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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Jazzwerkstatt Wien)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On vinyl for th efirst time. Famed free jazz concert registration of an early New Direction for the Art performance. Recorded in 1971. Old-style Gatefold LP, with rare photographs & extensive liner notes by Alan Cummings.

The performance by Takayanagi Masayuki New Direction for the Art at the Gen’yasai festival on August 14, 1971 was an intense, bruising collision between the radical, anti-establishment politics of the period in Japan and the febrile avant-garde music that had begun to emerge a few years before. The ferocious performance that you can hear here was received with outright hostility by the audience, who responded first with catcalls and later with showers of debris that were hurled at the performers. Takayanagi though described the group’s performance to jazz magazine Swing Journal as a success, “an authentic and realistic depiction of the situation”.

In 1962, Takayanagi, bassist Kanai Hideto and painter Kageyama Isamu went on to form an AACM-style musicians’ collective called the New Century Music Research Institute. Every Friday, members gathered at Gin-Paris, a chanson bar in the fashionable Ginza district of Tokyo, to push the outer limits of jazz creativity.

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Synesthetic Octet

Uya

22,49 €* 24,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | Original (Just Looking Pr)

Sylvain Luc

By Renaud Letang

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Dala)

Sweet Megg

Under The Moonlight

Svenska Folkjazzkvartetten

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dala Records is proud to present the new album from vocalist Sweet Megg! Recorded entirely live to analog tape in a mind-boggling two days, "Under the Moonlight" invites you into the world of Traditional Jazz and Country while showcasing the virtuosic talents of Sweet Megg and her band, The Wayfarers. Consisting of Ryan Weisheit on tenor sax, bass sax and soprano sax, Sam Chess on trombone, Thor Jensen on electric guitar, Rob Adkins on upright bass and Chris Gelb on drums, The Wayfarers bring a timeless sound to the album and provide nuanced performances over which Sweet Megg shines. Allow yourself to sit back and enjoy the group’s immense talents not only as performers and soloists, but also arrangers, as each member takes on arranging duties for multiple songs throughout the album. Recorded by Dala Records founder Billy Aukstik in his analog-centric Brooklyn studio, Hive Mind Recording, "Under the Moonlight" could easily be mistaken for a classic Columbia Records album from the 1950s, yet still feels fresh and new, leaving you wanting more from Sweet Megg & The Wayfarers!

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Folkjazz Anfaller

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Chimp Limbs)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wabi Sabi HHV Exclusive Numbered White Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Piano Piano)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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HHV, Piano Piano and Sven Wunder team up to bring you this white vinyl edition of three albums only available at HHV. The color was picked by the artist. Each album is limited to 300 copies and numbered.

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Piano Piano)

Wabi Sabi

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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

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Natura Morta HHV Exclusive Numbered White Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Piano Piano)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Piano Piano)

Natura Morta

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The highly anticipated follow-up to Eastern Flowers and Wabi Sabi US pressing The staff used on Natura Morta is the following: 9 violins, 4 violas, 3 cellos, 1 flute, 1 piano, 1 electric piano, 1 cembalo, 1 twelve-string guitar, 1 electric guitar, 1 trumpet, 1 flugelhorn, 1 tenor horn, 1 marimba, 1 electric bass, drums and percussions / On Natura Morta, Sven Wunder is exploring art as a bridge between nature and the human ability to judge and observe in eleven musical compositions with brightly colored textures and an emphasis on vibrant melodies.

Throughout human history, we have depicted the world we live in through art. By reworking what we see in the world, the simplest things have helped us understand the beauty of nature and to evaluate the material world that we have created around us, as a window to a constantly changing reality, through our own perception. It is that absolute reality that appears in the seam of human and nature and that can be revealed through art.

Still life painting, also referred to as Natura Morta (”dead nature”) in Italian, stretches back to ancient times. Some of the earliest works, found in Pompeii, depict commonplace objects such as fresh autumn fruits alongside man-made objects such as a small amphora and a small terracotta heap with dried fruits. These two-thousand-year-old paintings give a snapshot of Roman life, and also creates a link to time and space. A slice of life has been created by binding the earth’s pigments with extracts of oil, made from nuts and seeds, painted with brushes, made from a variety of fibers, such as trees and hair from animals. While life wanes with each brushstroke, by shifting reality into the past, art exists to make us come alive, being a living image of a dead thing, a surface and a symbol with symbolic powers of its own. Still life works celebrate material and ephemeral pleasures by returning to nature as the ultimate source for our standards in art as well as in life itself.

Natura Morta collects pieces from a continuous variety of melodies — supported by a decisive rhythm section — creating a musical kaleidoscope of ever-changing colors. Sven Wunder brings life into this rich assortment of musical implications by fusing and combining melodic instruments with each other in a setting that spans from a classical to a modern idiom. The author evokes this panoramic portrait by articulating an instrumental dialog between a chamber orchestra and a jazz ensemble. The result is a musical celebration of material pleasures that also serves as a reminder of the brevity of human life. This album was produced with financial support from the Swedish Arts Council.

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Magnolia / Tulip Green Vinyl Edition

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

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mr Bongo is delighted to present a new and exciting collaborative project with Swedish label Piano Piano Records. Hearing the Swedish outfit Sven Wunder for the first time is as refreshing as an ice-cold Limoncello after an Italian meal. One of those bands that feel instantly familiar like an old friend, yet simultaneously fresh and new. Straight away we fell in love with their sound and knew we had to work with them. The first fruits of our partnership is a collector's edition 7.

We have selected two tracks of Turkish inspired funk goodness taken from their already cult-classic 2019 album, 'Do?u Çiçekleri (Eastern Flowers )'. Both instrumentals, 'Tulip' and 'Magnolia' could easily have come from a lost soundtrack to a psychedelic movie. With their beautiful, yet raw aesthetic, they will enthrall funk, B-Boy / Girls, and psychedelia fans alike.

