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Steffen Basho-Junghans - IS

We are delighted to announce our first ever release – ‘IS’ by Steffen Basho-Junghans. Because of its intense nature and connection with solitude and depth of thought, we’ve gone for the two extremes:
1:Super heavy weight deluxe vinyl (200grams) that comes with a free digital download for those long walks with the ipod.
2:Or if you want to skip the vinyl and just go for the download go to:
http://diogenes.greedbag.com/buy/is-9/

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Vinyl’s out of sleeve in good packaging.

The Family Elan - Bow Low Bright Glow (Gatefold CD)

“Bow Low Bright Glow” is a communal excavation and re-presentation of buried European folk and sufi-hearted music than any form of experiment. Family Elan are alone in their field. Here, Chris Hladowski has put together a collection of original numbers, visions created from lost / found tapes and traditional pieces that are a fitting companion to Family Elan’s “Stare of Dawn” debut. Alongside Hladowski’s voice, there’s the vocal input of Nalle’s Hanna Tuulikki – a voice as easily capable of gentle Qawwali as it is folk song. This is a record of heavy treble intricacy, Hladowski’s saz and bouzouki playing encompassing drones, folk, dervish progressive work and a woozy shimmer over and through the entwining melodies. Family Elan are more than just a project or a band, Hladowski has endowed the music here with a such a unique voice that shaky shorthand comparisons would be pointless and a short sell. Music that hints at the devotional rarely feels as inclusive, as communal and as enjoyable as this. Gatefold digisleeve.

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The Family Elan - Bow Low Bright Glow (LP)

To What Strange Place : The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929 (3 CDs and booklet)

Before the Golden Age of Americana on Record, immigrants from the dissolving Ottoman Empire were singing their joys and sorrows to disc in New York City. The virtuosic musicians from Anatolia, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Levant living in the U.S. who recorded between WWI and the Depression are presented here across two discs, along with a third disc of masterpieces they imported as memories on shellac-and-stone. The intermingled lives and musics of Christians, Jews, and Muslims represent Middle Eastern culture as it existed within the U.S. a century ago.

A fascinating, new view of American Folk Music.
Compiled by IAN NAGOSKI.
Designed by Susan Archie.

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Ustad Abdul Karim Khan 1934-1935 (CD)

"Ustad Abdul Karim Khan's recording of the composition 'Jamuna ke tir' in Raga Bhairavi stands as one of the great masterpieces of music. When I first heard the recordings of Abdul Karim Khan I thought that perhaps it would be best if I gave up singing, got a cabin up in the mountains, stocked it with a record player and recordings of Abdul Karim Khan, and just listened for the rest of my life."
– La Monte Young, 2004

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Stephanie Hladowski - The High High Nest 10" Vinyl

"The story is that these four songs are all that's left of Scatter's scrapped final album. As that free folk assembly went on their separate ways, thankfully vocalist Stephanie Hladowski has collated the tracks into this 10" EP. It feels like these songs have been pulled through the liquid mirror of a now-closed world, with this world being better off for having them. These brief glimpses of the past reveal themselves as further puzzle pieces in the reconfiguration of British traditional songs as part of a living present..." - Scott McKeating, Brainwashed

£6 (including p&p) for EU residents

£7.50 (including p&p) for non-EU residents

Singing At The Moon - Singing Knives Compilation

'Contributions all fall within the parameters of improvised folk or homemade psychedelia, but with a diverse instrumentation and hands-on song craft,,, Singing At The Moon manages to be always idiosyncratic and occasionally otherwordly.' (Derek Walmsley/The Wire)

Track Listing:

Tirath Singh Nirmala - Singing At The Moon

One Ensemble of Daniel Paddon - Low Clowns

Peril Hill - Vapours In August

Chora - Live From The Inky Gazelle Gland

Bridget Hayden - Untitled

Nalle - Are You Beautiful Inside? Are You Here?

Feather Gatherers - Leaves

Big Eyes Family Players - Alenky

Michael Flower Band - Santa Flauta

Tau Emerald - The Piano Key

Inecto School - Mullard's thrid Madrigal

James Green - Ribbon

Ben Raynolds - The Golden Arm

Directing Hand - Down In Yon Forest

McWatt - Untitled

£6 (Including P&P)

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