Organic Grooves 1369 Items

LP+CD | 2013 | US | Original (Anti)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A delicate, slinky figure with a powerhouse voice, Ann Peebles occupied a special place among the many great talents that roamed the halls of Memphis' iconic Hi Records in the 1960s and 1970s. While producer Willie Mitchell was the company's heart, musicians the Hodges Brothers its soul, and Al Green its top star, it was Peebles who gave the label its first national success, and a lasting female identity. Over the course of seven albums and dozens of singles for Hi, Peebles expressed a complex range of moods and emotions in her music. Her songs were alternately pleading and defiant and destructive, but always, utterly soulful.

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Mavis Staples

One True Vine

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ballet - The Music Of Michael Gibbs

Cuong Vu 4-Tet

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Rarenoise)

Thunder Of The Gods Lightning Yellow Vinyl Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release. On the heels of his acclaimed 2016 recording, Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny and his 2014 collaboration with electro-acoustic pianist-composer and Director of the School of Music at the University of Washington Richard Karpen on their Ellington-Strayhorn tribute That The Days Go By And Never Come Again, trumpeter-composer Cuong Vu joins forces with guest guitarist Bill Frisell on Ballet, a tribute to renowned composer-arranger Michael Gibbs. With regular Vu 4Tet bassist Luke Bergman and drummer Ted Poor, the four exchange ideas in the moment in a collective fashion on the expansive opening track, "Ballet," which gradually morphs into a kind of quirky, dissonant blues waltz featuring brilliant solos from Vu and Frisell. Regarding this exhilarating Vu 4Tet project, Vu says, "This was a very collective/equal opportunity effort, so we just played and dealt with the cards collectively as they were dealt. I think it just comes down to the collection of players and our individual aesthetics coming together and trying to find a common goal/language." They succeed in triumphant fashion on Ballet, the second collaboration between Cuong Vu and Bill Frisell (their first was Vu's 2005 ArtistShare album Mostly Residual).

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Sun Ra

LP | 2017 | US | Reissue (Modern Harmonic)

Hidden Treasures Of Taj Mahal

Release: 2017 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An album of originally unreleased Sun Ra, over 50 years after it was recorded, back in print on lightning yellow vinyl!

Sun Ra is still trying to get our attention 50 years after dispatching this transmission. Humanity's path since then makes his message even more urgent today. Years after Herman Poole "LeSony'r Ra" Blount "left the planet" he's still trying to reach us, to wake us up and to change our destiny.

Sun Ra and the Arkestra weren't a traditional studio band, and every star in the vast galaxy of their discography reflects this. The origins of these records can be hard to pinpoint at times, but when it comes to Thunder Of The Gods, it's a bit easier. "Calling Planet Earth - We'll Wait For You" was discovered on tapes from Ra's, Universe In Blue, believed to be recorded in '71. The raucous title track and "Moonshots Across the Sky" are unearthed from the '66 Strange Strings sessions. Modern Harmonic has once again paired Ra's sonic art with the visual art of "The Father of Modern Space Art," Chesley Bonestell, whose 1952 work "Formation of the Earth's Continents" spralls across the front and back covers.

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Taj Mahal

2LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Release: 2017 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Marie Trio Kruttli

Running After The Sun

LP | 2017 | Original

Release: 2017 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Secret)

Dillinger Verses Trinity

Clash

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (ORG Music)

Sun Ra

Calling Planet Earth

LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (CBS)

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

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Miles Davis

Miles In Berlin

LP | 2010 | Reissue (Numero)

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Vinyl close to NM

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Willie Wright

Telling The Truth

Release: 2010 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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8 Años Blue Vinyl Edition

Hermanos Gutiérrez

LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two brothers, two guitars, two distinct identities, who become one soul when they compose music. Stephan and Alejandro, are the Hermanos Gutierrez, an instrumental music band with an unmistakable genre that is rooted in Western and Latin American sound. Born from an Ecuadorian mother and a Swiss father they grew up being forged by both cultures, bridging between two worlds, both of which are home.

Their mix of identities, that constant search across different countries clearly emerges in their songs. Their music takes the audience on an intimate journey through time evoking remote spaces. A magical sound that touches the heart, that sparks passion and nostalgia. An open invitation to a constant dialogue of melodies and instruments.

Playing together since their early childhood, a profound musical and interpersonal symbiosis ties the two brothers. If one of them has a melody, the other one completes it with harmony. There is a deep understanding between the two of them, without any need for words.

