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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (City Slang)

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Three CDs sold exclusively on the artist's official website and at live venues, are now available on vinyl! The long-awaited analog version in 2LP / Gatefold jacket is now available!

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Anna B Savage

In|Flux

21,99 €*

CD | 2020 | EU | Original (Omlott)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Vinyl is Close to VG+. Original inner sleeve.

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Anna Högberg Attack

Lena

12,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Stupido)

Anna Inginmaa

15,29 €* 17,99 € -15%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Camillo)

Anne Bisson

Be My Lover

59,19 €* 73,99 € -20%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Anne Mette Iversen Quartet

Racing A Butterfly

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Brooklyn Jazz Underground)

28,89 €* 33,99 € -15%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Jusqu'a La Nuit)

Anne Paceo

S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sings A Song With Mulligan

Annie Ross

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Supperclub)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (International Anthem Recording Company)

Anteloper

Kudu

18,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (International Anthem Recording Company)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Limited Edition. Blue Vinyl.

OBI not included.
Includes original inner sleeve and insert.
Cover as new with slightly dented corners.

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Anteloper

Kudu

19,99 €*

Anthony Davis / Kyl Motl / Kjell Nordeson

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: Near Mint

Limited Edition. Blue Vinyl.
Includes OBI, insert and inner sleeve.
Record is close to VG+.

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Vertical Motion

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Astral Spirits)

27,99 €*

LP | 2012 | US | Original (Daptone)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Anthony Davis has been around since the late '70s with releases on India Navigation and more! He's recently composed more operas including his Pulitzer Prize winning work of The Central Park Five. This is a straight up free jazz piano trio, incredible stuff.

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Antibalas

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ABP)

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

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Antoine Bourachot

Diversions

21,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (30 Fevrier)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One year after his first release, the french producer and multi instrumentist Antoine Bourachot returns with Diversions, a groove filled journey into espionage. Inspired by great fusion and disco records, with the help from virtuosos Jim Grandcamp (Guitar) and Shoko Igarashi (Soprano Saxophone, Flute), this record is a tribute to musicians and their craft. Alongside cinematic instrumental tracks, a pop side of the record emerges. Miracle, with epic celestial vocals from Giacomo Lecchi d’Alessandro and the ever so sweet Action with his trusted studio mate Irfane (Breakbot). Created in a gear sanctuary somewhere in Paris this record takes the listener into a spy fantasy, portrayed on the cover by the very talented Julia & Vincent.

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Antoine Wielemans

Vattetot

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Antonio Castrignano: Babilonia

Antonio Castrignano

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Q-Rious Music)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (We Jazz)

Antti Lötjönen

Circus/Citadel

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Circus/Citadel White Vinyl Edition

Antti Lötjönen

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (We Jazz)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Antti Lötjönen & Koma Saxo

Erzeben Strasse / Erzeben Koma

7" | 2021 | UK | Original (We Jazz)

9,99 €*

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Do Right! Music)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Helsinki bassist Antti LÃ¶tjÃ¶nen follows up his 2020 We Jazz Records debut LP with a new 7" introducing a fresh version of key album cut "Erzeben Strasse" and throws in a wild treatment by Petter Eldh's Koma Saxo on the flipside. "Erzeben Strasse" presents LÃ¶tjÃ¶nen's Quintet East lineup in fine form, swinging steadily but also adding enough sideways movement to blur the lines just a little bit. The band features a stellar Finnish cast in LÃ¶tjÃ¶nen (bass), Verneri Pohjola (trumpet), Mikko Innanen (baritone sax), Jussi Kannaste (tenor sax) and Joonas Riippa (drums). The Koma Saxo treatment of the track, dubbed here as "Erzeben Koma" is full of fire. Uplifting, a bit hectic, beat-driven and jubilant, Eldh's band of brothers double the ensemble heard on Side A, both sampling and adding new recording into the mix. The entire Koma Saxo live band is featured here: Eldh (bass/production), Otis SandsjÃ¶ (tenor sax), Jonas Kullhammar (tenor sax), Innanen (alto sax) and Christian Lillinger (drums). The modern sound of Helsinki meet Mauerpark Liquid Jazz.

