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The Essence – 35: The Collection 1985-2015 (2018)
Formed in 1984 and hailing from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, The Essence signed to UK label Midnight Music in 1985 a year after touring their homeland, and soon after released their debut 12” ‘Endless...
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Chicago – Chicago: VI Decades Live (This is What We Do) (2018)
Chicago is turning 50, and the band is celebrating the landmark anniversary with a new box set looking back on its remarkable onstage history. Chicago: VI Decades Live (This is What We Do) featuring 4...
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Cheek to Cheek: The Complete Duet Recordings
By the time Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong collaborated on their first duet together, they were each already jazz giants. Fitzgerald was an acclaimed solo artist for Decca with many hits and more...
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Sky – The Studio Albums 1979-1987 (2018)
Esoteric Recordings issue The Studio Recordings 1979-1987, an eight-disc box set collecting the work of classical rock supergroup Sky. Formed in 1979, Sky brought together the worlds of rock and...
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Jean-Michel Jarre – Original Album Classics Vol.2 (2018)
Celebrated as the European electronic music community’s premier ambassador, composer Jean Michel Jarre elevated the synthesizer to new peaks of popularity during the 1970s, in the process emerging as...
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VA – Gary Crowley’s Punk and New Wave (2017)
Veteran UK DJ and broadcaster Gary Crowley has curated Gary Crowley’s Punk and New Wave, a triple CD box set that seeks to avoid the usual ‘classic anthems’ and rather opts for a quirkier selection of...
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Altered Images – The Epic Years (2018)
The Scottish band Altered Images were fronted by Clare Grogan and are best known for their UK number two hit Happy Birthday (the title track of their debut). The first three CDs in this 60-track box...
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VA – How Is the Air Up There? 80 Mod, Soul, R&B & Freakbeat Nuggets from Down...
Subtitled 80 Mod, Soul and Freakbeat Nuggets From Down Under with this boxset New Zealand’s contribution to 1960s music is recognised and local heroes Chants R&B, Larry’s Rebels and Ray Columbus...
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Hugh Masekela –’66-’76 (2018)
When Hugh Masekela died in January this year, he was rightly revered as one of Africa’s finest musicians, a trumpeter and flugelhorn player, singer and songwriter who blended jazz with South African...
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VA – Night Comes Down: 60s British Mod, R&B, Freakbeat, and Swinging London...
…This 87 song, 3-CD box set follows previous collections Looking Back (2011) and Keep Lookin’ (2014), which covered a gamut of musical styles emanating from the UK, diverse and yet united in their...
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Pere Ubu – Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés 1987-1991 (2018)
…The last reissue, which covered 1979-1882, found the band extending the ‘avant-garage’ sound of their first two albums, but somewhat running out of steam by 1982’s Song of the Bailing Man. The band...
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Procol Harum – Still There’ll Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017 (2018)
Of the legendary bands Great Britain birthed during the 1960s, none sound remotely like Procol Harum. From their emergence with the single version of ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ months before the world...
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Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks Volume 26: Albuquerque Civic Auditorium,...
The unexpected return of the masters of the Grateful Dead’s triumphant show at the Albuquerque Civic Auditorium, November 17, 1971, yields great rewards. Aided by clarity and precision and abetted by...
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Liz Phair – Girly-Sound to Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Boxset (2018)
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Exile in Guyville, the landmark debut album from Liz Phair. In commemoration, she and Matador Records release a limited edition box set containing the record as...
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Brian Eno – Music for Installations (2018)
Since the 1970s, Brian Eno has composed music for numerous art installations, combining video, lighting, and sculpture with music that is often generative. He initially experimented with tape...
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Glenn Frey – Above the Clouds: The Collection (2018)
Though he passed away at far too young an age in 2016, the late Glenn Frey remains a looming presence as the Eagles embark on a new North American tour that will take the reconstituted band – now...
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Spirit – It Shall Be: Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972 (2018)
In 2010, Sony presented Spirit’s first five albums in a budget-priced box set. There wasn’t anything extra, just five albums in a generic-looking slipcase. Great Britain’s Esoteric Recordings felt the...
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Jerry Garcia – Before the Dead (2018)
In roughly three and half hours of live and studio recordings, captured in various ways at a variety of locales between 1961 and 1964, Before the Dead documents the late Jerry Garcia’s formative years...
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Anthony Braxton – Sextet (Parker) 1993 (2018)
Is the music of Anthony Braxton impenetrable? Frankly yes, and absolutely not. There are entire wings of his musical house, for instance his Trillium R operas, Echo Echo Mirror House, and Ghost Trance...
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New York Dolls – Personality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972-1975...
5CD boxset – Personality Crisis: Live Recordings & Studio Demos 1972-1975. A trio of pre-Mercury demo sessions – arguably as close as the Dolls ever got to nailing their sound in the cold...
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