Jazz | Fusion Vinyl 4303 Items

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tell Your Friends - 10 Year Anniversary

Snarky Puppy

2LP | 2024 | Original (Ground Up Music Llc)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (El Paraiso)

Lotus

Synthbuljong

22,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | WW | Original (Modulor)

Chocho Cannelle

Yo Te Cielo

41,99 €*

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chick Elektric Band Corea

Eye Of The Beholder

2LP | 2024 | Original (Candid)

37,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jean-Francois Pauvros & Alain Mahe

Papillon De Mer

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Autre Distribution)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Autre Distribution)

Leila Olivesi

Astral

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Brownswood)

Marysia Osu

Harp, Beats & Dreams

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Understory: Live At The Village Vanguard

Ben Wendel

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Edition Ltd.)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Les Cigales / En Clair-Obscur Black Vinyl Edition

The Offline

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Deepmatter / Root)

Les Cigales / En Clair-Obscur HHV Exclusive Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Les Cigales’ takes its’ sonic cues from the structure of film and TV music from the 1960s and 70s, channelling the influence of film composers such as Francois de Roubaix and David Axelrod, whilst also sitting somewhere between the washed out, sun-soaked sonics of Surprise Chef and Robohands. As the EP unwinds, its narrative reflects a love story, full of longing, melancholy and drama, connecting with the story of Gyptis and Protis – the founding myth of Marseilles – whose love broke convention and welcomed the arrival of foreign people on French soil.

The project follows The Offline’s debut album ‘La couleur de la mer’, released in November 2023, which saw him create his own soundtrack to a film yet to be made. Inducing images of manorial, fog- swept villas at the seas edge, silhouetted sailing boats and cigar-chomping villains attempting to thwart the mission of an imaginary hero, the record is a masterfully composed sonic journey. ‘Les Cigales’ sees him continue to build upon a distinctive sound that moves from dramatic cues to fragile romanticism, incorporating psychedelic spaciness, retro soul and hip-hop sensibilities informed by his extensive record collection.

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The Offline

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Deepmatter / Root)

LP | 2024 | Original (Week-End)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 300 copies, only available at HHV! ‘Les Cigales’ takes its’ sonic cues from the structure of film and TV music from the 1960s and 70s, channelling the influence of film composers such as Francois de Roubaix and David Axelrod, whilst also sitting somewhere between the washed out, sun-soaked sonics of Surprise Chef and Robohands. As the EP unwinds, its narrative reflects a love story, full of longing, melancholy and drama, connecting with the story of Gyptis and Protis – the founding myth of Marseilles – whose love broke convention and welcomed the arrival of foreign people on French soil.

The project follows The Offline’s debut album ‘La couleur de la mer’, released in November 2023, which saw him create his own soundtrack to a film yet to be made. Inducing images of manorial, fog- swept villas at the seas edge, silhouetted sailing boats and cigar-chomping villains attempting to thwart the mission of an imaginary hero, the record is a masterfully composed sonic journey. ‘Les Cigales’ sees him continue to build upon a distinctive sound that moves from dramatic cues to fragile romanticism, incorporating psychedelic spaciness, retro soul and hip-hop sensibilities informed by his extensive record collection.

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Farida Amadou

When It Rains It Pours

26,99 €*

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Positive Elevatoin / 577 Records)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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If there's one musician in the last decade that you may hear in wildly diverse musical contexts it is Belgian electric bassist and sound sculptor Farida Amadou. Not only can you enjoy the unerringly skillful command she has over her instrument but also the transformative power to reinterpret and expand her material in spontaneous and unconventional ways.

Amadou is self-taught and radically aware of her idiosyncratic relationship with the bass guitar. She neither emulates the virtuosos of the electric bass, nor does she use the instrument as a pure sound generator that merely emits humming and feedback. She takes a completely independent and unique approach. This freedom enables her to create an overwhelming wall of sound, as well as simple, clear structures that are rhythmically concise yielding a wide associative space that lands somewhere between free jazz and noise.

Her work is often concentrated and circular where motifs are established and developed outward. It is an organic sound in the literal sense of the word, constantly in motion, yet resting in itself. The three solo pieces she has recorded for Week-End Records emphasize her impressive ability to ignite ecstasy from tranquility, to fan out a whole range of moods from a few potent ideas.

These attributes make her a musician who enriches every group she plays in, because she is present with her assured and crystallized sound but refrains from being domineering. However, her strengths are even more apparent when she plays solo: the contrasts between the dark, heavy clouds of sound and the rhythmic passages, and the transitions between movements which always sound "logical" yet surprising.

Her new solo album, "When It Rains It Pours" presents Amadou as an inspired improviser who follows her musical intuition and acumen to create a truly unique soundworld. Rarely has improvised music sounded so succinct and compelling.

