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Horst-Michael Schaffer & Jbbg - Jazz Bigband Graz

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The initial cassette-only releases of Tashi Dorji turned lots of heads, including Six Organs of Admittance and Hermit Hut - now over a decade later, this release makes its full-album debut on vinyl."It really was a formative time for me because it felt like everything opened, as far as the possibilities of what music-making meant. Like improvisation walked in and then there was a volcanic eruption" - Tashi Dorji"The self-titled session was recorded at a nice studio at the local university here in Asheville. I had some friends that were studying music there and had access to studio time. This session focused more on extended/prepared guitar ideas. My interest in percussive elements of sounds, timbre, harmonics, and dynamics plays a lot in this recording." - Tashi Dorji

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The Space Between Us

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Natango Music)

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2023 | US | Original (Ubiquity)

Oswald Moris

Drug Song / Heat Haze

14,99 €*

Circular Temple Remastered Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Oswald Moris is a musician, DJ and radio-host from Brussels, Belgium. “Back in 2020 when the pandemic evaporated my touring schedule as a DJ, a couple of friends invited me to spend some time at their home studio. My focus at that time was on 70’s and 80’s Library Music (making edits and remixes at home), so we took that catalogue as a starting point to jam and record some of our own interpretations.” During these sessions two songs took center stage, providing arrangements that suited the instruments at hand. Deconstructing the originals and rearranging them gave space for further experimentation and improvisation. “As a Belgian fan of ‘rare grooves’ it’s hard to miss Janko Nilovic. He worked on numerous records that were recorded in our country. His Soul Impressions-LP is probably one of the first Library records I’ve ever listened to, and it still holds a special place in my collection today. If you combine all of this with my love for flute-solos, the choice for Drug Song was almost inevitable.” It’s not the first time Janko and Oswald’s paths cross: the maestro once provided a guest selection for a Brokers-show. “The second tune had to come from the mighty KPM catalogue. I think I’m not exaggerating if I say their ‘greensleeves’ are the most iconic series of Library records out there. Top notch productions by the best in the game: Hawkshaw, Bennett, Mansfield, … I even married to a Mansfield-track, just to give you an idea.” Where Drug Song leans heavy on funky guitar and flute, the flipside of this release brings a more atmospheric take on the genre. “Since we had a lot of keys in the studio, we picked this John Cameron composition to explore more of that realm. The smooth arrangement of Heat Haze had us vibing for days and brought a perfect counterbalance to the raw qualities of Drug Song. Pure bliss!”

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Matthew Shipp Trio

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ESP Disk)

Duktus Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Circular Temple has marked many firsts for Matthew Shipp: his first CD release, first piano trio album, first of many times on record with Parker and Dickey, first album to be reissued, and on ESP-Disk"s reissue of it, first CD-only album to finally appear on vinyl and first album to be released by three different labels. And, more trivially, the first Shipp album that current ESP head/reissue producer Steve Holtje acquired, back when the only choices were that and a 1988 LP-only duo by Shipp and saxophonist Rob Brown on the Cadence label.

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Stance Brothers

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Chocolate Star)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Finnish drummer/Producer Teppo "Teddy Rok" Mäkynen returns with his alias The Stance Brothers. Lauded by the likes of Kenny Dope and Gilles Peterson, Mäkynen"s studio creation has been visible on the 7" format during the recent years. Now, Mäkynen is back with a full LP, the project"s first in more than 10 years. Duktus is a treasure-trove for everyone into crunchy jazz funk à la Bob James & CTI, but this is no retro exercise.

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Gary Davis

Live In Concert 1976

17,04 €* 30,99 € -45%

$He Who Feeds You, Owns You

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gary Davis is the polymath behind Chocolate Star Records, the label he started in Camden, New Jersey. He is one of the first people to record rap music, with NYC maverick Peter Brown and on his own. Before that, he made disco. But he's also steeped in the jazz tradition. Gary made 200 copies of this record for Chocolate Star. It is a funky jazz set he recorded live on October 31, 1976 at New Jersey's Glassboro State College (today's Rowan University). Gary's an inspiration, for still believing in music that comes from and finds its way back to the fringes. “I want people who are out there struggling to know: Do not depend on other people having control over your destiny. If you wanna do it, do it!" he says, Gary told the Palm Beach New Times many years ago. "The best part is doing it, so why worry about all this other nonsense? I've always felt that way, but now I have the evidence to back up what I've been telling people all along. It gives me the credibility I deserve.”

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The Brother Moves On

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Native Rebel)

Spiritual Jazz Volume 15 - A Tribute To 'Trane

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Brother moves on are part of a powerful lineage of South African protest music – the ‘most important band in the country’ according to sa publication platform. The internationally acclaimed outfit’s genesis as a diy collective of visual and performance artists shines through in the creative way they draw from past, present and future, in their phenomenal live shows, and in masterful resistance music that heals and challenges in equal measure. Tbmo are fronted by Siyabonga Mthembu, who is also part of Shabaka Hutchings’ Shabaka and the ancestors. Their album Tolika Mtoliki made Apple music’s top releases for 2021.

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V.A.