Cut at the Timmion Records Cutting Lab in Finland.

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

Magnolia / Lotus

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

Impasto / Prussian Blue

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In collaboration with Piano Piano Records, Mr Bongo is thrilled to present a taster 7” single, ‘Impasto’ / 'Prussian Blue’. The single showcases the colourful palette of Sven Wunder's fabulous forthcoming third album 'Natura Morta’. The album is set to be released on Piano Piano Records later in 2021 with this 7” acting as the perfect prelude. Sven's 2019 album 'Eastern Flowers' took us into the world of Anatolian rock, European jazz, library, funk, psychedelia, and traditional folk melodies. The 2020 follow up, 'Wabi Sabi’, mixed jazz and Eastern and Southern Asian sounds to present an aural aesthetic of the Japanese ancient wisdom. 'Natura Morta’, "still life" in Italian, owes its inspiration to art. Sven Wunder explores it as a bridge between nature and the human ability to judge and observe through eleven unique musical compositions, each one brightly coloured and textured with an emphasis on vibrant melodies. As with previous Sven Wunder material the tracks here on this 7" are covered in lush orchestration, evoking the rich musical soundscapes of a previous era (think library music or the film scores of Morricone). First up is the beautiful ‘Impasto’ which refers to the technique used in painting where the paint is laid in very thick layers on a surface. With its lavish sweeping strings and melodies there are echoes of the arrangements of Arthur Verocai, but it then takes a turn into 60s detective movie territory. You can imagine it being the score to a scene in a Harry Palmer film which breaks for a romantic interlude in between the action and suspense. 'Prussian Blue’, is built on Sven’s ‘Shinrinyoku' from the 'Wabi Sabi’ album, sharing the same melody but here with an uptempo beat and another arrangement. It begins with a moment of calm with its soothing piano intro before it bursts into a percussive breakbeat workout. It skates and glides with the influences of Italian library music and Eastern melodies, yet at the same time it retains a unique element that can only be Sven Wunder. 'Prussian Blue' refers to the pigment that was imported to Japan. Once again, we are indebted to Sven Wunder and John Henriksson at Piano Piano Records for letting us share this melodious vision from one of our favourite contemporary musicians. The compositions on this 7" were produced with financial support from the Swedish Arts Council.

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

Hanami / Shinrinyoku

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eastern Flowers HHV Exclusive Numbered White Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Piano Piano)

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eastern Flowers (Doğu Çiçekleri)

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Piano Piano)

Schlingerland / Dynamische Schwingungen

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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US issue of 2019’s "Doğu Çiçekleri”

This is the first stop on Sven Wunders musical journey. Wunder takes the listener somewhere around the easternmost part of the Mediterranean Sea, around the Levantine Sea, where he paints a colourful portrait and illustrates the regions flora through sound. The fruitage is a vivid bouquet where Wunder fuses colours and pigments by using traditional and modern instruments merged with arrangements and melodies that stretches from popular to folk music by portraying tulips, red roses, hibiscus, hyacinths, chamomile, magnolia, daisies etcetera. With both fine and thick brushes are these flowers being pictured in a both modern and classic idiom. The outcome is prismatic. It stands between Anatolian rock and European jazz-funk with ponderous drum patterns, groovy organs, far-out synthesizers, enchanting Saz and impetuous bass lines. Eastern Flowers sweeps through time and space and points towards the future. It could appeal both psych and prog listeners, folk or jazz aficionados and as well the gourmet hip hop connoisseurs.

Eastern Flowers is the US issue of 2019s Docu Çiçekleri. This record is produced with financial support from the Swedish Arts Council.

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Sven-Ake Johansson

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Cien Fuegos / Cargo)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Svein Rikard Mathisen & John Derek

Calm Brutalism

LP | 2022 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Release: 2022 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Music From Memory)

Suso Sáiz

Resonant Bodies

Someone Like You Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Music From Memory are excited to present the latest chapter in their ongoing collaboration with seminal Spanish ambient musician Suso Saiz. 'Resonant Bodies’ is Suso’s seventh album project with the label and again raises the bar of his musical output, embracing a conceptual approach of which Suso himself says the following: “A body vibrates producing a sound that reaches another body and makes it vibrate and generate a new sound that makes another body vibrate that generates another sound... Imagine an infinite orchestra of bodies multiplying their sound vibrations creating the symphony of Resonant Bodies. Resonance as a principle of Communication; sound as a builder of ties and interrelations between men. Resonant Bodies pieces are part of a whole and are both generators of it. Unlike other works, during the approximately two years it took me to finish Resonant Bodies, the pieces were gradually completed and small sound particles were added caused by the vibrations generated by the previous layers until creating imperfect and synchronized sound objects. Communication.”

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Susan Wong

LP | 2013 | WW | Reissue (Evo Sound)

43,99 €*

Release: 2013 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Daylight Savings Black Vinyl Edition

Surprise Chef

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

All News Is Good News Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Daylight Savings is the second full-length album by Melbourne's cinematic soul journeymen Surprise Chef.

Recorded over a weekend in Surprise Chef's DIY analogue studio (dubbed The College Of Knowledge), Daylight Savings expands on the dramatic 1970s cinematic soul sound established on their acclaimed first album, 2019's All News Is Good News.

Created in Spring 2019, just as the jasmine bush in the backyard of the College Of Knowledge was coming to full bloom, Daylight Savings is filled with the optimism and hope that comes with the impending long, warm evenings after a dreary Melbourne winter.

