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Across a broad panorama of eclectic taste, the new el combines a sensual, but serious-minded look at history, seasoned with the bravura style of the original label.

Diversity is el’s great virtue, and anyone that might imagine the likes of Joao Gilberto, Gabor Szabo, Monica Zetterlund, Ravi Shankar, Edgard Varese, Sophia Loren, Serge Gainsbourg, Nana Mouskouri, Chet Atkins and Baden Powell to be strange bedfellows, will find entertaining evidence to the contrary here.

Whether the subject is the Voice of Greece, the pioneers of Musique Concrete or a Brazilian guitar master, el’s primary concern is with what is poetic and distinctive and compellingand to present it with a little style.

“Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” – Orson Welles

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The Mountains, The Sun And The Sea – The Art Of Antonio Carlos Jobim, 4CD
Various Artists

£17.99
THE MOUNTAINS, THE SUN AND THE SEA: The Art of Antônio Carlos ("Tom") Jobim, comprises the landmark early Brazilian recordings of the composer, spanning the first decade of his career; the historic albums Jobim participated in making and a quantity of his songs - 78s and singles - recorded by popular Brazilian singers of the day.
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A Revolution In Sound: Pop Culture & The Classical Avant-Garde, 4CD
Various Artists

£17.99
A Revolution In Sound looks at the influence of modern classical music, the avant-garde and free jazz on pop and pop culture, during the second half of the twentieth century.
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Harpers Bizarre: Come To The Sunshine – The Complete Warner Brothers Recordings, 4CD Box Set
Harpers Bizarre

£19.99
This four CD Box Set presentation comprising all four of the original Harpers Bizarre albums; “Feelin' Groovy”, “Anything Goes”, “The Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre”, and “Harpers Bizarre 4”, augmented by single A & B sides in chronological order of release.
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The Free Design: Butterflies Are Free – The Original Recordings 1967-72, 4CD
Free Design

£19.99
4CD collection of original material by THE FREE DESIGN.
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West Meets East: Indian Music And Its Influence On The West, 3CD
Various Artists

£12.99
This presentation comprises key recordings by major Western jazz, exotica and classical artists under the spell of Indian music and culture, combined with the long, perfumed recordings by Ravi Shankar and his Indian contemporaries which most influenced them.
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Rare Bird: Epic Forest, CD Edition
Rare Bird

£9.95
RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2007 • Though it made little commercial impact on its release in 1972, Rare Bird’s ‘Epic Forest’ has since been widely acclaimed as a classic of the pre-punk era: a unique album that fuses the emotional reach of classical music with the harmonies of Sixties pop.
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Music From The Westerns Of John Wayne and John Ford, Various Artists, CD
Various - Music From The Films

£9.95
RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2009 . An unfailingly evocative, dramatic use of popular themes has always characterised Ford’s sound-tracks...the columns of cavalry, the wagon trains, the galloping riders move across the vast Western landscapes to tunes whose compulsive beat reinforces the zest, exhilaration and spaciousness of the images; dances and sing-songs are enjoyed for their own sakes; moments of quiet feeling, of meditation or of death are given special tenderness by the songs which softly accompany them. Lindsay Anderson
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Underground London – The Art Music and Free Jazz that Inspired a Cultural Revolution, Various Artists, 3CD Capacity Wallet
Various Artists

£12.99
• In the mid-1960s, the rigid and colourless British way of life was irrevocably transformed by the emergence of the underground movement, a loose collective of young radicals who introduced new social, sexual and aesthetic perspectives. Operating out of the heart of London, their various activities, from the newspaper the International Times, to the psychedelic club UFO, promoted alternative lifestyles and values and sparked a cultural revolution.
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John Cage: Lollipops, 3CD
John Cage

£12.99
THE 25-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE CONCERT / INDETERMINACY / DOUBLE MUSIC / CARTRIDGE MUSIC / FONTANA MIX
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I’d Love To Turn You On – Classical and Avant-Garde Music That Inspired The Counter-Culture, Various Artists, 3CD
Various Artists

£12.99
• The Beatles played their last advertised public concert on 29 August 1966 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco. The American tour had been unsatisfactory. The...
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YMA SUMAC: The Quintessence, 3CD Boxset
Yma Sumac

£12.99
'Yma was in a league of her own... with her voice she knew how to create sounds that perhaps no other human being was capable of making." Juan Garcia Esquivel
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I Hear A New World – The Pioneers of Electronic Music, An Outer Space Music Fantasy By Joe Meek, Various Artists, 3CD Boxset
Joe Meek

