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Jimi Hendrix - 'Astro Man' Jimi Hendrix - 'Astro Man'
(6 CD Box Set) "Limited to 12,000 copies worldwide. Contained here for the first time are 3
CDs of studio out-takes/alternative versions spanning the period 1966-1970, which provide a stunning insight into the workings of Jimi Hendrix's recording processes. The box set also contains 3 CD's showcasing two live shows, available for the first time digitally re-mastered. The Stockholm show is available for the first time ever!
Contains 100 page extensive booklet including in depth liner notes with break downs on all tracks, including studio dates and full annotations. Also includes reviews of both the live concerts and an interview with Noel Redding. Plus essays by Ex Only Ones, John Perry (who is a Hendrix afficianado). The CDs will be housed in a sturdy clam shell
box". £34.99. Here
for all the details. At
last a cover scan for this: Click here for the the tracklisting for
Scott Walker - '5 Easy Pieces'
box set, themed as follows: CD 1: 'In My Room', CD 2: 'Where's The Girl?', CD 3:
'An American In London', CD 4: 'This Is How You Disappear' and CD 5: 'Scott On Screen'. £36.99 out on
November 24th. Ringo Starr - 'Ringo Rama Deluxe' (1th November 2003) For a Limited time only,
'Ringo Rama', Ringo's first new studio outing in over 6 years is now available as a special 3
Disc Deluxe CD/DVD collection. Packaged in a fold -out digi-pack, this collectible pack comes complete with previously unreleased tracks, an exclusive 30 minute Ringo interview and a DVD featuring the "Never Without You" video, as well as
interviews and behind the scenes action from the video set. Disc 3 DVD also features
Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Shawn Colvin. Go here for
the tracks. £19.99 Rod Stewart - 'Tonight's the Night' (Storyteller - The Complete Anthology
1964-1989) - A 4 CD Box - Go here for all the tracks - £44.99
Thanks to Frank for the details on the upcoming 'Dicks
Picks 30' - It's another 4 CD set, this time from the Academy of Music, New York City, March 25 and 28, 1972. Check out the tracks here, and, check out
the entire Dicks Picks series here, all available
from SPIN. £26.99
"The Essential Bruce
Springsteen"
The
definitive
3-CD Set,
Out on November
11, marks his first ever career-spanning collection
and includes never before released outtakes
and live recordings.
And, "Live
in Barcelona" Double-DVD, out
on
November 18, contains entire
October 2002 Barcelona concert, plus bonus features.
Check all the info. here. Price soon. The next Box set from
Guided By Voices will be 'Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western
Hemisphere' - It's a 5CD + DVD Slipcase Box Set with book (142 complete tracks, 14
fragmentary tracks and 8 videos) Price soon. All the
details are here. Jacques Brel: Clocking in at 15
remastered CDs (with one bonus
28 track CD only with the box) 'La Boîte Intégrale' comes with a 100
page book and, as you might imagine, is the last word in career overviews for
the great Belgian. Go here for a look at the
contents and here for everything on
Jacques. The CDs comes in what appears to be some sort of cool
metal biscuit tin and will cost £149.99.
3 volumes of Elvis
Costello singles, each box coming with with 11 or 12 CD singles, will
be with us in the next few weeks. Go
here for all the details. £24.99 per box.
On
Sundazed in November:Jimmy Bryant - 'Frettin'
Fingers - The Lightning Guitar of Jimmy Bryant' Quotes: "Here at last is the ultimate 3-CD box
set", "Jimmy Bryant was as important to country-guitar picking as Charlie Parker was to bebop"
"This deluxe-edition, 75-track, 1950-67-spanning collection is loaded with the gravity-defying, Capitol-era duets of Bryant and Speedy West, the never-reissued Bryant solo material from the Imperial and Dolton labels, as well as a large handful of ultra-rare singles, un-issued material and previously unheard alternate
versions", "gorgeous, unseen photos and rare memorabilia from the Bryant family archives",
"deluxe packaging includes a 32pg booklet, 3-disc quad-box, with full color o-ring wrap,
liner notes and sessionography by noted country-music author Rich Kienzle"
Tracklisting when we have it. £29.99
Coming soon in the limited edition Rhino Handmade series: 'The Jimmy Webb Boxed Set' A 5 CD set containing Jimmy's albums and other
gems - £84.99.
The Doors - 'Boot Yer Butt', formerly titled Best of the Boots, a personal project of Robby Krieger, in the works for quite some time. Were told it will be a 4
CD set for £84.99. Details and tracklistings when they emerge. Magma
- 'Presents Offering' an epic 4 CD Box Set being Magma's homage to to John
Coltrane recorded over a seven year period (1986-1993). The box includes a 32 minute interpretation of Coltrane's 'Out of
This World'. All
the details are on seventh records web site. £39.99
Talking
Heads ‘Once In A Lifetime’ box set - 3 CDs and 1 DVD,
54 tracks. "Assembled with all of the band members' participation,
Once In A Lifetime' offers plenty for longtime fans as well as those just discovering the band. The three CDs provide the most comprehensive overview of the band ever released, compiling all the hits as well as album cuts and rarities. The audio discs include five previously-unreleased tracks.The
DVD, is 'Storytelling Giant' (Expanded), which compiles all of the band's music videos on DVD for the first time. The disc offers three videos never before on DVD (and which were not part of the 1988 VHS release of Storytelling Giant)-"Blind," "(Nothing But) Flowers," and "Sax And Violins"- as well as previously unseen additional interview
footage" All the info here.
£36.99. Release date: November 10th AC/DC - Limited Edition 15 Vinyl Album Box Set - This is a
U.S.A. release by AC/DC. All 15 albums have been remastered and come housed in a limited edition, heavy -duty, leatherette box with the AC/DC logo stamped in silver. All 15 of the albums are 180 gram Audiophile
pressings and all are re-mastered from the original master tapes. Original LP artwork is augmented with newly designed sleeves featuring rare photos, memorabilia and detailed essays.
