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Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jimmy Smith & Stanley Turrentine

Prayer Meetin' Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

42,99 €*

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Jazzman)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joe Harley ist Mitbegründer und Koproduzent des renommierten amerikanischen Vinyl-Labels MUSIC MATTERS. Sein außerordentliches Gespür für die Klangästhetik des LP-Formats brachte ihm den Titel "Tone Poet" ein. Anlässlich seines 80. Label-Jubiläum beauftragte Blue Note Records den "Klangpoeten" damit, einige Alben für eine exklusive LP-Edition zusammenstellen. Diese rein analogen, d.h. ohne digitale Zwischenschritte gefertigten Reissues werden von Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio) von den originalen Masterbändern neu gemastert und bei Record Technology Incorporated (RTI) auf 180g-Vinyl gepresst. Die Originalcover werden als schwere, laminierte Gatefold-Sleeves faksimiliert. Dabei wird eine Hüllenfertigung angewendet, deren Name nur LP-Gourmets etwas sagen dürfte: Tip-on-Sleeve. Wie zur Zeit der schweren, stabilen Papphüllen der fünfziger und sechziger Jahre wird auch hier eine stabile Papp-Grundlage mit glänzend laminierter Oberfläche verbunden.

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Roscoe Weathers

I'll Remember

Universal Beings E&F Sides Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For every celebrated name in jazz, soul and related music, there are probably another 1000 musicians who had all the talent and potential but for whom widespread recognition remained elusive. Roscoe Weathers is one such figure, a jazzman who earned his chops the hard way, a sideman in smoky clubs from Memphis to Seattle, before finally settling in LA. He recorded a significant amount of music through the 1960s, but never found the slightest modicum of commercial acclaim nor the success that comes with it.

Overlooked by all but the tiniest of record labels, Weathers' released much of his material himself. Indeed, we can lay claim to be the first outside label to release any of his music since the early 1960s. That's sixty years of being overlooked by the record industry, so we are delighted to release this first full length album of his music in a first attempt at righting that historic wrong.

A multi-instrumentalist, Weathers mainly led on the flute in his recorded output. The music here spans the course of the 1960s, and moves from laid back beatnik jazz stylings through to percussion heavy Afro-Latin influenced workouts. As usual with Jazzman, we have not only dug deep to unearth Weathers' music but also his background and biographical details, shining much deserved light on this enigmatic and largely unheralded figure for the first time.

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Makaya McCraven

LP | 2020 | US | Original (International Anthem)

22,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Bimba)

C.A.R.

Befunde Ab 1999

35,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Stupido)

Anna Inginmaa

17,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Shawn Lee's Incredible Leg Warmer Band

The 37 Minute Workout

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Legere)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live In Chateauvallon 1978 Record Store Day 2020 Edition

Dexter Gordon

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Elemental)

Joshua Redman / Brad Mehlau / Christian Mcbride / Brian Blade

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Record Store Day 2020 Release.
Limitation: 1500 copies.

1978 was a banner year for Dexter Gordon. Maxine Gordon (then Gregg) had started to manage his career, he signed with Columbia and moved to New York, forming and grooming his own band all at age 52! The wonderful quartet included George Cables on piano, Rufus Reid on bass, and Eddie Gladden on drums. This November 1978 concert at the Chateauvallon Jazz Festival highlights Dexter's joyous and fiery mood, peppering his solos with outrageous quotes from other songs. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Side A - Tangerine Side B - More Than You Know

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Round Again

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Nonesuch)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Y-Otis 2 Black Vinyl Edition

Otis Sandsjö

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Peanuts Portraits Black Vinyl Edition

Vince Guaraldi

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Craft)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Nonesuch)

Tigran Hamasyan

The Call Within

30,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Squama)

Fazer

Mara 2020 Repress

John Scofield / Bill Stewart / Steve Swallow

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Replaces Faz001 wich will be discontinued! Mara is the debutalbum of Munich-based jazz group Fazer. Short Info: Mara is the debutalbum of Munich-based jazz group Fazer. The young musicians combine African and Latin rhythms with dubby basslines and melancholic melodies. The unusual lineup with two drummers (Simon Popp, Sebastian Wolfgruber), bass (Martin Brugger), guitar (Paul Brändle) and trumpet (Matthias Lindermayr) leaves an open space for unfettered improvisation. Through the concept of repetition and finely measured dynamics, Fazer create a drawing energy that can be felt directly at their live shows and has been captured perfecty on this record.

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Swallow Tales

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

Sven Wunder

Magnolia / Lotus

On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mr Bongo presents a new and exciting collaborative project with Swedish label Piano Piano Records. Hearing the Swedish outfit Sven Wunder for the first time is as refreshing as an ice-cold Limoncello after an Italian meal. One of those bands that feel instantly familiar like an old friend, yet simultaneously fresh and new. Straight away we fell in love with their sound and knew we had to work with them. The Sven Wunder 'Wabi Sabi' 7" is the second collaborative release between Mr Bongo and Piano Piano Records. 'Wabi Sabi' is Sven Wunder’s follow up to the already contemporary cult-classic album 'Doğu Çiçekleri (Eastern Flowers) from 2019. Not one to be complacent and recreate a carbon copy of their previous works, Sven Wunder switched from the psychedelic-Turkish-funk sounds of 'Doğu Çiçekleri' to the Japanese inspired ethereal funk of 'Wabi Sabi'. We have selected the tracks ‘Hanami’ and ‘Shinrinyoko’ for this collector’s edition 7’. Japanese artists such as Hozan Yamamoto, Tadao Sawai, Kazue Sawai, spring to mind, but also David Axelrod and Dorothy Ashby on the beautiful string-led 'Hanami' with it's laid-back funk breaks. 'Shinrinyoku' has a slightly more raw cinematic-funk sound, yet is cushioned with warm strings and tripped-out keys - pure, rare-library music vibes. We are delighted to be able to release these amazing tracks, cut at the Timmion Records Cutting Lab in Finland.

