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London Is The Place For Me 2

2LP | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Something Is Wrong: Vintage Recordings From East Africa

2LP | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Hot Mule)

Teddy Lasry

Funky Ghost 1975-1987

Christmas Crackers Volume 1 Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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French multi-instrumentalist Teddy Lasry's story is noteworthy not just in regards to the music he released, but in the ways that he approached the craft of composing and experimenting with sounds and sonics. Always intrigued with the capabilities of instruments, their groove and their feel, it was very much his family’s influence that helped to fuel these life long affections. As a performer in a parisien cabaret, Teddy’s father Jacques would mingle with giants like Serge Gainsbourg and Charlie Chaplin (impressed by his ability to improvise, Chaplin wanted him to become his accompanist, but the pianist politely refused). Jacques and his wife (Teddy’s mother Yvonne), would later become members of the innovative experimental group Les Structures Sonores, and surround their children’s lives with sounds. Electronic music was still in its infancy and Les Structures Sonores, with their resonators that produced long, mysterious tones, were deemed ‘cosmic’. It was the era of the launching of the first Russian Sputnik and every time a radio or television station wanted music for their science fiction programs, they turned to one of their compositions. Showing a natural ability with multi instrumentalism, Teddy was rewarded with a spot in the band, allowing him to really explore unconventional methods of composition. Following a brief stint with Ariane Mnouchkine's avant-garde Théâtre du Soleil after graduating school, Teddy joined the pioneering prog band Magma, with whom he would record three groundbreaking records during the early 1970s (According to former member Laurent Thibault, their album Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh and its sound were strong influences on David Bowie during the recording of Low and Iggy Pop’s The Idiot at Hérouville). Despite the successes with these projects, Teddy was constantly searching for new ways of expressing himself through music, leading him into the beginnings of a solo career that would last the better part of three decades. Teddy’s transition into his solo career came with contrasting fortunes, in that he was now becoming a music to image composer but with the unfortunate realisation that his eyesight was gradually worsening (due to being diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at an early age). Nonetheless, his solo career would begin in 1975, and for the rest of the decade his sound would become increasingly mired in electrified Funk-Fusion and its endless sonic possibilities. The resulting music would serve to highlight Teddy’s love affair with the possibilities found within tireless instrumentation, with the flute and particularly synthesisers becoming a mini-obession of his (he once spent a 7,000 Francs loan, which was meant to be spent on fixing his roof, on synths). To this day Teddy continues to record and experiment with music, a passion which in many ways has never left his side, even at the age of 75. His career was one that was fuelled by innate curiosity and an intrinsic desire to discover new methods of expressionism, be it through the realms of Jazz-Funk, ambient electronics, Swing music or indeed through the medium of instrumentation itself. On this compilation, we look to encapsulate the essence of his innovative sound, and from start to finish a sense of his ingenious approach to composing structure and mood is made abundantly clear. The funk-jazz fusion style that embodied the majority of his 70s work is on full display here, with the vibrant flute driven "Los Angeles", the Miles Davis inspired "Blue Theme", the progressive and driving "Chamonix", and the deeply intricate "Krazy Kat", along with one of his finest 80s slow jams, "Funky Ghost". Two cuts off the ‘Back To Amazonia’ album are also featured (Teddy’s last album including his Prophet T8, Yamaha DX7 and Oberheim drum machines). "Raising Sun in Bali" and the title piece both emphasise an ever present passion for synthesisers. "Birds of Space", a standout track off the e=mc2 album, closes the comp, and is a fitting way to end this journey. Pulled together in close collaboration with Teddy and his family, this collection of songs looks to introduce new listeners to his work and we are proud to present this limited and carefully remastered compilation on vinyl, including extensive liner notes.

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The Soul Santas

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Invada)

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Orquestra Afro-Brasileira

80 Anos

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Day Dreamer)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nina Simone And Her Friends 2021 Stereo Remaster

Nina Simone

LP | 1959 | EU | Reissue (BMG Rights Management)

Release: 1959 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Erosão HHV Exclusive Aquamarine Vinyl Edition W/ Fanzine

Mariá Portugal

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Fun In The Church)

Everyone's Already Come Apart

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited aqua marine vinyl edition including a lyrics' fanzine. 150 copies only, only at HHV Records.

After 20 eventful years as a drummer, singer, producer and composer in her hometown São Paulo, the Brazilian Mariá Portugal moved to Duisburg some time ago.
On November 12, 2021, she is now releasing her latest album, Erosão. Her debut for Fun In The Church will be released as a collaboration between selo Risco (Brazil) and Fun in The Church on vinyl and digital.

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Group Zero

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Touch Sensitive)

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (Constellation)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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'Everyone's Already Come Apart' Sees The Return To Touch Sensitive Of Group Zero, The Solo Project Of Belfast-Based Musician, Cathal Cully. The Group Zero Moniker Has Been An Outlet For Cully To Explore A Loose Experimentalism Within Electronic Production Whilst Still Feeding Off The Same Diet Of His Post-Punk Roots: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition. Four Years On From His Previous Outing For The Label, 'Everyone's Already Come Apart' Heralds A Shift In Trajectory - Leaving Behind The Colder, Industrial Glaze And Softening The Angular Edges To Reveal Warmer, Psychedelic Rhythms - Hinting At Heady Optimism And Playful Escapism. These Five Tracks Take Us On A Trip That Both Pushes And Pulls. Moments Of Meditative Stasis Are Clipped By Propulsive 4/4 Grooves. Snatches Of Heavily Treated Vocals And Keys Further The Unmapped Journey. We Find Ourselves In The Headspace Of Those Beautiful Off-Kilter 3am Dance Floor Moments - Flickering Bright Lights Arrest Us From Being Lost In Fog Machine Haze. Next, We're Soundtracking The Patina Of Those Early-Morning Trails - Pushing Through Nature's Wow And Flutter - Equally As Psychedelic. The Call And Response Pairing Of Cuts On Either Side Of The Record Both Adds To The Wooze And Eases The Orientation. "Making Music For This Record Was An Exercise In Playing For Myself Alone." Says Cully. "The Catalyst For 'Everyone's Already Come Apart' Was A Painter-Like Need For Destruction Of The Canvas - Reconstructing Previous Rough Edits And Forgotten Weirder Motifs Into Something Even More Unique And Beautiful. It Was Almost More Of An Exercise In Listening Than Playing. If It Sounded Weird, Then It Had To Be Made Weirder. I Wanted To Let The Sounds Breathe." Time To Jump In - Everyone's Already Come Apart."

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Jerusalem In My Heart

Qalaq

LP | 1981 | US | Original (Mercury)

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

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

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Jerusalem In My Heart (Jimh) Is A Live Audio-Visual Performance Project, With Lebanese-Canadian Producer/Musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh And Montréal Based Filmmaker Erin Weisgerber At Its Core. Jimh Is An Immersive Sonic And Visual Live Experience And An Evolving Effort To Forge A Modern Experimental Arabic Music Wed To Hand-Made Visuals Using Analog 16mm Film At Site-Specific Screen Installations. One Of The Most Renowned And Uncompromising Entities Working In 21st Century Avant-Garde Arab-Levantine Art And Music, Jerusalem In My Heart Presents A New Album Of Vital And Haunting Electronics And Electroacoustics, Framed By Founder And Producer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh's Spoken And Sung Arabic, Buzuk-Playing And Sound Design. Qalaq Is The Most Distilled, Variegated And Finely Wrought Jerusalem In My Heart Album To Date - Featuring A Different Guest/Collaborator On Every Track, Yet As Cohesive, Emotionally Resonant, Sonically Adventurous And Narratively Powerful As Any Release In Jimh's Celebrated Discography. Guests Across The Album's 13 Tracks Include Moor Mother, Tim Hecker, Lucrecia Dalt, Greg Fox, Beirut, Alanis Obomsawin, Rabih Beaini And Many More. "Qalaq" Is An Arabic Word With Many Shades Of Meaning But Moumneh Particularly Intends It As "Deep Worry" - On Various Obvious Global Levels, But Also Specifically With Respect To Lebanon: Its Collapsing Domestic Politics, Economy And Infrastructure; The Tragedy And Aftermath Of The 2020 Beirut Port Explosion; The Intractable Geography And Geopolitics That Continue To Condemn The Country To Corruption, Disruption, Destabilization And Violence.