We are told that this is a one off special, never to be repeated. Expect to pay something in the region of £189.99 (To be Confirmed),
More info when we get it. Latte E Miele - 'Latte E Miele Box Set (the
following from Arkama records) "Complete box set containing Latte e Miele's three most classic releases
- 'Passio Secundum Mattheum', 'Papillon' [Italian & English versions] and
'Aquile e Scoiattoli'. Featuring photos and notes thanks to the collaboration of keyboardist Oliviero Lacagnina.
Akarma are pleased to be able to celebrate this great piece of Italian music history with this meticulously compiled box set.
An epic 6 CD roots box set with a 200 page book coming our way on Dust to
Digital: 'Goodbye, Babylon' - "If you're not sure where you'll stand on judgment morning, we have five
CDs of guitar evangelists, holiness string bands, jubilee gospel quartets, sacred harp choirs and sanctified jug music to rock your soul plus one
CD of shouting sisters and powerful preachers to deliver the message about your starry
crown". "Reverently packed in raw cotton and housed in a deluxe 8" x 11" x 2.5" cedar
box" Sound restoration and mastering by Airshow Mastering, the team that restored the "Anthology of American Folk Music", and won a Grammy® for their work on "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton".
Art direction and design by World of anArchie, the Grammy® winning team behind "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton," and "Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume IV."
All in all - Go here for Info,
here for track listings
and here for sample pages
from the book. £87.99. Out in October.
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in London
DVD ~ Raven Releases
~ Janis Ian
~ Trojan Box ~ Pentangle
DVD ~ Rat Pack ~
Fort
Lauderdale
~ American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966
~ Beefheart ~ Family
~ Hendrix - 'Axis Outtakes'
~Daevid Allen and Gong
~ Hollies
~ Lothar and the Hand People ~ Jason
Ringenberg ~ REM
~ Them
~ 5 Psyche Classics
~ Sundazed
Psche
~ Arkama ~ Korean Imports
~ Randy Newman ~
'Liz Damon's Orient
Express' ~ The
Gosdin Brothers
The
new reissue of The Gosdin Brothers 1986 album 'The Sounds of
Goodbye'"collects together the contents of the "Sounds Of Goodbye"
album and its attendant non-LP Bakersfield International sides, along with
unreleased material and esoteric singles, including the Gosdins legendary
Edict 45. Produced by Chris Hillman, this record was cut in December 1966,
features accompaniment from Hillman, Michael Clarke and Clarence White, and
is thereby tantamount to an outtake from Genes LP or even "Younger Than
Yesterday". Now boosted to 24 tracks, read
all about it here. £12.99 The
latest in Revola's roster of eclectic releases is : 'Liz Damon's Orient
Express' "Originally released in 1969, "Liz Damon's Orient Express" is a masterpiece of loungepop and the
"Now Sound" which features not only their US smash hit "1900 Yesterday”, and a raft of other Now Sound classics, but also a cracking softpop rendition of "Bring Me Sunshine," the song with which Eric & Ernie closed many a classic "Morecombe and Wise," show in the 1960's and
70's...superb! Rat pack adjacent soft-pop for Hawaiian luaus attended by the 'beautiful people.', something of a bookend to our phenomenal release by the Forum! Never before on CD, "Liz Damon's Orient Express" includes several bonus tracks, rare photos and an extensive interview with the lovely Liz Damon
herself!.... Go here for the details
- £8.99A whole raft of interesting
domestic and international Psychedelic releases are now
available. Firstly, from
Sundazed: Mojo Men 'There Goes My Mind?'
£11.99. Raik's
Progress - 'Sewer Rat Love
Chant' £11.99.
The Stillroven - 'Too Many Spaces' £11.99, The Paisleys -
'Cosmic Mind At Play' £12.99, The Bruthers - 'Bad Way To Go!
£11.99, The Gurus - 'The Gurus Are Hear!'
£12.99.Go here for more info. Next,
5 psychedelic
classics: H.P. Lovecraft - 'H.P.
Lovecraft': "Now re-issued as 1 album CD the classic debut album by USA 60's
Psychedelic band". Morgen - 'Morgen' "A true Psychedelic artifact originally release on Probe 1968/1969. Comes with original
artwork 'The Scream' from Edvard Munch"Phantom's Divine
Comedy - 'Part One' "One and only album by Phantom's Divine
Comedy a very Doors-like rock outfit from the USA from the early 70's. Great psych." Silver Apples -'Contact' "UK import. Reissue of the NY
pioneering duo's second and final album (1969), featuring such classics as 'You And I', 'I Have Known Love' or A Pox On You'." Wizards from Kansas - 'Wizards from Kansas'"Reissue of
Ultra-Rare album from this Psych band from Kansas USA. Originally released on Mercury in 1970 and since then very sought after.." £9.99 each
Six
examples of late 60's / early 70's English Pop-Psyche on import from
Japan: All have replica sleeves, some titles
come with bonus tracks: Apple-
'An Apple A Day', Plastic Penny- 'Currency', Octopus- 'Restless Night',
Pete Dello - 'Into Your Ears', Colin Hare - 'March Hare', and,
Westwind- 'Love Is A Funny Sort Of Thing'.£14.99
each. An
interesting batch of Korean Imports:Canterbury Music Festival - 'Rain & Shine' (LP) "one of the rarest albums in the entire collectable Soft Rock
genre", Tokens - 'Intercourse' (expanded Edition) "White doo-wop group
delivering an album that falls somewhere between Pet Sounds and Sgt.
