Asylums - Killer Brain WavesA brain in a microwave? A metaphor for our times. Killer Brain Waves. Post modern? Most likely. Sarcastic, energetic, manic, catchy, and fun? Most definitely. Written and recorded in the post social networking malaise, Asylums debut album Killer Brain Waves is the sound of discontent right now. Weve all had them. Those life altering, world changing ideas. You know what? Im gonna start that band, Im gonna write those songs_ And then, come the odds

Higher Altitude - Vybz Kartel ft

Like the cult music of Haiti's Vodou and Cuba's Santeria or the roots music of Belize's Garifuna (all of which Soul Jazz have travelled to record)

call(ed) home

Issued respectively by John Fahey's Takoma record label in 1980 and Leon's Arbitor private press in 1982

The Vanguards - What's Wrong With You

Recorded live to tape by San Francisco's Sonny Smith (Sonny and the Sunsets) and mixed and mastered by Mikey Young (Total Control

And although a few tracks here follow on that path

as well as fronting the influential and confrontational Big Black during the 1980s

Continuing to produce wonderful material - seriously

plaintive reflection on the loneliness that blossoms when a person you care about treats you like literal garbage

teaching or just experiencing real life

Guitarist Christian Bland invites listeners to accompany the band on a sonic odyssey: ‰ÛÏAfter roaming through the Indigo Meadow