Active as a band since 2015, they have recorded four albums: “8 Años” (2017), “El Camino De Mi Alma” (2018), “Hoy Como Ayer” (2019), and the newly released LP “Hijos Del Sol” (Children Of The Sun). A body of work that has been inspired by their journey through the vast natural landscapes of Mexico, the silence of the desert, the sun, and their love for this country that made them feel “like going home”, as they affirm. Out came a soundtrack of the sceneries they’ve been exploring.

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Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mood Mosaic 15 - Supercool

2LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Mood Mosaic)

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics

OST

2LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Strut)

2LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

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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Mammal Hands

Shadow Work

Georgia Anne Muldrow & Madlib

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Captivating, ethereal and majestic, Mammal Hands unleash their third album, Shadow Work: drawing on spiritual jazz, north Indian, folk and classical music to create something inimitably their own. Recorded at 80 Hertz Studios in Manchester, it is the result of 18 months of intensive touring and mammoth writing sessions. The energy from their exhilarating live performances has fed into the writing process and yet there is a quiet reflective side to this album, giving it an expanded emotional range that draws the listener deep into Mammal Hand’s sound world.

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Seeds

LP | 2012 | US | Reissue (Someothaship)

2LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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On Seeds, Georgia Muldrow takes a step back and leaves the beatmaking to Otis Jackson Jr., aka Madlib. As producers, Muldrow and Jackson are not worlds apart, so the switch requires no adjustment on the part of the listener. That said, this is one dense and tight set, barely over half-an-hour in length, and it's definitely in contention for Muldrow's most focused, funkiest, and (somewhat ironically) personal release to date. Throughout the record, the emphasis remains heavily fixated on her family as a unit of salvation and purpose. The most direct track of the lot is "Husfriend," where she honors her relationship with Dudley Perkins (a/k/a Declaime, who appears on “The Few”). Muldrow can't quite divorce the planetary and personal issues, heard vividly on "Best Love," which sounds just like a simple, sweet, straight-ahead love song until she starts asking her other half for money to build water wells on three continents ("We can make a difference if we try now"). Overall, Seeds is another left-field deviation in Muldrow's career: it's one of her most captivating and immediate front-to-back statements of purpose as a singer, but it's also the first album where she's handed over all the production duties to somebody else. In celebration of this album’s decenary run, Someothaship Connect is pleased to reintroduce an anniversary edition repress of this captivating release in partnership with Fat Beats.

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Lubomyr Melnyk

Corollaries

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ella Fitzgerald / Louis Armstrong

Porgy & Bess

2LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Vinyl Lovers)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Smiling C)

Shams Dinn

Shams Dinn 2023 Repress

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

2LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Epic International)

Maluma

Magia

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | EU | Reissue (Easy Action)

Sister Pat Hall

Do Your Thing

Something´s Got A Hold On Me (Complete 1960-1962 Chess & Argo Singles) Gatefold Edition

Release: 2015 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Released For The Very First Time In The Format It Was Recorded For. The Holy Grail Of Bolan's Unreleased Soul Recordings As Producer For Sister Pat Hall, Includes Completely Unheard Version Of Do Your Thing Taken From Newly Acquired Original Reels Features Completely Reworked Version Of Classic T. Rex Tracks 'Jitterbug Love', 'Get It On', 'Sunken Rags', And The Never Released In Marc's Lifetime 'Sailors Of The Highway'. Besides Some Self-Released Gospel Recordings, Pat Hall Was A Much Sought After Vocalist In The Late 60's Early 70's, Having Worked With Joe Cocker As One Of The `Sanctified Sisters' Along With Gloria Jones.In 1972 Pat (& Hloria) Became Backing Singers On The U.S T.Rex Concerts And In Mid To Late 1973 Marc Bolan Decided He Was Going To Produce An Album By Pat, Being Well Ahead Of The Then Interest In Black American Soul By Fellow Pop Stars David Bowie John Lennon And Elton John. The Album Was Recorded But Never Released (On Vinyl), Until Now!Pat Hall Never Released Anything Again, This Album Remains The Sole Released Recordings Of This Extraordinary Singer.

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Etta James

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Little Bob And The Lollipops

Nobody But You

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Mississippi)

To Those Of Earth And Other Worlds

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Great retrospective of Lil Bob And The Lollipops' discography. Classic Louisiana swamp soul / R& B, recorded in the early to mid 1960s. Includes the popular dance floor fillers "I Got Loaded" and "Stop," as well as some real beautiful obscurities. Ballads and stompers to make life better. Old school "tip on" cover.

