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MJJ 372LP
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"Rising out of the ashes of British psychedelic legends Skip Bifferty, Arc released only ...At This, in 1971, before disbanding. Though, at the time, it was a mere footnote in the British progressive blues-rock movement, the years have been kind to Arc and its sole album. Now a highly collectible LP, the songwriting and performances have stood the test of time and still sound fresh today. Band member Mick Gallagher would go on to be a member of Ian Dury & The Blockheads, as well as play on two of The Clash's classic albums, London Calling and Sandanista. Klimt is pleased to bring another classic, underappreciated piece of the British progressive blues-rock puzzle back into print on LP."
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MJJ 368LP
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"Originally released on Deram in 1967, Celebration is one of the most important albums of the 1960s British progressive and avant-garde jazz scene. The Mike Westbrook Concert Band included some of the UK's most important jazz figures of the time, including John Surman, Mike Osborne, and Harry Miller. These recordings, culled from two days of studio work, are equal parts swinging and experimental, boundary pushing and accessible. Original copies on Deram now fetch a hefty sum, thankfully the folks at Klimt have made it available once again on LP for the first time in over 40 years."
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MJJ 373LP
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"'Hi Boys and Girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black, and I'm the Indian of the group.' Such was the catch phrase of this alumnus of The Mothers of Invention, future member of Beefheart's Magic Band, and founder of the group Geronimo Black, along with Mothers wind player Bunk Gardner. Their self-titled LP, originally released in 1972, included many other Mothers/Magic Band members and, not surprisingly, effortlessly flows from hard rock to avant-garde to boogie to fusion and back again. Geronimo Black was not just a Zappa footnote, it is a fully realized classic in its own right and Klimt is here to bring it back from obscurity, reissuing it on LP for a new generation. Includes the B-side to the group's 45, '59 Chevy,' as a bonus track. Housed in a gatefold sleeve."
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MJJ 364LP
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"James Patrick Page, born 9 January 1944, and better known to the record collecting world as the one and only Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, got his start in the music business as a London session musician. He soon became one of the more sought after guitarists in all London and was especially favored by the American ex-pat producer, Shel Talmy (he of Kinks, Who, and Creation fame). Featured in this deluxe triple LP set are 59 tracks, spanning the years 1963-1968, with some of Jimmy's heaviest session work, from Lulu to Donovan and points in between. An absolute must have for any serious fan of British beat, garage, and plain old rock and roll."
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MJJ 371LP
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"Japanese guitarist Naoki Zushi was a founding member of '80s noise rock legends Hijokaidan, and has played on many albums with psychedelic folk group Nagisa Ni Te, as well as recording under his own name since the late '80s. His third solo album, appropriately titled III, was originally released on CD only, in 2005. A beautiful piece of meditative and progressive folk-rock that harkens back to the best albums of the 1970s, III is issued here on LP for the first time by Klimt."
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MJJ 362LP
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"Oud virtuoso and composer Salman Shukur was the head of the music department and professor of oud (the Arab lute) at the Baghdad Institute of Fine Arts for over 30 years. However, despite his long and illustrious career, Shukur made only one LP, recorded in London in 1976 at Rosslyn Hill Chapel. Shukur's compositions, while based on the Arab classical musical tradition, attempt to bridge the gap between eastern and western music, and may be described as tone-poems, embodying both free and formal variation and improvisation. Despite his being almost unknown in the western world, Shukur was to the oud as Paganini was to the violin."
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MJJ 363LP
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"Dharma Blues Band's sole album, 1967's Dharma Blues, is finally available again on vinyl after decades of being out of print. Formed by guitarist Dave Brock, pianist Mike King, and harmonica player Luke Francis in 1964, the British blues trio gigged heavily around London, eventually recording versions of Sonny Boy Williamson II's 'Dealing with the Devil' and Pete Johnson's 'Roll 'Em Pete' for a British blues compilation. The band also backed Memphis Slim on tour in the UK, but before the band could record a full-length LP, Luke Francis and Dave Brock quit the band, with the latter going on to form Hawkwind shortly thereafter. Mike King, however, decided to continue on his own, recruiting Gary Compton on harmonica, and John Hillary on guitar and vocals, to record this convincing British blues LP in 1967."
