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Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Lou Donaldson

Alligator Bogaloo

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After The Rain: A Night For John Coltrane

Teodross Avery

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Tompkins Square)

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Time Capsule)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the beginning there was John Coltrane. Teodross Avery experienced an epiphany at 13 when he first heard Trane’s “Giant Steps.” He emerged in the mid-1990s with two critically hailed releases for GRP/Impulse! Avery’s long and productive journey has taken him down many musical paths, from gigs with jazz legends and hip hop stars to sessions with NEA Jazz Masters and platinum pop albums. With his Tompkins Square label debut After The Rain: A Night for Coltrane, Avery has found his way back home, reasserting himself as a supremely eloquent exponent of the post-Trane jazz continuum. With Liner Notes by Ben Ratliff.

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Izumi "Mimi" Kobayashi

Choice Cuts 1978-1983

Ornithology: The Best Of Bird

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A luminous soul with an indefatigable love for music, few artists have had careers as varied and successful as Izumi ‘Mimi’ Kobayashi. One of Japan’s leading jazz-funk pianists, she wrote and recorded cult albums with fusion legends at home and abroad. Obsessed with new electronic instruments, she penned some of the country’s most well-known TV themes and pioneered the use of drum machines in anime soundtracks.

A star in Japan, she moved to Europe to record global hits with Depeche Mode and Swing Out Sister, toured the world with the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra and made beats with Attica Blues’ Tony Nwachukwu. Now based in London, Mimi currently fronts Tokyo Riddim Band - the intergenerational live Japanese Reggae outfit born from Time Capsule’s acclaimed 2023 compilation of the same name - playing live shows and releasing a trio of recordings made at Prince Fatty’s studio.

Choice Cuts 1978-1983 collects eight recordings from four of Mimi’s first five albums – Sea Flight (1978) recorded with her group Flying Mimi Band, and Coconuts High (1981), Nuts Nuts Nuts (1982) and Tropicana (1983) under her own name.

The compilation opens with a syncopated electro-funk cover of Sergio Mendes’ iconic ‘Mas Que Nada’ (Tropicana) and the crisp and stripped back techno-pop of ‘Coffee Rumba’ (Nuts Nuts Nuts) with a keyboard bass line that would have made Stevie Wonder weep.

Alongside the off-beat synth jam ‘Quiet Explosion’ (Nuts Nuts Nuts) and piano samba of ‘Espresso’ (Tropicana), there’s space for two low slung soul-jazz numbers, ‘Naze’ and ‘Angel Sky’, from Sea Flight (1978) that recall the collaborations between Herbie Hancock and Kimiko Kasai. But it is around the two tracks from Mimi’s 1981 album Coconuts High that this compilation revolves (and from whose cover shoot it borrows).

Released on legendary guitarist Takanaka’s Kitty Records label, Coconuts High was recorded in LA with a backing band of jazz fusion icons, including Alex Acuña, Abraham Laborial, Harvey Mason and the Tower of Power horns. A riot of playful Latin-tinged jazz, funk and fusion with the off-beat spirit of Kid Creole & and the Coconuts, the album became a cult hit, attracting huge sums on the resale market. Here it’s the sultry, Minnie Riperton-esque ‘Crazy Love’, with its addictive groove and bittersweet melodies that makes the cut, alongside the steel drum-infused carnivalesque bounce of ‘Palm St’.

Capturing a highly creative and prolific moment in Mimi’s career, Choice Cuts 1978-1983 will introduce the idiosyncratic energy and playful verve of this under-the-radar pioneer to a wider audience for the first time. Welcome to the world of Izumi ‘Mimi’ Kobayashi. Once you enter, you won’t want to leave.

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Charlie Parker

LP | 2024 | Original (Concord)

Dama Begga Hibi (I Want To Go Home)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Ornithology: The Best of Bird” is a new compilation bringing together 11 cuts from legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. Designed as an introduction to this influential artist, it covers Bird’s prime years between 1945 and 1953, with cuts including “Ko-Ko,” “Billie’s Bounce,” and “Groovin’ High”. Included on the back of the newly designed sleeve is a new essay by GRAMMY® award winning writer Ashley Kahn.

