Organic Grooves 1026 Items

From Africa With Fury: Rise 2016 Edition

Release: 2019 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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An album about his "love for Brazilian music and its many shapes and colors," Sao Paulo-born Sessa's debut Grandeza sets the scene for who The New Yorker called a "songwriter cut from Veloso's mold and blessed with a flair for the intimate, the enigmatic, and the licentious.' Long out-of-print, Mexican Summer continues its exploration of Sessa's musical vision with this special Fifth Anniversary Edition on Pink + Purple Splatter Vinyl (limited to 1000 copies). Sung in Portuguese, with visceral, sensual lyrics in the vein of Caetano Veloso and the lush melodies of Tom Jobim, Sessa’s sound, by contrast, has a deliberate minimalist treatment rarely found in contemporary Brazilian music, more reminiscent of the bareness of Leonard Cohen. Sessa propels Grandeza’s devotional sounds towards decisively modern territory.

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Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

2LP+CD | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Because)

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Traumton)

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With the mighty new From Africa With Fury: Rise, Seun Anikulapo Kuti picks up the mantle as undisputed champion and true prince of the Afrobeat movement.

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Shake Stew

Gris Gris

32,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

Soul Time!

LP | 2011 | US | Reissue (Daptone)

25,99 €*

Release: 2011 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Slc)

Shawn Colvin

Steady On

25,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Inspiration Information / Ah Uh Mi Hed Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Shuggie Otis

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Epic)

7" | 2019 | JP | Original (Kissing Fish)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Two luscious soul/folk/psychedelic funk crossover jams from LA born Shuggie Otis on Epic, reissued and remastered 45 years after their first release.
Shuggie's trademark soul-laden tones marry with dusty organs and strutting funk guitars to give two blissful slices of '70s gold. A collectable 7 Inch, remastered, reissued and finally available at a respectful price.

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Shunske G & The Peas

Fly Higher

CD | 2019 | EU | Original (BBE Africa)

Release: 2019 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Japan import! Better don't sleep!

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Sidiku Buari

Disco Soccer

LP | 2019 | Reissue (20th Century Masterworks)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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BBE Music is delighted to present the first ever reissue of ‘Disco Soccer’, the 1979 album from Ghanaian sportsman turned musician Alhaji Sidiku Buari.Originally an athlete, winning silver and gold medals in the Senegal All Africa Games and West African Games in 1963 and a bronze in the All African in Congo Brazzaville in 1965, Buari moved to America on a music scholarship from The York Institute, obtained as a result of his athletic achievements. Buari soon became enthused by baseball, training with the York team and occasionally playing in matches. When one of York’s music teachers heard him singing inspirational team-builder songs and chants for his side - in the Ga language- he suggested putting a rhythm section behind the songs, recording them, and seeing what the American record buying public thought of them.It won’t surprise you to hear that said Americans loved the demos- so, in 1975, he recorded his first album – the first of fifteen. Buari went on to collaborate with Bernard Purdie, Sugar Hill’s Steve Jerome and Salsoul’s bassman, Gordon Edwards.A switch to Polydor in 1979 produced Disco Soccer, and if you’re into disco or boogie or any hybrid thereof, this is a must-have album. A homage, Ay to Zee, to New York’s late 70s disco scene, filtered through an Accra late-night haze: Ga vocals and West African percussion all the way, all of it composed and produced by the artist himself. A generous eleven tracks of all killer-no-filler boogie business: one of those albums you just put on, and leave on.An essential partner to BBE’s double Buari LP Feelings/Sidiku Buari & His Jam Busters, Disco Soccer is reissued from the original masters and reproduced on 180-gram vinyl with new liner notes and original artwork

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Sidney Bechet

Plays Sidney Bechet

Release: 2019 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Assophon)

Simon Henneman

Black Magic & Mustache

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Sir Frank Karikari & The Polyversal Souls

Siakwaa / Nana Agyei (Medley)

7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Philophon)

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Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Frank Karikari is the son of legendary Highlife musician Ralph Karikari who played bass on countless classic albums such as "Sikyi Highlife" by Dr. K. Gyasi & His Noble Kings. So, Frank grew up surrounded 24/7 with high class Highlife music plus he has inherited the natural talent of his father. Now he teamed up with the Polyversal Souls to keep the spirit of Highlife alive.

"Siakwaa / Nana Agyei" are two songs taken from above mentioned album "Sikyi Highlife". Frank gets here some vocal support from the original court singers of the Ashanti king, which fits perfectly, as both songs are praise songs to the king.

"Odo Agye Gye Me" is composed by legendary Kumasi based singer Baffour Kyei, who sang for such groups like Kyeremateng Stars or B.B. Collins & His Powerful Believers. Besides creating this song, he is part of the choir on this future Highlife classic.

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Sewele

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Strut)

23,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Siri Nilsen

Alle Snakker Sant

15,99 €*

Release: 2019 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | NO | Original (Grappa)

Siri Nilsen

Skyggebokser

Release: 2019 / NO – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Never Thought I'd Get You

Situation

12" | 2019 | US | Original (Star Creature)

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Grief Thief Records)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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After 2 giant 7" alongside fellow UK STAR CREATURE collaborator, OURRA, ANDRE ESPEUT returns to the Chicago boogie mecca with another brit funk masterpiece backed by fellow Brits, SITUATION. The original mix has all the mass appeal qualities along with an array of remixes.

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Skeleton Beach

Ritual

16,79 €* 27,99 € -40%

The Rough Guide To Skip James

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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* New pressing on pink colored vinyl

Ritual is the product of a series of live late night ambient recording sessions, focusing track-by-track on different themes and aspects of witchcraft. From the opening drone of Blood Moon until the very last melodic notes of Ritual, its intent is to transport your mind to another place.

By nature, a ritual is a very ceremonial thing. Everything has its place, and everything has a purpose. The same as the cadence of a spell, or the ingredients to a potion, every track ebbs and ﬂows in a delicate balance, at times slowly slipping under consciousness in a warm and inviting manner that dances with moments oftension to keep from tipping too far into the light.