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Ambrose Akinmusire

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Blue Note)

36,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Piano Piano)

Sven Wunder

Wabi Sabi

28,99 €*

Martin Freeman & Eddie Piller

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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By welcoming the beauty of imperfection and simplicity, Sven Wunder applies the timeless wisdom of wabi sabi on this musical journey. What you can hear is filtered through Ukiyo-e (which translates as pictures of the floating world), which illustrates everyday life, as well as through Japonism, the study of Japanese art, and more specifically its influence on European works. The result is a surface that creates an illusion by sound. The infusion of Miny? with jazz rock, this hazy scene evokes the landscape of Monets The Water Lily Pond, which depicts the painters Giverny garden, with a Japanese bridge, bamboo, ginkgo trees and the reflection of the sky in the pond. This illusion constructs both time and space.

The surface of the music, like the canvas of the painting, invents a journey between now and then by interpreting the idiom of folkloric and western art instruments. In this composition, the sound of the Western concert flute, which stretches back to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, evokes the sound of the bamboo-flute (shakuchachi), which reached its peak during the Edo period. The guzheng, also known as the Chinese zither, with a more than 2,500 year history, joins traditional Japanese folk melodies with modern pop percussion and 20th century electronic instruments such as the Moog synthesizer, Wurlitzer electric piano and electric bass.

This is the illusion that celebrates the fleeting nature of all things. A journey. A deep inhale and a slow exhale. It has a mix of jazz (both funky and progressive), East Asian and South Asian sounds. The idea of fusing these styles and reframing them with the aesthetic of wabi sabi is to reconnect with nature and concentrate on asymmetries and emphasize ornamentation to generate new ways of looking at the world, here and now.

This record is produced with financial support from the Swedish Arts Council.

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Pres. Jazz On The Corner Two

2LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Acid Jazz)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (WRWTFWW)

Motohiko Hamase

#Notes Of Forestry

23,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Okeh)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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WRWTFWW Records is excited to announce the official reissue of Motohiko Hamase’s remarkable ambient/environmental/minimalism project #Notes of Forestry, available for the first time since 1988. The album is sourced from original masters and available on vinyl and CD with liner notes from the artist. This marks the third release from the ESPLANADE SERIES which focuses on the works of Yoshio Ojima, Motohiko Hamase and Satsuki Shibano. One of the most fascinating and peculiar works from the golden era of Japanese ambient, #Notes of Forestry was initially released in 1988 by Newsic, the cult label started by Tokyo’s Wacoal Art Center (also known as Spiral), home, notably, of Yoshio Ojima who co-produced the album. Conceived by Jazz bassist turned experimentalist Motohiko Hamase, the magnum opus offers an enchanting mix of free-form pastoral electronics, otherworldly percussions by Yasunori Yamaguchi, and delightfully allusive piano played by none other than Satsuki Shibano (Sound Process’ Wave Notation 3).

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Camille Bertault

Le Tigre

2LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Auf "Le Tigre" zeigt Sängerin Camille Bertault neben brillanter Vokalvirtuosität viel Emotion. Die Französin beeindruckt, wie auch schon bei ihrem Erfolgsalbum "Pas de géant" von 2018, mit ihrer Vielseitigkeit und ihrem abwechslungsreichen Spiel mit den verschiedenen Genres von Brazil, Chanson bis Funk und Jazz. Sie komponierte alle Songs auf "Le Tigre", schrieb die Texte und die Arrangements. Begleitet vom Pianist Jacky Terrasson, wechselt sie zwischen bewegenden Balladen zu Songs über Inspiration und Träume ("There is a Bird", "Je vieillis") weiter zu dynamischen Tracks, die mit Elektro flirten ("Todolist", "Le Tube") und Stücken mit anregendem Groove. Alle vereint Camilles Bertaults farbenfrohe und subtile Stimme, aber auch das großartige Spiel von Christoph 'Disco' Mink am Kontrabass, Minino Garay am Schlagzeug und an der Trompete und am Flügelhorn Michael Leonhart, der das Album auch produzierte.

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Hania Rani

Home Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Chuwanaga)

Ishkero

Brume

Vernal Equinox Remastered Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Parisian label Chuwanaga curated by Clémentine & Saint-James is back in the production game with fresh music from Ishkero, maybe the hottest Jazz-Fusion band of the capital city. Going from Jazz-Funk to Afrobeat through Prog and Psychedelic influences, Brume infuses together killer grooves, irresistible melodies and excellent musicianship. The 12inch, coming with its beautiful illustration, reveals a uniformly good yet diverse musical journey.
Behind Ishkero, you’ll find five young and gifted musicians with strong jazz knowledge: Tao Ehrlich (drums), Adrien « Dridri » Duterte (flute & percussion), Antoine Vidal (bass), Victor Gasq (guitar) and Arnaud Forestier (keys). With its strong evocation power fuelled by their youthful energy and creativity, Ishkero’s music is a one-of-a-kind variation on the Jazz genre. Fusion at its best potential! Expect intense rhythmic sections, virtuoso solos, lush FX sections and robust arrangements. Used to play a lot live, the musicians developed a vigorous connection that really shines on stage and during studio sessions.
Collectively with Saint-James as their co-producer, they recorded Brume in summer 2019 at Studio Delta (Paris) with sound engineer David Cukier aka Greita (Disques Flegon). The first track, "Triple B", is an ode to 70’s jazz-funk carried by Jeff Mercadié’s Sax performance. "Tonik Gin"’s mighty jazz-rock groove which comes afterwards brings the genre to its emotional climax. B side starts with the main track "Brume", bringing together long-tailed reverberated guitars and Mizell-like piano chords for a very warm and hazy effect. As the last track, "Gare De l’Ouest" is a nice jazz variation on the Afrobeat genre, again with Jeff Mercadié on Saxophone.

