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Margo Guryan - I Ought to Stay Away From You (1966)

Released by Numero Group, they describe this wonderful tune as a “yé-yé inspired burner”.

It is a pure disgrace the way I’m chasing after you

#Margo Guryan #I Ought to Stay Away From You #Numero Group

[musicmakesyousmart]

Duster - Together

Numero Group

2022

#Duster #Together #Numero Group #slowcore

[ruinedholograms]

#music #90s #numero 95 #vinyl #numero group #1990s #hologram parade

[thoughtswordsaction]

Legendary Shoegaze Band Majesty Crush Released Career-Spanning Double LP Via Numero Group

Photo courtesy of the band. Shoegaze Vanguards Majesty Crush Release Career-Spanning Double LP Butterflies Don’t Go Away Today via The Numero Group In the early 90’s, Majesty Crush broke shoegaze and dream pop into new territories, cementing the band on the forefront of Detroit’s rock scene and the burgeoning genre itself. Today, The Numero Group is pleased to release their career-spanning…

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#MAJESTY CRUSH #NEWS #NUMERO GROUP #SHOEGAZE

[buellerismyfriend]

Duster

#Duster #Duster band #90s emo #slowcore #sadcore #shoegaze #Calm band #Valium Aggelein #Numero Group

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4/15/23.

A couple of years ago Numero Group released a compilation of lesser known/unknown bands called "You're Not From Around Here". One of the bands on that compilation was Bailey's Nervous Kats (they were also on the soundtrack to the Netflix show "Wild Wild Country".

Now, Numero Group is giving Bailey's Nervous Kats a full release/reissue. "The Nervous Kats" was a compilation originally released in 1965. Bailey's Nervous Kats formed in the late 1950s and were part of the nascent surf sound made famous primarily by The Ventures.

But, what really wowed me about Bailey's Nervous Kats is the fact that they plied this sound in Redding, California. Redding is nestled off I-5 in Northern California and is generally not known for any music scene. There was a burst of music there and in nearby Chico, California in the 1980s (bands like 28th Day, The Vertels, Harvester, Buick, Case For Radio, and Sidearm all had ties to mostly Redding, but also Chico).

Any fans of surf music, Elvis Presley, and Charlie Megira take not of Bailey's Nervous Kats.

#Bailey's Nervous Kats #Redding #California #Numero Group #Charlie Megira #Elvis Presley #The Ventures #Chico #Wild Wild Country #28th Day #The Vertels #Harvester #Buick #Case For Radio #Sidearm #Bandcamp

[ourladyofomega]

2018. It was my first time in New York City since three shoulder surgeries and nine months of stay-at-home recovery. The doctor’s office was in midtown Manhattan so I knew to take my kit with me. As soon as my follow-up was over I decided to finally visit Central Park for a photo shoot. The minute I approached the mall was when something bright and shiny hit me: a moment of clarity.

A $1,000.00 bonus, a third bi-weekly paycheck of the month, a tax refund, and shifting extra money into savings. I had a contact with a Brooklyn goth girl who matched me on music taste and exceeded me in much more. I was well underway hitting up almost every record store on Long Island in sight because I promised to treat myself when things got better - and it did.

For the first time in a long time I felt good about something. I held on to the rare experience of feeling hopeful and euphoric. For once in my life I had nothing to worry about and everything to look forward to. When Joanna Brouk’s “The Space Between” plays, it’s a return to one of the best moments of the last decade.

#omega #our lady omega #personal #NYC #Manhattan #New York City #Joanna Brouk #ambient #new age #springtime #Long Island #Numero Group

[aquariumdrunkard]

Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights

Given their mastery of the archival compilation record, it should be no surprise that Numero Group would eventually dive into exotica, releasing Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights in 2018. Exotica is a perfect pairing for Numero Group’s statement of intent: a hyper-specific subset of music that quickly came in and out of vogue, reflecting a bygone era’s style and cultural context. More so, due to its short lifespan as a commercially viable genre, much of exotica is largely uncharted, and in these uncharted waters of adrift songs, a label such as Numero Group sets its sails.

#tiki #exotica #Numero Group

[dustedmagazine]

Laraaji — Segue to Infinity (Numero Group)

It was brass, as the artist remembered nearly four decades later, layers of brass harmony that remained somehow static, neither beginning nor ending. It was a pivotal moment for the then Edward Larry Gordon, whose middle and last names were eventually and ceremonially conflated to Laraaji. That moment of sonic vision led, with the inevitability of destiny, to the music in this 4-LP set containing some of his earliest released and recorded works.

While his most celebrated contribution is certainly his Day of Radiance album, an entry in Brian Eno’s Ambient series and produced by him, Laraaji’s discography is daunting, parts of it very difficult to track down. This set is a welcome addition to that catalog, documenting a formative phase of the instrumentalist and meditator’s journey.

As the liner notes attest, somewhere between that revelatory sound experience and these late 1970s sessions, the former comedian walked into a pawn shop and, heeding the intuitive voice he learned increasingly to trust, traded his guitar for an autoharp. Taking the bars out, he moved toward being the musician heard on that Eno collab and on his first album, Celestial Vibration, released in 1978 on the obscure SWN label and still under his birth-name. It’s the first LP in this set.