The subtle beauty, even at its most lawless moments, pull listeners to the powers and true magic of ambient electronic experimental music. Blurring the lines between destruction and creation in an immersive and entrancing experience from start to ﬁnish.

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Skip James

LP | 2019 | UK | Original (World Music Network)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2019 | EU | Original (La Casa Tropical)

Skyf Connection

Ten To Ten

Slim Moore & The Mar-Kays

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Skyf Connection (pronounced skAyf) was a short lived project by long time friends Anthony Mthembu and Enoch Nondala. At the time they were working for Annic Music, an independent label run by married couple Anne and Nic Blignaut. Although the label was known mostly for Zulu, Sotho, Tsonga and other traditional styles, they had a few Disco releases on the label including groups like Keith Hutchinson’s Focus and Enoch’s discovery Lena, who went on to have huge success under the name Ebony a few years later.
In 1984, when an artist didn’t show up for a booked session they decided to make use of the studio time and began working on a demo. At the time Anthony and Enoch had been playing for a year at a new club called Gamsho, located on a farm on the outskirts of Kliptown Soweto. Along with Blackie Sibisi, Sepate Mokoena and Elijah “chippa” Khumalo they made up the resident house band. Due to cultural boycotts and American artists refusing to perform in the country, locals took it upon themselves to fill the market with the American sound the crowds demanded. The demo they recorded at Blue Tree Studios was going to be their product they could use to promote their brand of the American sound. They then took the demo to Universal Studios where their friend and trusted engineer Jan “fast fingers” Smit was working. It would be here that they would polish their demo into something they could take to their bosses and have pressed. Equipped with a DX 7, Linn Drum and some Juno synthesizers they were on their way. Jan lived up to his name and programmed the drums, it is rumoured he could program in almost real time, a skill that translated to the local arcade where he held high scores on many machines. Enoch would be singing and playing guitar while Anthony would do all the Bass and Keyboards. The result was 4 funky party anthems with synth work like no other recording at the time. Their take on what they believed the crowd would want to hear at the beloved club they called home.
From start to finish the 4 tracks portray what would have been a standard night at the Gamshu. Although the club would open earlier and the standard hours of most clubs was 6 to 6 , the band would start playing at 10pm. With their standard set time and Anthony and Enoch unique view on what a Disco should be, they chose the motto Ten to Ten as the album title because those were the hours when they were the stars and Disco ruled the dance floor. To get to the club was a bit difficult, you needed to drive along an empty road where thieves waited for any patrons trying their luck walking after dark. Since there was no transport during the night, the safest way to get home was to wait till the next morning to walk home. Even though in the summer months of Johannesburg light begins to peek in just after 4am, crowds refused to leave and stayed enjoying good music and company until 10am. The lead off track “Let’s Freak Together” has powerful lyrics encouraging people to let go of their worries, put aside any differences and let the music bring everyone to freak and dance together. The whole album is about the joy we can all feel when we share the same moments and how music can bring people together in a unique way, a philosophy shared with the original nightclubs of 70s New York. This approach to music is where the name Skyf Connection comes from, translating from slang to mean the connection we create through sharing, in this case Music and good times.
Skyf Connection would go on to play at Gamsho till the club’s closure in 1986. In those years their popularity lead to being booked for private events like weddings and birthday parties, as well as gigs in some other venues like Mofolo Hall. They would share the stage with many artists through the years learning artist’s songs and providing support as a backing band. After the club closed Anthony would go on to join the house band at The Pelican, another famous club located in Orlando East, as well as dabbling with songwriting for artists like Phumi Maduna and helping Enoch on many projects through the years. Enoch would ditch live music altogether and immerse himself in studio work, starting full time as a house producer and A&R for the recently formed Ream Music. He would go on to produce hit albums for pop artists like Percy Kay and Makwerhu but made his mark discovering countless artists that would become stars in the traditional market. They would remain friends until Anthony’s passing in 2016 and although Anthony is no longer with us his spirit lives in the grooves he left on this one of a kind record. His wife Vinolia will be accepting his portion of the profits on his behalf.

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LP | 2011 | FR | Original (Marlow)

Release: 2011 / FR – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Record Kicks)

Smoove presents

Mo' Record Kicks Act 2

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In The City / Jam Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The man behind this fine selection of RK sounds needs no introduction, DJ/Producer Smoove has been an avid collector of all that is funk for more than 30 years and is one half of the renown duo Smoove & Turrell. He has releases out on Acid Jazz, Jalapeno and Unique to name a few, as well as having founded the labels Wack Records and Wass Records. Not only did Smoove lovingly hand-pick each cut that appears on MO’ RK II, but he is also responsible for 2 of the first-rate remixes that appear here: The New Mastersounds and Nick Pride & The Pimptones both get a Smoove reworking, while brand new afro-funk combo from Sydney The Liberators are remixed by Kokolo head honcho Ray Lugo, The Diplomats Of Solid Sound are given the Lack Of Afro treatment, Ray Harris & The Fusion Experience get a makeover by Valique and “Are You Ready” by Mr. Comicstore feat. Nicole Willis appears in a new discomix version. Other highlights of the compilation include a cracking gospel funk piece by William Joseph Fowler & The Disciples, some deep funk by recent RK signing Hannah Williams & The Tastemakers, and brand new material by Big Boss Man’s bass player Scott Milsom aka The Hawk. Plus singles by The Baker Brothers, Link Quartet, Floyd Lawson, Crabs Corporation and more!

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Smuggler Brothers

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Schema)

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LP+CD | 2019 | EU | Original (Schnitzel)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Hailing from Palermo, Smuggler Brothers deliver a unique sound, deeply rooted in the diverse and rich heritage of their island-Funk-prog flavoured Mediterranean library music with Arab and North Afrika influences. Produced by Massimo Martellotta (Calibro 35). This 45rpm anticipates the band’s full-length album with two non-LP new tracks, exclusive to this release!

