New Arrivals February 21st, 2023

 Nagisa Ni Te

Nagisa Ni Te

Black Editions celebrates the 25th anniversary of first ever vinyl edition of this milestone album, cut at 45rpm in a double LP edition for maximum analog fidelity. Housed in a heavy tip-on gatefold sleeve with UV gloss, strike-through matte varnish and embossed finishing. Japan's Nagasi Ni Te weave a great blend of electric folk, psychedelia and rock.

Nagisa Ni Te

Originally released in Japan in 2008, this pressing on Jagjaguwar issued the same year is a much less expensive issue of a pretty great LP combining the dreamy, plaintive folk psych sounds of a really swell, long running creative band from the Japanese underground.

Miles Davis

Walkin / Cookin / Relaxin / Workin / Steamin (5LP box set) freshly minted on wax outta the UK presents a smokin' set of classic miles LPs all housed in original LP jacket art.  Predominantly Miles Davis Quintet LPs done between '57 and '61 these are all smokin' examples of Miles hard bop period !

The Manson Family

This has always had some traction when released by various labels over the many years.  This is the latest issue from 2022 on Australia's excellent Survival Research record label.

Ananda Shankar

1975 killer classic of Indian psych funk!  The party starts here !  Heavy drums, fuzz sitar and synth moves-a-delica !

Cosmic Jokers

Originally released in 1974 this is a newly remasterd analog from master tapes pressing of a classic bit of krautrock and a bonafide supergroup! 8 tracks featuring Dieter Dierks, Harald Großkopf, Jürgen Dollase, Klaus Schulze, and Manuel Göttsching !!!

Orlando Julius with The HELIOCENTRICS

Originally issued in 2014 this finally gets a repress on the UK STRU label.  A wicked double LP of psychedelic jazz-funk grooves with the distinct Nigerian 70's Highlife sounds.  Orlando's a God among mere mortals and The Heliocentrics are always on point !

Cymande

UK band made up of dudes from Guyana, Jamaica and Saint Vincent with 1972 debut and a monster combo of funk, jazz, reggae and psych!  GREAT band Great records all !

Wallenstein

Ultra killer 1st LP 1972 from Krautrock legends ! Heavy cosmic prog/psych moves with Jürgen Dollase, Jerry Berkers and Harald Grosskopf from COSMIC JOKERS are part of this band !!!

Wallenstein

Krautrock classic from 1973.  Superb cosmic psych/prog moves.  this is the bands 3rd LP originally on the famous PILZ label.  Cosmic Jokers dudes involved! 

Multi-Vendor Pop Up Record Shop: Sunday, February 26th

 

New Arrivals and Incoming : Feb. 14, 2023

 

CIVIC "Taken By Force"

RIKKI LLILONGA "Zambia"

LONDON ODENSE ENSEMBLE "Jaiyede Sessions Vol. 2"

ORPHAN EGG "S/T"

YO LA TENGO "This Stupid World"

DOROTHY ASHBY"Soft Winds..."

FLIED EGG "Dr. Siegel's Fried Egg..."

KRAFTWERK "Early Live In Germany"

TINTURN ABBEY "Beeside The Complete Recordings"

SWEDISH MEATBALLS VOL. 2 THE PSCHEDELIC HARDROCK UNDERGROUD 1970-1977

SWEDISH MEATBALLS VOL. 1 THE PSCHEDELIC HARDROCK UNDERGROUD 1971-1977

Birdman Pop Up Shop : Saturday February 18, 2023

 

New Arrivals February 7, 2023

 

MASAHIKO TOGASHI DON CHERRY CHARLIE HADEN

HAWKWIND

Cheater Slicks

Yamash'ta & The Horizon

Jack Wilkins

The Soul Searchers

Weldon Irvine

Tubeway Army

Spiral Joy Band (Pelt offshoot)

Soft Machine

Pop Up Record Shop : Saturday, February 11th, 2023

 

Blood Quartet "Root 7" Essential Listening (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube Records)

Some of us first ran across Mark Cunningham as a member of legendary New York No Wave band MARS back in the late 70's.  If you were in on the first wave of punk and new music you owned a copy of the Brian Eno produced "No New York" comp LP on the Antilles label which had Mars onboard.  

Roll way forward to 1997 and Mark Cunningham's "Blood River Dusk" solo album is unleashed in Spain on CD. Some  16 years later on wax through Feeding Tube Records.  This one blew my mind and I championed it instantly in my shop as a permanent fixture.  Never an album that flew out the door by any stretch and it sported a sticker that simply said; "Dude from Mars plays trumpet with a fucked up jazz vibe akin to Miles Davis early 70's period".  Anyone that bought it over the next 7 years fucking had their minds blown!  Naturally at Birdman, this made the 2nd and 3rd Blood Quartet LPs (both on Feeding Tube 2016 and 2018 respectively) "Deep Red" and "Until My Darkness Goes", hot sellers and are carried to this very day in the shop!  I was thrilled in late 2020 when Dave Cambridge(headmaster at Cardinal Fuzz told me that he and Feeding Tube Records were presenting a brand new album entitled "Root 7", "just fucking WOW" I said to myself !  Coincidentally this record has just seen light of day the past few weeks and although I've had the final mixes of "Root 7" sitting on my desktop for over a year now, I and only ever listened to the first 2 tracks, not wanting to spoil the maiden voyage once waxed! Blood Quartet have up'd the anti on this 4th offering.  I still hear Miles and all the other very best free jazz sounds of the deep shit underground of the early 1970's and make no mistake Blood Quartet are firmly in the here and now, this ain't no retro excursion whatsoever!.  In some ways to me, it's spiritually related to a wicked series of LPs unleashed over the last few years by an awesome French trio consisting of Jac Berrocal, David Fenech and Vincent Epplay. Firmly in place with Blood Quartet (like their previous work) is a sense of darkness and a profund melancholic mood.  In this understated sadness I do hear and feel a sense of beauty.  Every piece on "Root 7" is coated with thematic imagery and really pulls at the soul.  The record grooves in a perfectly off kilter fashion that on ocassion threatens to go bersirk but never quite pulls the trigger. What a wicked trip and I can't recommend this record enough!💕💣  

I must also commend Dave Cambridge, Byron Coley and Ted Lee for being consistently on the cutting edge of releasing what music they do.  An insanely wide range of sounds and styles that cannot be pidgeonholed at all! This ocassional union of committed trailblazers with their labels is incredible and it's purely an alliance built from being like minded, deep shit motherfuckers at the end of the day!

Blood Quartet is not a cookie cutter band, nor are their albums.  There's no pretense, there's no fucking 5 color variation wax versions, there's no glow in the dark sleeves and no phony Japanese OB strips.  It'a all about brain blowing music on a good old fashioned black slab!  We should feel lucky that Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube exist and give a fuck about artists like Blood Quartet...I know I do.💕👽