Blue is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released on June 22, 1971, by Reprise Records. Written and produced entirely by Mitchell, Blue explores various facets of relationships from infatuation on "A Case of You" to insecurity on "This Flight Tonight". The songs feature simple accompaniments on piano, guitar and Appalachian dulcimer. The album is BPI certified x2 Platinum. The album is

generally regarded by music critics as one of the best albums of all time. In 2020 Blue was rated the 3rd greatest album of all time in Rolling Stones “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” Track List LP 1: Side A All I Want (2021 Remaster) My Old Man (2021 Remaster) Little Green (2021 Remaster) Carey (2021 Remaster) Blue (2021 Remaster) Side B California (2021 Remaster) This Flight Tonight (2021 Remaster) River (2021 Remaster) A Case Of You (2021 Remaster) The Last Time I Saw Richard (2021 Remaster)

Joni Mitchell - Blue (Transparent Vinyl)

Sub Pop

Naima Bock - Giant Palm (Orange Vinyl)

£22.00

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The roots of Naima Bock’s music are far reaching. Born in Glastonbury to a Brazilian father and a Greek mother, Naima spent her early childhood in Brazil before eventually returning to England and various homes in South East London. This heritage combines with more recent pursuits in Naima’s music. From the Brazilian standards that the family listened to while driving to the beach, to the

European folk traditions she tapped into on her own, and the pursuits that interest her today - studies in archaeology, work as a gardener, and walking the world’s great trails - Naima’s music draws from family, the earth and music handed down through generations. Naima’s debut album, ‘Giant Palm’, is undoubtedly infused with the Brazilian music of her youth and regular family visits. She found inspiration in “the percussion, the melodies, chords - and particularly the poetic juxtaposition of tragedy and beauty held within the lyrics.” By the age of 15, Naima was embedded in the music scene of South- East London, eventually forming Goat Girl with school friends and touring the world. After six years playing bass in Goat Girl, Naima left the band to try something new. She set up a gardening company and started a degree at University College London in archaeology because, as she jokes, “I liked being near the ground.” During this time, she wrote music, played guitar, learned violin, worked with ever-shifting South-London collective Broadside Hacks, and met producer and arranger Joel Burton through Memorials of Distinction labelhead Josh Cohen. Joel’s burgeoning interest in Western classical music, global folk music, and experience in large scale arrangement and orchestration informed the collaborative process that eventually culminated in ‘Giant Palm’. Recorded with the help of over 30 musicians (including Josh Cohen on synth / electronics) by Dan Carey of Speedy Wunderground at his studio space in Streatham, South-East London, and engineered by Syd Kemp, the songs on ‘Giant Palm’ represent a snapshot of a specific feeling, of brief moments in Naima’s life that make up a larger whole. The expansive yet delicate arrangements highlight Naima’s love for the collectivist values of traditional folk music, in which songs belong to everyone, and singing can take on countless forms without the need to exactly replicate something. “All the other representations that I’d had of singing felt so unattainable,” she recalls. ‘Giant Palm’ finds Naima bucking these expectations to let her unique voice and sense of communal creativity flourish.

Rhino

Joni Mitchell - Blue (Standard Vinyl)

£27.00

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Rewarm

Various Artists / Paul Hillery - Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Vol 1

£24.00

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For volume one in the series, Paul has compiled nineteen tracks that represent the journey he’s been on with the Folk Funk and Trippy Troubadours sound to date. There’s music here that has never seen the light of day, demo versions that never made the cut, new exclusive material and beloved classics from the FFTT vaults. The compilation is a sonic landscape of canyon rock,

