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The Best Of Ray Charles: The Atlantic Years Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The 1994 compilation featuring Charles’ Atlantic era hits such as “What'd I Say, Pt. 1 & 2”, “The Right Time”, and “I've Got a Woman”.

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Ray Charles

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Atlantic)

46,99 €*

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chance And Fly / B Bro Super 8

The Baker Brothers

7" | 2021 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

You Don't Have To Live In Pain

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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UK jazz-funk band "The Baker Brothers", one of the biggest hits in their career "Chance And Fly" with the participation of Average White Band Hamish Stuart is released as vinyl for the first time!

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Teeth Agency

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

Ricky Peterson / Peterson Brothers

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Teeth Agency is musician Jesse Hackett and artist Mariano Chavez – “lizard lounge jazz and French noir sleaze with sinking ship piano improvisations in underwater organ suits.

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Under The Radar

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Leopard)

19,79 €* 21,99 € -10%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Regener Pappik Busch (Element Of Crime)

Ask Me Now

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Matthew Halsall

Salute To The Sun

Archie Shepp & Jason Moran

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Matthew Halsall unveils new band and announces 'Salute to the Sun' his new album on Gondwana Records.

Composer, trumpeter, producer, DJ and founder of Gondwana Records, Matthew Halsall has always worn many hats. But at the heart of everything that he does Halsall is first and foremost an artist and a musician. A trumpeter whose unflashy, soulful playing radiates a thoughtful beauty and a composer and band-leader who has created his own rich sound world. A sound that draws on the heritage of British jazz, the spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, as well as world music and electronica influences, and even modern art and architecture, to create something uniquely his own. A music that is rooted in Northern England but draws on global inspirations.

Salute to the Sun is his first album as a leader since Into Forever (2015) and marks the debut of his new band. A hand-picked ensemble featuring some of Manchester's finest young musicians: Matt Cliffe flute & saxophone, Maddie Herbert harp, Liviu Gheorghe piano, Alan Taylor drums and Jack McCarthy percussion as well as long-time Halsall collaborator, bassist, Gavin Barras who has been at the heart of Halsall's bands for over a decade. For Matthew it was important to have a band based locally and able, pre-Covid, to meet and play each week, and who also performed a sold-out monthly basement session at Yes in Manchester. The album draws energy from these sessions and inspiration from themes and ideas that have inspired Halsall through the years (on albums such as Oneness, Fletcher Moss Park and When the World Was One) ideas of ecology, the environment and harmony with nature.

"I feel Salute to the Sun is a positive earthy album. I wanted to create something playful but also quite primitive, earthy and organic that connected to the sounds in nature. I was listening to lush ambient field recordings of tropical environments such as jungles and rainforests and found myself drawn to percussive atmospheric sounds which replicated what I was hearing (bells / shakers / chimes / rain sticks) and I started to experiment with more wooden percussive instruments such as kalimba and marimba".

Salute to the Sun features lush wholly improvised tunes inspired by ambient rainforest and jungle field recordings, deeply soulful tunes built around hypnotic harp and kalimba patterns, deep Strata-East inspired spiritual jazz grooves and some of Halsall's most beautiful playing and inspiring healing melodies yet recorded.

The album was recorded at the band's weekly sessions, using Halsall's own recording set-up, giving the recordings a relaxed vibe and unforced energy that really lets the music breath. The album is also very much a family affair as Halsall's brother Daniel Halsall, artistic director of Gondwana Records, was an important presence at the sessions and co-produced the album. It is also his memorable artwork that adorns the cover of Salute to the Sun, an album beautifully designed by legendary designer Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic, who also created the covers for the recent archival releases Oneness, Sending My Love and Colour Yes and is one of Halsall's favourite designers. Together Daniel Halsall and Ian Anderson have designed all of Matthew's seven albums to date, so it felt extra-special to bring them together for, Salute to the Sun, an album that Halsall was determined to present in the very best way possible. The album was mixed with another long-time collaborator, George Atkins at 80 Hertz in Manchester, who works tirelessly with Halsall to perfect the sound and was mastered by noted engineer Peter Beckmann who brings an added depth to the sound specially around the bass notes as well as Halsall's trumpet. The magnificent double vinyl was cut as a Half Speed master by Barry Grint at Alchemy Mastering for the best possible analogue experience.

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Let My People Go

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Archieball)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Heavenly)

Caixa Cubo

Angela

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Charles Lloyd & The Marvels

Tone Poem Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

50,34 €* 52,99 € -5%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jakarta)

Gianni Brezzo

The Awakening

North East Ska Jazz Orchestra

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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Stompin' & Rollin'

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Brixton)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Label Bleu)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinyl Lp Release Of The Debut Album Of Italian Maestros North East Ska*Jazz Orchestra, Originally Released In Cd Format In 2015.Nesjo Delivers In This First Album, Stompin' & Rollin', 10 Remakes Of Jazz And Swing Classics Performed In The Jamaican Style Of The 60's. From Original Ska To Rocksteady And Reggae, The Young Big Band From Triveneto (North East Italy) Conveys In This Work Energetic Enthusiasm For Jamaican Music, Stylishly Enriched By The Coolness Of The Dance Music Of The Golden Era Of Swing. Stompin' & Rollin' Features Two Outstanding Collaborations: Mr. T-Bone (Africa Unite, Bluebeaters) And Olly Riva (Shandon, Olly Riva & The Soul Rockets) Who Join Forces With The Voices Of Freddy Frenzy, Rosa Mussin And Michela Grena, The Ten-Piece Brass Section And The Sound Rhythm Base Of This Young Big Band. The Album Was Recorded At Studio Jork In Koper (Slovenia) In March 2015 And Mixed And Mastered In The Volcano Lounge, Sherman Oaks (California) By Brian Dixon (Ex The Aggrolites).

