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

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Since Interstellar Space, John Coltrane's posthumously released duo album with Rashied Ali, the combination of sax and drums has received an aura of sublime spiritual ambition. It is where tireless truth seekers come together to aim for something transcendental. Something too big for words. Of course, a lot has happened in the meantime.

The available options - philosophically, stylistically, temperamentally - are endless. Musicians are aware of those historical turning points, yet they also try to add their own twists and interpretations. Some of them succeed. One of reed player Mattias De Craene's many projects - MDC III - is a project involving drums and saxophone. A striking difference: De Craene invited two drummers (Simon Segers, Lennert Jacobs), that have been active in the worlds of jazz, pop, free improvisation and experimental music. They are the ideal foil for De Craene's vision, which seems to exclude no opposites. While the use of a recorder, electronics and percussion steers the music beyond the classic acoustic limitations, the result becomes strikingly rich with contrasts. What is abstract and introspective the first moment can switch - gradually or abruptly - to moments of fierce ecstasy the next.

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Solid Bronze

Fruit Basket

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Preservation Hall Jazz Band

So It Is

LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Sub Pop)

23,99 €*

Plastic Carved Out In The Shape Of The Music

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP includes download coupon. At a moment when musical streams are crossing with unprecedented frequency, it's crucial to remember that throughout its history, New Orleans has been the point at which sounds and cultures from around the world converge, mingle, and resurface, transformed by the Crescent City's inimitable spirit and joie de vivre. Nowhere is that idea more vividly embodied than in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 50 years, all the while carrying it enthusiastically forward as a reminder that the history they were founded to preserve is a vibrantly living history. So It Is (2017) finds the classic Preservation Hall Jazz Band sound invigorated by a number of fresh influences, not least among them the band's 2015 life-changing trip to Cuba. A visit to the island, so integral to the evolution of jazz and New Orleans culture in general, had long been in the works when President Obama's diplomatic opening suddenly allowed for a more extensive journey than had originally seemed possible. Producer David Sitek, a founder of art rock innovators TV on the Radio who has helmed projects by Kelis, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Santigold among others, offered both a keen modern perspective and a profound respect for the band's storied history. Back in print on vinyl and CD via Sub Pop, which signed Preservation Hall Jazz Band in 2018, and will soon be releasing new music by the band.

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Sandoz Lab Technicians

2CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Fördämning Arkiv)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Challenge)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Plastic Carved Out In The Shape Of The Music compiles all the non-album releases of the 1990s by Dunedin free improvisation quartet-cum-trio, Sandoz Lab Technicians. One of many hermetic enclaves of creative endeavour in the nineties NZ underground, Sandoz Lab Technicians are James Kirk (also of King Loser, The Stumps, Black Boned Angel, Renderizors, etc.), Nathan Thompson (Sleep, Renderizors, Eye, Expansion Bay, etc.), Tim Cornelius (Sky Blue Lodge, Three Forks, Ray Off, etc.) and, for their first few years, Mark Curragh.

Like many of their peers, Sandoz Lab Technicians also ran their own label, Blunt Instrumentals, on which they released lathe-cuts of their own music, both with Sandoz, and in other configurations (The Cornelius Brothers, Unspecified, etc.); once word had spread, particularly thanks to the release of their debut album on Siltbreeze, their music also leaked out via an international network of small labels dedicated to underground experimental music. Plastic Carved Out In The Shape Of The Music features all their Sandoz self-released EPs, and a few extra bits and pieces, offering the listener an excellent overview of their music’s development, from their very first sessions, through to the wildly sophisticated free noise sculpting of their later material.

Sandoz Lab Technicians were always a curious proposition, even within the NZ free noise ‘scene’ (such as it was, or was not). Their early material has a particularly loose, suburban cast, not without some humour: the material sounds like it’s been recorded in scungy lounge rooms, dimly lit hallways, kitchens full of bric-à-brac, sharehouses with dusty curtains. Neighbours drop by to ask about their cats; guitars clang, drums tumble, all kinds of incidental instruments clatter and pulse, in a matter not unlike collectives like Smegma or Los Angeles Free Music Society (as mentioned in the excellent liner notes by Mike Trouchon).

As the group’s playing develops, the music becomes more expansive, patient, laminar. The audio verité recording techniques gift the music an unerringly right sense of space, place, and drama; the interaction between the musicians is always spot-on, growing in sensitivity and nuance over the course of these two discs, able to flip on a dime from all-in group-mind levitation to inhabiting parallel, coincident universes. It’s a bravura collection of music that tells us much about free and improvised sound from the South Island, while still holding its cards close to its chest. - Jon Dale

37 tracks presented on 2 CDs, the first one compiling tracks recorded between 1993 and 1996 and the second one 1996 to 1999. 6-panel digipack with a 12-page booklet. Edition of 500 copies.

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Juraj Stanik Trio

Deep

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Consouling Sounds)

Jarboe

Skin Women Blood Roses

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Specific)

Geoffrey Lolli

Chiaroscuro

15,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Juntos Ahora Blue Vinyl Edition

Nair Mirabrat

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Little Butterfly)

34,99 €*

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (EM)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Martín Ibarra and his Nair Mirabrat ensemble bring a garden variety of electrifying rhythms with "Juntos ahora", fusing together elements of candombe fusion, jazz, and pop. Deep in the Montevideo music scene, Nair Mirabrat effortlessly transcends genres and local tradition bringing forth a new era of influence as they revel in the bliss of Ibarra's soaring vocals over tropical rhythms. Ibarra and crew are a modern-day mixture of Jaime Roos, OPA, Hugo Fattoruso and Eduardo Mateo with their explorative, forward-thinking passion of keeping it 100% Uruguay.

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Roland P. Young

Spontaneous Bounce

2LP | 2022 | JP | Original (Kissing Fish)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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EM Records celebrates Roland P. Young’s 80th adventurous year on the planet with “Spontaneous Bounce”, the sixth RPY solo release on the label. After a musical youth in Kansas City followed by audio activities in San Francisco and New York and elsewhere, he began releasing self-produced solo music in 1980 with “Isophonic Boogie Woogie”, the title of which hints at the forward-thinking yet earthy nature of his sound, a soulful and spiritual multi-world avant-music, drawing on elements of ambient, jazz, soul, new age and electronic music. His ‘Isophonic Music’ concept crystallizes these elements through a comprovisational use of soprano sax, keyboards, drum machines and the possibilities of the recording studio. This release features 13 new pieces, a diverse array of appealing and joyful celebrations of music and life. Come and join the celebration!

