This is what happens when the band doesn�t break up: a lifetime of shared effort and camaraderie coming to�fruition. Four master collaborators at the peak of their craft with near-telepathic cohesion. Silver Saturdays�features 10 new songs that pay homage to a 25-year journey. All four members lend their distinctive vocals.�Their concise, meticulously crafted songwriting is interwoven with Lebo�s soaring acoustic-electric guitar. Gill�s�tasty keyboard comping and Adams� bass groove married to Lipp�s rhythmic flourishes. Clear 180-gram LP.

Drummer and composer Kendrick Scott returns with the release of Corridors, his third album for Blue Note Records,�and first compositional treatment of trio context: saxophone, bass, and drums. Corridors unveils an exposed�rumination from the Houston-born artist and his acclaimed collaborators: saxophonist Walter Smith III and bassist�Reuben Rogers. Born during the pandemic lockdown, the record focuses on posing outward questions instead of�inward contemplation. 180-gram LP.

To create the tracks on this new series of 45s from the recently relaunched Westbound Records, The 45 King was given unprecedented access to the label's archive of rescued master tapes. Using the music of Junie Morrison and Ohio Players, The 45 King created these brand new tracks that harken back to the original, iconic breakbeat songs that helped make him one of the all-time greats in hip hop production. The "Westbound Beats" box set consists of five 7" singles containing all thirteen of these new tracks, with each 7" on a different color of vinyl.

Waxwork Records is thrilled to announce the release of GET OUT Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Music By Michael Abels. Written and directed by Jordan Peele, GET OUT is a critically acclaimed 2017 American horror film starring Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams. The film received numerous accolades and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Kalluya.GET OUT is the directorial debut of accomplished actor and long time horror-fanatic, Jordan Peele. The film's music was scored by composer Michael Abels, and it also features his debut as a film composer.Included in the new deluxe double LP release of GET OUT are exclusive liner notes in the form of an in depth essay by Peele that illustrates the director's first meeting with Michael Abels, their approach to the film's music, and how it all came together to conjure a new sound. "I had some ideas. I envisioned distinctly black voices harmonically creating an unnatural sound. The absence of hope. The void of the voiceless. A disembodied Negro spiritual. The Sunken Place." GET OUT Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features the complete soundtrack by composer Michael Abels, deluxe packaging, new artwork by Leslie Herman, a printed insert with exclusive liner notes by Jordan Peele, 180 gram black and white splatter vinyl, and old style tip-on gatefold jackets with satin coating.

Waxwork Records in partnership with Back Lot Music is honored to release NOPE Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Michael Abels. Oscarr winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, Nope.The film reunites Peele with Oscarr winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer and Oscarr nominee Steven Yeun as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.NOPE marks Abels' third feature film score with director Jordan Peele, having previously scored Peele's GET OUT and US. The album also features songs from the film, including a new version of Corey Hart's classic "Sunglasses at Night (Jean Jacket Mix)", Dionne Warwick's "Walk on By", The Lost Generation's "This is the Lost Generation", Exuma's "Exuma, the Obeah Man", and a never-before-released gem by a young Jodie Foster, "La Vie C'est Chouette" from the 1977 film MOI, FLEUR BLEUE. "NOPE is my most ambitious score to date," says Abels. "There are elements from the genres of sci-fi, action, horror, and westerns, but always through the tonal palette of Jordan Peele's unique vision. The lines between source music and score are blurred, as a good part of the score seems to be playing at the theme park, which is a key location in the story. The score is at times terrifying, yet also invokes the sense of awe and wonder that the characters feel as they realize what they are seeing. The film eventually becomes a grand adventure, and so the music expands into the larger-than-life scale we expect of a summer blockbuster." He goes on to say, "it was a joy to compose a score that encompassed such a broad range of genres and emotions, and I'm thrilled to have audiences experience all of them through this album.""Michael is one the most exciting composers working today - he has this amazing ability to create new sounds which was important for this film," Jordan Peele says. "He's able to play in the familiar and in the unfamiliar at the same time, so that helps give every film it's own character, and he has an incredible mastery of so many different music genres." Abels is known for his genre-defying scores for the Jordan Peele films GET OUT and US, for which Abels won a World Soundtrack Award, the Jerry Goldsmith Award, a Critics Choice nomination, and multiple critics' awards. The hip-hop influenced score for US was short-listed for an Academy Awardr and was named "Score of the Decade" by The Wrap. Abels is also co-founder of the Composers Diversity Collective, an advocacy group to increase visibility of composers of color in film, gaming and streaming media.Waxwork Records is thrilled to present the official NOPE deluxe double LP soundtrack album. The package comes complete with 180-gram colored vinyl, quality packaging, original artwork by Ethan Mesa, heavyweight gatefold jacket with matte coating, a multi-page 12" x 12" booklet, liner notes, & more!

