Cafe Exil: New Adventures In European Music 1972-1980 / Various

Cafe Exil: New Adventures In European Music 1972-1980 / VariousDouble vinyl LP pressing. 2020 collection. When David Bowie and Iggy Pop relocated from LA to continental Europe, taking trains to Berlin, Paris and Warsaw, they would have come across new music that was very different to the burgeoning disco scene they left behind. Cafe Exil named after one of Bowie's favourite Berlin haunts imagines the soundtrack that would have informed Low, Heroes and Lodger. It's an awesome mix of electronica, Krautrock and

It is a unique

capturing the band in full DIY mode and revealing just how much of their charm comes from that unvarnished immediacy

Inspired by records like Phil Spector's "A Christmas Gift For You" and Rotary Connection's "Peace" this album will be a record that will appeal not only to lovers of holiday music

Thizzelle Washington

Twenty years later

The curated tracks are also linked in that all were originally released with bespoke original covers from legendary Bristol street artists

sometimes also known as the "Black Sheep" album due to the cover image

it became clear that there would be two separate projects - the first being 'Barbara

and anyone who believes in singing loud and proud

a generation of young Peruvian musicians

they've given us a profoundly meditative work which serves as a musical summons to everyday attentiveness

from Danish and Germanic battlefields with their bloody battles and fierce warriors