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Requiem For Jazz Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cape Town, South Africa-based drummer Asher Gamedze explores relationships of time between music and history on his new album Turbulence and Pulse, out on International Anthem in collaboration with Johannesburg-based label Mushroom Hour Half Hour.

For Gamedze, the underlying message of Turbulence and Pulse is “to claim a form of historical agency and realize that the future is not a foregone conclusion. As people we can organize, to transform our world in small and big ways.” This concept comes out of Gamedze’s involvement in radical cultural work and political organizing.

Though this is Gamedze's first record with International Anthem as a leader, fans of Angel Bat Dawid's debut, The Oracle, might recognize his name from their epic first-meeting-turned-song: "Capetown" or from his drumming on Angel & Tha Brothahood's Live. Close followers of free music may also know Asher Gamedze from last year’s offering on Astral Spirits, Out Side Work (which features scorching duets with fellow Brotherhood member Xristian Espinoza and Sun City Girls’ Alan Bishop), or from his 2020 debut album Dialectic Soul, which was ranked in the New York Times’ Top Ten Jazz Albums of the Year.

Turbulence and Pulse comes as a reset and a reintroduction, even while Gamedze is again joined by his core quartet from Dialectic Soul - South African musicians Thembinkosi Mavimbela (bass), Robin Fassie (trumpet), and Buddy Wells (tenor sax)

The album opener “Turbulence’s Pulse” serves as a manifesto to inform the album that follows: a multi-rhythmic groove exploration of a collection of pieces initially composed by Gamedze on piano. The result is his most soulful and accessible album yet, and a sweet-yet-energetic addition to the South African jazz canon

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Angel Bat Dawid

2LP | 2023 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Don Cherry & George Gruntz Group

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Requiem for Jazz is a 12-movement suite composed and arranged by Angel Bat Dawid, inspired in part by dialogue from Edward O. Bland"s 1959 film "The Cry of Jazz."The original form of the music was premiered at the 2019 edition of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago, where Angel conducted a multigenerational fifteen-piece instrumental ensemble (all Black musicians from Chicago"s creative music community) alongside a fourperson choir (featuring singers from Black Monument Ensemble), dancers, and visual artists in performance.Angel mixed and post-produced recordings from the performance - adding interludes, vocals and additional sounds, as well as transcribing a piece from "The Cry of Jazz" film. The final movement of Requiem for Jazz features Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Their contributions were recorded remotely at the historic Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra in Philadelphia in late 2020.

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Maghreb Cantata Live 1969

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Whp)

All Becomes Indistinct Colored Vinyl

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A marvelous double album as document of the historical collaboration between Don Cherry and Swiss pianist, composer George Gruntz, a central figure in European Jazz who always showed a special interest in extending his solid post bop skills through other languages such as ethnic or even baroque music. This is North- African deep flavoured Jazz recorded live in Tunisia and Germany in May and September 1969, with Cherry (cornet, flute) and Gruntz (piano, celeste) leading a highly mixed line-up featuring multi reeds player Sahib Shihab, bassists Henry Texier and Eberhard Weber and Swiss dummer extraordinaire Daniel Humair, plus four North African musicians on traditional instruments like bendir, ney, bagpipes, tabla and darbouka. A trance inducing Jazz ritual.

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Terms

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Skin Graft)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (April)

Tigeroak

Living And Living

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Jazzland)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The new Danish neo-soul duo Tigeroak consists of Laurits Steen Moberg, an electronic musician, producer, and guitarist, and Anna Prinds, vocalist and lyrical composer. Tigeroak draws inspiration among underground jazz, hip-hop and neo-soul environments, which mixed with their Nordic influences, all contribute to the duo"s nuanced palette of sounds. By combining neo-soul features with electronic hip-hop grooves, melodic choruses and figurative lyrics, they aim to create a space for everybody to enjoy music with an experimental focus. Tigeroak was in 2022 selected for Jazz Danmark"s National Jazz Competition and performed twice in the very popular national television show DR"s: "Sammen - hver for sig". Their concert at the festival "Jazz and Roots"" was nominated to a Danish Music Award for "most innovative concert experience of the year". Recently the duo has played multiple concerts in Paris, and have recently travelled to London, to record for their future album inAngel-and Abbey Road Studios.

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Beady Belle

Nothing But The Truth

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Souffle Continu)

Siegfried Kessler

Solaire

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Guitarland)

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Solaire, Siegfried Kessler, that is the least we can say! Aged 4: learns piano. Aged 6: his first concert. After this: studies classical music like everyone else... until the jazz of Jack Diéval and Stan Kenton turned everything upside down. So it was goodbye to Bach...

...And hello to Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Ted Curson and Archie Shepp (who he would accompany over a long period). In 1969, with Yochk’o Seffer, Didier Levallet and Jean-My Truong, he formed a group which would mark history and create a sensation: Perception. If French free jazz exists, its thanks to Kessler (and company).

The following year, the pianist recorded his first album: Live at the Gill’s Club. On this one-night concert date can also be heard Barre Phillips and Steve McCall. But it was in 1971 that Kessler would record his greatest album; still in a trio setting, but this time with bassist Gus Nemeth and percussionist Stu Martin: Solaire. Five tracks of extraordinary music, moving back and forth between modal jazz and contemporary music.

