Jazz | Fusion Vinyl 1991 Items

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Bud Powell

1960 Essen - Grugahalle

18,69 €* 21,99 € -15%

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cheek To Cheek Live! Limited Edition

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Interscope)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blue Note Re:Imagined II Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | DE | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Monty Alexander:The Montreux Years

Monty Alexander

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sunday At The Village Vanguard

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | UK | Reissue (Lovemonk)

Chip Wickham

Shamal Wind

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Funk Night)

Release: 2018 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in Madrid in July 2017, Shamal Wind combines Chip Wickham's globetrotting, spiritual jazz expeditions with hard-won schoolings in the funk. Following his critically acclaimed 2017 debut, La Sombra, the record draws on spiritual jazz influences like Yusef Lateef and Sahib Shihab, and rests on Chip's many-sided experience as a musician, spanning left-field beat experiments to hard-hitting funk heavyweights.

After the Latin and flamenco whispers on La Sombra, Shamal Wind adds some Arab-influence percussion to the mix, most notably on the title track. Elsewhere, 'Barrio 71' sees him nodding to Shihab: high energy, lyrical and absorbing, with sax and the vibraphone taking the lead. 'Snake Eyes' taps into the meditative exaltations of modal jazz, while 'Soho Strut' nods to the jazz fusion, funk-influenced side of Chip's playing.

Like the Persian Gulf winds referenced in the album title, which often mark the shift to a new season, this album signals a new chapter for Chip, opening up a newfound energy and inclusiveness in his music, and further expanding on what he achieved in the past year. "Shamal Wind" is a heavy record, built on strong foundations.

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Bamma Gamma

Bubble Gum / Bubble Hush

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sabu Toyozumi & Mats Gustafsson

Hokusai

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Cosmic Compositions / HHV)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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All music improvised and composed by Sabu Toyozumi and Mats Gustafsson Recorded live on 11th and 12th June, 2018 at Jazz Spot Candy, Chiba, Japan by Kunimitsu Tsuburai / 粒来国充 Concert produced by Miyoko Hayashi / 林美葉子Jazz Spot Candy Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios Front cover photos by Miyoko Hayashi and Kunimitsu Tsuburai Design by Oskaras Anosovas Produced by Takeo Suetomi 末冨健夫and Danas Mikailionis

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Clear Path Ensemble

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Staatsakt)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Clear Path Ensemble is the new project and brainchild of Wellington jazz and sonic arts graduate Cory Champion with the help of like-minded artists such as Mara TK, Jake Baxendale, Daniel Hayles and others. Also producing left field house and techno under the name Borrowed cs, Clear Path Ensemble is Cory’s first offering to the jazz gods. Having spent many years playing drums alongside some of New Zealand’s most talented musicians in the revered Wellington jam session scene this release is an amalgamation of the energy & spirit that the Wellington scene encompasses. Walking over the blurred lines of psychedelia and spiritual jazz and taking cues from planetary rhythms and celestial oddities, CPE invokes a higher sense of self through the transformative power of sound. In it’s truest essence these are a collection of cosmic compositions and a release that in our opinion is one of the heaviest to ever emerge from the New Zealand neo-jazz scene.

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Jens Friebe

Fuck Penetration

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kind Of Blue Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

Moanin' Transparent Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At Town Hall Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Nina Simone

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Norman Connor

Slewfoot Collection

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Slow Grind Fever Volume 5

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Stag-O-Lee)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Dinner Party (Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder, Kamasi Washington)

Dinner Party EP Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (Sounds Of Crenshaw / Empire)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Dope Noir)

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Dinner Party is the super-group of Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder, & Kamasi Washington, a collection of some of Hip-Hop’s finest current producers and contributors. With 14 GRAMMY Nominations between the group, Dinner Party utilizes the strengths of each musician seamlessly, blending their styles to create something soulful for these trying times. At just over 20 minutes, the album leaves the listener with just enough to satisfy them but yearn for more.

