Louis’s 2013 duet recording with pianist Jim Doherty.In the fifty or so years since these two guys first met they worked on literally hundreds of musical projects together, while always promising that some day they’d record an album of guitar and piano duets. They did this with the encouragement of Daire Winston at Beechpark Studios […]
2LP – Limited Edition ‘Cotton Candy’ Colour Vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve (‘UK Exclusive’). Dolly Parton’s iconic 2008 Live in London concert at The O2 Arena is available on vinyl for the very first time on October 10.This release brings together her classic hits and fan favourites, available in retail versions as a standard Black […]
LP – Standard Edition Black Vinyl. Blawan’s new album SickElixir, released through XL Recordings, is a comprehensive realisation of the sound that he’s been pursuing for his whole career.It’s a record that he perceives to be his debut full-length and a deeply personal creative endeavour, one that helped him process family trauma, emotional upheaval, and […]
LP – Standard Edition Black Vinyl (2025 Repress). The perfect soundtrack for a summer roadtrip in an old car across Death Valley. “Calexico‘s musical textures are woven out of a dazzling array of instruments and styles, including mariachi trumpets, countrified pedal steel, Latin jazz percussion, and carnival organ, just to name a few. The songs move […]
Having sold his instruments to fund a nomadic 1970s lifestyle, eccentric Irish experimentalist Michael O’Shea was forced to create his own handmade answer to the sitars and zelochords he’d become accustomed to playing on his travels around the globe.Using an old door, 17 strings, chopsticks and combining them with phasers, echo units and amplification, the […]
**Gangster Music Vol.3: The Most Gangster Music Trilogy of All Time Comes to a Triumphant Close**Imagine curating a dream lineup of MCs and producers from every corner of the rap world—sounds impossible, right? Not for artist and illustrator Gangster Doodles, who has been bringing this vision to life for the past decade. Now, with “Gangster […]
Geffen/UMe has announced the May 26 return to vinyl of Steely Dan’s memorable sophomore LP of 1973, Countdown To Ecstasy. It’s the latest in the reissue series that began last November with the band’s debut album Can’t Buy A Thrill. The series, which is being personally overseen by Donald Fagen, will bring each of the […]
Time for Tyner is the ninth album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and his third released on the Blue Note label. It was recorded in May 1968 and features performances by Tyner with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Herbie Lewis and drummer Freddie Waits. Its an album rich in ethereal textures that delivers visceral performances of […]
More than a dozen albums into his Blue Note tenure, Donald Byrd’s 1967 date Slow Drag would be one of the last pure hard bop sessions that the reliably brilliant trumpeter would cut before his music began evolving towards fusion. Byrd flies high on this highly gratifying set that finds it’s groove across a variety […]
THE DUBLIN CONCERT is a previously unreleased album of Louis Stewart and Jim Hall recorded live in concert to a delighted Dublin audience on 26th December 1982. Tapes discovered in 2022 have been carefully digitized and mastered to present the captivating, empathetic and poetic playing of this outstanding duo. This album will be a delight […]