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Jon Hassell

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Ndeya)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Baker Plays Vladimir Cosma

Chet Baker

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Le Città Invisibili (Le Città E I Morti)

Marco Dalpane

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Soave)

Finest - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Marco Dalpane's unreleased recording (mainly known for the cult album “Scorie” released with Tiziano Popoli) produced in 1991 for Radio Rai as an accompaniment to the reading of Italo Calvino “Le città invisibili” ("Invisible Cities”).
First thing you notice is how Marco Dalpane personal soundtrack for “Le città invisibili” could be seen as a link towards the combinatorial approach adopted by Italo Calvino in the book, where he used the language as a semiotic system and the literature as a mechanism of possibilities, with the reader becoming active part in the process. You can see Dalpane detaching from a linear handling of the compositional resources, working instead with computer algorithms and emerging with a sound-sphinx that multiplies the listening interpretations, a sound that is characterized in form and timbre but at the same time is full of suggestions and summoning elements that the listener has to relate. In this it’s evident a constant in the Dalpane’s music, its sensitive side, away from every technical or conceptual precondition. In the five tracks created for this soundtrack, that finally are collected in this album, as in his other works, Marco is always capable to decode aesthetics coordinates of the cultural or temporary universe of reference, but mainly he is the vehicle of an artistic vision that is plausible incarnation of the essence of things, the very spirit of being a musician.

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Judy Garland

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (ZYX)

17,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2014 | UK | Reissue (On The Corner)

Collocutor

Instead

23,99 €*

Release: 2014 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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8: Kindred Spirits - Live From Lobero

Charles Lloyd

2LP+DVD | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Diapositive Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charles Lloyd has played the 150-year-old adobe theater in downtown Santa Barbara more often than any other venue, and more often than any other performer. Knowing that Marian Anderson sang there on February 14, 1940 makes it a sacred space for him. In the concert film you can see him bobbing with pleasure beneath his pointy, indigo knit cap, curly white hair, and long goatee. He beams at his neighbors, places the palms of his hands together and pulls them against his black sweater and golden tenor saxophone in the traditional Buddhist greeting. “I always get nervous before I go on,” Lloyd confesses, “but once I get on, Dorothy [Darr] has to come and drag me off. It seems that once I’m on stage I get met by the spirits. I enter the now. Sometimes Prez and Bird will stop by and say, ‘Hi, Charles.’”

A birthday is a door between the past and the future, and this concert reflected that truth. Representing the future were 34-year-old pianist Gerald Clayton, who performs regularly with Lloyd, and 31-year-old guitarist Julian Lage, who had performed with him when he was 12-years-old. Representing the past was 74-year-old organist and fellow Memphis native Booker T. Jones, who had never played with Lloyd at all. This was a one-of-a-kind line-up for a one-of-a-kind ritual.

“I’ve known Julian since he was 12,” Lloyd says. “He’s from the Healdsburg area, and Jessica Felix, who runs the jazz festival there, asked if Julian could play with us during the festival in 2000. Billy Higgins and John Abercrombie were in the group. I knew she wouldn’t ask if he didn’t have something special, so we let him play, and he had something; he had big ears. We’re all seekers in life; we all get the rays of the sun, but some get a stronger dose. A lot of young geniuses flame out and no one remembers their names. But so far, Julian’s balanced: grounded but at the same time ecstatic. Even though he’s the future, he knows the past.”

“Gerald was often back stage when I was touring with the New Quartet. In 2013 when Jason’s other duties became overwhelming, I decided to try out Gerald. His father and uncle are great musicians,” Lloyd says, referring to bassist John and saxophonist Jeff of the Clayton Brothers, “so he comes from something deep. You can hear it when he plays.”

Jones was still in junior high when Lloyd was graduating from high school, so they didn’t know each other when they were both growing up in Memphis. But they both shared the city’s rich cultural heritage, and when they ran into each other at the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival, they promised to play together at some point. This birthday party was the perfect excuse.

“Memphis was such a rich environment,” Lloyd recalls. “It was like New York City, only with biscuits and gravy. There was an intelligentsia that inspired me to always be a learner. New York was 1300 miles away, and Chicago 450 miles away, but we were on the river, so musicians were always coming through. These out-of-town guys would play the Peabody Hotel and then they’d come over to the joints in our neighborhood to play with us, and we’d put a hurt on them. We didn’t tap dance or do anything for the man. We had our own culture and we knew it was inspired. We knew nothing of the lamb tongues and the gold mines, and I’m so thankful; we were doing it for the music.”

Don Was first made his name as co-leader and bassist of the 1980s funk-rock band Was (Not Was) and went on to produce albums for the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Jason Moran and many more. In 2012, he became president of Blue Note Records and immediately set out to bring his hero Lloyd to the label. By 2015, he had succeeded in his quest and a magnificent series of albums has followed: Wild Man Dance, I Long To See You, Passin’ Thru, and Vanished Gardens.

Harland anchors every project that Lloyd pursues these days—Sangam, the Marvels, the New Quartet—and Rogers is present in every group but the bass-less Sangam. “Eric and Reuben put a magic carpet under me,” Lloyd exclaims, “and I can travel wherever I want to go. They want to be there, and they know that to be there they have to spread their wings in any situation. When we take that journey together; that’s communal living at its highest. Music is not for sleepwalking; it’s for wakefulness. Reuben and Eric understand. My music dances on a lot of shores, and they have the ability to be in the now with all of it.”

The Lobero set list docked at many of those shores. The evening began with the title track from Lloyd’s first album for Atlantic Records, 1966’s Dream Weaver. This infectious reverie begins with breathy exhalations and ends the same way 20 minutes later, but in between, Lloyd’s tenor saxophone attacks the theme with an increasingly edgy fearlessness—and Lage and Clayton follow his example.

