Labels - a-musik

THIAM, TIDIANE - AFRICA YONTII (LP)

""It's time. Africa, it's time. It's time that Africa changes. It's time our leaders change. Everything that happens in Africa is extraordinary. We have everything: water, earth, sun, fields of oil, gas. We have all this in Africa, but Africa is still poor. It's time we ...
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SS-076 | SAHEL SOUNDS

SONIC YOUTH - WALLS HAVE EARS (LP)

"Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in the band's story, Sonic Youth's `Walls Have Ears' appeared as a 2LP set in 1986, not just a live album but an artful tapestry full of live experimentation with songs, between-song tape ...
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GOO-023 | GOOFIN

CONRAD, TONY & JENNIFER WALSHE - IN THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY (LP)

"David Grubbs and Jan St. Werner met in the mid-1990s when Grubbs was playing with Gastr de Sol and the Red Krayola and St. Werner in Mouse on Mars and Microstoria. After years of exchanging ideas, Translation from Unspecified marks their first time locking horns as a ...
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BC33 | BLUE CHOPSTICKS

CARLOS NINO & FRIENDS - PLACENTA (2LP)

"Placenta is the fourth collection of broadly imaginative and highly collaborative Carlos Niño & Friends music released on International Anthem since 2021. But perhaps more notably for the zeitgeist of today, it is the first new music to be released by Carlos Niño & ...
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IARC0080 | INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM REC

CARLOS NINO & FRIENDS - PLACENTA (CD)

"Placenta is the fourth collection of broadly imaginative and highly collaborative Carlos Niño & Friends music released on International Anthem since 2021. But perhaps more notably for the zeitgeist of today, it is the first new music to be released by Carlos Niño & ...
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IARC0080CD | INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM REC

ASTATKE, MULATU - MULATU OF ETHIOPIA (2LP)

"In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Strut label, we are delighted to unveil a special edition of a landmark album within the realm of African music - Mulatu Astatke"s "Mulatu Of Ethiopia". Recorded in New York in 1972, this pivotal album marks a juncture in ...
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STRUT129LPC | STRUT

UNCHAINED - GABBEH (LP)

"A Colourful Storm begins 2024 with a luxurious suite of daydreaming introspection courtesy of Unchained, the longstanding solo project of Nathaniel Davis who was last seen on vinyl in the final Blackest Ever Black release. Recorded at home between 2020 and 2023, Gabbeh ...
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ACOLOUR046 | A COLOURFUL STORM

WALLER, MICHAEL VINCENT - MOMENTS REMIXES (2LP)

Moments Remixes' began from a conversation with Jlin. We did an interview together for Talkhouse in fall of 2019, in season with the original Moments release on Unseen Worlds. Her poignant and effusive dialogue sparked the inspiration for us to do a remix together. That ...
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PL-139 | PLAY LOUD

DAMO SUZUKI & SOUND CARRIERS - LIVE AT MARIE-ANTOINETTE (2LP)

"Tina Turner. Princess Diana. Johan Cruijff. Jesus. Abba. Spider-Man. Jerry Springer. Mormons. A brothel. Monty Python. A gay remake of Shakespeare. Anne Frank. Nothing and no-one seems to be able to escape the fangs of the musical industry. So it's no real surprise ...
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PL-63 | PLAY LOUD

DJ MARCELLE / ANOTHER NICE MESS - DJ MARCELLE: THE MUSICAL (LP)

"Tina Turner. Princess Diana. Johan Cruijff. Jesus. Abba. Spider-Man. Jerry Springer. Mormons. A brothel. Monty Python. A gay remake of Shakespeare. Anne Frank. Nothing and no-one seems to be able to escape the fangs of the musical industry. So it's no real surprise ...
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PL-126 | PLAY LOUD

DJ MARCELLE / ANOTHER NICE MESS - A DIFFERENT FRIDGE OF CHEESE (LP)