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Jazzman)

When The Roses Come Again

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We can safely say that the Spiritual Jazz series would not exist without the inspiration of spiritual messiah John Coltrane. Therefore, it can only be fitting to dedicate an entire album to his legacy and lasting influence: 'Spiritual Jazz 15 - A Tribute to 'Trane' shines a spotlight on the reverence paid to the saxophonist in many ways. The selection features cover versions of his songs, performed by musicians inspired by him, and originals written in honour of Coltrane. The preacher may have ascended to a higher plane, but his congregation is still down here on earth. 10 tracks to lift the spirits of everyone everywhere.

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Daniel Bachman

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Three Lobed)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Other Power)

KMRU

Stupor

Wolfgang Colley Muthspiel

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nairobi-born Berlin-based sound artist Joseph Kamaru, aka Kmru, shares his new work Stupor on the new Helsinki-based label Other Power. Commissioned by the Helsinki curatorial and commissioning agency Publics, Stupor is comprised of three original long form tracks; “crp-12”, “Even a Tear”, and the title track “Stupor”. The tracks on the album are speculative notes to social architectures and environments the artist has traversed.

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Dance Of The Elders

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Stephan Micus

Thunder

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bill Evans Trio / Scott Lafaro

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Nika)

September

Zadnja Avantura

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Astral Spirits)

Maria Elena Silva

Dulce

LP | 2023 | Original (Be With)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pushing past the submissive qualities of her debut, Silva captures a deep and deliberate pop-forward poignancy in her sophomore Dulce. Written in the wake of her relocation to Chicago, Silva contemplates new love, a listless fate, sobriety, and maternity all the while retaining the patience of her previous release, Eros. Temperate motifs aside, a freer, wilder intensity permeates Dulce. Silva shows her roots in both rock n’ roll and the romantic. The fabric of the album gives palpable hints to her experimental aspirations that make borderline frantic use of the world-class instrumentalists at her disposal. This no holds barred approach results in Silva's most modern statement to date, beginning with the lead single "Love, If It Is So." A perfect avant-pop song that captures Maria in full flight with her studio band featuring the legendary guitarist Marc Ribot and percussionist Stephen Hodges—reunited for the first time since the pair were part of Tom Waits' seminal Rain Dogs in 1985. Ribot enhances Silva's songs with characteristic inspiration, skill, and abandon—jumping between frenzied guitar arpeggios, Philly Soul electric sitar lines, and subtle nylon string acoustic.

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Barbara Moore

Vocal Shades And Tones

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Jazzrausch Bigband

Mahler's Breakdown

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Nika)

September

Domovina Moja

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Dancing Bear)

Chui

Zagreb-Berlin

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Croatia)

Ivo Robic

Pjeva Vam Ivo Robic

24,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Croatia)

Arsen Dedic

25 Greatest Hits

26,34 €* 30,99 € -15%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung

Musik Für Animierten Tonspurfilm

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sub Rosa)

23,99 €*

Box | 2023 | FR | Reissue (Concord)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Musik für animierten Tonspurfilm", the twelfth album by Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung (or Daau, as they are commonly known), is the soundtrack to a series of short, abstract animation films by Rudy Trouvé, who also acted as a creative director during the recording process.

The music originates from acoustic improvisation sessions by accordionist Roel Van Camp, clarinetist Han Stubbe, double bass player Hannes D'Hoine and percussionist Jeroen Stevens. These took place according to conceptual guidelines set by Trouvé. Sometimes the starting point was a play on words or a random chord sequence, sometimes a specific atmosphere, but the playing field was always kept deliberately limited. Hence, the musicians were forced to build a musical structure with minimal means. The result was cut on cassette, after which the Antwerp enfant terrible - Rudy Trouvé-, known from his work with dEUS, Kiss My Jazz, Gore Slut and I H8 Camera among others, happily hit the tracks with a virtual sledge hammer. Daau's pieces were cut up, sampled, drastically restructured and pasted together again, a method that had been applies earlier on the retrospective album 'Hineininterpretierung' (2017). On top of that audio collage, the musicians added new electronic layers, using a digital accordion, synths, digital bass and marimba. Daau says: 'On the soundtrack, like on the older record, we were looking for a symbiosis between an acoustic and electronic sound. And there too we messed around with dub and Krautrock references'.

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David Bowie

Laughing With Liza

67,99 €*

Release: 2023 / FR – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Complete Recordings 1975-1979

Vortex

3LP | 2023 | US | Original (Merry-Go-Round)

83,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

John Williams

World On A String

15,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | Original (Be With)

The Roger Webb Sound

Moonshade

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz Dispensary: At The Movies Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Marbled Vinyl Edition

V.A.

LP | 2023 | Original (Concord)

40,84 €* 42,99 € -5%

Ecce Homo Split Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The cratediggers of Jazz Dispensary have been set loose on an archive of classic midnight movies, and they’ve brought back a treasure trove of jams with them. Lay back on the couch, grab a giant tub of popcorn, and surrender to a marathon of grooves from Melvin Van Peebles, Isaac Hayes, Booker T. & The M.G.’s, and many more legends who graced the silver screen with irresistibly funky melodies.