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Gerald Cleaver

The Process

29,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The electronic album you’ve all been waiting for has arrived! Detroit-born drum slayer Gerald Cleaver is making this summer even better with the upcoming release of a new, mysterious electronic ensemble that takes us to the next level of his unique avant-garde approach. Known for his ability to use the unpredictability of improvisation to deliver an unbelievable experience, Cleaver explains that the theme of The Process is the “celebration of the freedom and power of the Black American male.” Its very name bears the idea of persisting, of becoming everlasting. He likens The Process (both the album and his methods) to the evolution of Detroit’s robust music scene, highlighting the importance of reaching a younger audience to keep its “Electrifying Mojo” alive and thriving. Every note on The Process weaves together Gerald’s deep love and appreciation for the city that shaped him, its rich culture, and his relentless passion for creating transcendent yet relatable music that is to be felt (not only heard).

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LP | 2024 | Original (Evo Sound)

Sara K.

The Chesky Collection

46,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (Treader)

Spring Heel Jack

Masses

22,99 €*

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Whited Sepulchre)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Masses is an utterly unexpected, and utterly gripping, collaboration between the East London duo, Spring Heel Jack, and a group of top-flight improvisers, drawn largely from New York’s ascendant free jazz network but also including Evan Parker and microtonal violinist Matt Maneri.

‘If there are precedents for this particular mix, in which studio-processed audio environments are played back in real time as the triggers for, and fixed components in, a series of group improvisations, they feel few and far between. George Rusell’s 1967 Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature, Bob Ostertag’s Say No More Project, and some of Evan Parker’s explorations in the realm of synergetic electroacoustics provide three possible and very different models. But as Matthew Shipp points out, Masses ‘creates its own space and time’.

‘Masses opens a tunnel on a space where matter and anti-matter can co-exist without the vernacular power of either state being compromised or diminished. It is a total triumph.’
(The Wire).
Recorded in 1999 in NYC, with Matt Shipp, Roy Campbell, Matt Manieri, William Parker, and co.

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Max Jaffe

Reduction Of Man

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Hegoa)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Max Jaffe wasn’t planning on creating an album commemorating the decade-plus he spent living in New York City while recording Reduction of Man. Operating as a preemptive elegy, Reduction of Man traces Jaffe’s musical trajectory while in New York City - a process of becoming fluent in several musical languages and cultures all at once, rather than the linear education of an MFA musician (which Jaffe also is). Jaffe’s second “solo” album finds him at the helm of an ensemble - leading the project as he plays: one hand drumming, the other composing and editing on the fly, shepherding multiple musical voices towards a single end - a sinewy tension between noise and groove.

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Pascal Gaigne

Iguzki Hauskara

Spiritual Healing: Bwa Kayiman Freedom Suite - Blue&Red

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Pascal Gaigne, born in France in 1958 and installed in San Sebastian since 1985, is a musician with a vast trajectory composing music for films. He has composed for more than 50 movies, won 16 awards (including a Goya award, Spanish Oscar equivalent) and had 15 nominations. He has worked with some of the most interesting new directors in Spanish cinema (Víctor Erice, Icíar Bolláin, Salvador García Ruíz, Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Montxo Armendáriz), and foreign directors like France (Le cou de la girafe), Finland (Matka Edeniin) or Cuba (Omerta).

Early in his career, before working in cinema, he collaborated with some of the most interesting artists and voices in the short history of Basque folk music, including well known Amaia Zubiria (check the two records he made with her “Egun Argi Hartan” & “Kolorez eta Ametsez”), as well as Basque traditional chant avant-gardist Beñat Achiary. It is together with Amaia & Beñat that he paired himself up to create “music pour le ballet du Iguzki Hauskara”, an entire album of compositions made for the 80’s French Basque Ballet group “Ekarle”. Originally released on cassette only in 1984, it is now reissued by Hegoa including three unreleased pieces taken from a second album that was never published.

Limited edition of 250 black vinyl LP’s housed in a coloured reverse board cover recreating the original hand painted artwork.