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Waldeck Sextet

It Might Be French

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (April)

Morten Schantz Trio

Passenger

First Recordings Volume 2 Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Energetic contemporary jazz and intricate compositions cloaked in pop-like simplicity lead the way in the latest release from Danish pianist Morten Schantz and his trio, out 16th Sept on April Records. ‘Passenger’ - their third studio album - revels in exploring both the familiar and the unexpected, offering a modern jazz extension to the iconic Scandinavian piano trio sound. Rooted in thoughtful songwriting, the album moves seamlessly from comforting harmony of folk and pop music to extended passages of energetic virtuosic improvisation, propulsive syncopated riffs, and attitude-infused bluesy bass-lines. Taken as a whole, Morten’s compositional skill creates a series of songs which can feel more like a mini-suite with their labyrinthine hooks and through-composed sensibility. Continuing in the vein of the ensemble’s critically acclaimed 2014 release Unicorn and Morten’s 2017 release Godspeed (Edition Records), the group’s palette is extended with the inclusion of horns, percussion, and Ondes Martenot. Their 15 years of performing together can be heard through the ease in which they weave through their rich array of influences. The three musicians are highly active on the Danish and worldwide music scenes, each with impressive reputations and accolades under their belts. Drummer Janus Templeton was awarded the Grammy for ‘Jazz Album of the Year’ in 2007, Bassist Morten Ankarfeldt has released over 60 albums across his career, and Morten Schantz himself has been awarded the prestigious Young Nordic Jazz Comets, numerous compositional grants from the Danish Arts Council, and been nominated for two Danish Music Awards.

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Albert Ayler

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sowing)

Mariana Zwarg Sexteto Universal

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited Clear Vinyl edition, 300 copies! Recorded in Stockholm on October 25, 1962, this session is one of Albert Ayler's earliest recordings, featuring a European backing group he assembled during his brief stay there, before returning to the States in 1963 and beginning his legendary run with ESP-Disk and Impulse. Though his genius is not yet fully formed, one can easily hear he's headed that direction, and this rare and long out of print recording is an essential piece of the history from one of America's most uniquely lyrical voices on the saxophone.

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Nascentes (feat. Hermeto Pascoal)

LP | 2022 | AU | Original (Equinox)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Black Sweat)

Release: 2022 / AU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mariana Zwarg represents the third generation of musicians playing and spreading the tradition of "universal music", created by her godfather, the legendary Hermeto Pascoal from Brazil. Mariana is a flautist, saxophonist, composer and arranger and bandleader.

In 2016 she formed her "Sexteto Universal", uniting musicians from 5 different countries and toured the project regularly in Europe and Brazil.

"Nascentes" is Zwarg's debut album and her first solo project. It was recorded between Rio de Janeiro and Berlin at the tail-end of 2019, just before the first cases of Covid-19 were reported. There are 10 tracks in total: 8 songs composed by her, a theme by Hermeto Pascoal and a theme by Itiberê Zwarg, who are also the album's special guests.

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Fusione

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Black Sweat)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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What is this? Who are them? Free jazz? Psychedelic? This mysterious album has been recorded by jooking faryds folks that came up in the middle of June 2015 at the space-time door Guscio Studio, Milan. At the very beginning there was no plan to release this jamming jam until a birthday present changed their minds.

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Al Doum And The Faryds

Freaky People

Juozas Milasius, Tomas Kutavicius, Dalius Naujokaitis

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Al Doum and the Faryds continue their journey toward a New Direction. Now, they live in a futuristic Garden of Delights, inhabited by strange bright bubbles, golden wheels, water secrets and mysterious plants. From their home of Love & Nature, they set out to travel the Universe to forge a new Being together. Their typical blend of Spiritual-Jazz, Psychedelia and Afro-Latin Rock remains on the same wave, accentuating the collective rite of liberation and expansion of the spirit. There's certainly a greater lightness and airiness, expecially in the most immediate and direct arrangements to convey the message of brotherhood; because the absolute weapon lies in female voices and choirs. These chants are incisive gospel and soul sermons and their narration magically permeates throughout the album. Everything is always supported by the balance between robust and biting guitar riffs, raga-rock incursions, tribal rhythm sections and impregnable and captivating sax drifts; and echoes of the soft lysergic sound of the 60s cannot be missing. This is music of multiple forces, a sacred harmony to overcome barriers, which sees no enemies and breaks down egos. It's the playfulness and the power in making music together, the true magic recipe of these Freaky People: we are what the Universe wants!