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Ann Sally

Hajimari No Toki

59,99 €*

2LP | 2022 | JP | Original (Kissing Fish)

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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Ann Sally

Fo:Rest

59,99 €*

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (U Know Me)

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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Late Night Poems

Ostatni Dzien Lata

Blue Skies Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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classic jazz quartet with Polish spoken word.
black 180g vinyl in gatefold cover. Limited to 300 copies.

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Teresa Bright

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Aloha Got Soul)

37,99 €*

Dave Harrington / Kenny Wollesen

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 2005, acclaimed Hawaiian singer Teresa Bright —whose recording debut, Catching A Wave, was reissued by Aloha Got Soul in 2020 — recorded a jazz-tinted album with pianist/engineer Kit Ebersbach. The project brought to to life Bright's favorite standard songs alongside tunes that feel expressly written for her sultry voice. The singer's original composition, “Sp-r-ing”, fits right at home in the collection. These recordings patiently sat on Ebersbach’s hard drive for 15 years until 2020, when Aloha Got Soul released the album digitally. The vinyl is scheduled for release on February 25, 2022.

In December 2020, Bright received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hawai’i Academy of Recording Arts. The award came following a lifelong career spanning more than a dozen albums, numbers Na Hoku Hanohano awards, countless songwriting, arranging, and producing credits, domestic and international concert performances, plus a long list of Hawaiian language translations for peers near and far. In anticipation of the awards ceremony, Ebersbach approach Aloha Got Soul with the suggestion to finally release Blue Skies, the 2005 jazz record they'd cut with studio veterans Dean Taba, Noel Okimoto, Rocky Holmes, Casey Olsen, and Sam Ahia, Jr. Together with the help of Bright's partner, Derrick C.M. Llanos, we released 'Blue Skies' digitally in December 2020.

“Iʻm so glad we waited,' said Ebersbach of the digital release in 2020. 'There can be no better moment to do this than on this very day, commemorating her lifetime of making beautiful music.”

Ags-057 is a wonderful addition to the catalog of beautiful sounds that Bright has been singing since the beginning of her career, from Catching A Wave through today.

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Investigate & Enjoy

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

11,99 €*

To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Volume 1

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pique-nique Recordings is proud to present 'Investigate and Enjoy', a deep musical conversation between two of New York City’s most prolific musicians, Dave Harrington and Kenny Wollesen. Harrington (Darkside) and Wollesen (Sex Mob) use a shared language of texture, groove, and space to craft intricate, free-formed, and inventive experimental music. Wollesen’s forceful percussion opens up side A, which grooves heavily underneath Harrington’s skittering electronics. The flip side features sparse yet rich guitar tones on what Harrington and Wollesen refer to as an “improvised ballad.” Both pieces resonate with a powerful mood as hints of late-Talk Talk and Battles permeate these unique recordings. This release is part of an ongoing series that aims to capture the New York City jazz scene in its current, always evolving form. "Of all of the things we've done together over the years, playing as a duo has been one of the most special to me. We never rehearse, we never play any songs, but Kenny and I find ourselves writing music together in real-time. Kenny is the rare drummer who has the ability to not only supply a sort of canvas for another musician to work inside of and to paint harmonically on, but he can make the frame around it, and he can splatter paint himself in a meaningful way that has the power to change the whole shape of the shared dream of an improvisation. We have recorded together a number of times over the last several years and this music came out of one such meeting. While it is no exaggeration when I say that having my name next to Kenny’s on a record sleeve is a dream come true, the real dream is getting to make music with a true master." - Dave Harrington

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Alabaster DePlume

LP | 2020 | US | Original (International Anthem)

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Whirlwind)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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He's a resident at the legendary London creative hub Total Refreshment Centre, a recording artist for the off-grid Scottish Hebridean island label Lost Map, and now the latest arrival into Chicago-based International Anthem's growing family of progressive musical explorationists.

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Jasper Blom Quartet

Polyphony

37,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Komos)

Cheikh Tidiane Seck

Timbuktu

22,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Paal Flaata & Vidar Busk & Stephen

The Gospel Album

LP | 2019 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Release: 2019 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Assophon)

Simon Henneman

Black Magic & Mustache

18,99 €*

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | US | Original (Assophon)

Wah

Travellers Station

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Ropeadope)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The second album from WAH, the collaborative effort led by guitarist Simon Henneman (Diminished Men) and drummer Gregg Keplinger (master drummer and Charles Gocher's doppelganger). WAH have created a modern masterpiece of modal, spiritual and free expression. Coming off like a late, classic RVG session for Impulse, Travellers Station is snarled with the force of a pummeling rock band by two artful leaders of Seattle's underground jazz scene. Travellers Station boasts ten musicians including bassists Luke Bergman and Carmen Rothwell, vibraphonists Bob Rees and Jacques Willis, horn players Ray Larson and Neil Welch, vocalist Katie Jacobson, and percussionist and co-producer Dave Abramson. The breathtaking energy of WAH's legendary NW performances is captured here with razor sharp production that finds room for fiery free jazz, psychedelic drone, big belting rhythms, and cosmic anthems. Fans of the classic era of '68-'78 (Strata-East/Human Arts/Sonny Sharrock/private/spiritual/BYG/loft) jazz scenes in America and France will dig immensely.

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BT ALC Big Band

The Search For Peace

37,99 €*

Renee Jazzorchester Vorarlberg Pongrac Benson

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Since the group's formation in 2011, the BT ALC Big Band, led by trombonist Brian Thomas and trumpeter Alex Lee-Clark, has gained a reputation for hard grooving original compositions featuring the most talented jazz and funk musicians in Boston. The BT ALC Big Band draws from the big band traditions of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Thad Jones and infuses music from funk legends like James Brown, Parliament Funkadelic, and The Meters, creating an undeniably unique sound, Big Band Funk. The BT ALC Big Band will be releasing their 4th album, The Search For Peace, on Ropeadope Records in May of 2019. The Search For Peace was recorded live by Alan Evans (Soulive, Iron Wax Studios). Evans research of the recording process, paired with his creativity has yielded an organic, old school sound. Each horn section played into one omnidirectional mic, with the rhythm section in the same room, essentially capturing a live performance. The Search For Peace follows the BT ALC Big Band’s previous 3 albums; Superhero Dance Party (2013), The Herd Sessions Vol. 1 (2016), and The Herd Sessions Vol. 2 (2016). In addition to performances at clubs and festivals, the BT ALC Big Band demonstrates their commitment to education through clinics, workshops and performances with students throughout New England. Their compositions are available for purchase at btalc.com, and have been performed by college and high school jazz ensembles including West Virginia University, UMASS Amherst, Ithaca College, and honor bands in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maryland. The BT ALC Big Band continues to push the art of the big band forward by utilizing a process that’s been followed by musicians for years: play the music you love, just in your own way.