hot tub soul, Frisco folk, Balearic breeze and trippy troubadourial treasures, all lovingly handpicked for the series. To whet people's appetites for this alluring funky, psychedelic collection, do listen to a first single in form of 'Sweet Sweet Stay A While' by American singer songwriter Jeb Loy Nichols above. Dubbed ‘The high priest of country cool’ by Rolling Stone Magazine, Nichols was raised on bluegrass and country in Missouri, lived in New York in the late 70s during the birth of hip hop and rap and shared a squat in the early '80s with The Slits' Ari Up, Adrian Sherwood and Neneh Cherry in post punk London. All meaning that his complete disregard for genre purity have been one of Nichols biggest influences, which is there in great abundance on the soulful 'Sweet Sweet Stay A While'. More about dj and curator Paul Hillery Paul has carried his record boxes to many a venue and played alongside The Polyphonic Spree, Arthur Lee and Love, Bonnie Dobson, Spiritualized, 4 Hero, Happy Mondays, Simian, The Bees, Julian Cope, Courtney Pine and many, many more. He has also graced the turntables at Spiritland, Refuge, Festival No.6, Lunar Festival, Edinburgh Festival and Psychemagik’s Magik Forest to name a few and has supplied guest mixes for radio stations in South America, the USA, Europe and all over the UK. Over to Paul to talk more about the compilation here: “So, what is this ‘Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours’ thing anyway? Well, it’s tricky to put a finger on. Folk-funk had been around for a while, so I added ‘and Trippy Troubadours’ to give me a little wiggle room from the genre police. To me, the folk- funk groove sounds like it has one leg shorter than the other; let’s call it a funky limp. ‘Feel the Spirit’ by Heaven & Earth, ‘Taking So Long’ by Kathy Smith, ‘Mountain Song’ by Penny Nichols, and ‘Wooden Ships’ by Christine Harwood are all great places to start.” Folk Funk and Trippy Troubadours is series of releases that both Paul and all at RE:WARM hope you will come to treasure and hold dear: a heartfelt compilation released with the full support of all featured artists. Tune in, turn on and drop the needle on four sides of the compilation and join us as we travel deep into a vast and wonderful musical universe... Side One A1. Duncan Pryce Kirk - 'Space Out' A2. Eik - 'Mr Sadness' A3. Joe Hall and Eyeball Wine Company - 'Movable Feast' A4. Christian Besa Wright - 'Cherry Blossom Oak' A5. Wendy Grose - 'Blue Sunny Sky Day' A6. Ruth Finlay - 'Deep Calls To Deep' ^ Side Two B1. Will and James Ragar - 'Clouds Lift' § B2. Scott Seskind - 'I Wonder' B3. Tim McKenna - 'Where Are You?' ∞ B4. Jeb Loy Nichols - 'Sweet Sweet Stay Awhile' B5. Gary Boyle - 'So Many Times Before' Side Three C1. Peter Wale - 'One Quiet Sultry Sunday' C2. Sorahan - 'With His Siller In His Hand' C3. Cindi Titzer - 'All For You' ∞ Side Four D1. Smokey - 'Topaz' D2. Geoff Bartley - 'Don’t Want To Know About Evil' D3. Robin Woodland - 'One Golden Moment' D4. Richard Pass - 'We’ll Find Love' D5. Kip Carmen - 'That’s Enough For Me' §

Various Artists / Paul Hillery - Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Vol 1

Morning Trip / Telephone Explosion

Carl Erdman - Bizzarrophytes

£26.00

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Carl Erdmann’s Bizzarrophytes was recorded in Roswell, New Mexico, during the final years of the 70’s. A desert-fried haze of buzzing sitar raga, shimmering guitar soli, and lonesome instrumental psych. Erdmann had been galvanized several years prior by witnessing an intimate performance by Ravi Shankar at Austin’s University of Texas. Erdmann spent the next several years with a sitar in the back of his pickup

truck - teaching himself the instrument between stints working on an oil field as a geologist. The disparate sounds of Erdmann’s experimentation hang together as a beautifully cohesive tapestry of home-brewed psychedelic folk. A menagerie of eclectic instrumental experimentation, baked in the desert sun, and captured to tape. Morning Trip Records is proud to present Bizzarrophytes.