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Sun Ra And His Arkestra

2LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Strut)

2LP | 2015 | US | Original (Dark Entries)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following up on last year’s collection In The Orbit Of Ra we’re diving headfirst back into the vast universe of Sun Ra with a a newly curated set from the Ra’s immense 125 LP back catalog, compiled by Gilles Peterson. The BBC 6Music / Worldwide DJ is a long-time champion of Ra’s music and the UK’s leading tastemaker for jazz-based sounds. It serves as perhaps the best introduction yet to the music of Sun Ra for a whole new generation of converts.

For the CD version, Peterson picks personal favourites, classics and unreleased tracks and weaves them into a flowing piece across 2CDs, showcasing the incredible variety of Ra’s work. The 2LP version features full-length versions of selected tracks from the mix (and also includes the full CD mixed version), while the digital version features a full unmixed selection with Peterson’s mix available within the album bundle. Sleeve notes on physical formats come from Gilles Peterson with a full Ra career biography by author Robert L. Campbell. The album also features previously unseen photos from the archives of Val Wilmer alongside full musician line-ups and session details.

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Patrick Cowley

Muscle Up

LP | 2013 | US | Original (Fat Possum)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Featuring 75 minutes of music, this compilation contains soundtrack music from two Fox Studio films, "Muscle Up" and "School Daze", plus additional songs from the same era, never before released on vinyl. The tapes were restored and transferred using the same speed and pitch settings, then remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. The vinyl comes housed in a extra wide spine jacket and giant fold-out poster featuring a handmade collage using photography and xerox graphics of classic gay porn imagery from the Fox Studio vaults by Berlin-based artist Gwenael Rattke. Each double album also contains a 8x11 glossy promotional “Muscle Up” replica poster with original VHS artwork plus an essay from Maurice Tani.

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R.L. Burnside

Bothered Mind

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Psych Funk Á La Turkish Volume 2

LP | 2012 | UK | Original (Turk-A-Disk)

12" | 2010 | US | Original (L.I.E.S.)

Release: 2012 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Detailed liner notes, insert with pictures. Expertly remastered sound.

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Malvoeaux

Targets

Plays Coltrane And Langston Hughes

Release: 2010 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

Close to NM.

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Raphael Roginski

2LP | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Unsound)

12" | 2013 | DE | Original (Love Unlimited Vibes)

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Raphael Rogiński’s Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes is an expanded reissue of his 2015 album, previously unreleased on vinyl and long out of print on CD. It has only grown in stature over the years, for Rogiński’s solo guitar interpretations – or reimaginings – of John Coltrane, which draw on the guitarist's unique and immediately recognizable style, rooted in jazz, blues and global folk idioms. Part of a series called Populista, the album was originally released by Warsaw imprint Bôłt Records. Curator Michał Libera describes the series as “dedicated to mis- or over-interpretation of existing music”. Rogiński’s Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes fits perfectly into the concept, given the distance that the guitarist travels from the original form of Coltrane’s compositions, although, as Libera notes, it was “simply handed to me as a finished work”. Approaching Coltrane’s singular, spirited music with a perspective formed outside the jazz tradition, Rogiński slowed the songs down, extracting polyphonic tensions, and striving for an intimacy and mysticism that transcends genre. The way the music turned out struck the guitarist as a revelation. “Suddenly these songs became full of glowing moving pictures, with a melancholy, but also with something like promise,” he says. Rogiński says, “At that time, I lived in an apartment with the branches of a fig tree growing into it. I sat in 35-degree heat under its leaves, on the carpet, and discovered the polyphony of this music. I met a broken person on the street around this time. She moved in with me for a few days, a victim of an ultra-religious family from which she had escaped. She slept on the couch recovering, and I started playing. As if for her. I had to breathe light into her life and I did what I do best, and that is how this music came into being.”

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Love Unlimited Vibes

Luv.Eight

Release: 2013 / DE – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

Masami Kawaguchi | Akiko Toshimitsu

情趣演歌 = Enka Mood Collection

10" | 2017 | FR | Original (An'archives)

Release: 2017 / FR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

LP | 2012 | FR | Reissue (Blue Note)

Kenny Burrell

LP | 2013 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Release: 2012 / FR – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs. Cover closer to NM

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Dexter Gordon

A Swingin' Affair

LP | 2010 | JP | Original (Icekream Castle)

Release: 2013 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Still in shrink, but opened, with hype sticker

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DJ Deckstream

Icekream Soundz Vol. 1

Release: 2010 / JP – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Sealed, Cover: Sealed

Sunday At The Village Vanguard

The Bill Evans Trio

LP | 2013 | Reissue (Not Now)

Release: 2013 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | Original (Galileo Music Communication)

Otros Aires

4 Big Man Dancing

Release: 2015 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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6CD | 2012 | EU (Original Master Series)

Derek & The Dominos

The Lost Tapes

Release: 2012 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: VG+

Live In Goteborg, Sweden, June 3rd, 1969

Blind Faith

LP | 2012 | RU (B 13)

2LP | 2013 | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 2012 / RU

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG+

Vinyl with foxing. Blue vinyl

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Etta James

At Last!