Waxwork Records is proud to present the Us Original Motion Picture Soundtrack featuring a score by composer Michael Abels. Us, released in March 2019, is an original nightmare written, directed and produced by Academy Awardr-winning visionary Jordan Peele (Get Out). Set in present day Santa Cruz on the iconic Northern California coastline, the film, starring Oscarr winner Lupita Nyong'o and Black Panther's Winston Duke, pits an ordinary American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves. A blockbuster that earned raves from critics and audiences alike, Us earned more than $250 million at the worldwide box office to become one the highest grossing R-rated horror films of all time, buoyed by an unexpected and innovative soundtrack and by a groundbreaking, terrifying original score by Abels.Us marks the second collaboration between composer Abels and Peele, who first worked together on Peele's 2017 Oscar-winning horror film, Get Out. For the Us score, Abels explored themes of duality and discord. "Sonically, what defines 'scary' is the unfamiliar," Abels says. "It is the things that we can't place, and that we don't expect, that take us to that place of fear. We wanted to really strike terror into the audience." Central to the score was the opening track, an anthem for the doppelgängers, known in the film as The Tethered. Abels hit on the idea of using choral elements. "Jordan really loves the sounds of voices, and the human voice is an incredibly expressive instrument that anyone can relate to," Abels says. "The anthem sounds a little like a march of people preparing for battle, like an uprising maybe, but the sounds are not in a recognizable language. In other parts of the film there are vocal effects, just these strange sounds. They're designed to really freak people out." Abels featured a 30 person choir, a third of them children, in the "Anthem," and implemented Eastern European instruments, violins, percussion and a virtual instrument called a Propanium drum. "It makes this trashy metal sound, but you can also play melodies on it," Abels said. "The Propanium drum has a sound that's both otherworldly but not electronic or like science fiction. It's a sound you can't quite put your finger on, which is why it works well in this film."Also included on the soundtrack is the 1995 hip-hop hit "I Got 5 On It" by Luniz and the stand-out track "I Like That" by Janelle Monáe. Abels also helped with a new arrangement of the Luniz hit, which is featured on the soundtrack as the 'Tethered Mix from Us'.

The long-awaited analog reissue of the AB'S first album released in 1983!Consisting of Fujimaru Yoshino (Gt), Makoto Matsushita (Gt), former Spectrum member Naoki Watanabe (Ba), Atsuo Okamoto (Dr), and Yoshihiko Ando (Key) of Parachute. The first analog reissue of the band's debut album full of fusion-progressive rock! It's a catchy album that shines with the technique of the brilliant musicians on it. This is the long-awaited first analog reissue is finally here!

Limited six 'attorney's badge gold' colored vinyl LP box set housed in rigid board slipcase. It's been 20 years since courtroom adventure Ace Attorney began life on the Game Boy Advance with the release of Gyakuten Saiban ('Turnabout Trial') in Japan. With an anime and a live-action movie, as well as multiple manga series, stage plays, escape room games and orchestra concerts (among other adaptations) to date, Ace Attorney has transcended the world of video games. To celebrate the occasion, Capcom and Laced Records are deepening their video game soundtrack courtship with the announcement of the Ace Attorney 20th Anniversary deluxe vinyl box set. The release presents a selection of 121 specially remastered tracks from six mainline games in the series: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Justice for All, Trials and Tribulations, Apollo Justice, Dual Destinies, and Spirit of Justice.

This new 6LP vinyl edition offers the same audio content as the four CDs in the 2015/2019 sets, bringing the amazing array of demos, alternates and remixes to vinyl for the very first time. The audio is the 2015 remasters. It comes with a 64-page booklet which no doubt will offer the same kind of content as the original CD super deluxe with extensive sleeve notes and photography.

The vinyl box set audio content is formatted as follows:

VINYL:

• LP 1: Hunting High and Low
• LP 2 & 3: The Demos 1982-1984
• LP 4 & 5: Singles, Extended Versions & B-Sides
• LP 6: The Early Mixes
• So that's 60 tracks in total across six 140g black vinyl records. As you can see by the image above, these records boast some of the wonderful pencil sketches used in that video. The records slot into an outer slipcase.

