using soulful horn solos and vibrant key rifs and breaks, 'Please Rewind' sounds like an arthouse flm score to an unfolding LA love story, which seeps into your subconscious and out of your headphones The name 'Moonchild' came about before the project had even started. 'The three of us bonded on evening while star-gazing, so when it came to think of a name for the band, we knew that it was righ Fast-forward three years of jamming together on the University of Southern California's Jazz programme, and moonchild have played some of the biggest Jazz festvals in America (Montreal, Capita Arizona, Sandiego etc.), and toured with prolifc names from Stevie Wonder to Jill Scot and James Posner.

'So good... New album from Moonchild!' - Giles Peterson
'Delicious' - Laura Mvula
'Love!' - Jill Scot

1. Alexander Patton - A Lil Lovin' Sometimes 2:21
2. The Contours - Just A Little Misunderstanding 2:40
3. Bunny Sigler - Let The Good Times Roll And Feel So Good 2:50
4. Chubby Checker - At The Discotheque 2:28
5. Leon Haywood - Baby Reconsider 2:36
6. Earl Van Dyke - 6 By 6 2:21
7. Flamingoes* - The Boogaloo Party 2:33
8. Billy Butler - Right Track 2:27
9. Willie Tee - Walking Up A One Way Street 2:43
10. Detroit Spinners* - I'll Always Love You 2:45
11. The Poets (4) - She Blew A Good Thing 2:45
12. The Tams - Hey Girl, Don't Bother Me 2:31
13. The Impressions - You've Been Cheatin' 2:34
14. Frankie Valli - You're Ready Now 2:17
15. The Spellbinders - Help Me (Get Myself Back Together Again) 2:25
16. San Remo Golden Strings - Festival Time 2:37
17. Inez And Charlie Foxx - Tightrope 2:35
18. Doris Troy - I'll Do Anything 2:40
19. Jamo Thomas* - I Spy (For The FBI) 2:33
20. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Breakout 3:15
21. Little Anthony & The Imperials - Gonna Fix You Good 2:31
22. The Artistics - I'm Gonna Miss You 2:40
23. Paul Kelly (3) - Chills And Fever 1:52
24. Candy And The Kisses - The 81 2:33
25. Willie Mitchell - That Driving Beat 2:09
26. Alvin Cash* - Twine Time 2:21

Harry Miller - Bass
Louis Moholo - Drums
Alexander von Schlippenbach - Piano
Peter Brötzmann - Saxophone
Frank Wright - Saxophone
Willem Breuker - Saxophone
Toshinori Kondo - Trumpet
Alan Tomlinson - Trombone
Hannes Bauer - Trombone

Recorded during the 164th NDR-Jazzworkshop, november 12th,1981 at the Funkhaus Hamburg.
first released on FMP in 1983
Produced by Peter Brötzmann and Jost Gebers
Cover design by Peter Brötzmann

The music of Nat Birchall joins with a long-flowing conversation in jazz. His chosen tongue is that of the spiritualised musical discourse whose vital source can be found in the sacred testaments of John Coltrane, and which was channelled most directly by his fellow travellers Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and his wife Alice. Many others followed where Coltrane led, giving voice in music to the esoteric renewal of the soul and mind that lent spiritual strength to the black counterculture, and complemented the political radicalism of the late 1960s and 1970s. This rich vein of spirit music has rarely been tapped by British jazz musicians, and Birchall is one of the few to have been drawn to it with the conviction of heart that it demands. For these are the sonic and spiritual spaces where the colossi of an earlier age declaimed and confessed with sacrificial passion, from within the flames of revolution.

Ultimately, it has been the sonic pathways offered by jazz that have provided Birchall with the clearest way to channel the resonances of the higher heights, wherefrom timeless musical messages might be revealed. 'It seems to me that's it's the most direct way of tuning in to this higher source. That music seems to me to display this connection to whatever this higher source, this higher energy, might be. It seems to connect to it the most, more than other music. You can hear it in other musics to a certain degree sometimes, but this seems to be almost purely of that nature. That's what really motivates me the most.'

