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Imagine Giving Up Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We Jazz Records presents "Pu:", the boundary-breaking solo debut of bass player Ville Herrala, to be released on 21 February 2020. Utilising only the double bass but looking at the instrument from various different perspectives. The end result is an inspired set of 14 miniatures, each pushing the concept forward in a highly personal way.

The first single "Pu: 12" presents a rhythmic approach with echoes of from the world of minimal classical music and electronic music. Bowed tracks such as "Pu: 2" offer another perspective, as does the second single "Pu: 10", going back to the essence of the instrument and opening new doors while doing so. Each of the tracks is a compact musical adventure unto its own.

Ville Herrala (b. 1979) is one of the most higly-regarded bass players working in the Finnish scene. He's known from the ranks of such top ensembles as PLOP, Jukka Perko Jazztet, U-Street All Stars, Jukka Eskola Orquesta Bossa and UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, to name but a few.

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Jonah Parzen-Johnson

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (We Jazz)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Pan Am)

Charles Mingus

Pithecantropus Erectus

Revival II - The Electronic Tapes 1979-1982

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Herbert Bodzin

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (The Outer Edge)

The Complete Commodore Masters

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Herbert Bodzin’s “Revival II” is the next exciting vinyl highlight on this young label. It features completely unreleased electronic music which was recorded between 1979 and 1982. Check!
On the album you can hear the sounds of legendary machines like the ARP 2600, the Korg PS-3300, the Roland System-700 Modular synthesizer, the PPG Waveterm and the PPG Wave 2.2 as well as classic synths like the Roland Jupiter-8, the Polymoog and the Prophet-5 – the same equipment used by big names of the German and international avantgarde electronics scene at that time. For example, the ambient “Red Ocean” was recorded entirely with the polyphonic Korg PS 3300, one of the most desired and biggest synths of all time. The project features Bernd Hollendiek, as well as Bodzin’s two sons, Stephan and Oliver Bodzin on additional synthesizers and partly on drums. The songs are a mixture of mostly ambient, deep, psychedelic, yet experimental and futuristic sounds as well as two more vibrant synth rock recordings with drumming.
We hope that this album will find its way to the hearts and collections of electronic music lovers – somewhere in between the classic albums of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Cluster or Eberhard Schoener. As a side note, the album may also show early musical influences of Stephan Bodzin, who became world famous in the 1990s as one of the leading techno producers. Without any doubt, “Revival II” should be an exciting lost masterpiece of German electronic music and a must have for synth music lovers – revived and finally alive!

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Billie Holiday

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

The Jazz Messengers

LP | 2015 | US | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Grant Green

Nigeria

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g vinyl including one bonus track!

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Bill Evans Trio

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Ahmad Jamal Trio

At The Pershing

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Panam)

Miles Davis

Porgy And Bess

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Swings In The Films Of Woody Allen

LP | 2013 | US | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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You Don't Have To Be Black To Love The Blues

Junior Parker

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Groove Merchant)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Township Jive & Kwela Jazz Volume 1

Various

LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Ubuntu Publishing)

LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Safari's "Township Jive & Kwela Jazz 1940-1960" celebrates the 3rd year of the Soul Safari blog with this great compilation of South African Jive & Kwela 78's .

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Bill Evans Trio

Portrait In Jazz

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tape | 2024 | JP | Original (Zouen Keikaku)

Hajime Orikawa

Suiyu

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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New age for the suburban city, spun from a poor planting in the suburbs or from an apartment room along the national highway. "Suiyu" is the first album by Hajime Orikawa, a musician living in Chiba. From side A, which is composed of home recordings and environmental sounds in a room at home, and contains a lo-fi yet theological resonance, to the title track "Suiyu" which exceeds 15 minutes and where various instruments such as autoharp, electronic piano, Moog synthesizer, organ, and tenor saxophone beautifully blend with a free-spirited singing voice like a wild rabbit running through the fields, the melancholy of the suburban city floats gently. The cassette version includes a DL code for “Ikkojiteki,” a collection of outtracks, along with a DL code for "Suiyu".

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Colin Curtis Presents Jazz Dance Fusion Volume 2

CD | 2024 | UK | Original (Z)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli

Ultimate Collection

LP | 2024 | WW | Reissue (Not Now)

Release: 2024 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Les Disques Du Crochet)

Pierre Chiffonnier

Fortune

Green Puma Tropical Dandy

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Pierre Chiffonnier (author, composer, and performer) borrows elements from pop, electronic music, jazz, and traditional French chanson to create his debut album featuring many instrumentalists. At the crossroads of the concept album and the musical tale, "Fortune" is a unique and multifaceted assemblage, produced by zerolex and influenced by Flavien Berger, Bertrand Belin, Jacques, whose lyrics are inspired by the myth of the ragpicker.

