Vol. 2 of the GT Reposted Mix 2020

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Nikos Veliotis - Folklor Invalid (2.30 min, excerpt) from "Folklor Invalid" CD

Sagaraki from Mohammad - "Segondè Saleco" (CD/LP) featuring Erifyli Giannakopoulou on vocals. www.antifrost.gr / www.mohammad.gr

Mohammad - "Sagaraki" from "Segondè Saleco" LP/CD

Crystal Silence

Falling Grace

RE: ECM

Reblop

re-worked version of the 2011 piece, -originally released on "Spiriti"- for piano and sine waves.  Released on Antifrost: afro2076 cassette, February 2018

MMMD - "Neporiniai Kakaowa" (laubak)  from "Andromache" cassette

lié - You Want It Real
Available on LP / CD / CASS / Digital on February 28, 2020 from Mint Records.
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lié - Drowning In Piss

It's Mutual

Welcome Becca Mancari to Captured Tracks!

Hunter

Becca Mancari // Hunter (Official Single)

The third album from this venerable Portland band bristles with invention, wedging lyrical Dadaism into right angles off rhythmic minimalism. Out June 5th, 2020 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Lithics "Hands" (Trouble In Mind Records)

From the album Unmask Whoever available March 27, 2020 on Western Vinyl

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Unmask Whoever

Activity - "Nude Prince"

'Hidden Track' is taken from Es' debut album 'Less Of Everything' out April 3rd through Upset The Rhythm!

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Less Of Everything

Es - 'Hidden Track'

Taken from Primitive World - The Revolt of Aphrodite LP/Download [ELP048] - out 20/03/2020

• Crafty sci-fi minimalism and rude broken beats from Ecstatic co-owner Sam Willis (Primitive World)
• In/directly inspired by the “bawdy, acerbic”, forgotten ‘60s sci-fi novels of Lawrence Durrell
• Cut at D&M, Berlin. Cover painting by Daniel John Willis, Photo by Sam Willis, design by Alessio Natalizia
 
Ecstatic co-owner Sam Willis turns cues from forgotten English sci-fi author Lawrence Durell into bouts of taut, fractious, and probing funk on his sophomore LP, ‘The Revolt of Aphrodite’

Following a similar process that was applied to the visual cues of overlooked British constructivist Marlow Moss in his 2018 debut album ‘White On White’, and recent lysergic rescoring of Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket’ (INCLUDE LINK HERE TO THE FMJ RELEASE ON THE SITE PERHAPS?) Sam Willis aka Primitive World employs a strategy of in/direct references to Durrell’s seminal ’60s sci-fi diptych ‘The Revolt of Aphrodite’ - comprising the novels ’Tunc’ and ‘Nunquam’ - in an absorbing reimagining of its scenes, rendered in a mix of glitching electronic shrapnel, craftily disrupted UK club rhythms, and stuttering gremlin vocaloids. 

The original books’ themes of “Nietzchean psycho-sexual satire”, and their acerbic, bawdy, densely allusive text, serve to push Primitive World toward more complex drum programming/editing and a finer spectrum of timbres in order to best transpose the stories into music. Set against a backdrop of the May 1968 general strike in Paris, the books address notions of multiplicity and contingency, and a preoccupation with structure and “cause and effect” that Primitive World reflects in the music’s mazy narration and his poetic embrace of literary/musical license. 

Where modern electronic music too often arrives at the same aesthetic conclusions inspired by iconic work from William Gibson or Asimov, then Durrell’s influence provides something very refreshing to the playful and absorbingly otherworldly nature of ‘The Revolt of Aphrodite’. Using the same palette as found on his ‘White On White LP’ - PPG Wave, Kurzweil K250, Emulator 4 and Lexicon 224 - Primitive World’s familiarity with the set-up leads to a finer manipulation of form throughout the album. Oscillating between the Alva Noto-esque minimalism of ‘All This Vulgar Data’, and the cubist UKFunky rhythms in ‘Iolanthe Dances’ or Dego-like broken beats in ‘Skins Plastered With White Lead’, to end up in the curdled electronic sensuality on ’The Foetus Of a Love Song’, Primitive World’s 2nd album offers deftly imaginative and playful solutions to the homogeneity of modern electronic music’s all-too-often blinkered dreams.

Primitive World - Ioanthe Dances [ELP048]

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Bastard Jazz is proud to present the sophmore solo album by one of the gems of the New Zealand underground soul scene, Isaac Aesili. Woven through electronic soul, with threads of jazz, funk, R&B and house music, Isaac's ‘Hidden Truths’ is the stylistic unification of all his previous projects (Karl Marx, Funkommunity, Sorceress) into a dazzling and diverse body of work. Three years in the making, its depth is clear from the first listen, and is peppered with some of New Zealand’s finest soul and jazz musical talent, including two stunning female feature vocalists from New Zealand; Ladi6 and Rachel Fraser.

The album opens with an ominous instrumental ‘Mirror’ setting a dark a tone for the album the start, shimmering with shades of Dilla swing snapping over metallic chords and a graceful trumpet solo that enters midway through. Wild feat. Ladi6’ is a heavy downbeat future soul joint with stratospheric synths layered over driving beats that build alongside the elegant vocal weavings of New Zealand's first lady of soul, Ladi6, while ‘Player’ sees Isaac’s unique vocals tell a tale of dangerous seduction within a synth funk-driven dancehall cum house music that feels like the Gap Band on a tropical vacation. ‘Jungles’ is a deep, native and ocean-like soundscape that begins with syncopated synths and beats that collide dramatically into a frantic, sweeping synth outro, followed up by‘Realms’ , an intricately crafted song that has sonic elements from techno-house that are other-worldly accompanied by live drums that flip after the breakdown into a swinging conclusion of the album's first half.

‘Run Every Way’ is an epic percussion-driven electronic blues that begins with a vocal chorus from Isaac that could just as easily be interpreted lyrically as a warning about climate change as it could an expression of the inner-self, while "Refugee" is also a heavily percussion orientated joint that fuses romantic classical strings with otherworldly synth stabs and Isaac’s haunting vocals moving climactically into a tender coda conclusion. "Rain Gods" feat. Rachel Fraser is a heavenly pathway into Rachel’s luxurious vocals with clever lyrics merging the soaring synths and looped bassline into a short yet memorable chorus‘and ‘Steps’ is classic Isaac Aesili production including deep Rhodes chord changes, a knocking beat with layers of percussion, synths and horns providing a warm emotive accompaniment to Isaac’s vocals. ‘Last Minute’ is a simple yet sophisticated jewel of space and time that concludes the vocal tracks of the album in a proper soulful style, and ‘Maureen’ rounds out the album as an expressive instrumental outrolude that features Isaac’s trumpet.

Isaac Aesili is an Internationally acclaimed solo artist and the producer and creative force behind Funkommunity, Sorceress and Karlmarx. Isaac’s original productions have been supported internationally by DJs such as Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio 6 Music), Benji B (BBC 1), and Lefto (Belgium, Worldwide FM). His trumpet playing features on many collaborations including ‘Layer’ by Julien Dyne (Wonderful Noise/BBE) and ‘Midnight in Peckham’ by Chaos in the CBD (Rhythm Section). A world-renowned musician on both trumpet and percussion, Isaac is a member of the Lord Echo band. His music fuses Soul, Funk, Jazz, Afro and Latin styles with R&B, Hip Hop and Electronic music. Isaac’s much anticipated sophomore solo album “Hidden Truths” is out on Bastard Jazz (NYC) in 2020.

Hidden Truths

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Isaac Aesili - Jungles

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Primitive World - Ioanthe Dances [ELP048]

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