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THE EAGLE ROCK GOSPEL SINGERS - 'HEAVENLY FIRE'
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BING107 - LP
600197010716BING107CD - CD
600197010723
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Will Wadsworth formed The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers in the winter of 2010 following a failed relationship, a band dissolution, and a scary airplane ride. In order to re-spark his interest in music, he and his roommate, Jeremy Horton, gathered friends together to sing old Gospel songs. Inspired by their love of Washington Phillips, The Staples Singers, Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe— you know, the real classics—they held house parties just so they could perform. Soon enough, a large, shifting group of people came each week to join in on the weekly jams. There could be anything from eight to eighteen participants, depending upon the night. Wadsworth and Horton, realizing this might work in a club setting, pared down the group to core members, and they began performing around Los Angeles. In 2014, they recorded their first album with Matt Wignall (Cold War Kids, J. Roddy Walston and the Business). Heavenly Fire is an explosive barn-burner, taut with electricity and highlighting Kim Garcia’s remarkable singing. It’s an articulation of their sound, honed over those many group parties, into a band that has become a rousing celebration of traditional Gospel sounds with rock foundations.
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1. Little Light
2. Heavenly Fire
3. Stephen
4. MMLJ
5. Outta My Head
6. Underground
7. Meet Me
8. Crying
9. No Apologies
10. Amen
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PROTOMARTYR / R.RING - 'A HALF OF SEVEN'
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HAR088 - 7"
098787208877
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***WE ARE ONLY GETTING 90 COPIES:::: Protomartyr returns with a brand new track recorded at Candyland in Cincinnati with Mike Montgomery (R. Ring) in late 2014. “Blues Festival” is a relentless, propulsive, and occasionally pissed off tirade about band life bummers that weighs fact against philosophy. What is hell? What should you not do? Tune in as singer Joe Casey barks through a few of these universal truths. “Blues Festival” also features guest vocals by Kelley Deal (The Breeders, R. Ring). The duo of R. Ring contributes a b-side track – also recorded at Candyland – titled “Loud Underneath”. Both tracks are available as a limited 7” pressing. Following a triumphant 2014, “Blues Festival” is the first new material from Protomartyr following their critically acclaimed LP, Under Color of Official Right.
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Side 1. ProtoMartyr - ?Blues Festival?
Side 2 . R. Ring ? ?Loud Underneath
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OLD MAN'S WILL - 'TROUBLED MAN'
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EZRDR047 - 7"
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Real rock ‘n’ roll requires a little bit of mystique, a little bit of swagger, and a little bit of trouble for good measure. Sweden’s Old Man’s Will possesses all three of those ingredients in spades, and they come into a wonderfully inebriating aural concoction on the band’s second full-length album, Hard Times – Troubled Man [RidingEasy Records]. The quartet— Benny Åberg [vocals], Klas Holmgren [guitar], Tommy Nilsson [bass], and Gustav Kejving [drums]—delivers a brash, bluesy, and brilliant opus that’s the perfect soundtrack for all kinds of trouble. The first single “Troubled Man” shucks and jives between a hummable riff and a swinging stomp. This is proper rock music and like hearing Deep Purple’s “In Rock”, Free’s “Fire And Water” for the first time… you want to play It loud…and often. Album released in the Autumn, single limited to 200 for Europe
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RAW MEAT - 'STAND BY GIRL'
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EZRDR051 - 7"
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Heres a two track limited 7” foot stomper to herald a new series of proto metal / pre-stoner rock from 60s and 70s American underground “BROWN ACID” . The 7” is a limited intor to the series that kickstarts at the end of August: with BROWN ACID: The First Trip. Raw Meat, for example, one of the stomping standouts from the compilation, is a band about which precious little is known even by the owner of the label and producer of the band’s original 1969 single, Richard Paul Thomas — two of its tracks reissued as a 7” teaser single for the compilation on July 31st, 2015 via RidingEasy Records. The trio was from north of Milwaukee, WI, but not much more information remains available. “They were one of the tightest trios around at the time and had a fairly large repertoire of their own material,” the label owner says (name?). “The only thing that sticks in my mind was the band’s bumper sticker ‘Raw Meat Is Good For You’. Our offices were on Lincoln Avenue just next door to the Federal Meat inspectors offices.” Lance Barresi, co-owner of L.A.-cum-Chicago shop Permanent Records has shown incredible persistence in tracking down a stellar collection of rare singles from the 60s and 70s for the 11-track compilation. Partnered with Daniel Hall of RidingEasy Records, the two have assembled a selection of songs that’s hard to believe have remained unheard for so long.