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Jowee Omicil

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Bash! Village)

44,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joseph Omicil, Jr, a.k.a. Jowee Omicil, is a Haitian-Canadian jazz musician. He has worked in the past with artists such as Roy Hargrove, Pharoah Sanders, Tony Allen, Kenny Garrett, Jacob Desvarieux, Glen Ballard, Harold Faustin, Michel Martell, etc. He hosted Quincy Jones" 85th birthdaycelebration at Montreux Festival. He also starred in the Netflix series The Eddy, produced by Damien Chazelle, and Le temps d"aimer, directed by Katell Quillévéré (Cannes Festival2023). The Bois-Caïman ceremony was Haiti"sfirst major collective uprising against slavery. On his new album, SpiriTuaL HeaLinG: Bwa KaYimaN FreeDoM SuiTe, Jowee performs his ancestors" revolution in his own way. Joweebrought together all his inner tubes, soprano,alto, tenor, wood, clarinets, piccolo _¼éute, cornet, that blows, that winds, that rumbles. This record is an incantation, a therapy, it cleanses the world by drawing on the fantasized memory of the Haitian revolution. There are Freedom Suites by Sonny Rollins, Max Roach and others. Prayer music, music to break the chains in your head and on your wrists, music of black power and white magic. For Jowee, a kid from Montreal, son of a Haitian pastor, who sang Jesus in all the tones, and then Michael Jackson, and then 2Pac, who learned jazz from Ornette Coleman, the ceremony necessarily has the taste of free. This record is a healing hour- long improvisation.

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Squall / Eternal Slowmotion

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Innocent)

13,99 €*

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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coupled with an AOR love song by INO hidefumi and an unreleased song at the time of release (2019).
From non-singing singer/songwriter to singer/songwriter, he released his first all-vocal solo album "SONG ALBUM" in 2018 and went on a national tour in 2019.
The A-side "Squall" is an AOR song that was digitally released in September 2019 and selected for various playlists.
The B-side "Eternal Slowmotion" is an unreleased track that was first released on this 7inch pressing.

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LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Innocent)

In Dreams

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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DARK & MELOW 2021 vinyl LP release by INO hidefumi!
If only we could catch that melody, those words, that sound that we saw and heard in my dream in the real world.
That is the dream of every musician.
From "In Dreams," INO Hidefumi's first new album in two and a half years (at the time), we first heard a sound that tuned in to such a wish.
Eventually, the soul flaps its wings in a jet stream in an attempt to crossover between dreams and reality.

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7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Innocent)

Can't Sleep / Good Night

13,99 €*

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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SIDE:A includes "CAN'T SLEEP" 7inch Limited Version and John Lennon's cover "GOOD NIGHT" on B-side as a coupling song to relieve insomnia.

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In Abundance Freedom / Green Tea

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Innocent)

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Roots Underground)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" analog single cut released prior to the 2013 album "New Morning" by INO hidefumi.

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John Beltran

Il Ritorno EP

13,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Roots Underground kicks off 2024 with a bang, presenting the EP of one of the most fascinating living legends of Detroit techno: John Beltran. Although he has never stopped producing music (luckily for us!), this EP represents a more than welcome return of John Beltran to those more classic techno sounds that have made him one of the most iconic producers of this musical genre in the world.

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LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Avex)

Katsushika Trio

M.R.I._mirai

45,99 €*

Charlie Tip & Tinker / Scott

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Three former early members of Japan's leading fusion band "Casiopea" - Tetsuo Sakurai (bass), Akira Jinbo (drums), and Minoru Mukaiya (keyboard) - have come together to form "Katsushika Trio" and started their activities in 2021. They performed live in five locations: Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Yokohama, captivating audiences of all ages, from long-time fans to younger generations. Their highly anticipated debut original full album "M.R.I_ Mirai," released amidst this excitement, has garnered significant acclaim.

This album, with the slogan "Music for Adults Who Won’t Grow Up," features eight meticulously selected tracks from their first album showcasing the trio's fiery ensemble that defines "Katsushika Trio." To provide the superior sound quality unique to vinyl, the album is released as a "heavyweight" edition, which offers greater thickness and stability for high-quality playback.

This must-have record allows fans to experience the unique pleasure of analog sound.

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Moanin' N Groanin'

LP | 2024 | Original (Lmlr)

37,99 €*

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinatge soul music - FEATURING GEORGE "TIP" TIPTON, JOSEPH "TINKER" LEWIS and CHARLES "MAL" Scott. VINYL HAS BEEN OUT OF PRINT & UNAVAILABLE UNTIL now.

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Oscar Trio Peterson

Another Day

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Good Friday Blues Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

The Modest Jazz Trio

LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Let Freedom Ring Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Jackie McLean

LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cedar Walton & Ron Carter & Jack Dejohnette

Cedar Walton Ron Carter Jack Dejohnette

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

28,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | US | Original (Spiral)

Rita Reys

Jazz Pictures

17,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Returning, Dream Artwork Print Editoin

Paradise Cinema

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"returning, dream" is the second album from Paradise Cinema - the "Fourth World" inspired project led by multi-instrumentalist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet/Szun Waves). While Wyllie"s other projects move between tightknit electronica, widescreen minimalism and improvised ambient sounds, "returning, dream" contains nods to Jon Hassell, Terry Riley, Don Cherry and Midori Takada as well as more contemporary electronic, ambient and non-western music and even draws inspiration from physics and science fiction.Black BioVinyl LP, in printed reverse board sleeve, containing a ltd 12" 300gsm artwork print and packed in resealable protective sleeve.

