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Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Trost)

Brom

Dance With An Idiot

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Social Beats)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Anton Ponomarev - alto saxDmitry Lapshin - bass guitarFelix Mikensky - guitar, electronicsYaroslav Kurilo - drumsA fresh new studio album by the powerful Russian Free jazz band, now with a fourth player (guitar and electronics)Press about their last album (Sunstroke, Trost):Jazzandbluesblogspot: It is a reverent and thoughtful performance, with powerhouse electric bass at its core, leading to a fast and furious conclusion.Jazzwise: Moscow based power jazz trio BROM are a group that push against musical boundaries and allow suchdiverse genres as rock, noise, free jazz and improvisation to leak into their ever evolving sound.Jazzword: The antithesis of polite Chamber Jazz, this fiery Sunstroke should provide pleasure for those who prefer theirJazz (Rock) blistering without succor, no matter the temperature.TracklistingA1 DemonsA2 A Simple StoryA3 Dance With An IdiotA4 Goodbye, White Rhino!B1 Iron HairB2 The Saltiest PeanutsB3 PanaceaB4 This Is A Good Club Though Bad Music Is Played Here

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Flink

It's Dangerous

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | UK | Reissue (Lovemonk)

Chip Wickham

Blue To Red

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mr. Nakayasi)

Release: 2020 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chip Wickham made a splash in the UK scene with 2016's La Sombra and 2018's Shamal Wind, garnering attention from all the right people in the jazz scene. Chip's back for more, partnering with Lovemonk once again to enchant and heal with his cosmic, spiritual jazz.

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The Miracle

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Musician, composer and one of the most revered figures for today’s younger generation of experimental and alternative Arabic music-scenes, Kamilya Jubran (text, oud & vocals, collaborates with long standing musical partner, composer, accomplished trumpet player and seasoned electronic musician Werner Hasler (trumpet & electronics).

In Wa (Arabic for and), their third album together as a duo, Kamilya Jubran and Werner Hasler continue to interrogate their listening and their expression, their research and their desires, to unravel a musical universe of possibilities; “a unison of timbres, cultures complementing, the complicity of verses, and modes and languages confronting each other ” in the duo’s own way of communicating respective origins and contemporaneity.

Lyrical, within a sound full of contrast and ornamentation, they pursue an expansion of their repertoire with imaginative interpretation and improvisation. For this release via Swiss label Everest Records, Jubran and Hasler seek new sonic and phonetic territory, based on the wasla compound form found in the classical repertoire of Near Eastern music and in Western modern and improvised music; a suite of musical explorations within one composition. In the 45-minutes-long piece that makes up the full length album, they gradually unveil to us the tenants of this artistic dialogue, as they deepen a longstanding musical pact nurtured since 2002 based on the probing and opening up of musical modes and traditions. The chemistry between Jubran and Hasler’s exchange gives birth to a singular, original and extratemporal sound.

Kamilya Jubran (singer, oud) and Werner Hasler (trumpet, electronics) have been collaborating since 2002. Their first collaboration Mahattaat was their earliest experiment into bringing together disparate cultural and artistic roots. Their next collaboration, Wameedd, released in 2004, combined Jubran’s vocal skill and limitless imagination with Hasler’s melodies and his original aesthetics in electronic music. The duo then released Wanabni in 2010 followed by W asl in 2016, featuring French double bass player Sarah Murcia.

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Actions For Free Jazz (Edited By Lasse Marhaug)

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Actions For Free Jazz)

Dreamcatcher Trasnparent Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Smalltown Superjazzz was a free-jazz subsidiary label to Smalltown Supersound from 2005-2012. The label has been dormant in the years 2012 to 2019, but is now reborn as the AFJ-Serie. The AFJ-Series represents a new start - built on the foundation and heritage of the Superjazzz label. AFJ-Series is short for Actions for free jazz. This was the slogan for Smalltown Superjazzz and was borrowed at the time from Don Cherry & Krystzof Penderecki’s The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra track “Actions For Free Jazz Orchestra” from the 1971 album “Actions”. AFJ-Series is a series and a subsidiary label within Smalltown Supersound.

AFJ-Series is proud to release this compilation which features music from 40 releases, spanning almost 20 years on Smalltown Supersound, Superjazzz and the AFJ-series. The idea with the compilation is to bring the Superjazzz era into the AFJ-Series, but also to leave it behind - and start fresh. A requiem and rebirth combined. The idea came from Mats Gustafsson and was inspired by the famous 1964 ESP Disk sampler, which with its hard edit approach has become a classic in its own right.

The task of selecting, editing and structuring the material was given to Lasse Marhaug, who has been part of the Smalltown family for more than 20 years. Marhaug spent months plowing through the entire catalogue, and while the main goal was to give a total overview of Smalltown's wide range of releases in the improvised/jazz/free music field, Marhaug's choices and juxtapositions almost plays as a new piece of music.

So here it is - 40 tracks of total freedom. Or the universality in music of improvisation as Derek Bailey called it.”

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Lee Ritenour

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mascot Label Group)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | Original (Tramp)

Peace Chant Volume 4

Shawn Lee's Incredible Leg Warmer Band

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tramp Records continues their pilgrimage to the soulful fringes of spiritual jazz and progressive rock and funk with their 3rd and 4th volumes of their "Peace Chant, Raw, Deep and Spiritual Jazz" series, and the world could not be more ready.

As we turn together on this tiny blue ball hanging lonely in space, and as we together face existential threats ranging from climate catastrophe, the rise of brutal authoritarian regimes, the breaking of the industrial storm and the imminent collapse of empire, not to mention the raging covid-19 crisis and the continuing racial and social struggles across the globe, we are thrust into a society-wide grand awakening that has been in the making for a very long time. Of course, our musical teachers have trod this path before us, and have worked out solutions to these problems, the songs of the Peace Chant series ring out loud and clear as our ancestors' proof of concept. They say history repeats herself, maybe it's because we weren't listening the first time. Thanks to Tramp Records, we have been granted another opportunity.

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The 37 Minute Workout

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Legere)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pokus One / Candace Of Meroe

Pokus / Theon Cross

12" | 2020 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

Blue To Red Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One-off pressing 12” single released in conjunction with Soul Jazz Records new Kaleidoscope album on the new UK renaissance of jazz. Featured on this single is Theon Cross’s superb Candace of Meroe plus Pokus’s heavy leftfield cut Pokus One. Neither of these tracks are on the vinyl version of the Kaleidoscope album and this 12” single is a one-off special pressing.

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Chip Wickham

LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Lovemonk)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Beatsqueeze)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mustang Force

Hollywood Hustlers

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (No Format)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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If you’re into funky sixties or seventies B-movies soundtracks, Mustang Force is what you need! Composed of 14 tracks recorded live and composed by Sébastien Blanchon (drums, rhodes, organ, clavinet, synthesizers) and Emmanuel Marée (drums, guitar, bass, percussion), Hollywood Hustlers is an imaginary soundtrack inspired by all these movies. 14 songs recorded live, illustratring scenes of pursuits, deals, investigations. An album which will undoubtedly delight fans of funk and rare groove.

