Tracklist

A1. Sarcosuco
A2. Dimetrodonte
B1. Diplodoco
B2. Gastonia


Fango’s debut EP for Running Back draws a map of the Italian’s wonderful world of sounds. To help music journalists in their ongoing search for new genres, it’s a planet that consist of techno punk, ebm house and outsider disco.
Fed by the unbroken fascination with all things dinosaurs (no pun intended) that Fango shared with his son, reading books, watching documentaries and visiting museums, he found a new place and created a sound for it. If you have ever looked for a danceable soundtrack that resembles strange dinosaurs, dark clouds, active volcanoes and powerful winds, you have finally found it. Aptly named after four different dinosaurs, this Ep consists of the irresistible uplifting vibe that is Sarcosuco and its sweet and melancholic counterpart Diplodoco, while the slow-motion rave Dimetrodonte and Gastonia mirror Fango’s darker and tool-like character. All in all, it’s like watching a dinosaur mosh pit from space. Special artwork by Luca Zamoc.







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Genre: Ethnic - Historical recordings

Tracklist CD 1: (71'26)
1. (Sunny Spring) [Le printemps] 7'52
2. (Song of Steadfast Loyalty) [Le chant de loyauté] 1'09
3. (Waters and Mists of the Rivers Xiao and Xiang) [Nuages sur l'eau des rivières Xiao et Xiang] 10'05
4. (Wild Geese Landing on Sand) [Les oies sauvages se posent sur la grève] 5'50
5. (Water Immortal) [L'immortel des eaux] 6'17
6. (Soaring Dragon) [Le vol de dragon] 4'18
7. (Incantation of the Buddhist Priest Pu'an) [L'incantation du moine Pu'an] 8'25
8. (Three Variations on the Tune 'Plum Blossom') [Trois variations sur les fleurs de pruniers] 8'09
9. (Parasol Leaves Dancing in the Autumnal Breeze) [Les feuilles du parasol chinois dansent dans le vent d'automne] 3'43
10. (Wild Geese Landing on Sand) [Les oies sauvages se posent sur la grève] 3'52
11. (Eighteen Variations on the Tune 'Barbarian Horn') [Le sifflet barbare en dix-huit sections] 11'44

Tracklist CD 2: (62'20)
1. (Illustration of finger technique) [Illustration du doigté] 3'45
2. (The Chant of the Qin) [La mélopée du qin] 1'05
3. (Lamenting the Past) [Elégie pour les anciens] 2'14
4. (Moon Over the Mountain Pass) [La lune brille sur la passe] 1'50
5. (Lament by the River Xiang) [Tristesse sur la rivière Xiang] 2'37
6. (Tune for a Pleasant Evening) [Une agréable soirée] 2'32
7. (Spring Dawn over the Jade Pavilion) [Aube printanière au pavillon de jade] 2'00
8. (Parting at Yangguan) [L'adieu à Yangguan] 3'30
9. (Sorrow in Changmen Palace) [Lamentation au palais de Changmen] 3'59
10. (Thinking of an Old Friend) [En pensant à un ami] 5'35
11. (Drunken Fisherman Sings in the Evening) [Le pêcheur ivre chante dans le soir] (First version) 3'21
12. (Drunken Fisherman Sings in the Evening) [Le pêcheur ivre chante dans le soir (Second version) 3'31
13. (Dialogue between a Fisherman and a Woodcutter) [Dialogue du pêcheur et du bûcheron] (First version) 8'22
14. (Dialogue between a Fisherman and a Woodcutter) [Dialogue du pêcheur et du bûcheron] (Second version) 8'40
15. (Autumn Song at the Border) [Chant d'automne à la frontière] 5'03
16. (Wild Geese Landing on Sand) [Les oies sauvages se posent sur la grève] 4'15


Short Info:

Historical recordings made between 1956 and 1989 - Notes by Georges Goormaghtigh
Mrs Tsar Teh-yun (1905-2007) was not only a poet and calligrapher, but a fervent musician and eminent teacher. She devoted much of her long life to teaching the qin, the antique seven stringed zither, at a time when the heritage of the ancient culture was threatened with extinction in China. This refined, demanding music, seen by the literati as a path to self-awareness, has here been recorded by her pupils in the very place where it was taught, the Yinyin Study, "The room of the unfathomable virtue of the qin."


