New record pressing! Albums don’t get much more intimate than the ones made by Stina Nordenstam. The Swedish singer layers her delicate voice over minimal, ambient soundscapes, and her lyrics are impressionistic, personal, and poetic. It’s like you’re swimming in her stream of consciousness, which is a pretty nice place to be, especially on this 2001 album, which presents Stina at her dreamiest and poppiest.
Available from Real Gone Music.
It’s record store day every day here at GGR, but for the official Record Store Day, we recommend you make an added trip to your local independent record store to celebrate! Here are some RSD titles pressed by GGR for RSD 2024:
The Dead Milkmen – Bucky Fellini (only the handmade variants and Wax Mage edition)
Eek-A-Mouse – Assassinator
Bob Frank – Unreleased Sides
The Bottle Rockets – The Brooklyn Side
Joe Pesci – Little Joe Sure Can Sing
Bobby Rush – 99 and 1/2 Won’t Do 7inch
Durry – Big Boy 7inch
Fetchin’ Bones – Cabin Flounder
New record pressing! Available from Shuga Records, The Aubreys 2021 psychedelic rock album Karaoke Alone — preorder now!
Not many of our record pressing customers have their own music festival, but our long-time San Pedro, CA based customer Nomad Eel Records is having a showcase of LA-based bands (all with records pressed by Gotta Groove) on Saturday April 13 at the Grand Annex Music Hall in San Pedro.
Music cut and pressed into this vinyl record is the culmination of 1000+ steps all skillfully crafted and produced to capture T.vic’s best original, heavy and dynamic soundscapes recorded to date. The mesmerizing artwork was created by Brittany Bindrim. Dave McNair Mastering produced the vinyl audio masters.
New record pressing! Bloomsday – The Heart of The Artichoke:
The way Bloomsday’s Iris James Garrison writes songs feels like somewhere between a mirror and a memory. Spacious, full-bodied folk songs, they are an ode to things that are good no matter how small; they sometimes feel like the ghost of a Mary Oliver poem. Bloomsday’s new record, ‘Heart of the Artichoke’, is a relic of unfettered creativity and community. They recount the miracles of the mundane, the memories that become sacred, an ode to all that is holy: nightswimming, songs plucked from the ether, the ways friendship can endure.
New vinyl pressing – Sarah Shook & The Disarmers – Revelations — Available via Thirty Tigers on March 29 – Preorder Now
Engineered by Ian Schreier at Fidelitorium Recordings, Kernersville, NC
Blake Tallent, assistant engineer
Mixed by Ian Schreier at Kaleidoscope Mixing and Mastering
Mastered by Brent Lambert at the Kitchen, Carrboro, NC
New record pressing! Fela Kuti – Zombie (reissue/repress).
The fury stirred up among the Nigerian police and military by Fela’s confrontational Alagbon Close (1974) and Kalakuta Show (1976), and the beatings and harassments Fela and Africa 70 suffered as a consequence, were as nothing compared to the reprisals following 1976’s Zombie. Within months of its release, a brutal army attack left Fela’s Kalakuta Republic compound burnt to the ground and many of its residents, including Fela, assaulted and seriously injured.
Available again from Partisan Records.
New record pressing! Tim Easton – Find Your Way. Few poets follow their own arrow as devotedly as Tim Easton, whose songwriting career has woven in and out of folk music and rock ‘n’ roll (and Americana before it was really called that), of erstwhile bands and solo songwriting, of his birthplace of America and all the other places he’s called home. Whether surviving as a busker in Paris and Prague, living and working on both US coasts, touring relentlessly through remote Alaska or recording with some of the most famous sidemen in rock history, Easton has followed his inspiration to every point on the map.
Available from Black Mesa Records.
New Record Pressing! Angelo Outlaw‘s Axis of Time is the stunning debut album from Philadelphia mallet percussionist and poet Angelo Outlaw. Featuring Eraserhood Sound’s signature synth & soul production, Axis of Time is a dazzling blend of jazz, rare groove, funk, soul and r&b.
According to Outlaw, the album is meant to transport the listener to a dream-like state, where space and time slowly fade away and reality is merely a distant memory. Each song sets a unique scene, as the pace of the music swells and sways…from the euphoric highs of lead single “Free My Mind”and uninhibited groove of “Speed of Light” to the trance-like meditation of “Dreams” and mournful melodies of “Invisible Clock,” Angelo and the Eraserhood Sound house band truly go to the cosmos and back. The record is an extraordinary debut from Outlaw, a young gay Black man who hopes to serve as an inspiration to others who might be perceived as different or other. His work transcends race, creed, religion, and politics, and has the power to speak to the universality of time, space, and human connection.
