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“Good Hair Day” is the first single from Simon Mavin, the Grammy nominated keyboardist/co-producer and co-writer of the celebrated Australian band Hiatus Kaiyote, Simon’s had a hand in multiple projects across the spectrum, but has yet to release under his own moniker until now. The track, kicks off with an infectious piano loop in which fellow collaborators Nick Lam and Henry Hicks added guitar parts and bass parts. What’s resulted is a danceable, infectious feel good dancefloor jam with an ultra funky synth bassline that harkens back to Herbie Hancock’s 1970’s repertoire.

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Simon Mavin - Good Hair Day

‘Moments’ is the first single off the upcoming LP ‘Palms’, the 5th studio album from London based instrumentalist and producer Andy Baxter. Featuring the harp, played by Rachel Horton, ‘Moments’ is an ode to early 60s jazz sounds with synth melody top line and double bass part sitting casually behind the beat. Influences come from the music of Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane.

Palms

Moments

Robohands - Moments

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MASTERED BY DSUM @back_door_records

ARTWORK BY MOTHERSETH

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The second single from 'Mindless Meadow' – the upcoming debut LP by ttwig, the psych-inspired psuedonym of Figmore vocalist, JUICEB☮X – coming out November 10th on Fresh Selects.

ttwig - vocals, guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, wurlitzer, percussion

Written, Produced & Recorded by ttwig
Mixed by HOT16 & Kenny / Fresh Selects

Mastered by Kelly Hibbert @ Almachrome

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Mindless Meadow

ttwig (JUICEB☮X) "Time"

Stream, Download & Pre-Order LP: https://melting-pot-music.lnk.to/aix

Acclaimed Jazz Beat producer FloFilz teams up with experimental Hip-Hop/Jazz quartet Bokoya for collabo album ‘Yurika’ on Melting Pot Music. ‘Aix’ is the second single.

What happens when a four-headed human drum computer meets a classically trained violinist turned beatmaker to spend time in the studio? A beautiful lily blossom. At least this was the case when Bokoya and FloFilz entered Atelier 21 in Aachen (a Produzentengalerie für globale Kunst) for a musical encounter with no goals set. The music that was born out of these sessions is simply amazing and we are more than happy to release them as an album under the name ‘Yurika’ - Japanese for „beautiful lily“.

‘Yurika’ will be available digital and on LP with artwork by Jens Roth & Jeremias Diekmann. The 19-track strong instrumental album includes one vocal track featuring Japanese singer Kano San. Prior to the album drop in December, we will release five digital singles.

FloFilz is one of Europe's most acclaimed Jazz Beat producers with four albums on MPM under his belt (and close to 300 million streams). His last album ‘Close Distance’ came out in 2022 and featured artists Alfa Mist, Blue Lab Beats, Jerome Thomas, and Summers Sons. FloFilz is a classically trained musician who not only plays the TR 404 but also violin. 

Bokoya describe themselves as a four-headed human drum machine that play improvised beat music. You can call it jazz if you like (all four members are graduated jazz musicians) but be ready to stumble over some Dilla, Kraut Rock, Ambient or Dub in the mix. In 2022 Bokoya released their second album ‘Hausensession’ on MPM, followed by a collabo album with Cologne-based producer Gianni Brezzo (Jakarta Records) called ‘Minari’.

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Leon Raum – Drums, Percussions, Bass
Lucy Liebe – Guitar, Bass, Keys, Bongo
Darius Heid – Keys, Bass
Ferdinand Schwarz – Trumpet, Synth, Bass
FloFilz – Violin, Sampling, Drums, Synth, Bass

Produced by Bokoya & FloFilz.
Arranged & mixed by Leon Raum & FloFilz.
Recorded at Atelier 21, Aachen.
Mastered by Roe Beardie at The Brewery, Berlin.
Artwork by Jens Roth & Jeremias Diekmann.

A Melting Pot Music & Wadada Records co-production.

Cat No: MPM 330-2
Artist: FloFilz & Bokoya 
Titel: Aix

© ℗ 2023 Melting Pot Music

FloFilz & Bokoya - Aix

Introducing 'Soulé,' the first single from the highly anticipated upcoming album 'A place between us.' by Okvsho (@Soulofzurich). Emerging from a jam session gathering the blossoming young jazz scene of Capetown during Okvsho’s South Africa Tour, the composition invites listeners to surrender to its evolving cadence, meandering through a tapestry of groovy percussions, silky chord progressions and a symphony of delicate guitar licks and grounding string arrangements.

Okvsho:
“As we couldn’t take our band to South Africa and Eswatini, we found different musicians for every gig we played through Instagram and with the help of the people we met during our journey. We played different versions of Soulé at every gig, but only after our last show in Cape Town, we knew where this song was going. Back in Zurich we started to record with some of our long-time collaborators and friends and Soulé emerged, a beautiful collaboration between Cape Town and Zurich.”

“At the start of the song you can hear the legendary saxophonist Mthunzi Mvubu asking “in riddim?” after we asked him to use the saxophone as a percussion instrument during a recording session in Johannesburg.”

