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Track: Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg – ‘Watch What Happens’: a good old-fashioned swap and cover two-tracker is out now

Chris Sawle June 12, 2021

WITH their long-awaited third joining together in song, Superwolves, the direct descendent of 2005’s Superwolf, out digitally just a couple of months back, you might think Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy could rest easy, take a breather; but not a bit of it, they’ve been up to so much. For a start, Drag City are pleased as …

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Album Review: Restless Leg lay out an enticing ‘Dream Buffet’ and announce tour

Arun Kendall June 12, 2021

The Breakdown Restless Leg have a huge selection of colours on which to paint on their sparkling canvass, creating a vivid and layered whole in ‘Dream Buffet’. Their influences are ever present but remain merely a sign post to the direction the band travels. And it is a very nice direction indeed. – 8.6 I’m …

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News: George Harrison’s classic solo set ‘All Things Must Pass’ gets a suite of 50th anniversary editions; hear the previously unreleased ‘Run Of The Mill (Take 36)’

Chris Sawle June 11, 2021

UNIVERSALLY regarded, without too much contention from the Lennon and McCartney camps, as the best Beatles’ solo album, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, home to such classics as “My Sweet Lord” and “Isn’t It A Pity”, as covered so beautifully by Galaxie 500, is to receive a whole series of deluxe expansions to mark …

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News: We Are Busy Bodies to reissue Kippie Moeketsi and Hal Singer’s 1977 Afro-sax set, ‘Blue Stompin’ – hear the title track

John Parry June 10, 2021

CONFLUENCE and significance; that’s what we have here. Those intrepid curators and sound seekers at We Are Busy Bodies announce the release of Kippie Moeketsi and Hal Singer’s Blue Stompin, scheduled for July 23rd on digital platforms and as a delicious vinyl slab. It’s another prestigious addition to the label’s catalogue, featuring a seminal global …

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News: Arandel announces ‘InBach vol.2’, a new set of reinterpretations for InFiné; hear a first single, the neo-cosmic soul of ‘Nos Contours’

Chris Sawle June 10, 2021

ARANDEL, the French artist whose album of expansions and reinterpretations of the works of the great Johann Sebastian, InBach, received deserved acclaim upon its release early last year, is looking to repeat that cultural success with a second volume to be released by the excellent InFiné at the beginning of next month. The first single …

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Track: Matt Sweeney and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg – ‘Watch What Happens’: a good old-fashioned swap and cover two-tracker is out now

Album Review: Restless Leg lay out an enticing ‘Dream Buffet’ and announce tour

News: George Harrison’s classic solo set ‘All Things Must Pass’ gets a suite of 50th anniversary editions; hear the previously unreleased ‘Run Of The Mill (Take 36)’

News: We Are Busy Bodies to reissue Kippie Moeketsi and Hal Singer’s 1977 Afro-sax set, ‘Blue Stompin’ – hear the title track

News: Arandel announces ‘InBach vol.2’, a new set of reinterpretations for InFiné; hear a first single, the neo-cosmic soul of ‘Nos Contours’

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