Releases – November 2022

FeaturesHector When glam-rock met The Beano.Joyce The international breakthrough that didn’t happen…until now?Fleetwood Mac In search of a new identity: the transitional ’70s years.Charles Stepney The Chicagoan who gave soul-jazz a hip, psychedelic slant.Gypsy From Minnesota to LA and a big budget double-album debut.Dungen, The Swedish psych-rock warriors, look back on the story so far.RegularsThoughts & Words Your letters, tweets and emails.Shindiggin’ What’s hot on the Shindig! turntable.It’s A Happening Thing Julianna Riolino, Ma Allwright, Brim, StudioTeepdek, Mother Sun, Aoife ...

Lancashire-born Robert Sharples is probably best remembered as the musical director of prototype TV talent show Opportunity Knocks, where he was frequently name checked on screen by host Hughie Green, but it was under the pseudonym Robert Earley that he provided memorable themes and incidental cues for a range of ITV drama series during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Themes for TV Drama brings together some of Earley’s best-known compositions, ranging from the smokey, jazz-tinged Public Eye (perfectly encapsulating the down-at-heel milieu of ...

CELEBRATING THE QUEEN OF ROCKYBILLY’S 85TH BIRTHDAY1‐LP 10inch vinyl, 45RPM, booklet, postcard. 12 tracks. Total playing time approx. 26 min.*On the occasion of her 85th birthday on October 20, 2022, Bear Family Records®honours Wanda Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly with a fine 10inch vinyl LP.*A round dozen of unique Rockabilly classics fill the grooves of this high‐quality record in a limited edition.*In addition to (Let’s Have A) Party, tracks include Baby Loves Him, Mean Mean Man, Cool Love and Savin’ My Love ...

VOLUME 46 IN OUR CD‐SERIES PRESENTING VINTAGE ROCKABILLY AND ROCK ‘N’ ROLL FROM THE VAULTS OF CHICAGO’S CHESS, CHEKCER, AND ARGO CATALOGUES1-CD Digipak with 36-page booklet, 33 individual tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.*Bear Family Records® presents the 46th edition in its successful ‘That’ll Flat Git It!’ CD series, the second comprehensive and carefully conceived showcase of the rockabilly and R&R recordings of Chess Records and its sub‐labels Checker and Argo.*Among the best‐known Chess rockers are Dale Hawkins, Bobby Charles and Billy Barrix.*Our ...

CELEBRATING THE QUEEN OF ROCKYBILLY’S 85TH BIRTHDAY1-CD Digipak with 36-page booklet, 30 individual tracks. Total playing time approx. 70 min.* On the occasion of her 85th birthday on October 20, 2022, Bear Family Records® congratulatesher with this unique compilation of originals and rare cover versions of classic Wanda Jackson hits!* This edition from our ‘Connections’ series brings the songs in chronological order as WandaJackson recorded them at the time, plus additional versions at the end of the CD.* On 31 ...

Music known as “Jesus rock” or “Jesus psych,” the synthesis of the Christian philosophy combined with heavy rock or psychedelic music, first saw light of day in the late 1960’s and was immediately pressed on vinyl. It didn’t dent popular consciousness and was met with almost zero popularity in its infancy. Over the years, astute collectors and music lovers began to realize that some of these records, almost all of which had been privately pressed in very small quantities with little to no promotion, contained ...

“From the fine folks over at ShroomAngel Records comes this LP release of unreleased studio & live recordings from Texas hard rock act Josefus. What you get on Side A are four studio recordings from 1978, as well as a studio track from 2004, and over on the B side five live tracks from a reunited Josefus in 2012. If you like rugged, raw, bluesy ’70s styled hard rock, you’ve come to the right place.On the 1978 studio recordings, the band were comprised of ...