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AL LOVER - 'CAVE RITUAL REDUX'
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SBR018 - LP
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Stolen Body Records is proud to announce the release of Al Lover – Cave Ritual Redux which will be supported by an extensive UK/EU tour this July! For those who aren’t already familiar with the workings of Al Lover then allow Stolen Body Records to introduce you to this exceptional, experimental producer from San Francisco – who has been gaining much notoriety for his melding of contemporary past garage and psychedelic rock into harsh yet spacey abrasive beats. Influenced as much by The 13th Floor Elevators as DJ Shadow, Al Combines crunchy drums, shaky percussion, chopped samples and layers of textured effects to create an unexplored path for psychedelic music, offering an earthy and loose approach that sounds more like you’re listening to a DMT fueled psych band than a beat made on an MPC. Cave Ritual Redux exhibits Al Lover re-inventing his already unique style by adding a new dimension to his previous album Cave Ritual released at the end of last year. With this offering, Al Lover takes older ideas and reinvigorates them with new textures, layers, imagination and creates a new body of mind altering work.
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?It?s not often in today?s world that you come across an artist who has found a unique form of self-expression, seemingly operating on his or her own trajectory? ? The Quietus
?Al Lover is most well-known for his ability to be a non-synthy/trappy/basic beat-maker, and instead a psych-producer, which is very rare. He is quite literally the only one who does what he does? ? Noisey
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JACKSON C. FRANK - 'THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS (3CD) (VOL: 1,2,3 LP)'
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BING105 - 3xCDs
600197010525BING098 - LP
600197009819BING100 - LP
600197010013BING099 - LP
600197009918
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While Jackson C. Frank’s eponymous 1965 album and other material has enjoyed numerous official and unofficial reissues, Jackson C Frank: The Complete Recordings is the first to compile his entire recording career. Released in conjunction with Jim Abbott’s book, Jackson C. Frank: The Clear Hard Light of Genius, The Complete Recordings contains a total of 67 tracks, 24 of which have never appeared before. Every song has been mastered or remastered, a number of them straight from the original, brittle reel-to-reels on which they were originally laid down. Plagued by tragedy with the most haunting music to show for it, Frank’s life can be heard through his music, which has been covered by the likes of Nick Drake, Simon & Garfunkel, Fairport Convention, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes, Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, John Mayer, South Korean jazz singer Nah Youn Sun, French singer Graeme Allwright, and sampled by Nas for “Undying Love.” While never fully recognized as one of the great musicians of the ’60s, Frank clearly had his fans. The artist’s story is a cautionary tale for the dangerous pitfalls of a life lived. At the age of eleven, he was the victim of the infamous Cleveland Hill School Fire in a New York suburb, leaving him burned and disabled, and killing fifteen of his classmates. He spent an agonizing eight months in the hospital, during which time he picked up a guitar for the first time. Scarred both physically and psychologically, and left a shell of his former self, Frank would never fully recover from the wounds. His never-released second album was to include the song “Marlene,” which honors his childhood girlfriend lost in the fire. After an aborted attempt at college, where he formed a folk trio, Frank, along with a Martin guitar and his then-girlfriend Kathy Henry, caught The Queen Elizabeth in February 1965, on which he apocryphally wrote his first, and now his most famous, song “Blues Run the Game.” He soon found himself making the rounds of the London folk clubs and rubbed shoulders with Jansch, Renbourn, Roy Harper, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Paxton, Mike Seeger and Sandy Denny (who became Jackson’s girlfriend and later wrote the somber song “Next Time Around” about him). Frank’s music caught the interest of another young American songwriter in London named Paul Simon, who offered to record and produce his album Jackson C. Frank in 1965. Simon brought Al Stewart along to play guitar, while Denny, Judith Piepe and Art Garfunkel kept them company (and supposedly even ran out for teas for the performer). After recording his album, however, Frank’s health took a turn for the worse and the following years were unkind. He met future wife Elaine Sedgwick, cousin of Edie Sedgwick, at a London party, and when his money began to run out he left London for Woodstock, where they married. The relationship was marked by a miscarriage and the death of their first-born son to cystic fibrosis, and Frank’s subsequent mental unraveling. He was later diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and battled excessive weight gain from a thyroid problem developed after the fire. Additionally, he went through bouts of intermittent homelessness between stays at various upstate shelters. One day, while Jackson waited in a park to be moved to a new facility, he was shot and blinded in his left eye by neighborhood children with a BB gun. The light from this period of his life came from Jim Abbott, who looked after Frank until his death in 1999. Frank’s recordings span four decades of a hard-lived life, and every experience, every trial, is reflected in his voice. If ever a person’s individual journey could be traced through his music, it’s Frank’s, and The Complete Recordings is nothing less than a representative map of the artist’s high points and deepest, most shadowed valleys. While the 1965 debut album has seen intermittent reissues, an expanded double-CD edition appeared in 2003 from Sanctuary, with 33 songs that had never appeared before. Jackson C Frank: The Complete Recordings contains a total of 67 tracks, including all the Sanctuary material, plus 24 more songs.
