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Greg Foat has always had a great reverence for the musicians that featured on the records he has collected over the years. Whether they were players from the great European library catalogs, Italian soundtracks, American Jazz but most of all British Jazz. One of his all-time favourites being the beautiful tone of Art Themen's Saxophone…
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After Art had played on a few sessions for Greg both were keen to record an LP together. Plans were hatched during lockdown and everyone headed to Edinburgh as soon as allowed, to an unassuming metal door that leads to a renowned studio with a large live room with a stunning Neve desk. Chamber Studio has a long Edinburgh heritage, known for recordings from Mogwai to everyone's favourite The Vaselines.

Greg & Art wanted to do something experimental so they brought in an interesting and challenging mix of new musicians along with a large pile of synthesizers and effects pedals. The result is a fantastic melting pot of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic ideas and motifs.

Greg Foat - Fender Rhodes, Prophet 10, Roland SH-101
Art Themen - Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
Gavin Sutherland - Guitars
Amanda Whiting - Harp
Philip Achille - Bass
Nadav Schneerson - Drums & Percussion

Recorded at Chamber Studio, Edinburgh
Recording engineer, Graeme Young

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Greg Foat & Art Themen - Off Piste - Off Piste

Nilsson – Mother Nature’s Son
The Happenings Four - Magical Mystery Tour 
Katja Ebstein - A Hard Day's Night 
The Jazz Crusaders – Golden Slumbers
Chairmen of the Board – Come Together
Ze Ramalho - Dear Prudence 
Claudine Longet – When I’m Sixty-Four
The Black Beatles - Reggae and Shout  
Heptones – Ob la di, ob la da
Donald Height – Don’t Let Me Down
Lightmyth - Across The Universe
Phyllis Dillon – Something
Bud Shank – Blue Jay Way 
Lowell Fulson – Why Don’t We Do It In The Road
Powerillusi - Lato B

#MIX #60S  #70S #RETRO #VINTAGE #MIXCLOUD #SOUNDCLOUD #PLAYLIST #ONLINERADIO

Recent Songs #30 :: Come Together

Jackie O. Bar Berlin 75: Vanilla Tobacco (Gone But Not Forgotten)
By OCTUPONE (Tea*Eye Productions) : BERLIN

A Tribute to Jackie O Beach Club, Berlin Germany 2011-2018

In corporation with SLOW
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1 Yazmin Lacey - Sun Is Ours
2 Dope Lemon - Home Soon
3 Theodor - Glades and Avenues
4 Todd Rundgren - Artist in Residence feat. Neil Finn
5 Ditch Days - All The Time
6 L.E.J - La bohème
7 Louis Philippe - Fallen Snow
8 Rikas - Side By Side
9 San Proper - Remember The Future (Radio edit)
10 Yuna - Cigarette
11 Yazmin Lacey - Bad Company
12 Luciel - Dream Not	
13 Tim Baker - Goodnight Everyone
14 Mac Ayres - Better
15 Sabrina Bellaouel - Jah
16 Thee Sacred Souls - Love Is The Way
17 Shoffy - Cat Cafe
18 Nalani Rothrock - Hold On
19 Nick Mulvey - Mona
20 Tagua Tagua - Brisa
21 Tendre - Misty
22 Willie Clayton - Oh What a Night
23 Mac DeMarco - Cooking Up Something Good
24 Toro Y Moi - Millennium (feat. The Mattson 2)
25 Nathan Johnston & Angels of Libra - In a Different World
26 DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson - Caipirinha
27 Melissa Carper - Hanging on to You
28 Moka Efti Orchestra - Dog Gone Love feat. Nikko Weidemann
29 Total Hip Replacement - Lost in Thought
30 Paul Ortiz y La Orquesta Son - Tender Love
31 Los Yesterdays - Who Made You You?
32 Shabason & Krgovich - In the Middle of the Day
33 The Dears - Too Many Wrongs
34 yoa - chanson triste
35 The Wood Brothers - Worst Pain of All
36 Oilly Wallace - Arrivederci
37 Lydia Persaud - I Got You
38 Rosie Brown - Lucky the Moon
39 Ezéchiel Pailhès - Mélopée
40 William Bell - I've Got Feet
41 Nev Cottee - A Million Years
42 The Whiskey Foundation - Waterfall
43 Tiffany Rachal - The Fire We Made
44 YULLOLA - Stay Wild Little Child
45 Jimmie Spheeris - Summer Salt
46 Gabriels - Remember Me
47 Caleb Caudle - Crazy Wayne
48 Hayden Mack - What's Happened to Me?
49 Monkyman - Les Abeilles (Monkyman Edit)
50 Natalie Merchant - Tower of Babel
51 Golf Trip - Lady Light
52 Tom Hansen - Tell Me Why (Featuring Knut Koppang)
53 Bart - Song of Spring
54 Stephen Bishop - On And On (Live TV Performance 1977)

Jackie O. Bar Berlin 75: Vanilla Tobacco (Gone But Not Forgotten)

Vinyl / Digital : https://40thievesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-gift-40-thieves-remixes

Long time Leng recording artists 40 Thieves are back with one of their most notable singles to date – a surprise collaboration with two NYC disco originals, storied vocalist Cinnamon Jones and multi-instrumentalist/producer Gary Davis.

