Solid reissues of hard to find psych-jazz Milestone Joe Henderson — The Elements (1973) Despite its namesake, there’s nothing grounded about this meditation on the elements. Beginning with opening track “Fire,” saxophonist Joe Henderson takes us on a journey through four wildly different,...
An absolute funk necessity Light in the Attic / Vinyl Me, Please Betty Davis is more than Miles Davis’ wife. That much is crystal clear in this funk necessity of a self-titled record. She’s a badass woman who made music that hits hard — like Parliament Funkadelic in their heyday hard. Opener...
An intriguing collection of soft-core sounds Stella Edizioni Musicali Forty years after its debut, Stella Edizioni Musicali — one of the many sub-labels of Berlin’s Private Records — has unearthed another gem of a score by Italian composer Detto Mariano. This one’s for the soft-core international...
German New Wave dance music to fulfill all your ’80s dance party needs Private Records Hab Mut Zu Deinen Lüsten is an album of which I’d never heard before Jay at Private Records announced it, but after five minutes poking around on YouTube, I was chomping at the bit for it to arrive in the […]
Krautrock pioneer Florian Fricke goes full ambient on these fresh reissues One Way Static Beginning with the Record Store Day 2017 release of Cobra Verde, One Way Static has been busy reissuing some of Popol Vuh’s lesser known yet highly regarded work on both limited color and black vinyl. For a primer...
Solid, if opaque, collection of live covers by the seminal post-punkers Run Out Groove From fan-vote reissue label Run Out Groove comes It’s All Live Now, a compilation of Echo and the Bunnymen live tracks recorded in the mid-’80s. Beating out a Solomon Burke best-of and a repress of Secret...