Pepper" 31 tracks (CD), Astrud Gilberto -' With Turrentine' Plus 6 Bonus Tracks
"mixes Astrud Gilberto's lovely Brazilian vocals with some funky 70s CTI backing!" (CD),
Mud Acres - 'Music Among Friends "Happy and Artie Traum from 1972"
(CD) and 'Geoff Muldaur & Amos Garrett', "a collection of covers and self-penned from
1978" (CD). £15.99 each, all the
info. here. Finally,
5 new releases on the Italian Akarma
label:Saturnalia - 'Magical Love' - excellent 70's British Underground, produced by Keith
Relf,
Toad - 'B.U.F.O Produced from an incredibly rare EMI acetate,
not the tracks used for the original album release, Road - 'Road'
feat. Noel Redding, recorded at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles in 1972,
Lightnin' Hopkins - 'Mojo Hand' - originally released on the Fire label in 1960, now with 6 bonus
tracks, and Jim Kweskin' - 'Relax Your Mind' featuring
members of the Jug Band. £12.99 each, go here for all the details. Go
to the nonesuch site for a
few sound clips from Randy Newman's new album 'The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1'
on which he re-works some of his best best-known songs. £11.99 Them
- 'Time Out! Time In For Them'
, the third part of Revola's
Them trilogy "produced once more
by Texas rockabilly maverick Ray Ruff, this is the sound of
Them through the bizarro filter of California Acid tests…",
"this is THE essential lost artifact of Irish
Psychedelia"Check
the Revola Site for more details and some sound clips.
£8.99
You may have noticed the reissue of Gene Clark's
1967 album 'Echoes' in our new releases. It's a 2003 reissue of the
1991 compilation that combines 'Echoes' with another
1967 album, 'Gene Clark with the Gosdin
Brothers'. Comes packaged in a digipak. 20 tracks -
£7.99.
Go here for the tracklistingAs well as the regular
single
CD release, there is a
Limited Edition 2CD Set of 'In
- Time' The Best Of REM 1988-2003.
The Second
CD is made up of live tracks, alternate versions and Demos. Go here for the track listing, and
visit
the REM web site for a link to a video for every song from the
album. £11.99 for the single CD, £17.99 for the limited 2 CD set The Allman Brothers Band - 'Live At The
Atlanta International Pop Festival - July 3 & 5, 1970'
clocks in at over 150 minutes of music on two CDs - one disc for each night - and a revealing behind-the-scenes liner notes essay by ABB Tour Magician Kirk Wes.
All but 2 songs have never been released before and this is the longest show released from the period following the release of the first album featuring the classic original line up.
£21.99. All the info here. Lothar and the
Hand People - 'Space Hymn'- 'The Complete Capitol
Recordings' As we all know (!) the front man of Lothar was not a person but a
theremin,
and he fronted one of the strangest experimental bands of the 60s.
The album 'Space Hymn' is being released on CD for the first time,
expanded to a 2 CD set to include the entire album "Presenting....Lothar and the Hand
People", along with 6 tracks originally released as singles in 1967. 29 tracks in
all. 12.99.
Check it out here. Read all about LATHP here,
and here. The 15 Bob Dylan Hybrid SACDs have just been made available to us as a
box set - housed in a wooden box - for £154.99. The box, with only three
CDs, ('Infidels', 'Planet Waves' and 'Another Side of') will set you back
£34.99 'The World of Daevid Allen and Gong' - a 3 CD, 54 track set with selections from Gong, Daevid Allen, Soft
Machine and New York Gong. All at the great price of £18.99 - Out on
October 13th - go here for the tracklisting. Click
here for Jason Ringenberg - 'A Day at the Farm with Farmer Jason' £11.99 WattStax:
A 3 CD set 'Music from the 1972 Wattstax festival and film'
- £14.99 'The Long Road Home', a Hollies
6 CD, 134 track Box Set featuring classic tracks,
B-sides, album tracks, rare foreign releases, live recordings and previously
unreleased material. The 6th CD has live material from shows in Sweden, 1966, Lewisham Odeon (London UK), 1968, the complete "Hollies Live Hits" show from Christchurch, New Zealand, 1976, and from Harrogate (UK) in 1991.The box comes along with a booklet with a 17,000 word
history. All
the details are here on the Hollies web site. £49.99 There's
a sound clip for each track of the forthcoming High
Llamasalbum 'Beet, Maize & Corn'here
on the Duophonic Super 45's web site. £11.99 New Releases 27th October 2003
DVD's, Box Sets:
Big Brother And The Holding Company - Nine Hundred Nights (DVD) £24.99 //
Bob Dylan - The Reissue Series (Limited Box With All 15 Remastered Albums) £154.99 //
Bob Marley - Spiritual Journey (DVD) £15.99 //
Cheap Trick - Live In Australia (DVD) £15.99 //
Frank Zappa - Does Humour Belong In Music (DVD) £11.99 //
Gillian Welch - The Revelator Collection (DVD) £16.99 //
Gong - The World Of Gong (3CD) £18.99 //
Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Hold On To Your Structure (DVD) £11.99 //
Ian Hunter - Strings Attached (DVD) £14.99 //
John Lennon - Legend (DVD) £16.99 //
Reefer Madness (DVD) £4.99 //
Roxy Music - On The Road Live (DVD) £15.99 //
