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Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Let Freedom Ring Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Jackie McLean

LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Bird Of A Thousand Voices DeluxeSet

Tigran Hamasyan

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Believe Digital Gmbh)

51,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Astigmatic)

Uniri

Infinite Reflections

Live At London Jazz Festival 2022

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Revision of new beats on the horizon Every 20 years or so, certain musical movements come full circle. Young musicians are inspired by genres dating back two decades, channelling them through their modern sensibility. The legendary J Dilla’s Donuts album was released in 2006 and instantly marked a starting point for the work of musicians worldwide, laying the foundations especially for the beat scene in Los Angeles. A whole young generation of musicians brought up on the new, instrumental and abstract hip-hop has carried jazz into a new era. The four London-based musicians who make up Uniri have gone one step further by abandoning the idea of a jazz band and "bedroom production" in favour of collective composing, creating a new look at the new-beat aesthetics, framing it as a road novel set in an unspecified time and space.

Uniri translates as ‘one unified dream’ and is the key driving motto of the project conceived by Chiminyo (Cykada, Maisha), the band's founder and head honcho. The project materialised in his private studio, where he invited fellow jazz musicians Amane Tsuganami (Jorja Smith, Maisha), Al Macsween (Nubya Garcia, Gary Bartz, Kefaya) and Luke Wynter (Nubyan Twist, Golden Mean) to spontaneously compose together. Hence, despite this being the band's first album, it wouldn't be right to call them rookies. The result of Uniri's collaborative work is the psychedelic, rhythmic album Infinite Reflections, packed with cosmic and warm synths, which neatly balances hip-hop beat and jazz composition. It's safe to say this music is even more appealing when played live, although it's equally suited to the club dancefloor.

UK Jazz has become a permanent fixture in the London landscape, but also across Europe and the US. Today, the musicians who shape the new wave of jazz are drawing on more and more genres, reducing solo improvisation for the benefit of composition and increasingly drawing on influences from the beat scene. Among such formations are the British NOK Cultural Ensemble, the Polish Błoto, the Belgian Echt!, and the Dutch Comité Hypnotisé. Uniri is part of this emerging yet already international trend, creating an entirely fresh aesthetic that echoes artists such as Flying Lotus, Samiyam, Dorian Concept, Ras G and Nosaj Things oriented around the Californian 'new beats generation' scene.

The title Infinite Reflections alludes to a phenomenon observable on the open sea or during intercontinental flights. Gazing at the horizon blurs the boundary between the ocean and the sky, forming an infinite palette of blue shades. This inspiration sparked an elusive musical narrative, navigating between a sea voyage and an astral journey, destination unknown.

The album will be released by Astigmatic Records, with the album scheduled for release on March 29, 2024.

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Guido Spannocchi

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Audioguido)

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The Cry! Limited Contemporary Records

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This ensemble consisting of some London's most prominent musicians has made a statement of collective spontaneous compositions for their appearance at London Jazz Festival. It showcase the unique sound of the British Metropolis channelled by a quartet of household names in the Jazz and alternative scene.
Recorded live at Signature Brew Haggerston during London Jazz Festival on 13.November 2022
Guido Spannocchi alto & baritone sax / Danny Keane on keyboard & synth / Ruth Goller on electric bass / Pete Adam Hill on drums /
Recorded by Aram Zarikian, mixed by Raphael Spannocchi at Sound Alm Haid and Kristian Craig Robinson at London's tastemaking hub Total Refreshment Centre.
Produced by Guido Spannocchi, Danny Keane, Raphael Spannocchi and Kristian Craig Robinson (Capitol K).
Mastered by Simon Kummer, Munich, Germany
Artwork cover is a limited edition of 50 unqiue hand printed silk screen prints by critically acclaimed artist Julia Vogl, every cassette has a unique cover, all hand printed in London and Winchester (uk)
All tracks are spontaneous compositions by the ensemble

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Prince Lasha Quintet

LP | 2024 | Original (Craft)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Astigmatic)

Tomasz Stanko Quintet

Wooden Music II

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Concord)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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

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

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Kenny G

Innocence

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Astigmatic)

Jaubi

Nafs At Peace 6th Press

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (La Sape)

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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JAUBI continue the Nafs journey, which commenced with the single “Satanic Nafs” (featuring the remix by legendary LA producers The Gaslamp Killer & Mophono) released in March 2021. Now JAUBI draw on the elements of North Indian classical music, Hip-Hop and modal/spiritual jazz in their debut LP entitled “Nafs At Peace”.

The journey officially began back in April 2019 when London’s multi- instrumentalist and 22a Record label boss Ed “Tenderlonious” Cawthorne and Polish pianist/composer Marek “Latarnik” Pędziwiatr of EABS/Błoto, visited the group to record in Lahore.

Together they channelled their personal struggles at that time into the two recording sessions allowing the musicians to find a spiritual path to transcendence through this musical purge.

Nothing whatsoever was written down during the recording sessions - no sheet music and no song titles, which allowed the six musicians to forget about their worldly issues. In many ways, the journey represents a struggle for purity, an expression of gratitude, and an acknowledgement that the musician's inspiration comes from a higher power.

The album cover portrays the mother of JAUBI’s bandleader, tearfully praying to God to get her son through that dark period of his life, which is what the mothers of the other musicians also did for their children.
The first step of the journey can be heard on “Satanic Nafs” which refers to the lowest level of the Self which was released 26th March 2021 through Astigmatic Records.

The album title ‘Nafs At Peace’ refers to the last purification step the self has been through. At this level, the Self no longer struggles because one has complete love of God, by becoming at peace and tranquil with God’s will. We hope all can achieve the stage of “Nafs At Peace” … Inshallah.

