{"title":"New Arrivals","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"shigeto-no-better-time-than-now-blue-black-white-marbled-vinyl-vinyl-lp","title":"Shigeto - No Better Time Than Now (Blue, Black \u0026 White Marbled Vinyl) Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDespite its origins in change and unrest, No Better Time Than Now is ultimately a positive work: \"The last year was definitely a significant turning point in my life both musically and personally,\" Saginaw says, \"but life has its way of working things out in the strangest of ways. I spent most of the year traveling and that gave me a lot of time to think. I got to know myself a lot better and that helped me be more honest with myself… that helped me write more honest music and gave me inspiration and excitement for the future.\"This sense of internal reflection and confidence imbues every moment of this record. As Saginaw says, \"I feel when things change so much so fast, you are forced to look at what is right in front of you… [to] look at what's happening in the moment, [which] sometimes helps you embrace that moment. These songs are that for me. Don't sleep on a feeling. If it feels right it is. We say life is 'short,' but [we] know it feels 'long,' so when you have a chance to be honest with yourself, take it — there is no better time than now.\" No better time, indeed.Fans of Shigeto's previous work will find all the hallmarks of his sound here — the warm, inviting washes of liquid synth sounds, the intricate production, the jazz-influenced arrangements. Now, however, they're imbued with a subtle energy — \"Detroit Part 1,\" for instance, features a surprisingly pounding hip hop beat, while \"Ringleader\" is propelled by an insistent hi-hat pattern that sits slightly ahead of the beat, giving the track a driving mood that belies its tempo. Even the quieter tracks retain a certain sense of urgency — the aforementioned \"Soul Searching,\" for instance, is a track that sounds just as reflective as its name might suggest, but it's kept from drifting too far into introspection by a powerful, echo-laden beat. The title track starts out in a similarly pensive vein, but builds slowly into a storm of fuzzy synth sounds and clattering drums. 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A vital force in the contemporary global landscape of experimental music, Okkyung Lee is widely regarded for her solo and collaborative improvisations and compositions, weaving a continuously evolving network of sonority and event, notable for its profound depth of instrumental sensitivity, exacting intellect, and visceral emotiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYeo-Neun, recorded by Yeo-Neun Quartet -- an experimental chamber music ensemble founded in 2106 and led by Lee on cello, featuring harpist Maeve Gilchrist, pianist Jacob Sacks, and bassist Eivynd Opsvik -- represents the culmination of one of longest and most intimate arcs in her remarkable career. A radical departure from much of the experimental language for which she has become widely known, it is equally a fearless return. Yeo-Neun loosely translates to the gesture of an opening in Korean, presenting a window into the poetic multiplicity that rests at the album's core.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBalanced at the outer reaches of Lee's radically forward-thinking creative process, its ten discrete works are born of the ambient displacement of musician's life; intimate melodic constructions and deconstructions that traces their roots across the last 30 years, from her early days spent away from home studying the cello in Seoul and Boston, to her subsequent move to New York and the nomadism of a near endless routine of tours. At its foundation, lay glimpses of a once melancholic teen, traces of the sentimentality and sensitivity (감성 \/ Gahmsung) that underpins the Korean popular music of Lee's youth, and an artist for whom the notions of time, place, and home have become increasingly complex. 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That storefront space would host the rehearsal of several Johnson productions, before Syl made an 11-door journey north to Chess's Ter-Mar studios, where many of his Twinight records, and those of others, were ultimately set to tape. But first he had to find a new band. Seven blocks north of Ter-Mar, Brunswick's Jalynne Sound house band was feeling awfully underappreciated at the hands of A\u0026amp;R director Carl Davis. Davis had put the group together piecemeal after walking out of OKeh in 1965, installing Bernard Reed on bass, guitarist John Bishop, trumpeter Michael Davis, alto saxist Jerry Wilson, and drummer Hal \"Heavy\" Nesbitt. Jalynne Productions set up shop at Roosevelt and Wabash, housing Davis' publishing and managing concerns, the latter of which boasted a stable of Gene Chandler, Otis Leavill, the Opals, Major Lance, Billy Butler, and Walter Jackson. When Jackie Wilson showed up at Jalynne, looking for a hit to revive his faltering career, everything changed. Following Wilson's success with the Barbara Acklin\/Eugene Record penned \"Whispers\" for Brunswick in 1966, Davis leveraged his new job at the label to set up a Jalynne writing workshop and studio in the old Vee-Jay offices at 1449 S. Michigan. The group would be used on many Brunswick and Dakar recordings between 1967 and 1969. But they were most egregiously offended at being left off the credits on Young-Holt Unlimited's \"Soulful Strut\" (when, in fact, neither Eldee Young nor Isaac \"Red\" Holt had even played on the Top 5 Pop hit). Bassist Bernard Reed recalls Jalynne's acrimonious split with Brunswick: \"I was a little disillusioned with how things were going for me down there. So we left Brunswick, and we got downstairs, and Jerry Wilson, the horn player, he said, 'Well, hey, Syl Johnson is right up the street. We can go down there and talk to him. I know he's looking for a band.' And that's what we did. We walked down the street to Syl's place. He was right across the street from Chess Records then. We were on Record Row. Syl had a little rehearsal studio there set up. He wasn't doing any major recording, but he had a machine there where we could make little dubs of what we wrote. Syl let us come in in the mornings, and we'd stay there up until the late hours of the night, practicing and performing new songs and putting together our own act. We dropped the Jalynne Sounds when we left Brunswick, I came up with the name Pieces of Peace. It just came to me as sort of a play on words. It was during that whole era-peace, flower power, during the end of the '60s. It sounded good to me, and I mentioned it to the fellows, and they said, 'Well, that's who we are now! The Pieces of Peace!'\" Syl put the Pieces of Peace rhythm section to work immediately, employing Reed, Bishop, and Nesbitt on the no-frills \"Is It Because I'm Black.\" Before the single even hit the streets, much less the charts, the full band was marked present on the Dynamic Tints' Reed-composed \"Package of Love Pt. 1 \u0026amp; 2\" and had backed up Syl up on a handful of regional dates. With no one waiting at home and a band with nowhere else to go, Syl worked tirelessly rehearsing his next opus, an album of songs reflective of the changing times. With \"Is It Because I'm Black\" still bolding the pages of Billboard, the coming LP's title appeared to Syl plain as day-or, in this case, black as night. Issued in April 1970-a full 13 months before Marvin Gaye's What's Going On-Is It Because I'm Black can rightly be called the first black concept album, a distinction few give it credit for. 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Interluding solo and part-solo piano improvisations ‘Last Sun 1’ and ‘2’ are positioned adjacent to the buffering digital soundscapes. 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