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Apollo Suns

Departures

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Intermusic)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The debut album from Winnipeg psychedelic jazz-funk collective Apollo Suns, 'Departures' (Do Right! Music), finds the band evolving across new styles and moods, encompassing the shifting tides of the pandemic years.
Produced by Juno award-winning producer Ben Kaplan (Bootsy Collins, Five Alarm Funk), Departures is a cinematic journey inspired as much by artists like Goblin, Lettuce, and Frank Zappa as film, TV and video game scores and soundtracks. The band combines classic compositional techniques with synths and electronics, showcasing genre-melding finesse. Introducing strings, acoustic guitar, grand piano, and lap steel into the mix, Apollo Suns explore the visceral and heavy, the elegant and ethereal, epic house rock to New Orleans-y brass, proggy pathways, string-backed balladry, greasy funk and beyond.
"It's been a heavy couple of years. We wanted to make an album that summed it all up," says bandleader Ed Durocher. "I always kind of think of music as the different parts of life. Sometimes it's aggressive, sometimes it's fun and loose, and sometimes it's sad and hard. So, since we don't have vocals, a lot of these songs try to convey those experiences through sound."

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Archie Shepp

Bill Dixon Quartet

18,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Archie Shepp & Jason Moran

Let My People Go

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Archieball)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Archie Shepp / Joachim Kühn

Wo!Man

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Archieball)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Archie Shepp & Mal Mal Waldron

Left Alone Revisited

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

49,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Whp)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mal Waldron's first tribute to Billie Holiday, titled "Left Alone", was recorded in 1959, mere months before the singer's death. He returned to salute the legendary vocalist on several occasions since then, with this recording likely being his final tribute, recorded less than a year before his own death. Waldron, who worked with Holiday during her last years, is intimately familiar with her takes of the six standards heard on this disc, along with her own "Lady Sings The Blues". Archie Shepp's often gritty tenor sax is reminiscent of the texture of Holiday's voice, yet he perfectly complements Waldron's lush piano. They also pack a punch with their stark performance of "Left Alone" (Shepp's occasional reed squeaks seem deliberate, as if to imitate breaks in her voice). Waldron also recites Holiday's lyrics set to his composition at the conclusion of the LP. Shepp switches to soprano sax for an emotional take of "Everything Happens To Me" and "I Only Have Eyes for You," with the latter song sounding as if the unheard singer is being ignored by her love interest. Shepp's "Blues For 52nd Street" is both sassy and swinging. This instrumental salute to Billie Holiday is one of the best albums ever to honour her memory.

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Archie Shepp Quintet

Live In Europe

24,69 €* 25,99 € -5%

A Natural Woman...In Sweden

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This is Archie Shepp caught live at two important European festivals in 1973. At the head of some sort of one-off line up featuring Dave Burrell on piano, Donald Garret on bass along with her partner Zusaan Fasteau on percussion, flute and vocals, and last but not least Muhammad Ali (Rashid's brother) on drums, Shepp, heard on tenor and soprano saxes and piano, delivers a full program of hot renditions of mostly standards by the likes of Ellington, Monk and Davis, plus a couple of pieces written by his regular partners of the time, Cal Massey and Grachan Moncur.

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Aretha Franklin

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Outsider)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Whp)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mandatory scandinavian recordings for the queen of soul ! In 1968, she issued the top-selling albums Lady Soul and Aretha Now, which included some of her most popular hit singles, including "Chain of Fools", "Ain't No Way", "Think" and "I Say a Little Prayer". That February, Franklin earned the first two of her Grammys, including the debut category for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. In the same year, Franklin toured outside the US for the first time in May, including an appearance in Stockholm, from where this historic recording was taken.

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Aretha Franklin

Live At Montreux 1971

18,99 €*

French Archives Volume III 1964-89

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An amazing performance that captures the Queen of Soul in her prime. This was her last live appearance with King Curtis and the Kingpins, an amazing fourteen piece band (the same appearing on her famous "Live At The Fillmore West” album) featuring heavyweights such as guitarist Cornell Dupree, drummer Bernard Purdie and King Curtis himself on tenor sax, as well as the super tight Memphis Horns section and the invaluable Sweethearts Of Soul's backing vocals. Just have a look at the track list, a breathtaking sequence of her finest material performed at maximum energy and inspiration! How can you go wrong with all that?

