Record Store Day 2025: the releases of 12 April

The list of releases of the Record Store Day, the World Day that celebrates the independent record stores, revealed this year on April 12 with a journey through genres and decades, between albums and individuals in limited edition, colored vinyls and exclusive boxsets.

Among the releases, “Burning Moonlight” by Marianne Faithfull is a new EP of four tracks of the British artist, who passed away a few days ago. Dave Stewart, guitarist of the Eurythmics, pays homage to Bob Dylan with “Dave Does Dylan”. “Angel In the Dark” by Laura Nyro is the latest album recorded by the singer -songwriter before her death. “Prince Charming” by Adam Ant and still “Keep Me in Mind Sweetheart” by Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan.

The section dedicated to colored vinyls will not be mocked. “All Things Must Pass” by George Harrison, “The Low End Theory” by A Tribe Called Quest, “The Eternal Idol” of the Black Sabbath with Tony Martin on the voice, “First Issue” of the Public Image Limited, the Deluxe of “Danse Macabre “by Duran Duran,” Turns on ’67 “of the Soft Machine and” Matching Mole’s Little Red Record “of Matching Mole.

Among the individuals out, John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s “Power to the People”, in the live version recorded in New York in 1972 for the ‘One to One Concert’. Queen’s “De Lane Lene Demos” with the first recordings in the studies of Lane Lea in 1971. “The Only One I know” of the Charlaans, “Beteween Two Points” by David Gilmour, from his latest album “Luck and Strange” and ” Me and the Dog ”by Sam Fender, ambassador of the Record Store Day in the United Kingdom.

Several anniversaries are celebrated: “Plays John Mayall” by John Mayall turns sixty years old, Lou Reed’s “Metal Machine Music” celebrates fifty, while “Original Soundtracks Vol.1” of the passengers (U2 project with Brian Eno) reaches the Thirty years. “Inspiración Espiración” of the Gotan Project celebrates twenty years old, while “Every Open Eye” of the Chv ardes celebrates its ten -year -old.

Among the live releases, “Live at the Rainbow Theater With Ray Cooper” by Elton John, “Live from Austin City Limits” by Brittany Howard, “A Night at the Symphony: Hollywood Bowl” by Laufey, “The Lost Tapes vol. 6 live in Berlin 1992 “of the Motörhead, and still” Echoes “recorded by the Nick Mason’s Sauerful of Secrets.

In Italy, on Santeria Records, available for the first time in vinyl “Prototype Casio Ep” of the offlaga disco pax, printed in a special silver -colored edition, with classics and alternative versions, and “Home Recordings” by A Toys Orchestra, one Selection of demo, covers and outtakes.

Two Red Records titles are also on the vinyl debut: “Nocturne” by Gerry Mulligan, an unprecedented 1992 recording with Harold Danko, Dean Johnson and Ron Vincent, the “Standards Lost and Found 2” session by Gato Barbieri, recorded a Rome in 1968 with Franco D’Andrea, Giovanni Tommaso and Pepito Pignatelli. “Orient” by Don Cherry, “Izipho Zam (My Gifts)” by Pharoah Sanders. Produced by Pederosa Music Records, “Five Leaves Left, Echoes on Piano Solo Piano” of the pianist and composer Demian Dorelli arrives for the first time in vinyl.

Among the boxsets, the quadruple “Time Flies … 1994-2009” of the Oasis, the Quintuplo “Brazil 45” curated by the Badbadnotgood and the Sestuplo “Nuits de la Fondation Maeght” stand out. On the soundtrack front, they make their vinyl debut “behind the process” of Ennio Morricone, taken from the Rai program of the 70s, and “Kiss Kiss … Bang Bang” by Bruno Nicolai.

In recent years, the vinyl market has experienced constant growth. 2024 globally marks the seventeenth consecutive year of growth for this support, confirming the return of analog listening. In Italy, the FIMI data reveal that in the first half of 2024 vinyl sales increased by 16%.

A fundamental role in this rebirth played the record store Day, an event born in 2007 in the United States and now in Italy at its fourteenth edition, locally supported by over 240 independent records. The complete list of all the records available in Italian stores will be shortly Online on the RecordStoreDayItalia website.