Nonesuch Records releases the first recording of Steve Reich's ‘Reich/Richter', performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain and conducted by George Jackson. The composition was originally written to be performed with German visual artist Gerhard Richter and Corinna Belz's film ‘Moving Picture (946-3)'....
Cold Fact is the debut album from singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. In 1971 the album was released in South Africa by A&M Records. In 1976, several thousand copies of Cold Fact were found in a New York warehouse and sold out in...
‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,' released in 1970, was Simon & Garfunkel's final studio album and their greatest success. The title track won an unprecedented five Grammy Awards, while the complete record won Album of the Year. The album stayed at #1 for 10 weeks, remained on the chart for a total of...
Included on this magical record are Aldous Harding, Nadia Reid, Let's Eat Grandma, Bombay Bicycle Club, Emeli Sande, and Ben Harper. The Endless Coloured Ways is a collection of songs by legendary singer / songwriter, Nick Drake, performed and recorded by over 30 incredible artists from a range of...
This book is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre-European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Maori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was...
A collaboration with award winning Ōtautahi singer-songwriter and producer Delaney Davidson - who also plays a variety of instruments on the record, Black Sea Golden Ladder was written and recorded as part of Troy Kingi's Matairangi Mahi Toi Artist Residency in Wellington. The residency was created...
Blonde On Blonde' is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. ‘Blonde On Blonde' completed the trilogy of rock albums that Dylan recorded in 1965 and 1966, starting with ‘Bringing It All Back Home' and ‘Highway 61 Revisited. ' Combining the expertise of Nashville session...
The debut album from Sun Kil Moon, originally released in 2003 and long since out of print is reissued on double vinyl. Includes original bonus track ‘Gentle Moon (Acoustic)'. - Ghosts Of The Great Highway (2LP) by Sun Kil Moon (Vinyl)
Where the Wild Things Are' starts off with some of the most "pop" songs they've ever recorded, typified in the sweet and melodramatic "Arcana", and the classic pop inspired "Time Travel". Like Sendak's book of the same name, the album then proceeds into stranger and stranger territory, resulting in...
Sundown Over Ghost Town's twelve original songs reflect on recent changes in Jewell's life including the birth of her first child and returning to her hometown of Boise, Idaho. The music has a western feel evoking wide open spaces with the generous use of pedal steel and organ. LP will be available...
tba. - The Happiness Waltz by Josh Rouse (CD)
In excess virtue lies danger, or at least limits to pragmatic action—it's a lesson hard learned by anyone disillusioned by the erosion of youthful mythologies. Strict fealty to a fxed ideal of identity doesn't do us any favors as adults. Loyalty, the third and fnest album yet by The Weather Station...
The Sovereign Self . named after a line from Dennis Potter, the late television auteur . is the fifth album from Glasgow's Trembling Bells, their first since 2012's The Marble Downs, a collaboration with Will Oldham. It is a driving, dramatic and at times hallucinatory work, filled with a great...
Songs From The Lost & Found consists of 12 previously unreleased songs dating from the mid-seventies to the early eighties along with five alternative versions of songs previously released on South of Somewhere. Whether recorded solo, in small combos or with a full band, they are some of the finest...
Bert Jansch will be forever known as a remarkable talent and a leading figure in the British folk revival. ‘Live at the 12 Bar' was recorded in 1995 at the legendary London venue and is a fitting tribute not only to Bert's virtuosity but to this renowned hub for folk music and other genres. Bert's...
Barry Thomas Goldberg was 23 in 1974, the year his Minneapolis power pop group, The Batch, split up. Rudderless, he set about recording solo album Misty Flats, and though few would hear it in its day, he hit on something very special indeed. "In 1974, the world was weary, the Vietnam War was...
Guitarist and singer-songwriter Ryley Walker discovered the 1972 private press LP in a Chicago record store, loved what he heard, and teamed with Tompkins Square to produce the reissue. John Hulburt (1947-2012) was a member of legendary mid-60's Chicago garage rock band The Knaves, whose records...