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Leelah

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Jazzwerkstatt Wien)

40,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz In South Africa - Township Jazz From The Golden Age

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Honeypie)

LP | 2022 | JP | Original (Venus)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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South Africa is in fact the only country in the whole African continent that has developed a strong Jazz tradition. Initially influenced by the great American stylists, (Ellington, Gillespie...) South Africa gradually developed its own soulful style based on a distinctive taste for melody and a deep sense of groove. Masterfully selected from the so-called Golden Age of the genre, (late Fifties / early Sixties), this compilation represents the best introduction to the work of a large and varied body of musicians and composers who inevitably developed their music as part of the historical Anti-Apartheid struggle, and as means of self expression in the dark times of exile. Kippie Moeketsi, Hugh Masekela, Dollar Brand, Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Mongesi Feza, Barney Rabachan, Nick Moyake and of course the queen Miriam Makeba are just some of the main voices represented here. A bunch of true warriors. in one word: A must!

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Massimo Farao

On A Clear Day

63,99 €*

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | JP | Original (Venus)

Luca Mannutza Trio

Airegin

63,99 €*

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | JP | Original (Venus)

Nicki Parrott

Great 70's

63,99 €*

Release: 2022 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Feel Time Music)

Phil Jl Robert

Boogaloo Station

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Z Production)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Phil JL Robert’s new album ventures further into the fertile territory of Boogaloo. After a critically acclaimed first album, Phil JL Robert returns for a second season with Boogaloo Station. Boogaloo Station is a new collection of tracks inspired by the Jump, Blues and lively, festive Caribbean Jazz scenes. After first emerging in the 30s, Boogaloo flourished thanks to composers like Isaac Hayes and Lalo Schifrin With this 2nd BoOgAloO album, Phil JL Robert strengthens his position in the Latino-jazz universe. This musical project comes with a desire for colours and vibes that plunge the listener headlong into the hottest streets and neighbourhoods of New Orleans or Brooklyn, the birthplaces of this musical fusion. Far from being a pale facsimile of the past, Phil JL Robert’s forward-looking vision is in keeping with the respect of the genre's musical traditions.

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Possible(s) Quartet

No Work Songs

33,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (L'aeronote)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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No Work Songs is the artistic result of the Covid shutdown. An intimate album with Sophia Domancich as a special guest.

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Samuel Maingaud

Odayin

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Eddie Bongo)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A daring marriage between jazz and world music, where Samuel Maingaud's saxophones and duduks are skilfully combined, Odayin opens the doors to a hybrid musical project, revealing a metric and a sonic dressing that are both mixed and contrasted.In this opus, powerful and original compositions, the result of various collaborations with Samuel Maingaud (Frank Herrgott, Alexis Maingaud, Christophe Violland), resonate in strong melodies, marked by beauty and freedom.

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Rémi Dumoulin

La Ligne De Démarcation

31,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sharp Flat)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Stimulating and ambitious jazz!The saxophonist Rémi Dumoulin has written a repertoire of demarcations on traditional standards that are dear to him. If the harmonic framework of the compositions is reminiscent of a musical, the melodic line of the saxophone induces a completely different proposition for the soloists. On familiar ground and stimulated by these demarcations, the musicians can throw themselves without a net into improvisation.The line of demarcation draws the course of a byway rather than that of a highway.Both traditional and modern, the music mixes improvised melodic drawings of a beautiful coherence.

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Movement In The City

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the wake of a 2020 edition of Movement in the City's second album Black Teardrops (1981), Sharp-Flat Records returns with a prequel by way of a reissue of the band's self-titled debut from 1979.

As the 1970s were drawing to a close, the epic Black Disco studio project with its signature pairing of drum machine and organ had run it course. After delivering a killer trilogy of cosmic lounge outings dating back to 1975, the group yearned for funkier grooves and the core trio of composer Pops Mohamed on organ with Basil Coetzee on tenor sax and Sipho Gumede on bass decided to hire a drummer and rebrand as Movement in the City. In contrast with the New Age detachment of Black Disco, Movement in the City was conceptually grounded in the bleak social realism depicted on its photographic album covers and leaned into the vivid sensibilities of library music from the era. Blending Cape jazz with funk and soul, the group's output evokes a soundtrack for South African city life at the outset of the 1980s while nodding allegorically to the subterranean movements that were in the course of shaking the cage for political change.

With its cast of jazz fusion all-stars, Movement in the City is the manifesto of a band in transition - a bold and slick first offering that delivers a modern South African sound capable of both the funky exuberances of "Mister Lucky" as well as the down-home pathos of "Blue Sunday." Restored from its original tape masters and released in partnership with As-Shams Archive and Pops Mohamed, this rare artefact of South African jazz history is back in print for the very first time since its original 1979 release.

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WaJazz Volume II The King RCDS Masters Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (180g)

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following the highly acclaimed first volume in the series, Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa continues the WaJazz exploration with another essential collection of music that contains something uniquely Japanese — focusing this time on the King Records catalog. Featuring timeless music by Isao Suzuki, Toshiaki Yokota, Akira Miyazawa, Takeru Muraoka, Yasuaki Shimizu, Masahiko Togashi, George Otsuka, and more!

Gatefold 180g heavy double vinyl LP, reverse board print. Comes with extensive track-by-track liner notes by Yusuke Ogawa.
All tracks licensed by King Record Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Mastering and lacquer cut by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting Lab, Helsinki, Finland.
Artwork by Nker.