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Ariel Kalma

Box Set | 2023 | EU | Original (Black Sweat)

74,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The visionary French musician stays true, in this third compendium too, to his path of planetary asceticism. A new treasure chest of secrets reveals to us the same spirituality of total experimentation, by balancing the universe and the inner soul. In Taste The Fullness Of Life Ariel builds his symphonic pillars toward the cosmos, eternal architectures that always smell of Indian fragrances. The music always communicates a state of full grace, spreading balms of bliss. An unprecedented whispered narrating voice, evident especially in Spiritual Chanson D'Esprit, is embellished with textures of harmonic bells, tropical flutes, spacey harmoniums and drones of mystical light. In the recordings of Going Inward, also made on the occasion of a Tantric workshop, Kalma oscillates between tribal electronic dances, metalic almost industrial rhythms, but then always falls back in a comfort zone made of desert carpets of synths and baths of sound (gong/bells). Harmonica Galactica crowns interestellar dreams with unscrupulous drum-machine gears and pulsing saxes, superb use of Vcs3 with arabesque and Schulzian overtones, and suave touches of fingerpicking guitar with freak vibes typical of psych-folk.

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Arild Andersen Group

Affirmation

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Armando Trovajoli

OST Il Vuoto

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Jazz Shinsekai)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Another exciting chapter in the Four Flies jazz series, this is the first full-album release of the long-forgotten soundtrack composed by Armando Trovajoli for Piero Vivarelli’s 1964 movie Il Vuoto. Here, elegant and nocturnal cool jazz alternates with more rhythm-oriented tracks influenced by groovy Brazilian vibes and raw rock’n’roll. All tracks are performed by a sextet featuring Trovajoli himself on piano, Carlo Zoffoli on vibraphone, Gino Marinacci on baritone sax and flute, Enzo Grillini on electric guitar, Berto Pisano on double bass, and Sergio Conti on drums and percussion. Finally rescued from the historical archives of CAM, this exquisite soundtrack offers a special insight not only into the history of Italian jazz, but also into the penetration of the genre into Italian film music.

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Arnold Klos

Appreciations

44,99 €*

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Jazz Shinsekai X Atelier Sawano)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in 1988, this is Dutch pianist Arnold Klos at his best. The rhythmic surface-skimming groove, block chords, and harmonic sense... too deep in its shadow, sold out CDs more than a decade ago, and now a miracle performance known only to those in the know is back on record.

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Arnold Klos

Heartstrings

44,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jazz Room)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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All for the sake of beauty. The exquisite pianism created by his polished touch and phrases. You can hear the "soul" of the fantastic pianist Arnold Kros. This is the first studio recording by Dutch pianist Arnold Klos in 14 years, made in 2002. The performances on this album have the "elegant atmosphere" of the Evans Trio and Klos's attempt to "get close to his heart". The heart-soaking performance of his great predecessors reflects a sincere reverence that transcends stylistic beauty and technique, as well as his own way of life.

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Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble

Le Le

17,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Croatia)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in the 1980's and snapped up upon arrival in Europe by the Soho Boho's, Acid Jazzuals,Cuboppers, Jazz Massivists and Mojo Jazzmuziker, "Le-Le" by The Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble is a unique one off Spiritual Soul-Jazz outing with Avant Garde touches and more than a hint of Afro-Cuban Orientalism.
The percussion drenched title track has that special Worldwide Sound and the Cool Jazz Get Down Groove of "Wet Walnuts and Whipped Cream" is a DJ's delight, whether played over the Airwaves or to a crowded Dancefloor.
An adventurous jazz outfit that has been playing around Philadelphia since its formation in 1979. The Ensemble was founded by Warren Oree, an acoustic bassist, producer and composer who continues to lead the band. Eclectic and far from predictable, on this album the Ensemble has embraced a variety of acoustic and electric jazz styles combining them with African and Middle Eastern influences and mixed together with the "New Thing" have managed to make a timeless underground classic.

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Arsen Dedic

25 Greatest Hits

26,34 €* 30,99 € -15%

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Art Blakey

Art Blakey Big Band

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Essential Works: 1954-1960

Art Blakey

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Masters Of Jazz)

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers

Moanin

LP | 2012 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Not Now)

3 Blind Mice

29,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings

2LP | 2021 | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: Near Mint

Limited Edition. 180 gram vinyl. Mono.

Cover as new with slightly dented corners.
Includes booklet and 6 collector posstcards.
Side 3 track 1 has a small pressing inclussion, other than that NM.

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LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Just Coolin'

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A never-before-released studio album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack, New Jersey studio on March 8, 1959, and featuring the legendary drummer, along with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt. The 6-song set includes 2 previously unissued compositions: “Quick Trick” and “Jimerick.”

