The Guerrillas - Lawdy Rolla (Digger's Digest Snippets)

Tumblack - Caraiba / Chunga Funk (Digger's Digest Snippets)

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Little known contemporary / free jazz piano solo album by talented pianist from Chicago released in 1981 on the french label Free Lance. Check the superb cover of Duke Ellington’s African Flower as well some great covers of David Murray "Flowers for Albert".

Curtis Clark - African Flower (Duke Ellington)

Patrice Gelsi - Ailleurs...

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Conroy Library

Larry Robbins Sportstudio Band - Are you free ?

"Les Antilles Chéries" - A quick mix of some of my favorite caribbean songs from the late 60's to early 80's (no chronological order) ... Hope you will dig it ...
 ... 
working on new caribbean compilations with Born Bad Records & Heavenly Sweetness, I took the time to select some of my favorite tracks of the moment ...  Hope you will enjoy ! 

Peace 

LES ANTILLES CHÉRIES - HANDPICKED & COOKED BY DIGGER'S DIGEST

Schwarz Weiss - In Farbe (Digger's Digest Snippets)

The small island of Martinique, in the french west indies is a breeding ground for gifted jazzmen : Marius Cultier, Louis Xavier, George Edouard Nouel, Eugène Mona, Bib Monville, Jean-Claude Montredon ... Saxophonist Lucien Joly is one of them. His really hard to find first album in quintet is a fusion between latin, modal & contemporary jazz with some really serious tunes like "Hibiscus". this deep jazz tune is the highlight of the record.  "Laura Laura" is really in the same vein with incredible solo piano by José Lancry (Enco-Ti-Tac / Madjumbé). "Caraib Band" & "Terre Saint Ville" are also a great contemporary jazz track with a strong latin feel. A pretty solid caribbean jazz album, reminding me a lot of V.S Quartet (we have reissued), that really don't show up often in clean condition.

Lucien Joly Quintet - Lucien Joly Quintet (digger's digest snippets)

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Pretty much overlooked self produced Soft Rock, AOR 7" by American-French singer, songwriter, composer, bassist, keyboardist, engineer and producer. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area where he started his first band in 1967 while attending high school, then later based in Paris, France since the 1980s. This obscure 45 single  includes on flip the beautiful dreamy soft rock "Crazy Eyes" really heady tune with classy arrangement, while "Keep Love" is really pleasant Sunshine Pop tune clearly inspired by the Bee-Gees. No surprise to see this private 7" was handled by mastereing legend, Bernie Grundman (Founder and owner of Bernie Grundman Mastering, which started in Hollywood, California 1984. Formerly Chief Mastering Engineer at A&M Studios, 1968 to 1984 ).

Marten Ingle - Crazy Eyes

Never judge a record by his title ! This is definitely not a jazz fusion album but a very surprising contemporary jazz album tending toward spiritual jazz. This not so unknown french quartet features Percussionist/drummer and composer  Youval Micenmacher (Arcane V, Fusion  Jean Marc Padovani Sextet, Sonorhc, etc...) and the brilliant Jean-Marie Brière on tenor & soprano sax who composed all the tracks. 
As it's written on liner notes the inspiration is from the highest grade :  Archie Shepp, Petrucciani, Sun Ra, and Michel Portal. Still confidential even here in France, that's an excellent and to hard to find album. Check the long audio.

Fusion Jazz Quartet - New (Snippets Digger's digest)

Arthur Jones - Scorpio (Snippets digger's digest)

Hoctor Jazz On The Road (Snippets digger's diget)

Orlando Julius - Disco Hi-Life

Claude Vasori / Robert Viger / Daniel Janin – Cocktail D'Images

Bessosso - Para Decir Que Te Quiero

Bessoso Cafe - Diggersdigest Snippets

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Pellegrin El Kady is a unique musician who was born in the Bijagos Islands of Guinea-Bissau and lived in Cape Verde, Mozambique, Angola, Portugal before moving to Quebec in the mid 70's. After completing graduate school there, he worked as an educator and at the same time devoted much of her time to ethnic music therapy. 

This hard to find album was released in 1986 following his 84' maxi single. As with the previous album, it features many local musicians, including keyboard player Sergio Goncalves with wide range of tunes from Afro to New Wave to Balearic. Includes the smooth Balearic tune "Sahel" and the melancholic synth-pop "Bolanha," which seems to place more emphasis on songwriting. Check the actual audio of this overlooked album.