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Live At Willisau, 1993

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded live 26th August, 1993 at Willisau Festival, Switzerland Music composed by Milašius, Kutavičius and Naujokaitis Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios Digitization of the tapes was funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture 2020 Design by Oskaras Anosovas Produced by Danas Mikailionis Co-producer - Valerij Anosov

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Barry Guy

Irvin's Comet

Dörner-Hautzinger-Hübsch-Kerbaj

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded 29th October, 2019 during „Improdimensija” (Improdimension) concert series dedicated to improvised music, located at MAMAstudios, Vilnius, Lithuania All music by Barry Guy (prs/ Mcps/ppl) Sound Engineer - Arūnas Zujus Mixed and mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios Original artwork - Albert Irvin, Comet, 1988 / Screenprint with woodblock, edition of 75, Advanced Graphics, London Design by Oskaras Anosovas

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Ariha Brass Quartet

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Discrepant)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Assophon)

Simon Henneman

Black Magic & Mustache

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (Period)

Django Reinhardt

Memorial Album, Volume 1

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live At Beethovenhaus Bonn

Rosset Meyer Geiger

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Unit)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wolf Music)

Velour

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Easy rider, come and take me higher”. When the world seemingly crumbles around, music can provide an escape few other mediums can. For their debut self-titled LP, Velour effortlessly levitate you above the madness below, each track taking a new turn, cruising over hazy flecked skylines, bustling walkways and bleary eyed bedlam. A trajectory that takes in all of jazz’s vibrancies, blending elements of neo soul, broken beat and hip hop coupled with a much-needed sense of hope across nine deep, soul-searching tracks released via Wolf Music Recordings. A style and sound taking influence from genres and moods, environments and experiences, Essen-based Velour stretch their legs for this, their first full length album. From the off, they nestle you under their wing with the rustling sax washes of opener ‘clp’ before diving into an epic slo-mo burner, swooping down into the chaos as singer, Eva Czaya, wistfully narrates the scenes beneath. Unafraid to shift pace within songs, the likes of ‘Pose’, sauntering from soulful summer groove into woozy late night affair, and ‘Tom's Garage’, that progresses from roadside recounting to grungy basement blowout, finished with a sample of jazz-tinged dusty beats, show that accomplished and adept heads rest on the shoulders of these relative newcomers. Wolf Music mainstay Mr Fries continues to head up production for Velour, his trademark touch capturing the intimacy of Velour’s sound presenting it in a way that’s considered yet raw - nothing feeling rushed, nor cluttered. A separation and space that gives each element the room it deserves to breathe, with short interludes and skits providing the perfect bridge between tracks, guiding you through smokey jazz bars and twilight whisperings. Moving through the album, Czaya at points wanders in a serene spoken dialogue, at others letting her voice loose, but always with an ethereal demeanour that comes off with natural ease. One of many highlights, ‘Anthony Davis’ shows off this celestial prowess whilst perfectly embodying Velour’s dream-like escapism. A pent up release of creativity, as moody bass tones mix with deft keys, rolling snares sit behind swirling saxophones. The journey ends with ‘Luminate’, a transcendent closer laced with space-echoed vocals that reverberate around over-driven Rhodes and feverish drums. Cymbals crash, as modulated synths rise, building and building before easing you off into the night and on your way to a parallel universe. As a body of work, ‘Velour’ is a shining example of the freedom, energy and enthusiasm of the new school of jazz that’s been captivating minds the world over. An instant on repeat staple - let go, feel the flow, it’s what we need in a time like this.

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Chet

LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Squama)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chesney Henry Baker Jr was more than just a trumpet player. He was so many things to so many people. To some, a Bix Beiderbecke for the post-bebop generation, forever creating lyrical phrases that sometimes jumped for joy, or opting for a melancholy beauty, so sad you could almost hear the tears falling. To others he was a flawed Hollywood hero, a face that set him apart from the usual run of 52nd Street icons; a From Here To Eternity Montgomery Clift or James Dean in headhung frustration in Rebel Without A Cause. Released in 1959 the Chet album proved to be one of the trumpet star s last offerings before heading back to Europe for what would become know as the Milano sessions.

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Fazer

Mara 2020 Repress

Vincent Chancey / Wilber Morris / Warren Smith

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Replaces Faz001 wich will be discontinued! Mara is the debutalbum of Munich-based jazz group Fazer. Short Info: Mara is the debutalbum of Munich-based jazz group Fazer. The young musicians combine African and Latin rhythms with dubby basslines and melancholic melodies. The unusual lineup with two drummers (Simon Popp, Sebastian Wolfgruber), bass (Martin Brugger), guitar (Paul Brändle) and trumpet (Matthias Lindermayr) leaves an open space for unfettered improvisation. Through the concept of repetition and finely measured dynamics, Fazer create a drawing energy that can be felt directly at their live shows and has been captured perfecty on this record.

