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Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Papillon Jaune)

Airelle Besson Quartet

Try!

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (De W.E.R.F.)

Grand Picture Palace

7" | 2021 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Grand Picture Palace is a jazz quintet and a string quartet that blend different worlds together led by Anneleen Boehme (LABtrio).

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Nimbus

Nezarai / Free Yourself

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Inmelo Music)

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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P-vine are very proud of releasingthis EP as new one of Groove Diggers series. Nimbus, a local student band in Mecosta, Michigan, is one of the highest peaks of self released AOR/Mellow Fusion/Blue eyed soul! This 7 inch is cutted out from the only work of Nimbus "Children of the Earth" which was released as private pressing vinyl and distributed just a few copies in 1980.

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Eduardo Hopper

Gratidao Infinita

43,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (De Rap Winkel)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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If one had to embody Eduardo Hopper with a single word, that word would be “virtuoso”- a term the master musicians he worked with often used in reference to him. His unusual harmonic approaches in compositions and in musical interpretations beguile the ear and instil curiosity in the listener. This talent is only matched by Hopper’s technical skills as an instrumentalist, illustrated especially by his mastery of the acoustic and electric guitars.

As a Brazilian music researcher, he travels through diverse and rich universes of sound. Inspired by the instrumentalists Baden Powell, Hélio Delmiro, Lula Galvão and Guinga on one hand, and Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins on the other ; Hopper’s perfectionism becomes a tool, which allows him to work relentlessly until he is sure that every resource at his disposal has been used to express his vision.

Besides being a superb guitar player, he also plays the cavaquinho, the bass, the drums and the piano. He teaches music and is renown as a prolific creator of soundtracks for television programs, as well as music for commercials, etc. Throughout the 21 years of his career, he performed alongside many great names in Brazilian music, such as Francis Hime, Johnny Alf, Zimbo Trio, Dominguinhos, André Mehmari and Mônica Salmaso, among many others.

Born in 1983 in Santo André, a big industrial city, Eduardo Hopper began studying music at the precocious age of 4 years old by learning the guitar. He grew up surrounded by a festive and musical family environment. His determination and dedication also came from his parents, who were farm labourers and left the countryside in order to seek a better life. His first musical references were his father and siblings who played and rehearsed with relatives and friends at family gatherings.

Although he played in gospel music groups, he only began attending music school at the age of 13. Three years later, he was invited to replace his own teacher, thus starting his teaching career. In the meantime, he began composing which allowed him to gain entry to some of Brazil’s most prestigious music schools. Firstly, to Fundação das Artes in São Caetano do Sul, where under his teacher, Renato Santoro’s, guidance, he deepened his knowledge of guitar in popular Brazilian music. At the age of 19, he joined the Conservatório de Tatuí, the Institution supported by Hermeto Pascoal, where he further mastered the guitar with Fernando Correa, who was specialised in teaching Jazz and popular music.

At this point he was already touring professionally accompanying different bands and artists. At the Universidade Livre de Música de São Paulo, while he was guided by master Olmir Stocker, he was invited to join the orchestra Jovem Tom Jobim, at the time conducted by the maestro Roberto Sion. In this orchestra he had the opportunity to play with major names of the Brazilian pop music and contributed to the orchestra’s first album Álbum de Estréia.

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Javier Santiago

Phoenix

33,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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DJ Kicks Black Vinyl Edition

Special Request

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (!K7)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Cuneiform)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Special Request continues his impeccable run of form with a typically fervent entry into the DJ-Kicks mix series. His adventurous 25 track mix takes in personal favourites, new school classics and of course a selection of his own brand new and exclusive edits, dubs and reworks next to some overlooked gems. Leeds based Paul Woolford dares to go where few others do. He can do face-melting underground bangers, peak time piano anthems, ambient cinematics or chart climbing crossover hits. What unites his work as Special Request across labels like Houndstooth and R&S, though, is precision engineering, but never at the expense of real, raw emotion and visceral impact. He is an artist who very much pours his heart into everything he does, and has been on such a prolific run in recent years that it has been impossible to keep abreast of all his many projects. Even in this mix, he hints at yet more new sides and sounds. As always with Special Request, this is an emotional, full spirited ride through the musical mind of one of the most accomplished artists of the day.

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Thumbscrew

Never Is Enough

47,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mathias Modica Presents Kraut Jazz Futurism Volume 2

Mathias Modica

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Kryptox)

Freedom Fables Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Kraut Jazz Futurism compilation shows what's cookin' in the new German Jazz scene. Young German bands and a few of the international musicians working in Berlin now. Fresh artists that combine Jazz, Krautrock, Afro, Hip Hop and Electronica in a new way. The first volume of the compilation came out last year and was described by The Wire as "... a re-drawn map of underground Berlin. Refreshingly new, eccentric, badassed and sometimes funny." This 2nd part goes further. Similar to Gilles Peterson's "We Out Here" compilation, where he shows mainly the new hip english Jazz artists, on Kraut Jazz Futurism, Kryptox records head honcho Mathias "Kapote" Modica puts together what's hot in the new club jazz scene in Germany. And there is a lot cookin' in Berlin right now. Kraut Jazz Futurism comes out on Kryptox. Sublabel of Gomma & Toy Tonics records.

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Nubiyan Twist

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Strut)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (We Are Busy Bodies)

The Drive

Can You Feel It

30,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Label Bleu)

Henri Texier

Chance

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Heavenly)

Caixa Cubo

Angela

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2014 | EU | Reissue (Naive)

Avishai Cohen Trio

From Darkness

Release: 2014 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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North East Ska Jazz Orchestra

Stompin' & Rollin'

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Brixton)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jakarta)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinyl Lp Release Of The Debut Album Of Italian Maestros North East Ska*Jazz Orchestra, Originally Released In Cd Format In 2015.Nesjo Delivers In This First Album, Stompin' & Rollin', 10 Remakes Of Jazz And Swing Classics Performed In The Jamaican Style Of The 60's. From Original Ska To Rocksteady And Reggae, The Young Big Band From Triveneto (North East Italy) Conveys In This Work Energetic Enthusiasm For Jamaican Music, Stylishly Enriched By The Coolness Of The Dance Music Of The Golden Era Of Swing. Stompin' & Rollin' Features Two Outstanding Collaborations: Mr. T-Bone (Africa Unite, Bluebeaters) And Olly Riva (Shandon, Olly Riva & The Soul Rockets) Who Join Forces With The Voices Of Freddy Frenzy, Rosa Mussin And Michela Grena, The Ten-Piece Brass Section And The Sound Rhythm Base Of This Young Big Band. The Album Was Recorded At Studio Jork In Koper (Slovenia) In March 2015 And Mixed And Mastered In The Volcano Lounge, Sherman Oaks (California) By Brian Dixon (Ex The Aggrolites).

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Gianni Brezzo

The Awakening

17,99 €*

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gianni Brezzo - the Jazz affiliated band/studio project, headed by Cologne-based producer, multi-instrumentalist and musical mastermind Marvin Horsch - hereby presents the Jakarta Records debut "The Awakening"; a record not only showcasing Brezzo’s versatile but clearly jazz focused approach and style but also displaying Horsch’s pure talent as a musician and a songwriter whilst perfectly delivering that very own, deeply wonderful melancholy and moody jazz vibes.

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Tone Poem Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

52,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Craft)

Chet

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Craft)

Chet Baker In New York

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chet Baker Plays The Best Of Lerner And Loewe

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Craft)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Archie Shepp & Jason Moran

Let My People Go

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Archieball)

24,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Matthew Halsall

Salute To The Sun

29,99 €*

Regener Pappik Busch (Element Of Crime)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Matthew Halsall unveils new band and announces 'Salute to the Sun' his new album on Gondwana Records.

