Strut Records proudly presents the first definitive expanded reissue of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Sun Ra’s 1977 session recorded at the Bluebird in Bloomington, Indiana, presented across three Vinyl LPs or as a two-CD set. Please note the differing tracklist between the CD & LP.

Vinyl
Side A
Shadows Of Infinity 7.58
Pleiades 4.52
Discipline 27 5.42
Bluebird Set #2 Piano Solo 2.40
Side B
Equation Of The Myth 8.53
Neptune 5.32
Yesterdays 6.03

Side C
St. Louis Blues 6.28
The Mystery of Two 7.36
We Live To Be 4.47
Side D
Amen Meni Many Amens 7.38
Saturn Speaks 2.56
Images In A Mirror 10.15

Side E
Take The ‘A’ Train 11.14
Make Another Mistake 3.43
Bluebird Shuffle 5.55
Side F
Outer Reach Intensity Energy / Cosmos Rendezvous 8.15
Next Stop Mars 0.23
Over The Rainbow 7.08
I’ll Wait For You 3.33


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Strut Records proudly presents the first definitive expanded reissue of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Sun Ra’s 1977 session recorded at the Bluebird in Bloomington, Indiana, presented across three Vinyl LPs or as a two-CD set. Please note the differing tracklist between the CD & LP.

Tracklist:

CD1
Shadows Of Infinity
Pleiades
Discipline 27
Equation Of The Myth
Keep Your Sunny Side Up
Saturn Speaks
Neptune / The Voice Of Ebah
Yesterdays
Yeah Man!
King Porter Stomp
Lightnin’
St. Louis Blues
The Mystery Of Two

CD2
Bluebird Set #2 Piano Solo
We Live To Be
Bye Bye Blackbird
Gone With The Wind
Amen Meni Many Amens
Take The ‘A’ Train
Images In A Mirror
Outer Reach Intensity Energy /Cosmos Rendezvous
Bluebird Shuffle
Next Stop Mars
Over The Rainbow
I’ll Wait For You
Make Another Mistake



Listen CD: listen.k7.com/b01ccfd6-efdd-4956-94ac-49afda30a934

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Strut Records proudly presents the first definitive expanded reissue of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Sun Ra’s 1977 session recorded at the Bluebird in Bloomington, Indiana, presented across three Vinyl LPs or as a two-CD set. Please note the differing tracklist between the CD & LP.

Vinyl
Side A
Shadows Of Infinity 7.58
Pleiades 4.52
Discipline 27 5.42
Bluebird Set #2 Piano Solo 2.40
Side B
Equation Of The Myth 8.53
Neptune 5.32
Yesterdays 6.03

Side C
St. Louis Blues 6.28
The Mystery of Two 7.36
We Live To Be 4.47
Side D
Amen Meni Many Amens 7.38
Saturn Speaks 2.56
Images In A Mirror 10.15

Side E
Take The ‘A’ Train 11.14
Make Another Mistake 3.43
Bluebird Shuffle 5.55
Side F
Outer Reach Intensity Energy / Cosmos Rendezvous 8.15
Next Stop Mars 0.23
Over The Rainbow 7.08
I’ll Wait For You 3.33


Listen LP: listen.k7.com/ea9c6103-8784-4d82-822d-3edab26a28e9

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Welcome to Volume 8 of the Mr Bongo Record Club series, our in-house curated compilations that give us a chance to share some of our favourite tracks, hard-fought finds, and unsung gems. These are tracks that have been inspiring us at home, in the office, while DJing, and on the dancefloor.

In the cross-genre spirit of the series, for Volume 8 we have selected music from the worlds of soul, boogie, disco-reggae, jazz-funk, and Latin, with a hefty chunk of beloved Brazilian music. Pulling these compilations together is always a highlight of our year, and eight volumes in, we feel this is one of our strongest to date.

The album’s journey begins with a heartfelt epic by As Ganhadeiras de Itapuã, from the Bahian town of Itapuã. It’s an area of Brazil that holds a special place in David ‘Mr Bongo’ Buttle’s heart, and where he first met our dear friend, Luciano Rodrigues Dos Santos, to whose memory this compilation is dedicated to.

Staying in Northern Brazil, next up is a contemporary dancefloor gem by Ubunto, a DJ and producer from Salvador, which also features As Ganhadeiras de Itapuã. The raw, dusty, punchy sounds of zabumba drummer Castanheiro and the furious guitar-heavy dancer by Tyaraju & Dutra are just two more examples of the Brazilian beauties included on the compilation.