TEXT:

“It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the second volume of the “Japanese Jazz Spectacle” series. Following the first compilation which focused on recordings from the Nippon Columbia catalog, this time we are digging into the King Records archives. It is almost impossible to capture the whole picture of Wa-Jazz in a couple of compilation albums since it is such a broad and deep genre, however, by extracting tracks from the Nippon Columbia and King Records collections - both labels having an extensive archive of jazz music - we may be able to glimpse a part of its allure and essence. This time again, I have made the music selection with this idea in mind. The music in this compilation was recorded between 1962 and 1985 and is a brief history of Japanese jazz on King Records. Listening is believing, so I hope these tracks will capture your heart and that you will enjoy the charms of Japanese jazz.” - Yusuke Ogawa

Yusuke Ogawa has been running the Universounds store in Tokyo since 2001, specializing in jazz and second-hand, rare, and collector records. He is also a reissue supervisor, label manager, DJ, and music writer. Known for his vast musical knowledge, eye for detail, and archival skills, Ogawa has worked on more than 250 reissues and compilations – including the highly praised Deep Jazz Reality and Project Re:Vinyl series. He is the co-author of the Wa-Jazz Disc Guide and the Independent Black Jazz of America books.

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WaJazz Volume II The King RCDS Masters HHV Exclusive Sun Yellow Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (180g)

43,99 €*

Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This edition is limited to 500 copies worldwide and is only available at HHV. Following the highly acclaimed first volume in the series, Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa continues the WaJazz exploration with another essential collection of music that contains something uniquely Japanese — focusing this time on the King Records catalog. Featuring timeless music by Isao Suzuki, Toshiaki Yokota, Akira Miyazawa, Takeru Muraoka, Yasuaki Shimizu, Masahiko Togashi, George Otsuka, and more!

Gatefold 180g heavy double vinyl LP, reverse board print. Comes with extensive track-by-track liner notes by Yusuke Ogawa.
All tracks licensed by King Record Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Mastering and lacquer cut by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting Lab, Helsinki, Finland.
Artwork by Nker.

TEXT:

“It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the second volume of the “Japanese Jazz Spectacle” series. Following the first compilation which focused on recordings from the Nippon Columbia catalog, this time we are digging into the King Records archives. It is almost impossible to capture the whole picture of Wa-Jazz in a couple of compilation albums since it is such a broad and deep genre, however, by extracting tracks from the Nippon Columbia and King Records collections - both labels having an extensive archive of jazz music - we may be able to glimpse a part of its allure and essence. This time again, I have made the music selection with this idea in mind. The music in this compilation was recorded between 1962 and 1985 and is a brief history of Japanese jazz on King Records. Listening is believing, so I hope these tracks will capture your heart and that you will enjoy the charms of Japanese jazz.” - Yusuke Ogawa

Yusuke Ogawa has been running the Universounds store in Tokyo since 2001, specializing in jazz and second-hand, rare, and collector records. He is also a reissue supervisor, label manager, DJ, and music writer. Known for his vast musical knowledge, eye for detail, and archival skills, Ogawa has worked on more than 250 reissues and compilations – including the highly praised Deep Jazz Reality and Project Re:Vinyl series. He is the co-author of the Wa-Jazz Disc Guide and the Independent Black Jazz of America books.

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Katalyst Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

Between Two Waves HHV Exclusive Clear Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Founded in 2014, Katalyst Collective has never been one for labels. Rather than strictly a live act, they've acted as an incubator for a fresh crop of local talent, helping hone the voices and talents of individual members, while collectively advancing like a phalanx. Each 'Kat' writes their own solo material, and everyone contributes and works together on each project, feeding off the communal energy. Leading to the group's upping collaboration for Jazz Is Dead, Katalyst has poised themselves as the next breakout stars of Los Angeles' rapidly expanding Jazz universe - a small army of creative firebrands, each burning more brightly together.

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GoGo Penguin

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Xxim)

Medicine Show #7 High Jazz Seaglass Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This HHV Exclusive is limited to 250 copies.

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Madlib

2LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Madlib Invazion)

30,59 €* 33,99 € -10%

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

3 Blind Mice

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook Black Vinyl Edition

Ella Fitzgerald

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Grautag)

Brume

Mother Blast

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Lester Robertson

Akirfa / Untitled Ballad

15,99 €*

Who Do You Love The Most?

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On this 7”, we present two lost jazz tracks by the trombonist and Horace Tapscott-collaborator, Lester Robertson. Lester has worked with some of the greats of jazz including Gerald Wilson, Anita O'Day, Lionel Hampton and Roy Porter Sound Machine on the classic 'Jessica' album. Lester was a member of Horace Tapscott's The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and features on the iconic underground jazz albums 'The Call' and 'Live At I.U.C.C.'. The Arkestra was set up in 1961 in Los Angeles and over the years has included wonderful, inspirational musicians such as Adele Sebastian, Kamasi Washington, Dwight Trible, Phil Ranelin, Arthur Blythe, Jesse Sharps and Nate Morgan. These two recordings have recently been discovered on an archived master tape that little information on it other than Lester's name and the track titles. Sadly, the other players on the tracks aren’t credited on the tape, so a line-up can’t be 100% confirmed. Still, the magic of what they laid down in the session pays testament to their artistry. First up is the lively popping track 'Akirfa' in which Lester gets space to let rip and exercise his talents. On the flip is the euphonious 'Untitled Ballad', a mellifluent lullaby for an end-of-the-day wind-down. Lost for a while, but thankfully not forgotten, these beautiful recordings finally get their chance to shine.

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Kjetil Mulelid Trio

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Rune Grammofon)

32,99 €*

Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Who Do You Love The Most?" is the young trio's third album in just over four years, and continues in the tradition of their two previous efforts; beautiful and evocative melodies, rich on harmonies, often rhythmically complex textures and a typically folk-like Scandinavian character with the occasional gospel feel. The album's 10 songs are all Mulelid originals, except for a gripping cover of Judee Sill's The Archetypical Man. Two of the originals are the trio's versions of songs that first appeared on the pianist's much lauded solo piano album ("Piano") from last year. Kjetil André Mulelid (31) comes across as an exceptionally mature pianist and composer. The trio's 2017 debut "Not Nearly Enough To Buy A House" received wide international acclaim, with writers most typically mentioning Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans. The praise continued for 2019's follow-up "What You Thought Was Home", with the Jazz Journal giving it a 5/5 rating and calling it "some of the most captivating music I've heard in quite some while". All About Jazz noted the maturity of the work, feeling like coming from three well-seasoned pros. Mulelid grew up in the small village of Hurdal, and started playing the piano when he was nine, after hearing Chopin on the stereo. Later he did a bachelor degree in jazz performance at NTNU in Trondheim, blessed with top teachers such as Erling Aksdal, Vigleik Storaas and Espen Berg. He is also a member of jazz quartet Wako. Bjorn Marius Hegge (33) has been making waves on the Norwegian jazz scene lately, with his quintet's debut album "Hegge" winning a Norwegian Grammy. He has his own trio as well, with pianist Oscar Grönberg and young drummer ace Hans Hulbækmo (Moskus). In 2019 he released "Ideas" with Axel Dörner, Rudi Mahall, Håvard Wiik and Hans Hulbækmo. Andreas Skår Winther (30) is, like the other two, a "product" of the fertile milieu at the Trondheim Conservatory of Music. His discography includes "Left Exit, Mr. K" with Michael Duch & Klaus Holm (Clean Feed) and Megalodon Collective (G...