Release: 2013 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Fela Soul 2024 Blue Vinyl Edition

Fela Kuti Vs. De La Soul

LP | 2015 | US (Fela Soul)

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Legacy)

Release: 2015 / US

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The classic is back! Gummy Soul's Amerigo Gazaway mashes up Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti with acapellas from De La Soul to killer effect! A fantasic journey into the "world of afrobeat rhythms, funky horn riffs & classic hip-hop gems". Bonus track added, now on colored vinyl in a full color picture sleeve!

Afrobeat legend FELA KUTI mashed with DE LA SOUL acapellas to killer effect! A fantastic journey into the world of afrobeat rhythms, funky horn riffs & classic hip-hop gems". This colored vinyl repress comes on blue colored vinyl for the first time. Includes new "secret" 2024 bonus cut.

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Moondog

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Moondog is the fifth album by American composer Moondog.

Moondog had released no music for twelve years since his 1957 album The Story of Moondog. Finally, in 1969, producer James William Guercio invited him to record an album for Columbia Records.[1]

The resulting album compiled various music which Moondog had been working on since the 1950s. This included two "minisyms" (Moondog's term for short symphonic-styled works performed by small orchestras); two canons; a chaconne in memory of Charlie Parker; ballet music originally written for Martha Graham ("Witch of Endor"); and three symphonic (or "symphonique") works, one of which was dedicated to Benny Goodman and featured elements of swing. A version of one composition, "Theme", had previously been recorded for Epic Records in 1952

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Charles Mingus

Mingus Ah Um

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2015 | EU | Original (World Circuit)

Orchestra Baobab

Pirates Choice

LP | 2015 | JP | Original (Sweet Soul)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An Afrobeat and Worldmusic classic first time on vinyl.

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Nao Yoshioka

The Light

Release: 2015 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Runner-Up at Apollo Theater Amateur Night! Highly Anticipated Debut Album from a Major New Talent Set to Take the World by Storm Nao Yoshioka's first album, "The Light," was recorded by three teams in the U.S., the Netherlands, and Japan. The notable vintage soul artist Brian Owens from the U.S. handled the instrumental recording and vocal direction for three tracks. In New York, Dani Elliott and Orly collaborated on songwriting and provided tracks. In the Netherlands, Shirma Rouse, hailed as the No. 1 Soul Queen, also took charge of the instrumental recording and vocal direction for three tracks. The Japanese team featured top musicians from the scene, including Takuya Kuroda, a trumpeter renowned for his work with the José James Band. Soul music, connected through Nao Yoshioka, casts its spell from Tokyo to the world.

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Salsoul Reedits Series Two : Danny Krivit Clear Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Salsoul)

The Source (Special Edition)

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Part two of a new Salsoul Re-edits series launches with four classic edits for RSD from seminal edit king Danny Krivit. With over 45 years behind the turntables, if anyone knows what little extra touch a record needs to work on the dancefloor…it's Danny! Taking his editing skills to four classics from the Salsoul vaults , Danny delivers once again. Available on vinyl for the very first time.

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Ali Farka Toure

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (World Circuit)

LP | 2015 | FR | Original (Sony)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The third international release by the legendary Malian singer and guitarist is many fan’s favourite. ‘The Source’ established Ali Farka Touré on the international stage and paved the way for his legendary collaboration with Ry Cooder on the GRAMMY award winning album ‘Talking Timbuktu’.
Available for the first time on vinyl, the album has been re-mixed from the original master tapes and includes a previously unreleased track from the same sessions. The album is presented in a gatefold sleeve containing double 180g vinyl and large format 28 page booklet with lyrics.
‘The Source’ features Farka Touré’s first recordings with his home town band Group Asco, with vocalist Afel Bocoum and percussionists Hamma Sankare (calabash)
and Oumar Touré (congas). Touré’s trademark acoustic and electric guitar (as well his njarka violin) playing are highlighted on some of his best loved and most sophisticated compositions.
The father of the desert blues unleashes a set of driving small group performances, intimate love songs, mesmerising guitar solos and two unique duets with the great American bluesman Taj Mahal.