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Henri Texier

Chance

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (We Are Busy Bodies)

The Drive

Can You Feel It

30,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mathias Modica Presents Kraut Jazz Futurism Volume 2

Mathias Modica

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Kryptox)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Cuneiform)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Kraut Jazz Futurism compilation shows what's cookin' in the new German Jazz scene. Young German bands and a few of the international musicians working in Berlin now. Fresh artists that combine Jazz, Krautrock, Afro, Hip Hop and Electronica in a new way. The first volume of the compilation came out last year and was described by The Wire as "... a re-drawn map of underground Berlin. Refreshingly new, eccentric, badassed and sometimes funny." This 2nd part goes further. Similar to Gilles Peterson's "We Out Here" compilation, where he shows mainly the new hip english Jazz artists, on Kraut Jazz Futurism, Kryptox records head honcho Mathias "Kapote" Modica puts together what's hot in the new club jazz scene in Germany. And there is a lot cookin' in Berlin right now. Kraut Jazz Futurism comes out on Kryptox. Sublabel of Gomma & Toy Tonics records.

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Thumbscrew

Never Is Enough

47,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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DJ Kicks Black Vinyl Edition

Special Request

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (!K7)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (De Rap Winkel)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

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

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Special Request continues his impeccable run of form with a typically fervent entry into the DJ-Kicks mix series. His adventurous 25 track mix takes in personal favourites, new school classics and of course a selection of his own brand new and exclusive edits, dubs and reworks next to some overlooked gems. Leeds based Paul Woolford dares to go where few others do. He can do face-melting underground bangers, peak time piano anthems, ambient cinematics or chart climbing crossover hits. What unites his work as Special Request across labels like Houndstooth and R&S, though, is precision engineering, but never at the expense of real, raw emotion and visceral impact. He is an artist who very much pours his heart into everything he does, and has been on such a prolific run in recent years that it has been impossible to keep abreast of all his many projects. Even in this mix, he hints at yet more new sides and sounds. As always with Special Request, this is an emotional, full spirited ride through the musical mind of one of the most accomplished artists of the day.

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Javier Santiago

Phoenix

33,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2021 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Nimbus

Nezarai / Free Yourself

18,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (De W.E.R.F.)

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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P-vine are very proud of releasingthis EP as new one of Groove Diggers series. Nimbus, a local student band in Mecosta, Michigan, is one of the highest peaks of self released AOR/Mellow Fusion/Blue eyed soul! This 7 inch is cutted out from the only work of Nimbus "Children of the Earth" which was released as private pressing vinyl and distributed just a few copies in 1980.

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Grand Picture Palace

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Papillon Jaune)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Grand Picture Palace is a jazz quintet and a string quartet that blend different worlds together led by Anneleen Boehme (LABtrio).

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Airelle Besson Quartet

Try!

21,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2021 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

Kenny Cox

Lost My Love

40,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Disquiet (Kurzmann / Jernberg / Brandlmayr / Williamson)

Disquiet

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Trost)

Jakob Bro / Arve Henriksen /Jorge Rossy

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Mesmerising Performance!Christof Kurzmann: Lloopp, Vocalssofia Jernberg: Vocalsmartin Brandlmayr: Drumsjoe Williamson: Double Bassdisquiet Is A Special Quartet That Came Together On The Stage Of The Konfrontationen Festival In 2018. Initially Formed And Lead By Austrian Electronic Musician Christof Kurzmann, The Project Is Reflecting The Difficult Political Situation Of The Refugee Movements To Europe - And How Politicians Deal With It In A Selfish And Unhumanitarian Way. Christof Kurzmann, Sofia Jernberg, Martin Brandlmayr (Radian) And Joe Williamson Reinterpret And Process In Quiet Waves Of Emotions And Thoughtful Lyrics - Concentrated Music Between Serenity And Sheer Beauty, Esp When Kurzmann And Jernberg Sing A Duet With Joe Mcphees Lyrics"A Concert Is Also An Artistic Polyphony Of Voices And Temperaments, And There Is Something Special Going On Here. It Is In The Way These Musicians Balance Abstraction With Direction. It Is In The Way Martin Brandlmayr Carefully Uses Those Thin Sticks And That Extended Drum Kit, And Joe Williamson Thatbow, The Strings And Body Of The Bass, To Create T His Ever Transforming, Detailed Rhythmical And Texturalflow. It Is In The Way Sofia Jernberg Uses Her Voice In The Subtlest Of Ways, Her Breath, Soft Moans And Occasionally Voluminous Siren Call Joining The Four-Way Discussion. Or In The Way Christof Kurzmann Guides This Quartet With His Lloopp Software, A Restless Web Of Textures, Mirror And Echo Effects, Sonar Pulses, Discreet And Alienating Hums. Even In Its Quietest Moments, There Is A Tangible Tension At Work, A Disquiet Perhaps, But One Affected By An Untamable Beauty And Iridescent Poetry." Guy Peters, 2020

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Uma Elmo

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joe Lovano / Marylin Crispell / Carmen Castaldi

Garden Of Expression

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (ECM)

Shai Maestro

Human

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (ESP Disk)

Henry Grimes

The Call

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

Promises Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sam: Pharoah...
Pharoah: Huh...?
Sam: Were you asleep? I’m sorry...
Pharoah: No no... I was listening... and dreaming... and listening to music
in my head...
Sam: Oh wow... sorry.
Pharoah: Many times, people think I might be asleep... but in fact, I am just
listening to music in my head. I’m always listening... to the sounds around
me... and playing, in my mind... and sometimes I dream.
Sam: What were you dreaming about?
Pharoah: I’m on a ship. In the ocean. Bears coming around smoking cigars.
The bears are singing, ‘We have the music. We have what you’re looking for.’
* * *
Pharoah: How you like that take, Sam?
Sam: It’s cool. I think the bit in the middle, where it stops again...I think
you can hear...We were both kind of confused. I like it as well because it
sounds like two musicians that are trying to guide each other.
Pharoah: I think that’s it right there. It came out different. It came out good
though.
Sam: You happy?
Pharoah: Yeah, I’m cool with it.
Sam: Okay. Yeah, I think your playing is beautiful.