Pellegrin El Kady – Osmosis (Digger's digest Snippets)

Only single by Lahlou Tighremt known as Amirouche a popular Kabyle singer, musician & composer. He also composed "Targit-iw" which was the soundtrack for the film "Le Thé à la menthe". I have no info on the date but considering the catalogue number it was released circa 1978-1979. Includes "Anza" a great Kabyle Disco Folk tune really in the same mood as "El Fen" by Aït Meslayene. 

Amirouche - Azan

Blackwood – Ki Divini (Digger's Digest Snippets)

CHRYSYS - Dance (Digger's Digest Snippets)

We are very proud to reveal a mixed soundclip of our new OFFICIAL fully licensed compilation  "KOUTÉ JAZZ" to be released on Heavenly sweetness​ ! 

Official Release date : 25/09/2015 

You can pre order the record here :
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I particulary want to thanks the great artist  Michel Buret​ who designed  35 years ago the cover of the Synchro Eclectic Music Language : Lambi by Louis Xavier. We loved so much this Lambi artwork that we asked Michel to paint the cover of our new release ! Many thanks for this beautiful painting ! 

Go to check his work on http://www.urban-graff.com/

KOUTÉ JAZZ - A COLLECTION OF JAZZ TRACKS FROM THE FRENCH WEST INDIES SELECTED BY DIGGER'S DIGEST

Ti Jan Pou Velo is a stellar gwo ka jazz fusion masterpiece recorded in 1988 by Edmony Krater, a former member of Gwakasonné (one of the most famous Gwo Ka modern group from Guadeloupe) with the help of the group Zepiss. Through this long time underrated album, Edmony pays a tribute to the heroes of traditional music from Guadeloupe, starting with Marcel Lollia better known as Vélo. With 3 tracks on each side this album strikes by the originality of the compositions, Tijan Pou Vélo the eponymous opening track is a soulful version of traditional song played in toumblak. Gwadeloup we compiled on Kouté Jazz is a uptempo groovy ballad transended by electric jazz arrangement. Crépuscule last track of side one is a kaladja (a slow rhythm) with Edmony Krater, strongly inspired by Don Cherry and Miles Davis, playing trumpet. On the B-side Chimin Spirit offers a lighter, more danceable view of the world led by the boulagyel (the traditional mouth drum that ka singers use to mark the rhythm) and silky arpeggios on the guitar, singing a message that couldn’t be any simpler: “Let’s follow nature; she will guide us!” In West Indies, Edmony Krater mixes a variety of Caribbean rhythms in with the lewoz rhythm, which is so warlike and mystical, tough and courageous. “We are all children of a common, shared history.” And this history even contains a sense of “terroir” or place, a notion that the Guadeloupian found in the work of Bernard Lubat. “That’s why I wanted to call this piece Occitan Dance. It’s a fusion based on my encounters with Bernard Lubat, with whom I share a common vision of music and its relationship to creation.” Like Lubat, Edmony Krater is incredibly open-minded to a variety of influences as well as a masterful player of numerous instruments (trumpet and drums as well as guitar and keyboards). He has managed to surround himself with a group of musicians who are well in sync with his vision: Eddy Lebouin, bassist and guitarist from Gwokasonné, the guitarist Freddy Tisseur, a childhood friend, the saxophonist Filip Augusty, the drum major Roger Raspail, the drummer Jean-Pierre Coco, the flutist Roseline Pougeol, whose brother played with Konket, and Jean-Claude Predantos on keyboards.

Reissued produced by Digger's Digest and Les Mains Noires. CD version available on Heavenly Sweetness with 2 exclusives tracks. Limited to 500 copies. Full liners note included. Pre-order now here : http://diggersdigest.com/shop/product/edmony-krater-ti-jan-pou-velo-official-reissue-1/

EDMONY KRATER & ZEPISS : OFFICIAL LIMITED REISSUE OUT 01/02/2016

Here is our new mixtape, we mean our new mix on ACTUAL cassette tape as in the good old days ... 
the 44' 03 SIDE A will be available for free download and streaming on Soundcloud.
SIDE B, lasting 41 : 44 and featuring unreleased tracks will ONLY be available on this tape released at 50 COPIES ONLY. SO SET UP YOUR BOOM BOX / WALKMAN / TAPE PLAYERS to embark in our new journey into the vast caribbean music world. This time we explored proto zouk tracks ! Mixed and selected by Digger's Digest and DR.NICO (Skliris). 

This tape is a promotional mixtape to announce our forthcoming official fully licensed compilation to be released on Heavenly Sweetness. 


