The Fat Angel Sings

Post-rock legends Wire have announced new release details for “PF456 DELUXE” which will be released on Record Store Day on  June 12th, through their Pink Flag label. 
 
PF456 REDUX was originally released in 2002, comprised of tracks from the two “Read & Burn” EPs, plus the album “Send”, all of which were edited in length to accommodate the vinyl format. This new Deluxe edition for Record Store Day 2021 sees the tracks released at their full length, most of which for the first time on vinyl plus the “12 Times You” 7” vinyl thrown in for good measure. “PF456 REDUX” will also be re-released on CD.
 
PF456 DELUXE comprises 2×10” singles + 1×7” single housed in a hardback book designed by Jon Wozencroft, including a 6000 word essay from writer Graham Duff, with new interviews with Wire’s Bruce Gilbert, Colin Newman, Robert Grey and Graham Lewis, as well as complete lyrics and recording details, plus many previously unpublished photographs.

Following their 1990’s hiatus Wire reformed in 1999 and after setting up their own pinkflag imprint, between 2001–2003 released five distinct Wire items: Twelve Times You (7” vinyl). Read & Burn 01 (CD EP) / Read & Burn 02 (CD EP) / Send (CD album) / Redux (vinyl album).

Following the 2 “Read & Burn” CD Eps Wire released the full length album “Send“, combining some tracks from both Read & Burn EPs and four unreleased pieces. Since none of the tracks had previously been issued on vinyl, a creative solution was sought to include all of the tracks from Send and the two Read & Burn EPs. However, none of the tracks on pf4, pf5 and pf6 were ever put out on vinyl at full length – hence “PF456 Deluxe”

Texan Roky Erickson was one of the true mind-blowing pioneers of psychedelic music. As the original leader of the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators formed in 1965, Erickson and his band invented a brand new style or rock & roll, one that was slightly unhinged while it explored the consciousness-expanding influence of LSD on music. After three years, the group imploded with mental issues and legal challenges, ending with Erickson being incarcerated for several years in the hospital for the criminally insane in Rusk, Texas. When he was released in the early ’70s the musician continued on his own trail, recording songs that had come to him in his far-flung cerebral wanderings.

Roky Erickson, who passed away May 31st, 2019, is now celebrated on this 12-track tribute to one of the most original rockers ever. The participants range the whole world of modern music, and each chose one of Erickson’s originals to stamp their own imprint on. they include Billy Gibbons, Lucinda Williams, Mosshart Sexton (a/k/a Alison Mosshart & Charlie Sexton), Neko Case, Mark Lanegan & Lynn Castle, Jeff Tweedy, Margo Price, Gary Clark jr & Eve Monsees, Ty Segal, Chelsea Wolfe, The Black Angels and Brogan Bentley. the album is co-produced for release by Bill Bentley, executive producer of the 1990 roky erickson tribute album where the pyramid meets the eye on Sire Records, and Matt Sullivan, co-founder/owner of Light in the Attic Records.

The songs range from Erickson’s debut iconic original, “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” recorded when he was a member first in the Spades and then the 13th Floor Elevators during the early ’60s in Austin, to some of Erickson’s later songs, like “if you have ghosts,” which heard him exploring some of the outer limits of the human psyche. each new recording is a stunning modern take on the sound that Roky Erickson gave the world over a half-century of writing, recording and touring. no one has ever equalled those explorations. this truly is the music of the spheres, as Erickson once sang about his sound, as seen through the eyes and ears of those who are united in their love and respect for a person who dedicated his life to rock & roll. Roky Erickson, through the trials and tribulations of a man both imbued with greatness and haunted by darkness, never quit in his quest to share with others what he heard and saw. as he sang on the 13th Floor Elevators last recording, “May the Circle Remain Unbroken.”

Tracklisting:

1. billy f gibbons — (i’ve got) levitation
2. mosshart sexton — starry eyes
3. jeff tweedy — for you (i’d do anything)
4. lynn castle & mark lanegan — clear night for love
5. the black angels — don’t fall down
6. neko case — be and bring me home
7. margo price — red temple prayer (two-headed dog)
8. gary clark, jr. & eve monsees — roller coaster
9. ty segall — night of the vampire
10. lucinda williams — you’re gonna miss me
11. chelsea wolfe — if you have ghosts
12. brogan bentley — may the circle remain unbroken
13. a surprise archival rarity performed by roky erickson (bonus rsd flexi)

This deluxe RSD LP edition is pressed on special colour wax (clear with purple hi-melt) and includes a limited-edition flexi disc featuring an unreleased track, titled Love Hieroglyphics, performed by Roky circa the early ’70s. The release also includes a 16-page booklet with rare photos and new liner notes by Bill Bentley.

