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Astro-Black mythology, astro-timeless immortality! Astro Black has long been known as a cornerstone of the Ra catalog. It is well recorded, features a superb Arkestral lineup, and successfully combines several of the styles in which Sun Ra orbited, from Saturnic jazz to astro-funk. Pressed on colored vinyl at Third Man Pressing and packaged with new cover art with liner notes by Robert Campbell (author of The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra)!Although Astro Black was obviously professionally...

A new Sun Ra LP touches ground in the earthly bins, 50 years after its creation! Sun Ra is still trying to get our attention 50 years after dispatching this transmission. Humanity's path since then makes his message even more urgent today. Years after Herman Poole "LeSony'r Ra" Blount "left the planet" he's still trying to reach us, to wake us up and to change our destiny. Sun Ra and the Arkestra weren't a traditional studio band, and every star in the vast galaxy of their discography reflects...

The outsized sounds emerging from the Excelsior Mill organ captured here constitute a unique chapter in the Sun Ra story, a dizzying phantasmagoria that offers a whole new view on what Ra could do. It might thrill you; it might unnerve you; it might strum your heartstrings; it might spook the living daylights out of you. Most likely you’ll experience all of the above before the jolting musical jeremiad is done. Contains the entire uncut show! When you’re Sun Ra, you don’t need synthesizers to...

The outsized sounds emerging from the Excelsior Mill organ captured here constitute a unique chapter in the Sun Ra story, a dizzying phantasmagoria that offers a whole new view on what Ra could do. It might thrill you; it might unnerve you; it might strum your heartstrings; it might spook the living daylights out of you. Most likely you’ll experience all of the above before the jolting musical jeremiad is done. Pressed on violet vinyl!  When you’re Sun Ra, you don’t need synthesizers to...

An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call & response club cut...from Sun Ra?! • An iconic demonic slice of Saturnian splendor, one of the most coveted releases in the Ra canon!• Features the emblematic “Nuclear War” anthem, earmarked to be played like an air raid siren when we as a society decide to pack up and call it a planet. A cut further popularized by Yo La Tengo.• Stunning new cover art blending favorite elements from the handmade original Saturn pressings.While the most renown track in...

Nico’s iconic post-Velvets return to rock! As one critic memorably put it, when Nico spoke it was like coffin-lids creaking. When she sang it was like listening to ravens taking off 13 at a time. Nico was like nothing rock music had ever seen or heard before or since. In Paris in the seven year gap between the recording of The End and the release of Drama Of Exile, Nico appeared to be doing little more than feeding a heavy heroin habit. When she met Aura Records founder Aaron Sixx after a gig...

Across the history of jazz, there is no wilder, more future-forward composer and performer than Herman Poole Blount, aka Sun Ra. Known as much for his wild on-stage persona as his innovative compositions, Sun Ra was the avant-garde bleeding edge of the jazz genre, introducing modal composition and electronic instrumentation before almost anyone else -- not to mention bringing the space age to life with his obsession with all things extraterrestrial. Across more than 100 LPs released in his...

First ever US BluRay release of this iconic beacon of Afro-futurism!CD Box Set limited to 1100 units world wide.Includes Mathematics Of The Altered Destiny, a full CD of unheard music from Sun Ra featuring June Tyson! CD Set Ingredients: 2CDs (one previously unissued)A BluRay Disc of the Entire Film with bonus contentA DVD Disc of the Entire Film with bonus contentA 28 panel booket with photos and liner notes by esteemed Afrofuturism scholars.All secured in a pizza box style package This...

First ever US BluRay release of this iconic beacon of Afro-futurism!LP Box Set limited to 3300 units world wide.Includes Mathematics Of The Altered Destiny, a full LP of unheard music from Sun Ra featuring June Tyson! LP Set Ingredients: 3LPs (one previously unissued)One Gold LP in its own jacketOne Silver LP in its own jacketOne lime green LP in it’s own jacketA BluRay Disc of the Entire Film with bonus contentA DVD Disc of the Entire Film with bonus contentA large format 8 page booklet with...

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! Includes notes from Ranthropologist Brother Cleve and two CD-only bonus tracks! What happens when a Prophet meets a Prophet? The answer lies within these grooves. Amongst the hundreds of recordings issued by Sun Ra and his Arkestra, under their various guises, the...

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 colored vinyl and packaged with a Prophet keyboard brochure plus notes from Ranthropologist Brother Cleve! What happens when a Prophet meets a Prophet? The answer lies within these grooves. Amongst the hundreds of recordings issued by Sun Ra and his...