Composer, trumpeter, producer, DJ and founder of Gondwana Records, Matthew Halsall has always worn many hats. But at the heart of everything that he does Halsall is first and foremost an artist and a musician. A trumpeter whose unflashy, soulful playing radiates a thoughtful beauty and a composer and band-leader who has created his own rich sound world. A sound that draws on the heritage of British jazz, the spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, as well as world music and electronica influences, and even modern art and architecture, to create something uniquely his own. A music that is rooted in Northern England but draws on global inspirations.

Salute to the Sun is his first album as a leader since Into Forever (2015) and marks the debut of his new band. A hand-picked ensemble featuring some of Manchester's finest young musicians: Matt Cliffe flute & saxophone, Maddie Herbert harp, Liviu Gheorghe piano, Alan Taylor drums and Jack McCarthy percussion as well as long-time Halsall collaborator, bassist, Gavin Barras who has been at the heart of Halsall's bands for over a decade. For Matthew it was important to have a band based locally and able, pre-Covid, to meet and play each week, and who also performed a sold-out monthly basement session at Yes in Manchester. The album draws energy from these sessions and inspiration from themes and ideas that have inspired Halsall through the years (on albums such as Oneness, Fletcher Moss Park and When the World Was One) ideas of ecology, the environment and harmony with nature.

"I feel Salute to the Sun is a positive earthy album. I wanted to create something playful but also quite primitive, earthy and organic that connected to the sounds in nature. I was listening to lush ambient field recordings of tropical environments such as jungles and rainforests and found myself drawn to percussive atmospheric sounds which replicated what I was hearing (bells / shakers / chimes / rain sticks) and I started to experiment with more wooden percussive instruments such as kalimba and marimba".

Salute to the Sun features lush wholly improvised tunes inspired by ambient rainforest and jungle field recordings, deeply soulful tunes built around hypnotic harp and kalimba patterns, deep Strata-East inspired spiritual jazz grooves and some of Halsall's most beautiful playing and inspiring healing melodies yet recorded.

The album was recorded at the band's weekly sessions, using Halsall's own recording set-up, giving the recordings a relaxed vibe and unforced energy that really lets the music breath. The album is also very much a family affair as Halsall's brother Daniel Halsall, artistic director of Gondwana Records, was an important presence at the sessions and co-produced the album. It is also his memorable artwork that adorns the cover of Salute to the Sun, an album beautifully designed by legendary designer Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic, who also created the covers for the recent archival releases Oneness, Sending My Love and Colour Yes and is one of Halsall's favourite designers. Together Daniel Halsall and Ian Anderson have designed all of Matthew's seven albums to date, so it felt extra-special to bring them together for, Salute to the Sun, an album that Halsall was determined to present in the very best way possible. The album was mixed with another long-time collaborator, George Atkins at 80 Hertz in Manchester, who works tirelessly with Halsall to perfect the sound and was mastered by noted engineer Peter Beckmann who brings an added depth to the sound specially around the bass notes as well as Halsall's trumpet. The magnificent double vinyl was cut as a Half Speed master by Barry Grint at Alchemy Mastering for the best possible analogue experience.

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Ask Me Now

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

27,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ricky Peterson / Peterson Brothers

Under The Radar

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Leopard)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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You Don't Have To Live In Pain

Teeth Agency

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

Chance And Fly / B Bro Super 8

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Teeth Agency is musician Jesse Hackett and artist Mariano Chavez – “lizard lounge jazz and French noir sleaze with sinking ship piano improvisations in underwater organ suits.

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The Baker Brothers

7" | 2021 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Nobody's Husband, Nobody's Dad

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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UK jazz-funk band "The Baker Brothers", one of the biggest hits in their career "Chance And Fly" with the participation of Average White Band Hamish Stuart is released as vinyl for the first time!

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Maurizio Ravalico

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Funkiwala)

The Best Of Ray Charles: The Atlantic Years Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The album Nobody's Husband, Nobody's Dad is the first entirely solo work of UK-based percussionist Maurizio Ravalico, and it represents a nodal episode in his artistic development. The music on the album is entirely acoustic and live played, with no overdubs added to the initial takes. These have all been slightly edited to different degrees, mainly to fit them into the time limitations of vinyl; but other than that all tracks are faithful reproductions of single, acoustic, uninterrupted one-man performances.
Another distinctive musical trait of the album is a presistent denial of metric recurrence. Maurizio's solo music is focusing on sounds, often generated by unexpected combinations of conventional instruments and found objects, both played using a mix of orthodox and extended techniques, and often on top of a big drum, which augments dramatically their timbrical and tonal range. The finished pieces recall thus the aesthetics of both contemporary and improvised music, despite them being neither strictly composed nor at all improvised.

Companion to the album is A Momentary Convergence of Differently Paced Trajectories, a 12" EP containing remixes of one of Maurizio's album tracks, Fiium Shaarrk and Collocutor.

"One of the finest avant-garde percussionists in the world. Maurizio Ravalico is incredible to watch and hear. Catch him live somewhere soon!"
Jean-Claude Thompson, IfMusic.co.uk

"Creative, deep and intriguing. Percussion avantgarde at its best."
Vince Vella, Dj, producer, Havana Cultura

Maurizio Ravalico

Italian-born visionary cross-genres percussionist Maurizio Ravalico has been one notably eclectic presence in the London music scene since his arrival in the UK, in 1991.
Regularily seen on stage and on releases with the like of Jamiroquai and the James Taylor Quartet throughout the nineties, as well as with virtually every salsa and Cuban-oriented projects to originate from London in the same period, he has subsequently collaborated on many of the projects of the experimental music label Not applicable (Icarus, Isambard Khroustaliov, Alex Bonney, Tom Arthurs) since 2005, and is now an established name in both the London and Berlin improv and experimental scene, having played with John Edwards, Oren Marshall, Steve Beresford, Pat Thomas, Frank Paul Schubert and many others.
Maurizio Ravalico's peculiar approach to percussion is one of the distinctive traits of Tamar Osborn's modal jazz 5-piece band Collocutor (On the Corner records) and of the pan-European trio Fiium Shaarrk (on Bbc3 Late Junction's 12 Best Albums of 2017). Maurizio Ravalico also collaborates with the string quartet Phaedra Ensemble, the composer Fred Thomas and the French contemporary dance company Silenda.

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Ray Charles

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Atlantic)

45,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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J Jazz Volume 3: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan

V.A.

3LP | 2021 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

39,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Best Of Ray Charles:The Atlantic Years White Vinyl Edition

Ray Charles

2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Rhino)

38,99 €*

Lokkhi Terra & Shikor Bangladesh All Stars

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The 1994 compilation featuring Charles’ Atlantic era hits such as “What'd I Say, Pt. 1 & 2”, “The Right Time”, and “I've Got a Woman”.

