Releases – July 2023

MIZMOR, is a one-man heavy music exploration that began in 2012 as a way of dealing with themental and spiritual anguish mastermind A.L.N. feels as a person. More specifically, the content behind the project is that of the existential – primal and innate musings about cause, purpose, self, and god. It is the search for light and truth, or the fact that there is none. It comes from an embittered, burned, confused, and broken heart. It is the fight for ...

MIZMOR, is a one-man heavy music exploration that began in 2012 as a way of dealing with themental and spiritual anguish mastermind A.L.N. feels as a person. More specifically, the content behind the project is that of the existential – primal and innate musings about cause, purpose, self, and god. It is the search for light and truth, or the fact that there is none. It comes from an embittered, burned, confused, and broken heart. It is the fight for survival when reason ...

Indulge in the bewitching allure of 1960s psychedelia with the expanded edition of St Johns Wood Affair’s 2016 debut album. This collection mirrors the era’s psych-pop vibe through inventive original tracks, including the moving “Sky Forever,” an ode to Sky Saxon of The Seeds. Guided by Keith Smart and connected by a shared love of psychedelic music, the band creates a unique sonic journey, through quirky songs and amplified by their creative use of unusual instruments. This expanded edition includes never-before-heard demos, bonus cover tracks from ...

Peggy Lee – a Voice of the Century! Finally, one of the great singers of the American Songbook appears in the ‘Velvet Lounge’ series on Bear Family Records®.• • Meticulous compilation with Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rhythm ‘n’ Blues, Jazz and Pop from Peggy Lee’s long career, recordings from 1948 to 1962.• • Featuring ballads, uptempo numbers, songs from movies and live recordings – some on CD for the first time – the CD album reflects Peggy Lee’s artistic versatility.• • Her big hit ...

• A rocking 14-track LP on Bear Family Records® from one of the original Memphis rockabillies, Eddie Bond, backed up by a 25-track CD featuring original and cover versions of some of Eddie’s songs.• • Mostly from the mid-1950s, these tracks sparkle with the life and excitement of thenew rocking music.• • Eddie started and finished as a country singer, but he embraced the new rockabilly music and he soon became the Rockin’ Daddy described in his best-selling disc from 1956.• • Eddie’s ...

This release in the seemingly never-ending ‘That’ll Flat…Git It!’ CD-series on Bear Family Records® focuses for a second time on the rockabilly catalog of the renowned King label.• • Another 31 classics from company founder Syd Nathan’s unexpectedly abundant archive from the latter half of the 1950s.• • Included are Moon Mullican, Charlie Feathers and Mac Curtis, among others, plus obscure names like Cecil McNabb, Jr., Bing Day, Joe Penny or Bill Beach a.m.o.• • Bill Dahl has done extensive research on the history ...

Gary Williams, born 1938, from the Pacific Northwest of the USA, has written over 600(!) songs in a career that spanned a mere 40 years.• • Bear Family Records® re-releases 34 of his greatest recordings – rockabilly, country and folk – from 1957 to ’66, released on Verve, Panorama, Manito, Connie Sue and Empire, among others.• • Throughout his life, Gary Williams was overshadowed by the great stars of his time – based on the quality of his songs and his great performance, he ...

In her native Sweden, Lena Jonsson is one of the best-known folk musicians today. The virtuosoviolinist has already received numerous awards. Lena Jonsson celebrates a fresh, modern and aboveall open view of the folk tradition and draws inspiration from many different musical styles from allover the world. This is no different with her third album “Elements”. Lena Jonsson has composed allthe album tracks from scratch. Although she is oriented towards traditional Swedish folk music, thesongs skilfully take impulses from jazz, ...

Hip hop-inflected immersive synth psych from Name Sayers frontman Devin James Fry. Features nonbinary plus-size queer Brooklyn rapper Chris Conde, Denver rapper and circuit bender Otem Rellik, and Chicago jazz flutist Lloyd Brodnax King. The album’s title reflects that it is the product of a time (the Covid-19 pandemic) when societal norms broke down and expectations could be set aside. “I wanted a word that felt like both retreat and rebellion,” says Fry.Retrellion is a departure from Devin James Fry’s previous sound, which ...

Triumphant pop evolution of Austin dark-art-rockers Name Sayers. Guests include Wayne Kramer of The MC5 and rappers Chris Conde and E-Turn.“Where Devin James Fry’s sprawling former outfit Salesman offered snapshots of a gently psychedelic Americana that seemed to blur at the edges, Name Sayers snaps into focus, wrapping tight, darkly offbeat pop arrangements around unlikely hooks” Austin dark-art-rockers, Name Sayers make a triumphant return! The album marks a pop evolution for the band, incorporating elements of psychedelic rock, hip hop, synth pop, and cumbia, ...

“Name Sayers’ debut LP (from 2018) spins a torch-lit ritual of loud, Gothic post-folk led by a singer whose hovering baritone and metaphysical command position him as the musical next of kin to Nick Cave and PJ Harvey (had the onetime lovers ever procreated). Eight scriptures from the ATX fourpiece unfold with the tribal, floor-tom pounding of ‘Upbringing,’ over which Devin James Fry chants a creation story where his body and voice are a macrocosm of the Colorado landscape: ‘Yarrow grow where my heel ...

A stunning collaboration between Denver songwriter Devin James Fry and Palestinian oud master Sari Andoni, “Radicans” is a meditation on the value of setting aside expectations, opening one’s heart to another, and letting the ear guide. Coming as it does during a time of reckoning and unrest in America, “Radicans” is a purposeful mingling of Arab and American folk and psychedelic music traditions, and serves as a lucid reminder that we are at our best creatively when we let ourselves be vulnerable with ...

Fifteen years later, Zenzile and High Tone are finally back for the highly expected Zentone Chapter 2! The two most legendary dub groups from France are taking up the challenge a second time and offering us a new album co-produced by Jarring Effects and Black Dub.Listening to this new opus, if there is one word that comes to mind it is “humanity”. Zentone Chapter 2 was conceived in the midst of a pandemic. The 9 musicians met in Lyon for a week for ...

This band were formed in 1992 in Columbus, Ohio. The band and its leader Buzz Wayne became so famous that Buzz ended up in a West End Musical in London called Five Guys Named Moe.Tracks1. Little pig2. You Crazy Gal You3. Let’s Bop4. Go Cat Wild5. Dance the Bop6. Everybody’s Movin’7. My Baby Can’t be Satisfied8. Every Walk of Life9. New Girlfriend10. More Like Love11. Boomerang12. Kiss the Girls13. When I Start Lovin’ You14. Is It Cool?15. Sweet LiesGENRE: RockabillyBARCODE: 5017273000625 ...

BAu is a Teramo, Italy-based rock band that formed in the midst of the Covid pandemic in 2020.Their EP ”Indifferentemente” was made in the most DIY fashion and it will be released July 7, 2023via New Jersey label Aagoo Records.Danilo di Francesco, the band’s originator explains that all members (Stefano Galassi on drums,Gianluca “Mastino” Rosato on guitar, Eugenio “Barabba” Barracchini on vocals and himself onguitar), come from quite similar previous musical experiences making the formation of the band quickand simple.In ...