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‘Caminhos’ is a tribute to the late samba singer and composer Sebastião Victorino Teixeira Dos Santos, better known as Catoni. The heavy swinging hip hop track bridges gaps between classic Brazilian samba sounds with hard hitting Dilla-esque grooves, raw funk and boom bap, taking us on a trip to the shores of Rio de Janeiro.
lyrics
Em que linha do horizonte meu olhar se embaraçou
Em que caminho de fonte a minha sede secou
Que estrada que prendeu na poeira os meus passos
Que noite acendeu no meu corpo o cansaço
credits
from Laroyê, track released September 1, 2021
Produced by Szabolcs Bognar aka Àbáse

Guitar & vocals by Catoni

Mixed by Benjamin Thierney
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino

Cover design by Jason Vaz
Cover collage by Exocé Kasongo aka Bantufuturist
Cover painting by Raphael Cruz

Oshu Records 2021

Caminhos (for Catoni)

Agangatolú is the first offering off Àbáse’s debut album Laroyê, set to be released in November, 2021. The song was created during a five month journey in Brazil in collaboration with Jadson Xabla and Gabriel Santana from Salvador’s Jêje family, IFÁ Afrobeat drummer Jorge Dubman aka Dr Drumah, jazz vibraphonist Antonio Loureiro and Hungarian jazz flutist Fanni Zahár. The composition is based on a traditional candomblé song dedicated to Oshosi, orisha (diety) of the forests, hunt, animals and wealth. 

Jadson Xabla - vocals, percussion Gabriel Santana - background vocals, percussion Jorge Dubman aka Dr Drumah - drums
Fanni Zahár - flute
Antonio Loureiro - vibraphone Karol Freitas - background vocals
Szabolcs Bognár aka Àbáse - keyboards, percussion

Mixed by Benjamin Tierney
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino

Cover design by Jason Vaz
Cover collage by Exocé Kasongo aka Bantufuturist
Cover painting by Raphael Cruz

Oshu Records 2021

Laroyê

Agangatolú (feat Jadson Xabla, Gabriel Santana, Dr Drumah, Fanni Zahár)

Avenida 7 (feat Lulera)

Ife Layo

Àbáse - Ela (feat Jesuton)

Ela is the second single off Àbáse’s debut album Laroyê, set to be released in November, 2021.

Lyrics:

Ela 
Quis ir embora
Ela 
Só quis voar 
Pegou a mala 
Começou viajar, sonhar
Pegou a mala 
Comecou viajar, sonhar
Comecar de novo 
Tudo de novo 

Ela 
Falou comigo 
Que ela não sabia como ficar 

A verdade dois passos á frente
A tristeza meio passo atrás
Ela vai vem vai vai vem vai 
Vai vem vai vem vai vai 
Nunca mais voltar 
Nunca mais voltar 

Ela 
Ela 
Virou ar
Virou mar 
Virou ar
Virou mar 
Virou ar
Ela 
Ela


Jesuton - vocals
Szabolcs Bognár - guitar, keyboards, percussion

Mixed by Benjamin Tierney
Mastered by Marco Pellegrino

Cover design by Jason Vaz
Cover collage by Exocé Kasongo aka Bantufuturist
Cover painting by Raphael Cruz


Oshu Records 2021

Ela (feat Jesuton)

Oya (feat Luciane Dom)

6 Visits

L.O.V.E (feat. Rejoicer, Nitai Hershkovits, Amir Bresler & Yonatan Albalak)

Nothing Feels Like Everything

Heron feat. Miryam Solomon

The Brkn Record is a new project led and produced by Jake Ferguson, the co-founder and bass player for the UK’s foundational deep jazz outfit the Heliocentrics. With fellow Heliocentrics co-founder and legendary drummer Malcolm Catto, Ferguson has been a regular collaborator with globally recognised artists including Archie Shepp, Mulatu Astatke, Melvin Van Peebles, Orlando Julius and many others.

The Architecture of Oppression Part 1 represents Ferguson’s debut as a bandleader and orchestrator, and manifests as a committed and soulful response to ongoing and systemic anti-black racism, social oppression and state violence both at home in London and across the globe. Combining poetry, testimony and song with rich and cinematic backdrops, Ferguson has produced a sui generis sound that conjures flavours of Arthur Verocai, Ennio Morricone, classic library productions, Madlib-style deep-jazz beat science, and psychedelic soul. With bandmate Malcolm Catto on drums, Ferguson draws on their long years of collaborative experience in the Heliocentrics to build an album of striking texture and depth. 

But the album does not only reflect Ferguson’s full-spectrum musical prowess, experience and vision. It is equally a manifestation of his longstanding and high-profile work as a frontline activist for racial justice and social equity in London and beyond.