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Introducing Baby Akhtar

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Funkiwala)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Funkiwala)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 2015, London fusionistas Lokkhi Terra put on a show at Womad and Songlines Encounters festival, where they collaborated withe folk legends from Bangladesh - The Shikor Bangladesh All Stars". The music was based on countless rooftop jams helb back in Dhaka, where Lokkhi Terra had been touring regularly from 2009.
The second in the series of collaborations, this EP takes the iistener back to the beginning, capturing the first musical meetings between both bands. The period when long term Lokkhi Terra collaborator and Dhol Maestro Nazrul Islam (based in Dhaka), introduced his musical inner circle to the visiting Lokkhi Terra musicians. Friendships were forged, and musical conversations were explored. One singer stood out in particular - Dewan Baby Akthar.
Featuring songs by the great Bangladeshi mystics Baul Lalon Shai and Baul Abdul Karim.
"from London's global melting pot Lokkhi Terra joined Bangladeshi musicinas of Shikor for an unlikely but successful fusion that matched Asian influences with Cuban Jazz" The Guardian
180g Vinyl / download

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Lokkhi Terra

Cubangla

A Momentary Convergence Of Differently Paced Trajectories

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Funkiwala Records presents Cubangla - the sixth album by London fusionistas LoKkhi TeRra. Following on from their hugely successful collaboration with UK afro-beat ambassador Dele Sosimi on 2018's "Cubafrobeat"(mixing afrobeat and Cuban Rumba/Timba), this album sees them return to their Bangla-Afro- Latin-Jazz-Roots. 8 tracks of 21st century London groove â€“ from Sufi Samba to Baul Blues to Bengali folk-Son to Bangla Roots Reggae to London Descargas - recorded in between tours, sessions and collaborations â€“ a true celebration of traditions taking on new forms as they travel and co-exist. In these divided times, their collective musical journey has never been so relevant.
Background Kishon Khan's Lokkhi Terra have been blending the musical traditions that surround them in London, for many years now. "Stunning Headliners... A majestic multi-cultural blend of sounds... effortlessly builds bridges between rolling Indian raga rhythms, Afro-Cuban grooves, Acid Jazz/funk and free flowing improvisation" (Timeout London).

The band is composed of musicians who take seriously the different languages of the different genres they mix. Each in their own right play with calibre purist outfits. Members have collaborated with the likes of Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen, Ibrahim Ferrer, Johnny Clarke, Orlando Poleo, Africa Express, Jazz Jamaica, Ska Cubano, Giles Peterson's Havana Cultura, Kyle Eastwood, Bellowhead, Akram Khan to name a very few. The tracks on this album were gigged for a number of years before being recorded, with the exception of the last 2 tracks which were recorded in 2015 just before performing at Womad and Songlines Encounters. With Cubangla the band has come round full circle â€“ a journey that started a decade ago with their debut No Visa Required (2010). An urban London view on the musical world.
Songlines Review
"Acclaimed groovesters Lokkhi Terra continue their creative roll, returning to their Bangla-Afro-Latin-Jazz roots after a wildly successful colaboration with Afrobeat keyboardist Dele Sosimi. Featuring a who's who of London based players from, variously, Bangladesh, Brasil, Cuba, Spain and Nepal, Cubangla offers more sparkling genre crossing. Its eight tracks veer from fresh takes on traditional Bengali folk tunes to unlikely but sophisticated pairing including Baul blues, Sufi Samba and Cubangla funk. Keys player and main man Kishon Khan â€“ here on piano, Fender Rhodes, microKORG and (on root-reggae remake "Bhandari Revisited") wah-wah harmonium â€“ has written and/or arranged a clutch of tunes that respect tradition while forging new pathways. "Badaam"jumps off the Cuban standard "El Manisero" into a suhg conversatio between Cuban sonero Javier Camilo and Bangladeshi songbirds Sohini Alam and Aanon Siddiqua.
The albums title-track is a glorious descarga jam riffing on themes Cuban and Bengali, stoked by piano, percussion, trumpet and Jalal Ahmed's snaking Bansuri (flute). An upbeat variation on a legendary Sufi song, "Lal Mere" finds Alam and Siddiqua in powerful form and Khan deploying a fiery Rhodes solo. Originally performed at a Songlines Encounters festival, "Kon Kole Revisited" features the rough-hewn voice of the late Baul musician Rob Fakir, his lyrics celebrating Bengali philosopher Lalon and his attitude of religious tolerance. Deep, laced with joy and a masterly lightness of touch, Cubangla rewards repeated listening"
John Armstrong review
Despite Latin and Afro-Cuban music's longstanding popularity in the UK, there have been relatively few UK based artists who have pushed the limits of convention, adding novel elements whilst remaining (more or less) 'en clave' . Alex Wilson is one, and another is the formidably talented pianist, keyboardist, arranger and producer Kishon Khan with his band Lokkhi Terra. Kishon can play straight afrobeat, timba and Afro-Cuban descarga with the best, but his musical curiosity leads him in other directions, too- most specifically, to Bangladeshi music. To these ears, Lokkhi Terra's third (fourth?) outing, Cubangla, is their crowning glory to date. Lazy reviewers will call this a 'fusion' album: i don't know about you, but I find the term 'fusion' as meaningless as the term 'world music': all modern music is a fusion of something or other. This is Afro-Cubano-Bangladeshi music, please don't call it 'fusion'.
Khan's real arranging achievements here can be heard immediately in one of the shortest tracks, 'Bhromor' - described as a 'son cubangla'. The melancholy traditional Bangla song is subjected to the strict conventions of the Eastern Cuban son format, but nevertheless finds space and time for the strong improvisational elements in Bangla singing, a space that the singer Aneira Khan fills to perfection. The rest of the album is equally arresting, with a couple of instrumental descargas and more of that beautiful Bangla melody and vocal impro rising above the Afro-Cuban bedrock. Almost thirty musicians and singers...studios in London, Dhaka, Brooklyn..this must have been a helluva logistical feat (well done Kishon!), as well as being one of the outstanding albums of the year so far for me."
Jazzwise Review
London-based collective Lokkhi Terra have been blending sounds from around the globe since 2010. They describe their music as Bangla-Afro-Latin-Jazz, but even that doesn't do justice to the range of traditions that find their way onto Cubangla, which weaves in everything from funk grooves and Afrobeat hornlines to bluesy guitar and the music of the Bauls, a group of musician-mystics from Bengal. Lots of bands mix African and Latin sounds with jazz and it's these Indian influences that really set Lokkhi Terra apart. Among the highlights is 'Bhromor', a traditional Bengali song about the love between Radha and Krishna that drifts over lilting Cuban guitar, fluttering tabla and delicate flutes. 'Lal Mere' sets a traditional Sufi song to breezy samba percussion and 'Badaam' has an easy-going reggae feel with both Spanish and Bengali vocals. Remarkably, the blend of styles always sounds natural, never forced or cluttered, which is testament to the ingenuity of the arrangements and the standard of the playing. Flautist Finn Peters and trumpeter Graeme Flowers are on particularly good form.
John Warr Review (AfroBase)
"Tracks like Como with its Cachao phrasing, hats off to Graeme Flowers and Justin Thurgur for some stunning solos, the Spanish/Bangla tinges, not forgetting your inspiring piano work and arrangements. Love the percussion throughout and especially on Cubangla, the beautiful Banzuri flute solos from Jalal Ahmed, the joyous vocals on Kalare, and not forgetting the very radio friendly Bandari although I really want to play Como!
This album is a true high point in the work of Lokkhi Terra and its worldly mix of influences. I hope I get to see the band play this live whenever that is."

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Maurizio Ravalico

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Funkiwala)

The Mercury And Clef 10-Inch LPs Limited Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The 12" EP A Momentary Convergence of Differently Paced Trajectories is a heterogenous dj-oriented release, prelude and companion of Maurizio Ravalico's first solo percussion album Nobody's Husband, Nobody's Dad, released in November 2018 with the Funkiwala label. It comes in 180gms vinyl on a hand-numbered run of 300 individually screen-printed 320gsm brown card sleeves.
THE Music
Side A opens with a full-size batucada version of Fear of Mapping, one of the tracks from No Fiction Now!, the 2013 debut album of Maurizio's trio Fiium Shaarrk.
It is followed by a personal take on one of Collocutor's second album tracks, Here to There to Everywhere, arranged here as a spacey 5/4 drum'n'bass epic.

