Friday, October 30, 2026 • Vinyl Finds from Around the World
Night And Day
A rare male-vocal gem from Three Blind Mice. Singer-percussionist Koji Moriyama's debut as leader, backed by the Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio. His slightly husky voice, easy swing and nimble scat — while playing congas — give standards like 'Night and Day', 'My Foolish Heart' and 'Bye Bye Blackbird' a warm, urbane charm.
Fallen Angel EP
BLACKPINK's Jennie brings her Fallen Angel EP to vinyl — six tracks, including three physical-exclusive songs ('sweettooth', 'lockitdown', 'Face').
Grand Theft Auto VI: Original Score
The Grand Theft Auto VI score is helmed by French duo Justice, with a star-studded cast: 'Flower In A Hurricane' featuring Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, plus 'Pusher' with Gesaffelstein. Out on 3LP, including a THT-exclusive clear pressing.
Windswept Adan
Ichiko Aoba's concept album Windswept Adan returns to stock on 2LP — chamber folk set on an imaginary island, with delicate guitar and strings weaving a dreamlike soundscape.
Press Play
BLACKPINK's LISA's six-track EP Press Play has landed on vinyl — a cinematic set led by the single 'Tarantino'.
The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance's rock-opera landmark The Black Parade arrives in a 20th-anniversary edition, with a new-art insert, pressed on limited concrete-grey vinyl.
Back to Black
Amy Winehouse's timeless Back to Black arrives in two 20th-anniversary editions: a limited zoetrope picture disc and an expanded ultra-clear 3LP with unreleased demos, B-sides and the 2007 Paradiso Amsterdam live set.
Masana Temples
Kikagaku Moyo's Bruno Pernadas-produced Masana Temples is in — brain-rolling, dreamy Japanese psychedelia, best suited for howling at the moon with friends.
Lofi Girl: Fall Collection 2026
Lofi Girl's Fall Collection 2026 gathers 28 autumnal beats on amber-colored double vinyl.
The Godbody
A Legacy Hip-Hop Series release realizing 2Pac's dream of uniting East and West: Kurupt from the West Coast with Rakim and Masta Killa from the East. A lavish guest list includes Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Snoop Dogg, KRS-One, Kool G Rap, Daz Dillinger and Buckshot.
Kakashi (案山子)
Saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu's 1982 classic Kakashi, a cornerstone of '80s Japanese experimental music. His quirky, charming sax roams freely between jazz, funk and the avant-garde and still sounds fresh. Repressed again by Palto Flats and WRWTFWW Records with new liner notes.
Physical Structure
Legendary drummer George Otsuka's quintet on their third TBM album from 1976, fusing modal jazz, jazz-funk and electric jazz. Fumio Karashima's Rhodes and synths stand out as the band moves between meditative calm and fierce improvisation. 'Little Island' later appeared on BBE's J Jazz compilation, and the closing take on Coltrane's 'Naima' is hailed as definitive.
Lonely Woman
Avant-garde guitar giant Masayuki Takayanagi's comeback after grave illness — and his first solo improvised album. Far more restrained than his noise-driven free improvisation, it reworks Ornette Coleman's 'Lonely Woman' and Lennie Tristano's 'Lennie's Pennies' with single-note lines, subtle timbres and silences. His student Otomo Yoshihide has called it a deep influence.
Technical Music Planning
A cult 1984 compilation of Japan's underground new wave, originally on Yupiteru, gathering oddballs like EP-4's Kaoru Sato, Hara Masumi & BANANA, CHINJU and MUZEUM. Built around sound collage and sonic pranks across new wave, industrial, noise and post-punk — CHINJU even deconstructs Japanese nursery rhymes into surreal skits. Reissued by Italy's Spittle Made In Japan.
Dusty Colors
A new album on Soave from Italian experimental pioneer Roberto Musci, built from two years of field recordings in India — raga fragments, rituals, temple ambience and street sounds woven into twelve pieces. Quieter and gentler than his earlier collage work. Clear vinyl, limited to 300 copies worldwide.
Triumph & Sadness
Melbourne soul singer Ella Thompson's new album on Mr Bongo. Her soft, deeply felt voice sings of love, loss and courage. Cut direct to tape over four days in an all-analog Victorian studio and mixed by Daptone associate Wayne Gordon, it carries the retro warmth of Amy Winehouse's Back to Black and Sharon Jones.
DALGA: A Selection of 80's Pop Oddities from Turkey
Istanbul producer and digger Grup Ses compiles '80s Turkish pop oddities, six of them previously only on rare cassettes. After the 1980 coup, drum machines, samplers and synths moved into studios, spawning strange songs of cheap synths, psychedelic guitar and zurna-like horns boldly fused with Arabesque and Anatolian pop.
A classic piano trio from Japan's Three Blind Mice label. Veteran drummer Toshio Osumi's 1983 debut as leader, with Hirotake Aoki on piano and Akira Yamaguchi on bass, swings with blues and funk. Rather than showcasing the drums, it lets Aoki's Oscar Peterson-inflected piano shine. The nine-minute take on Herbie Hancock's 'Watermelon Man' is pure jazz-funk, alongside a 'Yesterday～Hey Jude' medley and 'Isn't She Lovely'.