A-HA / HUNTING HIGH AND LOW (6LP vinyl box set)

The ultimate reissue of one of the world's most important albums in the field of Exotica, Jazz and even Proto Psychedelic Music from 1960 - and the first official reissue ever! This reissue of Eden Ahbez' sole album includes 20 almost unreleased bonus songs from different sessions. Carefully restored and remastered from original master tapes by prolific grammy-nominated sound engineer Jessica Thompson. The artist Eden Ahbez was not only a skilled composer and performer who wrote the hit tune "Nature boy" for the classic 1940s crooner Nat King Cole but also a forefather and probably the sole inventor of the hippie lifestyle that became a world wide movement by the mid 1960s. Co Produced by movie maker Brian Chidester, who now, after 20 years of research, completed the full time documentary movie "As The Wind - The Enchanted Life Of Eden Ahbez": https://www. Edenahbez. com. Now here we go with a project that can easily be labeled a mammoth. Who remembers Eden Ahbez actually, except for a couple of born too late retro hippies? Well, here we go with the story: It is 1960, Rock'n'Roll has just lost a couple of it's protagonists during this and the previous year, the time of the great balladeers has just begun, but soon will run out due to the new and exciting beat invasion. In US mainstream the tiki culture has reached a certain peak and is about to collapse, but still goes strong and with it comes the so called "exotica" music, a crossover between smooth jazz and swing, Latin grooves, haunting melodies that are rooted in the folkloristic sounds from different parts of this world, plus weird sound effects that often create a spooky jungle or dreamy island beach atmosphere. It can even bend your mind that far you would see palm trees growing out of your speakers and witness monkeys and parrots having fun in your room. Eden Ahbez, born in 1908, passed in 1995, a man living dropout and hippie lifestyle way before the movement became what people remember it to be in the mid 60s, a beat poet and composer who wrote the hit tune "Nature boy" that gave Nat King Cole his first big success in 1948, approaches the field of exotica music from a different point of view creating an epic concept album about an utopian society living in peace and harmony on an island far away from the modern western world as we know it. And indeed we find many trademarks of the prototypical exotica music beginning with this relaxed groove combining easy listening swing and Latin patterns, peaceful, dreamy and even transcendental vocal melodies, tinges of folk music from around the world including powerful dances and a whole color palette of mind-expanding sounds giving the whole music an even greater depth and width. The latter being created entirely with real instruments such as Eden Ahbez' wood-flute. Some tunes are rather gentle and relaxed with the lyrics being narrated, which adds much to the epic feel of the album. Since this is a really unique effort, now "Eden's Island" alone is a masterpiece of proto psychedelic music and showcases the peak of Ahbe's creativity, but he did write and record music before and after, as mentioned above. And he inspired people along the way, he still does, even decades after his passing. When a young record collector named Brian Chidester found a picture of Ahbe with a youthful Brian Wilson of BEACH BOYS fame dating from probably 1967, he felt the urge to research and investigate deeply into the life of Ahbe, who was more of a mystical figure, obscured by the passing of time rather than the fairly well recognised allfather of the hippie lifestyle, without whom there would have not been such a movement at all and certainly no woodstock, not much psychedelic music and no such things. At least not in the way that they did happen. So Mr. Chidester embarked on journey of more than twenty years that culminates in a movie, "As the wind: The enchanted life of Eden Ahbez", telling the story of one of pop culture's most enigmatic figures in full. Brian Chidester and his filmmaking partner John Winer now have not only gone wild in bringing the life of the first of all hippies to a wider attention, they have taken part in what is the main subject of my writing here, the ultimate rerelease of Eden Ahbez' first and only cult full length record, 1960's "Eden's Island (The music of an enchanted isle)" as I already described above in nearly all it's glory. For it was only a third of what this ultimate edition has to offer. First of all the album has been carefully restored and newly mastered from the original master tapes, however one got hold of them after 60 years, while all other previous reissues that were mostly non legal ventures were transcriptions from old and beaten vinyls. Grammy nominated sound engineer Jessica Thompson, an icon in the field of restoring and remastering old and often obscure yet cult recordings from Jazz to Punk to Afro Beat and great fan of Eden Ahbez, has done another marvelous job and probably this could become her most prolific and important venture. The other two thirds of the music on this reissue, which comes as a wicked double vinyl in gatefold sleeve in limited editions of different colours, is made up by those tunes hat Eden never properly put on albums, that remained in obscurity unbeknownst by man until today. Jessica Thompson also did the mastering here and Brian Chidester co produced this treasure trove of musical jewelry, which expands Eden Ahbez' epic concept album style and also showcases his skills in writing accessible, yet unique proto psychedelic pop tunes that, as I mentioned above, lead your mind into a different world. The vinyl version includes a 12" size, 24 page booklet, while the CD version comes as double CD with 2 booklets. With so much passion put into the ultimate reissue of this album you can bet that the music world, the collectors and 60s music freaks, will be shaken to it's foundations.