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Godtet

+Strings

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Frozen Reeds)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Godtet Recorded live in concert at Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Darlinghurst, on June 1st 2022
Godtet is:
Godriguez: guitar. Andrew Bruce: keys. Dominic Kirk: percussion. JAN Bangma: bass. Tully Ryan: drums.

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Julius Eastman

Femenine

41,99 €*

In Search Of The Better Tomorrow

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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Recorded live on Wednesday, November 6, 1974 at Composers Forum in Albany, The Arts Center on the Campus of the Academy of the Holy Names, Albany, New York. Performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble. Recorded by Steve Cellum. Tape transferred by Garry Rindfuss. With liner notes and then some by Mary Jane Leach. Mastered by Jim O'Rourke at Steamroom. Design by Antoine Verhaverbeke. Cover by Andrew Roth: »Untitled (Julius Eastman)«, c.1980.

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Eabs Meets Jaubi

CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Astigmatic)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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America Dream Reserve 2023 Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Smiling C)

35,99 €*

Nina Simone Live At Antibes France 1979

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

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

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2023 edition with new artwork and sleeve. Come with insert/liner notes.

"Welcome to the America Dream Reserve, home to husband & wife duos, pub legends, one-man-bands, preachers’ sons, and country-lounge entertainers..."

About: America Dream Reserve is a home for kindred souls. An hour-long journey into the world of lo-fi drumcomputer folk, disco-pop-lounge, haunting ballads, obscure vanity pressings, and synthesized string ensembles. A collaborative compilation between Charles Bals, creator of the inimitable Club Meduse, and Smiling C.

Compiled by: Charles Bals & Henry Jones.

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Nina Simone

LP | 2023 | EU (Whp)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Impex)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is Nina Simone in her famous live performance at the Antibes Jazz Festival (France) in July 1977. Backed by her long time collaborator Al Shackman on guitar, vibes and percussion, the "High Priestess of Soul" builds a perfect set-list full of beautiful songs chosen from various repertoires, among them: Jacque Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas", Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy" and Brecht/Weil's "Alabama Songs", last but not least, some Pop tunes from the likes of Robin and Barry Gibb and Lennon / McCartney, A stellar programme interpreted with her unique intensity!

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Patricia Barber

Clique

55,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Night Train Acoustic Sounds Edition

Oscar Peterson Trio

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Verve)

33,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mad About)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Celebrating its 60th anniversary, this release presents the complete original iconic Oscar Peterson album, one of the many masterpieces recorded by the classic Peterson Trio with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen. Featuring a number of Duke Ellington compositions, this LP also includes the earliest version of Peterson's anthemic "Hymn to Freedom."

VERVE ACOUSTIC SOUNDS SERIES: Stereo, mastered fully analogue from the original tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound, QPR pressing (180 g), firm tip-on gatefold (Stoughton Printing), padded inner sleeve

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Sam Sanders & Visions

The Gift Of Love

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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MAD About Records is honored to present the official reissue of the legendary LP by Sam Sanders & Visions for the first time worldwide “The Gift of Love.” Highly recommended 80s Detroit Spiritual Jazz Masterpiece. Classic Detroit Jazz in the Tribe Records, Strata East jazz vein.

Official Reissue under exclusive license by Viola Vaughn

Although most of the sessions with Sanders from the 60s or 70s are either nowhere to be found or still unreleased, 'The Gift of Love' - perhaps the only release of Sanders as a leader during his lifetime and privately pressed by what I presume to be his own label That African Lady - offers a document of this Detroit great's music with his band Visions. Fellow Strata musician Kenny Cox, even sits in on keys on a few tracks. Sam Sanders, a unique saxophonist whose approach to music made him a legend in Detroit Jazz. While sometimes likened to John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, or Joe Henderson, Sanders had an unmistakably unique style. His group, Sam Sanders and Visions - for many years with bassist Ed Pickens and drummer Jimmy Allen, was known for extremely aggressive post-bebop jazz bordering on the Avant-Garde. Sanders was also active as an educator and concert producer. He was an instructor at the Detroit Metro Arts complex and at Oakland University. He was instrumental in creating the Detroit Jazz Center - an open jazz school and concert venue presenting artists such as Jackie MacLean, Donald Byrd, and Woody Shaw, with local artists Kenn Cox, Marcus Belgrave, Roy Brooks, Charles Boles, and Danny Spencer, among many others. Sanders began playing while attending Northeastern High School in the 50s with fellow classmates Alice Coltrane, Kenn Cox, and Bennie Maupin. He later attended the Teal music school and studied privately with Detroit Jazz Legend: Yusef Lateef. During his career, Sanders performed with various artists, including: Milt Jackson, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, James Blood Ulmer, Sonny Stitt, Pharoah Sanders. Before forming Visions, Sanders and trumpeter Marcus Belgrave fronted a band with pianist Harold McKinney called the Creative Profile. Belgrave and Sanders would continue to perform together, often with Sander's big band, the Pioneer Orchestra. During the last decades of his life, Sanders traveled often to Senegal and eventually settled there with his wife, Viola Vaughn.

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Charles Lloyd

Sacred Thread

12,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With the "Trios" album project, saxophonist Charles Lloyd is fulfilling himself an unusual dream: three thematically related albums, each with a different trio line-up, a "Trio of Trios". The first album "Chapel" he recorded with guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan, followed by "Ocean" with guitarist Anthony Wilson and pianist Gerald Clayton. "Sacred Thread" with guitarist Julian Lage and drummer Zakir Hussain is now the crowning glory.

1-lp, 180g, padded inner sleeve.