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Solid Bronze

Fruit Basket

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2011 | Reissue (Not Now)

Son House

Raw Delta Blues

33,99 €*

Release: 2011 / Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Super Sonic Jazz)

Son Swagga

Dark Magic

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Led by the light of imagination, Son Swagga creates a musical realm of magic and wonder. The nine-headed kinship tells tales of warring tribes, forces of nature and cosmic sorcery.
Clanleader Felix Back draws upon his repertoire of funk-fusion, spiritual jazz and videogame music to create a sound that has never been heard before. Backed up by the tightest, most energetic rhythm section Amsterdam has to offer and spearheaded by a powerful horn section Son Swagga fanfares the coming of a new age in rhythm music.
Following their 2017 debut ‘Fires of Quidel’ Son Swagga are releasing their second full length album ‘Dark Magic’ on Super-Sonic Jazz Records on May 7th. Performance highlights include Bimhuis, Paradiso, Melkweg and Womex World Music Festival.
Son Swagga ‘Dark Magic’ is already the fifth physical release on the rising Amsterdam based Super-Sonic Jazz Records. Runned by Dutch DJ KC The Funkaholic (a.k.a. Kees Heus) and brothers Tenzers (a.k.a. Vincent & Siemen Tenzer), the Super-Sonic Jazz recordlabel, their six day festival, monthly concerts and exquisite clubnights becomes a serious movement within the Dutch musical landscape.
Kees Heus was also responsible for the running the Dutch imprint Kindred Spirits, that released records by international heavyweights, while championing local pioneers simultaneously.
Open your mind and nurture your imagination, because Son Swagga’s Dark Magic will spin mystic fiction into vivid reality.

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Sonny Clark Trio

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Jazz Images)

Sonny Rollins

The Sound Of Sonny

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Never Too Much feat. Leonardo Carmichae

Soul Sugar

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Gee)

11,99 €*

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Soul Tune)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following the mighty rendition of "I Want You", Soul Sugar (a.k.a. Guillaume 'Gee' Metenier) is back with another massive Soul-Reggae version, this time taking on Luther Vandross' "Never Too Much".
Fearlessly taking on such timeless classics is serious business, and Leo Carmichael delivers, once again, with a maximum dosage of finesse and feeling. Seductively delicate backing vocals from Carl Lee Sharshmidt and Karene Brown keep it as warm and intimate as one would hope, while Thomas Naim's tasteful guitar licks and Gee's minimal production allow the song to breathe and flow steadily on its own.
Recorded in Paris, Kingston, Miami and London, the resulting blend of Soul and Reggae riddims has rarely felt so natural. On the A-side, Gee's "Discomix" dubs a generous dose of the sultry backing vocals over a minimal, bassy groove that dips, dives and flows on into the sunset. UK producer Adam Prescott lets loose with an infectious 90's dancehall rerub, aiming straight for the dancefloor... ladies' choice! Finally rhythm legends Sly & Robbie drop the BASS with a heavy dancehall treatment, taking it low, letting it ride, while the vocals float on... Never Too Much!

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Soul Tune Allstars

Introducing

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Résolut Diffusion)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The debut album of Sweden's own SOUL TUNE ALLSTARS will give you everything from hard instrumental funk tracks like "Spread The Message" to vocal Soul winners like "Natural Feeling" and Day To Day" with a hint here and there from other parts of the world, like the Brazilian flavored "World" and the mighty African flavored ""Mother Nature" A solid Soul / Funk album with a personal touch of producer and composer Niclas "Streetsoul" Wretelid, in his own words: "We are very proud to present our first album ”Introducing” and that’s just what we do, we introduce the sound to you. Soul and Funk music have played an important role in our lives, and this album is truly made from the heart, we hope you like what you hear!"

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Soultime

Unspoken Stories

19,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | US | Original (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

Sourakata Koite

En Hollande

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South Shore Commission / Ultra High Frequency

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Senegalese kora master Sourakata Koite began music from pretty much day one. "All the Koite are musicians!," he says. Indeed he is a member of a family of djeli (or griot in french), the hereditary caste of musician-storyteller-historians in West Africa. After moving to Paris in the late 70s he began to play in different bands and for musicians like Manu Dibango, Toure Kounda, Mangala, Mah Damba and more. During a festival in Holland, a music producer form Plexus Records heard him and asked to make a recording. In 1984 in an old chicken coop near Delft, Koite recorded the entire album in one take, including overdubs. The rich sonics and deep sound beautifully presents Koite's virtuosic and entrancing renditions of traditional and original tunes. With the reissue of en Hollande, Awesome Tapes
From Africa continues its mission of bringing tapes posted on the ATFA website over the years, including this one, to music fans all over the world.

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Free Man / We're On The Right Track (Moulton Mixes)

12" | 2019 | UK | Original (Soul Brother)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | Original (Concord)

Southern Avenue

Keep On

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Discopathe)

Soyouzz

Ginger Ale

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Bring Back Peace To The World Part 1 / Part 2

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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We are proud to announce the creation of our label Discopathe Records! As our first release, we chose to defend Ginger Ale, the debut album from Soyouzz, a young band from Montpellier (France). This first EP influenced by modern jazz/funk vibrations was inspired by Herbie Hancock, Snarky Puppy, Vulfpek and Louis Cole.
Welcome aboard SOYOUZZ spacecraft. Let yourself be led into a unique and colorful retrofuturistic sound experimentation of 25 minutes and 5 steps to Ginger Ale. A collective of six musicians will be your captain. You will feel some pleasant turbulence during the flight, as you will go through deep bass sound with curls from brass instruments, going from a killer groove to a mind-blowing trance. Don’t panic, the spacecraft will stabilize by flirting blithely with electronic music.

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Spencer Jackson Family

7" | 2019 | Original (Luv N' Haight)

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (AOE)

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Luv N'Haight is proud to present another dose of Chicago Spiritual, Jazz-Funk from The Pharaohs. ""Bring Back Peace To The World"" sees a pairing of the legendary band with fellow Chicago natives and vaunted Gospel-Soul group Spencer Jackson Family. The result starts off as a traditional yet powerful Gospel exhortation then morphs into a rioutous and vivid deep Soul-Funk number.