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LP+LP | 2022 | FR | Reissue (Sam)

Olympia Concert

49,99 €*

Release: 2022 / FR – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Mint, Cover: Mint

LP | 2023 | Original (Play Loud! Productions)

Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Les Stances A Sophie

34,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | US | Original (ORG Music)

Art Ensemble Of Chicago

The Spiritual

36,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

Art Farmer

Portrait Of Art Farmer

37,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section

Art Pepper

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Craft)

39,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Complete Art Pepper At Ronnie Scott's Club

Art Pepper

7LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

199,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Limited Edition. 180 gram vinyl.

Box with a slightly dented corner is close to NM.
Records are close to VG+
Includes original insert and booklet with tiny sticker rip off.

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Artemis

In Real Time

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Whirlwind)

Arthur Hnatek Trio

Static

14,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Onik)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Zurich based drummer Arthur Hnatek presents his first trio record, 'Static'. Joined by his equally fearless bandmates Fabien Iannone on bass and Francesco Geminiani on tenor sax, this is music created by a classic jazz line-up and steeped in improvisational facility, yet simultaneously utterly unlike anything in the standard jazz tradition.

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Artvark

Mother Of A Thousand

28,89 €* 33,99 € -15%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Movies & Stories Like This

Asbjornsen & Aarum

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Musikkoperatore)

19,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dialectic Soul Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (On Teh Corner)

29,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2023 | EU | Original (International Anthem Recording Company)

Turbulence And Pulse

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Turbulence & Pulse Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cape Town, South Africa-based drummer Asher Gamedze explores relationships of time between music and history on his new album Turbulence and Pulse, out on International Anthem in collaboration with Johannesburg-based label Mushroom Hour Half Hour.

For Gamedze, the underlying message of Turbulence and Pulse is “to claim a form of historical agency and realize that the future is not a foregone conclusion. As people we can organize, to transform our world in small and big ways.” This concept comes out of Gamedze’s involvement in radical cultural work and political organizing.

Though this is Gamedze's first record with International Anthem as a leader, fans of Angel Bat Dawid's debut, The Oracle, might recognize his name from their epic first-meeting-turned-song: "Capetown" or from his drumming on Angel & Tha Brothahood's Live. Close followers of free music may also know Asher Gamedze from last year’s offering on Astral Spirits, Out Side Work (which features scorching duets with fellow Brotherhood member Xristian Espinoza and Sun City Girls’ Alan Bishop), or from his 2020 debut album Dialectic Soul, which was ranked in the New York Times’ Top Ten Jazz Albums of the Year.

Turbulence and Pulse comes as a reset and a reintroduction, even while Gamedze is again joined by his core quartet from Dialectic Soul - South African musicians Thembinkosi Mavimbela (bass), Robin Fassie (trumpet), and Buddy Wells (tenor sax)

The album opener “Turbulence’s Pulse” serves as a manifesto to inform the album that follows: a multi-rhythmic groove exploration of a collection of pieces initially composed by Gamedze on piano. The result is his most soulful and accessible album yet, and a sweet-yet-energetic addition to the South African jazz canon

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Turbulence & Pulse Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (International Anthem)

34,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Xjazz! Music)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Asra

Nocturnal Journey

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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I Can See My House From Here

Astral Flex

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (La Sape)

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Funk Night)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Founded in 2019, Astral Flex is a band of musicians/producers born of an ascendant local culture of producer based, improvised music in Melbourne, Australia. Recorded on the 50th anniversary of humankind's first step on the moon, their debut release "I Can See My House From Here" is presented here in two forms; as a spacey nu-jazz improvisation on Side A, and as a collection of house/electronic remixes on Side B.

Felix Meredith - Trumpet
Angus Gray - Keys
Horatio Luna - Bass
Odyssey Zelno - Drums

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Astral Quartet

Halt / Euler Spiral

10,79 €* 17,99 € -40%

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Creak Inc.)

Astrid Engberg

Trust

20,99 €*

Great Women Of Song: Astrud Gilberto

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Danish singer, producer, DJ, and composer Astrid Engberg releases her masterful sophomore album Trust, a tribute to intuition and new motherhood. Spanning contemporary soul, R&B, nu jazz, and modern classical, Trust sees her collaborating with a line-up of Nordic talent and the venerated violinist Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, known for works with Flying Lotus, Thundercat and Hiatus Kaiyote. Taking form after the birth of her first child, the album was created with playful joy, openness, and gratitude over a nine-month period.

“You need to trust that what you hear is the way you need to go. I want to encourage others to trust themselves through me learning to trust myself.”