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Con Funk Shun

Release: 1981 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

City Of Mirrors Black Vinyl Edition

Dos Santos

LP | 2021 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Love For Sale Deluxe Edition W/ Cheek To Cheek Live CD

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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This album is an assemblage… …glimpses of tradition …reflections on our collective present …luminous echoes between love and solitude. hope and absurdity. euphoria and mourning.

This album grapples with and transgresses these binaries because we have/and continue to cross borders. Yet, for us, the border is no metaphor—too much real staring back at us.

We embody the border. We (our families) have crossed it. We (our stories) are coated with its residues. And so… we cross the border of self through our art—out of necessity.

This album was imagined while touring the country as families were corralled in cages. We then fled the wildfire of a nascent pandemic poised to (especially) ravage our communities as we recorded in Los Angeles. And our sonic journey concluded in Chicago while the country rebelled against the murderous consequences of policing in the U.S.

Through this cascade of tipping points and tragedy, we summoned melody and verse to sound out verdant technicolor dreams of freedom and desire, mirroring the vortex of our time.

And borders were at the center of these struggles. Borders—of nation, of belonging—are the struggle.

And so, this album is a set of dispatches from that wondrous journey… …our journey across and into a sunburst surreal. …our astral meditations on loss and triumph. …our sonic trek across a landscape of trauma and effervescence.

…The border divides and defines places—yes. But it is equally a place unto itself—a borderland. It is the forbidden place where we dwell. The enchanting space where we are at home. The bustling city where we reflect. Look into our mirror. See us in you.

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Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

2CD | 2021 | EU | Original (Interscope)

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Pessimist Productions)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The follow up to 2014's Grammy Award-winning Cheek To Cheek, Bennett and Gaga's latest collaborative album is a celebration of the Cole Porter songbook and a testament to the pair's enduring friendship and love for one another. The announcement of the album coincides with Tony's 95th birthday and two special performances at NYC's Radio City Music Hall, billed 'One Last Time'.

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Stigma

Too Long

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Holy Basil)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kristian Jabs Is One Of Bristol's Favourite Sons In The Modern Era Of Electronic Music. As Pessimist, Boreal Massif And Soft Boi, Jabs Has Solidified His Position As A Leader Of A Generation Of Artists. In His Latest Carnation Jabs Presents 'Too Long', A New 7 Track Album Project Under A New Artist Moniker Of Stigma. Enlisting A Prolific Cast Of Collaborators In The Form Of L, Justin K. Broadrick (Godflesh, Napalm Death, Jk Flesh), Taylor E Burch (Tropic Of Cancer, Dva Damas) And Karim Maas, Too Long Clocks In At Almost 40 Minutes Of Personally Reflective, Intimately Authentic Cyber-Noir-Esque Trip Hop. Industrial Anarcho Breaks, Syncopated Sleaze, Analogue Call And Response. Too Long Is A Tale Of Texture, Feel And Tone. Unadulterated. Aiming To Shine A Light On The Relationship Between Poverty And Mental Health Issues In The Uk, All Proceeds From The Album Will Be Donated To Second Step Bristol, A Charity Dedicated To Supporting People With Mental Health Problems, Gently Acknowledging The Possibilities For Change.

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Mikio "Mickey" Masuda

Corazón

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Strut)

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After moving to New York City in 1978, Mikio Masuda crafted "Corazón" alongside composer / pianist Dave Matthews, notable collaborator of the likes of Nina Simone, Idris Muhammad, Yusef Lateef and Buddy Rich. Originally released on the japanese fusion jazz label Electric Bird in 1979, this also represents his first recording outside of Japan, at the famous Electric Lady studios in New York. The album features a cover of Carole King's "Corazón", Sadao Watanabe's tune "Samba Em Praia", the caribbean vibe "Ride On The Donkey", "Another Rainy Day In New York City"/"Love Talkin" played in the pure Bob James style, as well as a variation of Masuda's classic "Let's Get Together". Now available on vinyl for the first time since its original release as a limited edition of 500 copies with japanese OBI strip.

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Kondi Band

We Famous

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Solyst

Spring

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Metal Mind Productions)

Apostolis Anthimos

Parallel Worlds

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Le Cri Du Charbon)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram vinyl, fold out cover

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Louis Mezzasoma

Mercenary

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1984 | EU | Original (Per Tallec Trio)

Per Tallec Trio

Mannawyddan

Release: 1984 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Die Fische

Eine Nacht In Cairo

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1984 | EU | Reissue (Driven By The Music)

Donna Summer

Cats Without Claws

Release: 1984 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1987 | EU | Reissue (Driven By The Music)

Donna Summer

All Systems Go

Release: 1987 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Strut)

Theatre West

Bow To The People

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Volume II: Baca Sewa Colored Vinyl Edition

Cochemea

LP | 2021 | Original (Daptone)

Give Me More Love Pink Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 2021 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Dap-Kings' electro-sax space warrior returns with a groove-heavy sequel to All My Relations. Vol. II: Baca Sewa, an expressive, transcendental voyage through the archives of his indigenous roots and beyond. Drawing on ancestral memories and family histories to wrap new flesh around the bones of history, this album is a bold, semi-autobiographical work that leads us deeper into the annals of family histories, mythology and the cultural imaginary.

“Baca Sewa” is Cochemea's original family name prior to Spanish colonization and the fracturing or erasure of ancient knowledge and ways. The melody for the title track was composed by Anthony Gastelum and features vocals and drumming by the Baca Sewa Singers- a group composed of several generations of family members. The album runs thick with sonic tributes and remembrances. “Chito's Song” is a contemplative, ethereal tribute to a beloved uncle. “Curandera” conjures the memory of the irrepressible healing power of medicine women. “Black Pearl” recalls his great grandfather, heir to a legacy of indigenous peoples enslaved as pearl divers in the Sea of Cortez.

Leading a 7-piece ensemble composed of New York's top percussionists and members of Daptone's rhythm section, Cochemea recombined ancient elements of drums, winds, and voice, creating his own world of emotional textures and rhythmic possibilities. His musical and spiritual synthesis is made possible through his deep reverence of the horn and of the music and traditions preceding him. Vol II: Baca Sewa - is an offering and continuation of Cochemea's explorations, part of a musical process of cultural reclamation and healing through connection, relations, memory and imagination.

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Al Green

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Fat Possum)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.
Limitation: 5000 copies.
Color: Pink.

Archival recordings from Al Green recorded for Hi Records, accompanied by new orchestral arrangements.

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Demoitis Volume 1 Record Store Day 2021 Edition

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Record Store Day 2021 Release.
Limitation: 1000 copies.

Unreleased demo recordings from the Big Crown catalog. Sometimes the demo recording of a song has a vibe that cannot be duplicated. Whether that first recording is a voice memo on your phone or half haphazardly recorded with one mic in the room, there's an undeniable charm to these recordings. If you spend some time listening to them, when the "real" recording is made, many times one has a hard time letting go of the demo. The medical term for this is called "Demoitis".

