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First ever career-spanning compilation of the solo work of Jowe Head, an essential name in the birth and development of the UK's underground scene through his recordings with Swell Maps, Television Personalities, personal projects such as Palookas, Househunters and work under his own name.From 1981 debut album "Pincer Movement" up to 2014 recordings by Jowe Head and The Demi-Monde, plus previously unreleased tracks, these 20 cuts present Head's wonderful mixture of off-kilter pop and avant-garde weirdness, like a noise party attended by Joe Meek, Burt Bacharach and Sun Ra.A Record Store Day 2017 release.If one looks at the galaxy of stars that can be attributed as source material for today's musical DIY/lo-fi generation, Jowe Head shines as a true iconoclast. His 1973 addition to the avant-garage godfathers Swell Maps added an impressionistic edge to their psychedelic punk pastiche that drew of Max Ernst as ably as Can. Later on in The Television Personalities and his Househunters and Palookas projects, not to mention a sprawling solo discography, Jowe's persona injected color and livelihood into an often-too-cool-for-school post-punk scene around Britain while still delivering transportative sounds and open-to-the-listener interpretations. This compendium is in itself a galaxy of sounds that will never fail to deliver

Debut album by The Japanese Girl, a hypnotic record that will surely put this band from Oporto at the forefront of Europe's psych-rock scene.The Japanese Girl is a Portuguese band formed in late December 2013 by Bruno Sousa, Corinna Sousa and Emanuel Cunha. Starting with two guitars, an organ and vintage drum machines, they immediately forged a raw and powerful sound somewhere between garage rock and psych lo-fi, while recently they have been joined by a drummer hammering through their opiated layers of reverb. Their intense, noise-filled live performances are accompanied by mysterious visual elements, and besides their own headlining shows the band has also played with Jacco Gardner, The Wand, Girls Names and as part of the Reverence Festival Party.In early 2015 they recorded "Sonic-Shaped Life", their debut album. It was put down on tape at Oporto's renewed studio Sá da Bandeira by Cláudio Tavares and Joao Brandao, and mastered by Miguel Pinheiro Marques at SDB Mastering. Leading single 'You Should Have Switches', released in September, gave the first clues about their own brand of hypnotic rock, where pulsating psychedelia, droney garage and shimmering, trippy pop provide the setting for haunting compositions, catchy hooks and engaging melodies. Over the course of ten tracks, the band sounds commanding in the darker passages or punked-up outbursts and shine in the more sunny, coloured moments, while the flow and pace of the album produce a wholly entrancing record.

REPRESS!!! A record that recalls a Serge Gainsbourg drunk on blues or a post-punk Lee Hazlewood."Femina" follows the Legendary Tigerman's previous three acclaimed albums: "Naked Blues" (2001), "FuckChristmas, I Got The Blues" (2003) and "Masquerade" (2006). Asia Argento, Peaches, Lisa Kekaula, Becky Lee, Phoebe Killdeer, Cibelle, Rita Redshoes, Claúdia Efe, Mafalda Nascimento, Dorit Chrysler, Maria de Medeiros, Rita Braga and Cais Sodre Cabaret are this album's co-owners. 10th anniversary edition. Originally released in 2010.

Sixth album by The Legendary Tigerman (aka Paulo Furtado), his first recording in a trio format with Paulo Segadaes (drums) and Joao Cabrita (baritone sax). Recorded at Rancho de la Luna (Joshua Tree) and produced by Johnny Hostile (The Savages, John & Jehn) and Paulo Furtado.

Yes, there is rock, but it's so deformed that not even no wave could help you make sense out of it. Imagine if a bunch of viruses filled with fake news and contemporary nastiness would go straight to the core of no wave, punk and rock's integrity> authenticity. Not to say that the Butthole Surfers were the most authentic band in the world or that this record matches the production of El/P, but instead here you have some of the most exciting musicians in Berlin coming together for the first time, interpreting some lyrics from Mattin, dealing with our fucked up times and the search for overcoming them.To say that there is no authenticity is not to fall into the postmodern relativism that has been a debilitating force in the struggle against the new wave of neo fascism. In fact, the latter also claim their own authenticity> race realism. Nor surprisingly, authenticity was also at the core of Heidegger, which somehow connects National Socialism and its French deconstructionist critics. Even if this record for some might sound like deconstructed rock through electronic noise and improv, it is also doing something else like building a Frankenstein monster in the form of rock/as/zombie/avatar> as if Lou Reed would haunt us from the other side connecting the motherboards of our devices to our brains, giving us all electroshocks for not being able to stop this fascism/as/the/new/punk regime, while he shouts at us> they got the traction on danger and you need to take it back!

