2017 Blog
Latest Releases Manufactured by Key Production_October Round-up
Melanie De Biasio Lilies, Black vinyl LP + CD, [Play It Again Sam]
Following last year’s interim track, the 25 minute opus ‘Blackened Cities’, Melanie De Biasio makes her return with news of a brand new album ‘Lilies’. An up- tempo, entrancing collection of tracks that ventures to stimulate both lyrically and musically whilst enticing the listener into an expressive and atmospheric environment.
Baxter Dury Prince of Tears, black vinyl LP, limited edition 'Miami Blue' coloured vinyl and CD, [Heavenly]
Delusional and hopeful. Loving but injured. Full of vitriol though brimming with forgiveness. Intensely personal yet brutally open. Baxter Dury’s fifth album is both a private meditation into the very real relationship breakdown he experienced over the last year and his most ambitious and biggest work to date.
Naaman Beyond CD
Broen I <3 Art, limited edition clear vinyl LP and digipack CD, [Bella Union]
Calypso Valois Cannibale, black vinyl LP, [PIAS]
The The Trilogy Deluxe Vinyl Boxset, Deluxe & Standard CD, [Radio Cineola]
Daniil Trifonov Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1, double vinyl, [Mariinsky Label]
Isabelle Faust, Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto & Symphony No.5 CD, [Harmonia Mundi]
Isabelle Faust, accompanied by the Freiburger Barockorchester, in top form, under the direction of Pablo Heras-Casado, offers us a miracle of purity and lyricism in a freshly-minted interpretation that fulfills Mendelssohn’s promise of ‘a concerto to make the angels rejoice in heaven’!
Fischer-Z Building Bridges, limited edition dark blue transparent vinyl
Fischer-Z's first vinyl record for 20 years is here and we have made it a special one. The 'Building Bridges' vinyl are numbered 1 to 500 and pressed on dark blue transparent vinyl. The LP contains 13 tracks, including two extra unreleased album tracks 'So Fey' and 'Wrong'. As well as an MP3 download card. A very limited and exclusive release not to be missed.
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury Free Fire: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Score, double LP housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with digital download card included, mail order variant (limited to 300 copies) is a double silver vinyl with black and white smoke effect, [Invada Records]
Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury return to score Ben Wheatley’s 1970s based epic shoot-out Free Fire, executively produced by Martin Scorsese. The soundtrack was compiled by Ben Wheatley himself and this version features all score tracks by Barrow & Salisbury, dialogue from the film and all license music used in the film (Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Denver, The Real Kids).
Girls in Hawaii Nocturne, digipack CD, [PIAS]
Macklemore Gemini, CD album, [ADA]
Milburn Time, 2LP and CD, [Count To Ten Records]
It’s been ten years since Milburn’s major label debut ‘Well Well Well’. Now the band, who kick started the Sheffield revival that would give birth to – amongst others – Arctic Monkeys and Reverend & The Makers, are back.
Various Artists Reformation 1517-2017, [Harmonia Mundi]
This recording is the culmination of that project, presenting chronologically the two great Reformation cantatas of J. S. Bach and three chorale-based works by Mendelssohn, Brahms and Vaughan Williams, each preceded here by the chorale melody or hymn on ̀which they are based, giving an insight into the emotional and dramatic strength of the Reformation's theological and cultural legacy.
My Sad Captains Sun Bridge, 12" vinyl album and CD, [Bella Union]
Three years after their last album, London’s My Sad Captains light the way to fresh shores with their radiant fourth album. Released via Bella Union on 6th October, Sun Bridge is named after the way a still lake offers the ideal conditions for the sun’s reflection to resemble a bridge across the water. Between its lustrous dream-pop surfaces and hidden depths, it’s an album that reflects on how uncertain times can be the seed-bed for change: or, for a bridge to extended adventures.
Philip Selway Let Me Go, vinyl album and CD, [Bella Union]
Radiohead drummer PHILIP SELWAY’s new album is a departure from its two preceding albums (Familial and Weatherhouse). It’s the soundtrack to the film drama Let Me Go, a story about mothers and daughters; about loss and mistrust; about the ramifications of a World War II crime; about secrets, trauma and lingering ghosts. The album will released physically on 27th October via Bella Union and available digitally from 15th September to coincide with the film’s release.
Sumie Lost In Light, white vinyl record, [Bella Union]
For a singer-songwriter, the benefit of starting from a point of quiet is the room it allows for manoeuvre afterwards. Such is the case with the subtly cinematic second album from Sandra Sumie Nagano, Lost in Light, due for release via Bella Union on 10th November.
The Selecter Daylight, limited edition yellow vinyl and CD, [DMF Music]
Led by their iconic frontwoman Pauline Black, alongside a hugely talented band of musicians, and co-fronted by original member Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson, The Selecter are firing on all righteous cylinders in 2017 – and ready to release DAYLIGHT their most urgent, politically engaged and purely uplifting music since the days of ‘Too Much Pressure’ and ‘Celebrate The Bullet’.
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Wind River (Original Score), white vinyl LP, [Invada Records]
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis come together once more to score brand new thriller ‘Wind River’, directed by ‘Sicario’ writer Taylor Sheridan and starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner.
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice, custom split Sleeve, [Marathon Artists]
A conversation between friends, documented in raw, unvarnished song form, brimming with personal history, crackling with energy and shot through with humour - this is the collaborative album of Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile. Two of the most acclaimed and gifted song writers of our generation “Lotta Sea Lice” also sees them roping in friends such as Dirty Three, Stella from Warpaint and Mick Harvey to create a body of work that sounds organic & candid.
Pentangle The Albums: 1968-1972 Pentangle, 7CD box set, [Cherry Red]
For the first time ever, these PENTANGLE albums are available as a deluxe 7CD box set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the band’s formation. Each record has been remastered from the best available sources, referencing original tapes and vinyl where relevant. Each album has been expanded with a wealth of bonus material, across the package, there are an impressive 22 recordings which are previously unreleased.
Blakes's 7 Crossfire Part 1 Multibox, [Big Finish]
The Eight Doctor The Time War Series 01 Multibox, [Big Finish]
Oasis The Masterplan, gatefold heavyweight double LP, [Big Brother Records]
Nicholas Daniel, Britten Oboe Quartet A Tribute to Janet, [Harmonia Mundi]
"Daniel negotiates the Mozart Quartet with bright tone and nimble fingers and tongue, well coordinated in the challenging finale; the strings support him with neat phrasing and clear balance…and there are two exemplary accounts of two pieces written for the London Oboe Quartet in the 1970s"— BBC Music Magazine, October 2017
Redmond & Caravanserail & Cuiller A Fancy: Fantasy on English Airs & Tunes, [Harmonia Mundi]
Incidental music, airs, dances and inventive melodies combining the English tradition and French and Italian innovations are the ingredients that make up the five imaginary tableaux of this reconstruction of the period, illuminated by the voice of the distinguished soprano, Rachel Redmond.