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Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Young Jazz Rebels (Madlib)

Slave Riot

2LP | 2010 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

25,64 €* 26,99 € -5%

2LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Strut)

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Another Madlib's Yesterdays New Quintet alias, another piece of smoked out electronic Jazz by Otis Jackson Jr.!

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Mulatu Astatke

Mulatu Steps Ahead

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Live At The Harlem Square Club

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following his acclaimed collaboration on Strut with The Heliocentrics, the Father of Ethio jazz presents his brand new studio album, ‘Mulatu Steps Ahead’ for 2010. The album explores new directions in fusions of Western jazz with Ethiopian modes, moving forward the pioneering sound Mulatu developed during the ‘60s and ‘70s, showcased on the recent Strut compilation ‘New York * Addis * London’. For the new album, tracks were recorded with members of Either/Orchestra in Boston, with contributions by traditional Ethiopian musicians in Addis, members of The Heliocentrics and some of the UK’s leading jazz and African players during the final sessions in London in November 2009.

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Sam Cooke

LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

2LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Two Gentle Men)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g audiophile vinyl.

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Sophie Hunger

1983

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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12" | 2010 | EU | Original (Project: Mooncircle / HHV)

The Q4

Darker Days

11,99 €*

12" | 2010 | EU | Original (Project: Mooncircle / HHV)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The Q4 is a Dutch production trio consisting of sampling specialists Sense, Arts the Beatdoctor and STW. Although their collage of sounds covers bits of many genres, it is generally perceived as hip-hop or trip-hop. Numerous of obscure records are worked into every song with the greatest of care, often accompanied by live instrumentation or scratches giving their music an organic feel.

The Q4’s name refers to the quadraphonic sound systems that where used in the seventies, as one of the earlier forms of surround sound installations. Hence the title: Sound Surroundings for their critically acclaimed debut that was released on the 22nd of January 2010 through Project: Mooncircle. Aside from instrumental songs the album also features a number of guest vocalists, ranging from rappers to flamenco and blues singers.

Their upcoming release Darker Days however will be fully instrumental and features four original new tracks and two remixes. The 12 Inch comes with a promotional cassette (yes, a cassette!) on which another new TheQ4 song can be found, as well as an introduction to Shahmen, one of Sense’s solo projects which will be released in April/September through Project: Mooncircle.

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The Q4

Darker Days HHV Bundle

13,99 €*

LP | 2010 | DE | Original (Sonorama)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Freddy Cole

The Cole Nobody Knows

Release: 2010 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sonorama is proud to release a legendary and sought after soul jazz LP that will send shivers down your spine. 77-year-old singer & pianist Freddy Cole, youngest brother of Nat "King" Cole and uncle of Natalie Cole, is a truly unique interpreter with an impressive career from 1952 until 2010. This very rare and privately pressed LP was recorded back in 1976 and finally gets its first remastered 1:1 reissue with original cover artwork (First Shot label), including such greats as "Wild Is Love", "Brother Where Are You" and "Live For Life".

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2LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Kind Of Blue Remastered

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Schema)

Gerardo Frisina

Join The Dance

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor

Caro Emerald

2LP+CD | 2010 | EU | Original (Grandmono)

31,99 €*

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Pop

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Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland & Co

The Golden Eight Encore!

LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Rearward)

LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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never released before!

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Jaco Pastorius

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate

Ali And Toumani

2LP | 2010 | EU | Original (World Circuit)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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1959 Bonn - Beethovenhalle

The Modern Jazz Quartet

2LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Bud Powell

1960 Essen - Grugahalle

18,69 €* 21,99 € -15%

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2010 | EU | Original (Heavenly Sweetness)

The Rongetz Foundation

Simone 421

8,99 €*

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Reality & Fantasy Gilles Peterson Remix

Raphael Gualazzi

12" | 2010 | IT | Original (Deja Vu)

14,99 €*

LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2010 / IT – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Raphael gets the Gilles treatment and the people love it as well.

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Sam Cooke

Night Beat

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin

Llyria

48,99 €*

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson & Jon Christensen

My Song

LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Pat Metheny Group

American Garage

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Pat Metheny

80/81

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Jan Garbarek

I Took Up The Runes

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | EU | Original (GLM)

Quadro Nuevo

Grand Voyage

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Graciela Maria & Robot Koch

Many Places

CD | 2010 | EU | Original (Project: Mooncircle / HHV)

6,99 €*

Graciela Maria & Robot Koch

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

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

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Mexican Singer/Songwriter Graciela Maria has been singing since she was a little kid. Having livied in Mexico City for many years, she was part of the mexican electronic music scene and made music with local producers signal deluxe.

In 2009 she met berlin based producer Robot Koch in New York at his show at Coco66 in Brooklyn.
They started making music together and Grace was featured on Robot's album “Death Star Droid” as well as on the Ep “Listen To Them Fade”. 2009 marked the beginning of a journey both musically and geographically for Graciela, as she moved from Mexico City to Berlin and started playing shows wolrdwide with Robot Koch.
They played everywhere from the Sonar Festival in Barcelona to some obscure art festivals in Bulgaria and Tunesia.

With Many Places, Graciela Maria's stunning debut album, she steps into the light as more than just a featured vocalist on Koch's electronica and dubstep driven compositions: Her own music breathes the vibe of classic singer/songwriters like Tim Buckley and Elliot Smith, with the music and the production being even more organic and live sounding than on the previous Koch tracks. The songwriting took place all over the world, as Graciela traveled and lived in many places recently, accompanied by her little notebook and her digital camera, which she uses to record song ideas on all the time. The topics she deals with are both surreal and personal and leave it up to the listener to be interpretated.