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Leon Bridges

Coming Home

Release: 2015 / FR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Someday My Prince Will Come Mono Edition

Miles Davis

LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Exclusively remastered.
180g audiophile vinyl pressing.

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Sam Cooke

Night Beat

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Jaco Pastorius

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra

Into Forever Transparent Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Gondwana)

Fletcher Moss Park Dark Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition, celebrating 15 years of Gondwanan records!

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Matthew Halsall

LP | 2015 | UK | Reissue (Gondwana)

At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall Hamburg 1976

Release: 2015 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition, celebrating 15 years of Gondwanan records!

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Johnny Guitar Watson

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall Hamburg '82

Woody Shaw Quintet

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Grant Green

Street Of Dreams

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

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Youn Sun Nah

She Moves On

At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall / Hamburg '78

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A download code is included.

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Esther Phillips

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Skip)

Tingvall Trio

Cirklar

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Of A Nation: Afro-Centric Visions In The Age Of Black Power - Underground Jazz, Street Funk & The Roots Of Rap 1968-79

2LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Jazz Records’ new release ‘Soul of a Nation: Afro-Centric Visions in the Age of Black Power’ is released in conjunction with a major worldwide art exhibition, Soul of A Nation: Art in the The Age of Black Power which takes place at the Tate Modern, London, UK (July-Oct 2017) and The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
The album shows how the ideals of the civil rights movement, black power and black nationalism influenced the evolvement of radical African-American music in the United States of America in the intensely political and revolutionary period at the end of the 1960s following the assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and the rise of the Black Panther party.
Featuring groundbreaking artists such as Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Ayers, Don Cherry, Oneness of Juju, Sarah Webster Fabio, Horace Tapscott, Phil Ranelin and many others, Soul of A Nation shows how political themes led to the rise of ‘conscious’ black music as new afro-centric styles combined the musical radicalism and spirituality of John Coltrane and radical avant-garde jazz music alongside the intense funk and soul of James Brown and Aretha Franklin and the urban poetry and proto-rap of the streets.
The Soul of a Nation exhibition draws on the links between Black art forms – art, music, poetry - and how they came together during the civil rights and black power era as part of the wider black arts movement across the United States.
Iconic African-Amercian revolutionary figures such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Angela Davis, John Coltrane, Muhammad Ali all appear in the radical artworks of Barkley L. Hendricks, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Lorraine O’Grady and Betye Saar.
A selection of original radical jazz record sleeves artworks which appear in Soul Jazz Records’ earlier groundbreaking Freedom, Rhythm and Sound – Revolutionary Jazz Original Cover Art book will also be on show at the Tate, London throughout the exhibition. The Freedom, Rhythm and Sound book is also newly back-in-print in conjunction with this major exhibition and the release of the Soul of a Nation album.
Stuart Baker (founder of Soul Jazz Records) will appear on the panel of Jazz for Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power discussion at the gallery as part of the show.
Soul of a Nation comes with extensive sleeve-notes and exclusive photography in a large 36-page outsize booklet and slipcase. Double gatefold vinyl album edition comes with full colour inners + bonus download code and includes full sleeve-notes/photography.

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Funky Chimes: Belgian Grooves From The 70s Part 2

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Sdban)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP gatefold with liner notes, 180gr vinyl. 'Funky Chimes' is a two-hour collection of excellent and unique grooves. It contains 27 of the most interesting yet long forgotten Belgian dance tracks from the seventies.

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Vodou Drums In Haiti Volume 2 - The Living Gods of Haiti: 21st Century Ritual Drums & Spirit Possession

2LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

7" | 2010 | UK | Original (Wass)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Jazz Records’ new album features the truly intense, hypnotic and fascinating Vodou drums of Haiti, a stunning collection of trance-like rhythms and beats traditionally used to induce spirit possession in the Vodou religion.
Soul Jazz Records first journeyed to Haiti in 1996 to record a series of three albums about Haitian Vodou music and culture. One of these, ‘Voodoo Drums’, featuring the drum rhythms used to bring about spirit possession, struck a striking chord with listeners and amazingly went on to become one of their best-selling albums.
"I haven't heard anything quite like this; the rhythms are very deeply orchestrated yet it also sounds like improvisation. There are tonalities and textures coming from this album like I've never heard. A great album by Soul Jazz, very well recorded. Some of the sounds I have no idea how they are getting them! This album is bending my ear and setting off the dancing devils in my soul!! Unreal!" Guardian
In 2016 Soul Jazz Records returned to Haiti once more to record a new second volume of the same intense Vodou drumming. Recorded in the capital of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, some 20 years after their first visit, this album also features the very same musicians, the Drummers of the Société Absolument Guinin.

