i Build February 2021

The Outsiders - Count For Something: Albums, Demos, Live, Unreleased 1976-1978 (2021) {5CD Set, Raw Edge–Cherry Red}
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Rock / British Punk / Post Punk / New Wave / Alternative

A huge selection of work from the Outsiders – not the group who recorded famously for Capitol in the late 60s, but an early UK punk combo who features some fantastic vocals and guitar from the young Adrian Borland! The Outsiders definitely have a sound that's in the spirit of 1977 – short, sharp, and very tight – but Borland also has chops on the guitar that most of his contemporaries do not – which means that even in the small space of these cuts, you'll get some guitar solos that link the music both backwards towards some more expansive British work, and the sound of the American scene of the 80s – when early punk groups started to learn their instruments, and solo a bit more.

From Bad Time Records comes THE SHAPE OF SKA PUNK TO COME: VOLUME 1, featuring 12 brand new / unreleased tracks from some of ska punk's boldest and brightest.

The Best Is Yet to Come is the upcoming eighteenth studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It is scheduled to be released on 26 February 2021.

A quick internet search brings up some extraordinary footage of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry producing a session at the Black Ark. Taken from the film ‘Roots, Rock, Reggae’, directed by Jeremy Marre, the sequence shows Junior Murvin collaborating with members of the Congos and the Heptones on a song improvised on the spot for the film crew. Before the vocals are recorded, the Upsetters lay down the backing track. The musical director of the session is the afro-haired bass player, Boris Gardiner; unusually, it is he who counts in the band to start each take. After a long conversation with Boris a few years back, I asked Lee about his contribution to the Black Ark sound.

Roland Kayn - Electronic Symphony V (2021) {Reiger-records-reeks}
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Experimental / Modern Classical / Musique concrète / Electroacoustic / Cybernetic

In Kayn's Electronic Symphony series, the past and present continually encounter each other anew, each time casting new reflections on the given moment. Kayn's autonomous studio processes remove context from what he termed (markedly in the language of synthesis) the "carrier" material, for the most part music of the orchestral tradition at its most texturally oriented – even drone-like – but alternately seething and volcanic in its drama. These pieces were of great personal significance to the composer, perhaps due to the fashion in which they bridged his initial musical inspirations with the new sound world his friend and colleague Franco Evangelisti described as "something that can no longer be named music".

Whitesnake celebrate ‘the blues’ with a new collection (on CD and coloured vinyl) that features remixed and remastered versions of the group’s best blues-rock songs.

Roland Kayn - Accumulation (2021) {Reiger-records-reeks}
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Experimental / Modern Classical / Musique concrète / Electroacoustic / Electronic

With the jump-cut edits and staccato rhythms of its opening, ‘Accumulation’ is perhaps the closest Kayn’s unique approach came to that of his European contemporaries of the concrète school. The reverberating landscapes we glimpse throughout the piece, however, ultimately clarify our distance from this vocabulary, and the cumulative acquisition of noise-laden textures may point to a closer parallel in the most sonically fixated work of the early industrial movement.

During the years in which Bernard Foccroulle was successively director of the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, he never ceased to devote himself to his instrument, the organ, regularly making recordings, giving numerous concerts and several premieres. The compositions on this recording range over that thirty-year cycle, from the 1991 premiere of Jonathan Harvey’s Fantasia in Strasbourg to that of Betsy Jolas’s Musique d’autres jours, a piece combining organ with cello that was premiered in Paris in February 2021 during the Présences Festival. His collaboration with the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton also resulted in a new composition by Bernard Foccroulle for this organ-cello duo!