Producer Robot Koch teamed up with friend and fellow musician Sneaky (Fingathing / Ninja Tune) to create this organic and retro futuristic sounding album, that incorporates Double Bass, Live Drums, Cello and other String instruments and well as a subtle touch of cutting edge electronic production which Robot Koch is know for. The track "Many Places" features a string arrangement by Fiora Cutler.

Graciela Maria is an artist to watch out for in the future as she proves to create timeless pieces of music that are appealing to Indie/pop listeners and lover's of electronic music alike.

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Many Places

LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Project: Mooncircle / HHV)

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LP | 2010 | EU | Original (Project: Mooncircle / HHV)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

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

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Long Arm

The Branches

12,99 €*

LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Wax)

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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"The Branches" album is a reflection of a world, where human feelings and natural powers are bound together. Everything is correlated in this world. There is no alive-dead distinction. The season change depends just on state of mind. Every move, every wind breath, every sound brings an information, opened for everyone who believes and ready to accept it, who hears and knows how to listen.

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Charles Mingus

Mingus Ah Um

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Cannonball Adderley / John Coltrane

Quintet In Chicago

LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Wax)

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | MX | Original (Columbia)

Kind Of Blue

Release: 2010 / MX – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Includes original artwork and 180-gram heavyweight audiophile vinyl.

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Jazz Wax)

Kind Of Blue

20,99 €*

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Now-Again)

Seu Jorge And Almaz

Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Warm and dark, psychedelic and yet grounded, uplifting but at times somber - Seu Jorge & Almaz self-titled album for Now Again.

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OST

2LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Strut)

Just One Of Those Things 45rpm, 200g Vinyl Edition

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Strut repress a classic from 2010, The Heliocentrics’ groundbreaking studio collaboration with Lloyd Miller, ‘(OST)’.
Recorded following their award-winning collaboration with Ethio jazz pioneer, Mulatu Astatke (Mojo magazine Top 50 of the year 2009, Sunday Times World Music Album of the year), pioneering UK collective The Heliocentrics resurfaced with another fascinating jazz enigma, ethno-musicologist, jazz maestro and multi-instrumentalist, Lloyd Miller.
Learning various instruments and immersing himself in New Orleans jazz through his father, a professional clarinet player, Lloyd Miller first trained himself in the styles of George Lewis and Jimmy Giuffre and cut his first Dixieland jazz 78 rpm record in 1950. During the late ‘50s, his father landed a job in Iran and Miller began to develop a lifelong interest in Persian and Eastern music forms, learning to play a vast array of traditional ethnic instruments from across Asia and the Middle East.
He toured Europe heavily, basing himself in Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Germany (where he played with Eddie Harris and Don Ellis) and, most famously, in Paris where he worked with leftfield bandleader Jef Gilson, a phenomenon in French jazz during the early ‘60s. Miller returned to the Middle East during the ‘70s, landing his own TV show on NIRTV in Tehran under the name Kurosh Ali Khan. His show became a national fixture and ran for seven years. More recently, his mid-‘60s album ‘Oriental Jazz’ has become a collector’s favourite.
Emerging from an acoustic jazz session in 2007 set up by Jazzman, the Heliocentrics collaboration was recorded at the band’s Quatermass Studios in East London during January and February 2010, a fresh, freeform mix of Eastern arrangements, jazz and angular psychedelics. The recordings involved a number of ethnic instruments that Miller played and studied throughout his career including the oud, Phonofiddle, Indian santur, Chinese shawm and wooden flute.
Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics’ ‘(OST)’ will be repressed on its original 2LP format, 1000 copies only.
LLOYD MILLER & THE HELIOCENTRICS – (OST)
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Nat 'King' Cole

2LP | 2010 | US | Original (Analogue Productions)

69,99 €*

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

Cab Calloway

Hi De Hi De Ho

Release: 2010 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2010 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

Chet Baker & Crew

49,99 €*

Release: 2010 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2010 | UK | Original (Pure Pleasure)

Eric Bibb

Friends

49,99 €*

Release: 2010 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mochilla Presents Timeless: Suite For Ma Dukes Record Store Day 2021 Edition

J Dilla

2LP | 2010 | Reissue (Mochilla)

28,49 €* 37,99 € -25%

Gaf & The Love Supreme Arkestra

Release: 2010 / Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.

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LP | 2010 | UK | Reissue (Keroxen / Discrepant)

22,99 €*

Medicine Show #7 High Jazz Seaglass Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2010 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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2022 repress of 2010’s GAF & The Love Supreme Arkestra’s debut album - another tour de force from this multi faceted band, showcasing its surprising chameleonic ease of play with multi references to space rock, free jazz and the raw German sound of the early 70's. Electric mantras meet hazy synthesizers and gaseous guitar drones float weightlessly into the cosmos. If Carl Sagan had a chance to listen to pieces such as “Shine” or the sublime “Decata na sunceto”, he would surely turn into their unconditional fan. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jorge Lozano in 2009 at Gallinero Studio ( Los Realejos, Tenerife) Artwork: Felipe González Cabezas Originally released by Foehn Records in 2010

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Madlib

2LP | 2010 | US | Reissue (Madlib Invazion)

28,89 €* 33,99 € -15%

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's My Life I'm Fighting For / Shape Your Mind to Die

Leon Thomas

12" | 2010 | US (Flying Dutchman)

13,99 €*

Release: 2010 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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3LP | 2010 | UK | Reissue (Pure Pleasure)

The Nimbus Collective

Live In Lotusland

79,99 €*

Release: 2010 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | Original (Ozella Music)

Karl Seglem

Ossicles

41,99 €*

Release: 2010 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2010 | Original (Ozella Music)

Edgar Knecht

Good Morning Lilofee

41,99 €*

Release: 2010 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2010 | EU | Original (Conrad Sound)

Bluefaced People

6,74 €* 8,99 € -25%

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet

Spirit To All

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Spirit To All" is the latest record by Polish bassist and composer Wojtek Mazolewski and his famed Quintet (WMQ), Mazolewski"s distinctive voice and vision are highly lauded and widely recognised for his contribution to the resurgence in Polish jazz and improv music on a global, crossover scale.

