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Reissue Talk V pick up from IV http://prince.org/msg/8/3...?&pg=1
Otis Redding, Lonely and Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding (Stax/Concord, 2013)
Track 1 and original version of Track 4 from The Dock of the Bay, Volt, 1968
On March 5, Stax and Concord Records will release this newly-created concept album of the late soul shouter’s most torrid ballads on both CD and a special blue vinyl LP.
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The Lewis Connection (originally released by P.A. Productions, 1979 – reissued Numero Group, 2013)
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Duran Duran - TV Mania, Bored with Prozac and the Internet? (The Vinyl Factory (LP)/The Orchard/Beatport (digital), 2013)
Recorded approximately 1995-2000. Produced by TV Mania, Mark Tinley and Anthony J. Resta. Mixed by Bob St. John.
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George Duke, A Brazilian Love Affair (Epic LP JE 36483, 1979 – reissued SoulMusic Records SMCR 5077, 2012)
Thelma Houston, The MoWest Album (MoWest LP MW 102L, 1972 – reissued SoulMusic Records SMCR 5072, 2012)
Syreeta, One to One (Tamla TS 349 S1, 1977 – reissued SoulMusic Records SMCR 5071, 2012)
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Tabu Records on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/Taburecordsofficial Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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Coming in March from Soulmusic.com:
"It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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I wonder what the additional material for that Stephaine Mills will be Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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from Tabu Records facebook pageOur first reissues will be coming in April and will include albums by Alexander O'Neal, Cherrelle and The S.O.S. Band.
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They re-issued this?
Gotta love Numero Group been a fan for years now. Got a couple of their collections. best to have their purchases on vinyl though for the booklets alone.
P A R T yyyyyyyyy
PARTY!!!
Get Up is that cut [Edited 1/18/13 7:31am] Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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Now, for the first time, all three of the Bee Gees’ original Australian albums are being prepped for reissue on remastered CDs from Festival Records, part of Warner Music Australia. These discs (available individually or as part of a 3-CD box set) and a new Australian-era anthology, will arrive down under from the recently-reactivated Festival imprint on February 1.
The Bee Gees recorded well over 60 songs during their tenure at Festival, not counting their contributions to others’ records. Although these reissues don’t address all of that material, they should make for a wonderful place to start. All three individual albums, the box set and the compilation are due for release from Festival on February 1.
Bee Gees, The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs (Festival/Leedon, 1965 – reissued Festival, 2013)
Bee Gees, Spicks and Specks (Festival/Spin LP EL 32031, 1966 – reissued Festival, 2013)
Bee Gees, Turn Around, Look At Us (Festival LP FL 32731, 1967 – reissued 2013)
Bee Gees, Morning of My Life: The Best of 1965-1966 (Festival, 2013)
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Yes they are reissuing it, Prince was a session player on one of the tracks, note the mispelling of the group name Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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FORTHCOMING BBR CD RELEASE: Taana Gardner - Heartbeat (West End, 1981) Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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Just got word, Funkytown Grooves will be reissuing "The Girls - Girl Talk". Here's what Tony from Funkytown Grooves had to say:
Been awaiting verification that the mastertapes were there for our upcoming Expanded edition of "The Girls" 1984 album "Girl Talk" - Great News Tapes are all in order and there will also be 4 bonus tracks !!
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You Could Have Been with Me / Madness, Money and Music (Edsel (U.K.), 2013) Disc 1: You Could Have Been with Me (originally released as EMI EMC-3378 (U.K.), 1981) and bonus tracks
Disc 2: Madness, Money and Music (originally released as EMI EMC 3414, 1982) and bonus tracks
A Private Heaven / Do You: Deluxe Edition (Edsel (U.K.), 2012) Disc 1: A Private Heaven (originally released as EMI EJ 2402291, 1984) and bonus tracks
Disc 2: Do You (originally released as EMI 064 24 0454 1, 1985) and bonus tracks
Both titles, featuring new packaging and liner notes, will be available in the U.K. on February 25. [Edited 1/26/13 11:54am] Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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Woo HOO! This is a quartet produced by Andre Cymone on Columbia/CBS! The two singles were "Don't Waste My Time" and "S-E-S-E-X!" SLAMMIN' Minni-Apple SISTA Funk! Nice! Hungry? Just look in the mirror and get fed up. | |
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Two-CDs and 33 tracks, with the first disc notable as the ‘hit years’. What’s really attractive at this price (less than £6) is that almost all of the singles appear in their superior twelve-inch version.
First released in October last year, the former Simply Red frontman tackles 12 American Soul classics, including Etta James’s I’d Rather Go Blind. This deluxe edition features a bonus disc of live cuts from his recent tour, including a couple of Simply Red classics. Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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Decades ago there were several endeavors to commission a bunch of living composers working in a broad range of styles to write short dance pieces for solo keyboard. Perhaps the most famous of these initiatives was The Waltz Project which yielded a collection of 17 solo piano works composed mostly in 1977 by an extraordinary collection of people including—among others—Philip Glass, Milton Babbitt, Roger Sessions, John Cage, Lou Harrison, Joan Tower, and one-time Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten. The scores were subsequently published by C.F. Peters and, in 1981, Nonesuch released an LP of performances of them by a group of pianists that included Alan Feinberg and Yvar Mikhashoff.