Tracks
1. Blues Run the Game
2. Don?t Look Back
3. Kimbie
4. Yellow Walls
5. Here Come the Blues
6. Milk and Honey
7. My Name Is Carnival
8. Dialogue (I Want to Be Alone)
9. Just Like Anything
10. You Never Wanted Me
11. I?ve Been ?Buked & I?ve Been Scorned
12. Gospel Plow
13. CC Rider
14. Banana Boat Song
15. Frankie & Johnny
16. John Henry
17. In the Pines
18. John Henry?s Hammer
19. Ananias
20. Borrow Love and Go
21. Jesse James
22. Last Month of the Year
23. Washington Jail
CD Disc Two:
1. Blues Run the Game
2. Can?t Get Away From My Love
3. Marlene
4. Marcy?s Song
5. Madonna of Swans
6. Relations
7. Cover Me With Roses
8. Cryin? Like a Baby
9. Spanish Moss
10. The Visit
11. Have You Seen the Unicorns
12. Juliette
13. China Blue
14. Madonna of Swans
15. Box Canyon
16. Cover Me With Roses
17. Spanish Moss
18. Stitch in Time
19. Heartbreak Hotel
20. Santa Bring My Baby
Back to Me / Precious Lord
CD Disc Three:
1. Blues Run the Game
2. My Name Is Carnival
3. Jimmy Clay
4. Just Like Anything
5. You Never Wanted Me
6. Juliette
7. Instrumental
8. Night of the Blues
9. (Tumble) In the Wind
10. The Spectre
11. Half the Distance
12. Bull Men
13. Maria Spanish Rose
14. Singing Sailors
15. Night of the Blues
16. (Tumble) In the Wind
17. Goodbye (To My Loving You)
18. October
19. Mystery
20. I Don?t Want to Love You No More
21. Child Fixin? to Die
22. Halloween Is Black As Night
23. In the Pines
24. On My Way to the Canaan Land
VINYL TRACK LISTING
Volume 1 2xLP:
1. Blues Run the Game
2. Don?t Look Back
3. Kimbie
4. Yellow Walls
5. Here Come the Blues
6. Milk and Honey
7. My Name Is Carnival
8. Dialogue (I Want to Be Alone)
9. Just Like Anything
10. You Never Wanted Me
11. I?ve Been ?Buked and I?ve Been Scorned
12. Gospel Plow
13. CC Rider
14. Banana Boat Song
15. Frankie & Johnny
16. John Henry
17. In the Pines
18. Ananias
19. Borrow Love and Go
20. In the Pines
21. Jesse James
22. Last Month of the Year
23. On My Way to the Canaan Land
24. Washington Jail
25. John Henry?s Hammer
Volume 2 2xLP:
1. Blues Run the Game
2. Carnival
3. Jimmy Clay
4. Just Like Anything
5. You Never Wanted Me
6. Heartbreak Hotel
7. Santa Bring My Baby
Back To Me / Precious Lord
8. Blues Run the Game
9. Can?t Get Away From My Love
10. Juliette
11. China Blue
12. Madonna of Swans
13. Box Canyon
14. Cover Me With Roses
15. Spanish Moss
16. Stitch in Time
17. Juliette
18. Instrumental
19. Goodbye (To My Loving You)
20. October
21. Mystery
22. I Don?t Want to Love You No More
23. Child Fixin? to Die
24. Halloween Is Black As Night
Volume 3 2xLP:
1. Marlene
2. Marcy?s Song
3. Madonna of Swans
4. Relations
5. Cover Me With Roses
6. Cryin? Like a Baby
7. Spanish Moss
8. The Visit
9. Have You Seen the Unicorns
10. Night of the Blues
11. (Tumble) In the Wind
12. The Spectre
13. Half the Distance
14. Bull Men
15. Maria Spanish Rose
16. Singing Sailors
17. Night of the Blues
18. (Tumble) In the Wind
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