“‘Dream Weaver’ is sacred ground to me,” Lloyd says. “That record was fresh and crazily beautiful. It has withstood the passage of the ages. I started playing it again and found new ways of expressing the truth. There are some notes on the saxophone I didn’t have as a young man. They aren’t on the horn; they’re in between the cracks. I’m not denying the young Charles, but as my character becomes whole, the music gets better.” If that tune reached back to the beginnings of Lloyd’s career, the next three came from his much-lauded resurgence in the 1990s through the 2010s on ECM. “Requiem,” which first appeared on 1992’s Notes from Big Sur, used patient tempos and pointillist solos by the tenor saxophone, piano, guitar and acoustic bass to create a mood that fits the title.

The Mexican folk song “La Llorona” from 2010’s Mirror (and 2016’s I Long To See You) opens with a piano solo that slowly builds from quiet to majestic and closes with a tenor solo that manages to always reference the melody as it’s sprinting through the octaves. That segues into “Part 5, Ruminations” from 2017’s Passin’ Thru, which begins with a meditative, free-floating consideration of the harmony before cohering into a more definite theme that inspires a stabbing guitar solo, a classically flavored piano solo, a rumbling drum solo and a low-register tenor saxophone solo.

The second set found Clayton sitting out until the encores. Rogers switched from acoustic to electric bass, and Was sat in for two numbers on acoustic bass. Jones contributed two compositions: the premiere of his birthday card “Song for Charles,” and his 1962 hit as leader of Booker T. & the MGs, “Green Onions.” Two Lloyd compositions from the 1960s, “Island Blues” and “Sombrero Sam,” joined the old hymn “Abide with Me” and the American folk tune “Shenandoah.” For the encore, Clayton rejoined the band to play Lloyd’s “Forest Flower” and Billy Preston’s 1974 hit single, “You Are So Beautiful.”

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Massimo Guantini

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Loneos)

17,99 €* 19,99 € -10%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Beside the telluric year in pop music and culture, 1977 was still ranked as the future for Italian leftfield composers. Published by roman imprint Gemelli and credited to the elusive Massimo Guantini (none else than influential jazz player and composer Sandro Brugnolini), Diapositive is a fully cinematic journey in the realm of sci-fi and cool jazz. Fully produced at famous roman Emmequattro Studios (home of many fascinating recordings by piano player Enrico Pieranunzi) the album is deeply rooted in the coolness of italian libraries, showing up such an incredible music craftsmanship. Fully adorned by a vibrant rhythm section, an acoustic piano, a clavinet, a Fender Rhodes and a proper ‘acid jazz’ guitar-playing, this album will lift your mind and soul for good.

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Musax Background Music Library Volume 1

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Farfalla)

26,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Eskapaden Musik)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For this first volume of Musax Background Music Library, Farfalla Records continues exploring the maze of the french library music through one of its most discreet and prolific representatives: Jacky Giordano and one of his many projects, the Musax label. Farfalla Records carefully selected this tracklisting among LPs recorded between 1978 and 1979 of which the originals became particularly sought after by the collectors. Jacky Giordano who appears under his aliases Joachim Sherylee and José Pharos, is surrounded by qualified and renowned musicians such as Jean-Pierre Decerf, Jean-Claude Pierric, Serge Planchon, Patrick Petitbon, Gérard Gesina, Jean-Charles Capon, Daniel Humair and also a band composed of members from the legendary Crazy Horse cabaret, namely Pedro Perea, Claude Brisset, Bruno Bompard, Jean-Claude Guselli, Claude Thirifays, Vincent Momplet and Joseph Gatineau. This selection mixing explosive jazz-funk, lascivious jazz and electronic music more spacey or experimental, which could also be the soundtrack for a TV show, a porn movie or a car chase between cops and gangsters in the bad neighbourhoods of Paris. A fascinating slice of the French music scene of the late 70 is brought to life before our very eyes. (Erwann Pacaud)

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Sepalot Quartet

NOWNEXT

19,99 €*

Poppin' Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The second offering by SEPALOT QUARTET presents itself as a loosely layered fusion album incorporating the best of jazz, indie and electronics - constantly infused by SEPALOT's HipHop roots. On A NEW CYCLE, the quartets first release, they had to limit themselves to delivering versions of SEPALOTS already released discography, a trial run they stated then. But the concept blossomed and with this album it came to fruition. The work on NOWNEXT provided a solid foundation for self-discovery on a grand scale. NOWNEXT is an unambiguous, contemporary album with international format, that draws its rich repertoire from the musical background of its diverse members (Sepalot, Angela Aux, Fabian Füss, Matthias Lindermayr). Memories, associations and visions are awakened and poured into a musical form.

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Hank Mobley

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

36,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella

People Need People

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Schema)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Schema)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The circle is now complete: after three EP's in a row released under this project, Nicola Conte and Gianluca Petrella have finally joined forces to finalize a full-length record. From Africa to Detroit, from jazz to electronica, an endless voyage with one of the most sophisticated and ambitious albums of the international club scene.

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The Dining Rooms

Art Is A Cat

Italian Movie Soundtracks

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After a 5-year long hiatus, cinematic music heroes The Dining Rooms are back with one of their most complete and innovative release ever, the 8th one made in collaboration with Schema Records.

This is probably one of the most interesting albums from the Milanese duo, that still carries the classic Dining Rooms trademark, but also sounds very contemporary and fresh.

Includes collaborations with Sean Martin, Georgeanne Kalweit, Lola Kola, Beatrice Velasco Moreno and Rahma Hafsi on vocals.

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Chet Baker

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dancefloor Stompers - Librerie Musicali

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Nathan Davis & Georges Arvanitas Trio

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When Soul-Jazz meets Italian Cinematic Style. 10 cool tracks from a super-groovy combo powered by an explosive horn section and a stunning strings orchestra. Dancefloor Stompers make their debut album on Four Flies Records, recording the music for a TV series that has not yet been written... 100% Black & Cinematic Groove!

