FE Home
New Releases
Browse Catalog
Info
Email Us
Order Basket
Search:
Index of Labels
Browse by Label: SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Artist:
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS
Title:
The Psychedelic Sounds Of:
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 501CD
New Italian pressings of these Charly-originating classics, packaged in LP-style mini-gatefolds, supposedly limited to 1500 copies each. Each one also claims to be "digitally remastered". "Originally released in 1966 by International Artists, this is the album that contains most of the classics of Roky Erickson's band: their hit 'You're Gonna Miss Me', plus 'Fire Engine', 'Reverberation' and 'Roller Coaster'."
Artist:
SHARROCK, SONNY
Title:
Monkey-Pockie-Boo
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 504CD
"An album recorded in Paris (on June 22nd, 1969) with his wife Linda plus Ben Guerin (bass) and Jacques Thollot (drums). Sonny Sharrock was one of the top avant-garde guitarists and his playing was intense and ferocious. He mixed together Jimi Hendrix and Pharoah Sanders. 'Sharrock was the first guitarist to really embrace fire music. He wanted his playing to mirror the emotional scream of the tenor saxophone' (Thurston Moore and Byron Coley). Original artwork."
Artist:
SUN RA
Title:
The Solar Myth Approach Vol. 1
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 509CD
"'A wild and passionate interstellar mix of free jazz, solo synthesizer and hard rocking cosmic philosophy'. Apparently recorded in NYC between 1970-1971, this material 'would prove to be one of the cornerstones of the entire Sun Ra /Arkestra career' with Kwame Hadi, Akh Tal Ebah, Ali Hassan, Charles Stephens, Marshall Allen, Danny Davis, John Gilmore, Danny Ray Thompson, Pat Patrick, James Jacson, Ronnie Boykins, Clifford Jarvis, Lex Humphries, Nimrod Hunt, June Tyson and Art Jenkins. This album encapsulates the creative mood and the impassioned message that was going down as the '60s violently burned themselves out . In the cold dawn of the early '70s Sun Ra and his Solar-Myth Arkestra sent out their musical ray of hope to all who chose to hear it, and over 20 years later its effect remains both blinding and illuminating'. (Edwin Pouncey)"
Artist:
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO
Title:
Reese And The Smooth Ones
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 510CD
"Originally released on the French BYG Actuel label, this classic album was recorded in Paris in August 1969 while the Art Ensemble was on its initial stay there with just a quartet featuring Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors and Joseph Jarman's 'Reese and the Smooth Ones' is a continuous piece featuring all of the members playing lots of little instruments (horns, gongs, logs, bells, sirens, whistles, steel drums, marimba, banjo and more) in addition to their mainstays."
Artist:
LAST POETS, THE
Title:
This Is Madness
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 512CD
"Legendary second album by highly politicized hip-hop pioneers who used their groundbreaking and socially conscious form of jazz-laced street poetry to deliver a message of solidarity and self-awareness while simultaneously condemning the brutal effects of a racially and economically divided America."
Artist:
GOLDEN DAWN
Title:
Power Plant
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 513CD
"Inspired psychedelic wanderings and enigmatic lyrics this mainstay of the '60s Texas psych scene released its first and only LP in 1967 on the International Artists label, thanks to the help of childhood friend and former band mate Roky Erickson of the 13th Floor Elevators. The band took their name from The Sect of the Golden Dawn by Aleister Crowley."
Artist:
CHERRY, DON
Title:
Mu First Part
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 515CD
"Originally recorded on 22 August 1969 at Studio Saravah in Paris, this electrifying album became the first in the BYG/Actuel series."
Artist:
IMPRESSIONS, THE
Title:
The Young Mods' Forgotten Story
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 518CD
"Originally released in 1969 on the Curtom label. This is Mayfield's last amazing album with the Impressions before embarking on his stellar solo career. Includes such classics as 'Choice Of Colors', 'Mighty, Mighty (Spade & Whitey)', 'Seven Years' and the magnificent title track."