All of the trademark musical vibes pervade the two 25-minute pieces for electrified zither, peppered with effects and crackling with his trance-inducing rhythmic energy and focus. Even more wonderful is the music’s diversity as it either drives or insinuates a more sedate entity that it would be incomplete, even contradictory, to call motion. The sounds often emerge in cycles, sometimes engendered by the effects, creating a sort of rhythmically contrapuntal state that still avoids the goal-driven aesthetic associated with such conventional notions. These are overlapping and evolving cycles illuminating the path inward. The filtered resonances delineating “All-Pervading” sweep up and down the sound spectrum, invitations to partake in reflection even as the zither thrums with motoric insistence, leaving aside another more percussive sound entering a whole new harmonic area! Then, suddenly, only the complex sweep and rainbow-soft glissandi remain.

While such sounds embody and anticipate descriptors of the “New Age” genre, Laraaji’s music is far too complex for facile pigeonholing. “Bethlehem”’’s edgy opening, replete with scrapings, high-pitched rasps, rhythmic knocking and a few silences that either jar or seduce, defies all categorical felicity. Like the artist performing these vast sonic tone-paintings, the soundscape must be taken on its own terms.

The same is true for the three LPs of material only now seeing complete release. What a luxury it is to float down the titular piece’s flute-and-zither tributaries, each overtone beautifully captured as the flute traverses the stereo spectrum, gently ebbing and flowing through sound and silence until the cradling rhythms ensue. Those effect-driven eddies also permeate the bells and strings dialogue of “Koto,” placing even familiar sounds somehow beyond or just outside themselves. Tremolo, phase and vibrato carry and enhance each plucked timbre, liquifying the icy crystal transient peaks articulating their creation. The complex motions of hands or mallets on wire and wood are as faithfully rendered as the music’s raw power is both palpable and elusive.

By “Kalimba 4”’s hypnotic conclusion, during which the overtonally rich thumb piano articulations ultimately dissolve into a quietly salutary exhortation, a vast sense of completion is palpable. It is as if each of these eight excursions presents one facet of that harmonic revelation that put Laraaji on the path, each microcosmic repetition speaking to a stage in a development spiraling toward the unity at the music’s heart. This is now the most comprehensive collection of Laraaji’s work from this formative period, and the liner notes, including a wonderfully perceptive essay by Vernon Reid, give verbal voice to the celebration warranted by such a comprehensive package. 

Marc Medwin

#laraaji #segue to infinity #numero group #marc medwin #albumreview #dusted magazine #box set #electric zither #flute #kalimba #new age #brian eno #new york city

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#indian summer #woolworm #post hardcore #screamo #numero group

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Love Apple - Guess I Always Knew (1978)

In 1978 Cleveland’s soul music svengali Lou Ragland discovered three women from Cleveland, and set about recording what sound like demos, with just guitar, pianos and drums.  Described as “discodelic”, it’s very moody and atmospheric. Lou Ragland lost interest and the recordings were not released until 2012 by Numero group.

#Love Apple #Guess I Always Knew #Lou Ragland #Numero Group

[seanhowe]

Back cover of Helene Smith Sings Sweet Soul LP, Deep City Records, 1967

#helene smith #deep city #paul kelly #clarence reid #willie clark #little beaver #johnny pearsall #miami #soul #album art #numero group

[ruinedholograms]

Are you looking for that half way point between smooth jazz and new age? Mac and PC? Quantum Leap and the X-Files? This software is for you.

#music #vinyl #records #90s #1990s #album art #numero group #numero 95 #virtual software #hologram parade

[adamgnade]

I'm on this rad "talking songs" Spotify playlist the Numero Group made.

#spotify #spotify playlist #adamgnade #talking songs #numero group

[soulmusicsongs]

We Can Work It Out - The Final Solution (Brotherman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2008, orig. 1974)

#We Can Work It Out #Soul #Soul Music #Soul Music Songs #Music #Music Songs #1974 #Blaxploitation #Brotherman #Numero Group #The Final Solution #Brotherman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack #Youtube

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10/11/23.

Numero Group continues its reissues of the Charlie Megira catalogue. "Love Police" was originally released in 2009 and we posted about this release back in 2015. In celebration of its reissue, "Love Police" is getting another post. Part of that OG post stated:

"This is an amazing cross of surf, Sonic Youth (Psychic Youth-2), David Bowie (Elvis Is Not Dead), experimental noise, Eddy Current Suppression Ring (all) and more.  Really, I’m not doing this any justice with my comparisons.  After all, there are 31 songs here!!

And I just listened to "The Valley of Tears", an instrumental that sounds like Echo and the Bunnymen adjacent. And I want to mention Franky Flowers - an underappreciated band that plies the guitar reverb sound that Megira loved.

Charlie Megira was from Jaffa, Israel.

#Charlie Megira #Numero Group #Israel #Jaffa #Sonic Youth #David Bowie #Eddy Current Suppression Ring #Echo and the Bunnymen #Franky Flowers #Bandcamp