Black Editions Us Vinyl & CDs

Review: The latest release in Black Editions Archive's Milford Graves Archival series is this superb double LP, Children of the Forest. It's an album that comes with previously unreleased sessions from 1976 with Hugh Glover and Arthur Doyle. It's music that Graves recorded in his own legendary basement laboratory in Queens just before he recorded his most famous album, Babi. Graves's unique playing and approach shine through here as does his encyclopedic knowledge of the rhythms of the Caribbean and Africa, with plenty of jazz chops also colouring the airwaves.

Review: From the moment they emerged in the early days of the 80s Tokyo underground, High Rise set themselves apart as radical outliers, shattering the limits of rock and psychedelic music with a ferocity unmatched even in that heady era. Their third album, 1992's Dispersion, maintained the group's in-the-red intensity while also pushing into new directions. A rough-n'-ready, Ballardian nightmare, this new reissue repackages the album in all its huge-roomy, intense-soloing instrumental rabidity.