The Allman Brothers Band - Live At The Beacon Theatre 2003 (DVD) £17.99 //
The American Folk Blues Festival 1962 - 66) Volume 1 // Volume 2 Each £16.99
(DVDs) //
The Hollies - The Long Road Home (6CD Set, 1963 - 2003) £49.99 //
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (Jean Luc Godard Film - DVD) £21.99 //
The White Stripes - Candy Coloured Blues (DVD, Documentary) £11.99 //
Albums:
22 20's - 05/03 £6.99 //
38 Special - 38 Special £8.99 //
Albert Lee - Heartbreak Hill £11.99 //
Aqualung - Stillife £9.99 //
Asian Dub Foundation - Keep Bangin' On The Walls (Live) £9.99 //
Barbara Streisand - The Movie Album £14.99 //
Captain Beefheart - Dichotomy (Out - Takes And Rarities) £12.99 //
Cowboy Junkies - In The Time Before Llamas (Live) £9.99 //
Dr.Hook - Vintage Years £12.99 //
Dr.John - City Lights £12.99 //
Eric Clapton - Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues £7.99 //
Family - A Song For Me // Anyway // Fearless // Live // Its Only A Movie //
Bandstand Each £8.99 //
Fort Lauderdale - Pretty Monster £11.99 //
Freddie King - Larger Than Life £9.99 //
Funeral For A Friend - Seven Ways To Scream Your Name £9.99 //
Funkadelic - Motor City Madness (2CD Best Of) £12.99 //
Gene Clark - Echoes (Digipac Reissue + Extras) £7.99 //
Gershon Kingsley - Firsy Moog Quartet £13.99 //
Green On Red - No Free Lunch £12.99 //
Harmony Grass - This Is Us £8.99 //
Illusion - The Island Recordings £12.99 //
Isobel Campell - Amorino £11.99 //
Jackie O Motherf**Ker - Wow / The Maigick Fire Music £11.99 //
Jah Wobble - English Roots Music £12.99 //
Janis Ian - Revenge // Night Rains // Breaking Silence // Janis Ian Each
£8.99 //
Jason Ringenberg - A Day At The Farm With Farmer Jason £11.99 //
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Outtakes (2CD) £12.99 //
John Lennon - Legend (Re - Issued Best Of) £12.99 //
Johnny Greenwood - Bodysong(Ost) £11.99 //
Leslie West - Blues To Die For £12.99 //
Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand £12.99 //
Loren Connors And David Grubbs - Arbervitae £11.99 //
Lothar And The Hand People - Spacehymn £12.99 //
Marshmellow - Marshmellow £9.99 //
Moondog - Moondog (Digipac Reissue + Extras) £7.99 //
Movietone - The Sand And The Stars £11.99 //
Noel Redding Band - Clonakilty Cowboys / Blowin' (2on1) £9.99 //
Orbital - Octane (Ost) £11.99 //
Pale Man Made - Show Of Hands (Single) £2.99 //
Paul Burch - Fool For Love £12.99 //
Paul Westerberg - Come Feel Me Tremble £14.99 //
Pierson, Parker, Janovitz - Lost Songs Of Lennon And Mccartney £12.99 //
R.E.M. - The Best Of (2CD Version) £17.99 //
R.E.M. - The Best Of £11.99 //
Road - Road £12.99 //
Robert Earl Keen - The Party Never Ends £11.99 //
Ronnie Lane - Slim Chance £12.99 //
Roxy Music - Reflections (2CD From 1972 - 75) £11.99 //
Saturnlia - Magicial Love £12.99 //
Snowy White - Bird Of Paradise (2CD Anthology) £11.99 //
Soft Machine - Third (Reissue + Extras) £7.99 //
Swell - Well £11.99 //
The Allman Brothers - Live At The Atlanta Pop Festival 1970 (2CD Set)
£21.99 //
The Beautiful South - Gaze £12.99 //
The Bellrays - The Red White And Black £8.99 //
The Boggs - Stitches £11.99 //
The Dirtbombs - Dangerous Magical Noise £11.99 //
The Electric Flag - A Long Time Coming £7.99 //
The Fall - Country On The Click £11.99 //
The Fall - The War Against Intelligence (Fontana Years) £7.99 //
The Green Pajamas - Strung Behind The Sun £14.99 //
The High Llamas - Beet, Maize And Corn £11.99 //
The Impossible Shapes - We Like It Wild £11.99 //
The Jessica Fletchers - What Happened To The £10.99 //
The Love Thugs - Playground Instructors £10.99 //
The Pearlfishers - Sky Meadows £11.99 //
The Sons Of Champlin - Loosen Up Naturally £12.99 //
Them - Time Out! Time In For Them £8.99 //
Toad - B.U.F.O. £12.99 //
Todd Snider - Near Truths And Hotel Rooms (Live) £11.99 //
Triste Janero - Meet… £8.99 //
Van Morrison - Whats Wrong With This Picture (New) £11.99 //
Various - Tribute To Johnny Thunders, 'I Only Wrote This Song For You'
£11.99 //
Various - Worlds Of Possibility (2CD Domino Comp) £4.99 //
Various - 600% Dynamite £11.99 //
Various - A Soldiers Sad Story (Vietnam Through The Eyes Of Black Man)
£12.99 //
Various - Hedwig Tribute £12.99 //
Various - Music From The Wattstax Festival (3CD) £14.99 //
Various - Rough Trade Country 1 £12.99 //
Various - Stiff Rarities And Oddities Volume 1 // Volume 2 Each £5.99 //
Various - Way Beyond Nashville
Jimi Hendrix - 'Axis Outtakes' is how 'Axis Bold As Love' "might have sounded if different production decisions had been made by Chas Chandler and Hendrix when the final mixes were being selected"
This
2 CD digitally remastered set on Radioactive Records features numerous
different takes and, amazingly, "5 tracks recorded during the Axis sessions but
ultimately omitted from the final release"Tracklisting
and more info here. £12.99
'The Lost songs of Lennon and McCartney' (From A Window) contains 17 Lennon and McCartney songs that they wrote for other artists now
re-interpreted by Kate Pierson of the B52's, Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom, Graham Parker, Johnny Society & Robin Zander of Cheap Trick.