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Surprise Chef

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Anti)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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There is something simultaneously both brand-new and retro about 'All News Is Good News’ - the debut album from Melbourne's instrumental soul group Surprise Chef. It sounds like something dreamt up by lo-fi cousins of David Axelrod and Janko Nilovic, with dramatic Library-music-eqsue cinematic arrangements echoing both light and dark, delving into moments of dissonance and positivity. There is a meticulous education of 1970’s soul on display that touches on the legacies of the great composer / producers, yet at the same time this is a truly contemporary record that could have only been made now. The first limited pressing of 'All News Is Good News’ was released on the band's own 'College Of Knowledge' imprint in November 2019. It slipped rapidly into the collective consciousness of underground music lovers around the world, with all copies selling out within a week and becoming a firm favourite at Mr Bongo HQ in the process. We felt Surprise Chef had made something very special, a future-classic, and that needed to be heard well beyond those lucky enough to have bagged those limited first copies. Formed at the end of 2017, Surprise Chef have grown within the fertile, creative, and supportive Melbourne music scene. Whilst the band is comprised of four core members, the album features friends and family as guest instrumentalists on flute, saxophone, vibraphone, congas, and assorted percussion; all adeptly recorded by engineer Henry Jenkins from the band Karate Boogaloo. The warm-raw-authenticity of the album was captured in the recordings live to tape over a handful of sessions in the band’s home studio in Melbourne’s inner-northern suburb of Coburg. As band member Lachlan Stuckey explains “All of the music we record is tracked live to tape, simply because so many of the records we love most were made that way". The results are a captivating journey of instrumental cinematic-soul that will connect with the hardened Axelrod, Truth & Soul, El Michels Affair, and Daptone's fans, as well as the open-minded first-time listener. We are very excited to share this first slice of Surprise Chef’s world, with plenty more magic from these guys coming around the corner very soon.

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Sunking

Smug

24,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ikuisuus)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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sunking is the experimental sights and sounds of Seattle natives Bobby Granfelt & Antoine Martel, an outlet for the duo whose music is "steeped in funk, fusion, and the dreamier end of the rock spectrum," said Seattle"s The Stranger. The Stranger also went on to say that "this city needs more groups like sunking, who flit among genres such as hip-hop, jazz, and shoegaze rock while messing with the DNAs of each style they address."Both Granfelt and Martel are also members of High Pulp, a jazz collective that draws influences from punk rock, shoegaze, hip-hop, and electronic music. Also signed to ANTI-, their album "Pursuit of Ends" came out in April of this year. "High Pulp blend old-school bebop with contemporary soul and electronica vibes, as though someone convinced the ghost of Duke Ellington to reinterpret a Chemical Brothers album," said the A.V. Club.

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Sunhiilow

Beyond The Cycle

14,99 €*

Night Lands Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Beyond the Cycle', is the first LP of Sunhiilow, also known as Valerie Magisson, a french musician who is living in Finland. The tracks were recorded with a warm sounding synth, Moog Mother-32. 'Beyond the Cycle' is an ethereal ambient music, following the earlier album ‘Whispers of a Dream Wind’, which was her first step into the analog synth music. Sunhiilow has learned how to catch the emotions and transpose it through the music. The artworks on the sleeve are also made by her.

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Sunda Arc

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

36,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Polskie Nagrania)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sunda Arc are brothers Nick Smart and Jordan Smart, best known as two-thirds of jazz-influenced minimalists Mammal Hands, and on the 18thNovember, they are set to release their sophomore album 'Night Lands' via Gondwana Records, home to such artists as GoGo Penguin, Portico Quartet, Hania Rani and Forgiveness.

Releasing their debut EP 'Flicker' in 2018, Sunda Arc have performed live at AB Brussels, Blue Dot Festival, The Roundhouse, Jazz Café, Reworks Festival, the Royal Albert Hall and Albert Hall, Manchester with GoGo Penguin. Their debut album 'Tides', released in 2020, received high praise from numerous tastemaker media including DJ magazine who described their music as "sounding like John Hopkins' long-lost sibling".

Sunda Arc channels Nick and Jordan's love of electronic and dance music, without losing any of their deep musicality. Drawing on techno, electronica, neo-classical and post-rock influences, Sunda Arc compose and perform using both electronic and acoustic instruments, including analogue synthesisers, home-made software patches, piano, saxophones and bass clarinet – all finessed and channelled through their own unique creative strategies. Integrating electronic elements and experimentation with the expressiveness and energy of acoustic instruments and live performance, Sunda Arc's music is expansive and compelling. "We wanted 'Night Lands' to be an exciting listen, deliberately keeping some elements under control and having other elements of the tracks feeling like they were on the edge of tipping over into being pretty chaotic. There was also the idea of generally keeping the drums and bass pretty heavy sounding when they kick in, imaging how they would sound over a big system and then holding back and focusing on melody and texture when they weren't needed."

From the warm, melodic textures of 'Distant Siren' and 'Beacons' to the ethereal rumblings of 'Endless Fields' and 'Night Lands', Sunda Arc immerse and engulf the listener, expanding simple melodies into bold rhythmic patterns, allowing the acoustic sounds to submerge with the electronic for maximum emotional and dramatic effect. A common theme for 'Night Lands', the duo's enthusiasm to incorporate digital and analogue sounds seamlessly and blur the line between the two, results in a sound world that has both the warmth of analogue sounds and the cold, crispness of digital. "We wanted to manipulate acoustic instruments to make them sound more like samples or older recordings at points, like with the Turkish Ney flute on 'Neon Forest' that we pitch shifted and saturated to sound more like we'd sampled an old 70s recording."

Elsewhere, 'Static Waves' and 'Forgotten Dream' use familiar and foreign sounds with an emphasis on tone and atmosphere to create a soundscape that feels like home and alien at the same time. ""We were trying to make sure the ambient moments felt really alive on this record, like a living, breathing sound world, trying to avoid things sounding too placid. We wanted them to feel just as engaging as the tracks with heavy beats so were always looking at ways to inject as much life and character into them as we could, often recording things to tape and using real tape delays to add a bit of character and fuzzy warmth to things and combining that with more cold, clinical elements."

