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“This sort of tremulous sincerity can be frightening to those who are unaccustomed to it. For Farr, the sincerity is the point… Farr’s music [demands] gently that you open wider, admit more of the world. And the music itself, rich and warm and enveloping, glimmering in all corners with lovingly wrought sounds, beckons you forward.” - Pitchfork

"Read the liner notes, get this intense double record." -Will Oldham, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

"Refined yet dark folk music with an unsettling, Gothic atmosphere" - Rolling Stone Japan

“I will die on the Daguerreotypes hill. I’m dying on Daguerreotypes mountain.” - Zola Jesus, Talkhouse

"Full of small cosmic details...[Samimi Farr] zooms in on tiny personal moments and blows them up into something epic.” - Bob Boilen, creator of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts and All Songs Considered

"It's by far the best music anyone I know has ever sent me — I feel like Kurt Cobain just sent me Nevermind — I'm serious. It is a completely sincere and open-hearted album that has arrived when it is most needed.” - Devon Welsh (Majical Cloudz)

In 2012, Prince Fatty produced a signature dub reworking of tracks from Hollie Cook’s debut 2012 LP, plus a selection of other choice dub-infused covers. Mr Bongo now presents a fresh repress on blue vinyl of this classic album.

In the tradition of vintage reggae albums, renowned producer Prince Fatty took to the controls and dubbed out Hollie Cook's self-titled debut album from 2011. In trademark dub fashion, Prince Fatty strips back Hollie’s classic reggae and tropical pop productions, adding in extra bass alongside delays, tape echoes, and reverbs to Hollie’s captivating vocals. The resulting versions give the songs space to breathe, whilst adding in a weighty, heads-down element to the productions.

Perpetual Eden is the seventh release by Nottingham’s Bloody Head and their first on Wrong Speed following LPs, EPs and cassettes for such noted labels as Hominid Sounds, Viral Age, At War With False Noise and Bitter Dose.

Bloody Head occupy an almost-unique place in the over-populated world of what you might call “noise rock” (if you were the sort of person who files their records by invented genres).

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Opening track “Lucky” announces an explosive energy that evokes the Midwest noise-rock legacy of bands like Jesus Lizard and Shellac, while embracing a more colorful palette of post-punk and art rock influences. Nadia Garofalo and Alicia Gaines, a self-described two-headed monster who share lead vocal duties, can bring both a recalcitrant cool worthy of Kim Gordon and a booming sneer that recalls Poly Styrene; the discordant interplay of Charlie Landsman’s guitar and Brian Cundiff’s drums on standouts “Self Service” and “Bad Form” build to blistering climaxes that wouldn’t feel out of place on Red Medicine-era Fugazi.

Electronic lullabies and folk songs from Ethiopia! A landmark recording from Ethiopia’s vibrant cassette era of the 1980s, Resonance of Time features pioneering composer Wesenyeleh Mebreku reimagining Ethiopian folk melodies through the humble circuitry of an early Casiotone keyboard.

Marc Brown Ethereal and rather affecting album which draws you into its gloriously rich and dense world. One of my favourites. Favorite track: scapen te.

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Operating in the liminal space between classical music, jazz and folk, Swimming in the early hours sees Emergence Collective continue to develop their unique sound, gently lit with moments of serene softness and quietly hypnotic grooves. The group had one day in the studio to record the album, going in with no plans, preparation or expectation - they simply picked a key to play in and waited for the music to unfurl, with all members helping to steer the sound. For a record that is so heavily planted in the idea of exploring music in real time, Swimming in the early hours possesses a remarkable degree of poise and coherence.

Following her critically acclaimed 2024 album Keeper of the Shepherd, composer, vocalist, guitarist, and poet Hannah Frances returns with Nested in Tangles. With this distinctive body of work, Frances solidifies herself as an artist of insurgent emotional clarity, committed to personal truth and self-actualization. Here, she narrates complex stories of familial estrangement, emotional trauma, and a deepening of her own sense of trust, through a collection of intricate, dizzying, and large-scale compositions. Nested in Tangles spans the realms of progressive rock, avant-folk, and jazz, but remains anchored throughout with Frances’ signature vocal leaps and percussive, polyrhythmic fingerpicking.

Maxine Funke gifts us yet another quietly stunning release in Timeless Town. Across nine songs (including two instrumentals) of homespun folk and lo-fi pop, the New Zealand-based singer-songwriter crafts music that is intimate, starry, and wistful. Leaving her guitar in its case this time, she surrounds her hushed, dusky vocals with various keyboards and analog synth effects, as well as a melodica and pocket operator, and the sparsest touch of cello . . .

Let's Chill At Home

This work is a Mix CD "Silent Dream" which was released as a CD in Aug 2007 and specially edited the sound source of Flower Records by Eitetsu Takamiya.

We hope you enjoy the total 72 minutes of this work so that you can spend a little more time at home.