Alongside Malcom Catto, contributors to the album are drawn from the intersecting worlds of community activism, cultural education, politics and music, and include singer and political activist Jermain Jackman, Zara MacFarlane; Chicagoan activist, poet and singer Ugochi Nwaogwugwu; Lee Jasper, longstanding worker for racial justice and former advisor on equalities to the Mayor of London; acclaimed performance poet Dylema; Hackney community leader Janette Collins MBE and Leroy Logan MBE, founder and former chair of the Black Police Association, and the subject of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe episode ‘Red, White and Blue’.

The Architecture of Oppression Part 1 is a singular and urgent chronicle of the black British experience, an upful expression of Pan-African creative unity and community solidarity, and a militant and unbending missive from the frontline in the great tradition of The Impressions’ This Is My Country, Irreversible Entanglements Who Sent You?, Max Roach’s We Insist - Freedom Now Suite, or Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Bass Culture.

A broken record repeats itself, and never plays through – the music is interrupted or trapped in a cycle by damage to the grooves. But The Brkn Record is a work of healing and protection, and a chance to let the full story be heard – all the way to the end, no skips.

The Brkn Record - Break The Chains

Two For Mistake

First Light

available now on brownswood bubblers three and also forthcoming on emanative// time which drops on april the 5th 2010

Turn Your Lights On

"Hot Water"

Original by Adesuwa

Remix by Sly5thave

Featuring:
Kyla Moscovich - Trumpet
Raymond James Mason - Trombone

Produced by Sly5thave

Mixed by Will Holland & Sly5thave
Mastered by Brad Williams


ADESUWA - "Hot Water" (Sly5thave Remix)

Order vinyl / CD direct from BBE: https://www.bbemusic.com/downloads/bert-myrick-live-n-well/
Other formats / stores: https://bbemusic.lnk.to/livenwell
Rescued from relative obscurity by DJ Amir’s 180 Proof Records, BBE is delighted to present a gem from the tiny yet highly influential catalogue of Strata Records. Preceding New York’s Strata East, Detroit’s original Strata label issued only a handful of underground titles in the early 70’s, making it a ‘holy grail’ imprint among jazz lovers and record collectors the world over.
Released by Strata in 1974, Bert Myrick’s ‘Live ‘n Well’ was originally recorded by Strata founder and former Blue Note artist Kenny Cox at a concert which took place almost a decade previously, at the student union of the University Of Michigan back in 1965. Led by drummer Bert Myrick, the album highlights a quintet of highly talented players at the height of their powers. Featuring Will Austin on bass, Kenny Cox on piano and Ronnie Fields on tenor sax, the performance also stars George Bohanon, a now- legendary player who spent 7 years with Motown Records as lead trombonist before being named "Most Valuable Player". by the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Probably best known for the iconic 14 minute epic “Scorpio’s Child” (composed by Strata owner Kenny Cox), ‘Live ‘n Well’ captures tour de force performances from a collection of Detroit’s finest musicians, destined to go their separate ways soon after the recording was completed. Legend has it that Bert Myrick was inspired to pursue his passion for the drums by friend and mentor Elvin Jones (the drummer on John Coltrane’s classic ‘A Love Supreme’), who would open windows at his shows so that Bert and his friends could enter without paying. This kind of heavyweight tutelage would certainly explain Myrick’s impeccable, highly expressive playing on ‘Live ‘n Well’. Remembered fondly for his powerful hands and gentle demeanor, Bert Myrick passed away in 2010 at the age of 80.

Bert Myrick - Scorpio's Child

Budapest born and based producer/keyboardist Szabolcs Bognar starts his new collaborative jazz project https://soundcloud.com/abasemusic with debut single "Skeme goes all city".
The base of the track is a smooth cinematic sounding riverbed of soothing harmonies where different instruments flow around in repetitive phrases. Every phrase repeats itself in the perfect length, as soon as you get your fix - a new melody kicks in.
"We wrote and recorded the track in one improvised studio session back in 2016. I brought the harmonic structure and the main melody and the band built on top of that. Everyone brought something to the table. It was recorded in the oldschool way, all the musicians in the same room, no headphones, no chance for correcting mistakes or editing. Raw. The title is a dedication to the New York graffiti pioneer Skeme and the power of self expression in Hip Hop culture." - Àbáse

"Fanni Zahár - flute, vocals 
Szabolcs Bognár - Rhodes 
Tamás Heilig - bass 
Tamás Czirják - drums 

Recorded, mixed & mastered at Studio Einz, Budapest 

Cover design by Fabian Kretz"

https://soundcloud.com/abasemusic

EP/LP coming soon...

Àbáse - Skeme Goes All City

https://soundcloud.com/bluestaeb &  https://soundcloud.com/sfidelity Present Underground Canopy
MENACE l MNC006

Spotify 
https://spoti.fi/2LmCCv0
Apple
https://apple.co/2PhrctY
Fanlink
https://menace.fanlink.to/tonysendo

Caminhos (for Catoni)

Àbáse

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