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Promises Indie Exclusive 180g Vinyl Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

30,99 €*

Vinylart - Nina Simone Picture Disc Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nina Simone

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Brooklyn Butterfly Sounds)

The Rongetz Foundation

Velvet Bullet

Harum Ghulam Barabbas / Alaeddin Adlernest

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Rongetz Foundation is back with a new album named Velvet Bullet. The forceful music of the adapting sextet is generating a wide range of sensations. From the punchy « Sun Strike » to the hypnotizing « Optophobia », auditors will be able to bounce and dance to « Velvet bullet », « Whirling Dervish » and « Baroque Buffoon ». Rongetz acts as caster in chief and brings in some of the most promising talents of the New York jazz scene. Simon Moullier on Vibes is already recognized by Herbie Hancock and Quincy jones as one of the best musician of his generation, same goes for Jonathan Barber (Drums) Tivon Pennicott (Tenor Sax) and Alexander Claffy on Acoustic Bass. Also featuring on the album is a Nuyorican gem that Rongetz discovered in Manhattan few years ago, Carlos Jimenez (Flute). Keita Oggawa (Percussion) from Snarky Puppy has also joined the team on two tracks. Elegant and powerful, as demonstrated by the breath taking opening piece « Sun Strike », the Velvet Bullet will be out February 19th 2021 and is surely not to be dodged.

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The Breath Of The Masters

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Black-Monk)

19,49 €* 25,99 € -25%

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Edition)

Gretchen Parlato

Flor

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | US | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Bernice

Eau De Bonjourno

Essential Works: 1952-1962

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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New release by Canadian sweethearts referred to in the press as “Toronto’s ever-evolving backing band”
This LP “openly plays with the shape of a pop song,” drawing on the band members’ backgrounds in jazz, subverting rhythmic formulas, and resting in grooves that sit just outside of
The album’s sound is experimental in its truest definition, chopped up like musique concrete and then delicately placed back together with the loving touch of a scrapbook collagist

Bernice is the experimental pop vessel of musician/songwriter Robin Dann and her longtime collaborators Thom Gill (keyboards, guitar), Philippe Melanson (e-percussion and drums), Daniel Fortin (bass) and Felicity Williams (voice). Together and apart, they have performed with Martha Wainwright, Andy Shauf, Lido Pimienta, Bahamas, Knower, and Beverly Glenn Copeland among many others, which led to them being referred to in the press as “Toronto’s ever-evolving backing band.”

In their own right, however, they have repeatedly proved to be far more than the sum of their considerable parts. Bernice’s Polaris Prize-nominated 2018 LP 'Puff: In The Air Without A Shape' received major international attention, described as an “analytical, self-dissecting monument to ephemerality” by The New York Times, and “a fascinating musical conversation” that blends pop and R&B influences with C86 aesthetics by Pitchfork, alongside high praise from outlets like NPR, Fader, and Stereogum, and many more.

Nearly three years on from that release (for Bernice a rapid turnaround by comparison to the seven-year gap between their 2011 debut and Puff), the band return with their third full-length, Eau de Bonjourno, out March 5th from Telephone Explosion and figureeight records. It marks their first collaboration with producer Shahzad Ismaily, the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist who has worked with artists as varied as Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, John Zorn, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. While their genre reconstruction remains distinctly Bernice, Dann’s lyrics bring a newfound focus to storytelling in the present moment, compassionately meeting ourselves where we are, and finding joy in spaces that are familiar but ever changing.

Eau de Bonjourno, according to Dann, “openly plays with the shape of a pop song,” drawing on the band members’ backgrounds in jazz, subverting rhythmic formulas, and resting in grooves that sit just outside of predictable. Instead of letting instruments take extended solos, the tone is set on opener “Groove Elation” with brief blurts of synthesized sax, patient passages of space, or clusters of beats, tenderly held together by Dann and Williams’ intimate vocals. The album’s sound is experimental in its truest definition, chopped up like musique concrete and then delicately placed back together with the loving touch of a scrapbook collagist.

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John Coltrane

2LP | 2021 | Original (Masters Of Jazz)

28,99 €*

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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John Dwyer, Ted Byrnes, Brad Caulkins, Tom Dolas & Greg Coates

Endless Garbage

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Castle Face)

Irena And Vojtech Havlovi

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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“Walk the dog. Exercise. Make art.’The mind is happy when the body is.’ Things I can potentially fill my days with if I am stuck at home for months on end…Then, one day, I hear a frenetic, free drummer playing in his garage a few blocks from me. And I think ‘interesting’. I stand outside his garage staring at the wall, like a fool, for a minute, then decide to leave a note on the car parked there. This is how I ended up meeting and working with Ted Byrnes. He wasn’t creeped out, and he ended up sending me a pile of truly spontaneous drums recordings from the carport to work with. I decided to have every musician come in one at at time and just take a wild pass at their track over the drums. None of these people had ever met or played together. I was the connecting thread. I scratched the surface initially with electric bass, saxophone, guitars, cuica, synthesizers, flute and effects, but soon realized I would need heavy hitters to make this place habitable. “Greg Coates, upright bass expressionist extraordinaire, hacked through the dense weeds, vines and frayed cabling. He lays the map out and makes breathing room. Space to swing a cat. Tom Dolas (keys), my often foil, came in and began tip-toeing through the rubble and refuse. Dotting the layout with flecks of light, flights of fancy and potential tangential trajectories. Then the finisher, Brad Caulkins on horns. As always, Brad came in like grace itself, scanned the floor for food, and huffed and puffed and blew the house down. He takes a bruiser situation and lends it some warmth and hospitality, old school. “After I spent a bit of time mixing and editing this down to a palatable offering I couldn’t help but think about human consumption. ...Endless Garbage seemed a fitting title. A cacophonous and glorious sketch of ourselves. For fans of Albert Ayler, ECM records, Gong, improvisation, sustainability and consumption” —John Dwyer

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Melodies In The Sand

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Melody As Truth)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Dualismo Sound)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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Melody As Truth present “Melodies In The Sand”, a collection of works from Czech artists Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi. The husband-and-wife duo began working together in the mid 80’s as part of experimental ensemble Capella Antiqua e Moderna, a unique association of musicians whose repertoire spanned various styles of European classical music. With an inventive and unorthodox approach to both historical and modern compositional techniques and interpretive procedures, the Havel’s have steadfastly developed a unique and musically autonomous language which continues to expand to this day. Spanning their early work in Capella Antique e Moderna to recent pieces recorded for Viola De Gamba, ‘Melodies In The Sand’ is presented to the listener with the simple aim of shining a light on these incredible musicians. Their work has within it the ability to penetrate and enrich the innermost corners of a perceptive human soul, a gift which they share with sincerity and humbleness.

