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Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In The Diaspora, 1980-93

3LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Soundway)

34,99 €*

No Longer Mine B/W Cry My Tears Away

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soundway presents a collection of 18 burger highlife, electronic afrobeat and reggae tracks, highlighting a time when the burgeoning Ghanaian diaspora across Europe and North America was utilising new music technology and recording techniques. A period of movement, emigration and innovation. The dawn of the 80s saw an increase in emigration following a period of political upheaval at home, with many Ghanaians moving to Europe - especially Germany - to find work. Musicians recording both at home and abroad began to blend highlife with outside influences, taking inspiration from US disco and boogie, European new wave and Caribbean zouk and soca, reflecting new surroundings and cementing musical connections forged in London, Hamburg, Toronto and New York. Ghana Special celebrates this key period of musical innovation and cultural exchange that redefined the parameters of Ghanaian music and accelerated the cultural exchange between West Africa and Europe. Features rarities from legends including Pat Thomas, Rex Gyamfi and Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and deep cuts from lesser known artists like Abdul Raheem, Starlite and The Godfathers. Includes extended liner notes, original covers and neverbefore-seen photos. Gatefold 3LP includes deluxe 8pg booklet; 2CD is 6-panel wallet including 24pg booklet.

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Thee Heart Tones

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Big Crown)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | Original (One World)

Oluma

Cooking Time

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | EU | Original (ECM)

Fred Hersch

Silentlistening

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Stroom)

Sissi Rada

Aporia

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (April)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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Sissi Rada's humble manifestations of the miracle of life, the troubles of love, the thoughts that span through a human mind while performing simple tasks, educated by her love and natural inclination to poetry, read like small vignettes, or marginalia notes on a diary that is of constant flux.

Recorded, mixed and produced by Sissi alone, in her Athens’ home, using a spartan but powerful instrumentation of harp, a Prophet synthesizer, and first and foremost her intimate and enchanting voice, ‘ Aporia’ stands out with its simplicity and familiarity, like a page out of a diary, shared with a blush and a witty smile."

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Rasmus Soerensen

Traits

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Reissued 1963 Blues Festival Record Store Day 2024 Blue Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Red Lightnin')

31,99 €*

Destiny Replayed By Root Soul

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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These incredible blues recordings celebrate their 60th anniversary. Recorded live at the Blues Festival in Oberhausen, West Germany 1963, this is the first vinyl reissue since its
original pressing on the UK blues label Red Lightnin' in 1986. These 11 songs feature Memphis Slim and Sonny Boy Williamson backed by Matt "Guitar" Murphy (the original blues brother).
They are also joined by bassist Willie Dixon and drummer Bill Stepney. This particular show is rare, and captures some truly smoking performances, particularly Memphis Slim's
rarely-heard "I Wrote This Song", and Sonny Boy Williamson's "All My Love In Vain''. This record has been remastered and pressed on heavyweight opaque blue vinyl.

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Shuya Okino

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (At Home Sound)

LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Rings)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Shuya Okino x Root Soul!! The masterpiece of boogie-funk version of the famous album "Destiny" with live performance, the long-awaited analog version of this masterpiece is now available after a lapse of 10 years. The album features 8 songs including "Still In Love ft. Navasha Daya", replayed by Root Soul 2024 Edit. Root Soul is a renowned funky bassist who has been deeply involved with Kyoto Jazz Massive from the first album to the present. Eight gems have been selected and all songs have been newly "Replayed by Root Soul 2024 Edit". The live sound is on full display on "Destiny ft. N'Dea Davenport" and a cover of Don Blackman's "Holding You, Loving You", The strong boogie funk spun in perfect balance still shines brightly today.

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Turn On The Sunlight

Ocean Garden

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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"Ocean Garden" is the new release from Turn On The Sunlight, a collective that gathered its splendid members at the urging of Jesse Peterson and Carlos Nino, beloved by many musicians in the LA music scene. Seven selected songs from that album are being released on vinyl!! Featuring Musicians: Josh Johnson, Fabiano do Nascimento, Dwight Trible, Mia Doi Todd, Sam Gendel, Randal Fisher, Phil Ranelin, Anna Butterss, and more!

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Super Spicy Recipe Volume 6

12" | 2024 | UK (Super Spicy)

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (First Word)

Release: 2024 / UK

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Super Spicy's Super Spicy Recipe series is back with a sixth mouthwatering offering and once again it's a super hot outing of party-ready house and disco sounds. First up is the irresistibly colourful disco charm of Birdee with the freewheeling 'Underground' and its groove-infused piano. Label boss Monsieur Van Pratt then adds his own spin to a rare groove classic with a lung-busting soul vocal and Pato Watson is in edit mode as he tweaks 'Ella Fue' to perfection. Italian don Paul Older brings some funky jazz fusion sounds to his steamy 'Turkish Lights, C. Da Afro keeps it a party with his 'Nothing But The Funk' and Mexican Juan Soto slips into a more deep and loved-up funk-house vibe on 'All Is Full Of Love'.

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Amanda Whiting

The Liminality Of Her

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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First Word Records is very proud to present 'The Liminality of Her', a brand new 10-track album from their newest signing, Amanda Whiting; a highly-acclaimed Welsh harpist & composer.

A virtuoso in her field, this classically trained musician has quickly established herself as an essential player in the UK jazz scene, carving her own unique sound, following on from the paths forged by Ashby and Coltrane.

Amanda recently joined the First Word label roster, via a collaborative project with Don Leisure, 'Beyond The Midnight Sun', as well as a feature on his Welsh Music Prize nominated project 'Shaboo Strikes Back'.

She's previously toured extensively with her own band, as well as with Matthew Halsall, Rebecca Vasmant, DJ Yoda and Chip Wickham (who also features on this new project), whilst previously releasing three solo albums on Jazzman Records, and a remix project for Scrimshire's Albert's Favourites imprint. Along the way, there's been a nomination for 'Instrumentalist of the Year' from Jazz FM and she's garnered the support of DJs such as Radio 2's Jamie Cullum ("highly recommended") and BBC 6Music's Cerys Matthews ("my highlight of the Cheltenham Jazz festival 2023").

This 10-track album exemplifies Amanda's talents as a performer and composer, taking in an array of hypnotising sonics from the worlds of jazz; from fusion to spiritual and beyond. She is backed with accompaniment from a remarkable set of players in their own right, including Chip Wickham on flute and Peach. on vocals. A confident display of purposefully blissful compositions that saunter as much as they soothe, whilst being unafraid to lean into some deep uptempo grooves.

Amanda describes the theme of this project as "liminality... that place in between, the transition from one place to another. No longer what it was, yet not what it's going to be.

The harp always presents itself at these moments. It's a sound that causes an emotion. My instrument chose me. It's been with me through every chapter of life. It's how I speak, especially when there are no words.

This album is a rite of passage for "her". A feeling of alchemy, a feeling of liberation. Moments of inner searching, intertwined, waiting but moving forward. Never looking back.

