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Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A beautiful album. A jazz album. Hello, Summer is the third full length solo LP from the talented Pat Van Dyke—a recording full of soulful, upbeat and superbly well-thought-out arrangements that is destined for your heavy rotation bin for years and years to come. Van Dyke has upped the ante on this release, playing all instruments himself (with the exception of the horn section and featured soloists)—in addition to writing, performing, producing, recording, and mixing the record (mastering was left to K-Def). This is a completely confident and imaginative artist able to put his ideas on wax exactly as intended.

Hello, Summer places emphasis on the word album. Listeners are encouraged to carve out time to enjoy it with zero distractions. There’s nuggets to be found in each listen—whether it’s picking out your favorite horn arrangement, appreciating a flute solo or simply marveling at how fluidly everything comes together over the course of the album’s 11 tracks.

The vibe is summer. Windows are open and an ice cold beverage is in hand.

Pat Van Dyke has steadily built an impressive catalog over the years—his debut solo LP, Technicolor Hi-FI (Cotter Records, 2013), was praised by the likes of Bobbito Garcia and Gilles Peterson, and led to a 45 remixed by DJ Spinna. His follow up, Right On Time (Jakarta Records 2015), brought additional praise, attention and an even bigger audience. Pat then lended remix work to fellow Jakarta artists Benny Sings and Suff Daddy (remixing his track with Mayer Hawthorne). Van Dyke is also well known in hip-hop circles—a noteworthy album with underground mainstay John Robinson called Modern Vintage is highly recommended. He’s been featured by Wax Poetics, Flea Market Funk, The Village Voice, Okayplayer and more.

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After Caroline

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Northern Spy)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jason Stein is a ubiquitous presence on the world class Chicago improvised music scene and beyond. He's a staunch force with a monogamous passion for his instrument of choice, the darkly sonorous and notoriously difficult bass clarinet. But Stein thrives as a leader also, as witnessed by his critically-acclaimed recent quartet release. However, no other aggregation he works with has quite the road legs, perspective, and intimacy of Locksmith Isidore, his long running trio with bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Mike Pride. Of late, this decade old unit has toured arenas throughout the US opening for comedy star Amy Schumer, who happens to be Stein's kid sister. Presenting avant jazz in such massive venues as Madison Square Garden and LA's Forum has cemented Locksmith Isidore's very special bond, which is more than apparent on their fourth album After Caroline.¨

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Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album Deluxe Edition

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Impulse)

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Charles Lloyd & The Marvels

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album is a studio album recorded by saxophonist John Coltrane for Impulse! Records that was first released in 2018. The recordings were made in 1963 during Coltrane's Classic Quartet period and were lost for decades.

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Vanished Gardens Feat. Lucinda Williams

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

38,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Archie Shepp Meets Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio

Conversations

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

28,99 €*

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Black Sweat)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Al Doum & The Faryds

Spirit Rejoin

2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Ubiquity)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Listening to the music of Al Doum & Faryds is always like staying in the pristine nature of an exotic island, in the sacred harmony of a New Organic Society; imaging all brothers and sisters singing and dancing in the unity of the brotherhood. This is the message of love and joy that pervade this fourth album. Moving towards accents of jazz ancestry, the Faryds absorb and re-elaborate - with remarkable insights - disparate elements and influences of Electric Jazz of the 70’s (Miles Davis, Dr.John) and Spiritual Jazz (Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry), marrying them with the forceful instances of Afro-Free (Pyramids, Alkebu-Lan). The music celebrate a new collective soul, a dancing cathartic ritual with birds, plants and all the animals, together in the circle of devotion. A journey in the total pranic breath. Co-production with our swiss lunar brothers from Bongo Joe Records.

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Mistura Pura

Hollywood Spritz

Derek Bailey & Jamie Muir

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hollywood Spritz is a soundtrack to a police television drama from the '70s that doesn't exist, including a Jazz Funk rework of the Charlie's Angels theme. Italian DJ, composer and producer Federica Grappasonni, aka Mistura Pura, looks to the 70’s Golden Age of Hollywood TV and the accompanying music for inspiration.