The first ever collection of Jill Kroesen’s wildlyinventive & often dystopian compositions from ‘72 through ‘84. Includes her art rock masterpiece Stop Vicious Cycles, her coveted ‘80 single, an equal amount of unissued treasures, and copious liner notes. Finally Jill Kroesen on2LP or 2CD! Her voice is large, unique, and charismatic. Her presence is charming and flirty. One can’t help but be drawn in. When she sings about fascism and dictators and bad boyfriends,...

The first ever collection of Jill Kroesen’s wildlyinventive & often dystopian compositions from ‘72 through ‘84. Includes her art rock masterpiece Stop Vicious Cycles, her coveted ‘80 single, an equal amount of unissued treasures, and copious liner notes. Finally Jill Kroesen on2LP or 2CD! Her voice is large, unique, and charismatic. Her presence is charming and flirty. One can’t help but be drawn in. When she sings about fascism and dictators and bad boyfriends,...

One jam-packed CD of unique female gazes, into a micro-scene with the NYC Downtown art scene circa late ‘78 -‘85, through the lenses of a variety of feminist perspectives on post-punk and true art-punk! An ultra-violet time machine to a micro-scene viewed and heard through the curation of Emmy-award winning, twin artists, Ellen Kahn and Lynda Kahn AKA TwinArt. This magnificent journey features their music with Taste Test, (lyrics by Joan Durand and music by David DeSario) they created as...

Two LPs of unique female gazes, into a micro-scene with the NYC Downtown art scene circa late ‘78 -‘85, through the lenses of a variety of feminist perspectives on post-punk and true art-punk! An ultra-violet time machine to a micro-scene viewed and heard through the curation of Emmy-award winning, twin artists, Ellen Kahn and Lynda Kahn AKA TwinArt. This magnificent journey features their music with Taste Test, (lyrics by Joan Durand and music by David DeSario) they created as video...

Kitty Ford sprang to life inside Associated Recording Studios (familiarly known as “Associated”) in 1961. Located on 7th Avenue in New York, Associated was a two-minute walk from the famous Brill Building, epicenter of the American music industry that dominated the pop charts in the early 1960s. Kitty Ford was the alter ego of singer Mimi Evans. who was married to musician, singer and songwriter Paul Evans (“Midnight Special”). Before she married, Mimi was the popular country and rockabilly...

Kitty Ford sprang to life inside Associated Recording Studios (familiarly known as “Associated”) in 1961. Located on 7th Avenue in New York, Associated was a two-minute walk from the famous Brill Building, epicenter of the American music industry that dominated the pop charts in the early 1960s. Kitty Ford was the alter ego of singer Mimi Evans. who was married to musician, singer and songwriter Paul Evans (“Midnight Special”). Before she married, Mimi was the popular country and rockabilly...

“A door would open up and I would just go through it, and I just kept doing that for all my life." — Mimi Roman That is how Mimi Roman, at 87, tells us of her life, including her time as a successful country singer in the 1950s and early 60s. But it took talent and a strong, beautifully distinctive voice for those doors to open, and to go far once on the other side. It also took guts and plenty of stamina for a 20-year-old Jewish cowgirl from Brooklyn to make her way to country music...

“A door would open up and I would just go through it, and I just kept doing that for all my life." — Mimi Roman That is how Mimi Roman, at 87, tells us of her life, including her time as a successful country singer in the 1950s and early 60s. But it took talent and a strong, beautifully distinctive voice for those doors to open, and to go far once on the other side. It also took guts and plenty of stamina for a 20-year-old Jewish cowgirl from Brooklyn to make her way to country music...

Out of Columbus, Ohio, comes a raucous punk band sure to make your head spin! Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, a name sure to catch your eye (and hopefully make you squirm), was conjured up by Ron House after his departure from The Great Plains. Teaming up with guitarist Bob Petric (who sadly passed away in March 2021, though his blistering riffs won’t be soon forgotten), bassist Craig Dunson, and drummer Ted Hattemer, TJSA first performed at local Columbus haunt, Stache’s, after the opening...

Back in print, now on yellow vinyl! Sultry Tjader jazz! Vibraphone legend Cal Tjader’s fusion of different genres and styles was an acute influence on Carlos Santana (and Latin rock as a whole). On Solar Heat he stirs in tastes of Exotica, Funk, and of course Latin and Jazz elements on this 1968 set of jazzed-up pop chestnuts and original bossas like the delicious “Fried Bananas.” Pressed at RTI, on colored vinyl! A STUNNING RECREATION SOLAR HEAT OF THE ORIGINAL GATEFOLD JACKET!PRISTINE ORANGE...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

With Blacknuss, it’s as if Kirk is taking listeners on a trip – from the top forty world of Soul Train to the roots of soul in gospel music and back in Africa. It is a remarkable musical-cultural shift in perspective and one that carries the listener with it. Exploding with near chaotic energy, this album makes a great soundtrack to a party about to teeter out of control. Cut all analog! Dreams run threadlike through the life and mythology of Roland Kirk. In one dream, The Creator spoke to him...