'The Liminality of Her' encompasses the highs and the lows. The nomadic love of freedom and spirituality. It's all so much bigger than you or I…"

From the cinematic, classical fusion of 'After Dark', to the more playful 'Lost in Abstraction', this album invites you to float in a soundscape of liminality...

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Matthieu Bordenave

The Blue Land

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity

Elastic Wave

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Star Of Spring Black Vinyl Edition

Anna Greta

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Act Music)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2024 | JP | Original (Urban Discos)

Wa Yo Set

Boogieback

Move On Up Feat. Mizuki Kamata (DJ Jin Re-Edit) / Beyond The Redemption

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Wa Yo Set" is a talented jazz funk band from Osaka. Their first album "boogieback", which can be called their initial impulse, is now available on long-awaited LP! The long-awaited LP version of the first album "boogieback" released in 2020 is now available. The album includes "rude boy" featuring T.A.M.M.I., a talented singer from Kyoto who is also regarded as a Japanese Erykah Badu, "Be" and "Marunouchi Sadistic". It is a historical masterpiece that embodies the urban folk music "adm (=Acoustic Dance Music)" that they stand for.

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Nautilus

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Urban Discos)

20,99 €*

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Fantasy Love)

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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"Move On Up featuring Kamata Mizuki" has been re-edited by DJ JIN (rhymester) for a long-awaited re-release in response to many re-release requests!! This killer cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Move On Up", released in early spring of 2021, has been reissued in response to numerous reissue requests. The B-side features "Beyond the Redemption," an original jazzy funk song in full Nautilus verse that also appears on the latest album, "A Story About You".

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Liason

Life / Disco Party

2LP | 2024 | Original (Blue Note)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Introducing the limited 7" re-release of the single by the legendary Bay Area group, Liason. Led by Morris 'Skid' Clay, Liason made their mark on the music scene with their distinctive sound and unforgettable performances. Recorded at Freeway Studios in Oakland back in 1977, this single captures the essence of the era and the spirit of the band.
Originally released on their independent imprint, 'A.L.C.' - named after three of the group's members astrological signs: Aquarius, Libra, and Capricorn - this single quickly became a cherished gem among fans and collectors alike. Now, decades later, it's being brought back to life for a whole new generation to enjoy.

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Julian Lage

Speak To Me

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Celebrate / So Wide Open Black & Yellow Splatter Effect Edition

Micky More & Andy Tee

12" | 2024 | UK | Original (Groove Culture)

15,99 €*

LP | 2024 | US | Reissue (Now-Again)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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When it comes to warming, quality, life-affirming live blends of house and disco, Italian duo Micky More and Andy Tee are in a league of their own. Logo Side Sees "Celebrate” Feat. Kathy Brown & Sheree Hicks; A beautiful original song with a great energetic two-voice chorus full of intensity; Hypnotic guitars and explosive strings surround the voices of Kathy Brown and Sheree Hicks. Feel-good house music with disco and soulful influences. On The Flip “So Wide Open” Feat. Angela Johnson is a horn-heavy, disco and funky-fired organic house number. Quality dance music as we like it.

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La Fantastica

From Ear To Ear

I Wanna Play A Little While - Singles Collection Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Now-Again Records presents catalog-wide reissues of Latin music propellant Joe Bataan’s legendary Ghetto Records. Next up in the series - La Fantastica. This brash, big band Latin orchestra from Brooklyn debuted on Ghetto Records with an underground Salsa album which also contains the beguiling, English-language Psychedelic Soul of "Latin Blues." Ghetto Records was Joe Bataan’s way to get over on “The Man” and out of the ‘hood, a bold move by an artist looking for independence and creative control in an industry that had exploited his talents and treated him like chattel. As Bataan puts it today, “Ghetto Records was part of my journey, a stepping stone to everything else that I’ve done. I learned enough that it enabled me to get out of the box with my thinking, it showed me how to deal with adversity.” Like many dreams and schemes born of the street, this one was audacious, perhaps even reckless to a fault. Hatched from desperation yet full of hope Ghetto Records came crashing down shortly after its inception. The seven albums in its discography languished out of print - until now. These are the definitive reissues of these albums, licensed from Joe Bataan, with his oversight and input into a 16 page oversize book by Pablo Yglesias that details Bataan’s larger-than-imagination life and his little Latin label that could.

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J. B. Lenoir

LP | 2024 | Original (Jasmine Vinyl)

20,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mario Luciano & Lauren Santi

Shades Of Mauve

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Madlib Invazion Music Library Series)

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series Entry #7: Composer, producer & arranger Mario Luciano and vocalist Lauren Santi of Polyphonic Music Library deliver a collection of recordings that delve into Psychedelic Jazz, Experimental Soul & Cosmic Fusion. This is the next up in a series of music library releases, with future volumes produced by DJ Muggs, Karriem Riggins and more. The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon to give their creative friends a chance to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted. This music was created for easy, one-stop clearance in film and television synchronization usage and for sampling. You can also enjoy these albums in the way that many do with the best of the best vintage library catalogs – listen, ponder, repeat.

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Bound By Endogamy

La Couleur De La Mer Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following several cassette releases and a remarkable debut 7" on Lux Records, Geneva-based duo Bound By Endogamy delivers a heavy blend of rave, synth-punk, and industrial music. The self-titled album combines raw, growling basslines, crisp analog rhythms, and passionate vocals ranging from breathy to fiercely cutting.

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The Offline

LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Deepmatter / Root)

Driftin' Plain Sleeve Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following his debut EP ‘En clair-obscur’ and a series of singles earlier this year cementing his place as a rising name in the world of cinematic soul & funk, Hamburg’s finest cinematic soul artist ‘The Offline’ announces his debut album 'La couleur de la mer'.

Reminiscent of film scores from the 60s and 70s, The Offline worked with co-producer Tim Liztenberger to channel the influence of film composers such as Francois de Roubaix and Brian Bennet, creating his own soundtrack on ‘La couleur de la mer’. Inducing images of manorial, fog-swept villas at the sea's edge, silhouetted sailing boats and cigar-chomping villains attempting to thwart the mission of an imaginary hero, the record is a masterfully composed sonic journey. Experimenting with themes and atypical song structures, the music moves from dramatic cues to fragile romanticism. It incorporates psychedelic spaciness, retro soul and hip-hop sensibilities informed by The Offline’s extensive record collection and crate-digger status.

“Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by the soundtracks from the 60s and 70s, and I always wanted to make an album in the film score direction. I wrote about 30 demos, kicked half of it and stuck to the ones that felt right in the dramaturgical structure of the ‘movie'. Interestingly the main theme was set early on while writing the album, which made the writing process much easier.”

Aptly named, ‘Thème de la couleur de la mer’ opens proceedings, establishing the core motifs of the record. Haunting flutes and xylophones lead the way into Khruangbin-esque guitar lines, which sit against a hip-hop canvas that returns on boom-bap head boppers like ‘Quelque chose reste’. Retro soul revival takes precedence on deep cuts like ‘Un bout de chemin’, with wah-gated guitars interacting with emotive cello lines and symphonic string & horn sections.