Vital Sales Points:

Prize of the International Charles Cros Academy



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2023 Repress

Tracklist
A1. Open Door (original) 11:31
B1. 00000000 (original) 18:42

C1. Open Door Theo Parrish Behind Closed Doors Remix 10:32
D1. D1 (Unreleased) 08:04
D2. Open Door (Gerd Remix) 08:51

Release Info:
In certain circles, this is a record that would easily be called „eternal“. Back in 1996, when it was originally released, it sounded like nothing else - and still does. The sixth record of Frankfurt’s soon to be imperial Playhouse label and Losoul’s first outing on the label, it hot-wired many things at once: house and techno, US roots and European fruits, grittiness and wittiness, high tech funk, the expansion pf playtimes and the concept of minimalism in dance music. Elegance met effectiveness.
A composition that hooked you and also caused a stir elsewhere. Daniel Bell licensed it to his Elevate label and commissioned a very young Theo Parrish to remix it, Michel De Hey did the same with his EC Records and treatments by Gerd among others.
Here you finally get both of those carefully restored, remastered and reissued next to the originals. Amply placed on a double 12“, it also features the previously unreleased D1. Stemming from the same time and era as Open Door it rings and feels like a compact lost brother. Addictive as on the very first day and here to stay.




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GENRE/S: Acid, House, Electro, Techno


TRACKLIST:

A. Glocken Jr. (9:12)
B. Tears (Shakuhachi Mix) (8:44)


SHORT INFO:

Spaced-out, Electro- and Techno-leaning Acid journeys by Pocochin’s own, Claw-Z


VITAL SALES POINTS:

- Artist debut
- Hand printed custom disco sleeve













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Finally the Disco-House project "Leinad" gets the long-awaited reissue! Enjoy the original Leinad-sound of 1997 with the reissue of the whole album "Electric City" on 2x12" vinyl with a special matt/glossy sleeve and a digital release including 4 new bonus tracks. If you like this moments of house-music - you will love the worldwide first musical survival game "Leinad" for PC. It will be released in the spring of 2024. For more information check the official website www.leinad.de.

Tracklist:

A1 - In Trouble
A2 - Freak Tonight
A3 - Back 2 The 80's
B1 - Pretty Young Thing
B2 - Let's Snip!
B3 - Voice Spectrum
C1 - Loving People
C2 - Bombers
C3 - Out Of Phase
D1 - Electric City
D2 - So Called Artists
D3 - Let's Do It


- Reissue of the Leinad album "Electric City" from 1997
- high demand on discogs and prices up to 300 €
https://www.discogs.com/de/release/1050315-Leinad-Electric-City-The-Album
- part of the original soundtrack of the PC-Game "Leinad"
- 4 unreleased bonus tracks on the digital album


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With its tenth record from Fortunato Durutti Marinetti, Quindi, in collaboration with Soft Abuse, continues to celebrate songwriting and storytelling framed by curious musicality. In keeping with the label's trajectory to date, this is an album which draws on a universal human sentimentality and presents it with an uncommon flair. In the case of Toronto-based Daniel Colussi, the man behind Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean, his melancholic poetry cuts through with a clarity which calls to mind all-time greats from Anette Peacock through to Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen.

Turin-born Colussi has drifted through various bands, guises and styles over the past 20 years, but since settling into Fortunato Durutti Marinetti as a vehicle for his songs, he’s found a strong expressive impetus which transcends genre to become entirely hinged on the power of his words and melodies. The first album under this alias was a 2020 cassette album, Desire, later pressed on vinyl due to demand in tandem with the release of 2022’s Memory’s Fool. On each record, Colussi has found distinct arrangements of players to set the mood, ranging from gently lilting art and folk rock through to orchestrated balladry, but Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean widens the palette of Fortunato Durutti Marinetti to create an album in which each song feels like a tale unto itself.

