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Live at Fever 20181229
Boris and Michio Kurihara reunited at Tokyo's Fever club on 29 December 2018, playing nearly all of Rainbow plus Boris pieces, Kurihara solo songs and covers. Live sound by Soichiro Nakamura of White Heaven, on 2LP in a gatefold sleeve.
Rainbow
Boris and Michio Kurihara of Ghost and White Heaven first joined forces on Rainbow in 2006. Drag City now issues it on vinyl for its 20th anniversary: heavy psych, droning jams and short pop songs, in a tip-on sleeve with a vellum lyric insert.
Ananta: Spirit of Coltrane
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson marks John Coltrane's centennial on Impulse! with a 21-piece collective (Brandee Younger, Shabaka Hutchings, Flying Lotus, Jeff Parker, Azar Lawrence), recasting Naima, Giant Steps and A Love Supreme as cosmic, spiritual music.
Rêver, murmurer, dire
Solo recording by French trombonist Christiane Bopp, who uses voice, mutes, bass drum and objects to turn the instrument into a field of whispers, drones, fractured melodies and sudden eruptions.
May
Pianist Irene Aranda's trio with saxophonist Don Malfon and vocalist Ami Yamasaki, whose echolocation vocal practice meets Malfon's extended saxophone techniques in an absorbing improvised language.
3 X 1
Third album by Glass Triangle, Zeena Parkins on electric harp, Mette Rasmussen on alto saxophone and voice and Ryan Sawyer on drums: a studio session moving from delicate passages to dense, kinetic interplay.
Selva Oscura
Solo cello and voice by Julia Biłat, recorded live near Berlin: splintered harmonics, rough bow textures and resonant drones in improvised compositions that move like a passage through shadow.
Contrary Motion
Scanner reworks an hour of Nurse with Wound material into six pieces named after homeopathic remedies: radio static, processed voices and squeaky guitars in an echoing maze. Double vinyl, the fourth side etched by Babs Santini.
The Runner (Original Soundtrack)
Score to The Runner, the short horror film written and directed by Boy Harsher: eerie instrumentals, drones and piano sketches born in lockdown, with dark pop in fragments and two guest songs (Mariana Saldaña of BOAN, Lucy).
Comme à la Radio: On Air
Companion to the expanded Comme à la Radio: unreleased ORTF radio sessions from 1969-71 with Areski Belkacem, plus four unissued studio takes, among them two instrumental versions of the title track and a full 10-minute "Leo" with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Fall In A Hole
The Fall live in Auckland, August 1982, recorded by Chris Knox for Flying Nun: Marc Riley's last tour, two drummers, feedback-drenched rarities and Hex Enduction-era favourites. First vinyl reissue, with poster and notes by Roy Montgomery.
77 - Early Years - 79
The Fall's first four Step-Forward singles, 1977-79, plus Dice Man from Dragnet: Mark E. Smith's early art punk of atonal guitar, looping bass and combo organ, back on vinyl for the first time with liner notes by Stephen Malkmus.
Exposure
The 2022 Fourth Edition of Fripp's 1979 debut, mixed from the original multitracks by Steven Wilson, with the alternate vocal tracks on CD and hi-res and 5.1 versions on DVD.
Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With
Three releases by the early 2000s King Crimson of Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto, collected on three discs.Level Five, issued in 2001 as a tour EP, presented live recordings of new pieces such as the title track, Virtuous Circle and Dangerous Curves, which the band was testing on stage before taking them into the studio. Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With, the 2002 EP, was the direct preview of The Power to Believe: short fragments, the haiku-like Mie Gakure and …
Music Is Our Friend: Live in Washington and Albany 2021
King Crimson's final US concert, Washington DC September 2021, with four tracks from Albany: a tour that crossed the pandemic and a band in ferocious form.
Earthbound
The 1972 official bootleg of the Islands line-up on tour in the USA, the last of the original King Crimson vinyl series, cut on 200g from masters approved by Robert Fripp.
The ConstruKction of Light
The ConstruKction of Light, released in 2000, was the first studio album by the four-piece King Crimson of Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto, the so-called Double Duo that emerged after the ProjeKcts had broken the Double Trio into smaller research units.Without Bill Bruford and Tony Levin, the band turned towards a harder, denser sound: Mastelotto's electronic percussion, Gunn's Warr guitar covering the bass register, and Fripp and Belew locking into the interlocking guit…
The Elements Tour Box 2021
The Elements tour boxes were King Crimson's companion to each tour from 2014 onwards: two discs sold at the shows and later through DGM, gathering studio fragments, rehearsals, alternate takes, demos and live recordings from across the band's whole history, sequenced as a journey rather than a chronology.The 2021 edition accompanied what turned out to be the final tours of the seven-piece line-up with Robert Fripp, Jakko Jakszyk, Mel Collins, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy…
2014 NYC
The four September 2014 nights in New York on two CDs, original live mixes enhanced from the multitracks: the seven-piece Crimson with three drummers across the front.
God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners (LP)
The 2021 remaster of Fripp's 1980 album, one side of Frippertronics and one of Discotronics with David Byrne, Busta Jones and Paul Duskin, with almost half an hour of extra material.