Artist:
SHEPP, ARCHIE
Title:
Yasmina, A Black Woman
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 519CD
"Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded this amazing session, dated August 12, 1969, with members of the Chicago avant-garde school, including Art Ensemble of Chicago members Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell and Malachi Favors. Also featuring Dave Burrell, Sunny Murray, Philly Joe Jones, Art Taylor, Clifford Thornton and Earl Freeman."
Artist:
SUN RA
Title:
The Solar Myth Approach Vol. 2
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 520CD
"Part 2 of one of the most important recordings of Sun Ra's long career. This album, recorded at the Sun Studios in NYC in 1970-1971 for the BYG/Actuel label, communicates Ra's own unique and cosmic mix of futuristic free jazz and intergalactic creative messages. Featuring Kwame Hadi, Akh Tal Ebah, Ali Hassan, Charles Stevens, Marshall Allen, Danny Davis, John Gilmore, Danny Thompson, Pat Patrick, James Jacson, Ronnie Boykins, Clifford Jarvis, Lex Humphries, Nimrod Hunt, June Tyson and Art Jenkins."
Artist:
RED KRAYOLA, THE
Title:
God Bless The Red Krayola And All Who Sail With It
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 521CD
"Red Krayola's second album, originally released on International Artists in 1968. Mayo Thompson and Steve Cunningham returned to Texas for this release and, along with drummer Tommy Smith (who played briefly with Bubble Puppy), began recording the second Red Krayola album, which consisted in numerous one and two minute tracks, taking the band in a more experimental direction."
Artist:
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS
Title:
Easter Everywhere
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 522CD
"The Elevators' second album and also their best, originally released in 1967 by International Artists. Includes the epic 'Slip Inside This House' and an excellent cover of Dylan's 'Baby Blue'."
Artist:
BRAXTON, ANTHONY
Title:
Anthony Braxton
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 524CD
"'Few modern musicians in any genre can have been so extensively documented as the Chicago-born multi-instrumentalist, and yet the very density of the documentation serves only to heighten the enigma that is Anthony Braxton.' (
Penguin Guide To Jazz
). This is the first of Braxton's two albums for the BYG/Actuel series -- recorded in Paris on September 10, 1969 with the help of Leo Smith (trumpet), Leroy Jenkins (violin), and Steve McCall on drums."
Artist:
BURRELL, DAVE
Title:
Echo
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 525CD
"This album was recorded in Paris on August 13, 1969 by pianist Dave Burrell with the help of Archie Shepp (tenor sax), Alan Silva (bass), Sunny Murray (drums), Clifford Thornton (cornet), Grachan Moncur III (trombone) and Arthur Jones (alto sax). 'To high energy enthusiasts and noise music cognoscenti
Echo
is considered the ultimate free jazz experience -- to throw on when you want to demonstrate how dangerous the BYG / Actuel series really is a humongous, infinitely-dense blur of high-action free-blown group dynamics' (Thurston Moore and Byron Coley from the Jazzactuel boxset liner notes)."
Artist:
LACY, STEVE
Title:
Moon
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 529CD
"The legendary soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy is one of the instrument's greatest masters -- it was Lacy who inspired Coltrane to take up the 'straight horn'. Originally from NYC, Lacy spent most of his life abroad, living in Paris since 1970. This was Lacy's first recording as leader in Europe. The album, cut in Rome during September of 1969 for the BYG Actuel series, includes distinctive and lyrical performances of 5 fiery Lacy originals and features Lacy's wife Irene Aebi on cello, Italo Toni on trombone, Claudio Volonte on clarinet, Marcello Melis on bass and Jacques Thollot on drums."
Artist:
MURRAY, SUNNY
Title:
Sunshine
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 530CD
"Sunny Murray is one of the most influential and inventive free jazz drummers in the history of jazz and this historic album, originally released in 1969 for the BYG Actuel series is testimony to the man's greatness. Featuring Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, Arthur Jones, Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Kenneth Terroade and Malachi Favors at the peak of their genius."