Let’s begin at the end, with the title track Solaire, on which Kessler plays a melody on flute and piano which resists all onslaughts. It sends out powerful waves, Kessler’s jazz, bubbling like hot oil (Persécution, Drum), shaking modal jazz to its roots (De l’Orient à Orion) or upsetting the memory of a cantata (Bach Hcab). The piano is an instrument which can provide a tendency towards, demonstrative technique; with Kessler, it is something else: a joyful persecution!

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Rolf Jardemark Quartet

Ripple Effect

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Christian Stemeseder Lillinger

Penumbra

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Plaist/Recordjet)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Die Therapie & Der Nussigmilde

Reconnected

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Jazzlab)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pop Music Black Vinyl Edition

Structure

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Sommor)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cool library-styled French album from 1970. Psychedelic, proggy jazz-funk with Brazilian/Bossa touches! Groovy flute by Bernard Wystraëte plus heavy bass, drums (by André Ceccarelli), violin, occasional fuzz-wah guitar and Urszula Dudziak-like scat vocals. In 1970, the AFA label asked flautist Bernard Wystraëte to register a “pop” album after the worldwide impact of progressive bands like Aphrodite’s Child and Jethro Tull. Bernard recruited some of his friends who were professional musicians and Structure was born. He wrote a collection of songs influenced by progressive rock, jazz and Brazilian music. The “Pop Music” album was recorded live in the studio to give a “live show” feel. It was released later that year housed in a superb psychedelic sleeve. The band even toured across France and several countries at the same time that Bernard and other Structure members started backing famous French singer Marie Laforêt live. After the good reception given to the album, another label asked Bernard to record a Structure 45. “Dilatation” / “Scale” was released under a new line-up. Both tracks of this 45 are included as bonus tracks on the Digital Download version and the CD.

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Julian Lage

The Layers

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Kryptox)

Joel Holmes

Into The Abyss

Nenad Jelic & Laza Ristovski

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Into The Abyss", the new album by Joel Holmes (former band leader of Carl Craig"s synthesizer ensemble and member of Grammy-nominated cult band Roy Hargrove) is a perfect capturing of Berlin"s new jazz and electronic scene.

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Opera

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Soundway)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Soundway Records reissues a limited 1000 copy run of Nenad Jelić and Laza Ristovski’s seminal new age album Opera from 1986. Combining percussion-laden rhythms with synthesisers, vocal samples, and at times unexpected acoustic instruments, the album became a cult classic amongst fans of fourth world and avant garde music. Nenad Jelić is one of the most original artists to appear on the Serbian music scene, a percussionist obsessed with melody and silence, a multidisciplinary instrumentalist. A member of the line-up of musicians which released the cult album Balkan Impressions, he was one of the originators of the World Music movement in Serbia.

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Leviot

Sharav

Vivre La Mort Du Vieux Monde

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Akuphone is proud to present the Jerusalem-based improvisational trio Leviot and its hypnotizing debut album. Leviot (Hebrew for “Lionesses”) is the brainchild of the multifaceted musician and composer Yael Lavie. She is accompanied by classically trained percussionist and music teacher Cnaan Canetti, and synth enthusiast Yishay Seroussi. The project is a result of Lavie’s explorations beyond the restraints of classical kanun and her fascination for electronic sounds and modern composition. The project initially started after Yael performed and recorded with the Spiritczualic Enhancement Center. With Leviot, she favors improvised sets over rehearsed pieces, revolving around virtuous interpretations by Cnaan and Yishay. The three musicians have been active since 2019, playing their immersive shows in a wide variety of settings, venues and festivals.

The trio’s debut release is a live session recorded in late 2020 at the Mazkeka Studios (Jerusalem), for the lockdown edition of the annual Zikuk Festival. It’s a meditative improvised piece in five parts that melts boundaries between traditional and experimental music, combining primal and futuristic sounds. Lavie’s graphic melodies are a road map for the piece, as Leviot takes off on a cosmic journey with deep drones, whispering chimes, mesmerizing Arab melodies, pulsating rhythms and iridescent ambient patterns.

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Maajun

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Souffle Continu)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Three Lobed)

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Before Mahjun (of which Souffle Continu reissued, in 2016, the two albums released on Saravah), there was... Maajun. Five musicians (Jean-Pierre Arnoux, Cyril and Jean-Louis Lefebvre, Alain Roux and Roger Scaglia) and three times as many instruments at the service of an electric-poetic guerrilla group moulded from folk and blues. The group’s unique album, “Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde” evokes an (imaginary) association of Frank Zappa and Jacques Higelin, of Sonny Sharrock and the Art Ensemble Of Chicago. Under these conditions, Long Live Death!

“The most French of all the French groups, determined to take Maurice Chevalier’s place in American hearts.” This was how Rock&Folk presented Mahjun in 1977. So be it. But when “Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde”, was issued, it was 1971, and the name, though the same group, was still spelled Maajun. So, let’s look back at the story.

At the end of the sixties, five blues fans decided to form a French group ready to break down the barriers: Jean-Pierre Arnoux (drums, vibraphone, saxophone), Cyril Lefebvre (guitar, organ), Jean-Louis Lefebvre (bass, violin, guitar, vocals), Alain Roux (saxophone, flute, harmonica, vocals) and Roger Scaglia (guitar, vocals). This was Maajun, and Vivre la mort du vieux monde would be their only album, but which would (nevertheless) be followed by those of Mahjun created later by Lefebvre (Jean-Louis) and Arnoux.