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Link Quartet

7" | 2024 | Original (Spinout Nuggets)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2024 | Reissue (Spinout Nuggets)

Link Quartet

Saint-Tropez Heist

Release: 2024 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Why I Came To California / What You Won't Do For Love

Nautilus

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Oonops Drops)

7" | 2024 | US | Original (Dynamite Cuts)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Right in time before the second European Tour and Nautilus' new studio album »Pacific Voyage« this little secret 45 has landed. It's a pure gem with a song which didn't make it on the album due to time problems and now shines like a jewel in full and mature quality. Backed with a Soul Supreme Remix with consistently highest quality.

The A-side starts with a jazzy version of Leon Ware's soulful masterpiece »Why I Came To California« sung by Californian vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and physician Eki Shola in her unique interpretated way backed with fresh vocals by German tv actress and singer Denise M'Baye. In harmony with the strongly grooving instrumental framework by Tokyo-based Jazz trio Nautilus, them all together create their own refreshing version of the original and catapult the song into the present.

On the B-side the »Pacific Voyage« album song »What You Won't Do For Love«, an absolutely classic by Bobby Caldwell which was sampled by 2 Pac and Aaliyah gets the Nautilus treatment, in this case a funky forward 90's feel remix with heavy basslines for big soundsystem by Amsterdam-based, keyboardist, DJ & producer Soul Supreme. The vocals are sung by uprising Japanese star R&B and Soul singer-songwriter Ryuto Kasahara who worked together with Grooveman Spot and DJ Mitsu The Beats on this latest releases.

You know the deal: get this limited doubled-sided heat on black and exclusive yellow recycled vinyl before it's gone.

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Peter Herbolzheimer

The Catfish

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU (Survival Research)

Chet Baker

Broken Wing

In New York Clear Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in Paris in December 1978, Broken Wing is beautiful proof that Baker’s playing remained undiminished in the face of ongoing personal challenges. There is wonderful musical chemistry between Baker and his ensemble members throughout this excellent and rare LP, namely pianist Phil Markowitz, bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark and drummer Jeff Brillinger, yielding exceptional versions of Richie Beirach’s title track and Wayne Shorter’s ‘Black Eyes,’ as well as Baker’s ‘Blue Gilles’; he’s on top form on the trumpet and tackles the vocal of ‘Oh You Crazy Moon’ with gracefulness. Another great offering from Chet!

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Chet Baker

LP | 2024 | EU (Destination Moon)

CD | 2024 | UK | Original (XL)

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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His first for Riverside, In New York saw Chet Baker bring the West Coast cool jazz style to new Manhattan surroundings. With the rhythm section of Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones keeping things up-tempo and propulsive, pianist Al Haig alternating between fill-in chords and intriguing melodies and saxophonist Johnny Giffin trading lead flourishes with Baker himself, the LP is another winner right through. The swinging bop is full of zest and verve on ‘Hotel 49’ and a one-off rendition of Miles’ ‘Solar,’ while some contrasting introspective breaks are provided by ‘Blue Thoughts’ and ‘Polka Dots And Moonbeams.’ Great stuff!

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Kamasi Washington

Fearless Movement

Miles Davis Quintet / John Coltrane

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album. “It’s not literal,” Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music—expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.” Dance as an embodied form of expression signals a shift in focus for Washington. Where previous albums dealt with cosmic ideas and existential concepts, Fearless Movement focuses in on the everyday, an exploration of life on earth. This change in scope is due in large part to the birth of Washington’s first child a few years ago. “Being a father means the horizon of your life all of a sudden shows up,” says Washington. “My mortality became more apparent to me, but also my immortality—realizing that my daughter is going to live on and see things that I’m never going to see. I had to become comfortable with this, and that affected the music that I was making.” The album features Washington’s daughter—who wrote the melody to “Asha The First” during some of her first experimentations on the piano—as well as a host of collaborators new and old. André 3000 appears on flute, George Clinton lends his voice, as do BJ The Chicago Kid, Inglewood rapper D-Smoke and Taj and Ras Austin of Coast Contra, the twin sons of West Coast legend Ras Kass. Washington further enlisted lifelong friends and collaborators Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Patrice Quinn, Brandon Coleman, DJ Battlecat and more. The album also features “The Garden Path,” a song Washington performed for the first time ever, making his late-night television debut, on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

