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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.

Jeff Parker And The New Breed - Soul Love

Showcasing the emotion and freedom of night with minimalism and moody jazz inflections, Noah’s Noire is a gorgeous archive charting the artist’s growth from 2015 to 2020.

Noah - Odette

First Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble concert ever. At Eurosonic Festival, 14th of January 2011.

You Make Me Real - Live at Eurosonic

From the forthcoming album "Gaussian Curve - Clouds" 2014 © Music From Memory

Gaussian Curve - Dewdrops (1:45)

Time to start Friday morning with a slice of abstract tranquility from Montreal based Stefan Jós who releases his debut album 'Primitives' on flau and raum shortly. Spacious, bugged-out electronics give way to sober crispiness. "The moody rhythms, wood and metal, weird noises in wet caves and other goodies for ground-dwellers and mole people alike."

Stefan Jós is Devon Hansen, a musician and video artist born and raised in Southern California.

Primitives is released next week on flau and raum. More info here

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PREMIERE: Stefan Jós - Spinners

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■タイトル ： Moss
■アーティスト ：Ken Ikeda ＋　Chihei Hatakeyama
■発売日 ： 2015年12月23日（水）
■発売元 ： White Paddy Mountain
■商品番号 ： WPMC028
■価格  ： 2,000（本体価格）＋ 税
■バーコード ：4941135980583

Bandcamp
https://chiheihatakeyama.bandcamp.com/album/moss

詳細
http://whitepaddymountain.tumblr.com/post/135351390733/%E6%9D%89%E6%9C%AC%E5%8D%9A%E5%8F%B8%E6%A8%AA%E5%B0%BE%E5%BF%A0%E5%89%87%E6%A3%AE%E4%B8%87%E9%87%8C%E5%AD%90%E3%83%87%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E7%AD%89%E3%81%AE%E5%B7%A8%E5%8C%A0%E7%BE%8E%E8%A1%93%E5%AE%B6%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%E7%9B%A3%E7%9D%A3%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A9%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%92%E9%87%8D%E3%81%AD%E3%82%8B



Ken Ikeda ＋ Chihei Hatakeyama / Na

from the forthcoming album "Turn On The Sunlight - Remixes / Collaborations"  
featuring Daedelus, Child's View, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Koen Holtkamp, Build An Ark, and Coffee & Cigarettes Band

Release date: Nov.9, 2011 (Japan) / Jan. 2012 (Worldwide)


Jesse Peterson and I chose to work with the collaborators and remixers featured on our new Turn On The Sunlight EP, because we're fans of their music! Jesse is a close musical co-explorer of Koen Holtkamp (Mountains /Thrill Jockey.) While in New York finishing our debut self-titled full-length, Holtkamp came by the studio and played on "Wednesday Tone Poem." We new we wanted to release the results, but weren't sure at the time, on what project. Here, it fits perfectly! "Profusion Electric"came about while I was listening to Build An Ark improvs, from our sessions for the LOVE Parts 1 & 2 releases,and wanted to see what would happen if we took this particular piece in an experimental psychedelic direction,so Jesse added guitars and organ. I had a lot of fun mixing and effecting this funky freak-out! I originally asked my dear friend Miguel Atwood-Ferguson to do a remix of one of the songs from the TOTS LP. He listened and chose Big Sur Foghorn, however, instead of doing a remix,he composed a gorgeous chamber journey inspired by the song. He played all of the instruments and co-mixed" Ghost fires From Heaven's Far Verges Faint Illume,"with engineer Benjamin Tierney. Daedelus and I have done a lot together over the years, and he's the most frequent remixer of my various projects. We're so stoked that "Firefly Night" was blessed with his magic! Being that our label Disques Corde is based in Japan, and that we'd just had a really beautiful tour there, we wanted to include a Japanese artist on the record. My first choice was Nobukazu Takemura. I've been buying his records since the mid-90s. We were delighted that he was into what we were doing! Sent him the parts and the result is an epic electro-acoustic Child's View white noise wash out of "Always Enough / Oh, Magnificent Nature."Finally, Coffee & Cigarettes Band were chosen by Disques Corde who they work with closely. We had a lot of fun with those cats while last in Japan, so it was great to have them on board! Thanks for listening!
Hope you ENJOY!
- Carlos Niño

Turn On The Sunlight - Firefly Night (Daedelus Remix)

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from the forthcoming album "Carlos Niño & Friends AQUARIUSSSSSSS"
featuring Daedelus, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Ueno Takashi (Tenniscoats), Dntel, Build An Ark, and Turn On The Sunlight
Release date: Feb. 2012 (Japan) / May. 2012 (Worldwide)

2009 saw the international release of HIGH WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM, the debut by Carlos Niño & Friends. It was a record that featured, what Niño refers to as, "collage compostions." He used material from recording sessions and live concerts by his other ensembles, including Build An Ark and The Life Force Trio, as sound source for songs. He would then work with various collaborators on developing the pieces . . .

In front of you is the new record by Carlos Niño & Friends, entitled AQUARIUSSSSSSS. This project finds Niño back to work, sampling, looping, editing, and processing recordings he's made of himself playing various instruments, and recordings of ensembles that he leads. The feel is more ambient and new age than the first, and plays like a soundtrack to a film of psychedelic visual music, for exploration, reflection, meditation and relaxation.


Carlos Niño & Friends - Mezame (Awakening) featuring Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

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Download the @NGUZUNGUZU remix at http://emailunlock.com/~alc

New @darkstarofficial single on Warp.  More info & download via http://darkstar.ws

Released on 12" vinyl with 10 locked-groove loops 'News #1-10' on 12th November 2012 on Warp Records.

"Timeaway' feels like a good starting point to releasing music again, it's very much us looking forward." - Darkstar

The band's 2013 album 'News From Nowhere' is out now and available from,
iTunes - http://glnk.it/1o1
Bleep - http://glnk.it/1uu
Amazon - http://glnk.it/1ut
Google Play - http://glnk.it/2ax

Check some older Darkstar material:
Gold (Hyperdub) - http://youtu.be/cL_lgdoiL7I
Aidy's Girl Is A Computer - http://youtu.be/dsPeZhyTV5c

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Turn On The Sunlight - Firefly Night (Daedelus Remix)

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