New titles for SA from WE ARE BUSY BODIES/PREORDER PLANNING
I am excited to be bringing in very limited numbers on a We Are Busy Bodies pre-order box starting soon to fill a box of at least 50 LP Records to make it cost effective. Pricing will go out once I know numbers. We are doing best to keep prices down despite a backlog at the pressing plants and increased shipping costs. Please PM interest and numbers and I can start working on prices. No one will be held to any pre-order until I communicate prices to buyers. Very limited numbers are reserved and wating in CANADA reserved for SA. Please PM or WhatsApp interest so we are able to start generating the box size and cost. Thanks!
NEW AGE DOOM/LEE SCRATCH PERRY
Twenty for SA ? LTD Pink Vinyl Edition ? for March
More Black Vinyl avail 6 weeks later
Limited Edition 12" Vinyl
Limited to 1,000 copies. Mixed and mastered by Ryan Dahle.
Bandcamp pre-orders are sold out. The album itself is NOT sold out. Copies will be available from your favourite record stores as of November 5, 2021.
This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada?s private radio broadcasters.
Includes digital pre-order of New Age Doom & Lee "Scratch" Perry - Lee "Scratch" Perry's Guide to the Universe. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it?s released.\
Sold Out
NEW AGE DOOM ? HIMALAYAN DREAM TECHNO
Cassette only release with Japanese OBI of 100
Two copies for SA
ETUBOM REX WILLIAMS & HIS NIGERIAN ARTISTES
"Etubom Rex Williams occupies the genuine space of legend of Nigerian Highlife. His incredible professionalism, vast body of work and huge personality, established him as a veritable force of the genre quite early in his career. A case quite similar to another teenage prodigy of Highlife Music, Sir Victor Uwaifo. However, any accolades he earned were well deserved and based on a platform of hard graft and genuine love for his art. He like Uwaifo, straddles the Inter-generational gap between the old masters of Highlife such as Bobby Benson, E.C. Arinze, Inyang Henshaw, Dr Victor Olaiya etc and the latter generation of Eddy Okweddy, Orlando Owoh, Tunji Oyelana, Eric Akaeze, Osayomore Joseph et al." - Ed Keazor, Music in Africa.
Twelve copies reserved for SA
NEWFOUND INTEREST IN CONNECTICUT - TELL ME ABOUT THE LONG DARK PATH HOME
Rough Trade:
?The Newfound Interest in Connecticut's Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home gets its debut vinyl pressing via We Are Busy Bodies ? the same label that initially released the album on CD back in 2005.
About ten years after their final show, which also served as their album release the music found a new audience against all odds. Somehow the album became adopted by the internet's Emo Revival. In the seven years since one of their fans posted the full album to YouTube, it has picked up over 65,000 views and a multitude of comments detailing the intimate connection people feel with the words and music.
The band enlisted Ottawa-based mixing engineer Philip Bova Shaw (Andy Shauf, Feist, Bahamas) to remaster their record 15 years later. With members scattered across the world, they've managed to reunite to breathe life into an old project.?
Very limited numbers for SA
WABB 100
WABB 100 - Track Listing:
A1: Peace Flag Ensemble - Hilma af Klint in Ab
A2: New Age Doom & Lee "Scratch" Perry - Step in Space
A3: BLK JKS - Mme Kelapile
A4: Lammping - Lammping
B1: Beach Body - Walking Holiday
B2: Electric Looking Glass - Don't Miss The Ride
B3: Limblifter - Up For Walkin'
B4: The Lemons - How Do You Do
B5: Dany Laj and the Looks - Heartbreak Town
Ten copies for SA
Vis-?-Vis LPS
Six copies for SA of both
Tom Dissevelt LPS
Wiki/Discogs:
?Dutch composer and jazz musician, born March 4, 1921, in Leiden, Netherlands, died in 1989 in Soest, Netherlands.
Tom Dissevelt was one of the most experimental musicians in the Netherlands. Under the influence of Karlheinz Stockhausen's music, he was hired in 1956 by Philips in order to develop new ways in music on a scientific base in the natural sciences laboratory. Together with Dick Raaijmakers and other collaborators, he produced electronic experimental music between 1956 and 1963. This was 7 years before the release of the Dr. Who-Theme, which is acknowledged to be one of the first electronic music pieces.