Side B contains an old-school jungle remix of Just Bring Your Toys, one of the tracks from Maurizio's forthcoming album, by the Italian d'n'b veteran Enjoy (Omni Music, Bustle Beats). The EP closes with an edited version of the same track: a taste of the album.

Despite being both loosely presented as remixes, neither of the two arrangements on side A makes use of samples from the respective releases, and any material not progammed or played anew by Maurizio comes from either unreleased off-cuts or preliminary demos.

"One of the finest avant-garde percussionists in the world. Maurizio Ravalico is incredible to watch and hear. Catch him live somewhere soon!"- Jean-Claude Thompson, IfMusic.co.uk
"Creative, deep and intriguing. Percussion avantgarde at its best." - Vince Vella, Dj, producer, Havana Cultura
Italian-born visionary cross-genres percussionist Maurizio Ravalico has been one notably eclectic presence in the London music scene since his arrival in the UK, in 1991.
Regularily seen on stage and on releases with the like of Jamiroquai and the James Taylor Quartet throughout the nineties, as well as with virtually every salsa and Cuban-oriented projects to originate from London in the same period, he has subsequently collaborated on many of the projects of the experimental music label Not applicable (Icarus, Isambard Khroustaliov, Alex Bonney, Tom Arthurs) since 2005, and is now an established name in both the London and Berlin improv and experimental scene, having played with John Edwards, Oren Marshall, Steve Beresford, Pat Thomas, Frank Paul Schubert and many others.
Maurizio Ravalico's peculiar approach to percussion is one of the distinctive traits of Tamar Osborn's modal jazz 5-piece band Collocutor (On the Corner records) and of the pan-European trio Fiium Shaarrk (on Bbc3 Late Junction's 12 Best Albums of 2017). Maurizio Ravalico also collaborates with the string quartet Phaedra Ensemble, the composer Fred Thomas and the French contemporary dance company Silenda.

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Charlie Parker

5x10" | 2020 | EU | Original (Verve)

150,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella

People Need People

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Schema)

25,99 €*

2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

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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Etta James

Collected

35,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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My Pure Joy Blue Vinyl Edition

Byard Lancaster

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Strut)

21,24 €* 24,99 € -15%

My Pure Joy Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"From A Love Supreme to The Sex Machine!" The personal musical mantra of the late Philadelphia reedman Byard Lancaster informed an open-minded and varied lifetime in jazz. Strut presents one of Lancaster's lesser known classics, 'My Pure Joy', recorded in 1992 for Black Fire. Lancaster had initially cut his musical teeth with the avant-garde on New York's Lower East Side in the 1960s (famously on sessions with pianist Dave Burrell and drummer Sunny Murray) and in Paris during the '70s after an appearance at the Actuel festival but, throughout his career, his path was built around community engagement, positivity and "the Philly jazz sound, Germantown style." He became an ambassador for the music of the City Of Brotherly Love, starting his own Dogtown label, helping launch the Philly Jazz imprint and campaigning tirelessly to improve the circumstances of the city's street musicians. Originally delayed by three years because of cashflow issues within Black Fire, 'My Pure Joy' eventually surfaced as one of the label's final CD releases in 1995.

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Byard Lancaster

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Strut)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Edition)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dinosaur

To The Earth

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Africa Oscura Reloved Volume 2

Giuliano Sorgini

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Africa Oscura Reloved Volume 1

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Part two of a two part set. Two years after Africa Oscura, considered by many to be the “dark side” of Sorgini’s masterpiece ‘Zoo Folle’ and partly recorded during the same session in 1974, Four Flies has decided to celebrate the album's modernity with a double 12” featuring 7 reworks by six of Italy’s most visionary DJs/producers. The original tracks have been reworked with different approaches, sometimes into full reinterpretations, and with demanding dance ﬂoors in mind. The result is a stunning collection of electronic reworks that preserve the spirit of the original versions while projecting them into the future.

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Giuliano Sorgini

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Part one of a two part set. Two years after Africa Oscura, considered by many to be the “dark side” of Sorgini’s masterpiece ‘Zoo Folle’ and partly recorded during the same session in 1974, Four Flies has decided to celebrate the album's modernity with a double 12” featuring 7 reworks by six of Italy’s most visionary DJs/producers. The original tracks have been reworked with different approaches, sometimes into full reinterpretations, and with demanding dance ﬂoors in mind. The result is a stunning collection of electronic reworks that preserve the spirit of the original versions while projecting them into the future.

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Piero Umiliani

L'uomo Elettronico

33,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Black Sweat)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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A new comp focused on the electronic output of the Italian library legend Piero Umiliani. 16 tracks which explore the introspective, esoteric, and dreamy ambient quality of his music, which combines hypnotic, minimalist sonic landscapes through layers of sharp synths, including Moog, Arp, and Vcs3. The album features 3 previously unreleased tracks, as well as rarities and hidden gems, all composed between 1972 and 1983, and remastered from the original analogue tapes. Artwork by Luke Insect.

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Maistah Aphrica

Meow

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Ikaros Music)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A new ship of fools sails on Bolombia lands! These strange people seem to celebrate the whole jazz universe and african idioms, but they've never been in Africa. The great continent, more than physical, is a mental place of encounter and psychedelic skids. Neurotic and schizoid sorcerers, a furious wind drags them towards the total effervescence of the groove: an unprecedented cauldron of dangerous substances, hybrid styles and influences mixed with secret recipe. Their music is an explosive bubble of expressions, a feverish, impulsive and unstoppable ritual. A cosmic attitude, such as Heliocentrics or Embryo, marries the majestic and floating sounds of synths and psych organs, acidified by toxic dub sparks and deadly funk forays. A crazy horn section travels without maps from Sun-Ra and Ethiopian echoes, hard-bop reminiscenses, to sudden and virulent Balkanisms, making this soup an indecipherable combination of flavors.

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Sonny Clark Project

The Sonny Clark Project

19,59 €* 27,99 € -30%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (ECM)

Keith Jarrett

Budapest Concert

34,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Carl M. Neumann / Christian Reim Quartet

Live At Molde International Jazz Festival 1976

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jazzaggression)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jazzaggression)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Classic Cool/Bop session from 76, and regarded as one of the finest Norwegian jazz live recordings of the seventies featuring an impeccable performance by alto sax player Carl Neumann, playing mostly original songs by pianist Christian Reim, Bjørn Kjellemyr on Bass and Ole Jacob Hansen on drums. First time on vinyl format and with great sound quality, new pictures, new notes

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Christian Reim Sextet

Mona Lisa Moldejazz 73

18,89 €* 20,99 € -10%

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Edition)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An amazing loft tape find of a Norwegian Jazz concert suite taped at Molde Jazz Festival 1973, Christian Reim’s sextet Mona Lisa features Norway's top jazzmen at the time and it’s a rollercoaster post-bop showcase with influences from modal and spiritual jazz with folk undertones and pop psychedelia, one of a kind, never previously released and in great sound quality!