The Offline came to life when composer and photographer Felix Müller travelled the Atlantic coastline in the south of France with his analogue camera, capturing beach life on film. After coming back to Hamburg, he started writing songs as the sonic counterpart to the analogue visuals. His Debut EP ‘En Clair-Obscur’ includes five tracks that capture the essence of his journey and the feeling of a cool summer soundtrack.

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Saukrates

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Love Touch)

13,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Driftin' Pic Sleeve Edition

Saukrates

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Love Touch)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua 2024 Repress

Ana Frango Elétrico

LP | 2023 | UK | Reissue (Mr Bongo)

24,99 €*

Spirits Standard Edition (With Seamsplit)

Release: 2023 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With two critically acclaimed albums and a swathe of award-winning production turns under their belt, Ana Frango Elétrico present their most confident and accomplished work to date: Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua / Call Me They That I’m Yours. Gesturing to a tradition of Brazilian boogie music, but bouncing with modern pop ebullience, the album sees the Rio artist evolve from a captivating upstart into a surefooted scene leader in full stride.

At just 25, the prolific artist and producer has already garnered worldwide admirers. Ana’s sophomore Little Electric Chicken Heart was nominated at the 2020 Latin Grammys. Since then, standalone singles have received the WME ‘Best Music Producer’ Award, recognising Ana’s deep passion for music production – a passion which has led to collaborations with nascent Brazilian stars Dora Morelenbaum, Illy and Sophia Chablau. Most recently, Ana was hailed for their co-production of Bala Desejo’s 2022 Latin Grammy-winning album Sim Sim Sim.

The new album finds Ana at their most assured and full voiced. Album opener “Electric Fish”, with funky bass and shimmering backing vocals, sets a buoyant tone. “Boy of Stranger Things” is its bombastic counterpart. It’s the grooviest Ana has ever sounded. And the most brazen. Lyrically, where Ana was once oblique on personal matters, they are now forthright – lucidly exploring their gender identity, citing accessible cultural references, and often singing in English.

“I started this album in 2021 with the intention of showing, in means of sound, understandings and feelings about queer love, subjectively exposing myself,” the non-binary artist states – before qualifying that though “feeling was its driving force, the album is really about musical production.”

“There’s so many references to different decades,” Ana explains. “Seventies drums with eighties processing … Going back, getting beyond … Testing the limits of organic sounds”. Characteristically playful, on Me Chama, Ana takes vivid and rewarding detours through funk-inflected R&B (“Dela”) and art pop (“Dr. Sabe Tudo”). “Nuvem Vermelha” is a cinematic chanson with lush strings that recalls Arthur Verocai. Then, “Coisa Maluca” loafs with the indie insouciance of Canadian slacker Mac Demarco. Later, “Let's Go Before Again”, is a full-on drum machine workout evocative of Stereolab.

“Even if people don't find my own references here, they'll find theirs,” observes Ana. “Maybe that’s this record’s biggest goal.”

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The Circling Sun

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Soundway)

19,99 €*

Dirty Harry Main Title / Magnum Force Main Title

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A few copies arrived with a seamsplit Cover. We're therefore selling it on a reduced price.

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Lalo Schifrin

7" | 2023 | UK (Lalo)

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks

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7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Jazz Room)

Blue Mode & El Chavo

Smells Like Teen Spirit

LP | 2023 | Original (Alligator)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The A Side of course is just one of the biggest tunes from the grunge era and is given a Jazzy Funky Groovy version by Blue Mode of Nirvana's Biggest Hit. It turns out that they were influenced by everything from the Gap Band to Louie Louie and a fair smattering of 80's indie and this producytion by by Chip Wickham mixes together a Swinging '60's Blue Note Vibe with the Acid Jazz sound and brings it bang up to date with the Nu-Jazz Experience. First time on 45 and is already a DJ favourite after being included in the Paul Murphy set "Jazz Room" on BBE Records.
Side 2 is a Boogaloo Latin Jazz version (produced by Paul Murphy Live in the studio in Budapest when he was living there) of the Lonnie Smith track "Hola Muneca" beloved of the Acid Jazz era DJ's and previously released on a now impossible to find 7 inch single that goes for crazy prices.

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Fenton Robinson

Somebody Loan Me A Dime

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Black Mesa)

Tim Easton

Special 20

17,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Okra Brand)

Frente Cumbiero

Cera Perdida

Abelardo Carbono Con Meridian Brothers

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Mario Galeano's flagship project based in Bogota, the capital of Colombia, and well known for his work with the Minyo Crusaders, has released its first new album in 10 years! Ondatropica, Minyo Cumbiero... Frente Cumbielo is the flagship project of Mario Galeano, who has been working on a series of high-profile projects from Bogota, the capital of Colombia, with the keyword "cumbia". After 10 years since "frente Cumbiero Meets MAD Professor", the new album is finally available in physical format! Recorded by the same members as their legendary first Japan gig in 2018. Nine instrumental numbers that combine cumbia, polo, gaita, jazz, electronica, and dub, and the tight, heavy quartet sound that has been developed over two and a half years of touring around the world! The band's guest is the legendary Conjunto Miramar, who has been active in Bogota since the 60's and has left many cumbia classics to the Discos Fuentes. The LP also includes an additional song, "Motines del Tigre", a collaboration with Argentine cumbia band LA Delio Valdez, which was not included on the digital version.

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Cumbia Sampuesana / El Cucaracho

7" | 2023 | JP | Original (Okra Brand)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Leopard)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Abelardo Carbono aka "The Godfather of Champeta" meets Abelardo Carbono x Quantic!! A miraculous encounter between a Colombian music - alternative Latin legend and a neo-tropical music innovator who inherits his aspirations. A shocking collaboration between Abelardo Carbono, who was "rediscovered" during the tropical music revival and has become loved by DJs around the world as the "Godfather of Champeta," and Eblis Alvarez, aka the Meridian Brothers, who gained even greater recognition with "cumbia Siglo Xxi"! Produced/recorded by Will Holland aka Quantic and Lucas Silva, supervisor of "Palenque Palenque" (Soundway), "Machuca" (Analog Africa), etc.

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Liv Warfield

The Edge

25,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Heels & Souls)

Flair

Chasin' The Rain

LP | 2023 | Original (Ensoul)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Heels & Souls Recordings step back to 1988 for their sixth reissue, relicensing and remastering Flair's anthemic soul number 'Chasin' The Rain.' For the uninitiated, strap yourself in for six blissful minutes of heavy bass licks, soaring vocals, and infectious synth lines.