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Voodoo Sound Club

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cinedelic)

25,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Never A Dull Moment Live From Coast Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Vinyl Edition

Les McCann

3LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Play It Again Sam)

66,49 €* 69,99 € -5%

Maximum Swing The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recording Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Never A Dull Moment! - Live from Coast to Coast (1966-1967) is a previously unissued collection of live recordings of unsung piano and vocal icon Les McCann captured at the Penthouse jazz club in Seattle from January 27 and February 3 & 10, 1966 with Stan Gilbert, Paul Humphrey and Tony Bazley; also including recordings by Resonance founder and co-president George Klabin from the Village Vanguard on July 16, 1967 with Leroy Vinnegar and Frank Severino. This is an official release in cooperation with Les McCann. Transferred from the original tape reels and mastered for vinyl by the legendary Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios

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Wes Montgomery

3LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Play It Again Sam)

69,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings is the first official release of the complete previously unissued recordings from jazz guitar giant Wes Montgomery with the Wynton Kelly Trio at the famed Half Note jazz club in New York City in 1965 with drummer Jimmy Cobb and bassists Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Herman Wright and Larry Ridley. Including over 2 hours from the original radio broadcasts with host Alan Grant, the limited-edition 3-lp 180-gram (and deluxe 2-cd) set will be mastered by Matthew Lutthans and come in a deluxe triple gatefold with an elaborate booklet containing previously unpublished photos taken at the Half Note by Raymond Ross; plus a new essay from acclaimed journalist and author Bill Milkowski; interviews with jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter, who both recorded with Wes; guitar icons Bill Frisell and Mike Stern; plus bassist Marcus Miller, who is Wynton Kelly’s cousin! 2023 marks Wes Montgomery’s Centennial (born March 6, 1923), and this is Resonance’s 7th release of Wes Montgomery recordings in cooperation with the estate. Now Wes Montgomery fans can hear the rest of the music from the Half Note that was only broadcast on the radio nearly 60 years ago.

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Eastern Rebellion

Eastern Rebellion 2

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Edition)

Verneri Pohjola

Monkey Mind

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wdr Radio, Koln, February 23, 1975

Terry Riley & Don Cherry

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Whp)

24,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Whp)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The meeting between Terry Riley the father of American Minimalism and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry. Two contemporary luminaries who always shared an ear for non Western music and philosophies. Joined here by Stein Claeson on violin and el. bass, and Bengt Berger on percussion, these two giants give us an example of deep organic music based on the full integration of various materials. A beautiful example of true extended sonic democracy.

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Live In Paris 1970

30,39 €* 31,99 € -5%

LP | 2023 | Original (Tunnel.Visions)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is the one and only Rahsaan Roland Kirk caught Live in Paris in 1970 with one of his best lineups ever. A distinctive quintet featuring Ron Burton on piano, bassist Vernon Martin, drummer great Jerome Cooper, mostly known as member of the mythical Revolutionary Ensemble, and the colourful percussion work of Joe Habao Texidor. Rahsan displays a fine set list including original compositions like the anthemic "Voluntary Slavery" and a wide selection of standards, from Cole Porter to Stevie Wonder, as inspirational material for infectious, groovy improvisations in front of a very receptive Parisian audience, all this at the very dawn of the Seventies.

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Beifer

Constant.Transition

Airto & Flora - A Celebration: 60 Years - Sounds Dreams & Other Stories

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Emerging artist Beifer presents his highly anticipated debut album "constant.transition": an eclectic fusion of electronic music with strong influences from dubstep, garage and drum&bass, enriched with captivating jazz elements. This cross-genre work takes listeners on a journey through dark atmospheres and avant-garde soundscapes, brought to life by the artist's complex percussion layers and interesting chord structures.
With great experimentation and a desire to break new ground in electronic music, Beifer has created an album that captures the listener's attention with its unique textures and unconventional soundscapes. Each track is an exploration of musical possibilities, with Beifer masterfully blending a wide variety of genres while creating a cohesive and infectious atmosphere.

The album also features notable collaborations with renowned musicians. Wanja Slavin, Moritz Stahl (Ark Noir/Lyder) and vocalist Enji have collaborated with Beifer to add an additional dynamic and layered dimension to the album. Their unique talents and empathy blend seamlessly with Beifer's vision, opening up new worlds of sound for the listener. Beifer has managed to push the boundaries of electronic music and make an impressive artistic statement with his debut album.

"constant.transition" is the first release on the newly founded tunnel.visions label. Starting as a event-series, the three members of the electronic alternative experimental jazz band Ark Noir have made it their mission to present progressive, contemporary music that includes acoustic and electronic instruments, takes up compositional and improvisational concepts and thus breaks down the boundaries between academic and autodidactic practice.
Over the past year, Ark Noir has featured Beifer several times at concerts and brought the music of "constant.transition" to the stage with live instrumentation. The program was enthusiastically received by the audience.

