Mainstream Jazz

Artist: Wobbler Label: Karisma

Artist: Julien Baker Label: Matador Records

Artist: Billy Cobham Label: Purple Pyramid

Beautiful gatefold 2xLP vinyl package and with photography by Alex Soth! Native Memphian William Eggleston, 77, is widely regarded to be the most important photographer of the late 20th Century, but there is another side to him that took root in his Sumner, Mississippi childhood, where he discovered the piano in the parlor that ignited in him a lifelong passion for music. In the 1980's, Eggleston, who disdained digital cameras and modernity in general, became surprisingly fascinated with a synthesizer, the Korg O1/W FD, which had 88 piano-like keys, and in addition to being able to emulate the sound of any instrument, also contained a four-track sequencer that allowed him to expand the palette of his music, letting him create improvised symphonic pieces, stored on 49 floppy discs, encompassing some 60 hours of music from which this 13 track recording was assembled. The music, which he refers to as "Musik", adopting the German spelling of his hero, JS Bach, is highly emotional, whether he's improvising a Bach-like organ fanfare out of whole cloth, using a Korg patch titled "guitar feedback" to create a dirge, or playing Lerner and Lowe's "On The StreetWhere You Live" as a dramatic overture. Record Label: Secretly Canadian Style: Avantgarde

3 CDs with carefully selected jazz songs by Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Chet Baker and many more! Record Label: Zyx/BHM Style: Jazz

With a melodic cluster dripping into a pool of dark water, UkabazUmorezU's arrival ripples as an apex in Sugai Ken's continued construction of a deeply resonant, enveloping sound world. Upon contact, UkabazUmorezU gently and generously unfurls across aural alleys and streets mundanely but mystically detailed with recontextualized Japanese rituals and tradition. A lived experience of traditional Japanese music's conversation with environment, and vice versa, forms the melodic make-up and metaphysical philosophy conditioning UkabazUmorezU. Upon imagining a landscape, Sugai decomposes the image (and the images within the image) and replaces it with a sound representation - an artifactual terrain, tethered to but abstracted from the natural world. The eleven pieces which form UkabazUmorezU dovetail meaningfully with the invented album title, roughly translating to "slow and steady wins the race." Made up of recordings sourced and appropriated from the local perf orming arts of Kanagawa, Japan (where Sugai lives), his daily surroundings, and Sugai's tool kit of electronic synthesis, UkabazUmorezU evokes tranquil patience while never settling into a single style or still of sound for too long. Record Label: Rvng Intl. Style: Avantgarde

80G VINYL Die!Die!Die! are back. Charm.Offensive is the name of the baby. And there has been something about the sound of the New Zealand trio. The twelve new songs shift the focus to the reverberated, spherical shoegaze sound of their songs always inherited. The songs are calmer, less hectic, and still unleash the so-called Die!Die!Die! -typical bulky-flirting charm. It is this dealing with the topic of Noise, which after more than 10 years, Die!Die!Die!, and Charm.Offensive. in particular, makes so exciting and just as timeless. This not to stand still and looking for expression, this exploration of one's own boundaries and reinventing is a true pleasure, the more you are familiar with the output, the Trio founded in 2003 in Dunedin. Charm.Offensive. sounds more reflective, perhaps also more adult, without losing the familiarity of the earlier publications. Record Label: Sounds Of Subterrania Style: Punk

It’s been almost exactly a year since Weaves released their acclaimed self-titled debut LP, lauded internationally for its exuberant approach to guitar pop and recently nominated for this year’s Polaris Prize. It was a whirlwind year for the band who spent a nearly uninterrupted 12 months on the road, playing festivals across the globe, and touring with their fellow 2016 breakout artists Sunflower Bean and Mitski. Propelled forward by their own momentum, which they corralled like the barely contained energy of their explosive live sets, it was a life changing-experience, and upon returning home to Toronto the band’s leaders, singer Jasmyn Burke and guitarist Morgan Waters, found themselves possessed by an irrepressible burst of creative energy. Burke and Waters half-jokingly refer to the album as their “Americana” record, and while the statement is made with tongues placed firmly in cheeks, the album, without discarding the punky pyrotechnics that defined their first LP, displays an expansive and anthemic quality in songs like the opener #53 and the sweeping Walkaway, that makes the joke ring half true. The record sees Burke extend herself as a performer - moving more frequently to the center of arrangements and revealing new facets of her unique and powerful singing voice - as the band find ways to interpret the growing diversity of her expression. From the glammy Saturday night strut of Slicked, to the stripped-down, pedal steel abetted torch song Wide Open, to the searing Scream, a warped duet with Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq that likely constitutes Weaves’ wildest recording to date, the album captures a band for whom exploration is a compulsion making a self-assured step into the unknown Record Label: Memphis Industries Style: Alternative Rock

