75 Dollar Bill – I Was Real 2LP
Abdulla Ibrahim – The Balance LP
A Tribe Called Quest – Scenario 7″
Black Keys – Let’s Rock CD / LP / Ltd Col LP
Body Type – EPI & EPII
David Bowie – DJ 7″
Gang Starr – Step In The Arena 2LP
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Vweto ii LP
Iggy Pop – Zombie Birdhouse Ltd Col LP
Kylie Minogue – Step Back In Time Ltd Col 2LP
Mega Bog – Dolphine Ltd Col LP
Prince Fatty – Get Ready 7″
Skepta – Ignorance Is Bliss Ltd Heat Cover
Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You 12″
Sufjan Stevens – Love Yourself 7″ SOLD OUT
Tallest man On Earth – I LOve YOu It’s A Fever Dream Ltd Col LP
W.H Lung – Incidental Music LP

OPTIC NERVE 7″s

Pulp – Everybody’s Problem
Wallflowers – Blushing Girl

Lost in transit due early next week………

Daughter Of Swords – Dawnbreaker LP
Molly – All That Ever Could Have been Ltd Col 2LP

With their trippy languidly soulful third album Colombian band (albeit now based in Chicago in the US) Divino Niño have us hooked. Whether lyrically dealing with joyful love, or the loss of, it’s all wrapped in woozy dreamy guitars combined with sweet psychedelic touches and the wonderfully laid back vocals to produce a beautiful album for lovers and dreamers everywhere.

If you love Homeshake, Mild High Club and Mac Demarco you may have just found your new favourite band and record of the summer.

Big Tone + House Shoes = Big Shoes LP
Black Midi – Schlagenheim LP
Calexico And Iron & Wine – Years To Burn LP
Charles Hayward – (Begin Anywhere) LP
Crows – Silver Tongues Ltd Red LP
Daringer – Bakers Dozen LP & Flexi Disc
Divino Nino – Divino Nino Ltd Col LP
Doug Tuttle – Dream Road LP
EABS – Slavic Spirits LP
Fruit Bats – Gold Past Life Ltd Col LP & 7″
Graham Day & The Forefathers – Good Things LP
Hot Chip – A Bathfull Of Ecstacy Ltd Col 2LP
Jane Weaver – Loops In The Secret Society Ltd Del 2LP
Michael Rother – Katzenmusik LP
Michael Rother – Flammende Herzen LP
Ohbliv – Soulphonic LP
Oviformia Sci – Hablamos De Nosotros LP
Parliament – Chocolate City LP
Prince – Originals CD
Quantic – Atlantic Oscillations LP
Rob Burger – The Grid Ltd Col LP
Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures – Tequila Island LP
Tenderlonious – Hard Rain LP
Tennis Club – Pink 10″
The Galileo 7 – There Is Only Now LP
The Raconteurs – Help Us Stranger LP / Indies Only Ltd LP
Travis – The Man Who LP
Two Door Cinema Club – False Alarm Ltd Col LP
Wu-Tang Clan – Discoiples Of The 36 Chambers: Chapter 1 2LP

NEW ECM!

Anouar Brahem – Le Pas Du Chat Noir LP
Gianluigi Trovesi – La Misteriosa Musica Della Regina Loana CD
Keith Jarrett – J.S. Bach The Well Tempered Clavier CD
Marco Ambrosini – Resonances CD
Maria Farantouri – Beyond The Borders CD

NEW 7″ SINGLES!

Adult Mum – Sometimes Bad Happens
Disguise – Bas Fada
Graham Day & The Gaolers – Just A Little
McCarthy – Red Sleeping Beauty
One Thousand Violins – Halycon Days
State Funeral Built For Destruction
The Shadracks – Tranquil Starvation

LATE ARRIVALS!

Bikini Kill – Pussy Whipped LP
Bikini KIll – Reject All American LP
Codes In The Clouds – Paper Canyon LP
David Allred – The Cell LP
Rose City Band – Rose City Band LP
Thee Oh Sees – Graveblockers Ltd Col LP
Thee Oh Sees – Hounds Of Foggy Notion LP
The Ranconteurs – Consolers Of The Lion 2LP
White Manna – Ape On Sunday LP

I do love bands and musicians who can surprise you and this certainly does. Having been a relatively recent convert to Tenderlonious and 22a in general but this release blew away any preconceived ideas about either.