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Airto Moreira

Box | 2023 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

124,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Cotter)

Pat Van Dyke

Falls To Pieces

17,99 €* 23,99 € -25%

350 Million Herring Black

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Elegant and effortless, dreamy and dusty. Falls To Pieces is a natural progression emerging from the organic textures explored on Pat Van Dyke’s stellar 2018 LP Hello, Summer–which received heavy praise from Pitchfork, Flea Market Funk, Wax Poetics, and more. The new LP broadcasts a more concise, deliberate, and refined sound that combines elements of jazz and golden era hip-hop with today’s electronic music. Ever in search of “the perfect piece”, Pat’s attention to detail is on full display as he is hands-on in every aspect of the music–allowing each perfect piece to fall into place. Here we’re treated to a record that showcases a more mature composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who’s sound continues to develop, much to the delight of audiences worldwide. On Falls To Pieces, Pat enlists a short list of collaborators for their improvised efforts on a handful of the album’s tracks–including the talented Zac Colwell, Eric “Benny” Bloom, Sam Barsh, Jesse Fischer, Juan Rodriguez, and Stolarz. Forever a fan and student of music’s rich history, Pat Van Dyke aims to create an album you’ll enjoy from start to finish, like so many of the records that continue to shape his own musical vision. Carve out some time, press play, and step into a world.

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Moonmot

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Enja & Yellowbird)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bob Baldwin Presents Abbey Road And The Beatles

Bob Baldwin

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BFD)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blues For A Reason Feat. Warne Mash

Chet Baker

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Elemental)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

Art Farmer

Portrait Of Art Farmer

37,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (We Are Busy Bodies)

Cliffs

Alex Express

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Maciej Obara Quartet

Frozen Silence

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nils Økland / Sigbjorn Apeland

Glimmer

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Arild Andersen Group

Affirmation

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Svart)

Olavi Louhivuori

Immediate Music III

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Decca)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Olavi Louhivuori Presents "Immediate Music Iii" - A Boundary-Pushing Musical Triumph with drummers Glenn Kotche and Tony Buck

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Melody Gardot

Worrisome Heart

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Badge Epoque Ensemble

Air, Light & Harmony

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ECM)

John Scofield

Uncle John's Band

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hiroshi Suzuki / Masahiko Togashi

Variation

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Lawson)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Criancas - The Music Of Wayne Shorter

Julien Lourau

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Komos)

23,24 €* 30,99 € -25%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Dressel Amorosi

Spectrum

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The new album from Italian duo Dressel Amorosi, is a fervent homage to the realm of Italian soundtracks and library music from the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Trippy cosmic journey of head-spinning lowkey galactic funk, jazz-prog themes, suspenseful thriller atmospheres, relaxed downtempo jams and many other musical departures fit to score television and films.

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Kenneth Jimenez

Sonnet To Silenc

Thandi Ntuli / Carlos Nino

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Brooklyn-based bassist/composer Kenneth Jimenez presents his new work Sonnet to Silence on We Jazz Records. Consisting of 7 original compositions by Jimenez performed by his quartet including pianist Angelica Sanchez, drummer Gerald Cleaver and saxophonist Hery Paz, Sonnet to Silence echoes the original fire of New York free jazz while stepping into a terrain of its own, boldly forward-thinking.

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Rainbow Revisited Gold Marble Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Thandi Ntuli / Carlos Nino

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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South African pianist Thandi Ntuli traveled to Los Angeles in 2019, where she recorded this album of bare, explorative piano and voice pieces at a Venice Beach studio with International Anthem artist Carlos Niño in the producer chair. An absolutely stunning, intimate listen, with Ntuli"s prowess as a pianist and singularity as a vocalist on vivid display as much as her fearlessness, vulnerability and adventurousness during occasional experiments with synthesizers and percussion. Niño colors open minimalist soundscapes with overdubbed percussion, cymbals and plants.

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Rainbow Revisited Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Post Koma Gold Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Koma Saxo

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Post Koma Black Vinyl Edition

Koma Saxo

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Enja & Yellowbird)

Makiko Trio Hirabayashi

Meteora Black

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Merry Christmas From Jose James Vinyl

Jose James

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Rainbow Blonde)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Power Of Love (It's In My Heart) / Spreading Fever (Part 1)

Hilton Felton

7" | 2023 | JP | Reissue (P-Vine)

21,99 €*

Vibes From The Tribe - Alternate Album

Release: 2023 / JP – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hilton Felton is a keyboardist with a strong following amongst rare groove fans for his sophisticated, mellow and groovy playing. He has released many albums during his career on his own label, Hilton's Concept, Inc. and Family And Friends This is the first time that P-vine has reissued this gem, which is sought after by many collectors due to the excellence of the music and the rarity of the record.

For this reissue, all tracks have been given state-of-the-art mastering. There are numerous cover versions of the Jackson 5's well-known hit 'Never Can Say Goodbye' (m3), but it is safe to say that this version by Hilton Felton is by far the best quality. Also impressive is the jazz-funk cover of the Delfonics classic 'La, La Means I Love You' (m5), including the opening track 'Family And Friends' (m1), which enjoys a superb groove created by Hilton's soft playing. The original compositions will satisfy even the most demanding jazz listener. The groovy soul of 'The Power Of Love (It's In My Heart)' (m8), featuring vocals from a young Angela Winbush and Hilton Felton themselves, is also a wonderful performance that offers great depth of sound.