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Paradise Cinema

Returning, Dream

Spring In Stockholm: Live In Sweden, 1959

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gerry Mulligan

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (New Land)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Squama)

Fazer

Yamaha

24,99 €*

12" | 2024 | US | Original (Backwoodz Studioz)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Munich-based quintet Fazer return to Squama with their fourth studio album, ‘Yamaha’, a record that melds indie jazz and psychedelic rock with humour and depth.
The band recorded the album in their own studio for the first time, taking time time to experiment with sound and overdubs, while retaining the vigour of a live performance.
Suspenseful two-voiced themes and tickling solo interplay by Matthias Lindermayr on trumpet and Paul Brändle on guitar is still at the core of Fazer’s music, as well as the meticulous work of their two drummers Simon Popp and Sebastian Wolfgruber, whose grooves are more rooted in the rock vernacular compared to previous records. The restrained playing of bassist and producer Martin Brugger remains a grounding force that rounds out the sound of the group.

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Okse

33,99 €*

Oscar Peterson Trio / Herb Ellis

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Økse's eponymous debut album is a daring experimental Jazz project that features contributions from some of hip-hop's most unique voices. The band itself is an international all-star team of avant-garde musicians; NYC based drummer Savannah Harris, Danish saxophonist Mette Rasmussen, Haitian electronic musician Val Jeanty, and Swede Petter Eldh on bass, synths and sampler. Each already established as solo artists, as Økse they collectively mine new ground, pushing and pulling at the edges of genre. Four rappers come along for the ride, each more than capable of bending these tracks to their will; Elucid and billy woods (aka Armand Hammer), and fellow Brooklynites Maassai, and Cavalier.

Økse means AXE in Danish. The Axe has a lot of connotations, being one of humankind's oldest tools. Axe is also Ashe; the life-force that runs through all things, living and inanimate. Ashe is a current or flow, a groove that initiates can channel so that it carries them along their road in life. These are the energies that flow through Økse, and animate this ambitious record.

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Hello Herbie

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | DE | Original (ZYX Music)

Nat King Cole

His Greatest Hits

17,99 €*

Release: 2024 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dama Begga Hibi (I Want To Go Home)

Aron & The Jeri Band

LP | 2024 | Original (Trout, Urban)

33,99 €*

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Warp)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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During autumn 2018, after moving to Germany, Aron Ottignon met Senegalese musician and percussionist Bakane Seck, founder and leader of the Jeri JeriBand, in his Berlin studio. This first meeting gave rise to a special connection between their instruments and the start of a musical adventurethat transcends borders, an instrumental conversation of profound simplicity nourished by the richness of jazz, electronic music and Wolof tradition. The brainchild of composer and producer Aron Ottignon and percussionist Sabar Bakane Seck, Aron & The Jeri Jeri Band (A&TJJB) was born at the crossroads between Berlin and Dakar and oscillates between the frenetic rhythm of mbalax, the strength of afrobeat, the warmth of afro funk and the eï¬Çervescence of jazz. Born in New Zealand, the pianist released a series of critically acclaimed jazz albums in the 2000s. As a composer, Aron Ottignonhas collaborated with Stromae, toured the world with Woodkid and worked with a host of artists including Electric Wire Hustle, Louane,Broken Back, Empire Of the Sun and Myele Manzanza. Senegalese musician and griot Bakane Seck"s mastery of the Sabar - "percussion instrument" in Wolof - has taken him all over the world alongsideAfrican music icons such asYoussou N"Dour and Baaba Maal.

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Nala Sinephro

Endlessness

34,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Miles At Newport 1955 1

Box | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

146,99 €*

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Bootleg Series Vol. 1: Live In Europe 1967

Box | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

102,99 €*

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Bootleg Series Vol. 2: Live In Europe 1969

4LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

87,99 €*

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Bootleg Series Vol. 3: Miles At The Fillmore:

Box | 2024 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

117,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Tramp)