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Will Vinson

Tripwire

Kristjan Randalu /New Wind Jazz Orchestra

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in just one day, Tripwire is the latest album from saxophonist and composer Will Vinson.Realising a long-held ambition to record a chord-less trio album, Vinson is joined here by bassist Matt Penman, one of today"s most adventurous bass players, and drummer Eric Harland, known for his impressive work with the world"s jazz luminaries.Special guest tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana also joins for two tracks. The record captures the energy of returning to the studio and playing for the first time since the Covid-Pandemic lockdowns, and further cements Vinson"s reputation as a virtuosic risk-taking leader.Tripwire skilfully brings together Vinson"s vision of freedom and collaboration into a cohesive album that documents the highly charged reunification of musicians, masterfully captured during a one-off recording session.

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Sisu

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Sisu" marks the beginning of a new chapter for esteemed Estonian pianist and composer Kristjan Randalu - as his first large ensemble project recording. It"s also the debut outing for the New Wind Jazz Orchestra conducted by Wolf Kerschek and features special guest trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and guitarist Ben Monder.

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John Escreet

Seismic Shift

35,99 €*

When Losing A Dream To Reality

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Pianist John Escreet, hailed by Time Out London as a "transatlantic jazz genius," continues his artistic ascent with the bold, exploratory album Seismic Shift. It is Escreet"s ninth album as a leader but his first at the helm of a trio, and also one of the first to see release since his move to the West Coast in early 2020. The UK native, former Brooklynite and now Los Angeles transplant teams up with fellow Angelenos Eric Revis (bass) and Damion Reid (drums) for a set brimming with fire and invention.

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Hannes Bennich

Redefining Element 78 Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"When Losing a Dream To Reality" is the debut album from Swedish alto saxophonist and composer Hannes Bennich. Bennich is one of the most interesting new voices on the Scandinavian scene and presents all-original compositions for his first outing written for his band of pianist Britta Virves, double bassist Tomas Sjödell and drummer Emil Norman. Special guest vocalist Helen Salim joins for one track.

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Rebecca Nash

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Second / Whirlwind)

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Redefining Element 78" presents a new work by British pianist-composer Rebecca Nash - a distinct musical voice with a deep musical identity. The music emerged following Nash"s encounter with the writings of legendary New York alto saxophonist John O"Gallagher, who joins her on the album, alongside guitarist Jamie Leeming, trumpeter Nick Malcolm, bassist Paul Michael and drummer Matt Fisher. Electronics are provided by Nick Walters and Chris Mapp.

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WaJazz Volume II The King RCDS Masters HHV Exclusive Sun Yellow Vinyl Edition

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

43,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This edition is limited to 500 copies worldwide and is only available at HHV. Following the highly acclaimed first volume in the series, Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa continues the WaJazz exploration with another essential collection of music that contains something uniquely Japanese — focusing this time on the King Records catalog. Featuring timeless music by Isao Suzuki, Toshiaki Yokota, Akira Miyazawa, Takeru Muraoka, Yasuaki Shimizu, Masahiko Togashi, George Otsuka, and more!

Gatefold 180g heavy double vinyl LP, reverse board print. Comes with extensive track-by-track liner notes by Yusuke Ogawa.
All tracks licensed by King Record Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Mastering and lacquer cut by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting Lab, Helsinki, Finland.
Artwork by Nker.

TEXT:

“It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the second volume of the “Japanese Jazz Spectacle” series. Following the first compilation which focused on recordings from the Nippon Columbia catalog, this time we are digging into the King Records archives. It is almost impossible to capture the whole picture of Wa-Jazz in a couple of compilation albums since it is such a broad and deep genre, however, by extracting tracks from the Nippon Columbia and King Records collections - both labels having an extensive archive of jazz music - we may be able to glimpse a part of its allure and essence. This time again, I have made the music selection with this idea in mind. The music in this compilation was recorded between 1962 and 1985 and is a brief history of Japanese jazz on King Records. Listening is believing, so I hope these tracks will capture your heart and that you will enjoy the charms of Japanese jazz.” - Yusuke Ogawa

Yusuke Ogawa has been running the Universounds store in Tokyo since 2001, specializing in jazz and second-hand, rare, and collector records. He is also a reissue supervisor, label manager, DJ, and music writer. Known for his vast musical knowledge, eye for detail, and archival skills, Ogawa has worked on more than 250 reissues and compilations – including the highly praised Deep Jazz Reality and Project Re:Vinyl series. He is the co-author of the Wa-Jazz Disc Guide and the Independent Black Jazz of America books.

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WaJazz Volume II The King RCDS Masters Black Vinyl Edition

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

38,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Z Production)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following the highly acclaimed first volume in the series, Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa continues the WaJazz exploration with another essential collection of music that contains something uniquely Japanese — focusing this time on the King Records catalog. Featuring timeless music by Isao Suzuki, Toshiaki Yokota, Akira Miyazawa, Takeru Muraoka, Yasuaki Shimizu, Masahiko Togashi, George Otsuka, and more!

Gatefold 180g heavy double vinyl LP, reverse board print. Comes with extensive track-by-track liner notes by Yusuke Ogawa.
All tracks licensed by King Record Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Mastering and lacquer cut by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting Lab, Helsinki, Finland.
Artwork by Nker.