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The Spell. The Vincent Chancey Trio Live, 1987

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Conny Bauer / Matthias Bauer / Dag Magnus Narvesen

The Gift

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dux Orchestra - Dave Sewelson / Mats Gustafsson / Susie Ibarra / Will Connell Jr. / Dave Hofstra / Walter "Sweet" Perkins / Jc Morrison

Duck Walks Dog (With Mixed Results)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Keys & Screws (Thomas Borgmann / Jan Roder / Willi Kellers)

Some More Jazz

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Agusti Fernandez / Liudas Mockunas

Improdimensions

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wayne Shorter

Second Genesis

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Larry Young

Young Blues

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Coltrane

Giant Steps

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Clifford Brown

In Concert!

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz At Massey Hall - Limited Edition In Solid Yellow Colored Vinyl.

Charlie Parker

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Beach Boys

Surfin' Safari

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Italian Movie Soundtracks

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Billie Holiday

All Or Nothing At All

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jones Jones & Larry Ochs / Mark Dresser / Vladimir Tarasov

A Jones In Time Saves Nine

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (No Business)

Bobby Bradford / Hafez Modirzadeh / Roberto Miranda / Vijay Anderson

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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300 LP copies limited edition. All compositions created collectively by Mark Dresser (Del Dresser Music/ASCAP), Larry Ochs (Trobar/ASCAP/BMG) and Vladimir Tarasov (LATGAA)
Tracks Twelve Angry Jones and Three Jones Outside Ebbing, Missouri recorded live by Art Granoff in Berkeley, California, at the home of Harry Bernstein and Caren Meghreblian on May 28th, 2016
Other tracks recorded live by Tim Pinch in San Diego, California, at The Loft on May 24th, 2016
Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios
Front cover photos by Peter Gannushkin /
Design by Oskaras Anosovas

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Live At The Blue Whale

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (No Business)

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

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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500 LP copies limited edition. Composition FREE THE IDEA is variations on Ornette Coleman Theme
Recorded live on 15th January, 2017 at the Blue Whale, Los Angeles
Recorded, edited and mixed by Andersonix.com
Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios
Design by Oskaras Anosovas
Diagram by Hafez Modirzadeh
Produced by Hafez Modirzadeh

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Pharoah Sanders

12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Expansion)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Motema)

Donny McCaslin

Blow.

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Soundway)

Felbm

Tape 1 / Tape 2

At Last! Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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

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Etta James

Jazz Samba Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes four bonus tracks.

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Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd

Little Girl Blue Transparent Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Nina Simone

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Birth Of The Cool Transparent Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Ella & Louis Again Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sings Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lady In Satin Blue Vinyl Edition

Billie Holiday

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Portrait In Jazz Green Vinyl Edition

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Pan Am)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Charles Mingus

Pithecantropus Erectus

What A Difference A Day Makes! Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Dinah Washington

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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My Funny Valentine Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sings Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For Lovers Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sunday At The Village Vanguard Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Midori Takada & Lafawndah

Le Renard Bleu Etched Single Sided Edition

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (!K7)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Agile Experiments Volume 1

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Agile Experiments)

Johannes Enders & Micha Acher

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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At the beginning of 2015 I approached Victor Greetham at The Agile Rabbit Pizzeria about programming a series of concerts at his spot in Brixton Village, an open air marketplace in the heart of Brixton (London, UK).

The premise being that I would bring a selection of great, strictly one hour long concerts every Thursday night, some of which would be completely improvised free form music. These performances came to be named “Agile Experiments”, paying homage to Victor & his venue for allowing us to expose the market's passing trade audiences to something they may well have never had an opportunity to hear before or ever again for that matter.

We implemented two simple rules for the performances:
1. We wouldn't discuss or plan anything around what we were going to play.
2. We would play for an hour straight with no breaks.

After a year of concerts in the market place, I organised 8 one hour long recording sessions in a studio with 8 different combinations of musicians I had had the honor of performing with over this period and we applied the same rules as we did for the live performances in order to document these happenings.

Two further years down the line, after sitting on these recordings trying to find a way for them to be heard, I am extremely pleased to announce a sequential release of two limited edition vinyls featuring 12 extracts from these raw & unpredictable performances.

I hope that you will truly enjoy these minutes of off-the-cuff cooperative creativity.