Consisting of Janet Rose (aka UK Soul queen JB Rose), Joe Matz, Peter Bielig, and Peter Shindler, Flair was a predominantly German affair, with Rose being the only UK band member and Bieling living in London during the late '80s. This is a curious detail considering 'Chasin' The Rain' is often lauded today as a UK Soul classic - partially due to its release on the prolific UK label Champion. However, it's squeaky-clean production values, and the fact it was mixed and mastered at the famous Jankowski studio in Stuttgart by three Germans, reveals a somewhat different story.

The track has that UK street soul heavy low-end, but with a synth-pop flavour sprinkled in the mix - swinging synth lines and gated snares aplenty. Yet from chatting to Peter Bielig, who's been instrumental in getting this record reissued, the sounds sweeping across the Atlantic from the likes of Jam and Lewis, who blended R&B, funk, soul and pop, were clearly a big influence too.

Those were heady days for four young twenty-something musicians, with Peter recalling cherished memories these tracks bring back, telling of his and JB's PA sessions at London's Gulliver's nightclub. However, while 'Chasin' The Rain' had all the hallmarks of a chart-breaking hit, Champion prioritised other projects and the record never broke. Sadly the group disbanded after only two releases, and this musical gem was consigned to the crates of those in the know. Soon after, Peter Bielig went to Jamaica to work at Tough Gong Studios, working on albums for Rita Marley Music. He now lives in Brazil, producing local artists in his studio in Salvador.

Unfortunately, the master tapes were nowhere to be found, so we had the maestro, Sean P, rip and restore a mint copy of the record, with award-winning mastering engineer Cicely Balston working her studio magic for that added punch.

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Dominique Fils-Aime

Stay Tuned!

40,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Native Rebel)

Kofi Flexxx

Flowers In The Dark

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Nopaper)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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As with all albums on Shabaka Hutchings' Native Rebel Recordings the plan was the same: the musicians gather at the RAK Studios for three days, without rehearsal and consider the rehearsals part of the recording, with Shabaka producing

The performers featured here are Jas Kayser who has performed with Alfa Mist, Nubya Garcia and Jorja Smith among others, Alexander Hawkins of the Convergence Quartet and Decoy, Daisy George, and Ross Harris of Speakers Corner Quartet.

The features on the album are incredible too, and highlight the eclectic nature of Native Rebel. We have billy Woods on album opener “Apothecary", TS Elliot prize winning poet Anthony Joseph on "By Now", Confucius MC of Speaker's Corner Quartet and Con & Kwake on "Flowers In The Dark", Elucid on "Show Me", ganavya on "Increase Awareness", and Siyabonga Mthembu of The Brother Moves On and Shabaka and The Ancestors on “Aim".

As always with Native Rebel releases, the physical product is on double heavyweight vinyl, in high quality sleeves with printed inner sleeves and with side D on this release featuring etched artwork.

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Skalpel

Big Band Live

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Madlib Invazion Music Library Series)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Beloved Polish downtempo / nu jazz masters Skalpel present an exquisite collection of the older Skalpel"s classics and some exclusive material performed live by a masterful 17-piece Big Band. Skalpel"s "Big Band Live" brings mellow, smoky vibes, hypnotic grooves and vibrant, occasionally blissful mood.

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Gabriel Rowland

Gente Soul

Shine Your Light / Love Celebration

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series Entry #6: Gabriel Rowland (Los Yesterdays) brings out Eastside LA’s Chicano Soul and Funk Grooves. Orale, vato! This is the next up in a series of music library releases, with future volumes produced by DJ Muggs, Karriem Riggins and more. The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon to give their creative friends a chance to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted. This music was created for easy, one-stop clearance in film and television synchronization usage and for sampling. You can also enjoy these albums in the way that many do with the best of the best vintage library catalogs – listen, ponder, repeat.

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Rofo

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Energy Level)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Dave Lee's Essentials Sampler

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Z)

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Universal)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Long time house and disco devotee Dave Lee comes through on Z Records once more with a sampler from this years ZR Essentials collection. It features two of his masterful reworks starting with Jamiroquai's 'Little L'. He flips into a funked up cosmic delight with plenty of the original's synth flourishes melodic hooks and orchestration all present and correct but with added slap bass, replayed rhodes and beefy new drums which make this a surefire dancefloor winner pretty much anywhere. On the flip comes Dave Lee's Disco Fantasy mix of Shelia & B Devotion's 1979 hit 'Spacer' which has a more retro disco sound thanks to the masterful original work of Chic. Additional clav, new string parts and solo-ing keys give 'Spacer' the extended DJ mix it never had at the time of original release.

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Paolo Conte

Paolo Conte Alla Scala

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Blues Joint)

Muddy Waters

Sings Big Bill

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Folkadelic Volume 2 - The Acid Jam

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

32,99 €*

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Terashima)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie

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Powerfull nice grooves from a series that might be beer named: "Acid folk renaissance " – as most of the work here come from the 70s, and a lot from those great years of the UK and US scene where it also seemed like there was plenty of folk in the music as well! A few of these cuts are downright acid , and all are filled with great instrumenta&on – in an approach that's a nice change from some of the more familiar Brit and US manners of the same genera&on. The &tles include, among the others: Nirvana’s Nova Sketch , Fi.y Foot Hose’s Rose, Pyranha ‘s Clepsydre , Kaleidoscope’s Keep your mind open, and more .

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Lauren Henderson

La Bruja

44,99 €*

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Terashima)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lauren Henderson, who won the Bronze Award in the vocal section of the "Jazz Audio Disc Award 2022", is coming back on Terashima Records. Limited quantity of the analog version is now available for the Record Day 2023!! "La Bruja" (2022) is a remarkable work that mixes Latin, jazz standards, and original songs with grace and passion, starting with the title song, which means "witch" in Spanish. The first song, "Perfidia", a Latin masterpiece sung in Spanish, is the highlight of the album.

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Lauren Henderson

Musa

44,99 €*

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Lauren Henderson, who won the Bronze Award in the vocal section of the "Jazz Audio Disc Award 2022", is coming back on Terashima Records. Limited quantity of the analog version is now available for the Record Day 2023!! "Musa", released in 2021, focuses on jazz standards and original compositions. It was recorded in New York with notable artists such as Sullivan Fortner (p), Eric Wheeler (b) and Joe Dyson (ds). The dark tones of her voice, which comes low and quiet and captivates the listener before you know it, are a must-hear.

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Soul Voices

51,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Other Power)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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FROM RAY CHARLES TO SELAH SUE,FROM NINA SIMONE TO IBEYI,FROM BARRY WHITE TO ALOE BLACC,DISCOVER THE BEST OF THE GREATEST VOICES OF SOUL MUSIC OF ALL TIME IN A 5 VINYLS BOXSET

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KMRU

Stupor

Wolfgang Colley Muthspiel

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Nairobi-born Berlin-based sound artist Joseph Kamaru, aka Kmru, shares his new work Stupor on the new Helsinki-based label Other Power. Commissioned by the Helsinki curatorial and commissioning agency Publics, Stupor is comprised of three original long form tracks; “crp-12”, “Even a Tear”, and the title track “Stupor”. The tracks on the album are speculative notes to social architectures and environments the artist has traversed.

