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Swirling guitars and proto-ambient electronica sounds from many light years away! The Astro-Sound of Magnificence, from Beyond the Year 2000...a unique capsule of a funky, psychedelic rhythm section jamming, with snarling, stabbing and swooshing cranked-up-to-infinity electric guitar voyages piloted by Wrecking Crew veteran Jerry Cole, polished and primed for takeoff with a string section playing eerie, beckoning melodies in unison. These are the sounds of epiphanies concerning the future,...

90s French pop nirvana, on LP for the first time! Autour de Lucie’s follow-up to their geographical barrier busting debut sees the band incorporating subtle keyboards and electronic beats to their well-established sensuous dreamy pop charm. “Autour De Lucie’s self-titled debut album was a strong collection of French-language rock-pop, but their follow-up, “Immobile,” is nothing short of exquisite. Vocalist Valerie Leuillot’s angelic vocals cover a greater range this time around, and musically...

Over 25 years after their buoyant & breezy electro-acoustic debut busted language barriers showing that French language music could build a buzz on all sides of the Atlantic, Autour de Lucie’s debut finally gets the vinyl treatment! “From the opening bird calls and ringing-bell guitar chimes of captivating lead track "L'accord parfait," Paris' demure Autour de Lucie serves notice that winning Anglo-style pop need not be a slave to language or geographical barriers. Gorgeous and luxuriously...

Double LP on clear vinyl!!If you were going to envision the ultimate avant-garde meeting-of-the-minds jam session, who would you pick? Even the most hopeful fan of strange and innovative music couldn't have seen this one coming: on one afternoon in 1986, at Coney Island's dilapidated freak show, space-age avant-jazz genius Sun Ra met avant-garde "serious music" composer John Cage in an unforgettable performance. You couldn't imagine two figures more opposite. Cage was known for his unusual...

Anything can happen and often does. This is John Cage. A seminal example of indeterminate music from an icon on experimental sounds. It could be argued that there is no more controversial figure in music history as avant-garde electronic composer John Cage. Perhaps best known for his composition "4'33,"" which consisted of Cage sitting at a piano for four-plus minutes of total silence, Cage was both loved and loathed in the 60s and 70s as a leading light in avant-garde music and as an...

BONGO SKINS & SKIN FLICK! • A TOP NOTCH JAZZ RECORD THAT JUST HAPPENED TO BECOME AN ADULT FILM SCORE!?! • LOTS OF BANG FOR YOUR BUCKS, ON THIRD MAN PRESSED YELLOW VINYL! • INCLUDES A ZINE-STYLE INSERT WITH A GREAT SET OF NOTES FROM A BODACIOUS PAIR OF WRITERS, AND A DVD OF THE FILM PLUS A SPECIAL EDIT TO SYNC WITH YOUR LP! A jazzy romp through the titillating ‘60s. On Mr. Peters’ Pets, composer Nicholas Carras ventures deep into the bongo-crazed percussion world of exotica! This is a jubilant...

This record is available exclusively through vinylmeplease.com.It can be purchased here. • Back in print after a decade! Bringing with it covers of The Lemonheads, Carole King, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Tom Waits! • Gatefold jacket chock-full of new liners from Jim Allen in conversation with Eef Barzelay (Clem Snide) • Cut by Kevin Gray and spread over two LPs to give it the sonic awe it deserves! One of the most endearing and underappreciated...

This record is available exclusively through vinylmeplease.com.It can be purchased here. • A seminal early aughts LP gets a much deserved expanded edition loaded up with bonus covers of Velvet Underground and Nico. • Back in the bins after a ten year absence and finally allowed to breathe and sound as good as it deserves with a Kevin Gray cut double LP! • Gatefold jacket chock-full of new liners from Jim Allen in conversation with...

1967 ELECTRO-PSYCH OPUS INCLUDES ZINE STYLE BOOKLET WITH NOTES FROM HOSE’S CORK MARCHESCHI! A TRAILBLAZING FUSION OF PSYCHEDELICS AND ELECTRONICS FROM THE ORIGINAL REELS, MASTERED BY BOB IRWIN, CUT BY KEVIN GRAY, AND PRESSED AT THIRD MAN IN DETROIT ON A CUSTOM COLOR OF VINYL! An electronic rock band wasn’t even an idea when Fifty Foot Hose released their landmark debut album at the end of 1967. Their fusion of psychedelia and electronics resulted in a truly trailblazing sound. Cauldron stands...