Combining Jazz, Funk and Latin elements with Afro percussion, Mediterranean harmonies, minimal electronic effects, Hip Hop and Nu Jazz beats, Mistura Pura focuses her sound on the "action" element from these ‘70s soundtracks: scenes depicting danger or tension but also making sure to round it out with moments of love and fun. The presence of percussion in all the tracks with Afro, Latin American as well as Middle-Eastern and Hawaiian polyrhythms round out the album’s edges giving it a languid feel. "Hollywood Spritz" with it’s abundant Latin vibes would be a perfect accompaniment to a police drama set in LA, New York, Miami or any major metropolis with a vibrant Latino community. Another important aspect contributing to this musical work comes from Federica’s extensive, decades-long experience as a DJ digging and spinning rare grooves from Be Bop, Funk, Soul and Bossa Nova. Her familiarity and connection with notable players in the scene gave her acces to record with a talented group of musicians such as pianist Jessica Lauren (Hollywood Spritz, LA Sound 1976, Nuevo Jungo) known for her work in the London Acid Jazz scene, Cuban multi-instrumentalist Lorenzo Patrix Duenas (Looking For The Angels, Intro - The Angels Connection, Charlie’s Angels Theme), Italian Jazz pianist Alessandro Gwis (Angels On A Cruise, Jill Is Dancing In The Dark), Mediterranean flutist Carlo Nicita, the king of the Latin rhythms Hector Barez from Puerto Rico, the cool trumpet of Josh Evans (Nuevo Jungo), volcanic percussion work from Gennaro Scarpato (High Tide At Waimanalo beach), Nu Jazz drums from Lorenzo Tucci (Angels On A cruise, Jill Is Dancing In The Dark (with milonga drums)), with the combination of Lorenzo Feliciati (Angels On A cruise) and Marco Siniscalco (Hollywood Spritz) on Jazz bass, oud musician Jean Pierre Smadj (The Arab Connection), and young Italian pianist Alberto Napolioni (Sunset at Venice beach) rounding out the cast.

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Dart Drug

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Honest Jons)

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Ndeya)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Percussionist Jamie Muir was a member of King Crimson during the recording of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic, in 1973. Staying less than a year with Robert Fripp, the Scot had already cut his teeth with another master guitarist, Derek Bailey, as part of the Music Improvisation Company, along with Evan Parker, Hugh Davies and Christine Jeffrey, whose eponymous 1970 album was one of the first releases on ECM. Muir and Bailey recorded Dart Drug eleven years later, in 1981.

There’s no shortage of great percussionists in the brief history of free improvised music but on the strength of Dart Drug alone Jamie Muir deserves a place at High Table. Unlike for example Han Bennink and John Stevens, though, you can’t hear echoes of any particular jazz drummer in Muir’s playing, even if he has expressed appreciation for Milford Graves (who himself sounded like nobody else who’d come before him).

What on earth did Muir’s kit consist of? Some instruments are clearly identifiable (bells, gongs, chimes, woodblocks); others could be… well, anything. Old suitcases thwacked with rolled up newspapers? Tin cans and hubcaps inside a washing machine? Who cares? It sounds terrific – but if you’re the kind of person who faints at the sound of nails scraping a blackboard, you might want to nip out and put the kettle on towards the end of the title track.

Dart Drug is consistently thrilling, and often very amusing – but it’s certainly not easy listening. In music we talk about playing with other musicians, whereas in sport you play against another opponent (or with your team against another team). Why not play against in music, too? That’s precisely what happens very often in improvised music, and Bailey was particularly good at it. How can a humble acoustic guitar hope to compete with a Muir in full flight? Sometimes Bailey’s content to sit on those open strings, teasing out yet another exquisite Webernian constellation of ringing harmonics and wait for the dust to settle in Muir’s junkyard, but elsewhere he sets off into uncharted territory himself.

“The way to discover the undiscovered in performing terms is to immediately reject all situations as you identify them (the cloud of unknowing) – which is to give music a future.” Bailey evidently concurred with this spoken statement by Muir, including it in his book Improvisation.

Derek Bailey is no longer with us, of course, and Muir gave up performing music back in 1989. All the more reason for seeking out this magnificent, wild album.