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Dance Of The Elders

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ECM)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Maximum Swing The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recording Black Friday Record Store Day 2023 Vinyl Edition

Wes Montgomery

3LP | 2023 | EU | Reissue (Play It Again Sam)

69,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Edition)

Release: 2023 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings is the first official release of the complete previously unissued recordings from jazz guitar giant Wes Montgomery with the Wynton Kelly Trio at the famed Half Note jazz club in New York City in 1965 with drummer Jimmy Cobb and bassists Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Herman Wright and Larry Ridley. Including over 2 hours from the original radio broadcasts with host Alan Grant, the limited-edition 3-lp 180-gram (and deluxe 2-cd) set will be mastered by Matthew Lutthans and come in a deluxe triple gatefold with an elaborate booklet containing previously unpublished photos taken at the Half Note by Raymond Ross; plus a new essay from acclaimed journalist and author Bill Milkowski; interviews with jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter, who both recorded with Wes; guitar icons Bill Frisell and Mike Stern; plus bassist Marcus Miller, who is Wynton Kelly’s cousin! 2023 marks Wes Montgomery’s Centennial (born March 6, 1923), and this is Resonance’s 7th release of Wes Montgomery recordings in cooperation with the estate. Now Wes Montgomery fans can hear the rest of the music from the Half Note that was only broadcast on the radio nearly 60 years ago.

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Verneri Pohjola

Monkey Mind

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Lewis)

Skinshape

Craterellus Tubaeformis

24,99 €*

Nobody But You / Gift Of Life

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For fans of Khruangbin, El Michels Affair, Madlib and Bonobo. Features the singles ‘It’s Real, ‘Amnesia’, and ‘The Ocean’. Will Dorey aka Skinshape has proven himself time and again a connoisseur for the cosmopolitan, across a prolific career expertly exploring understated sounds and theatrical textures. Taking his place alongside the likes of Khruangbin, Tame Impala, Bonobo and Madlib, Skinshape’s global kaleidoscopes are loaded with warmth and wisdom created on vintage analogue equipment applying a perfectionist’s touch. As a former member of indie band Palace, he has played everywhere from Glastonbury and BBC Maida Vale to headlining Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Speaking on his latest record Craterellus Tubaeformis, Dorey remarks, "As I continue to make albums, I always try to capture some elements of the original Skinshape style. Here I ran through albums 1-3. This record is really an echo of the "Life & Love" era of Skinshape, playful psychedelia, with punchy beats, fun surprises, and an attempt at meaningful lyrics." Named after a very specific genus of edible mushroom, Craterellus Tubaeformis shares all the attributes of its nutritious counterpart due to how difficult both are to cultivate. Skinshape’s music is the product of a highly devoted and meticulous composer who uses some of the rarest analogue equipment out there. The product is such a definitive sound heard nowhere else but so easily identified as Skinshape.

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Brainstory

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Big Crown)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (New Land)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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While Brainstory is in the studio finishing their sophomore full-length, they treat us to this bombshell of a 7" as a taste of what's to come. They teamed back up with El Michels Affair who is handling production on the whole album and everything about this is leveled up. This show stopping plug & ballad two-sider is clear evidence of that. Side A is an uplifting, dance floor burning, smash hit that shows what years of touring and backing Lady Wray have brought out of Brainstory. "Nobody But You" is built on drummer Eric Hagstrom's crushing back beat that lays the foundation for this inspirational feel good banger that manages to take the uncomfortable truth that "nobody will save you but you" and turn it into pure blissful motivation. Then they drop a ballad on the flip side that is going to cause an entire scene to reconsider how they are doing it. The B side "Gift Of Life" is drop dead gorgeous, haunting, and profound all at once. An homage to the mysteries of life and the intangible truths that the human experience is built on.

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John Wright Trio

Nice'N'Tasty

38,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Marlow)

Atlantis Jazz Ensemble

Celestial Suite

22,99 €*

LP+CD | 2023 | EU | Original (Secret)

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The Atlantis Jazz Ensemble is on the rise once again with "Celestial Suite", a brilliant set of spiritual soul-jazz, with a righteous energy in the mode of some of the best work on independent labels such as Strata East or Tribe back in the day, though updated with a fresh current vibe. With the blend of electric piano, sax, trumpet, bass and percussion presented here, the quintet has refined the searching, soaring quality of their sound, capturing over the course of two days in the studio an inspired session worthy of the skyward promise of the album’s title.

The set flows seamlessly from track to track. Opener “Breaking Dawn” starts things off gently as in a morning sunrise, before settling into a hypnotic modal groove. “Transcendence” then kicks up the tempo with boisterous Afro-Latin rhythms, before heading into the mystic soul-bossa brew of “Enlightenment”. Side A eases off with the pleading soul-jazz of “Invocation”, before ramping things up again on Side B with the ethereal pharoanic groove of “Oneness”. The tension builds on “Blessings”, with its searching, coltranesque modal quality, before easing into the funky, down-home exultations of “Joyful Noise”. The suite then winds down as calmly as it began with a solemn “Meditation”, closing the arc of this skybound journey.

The Atlantis Jazz Ensemble was first formed by Pierre Chrétien and Zakari Frantz of The Souljazz Orchestra back in 2013, as an outlet for the more modal, esoteric and spiritual compositions they were exploring outside the confines of their original unit. After the addition of trumpeter Ed Lister, bassist Alex Bilodeau and drummer Mike Essoudry, the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble released their maiden voyage "Oceanic Suite" in 2016, a bold first outing that became a bit of an underground classic, capturing the number two spot on the Canadian radio jazz charts that year (just behind BadBadNotGood’s "iv"), and leading Atlantis to open up live for the likes of Kamasi Washington and Anderson Paak.

However, the wind was somewhat taken out of the group’s sails when their original bassist suddenly moved away to Boston to study with Dave Holland, Cecil McBee, and other jazz luminaries. Atlantis sank into hiatus for a few years, until young double bass phenom Chris Pond blew into town from Eastern Canada, and the group rose up once again in 2022. After a fruitful residency in Ottawa’s hip Somerset Village that summer, perfecting the new set of original compositions that were to make up "Celestial Suite", the quintet hit Metropolitan Studios in the fall, and laid down an especially inspired rendition of the suite, captured with all of the analogue warmth the studio is known for.

"Celestial Suite" is the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble’s 2nd album and is released by Marlow Records on LP, CD, and digital / streaming on October 27th 2023. LP format is meticulously pressed in Canada with the new WarmTone fully automatic, modernised vinyl record pressing system, and comes with download card.