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Detroit Jazz City Workshop Jazz Singles 1962-63

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Honeypie)

Vocal Patterns White W/ Violet Swirl Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Previously unreleased compilation from the Jazz Workshop catalogue, a Motown Jazz oriented subsidiary founded by Berry Gordy Jr. In 1962. The label was intended to release hi-quality jazz singles with a distinctive Pop flavor. Here are five different groupings featuring heavyweights such as Thad Jones, Frank Foster, Sonny Payne, Frank Wess, Cecil McBee, Kirk Lightsey as well as two original Funk Brothers: guitarist Joe Messina and pianist Johnny Griffith. No matter if in blues, soul, funk or jazz, Detroit bears one of the deepest black music traditions in America. Now if you want to get through the motor city jazz side this is the right place to start.

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The Roger Webb Sound

LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Dewolfe Music)

37,99 €*

Petter Eldh, Koma Saxo & Sofia Jernberg

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When you drop the needle on Vocal Patterns, you are entering a world that is equal parts suave, smooth, cool, nostalgic, and kitsch. With haunting and beautiful vocals, upbeat numbers, and smooth sounds made for a late 60’s summer holiday, let this cult classic transport you back to a simpler time. Originally released in 1971, Vocal Patterns features compositions by Roger Webb and vocal performances by Barbara Moore. This powerhouse duo has their own recognition outside of library music. Roger Webb worked as a musical director alongside the likes of Rex Harrison and Bette Davis and wrote songs for Shirley Bassey and Johnny Mathis. Barbara Moore, composer of the de Wolfe cult classic “Vocal Shades and Tones”, collaborated with the likes of J imi Hendrix, Elton John, Dusty Springfield, and Tom Jones.

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Koma West Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Petter Eldh's explosive ensemble Koma Saxo continues their adventures with a new album "Koma West", out on We Jazz Records. The album sees Koma Saxo expand on their previous sound with the addition of vocalist Sofia Jernberg and a strong cast of featured artists, including cellist Lucy Railton, violinist Maria Reich, pianist Kit Downes and accordionist Kiki Eldh (Petter's mom!). The hard-hitting key quintet remains, including Eldh on bass and assorted instruments, Christian Lillinger on drums, plus saxophonists Otis Sandsjö (of Y-otis), Jonas Kullhammar and Mikko Innanen bringing the Saxo to the Koma operation.

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Promises Indie Exclusive 180g Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

30,99 €*

Regener Pappik Busch (Element Of Crime)

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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Ask Me Now

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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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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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Dom-Ermitage)

Chet Baker

Live In Milan

19,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Helen Merrill Mono Edition

Helen Merrill

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Acoustic Sounds)

55,99 €*

8: Kindred Spirits - Live From Lobero

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Helen Merrill attributed her childhood musical influence to her mother's singing. Truth is, she didn't wait long herself to make a mark as a teenage jazz ingénue, following-up with the notable self-titled LP you have in your hands, newly remastered, and reissued by Analogue Productions.
Helen Merrill arrives, remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio, and plated and pressed to 200-gram vinyl by the dedicated crew at Quality Record Pressings, supervised by plating expert and general manager Gary Salstrom. No less than an old-style, tip-on Stoughton Printing gatefold jacket would suffice for such a phenomenal-sounding reissue. Rare photographs inside the gatefold originally appeared as sleeve art for the 7-inch singles recorded and released in conjunction with the original 1955 album release.
Helen Merrill was born in New York City on July 21, 1930. Her professional career began at the age of 15 when, after singing at theatres and winning amateur contests, she landed a job as vocalist with Reggie Charles' Band. Merrill was later signed by Mercury Records to their EmArcy label. "Helen Merrill" is her debut studio album, backed by among others, trumpeter Clifford Brown and bassist/cellist Oscar Pettiford. The legendary Quincy Jones produced and arranged the album when he was just 21-years-old!
The success of Helen Merrill prompted Mercury to sign her for an additional four-album contract. AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow gave Helen Merrill 4 1/2 stars. »The music is essentially straight-ahead bop, yet the seven standards ... are uplifted by the presence of Merrill (in top form) and Brown.« Her success associated Merrill with the first generation of bebop jazz musicians.
Merrill's career continued with recordings and concerts throughout six decades, until the early 2000s. Her emotional, sensual vocal performances, particularly this engaging debut, stand as testament to her immense talent.
This is a high-quality reissue of a rare and valuable record. Original copies have sold for more than $1,000!

Recording: in mono

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Charles Lloyd

2LP+DVD | 2020 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (WRWTFWW)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charles Lloyd has played the 150-year-old adobe theater in downtown Santa Barbara more often than any other venue, and more often than any other performer. Knowing that Marian Anderson sang there on February 14, 1940 makes it a sacred space for him. In the concert film you can see him bobbing with pleasure beneath his pointy, indigo knit cap, curly white hair, and long goatee. He beams at his neighbors, places the palms of his hands together and pulls them against his black sweater and golden tenor saxophone in the traditional Buddhist greeting. “I always get nervous before I go on,” Lloyd confesses, “but once I get on, Dorothy [Darr] has to come and drag me off. It seems that once I’m on stage I get met by the spirits. I enter the now. Sometimes Prez and Bird will stop by and say, ‘Hi, Charles.’”

A birthday is a door between the past and the future, and this concert reflected that truth. Representing the future were 34-year-old pianist Gerald Clayton, who performs regularly with Lloyd, and 31-year-old guitarist Julian Lage, who had performed with him when he was 12-years-old. Representing the past was 74-year-old organist and fellow Memphis native Booker T. Jones, who had never played with Lloyd at all. This was a one-of-a-kind line-up for a one-of-a-kind ritual.