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Aron & The Jeri Band

LP | 2024 | Original (Trout, Urban)

33,99 €*

Who Are You When No One Is Watching?

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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During autumn 2018, after moving to Germany, Aron Ottignon met Senegalese musician and percussionist Bakane Seck, founder and leader of the Jeri JeriBand, in his Berlin studio. This first meeting gave rise to a special connection between their instruments and the start of a musical adventurethat transcends borders, an instrumental conversation of profound simplicity nourished by the richness of jazz, electronic music and Wolof tradition. The brainchild of composer and producer Aron Ottignon and percussionist Sabar Bakane Seck, Aron & The Jeri Jeri Band (A&TJJB) was born at the crossroads between Berlin and Dakar and oscillates between the frenetic rhythm of mbalax, the strength of afrobeat, the warmth of afro funk and the eï¬Çervescence of jazz. Born in New Zealand, the pianist released a series of critically acclaimed jazz albums in the 2000s. As a composer, Aron Ottignonhas collaborated with Stromae, toured the world with Woodkid and worked with a host of artists including Electric Wire Hustle, Louane,Broken Back, Empire Of the Sun and Myele Manzanza. Senegalese musician and griot Bakane Seck"s mastery of the Sabar - "percussion instrument" in Wolof - has taken him all over the world alongsideAfrican music icons such asYoussou N"Dour and Baaba Maal.

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Graphic Nature

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Rude)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Trouble Feat. Daniël Von Piekartz

Benjamin Herman

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Dox)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Dox)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For years, Benjamin Herman has formed a frighteningly tight trio with Ernst Glerum and Joost Patočka. Whether its compositions from Misha Mengelberg, jazz evergreens or original works, these are all interpreted with vision and “rollicking virtuosity’’ (Volkskrant). Erupting from Herman's creative spirit and the two worlds of Glerum (icp Orchestra) and Patočka (Rita Reys), the formation’s work is always of the highest class.

The new album Trouble with the young and exceptionally talented singer/pianist Daniel von Piekartz adds a new chapter to their collaboration. Songs from Fats Waller, Henry Mancini and Sly Stone get a postmodern make-over that will inspire many concert-goers to willingly miss that last tram home. And naturally, the musical fireworks that we’ve come accustomed are still

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Benjamin Herman

Nostalgia Blitz

29,99 €*

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

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nostalgia Blitz' is a record born from a wild collection of ideas and influences drawing on an alternative saxophone universe from Benjamin's formative years. Benjamin Herman explains: "When I picked up the saxophone in 1980, it was the coolest instrument on the planet. Every band had a saxophonist, usually dressed in an oversized pastel-colored power suit with rolled-up sleeves. Besides an abundance of sax heroes in pop, fusion and jazz music, the 80s also had individuals who did it all their own way. James Chance, John Lurie, Xero Slingsby, and of course Dutch mover and shaker Hans Dulfer were some of my favorites. Saxophonists with an attitude: supercharged, perky, and highly creative. An atonal, arty and conceptual kind of saxophone music that really spoke to me. Besides Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane, they greatly influenced my musical taste. ’Nostalgia Blitz’ is once again an attempt to push the boundaries of my own playing and simultaneously tip my hat to some of my all-time heroes."

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Nathan Davis

The Hip Walk 1

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Circle Of Madness Translucent Purple Vinyl Edition

Janek Van Laak

LP | 2024 | Original (Sonar Kollektiv / Indigo)

29,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2017 | Original (Mack Avenue)

Cameron Graves

Planetary Prince

Release: 2017 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Carlos Nino & Idris Ackamoor & Nate Mercenau

Free, Dancing . . .

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (New Dawn)

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Azimuth Luminessence Vinyl

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Free, Dancing . . . is the first release by a new trio with percussionist and producer Carlos Niño, luminary multi-instrumentalist Idris Ackamoor (of The Pyramids) and wizard guitarist, producer Nate Mercereau. They have been playing concerts together in California since June 2022, sharing a unique vibrant sound, findings and energetics... Including download code for the full album.

Artwork by Nep Sidhu.