At times, Sunda Arc create a harsh, brutal world allowing the sound to manipulate the listener's emotional response to each track. "We were talking about dystopian themes a fair bit when we were writing the tunes and I think being in London during the lockdown definitely had an impact on our mindset at the time. The two radio samples on 'Neon Forest' and 'Static Waves' are both just random stations we found on fm radio and recorded some short sections but I both were talking about Covid related stuff. We definitely didn't feel like making a celebratory or joyful record at that point, it was much more of an introspective and moody set of tracks we were focusing on and I guess the feeling of missing being able to go out or see friends and family played a part in this."

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Sun Ship

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Singles Volume 1: Definite 45s Collection 1952-1961

3LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Strut)

34,99 €*

The Mystery Of Being: Voice Studio Rome Jan 1978

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The immense output of Sun Ra and his many backing bands, coupled with the limited production of many of his releases has long defied dedicated collectors. Parallel to a vast list of LP releases, Sun Ra released numerous 45 RPM singles; one-off meteorites from his prolific cosmic journey. Working closely with Sun Ra LLC and Art Yard Records, it is with great pride that Strut presents a definitive collection of the rare singles released by Sun Ra across his illustrious career, spanning 1952 to 1991.

Released prolifically during the 1950s and more sporadically thereafter, primarily on the Saturn label, the 45s trace the development of Sun Ra’s forward-thinking “Space-Bop” and his unique take on jazz and blues traditions which remains unlike anything else from the period. As with his LPs, most 45s were only pressed in small runs and have since become extremely rare and sought after. Some have only been discovered in physical form in recent years; some were planned and penciled but allegedly never made it to vinyl and some appeared as one-off magazine singles and posthumous releases.

‘Singles: The Definitive 45 Collection’ will be released in two volumes on vinyl across two release dates. All formats feature fully remastered tracks, rare photos, poster artwork, extensive sleeve notes by Francis Gooding, an interview with Saturn Records founder Alton Abraham by John Corbett and detailed track by track and session notes by Paul Griffiths.

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Sun Ra Quartet

3LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Klimt)

58,99 €*

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Monorails And Satellites Volumes 1-3

3LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Cosmic Myth)

44,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"I have always thought orchestra. I play that way, even when playing the piano." — Sun Ra

Monorails and Satellites were two volumes of solo piano works recorded by Sun Ra in 1966. Volume 1 was issued on his Saturn label in 1968, volume 2 the following year. They were the first commercial LPs of the artist's solo keyboard excursions. Vol. 1 featured seven idiosyncratic Sun Ra originals and one standard delivered in Sunny's singular manner. Vol. 2 consists entirely of original compositions. A tape of a third, unreleased volume was discovered posthumously by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive. Released here for the first time, it consists of five originals and four standards, and was recorded in stereo.

Despite Sun Ra's obsession with the future, Monorails and Satellites is something of a nostalgia trip. As a youth in Birmingham, Alabama, the man who became Sun Ra—Herman Poole Blount—spent hours at the Forbes Piano Company, amusing himself (as well as staff and customers) at the showroom keyboards. He practiced standards, emulated his piano heroes, played the latest pop songs, and improvised. The idyllic reveries which the teen experienced in those formative years were no doubt recaptured during the Monorails sessions.

The playing here speaks less of a style, and more of a collection of statements. Some of the tunes, with their odd juxtapositions of mood, could be mistaken for silent film scores. Perhaps they were audio notebooks, a way to generate ideas which could be developed with the band ("I think orchestra"). Regardless of any secondary (and admittedly speculative) intent, they serve as compelling standalone works. The fingering reflects Sun Ra's encyclopedic knowledge of piano history as his passages veer from stride to swing, from barrelhouse to post-bop, from march to Cecil Taylor-esque free flights, with a bit of soothing "candelabra" swank thrown in. Sunny's attack is mercurial, his themes unpredictable. His hands can be primitive or playful, then abruptly turn sensitive and elegant. As with the whole of Sun Ra's recorded legacy, you get everything but consistency and predictability.

The listener also experiences something rare in the Sun Ra recorded omniverse: intimacy. His albums, generally populated by the rotating Arkestral cast, are raucous affairs. With the Monorails sessions, we eavesdrop on private moments: the artist, alone with his piano. These are brief audio snapshots of what was surely a substantial part of Sun Ra's life, infinitesimal surviving scraps of 100,000 hours similarly spent, most lost to posterity.

The 2-CD and 3-LP packages of this set include an essay by three-time Down Beat Artist of the Year VIJAY IYER, along with a historical chronicle by jazz authority BEN YOUNG.

– I.C.

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LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Jazz In Silhouette

23,74 €* 24,99 € -5%

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Strut)

Horizon

23,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the years leading up to 1971, Sun Ra wrote many compositions and poems specifically inspired by the ancient African Kingdoms and many others with associated mythological and heliocentric connotations. As such, a visit to Egypt and the opportunity for the Arkestra to play there was a matter of necessity. Ra's first ever concerts outside of the US had occurred in late summer and autumn of 1970 with performances in France, Germany and the UK and a second European tour was arranged for late 1971. At the end of that second tour, Ra caught wind of cheap flights from Denmark to Cairo. This release comprises recordings made by Arkestra member Thomas "Bugs" Hunter made in December 1971 in the streets around the Mena House Hotel, Giza, from a concert held at the house of Goethe Institute ex-pat Hartmut Geerken in Heliopolis, from a live Cairo TV channel broadcast and a concert at the Ballon Theatre in Cairo. The impact and significance of these few weeks upon Sun Ra can be measured by the growth and development of his output over the next few years; the immediate post-Egypt period included new studio and live recordings on the Saturn, Blue Thumb, Atlantic and Impulse labels and the 'Space Is The Place' movie. Ra also edited the three LPs of the 'Live In Egypt' series which were subsequently released on his Saturn record label and its affiliated twin, Thoth Intergalactic: 'Dark Myth Equation Visitation', 'Nidhamu' and 'Horizon'. These three albums are now reissued as single LP editions in their original artwork.