“I’ve known Julian since he was 12,” Lloyd says. “He’s from the Healdsburg area, and Jessica Felix, who runs the jazz festival there, asked if Julian could play with us during the festival in 2000. Billy Higgins and John Abercrombie were in the group. I knew she wouldn’t ask if he didn’t have something special, so we let him play, and he had something; he had big ears. We’re all seekers in life; we all get the rays of the sun, but some get a stronger dose. A lot of young geniuses flame out and no one remembers their names. But so far, Julian’s balanced: grounded but at the same time ecstatic. Even though he’s the future, he knows the past.”

“Gerald was often back stage when I was touring with the New Quartet. In 2013 when Jason’s other duties became overwhelming, I decided to try out Gerald. His father and uncle are great musicians,” Lloyd says, referring to bassist John and saxophonist Jeff of the Clayton Brothers, “so he comes from something deep. You can hear it when he plays.”

Jones was still in junior high when Lloyd was graduating from high school, so they didn’t know each other when they were both growing up in Memphis. But they both shared the city’s rich cultural heritage, and when they ran into each other at the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival, they promised to play together at some point. This birthday party was the perfect excuse.

“Memphis was such a rich environment,” Lloyd recalls. “It was like New York City, only with biscuits and gravy. There was an intelligentsia that inspired me to always be a learner. New York was 1300 miles away, and Chicago 450 miles away, but we were on the river, so musicians were always coming through. These out-of-town guys would play the Peabody Hotel and then they’d come over to the joints in our neighborhood to play with us, and we’d put a hurt on them. We didn’t tap dance or do anything for the man. We had our own culture and we knew it was inspired. We knew nothing of the lamb tongues and the gold mines, and I’m so thankful; we were doing it for the music.”

Don Was first made his name as co-leader and bassist of the 1980s funk-rock band Was (Not Was) and went on to produce albums for the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Jason Moran and many more. In 2012, he became president of Blue Note Records and immediately set out to bring his hero Lloyd to the label. By 2015, he had succeeded in his quest and a magnificent series of albums has followed: Wild Man Dance, I Long To See You, Passin’ Thru, and Vanished Gardens.

Harland anchors every project that Lloyd pursues these days—Sangam, the Marvels, the New Quartet—and Rogers is present in every group but the bass-less Sangam. “Eric and Reuben put a magic carpet under me,” Lloyd exclaims, “and I can travel wherever I want to go. They want to be there, and they know that to be there they have to spread their wings in any situation. When we take that journey together; that’s communal living at its highest. Music is not for sleepwalking; it’s for wakefulness. Reuben and Eric understand. My music dances on a lot of shores, and they have the ability to be in the now with all of it.”

The Lobero set list docked at many of those shores. The evening began with the title track from Lloyd’s first album for Atlantic Records, 1966’s Dream Weaver. This infectious reverie begins with breathy exhalations and ends the same way 20 minutes later, but in between, Lloyd’s tenor saxophone attacks the theme with an increasingly edgy fearlessness—and Lage and Clayton follow his example.

“‘Dream Weaver’ is sacred ground to me,” Lloyd says. “That record was fresh and crazily beautiful. It has withstood the passage of the ages. I started playing it again and found new ways of expressing the truth. There are some notes on the saxophone I didn’t have as a young man. They aren’t on the horn; they’re in between the cracks. I’m not denying the young Charles, but as my character becomes whole, the music gets better.” If that tune reached back to the beginnings of Lloyd’s career, the next three came from his much-lauded resurgence in the 1990s through the 2010s on ECM. “Requiem,” which first appeared on 1992’s Notes from Big Sur, used patient tempos and pointillist solos by the tenor saxophone, piano, guitar and acoustic bass to create a mood that fits the title.

The Mexican folk song “La Llorona” from 2010’s Mirror (and 2016’s I Long To See You) opens with a piano solo that slowly builds from quiet to majestic and closes with a tenor solo that manages to always reference the melody as it’s sprinting through the octaves. That segues into “Part 5, Ruminations” from 2017’s Passin’ Thru, which begins with a meditative, free-floating consideration of the harmony before cohering into a more definite theme that inspires a stabbing guitar solo, a classically flavored piano solo, a rumbling drum solo and a low-register tenor saxophone solo.

The second set found Clayton sitting out until the encores. Rogers switched from acoustic to electric bass, and Was sat in for two numbers on acoustic bass. Jones contributed two compositions: the premiere of his birthday card “Song for Charles,” and his 1962 hit as leader of Booker T. & the MGs, “Green Onions.” Two Lloyd compositions from the 1960s, “Island Blues” and “Sombrero Sam,” joined the old hymn “Abide with Me” and the American folk tune “Shenandoah.” For the encore, Clayton rejoined the band to play Lloyd’s “Forest Flower” and Billy Preston’s 1974 hit single, “You Are So Beautiful.”