ECHOLOT are a psychedelic powertrio from Switzerland, namely Lukas Fürer (Guitar), Renato Mateucci (Bass), and Jonathan Schmidli (Drums). Founded in 2014, ECHOLOT release their first full lenght LP entitled „I“ the 26th of April 2016 in a special show together with Sweden-Stoner-Greats GOATESS. The record, available on tape & vinyl, delivers an ocean of sound that makes you look for land no longer. The jams are fresh and the psychedelic eruptions drive you from the depths of doom into pink-floydish lightness. In October they will release their second LP via Czar Of Revelations and follow it up with a tour through Europe and play Shows together with bands such as Mother Engine and many more. The record called „VOLVA“ will contain moments of fragility, heavy riffing, epic solos and some truly unique jams Record Label: Czar Of Revelations Style: Stoner Rock

Record Label: Believe Germany Style: Pop

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Since 1984, The Lennerockers have been making music together. When the band announced in the spring of 2016 that they would dissolve, the disappointment of the fans was of course great. Now two of the founding members of The Lennerockers, Michael "Ele" Koch and Stefan "Teddy" Koch, have decided not to give up the music yet. The two musicians have the music in their genes, can't leave her behind and are now founding the LenneBrothers Band. As the name LenneBrother's band is not difficult to recognize, they are two brothers who will continue to be on stage together. They were joined by Andreas Kaessens on drums and Claus Coxx on slap bass. Both of them have performed with the Lennerockers before. The LenneBrothers Band wants to continue the successful mix of Rock' n' Roll, Country and Rockabilly. Record Label: Agr Television Records Style: Rock & Roll

Orange County's hardcore powerhouse STICK TO YOUR GUNS have announced their new album and released a new song. The record is called 'True View', and it's out October 13 via End Hits Records. "Something I see in a lot of people, including almost every one of my peers, is the inability to be honest with oneself," says vocalist Jesse Barnett, about the lyrics. "Everyone thinks they're right. Everyone can't seem to get a grip on the reality of being self-aware. I was this way and I'm sure I still can be. I was an incredibly selfish person who did whatever I felt like doing. I would leave a trail of destruction everywhere I went and my loved ones would always give me the pass - 'Oh well, that's Jesse.'" "I came to a point where I realized no one is going to keep me accountable for my actions but myself. I lost some of the most important things in my life these last few years and I had nowhere left to hide. I had to face my fire. I had to finally, for fucking once, live with the hurt I created." "I had to own my mistakes and it's been the heaviest weight I've ever had to carry." As for the album as a whole, it was, "inspired by innumerable conversations that I had with my mother during the hardest couple of years I've had in my life. The people I lost in my life, the mental and physical challenges I faced, as well as losing myself. I don't know if it was getting older or the foundation I had built my life on cracking beneath my feet or a mixture of everything." "I had just hit a point where I was forced to take inventory of who I was. Truly. Not the person I thought I was or the person I wanted to be, but the actual person I was." "I had to face my own pain and the pain I caused others. In this time, much like my entire life, my mother was my guiding light. Through the patience, advice and guidance she offered me, I was able to navigate to a place of enlightenment or at the very least a place of better understanding." "I'm still not the person I hope to one day be but I now feel confident in myself to make decisions and guide myself to that place of peace within myself." "Regardless of how anyone feels about this record, all I can say it that it was necessary. It had to be written and I'm glad it was." "I really wanted to intentionally create an album that sonically reflects the feeling of modern life: depression, anger, fear, hope, happiness, forgiveness and clarity," added guitarist Josh James. "A feeling of breaking through the dark shit in life and the journey of the struggle that ends up elevating you to a new, smarter, stronger, better version of yourself. Things really clicked when Jesse started tracking vocals. The lyrics and feeling he put into each song constantly blew me away, his words were the perfect fit to the songs." "I've created a lot of music in my life, but right now I can't help but feel that True View is the album I've always wanted to be part of Record Label: End Hits Records Style: Punk/Hardcore

Artist: CHET BAKER Label: Enlightenment

Artist: Duke Ellington Label: Enlightenment

Artist: AKSAK MABOUL Label: Crammed (Indigo)

Artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS Label: Monika

Artist: BONESHAKERS Label: Trost

Artist: Ibeyi Label: XL Recordings