The musical compositions and recordings were not appreciated by Philips and Dissevelt left the company. He played bass for Wim Sonneveld and Toon Hermans and eventually became a forgotten musician. 15 years after his death in 1989, his wife Rina, the sister of Rita Reys, found a crate of tapes on the attic of their house. She made the tapes available to music historians which led to a reissue of these works in 2004.?
Seven copies for SA of both
CHRISTO GRAHAM
The songs on Graham's General Store were written in early 2020, with the hope of getting the "family band" of siblings Leigh, Carey, Theo, Christo and Theresa back together. Inspired by shared memories of their early lives at home and the legacy of their forborne General Store in Bishop's Mills, Ontario, the 10 songs also reflect the influences that formed their musical education -- Beatles, Eagles, Emmylou, Linda, Dolly, Lyle... Rehearsed and recorded together at Christo's home in Lansdowne, Ontario, the album serves as a time capsule filled with precious memories that only come with being born, raised and home-schooled together in a house in the woods a kilometer from the nearest neighbour. It was presented to their parents as a surprise for their 43rd wedding anniversary and is set to be released on vinyl in autumn 2021.
2-3 Copies SA
BEACH BODY ? WALKING HOLIDAY
Beach Body ? who describe themselves as a ?post-death surf choir? ? formed in the summer of 2017 in a garage deep in the heart of the Saskatchewan prairie. This is where the band would perfect their laid-back brand of landlocked indie-rock. Rory Copithorn (vocals/guitar), Ian Patterson (bass), Jesse Bryksa (guitar), Jon Neher (keys), and Gaelan Malloy (drums) have released three EPs: Plain Life (2017), Curb Ciggies (2018), and Beach Body Presents: The Southside Coyote Boys (2019).
The band wrote their debut album Walking Holiday in spring 2020 while holed up in a cabin in the remote woods of Northern Saskatchewan. They spent the summer recording at funeral-home-turned-recording-studio SoulSound Studio back in Regina.
Two copies for SA ? ltd ED of 400
EBONI BAND
Motown meets West Africa on Eboni Band's self-titled 1980 debut album featuring Motown session musicians and Fred Wesley with production and arrangements from Motown legends Art Stewart and Greg Middleton.
41 years since its original release, Eboni Band's self-titled album receives its first ever re-release by Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies on June 18. Reinventing itself as a record for the ages, a tour-de-force of cross continental soul and funk, it features session musicians from Motown and Ivory Coast's Eboni Records alongside Fred Wesley (James Brown/Parlimanent). It was produced by Art Stewart (producer of Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up and Rick James? breakthrough album, Come Get It!), and arranged by Greg Middleton.
Incorporating the horns and hum of Detroit and Motown with vocals, harmonies and traditions of West Africa (djembe, kora), the record was a product of a casual meeting between Motown Studios alumni Gerald Theus who had set up shop and Eboni Records in Ivory Coast in the 1970s and Abdoulaye Soumare who was based in the US but met with Gerald on a whim and a stopover in Abidjan.
Theus not only convinced Soumare to stick around Abidjan, but to immediately begin work on a series of four concurrent recordings by the label?s roster of local talent. It wasn't long before a group of musicians flew from the Ivory Coast to Los Angeles to 'get down' and record with a sensational group of Motown musicians including James Brown?s bandleader Fred Wesley, Nolan Smith (Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder), Ernie Fields, Jr (Rick James, Marvin Gaye), and Quentin Dennard (Aretha Franklin, BB King). The musicians comprised of the four musical groups signed to the Ivory Coast-based Eboni Records were Mamadou Doumbia, Gun Morgan, Amadou Doukoure, Abdoulaye Soumare, Lamine Konte & Fode Drame). The album was later mastered at Motown's Hitsville Studios.
Remastered reissue of Eboni Band's sole 1980 album. Originally released by Eboni Records. Produced by Art Stewart (Marvin Gaye, Rick James, Teena Marie).
Seven more copies for SA
PEACE FLAG ENSEMBLE- NOTELAND
Black vinyl edition. Limited to four hundred copies.
Peace Flag Ensemble is an experimental jazz collective from scattered points across Saskatchewan. Their debut album, Noteland, is available June 18, 2021, on We Are Busy Bodies.
