BBE Music is thrilled to announce the release of Modern Love, a diverse compendium of specially commissioned cover versions of rarities and classics in tribute to David Bowie.

Featuring an array of artists such as Jeff Parker, We Are KING, Meshell Ndegeocello, Helado Negro, Khruangbin, Matthew Tavares, Nia and more, Modern Love seeks to champion Bowie’s lesser-known connection to soul, R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel. The prominent jazz influences throughout Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, were a key inspiration for curating this collection of reimagined Bowie songs with these artists. The resulting album is an eclectic tribute featuring a group of artists who not only fit together creatively, but who, like Bowie, straddle different worlds musically, with soul and jazz at their core.

Modern Love offers a fresh look at Bowie’s trailblazing career, aiming to highlight the often overlooked relationship between his back catalogue and musical genres traditionally pioneered by artists of color. The project was curated by music executive and DJ Drew McFadden, alongside BBE Music founder Peter Adarkwah. “I felt that the connection between Bowie and R&B, jazz, funk, gospel and all things soulful, had never really been explored before — at least not so much in covers, which tend to lean more towards rock and pop,” says McFadden. “Certainly, there’s been plenty of Bowie covers over the years, but none that have really tapped into what seems to have been a big part of his core musical
style and direction.”

Modern Love is an interactive sonic map. Here, seventeen artists make their way into the varied regions of his sundry catalog and circle back with seventeen unique re-imaginings of both his cornerstone and lesser-known tracks. Some, in atmosphere, feel like a sly alternate take from original sessions (Khruangbin’s ethereal, funk infused version of “Right” from Young Americans); others nod at the source, then wink before diving into the deep waters of another musical stratosphere (Sessa’s sexy Tropicalia-drenched “Panic in Detroit” from Aladdin Sane). Still others take tunes down to the studs and then re-arrange the moody interiors: Meshell Ndegeocello’s pensive “Fantastic Voyage” from Lodger and Tavares’ clever take on “Heroes” which is restructured into a kinetic hardbop-esque backdrop, fronted by ice-cool, held-back vocals. The bullseye these artists aim for is Bowie’s fearlessness. “Fame was an incredible bluff that worked,” he once reflected. “Very flattering. I’ll do anything until I fail. And when I succeed I quit too.”

Modern Love packs us off on a journey that balances on risk’s sharp blade. Track-to-track, it explores what happens when a musician throws out notions of should and safe and stretches beyond the known. These artists use Bowie both as a guide and a prism: A way of being and seeing. Their offerings, widely divergent, explore the inheritance from an artist who freed himself from labels, genres and, consequently, pigeonholes. While he was at it, he decimated fixed notions about territory (or terra) itself; boundaries hemmed-in his creative process, but his essence remained free to roam. He may have vanished in earthly form, yet, as he also promised in the lyrics of “Modern Love,” But I never wave bye-bye . . .” This compilation assures us that his spirit swirls around us. His force is alive to all of us and, here, it is summoned with an incantation that celebrates possibility.

Matthew Tavares - Heroes

MIMS is delighted to premiere another impeccable missive from the On The Corner catalogue. This time, it's Edrix Puzzle. 

Having recently stepped through the 'door to the cosmos' on last year's epic OTC compilation of the same name, they have shared "Eris Fall" with us, a whirlwind of scattered drums, chimes, synth noise and odd vocal tics that captivates on every listen.

"Eris Fall" is taken from new EP 'Rise to Eris', an engaging three-tracker of acoustic, analog improvised grooves with subtle electronic moments, with Nathan ‘Tugg’ Curran on drums & synths, acclaimed percussionist Oli Savill, and Martin Slattery on bass clarinet & sax(all members of Tugg’s Planet Battagon project), as well as Tom Mason (Double Bass) and Josh Barry (Spoken Word). 

Highly recommendable to fans of the gritty and cosmodelic, drum driven fusion of Herbie Hancock's 'Mwandishi' era.  Vinyl buyers can order 'Rise to Eris' as a split "double drop" EP, the reverse of which contains the brand new 'Birds of Paradise EP' by Rob Gallagher's Diabolical Liberties.  An essential purchase for vinyl heads.

Rise To Eris EP

Exclusive Premiere: Edrix Puzzle "Eris Fall" (Forthcoming via On The Corner Records)

1. Felipe Gordon - Howl!
2. Joao_Donato - A rã
3. Francisco Aguabella Orchestra - Shirley's Guaguancho
4. Wet Walnuts And Whipped Cream
5. Pharoah Sanders - You've Got To Have Freedom
6. Raffaela Renzulli Ensemble - Brasilia
7. Milano Jazz Dance Combo - Changes (feat. Colonel Red)
8. Sergio Mendes - love and aggression
9. Cortijo Y Su Maquina Del Tiempo - Gumbo
10. Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers - Swamp People
11. Elza Soares - Saltei De Banda
12. Antonio Adolfo - Cascavel
13. Ana Mazzotti - Feel Like Making Love
14. Leon Ware - Sure Do Want You Now (LP Version)
15. James Mason - Funy Girl
16. The Main Ingredient - Summer Breeze
17. Mark Murphy - They
18. Larry Saunders - All My Friends Call Me A Fool
19. Gil Scott-Heron - I Think I'll Call It Morning
20. Sam - American Cars_(africanz_on_marz_west_coast_drive_rework)
21. Menahan Street Band - Snow Day
22. The City Champs - Skinny Mic
23. Backyard Heavies - Chitlin' Strut
24. Harlem River Drive - Idle Hands
25. Mongo Santamaria - Juan Jose