In good faith and love for people and music,

Dave De Rose

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Brookland Suite

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Alien Transitor)

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Lullabies For Insomniacs)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Brookland Suite’ is inspired by Micha Acher travels to New Orleans and Johannes Enders’ admiration for Gil Evans soundscapes. The unique instrumentation and the rough sound make Brookland a very special Suite for lovers of deep sounds. Johannes Enders is a saxophone player with his own distinguished voice, and a rich international performing experience, covering gigs with artists as diverse as Donald Byrd, Jeff Watts, Roy Hargrove, Vincent Herring, George Cables, Lester Bowie and Jamaaladeen Tacuma.

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Million Brazilians

Red Rose And Obsidian

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Millions Brazilians formed in Portland, Oregon in 2006. Founding members Grant Corum and Suzanne Stone have been central to the band since it’s inception, while a rotating line-up backs them depending on the latest vision for the sound. TIP!
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The band carry out their own interpretation of a genre bending ethos that has evolved throughout the American underground. Drifting between boundless compositions, focused energetic improvisations and experimental collaborations that embrace a weird sort of transcendence.

Their next installment Red Rose and Obsidian was recorded in Maine and engineered by Big Blood’s Caleb Mulkerin. Both he and the band deliver a powerful yet fragile and personal release. The mythical and evocative recordings are inspired by Maine's rugged coastlines; mournful ripples of sound wash up on the shore, whilst a lonesome, at times harrowing saxophone drifts through the rolling mountains, providing unsettling melodic interludes. Electronic treatments veil organic sounds, a fleeting whistle meets spontaneously with spacey flutes, mutated rock rhythms are topped off with the soaring vocals of Suzanne Stone who leads the listeners into the magical world of the Million Brazilians.

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Charles Mingus

Oh Yeah

Mingus Ah Um - Jean-Pierre Leloir Collection

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Charles Mingus

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Plays Ballads - Jean-Pierre Leloir Collection

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sings - Jean-Pierre Leloir Collection

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | UK | Original (Not Now)

Django Reinhardt

Djangology

Release: 2015 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland & Co

The Golden Eight Encore!

LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Rearward)

LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Unit)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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never released before!

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Tobias & Stefan

Bitter Sweet

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Unit)

Organutan

Endangered Sounds

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (JazzSick)

Monika & Peter Herzig

The Time Flies

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Questo Sogno E' Vita White Vinyl Edition

Statuto

LP | 2022 | EU (Onde Italiane)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Fun In The Church)

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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Windisch Quartet

Meander

19,19 €* 23,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Daniel Carter / Evan Strauss / 5-Track / Sheridan Riley

The Uproar In Bursts Of Sound And Silence

LP | 2022 | US | Original (577)

19,19 €* 31,99 € -40%

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Uproar in Bursts of Sound and Silence is a sort of emergent collage that came together over four years of composition, improvisation and production. The foundations for this album were initially recorded in 2018 by producer/engineer Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Skinyard) at Soundhouse in Seattle, WA with myself (Evan Strauss, electric bass and upright bass), 5-Track (Guitar) and Sheridan Riley (Drums). The initial foundations of this music consisted of my long-form graphically notated conceptual compositions based on the calls of the Veery songbird (Catharus fuscescens), the astrological transits at the precise time of the recording session and some thematic elements from Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Dispossessed. In 2019 the album was given the working title Bird Songs for the Stars and I commissioned the cover art, Night Fisher, from Jeane Cohen. Also around this time, Daniel Carter had emphatically told me, “I’m going to become a rapper by the time I turn 90.” So, a few weeks later Daniel and I were hanging out, recording music and eating stir fry in my Ditmas Park apartment and I convinced him to make some progress on his goals by recording his voice into a microphone. Daniel began by recording an excerpt from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and continued by recording some of his own poetry. The recordings of Daniel from that afternoon would eventually make their way onto this album alongside my own experimentations in production inspired by Lee Scratch Perry, J Dilla and Ingram Marshall. I have since come to believe that this music was waiting for Daniel’s voice and music. Over the next couple of years I experimented with production techniques, renamed the album The Uproar in Bursts of Sound and Silence after an excerpt from The Waves (“wind blows the uproar in bursts of sound and silence across the court / now again they are smashing the china / that is the convention”), moved to the pacific northwest, corresponded with the estate of Virginia Woolf, mastered the entire project onto a cassette tape and convinced 577 records to release it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have! -Evan Strauss, February 2022

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Zk Collaboration

Slow Food

19,49 €* 25,99 € -25%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Super Bad Disco / HHV)

Athletic Progression

Live Cookin' With Blue Note At Montreux

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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After the 2019 release of their debut album "Dark Smoke", the Danish trio Athletic Progression has gone from strength to strength in Denmark. Multiple sold out shows in DK and abroad, as well two Danish Jazz Award nominations - and even one for Danish musician of the year! - later, the group is now ready to release their next album, an instrumental opus years in the making. Highly recommended for fans of Thundercat, J Dilla, Comet is Coming and the likes.

