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ALL THAT JAZZ

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Fabulous/Arabia are an duo from NZ. Mike Fabulous is one of the many names of Lord Echo and Lawrence Arabia is a successful artist in the indie pop circuit with releases on labels such as Bella Union. We released this album in 2012 if I recall correctly and it's still one of our favorite releases ever. Big up Lord Echo, Lawrence Arabia and Toby of Fat Freddy's Drop who originally released the album in NZ. 

Throwback Monday: Fabulous/Arabia - "Perm"

2nd mixtape of musician Moses Boyd. 

personnel 

Moses Boyd :drums, composition and production
Binker Golding: Tenor Saxophone
Artie Zaits : guitar
Theon Cross: Tuba
Reuben James: keys
Tyrone Isaac Stuart: flute

mastered by Red1productions


Time and Space 

Neptune

A sublime expedition from Brazil to the sky, “Modo Avião” (Airplane Mode) sees São Paulo based trio Caixa Cubo jet further forth from the lineage of Brazilian instrumental music.

Following in the footsteps of heroes like Azymuth, Antonio Adolfo, Cesar Mariano and Marcos Resende, with the tried and tested trifecta of synthesizers, bass and drums, Caixa Cubo have carved out their own idiosyncratic ideal of golden-era Brazilian jazz-funk and samba-jazz.

Encapsulating the vitality and experimentalism synonymous with Sao Paulo’s musical history, Caixa Cubo playfully straddle the elegant and the surreal, with masterful songwriting and the consummate musicianship of longtime friends and bandmates Henrique Gomide (keyboards) Noa Stroeter (bass) João Fideles (drums).

Caixa Cubo have been playing together for over 14 years - and that’s ‘playing’ in the truest sense of the word. As bassist Noa Stroeter explains: 

“A story, a joke, images, invented words, people we met on tour, places, fictitious or not, have always been part of our creative process. And they are precious materials beyond the musical work itself. This dynamic has stayed with us to this day, and for me it is the characteristic that guarantees that no matter what, we will have fun working.”

Presenting a contemporary reimagining of Brazilian grooves from the 1970s, Modo Avião marks an evolution for Caixa Cubo’s music which delves deeper into the tradition of Brazilian instrumental music, while continuing to develop its rhythmic and harmonic possibilities. Utilising an extensive understanding of Brazilian music history and Brazilian rhythm in particular, the group explore the seemingly endless possibilities of fusing carnaval marches, frevo and Baião, with jazz, MPB and funk.

Recent Caixa Cubo releases include 2023’s “Agora”, which featured guest vocalists including Xênia França and Zé Leônidas; and 2020’s "Angela," which was hailed by BBC 6 Music, Gilles Peterson, and Bandcamp as one of the best albums of the year. 
Caixa Cubo have performed at Jazzahead! in 2022 (Germany), Jazz à Vienne (France), Riverboat Jazz Festival (Denmark), Breda Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Blue Note São Paulo (Brazil) and Jazzkeller Frankfurt (Germany) 

This November Caixa Cubo will tour Europe, with performances in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands and France. 

Modo Avião releases on Vinyl LP, CD and digitally on the 15th November 2024 via Far Out Recordings.

Caixa Cubo - Vila Macarena

Perak (Instrumentals)

Thank You (Instrumental)

Listen everywhere: https://idol-io.ffm.to/the-offline-cap-camarat-in-session
Pre-order on Bandcamp: https://theoffline.bandcamp.com/album/the-offline-in-session
Listen to the DeepMatter Catalogue: https://tinyurl.com/dm-catalogue


Pre-order the EP

Thème de la couleur de la mer  (In Session)

Download at www.thedrumbroker.com & http://hiphopdrumsamples.com/products/erik-jackson-presents-rain-day-breaks-digital-download

Welcome to Rainy Day Breaks by Sound Designer & Producer-  Erik Jackson.

Rainy Day Breaks is a collection of drums you can use to liven up your song or create something totally different. Before Erik dismantled the Sunday Kit we retuned the drums and recorded these breaks. These are not your everyday drum breaks. They were recorded with complete precision and accuracy, changing from full to double tempo. All recorded at 90/180 BPM. There are not many breaks pack like this. Get your hands on a Breakbeat Gem and get to work!

Rainy Day Breaks were recorded with the Audix DP7 drum microphone pack. Each microphone was individually shaped and compressed by 9 separate Avalon 737 Pre Amps. If that is wasn't enough; all of the Avalon pre's were fed to an SSL Stereo Bus Compressor, then recorded to a Studer A 827.

Be prepared to chop in your favorite sampler and make some hits. Again, this is a BREAKS ONLY pack.

The demo song has other instruments to show you how great these will sound with your own samples. Demo was made with an MPC 2000X, Ableton Live and a turntable in real time.

Download These Breaks

Erik Jackson - Rainy Day Breaks

Cover of the Roy Ayers classic with 
@thisisversis [vox] and @melaniecharlesmusic [flute/vox]

swarvy.bandcamp.com/album/mirrors-vol-1

@vibe-music_co

02 - EverybodyLovesTheSunshine [ft. Versis & Melanie Charles]

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The Transformations Suite combines music, theatre, and poetry to examine the radical history of resistance within communities of the African diaspora. The themes of the suite move through five distinct phases: Transformation, History, Cycles, Momentum (parts 1 and 2), and Ascension. Continuing in the tradition of artists like Bob Marley, Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, and Tupac Shakur, the suite paints a musical picture of the current state of social inequality and injustice in the United States and beyond.

Within this framework, the project connects contemporary issues, such as the prison industrial complex and the Black Lives Matter movement, with the history of revolutionary movements of color. The composition builds a bridge between the past and the future – all within the context of poignant, beautiful, and sweeping moments created by the suite’s music. The powerful lyrics consist mostly of original poems by actor and poet Jeremie Harris, augmented by contributions from Pinderhughes, Saul Williams, and Tupac Shakur.

The Transformations Suite has been performed throughout South America and the U.S., at venues including the American Museum of Natural History, the Harlem Arts Festival, Juilliard, UC Irvine, NYU, Joe’s Pub, the Jazz Gallery, MoMA, and Columbia University. Most recently, the project was featured as part of Blackout for Human Rights’ #MLKNow event which was viewed by over 500,000 people and trended #1 on Twitter.

Centered in the belief that there is a soundtrack to every revolution, the vision for The Transformations Suite is that it will foster dialogue on social justice issues throughout the world, show how art can create social change, contribute to the powerful growing movement on behalf of black lives around the country, and empower all people – especially youth – to make their voices heard.

The release of The Transformations Suite was preceded by an event called “Black Male Re-Imagined”, a project co-presented by the Campaign for Black Male Achievement, where The Transformations Suite served as the prism through which artists and activists reflect on the current state of our nation. This event, doubling as the album’s release show, took place on October 11 at The Kennedy Center, including Lalah Hathaway, Freeway, Christian Scott, Haile Gerima, and more.

The Transformations Suite is released worldwide on October 12, 2016.

You can find the album on iTunes, Bandcamp, and all other outlets.
Special free bundles of the album will be available for youth organizations, activist groups, and schools.

“Wonderful...an absolutely gorgeous piece of music. A huge undertaking;; a nuanced, delicate, and powerful perspective on heavy and important topics."
- Anna Deavere Smith

"An urgent and powerful record by one of this generation’s most captivating composers. Not to mention an incredibly formidable player – Samora's command of the piano is out of this world! A must have record for anyone interested in progress. Musically or otherwise.."
- Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

“Samora Pinderhughes calls for reappraisal of black life's value in ‘The Transformations Suite’... it is a five-part tone poem, arranged over meticulously created big band jazz instrumentals, with aims to provide a motivational and emotional engine to push forward the mission of Black Lives Matter."
- Mic.com

02 History - from "The Transformations Suite"

Before U Let Go

up&outURbody: 2014-2017 available now wherever u stream

up&outURbody (2018)

They Someplace Else Now

Hackney Colliery Band's brand new album 'Collaborations: Volume One'

Collaborations: Volume One

Netsanet (feat. Mulatu Astatke)

Freestylin’

La Jolla (feat. Harold Todd)

Roy Ayers - Mystic Voyage (DJ Jazz Instrumental)

Dear Sunny...

79.5 - My Dream

Buy / Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/takeashot

Unearthed by The Mighty Zaf for BBE Music, Into A New Journey by Ambiance is an impossibly rare and sought-after private label spiritual jazz masterpiece from 1982 with Latin, Brazilian and Afro overtones. Ambiance was the ‘nom de guerre’ of an ever-shifting jazz collective headed up by Nigeria-born, LA-tutored multi- instrumentalist, arranger, producer and photographer Daoud Abubakar Balewa.

Balewa studied composition and jazz improvisation at the feet of innovators such as Frank Mitchell (Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers), Jackie McLean (Blue Note) and other masters from the golden Blue Note era. Although he favoured alto, soprano and tenor, he was equally happy on flute, keyboards, and Latin and Brazilian percussion. What’s more, he had the knack of using musicians who were bold enough to welcome being part of such multi- faceted sessions: guitarist Jim Lum’s flexibility suits the theme of this album perfectly, as does prolific Japanese soul-jazz drummer Danny Yamamoto; the stunning Hawaiian pianist Kino Cornwell (Yamamoto’s colleague from funk-fusion supergroup Hiroshima); and the wonderful Jean Carn-like tones of Daoud’s wife, jazz vocalist Monife Balewa.

From the band’s reading of Joe Henderson’s modal masterpiece Black Narcissus, through the deep multicultural percussive jazz-dance workout that is the title track, and on to the three-octave vocal embellishments of Monife, on her own composition Something Better as well as on the Chick Correa fusion classic 500 Miles High, nothing here is generic, nothing taken for granted, nothing comfortable or predictable.

All of the half-dozen or so albums recorded and released by Daoud and Ambiance during just six years of frantic creativity between 1979 and 1986 are well worth seeking out, but in BBE Music’s opinion Into A New Journey is the pinnacle: spiritual jazz worthy of the very best practitioners of the genre, by an obscure group of ludicrously talented artists on a tiny, self- financed indie label with an equally tiny promo budget: that’s what great jazz is all about.

Into a New Journey

Ambiance - The Black Narcissus

Big Crown Records is a Brooklyn based independent record label started in 2016 by Leon Michels & Danny Akalepse. Home of Lee Fields & The Expressions, Lady Wray, El Michels Affair, Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, The Shacks, Paul & The Tall Trees, 79.5, Bobby Oroza, Brainstory, Okonkolo, and many more.

79.5 - My Dream

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