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Chris Potter

There Is A Tide

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Trost)

Brom

Dance With An Idiot

Breezin Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Anton Ponomarev - alto saxDmitry Lapshin - bass guitarFelix Mikensky - guitar, electronicsYaroslav Kurilo - drumsA fresh new studio album by the powerful Russian Free jazz band, now with a fourth player (guitar and electronics)Press about their last album (Sunstroke, Trost):Jazzandbluesblogspot: It is a reverent and thoughtful performance, with powerhouse electric bass at its core, leading to a fast and furious conclusion.Jazzwise: Moscow based power jazz trio BROM are a group that push against musical boundaries and allow suchdiverse genres as rock, noise, free jazz and improvisation to leak into their ever evolving sound.Jazzword: The antithesis of polite Chamber Jazz, this fiery Sunstroke should provide pleasure for those who prefer theirJazz (Rock) blistering without succor, no matter the temperature.TracklistingA1 DemonsA2 A Simple StoryA3 Dance With An IdiotA4 Goodbye, White Rhino!B1 Iron HairB2 The Saltiest PeanutsB3 PanaceaB4 This Is A Good Club Though Bad Music Is Played Here

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George Benson

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Rhino)

31,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Everest)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pressed here onto Blue vinyl, this classic Grammy winning album, containing 2 sought after classics, “This Masquerade” and “Breezin’” is the fifteenth studio album from the jazz/soul guitarist, George Benson. Marking the beginning of Benson’s most commercially successful era, the album won Best Pop Instrumental Performance and was also nominated for Album of The Year, while “The Masquerade” won Record of The Year and was nominated for Song of The Year at the 19th annual Grammy Awards.

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Schrödingers Katze

Superposition

21,24 €* 24,99 € -15%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (P-Vine)

Burton Inc

Nation Song

24,99 €*

2LP | 2020 | Original (Lewis)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Legendary Ohio rare groove group "Burton Inc,",this is the first single cut including 2 superb medium soul ballads from the high demanded original album "L.A. Will Make You Pay $$$"! "Nation Song" is really outstanding.

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Leron Thomas

More Elevator Music

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Marina)

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Genre: Jazz / Funk / Alternative / Hip-Hop. "Leron Thomas Isn't Making It Easy On Himself. His Self-Produced Records Are Hard To Sum Up - And That's The Point". Ny Times // 'More Elevator Music' Is Twelve Tracks Of Jazz-Edged Hip-Hop And Reassuring Curiosity Reaching From The Fuzziest Depths Of Its Backpack, With Iggy Pop, Malik Crumpler, Florian Pellissier, Kenny Ruby, Tibo Brandalise And Greg F Providing Assists. After Opening Act 'Corporate', Bbc 6 Music's Shaun Keaveny Would Laud Next Single 'Blind' As "A Bass Groove Masterclass". Jazz Trumpeter, Composer, Vocalist, Multi-Instrumentalist, Provocateur And, "Masterful Genre-Bender", Leron Thomas, A New York Transplant From Houston, Was Once Upon A Time In His Own Words "Just Your Run Of The Mill Jazz Musician Realizing That I Didn't Vibrate Well On The Nyc Jazz Scene". His Credentials That Have Put Him In His Own Lane, Make A Mockery Of Such Self-Deprecation. Charles Tolliver - Thomas' One-Time Trumpet Teacher In College - Is But One Scene Great He Has Performed With. Broadly Speaking He Can Name Bilal, 88 Keys, Dennis Ferrer, Lauryn Hill (As Part Of Her Touring Band) And Zara Mcfarlane As Further Conspirators Of Note. His Performance Critiqued By The Ny Times As "Intelligent, Casual, A Little Nuts And Completely Entertaining", Thomas Has Featured On Gilles Peterson's Vanguard 'Brownswood Bubblers' Compilation Series, And His 2015 Release 'Cliquish' Was Shortlisted By Peterson At The Worldwide Awards In The Best Album Category, Described As A "Brilliant Lp That Really Breaks The Mould". Prolifically Off The Radar And Realigning His Style Inspired By The Likes Of Frank Zappa, David Bowie, George Clinton, James Brown, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Herbie Nichols And Frankie Beverly, Thomas' Most Recent Position At The Wheel Of Reinvention Was As A Vital Cog Behind Iggy Pop's 'Free' Album Of 2019 ("A Liberating Collection That Unshackles The Star From His Past" - Nme). Those In The Know Also Relish His Supplying Of Fresh, Ambiguous Angles For The Bbc...

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Colin Steele Quartet

Joni

18,39 €* 22,99 € -20%

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Ever)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ladies & gentlemen - get ready for something truly special: Scotland's best jazz musicians meet one of the greatest songwriters ever. The Colin Steele Quartet plays the music of Joni Mitchell. It sounds like a marriage made in heaven - and it is.The music of Joni Mitchell gets the royal jazz treatment in exciting new arrangements. Timeless classics from the Mitchell songbook - "Blue", "Both Sides Now", "Hejira", "A Case Of You" etc. - sparkle with fresh energy in a classic jazz quartet setting.Mitchell always had a deep affinity with jazz - working with Charles Mingus on her album "Mingus" (1979) and many other jazz luminaries like Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Her songs are just perfectly suited for getting re-interpreted in a jazz setting. Listen to the album - and experience how well it works. Colin Steele adds his very own sound with his warm, melodic playing to Joni's songs and transports them into another musical territory. The results are simply gorgeous.Colin Steele from Edinburgh, one of UK's leading jazz trumpeters, is accompanied by the same top-notch musicians as on his "Diving For Pearls" album (MA 82, 2017), his beautiful take on the Pearlfishers songbook: Calum Gourlay on double bass, Alyn Cosker on drums and pianist Dave Milligan who also arranged the album brilliantly.Dedicating an album to just one composer is a great jazz tradition: Miles Davis did it with Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" ('58) and Chet Baker with "Plays Lerner & Loewe" ('59). And now we have the CSQ playing Joni."Joni" was recorded in just one day - like many classic jazz albums - at Scotland's famous Castlesound studios (The Blue Nile, Orange Juice, R.E.M.). Masterfully engineered by Stuart Hamilton. You really get the "in-the-room-with-the-artist" feel.This is most certainly one of the best Marina releases ever. Available on CD in a beautiful digisleeve and as a limited vinyl edition (500 copies only!).

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Kansas Smitty's

Things Happened Here

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Byrd Out)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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As the London Jazz Scene moves more and more towards the dancefloor, Kansas Smitty's is the cinematic and meditative side of instrumental music. The new record from Kansas Smitty's "Things Happened Here" is a modern classic. It's a concept album who's sole concept is to capture the complexity of the age we live in; lamenting its hardships and reflecting its beauty. Whilst their own-operated venue and bar was one of the conception points for the current jazz boom, Smitty's have developed a musical voice wholly unique from what's happening around them. "Things happened here" is the feeling you get when you walk into an old house, an abandoned factory, or an ancient temple. It is that feeling that some combination of great and terrible things have occurred on the ground on which you now stand. It is rare, profound, and humbling. And most of all, it brings our significance or lack thereof into perspective. Because, where things happened, things will happen again.

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Coma World

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Schema)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Coma World is a new collaboration between Maxwell Hallett, a.k.a. Betamax (The Comet Is Coming/Soccer96) and Pete Bennie (Speaker's Corner Quartet) bringing together their potent chemistry in an intoxifying debut LP. Betamax drives the duo with his signature 'rhythmadelic' drum rapture as Pete elegantly pummels bass tones into an assortment of wonky pockets. Both layer on a blanket of electronic dark matter to create a sonic womb-like world laid out for the brave listener to explore. This is dub and jazz reduced to the raw fundamentals of experimentation, trance and spontaneity. Inspired by a friend's recollections of being in a coma, the duo delve through the mysteries of consciousness and return with a striking array of colourful sound artefacts. From Cosmic flushes that wouldn't sound amiss on a record by Byrd Out collaborator the late, great Andrew Weatherall, through to drowsy groove meditations and explosive eruptions, the album plays by its own rules but demands attention. The two artists sling their dirty funk through cold clouds of darkness leaving psychedelic trails of bleeping fractal spillage. The sonic experimentation is distilled through analogue studio relics followed by a rugged 'all hands on deck' live mix down performance from 1/4" tape. The result is a spontaneous collection of sonic debris that will be administered to willing participants through 12" vinyl format.