Trust is released via sonic soulseekers Creak Inc. – a Copenhagen-based label specializing in groundbreaking Danish music.

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Astrud Gilberto

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (No Format)

Asynchrone

Plastic Bamboo

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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French Jazz sextet Asynchrone reimagine legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto"s repertoireAs fans of the maestro"s work, French free jazz/electro collective Asynchrone began to interrogate his oeuvre in 2020, aiming to get inside his music, taking it to unexplored new dimensions. On their debut album "Plastic Bamboo", they achieve that and more. With a wildly eclectic approach in mind, there will be songs that most will be familiar with: "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence" and Yellow Magic Orchestra"s "Behind The Mask", in particular. And then there are the deeper cuts from Sakamoto"s solo albums from the early eighties that are less famous but that nevertheless helped to expand and augment the genre. With a wildly eclectic approach in mins, they take a varied selection of his music in a direction where free jazz meets electronics, with the sense of liberty and freedom. Asynchrone"s personnel is a link-up between founders cellist Clément Petit, producer and musician Frédéric Soulard (behind Jeanne Added"s Victoires De La Musique-winning album), alongside clarinet/saxophone player Hugues Mayot, flautist Delphine Joussein, pianist Manuel Peskine, and Vincent Taeger (Oumou Sangaré, Tony Allen) on drums. Plastic Bamboo teems with vivacity and possibility, and it"s a record that is future-facing rather than any kind of sombre eulogy. It seeks to continue the musical conversation now that the architect is no longer with us. Asynchrone plays Sakamoto.

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Athletic Progression

19,99 €*

No Money No Honey Clear Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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

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Atilla Engin Group

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Arsivplak)

LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Marlow)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Here an unreleased Turkish Jazz album by Atilla Engin from 1986. I want a special thanks to Mr. Per Meistrup who saved this gem and let us to release it. Limited 500 numbered transparent copies. The album cover was already pressed but wasn't released, since yet...

Atilla Engin was a Turkish Jazz drummer. He moved to Denmark around middle of the 1970's and recorded many traditional Jazz albums there. This album was his last recording in Denmark but unreleased, until now...

"I dedicate this album to Denmark. Ten years ago I came to Denmark. Here I have found my personality, I was allowed to develop-practice my music and the most important thing is that I have learned so much from this vital society for better or worse. And since then, Denmark has been in my heart with growing love, which will probably never disappear. I am who I am; curious, happy, angry, angry, unwise, intelligent, bad diplomat with naughty body and yet I was allowed to play with You I love !!" Atilla Engin

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Atlantis Jazz Ensemble

Celestial Suite

LP | 2020 | CA | Original (Marlow)

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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

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

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Atlantis Jazz Ensemble

Oceanic Suite

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (ESP Disk)

Release: 2020 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Original 12" vinyl LP pressing of the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble's debut album.

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Attitude

Pause & Effect

27,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Supperclub)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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This extraordinary NYC trio combines free jazz and post-punk with pointed commentary about issues of race, gender, the pandemic, and political autonomy. Rose Tang, a Mongol from Sichuan, sings/recites and plays guitar, piano, and percussion. Tenor saxophonist Ayumi Ishito, from Japan, plays in a plethora of bands along the jazz/rock spectrum. Drummer, composer, and educator Wen-Ting Wu, from Taiwan, combines jazz drive and classical rigor.

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Audrey Morris

Bistro Ballads

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2021 | UK | Original (Village Live)

Aver & Move 78

Follow The Earworm

11,99 €*

The Algorithm Smiles Upon You (3rd Pressing)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Village Live Records are proud to present “Follow The Earworm / Hectic As...",

the new double A-side 7" vinyl single from Aver & Move 78. The two tracks, built from the same studio sessions as the band’s debut EP “The Algorithm Smiles Upon You”, showcase a progression in the Berlin-based

quartet’s blend of programmed hip-hop and improvised jazz.

"Follow The Earworm" features an uptempo, Motown-esque groove, with horn stabs and atmospheric sounds provided by the French horn of classical musician Merav Goldman (Divan Orchestra). Whereas "Hectic As..." sees the band serving up a more chilled, leftfield instrumental, with the spacey, delay-soaked trumpet on the track being supplied by Aquiles Navarro

(International Anthem Recording Co.).

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Aver & Move 78

LP | 2021 | UK | Reissue (Village Live)

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Introducing the vinyl repress of "The Algorithm Smiles Upon You," the debut EP by Aver & Move 78, originally released in 2021, by Village Live Records.