TEXT:

“It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the second volume of the “Japanese Jazz Spectacle” series. Following the first compilation which focused on recordings from the Nippon Columbia catalog, this time we are digging into the King Records archives. It is almost impossible to capture the whole picture of Wa-Jazz in a couple of compilation albums since it is such a broad and deep genre, however, by extracting tracks from the Nippon Columbia and King Records collections - both labels having an extensive archive of jazz music - we may be able to glimpse a part of its allure and essence. This time again, I have made the music selection with this idea in mind. The music in this compilation was recorded between 1962 and 1985 and is a brief history of Japanese jazz on King Records. Listening is believing, so I hope these tracks will capture your heart and that you will enjoy the charms of Japanese jazz.” - Yusuke Ogawa

Yusuke Ogawa has been running the Universounds store in Tokyo since 2001, specializing in jazz and second-hand, rare, and collector records. He is also a reissue supervisor, label manager, DJ, and music writer. Known for his vast musical knowledge, eye for detail, and archival skills, Ogawa has worked on more than 250 reissues and compilations – including the highly praised Deep Jazz Reality and Project Re:Vinyl series. He is the co-author of the Wa-Jazz Disc Guide and the Independent Black Jazz of America books.

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Possible(s) Quartet

No Work Songs

A Time Between Birth And Chaos

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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No Work Songs is the artistic result of the Covid shutdown. An intimate album with Sophia Domancich as a special guest.

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Symo Reyn

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Ciel Rose)

39,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Compagnie 4000)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Is it a celebration? A reappropriation? A revolution? Symo Reyn has perfectly mastered the qanun, a 78-string zither invented by the Persian philosopher and musician Al Farabi circa 872. A virtuoso, Symo Reyn reinvents this instrument in his work, even revolutionizing it. And how can the sound produced by the only polyphonic instrument in oriental music, the qanun, be approached anew? A new language needs to be conceived for it. its vocabulary needs to be enriched. This process also requires the instrument itself to be transformed: a special sensor manufactured by Symo Reyn himself is attached to the bridge at four points (bass, midrange, treble). It captures the sound waves and converts them into magnetic signals that run through electric wires. A dozen or so pedals control the whole device. This qanun is modified, transfigured. Both on his own and multiplied, Symo Reyn experiments, invents new sound combinations to create a subtle musical tapestry, a tense ow of calm, refined, distended notes. There is a lot of tension in this music that draws from several sources (Henry Purcell, Michael Nyman, Steve Reich, Nils Frahm, Brian Eno, Björk) to be able to tread its own path. It’s quite organic, giving structure to its chaos. Beautiful in its gesture, with rhythmic precision and melodic richness, Symo Reyn’s music is precisely composed and spontaneous, deep and luminous, dense and clear, intense and intimate, delicate and mysterious, unique and familiar. A Time Between Birth and Chaos is as much a statement on the qanun as a purely poetic act. it is a space for possibilities, a place for reinvention. In the aftermath of the founding chaos, now comes the time of metamorphosis, rebirth.Franck Médioni

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An'pagay

Somin Tegor

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

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Electric maloya style

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Phil Jl Robert

Boogaloo Station

Jazz Frontier Clear Vinyl Edtion

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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Lou Blackburn

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sowing)

Roy Haynes, Phineas Newborn, Paul Chambers

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lou Blackburn's debut Imperial session has to be considered mostly a bop album, even though traces of contemporary pop culture and soul are clearly an influence. The trombone player is joined by Freddie Hill (trumpet), Horace Tapscott (piano), John Duke (bass) and Leroy Henderson (drums). Blackburn was born in Rankin, Pennsylvania, during the 1950s, he played swing music with Lionel Hampton. In the early 1960s, he began performing with musicians like Cat Anderson, among others. He also appears on the album Mingus at Monterey. He also did crossover work with The Beach Boys and The Turtles, among others. From 1970, he lived in Germany, where he formed the amazing and highly influential ethno jazz band Mombasa. Jazz Frontier was his second – and last – album for the Us independent company Imperial and was released in 1963.

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We Three Clear Vinyl Edtion

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sowing)

LP | 2023 | EU (Shellac Disc)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We Three, recorded in a single session on November 14, 1958, was the first American studio date as a bandleader for the diminutive and legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes, although with pianist Phineas Newborn on board (along with bassist Paul Chambers), it really is a set dominated by Newborn, whose busy, two-handed technique here works in tandem balance with Haynes' cool refinement. Newborn was all about amazing and dazzling piano runs that on some dates created simply too much flash and clutter to allow pieces to flow and breathe properly, but Haynes has always been about grace and flow throughout his career (if a drummer's style can said to be elegant, Haynes fits the bill), and here he rubs off on Newborn, who exercises just enough restraint to keep him in the proper orbit, resulting in a fine album. Highlights include the easy, pure swing of the opener, a version of Ray Bryant's "Reflection," a wonderful and bluesy rendition of Avery Parrish's "After Hours" (which finds Newborn in perfect balance between explosive ornamentation and smooth functionality), and a jaunty, fun spin through Newborn's own "Sugar Ray," a tribute to boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. This trio had a brief recording career together, but as this solid set shows, they made the best of it. (All music guide)

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Marisol

Marisol Internacional!