£12.99
A presentation featuring Joe Meek's fantastical lunar stereophonic sound adventure, I Hear A New World; both the celebrated 1991 RPM restoration and the original unreleased 1960 concept album; placed in broader international context alongside seminal works by other pioneers of electronic music; from Daphne Oram to Edgard Varèse. Considered in this context, Meek's masterpiece seems less an oddball pop novelty than a daring and visionary electronic sound exploration.
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Jess Conrad: Jess For You: The Definitive Collection, 2CD
Jess Conrad

£4.99
This long overdue double CD collates most of Jess’s recorded output from 1960 to the noughties, including his work with the legendary Joe Meek (‘Hurt Me’, ‘It Can Happen To You’), a rare South African only release (‘Little Bit Of Loveliness’), and later recordings made for both Columbia Records (written and produced by Charles Blackwell, Mitch Murray and Les Reed) and President (with Cy Payne and Ivor Raymonde arranging and producing).
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Fellini Masterpieces – 3CD Boxset
Various Artists

£12.99
The complete original film soundtracks of La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita and Otto E Mezzo, a suite of music from I Vitelloni and the main themes from Variety Lights, The White Sheik and Il Bidone, complemented by diegetic and non-diegetic selections from I Vitelloni, La Dolce Vita, Otto E Mezzo, the hallucinogenic Toby Dammit, Amarcord, And The Ship Sails On and Intervisa; the music of Ottorino Respighi that inspired Nino Rota's famous title music for La Dolce Vita and the Baroque work by Arcangelo Corelli.
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João Gilberto: João Gilberto, CD
João Gilberto

£9.95
RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2012 The third album in João Gilberto’s trilogy of blueprints for bossa nova, following his celebrated 1959 debut, Chega de Saudade (ACMEM179CD) and its sequel, O amor, o sorriso e a flor (Love, a Smile and a Flower) (ACMEM201CD) which followed a year later.
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Joao Gilberto: O Amor, O Sorriso E A Flor, CD
João Gilberto

£9.95
RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2011 In the summer of 1958, a singer-guitarist from Bahia in the north of Brazil called João Gilberto created a musical revolution when he joined with bossa novas seminal songwriting team, the gifted composer Antônio Carlos Jobim, and the poet and former diplomat, Vinicius de Moraes, to record the songs that would launch this cool, futuristic new music for a confident new era.
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Movie Goer – Pop Cinema and The Classics, Various Artists, 3CD Boxset
Various Artists

£8.99
During The Beatles' Help! Paul McCartney is miniaturised to the strains of Wagner, while in a dank Chiswick pub cellar, the singing of Beethoven's Ode to Joy saves Ringo from an escaped tiger. In Hal Ashby's black comedy Harold & Maude, Harold is obsessed by death, and likes to stage elaborate fake suicides to get the attention of his distracted mother, including an attempted drowning to Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. During The Godfather, the baptism sequence, interspersed with scenes of the brutal assassinations of the heads of the five families opposing the Corleones is underscored by the intensity of Bach's organ work Passacaglia in C Minor. On a lighter, note, Michael Caine's Harry Palmer during the Ipcress File chooses Mozart to cook by, a musical enthusiasm shared by Jean Seberg, immortalised by Godard in Breathless. These are but a few of the indelible scenes complemented by the classical music featured in this presentation.
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Blossom Dearie: The Adorable Blossom Dearie, 3CD Boxset
Blossom Dearie

£12.99
The Verve album, Jazz Sweet, the EP with Bobby Jaspar, The Blue Stars recordings and the early sessions are included in this 3 CD box set presentation along with The Perfect Sound - The Jazz Flute of Bobby Jaspar.
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Françoise Hardy: Françoise Hardy / Canta Per Voi In Italiano, Sacha Distel / Swinging Jazz Guitarist
Françoise Hardy

£12.99
Françoise' vital debut recordings are presented here alongside "Françoise Hardy - Canta Per Voi In Italiano” (Sings For You In Italian), and complemented by an anthology of sublime instrumental jazz sessions by her friend and contemporary, Sacha Distel
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Django Reinhardt: Diminishing Blackness The Compositions Of Django Reinhardt, 3CD Boxset
Django Reinhardt

£8.99
A three CD box set comprising more than 60 pieces that represent the broad spectrum of Django Reinhardt's compositional skill
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Nana Mouskouri: The Voice Of Greece 3CD Boxset
Nana Mouskouri

£12.99
The Voice of Greece is a 3 cd box set presentation that concentrates exclusively on recordings made in Nana's formative years in Greece.
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