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Azimuth

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2014 | EU | Original (JazzSick)

Philipp-Trio- Van Endert

Presence

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Warner Music International)

Youn Sun Nah

Elles

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tony Bennett & Bill Evans

The Tony Bennett / Bill Evans Album

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craf)

43,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Albert's Favourites)

Huw Marc Bennett

Days Like Now

Blossom Dearie Verve By Request

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On the new album, Days Like Now, Bennett takes direct inspiration from the music of Wales. The songs draw heavily on acoustic folk sounds and melodies. During the pandemic Huw sat and wrote a lot of material just with his bass and acoustic guitars and that low key atmosphere is very present throughout the new record. Drums are lo-fi and fuzzy, and the palette of sounds draws from many folk cultures around the world, but this time round has a distinctly Welsh influence.

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Blossom Dearie

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Verve)

22,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Legendary Clarinet Of

Mr.Acker Bilk

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (ZYX)

17,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ECM)

Ralph Alessi Quartet

It's Always Now

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Lonnie Liston Smith Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Coursing through the cosmic pulse of Jazz-Funk is the inimitable influence of Lonnie Liston Smith. For over five decades, the legendary keyboardist and bandleader has been a driving force in shaping the genre's sound. Smith made his recording debut as a sideman for heavyweights Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Gato Barbieri and Leon Thomas. He later formed his own ensemble, Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes which delivered an incredible run of classic albums through the 1970s. His music has served as the foundation for immortal hip-hop samples and ecstatic dancefloor revelry. In late February 2020, Smith headlined Jazz Is Dead’s Black History Month series, giving many jazz fans what would be their last taste of live music before the nightmare of Covid-19 that took over in the weeks that followed. Now, he reunites with Jazz Is Dead to deliver Lonnie Liston Smith Jid017 - a full-bloom tribute to the multitude of sonic strains that all lead back to the fingertips of the maestro himself.

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Jazz Classics

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Vintage collection welcomes a new volume dedicated to the great Jazz artists that still stand as best music legends of all time !Including : Nina Simone, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin...

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Mary Wells

Bye Bye Baby

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joao Gilberto

Brazil's Brilliant

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Miles Davis

Workin'

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Beverley Kenney

With The Basie-Ites

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ethel Ennis

Lullabies For Losers

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live At The Pershing Lounge 1958

Ahmad Jamal Trio

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Intermusic)

21,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In The Moment Black Vinyl Edition

Makaya McCraven

2LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (International Anthem)

33,99 €*

Clifford Brown - Max Roach Quintet

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reissue of Makaya McCraven"s modern classic, International Anthem debut "In The Moment" (2015) One venue, 28 shows and 48 hours of live, improvised music. These are the ingredients for Chicago-based drumme Makaya McCraven"s album In the Moment. However, McCraven, as the producer he also is, has not just thrown some random sounds together. Instead, he has carefully culled, cut and remixed the music into a coherent whole and 19 complex and catchy compositions emerge from his hands.

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At Basin Street

LP | 2012 | UK | Reissue (20th Century Masterworks)

Release: 2012 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Round About Midnight Blue Vinyl Edition

Miles Davis

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Dol)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble

Where Future Unfolds

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (International Anthem)

Sarah Vaughan With Clifford Brown Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Where Future Unfolds is a new work spirited by Chicago-based sound & visual artist Damon Locks. Starting as a solo sound collage piece (where Locks pulled samples from Civil Rights era speeches and recordings to create an improvisational pallet for performance on his drum machine), over 4 years the project has blossomed into his 15-piece Black Monument Ensemble - featuring musicians (including Angel Bat Dawid on clarinets and Dana Hall on drums), singers (alumni of the Chicago Children's Choir), and dancers (members of Chicago youth dance company Move Me Soul). Where Future Unfolds is a live capture of the ensemble's epic debut at the Garfield Park Botanical Conservatory on the West Side of Chicago. Recalling the spirits of Phil Cohran's Artistic Heritage Ensemble, Eddie Gale's Black Rhythm Happening, Archie Shepp's Attica Blues, and Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, the album presents an inspired, innovative & immediate intersection of gospel, jazz, activism & 808 breaks. à

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Sarah Vaughan

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Waxtime In Color)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chega De Saudade 60th Anniversary Edition

Joao Gilberto

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Waxtime In Color)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Songs For Swingin' Lovers!

