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Igor Wakhevitch - 'donc...'  More or less the complete works by this French avant-garde composer, here's part of a mouthwatering synopsis of this release: (from M. Gira) "A much desired 6CD retrospective boxset of the 70s electronic albums by legendary French composer Igor Wakhevitch. This reissues all of his major albums from the 70s: Logos(1970), Docteur Faust (1971), Hathor (1974), Les Fous D'Or (1975), Nagual (1977) & Let's Start (1979), all originally issued by Pathé-Marconi/EMI (except the 4th one, which came out on French Atlantic). These albums are all terribly difficult to come by for quite some some time and this box set will have a major impact in terms of re-introducing Wakevitch to the contemporary underground / experimental audience. Packaged in a small box, with fold-out poster depicting all the original covers & booklet of notes (all in French, unfortunately); limited to 500 sets" 6 CDs £47.99
The 'Cropredy 2002' 2 CD set has just arrived, over 2 hours of music featuring "The classics, the rarities and the innovations" Click on the title for all the track info. £19.99., includes Richard Thompson
Joni Mitchell DVD: 'Joni Mitchell: Painting With Words And Music' Not your average Rock Concert Video, in fact Joni appear to perform in a large round living room full of soft furnishings giving an intimate feel to the whole thing "Joni's intimate performance, which was attended by her fans and celebrity friends such as Rosanna Arquette, (who introduces the evening) k.d. Lang, Joaquin Cooder, Natalie Imbruglia, Bijou & Mackenzie Philips, Graham Nash, Darryl Hannah, John Densmore, among others, was taped on the Warner Bros. lot in May of 1998. Image Entertainment says in it's new catalogue: "This concert is classic Joni Mitchell, and her repertoire here covers the complete arc of her career." The songs: Tiger Bones (Introduction) Big Yellow Taxi Just Like This Train Night Ride Home The Crazy Cries Of Love Harry's House Black Crow Amelia Hejira Sex Kills The Magdalene Laundries Moon At The Window Face Lift Why Do Fools Fall In Love Trouble Man Comes Love Song For Sharon Woodstock Dreamland (TOTAL 99 min. PAL) £19.99

New Releases 13th January 2003 DVDs, Box Sets  - Joni Mitchell - Painting With Words And Music £19.99 // Yes - Symphonic Live £19.99 // Various - Monterey International Pop Festival (4 CD Box) £29.99 // Albums - Bob Dylan - Gaslight Tapes (1961 Recordings) £9.99 // Bubble Puppy - A Gathering Of Promises £11.99 // Carly Simon - Anthology (2CD) £19.99 // Clinics - Living Is The Best Revenge (The Ivy Recordings) £11.99 // Cowboy Junkies - Best Of £11.99 // Don And The Goodtimes - The Original Northwest Sound £10.99 // Don Nix - Going Down £12.99 // Durutti Column - Sporadic Recordings £12.99 // Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using // Hold Out // Running On Empty (3 Remasters) £7.99 each // Landing - Circuit £11.99 // Lost And Found - Everybody's Here £11.99 // Lou Reed - Live, Take No Prisoners £12.99 // Lou Reed - Transformer (Remastered + Extra Tracks) £7.99 // Music Explosion - Little Bit O' Soul (Best Of) £12.99 // New Colony Six - Breakthrough £10.99 // Pavement - Wowee Zowee £11.99 // Porcupine Tree - In Absentia £11.99 // Roger Waters - Radio KAOS // The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking (2 Re - Issues) £6.99 each // Each Walkabouts - Watermarks (199 // 1 - 2002) £11.99 // Various - The North West Battle Of The Bands Vol. 3 (The Sonics, The Beachcombers Etc) £10.99 // OST - Sweet Home Alabama £11.9 Groundhogs - Live In Concert At The BBC £8.99.
