Various Artists - Join The Ritual Jagjaguwar 25th Anniversary Compilation: Glowing Orb Vinyl LP

Various Artists - Join The Ritual Jagjaguwar 25th Anniversary Compilation

Glowing Orb Vinyl LP £23.99

Tracklisting
SIDE A:
1. Spencer Krug - Red Dress
2. The Besnard Lakes - Good Morning, Captain
3. They Hate Change - The Seeming And The Meaning
4. Angel Olsen - Cold Blooded Old Times
5. Bruce Hornsby - Feel The Pain
6. Jamila Woods - Fast Car
SIDE B:
7. Nap Eyes - Car
8. S. Carey - Weight Of Water
9. Pink Mountaintops - The Concept
10. Cut Worms - One For The Catholic Girls
11. Okay Kaya - Nightswimming

Through out the 25-year history of Jagjaguwar, an independent record label curiously named using a Dungeons & Dragons name generator, we find this idea of ritual as a conjoining practice. We see it early on when Jagjaguwar joins forces with a midwestern label called Secretly Canadian for a powerful fusion. We see it in familial relationships and collaboration among Jagjaguwar artists, and the ways those artists’ most treasured collaborators make their ways to the Jagjaguwar game board.

Join The Ritual, the third piece of Jagjaguwar’s 25th Anniversary celebration, looks to pay homage to the labels and artists that, whether they know it or not, invited Jagjaguwar to the table, to this wild, dark magic ritual of music. We’re talking about independent titans like Drag City, Too Pure, K Records and Touch & Go. We’re talking about heroes like R.E.M., Slint, Stereolab and Tracy Chapman. These songs captured the imaginations of our founders Darius Van Arman and Chris Swanson — and ultimately, opened up worlds to them.