18,99 €*

Cymbalism Clear Vinyl Edtion

Release: 2023 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Acting and singing prodigy child Marisol is one of the greatest stars in Spain ever. She was incredibly big in her country, and her popularity soon reached other lands, some as far away as Japan where she issued some records and even recorded one of her hits in Japanese. Germany was another country that saw a market for a German-sung 45, as was Italy with a couple of rare Italian-sung tunes released. Marisol also sang in English, and even Chinese-as you willhear on the songs compiled on this LP, which features some of her non-Spanish sung sides alonside with very rare performances from TV appearances on vinyl for the first time ever! The selection is completed by tunes based on rhythms from the world and a couple of other favourites from her more classic repertoire.

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Roy Haynes

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Sowing)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A legendary album by one of the masters of modern jazz drumming! Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1963, Cymbalism is among the albums Roy Haynes provided for Prestige's New Jazz series. This session features the drummer leading an acoustic quartet with Frank Strozier (alto sax, flute) Ronnie Mathews (piano) and Larry Ridley (bass). An unpredictable Hard Bop-Post Bop transitional album with different colors and moods. From the primary influence of Charlie Parker through a kind of expanded sound inspired by coeval Coltrane.

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Jo Lawry

Acrobats

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Oh! Tone Poet Vinyl Edition

Scolohofo

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Blue Note)

32,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Discreet Music)

Franciska

Tryghed

22,99 €*

Plastic Carved Out In The Shape Of The Music

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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Tryghed is the debut album from Franciska, the alias of the now Copenhagen-based artist Jonas Torstensson. As one of the key figures in the young, vivid scene around the Forlaget Kornmod imprint, Jonas has released a good deal of music under different names during the last few years, often in very limited cassette editions with barely no distribution. In many ways, Franciska pretty much captures the very essence of the sound world their label now is associated with: melancholic and rather loose tape compositions made with a hands-on approach, usually performed on organ, piano, synthesizers and acoustic instruments and often room recorded with environmental sounds leaking in. Truly DIY ambient music, closely connected in spirit with some of the more melodic Förlag För Fri Musik moments, Astrid Øster Mortensen etc. With crude stop/rec editing, sizzling magnetism and tape scuffs left intact, the A-side consists mainly of piano recordings made while on break from classical music rehearsals in school, while the B-side incorporates more electronics and field recordings though still having the piano as the focal point. Wintery minimalism at its very best. Mastered by Joakim Karlsson. Edition of 750 copies. Discreet Music 12.

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Sandoz Lab Technicians

2CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Fördämning Arkiv)

17,99 €*

Essential Works: 1954-1960

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Plastic Carved Out In The Shape Of The Music compiles all the non-album releases of the 1990s by Dunedin free improvisation quartet-cum-trio, Sandoz Lab Technicians. One of many hermetic enclaves of creative endeavour in the nineties NZ underground, Sandoz Lab Technicians are James Kirk (also of King Loser, The Stumps, Black Boned Angel, Renderizors, etc.), Nathan Thompson (Sleep, Renderizors, Eye, Expansion Bay, etc.), Tim Cornelius (Sky Blue Lodge, Three Forks, Ray Off, etc.) and, for their first few years, Mark Curragh.

Like many of their peers, Sandoz Lab Technicians also ran their own label, Blunt Instrumentals, on which they released lathe-cuts of their own music, both with Sandoz, and in other configurations (The Cornelius Brothers, Unspecified, etc.); once word had spread, particularly thanks to the release of their debut album on Siltbreeze, their music also leaked out via an international network of small labels dedicated to underground experimental music. Plastic Carved Out In The Shape Of The Music features all their Sandoz self-released EPs, and a few extra bits and pieces, offering the listener an excellent overview of their music’s development, from their very first sessions, through to the wildly sophisticated free noise sculpting of their later material.

Sandoz Lab Technicians were always a curious proposition, even within the NZ free noise ‘scene’ (such as it was, or was not). Their early material has a particularly loose, suburban cast, not without some humour: the material sounds like it’s been recorded in scungy lounge rooms, dimly lit hallways, kitchens full of bric-à-brac, sharehouses with dusty curtains. Neighbours drop by to ask about their cats; guitars clang, drums tumble, all kinds of incidental instruments clatter and pulse, in a matter not unlike collectives like Smegma or Los Angeles Free Music Society (as mentioned in the excellent liner notes by Mike Trouchon).

As the group’s playing develops, the music becomes more expansive, patient, laminar. The audio verité recording techniques gift the music an unerringly right sense of space, place, and drama; the interaction between the musicians is always spot-on, growing in sensitivity and nuance over the course of these two discs, able to flip on a dime from all-in group-mind levitation to inhabiting parallel, coincident universes. It’s a bravura collection of music that tells us much about free and improvised sound from the South Island, while still holding its cards close to its chest. - Jon Dale

37 tracks presented on 2 CDs, the first one compiling tracks recorded between 1993 and 1996 and the second one 1996 to 1999. 6-panel digipack with a 12-page booklet. Edition of 500 copies.

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Art Blakey

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Masters Of Jazz)

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original ([Pias] Din)

Naima Joris

While The Moon

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vince Mendoza & Arif Mardin

Jazzpana

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Walkin', Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', Steamin'

5LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Not Now)

72,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's A Trip Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This incredible trio of poets, were not only musicians but Civil Rights Activists, rising up in the early 1960’s. They formed the group whilst in prison where they began performing the “spoken word” to rhythm and percussion. The last poets where born! None of this prolific music has been issued as a 7” before, great music for all good music lovers

A - “It’s a trip” - Vocal Acid Jazz / dance gem!

Killer Track. Percussive vocals; addictive and funky. Acid jazz club classic. Dare you to keep up. Once you start, you can’t stop dancing. Such vibes. Environmental and racism-alerts messages chorused as early as 1977. You gotta listen to the words. Zeitgeist extraordinaire.