£12.99, click here for the tracks.6 Family
remasters: From 1970,
'A Song for Me' and 'Anyway', 1971's 'Fearless',
from 1972
'Bandstand' and 'It's Only a Movie' from 1973. All
albums come with bonus live tracks apart from 'Live',
£8.99 each. All the tracks are here. I've
just watched both of the following DVDs and they really are
as good as the advanced publicity made out. Even though the
stage sets are of their time, (made-up railroad platforms,
garages and bars) the film and sound are of very high
quality and the performances are fantastic. Highly
recommended...
Something
really special here:
Nearly three hours of previously unseen performances filmed in the early 1960's
during the famed American Folk Blues Festival tours of Europe.
'The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 Volumes One and Two on DVD'
are in stock now, (a compilation
of 16 audio highlights on CD compiled from the two volumes will be
with us soon....)featuring previously unseen live in-studio
performances by such blues legends as Muddy
Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker and
Willie Dixon....lots more here.
DVDs (Region one) £16.99 each. Captain
Beefheart and The Magic Band - 'Dichotomy Vol. 1- On OZIT records, a collection of
studio out-takes, rarities and demos from 1960 to 1970's. 28 tracks in total
with a booklet with previously unpublished photos. £12.99 at the
end of October. Go here for the tracklisting. Frank Zappa -
'Does Humour Belong In Music ?' (DVD) Filmed live in New York, summer 1984. Zappa and his six-piece band perform fourteen numbers, including
`Zoot Allures`, `Keep It Greasey`, `Dinah-Moe Humm`, `Dancing Fool`, and `Whipping Post`.
One Hour, Region 0. £11.99 Fort
Lauderdale: 'Pretty Monster'
described as "An unexpected lysergic treat"
by Uncut,
“If it's neo-classical torch songs and richly detailed
psychedelia you're after, this should hit the spot"
by Mojo, and,
“The London duo have clearly snorted Ziggy’s
stardust, ridden Bolan’s swan and taken Kraftwerk’s
autobahn. A three tiered space cake of a record"
by the NME. Spin say "if we'd managed to be
organised enough to vote for a record of the week, this would be it"
Go here
and here
for some MP3s. £11.99
Nanci
Griffith - 'The Complete MCA Studio Recordings'...
brings together Nanci's studio work while signed to MCA from 1987 through to 1992. Featuring47 tracks from her five albums recorded while with the label.
Check
it out here. 2CD Set - £14.99
'Live & Swingin’: 'The Ultimate Rat Pack
Collection' is a CD+DVD set containing the boys
in action from a 1962 show at the Villa Venice nightclub.
The DVD features the only complete Rat Pack concert
performance ever filmed - a 1965 show at the Kiel Opera
House in St. Louis. A deluxe booklet includes archival
photos and liner notes by Sinatra biographer Bill Zehme.
Import £22.99. Go here for the
details.
Pentangle
- 'Captured Live'
DVD "This French TV special from 1971 captures the band
in all its glory as they work their way through six songs from the
albums ‘Solomon’s Seal’, and ‘Reflection’."
With 5.1 surround Sound and extras • Will The Circle
Be Unbroken • No Love Is Sorrow • Wedding Dress •
Reflection • Willy O’Winsbury • People On The Highway.
£12.99 Chrome,
Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box'This explosive 80 track, four-disc collection celebrates the 30-plus-year career of the legendary Texas trio
"An extensive research effort has yielded the original, first-generation analog masters that are the source of the tracks included in CHROME, SMOKE & BBQ: THE ZZ TOP BOX. The collection
includes tracks from 1968's Flash (the debut album from Gibbons' first band, The Moving Sidewalks) and the first release issued under the ZZ TOP name: "Salt Lick" b/w "Miller's Farm." All of the band's best- known tracks (such as
"Gimme All Your Lovin" "Sharp Dressed Man," "Legs" and "Rough Boy") are included, plus a plethora of meaty musical surprises. Among the rare items found on CHROME, SMOKE & BBQ is a live rendition of the 1980 hit "Cheap Sunglasses," a Spanish-language version of 1972's
"Francene," a dance mix of the 1984 Top 10 single "Legs," as well as remixes of "Velcro Fly" (1986), "Give It Up" (1991) and "Viva Las Vegas"
(1992)".... much more here.
£49.99. We also have a very
limited, import edition of this box packaged to look like a
tin barbeque shack from the Texas back roads for £64.99. Muzik
City: The Story Of Trojan Records' "Celebrating Trojan's 35 momentous years as a record company, this 4 CD set highlights 100 of the company's recordings from across three and a half decades, ranging from the Rocksteady sounds of the late sixties, through to the Dub and Dancehall music of the present day.... if you thought Trojan was simply a Reggae label, you're in for a
shock". Go here for the details ... £29.99
(Taken from www.allman
brothers.com): "One of the
greatest double live albums of all time,
The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East has been digitally remastered and expanded with bonus tracks, creating for the first time a complete concert experience. The two-CD
'The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore
East' adds six performances, all from the Fillmore East in 1971, to the album issued that same year." Nirvana (UK)
Their three albums have had a dusting off and remastering: 'The
Story of Simon Simopath' (now
enlarged to 26 tracks with the original mono mix, a stereo mix and A
and B sides from singles), 'All of us' (with 4 additional
single tracks) and 'To Markos III' (no details of extra
tracks available so far). £8.99 each - Go
here for the tracklistings and here
to read more about Nirvana..
'Brian Wilson presents
Pet Sounds Live In London' "is the ultimate concert
experience. This 57 minute concert features the Beach Boys classic 1966
album performed live from beginning to end at London's Royal Festival Hall by its original creator Brian Wilson along with a nine-piece band.
The complete concert has been remixed and remastered in breathtaking 5.1 Surround Sound for the first time
ever" The DVD special features include: Pet Stories - the ultimate inside look at the making of the original
album. Brian Wilson Discography - complete details on every release in Brian Wilson's solo career.
