Ryuichi Sakamoto Hidari Ude No Yume

Ryuichi Sakamoto scores a wonderful modern classic soundtrack, with incredible arrangements, for Alice Winocour's acclaimed drama, Proxima.

**Another essential reissue via Wewantsounds!**

Wewantsounds ireissue Sylvia Robinson's super rare soul LP released in 1975 on her Vibration label, part of her All-Platinum/Stang/Turbo empire. A few years later, she would bring hip hop to the international stage producing "Rapper's Delight" in 1979 and "The Message" in 1982. "Sweet Stuff" features several Sylvia cult classics including "Private Performance," "Soul Je T'aime", a cover of Serge Gainsbourg's "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus" and the mellow favourite "Sho Nuff Boogie" recorded with The Moments. As bonus tracks, the release features "Sho Nuff Boogie, Part 2" which only came out as the single's b-side at the time and the long version of "Soul Je T'aime", all packaged in the album's original artwork

LP with Gatefold Sleeve + 20 page booklet

First official vinyl reissue of Frank Foster's seminal 1972 protest Jazz Funk classic reissued in a Deluxe format. Including newly remastered audio, original gatefold artwork plus a 20 page booklet full of beautiful unseen session photos, an interview with Dee Dee and Cecil Bridgewater by Paul Bowler and a new essay by Kevin Le Gendre (Echoes, BBC Radio 3, Jazzwise.

RSD 2021 DROP 1. Available online from 6pm Sat June 12

£33

Gatefold LP + bonus 7"

Michel Legrand's cult soundtrack for Jacques Deray's 1969 classic 'La Piscine' gets reissued with three bonus tracks making their vinyl debut. Featuring newly remastered audio, gatefold sleeve designed by Eric Adrian Lee and Liner notes by Jeremy Allen (The Guardian, The Quietus). The RSD Edition will also include Michel Legrand's super rare and funky 7" OST for Deray's 1972 film 'Un Homme Est Mort'.

**Landmark album by Lebanese cultural icon Ziad Rahbani - first time on vinyl since its release in 1978!**

Originally released in Lebanon only and mixing Arabic music with jazz, bossa nova and other western influences, is hailed as an absolute classic. The album is the soundtrack to his eponymous play and has been highly sought-after by DJs and collectors around the world.

Wewantsounds reissue this killer, in-demand, funky jazz rarity from trumpeter, Billy Brooks, featuring that classic break on 'Forty Days', as sampled by Tribe Called Quest on 'Luck of Lucien'!

Classic 'proto-techno' album (featuring the ESSENTIAL cut 'Automatic Collect, Automatic Correct') from 1981 by Logic System aka Hideki Matsutake, the go-to keyboard programmer for the Tokyo music scene, who worked with the likes of Akiko Yano Ryuichi Sakamoto and Mkwaju Ensemble!

Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the very special reissue of one of Ennio Morricone's most striking soundtracks composed for Henri Verneuils' 1975 film Peur Sur La Ville (Fear Over The City). This special edition includes the original score released in 1975 plus a second vinyl worth of bonuses which have never been out on vinyl. These includes two tracks making their official debut after 45 years.

Approved by Ennio Morricone and remastered from the original tapes with liner notes by fellow musicians AM and JB Dunckel (air). Gatefold sleeve designed by Eric Adrian.

A1. Peur Sur La Ville A2. Considération Sur Un Homicide A3. Avvertire La Polizia* A4. Dolcemente Ambigua* A5. Suspense* A6. Un Sursaut* A7. La Tension Monte* A8. Jukebox Psychédélique* A9. Peur Sur Paris*

B1. Défense De Stationner B2. Minaccia Telefonata N.1* B3. Sur Les Toits De Paris B4. Mannequins B5. Essere Preso Dal Panico* B6. Une Bouffée De Radio B7. Paris Secret B8. La Scorta* B9. Le Tellier E Helene* LP2

C1. Paranoïaquement Vôtre C2. Reconsidération** C3. Minaccia Telefonata N.2* C4. Otages C5. Notturno Primo* C6. Assassinio*

D1. À L'angle D'une Rue De La Périphérie* D2. Minaccia Telefonata N.3** D3. Tractations* D4. Notturno Secondo* D5. Peur Sur La Ville (Final) D6. Dénouement*

Reissue of this rare disco/boogie classic album written, arranged and produced by the great Greg Carmichael and legendary Patrick Adams. Originally released in 1978 and every track a winner!

Yukihiro Takahashi's sophisticated city funk classic released in 1978 when he had just joined YMO. Co-produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto and featuring Haruomi Hosono, Minako Yoshida and Tatsuro Yamashita. First ever issue of the hard to find classic, outside of Japan, via Wewantsounds!

Wewantsounds continue their ambitious Akiko Yano reissue program with the release of 'Japanese Girl', her landmark debut album from 1976. Backed by Little Feat (with Lowell George) and by the cream of Japanese musicians (including Haruomi Hosono), 'Japanese Girl' is one of the most important Japanese albums of the 70s, mixing pop, rock, Japanese folk together with Little Feat's superb classic sound.