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MJJ 365LP
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"Out-of-print on vinyl since the early '70s. Although PG&E's 1968 debut LP passed largely under the radar at the time, it is considered by many to be one of the great lost blues rock classics of the 1960s. Formed in L.A. in 1967 by Tom Marshall and Glenn Schwartz on guitars, Charlie Allen on vocals, Brent Block on bass, and Frank Cook (of Canned Heat) on drums, for Get It On, PG&E recorded the first-ever cover version of John Lee Hooker's 1967 'Motor City's Burning,' predating the MC5 version by a whole year. It also includes an amazing version of Booker T's 'The Hunter,' originally recorded by Albert King for Stax in 1967 (another probable first-ever cover). 'Long Handled Shovel,' 'Live Love,' and the smokin' hot 'Stormy Times,' on the other hand, are all PG&E originals, and feature the incredible blues vocals of one of the greatest and most underrated blues vocalists of the sixties, Charlie Allen. Pop art sleeve artwork by underground L.A. artist, Ben Talbert (a member of Wallace Berman's circle), whose work was rarely shown in public due to obscenity restrictions."
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MJJ 366LP
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"An accomplished group in the world of chamber music, the Concord String Quartet, active from 1971-1987, gained almost immediate attention from the press as well as a dedicated following, after winning the prestigious Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1972. Although the quartet was a classical string quartet, these rare 1973 recordings show the group's affinity for the 'New York School' of avant-garde composers, like Earle Brown, John Cage, and Morton Feldman. Side B is entirely comprised of John Cage's 1950 String Quartet in Four Parts, where each section of the piece corresponds to one of the four seasons as well as a particular force: spring/creation, summer/preservation, autumn/ destruction, and winter/quiescence." Featured works: Earle Brown, String Quartet 2; Morton Feldman, Structures for String Quartet; John Cage, String Quartet in Four Parts.
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MJJ 358LP
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Restocked. "An ambitious, four-movement suite, led by Keith Tippett and produced by Robert Fripp in 1971. This 50-piece orchestra brought together the best British musicians of the day, including members of Soft Machine, King Crimson, and Nucleus, as well as jazz musicians Gary Windo, Mark Charig, Elton Dean, Karl Jenkins, Nick Evans, and Ian Carr. Despite having been released over 30 years ago, Septober Energy remains a force to be reckoned with, and while the 85-minutes of music often resembles that of KC or SM, it also brings in elements of free jazz and contemporary classical music. Finally reissued on double gatefold vinyl and featuring the original artwork."
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MJJ 361LP
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"Little-known and long out-of-print album by one of Australia's greatest singer-songwriters. Primarily known for his work in the UK with Fairport Convention and Fotheringay (with wife, Sandy Denny) in the early seventies, Trevor Lucas released this album of traditional Australian folk songs in 1966 on Reality Records. Intended to introduce British audiences to the Australian folk tradition, songs like 'The Overlander' and 'South Australia' make the uniquely rough life of the Australian outback come alive."
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MJJ 356LP
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"Recorded live on 29 June 1973 at Lincoln Center in NYC, this 'summit meeting' of blues artists was actually part of the Newport Jazz Festival (which during this period had relocated to Manhattan). The event--featuring B.B. King as MC--brought together 'old and new, country and city' for an unforgettable night of top-notch blues. Besides B.B., the big names that night were Muddy Waters and Big Mama Thornton, who pleased the audience by playing sublime versions of some of their best loved numbers, but the concert that night is perhaps most memorable for performances of several lesser-known elder statesmen of the blues, including Delta blues singer and guitarist Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup (playing his 'That's Alright Now Mama', covered famously by Elvis on his 1954 debut single), and bandleader and pioneer of the 'West Coast Blues' style, Lloyd Glenn, who played some stellar blues/honky-tonk piano on his 'Honky Tonk Train'." Housed in a gatefold sleeve.
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MJJ 344LP
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"Recorded in Northumberland, PA in 1973, Brigg was the fledgling effort by high school buddies Rusty Foulke, Jeff Willoughby and Rob Morse. While Willoughby and Foulke would go on to greater glory in the early 1980s with the well-known band Hybrid Ice (whose song 'Magdalene' was famously covered by Boston on their album Walk On), this would be the last anyone would ever hear of Brigg. Long out-of-print, this rare album of early seventies rock is an interesting glimpse into the formative years of Hybrid Ice."
