Name: Emma- Jean Thackray - Brand New [from forthcoming 5-year label compilation] by Rhythm Section INTL in "SHOUTS" 5 Years of RS INTL
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"SHOUTS" 5 Years of RS INTL

From Live at Blackheath Halls 19/09/13, released 04 Oct 2013

Alto Sax - Nathaniel Facey
Alto Sax/ Clarinet - William Scott 
Tenor Sax/ Clarinet/ Flute - Leo Aarons-Richardson
Tenor Sax - Claire Furlong
Bari Sax/ Bass Clarinet - Greg Sinclair
Trumpet - Tom Dennis, Mike Soper, Lily Carassik, Alaric Taylor
Trombone - Ross Lumbard, Rosie Turton, Hannah Dilkes, George Wrench
Electric Guitar - James Kitchman
Keyboards/ Piano - Elliot Galvin 
Double Bass - Louis Thomas 
Drums - Liz Exell

The full live album can be streamed and downloaded for here: https://emmajeanthackray.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-blackheath-halls-19-09-13

Johari's Window feat. James Kitchman/  Nathaniel Facey [LIVE]

“Save The Date”, our exclusive today, is a fresh take on classic house & garage by Ben Hauke, one of our favorite dancefloor centric artists. 

Last Year At Marienbad, an Oath sub-label, is due to release a new mini-album by Ben Hauke, a talented and multi-faceted artist. Since his debut in 2013, Hauke has been exploring a variety of sounds and reference points to create a unique contemporary house style. His music features superb drumming patterns and deep emotional quality that ties everything together. Hauke's sound feels elastic and boundless, with a hazy, earthy quality that creates vitality in all its forms.

Hauke has released on a variety of labels, including Far Out, Church, Hear Other Sounds, Melodica, Co-Operation Recordings, and YAM. He founded WOOP records to experiment with his style, showcasing his talent for UK garage, jungle, and broken beat. With his latest release, ‘Save The Date’. Hauke continues to push the boundaries of house music, seamlessly moving from sweaty dancefloors one night to relaxing walks the next day.

"Save The Date" features broken beat masterclasses in "Make Up Break Up Bench" and "Let's Move On Bro," both with swinging beats and somber yet uplifting top layers of keys and flutes. The upbeat house numbers include "Watch Me Now," with gorgeous filtered melodic lines and evocative vocals, "Forever Me," with an electronic sax taking center stage, and the title track we are premiering today, with its driving beats and emphatic piano lines. 
The album also includes "First Snow," a sub-1 minute break showcasing Hauke's love of Hip Hop, adding a different dimension to the album.

Hauke's sound is both heart-inducing and pulse-setting, creating an easy-going atmosphere that washes away fears and sets the mind on a brighter path. "Save The Date" is his most complete and accomplished release to date, offering only the finest House-laden vibrations.

Exclusive Premiere: Ben Hauke "Save The Date" (Forthcoming on Last Year At Marienbad)

JTRP is Jorge Takei & Phillip Morris from Cologne. They have started with 2 bass heavy releases on T. William's Deep Teknologi Imprint, followed by several sidekicks in Belgium, UK and finally on Beef records. Their debut four-tracker on Beef is oscillating somewhere between raw acid house and ghetto techno. Ready for immediate club use! On the remix duties we got Glenn Astro - heavyweight jock and producer from K7!, Tartelet records and Kolour LTD.


A2 JTRP - You And Me (Glenn Astro Remix)

Singer-songwriter Dora Morelenbaum is Rio’s most beguiling voice right now. As a member of Latin Grammy award-winning supergroup Bala Desejo, she has enamoured worldwide audiences – energising ecstatic dancefloors and concert halls with a particularly ebullient brand of MPB. On solo turns, meanwhile, Dora’s honeyed vocals and sophisticated compositions have drawn comparisons to Joyce Moreno – 2021’s gentle debut EP Vento De Beirada garnering international admirers, extolling its elegance and expansive beauty.

It is, then, as an already coveted member of Brazil’s new wave that the carioca announces her debut solo album Pique (Mr Bongo, 2024). On Pique, we hear an already accomplished Dora at her most emboldened.

Preserving the grace of her debut EP, but imbued with new-found groove and a gargantuan-sounding band, Pique is a vivid and exceedingly fun first full-length album. While there certainly remain moments of serenity here, Dora’s debut album finds her in a more dynamic mode – as a commanding bandleader, a curios composer and an exuberant performer. In her own words, “Pique was an album made in motion and ended up being about just that.”

Pique’s sophisticated compositions do indeed shift and swing – from sumptuous soul to evocative MPB, through jazz, funk and disco. And, at each dextrous turn, an animated Dora is a compelling frontwoman – buoyed by playful production, courtesy of fellow Rio star and co-producer Ana Frango Elétrico.

Release on Mr Bongo in partnership with Coala Records (Brazil) and Think! Records (Japan).