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Gareth Quinn Redmond

Laistigh Den Ghleo

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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WRWTFWW Records is very happy to announce the release of Irish ambient/minimalist producer Gareth Quinn Redmond’s Laistigh den Ghleo, a companion album to Satoshi Ashikawa’s Still Way (Wave Notation 2). The album, available on vinyl and digipack CD for the first time, comes with liner notes by Midori Takada and Gareth Quinn Redmond. "Conceptually derived from the work of Japanese minimalist composer Satoshi Ashikawa, I have composed an album which hopes to engage, enrich and reflect the listener’s surroundings, an Environmental Music." - Gareth Quinn Redmond

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Django Reinhardt

Harcourt Edition

15,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

John Scofield

Hand Jive

33,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Polskie Nagrania)

Tomasz Stanko Quintet

Music For K

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wejene Aola Feat. Kamasi Washington

Dexter Story

7" | 2016 | UK | Original (Soundway)

10,99 €*

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Rhino)

Release: 2016 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For his next release on Soundway Records, Los Angeles-based Dexter Story hooks up with long time friend and compatriot of music, the saxophonist, jazz composer, producer and band-leader Kamasi Washington. A fierce, rumbling electro Ethio-Funk groove provides the platform for an intense and powerful interplay between Washington on tenor sax and Todd Simon on trumpet. An instrumental cover version of Tilahun Gessesse's 1970s cut of the same name, it's Story's homage to the oppressed Oromo people of Southern Ethiopia. Backed on the flip by the one cut from Story's 'Wondem' long-player that did not make it to vinyl when the LP version was cut, Nia Andrew's sublime and atmospheric collaboration on Eastern Prayer will keep all those happy who grumbled at it's exclusion from wax first time around. This is a record that no lover of Ethio-Jazz, Afro-Beat or Funk should be excused for not owning.

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Miles Davis

Tutu

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Olli Ahvenlahti / Prince Billy Wright

Messin' About - Volume 3

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Messin' About)

15,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Canopo)

Italian Library Vaults

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Warp)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Established in 1968 by Romano Di Bari, Canopo was the first brick in the building of Flippermusic, the leading production music library in Italy. Revived after decades of hiatus, the label is now devoted to the reissue of Flippermusic’s historic catalogue of the 1960s, 1970s and 80s for the first time since its original release onto vinyl, digitized and re-mastered from the original master tapes so that these legendary recordings can be heard once again. This classic Italian production music was all recorded in Rome recording studios by a heritage of composers including Alessandro Alessandroni, Amedeo Tommasi, Gerardo Iacoucci, Remigio Ducros, Romolo Grano, Daniela Casa, Piero Montanari and many more. “Italiany Library Vaults” is a 12 track compilation bringing togheter the best tracks produced by Flippermusic in the first years of his activity. Ranging between different musical genres, it offers a wide range vision of this great musical legacy. This volume features a unique cover design, replica of the original albums published on Canopo label from late 60’s.

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Nala Sinephro

Endlessness

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Full Blast (Brötzmann/Wertmüller/Vandermark/..)

Sketches & Ballads

LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Trost)

20,99 €*

Live From The Northwest 1959 Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g vinyl / limited pressing of 500!

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Dave Brubeck Quartet

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Brubeck Editions)

36,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Asher / The Black Lungs Gamedze

Constitution

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (International Anthem)

32,99 €*

Wonderland Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is the repeated call and the rallying chorus of the nearly 40-minute centerpiece to composer and percussionist Asher Gamedze"s new album Constitution. The expansive double album, a minoritarian fellowship in breath, is Gamedze"s follow-up to 2023"s Turbulence and Pulse, and his first with The Black Lungs.

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Daniel Trio Garcia

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Severn Songs)

Ishmael Ensemble

Rituals

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Reissue (Honeypie)

Krzysztof Komeda

Jazz Jamboree 63

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Traumton)

Release: 2024 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is the legendary Krzystof Komeda Quintet caught live at the Jazz Jamboree Festival in Warsaw in 1963. A marvelous combo featuring some of the greatest Polish Jazz musicians such as Tomasz Stanko - trumpet, Michal Urbaniak - tenor sax, Maciej Suzin - bass and Czeslaw Bartowski - drums. Komeda, Stanko and Urbaniak were sort of pioneers who effectively opened up a way for Jazz in Poland. Komeda's fluent modern Jazz conception was a perfect synthesis between the American influence and a certain Slavic lyricism. The album includes an astonishing version of "Ballad >From Knife In Water” from Komeda's soundtrack for the 1962 Roman Polanski's movie. A major statement in the East- European music history.

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Olga Reznichenko Trio

Rhythm Dissection

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2024 | KR | Original (Venus)

Barney Wilen

New York Romance

93,99 €*

Release: 2024 / KR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (Ozella)

Rain Sultanov

Forgiveness

41,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hamburg Spinners (Carsten Erobique Meyer, David Nesselhauf, Dennis Rux, Lucas Kochbeck)

Die Hamburg Spinners Im Schwarzwald HHV Exclusive Black in Clear Yolk Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (a sexy)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Venus)

Nicki Parrott

Misty

63,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Audiophile Analog Collection Vol. 2

2LP | 2023 | CA | Original (2hd)

102,99 €*

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz On Vinyl Volume 9 - How Intensitive

Patrick Bebelaar

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lee Morgan

Volume 3

LP | 2023 | EU (Sowing)

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Today And Tomorrow Verve By Request Edition

McCoy Tyner

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Impulse)

35,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Croatia)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tyner’s third Impulse! album, originally released in 1964, resulted from two sessions— one featuring a sextet made up of three horns and fellow John Coltrane Quartet member Elvin Jones; the other featuring his trio at the time with bassist Jimmy Garrison (also a Coltrane bandmate) and drummer Tootie Heath.

VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, gatefold sleeve.