Pet Sound Live Photo Gallery - a collection of photographs of Brian and the band taken during the production of this DVD.
£18.99 Eleven (count 'em)
Janis Ian reissues: 'Aftertones', 'Between The
Lines', 'Breaking Silence', 'Hunger', 'Janis Ian II', 'Miracle
Row', 'Night Rains', 'Restless Eyes', 'Revenge', 'Stars' and 'Uncle Wonderful'.
£8.99 each - Check them all out here
Lou Reed/Cale/Nico ~
Grateful Dead
- 'Winterland DVD' ~ Camera
Obscura
~ Allmans Atlanta 1970 ~ Collector Choice
Reissues
~ Sun Ra DVD ~ Muddy
Waters
~ Let It Be ...Naked
~ Bonnaroo 2003 ~
Ford's Imaginary Inferno
~ High Llamas ~ Yes DVD
~ Bloomfield
~ Japanese Imports ~
Rhino Handmade
~ Iggy & Stooges
~ Beatles
~ Pirate Radio
~ Fading Yellow
~ Beatles Japanese Vinyl
~ Come Together
~ Robert Plant
~ Water
Records
~ Echo and the
Bunnymen
~ Ryan Adams ~
Ultimate 50’s & 60’s Rockin’ Horror
Disc ~ 3 Introductions
to
3 'Introductions to' coming your
way: 'Oceans of bliss' (An Introduction To Quintessence), 'Forever
Changing' (An Introduction To Nirvana) and 'Rope ladder to the
Moon (An Introduction To Jack Bruce). Here for the
details, out on November 3rd - £7.99 each.Following the release of
‘The Ultimate 50’s Rockin’ Sci-Fi Disc’ in March 2003, The Viper Label now takes a look into another 1950’s fascination of the unknown, that of the Horror genre.
‘The Ultimate 50’s & 60’s Rockin’ Horror
Disc’ - "A Unique Collection of Original, Horror influenced Blood
Curdling Rock ’n’ Roll from 1950’s & 60’s America"
- It's a 20 track collection of Spooky Tunes by the likes of: Lou Chaney, Lord Luther, The Frantics, Tonys Monstrosities and many more (no, I
haven't heard of them either). Go here to check out the info and the
track listing - Should be £8.99
Released 10 Nov 2003 - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and Friends -
'John Mayall - 70th Birthday Concert' - 2CD Set and DVD. More
details soon.More on
the - Grateful Dead - 'The Closing of
Winterland' - There are now a number of configurations: The
regular 2 DVD set is £24.99. There is a 2 DVD and 1 CD set for
£34.99 and a 4 CD box set for £24.99. The music on the single CD
in the DVD/CD set is from earlier Winterland shows than the music
that appears on the 4 CD box set. Check
out all the details on the various sets here. Should be out in November. More
on Ryan Adams: 'Rock N Roll' and more... "the highly anticipated "official" follow up to Ryan's 2001 release 'Gold' is due out November 4th. With 14 tracks of newly recorded
material" - Starting October 31st, Lost Highway will stream the entire "Rock N Roll" album.
-£11.99. The 'Love Is Hell' sessions will be released as 2 EP's. 'Love Is Hell Part 1' will be released on November 4th, with 'Love is Hell Part 2' following on December 9th. £8.99 each.
Go here for more infoNow
here's how to do a remastering campaign - Five vintage Echo
and the Bunnymen remastered re-releases all with bonus
tracks nearly doubling the length of the original albums, and
mid-price too!! The 25th Anniversary Echo & The Bunnymen Remastered & Expanded Reissues:
'Crocodiles', 'Heaven Up Here', 'Porcupine', 'Ocean Rain ' and 'Echo & The Bunnymen'
- Out on November 3rd. £7.99 each, click
here for all the details. 4
new re-releases on Water Records: William S. Fischer - 'Circles'
"A ground-breaking blend of concentrated funk, electronica, soul, and futureheaded jazz
rock", Ian Matthews - 'Valley Hi' / 'Some Days You Eat The Bear And Some Days The Bear Eats You' "a pair of inspired albums for Elektra in the early '70s. Valley Hi was produced by Michael Nesmith and contains many original Matthews classics...",
Tom Rapp - 'Familiar Songs' "Tom Rapp and pals entered the studio to re-record some PBS classics and the results become known as Familiar
Songs", Jonathan Coleclough - 'Period' "An unlimited reissue of the out of print Anomalous Records LP (released 2001 in an edition of 530 copies only) with new cover artwork." £14.99 each,
click here for the info. Wishbone Ash - 'Tracks 2'"Continuing
on with the tradition set forth in the previous TRACKS release, this
two CD collectors set manages to round-up some previously un-heard
Wishbone Ash performances and songs". Spanning the years
from 1972 to 2002. £14.99 Robert
Plant - 'Sixty Six to Timbuktu' Going back to Plant's pre- Zep days,
"The 25-track album, titled "Sixty Six to Timbuktu" features a mix of album cuts, singles, b-sides, soundtrack work and previously unissued material, all of which has been remastered from the original analog master tapes"Go here for all the
details. 2 CDs - £12.99The
re-release of the Gene Clark & Carla Olson's ' So Rebellious A Lover' is due
soon. It features 6 rare bonus tracks - some never before issued in the U.S. We
seem to be in the middle of one of those occasional spells of Beatlemania:
As well as those mouthwatering Japanese
Vinyl pressings, The 'Let
It Be..Naked' project, The 'Ed Sullivan Shows DVD (now getting
a UK release for £19.99 - Nov. 3rd.) and the
'Lost song of Lennon and McCartney', we've got details of 2
DVDs: 'Come Together - A Night for
John Lennon's Word and Music' (£17.99) featuring loads of
famous folk in a tribute to John and, an unauthorised 2 - hour long DVD
'Inside John Lennon', 2 hours long - £9.99. Check
them out here.
