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Jobriath | Jobriath + Creatures Of The Street

GUSTAVO TURNER — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:27:44 GMT

Collectors’ Choice (2008)
Jobriath was all the things the early Bowie either wanted or pretended to be: all-American, a bona fide musical-theater performer, and unabashedly gay.

Koushik | Out My Window

GUSTAVO TURNER — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:29:03 GMT

Stones Throw (2008)
Although unshy about his background, he’s a subtle arranger, reluctant to play the Bollywood card (there’s not even a teaspoon of Asha).

Lalo Schifrin

GUSTAVO TURNER — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:35:51 GMT

Mannix | Collectors’ Choice
The “rare beat” crowd has been clamoring for a re-release of this source of funky samples.

Various Artists | Jump Back

GUSTAVO TURNER — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:40:48 GMT

LSD
Crammed with tracks guaranteed to make your chit-chatting friends go quiet for a few seconds and ask, “Isn’t that ‘Sex Machine’ in Spanish?”

Scott Walker

GUSTAVO TURNER — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:03:10 GMT

’Til The Band Comes In | Water
This is one of the classic artistic-breakdown albums, as revelatory as the Beach Boys’ Wild Honey or the Beatles’ Let it Be .

Black Affair

GUSTAVO TURNER — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:04:13 GMT

Pleasure Pressure Point | V2
Mason’s off-kilter lyrics and psychedelic sense of melody overpower the thrift-store Gary Numan and Depeche pastiches and the trite S&M vibe.

V/A(1)

GUSTAVO TURNER — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:24:23 GMT

I Like It Like That: Fania Remixed | Fania

Vetiver + Phosphorescent

GUSTAVO TURNER — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:20:46 GMT

Museum of Fine Arts, August 1, 2008
Houck looked nothing like Bonnie Prince Billy or the more emotionally tortured freak-folkies he’s usually lumped with.

Nurse with Wound

GUSTAVO TURNER — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:51:10 GMT

Nurse With Wound | The Bacteria Magnet
This is cinematic pastiche at its best, similar to Barry Adamson’s phantasmal scores but with the dada knob tweaked way to the right.

Herbie Hancock, et al.

GUSTAVO TURNER — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:42:42 GMT

Hear O Israel, A Prayer Ceremony In Jazz | Jonny
English master of obscure reissues Jonny Trunk strikes again.

Gal Costa

GUSTAVO TURNER — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:02:16 GMT

Gal | Dusty Groove America
The Brazilian tropicália movement had it bad for the Beatles.

Nobody

GUSTAVO TURNER — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:45:15 GMT

Blank Blue: Western Water Music Vol. II | Ubiquity
It’s the Monkees’ “Porpoise Song” (a track Nobody has covered) expanded into a full-blown stoner opera.

Adrian Sherwood

GUSTAVO TURNER — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:51:42 GMT

Becoming a Cliché/Dub Cliché | Real World
Have no fear: Real World’s reissue of producer Adrian Sherwood’s second solo album from 2006 is a fantastic choice for dubdorks and dubnewbs alike.

Kevin Ayers

GUSTAVO TURNER — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:32:17 GMT

Unfairground | Gigantic
His philosophizing is rarely twee, and his fine-oaked voice gives new authority to his pastis-and-mushroom-fueled musings.