The famous Dylan former bootleg 'The Gaslight Tapes' has just arrived. The running order is as follows: Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Don't Think Twice, Black Cross, No More Auction Block, Rocks And Gravel, Barbara Allen, Moonshine Blues, Motherless Children, Handsome Molly, John Brown, Ballad Of Hollis Brown, Kindhearted Woman Blues, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, Ain't No More Cane, Cocaine, Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird, West Texas. £9.99
Two new Lou Reed reissues for you: 'Take No Prisoners' never officially released on CD, but its a long-time favourite among Reed fans. (from  www.shorefire.com:) "Recorded at New York's Bottom Line in May 1978, as punk was beginning its ascent, the album finds Reed lashing out at his audience and the music business in a series of explosive monologues, set against a backdrop of his greatest hits. Reed names names, veering from digressions on Norman Mailer, his high-school athletic career, and the price of drugs during expansive and radically rearranged versions of hits such as "Walk on the Wild Side," "Sweet Jane," and "Coney Island Baby." 2 CD's £12.99, and, 'Transformer' "Produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, the album yielded classic tracks such as the now-standard "Walk on The Wild Side," the Warhol-inspired "Vicious," and "New York Telephone Conversation." Reissued with new liner notes from Michael Hill and previously unreleased bonus material including acoustic demo versions of "Hangin' Round" and "Perfect Day." £7.99

Herb Pedersen - 'Southwest' (notes from evangeline.co.uk) "Herb was born in Berkeley, California and formed his first band, The Pine Valley Boys, a bluegrass outfit in his teens. He moved to Nashville in 1961 and performed on Carl Tipton's Bluegrass TV Show and later joined Vern and Ray playing 5 string banjo and singing. In 1967 Earl Scruggs invited Herb to deputize while he (Earl) was recovering from a hip operation and in 1968, Herb replaced Doug Dillard in The Dillards. After leaving The Dillards in 1970, Herb became a session musician and worked with Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Linda Ronstadt and John Prine among others. In 1975 Herb joined Jackson Browne for a tour and the following year released his debut album, "Southwest" £10.99Two interesting slices of British quirkiness have just arrived on BGO: Dando Shaft: 'Dando Shaft'/'Lantaloon' "Dando Shaft began as a five-piece folk-band formed in Coventry in 1968 and comprised of Kevin Dempsey (acoustic guitar/vocals). Martin Jenkins (vocals, mandolin/fiddle/ guitar), Ted Kay (tabla/percussion), Roger Bullen (bass), and Dave Cooper (guitar/vocals). They initiated a unique mixture of acoustic folk with driving rhythms and impeccable inventive musicianship • In October 1970, Dando Shaft acquired the services of a female singer, Polly Bolton from Leamington Spa, who had previously sung with June Tabor. The first album, ‘An Evening With…’, was released in 1970 on the Youngblood label and gained a release in the US through the major MCA corporation. A change of label to RCA’s short-lived Progressive imprint Neon in 1971 for the second album, Dando Shaft, was followed by a release on RCA proper for the third, Lantaloon, in 1972 • While Dando Shaft remains a curious entry to the English psychedelic folk era, their music is curious but wonderful nonetheless" Tracks: 'Dando Shaft': 1. Coming Home To Me 2. Railway 3. Whispering Ned 4. Sometimes 5. River Boat 6. Kalyope Driver 7. Waves Upon The Ether 8. Dewet 9. Till The Morning Comes 10. Pass It On 11. Prayer Lantaloon: 1. Road Song 2. Is It Me? 3. Down To You, Up To Me 4. Melancholic Fervour (It’s Only Us) 5. It Was Good 6. The Harp Lady I Bombed 7. The Black Prince Of Paradise 8. When I’m Weary 9. I Heard Somewhere 10. Magnetic Beggar. And, Ian Carr & Nucleus: 'Under The Sun' / 'Snakehips Etcetera' Originally released in 1974 and 1975 respectively Tracks: 'Under The Sun': 1. In Procession 2. The Addison Trip 3. Pastoral Graffitti 4. New Life 5. A Taste Of Sarsaparilla 6. Theme 1 Sarsaparilla 7. Theme 2 Feast Alfresco 8. Theme 3 Rites Of Man 'Snakehips Etcetera': 1.Rat’s Bag 2. Alive And Kicking 3. Rachel’s Tune 4. Snakehips Etcetera 5. Pussyfoot 6. Heyday. Lineups on the albums are: ‘Under The Sun’ ­ Ian Carr, Bob Bertles, Gordon Beck, Geoff Castle, Jocelyn Pitchen, Ken Shaw, Roger Sutton, Bryan Spring & Keiran White; ‘Snakehips Etcetera’ ­ Ian Carr, Bob Bertles, Ken Shaw, Geoff Castle, Roger Sutton & Roger Sellers. A 2 CD set for £11.99.