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Sorbet

This Was Paradise

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Terrain Black Vinyl Edition

Portico Quartet

LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Gondwana)

Lu's Jukebox Volume 2 - Southern Soul: From Memphis

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lucinda Williams

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Highway 20)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Raw Tapes)

Yonatan Daskal

Romantican

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two Roses Feat. Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Avishai Cohen

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Naive)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra

Nyjah's Theme / Little Africa

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

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Touch Sensitive)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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Autumns

Dyslexia Sound System

Deep Sound Learning (1993-2000)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Autumns Meets Post-Punkers Uptown. A Couple Of Years After The Dyslexia Tracks Ep, And Following A Volley Of Killer Releases On Labels Such As Ideal, Death & Leisure And Opal Tapes, Autumns Returns To Touch Sensitive With Perhaps His Most Complete Set To Date. Pitching Down The Bpm But Maintaining The Intensity Of His Recent Recorded Output And Incendiary Live Shows, Dyslexia Sound System Sees Christian Donaghey Turn The Edit On Himself With A Grip Of Eight Dub-Wave Zingers. Pulling From His Love Of On-U Sound, The Pop Group, And Public Image Limited, Dyslexia Sound System Perfectly Fuses Dubbed-Out Dynamics With The Tough And Unrelenting Electronics That Has Become Autumns' Signature Sound. Guitars Squall, Clarinets Skronk, Vocals Echo, Roto-Toms Repeat And - As Always With Autumns - Rhythm Is King. Dyslexia Sound System Is The Sickest Handbrake Turn In Autumns' Relentless And Wired Journey To Date. Ltd. 250 Vinyl. Mastered By The Bastard. Cut By Kitaro At Schnittstelle. Artwork By Rinky. Forthcoming Press: Ransom Note Premiere The Thin Air Premiere The Quietus Review Previous Highlights Radio/Mix/DJ Play: Trevor Jackson, Ruf Dug, Regis, Broken English Club Gig / Tour Highlights: Playing With Wire, Beak>, Silent Servant, Veronica Vasicka 2016 Performance At Paris Fashion Week For Downwards Records W/ Samuel Kerridge Recent Online Performance As Part Of Ireland's Celtronic Festival W/ Gerd Janson, Move D, David Holmes, Space Dimension Controller Previous Releases: Downwards Records, Ideal, Opal Tapes, Death & Leisure (Broken English Club)

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Jimi Tenor

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

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Mapstation

My Frequencies, When We

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Regener Pappik Busch (Element Of Crime)

Ask Me Now

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Vertigo Berlin)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Haunter)

Lutto Lento

Legendo

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Northern Spy)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Legendo Is A Work Of Sonic Weird Fiction. A Pulp Fantasy. A Descent Through The Cracks In Reality, Punctuated By Bizarre Encounters And Freaky Transformations. It Oozes An Odd Mixture Of Wonder And Fear, A Fascination With Whatever Might Be Lurking Around The Next Unlit Corner, Met With Relentless Excitement And Leading Towards Ghastly Discoveries. Like A Vision Of A New Mythological Age, One That Aims More At Subverting And Making Fun Of Itself Than Educating Towards Any Kind Of Morality. Or A Self-Conscious Fantasy Rpg Turning Into A Full-On Immersive Experience. The Author, Lubomir Grzelak Aka Lutto Lento, Arranged This Eccentric Narrative As A Follow Up To His Previous Lp, The Ominous Dark Secret World, While Also Settling Out To Subvert The Atmosphere Of That Record. In His Haunter Debut He Embraces His Own Quirkier Side, Delving Further Into Eerie Derision And Surreal Trickery. He Achieves That By Remodeling His Penchant For Heavy Bass And Gloomy Dub Into A Kind Of Otherworldly Folk Music, Drawing In Deterritorialized String Instruments, Cheeky Digital Sound Design, Coil-Ian Horror Synths, And Drums That Remind As Much Of Heavy Metal As Of Hollywood Neo-Classicism. It Is By Pushing The Envelope On The Most Contradictory Elements That Legendo Ascends To A Form Of Mocking Poetry. Many Weird Characters Are Encountered Through The Narrative: From The Various Musicians That Contributed To The Music (Such As Vocalist John Glacier, Guitarist Adam Repucha And Koto Player Katarzyna Karpi?Ska), But Also Many Fringe Fascinations That Hail From Grzelak's Native Poland: From The 1897 Painting 'Skarby Sezamu' By Stanislaw Wyspia?Ski That Inspired The Track Of The Same Name, To The Delirious Paganism Of Outsider Artist Stanislaw Skukalski, To The Lullaby Referenced In 'Iskiereczka'. These Entities All Dwell Inside Legendo And Conduct Its Chapters, Rendering The Liminal Dimension Of Its Sound As Real As It Is In Its Creator's Mind.

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Jeremy Cunningham

The Weather Up There

LP | 1987 | EU | Reissue (Hot Casa)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: Near Mint, Cover: Near Mint

Copy without OBI.

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Star Lovers

Boafo Ne Nyame

LP | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Blind Dog)

Release: 1987 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A spectacular Hi-Life album with funky digital touches from the great Ghanaian producer Frimpong Manso. Recorded in 1987 at Ghana Films Studio in Accra, the album Boafo Ne Nyame, that we can translate as “Helper is god”, is led by the great and sweet voice of K. Adusei. Five long tracks filled with hypnotic hi-life grooves and many funk inflections that go way beyond lots of standard riffing of modern Afro Funk. The track “Asem De Ye So” (There's problem on us) is a dancefloor friendly song, already known from connoisseurs and maybe a future anthem when the clubs will reopen! Manso Frimpong was born Feb 21st at Nkawkaw and sadly died Nov 23rd 2016 in Kumasi.

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Vladimir Furduj

Furda

Into Something (Can't Shake Loose)

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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180 gram vinyl

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O.V. Wright

LP | 1977 | JP | Original (Hi)

LP | 2016 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

Release: 1977 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Japanese pressing without OBI, with insert.

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Blues.The-Butcher-590213

Three O'clock Blues

Release: 2016 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Life & Times Black Vinyl Edition

Bubbha Thomas

LP | 1985 | US | Reissue (Tidal Waves Music)

Hallelujah Chicken Run Band

Release: 1985 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Black vinyl edition limited to 500 copies worldwide.

Houston’s reputation for developing first-class jazz acts is well-established, as a stream of young players has been distinguishing themselves for decades…among those musicians and mentors who stood tallest, Bubbha Thomas was no exception (and a major key-player) in this long tradition of talent.

Before becoming an artist and educator, Bubbha Thomas (born 1937) was a Fourth Ward kid who grew up in a music-filled household. In High School, he divided his time between music & basketball (he excelled at both) and studied with jazz legend Conrad “Prof” Johnson. “Prof” would later bring jazz glory to Texas with the Kashmere Stage Band, the group of teenagers who would win the “Best High School Stage Band In The Nation” prize in Mobile, Alabama in 1972 and who were anthologized in 2006 on Now-Again’s ‘Thunder Soul’ (which led to the 2010 Jamie Foxx documentary of the same name).

After finishing college, Bubbha got drafted in the service (he was a Korean War veteran) and would return to Houston in the early 1960s where he found work as a session drummer for the Duke and Peacock labels. Thomas drummed on recordings by O.V. Wright, Buddy Ace and the Mighty Clouds of Joy. He was playing his own stuff and backing luminaries such as R&B singer Chuck Jackson and homegrown legends like Lightnin’ Hopkins. Bubbha Thomas also teamed up with some of his equally legendary peers (like guitarist Melvin Sparks & organist Leon Spencer) and eventually established his own group, the Jazz Merchants.

Bubbha learned every style that was thrown at him and he played straight-ahead jazz with renowned artists before the political and social upheaval of the late 1960s led him to a path first charted by Coltrane and Sun Ra…the result of these newfound influences was the incredible spiritual jazz ensemble ‘The Lightmen’, who released four incredible recordings in the 1970s. Their first album ‘Free As You wanna be’ predates the deep-set, maverick jazz issued by the likes of Tribe and Strata East and is a harbinger of some of the best in the 1970s jazz underground. The Lightmen albums eventually fell out of print until 2017 when the Now-Again record label brought them back into circulation and generated new interest in Bubbha Thomas’ work.

Thomas had a storied career as a drummer and bandleader, but perhaps his most enduring work is that as a founder of Houston’s Summer Jazz Workshop, a remarkable program that nurtured upcoming talent for generations…we can’t begin to count the number of young people who benefitted from the exposure to music-arts because of Bubbha Thomas and what he meant to the Houston music community. In his career he earned five Grammy nominations and authored a pair of books. Next to this he was also a writer/editor for several local newspapers, ran one of the first Houston African American Television shows and he hosted a radio program on KYOK. Impressive to say the least!

Bubbha Thomas passed away in March 2020 at the age of 82. It was obvious he was a principled, fiery & wise person…and any anger he felt at America’s (and the world’s) injustices he met with music, intellect, activism and unity!