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Dark Myth Equation Visitation

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Strut)

23,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dance Of The Cosmo Aliens / Door Of The Cosmos Magenta Vinyl Edition

7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Art Yard)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A couple of magnificent Sun Ra gems on this heavyweight 7". Pressed at 33rpm on neon magenta vinyl. TIP!

Both tracks are denoted as 'Disco Edit' by the label, and we smell and air of fun in that. If not then find us the Disco that plays this kind of fire and we are there! This ain't no added kick drum + high hat to make the stiff folk dance bullshit.

Side A is very respectful and dope chop up of Disco 3000's Dance OF THE Cosmo Aliens. Side B a more subtle edit of Sleeping Beauty's celestial Door OF THE CosmoS

.. did we say TIP!?

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Modern Harmonic)

Crystal Spears

33,99 €*

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in ’73 and rejected by tin-eared major label execs in ’75, Crystal Spears (or “Crystal Clear” as it appears on the tape box) subsumes a cathartic brawl between Minimoog and Yamaha combo organ, with percussionists providing tonal textures, and plaintive oboe colliding with roaring electronic keyboards over waves of rollicking marimba, devilishly chattering below the fray. Crystal Spears is Ra’s once lost aural cinematheque! Includes a quad-ra-color Sun Ra poster!
Crystal Spears, intended for release in 1975 by ABC/Impulse! and assigned catalog # AS-9297, was ultimately rejected by the label. Ra and business manager Alton Abraham retained the rights, rechristened the album Crystal Clear and assigned Saturn Records catalog # 562—but they never got around to issuing it. The first three tracks on this album were mastered from that tape, a 1/4-inch four-track (15 ips) brand favored by home recording enthusiasts—and generally disfavored by pro engineers. The sessions took place at Variety Recording Studio in New York on February 3, 1973, a month before the Ark returned on March 8 to record Cymbals, as well as tracks issued decades later under the title Sign Of The Myth (and perhaps even Pathways To Unknown Worlds).

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LP | 2015 | US | Original (ORG Music)

Calling Planet Earth

28,04 €* 32,99 € -15%

Sun Ra Arkestra Under The Direction Of Marshall Allen

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Psychedelic Colored Vinyl, first time on vinyl, limited to 2000, indie-retail exclusive Limited edition for Record Store Day 2015!

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Live At Babylon

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (In & Out)

37,99 €*

Swirling Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180gr, gatefold cover, handsigned and handnumbered

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Sun Ra Arkestra

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Strut)

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Omni Sounds)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The planets align this October as the mighty Sun Ra Arkestra, under the direction of the maestro Marshall Allen, release their first studio album in over twenty years, ‘Swirling’. Recorded at Rittenhouse Soundworks in Philadelphia, the new recording represents the continuation of a heartfelt rebirth of the Arkestra under Allen’s guidance since Sun Ra left the planet in 1993, gaining new generations of followers from their regular touring across the globe. With a big band line-up featuring long-standing Arkestra members including Danny Ray Thompson (rip), Michael Ray, Vincent Chancey, Knoel Scott, Cecil Brooks, Atakatune (rip), Elson Nascimento and Tyler Mitchell, the album is a full-blooded celebration of Sun Ra’s legacy. Tracks include brand new arrangements of Arkestra staples ‘Angels And Demons At Play’, ‘Satellites Are Spinning’, ‘Door Of The Cosmos’ and ‘Rocket No. 9’ alongside lesser known gems; the rousing blues ‘Darkness’ is recorded here for the first time, resurrected from the Ra archives by Marshall Allen. Other highlights include an epic version of ‘Seductive Fantasy’ (first recorded on Ra’s ‘On Jupiter’ LP in 1979), the freeform sonic blast of ‘Infinity / I’ll Wait For You’ and a first ever recording of the Marshall Allen swing composition, ‘Swirling’. “We truly hope that this recording brings much joy to a planet which is so deeply in need of a spirit sound and vibration,” states saxophonist Knoel Scott. “We hope it contributes to a change in the ominous direction of man’s journey through the cosmos.” “This new release is the Arkestra’s love offering to the world,” concludes Marshall Allen. “Beta music for a better world.”

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Sun Ra Arkestra

Living Sky

42,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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To Those Of Earth And Other Worlds

Sun Ra And His Arkestra

2LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Strut)

LP | 2020 | JP | Original (Somethin' Cool)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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Sumire Kuribayashi

Nameless Piano

37,99 €*

Stay True (Prod. Gba) Aquamarine Color Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Japan import! Better don't sleep!

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Styles P

7" | 2021 | US | Original (GBA Studios)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP+CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Buteobuteo)

Stuff.

Stockhausen Markus / Mortazavi Alireza

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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STUFF. is a 5 piece live band that brings a crossgenre groove, spanning from broken hiphop to more electronic and jazz influenced future funk. Believers are amongst others PLAID, Kev Beadle, Kutmah, Lefto and Jamie Woon.