New volume of Mattin's "Songbook" series, one of the most interesting works in the current experimental,improv and noise field.Layers of avant-garde tradition culminate into a set of songs that go beyond themselves. In times of increasingdesperation here emerges a strange record: a disintegrated manifesto exploring the truth of disagreement. Featuring Cathleen Schuster, Moor Mother, Farahnaz Hatam, Colin Hacklander, Marcel Dickhage and Lucio Capece.

Regarded as one of the pioneering records of noise-pop and shoegaze made in Spain, Penelope Trip's debut, originally released by Munster in 1992, is an essential album in the vein of My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Pixies. Especially remastered for this reissue and pressed on 180g vinyl.

Volume 1 of Munster's in-depth survey of synth music created in Spain during the 1980s. From chart-friendly techno pop to obscure experimental acts, these 20 tracks reflect a fast-moving decade and music scene.TodoTodo, Oviformia SCI, Ultima Emoción, WAQ, Justine, Séptimo Sello, Líneas Aéreas, MD, Lavabos Iturriaga, Vocoder, Metal y Ca, La Mode, Aviador Dro, Kalashnikov, Tomates Eléctricos, Metropakt, El Humano Mecano, Diseño Corbusier, Los Iniciados, Bola/Banda Electrónica.Both formats include an extensive booklet with liner notes by Sergio Sánchez (Jazznoize) and artist photos.Volume 2 will be released in spring 2018.

Volume 2 of Munster's in/depth survey of synth musiccreated in Spain during the 1980s. From chart/friendlytechno pop to obscure experimental acts, these 20tracks reflect a fast/moving decade and music scene.Muzak, Diagonal, TV Soviética, Orfeón Gagarin,Esplendor Geométrico, Logotipo, Jan, Claustrofobia, DePicnic, Fanzine, Q, Demian, Flash Cero, Flácidos Lunes,Betty Troupe, Manía, Minuit Polonia, Heroica, VGeneración, Programa.Both formats include an extensive booklet with linernotes by Sergio Sánchez (Jazznoize) and artist photos.

"The Stars Are Ours" is the debut album of Spanish band VOOLVA, featuring the first ever rock opera in outer space.It follows the adventures of a beautiful and harebrained couple on their unplanned quest to unwittingly save thecosmos. The varied styles render a tiled patchwork that defies categorization, where echoes of pop, rock, punk, reggae, funk and electronica can be heard among a wide array of influences, from Frank Zappa to The Kinks and nods to Hiroshi Sato, Jean-Jacques Perrey, King Crimson and Oskar Sala. Download includes 101-page script.

Third album by Spanish band Exnovios, a group that has been described as a blend of Spacemen 3 influences and the best of Spanish '60s pop.Stunning uncompromised fuzz-infused pop that makes you smile, brilliant melodies and a true love for perfect songwriting that transcends different generations, ranging from classic '60s pop to the best of the neo-psychedelic sound.

The early, wild and experimental home recordings of Swell Maps released on vinyl for the first time.This collection represents a fascinating insight into the adventurous learning period of one of the most uniqueUK bands from the punk and post-punks years, at the time only teenagers enthralled by music and its possibilities.Influences as varied as glam, krautrock, prog and early punk can be heard on these primitive recordings that actually defy genre categorization.

A comprehensive compilation, the first of its kind, of the avant-garde and experimental music scene of Latin America from 1976 to the late 1980s.Featuring pioneering artists from Peru (Miguel Flores, Manongo Mujica), Ecuador (Amauta), Mexico (Decibel,Vía Láctea, Jorge Reyes), Venezuela (Musikautomatika, Miguel Noya), Costa Rica (Autoperro), Argentina(Quum), Uruguay (Carlos da Silveira), Brazil (Grupo Um), Chile (Malalche) and Colombia (Banda Dispersa de la Madre Selva). Includes booklet with liner notes by Luis Alvarado and artist photos.