All music is a spiritual communion - it is a talking in tongues, a present conversation with the past and the future, a dance with technology, a branch held out to a stranger. It speaks to the old and the young in a language that is beyond language, it expresses and elicits emotion and thought at once, it is both bodily and mental, noise and silence, intention and accident: it is the dissolution of opposites, the fleeting noise made eternal prayer, the transubstantiation of spirit into sound. Music is the expression of unity, in which difference is both accepted and resolved, and from which a mended world might be born. To make music is, as Roland Kirk observed, to talk with the spirits. We are lucky that the music of Nat Birchall allows us to hear the sounds of their world once more.

'Esoteric, Modal and Deep Jazz Vocals 1960-86'

"The human voice is the organ of the soul"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet

"You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice."

Billy Higgins, jazz drummer
The power of the human voice, especially when held in song, has long been known to be immensely influential, potent and emotive across all of humankind. When conveying a message, the spoken word - whether in speech, poetry or song - is infinitely more evocative than that of written. And when that message is voiced in the realm of jazz, amidst the open and dramatic freedom that only jazz can provide, the message can be all the more poignant.

Having examined spiritual jazz as it was expressed in the US, and then followed its messengers and influences in Europe and beyond, our sixth instalment of our Spiritual Jazz series showcases jazz vocals: a collection of jazz messages that are united in voice.

The majority of tracks here are as political as they are theological, but it's the inner sanctity of the music that is the defining factor. These are songs that concern themselves with the universal condition of this world, as well as the next. In fact, as the distinction between the theological and the humanistic is blurred, so is the definition of a song - many of the tracks are atypical in that they do not possess lyrics with a beginning, middle and end. Likewise the voices that convey them often can't be said to be 'singing' in the usual sense of the word; we hear solemn chanting, intense wailing, earnest poetry and ardent recitation in between bouts of singing, the quality of which is often nothing short of exquisite. The styles of performance encompass modern jazz, the avant-garde and jazz fusion, and include elements of styles from the long and winding path of the African diaspora, including Cuban, Brazilian, Caribbean and other Pan-American rhythms.

Spiritual Jazz 6: Vocals examines some of the rarest and most extraordinary vocal jazz recordings. We have included some well-known songs, as well as some of the most obscure. There are tracks recorded made for major labels, and some that were issued privately. But all of them speak or sing of a better place or a better world, and the world can only be a better place when they are played.

This is esoteric jazz, modal jazz, spiritual jazz - as performed with the human voice.
· All tracks fully licensed and digitally restored from the original master tapes
· Comprehensive liner notes with added individual notes on each track and original stories direct from the musicians involved
· CD with 24 page colour booklet with in-depth liner notes, album cover scans and previously unpublished photographs
· Most tracks never before reissued - previously only available on rare, long-deleted LPs
· Deluxe double vinyl LP pressing with gloss gatefold sleeve
· Only on Jazzman - all because WE DIG DEEPER

Funkmaster general Reole is following up his dazzling album 'Hear Come The Drums' with an equally incredible offering 'What's Cookin.' The album is a warm homely feeling album that is honest and not over spiced. The cooking music part is equally influenced by cooking food. We suggest cooking up one of his fantastic recipes while blasting this brilliant record on full volume.

Reole started his musical life playing brass in Mardi Gras parades. Later, once back in Scotland, he then set about the airwaves with Ritchie Ruftone on pirate radio and pioneered the introduction of illicit underground Broadcasting across Europe - from Scotland, Germany and beyond.
A harmonious multiculturist, Reole is a huge American football fan and that energy and passion comes across in his music. The number 13 has always been his address, is his lucky number and his albums all have 13 tracks.
Reole also runs Turntable Train Wax which demonstrates his dedication not only to the performance of music but to its preservation of vinyl for future generations.
'What's Cookin' is sure to set ears twitching and tummy's rumbling everywhere with its blend of instrumental funk, jazz and classic rock. It's an album with subtle touches and fantastic production.

ORIGIANLLY RECORDED IN 1976

Special Edition Coloured Red Vinyl 180 Gram

The Little Drummer Boy,
Sleigh Ride,
Silent Night,
Merry Christmas All,
There's Someone Who's Knocking,
Christmas Time,

Christmas Medley (12:08)



Joy To The World
Deck The Halls
O Come All Ye Faithful
Jingle Bells
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
The Christmas Song
White Christmas
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
I'll Be Home For Christmas
Winter Wonderland
The First Nöel
We Wish You A Merry Christmas


New Year's Medley (6:46)

Auld Lang Salsoul
I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover
Alabama Jubilee
Oh, Dem Golden Slippers
God Bless America

Reprint of the rare 1972 library LP by Maestro Giuliano Sorgini under the pseudonyms of Raskovich and The Bid-On. Originally released in just a few copies for a small label owned by a friend of Maestro Sorgini, this LP includes 12 really beautiful tracks with positive vibes. From Jazz Dance, Bossa Nova, Funk, and some Killer BreakBeat, with lots of percussion, growling flute and honking sax. Reissued with the original minimal artwork designed by Giuliano Sorgini drawn with chalk on a black sheet. Glossy Cinedelic cover. Limited to 600 copies.