The 7" set also includes 'The Power Of Love (It's In My Heart)', which has never been released as a single, and 'Spreading Fever (Part 1)', the original version of which is very rare and almost impossible to find!

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Phil Ranelin

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (P-Vine)

47,99 €*

Chick Corea Elektric Band

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Vibes From The Tribe" is, along with "Message From The Tribe", one of the most iconic albums of the legendary spiritual jazz label Tribe. The alternate album contains different versions of all the tracks with the original album and P-vine is proud of releasing it on vinyl for the first time as double LP set!

Trombonist Phil Ranelin, who co-founded the legendary spiritual jazz label "Tribe" with Wendell Harrison, released "Vibes From The Tribe" in 1976 as the label's final release. It is known as one of the defining albums of "Tribe," along with the label's early release, "Message From The Tribe." Now, all of the alternate takes from the historical masterpiece will be released as a new album. The album is a double LP that includes multiple alternate versions of the album's most popular songs, such as the jazz-funk groove "Sounds From The Village," which features a brilliant horn ensemble, and a killer break beat tune"Vibes From The Tribe". This is the first time to be released on vinyl of the alternative album!

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Future Is Now

3LP | 2023 | US | Original (Candid)

66,99 €*

LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Marlow)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Led by the legendary pianist and composer Chick Corea - the venerated 27-time Grammy winner and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master - The Elektric Band stormed onto the jazz scene in the mid-1980s, making an immediate and lasting impact on the genre. With their electrifying performances and innovative blend of jazz fusion, the group produced a series of albums that set the bar for excellence in contemporary jazz. Featuring a core lineup of virtuosic musicians - John Patitucci on bass, Dave Weckl on drums, Eric Marienthal on saxophone and Frank Gambale on guitar - the group created a dynamic and electrifying sound that came to define the jazz fusion style. Their collective musicianship was on full display on each album, as they seamlessly blended complex compositions with captivating improvisations. After releasing five legendary albums in the span of 6 years (now available form Candid Records on all streaming platforms, CD, and the vinyl box set The Complete Studio Recordings 1986-1991), Corea, always interested in expanding the scope of his work, devoted himself to a myriad of other musical projects. Compiled and completed by Corea before his death in February of 2021, this incredible and previously unreleased album of live recordings with the reunited original Elekteric Band, was captured during tour stops in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Produced by Corea with original Elektric Band recording engineer Bernie Kirsch, and mastered by Bernie Grundman, the 3 disc vinyl LP and 2 disc CD features in depth liner notes from Corea, and all of the Elektric Band members. It is a fitting closing chapter, a must have for any fan of this dynamic and game changing group.

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Atlantis Jazz Ensemble

Celestial Suite

22,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Red)

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Atlantis Jazz Ensemble is on the rise once again with "Celestial Suite", a brilliant set of spiritual soul-jazz, with a righteous energy in the mode of some of the best work on independent labels such as Strata East or Tribe back in the day, though updated with a fresh current vibe. With the blend of electric piano, sax, trumpet, bass and percussion presented here, the quintet has refined the searching, soaring quality of their sound, capturing over the course of two days in the studio an inspired session worthy of the skyward promise of the album’s title.

The set flows seamlessly from track to track. Opener “Breaking Dawn” starts things off gently as in a morning sunrise, before settling into a hypnotic modal groove. “Transcendence” then kicks up the tempo with boisterous Afro-Latin rhythms, before heading into the mystic soul-bossa brew of “Enlightenment”. Side A eases off with the pleading soul-jazz of “Invocation”, before ramping things up again on Side B with the ethereal pharoanic groove of “Oneness”. The tension builds on “Blessings”, with its searching, coltranesque modal quality, before easing into the funky, down-home exultations of “Joyful Noise”. The suite then winds down as calmly as it began with a solemn “Meditation”, closing the arc of this skybound journey.

The Atlantis Jazz Ensemble was first formed by Pierre Chrétien and Zakari Frantz of The Souljazz Orchestra back in 2013, as an outlet for the more modal, esoteric and spiritual compositions they were exploring outside the confines of their original unit. After the addition of trumpeter Ed Lister, bassist Alex Bilodeau and drummer Mike Essoudry, the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble released their maiden voyage "Oceanic Suite" in 2016, a bold first outing that became a bit of an underground classic, capturing the number two spot on the Canadian radio jazz charts that year (just behind BadBadNotGood’s "iv"), and leading Atlantis to open up live for the likes of Kamasi Washington and Anderson Paak.

However, the wind was somewhat taken out of the group’s sails when their original bassist suddenly moved away to Boston to study with Dave Holland, Cecil McBee, and other jazz luminaries. Atlantis sank into hiatus for a few years, until young double bass phenom Chris Pond blew into town from Eastern Canada, and the group rose up once again in 2022. After a fruitful residency in Ottawa’s hip Somerset Village that summer, perfecting the new set of original compositions that were to make up "Celestial Suite", the quintet hit Metropolitan Studios in the fall, and laid down an especially inspired rendition of the suite, captured with all of the analogue warmth the studio is known for.

"Celestial Suite" is the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble’s 2nd album and is released by Marlow Records on LP, CD, and digital / streaming on October 27th 2023. LP format is meticulously pressed in Canada with the new WarmTone fully automatic, modernised vinyl record pressing system, and comes with download card.