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Jon Hassell

Listening To Pictures

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Louis Armstrong

C'Est Si Bon

15,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Derek Bailey

Aida

27,99 €*

2xLP | 2018 | US | Original (Smoke Sessions)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At last, the vinyl reissue of this masterwork, adding two hitherto unreleased gems recorded solo for Charles Fox’s Radio 3 programme Jazz in Britain, in the same few months of 1980 as the stunning Aida performances.

The phrase ‘in the moment’ is often bandied about with reference to free improvisation, and indeed there’s no better way to describe Derek Bailey’s playing. The acoustic guitar is notoriously lacking in natural reverberation — notes barely hang in the air for a couple of seconds before they disappear — which explains the almost non-stop flow of new material in these stellar performances. Bailey knew from one split-second to the next exactly where to find the same pitch on different strings, either as a stopped tone or a ringing harmonic, and there’s never a note out of place. ‘He who kisses the joy as it flies,’ in the words of William Blake, ‘Lives in eternity’s sunrise’ — and this music is forever in the moment, constantly active but never gabby, kissing the joy.

One of the special pleasures of the BBC set is the guitarist’s own laconic commentary, a deliciously deadpan description of what he’s doing while he’s doing it — “I like to think of it… as a kind of music” — and the interaction between words and music is a particular delight. “You may have noticed a certain lack of variety,” he quips, while unleashing a furiously complex volley. Is it a coincidence that the final seconds recall the famous cycling fifths of the coda to Thelonious Monk’s Round Midnight? Surely not — for Bailey, like Monk, was a note man par excellence. And they’re both still alive and well in eternity’s sunrise.

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Buster Williams

Audacity

35,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Rob Franken Electrification

Don't Stop

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (678)

The Rob Franken Electrification & Joop Scholten

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Born in 1941, Rob Franken played in more than just Dutch jazz-circles. People who worked with him describe him as a slightly introvert, but purely musical sorcerer. He had great influence on the people he worked with, not only the younger, but also the elder, like Toots Thielemans for instance, with whom he toured Europe for several years.
Rob Franken liked to experiment with new instruments, and was the first person in Holland who made good use of the electric Fender Rhodes piano. Sadly, he died too young, at the age of 42.

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Blue Sky Fingers

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (678)

Jesse Sharps Quintet & P.A.P.A.

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sharps And Flats

2LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Outernational Sounds)

32,99 €*

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

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Issued on vinyl for the first time, Outernational Sounds proudly presents a monumental spirit music document from the Los Angeles underground – Jesse Sharp’s slept-on deep jazz classic Sharps And Flats.

“He became the Ark leader…he was hardcore. They’d all be quiet and listen to him when he talked.”
Horace Tapscott, on Jesse Sharps

You could be forgiven for not knowing how important saxophonist, bandleader and composer Jesse Sharps is. After all, the only album to come out under his name, Sharps And Flats, was recorded in 1985, and wasn’t issued on CD until 2004.

But despite this seemingly small recorded footprint, Jesse Sharps is a major figure in the history of jazz music in Los Angeles. As the bandleader for Horace Tapscott’s Pan-Afrikan People’s Arkestra (P.A.P.A.) – the Marshall Allen to Tapscott’s Sun Ra – he led Tapscott’s seminal music community through its most cohesive phase. And, after a hiatus living in Europe, his return to Los Angeles in the 2000s saw him build a new group, The Gathering, which linked original heads including acclaimed singer Dwight Trible and legendary trombonist Phil Ranelin with a new generation of LA jazz voices, including none other than Kamasi Washington. Sharps has been around, and he’s made an indelible mark.

Born in Los Angeles in 1953, Jesse Sharps spent his childhood in Watts. He first encountered the visionary pianist Horace Tapscott when he was still at high school – the Arkestra were performing on 103rd Street, and when Sharps heard them he knew what his future would be. Tapscott soon invited the young Sharps to rehearsals, where he played baritone. At college, Sharps studied under Cecil Taylor. When he came back to LA he rejoined the Arkestra on flute and reeds, and eventually took over band-leading duties from the great altoist Arthur Blythe. Trusted completely by Tapscott, as bandleader Sharps turned the Arkestra into a well-drilled unit. This was the time of the classic P.A.P.A. recordings Flight 17, Live at I.U.C.C, and The Call, and Sharps also wrote for the band. The funky, deep spirituality of compositions like ‘Desert Fairy Princess’, ‘Macramé’ and ‘Peyote Song III’ has made his tunes among most celebrated in the whole P.A.P.A. catalogue.