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Koki Nakano

Pre-Choreographed

Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Koki Nakano has spent time in the worlds of both classical music and electro-rock (with his band Gas Law). After training at the prestigious Toho Gakuen music school and the Tokyo University of the Arts, he embarked on his career with the strength and serenity of a man who had already ditched all those qualms about identity and heritage that often hobble young musicians.It was back in 2016 that Koki Nakano first came to the attention of those who hunger for the wondrous and unprecedented. The nine pieces on his first album Lift, recorded for No Format! with help from cellist and admirer Vincent Segal, revealed a composer of singular talents. His work displayed a subtle versatility, a high-wire delight in floating above established musical genres. The title of the album evokes a move well-known to ballet dancers: the porté, and conveys the deep relationship, both physical and spiritual, that Koki's music maintains with dance, a bond he's been cultivating ever since he moved to Paris in 2015.Pre-Choreographed is the sequel to that beautiful opening chapter, a new episode in No Format's adventures with the emancipated genii of the piano, which began fifteen years ago with the release of Chilly Gonzales's classic Solo Piano. This project evokes the strong "saudade" for the era when the music and the dance were very close to each other, when they used to function congenially in the society. It also means the state of the music such as "awaiting" or even "missing" the choreography. That is to say, the character of the music is yet very "raw", no direction is given. Koki Nakano's basic intention resides in the urge to re-transcribe the intimate topography of a man's life, whilst remaining deliberately detached from fashions, slogans, from a binary vision of the history of music in which modernity and past, avant-garde and classicism, new and old stand in opposition to each other as a matter of principle. For that reason, his creations never emit the dusty odour of schools and lecture halls, or the perfum...

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To Catch A Bird In The Net Of Wind

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Trost)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Okeh)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tashi Dorji (electric guitar) and Tyler Damon (drums/percussion) have developed a musical language that is not only shaped by original forms as free jazz, metal, rock and Buddhist monastic music. Their sound merges passion and emotions of literature, art, cultural movements, politics - flashes of ecstatic intensity, blurred timbral lines, fractal repetition, noir-ish, cinematic mystery and inclinations toward free play hint that the two are pleased to follow a winding path to destinations yet unknown.Recorded by Dave Zuchowski, March 25th, 2018, as part of Elastic Arts' 2018, Chicago.Mixed by John Dawson, Mastered by Martin Siewert Artwork by Aaron TurnerIn 2017 the duo released an album for Trost with danish saxophon player Mette Rasmussen."Together, the combination of Dorji's high-end metallic power-tool skree and Damon's manic-but-earthy hippie clomping are a perfect pairing. Each has a musical spoon in the other guy's soup to begin with, resulting in a collaboration that seems almost brotherly. [_] I'd say expect great things, but they're already happening." - The Free Jazz CollectiveTracklisting A. To Catch A Bird In A Net Of Wind (20:31)B. Upon The Rim Of The Well (18:39)

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Camille Bertault

Le Tigre

Le Città Invisibili (Le Città E I Morti)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Auf "Le Tigre" zeigt Sängerin Camille Bertault neben brillanter Vokalvirtuosität viel Emotion. Die Französin beeindruckt, wie auch schon bei ihrem Erfolgsalbum "Pas de géant" von 2018, mit ihrer Vielseitigkeit und ihrem abwechslungsreichen Spiel mit den verschiedenen Genres von Brazil, Chanson bis Funk und Jazz. Sie komponierte alle Songs auf "Le Tigre", schrieb die Texte und die Arrangements. Begleitet vom Pianist Jacky Terrasson, wechselt sie zwischen bewegenden Balladen zu Songs über Inspiration und Träume ("There is a Bird", "Je vieillis") weiter zu dynamischen Tracks, die mit Elektro flirten ("Todolist", "Le Tube") und Stücken mit anregendem Groove. Alle vereint Camilles Bertaults farbenfrohe und subtile Stimme, aber auch das großartige Spiel von Christoph 'Disco' Mink am Kontrabass, Minino Garay am Schlagzeug und an der Trompete und am Flügelhorn Michael Leonhart, der das Album auch produzierte.

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Marco Dalpane

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Soave)

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Unseen Worlds)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Marco Dalpane's unreleased recording (mainly known for the cult album “Scorie” released with Tiziano Popoli) produced in 1991 for Radio Rai as an accompaniment to the reading of Italo Calvino “Le città invisibili” ("Invisible Cities”).
First thing you notice is how Marco Dalpane personal soundtrack for “Le città invisibili” could be seen as a link towards the combinatorial approach adopted by Italo Calvino in the book, where he used the language as a semiotic system and the literature as a mechanism of possibilities, with the reader becoming active part in the process. You can see Dalpane detaching from a linear handling of the compositional resources, working instead with computer algorithms and emerging with a sound-sphinx that multiplies the listening interpretations, a sound that is characterized in form and timbre but at the same time is full of suggestions and summoning elements that the listener has to relate. In this it’s evident a constant in the Dalpane’s music, its sensitive side, away from every technical or conceptual precondition. In the five tracks created for this soundtrack, that finally are collected in this album, as in his other works, Marco is always capable to decode aesthetics coordinates of the cultural or temporary universe of reference, but mainly he is the vehicle of an artistic vision that is plausible incarnation of the essence of things, the very spirit of being a musician.

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Leo Takami

Felis Catus & Silence

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Trost)

16-17

Phantom Limb

Snekkestad / Fernandez / Guy

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Massive industrial noise and free jazz blasts_ 16-17 returning with new material after 25 years. Founded 1983 in Basel by saxophonist Alex Buess and former drummer Knut Remond, they have been shaping the forefront of a new sound area. Playing an abrasive distorted mix of dub, hardcore and free jazz that lead to a meeting of likeminded heavy heads that temporally took part in the band e.g. Kevin Martin (The Bug, Techno Animal) or G.C. Green (Godflesh). After marking their presence and extensive European tours, the band officially split up in 2000. The basis of the new LP Phantom Limb was recorded in 1995 by a new line-up with Alex Buess, Damian Bennett (Techno Animal) and Michael Wertmüller (Full Blast, Nohome, Alboth) additionally expanded by vocalist and writer Eugene S. Robinson (Oxbow) and Kasia Meow. New Line upAlex Buess: Saxes & Bassclarinet, Electronics, VoiceDamian Bennett: BassMichael Wertmüller: DrumsEugene S. Robinson: Voice, LyricsRoger Graf: E-Guitar, Dobro, VoiceKasia Meow: VoiceDaniel Buess: Drums

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The Swifted Traveler

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Trost)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Label Bleu)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An exciting international trio initiated by Scandinavian improv saxophonist Torben Snekkestad, flanked by two esteemed international capacities in the field of free improvised music - the Spanish pianist Agustí Fernández and the British double bass player Barry Guy. The music they create together is situated somewhere between free improvisation, free jazz, and contemporary classical music and executed with lightning fast interaction and explorative innovative sounds and textures. Line-up :Torben Snekkestad: tenor & soprano sax, trumpet and clarinetAgusti Fernández: pianoBarry Guy: double bas Recorded at "LOFT" in Cologne, June 2018 by Stefan DeistlerMixed and Mastered by John Fomsgaard at KarmacrewProduced by Torben SnekkestadExecutive Producer: Konstantin DrobilCover design: Lasse Marhaug

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Ji Dru

Western

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cannonball Adderley Quintet / Benny Carter Sextet

Live In Cologne 1961

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | US | Original (Wide Hive)

Throttle Elevator Music

Jagged Rocks

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2013 | US | Original (Wide Hive)

Calvin Keys

Electric Keys

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Oscar Trio Peterson

Live In Cologne 1970

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | Original (L & H Production)

Yelena Quartet Eckemoff

Everblue

Release: 2015 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Callum Au & Claire Martin

Songs And Stories

LP | 2020 | Original (Stunt)

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP+CD | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Doxy)

Joao Gilberto

Bossa Nova!