Recorded for the Vogue label, “Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde” would disturb a number of people. This is mostly due to the lyrics, many of which were written by Gérald Escot-Bocanegra, who, while summoning the spirit of Lautréamont and Rimbaud, turned the Maajun musicians on to rock and free jazz. Add a bit of politics into the mix, and the release of the album was delayed for several months. But then, wasn’t it worth waiting for?

Because “Vivre la Mort du Vieux Monde”, a real concept-album, is an important and iconoclastic statement made directly in the face of (francophone) dreamers of all countries. Over heavy guitar riffs, psychedelic interludes or fantasy-fuelled digressions, Maajun built mazes on the advice of alchemists known only to themselves before heading off on a long march on the “cracking walls”. It was an ambitious project, but Maajun could handle it, going so far as to proclaim: “Tomorrow will be a huge party!” But as we can see “tomorrow”, is now!

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Daniel Bachman

Almanac Behind

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Carmin Black Vinyl Edition

Twoosty Mayonez

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (U Know Me)

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

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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There are two versions - 180g black vinyl and color vinyl version - limited to 100 copies and each vinyl has a different color. All versions has booklet inside with the special artwork dedicated to each track from teh album.
Things don't always go your way, especially when your plans involve space travel. In the case of Captain Harrison Focus's expedition, it started innocently, but no one was prepared for an emergency landing on the mysterious planet Carmin. Only then did the real fight for survival begin. This record tells the story of a dangerous expedition into space that began on February 6, 2023.
Twoosty Mayonez consists of Bartosz Wolert (drums) and Dominik Kaniewski (bass guitar and synthesizers). "Carmin" is their debut album, which is released primarily on vinyl by U Know Me Records.

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Phil Jl Robert

Boogaloo Station

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Compagnie 4000)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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An'pagay

Somin Tegor

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Electric maloya style

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Bremer/McCoy

Natten

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

LP | 1979 | UK (Outernational Sounds)

Betty Lou Landreth

Betty Lou

In The Winner's Circle 2012 Remaster

Release: 1979 / UK

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

tiny wear. 2021 reissue.

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John Coltrane

LP | 1957 | EU | Reissue (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 1957 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Justin Time)

Oscar Peterson Trio

Vancouver, 1958

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live In Paris 1962 Clear Vinyl Edtion

Oscar Peterson

LP | 2018 | CA | Reissue (Return To Analog)

Release: 2018 / CA – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Greasy Mike's Middle Eastern Harem

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Jazzman)

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

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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More in the new series from Jazzman featuring the lowest of the lowball schlock n' roll 45s never known to exist! After many years in hiding, notoriously shady Super Spiv of the record world Greasy Mike has finally opened up his vinyl dungeon, and we were first to raid it! We have left no box untouched, no crate unrummaged, no pile unpilfered! Just the greasiest and grimiest, the most shocking and sordid 45s have made it onto our selections. Watch out for more!!! In this adventure Greasy Mike finds himself lost in the wilderness; hot, thirsty and alone under the unforgiving desert sun. He's been days without food and water; the heat of the day stifling almost beyond endurance, the cold of night a trial of torment. Survival seems impossible - or does it? Staggering across the sandy plains, the eerie yet unmistakable sound of a snake charmer's reed curiously winds its way into his ears. Instinctively he turns his head towards the sound - and lo! An oasis just ahead! Music, laughter - and belly dancers!!!

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Late Night Poems

Ostatni Dzien Lata

LP | 2019 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Gjermund Larsen

Salmeklang

Release: 2019 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Steamdome Ii The Hypogean

Ola Kvernberg

2LP | 2021 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Release: 2021 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2019 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Ketil Bjornstad

The World I Used To Know

Release: 2019 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Ola Kvernberg

The Mechanical Fair

Release: 2019 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Fun In The Church)

Das Behalter

Star Of The Future

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And Poetry

Charles Mingus

2LP | 1959 | EU | Reissue (New Land)

Release: 1959 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Label Bleu)

Das Kapital

Vive La France

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Jusqu'a La Nuit)

Anne Paceo

S.H.A.M.A.N.E.S

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Jazzwerkstatt Wien)

Schmieds Puls

Play Dead

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Consouling Sounds)

Jarboe

Illusory

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Samuel Maingaud

Odayin

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Acel)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Bernard Jean

On Both Sides

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Beat Machine)

Karu

An Imaginary Journey

LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (Nonesuch)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An Imaginary Journey is the latest album by the double bass player Alberto Brutti along with his contemporary jazz project, Karu. The deep interest in ancestral rhythms and tribal cultures have transformed their studio sessions into adventurous jams, that impress for a sound that is as sophisticated as it is primal. Karu embarks on a psychedelic trip across uncharted territory in jazz composition: Alberto orchestrates vibrating bass passages livened up by the sparkling sax, evocative percussions and melodies that wander across the record. Connecting the dots between joyful celebrations and fearless catharsis, this album crates a spiritual atmosphere where we experience multiple cultures through chants, rituals and the power of imagination.