“Participation Mystique” is the fourth studio album from Portland, Oregon art rock duo, Lore City. The band combines elements of psychedelic rock, post-rock, dark wave, and dream pop into a luscious and evocative sound. To these ears, they reside somewhere on an astral level adjacent to what a collaboration between the Sisters of Mercy and Dead Can Dance would sound like. One could easily describe their new single, ‘I Know You Know,’ as a cerebral elegy cascading with surrender… and ‘I Know You Know’ as a ...

Rare New Jersey band from the 70’s in a grooving, jamming rock in a Grateful Dead (in their seventies garb, post Pig Pen), Allman Brothers (with Duane still alive), Little Feat vein. This is the kind of record that gets better the more it goes on, with side two being one of the most desirable in the whole genre.Mad Fables came together in the 1970’s before such labels as “jam band” or “indie band” existed. They self-produced and published their own music — they ...

•First time release for these official rare professional live recordings•Limited pressing vinyl issue, mixed from the original multi-track reels•Band with worldwide following and major credibility in collector circlesPure and original Texas hard rock/progressive rock: red-hot wah-wah blasting guitars, heavy Hammondkeyboards accented with Moogs and other synthesizers, with rock-solid bottom end, and furious, slightly jazzy drums.Formed in 1969 in Houston, TX, Oz Knozz’s 1975 debut LP, “Ruff Mix,” has become a hot property on the collector’s circuit because, quite simply, the album is ...

The John-Pauls are a Texas band with a New York City Metro-Card. Lou Reed devouring Tamale Housemigas while posing for pictures with tourists in front of the Jeremiah the Frog mural. More Unrest thanPavement – less SRV than Roky. Indebted to the Stones with Can in their hearts, the J-Ps follow up theircritically acclaimed debut full-length “Forget to Remember to Forget” with this year’s spellbinding “Bon Mots”. Like a countrified 90s Sonic Youth, The J-Ps use three guitars, and no bass ...

Bebawinigi, born Virginia Quaranta, is a singer, actress, composer and multiinstrumentalist, described as “the young italian Diamanda Galas” by the press. In March 2018, the Radio3’s programme “Battiti” placed her among the best emerging female artists within contemporary international experimental scene. Bebawinigi is a performance music solo project. It is an all-round experiment.Her debut album “Bebawinigi” was released in April 2016, through Strato Dischi Notlabel. She’s been composing music for cinema, theatre and video-art since 2014, scoring for films such as Fulvio Risuleo’s “Guarda in Alto”and ...

Bebawinigi, born Virginia Quaranta, is a singer, actress, composer and multiinstrumentalist, described as “the young italian Diamanda Galas” by the press. In March 2018, the Radio3’s programme “Battiti” placed her among the best emerging female artists within contemporary international experimental scene. Bebawinigi is a performance music solo project. It is an all-round experiment.Her debut album “Bebawinigi” was released in April 2016, through Strato Dischi Notlabel. She’s been composing music for cinema, theatre and video-art since 2014, scoring for films such as Fulvio Risuleo’s “Guarda in Alto”and ...

Italian black ambient/death industrial demon Clavicvla is back with its most perverse and deranged work yet, once again in proud partnership with illustrious US Black Metal/Industrial colleagues Sentient Ruin. From the artwork to the titles and themes, the intent of new fulllength offering “Degeneracy of the 5th Density” is clear: worshipping and glorifying perversions, deviancy and immorality in their every form and shape. With these nefarious intents sole mastermind Ittiel has orchestrated the rise of this third aural plague of his around a creeping miasma of ...

Italian black ambient/death industrial demon Clavicvla is back with its most perverse and deranged work yet, once again in proud partnership with illustrious US Black Metal/Industrial colleagues Sentient Ruin. From the artwork to the titles and themes, the intent of new fulllength offering “Degeneracy of the 5th Density” is clear: worshipping and glorifying perversions, deviancy and immorality in their every form and shape. With these nefarious intents sole mastermind Ittiel has orchestrated the rise of this third aural plague of his around a creeping miasma of ...