Noteland is an exercise in pure collaboration. Built around Jon Neher?s piano improvisations, it is free flowing in form and meter. Each member contributed freely but also remained open to having their playing completely recontextualized. Travis Packer?s electric bass is tightly moored to the piano while Dalton Lam and Paul Gutheil, trumpet and saxophone respectively, drift between melodic passages and textural elements. The album was produced by ambient artist Michael Scott Dawson, who also contributes electronics, guitars, and field recordings to the collective. The result is a pastiche of improvisation, composition, and collage that cycles through quiet moments of imperfection and discomfort followed by peaceful resolutions. It draws from such influences as Keith Jarrett and Mark Hollis. ?Peace Flag Ensemble is the sum of its parts. Everyone leaned into their own intuition and inspiration. I think that kept us from limiting possibilities.? Dawson shares. ?Sometimes that means a saxophone is reduced to just the crackle of a spit valve, sometimes it?s blurred into pastoral ambiance, and sometimes? well, sometimes it?s just a saxophone.?
The genesis of the project is unlikely to be included in a canon of debaucherous music myths. Neher and Dawson connected at a book club. Bonding over 70s ECM, contemporary minimalists, and Musique concrete the two began to discuss collaborating. Somewhere between reading Her Body and Other Stories by Carmen Maria Machado and Murakami?s Killing Commendatore, their ambitions morphed into a jazz collective. Reflecting on the outcome, Neher states ?This record really allowed us to explore so many kinds of spontaneity while still crafting and polishing a finished work; that is a rare treat in improvised music.?
This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada?s private radio broadcasters.
I have one copy in stock in SA
WIDE MOUTH MASON
I have one copy in stock in SA
.
I am excited to be bringing in very limited numbers on a We Are Busy Bodies pre-order box starting soon to fill a box of at least 50 LP Records to make it cost effective. Pricing will go out once I know numbers. We are doing best to keep prices down despite a backlog at the pressing plants and increased shipping costs. Please PM interest and numbers and I can start working on prices. No one will be held to any pre-order until I communicate prices to buyers. Very limited numbers are reserved and wating in CANADA reserved for SA. Please PM or WhatsApp interest so we are able to start generating the box size and cost. Thanks!
Tom Dissevelt ? Electro pioneer- 2 albums / ?Fascinating World ...? and ?Fantasy in Orbit?
Lee Scratch Perry / New Age Doom ? Lee Scratch Perry?s Guide to the Universe
New Age Doom ? Himalayan Techno Dream
Utubom Rex Williams & His Nigerian Artistes
Eboni Band ?Motown meets C?te d?Ivoire
Kippie Moketsie/Hal Singer ? Blue Stompin? (Seminal SA/US Jazz)
The Drive- Can You Feel It (featuring the late great Bheki Mseleku)
Newfound Interest in Connecticut - Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home
WABB 100 ? Various Artists
Various Vis-a-Vis LPs (Seminal Afro music circa 70s)
Christo Graham- Graham?s General Store
Wide Mouth Mason ? I Wanna Go with You ?Seminal Canadian Americana?
Beach Body ? Walking Holiday (?post death surf choir)
Peace Flag Ensemble- Noteland (ECM comparisons/ Jazz ? Canada)
NEW AGE DOOM/LEE SCRATCH PERRY
Twenty for SA ? LTD Pink Vinyl Edition ? for March
More Black Vinyl avail 6 weeks later
Limited Edition 12" Vinyl
Limited to 1,000 copies. Mixed and mastered by Ryan Dahle.
Bandcamp pre-orders are sold out. The album itself is NOT sold out. Copies will be available from your favourite record stores as of November 5, 2021.
This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada?s private radio broadcasters.
Includes digital pre-order of New Age Doom & Lee "Scratch" Perry - Lee "Scratch" Perry's Guide to the Universe. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it?s released.\
Sold Out
NEW AGE DOOM ? HIMALAYAN DREAM TECHNO
Cassette only release with Japanese OBI of 100
Two copies for SA
ETUBOM REX WILLIAMS & HIS NIGERIAN ARTISTES
"Etubom Rex Williams occupies the genuine space of legend of Nigerian Highlife. His incredible professionalism, vast body of work and huge personality, established him as a veritable force of the genre quite early in his career. A case quite similar to another teenage prodigy of Highlife Music, Sir Victor Uwaifo. However, any accolades he earned were well deserved and based on a platform of hard graft and genuine love for his art. He like Uwaifo, straddles the Inter-generational gap between the old masters of Highlife such as Bobby Benson, E.C. Arinze, Inyang Henshaw, Dr Victor Olaiya etc and the latter generation of Eddy Okweddy, Orlando Owoh, Tunji Oyelana, Eric Akaeze, Osayomore Joseph et al." - Ed Keazor, Music in Africa.