Artist:
BUBBLE PUPPY
Title:
A Gathering of Promises
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 531CD
"Combining hard rock with fresh vocal harmonies, Bubble Puppy's first single reached no. 14 on the US charts in 1969, making them International Artists' most successful act after the 13th Floor Elevators. The band later joined Steppenwolf's label ABC/Dunhill and, in 1979, released another album as Demian."
Artist:
LOST & FOUND
Title:
Everybody's Here
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 532CD
"Originally released in 1968 on International Artists, the Houston-based Lost And Found were able to land a deal with the label thanks to their friendship with Roky Erickson (to whom they pay homage on the album with a cover of the 13th Floor Elevators'
Don't Fall Down
). This debut album, released just prior to their 30 day tour with the Music Machine, features great fuzz guitars and a healthy dose of psychedelic weirdness."
Artist:
SHEPP AND THE FULL MOON ENSEMBLE, ARCHIE
Title:
Live in Antibes vol. 1
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 534CD
"Superb live recordings (dated July 18 and July 20, 1970) captured in France at the Antibes-Juan Le Pen Jazz Festival. Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (featuring Clifford Thornton on piano and trumpet, Beb Guerin on bass and Claude Delcloo on drums) play through four long tracks with an intensity that still sounds fresh more than three decades later."
Artist:
COURSIL, JACQUES
Title:
Way Ahead
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 535CD
"Trumpet player Jacques Coursil recorded this amazing free jazz session at the Studio Saravah in Paris on July 7-8 1969, with the help of Arthur Jones (alto sax), Claude Delcloo (drums) and Beb Guerin (bass). Features two Coursil originals, 'Duke' and 'Fidel', and an extended version of Bill Dixon's 'Paper'."
Artist:
VA
Title:
Epitaph For A Legend
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 537CD
"Before the International Artists label finally closed their doors forever, they released an amazing 13 album box set, which included 12 of their best releases, plus a very special 13th double album (now released on CD) comprised entirely of unreleased tracks from the label's vaults, called
Epitaph For A Legend
. Here you'll find 27 incredibly rare tracks by: Red Krayola, Lost & Found, Dave Allen, Lightnin' Hopkins, 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erikson, and many others. Also includes excerpt of a rare interview with Roky Erickson on San Francisco's KSAN-FM in 1978 and a hilarious 13th Floor Elevator's radio plug for their
Bull Of The Woods
album."
Artist:
SHEPP AND THE FULL MOON ENSEMBLE, ARCHIE
Title:
Live In Antibe Vol. 2
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 538CD
"Amazing live recordings (dated July 18 and 20 1970) captured in France at the Antibes-Juan Le Pen Jazz Festival. Archie Shepp & The Full Moon Ensemble (including Allen Shorter, Clifford Thornton, Joseph DeJean, Beb Guerin and Claude Delcloo) playing four long and intense tracks."
Artist:
MURRAY, SUNNY
Title:
An Even Break (Never Give A Sucker)
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 540CD
"Avant-garde drummer Sunny Murray was a major player in the experimental jazz community throughout the 1960s. After 3 years as a member of Albert Ayler's band (1964-1967), Murray travelled to France where, after releasing two LPs for the BYG Acutel series, he recorded this album (Nov. 1969) for Affinity. Although this was his first release for the label, it was Murray's third release of the year! Featuring Byard Lancaster and Kenneth Terroade."
Artist:
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS
Title:
Live
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 541CD
"Despite its title, the Elevators' third album (originally released in 1968 for the International Artists label) was actually not a live album at all. The tracks are all studio outtakes, with fake applause added between the songs. Along with versions of the band's classics 'You're Gonna Miss Me' and 'Roller Coaster', the album also contains 5 songs not found on their previous two studio albums, including a cover of Bo Diddley's 'Before You Accuse Me', Buddy Holly's 'I'm Gonna Love You Too', Solomon Burke's classic 'Everybody Needs Somebody To Love' and two original compositions ('You Gotta Take That Girl' and 'You Can't Hurt Me Anymore'). 10 tracks."
