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Reissue CDs Weekly: Kamal Keila
With ‘Muslims and Christians’, Sudan attempts to unite Africa through musicMusic from Sudan is overshadowed by the country’s recent history. At the end of June 1989, Colonel Omar al-Bashir assumed...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Max Richter
Another reappearance of the great ‘The Blue Notebooks’When The Blue Notebooks was originally released in February 2004, it did not seem to be an album which would have the afterlife it has enjoyed. It...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Gathered From Coincidence
Terrific three-disc celebration of ‘The British Folk-Pop Sound of 1965-66’It might have begun with The Beatles espousal of Bob Dylan in 1964. There was also The Animals whose first two singles, issued...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Gary McFarland
The return of ‘Soft Samba’ and ‘The In Sound’, two of the jazz individualists best albumsAlthough Gary McFarland’s 1965 album The In Sound had the Samba and Bossa Nova influences which were colouring...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: A Kaleidoscope of Sounds
Superb collection of ‘Psychedelic & Freakbeat Masterpieces’Once heard, Wimple Winch’s “Save my Soul” is never forgotten. The A-side of a flop single originally issued in June 1966, it is one of the...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Teenage Fanclub
From ‘Bandwagonesque’ to ‘Howdy!’: a decade’s worth of albums from Scotland’s pop-rock sensationThe cover images of the four albums Teenage Fanclub issued on Creation Records suggest ambivalence. While...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Japan
Significant sonic upgrades of ‘Gentlemen Take Polaroids’ and ‘Tin Drum’In May 1981, Japan played two nights at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. For NME’s Paul Morley, the high-profile shows at the prestige...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Try A Little Sunshine
Bold box-set celebration of 'The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1969'In 1969, a stream of creative new albums pointed to how what had grown from pop music could be reframed. Bob Dylan’s Nashville...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Stella Chiweshe
‘Kasahwa: Early Singles’: joyful collection of previously obscure tracks by Zimbabwe’s mbira marvelUntil now, hearing the extraordinary “Ratidzo” was all-but impossible. The original single is rare and...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Soft Cell
‘Keychains & Snowstorms’ is a benchmark box-set reconfiguration of Messrs Almond and Ball’s hit-making yearsDuring their original 1980 to 1984 lifespan as a recording unit, Soft Cell issued three...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Bobbie Gentry
‘The Girl From Chickasaw County’ is an enlightening box set dedicated to the ‘Ode to Billie Joe’ hitmakerIn 2016, a writer from The Washington Post thought they had found Bobbie Gentry. After...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Michael Gibbs Big Band, The Gary Burton Quartet
‘Festival 69’ documents a previously unreleased fusion of American and British jazzGary Burton fans with an eye for detail will know that “Fly Time Fly (Sigh)” from his second album, 1962’s Who Is Gary...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Kubrick's Music
Enlightening box-set exploration of a fundamental aspect of Stanley Kubrick’s filmsStanley Kubrick’s use of music in his films has been inspirational. In 1999, The Caretaker – a nom-de-musique of Jim...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Rockin' in the USA - Hot 100 Hits of the 80s
Thought-provoking dig into ‘American pop’s final golden decade’One marker arrived on 1 August 1981, when MTV began broadcasting. With its format based around screening pop videos, American radio had a...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Action
‘Shadows and Reflections’: classy box set celebration of the great, George Martin-supported Sixties band From 7.30pm on Thursday 19 January 1967, George Martin and The Beatles spent the next seven...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Cocteau Twins
‘Treasure Hiding’: complete collection of the influential trio’s years with the Fontana labelThink of Cocteau Twins. Their label 4AD will inevitably be high on the list of markers coming to mind....
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Reissue CDs Weekly: John & Beverley Martyn, Mott The Hoople
Revisiting Island Records: The Martyns’ ‘Stormbringer!’ and ‘The Road to Ruin’, and Mott’s ‘Mental Train’ box setAlthough John & Beverley Martyn and Mott The Hoople were both signed to Island, the...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Jazz on a Summer's Day
‘60th Anniversary Special Edition’ of the trailblazing film documenting 1958’s Newport Jazz FestivalWhen Jazz on a Summer's Day was first seen in American cinemas in March 1960, it showed that seeing...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Marianne Faithfull
'Come and Stay with Me - The UK 45s 1964-1969' collects some of British pop’s best singlesMarianne Faithfull’s recent album Negative Capability featured a new version of “As Tears go by”, the...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Gary McFarland
GARY MCFARLAND ‘Soft Samba’ and ‘The In Sound’, two of the jazz individualist's best albumsThe return of ‘Soft Samba’ and ‘The In Sound’, two of the jazz individualist's best albumsAlthough Gary...
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