22,49 €* 24,99 € -10%

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

June Christy

The Cool School

22,74 €* 34,99 € -35%

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sleepy Jazz For Tired Cats

Tomaga

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Hands In The Dark)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Funkiwala)

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Established in 2013 by Valentina Magaletti and Tom Relleen, the duo operated until 2020 as a creative laboratory for the London-based musicians to explore beyond their traditional musical endeavours. They sought to deconstruct their usual sonic frameworks, venturing into a novel and unfamiliar auditory landscape. Their work seamlessly integrated various forms of multi-instrumentalism, traversing the realms of industrial, jazz, psychedelia and minimalism.

'The band's self-released cassette debut, 'Sleepy Jazz for Tired Cats' presents an unconstrained, complex and abstract introduction to their distinctive and darkly thought-provoking sound. In contrast, Tomaga’s seminal album, 'Futura Grotesk', further elevates their sonic explorations, leading to compositions that are more elusive and profoundly evocative, resembling the surreal and unsettling language of dreams and other subconscious wanderings transposed into a unique musical expression.

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Lokkhi Terra

Cubangla

In Velvet Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Funkiwala Records presents Cubangla - the sixth album by London fusionistas LoKkhi TeRra. Following on from their hugely successful collaboration with UK afro-beat ambassador Dele Sosimi on 2018's "Cubafrobeat"(mixing afrobeat and Cuban Rumba/Timba), this album sees them return to their Bangla-Afro- Latin-Jazz-Roots. 8 tracks of 21st century London groove â€“ from Sufi Samba to Baul Blues to Bengali folk-Son to Bangla Roots Reggae to London Descargas - recorded in between tours, sessions and collaborations â€“ a true celebration of traditions taking on new forms as they travel and co-exist. In these divided times, their collective musical journey has never been so relevant.
Background Kishon Khan's Lokkhi Terra have been blending the musical traditions that surround them in London, for many years now. "Stunning Headliners... A majestic multi-cultural blend of sounds... effortlessly builds bridges between rolling Indian raga rhythms, Afro-Cuban grooves, Acid Jazz/funk and free flowing improvisation" (Timeout London).

The band is composed of musicians who take seriously the different languages of the different genres they mix. Each in their own right play with calibre purist outfits. Members have collaborated with the likes of Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen, Ibrahim Ferrer, Johnny Clarke, Orlando Poleo, Africa Express, Jazz Jamaica, Ska Cubano, Giles Peterson's Havana Cultura, Kyle Eastwood, Bellowhead, Akram Khan to name a very few. The tracks on this album were gigged for a number of years before being recorded, with the exception of the last 2 tracks which were recorded in 2015 just before performing at Womad and Songlines Encounters. With Cubangla the band has come round full circle â€“ a journey that started a decade ago with their debut No Visa Required (2010). An urban London view on the musical world.
Songlines Review
"Acclaimed groovesters Lokkhi Terra continue their creative roll, returning to their Bangla-Afro-Latin-Jazz roots after a wildly successful colaboration with Afrobeat keyboardist Dele Sosimi. Featuring a who's who of London based players from, variously, Bangladesh, Brasil, Cuba, Spain and Nepal, Cubangla offers more sparkling genre crossing. Its eight tracks veer from fresh takes on traditional Bengali folk tunes to unlikely but sophisticated pairing including Baul blues, Sufi Samba and Cubangla funk. Keys player and main man Kishon Khan â€“ here on piano, Fender Rhodes, microKORG and (on root-reggae remake "Bhandari Revisited") wah-wah harmonium â€“ has written and/or arranged a clutch of tunes that respect tradition while forging new pathways. "Badaam"jumps off the Cuban standard "El Manisero" into a suhg conversatio between Cuban sonero Javier Camilo and Bangladeshi songbirds Sohini Alam and Aanon Siddiqua.
The albums title-track is a glorious descarga jam riffing on themes Cuban and Bengali, stoked by piano, percussion, trumpet and Jalal Ahmed's snaking Bansuri (flute). An upbeat variation on a legendary Sufi song, "Lal Mere" finds Alam and Siddiqua in powerful form and Khan deploying a fiery Rhodes solo. Originally performed at a Songlines Encounters festival, "Kon Kole Revisited" features the rough-hewn voice of the late Baul musician Rob Fakir, his lyrics celebrating Bengali philosopher Lalon and his attitude of religious tolerance. Deep, laced with joy and a masterly lightness of touch, Cubangla rewards repeated listening"
John Armstrong review
Despite Latin and Afro-Cuban music's longstanding popularity in the UK, there have been relatively few UK based artists who have pushed the limits of convention, adding novel elements whilst remaining (more or less) 'en clave' . Alex Wilson is one, and another is the formidably talented pianist, keyboardist, arranger and producer Kishon Khan with his band Lokkhi Terra. Kishon can play straight afrobeat, timba and Afro-Cuban descarga with the best, but his musical curiosity leads him in other directions, too- most specifically, to Bangladeshi music. To these ears, Lokkhi Terra's third (fourth?) outing, Cubangla, is their crowning glory to date. Lazy reviewers will call this a 'fusion' album: i don't know about you, but I find the term 'fusion' as meaningless as the term 'world music': all modern music is a fusion of something or other. This is Afro-Cubano-Bangladeshi music, please don't call it 'fusion'.
Khan's real arranging achievements here can be heard immediately in one of the shortest tracks, 'Bhromor' - described as a 'son cubangla'. The melancholy traditional Bangla song is subjected to the strict conventions of the Eastern Cuban son format, but nevertheless finds space and time for the strong improvisational elements in Bangla singing, a space that the singer Aneira Khan fills to perfection. The rest of the album is equally arresting, with a couple of instrumental descargas and more of that beautiful Bangla melody and vocal impro rising above the Afro-Cuban bedrock. Almost thirty musicians and singers...studios in London, Dhaka, Brooklyn..this must have been a helluva logistical feat (well done Kishon!), as well as being one of the outstanding albums of the year so far for me."
Jazzwise Review
London-based collective Lokkhi Terra have been blending sounds from around the globe since 2010. They describe their music as Bangla-Afro-Latin-Jazz, but even that doesn't do justice to the range of traditions that find their way onto Cubangla, which weaves in everything from funk grooves and Afrobeat hornlines to bluesy guitar and the music of the Bauls, a group of musician-mystics from Bengal. Lots of bands mix African and Latin sounds with jazz and it's these Indian influences that really set Lokkhi Terra apart. Among the highlights is 'Bhromor', a traditional Bengali song about the love between Radha and Krishna that drifts over lilting Cuban guitar, fluttering tabla and delicate flutes. 'Lal Mere' sets a traditional Sufi song to breezy samba percussion and 'Badaam' has an easy-going reggae feel with both Spanish and Bengali vocals. Remarkably, the blend of styles always sounds natural, never forced or cluttered, which is testament to the ingenuity of the arrangements and the standard of the playing. Flautist Finn Peters and trumpeter Graeme Flowers are on particularly good form.
John Warr Review (AfroBase)
"Tracks like Como with its Cachao phrasing, hats off to Graeme Flowers and Justin Thurgur for some stunning solos, the Spanish/Bangla tinges, not forgetting your inspiring piano work and arrangements. Love the percussion throughout and especially on Cubangla, the beautiful Banzuri flute solos from Jalal Ahmed, the joyous vocals on Kalare, and not forgetting the very radio friendly Bandari although I really want to play Como!
This album is a true high point in the work of Lokkhi Terra and its worldly mix of influences. I hope I get to see the band play this live whenever that is."

