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In Honor Of…

01 Frankie Knuckles “Soon I Will Be Done”
02 Galaxy Group Feat Rich Medina “Lady Harlem”
03 Drala “datFreaky”
04 Vince Watson “Eminesence”
05 Atjazz & Oveous “Soldier”
06 Toby Derher “Labradusel”
07 Osunlade “Peacock”
08 Mylse Bigelow “Tunring Pages”
09 Roland Tings “Who You Love”
10 Praymond “Timeless Memory”
11 Dj Qu “Sliding Thru”
12 Mike Steva “Weekend Love” (Love Excerpt)
13 Frankie Knuckles “The Whistle Song”

compiled and mixed by Osunlade
image by Carlos Mena

In Honor Of...

Nathan Klein's Soundtrack to Alex Darby's Short Film 'Waterbird'

Based on 'Waterbird' a song co-written by Hattie Briggs, George Cooke and Nathan Klein

Voice - Hattie Briggs
Cello - George Cooke
Production and Piano - Nathan Klein

Waterbird | Credits

Album Launch Sunday January 31st The Jazz Cafe:
www.facebook.com/events/1087732217927485/

Preorder the album here:
https://elianecorrea.bandcamp.com/album/rumba-con-flores

Eliane Correa & En El Aire Project
Rumba con Flores
MOV008
Tracks: Aftertaste // Rumba Con Flores
Silencio // Tengo Una Piedra En El Bolsillo
Due to be released on Movimientos Records in February 2016



Eliane Correa & En El Aire, Rumba Con Flores - Album Sampler

The Magic Lantern, the musical moniker of Jamie Doe, is set to release his latest single Holding Hands on 30th October 2017 via Hectic Eclectic Records. 

The single opens with a defiant cry of hope, the lyrics “I’m searching…”, ringing out alone before two saxophones enter, freely weaving around the vocal, at once harmonising and echoing it. This texture builds as a third saxophone joins creating a rich brass warmth through which Doe’s voice glides, effortlessly leaping between the declamatory and the intimate. The  band enter with an infectious groove, and we are introduced to the songs’ key metaphor of a flood and the need for creative destruction - “One day, when all this is washed away, some will remain, full of hope in the pouring rain”. The track resolves with the triumph of hope over doubt.

Holding Hands was written during a moment of desperation, Jamie having travelled half way across the world only to run out of road.  Strung out and alone, he found himself writing this song for the true love he hoped to meet, as much an act of faith in their existence as a beacon to guide himself home.  Originally written for voice and guitar, it was after hearing Bjork’s ‘Anchor Song’ late one night that Jamie decided to arrange the song for saxophone trio. The timbre of the brass, the groove of the band, The Bad Plus style piano solo – it is an arrangement that brings together some of Jamie’s key influences which he describes as “the lyrical directness of folk, the harmonic openness and improvisational freedom of jazz and the craft of great songwriting. It’s a good example of how much more confident I have become as an arranger”. 

Born in Australia, before moving to the UK at 12, Jamie began performing as The Magic Lantern while studying philosophy in Bristol where he met and performed alongside friends This Is The Kit, Rozi Plain and Rachael Dadd. Moving to London in 2007, Jamie expanded The Magic Lantern into a quintet of friends and together they evolved a transporting sound, inspired by the immediacy of Jamie’s lyrics and lilting melodies and a shared love of improvised music. A debut album with the quintet was released in 2011 before Jamie returned to his solo roots with an intimate second album in 2014. The Magic Lantern has received praise from numerous publications including The Guardian, Acoustic Magazine and Folk Radio UK as well as BBC 6Music’s Lauren Laverne, Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and BBC Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe and Bob Harris among others. His third album, To The Islands from which Holding Hands is taken, sees The Magic Lantern return with a new ensemble drawn from London’s thriving jazz scene, exploring memory and hope in a world of near constant uncertainty. 

With Holding Hands, The Magic Lantern is ready to introduce further listeners to his bittersweet, beautiful sound. 

Holding Hands is out on 30th October 2017 via Hectic Eclectic Records.

Holding Hands

-DAJALOO: http://www.pietrotonolo.com/#/presentation-dajaloo/4537959440
PIETRO TONOLO Saxophones
GIAMPAOLO CASATI Trumpet cornet
ROBERTO ROSSI Trombone and shells
GIANCARLO BIANCHETTI Electric guitar
DUDU KOUATE Percussion
NABY CAMARA Percussion
ALEX BOTTONI Percussion
MOULAYE NIANG Percussion

Pietro Tonolo started to deal with African culture and music several years ago (the relationship between jazz and African music is well known ...); this growing interest has led him to a first trip to Senegal in January 2009. His impact with African music world - a very positive and fruitful one - pushed him to the conception of the project "Dajaloo", "to be similar" in Wolof language, which was developed in two other subsequent trips to Senegal. Four Senegalese drummers were involved from "African Djembe Junior" group, along with three noted Italian musicians (Giampaolo Casati, Roberto Rossi and Giancarlo Bianchetti). The result was a very intense and exciting act, whose effectiveness has been tested on "the field" during an Italian tour made in July 2010, which was a great success with audiences and critics. "Dajaloo" is a continuously evolving project, and now shows a different group of percussionists, led by Dudu Kouate, Senegalese percussionist active since several years on Italian and European music scene, the Guinean Nabi Camara and Alex Bottoni.