Volume 4 in the 'Mr Bongo Record Club' continues in the same mould as with previous editions; a selection of staff favourites and rare lost gems from the Brazilian, African, soul, funk, and disco genres. Features racks from artists such as Azwon, Cindy & The Playmates, and Zé Roberto to contemporary artists such as Matthew Tavares (of BADBADNOTGOOD fame), Wax Machine, and DJ Format & The Simonsound.

A superb, extensive exploration of Tokyo's cutting edge 80s sound through the music of cult Japanese label Nippon Columbia and its Better Days imprint - all selected by British radio presenter and DJ, Nick Luscombe.

The selection mixes electro, synth-pop, funk and ambient and features such artists as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mariah, Shigeo Sekito, Juicy Fruits, Hitomi "Penny" Tohyama and Yumi Murata. The tracklist includes many sought-after rarities and hidden gems which have never been released outside of Japan.

Another breathtakingly original transmission from UK group, Sault! Hot-on-the-heels of their essential 'UNTITLED (Black Is)' of earlier in 2020, 'Untitled (Rise)' sees the band evolve even more, blending funk, dance, post-punk and soul music into the soundtrack of the year. ESSENTIAL!

Bunny Lee recorded a massive volume of remarkably consistent music in the 70s. This compilation brings together rare and unreleased cuts that put the listener bang in the middle of a typical recording session, complete with false starts and studio banter.

Linval Thompson is represented by two unreleased tunes, and is also heard in the runup to 'Tommy's Vibration'. Once the 'flying cymbal' sound had taken off, Bunny often recorded a 'flyers' and a straight version of the same rhythm: 'Tommy's Vibration' is a classic but little known Tommy McCook instrumental on the flyers cut of Linval's 'Jah Jah A The Conqueror'. 'Ethiopian Rock' is a total scorcher, the only recorded tune by the deejay Jah Smile, before Bunny persuaded him to turn to singing and changed his name to Barry Brown.

In a healthy spirit of competition, Bunny often tried out different singers on tunes that he thought would hit, hence Ronnie Davis's soulful take on Johnny Clarke's 'Every Knee Shall Bow', Johnny's version of Horace Andy's 'Better Collie', and Johnny and Horace sharing vocals on 'No Man Is An Island', all unreleased until now. 'No Babylon Shall Escape In This Time' has Johnny Clarke and 'Bongo' Herman Davis recorded over the original version side of Johnny's 'None Shall Escape The Judgement'. 'Life Of My Own' is a beautifully constructed lament by a singer who neither Bunny nor various expert ears have managed to identify: at Bunny's suggestion he is credited as 'The Raver'. 'War Zone' and 'Keep On Running' are examples of Tubby's mixes that have had further effects dubbed on elsewhere; sound systems and foreign record labels occasionally did this to manufacture their own specials from existing mixes. 'Jamaican Fruit Of African Roots' has recently been the subject of the fascinating documentary 'Shella Record: A Reggae Mystery'; the Lennox Brown cut here has only just been discovered. Also included are two stinging dubplates by Cornell Campbell: the first is aimed straight to the head of Arrows sound system, while the second, recorded in the early 80s, sums up the vital partnership of two of Jamaica's musical giants:

* previously unreleased ** CD bonus track

17 tracks from Eno’s most recognisable film and television work spanning 5 decades - inc. his work for the likes of David Lynch, Derek Jarman, Peter Jackson, Michael Mann and more.

Booker Gee returns with a slinky organ funk groove version of Dennis Brown's "Out In The Rain" with a fat dub version to match..only 300 pressed!

Super rare album by Ron Jefferson Choir, an Afro-eastern jazz gem, from 1965. Taken from mono master tapes and featuring the stunning track 'Africa The Beautiful' backed with Senegalese percussion. Features Roland Haynes on bass.

The blueprint to his work with Talking Heads is on this album. Listen to the jagged guitars, pumping bass and hissing electronic percussion on this and then compare to "More Songs about Buildings and Food". Taking Tiger Mountain like the majority of Eno's output is years ahead of it's time

During a tour of Egypt in the early 70s, Sun Ra made a number of live recordings. 'Dark Myth Equation Visitation', also known as 'Live In Egypt Vol. 1' or 'Nature’s God', and was recorded in 1971. Side one of the LP features a recording of a TV performance, including an interview, and side two fronts tracks recorded during a concert in Heliopolis near Cairo.

Hornin' Sounds latest releases are three KILLER deep dark funk roots tunes from the mid 70s all produced by U.K. producer Clem Bushay with The Cimarons on fire as the backing band. Two vocals from Carl Bert and one from Gene Rondo with dubs mixed by Jeh Jeh. No repress as usual from the French label..Highly recommended!!

Super rare, super deep jazz - Shamek Farrah's 1977 Strata-East album 'The World of the Children.' Serious, heavy & essential!

Baby's on Fire - literally! Needle in the Camels Eye, Blank Frank... tune after tune on this seminal album.