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Kaymany & Asestar

14,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (De W.E.R.F.)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The city of Rome once again confirms the excessive abundance of records produced for the music industry, television and, even, shopping malls. The mistery that surrounds the musicians involved in these sessions makes the journey even more interesting and tense. “Was really that drummer involved in that record?” - “I don’t know” or, of course, “I don’t remember…”. Certainly, a new distinctive brick has now been added to the Italian Jazz-Fusion heritage.

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Don Kapot

Hooligan

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Vampisoul)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Don Kapot is an unhinged and idiosyncratic mix of punk, jazz, afrobeat and all this with a hint of spirituality.Don Kapot has as much in common with experimental rock bands like Deerhoof or King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard as with adventurous jazz trios like those of Ornette Coleman.

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Adalberto Cevasco

Pajaros Electricos

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Masterworks)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Former Member Of Rodolfo Alchourrón And Gato Barbieri's Bands, Cevasco's First Solo Effort Is A Combination Of Fusion Jazz With A Pinch Of Unexpected Brazilian Flavours And Electronic Sounds That Now, More Than 30 Years After The Original Release Of The Album, Still Evoke A Refreshing Feel Of Modernity In The Same Vein As Many Other Experimental Argentine And Uruguayan Artists From The Same Era. Includes Guest Appearances From Artists Such As Litto Nebbia Or Ruben Rada. Reissued On Vinyl For The First Time, Including Insert With Liner Notes And Previously Unseen Photos. Details: Few Musicians Can Boast Of Having Played With "The Greatest" Without Some Eyebrows To Be Raised. The Bass Of Adalberto Cevasco Has Been Heard In Multiple Concerts And Recording Sessions Of Artists As Diverse As The Spanish Divas Rocío Jurado And Isabel Pantoja, Tango Genius Astor Piazzolla Or The Cream Of The Argentine Jazz Scene -From Pocho Lapouble, Gustavo Kerestezachi, Rubén López Furst Or Andrés Boiarsky To The Great Gato Barbieri- With The Latter, As Part Of A Dream Band That Included Artists Like Nana Vasconcelos As Well As Other Argentines Such As Lapouble Or Domingo Cura, He Recorded Two Fundamental Pieces In The Impulse! Label Catalogue In Sessions Held In Argentina And Los Angeles And Also Toured Across Various Countries. The Daily Sold-Out Shows At The Regina Theater In Buenos Aires And Their Overwhelming Performance At Montreux Festival Are Still Well Remembered. It Is Therefore Out Of Question That Adalberto Cevasco Belongs To That Top-Level League Of Musicians Whose Talent Has Also Contributed To Enhance Those Who Accompany Them. The History Of This Album Begins With An Encounter. Adalberto Cevasco Joins Rodolfo Alchurrón's Jazz-Funk Project Sanata Y Clarificación As Bassist And Meets Litto Nebbia, Who Is Invited To Sing Along. Some Years On, When Nebbia's Melopea Record Company Was Developing, He Would Receive A Cassette With A Collection Of Demos Recorded By Cevasco Over The Years. Some Of...

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Till Brönner & Bob James

On Vacation

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Tzadik)

John Zorn & Jesse Harris

Songs For Petra

39,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Label Bleu)

Michel Portal

Mp85

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Deep Sound Learning (1993-2000)

Jimi Tenor

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Bureau B)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The New Lady Llama Light Blue Marbled Vinyl Edition

Steiger

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP on light blue marbled vinyl. Steiger eagerly explore the outer margins of jazz and dive into other universes (contemporary music, electronica, pop, free improvisation), yet remain faithful to the genre's long-standing core principle; that of a flexible transformation.

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Miles Davis

So What

15,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hanamichi - The Final Studio Recording

Masabumi Kikuchi

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Red Hook)

30,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two Roses Feat. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Avishai Cohen

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Naive)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Time Is The Enemy)

Ze In The Clouds

Magical

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Magical is a fusion of a dozen genres, where every song opens up like a Russian doll, splitting into real songs within the song. Hundreds of details are part of the different sonic worlds in which each song progresses. Magical is no doubt hard to decipher for very good musicians, but it’s easy to dance to for very normal people. Since the orchestral introduction of the first song your senses will be automatically taken on a journey between irony and sadness, emotional intensity and vibing, extreme nerding and introspection. Magical is a dream that, through sound illusion, makes you meditate on the meaning of life, death and love, three fundamental topics in the album lyrics. The album is a leap into a future where no tradition is missing. Just a perfect way to discover the surprising world of Ze in the Clouds.

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Norah Jones

'Til We Meet Again

38,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Music From Memory)

The Zenmenn

Enter The Zenmenn

Bring Backs Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Returning with another debut album for 2021, Music From Memory are delighted to introduce a new band, The Zenmenn, with their first ever release ‘Enter The Zenmenn’. Whilst little about the band is made known, their work is described by writer Winton Rousseauas an “experiment in harmonic convergence emerging from a deep respect for cosmic symmetry and a resistance to the prevailing Zeitgeist.” ‘Enter The Zenmenn’ sounds as old as it sounds new, as organic as it is electric, as harmonic as it is rhythmic, and the album’s fusion of different palettes, colours, tempos, instruments and sources offer a harmonious balance and unity that already feels like the perfect soundtrack to a better world. In a time of what they see as spiritual neglect, it offers a “human kind of stillness” through the “dualistic fusions of complexity and simplicity, mystery and clarity and East and West”. Mfm054 will be released in LP and digital format, comes with artwork by Bráulio Amado, and is expected to be out on April 12th 2021.