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Donald Byrd

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blue Note Records will release the first-ever official release of Donald Byrd Live: Cookin’ with Blue Note at Montreux on what would have been the legendary trumpeter’s 90th birthday: December 9, 2022. The LP of the dynamic 1973 live set is all-analog cut directly from the original analog master tapes.

In July 1973, Blue Note Records headed to Montreux, Switzerland to showcase several of the label’s stars at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Produced by Blue Note President George Butler, live albums all titled Live: Cookin’ with Blue Note at Montreux followed from vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, organist Ronnie Foster, flutist Bobbi Humphrey, and vocalist Marlena Shaw, but one of the performances by trumpeter Donald Byrd remained unreleased in the Blue Note vaults, until now.

Donald Byrd: trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals - Fonce Mizell: trumpet, vocals - Allan Barnes: tenor saxophone, flute - Nathan Davis: tenor & soprano saxophone - Kevin Toney: electric piano - Larry Mizell: synthesizers - Barney Perry: electric guitar - Henry Franklin: electric bass - Keith Killgo: drums, vocals - Ray Armando: congas, percussion

Original recordings produced by George Butler

Recorded live by Chris Penycote at Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, July 5, 1973

Mixed by Qmillion at EastWest Studios Los Angeles, CA

1-lp, 180g, unprinted polylined paper inner sleeve.

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Nu Jazz

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Alien Transistor)

Fuchs

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Sony Masterworks)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Fuchs is a band that never was. It vanished as quickly as it appeared in the picture, much like the animal that can be seen on this album and after whom it was named. In 2005, Kante singer and guitarist Peter Thiessen travelled to Weilheim to visit Markus and Micha Acher in their studio, where they were joined, among others, by Notwist-affiliated musicians like Cico Beck, Robert Klinger, Carl Oesterhelt and Stefan Schreiber. Spirits were high, but schedules were full: after a week of improvised sessions, everyone went their own way. The recordings gathered dust until Markus Acher found them again in 2021 while cleaning out his studio. After carefully re-evaluating the rough mixes, the musicians decided to finally release them. The resulting album comprises six tracks that musically draw on jazz, aesthetically lean on dub techniques and ideologically pick up on krautrock: there’s no solos to be heard on this record, just a few equally skilled and open-minded musicians listening to each other carefully, providing each other with space in which to unfold. »Fuchs« is a document of egos dissolving in a collective spirit. Thiessen and the Acher brothers met in the 1990s and bonded not only over their shared background in hardcore music and the DIY ethos in which it was rooted, but also over their love for jazz. »If you look at those two things combined, you will eventually become convinced that you don’t have to be formally trained to make music that at least resembles jazz«, says Thiessen today. He invited Micha Acher to join his band Kante on flügelhorn in 2004 for a tour that saw the expanded group play unusual encores after the official concert was over. »Micha had taught us some dixie pieces, so night after night we would play a freestyle dixieland ska set in front of the remaining audience!« Naturally, the Acher brothers didn’t have to ask twice when they invited him for a visit in Weilheim to further explore their mutual interests in a studio setting. »I got on my way immediately and took two or three loose ideas, a tape echo and a guitar on whose headplate you could create fantastic sounds with me«, says Thiessen. Between immersing themselves in books by the photographer Leonore Mau, cooking together and drinking the occasional fruit schnapps, the trio went into the studio. Says Thiessen, »Micha brought his flügelhorn and some wonderful ideas with him, Markus an Indian harmonium and a plan, Carl Oesterhelt came with a glockenspiel and a Chinese zither and a bunch of amazing jazz musicians joined in, too.« He considers the resulting recording sessions to be a kind of attempt at musically translating their conversations during those days. They discussed different approaches to jazz, whether sampling and musical miscitations can unlock ecstatic potentials and the possible parallels between syncretistic religions and pop music. »There’s traces of glossolalia, it's like a blurry séance«, adds Thiessen in regard to the sessions. It is especially this spirit that managed to live on even though the recordings themselves were abandoned. »What we all liked most when listening back to the recordings is probably their marginal and fragmentary character, the empty spaces—the moments in which the virtuoso solo never comes, in which the centre remains empty.« The six pieces on »Fuchs« are chock-full of exactly these moments. When at one instant, the players seem to disperse and improvise freely, they always meet again on common ground a short time later, continuing on their way together. There are no conventions or even previous agreements that guide them, just a shared will to explore a vast range of curious sounds and unusual rhythms together as a truly unified constellation of very different musicians. Fuchs is a band that never was. Its ideas still reverberate vividly even 17 years later.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

OST Proxima

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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Original Score composed by Academy Award winner Ryuichi Sakamoto

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of the 2019 French Drama Film

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Billie Holiday

Solitude

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes a bonus track.