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Spider Harrison

Beautiful Day

Spirit Zaf & Phil Asher Edit Record Store Day 2019 Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Spider Harrison was Indianapolis's first call soul DJ in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He broke local tunes like The Highlighters' "Poppin' Popcorn" on soul-friendly WTLC's clean FM frequency, MC'ed functions with the backing of local funk hopefuls, wrote liner notes for everyone from Billy Wooten to Little Royal and offered business advice to musicians such as The Highlighters/Rhythm Machine bassist James Boone.
Around the turn of 1970, Harrison returned to an old pastime – singing. The Highlighters' manager - and owner of newly formed Lulu records – Jerry Herman approached the jock to record a single. Harrison hastily accepted. Backed by loyal friend Boone and the in-transition Highlighters' rhythm section, Harrison donned a yellow raincoat, got tipsy on Thunderbird and went for broke. The result catches Charles Wright's "Express Yourself" at its funkiest moment, and has earned the jock deserved placement in the deep funk canon.
Not only do we have the original version of Spider Harrison's Beautiful Day but on the flip we have cut a drum track of the record found on one of his tapes. 500 copies only, no repress.

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Spirit

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Rain&Shine Limited)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Spiritczualic Enhancement Center

Who Corrupted Our Wave, Back In 1969?

Tape | 2019 | EU | Original (Kinship)

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Polskie Nagrania)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

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

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Who Corrupted Our Wave, Back in 1969? is composed of tracks recorded live during a Sunday confusion at Berlin’s Klunkerkranich. Aimed at transferring the dub-laden substance of their debut at Fusion Festival, one week earlier, this sunset-session is a drive through dense traffic in psychonautic space. Hypersonic textures arise from layers of transmutative dialogues between seven instrumentalists. These musicians have gathered in the exiled Spiritczualic Enhancement Center, geared towards spontaneous pre-temporal alignment. A collective channeling of Free Beat sonic-organisms born from the ether, “Who Corrupted Our Wave, Back In 1969?” is a b-rave album producing an inter-era entanglement, empowered by the portals of a caravan traveling outside of time.
" If Woodstock had happened in an alien, technological advanced universe, this is probably how it would have sounded like but we might’ve never got to experience it. Fortunately, it was recorded this year in Berlin by seven illuminated musicians that created a timeless dialogue of textures, grooves and beats, which you can use as a post-hippie spaceship to take you wherever the fuck you want."
Gabriel Leașcu - The Attic
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Spisek Szesciu

Complot Of Six

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Music Of John Carpenter

Splash Band

LP+CD | 2019 | EU | Original (ZYX)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Amherst)

Spyro Gyra

Vinyl Tap Clear Vinyl

25,99 €*

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Stan Getz & Gerry Mulligan

Getz Meets Mulligan In Hi-Fi

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Vinyl Passion)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Dynamite Cuts)

Starcrost

False Paradise

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Rent A Dog)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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WOW…. Dynamite cuts gives you for the first time on 7” two Jazzfunk soul gems from the mega rare hard to find LP by Starcrost 1975 Fable records.

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States Of Play

Live In Moers

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Dynamite Cuts)

Steam Heat

Austin Funk

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Expansion)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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WOW…. Dynamite cuts gives you for the first time on 7” two funk and soul gems from the mega rare hard to find Texas funk LP by Steamheat 1975 Fable records

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Stephen Michael Schwartz

Get It Up For Love

7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Izipho Soul)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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“Get It Up For Love” is a classic dance song written by Ned Doheny. This version from 1974 is the first, later recorded by Tata Vega, the Average White Band (featuring Ben E. King) and Ned himself. Original 7” copies on RCA Records (featuring the single version only) of this exchange hands for between £50 and £100. It is coupled with the full-length album version, generally unknown from this little known artist. The new Diplomats Of Soul label through Expansion aims to deliver lesser know gems of the highest quality and desirability alongside the group’s own releases moving forward.

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Steve Doc Willoughby

All My Life

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Rain&Shine)

Steve Elliott

True Image

Don't Drive The Geese / Water Treatments

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rain&Shine proudly present Steve Elliott’s first album -True Image (1981). After failing to find musicians with the same direction and devotion to music he had acquired, Steve taught himself to play eleven different instruments and move from hometown of Pasadena, California to Denver Colorado.
Eager to express his musical ability, Steve became a DJ on KDKO radio, and would then go on to compose, arrange and perform True Image on September 20th 1981 with a collection of drum machines, synthesizers, and contributing musicians on rhodes, flute, guitar and vocals.
Mr. Elliott’s philosophy is “You hold in your hand a dream, a dream come true by a man whose only objective was to express the love he contains, the love we all contain within through music.”
On many collectors want lists, passing for a median price of $450 online.

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Stick Cats

7" | 2019 | US | Original (Funk Night)

Jazz Dancin / Jazz Funkin

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sticks & Co

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Super Disco Edits)

Stockhausen Markus / Mortazavi Alireza

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Harbans, Steve and Mark met and recorded library music a few times prior. Steve and Mark were from Coventry and Harbans, Frank and Jaki were in Birmingham. Everyone was involved with the scene at the time playing jazz/funk and soul music with various acts.
Harbans had played with the popular disco/funk band The JALN Band. Frank played with the Cissy Stone Band who had a great following. Steve and Mark were in a popular jazz/rock/funk outfit called Pzazz. Jaki was singing in various bands and drawing a great deal of attention, of course we all know she went on to some great pop success. These songs were recorded sometime around the 1980's, during that explosive time of uk jazz funk, where it had a massive following up and down the country.

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Hamdelaneh Intimate Dialogues Dark Red Vinyl Edition

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Dark Companion)

31,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Athena Black Vinyl Edition

Sudan Archives

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

36,99 €*

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Modern Harmonic)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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She first emerged as an avant-garde violinist who channeled her playing through loop pedals. Then songwriter, vocal performer, and beatmaker. She's captivated audiences at festivals around the world, touring her trail-blazing EPs Sudan Archives (2017) and Sink (2018). Sudan's many identity coalesces in her debut album, Athena: a psychedelic, magnetic take on modern R&B.