Frederic Rabold

Time Machine

Moon Haewon With Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Celebrating Frédéric RABOLDs 80th birthday
Frédéric Rabold was born on November 23rd, 1944, in Paris, France. His father was a jazz musician and had dreams of all three of his children becoming musicians as well. Frédéric started out learning the violin but always gravitated to the trumpet. The violin actually ended up on the wall at some point, which may have revealed Rabold's tendency toward impulsiveness. He came into contact with jazz music at an early age when he lived with his parents in France. Later on, his father had a big band with which he performed at dances in health resorts. At the age of 16, he often played with his father in American Army Clubs. From 1961 to 1964, Frédéric studied at the University of Music in Karlsruhe. In 1965, he moved to Stuttgart where he still lives today. In the same year drummer Axel Lauser approached him and asked if he wanted to play in his trio. Then, for a few years, Frédéric played in the Axel Lauser Quartet. In 1968, Frédéric founded his own band, the Frédéric Rabold Crew. The music of the "Crew" was well received in the 1968 era and the band quickly gained recognition in the German modern jazz scene. Invitations to several major festivals followed, including the jazz festival in Zurich. Later, they toured extensively through Eastern Europe on behalf of the Goethe Institute. In 1968, the first recordings were made by a friend of the band during a rehearsal. However, they were not to be released until 1980 on the LP "Berlin". "Noon In Tunisia" is one of these tracks. In March, 1970, the crew performed at the 12th German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt am Main amongst such Jazz greats as the Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet, the Klaus Doldinger Quartet and the Dave Pike Set. Two years later, the Frédéric Rabold Crew released their debut album entitled "Flair". This was followed in the 1970s by more than half a dozen albums for various labels. These included the album "Open House" with guest guitarist Martin Ederer, as well as three albums with singer Lauren Newton between 1975 and 1979. Rabold also worked with avant-garde jazz musicians such as Gunter Hampel, Leszek Zadlo, Lester Bowie, Manfred Schoof, Albert Mangelsdorff and Jeanne Lee.
In the mid-1970s, a second formation was formed, the "Frédéric Rabold Jazz Inspiration Orchestra", which, unlike the crew, continued to exist with the same line-up well into the 2010s. In 2018, Frédéric Rabold celebrated the 50th anniversary of his group, the Frédéric Rabold Crew.
Today, Rabold can look back on more than 1000 original compositions. Sometimes certain events led him to a composition, other times he just sat down at the piano and something happened, or not. Even though his real love is modern jazz, he has played all styles himself, including classical trumpet. In this respect, his role models were actually always American jazz musicians, who were sometimes quite unconventional in this respect. Frédéric Rabold's motto has always been: there is good and not so good music in all styles. This album brings together only the former.
Key selling points:
- deluxe double gatefold vinyl LP
- incl. detailed liner notes in german and english language
- incl. unseen photographs
- incl. download code
- limited to 500 copies
- pressed on Biovinyl => Replacement of petroleum in S-pvc by recycling used cooking oil or industrial
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Holiday Gift From Moon

10" | 2024 | JP | Original (Somethin'cool)

Wonderwall Feat. Ray Yamada / Through The Night

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Moon haewon and Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, who worked together on the previous album "Midnight Sun," present this 10-inch LP as a Christmas gift for jazz fans around the world!!

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Nautilus

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Urban Discos)

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The A-side features a cover of Oasis' "Wonderwall," an iconic 90s rock song. The sentimental and melodic arrangement begins with a piano, and the groovy bass, elaborate drums that seem to drive it all, and Ray Yamada's voice beautifully color the refrain of the hook. The B-side features "Through The Night," an original funk song with a strong Nautilus style. The gorgeous drums, delicate keys, and pleasantly intense bass are exquisitely synchronized, presenting a Nautilus-style sound in progress. Can't wait to see their triumphant return from their German tour!

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Kenichiro Nishihara

Life

Brexit Funk / Peckham Night

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Kenichiro Nishihara's 2nd album "life" is now available on long-awaited LP!

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Jeroboam

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Chuwanaga)

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Parisian label Chuwanaga is proud to present their latest 12-inch series release from Jéroboam, "Brexit Funk / Peckham Night". The band, also known in the streets of Paris and Montreuil as Echoes Of, is celebrating Britfunk and the rich musical heritage of Greater London, reflecting their deep appreciation for the iconic Britfunk sound. After several successful collaborations celebrating the genre with the label at the infamous New Morning venue in Paris, Jéroboam has crafted two brilliant compositions for this EP.

"Brexit Funk" is an electrifying homage to the classic London Jazz-Funk scene of the late seventies and early eighties. It is a tremendous track, reminiscent of the early sounds of Incognito and Freeez, infused with the energy of Hot Cuisine and Hi-Tension. It features a standout brass section, amazing solo performances, and a strong rhythm section. Having played in London and now across the whole UK, the band decided to ironically name this track as a musical memory of this strange transition.

On the B-side, you’ll find "Peckham Night" and its dub version, an outstanding composition that perfectly emulates the late seventies soul-jazz vibe. Beautiful vocals by singer Agyei blend seamlessly into this perfect composition. All along, you really feel the band coming together, bringing out the best of their soul. It really is the work of passionate and experienced musicians who have built strong confidence playing together for years.