The ultimate reissue of one of the world's most important albums in the field of Exotica, Jazz and even Proto Psychedelic Music from 1960 - and the first official reissue ever! This edition is pressed on Clear Forest/Leaves Splatter vinyl and housed in a wooden cover. It also includes a 24 page booklet. This reissue of Eden Ahbez' sole album includes 20 almost unreleased bonus songs from different sessions. Carefully restored and remastered from original master tapes by prolific grammy-nominated sound engineer Jessica Thompson. The artist Eden Ahbez was not only a skilled composer and performer who wrote the hit tune "Nature boy" for the classic 1940s crooner Nat King Cole but also a forefather and probably the sole inventor of the hippie lifestyle that became a world wide movement by the mid 1960s. Co Produced by movie maker Brian Chidester, who now, after 20 years of research, completed the full time documentary movie "As The Wind - The Enchanted Life Of Eden Ahbez": https://www. Edenahbez. com. Now here we go with a project that can easily be labeled a mammoth. Who remembers Eden Ahbez actually, except for a couple of born too late retro hippies? Well, here we go with the story: It is 1960, Rock'n'Roll has just lost a couple of it's protagonists during this and the previous year, the time of the great balladeers has just begun, but soon will run out due to the new and exciting beat invasion. In US mainstream the tiki culture has reached a certain peak and is about to collapse, but still goes strong and with it comes the so called "exotica" music, a crossover between smooth jazz and swing, Latin grooves, haunting melodies that are rooted in the folkloristic sounds from different parts of this world, plus weird sound effects that often create a spooky jungle or dreamy island beach atmosphere. It can even bend your mind that far you would see palm trees growing out of your speakers and witness monkeys and parrots having fun in your room. Eden Ahbez, born in 1908, passed in 1995, a man living dropout and hippie lifestyle way before the movement became what people remember it to be in the mid 60s, a beat poet and composer who wrote the hit tune "Nature boy" that gave Nat King Cole his first big success in 1948, approaches the field of exotica music from a different point of view creating an epic concept album about an utopian society living in peace and harmony on an island far away from the modern western world as we know it. And indeed we find many trademarks of the prototypical exotica music beginning with this relaxed groove combining easy listening swing and Latin patterns, peaceful, dreamy and even transcendental vocal melodies, tinges of folk music from around the world including powerful dances and a whole color palette of mind expanding sounds giving the whole music an even greater depth and width. The latter being created entirely with real instruments such as Eden Ahbez' wood-flute. Some tunes are rather gentle and relaxed with the lyrics being narrated, which adds much to the epic feel of the album. Since this is a really unique effort, now "Eden's Island" alone is a masterpiece of proto psychedelic music and showcases the peak of Ahbe's creativity, but he did write and record music before and after, as mentioned above. And he inspired people along the way, he still does, even decades after his passing. When a young record collector named Brian Chidester found a picture of Ahbe with a youthful Brian Wilson of BEACH BOYS fame dating from probably 1967, he felt the urge to research and investigate deeply into the life of Ahbe, who was more of a mystical figure, obscured by the passing of time rather than the fairly well recognised allfather of the hippie lifestyle, without whom there would have not been such a movement at all and certainly no woodstock, not much psychedelic music and no such things. At least not in the way that they did happen. So Mr. Chidester embarked on journey of more than twenty years that culminates in a movie, "As the wind: The enchanted life of Eden Ahbez", telling the story of one of pop culture's most enigmatic figures in full. Brian Chidester and his filmmaking partner John Winer now have not only gone wild in bringing the life of the first of all hippies to a wider attention, they have taken part in what is the main subject of my writing here, the ultimate rerelease of Eden Ahbez' first and only cult full length record, 1960's "Eden's Island (The music of an enchanted isle)" as I already described above in nearly all it's glory. For it was only a third of what this ultimate edition has to offer. First of all the album has been carefully restored and newly mastered from the original master tapes, however one got hold of them after 60 years, while all other previous reissues that were mostly non legal ventures were transcriptions from old and beaten vinyls. Grammy nominated sound engineer Jessica Thompson, an icon in the field of restoring and remastering old and often obscure yet cult recordings from Jazz to Punk to Afro Beat and great fan of Eden Ahbez, has done another marvelous job and probably this could become her most prolific and important venture. The other two thirds of the music on this reissue, which comes as a wicked double vinyl in gatefold sleeve in limited editions of different colours, is made up by those tunes hat Eden never properly put on albums, that remained in obscurity unbeknownst by man until today. Jessica Thompson also did the mastering here and Brian Chidester co-produced this treasure trove of musical jewelry, which expands Eden Ahbez' epic concept album style and also showcases his skills in writing accessible, yet unique proto psychedelic pop tunes that, as I mentioned above, lead your mind into a different world. The vinyl version includes a 12" size, 24 page booklet, while the CD version comes as double CD with 2 booklets. With so much passion put into the ultimate reissue of this album you can bet that the music world, the collectors and 60s music freaks, will be shaken to it's foundations.