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Hamdelaneh Intimate Dialogues Dark Red Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Dark Companion)

31,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Steve Nelson Jazz Quartet

Jitterbug Waltz

LP | 2020 | JP | Original (Venus)

47,99 €*

Release: 2020 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Steve Lehman / Selebeyone / High Priest of Anti-Pop Consortium

Xaybu: The Unseen

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Pi)

Steve Karmen Feat. Jimmy Radcliffe

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Xaybu: The Unseen is the sophomore release from Sélébéyone, the international avant-rap collective led by saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman, who has been hailed by The New York Times for his "sure-footed futurism" in the realms of modern jazz and contemporary classical music. Comprised of MCs HPrizm and Gaston Bandimic, saxophonists Lehman and Maciek Lasserre, and drummer Damion Reid, their eponymous 2016 debut was hailed as a game-changing synthesis of underground hip-hop, modern jazz and live electronic music that was described by Pitchfork as "legitimately new" and a "revelation." On Xaybu, Sélébéyone - which means "intersection" in Wolof - continues to build on it's groundbreaking work with shifting rhythms and state-of-the art sound design, now with a newfound sense of effortless fluidity. The word "xaybu" in Wolof refers to the concept in Islamic mysticism of al-Ghaib - that which is unknowable and unseeable. HPrizm (a.k.a. High Priest, legend of New York's underground hip-hop

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Breakaway (Part I) / Breakaway (Part Ii)

7" | 2021 | UK | Original

16,99 €*

Steve Gadd & Mika Stoltzman

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Although associated with Wigan Casino, “Breakaway” was originally spun by DJ Colin Curtis at Blackpool Mecca under the imaginative title “Black Ship To Hell” (The Wigan Casino Years by Tim Brown). Today, over 50 years on, it has lost none of its energy and appeal and remains a favourite oldie and guaranteed floor-filler.

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Spirit Of Chick Corea

LP | 2022 | JP | Original (Eight Islands)

41,99 €*

Steve Gadd / Eddie Gomez / Ronnie Cuber / Wdr Big Band

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tribute album by allies who continue their musical journey with the "spirit OF Chick Corea". Produced by Steve Gadd and an international marimba player Mika Stoltzman. The masterpiece of the soul spun by musicians associated with Chick Corea is now available in analog format!

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Center Stage

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Leopard)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Steps Ahead

Steppin' Out

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Leopard)

Stephanie Lottermoser

Independence

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Mix Up Jazz)

Stephanie Lemoine

Love Leaves Traces

38,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

Stellar Legions

The New Lady Llama Light Blue Marbled Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Stellar Legions is four experienced space cadets from the Antwerp interstellar legion, led by Captain Andrew Claes (stuff., Brzzvll, Internal Sun). With a sound rooted in jazz, improv, hip-hop, dub and electronic music, brace yourself for an intergalactic trip through colourful musical worlds and allow yourself to be carried away to indefinable, otherworldly but always hospitable beacons.

Alongside Claes, the delegates on duty are all heroes from the Allied star: Bram Weijters (Raymond Van Het Groenewoud, Crazy Men), Klaas De Somer (Tourist Lemc, Selah Sue) and Fre Madou (ex-DAAU, Namid). With them, come stories and artifacts from the multidimensional cosmos to our beloved mother planet Earth and this autumn, they passionately present their first omnibus 'Stellar Legions', released 21st October via the groove-obssessed Sdban Ultra label.

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Steiger

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

LP | 2013 | Original (Ozella Music)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP on light blue marbled vinyl. Steiger eagerly explore the outer margins of jazz and dive into other universes (contemporary music, electronica, pop, free improvisation), yet remain faithful to the genre's long-standing core principle; that of a flexible transformation.

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Stefan Trio Aeby

Utopia 180 G Vinyl

33,59 €* 41,99 € -20%

Release: 2013 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Trost)

Steamboat Switzerland

Zeitschrei

Questo Sogno E' Vita White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dominik Blum: Hammond C3 OrganMarino Pliakas: EbassLucas Niggli: DrumsThe swiss Trio, energetic and innovative border crossers between Hardcore and Avantgarde, plays compositions of Michael Wertmüller (drummer of Peter Brötzmann's FULL BLAST outfit) - breath-taking, radical, exact.The ,Hammond Avantcore Trio" Steamboat Switzerland is a damn wild and absolutely virtuos project. They played many different festivals - from ,Donaueschinger Musiktage" and ,Moers" to the Londoner ,Meltdown Festival". The group combines elements from rock, metal and contemporary scores. The sounds exchange between ,Dark Power Ambient" and ,Boulez On The Rock"(Eckhart Liess)Recorded live at Powerplay Studios (Mauer/CH) by Andy Neresheimer in September 2012. Mixed by Gareth Jones (London) January 2013. Mastered by Martin Siewert (Wien) February 2013.Produced by Peter BürliArtwork by Lutz & Guggisberg.

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Statuto

LP | 2022 | EU (Onde Italiane)

18,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Rent A Dog)

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Recorded in Florence in May 1991, the concert is part of the tour between "Senza di Lei" in 1990 and "Zighidà", which will be released in 1992 after Sanremo festival. Three days after the concert the group will enter the recording studio (the Westlink in Pisa) to record the single for EMI "Qui non c'è il mare / Noi duri" with the production of Gianni Maroccolo. Classic lineup with Oskar on vocals, Naska on drums, Alex Loggia on guitar, Rudy Ruzza on bass and Senior on keyboards with in addition a wind section made up of trumpet, saxophone and trombone. 300 hand-numbered copies on white vinyl.

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States Of Play

Live In Moers

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Muster Point Black Vinyl Edition Edition

Stanley J. Zappa

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Stan Getz & Gerry Mulligan

Getz Meets Mulligan In Hi-Fi

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | Original (Groove Replica)

Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd

Jazz Samba

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Leopard)

St.Paul Peterson

Break On Free

14,39 €* 15,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Trost)

St. Francis Duo

Peacemaker Assembly

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Polskie Nagrania)

Spisek Szesciu

Complot Of Six

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Spiritczualic Enhancement Center

Carpet Album

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Kryptox)

Spencer Zahn / Jacob Bergson / Austin Tufts

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Spiritczualic Enhancement Center are a "spectral trance-jazzensemble with a psychedelic-punk methodology", as they define themselves - an eclectic group of 15 musicians, almost a collective, from Germany, Israel, Iran, USA, Turkey, UK, Russia and former Yugoslavia. Landing on Kryptox, with their 4th record (the others were self released) this is musical material the bandrecorded in several sessions in Romania and the Czech Republic, inside a church in Hamburg and while staying with a commune inrural Denmark over the last years.