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Nordmann

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Unday)

Nobody's Husband, Nobody's Dad

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On the band's third album 'In Velvet', Nordmann reinvent themselves, causing a profound shift in their distinctive sound.They trade in the rock influences in favour of synths, electronic textures and beats. The new music is more reflective, though without ever losing focus on the instincts.

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Maurizio Ravalico

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Funkiwala)

A Momentary Convergence Of Differently Paced Trajectories

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The album Nobody's Husband, Nobody's Dad is the first entirely solo work of UK-based percussionist Maurizio Ravalico, and it represents a nodal episode in his artistic development. The music on the album is entirely acoustic and live played, with no overdubs added to the initial takes. These have all been slightly edited to different degrees, mainly to fit them into the time limitations of vinyl; but other than that all tracks are faithful reproductions of single, acoustic, uninterrupted one-man performances.
Another distinctive musical trait of the album is a presistent denial of metric recurrence. Maurizio's solo music is focusing on sounds, often generated by unexpected combinations of conventional instruments and found objects, both played using a mix of orthodox and extended techniques, and often on top of a big drum, which augments dramatically their timbrical and tonal range. The finished pieces recall thus the aesthetics of both contemporary and improvised music, despite them being neither strictly composed nor at all improvised.

Companion to the album is A Momentary Convergence of Differently Paced Trajectories, a 12" EP containing remixes of one of Maurizio's album tracks, Fiium Shaarrk and Collocutor.

"One of the finest avant-garde percussionists in the world. Maurizio Ravalico is incredible to watch and hear. Catch him live somewhere soon!"
Jean-Claude Thompson, IfMusic.co.uk

"Creative, deep and intriguing. Percussion avantgarde at its best."
Vince Vella, Dj, producer, Havana Cultura

Maurizio Ravalico

Italian-born visionary cross-genres percussionist Maurizio Ravalico has been one notably eclectic presence in the London music scene since his arrival in the UK, in 1991.
Regularily seen on stage and on releases with the like of Jamiroquai and the James Taylor Quartet throughout the nineties, as well as with virtually every salsa and Cuban-oriented projects to originate from London in the same period, he has subsequently collaborated on many of the projects of the experimental music label Not applicable (Icarus, Isambard Khroustaliov, Alex Bonney, Tom Arthurs) since 2005, and is now an established name in both the London and Berlin improv and experimental scene, having played with John Edwards, Oren Marshall, Steve Beresford, Pat Thomas, Frank Paul Schubert and many others.
Maurizio Ravalico's peculiar approach to percussion is one of the distinctive traits of Tamar Osborn's modal jazz 5-piece band Collocutor (On the Corner records) and of the pan-European trio Fiium Shaarrk (on Bbc3 Late Junction's 12 Best Albums of 2017). Maurizio Ravalico also collaborates with the string quartet Phaedra Ensemble, the composer Fred Thomas and the French contemporary dance company Silenda.

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Maurizio Ravalico

12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Funkiwala)

LP | 2020 | CA | Original (Marlow)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The 12" EP A Momentary Convergence of Differently Paced Trajectories is a heterogenous dj-oriented release, prelude and companion of Maurizio Ravalico's first solo percussion album Nobody's Husband, Nobody's Dad, released in November 2018 with the Funkiwala label. It comes in 180gms vinyl on a hand-numbered run of 300 individually screen-printed 320gsm brown card sleeves.
THE Music
Side A opens with a full-size batucada version of Fear of Mapping, one of the tracks from No Fiction Now!, the 2013 debut album of Maurizio's trio Fiium Shaarrk.
It is followed by a personal take on one of Collocutor's second album tracks, Here to There to Everywhere, arranged here as a spacey 5/4 drum'n'bass epic.

Side B contains an old-school jungle remix of Just Bring Your Toys, one of the tracks from Maurizio's forthcoming album, by the Italian d'n'b veteran Enjoy (Omni Music, Bustle Beats). The EP closes with an edited version of the same track: a taste of the album.

Despite being both loosely presented as remixes, neither of the two arrangements on side A makes use of samples from the respective releases, and any material not progammed or played anew by Maurizio comes from either unreleased off-cuts or preliminary demos.

"One of the finest avant-garde percussionists in the world. Maurizio Ravalico is incredible to watch and hear. Catch him live somewhere soon!"- Jean-Claude Thompson, IfMusic.co.uk
"Creative, deep and intriguing. Percussion avantgarde at its best." - Vince Vella, Dj, producer, Havana Cultura
Italian-born visionary cross-genres percussionist Maurizio Ravalico has been one notably eclectic presence in the London music scene since his arrival in the UK, in 1991.
Regularily seen on stage and on releases with the like of Jamiroquai and the James Taylor Quartet throughout the nineties, as well as with virtually every salsa and Cuban-oriented projects to originate from London in the same period, he has subsequently collaborated on many of the projects of the experimental music label Not applicable (Icarus, Isambard Khroustaliov, Alex Bonney, Tom Arthurs) since 2005, and is now an established name in both the London and Berlin improv and experimental scene, having played with John Edwards, Oren Marshall, Steve Beresford, Pat Thomas, Frank Paul Schubert and many others.
Maurizio Ravalico's peculiar approach to percussion is one of the distinctive traits of Tamar Osborn's modal jazz 5-piece band Collocutor (On the Corner records) and of the pan-European trio Fiium Shaarrk (on Bbc3 Late Junction's 12 Best Albums of 2017). Maurizio Ravalico also collaborates with the string quartet Phaedra Ensemble, the composer Fred Thomas and the French contemporary dance company Silenda.

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Atlantis Jazz Ensemble

Oceanic Suite

LP | 2020 | CA | Original (Marlow)

Release: 2020 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Cinephonic

Les Paradis Artificiels

Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty

Release: 2020 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cinephonic was founded in 2018 by composer / pianist / vibraphonist Pierre Chrétien, as an outlet for the new cinematic tunes he had been quietly writing when he wasn't busy leading larger groups such as The Souljazz Orchestra, Atlantis Jazz Ensemble and Slim Moore & the Mar-Kays.

In the fall of 2020, he releases "Les Paradis artificiels", his first full-length album under the Cinephonic moniker, on which he collaborates with heavyweight hip-hop drummer Robert Biesewig (Wu-Tang Clan, Havoc, Alchemist) and versatile percussionist Marielle Rivard (The Souljazz Orchestra, Slim Moore & the Mar-Kays), while performing all other parts himself on mellotron, piano and vibraphone.

Drawing inspiration from classic French film and library music, Chrétien expands on the sound with elements of orchestral jazz, cinematic soul, and instrumental hip-hop, creating a rich, evocative, and complex soundscape that juxtaposes intricate compositions with dark funk backbeats - a kind of epic soundtrack for a film that never existed.

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12th January Orange Black Friday Record Store Day 2020 Edition

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Mr Bongo)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Dos)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Jordman

Jazz Pa Nysvenska

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | Original (Sonorama)

Helmuth Brandenburg

Babylon A.M.C.

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinylart - Frank Sinatra Picture Disc Edition

Frank Sinatra

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mister I.B.E.)

Ibrahim Maalouf

40 Melodies

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Favorite)

Le Deal

Jazz Traficantes

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Dala)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Favorite Recordings presents Jazz Traficantes by LE Deal, a new musical adventure from the finest French jazzmen with Florian Pellissier (Piano & Fender Rhodes - Camaraõ Orkestra, Cotonete, Aldorande, Setenta), Yoann Loustalot (Flugelhorn – Bruit Chic, Old & New Songs, Aerophone, Lucky Dog), Théo Girard (Upright Bass – Pensée Rotatives, Discobole) and Malick Koly (Drums - The Wallace Roney Quintet). Needless to say, they’re used to play all over the globe and quite often to New York. During one of these trips to the Big Apple, they discovered that the legendary Van Gelder studio (where most of Blue Note, Verve and CTI albums were recorded) was still active and opened so they decided to book a few days session. Here is the story told by Florian Pellissier: “The tracks had been written the night before. We were going to run through them and then record. A simple plan. Van Gelder had passed a while back, but he left the keys and secret codes with his faithful assistant Maureen before heading off to create the right sound up in heaven. Nothing had changed in the atmosphere or configuration, not even the way the mics were placed. The studio and its wooden beams still exuded New York’s sixties jazz, dimly lit streets and clubs where anything might happen past midnight. Maureen knew just how to capture the ambiance of the sessions and bottle the energy without spilling a drop, taking infinite care to collect each cymbal tone, drum roll and trumpet phrase, without losing a single vibrating bass string or the slightest keyboard pause.” Indeed, the four contrabandists succeeded to deliver an outstanding album, filled with themes that’ll get stuck in your head, just like in the 19 minutes long performance “Mexican Junkanoo Suite” and its three parts. But more than just beautiful melodies, LE Deal truly managed to bring a sense of drama to their compositions, going into the deepest emotions through gutted arrangements, improvising with great attention to the articulation of their ideas. From the beginning to the end, musicians and engineers did their best to emulate the proper vintage sound. Jazz Traficantes could prove once and for all that French Jazz can indeed cross the borders. The album will be available as Tip-On Deluxe Vinyl LP but also on CD & Digital with a bonus track, “Noche en la Carcel”.

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Sweet Megg

Under The Moonlight

Simurg Feat. Murat Ertel & Esma Ertel

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dala Records is proud to present the new album from vocalist Sweet Megg! Recorded entirely live to analog tape in a mind-boggling two days, "Under the Moonlight" invites you into the world of Traditional Jazz and Country while showcasing the virtuosic talents of Sweet Megg and her band, The Wayfarers. Consisting of Ryan Weisheit on tenor sax, bass sax and soprano sax, Sam Chess on trombone, Thor Jensen on electric guitar, Rob Adkins on upright bass and Chris Gelb on drums, The Wayfarers bring a timeless sound to the album and provide nuanced performances over which Sweet Megg shines. Allow yourself to sit back and enjoy the group’s immense talents not only as performers and soloists, but also arrangers, as each member takes on arranging duties for multiple songs throughout the album. Recorded by Dala Records founder Billy Aukstik in his analog-centric Brooklyn studio, Hive Mind Recording, "Under the Moonlight" could easily be mistaken for a classic Columbia Records album from the 1950s, yet still feels fresh and new, leaving you wanting more from Sweet Megg & The Wayfarers!

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Compro Oro

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Sdban Ultra)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (La Sape)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP in printed innersleeve. Belgian psychedelic jazz collective Compro Oro are pleased to announce a new collaboration with Murat Ertel, co-founder and frontman of Istanbul's cult psychedelic folk band BaBa ZuLa and his singer partner Esma Ertel. Entitled 'Simurg', the album follows Compro Oro's critically acclaimed sophomore album 'Suburban Exotica', released last year.

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Jk Group

The Young Ones

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Ever)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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JK Group are a powerhouse nu-jazz band fronted by Melbourne saxophonist Josh Kelly, best known for his work with future soul-jazz collective, 30/70, and being the 2019 PBS Young Elder of Jazz. They sit in the crossover of raw, live jazz and electronic/dance production. At times synth-heavy, effected and soundscapey, while at other times hard hitting groove laden with spiritual jazz overtones and no-holds-barred improvising. Their sound nods respectfully to classic jazz traditions, whilst carving a path that unashamedly looks towards the future, embracing modern influences and production techniques. The album received a 5* review from Melbourne's own Mike Gurrieri, and has garnered radio play on PBS, RRR, Worldwide FM, NTS and more. The debut LP 'The Young Ones' is due out on La Sape March 27th.

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Kansas Smitty's

Things Happened Here

LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Tomofon)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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As the London Jazz Scene moves more and more towards the dancefloor, Kansas Smitty's is the cinematic and meditative side of instrumental music. The new record from Kansas Smitty's "Things Happened Here" is a modern classic. It's a concept album who's sole concept is to capture the complexity of the age we live in; lamenting its hardships and reflecting its beauty. Whilst their own-operated venue and bar was one of the conception points for the current jazz boom, Smitty's have developed a musical voice wholly unique from what's happening around them. "Things happened here" is the feeling you get when you walk into an old house, an abandoned factory, or an ancient temple. It is that feeling that some combination of great and terrible things have occurred on the ground on which you now stand. It is rare, profound, and humbling. And most of all, it brings our significance or lack thereof into perspective. Because, where things happened, things will happen again.

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Tom Gaebel

A Swinging Christmas

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty

Visions Red Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (La Sape)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Germany exclusive Edition on Red Vinyl. ‘Visions’ is a new collaborative album from BADBADNOTGOOD co-founders, Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty. The Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum producers have been performing and writing music together for 10 years. They have achieved international acclaim with BADBADNOTGOOD and Tavares’ recent solo single ’Self-Portrait’ has been championed by tastemakers such as Gilles Peterson and Benji B. ‘Visions’ is the latest upshot of their incredibly fruitful partnership.
Recorded in Toronto, it was produced by Tavares and Whitty - with Tavares also mixing the album and arranging strings. After a three-week writing period it was played in its entirety in one continuous studio session; almost all the tracks on the album are the first take. Tavares is on piano and guitar, Whitty on saxophone and flute. The rhythm section of Julian Anderson-Bowes on bass and Matthew Chalmers on drums completes the players. They make an impressive collective and are performing at the peak of their powers.

Conceptually the album is a canvas for a combination of composition and group free-form improvisation. Tavares and Whitty are the sole composers, but with some tracks collectively improvised, there is also a group dynamic running through the album. The outcome is a sublime melting pot of modern jazz, impressionist classical music and Arthur Verocai-esque arrangements. It is a sound that is hard to date; it is certainly of the now but is also reminiscent of a lost classic. Similar to the process of its creation, the optimal listening experience for ‘Visions’ is in its entirety. As a coherent body of work it draws the listener in with waves of intensity and crescendos that release back into tranquility - there is both darkness and light in the album’s narrative arc. There is also rawness and honesty to the music, which makes it feel like an intensely personal and intimate offering.

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Horatio Luna

Yes Doctor

LP+CD | 2015 | EU | Original (Buteobuteo)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Henry Hicks AKA Horatio Luna is a Melbourne based improviser, composer, bassist and producer.
A founding member of hip-hop/soul community "30/70 collective", he is an active member of the Australian beatz, jazz and soul music scene.
After parting with 30/70 in 2019, Horatio featured on the Gilles Petersons Brownswood compilation 'Sunnyside Up', released a 12" 'Print It, Run It, Send It', Remixed Moodyman approved Jitwams music and focused his sights on working and collaborating with the younger generation of players in Melbourne, serving as the musical director on 'downundaground' and joining Antiphon among many other groups.

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Stuff.

LP | 2013 | EU | Original (The Thing)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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STUFF. is a 5 piece live band that brings a crossgenre groove, spanning from broken hiphop to more electronic and jazz influenced future funk. Believers are amongst others PLAID, Kev Beadle, Kutmah, Lefto and Jamie Woon.

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The Thing

Boot

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jukka Eskola Orquesta Bossa

Jukka Eskola

LP+CD | 2013 | EU | Original (Schema)

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Trost)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This album is not about presenting Jukka Eskola as a virtuoso trumpet soloist but it's more an album about good music, melodies and atmosphere.

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Steamboat Switzerland

Zeitschrei

Tom Browne / Diplomats Of Soul

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dominik Blum: Hammond C3 OrganMarino Pliakas: EbassLucas Niggli: DrumsThe swiss Trio, energetic and innovative border crossers between Hardcore and Avantgarde, plays compositions of Michael Wertmüller (drummer of Peter Brötzmann's FULL BLAST outfit) - breath-taking, radical, exact.The ,Hammond Avantcore Trio" Steamboat Switzerland is a damn wild and absolutely virtuos project. They played many different festivals - from ,Donaueschinger Musiktage" and ,Moers" to the Londoner ,Meltdown Festival". The group combines elements from rock, metal and contemporary scores. The sounds exchange between ,Dark Power Ambient" and ,Boulez On The Rock"(Eckhart Liess)Recorded live at Powerplay Studios (Mauer/CH) by Andy Neresheimer in September 2012. Mixed by Gareth Jones (London) January 2013. Mastered by Martin Siewert (Wien) February 2013.Produced by Peter BürliArtwork by Lutz & Guggisberg.

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Brighter Tomorrow

10" | 2015 | Reissue (Expansion)

Release: 2015 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Beatsqueeze)

Cavendish Rarities

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Compilation of 13 original 70's Killer tracks from the legendery Cavendish Music Library UK Label selected by Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer p&c 2023 Cavendish under licence to Beatsqueeze Records, All tracks published by Cavendish

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Sigurd Hole

Lysmorke

2LP | 2020 | Original

23,24 €* 30,99 € -25%

Release: 2020 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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W. Jbbg (Jazz Big Band Graz)/Nguyãªn Lãª/Puschnig

Times Of Change Vol.1

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Natango Music)

23,24 €* 30,99 € -25%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Heinrich Von Jazz Big Band Graz/Kalnein

Electric Poetry & Lo-Fi Cookies

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Natango Music)

23,24 €* 30,99 € -25%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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OST Rocky Horror Picture Show

LP | 2013 | US | Original (Ode Sounds & Visuals)

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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Hamburg Spinners (Carsten Erobique Meyer, David Nesselhauf, Dennis Rux, Lucas Kochbeck)

Skorpion Im Stiefel HHV Exclusive Yolk Red In Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (a sexy)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ben Wendel

High Heart

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Daniel Herskedal

Call For Winter

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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DANIEL HERSKEDAL tuba and bass trumpet

Call For Winter is an album with a sonorous beauty and majestic flow.

The album builds on the territory mapped in Mistral Noir, the opening track of Herskedal’s first album, Slow Eastbound Train, erecting layers of solo tuba and bass trumpet into an imposing edifice of sound.

Call For Winter was performed by Herskedal during two weeks alone in deepest Norway; a cinematic journey through 12 original compositions manifesting that crystalline landscape and fusing the spirit of jazz with the compositional craft of classical music

Rarely do you hear a musician with such depth, emotive intensity and virtuosity shine whilst simultaneously pushing the boundaries of his instrument to the limit.

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Rob Luft

Life Is The Dancer

LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Squama)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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British guitarist Rob Luft returns with Life Is The Dancer, his second album following acclaimed debut Riser (2017). With the same line-up Life Is The Dancer confirms all the praise and promise of an artist of the moment and commands attention for its brilliance and originality. Rob Luft is a superstar in the making - a virtuoso, a band-leader, a composer of vibrant, original music and a captivating communicator. Life Is The Dancer is an eagerly awaited and anticipated release from a future star.

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Martin Brugger

Music For Video Stores

2LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Grautag)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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On his debut album producer and Squama co-founder Martin Brugger hovers through Ambient, (upbeat) Downbeat and unfulfilled build-ups. Conceptualized as a blank soundtrack, the music was sent to fellow artists who shared their visual and verbal associations which became the source for the artwork and tracktitles, effectively making the album a collective effort. Evident in all of his recent projects is Brugger's passion for working and thriving within closely set limits. The only audio sources in the process of making the album were his record player and a Dave Smith Prophet 08 synthesizer. In an antithesis to most sample-based music, Brugger takes the more ephemeral moments of recorded music and uses pitching tools as a magnifying glass to dive deeper into the sound and bare layers that normally remain unheard.

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Ravi Shardja

Grün Ist Grau

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Growing Ideas Of Falling Generations

Nicolas Metall

2LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Grautag)

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger

Force Majeur

LP | 2020 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In March of 2020 bassist Dezron Douglas & harpist Brandee Younger were nestled in their apartment in Harlem, New York, not long after every live concert in the world was cancelled and most folks in the United States were forced to shelter in place for the covid lockdown. With all their gigs cancelled and their incomes strapped.. the two came up with an idea. They would host a live-stream performance from their living room, where they would perform classic tunes for friends and family to watch online, and folks could send them donations. They called it “Force Majeure: Brunch in the Crib with Brandee & Dezron,” the first part in homage to the ubiquitous contract clause that never seems to have any use (except all of sudden, c/o a covid-induced live music industry collapse). The immense popularity of their first performance roped them into doing it again, and again, until it eventually became a weekly ritual for Douglas, Younger, and their many friends and family who tuned in every Friday morning (ourselves included). Knowing the beautiful, natural sound they made in their living room would be as enjoyable (or more) as a record as it was through a social media stream… we mailed them a microphone to record themselves. What’s heard on this album, Force Majeure, is a collection of highlights from Douglas & Younger’s legendary lockdown livestream brunch sessions. It includes gorgeous interpretations of songs by Alice & John Coltrane, The Stylistics, The Jackson 5, Pharoah Sanders, Kate Bush, Sting, and The Carpenters… plus some solid gold nuggets of their banter between tunes. It’s an uplifting suite of real, soulful comfort music – a spiritual salve, emanating warmth from the hearth of a Harlem sanctuary.

Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger are long time companions in life and in music. The two East Coast natives met early in life and have accompanied each other, personally and professionally, through their equally prolific careers. Douglas, a bassist who has established himself as a musician’s musician, is known to many for his work with Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, David Murray, and Keyon Harold. Younger, a harpist who has distinguished herself as one of the premiere voices in her field, is known for her work with Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Stevie Wonder, The Roots, Lauryn Hill, and Moses Sumney. To the day Douglas and Younger often accompany each other in many of the ensembles they lead, respectively.

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Chris Potter

There Is A Tide

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Strut)

Sun Ra

Horizon

Dark Myth Equation Visitation

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In the years leading up to 1971, Sun Ra wrote many compositions and poems specifically inspired by the ancient African Kingdoms and many others with associated mythological and heliocentric connotations. As such, a visit to Egypt and the opportunity for the Arkestra to play there was a matter of necessity. Ra's first ever concerts outside of the US had occurred in late summer and autumn of 1970 with performances in France, Germany and the UK and a second European tour was arranged for late 1971. At the end of that second tour, Ra caught wind of cheap flights from Denmark to Cairo. This release comprises recordings made by Arkestra member Thomas "Bugs" Hunter made in December 1971 in the streets around the Mena House Hotel, Giza, from a concert held at the house of Goethe Institute ex-pat Hartmut Geerken in Heliopolis, from a live Cairo TV channel broadcast and a concert at the Ballon Theatre in Cairo. The impact and significance of these few weeks upon Sun Ra can be measured by the growth and development of his output over the next few years; the immediate post-Egypt period included new studio and live recordings on the Saturn, Blue Thumb, Atlantic and Impulse labels and the 'Space Is The Place' movie. Ra also edited the three LPs of the 'Live In Egypt' series which were subsequently released on his Saturn record label and its affiliated twin, Thoth Intergalactic: 'Dark Myth Equation Visitation', 'Nidhamu' and 'Horizon'. These three albums are now reissued as single LP editions in their original artwork.

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Sun Ra

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Strut)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tim Garland

Refocus

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lionel Loueke

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jameszoo & Metropole Orkest (Conducted By Jules Buckley)

Melkweg

2LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Brainfeeder)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Roof Music)

Helge Schneider

Mama

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Aleksi Heinola Quintet, Antti Lötjönen & Oaagaada

Lonna

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dinosaur

To The Earth

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (WRWTFWW)

Motohiko Hamase

#Notes Of Forestry

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Abeat)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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WRWTFWW Records is excited to announce the official reissue of Motohiko Hamase’s remarkable ambient/environmental/minimalism project #Notes of Forestry, available for the first time since 1988. The album is sourced from original masters and available on vinyl and CD with liner notes from the artist. This marks the third release from the ESPLANADE SERIES which focuses on the works of Yoshio Ojima, Motohiko Hamase and Satsuki Shibano. One of the most fascinating and peculiar works from the golden era of Japanese ambient, #Notes of Forestry was initially released in 1988 by Newsic, the cult label started by Tokyo’s Wacoal Art Center (also known as Spiral), home, notably, of Yoshio Ojima who co-produced the album. Conceived by Jazz bassist turned experimentalist Motohiko Hamase, the magnum opus offers an enchanting mix of free-form pastoral electronics, otherworldly percussions by Yasunori Yamaguchi, and delightfully allusive piano played by none other than Satsuki Shibano (Sound Process’ Wave Notation 3).

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Gaia Cuatro

Udin

23,99 €* 29,99 € -20%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty

Visions

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mr Bongo)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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‘Visions’ is a new collaborative album from BADBADNOTGOOD co-founders, Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty. The Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum producers have been performing and writing music together for 10 years. They have achieved international acclaim with BADBADNOTGOOD and Tavares’ recent solo single ’Self-Portrait’ has been championed by tastemakers such as Gilles Peterson and Benji B. ‘Visions’ is the latest upshot of their incredibly fruitful partnership.

Recorded in Toronto, it was produced by Tavares and Whitty - with Tavares also mixing the album and arranging strings. After a three-week writing period it was played in its entirety in one continuous studio session; almost all the tracks on the album are the first take. Tavares is on piano and guitar, Whitty on saxophone and flute. The rhythm section of Julian Anderson-Bowes on bass and Matthew Chalmers on drums completes the players. They make an impressive collective and are performing at the peak of their powers.

Conceptually the album is a canvas for a combination of composition and group free-form improvisation. Tavares and Whitty are the sole composers, but with some tracks collectively improvised, there is also a group dynamic running through the album. The outcome is a sublime melting pot of modern jazz, impressionist classical music and Arthur Verocai-esque arrangements. It is a sound that is hard to date; it is certainly of the now but is also reminiscent of a lost classic. Similar to the process of its creation, the optimal listening experience for ‘Visions’ is in its entirety. As a coherent body of work it draws the listener in with waves of intensity and crescendos that release back into tranquility - there is both darkness and light in the album’s narrative arc. There is also rawness and honesty to the music, which makes it feel like an intensely personal and intimate offering.

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Tineke Postma

Freya

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Hans Koller New Jazz Stars

NDR 60 Years Jazz Edition Volume 1 - NDR Studio, Hamburg 1953

LP | 2013 | DE | Original (Moosicus)

Malija-The Day I Had Everything

Release: 2013 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rare recordings from the NDR Jazz Archive!

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Lockheart/Noble/Hoiby

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Edition)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Shuffle Shack)

Matti Klein

Soul Trio

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Duke Ellington

Money Jungle

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Sun Ra

Jazz In Silhouette

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Leopard)

Simon Oslender

About Time

24,64 €* 28,99 € -15%

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jaan Kuman Instrumental Ensemble

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Jazzaggression)

24,69 €* 25,99 € -5%

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Third repress 500 copies only.