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Jazz Is Dead 11 Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | US | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

34,19 €* 35,99 € -5%

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Whirlwind)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With Jazz Is Dead Series 2, Younge and Muhammad have once again, together with a roster of world-renowned legends, crate digger patron saints, and an exciting vanguard of young talent, delivered another unimpeachable collection of fresh and captivating recordings inspired by jazz's past, present, and future. There are names that some may already be familiar with, such as Lonnie Liston Smith, Jean Carne, and Tony Allen, and those less so, like Henry Franklin, Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Garrett Saracho, & Katalyst. What unites each new collaborator is their unbent dedication to remaining original, preserving their creativity, and sharing it with the world.

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Brotherly

Analects - Best Of

35,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Magnus Lindgren

Stockholm Underground

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Voices From The Stars

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Jazzwerkstatt Wien)

Clemens Wenger

Physics Of Beauty

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Q-Rious Music)

Tango Macondo

41,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Passat Continu)

Javier Segura

El Ser Y El Tiempo

LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Almost five years after the inaugural compilation "El sol desde oriente", Passat Continu releases "El ser y el tiempo", the first solo recordings of the Tenerife musician Javier Segura, a set of seven compositions that make up a true exceptionality in the panorama of Spanish experimental music and that have never before been uncovered for listening. This sound document recorded between 1976 and 1978 is presented remastered from its original tapes and with a bonus track, with the invaluable collaboration of Juan Belda.

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Badge Epoque Ensemble

Clouds Of Joy

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Act Music)

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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Nils Landgren

3 Generations

46,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Challenger / Edwards / De Rose

Agile Experiments

Tape | 2022 | UK | Original (Ddr)

14,99 €*

London Soul - You Want It You Got I

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Agile Experiments returns with a raw and uncut live performance uniting the unfathomable style of saxophonist Tom Challenger with the legendary sound-world of virtuoso bassist John Edwards alongside Dave De Rose on drums. Recorded live in 2021 at “Unit 58” (Tottenham, London, UK) the trio speaks dynamically, loose and wide, at times blending seamlessly to the point of losing any definition between the instruments. Parts, tools, rules by the conventional game of music, dissipate. Tom, John and Dave's sonic offspring booms and squeals, drills and drones, its flexible waves flow through time rather than in it like magic liquid potions down your ears, feeding your forgotten senses.

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The Step

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Downlp4)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | Original (Just Looking Pr)

Sylvain Luc

By Renaud Letang

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Berthold)

Kuhn Fu

Jazz Is Expensive

41,99 €*

2LP | 2020 | Original (Sonar Kollektiv)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It is always best to fall nicely between all stools, which - not inevitably, but often - produces the more interesting music; and in the case of Kuhn Fu definitely the more amusing. Since 2012 the band, based around the guitarist Christian Kühn, has developed a singular and very headstrong form of jazz rock (or rock jazz), between parody and great seriousness, which they play without musical blinkers.Kuhn Fu, with Joh...

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Pete Josef

I Rise With The Birds

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Leszek Mozdzer & Holland Baroque

Earth Particles Black Friday Record Store Day 2022 Clear Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Outside)

43,99 €*

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (None More)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Leszek Mozdzer, one of the most recognizable personalities of the Polish jazz scene and Holland Baroque Society, an orchestra specialising in performing old music with the use of ancient instruments with the mastery of historical practices. The orchestra is recognized in the world for its unique and fresh approach to historical music and its beautiful sound. The concerts of Holland Baroque Society emanate with an extraordinary energy of inspirational relations among the artists, and a particular involvement of the band in their musical performance. Leszek Mozdzer and Holland Baroque Society, i.e. Bach fundamentals and jazz temperament, have a surprisingly great deal in common, and their new, especially written repertoire is another stage of a consequently implemented artistic vision blurring the boundaries between classical music and jazz.

Leszek Mozdzer on the cooperation with Holland Baroque - ''I suddenly found myself among people who are very similar to me; among people who sincerely seek beauty and truly love music. During the rehearsals it turned out that each and every sound is important, that each and every second of the composition revealed itself causing our bursts of natural joy. We discussed the performance of all the parts in advance, and then, performed them in a totally different way to what we have arranged. The ancient magic of music prompted us with such suggestive solutions that even discussions were no longer needed. We just played the music and smiled, we smiled and played once again. The music flow carried us away, the ideas appeared suddenly but evidently, and our joy became an integral part of the composition.''

Album ''Earth Particles'' was released in 2017. Certified ''Gold Album'' Award in Poland.

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Monzanto Sound

Time Lapse EP

Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Time Lapse is the debut EP from Monzanto Sound, scheduled for release on September 4th 2020 on None More Records. Across the 5 tracks, the four piece journey through krautrock inflected funk, psychedelic trip hop and cosmic neo-soul. This release follows on from their Moses Boyd produced track 'Open Flower' being included on Rhythm Section's 'Shouts' compilation celebrating 5 years of Rhythm Section, which dropped in April.

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Live In 1956 (Allentown, Pa) Black Friday Record Store Day 2019 Edition

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Atlantic)

35,99 €*

3LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Morphine)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limitation: 1000. RSD Limited Run. Unearthed for the first time after the discovery of a “mystery" tape reel, Louis Armstrong's performance in Allentown, PA on November 24, 1956 is one for the history books. Armstrong is joined by his All-Stars, including Trummy Young, Edmund Hall, Billy Kyle, and Velma Middleton. Available for the first time in any format, the historic concert audio has been mastered from the original analog tape and pressed on color vinyl for this limited edition release, exclusively for RSD Black Friday.