The first ever vinyl reissue of an extraordinarily-unique space-age educational LP. Includes the oft-covered "A Shooting Star Is Not A Star" and "Why Does The Sun Shine?" Featuring Leo Leonni cover art and taken from the original atomic-era 1959 master tapes. Written by Hy Zaret and sung by Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans. Zaret (co-author of "Unchained Melody") turned his attention to educational children's music in the late 1950s, collaborating with Lou Singer on a six-album series called "Ballads...

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Obscure LP of spells reappears! Make someone love you, discourage an unwanted suitor, and more - with the power of witchcraft! Finally, this obscure LP of spells reappears! A descendant of the green witches of Scotland, part of a Detroit area coven, and author of multiple books and a newspaper column helping solve everyday problems from the Wiccan perspective, Gundella helps you test your psychic powers, make ritualistic candles, and mold wax dolls. She'll define witchcraft & magic, and teach...

First ever full release of these sessions from Morphine's Mark Sandman's "secret band!"Artwork created from Hypnosonics flyers created by Mark Sandman himself! Includes a booklet insert featuring more Sandman art, photos, and liners from Hypnos sax man Russ Gershon! Prior to founding the band Morphine, Mark Sandman launched Hypnosonics, built around a stripped down drum kit with no toms and a piece of plywood in place of cymbals, played by Jay Hilt. With funk in its heart, Hypnosonics was...

First ever full release of these sessions from Morphine's Mark Sandman's "secret band!"Artwork created from Hypnosonics flyers created by Mark Sandman himself! Includes a zine style insert featuring more Sandman art, photos, and liners from Hypnos sax man Russ Gershon!Cut and pressed at Third Man Records in Detroit Prior to founding the band Morphine, Mark Sandman launched Hypnosonics, built around a stripped down drum kit with no toms and a piece of plywood in place of cymbals, played by...

First ever full release of these sessions from Morphine's Mark Sandman's "secret band!"Artwork created from Hypnosonics flyers created by Mark Sandman himself! Includes a zine style insert featuring more Sandman art, photos, and liners from Hypnos sax man Russ Gershon! In 1986, while Mark Sandman was still touring with his first major label band, Treat Her Right, and before he convened the now-mythical Morphine, he assembled what is often referred to as his “secret band.” Hypnosonics remained...

First ever full release of these sessions from Morphine's Mark Sandman's "secret band!"Artwork created from Hypnosonics flyers created by Mark Sandman himself! Includes a zine style insert featuring more Sandman art, photos, and liners from Hypnos sax man Russ Gershon!Cut and pressed at Third Man Records in Detroit In 1986, while Mark Sandman was still touring with his first major label band, Treat Her Right, and before he convened the now-mythical Morphine, he assembled what is often...

• FIRST EVER REISSUE OF THIS CANNABINOID CRAZINESS! • FEATURES A CRISP TRANSFER OF THE FULL FRONTAL SOMETHING WEIRD FILM ON DVD! • CUT AND PRESSED AT THIRD MAN IN DETROIT ON DANK CHEEBA GREEN VINYL! Freaked-out hippies & surly bikers! What happens when someone who sounds like your local newscaster frantically rifling through a slang dictionary narrates a documentary depicting hippie protest, life inside a motorcycle gang, and myriad more sights from the turbulent ‘60s scene? This does! Tons of...

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...

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...

Finally the Princess Leia of avant-garde jazz gets her due!Contains six unissued cuts of June with Sun Ra and the Arkestra!Features a full color booklet with unseen photos from the Tyson family photo album! THE VOICE OF AFROFUTURISTIC SCIENCE NON-FICTION! Check out this great June Tyson feature on Bandcamp. Undoubtedly the most sublime constellation in the Sun Ra cosmos, June Tyson’s voice is the perfect guide through one of the most challenging and varied musical legacies ever to be...