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Live In Den Haag - 1960 Limited Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Pan Am)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Miles Davis Quintet & John Coltrane

Live In Copenhagen 1960

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Pan Am)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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10" | 2018 | Original (Running Circle)

Pete Beardsworth

Pour Un Homme Seul

Release: 2018 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wyn Jazz At The Lincoln Center Orchestra/Marsalis

Vinyl Me Please-Spotify Singles

10" | 2020 | US | Original (Blue Engine)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2024 | EU | Original (Pingipung)

Anadol

Uzun Havalar

CD | 2015 | US | Original (Concord)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Anadol is a psychedelic synth folk project by Gözen Atila, a Turkish sound artist and photographer based in Berlin. Her third album Uzun Havalar is based on collective improvisations of middle eastern folk songs called „uzun hava“. They turn out as rich, atmospheric synth ballads. A diverse roster of improvising musicians creates their fascinating complexity. Anadol recorded them during extensive sessions in Istanbul. You can hear drummers laughing and playing guitars, composers howling, announcements in French and screams in no language, record collectors playing oscillators, and trumpets through spacious echoes. Anadol represents Gözen Atila’s liberation from a rather academic approach to electronic composition which she pursued during her music technology studies in Istanbul. She calls her education the „darkness of serious music“ where she first tried to belong, then to break free with the help of lo-fi synth pop. As a producer of radio plays and an expert field recording artist she has developed a distinct sense of timing, editing and sound design. Her Anadol project walks in the footsteps of lone synth experimentalists like Bruce Haack and The Space Lady with their childlike curiosity for electronic sounds, pushing the boundaries of minimal equipment. On Uzun Havalar she translates her experimental background into these floating folk ballads. The album was originally released on tape via Kinship in 2018.

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Steve Tyrell

That Lovin' Feeling

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sabu Toyozumi & Mats Gustafsson

Hokusai

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (NoBusiness)

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ubuntu)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Secret Sessions

Hoop

17,09 €* 18,99 € -10%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Little Girl Blue Transparent Green Vinyl Edition

Nina Simone

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

17,09 €* 18,99 € -10%

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Sonorama)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes one bonus track.

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Werner Müller Orchestra

Jazz Mutations

17,37 €* 21,99 € -21%

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Dur Et Doux)

Le Grand Sbam

Furvent

17,49 €* 24,99 € -30%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Rvng Intl.)

Greg Fox

Contact

17,54 €* 26,99 € -35%

Unmask Whoever Translucent Glacial Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Greg Fox's Contact is an extension and evolution of the multidisciplinary artist's rigorous, virtuosic sound-making practices. On Contact, the devoted performer, intrepid composer and avid collaborator channels an alchemy of influences and ideas through the kinetic exchange of human and percussive forms. Produced and mixed by Randall Dunn, Contact sees Fox accessing ever more raw and ruminative states, processing the tumult of sentience into stick-hit-drum. 2017's The Gradual Progression introduced Fox's synergistic relationship with Sensory Percussion music technology, a conspiratorial force in developing his gestural jazz and metal mathematics into four-limbed polyphony. With Dunn tasked to further Fox's gradual progress, the two focused their combined energy on the intricacies of sound design during an intense, immersive recording process. On the other end of the deep dive, the duo had yielded something ritualistic and minimalistic, both building on and stripping back Fox's previous work while welcoming an honest and cathartic weight and collaboration.

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Activity

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Western Vinyl)

17,54 €* 26,99 € -35%

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Rotkat)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Activity are an avant four-piece featuring Travis Johnson, and drummer Steve Levine, both from the band Grooms, bassist Zoë Browne from Field Mouse, and guitarist Jess Rees from Russian Baths. Produced by engineer Jeff Berner of Psychic TV, their debut forms a casually menacing framework for lyrical themes of paranoia, exposed character flaws, and the broader human capacity for growth when an ugly truth is laid bare. Lead single "Calls Your Name," establishes the record's spectral aura with nauseated electronic bells, and a relentless Geoff Barrow-esque drum beat beneath a half-sung, half-spoken lyrics inspired by C.S. Lewis's 1945 novel The Great Divorce. In the novel, characters stuck in a grey, joyless conception of hell repeatedly deny opportunities to be taken into heaven, instead making excuses as to why they should remain in their embittered purgatory states. Allegorically, this speaks to the kind of opportunity for metamorphosis and positive change that's possible when the depths of disillusionment are reached, an idea which permeates much of the album. Despite recurrent aches of discontentment, each track glows with radiant waves of catharsis while elegantly evoking jubilation and anguish within the same breadth, showing that the two are always around the corner from one another.