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Live In Paris

3LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Sam)

68,99 €*

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Now-Again)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Style is not a given. Not many musicians reach the level of artistic personality where you can unmistakably recognize them. It takes character, roots, honesty, soulfulness. Nathan Davis had style.
His tone on tenor was unique. So was his soprano sound and his distinctive approach to flute. His musical world was equally original and knew no boundaries.
This concert in Paris is audible proof that as a performer, his fluid phrasing, distinct articulation, booming bottom register, growls and shrieks were fuelled by tremendous drive and furious invention - the man was on fire!
These live sessions demonstrate the limitless invention of Nathan’s solos. Holding no punches, weaving signature phrases, shouts and riffs into his solos, he was a fierce and fervid performer. With a sort of hollow resonance at the heart of his reedy and warm sound, Nathan Davis was a highly original artist, from an era when having a distinct sound on your instrument was the grail of jazz artistry. Harold Land, Jimmy Heath, John Gilmore, Paul Gonsalves, Charlie Rouse, George Coleman, Booker Ervin, Clifford Jordan ... Jazz is made of such giants and Nathan Davis was one of them.

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The Lightmen Plus One

Energy Control Center

Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Revolutionary, spiritual jazz from the unlikely city of Houston, Texas: the definitive issue, mastered from the original tapes. Presented in a tip-on gatefold jacket.
Drummer, bandleader and activist Bubbha Thomas had toured America with R&B revues, served as a session musician for Peacock and Back Beat Records, and played straight ahead jazz with legends before the political and social upheaval of the late 1960s led him to a path first charted by Coltrane. Energy Control Center, his third LP with his Lightmen band is his masterpiece: deep-set, maverick jazz on part with the best Tribe and Strata East titles. This is a highpoint amongst the best of the 1970s jazz underground, a collective voice of resistance to the musical and cultural status quo. Contains second disc with bonus tracks: unreleased alternate takes, including two versions of the spiritual jazz classic “All Praises To Allah”, all housed with an extensive booklet with photos and liner notes.

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Ella Fitzgerald

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Dol)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chameleon / Watermelon Man

Herbie Hancock

12" | 2018 | UK | Original (Columbia)

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Dead Sea)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Major Keys is a brand-new audiophile label focusing on fully licensed reissues of jazz classics, pressed on 12” for a fuller, louder version compared to the original album cut. What better way to kick of the series than housing Herbie Hancock’s imitable ‘Chameleon’ and ‘Watermelon Man’, loud and proud on either side of a 12” - remastered and cut by the engineer of the original Head Hunters LP from 1973.

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Liraz

Naz

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (BMG)

Nat King Cole

Route 66

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (BMG)

Gerry Mulligan Quartet

Soft Shoe

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Kool & The Gang

Collected

35,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In a career spanning over 50 years the American band Kool & the Gang recorded an
impressive list of hit songs and hidden gems, now bundled on our exclusive Collected
record. Kool & the Gang Collected covers the music from their funk, soul, rock, jazz and
disco period. 27 songs in which you’ll hear their musical diversity and the energetic and
positive sounds they brought to a worldwide public.
After recording three albums Kool & the Gang had commercial success with the singles
“Jungle Boogie” and “Hollywood Swinging”. It meant the start of a fantastic career, in
which they reached their highlights at the end of the ‘70s and beginning of the ‘80s.
Hit singles like “Ladies Night”, “Celebration”, “Get Down On It”, “Joanna” and “Fresh”
are among their most famous songs and are all included on this double LP. With their
fantastic set of bulletproof funk and jazzy arrangements they influenced the music of three
generations. They continuously performed during the pas 45 years and remains one of the
most active touring bands, performing hundreds of shows every year.
Kool & the Gang Collected includes liner notes and the Gatefold sleeve has an embossed
“Kool & The Gang” logo. The release is available as a limited first pressing of 2.500
individually numbered copies on purple vinyl.

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Nicola Conte presents Cosmic Forest - The Spiritual Sounds Of MPS

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Soundway)

Felbm

Tape 1 / Tape 2

The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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In the Felbm project, Dutch multi-instrumentalist Eelco Topper steps away from his previous synthesiser-laden sounds as Falco Benz, towards a much looser, simpler and sketch-like approach. Picking up a number of acoustic instruments, he began experimenting with a Tascam 4-track tape recorder and allowed these sketches to flourish.
The result is Tape 1 and Tape 2, a two-part project stretching across fifteen tracks - encompassing fluttering piano melodies, subtle jazz drums, rumba rhythms and soothing ambience. The jazz element links back to Topper’s childhood. “I grew up playing drums, switched to playing piano at sixteen and in the meantime I produced hip-hop beats,” he recalls. “I went to study jazz piano at the Utrecht Conservatory, which I finished with pain and effort… I was interested more in electronic and present-day music.”
This mix of being rooted in traditional jazz composition whilst searching for something more contemporary is the perfect encapsulation of these recordings. Tape 1’s jazz roots are palpable and as things move into Tape 2, it takes on a neo-classical, psychedelic soundscape and cinematic quality.