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Dannie Richmond Quintet

Dionysius

56,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mike Makhalemele & Winston Ngozi

Bull And The Lion

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (We Are Busy Bodies)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (We Are Busy Bodies)

Mike Makhalemele

Peacemaker

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Black Sweat)

Giovanni Di Domenico

Superlike

21,99 €*

The Library Archive Volume 3

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Giovanni Di Domenico has now achieved a personal and unmistakable style within contemporary minimalism. His music always expresses a state of concentration, of recollection and contemplation toward a focal node. Repetition is experienced as alchemical state, as truth contained in the small nuances of change, in a crescendo that never reaches a climax. The atmosphere is intuition and is made up of a few compositional touches. To compose is to make synthesis, to unearth purity, simplicity and exactness. This new work for solo piano is almost an imaginary novel...the notes seem to tell of deserted streets, lonely walks in the night or runs down stairs. In this sense the musician is the writer of silence and the fleeting moment. And so, amid slow chords like Chopin or Satie, moods oscillate between brio and allegro, evoking the lightness of love, greater sadness and melancholy, as well as more restless and agitated ostinatos, the product of a more cathartic worldview.

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V.A.

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (ATA)

31,99 €*

Pretalus 25th Anniversary Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Taking heavy inspiration from Jungle Obsession 9 by Roger Roger, and The Feed-back, as well as Blaxploitation era composers such as Willie Hutch and Melvin Van Peebles, and the masterful and ingenious Roy Budd, "The Library Archive Vol. 3" draws deeply from the well of library greatness.

Each track has been lovingly crafted with a keen ear for authenticity and the same eye for detail shown on 'The Library Archive’ Vol. 1 & 2, recorded on the same instruments and equipment and with the same techniques as the music that inspired it, with a focus throughout on stripped-back rhythm sections topped by flute, vibes and vintage synths.

With three volumes now out and another currently in R&D, The Library Archive will stand as a testament to the love the ATA producers and artists have for the original composers and performers.

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Waldemar Bastos

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Drag City)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hailed as "one of the great, overlooked records of 1998," by the new york times, this worldwide debut of the angolan artist waldemar bastos was recorded and produced by arto lindsay and david byrne in new york. Its title, which means "blacklight" in portuguese, is a hint to the powerful sorrow the music holds: pretaluz is an elegiac response to the angolan civil war, drawing on influences near and far like the fado, semba, zouk, and morna, to create indelible songs. "with his dramatic pauses and dynamic vibrato rising above subtle rhythms picked out on nylon-string guitars, everything mr. bastos sings emerges as a lament of enormous sadness," wrote the times. now on vinyl for the very first time, this limited 25th anniversary edition of pretaluz is a contender for the best-sounding record on luaka bop.

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Tashi Dorji

Guitar Improvisations

34,99 €*

Heavy Jazz - Live In Finland Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The initial cassette-only releases of Tashi Dorji turned lots of heads, including Six Organs of Admittance and Hermit Hut - now over a decade later, this release makes its full-album debut on vinyl."Guitar Improvisation and Tashi Dorji are the first physical releases of my guitar improvisations. They were put out by a small local, now defunct, label called Headway Recording in 2012 and 2013.The friends who ran the label had heard some of my guitar music and reached out to me about doing a cassette release.Guitar Improvisations was really my first recording of improvisation - in a semi-studio setting at my friend"s basement space. It really was a formative time for me because it felt like everything opened, as far as the possibilities of what music-making meant. Like improvisation walked in and then there was a volcanic eruption . . ." - Tashi Dorji

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Pekka Pohjola

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Svart)

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live At Ronnie Scott's 1964

Johnny Griffin

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Gearbox)

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Naive)

Stacey Kent

Summer Me, Winter Me

26,59 €* 27,99 € -5%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz At Oberlin Live At Oberlin College

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Desert Wind Red Vinyl Edtion

Yasar Akpençe

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Hot Casa)

16,99 €*

Undercover Live At The Village Vanguard

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Yaşar Akpençe was born in 1966 in Istanbul (Türquiye) and can be consider as one of the best world darbouka player. He began his career in music at the age of 9 by playing Congo and carried on with the darbuka at 13 and made his musical dream come true by working with famous musicians. Akpençe has performed as a guest musician on numerous albums as well as being the founder of the percussion collective known as « Harem Group ». Yasar has performed with almost every major artist in Turkey, spanning many genres including pop, traditional. gypsy, jazz, arabesque and contemporary. The track « Desert Wind » was released in 2004 on his cd album « Passion Percussion » and we ‘re very proud to reissue it for the first time on vinyl. This track is a dance floor classic ! A perfect tool for DJ’s all over the world.

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Kurt Rosenwinkel

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Heartcore)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Urban Myth Grey Marble Vinyl Edition

Trio Grande

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Second)

39,99 €*

Liquid Love / What's The T?