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LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Explorations

Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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limited 180 gram pressing

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Oscar Getz Trio

LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Panam)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Panam)

Milestones

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mawimbi)

Mawimbi Volume 2

Welcome To Anxiety Group Red Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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We are really proud to introduce a new release on Mawimbi Records: "Mawimbi, Vol. 2”. Its title is a nod to “Mawimbi, Vol. 1”, which was the inaugural release of our record label back in 2015. A new compilation, at last, after a decade of music activism and a handful of EPs and albums which have helped unearth some of today’s talents from the new global music scene (Onipa, Loya, Afriquoi, Raz & Afla). It stays true to the driving principles of our artistic direction: support upcoming artists, e ncourage the breaking down of musical frontiers, help make happen new encounters between electronic music and so-called “afro” music. While these encounters can now be witnessed anywhere in pop music’s current zeitgeist, from Beyoncé to South African’s vibrant amapiano scene, we think there’s still plenty to explore.
“Mawimbi, Vol. 2” truly feels like the culmination of a long path for our record label. Because it includes artists who have been actively contributing to the Mawimbi adventure over the years, and also because it’s another convincing testimony of the fruitfulness of this musical intuition we have so heartily been defending for the last decade. Indeed, the 8 tracks of “Mawimbi, Vol. 2” resist all the usual labels. They sound like they stem more from human encounters and artistic dialogues launched in the moment than attempts to be associated with any music scene in particular. Each of the 8 pieces of this compilation presents in a unique way the search for this cross-pollinating sound.
The compilation opens with a really engaging rework of James Stewart’s classic track “Cotonou” by Lyon-based tropical music enthusiasts Voilaaa, who took Peter Solo’s voodoo soul lines on a trip across the Black Atlantic beginning with a horn-heavy cuban cha-cha-cha before falling into a savory triple time dance. As tireless sonic adventurers, Amsterdam-based duo Umoja have brought back a handful of hits from their numerous trips to Kenya meeting with local benga musicians. “Avana Va” is one of their compelling tunes, featuring Kenyan musician and producer Sidney Simila. This urge to collaborate with musicians from across the African continent is also to be found in Village Cuts’ ever expanding discography. On “Sentima”, they showcase their trademark London funky sound, introducing us to the talents of Congolese guitarist and singer Kissangwa.

Afriquoi’s 2020 hit “Ndeko Solo” is presented in a brand new shape, sprinkled with some French Touch flavours. “Djansa”, by Toulouse-based producers Mr. Boom, rides a distinct South African-inspired groove, while inviting us to a nighttime dance by the Balearic sea. On “Silent Runner”, French producer and musician Ozferti moulds his own musical galaxy where East African scales meet cutting edge global club beats. With “Nabi Kumi”, Anglo-Ghanaian duo Raz & Afla delivers their deepest piece, once again inducing a state of trance with a triple-time beat and an hypnotic kora loop. Closing the compilation, “It's Holy” is a unique collaboration between Tom Excell (Onipa, Nubiyan Twist, David Walters) and Dizraeli, one of the most interesting voices in British rap, which by making connections between broken beat, jazz and african music, illustrates the precious mixture of musical aesthetics that make up the current UK musical landscape

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Drone Operator

12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Participant)