"This new album is like any Marcelle production (and dj-set): it's hard to pigeonhole. Dub, techno and avant-garde influences are clearly present but the overall feeling is one of freedom, excitement, adventure and playfulness. Ideas bounce off another and Marcelle is ...
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PL-162 | PLAY LOUD

ERICKSON, ROKY - ALL THAT MAY DO ME RHYME (LP)

"play loud! productions present the first reissue of Roky Erickson's All That May Do My Rhyme, originally released in 1994. Roky Erickson is a legend. Former member of the 13th Floor Elevators, he was considered the white James Brown. Drug problems and diagnosed ...
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PL-142 | PLAY LOUD

V.A. - IT'S UP TO YOU (2LP)

Improvised live music by Limpe Fuchs, Friedrich Gulda, Paul Fuchs, Ursula Anders, Barre Phillips, Albert Mangelsdorff, Munir Baschir, Gerhard Herrmann and Leszek Zadlo. Originally released in 1974 on Preiser Records, Limited to 300 copies
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PL-123 | PLAY LOUD

ANIMA - ANIMA SOUND IM LUNGAU (LP)

Lungau, on August 1977 (Friedrich Gulda´s "Tage Freier Musik" Festival) Limpe Fuchs thinks it is the best Anima album ever. 500 copy limited edition
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PL-100 | PLAY LOUD

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO - LES STANCES A SOPHIE (LP)

"On May 28, 1969, four American musicians - reed/wind players Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, bassist Malachi Favors, and (accompanied by his wife, singer Fontella Bass) trumpeter Lester Bowie - boarded the ocean liner S.S. United States, bound for Le Havre, France. ...
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PL-134 | PLAY LOUD

REGIERUNG, DIE - SO DRAUF (LP)

with two bonus songs, which can not be found on the original LP of 1992
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PL-69 | PLAY LOUD

REGIERUNG, DIE - SO ALLEIN & 80ER KASSETTENAUFNAHMEN (2LP)

Limited to 300 copies, Double LP, inlays w/ photos & liner notes by Apunkt Schneider & Dietmar Post
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PL-141 | PLAY LOUD

MUR, MONA - WARSAW (LP)

In 1989, before the wall came down, Mona Mur and her producer Dieter Meier (YELLO) came to Poland. Under the musical direction of Polish rockstar Grzegorz Ciechowski (Republika) and with renowned Polish musicians, arrangers and the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, she ...
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PL-140 | PLAY LOUD

FAMILIE HESSELBACH - FROH ZU SEIN & 8-EP-SAMPLER (2LP)

"Der deutsche (Post-)Punk fand nicht nur in Düsseldorf, Hamburg und Berlin statt. Mit ein, zwei Jahren Verspätung erreichte er die Provinz, wo an unwahrscheinlichen Orten wie Limburg, Varel, Kulmbach oder Verden noch unwahrscheinlichere Anlaufstellen für die ...
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PL-137 | PLAY LOUD

FAMILIE HESSELBACH - SÜDDEUTSCHLAND & DER UNTERGANG DES HAUSES H. (LP)

"The South German punk and new wave band Familie Hesselbach caused a sensation between 1980 and 1985, first regionally and then nationwide. They indulged in a deliberate eclecticism from the musical preferences of the individual family members and formed these into ...
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PL-163 | PLAY LOUD

FUCHS, LIMPE - AMOR (LP)

"When asked about the title of her new record, "Amor", Limpe bluntly responded, "because it's everything". Being a Beatles fan from the very beginning, she's well aware that "all you need is love", but there's more to her sentiment than a corny pun. On the one hand, ...
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PL-161 | PLAY LOUD

GASTR DEL SOL - WE HAVE DOZENS OF TITLES (2CD)

"Nearly twenty-five years after disbanding, Gastr del Sol have unpacked their archive, stringing together an alternative view to their genre-melting 1993-1998 run. We Have Dozens of Titles contains nearly an hour of previously unreleased live recordings, alongside ...
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DC836CD | DRAG CITY

GASTR DEL SOL - WE HAVE DOZENS OF TITLES (3LP)