For the first time ever on vinyl, a special limited edition Translucent Gold pressing of Canned Heat’s 1997 super rare Canned Heat Blues Band album. This album captures the historic boogie band in a true blues and country blues setting, and features the original band’s Fito de la Parra, Henry Vestine, Larry Taylor plus Junior Watson and Robert Lucas. Tried and true blue renditions from the pens of Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson, Alan Wilson of Canned Heat, plus newer originals from the band.

Tracklisting:

Side One 1-Stranger 2-Quiet Woman 3-Iron Horse 4-Jr’s Shuffle 5-Creole Queen 6-Keep It To Yourself Side Two 1- Boogie Music 2-Going Up The Country 3-See Those Tears 4-One Kind Favor 5-Oh Baby 6-Gorgo Boogie

The Legendary album from the band which is long out of print, and limited on the second-hand market.
Released in 1968, “Living The Blues” was one of the first double albums to place well on album charts. It featured Canned Heat’s signature song, “Going Up the Country”, which would later be heard in the Woodstock film. This deluxe package released as part of Record Store Day Drops will include an OBI strip on the gatefold album jacket with two pockets, featuring the original US printed inner sleeves, orginal record labels, and one yellow and one pink translucent LPs, originally Released November 1968.

The band who unleash another batch of strong originals and engaging overhauls of a few blues staples — including the solid cover of Charley Patton’s “Pony Blues” that commences the effort. Right out of the gate, the formidable team of Wilson and Vestine explore their musical passions with a focused drive that would significantly diminish in the years and on the records to follow. One of the primary factors in the package’s commercial success was their update of Henry Thomas’ “Going Down South,” which they turned into the breezy “Goin’ Up the Country.” The song not only became one of their biggest hits, it was also used in the Woodstock (1970) documentary and a live version — from the actual concert which was presented on the soundtrack.

Blues godfather John Mayall appears on piano on “Walking by Myself” and “Bear Wires”. Dr John appears on “Boogie Music”. The 20-minute trippy suite “Parthenogenesis” is dwarfed by the album-length “Refried Boogie”, recorded live.

 “One Kind Favour” (aka “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean”) drives hard with Bob Hite belting out behind the ensemble’s propelling rhythms. Aside from the slightly indulgent “Refried Boogie,” Living The Blues (1968) stands as a testament to Canned Heat’s prowess as modernizers of the blues and recommended as one of the most cohesive works from this incarnation.

Tracklisting:

“Pony Blues” | “My Mistake” | “Sandy’s Blues” | “Going Up The Country” | “Walking By Myself” | “Boogie Music” | “One Kind Favor” | “Parthenogenesis” | “Refried Boogie (Part I)” | “Refried Boogie (Part II)”

Canned Heat

• Bob Hite – vocals
• Alan Wilson – slide guitar vocals, harmonica, jaw harp (tracks 2.I, 2.II, 2.IX), chromatic harp (track 2.VIII)
• Henry Vestine – lead guitar
• Larry Taylor – bass, congas (track 2.V)
• Adolfo de la Parra – drums

Love, led by the brilliant and complicated Arthur Lee, are considered one of the most influential American rock bands of all time.

The 2015 reissue of their album ‘Reel to Real’ featured the band at the height of their rock/soul powers, and featured 12 previously-unreleased outtakes from the original sessions. This special release features five of those tracks on vinyl for the first time, including three original Arthur Lee compositions that were virtually unknown before the 2015 reissue: the sweet and soulful ‘You Gotta Feel It’, a catchy rock-pop tune called “I Gotta Remember’, and ‘Do It Yourself’, a blast of high-energy funk driven by Lee’s strutting vocals.

The ep also includes the original version of ‘Everybody’s Gotta Live’ (recently featured in the film ‘Jojo Rabbit’ and covered on Mac Miller’s posthumous album Circles) as well as a full-band performance of that song and an alternate take of ‘Singing Cowboy’.

Tracklisting:

1. everybody’s gotta live (album version)
2. you gotta feel it (outtake)
3. i gotta remember (outtake)
4. do it yourself (outtake)
5. singing cowboy (alternate take)
6. everybody’s gotta live (electric version)

Record Store Day release on Sundazed Records

It was just last month when we learned of the imminent arrival of award-winning documentary “White Riot”, debuting in the virtual cinema, which supports independent theaters during the pandemic. The movie chronicles the rise of the Rock Against Racism movement that spread across the U.K. in the late 1970s as a response to right-wing advances in federal government.

White Riot won the prize for Best Documentary at the 2019 London Film Festival, and features new interviews with Clash drummer Topper Headon, Pauline Black of The Selecter, reggae producer Dennis Bovell, and more.