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Shakatak

Eyes Of The World

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (ADA)

Mayer Hawthorne

For All Time

24,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Supper Club)

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Sings Ellington

18,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Supper Club)

Carmen McRae

After Glow

18,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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There Is Only Love And Fear Black Vinyl Edition

Bex Burch

LP | 2023 | US | Original (International Anthem)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Other Power)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Berlin-based British composer, percussionist, and instrument maker Bex Burch was invited to spend a month in the US by International Anthem in Summer 2022. Burch immersed herself in the label"s creative community and listened to what it gave her, making field recordings and allowing There Is Only Love and Fear to emerge from the collaborations and environments she encountered. Sessions for the album spanned multiple non-traditional recording spaces including a storefront in Bridgeport, Chicago and a canyon in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, with an eminent cast of creative musicians including Ben LaMar Gay, Macie Stewart, Anna Butterss, Mikel Patrick Avery, and Dan Bitney of Tortoise, all of whom Burch met for the first time in the moments before they played. These moments of instant collaboration were then edited, decomposed, and recontextualized by Burch, resulting in a deeply organic, energetic-yet-patient addition to the canon of modern composition.

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Islaja

Angel Tape

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Real World)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Other Power is a new label from Helsinki, Finland. It operates as a sibling label to the internationally recognized We Jazz Records, and like its older sibling, it is curated and designed by Matti Nives. Other Power strives to release uncompromising music without boundaries. The name of the label is an homage to Finnish electronic music pioneer Pekka Airaksinen (1945–2019) and the late Helsinki-based musician and journalist Perttu Häkkinen (1979–2018) who released a compilation of Pekka's work together under that title back in 2012. In addition to new music by contemporary artists and as a continuous side-thread of the new label, Other Power will release selected works from Pekka Airaksinen's vast collection of unreleased music, curated in collaboration with the late artist's estate. The first three Other Power releases are Islaja's "Angel Tape" (13 Oct), KMRU's "Stupor" (20 Oct) and Pekka Airaksinen's "Hevajra" (early 2024).

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Onipa

Off The Grid

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Chouk Bwa /The Ångströmers

Somanti

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Les Disques Bongo Joe)

Sonicwonder Featuring Hiromi

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Following on from 2020"s debut album "Vodou Alé" and two EPs last year, the collaboration between Haitian seven-piece Chouk Bwa and Belgian production duo, The Ångströmers return with their second album "Somanti". Full of Afro-Caribbean voodoo polyrhythms and bass-weight dub electronics, the group count the likes of Gilles Peterson, Gideon Coe, Trevor Jackson, Worldwide FM as fans.

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Sonicwonderland

2LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Concord)

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Jazz Shinsekai)

Jos Van Beest Trio

The Ginza Shuffle

40,99 €*

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Somethin'cool)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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For our beloved Japan, with all our hearts. Here are the pleasures of the piano trio. Taste the essence of Jos van Beest, the "poet of sentimentality". Simple yet profound. Beest has found a golden recipe for this question that everyone struggles with, and he captures the heart with a piano touch as neat and beautiful as if he had found a golden recipe. The melody is like the shimmer of a daiquiri pouring from a shaker into a glass.

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Martha Kato

Soluna

40,99 €*

Soul Jazz Records presents

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Long-awaited analog release of the NY-based pianist and composer's second album! Lush and magnificent soundscapes by a new generation of jazz ensembles that make full use of voice. As the title of the album, which combines the words "Sol" (sun) and "Luna" (moon), suggests, the album contains colorful compositions with magnificent power. The new sound of the jazz ensemble, featuring a fusion of instrumentals and voices of talented New York musicians, is a perfect match for the warm tones of analog records.

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Space Funk 2 (1976-184)

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

31,99 €*

Greg Foat & Eero Koivistoinen

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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You are about to embark on a new intergalactic journey into black space, fuelled by funk, powered by computers. Soul Jazz Records" new second collection of twisted hyperspace electro/funk "Space Funk 2: Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84", continues its intergalactic journey. Featuring rare and off-the-wall space funk and electro rarities and obscurities, all released on small independent USA record labels in the late 1970s and 1980s. Artists on this release include Alien Starr, Bobby Demo, Maggatron, Mid-City Crew, Tribe, Junie, Rich Cason and the Galactic Orchestra and many more intergalactic space warriors! This is space age bionic funk, programmed to make you dance!!!

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Feathers

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Jazzaggression)

25,99 €*

Soul Jazz Records presents

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Enjoy Foat's rhythmic mastery, jazz-infused mood, and cosmic synths, accompanied by Finland's finest, including the legendary saxophonist Eero Koivistoinen.

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Holy Church: Gospel, Funk & Soul 1971-83 Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

30,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Music On Vinyl)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Soul Jazz Records" Holy Church of the Ecstatic Soul: Gospel, Funk and Soul at the Crossroads 1971-83 draws upon the extensive links between black American gospel music and soul music, showing how the sensibilities of gospel artists such as Shirley Caeser, Dorothy Norwood, Andrae Crouch and others crossed over into secular soul music during this period.Many of the most successful soul artists - from Aretha Franklin to Al Green, The Staple Singers to Sam Cooke - all drew upon their upbringing in the church for their musical inspiration. This album discusses how important the links between the black church and soul music were in creating soul music and spotlights some of the many important (and also little-known) gospel artists who walked this line between sacred music and soul, funk and disco in the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Fourth Street Orchestra

Ah Who Seh? Go-Deh!

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Heavenly Star)

La She Ba

You've Been Hunchin'

15,99 €*

King Sporty / Fashion Funktion

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A slice of seriously sought after US disco from La She Ba on Heavenly Star Records that has been a firm favourite of master selector Hunee and trades hands for £125+ on the secondhand market, gets a fresh reissue and remaster for a new generation of listeners.

Formed of Catherine Miller on vocals, produced and written by Harvey Miller and arranged by the mighty Patrick Adams, La She Ba – You've Been Hunchin' hits in all the right spots. Exquisite instrumentation with swooning strings, enchanting chords and tight drums laying the foundation for Miller’s celestial vocals to be the star of the show. Heavenly by name, heavenly by nature this is a must have 12 inch for any collection.

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Sun Country

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Emotional Rescue)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wah Wah 45s)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance

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Here comes Emotional Rescue and Konduko's last in their series of Noel Williams/King Sporty reissues, this time looking at later electro productions and the hip-hop/boogie influenced 'Sun Country'. Vocals and co-production come from Williams' long-time partner Betty Wright and as well as a vocal and instrumental mix there's a longform remix by Bay Area disco dub stalwarts, 40 Thieves. By this point in his career, the godfather of Miami Bass had travelled a long way from his Jamaican roots in reggae and soul, paying homage to the warm climbs of the Sunshine State and laying down a much copied template using the Tr-808 drum machine create the electronic emulations of the breakbeat, claps accenting the backbeat and trademark low frequencies shaking the floorboards. The instrumental stretches the arrangement, emphasising the interplay between electronics, bass, vocal samples, scratching and fx, the voice transformed into a percussive element in its own right. The flip sees 40 Thieves flexing their understated understanding of electro funk, making for a rounded, generation-jumping package.