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The Harvest

7" | 2020 | EU | Original (Pique-Nique)

11,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Replica)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pique-nique Recordings is proud to present 'The Harvest', the debut recording from trio Spencer Zahn, Austin Tufts, and Jacob Bergson. Recorded over a weekend in Montreal, the three musicians approached the session without any preconceived ideas of what they wanted to create. The result is a fully-realized record from three skilled players responding to one another live in the studio, effortlessly gliding through ambient post-rock and jazz. Tufts’ driving rhythms, Bergson’s soaring synthesizers, and Zahn’s melodic bass on ‘Mile X’ provide a beautiful opener, whilst the grounded and utterly beautiful ‘The Harvest’ creates a moment of all-encompassing stillness. This release is part of an ongoing series that aims to capture the New York City jazz scene in its current, always evolving form. "In October 2018, Jacob Bergson and I travelled from NYC to one of my favorite cities in the world, Montreal. The idea was to spend a week with my long-time friend and favorite drummer, Austin Tufts, who had recently built a studio for his band, Braids, on the edge of Mile-Ex. At the beginning of each day, we would prompt each other with a short idea or phrase and build on it together until an arrangement began to emerge. As the three of us fell into roles that we each play naturally, the music started to take shape. Forms and energy-arch were outlined by Austin’s drumming, space and ambiance were created by Jacob’s piano and modular synthesizer, while I focused on harmony and bass motion." Spencer Zahn

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Speed Limit

Speed Limit (2)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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DJ Kicks Black Vinyl Edition

Special Request

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

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Enja & Yellowbird)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

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

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

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Sparks And Tides

Hotel Florida

22,09 €* 25,99 € -15%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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To Feel Embraced Turquoise Vinyl Edition

Sparkle Division

LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Temporary Residence)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Maaula)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Vibrant Electronic Fusion Of Lounge, Jazz, And Disco Is Maybe Not The First (Or Fifth) Thing You Would Expect To Hear From One Of The World's Most Renowned Modern Composers And Ambient Tape Loop Pioneers, But Upon First Listen, It Makes So Much Sense That One Wonders Why It Didn't Happen Sooner.After Years Of Producing And Mentoring Slews Of Young Artists In 1990s Williamsburg, Brooklyn, William Basinski Moved To Los Angeles. There He Hired A Young Studio Assistant, Preston Wendel, Who Eventually Introduced His Own Works To The Curious Composer. That Spawned A Creative Partnership That Inspired Wendel To Persuade Basinski To Haul Out His Saxophone. Five Years Later, Sparkle Division Has Arrived With Their Enchanting Debut Album, To Feel Embraced. Produced By Sparkle Division At Basinski's Musex International In Los Angeles, The Duo Were Joined By A Few Notable Friends: Mrs. Leonora Russo (Who Basinski Affectionately Calls "The True Sicilian Sparkle Division, My Brooklyn Mom, The Queen Of Williamsburg") Offers Her Sparkling Voice To "Queenie Got Her Blues"; Fabled Free-Jazz Icon And Genuine Bodhisattva, The Late Henry Grimes, Contributed Upright Bass And Violin To The Aptly-Named "Oh Henry!" ("Lotta Babies Gonna Be Born From This One," Henry And Margaret Davis Grimes Playfully Declared); And London Vocalist Xeli Grana Offers Her Ethereal Voice To The Album's Meditative Title Track.Conceived And Nearly Completed In 2016, The Increasing Environmental And Political Infernos Gave Basinski And Wendel Cold Feet About Unleashing A Record Intended To Be Fun, Loving, And Prone To Bouts Of Euphoria. But As Basinski Exclaimed, "Well, Damn It, If The Time Ain't Right Now, It Never Will Be! Let's Do This!"

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Space Age Sunset

Mysterious

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Résolut Diffusion)

Soultime

Unspoken Stories

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Green Cookie)

Souled Out

Sunny Side Up

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Jazz Records presents

Cuba: Music And Revolution 2 1975-85

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

36,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Two Gentle Men)

Sophie Hunger

1983

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (BBE Music)

Sons Of The Sun

41,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

In London

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Not Now)

16,79 €* 20,99 € -20%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

Sonny Rollins

The Sound Of Sonny

18,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

Sonny Clark Trio

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Ikaros Music)

Sonny Clark Project

The Sonny Clark Project

19,59 €* 27,99 € -30%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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My Conception Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Sonny Clark

LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

42,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Abeat)

Sonia Spinello Quartet

Wonderland

22,49 €* 29,99 € -25%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Super Sonic Jazz)

Son Swagga

Dark Magic

16,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Led by the light of imagination, Son Swagga creates a musical realm of magic and wonder. The nine-headed kinship tells tales of warring tribes, forces of nature and cosmic sorcery.
Clanleader Felix Back draws upon his repertoire of funk-fusion, spiritual jazz and videogame music to create a sound that has never been heard before. Backed up by the tightest, most energetic rhythm section Amsterdam has to offer and spearheaded by a powerful horn section Son Swagga fanfares the coming of a new age in rhythm music.
Following their 2017 debut ‘Fires of Quidel’ Son Swagga are releasing their second full length album ‘Dark Magic’ on Super-Sonic Jazz Records on May 7th. Performance highlights include Bimhuis, Paradiso, Melkweg and Womex World Music Festival.
Son Swagga ‘Dark Magic’ is already the fifth physical release on the rising Amsterdam based Super-Sonic Jazz Records. Runned by Dutch DJ KC The Funkaholic (a.k.a. Kees Heus) and brothers Tenzers (a.k.a. Vincent & Siemen Tenzer), the Super-Sonic Jazz recordlabel, their six day festival, monthly concerts and exquisite clubnights becomes a serious movement within the Dutch musical landscape.
Kees Heus was also responsible for the running the Dutch imprint Kindred Spirits, that released records by international heavyweights, while championing local pioneers simultaneously.
Open your mind and nurture your imagination, because Son Swagga’s Dark Magic will spin mystic fiction into vivid reality.