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Alfa Mist

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Anti)

CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Anti)

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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Alfa Mist

Bring Backs

The Fellowship Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Joseph Shabason

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Western Vinyl)

The Fellowship Transparent Sky Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Across eight tracks that mesh spacious, jazz-laced composition with fourth-world and adult-contemporary tonality, Toronto saxophonist Joseph Shabason sketches an auditory map of the transcendence, unity, conditioning, and eventual renunciation of his upbringing in an Islamic and Jewish dual-faith household. The resulting album The Fellowship bears the name of the insular Islamic community Shabason's traditionally Jewish parents belonged to from a time before he was even born; a mental and spiritual push-pull which continued shaping, even controlling, his outlook well into his adulthood. As a listening experience The Fellowship follows a chronological arc that spans three generations covering his parents' early lives, his own spiritual and physical adolescence, and his subsequent struggle to eschew the problematic habituations of such a conflicted past. On The Fellowship, as on prior albums that bear his name, Joseph Shabason does what only the best instrumental music makers can: tell a story with emotional clarity that conveys even the subtlest of feelings, all without singing a single word. As wordless as ever-- with as complex a theme as ever-- this album may be his most emotionally articulate yet. Most importantly, those lost in the woods of repression and self-doubt that organized religion can be at its worst now have The Fellowship to help guide them into a softer light. R.I.Y.L. Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laraaji, Robert Rich, Harold Budd

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Joseph Shabason

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Western Vinyl)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Leopard)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jost Nickel

The Check In

21,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jazzland)

Benjamin Mork

Mechanical Piano

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, Vincent Epplay

Exterior Lux

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Agogo)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Jac Berrocal is a 1946-born musician (trumpet player), poet and sometime film actor who came of age in the ‘70s Paris improv scene, where the boundaries between music, art and theatre were porous and begging to be breached. Inspired by bebop, chanson, free jazz, beat poetry, early rock ‘n roll and myriad Eastern influences, and with an iconoclastic, anything-goes approach to instrumentation and technique that would later align him with post-punk sensibilities, Berrocal blazed an eccentric and unstoppable trail across the underground throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, both solo and as part of the Catalogue group he co-founded. During this time his uproarious performances routinely wound up jazz and rock audiences alike, but earned the admiration of many musicians: Steven Stapleton invited him to perform on two Nurse With Wound albums, and other notable collaborators in his career include Sunny Murray, Lizzy Mercier-Descloux, Lol Coxhill, Yvette Horner and James Chance. In the 90s his protean achievements were celebrated on the Fatal Encounters compilation, but far from slowing down in the autumn of his life, Berrocal has maintained an extraordinary work-rate, keeping studio dates with Pascal Comelade, Telectu and Jaki Liebezeit, among others.

Now Berrocal has found the perfect foil in David Fenech and Vincent Epplay, two fearlessly inventive improvisers, composers and catalysts who create challenging, acutely modernist yet historically aware settings – wrought out of synthesis, guitars, computer processing, field recordings and unorthodox percussions – for Berrocal’s unmistakeable voice and breathtakingly lyrical horn sound to flourish.

Fenech cut his teeth in the mail-art scene of the early ‘90s, leading the Peu Importe collective in Grenoble. His 2000 solo debut was recently reissued by Felix Kubin’s Gagarin label, and he has also worked as a software developer at Ircam, and played with Jad Fair, Tom Cora, Rhys Chatham and James Plotkin; in 2011 he formed a trio with Berrocal and Ghedalia Tazartes for the Superdisque LP.

Epplay is a highly regarded sonic and visual artist with a particular interest in aleatory composition and autonomous pieces, concrète, and the puckish reappropriation of vintage sound and film material, with dozens of published works to his name on labels like Planam/Alga Marghen and PPT/Stembogen. Exterior Lux is the third part in the series of albums and was again mastered by the legendary Noel Summerville.

"It’s like The Bonzo Dog Band meeting Scott Walker, with Codona booked for the interval music" (Brian Morton - The Wire)

"Jazz, Dub, Musique concrete and a Gallic punk spirit, coalesce into a sound so potent it is a wonder it hasn’t been done before" (Rewind Forward)

"An eclectic mix of folk anarchy, West Coast jazz cool, African kalimba, French poetry and studio dub. All the beauty and terror of jazz at its most lawless." (Andrew Male - Mojo)

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Rolf Zielke

Beaches In Your Soul

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Nonesuch)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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New album by jazz pianist & composer Rolf Zielke on Agogo. "Beaches In Your Soul" is a reflection of Contemporary Jazz, Latin, Brazilian Jazz and music of the 'Middle East: The pianist Rolf Zielke has been a constant in the German Jazz scene for many years. The spectrum of his work, bands and projects is huge and he keeps surprising us with new ideas and concepts.

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Laurie Anderson

Big Science

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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CD | 2021 | UK | Original (Mr Bongo)

Ian Carr

Belladonna

14,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Armando Trovajoli

OST Il Vuoto

Kurt Edelhagen & His Orchestra

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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The Unreleased WDR Jazz Recordings

3LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | UK | Original (KingUnderground)

Other Mirror

Archie Shepp / Joachim Kühn

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Other Mirror debut reflects the band's long-standing rapport together. It often feels like there is a conversation happening within the music between the old friends. Their unconventional approach to composing adds a familiar flavor to each track on their self-titled LP. We are proud to have Other Mirror making their debut on KingUnderground, we hope that you will consider doing a feature, premiere, or review on the album.

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Wo!Man

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Archieball)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Edition)

Eyolf Dale

Being

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Act Music)

David Helbock

The New Cool

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen

Live Recordings 2019-2020 Colored Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The dynamic duo of tenor saxophonist Timo Lassy and drummer Teppo Mäkynen return with a double LP of live recordings captured in 2019 and 2020. The We Jazz Records release "Live Recordings 2019-2020" follows the duo's 2019 LP which was shortlisted for "Jazz Album Of the Year" at Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Awards. While the studio album versions were studies in improvisational brevity, the live album lets the long-time collaborators really let loose and build memorable sonic narratives around the compositions. The album is produced and edited by Teppo Mäkynen, also known as a sought-after producer with the knack for looking at the big picture.

From the subtle minimalism of "Fallow" via the ambient of "Aero" to the riff-heavy groove of "Calling James", Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen breathe their music as one unit, building it based on a mutual trust as fellow musicians. Their duo shows have quickly become celebrated examples of what a long history of playing together can enable on stage when paired with the right mindset and a shared musical goal. This live album follows the ethos of both documenting what's happening and expanding on what was captured in the studio earlier.

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V.A.

Led Zeppelin In Jazz

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (BMM Records)

NCY Milky Band

Burn'IN

21,99 €*

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Jazz Is Dead)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Highly recommended!