Sharps And Flats was recorded in 1985 for Tom Albach’s legendary Nimbus West imprint, a label Albach had founded specifically to document the work of Horace Tapscott and his circle. Featuring a quintet of P.A.P.A. regulars at the height of their game, Sharps And Flats is one of the great lost Nimbus sessions – it lay unissued until 2004, and never saw a vinyl press.

In line with the original Nimbus CD release, this edition of Sharps And Flats includes ‘McKowsky’s First Fifth’, a stunning 16 minute bonus cut by the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra featuring Horace Tapscott, recorded in 1979. A lost classic of the LA underground, on wax at last!

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R+R=Now

Collagically Speaking

42,99 €*

3LP | 2018 | US | Original (Dare 2)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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R+R=NO is a supergroup assembled by Robert Glasper but functionally egalitarian, in no small part because its members are visionary players, composers, and producers on their own: Glasper on keys, Terrace Martin on synthesizer and vocoder, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah on trumpet, Derrick Hodge on bass, Taylor McFerrin on synth and beatbox, and newcomer Justin Tyson on drums.

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Dave Holland

Uncharted Territories

42,99 €*

LP | 2018 | US | Original (ORG Music)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Uncharted Territorie reunites Dave Holland with saxophonist Evan Parker, a longtime friend from their early days in London. Theyre joined by Craig Taborn, on piano and electronics, and Ches Smith on percussion. In addition to quartet improvisations, they also broke off into every possible subset of duo and trio configurations. The group also recorded two compositions by Smith and one by Holland. A resulting 23 tracks present a series of deep, multi-layered conversations between the musicians, some of whom were interacting for the first time

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Sun Ra

Janus

33,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album Deluxe Edition

2LP | 2018 | NL | Original (Verve)

49,99 €*

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Growing Bin)

Release: 2018 / NL – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Singu

Siki

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2022 repress

Free your mind and float away, you’re now entering the mode of the Growing Bin. Hamburg’s centre for audio enlightenment is back with another sublime sensory experience, this time from the land of the rising sun.
Keen to get another stamp on his passport, Basso reached out to Japanese duo Singu, two open minded cats who just love to jam. Marrying Kiyo’s free drumming with Keta Ra’s melodic mastery of keyboard and guitar, the two-piece fuse free jazz, post-rock, kosmische and ambient into immersive and esoteric improvisations. Free from any compositional concerns, the Hiroshima outfit trade in energy, emotion and expression.
The frenetic percussion and ephemeral melodies of opener ‘Aurora Gate’ instantly transport you to the breathless churn of a Tokyo crossroads, where thousands of people rush by but you stand still in the eye of the storm. Though they may be explosive, the drums sit back in the mix, offering a soft intensity behind the shimmering wall of melody. A nimble and nuanced affair, ‘Bop’ brings rapid fire rhythm, slick syncopation and hypnotic piano refrains. Cool bass rolls along like KDJ’s ‘Rectify’, as Singu update the acid jazz template like Toshio Matsuura covering Carl Craig. Singu journey from far out to Furthur on Aside closer ‘Nagebu’, strapping in for psychedelic synth wig out which is heavy on the resonance and free on the filter.
Blooming out of the darkness on the B1, Basso favourite ‘Fazaria’ soothes and moves you with its twinkling keys, nebulous wave forms and delicate guitar, leaving you wide eyed in wonder as the drum fills burst like fireworks across a star-filled sky. ‘828’ sweeps into abstraction as Kiyo and Keta Ra combine snapping glitches and aquatic electronics with fractal guitar tones and woozy bass, pushing through a portal to see what’s beyond. An a-grade wall melter, this trip makes great use of tension as the crisp machine drums stand in sharp contrast to the whirring, blurring guitars. Finally ’44’ carries you home on a downbeat drift, a flawless fusion of buzzing electronics, misty pads and relentless percussion played with perfect poise. Turn on, tune in and trip out, Singu bring you music from the moment that you’ll love for a lifetime.