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP - 180 Gram Grey Marble Vinyl / Handnumbered Edition limited to 300 UnitsProdigious multi-instrumentalist Nate Wood joins the indefatigably creative partnership forged in New York City by Gilad Hekselman and Will Vinson. Urban Myth is a powerful, diverse but unified set of recordings that combines elements of jazz with pop accessibility and the directness and honesty of folk and delivers a new surprise at every turn. The Jazz Mann gave Trio Grande four stars and wrote about them "The sound of three huge individual talents coming together to create something that is even greater than the sum of its parts."

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Roy Ayers

7" | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Alim)

20,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

Azmari

Maelstroem

Undercover Live At The Village Vanguard Limited Signature Version

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Emerging from the heart of Brussels, the captivating five-piece Azmari is set to release ""Maëlström"" on October 20. For Maelström, the follow up to their acclaimed debut album Sam?'? (with raving reviews in Uncut, Songlines, Uk Vibe and Electronic Sound), the group has delved into uncharted musical territories creating a mesmerizing ""azmarian"" identity and melding intricate jazz textures with intoxicating oriental influences, otherworldly ethio grooves, enigmatic dark funk, and the pulsating beats of dub music,

For the creation of ""Maëlström,"" Azmari embarked on an intensive one-week recording journey. During this time, they meticulously honed the sound of their instruments, blending the nostalgic notes of old-school clavinet keyboards with cutting-edge synth sounds, resulting in a distinct and alluring atmosphere. Enriching their traditional instruments with balanced pedal effects and special amplification, the band added new flavours to their sound.

Founded in the vibrant musical haven of Brussels in 2015, Azmari have been crafting a truly unique tapestry of musical exploration. Azmari defies conventional labels to weave a narrative of sonic innovation and artistic liberation. Influences range from an eclectic array of artists, including Okay Temiz, Heliocentrics, Whitefield Brothers, Surprise Chef, Antibalas and Sons of Kemet.

From the band: ""For the third part of our musical journey, we dug into a deeper creative process. We literally immersed ourselves in deep waters during a unique two-week aquatic residency. The tracks on this album are thus directly imbued with distinctive underwater frequencies, the sounds of abyssal creatures, and the beauty of the seabed. Convinced by this creative experience, and guided by captain (and producer) Frederik Segers, we brought this album back to the surface and reveal a resolutely scaly, sandy, and deep soundscape."""

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Kurt Rosenwinkel

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Heartcore)

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Found)

Silva Thordardottir

More Than You Know

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Teitur & Aarhus Jazz Orchestra

Songs From A Social Distance

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Stunt)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mack Avenue)

Veronica Swift

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mack Avenue)

Aaron Diehl

Zodiac Suite

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Dynamic)

Ray Charles

Greatest Hits

34,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Best Of The Mps Years

Monty Alexander

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Grains HHV Exclusive Purple Vinyl Edition

Move 78

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Village Live)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Balmat)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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HHV exclusive vinyl edition on purple vinyl, limited to 100 copies.

“Grains” is the third studio album by Move 78. The album is scheduled for release on vinyl & digital via Village Live Records on Friday 3rd November 2023.

The eight tracks of the album were originally recorded as jam sessions at Trixx studios in October 2021. These initial ideas have then been chopped up, rearranged and remixed multiple times over the past 18 months and combined with a plethora of home recordings.

The 32 minutes of music represent an evolution in the band’s signature blend of free-flowing, improvised jazz and programmed, automated hip-hop.In addition to the core line-up of Doron Segal (synths), Nir Sabag (drums), Hal Strewe (bass), Meravi Goldman (French horn) and Aver (sampler/production), the album features collaborations with Aquiles Navarro on trumpet (Irreversible Entanglements), A.J. Nilles on viola (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), Eric Owusu on percussion (Àbáse / Jembaa Groove) and rising star of the German soul/jazz scene singer Douniah (Melting Pot Music).

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Anagrams

Blue Voices

25,99 €*

Christmas With My Friends VIII

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Balmat co-founders Philip Sherburne and Albert Salinas have been fans of Shy Layers' lilting, Balearic pop for years, so when Shy Layers' JD Walsh asked us to listen to a set of demos he was working up with fellow Atlanta multi-instrumentalist Jeff Crompton, we jumped at the chance. And once we heard their work in progress, the decision was almost immediate: We have to release this. Together, Walsh and Crompton are Anagrams, and their debut album together, Blue Voices, might initially seem like a departure from Balmat's habitually electronic terrain. It's not ambient music, but it's also not not ambient music, at least to listeners in the right frame of mind. The two musicians, who met when Walsh moved from Brooklyn to Atlanta in 2016 and began collaborating a few years later, see the music in similarly ambiguous terms. "I like it because it's not jazz," jokes Crompton, a veteran and credentialed jazz player. "And JD likes it because it's jazz." Crompton is a musician (and former high-school band teacher) with deep roots in Georgia's improvised and experimental music scenes; his credits include shows with Eugene Chadbourne, a guest appearance with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and a collaboration with Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel's 12-hour drone performance at Knoxville's Big Ears. On Blue Voices he plays alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet, electric piano, and organ. Walsh has been releasing music as Shy Layers since 2015, when he started self-releasing on Bandcamp; the following year, Germany's Growing Bin packaged his first two EPs as a self-titled album, and in 2018, Tim Sweeney's Beats in Space label put out Shy Layers' sophomore album, Midnight Marker. Where those records channeled Walsh's playful harmonic instincts into wistful songwriting with tropical overtones, on Blue Voices he lets his experimental tendencies take the lead. Playing acoustic and electric guitars, electric lap steel, bass, Moog Matriarch, modular synth, and programmed drums, he concentrates his energies on richly textural layers and abstract assemblages of tone color. Across the album's 11 tracks, there are faint echoes of familiar touchstones: the atmospheric twang of Daniel Lanois' pedal steel on Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks; the mercurial modal runs of Ethio-jazz; the late-summer calm of Fuubutsushi; the versatility of players and composers like Patrick Shiroishi and Sam Gendel, who are asking similar questions about where jazz ends and some other, nameless territory begins. Mostly, though, what Blue Voices captures is the quixotic sound of two restless musical imaginations making it up as they go along, two voices discovering a shared language in a hitherto unexplored shade of blue.