Pietro Tonolo
is one of the leading jazz saxophonists in Europe. He began his activity in young age, playing in Europe and America with the bands of Gil Evans and Chet Baker. He recorded over ninety CDs as a sideman and under his own name, obtaining wide success and recognition. He has worked with many of the major Italian jazz musicians (Franco D'Andrea, Massimo Urbani, Enrico Rava, Rita Marcotulli, Danilo Rea, Roberto Gatto) and European (Aldo Romano, Tony Oxley, Henri Texier, whom he has completed tours in the East, Africa and Latin America). He performs regularly with musicians such as Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Joe Lovano, Joe Chambers, Gil Goldstein, Steve Swallow, Paul Motian (whose "Electric Bebop Band" he has been a member) and is one of Italian jazz musicians who enjoy the highest esteem by colleagues overseas.

Roberto Rossi 
Born in Rimini in 1962, he graduated in trombone in 1984. He began his career doing some chamber groups and symphony orchestras, participating in international competitions and won several awards. He was a member of the Symphonic Orchestra of Sanremo, the Italian RAI, G. Rossini Pesaro, Florence Ort. In 1986 he started his work in jazz. He has made important recordings (about 80 titles), and has performed in many festivals in Italy and abroad. Among his collaborations: Oliver Lake and David Murray, the "Paul Whiteman" orchestra, Marco Tamburini, Franco D'Andrea, Roberto Ottaviano, Cedar Walton.

Giampaolo Casati: 
Graduated from the Conservatory "N. Paganini" in Genoa in 1985, plays concerts for several years, teaching and arranger for big band and jazz combo. He has collaborated with many Italian and foreign musicians playing in the major Italian, European, American and Asian Festivals, he has participated in radio and television as well in the production of soundtracks for film, theater and advertising. Among his collaborations: Gianni Basso, Tullio De Piscopo, Riccardo Zegna, Keptorchestra, Piero Odorici, Gianni Cazzola, Pietro and Marcello Tonolo, Battista Lena, Charlie Mariano, Paul Jeffrey, Egea Orchestra, Lee Konitz, Bobby Durham, Tony Mann, Don Braden, Benny Golson. Since 2002 he has been several times a member of Carla Bley orchestra, with whom he has performed in the best European festivals and participated in the recording of two CD. Giancarlo Bianchetti: Graduated with honors in classical guitar, jazz guitar studies in parallel. Since the early nineties has a busy concert schedule that takes him to meet and play with musicians such as Jack Walrath, Tony Castellano, Steve Grossman, Tony Scott, Carlo Atti Marco Tamburini, Ares Tavolazzi, Sandro Gibellini, Piero Odorici, Pietro and Marcello Tonolo, Luciano Milanese, Tullio De Piscopo, Robert Bonisolo, Bobby Watson, Eliot Zigmund and Bibi Rovere. From 1990 he collaborated with Bologna singer Silvia Donati and with musicians active in Brazilian music, from '95 to about 2004 was part of the group accompanying the singer-songwriter Vinicio Capossela, with whom participated in the recording of three CDs ( Ballo di S.Vito, LiveinVolvo, Canzoni a Manovella). In 2003 Peter Tonolo invited him to join a quartet that includes Paul Birro and Marco Micheli and most recently he was with Egea Orchestra.

Dudu (Doudou) Kouate:
Born in Senegal in 1963 by a family of griots, known to be the custodians of African cultural tradition and music. After humanistic studies in his country he moved to Europe. He lives in Bergamo, where he teaches African percussion since many years. He gives clinics on the history of traditional African instruments, trying to trace the Territorial boundaries of the populations. Percussionist, instrumentalist, playing in various bands and theatrical productions. The constant search for the sound (sound of elements), has always lead him to new experiences in the music world. Recognized enhancer of traditional instruments, especially percussion and idiophones, he has managed to devise their inclusion within the diversity of musical contexts. In Italy he has made with the director and musician Alberto Nacci the soundtrack for the short film "The moving town" presented at the Locarno Film Festival. Has recorded with the group Odwalla, with whom he's been playing for four years, two DVDs and two CDs including the latest production: "Medusa, the world of percussion and voice". He has recorded with Bergamo saxophonist Guido Bombardieri the album "African Thought". He recently collaborated with Bakan Seck in the Youssou Ndour's JOLOLI Dakar recording studio.

Naby Camara Guinea:
Griot by birth and training, living in Italy since 2004, accompanied by his balafon. He sings and is a master of dun dun and bolong.

Alex Bottoni
Percussionist from Milan, explores African percussion since many years and has worked with African and Italian musicians.

Moulaye Niang
Born in Dakar (Senegal) by a family of musicians, played as a drummer in Paris with Daby Touré, Big Mau, Doc Gynéco. In Senegal played-among others- with Nder. In Italiy, he collaborated with Mauro Pagani, Eugenio Finardi, Raiz and founded, with Djez Ndiaye, the multiethnic group Gorée Island.

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'Wandering Eye' remix by DJ Vadim + The Electric vocalists, soulstress Sabira Jade and lyrical marvel MC Pugs Atomz. Taken from Fat Electric Drop, DJ Vadim Vs Fat Freddy's Drop EP, available now on 12" vinyl at www.fatfreddysdrop.com - strictly limited edition vinyl release.

WANDERING EYE, FAT ELECTRIC DROP

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