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Artist: Culross Close ( a.k.a . k15 )
Title: Home


A1. Home
A2. Meditations
A3. Fatherless Boys
A4. Spark!
B1. Requiem + Reflections
B2. (Faith)

Mastered by Kuniyuki Takahashi
SOSR019 
Release Date .  Late Feb 2016

Culross Close  -   Home(preview)

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STW Advent Calendar Day 6 - all proceeds go to The Steve Reid Foundation.

After Max Graef laid down a marker yesterday with  his own beat tapes of exclusive new productions, Glenn Astro goes toe-to-toe with a whole bunch of beat-driven goodies.

Download & donate: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/12/06/day-6-glenn-astro/

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Glenn Astro -  Productiones Instrumentales (Var. 1)

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

From the album 'Children of Nu', out 3rd Nov 2017.
Buy / Stream: https://fiveeasypieces.lnk.to/ChildrenOfNu

Reginald Omas Mamode IV - Put Your Hearts Together

Written by Adrien Cau and Benoît Parmentier
Produced by Benoît Parmentier 
Recorded at Old Paradise Audio (Jim McRae) 
Mixed by Brendan Williams 
Mastered by Jay Fee 

Adrien Cau - Bass Clarinet 
Benoît Parmentier - Drums/Synths 
Maria Chiara Argirò - Rhodes/Piano 
Andres Castellanos - Bass

Jupiter

Julius Conrad & Max Gee = Ratgrave
OUT NOW VIA APRON:
apronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ratgrave

RATGRAVE - Ubi Hubi (OUT NOW ON APRON REC)

The original Rio beach boy returns in style, with a new record of unabashedly feel-good Brazilian party music. Featuring Azymuth bassist Alex Malheiros (responsible for some of Brazil’s all-time funkiest low-end licks), a horn section including Valle’s go-to high-trumpeter Jesse Sadoc, and percussion master Armando Marcal, Sempre has all the masterful composition, exceptional musicality, and forward-thinking ideas you’d expect from the Brazilian titan, and it’s fresher than a fruity caipirinha in the Copacabana sunshine.

Updating Marcos Valle’s seminal boogie-era sound, Sempre spans ecstatic disco, cosmic samba, and late-night jazz-funk, drawing obvious comparisons to some of Valle’s late-seventies and early-eighties output. ‘Estrelar’ (1983), for example, an ode to the joy of exercise, has become one of the biggest Brazilian disco hits of all time. But lyrically the new album is more closely reminiscent of Valle’s progressive early seventies’ releases. Heralding love, tolerance and living in the present, while satirising political corruption, the new release recalls a time in which Valle, together with his brother Paulo Sergio, was writing subtly subversive lyrics in order to bypass the censorship imposed by the military dictatorship, which ruled over Brazil between 1964 and 1985.

The album marries compositional genius with pure pop perfection. From the blistering brass arrangements on up-tempo disco hit ‘Olha Quem ta Chegando’ and the infinitely classy ‘Vou Amanhã Saber’, to the nine-minute synth-heavy instrumental funk stepper ‘Odisséia’, which gradually morphs into an interplanetary samba jam, the songs are tightened and given an extra coat of gloss, by London based producer Daniel Maunick (son of Incognito frontman Bluey). More moments of boogie delight come in the form of ‘Minha Roma’ (a musical nod to the famed ‘Estrelar’), and the sunshine anthem title-track ‘Sempre’.

Translating as ‘Ever’, Sempre is a testament to the continual drive for development and reinvention that has defined Marcos Valle’s astounding six-decade career. Ever changing, ever moving forward, he began as one of the second-wave of early bossa nova composers in the sixties, writing the world famous bossa standard ‘Summer Samba (So Nice)’ for his sophomore album ‘Samba 68’. After a brief stint in the States, Valle returned to Brazil, and the early ’70s saw the release of four ground-breaking Valle albums which incorporated progressive rock, psychedelic influences, pop, jazz, soul and cinematic arrangements. These albums would see Valle work alongside a number of hugely influential Brazilian bands, including Milton Nascimento’s backing band Som Imaginaro, the prog-rock band O Terco and jazz funk legends Azymuth. Returning back to the US in ‘75, Valle resided in LA, writing music for the likes of Eumir Deodato, Airto Moreira, Chicago, Sarah Vaughn and Leon Ware, before returning to Brazil once more, where after releasing a handful of hit pop records, he took a hiatus from recording.

Since the mid-nineties, Marcos Valle has been experiencing a renaissance with Far Out, where his approach to music has remained, as always; decidedly open to new influences, possibilities and technologies. Sempre is Marcos Valle’s fifth album for the label, following 2010’s critically acclaimed Estatica.

Just in time for summer, Sempre is out on Vinyl LP, CD and digitally 28th June 2019

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