Oilly Wallace & Johannes Wamberg

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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“There is a German satellite falling to earth!” a woman’s voice urgently announces. “She says, what if it hits me? Welcome to anxiety group.” A dense cloud on the horizon heralds a fresh onslaught from that infamous swarm of free jazz killer bees, a new project from self-described “conceptual kleptomaniac post digital free jazz outfit” Drone Operatør. Riding hard along the line between experimental electronics, blockbuster sound design and the loosest jazz improvisation, this rogue’s gallery of players, headed up by art world provocateurs Paul Barsch and Tilman Horning, take the fevered pulse of the relentlessly flattened now and note down four key observations which presented together make up Welcøme TO Anxiety Group. Coaxing lively theatricality from a continually provoked altercation between acoustic instrumentation and synthetic sound, each of the project’s four tracks provides a new perspective on what it means to improvise through technological mediation. “Here we are now,” write Drone Operatør. “22 after 2k. mp4 flex to 32bit float. The sax - the heart. The quadcopter - the brain. Duo d'Allemagne not wasting a life time learning jazz standards.” To open proceedings, our faithful operatør whips up exquisite dissonance with ‘Bot Møther’, smashing together squalls of saxophone and ripples of percussion with the sounds of sci-fi artillery, like an amphetamine-fuelled, midnight jam hammered out oblivious to an ongoing alien invasion. Slowing to a furtive creep for ‘German Satellite’, picking out keenly felt anxiety in suggestive plucks, stuttering clacks and strained wails, their cosmic warning signalling a neurotic climax before settling back into a post-coital skitter, flourishes of keys, both digital and analogue, harmonising with Drone Operatør’s weary welcome to the group. Eschewing the electronic completely for the cacophonous gallop of ‘Røhrstøck’, we’re invited to hold on for dear life during a mad scramble towards the ‘The Vessel,’ a staggering sequence of tumbling synthetic chimes, embellished with peals of ornate sax that flare up and out to illuminate the track’s irregularity, alternately submerged and retrieved through a subtle manipulation of filters. It’s a session that has to be heard to be believed, crammed with as much difficulty and as much revelation as any good therapy should. As Drone Operatør describe: “From iconic spamming to intellectual nonsense. Always never predictable, never not cheesy. Battery life cycles full of joy. You say you like free jazz. We don’t believe you.” Welcøme to Anxiety Group will be released on July 29th, 2021 by Participant, on limited edition clear red vinyl, and digital download via the Participant Bandcamp. The release will be accompanied by a series of films by Drone Operatør, featuring editing, FX, and CGI by digital artist Darío Alva. Text by: Henry Bruce Jones Participant is a record label and creative studio run by filmmaker William Markarian-Martin and conceptual artist Richie Culver

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Mosaique

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (April)

LP | 2020 | Original (Beat Ball Music)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Oilly Wallace (b. 1996) and Johannes Wamberg (b. 1991) are celebrated as two of the greatest young talents on the contemporary Danish jazz scene, but before the public found them, they had already found each other. They have known each other for years and their friendship comes through in their truly special symbiotic interplay. It is as if their sound reflects a true friendship; a place in which there is space for both playfulness and sensitivity, melancholia and pure joy. In October 2016 they released their critically acclaimed debut LP, ‘Easy Living’, which was one of the most played records on Danish Radio P8 Jazz and they have now been in the studio yet again and a whole new record, consisting of their own compositions, alongside carefully selected standards, now finally sees the light of day, here in October 2020, by way of April Records. This new album is entitled ‘Mosaïque’ and is produced by Oilly Wallace, Johannes Wamberg and Jonathan Bremer and is recorded at Bremer’s Voodoo Bug Studios. Describing the record in their own words, the two young musicians say: “Our new record is the fruit of one year’s work in the studio, where we have refined our consonance and our repertoire, and pursued the narrative that lies within our musical vision. One could say that we have cut to the bone and have dived deeper into our own sound.” And in the leftover bone there is a marrow. And its substance there are mature blood cells. Boys have become men and the music has aged, just like good wine.

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Jorge Lopez Ruiz

El Grito

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bassist, Composer, Arranger, And Film Scorer Jorge López Ruiz Was The Living Embodiment Of Argentine Jazz History. This Recording, Which Was Done In 1967 With A Big Band Led By López Ruiz, Represents A Monumental Work In Argentine Jazz. The Work Is A Concept Album That Takes A Critical Stance On The Chaotic Political Situation And The Military Regime In Argentina At The Time. It Was Banned Upon Release And Directly Led To Constraints Being Placed On López Ruiz's Subsequent Activities. Musically, It Represents The Starting Point Of López Ruiz's `Musical World', Where He Wholeheartedly Reflects His Spirit As A Latin American And Argentine Citizen Onto His Music - Jazz. This Work Is A Masterpiece Of 60's Big Band Jazz, Which Captures López Ruiz's Passion And Rage - Both As A Musician And As A Man In The Face Of An Unforgiving Reality. Its First Vinyl Reissue In Half A Century!

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Music For Dance & Theatre Volume One

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Music From Memory)