Michael Jackson's second posthumous album, with producers including Timbaland and Rodney Jerkins reworking eight unreleased recordings into contemporary arrangements. Restocked this month — the last overseas stock.
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
Xscape
Michael Jackson's second posthumous album, with producers including Timbaland and Rodney Jerkins reworking eight unreleased recordings into contemporary arrangements. Restocked this month — the last overseas stock.
UNSHATTER Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo)
The São Paulo live soundtrack to the documentary UNSHATTER, chronicling Linkin Park's rebirth seven years after losing Chester Bennington — with two new members and the November 2024 FROM ZERO release concert. Career-spanning live performances plus recordings not heard in the film.
SAHARA
A talked-about record in the City Pop and Japanese Rare Groove scenes, produced by Masanori Sasaji with a stellar cast including Takayuki Hijikata, Jun Aoyama and Takehiro Honda. Blending '80s city pop, AOR, jazz fusion and new wave, it earned top marks after being rediscovered overseas.
Spiritual Jazz 19: West Coast USA
The latest in Jazzman's landmark compilation series, focused on the underground jazz of the late-20th-century US West Coast. Drawing from independent labels like Arhoolie, Theresa and Nimbus, it traces a Californian sound shaped by the counterculture, Black politics and New Age spirituality — two 2LP volumes, 24 tracks, with gatefold sleeves and full notes.
Jazz Time
A reissue of Jazz Time by Mieko Hirota — the first Japanese singer to play the Newport Jazz Festival and a revered jazz vocalist. Arranged by Hiromasa Suzuki and Yuji Ohno, backed by The Running Buffalo, with Hirota singing a set of jazz standards.
さとこはいつも (Original Soundtrack)
The soundtrack to Shuichi Okita's 20th-anniversary film Satoko wa Itsumo, scored by Satoko Shibata — who almost joins the story as its fourth 'Satoko.' The closing theme 'Shimile' is co-written and sung with Yuta Orisaka.
Sonatine (Original Soundtrack)
The soundtrack to Takeshi Kitano's 1993 crime film Sonatine, scored by Joe Hisaishi and one of his own favorite works. Issued by WRWTFWW as a limited deluxe heavyweight edition with an obi strip.
Black Mozart
The second in Jon Batiste's piano series from the multiple Grammy and Oscar winner. He folds Mozart's best-loved melodies into jazz, ragtime, stride, blues and stomp — reimagined as 'Black American classical music.' On Verve.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (Music From The Motion Picture)
The soundtrack to The Devil Wears Prada 2 on transparent sea-blue vinyl. A star-studded lineup — Lady Gaga, Doechii, Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, SZA, RAYE, Laufey, Olivia Dean and more — distills the film's glamour and edge into song.
Black Rhythm Happening
The second of two fusion-jazz albums trumpeter Eddie Gale — a touring partner of Sun Ra since the early '60s — cut for Blue Note. Turning from mainstream polish, he brings street voices into sextet, nonet and an eleven-piece gospel choir, its songs bound to the movement politics of the day. Free improvisation flickers between brass and voice, preserving the music's spirit and humanity. Reissued by Blue Note.
KASAI borrows the idea of 'min'yō' (folk song) to write a set of contemporary work songs. Built around the voice, tracks like 'Shin Jiyū-bushi' drive on taiko rhythms and labor chants, with Tokyo artist Clark Naito trading verses and lyrics taking aim at neoliberalism and privatized public services. A care worker, garbage collector and amateur farmer, KASAI turns everyday labor into a folk music for our time. On EM Records.