Ethel Waters Greatest Years. 2 Lp Set.

Sepia Records ( September 12, 2006 ), Genre: Jazz Vocal

Numbered Limited Edition 180-gram 2-LP Set! Rare is the voice, personality, and image that defines cool for more than 50 years. But Roy Orbison simply had it all - the tender tone, the laidback charisma, the mellifluous baritone, the cover-magazine looks, the gazing eyes hidden behind black Ray-Ban shades. And of course, the songs.Demand for Orbison's trademark vocal shiver and pussycat purr has never been greater. But with so many collections available, which one to get? Mobile Fidelity recognized that none of the available releases had the necessary mark of quality - namely, first-rate sound. So we changed that by providing a necessary sonic update to the best collection.Remastered from the original analog master tapes for the first time ever, here are all of Orbison's finest singles in one place, all claiming a clarity, richness, tonality, and presence that has never been before experienced outside of the studio.TRACKLISTING:A1 Only The Lonely (Knows The Way I Feel) 2:26 A2 Leah 2:37 A3 In Dreams 2:37 A4 Uptown 2:08 A5 It's Over 2:47 B1 Crying 2:43 B2 Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) 2:36 B3 Blue Angel 2:44 B4 Working For The Man 2:25 B5 Candy Man 2:42 C1 Running Scared 2:10 C2 Falling 2:22 C3 Love Hurts 2:26 C4 Shahdaroba 2:36 C5 I'm Hurting 2:43 D1 Mean Woman Blues 2:23 D2 Pretty Paper 2:52 D3 The Crowd 2:20 D4 Blue Bayou 2:29 D5 Oh Pretty Woman 2:55

Numbered Limited Edition 180-gram 2-LP Set! Rare is the voice, personality, and image that defines cool for more than 50 years. But Roy Orbison simply had it all - the tender tone, the laidback charisma, the mellifluous baritone, the cover-magazine looks, the gazing eyes hidden behind black Ray-Ban shades. And of course, the songs.Demand for Orbison's trademark vocal shiver and pussycat purr has never been greater. But with so many collections available, which one to get? Mobile Fidelity recognized that none of the available releases had the necessary mark of quality - namely, first-rate sound. So we changed that by providing a necessary sonic update to the best collection.Remastered from the original analog master tapes for the first time ever, here are all of Orbison's finest singles in one place, all claiming a clarity, richness, tonality, and presence that has never been before experienced outside of the studio.TRACKLISTING:A1 Only The Lonely (Knows The Way I Feel) 2:26 A2 Leah 2:37 A3 In Dreams 2:37 A4 Uptown 2:08 A5 It's Over 2:47 B1 Crying 2:43 B2 Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) 2:36 B3 Blue Angel 2:44 B4 Working For The Man 2:25 B5 Candy Man 2:42 C1 Running Scared 2:10 C2 Falling 2:22 C3 Love Hurts 2:26 C4 Shahdaroba 2:36 C5 I'm Hurting 2:43 D1 Mean Woman Blues 2:23 D2 Pretty Paper 2:52 D3 The Crowd 2:20 D4 Blue Bayou 2:29 D5 Oh Pretty Woman 2:55

(2-LP Set) Ex- Moldy Peaches singer/songwriter Kimya Dawson is most widely known for the Grammy nominated, Platinum selling soundtrack for the movie JUNO. Kimya's new solo album Thunder Thighs has major and minor themes including oceans, cancer, transgendered heroes, feeling safe in your own skin, saving public libraries and making big albums in a small, familial way. The album features guest performances by rapper/producer Aesop Rock plus members of the Strokes, Mountain Goats, and more. Thunder Thighs is being self-released on Kimya's own Great Crap Factory label. This 2 LP set is pressed on gold vinyl and includes a digital download card.''Kimya Dawson may have the most earnest voice in indie rock.'' - SPIN (7/10)''Thunder Thighs is a mix of the infectiously fun (Dawson raps about Judy Blume in The Library) and the achingly sad (Walk Like Thunder, a mournful yet determined 10-minute epic about the death of her friends). Fans won't be disappointed by the release'' - METROMIX''...it's good to have her back.'' - FILTER''Thunder Thighs' guest list is so vast that she probably needed to get a few more cases of Jameson to keep the party going. Nikolai Fraiture from the Strokes, John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats, a couple of weirdly named choirs, and Aesop Rock are sharing the sound space with her.'' - BROWARD PALM BEACH NEW TIMES''Although the personal touch of Kimya's delicate strumming and the crackling of her soft voice still sit forefront, the backbone is a more mature solid arrangement that supports her powerful poetry.'' - GLIDE MAGAZINE

She's a good one.

