Getting ready for Edgefest over here! Don’t miss this rare solo performance by the legendary Wadada Leo Smith!
Also don’t miss our Edgefest sale: 20% off all used jazz and new music CDs and LPs! Sale running Sunday October 28 through Sunday November 4.
-MAMOUD AHMED’s debut LP
-Hasabe (Great Ethiopian dance party comp!)
-PETER BUCK (Yep, from R.E.M… weird!)
-DANIEL KROHA LP/DANNY & THE DARLEANS 7” (Detroit’s own!)
-BRUTE HEART “Wildfire” 7”
-SPIDER JOHN KOERNER “March 1963”
…plus Social Music LPs by garage-rock phenom TY SEGALL (“San Francisco Rock Compilation Or Food Or Weird Beer From Microsoft”) and ex-Sun City Girl/wicked American Primitive guitarist SIR RICHARD BISHOP (“Graviton Polarity Generator”)! While supplies last…
Free jazz show at Encore on Friday!
NEW ARRIVALS AT ENCORE!!
Rodriguez - Coming From Reality LP RESTOCKED!
Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koala Lobitos (his first LP)
Sun Araw - The Inner Treaty LP
Lee Hazlewood - The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes, & Backsides (1968-71) 2xLP
Velvet Underground - Squeeze LP
Howlin Wolf - The Howlin Wolf Album LP
Charles Cha Cha Shaw - Into Morning LP
Dock Boggs - Volume 2 LP
NEW ARRIVALS SEPTEMBER 20 2012:
Aggrovators - Reggae Stones Dub LP
Augustus Pablo - Dubbing in a Africa LP
King Tubby presents the Roots of Dub LP
King Tubby’s Rastafari Dub LP
Upsetters - Blackboard Jungle Dub LP
Augustus Pablo presents Ital Dub LP
King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown LP
Marva Whitney - It’s My Thing LP
Crass - Stations of the Crass 2xLP
Crass - Christ the Album 2xLP
We are excited to be hosting two exciting events at Encore in the next couple weeks!
# 1 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 13: WICCANS cassette release party
WICCANS are a psych-folk trio who have playing in the area for a few years and are just now releasing their first cassette, entitled “Invocation of the Horned One.” Come celebrate with us and take in their performance. Get haunted at the record store!! Wiccans features Aran Ruth, Kelly Jean Caldwell and Fred Thomas.
# 2 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20: COTTON MUSEUM + TARPIT Tour kickoff
COTTON MUSEUM is the longtime noise/experimental project of Chris Pottinger, who recently became a Kresge Arts Fellow. He has a new LP (pictured below) that will be available this show. He is going on tour with Tarpit, and this is a kickoff show for that tour. More info at http://www.tastysoil.com/
Both shows will be FREE, ALL AGES, and start at 8 PM!
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Ton of new stuff from Mississippi Records, plus restocks of some faves (all items 12” LPs unless otherwise noted):
NEW STUFF:
-Michael Hurley- Back Home With Drifting Woods
(Newly uncovered archival ’60s recordings of this singular freak-folk troubador)
-The Great Unwashed- Clean Out Of Our Minds
(1983 4-track psych-pop from The Clean’s Kilgour brothers, on Exiled Records)
-Brian Crook- Bathysphere
(New Zealand ’90s psych on Meds IV label, first time on vinyl)
-Abner Jay- Hambone b/w Rattle The Bones 12” single
(Classic double a-side from this unforgettable late one-man band, courtesy of Social Music Record Club)
-v/a- Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone And All The World Go Free
(Killer comp of Jamaican gospel from the 1960s-70s)
-Tsege Mariam Gebru- Spielt Eigene Kompositionen
(vinyl reissue of this Ethiopian nun’s compositions for voice and piano, previously released as part of the Ethiopiques series)
-Eden Ahbez- Eden’s Island
(Bizarro exotica from the composer of “Nature Boy”, a proto-hippie who lived underneath the Hollywood sign and lived off of foraging… whoa; released by Moi J’Connais/Black Sweat)
-v/a- Laila Je T’aime
(Excellent comp of guitar music from the Western Sahel, split between Mississippi/Change and Sahel Sounds)
-v/a- Ten Minutes To Midnight 10” EP
(More gospel foraging from a crew who does it better than anyone!)
RESTOCKS:
-Alkibar Gignor- La Paix
-Ali Ag Amounine- Takamba LP+7” (STAFF FAVORITE!)
-Abner Jay- True Story Of Abner Jay
-Street Musicians Of Yogyakarta LP+7” (STAFF FAVORITE!)
-Secret Museum Of Mankind vol. III and IV 2xLP
-v/a- Music From Saharan Cellphones
-Amps For Christ- Circuits 2xLP
-Wedding Songs
MANY EXCITING NEW ARRIVALS & RESTOCKS HERE AT ENCORE!
Including these:
LOCAL INTEREST:
Jay Dee - Welcome 2 Detroit Instrumentals 2xLP
J Dilla - The Shining 2xLP
Rodriguez - Cold Fact LP
Rodriguez - Coming From Reality LP
Friday At The Hideout - Boss Detroit Garage 1964-67 LP
The Iguanas s/t LP
ROCK/FOLK ETC:
The Clean - Oddities 2xLP
Deep Time - s/t LP
Nu Sensae - Sundowning LP
Karen Dalton - In My Own Time LP
13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds LP
Harry Pussy - Let’s Build A Pussy LP
Bill Orcutt - How The Thing Sings LP
Wet Hair - Spill Into Atmosphere LP
Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps b/w You Can’t Be Funky 7”
Smog - Rain On Lens LP
INTERNATIONAL:
Soul Braza: Brazilian 60s & 70s Soul Psych Vol 2 compilation LP
Staring Into The Sun: Ethiopian Tribal Music LP
Semi Colon - Ndia Egbuo Ndia LP
ELECTRONIC/EXPERIMENTAL:
Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One LP
Bernard Parmegiani - L’Oeil ecoute/ Dedans-Dehors LP
Stereo - Somewhere in the Night LP
JAZZ:
Neneh Cherry & The Thing - The Cherry Thing LP
Spiritual Jazz Vol 3: Modal, Esoteric & Ethereal Jazz from the European Underground 2xLP