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For Lovers Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sings Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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My Funny Valentine Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz At Ann Arbor Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Takin' Off Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Herbie Hancock

23,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We Insist! Freedom Now Suite Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Max Roach

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track!

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Milestones Gatefold Sleeve Edition

23,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (New Continent)

Chet Baker Quartet

In Paris

28,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dave Brubeck Quartet

Time Further Out

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

The Definitive Collection

3LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Not Now)

51,99 €*

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Etta James

At Last

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Platinum Collection White Vinyl Edition

Etta James

2LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Not Now)

39,99 €*

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blue Train Picture Disc Edition

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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My Favorite Things

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kind Of Blue Picture Disc Edition

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Peggy Lee

Fever Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ray Charles

What'd I Say

22,99 €*

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Not Now)

Sarah Vaughan

The Very Best Of

32,99 €*

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sonny Boy Williamson

Down & Out Blues

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Pan Am)

Charles Mingus

Pithecantropus Erectus

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Les Baxter

Space Escapade

16,99 €*

Les Baxter And His Orchestra

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes four bonus tracks.

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The Ritual Of The Savage

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

16,99 €*

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes two bonus tracks.

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Moanin' Transparent Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Portrait In Jazz Green Vinyl Edition

Bill Evans Trio

Waltz For Debby -Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bill Evans Trio

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lady In Satin Blue Vinyl Edition

Billie Holiday

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sings Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Ella & Louis Again Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blue Train Transparent Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Birth Of The Cool Transparent Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Little Girl Blue Transparent Green Vinyl Edition

Nina Simone

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Hits Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Glenn Miller

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (New Continent)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Midori Takada & Lafawndah

Le Renard Bleu Etched Single Sided Edition

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (!K7)

2LP+CD | 2018 | EU | Original (Leaf)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It is said that every generation casts its mind back to a previous era in times of crisis; the resources that will allow us to decode the questions of our moment may lie in the myths of another era. Le Renard Bleu, the new musical and cinematic collaboration between Lafawndah and composer Midori Takada, and filmmakers Partel Oliva, takes a cross- generational echo as ground zero for recovering a crucial myth for uncertain times: the blue fox. As transmitted by Takada, the fox appears in both ancient Senegalese and Japanese folktales as the trickster archetype; belonging both to the heavens and to the earth, the fox is the agent of chaotic good, shaking the world up when its energy has become stagnant. Above all else, the fox is famous for its cunning nature. Renard Bleu marks the first new music released by Takada in nearly twenty years; it would be difficult to overstate the importance of her return to the public eye. Her first solo record, 1983's Through the Looking Glass, has been rediscovered and heralded as a lost classic; the influence of her percussion trio, the Mkwaju Ensemble, continues to permeate and inspire a new generation entranced by its lucid beauty, playfulness, and sensual patience. Takada has performed in numerous film score orchestras, including the ensemble for Akira Kurasawa’s Dreams, coincidentally a key influence on Renard Bleu.

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Szun Waves

New Hymn To Freedom

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (ECM)

Tord Gustavsen Trio

The Other Side

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Platinum Collection White Vinyl Edition

Ella Fitzgerald

3LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Not Now)

39,99 €*

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joanne Grauer Introducing Lorraine Feather

Joanne Grauer

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

24,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Piero Milesi / Daniel Bacalov

La Camera Astratta

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Soave)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kind Of Blue Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz Samba Yellow Vinyl Edition

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Compost)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Web Web

Dance Of The Demons

22,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nicola Conte presents Cosmic Forest - The Spiritual Sounds Of MPS

V.A.