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Namid & Sondervan

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Namid & Sondervan is a collaboration between jazz quartet Namid and live coder Dago Sondervan. A debut album like a rhizomatic cyber-attack of quantum melodics flowing in all directions, constantly interconnecting,creating new universes at every junction. Squarepusher, Sun Ra and Moondog on a collision course. Headfirst into the future.

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In London

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Black Sweat / Holidays)

Walter Maioli

Caverne Sonore

Fukashigi No Karte Feat. Chihiro Sings / Instrumental

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The explorer Walter Maioli makes his most amazing adventure, the journey to the center of the Earth. Retracing the exploits of the Platonic demiurge, he identifies in the cave the deepest meaning of myth. Primordial sounds, not shadows, are at the center of this magical path straddling geology and Paleolithic polyphony. The recordings between 1985 and 2002 capture the sonic imperceptibility of the great subterranean womb, investigate the secret dialogue between the trickling of pond waters and the faint percussive reverberation of stalactites and stalagtites. Rocky sediments are played as tubular organs, glockenspiels, xylophones or stone marimbas. Crystalline timbral variations and subtle microtonal passages recall the chimes of Tibetan gongs and bells, of the scales of Java and Bali. Amidst muffled pauses and silences, trills and rings, echoes and tremolos, hisses and pops of vibration, Maioli builds his most imaginative niche of sound, a magnetic and telluric chant that is pure symphony and archetypal synaesthesia. Co-produced with Holidays Records.

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Fox Capture Plan

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Urban Discos)

LP | 2013 | Original (Ozella)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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The long-awaited 7inch release of fox capture plan's self-cover of "Fukashigi no Karte", the ending theme of the TV anime series "Rascal Does Not Dream (Seishun Buta Yaro)", in an English vocal version featuring Chihiro Sings and the original mix! The release coincides with the release of the latest film in the series, "Rascal Does Not Dream of a Girl with a Leather Backpack". The rich sound of the jazzy hip-hop rhythm, layered with strings and horns, expresses the original softness of the instruments in this new version, with English lyrics and singing by Chihiro Sings.

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Maximilian Geller

Alpenglühen

Release: 2013 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Rough Guide To The Roots Of Jazz

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (World Music Network)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Rough Guide To Cape Jazz

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (World Music Network)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Visions)

Sohan Wilson

Love Is The Key

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Sohan Wilson is a young composer and arranger keyboard player from Switzerland. Half of duo Keys of Lynx, Sohan sent us his album almost 2 years ago and we were totally impressed with the quality and the soulful vibe. He asked us if we were interested in releasing it and we said yes.

For this first album the inspiration came from the 70’s and the 80’s with a touch of contemporary soul and jazz. The A side holds 4 tracks entirely recorded with musicians for a total acoustic and organic experience like « in the old days « while the B side is made with Beats and a more electronic soulful approach. This album tells a story, almost like a movie and thats why its a complete album to listen from beginning to end and enjoy the full experience of Sohan Wilson first solo Long player. Featuring the amazing voices from Dwight Trible and Brian Owens this album sounds already like a future classic that you want a listen over and over again.

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Chiara Civello

Sono Come Sono

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The first Italian adaptation of famous Brazilian song “Olhos Coloridos”, this new single by singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Chiara Civello is an irresistible eighties-inspired boogie-funk track that celebrates diversity and inclusion. The 3 remixes by eclectic Neapolitan DJ/producer Whodamanny add groovy and tribal influences to the mix and further enhance the track’s dancefloor potential.

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Noel Divas

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

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The new vinyl collection with a selection of the greatest divas singing the magic of Christmas! With Aretha Franklin - Billie Holiday - Ella Fitzgerald - Judy Garland - Nina Simone...

