New Releases for April 2008

Index of New Releases for April 2008

Artist:	ARBOREA
Title:	Arborea
Label:	FIRE MUSEUM
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FM 017CD

"This self-titled collection is the second release for Arborea. Hailing from Maine, the duo of Buck and Shanti Curran (on vocals, guitars, banjos, percussion) are joined on several numbers by Helena Espvall of Espers on cello. Here they conjure up a musical offering that is equal parts Appalachian music, traditional English folk music, and contemporary psychedelic folk with experimental touches, creating a sound that stands out as unique while touching upon something that feels as ancient as the urge to create music. Rare is the record that takes the listener to fields both verdant and desolate in the same journey as this release does, and it does so in a way that makes both equally powerful and inviting. The duo possess an alchemy that makes their collaboration feel as natural as the trees from which their name comes from. Following upon the success of their debut effort Wayfaring Summer, Arborea have outdone themselves with this release, a recording that establishes them as masters of their craft. This is a group you will be hearing from for years to come."

FIRM (GERMANY)

Artist:	COMA
Title:	Coma
Label:	FIRM (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	FIRM 027EP

"Coma are Marius Bubat and Georg Conrad and they are the long awaited rush of fresh air in the streets of Cologne and in the clubs worldwide. They combine pop and rave, techno and rock in a very unique, subtle and elegant way. Coma are nu-rave and old school techno, '80s pop and 2k-modernity in a deep hug. Coma gives the right answer to the wrong hypes and new influences, voices and feelings to electronic dance music. Live on stage Marius and Georg appear with laptop, guitar and microphone and they know how to have fun with their own beats and how to make the people scream constantly."

FLEDG'LING (UK)

Artist:	MCGREGOR GROUP, THE CHRIS
Title:	Very Urgent
Label:	FLEDG'LING (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FLED 3059CD

Originally released on Polydor in 1968. During this year, The Chris McGregor Group were riding high on the London jazz scene, playing and hanging out with all the rising stars of British free jazz. Very Urgent, their eagerly-awaited debut recording, was a joyful call of intent. The album mixes simple but utterly unstoppable tunes and exhilarating horn charts -- immediately establishing a vitality and exuberance that would continue to define the group. Nevertheless, their evident preference for raw energy and rough spirit over absolute precision never quite obscures the technical proficiency available to the ensemble. There is often a sense of things falling effortlessly into place that's only found in the most exceptional units. Very Urgent was produced by Joe Boyd and engineered by John Wood at Sound Techniques studio in London, during the same months they were also working with several other luminaries of the Witchseason stable -- Fairport Convention, Nick Drake and The Incredible String Band. Forty years later, Fledg'ling Records are very proud to bring this splendid album back into print. The passing years have not diminished the album's impact. Very Urgent is the third release in our campaign to reissue McGregor's wonderfully creative recordings from the late '60s and early '70s.

Artist:	ROBERTS, ANDY
Title:	And The Great Stampede
Label:	FLEDG'LING (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FLED 3064CD

With great honor, Fledg'ling Records announce a deluxe reissue of Andy Roberts' splendid 1973 album -- Andy Roberts And The Great Stampede -- originally released on the legendary Elektra label. One of this country's under-acknowledged guitarists and songwriters, Andy Roberts was a leading member of the Liverpool Scene, Plainsong, Grimms and the Hank Wangford Band. He has toured with Roy Harper, Pink Floyd and Roger McGough, amongst many. On And The Great Stampede his band are pianist Zoot Money (of Big Roll Band fame), BJ Cole -- Europe's finest pedal steel guitarist, electric violinist Mick Kaminski (from the Electric Light Orchestra) and the fabulous Fotheringay rhythm section -- Pat Donaldson and Gerry Conway. The legendary Ollie Halsall adds lead guitar on the first track. For this edition, Andy Roberts has written extensive sleeve notes chronicling the recording and the background to the songs. The package includes previously-unpublished photographs and five previously-unreleased bonus tracks.

Artist:	FRENCH, FRITH, KAISER, THOMPSON
Title:	Live, Love, Larf & Loaf
Label:	FLEDG'LING (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FLED 3067CD

The album Live, Love, Larf & Loaf was first released in 1987 and is a wonderful and rare collaboration between four experimental world-class master musicians: John French (original drummer with Captain Beefheart's Magic Band); Fred Frith (founder of the art-rock ensemble Henry Cow); Henry Kaiser (innovative experimental guitarist and composer); and Richard Thompson (founding member of Fairport Convention). Richard Thompson once joked that if his presence on an album with John French, Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser was expected to help it appeal to a wider audience, it didn't say much for the state of their careers. Their first album from this unlikely ensemble mixes sophisticated playing with some humorous repertoire and idiosyncratic covers. Live, Love, Larf & Loaf covers a bewildering variety of genres, from folk and R&B to avant-garde and comic opera. The New York Times made it their "Rock Album of the Week" -- "As it draws on music from at least four continents, Live, Love, Larf & Loaf romps past borderlines." Fledg'ling Records proudly presents this newly-remastered, maximum length CD, including 4 previously-unreleased live bonus tracks.

FRANKIE RECORDS (FRANCE)

Artist:	DELANO & TONY ROHR, ALEXI
Title:	Sour Impressions EP
Label:	FRANKIE RECORDS (FRANCE)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FRANKIE 031EP

"The well known producers Alexi Delano & Tony Rohr teamed up for our pleasure and produce here in their Sour Impressions EP. Two outstanding pieces of funky minimal techno. A1. 'Discoteca Butt' is an exciting bunch of quirky sounds and raw synth with an unpredictable way -- crazy and quite efficient on the floor with no doubt a masterpiece! On the flip, B1. 'Mind Of Its Own' combines heavy distorted raw synth loud kick sub bassline plenty of subtle bleepy sounds darky and weird -- great unpredictable atmosphere. No more to say than Sour Impressions is absolute must!" Pressed on white vinyl.