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MJJ 343LP
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"Led by Japanese guitar-hero Kazuo Takeda, Creation (initially called Blues Creation) was instrumental in opening up Japan to the new sounds pouring in from the West. After doing time (circa 1972) on the London music scene - where he befriended Mountain's Felix Pappalardi - Takeda returned home to work on his own music. Over the next few years Takeda's Creation became one of the hottest bands in Tokyo, releasing several successful LPs for EMI-Japan, including 1976's Creation with Felix Pappalardi recorded in the US, and this long out-of-print 'direct-to-disc' album, recorded in October 1978. Takeda apparently got the idea of recording directly to disc while hanging out in the US, the idea being that it would create a more intimate sound (by eliminating the loss of sound quality inherent in any transfer to magnetic tape). However, it also meant that there could be no overdubs or multi-tracking - essentially making This Is Creation (featuring Katsutoshi Morizono of Prism on rhythm guitar) a live album."
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MJJ 342LP
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"Recorded in 1976 at Bearsville Studio in NYC, this album was the result of a collaboration between Japanese guitar hero Kazuo Takeda of Creation and American bassist Felix Pappalardi of Mountain. Pappalardi and Takeda first began hanging out in London in the early seventies, a friendship which soon led to Mountain touring Japan alongside Creation in 1975. This in turn led to Creation being invited to the US by Pappalardi to record their next album, 1976's Creation with Felix Pappalardi. This album is a collection of tunes written by Pappalardi, Pappalardi's wife, Gail Collins, and Takeda, and finds Pappalardi playing bass, keyboards and vibraphone on the LP as well as handling production duties. The songs are a blend of melodic hard rock akin and would not seem out of place on a Mountain album."
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MJJ 340LP
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"Recorded in May and October 1972 for BBC Radio 1 by DJ Bob Harris, these sessions may be all that remain of this seminal acid folk band's elusive third album! Featuring songs not heard on either one of their LPs--1969's self-titled debut and 1970's Full Circle, both on Harvest--it is speculated that many of these songs would have appeared on their imminent third album had they not been suddenly dropped from their label (due to low sales and rapidly changing musical tastes). By 1972 Dez Allenby had left the band, leaving brothers Adrian & Martin Welham as the only remaining members, although Dave Panton (viola, sax) and Dave Stubbs (bass) were brought in for their live performances. By this time, particularly on tracks like 'Everyday Laugh', the Welham brothers were moving more into avant-rock territory and one can only speculate on where they could have gone from here. All songs by Welham & Welham except a version of Ray Charles' 1958 hit 'Leave My Woman Alone'."
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MJJ 333LP
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"Led by Japanese guitar hero Kazuo Takeda, Creation was instrumental in opening the ears of Japanese audiences to the sounds pouring in from the West. After having spent some time around London's music scene in 1971, Takeda took his experience home to start a band that incorporated these sounds into something that was at the same time uniquely Japanese. From 1975-1977 Creation released three albums (one of which was recorded in the USA with American producer Felix Pappalardi, whom Takeda had met in London). 1977's Pure Electric Soul was the band's final effort. An album of riff-heavy and funky blues rock, mostly penned by Takeda, with the exception of the blues standard 'Frankie And Johnny' and the Yardbirds' 'Happenings 10 Years Time Ago'. Once again the controversial cover artwork featured a group of nude boys."
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MJJ 334LP
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"Born in Asagaya, Tokyo on 3 March 1944, Japanese folk singer Masato Minami began his musical career after spending a few years bumming around Mexico and the US and taking in the burgeoning beatnik (and related drug) scene. While in the US Minami saw one of Dylan's early performances and returned home to Japan to start a band. After the release of two singles (in 1969 and 1970), 1971 saw the release of his debut LP, The Tropics. For this opus Minami enlisted the considerable talents of guitarist Takashi Mizutani (of Les Rallizes Denudes fame) and bassist Haroumi Hosono (of Apryl Fool and Happy End) resulting in this incredibly rare example of early Japanese acid folk. Featuring bonus track 'It Can't Be Over'."
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MJJ 326LP
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"After spending the first half of the 1970s globetrotting with Asia's premiere avant-garde band--Takehisa Kosugi's Taj Mahal Travellers (where Seiji Nagai played trumpet and keyboards)--Nagai continued to study and play music, particularly Indian music (drones) and electronic/computer generated music. In 1999 he finally released Electronic Noise Improvisation, with the help of Koichi Watanabe, Koji Kawai and Minoru Yonemoto. Here, as in the days of TMT, Nagai concentrates on creating dense drones, but this time his instruments are computers and a host of electronic gadgets, as well as electronic mandolin and piano."