B - “Blessed are those who struggle” - Exclusive 7” cut for this vinyl release. The super funky drums of Mr Bernard Purdie, one of the best drummers in the World, if I may say so myself. Stunning

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A Tribute To Obabi Black Vinyl Edition

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Funk Night)

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Dynamite Cuts are proud to be able to release this classic afro jazz vibe groove. Sampled back in the day by The Jungle Brothers. This track is Originally 10 minutes long; we have now edited it down to a brilliant 4 minutes, for this exclusive vinyl release. The entrancing, hypnotic saxophone and vocals fill your ears with an uplifting energy of Jazz.

“Sensational”

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Astral Quartet

Halt / Euler Spiral

10,79 €* 17,99 € -40%

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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It's A Trip Lilac Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 150 copies. This incredible trio of poets, were not only musicians but Civil Rights Activists, rising up in the early 1960’s. They formed the group whilst in prison where they began performing the “spoken word” to rhythm and percussion. The last poets where born! None of this prolific music has been issued as a 7” before, great music for all good music lovers

A - “It’s a trip” - Vocal Acid Jazz / dance gem!

Killer Track. Percussive vocals; addictive and funky. Acid jazz club classic. Dare you to keep up. Once you start, you can’t stop dancing. Such vibes. Environmental and racism-alerts messages chorused as early as 1977. You gotta listen to the words. Zeitgeist extraordinaire.

B - “Blessed are those who struggle” - Exclusive 7” cut for this vinyl release. The super funky drums of Mr Bernard Purdie, one of the best drummers in the World, if I may say so myself. Stunning

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A Tribute To Obabi Red Marbled Vinyl Edition

Suonando La Batteria Moderna

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 150 copies. Dynamite Cuts are proud to be able to release this classic afro jazz vibe groove. Sampled back in the day by The Jungle Brothers. This track is Originally 10 minutes long; we have now edited it down to a brilliant 4 minutes, for this exclusive vinyl release. The entrancing, hypnotic saxophone and vocals fill your ears with an uplifting energy of Jazz.

“Sensational”

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Tullio De Piscopo

LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Dialogo)

26,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Brief History OF THE Drums Jazz Drums as we know them today are a complex group of percussive instruments that reveal the inventive genius of the first jazz-band players of New Orleans, on Mississippi show-boats and later, in Chicago. In their actual form (which is substantially the same as that used in the first New Orleans groups ) they are none other than the como ination into one single instrument of all the percussive units used by the Southern blacks. Let us examine the drums in their single parts: the bass drum is a percussion instrument without definite pitch, normally beaten by a stick that has a large, felt-covered knob on one end, while the other end is attached to a pedal played by the right foot. It is the same instrument used in parades with brass bands, when it is worn around the neck and can also be played with regular drumsticks if a drum roll is required. Also a descendant of the traditional New Orleans brass bands are the Charlestons, two superimposed metal plates which are also played by pedal. Drumsticks or brushes are used to play one or two cymbals, large, slightly cupped disks of brass which when struck together loudly, also produce a crashing, dramatic effect. Drumsticks are also used to play the snare drum, of military origin, and the tom tom, of African descent, which can also be played by beating the drum-head with the fingers and the heel of the hand to accompany dancing. Other supplementary instruments such as the castanets, cow-bells, etc., are also played with drumsticks. In early jazz formations and in all New Orleans jazz, drums were used to rhythmically sustain the group, in other words, to furnish the beat, particularly with the bass drum playing the strong beats; the Charlestons would follow on the weak beats and the other parts would more or less ‘fill in’ depending on the player’s ability, by playing syncopation and off-beats. Rarely were the drums used as a solo instrument in New Orleans or traditional jazz bands; at the most, the drums would perform during a break, that is, a brief solo that filled in a pause left by the other melodic instruments between two stanzas or refrains. In jazz history the most important representatives of this ‘archaic’ jazz style are considered to be Warren ‘Baby’ Dodds (brother of the famous clarinet player Johnny Dodds ) and Zutty Singleton; both can be heard on the historical recordings of the Hot Five and the Hot Seven where they played under Louis Armstrong. During the swing era the drums were somewhat modified and perfected (it was during the ’30s that they assumed their standard and present form), thus requiring players to develop a more refined, sophisticated playing technique. In fact, during the swing era the small groups that had made up the backbone of New Orleans and Chicago jazz moved momentarily into the background and attention was focused on the first big, commercial dance bands, then to small, experimental groups that consisted of trios and quartets. But while the New Orleans drummer had been accustomed to playing with musicians he knew personally and with them performed music with which he was completely familiar and could therefore easily provide rhythmic support to, during the ’30s the drummer found himself in the new situation of having to play with a large number of musicians who played written music that had been selected for commercial reasons and part of complicated, orchestral arrangements. In addition, because of continuous changes in orchestral personnel, he seldom had time to familiarize himself with his fellow musicians; he was forced, by necessity, to adapt himself to the needs of the group at a short time notice and it was not unusual for the band leader to expect an exceptionally long break during which the drummer had to demonstrate his particular virtuosity. Naturally the technical superiority of this generation of musicians found supremacy in small groups in which the drums sustained first place together with the melodic instruments. An example of two such outstanding drummers of the swing era were Chick Webb and Gene Krupa. Around and immediately following World War II there took place, gradually and not as suddenly as one is led to believe, a so-called ‘revolution’ that initiated what was the ‘modern jazz’ trend, to which the preceding jazz style was superimposed and defined as ‘traditional’ jazz. While it would be impossible to analyze here all the melodic, harmonic, rhythmic and timbric innovations created by modern jazz musicians, two considerations can be made about the drums. The first is that in modern jazz there is no longer any distinction between ‘melodic’ and ‘accompanying’ instruments, thus leveling all instruments of the group to equal importance, all with solo possibilities (just think of what a classic accompanying instrument like the guitar becomes, in the hands of Charlie Christian!). The second is that while in traditional jazz the beat, i.e., the basic rhythmic scansion of a piece, offered the possibility of rhythmic balance, in swing, rhythm became explicitly an element of sound, while in modern jazz the beat is implicit and despite its prominence throughout an entire piece, whether solo or group playing, no instrument has the specific job of sustaining the others. It is clear therefore, that when the drums have been given equal value to the other instruments, they are freed from the obligation they once had to sustain rhythmically an orchestra or group and in modern jazz find enormous expressive possibilities. The musician most responsible in giving the drums their prominence in this era was Kenny Clarke, and among his many followers two of completely different styles but both with supreme technical skills, were Shelley Manne and Max Roach.