The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival (Sitges Festival for short) publishes this year as an official book a work by our journalist (and nevertheless friend) Pacus González Centeno, entitled "Three pieces for the murderer: Jazz, rock and electronics in crime and horror cinema ", in which he analyzes chronologically, decade by decade, the relationship between popular music styles and the main genre film styles of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Pacus had the brilliant (and crazy) idea of complementing the edition of the book with a disc of versions of some of the songs shelled in the book performed by bands from our current underground scene, and he raised the proposal to Family Spree Recordings, with the aim to collaborate in the selection of the songs, enrollment of the bands and coordination of all the actions necessary for the project to see the light. The idea was hatched in the form of a double LP and with the title "Kong'n'roll - 26 rock'n'roll bands tribute to the Sitges Horror Film Festival" and has the participation of 26 bands performing masterfully songs included in some of the films that formed the soundtrack of any of the selected films. And its edition will take place under the new label "Sawyer Family Party", to inaugurate a saga of future online projects different from that of its parent label.

Eureka Hot 4 is an incandescent Soul-Punk rocket from the bowels of Bermeo, Bizkaia. The group, born in 2005, is made up of indispensable musicians of the Basque scene such as Sergio Llanos, founding member of Atom Rhumba, or Gotzon Garay, member of Münsterland and Bongolocos. In their sound you can glimpse the adoration they render to the sweatiest black rhythms of groups like Funkadelic or Betty Davis, the energy of bands like The Saints or The Damned and the affinity with other rock and roll deconstructors such as The Dirtbombs or Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

For Fantasmage life passes very quickly, shortly after forming the band they make a big splash with their first demo “Fantasmage” (2011) and Discos Humeadores proposes the recording of this, their first full-length. Twelve incisive garage punk cuts recorded again with the help of Manu G. Sanz (Indómitos), “he's a good friend of ours and we trust him 100%. Besides, he knows perfectly what sound we want and he has an unusual sensitivity for music, so we didn't hesitate for a second when it came to recording with him ”they commented in a recent interview on the website Desconcierto. Open "Back to start", noise, distortion and accelerated rhythms recovered from their initial demo (the four cuts of the demo are included on the album, re-recorded) ... "1,2,3,4, 5, 6, back to start ”. "Bones" is a halftime that reaches deep inside - "Bones I need to build your kisses / and I keep them under lock and key yes / your kisses escape me I want to get your bones / they melt like a drug yes or yes" and "There is noise "A rush forward with an oppressive pace. “Metido entre sombra” is one of the best cuts on the album, the explosive riffs follow one another and the melody is poisoned by electric oscillations and redeeming shadows. The schemes are maintained in “La Miedosa”, hardened pop punk with an energetic guitar-drums combo. In “En familia” they step on the gas and let themselves be carried away by the badass tints - “we're going to stab you with love” - and the loudest garage. To that same terrain they take "Ella es un spectrum" and "Strawberry wild", a surprising version of the song by Camilo Sesto. They close the energetic “Camándula” and “Vaciado”, a melodic and acoustic halftime that ends up being poisoned by electricity. Fantasmage confirm with this album the great expectations placed on them.

(lafonoteca.net)

His amazing third album. A must for any Trash-Blues-Punk fan. If you think that Jon Spencer has not been surprising for a long time with his new works, this may be your group. Guitar and drums only. Doo Rag's revalidation.

A compilation of galician bands of punk rock, lo-fi, garage, punk... with Sr. Anido, Trajano, Carrero Bianco, Wild balbina, Fantasmage, Terbutalina...

Manu Gastado releases his first solo album, a blissful melodic wandering through a '60s-inspired psych haze. As part of Los Tupper, one of Spain's best-kept secrets, he has spent the last decades indebted to the Jagger/Richards mould, but, on Kosmik Street he has set his Stones obsession to one side to delve further into that classic late-'60s British sound. It's like Revolver spinning in the Small Faces dressing room, a wonderful disimilation and modern update of one of the most mind-bending times in music history. (Nathan Whittle- Ruta66 Magazine)

Manu Gastado releases his first solo album, a blissful melodic wandering through a '60s-inspired psych haze. As part of Los Tupper, one of Spain's best-kept secrets, he has spent the last decades indebted to the Jagger/Richards mould, but, on Kosmik Street he has set his Stones obsession to one side to delve further into that classic late-'60s British sound. It's like Revolver spinning in the Small Faces dressing room, a wonderful disimilation and modern update of one of the most mind-bending times in music history. (Nathan Whittle- Ruta66 Magazine)

Original music composed and interpreted by PJ Harvey.