Colussi’s renewed approach is instantly apparent as album opener ‘Lightning On A Sunny Day’ unfurls, informed greatly by producer Sandro Perri’s input pursuing a hybrid electro-organic sound. The addition of drum machines and synths to the musical palette bring with them the strong connotations of pop while the sax and violin sounds similarly smooth and silky, and one can’t help but think of John Martyn’s slide into the digital sound of Sapphire or Kraftwerk’s bittersweet synthetic tenderness.

Within this sound, there’s still space for the energy to fluctuate according to the whims of songs. ‘The Flowers’ turns inward with a soft-touch composition as delicate as the petals Colussi describes falling to the floor. ‘Misfit Streams’ and first single ‘Clerk Of Oblivion’ savour the fluid, luxuriant tone of fretless bass with all the 80s connotations intact. Colussi remains the central focus whatever happens around him, in possession of the kind of unforced charisma which drives a song deep into the listener’s heart. It’s at once entirely his own style and yet comforting and familiar. The lyrics might sweep you into the singer’s inner world, similarly to the experience listening to late 60s Tim Buckley, or you might well inhale the mellow jazziness of the harmonic movement like you would Joni Mitchell on Hejira.

The emotional direction of each track is never linear - ‘Smash Your Head Against The Wall’ snarls its rhythm section before the strings sow their aching beauty to cool the song’s temper, winding up as a track of distinct halves jabbing at each other. “I Need You More’ leaves space for spiralling flute solos and strangely stiff, militaristic drum rolls in the midst of a sweet, slightly sad synth ballad, the final wave receding back into the tidal undulations of Colussi’s unique exploration of his muse.

The artist himself dubs his musical expression as “poetic jazz rock” with a sideways glance - it’s not exactly poetry, far from trad jazz and it doesn’t really rock, yet the tag feels uncannily like it fits, just like the curious music it’s used to describe.

VITAL SALES POINTS:

Produced by Sandro Perri, Canadian singer-songwriter Fortunato Durutti Marinetti releases his third album on the Italian label Quindi together with American label Soft Abuse, following the successful release in 2022 of his previous work entitled "Memory's Fool", moving from synth pop songs to his characteristic "poetic jazz rock' style.
“For an introduction to Fortunato Durutti Marinetti, there’s no better way to start than letting Eight Waves wash over you” Jess Locke - Aquarium Drunkard
“With an hybrid of analog and synthesized sounds, Turin-born Daniel Colussi creates sophisticated, smooth art pop brimming with emotion” New & Notable - Bandcamp
“It’s a smooth ride, but it’s still a journey” Rosy Overdrive
“Each part of the whole, despite its diversity (from synthetic beats to jazzy interweavings), contributes to creating a compositional balance and achieving sonic organicity: many small musical worlds in one.” Kalporz

Tracklist:

A1. Lightning On A Sunny Day
A2. The Flowers
A3. Misfit Streams
A4. The Movie Of Your Life
B1. Clerk Of Oblivion
B2. Smash Your Head Against The Wall
B3. Tomorrow's Poem
B4. I Need You More




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Territories: Worldwide no restrictions

Format Notes: Part of Music De Wolfe Reissue Campaign, 2023 first time reissue, 140g vinyl

Track List:

A1 Sunshine 1:13
A2 Gentle Eyes 2:08
A3 Heavy Lace 1:32
A4 Yesterday 2:33
A5 Petal Soft 2:54
A6 Coaster 2:20
A7 Grey Sigh 2:38
A8 Sweet Thing 2:17

B1 Cough Drop 1:59
B2 Moon Shade 2:43
B3 Sapphire 2:44
B4 Interweave 2:39
B5 Musette 2:49
B6 Reminiscence 2:29
B7 7.30 For 8.00 2:05
B8 Sparky 0:39

Release Notes:

The Roger Webb Sound's Moonshade is one of the coolest records ever. Originally appearing via the legendary De Wolfe library in 1971, it's a sumptuous jazz-soul-funk instrumental set. Full of melodic, melancholic yet sun-drenched songs, rich with colour and contrast, it was composed by self-taught jazz pianist Roger Webb and features vocal performances by Barbara Moore. That's right; *the* powerhouse library music duo! It makes Moonshade the perfect precursor and accompaniment to Barbara Moore's eternal classic Vocal Shades And Tones. It will come as no surprise that original copies, if you can ever find them, will set you back north of 200 notes.

Moonshade is a phenomenal showcase of Brit maestro Webb's own roots in jazz. Those roots are served up here with a plethora of fast-stepping rhythms that truly give flight to the vocals of Barbara Moore, as they soar in wonderful ways. Moore sings wordlessly throughout, allowing her voice to act like another instrument in concert with the horns and keyboards elevating the fine arrangements. This is a deeply beautiful record.

The album opens with the ornate Baroque pop splendour of the sun-dappled melancholia of "Sunshine". Strings, piano and wordless female vocals combine to create this brief beauty of unimaginable grace. The cool "Gentle Eyes" features haunting and beautiful vocals, smooth jazz piano and horns and a general easy vibe without being easy listening, if you know what we mean. You do. Just listen. The pounding "Heavy Lace" is one for the beat-heads, funky open drums (!) with muted organ, bassy piano chords and ace horns. Sampled by Quakers for their great debut album on Stones Throw. The nostalgic "Yesterday" is wistful and beautifully melodic instrumental soul music with gorgeous acoustic guitar and flutes. It's followed by the light, lilting "Petal Soft" which features more Baroque styles, overflowing with flutes and harps. The bright, bouncing "Coaster" is an easy-going piano-led, guitar-driven swinger whilst "Grey Sigh" is another classic. A real highlight, with more fantastic propulsive drums and percussion and plaintive wordless vocals courtesy of Barbara. Speaking of which, the soft, sweet Rhodes jazz of the lilting "Sweet Thing" is another staggering showcase of the brilliance of Barbara. Just astounding.

Head straight past the honky-tonk-by-numbers piano jaunt "Cough Drop" and luxuriate in the soft, delicate beauty of the album's melodic, cyclical title track, "Moon Shade". Fragile flutes and acoustic guitar float across judicious bass notes before giving way to slightly ominous piano and, again, those beguiling wordless vocals. And then round again to the flute refrain of the intro. This time with the vocals to see us out. Majestic drama jazz at its finest. The cello-and-flute adorned "Sapphire" is a fluid orchestral beauty whilst "Interweave" rides with more urgency in its string and bass stabs. When the warm keys enter, it's a bonafide mellifluous wonder. The softer "Musette" begins in beautifully gentle fashion before pivoting for a driving yet elegant piano middle section. It reverts back to the mellow intro, for its outro. Understood? The melodic organ and prominent rhythm section running through "Reminiscence" makes for a delightfully understated folk-funk instrumental whilst the cool, rolling piano feels of "7.30 For 8.00" seem to perfectly suit the phrase "dinner jazz". It's no bad thing, c'mon. This classy, memorable set is rounded out by the half-minute mince of the Barbara-blessed "Sparky". It's just over too soon!

The audio for Moonshade has been brilliantly remastered by Be With regular Simon Francis, ensuring this release sounds better than ever. Cicely Balston's expert skills have made sure nothing is lost in the cut whilst the records have been pressed to the highest possible standard at Record Industry in Holland. The original, iconic sleeve has been restored here at Be With HQ as the finishing touch to this long overdue re-issue.

