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Has someone got a link for buying the cd? cheers

I peruse Merurido, a japanese vendor/ distributor, it’s pretty authorative regarding Japanese releases, which let’s face it is where a lot of the good stuff comes from

Looks like another great collection, I wish they would release some of the full albums that they cherry picked the tracks from on past collections , there are quite a few albums that have never seen full reissues, I assume he must have obtained access to the masters since none sound like needledrops things like https://www.discogs.com/Clarence-Peters-Quartet-The-Magnetic-Atmospher/release/4002454 https://www.discogs.com/artist/2681986-Antithesis-8

For those into the Ian Carr/ Don Rendle albums they are getting mini LP SHM-CD reissues in March, they have great covers so should look lovely!

I’d recommend getting the Fukui Karashima “Hot Islands” & Mabumi Yamaguchi “Mabumi’ albums that came out with the Hinos. There is a lovely version of Weather Report’s American Tango on Hot Islands

Thanks! Looks like a decent package overall, shame they couldn’t have used the original artwork on covers though

Has anyone got this yet, am really tempted by it but waiting to see what the packaging is like, is it a hard shell box, how are the CDs packaged, what’s the book like etc

It is a goodie, I have the japanese digipak version from a few years back. i see there are a few masabumi kikuchi reissues coming out with it at same time. Aurora, Dream Machine & Attached, they seem to be more experimental ambient keyboard stuff from the 90s than his usual piano jazz, anyone heard them?

There are plenty of Mal reissues in Japan unfortunately it’s usually the same effing ones, how they can keep reissuing Mal 1 year in year out is beyond me! the other one that really needs a reissue is Tokyo Bound

Go to cdjapan, Amazon Jp or HMV jp, you can’t order from Merurido outside of Japan anyway, it’s just a good reference site for what’s available and will usually have images of actual cd which most others don’t

All the Takt Jazz reissues are well worth picking up, beautiful gatefold min lp replicas and the music is great too, less fusioney than the upcoming deep jazz reissues but excellent regardless there was a similar series of Sadao Watanabe Takt reissues that came out recently too All the East Wind releases he did are great too and after that it all went a bit south for me!

After all the great Takt Jazz reissues that came out last month we get a another set of mini lps via deep jazz reality all which have been impossible to find, excited by these https://merurido.jp/topic.php?srcbnr=26773 Journey To Air A Part (with Reggie Workman) Love Nature Peace & Love also Hot Islands by Fukui Karashima

It’ll already be out “in the wild” somewhere anyway so not really going to change much, agree it’s crap it’s not included though!

I assume the CDs are just in basic cardboard sleeves, has anyone seen inside the box?

This is only £24.99 from Rough Trade in UK which seems like a damn good price!

I wish they would release some of the early 70s live material that Impulse clearly has in the vaults. The live version of Isris & Osris on Satchenenanda that was recorded at The Village Gate is incredible. i’ve read that there are several releasable things from that era but they seem to be focusing on the later more religious stuff at the moment it seems

Just remembered Transfiguration is a live LP but should have been included anyway!

Why is transfiguration completely ignored from this, that was on Warner’s too?Would rather have a series of Japanese mini lp reissues of the Warner years, like they did with the Impulse albums a while back, those were beautiful. The artwork on this looks pretty uninspiring.

It’s only $15 on Amazon UK, I wonder how/why/where they suddenly dug up this one extra track after all this time!?

Just noticed this 2cd version that's slipped out rather quietly this week, the second disc seems new to cd as far as i can see, anyone know what the second disc material is like, worth picking up?https://www.discogs.com/Miles-Davis-Ascenseur-Pour-L%C3%89chafaud-/release/12142938

I have a bunch of them released via Bomba Records in Japan in late 90s. Maybe a Japanese label might pick this up for a CD release otherwise I sadly won’t be purchasing this.

All those discogs links above have YouTube links included, just take a listen!

Three new reissues coming from Deep Jazz Reality series coming on Oct 25th, all first time on cd and in mini LP replicas! Masabumi Kikuchi Sextet - Matrix (1977) https://www.discogs.com/Masabumi-Kikuchi-Sextet-Matrix/master/919191 Shunzo Ohno Quartet - Falter Out (1973) https://www.discogs.com/Shunzo-Ohno-Quartet-Falter-Out/release/4072250 Kohsuke Mine Quintet - Daguri (1973) https://www.discogs.com/Kohske-Mine-Quintet-Daguri/master/1086542 Been waiting for a cd version of Daguri for years, the two albums he did for Three Blind Mice are wonderful!

Annoying they have chosen to ignore the first and best cassette completely, I hope this mean it will get a seperate full release. That unofficial reissue of it https://www.discogs.com/Alice-Coltrane-Turiya-Sings/release/7005416 seems to have been removed from everywhere! Still hope they will reissue some of live material from the 70s that's still in the vaults

I'd love for some more releases by this label, anyone know if Jonathan has anything in pipeline. He was on here a while back looking for suggestions.