Next to his work with ‘’The Lightmen’’, Bubbha also released the fantastic (solo) album ‘Life & Times’ in 1985. ‘Life & Times’ (which we are proudly presenting you today) is particularly interesting to boogie-enthusiasts because of its high doses of funky twerks, solid grooves, crazy synth work, soulful vocals and excellent drum-beats courtesy of Mr. Thomas himself. You’ll quickly find yourself shaking hips the moment the needle hits the first track! The whole album is backed by a fantastic cast of all-star players and includes Howard Harris (Ruth Copeland), Dwight Sills (Bobby Lyle – TLC), Jerry McPherson (Donna Summer), Leo Polk (Kashmere Stage Band), John Gordon (Strata-East) and Jackie Simley (Queen Latifah – Lionel Richie). All of the above makes this LP an essential purchase for any self-respecting fan and collector.

Tidal Waves Music now proudly presents the FIRST ever vinyl reissue of this fantastic album (originally released in 1985 on Lightin’ Records). This rare record (original copies tend to go for large amounts on the secondary market) is now finally back available as a limited 180g vinyl edition (500 copies) complete with the original artwork.

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Take One

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Analog Africa)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 1972, the country of Rhodesia – as Zimbabwe was then known – was in the middle of a long-simmering struggle for independence from British colonial rule. In the hotels and nightclubs of the capital, bands could make a living playing a mix of Afro-Rock, Cha-Cha-Cha and Congolese Rumba. But as the desire for independence grew stronger, a number of Zimbabwean musicians began to look to their own culture for inspiration. They began to emulate the staccato sound and looping melodies of the mbira (thumb piano) on their electric guitars, and to replicate the insistent shaker rhythms on the hi-hat; they also started to sing in the Shona language and to add overtly political messages to their lyrics (safe in the knowledge that the predominantly white minority government wouldn’t understand them). From this collision of electric instruments and indigenous traditions, a new style of Zimbabwean popular music – later known as Chimurenga, from the Shona word for ‘struggle’ – was born. And there were few bands more essential to the development of this music than the Hallelujah Chicken Run Band.

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You Better Get Ready For Judgement Day Savoy Gospel 1978-1986

2LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Volume three: seventeen gems of fierce funk, rapturous soul and transcendent disco and boogie, super-charged with celebration and affirmativeness, loaded with roaring choirs, rocking horns and popping bass guitars, from the years leading up to Savoy’s acquisition by Malaco.

Some seriously rare cuts here; for instance, the stupendous opener by Edith Moreno only appeared as a blank-label promo, in a tiny run.

Spot-glossed, gatefold sleeve, with gorgeous printed inners.

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Turn It Loose, Ain't No Good Savoy Gospel 1970-1979

2LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A Stranger I May Be Savoy Gospel 1954-1966

2LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

The Essential Works 1955-1962

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The first of three volumes: stomping, rollicking gospel music, intermingling with raw soul, searing blues, hard-rocking doo-wop and jazz, and storming r&b.

Infused and incandescent with the hurting, surging indignation of the Civil Rights movement, here are twenty-four precious scorchers by giants like the Staple Singers and Jimmy Scott, alongside devastating sides by less celebrated names like the Harmonising Five of Burlington, North Carolina, and teen-group the North Philadelphia Juniors, culminating triumphantly with slamming, sanctified versions of Hit The Road Jack and Wade In The Water.

Gatefold sleeve, with full-size booklet; beautifully designed, with stunning, rare photographs and original Savoy artwork.

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Quincy Jones

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Masters Of Jazz)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Ernest Jenning)

King Khan

Infinite Ones

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Makoto Kawabata, Richard Pinhas, Manongo Mujica, Juan Luis Pereira

Alturas

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Buh)

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Dome)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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When Acid Mothers Temple and Richard Pinhas visited Lima for the first time, in November 2017, to participate in the experimental music festival "Integraciones", Luis Alvarado, the director of Buh Records and curator of the festival, summoned the Japanese and the French musicians to Manongo Mujica's studio and invited Juan Luis Pereira (El Polen) to join them for a recording session. The result was this album which finally comes to light, and where a variety of instruments and sensibilities are combined. The guitar sound of Kawabata, the leader of Acid Mothers Temple, merged with that of Pinhas, the leader of Heldon, creates a dreamlike atmosphere, which is supplemented with Mujica's Indian bells and drums, Pereira's pututos, moceño, violin and charango, and the cosmic electronic sounds of the classic Roland synthesizer played by Higashi, from Acid Mothers Temple. Everything flows between quietness and abstraction, an atmospheric music that gives way to inspired melodic developments, which are fused with sounds coming from the Andean tradition, as well as with the classic textural and melodic explosions courtesy of Kawabata. All this is enhanced by the meticulous mixing and post production work done by the Peruvian artist Ale Hop. Alturas [Heights] is edited in vinyl format and is destined to become a milestone in the catalogue of Buh Records, a label that has also released albums by El Polen, Acid Mothers Temple and Manongo Mujica.

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Jarrod Lawson

Be The Change

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | UK | Original (Young Turks)

Kamasi Washington

OST Becoming (Score)

London Is The Place For Me

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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Kamasi Washington composed and produced the original score for Becoming, the four time Emmy-nominated film that provided an intimate glimpse into the life of Michelle Obama. Produced by Netflix Originals, Becoming documented a moment of profound change for the former First Lady, not only for her personally but for the country she and her husband served over eight impactful years in the White House. Washington, who joined the project in its embryonic stages, provides the powerful musical backdrop. Young Turks Recordings will be releasing Vinyl and CD of this Emmy nominated score on 11th December 2020.

Recorded at Sunset Sound Studios, LA. Engineered by Tony Austin. Mixed by Randy Emata. Mastered by Kevin “Daddy Kev” Moo. Kamasi Washington – Soprano, Alto, Tenor Saxophnone Rickey Washigton – Flute, Alto Flute Ryan Porter – Trombone Dontae Winslow – Trumpet Sean Sonderegger – Contra Bass Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bb Clarinet Matt Haze – Guitar Cameron Graves – Piano, Rhodes Kenneth Crouch – Organ, Keyboards, Piano Miles Mosley – Electric Bass, Upright Bass Tony Austin – Drums and Percussion Jen Simone, Yvette Devereaux, Reiko Nakano, Tylana Renga - Violin Michael Whitson, Chad Jackson – Viola Artyom Manukyan – Jared Snyder – Cello

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Volume 4: African Dreams And The Piccadilly High Life

2LP | 2006 | EU | Original (Honest Jon's)

2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Release: 2006 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Calypso, kwela, highlife and bebop, a little rock n roll and an Indian mambo, a shango hymn, some Sun Ra-style cha cha cha. A lake in a Johannesburg zoo, a Chinese on the Harrow Road; astronauts and prostitutes, landlords, streetfighters and cricketers.

The music and notes are presented alongside rare artist photographs by Val Wilmer.

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Tommy McGee

I'm A Stranger

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Maghreb K7 Club

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Les Disques Bongo Joe and Sofa Records proudly present a compilation of music from Maghreb recorded and produced in Lyon (France) between 1985 and 1997. It gathers eight tracks (plus introductions on the vinyl and CD versions) released back then on audio tape - and provide them for the first time on vinyl!

Most of the musicians featured in this compilation lived in the Rhône-Alpes region - and enlivened its musical life, concentrated in the Guillotière district in the centre of Lyon. As one of the epicentre of Maghrebian popular music in France’s South-West, it is around that square that a real, unofficial, alternative and dynamic musical scene was carried and fostered by a nebula of musicians, publishers, shop owners, restaurants and music cafés. At that time of profuse and emancipated musical crossbreeding, this compilation gives a glimpse of the epoch’s vibe and trends - in which traditional songs, local influences and contemporary musical technologies were all mixed together. Throughout the compilation, songs belonging to Algerian popular repertoires are restyled through the use of synthesizers and drum machines, and often sound like pop, funk or disco tunes...

Deeply tapped into the daily life of these musicians, they give us a glimpse of the reality of exile and situation of the immigrant, and speak about separation, uprooting, love, as much as social injustices and political events. They belong to the realm of the do-it-yourself, and to a time of unrestrained, free creativity!