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Cecile Mclorin Salvant

Ghost Song

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Benjamin Eick Lackner

Last Decade

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mister I.B.E.)

Ibrahim Maalouf

Capacity To Love

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1965 | DE | Reissue (Blue Note)

Big John Patton

Oh Baby!

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (ATA)

Release: 1965 / DE – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blue Note’s 1960s roster boasted numerous Hammond B3 organ whizzes including the soulful Kansas City born master Big John Patton. The dynamic quintet that Patton assembled for his 1965 album Oh Baby! packed a punch with the B3 master joined by trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Harold Vick, guitarist Grant Green, and drummer Ben Dixon.

Big John Patton (organ); Blue Mitchell (trumpet); Harold Vick (tenor sax); Grant Green (guitar); Ben Dixon (drums)

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

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Jake Mehew

Sage

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jake Mehew is a Leeds based composer and performer, whose work combines principles of free improvisation with the technological considerations of the avant-garde. Jake uses both acoustic instruments, modular synthesisers and samplers to create rich, meditative soundscapes that envelope audiences within an immersive quadraphonic sound field. Having spent years studying the causation of flow, Jake endeavours to create the conditions for spontaneous and radical composition in his work.
Sage is a modern and contemporary turn on what a spiritual jazz record can be. Jake Mehew has crafted an album that captures the energy present within the performances, many of which were of the moment; one-take improvised recordings, harnessing the idea at it's inception, rather than at its production.
This exceptional record captures the energy present within the performances, many of which were of the moment; one-take improvised recordings, harnessing the idea at it's inception, rather than at its production. The unique nature of this recording is apparent in not only its content but also in its production; a combination of electro-acoustic music , jazz and contemporary classical sounds. A one-take improvised recording may not be as polished as a meticulously rehearsed studio recording, but it has a raw, genuine, immediacy that you just can't get out of a more artificial process.

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Enrico Hersch Rava

The Song Is You

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Avishai Cohen

Naked Truth

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Compagnie 4000)

Ukandanz

4 Against The Odds

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Heinen)

Bruno Heinen Trio

Out Of Doors

Blues And The Soulful Truth

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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. An original suite by Bruno, the starting point for Out of Doors was the eight Hungarian folk melodies used by Bela Bartók in his 1920 composition 8 Improvisations Op. 20. Over the 8 movements, Bruno's roots in impressionistic classical music are concentrated by Andrea's classical training and deep understanding of European jazz and Gene’s renowned groove and swing.

Bruno Heinen – Piano Andrea Di Biase – Bass Gene Calderazzo – Drums

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Leon Thomas

LP | 1972 | UK | Reissue (BGP / Flying Dutchman)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Patience)

Release: 1972 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The title of Thomas’s third album for Bob Thiele’s Flying Dutchman referenced Oliver Nelson’s classic 1961 LP “The Blues and the Abstract Truth”. Released in 1972, “Blues And The Soulful Truth” featured an expansive all-star band that included Pretty Purdie (drums), Stanley Clarke (bass), Cecil Payne (Baritone sax) and the unsung Neal Creque (keyboards). It’s a soul meets jazz meets the blues masterpiece with arrangements from ex-James Brown horn-man Pee Wee Ellis.

This astounding album features the extraordinary ‘Shape Your Mind To Die’, ‘l-o-v-e’, a captivating vocal version of Gabor Szabo’s ‘Gypsy Queen’, the compelling ‘Love Each Other’, the plaintive ‘China Doll’ and a driving version of John Lee Hooker’s ‘Boom-Boom-Boom’.

Pressed on 180gm vinyl we have remained faithful to the original pressing, replicating the Flying Dutchman label style and gatefold sleeve.

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Misha Sultan

Translucence

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Fair Weather Friends)

Yako Trio

Odessea

Ibio-Ibio Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Yako Trio come from Thessaloniki, Greece and play jazz. “OdesSea” contains six original compositions that pay homage to the sea, the aimless wandering and the inescapable destiny of a traveller...nostos. Recorded in two stages, it includes collaborations with Nicolas Masson (ecm) and James Wylie on saxophone.

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Camilla George

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Ever)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Jazzwerkstatt Wien)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Saxophonist, composer, bandleader and innovator Camilla George makes a stunning return with her third album 'Ibio-Ibio' - a rich, cultural journey dedicated to her Ibibio tribe of south eastern coastal Nigeria, out on Ever Records / !K7. The album is a heady mix of afrobeat, hip hop and jazz coproduced by Camilla George. Across eight tracks, Camilla's virtuosic alto saxophone performance collaborates with a stellar line-up of some of the hottest players in London's jazz scene including Daniel Casimir (bass), Shirley Tetteh (guitar), Winston Clifford (drums), Sheila Maurice-Grey (trumpet), Rosie Turton (trombone), Renato Paris (vocals), Sarah Tandy (keys), plus Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate, acclaimed US drummer Daru Jones (Jack White, Pete Rock, Talib Kweli), and Birmingham's finest MC Lady Sanity.

