New to the Shop
Whilst this is the place to see all the new releases that have landed in the store this week, we don't just rely on new releases or reissues to keep the stock fresh, we spend hours researching and unearthing the hidden gems and future favourites that might otherwise get overlooked. Spanning our favourite genres, these are the records that have recently arrived in store for the first time - new or old.
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Glera is a genre-bending jazz record that folds in soul and reggae’s elastic low end with an open-door sense of possibility. The project began three years ago as a kind of private exercise, with Benevento writing intuitively, inspired by Italian film scores and melody. Over time, those sketches evolved into something broader and more muscular, culminating in the grand majesty heard here.
Nuevos Ríos is the new project born from the meeting of Colombia’s iconic Canalón de Timbiquí, led by the unmistakable voice of Nidia Góngora (Quantic, Ondatrópica, The Bongo Hop), and the Toulouse-based trio Reco Reco, known for their explorations of trance-driven rhythms from South America and beyond.
Excuses for Travellers (released in 2000) is widely considered Mojave 3’s masterpiece, perfectly capturing the sweet spot between the hushed dream-folk of their debut and the warmer, Dylan-esque alt-country of their second album. Co-produced with electronic artist Mark Van Hoen, the record offers a masterclass in elegant, slow-burning melancholy
In 1979 at the age of 62, Bobby Robinson was an incongruous figure, standing at the back of a Bronx club watching a performance from GRANDMASTER FLASH and The Furious Five. The experienced record man, whose record shop, Bobby's Happy House, had been the first black-owned business on Harlem's 125th Street, was on the lookout for talent.
Yoko Ono’s seminal album Season of Glass, released on vinyl for the first time in more than forty-five years, was originally released in June 1981, just seven months after the senseless murder of Ono’s husband and creative partner, John Lennon. Full of songs about love, loss, anger and fear, the album reflected Ono’s experience in stark detail, creating almost a companion piece to Ono and Lennon’s 1970 Plastic Ono Band “primal scream” albums.
New 10th anniversary, fully remastered special Silver vinyl edition of Soul Jazz Records’ ground-breaking ‘Venezuela 70’ featuring Vytas Brenner, Pablo Schneider, Angel Rada, Miguel Angel Fuster and many more.‘Venezuela 70’ was the first ever compilation of its kind to take a look at the fascinating music scene created in Venezuela in the 1970s, a stunning blend of funk, Latin rock, European electronic experimentalism, jazz and more.
Candy Girl is one of the more mysterious dates in Mal Waldron's discography. Recorded in 1975 at producer Pierre Jaubert's studio with Lafayette Afro Rock Band, it appeared in a tiny independent release from Calumet and was forgotten until France's Libreville Records reissued it in small print runs in 2016 and 2020.
Trumpeter, Eddie Henderson, came to prominence as a member of Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi in the early-70s, after which he recorded a pair of seminal jazz-funk fusion classics for Blue Note: 'Sunburst' (1975), and 'Heritage' (1976). The latter featuring a forward-looking crew with Julian Priester, Patrice Rushen, Paul Jackson, Mike Clark, Billy Hart, Mtume, and others
A Great Day in Newcastle' is a musical documentation of the North East working-class experience. Through a storytelling approach, with the addition of new member and poet Cooper Robson, the record explores darker themes such as substance abuse, crime and toxic masculinity within a distinct Geordie jazz noir soundscape
An essential collection showcasing some of the finest and most sought-after reggae interpretations of r&b classics from the 1970s, performed by some of Jamaica’s most celebrated artists. Includes numerous long-standing classics alongside long-forgotten rarities that have remained unavailable on vinyl for decades.
Southern Nights is the GRAMMY-winning album by acclaimed pianist - composer Sullivan Fortner. Recorded live during a weeklong residency at New York’s Village Vanguard in Summer 2023, the album captures Fortner in peak form alongside bassist Peter Washington and drummer Marcus Gilmore, with no edits or retakes, preserving the raw immediacy and electricity of their performances.