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Mild High Club

Skiptracing

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Pop

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: Near Mint

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs, closer to NM

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Dumama+Kechou

Buffering Juju

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sorry You Couldn't Make It

Swamp Dogg

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Joyful Noise)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Undying Thirst Black Vinyl Edition

Black Market Brass

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Colemine)

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Black Market Brass’ sophomore record, Undying Thirst, is a noxious brew of diesel and bleach; a special long-player full of wasteoid rippers for skullduggerous hover-bike gangs peddling fugazi relics and snake oil tinctures. Hellacious guitars, nitrous-charged percussion, a brass section harsher than paint-thinner, and a special batch of short-circuited electronics and synthesizers will leave your head buzzing into the 31st century. Blasting Undying Thirst from your home speaker system is like going over a waterfall in a rusted out oil barrel, long after the sun has boiled the falls dry.

LP is packaged in high quality Stoughton Tip-On gatefold jacket, LP stored in an anti-static innsersleeve, and includes a download card. Pressed at Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, OH.

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Larry Rose Band

Jupiter Effect

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (RCA)

Alicia Keys

Here

LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Everland)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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close to NM. With insert

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Terea

Terea Special Edition

Night Dreamer Direct To Disc Sessions

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Anybody remember STREET FEET? These guys used to be an all instrumental 1970s funk act with a cineastic feel, means that their music could easily have been used as library music for TV productions, especially police movies. They had one album in 1977 and then disappeared. At least it seemed so. But they rather teamed up with singer Sharon Robinson, who has been background vocalist with Leonard Cohen and songwriter for people like Diana Ross, Patti Labelle or Michael Bolton later on and was reluctant to use her own name on the album for tax shelter issues with her label. Since her middle name is Terea, as it was said, this became the project name as well. Original copies from the long since vanished BABY GRAND label fetch prices of 1500 $ and more, so here EVERLAND MUSIC, who own the whole catalogue of the BABY GRAND label, kick out the jams with their ultimate reissue of this classic. The music on this outstanding album could easily be regarded as some of the greatest late 70s black music. And what a great variation of sounds do we found here. Smooth funk with a silkier edge and piercing synthesizers, soul pop with lush arrangements, giant harmonies and a cineastic atmosphere or warm and soulful ballads, no matter what, it is in here. Each song has his own spirit and memorable hooks. The performance is tight and despite all perfection quite passionate. The overall musical direction is gentle since this is pop music par excellance. If you dream yourself on through the dense arrangements you will find so many nifty little details that you can only speak out your deepest respect for the participating band and the singer with the enthralling voice. What goes on beyond the surface is so sorcerous. All those ghostly synthesizer lines. The funky and evergrooving pop version of Hendrix‘ „Manic depression“ fits perfectly well with the rest of the tunes. Organ, percussions, bass guitar, electric piano and vocals make it a massive head swirler and dancefloor sweeper. Next big thing on this album a few songs later is the gospel influenced ballad „For free“, which could have been, in a little more reduced version, one of the most haunting pieces on an early THE BAND or Neil Young record. Here we get a song with lush string arrangments and melodies so haunting and so deeply touching that you almost start crying the one or another tear of joy. All in all this music might feel glamourous but it has an earthy approach and this makes it stand the test of time with ease. Black music aficionadoes will find themselves in need of this record.

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Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Night Dreamer)

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“It’s a paradox, in a way, like you’d have in a dream – something that’s both light and heavy,” Wayne Shorter muses, speaking to Nat Hentoff for the liner notes of Night Dreamer, his 1964 album and first for Blue Note as a leader.

Night Dreamer takes its name from this album, and retains something of the essence of what he was trying to convey.

Working with Artone Studio, and located above Record Industry pressing plant in Haarlem, Netherlands, Night Dreamer specialises in direct-to-disc recordings – the process by which music is cut onto acetate from single-take live performances, without interference: Neumann microphone to Neumann lathe. From there, it is simply ‘walked downstairs to the pressing plant.

For musicians recording at Artone, the process speaks to Shorter’s paradox. The levity of liberation vs. the weight of expectation; trust in raw musicianship vs. vulnerability of exposure. It is in such alchemical moments of contrast that the essence of expression can emerge.

Every Night Dreamer release is produced using a wide range of vintage mastering and recording equipment assembled and painstakingly restored over seven years. With one of just four remaining RCA 76D mixing desks – the same model used at Sun Studios – alongside Westrex Capitol cutting amps, designed specifically for Capitol studios to record the likes of The Beatles and The Beach Boys, it brings together state-of-the-art, often bespoke gear that has never been bettered.

Shorter captured Night Dreamer in a single day, an art not lost on today’s musicians, who, although afforded a surfeit of choice, are as wedded to the idea of collaboration as those of previous generations. The methods are timeless, and the impulse is as contemporary as ever.

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London Is The Place For Me 8: Lord Kitchener In England, 1948-1962

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First there is the hooligan chantwell, up for anything in the hurly-burly of carnival proper; and then the casual reporter, firing off postcards to Trinidad about taxis, flashy booze, fast women and football in Manchester, with homesickness and grievance nestled just behind the optimism, pride and tentative senses of belonging.
There is the bearer of news from home, in detailed accounts of murders, tales of stupid local coppers, and reminiscences about food and particular mango trees; the political thinker, considering racism and Africa; and the diarist, with his vivid tales of infidelity, and disclosure of the break-up of his marriage, and his desire to get away.

One foot in the UK, the other in Trinidad; but the man himself somewhere in-between. Kitch In The Jungle, nobody around. A ‘diasporic explorer’; a key twentieth-century witness, alongside such hallowed figures as Samuel Selvon and Edward Kamau Braithwaite.

Though in frustration Kitch would sometimes take over double-bass duties himself, the musicianship of Rupert Nurse, Fitzroy Coleman and co is top-notch. The original glorious sound is down to Denys Preston, recording for Melodisc, often at Abbey Road Studios (where we transferred and restored the 78s compiled here).

Presented in a lovely gatefold sleeve, with a full-size booklet containing superb, specially-commissioned sleevenotes by Kitch biographer Anthony Joseph, and fabulous, previously-unseen photographs

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London Is The Place For Me 7: Calypso, Mento, Joropo, Steel & String Band

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Still deeper forays into the musical landscape of the Windrush generation.

A dazzling range of calypso, mento, joropo, steelband, palm-wine and r’n'b. Expert revivals of stringband music, from way back, alongside proto-Afro-funk.
An uproarious selection of songs about the H-Bomb and modern phones, prostitution and Haile Selassie, mid-life crisis and the London Underground, racism and solidarity, the Highway Code and a 100% West Indian Royal Wedding.

For example some frantic British-Guianan joropo music-hall about Eatwell Brown from Clapham, who starts out biting off a piece of his mother-in-law’s face at a party, then devours everything in his path… a chunk of Brixton Prison, a Union Jack, a policeman’s uniform. Or Marie Bryant — collaborator of Lester Young and Duke Ellington — taking time off from skewering the South African PM Daniel Malan at her West End revue, to contribute some arch, swinging filth about uber-genitalia.

Superior sound, courtesy of Abbey Road, D&M and Pallas; lovely gatefold sleeve; full-size booklet, with full notes, and fabulous previously-unseen photographs, including a set from the family archive of Russ Henderson (who led the first, impromptu Notting Hill Carnival march, in 1966).

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Company

Trios

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A typically eclectic collection of guests joined Derek Bailey for Company Week in 1983: saxophonists Evan Parker and Peter Brötzmann; cellist Ernst Reijseger, mainstay of Dutch new jazz (ICP Orchestra, Clusone Trio); American wind virtuoso J.D.Parran, veteran of the Black Artists’ Group and Anthony Davis and Anthony Braxton ensembles.
The French bassist Joëlle Léandre is equally at home playing free or performing works by Cage and Scelsi, while Vinko Globokar is an acclaimed composer as well as a trombonist of monstrous virtuosity.

British electronics pioneer Hugh Davies served time alongside Globokar with Karlheinz Stockhausen. Percussionist Jamie Muir was with Davies on the very first (Music Improvisation) Company outing in 1970, before a brief stint with King Crimson.

Is there an ideal number of musicians for free improvisation? Bailey once described playing solo as a “second-rate activity” – though he did it spectacularly well – while at the other end of the spectrum, large improvising ensembles can descend into an unwieldy racket.