Frank Sinatra

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Warner)

Youn Sun Nah

Immersion

24,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (ECM)

Anouar Brahem

Blue Maqams

34,99 €*

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In The Wee Small Hours Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Frank Sinatra

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Dol)

Portrait In Jazz Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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Bill Evans Trio

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Dol)

Blue Train Gatefold Sleeve Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gatefold 180g Includes Rare Or Exclusive Artwork Inside

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John Coltrane

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Dol)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

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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On My Way To Harlem / 1960 What

Gregory Porter

7" | 2013 | UK | Original (Expansion)

8,99 €*

LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Now specially edited for the first time for discerning Northern, Modern and Jazz dancefloors on THE only format that matters for DJs and collectors alike, grab your copy now with an exclusive edit of Gregory’s signature song “1960 What?”

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Bill Evans Trio

Portrait In Jazz

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Moritz Von Oswald Trio

Horizontal Structures

2LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Horizontal Structures is palpably a more open, more expressive album than the previous studio recording, Vertical Ascent. There is more contrast, more light and shade. St Hilaire and Muellbauer add fresh drama and swing to the intimate tonal and rhythmic interactions of the core grouping.

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Pat Metheny

80/81

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Orchestra Nazionale Della Luna

Selene's View

LP | 2024 | Original (Igloo)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding

Milton + Esperanza

2LP | 2024 | Original (Concord)

37,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Someone Like You Green Vinyl Edition

Susan Wong

LP | 2013 | WW | Reissue (Evo Sound)

47,99 €*

Release: 2013 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dripping Indigo Purple Vinyl Edition

Chantal Chamberland

LP | 2024 | WW | Original (Evo Sound)

74,99 €*

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Birdbox)

Cristiano Giardini

Odisseya

44,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (Week-End)

Farida Amadou

When It Rains It Pours

Outer Spaceways Incorporated : Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra Deluxe Edition Starry Night Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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If there's one musician in the last decade that you may hear in wildly diverse musical contexts it is Belgian electric bassist and sound sculptor Farida Amadou. Not only can you enjoy the unerringly skillful command she has over her instrument but also the transformative power to reinterpret and expand her material in spontaneous and unconventional ways.

Amadou is self-taught and radically aware of her idiosyncratic relationship with the bass guitar. She neither emulates the virtuosos of the electric bass, nor does she use the instrument as a pure sound generator that merely emits humming and feedback. She takes a completely independent and unique approach. This freedom enables her to create an overwhelming wall of sound, as well as simple, clear structures that are rhythmically concise yielding a wide associative space that lands somewhere between free jazz and noise.

Her work is often concentrated and circular where motifs are established and developed outward. It is an organic sound in the literal sense of the word, constantly in motion, yet resting in itself. The three solo pieces she has recorded for Week-End Records emphasize her impressive ability to ignite ecstasy from tranquility, to fan out a whole range of moods from a few potent ideas.

These attributes make her a musician who enriches every group she plays in, because she is present with her assured and crystallized sound but refrains from being domineering. However, her strengths are even more apparent when she plays solo: the contrasts between the dark, heavy clouds of sound and the rhythmic passages, and the transitions between movements which always sound "logical" yet surprising.

Her new solo album, "When It Rains It Pours" presents Amadou as an inspired improviser who follows her musical intuition and acumen to create a truly unique soundworld. Rarely has improvised music sounded so succinct and compelling.

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Red Hot Organization

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Red Hot Organization)

49,99 €*

Visions Of Light Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Individually, Kronos Quartet and Sun Ra are two of the most groundbreaking names in contemporary music. The former is the legendary San Francisco-based string quartet that laid a blueprint for what concert music could become, working with the likes of John Cage, Tanya Tagaq, and Astor Piazzolla. The latter was a singular jazz and avant-garde bandleader, as well as a philosopher and poet, who honed an extraordinary strain of cosmic experimental music from the 1950s until his ascension in 1993. As a capstone to Kronos Quartet’s 50th anniversary, the group has joined forces with the Red Hot Organization for the new album Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra. It’s stacked with some of the most innovative artists active today — everyone from multidimensional electronic musician Jlin, to Moor Mother and DJ Haram’s radical noise / rap project 700 Bliss, to abstract hip hop luminaries Armand Hammer, to avant-garde hero Laurie Anderson, to minimalist pioneer Terry Riley.