RADIO.D59B / INFLUENCES #34 w / Coba

Buy it here
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/spectral-music

Guillaume Aventurin – guitar
Julien Bigorgne – flute, oud
Alexis Collin – accordion, sound manipulation
Xavier Gélard – drums, guitars, voices
Gregory Kosovski – bass
Morgan Lowenstein – percussion
Nadia Mejri-Chapelle – cello
Tom Namias – guitars, bouzouki
Camille Petit – keyboards
Maxime Thiébaut – alto, soprano and baritone sax
Antoine Villedieu – violins
with
Sarah Baroux – voices (8)
Sonia Bricout – voices (11)
Jérôme Lacquet – trumpet

GHOST RHYTHMS "Thoughtography" from "Spectral Music" (Cuneiform Records)

RADIO.D59B / NEW DAWN #8 w/ Shacho (Soil&Pimp Sessions)

Had some fun making this mix comprising of a collection of mid tempo tracks ranging from about 105 bpm to 117 bpm.  I recorded this mix one take, and really enjoyed putting some effort into this for you to enjoy.

Mid Tempo Mysticism

'Almost Five' is the first single from Bucharest's 7th SENSE.

Read more @ https://twistedsoulmusic.org/2022/03/02/new-sounds-7th-sense-ft-liam-shortall/

Almost Five

7th SENSE ft. Liam Shortall - Almost Five (TS Premiere)

Madee Santiz - Rekreasi mix(Record button)

Progressive Junior

From the album Anne.  Available November 16, 2018 from Western Vinyl.

Bandcamp https://josephshabason.bandcamp.com/album/anne
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/anne/1427808233?ls=1&app=itunes
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/19FD6RN5K3xYFThAHM4fGy?si=0hUO0rFVQAigvSPTvJL_4w
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Anne, the second album By Toronto saxophonist and composer Joseph Shabason, is a tonal essay on degenerative illness. Delicately and compassionately woven with interviews of Shabason’s mother from whom the album takes its name, Anne finds its creator navigating a labyrinth of subtle and tragic emotions arising from his mother's struggle with Parkinson’s disease. Across the nine vivid postcards of jazz-laden ambience that comprise the album, Shabason unwraps these difficult themes with great care and focus revealing the unseen aspects of degenerative diseases that force us to re-examine common notions of self, identity, and mortality. 

Shabason’s uncanny ability to manoeuvre through such microscopic feelings is mirrored by his capacity to execute a similar tightrope-walk through musical genres. His music occupies a specific space that is as palpable as it is difficult to pin labels to. On Anne’s second track “Deep Dark Divide” rays of effected saxophone shine behind clouds of digital synthesizer that echoes the sound of jazz in the late 80s, but with a Jon Hassell-esque depth of sensibility that consciously subverts the stylistic inoffensiveness of that era. There is detail and idiosyncrasy beneath Shabason’s dawn-of-the-CD-era sheen that elevates the album far beyond a mere aesthetic exercise.

Still, the sounds on Anne are not so experimentally opaque as to stand in the way of the album’s through-line of sincerity and emotionality. When dissonance is employed it is punctual and meaningful, like on album-middler “Fred and Lil” where a six-minute cascade of breathy textures builds suddenly to an agitated growl, only to abruptly give way to Anne Shabason speaking intimately about her relationship to her own parents. Snippets of such conversations see her taking on something like a narrator role across Anne while the sound of her voice itself is sometimes effected to become a musical texture entwined into the fabric of the songs without always being present or audible.  The subsequent piece “Toh Koh” then drifts into playful disorientation as a lone female voice echoes the two syllables of the title, recalling the vocal techniques of composer Joan La Barbara, or even the light-hearted mantras of Lucky Dragons. From here the album veers back onto its aesthetic thoroughfare with “November” where Shabason lays muted brass textures atop a wavepool of electric chords provided by none other than the ambient cult-hero Gigi Masin, one of Anne’s many integral collaborators.

The serene tragedy of the album distils itself gracefully into the ironically titled album closer “Treat it Like a Wine Bar” wherein flutters of piano and mournfully whispered woodwinds seem to evaporate particle by delicate particle, leaving the listener with a faint emotional afterglow like a dream upon waking. There is a corollary to be drawn here with what it must be like to feel one’s own mind and body drift away slowly until nothing remains, while the collection of memories and abilities that we use to denote the “self” softens into eternity. On Anne, it is precisely this fragile exchange of tranquillity and anguish that Joseph Shabason has proven his singular ability to articulate.

Anne

Joseph Shabason - "Fred and Lil"

Bathurst is pleased to announce the return of The Motion Orchestra with their new single Sonorous taken from their forthcoming
album All One set for release in 2020.
Formed in 2017, this studio project consists of Alexander Bednasch on Double-Bass, Mark Matthes on Violins, Andy Sells on Drums and David Hanke on electronics and production. Though influenced heavily by Neo-Classical and Jazz sensibilities they occupy a musical space that sits in neither sphere, with a compositional style that deftly fuses the orchestral and electronic worlds.
Their debut single – All One was a gorgeous piece inspired by the notion that everything comes from the same source, the same
starting point. And it was well received, garnering support from BBC 6Music and Bandcamp Weekly.
Second single Sonorous is just as elegant as their first offering and looks set to continue the upward trajectory the band are currently on. Starting with a repeated electronic motif, it incorporates piano chord harmonics, tasteful bass notes, and swirling jazz drum patterns that interplay wonderfully with beautiful string arrangements, altogether creating a truly captivating character.
The release is comprised of both the original version as well as a the arrangement without the drums.

Sonorous

Sonorous (Version)

Cuneiform Records is an independent record label releasing adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world. Founded in 1984.