In 1973, fed up with Bryan Ferry's domineering in Roxy Music, Eno leapt into a solo career that would find him championing the "art" in "artifice". This record is a who's who of the then-burgeoning English art-rock scene, featuring Robert Wyatt, Robert Fripp, and every member of Roxy Music except its leader (thus answering the musical question, "What if Eno had helmed the third Roxy record instead of Ferry?"). Warm Jets sports a lightheartedness that was a refreshing antidote to the pomposity of Yes and ELP on the dark side of art-rock's spectrum, with nonsensical, sound-based couplets such as "Oh headless chicken / How can those teeth stand so much kicking?" Listen to Fripp's furious guitars on "Baby's On Fire" and "Blank Frank": it's incredible, Velvet Underground-inspired rock in a scene that had forgotten what rocking meant.

'Smithereens' is the second episode of the fifth series of the anthology series Black Mirror. The score is composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto—composer, electro-pop pioneer, buddy to David Bowie, and synthesizer legend. His work since the late 1970s has taken him from the top of the charts. Sakamoto’s music has consistently exuded a profound empathy. Whether leading Yellow Magic Orchestra’s cheeky pop, collaborating with cranial ambient artists, or, more recently, confronting his own mortality, Sakamoto’s music expresses in a few elegant gestures the haunting richness of life. Sakamoto’s music plays a central role in the episode as it is at the core of the zen music playlist listened by the main protagonist. 1LP on coloured vinyl in deluxe PVC sleeve.

Hornin' Sounds latest releases are three KILLER deep dark funk roots tunes from the mid 70s all produced by U.K. producer Clem Bushay with The Cimarons on fire as the backing band. Two vocals from Carl Bert and one from Gene Rondo with dubs mixed by Jeh Jeh. No repress as usual from the French label..Highly recommended!! 1st time on 7"..

Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never, scores the soundtrack to the Safdie brothers’ highly successful feature starring Adam Sandler, 'Uncut Gems'.

**Deluxe vinyl edition with tip-on sleeve**

Tony Allen was a drummer for Fela Kuti and leader of the Africa 70 ensemble. In 1976 Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Afrika 70 released a total of 8 albums including the hit 'Zombie'. At this same time, following on from his album 'Jealousy' made 'Progress'. The title track features a tenor sax and piano solo by Fela Kuti, a stunning funky highlife groove with inspirational catchy lyrics. 'Afro-Disco Beat' on the flip the tempo quickens slightly adding as the title suggests a more disco beat meant for dancing feet...

**As sampled by ATCQ on 'Ham 'N' Eggs'!**

Killer modern soul/funk cut from 1973 produced by the legendary Holland–Dozier–Holland team!

Manchester born producer, vocalist and saxophonist Alabaster dePlume makes his debut on cult jazz label from Chicago. 'To Cy & Lee is a' collection of instrumentals: poignant, reflective and personal to the composter. Elegant, emotive jazz and electronic moods. Another triumph for the excellent International Anthem Recording Company!

Byron The Aquarius lands a killer EP on Jeff Mills' cult Axis label - smudged, jazzy, beatdown house music vibes in the place!

**Repressed!**

Bruce Haack's 'The Electric Lucifer' is rightly considered one of the masterworks of 20th century electronic music. Originally recorded in 1968-69, it's an eminently listenable work where Pop-psychedelia and Moog/musique-concrete sounds coalesce. RIYL Broadcast, Stereolab, Add N to X, Silver Apples, and United States of America!

Reissue of Jaye P. Morgan's incredible 1976 private press album featuring the cream of the LA jazz and funk scene! This lost classic recorded in LA at the legendary Sound City Studios is also the first full-blown production by David Foster two years before he co-produced Earth Wind & Fire's album 'I Am' and went on to become one of the hottest producers on the scene. Features an extraordinary line up some of the best LA musicians including Harvey Mason, Ed Greene, Jay Graydon, Ray Parker Jr. Tower of Power, Ernie Watts and many more.

**The hidden, dark-tinged and psychedelic side of the maestro!**

This collection, featuring 7 previously unreleased tracks, explores what is possibly Morricone’s richest creative period, between the end of the 1960s to the early 80s, demonstrating Morricone’s long lasting influence for generations of musicians and film directors to this day.

'Morricone Segreto' is an acid-tinged sonic journey through mysterious voices, fuzz guitars, airy strings, eerie synths and modern grooves from the Academy award-winning composer who was always ahead trends, dictating style in his own way.

Two late 70s roots killers from the late Dennis Brown, originally featured on his 1978 "Visions" LP, now with the only known dub version to "Deliverance" taken from rare Dubplate! Plus a completely different mix of the mighty "Milk & Honey" done at the time with added overdubs and effects. Don't leave..

Mr Bongo reissue 'Jazz Rock', originally released on RCA in 1973, Jazz Rock marries Japanese Min’yō folk rhythms performed on shakuhachi – bamboo flute – and koto, with spiritual jazz elements and funk-driven drums! Ace!

Yukihiro Takahashi's sophisticated city funk classic released in 1978 when he had just joined YMO. Co-produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto and featuring Haruomi Hosono, Minako Yoshida and Tatsuro Yamashita. First ever issue of the hard to find classic, outside of Japan, via Wewantsounds!