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

32,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Revival II - The Electronic Tapes 1979-1982

Herbert Bodzin

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (The Outer Edge)

16,99 €*

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Music From Memory)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Herbert Bodzin’s “Revival II” is the next exciting vinyl highlight on this young label. It features completely unreleased electronic music which was recorded between 1979 and 1982. Check!
On the album you can hear the sounds of legendary machines like the ARP 2600, the Korg PS-3300, the Roland System-700 Modular synthesizer, the PPG Waveterm and the PPG Wave 2.2 as well as classic synths like the Roland Jupiter-8, the Polymoog and the Prophet-5 – the same equipment used by big names of the German and international avantgarde electronics scene at that time. For example, the ambient “Red Ocean” was recorded entirely with the polyphonic Korg PS 3300, one of the most desired and biggest synths of all time. The project features Bernd Hollendiek, as well as Bodzin’s two sons, Stephan and Oliver Bodzin on additional synthesizers and partly on drums. The songs are a mixture of mostly ambient, deep, psychedelic, yet experimental and futuristic sounds as well as two more vibrant synth rock recordings with drumming.
We hope that this album will find its way to the hearts and collections of electronic music lovers – somewhere in between the classic albums of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Cluster or Eberhard Schoener. As a side note, the album may also show early musical influences of Stephan Bodzin, who became world famous in the 1990s as one of the leading techno producers. Without any doubt, “Revival II” should be an exciting lost masterpiece of German electronic music and a must have for synth music lovers – revived and finally alive!

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Gunther Beckers

Walkman

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Bokanté & Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley

What Heat

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Real World)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Motema)

Donny McCaslin

Blow.

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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You've Got To Have Freedom / Got To Give It Up

Pharoah Sanders

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Expansion)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Edition Hawara)

Zenit

Straight Ahead

Jakob Bro / Thomas Morgan / Joey Baron

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ultra rare album, now finally available for an affordable price.
Zenit is a jazz ensemble from Krems in Lower Austria, founded in 1976 by Hannes Treiber and Willi Langer. Their music was celebrated locally, but to reduce them to their local fame would be a shame: After all, their first two LPs, Stimmungswechsel (Change of Moods) and Früchte (Fruits), quickly gained them a much wider audience of discerning listeners. Arguably, however, Zenit’s third and final LP Straight Ahead is the most special of their records. It initially came out in 1986 on the producer’s label Spray Records, and is today one of the hardest-to-find Austrian jazz records. Its centrepiece is the infectious slow-motion disco piece “Waiting,” with vocals by American jazz singer Linda Sharrock. Effortlessly bringing together pop, soul and new age vibes, this is a record that is as unique as it is difficult to date. Does it sound like from the 80s? We’re not sure. To our minds at least, it could also be from the future.

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Bay Of Rainbows

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | US | Original (Mexican Summer)

Connan Mockasin

Jassbusters

33,99 €*

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2018 | US | Original (Feeding Tube)

Mako Sica & Hamid Drake

Ronda

37,99 €*

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Dead Sea)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Brilliant, inspired and somewhat surprising collaboration between Chicago’s premier free-rock trio and the truly legendary percussionist, Hamid Drake, who has played with everyone from Don Cherry to Peter Brotzmann to Lee Perry.

This collusion was precipitated by Matt Jackowiak, a mutual friend, who thought a merging of their sounds might make for an ecstatic explosion. This feeling became mutual after they played a show together at Constellation. The set mixed Mako Sica tunes with improvisations that took everyone to places they hadn’t expected, and the trip was deemed an utter success.

Ronda was done at two sessions, scheduled around Hamid’s insanely busy work schedule. The first was at Jamdek with Douglas Malone at the board, the second was at Electrical Audio with Taylor Hales. The Electrical session allowed the players access to a host of additional instruments, so the sonic palette on “Dance with Waves” and “Emanation” is wider and somehow more cosmic than usual.

But the whole album has an extraordinary depth and width of sound. Even the great songs Mako Sica has had in its set for a while like “The Old Book,” gain whole new levels of otherness here, and the material based in quartet improvisations, like “The Wu Wei,” explores wild new territory for the band.

Ronda (named after a town in southern Spain with a famous 18th Century bridge crossing a deep gorge) is the first span connecting the disparate musical worlds of Mako Sica and Hamid Drake. Let us hope it is but the first of many.