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Solveig Slettahjell

Come In From The Rain

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ubuntu)

Solstice

Food For Thought

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP+CD | 2019 | EU | Original (Schnitzel)

Solid Bronze

Fruit Basket

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sail Cabin)

Sol Sol

What Year Is It?

31,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Visions)

Sohan Wilson

Love Is The Key

Soft Ffog Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Sohan Wilson is a young composer and arranger keyboard player from Switzerland. Half of duo Keys of Lynx, Sohan sent us his album almost 2 years ago and we were totally impressed with the quality and the soulful vibe. He asked us if we were interested in releasing it and we said yes.

For this first album the inspiration came from the 70’s and the 80’s with a touch of contemporary soul and jazz. The A side holds 4 tracks entirely recorded with musicians for a total acoustic and organic experience like « in the old days « while the B side is made with Beats and a more electronic soulful approach. This album tells a story, almost like a movie and thats why its a complete album to listen from beginning to end and enjoy the full experience of Sohan Wilson first solo Long player. Featuring the amazing voices from Dwight Trible and Brian Owens this album sounds already like a future classic that you want a listen over and over again.

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Soft Ffog

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Is It Jazz?)

34,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soft Ffog Black Vinyl Edition

Soft Ffog

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Is It Jazz?)

24,99 €*

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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So Much Soul Players (Chris Read & Rob Barron)

Happy Hammond

7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Dinked)

12,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Edition)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Happy (Hammond)’ is the second release from London based Funk & Soul outfit the So Much Soul Players (aka Chris Read & Rob Barron), a gritty, instrumental Hammond Funk take on Pharrell Williams’ ubiquitous feel-good Pop/Soul cut ‘Happy’. Harking back to the raw stylings of 60s/70s Funk, this dancefloor oriented rendition of the popular song features driving drums, funky Hammond licks and crunchy, overdriven organ lines galore.

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Snowpoet

Wait For Me

23,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Snorre Kirk Quartet With Stephen Riley

Going Up

LP | 2021 | Original (Stunt)

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Snekkestad / Fernandez / Guy

The Swifted Traveler

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Trost)

LP | 2015 | US | Original (Impulse)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An exciting international trio initiated by Scandinavian improv saxophonist Torben Snekkestad, flanked by two esteemed international capacities in the field of free improvised music - the Spanish pianist Agustí Fernández and the British double bass player Barry Guy. The music they create together is situated somewhere between free improvisation, free jazz, and contemporary classical music and executed with lightning fast interaction and explorative innovative sounds and textures. Line-up :Torben Snekkestad: tenor & soprano sax, trumpet and clarinetAgusti Fernández: pianoBarry Guy: double bas Recorded at "LOFT" in Cologne, June 2018 by Stefan DeistlerMixed and Mastered by John Fomsgaard at KarmacrewProduced by Torben SnekkestadExecutive Producer: Konstantin DrobilCover design: Lasse Marhaug

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Snarky Puppy

Sylva

42,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Yellow Moon: The Complete Recordings 1961 - 1962

Sly & The Viscaynes

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Regroved)

38,99 €*

Piknik Kasteel Groeneveld Baarn 1970

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The amazing, unpredictable, one and only Sly Stone has never made a secret of his beginnings as a teenaged hopeful in Vallejo, California in the early 1960s. A trio of singles with his interracial high school vocal group The Viscaynes, followed by two more releases as a solo, recorded in Los Angeles with producer George Motola, comprise the fascinating apprenticeship Sly needed to undergo on the road to fame. For decades, Sly’s earliest works have been spread around on a parade of unauthorized collections, most with low-fidelity sound, artificially extended versions, and tracks by unrelated artists. Yellow Moon: The Complete Recordings 1961-1962 corrects this injustice by offering up Sly and the Viscaynes entire output from the correct master sources. This special 2 LP set complements the recent Ace Records CD of the same title and adds a brace of additional, exceedingly rare Sly-related material. Along with the original singles by The Viscaynes, and Sly’s first solo releases as Danny (Sly) Stewart and Sylvester Stewart, there are also several unissued demo tracks produced by teen idol and Viscaynes mentor Gary Stites, plus the sought-after Jasper Woods 45, featuring an incognito Richard Berry with the Viscaynes on vocal support. Exclusive to this vinyl edition are a rare High School recording by an early incarnation of the Viscaynes, both sides of the 1961 Royal Aces single on which Sly plays guitar, and as a special bonus, the Stewart Four gospel release from 1956, featuring a teenaged Sly on lead vocals – his very first appearance on disc. The deluxe package comes with an authoritative and heavily illustrated booklet with much heretofore unpublished information and fresh interview material from the group and associates, as well as commentary from Sly himself. Yellow Moon: The Complete Recordings 1961-1962 is the last word on Sly Stone’s very first phase, and this vinyl edition is a must for any fan of his work.

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Sly & The Family Stone

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Whp)

2LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Gusstaff)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is Sly and the Family Stone caught live in the Netherlands in 1970. A dream set list including big hits such as "Stand!", "Dance to the Music" and "I want to take you Higher", and a marvelous band at the peak of their game featuring Sly Stone - vocals, keyboards, guitar, Freddie Stone - vocals, guitar Rose Stone - vocals, keyboards, Cynthia Robinson - trumpet, vocals, Jerry Martini - sax and the great rhythm tandem of Larry Graham - bass and Gregg Errico - drums.

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Slina Trzaska