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Nils Wülker

Continuum

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau

Longgone

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Nonesuch)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Enrico Fazio Ensemble

Girotondo

Gustaf Ljunggren With Skúli Sverrisson

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The idea for Girotondo is taken from the play of the same name written by Arthur Schnitzler. Like the characters in Schnitzler’s text, here the musicians are invited to take part in a series of dialogues in pairs, so as to form a chain, a roundabout: the first with the second, the second with the third, until the last one joins the first, closing the circle. The musicians have been matched by lot to a theatre character, so that the duets are the random result. Fazio acts as a guest, an external narrator to the couples, elaborating an electronic introduction that represents the scenic space in which the encounters develop, and a final roundabout in which everyone is involved.

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Floreana

CD | 2022 | EU | Original (April)

Gothenburg Sound Workshop

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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Swedish multi-instrumentalist and composer Gustaf Ljunggren has teamed up with Icelandic Bass Guitar player and composer Skúli Sverrisson (Laurie Anderson, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bill Frisell, Blonde Redhead ) to create an album that wishes to offer the listener private musical spaces to dwell in for a while. Ljunggren’s musical language is clear, gentle, and melodic, and the pieces chosen for this album all share a sense of weaving past and future together into the present. Gustaf Ljunggren reflects about the music on Floreana: “I listened inwards, and it sounded like this. Melodies came to the surface, and I chose to say ‘yes’ to them, embrace them, carry them forward. My musical partner on this album, Skúli Sverrisson, has been with me throughout this process; embracing the music with both profound dedication and artistic boldness.” The music on the album grants the listener access to something that’s forgotten or undiscovered. There’s a sensuousness throughout the work; musical spaces that reveal possibilities to listen inwards, aided by repetition in melodies and patterns. The music doesn’t seek climaxes as much as it seeks states of presence and attention. The live concerts with Gustaf Ljunggren and Skúli Sverrisson will explore the spaces the music on Floreana invites to. Two of northern Europe’s most distinctive instrumentalists will interpret Ljunggren’s compositions with a strong attention to the environment where the music is performed. The audience can expect the performers to display a deep commitment to the presence of the music as it unfolds.

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2CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Discreet Music)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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New 50-minute opus from Gothenburg Sound Workshop. Imagine a handcuffed Terry Riley driving a ice cream truck down in the Göta Älv. The second disc compiles both Förlag För Fri Musik albums (released in small vinyl editions in 2020 and 2021 respectively). Together the three albums creates a massive trilogy of stripped down, melancholic and introspective synth minimalism. Six-panel digipack, edition of 500 copies. Discreet Music Cd04.

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Julius Rodriguez

Let Sound Tell All

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bert Dockx, Josse De Pauw & Ottla

Kroniek Van Het Vuur (Live) Record Store Day 2022 Dark Red Vinyl Edition

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Unday)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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You might know Bert Dockx from the inimitable alternative jazz-rock-trio Dans Dans; or from his moody, psychedelic rock formation Flying Horseman; or from his more intimate but equally special solo records. In 2019, the ever productive guitarist released an album with Ottla, a jazzy sextet blending different genres, textures and moods in wholly original ways, resulting in long, evocative pieces, brooding with tension and atmosphere. Recently, the band has transformed into a quartet, a tighter unit with a sparser and slightly more electric sound. This new Ottla is playing a mixture of reimagined tracks from the aforementioned album, and several brand new pieces. Ottla's music - like all music for which Dockx is responsible - is imaginative, intense and deeply felt.

In the spring of 2021, actor and writer Josse De Pauw contacted Bert with a question. He wanted to perform work of the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano on stage, texts about the madness of colonialism and slavery, and about the beauty and mystery of the jungle, and asked Dockx to come up with a live soundtrack. Dockx invited two friends from his jazz band Ottla (Thomas Jillings and Louis Evrard) and a fourth musician (bass player Axel Gilain). He composed new material, adapted some existing Ottla pieces and could count on the improvisational talent of his fellow musicians for the rest of the soundtrack. In a handful of rehearsals, an impressive concert was put together that captivated the audience during a short run in August. This live EP contains two pieces recorded on one of these blistering evenings. Side A opens with the authoritarian voice of De Pauw, who recites the Song of the Fire, before making way for a scorching, almost apocalyptic version of 'Stofwolk'. On side B we hear Thomas Jillings perform an impressionist clarinet improvisation while De Pauw conjures up images of the unlimited sea and the winds, ships and slaves, heaven and hell.