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Praed Orchestra

Live In Sharjah

34,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Consouling Sounds)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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3x LP - Live in Sharjah Box Set + Booklet. designed by Lorenzo Mason Studio. If you’ve ever travelled to Egypt and wandered through its crowded streets, you probably ended up buying a cassette or a CDR of popular synth based music heard in most cabs, cabarets, or alleys around town: the almighty Shaabi.Raed Yassin and Paed Conca based their project Praed on research between Shaabi and Mouled (traditional trance music from Egypt) and the hypnotic structures of both these genres. Repetitive beats, loud Mizmar and loads of energy, with a strong influence from psychedelic rock, free jazz and electronica. During the years in which the duo produced 4 albums and performed on an endless number of stages around the globe, Praed started working on anambitious expansive project: an orchestra that could transpose this study of rural and popular culture into an immense, iconic work. In autumn 2018, supported by the Sharjah Art Foundation, Praed Orchestra! premiered “Live in Sharjah”, interpreting new material merged with some of the band’s iconic pieces. The composition process started with the choice of musicians: the line-up consisted of some of the most innovative artists coming from a wide spectrum of musical practices. Each musician was chosen for a defined role, and the common denominator was their capacity to interpret written material, and their ability to improvise effortlessly. Each role was clearly set to work in unison with the rest of the group, while simultaneously sustaining a centrality in the choir. Solo parts masterfully drawn over the structure as a fil rouge connecting every piece of the entire concert; massive and powerful orchestral sections leading to a breathtaking trance-like state of mind; all of this material ultimately coalescing into an Egyptian Operette that narrates the sorrow, love, and deeply rooted culture of this urban music called Shaabi.

Paed Conca: Clarinet, Electric Bass, Electronics Raed Yassin: Synthesizers, Vocals, Electronics Alan Bishop: Alto Saxophone, Vocals Nadah El Shazly: Vocals, keyboard, Electronics Christine Kazarian: Electric Harp Hans Koch: Bass Clarinet, Soprano Sax Martin Kuchen: Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Sax Maurice Louca: Keyboard, Organ Radwan Ghazi Moumneh: Buzuk, Vocals, Modular Synthesizer Sam Shalabi: Electric Guitar, Oud Ute Wassermann: Vocals, Mouth Harp, Whistles Khaled Yassine: Drums, Percussion, Darbuka Michael Zerang: Drums, Percussion

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Jozef Van Wissem

Ex Mortis

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Young Turks)

Kamasi Washington

OST Becoming (Score)

2LP | 2019 | US | Original (Mathematics)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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Kamasi Washington composed and produced the original score for Becoming, the four time Emmy-nominated film that provided an intimate glimpse into the life of Michelle Obama. Produced by Netflix Originals, Becoming documented a moment of profound change for the former First Lady, not only for her personally but for the country she and her husband served over eight impactful years in the White House. Washington, who joined the project in its embryonic stages, provides the powerful musical backdrop. Young Turks Recordings will be releasing Vinyl and CD of this Emmy nominated score on 11th December 2020.

Recorded at Sunset Sound Studios, LA. Engineered by Tony Austin. Mixed by Randy Emata. Mastered by Kevin “Daddy Kev” Moo. Kamasi Washington – Soprano, Alto, Tenor Saxophnone Rickey Washigton – Flute, Alto Flute Ryan Porter – Trombone Dontae Winslow – Trumpet Sean Sonderegger – Contra Bass Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bb Clarinet Matt Haze – Guitar Cameron Graves – Piano, Rhodes Kenneth Crouch – Organ, Keyboards, Piano Miles Mosley – Electric Bass, Upright Bass Tony Austin – Drums and Percussion Jen Simone, Yvette Devereaux, Reiko Nakano, Tylana Renga - Violin Michael Whitson, Chad Jackson – Viola Artyom Manukyan – Jared Snyder – Cello

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Ghost Horse

Trojan

NDR 60 Years Jazz Edition Volume 2 - Live Hannover 28.02.1958

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sprouting from a rich humus of Latin and African polyrhythms, GHOST HORSE creates a fusion of free jazz, hip hop, blues & loop music. The result is fascinating but quietly menacing, pulsing & breathing with the visceral force of nature reclaiming abandoned structures. Full Color Poster insert!
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet

2LP | 2013 | DE | Original (Moosicus)

32,99 €*

LP | 2019 | UK | Original (World Music Network)

Release: 2013 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rare recordings from the NDR Jazz Archive!

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Anandi Bhattacharya

Joys Abound

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz A Vienne: Past & Future

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Heavenly Sweetness)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Paul Flaherty & Zach Rowden

As Far As Death

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Family Vineyard)

CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Menace)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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As Far As Death is the cross-generational debut of fire music evangelist and saxophonist Paul Flaherty with double bassist and composer Zach Rowden. The Connecticut natives forge an album of dynamic free jazz interplay that also draws on imporous textures of contemporary music - an ecstatic reflection.After a half century of blowing the alto and tenor saxes, Flaherty's playing continues to molt and electrify. Whether solo, or with collaborators (Joe McPhee, Chris Corsano, Bill Nace, Daniel Carter, etc.), his blues-based, lyrical melodies anchor lung-bursting gallops.Rowden - whether as Tongue Depressor (a string duo with Henry Birdsey), in performance with cellist Leila Bordreuil, or his own musique concrète constructions - balances harshness and elegiac drones. His past releases resemble resolute exploration into acoustics and noise.Together, Flaherty's monstrous howl is perfectly matched by Rowden's subterranean pitched drone and glacial pace. Each offers weeping lurches of tune, gasps of balladry and microtonal fields of interplay on five pieces. The side-long "Thrown Shadows" is an epic passage of avant jazz vs minimalism, as Rowden's low-register bowing offers a blackened landscape for Flaherty's most mournful notes. Artwork by Chris Corsano.

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Underground Canopy

Sequences

13,99 €*

Magnificent Charlie Parker

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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After the release of their critically acclaimed first album « Bluestaeb & S. Fidelity Present Underground Canopy » (menace - 2020), Underground Canopy (uc) was able to take time, due to the unforeseen period of doubt in 2020, to craft new compositions with a fresh approach. Throughout this forced period of introspection, the Parisian band experimented with more refined musical codes and colorful sounds.

Following the new additions of Raphaël Henry on drums and Christopher Johnson on electric guitar, UC was able to record and film a live rendition of four original pieces at the end of 2020, thanks to an invitation by the Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains’s artistic program and Sense. These music videos, each filmed in one shot by Romain Lalire, capture UC’s musical digressions away from their mainly hip-hop and groove-infused jams and into new territory.

The resulting new EP «Séquences : Live Session» celebrates cinematic aesthetics and the suspension of time. It stands as an audiovisual testimonial to the band’s continued progression. In this era marked by uncertainty but full of hope, what will come next?

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Charlie Parker

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Emarcy)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (We Insist!)

