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Ten Years After – 1967-1974 (2018)
1967-1974 is a new 10CD box set that celebrates 50 years since the eponymous debut album of British blues/rock band Ten Years After. This collection gathers long-players from the Chrysalis and Deram...
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Zoot Money’ s Big Roll Band – 1966 And All That / Big Time Operator (1966,...
Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band was one of the most popular and entertaining groups of the British R&B boom era. A charismatic personality, soulful singer and cool Hammond organist, Zoot was much loved...
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Stray – All in Your Mind: The Transatlantic Years 1970-1974 (2017)
Roaring out of west London as teenagers in the late ’60s, Stray became faves on the UK’s thriving club scene with their riff-bolstered prog, favouring Del Bromham’s guitar flights and US psych vocal...
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VA – The Britxotica! Box: Three Amazing Albums of Primitive Pop and Savage...
With American servicemen returning home from Hawaii in the post-World War 2 years, it’s perhaps no surprise that a breed of tiki-tinged music started to infiltrate US culture throughout the ’50s, with...
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Rudolf Serkin – The Complete Columbia Album Collection (2017)
This is the first-ever collection of Rudolf Serkin‘s complete recordings for Columbia Masterworks on 75 discs: Concertos, sonatas, chamber music and vocal performances, all recorded between 1941 and...
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Omit – Enclosures 2011-2016 (2018)
Since his first self-released cassettes in the early 1990s, New Zealand’s Clinton Williams AKA OMIT has been on a singular and personal musical journey. Described as one of the greatest outsider...
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Todd Rundgren – All Sides of the Roxy: May 1978 (2018)
For his first live album, the 1978 double-LP Back to the Bars, Todd Rundgren returned to his roots with a collection of lean, tight, intimate performances recorded in the clubs of New York, Los...
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Luc Ferrari – Complete Music for Films 1960-1984 (2017)
This 3CD set gathers the complete work by Luc Ferrari for films from 1960 to 1984 including electronic pieces, concrete music made in GRM and some hybrid including traditional instruments. Very rare...
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The Jazz Butcher – The Wasted Years (2017)
Between 1983 and 1986, The Jazz Butcher were responsible for four albums’ worth of confounding pop music, and The Wasted Years collects them all. Starting off as a solo vehicle for the offbeat musings...
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VA – Stax Singles, Vol. 4: Rarities & Best of the Rest (2018)
Stax Records defined the “Memphis Sound” of soul music in the 1960s. With a roster that took in Otis Redding, Booker T & The MGs, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas and Isaac Hayes, Stax and its sister...
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The The – Radio Cinéola Trilogy (2017)
It’s a long time since The The were bothering the charts with songs that, while often witty and thought provoking, resolutely viewed the glass as not only being half-empty but also way too small. Matt...
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Sweet – The Polydor Albums (2017)
In some ways, the Sweet epitomized all the tacky hubris and garish silliness of the early ’70s. Fusing bubblegum melodies with crunching, fuzzy guitars, the band looked a heavy metal band, but were as...
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Marillion – Brave [Deluxe Edition] (2018)
In February 1994 Marillion surprised many with the release of their dark and sprawling concept album, Brave. This ambitious double album charted at No.10 in the UK, making it the band’s seventh...
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Wynder K. Frog – Shook, Shimmy and Shake: The Complete Recordings 1966-1970...
Essentially a vehicle for Hammond organ maestro Mick Weaver, late 60s British band Wynder K. Frog specialised in funky club Soul/Jazz. Hailing from Bolton, Lancashire, but based in London for much of...
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Anti Nowhere League – The Albums 1981-87 (2018)
A 56 track 4 CD Box Set gathering up Anti Nowhere League’s first three albums and a disc of non LP B-sides and rarities from between 1981-87. If you were still punk in 1982, then you’d missed the...
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Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (2018)
…Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings will journey back to one of the legendary musician’s most cherished collaborations with the release of Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final Tour: The...
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The Jazz Butcher – The Violent Years (2018)
After leaving Glass Records and moving to Creation Records in the late ’80s, The Jazz Butcher recorded a brace of fine albums, four of which are collected on 2018’s The Violent Years. The band’s...
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VA – Looking at the Pictures in the Sky: The British Psychedelic Sounds of...
Looking at the Pictures in the Sky focusses on, if received wisdom can be trusted, what was very much a “down” year for popular music. 1967 had been a real game changer, with the new scene leaders...
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Momus – Create 2: Recreate (2018)
…the final three classic albums for Creation Records (“Hippopotamomus” – 1991, “Voyager” – 1992, “Timelord” – 1993) digitally remastered… For a man facing disinterest from his own label and the music...
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Holger Czukay – Cinema (2018)
…Like Salvador Dalí or Andy Kaufman, Holger Czukay was an avant-garde provocateur blessed with a look to match his work. Wiry, with a wave of mad-scientist hair and a proclivity for sartorial flair, he...
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