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Renegades Of Jazz

Cascade

2LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Jazzline)

Release: 2010 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

Limited edition.

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Oscar Peterson Trio

Live In Cologne 1963

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Single Woman Expanded Edition

Nina Simone

LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

LP | 2012 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Single Woman is an album from 1993 by singer, pianist, and songwriter Nina Simone. It was her last album. In 1993, A Single Woman was placed 3th in the Top Jazz Albums. A Single Woman was never released on vinyl, until now.

180g vinyl.

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Bugge Wesseltoft

It's Snowing On My Piano

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Don Cherry Live In Stockholm

Don Cherry

2LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Caprice)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Round About Midnight Mono

Miles Davis

LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

7" | 2012 | UK | Original (Hayley)

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2013!

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Final Decisions

I Don't Feel No Pain

(Put Your Name) In The Hall Of Fame

Release: 2012 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Previously unreleased gem from FINAL DECISIONS out of Detroit's Fast Track studios. 'I don't feel no pain' is presented in both Short and Long versions. Produced by Leonard Jones.'

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Emanuel Laskey

7" | 2012 | UK | Original (Hayley)

My Feelings Keep Getting In The Way

Release: 2012 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hayley does it again with two more previously unreleased tracks from the late, great Emanuel Laskey. "...Hall of fame" and "Different kind of different" were recorded in Los Angeles in 1978 with two of his long time friends, Marvin Gaye and Mel Bolton. Written and produced by the trio, the single features an uptempo song squarely aimed at the dancefloor paired with the more mellow "Different kind of different" - both clearly showcase Emanuel's great voice.

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Lorretta Kendrick

7" | 2012 | UK | Original (Hayley)

2LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (ECM)

Release: 2012 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The release of this gorgeous song has been Hayley’s proudest moment since the label began. Beautiful vocals, heartrending lyrics and a string arrangement by the great Marvin Gaye himself make this the epitome of a soul record. Lorretta’s take on “Neither one of us” on the flip makes this a great double header.

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Pat Metheny

80/81

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke

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

2011 Kickstarter Bootlegs

Release: 2010 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180g audiophile vinyl.

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Miles Bonny

LP+7" | 2012 | US | Original (Not On Label)

Nighthawks 4 Vinyl Edition

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Generic

Green marbled vinyl and grey marbled 7".

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Nighthawks

2LP | 2013 | Reissue (Herzog Gmbh)

Release: 2013 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Lightyear)

Buddy Rich

Birdland

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2012 | Reissue (Groove Replica)

Etta James

At Last!

Release: 2012 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chicken Shack & Stan Webb

40 Blue Fingers Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Medicine Show #7 High Jazz Seaglass Blue Vinyl Edition

Madlib

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

28,89 €* 33,99 € -15%

Release: 2010 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Gearbox)

Nitin Sawhney

Live At Ronnie Scott's

28,79 €* 35,99 € -20%

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

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%

Fresh Out Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2010 / Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.

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Eddie Russ

LP | 2012 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

28,49 €* 29,99 € -5%

2LP | 2013 | UK | Original (Late Night Tales)

Release: 2012 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eddie Russ was an important figure to emerge from the vibrant underground jazz scene that thrived in Detroit in the early 1970s, existing in the cultural and economic desolation of the city after the departure of Motown in the late 1960s. This scene included the musical collective Tribe (including members Wendell Harrison, Marcus Belgrave, Phil Ranelin, Harold McKinney and Doug Hammond) and Kenny Cox’s Strata Records. Eddie Russ’s Fresh Out was first released in 1974 on the independent Jazz Masters record label.

As well as including the classic jazz dance cut The Lope Song, Eddie Russ’s Fresh Out featured the debut of the group The Mixed Bag who subsequently recorded for both Tribe and Strata Records. Eddie Russ released two further classic jazz funk albums in the late 1970s, See the Light and Take a Look at Yourself.

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Bonobo

Late Night Tales

Sound Of Sinning Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Late Night Tales and Bonobo were pretty much made for each other, it just took them a while to both realise it. Stepping forward into the compiler’s spotlight for the 33rd edition is Simon Green – aka Bonobo – a musician, producer and DJ perfectly suited to soundtrack an evening spent reclining to some parallel beats.

180 gram vinyl incl. download code!

