We choose life or death. No third option exists. $uicideboy$ rap like their lives depend on it, because they actually do. Hip-hop lifted the New Orleans duo of cousins-Scott Arcenaux, Jr. a.k.a. $lick Sloth and Aristos Petrou a.k.a. Ruby da Cherry-out of a violent drug-riddled hood nightmare and into an underground phenomenon. On the way…
For the uninitiated, “Two Beasts” is a comprehensive document of where SUMAC was in the late fall of 2020. The song hits on all the elements that make the band unique. Bowel-loosening low end? Check. Indecipherable time signature patterns? Yup. Long, empty pauses and repetitive structures? Yessir. Mammoth grooves? You betcha. “Two Beasts” is experimental…
2022 Grammy Award-Winner for Best Music Film! The Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Original Motion Picture Soundtrack accompanies Ahmir Questlove Thompson s directorial debut documentary, which won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Like the documentary, most of the audio recordings that were recorded during…
60th Anniversary 180g Vinyl LP Reissue All-Analog Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and Pressed at RTI Craft Recordings presents a 60th-anniversary edition of The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra. A standout title in the Afrofuturism pioneer and innovative jazz artist s extensive catalog of recordings, the 1962 album marks Sun Ra s first recording…
Two previously unissued non-Haverford (and non-Rhodes) bonus tracks have been to this package. Both are piano works from an unidentified concert tape in the archives of Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio. Likely from the mid-1970s, the first, “We Live To Be” is a duet between Ra and an unidentified drummer and the second features Ra’s solo…
Featuring what may be his only recordings on the Prophet keyboard, these once lost performances expand the omniverse of Ra across a stellar set of lengthy cuts! All recorded in a single day and finally making their terrestrial debut, pressed on yellow vinyl and packaged with a Prophet keyboard brochure plus notes from Ranthropologist Brother…
The Solar-Myth Approach was first issued in 1971 as a double LP set on the French BYG Actuel label, then repackaged as two stand-alone volumes in 1972. Founded in 1967, BYG was associated with the maverick arts journal Actuel. The label issued dozens of fascinating and groundbreaking free jazz, experimental, and psychedelic releases before a…
Strut present the final instalment in their series of reissues of Sun Ra’s historic recordings in Egypt with The Sun Ra Arkestra meets Salah Ragab in Egypt plus the Cairo Jazz Band, originally released on Greek label Praxis in 1983.
Sun’s Signature is the current project of vocalist Elizabeth Fraser and percussionist Damon Reece. Their stunning, self-titled debut EP was originally released as a Record Store Day exclusive in 2022.Fraser and Reece’s early careers in some of the world’s most heralded musical groups are well documented. Elizabeth, the unforgettable voice of Cocteau Twins and This…
New Jersey’s SUNROT is preparing to release their first full length album under the Prosthetic Records banner. The Unfailing Rope is due on April 7 and comprises eight tracks of devastating sludge and noise – and promises to afford SUNROT the attention that they so richly deserve.At times The Unfailing Rope seemed to be a…
The mighty SUPERSUCKERS switch gears on this album, taking their rock down a country dirt road, kicking up dust with a bad-ass posse, outlaw singer-songwriter Hayes Carll, acclaimed alt-country songstress Lydia Loveless, Asleep at the Wheel fiddler Jason Roberts, Butthole Surfers member Jeff Pinkus, noted neo-honkytonker Jesse Dayton, and Willie Nelson s longtime harmonica sidekick…
Coinciding with Suspiria s 45th anniversary, Claudio Simonetti s Goblin celebrates this anniversary with a new Prog Rock Version of the Famous soundtrack. The Terrifying and atmospheric experience of Dario Argento s films comes from the merging of gorgeously crafted visuals with a soul tingling auditory experience. Deluxe Gatefold Cover – Transparent Marble Green Vinyl…