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MJJ 323LP
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"Originally released in 1970, At Home is the debut album of the obscure Los Angeles folk-rock duo Lambert & Nuttycombe. This album of original ballads was recorded live at the home of Craig Nuttycombe and Denis Lambert in Sausalito, California in 1970 and co-produced by David Anderle (The Doors), Glyn Johns (The Beatles, Rolling Stones) and Chad Stuart (Chad and Jeremy) And although the album--with its intimate vocals and subtle guitar work--generated serious interest at the time, drawing parallels to Nick Drake, the band members' increasing drug problems eventually blocked their road to stardom. Lambert tragically ended up committing suicide in 1997." On 180 gram vinyl.
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MJJ 324LP
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"Originally released on Frank Zappa's Straight! Records in 1969 and limited to 1,000 copies, Farewell Aldebaran is an inspired one-off project by singer Judy Henske and (ex-Association and Lovin' Spoonful member) Jerry Yester. Henske's amazing vocal range and the album's wonderfully eclectic feel (while still firmly rooted in psychedelia) makes one wonder why Henske & Yester did not become bigger stars. A true cult item, combining the help of guest musicians of the calibre of Bernie Krause (Beaver & Krause), Solomon Feldthouse/David Lindley (Kaleidoscope), Ry Cooder and Dick Rosmini. Now reissued for the first time ever on vinyl!"
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MJJ 318LP
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Restocked. "Recorded live at the Donaueschingen Music Festival in Germany on October 17, 1971, this rare concert has not been available on vinyl since the seventies! This recording, while still firmly rooted in the American free jazz tradition of Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler (with whom Don Cherry frequently recorded), brings in elements of traditional Indian, African, Chinese, Mayan and Balinese music. Of the three pieces found here, the first two are composed by Cherry and feature an international group of musicians reminiscent of Sun Ra's Arkestra (Cherry also recorded with Ra). His son, the three-year-old Eagle-Eye Cherry, and his wife Moki, can also be heard in some sections! The final piece was written and conducted by Grammy Award-winning Polish avant-garde composer Krysztof Penderecki, best known for his groundbreaking 'Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima.'"
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MJJ 313LP
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"Formed in California in the late sixties, this obscure band was signed for a one-off deal with the small Encino-based Megaphone label -- for whom they produced this eponymous album in 1968 -- then disappeared without a trace, although according to some sources The Legend morphed into the equally obscure Dragonfly, also on Megaphone. Serving up a mix of poppy psych originals and a handful of inspired covers (including The Who's 'The Kids Are Alright', The Troggs' 'With A Girl Like You', and Bob Dylan's 'Baby Blue') this album is a rare slice of early, surprisingly radio-friendly, Southern Californian psychedelia."
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MJJ 307LP
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"Classic Nigerian fuji music, originally released in 1982 on the Lagos-based Siky Oluyole label. Sikiru Ayinde, better known by his stage name 'Alhaji Chief Doctor Sikiru Ayinde Barrister,' born in Lagos in 1948, is one of the creators of fuji music, and still a leader in the field. The genre, named by Ayinde after Mt. Fuji in Japan (simply because he liked the sound of the word), was developed in the early seventies when Ayinde, who had sung traditional Muslim music since he was a boy, put together a 25-piece band called the Supreme Fuji Commanders. Fuji is a percussion-heavy dance music with the free vocals of Muslim ajisari music (sung during Ramadan) accompanied by Hawaiian guitar and the sakara (a tambourine drum), and often featuring upwards of 10 percussionists. It is a mixture of were, juju, apala, and traditional Yoruban praise poems. Ayinde is one of Nigeria's best known singer/songwriters and was one of the first to take the fuji genre outside of Africa, touring all over Europe, especially in the UK, long before any other fuji musician."
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MJJ 308LP
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"Originally released in 1970 on Montreal's Trans-World label, Strawberry Soul is a rare and amazing instrumental deep funk album released by African-American ex-pat trumpeter Billy Martin. Martin also released an album called I Turn You On on Onion Records where his hit 'Funky Feelin' also appeared. He was a local star on the Canadian R&B scene for a while, but disappeared without a trace after this amazing release."
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