"When I was a little girl, I thought I could rule the world," Sudan Archives announces in the sparse, string-plucked opening bars of Athena, on the strident "Did You Know". Her musicality and sense of self-belief developed as a young child in the church. Born Brittney Parks, but called Sudan from a young age, she moved around Cincinnati, Ohio many times as a child; religion and music were the most stable forces in her life. It was in church that Sudan began learning to play the violin by ear, participating in ensemble performances. "I remember begging my mom to get me a violin," she says. "From there I just never let it go – it felt like I had a purpose."

Growing up with a twin sister, Sudan also learned young that she was the "bad twin". Her stepdad – a one-time music industry executive – tried to turn the two into a pop duo when they were teenagers, but Sudan would miss rehearsals and curfew so frequently that the project was abandoned. Still, the experience was valuable: "My stepdad basically planted this whole idea of artistry as a career," she remembers. Though she left the band behind, Sudan clung onto the idea of pursuing music when she moved to Los Angeles at age 19. While studying and holding down two jobs, she would spend her spare time "fucking around with some beats and making some weird shit", which she released tentatively under the name Sudan Moon – a combination of her childhood nickname and her love of Sailor Moon. The ethereal quality of those early lo-fi, G-funk-inspired beats would eventually make its way into Sudan's current sound.

It was once she discovered ethnomusicology, and learned to incorporate the violin into her beats, that she really unlocked a new level. Cameroonian electronic music pioneer Francis Bebey was an early inspiration: "His music is so simple, and the way he combines strings and electronic music is such a vibe.” From there, she educated herself about other artists and ethnomusicologists, learning about the history of one-string fiddling in Ghana, Sudan, and all over the world, which "blew my mind". Now a fervent crate-digger with ambitions of studying ethnomusicology, she changed her artist name to Sudan Archives.

After she met with Stones Throw A&R and Leaving Records founder Matthewdavid, Peanut Butter Wolf signed her to Stones Throw. Her self-titled debut EP introduced the world to Sudan's fusion of North African-style fiddling, layered R&B harmonies, and pared-back production. Her second EP Sink was a resounding six-track statement that, according to Jenn Pelly at Pitchfork, saw Sudan "level up as a songwriter" — especially true of the bold self-love song "Nont For Sale".

Those EPs, Sudan says, were "like a haiku of what the album is". Athena is "more in your face, more confrontational – and that's also how I've grown as an artist. I used to be a hermit who would make beats in her bedroom, but now I'm working with other writers, producers and instrumentalists, I've learned how to communicate. It feels like I'm almost back in church." At first, it was tough for Sudan to cede any control in her creative process, but as she got stuck into the sessions with producers Wilma Archer (Jessie Ware, Nilufer Yanya), Washed Out, Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, Sampha, King Krule), and Paul White (Danny Brown, Charli XCX), she opened up. The resulting album, whittled down to 12 taut tracks from around 60, is her most ambitious work yet.

On the album's cover, she poses as a Greek goddess sculpted in bronze. Simultaneously at her most powerful — channelling the energy of her princess warrior heroes Xena and Sailor Moon — and her most vulnerable, Sudan challenges the viewer to see what's under the surface. "I'm naked!" she says. "I don't have anything to hide at all, it's all out there."

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Sun Ra

Crystal Spears

34,99 €*

LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Waxtime)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Recorded in ’73 and rejected by tin-eared major label execs in ’75, Crystal Spears (or “Crystal Clear” as it appears on the tape box) subsumes a cathartic brawl between Minimoog and Yamaha combo organ, with percussionists providing tonal textures, and plaintive oboe colliding with roaring electronic keyboards over waves of rollicking marimba, devilishly chattering below the fray. Crystal Spears is Ra’s once lost aural cinematheque! Includes a quad-ra-color Sun Ra poster!
Crystal Spears, intended for release in 1975 by ABC/Impulse! and assigned catalog # AS-9297, was ultimately rejected by the label. Ra and business manager Alton Abraham retained the rights, rechristened the album Crystal Clear and assigned Saturn Records catalog # 562—but they never got around to issuing it. The first three tracks on this album were mastered from that tape, a 1/4-inch four-track (15 ips) brand favored by home recording enthusiasts—and generally disfavored by pro engineers. The sessions took place at Variety Recording Studio in New York on February 3, 1973, a month before the Ark returned on March 8 to record Cymbals, as well as tracks issued decades later under the title Sign Of The Myth (and perhaps even Pathways To Unknown Worlds).

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Sun Ra

Jazz In Silhouette

24,29 €* 26,99 € -10%

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Monorails And Satellites Volumes 1-3

Sun Ra

3LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Cosmic Myth)

44,99 €*

The Mystery Of Being: Voice Studio Rome Jan 1978

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"I have always thought orchestra. I play that way, even when playing the piano." — Sun Ra

Monorails and Satellites were two volumes of solo piano works recorded by Sun Ra in 1966. Volume 1 was issued on his Saturn label in 1968, volume 2 the following year. They were the first commercial LPs of the artist's solo keyboard excursions. Vol. 1 featured seven idiosyncratic Sun Ra originals and one standard delivered in Sunny's singular manner. Vol. 2 consists entirely of original compositions. A tape of a third, unreleased volume was discovered posthumously by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive. Released here for the first time, it consists of five originals and four standards, and was recorded in stereo.

Despite Sun Ra's obsession with the future, Monorails and Satellites is something of a nostalgia trip. As a youth in Birmingham, Alabama, the man who became Sun Ra—Herman Poole Blount—spent hours at the Forbes Piano Company, amusing himself (as well as staff and customers) at the showroom keyboards. He practiced standards, emulated his piano heroes, played the latest pop songs, and improvised. The idyllic reveries which the teen experienced in those formative years were no doubt recaptured during the Monorails sessions.