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Jazz, Jazz, Jazz

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

At Last! Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Incredibly unique modernized adaptations of traditional rhythms of the diverse regions of Sudan, recorded in Kuwait 1980. The “holy grail” album from Sudan.
I heard about Seif Abu Bakr and The Scorpions maybe 3-4 years ago. Their album “Jazz, Jazz Jazz” ended up on my radar because of an eBay auction with the bids eventually rising daily up to a staggering 1000$. The music is a unique combination of incredible horn arrangements powerfully performed, a vigorous drummer contributing a funky backbone and Seif's vocals uniting those elements. The results range from instrumental tracks awaking memories of 1970s crime thriller soundtracks to more Sudanese-rooted tracks, a lot of them modernized versions traditional rhythms of the diverse regions of Sudan and even an excursion into Colgolese Soukouss.
I went for my second trip to Sudan in December 2018 and after doing some research on the first trip my local colleagues Larissa and Yassir had managed to reach Amir, The Scorpions band leader and he was happy to meet. We got together with him in a Cafe right at the Nile in Omdurman. It was a happy occasion for everyone. He told us stories about him meeting Jimmy Cliff and Lewis Armstrong when they visited Sudan and how he and his band mates from The Scorpions played extensively in Kuwait, both in club residencies as well as for television. Amir brought tons of incredible photos illustrating not only the bands history but the vivid cultural live in the many music clubs in Khartoum of the 1970s. During this decade up until 1983 the capital was home to a huge number of clubs, bards and concert halls. This scene started to perish after president Nimeiry's turn away from his socialist policies, that he was widely associated with in the first decade of his rule, towards the implementation of Sharia law in 1983. During the first decade of his rule he had actively supported various artists of the Jazz scene, taking some of them on trips throughout Africa. The 1989 coup of Bashir and his generals then caused the final blow to a once thriving scene. Both of these political events within 6 years lead to significant drawbacks for the Sudanese jazz scene resulting into hardly no gig opportunities left and parties and concerts being critically observed. A number of musicians faced prosecution, most of the time for their political views, some left Sudan for good. Music never completely vanished from public life and even the regime kept selected artists close, but for a majority of those bands affiliated to the jazz scene life and making ends became a lot harder. The Scorpions dissolved as a group around the same time.

The re-release was produced with a clean copy of the vinyl version as a source. The original reel tape of the album stayed with Saif Abu Bakr along with another reel with other recordings that were never released. Unfortunately it was lost when Saif Abu Bakr had to flee to Kuwait temporarily during the second gulf war when Iraq raided Kuwait. Both the CD and vinyl version come with extensive booklets with photos, interviews, liner notes. The vinyl version also has a DLL code.

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Etta James

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Waxtime In Color)

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes four bonus tracks.

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Tord Gustavsen Trio

The Other Side

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Archie Shepp Meets Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio

Conversations

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Black Sweat)

28,99 €*

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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If «Conversations» celebrates the memory, the artistic and spiritual heritage of bassist Fred Hopkins, - an historical member of the revolutionary AACM of Chicago - who died in January 1999, it also marks the amazing collaboration between the Ritual Trio of Kahil El'Zabar (with Ari brown and Malachi Favors) and the intrepid veteran Archie Shepp, the great voice of the 70’s afro-free- jazz. Being a tribute that invites to an intimate memory, almost an antidote to exorcise the loss of a brother, the music is a spiritual hymn to life. Between ballads, hard-bop and free-improvised accents, blow winds of vibrant pianistic chiaroscuros, which reminds of the best Mccoy Tyner in the great blinding quartet of John Coltrane in the 60’s. Furthermore, when an angular rhythmic base decisively follows the typical hypnotic ostinato of the ancient tribal rituals, the voice is expressed in the purest black spirituals (Big Fred and Brother Malcolm), pervading some moments of that “Holiness” culture dear to the dawn of Afro-American identity. Here, Shepp brings back the flaming shivers of the golden age, when his message of freedom resonated the true spirits of primordial Africa.

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Vanished Gardens Feat. Lucinda Williams

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Blue Note)

38,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Compost)

Web Web

Dance Of The Demons

22,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Nonesuch)

Joshua Redman

Still Dreaming

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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5LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Young Turks)

Kamasi Washington

Heaven & Earth

51,99 €*

Seymour Reads The Constitution!

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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'The Choice' disc is hidden in the middle of the packaging, under a corrugated seam. The seam must be cut open to access the hidden disc.

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Brad Mehldau Trio

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Nonesuch)

42,99 €*

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The pianist and his longtime trio, which includes drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier, perform three Mehldau originals combined with interpretations of pop songs (Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson), jazz tunes (Elmo Hope, Sam Rivers), and one work from the American songbook (Frederick Loewe's "Almost Like Being in Love").

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An Angel Fell

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Strut)

26,99 €*

Palmares Fantasy Feat. Hermeto Pascoal

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Strut presents the brand new album from cosmic jazz travellers The
Pyramids, led by saxophonist Idris Ackamoor, ’An Angel Fell’. “I wanted to use folklore, fantasy and drama as a warning bell,” explains Ackamoor.

“The songs explore global themes that are important to me and to us all: the rise of catastrophic climate change and our lack of concern for our planet, loss of innocence and separation... but positive themes too, the healing power of music, collective action and the simple beauty of nature.”

Produced by Malcolm Catto of The Heliocentrics, the album was recorded during an intense week at Quatermass studios in London and is one of the deepest, richest works yet from a band reaching their highest creative peak since the early ’70s. Some of the many highlights include the poignant title track depicting a fallen angel in purgatory, outrage and grief on the powerful, hard hitting ‘Soliloquy For Michael Brown’ and the lilting, beautiful album closer, ‘Sunset’.

The Pyramids originally came together in 1972 at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio where teachers included renowned pianist, Cecil Taylor.

After forming in Paris and embarking on a “cultural odyssey” across Africa, the group recorded three independent albums, ‘Lalibela’ (1973), ‘King Of Kings’ (1974) and ‘Birth / Speed / Merging’ (1976) and became renowned for their striking live shows, mixing percussive, spiritual and space-age jazz with performance theatre and dance. After migrating to San Francisco, they disbanded in 1977. 35 years later, the band reunited in 2012 following growing demand for their music from vinyl collectors.

German label Disko B released the freeform album ‘Otherwordly’ and in 2016, they released their first album for Strut, the acclaimed ‘We Be All Africans’.