-Byron Coley, 2018

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Liraz

Naz

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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10" | 2018 | EU | Original (Sonorama)

Werner Müller Orchestra

Feuilleton In Jazz

22,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Must Have / Membran)

Ed Motta

Criterion Of The Senses

13,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | US | Reissue (Too Good)

Tommy Guerrero

Road To Knowhere

29,99 €*

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Soundway)

Release: 2018 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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This album is inspired by bits and pieces of Ethio-Jazz, Afrobeat, Highlife Spiritual Jazz and dusty funk 45’s. It’s where I’m at now and what has kept this mortal vehicle fueled. I tend to take different paths each musical outing but this one is for the long haul, the one for the blue highways and forgotten byways. It’s the one to get lost to. It’s about the journey, not the destination." Tommy Guerrero continues pushing the boundaries while upholding his San Francisco Bay heritage. Starting from the Bones Brigade skate team in the '80s, he’s made movie appearances, designed for Levi's in Japan, Vans shoes worldwide and Sutro eyewear among others, signed a skateboard contract with Converse, co-founded Real Skateboards and 40’s Clothing, is art director for Krooked Skateboarding, and found time to be a prolific recording artist.

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Felbm

Tape 1 / Tape 2

2x7" | 2018 | EU | Original (Dynamite Cuts)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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

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Norman Connor

Slewfoot Collection

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the outstanding Jazz fusion album from the late 70s includes timeless classic and Jazz dance anthem. Dynamite Cuts releases a quality limited edition double pack release which gives you 4 of those masterpieces, all are first time on 7”!

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Charlie Parker

Now's The Time

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dizzy Gillespie

Cubana Be, Cubana Bop

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Duke Ellington

Ko Ko

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gerry Mulligan Quartet

Soft Shoe

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lester Young

Just You, Just Me

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nat King Cole

Route 66

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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10" | 2018 | EU | Original (Jazzaggression)

Erik Andresen Quartet

Cointreau

17,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Staatsakt)

Jens Friebe

Fuck Penetration

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2018 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Makaya McCraven

Universal Beings

27,99 €*

The Scorpions & Saif Abu Bakr

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Universal Beings is jazz drummer / producer Makaya McCraven's new album - his most ambitious, elegant and refined work yet. Recorded at 2 intimate live sessions and 2 pop-up "studio" sessions across the "new" jazz hotbed cities of New York, Chicago, London, and Los Angeles, Makaya collaborated with an all-star cast of improvisers (15 musicians in total, including Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Jeff Parker, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson,Tomeka Reid, Brandee Younger and Carlos Niño) to create source material for the signature style of "organic beat music" production he debuted on the groundbreaking 2015 release In The Moment. The result is this epic, 2xLP set that represents another breakthrough in Makaya's career as a recording artist, as well as a definitive new work of the exciting global groundswell of next-generation, Black musicians re-vivifying and re-articulating "jazz" in 2018.

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Jazz, Jazz, Jazz

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

24,99 €*

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Trost)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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Full Blast

Rio

23,99 €*

Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited live release by Peter Brötzmann's Full Blast Power Free Jazz Trio
recorded at Audio Rebel, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 2016. Mixed and Mastering :
Martin Siewert (Vienna) Artwork : Peter Brötzmann

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Ella Fitzgerald

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Dol)

15,19 €* 15,99 € -5%

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Western Vinyl)

Joseph Shabason

Anne Black Vinyl Edition

Music Is The Most Beautiful Language In The World: Yiddisher Jazz In Londons East End 1920s To 1950s

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Anne, the second album By Toronto saxophonist and composer Joseph Shabason, is
a tonal essay on degenerative illness. Delicately and compassionately woven with
interviews of Shabason's mother from whom the album takes its name, Anne finds
its creator navigating a labyrinth of subtle and tragic emotions arising from his
mother's struggle with Parkinson's disease. Across the nine vivid postcards of jazzladen
ambience that comprise the album, Shabason unwraps these difficult themes
with great care and focus revealing the unseen aspects of degenerative diseases that
force us to re-examine common notions of self, identity, and mortality. Shabason's
uncanny ability to manoeuvre through such microscopic feelings is mirrored by his
capacity to execute a similar tightrope-walk through musical genres. His music
occupies a specific space that is as palpable as it is difficult to pin labels to. R.I.Y.L.
Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laraaji, Robert Rich, Harold Budd

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V.A.