Artist:
SHEPP, ARCHIE
Title:
Blasé
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 542CD
"Originally recorded at Studio Davout in Paris on August 16th 1969. An intense and sublime album by Archie Shepp with Lester Bowie and Malachi Flavors (Art Ensemble of Chicago) plus Dave Burrell, Philly Joe Jones and Jeanne Lee. Miniature replica of the original BYG-Actuel LP."
Artist:
CHERRY, DON
Title:
Mu Second Part
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 544CD
"An album recorded at Studio Saravah in Paris on August 22, 1969 by Don Cherry (pocket trumpet, piano, Indian flute, bamboo flute, voice, bells, percussions) with Ed Blackwell (drums, percussions, bell). 'His duets with Ed Blackwell, a drummer whose playing Cherry was very conversant with through a shared history in the Coleman group, were the first recordings released in the Actuel series'.
Artist:
YARDBIRDS, THE
Title:
Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 545CD
The complete Crawdaddy Recordings. "This legendary early Yardbirds album was recorded live in 1963 at the Craw-Daddy Club in London, where the nascent Yardbirds (featuring a young Eric Clapton on guitar) found themselves playing back up to the late Chicago bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson."
Artist:
YARDBIRDS, THE
Title:
Five Live Yardbirds
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 546CD
"The Yardbirds' first album (apart from their live album with Sonny Boy Williamson), recorded at London's Marquee Club in 1964. At this early point in their career, the group's set was still comprised of cover versions of American R&B/blues classics by Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Eddie Boyd, etc. with the young guitar legend Eric Clapton on lead guitar."
Artist:
SHEPP, ARCHIE
Title:
Poem For Malcolm
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 548CD
"Another great session recorded in Paris (on August 14 1969) for the BYG Actuel label. Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp backed by Burton Greene, Alan Silva, Claude Delcloo, Philly Joe Jones, Grachan Monchur III, Hank Mobley, Vince Benedetti and Malachi Flavors."
Artist:
MURRAY, SUNNY
Title:
Homage to Africa
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 550CD
"After 3 years as a member of Albert Ayler's band (1964-1967), avant-garde jazz drummer Sunny Murray travelled to France where he recorded for affinity and BYG. The amazing
Homage To Africa
was recorded on August 15, 1969 for BYG and features Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, Grachan Moncur III, Lester Bowie, Clifford Thornton, Roscoe Mitchell, Kenneth Terroade and Jeanne Lee."
Artist:
VAN ZANDT, TOWNES
Title:
Townes Van Zandt
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 551CD
"The classic 1969 recording, originally released on the Poppy label, was Texas country blues & folk singer Townes Van Zandt's third full-length release...influenced by Hank Williams, Bob Dylan and Lightnin' Hopkins, Van Zandt's unique style -- at times brooding and introspective, at times relentlessly forceful and dynamic -- spoke to the dark corners of the human soul, and has been claimed as an influence by everyone from Sonic Youth to Willie Nelson..."
Artist:
SANDERS, PHAROAH
Title:
Izipho Zam (My Gifts)
Label:
SUNSPOTS (ITALY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
SPOT 552CD
"One of Sanders' most brilliant early works, recorded in January 1969. Here, as during his tenure with Coltrane's ground-breaking quintet, tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders further pushes the boundaries, employing the talents of 13 musicians for this fantastic journey to the edges of jazz and beyond. Guests include Sonny Sharrock, Lonnie Liston Smith, Chief Bey, Cecil McBee, Sirone, Sonny Fortune, and more! Essential Sanders, essential jazz." Originally issued by Strata East in 1973.
Previous Page
Index of Labels
Next Page