THE Drums AND POP Music The introduction of drums in European pop music occurred at the same time as the transformation of dance bands and was conditioned by the popularity of jazz. In the first dance orchestras that offered American dance music in Europe (the fox trot, one-step, and later the Charleston), the drummer often gave his name to the entire group, which was called a ‘jazz band’. The pop music drummer, in general, was not just a pale image of his jazz colleagues. If he performed any virtuoso passages they were certainly not the result of an expressive need, but rather, well-calculated effects created by an arranger for purely commercial reasons. The drums in pop music were also liberated from their secondary role, however, in another change similar to that brought on by the modern jazz revolution: it was with rock ‘n’ roll and the experiments of the new American groups that followed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones that re-evaluated the possibilities of the drums in new forms of instrumental ‘sounds’ and added to the wealth of technical capacity and the actual physical make-up of the instrument, adding other percussive instruments from both Afro-Cuban origin (bongos) and classical music (tympani), as well as oriental instruments like the gong, Chinese bells, Korean blocks, etc. For those who are fascinated by the virtuosity of some jazz or pop musician and have undertaken the study of the drums with the intention of imitating them, it is well to remember that it is no longer possible to do so with just a good sense of rhythm, musical sensitivity and the physical capacity to play. The modern drummer must also have a thorough theoretical background and a good teacher to guide him. Sightreading is of course indispensable particularly for playing the drums and a music school diploma certainly helps. This record, therefore, does not pretend to offer more than a series of modern rhythms that anyone with a good musical background can learn from and have fun with. The rest is up to you!

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Fuji-Yuki

One Butoh

27,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Akuphone)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Classical Music

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Akuphone is proud to present Fuji-Yuki’s last masterpiece, One Butoh. A musical immersion into the most exciting avant-garde dance style of the past century. Created in Japan in the 1960s by Tatsumi Hijikata, butō is the "dance of the obscure body". It broke with the traditions of classical Noh and Kabuki Theater, which, at the time, seemed outdated in the national context. Nourished by a European artistic avant-garde, butō stands out as a mirror of the socio-political turmoil of a post-World War II Japan. One Butoh resonates as a perfect acoustic introduction to this subversive art and propels the listener deep into his own soul.

Fuji-Yuki is a Japanese vocalist who uses her voice like an instrument. With special vocal techniques, glossolalia and electronic pedals, she creates a wide variety of sounds. Inspired by the spirits of Buddhism and Shintoism, she creatively transforms her vocals into an ambient drone or prayers resonating in a church-like space. Her live performances are always different, depending on the place and space they take place in. She is also known as the vocalist of the experimental band Sarry.

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Leviot

Sharav

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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CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Dialogo)