Jéroboam is a group of 10 Parisian funkateers recognized as one of the biggest funk outfits on the current French scene. They already boast extensive live experience and a solid reputation between Paris and London. In addition to their original and popular tributes to American funk cities of the 70s-80s, they have also gained attention as a formidable backing band for Howard Johnson, Junior Giscombe, and Kyoto Jazz Massive. Having also released two highly acclaimed EPs on the Space Grapes label, they continue to work on their own original compositions under the name Jéroboam, with their debut album scheduled for release in 2025.

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Mark Egan

Cross Currents

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(2-LP set) Grammy award Winning bassist Mark Egan has teamed up with an all-star rhythm section with Shawn Pelton- Drums and Shane Theriot-Guitar. This powerful and elegant musical tapestry bridges contemporary jazz, R&B and Rock roots to create a captivating musical journey exploring highly adventurous interplay and soloing over multi layered orchestrations. The eleven original compositions were recorded at the world acclaimed Power Station New England Studio and are available in both CD, 180gram Vinyl as well as all digital formats. The trio explores a fusion of Jazz, R&B, Rock, Funk and multi-directional ambient grooves with masterful improvisations from some of the most influential contemporary musicians.

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Sarah Vaughan

Out Of This World

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Link Quartet

7" | 2024 | Original (Spinout Nuggets)

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Link Quartet

Saint-Tropez Heist

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Diez Anos Black Vinyl Edition

Jane & Maqueque Bunnett

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Roberta Gambarini & Hank Jones

You Are There Black Vinyl Edition

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Masahiko Satoh

Live At Cafe Oto

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Asher / The Black Lungs Gamedze

Constitution

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Outer Spaceways Incorporated : Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra Deluxe Edition Starry Night Vinyl Edition

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This is the repeated call and the rallying chorus of the nearly 40-minute centerpiece to composer and percussionist Asher Gamedze"s new album Constitution. The expansive double album, a minoritarian fellowship in breath, is Gamedze"s follow-up to 2023"s Turbulence and Pulse, and his first with The Black Lungs.

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Red Hot Organization

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Red Hot Organization)

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Individually, Kronos Quartet and Sun Ra are two of the most groundbreaking names in contemporary music. The former is the legendary San Francisco-based string quartet that laid a blueprint for what concert music could become, working with the likes of John Cage, Tanya Tagaq, and Astor Piazzolla. The latter was a singular jazz and avant-garde bandleader, as well as a philosopher and poet, who honed an extraordinary strain of cosmic experimental music from the 1950s until his ascension in 1993. As a capstone to Kronos Quartet’s 50th anniversary, the group has joined forces with the Red Hot Organization for the new album Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra. It’s stacked with some of the most innovative artists active today — everyone from multidimensional electronic musician Jlin, to Moor Mother and DJ Haram’s radical noise / rap project 700 Bliss, to abstract hip hop luminaries Armand Hammer, to avant-garde hero Laurie Anderson, to minimalist pioneer Terry Riley.

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Terell Stafford

Brotherlee Love

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Spike Robinson & Roy Williams

It's A Wonderful World

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Spike Robinson & Martin Taylor & Dave Green

London Reprise

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Henry B. Meets Alvin G.: Once In A Wild

Spike Robinson & Al Cohn

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Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most

Spike Robinson

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Comes Love - Lost Session 1960

Sheila Jordan

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Paul Warburton & Dale Bruning

Our Delight

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Olivia Trummer

Studio Konzert

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Mike Jones & Penn Jillette

The Show Before The Show

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Jens Düppe

Studio Konzert

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Jazz Worms

Squirmin'

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Holly Hofmann

Take Note

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Art Resnick

A Gift

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Music For Turkish Theater 1970

Don Cherry & Okay Temiz

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Caz Plak)

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NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED RECORDING of the Sensational and Banned Turkish Theater Play by James Baldwin and Engin Cezzar, Istanbul 1970
Licensed by Gökhan Akçura, author of Engin Cezzar's autobiography, who was personally entrusted with the original master tape by Engin Cezzar.
"One of the most shocking and daring plays staged in Turkish theaters was banned by the Istanbul Governorship on February 7, 1970. The ban on the play, which was watched by 30,000 people in 60 days, did not last long." - Turkish Press, 1970
Meticulously restored from the original master tape, remastered and cut by Shawn Joseph at Optimum Mastering, Bristol, UK.
Includes liner notes by Zeynep Oral (James Baldwin's assistant and journalist), Gökhan Akçura, Okay Temiz, and record producer Erinç Güzel (Caz Plak İstanbul).
In 1970, Turkish theater owner Engin Cezzar produced James Baldwin's groundbreaking play about gay relationships in a 1970s Istanbul prison setting. In 1969, jazz musician Don Cherry, visiting Istanbul with Okay Temiz to record an album, reunited with Baldwin and contributed music to the production. The recording session followed extensive discussions and featured performances by Cherry and Temiz, heightening the play's tension.
An unearthed free jazz masterpiece from 1970s Istanbul.