FREAK N' CHIC (FRANCE)

Artist:	SHONKY
Title:	Time Zero Remixes EP
Label:	FREAK N' CHIC (FRANCE)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	FNC 027EP

The title track from Shonky's debut artist album Time Zero gets a remix package from two of the underground's most in-demand production talents: Paul Ritch and Mathias Kaden. Ritch's mix holds down a steady and undulating, percussive groove that lets the spiraling effects of the original loose midway, leading back into a rolling finish. Mathias Kaden strips it back and creates a beat-laden take on the original, with some added irate synth detail.

FREUDE AM TANZEN (GERMANY)

Artist:	WIGHNOMY BROTHERS
Title:	Metawuffmischfelge
Label:	FREUDE AM TANZEN (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	FREUDE 003CD

The Wighnomy Brothers are Gabor Schablitzki (Robag Wruhme) and S�ren Bodner (Monkey Maffia), and this is the first mix CD from the house of F.A.T. The label could not have chosen more capable hands then the greedy fingers of this duo: Wighnomy Brothers have basically remixed everyone... R�yksopp, Ellen Allien & Apparat, Paul Kalkbrenner, Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, Triola, you name it, they've fucked with it. In the grand spirit of driving the Autobahn with your most beloved, everything is possible with this mix. In this lively and lovely record swings the ecstasy of the dance hall, the melancholy of being alone as well as every happy moment alongside one another. With the euphoria of even bass drums, measured tempo, sweat and affection, there is microscopic finery and surprising tonal nuances. The mix is the result of all the technical animalism and the mechanical handwork skills of innumerable club nights, listening to what works and what doesn't work on the dancefloor. Also, Robag added individual samples from his treasure chest, incorporating surprising bits from Lisa Gerrard, Sidsel Endresen and Bugge Wesseltoft. The narrative of this mix is housed in a functional techno sweetness. Wighnomy Brothers spin unusual moments, with a full awareness of history and an experimental spirit. Animated sonic architecture for driving, listening and dancing. Other artists include: Agoria, False, Andre Crom, DJ Koze, Ralph Sliwinski, Stewart Walker, Mathias Kaden, Dirk Diggler, Kreon & Lemos and Matchiste.

Artist:	KADEBOSTAN
Title:	Ruff Dancer EP
Label:	FREUDE AM TANZEN (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	FREUDE 036EP

Kadebostan's second release features finely composed tonal art which functions flawlessly at home and at the club. Harmonic, graceful and voluminous without an over-produced taste. "Ruff Dancer" measures classic fragments and a driving melodic line along with an opulent theatrical bootlick. "Entroducing Kadebostan" is a melancholy dash of tomfoolery and warmth, while "Hidden Treasure" quietly mixes melodic structures with distant vocals. This 12" thrills the hearing channels and fills the heart.

FUNKADELPHIA

Artist:	MFSB
Title:	Muthafunkinsonofabitch: The Truth Behind the Philly Legend
Label:	FUNKADELPHIA
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FUNK 003LP

LP version. "Wonderful collection of funky Philadelphia based groups who blessed the scene between 1968-1973. Many of these recordings have been re-mastered from the original reels for the first time! Before many of these musicians were making music you hear on television and movies, they played under different names and labels during the late '60s early '70s, mostly as funky jams recorded for tax write-off purposes!" Artists include: Interpretations, Brothers of Hope, Hidden Cost, Daley Diggers, Sam Reed Band, Alliance, Cupit, Race Street Chinatown Band, Electric Indian, French Connection, Pat & The Blenders and Ando Orchestra.

FUSETRON

Artist:	BLUES CONTROL
Title:	Puff
Label:	FUSETRON
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	FUSE 047CD

"...the music of Blues Control, as evidenced on this record, is a master work explodin'. It germinates absolutely from the bowels of the blues but erupts via a postmodern portal; there are gorgeous sheens of rust that fissure throughout, harmonicas smoke in the distance, guitars splatter, keyboards ooze white hot neo-psychedelic lava, in the end, like the music emitted from Apollo's lyre, it is a devastatingly wondrous experience. And as much as I hear the (non-specific) PSF or Akiyama buzz, to me Blues Control seem beget from the prominent clang & snarl of Dead C, who was beget by This Heat, who was beget by Faust, from whose seed it all originated. And that's nothin' to sneeze about, unless you are allergic to greatness. A CD on Holy Mountain is next. I know it's early, but Puff seems a shoe-in for one of the year's best." --Siltblog. "Puff is the work of two modern Gris Gris chefs, and the most righteously authentic stoner gumbo this side of Twin Infinitives or Jungle Rot. Glittery framed sunglasses and doper's remorse. The finest racket of 2007 so far." --James Jackson Toth/Wooden Wand

GET PHYSICAL MUSIC (GERMANY)

Artist:	WILLIAMS
Title:	El Baile
Label:	GET PHYSICAL MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	GPM 085EP

Scottish producer Williams is back with El Baile for Get Physical. The title track immediately enthralls with its galloping kick, snare and analog bass pattern, and an electro motif that propels it onwards into the heart of the dancefloor. "The Unbearable Truth" is a thrillingly modern, moody take on the straight-up acid track. "Kiss Of Life" features an interplay of synths, kosmische-style chords and a tech-house strut. House music to get lost inside.

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