Sebi Tramontana

Unfolding To Be You

Bugge Wesseltoft & Henrik Schwarz

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Now available on vinyl ! 15 self-portraits by Sebi Tramontana. The shortest is about 30 seconds and the longest is almost nine minutes. In these fifteen pieces the trombone is explored in multiple directions. There are techniques dear to the world of European improvised music as well as echoes of Duke Ellington's trombone masters, Italian accounting as well as the pure sound of the air. Tramontana is a northern wind but Tramontana comes from the south, they have met and through a tube they take us on a curious, light, surprising journey. A journey that directly refers to the brass bible "Song and wind" by Arnold Jacobs, tubist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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Duo II

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Jazzland)

22,94 €* 26,99 € -15%

Matthis Pacaud & Hugh Coltman

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wesseltoft Schwarz return with a new selection of tracks, DUO II, demonstrating that while neither acclaimed jazz composer and keyboardist Bugge Wesseltoft nor electronics maestro and producer Henrik Schwarz could be described as predictable, as a duo they are absolutely mercurial. Their natural affinity and symbiotic musical relationship seem to provide both with equal amounts of inquisitive, experimental and creative energy, and all without sacrificing their accessibility.
This second collaboration album (or third, if you also include the equally superb "Trialogue" where the duo was joined by bassist Dan Berglund - of EST, Tonbruket and RYMDEN fame) travels the sonic landscapes of their imaginations, in all directions. Like its predecessor, the album retains that organic quality that allowed the music to breathe and expand, blurring the distinction between electronic and acoustic, and between live and sampled performance. However, that is where the similarities end, as this time their stylistic mutations have followed different paths, and they have augmented their sound with guest musicians and vocalists, conjuring different vibes, sounds, methods and moods - all while remaining distinctly Wesseltoft Schwarz.

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Night Trippin'

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Masterworks)

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Sonor Music Editions)

Kimba Unit

Kimba Unit EP

22,99 €*

Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Now Again Records and Sonor Music Editions announce the debut release by The Kimba Unit on 45. Grown up in Los Angeles, Julian Rapaport made his musical studies in New York, developing his personal musical taste listening to the Jazz mentors of American Spiritual/Avant-garde movement (Sun Ra especially). Legendary Madlib’s jazz projects influenced him a lot too. Since his very young age, he had a deep connection with Italy and the world of Italian Library music: renowned Italian composers like Piero Umiliani and Piero Piccioni definitely completed and surely influenced his musical background. The 3 tracks from this EP are entirely DIY studio recordings, with a distinct Lo-Fi sound and shades of Spiritual Jazz all over.

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12th January

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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January 12th, 2020, a Sunday night in Toronto - Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty (of Badbadnotgood fame) are reunited at Burdock for a live improvised Jazz session. The pair are joined on stage by bassist Julian Anderson-Bowes and drummer Matt Chalmers as part of Burdock’s Piano Fest, an annual event at the city's brewery and music hall. Two days later an email from Matthew hits Mr Bongo's inbox... "I think it turned out amazing, brought some really nice recording gear and it sounds almost like a studio record, thought I'd share. Moments definitely get to the jazzier side but there is some spiritual moments that are so far out". The Bongo office were all blown away by this free-flowing session, one which sounded like a well-rehearsed set at the end of a long tour, rather than a one-take improvised assembly. The chemistry between the musicians is magical. The tight friendship and musical connection between Tavares and Whitty are self-evident, however, Chalmers and Anderson-Bowes have a great contribution to make too. They act as the solid foundation that leaves Tavares and Whitty free to roam and explore moments of darkness and light, intensity and beauty. From the first time of hearing this intimate session, we knew this had to be shared. The same quartet feature on Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty's 2020 album 'Visions'. The plan to promote 'Visions' was to tour, with each night comprising a uniquely improvised set. Sadly due to world events, this couldn't happen, but for now 'January 12th' is a snapshot of the wizardry that would have been from four amazing musicians at the top of their game.

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Live In Moers 1976

2LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Elvis Presley In Jazz

23,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Gjermund Larsen

Salmeklang

Release: 2019 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Age Sten Nilsen

Crossing The Rubicon

Release: 2020 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We Are Not In Kansas Anymore Green Vinyl Edition

Kansas Smitty's

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ever)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Pure Pleasure)

Linda Hill

Lullaby For Linda

35,99 €*

LP | 2019 | US (Ropeadope)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Featuring members of the Arkesta
Re-mastering by Kevin Gray
Produced by Tom Albach
Recorded & mixed by Dennis Moody in 1981
Linda Hill recorded this LP for Nimbus West in 1981 with fellow Arkestra members, including flautist Adele Sebastian. And it’s Sebastian’s vocal duet with Hill on the spiritual jazz epic “Leland’s Song” that opens this stunning LP. Hill’s ensemble also included the serious horn player Sabir Matteen, as well as bassist Roberto Miranda and drummer Everett Brown Jr., who would all go on to record LPs for Nimbus.

The Arkestra first started rehearsing at pianist Linda Hill’s house in the early ‘60s. “In a few months, we’d built up from seven or eight to about 18 cats, musicians started living there,” Tapscott wrote in his autobiography. “People got involved with the Arkestra like it was their life’s work.” Hill took the role seriously, earning her the name of “the Ark’s matriarch” by Tapscott.

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Captain Supernova

The Voyage Never Ends

LP | 2020 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Release: 2019 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Born and raised on the westside of Los Angeles, Eric Borders is a keyboardist, producer and composer. He has shared stages with the likes of Kamasi Washington, Jose James, Jimmy Cliff, The Internet, Stanley Clarke and George Duke. His Musical ‘persona’ is Captain Supernova (C.SN), a fictional Astronaut who travels through space and transmitting his message back to Earth. And so the stage is set, and we are about to receive C.SN’s third transmission; this time a full length album - The Voyage Never Ends.

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Einar Flaa

Worry Chord

Release: 2020 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Hakon Kornstad

Im Treibhaus

Release: 2019 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Svein Rikard Mathisen & John Derek

Calm Brutalism

LP | 2022 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Release: 2022 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Speak Low II Black Vinyl Edition

Lucia Cadotsch

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Shola Adisa-Farrar & Florian Pelissier Quintet

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Berlin-based Swiss vocalist Lucia Cadotsch returns with her celebrated Speak Low trio for their second album, released by We Jazz Records on 27 Nov. "Speak Low II" features Cadotsch on voice, Otis Sandsjö on tenor saxophone and Petter Eldh on double bass, and introduces guest artists Kit Downes on hammond organ and Lucy Railton on cello. "Speak Low II" picks up where their genre-bending and forward-looking debut album left off, introducing new shades into the band's sound and also diving even deeper into the songs they tackle. What makes Speak Low special is their approach to really get to the heart of each composition with seemingly minimal means, yet generating a sound which is both instantly recognisable and remarkably impactful.