Having heard that Tenderlonious had recorded some drum and bass tracks in the past so it wasn’t so much of a shock but it’s still a departure from his previous work and position as one of the leading lights of the UK contemporary jazz scene. This is a techno / house album with nods to the spiritual homes of both Detroit and Chicago and it’s pioneers like Larry Heard, Carl Craig and Juan Atkins.

It retains the warmth, humanity and soul of it’s peers work and also Tenderlonious’s while pushing the boundaries of what the UK jazz scene is capable of achieving. An astonishing album on many levels.

Available here https://pebblerecords.co.uk/product/tenderlonious-hard-rain-22a-lp/

Mndsgn aka Ringgo Ancheta is a prolific beat maker, producer, radio host and label owner from San Diego. Snaxx is the second of two albums of unreleased tracks he wanted to release before his next studio album.

Snax (one x ) came out last year and now we have Snaxx (two x’s) and wow if this is the stuff that’s going unreleased then what else must he be doing! I love Mndsgn’s music as he takes you in one direction then another from the woozy psychedelics of his first ep Yawn Zen (which can seriously trip you out) to the last full album Body Wash on which he repurposed influences from 1970s and 1980s boogie and R&B into a conceptual cosmic epic.

On Snaxx he goes back to beat making and produces a stunning album of wonky basslines, languid dreamy beats but with a sense of meaning and purpose. Add some perfectly used guests Jon Bap, Asal Hazel and Pink Siifu and with each track pretty much below three minutes and you have not only the perfect soundtrack to summer but an album that can almost seem to alter time as you enter it’s almost ambient dreamlike world.

Pure Pleasure have been on fire recently with a string of outstanding jazz reissues from labels such as Strata East and Tribe and that rich vein of form now continues with a welcome reissue of Weldon Irvine’s Liberated Brother.

This was Weldon Irvine’s debut as a headliner on his own label Nodlew (Weldon backwards). He had previously been in Kenny Dorham and Joe Henderson’s big band before signing on with Nina Simone as the legendary singer’s organist, bandleader, arranger, and road manager. It was during this time and at Simone’s request he wrote ‘Young Gifted And Black’ after two weeks of writers block the words came to him in a moment of inspiration.

After splitting from Simone he set out on his own releasing Liberated Brother in 1972 and the follow up Time Capsule in 1973 truly finding his own voice with his unique fusion of jazz, funk, soul, blues, and gospel and combined with his social consciousness and spirituality created a timeless sound.

After the 1979 album Sisters it would another 15 years till he would release an album as leader again but in the intervening years he would be rediscovered and embraced by politically minded rappers such as Boogie Down Productions, A Tribe Called Quest and Leaders Of The New School all of whom sampled his work. Unlike some of his contemporaries he embraced this new generation of artists as mentor and guide as well as helping musically artists such as Mos Def, Q-Tip and Common.

Irvine never lost his social conscious and in 1999 called upon Mos Def, Talib Kweli and Q-Tip to record The Price of Freedom, a searing indictment of police brutality inspired by the death of Amadou Diallo, a defenceless African immigrant shot dead by New York cops.

On April 9, 2002, Weldon Irvine committed suicide outside a New York City office complex — he was just 58 years old.

Liberated Brother stands as a testament to an artist at the peak of his art uniting aspects of his life, love of music, spirituality and social consciousness into a truly groundbreaking album

Available here

We’re hooked on this at the moment with it’s nod to classic early American 60’s pop that sounds like you’re driving along the coast to go surfing put through a lo-fi pop blender.

The track Chlorine is a melancholy ballad inspired by Otis Redding and John Waters. Watch it here

Another track from the album is Miss Me and is as SadGirl guitarist/vocalist Misha Lindes explains : “This song is about realizing someone close to you isn’t the person you thought you knew and kind of coming to terms with the fact that they may never share the same values as you. Getting to that point where you decide that it’s no longer worth the effort and it’s better to walk away with what’s important to you still in tact.” 