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Nina Simone In Concert Acoustic Sounds

Nina Simone

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Verve)

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Ant Law & Brigitte Beraha

Ensconced

LP | 2024 | Original (Ubuntu Music)

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Memories

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (New Groove Inc.)

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After carving out his own unique path through his activities at his own pace, INO hidefumi's ninth original album is now complete.
All songs were created in his home studio, and his stripped-down compositions and extraordinary voice are now available to the whole world from his bedroom.
The simple instrumentation, the ensemble's use of gaps between notes, and the electric piano are pleasing.
The latest work by INO hidefumi, who is constantly updating his music, reflects "MEMORIES", which is fresh and unaffected, but also expresses unwavering strength and sharpness.

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Ryozo Band

Pleasure

20,99 €*

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

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The first release of 2024 by Ryozo Band, who have been slowly gaining attention at home and abroad since 2019, is the 7" of the uptempo Jazz / Funk song "Pleasure"!! Starting with an impressive minimal keyboard, 'Pleasure' is composed mainly of an up-tempo beat and two horns (saxophone and trumpet). Each of the top-notch players fully demonstrates their sense of style, creating a world view that is similar to that of Jazz Funk and Afro Beat in the current UK scene. The B-side also features a remix by Lex (de Kalhex), a producer and rapper in the French-based Hip Hop group Kalhex, a multi-talented artist who has also held solo exhibitions in Japan.

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# Yellow Vinyl Edition

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Release: 2024 / UK – Reissue

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Dexter Gordon

Go! Yellow Vinyl Edition

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Stay With Me Yellow Vinyl Edition

Billie Holiday

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

Au Club St. Germain Colored Vinyl Edition

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Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker

Coolest Of The Cool: 1952-53

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Jukebox Jump: Greatest Hits 1942-49

Louis Jordan

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Joel Lyssarides & Georgios Prokopiou

Acrs & Rivers Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Act Music)

28,99 €*

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Magic Moments 17-In The Spirit Of Jazz Black

V.A.

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Act Music)

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LP | 2024 | Original (Mr Bongo)

Juan Almeida

Fantasia

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Harold Budd & Cocteau Twins

The Moon & The Melodies

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (4AD)

12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Holuzam)

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The Moon and the Melodies is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins" catalogue - unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free-form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released earlier the same year, it signalled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path they"d never take again. Now, almost forty years after it was fi rst released, it"s being reissued on vinyl for the first time - remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself. Over the ensuing years, The Moon and the Melodies has attracted a passionate fan base. Its most atmospheric tracks routinely turn up in ambient DJ sets. "Sea, Swallow Me" is one of the Cocteau Twins" most streamed songs on Spotify, having found a new life on TikTok, where it serves as the soundtrack to innumerable expressions of hard-to-express melancholy. For such a low-key aff air, the album casts a long shadow - but Raymonde believes the record"s uniqueness stems directly from its humble, unpremeditated origins. "It captured a moment in time between friends that are enjoying making music together. Really, that"s the essence of it."

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Polido

Hearing Smoke

26,99 €*

Visions Of Light Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Tip!

Polido has been fantasizing with the idea of free music throughout his artistic career. Free from restraints, logos, musical genres, but also from this modern obsession with narratives, plans, business plans, algorithms and bubble wrapped ideas for comfort of those of you that can’t breathe without everything making sense.
“Hearing Smoke” has nothing of that. It has been four years since Holuzam released the double album “A Casa e os Cães / Sabor a Terra” and for four years I have been daydreaming about what would come next. This is it, eleven new pieces about the future of the future of music. It is the result of years of study, research and sound consolidation. Sound as matter, mutating, transforming, absorbing all around, a shapeshifting entity connecting with the principles of freedom.

