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Style : acid folk / psych folk /
ASH 101 JACKSON C. FRANK JACKSON C. FRANK LP 11.2018
"Jackson C. Frank's eponymous album is the embodiment of folk legend. Issued in late
1965 on the UK Columbia label, it was for many years more famous for its producer
(Paul Simon) and the musicians who would go on to cover its songs (Nick Drake, Bert
Jansch, Sandy Denny) than for the hauntingly beautiful music contained inside.
Frank's backstory certainly adds to the legacy: born in Buffalo, New York, he used
the settlement from a childhood accident to sail to London where he quickly became
a fixture of the bustling folk scene. Performing a mix of blues standards and
originals, he met fellow ex-pat Paul Simon who would put up the money to record
Frank's only LP. For such a sparsely recorded work, Jackson C. Frank covers a lot
of ground. From the rugged, world-weary opener 'Blues Run The Game' to the stunning
melancholy of 'Milk And Honey,' Frank's nimble acoustic guitar and passionate howls
are all that is needed to power such authentic songwriting. Captured in a single-day
session, these ten tracks are stark, gritty and seemingly out-of-place with time.
There may be no '60s folk record that is simultaneously as rare and influential as
Jackson C. Frank's self-titled debut."
https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ASH.101LP.html
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ASH 103 SIMON FINN PASS THE DISTANCE LP 11.2018
Side A A1 Very Close Friend
A2 The Courtyard
A3 What A Day
A4 Fades (Pass The Distance)
A5 Jerusalem
Side B B1 Where's Your Master Gone
B2 Laughing 'Til Tomorrow
B3 Hiawatha
B4 Patrice
B5 Big White Car
"Few albums define a genre as succinctly as Simon Finn's Pass The Distance does for
psychedelic folk. Not even landmark recordings by Pearls Before Swine or Skip Spence
can stand up to the sheer madness of Finn's sole LP, originally released in 1970.
After moving to London in 1967, Finn busked around town for a couple years before
entering Camden's Chalk Farm Studios, best known for producing a string of reggae
hits. Pass The Distance, however, would become more than a solo-acoustic project.
Backed by free-improvisation innovators David Toop and Paul Burwell, Finn's dark,
personal songs unravel lysergically over 40 minutes. Toop's sinewy electric guitar
and Burwell's broad percussive palette lift up Finn's ardent strumming and snarling
vocals, making this one wild ride in catharsis, introspection and raw merriment.
As Finn tells journalist Dave Segal in an interview for this vinyl reissue,
'The songs were about alienation and loneliness. 'Jerusalem' came to me in one shot.
I wrote it on mescaline and was playing it over and over and one of my flatmates
wrote it down.' Pass The Distance remains a 'cult record' in the best sense of the
term, possessing a hypnotic beauty all its own."
https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ASH.103LP.html
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ASH 301 HERBIE HANCOCK FAT ALBERT ROTUNDA LP 04.2019
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ASH 302 HERBIE HANCOCK MWANDISHI LP 04.2019
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ASH 303 HERBIE HANCOCK CRISSINGS LP 04.2019
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ASH 311 ALICE COLTRANE ETERNITY LP 05.2019
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ASH 312 ALICE COLTRANE : RADHA-KRSNA NAMA SANKIRTANA LP 05.2019
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ASH 313 ALICE COLTRANE TRANSCENDENCE LP 05.2019
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ASH 314 ALICE COLTRANE TRANSFIGURATION 2LP 05.2019
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ASH 504 CURTIS MAYFIELD CURTIS/LIVE! 2LP 11.2018
A fine vinyl reissue of Curtis Mayfield's 1971 live DOUBLE-LP, recorded in 1971 at
the intimate Greenwich Village club The Bitter End. Backed by a small, hard hitting
combo, Mayfield performed a few tunes from his days with The Impressions, a couple
of songs from his 1970 debut-solo psych-funk/soul masterpiece 'Curtis', and more.
This is a a master class in restraint and fearless expression.
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ASH 703 THE SILVERTONES SILVER BULLETS LP 04.2022
ASH 705 THE KINGSTONIANS SUFFERER LP 01.2019
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ASH 707 DADAWAH PEACE AND LOVE LP 04.2022
ASH 708 THE UPSETTERS SCRATCH THE UPSETTER AGAIN LP 11.2018
ASH 709 THE UPSETTERS DOUBLE SEVEN LP 11.2018
ASH 710 SEKE MOLENGA & KALO KAWONGOLO : S/T LP 06.2020
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