Art Pepper Quintet- Smack Up (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series)Label: Craft Recordings Reissued 2 23 2024, Originally released 1960 Acoustic Sounds and Contemporary Records present this new reissue of Art Pepper's 1960 album, Smack Up. Recorded by legendary engineer Roy DuNann, the album also features Jack Sheldon (trumpet), Pete Jolly (piano), Jimmy Bond (bass) and Frank Butler (drums). This new edition is pressed on 180 gram vinyl pressed at QRP with (AAA) lacquers cut from the original tapes by Bernie Grundman

Although Kanine Records might have a range of sound throughout its history 2003-present

Just Stay In Bed

All of this leads to closer "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" which features guest vocals from TJ Copello of Aviator

Still hopeful but definitely discovering the limits of my own ability to self soothe

FFO: Hot Water Music

despite the signposts being clear

from his beginnings as a sickly child of immigrant Irish parents growing up in post-war London to his present status as a vibrant

The Red Lights were obscure

among other cult esoteric texts

a 7” single featuring “Kiss The Go-Goat” and “Mary On A Cross

Like a buoy in turbulent waters

Endless Terrain