Although that LP has been long out of print and has yet to be reissued on CD, many of those waltzes were re-recorded by Eric Moe, along with some new ones, on a 2004 Albany disc entitled The Waltz Project Revisited. Perhaps even more ambitious was Mikhashoff’s Tango Project. Between 1983 and 1991, he had amassed some 127 tangos by 127 different composers—another amazingly eclectic list including Babbitt and Cage (together again), as well as Chester Biscardi, Carla Bley, Alvin Curran, William Duckworth, Miriam Gideon, and Ralph Shapey. Sadly Mikhashoff succumbed to AIDS in 1993, but a year before his death he recorded 19 of these tangos and a disc featuring those performances was released posthumously by New Albion Records on the CD Incitation to Desire (which was named after Biscardi’s tango).
Guy Klucevsek’s Polka from the Fringe is another one of these projects and is much in the same spirit, albeit with a few twists. Between 1986 and 1988, Klucevsek commissioned a bunch of composers to write polkas for another keyboard instrument, the accordion. While for most people in this country the accordion primarily conjures up oom-pah bands at old beer halls, generations ago it also inspired compositions by Henry Cowell, Paul Creston, and Alan Hovhaness. In Europe the instrument is now regularly used in cutting-edge new music. (There’s actually a substantive list of European avant-garde compositions for solo accordion and orchestra!) But here in the United States there have only been a handful of accordionists who have attempted to explore a broader range of possibilities, though admittedly Pauline Oliveros as well as William Schimmel and Klucevsek—both through their own compositions and commissioning work from others—have done a lot to recontextualize the instrument. Polka from the Fringe, however, is an attempt to get composers to directly engage in the squeezebox’s more quotidian roots.
Selections from the repertoire Klucevsek engendered were originally released on cassette in the late ‘80s and then on two different CDs in the early ‘90s on now-defunct labels. Starkland’s new 2-CD release of Polka from the Fringe has finally made this material available once again and collects it for the first time in one place. All in all, the discs contain a total of 29 tracks written by Klucevsek and 27 other composers. While neither Babbitt or Cage is represented (too bad), the range here is as broad as the Waltz and Tango projects and perhaps somewhat more so since the resulting pieces not only include solo accordion compositions but also pieces for a full polka band (the band’s name is Ain’t Nothin’ But A Polka Band) in which Klucevsek is joined by David Garland singing and whistling, John King on guitar, violin, dobro, and vocals, David Hostra on a variety of basses from stand up to electric to tuba, and Bill Royle on drums, marimba, and triangle, as well as other occasional guest musicians such as violinist Mary Rowell and percussionist Bobby Previte.
The music turns on a dime from track to track. The sheer loveliness of William Duckworth’s Polking Around or Mary Jane Leach’s Guy De Polka conjures up a very different mood from the spikiness of pieces like Aaron Jay Kernis’s Phantom Polka and Mary Ellen Childs’s Oa Poa Polka. I couldn’t get enough of the relentless experimentalism of Daniel Goode’s Diet Polka (a personal favorite), but Peter Garland’s pastoral Club Nada Polka, which immediately follows it on the CD, was nevertheless a fascinating juxtaposition. Many of the composers used the polka as a springboard for out and out zaniness, such as Fred Frith’s The Disinformation Polka, Lois V Vierk’s Attack Cat Polka, or Pontius Pilate Polka by Microscoptic Septet leader Phillip Johnston. Then there’s Elliott Sharp’s Happy Chappie Polka, a visceral minute and a half of punk assaultiveness that should forever put an end to the mistaken belief that polkas are milquetoast. It’s a 1979 piece which predates Klucevsek’s commissions, but it is a very welcome inclusion nevertheless.