Finally the Princess Leia of avant-garde jazz gets her due!Mastered by Joe Lizzi, cut at Cohearent Audio by Kevin Gray and pressed on stocking gold vinyl at Third Man.Contains five unissued cuts from June with Sun Ra & the Arkestra!Features a full color zine style insert with unseen photos from the Tyson family photo album! Check out this great June Tyson feature on Bandcamp. THE VOICE OF AFROFUTURISTIC SCIENCE NON-FICTION! Undoubtedly the most sublime constellation in the Sun Ra cosmos,...

“If the Moody Blues had been stranded in the Sonora Desert with nothing but peyote for sustenance, this this the album they would have made.” - RECORD COLLECTOR Out of print for decades and now Bob Irwin’s definitive master is getting the Kevin Gray treatment! Cut by Kevin Gray and pressed Third Man Pressing in Detroit. 8 panel book of liner notes, reverse board jacket with snappy OBI strip! Maybe it’s their proximity to all that funny-tasting cactus, but Arizona has produced more than its...

“If the Moody Blues had been stranded in the Sonora Desert with nothing but peyote for sustenance, this this the album they would have made.” - RECORD COLLECTOR Maybe it’s their proximity to all that funny-tasting cactus, but Arizona has produced more than its share of mind-bending rock combos and Kennélmus might just be the wildest of the bunch. The Chantays sand-wrestling with the Electric Prunes, refereed by Captain Beefheart almost certainly does justice to the mind-bending sound of...

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,...

Lothar And The Hand People emerged as one of the earliest pioneers to mix electronics into rock, incorporating theremin and synthesizers into their sonic onslaught. Led by Lothar (a theremin) and his cast of digit possessing musicians wielding guitar, bass, drums, and one of the first (and largest) modular Moogs! This, their first ever live album, captures them with the passion and energy that can only come from a band’s final show before Lothar was forever unplugged. Includes: Machines...

A once shocking 1962 LP of love songs by men, for men. A long lost treasure featuring the cool & sophisticated vocals of Gene Howard and a cast of prime studio jazz musicians, performing a set of standards sung to a male suitor. Ahead of its time in every way. Reissued for the first time ever! Available on CD and pristine RTI pressed gold vinyl! A fantastic, once-shocking album finally sees reissue - and brings with it the answer to a half-century mystery! Case file: A big band vocalist, a...

A once shocking 1962 LP of love songs by men, for men. A long lost treasure featuring the cool & sophisticated vocals of Gene Howard and a cast of prime studio jazz musicians, performing a set of standards sung to a male suitor. Ahead of its time in every way. Reissued for the first time ever! A fantastic, once-shocking album finally sees reissue - and brings with it the answer to a half-century mystery! Case file: A big band vocalist, a Hollywood photographer, and an LGBT music and history...

Taxi to tomorrow with this saucer of space-age sounds! Sound, sustain, and silence unite, polyrhythmic Hammond organs and xylophones round off a cosmic eruption! Created for the 1962 World?s Fair, this album bundles beautifully textured space sounds with period-perfect narration. Take the Gayway to a surplus of recognizable moments lifted for modern-day samples! Man In Space With Sounds is a commemorative album of 12 tracks dedicated to the Seattle World?s Fair. Envisioned and conducted by...

Taxi to tomorrow with this saucer of space-age sounds! Sound, sustain, and silence unite, polyrhythmic Hammond organs and xylophones round off a cosmic eruption! Created for the 1962 World?s Fair, this album bundles beautifully textured space sounds with period-perfect narration. Take the Gayway to a surplus of recognizable moments lifted for modern-day samples! Man In Space With Sounds is a commemorative album of 12 tracks dedicated to the Seattle World?s Fair. Envisioned and conducted by...

Inimitable Post Punk Insurgents! The John Cale produced '79 Model Citizens EP is finally available again, and with it comes unheard live recordings from Hurrah, Max's, and CBGB! "Model Citizens, attacking their instruments with poetic yet strangely ironic frenzy, reflect the frightened, scattered, painful (yet edge-of-ecstatic) world of the moment." (NY Rocker) There were four Model Citizens – Steve Alexander, Eugenie Diserio, Tomek Lamprecht and Gloria Richards. Like so many dedicated...