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Body & Soul Legendary Ladies Of Jazz

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Louis Jordan

Very Best Of

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2022 | US | Original (Modern Icon/Ropeadope)

Taku Hirano

Blu York

Mats Gustafsson & Erwan Heravec

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 2020, Taku signed to Ropeadope under the Modern Icon Recordings imprint to showcase his return to jazz. 2021 will see the release of Taku’s live album “Blu York". Taku Hirano is one of the most in-demand percussionists of his generation — a musical chameleon onstage and in-studio, whether behind iconic artists or fronting his own projects. He has worked with everyone from Stevie Nicks to Stevie Wonder, Dr. Dre to Dr. John, and referred to by rock legend Mick Fleetwood - founder and drummer for Fleetwood Mac - as his “Secret Weapon” and “not only a master percussionist, but an incredible musician.” Tracklisting: Sho¯myo¯ Hang Up Your Hang Ups Prelude Come And Get It Crawling King Snake Butterfly Bruce's Jawn Blu York

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Luft / Inhale

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Omlott)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alex Barbir / Pascal Comelade

Alex Barbier Chante...

10" | 2021 | EU | Original (La Belle Brute)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

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

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

Awkward Corners

Amateur Dramatics

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Association Culturelle Yototi)

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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Alimé Bébégué

Baanà

17,99 €* 29,99 € -40%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jazz Room)

Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble

Le Le

CD | 2021 | UK | Original (Impulse!)

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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Sons Of Kemet

Black To The Future

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Ubuntu)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sons of Kemet returns in 2021 with their new album Black To The Future. The follow up to 2018’s Mercury Prize nominated breakout release Your Queen Is A Reptile. This is their 4th record, and 2nd on impulse! Compared with ”Your Queen is a Reptile”, this album has featured vocalists and more of an emphasis on fuller compositions and arrangements. Guest artists include Kojey Radical, Moor Mother, Angel Bat Dawid, Joshua Idehen, D Double E.

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Qow Trio

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jakarta)

Gianni Brezzo

The Awakening

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Anti)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gianni Brezzo - the Jazz affiliated band/studio project, headed by Cologne-based producer, multi-instrumentalist and musical mastermind Marvin Horsch - hereby presents the Jakarta Records debut "The Awakening"; a record not only showcasing Brezzo’s versatile but clearly jazz focused approach and style but also displaying Horsch’s pure talent as a musician and a songwriter whilst perfectly delivering that very own, deeply wonderful melancholy and moody jazz vibes.

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Alfa Mist

Bring Backs

San Proper & The Love Present L.O.V.E. Part 3

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Alfa Mist is one of the driving forces behind a young and vibrant scene of UK musicians, who’ve taken on jazz as their musical narrative. On his new album Bring Backs the producer, self-taught pianist and rapper takes us on a sonic trip back to his beat-making past on the streets of East London, through the depth and musicality he discovered composing and playing jazz.

2017 saw the release of Alfa’s breakthrough record, Antiphon and the 2019’s album Structuralism were both self-released on his Sekito label. His latest endeavour, 2021’s Bring Backs, sees Alfa taking on new challenges. The record marks his first release for the label Anti and is also the most detailed exploration of his upbringing in musical form.

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San Proper

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Dopeness Galore)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Maaula)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Mini LP with insert. The musical vagabond returns to spread his Gospel of L.O.V.E. San "Dr." Proper presents his third EP on Dopeness Galore with a selection of kindred sounds and spirits encountered around the earth while on tour. The result is an intriguing six-track EP that documents the musical collaborations that sparked to the pulse of cities like Casablanca, Bogota, Amsterdam and Medellin, straight back to the dungeon of Volkshotel where they fused these tracks in an Amsterdamic fashion. "where we did some afternoon-jams alongside some after-effects to spread the gospel of sentiment and love.” L.O.V.E. part 3 features upcoming artists such as Mr. Cruz, Elias Mazian, Bobbi and V. Bannier as well as local musicians from studios around the world, moulding a colorful record with traditional Arabique, Latin-Americain and western influences to create that unmistakable Proper sound.

