Current Priorities: Late January
January 23rd, 2012
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Ruthie Foster Let It Burn Blue Corn Music Genre: Blues : R&B UPC: 677967120128 Territories: World Except Australia Release Date: 1.31.12 |
Soulful vocalist Ruthie Foster’s latest work is a deeply intimate recording: a smoky mix of original songs coupled with inventive interpretations of an unexpected collection of covers. Recorded in New Orleans at Piety Street studios, with a small group of A-List musicians, this album takes the listener on Ruthie’s most personal journey yet. With her deeply moving vocals at the core, Ruthie is supported along the way by some very special guests. |
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Union Analogtronics Fat Beats Genre: Hip-Hop : Rap UPC: 659123514422 Territories: World Release Date: 1.31.12 |
Parisian duo Union take an otherworldly approach to analog-driven, melodically abstract, sample free hip-hop, and unleash a musically challenging, painstakingly crafted, MC-packed album – Analogtronics. Producing space-aged bangers that mold perfectly around each guest, sprinkling in a few lush, instrumentals. This is the album we have all been waiting for, as bonus tracks provide over twenty songs hypnotic interstellar boop-bap. |
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Matthew Santos Quickly Disappearing Candy Rat Records Genre: Alternative : Alternative Rock UPC: 091037117298 Territories: World Release Date: 1.31.12 |
Grammy nominated singer/songwriter, Matthew Santos is kicking off 2012 with a new solo album Quickly Disappearing. Santos has established himself as one of the rare and striking talents quickly emerging from the Chicago music scene. With his ethereal voice Santos has secured his place in current music with his distinguished style and elusive musical gift. Matthew Santos is quietly rising into one of the most remarkable voices of his generation. |
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Dana Falconberry Though I Didn’t Call It Came Crossbill Records Genre: Indie : Folk UPC: 847108033567 Territories: World Release Date: 1.24.12 |
Dana Falconberry’s newest release, Though I Didn’t Call It Came, celebrates, explores, and at times laments the vast landscapes in which they are set. Touching on themes of childhood curiosity, mortality, and the aching beauty of solitude, she interweaves the human experience with the world surrounding it, guiding her listeners down moonlit paths and sandy shores until they are standing right alongside her under the birches, wide-eyed and wondering. |
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The Darcys AJA Arts & Crafts Genre: Alternative : Rock UPC: 827590660052 Territories: World Release Date: 1.24.12 |
After their self titled debut album Toronto-based art rock group The Darcys are releasing a chilling and unlikely reimagining of Steely Dan’s 1977 classic AJA. These recordings, along with The Darcys’ massive, immaculate live performances, are evidence of a band whose moment has finally arrived. A group strengthened by its time and trials, whose future is built solely on the strength of its ideas and music of genuine depth and substance. |
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Bill Ortiz Winter In America Left Angle Records Genre: Hip-Hop : R&B UPC: 847108008213 Territories: World Release Date: 1.31.12 |
One of the world’s most consummate trumpet players, Bill Ortiz has spent decades playing music with some of the top artists from around the globe. An ongoing member of the Santana band, as of 2012 Bill Ortiz is proud to present his new solo EP release Winter In America. This album features an exciting blend of hard hitting hip hop, soulful singing, and the incendiary and emotionally charged trumpet playing of the seasoned Santana musician. |
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Barry Adamson I Will Set You Free Central Control International Ltd. Genre: Alternative : Alternative Rock UPC: 610696775023 Territories: Americas Release Date: 1.30.12 |
An avid embracer of shifts in culture and technology, the internet’s grip on our modern life, plus an overwhelming desire to keep moving and keep improving ones self feeds into all Adamson creates. Where magic and fear once again run amok and hell no longer looms around the corner but lives right here, Adamson surrenders before amplifiers and screens creating himself, producing effortlessly this propaganda and letting it now live by his name alone. |
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Various Artists The Alan Lomax Collection from the American Folklife Center Global Jukebox Genre: Folk : World UPC: 847108079725 Territories: World Release Date: 1.31.12 |
Alan Lomax spent his life documenting folk music from across the world. Featured here are sixteen selections from his collections, recorded between 1947-1982. Introduced by a paean to America’s greatest folk hero, John Henry, and concluding with one of the country’s most enduring lullabies, the compilation combines ballads, blues, dance tunes, and sacred songs from around the U.S. with a Galician alborada, Trinidadian calypso, and more. |