4 new releases exclusive to the Australian Raven label coming in
November: Stephen Stills: 'Turnin' back the pages' (The Columbia Recordings 1975-1978)
Contains 6 tracks not on the original CD plus 2 bonus tracks from the 1968 Supersession album.
Mink DeVille: 'Le Chat Bleu', includes 10 bonus tracks. Joe South:
'Introspect' / 'Don't It Make You Want To Go Home': A 2 on 1, 22 track,
78 minute album. Finally, Jimmy Webb: 'Tunesmith' (The Songs Of Jimmy Webb - a 2 CD Set, featuring
numerous artists on a tribute to the 'tunesmith'. Go here for the press release, all album £12.99 each
A very limited run of Japanese Beatles Vinyl
pressings have just been made available to us. By all accounts, the
virgin vinyl and the manual engineering employed in the manufacture
of these records make them the best pressing available, they also
come in superbly printed sleeves. All in all, future collectors
items: 'Please Please Me', 'With The Beatles', 'A Hard Day's Night',
'Beatles For Sale', 'Help !', 'Rubber Soul', 'Revolver', 'Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', 'Yellow Submarine', 'Abbey Road',
'Let It Be', 'Yellow Submarine Songtrack', 'Magical Mystery Tour'
All single LPs, all £22.99 each. 'The Beatles' ('White Album' ),
'The Beatles 1', 'Let It Be..Naked' . All 2 LP sets - £34.99 each.
Considered by many to be the classic psyche compilation series, 2 new
Fading Yellow releases will be here
soon - 'Fading Yellow Volume Six':"Another Rich Smorgasbord Of Timeless
US (And A Few Canadians) Pop-Sike And Other Delights, 1966-1970 45s, Incl
The Five Shy, The Unforscene, Deep Six, Tyme & A Half, Mid Day Rain, Bill Soden, Don Meehan Project, The Smokin' Ring, Friends Of The Family, Fargo, Marc Radice, Chocolat Tunnel, The Weather Bureau, Sunshine Trolley, Rainy
Daze and others.. "25 Trax Of Highest
Quality!". 'Fading Yellow Vol 7':"From Sadly Neglected US Albums, 1967-72, Of Mesmerizing/Magic Pop-Sike And Other
Delights" Incl Eight Day, John Randolph Marr, Gordian Knot, Federal Duck, Glitterhouse, Summerhill, 3's A Crowd, Condello, Ellie Pop, Peppermint Trolley, Lee Michaels, Cherry People, Philamore Lincoln, Best Sommer, The Smoke, National Gallery, The New
Wave and others, ...24 Trax Of Cheer Beauty And Happiness!!.
£13.99 each
One of the most consistent sellers over the years at SPIN has to be David
Crosby's 'If I Could Only Remember My Name', so it's good
to read in the new issue of Mojo that its due to be reissued in the
new year, with bonus tracks - Crosby refers to the album saying
"I think I'm going to do a 5.1 mix of it, because it was
sort of an audiophile record with so much going on".... I
can hardly wait and I'd be
interested if you've heard more. More
on "'Let It Be...Naked'
As you know, set to be "de-mixed and re-mixed, un-dubbed of orchestration, choirs and effects and stripped-back to the raw to reveal The Beatles simply as what they were very best at being - just a great band.
As well as the bonus fly-on-the-wall 20-minute disc, the
CD release will include a deluxe 32 page booklet containing original pictures from the sessions, extensive liner notes and quotes taken from the book that accompanied the original vinyl release.
Released on November 17th. Click here for a bigger look at the
sleeve. £11.99...more on the
release of the Let It Be DVD when we have it. 'We Love The Pirates
- Charting the Big 'L' Fab 40' is a 2 CD compilation of hits
drawn from Radio London's Fab 40 between January 1965 and July 1967.
All tracks are interspersed with jingles & commercials from the
time. Check them out here. £12.99
'Have You
Heard': Jim Croce Live DVD mainly culled from Jim's 1970's TV performances,
with additional bonus material - check here for all the information.
£15.99 The Who - 'The Vegas Job' "The
Vegas Job is a 90-minute concert, which features many of the
greatest hits from The Who. Bonus features include interviews with
Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle, as well as a very entertaining
18-minute series of interviews with The Who fans." £14.99.
Track listing hereRush - two-disc, first-ever live DVD and a three-disc live
CD, both entitled 'Rush In Rio'. £14.99 for the 3 CD set,
£18.99 for the DVD. Read the press release
here.
The four
shows by The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show are set to be released
on DVD for the first time. The Beatles recorded 20 songs for the Sullivan show,
11 were broadcast, the nine other ultra-rare live tracks will be available on this double DVD "The Ed Sullivan Shows Featuring The Beatles." Out at the end of this month -
New Price - £19.99
Coming soon, a 5 CD box
set of music from 'Martin
Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey' (currently
running on US PBS Television) £37.99. More
here.In November
on Sundazed: Buck Owens And His Buckaroos: 'Dust On Mother's Bible' "Buck Owens' 1966 landmark album, from the original Capitol Records stereo masters, impeccably produced by Ken
Nelson" £11.99Some mouthwatering French Iggy and the Stoogesreleases coming your way:
'Kiss My Blood: Live á L'Olympia' is a 2 DVD set. DVD1 was filmed by Tim Pope in Paris in
1991 (described as "by far the best live pictures of Iggy")
and runs to 1:50mins. DVD 2 is from San Francisco in 1981 (50mins).The set comes with some
bonus material and will be £22.99. Next, 'Back to the Noise'
- 'The Rise and Fall of the Stooges' a 2 CD set. CD 1 is made up of studio demos,
many later made up 'Raw Power'. CD 2 features live material from the last days of the
Stooges, again mainly 'Raw Power' material - £17.99. All the info
is here.Some new
Limited Edition Rhino Handmade imports on the way: Meic Stevens -
'Outlander' (£22.99), Judee Sill - 1971's 'Judee Sill'
and 1973's' Heart Food' (£22.99
each both with bonus tracks) and Allen Toussaint - 'The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings' (2 CDs £42.99).