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Space Age Sunset

Mysterious

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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50s Jukebox Hits Volume 2

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Golden Core)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2020 | US | Original (Madlib Invazion)

The Heliocentrics

Telemetric Sounds

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

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The UK’s cosmic, psychedelic-funk ensemble issue their second album on maverick producer Madlib’s label, Madlib Invazion. The Heliocentrics’ albums are all confounding pieces of work. Drawing equally from the funk universe of James Brown, the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra, the cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone, the sublime fusion of David Axelrod, Pierre Henry’s turned-on musique concrète, and Can’s beat-heavy Krautrock, they have – regardless of the label on which they’ve released their music - pointed the way towards a brand new kind of psychedelia, one that could only come from a band of accomplished musicians who were also obsessive music fans. Drummer Malcolm Catto and bassist Jake Ferguson are the Heliocentrics’ masterminds and producers, and they are obsessive weirdos in today’s musical climate, searching, progressive humans who are often out-of-time with current trends. They have been playing together for nearly two decades and their collective drive is to find an individual voice. The Heliocentrics search for it in an alternate galaxy where the orbits of funk, jazz, psychedelic, electronic, avant-garde and “ethnic” music all revolve around “The One.” With Madilb’s label Madlib Invazion for Telemetric Sounds, the Heliocentrics have returned to develop their epic vision of psychedelic funk, while exploring the possibilities created by their myriad influences – Latin, African, and more.

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Monzanto Sound

Time Lapse EP

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Not Now)

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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Chet Baker

Chet

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Stupido)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Pelle Miljoona & Rockers

Tanssiva Tuli

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Stupido)

Anna Inginmaa

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Golden Hits Of Benny Goodman

Benny Goodman

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This Is The Andrews Sisters

Andrews Sisters

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pu: Colored Vinyl Edition

Ville Herrala

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Finest - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Judy Garland

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2020 | US | Original (Madlib Invazion)

The Heliocentrics

Infinity Of Now

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Sony Masterworks)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The UK’s cosmic, psychedelic-funk ensemble issue their first album on maverick producer Madlib’s label, Madlib Invazion.
The Heliocentrics’ albums are all confounding pieces of work. Drawing equally from the funk universe of James Brown, the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra, the cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone, the sublime fusion of David Axelrod, Pierre Henry’s turned-on musique concrète, and Can’s beat-heavy Krautrock, they have – regardless of the label on which they’ve released their music - pointed the way towards a brand new kind of psychedelia, one that could only come from a band of accomplished musicians who were also obsessive music fans. Drummer Malcolm Catto and bassist Jake Ferguson are the Heliocentrics’ masterminds and producers, and they are obsessive weirdos in today’s musical climate, searching, progressive humans who are often out-of-time with current trends.
They have been playing together for nearly two decades and their collective drive is to find an individual voice. The Heliocentrics search for it in an alternate galaxy where the orbits of funk, jazz, psychedelic, electronic, avant-garde and “ethnic” music all revolve around “The One.” With Madilb’s label Madlib Invazion for Infinity of Now, the Heliocentrics have returned to develop their epic vision of psychedelic funk, while exploring the possibilities created by their myriad influences – Latin, African, and more.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

OST Proxima

17,99 €* 19,99 € -10%

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Pepper Cake)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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Original Score composed by Academy Award winner Ryuichi Sakamoto

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of the 2019 French Drama Film

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Raphael Wressnig

Soul Gumbo

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Orbeatize)

Errol H. Tout

Sounds 1985-87

10" | 2018 | EU | Original (Jazzaggression)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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A collection of Errol's best compositions taken from his first two recordings (1985 Atmospherics and 1987 Sounds Of Swimming).
16 tracks: Open Jazz Guitar Masterpiece.

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Erik Andresen Quartet

Cointreau

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charlie Haden & Brad Mehldau

Long Ago And Far Away (Live In Mannheim 2007)

CD | 2018 | EU | Original (Impulse)

LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Not Now)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This recording was made on November 5, 2007 at the Christuskirche in Mannheim, Germany, during the Enjoy Jazz Festival. It was on a Sunday, on September 19, 1993 to be exact, that Charlie Haden heard Brad Mehldau for the first time. Charlie and I were walking through the halls of the Hidden Valley Resort located in the Laurel Mountains in southwest Pennsylvania. The resort was sponsoring a jazz festival and Charlie had just finished an interview after which we needed to get back to the hotel room in order to prepare for Charlie’s sound-check and concert that night. As we hurried through the hall, one could hear, from behind the closed doors of the auditorium we passed, the sounds of a concert in progress,

Now, Charlie had the biggest ears of anyone in jazz, and while we were walking and talking, Charlie came to a sudden halt and said, “Shhh!"

His eyes opened wide as he crept to the door to listen. Someone was taking a solo. He said to me, "I have to go in and listen." We entered the auditorium and stood at the back to listen to the rest of the concert. It was Joshua Redman’s band with Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride and Brian Blade who, together, in 1994 recorded Joshua’s album Moodswing.