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Monophonics

LP | 2015 | US | Original (Transistor Sound)

3LP | 2012 | UK | Original (Soundway)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Raised amid the rich musical culture and history of the San Francisco Bay Area, Monophonics proudly carry the torch through the generations into today’s musical landscape. Holding on to tradition, but by no means purists of any kind, they play their own brand of music known as “Psychedelic Soul.”

The 2012 release of Monophonics last album In Your Brain saw the band pulling influences from such acts as early Funkadelic, Sly and The Family Stone and the The Temptation's Norman Whitfield produced records. With the new album, Sound of Sinning (April 14, 2015 on Transistor Sound Records), the band has grown in all areas of record making and felt a need to explore other important in- fluences. While the group has come to cherish these inspirations, With Sound of Sinning they started venturing beyond, to the groups that were inspiring those soul acts to embrace the psychedelic sound of the 60's and 70's. Bands such as The Zombies, The Beatles, Beach Boys and Pink Floyd. Even with the experimentation of new musical territory, they display the sound that people know and love about Monophonics. Touching on Northern soul, doo-wop, rock and roll, Psych pop, and cinematic music, Monophonics show off their diversity while remaining true to their roots. Overall it's heartfelt music and old school vibes, without losing sight of the present. This is is music steeped in that timeless feeling when people could write and produce songs that you could listen to over and over again. Sound of Sinning was produced by Kelly Finnigan & Ian McDonald and recorded on an old Tascam eight-track 1/4” tape machine at Transistor Sound Studios in San Rafael, CA.

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Ondatropica

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

Release: 2012 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Triple LP version comes with bonus 7”, detailed liner notes (8 page full colour booklet) and free MP3 download.

Conceived by Colombian musician Mario Galeano, the force behind the band Frente Cumbiero, and English producer Will ‘Quantic’ Holland, Ondatrópica brings together an all-star cast representing both the classic and modern styles of la musica Colombiana.

Over 3 weeks in January 2012 at the famous Discos Fuentes studios in Medellín legendary figures from Colombian music joined a group of younger Colombian musicians that included members of both Mario’s band Frente Cumbeiro and Quantic’s Combo Barbaro. The plan; “to re-interpret the tropical musical heritage of Colombia with new approaches in composition, arrangement and production in a classic and mythical setting.”

For the recording Will and Mario were joined by Colombian legends including big-hitting saxophonist Michi Sarmiento, multi-instrumentalist Fruko and accordion-playing don and singer Anibal Velasquez as well as a new wave of Colombian and South American musicians such as Chilean MC Ana Tijoux and El Chongo, a young percussionist and beatboxer from the city of Cartagena on the Caribbean coast.

A mixture of well known and classic Colombian styles such as cumbia, porro, gaita and champeta clash head-on with boogaloo, ska, beat-box, hip hop, dub and funk on the record. The tracks range from straight-up timeless pieces with one foot in the 1960s and 70s to progressive and forward-looking recordings firmly rooted in the 21st century. Mario and Will also adopted a 100% analogue recording approach in tribute to a sound and feel that the studio had been lacking for some years now.

Soundway’s exploration into Colombian music began in 2007 with it’s much acclaimed compilation ‘Colombia! The Golden Age of Discos Fuentes The Powerhouse of Colombian Music 1960-76’. That compilation features many original works from the above-mentioned artists as well as some of the main session men of the day that also played on this new record. It’s fitting then that Ondatrópica came together in the legendary Discos Fuentes studios in Medellín.

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George Smallwood

Loser 2022 Repress

2LP | 2013 | UK | Original (Late Night Tales)

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Back IN Print 2022 Edition - Limited Edition of 300 copies Recorded Live in Hyattsville, MD 1975-2015. George really had no interest in releasing this record. "Seeing Is believing, they don’t need records, trust me I did that, today they getting it live". So this record is that, live tapes from the house, recorded on a government issued cassette recorder from National Library Service for the Blind. George calls these his practice tapes for songwriting, and performance warm-up, and never beyond his ears were they intended to travel. "You just got to see me live if you want to really see me.. so when we get there just plug me in, and point me at that crowd". Last time I saw George they had him wired to the club system. He unplugs his Yamaha keyboard, licks the tip of the power cord and taps a beat on it, finally plugging in, synth lights up, tones all at zero, beats at zero. Then he builds from there, counting blind through a preset one hunderd factory tones and rhythm patterns. "I gotta start off at zero, and go from there." After the Marshmellow Band disperesed, he got this Yamaha keyboard, same one he’s been playing since 1990, endless scrolling over the same presets, trying to make them fit, tempo down, tapping while telling the story and asking if that feels right to you. "This always gonna be different live."Some selections on this album are original material from home sessions prior to George’s 1980 self- released LP. The rest, just a sampling from the Smallwood mind’s library of classic song writers. - Andrew Morgan (Peoples Potential Unlimited)

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Four Tet

Late Night Tales

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Another great comp on the Late Night Tales imprint feat. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Koushik, Gravediggaz, Madvillain, Fairport Convention!