Go here for all the details. Mike
Bloomfield - 'Mill Valley Bunch Casting
Pearls'. Long out of print on vinyl, now on CD for the first time with the original album
expanded from 7 tracks to 16 (67minutes). This 1972 blues jam features
Bloomfield and Nick Gravenites' leading the likes of Barry Goldberg, Michael Shrieve, Spencer Dryden, Lee Michaels
Mark Ryan and others through mostly Bloomfield originals and some covers.
£12.99 Yes
DVD - Classic Pictures is planning to release 'YesSpeak', a 2 DVD, 3 hour film of the band filmed during the 'Full Circle' Tour of Europe.
Click here to view the trailer (beware: this is a 25 meg MPG file, best for broadband users). The set also comes with
extra features yet to be announced. £19.99 Soon
for Ford's Imaginary Inferno -
'Summer Breeze & Magic Trees' LP (these notes taken directly from the press
release!!) "Amsterdam formation formed around 'purist 60's west-coast affinado's', rooted in 60's West Coast psych/folk/pop. This vinyl only album contains 10
beautiful psych/pop songs in the tradition of Brain Wilson or Curt Boettcher. Bands like Sagitarius
/ Millenium / Strawberry Alarm Clock or even Love's 'Forever Changes' album come to mind.
Their sound is charactarised by a mellow, mystic atmosphere, beautiful
multi-layered vocals and subtle arrangements, and most of all beautiful
melodies" Beautiful, Vinyl Only £17.99 The Bonnaroo Music
Festival 2003' double CD runs to over 2 hours of music with contributions from The Dead, The Allman Brothers Band, The Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, Widespread Panic, Emmylou Harris and many more.
Details here, £14.99
4 limited edition psyche titles on Acme/Lion all with reworked sleeve notes and bonus
tracks: Neon Pearl - '1967', Agincourt - 'Fly Away', Ithaca - 'Game For All Who Know' and Bulldog Breed - 'Made in England'. 11.99 each.
Details here.Originally released in 1979 and now remastered and expanded into
a 2 CD set, James Cotton and Johnny Winter both joined Muddy Waters
on 'Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Live'. Go here for the tracklisting. £12.99Legendary!!
Sun
Ra - 'Space is the Place' DVD "part musical documentary, part Biblical parable, part blaxploitation flick, part sci-fi epic, the film was one of the late
pianist - philosopher’s rally calls directed at the black community, urging them to take notice and work to correct civil injustices in the Vietnam era.
Special Features include: Original Director's Cut with over 20 minutes of restored footage,
never - before - seen home movies of the Arkestra in Egypt, deluxe booklet with liner notes by Sun Ra biographer John Szwed, introduction by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and essay by director John Coney.
I bet you cant wait to read more?£23.99All on Collectors Choice Music: Two John Stewart albums: 'Lonesome Picker Rides Again' and 'Sunstorm' £9.99 each .
American Flyer (George Martin produced first album, 21 tracks in all)
'American Flyer'/'Spirit Of A Woman' (2 on 1) £13.99. Spirit 'Feedback'
('Never before on CD' album from 1972 ) £9.99, and The
Journeymen (Group Members Scott McKenzie, Dick Weissman &
John Phillips): 1) 'Coming Attraction' (live album from 1962) 2) 'The Journeymen'
(debut from 1961) 3)'New Directions In Folk (final album from 1963)£12.99 each .
Go here for all the details. Some new Beat CDs on Break-A-Way & Magica Records. Out on September 28th
Embermen Five - 'Fire In Their Hearts' £13.99, Ringers - 'Let Them Be Known' £13.99 and
Various - 'Hearts of Stone' - CD £11.99. Read
all about them here. 5 new modern psychedelia releases from the Camera Obscura label:
Lifesymth - 'Music for the Third Ear' £13.99, Black Sun Ensemble - 'Starlight' £13.99,
Green Pajamas - 'Strung Behind the Sun' £12.99, Lazily Spun -
'Lazily Spun' £12.99 and Petals - 'Butterfly Mountain' £12.99.
Details here.Grateful
Dead 2004 Calendars in stock - £11.99First time ever available,
Lou Reed
with John Cale and Nico - 'Batacalan '72'. A
Limited edition numbered digipak with 2 bonus tracks, of the
legendary show from January 29th 1972. Go here for the
tracks. Go
here for a new list from the Past and Present label -
masses of 'Rubble' titles, psychedelia and rock. email
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Following the release of
‘The Ultimate 50’s Rockin’ Sci-Fi Disc’ in March 2003, The Viper Label now takes a look into another 1950’s fascination of the unknown, that of the Horror genre.
‘The Ultimate 50’s & 60’s Rockin’ Horror
Disc’ - "A Unique Collection of Original, Horror influenced Blood 
More
on Ryan Adams: 'Rock N Roll' and more... "the highly anticipated "official" follow up to Ryan's 2001 release 'Gold' is due out November 4th. With 14 tracks of newly recorded
material" - Starting October 31st, Lost Highway will stream the entire "Rock N Roll" album.
- £11.99. The 'Love Is Hell' sessions will be released as 2 EP's. 'Love Is Hell Part 1' will be released on November 4th, with 'Love is Hell Part 2' following on December 9th. £8.99 each.
Go here for more info