The playing here speaks less of a style, and more of a collection of statements. Some of the tunes, with their odd juxtapositions of mood, could be mistaken for silent film scores. Perhaps they were audio notebooks, a way to generate ideas which could be developed with the band ("I think orchestra"). Regardless of any secondary (and admittedly speculative) intent, they serve as compelling standalone works. The fingering reflects Sun Ra's encyclopedic knowledge of piano history as his passages veer from stride to swing, from barrelhouse to post-bop, from march to Cecil Taylor-esque free flights, with a bit of soothing "candelabra" swank thrown in. Sunny's attack is mercurial, his themes unpredictable. His hands can be primitive or playful, then abruptly turn sensitive and elegant. As with the whole of Sun Ra's recorded legacy, you get everything but consistency and predictability.

The listener also experiences something rare in the Sun Ra recorded omniverse: intimacy. His albums, generally populated by the rotating Arkestral cast, are raucous affairs. With the Monorails sessions, we eavesdrop on private moments: the artist, alone with his piano. These are brief audio snapshots of what was surely a substantial part of Sun Ra's life, infinitesimal surviving scraps of 100,000 hours similarly spent, most lost to posterity.

The 2-CD and 3-LP packages of this set include an essay by three-time Down Beat Artist of the Year VIJAY IYER, along with a historical chronicle by jazz authority BEN YOUNG.

– I.C.

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Sun Ra Quartet

3LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Klimt)

58,99 €*

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Polskie Nagrania)

Sun Ship

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Z Production)

Supergombo

Explorations

14,24 €* 18,99 € -25%

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Eastern Flowers (Doğu Çiçekleri)

Sven Wunder

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Piano Piano)

28,99 €*

Eastern Flowers HHV Exclusive Numbered White Vinyl Edition

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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US issue of 2019’s "Doğu Çiçekleri”

This is the first stop on Sven Wunders musical journey. Wunder takes the listener somewhere around the easternmost part of the Mediterranean Sea, around the Levantine Sea, where he paints a colourful portrait and illustrates the regions flora through sound. The fruitage is a vivid bouquet where Wunder fuses colours and pigments by using traditional and modern instruments merged with arrangements and melodies that stretches from popular to folk music by portraying tulips, red roses, hibiscus, hyacinths, chamomile, magnolia, daisies etcetera. With both fine and thick brushes are these flowers being pictured in a both modern and classic idiom. The outcome is prismatic. It stands between Anatolian rock and European jazz-funk with ponderous drum patterns, groovy organs, far-out synthesizers, enchanting Saz and impetuous bass lines. Eastern Flowers sweeps through time and space and points towards the future. It could appeal both psych and prog listeners, folk or jazz aficionados and as well the gourmet hip hop connoisseurs.

Eastern Flowers is the US issue of 2019s Docu Çiçekleri. This record is produced with financial support from the Swedish Arts Council.

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Sven Wunder

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Piano Piano)

29,99 €*

12" | 2019 | US | Original (Underground)

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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HHV, Piano Piano and Sven Wunder team up to bring you this white vinyl edition of three albums only available at HHV. The color was picked by the artist. Each album is limited to 300 copies and numbered.

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T-Max The Novelist

Fix Your Face

21,99 €*

Nippon Guitars: Instrumental Surf, Eleki & Tsugaru Rock 1966-1974

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Tmax TheNovelist's new single, "Fix Your Face" was recorded in Boston, MA. This limited edition 12" vinyl features a B side 1998 Tmax recording which was recently featured in an episode of SHOWTIME's Ray Donovan. Both songs were produced by Dow Brain.

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Takeshi Terauchi

LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Big Beat)

LP | 2019 | EU | Reissue (Kscope)

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The first ever retrospective in the west of one of Japan's guitar pioneers, Takeshi Terauchi. Charting his career from the surf boom, to groovy 60s instrumentals, fuzz freak-outs and funk rock.

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Tangerine Dream

Machu Picchu

28,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Record Kicks)

Tanika Charles

The Gumption

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Revelation / Blue Neptune

Tarika Blue

7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Dynamite Cuts)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Are You Ready / Love On A Sailboat

Taylor Graves

7" | 2019 | US | Original (Omega Supreme)

8,99 €* 14,99 € -40%

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Beauty Of Winter-Ice Music Live

Terje Isungset

LP | 2019 | Original (All Ice Music)

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With Ralph Alessi Black Vinyl Edition

Terkel Norgaard

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (We Jazz)

Catalonian Nights Volume 1

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Danish drummer Terkel Nørgaard presents his trio consisting of some of the key players in the Copenhagen scene and adding ECM-recording American star trumpeter Ralph Alessi on the lineup. Not merely a "feature", Alessi and the Danes form a coherent band unit capable of producing memorable and highly inspired contemporary jazz which links to the Nordic tradition of dynamic sound ranging from delicate minimalism to powerful avantgarde eruptions. The album Terkel Nørgaard "With Ralph Alessi" will be out via Helsinki's We Jazz Records.

On the new album, the Danish trio plus Alessi achieve something that can always be regarded a remarkable feat. They deliver a highly inspired set of music which links the album onto the ever-evolving lineage of jazz music, and at the same time introduce a new band capable of stunning the listener in the here and now.

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Tete Trio Montoliu

LP | 2019 | EU (SteepleChase)

27,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Golden Wolf)

The Adam Deitch Quartet

Egyptian Secrets

32,99 €*

The Alan Lorber Orchestra

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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On the heels of massive successes with his main projects Lettuce and Break Science, celebrated collaborations with jazz guitar luminary John Scofield, and high profile hip-hop production placements with the likes of 50 Cent, Talib Kweli, and Redman, GRAMMY-nominated drummer/producer Adam Deitch finally unveils Egyptian Secrets, the long-awaited debut LP from his Adam Deitch Quartet. A fluid expression of the funkier side of soul-jazz, Deitch and his curated collective hint at the avant-garde, but stay grounded in warm traditions. AD4 adventures through the vibrant forest of late 60’s Verve and Blue Note cool, respectfully mining the essential elements of what makes a great hip-hop break, and then Deitch reimagines them in his own contemporary context.