Dora Morelenbaum - Talvez

Hot & Bothered EP

Visions Of You

Olivia Dean - Man I Need (Benedict Club Edit)

Spiritual Roots "Mariposa Negra"  (El Maestro Vagabundo Remix)

Produced by: LOVEHALFBLACK
Guitar: Eric Escalante
Piano, Vocal Production: Brandon 'B-Smooth' Ford
Saxophone: Gianluca Gibbons

Mixed at Smooth Soul Productions, Los Angeles
Mastered by: ÅntLive

Photography by: Emil Ravelo

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In 1972, Orchestre Abass released two incredible singles on Polydor. These records - featuring Samarin Banza, Haka Dunia and other afrofunk masterpieces - were powerful enough to knock any music head out, but it wasn’t until the discovery of some unreleased material by the band that the seeds for this project were planted. 

It all happened in 2008 in Ghana. I was going through some tapes that had previously been the property of PolyGram one of the major record companies based in west Africa. In the late 80s political instability and curfews had paralysed the music industry forcing Polygram to close their Ghanaian subsidiaries leaving all of their recordings behind. These recordings had been packed in boxes and left vegetating in an Accra warehouse for three decades until I came along. To my surprise all of the tapes looked unharmed and I was particularly relieved to hear that the Orchestre Abass tape was in an excellent state of condition. I began fiddling around with the idea of releasing an album of the band and that plan got an additional boost with le “coup de grace” which had landed in the form of an ultra rare tune called Honam discovered in Sotoboua, a small northern Togolese town in the middle of nowhere. That find completed this selection.

I had previously discovered some similar music in Northern Benin and in Nigeria and I started picturing an area that spread all the way from Northern Ghana to Northern Cameroon, an area I dubbed ‘The Islamic funk belt’ due to the fact that Super Borgou de Parakou, Napo De Mi Amor, Uppers International and Hamad Kalkaba just to name a few - all from that ‘belt’ - were groups made up of musicians with an Islamic background. This can be felt and heard in the music and particularly in the singing since many of the musicians had attended koranic schools and the languages used in the songs often had Arabic elements fused in - Orchestra Abass was one of them. 

With their heavy, organ-led sound combining with the deftest of musical touches, these records were the work of a rhythmic powerhouse and we are honoured to be in a position to present the recordings of Togo´s funkiest Band.

Unfortunately Malam Issa Abass, the founder, guitarist and organ player of the band, was killed in 1993 by a grenade thrown into his bedroom and to help me reconstruct the biography of the band I tracked down Thon Komla, one of the band´s songwriters and Abderaman Issa, the guitar player of the band. 

All the music was licensed directly from the various composers of these songs. The vinyl is pressed on 180 High Quality Virgin Vinyl and the gatefold contains previously unseen pictures and a detailed biography of the might band.

Orchestre Abass Master

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Haka Dunia - Orchestre Abass

Duke Hugh returns to Rhythm Section INTL to inaugurate " SHOUTS" - our compilation to mark 5 years of releases. He delivers an ethereal Rhodes piece ‘Zoe’,  which somehow manages to distill the sound of unconditional love into a sub-3 minute composition.

Head to Bandcamp to pre-order the 36 track comp and check out the other premiere from Yu Su.

SHOUTS

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Duke Hugh - Zoë  [from forthcoming 5 year label compilation]

Breakout star and good friend of the Rhythm Section family, Yu Su drops a bouncy upbeat number to inaugurate our new compilation, " SHOUTS',  celebrating 5 years of the Rhythm Section INTL imprint.

Yu Su - "233"  [from forthcoming 5 year label compilation]

* Read more: https://boltingbits.com/dawit-level-7-rhythm-section-intl/
* Pre-order: https://wearerhythmsection.bandcamp.com/album/shouts-5-years-of-rhythm-section-intl
* Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yHlw3y0QJj8

A go-to label for the connoisseurs Rhythm Section INTL is a UK staple. The raison d’être has always been to unearth and nurture new talent, not just via the catalogue but through the now established network of radio shows, concerts and club nights Rhythm Section has become known for. The SHOUTS compilation and accompanying celebratory tour is a continuation of this mission.

Today we premiere Dawit's contribution to the compilation, "Level 7".

Making his name as part of the DC Based 1432-R crew, Dawit is an Ethiopian-American DJ and producer based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Dawit joined Bradley for a number of dates last summer including Worldwide festival & Glastonbury and has previously released on Future Times in collaboration with Max D ( Dawit & Dolo) and as part of “Lifted” - a live studio project released on Bill Kouligas’ PAN Recordings.In “ Level 7” , his first solo effort for Rhythm Section INTL, we see Dawit switch to Peak Dance-floor ‘Hands in the air’ mode. With his own signature percussive wizardry, Dawit takes the Mr Fingers formula of airy pads and 303’s and drenches it in psychedelics, tweaking and freaking the parameters for maximum effect. This is Acid house for 2020.

RS033 SHOUTS - 5 Years of Rhythm Section

PREMIERE: Dawit - Level 7

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Emma- Jean Thackray - Brand New [from forthcoming 5-year label compilation]

Pulsating rhythms from the Cómeme family member @katerina on Rhythm Section (@bradleyzero).

Read More & Buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2020/03/18/premiere-katerina-bird-people/
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/KaterinaBirdPeople

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Katerina - Bird People (STW Premiere)

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