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Ishmael Ensemble

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Severn Songs)

35,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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William Parker, Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake

Heart Trio

LP | 2024 | WW | Original (AUM Fidelity)

32,99 €*

Release: 2024 / WW – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Life Rhythm Black Vinyl Edition

Wolfgang Haffner

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One Note Samba Limited Edition

Charlie Byrd

LP | 2024 | Original (Jazz Samba)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Red Hot & Ra - Nuclear War Orange / Yellow Splatter Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2024 | US | Original (Red Hot Organization)

39,99 €*

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Great Women Of Song: Nina Simone Limited Blue Vinyl Edition

Nina Simone

LP | 2023 | Original (Verve)

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tell Us Black Vinyl Edition

Goran Kajfes Tropiques

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Swedish quartet Goran Kajfes Tropiques present Tell Us, an album consisting of three long pieces composed by the group, is "slow music" to the bone, a deep body of work utilising the language of jazz as its core mode of communication but echoing way beyond. The quartet is expanded with strings, adding wings to the music and helping it lift off the ground in a personal, highly engaging manner.

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Jazz Is Dead Remixes Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Jazz Ist Dead)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Remixes Jid020 is the twentieth installment in the Jazz Is Dead catalog. This remix album features London based artists Shabaka Hutchings and Theon Cross, New York tastemaker Melanie Charles, LA based producer Bei Ru, Brazil’s Dj Nyack, Detroit based producer Tall Black Guy, Bay Area producer Mophono and the LA based house duo LO & Disko. Remixers sampled the previously released Jazz Is Dead records created by Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and icons including the following: Lonnie Liston Smith, Jean Carne, Tony Allen, Henry Franklin, Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Garrett Saracho, and Katalyst.

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Red, Hot & Ra - The Magic City Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Red Hot Organization)

The Anatomy Of Serene Eloquence

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Magic City is the third album in the Red Hot & Ra series. This entire album was imagined, produced & curated by Meshell Ndegeocello. The album is a features Marshall Allen, Immanuel Wilkins, Deantoni Parks, Pink Siifu, Stuart Bogie and Justin Hicks. It is a dreamlike strange & soulful interpretation of Sun Ra's composition, This record follows Ndegeocello's 2023 album The Omnichord Real Book, named the #1 jazz album of the year by NPR and nominated for Best Alternative Jazz Grammy.

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Espen Horne

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Wah Wah 45s)

