Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade - VINYL LP

Aagyr Ferboden - Requisite Joy [Blue Colored Vinyl] [VINYL LP] Blue, Colored Vinyl, UK - Import date 02/11/2022

In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskills mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richlyswelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in theslipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears. Asound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings, woodwind, drums - and a voiceof incantations, tapping streams of consciousness that similarly eddy and flow.Spiritually, literally, psycho-geographically where else does Mercury Rev's ninth album Born Horsesspring from? This cascade of gleaming, glistening psych-jazz-folk-baroque-ambient quest that searchesit's soul but can never truly know the answer? A sound and vision linked to their exalted past whilst quiteunlike anything they have created before?The answer is somewhere between the homes of founder members Jonathan Donahue (the hamlet of MtTremper) and Grasshopper (the town of Kingston), in their veins and brains of their now-legendarytapping of musical cosmology, and the vital presence of new permanent member Marion Genser (keys),plus long-term ally Jesse Chandler (keys) and guests Jeff Lipstein (drums), Martin Keith (double bass)and Jim Burgess (trumpet). A place that feeds off the levitating mood of their last album, 2019'sexpansive tribute Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited, and the instrumental psych explorationsunder the names of Harmony Rockets and Mercury Rev's Clear Light Ensemble, and the spiritualguidance of avant-garde artist Tony Conrad and Beat poet Robert Creeley, to whom Born Horses isdedicated.Born Horses opens with 'Mood Swings'. A trumpet, evoking mariachi and the windswept terrain of thedesert prairie, opens up to a dynamic panorama of sound, wandering through and enveloping Jonathan'sintimate recitation, conflating memories and confessions of feelings trapped and unwrapp

8 tracks of raw Arabic funk music, none of these have ever been reissued before. So far Fadoul (or Fadaul, or Faddoul, the transcription of his name to Latin letters differs)& his music had not been rediscovered, as a matter of fact most of those songs still left no trace whatsoever in the world wide web. It took us 2 years and countless trips to Morocco to find the artists family to license the from them. Vinyl and CD edition come with liner notes, unseen live photos and lyrics translations. InchThere was one record in particular that caught my attention. It was by a band called InchFadaul et les PrivilegesInch and mentioned James Brown in the writing credits of the song InchSid RedadInch on the a-side. Needless to say my expectations were high. The first time I heard the record I was blown away. A cover of James Brown's InchPapa got a brand new bagInch sung in Arabic and backed by a rawly recorded three piece band. It's hard to describe the music without having listened to it, but as time went by I somehow ended up summarizing it as Arabic funk played with a punk attitude. A description, that I feel, comes fairly close. Soon I became obsessed by the record but nobody seemed to know anything about the vinyl or the artists, even Google didn't help. A true gem forgotten about through the passages of time. I kept on traveling to Morocco trying to find infos about the artists, which did not end up being fruitful during the first couple of trips. What kept me going was the fact that over the course of the next years I kept on finding different records by Fadoul, in the end a total of four. They all had the raw sound aesthetic of InchSid RedadInch. Energetic performances, a mighty voice and a very lively atmosphere that was preserved in the recordings. Inch InchSid RedadInch has gotten plays on BBC, Radio Nova and more, our Habibi Funk mixes have been featured by The Gua