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Clemens Wenger

Physics Of Beauty

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | DE | Original (Blue Note)

Julian Lage

View With A Room

Drifted Entities Volume 1

Release: 2022 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Summit meeting of the two top guitarists Julian Lage and Bill Frisell! Julian Lage ("one of the world's most colorful improvisers" - NY Times) returns with a stunning new album, following his acclaimed 2021 Blue Note debut “Squint”, which Associated Press dubbed “an exuberant, engaging, endlessly inventive exploration of styles”. This time around, Lage expands his eclectic trio of bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Dave King into a quartet with the addition of none other than guitarist and fellow Blue Note label member Bill Frisell!

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Healing Force Project

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Beat Machine)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (GLM Music)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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For nearly a decade now, Italian born artist Antonio Marini has been going through a sonic adventure known as Healing Force Project. Drawing inspiration from “Music Is The Healing Force of the Universe” by the sax player Albert Ayler, Antonio uses musical experimentation to break down traditional patterns. The creative process becomes a tool to “dismantle modern life boundaries and ﬁnd a spiritual remedy in the music itself “. His work is extremely hard to pin down as it embraces a diverse spectrum of genres: dabbling into the electric period of Miles Davis and the avant-garde jazz of Anthony Braxton, adding a dash of groovy 70’s funk and slowed down echoes in the style of Lee Scratch Perry. Most important is also Antonio’s passion for electronics, traceable in the distorted sounds and hypnotic rhythms that reference to artists such as The Black Dog and Autechre. HFP has released with several cutting edge labels among which Firecracker Recording, Lifeforms, Tending The Void, Eclipse Music, Amenthia Recordings and Acido Records. Along his journey he played festivals such as the Italian landmark of experimentalism and sustainability, Terraforma, Berlin Atonal, Modulo Fest and as a supporting act @Argo16 for Sun Ra Arkestra.

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Robert Kessler

Little People

Ella At The Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook Indie Exclusive Yellowgold Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ella Fitzgerald

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

Ella Fitzgerald

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Verve)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Reissue (Three Lobed)

Body / Dilloway / Head

Release: 2021 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Takayanagi Masayuki New Direction For The Art

La Grima

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Aguirre)

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Souffle Continu)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On vinyl for th efirst time. Famed free jazz concert registration of an early New Direction for the Art performance. Recorded in 1971. Old-style Gatefold LP, with rare photographs & extensive liner notes by Alan Cummings.

The performance by Takayanagi Masayuki New Direction for the Art at the Gen’yasai festival on August 14, 1971 was an intense, bruising collision between the radical, anti-establishment politics of the period in Japan and the febrile avant-garde music that had begun to emerge a few years before. The ferocious performance that you can hear here was received with outright hostility by the audience, who responded first with catcalls and later with showers of debris that were hurled at the performers. Takayanagi though described the group’s performance to jazz magazine Swing Journal as a success, “an authentic and realistic depiction of the situation”.

In 1962, Takayanagi, bassist Kanai Hideto and painter Kageyama Isamu went on to form an AACM-style musicians’ collective called the New Century Music Research Institute. Every Friday, members gathered at Gin-Paris, a chanson bar in the fashionable Ginza district of Tokyo, to push the outer limits of jazz creativity.

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Francois Tusques

Piano Dazibao

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In Paris in 1965, F. Tusques mixed with Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Aldo Romano or Jacques Thollot. He also met Don Cherry and above all recorded, with other like-minded Frenchmen (Portal and Jeanneau alongside Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin and Charles Saudrais), the first album of free jazz in France. Years later his thirst for freedom led him to isolation; between May and September 1970, the pianist recorded, at his home, the first of two albums that he would release on Futura Records: »Piano Dazibao« and »Dazibao N°2«.

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Mathias Eik Group

When We Leave

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Take Five-Great Jazz Instrumentals

2LP | EU (Vinyl Passion)

Release: EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Best Studio & Live Recordings

Nina Simone

2LP | EU (Vinyl Passion)

Release: EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Julie Is Her Name / Lonely Girl / Calender Girl

Julie London

2LP | 1955 | EU | Reissue (Vinyl Passion)

Release: 1955 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eartha Kitt

Three Original Albums

2LP | EU (Vinyl Passion)

Release: EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Movementt)

Talking Therapy Ensemble

Talking Therapy

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Feather Funk Record Store Day 2022 Yellow Vinyl Edition

Blue Feather

LP | 1981 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

If You Will Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1981 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 750 copies.

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Flora Purim

LP | 2022 | Original (Strut)

LP | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Life Goes On)

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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One of the all-time greats of Brazilian jazz fusion, Flora Purim, returns with her first studio album in over 15 years, 'If You Will', released on Strut. Conceived as a celebration of her music and collaborations, the album explores new compositions alongside fresh versions of Flora's favourite personal songs and positive lyrics from across her varied career. The album is the latest chapter in Flora's long, illustrious and varied career. As well as her celebrated partnership with Airto and her early days with Quarteto Novo, Flora has worked with Stan Getz, Gil Evans, Miriam Makeba, George Duke, Chick Corea (as an original member of Return To Forever), Dizzy Gillespie's United Nation Orchestra, Uruguayan band Opa and many more. Her solo albums on Milestone remain true jazz fusion classics.

