Saxophonist and composer Walter Smith III enters a new era of his band leading career with his remarkable Blue Note debut return to casual, the long-anticipated follow-up to his self-released 2014 recording still casual. Eight original works (and one new arrangement) all composed within weeks of each other layer, displace, dismantle and reassemble among the […]
The Baltimore group release As Long As You Are, their sixth studio record, via 4AD. As Long As You Are looks to the past as well as the future, confronting old ghosts and embracing a new hope. It is an album about trust, full of honesty, redemption and “letting go”, allowing old wounds to heal […]
Vinyl repress of Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Dear Scott – released on June 3rd 2022, charting at #6 in the official UK chart, #1 in the independent album chart, #2 in the physical album chart and #2 in the vinyl album chart. Finding that luck, love and letting things roll works […]
Sought after instrumentals for critically acclaimed album Sour Soul, by Toronto jazz / hip hop band BadBadNotGood and Staten Island rap champ, Ghostface Killah. Inspired by 1960’s and 70’s music and taking inspiration from the recording techniques and production of that era, they embrace live instrumentation and zero sampling. BadBadNotGood with producer Frank Dukes created […]
Keith Hudson’s Nuh Skin Up Dub is a heavyweight dub album that stands out as one of the most potent statements in the genre’s history. Released in 1979, this sonic masterpiece showcases Hudson’s dark, almost mystical production style, where heavy bass lines, echo-drenched drums, and ghostly fragments of vocals swirl together in a hypnotic haze. […]
In 2022, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis returned to their native Australia for 16 shows, taking their acclaimed 2021 album ‘Carnage’ on the road, along with songs from the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds catalogue. Three performances at the Sydney Opera House on December 16th, 17th and 18th were the climactic shows of an […]
Rufige Kru is the iconic alias of Drum & Bass legend Goldie. One of the most revered names in breakbeat science, Rufige Kru rewired the dancefloor for the time back in 1992 with the hardcore classic Darkrider, and the project produced other pivotal hardcore moments like Ghosts Of My Life and Terminator (still considered one of the key moments in the evolution […]
Recordings from 1972-73! Great early versions of classic Hurley songs such as Automatic Slim & The Fatboys, Drivin’ Wheel, Ghost Woman Blues, Watchin’ The Show and The Portland Water that come off for the most part better than later releases of these songs. Hurley is backed up by ”The Fatboys” – not the rotund hip […]
By the time he made Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi was already an elder statesman of Japanese cinema, fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of a younger generation. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, he created a touchstone of his art, […]
DISC 1 1. Returning 2. Selah 3. First House On The Left 4. These Words Of Mine 5. Does She Hold You Like I Did 6. Northern Sunrise 7. A Boat On The River 8. Father Of Two 9. Anyway, Always 10. Walnut Shell 11. Ready To Go 12. Leaving British singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy releases […]