"Polido has been researching Portuguese contemporary composition, its very own sounds and ideas. Its origins, the web of repression, tension and censorship before the April 25th revolution in 1974; secondly, as an afterthought, freedom, equality and a unique sense of community and belonging screaming through the music. He absorbed those states of mind and made an album that listens to the current world and presents globalization as a mental trap.
If the music that inspired him somehow comes from a post-colonial world, “Hearing Smoke” questions how we can create something new in this permanent state of cultural colonization, where new trends or forms of music only thrive if they are accepted by the dominant cultures. The physical world has been transformed, but ideas like “world music” or “ghetto music” still show that dominance, the Strange can only be accepted if it incorporates the rules and codes of that dominant force. What I am saying is that it is hard for Portuguese musicians to present themselves as original. They will never have that credit unless the music relates to something that exists in another

realm. Never for their benefit, but for the power of association. I may sound arrogant here, but Polido is unique, original, one of a kind (all those words, all those redundant synonyms). I knew it four years ago when I got lost in the way “A Casa e os Cães” is assembled and how he makes something memorable out of the most commonplace conversations. “Hearing Smoke” continues the flow and puts us in the centre of these ever evolving masses of sound.
Somehow his music finds you, it starts speaking with you until it asks you to be a part of it. Polido’s beats and harmonics are combined in such a tender way that you mellow out while listening to these beats - thinking of the brilliant “Saque”. Even when he exposes you to something more harsh - “Canto D’Amorte” or the closing moments of the last track “Custa A Crer” - there’s still a cradle effect.
But what keeps me returning to this album is how it seems to transform in my ears. Not every time I listen to it, but while I am listening to it. The sound seems to move, embracing me and controlling my inner thoughts. These start to move along at the same pace, with the same feeling of cloudiness. Nothing new here, the thing is how it feels different from time to time, how the music, because of something that changes or moves, comes as a catharsis/revelation. It drives me nuts how the beats come and go in tracks like “Fogo Firme (Encomendação)” or “The More I Think, The Less I Can Speak“, leaving everything suspended and, simultaneously, relieved. When dramatic - ”Prova De Existência“ - it is sad af and gorgeously epic.

Trap, bass music, dubstep, ambient, hauntology and contemporary music flow side by side here, no pushing around, free of interpretation, and you are free to feel or listen to whatever you want in “Hearing Smoke”. That’s free music for you. Not a hard concept, something for you to enjoy, feel, reflect about. This is what the future will sound like."

André Santos // Holuzam

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Ishmael Ensemble

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Severn Songs)

36,99 €*

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Jacques Palminger & 440 Hertz

Die Sehnsucht Der Sterne HHV Exclusive Light Rosé Pantone Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Misitunes)

Jacques Palminger & 440 Hertz

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Limited to 200 copies. Only available at HHV.

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Die Sehnsucht Der Sterne Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Misitunes)

24,99 €*

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Katharine Whalen's Jazz Squad

Let's Get Lost: Songs Chet Sang

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Modern Harmonic)

30,99 €*

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Katharine Whalen of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame, makes a triumphant return with her Jazz Squad featuring Austin Riopel on guitar, Danny Grewen on trombone, and the great Griffanzo on pianos. This time the chanteuse delivers an entire album of breezy west coast jazz sounds in the form of a tribute to Chet Baker.

It was around 1996 when Katharine Whalen first made her grand entrance onto culture’s collective radar as the sultry, yet effervescent voice of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, where she remained until their initial disbandment around the turn of the century. In addition to the Zippers putting dixieland jazz on the pop charts in the 1990s, they sneakily introduced an unsuspecting "alternative" crowd to jazz music. Her cultural impact was also felt when she voiced the song "You You You You You" a standout track from Stephin Merritt's (The Magnetic Fields) project titled The 6ths. That song would also find its way into commercials and the film Pieces of April.

After recording one solo album for Mammoth Records shortly after leaving the Zippers, Whalen stepped out of the public eye. However, she’s remained very much in the spotlight of one unique small town; Hillsborough, NC, which has been referred to as Twin Peaks meets Northern Exposure. It’s a surreal literary, liberal Mayberry. If you find yourself in this Southern portal, you can find Katharine Whalen's Jazz Squad playing monthly in a cocktail bar appropriately named Yonder.

The album was recorded in an old chapel in Hillsborough by North Carolinian royalty, Jerry Kee (Polvo, Superchunk, The Kingsbury Manx). Each song was recorded with the band all playing together in the same room, the way the old jazz records used to be put to tape.

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Aki

Het Tij

EP | 2024 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

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Aki is an emerging jazz collective led by drummer Anke Verslype. They perform atmospheric jazz with at its base uncomplicated, restrained melodies whose boundaries are pushed during improvisations.

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Orson Claeys

Odyssey To Self

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pianist Orson Claeys is a refreshing new presence on the Belgian jazz scene.The music takes cues from the rich sounds of the Middle East, influenced by artists like Dhafer Youssef and Anouar Brahem, and also from the fresh, creative styles of contemporary jazz musicians.

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

With Thelonious Monk

LP | 2024 | Original (20th Century Masterworks)

18,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

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