In the very extensive booklet packaged with the discs, which includes the complete lyrics for all the tracks featuring vocals (try to sing along), there are informative essays about the genesis of the project by Klucevsek as well as Elliott Sharp. In his essay, Sharp says that he and Klucevsek both found inspiration in a dismissive comment made by Charles Mingus: “Let the white man develop the polka.” I would have loved to have heard what Mingus might have done with polkas. (A Mingus album released only a year before his death completely redefined the Colombian cumbia.) Perhaps an even broader range of adventurous creative musicians will be tempted to tackle the polka after hearing what Klucevsek and his compatriots did with it now more than 20 years ago. Perhaps, better still, the next time someone comes up to you claiming to be able to define new music, tell him or her to listen to these recordings. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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The much-delayed Fine Young Cannibals deluxe reissues from Edsel are finally going to be released on Feb 18. The debut album from 1985 comes with three B-sides and in total nine remixes (all of Johnny Come Home and Suspicious Minds). The Raw & The Cooked from 1988 includes the new tracks added to 1996′s The Finest collection, and a large selection of remixes. Neither of the remix albums previously issued - The Raw and the Remix or The Rare and the Remixed (from The Finest 2CD special edition) appear in their entirety, although it is obvious that by limiting this deluxe edition to two discs Edsel were never going to be able to include everything. FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS CD 1 1. Johnny Come Home 2. Couldn’t Care More 3. Don’t Ask Me To Choose 4. Funny How Love Is 5. Suspicious Minds 6. Blue 7. Move To Work 8. On A Promise 9. Time Isn’t Kind 10. Like A Stranger Bonus Tracks 11. Wade In The Water 12. Love For Sale 13. Motherless Child CD 2 1. Johnny Come Home [Mark Moore 12” Remix] 2. Johnny Come Home 3. Johnny Come Home [That Other Mix] 4. Johnny Takes A Trip 5. Suspicious Minds [Extended Mix] 6. Suspicious Minds [Suspicious Mix] 7. Suspicious Minds [US remix] 8. Suspicious Minds (Caught In A Dub) 9. Suspicious Minds [Shakedown Mix THE RAW AND THE COOKED CD 1 1. She Drives Me Crazy 2. Good Thing 3. I’m Not The Man I Used To Be 4. I’m Not Satisfied 5. Tell Me What 6. Don’t Look Back 7. It’s OK (It’s Alright) 8. Don’t Let It Get You Down 9. As Hard As It Gets 10. Ever Fallen In Love? Bonus Tracks 11. You Never Know 12. Social Security 13. Ever Fallen In Love [John Potoker extended mix] 14. It’s OK (It’s Alright) [Ploeg Club mix] 15. Ever Fallen In Love [Club Senseless Arthur Baker remix] CD 2 1. She Drives Me Crazy [The Monie Love Remix] 2. Good Thing [Nothing Like The Single Mix] 3. I’m Not The Man I Used To Be [Jazzie B and Nellee Hooper Remix] 4. I’m Not Satisfied [Matt Dike 12” Remix] 5. The Flame 6. Since You’ve Been Gone 7. Trust 8. Take What I Can Get 9. I’m Not The Man I Used To Be [Jazzie B and Norman Cook Remix] 10. She Drives Me Crazy [David Z 12” version] 11. Don’t Look Back [12” version] 12. I’m Not The Man I Used To Be [Monster Mix] 13. Good Thing [Prince Paul Remix] 14. The Flame [Beatmasters Full Fat Mix] 15. I’m Not The Man I Used To Be [12” Mellow Mix] Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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In the Beginning: The World of Aretha Franklin 1960-1967 featured a modern-looking Franklin on its cover, but the 2-LP, 20-track set compiled highlights from her Columbia tenure in which she primarily recorded as a blues- and jazz-oriented vocalist. Wounded Bird Records is bringing this vintage title back in print on February 12. Though the style is much different than her Atlantic work, Franklin positively soars on songs like “Skylark,” “God Bless the Child” and “If Ever I Would Leave You.” She even anticipates her R&B rebirth on tracks such as “Mockingbird,” “Every Little Bit Hurts” and “Soulville.” Legacy Recordings released the “last word” on Franklin’s Columbia period with the remarkable 2011 box set Take a Look: Complete on Columbia, but Wounded Bird’s reissue should be a pleasant surprise for those who remember the original 1972 compilation or are discovering Franklin’s pre-Atlantic period. Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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Bonus Tracks: "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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April Reissues from Soulmusic.com
Hopefully, this time, with the "Sing A Song" bonus tracks:
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No Donna Summer in sight... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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when it comes to Cameo,I wish we could finally get their albums remastered,instead of yet another useless compilation Same with the Commodores.
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Real talk, bruh. I mean, they are really shucking and jiving, with "Feel Me" not being available domestically on cd. As well as "Style" and "Alligator Woman"(even though, i have it on import, most folks don't). | |
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I was gonna ignore this Phyllis Hyman reissue, till i got word it's gonna feature a few tracks that got removed from the original album, by Clive Davis (Clive, you really do suck, man). So, i guess i'll be buying this, "Somewhere In My Lifetime" again. And i'm looking forward to this Meli'sa Morgan reissue. I'm kinda feeling,"once bitten, twice shy". on the Nancy Wilson's, cause i wasn't please with the last reissues they did(vinyl feedback had me annoyed).
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I'm glad to hear that David will be including those songs on the Phyllis disc. Clive deleted "Love Is Free", "Sweet Music" and "Sing A Song" in favor of the Barry Manilow song and a couple of others. They are available on a couple of compilations but it will be nice to finally have them on the actual album they were originally meant to appear on.
By the way, "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" was not recorded by Meli'sa Morgan. That song was recorded by Vesta (Williams), whose self-titled debut is in DIRE need of reissuing. Don't know how likely that is to happen since I haven't been seeing any R&B reissues from the A&M label. This "Good Love" reissue from Meli'sa Morgan features the singles "If You Can Do It (I Can Too)", "Here Comes the Night" and "Love Changes", her duet with Kashif. "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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