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Sean Khan

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Far Out)

2LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The release comes on 180g vinyl. For his third album for Far Out Recordings, London based multi-instrumentalist and one of Europe’s finest saxophonists Sean Khan ventures to Rio de Janeiro to collaborate with iconic Brazilian polymath Hermeto Pascoal.

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GoGo Penguin

v2.0 Special Edition

Birth Of The Cool Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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To celebrate the inclusion of v2.0 as a Barclaycard Mercury Prize album of the year, GoGo Penguin are releasing a deluxe digital edition of v2.0 with three killer tracks from the original album sessions! Released here for the first time is the incessant 'Break' featuring a killer groove that offers a not to the one and only Squarepusher, 'Wash', a haunting slice of the band at their most ambient and the wonderful 'In Amber', the first track that the band wrote completely together. The title of which was inspired by a book by Kurt Vonnegut where he describes us all as 'trapped in the amber of the moment' in reference to time happening all at once rather than in a linear fashion.
GoGo Penguin's skittering break-beats, telepathic interplay and a penchant for anthemic melody all contribute to a sound that's wholly their own. Pianist Chris Illingworth's yearning classical influenced melodies are filtered through the dance music energy of bassist Nick Blacka and drummer Rob Turner. Their instrumentation might be the archetypal piano trio but while the melodic, harmonic and structural ideas are influenced by both classical and jazz the rhythms are drawn from left field electronica and it's this meeting of opposites that makes their unique acoustic-electronica sound so exciting and creates such an interesting and emotionally rich palate for the listener - as drawing on a heady brew of influences from Brian Eno, John Cage and Squarepusher to Manchester's grey rain-streaked urban streets they create a brave new sound all their own.

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Miles Davis

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Dol)

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Union Cafe

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Makaya McCraven

Highly Rare

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Highly Rare is a new mixtape produced and arranged by Makaya McCraven, featuring Junius Paul (bass), Nick Mazzarella (alto saxophone), and Ben Lamar Gay (cornet, diddley bow, voice). Recorded live to Tascam 424MKIII cassette four-track at the legendary Danny's Tavern in Chicago, Illinois.

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Duke Ellington

Caravan

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Jazz Divas

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Quincy Jones

Soul Bossa Nova

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Undercurrent Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Bill Evans & Jim Hall

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Dol)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Julie London

About The Blues

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes four bonus tracks.

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Chris Potter

The Dreamer Is The Dream

World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For his third ECM release as a leader, Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle.

The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM s many recordings from New York over the past decade: keyboardist David Virelles, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Marcus Gilmore, who each shine in addition to the leader on multiple horns. “The Dreamer Is the Dream” features Potter on tenor saxophone the instrument that has made him one of the most admired players of his generation in the striking opener Heart in Hand and such album highlights as Yasodhara, as well as on soprano sax (“Memory and Desire”) and bass clarinet (the title track).

Potter is an artist who employs his considerable technique in service of music rather than spectacle, says The New Yorker, and his composing develops in texture and atmosphere with every album. Along with his previous ECM releases, “Imaginary Cities” and “The Sirens”, he has appeared on some of the label's most acclaimed discs, including Paul Motian's classic “Lost in a Dream” and Dave Holland's Grammy Award-winning “What Goes Around”.

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Alice Coltrane

2LP | 2017 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Nonesuch)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s devotion to spirituality was the central purpose of the final four decades of her life, an often-overlooked awakening that largely took shape during her four-year marriage to John Coltrane and after his 1967 death. By 1983, Alice had established the 48-acre Sai Anantam Ashram outside of Los Angeles. She quietly began recording music from the ashram, releasing it within her spiritual community in the form of private press cassette tapes. On May 5, Luaka Bop will release the first-ever compilation of recordings from this period, making these songs available to the wider public for the first time. Entitled ‘World Spirituality Classics, Volume 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda,’ the release is the first installment in a planned series of spiritual music from around the globe; curated, compiled and distributed by Luaka Bop.
This powerful, largely unheard body of work finds Alice singing for the first time in her recorded catalog, which dates back to 1963 and includes appearances on six John Coltrane albums, alongside Charlie Haden and McCoy Tyner, and 14 albums as bandleader starting with her Impulse! debut in 1967 with ‘A Monastic Trio.’ The songs featured on the Luaka Bop release have been culled from the four cassettes that Alice recorded and released between 1982 and 1995: ‘Turiya Sings,’ ‘Divine Songs,’ ‘Infinite Chants,’ and ‘Glorious Chants.’ The digital, cassette and CD release will feature eight songs. The double-vinyl edition features two additional songs, “Krishna Japaye” from 1990’s ‘Infinite Chants, and the previously unreleased “Rama Katha” from a separate ‘Turiya Sings’ recording session.
Luaka Bop teamed with Alice’s children to find the original master tapes in the Coltrane archive. The recordings were prepared for re-mastering by the legendary engineer Baker Bigsby (Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, John Coltrane), who had overseen the original sessions in the 80s and 90s. The compilation showcases a diverse array of recordings in addition to Alice’s first vocal work: solo performances on her harp, small ensembles, and a 24-piece vocal choir. The release is dotted with eastern percussion, synthesizers, organs and strings, making for a mesmerizing, even otherworldly, listen. Alice was inspired by Vedic devotional songs from India and Nepal, adding her own music sensibility to the mix with original melodies and sophisticated song structures. She never lost her ability to draw from the bebop, blues and old-time spirituals of her Detroit youth, fusing a Western upbringing with Eastern classicism. In all, these recordings amount to a largely untold chapter in the life story of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda.
In addition to the recordings, GRAMMY-winning music historian Ashley Kahn has written extensive liner notes on the collection. The package also includes a series of interviews with those who knew Alice best, conducted by Dublab’s Mark “Frosty” McNeill, and an as-told-to interview between musician Surya Botofasina (who was raised on Alice’s ashram) and journalist Andy Beta. 2017 marks what would have been Alice’s 80th year of life, as well as the 10th anniversary of her passing. Alice will be celebrated at events throughout the United States, Europe and South America in the coming year. With this in mind, the time is right to bring this meaningful piece of Turiyasangitananda’s legacy into focus.