"Speak Low II" comes almost five years after the band's lauded debut, and proves the depth of the band's approach right from the start. At the core of the trio's operation is an openness to their love of the music and to their surrounding scene(s). The album comes across as a unified collection of songs made truly theirs and found through listening to records and spending time with their musician friends, often on the road. The highly evolved band sound and the equality of the musicians shines through on the Speak Low sound, as the group uses their 100+ performances together as a vehicle for the development of their music.

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Lost Myself

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Hot Casa)

23,99 €*

CD | 2017 | UK | Original (Brainfeeder)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Raised on opposite sides of the Atlantic, these two artists have combined their talents to compose “Lost Myself.” This musical voyage blends New York hard-bop aesthetics and Reggae-inspired elements with the jazz of today for a fresh spin on jazz classics and original compositions.

Vocalist Shola Adisa-Farrar, a native of Oakland, California, was born into a family of artists and intellectuals. Shola began singing at the age of eight, influenced by her Jamaican upbringing and the soul and jazz classics that played in her home. At a young age, Shola garnered attention for her distinct raspy voice, which enabled her to perform a variety of musical styles as well as secure radio spots as a voice-over artist. After living in New York City for eight years where she earned a Bachelors degree in Music, she is now an established resident in Paris. Shola spends her time travelling internationally to perform and developing her musical style. This album is her exploration into Jazz.

Florian Pellissier, Parisian pianist and composer, is known for the authenticity and hard-bop style he brings to his music. A graduate of The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Florian has spearheaded his own quintet along with the release of two successful albums: Le diable et son train (2012) and Biches Bleues (2014). Florian has also contributed his musical talent, which includes his command of the “Rhodes,” to jazz and funk projects such as Setenta, Camarao Orkestra, Chevere Que Son, Cotonete and GUTS.

During Shola’s year-long residence as a performer for Le Reservoir’s Sunday Jazz brunch, Hot Casa Records’ DJ duo introduced Shola to Florian, sensing the two artists would musically compliment each other. In July 2013, their musical collaboration began. Bonding over their love of jazz autobiographies, swapping music, and improvising together, a studio collaboration was born in the hidden basement of Colorblind Studio on Paris’s Left Bank.

The result is eight spiritually-tinged jazz tracks recorded live on analog equipment to maintain the “traditional” quality of the music, from sultry introspections to rhythmic compositions grounded in intense emotion. Included are jazz classics such as Feeling Good and I Have A Dream, a tribute to the music of Herbie Hancock that has influenced Florian since his formative years in New York, to which Shola penned lyrics.

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Thundercat

Drunk

LP+CD | 2017 | EU | Original (Schema)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Thundercat presents “drunk”- a 23-track epic journey into the often hilarious, sometimes dark mind of the Grammy-winning singer/ bassist - featuring a few of his friends joining him along the way including: Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, Michael Mcdonald, Kenny Loggins, Wiz Khalifa, Kamasi Washington and Brainfeeder Mastermind Flying Lotus.

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Gino Conte

Nell’Anno Della Luna

Chris Corsano & Massimo Pupillo

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A deep mystery surrounds the movie “Nell’anno della Luna” (In the year of the Moon) and its soundtrack, which was released one year later. A beautiful work that lingers in between swing and melodies, in a fad that was popular a few decades earlier, complemented by some elements of novelty borrowed from beat and rock. The title track, “Alla brasiliana” and “Samba Querida” sound more traditional, while titles like “Afro Swing”, “Underground”, “Beatmania” (all featuring the vocal ensemble I 4+4, led by Nora Orlandi) represent a more adventurous side of this soundtrack.

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Via Combusta

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Trost)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Fresh Sound)

Simon Moullier Trio

Countdown

31,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Unrock)

"A" Trio

The Binding Third

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Unrock)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The legendary Lebanese trio of trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj (Karkhana, Johnny Kafta), guitarrist Sharif Sehnaoui (Calamita, Karkhana, Johnny Kafta ) and bassist Raed Yassin (Praed, Praed Orchestra) celebrates their 20th anniversary with The Binding Third on Unrock. They still create acoustic improvised drones that range from insistent, chiming resonances with emergency alarm bells to low, thrumming hums but with growing intensity. Avoiding conventional technique, A Trio manages to create sounds like motorized devices to generate rattling, metallic vibrations, building a mechanistic backdrop out of which the instruments’ true voices occasionally arise. This recording, taken at Sound Disobidience in Llubljana in 2019 reaches an exceptional electro-acoustic depth with strange sounds boiling down to a dark, heavy spiritual essence. Call it Acoustic-Industrial-Free-Jazz or call it unrock. The Binding Third is „A“Trio’s first full length album since their 2014 release „Live In Nickelsdorf“. In between they released a collaboration with Sun City Girl Alan Bishop and another with UK-electro-acoustic pioneers AMM. Recently A-Trio joined forces with agyptian composer Maurice Louca on his solo-album The Luck Hour, released on Sub Rosa.

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Alvarius B

Karaoke

14,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Jazzwerkstatt Wien)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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If you ever witnessed an Alvarius B show you are probably aware that there are a few things only in underground music matching this level. If you haven’t, don’t miss him when he’s coming close next. „Karaoke“ shows one of the many charakters you could explore during his shows. As his brother Richard, the other keyholder of Sun City Girls legacy, Alan Bishop played a lot of shows not only under the Alavrius B moniker on various Unrock stages through the years. Solo Nostalgia (E. Morricone) and Tiba Tiba Tu Menangis (T. Koeswoyo) are songs which Alan rarely performed and they show off his alter-ego as a cosmopolite solo-entertainer. Unrock’s 30th anniversary as an entity seems to be a good reason to release those tracks at that point. Sound wizzardry by Peter Koerfer, photography by Hans van der Linden and realisation by Philip Lethen. One-time limited run on black vinyl.

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Schmieds Puls

Play Dead

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Decca)

Melt Yourself Down

100 & Yes

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Rune Grammofon)

Kjetil Mulelid Trio

Truth

32,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Angelica)

Terry Riley

Organum For Stefano