Experience: Live From Malibu Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2023 sees the return of multi-talented Norwegian producer Espen Horne to Wah Wah 45s, after a 24 year hiatus. The man behind the label's very first release, the now seminal Magnetica, never lost his connection with the imprint and has remained very much part of the Wah Wah family, making a comeback this year with his first solo material under his own name since that club classic from 1999.
Back in the spring, the first single from the project, the gorgeous soul-jazz beauty Bakeren, featuring the stunning vocals of Resonators' Faye Houston, quickly found a home on Gilles Peterson's internationally renowned BBC Radio 6 show as well as that of Jazz FM legend Robbie Vincent, Bandcamp Weekly and the Fresh Finds Jazz Spotify playlist.
Following that, Bergen Sunrays, became a weekly fixture on the Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show on BBC 6 Music, with the limited 7-inch of both singles selling out within hours of release.
Next up was the wistful Den Franske Gitaren, a lugubrious soul-jazz piece with drum & bass leanings featuring Bergen based MC and vocalist Aich, which found favour with legends Laurent Garnier and Jazzanova as well as hot Japanese production outfit Dazzle Drums.
This was closely followed by the final single to be taken from the album, the stunning and outspoken vocal jazz waltzer Nada Pode Me Calar (which roughly translates to Nothing Can Shut Me Up!) featuring the sublime talent of Olav Wöllo on vocals and Juno - anotherr big one with Gilles Peterson on Worldwide FM and Deb Grant on BBC 6 Music.
And now the full album, entitled The Anatomy Of Serene Eloquence is available for your aural delectation. Recorded largely during lockdown, the LP is a sophisticated and composed piece of work that sees the Norwegian producer make connections with musicians from across Europe, and some closer to home, to collaborate on this sedate and peaceful collection of songs.
The aforementioned Faye Houston also appears on the soulful, dub flavoured Don't Fall Asleep, a piece of music that explores the feeling of being isolated whilst sharing a mutual love and drive to explore new sonic possibilities.
Elsewhere, Olav Wöllo pops up again too, this time on O Mar E A Lua and once again singing in Portuguese to give this track a certain Tropicalia feel, as Espen explains:
"Olav Wöllo is a close friend, an excellent musician and vocalist, and a capoeira professor here in Bergen. He has spent much of his life living in Brazil and speaks Portuguese fluently. He wrote the lyrics for this tune years ago and had just been waiting for the right collaboration to come along.
We went to his lovely studio out on this remote island, made a massive gyoza meal, had some serious good wine and stayed the whole night to record his vocal harmonies and outspoken lyrics."
The single Bergen Sunrays also appears on the album in instrumental form with featured keys courtesy of London based player Rory More - here entitled Rory's Sunrays. His Lowrey organ adds a more melancholic feel to the track, as it does on the stunning Belle Époque, alongside the ivory work of Eirik Blåsternes - an emotional, contemplative and atmospheric track that was tested and shaped in the eclipse of Covid.
As with Belle Époque, La Psychosomnie is a playful yet explorative cut that examines insomnia, paralysis and hypnosis courtesy of some enigmatic French spoken word spinning around a framework of drums, bass and swirling keys.
And finally, the album offers up an alternative version of the single Den Franske Gitaren, this time featuring Martin Halla, a vocalist out of the Bergen Grieg Jazz Academy and winner of the Norwegian version of The Voice back in 2012! The perfect flip to Aich's more mournful interpretation of this bass and drum future classic.

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Yussef Dayes

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Brownswood)

33,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Oonops Drops)

Nautilus

Live At King Georg

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After their first European tour in May 2023, Tokyo-based Jazz trio Nautilus has received an amazing response from concert visitors and the professional audience!

So we decided to press their last gig of the tour at the legendary King Georg in Cologne, Germany on limited mixed media. This is for all concert goers to soak up the vibes again and for all those who couldn't make it to the concert to see them playing live! And believe us, this is a real experience, please enjoy this cross-section of songs - from old to new - and: it is recorded as a multitrack recording session for your listening pleasure.

A new tour as well as a new studio album is already in the planning and making, so watch out this space for more to come soon.

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Harry James

In Hi-Fi

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Soundsgood)

Max Roach

It's Time

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Balmat)

Anagrams

Blue Voices

25,99 €*

Resavoir Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Balmat co-founders Philip Sherburne and Albert Salinas have been fans of Shy Layers' lilting, Balearic pop for years, so when Shy Layers' JD Walsh asked us to listen to a set of demos he was working up with fellow Atlanta multi-instrumentalist Jeff Crompton, we jumped at the chance. And once we heard their work in progress, the decision was almost immediate: We have to release this. Together, Walsh and Crompton are Anagrams, and their debut album together, Blue Voices, might initially seem like a departure from Balmat's habitually electronic terrain. It's not ambient music, but it's also not not ambient music, at least to listeners in the right frame of mind. The two musicians, who met when Walsh moved from Brooklyn to Atlanta in 2016 and began collaborating a few years later, see the music in similarly ambiguous terms. "I like it because it's not jazz," jokes Crompton, a veteran and credentialed jazz player. "And JD likes it because it's jazz." Crompton is a musician (and former high-school band teacher) with deep roots in Georgia's improvised and experimental music scenes; his credits include shows with Eugene Chadbourne, a guest appearance with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and a collaboration with Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel's 12-hour drone performance at Knoxville's Big Ears. On Blue Voices he plays alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet, electric piano, and organ. Walsh has been releasing music as Shy Layers since 2015, when he started self-releasing on Bandcamp; the following year, Germany's Growing Bin packaged his first two EPs as a self-titled album, and in 2018, Tim Sweeney's Beats in Space label put out Shy Layers' sophomore album, Midnight Marker. Where those records channeled Walsh's playful harmonic instincts into wistful songwriting with tropical overtones, on Blue Voices he lets his experimental tendencies take the lead. Playing acoustic and electric guitars, electric lap steel, bass, Moog Matriarch, modular synth, and programmed drums, he concentrates his energies on richly textural layers and abstract assemblages of tone color. Across the album's 11 tracks, there are faint echoes of familiar touchstones: the atmospheric twang of Daniel Lanois' pedal steel on Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks; the mercurial modal runs of Ethio-jazz; the late-summer calm of Fuubutsushi; the versatility of players and composers like Patrick Shiroishi and Sam Gendel, who are asking similar questions about where jazz ends and some other, nameless territory begins. Mostly, though, what Blue Voices captures is the quixotic sound of two restless musical imaginations making it up as they go along, two voices discovering a shared language in a hitherto unexplored shade of blue.