Truthdare Doubledare’ marked a significant change in the direction of synth-pop trio Bronski Beat as a band, with vocalist Jimmy Somerville leaving and being replaced with John Jøn Foster. Whilst maintaining a clear voice in support of gay rights and political activism, the production gave way to a rougher and rawer style, featuring more real instruments, ever-powerful lyrics and more variety in genre. This never-before reissued album features the Number Three single ‘Hit That Perfect Beat’, a full remaster, new remixes and unreleased live and studio versions.
A document of singular rarity. Issued by United Dairies in 2026 in a hand-made, heavy-gauge black vinyl edition limited to 300 copies, 1984 - A Happening recovers the second ever public performance of Nurse With Wound, captured on tape in 1984 and held in Steven Stapleton's archive across the four decades since.
Trombonist / composer Robinson Khoury is one of the most prominent and visible rising stars on the French jazz and cross-genre scene. A charismatic live performer, his breakthrough came in 2024 with the album ‘MŸA’, featuring his trio with percussionist Anissa Nehari and keyboardist Léo Yassef. This group, in which Khoury plays not just trombone but also modular synths - he sings as well - became a tightly-knit and vibrant musical unit, with the title of their debut album becoming the band name Robinson Khoury MŸA. The trio now take centre stage on their ACT debut album, ‘Transara’.
For the first time ever: the long-lost recordings of Birmingham roots reggae pioneers Naturs mastered from the original tapes by Guy Davie at Electric Needle Mythology, the label founded by music writer, author and broadcaster Pete Paphides, is thrilled to announce the archival release of newly-discovered recordings by Birmingham reggae band Natrus.
Freddie McGregor's debut album Mr. McGregor was released in 1979. The album opens with "We Got Love" featuring a Tower of Power influenced horn section underneath McGregor's tale of love conquering all. The classic "Rastaman Camp" combines muted horn and an earthy, Nyahbinghi-like chorus for one of producer Niney's deeper constructions, but the lightweight fare is equally welcome as the easy strolling and not too sugary version of "Brandy" displays.
Spacemoth’s Inward Eye is a journey through inner and outer worlds, blending cosmic psychedelic pop with pulsating rhythms and looping textures inspired by nature and memory. Written on the road and shaped in motion, the album is a collection of hypnotic, cyclical songs that balance precision and openness, inviting listeners to drift through their own emotional landscapes.
Reverie is the first full-length collaboration between Ori Kaplan and Lihu Melamed - a cinematic, soul-soaked LP that drifts between modal jazz, cinematic scores and psychedelic rock, released on Batov Records - a record that feels both ancient and immediate: music that evokes old biblical films, sun-bleached Western soundtracks and 70s jazz explorations, while remaining playful, spontaneous and deeply human.
Visit Malphino is a 17-track epic that provides the soundboard to years of imaginative cultivation. With clues in the titles, each track represents a different element to the island. It embodies the growth of the Malphino concept from an abstract idea within the minds of a few friends to a more complex fantasy at the centre of a small community of musicians and artists. Speculation is open-ended.
Originally released in 1968 on the budget Saga label, The Soul of The Matter has become a genuine cult favourite of the British late-sixties soul-pop underground. Long overlooked and pressed in modest quantities, the album quietly built a reputation among collectors as one of those rare low-budget releases where the artistry far outweighed the resources behind it.
8-Tracks features eight essential classics selected from the Pink Floyd’s 1971 – 1979 era. The track list includes instantly recognisable hits alongside earlier cuts in ‘One Of These Days’ and ‘Wot’s… Uh The Deal’, as well as an exclusive full version of ‘Pigs On The Wing’, previously available only on the 1977 Animals 8-Track cartridge release
Lithic’ is Laura Misch’s immersive new album, a sonic journey through stone, water, wind and lightning. Misch conjures music from caves, quarries, rock pools and coastal edges, merging field recordings with saxophone, voice, electronics, strings, and percussion. ‘Lithic’ is a meditation on nature, aging and connection, offering listeners a profound, elemental listening experience that is at once visceral, meditative and electrifying.