Blazing sitar and crazed percussion, a 50 year old mystery! Known only in legend from their appearance in 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, the Moon Express album finally arrives 50 years after its recording! Paul Arnold (mastermind behind The Inner Sounds Of The Id) and Tsvia & the Followers weave peculiar music that ebbs and flows with unusual time signatures, sonic baths of wild, exotic percussion and other fascinating and hypnotic sounds, all under Arnold's booming narratives and Tsvia...

Blazing sitar and crazed percussion, a 50 year old mystery! Known only in legend from their appearance in 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, the Moon Express album finally arrives 50 years after its recording! Paul Arnold (mastermind behind The Inner Sounds Of The Id) and Tsvia & the Followers weave peculiar music that ebbs and flows with unusual time signatures, sonic baths of wild, exotic percussion and other fascinating and hypnotic sounds, all under Arnold's booming narratives and Tsvia...

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...

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...

• AVAILABLE ON BLUE VINYL CUT & PRESSED AT THIRD MAN! • FIRST REISSUE OF THIS POWERFUL BLEND OF FUNK, SOUL, & POETRY! • 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...

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...

• AVAILABLE ON RED VINYL CUT & PRESSED AT THIRD MAN! • FIRST REISSUE OF THIS POWERFUL BLEND OF FUNK, SOUL, & POETRY! • 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...

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...

This record is available exclusively through vinylmeplease.com. It can be purchased here. • AVAILABLE ON CLEAR ORANGE VINYL CUT & PRESSED AT THIRD MAN!• 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BEAT GOSPEL TREASURE, WITH ITS FIRST VINYL REISSUE IN HALF A CENTURY!• 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...

• AVAILABLE ON YELLOW VINYL CUT & PRESSED AT THIRD MAN!• 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BEAT GOSPEL TREASURE, WITH ITS FIRST VINYL REISSUE IN HALF A CENTURY!• 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...

AVANT JAZZ FROM MARSHALL ALLEN, FRED FRITH, TERRY RILEY & SCHOOLKIDS! The Oakland Elementary School Arkestra presents the odyssey of 4th, 5th & 6th grade students from novice musicians into an avant garde ensemble. An ensemble that engenders an array of sonic textures which never remain static or stagnant, but flow in a way that it's always surprising, often startling and astonishing. These schoolkids have traveled the spaceways of Modernism, Minimalism, Impressionism, Exotica, film...

AVANT JAZZ FROM MARSHALL ALLEN, FRED FRITH, TERRY RILEY & SCHOOLKIDS! The Oakland Elementary School Arkestra presents the odyssey of 4th, 5th & 6th grade students from novice musicians into an avant garde ensemble. An ensemble that engenders an array of sonic textures which never remain static or stagnant, but flow in a way that it's always surprising, often startling and astonishing. These schoolkids have traveled the spaceways of Modernism, Minimalism, Impressionism, Exotica, film...

Sax Driven NYC No Wave Post Punk! Finally the recorded studio work of Bill Ylitalo as Otto Kentrol and Faceless has been assembled! Featuring hard to find post punk & no wave cuts, four track demos, and previously unissued gems. Sax, strange electronic instruments, recitative vocals and sporadic bass, guitar and drums all spread over two LPs with liner notes by WFMU’s Erick Bradshaw, host of Spin Age Blasters! In addition creating sought after EPs from the early 80s on German labels and self...

Preorder now! This title will be available December 2nd 2022. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. Sax Driven NYC No Wave Post Punk! Finally the recorded studio work of Bill Ylitalo as Otto Kentrol and Faceless has been assembled! Featuring hard to find post punk & no wave cuts, four track demos, and previously unissued gems. Sax, strange electronic instruments, recitative vocals and sporadic bass, guitar and drums,...

A TRIPPY SITAR SEXTRAVAGANZA! • A shockingly good sitar, percussion & trippy spoken platter accompanied by the schlockingly horrific film!• Super bizarre hippy trip from the SW vault on LP or CD both with a bonus DVD! • Cut by Warren Defever (His Name Is Alive) and pressed on white vinyl at Third Man! NOW EXPLODING!! Dig It!!! The Universe is NOW!! This is the essence of PSYCHEDELIC SEX KICKS, a peeka-boo sleazealogue about the sex and drug crazed San Francisco hippie underground in 1967,...