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Tigran Hamsyan

An Ancient Observer

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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4x10" | 2017 | UK | Original (Brainfeeder)

Thundercat

Drunk

41,99 €*

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Thundercat presents “drunk”- a 23-track epic journey into the often hilarious, sometimes dark mind of the Grammy-winning singer/ bassist - featuring a few of his friends joining him along the way including: Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, Michael Mcdonald, Kenny Loggins, Wiz Khalifa, Kamasi Washington and Brainfeeder Mastermind Flying Lotus.

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Ray Charles

Hit The Road Jack

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP+7" | 2016 | EU | Original (Wah Wah)

Charles Wilp

Fotografiert Bunny

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First ever vinyl LP reissue of one of the best easy listening / jazz / groovy albums from Germany. Conceived and recorded in 1965 as (sort of) the soundtrack for advertising-designer, artist and photographer Charles Wilp photo sessions, it was composed by classical trained musician Siegfried Ulbrich, credited here under one of his pseudonym Marvin Martin. The album is a fantastic sequence of jazzy easy listening sounds, sometimes spiced with the actual sound of Wilp and his models speaking through the session, completed with female wordless vocals here and there and some electronic gimmicks - used with maximum care. Peter Thomas spoke favourably of these recordings, noting influences from A.C. Jobim, Frank Sinatra and Claus Ogermann. This LP was never commercialised in shops, but instead produced specifically for 16 organisations for whom Wilp had worked for, and copies of it were given away to employees and customers of those companies.

As a curiousity, Charles Wilp did the earliest photos of Nico when she started modelling in Germany, and also did the fabulous photos of 1960s punk legends The Monks when they were established in Germany.

It is splendid from beginning to end, top class groovy / easy listening sounds for your cocktail parties and night dancing and comes in a gorgeous gatefold sleeve reproducing the original artwork.

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Nik Bärtsch's Mobile

Continuum

To Those Of Earth And Other Worlds

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This swiss jazz combo is back with a new album.

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Sun Ra And His Arkestra

2LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Strut)

2LP | 2015 | US | Original (Sunpower)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following up on last year’s collection In The Orbit Of Ra we’re diving headfirst back into the vast universe of Sun Ra with a a newly curated set from the Ra’s immense 125 LP back catalog, compiled by Gilles Peterson. The BBC 6Music / Worldwide DJ is a long-time champion of Ra’s music and the UK’s leading tastemaker for jazz-based sounds. It serves as perhaps the best introduction yet to the music of Sun Ra for a whole new generation of converts.

For the CD version, Peterson picks personal favourites, classics and unreleased tracks and weaves them into a flowing piece across 2CDs, showcasing the incredible variety of Ra’s work. The 2LP version features full-length versions of selected tracks from the mix (and also includes the full CD mixed version), while the digital version features a full unmixed selection with Peterson’s mix available within the album bundle. Sleeve notes on physical formats come from Gilles Peterson with a full Ra career biography by author Robert L. Campbell. The album also features previously unseen photos from the archives of Val Wilmer alongside full musician line-ups and session details.

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Frank Sinatra

Ultimate Sinatra

50,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

Matana Roberts

LP | 2015 | CA | Original (Constellation)

Sunday At The Village Vanguard / Waltz For Debby

Release: 2015 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Matana Roberts is one of the most acclaimed, socio-politically conscious and aesthetically intrepid avant-jazz practitioners of the 21st century. Following the critical accolades that the first two Coin Coin chapters have thus far received, the past year has been marked by further career-defining recognition for her body of iconoclastic work: Roberts was a recipient of both the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts and the Daisy Duke Impact Award in 2014.

Roberts has long employed the phrase “panoramic sound quilting” to describe the process surrounding her Coin Coin work. The third chapter in her Coin Coin series finds Roberts implementing this metaphor most explicitly, constructing a sound art tapestry from field recordings, loop and effects pedals, and spoken word recitations, alongside her saxophone and singing voices. Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee could arguably be considered first and foremost a vocal work, and notwithstanding its experimental and esoteric structure, a deeply narrative work as well.

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Bill Evans Trio

2LP | 2014 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At Jazz At The Philharmonic

Billy Holiday

LP | 2014 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

19,99 €*

LP | 2014 | UK | Original (Not Now)

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes four bonus tracks.

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Francoise Hardy

26,99 €*

Release: 2014 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2014 | US | Original (ORG Music)

James Blood Ulmer

Odyssey 45RPM Edition

38,99 €*

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Shocking Miss Emerald: Acoustic Sessions

Caro Emerald

LP | 2014 | US | Original (Grandmono/MRI)

LP | 2014 | EU | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2014

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Malia & Boris Blank

Convergence

30,99 €*

Release: 2014 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans Trio

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Ahmad Jamal Trio

At The Pershing

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio

Oscar Getz Trio

LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Panam)

19,99 €*

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2013 | US | Original (Wide Hive)

Calvin Keys

Electric Keys

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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OST Rocky Horror Picture Show

LP | 2013 | US | Original (Ode Sounds & Visuals)

23,99 €*

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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Robert Glasper Experiment

Black Radio Volume 2

2LP | 2013 | US | Original (Blue Note)

On My Way To Harlem / 1960 What

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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More great music from the RGE plus another jaw-dropping roll call of vocalists including Common, Patrick Stump, Brandy, Jill Scott, Dwele, Marsha Ambrosius, Anthony Hamilton, Faith Evans, Norah Jones, Snoop Dogg, Lupe Fiasco, Luke James, Emeli Sandé, Lalah Hathaway, and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Yes! Theo from the Cosby Family!).

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Gregory Porter

7" | 2013 | UK | Original (Expansion)

8,99 €*