With the EP surpassing 6 million streams on Spotify alone and the band gaining more recognition through live tours, it was an obvious choice to restock this record, allowing fans to secure a copy for their personal collection.

Based in Berlin, this talented band comprises Doron Segal on keyboards, Nir Sabag on drums, Hal Strewe on bass, and Aver on sampler and production.

The EP consists of eight tracks meticulously crafted from extensive studio improvisations. These raw recordings were then skillfully chopped-up, rearranged, and enriched with additional layers of strings, flute, and horns. Through this multi-layered approach, the band has successfully developed their distinctive sound: a captivating blend of free-flowing jazz and precisely programmed hip-hop.

Each copy of the record will include an OBI strip, printed inner sleeve, and a glossy detail finish, ensuring a visually appealing and high-quality product.

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (ECM)

Big Vicious

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Continuo Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Naive)

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (ECM)

Naked Truth

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sensitive Hours - Shaot Regishot

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Naive)

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Fresh Sound New Talent)

The Trumpet Player

33,29 €* 36,99 € -10%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Having spent close to 30 years recording some of the most promising musicians in jazz—from the prolific scene of the 90s until today—Fresh Sound New Talent is revisiting its origins by popular demand, this time on vinyl. For this new series, we bring you a timeless album by one of the most influential and widely acclaimed jazz leaders of his generation who made his recording debut for Fsnt.

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Two Roses Feat. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Naive)

27,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Shapes Of Rhythm)

Awkward Corners

Amateur Dramatics

17,99 €*

Ichimaime Record Store Day 2023 Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Amateur Dramatics is Awkward Corners AKA Chris Menist's second LP in the space of a year. In 2020 â€“ a time when the global pandemic gave artists more time and space to think about their music â€“ Chris took his collaborations and compositions to a different level. Having already collaborated remotely with Sarathy Korwar, as well as Kitty Whitelaw through Karthik from Flamingods' Isolate/Create/Collaborate community, Chris turned his thoughts towards a new project. Amateur Dramatics is influenced by the events of early 2021 and alludes to the general atmosphere of political life in the UK right now where we are chivvied along by people who seem woefully unqualified to be commanding authority. Musically, the LP builds on foundations of the meditative, devotional electronic aspects of previous LP Dislocation Songs but this time frames it more in a jazz context with significant collaborations with Collocutor and Maisha's Tamar Osborn on four tracks.Vocals (from Kitty Whitelaw) feature on an Awkward Corners track for the first time, as well as double bass provided by David Leahy.The result is a thoughtful and deep listening 40 minute listening experience.

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Aya Nakano & The Bremen

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Bloom Music)

63,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Jazzego)

Azar Azar

Cosmic Drops

30,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

Azmari

Maelstroem

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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

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Azmari

Sama'i

20,99 €*

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Created in Brussels in 2015, Azmari is a weaving musical odyssey that expertly fuses ethiogroove, dub, psychfunk and eastern sounds. Taking inspiration from artists such as Okay Temiz, Mulatu Astatke, Cymande, Fela Kuti and The Heliocentrics.

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Azzurro 80

Notte Inchiesta

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Ubiquity)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After the successful 7-inch release of Agip, Roman producer and composer Azzurro 80 is back on Four Flies with another triple-single that continues his love affair with dreamy synth-pop and Italian Eighties culture and society.

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Baast

Trident

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sublime Frequencies)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The third installment of the Baast album series "Trident" sees the band heading into the direction of electronic soundscapes, delving deeper into soundtrack and ambient textures more so than previous albums "Dimension" and "Bazaar". R. Scott Dibble and the inimitable DJ Johnny Basil remain at the helm with a round of uber talented guest artists who've contributed in the past along with some new players, heavy on talent but even more so on the vibe that's captured in the recordings.