DIGITAL ZANDOLI : THE MIXTAPE by DIGGER'S DIGEST & NICO SKLIRIS

First track of our official compilation DIGITAL ZANDOLI selected by Digger's Digest & Nico Skliris to be released on HeavenlySweetness. 

O.R.E.A : Biguine Inferno with Erick Orville / Wally Badarou / Michel Alibo / Claude Vamur / Julien Constance. Composed by Erick Orville. Arranged by Wally Badarou. 

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DIGITAL ZANDOLI  "Biguine Inferno" by O.R.E.A

Milton: Mizik Nou from “Doudou Créole 12” (IBO Production – IBO 8403) - Compiled on Digital Zandoli. Licensed by Heavenly Sweetness - Compiled by Digger's Digest & Nico Skliris. 

It is under this English-sounding pseudonym that Patrick Saint-Éloi and Jean-Claude Naimro, eminent members of the band Kassav’, made one of their finest West Indian boogie zouk numbers. Although this Mizik Nou, which benefited from the expert ear of producer Dominique Blanc-Francart and was released as an ultra-limited edition EP, is one of the most keenly sought discs by collectors of French funk, it was never properly marketed as a dance hit! This compilation ought to swiftly right that wrong.

DIGITAL ZANDOLI  "Mizik Nou" by MILTON

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Available for shipping 15 september 2016

After the release of DIGITAL ZANDOLI our critically acclaimed new compilation/project in collaboration with Heavenly Sweetness, we are really proud to announce the released of the 2nd volume of  DIGITAL ZANDOLI THE MIXTAPE by Digger's Digest & Dr. Nico Skliris. Another 85 minutes of boogie-zouk, carribean funk, tropical synth music. 

As on the first volume SIDE A is available for free streaming on our soundcloud. B side and full tracklist will be only available on this actual tape (Means you have to spend a few €, dig out your vintage Walkman or Ghetto Blaster to enjoy the B side). Tapes collectors be quick ! This time it is limited to 75 copies.

Artwork by Nico Motte from Check Morris

Digital Zandoli The Mixtape Volume 2

DIGITAL ZANDOLI : THE MIXTAPE Volume 2 by DIGGER'S DIGEST & NICO SKLIRIS

Disque La Rayé (60's french west indies Boo-Boo-Galoo) is our latest project curated by Digger's Digest and produced by Born Bad Record and will be out the 25th June. This 13 titles compilation gathers a selection of tracks sounding like a rather unorthodox créole interpretation of the nuyorican Booglaoo, stuck between the strong Yéyé influence coming from the french Metropole and the modern latin fusion emerging from Harlem.

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Tracklist 

1.Maurice Alcindor - Sekirité sociale
2.Gabby Siarras - Sauvagement sexy 
3.Les Bois sirop - Je voudrais danser avec toi
4.Dany Play - Mais tu sais
5.David Martial - Jerk vidé
6.Le Ry-co Jazz - Pipi poh
7.Le Ry-co Jazz - Tu bois beaucoup
8.Joby Valente - Disque la rayé
9.Fred Aucagos - Ti Mam'zelle
10.Dany Play - Pourquoi pas
11.Les Vickings - Puchi's boogaloo
12.Monsieur X - Ou qué di moin
13.Henri Debs - Ou pas z'amis en mwen

Conception & réalisation : Julien Achard & JB Guillot

Clearance : Jb Guillot // Texte : David Commeillas // Traduction : Diane Lebel //Restauration & mastering : Norscq // Artwork : FLX


Read the story of Disque La Rayé by David Commeillas : Disque La Rayé
http://diggersdigest.com/blog/disque-la-ray%C3%A9-out-now-on-born-bad-records/

Disque La Rayé (60's french west indies Boo-Boo-Galoo) snippets - OUT ON Born Bad Records

"Ban Di Fwam" By Coco Fabert is the opening track of our forthcoming Digital Zandoli 2 selected by Digger's Digest & Nico Skliris to be released on Heavenly Sweetness, the follow up of our acclaimed first volume of this compilation.

Release date : 
*CD/Digital 22nd September 2017 
*Vinyl 13th October 2017 

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Present : DIGITAL ZANDOLI 2

DIGITAL ZANDOLI 2  "Ban Di Fwam" by COCO FABERT

"Sistem" by Alex Rosa is the 2nd track we choose to reveal from the forthcoming Digital Zandoli 2 selected by Digger's Digest & Nico Skliris to be released on Heavenly Sweetness, the follow up of our acclaimed first volume of this compilation.