All tracks written & performed by NCY Milky Band Recorded & produced at BMM Land Studio (Nancy) by Le Serveur All tracks mixed by Romain Clisson at Durango Studio (Paris) except Love Alert mixed by Le Serveur Mastered by Damien Bolo at Spectrum Studio (Nantes)

Artwork & Sleeve design by Corentin Ohlmann Photography by Louis Perruchaud

Special thanks to Joe for the trust he has given throughout the years. Big up to Marl for his support, fun energy and kindness. High five to Adri & Hùng for their nice playing skills & ideas. Thanks to Julie, Samy, Genshu, Achille, Sim, Marie for their honest listening. Thanks to the creative heads, Pol, Perrin, Pilax, Drio & Cosh. Huge thanks to Ched for his smooth medicine & cheese. Thanks to Thibaud at Nancy Jazz Pulsations & Clément at Limitrophe Production for giving us time and attention. And finally, big up to all the people who will give this a listen and spread the burn!

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Adrian Younge

The American Negro

38,99 €*

GGP/RMX Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The American Negro is an unapologetic critique, detailing the systemic and malevolent psychology that afflicts people of color. This project dissects the chemistry behind blind racism, using music as the medium to restore dignity and self-worth to my people. It should be evident that any examination of black music is an examination of the relationship between black and white America. This relationship has shaped the cultural evolution of the world and its negative roots run deep into our psyche. Featuring various special guests performing over a deeply soulful, elaborate orchestration, The American Negro reinvents the black native tongue through this album and it’s attendant short film (TAN) and 4-part podcast (invisible Blackness). The American Negro - both as a collective experience and as individual expressions - is insightful, provocative and inspiring and should land at the center of our ongoing reckoning with race, racism and the writing of the next chapter of American history.

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GoGo Penguin

CD | 2021 | EU | Original

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cooked up in the Blue Note Lab, RMX presents last year’s band-defining masterpiece, GoGo Penguin, re-imagined through the filter of some of the world’s finest producers and remixers.

For RMX the idea was both simple and inspired; commission a remix of every track from last year’s album and present a total re-imagination of the record, a remix, or as the band title it, a RMX.

In the end they went one better; with a remix of every track (and two of one) plus a remix of the track Petit_a, which was originally released only in Japan before surfacing on their Live from Studio 2 digital EP.

The idea behind RMX was also the catalyst for a remarkably inspired collaboration. The Manchester trio's music has always drawn heavily on electronica (alongside jazz, indie and classical influences) and so commissioning ten of their favourite artists to rework their music made perfect sense - and the results are spectacular. One of the very best remix projects you will hear anywhere.

Amongst the many highlights are Squarepusher’s thumping remix of F Maj Pixie, alongside Japanese producers Cornelius and Yosi creating sublime new landscapes with the band’s music on Kora and Embers. James Holden assembles an epic synth odyssey around Totem and Portico Quartet produce a sympathetic reworking of Don’t Go. Band faves Clark and Nathan Fake produce inimitable reworkings as does noted French producer Rone. While American producer Machine Drum turns Atomised into dance floor friendly ‘belter’ which is also the first single. Finally, the band have not forgotten their hometown - Manchester is well represented, with remixes from elder statesman and dance music legend Graham Massey (808 state) and new discovery Shunya, whose enigmatic reworking of To The Nth almost steals the record.

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600v Aka Funk Yeti

Funky Grooves Pt 1

12,74 €* 14,99 € -15%

Klaus Doldinger / Passport

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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All the instruments composed, played, recorded and arranged by 600v. No loops or any samples from other tracks. all the studio job, mix, mastering by 600v.

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The First 50 Years Of Passport

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Warner)

36,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Our Swimmer)

Billy Harper

Black Saint

10" | 2021 | EU | Original (Rubyworks)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Billy Harper is one of the great tenor saxophonists in the post-Coltrane mold. Originally from Houston, TX and with a degree from the venerable University of North Texas College of Music, Harper emerged on the New York City jazz scene in the late 1960s performing with Art Blakey, Max Roach, Lee Morgan and others. Known for his soulful and propulsive tone, Harper was already a highly regarded and prolific session man before the release of his debut album as a leader on the cult favorite Strata-East label in 1973. Recorded in 1975, Black Saint was the second album for Billy Harper as bandleader and is the most acclaimed and fully realized of his long career. The inaugural release of the Italian label Black Saint – to which the album lent its name – is comprised entirely of Harper compositions; the peaceful and subdued opener “Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!,” the swinging and fiery “Croquet Ballet” and the side-long epic “Call Of The Wild And Peaceful Heart.” Harper’s group features trumpeter Virgil Jones - a graduate of Roland Kirk’s mid-60s groups and session player for McCoy Tyner, Charles Tolliver and others - along with Joe Bonner on piano, David Friesen on bass and Malcom Pinson on drums. Black Saint is too melodic and swinging to be free jazz but too forward-thinking to be described as modal post-bop; Harper’s advanced compositional sense and galvanic tenor work make this an album of pure fire music. This is a beautiful album back into print on its original format for the first time in over 40 years.

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Jazz EP

15,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tony Allen

There Is No End

33,99 €*

R+R=Live Blue Note Club New York 2018

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The wisdom of Tony Allen's words was as deep as his grooves, and these two sentences, which announce the dozen songs that follow, truly capture the spirit of There is No End. Tony’s motivating concept and desire was to work with younger artists, and especially the new generation of rappers, and give them voice in a time of global turmoil when music has never been more important – not necessarily as a "weapon" for the future in the manner of Fela's violently political songs, but also as medicine to heal a fractured world today.

For all those who knew him, he was a deeply spiritual man whose life's mission was not just to create a new musical language, but to pass it on to subsequent generations. In thinking back on the incredible process of creating this album without Tony physically present to guide him, producer Vincent Taeger remarked that his friend and mentor "was a teacher without speaking... a drummer and a guardian, with a great artistic vision and that vision filled the songs even after he had left us." Ben Okri, like everyone else involved in this valedictory album, had a very similar experience, declaring in awe that "this man could have lived another 150 years and kept creating new worlds. He had become the master shaman of his art. He knew himself and his mind. He wanted the album to be open to the energies of a new generation... but like a great mathematician or scientist who found a code of for a new world, with just a few beats, he created this extraordinary canvas." Featured artists include Skepta, Sampa The Great, Lava La Rue, Danny Brown, Damon Albarn and many others

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R+R=Now

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Impulse Records: Music, Message And The Moment

V.A.

4LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Impulse)

163,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2021 | EU | Original (Radio Martiko)

Morton & The Uptights

Taurus / Montego

13,99 €*

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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High quality 45 in a silk screen sleeve. Mind-blowing melting pot of jazz, funk, rock and ska.These two songs were the only releases by this outstanding band led by American organist / pianist Scott Bradford with musicians of the Jess and James band and Belgian jazz legend Philippe Catherine on guitar.

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Banda Maje

Ufo Bar

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

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Banda Maje is a collective from the historic district of Salerno, Southern Italy, whose members, a bit like the lively port city they are from, exist at the crossroads between Italian melodies and imported genres like funk, soul, and disco. Their debut album “Ufo Bar” transports you to an imagined version of Salerno that combines local tradition and 70s pop and film culture. Listening to the album’s eight funk- and soul-infused tracks also means seeing vivid and fascinating stories unfold in the streets of this re-imagined city.

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Melodies Record Club 001 Four Tet Selects

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

18,99 €*

CD | 2021 | UK | Original (Impulse!)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Sons Of Kemet

Black To The Future

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sun Village)

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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Carolina Bubbico

Il Dono Dell'ubiquita'

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Not Now)

Chet Baker

Best Of

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vijay Iyer / Oh, Linda May Han / Sorey, Tyshawn

Uneasy

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (ECM)

34,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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V.A.

Prince In Jazz

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Enzo Carniel & Filippo Vignato As Silent Room

Aria

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Menace)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Sichtexot)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Silent Room, the duo formed by Enzo Carniel and Filippo Vignato is a conversation. Between the piano of the first and the trombone of the second, two living forces of the European jazz scene; between France and Italy; between acoustics and electronics. A patient dialogue initiated on the benches of the conservatory in Paris, which was nourished by the music of German trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff (to whom the duo paid homage for a concert at the Cité des Arts in 2014), musical moments shared as a group (Enzo Carniel's sextet at the Jazz à la Villette festival in particular) and in pairs - for numerous concerts given on both sides of the Alps - before perfecting their common grammar, giving birth to their own repertoire, creating their own space.

This first album, Aria, released on the Franco-Japanese label Menace, was recorded in the setting of the Villa Cicaletto in Tuscany, whose Silent Room the duo made their own in September 2019. Carniel had just released Wallsdown, the third elegiac disc of his House of Echo project (Jazz & People, 2020) and Vignato of an intense live duo recorded with American cellist Hank Roberts (Ghost Dance, on CamJazz in 2019).

The album is carried by simple melodies, tenuous threads on which the two improvisers who have slowly got to know each other crisscross and let their voices express themselves. Aria can refer to the opening of Bach's Goldberg variations, to sung opera arias, but above all to any expressive melody that develops the imagination. Aria is also the air in Italian: the air that comes from the breath, the air that fills the room, the air that vibrates and is transformed into sound. The repertoire is therefore this collection of Arias composed by Enzo Carniel and Filippo Vignato.

If the duo advocates with this album its jazz heritage - that of improvisation and conversation, of freedom and virtuosity - and claims to be Carla and Paul Bley, Keith Jarrett, Gary Valente, Albert Mangelsdorff, Ornette Coleman or John Surman; it also explores the contemporary colors of electronic music, ambient and Japanese minimalism. The use of the prepared piano, Fender Rhodes and synthesizers colors the sound space of the acoustic piano and trombone. The eponymous composition that opens the album in acoustic, closes it in an electronic version, illuminating the path of the duo between the two universes.

In the almost plant-like composition "In All Nilautpaula", Enzo Carniel evokes the water lily (in Sanskrit) coming to purify the water around him. On "Babele", Filippo Vignato invokes the great question of language: thanks to Arias, and therefore melodies, language becomes universal through music, and only the sensory experience counts.

Born from Carniel and Vignato's desire to create a sound space that would be filled with as many melodies as silence, a place for listening, dialogue and meditation, Aria is one of those rare records that contain entire worlds.

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Maura & Fred Red

Grimus

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Astral Spirits)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Maura & Fred Red: one of those absolutely romantic producer and MC connections, making you feel the bond far beyond e-mail conversations like „just sent you a new folder of beats“!

Branding the artists simply as „bedroomproducer“ and rapper appears already after the first track on „Grimus“ almost blasphemous, because what those two deliver is way too big to be pigeonholed.

Hard-hitting breaks, subtle grooves led by jazz brushes, funky synthesizer solos, meet one of the most charismatic front women our young German hiphop-scene has to offer. Maura moves playfully in her universe between soulful head voices and heavy rapflows which put everybody considering themself as being able to compete in their place. Punctiliously and lovingly arranged, stylishly orchestrated and, at the same time, uncompromisingly edgy that there is – with all humbleness – nothing left but to speak out the Madlib/Erykah reference out loud.

Ten years ago, we would not have dreamt of such exquisit demos falling into our laps. Fred Red and Maura deliver with “Grimus“ a long overdue souljazz LP being a perfect match for Sichtexot.

What have they done?

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Kuzu

The Glass Delusion

Captain Lowell E. Graham Conducts National Symphonic Winds

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dave Rempis (alto / tenor / baritone saxophones), Tashi Dorji (guitar) and Tyler Damon (drums) recorded October 13th, 2018 at Elastic Arts in Chicago and October 14th, 2018 at The Sugar Maple in Milwaukee, WI.