Three may be a crowd for some, but for Pythagoras it was the perfect number, and trios work surprisingly well in improvised music. Sometimes one instrument takes centre stage, like Parker’s circular-breathing soprano at the beginning of Five, but knowing when to lie low, as he does in the brief austere Three, is just as crucial to the success of the whole. Muir makes sure he doesn’t get in the way of Globokar and Parran’s leisurely exchanges on Four, but the trombonist is all over the place on One, with Léandre racing up and down her bass and Davies all spikes, squeaks and squiggles.

With a touch of Bailey’s dry humour, two of these seven recordings aren’t trios at all: Trio Minus One is his duo with Reijseger, running the gamut from crazed polyrhythmic strumming (imagine Reinhardt and Grappelli playing Schoenberg and Nancarrow simultaneously) to what must be the fastest cello pizzicati ever recorded. And on the closing ecstatic nonet, Brötzmann and trumpeter John Corbett prove that more cooks don’t necessarily spoil the broth but sure as hell can spice it up.

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Company

Epiphanies I-VI

2LP | 2019 | US | Original (International Anthem)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Derek Bailey’s guests for Company Week at London’s ICA in July 1982 were contemporary classical pianist Ursula Oppens, folk/jazz singer-turned-improviser Julie Tippetts and her partner pianist Keith Tippett, violinist/electronics wizard Philipp Wachsmann, guitarist Fred Frith, trombonist George Lewis, harpist Anne LeBaron, and from Japan free jazz bassist Motoharu Yoshizawa and sound artist Akio Suzuki.

Altogether they performed the stunning extended improvisation Epiphany.
In different, more intimate lineups they detonated numerous Epiphanies.

Here, to start, Yoshizawa and Oppens (both on the keyboard and inside her piano) bounce ideas off each other like ping-pong balls.
Then Tippetts, Wachsmann and Bailey do extraterrestrial cubist flamenco; and Lewis and Frith rumble at everyone magnificently.
Tippett and Oppens kaleidoscope the entire history of the piano into just over fifteen minutes (Fourth and Fifth) with added seasoning from LeBaron and Wachsmann.
To close, Akio Suzuki — despite once describing himself as “pursuing listening as a practice” — makes one hell of a racket with his self-made instruments: a flute, a spring gong and his analapos (two single-lidded cylinders attached by a long steel coil, which he can manipulate and strike, besides vocalising into the tube). Yoshizawa and Bailey give him a real run for his money, and it all builds to an ecstatic, swirling, grinding climax, with Suzuki whooping and hollering wildly.

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Junius Paul

Ism

2LP | 1982 | UK | Reissue (Honest Jon's)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Ism opens audaciously with the spiritual mic-check "You Are Free To Choose," a track that features bassist Junius Paul alongside Vincent Davis (drums), Justin Dillard (piano), and Corey Wilkes (horns). This is by no accident. In many ways, "You Are Free To Choose" captures the spirit of Junius Paul's artistic roots. Corey, Justin, and Vincent were among the multigenerational cadre of Chicago musicians present when Junius chose to follow his own path of creative discovery at the storied Velvet Lounge on the South Side of the city in 2002. Though he began learning his craft playing in church, Junius's creative voice really developed during jam sessions at clubs like The Velvet alongside members of the AACM. It was iron sharpening iron, the most natural form of knowledge transfer. He explained The Velvet's vibe in 2018: "It's like in Africa.... If you had this society of diviners or medicine people, or you know, sages... The Velvet stuff is not secret; but there are certain aspects of it... if you weren't there, you weren't there." The Velvet Lounge closed in 2010. But, of course, the spirit of the Velvet Lounge is not dead. "Tune No. 6," recorded live at the Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago, is a sweet interlude here to remind us that jazz is alive, bristling with what's yet to come.

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Company

Epiphany

LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Izipho Soul)

Release: 1982 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Offcial info: Epiphany \ i-ˈpi-fə-nē \ (1) a manifestation of the essential nature of something (usually sudden) (2) an intuitive grasp of reality through something (usually simple and striking) (3) an illuminating discovery or disclosure.
All three definitions apply perfectly to this span of music recorded at London’s ICA in July 1982. It’s a miracle of group interaction, wonderfully paced, moving steadily between moments of mounting intensity and tension. The passage about halfway through — when Derek Bailey’s harmonics ring out above a sheen of inside piano tremolos and shimmering electronics, topped off by Julie Tippetts’ soaring vocalese — is simply sublime. After which it’s fun to try and tell the two pianists apart. Are those runs Ursula Oppens, with her formidable technique honed from years performing some of the twentieth century’s most difficult notated new music, or are those Keith Tippett’s crunchy jazz zigzags? Are those intriguing twangs from one of Akio Suzuki’s invented instruments or could they be Fred Frith’s or Phil Wachsmann’s electronics? Bah, who cares?

There’s plenty of room for the more delicate instruments too, like Anne LeBaron’s harp picking its way gingerly through a pin-cushion of pings and scratches from Bailey and bassist Motoharu Yoshizawa. Of course, some performers are instantly recognisable: Tippetts, as lyrical and flighty on flute as when she sings, Phil Wachsmann, sinuous and sensitive on violin, and trombonist George Lewis, who, as John Zorn once put it, swings his motherfucking ass off.

So many magical moments abound, from the opening dawn chorus of Tippetts’ voice and Frith’s guitar swooping through a rainforest of exquisite piano cascades, to the Zen calm of the closing moments.

Epiphany, indeed.

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Cornell Cc Carter

Absoulutely

The Music Improvisation Company

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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IZIPHO SOUL RECORDS cannot contain their excitement any longer. The eagerly anticipated follow up to ‘ONE LOVE’, which was last year’s number one independent soul album of the year, is soon upon us. ABSOULUTELY is an album described by Cornell as ‘Songs that came through my Soul and out of my Heart!’

No sales pitch required - suffice to say it’s all killer - no filler. Eight original songs and two classic covers from our heroes Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye (Mr Gaye’s heavenly spirit filled the room when CC & Co laid this one down!) Songs: Say Yes, I See Love, Earn It, Come Live With Me Angel, I Could Never, Ever Since, Love Thang, Morning Touch, Ghosted & We’re A Winner.

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1969, 1970

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Sonor Music Editions)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"The original concepts of vocal and instrumental music are utterly different. The instrumental impulse is not melody in a 'melodious' sense but an agile movement of the hands which seem to be under the control of a brain centre totally different from that which inspires vocal melody. Altogether, instrumental music, with the exception of rudimentary rhythmic percussion, is as a rule a florid, fast and brilliant display of virtuosity... Quick motion is not merely a means to a musical end but almost an end in itself which always connects with the fingers, the wrists and the whole of the body."

The inclusion of the above passage from Curt Sachs' The Wellsprings of Music with this album, the recording of which predates the Music Improvisation Company's only other release, the eponymous ECM outing, indicates a clear intention to stake out territory for European Free Improvisation markedly different from that of the (American) Free Jazz it sprang from. The African-American heritage that led to jazz was melodious, vocal, field holler / church-inflected, and the Germans and the Dutch never made any secret of their affection for it, but British free improvisers in the late 1960s were looking elsewhere.

Even so, and though the music press made a big deal a while back about the release of a 1965 rehearsal tape by Derek Bailey's earlier Joseph Holbrooke trio (with Gavin Bryars and Tony Oxley), their early efforts were mere tentative steps along a cliff edge wearing a line safely attached to Coltrane, and there's still a faint but distinct aftertaste of jazz in Bailey and Parker's work with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble up to and including 1968's Karyobin. But with the addition of Jamie Muir - the first great free improvising percussionist who didn't start out as a jazz drummer - and Hugh Davies and his electronics from way out leftfield in the avant garde / experimental world, the MIC leapt right off that cliff. As Nina Hagen screamed later, "1968 is over! Future is Now!" These six tracks – tight, electric, pointillistic, brilliant, uncompromising and exhilarating – sound like nothing else that came before. In a word, seminal.