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The Afro Soul Prophecy

Heat In The City

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Space Echo)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Conceived and produced by Luciano Cantone, co-founder of Schema Records, and written by Alex Puddu, The Afro Soul Prophecy is a musical project that stands out of time and trends and that finally releases a full-length after some 2017 singles/Ep’s. “Heat in the City” is an almost completely instrumental black funk music-based album, that often indulges in afrobeat, latin, disco and urban blaxploitation music. The multi-ethnic nature of this project ensures a multifaceted work, where the music language has been able to unite musicians from all over the world.

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The Invisible Session

Echoes Of Africa

Cannonball Adderley / John Coltrane Quintet

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After almost 15 years of silence, Schema Records co-founder Luciano Cantone in collaboration with Gianluca Petrella and a new group of musicians, present The Invisible Session’s second album "Echoes of Africa", published on the newly created Space Echo label and distributed by Schema Records. The impeccable rhythmic execution of the Ethiopian drummer and percussionist Abdissa "Manba" Assefa, the Finnish bass player Jukka Kiviniemi, the guitarist Riccardo Onori, the multi-instrumentalist Gianluca Petrella with the spiritual contribution of the Gambian kora player Haruna "Jalimansa" Kuyateh, as well as the Afro-American Joyce Elaine Yuille, give rise to a unique emotion and sense of landscape. The points of departure are afrobeat, the recordings of Africa 70 and Tony Allen's drumming. Other influences come into play, with melodies centred on Eastern pentatonic scales, as well as funk, afrobeat, psychedelia, modal and Ethio jazz, plus forays into pop and cinematica. This is an album to be absorbed in its entirety!

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In Chicago

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (20th Century Masterworks)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Soul Bank Music)

Tamil Rogeon

Son Of Nyx

Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the very few viola-led jazz LPs of our time
Co-produced by Harvey Sutherland
Featuring vocals from celestial four-piece choir, Allysha Joy, Jace XL, Ladi Tiaryn Griggs and Rita Satch

From conducting the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the 2500-seated Hamer Hall to writing and co-producing his first full-length album in three years and one of the very few viola-led jazz LPs of our time, Rogeon joins forces with several stars of Melbourne’s thriving and acclaimed jazz scene (Allysha Joy, Sam Anning et al.), channeling the cosmic energy of Yussef Lateef, Herbie Hancock and the like.

Whilst often not an instrument typically associated with jazz, violin greats from Jean-Luc Ponty, Stéphane Grappelli to Billy Bang, have gone on to become iconic figures in the jazz canon, yet little can be said for the viola. Often considered the older sibling to the violin, the viola is larger in size and the tone is a lot deeper, something Rogeon was keen to make use of on Son Of Nyx.

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Dimensional Stardust

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Nonesuch)

31,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (20th Century Masterworks)

Nat 'King' Cole

After Midnight

28,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tony Bennett & Count Basie

Swingin' Together

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (20th Century Masterworks)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington

The Great Summit

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (20th Century Masterworks)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Period)

Django Reinhardt

Memorial Album, Volume 1

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | AU | Original (Roundtable)

Amancio D'Silva

Konkan Dance

33,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jazz Workshop)

Release: 2021 / AU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following in the footsteps of the landmark 1966 double-quartet recording by Joe Harriott and John Mayer, Indian born musician Amancio D’Silva produced some of the most adventurous and sophis-ticated recordings within the canon of ‘indo-jazz’, a term used to define a pioneering east meets west synthesis that reflected the shifting musical and cultural landscape of post-war Britain. An ex-periment which reached a pinnacle in 1972 with D’Silva’s seminal recording Dream Sequence by Cosmic Eye (The Roundtable TRZY001), an adventurous fusion of modal jazz and Indian classical music viewed through the psychedelic lens of swinging London. Exotic third-stream jazz conceived by a visionary composer whose virtuosic technique and deeply emotive guitar playing defined his two earlier and now legendary 1969 UK jazz albums Integration and Hum Dono with Joe Harriott, both recorded for the much celebrated Lansdowne label.

Also recorded in 1972 although not released at the time was Konkan Dance, an unofficial sequel to Dream Sequence that further explored the unchartered possibilities of an Indian music-jazz fusion. Featuring many of the same personnel, this session also included support from Don Rendell and Alan Branscombe, two giants of the UK jazz scene who add serious credentials to D’Silva’s singu-lar and intimate compositions. For reasons unknown the album was cancelled by Lansdowne at the time and never saw the light of day until being resurrected again in the 2000s. The Roundtable are pleased to once again showcase this important artist and present a new addition of this incredible and almost forgotten piece of the Amancio D’Silva story. Pressed on 180g vinyl and packaged in a custom 1960s-style flip-back sleeve.

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Walter Benton Quintet

Out Of This World

24,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Remixes With Love (By Franksen)

Jazz Against The Machine

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Poets Club)

12,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

Azmari

Sama'i

Speak Low II Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Created in Brussels in 2015, Azmari is a weaving musical odyssey that expertly fuses ethiogroove, dub, psychfunk and eastern sounds. Taking inspiration from artists such as Okay Temiz, Mulatu Astatke, Cymande, Fela Kuti and The Heliocentrics.

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Lucia Cadotsch

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Kuroi Yume Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Berlin-based Swiss vocalist Lucia Cadotsch returns with her celebrated Speak Low trio for their second album, released by We Jazz Records on 27 Nov. "Speak Low II" features Cadotsch on voice, Otis Sandsjö on tenor saxophone and Petter Eldh on double bass, and introduces guest artists Kit Downes on hammond organ and Lucy Railton on cello. "Speak Low II" picks up where their genre-bending and forward-looking debut album left off, introducing new shades into the band's sound and also diving even deeper into the songs they tackle. What makes Speak Low special is their approach to really get to the heart of each composition with seemingly minimal means, yet generating a sound which is both instantly recognisable and remarkably impactful.

"Speak Low II" comes almost five years after the band's lauded debut, and proves the depth of the band's approach right from the start. At the core of the trio's operation is an openness to their love of the music and to their surrounding scene(s). The album comes across as a unified collection of songs made truly theirs and found through listening to records and spending time with their musician friends, often on the road. The highly evolved band sound and the equality of the musicians shines through on the Speak Low sound, as the group uses their 100+ performances together as a vehicle for the development of their music.

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Sinitus Tempo

LP | 2020 | UK | Original

32,99 €*

Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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this is my latest's album Kuroi Yume (Black Dreams). It is my love and culture blended with my love for asian culture. Cover work by the amazing Kidchan aka cyanparade

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Doug Carn Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

35,99 €*

Live At Beethovenhaus Bonn

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Among the heroes and innovators of 70s spiritual/progressive/funk/jazz, Doug Carn has always flown a little under the radar.He has long plied his trade with patience and dedication, releasing absolutely stunning albums that are cherished by cognoscenti but lesser known even to the jazz mainstream, even as his influence can be detected among his colleagues.Carn's newest project, his entry in the Jazz Is Dead album series helmed by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, takes his unique and timeless art and places it within the context of a musical culture that has always taken cues from his '70s classics.There's no mistaking the musical mind that created legendary albums like Infant Eyes and Adam's Apple, but the encounter of that with the distinctive jazz-hip hop-funk-noir that is the Younge/Muhammad/JID trademark creates something worthy of comparison to Carn's past work but which could only have been made right now.