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Eparapo

Take To The Streets

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Batuco Purple Vinyl Edition

Son Rompe Pera

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Aya)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Milano: Il Clan Dei Calabresi

Gianni Marchetti

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Four Flies)

17,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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2LP | 2023 | US | Original (Luaka Bop)

Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Deluxe Edition

51,99 €*

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Big Dipper)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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With Pharoah Sanders’ blessing, the limited edition embossed version of this 2LP box set presents the definitive, remastered version of Pharoah, his seminal record from 1977, along with two previously unreleased live performances of his masterpiece “Harvest Time.” This is the first official rerelease of Pharoah, which has been bootlegged often since its original release in 1977. These exceptional live versions of “Harvest Time”—which Pharoah performed during an intense European tour in the summer of ’77 and which are included here for the first time—turn the original, beloved composition on its head.

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Moose Loose

Live At Kongsberg 1973

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Smith & The Honey Badgers

Shadows / Nothing Lasts Forever

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

LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Jazz Shinsekai)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Limited to 300 copies!

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Francesca Tandoi

Something Blue

44,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Madlib Invazion Music Library Series)

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Blue, transparent voice wraps you. A beautiful bouquet of piano and vocals. The Muse who colors your passion with intelligence. The original concept was faithfully reconstructed for this album's vinyl release. The songs are reduced to vocal numbers, and the jacket also features the original version. There are some "blue ones," but there are also cute and gorgeous ones. We hope you will enjoy it over and over again to your heart's content.

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J-Zone

Intoxicated Skull

25,99 €*

Richard Hartley & Soul Resurrection

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Hip Hop, Organic Grooves

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The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series Entry #3: Drummer and Producer J-Zone offers his take on The Ultimate Beats, Breaks and Funk. This is the next up in a series of music library releases, with future volumes produced by DJ Muggs, Karriem Riggins and more. The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon to give their creative friends a chance to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted. This music was created for easy, one-stop clearance in film and television synchronization usage and for sampling. You can also enjoy these albums in the way that many do with the best of the best vintage library catalogs – listen, ponder, repeat.

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Jesus Makes Me Happy / Heart & Soul

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Izipho Soul)

13,99 €*

12" | 2023 | US | Original (Albina Music Trust)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Izipho Soul are thrilled to announce the 7” release of the Modern Gospel Soul Banger Jesus Makes ME Happy by Richard Hartley & Soul Resurrection - Presented on vinyl is ‘The Joyful Exaltation Edit’, this excludes the rap from the original version. On the flip side, Heart AND Soul, a ballad of epic proportions that builds and builds with the finale possessing some of the most gut wrenching vocals you are ever likely to hear. Richard states towards the end that ‘I should be fading right now’, but finds the strength to come back one more time!

These tracks are taken from the album Face II Face from 2007, the CD is virtually invisible - Discogs history reveals no sales.

Richard Hartley has had a prolific career as a singer and musical director, travelling across the world to work with choirs and musical icons such as Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross. He is pastor at Haven International Ministries, New York and star of his own reality television show ‘The Rev’.

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Milton Davis

Let Me In

Knoel Scott / Marshall Allen

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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In 1977, the Portland Trailblazers were at the peak of their game. Anticipating the team’s meteoric rise toward an NBA championship, songwriter Ron Stassens assembled his own dream team. Featuring members of Pleasure, Transport, and Slickaphonic, Stassens penned a theme song to amplify the team’s ascent and wound up with an album’s worth of soulful, disco-funk material.

Centering on Slickaphonic frontman, Milton Davis, the band was hopeful. But like the vast majority of Portland's musical output, the reels received a dose of regional airplay before being shelved. Davis left town. Stassens and the backing band moved on. Years later, we now this artifact, featuring a who's who in the Portland's musician community - banded together on this sole release.

But the album stretches beyond the confines of “Blazermania” with a deep connection to this era in Albina. "Let Me In" signifies Davis' yearning to be seen by his peers at a time when local musicians’ aspirations for fame and fortune were all too unlikely in Portland’s gatekept club scene - a quaint industry both culturally and geographically isolated from national access. Few musicians made it out. And Black musicians redlined in the city’s Albina district were disproportionately affected. Buried within a love song, Davis’ crooning on “All I Wanna Do” spells it out:

‘Some people want to drive a cadillac car / Some people want to be a Hollywood star / Oh no, not me / My poor heart just can’t break free / All I wanna do is think about you.’

Mystery surrounds Davis' background and why this tremendous suite of recordings has remained unreleased. In its time, the “Blazermania” single was successful enough that the band performed it on repeat during the team’s championship celebration (images of this can be seen on ESPN’s recent “30 For 30” featuring Bill Walton, as well as on the album’s back side jacket). What we do know is that Davis came of age in the Houston area where in high school he joined The Four Tempos - a soul group that would make their way to Los Angeles, cutting a few 45s for Rampart Records. When the group disbanded, he steadily worked his way up the West Coast Chitlin Circuit before landing in Portland. There he would fall in step with Albina's finest, fronting Slickaphonic for a short time. It is believed he would later front Doc Severinsen’s big band on European tours throughout the 1980s and produce R&B singles for major label artists throughout the 1990s. Davis passed in late 2020, having remained largely disconnected from Albina’s musician community since the time of this recording.

As with all releases in our catalog, listeners may now appreciate a piece of Albina’s legacy otherwise buried by selective history producers and the ensuing memory-making that has occurred in our region’s popular culture. These recordings document an important albeit buried moment. Its fleeting impact has been obscured in such a way that even Stassens, engineer Bob Stoutenburg, and the participating musicians on these takes can’t fully recall the entire cast of players on the three sessions that make up the record. Years of interviews and sleuthing the highest quality tape dub have produced the record we have here - a recording that all these years later demands, “Let me in.”

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Celestial

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Night Dreamer)

The Valiants / The Shan-Tones

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Sun Ra Arkestra saxophonist Knoel Scott reaches for the sky to release debut studio album "Celestial" with long-time collaborator Marshall Allen. Recorded in mono direct to tape and cut on a Scully lathe at the all- analogue Artone Studios in the Netherlands, "Celestial" marks Scott"s first major studio release after more than 40 years at the vanguard of modern jazz.

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Tequila Twist / Sheba

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Swingin` Sides)

11,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Rave Du Brazil / Primavera

7" | 2023 | UK | Original (Scruniversal)

Friday Afternoon In The Universe

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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You know that long hot days are fast approaching when it is Brazilian music that you crave. Thankfully the Scruniversal has got us covered with a second release that is as scorching as the first. It pairs MPB, samba and Latin flair with hard-edged hip-hop and funk stylings across a pair of tunes from Scruscru, each one a different collaboration. The first is alongside Tony Lavrutz and has gorgeous vocals and organic percussion paired with cut-up beats and jazzy keys that will ignite any floor on 'Rave Du Brazil.' It is Los Protos's jazz funk groover 'Primavera' that gets the good vibes going on the flip.