With the doc’s release date a week away, Film Movement has shared an electrifying new clip from the movie. In the scene, The Clash blaze through their song “White Riot,” taken from the group’s 1977 self-titled debut. The performance was part of a massive Rock Against Racism festival that happened in London’s Victoria Park. 

With the National Front gaining power, what started a fanzine established in opposition to that party turned into a sweeping movement known as Rock Against Racism. “We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika,” explained co-founded Red Saunders in a press statement for White Riot, a new documentary that chronicles the RAR movement, which culminated in a massive 1978 concert and “anti-fascist carnival” featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse, and The Clash.

White Riot won the prize for Best Documentary at the 2019 London Film Festival.

Maple Glider is Naarm/Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch. The title of Maple Glider’s debut album, ‘To Enjoy Is The Only Thing’, exudes both a sense of elegance and hedonism. But it could have been very different.

“When I was writing the record in Brighton in the UK I took a photo of some graffiti. It said ‘To enjoy is the only thing, BTCH$’,” the singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch (rhymes with peach) recalls gleefully. The 27-year-old grew up in Lismore, northern New South Wales, ensnared in something she only refers to as The Religion. A post-interview email asking for more detail yields a polite rebuff: “I have been deliberately keeping this info private.”

Pre-Maple Glider, Zietsch gigged under her own name then formed a group, Seavera, alongside producer Daniel Pinkerton. That band went kaput too, then Zietsch fell in love with a backpacker. After his travel visa ran out, the two set off overseas. Like all young lovers living in each other’s pockets, it was all going swimmingly, until it suddenly wasn’t.

One debut album to enjoy is the only thing, Zietsch’s vocals melt into layers of plucked acoustic guitar and lulling piano, drawing on the sombre styles of folk contemporaries with a stark tenderness and introspection that assumes the listener is inside her bedroom as she plays for herself. striking emotionality is at the centre of this performance, leaning into an intimacy that is achieved by way of deeply personal reflections and velvety melodic compositions.

In Tori’s words: “to me, to enjoy is the only thing feels like walking past tinsel-covered trees in mid-september, swimming along the calanques in the South of France, frost on the hood of a car, darkness at 4pm, lightness until 10pm, sibylle baier’s colour green, Devendra Banhart’s ma, Adrianne Lenker’s a-sides, a muted feeling, the perpetual grey fog that swallows the silver coast in Portugal, an ugly green dress, the colour red, red wine, red blood, red lips, the red of a cardinal’s robe, Switzerland, my mother’s diaries, a coroner’s report, the sun on my face, the end of love.”

The Australian singer/songwriter Maple Glider (aka Tori Zietsch) has shared a new single off her anticipated Partisan Records debut “To Enjoy Is The Only Thing” , and this one shows off a more minimal, bare-bones side of her music, but is equally gorgeous in its own way.

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“Not So Bad” is a song I originally wrote for my band The Reds, Pinks & Purples. When Jeremy Earl came out to California to record Painted Shrines with me in 2018, I thought it would be fun to hear his signature high voice singing lead on that particular melody, and I think it worked out. The Painted Shrines record got shelved for a bit, while Jeremy worked on Purple Mountains and the latest Woods, so I ended up releasing my own version as “Your Parents Were Wrong About You” on my recent LP You Might Be Happy Some Day. Both songs came out around the same time unexpectedly. The versions are pretty different, and maybe it’s interesting to hear our different vocal approaches. Compare and contrast if you feel like it.

All of my songs are based on real feelings but not always on actual events. This song was based on a real moment in my life many years ago. I had a girlfriend I was in love with and through circumstances I can’t recall, it ended up that I was supposed to have dinner alone with her mom — actually kind of terrifying to be honest, wanting to make a good impression. Her mom seemed very cordial, but she spent half the dinner trying to convince me that her daughter was a “little bit much” and maybe even “crazy,” and she not so subtly wondered what I even saw in her. It was terribly sad, but I weathered it and just said, “Maybe you are wrong about her.” During that same visit, her mom pressured me into serving legal papers on her ex-husband, my girlfriend’s stepfather, while he was getting off an airplane. He had been dodging the process servers and wouldn’t recognize me, so I had a chance of succeeding. 

 This song is a tribute to my ex and anyone else with parents who are undermining and inappropriate or abusive. I extended it to be about someone who wants to be who they are at the risk of not being accepted. “Your life is wrong but you’re not so bad/Is that your fault they can’t understand?” That’s about taking that internalized negativity and rejecting the blame and guilt for it. Let them carry it. We need other people to survive, but it’s OK to reject the negative people in your life and move on. Let them earn your trust if they want it. Find some other good people to accept you, love you and try to make your own life somewhere.

Glenn Donaldson 

Released on Woodsist on: 2021-03-05