Once the concert was finished Charlie strode to the stage to greet the guys and to speak directly to the young pianist. It was Brad Mehldau who had taken that solo. They spoke for some time, and when Charlie came back to me, he said, “That pianist is brilliant. He is special, so unique.” Charlie would later go on to pronounce Brad one of the most important musicians of his generation because of his unique voice, his depth of knowledge of and facility on the instrument, and how he has moved the language of jazz forward.

Eventually, in 1996, Charlie found a way to bring Brad out to LA to perform with Lee Konitz and him at the Jazz Bakery. This led to a trio recording on Blue Note (1997) called Alone Together. In 2011, he and Brad recorded a live album with Lee Konitz, and Paul Motian for ECM called Live at Birdland. Brad and Charlie remained friends from the time of their first meeting. They had a special connection. In the early days, Charlie, in a sense, mentored this young pianist in life lessons. Personally, I think he saw a bit of himself in this young brilliant player.

The two musicians, however, had never had the chance to perform on stage in duo when, in 2007, Rainer Kern, the director of the Enjoy Jazz Festival in the Heidelberg region of Germany, invited Charlie and Brad to play a duet concert at a beautiful church, the Christuskirche in Mannheim. This was a rare opportunity for the two of them to have a musical dialogue and they both eagerly agreed. Rainer had asked to record the concert but the two artists said an emphatic, “No!” I, however, had a feeling about this concert and was able to talk the two musicians into relenting as Rainer graciously agreed to let us own the tapes. For contractual reasons regarding both musicians, the recording could not be released until now. Charlie listened to the tape often and dearly wanted to release it at some point. I am forever grateful to Rainer Kern for allowing us to record and own the work. As a result we have a dazzling testament to the interaction between two genius musicians: piano and bass, their brilliance resounding through the hallowed space of an art nouveau cathedral, recorded on November 5, 2007.

I must thank, first and foremost, Charlie Haden and Brad Mehldau for their transcendent performances and the devotion they show to the music. A special thanks to Brad Mehldau for being such a wonderful partner throughout this entire project. I must thank our friend, Rainer Kern for organizing this concert, and acknowledge the Enjoy Jazz Festival team for its support. Thank-you Jean-Philippe Allard for believing in the music and agreeing to release this recording on Universal Music, France. JP has been a great friend to Charlie’s music for many years.

It took a lot more people to make this recording happen as several parties had to agree thus many thanks to the hard work our lawyers put in to bring this project to fruition: Fred Ansis of Reed Smith LLP, Paul Bezilla of Fox Rothschild LLP, Valerie Foray and Christelle D’Almeida of Universal Music, Scott Southard and Tom Korkidis of IMN, Nanette Monton of Warner Bros. Records Inc, Bob Hurwitz, Nonesuch Records. Additional thanks to our friends, Farida Bachir, Jenny Defaut, Pascal Bod and Nicolas Pflug of Universal Music, France.

One of the most important aspects of recording is mixing and mastering. Charlie and I have worked with the recording engineer ,Jay Newland, for many years and he, again, worked his magic, bringing us the full experience of this live recording despite the inherent difficulties of such a recording taking place in an echo-resounding cathedral. Thank-you, Jay, for your incredible ears and skill. Many thanks to our mastering engineer, Mark Wilder of Battery Studios for his dedication to sound and his understanding that “Jazz is more than notes on a piece of paper.” Many thanks to Joe D’Ambrosio for facilitating the mixing and mastering process.

I need to mention the cover art. The painting was done by a friend of Charlie’s and mine, the Dutch-American painter, Luc Leestemaker who passed away in 2012. He had a timeless poetic style that Charlie and I really loved. Luc revered Charlie’s music, and we revered Luc’s paintings. We also used one of his paintings for the cover of Charlie’s album Land of the Sun. It feels good that Luc and Charlie get to do a project together again.

Charlie is gone now, and this recording was made “long ago and far away”, yet the music remains immediate. The music is now.

Ruth Cameron Haden, Los Angeles, California, July 2018

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Sonny Boy Williamson

Down & Out Blues

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2018 | UK | Original (Not Now)

John Coltrane

My Favorite Things

Release: 2018 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live At The Village Vanguard

Bill Evans

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Vinyl Lovers)

17,99 €* 19,99 € -10%

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | US | Original (Ubiquity)

Massive Suits Quartet

Full Moon Wizard