The ultimate reissue of one of the world's most important albums in the field of Exotica, Jazz and even Proto Psychedelic Music from 1960 - and the first official reissue ever! This edition is pressed on Clear Forest/Leaves Splatter vinyl and housed in a wooden cover. It also includes a 24 page booklet. This reissue of Eden Ahbez' sole album includes 20 almost unreleased bonus songs from different sessions. Carefully restored and remastered from original master tapes by prolific grammy-nominated sound engineer Jessica Thompson. The artist Eden Ahbez was not only a skilled composer and performer who wrote the hit tune 'Nature boy" for the classic 1940s crooner Nat King Cole but also a forefather and probably the sole inventor of the hippie lifestyle that became a world wide movement by the mid 1960s. Co Produced by movie maker Brian Chidester, who now, after 20 years of research, completed the full time documentary movie 'As The Wind - The Enchanted Life Of Eden Ahbez": https://www. Edenahbez. com. Now here we go with a project that can easily be labeled a mammoth. Who remembers Eden Ahbez actually, except for a couple of born too late retro hippies? Well, here we go with the story: It is 1960, Rock'n'Roll has just lost a couple of it's protagonists during this and the previous year, the time of the great balladeers has just begun, but soon will run out due to the new and exciting beat invasion. In US mainstream the tiki culture has reached a certain peak and is about to collapse, but still goes strong and with it comes the so called "exotica" music, a crossover between smooth jazz and swing, Latin grooves, haunting melodies that are rooted in the folkloristic sounds from different parts of this world, plus weird sound effects that often create a spooky jungle or dreamy island beach atmosphere. It can even bend your mind that far you would see palm trees growing out of your speakers and witness monkeys and parrots having fun in your room. Eden Ahbez, born in 1908, passed in 1995, a man living dropout and hippie lifestyle way before the movement became what people remember it to be in the mid 60s, a beat poet and composer who wrote the hit tune "Nature boy" that gave Nat King Cole his first big success in 1948, approaches the field of exotica music from a different point of view creating an epic concept album about an utopian society living in peace and harmony on an island far away from the modern western world as we know it. And indeed we find many trademarks of the prototypical exotica music beginning with this relaxed groove combining easy listening swing and Latin patterns, peaceful, dreamy and even transcendental vocal melodies, tinges of folk music from around the world including powerful dances and a whole color palette of mind expanding sounds giving the whole music an even greater depth and width. The latter being created entirely with real instruments such as Eden Ahbez' wood-flute. Some tunes are rather gentle and relaxed with the lyrics being narrated, which adds much to the epic feel of the album. Since this is a really unique effort, now "Eden's Island" alone is a masterpiece of proto psychedelic music and showcases the peak of Ahbe's creativity, but he did write and record music before and after, as mentioned above. And he inspired people along the way, he still does, even decades after his passing. When a young record collector named Brian Chidester found a picture of Ahbe with a youthful Brian Wilson of BEACH BOYS fame dating from probably 1967, he felt the urge to research and investigate deeply into the life of Ahbe, who was more of a mystical figure, obscured by the passing of time rather than the fairly well recognised allfather of the hippie lifestyle, without whom there would have not been such a movement at all and certainly no woodstock, not much psychedelic music and no such things. At least not in the way that they did happen. So Mr. Chidester embarked on journey of more than twenty years that culminates in a movie, "As the wind: The enchanted life of Eden Ahbez", telling the story of one of pop culture's most enigmatic figures in full. Brian Chidester and his filmmaking partner John Winer now have not only gone wild in bringing the life of the first of all hippies to a wider attention, they have taken part in what is the main subject of my writing here, the ultimate rerelease of Eden Ahbez' first and only cult full length record, 1960's "Eden's Island (The music of an enchanted isle)" as I already described above in nearly all it's glory. For it was only a third of what this ultimate edition has to offer. First of all the album has been carefully restored and newly mastered from the original master tapes, however one got hold of them after 60 years, while all other previous reissues that were mostly non legal ventures were transcriptions from old and beaten vinyls. Grammy nominated sound engineer Jessica Thompson, an icon in the field of restoring and remastering old and often obscure yet cult recordings from Jazz to Punk to Afro Beat and great fan of Eden Ahbez, has done another marvelous job and probably this could become her most prolific and important venture. The other two thirds of the music on this reissue, which comes as a wicked double vinyl in gatefold sleeve in limited editions of different colours, is made up by those tunes hat Eden never properly put on albums, that remained in obscurity unbeknownst by man until today. Jessica Thompson also did the mastering here and Brian Chidester co-produced this treasure trove of musical jewelry, which expands Eden Ahbez' epic concept album style and also showcases his skills in writing accessible, yet unique proto psychedelic pop tunes that, as I mentioned above, lead your mind into a different world. The vinyl version includes a 12" size, 24 page booklet, while the CD version comes as double CD with 2 booklets. With so much passion put into the ultimate reissue of this album you can bet that the music world, the collectors and 60s music freaks, will be shaken to it's foundations.

