Fresh Grabs

[ChristoBee]

Many thanks for the great PIF @ChristoBee

View attachment 12662

Ah great ! I was starting to wonder if it got lost ! Hopefully it reached you not more damaged than when I received it from VMP.

 

[Joe Mac]

Ah great ! I was starting to wonder if it got lost ! Hopefully it reached you not more damaged than when I received it from VMP.

They tried to deliver it on Friday but I missed it and picked it up from the depot today and no it’s absolutely as described so I’m looking forward to getting it Spinning!

 

[Poly-Rythmo]

Bad things about being away for 5 weeks on sabbatical - not getting to play records
Good things (apart from the 5 weeks ) - coming home to find an almighty pile of records at the post office. Here goes:

Creme de la creme is two massive stacks of Ebay African OG purchases, supplemented by some Discogs buys. From Mali, Senegal and Ghana mostly with some Nigeria and then lots of Benin at the end...


Etoile de Dakar - Thiopathioly
Etoile de Dakar - Absa Gueye
Ali Farka Toure - s/t
Orchestre Regional de Sikasso


Sory Bamba du Mali
Kante Manfila et Salif Keita - Dans L'Authenticité Vol 1
Akwaboah's Guitar Band
African Brothers Band - Tribute to DK


Fela Kuti - Shuffering and Shmiling
Ouedraogo Mamadou & Super Rail Band - Dioulou Koussoube
Super Jamano de Dakar - Geedy Dayaan
African Brothers Band - Me Poma


Ebo Taylor Jr with Wuta Wazutu - Gotta Take It Cool (reissue)
Kyerematen Stars - Afenhyiapa
3 x Gnonnas Pedro singles


And perhaps the piece de resistance - 12 x Orchestre Poly-Rythmo singles including 3 with covers and 3 others I've never heard of before (not on Discogs either). Plus 1 x Alemayehu Eshete single from Ethiopia.

 

[Poly-Rythmo]

There was also a bunch of new releases and tasty jazz albums waiting for me...


Blow 3.0
EABS - Slavic Spirits
Lee Morgan - Cornbread (my first Tone Poet)
Kinkajous - Hidden Lines


Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro
Ebo Taylor and Pat Thomas - Hitsville Revisited
Rhiannon Giddens - Tomorrow is My Turn / Factory Girl
Gomez - Liquid Skin


Miles Davis - Circle in the Round / ESP
Emma-Jean Thackray - Ley Lines
Ebi Soda - Bedroom Tapes


Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet - Polka (really superb jazz)
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding (inexplicable hole in collection)
The National - I Am Easy To Find (finally)
Bill Callahan - Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest / Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Phew! Now to listen to (and first clean) them all...

 

[Dark Star Boogie]

It's been a crazy busy month or two for me, I've been somewhat disengaged around here but I have scored some fantastic grabs. This is a few weeks worth and includes a newly released favourite, a couple of original/early pressings of old favourites and some quality reissues.
View attachment 12722
The Kenny Clarke and Bud Powell are Music Matters eBay scores, the Mobley and Coltrane Analogue Productions eBay scores. The near mint Blue Train AP for AU$58 (about US$40) was a bit of a pleasant shock and one of my better bargain pickups.

Nice score on that Blue Train AP press!

 

[kburleypdx]

 

[uvwxVinyl]

It arrived really quickly! I ordered it yesterday and it was here today morning.

This book is gorgeous!

 

[Jmcg85]

3 vinyl today but one was delivered smashed so here are 2 of those 3

 

[KenKaniff]

 

[Jmcg85]

View attachment 12804

Velvet rope keeps calling me. That's you and @Lee Newman now. I need it

 

[Crabbers]

Idioteque promo

And 2 hpb groobs (muse and bloc party tulips single)

 

[bettim84]

Not sure I can get more mid-30s than dropping $35 on Keith Jarrett records:



From top left to bottom right: Treasure Island, Survivor’s Suite, Arbor Zena, and Belonging.

Also a reminder that there’s plenty of great music to be had, on vinyl, for relatively cheap.

 

[AnthonyI]

This is an odd Fresh Grab, but it's definitely part of the fun of the hobby. So a while back I picked this up from a member and just recently a friend came across some info that this album was part of a press kit for DJ's in preparation for The Beatles. The kit included the following...


This is the info my friend found about the promo copy, mines identical, so I decided to try and find the sticker and tabloid paper that went along with it.

I did find the sticker just recently and it came with a copy of the Capitol Memo discussing the the campaign, it's pretty interesting....


Now we need to find the tabloid
Here's my copy of the album...

 

[kafunis]

Nice, lots of great stuff there ! Survivors Suite is great .

 

[NateOEB]

A nice stack of mailers greeted me when I got home today so I updated the wall. Completed my TV Girl & Yung Bae discographies and added a few other goodies. Jackie Cohen & Dizzy Fae were purchased from @dbarila & were packed with care. Pulled Ras G out of the stacks to pay respect.

 

[TheMythOfSisyphus]

Japanese Kate Bush Hounds of Love arrived today

 

[zomgbear]

picked up a bunch of stuff from Deep Discount - some crazy sales going on got all these for like ~$60
Some I've been looking for, some is just dirt cheap that I couldn't pass on.

 

[snoops]

Remember playing the crap out of this when it first dropped. Probably one of the first 10 CD's I ever owned.


Apparently $12 was the sweet spot to finally bite on this.


I am a year late on this one. Not sure how it slipped under my radar. Sounds f'ing fantastic (45rpm). If you have a decent system the last track (Blackbird) will blow your mind. Do your self a favor and check her out. Would have been in my top 3 favorite albums of 2018.

 

[Dirtbag Auntie]

Which one? I just saved one from the trash my girl was having a clear out

S/T

 

[Twentytwo]

Got this awesome PIF from @tvham Forgot how great this record is. Thanks again, really appreciate it.