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Rosset Meyer Geiger

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Unit)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dreamcatcher Trasnparent Orange Vinyl Edition

Lee Ritenour

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mascot Label Group)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2020 | JP | Original (HMV Record Shop)

DJ Kawasaki

When It Feels Right

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Edition)

Release: 2020 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When It Feels Right feat. Monday Michiru (Danny Krivit 7" Edit)"

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Tim Garland

Refocus

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Blue Note)

The Nels Cline Singers

Share The Wealth

28,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wagram)

V.A.

Bowie In Jazz

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mars Williams Presents An Ayler Xmas Volume 4: Chicago Vs. NYC

Mars Williams

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Astral Spirits)

28,99 €*

Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Split release with Mars Williams' own Soul What Records. Yet another yearly installment of An Ayler Xmas just in time to cheer us up post election. This is the first time that there will be a vinyl version of Ayler Xmas jams! The vinyl version contains Only tracks 3 & 6 which are the same medley but done in entirely different styles by the Chicago and NYC groups respectively. However, the vinyl version does come with a digital download of the Entire album—and is pressed on limited black and white "Albert Ayler Goatee" swirl vinyl.

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12th January

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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January 12th, 2020, a Sunday night in Toronto - Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty (of Badbadnotgood fame) are reunited at Burdock for a live improvised Jazz session. The pair are joined on stage by bassist Julian Anderson-Bowes and drummer Matt Chalmers as part of Burdock’s Piano Fest, an annual event at the city's brewery and music hall. Two days later an email from Matthew hits Mr Bongo's inbox... "I think it turned out amazing, brought some really nice recording gear and it sounds almost like a studio record, thought I'd share. Moments definitely get to the jazzier side but there is some spiritual moments that are so far out". The Bongo office were all blown away by this free-flowing session, one which sounded like a well-rehearsed set at the end of a long tour, rather than a one-take improvised assembly. The chemistry between the musicians is magical. The tight friendship and musical connection between Tavares and Whitty are self-evident, however, Chalmers and Anderson-Bowes have a great contribution to make too. They act as the solid foundation that leaves Tavares and Whitty free to roam and explore moments of darkness and light, intensity and beauty. From the first time of hearing this intimate session, we knew this had to be shared. The same quartet feature on Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty's 2020 album 'Visions'. The plan to promote 'Visions' was to tour, with each night comprising a uniquely improvised set. Sadly due to world events, this couldn't happen, but for now 'January 12th' is a snapshot of the wizardry that would have been from four amazing musicians at the top of their game.

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Andrew Ashong & Kaidi Tatham

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Musician, composer and one of the most revered figures for today’s younger generation of experimental and alternative Arabic music-scenes, Kamilya Jubran (text, oud & vocals, collaborates with long standing musical partner, composer, accomplished trumpet player and seasoned electronic musician Werner Hasler (trumpet & electronics).

In Wa (Arabic for and), their third album together as a duo, Kamilya Jubran and Werner Hasler continue to interrogate their listening and their expression, their research and their desires, to unravel a musical universe of possibilities; “a unison of timbres, cultures complementing, the complicity of verses, and modes and languages confronting each other ” in the duo’s own way of communicating respective origins and contemporaneity.

Lyrical, within a sound full of contrast and ornamentation, they pursue an expansion of their repertoire with imaginative interpretation and improvisation. For this release via Swiss label Everest Records, Jubran and Hasler seek new sonic and phonetic territory, based on the wasla compound form found in the classical repertoire of Near Eastern music and in Western modern and improvised music; a suite of musical explorations within one composition. In the 45-minutes-long piece that makes up the full length album, they gradually unveil to us the tenants of this artistic dialogue, as they deepen a longstanding musical pact nurtured since 2002 based on the probing and opening up of musical modes and traditions. The chemistry between Jubran and Hasler’s exchange gives birth to a singular, original and extratemporal sound.

Kamilya Jubran (singer, oud) and Werner Hasler (trumpet, electronics) have been collaborating since 2002. Their first collaboration Mahattaat was their earliest experiment into bringing together disparate cultural and artistic roots. Their next collaboration, Wameedd, released in 2004, combined Jubran’s vocal skill and limitless imagination with Hasler’s melodies and his original aesthetics in electronic music. The duo then released Wanabni in 2010 followed by W asl in 2016, featuring French double bass player Sarah Murcia.

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Sankofa Season

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Kitto)

25,99 €*

Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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South London soul artist Andrew Ashong returns with his first full release since 2014 – an expansive six-track collaboration with Kaidi Tatham, the unrivalled underground virtuoso described as the UK's Herbie Hancock. Endorsed and supported by: Benji B, Gilles Peterson, Tom Ravenscoft, J Rocc, Alexander Nut, Jamz Supernova, Ross Allan, DJ Moxie, Funkineven, Taro (Jazzy Sport), Charlie Bones, Bradley Zero and many more...

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12th January Orange Black Friday Record Store Day 2020 Edition

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Black Friday Record Store Day 2020 Release. "January 12th, 2020, a Sunday night in Toronto - Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty (of Badbadnotgood fame) are reunited at Burdock for a live improvised Jazz session. The pair are joined on stage by bassist Julian Anderson-Bowes and drummer Matt Chalmers as part of Burdock’s Piano Fest, an annual event at the city's brewery and music hall. Two days later an email from Matthew hits Mr Bongo's inbox... ""I think it turned out amazing, brought some really nice recording gear and it sounds almost like a studio record, thought I'd share. Moments definitely get to the jazzier side but there is some spiritual moments that are so far out"". The Bongo office were all blown away by this free-flowing session, one which sounded like a well-rehearsed set at the end of a long tour, rather than a one-take improvised assembly. The chemistry between the musicians is magical. The tight friendship and musical connection between Tavares and Whitty are self-evident, however, Chalmers and Anderson-Bowes have a great contribution to make too. They act as the solid foundation that leaves Tavares and Whitty free to roam and explore moments of darkness and light, intensity and beauty. From the first time of hearing this intimate session, we knew this had to be shared. The same quartet feature on Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty's 2020 album 'Visions'. The plan to promote 'Visions' was to tour, with each night comprising a uniquely improvised set. Sadly due to world events, this couldn't happen, but for now 'January 12th' is a snapshot of the wizardry that would have been from four amazing musicians at the top of their game. "

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Dom-Ermitage)

Live In Milan

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Not Now)

Dave Brubeck

Greatest Hits

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Keyboardist, bandleader and composer Dave Brubeck is the man the New York Times credited with 'helping make jazz popular again in the Fifties and Sixties. He did not always please the critics (but) the oppositional push and- pull between his piano and Paul Desmond's alto saxophone make the Brubeck Quartet's best work still sound original.' In Britain, the Daily Telegraph called Brubeck 'one of the most famous jazz musicians of the 20th century', adding that 'his recording of "Take Five" remains one of the few jazz records instantly recognised by members of the general public.' But, as fans know, there was more to Dave Brubeck's music than one composition or album. Dave Brubeck left a legacy of material that outlives the time and place it first came into being.