Okvsho - Soulé

Focus track from multi-instr. Gianni Brezzo EP “Filigrani” is the groovy, ethereal “Dreams of Sudden Clarity.” 

https://giannibrezzo.lnk.to/EPFiligrani

A head-nodding drum groove rides an upbeat jazzy progression w/ cascading keys and lush synths, exuding a warmth that’s testament to Gianni’s ability to transport your ears to a realm of sonic serenity. Sits in a danceable yet calming mood that’s a perfect inclusion to the shorter, chillier winter days.

Gianni Brezzo - Dreams Of Sudden Clarity

Hey, world... meet mreens: fsx.lnk.to/living-room

A singer/songwriter and producer/musician, born in Raleigh, North Carolina and currently living in Portland, Oregon – making her official debut here with the single, "living room."

"when I sat down to create 'living room,' it was one of those songs that wrote itself in an hour with no plan and no idea what I was talking about. then a year later, it comforted me when I needed it most…which is kinda freaky lol. to be able to share this song means so much – a story about finding home and safety in one’s mind and body. I feel so lucky that I get to make little mreens’ dreams come true, releasing music as a producer, singer, songwriter… I hope this song brings you some peace as it did for me 🥹🌊💓🥰"

– mreens

mreens - vocals, piano, synths, programming

Written, Produced & Performed by mreens

Recorded by mreens in her living room 
and by Forest Pond @ Never Home Studios – Portland, OR

Mixed by Forest Pond, with additional mixing by Kenny / Fresh Selects

Mastered by Kelly Hibbert at Almachrome

Polaroid Photo by Phoenix Beauvais for Vaisionary
Cover Photo by mreens
Additional Art Direction by Tawfiq Mardini

Executive Producers / A&R Direction: Forest Pond / Never Home Music & Kenny / Fresh Selects

Assistant A&R for Fresh Selects: Marissa Ell

FSX-063-01 © 2024 Fresh Selects / Never Home Music.  living room for the never home and the always home alike.

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living room

mreens "living room"

Keyboards/produced - Yusuf Harare Jnr

Guitar - Sam Cox

Bass- Carl Os

Windy City

Legally blind from birth, Brazilian keyboard player, composer and bandleader Manfredo Fest learnt to read music in braille and began studying classical music at a young age. By 17 he had fallen in love with jazz (particularly the music of fellow blind pianist George Shearing) before becoming swept up in Rio’s emergent bossa nova movement in the sixties. Moving to the States in 1967 where he would go on to work with fellow countryman Sergio Mendes, Fest recorded and self-released Brazilian Dorian Dream in 1976, enlisting Thomas Kini (bass), Alejo Poveda (drums, percussion) and Roberta Davis (vocals).

Like a turbo-powered, intergalactic elevator ride, Brazilian Dorian Dream builds on the principle of the modal diatonic scales of the Dorian mode, with influences of Brazilian rhythms, North American jazz and funk, and music of the European baroque and romantic era. The coming together of these intergenerational and intercontinental styles coupled with Fest’s visionary use of the Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, Arp and Moog synthesizers (plus a whole load of effects units), makes for an album light years ahead of its time. 

The miraculous wordless vocals of American jazz singer Roberta Davis are nailed so tightly alongside Manfredo’s keys and mind-bending synths that it sounds almost alien. On the album's liner notes, Fest preaches Davis’ ability highlighting how hard it is to sing such precise intervals so accurately. One of the tracks on which the vocals shine brightest is space funk stepper “Jungle Cat”, which features hard funky drums, freaky synth lines and expert Rhodes comping. The track builds up and up before releasing into the unmistakable scat melody in the chorus.

A few years after releasing Brazilian Dorian Dream, Fest recorded and released his Manifestations album in 1979, featuring ‘Jungle Kitten'’: a new dancefloor focused variation on “Jungle Cat”. At around 140 BPM ‘Jungle Kitten’ was possibly deemed too fast for statside dance floors, which explains why it never got a US 12” release. But the track became something of an underground hit at jazz dance clubs and all-dayers across the UK in the 80s and as a result it has probably become Fest’s most well known track since.

Manfredo passed away in Florida in 1999, and his music never quite reached the audiences it deserved. Due to the independent nature and limited run of the original release, Brazilian Dorian Dream has to this day remained almost impossible to find on vinyl. Far Out Recordings is proud to make this masterpiece available to new audiences with a remastered vinyl, CD and digital reissue in 2020.

Braziliana Nº 1

A record label bringing you music you can to live to.  

Our catalog so far includes releases by:
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@lowleaf  
@inglewoodsir
@imanomari
@jonbap
@thelastartful
@kadhja-bonet
@underscorelojii
@swarvy
@charlottedossantos
@braxton_cook
@reva-devito
@bravobeats
@umiimusic
@dedemusic
@algorythm 
@hosannas
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@aanband
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@mrmarstoday
@danny_dwyer
@juicebox914
@104rog
@roycewoodjunior
@lanebeckstrom
@davidmarstonja
@izco123
@telemakus1
@mreens
 
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