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The Zagreb Jazz Kvartet

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Great Women Of Song: Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Ortf Recordings Paris 1971

Don Cherry Trio

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Caz Plak)

The Separatist Party Dark Green Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Caz Plak İstanbul proudly presents... ONE OF Jazz's All-time Greats Playing Turkish Rhythms! Don Cherry delves into Turkish rhythms, accompanied by his long-time Don Cherry Trio members: Turkish drummer Okay Temiz and South African bassist Johnny Dyani. The vinyl LP is manufactured in Istanbul under the guidance of Mr. Okay Temiz, the only living member of this iteration of the Don Cherry Trio. The LP has been remastered from original material housed in BYG Records' vaults by Okay Temiz & Mert Ucer and licensed from BYG Records, France. This LP features the recording by the Don Cherry Trio in Paris 1971 for the Sound and Vision program at the legendary Ortf studios in Paris 1971. Serving as the second chapter of our 'Turkish Jazz Trilogy', it follows Okay Temiz's magnum opus, 'Okay Temiz's Oriental Wind at Montreux Jazz Festival 1982' LP. We present one of the paramount Jazz figures of all time interpreting Turkish rhythms in Don Cherry Trio - The Ortf Recordings Paris 1971 LP This release also stands as one of the most important recordings prior to Don Cherry's legendary "Organic Music Society" album in 1973, in which Okay Temiz also plays drums. "Don Cherry Trio as an 'Applied Universe of Thought.' In the spring of 1971, while we were playing as the Don Cherry Trio in Paris, Don (Cherry) seamlessly flowed from the trumpet to the piano, with improvisation as the lighthouse of the melody. This approach opened up a realm of boundless freedom for Johnny and me. It is to be observed as a melody within a melody. From the Organic Music Society album we recorded a year after this concert, up until the ECM album we recorded before Don's final departure from this planet, this principle has been the gravitational force of the Don Cherry universe. That, indeed, is the true legacy of the Don Cherry Trio." Excerpt from the liner notes by Okay Temiz and Haluk Damar

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Mike Reed

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

30,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Chicago drummer, bandleader and composer Mike Reed had been thinking about isolation. "The Separatist Party" is the first installment of a three-album cycle involving a varied cast of musicians, dealing with themes of inner and outer human isolation.

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Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Deluxe Edition

51,99 €*

Behind The Tea Chronicles

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With Pharoah Sanders’ blessing, the limited edition embossed version of this 2LP box set presents the definitive, remastered version of Pharoah, his seminal record from 1977, along with two previously unreleased live performances of his masterpiece “Harvest Time.” This is the first official rerelease of Pharoah, which has been bootlegged often since its original release in 1977. These exceptional live versions of “Harvest Time”—which Pharoah performed during an intense European tour in the summer of ’77 and which are included here for the first time—turn the original, beloved composition on its head.

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Ed Motta

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Over Tage Purple Vinyl Edition

Svaneborg Kardyb

LP | 2022 | UK | Reissue (Gondwana)

Bubuj Bulan / Naghm El Uns

Release: 2022 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition, celebrating 15 years of Gondwanan records!

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Rully DJohan / Munif

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Soundway)

14,99 €*

Purdie Good! Limited Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Following on from Soundway’s 2022 compilation, Padang Moonrise, are two late 1960s tracks from Java, Indonesia. one instrumental psychedelic organ version of Classic Indonesian track ‘Bubuj Bulan’ and the other a raw funk cut sung in Arabic. Rully Djohan recorded this unique, psychedelic instrumental version of Benny Corda’s classic ‘Bubuj Bulan’ for his album of instrumental organ versions of popular Indonesian songs recorded in 1971-72. With echoes of Indian, Ethiopian and Egyptian jazz melded with traditional Javanese music this version is a shimmering, dubbed-out take on a song that has been recorded by many Indonesian vocalists. Djohan is backed by The Galaxies Band, and led by one of Indonesia’s most original band leaders and arrangers Jopie Item, who also plays sitar and guitar alongside Djohan’s electric organ. On the flip-side, Munif Bahasuan delivers a deep funk track sung in Arabic. Munif was a Jakarta-based vocalist who sung mostly in Arabic and English. Jakarta has a small population of Arabic, ethnically Middle Eastern people who settled in Indonesia via connections with Islam and Islamic culture, the dominant religion in Java, Sumatra and many other of the main islands in the Indonesian archipelago.

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Bernard Purdie

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ECM)

Ralph Towner

At First Light

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums

Sonny Rollins

3LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

131,99 €*

Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums vereint die beiden Studioalben des legendären Jazz-Saxophonisten Sonny Rollins für Lester Koenigs Contemporary Records, Way Out West und And The Contemporary Leaders, mit einer dritten Scheibe, Contemporary Alternate Takes. Das von Bernie Grundman neu gemasterte Audio-Set wurde als RTI 180g 3-LP gepresst und enthält ein erweitertes Booklet mit neuen Anmerkungen und einem Interview des mit dem GRAMMY Award ausgezeichneten Musikhistorikers Ashley Kahn.

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Recordings From The Aland Islands Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | US | Original (International Anthem)

City Of Mirrors Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Debut duo album from the unlikely pairing of Jeremiah Chiu's modular synthesizer and Marta Sofia Honer's viola features post-composed improvisations interwoven with field recordings from sojourns on the Åland archipelago in the Baltic Sea. An active intersectional cultural producer in the Los Angeles scene, Chiu is known for his visual art as much as his music. A professor at Otis College of Art and design by trade, Chiu's a regular musical collaborator of Booker Stardrum, Celia Hollander, Dustin Wong, and Sam Prekop. Honer is a first call session player for the likes of Adrian Younge and Beyoncé. She's also played on recordings by Chloe x Halle, Angel Olsen, Fleet Foxes, Stanley Clarke and others, including five recordings with Grammy nominations.

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Dos Santos

LP | 2021 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Jackie Mclean & Michael Carvin / Chris Mcgregor's Brotherhood Of Breath

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This album is an assemblage… …glimpses of tradition …reflections on our collective present …luminous echoes between love and solitude. hope and absurdity. euphoria and mourning.

This album grapples with and transgresses these binaries because we have/and continue to cross borders. Yet, for us, the border is no metaphor—too much real staring back at us.

