Music and Dreams: 50th Anniversary Edition
Robert Lester Folsom's private-press album of 1976, a cult of Georgia home-recorded folk, remastered for its fiftieth anniversary together with the original reel-to-reel demos.
The Outsider, The Music Of Jules De Corte
Belgian improvisers Linus and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy reimagine the songs of Dutch songwriter Jules de Corte: slowed, expanded folk miniatures on religion, love and loss, with guitars, banjo, clarinet and lap steel.
Ballads
Over the better half of a decade, Time is Away, the London-based duo of Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney, have made tender and heartfelt transmissions through countless mixes, sound works, live appearances and radio. Exploring deeply human themes of memory, persistence and resistance using an assemblage of source material, the duo’s unique mode of storytelling culminates in Ballads, a new suite of songs and, significantly, their first officially licensed compilation. From the opening notes of Horvi…
Adormidera
“If stained glass windows could sing they would sound like Josephine Foster, and her interpretations of the songs of Víctor Herrero are as artful and finely detailed as motes of dust falling through shafts of light in the libraries of your childhood, engrossing in their restraint. Josephine's naked voice an echoing truth in repose against the existential question mark of Víctor’s guitar. In a world that can feel bewildering and relentless, this music is shelter. Adormidera is the sound of a hypn…
Images of Life
Images of Life is the career-spanning, 3xLP retrospective boxset illuminating the staggering breadth and depth of Detroit's unheralded songwriting genius, Ted Lucas. Disc one "Strange Mysterious Sounds (1965-1970)" highlights Ted's flirtation with psychedelic major label clout via his bands the Spike Drivers, the Misty Wizards and the Horny Toads. "Rainy Days (1970-1974)" will be the solo acoustic warmth and charm most familiar to folks already aware of Ted's self- titled "OM" album from 1975. "…
The Haunted House
Out on Leaving Records, The Haunted House is the latest EP from Los Angeles-based artist and musician Diva Dompé. Having spent the better part of two decades channeling otherworldly transmissions with projects including Yialmelic Frequencies, BlackBlack, and their current band, Diva and the Pearly Gates, Dompé returns with a deeply personal, unguarded song cycle firmly within the singer/songwriter idiom. The titular Haunted House is a memory palace of sorts—a portal to the densely-populated imag…
Wearing Words
“I constantly felt like wearing clothes that don't belong to me, a bit like borrowing a sweater from your partner or pants from your sister who is slightly taller than you.”
Muzan No Bi (Beauty Without Mercy)
40th Anniversary Release!! Recorded in 1985 and released by Polydor in 1986, Kazuki Tomokawa's seminal 1980s album “Beauty Without Mercy”. To mark its 40th anniversary, this long-awaited reissue arrives on vinyl! This defining album of the 80s features tracks including “He Was There” about his friend Takohachirō, “Beauty in Tragedy” about his brother's death, “God Was Crying in the Well”, and his signature song “Waltz”. Nakahara Chūya penned the lyrics for “A Fairy Tale” and “Boy”. Numerous dist…
Vol. IV: Casting Lines - A Museum Of Memory
Sixteen(!) years after Vol. III - A Hand Full of Days, B’ee returns with the long-awaited next chapter - Vol. IV: Casting Lines - A Museum of Memory.
Patience
“I keep thinking about this idea that once you think you’re on the path, you’ve lost the path,” says New York musician Devin Shaffer, explaining the ethos behind Patience, her first studio album. “There is no certainty, there is no knowing. It’s all about surrender.” Written between 2021 and 2023 and Shaffer’s move from Chicago to New York City, Patience mirrors life’s highs and lows on the search for spiritual meaning, purpose, and connection. For the first time, Shaffer leads a group of sensit…
I Must Be the Devil
Song album by Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir of múm, pieces for piano and voice written 2005-2017, produced by Kjartan Sveinsson and released in 2019 by Bel-Air Glamour Records with The Vinyl Factory.
Trusting In The Rising Light
Fourth ECM album by Robin Williamson (vocals, Celtic harp, guitar, Hardanger fiddle, whistles), his first of all-original songs, with Mat Maneri (viola) and Ches Smith (vibraphone, drums, percussion). Recorded January 2014 at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth; produced by Steve Lake.
The Seed-At-Zero
Solo album by Robin Williamson (vocals, guitar, harp, mandolin) setting poems by Dylan Thomas, Henry Vaughan and Welsh bardic texts beside his own songs. Recorded March 2000 at Albany Productions, Cardiff, produced by Steve Lake. CD edition.