In December 2013, after a Lettuce show at the Fillmore, Deitch connected with Bay Area organist Wil Blades. They played together for a late night jam at a popular haunt Boom Boom Room in San Francisco, and there was an instant chemistry. Blades had come up in the Chicago blues scene, before relocating to the West Coast. There, he studied and performed with venerable Hammond organ virtuosos Dr. Lonnie Smith and Ronnie Foster, titans of this specific brand of late 60’s/early 70’s B3-bolstered rare groove and jazz funk.

After establishing a rock solid rapport and common goal with Blades, Deitch reached out to his trusty cohorts Ryan Zoidis (saxophones) and Eric Benny Bloom (trumpet), aka The Lettuce Horns. Both players are well versed in the groove-jazz aesthetic with the vocabularies to match; the duo solidified the AD4 lineup and soon the drummer’s long dreamt-of, organ-driven groove quartet was born.
The fledgeling band began by performing exclusively covers, a selection of timeless tunes from Grant Green, Jimmy Smith, Cannonball Adderley and even Michael Jackson, the quartet traversing warm arrangements of familiar classics, songs levitating somewhere between jazz and funk. Firmly ensconced in the rare-groove idiom, AD4 channeled and established a vibe, and then Deitch began to carefully integrate his own masterful compositions to their repertoire; slowly but surely, Egyptian Secrets began to take shape. But not before a superhero would jump into the frey; guitarist and jazz immortal John Scofield, who once tapped a young Deitch to be his co-pilot on his celebrated Uberjam efforts, wanted in on the action. Before long, the prodigious axe-man had contributed to three songs on the LP, and his patented jazz-fusion serenade informs the identity of Egyptian Secrets in subtle, nuanced fashion.

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The Lotus Palace

LP | 2019 | US | Original (Modern Harmonic)

27,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Edition)

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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The Bad Plus

23,99 €*

The Bees / Little Big Man

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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21 years after their landmark first appearance as a genre exploding piano-bass-drums trio,
the ever adventurous The Bad Plus have reinvented themselves as a dynamic quartet with
the addition of guitarist Ben Monder and saxophonist Chris Speed. This new iteration of the
group makes its vital eponymous debut now, as always, challenging convention by pushing
their inimitable approach to jazz in boundary-breaking new directions. Though the
components may have changed, what remains is The Bad Plus’s unique musical language
and their undeniable drive and intent.
Having re-contextualized their own chemistry, 'The Bad Plus' not only affirms the band’s
continuing relevance and longevity, it burns bright on its own terms as an extraordinarily
powerful debut from an all-new creative force to be reckoned with.

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On -The Sound Of On Records 1987-1989

12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Egoli)

LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Waxtime)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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The late 1980s in the rainbow nation was a time when disco was mutating into what was becoming known as Bubblegum: pop music aimed at the black population of South Africa.
Bubblegum was a response to Western styles like disco and the fast spreading house music which originally came from the black ghettos of Chicago and New York. When the second Summer of Love took over the UK in 1988, first house, and other electronic music styles conquered South Africa as well. DIY - do it yourself - a motto that had already appeared in the punk movement, lifted the young local scene to the next level. With a minimal set up - keyboards, some drum machines and samplers it was suddenly possible to make music without having to rent expensive studios.
The Bees are probably the best known group, releasing only a few album in 1988-1989 and a handful singles that are now highly collectible. Their sound is electronic, hypnotic and highly danceable.
As is the case for Themba Wawelela is a prolific South African artist/producer who is best known under the monniker ''Little Big Man''
1 of 3 12" in a compilation of tracks from The ON label which was active in South Africa between 1987-1992, an era following the end of the apartheid regime and defining the new sound of Young Black South Africa in the early 90s

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The Bill Evans Trio

Portrait In Jazz

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Are You My Woman (Tell Me So) / Stoned Out Of My Mind

The Chi-Lites

7" | 2019 | EU | Original

Everything Is Gonna Be Alright / You Brought In The Sunshine

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Serious ‘70s Chi-lites business, remastered officially from the Brunswick back catalogue.
Infamously sampled by Beyonce for her ‘Crazy In Love’ hit, ‘Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)’ is a huge slice of soulful, funk gold. Marrying Eugene Record’s falsetto alongside Creadel "Red" Jones' animated bass tones it screams flash, feel-good, funk - none more so than when the collective combine for those delectable vocal harmonies. Woven in behind - a heavy bassline, masterful drumming and that crazed horn section, creating a certified recipe for deep-seated desire.
The flip see’s the sumptuous ‘Stoned Out Of My Mind’ demonstrating, once again, Record’s magical falsetto, delivered in such a personal way you’ll leave thinking you’re the one who’s gone messed up his mind. Enhanced even further by the dazzling string and horn sections and those choice group harmonies, it’s got a psychedelic tinge to it that serves its namesake all too well.

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The Clark Sisters

7" | 2019 | UK | Original (BGP)

11,99 €*

Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Clark Sisters mix soul and gospel to fantastic effect on this Sound Of Gospel 45. ‘Everything Is Gonna Be Alright’ was edited down for 7-inch release, but that was shelved, so it is released in the correct format for the first time. The Grammy-winning hit single ‘You Brought The Sunshine’ had its own 7-inch edit which we bring you here.

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The Comet Is Coming

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Impulse)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Time Out Blue Vinyl Edition

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Dol)

15,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When You Died Feat. Sean Martin

The Dining Rooms

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Schema)

10,99 €*

Soul To The People Pt. 1 & 2

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Four years after their latest release – SCEB925LP/CD / “Do Hipsters Love Sun (Ra)?” – the most cinematic duo in town is coming back in Autumn 2019 with a new full-length record called “Art Is A Cat”, anticipated by the first single “When You Died”, released as a 7-inch with two versions of the same song.
Side A contains the album version of “When You Died” and features singer Sean Martin on vocals – yes, the same one that sang on the band’s super classic number “Tunnel” back in 2003! A funk song with a ’70s psychedelic taste, with an emphasized groove typical of some American rock bands such as Black Merda.
Side B includes a rework of the same composition made by Massimo Martellotta (Calibro 35), who transformed the original track into a compelling disco soul midtempo tune.
Are you ready to dance?