Reissue of this absolute classic of the late 70s UK underground. 'O' Level was created in 1976 by London guitarist Ed Ball along with two friends from school, the Benett brothers (John on drums and Gerard on bass), who would leave the band in March 1978. That same line-up plus Dan Treacy (another school friend of Ball's) recorded the first Television Personalities single in 1977, titled '14th Floor'. 'O' Level self-released that same year their first single, which included three tracks strongly influenced by punk's energy (Buzzcocks and Undertones guitars and melody on 'East Sheen') and attitude (with ironic comments about fake punks on 'Pseudo Punk'), but as if seen from a distance, outside a decadent scene which had already been absorbed by the establishment. The single also features a sort of homonymous anthem called `O' Levels'.Ed Ball's music career would go on over the following decades as he continued developing his own strand of wonderful pop music through the 80s and 90s with bands such as Teenage Filmstars, Television Personalities, The Times and many more, plus several records as a solo artist.

"Hung Far Low" is the fifth and final studio album by New York noise rock band The Honeymoon Killers, originally released in 1991 and is now remastered in order to achieve the extreme sound desired for this band. The Honeymoon Killers recorded this album picking up 2/3 of the nascent Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and it meant a Sonic evolution to the band in the way to get the original Honeymoon Killers sound adding slicks of Pussy Galore and The Blues Explosion. Artwork revised and completed by Pauline Teel (Big City Stompers).The Band: Jerry Teel - guitar, harmonica, vocals (The Chrome Cranks, Knoxville Girls, Big City Stompers, etc). Jon Spencer - guitar (Blues Explosion, Pussy Galore, Five Dollar Priest, etc). Russell Simins - drums (Blues Explosion, etc). Lisa Wells - bass.

Mixing Martines is the new project of the musician José Martínez Bonham. In addition to José Bonham, on this occasion as a singer, the Mixing Martines band is completed by the galicians Fredo Suárez (bass), Fredy Besteiro (guitar), Brais Villar (drums) and Fran Castro (keyboards and choirs), in addition to the Londoner Dave Hernández (guitar and backing vocals). Mixing Martines and Vital Landscape represent a new step forward in the career of José Bonham, who has been a sound technician and artistic and musical producer in Galicia for more than two decades. Also known for teaching sound courses and master classes at the Escola de Imaxe e Son (EIS) in A Coruña, artists such as Xoel López, Los Satélites, Miguel Costas, Samesugas, Nashgul, Ekkaia, The Majestics, Herdeiros da Crus and many others. others have recorded with him. Drummer with a renowned track record, with collaborations over the years with different groups from the Galician and state scene, Mixing Martines is a new way of continuing to do what José Bonham has always offered: good music, although now from another point of the stage. Vital Landscape is a project that was developed in the midst of a pandemic, while professionals in the artistic and cultural sector were going through a moment of extraordinary hardship. However, Bonham explains that the germ of the album was planted more than two decades ago. “These are themes that I have been composing for all these years. I took advantage of that time of the pandemic to record and improve them, with the invaluable help of Dave Hernández with the English lyrics”, he comments.

There’s nothing quite like a proper, good old-fashioned concept album. Across these two sides, Galicia’s Moura explore stories of their native land both traditional and personal, delving deep into the folk memories and the rituals of their exposed corner of Europe [...] Using music to preserve ideas of national identity in this way could come across as exclusive, but it actually feels welcoming, embracing and exhilarating to be part of Moura’s windswept world for 40 minutes.

(Shindig! Magazine)

Acid Mess release their third full-length, Sangre de Otros Mundos, on Nov. 6 through Spinda Records. As one expect, the Asturias, Spain-based four-piece’s moniker does them something of a disservice on the seven-song offering, which though well enough acidic, is more cohesive than “mess” implies. Doubtless the band happened before the name, however, since indeed they do embody enough of a range of styles across the album’s 48 minutes that it becomes conceivable they’ve spent the half-decade since 2015’s II sorting it all into the proper order to make the tracks as flowing as they are, from the organ/synth/vocal buildup and guitar strum of opener “El Reflejo du Su Piel” through the folk-percussion-inclusive — clackers? flamenco handclaps? — heavy prog that ensues thereafter, leading to shout-topped sweeping groove, a left-hook of a guitar solo, a break for some guest vocals and more claps-or-not-claps and, at last, an explosion back to the hook.

(The Obelisk)

Progressive Rock & Alternative Rock from Vigo (Spain).

Post-hardcore, Alternative Rock & Shoegaze from Spanish East Coast.

Post-Hardcore & Post-Rock from Sevilla and Málaga (Spain).