Cream by The Black Fire is a nearly impossible to find Italian LP from 1973. A Library album that mix several themes including sexy and psychedelic whispered scat vocals, space synth lounge, lazy bossa with harpsichord, fender rhodes and a lot of congas, bongos and insane flutes; it also includes the killer wah-wah funk tune 'Alcoholic' used years later as the opening song of the kung fu movie Operation Cobra aka Squadra Omicidi Chiama Cobra. Original colorful artwork by the painter G. Pinna in a glossy Cinedelic cover. Limited to 600 copies.














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Long sought after reissue of this avant-populist Chicago jazz classic. Includes 2 tracks never before released on vinyl.

As St John Sessions' reputation has developed, so too have opportunities outside its stained-glass windows: an accompanying string of performances have been established up the road at Café OTO; cultural institutions are frequently on board, most notably in the case of founding partner Moringa, a community-focused arts charity; local broadcasters NTS Radio and Boiler Room have been bringing the music to an international audience via frequent live streams. All this will now be housed within a larger umbrella company entitled ThirtyThree ThirtyThree - a double quip on both the sonic (full-length RPMs) and the spiritual (Jesus' rather untimely demise) - with a namesake record label to match. The imprint, set up in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory, will exist to showcase live recordings taken from St John Sessions, both home and abroad as the series expands. ThirtyThree ThirtyThree kicks off with arguably the most impactful St John performance to date: Ryuichi Sakamoto and Taylor Deupree. 2014's concert with sound design wizard Deupree and multi-discipline legend Sakamoto - whose career has run the gamut from Oscar-winning film scores through daring proto-electronic records - was notable for their kinetic understanding on stage, providing a fittingly unique way to inaugurate a unique label.* Legendary live performance by Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree * Recorded as part of the St. John Sessions * Mixed and mastered by Taylor Deupree * Vinyl mastering by Noel Summerville * Pressed on two 180-gram heavyweight records (run time: 54 minutes) * Housed in a bespoke clear foiled outer sleeve * Includes 12" photographic print * Limited to 1000 copies worldwide

Black Truffle is honored to present a major collection of archival recordings by seminal minimalist composer, performer, instrument builder and visual artist Arnold Dreyblatt. Following on from the archival compilation Choice (Choose Records, 2013), Second Selection presents eleven pieces selected by Oren Ambarchi from Dreyblatt's extensive archive of previously unreleased recordings. Recorded in beautifully varying fidelity between 1978 and 1989, the pieces range from solo works to documents of various iterations of Dreyblatt's long running Orchestra of Excited Strings.

Man, this is a blast. Soulful disco and pop music with a rather naked production and heart melting songs is what Ms. Cleveland has to offer on her hyper rare 1977 album 'Looking up', a sacred gem of late 1970s black music with electronic tinges. Her masterpiece must be the hypnotizing soul pop anthem 'Love will set you free' that lives from a primitive electronic drum beat, some rattles and tambourine sounds and the interplay of organ and synthesizer. Actually even the organ sounds like a synthesizer. Her rich and soulful voice will captivate you within a moment. There are some slower tunes in here that have a spaced out feel due to the synthesizer lines despite their stylistical link to early ska and rock steady or lush classy pop. Carrie's vocals have a unique charm and come as intriguing as they can. This cat knows to sing like an angel, clean and innocent but with the spirit of a diva. This is indeed a strange album and if you can imagine KRAFTWERK working with Donna Summer on disco music, this is close to what you will discover here. Original copies of this jewel go for 450,00 and more Dollars and I agree that this record is so unique in its whole approach it may bring a true aficionado and collector to the point where money plays a minor role. A strange little rarity of angelic beauty. Great to find it reissued now so we can all enjoy the slick weirdness offered by Carrie Cleveland.