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Nils Landgren

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Act Music)

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Resavoir Dusk Cloud Colored Vinyl Edition

Resavoir

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (International Anthem)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ASC)

Daryl Runswick

Late Jazz

20,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Astigmatic)

Tomasz Stanko Quintet

Wooden Music II

13,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Astigmatic)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The discovery of Tomasz Stańko's archive recordings from 50 years ago at Radio Bremen demonstrated the dynamic development of this shrouded in mystery quintet, which was a blank spot in the history of Polish jazz. Released by Astigmatic Records, the album turned out to be a surprise and a huge musical treat for many fans who no longer remember such a fiery period in the career of the outstanding trumpeter. The record received much critical acclaim and sold out in a blink, and Jazz Forum magazine recognised Wooden Music I as the historic album of the year. Now the time has come for the 2nd and final installment of wooden music.

It takes more than one album to fully illustrate the evolution of the band with which Tomasz Stańko, as its leader, recorded Music for K, one of the most important albums in Polish jazz. It is the early 1970s, Zbigniew Seifert gives up the saxophone in favour of the violin, so the band's sound becomes more 'wooden', and around this expression Stańko builds the foundations of a philosophy, which he wrote down on four small sheets of paper, still kept by Bronisław Suchanek, the quintet's bass player: We seek to create the kind of music that, while operating with all the elements of the most genuine jazz, attempts to look at it from a different angle, from a different mental plane. We do not experiment with the material, but with the form. For the form does not have to be a logical and strict construction of the entire piece, it can be free, improvised while playing, resulting from the mood, or atmosphere existing at a given moment, or random things, creating with their free fluidity that specific "magical mood". This, of course, excludes compositions in the traditional sense - Tomasz Stańko wrote at the time.

Wooden Music is therefore like a postcard - not so much of a specific gig, but of the entire period of the quintet's activity. It opens with compositions featured on Jazzmessage from Poland. Wooden Music I recorded in Bremen on 15 June 1972 is its peak - when the band plays free, vigorous music, but more sensitively planned, as the group is more in-tune after hours of joint stage encounters. Wooden Music II, recorded in Hamburg on 9 November 1972, is the conclusion of their vision of free-jazz - the final phase where composed pieces ("Calme" and "6 & 8") begin to emerge from wild improvisation. Some of these would, a few months later, find their way onto an iconic piece in Tomasz Stańko's discography - the Purple Sun album (e.g. "Flute's Ballad")... but with a slightly different line-up. When the band decides to wrap up, they are at the peak of their form, each feeling the need to develop on their own. They know when to step off the stage. They are invincible.

Tomasz Stańko Quintet was one of the most outstanding European free jazz ensembles of its time. The Polish musicians, plus a plethora of individuals such as Brötzmann, Mangelsdorff, Schlippenbach, Vesala or Surman, contributed to a movement which, while co-operating with the American avant-garde, had its own specificity and its own unique audience. Polish jazzmen, newcomers from behind the Iron Curtain, were seen as carrying a message of freedom to the countries of the region. It took many years for this message to come true. Today, European jazz seems to be far more erudite, emotionally restrained, intellectual, seeking links with contemporary avant-garde and ethno music. It's all very beautiful, but sometimes one would like to discard all of this extra wrapping and bring out the essence of jazz - the synergic energy and striving for the limits of expression, even if it poses the risk of a musical explosion - Tomasz Szachowski states in Jazz Forum. Therefore, it is time to see if we are dealing with explosive material in the case of the second installment of wooden music.

Thus, the Wooden Music series culminates with its second part coming from the archives of NDR radio, which recorded the footage in a small club in Hamburg called Jazzhouse. This time, the additional stem-mastering was done by Marcin Cichy, who perfected the sound on the album even more. The infallible Matt Colton is once again responsible for the half-speed cut of the vinyl matrix. Wooden Music II will be released on Astigmatic Records in digital, CD and LP versions, as well as in a limited edition on purple vinyl, with a B2-size poster designed by Natalia Łabędź. The premiere of the album will take place on 27 October, and pre-orders for the disc will start on 6 October 2023.

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Tomasz Stanko Quintet

Wooden Music II

35,99 €*

LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gregory Porter

Christmas Wish

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (La Sape)

Joshua Moshe

Inner Search