On Collectors Choice Music: The Complete Hearts and Flowers "were a self-described “Georgia country folk meets Hawaiian ukelele folk-rock group” (actually, they used a lot of autoharp) whose two releases for Capitol are highly prized by ‘60s rock aficionados, here compiled together and out on CD for the first time. But that’s only HALF the story—we’ve also managed to dig up 13 unreleased tracks from the Capitol vaults, including very groovy (sitar!) versions of the Fred Neil tunes "Everybody’s Talking" and "Other Side of This Life" as well as some fine originals. The glorious sum: 35 tracks of late-‘60s SoCal folk rock (and you know that can’t be bad!) on two CDs, annotated by folk-rock authority Richie Unterberger. Includes from "Now Is the Time"—"Now Is the Time," "Save Some Time," "Try for the Sun," "Rain, Rain," "The View from Ward Three," "Rock and Roll Gypsies," "Reason to Believe," "Please," "1-2-3 Rhyme in Carnivour Time," "I’m a Lonesome Fugitive," "Road to Nowhere," and "10,000 Sunsets." From "Of Horses"—"Now Is the Time for Hearts and Flowers," "Highway in the Wind," "Second Hand Sundown Queen," "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune," "Ode to a Tin Angel," "When I Was a Cowboy," "Legend of Ol’ Tenbrookes," "Colour Your Daytime," "Two Little Boys," and "Extra Extra/Rock and Roll Gypsies/Extra Extra." A 36 track 2 CD Set for £17.99 Cult figure Liam Hayes' band Plush have only released 2 singles and 2 albums after 12 years in the biz. The first album was 'More You Becomes You' which disappeared only to become much sought-after. We've just got the second album 'Fed' on the Japanese 'After-Hours' label, in stock. What's it like? I tracked this review down from www.jabacock.com "Hayes plots his hooky melodies along strings of shimmering chords and fleshes them out with layer upon layer of brass, strings, winds, keyboards, percussion, backup singers -- yet his own clear, delicate vocals are the indisputable center of the mix. Most of the album was recorded and mixed a year ago, but Hayes spent another year tweaking and rerecording. Basic tracks were cut all over the city -- in traditional recording studios like Delmark's Riverside and Steve Albini's Electrical Audio, with a mobile setup on a soundstage, at the Congress Theater, and even on the roof of a south-side loft building...more. £17.99 (it's a Japanese import).From Scat Records: "The Guided By Voices' Box is now available again on CD. This new pressing is essentially the same as the first edition(s), but the package is slightly slimmer and uses jewel boxes instead of digipaks. It is still a 5 CD set and still features the artwork of the original LPs ('Devil Between My Toes', 'Sandbox', 'Self Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia', and 'Same Place the Fly Got Smashed') which were originally self-released by the band 1987-1990 in editions of 300 to 1000. There are no future repressings of the vinyl edition planned, so if you've been thinking about it, now is the time" There is also a disc of exclusive unreleased material, 'King Shit and the Golden Boys', whose contents are split between a-list 'Bee Thousand' outtakes and tracks from 1980s Shitcanned albums 'Back to Saturn X' and 'Learning to Hunt'. £47.992 DVD for you, firstly, directed by D. A. Pennibaker, 'John Lennon Sweet Toronto' features John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band in concert from 1969 with guests like Eric Clapton and  includes four vintage Rock 'n' Roll greats. Running order: Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley, Hound Dog - Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry, Lucille - Little Richard, Blue Suede Shoes - John Lennon, You Make Me Dizzy Miss Lizzy - John Lennon, Yer Blues - John Lennon, Cold Turkey - John Lennon, Give Peace A Chance - John Lennon, Don't Worry Kyoto (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow) - Yoko Ono and John, John - Yoko Ono. With an additional clip featuring Yoko talking about how they met, what it was like to be in Toronto in 1969 and the naming of the Plastic Ono Band. Dolby Digital 5.1 mix. 56 minutes long. £17.99. Miles Davis : The Miles Davis Story DVD is a two-hour documentary, made by Channel 4. (from rotten tomatoes.com: ) "The first authorized documentary on the life of jazz music legend Miles Davis. From his upbringing in a segregated East St. Louis to his death in 1991, The Miles Davis Story captures every element of the music genius' life and career. Also Included are exclusive interviews and rare footage of performances with other legends like Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. Also Included are interviews with Clark Terry, Jimmy Cobb, Shirley Horn, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Josef Zawinul, Bill Evans, Marcus Miller, John Scofield, Dave Liebman and many others. £19.99