We Dream’ is the new studio album by New York-based alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin. Conceived as a deeply band-driven project, her sixth album and
Artwork Records debut centres on Benjamin’s frequent collaborators in pianists Oscar Pérez and Miki Hayama and bassist Elias Bailey - along with new associates in trumpeter Sean Jones and drummer Jonathan Barber - alongside an expansive cast of guest collaborators drawn from across jazz, R&B, hip-hop and experimental music.
BBE Music’s celebrated J Jazz compilation series reaches its fifth and final volume in early 2026. This final volume features a selection of tracks that is as diverse as it is deep, reflecting the rich and varied Japanese jazz scene that spanned from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, a golden era of innovation and creativity.
Kronstad 23 returns with Dødehavet, the Norwegian quartet’s third album and first release on Batov Records. Continuing their instinctive, analogue-led approach, the record sits between cinematic jazz and psychedelic rock, threaded with Scandinavian folk and wider global influences. Recorded live to tape with minimal preparation and no modern studio intervention, Dødehavet captures a band working on feel, interaction and momentum rather than polish or precision.
Back in 1999 when David Byrne originally compiled this retrospective—making it the first in our critically acclaimed World Psychedelic Classics series—the idea of doing a psychedelic album from outside the U.S. or Europe was a total surprise. More than twenty years since this anthology first hit the shelves, the mutants are back in stock— with their electric guitars, cans of bug spray, and deviant, freaky psychedelia.
The Endless Dance’ is the first collaborative album from Northern Irish producer and composer Hannah Peel and Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang. The record is grounded in the strength of ancient concepts but comes alive with the joy and freedom of play as together, Peel and Wang travel through the 24 solar terms of the Chinese calendar with a cornucopia of sound in tow - synths and prepared piano alongside traditional and unconventional percussion.
When The Lights Gone is the new Album from Nostalgia 77.
A set of simple songs in primary colours it explores Lamdin’s familiar themes of memory, time, truth and identity. After a hiatus of several years from releasing personal work Producer Benedic Lamdin has two albums set for release this year of which ‘When The Lights Gone’ is the first.
Coming almost two decades after the release of the original Grammy-winning, self-titled LP, the new album is a collection of previously unreleased tracks - some of which were recorded during the original album's sessions in Havana and others from the years that followed. The studio tracks on Lost and Found were recorded at the 1996 Egrem studio sessions in Havana and during a period of rich and prolific creativity stretching into the early 2000s following the recording of the original album.
For the last few years, Acid Jazz have been the proud custodians of the Albarika Store legacy. Hailing from the small but culturally-significant state of Benin, the label was operational from the late-1960s until the early 1980s, and was home to some of the finest, deepest, rawest West African cuts ever. A fount of local and regional music, infused with contemporary Western influences, the beating heart of the Albarika sound were the mighty T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, who in various guises released dozens of recordings for the label, under the leadership of Mêlomé Clément.
Charles Stepney gained worldwide success as the producer for Earth Wind & Fire and Deniece Williams but the producer and arranger’s earlier work at Chess is now regarded as some of the most original ever laid to tape, and in the past 20 years has become a primary influence on scores of producers and arrangers, with his records being sought after by DJs and collectors. Despite a couple of attempts, his most important work has never been compiled on one volume until now. This compilation gathers up his most famous productions for the likes of Rotary Connection - and their singer Minnie Riperton, Ramsey Lewis, Terry Callier, Marlena Shaw and the Dells.
One of Blue Note's greatest mainstream hard bop dates, Song for My Father is Horace Silver's signature LP and the peak of a discography already studded with classics. Silver was always a master at balancing jumping rhythms with complex harmonies for a unique blend of earthiness and sophistication, and Song for My Father has perhaps the most sophisticated air of all his albums