There is also a heavy dose of soul music on this volume. The Canadian-gospel sounds of Trevor Dandy, a modern-soul rarity by Wil Collins & Willpower (which has been on our list for years), and a soul-stepper masterpiece by Tommy McGee, are just a handful of the highlights. Not stopping there, we are incredibly proud to present an exclusive rework of The Sylvers' ‘Wish That I Could Talk To You’ by the legendary Kenny Dope. Kenny has excelled himself with this one, fattening up the drums while bringing more drama to the horns and strings. The song now feels more contemporary yet still stays true to its roots. Complete genius!

Elsewhere on the compilation, you’ll find a cosmic reggae-not-reggae disco oddity by Tapper Zukie, a South African jazz-funk-disco groover by Mac Mathunjwa, a sought-after Brazilian compacto by Eduardo Araújo, and a Brit-funk / boogie treasure by Powerline.

Traversing time, genre, and location, all the tracks on Volume 8 are favourites for their own unique reasons. Music will forever be a constant source of comfort, able to affect you deeply in the most meaningful ways. It’s the gift that keeps giving, and there is so much more to learn, discover, and share, both old and new.

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Japanese pressing

two Japanese rare groove classics from 70's selected by DJ CHINTAM (Wamono AtoZ), both tracks are first time pressed on 7 inch.

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SML is a Los Angeles based quintet featuring Anna Butterss, Jeremiah Chiu, Josh Johnson, Booker Stardrum, and Gregory Uhlmann.

Spontaneous Music Live contains two side-length pieces of unedited improvisation, recorded live at Los Angeles venue Zebulon during SML's December 2025 three-night residency, just weeks after the release of the band's second album HOW YOU BEEN. It was recorded and mixed live to stereo tape by Bryce Gonzales (the same engineer/wizard known for his gorgeous live captures/mixes of Jeff Parker's ETA IVtet).

Between HOW YOU BEEN and their 2024 debut SMALL MEDIUM LARGE (both of which were heavily edited, shaped and post-produced) the band has developed a reputation for records that are heavily fused, polished, and punchy. The medium is on full post-modern display on those LPs, and the band’s post-production knife can be responsible for much of the perspective—the tastiest morsels collected, arranged, and rearranged just so.

But the source material from both those albums were live recordings. Longform, unwieldy, ebbing and flowing. On top of that, every performance the band has ever done has been fully improvised in that spirit. So in the sphere of live performance the band’s esteem has grown down a different path—one of linear, hypnotic, expansion. It’s a perceived split persona shared by some of SML’s most inspiring conceptual bedfellows: compare the extended madness of Can’s Live in Paris 1973 to the relative tight form of Future Days from the same year; the speed-funk chaos of Miles Davis’ Dark Magus to the heavily deconstructed On The Corner or Big Fun.

Spontaneous Music Live removes the curatorial perspective and pulls the curtain back on that search-pluck-reconstruct editing process. What we’re left with is the psychedelic realism of the band in situ, in their home town, collectively improvising, fully in-the-moment, mining for that moment of discovery. We hear, in macro, each nugget of sound which could be the basis for a future SML album track, spattered amongst the collective chaos-and-control like stars in the night sky.

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Strut Records proudly presents the first definitive expanded reissue of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Sun Ra’s 1977 session recorded at the Bluebird in Bloomington, Indiana, presented across three Vinyl LPs or as a two-CD set. Please note the differing tracklist between the CD & LP.

Tracklist:

CD1
Shadows Of Infinity
Pleiades
Discipline 27
Equation Of The Myth
Keep Your Sunny Side Up
Saturn Speaks
Neptune / The Voice Of Ebah
Yesterdays
Yeah Man!
King Porter Stomp
Lightnin’
St. Louis Blues
The Mystery Of Two

CD2
Bluebird Set #2 Piano Solo
We Live To Be
Bye Bye Blackbird
Gone With The Wind
Amen Meni Many Amens
Take The ‘A’ Train
Images In A Mirror
Outer Reach Intensity Energy /Cosmos Rendezvous
Bluebird Shuffle
Next Stop Mars
Over The Rainbow
I’ll Wait For You
Make Another Mistake



Listen CD: listen.k7.com/b01ccfd6-efdd-4956-94ac-49afda30a934

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WAS - Word and Sound Medien GmbH
Liebigstrasse 2-20
DE - 22113 Hamburg
Germany
Contact: [email protected]More