Release date : 
*CD/Digital 22nd September 2017 
*Vinyl 13th October 2017 

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DIGITAL ZANDOLI 2  "Sistem" by ALEX ROSA

Here is another selection/mix of our latest finds from Guadeloupe and Martinique that we wanted to share with you !

If you liked our Kouté Jazz compilation I guess you will enjoy this selection ... 

Includes : Beliz / Chungo / Gwakasonne / Victor Treffre / Lyannaj / Edmony Krater / Simenn Kontra / Christian Laviso / Balkouta / Iguane Sextet

Special thanks to Christophe Jenny - LeBananierBleu.fr

JAZZ & TRADITION - A Selection of French Caribbean Modern Music - Part.2

Release Date : 07/09/2019
Official Reissue - 500 copies limited  - Tip-On Sleeve - Remastered
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In the vast world of Library Music, Philopsis with its enigmatic cover artwork stands as an exception.
Philopsis was released in 1978 on Freesound – a sub-division label dedicated to French composers of the UK based publisher Ambient Music.

At the source of the project - which has gained cult status in recent years - there is Jacky Giordano, a mysterious musician whose name rhymes with excitement to any of those who have heard his productions on mythical labels such as Montparnasse 2000, l’Illustration Musicale, Musax, Sonimage, Timing.

Very little is known about this French musician and producer, who remained mostly in the shadow: once an accountant and later a label boss, Jacky Giordano produced and co-signed many titles under many pseudonyms. For a period of time he was the conductor for the Crazy Horse revue. He also composed for maverick film director Jean-Pierre Mocky. He is even co-credited on Bernard Fèvre’s masterpiece: Black Devil Disco Club.

Later on, his setbacks with the justice in the late 2000s revealed a darker side of the persona, yet Jacky Giordano remains one of the most fascinating creators of the golden age of Library music. Among all of his confidential discography, Philopsis is undoubtedly his masterpiece.

Library Music has its detractors: some will say it is uninspired music for documentaries, radio jingles or erotic productions but it is unlikely that Giordano had in mind to illustrate this kind of productions while recording Philopsis, an album of an astonishing coherence.

Philopsis - Philopsis | Digger's Digest & Listen! Official Vinyl Reissue(snippets)

Here is a new mixtape by Digital Zandoli duo ...

This time they explored more music from the French West Indies, focusing on traditional music blended with electronic production. 
Includes exclusive & unreleased demo tracks by modern producers from Martinique and Guadeloupe : Edmond Mondésir (Bélénou), Puzzle Pulsion, Claude Rodap (Syn-Ka), Robert Oumaou(Gwakasonne), Makoundjia, Victor Treffé, Edmony Krater, Jean-François Fabriano, Digital Caresse, Eddy La Viny, Tijan, Frantz Tuernal & more ...

DIGITAL ZANDOLI - THE MIXTAPE 3 : FURTHER EXPLORATION OF CREOLE ELECTRONIC & TRADITIONAL MUSIC

A fine french jazz selection quickly mixed by Digger's digest ... 
I have recorded this mix 2 months ago for the Jazz Meet Radio Show by Nik Weston ... 
Following the Freedom Jazz France Compilation released on Heavenly Sweetness, I have choosen more french jazz tunes that I hope you will like ... 

TRACKLIST 
Intro Paris Jazz Quartet Edit

Christian Vander, Jef Gilson : Colchique dans les Près (EDIT)
from Christian Vander Et Les 3 Jef - Palm - 1973

Guy Lafitte : K'Yapy
from Blues - Disques VEGA - 1970

Jazz Group de Bretagne : Morgat Waltz
from Jazz Côte Ouest - Private 

Cossi Anatz : Aden Arabie
from Jazz Afro-Occitan - Vendémiaire

Moravagine : Funk Seven 
from Moravagine S/T album - Promophone 1976

Jef Gilson : Blue-Blizz 
from Enfin! Disques Du Club de L'Échiquier - 1963

Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra ‎: Mar Jo Cantar No Fabia / Mazir 
from L'Inter Communal - Disques Vendémiaire - 1978 

Jc Capon / Philippe Maté / Butch Morris Serge Rahoerson : Mode De Fa (EDIT)
from Untitled album Released on Palm - 1977

Randy Weston's African Ryhtms Marakech Blues 
from African Cookbook - Polydor - 1969

Majoie Hajary : Prologue (EDIT)
from La Passion Selon Judas - CBS - 197?










A FRENCH JAZZ SELECTION mixed by DIGGER'S DIGEST

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