On December 2013, during Alain Pilot's show "La Bande Passante" and as part of the celebrations for Manu Dibango's 80th birthday, Radio France Internationale gathered around the African master a bunch of prestigious guests including the Ethio-Jazz ambassadors : Akalé Wubé.The band decided to play live and on air African Pop Session and Ekedi - both written and recorded by the Cameroonian saxophonist in the early seventies - quickly joined by Manu Dibango and his saxophone. Two live recordings of this session will be taken out this pathbreaking and improvised meeting.A great complicity shortly settled between them and, a few months later, Akalé Wubé invited Manu Dibango on their track Anbessa (The Lion in Amharic) composed as a tribute to him. This collaboration led them to share several stages together in the following years.With this RFI session still in mind, Manu Dibango invited the band to join him in studio for Akalé Wubé to arrange and re-record 5 other unknown nuggets from his catalogue : La Colère des Dieux, Du Bush a Bush, Gentlemen de Camp Yabassi, Otetena Munja and Peaceful Homeland. Unfortunately, The Lion won't make it to the Parisian band's studio to record his last solos, fate decided otherwise

'Art is how we decorate space. Music is how we decorate time."  - Jean-Michel Basquiat. With Chicory, designer Greg Lobanov created a game about bringing color back to a colorless world, at once a celebration of creativity and a fable about perseverance in the face of self-doubt. As creatives ourselves, we at iam8bit found the game's themes to be resonant, relevant, and moving. What better way to celebrate a story of inspiration than with a brilliant reimagining of the game's beloved, award-winning music? Enter the Chicory Piano Vinyl Soundtrack. Composer Lena Raine's already rich and vibrant Chicory soundtrack takes on a fresh life, courtesy of composer and pianist Trevor Alan Gomes, for this all-new album. It's the sounds of Chicory as you've never heard them before, thanks to the magic of 88 keys. And in keeping with that theme of creativity, David René Christensen crafted stunning new album art for this release. It's truly a work of art and a labor of love.

Ghibli Jazz - live!With superstar jazz trio All That Jazz, guest vocalist Yuriko Kuwahara (COSMiC HOME) as well as saxophone players and violinists, you must check out these laid-back jazz covers of classic Ghibli songs! Issued on limited edition vinyl with one of our iconic obi strips, this is sure to be another instant classic.

The follow-up to Ghibli Jazz! Ghibli Jazz 1 and 2 took the world by storm, with the stripped down jazz covers of iconic Ghibli songs quickly earning it a place as one of the top Ghibli cover albums of all time. Kaze to Mori no Jazz (Wind and Forest Jazz) sees All That Jazz once again returning to cover 12 of legendary composer Joe Hisaishi's most iconic songs. Rearranged to be completely instrumental, smooth saxophone tones glide on top of the trio's impeccable playing. If you're a fan of Ghibli, or jazz, you absolutely must check this out.

