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Gualazzi Sai (ci Basta Un Sogno) Mixdown

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Ahead of the Strata East Live show at The Barbican on March 22, Gilles has put together a mammoth 3 hour mix, playing nothing but the finest music released on the legendary 1970s label, Strata East. Part 1 dropped earlier this month (https://soundcloud.com/gillespeterson/strata-east-mix-part-1), and here's part 2!

Still to come, the in-depth Gilles Peterson x Charles Tolliver interview. For more information on the event, check http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=17295

Tracklist
24 - shamek farrah - conversation piece
25 - charles sullivan - now I’ll sleep
26 - brass company - colors
27 - muriel watson - we’ll remember those years
28 - heath brothers - smilin billy suite
29 - clifford jordan - john coltrane
30 - juju - black experience
31 - sonny fortune - long before our mothers cried
32 - regenaration - thank you my people
33 - m’boom - morning , noon, midday
34 - ensemble al salaam - ecstasy
35 - bruce johnson & rodney jones - country and west indian
36 - john betsch society - ode to ethiopia
37 - jazz contemporaries - reasons in tonality
38 - juju - nairobi chants
39 - charles tolliver - mournin’ variation
40 - ensemble al salaam - circles
41 - shirley scott - don’t look back (edit)
42 - the piano choir - barbara ann
43 - john hicks - yemenja
44 - gil scott heron - the bottle
45 - larry ridley - well you needn’t
46 - weldon irvine - 
47 - clifford jordan - farid
48 - shamek farrah - first impressions
49 - charles tolliver live applause
50 - cosmic twins - for don byas and ben webster
51 - charles tolliver applause
52 - lee cooper - it ain’t been easy….

Strata East Mix Part 2

Hagere is Samuel Yirga's debut solo release, showcasing Samuel's playing both bold and sensitive, often improvised, always deeply impassioned. Samuel is the piano player with Ethiopian collective, Dub Colossus, and whilst he left music school relatively recently, he as developed at a pace, both as a player and composer, remarkable for someone of his age.

Yeh Bati Koyita - a solo piano piece. The title means "A Time in Bati" - Bati is a town in northern Ethiopia, and also the name of the musical scale Samuel plays. The tune swings with a lilting rhythm and ripples with classical and jazz influences. Always the innovator, Samuel plays it not with the original time signatures in which it was written, but swapping between different timings to keep the tune fresh.

Abet Abet is a traditional love song which features the raw and melodic notes of the Ethiopian one-stringed fiddle, the mesenqo. Sammy is accompanied by some of Ethiopia's best young traditional instrumentalists:

Missale Legesse (Kebero), Endris Hassan (Mesenqo), Frew Mengiste (Bass),

Yonas Yimam (Percussion), Tewodros Alula (Trumpet), Yishak Dawit (Trombone), Alklilu W/Yohannes (Tenor Sax), Abiyou Solomon (Engineer)

Habasha Diaspora (Addis Piano Mix) - this mellow tune reverberates with muted horns and the gentle tones of Samuel's piano playing.

Featuring Ben Somers (Tenor and baritone saxes/flute), Dubulah (Guitars, Programming), Jonathan Radcliffe (Trumpet, Flugalhorn), Nick Van Gelder (Drums, Cuica), Paul Chivers (Congas, Perc kit), Robert Dowell (Trombone), Winston Blisset (Bass)

Ambassel In Box Revisited - a beautiful solo piano piece, recorded in The Wooden Room at Real World Studios. Open, spacious and full of melancholy and yearning, this is a deeply emotional virtuoso performance.

Abet Abet - sample

Album now available from www.rollertrio.com, itunes: http://bit.ly/QEvDao, amazon: http://amzn.to/TDbBDz and other major stores.

Recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by Tim Bazell @  Heart of Gold Studios, London
All compositions by Roller Trio
C&P Roller Trio all rights reserved

Rollertrio.com

James Mainwaring - Saxophone/electronics
Luke Wynter - Guitar
Luke Reddin-Williams - Drums

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Edit by The Wild (formerly known as Daptunes) and myself.
Support by Gilles Peterson (Worldwide), Lefto and Jeremy Sole (L.A.).

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