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The Fantastic Souls

7" | 2011 | US | Original (Kay-Dee)

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Autonomous Africa)

The Green Door Allstars

Youth Stand United

The Harlem Gospel Travelers

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 2015, Optimo’s Autonomous Africa label released Youth Stand Up!, a triangular recording project hatched at Glasgow’s Green Door Studio that brought together young musicians from Belize, Ghana and Glasgow for ten tracks of cross-cultural collaboration. The result was an infectious cocktail of traditional Caribbean and West African rhythms, hip hop, highlife and Glaswegian post-punk, featuring contributions from Optimo Music regulars Golden Teacher and Whilst, among others.

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He's On Time

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Colemine)

Lucky Fellow / I Love You, Yes I Do

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Harlem Gospel Travelers are not from Harlem. They came to Harlem, however, from far-flung corners of the five boroughs of New York City, and it was in Harlem, that legendary center of African-American culture, that they found their voices. As members of the music education program Gospel For Teens, these young men spent many hours on the subway or the bus to ultimately end up at an unassuming brownstone on W. 126th Street. They walked through the red door at the parlor level, the one with the cross on it, and inside they found a world of music. Gospel music. As their teacher, my job was less to impart information, and more to show these talented young men what they already knew. They already knew how to sing, that much was obvious, but it was here that they learned what their voices could really do and how to use them. We listened to the music of the masters: The Soul Stirrers, The Swan Silvertones, The Violinaires and The Swanee Quintet, and these young men, really boys at the time, soaked it all in. They quickly moved from imitation to creation, writing their own songs and building original arrangements of traditional material from the ground up. They honed and tightened their harmonies. They learned when to shout and when to whisper. What you have before you is the distillation of all their hard work -- the first full-length album from The Harlem Gospel Travelers. Each member of the group gets a chance to lead here, and each gets to showcase his unique and individual voice. Their styles are already fully formed at such an early age (the youngest member is 18, the oldest just 21), and they use them here to great effect. Each song has a purpose, but the goal of the album as a whole is simple: to glorify the name of God and to sing His praises. We hope you like the music included on "He's On Time," but more than that, we hope it lifts up your spirit and brings you joy for years to come.

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The Independents

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Outta Sight)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Footsteps In The Dark, Pts. 1 & 2 / Between The Sheets Record Store Day 2019 Edition

The Isley Brothers

7" | 2019 | EU | Original (Epic)

Tape | 2019 | US | Original (Everloving)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Immortalised, smooth psychedelic soul from The Isley Brothers that's every bit as powerful as it was in '83. Much loved and often sampled in the hip hop world, with 'Footsteps In The Dark' most famously sampled by Ice Cube and 'Between The Sheets' by Notorious B.I.G.
A huge record for sample spotters and funk / soul lovers alike, they don't get much more iconic than these two tracks - now fully remastered and reissued for the modern dancefloor.
Large / dinked centre hole.

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The Jack Moves

Free Money

CD | 2019 | US | Original (Now-Again)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited edition for Cassette Store Day 2019!

2018's Free Money is now available on cassette for all the soul fans from Japan to the San Jose Flea Market!

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The JB's

More Mess On My Thing

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Rhythm Bomb)

The Jelly Roll Men

Jelly Roll Shuffle

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Penniman)

The Limboos

Baia

20,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gotta Be With You / Shades Of Joy

The M-Tet

7" | 2019 | US | Original (Funk Night)

10,99 €*

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Soundway)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 500 copies.

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The Mauskovic Dance Band

21,99 €*

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soundway Records presents the eponymous debut LP from in-demand Amsterdam five piece The Mauskovic Dance Band – fusing no-wave dance punk, Afro-Caribbean rhythms and space disco in a “controlled explosion” (The Quietus).
Entirely self-produced, the band has reiterated their favourite elements of the 70s and 80s legacy of the Afro-Latin psychedelic music of Colombia and Peru, interpreting it through the context of modern day Amsterdam. The output is a lo-fi No Wave groove all its own - rooted in a deep love of champeta, Palenque, psychedelic cumbia, chichi, classic afrobeat and picó soundsystem culture.
Since the release of their “Down In The Basement” EP on Soundway Records in early 2018, the band have found themselves on a hectic European touring schedule – not to mention being involved in other side projects. Following stints with Turkish psychedelic folk rock group Altin Gün, and touring with the re-formed 70s Zamrock outfit W.I.T.C.H., Nic Mauskovic also teamed up with Dutch neo-psychedelic artist Jacco Gardner to form the “cinematic Balearic disco” duo of Bruxas (released by Dutch institution Dekmantel) – and together, they mixed The Mauskovic Dance Band debut album in Lisbon.
Lead single Space Drum Machine encapsulates the band’s prototypical brand of busy rhythmic patterns interwoven with insistent synth stabs and vibrant disco toms, layered with an elastic guitar riff drawing inspiration from Kenyan kikuyu and benga styles. High-pitched vocals describe being on a flight together and inciting each other to press a button of unknown consequence with “push it, push it” - and push it they do, at breakneck pace. And of course, the undeniable influence of Amsterdam’s hotbed of underground dance producers shines through as it does on all tracks - with the vintage psychedelic swirl of synthesiser, lo-fi drum machines and tape recording.

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Anthropomorphic

LP | 2011 | Original (Denovali)

38,99 €*

Release: 2011 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Music Improvisation Company

1969, 1970

2LP | 2019 | UK | Original (Honest Jon's)

27,99 €*

LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Rer Vinyls)

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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The Necks

Mindset

24,99 €*

The Fish Song / Elijah Knows

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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

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The New Creation

7" | 2019 | UK | Original (Soul Junction)

Release: 2019 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Shake It Ft. Lamar Williams Jr. / Permission To Land Ft. Jeff Franca

The New Mastersounds

7" | 2019 | US | Original (Color Red)