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Filippo Trecca

Col Fiato In Gola

Pacific Northwest Stash Box Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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The legendary Hip Hop / Dusty Fingers heavy tune "COL FIATO IN GOLA" by maestro Filippo Trecca, originally released in 1978 for the Giallo TV mini series "Diario Di Giudice" and directed by Dante Troisi. Sampled by tons of artists, this track represents a true holy grail for Italian TV-soundtracks music lovers and DJs with a totally mental downtempo Hip Hop beat played in a heavy Funk key with just everything you could dream about: sleazy and punishing drum patterns / huge and ceaseless string cuts / heavy Giallo orchestration / meandering flutes / groovy and totally killer mood. Essential stuff!

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Garland Records

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Beatrocket)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

Lumingu Puati (Zorro)

Mosese

Catalonian Nights Volume 1

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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In the late Congolese musician Lumingu Zorro, protégé of Kinshasa’s legendary 60s band leader Dr Nico, recorded Mosese, his only pre-2000 solo album, for the Tabansi label- and this is it.CHAMPETA STORM WARNING! The first-ever reissue of one of West Africa’s best-kept rumba-soukous secrets- as well as being one of the most in-demand titles on Colombia’s booming Champeta sound system scene, where a rare record is protected as fiercely as on the Northern Soul or Jamaican sound system scenes, the label scratched off, the record hidden from view when not on the turntable.Possibly one of the strongest and most consistent Congo dancefloor albums ever recorded perfectly balanced between voices, horns, guitars and percussion.Which is why original copies of this all-time rumba rarity almost never reach the open market, being traded between Colombia’s champeta picoteros (sound system selectors) instead.In Kinshasa they say ‘Miziki ezelaki eleng ndeko’- ‘Sweet music, brother!’. Roger that

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Tete Trio Montoliu

LP | 2019 | EU (SteepleChase)

Release: 2019 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Alan Lorber Orchestra

The Lotus Palace

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Modern Harmonic)

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Jazz Village)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Orchestrated by legendary producer Alan Lorber, this talented cast of musicians weave their way through Eastern-influenced and psychedelic interpretations of pop gems and some way-out-there originals, in an album touted as the first in the fusion of raga and jazz.\n \nBrimming with the sounds of sitar, tabla, and Gamelan percussion, this eccentric blend of Eastern and Western music includes four\noriginally unissued bonus tracks!\n \nPackaged in a gorgeous replica of the original gatefold jacket, featuring the original notes and a fresh set of notes from Alan Lorber himself! Exquisitely mastered from the original stereo masters, cut by Kevin Gray for a stunning and enveloping classic stereo sound with delightful stereo separation. Pressed on gold vinyl at Third Man in Detroit!

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Ahmad Jamal

Ballades

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Holidays)

Hüseyin Ertunc Sextet

A New World

Ondigui & Bota Tabansi International

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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We consider ourselves extremely fortunate having met Hüseyin Ęrtunc during his terrestrial transit. After we reissued his wonderful album Musikî (privately released on Intex Sound in 1974) and a few collaborative albums with the Konstrukt collective, in 2017 we finally managed to invite him, Doğan Doğusel, Cem Tan and Umut Çağlar to play some shows in Italy as a quartet. Things got really complicated when their visas got rejected - only one week before their plane was scheduled to take off - but then we found a stalwart supporter of free jazz music at the phone of the Italian Embassy and incredibly we got the visas in time so we could spend a whole week with Hüseyin and his band, touring Italy and playing four shows of the best spiritual free jazz we heard in a long while.
Right after that, we took the chance to book a recording session at the good old Outside Inside Studio, where our loyal partner Matt Bordin captured on tape two days of improvisation by Hüseyin Ęrtunc (Fender Rhodes electric piano, Philicorda organ and chant), Umut Çağlar (percussion and bamboo flutes), Doğan Doğusel (double bass), Cem Tan (drums), joined for this special occasion by the almighty Jooklo Duo: Virginia Genta (tenor and sopranino saxophones, clarinet, flutes), and David Vanzan (percussion). What came out of this is an incredible musical document, and not only for the fact that -unfortunately- it was Hüseyin's last session on this world.
"Most of Ertunç’s recorded appearances have been on drum set, where he’s employed a massive and materialist cymbal approach that takes Sunny Murray’s explosive chatter as a lifting-off point. Ertunç waxed one LP as a leader in 1974, Musikî (with then-regular partners Michael Cosmic and Phill Musra, issued on the tiny Intex label), and returned to Turkey in the early 1990s. Ertunç’s playing, relentless as it might be, evinces a strident, swinging quality that reaches back decades. His pianistic approach is rooted in the outpouring of voluminous, allover rhythm in concentrated shards. One might first think of early Cecil Taylor, though another Boston resident is also worth mentioning – Jaki Byard, who could move from barrelhouse to crepuscular romanticism and dense chordal superimpositions at the drop of a hat. If he and Ertunç didn’t necessarily work together, their spirits are kindred." (Clifford Allen)

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Ewondo Rythm

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (BBE Music)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (BBE Africa)

Nkono Teles

Party Beats

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Afrotunes: Best Of Juju Volume 2 - Oba Mimo Olorun Ayo

Ojo Balingo

2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (BBE Africa)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Don Giovanni)

Mourning [A] BLKstar

Reckoning

Le Personnage Principal Est Un Peuple Isolé

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Formed in Cleveland, OH by producer/activist Ra Washington, Mourning [A] BLKstar is a multi-generational, gender and genre non-conforming amalgam of Black Culture dedicated to servicing the stories and songs of the apocalyptic diaspora. In keeping with the pace that the collective that is M[A]B set since 2016, Washington presented a series of song sketches during the summer of 2018 -- one per week -- while the group practiced and toured their debut records, BLK Musak (Glue Moon Records, 2016) and The Possible (2017). The result, Reckoning, will be released on April 6th, 2019 in collaboration with Don Giovanni Records. Reckoning represents a deep dive into the M[A]B vaults -- a dizzying array of styles, big boy reverb, the heat transversing through love won and love lost, and the tensions that go with living in a world that is increasingly hostile to POC futures and wholly locked in on its disgusting treatment of the poor.

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Benjamin Lew

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Stroom)

Sad And Lonely Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Benjamin Lew was an enlightened amateur, in the noble and almost Renaissance-like sense of the word: he dabbled with equal grace in photography, writing, visual arts ... and worked part-time as a cocktail mixer in a tropical bar which was one of the favourite watering holes of Brussels’ thriving artistic community of the early ‘80s. Tuxedomoon had just moved to Brussels, and Steven Brown was among the many musicians, designers & artists who patronized the bar. Benjamin had a secret passion: he wasn’t a musician, but had acquired a small analog computer, with which he had started creating these strange mysterious little pieces. Benjamin played them to Steven and asked him if he’d agree to record with him. Steven was taken with them and accepted. The Douzième Journée was largely created in the studio by both protagonists, with the help of Gilles Martin and myself, in the spring of ‘82. Listening to his albums (he went on to record four more with Crammed) is like embarking on a dream journey to the Sahara or the Far East. You’d think that some of the pieces feature non-European musicians or samples but: no... this is just Benjamin’s imagination, his synths, and his friends… Marc Hollander, Feb. 2019

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Albert Washington

LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Tidal Waves Music)

Peru's Master Percussionist

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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* Record Store Day Europe / UK 2019 Exclusive Release!
* Originally released on Westbound Records in 1973
* Pressed on 180gm vinyl
* Limited to 1,000 copies