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Tracklist

A1. Sarcosuco
A2. Dimetrodonte
B1. Diplodoco
B2. Gastonia


Fango’s debut EP for Running Back draws a map of the Italian’s wonderful world of sounds. To help music journalists in their ongoing search for new genres, it’s a planet that consist of techno punk, ebm house and outsider disco.
Fed by the unbroken fascination with all things dinosaurs (no pun intended) that Fango shared with his son, reading books, watching documentaries and visiting museums, he found a new place and created a sound for it. If you have ever looked for a danceable soundtrack that resembles strange dinosaurs, dark clouds, active volcanoes and powerful winds, you have finally found it. Aptly named after four different dinosaurs, this Ep consists of the irresistible uplifting vibe that is Sarcosuco and its sweet and melancholic counterpart Diplodoco, while the slow-motion rave Dimetrodonte and Gastonia mirror Fango’s darker and tool-like character. All in all, it’s like watching a dinosaur mosh pit from space. Special artwork by Luca Zamoc.







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GENRES:
Electronic / House / Minimal

TRACKLIST:
A. Chase Chase Chase
B. Brother In Love

SHORT INFO:
Reissue of two classic Losoul tracks. ‘Chase Chase Chase’ is one of the artist’s most passionate jams – captivating and full of life – a raw and endless affair.
‘Brother In Love’ paces firmly while allowing a soulful atmosphere of affection. That one’s a keeper.

VITAL SALES POINTS:
- Classic Losoul material from the early days of Microhouse.
- Included tracks first time in the same release.
- 90s feeling and innovation
- now available new and remastered



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Introducing yet another sonic tale by Moving Pictures coming from the overseas. Our forthcoming record marks label's 10th vinyl release and welcomes Philadelphia based artist Alex Burkat to the roster.

The EP features two original tracks by Alex Burkat and Hungarian musician Kin Teal, including slow-burning remix from Los Angeles based artist Dean Grenier. Last but not least, label's in-house power duo Aerial join in on remix duties and deliver a hypnotic closing track.

Tracklist:
I. Alex Burkat - Waistline
II. Alex Burkat - Waistline (Dean Grenier Remix)
III. Alex Burkat and Kin Teal - Northern Lights
IV. Alex Burkat and Kin Teal - Northern Lights (Aerial Remix)

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LP
One of the rarest Georgian [Soviet] releases ever
Previously unreleased song "Borjomi Valley"
New Georgian Reissue label TBILISI Records from Vodkast

GENRE/S:

Jazz, Vocal, Choral


TRACKLISTS:
A1 - Morning Of Happiness - 03:23
(Music: A. Kiladze; Lyrics: L. Beradze)
A2 - Borjomi Valley - 02:50
(Music: G. Bzvaneli; Lyrics: D. Kvitsaridze)
A3 - Rainbow Of Dreams - 02:42
(Music: A. Kiladze; Lyrics: L. Beradze)
A4 - April In Tbilisi - 05:26
(Music: A. Kiladze)
A5 - Tuxedo Junction - 02:39
(Music: E. Hawkins, B. Johnson, J. Dash; Lyrics: B. Feyne)


B1 - Hymn To The Sun - 02:26
(Music: A. Kiladze; Lyrics: V. Gogashvili)
B2 - My Heart - 05:01
(Music: G. Tsabadze; Lyrics: D. Kvitsaridze)
B3 - Gurian - 02:14
(Music: A. Kiladze)
B4 - Singing To Love - 03:19
(Music: A. Kiladze; Lyrics: I. Grishashvili)
B5 - Autumn Mood - 03:28
(Music: N. Qaadze; Lyrics: M. Kitia)

SHORT INFO:
As its maiden release, Tbilisi Records presents the recordings by one of the essential Georgian jazz formations of the 1980s. Alexandre Kiladze's Jazz Choral, formed in 1985, featured an impressive lineup of 11 vocalists complemented by a full band. Alongside standards, the ensemble's material contained many outstanding, stylistically versatile originals lushly arranged into the layered vocal harmonies juxtaposed against the band's tuneful, dynamic play. The polyphony Jazz Choral displays draws equally from Georgian folklore and vocal jazz band tradition. This singular fusion of these two culturally distinct elements creates a remarkable listening experience often emulated by newer Georgian jazz formations thereafter.






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