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Dark Horse

Listen

Charles Tolliver/Music Inc

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gothenburg trio Dark Horse present their new album "Listen". The band, comprising of John Holmström (piano), Alfred Lorinius (bass) and Mårten Magnefors (drums) recorded their second album in a remote cabin by the ocean in Norway, owned by Holmström's family. The natural sound of the album owes a lot to the relaxed surroundings and the result is some high degree of improvised music turning into collective composition as the music unfolds.

The album recording took place at a very active spot in the trio's calendar, following extensive touring in Europe, Japan and their native country Sweden. The two days of improvising were edited down to highlights that easily fill an album's worth of quality listening and reveal what playing live brought to the three musicians: A natural ability to react to ideas, build on them and form coherent, compositional tracks on the spot. A task much easier said than done.

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Compassion

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

34,99 €*

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ed Kelly & Friend (Pharoah Sanders)

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

36,99 €*

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Yusef Lateef / Cannoball Adderley Sextet

Love Theme From Spartacus / Brother John

7" | 2020 | UK | Original (45 Years)

12,99 €*

The Essential Works 1955-1962

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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BGP’s contribution to Ace’s 45th Anniversary are these two perfect examples of modal jazz in their super-rare 7-inch versions, both fine examples of the genius of saxophone great Yusef Lateef.

First up is his incredible arrangement of Alex North’s ‘Love Theme From Spartacus’. Released on his “Eastern Sounds” album, it has long been a favourite of collectors and DJs. The rare 7-inch edit is incredibly expensive to buy on original release and is reissued here for the first time.

Equally difficult to track down is the studio version of Lateef’s ‘Brother John’, which he recorded whilst he was a member of the Cannonball Adderley Quintet and which was only released as the B-side of the single ‘Tengo Tango’. Lateef’s own version from his live LP for Impulse is a jazz dance classic; this version is an under-appreciated gem.

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Quincy Jones

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Masters Of Jazz)

27,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Louis Prima

Just A Gigolo

15,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Young Turks)

Kamasi Washington

OST Becoming (Score)

27,99 €*

Colour Splatter Viny Edition

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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Kamasi Washington composed and produced the original score for Becoming, the four time Emmy-nominated film that provided an intimate glimpse into the life of Michelle Obama. Produced by Netflix Originals, Becoming documented a moment of profound change for the former First Lady, not only for her personally but for the country she and her husband served over eight impactful years in the White House. Washington, who joined the project in its embryonic stages, provides the powerful musical backdrop. Young Turks Recordings will be releasing Vinyl and CD of this Emmy nominated score on 11th December 2020.

Recorded at Sunset Sound Studios, LA. Engineered by Tony Austin. Mixed by Randy Emata. Mastered by Kevin “Daddy Kev” Moo. Kamasi Washington – Soprano, Alto, Tenor Saxophnone Rickey Washigton – Flute, Alto Flute Ryan Porter – Trombone Dontae Winslow – Trumpet Sean Sonderegger – Contra Bass Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bb Clarinet Matt Haze – Guitar Cameron Graves – Piano, Rhodes Kenneth Crouch – Organ, Keyboards, Piano Miles Mosley – Electric Bass, Upright Bass Tony Austin – Drums and Percussion Jen Simone, Yvette Devereaux, Reiko Nakano, Tylana Renga - Violin Michael Whitson, Chad Jackson – Viola Artyom Manukyan – Jared Snyder – Cello

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Pete Josef

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Sonar Kollektiv)

Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition repress of the debut album by Pete Josef from 2015. A heartfelt, genre-bending combination of jazz, soul, pop, and electro, UK singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Pete Josef releases his debut album "Colour".

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Force Majeur

LP | 2020 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Just A Closer Walk With Thee

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In March of 2020 bassist Dezron Douglas & harpist Brandee Younger were nestled in their apartment in Harlem, New York, not long after every live concert in the world was cancelled and most folks in the United States were forced to shelter in place for the covid lockdown. With all their gigs cancelled and their incomes strapped.. the two came up with an idea. They would host a live-stream performance from their living room, where they would perform classic tunes for friends and family to watch online, and folks could send them donations. They called it “Force Majeure: Brunch in the Crib with Brandee & Dezron,” the first part in homage to the ubiquitous contract clause that never seems to have any use (except all of sudden, c/o a covid-induced live music industry collapse). The immense popularity of their first performance roped them into doing it again, and again, until it eventually became a weekly ritual for Douglas, Younger, and their many friends and family who tuned in every Friday morning (ourselves included). Knowing the beautiful, natural sound they made in their living room would be as enjoyable (or more) as a record as it was through a social media stream… we mailed them a microphone to record themselves. What’s heard on this album, Force Majeure, is a collection of highlights from Douglas & Younger’s legendary lockdown livestream brunch sessions. It includes gorgeous interpretations of songs by Alice & John Coltrane, The Stylistics, The Jackson 5, Pharoah Sanders, Kate Bush, Sting, and The Carpenters… plus some solid gold nuggets of their banter between tunes. It’s an uplifting suite of real, soulful comfort music – a spiritual salve, emanating warmth from the hearth of a Harlem sanctuary.

Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger are long time companions in life and in music. The two East Coast natives met early in life and have accompanied each other, personally and professionally, through their equally prolific careers. Douglas, a bassist who has established himself as a musician’s musician, is known to many for his work with Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, David Murray, and Keyon Harold. Younger, a harpist who has distinguished herself as one of the premiere voices in her field, is known for her work with Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Stevie Wonder, The Roots, Lauryn Hill, and Moses Sumney. To the day Douglas and Younger often accompany each other in many of the ensembles they lead, respectively.

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The Emotional Carpenters

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Radio Bongo)

14,24 €* 18,99 € -25%

Actions For Free Jazz (Edited By Lasse Marhaug)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Saga: Ólafur Stephensen 01.02.1936 – 28.04.2016 Wife: Klara Stephensen Children: Ingibjörg “Día” Ambonguilat Stephensen, Stephan Stephensen, Magnús Stephensen & Ólafur Björn Stephensen

Ólafur was born in Reykjavik. His parents were Stephan Stephensen, a shopkeeper at Verðandi, and Ingibjörg Stephensen, a housewife.

Ólafur graduated from The Commercial College of Iceland on June 16, 1956 and then studied public relations as well as marketing and propaganda at Columbia University in New York where he graduated in 1962.

Ólafur was a pioneer in the advertising services in Iceland which with him turned away from being solely a profession of illustrators to a new era of marketing. Ólafur touched on many subjects through his career. Alongside his study Ólafur worked for NBC News and Meta educational TV. He reported for UN Radio and Voice of America as well as for Afrts under the pen name of Sonny Greco. Ólafur was the managing director of The Icelandic Red Cross, a jazz pianist in Harlem, the spokesperson for the media center of the Nato ministerial summit in Reykjavík in 1968 and hosted a program on the Icelandic National Television. Ólafur was the first Scandinavian citizen to become a member of the Advertising Club of New York, the first president of the Reykjavik chapter of JC as well as the first vice-president of JC International, the host of a jazz program on Icelandic National Radio, a judge for the American Advertising Awards and an active Freemason in Iceland as well as Portugal. Ólafur was awarded a Badge of Honour by the Finnish Red Cross in 1967.

Ólafur founded both ÓSA advertising agency and later Gott Fólk and was the first elected president of the Icelandic Advertising Association. He wrote a large number of published newspaper and magazine articles on his trade of advertising and marketing and released a book on the subject, “New and Better”, in 1987. Ólafur Stephensen released three jazz albums with his jazz trio named Tríó Óla Steph, played music both in Iceland as well as internationally with various jazz combos and was a big fencing enthusiast.

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V.A.

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Actions For Free Jazz)