Browse by Label: LUAKA BOP

Artist:	OS MUTANTES
Title:	Everything Is Possible!
Label:	LUAKA BOP
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	LBOP 036CD

1999 release. "This compilation features the classic line-up of Rita Lee Jones and brothers Arnaldo Baptista and Sergio Dias, who were together for the first five albums, which were released in the 1968-1972 period. It focuses mainly on the first three albums Os Mutantes, Mutantes and A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado, with a couple of tracks from Jardim Eletrico and Mutantes E Seus Cometas No Pais Do Baurets thrown in for good measure." --Martin Vengadesan

Artist:	OTIS, SHUGGIE
Title:	Inspiration Information
Label:	LUAKA BOP
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	LBOP 045CD

2001 remaster; subtitled World Psychedelic Classics 2: California Soul. "Otis' smooth, trippy soul-funk opus, Inspiration Information -- first released in 1974, now remastered and reissued by David Byrne's Luaka Bop label with four bonus tracks from 1971's Freedom Flight -- was his third album for Epic records; in the Stevie Wonder soul-auteur vein, he wrote, sang and played almost every instrument on the album. Songs like 'Happy House' and 'Strawberry Letter 23' (a number one R&B hit for the Brothers Johnson) embraced the incense-and-peppermint psychedelia of the times without falling out of the pocket. The electronic grooves of 'XL-30' and the Isaac Hayes-like power of 'Not Available' reveals an expansive creativity that appeared unlimited -- maybe even a Prince-size talent in the making." --Rolling Stone

Artist:	VA
Title:	Love's a Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa
Label:	LUAKA BOP
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	LBOP 052CD

2004 release. "These twelve astonishing tracks are drawn from a broad spectrum of early 70s West African psychedelic classics. Yet the fact that they scarcely registered on the Richter scale of contemporary underground music must surely be one of the greatest ironies of modern popular music, given that western counterculture drew so heavily on the musical, aesthetic and visual traditions of Africa. Musically, the transatlantic links are strong and obvious; from the urban black American soul and funk of James Brown, through the West Coast sounds of Hendrix, to the deeper grooves of Cuban rumba and Latin percussion." Enhanced CD with bonus video content.

Artist:	JAVELIN
Title:	No Más
Label:	LUAKA BOP
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	LBOP 074CD

"Javelin throw a party that sees nothing wrong with dropping crooked disco ('On It On It'), schoolyard funk ('Intervales Theme'), abstract R&B ('Dep') and pitch-perfect pop ('Mossy Woodland') in the same set. At least that's the way things unfold on Javelin's debut album, No Más, the eagerly-awaited follow-up to a self-released collection of demos (Jamz n Jemz) and a pair of limited Thrill Jockey 12-inches (Javelin, Number Two). It's as if Javelin were programmed to reproduce the golden age of every genre known to man, bouncing between samplers and strings, drum machines and drum sets, and a growing collection of guitars, horns and homemade thumb pianos. You read that right: Most of No Más' dusty 45 moments aren't lifted from actual record crates. They're painstakingly recreated, note by note, from the jukebox in Javelin's collective mind. So if you're trying to 'figure Javelin out', don't bother."

Artist:	JAVELIN
Title:	No Más
Label:	LUAKA BOP
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.50
Catalog #:	LBOP 074LP

LP version. "Javelin throw a party that sees nothing wrong with dropping crooked disco ('On It On It'), schoolyard funk ('Intervales Theme'), abstract R&B ('Dep') and pitch-perfect pop ('Mossy Woodland') in the same set. At least that's the way things unfold on Javelin's debut album, No Más, the eagerly-awaited follow-up to a self-released collection of demos (Jamz n Jemz) and a pair of limited Thrill Jockey 12-inches (Javelin, Number Two). It's as if Javelin were programmed to reproduce the golden age of every genre known to man, bouncing between samplers and strings, drum machines and drum sets, and a growing collection of guitars, horns and homemade thumb pianos. You read that right: Most of No Más' dusty 45 moments aren't lifted from actual record crates. They're painstakingly recreated, note by note, from the jukebox in Javelin's collective mind. So if you're trying to 'figure Javelin out', don't bother."

Artist:	ZE, TOM
Title:	Studies of Tom Zé: Explaining Things So I Can Confuse You
Label:	LUAKA BOP
Format:	3LP BOX/7"/CD
Price:	$75.00
Catalog #:	LBOP 8001LP

"In celebration of this iconoclastic master of song, politics, satire and human relations, Luaka Bop is releasing a vinyl-only box set, Studies of Tom Zé: Explaining Things So I Can Confuse You which pulls together for the first time a trilogy of 'studies' on Brazilian musical styles' Massive Hits, Estudando o Pagode, and Estudando a Bossa. The latter two recordings have never been issued on vinyl and the former has never been available in the US. This retrospective collection from the first artist ever signed to Luaka Bop is limited edition and numbered. Cut in 180-gram vinyl, and in their complete original covers, the three-record set also includes a live 45 of Zé's legendary collaborative tour with Tortoise, recorded at London's Barbican in 2001. To complete the retrospective treatment, Luaka Bop has added a CD featuring a 1993 conversation between Tom Zé, David Byrne, and Arto Lindsay, a 12-page booklet by noted Brazilian music scholar Chris Dunn, a touch of day glow, lots of varnished paper, and a modicum of cardboard with a splash of black. Comes with a code to digitally download all vinyl content."

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