Nicolas Rossolimo - Russian Songs (Kismet Hi-Fi Recordings Vol. KR-5, LP, Russia, 196?)

International Grandmaster of Chess and Chess Artist Nicolas Rossolimo sings Russian Songs.  More remarkable for having a cover designed by Marcel Duchamp.

There isn't much to dig up on Kismet Records - can anyone offer more information, and a date for this record?  It's probably early 70s aligning with the period Rossolimo was in NYC, but the cover and vinyl quality and waxy sleeve look older (Soviet stock?!).

Many thanks to the guy (Frank?) who runs Mojo Records in Sydney for agreeing with me that this record 'looked like shit' and giving it to me on top of an order for nothing, yeh!  

Seriously hats off to him for his new move to the basement over the road in York St, currently setting up with a bar at one end and a record store at the other.  I really hope he pulls it off - he deserves it, and the world needs more great reinvented records stores that would otherwise gather dust and end up in the great second hand bin in the sky.

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VA - Pastoral Sequences (Coloursound Library CS 25, LP, Germany, 1982)

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Eric Vann - Bass Moods (Coloursound Library CS76, LP, Germany, 1988)

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Jeff Newmann - Satellite Images 1 (Sonoton SON 308, LP, Germany, 1988)

A couple of future galactic themed Sonotons.  Don't expect them to knock your socks off, but they have their moments.  I left the intro to Track 1 so you know what you're missing with all the other intros.

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Jeff Newmann - Technospheres Underscores "Nature And Technology" (Sonoton SON 266, LP, Germany, 1986)

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No Clapping - Pie And A Pint (Ode Records SODE 167, 12" EP, NZ, 1982)

One of those mythical records you totally doubt the existence of for half your life.  It's another level of obscurity again from the T.V. Eye I posted a few days back.  Good catchy DIY pop tunes too, that wouldn't have sounded out of place on Object Records.  I'm looking forward to someone providing more information in the comments because Google doesn't want to tell me.

I just noticed when adding the Discogs entry that Julian Hanson played drums on the great Spelling Mistakes 7"

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R. D. Burman – Shalimar (Polydor 2392 147, LP, India 1978)

You can find this LP elsewhere, so I won't post the music, but my good friend Long Boss just returned from Mumbai today having apparently discarded his clothes to find luggage space for vinyl, and while I didn't manage to high-jack the shipment, I did manage to take some photos of this monumental fold-out artwork. Sadly due to the updated and 'improved' Mac OS save-function I managed to overwrite half the high-res images, and I don't want to unleash a half completed archive on the world.  But you get the (lo-res) picture: