Jazz | Fusion Vinyl 1023 Items

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gerry Mulligan Quartet

Soft Shoe

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Duke Ellington

Ko Ko

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dizzy Gillespie

Cubana Be, Cubana Bop

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charlie Parker

Now's The Time

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Szun Waves

New Hymn To Freedom

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (ECM)

Tord Gustavsen Trio

The Other Side

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hello, Summer Blue Vinyl Edition

Pat Van Dyke

LP | 2018 | US | Original (Cotter)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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

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Fahrt Ins Blaue II - Groovin' In The Spirit Of Jazz Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Palmares Fantasy Feat. Hermeto Pascoal

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2018!

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Sean Khan

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Far Out)

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The release comes on 180g vinyl. For his third album for Far Out Recordings, London based multi-instrumentalist and one of Europe’s finest saxophonists Sean Khan ventures to Rio de Janeiro to collaborate with iconic Brazilian polymath Hermeto Pascoal.

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Mathias Eick

Ravensburg

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Portico Quartet

Terrain

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2018 | Original (Herzog Gmbh)

Nighthawks

Live In Hamburg

Release: 2018 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Borrowed And Blue Black Vinyl Edition

Lisa Bassenge

LP | 2018 | Original (Herzog Gmbh)

Release: 2018 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rio Bravo Black Vinyl Edition

Nighthawks

LP | 2018 | Original (Herzog Gmbh)

Release: 2018 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | Original (International Anthem Recording Company)

Jeff Parker

Forfolks

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Piero Milesi / Daniel Bacalov

La Camera Astratta

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Soave)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Herbie Martin Music)

Rieke Katz

That's Me

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Room Of Silence & Cosmic Underground

Chris Gall

2LP | 2018 | Original (Glm Gmbh)

Release: 2018 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Quadro Nuevo & Cairo Steps

Flying Carpet Doppelvinyl

2LP | 2018 | Original (Glm Gmbh)

Release: 2018 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Heinrich Heine: Traumbild

Brückner & Wollny

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Act Music)

26,09 €* 28,99 € -10%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Talk Memory 20 Years HHV Clear Vinyl Edition

BBNG (BadBadNotGood)

2LP | 2021 | UK | Reissue (XL)

26,24 €* 34,99 € -25%

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 500 copies on clear vinyl in occasion of HHV's 20th birthday.

20 years HHV: our team has selected an album from each of these years that is particularly relevant and precious to us. On a monthly basis we release exclusive and limited pressings of these records in collaboration with some of our favorite labels.

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Promises Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sam: Pharoah...
Pharoah: Huh...?
Sam: Were you asleep? I’m sorry...
Pharoah: No no... I was listening... and dreaming... and listening to music
in my head...
Sam: Oh wow... sorry.
Pharoah: Many times, people think I might be asleep... but in fact, I am just
listening to music in my head. I’m always listening... to the sounds around
me... and playing, in my mind... and sometimes I dream.
Sam: What were you dreaming about?
Pharoah: I’m on a ship. In the ocean. Bears coming around smoking cigars.
The bears are singing, ‘We have the music. We have what you’re looking for.’
* * *
Pharoah: How you like that take, Sam?
Sam: It’s cool. I think the bit in the middle, where it stops again...I think
you can hear...We were both kind of confused. I like it as well because it
sounds like two musicians that are trying to guide each other.
Pharoah: I think that’s it right there. It came out different. It came out good
though.
Sam: You happy?
Pharoah: Yeah, I’m cool with it.
Sam: Okay. Yeah, I think your playing is beautiful.

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Wamono A To Z Volume II - Japanese Funk 1970-1977 Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (180g)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Rrgems)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following the highly acclaimed Volume I, dig further into the Wamono sound - the cream of the Japanese jazz, funk, soul, rare groove and disco music developed throughout the years since the end of the sixties in Japan!

Fully licensed Nippon Columbia and Victor Japan masters available for the first time outside of Japan, featuring rarities from Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media, Hiroshi Sato, Bread & Butter, Hatsumi Shibata, Fujio Tokita and more!
Tracks selection by Japanese super diggers and Wamono specialists DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite and Chintam
Mastered and cut at Timmion Cutting Lab
Artwork by Yoxxx (Tokyo)
180g heavy vinyl pressing, reverse board jacket

Active as a professional DJ in Japan since the late eighties, DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite is also a renowned remixer, compiler and producer. An avid record collector and an expert of the Wamono style, Yoshizawa published the Wamono A to Z records guide book in 2015 which instantly sold-out. The book unveiled a myriad of beautiful and rare records from a highly prolific, but still then unknown, Japanese groove scene. After many years working as a record buyer for several stores, DJ Chintam opened his own Blow Up shop in 2018 in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. A member of the Dayjam Crew and a specialist of soul, funk, rare groove and disco music, Chintam is also an expert of the home-brewed Wamono grooves.
He supervised and wrote the Wamono A to Z records guide book together with Yoshizawa
In this second volume of the acclaimed Wamono series, Yoshizawa and Chintam dig into some of the best and rarest funky tunes produced in Japan during the seventies. Put the needle on the record, turn up the volume and dig right now into the Wamono sound - the cream of the Japanese jazz, funk, soul, rare groove and disco music developed throughout the years since the end of the sixties in Japan!

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Muriel Grossmann

Natural Time

Bring Backs Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Muriel Grossmann's album from 2016 "Natural Time" released for the first time on a black 2LP with a thick old style tip-on gatefold outer sleeve on her own imprint Dreamlandrecords and distributed by RR Gems. This record marked a beginning for her in terms of direction and it includes a bonus composition "Inner Fire '' recorded especially for the vinyl release. Available only in a physical format. "As we began this task, we realised that we would need another song to fit in with the vinyl format. This compelled me to imagine how I could add something worthy to a record that is a complete journey in itself from beginning to end. As it turned out, composing and recording the extra track went as smooth as honey and I hope that you all enjoy this additional piece of music. I believe it adds an interesting twist and perhaps suggests what is yet to come. I am very thankful for this opportunity. I also want to give thanks to all you wonderful listeners and supporters for staying with us all this time. You are the reason we pour our hearts into this music." - Muriel, September 2021, Ibiza. Edition of 1500 ex.

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Alfa Mist

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Anti)

LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (We Release Jazz)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alfa Mist is one of the driving forces behind a young and vibrant scene of UK musicians, who've taken on jazz as their musical narrative. On his new album Bring Backs the producer, self-taught pianist and rapper takes us on a sonic trip back to his beat-making past on the streets of East London, through the depth and musicality he discovered composing and playing jazz. 2017 saw the release of Alfa's breakthrough record, Antiphon and the 2019's album Structuralism were both self-released on his Sekito label. His latest endeavour, 2021's Bring Backs, sees Alfa taking on new challenges. The record marks his first release for the label Anti and is also the most detailed exploration of his upbringing in musical form.

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Ryo Fukui

A Letter From Slowboat

Natten Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g vinyl, half speed mastered, heavy sleeve & OBI Strip. We Release Jazz is delighted to announce the official reissue of Ryo Fukui’s final album, the very personal contemporary jazz offering, A Letter from Slowboat, sourced from the original masters and available on limited edition 180 gram vinyl mastered at half speed for full audiophile sound

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Bremer / McCoy

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Music From Memory)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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What were they up to? Nobody could tell—not even them. Bremer/McCoy recorded straight to tape so that they had as little time as possible to think about it. They just laid it down. They couldn’t really explain it.

“When it works for me,” says pianist Morten McCoy, “it’s pure meditation, pure prayer. Pure gratitude for simply being, without all kinds of jibber-jabber filling my thoughts.” A sentiment that tells you everything about the feeling and nothing about the sound.

McCoy and the bassist Jonathan Bremer started making music together back in 2012 when they were still in school. At first the Danish duo played dub. It’s hard to imagine that that’s how they started when you listen to the ethereal sounds they make now, but the influence becomes clearer when you see them live: they insist on traveling with their own sound system.

For Bremer/McCoy, making music is all about what happens in the room. That’s why they go through the trouble of carrying their own equipment, and it’s why they record analog. When they write music, they aim for direct transmission—idea straight to composition.

Natten, which means “The Night” in Danish, draws inspiration from the end of day, that regenerative time under the constellations when our lives look different. “We felt a greater freedom this time around because we now have a much deeper understanding and grounding in what we’re doing,” says Bremer. “This allows us to venture further out than ever before, because we know that things typically fall into place.”

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The Zenmenn

Enter The Zenmenn

Shapes Black Vinyl Edition 2023 Repress

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Returning with another debut album for 2021, Music From Memory are delighted to introduce a new band, The Zenmenn, with their first ever release ‘Enter The Zenmenn’. Whilst little about the band is made known, their work is described by writer Winton Rousseauas an “experiment in harmonic convergence emerging from a deep respect for cosmic symmetry and a resistance to the prevailing Zeitgeist.” ‘Enter The Zenmenn’ sounds as old as it sounds new, as organic as it is electric, as harmonic as it is rhythmic, and the album’s fusion of different palettes, colours, tempos, instruments and sources offer a harmonious balance and unity that already feels like the perfect soundtrack to a better world. In a time of what they see as spiritual neglect, it offers a “human kind of stillness” through the “dualistic fusions of complexity and simplicity, mystery and clarity and East and West”. Mfm054 will be released in LP and digital format, comes with artwork by Bráulio Amado, and is expected to be out on April 12th 2021.

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Robohands

LP | 2021 | UK | Reissue (KingUnderground)

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Jazzland)

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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2023 Repress on Black Vinyl.

The third album from London-based multi-instrumentalist, Robohands. ‘Shapes’ fuses elements of jazz, krautrock, hip hop and ambient music. For fans of Khruangbin, Yusef Dayes, CAN, Coltrane and 70s library music moods.

Shapes is the solo project of London based composer, instrumentalist and producer Andy Baxter. His debut LP Green was released on Village Live Records in 2018 and was received with much love and acclaim in the UK Jazz, hip hop and surrounding scenes.

His follow up full-length, 'Dusk’, dropped in 2019, combining soul, funk, Latin & experimental moods. It featured vocalists & musicians from around the world including legendary New York French horn player, John Clark, who has worked with Isaac Hayes, Gil Evans Orchestra, McCoy Tyner, Jaco Pastorius, Ornette Coleman and many more greats.

'Shapes' is inspired by 1970s library music and their legendary composers including Piero Umiliani, David Axelrod, Brian Bennett and co. The album builds on these influences and incorporates modern motifs, contemporary jazz/hip hop drumming styles with a nod to 1990s Mo Wax artists such as DJ Shadow. The theme for the record is future/nostalgia, mixing vintage & modern instruments and production techniques.

Much of ‘Shapes’ was recorded with JB Pilon at Buffalo Studios in Limehouse, London. Due to the COVID restrictions that changed everything in 2020, the remaining parts were recorded in Andy’s flat using a collection of old mixing desk preamps and instruments.

For the heads – ‘Shapes’ features an array of vintage snares, including a 1960's Ludwig Pioneer and a mono, overhead ribbon mic on the drum kit provided extra old school points! The kick drum was re-amped through a huge vintage bass amplifier on a couple of tracks to give it some real character. “My favourite guitar sound achieved on this LP project is a

Sontronics Sigma ribbon microphone in front of a WEM Dominator amp, which you can hear on the track 'Odysea'. The bass sound for all the tracks is a 1973 Fender Precision into an old Altec valve preamp, the one used on most Motown recordings.”

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Harpreet Bansal Band

Movements

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jeff Mills & Rafael Leafar

The Override Switch

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Axis)

Thiago Franca Presents A Espetacular Charanga Do F

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Override Switch combines the talent of two Detroit natives: Jeff Mills and Rafael Leafar. The latter is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong affiliation to jazz music. Through Mike Banks, he was introduced to Jeff Mills, where the idea for The Override Switch began to manifest. The album is a homage to artists like John Coltrane, J Dilla, Kraftwerk and those who inspire experimentation with what can be evoked through music.

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The Importance Of Being Espetacular Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Mais Um Discos)

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Holy Basil)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Espetacular Charanga do França is Sao Paulo's most hyped carnival collective and brass band led by Thiago França - best known as a founding member of Afro-punk explorers Metá Metá. The collective combines retro horns with cumbia, baile funk, jazz and features Brazilian vocal legends such as Lucas Santtana, Tulipa + Jucara Marcal.

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Modern Sound Quartet

Floreama

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following the work previously made on "Cocktail Bar" and "Erbe Selvatiche", Modern Sound Quartet release their third full-length "Floreama" in 1977, this time focusing their work around the world of flowers. The twelve tracks on this recording boast the highest form of Italian jazz-funk vibes, with some rock, disco and spacey moods thrown in for good measure. Each flower sets the track in a different mood and brings the listener in a different dimension, alternating upbeat funky moments to some more mellow atmospheres. Now available on vinyl for the first time since its original release as a limited edition of 500 copies.

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Ray Charles

What'd I Say

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kind Of Blue Picture Disc Edition

Miles Davis

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Zamaan Ya Sukkar: Exotic Love Songs And Instrumentals From The Egyptian 60's

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Radio Martiko)

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Freestyle)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A download code is included.

Zamaan Ya Sukkar is a rich musical portrait from the time when Cairo was the vibrant cultural heart of the Middle East and the grandeur of the leading orchestras was incomparable. Un-earthed latin and jazz-tinged tracks will let your mind drift off to the glamorous nightlife of 60's Cairo. Meet some forgotten souls of the Egyptian music scene and cinema world. Sensual voices and Bolly-wood-like orchestra sounds inflame the senses of the body with an in-tangible exotic twist! All music is remastered from original 45's pro-duced by Sono Cairo.

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Jessica Lauren

Almeria

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (RCA)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Since the early 1990s, keyboard player Jessica Lauren has been a familiar part of London's alternative music scene. Jessica's keyboard skills have augmented the live performances and studio recordings of world renowned artists such as Jean Carne, Tom Browne, Dexter Wansel and James Mason, Japan's United Future Organisation, and UK soul diva Juliet Roberts.

Her previous Freestyle album 'Jessica Lauren Four' (2012) highlighted Jessica's minimalist approach, something rare and refreshing in the jazz world: she instills her compositions and playing with a refined sense of space which makes her music as much about what she doesn't play as what she does.

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Nina Simone

Sunday Morning Classics

Snorre Kirk Quartet With Stephen Riley

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Their first album in 15 years!

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Going Up

LP | 2021 | Original (Stunt)

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Gearbox)

Cookers

Look Out!

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Hubro)

Moskus

Mirakler

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Columbia)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Moskus could be the perfect 21st century piano, bass and drums trio. Rather than fetishising about the acoustic purity of their sound, the virtuosity of their instrumental technique, or the integrity of their compositional structures, Anja Lauvdal (keys), Fredrik Luhr Deitrichson (double bass) and Hans Hulbækmo (drums/percussion) seem to improvise on ideas more than themes or tunes, and to change direction quickly and effectively as they go, abandoning one thought for another with a refreshing lack of fuss.You can even imagine, instead of musical notation and dots on staves, a series of pictograms, obscure mathematical graphics or spidery Venn diagrams forming and reforming in the air as they play, the ideas rising up to bounce off the ceiling or escape out the window to be reprocessed in another context, perhaps by another group. Similarly, the music can appear as notes or sketches towards something rather than the thing itself, for in the Moskus universe there may be no such thing as a finished product, as everything remains permanently in flux and subject to further adaption and change. Even as it is articulated, a thought or musical phrase is already being reconsidered or evolving into something else. This is contingent music, hyper-alert to nuance and environment, changing like temperature or the weather just as the dynamic of the trio shifts its emphasis when roles are exchanged or the lead swapped from one player to another.Moskus is also a piano trio that is often happy to function without a piano. On 'Mirakler', Anja Lauvdal's frequent use of Yamaha or Korg keyboards summons up the ghost-voicings of an electronic past, from echoes of Sun Ra's Solavox to Vangelis's early-digital Fairlight and Kraftwerk's analogue synths, as if curating a museum of bygone sounds to illustrate our nostalgia for the future. Previously, Lauvdal, who plays both upright and grand pianos on 'Mirakle' as well as keyboards and Hammond organ, has spoken about how Moskus feel "more equality as a trio without a grand pian...

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Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

Love For Sale

After The Night The Day Will Surely Come

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Still in shrink but opened. Original inner sleeve with seam split!
Record has some scuffs!

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Kyle Shepherd

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Matsuli)

LP | 2018 | NO | Reissue (Hubro)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Multi award-winning composer Shepherd’s seventh album and first on vinyl, with sleeve notes from Percy Mabandu.

- Compositions explored on this long-awaited release include new articulations of well-liked familiar melodies like ‘For Keith’, ‘Desert Monk’, ‘Sweet Zim Suite’ and ‘Cry of the Lonely’, along with improvised pieces ‘Zikr’, and ‘Desert Monk’.

- Mastered and cut for vinyl by Frank Merritt at The Carvery with heavyweight 180g vinyl pressed at Pallas in Germany.

“Shepherd embodies much of South Africa’s piano tradition with visionary clarity. More than his own ingenuity, he holds up an appreciation of the richness of a shared musical inheritance. This must be underscored by an understanding that all pianists, in fact all artists of real commitment, have a wish to be distinctive, along with a real rootedness. The selection of tunes treated here, shores this up about Shepherd. It also points to a deeper, loftier revelation: jazz, and creativity as the ultimate articulations of human hope.” Percy Mabandu, from sleeve notes

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Skydive Trio

Sun Sparkle

Release: 2018 / NO – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Hans Dulfer

El Saxofon

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)

On Our Own Clock

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (We Release Jazz)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pre-pandemic, there was a plan. The plan was for musicians from South Africa and Senegal to travel to London’s influential Total Refreshment Centre to make an album with musical kindred spirits in the UK. Like so many plans, it had to be adapted.

In the first heatwave summer of Covid, groups of heavy-hitting musicians met for a day of intense recording in their home cities then sent the music to their compadres across the oceans. They returned to the studio a month later to respond to the music they’d been sent. The result is ‘On Our Own Clock’, a sonic testament to trenchant and collaborative creativity which digs into layers of South African jazz, traditional Senegalese instrumental music and London’s rich diaspora-informed musicality. Individually these are powerful strands of music. Collectively, they are super-sized.

‘On Our Own Clock’ contains interludes titled ‘How To Make Art In A Pandemic’. The phrase became a byword and a prayer to keep the process going across the multiple hurdles that presented themselves: people getting Covid; the fear and fury that proliferates in the twin pandemics of Covid and racism; the practicalities of making music across two continents. It builds on another phrase, in the spirit of evolution and improvisation: two words used in the foreword to Toni Morrison’s novel Jazz in which she describes the ‘unreasonable optimism’ of musicians. Making this album was unreasonably optimistic even before the pandemic. To have created a deeply-rooted and warm-hearted gem like this is extraordinary.

Album highlights among the phenomenal 11 tracks include singles ‘Dune Dance’, which steps and hustles around a gorgeous groove that was written in Joburg and reflected back by the London players. ‘Ngikhetile’ (an isiZulu word which translates as ‘I Have Chosen’) fuses playing from across continents in an incrementally intense salutation to powerful optimism. ‘Be The Light’ draws deep from the endless well of feeling that the Senegalese kora provides, and builds up and outwards from a sweet-yet-solid bedrock and Grandmaster Cap’s vocals. Like he says:

If you are the light, you are the path. To all the bright motherfuckers out there, keep shining.

The release is a collaboration between South African label Mushroom Hour Half Hour and Total Refreshment Centre recordings. It comprises the single album with artwork by Senegalese designer Djib Anton; a fanzine which documents the process and will be included with the vinyl; and an experimental film made by South African filmmakers Nhlanhla Masondo and Tseliso Monaheng. It imagines a far-future post-pandemic world and also includes artist interviews, session footage and the inevitable Zoom recordings.

One day, the musicians will play together in person. But for now, On Our Own Clock is inspiration, dispersed positivity and eleven incredible pieces of musical togetherness.

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Ryo Fukui

My Favorite Tune

Sinne Eeg & Thomas Fonnesbaek

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g vinyl, half speed mastered, heavy sleeve, obi, liner notes, sticker. We Release Jazz is very happy to announce the official reissue of Ryo Fukui’s only solo piano al-bum, recorded live, June 4-5, 1994 at The Lutheran Hall in Sapporo. Sourced from the original mas-ters, this intimate offering from the Japanese jazz legend is available on limited edition 180 gram vinyl mastered at half speed for full audiophile sound, as well as on digipack CD. Both formats come with liner notes by Yusuke Ogawa. Originally released on CD only by Sapporo Jazz Create in 1994, My Favorite Tune is a beautiful bop adventure which includes two superb compositions that Ryo Fukui wrote as an homage to his belo-ved Hokkaido region, the fan-favorite “Nord” and “Voyage", a tribute to his mentor Barry Harris ("No-body’s"), alternate versions of his mega classics “Scenery” and “Mellow Dream", and, last but not least, bewitching takes on timeless gems by Sonny Clark and Avery Parrish. My Favorite Tune plays like a cool summer night, full of contemplative notes and deep feelings, with Ryo Fukui baring his heart on the piano and displaying the soulful sophistication he is loved for. A true masterpiece completing his amazing discography. Points of interests - For fans of jazz, soul jazz, modal, hard bop, piano, Japanese jazz, Hokkaido, Scenery, cool sum-mer nights and intimate piano moments. - Official reissue of the only solo piano album by legendary Hokkaido pianist Ryo Fukui. - 11th release from We Release Jazz, notably following Hiroshi Suzuki’s Cat, Ryo Fukui’s Scenery and Mellow Dream, the soundtrack of Le Cercle Rouge by Eric Demarsan, and Marc Moulin’s Pla-cebo Live 1971. We Release Jazz is the sister-label of Geneva-based Wrwtfww Records.

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Staying In Touch

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Stunt)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Storyville)

Dexter Gordon

Montmartre 1964

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Gearbox)

Binker And Moses

Escape The Flames

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Spacecraft Green Record Store Day 2021 Vinyl Edition

Musica Elettronica Viva

LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Our Swimmer)

26,99 €* 29,99 € -10%

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.

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Utopic Cities: Progressive Jazz In Belgium 1968-1979 Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sdban)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Standard version on black vinyl. 2LP in gatefold sleeve with liner notes.Utopic Cities is an eclectic selection of forward-thinking jazz from the Belgian underground, including the left-field fusion of Marc Moulin's Placebo, Koen De Bruyne, Solis Lacus and more.

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Chet Baker

Best Of

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth

Utopian Ashes

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sony Music Catalog)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (ESP Disk)

Henry Grimes

The Call

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kurt Edelhagen & His Orchestra

The Unreleased WDR Jazz Recordings

3LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Fellowship Transparent Sky Blue Vinyl Edition

Joseph Shabason

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Western Vinyl)

DJ Kicks Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Across eight tracks that mesh spacious, jazz-laced composition with fourth-world and adult-contemporary tonality, Toronto saxophonist Joseph Shabason sketches an auditory map of the transcendence, unity, conditioning, and eventual renunciation of his upbringing in an Islamic and Jewish dual-faith household. The resulting album The Fellowship bears the name of the insular Islamic community Shabason's traditionally Jewish parents belonged to from a time before he was even born; a mental and spiritual push-pull which continued shaping, even controlling, his outlook well into his adulthood. As a listening experience The Fellowship follows a chronological arc that spans three generations covering his parents' early lives, his own spiritual and physical adolescence, and his subsequent struggle to eschew the problematic habituations of such a conflicted past. On The Fellowship, as on prior albums that bear his name, Joseph Shabason does what only the best instrumental music makers can: tell a story with emotional clarity that conveys even the subtlest of feelings, all without singing a single word. As wordless as ever-- with as complex a theme as ever-- this album may be his most emotionally articulate yet. Most importantly, those lost in the woods of repression and self-doubt that organized religion can be at its worst now have The Fellowship to help guide them into a softer light. R.I.Y.L. Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laraaji, Robert Rich, Harold Budd

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Special Request

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

Mathias Modica Presents Kraut Jazz Futurism Volume 2

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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Mathias Modica

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Kryptox)

فرقة العقارب & سيف أبو بكر = فرقة العقارب و سيف أبو بكر

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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الجاز = Jazz, Jazz, Jazz

LP | 2018 | DE | Reissue (Habibi Funk)

Release: 2018 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Elemental Music)

Dexter Gordon

Tokyo 1975

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Edition Hawara)

Zenit

Straight Ahead

Waltz For Debby -Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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The Bill Evans Trio

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Waxtime In Color)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Peggy Lee

Fever Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blue Train Picture Disc Edition

John Coltrane

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Etta James

At Last

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Time Further Out

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bokanté & Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley

What Heat

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Real World)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

An Angel Fell

2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Strut)

Miles Davis & John Coltrane

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Strut presents the brand new album from cosmic jazz travellers The
Pyramids, led by saxophonist Idris Ackamoor, ’An Angel Fell’. “I wanted to use folklore, fantasy and drama as a warning bell,” explains Ackamoor.

“The songs explore global themes that are important to me and to us all: the rise of catastrophic climate change and our lack of concern for our planet, loss of innocence and separation... but positive themes too, the healing power of music, collective action and the simple beauty of nature.”

Produced by Malcolm Catto of The Heliocentrics, the album was recorded during an intense week at Quatermass studios in London and is one of the deepest, richest works yet from a band reaching their highest creative peak since the early ’70s. Some of the many highlights include the poignant title track depicting a fallen angel in purgatory, outrage and grief on the powerful, hard hitting ‘Soliloquy For Michael Brown’ and the lilting, beautiful album closer, ‘Sunset’.

The Pyramids originally came together in 1972 at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio where teachers included renowned pianist, Cecil Taylor.

After forming in Paris and embarking on a “cultural odyssey” across Africa, the group recorded three independent albums, ‘Lalibela’ (1973), ‘King Of Kings’ (1974) and ‘Birth / Speed / Merging’ (1976) and became renowned for their striking live shows, mixing percussive, spiritual and space-age jazz with performance theatre and dance. After migrating to San Francisco, they disbanded in 1977. 35 years later, the band reunited in 2012 following growing demand for their music from vinyl collectors.

German label Disko B released the freeform album ‘Otherwordly’ and in 2016, they released their first album for Strut, the acclaimed ‘We Be All Africans’.

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The Final Tour: Copenhagen, March 24, 1960

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Columbia)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Till Brönner & Dieter Ilg

Nightfall

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Masterworks)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen

Live Recordings 2019-2020

2LP | 2021 | FI | Original (We Jazz)

2LP | 2021 | Original (XL)

Release: 2021 / FI – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

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BBNG (BadBadNotGood)

Talk Memory

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Mint, Cover: Sealed

LP | 2021 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

Lloyd McNeill

Tori

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

The Horace Silver Quintet

Song For My Father (Cantiga Para Meu Pai)

LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (Blue Note)

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Factory sealed | 180 gram vinyl

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Badge Epoque Ensemble

Future, Past & Present

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

But Only After You Have Suffered

Jamire Williams

LP | 2021 | US | Original (International Anthem Recording Company)

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Limited Edition, Silver, Metallic Vinyl.

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Portico Quartet

Monument

LP | 2021 | Original (Eclipse Music)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

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Elektro Gt & Paleface

Ruma

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | Original (Cracked Anegg)

Gewüztraminer

Sau Nice

Release: 2018 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mischa Blanos, Khori Ander

Crossrhodes

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Algorhythmofunknown)

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Lasso, Jordan Hamilton & The Saxsquatch

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The seven stories unfolded on this album, debugged by a fabulous clarinet technique and a wonderful piano craft, narrate about the Universe, about the chaos and also about the miracle of the musical sound. These imaginative stories, made with talent by musicians Mischa Blanos & Khori Ander, talk about a special attitude towards a distinguished estate of mind, a unique colour of the space around us, devoted to a spirit of meditation, introspection on vast temporal surfaces, each piece representing facets of the same unique and unrepeatable algorithm of an improvisational euphonious Universe. By developing ideas in the process Cezar Lazar engineering craftsmanship reveals the outcome of a thoughtful recording and duo's synergy, refining and defying predictable musical territories

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Tri-Magi

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Mello Music Group)

27,19 €* 31,99 € -15%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (INA)

Barbara

Premiers Micros - Live

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Forfolks Cool Mint Vinyl Edition

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition 180gram vinyl edition!
Only one copy per customer!

Barbara, a legendary singer-songwriter, made her first scenes in small Parisian cabarets that have became legendary, like the Écluse or Chez Moineau. This vinyl offers a selection of exceptional songs recorded for the first time, in the studio on the radio or on stage, before their recording. Moving interpretations, rare moments, recorded between 1958 and 1965.

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Jeff Parker

LP | 2021 | US | Original (International Anthem)

27,54 €* 28,99 € -5%

Fantastic Variety In The Music Of Panama - The Winsor Style And Calypso Impressions

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jeff Parker's Forfolks - a new album of solo guitar works - was recorded by Graeme Gibson at Sholo Studio in Altadena, California (aka Jeff's house) over two days in June 2021. It includes interpretations of Thelonious Monk's "Ugly Beauty" and the standard "My Ideal," plus six original compositions including "Four Folks," "La Jetée" (a tune he recorded with Tortoise in 1998), and four totally new loop-driven, stratiform works that marry melodic improvisation with electronic textures. "It's a particular thing to hear Jeff play solo," writes veteran Chicago musician and longtime Parker collaborator Matthew Lux in his liner notes for Forfolks. "He is an unusually selfless improviser, oftentimes laying out and highlighting the contributions of his band mates... On this recording, however, he is by himself, joined only by his own ideas, looped or frozen, to flesh out the music he's creating in his mind. Hearing him craft entire sound worlds on these eight selections gives us an opportunity to really see how Parker orders sound." Forfolks follows Parker's critically acclaimed 2020 record Suite for Max Brown, which Pitchfork called an "effortlessly detailed album, full of tradition and experimentation that spans generations ... It lives at the vanguard of new jazz music." The album went on to debut at No. 1 on Billboard's Current Contemporary Jazz Chart.

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Alonso Wilson De Briano

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Mokomizik)

27,74 €* 36,99 € -25%

Shapes Black Vinyl Edition 2023 Repress

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mokomizik Records presents the first-ever reissue of this ultra-rare Latin-Jazz masterpiece. The Fantastic Variety in the Music of Panama - The Winsor Style and Calypso Impressions was privately released in the early 1960s by Panamanian pianist and songwriter Alonso Wilson De Briano.
Alonso described Panama as a country "with a foot in each side", referring to its unique geography that connects North and South America. The blending of Latin and English-speaking cultures had a big influence on Alonso, whose work draws on elements from West-Indian, Afro-Cuban and Panamanian folk musical styles. From the upbeat mambo rhythms of "Amigo" to the unusual combination of Calypso and Tamborera styles used in "My Brother, Too," Alonso weaves a rich musical tapestry into his arrangements. Back in 50s Panama, Alonso enjoyed relative success, with the likes of Orquesta Armando Boza and Tito Contreras performing his songs. So distinctive were his compositions that people had started referring to them by their own style - El stylito Winsor (the Winsor style), a reference to a club that Alonso performed at. Throughout his music career, Alonso worked with a number of renowned musicians, several of whom appear on the record, including Cuban-Jazz pioneer Arsenio RodrÃguez's main bassist, Alfonso Joseph; and saxophonist and flutist Gene Jefferson to name a few.
Sadly, not many copies remain of Alonso's music today and the few that have surfaced over the years have naturally demanded high asking prices. This limited reissue aims to shed new light on Alonso's work and make it available for a new generation of listeners to enjoy. Great care has been taken to restore this record, using quality mastering to ensure maximum listening pleasure and retaining the original artwork with lyrics and the song descriptions written at the time. Each record comes with an insert containing restored photos and detailed biography, which features quotes from a rare interview with Alonso from the 1980s along with information gathered from his family and Alfonso Joseph, the only musician we could reach who plays on the record.
Limited to 500 copies. 180g LP with tip-on sleeve.

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Robohands

LP | 2021 | UK | Reissue (KingUnderground)

A Louder Silence Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Leifur James

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Night Time Stories)

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Makaya McCraven

Universal Beings

Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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The Almighty Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Division81)

Music For Film And Theatre

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few return with a new musical journey, "The Almighty". The first quartet offering since 2021's Cosmic Transition. Collier's compositions and lyrics focus on using music to communicate deeper principles that are part of everyday. Isaiah showcases these principles through sounds that evolve within the titles: Love, Compassion, & Perspective. These principles once taken fully in are arranged to deliver the message that there is a Divine energy connecting through us all and is seen within all things.

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Hania Rani

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

More Energy Fields, Current Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hania Rani announces 'Music for Film and Theatre' a personal selection of recent compositions for film, theatre and other projects.

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Carlos Nino & Friends

LP | 2021 | DE | Original (International Anthem)

Open Arms To Open Us Dawn Cherry Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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More Energy Fields, Current is a definitive new peak in the recorded continuum of prolific producer/percussionist Carlos Niño. Featuring contributions from more than a dozen exciting voices in the creative music constellation of Los Angeles (of which Niño’s has been a central force for over 2 decades), including Sam Gendel, Nate Mercereau, Jamael Dean, and Jamire Williams, the album collects 10 pristine gems of collaborative communication helmed by the Southern Californian sage, elegantly presented in his unique “Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collage” style.

The album is ripe with “ambient” passages that function like open portals between moments of consonance and clarity, and epic post-hip hop opuses like the heavy/heady “Thanking the Earth.” But even in the occasional absence of drums, there is a powerful pulse implicit in the program’s frequency of consciousness. It’s a testament to Niño’s foundations as a DJ. His distinct ability to craft a kinetic, cinematic sonic experience from dozens of independent, often rhythmically ambiguous improvisational memories is more fluently displayed on More Energy Fields, Current than anything we’ve heard from him to date. It resonates, lucidly, with the way Niño’s mentor Iasos – who is known to the world as an original founder of New Age music – has described his work: "Real Time Interactive magination, Flow Texturization."

On More Energy Fields, Current, Niño immerses us in the watery depths of his world, spiriting us like a submarine through exotic nether-leagues of untouched sound. And when we arrive at the final, bookending piece “Please, Wake Up.” (an extended version of the opening theme, featuring saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings), it’s like a return, safely to shore.

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Ben LaMar Gay

LP | 2021 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Terrain Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ben LaMar Gay's critically-lauded 2018 break out Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun was more like a greatest hits than a debut album, as it compiled the best of the prolific but obscurity-prone Chicago native artist's previously unreleased music. Open Arms to Open Us will be our first release of brand new, freshly baked tunes by Gay, a collection recorded entirely at International Anthem studios in Chicago between March-June 2021. Featured artists on the album include: Ohmme singers Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart, bassist/vocalist/arranger Ayanna Woods, multi-disciplinary Rwandan artist Dorothée Munyaneza, poet A.Martinez, cellist Tomeka Reid, and vocalists Onye Ozuzu, Gira Dahnee, and Angel Bat Dawid.

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Portico Quartet

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Sdban Ultra)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Portico Quartet announce Terrain, a three-part suite drawing on American minimalism and ambient music alongside their own rich heritage as they explore new musical vistas

When Duncan Bellamy and Jack Wyllie – the driving force behind Portico Quartet got together in their East London studio in May 2020 and started work on the music that would become their new album, the world, or most of it, was in the midst of the first lockdown. The unique impact of the events of 2020 became the backdrop to their time composing and recording; causing them to take stock, re-think, and plot a new musical path.

Indian novelist Arundhati Roy expressed the sense of grief and rupture from the pandemic as "a portal, a gateway between one world and the next", and as they created the music that would become Terrain they were drawn towards longer, slowly unfolding pieces, which are perhaps the most artistically free and also the most beautiful they have ever made.

These are compositions more in the lineage of Line and Shed Song (Isla/2009), Rubidium (Portico Quartet/2012) and Immediately Visible (Memory Streams/2019). Wyllie expands: "We've always had this side of the band in some form. The core of it is having a repeated pattern, around which other parts move in and out, and start to form a narrative. We used to do longer improvisations not dissimilar to this around the time of our second record Isla. On Terrain we've really dug into it and explored that form. I suppose there are obvious influences such as American minimalism, but I was particularly inspired by the work of Japanese composer Midori Takada. Her approach, particularly on 'Through the Looking Glass', where she moves through different worlds incorporating elements of minimalism with non-Western instruments and melodies were at the front of my mind when writing this music".

Terrain I, II & III are all subtly different, but a short rhythmic motif that repeats is the starting point in all three movements. There is a sense of a shared journey to all these pieces, they move through different worlds, with a sense of horizontal movement that lends the music real momentum. Terrain I was the first piece they worked on and it started with a hang drum pattern, improvised by Bellamy, who added cymbals and synthesiser. From there on it grew, Wyllie adding saxophone, another synthesiser section, strings. For Bellamy "It felt more like filmmaking than music making, a bricolage of conflicting, shifting signs, subtle tension and multiple narratives. Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Mirror' and British artist John Akomfrah's incredible 'Handsworth Songs' were pivotal points of reference for me." Wyllie expands the point. "There is a sense of conversation between us both, in that someone presents a musical idea, the other person responds to it with something else, which would then be responded to again... until it feels finished. These responses are often consonant with each other but there is also a dissonance to some of this work. The music slowly evolves through these shared conversations."

It is this sense of dialogue, both between the composers, and between tranquillity and a subtly unsettling melancholy, that makes Terrain such a powerful statement. One that speaks to both our interior and exterior worlds, to our own personal landscape, to our Terrain.

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De Beren Gieren

Less Is Endless

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (ESP Disk)

Attitude

Pause & Effect