We embody the border. We (our families) have crossed it. We (our stories) are coated with its residues. And so… we cross the border of self through our art—out of necessity.

This album was imagined while touring the country as families were corralled in cages. We then fled the wildfire of a nascent pandemic poised to (especially) ravage our communities as we recorded in Los Angeles. And our sonic journey concluded in Chicago while the country rebelled against the murderous consequences of policing in the U.S.

Through this cascade of tipping points and tragedy, we summoned melody and verse to sound out verdant technicolor dreams of freedom and desire, mirroring the vortex of our time.

And borders were at the center of these struggles. Borders—of nation, of belonging—are the struggle.

And so, this album is a set of dispatches from that wondrous journey… …our journey across and into a sunburst surreal. …our astral meditations on loss and triumph. …our sonic trek across a landscape of trauma and effervescence.

…The border divides and defines places—yes. But it is equally a place unto itself—a borderland. It is the forbidden place where we dwell. The enchanting space where we are at home. The bustling city where we reflect. Look into our mirror. See us in you.

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Melodies Record Club 001 Four Tet Selects

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Melodies Record Club)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We’re excited to be launching a new release series: “Melodies Record Club", a string of DJ and artist curated mini compilations in loud 12″ format. The first instalment was put together by Four Tet, selecting two big peak-time Jazz tracks he used to spin regularly at Plastic People. On one side, we’ve got all time jazz greats Jackie McLean and Michael Carvin’s De I Comahlee Ah, taken from their seminal album Antiquity recorded in Denmark back in 1975. A year and a half ago, we visited Steeplechase, the original label in the outskirts of Copenhagen. They informed us that at the time, the track was cut short as it didn’t fit on the full LP. They were kind enough to provide us with the tape of the full original recording, allowing us to release for the first time the full extended version capturing twelve and a half minutes of studio magic. Speaking with Michael back in November, he told us that every song on that album was recorded without any overdubs. They had taken their shoes off and organised the studio in such a way that they could move from instrument to instrument during the take (!!) On the flip, we have Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath - MRA. Back in 70s London, the Brotherhood had brought together musicians who had sought refuge from South Africa’s apartheid regime and the best of a new generation of British jazz musicians. Music journalist Richard Williams, who had originally reviewed the band in the 1970s tell us: “They made music that appealed in equal measure to the head, the heart and the feet, taking the jazz legacy of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus and adding to it the fantastic dance rhythms and gorgeous harmonies of the townships and untethered collective improvisations of the new free music". Four Tet’s instalment is out early May in 12″ format and digitally (stream & download), first press comes with a folded A2 insert with words from and about the artists. Graphic design by Studio ChoqueLeGoff

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Chet Baker

Chet

17,99 €*

Charles Lloyd / John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Billy Higgins

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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Voice In The Night

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (ECM)

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For the first time on vinyl, his album from 1999.

Charles Lloyd's sixth ECM album is both a departure and a homecoming for the Memphis-born and California-based tenorist, introducing new music and revisiting archive favourites (including the epic "Forest Flower"), and featuring an all-star line-up. With his "Scandinavian" band currently on hold, this is Lloyd's first all-American album in a long while - Dave Holland qualifies as an honorary American by now - with all the differences of cultural emphasis that this implies. ECM veteran John Abercrombie and legendary drummer Billy Higgins are in great form throughout as they lock in with Lloyd to tackle material ranging from Billy Strayhorn's "A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing" to the Elvis Costello / Burt Bacharach-penned "God Give Me Strength" or dig deep into the roots music of the "Island Blues Suite".

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Anouar Brahem

Le Pas Du Chat Noir

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (BMG)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For the first time on vinyl! The album from 2002.

Hypnotic, magnetic new album by Anouar Brahem which adds a new dimension to our knowledge of this exceptional Tunisian musician. "Le pas du chat noir" gives the clearest indication yet of the work of Brahem as composer and features a spacious "chamber music" that resonates with the freshness of improvisation. The instrumentation is unique: oud, piano, accordion. Brahem's writing for this combination is highly evocative, meticulously controlled and sparse. Half of the magic, as he notes, resides in the not-played, in the marvellous mingling of overtones, sounds that rise from the piano to blend with the warm tones of the oud and the breath of the accordion's bellows.

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Dizzy Gillespie

Cubana Be, Cubana Bop

25,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Brownswood)

We Out Here

Nino Nardini / Eddie Warner / Roger Roger

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A primer on London’s bright-burning young jazz scene, this new compilation brings together a collection of some of its sharpest talents. A set of nine newly-recorded tracks, We Out Here captures a moment where genre markers matter less than raw, focused energy. Surveying the album’s running order, it could easily serve as a name-checking exercise for some of London’s most-tipped and hardworking bands of the past couple of years. Recorded across three long, fruitful days in a North West London studio, the results speak for themselves: they’re a window into the wide-eyed future of London’s musical underground.

The album bottles up some of the vital ideas emanating from that burgeoning movement. A reflection of how London’s jazz-influenced music has reached outward into new spaces, the sound of the record draws from a wide pool. There’s plenty of crossover between each of the groups, too, speaking to the close-knit circles which make up the scene; shared line-ups reflect the mutual cooperation and DIY spirit which are second-nature.

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Space Oddities 1972-1982

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Born Bad)

21,99 €*

Monument Biovinyl Edition

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Soundtracks

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During the '60s and '70s, three distinguished gentlemen who had built their careers playing French-made exotic jazz (Roger Roger, Nino Nardini and orchestra leader Eddie Warner) met each evening in the Ganaro recording studio. They mainly experimented -or simply played- with keyboards that looked like prototypes of spaceships. Flying high on whimsical and joyful inspiration, the improbable trio used their strange instruments to sketch out the beginnings of something that, at that time, resembled the future of music. This collection presents some of the highlights that resulted from their light-hearted, electronic pop sessions.