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (JWM)

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Orbeatize)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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New label JWM Records launch with the selection 'Music is the Most Beautiful Language in the World'. A vibrant soundtrack to the Cockney Jewish experience, starting when the swinging hot dance bands were still all the rage, and the Yiddish language was spoken on the streets of Whitechapel, in London’s East End. For some, music or acting was a potential way out of the poverty experienced by these first and second generation refugees.

Sounds from long-forgotten 78 rpm discs only recently unearthed, reveal a host of recording artists, united here for the first time. Klezmer fused very easily with jazz, a connection that becomes apparent in these recordings. Hear the legendary dance band figures of the era like Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra, and Lew Stone and his Monseigneur Band, to the relatively unknown Jewish speciality acts like Johnny Franks and his Kosher Ragtimers, and Rita Marlowe, the siren of Yiddish song. Delight in the cheeky street patter of the incomparable slapstick drummer Max Bacon, rejoicing in the East Enders' love affair with ‘Beigels’; celebrate the world famous Petticoat Lane street market with not one, but two fox-trots - but also shed a tear with Leo Fuld, the remarkable Dutch Yiddish singer, whose recordings in post-war London were haunting reminders of a way of life decimated by the Holocaust.

‘Music is the most Beautiful Language in the World’ is compiled by Alan Dein, multi-award winning radio documentary presenter, whose own family harks back to the major wave of immigrants fleeing the pogroms in Eastern Europe from the end of the 19th century. The album title is inspired by a 1920s Yiddish slogan of an East London gramophone record shop, from a time when Whitechapel was a fertile breeding ground for singers, musicians, proprietors of record shops and club owners - according to Dein “their stories are now entwined with the development of the British recorded music industry. But for the first time ever, we can the discover the remarkable sounds of Jewish-themed jazz recorded in London between the 1920s and the 1950s - which thankfully had been preserved within the grooves of ancient discs”.

Designed by Will Bankhead, the LP comes with a fold-out insert, the slip-case CD with a 24 page booklet, both including a detailed essay by Dein, illustrated with rare photos and memorabilia. This release is co-compiled by Howard Williams, who has released a series of compilations spanning Moondog (The Viking of Sixth Avenue), Killing Melody (Japanese gangster soundtracks), cult Japanese jazz singer Maki Asakawa, and several other Japanese retrospectives.

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Errol H. Tout

Sounds 1985-87

17,99 €*

Alan Hawkshaw & Brian Bennett

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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A collection of Errol's best compositions taken from his first two recordings (1985 Atmospherics and 1987 Sounds Of Swimming).
16 tracks: Open Jazz Guitar Masterpiece.

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Full Circle

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Be With)

24,99 €*

The Chase (Version 1) / The Hillary Step

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alan Hawkshaw (piano/Hammond) and Shadow’s drummer Brian Bennett are responsible for some of the slickest, funkiest and most sought-after library records ever made in the UK, particularly ones recorded on the legendary KPM label. Their work has now become the go-to place for sampling in music today. Artists such as Dilla, Nas, and the xx, right through to the billion selling Kanye & Drake have taken Hawkshaw’s and Bennett’s immaculate beat-driven soundscapes for their own usage.

Their new album, in full, iconic KPM cover is a return to the laidback jazz-funk that helped Alan and Brian demonstrate their library chops. The album is classic Hawkshaw/Bennett. It swings, it grooves, moves and thrills with a flair these two have perfected over years.

Standout tracks such as "Hole In One", "In The Clouds", "Interchange", "Oasis", "On The Nile" and "Corcovado" are no mere excursions in nostalgia, for they carry lots of deft studio work that many a producer would give their right arm for. Hawkshaw’s arrangements allow the drums, guitar, bass, strings, Hammond, flute and brass to swirl elegantly around the 12 original tracks; a masterclass in recording.

Cut by Pete Norman, housed in a beautifully designed Richard Robinson sleeve and pressed at 180g by Record Industry in Holland, this release has been afforded the care and attention it rightly deserves. Essential.

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Bowman Trio

7" | 2018 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

9,99 €*