The Band
The Band

Restock - killer avant-garde new wave/ electronic funk from San Fran duo, crazy rare OG, thankfully reissued by Music From Memory.

Melbourne auteur Andrew Wilson (Andras, A.R.T. Wilson, Wilson Tanner) soils the ‘Australian songbook’ with a collection of fragile, private and deranged songs of parrots, pancakes and gelignite amidst the Victorian Gold Rush of 1850s.Old Gold is filled with fakes and fools, rumbling stomachs and acousmatic terrors - a lonely, self-pitying search evoked by faintly medieval folk music that sounds almost period-perfect but somehow, oddly, wonderfully spoiled.Gut string guitars, water-logged mandolins, bar room banjos and no-fidelity piano all sound perfectly organic - except they’re not. No acoustic instruments were handled in the making of the record, including environmental sounds which were generated during a MESS residency. The reproduction of familiar sounds via inorganic means situates the record in a moonlit, melancholy hole of its own.Old Gold by A.R. Wilson

One of Joyce's best-known songs. An acid jazz anthem - first time on 45! Beaut Balearic flamnco 'Summertime' instrumental cover on the flip. Essential!

2022 repress! Killer rock influenced Ghanian highlife from 1973 reissued by Soundway.

1986 LP featuring "Bigmouth Strikes Again", "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side". 180g, gatefold reissue.

ACE compilation of χαβάγιες ("havagies"), the nearly forgotten Hawaiian-influenced music of 1930s Greece, focused on the compositions of Kostas Bezos and his ensemble White Birds. A world-class slide guitarist, political cartoonist and sleepless Bohemian, Kostas Bezos created some of the most unique music of any era: surrealist guitar portraits blending Athens and Honolulu, haunting tropical serenades, wild acoustic orchestras, and heartbreaking steel guitar duets. Includes a 32-page illustrated booklet with detailed historical, biographical and discographical information. All material transferred from rare original 78s recorded in Athens between 1928-1937. Restored and mastered from original 78s by Michael Graves