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Portico Quartet

2LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

31,99 €*

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Monument is one of Portico Quartet"s most accessible, direct records to date. If Terrain addressed the darker side of how Duncan Bellamy and Jack Wyllie made sense of the pandemic, then Monument resonates as an ode to better times. If not quite a dance record, it nonetheless pulses with an energy, radiance and a scalpel sharp focus.Double Black BioVinyl, in Printed Sleeve, packed in a resealable Protective Bag.

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Godley & Creme

Collected

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Phi-Psonics

Morning Sun/Arrival

19,99 €*

Cedar Walton & Ron Carter & Jack Dejohnette

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gondwana Records are proud to announce Morning Sun / Arrival, a limited two track 12" release from the sublimely beautiful and immersive LA deep-jazz masters Phi-Psonics.

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Cedar Walton Ron Carter Jack Dejohnette

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (Frederiksberg)

Soren Skov Orbit

Adrift

33,99 €*

Kosmos Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soren Skov Orbit"s debut album, "Adrift", is at once subtle and profound. The saxophonist and his collaborators have created something quite special and consistently deep. This record may not easily be classifiable, but the most interesting music creeps between the lines.

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Bremer / McCoy

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

30,99 €*

Bright Size Life Luminessence Series

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kosmos is the third full-length record for Luaka Bop from the uncategorizable Danish band of Jonathan Bremer (on acoustic bass) and Morten McCoy (on keys and tape delay).

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Pat Metheny

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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II Curacao Blue Vinyl Ediiton

Superposition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Introducing 2 Tracks Limited Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Finnish quartet Superposition returns with their second album, "II", on We Jazz Records. The band will premiere their new album live on the same day at Helsinki"s Odysseus Festival, organised by We Jazz. Led by drummer Olavi Louhivuori, Superposition features Linda Fredriksson and Adele Sauros on saxes and Mikael Saastamoinen on bass.

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Wayne Shorter

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Music From Memory)

Total Blue

LP | 2024 | Original (Smoke Sessions)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Introducing ‘Total Blue’, the Los Angeles-based trio of Nicky Benedek, Alex Talan, and Anthony Calonico. Despite collaborating for over a decade, ‘Total Blue’ represents a new chapter in their artistic journey together as a trio.

Embracing chance, inviting the unknown, and guided by a spirit of sheer play and exploration, ‘Total Blue’ was driven by a desire to ‘touch the beyond’ in pursuit of an elusive vibe the three had been chasing for years.

Alex, Nick, and Anthony envision ‘Total Blue’ as the all-encompassing full picture, a place where the real and the imaginary begin to blur; a destination reached not through escapism but by expanding one's perspective; a widened scope of vision where personality both shines and disintegrates.

Across the album, their mission statement is expertly achieved with subtlety and delicate human touch; painting with a lush palette of digital synths, Akai EVI wind synthesizer, fretless bass, and guitar, the trio masterfully balance texture and color, evoking wide expansive vistas that stretch from Los Angeles right out to the furthest reaches of sky and sea. This is ‘Total Blue’ - a place of time and timelessness where echoes of history and tradition merge with rootless inhuman sonics.

Art and design by Michael Willis.

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Wayne Escoffery

Alone

32,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bass Improvisations Part 1

Daniel Aged

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Isc Hi-Fi Selects)

Midnight Creeper Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Daniel Aged (inc., Frank Ocean, Kelela) 2020 self-released solo bass recordings on vinyl for the first time with an exclusive unreleased composition. Released by In Sheep’s Clothing.

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Lou Donaldson

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

43,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ECM)

Maciej Obara Quartet

Frozen Silence

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cannonball Adderley Quintet

Cannonball Adderley In Chicago Acoustic Sounds Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Verve)

43,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Toni Harper With The Oscar Peterson Quartet

Toni

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Intermusic)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Intermusic)

Mitzi Gaynor

Mitzi

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Lyre Le Temps

Prohibition Swing

17,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Animals Clear Vinyl Edition

Kassa Overall

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Warp)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Don Cherry & Jean Schwarz

Roundtrip - Live At Théatre Récamier - Paris 1977

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Transversales Disques)

Anne EP Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After more than 45 years forgotten in the personal archives of Jean Schwarz, Transversales Disques is very happy to release this previously unpublished recording which brings together the great Don Cherry and his friend, composer Jean Schwarz, pioneer in electro-acoustic music and member of G.R.M. This concert was recorded in 1977 at the Paris MIX festival (Théatre Récamier) organised by G.R.M and hosted by director François Bayle. An elegant mix of spiritual jazz and electronic sounds around this astounding quintet made up of JF Jenny Clark, Nana Vasconcelos and Michel Portal. Remastered from the original master tapes. Exclusive pictures and liner notes

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Joseph Shabason

12" | 2022 | US | Original (Western Vinyl)

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mister I.B.E.)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Anne, EP is the afterword to Joseph Shabason's acclaimed 2018 harmonic suite Anne, through which he examined and processed his mother's struggle with Parkinson's disease. Employing a small supporting cast that includes vocalist Dan Bejar (Destroyer) and guitarist Thomas Gill (Owen Pallett), Anne, EP spotlights the Toronto saxophonist as he builds empathic tropospheres of woodwinds and synthesizers, deepening the sentiment established by the EP's companion album. In doing so, Shabason further cements jazz, ambient sound design, and new age revivalism into a timely new genre all his own.

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Ibrahim Maalouf

Capacity To Love

25,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Unday)

Dans Dans

6 Black Vinyl Edition