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Resavoir

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (International Anthem)

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Liquid Love / What's The T?

Roy Ayers

7" | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Alim)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Red)

Dannie Richmond Quintet

Dionysius

56,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Lonnie Liston Smith Instrumentals Purple Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

Wajazz Legends: Jiro Inagaki - Selected By Yusuke Ogawa (Universounds)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Instrumentals Jid019 captures the musical alchemy produced at the Linear Labs Studio by producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. These instrumental recordings encapsulate the spirit of the Jazz Is Dead concert and recording series, celebrating the African-American art form known as jazz through improvisation, musical collaboration and authentic cross-generational and cross-cultural communication.

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Jiro Inagaki

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

36,99 €*

Soulnick Featuring Yusef Lateef

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Universounds, HMV Record Shop and 180g team up for an exceptional release in their highly acclaimed WaJazz series, to be out on Jiro Inagaki’s 90th birthday, October 3rd, 2023, celebrating the life and music of one of the most iconic Japanese jazz musicians of the last 60+ years. This is the ultimate collection of music from legendary saxophone player Jiro Inagaki and his Soul Media band, covering their 1968-1980 golden age, releasing as a spectacular gold vinyl double LP with extensive and detailed liner notes by Universounds’ Yusuke Ogawa, comments by Jiro Inagaki, and exclusive pics. 16 tracks of pure gold music spanning jazz, jazz-funk and jazz-rock, including an unreleased version of the track “Express” — first time on vinyl!

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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Doug Watkins

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Intermusic)

19,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Bad But Beautiful Verve By Request

Eartha Kitt

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dolphin Black Vinyl Edition

Greg Foat / Gigi Masin

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Strut)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded remotely during 2021-2022 the album took shape in the form of mutual compositions, gradually developed and embellished online. Final recording sessions took place at the majestic Chale Abbey Studios on the Isle Of Wight with Moses Boyd (drums), Tom Herbert (bass) and Siobhan Cosgrove (flute, clarinet) adding elements to several pieces. Tracks include the reflective, wistful single ‘Viento Calido’ and drifting ambient piece ‘Sabena’, a beautiful tribute to Gigi’s wife who sadly passed away during 2022.

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Miles Davis

Volume 1

22,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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My Favorite Things / Music Legends Collection

John Coltrane

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazzy Juice - A Fine Selection Of Rare Jazz Tunes

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Cosmic Disco Machine)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2014 | EU | Original (Irma)

Gazzara Plays Genesis

Play Me My Song

Release: 2014 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2019 | EU | Original (Kinship)

Anadol

Uzun Havalar

9,99 €*

Spiritczualic Enhancement Center

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Anadol's third album, Uzun Havalar, recorded on tape by Kinship, is now available online and cassette format.
Recorded and mixed in 2015 the album is built around three long synth tracks referring to the improvised unmetric folk songs “uzun hava” in middle eastern music. You can hear drummers laughing and playing guitars, composers howling, screaming, record collectors playing synths, actors mumbling and tuning in to the geography of Anadol's synth compositions.
Anadol is a traditional continuation of lone synth experimentalists like Bruce Haack and The Space Lady with their childlike curiosity for electronic sounds, pushing the boundaries of minimal equipment.
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Who Corrupted Our Wave, Back In 1969?