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Baba Commandant

Sonbonbela

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Sucata Tapes)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sublime Frequencies is honored to release the third LP from Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band. Sonbonbela was recorded in the beginning of 2022 in the Republic of Burkina Faso. The group continue to hone their trademark fusion of Mandingue and afro-beat styles. The Mandingo Band are a hit machine, sculpting seven new tracks of near Beefheart/Magic Band dynamics, Fela inspired groovers dusted out in the Sahel zone, rather than the humidity and sweat of Lagos, creating one of the most original and propulsive musical statements to come from the contemporary West African cultural juggernaut. As with previous releases, the band features the legendary guitar pyrotechnics of Issouf Diabate, truly one of the greatest West African (or Earth for that matter) guitarists of the last forty years. The band is completed by a near bottomless barrel of artistry from the Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso musical talent pool. On bass guitar, Wendeyida Ouedraogo, on drums Abbas Kabore, and on percussion and balafon, Nickie Dembele. Leading the charge again is the captain himself, Mamadou Sanou on the Doso Ngoni featuring one of the most distinctive voices of the modern era. The opposite of the banal trends of auto-tune that have pervaded most of West African popular music, Baba’s voice still impresses with its gravel and grit, showcasing a range that is ancient and defiant in equal measure. This LP is a non-stop hit parade of afro-beat bangers destined to light dance floors and living rooms ablaze!!! This album is dedicated to the memory of Massimbo Taragna, the bass player extraordinaire who was an integral part of the Mandingo Band’s trance stun musical power. He passed away in early 2022. RIP

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Babau

Stock Fantasy Zone

12,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

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

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Balcoon)

Bachar Mar Khalife

Oil Slik

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Badge Epoch

Scroll

30,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Before forming outer limits jazz-rock outfit Badge Époque Ensemble, Max Turnbull masterminded the oddball pop persona Slim Twig, wrote and performed with U.S. Girls, and moonlighted in varyingly experimental groups across his native Toronto. While this was going on, the devout crate digger had his third eye trained on another project—one that would span the breadth of his mercurial creativity. This “journal album,” as he puts it, is titled Scroll, and it collages together the pearls of Turnbull’s eight-year dive into his songwriting imagination. Sprawling across 90 audacious minutes, Scroll—released simply as Badge Epoch, a tidy distinction from the collective Époque Ensemble—sounds unearthed from a lost musical Atlantis. Turnbull calls it “a cosmic hodge podge of funk, jazz, ambient techno, aggressive guitarmonized rawk, musique concrète, and hip hop.

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Badge Epoque Ensemble

Air, Light & Harmony

33,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Badge Epoque Ensemble

Clouds Of Joy

21,99 €*

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Badge Époque Ensemble return to Telephone Explosion Records with a new LP, Clouds of Joy. Featuring three vocal-led compositions, three instrumentals and three choral arrangements, this new album presents the Ensemble’s most ambitious, mature and engaging material to date. Clouds represents a shift from the group’s previous sonic excursions into the worlds of vintage soundtrack grooves and early electric jazz towards a more era-ambiguous, complex and all-encompassing approach to arrangement & production.

Undergoing a major shift of consciousness upon learning that he was expecting twins, BÉE leader Maximilian ‘Twig’ Turnbull found the spark to initiate the album within his reflections upon the nature of human joy. This shift in mindset also helped shape the record from an operational standpoint: Turnbull stepped away from his fixture on keys, leaving all of the musical performance on this record to his cast of collaborators. With Max assuming a more “directorial” approach to production and arrangement à la Barry White, David Axelrod, or Fagen & Becker, this album finds the Badge Époque Ensemble in its most collaborative mode to date. Vocalists Dorothea Paas, James Bailey and guitarist Chris Bezant all have co-writing credits here with Bezant contributing significantly to three compositions, including the album’s title track. The album was mixed collaboratively as well, as another joint effort between Turnbull, Steve Chahley and Tony Price, a trio who have teamed up behind the mixing desk for all previous BÉE albums, as well as U.S. Girls’ Heavy Light LP.

For the most part, the Ensemble on this record is made up of names familiar to anyone following the Badge cosmology: drummer Jay Anderson, bassist Gio Rosati, flautist Alia O’Brien, saxophonist Karen Ng, percussionist Ed Squires and guitarist Chris Bezant, with the new addition of young jazz pianist Edwin De Goeij, a perfect surrogate for Turnbull’s ideas on keys. (This in-demand collection of musicians represent a scattering of key cogs from a clutch of other premium Canadian exports; The Weather Station, Andy Shauf, U.S. Girls & Marker Starling). Clouds’ emphasis on the sound of the human voice finds its perfect outlet in vocal arrangements by labelmate Dorothea Paas and a return from lead vocalist James Baley. Their contributions find compliment by a choir composed of session vocalists, (including singers from Bernice and Bonjay) who come together to provide a series of show-stopping harmonic acrobatics.