San Francisco outfit 40 Thieves has been serving up cosmic, dubbed-out and otherworldly contemporary disco treats since the mid 2000s, and have been part of the Leng family since 2011. The crew, headed up by Layne Fox, Jay Williams and Corey Black, have released countless killer cuts on the label, as well as an expansive debut album, 2014’s The Sky Is Yours.

They’ve worked with other artists before, but nobody at the same legendary level as Cinnamon Jones and Gary Davis. The latter cut his teeth as a musician working with iconic disco producers Patrick Adams and Peter Brown at their P&P Records stable, before becoming a producer and artist in his own right writing and arranging the disco classic ‘Got To Get Your Love’ performed by Clyde Alexander & Sanction. Jones, meanwhile, has enjoyed a hugely successful career both in her native New York (as Joyce Jones, an original member of First Choice) and on the West Coast, where she not only became an in-demand performer, but also snagged a role in the Supremes biopic Dream Girls.

‘The Gift’ is one of Jones’ most cherished solo songs – a joyful celebration of a new day dawning that has long been popular in her live sets. With input and instrumentation from Davis and a fantastic delivery of her own lyrics by Jones, 40 Thieves has successfully re-framed the track as a sunrise-ready future Bay Area free party favourite; a dubbed-out, suitably cosmic creation that’s presented in three potent versions.

Leading the charge, and stretched across side A of the vinyl version is the band’s ’Disco Mix’ which boasts a fully realised instrumental arrangement and extensive use of passages from Jones’ vocals. Not all the lyrics are present as the Bay Area band has chosen to focus on selected lines that most neatly fit their musical vision and celebrate the joys of dancing at sunrise. There are more spaced-out keyboard solos, sharper guitars (smothered in effects in true 40 Thieves fashion) and sound design that’s as immersive as it is heady and intoxicated.

On the flip is the ‘Disco Dub’. A bona-fide dub disco chugger rich in relentless synth-bass, addictive guitar licks, echo-laden vocal snippets, sparkling nu-disco electronics, tactile, deep house style electric piano stabs and cosmic effects aplenty, it’s a track tailor-made for slowly shuffling while the sun peeps over the horizon.

To complete an inspired package, 40 Thieves have also included a killer DJ tool: a ‘Beats’ take that wraps energy packed percussion hits, trippy electronic noises, trailing dub delays and sparse melodies around a metronomic drum machine beat. It’s a wavy, groovy and pleasingly mind-altering way to conclude one of 40 Thieves’ most magical EPs to date.

The Gift

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The Gift (40 Thieves Beats)

Music For Dreams are proud to announce that a new album is underway from the electronic pop-ensemble Hess Is More. The first track from the project, titled 

‘You And Me And Them’ →https://linktr.ee/musicfordreams

Led by Danish drummer and composer Mikkel Hess, the ensemble has released 12 albums since 2003, donning a shifting constellation of musicians from both sides of the Atlantic. Hess Is More’s material combines styles of electronic music, jazz, krautrock and afrobeat in a pop-oriented, melodically rich sound.

The act is also known for its work across mediums, collaborating with visual artists, designers and filmmakers, recently producing the highly acclaimed series of dramatized concerts slash art installations known as Apollonian Circles.

The forthcoming album, titled CÆKE, bridges back to Hess Is More’s early albums, with the act scaled back down to a solo operation of Mikkel Hess writing, producing and performing most of the music himself. The result is a more minimalistic and personal sound than the sprawling material of later ensemble-projects.

The first single, titled ‘You And Me And Them’, is a gentle, spacious pop composition built around piano, drum machine and vocals, all performed by Mikkel Hess. A pristine and wistful mood that blooms and deepens through soft, twirling melodics.

The song was written by Mikkel Hess his wife Nira Kehar in their countryside home. The serene mood of the track reflects this setting, capturing the intimacy of time spent by the piano. In Mikkel’s own words, “the song is a close-up view of life as it unfolds twenty years after the first album came out, and a reaching out to those who might be listening from the beyond.”

The album is scheduled for release in late 2024 on Music For Dreams.

Supported by Koda’s Cultural Funds and Musik Forlæggerne.

Connect with Hess Is More
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1fFTIIHpCj2a0Xv5Xls50Q
FB : https://www.facebook.com/hessismore
TW : https://twitter.com/hess_is_more
YT : https://www.youtube.com/hessismore
IG : https://www.instagram.com/hess_is_more/

Connect with Music For Dreams
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/musicfordreams
FB : https://www.facebook.com/musicfordreams
SC : https://soundcloud.com/music-for-dreams
YT :https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo8HNI0C0QGdOoHWrTqhVWA​
IG : https://www.instagram.com/musicfordreams/
TW : https://twitter.com/musicfordreams
BC : https://musicfordreams.bandcamp.com/
Home : https://musicfordreams.dk/

Hess Is More - You and Me and Them - s0779

Heres a new Neo jazz soul song with some fusion elements which will be on my next upcoming album 

Rhythm Guitars / Lead Guitars/ Wah Wah Guitar 
Keyboards :  Electric Piano/Piano/ Organ  
Bass guitar /Drum Programming /Bongos
Horn and Brass section arrangements written By Brandon Larratt 

All instruments written and played by Brandon Larratt

Produced By Brandon Larratt

Freedom

Aurora Echo

Had this one in the vault for some years now and for being awesome fans I'm dropping in for the holidays. Merry Christmas!!!

Fade Away

DJ, producer, broadcaster, journalist, musician.
contact : chris@chriscoco.com

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