All Analog Roland Kirk, Pre-Rahsaan?! Sightless, peerless, multi-instrumentalist, Roland’s Kirk’s 1967 debut for Atlantic is a monster of a live set from ‘65 featuring pianists Lonnie Liston Smith and Jaki Byard, bassist Major Holley and drummer Charles Crosby- all put to tape in Atlantic Studios NYC. Cut all analog, pressed on orange vinyl! Think of Rahsaan Roland Kirk and a series of images flick through one’s mind. There he is, black beret and shades blowing three saxophones at once, next...

Ra to the Rescue is one of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon. There's a reason, and it has nothing to do with quality content (or lack thereof). When Ra and his business partner Alton Abraham launched their pioneering independent Saturn label in Chicago in the late 1950s, and on thru the 1960s—by which time Ra had moved to New York—each new album was carefully curated, titled, packaged with a printed, illustrated sleeve, and promoted in ads and catalogs. By the 1970s, when Ra and his band...

Back in print, now on clear vinyl! Two pretty platters of promotional jingles of the strangest flavors!A smorgasbord of unheard music from the eccentric icon paired with his wife Dorothy Collins, Mel Tormé and more!Who knew jingles about Krystal Hamburgers, beer, & ExLax could be so utterly delightful?! Tingling tartness of jingle perfection! In addition to being a pioneer of early electronic music, Raymond Scott generated hymns to hunger, odes to pudding and pilsner, and...

Mose at his beat poet best, on Atlantic! This classic album—known as the moment Mose hit his stride in transitioning from iconic pianist to iconic beat-esque vocalist—features the first versions of two of his sharpest pieces (“Your Mind Is On Vacation” & the title track), bluish versions of standards, instrumentals, and more. Celebrating its 60th anniversary, cut all analog from the original mono Atlantic reels! Mose Allison was already 34 and had recorded nine records as a leader before...

Mose at his beat poet best, on Atlantic! This classic album—known as the moment Mose hit his stride in transitioning from iconic pianist to iconic beat-esque vocalist—features the first versions of two of his sharpest pieces (“Your Mind Is On Vacation” & the title track), bluish versions of standards, instrumentals, and more. Celebrating its 60th anniversary, cut all analog from the original mono Atlantic reels! Mose Allison was already 34 and had recorded nine records as a leader before...

Wailing and thrashing around the melody like candy-fueled maniacs, The Little Bits pack a punch so savage it makes appropriately aged teen rockers hopped up on testosterone and intoxicants sound like they're phoning it in. This is the real deal — Cajun country’s untamed youth. Featuring their killer single and newly discovered tracks! “Girl Give Me Love” has long captivated garage rock crate diggers. It was the lone single released by The Little Bits, a group of pre-teen punks from Jennings,...

Wailing and thrashing around the melody like candy-fueled maniacs, The Little Bits pack a punch so savage it makes appropriately aged teen rockers hopped up on testosterone and intoxicants sound like they're phoning it in. This is the real deal — Cajun country’s untamed youth. Featuring their killer single and newly discovered tracks! “Girl Give Me Love” has long captivated garage rock crate diggers. It was the lone single released by The Little Bits, a group of pre-teen punks from Jennings,...

Ra to the Rescue is one of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon. There's a reason, and it has nothing to do with quality content (or lack thereof). When Ra and his business partner Alton Abraham launched their pioneering independent Saturn label in Chicago in the late 1950s, and on thru the 1960s—by which time Ra had moved to New York—each new album was carefully curated, titled, packaged with a printed, illustrated sleeve, and promoted in ads and catalogs. By the 1970s, when Ra and his band...

Sultry and sophisticated songbird jazz backed by guitar icon Barney Kessel! Includes culturally corrected cover art & photos featuring the real Claudia Thompson, 2 CD only bonus tracks, and new liner notes from Laina Dawes. “Goodbye to Love is both a collection of re-envisioned Jazz standards, crafted with a delicate touch and more importantly, introduces this young ingenue and highlights Claudia Thompson’s soulful voice to the world. On ‘Gloomy Sunday,’ Thompson's rendition is accompanied by...

These LPs are factory sealed with visible bent corners on the jacket. Please note: all sales are final, no returns or exchanges. • GARAGE & SOUL SCREAMER CREATES AN EXOTICA MEETS COCAINE VERSION OF SUN RA MASTERPIECES!• CUT BY KEVIN GRAY, AND PRESSED ON GOLD VINYL AT THIRD MAN IN DETROIT!• INCLUDES LINER NOTES FROM IRWIN CHUSID AND BROTHER CLEVE. SCORCHING PROPULSIVE RENDITIONS OF RA! Garage & soul screamer Barrence Whitfield channels the Saturnian ruler of the omniverse with a soul-tripping...