With Ask, the Amsterdam-based sextet Altin G�n marks an exuberant return to the 70s Anatolian folk-rock sound that characterized their first two albums, On (2018) and Gece (2019). It is also the closest the band have come so far to capturing the infectious energy of their live performances. �We took a very traditional approach to recording a rock album, like in the 70s,� bassist Jasper Verhulst says, with the band using vintage recording equipment to give the set a warm, welcoming sound.

With Ask, the Amsterdam-based sextet Altin G�n marks an exuberant return to the 70s Anatolian folk-rock sound that characterized their first two albums, On (2018) and Gece (2019). It is also the closest the band have come so far to capturing the infectious energy of their live performances. �We took a very traditional approach to recording a rock album, like in the 70s,� bassist Jasper Verhulst says, with the band using vintage recording equipment to give the set a warm, welcoming sound.

The 2nd album 'Ame agari no Machi', which was released in 1973 by Tomio Terada, a rare melody maker who made his major debut as the first Japanese artist on the MGM label in 1972, has been highly acclaimed as a masterpiece of cafe rock. The first LP reprint! A masterpiece of Japanese folky and mellow groove that combines the sounds of Tomio Terada and Hiro Yanagida, a former April Fool's Day.

Farfalla Records presents it's new compilation Amplitude: The Hidden Sounds of French Library. 12 tracks exclusively recorded for professional use between 1978 and 1984 in France.Dive into the universe of the early 1980s with colorful sounds and catchy rhythms from talented musicians from the French scene, composing and arranging both for library music and variety, and accompanying big names in French music.

After Belgian electro-samba wunderkinds Antena split at the end of 1985, singer Isabelle Antena immediately shed her cold wave crown for a sophisticated pop princess tiara. On 1986�s Martin Hayles-produced En Cavale, echos of Madonna and city pop abound, with a lipstick stain of L80s Euro dance and spilled cosmopolitan�s worth of bossa nova stirred in for good measure. This elegant second chapter of a French pop diva has been expanded to include Antena�s shelved Island Records demo, adjacent B-sides and rarities, plus an expansive essay and previously unpublished photographs.

After Belgian electro-samba wunderkinds Antena split at the end of 1985, singer Isabelle Antena immediately shed her cold wave crown for a sophisticated pop princess tiara. On 1986�s Martin Hayles-produced En Cavale, echos of Madonna and city pop abound, with a lipstick stain of L80s Euro dance and spilled cosmopolitan�s worth of bossa nova stirred in for good measure. This elegant second chapter of a French pop diva has been expanded to include Antena�s shelved Island Records demo, adjacent B-sides and rarities, plus an expansive essay and previously unpublished photographs.

The first analog reissue of Tomoko Aran's 6th album 'Last Good-bye' released in 1986 is now available!The 6th album produced by Yukio Seto, released in 1986 by Tomoko Aran, who has become a household name because she was recently sampled by The Weeknd!This album contains 11 songs including the exotic pop groove track 'Nanairo Rakuen', the new wave song 'Oishii ne!' and the addictive cosmic synth song 'Last Good-bye'The 2023 remastered sound source is used, and the cutting is done by Warner Music Mastering

The first reissue of Tomoko Aran's 2nd album 'Shikisaikankaku' backed by Mariah is now available!'Shikisaikankkau' is the album released right before Tomoko Aran's 3rd album 'Fuyu kukan', which is famous both in Japan and abroad as a masterpiece of city pop.Released in 1982, this work was produced by Masanori Sasaji of Mariah. In addition, members of Yasuaki Shimizu, Takayuki Hijikata, Morio Watanabe and Mariah participated in the backing performance.In addition, Akira Takasaki of Loudness and Masayoshi Ando of T-SQAURE are also participating artists!Considered a masterpiece of NEW WAVE, this is the long-awaited first reissue.The 2023 remastered sound source is used, and the cutting was done by Warner Music Mastering.'