By the time singer-songwriter Albert Washington went to record the tracks that would be released on his career-defining LP, Sad and Lonely, in 1973, he was already a veteran on the recording scene. He had singles recorded on a dozen labels, in styles ranging from gospel to blues and soul. Washington (born in Georgia, 1939) made his own guitar out of a gasoline can using rubber bands as strings at the age of seven. After the family moved to Cincinnati, Albert started going to clubs in the area where he was exposed to artists from the likes of B.B. King and Sam Cooke who would inspire him to become a performer. By the mid 1960’s, Washington had started his recording career, cutting several singles for various labels. His 1964 recordings for the VLM label, including the song he wrote called ‘Haven't Got a Friend’, got him noticed in England, and this in turn led to a deal with Fraternity Records in 1966. Lonnie Mack later joined Washington on several singles for Fraternity recorded in 1969. In 1970, he released two singles on the Jewel label before finally recording his first LP (Sad and Lonely) for the Detroit-based label ‘Eastbound Records’ in 1973. Recorded with the Memphis Horns, the tracks on Sad and Lonely are prime southern gospel-infected soul, funk and raw Albert King style blues…bearing the heavy influence of both James Brown’s funk and Otis Redding’s Memphis soul. Albert’s music is full of lament, urban hustle and lost love, the precise guitar strokes alongside Washington's soaring vocals create the mood for the blues to invade the funk parts. The female backup singers’ harmonies are the cherry on top and the album is a funky emotional onslaught with relentless dance grooves from start to end. The outpour of talent featured here on ‘Sad and Lonely’ was carefully produced by Bernie Mendelson (Donald Austin, Melvin Sparks, Ceasar Frazier), engineered by Ronnie Capone (Stax) and then mastered by the legendary Howard Craft. Because of complications from diabetes (Washington lost his sight and went completely blind) he had to put his musical career on and off hiatus…but despite the crippling effects and the tragedies that befell him over the course of his life, Albert remained an upbeat, positive figure. Washington continued to perform in blues clubs around Long Island prior to dying of complications from diabetes on October 23, 1998. ‘Sad and Lonely’ was originally released on Eastbound (whose parent label Westbound had hitmakers such as Funkadelic & the Ohio Players on its roster in 1973). This rare album has now attained a cult status and fetches hefty sums on the collectors-market. Now it’s finally back available as a limited deluxe 180g vinyl edition (1000 copies) featuring the original artwork. Released exclusively for Record Store Day (UK & Europe) 2019, available in participating stores on April 13.

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Chocolate

LP | 2019 | EU (Buh)

Release: 2019 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2005 | EU | Reissue (Blue Note)

Robert Glasper

Canvas

Release: 2005 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1977 | US | Reissue (Good Find)

Super Wings

My Love Is For You

2LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (Honest Jon's)

Release: 1977 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Wings rock band was a child of circumstance born as a result of the Nigeria- Biafra war. It was the official band of the Biafra Air Force that was originally called the” BAF WINGS” The group became a formidable force to be reckoned with in the music scene barely three years later. With three successful singles and a long playing (LP) album to our credit, the way to stardom seemed within reach, Having wrapped up an engagement at Akuma on the night of Dec 27th, 1974, Spud, Okey and I set out for Aba the following morning in my car which I was driving but as fate would have it, the car got involved in a fatal accident at Azara - Obiato. Spud who sat at the back seat died on the spot. Okey who sat in the front seat was taken to several hospitals but passed on two and a half years later. I escaped luckily with minor injuries Our assets comprising the musical instruments, an electric generator and a ford transit bus had remained under the control of Arinze but the curtain was finally drawn when i learnt that Arinze was about to launch a new wings band within weeks. I fought gallantly to repossess my possessions but when eventually the crises deepened two factions, the Super Wings and the original wings emerged.

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Derek Bailey & Tony Coe

Time

Derek Bailey & Cyro Baptista

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Multi-reedist Tony Coe was born in 1934, four years after guitarist Derek Bailey. He cut his teeth as a career jazzman with Humphrey Lyttleton, before an extended stint with the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band. On this rare 1979 duo outing, he sticks to clarinet. And though that instrument has an illustrious jazz pedigree, Coe’s playing here is something else.

It’s worth noting that the clarinettist has also played under the baton of arch-modernist Pierre Boulez, the kind of composer Derek Bailey enjoyed taking to task in his book Improvisation. You might think the Frenchman’s uncompromising serialism and the free playing Bailey defended with such passion all his life would have little in common, yet both men were hugely influenced by Anton Webern. It’s an influence you can hear right through Bailey’s career in his obsessive exploration of tight parcels of registrally-fixed pitches, notably those trademark ringing harmonics. Meanwhile, Coe’s meandering semitones and sinuous arabesques here recall both Boulez’s clarinet writing in Domaines, and the harmonic world of Boulez’s own teacher Olivier Messiaen.

Still, no traditional classical musical notation could ever render the extraordinary rhythmic subtlety and timbral complexity of this music. It’s at one and the same time dazzlingly virtuosic — Coe and Bailey are on stellar form throughout, and have enough sense to, yes, accompany each other where needs be — and supremely lyrical and spacious.

An absolute delight.

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Cyro

2LP | 1988 | EU | Reissue (Honest Jon's)

The Tales People Tell Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 1988 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When Cyro Baptista moved to New York in 1980 from his home city of São Paulo, he brought with him an arsenal of percussion instruments, including the cuica (friction drum), surdo (the booming bass drum associated with samba), berimbau (single-string bow with resonating gourd), and cabasas galore, in the next few years deploying them most notably in numerous ensembles curated by John Zorn, who helped set up this studio session in 1982.

As you might expect from someone whose infectious grooves have graced the work of Herbie Hancock, Astrud Gilberto and Cassandra Wilson, Baptista expertly fires off cunning polyrhythms, even traces of thumping samba, with restless fluency. Bailey the wily old fox skirts and eschews the bait, which is quickly conjured away and newly fashioned. The guitarist homes in on the delicious squeaks of the cuica and the twanging drones of the berimbau with truly awesome tonal precision. You could sing along if you wanted, after a caipirinha or two. And he gets almost as many different sounds from his instrument as Baptista can from his kit – check out the stratospheric plings and string-length fret-sweeps of Tonto, which sound more like a prepared piano than an acoustic guitar.

Wonders abound, from the berimbau/bent-string exchanges that open Quanto Tempo to the delightful collision of howling cuica and spiky bebop on Polvo, and the spare, preposterous Webernian samba of Improvisation 3.

These days, ‘improvisation’ often appears without its customary qualifier ‘free’. If there were ever a case to be made for its reinstatement, this album is the best supporting evidence. Freedom means you’re free to get into the groove, free not to, free to play with each other, free to play against each other. Sometimes frustrating, even scary, but more often than not in the hands of these two great masters it’s hilarious, exhilarating and utterly irresistible.

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Kelly Finnigan

LP | 2019 | US (Colemine)

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Hobo Camp)

Release: 2019 / US

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Kelly Finnigan's debut solo album for Colemine Records represents the culmination of his 15 years of experience - in the studio as a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer - and touring the US and Europe as a singer, musician, and band-leader. The content within reflects his dedication to expression through the rich American music traditions of soul, gospel, doo-wop, and R&B. The subject is love. Its ecstasies and heartaches. Love sought, found, betrayed, lost, and rediscovered. The result is a marvelous collection of songs and performances that run the gamut from whispering tenderness to roaring appeals; from lean and mean to lush and lovely. And always_always, manifestly honest, and undeniably soulful. With Finnigan guiding these songs from their conception all the way to the record pressing plant, the new release provides the singular voice missing from soul music: a visionary that writes, records, performs and produces his own material.

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Brian Ellis

Deep Clues

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 1988 | EU | Reissue (Telephone Explosion)

Fist Of Facts

Fugitive Vesco

LP | 2015 | IT | Original (Record Kicks)

Release: 1988 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Melodic Energy Commission is a Canadian gem and an interesting branch of the Hawkwind family tree (featuring Del Delmar on electronics.) Hailing from British Columbia, their unique blend of space rock, progressive and hippie psychedelia began in 1977 as a recording-only project titled "The Melodic Energy Commission of Collected Artists."
In 1985 Ken Man showed up in the studio with this IBM AT computer. It had a 1/2 MB of RAM and some Voyetra software that could sequence music, becoming the duo’s backing band. Fist Of Facts contributors included Mark Cunningham from Mars, Felice Rosser, Genevieve De Monvel Boutet, Carlos Vivanco, Scott Hartley from the Liquids and a whole host of others. Fist of Facts expand the natural groove that Liquid Liquid established over their quick career, with a strong political message combined with abstract dub soundscapes.

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Calibro 35

S.P.A.C.E.

Melodic Energy Commission

Release: 2015 / IT – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG+, Cover: VG+

Copy closer to NM

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Migration Of The Snails

LP | 1980 | EU | Reissue (Telephone Explosion)

LP | 1986 | EU | Reissue (Invisible City Editions)

Release: 1980 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Jeff Majors

For Us All (Yoka Boka)