Recorded in New York in 1979 and released that year on Sun Ra's Saturn label, this is a solid, overlooked set in the vast Ra canon. The tracks aren't so much compositions as excursions, pure jazz, lots of reflective piano in trio, quartet, and sextet settings. Features cover art interpreted from a favorite Arkestra hand drawn cover, and liner notes from Irwin Chusid. Includes 12 minutes of CD only bonus euphony! Also available on purple vinyl! INCLUDES: The Place Of Five Points...

Recorded in New York in 1979 and released that year on Sun Ra's Saturn label, this is a solid, overlooked set in the vast Ra canon. The tracks aren't so much compositions as excursions, pure jazz, lots of reflective piano in trio, quartet, and sextet settings. Features cover art interpreted from a favorite Arkestra hand drawn cover, and liner notes from Irwin Chusid. Pressed on colored vinyl! Also available on CD! INCLUDES: The Place Of Five Points • West End Side Of Magic City [Vita No....

Souren Baronian: trailblazing Armenian-American jazz and folk musician, founder of visionary fusion band Taksim, master of the saxophone, clarinet and such Middle Eastern instruments as the duduk, kaval and dumbek – and the man behind the three albums collected here, originally released in the early-to-mid ’70s on Souren’s own Carlee Records, and now lovingly reissued for the very first time. As the great man himself says, “World music is in today, and I was at the bottom end of this thing, I...

Crazed time signatures abound as musicians from the West look East for inspiration, infusing their rock and jazz sounds with vibes looted from India and the Far East. • First ever US CD reissue of this cross genre coveted psych/jazz/world masterpiece! • Mastered by Joe Lizzi, packaged in a nifty tri-fold jacket! • Features new liner notes from Thomas Patterson, Senior Editor Shindig! Magazine Released originally in 1969, Middle Eastern Rock is a unique, compelling fusion record from...

Crazed time signatures abound as musicians from the West look East for inspiration, infusing their rock and jazz sounds with vibes looted from India and the Far East. • First ever legit LP reissues of this cross genre coveted psych/jazz/world masterpiece! • Mastered by Joe Lizzi, cut by Kevin Gray at Third Man Pressing! • Features new liner notes from Thomas Patterson, Senior Editor Shindig! Magazine • On colored vinyl! Released originally in 1969, Middle Eastern Rock is a unique, compelling...

Crazed time signatures abound as musicians from the West look East for inspiration, infusing their rock and jazz sounds with vibes looted from India and the Far East. • First ever legit LP reissues of this cross genre coveted psych/jazz/world masterpiece! • Mastered by Joe Lizzi, cut by Kevin Gray at Third Man Pressing! • Features new liner notes from Thomas Patterson, Senior Editor Shindig! Magazine Released originally in 1969, Middle Eastern Rock is a unique, compelling fusion...

MANIC NO WAVE SAX FRENZY! James White tore up the city blueprints and charted his own map through the sonic sprawl of New York, perfecting a jittery, manic attack on sax and vocals and adopting the persona of a lounge singer in the waiting room of Hell. A maelstrom of chaotic transformations of funk, jazz (et al.) with equal parts James Brown and James White originals that rank among the most incendiary in his repertoire, this album is available outside of Japan for the first time and finally...

CD REISSUE WITH STRIKING NEW ARTWORK PLUS LINER NOTES BY CAMAE AYEWA (MOOR MOTHER)! I wonder what it takes to be a poem whispering inspiration inside the ears of the world? Nikki Giovanni is bold, honest and unrelenting in her poetic performance. Giovanni is a master poet who has not taken the easy road toward the formation of truth on paper. She is a poet whose knowledge and sensitivities run deep and are tied to this world. Her words tied alongside the hands of the people, who are...

CD REISSUE WITH STRIKING NEW ARTWORK PLUS LINER NOTES BY CAMAE AYEWA (MOOR MOTHER)! What does it mean to be a Black woman poet in America writing for liberation? “I am black alive looking back at you” June Jordan so masterfully said and it speaks volumes to what so many Black women poets in the 70’s and 80’s did for the culture of poetry, speaking volumes to the legacies they built that we can stand on with pride and more agency to express ourselves and for that we are forever thankful. Nikki...

50th ANNIVERSARY CD WITH STRIKING NEW ARTWORK PLUS LINER NOTES BY CAMAE AYEWA (MOOR MOTHER)! Listen, the great Nikki Giovanni was protected. Inside the church, you can hear it. In the dusty silence, you can hear it. In the electric texture of the crowd, the buzz of the instruments, you can hear it. What you hear and feel is safe in the belly of the blues. Her voice loved like hands on the ivory keys of the church organ deep inside the spell of gospel. Nikki Giovanni is a poet at the...