Been a big fan for years but love having a little djrum binge now and then - such rich, interesting and often haunting soundscapes with killer samples - they are like a journey through someone’s subconscious

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Minus One

Velocity

There Is No Right Time

Have The Guts

Be Like Water

Percussions - KHLHI (TEXT029A)

Sisyphus Days

🎶 Mestizo Tribute to Gilbert Favre el gringo de Sagarnaga

MARIO & Collettivo Undersound

❤️ I’ve always loved Gilbert Favre.  Even if, for a long stretch of my life — the part where I chose to be heterosexual and walk beside Barbara Erskine — I had to be jealous of a ghost.Barbara was Gilbert’s wife. This year, the grandchildren are arriving: the twins and little Jona.I met them when they were smaller than my own granddaughters. Life moves in spirals, and somehow we all keep meeting again inside the same melody.

🎼 Who Gilbert Favre Really Was

🎵 Gilbert Favre (1936–1998) was a Swiss clarinetist trained at the Conservatory of Geneva.But his life changed when he traveled to South America as assistant to ethnographer Jean Christian Spahni.There, in the Bolivian altiplano, he discovered the quena, the Andean flute that would become his voice.

🏛️ In La Paz, he founded La Peña Naira, a cultural cabaret near Plaza San Francisco.It became a sanctuary for diplomats, artists, poets, and musicians searching for a new Bolivian identity.

🎶 Favre co‑founded Los Jairas, one of the most influential groups in the history of Andean music.Their fusion of traditional rhythms with modern arrangements helped launch the neo‑folklore movement, inspiring countless musicians across Bolivia, Chile, Peru, France, and Switzerland.

🌄 He collaborated with legendary artists of the Andean renaissance, shaping a sound that still echoes today in festivals, conservatories, and street corners from La Paz to Paris.

💔 Violeta Parra and the Desert

Gilbert’s life intertwined with that of Violeta Parra, one of Latin America’s greatest artists.Their love was passionate, volcanic, and ultimately tragic.After their final rupture, Violeta wrote “Gracias a la Vida”, one of the most iconic songs in world music.

🌵 The story goes that she left him stranded in the Bolivian desert —no water, no cigarettes, only the wind and the quena.

🌬️ Why Our Lives Mirror Each Other

In some strange way, our paths resemble each other.The only difference is: Gilbert was confident. I was a mess.But music — and life — were our common denominator.

🌬️ We were both sons of Pan.Children of the wind.Nomads of sound.

🌍 Moisdon‑la‑Rivière: The Last Chapter

Today, in France — precisely in Moisdon‑la‑Rivière — Gilbert Favre is still celebrated.Not as a ghost, not as a myth, but as a rebellious musician, a philosopher of the cosmos, a seeker of ancient truths.

🪈 A flutist who carried the Andes in his breath.A mestizo of spirit long before the word became fashionable.

✨ Why This Album Exists

In this strange, attentive, and synchronistic year, we decided to dedicate an entire space to Gilbert.

In this album, we’ve woven together:

    🎸 fretless bass
    🪕 saturated sitar
    🎶 pan flutes
    🥁 zydeco‑inspired percussion
    🌗 modal mestizo harmonies
    🔥 acoustic trance textures

🌌 The Meaning of “Mestizo”

The title — Mestizo — comes from the Spanish word for “mixed blood.”Once used as an insult, here it becomes a badge of honor.

Because maybe the truth is:✨ Only the vagabonds of the stars can truly be mestizos.

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J&W Beat

K&G Beat

EU TOUR DATES 2017:

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27/10: Liverpool Music Week, Liverpool, UK
28/10: Ritz, Manchester, UK
30/10: Glasgow Art School, UK
01/11: The Institute, Birmingham, UK
02/11: Motion, Bristol, UK
03/11: Roundhouse, London, UK
04/11: AB, Brussels, Belgium
05/11: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
07/11: Parkteatret, Oslo, Norway
08/11: Kagelbanan, Stockholm, Sweden
09/11: Vega, Copehagen, Denmark
10/11: Astra, Berlin, Germany
11/11: Niebo, Warsaw, Poland
12/11: Kwadra, Krakow, Poland
14/11: Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic
15/11: Flex, Vienna, Austria
16/11: Muffathalle, Munich, Germany
17/11: Mascotte, Zurich, Switzerland
18/11: Magnolia, Milan, Italy
19/11: Cabaret Aleatoire, Marseille, France
21/11: Rockstore, Montpellier, France
22/11: Razzmatazz, Barcelona, Spain
23/11: Joy Eslava, Madrid, Spain
24/11: Atabal, Biarritz, France
25/11: Le Trianon, Paris, France
28/11: Grand Mix, Lille, France

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'50 Mile View' from the 'Sketch on Glass' EP

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Sketch on Glass

Fifty Mile View

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‘Waters Rising’ is a collaboration with vocalist Lola Empire and was originally written around a piano sketch that was sent back and forth between the two artists until it became the fully realised song you hear now.  

"I really hadn't expected love to be a theme in the album, but I was chatting with Lola and she told me how she'd fallen in love. I sent her the initial sketch for this and told her i didn't think love was an appropriate subject for it. but she came out with this. 
'love is dark' she said."

Portrait With Firewood

Waters Rising

TEXT017 
Percussions - Bird Songs/Rabbit Songs
12" in the shops very soon.

Percussions - Bird Songs (TEXT017)

Taken from the album 'Crush', released 18 October on Ninja Tune: https://floatingpoints.lnk.to/crushSo

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Burn (Ft  Infinite & Mansur Brown) - HINF8682

Forgetting EP

Forgetting

Taken from the album 'Rare, Forever', released 30th April on Ninja Tune: https://leonvynehall.lnk.to/rareSo

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