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Haki R. Madhubuti

Rise Vision Comin

Flute, Brass, Vibes And Percussion

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A breathtaking self-conscious free-jazz masterwork, 'Rise Vision Comin'' summarizes more than 30 years of musical and theoretical/political expression from renowned activist/scholar/free-jazz pioneer Haki R. Standing on the verge of spiritual jazz aesthetic, his music remains timeless & unforgettable after it's longstanding creation. The first album by the group Rise Vision Comin was released in 1976, and features among others Wallace Roney on trumpet, Clarence Seay on bass and Agyei Akoto on saxophone who also served as creative director. It features 9 tracks with the title track, “Rise, Vision, Comin” a great example of the adhesive comradery between instrumentation and Madhubuti’s spoken-word.

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Herbie Mann

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (Life Goes On)

Jean-Charles Capon / Philippe Maté / Lawrence "Butch" Morris / Serge Rahoerson

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 1959, flutist Herbie Mann put together a very interesting band that was in its brief existence (before Mann's interests shifted elsewhere) one of the top in Afro-Cuban jazz. Utilizing four trumpets (including Doc Cheatham), up to three percussionists and a flute-vibes-bass-drums quartet, Mann performs four standards (including "Dearly Beloved," "I'll Remember April" and "Autumn Leaves") and two originals in a style that was beyond bop and much more African- and Cuban-oriented.

Personnel: Herbie Mann (flute, bass clarinet), Johnny Rae (vibes), Nabil Knobby Totah (bass), Rudy Collins (drums), Ray Mantilla (conga drums), Ray Barretto (bongos except on #8 and #12). Plus trumpet section: Doc Cheatham, Siggy Schatz, Jerome Kail and Leo Ball. Recorded in New York City, 1959

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Jean-Charles Capon - Philippe Maté - Lawrence "Butch" Morris - Serge Rahoerson

LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Souffle Continu)

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (De W.E.R.F.)

Mos Ensemble

Behind The Marble

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Black vinyl with creamy white centered blob in printed innersleeve.mòs ensemble is a band around Belgian bass player Kobe Boon. Genres are mixed up: going from jazz to classical, from electronic to indie influences, all of the musicians being very openminded in their musical interest.

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Jazz & Cinema

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | US | Reissue (Nightnote)

Phi-Psonics

The Cradle

The Enchanted Guitar Of Pekka Laine Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 2020 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Los Angeles based, Phi-Psonics is an instrumental project with an introspective, improvisational approach to creating a lush, immersive soundscape for the listener.
Phi-Psonics is produced by Seth Ford-Young (Tom Waits, Edward Sharpe) who also plays acoustic bass. Joining Ford-Young are two of his old Edward Sharpe bandmates; Josh Collazo on drums and Mitchell Yoshida on electric piano. Sylvain Carton (Beats Antique, Jon Vanderslice) provides Saxophones and Flutes.

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Pekka Laine

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Svart)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (GLM Music)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pekka Laine is leading a double life. There is his daytime persona, a longstanding journalist and maker of award-winning documentary series for radio and television. Then there is the other side to him that comes out at night: the guitar player and DIY-composer. As a driving force of The Hypnomen, a band with a cult following, Laine has explored the world of instrumental music since the 1990s. In his intrepid journeys from primitive noise art to the spheres of soulful psychedelia, he has now reached one important milestone. As a result of a series of unpredictable twists and turns, Pekka Laine’s first solo album was born. The making of the album has been a highly personal journey. It is a declaration of his undying love of the enchanted instrument that is the electric guitar and the cosmic echoes that tie together the primal 1960s space sounds, psychedelia, dub music and weird film soundtracks to form one futuristic continuum.

What started as an innocent and unexpected email in last March has turned into a process mentored by Esa Pulliainen, the fearless leader of the legendary band Agents. From his seat behind the mixing console, the guitar legend captured the sound waves and created the right mood. Multi-instrumentalist and producer Toni Liimatta, a serious alchemist in the world of instrumental music, added his invaluable expertise and experience. The spirit during the sessions where Laine’s compositions were transformed from dreamy ideas into reality was free and almost childlike in zeal. No holds were barred and nothing could stop the stream of influences, associations and sounds ricocheting off the studio walls. Joe Meek, electronic space sounds, Spaghetti Westerns, experimental tape music, London, California, Moscow, Jane Birkin, library music, Björn Olsson, Link Wray, early hip hop, the Wrecking Crew, folk, Roy Anderson’s films – there was no end in sight when the party started raving about all things inspiring. The music, however, is authentic. It came straight from the composer’s own head and heart.

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Leleka

Sonce U Serci

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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The Franklin Street Arterial

The Franklin Street Arterial Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Petit Cherie)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Franklin Street Arterial were from Portland, Maine and are the type of band to appreciate since the beginning of A Side. Late 70s and early 80s light fusion sound (but not smooth jazz!). Definitely more on the jazz side rather than rock, but with well crafted melodies and solid professional playing from all. Sublime synthesizer, fine guitar, and fantastic sax gives an honest and touchable value to this record.

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Marcin Wasilewski Trio

En Attendant

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (GLM Music)

Quadro Nuevo

Secret Recordings

LP | 1969 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Don Cherry

Where Is Brooklyn?