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Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings From The 1970s & '80s

3LP+7" | 2013 | UK | Original (Soundway)

Let's Talk It Over Deluxe Edition

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soundway Records present Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & ‘80s - a treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa. Spread out over two CDs and one triple LP, Kenya Special is accompanied by detailed liner notes, original artwork and photographs.

It follows on from Soundway’s much acclaimed African ‘Special’ series that to date has focused on the highlife and afrobeat output from 1970s Nigeria and Ghana. Kenya Special is a collection of 32 recordings (most of which were only ever released on small-run 45rpm 7" singles) that stand out as being different or unique as well as some classic genre standards. From Kikuyu language ‘liquid soul’, Luo benga and Swahili afrobeat to genre-bending Congolese and Tanzanian tracks recorded in Nairobi, Kenya Special sees Soundway yet again taking the less trodden path. Many of the tracks featured here are peppered with innovation and experimentation highlighting how diverse the music scene in Kenya was at the time.

In 1970s Kenya the two threads of rumba and benga loosely dominated the music scene. Benga quickly became Kenya’s unique contribution to afro-pop; spreading like wildfire through the interior countryside with it’s fast, 4/4 machine-gun beat and intricate electric guitar layers. The Congolese take on Afro-Cuban rumba was introduced by touring bands many of whom settled in East Africa - influencing bands from Kenya and Tanzania to come up with their own take on this popular style. Alongside these styles were small ensembles and hotel-sponsored bands, playing a blend of music that often included rock ‘n’ roll riffs, elements of ‘afro’ music (influenced by West African musicians like Fela Kuti), and multiple other combinations from South African and Zambian guitar styles to disco, funk and Swahili coastal rhythms like chakacha.

Painstakingly compiled, assembled and researched over two years by a team of five people from five countries (Kenya included), Kenya Special is a collection that looks beyond the mainstream and brings new life and recognition to some little known gems and forgotten classics of Kenya’s past.

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Lee Fields

LP | 2013 | US | Original (Truth & Soul)

LP | 2017 | EU | Reissue (Be With)

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Truth & Soul is proud to present the deluxe re-issue of Lee Fields' "holy grail" album! The CD and double LP also features songs from his singles catalogue and is also repackaged with a new cover
and never-before-seen photos of Lee Fields.

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Maston

Tulips

OST Postales Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2017 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Can be played at 33rpm or 45rpm. Frank Maston’s Tulips is a sample-ready film score to the best 70s movie never made. Originally a super-limited self-release on his Phonoscope label in late 2017, Tulips has already become incredibly sought-after. Be With were introduced to Maston by mutual friends Aquarium Drunkard and it didn’t take long before we decided this modern classic deserved a reissue. Inspired by the deep-grooving soundtracks of Italian cinema - think Morricone, Umiliani and Alessandroni - Maston conceived the entire Tulips project as a continuation of these revered works. Frank designed the artwork and made two 16mm films to accompany the music: “It wasn’t just the LP… it was kind of a whole vibe I was trying to create. Not really trying to emulate the things that influenced me but more trying to make something that could sit alongside those records on a shelf. I’m still very proud of the project.” There’s a distinct library music feel too, with wiry organ, spacey keyboards and loping 60s guitar hinting at KPM and DeWolfe.

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Los Sospechos

LP | 2013 | US | Reissue (Colemine)

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Honest Jons)

Derek Bailey

Solo Guitar Volume 1

LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Barbes)

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in 1971, Solo Guitar Volume 1 was Bailey’s first solo album. Its cover is an iconic montage of photos taken in the guitar shop where he worked. He and the photographer piled up the instruments whilst the proprietor was at lunch, with Bailey promptly sacked on his return.
The LP was issued in two versions over the years — Incus 2 and 2R — with different groupings of free improvisations paired with Bailey’s performances of notated pieces by his friends Misha Mengelberg, Gavin Bryars and Willem Breuker.
All this music is here, plus a superb solo performance at York University in 1972; a welcome shock at the end of an evening of notated music. It’s a striking demonstration of the way Bailey rewrote the language of the guitar with endless inventiveness, intelligence and wit.

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