Passaporto Per L'italia

15,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First time officially reissue, sourced from the original master tapes in a new edition, the Milan based imprint Dialogo, returns with this compilation published in Italy by RCA Victor in 1962 - a precious historical document of some important international jazz and pop artists who came to Italy and left their marks, influencing the generations of those golden years. The RCA artists on this LP record have only two things in common: “Inter-continental Airport Rome-Fiumicino” stamped on their passports and a great love for Italy. As a tribute to the country which gave them a friendly welcome and where they spent unforgettable vacations and reaped enthusiastic applause, all of them chose to sing songs in Italian or perform - in the case of Perez Prado - a number of outstanding Italian hits. The dazzling trumpets and electrifying rhythms of Perez Prado, the captivating voice of Helen Merrill, rightly considered the top-notch white jazz singer by critics over the world, the young, all-time best-sellers, Paul Anka and Neil Sedaka, the fantastic trumpet of Chet Baker and his mysterious swinging style of singing, and lastly Antonio Prieto, the Latin-American singer-songwriter who wrote “LA Novia”, are the guest stars of this “passport TO Italy”, which, more than a record, is a full-fledged musical show, with a vast assortment of voices, of musical styles and songs. The Italian pronunciation of these North and South American recording artists is virtually perfect and particularly praiseworthy, if for no other reason than for the effort they have made in getting around, in just a few days, the difficult twists and turns of the Italian language. Their accent is naturally somewhat exotic but it only adds to the charm and the originality of the interpretations. The “show” opens with the already classic “arrivederci Roma”, which, though turned into an overpowering “chunga” by Perez Prado, has kept all its original melody intact. Prado, the wizard of Latin-American dance music, is an extremely refined blender of sounds and rhythms, and without any difficulty can take even a Neapolitan song, change it into a mambo and adapt it to his orchestra. In “guaglione”, for example, the “corruption” comes off perfectly and testifies to the everfresh inventiveness and the unmistakable personality of the Cuban-born pianist arranger. Helen Merrill prefers quality over quantity and so has made very few records but they already occupy a place of their own in the annals of jazz. She consented to record two popular ballads only because Armando Trovajoli, the most qualified exponent of Italian jazz as well as a far-out modernist, was to conduct the orchestra. Furthermore, the two songs, “nessuno AL Mondo” and “estate” are particularly congenial to her musical temperament, for she is most of all concerned with creating subtle and seductive moods, making an intelligent use of her vocal resources in that she tries to “add” her voice to the orchestra as though it were another instrument. Canadian-born Paul Anka, by now a regular member of the exclusive club of top-selling vocal artists of America, presents one of his own songs, “ogni Giorno” originally entitled “love ME Warm AND Tender”, the most requested hit in his present-day repertoire. And the young singing star’s interpretation of “voglio Sapere” (“i’d Like TO Know”) once again makes clear why his name became a permanent fixture as all-time best-seller. Neil Sedaka is another representative of the younger generation of American singers. When he was still in high school in Brooklyn, Neil became a close friend of one of schoolmates: Howard Greenfield. The two of them wrote numerous songs together for school shows: Neil handled the music and Howard the words. Their collaboration proved extremely fruitful, and they were soon to make their debut as professional songwriters with two hits of the calibre of “stupid Cupid” and “falling”. The Sedaka-Greenfield team, which in only a few year time has become one of the best-known, presents, in Italian, two songs which in their original tongue have already climbed to the top: “esagerata” (“little Devil”), translated by Leo Chiosso, and “UN Giorno Inutile” (“I Must BE Dreaming”), translated by Gentile and De Simoni. After Sedaka comes one of the big names of cool jazz: Chet Baker. Trumpet-player and singer, he proves here for the nth time that the names “Golden Trumpet” and “Angel Voice”, given him not only by his fans but by the crites as well, are in no way exaggerated. With an at once restless, desperate and almost possessed musical style, Chet sings and plays two songs which he himself wrote: “IL MIO Domani” and “SO CHE TI Perdero”. His reserved, curiously, precarious and profoundly dramatic way of singing, virtually the mirror-image of his life, is the same in both songs and makes them seem almost unconsciously autobiographical. The “show” then closes with Antonio Prieto. Precisely because of his Latin origins (he was born in Chile, but is Argentine by adoption), it is perhaps easier for him than for the others to express himself in Italian. As is well-known, the name of Prieto soared to the Olympic heights of popular music with “LA Novia” which he wrote in collaboration with his brother, Joaquin. He is a typically Latin singer with a warm, melodious and romantic voice, tinged with melancholy, and on more than one occasion he has shown that he thoroughly understands the tastes of the public. Listen to his two most recent compositions: “papà”, written in collaboration with singer-songwriter Sergio Endrigo, the author of “aria DI Neve”, and “baciami” and... judge for yourselves.

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Jazzy Juice - A Fine Selection Of Rare Jazz Tunes

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

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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3LP | 2023 | EU | Original (GroundUP Music)

Snarky Puppy

Empire Central

55,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Edition)

Lionel Loueke

HH Reimagined

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Introducing Hideyasu Terakawa Quartet Live

Hideyasu Terkawa Quartet

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

44,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Mood Mosaic 20 - This Is Hot New

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Mood Mosaic)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Hard Drive 2022 Remaster

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sensitive Hours - Shaot Regishot

Avishai Cohen

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Naive)

23,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Duke Ellington Presents 2022 Remaster

Duke Ellington

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Krokant)

Albrecht Schrader

Soft

22,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Ray Charles

Georgia On My Mind

17,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Round Midnight

17,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (New Interplanetary Melodies)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Music Legends is the collection made to rediscover the history of modern musics in nice gatefold sleeve single vinyls with liners notes written by journalits. Music Legends, is proud to present a new volume. This new title focusses on one of the greatest jazz maestro of all time : Miles Davies. Often seen as the most influential artist in the Jazz Music field, his legacy will continue to influence the new musicians for years. The LP features 8 of his most famous tracks (So What, Milestones, Round Midnight...)

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Strata-gemma

Radamanto

14,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Heartcore)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Strata-Gemma lands for the first time on Simona Faraone's label, New Interplanetary Melodies, with their third album: Radamanto. The trio, comprised of DJ and record producer Niccolò Bruni, musicians Luca Cacciatore and Andrea Moretti, masterfully blend jazz, electronic music and otherworldly atmospheres. Radamanto is a beautiful album, crooked, dense and vibrant, in which jazz, psychedelia, experimental electronics and more, elegantly merge for a nocturnal journey full of smoky suggestions.

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Britta Virves

Juniper

27,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Britta Virves is one of the most promising young pianists in Swedish jazz. She is a sought after sidewoman that performs with Grammy-nominated artists Joakim Milder and Norrbotten Big Band. presents her debut album Juniper, a deeply autobiographical work, in which Virves explores her relationship to her music and the places that have formed her. She is joined by Jonas Bäckman on drums and Jon Henriksson on bass, with Kurt Rosenwinkel on guitar featured as a guest.

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Odd Funk)

Odd Jazz Volume 2

19,49 €* 25,99 € -25%

Jaiyede Sessions Volume 2

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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ODD Jazz is a collaborative creation of Finnish musicians recorded at the all analog studio in Southern Finland, Hämeenlinna. On this album you find compositions performed by various music collectives in different formations with the unified goal to enrich their compound and give us listeners the delight of sharing their experience of the vast unknown. A feeling of unity is transmitted through the spiritual and mostly improvised idiom. The core members of Odd Jazz are Tuure Tammi (trumpet) and Juha Sarkkola (drums, percussion). Check out the video for visual and aural impressions of the album.

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London Odense Ensemble

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (El Paraiso)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jazz Codes Limited Green & Orange Galaxy Colored Vinyl Edition

Moor Mother

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Anti)

27,99 €*