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Reissue CDs Weekly: Keith Relf - All the Falling Angels
Confirmation that the face of The Yardbirds was a creative force in his own right“Collector of the Light” is based around what sounds like a treated bass guitar. As the neck is moved up and down,...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Edikanfo - The Pace Setters
The reappearance of the Brian Eno-produced Ghanaian band’s sole album Ghana was visited by two British musicians in the early Eighties. One was Mick Fleetwood, who recorded the Visitor album in Accra...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The Belfast Gypsies
Definitive statement on the band Van Morrison can’t have coveted while with ThemThere’s something wrong with the picture above. It’s the sleeve of a French EP issued in August 1966 credited to a surly...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: John Lee Hooker - Documenting The Sensation Recordings...
Definitive chronicle of the legendary blues-man’s earliest recording sessionsJohn Lee Hooker’s recording career began on Friday 3 September 1948. He’d attracted the attention of the Kiev-born Bernard...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks - Orange Crate Art
California-inspired collaboration between two American greats sounds better than everOrange Crate Art makes most sense in the context of Van Dyke Parks’s solo career rather than that of Brian Wilson’s....
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Razorcuts - Storyteller, The World Keeps Turning
Definitive overview of the UK indie-popsters reveals their rapid developmentRazorcuts formed after Tim Vass discovered Alan McGee’s Living Room club. In the booklet accompanying the reissue of his...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Philip Rambow - The Rebel Kind
Making the case for ‘the eternal under-rated cult’“Strange Destinies” is the first track. “Take your eyes off me Svengali” is its memorable opening phrase. Conjuring up Van Morrison, Tom Petty, Mike...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Dennis Herrold
‘The Mystery Of Dennis Herrold’ is rockabilly heavenIt’s been a long strange trip for Dennis Herrold. The Virginia-born rocker’s sole single, December 1957’s “Hip Hip Baby” / “Make With the Lovin’”,...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Super Sonics - Martin Green Presents 40 Junkshop Britpop...
Britpop filtered by a man who knowsThe gentleman pictured above is Martin Green. In 1995 he was a prime mover behind The Sound Gallery, a double-album compiling groovy British easy listening and...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Oneness Of Juju - African Rhythms 1970-1982
Driving jazz, grooves, funk and electrifying percussion from James “Plunky” Branch and Co.“These are African rhythms, passed down to us from the ancient spirits. Feel the spirits, a unifying force....
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Shellshock Rock
SHELLSHOCK ROCK Undiluted box-set salute to punk-era Northern IrelandUndiluted box-set salute to punk-era Northern IrelandThe feather in this particular cap is a DVD of director John T. Davis’ 1979...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Dudu Phukwana and the "Spears"
DUDU PHUKWANA AND THE 'SPEARS' Illuminating reissue of Joe Boyd-produced debut albumDudu Pukwana’s Joe Boyd-produced debut album reappears, with added Fairport Convention inputWhether explicitly or...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim
BE-BOP DELUXE - AXE VICTIM Box-set makeover of Bill Nelson & Co’s impressive debutBox-set makeover of Bill Nelson and Co’s impressive but ‘NME’-slated debut albumBill Nelson’s views on his band...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Ready Or Not - Thom Bell's Philly Soul Arrangements &...
THOM BELL'S PHILLY SOUL ARRANGEMENTS & PRODUCTIONS 1965-1978 Homage to the great American sonic auteurOverdue homage to the great American sonic auteurA skim though the track listing confirms that...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: This Is Our Music - Jazz Out Of Norway
Double-disc testament to a nation’s fertile musical seedbedThe Turnamat is a type of washing machine made by AEG. In the composition titled “Turnamat”, Seventies-type synths, wobbly keyboard lines and...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: The London Pub Rock Scene, The Year The UK Turned Day-Glo
Box sets underlining how Brit-punk didn’t create a cleavage with the musical past The standard recitation goes like this. In the early Seventies a London scene evolved, centring on bands playing in...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: John Coltrane - Giant Steps
60th-anniversary edition of the jazz landmark doesn’t go far enoughGiant Steps doesn’t suffer from a lack of availability. A couple of weeks ago, two editions of John Coltrane’s 1960 landmark set were...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Helen Shapiro - Face The Music The Complete Singles...
A lack of hits doesn't weaken this homage to the UK’s first home-grown female pop starWhat happens when the hits dry up? And what happens a little further down the line, as the years of being on the...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Peephole In My Brain - British Progressive Pop Sounds Of...
A fresh perspective on the year glam rock began flexing its musclesThe title comes from the lyrics of “Andy Warhol”: track two, side two of David Bowie’s late 1971 album Hunky Dory: ”Put a peephole in...
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Reissue CDs Weekly: Crass - The Crassical Collection
The entire catalogue of the totemic anarcho-punk disruptors is revisited - againThe cultural imprint Crass were leaving was apparent while they were active. As well as their own music, their label...
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