Twelve copies reserved for SA
NEWFOUND INTEREST IN CONNECTICUT - TELL ME ABOUT THE LONG DARK PATH HOME
Rough Trade:
?The Newfound Interest in Connecticut's Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home gets its debut vinyl pressing via We Are Busy Bodies ? the same label that initially released the album on CD back in 2005.
About ten years after their final show, which also served as their album release the music found a new audience against all odds. Somehow the album became adopted by the internet's Emo Revival. In the seven years since one of their fans posted the full album to YouTube, it has picked up over 65,000 views and a multitude of comments detailing the intimate connection people feel with the words and music.
The band enlisted Ottawa-based mixing engineer Philip Bova Shaw (Andy Shauf, Feist, Bahamas) to remaster their record 15 years later. With members scattered across the world, they've managed to reunite to breathe life into an old project.?
Very limited numbers for SA
WABB 100
WABB 100 - Track Listing:
A1: Peace Flag Ensemble - Hilma af Klint in Ab
A2: New Age Doom & Lee "Scratch" Perry - Step in Space
A3: BLK JKS - Mme Kelapile
A4: Lammping - Lammping
B1: Beach Body - Walking Holiday
B2: Electric Looking Glass - Don't Miss The Ride
B3: Limblifter - Up For Walkin'
B4: The Lemons - How Do You Do
B5: Dany Laj and the Looks - Heartbreak Town
Ten copies for SA
Vis-?-Vis LPS
Six copies for SA of both
Tom Dissevelt LPS
Wiki/Discogs:
?Dutch composer and jazz musician, born March 4, 1921, in Leiden, Netherlands, died in 1989 in Soest, Netherlands.
Tom Dissevelt was one of the most experimental musicians in the Netherlands. Under the influence of Karlheinz Stockhausen's music, he was hired in 1956 by Philips in order to develop new ways in music on a scientific base in the natural sciences laboratory. Together with Dick Raaijmakers and other collaborators, he produced electronic experimental music between 1956 and 1963. This was 7 years before the release of the Dr. Who-Theme, which is acknowledged to be one of the first electronic music pieces.
The musical compositions and recordings were not appreciated by Philips and Dissevelt left the company. He played bass for Wim Sonneveld and Toon Hermans and eventually became a forgotten musician. 15 years after his death in 1989, his wife Rina, the sister of Rita Reys, found a crate of tapes on the attic of their house. She made the tapes available to music historians which led to a reissue of these works in 2004.?
Seven copies for SA of both
CHRISTO GRAHAM
The songs on Graham's General Store were written in early 2020, with the hope of getting the "family band" of siblings Leigh, Carey, Theo, Christo and Theresa back together. Inspired by shared memories of their early lives at home and the legacy of their forborne General Store in Bishop's Mills, Ontario, the 10 songs also reflect the influences that formed their musical education -- Beatles, Eagles, Emmylou, Linda, Dolly, Lyle... Rehearsed and recorded together at Christo's home in Lansdowne, Ontario, the album serves as a time capsule filled with precious memories that only come with being born, raised and home-schooled together in a house in the woods a kilometer from the nearest neighbour. It was presented to their parents as a surprise for their 43rd wedding anniversary and is set to be released on vinyl in autumn 2021.
2-3 Copies SA
BEACH BODY ? WALKING HOLIDAY
Beach Body ? who describe themselves as a ?post-death surf choir? ? formed in the summer of 2017 in a garage deep in the heart of the Saskatchewan prairie. This is where the band would perfect their laid-back brand of landlocked indie-rock. Rory Copithorn (vocals/guitar), Ian Patterson (bass), Jesse Bryksa (guitar), Jon Neher (keys), and Gaelan Malloy (drums) have released three EPs: Plain Life (2017), Curb Ciggies (2018), and Beach Body Presents: The Southside Coyote Boys (2019).
