Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady - VINYL LP

Kelly Finnigan's debut solo album for Colemine Records represents the culmination of his 15 years of experience - in the studio as a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer - and touring the US and Europe as a singer, musician, and band-leader. The content within reflects his dedication to expression through the rich American music traditions of soul, gospel, doo-wop, and R&B. The subject is love. It's ecstasies and heartaches. Love sought, found, betrayed, lost, and rediscovered. The result is a marvelous collection of songs and performances that run the gamut from whispering tenderness to roaring appeals; from lean and mean to rich and lovely. And always... always, manifestly honest, and undeniably soulful. With Finnigan guiding these songs from their conception all the way to the record pressing plant, the new provides the singular voice missing from soul music a visionary that writes, records, performs and produces his own material. Album Tracks 1. I Don't Wanna Wait 2. I'll Never Love Again 3. Smoking & Drinking 4. Every Time It Rains 5. Catch Me I'm Falling 6. Since I Don't Have You Anymore 7. Impressions of You 8. I Called You Back Baby 9. Freedom 10. Can't Let Him Down

Axis/Another Revolvable Thing is the second installment of Blank Forms' archival reissues of the music of Japan's eternal revolutionary Masayuki Takayanagi, following April is the cruellest month, a 1975 studio record by his New Direction Unit. Comprised of recordings of a September 5, 1975 concert by the New Direction Unit at Yasuda Seimei Hall in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the two volumes showcase Takayanagi in deep pursuit of what he began calling Inchnon-section musicInch after leaping beyond the confines of his prior descriptor Inchreal jazz.Inch The quartet of Takayanagi (guitar), Kenji Mori (reeds), Nobuyoshi Ino (bass, cello), and Hiroshi Yamazaki (percussion) deftly explores the twin poles of Takayanagi's spacious Inchgradually projectionInch and explosively virulent Inchmass projectionInch concepts across six pieces, titled Fragments I - VI and split between the two LPs.As part of his liner notes for Part 1 (newly translated for this edition), noted Japanese free jazz critic Teruto Soejima wrote New Direction Unit performances always emit the smell of blood. Fresh blood, never blood that is old or crusted. This is not the desiccated shell of music, it's sound through which pumps the blood of living human beings. Blood that seethes, that flows and counterflows, that blazes, runs, rises and congeals, blood that vomits and spurts. Vivid, scarlet blood. The ultimate beauty that Takayanagi aims at, is it not the color of this blood?Blood calls out to blood. For these four musicians, playing together means feasting on each other's blood. It is also a summon- ing to a secret blood oath, to the creation of solidarity with the audience. In the moment, truly, the situation and beauty are instanta- neously unified. To borrow the title of a movie by Koji Wakamatsu blood is redder than the sun. Album Tracks 1. Fragment - II (Gradually Projection) 2. Fragment - I

Double vinyl LP pressing including digital download. 2018 , the third studio album by singer Janelle Monáe. Dirty Computer is the follow up to her critically acclaimed studio albums, The ArchAndroid (2010) and The Electric Lady (2013). Includes the singles InchMake Me FeelInch and InchDjango JaneInch. Janelle has already made waves with her two recent videos the sexy, funky Prince-like InchMake Me FeelInch and InchDjango Jane,Inch her riveting rap about being a black woman in the 21st century. She continues to defy expectations, blur genres, provoke and break new ground as you behold her new album featuring those two songs and the rest of this postmodern mash-up of soul, funk, pop, rock and hip-hop. Album Tracks 1. Dirty Computer (Feat. Brian Wilson) 2. Crazy, Classic, Life 3. Take a Byte 4. Jane's Dream 1. Screwed (Feat. Zoë Kravitz) 2. Django Jane 3. Pynk (Feat. Grimes) 1. Make Me Feel 2. I Got the Juice (Feat. Pharrell Williams) 3. I Like That 1. Don't Judge Me 2. Stevie's Dream 3. So Afraid 4. Americans