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Center Stage 180g Vinyl, 45rpm Edition

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (Analogue Productions)

69,99 €*

Terrain Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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New from Wilson Audiophile Recordings, "Center Stage", featuring Lowell Graham conducting the National Symphonic Winds. These recordings were made in a historic concert hall on the campus of Hampton University in Hampton Roads, VA. The history of the hall parallels somewhat New York's Carnegie Hall. The musicians in the National Symphonic Winds come from the premier military bands of the United States as well as the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. The result was a superb mix of seasoned and assured professionals for this single, five-hour recording session. Those who have already enjoyed the 33 1/3 Analogue Productions reissue of Center Stage know why it is an exceptional-sounding audiophile record. Now, cut at 45 RPM, and with wider grooves, you'll hear sound that's upgraded from exceptional, to brilliant. There's more depth and space to the orchestra as a whole, as well as individual instruments. This disc sports more detail, more human presence, more of what we as audiophiles, listen for. Lowell Graham, a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, was also the first to be awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from the Catholic University of America. He has led orchestras and bands in performances throughout the world, and he's the current conductor and commander of the United States Air Force Tactical Air Command Band. Recorded with minimal miking (Sennheiser), directly to 2-track half-inch, 30 ips tape using arguably the finest 2-track analog recorder in the world — the Wilson Ultramaster — a highly-modified Studer tape deck with custom-designed electronics designed by John Curl. To accomplish this difficult, time pressure recording, the recording engineering skills of the renowned Bruce Leek were employed. The extreme dynamic range of the music remains intact as well as the soundstage and timbre of the ensemble remaining completely natural. There is no added enhancement to the concert hall's natural reverberation. When raising the volume, be careful as these real world dynamics can be harmful to playback equipment if care is not taken. The musical repertoire was chosen to be user friendly, vivid, colorful and impactful. Selections from Tony-winning stage classics "Barnum", "West Side Story" and "Oklahoma" are joined by compositions from John Williams, including "Olympic Fanfare" composed for the 1984 Olympic Games. Selections from the Walt Disney favorite "Mary Poppins" include "Spoonful Of Sugar", "Chim Chim Cheree" and more. These significant recordings hold a distinctive place in the audio and musical world.

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Portico Quartet

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Portico Quartet announce Terrain, a three-part suite drawing on American minimalism and ambient music alongside their own rich heritage as they explore new musical vistas

When Duncan Bellamy and Jack Wyllie – the driving force behind Portico Quartet got together in their East London studio in May 2020 and started work on the music that would become their new album, the world, or most of it, was in the midst of the first lockdown. The unique impact of the events of 2020 became the backdrop to their time composing and recording; causing them to take stock, re-think, and plot a new musical path.

Indian novelist Arundhati Roy expressed the sense of grief and rupture from the pandemic as "a portal, a gateway between one world and the next", and as they created the music that would become Terrain they were drawn towards longer, slowly unfolding pieces, which are perhaps the most artistically free and also the most beautiful they have ever made.

These are compositions more in the lineage of Line and Shed Song (Isla/2009), Rubidium (Portico Quartet/2012) and Immediately Visible (Memory Streams/2019). Wyllie expands: "We've always had this side of the band in some form. The core of it is having a repeated pattern, around which other parts move in and out, and start to form a narrative. We used to do longer improvisations not dissimilar to this around the time of our second record Isla. On Terrain we've really dug into it and explored that form. I suppose there are obvious influences such as American minimalism, but I was particularly inspired by the work of Japanese composer Midori Takada. Her approach, particularly on 'Through the Looking Glass', where she moves through different worlds incorporating elements of minimalism with non-Western instruments and melodies were at the front of my mind when writing this music".

Terrain I, II & III are all subtly different, but a short rhythmic motif that repeats is the starting point in all three movements. There is a sense of a shared journey to all these pieces, they move through different worlds, with a sense of horizontal movement that lends the music real momentum. Terrain I was the first piece they worked on and it started with a hang drum pattern, improvised by Bellamy, who added cymbals and synthesiser. From there on it grew, Wyllie adding saxophone, another synthesiser section, strings. For Bellamy "It felt more like filmmaking than music making, a bricolage of conflicting, shifting signs, subtle tension and multiple narratives. Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Mirror' and British artist John Akomfrah's incredible 'Handsworth Songs' were pivotal points of reference for me." Wyllie expands the point. "There is a sense of conversation between us both, in that someone presents a musical idea, the other person responds to it with something else, which would then be responded to again... until it feels finished. These responses are often consonant with each other but there is also a dissonance to some of this work. The music slowly evolves through these shared conversations."

It is this sense of dialogue, both between the composers, and between tranquillity and a subtly unsettling melancholy, that makes Terrain such a powerful statement. One that speaks to both our interior and exterior worlds, to our own personal landscape, to our Terrain.

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Nyjah's Theme / Little Africa

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (P-Vine)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Hyperjazz)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Legendary spiritual jazz from Nimbus West Records "The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra" will release a new track as 12"ep!! More than 15 musicians are participating in the ep such as Carlos Nino from Build An Ark and Jamel Dean, a genius pianist who also played in Kamasi Washington's album. Japanese OBI strip is attached.

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Ps5 (Pietro Santangelo)

Unconscious Collective

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Unconscious Collective’ is the first album by PS5, the new ensemble led by Pietro Santangelo (Nu Guinea, Slivovitz, Fitness Forever) - and it will be out for Hyperjazz Records on 21st May 2021. It’s a further step in the label’s path in trying to connect the musical tradition of South Italy, the love for African-American music, and new ways of expression. ‘Unconscious Collective’ is a musical experiment where layered memories and hidden feelings resonate as if they arise directly from the most recondite part of the unconscious, suspending the stream of consciousness. With the aim to create a state of trance and override the human reason, this is an imaginary round trip across the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, ideally connecting Naples with Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. The arrangements wrote by Santangelo are based on great freedom of improvisation: while the melodic textures of the two saxophones didn’t give any clear references, the other musicians followed the rhythmic pulse and its unpredictable ways. The music moves naturally along an imaginary line highlighting the ancestral connection between Jamaica and Ethiopia or between Nigeria and Cuba. In the background, Naples is a synthesis of all the sonic ingredients, mixed and cooked in its own mystical and spicy belly. Besides Santangelo himself on the tenor and soprano saxophones, the collective is made up of: Paolo Bianconcini, a brilliant Neapolitan percussionist with a very deep Afro-Cuban background; Giuseppe Giroffi, young and talented alto, and baritone saxophonist; the bassist Vincenzo Lamagna and the drummer Salvatore Rainone, both loyal members of the former Santangelo’s trio. Recorded live at the Auditorium Novecento in Naples, the legendary studio of Phonotype Records, ‘Unconscious Collective’ is mixed in analog format by Fabrizio Piccolo and mastered by Davide Barbarulo at his 20Hz20KHz Studio.

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Alder Ego

III Black Vinyl Edition