Release: 1969 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Jazz Experiments Of Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus

LP | 1956 | EU | Reissue (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 1956 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Donald Byrd & Pepper Adams

Motor City Scene

LP | 1961 | EU | Reissue (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 1961 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Edition)

Marquis Hill

New Gospel Revisited

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Knekelhuis)

Michel Banabila

Echo Transformations

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (City Slang)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Michel Banabila is an indispensable part of the Dutch experimental music scene, where he has acquired a special place with many, in the 40 years that he has been releasing music. Michel is also just as active as a composer for the theater and ballet world, as well as for TV productions, to considerable fame. The threat of drowning in the sea of his oeuvre is real in view of the unprecedented amount of output, but once sailing unmissable monolithic rock formations loom up rapidly. 'Echo Transformations' is one of them. It's a magical album, where everything falls into place in a rich domain inspired by the Fourth World dimension. A world of sound arises from our imagination, stimulating the senses. A concept album where every sigh has its place and where no superfluous tone can be heard. What remains is to embrace the inevitable surrender that accompanies unstoppable change. This is Banabila at his best.

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Fazer

Plex

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Eddie Marshall

Dance Of The Sun

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1985 | JP | Original (Atlantic)

Jean-Luc Ponty

Fables

LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Dialogo)

Release: 1985 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

The record is basically NM, there are one or two small spots related to humidity.
The cover has a bit of storage wear, insert and OBI included, has a small damage.

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Steve Lacy

Straws

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At long last, after remaining out of print for decades, the Milan based imprint, Dialogo, dives into the legendary catalog of Cramps, bringing forth the first ever vinyl reissue of Steve Lacy’s LP, "Straws", issued as the sixth instalment of the label’s DIVerso series in 1977. Truly singular in the legendary American saxophonist’s discography - featuring stunning solo excursions and dialogs with himself - it remains one of the great documents of 1970s improvisation, and is as engrossing, creatively riveting, and as ahead of its time today as it was when it was laid to tape. Complete with original liner notes penned by Lacy himself, it’s not to be missed!

Steve Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. His career has been long and prolific; Lacy worked extensively in experimental jazz and to a lesser extent in free improvisation, but his music was typically melodic and tightly-structured. Lacy also became a highly distinctive composer, with compositions often built out of little more than a single questioning phrase, repeated several times. In 1977 he released a one-off record titled Straws for the Italian Cramps Records label, as the 6th volume of the DIVerso series (which included, among others, Demetrio Stratos’ solo albums) dedicated to contemporary avant-garde composers. Straws is now made available again on Dialogo in a faithful reproduction of the original gatefold cover artwork and inner sleeve.

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Swing In The Films Of Woody Allen

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (New Continent)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Marduk)

Star Lake City 2

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Cannonball Adderley Quintet

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! - Live At "The Club"

LP | 1967 | US | Original (Capitol)

Release: 1967 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Irreversible Entanglements

Open The Gates Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2021 | US | Original (International Anthem)

LP | 1971 | EU | Reissue (Souffle Continu)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Open The Gates is Philadelphia-based free jazz collective Irreversible ENTANGLEMENTS’s third full length album (and first double LP length album). Recorded at Rittenhouse Soundworks in Philadelphia, across 73 minutes of music the band – featuring Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro & drummer Tcheser Holmes (who released their duo debut Heritage of the Invisible II on International Anthem last year), saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and bassist Luke Stewart – supplement their raw, organic punk-jazz sound with firsttime experiments with electronics and synthesizers.

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Ted Curson

Pop Wine

Akuma Ga Kitarite Fue Wo Fuku

Release: 1971 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Originally from Philadelphia, invited to New York by Miles Davis, playing at Antibes in 1960 with Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy, here is trumpeter Ted Curson in 1971... in Paris. With him, a legendary trio: Georges Arvanitas (piano), Jacky Samson (double bass) and Charles Saudrais (drums). A new transatlantic alliance in the service of jazz of all kinds: classic, modal, fusion and even free... Pop Wine is – between Coltrane and Miles with a nod to roots in the club the Caveau de la Huchette – an explosive cocktail but which leaves no stains!

In 1960, trumpeter Ted Curson played with Charles Mingus and Eric Dolphy on stage at the Antibes jazz festival. Eleven years later he was in Paris to record one of the gems of his discography, with a hard-hitting French trio: Georges Arvanitas (piano), Jacky Samson (double bass) and Charles Saudrais (drums).

Arvanitas was also someone who had travelled widely. Originally from Marseille, he had accompanied visiting American musicians in Paris before moving to the States. It was when he came back that the charismatic trio was created with Samson and Saudrais and who recorded, in 1970 on Futura, the unforgettable In Concert and then, the following year, Pop Wine with Ted Curson.

Pop Wine: don’t be fooled into thinking you are going to hear jazz musicians trying to play pop after uncorking too many bottles. For, although the album occasionally tends toward fusion, it is first and foremost a wonderful jazz recording; and a recording with enough fizz to make your head spin!

There are five tracks in total: Quartier Latin reminds us a little of Olé Coltrane (Curson, like the saxophonist, is originally from Philadelphia), Flip Top where the trumpet and piano play out a chase scene through the streets of Paris, Pop Wine where funk and cool jazz meet on the barricades of black and white, L.S.D. Takes A Holiday which breaks out in a style close to free jazz, and finally Lonely One, with the impression that ends this unclassifiable album. Unclassifiable, unless we decide to elevate Pop Wine to the rank of a great vintage.