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Martin Medeski & Wood

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Real Gone Music)

41,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Funk Legends

42,99 €*

Reverie Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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A nice 3 LP vinyl boxset containing 34 tracks of alltime favourite Funk Hits. From Syl Johnson to Shalamar, from Cutis Mayfield to Barry White, from James Brown to Imagination, they are all ther !!!

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Les Imprimes

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Big Crown)

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Buyu)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Big Crown Records is proud to present the debut full length offering from Les Imprimés, Rêverie. The stirring and ethereal sounds of Les Imprimés have been making fans of anyone who hears them since their first 7" single hit the speakers. Morten Martens is the man behind the band. Born, raised, and working in Kristiansand, Norway, he keeps a low prole while making his heart felt, highly infectious, and unique music. This album is a long time coming for Martens and it is sure to make him a name to be reckoned with. The first thing you notice listening to Les Imprimés is the high level of musician-ship. Martens plays nearly every instrument on the recordings and handles the production and arranging. He has been making records for decades, winning a Spellemann Award (aka, the Norwegian Grammy) in 2006 for producing a HipHop album as well as getting nominations across three other genres. While awards and accolades speak to the level of his talent, this new album really shows who he is an artist on his own terms. Moving away from being a hired gun on the touring scene naturally led him to start doing more studio work. Slowly collecting gear and getting more experi-ence behind the boards he built his own studio on the island of Odderoya and was making a living playing with and recording other people's music. As the story goes, after those sessions would end he would work on his own project into the wee hours of the night. From these late night sessions, Les Imprimés was born and Rêverie began to take shape. However, "it wasn't until COVID, when things locked down, that I was really able to nd the time to focus on Les Imprimés" Morten says about creating and leading his own solo project. "It was a scary time. But I knew I had to do something with it." He took the sum of his inuences, combined them with his own vibe and got busy writing the music, playing the instruments, and singing the songs. "It's soul music, but I don't exactly have the soul voice," Morten explains humbly. "But I do it my own way, in a way that's mine. "It is his sound, his fingerprint, his sensibility, that makes his music hard to put in a box. The album showcases both Martens' range and his ability to make a cohesive album. The lead single "Falling Away" starts with a raw drum break and turns into a lushly arranged tune that paints the picture of love when it slips away. On "Still Here" he professes his resilience through life's twists and turns over a thundering track that puts a new spin on the B side ballad genre. Songs like "You" and "Our Love" mix tones from 60s and 70s Soul with arrangement nods to Doo Wop records while Martens' lyrics and delivery leave you singing the melodies long after they finish. "Love & Flowers" finds Martens in a moment of clarity with a song that ts the niche sub genre of happy break up tunes, the four on the floor track will move the dancefloor or while the message will resonate with anyone who put too much effort into the wrong situation in their lives. However, it is songs like "Muse" and "Chess" that really encapsulate the uniqueness of Les Imprimés as they push the boundaries of genre, one a profession of love for music and the other a cover of an electronic record respectively. Martens' lyrics, emotion, and delivery truly make the whole thing come together and stand out from any of his peers. There's an infectiousness and a pop sensibility in the writing that is done with the utmost class and taste giving Les Imprimés the rare quality of immediate attraction that only deepens the more you listen.

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Bahama Soul Club

Sundub Society

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Live At Jaiyede Jazz Festival Transparent Ochre Vinyl Edition

London Odense Ensemble

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (El Paraiso)

30,99 €*

We're Gonna Make It / Help The Man

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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London Odense Ensemble is a powerhouse quintet that combines forces from the Causa Sui/El Paraiso family tree (Jakob Skott, Jonas Munk, Martin Rude) with the vibrant, experimental London jazz scene (Tamar Osborn, Al MacSween). On two studio full-lengths, released in 2022 and 2023, they have explored the confluence of psychedelia, improvisation and cosmic jazz. On this set, recorded at the 2021 edition of Denmark's Jaiyede Jazz Festival, the energy is cranked up another notch or two. Comprised almost entirely of exclusive material not found on the two studio records these three sonic excursions dive head-on into the fiery side of the group's sound. Taking up the entire A-side "Energy Ascending" starts out as a gently flowing piece of dreamy jazz that wouldn't have sounded out of place on a late 1960s Pharoah Sanders record. As the piece evolves the guitar takes it into rock territory, where it dissolves in a mesmerising breakdown before commencing a build of epic proportions, lead by Tamar Osborn's baritone sax, channelling The Stooges as much as John Coltrane. Heavy. On the B-side things get more electronic and spacy. Here the ensemble uses album track "Sojourner" as a starting point for a new improvisation guided by Al MacSween's virtuoso keyboard work. The rhythm section creates a hypnotic foundation for layers of synths and electric keys to fully blossom and travel into cosmic territory.

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New World

7" | 2023 | UK (Soul Brother)

17,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Something Else!!!! Limited Edition

Ornette Coleman

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Craft)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Turkish Delite Türk Lokumu

Nyofu Tyson

LP | 2023 | Original (Seismographic)

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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Official re-release, retrieved from original cassette tape (1988). First time on vinyl! Includes Turkish musicians like jazz & percussion star Okay Temiz.
Brought to you by the compiler of the Saz Beat series as well as the Bosporus Bridges series.

A Danish-Lebanese Afro-American who has learned Turkish and knows how to play the saz? Who entered the Anatolian Pop scene in Istanbul right in the heyday, the early 1970s? And who got so much musical credit that the renowned Turkish producer Nazmi Şenel released a solo album with him in 1988, recorded in Istanbul and including musicians like Turkish percussion star Okay Temiz? Sounds pretty unlikely. Sometimes miracles happen and highly improbable music gets released. A person with a diverse heritage as Nyofu Tyson can be seen as a ‘melting pot’, as a ‘synthesis’. Yet, he can be also seen as someone who is able to step out for new paths.
This is the case for TÜRK LOKUMU – TURKISH DELITE. Like nobody before, Tyson connects and opens up Anadolu Pop towards a whole range of styles: Synth-Pop, New Wave, Reggae, Hip Hop/Break, Latin, Disco Boogie… He shows us how vital, compatible and versatile one could think Anadolu Pop at the end of the 1980s. The compositions are basically all Türkü-s, traditional Anatolian folk songs, yet updated with a poly-cultural music practice, which involved a lot of the then current musical trends. So, this is Turkish folk music and it has at the same time all what you like about the late 1980s pop music: cold electronic drum sounds, crisp-flashy synths, crunchy bass – all in contrast with warm distorted saz tones, wooden Turkish wind instruments, and a disco-soul proven female choir. This is crazy music. This is a miracle. This is Anatolian-Synth.

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Chill Nu Soul

22,99 €*

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves

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The VinylChill Collection is back with a new volume dedicated to Nu SoulAn elegant colllection with an original vinyl to relax in a cosy and warm musical atmosphere.Featuring Jazzanova, Quantic Soul Orchestra, Kimberose, Terry Callier...

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