Sepia Records

This 24-track, hour-long CD actually combines two exotica LPs from the late 1950s onto one disc: Ethel Azama's Exotic Dreamers and Tak Shindo's Mganga! Azama's album occupies the first half of the disc, and is the less impressive of the pair. It does have many of the elements that exotic collectors want and expect from their finds: quasi-Asian plucked notes and gongs, cocktail lounge piano, glowing vibraphone notes, Latin-influenced drumming, jungle bird noises, and lyrical odes to the leisurely good life. Azama's no more than an adequate singer, though, sounding as if she'd be far more at home on a whitebread jazz diet than something more, well, exotic. Indeed, her perkiness verges on the annoying on "Happy Talk, " though that's not one of the album's more typical songs. Considerably better, and more varied though still squarely in the exotic idiom, is Shindo's primarily instrumental Mganga! If you like your exotica with the kitchen sink thrown in and some spookiness alongside the cheery lava light, this coul

(2-LP Vinyl) Prolific Pixies' frontman Black Francis composed a soundtrack to The Golem for the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival in 2008. The Golem is a 1920's silent film version of a popular story set in a 16th-century Jewish ghetto. Originally only 500 copies were released as a 5xCD set comprising the live performance, studio recordings, and DVD. Later on a stripped down one-hour 'rock opera' was released on a single disc but now, The Golem is finally here and truly alive - on a double vinyl LP.

(2-LP Set) Ex- Moldy Peaches singer/songwriter Kimya Dawson is most widely known for the Grammy nominated, Platinum selling soundtrack for the movie JUNO. Kimya's new solo album Thunder Thighs has major and minor themes including oceans, cancer, transgendered heroes, feeling safe in your own skin, saving public libraries and making big albums in a small, familial way. The album features guest performances by rapper/producer Aesop Rock plus members of the Strokes, Mountain Goats, and more. Thunder Thighs is being self-released on Kimya's own Great Crap Factory label. This 2 LP set is pressed on gold vinyl and includes a digital download card.''Kimya Dawson may have the most earnest voice in indie rock.'' - SPIN (7/10)''Thunder Thighs is a mix of the infectiously fun (Dawson raps about Judy Blume in The Library) and the achingly sad (Walk Like Thunder, a mournful yet determined 10-minute epic about the death of her friends). Fans won't be disappointed by the release'' - METROMIX''...it's good to have her back.'' - FILTER''Thunder Thighs' guest list is so vast that she probably needed to get a few more cases of Jameson to keep the party going. Nikolai Fraiture from the Strokes, John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats, a couple of weirdly named choirs, and Aesop Rock are sharing the sound space with her.'' - BROWARD PALM BEACH NEW TIMES''Although the personal touch of Kimya's delicate strumming and the crackling of her soft voice still sit forefront, the backbone is a more mature solid arrangement that supports her powerful poetry.'' - GLIDE MAGAZINE

(2-LP Vinyl) Frank Black & the Catholics Live At Melkweg, was recorded in the aftermath of the classic album, Dog in the Sand. In their usual high-energy fashion, Black and the band unapologetically tear through their expansive catalog, banging out with uncanny familiarity some of Black's greatest Pixies' tunes like Mr. Grieves, Monkey Gone to Heaven and Where is My Mind?. Live At Melkweg was recorded at the legendary Amsterdam club on March 24th, 2001.In anticipation of the definitive FB & the C's box set to be released in late 2012 comes this classic live performance on a vinyl double LP with digital download (which includes three bonus tracks not available on the LP or anywhere else: Hermaphroditos Is My Name, You're Such A Wire, and Oddballs).