Printed on special paper embossed with matte silver aluminum foil. Please consider the jacket illustration as an image as the texture of the original cannot be reproduced graphically. The disc is a translucent colored disc with the image of the Okinawa sun.A charming set of double transformations on this 7 inch. "Kajyadhi Fu Bushi" is a traditional Ryukyu minyo (Okinawa folk song), a joyous celebratory classic which is usually sung at weddings, with lyrics describing how "beautiful buds unfold", using the distinctive Ryukyu/Okinanwa pentatonic scale. Typically performed by a small ensemble of a singer accompanied by sanshin, the Okinawan precursor to the shamisen, the A-side is has been transformed by jazz musician and conductor Jun Arasaki and his group Nine Sheep, with five sanshin, four winds, piano, guitar, bass, percussion and drums. Played only once, unrehearsed but perfect in execution, for a 1976 TV broadcast, this release has been taken from the only recording in existence. The B-side is yet another transformation, a remix by the Portland "fourth world" duo Visible Cloaks. Digital version is also available.

Archer is more than just a spoof; it's brilliant satire. The long-running animated series has a blend of influences, reaching beyond the initial spy fiction pastiche into unexpected genres and settings. From island-hopping mystery-solving to noir send-ups that would make Sam Spade blush, Archer is defined by it's refusal to be defined, across 13 imaginative seasons. How has the show made that setting-jumping work so well? Strong, well-defined characters, excellently-written comic hijinks, and immediately recognizable aesthetics - including killer music, of course. iam8bit is happy to present here, the Archer Vinyl Soundtrack. It features selections from Floyd County Productions' acclaimed FX series Archer's seventh, eighth, and ninth seasons each spanning a unique era-traversing locale. It's the perfect playground for acclaimed composer J.G. Thirlwell, as he deftly dances and dodges through genres, motifs, and musical conventions so skillfully, that the music often outshines the original works it's paying homage to. Longtime iam8bit friend, artist Kevin Wilson, crafted the album art, channeling the show's instantly recognizable style into a package worthy of any fan's record shelf (or, maybe more appropriately, above their minibar). It's a must-have for any wannabe superspy.

Asagaya Romantics is a five-member group consisting of Tomoe Arisaka (vocals), Tomoya Kishi (guitar), Satoshi Hori (keyboards), Rie Furuya (drums), and Rei Honma (bass). Elements of Caribbean music such as rocksteady and reggae have been incorporated into Japanese pop music to make this incredible record. The long-awaited analog release of Asagaya Romantics' 3rd album 'Otona Genso' for the first time in three and a half years has finally arrived!Includes 10 songs full of lyrical pop songs, including the popular track 'Solitary'. With drum tech Affee Takahashi of TAMTAM and Ryotaro Miyasaka, who is also active in Yuta Orisaka (ensemble), on percussion, this album expands the range of sounds. Ikegami Yoriyuki, an illustrator who participated in the character design of director Mamoru Hosoda's 'Princess of Dragons and Freckles', creating the beautiful artwork for this album.

The London based duo, inspired by Daft Punk, have swiftly established a reputation for releasing and consistently created records which harbor infectious bass hooks, addictive vocals and compulsive beats, a mix that has come to epitomize the bands sound.Kitsuné's philosophy has always been singling out the up and coming talents about to break through in music, always on the lookout for promising bands and producers. The Parisian Label first started it's music activity by releasing singles of promising bands and commissioning remixes for each release by no less talented producers and DJs.In 2015, Kitsuné dared to go further down the innovation and musical curation path with the launch of it's on-going playlist New, Hot & Fresh, showcasing hand-picked curation of international emerging and upcoming artists.If there is a Kitsuné sound, then it's an incredibly diverse one, led by the passion for talent-scouting.

Produced by Hawaiian AOR legend Kirk Thompson (of KALAPANA and Lemuria fame) singer-songwriter Babadu's sole album is mellow Hawaiian soul from start to finish. The 1970s saw the birth of Contemporary Hawaiian music, a genre inspired by the popular sounds of the mainland US, but with a distinct, Hawaiian feeling. Perhaps the most popular form of Contemporary Hawaiian music was Hawaiian AOR. It makes sense - mellow grooves and laid-back bass lines seem perfect for the pristine beaches of Waikiki; yet the genre would take off, gaining popularity in lands as far away as Japan. Babadu! Is firmly in the tradition of Hawaiian AOR, with the vocals of Babadu himself resting perfectly atop backing tracks that perfectly meld the sounds of the island with mainland yacht rock. Album opener "We're Not To Blame" is a perfect example, with tropical flutes practically dancing over Babadu's soulful vocals and a groove that'll have anybody nodding their head. With Kirk Thompson of Kalapana handling production, arranging and keyboards - much like he did for Hawaiian AOR legends Lemuria, the album sounds simply sublime. Reissued with an obi-strip for the first time ever, with the handsome face of Babadu himself adorning the cover, you already know you're in for a soulful, good time with this album.