This highly sought-after classic has now returned for a third re-run, showcasing the talents of young Estonian trumpeter Jaan Kuuman

and his esteemed instrumental ensemble. Recorded in the early to mid-seventies this compilation features a masterful blend of tight jazz-funk rhythms,

infused with a dramatic flair and irresistible hooks that will leave listeners yearning for more. Stock fly fast on this one.

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Wamono A To Z Volume III HHV Exclusive Numbered Clear Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (180g)

LP | 2020 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition of 300 copies! Numbered by hand.
Japanese Jazz-Funk & Rare Groove 1968-1980 (Selected by DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite & Chintam) Active as a professional DJ in Japan since the late eighties, DJ Yoshizawa Dynamite is also a renowned remixer, compiler and producer. An avid record collector and an expert of the Wamono style, Yoshizawa published the Wamono A to Z records guide book in 2015 which instantly sold-out. The book unveiled a myriad of beautiful and rare records from a highly prolific, but still then unknown, Japanese groove scene. After many years working as a record buyer for several stores, DJ Chintam opened his own Blow Up shop in 2018 in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. A member of the Dayjam Crew and a specialist of soul, funk, rare groove and disco music, Chintam is also an expert of the home-brewed Wamono grooves. He supervised and wrote the Wamono A to Z records guide book together with Yoshizawa. With this first volume of the Wamono series, our two DJs here guide you through some of the best and rarest jazz funk and rare groove tunes produced in Japan between 1968 and 1980. Put the needle on the record, turn up the volume and dig right now into the Wamono sound - the cream of the Japanese funk, soul, rare groove and disco music developed throughout the years since the end of the sixties in Japan!

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Jeff Parker

Suite For Max Brown

LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Rer Vinyls)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"I'm always looking for ways to be surprised," says composer and multi instrumentalist Jeff Parker as he explains the process, and the thinking, behind his new album Suite for Max Brown, released via a new partnership between International Anthem and Nonesuch Records.
"If I sit down at the piano or with my guitar, with staff paper and a pencil, I'm eventually going to fall into writing patterns, into things I already know. So, when I make music, that's what I'm trying to get away from-the things that I know." Despite its musical departures, in presentation Suite for Max Brown is an informal companion piece to The New Breed, Parker's debut release on International Anthem, which was honored as one of the "Best Albums of 2016" by New York Times, Observer, and Los Angeles Times.
"I made The New Breed based off these old sample-based compositions and mixed them with improvising," Parker says. "That's in a nutshell how I make a lot of my music; it's a combination of sampling, editing, retriggering audio, and recording it, moving it around and trying to make it into something cohesive... With Max Brown, it's evolved." Though Parker collaborates with a coterie of musicians under the group name The New Breed, theirs is by no means a conventional "band" relationship.
Parker is very much a solo artist on Suite for Max Brown. His accompanists are often working alone with Parker, reacting to what Parker has provided them, and then Parker uses those individual parts to layer and assemble into his final tracks. The process may be relatively solitary and cerebral, but the results feel like in-the-moment jams-warm-hearted, human, alive. Suite for Max Brown brims with personality, boasting the rhythmic flow of hip hop and the soulful swing of jazz.

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The Necks

Mindset

LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Astigmatic)

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Long awaited re-issue of The Necks 2011 masterpiece. Always different, here the Necks resolutely layer polyrhythmic material to form seething blocks of sound - in two long pieces, one more stripped back to the live trio, the other featuring multiple strata of swirling Hammonds, noise-guitar and electronics. Their 16th release still resonates on its own.

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Bloto

Erozje

LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Rer Vinyls)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It didn't take long for Błoto to become a thing, shrouded by underground secrecy. First, there was the gig during Spring Break 2019 in Poznań where the Blue Note club was packed to the brim. That event gave momentum to 4 more performances in Warsaw and Wrocław, with no music released at that time. Then, the first pressing of the vinyl was sold out within 24 hours without any single nor cover revealed.

The word about Błoto has spread, increasingly gaining ground, reaching Japan, where the album will also be available on CD. No one expected such a turn of events. In fact, neither did the band itself; after all, Błoto came to being accidentally, yet naturally, like a puddle after a rainy day.

It all started in the summer of 2018 when EABS was touring and the band had a day off. As they were approaching Tricity, people were getting off and eventually there were only four musicians. An evening off, a well-tuned rhythm section on the road, harmonious as can be, and a great deal of creative potential within the members of Błoto band forming at that very moment stirred up common enthusiasm. The album was created without much deliberation, stemming from the need of the heart and the joy of making music together. As a result, 90 minutes of music was recorded of which about 40 made it to “Erozje”.

The music is deeply rooted in brutal hip-hop grooves, referring to the sound of 90’s New York. Dirty and uncompromising, this music’s strength lies in the drums and bass as its sound refers to classics such as Wu-Tang Clan and Company Flow. Radical in a sense, it also captures the atmosphere of the times in which it is created. The times of the planet on the verge of disaster, distinct social divisions, hate speech, growing nationalism, police brutality, nepotism, and various political deals. All this is happening before our eyes. The soil of the world as we know it is eroding right now.

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The Necks

Vertigo

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Schema)

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Brand new vinyl re-issue for the 2015 album ! While most ensembles are driven by personalities, the Necks are powered by an idea. A very large and simple idea - which now seems completely obvious…. but only because the Necks thought of it and made it work. Now their pleasure (and ours) is sequentially to re-imagine and explore that idea – the prime directive of which seems to be to be that each unfolding step and every passing detail of any performance be allowed to evolve organically out of the musical conditions established at its moment of departure. In other words, we are in the territory of chaos and catastrophe theory; of hurricanes and butterfly wings… And, since one can never step twice into the same river, each beginning has led to wildly unpredictable and variant outcomes; and imperceptibly: you never hear the changes until somehow they have already happened. “We end up, Lloyd Swanton writes, ‘in a very different place from whatever our initial notion … had been.” In the case of Vertigo, we are dropped straight into an almost Feldmanesque musical universe, in which sounds - seemingly disconnected - are already there; creating space rather than inhabiting it. Then, without trying, they mutate. Not mechanically and not according to any pre-determined process - because it’s always clear that what we hear is being played by human beings; that it’s music. A special kind of music that is not pushy or demanding or demonstrative, but rather co-operative, spatial, ambiguous. A music that leaves room for its listeners.

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The Dining Rooms

Art Is A Cat

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After a 5-year long hiatus, cinematic music heroes The Dining Rooms are back with one of their most complete and innovative release ever, the 8th one made in collaboration with Schema Records.

This is probably one of the most interesting albums from the Milanese duo, that still carries the classic Dining Rooms trademark, but also sounds very contemporary and fresh.

Includes collaborations with Sean Martin, Georgeanne Kalweit, Lola Kola, Beatrice Velasco Moreno and Rahma Hafsi on vocals.

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Tres Chic! More French Girl Singers Of The 1960s

LP | 2013 | UK | Original (Ace)