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Hozan Yamamoto & Yu Imai

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

Outros Espaco White Vinyl Edition

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We've got a bit of an obsession with Hozan Yamamoto here at Mr Bongo! A legend of Japanese jazz, he is rightly regarded as a true master and was recognised as a "living national treasure" by the Japanese government in 2002. Over five decades he pushed the genre into new directions, absorbing fusion, funk, spiritual jazz and many other sounds, resulting in a discography studded with gems of rare beauty. Exploring his back catalogue has taken us on an engrossing journey that now sees us reissuing another work from this ground-breaking musician.

Though not translating perfectly into English 'Akuma Ga Kitarite Fue Wo Fuku', (kitarite has not been a modern expression in Japanese) roughly means 'The Devil Comes Playing The Flute' / 'The Devil Is Coming While Blowing The Whistle' or 'Devils Flute’. It is the original soundtrack to Kôsei Saitô’s 1979 mystery and suspense movie, ‘Devil’s Flute’. The film is based on a story by the famous author, Seishi Yokomizo, and is centred around a much-loved fictional Japanese detective, Kosuke Kindaichi. A Japanese Sherlock Holmes that has been popular for generations.

Hozan Yamamoto was invited to compose the soundtrack directly by the producer of the film, Haruki Kadokawa. Mr Kadokawa also hired keyboard player and producer Yu Imai as assistant producer on the project, resulting in a stunning cosmic, breaks and beats-laden, funk, disco soundtrack extravaganza.

When it comes to the soundtrack and the technology of the time, Hozan Yamamoto and Yu Imai got inventive, tripped out, funked up, and experimented, creating a quirky soundtrack masterpiece that needed to be heard more outside of Japan. Differing from the more traditional Japanese music orientation of some of his other albums such as 'Beautiful Bamboo-Flute' (also released on Mr Bongo) the album showcases a number of genres, from lush atmospheric incidental music to disco and funk grooves, experimental nuggets, drum and flute workouts, to neo-classical and more.

A special record that showcases the further depths of this wonderful musician's talents.

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Rodrigo Brandao

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Comets Coming)

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The edition that marks the start of the brand-new Comets Coming, a label linked to Groovie Records and A Traineira, could not be more suitable: it is that Rodrigo Brandão, like his grandfather Herman Poole Blount, dust of stars that the world knows as Sun Ra, may have his feet on the Earth, but he has definitely a sidereal head.

Brandão arrived recently to Portugal, but already left a strong mark in the most adventurous Lisbon scene, having performed several concerts in which his language has been wrapped in the exploratory sounds of musicians such as Rodrigo Amado, João Valinho, and Hernâni Faustino. The agitator, poet and spoken word artist, brought a vast experience that over the years saw him collaborate with artists as distinct as the members of Metá Metá or Prince Paul (that one!) on Brookzill!.

This work, however, came in his luggage, across the ocean, on the rediscovery trip that brought him from Brazil to Lisbon. Outros Espaço was recorded in São Paulo in late 2019 with a luxury crew: Tulipa Ruiz and Juçara Marçal added to the microphone, Thiago França played flute and alto & tenor saxophones, Guilherme Granado dealt with the synthesizers and effects, Marcos Gerez measured the overall pulse with his electric bass, Thomas Rohrer played soprano and 'rabeca' (fiddle), and Paulo Santos dealt with the percussion. In addition to the base band, Outros Espaço also features some members of Sun Ra Arkestra's current incarnation. Respectively: Danny Thompson (rip) on baritone and bongo, Elson Nascimento on 'surdo' (tom drum), Knoel Scott on tenor and soprano, with the giant Marshall Allen in a prominent role leading the collective towards the unknown, while playing the alto sax and synthesizer.

In Outros Espaço, Brandão reaches for words from different origins, from contrasting times and cultures, all with magnetic resonance imaging: what is not from his furrow comes to him from Candomblé (“Quando Os Orixás Desfilam Sobre A Cracolândia”), from his readings of Sun Ra (“Eu Sou 1 Instrumento” is an adaptation of the poem I Am An Instrument), or from the school's playgrounds (“Jamais Nos Esqueceremos”). And in these words there are teeth and nails ingrained in injustice (“Quantos Coltrane...?, “Todo o Dia Tem +”) and kaleidoscopic delusions that result from the speed of light (“Sol da Meia Noite”).

The crew that travels through these Outros Espaço (PT for "Other Spaces") has freedom as the main fuel, jazz as a measure of their reach, and all swings in the world as maps, so they can lose themselves at the end of the cosmos. There is urgency and reflection, craziness and precision, surprise and well-known ancestral raw material, that makes us vibrate inwardly with the same trembling as the comets that are coming.

The visionary and veteran Scotty Hard was responsible for making everything sound like the music of the spheres, dealing with the mixing from his Inguasonic Sound studio in Brooklyn, NY.

And lastly, in January, Rob Mazurek, another frequent ally of Brandão, another notorious space traveler, offered a poem that frames this project. Among other things, he writes:

Make this place sing Make this place thunder Make this place shake

It couldn't be in any other way. Brandão: Outros Espaço (Text by Rui Miguel Abreu)

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Wesseltoft

Everybody Loves Angels

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Afrosynth)

New Horizons 2