Alternative Rock from Madrid (Spain).

Drone from somewhere in between Seattle (USA) and Seville (Spain).

Post Rock & Alternative Rock from Durango (Spain).

Ben Vaughn's unstylized singing and guitar is filtered through his quirky sense of humor, resulting a collection of clever lyrics and catchy tunes scented with vintage aroma.When "The Many Moods Of Ben Vaughn Combo" appeared in 1986, the Combo literally had the world at its feet. Many of the hits you hear when you see him (and the Quintet) today are on this platter.It sounds just as fresh today as it did back then and sees now its first reissue in 35 years.

It exists!!"The Loved, The Lost & The Last" is the unreleased until now, sixth and final studio album by New York noise rock band The Honeymoon Killers, originally recorded in 1991. Here The Honeymoon Killers recorded this album picking up all 3 members of the nascent Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and it meant a sonic evolution to the band in the way to get the original Honeymoon Killers sound adding slicks of Pussy Galore and The Blues Explosion, and it includes covers of Ramones and The Scientists. Artwork by Pauline Teel (Big City Stompers).

Vinyl reissue of the repertoire of Ultrasónicas, an emblematic band of the Mexican underground scene at the end of the 90s. Their sound is based on rock and roll, garage, surf and punk, along with the influence of the riot grrrl movement, becoming a benchmark for both underground rock and musical projects made up of women, encouraging many others. in Mexico to follow his example. This album presents for the first time on vinyl a selection of their recordings previously released only on CD together with practically all of those that appeared on the 10” disc, forming a complete representation of the Ultrasónicas repertoire.

New ep from the king of trashy pub-rock. 5 new songs from this irreverent duo, which in some songs is accompanied by a crazy sax

From the union of Txetxu Brainloster, known for having been the guitarist and singer of Mermaid or Green Manalishi, and Biscuit, one of the best and most respected R&R groups in the country, comes this great collection of songs in Spanish. Brainloster can be thought of as a trip down the dial from the American roots sound to the 70s power pop that Big Star established. The group shoots in multiple directions and hits hard targets in the form of throbbing beats, country riffs and razor-sharp riffs.

We present the new album by the Barcelona band Los 4Señores, “De Tuset a Las Ramblas”, recorded at the “Sol de Sants” studios between June 19 and 24 and produced by Mike Mariconda. This is the second album by Los 4Señores, a band with seasoned members forged in the Barcelona scene of the 80s (Kamenbert, Killwatts, Wom! A2, Brighton 64) and on this occasion we are witnessing the sound of a group in clear evolution and progression of sound r&b and garage from his first LP towards new registers, always within his characteristic sound, based on powerful guitars and a powerful and forceful rhythm section. “De Tuset a Las Ramblas” contains 10 original songs and a version of “Bebiendo y Bailando” by the legendary band Mermelada. The sound palette of these compositions includes influences from 70's rock, pub rock, psychedelic overtones, country or rockabilly flashes, without Los 4Señores trying to exercise style. These influences dot the songs naturally, because that's how they emerged during the creative process of their composition. Without having premeditated it “From Tuset to Las Ramblas” is a conceptual album. All the themes of his lyrics allude to the city, in this case Barcelona, although it could be any other, to specific places in its landscape, and to the people who live there. In this citizen framework, we see the daily problems and joys of ordinary people, who interact in their streets, bars, or subway stations.

Torre Hornero Sessions is the first EP of the group from Zaragoza PETRELLI originally formed by Eduardo Tomás -Zomas– (drums) and Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez -Prise- (guitar) as sound base and musical projects. His weekly rehearsal venue in Movera, Zaragoza, gives this work its title, a place through which different musicians have passed and participated in enjoying sessions and exploring new sounds. Finally, this long-awaited album comes to light along with two other names from the Aragonese scene: Guillermo Mata (bass and production) and Eric Castiglia (vocals). Torre Hornero Sessions finished recording at the beginning of the year and was mixed in the midst of a pandemic, using videoconferencing and new technologies. It is made up of four songs heir to American rock and even punk rock. These vintage references add up to a fresh sound, with its own style, brand and class. In the musical background of PETRELLI, the composition of three instrumental songs stands out to accompany the audiovisuals of the exhibition on the Battle of Dunbar, pieces from the most important archaeological find that took place in 2016 in the North of England. The show was organized by the Durham University Department of Archaeology, and won the 2019 Living North Award.