Alcest took an audible step towards their black metal roots with their sophomore full-length Écailles de Lune ( Moon Scales ) without losing any of the trademarks that had evolved on their debut album Souvenirs d un Autre Monde . The French post-black metal pioneers created a sound of lucent, dreamlike quality and otherworldly beauty…
As the world we live in grows darker and more bewildering with every passing day, the transformative power of music has never been more vital. Formed in the small French town of Bagnols-sur-Cèze at the dawn of the century, underground icons Alcest have always been clear about their desire to transport listeners to somewhere different,…
As the world we live in grows darker and more bewildering with every passing day, the transformative power of music has never been more vital. Formed in the small French town of Bagnols-sur-Cèze at the dawn of the century, underground icons Alcest have always been clear about their desire to transport listeners to somewhere different,…
The quintessence of Alcest Les voyages de l Âme ( The Journeys of the Soul ) is Alcest s third album and contains the quintessence of the group s creative work to date. While Le secret, the debut EP from 2005, was the key to the world of Alcest, Les voyages… unites everything that characterises…
For principal songwriter and frontman Neige, Alcest has always been a gateway to the otherworldly, a means of exploring his spirituality. An elemental two-piece, completed by long-serving drummer and creative confidante Winterhalter, their forthcoming sixth album Spiritual Instinct finds Neige at his most personal. This time I had something urgent to put on the table,…
Vinyl LP pressing. 2024 release. Following up on 2021 s Scuro Chiaro, NATI INFINITI is a 40-minute piece split into five movements, based on an immersive audio installation that Cortini originally created for the Sónar Lisboa festival in 2022 where it was presented across four floors of the Museu de Lisboa s Moagem. Cortini later…
Alexisonfire [LIVE] – Born & Raised 2022, St Catharines ON (Black 2xLP) This is an album of Alexsionfire s live performance at Dine Alone s annual festival Born & Raised in Toronto CA. Double vinyl LP pressing. Â
Alfie was released in 1966 as the soundtrack to the British film of the same name. This six-cut date was arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson, featuring a mix of musicians supporting Rollins including Kenny Burrell (guitar), J.J. Johnson (trombone) and Phil Woods (alto sax), among others. Rollins attempts to capture the textures of life…
Alhaji Waziri Oshomah — known to his fans in southern Nigeria as the Oyoyo King, the Godfather of Afemai Music, the Etsako Super Star — is the originator of a form of Muslim highlife that fuses local folk styles with pan-Nigerian highlife and Western pop. A devout Muslim and an exemplar of religious piety in…
Limited 180 gm vinyl LP pressing. Recorded in 1968 and intended as a tribute to her late husband, Alice Coltrane is supported in her first solo outing by Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison and Rashied Ali – all members of John Coltrane s last quintet. While initial reviews to the album were lukewarm upon release, looking…
A fantastic live performance from Alice Coltrane – and one that features a very heavy-hitting group, one that features both Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp on tenor, in a spirit that s as strong and righteous as Alice s Ptah The El Daoud album! The set features one long track – a reading of the…
Alice Coltrane had become a disciple of Swami Satchidananda, which explains the title of her 1971 masterpiece Journey in Satchidananda, recorded in November 1970 (except for the lone live track Isis and Osiris ) and issued in January of 1971. It was recorded at the Coltrane home studio in Dix Hills, New York. Coltrane and Ed…
Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane home in 1970, Alice Coltrane s fourth album is a masterpiece of spiritual jazz. The title track is an ode to the Egyptian God Ptah (the El Daoud meaning the beloved ). Moments on the album reach what Coltrane defined the term Turiya as a state of…
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Includes Alice s hits including I m Eighteen, School s Out, Under My Wheels, Billion Dollar Babies, Elected, No More Mister Nice Guy, and more. Â