The band wrote their debut album Walking Holiday in spring 2020 while holed up in a cabin in the remote woods of Northern Saskatchewan. They spent the summer recording at funeral-home-turned-recording-studio SoulSound Studio back in Regina.
Two copies for SA ? ltd ED of 400
EBONI BAND
Motown meets West Africa on Eboni Band's self-titled 1980 debut album featuring Motown session musicians and Fred Wesley with production and arrangements from Motown legends Art Stewart and Greg Middleton.
41 years since its original release, Eboni Band's self-titled album receives its first ever re-release by Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies on June 18. Reinventing itself as a record for the ages, a tour-de-force of cross continental soul and funk, it features session musicians from Motown and Ivory Coast's Eboni Records alongside Fred Wesley (James Brown/Parlimanent). It was produced by Art Stewart (producer of Marvin Gaye's Got To Give It Up and Rick James? breakthrough album, Come Get It!), and arranged by Greg Middleton.
Incorporating the horns and hum of Detroit and Motown with vocals, harmonies and traditions of West Africa (djembe, kora), the record was a product of a casual meeting between Motown Studios alumni Gerald Theus who had set up shop and Eboni Records in Ivory Coast in the 1970s and Abdoulaye Soumare who was based in the US but met with Gerald on a whim and a stopover in Abidjan.
Theus not only convinced Soumare to stick around Abidjan, but to immediately begin work on a series of four concurrent recordings by the label?s roster of local talent. It wasn't long before a group of musicians flew from the Ivory Coast to Los Angeles to 'get down' and record with a sensational group of Motown musicians including James Brown?s bandleader Fred Wesley, Nolan Smith (Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder), Ernie Fields, Jr (Rick James, Marvin Gaye), and Quentin Dennard (Aretha Franklin, BB King). The musicians comprised of the four musical groups signed to the Ivory Coast-based Eboni Records were Mamadou Doumbia, Gun Morgan, Amadou Doukoure, Abdoulaye Soumare, Lamine Konte & Fode Drame). The album was later mastered at Motown's Hitsville Studios.
Remastered reissue of Eboni Band's sole 1980 album. Originally released by Eboni Records. Produced by Art Stewart (Marvin Gaye, Rick James, Teena Marie).
Seven more copies for SA
PEACE FLAG ENSEMBLE- NOTELAND
Black vinyl edition. Limited to four hundred copies.
Peace Flag Ensemble is an experimental jazz collective from scattered points across Saskatchewan. Their debut album, Noteland, is available June 18, 2021, on We Are Busy Bodies.
Noteland is an exercise in pure collaboration. Built around Jon Neher?s piano improvisations, it is free flowing in form and meter. Each member contributed freely but also remained open to having their playing completely recontextualized. Travis Packer?s electric bass is tightly moored to the piano while Dalton Lam and Paul Gutheil, trumpet and saxophone respectively, drift between melodic passages and textural elements. The album was produced by ambient artist Michael Scott Dawson, who also contributes electronics, guitars, and field recordings to the collective. The result is a pastiche of improvisation, composition, and collage that cycles through quiet moments of imperfection and discomfort followed by peaceful resolutions. It draws from such influences as Keith Jarrett and Mark Hollis. ?Peace Flag Ensemble is the sum of its parts. Everyone leaned into their own intuition and inspiration. I think that kept us from limiting possibilities.? Dawson shares. ?Sometimes that means a saxophone is reduced to just the crackle of a spit valve, sometimes it?s blurred into pastoral ambiance, and sometimes? well, sometimes it?s just a saxophone.?
The genesis of the project is unlikely to be included in a canon of debaucherous music myths. Neher and Dawson connected at a book club. Bonding over 70s ECM, contemporary minimalists, and Musique concrete the two began to discuss collaborating. Somewhere between reading Her Body and Other Stories by Carmen Maria Machado and Murakami?s Killing Commendatore, their ambitions morphed into a jazz collective. Reflecting on the outcome, Neher states ?This record really allowed us to explore so many kinds of spontaneity while still crafting and polishing a finished work; that is a rare treat in improvised music.?
This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada?s private radio broadcasters.
I have one copy in stock in SA
WIDE MOUTH MASON
I have one copy in stock in SA
.