Familiar Badge motifs are present through this album’s nine tracks: extended sections of dusty drum & conga breaks, swirling saxophone and flute flourishes, fleet-fingered guitar excursions, hazy Rhodes chords and lashing Clavinet stabs, but where Clouds excels is in its ability to weave tremendous vocal performances and choral arrangements into its dense tapestry of sound. The lilting melodies and multidimensional harmonies on tracks “Conspiring With Nature” and “All Same 2 Each, Each Same 2 All” bear the hallmarks of late sixties baroque AM-radio pop, while James Baley’s ecstatic, Stevie-esque lead vocal performance on “Zodiac” could light up the midnight sky, turning a nearly eight minute jazz-funk instrumental odyssey into a sure-shot dancefloor hit. Lyrically, Turnbull’s interest in an aphoristic spiritual mysticism condenses reflections on the complexity of human emotion into bold, succinct phrases, a quality most clearly communicated on the album’s three choral pieces, “The Greatest Joy”, “Let Breath Be The Sum”, and “Joy Flows” (upon first hearing these works Turnbull’s partner Meg Remy remarked that they sounded like “radio hits on the planet Dune”).

Clouds of Joy comes serendipitously as catalog number Ter0100 - the hundredth release for Telephone Explosion, the rapidly burgeoning Toronto label. It is the group’s third proper full length of five total releases for the imprint in only 4 years. It represents the Ensemble’s most fully realized presentation of a founding vision to create music as human, organic and alive as it is synthesized, produced and designed; music that transcends the notion of linear time, pulling in influences and ideas from the past and taking them far into the future.

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Badge Epoque Ensemble

Future, Past & Present

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Buyu)

Bahama Soul Club

Sundub Society

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2023 | FR | Reissue (SouffleContinu Records)

Baikida Carroll

Orange Fish Tears

Release: 2023 / FR – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

What You Hear Is What You See

Bakithi Kumalo

CD | 2021 | US | Original (Ropeadope)

After Commodore Perry Service Plaza

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bakithi Kumalo’s bass playing can be found in the heart and soul of the modern day anthems that have shaped our sense of music and culture as we know it. Ranked among the top 50 bass players in the world by Bass Player Magazine, Bakithi Kumalo is a five-time Grammy Award winning multi-instrumentalist. Born in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, South Africa and surrounded by relatives who loved music and actively performed, Kumalo landed his first job at the age of seven filling in for his uncle's bass player. Kumalo worked as a session musician in South Africa during the 1970s and early 1980s, eventually becoming a top session bassist and accompanying international performers during their South African tours. In 1985, Kumalo was introduced to Paul Simon by producer Hendrick Lebone during the recording sessions for Simon's Graceland album. Kumalo then traveled with Simon to New York to finish the album and after the accompanying premier tour, spent several years commuting between Soweto and New York City before permanently settling in the United States. Kumalo has toured regularly with Simon throughout his career and has recorded with and performed alongside many other artists such as Joan Baez, Cyndi Lauper, Hugh Masekela, Herbie Hancock, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Randy Brecker, Grover Washington Jr., Mickey Hart and Disney’s The Lion King.

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Baldi / Gerycz Duo

LP | 2021 | US | Original (American Dreams)

23,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Baligh Hamdi & Magid Khan

Indo-Arabic Variations

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Altercat)

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (New Soil)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Unique fusion of the Indian and Egyptian music cultures devised by Baligh Hamdi, the most prominent of all modern composers in the Arab-speaking world. Hamdi, who penned dozens of hit compositions for Umm Kulthum, Abdel Halim Hafez, Warda and Sabah amongst others, also shaped the future of Arabic music in a way that's difficult to overestimate. Directed by Hamdi, the renowned Indian sitar player Magid Khan joins the Egyptian musicians of Abdel Halim Hafez's orchestra in re-reading some of Hamdi's compositions from a new perspective – here sitar and tabla dance together with arghoul, ney and other Arabic instruments. An east-meets-east masterpiece in which Hamdi once again pushed the boundaries of Arabic music in his tireless quest for a broader, more global reach.

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Balimaya Project

When The Dust Settles

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Banda Maje

Living Disco Club

13,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The second single from Banda Maje’s widely praised debut album Ufo Bar is the band’s tribute to the nightclub culture of the Italian eighties and its lightheartedness. Tonico 70’s reloved version brings it to dancefloor perfection by adding some Roland Tr-808 magic sprinkled with analog dub-echo effects. Get ready to party, folks!

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Banda Maje

Ufo Bar

20,99 €*