BEST REISSUES OF 2016

 

Making/reading a list of re-issued albums has two exciting results. First of all, you can do a tribute to an amazing but maybe not so well known album or you can discover an amazing album by an artist that you may never heard before... Anna Homler and Steve Moshier's album was one of my great discovery for 2016.


ANNA HOMLER AND STEVE MOSHIER- Breadwoman and Other Tales (1985)

So beautiful...

UTHER PENDRAGON - San Francisco Earthquake ( 1966 - 1975 )

Underground psychedelic band Uther Pendragon has never recorded an official album. So this is the one, for the first time!



VENEZUELA 70 :  Cosmic Visions of a Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock in the 1970s - Various Artists

THE TAPES - Selected Works 1982 - 1992

HAILU MERGIA and DAHLAK BAND — Wede Harer Guzo - 1978

BILL EVANS - Some Other Time: the Lost Session from the Black Forest - 1968




THIS HEAT - This Heat (1979) / Health and Efficiency (1980) / Deceit (1981)

This Heat was,is and will be a legendary band. Very important albums in the modern music history...


Dan Snaith (aka Caribou) said : “The first time I heard This Heat was their track ‘Sleep’ in the early 2000s, and it sounded so fresh then, more than 20 years on from its release, that I thought it was a newly released record. I couldn’t believe one band had an imagination this broad and this incandescent... This Heat sounded like the future then and still do now.”

LIFETONES - For A Reason - 1983

This Heat member Charles Bullen's solo album from 1983 reissued first time with the This Heat albums. The creator of this great mix of post-punk and dub album, Charles Bullen  said after the re-release of this album,  that he is interested to make another Lifetones album with the other member Dub Judah.

Charles Bullen and Dub Judah

TONY CONRAD WITH FAUST  - Outside the Dream Syndicate (1973)

SUICIDE- Suicide -1977

The amazing, fearless duo Suicide’s debut is one of the most influential album in the music history. Martin Rev made the most primitive , lo-fi electronic music while Alan Vegas was singing like Elvis Presley under LSD… Alan Vega was another legendary singer who passed away this year. Rest in peace my soul brother :-(



AUTECHRE - Amber (1994)

One of my favourite road trip album, this is one of the most haunted electronic album of all times...

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. - Metal Box ( aka Second Edition) - 1979

This was the declaration of end of Punk Rock and beginning of Post-Punk by maybe the most famous Punk Rocker. Still very modern even in 2017

COUNT OSSIE - Grounation (1973)

Very spiritual music. One of the best known Rastafarian album, Grounation was out of print for long time. Count Ossie and tenor saxophonist Cedric ‘Im’ Brooks worked so well in this album.


IANNIS XENAKIS- La Légende D'Eer - 1978