Way Out West (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series 2024): Vinyl LP Anz honey-sweet guitar like an indie

honey-sweet guitar like an indie lullaby

This is the Sea

Tropicalia Icon Tom Zé features on Santtana’s slightly zippier version of Zé’s samba dub Ogodô Ano 2000 and American journalist Phylis Huber’s reading of an extract of Virgina Woolf’s The Waves on the expansive 9min-long Balearic/afrobeat dub A Natureza Espera

an active “fuck off” on the other

Neil Smith (all This is the Kit)

Way Out West (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series 2024): Vinyl LP Anz honey-sweet guitar like an indieA classic of the genre, Way Out West was tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins first album for west coast label Contemporary Records when released in 1957. The first album to employ the strolling technique, Rollins was backed by Ray Brown (bass) and Shelly Manne (drums). This new edition, released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series, features (AAA) lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Bernie Grundman and is pressed on 180 gram vinyl at QRP, and