Tape | 2019 | EU | Original (Kinship)

9,99 €*

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Philophon)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

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

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Who Corrupted Our Wave, Back in 1969? is composed of tracks recorded live during a Sunday confusion at Berlin’s Klunkerkranich. Aimed at transferring the dub-laden substance of their debut at Fusion Festival, one week earlier, this sunset-session is a drive through dense traffic in psychonautic space. Hypersonic textures arise from layers of transmutative dialogues between seven instrumentalists. These musicians have gathered in the exiled Spiritczualic Enhancement Center, geared towards spontaneous pre-temporal alignment. A collective channeling of Free Beat sonic-organisms born from the ether, “Who Corrupted Our Wave, Back In 1969?” is a b-rave album producing an inter-era entanglement, empowered by the portals of a caravan traveling outside of time.
" If Woodstock had happened in an alien, technological advanced universe, this is probably how it would have sounded like but we might’ve never got to experience it. Fortunately, it was recorded this year in Berlin by seven illuminated musicians that created a timeless dialogue of textures, grooves and beats, which you can use as a post-hippie spaceship to take you wherever the fuck you want."
Gabriel Leașcu - The Attic
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Jimi Tenor

Vocalize My Luv

11,99 €*

Time Out / Time Further Out

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jimi Tenor delivers another 7" on Philophon. This time he teamed up with the two glorious gospel queens Florence Adooni and Lizzy Amaliyenga from Bolgatanga/Northern Ghana. This release is a first insight into the next album by Jimi on Philophon, which will be released later the year.
Vocalize My Luv is a charmingly presented lure for love. The secret of the song is that drummer Ekow Alabi Savage's upfront high-life beat is triggering a Jimi-operated Korg MS-20 bass synth. Man and machine are melting down into a light and sportive groove, which irresistibly invites you to do some frisky aerobic moves on the 3am dancefloor. Ki'igba is a classic Frafra gospel song by Alogte Oho, completed with some jubilating flute by master Jimi.

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Dave Brubeck

2LP | 2012 | UK | Original (Not Now)

Release: 2012 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Running Circle)

Error Subcutaneo

Temporada Ciclónica

19,99 €*

Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Error Subcutáneo are Mauro Ferreiro (electronics) and Gonzalo Frómeta (drums). Born under the sweltering sun of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, their music portrays the colder, more urban side of life in the Caribbean, where cacophonous violence and Cold War monoliths collide with dreams of a better tomorrow. The duo take elements of hip-hop, modular electronics, island syncretism, and bebop to twist and distort contemporary narratives on music composition, representing the greater movement of Latin American resistance directly from its epicentre.

The tracks on Temporada Ciclónica fracture and scatter, synths detuned at will, the clatter of drums powering through the destabilised structures of the individual pieces. Gilles Peterson's well known love of the more avant-garde edges of jazz have made him an admirer of the duo and it's not hard to ascertain why. Their collaboration with fellow DR artist Rita Indiana on 'El Perseguidor' displays her authoritative voice as the dialogue between chaos and focus. Confusion, free jazz rage, discord and an overarching sense of threat colour this record.

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Ultimate Collection

LP | 2024 | WW | Reissue (Not Now)

Release: 2024 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Good Friday Blues Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

The Modest Jazz Trio

LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Let Freedom Ring Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Jackie McLean

LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Bird Of A Thousand Voices DeluxeSet

Tigran Hamasyan

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

51,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Uniri

Infinite Reflections

Live At London Jazz Festival 2022

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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

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

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Guido Spannocchi

Tape | 2024 | UK | Original (Audioguido)

10,99 €*

The Cry! Limited Contemporary Records

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Prince Lasha Quintet

LP | 2024 | Original (Craft)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Astigmatic)

Tomasz Stanko Quintet

Wooden Music II

13,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Concord)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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

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

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Kenny G

Innocence

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (La Sape)

Godtet

+Strings

29,99 €*

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

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Julius Eastman

Femenine

41,99 €*