In a Cistern b/w Into Clouds

Into Clouds

The Brkn Record is a new project led and produced by Jake Ferguson, the co-founder and bass player for the UK’s foundational deep jazz outfit the Heliocentrics. With fellow Heliocentrics co-founder and legendary drummer Malcolm Catto, Ferguson has been a regular collaborator with globally recognised artists including Archie Shepp, Mulatu Astatke, Melvin Van Peebles, Orlando Julius and many others.

The Architecture of Oppression Part 1 represents Ferguson’s debut as a bandleader and orchestrator, and manifests as a committed and soulful response to ongoing and systemic anti-black racism, social oppression and state violence both at home in London and across the globe. Combining poetry, testimony and song with rich and cinematic backdrops, Ferguson has produced a sui generis sound that conjures flavours of Arthur Verocai, Ennio Morricone, classic library productions, Madlib-style deep-jazz beat science, and psychedelic soul. With bandmate Malcolm Catto on drums, Ferguson draws on their long years of collaborative experience in the Heliocentrics to build an album of striking texture and depth. 

But the album does not only reflect Ferguson’s full-spectrum musical prowess, experience and vision. It is equally a manifestation of his longstanding and high-profile work as a frontline activist for racial justice and social equity in London and beyond.

Alongside Malcom Catto, contributors to the album are drawn from the intersecting worlds of community activism, cultural education, politics and music, and include singer and political activist Jermain Jackman, Zara MacFarlane; Chicagoan activist, poet and singer Ugochi Nwaogwugwu; Lee Jasper, longstanding worker for racial justice and former advisor on equalities to the Mayor of London; acclaimed performance poet Dylema; Hackney community leader Janette Collins MBE and Leroy Logan MBE, founder and former chair of the Black Police Association, and the subject of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe episode ‘Red, White and Blue’.

The Architecture of Oppression Part 1 is a singular and urgent chronicle of the black British experience, an upful expression of Pan-African creative unity and community solidarity, and a militant and unbending missive from the frontline in the great tradition of The Impressions’ This Is My Country, Irreversible Entanglements Who Sent You?, Max Roach’s We Insist - Freedom Now Suite, or Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Bass Culture.

A broken record repeats itself, and never plays through – the music is interrupted or trapped in a cycle by damage to the grooves. But The Brkn Record is a work of healing and protection, and a chance to let the full story be heard – all the way to the end, no skips.

The Brkn Record - Break The Chains

The Comet is Coming - Star Exploding In Slow Motion

Y Los Cubanos Postizos

Aurora En Pekin

The Conservation Of Energy is taken from the forthcoming Vanishing Twin album on Soundway Records. 

Vanishing Twin - The Conservation Of Energy

The Cinematic Orchestra presents In Motion #1

Necrology

formsinspace : tenor sax
luizfermont : guitar (sitar, harp)
curte007 : bass
yodrums : drums
loudeangelis : chimes, shakers, bells


Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda (alternate) video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllp7u6Blhg

Avant-garde Jazz : 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-CxbnzE3CiobknZY4ZBvpWjLQHgfenA

Alice Coltrane - Lord Help Me To Be video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gta4zpExfs

Alice Coltrane - Lord Help Me To Be (cover) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPS4SrM3bRk

Alice Coltrane - Something About John Coltrane video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNyjuheqF_o

Alice Coltrane - Something About John Coltrane (cover) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S4KQ945E8E

Alice Coltrane - Stopover Bombay video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc4oIj5W1zo

Alice Coltrane - Stopover Bombay (cover) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUEyKtyoM38

Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane - Earth (cover) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kEcO7UgJW4

Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane - Earth video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQIoYFfaPdU


Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda (alternate take) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG5-BQ07Qmc

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda (cover) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9VC5efncWs

Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDNKm1S-5fo

Alice Coltrane - Jouney In Satchidananda (cover)

Kava Kon "palace of the tiger women". Belongs in a film that uses Ray Harryhausen stop go animation mythical creatures. From the ablum: tiki for the atomic age

Kava Kon "Palace of the tiger women"

Taken from release FLEE 001 "Benga Music - A signature genre from Kenya" out now.

Order on www.fleeproject.com

Rapar Wuon Osimbo (Jaakko Eino Kalevi edit) - C.K. Jazz Band

Hey you, 

I had a lot of fun with this. The instrumental is a WHOLE SONG by a WHOLE COMPOSER named Colleen. It's called Soul Alphabet, from her album Captain of None. I do not own it, and I hope, if she sees this, she enjoys it as much as I do. 

It's a love song, for a lover I hope to attract. By moving with intention and purpose and joy. So enjoy! 

Much Love, 
Nirve

Alice Coltrane - Jouney In Satchidananda (cover)

Forms In Space