It’s a tormented love song that transports the listener back to slow dances at a previous generation’s sock hop, only to be subverted by a chorus of “miss me with that bullshit.” 

The good news is there’s a whole album as good and it’s available here…………

Abba _ Voulez Vous 2LP
Bastille – Doom Days Ltd Col LP
Bill Callahan – Shepherd In Sheepskin Vest 2LP
Blu & Exile – True & Livin’ LP
Bob Marley – Legend 35th Anniversary LP
Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars CD / Ltd Col LP
Burial – Claustro / State Forest 12″
Buzzcocks – A Different Kind Of Tension Col LP
Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady Col LP
Gas – Konogsforest 2LP
Jordan Rakei – Origin Ltd Col LP
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures Col LP
Kate Tempest – Book Of Traps And Lessons LP
Kitty Kat Fan Club – Dreamy Little You LP
Laurence Pike – Holy Spring Ltd Col LP
Madonna – Madame X CD / LP / Pic Disc 2LP
Mndsgn – Snaxx Ltd Col LP
Noel Gallagher – Black Star Dancing 12″
Ohbliv – Soulphonic LP
Pheromoans – County Lines Col LP
R.E.M – In Time: The Best Of LP
Shellac – End Of The Road 2LP
Tusks – Avalanche LP

Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Revue 14CD Box Set / 4LP Box Set
Colin Potter – Here 2LP
D.O.A – Hardcore 81 LP
D.O.A – 1978 LP
Dope Knife – Things Got Worse Col LP
DJ Yoda – Homecooking LP
FKA Twigs – EP2 12″
Genesis – Seconds Out 2LP
Hoo – Centipede Wisdom LP
Is Bliss – Strange Communications LP
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Out Of Sight LP
Katie Ellen Still Life LP
Kinkajous – Hidden Lines LP
Liam Gallagher – Shockwave 7″
LLoyd McNeill – Treasures LP
Neil Young & Stray Gators – Tuscaloosa CD / 2LP
Peter Perrett – Humanworld LP
Pink Floyd – Division Bell Ltd Col 2LP
Placebo – Placebo LP
Santana – Africa Speaks 2LP
Sting – My Songs 2LP
The Divine Comedy – Office Politics Col 2LP
The Shining Levels – The Gallows Pole LP
Vanishing Twin – The Age Of Immunology Pic Disc LP
Various – Northern Soul All-Dayer LP

THE PRETTY THINGS CD REISSUES

Emotions
Get The Picture?
Parachute

ECM VINYL REISSUES

Charles LLoyd – Voice In The Night 2LP
Jan Garbarek – In Praise Of Dreams LP
Manu Katché – Neighbourhood LP
Nils Petter Molvaer – Khmer LP

NEW ON ECM

Heinz Holliger – Zwiespräche CD

Doves – The Last Broadcast 2LP
Doves – Some Cities 2LP
Doves – Lost Souls 2LP
Ghost-Note – Swagism 2LP
Gnoomes – Mu! Ltd Col LP
Lee Scratch Perry – Rainford Ltd Col LP
Melodie Group – Being & Nothingness CD / LP
Ohbliv – Give Thanks LP
Pink Floyd – Transmissions 1967-68 CD
Pip Bloom – Boat LP
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – And Now For The Whatchamacallit Ltd Col LP
Richard Hawley – Further Ltd Col LP
Rory Gallagher – Blues 2LP
Sacred Paws – Run Around The Sun LP
Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith – The Peyote Dance 2LP
The La’s – BBC In Session Ltd Col LP
The Servants – The Sun A Small Star 7″
The Streets – Everything Is Borrowed LP
Various – Vision & Revision 80 Years Of Topic Records 2LP
Vinyl Williams – Opal Ltd Col LP

NEW ON ECM

Anna Gourari – Ellusive Infinity CD
Paul Bley Trio – When Will The Blues Leave CD
Rabbia / Petrella / Aarset – Lost River CD