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Saroos: Tsalal Nights

Sun Ra - Twin Stars Of Thence

François Tusques & Don Cherry - La Maison Fille Du Soleil (CACK4505)

Exact repress of this impossibly rare mythical improvised recording by pianist Francois Tusques (of Viol Du Vampire fame) and trumpeter Don Cherry (of Holy Mountain fame).  Early intimate 1964 recording privately released as part of an exhibition designed by pioneering Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, sonically evoking the work of Komeda, Mal Waldron and Bernt Rosengren.  Housed in two fold wraparound sleeve.

http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/shop/francois-tusques-don-cherry-bernard-guerin-j-f-jenny-clark-la-maison-fille-du-soleil

François Tusques & Don Cherry - Indes

East meets West for the latest release on Tel Aviv re-issue label @fortunarecords. 'Mezare Israel Yekabtzenu' is the a long lost, super rare 1973 jazz album from Middle Eastern pioneers The Jazz Workshop and comes out 1st December. 

More info at: http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/gpww-premiere-the-jazz-workshop-mezere-israel-yekabtzenu/

The Jazz Workshop - Mezare Israel Yekabtzenu (Worldwide Premiere)

"Promises" is the third track on Monophonics new album, Sound of Sinning.

Buy now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sound-of-sinning/id981180830
Listen on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/7vwdZyyJSsSlA4PDTyx86X
CDs available at your favorite record store and monophonics.com
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPpdgcERNAU

Promises

Volcov (@neroli) takes the reigns for a new @bbemusic compilation digging into his archive or rare funk, jazz, disco and soul. This is one of three of his own edits that made the cut. 

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/02/11/premiere-odonel-levy-sophisticated-disco-volcov-edit/
Listen on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Kl7P-O7lNSE?list=PL5qst4EfquTwYtn8vqdZhO4CaFTPx3bYN

Listen on Youtube

O'Donel Levy - Sophisticated Disco (Volcov Edit) (STW Premiere)

Buy the single in all formats here:
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Taken from the forthcoming El Michels Affair album "Return To The 37th Chamber" out on Big Crown Records in 2017.


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El Michels Affair - 4th Chamber - BC001-45 - Side A

Sunshine is out March 17 on Albert's Favourites.

https://soundcloud.com/alberts-favourites
https://soundcloud.com/hectorplimmer

Read more: http://hyponik.com/features/first-listen-hector-plimmer-i-wish/

Sunshine

First Listen: Hector Plimmer - 'I Wish' (Albert's Favourites)

@layla-rutherford reminds us of her imperial production and composition skills in this majestic rework of talented trio @hejira. Taken from the I Don't Belong To Anyone Reworks EP to be released via Lima Limo Records on 31st March.

Read more & Buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/03/28/premiere-hejira-i-dont-belong-to-anyone-lay-rework/
Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bMCTwj-BhUw

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Hejira - I Don't Belong To Anyone [Lay Rework] (STW Premiere)

From the album Blast Off Through the Wicker available July 14, 2017 on Western Vinyl

Bandcamp https://artfeynman.bandcamp.com/album/blast-off-through-the-wicker
iTunes http://hyperurl.co/a49jo3
WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv162

ART FEYNMAN
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Blast Off Through the Wicker documents Art Feynman looking for life in the lifeless, questioning what it means to be living.  There is a calm, disciplined pocket to be felt in everything Feynman does; krautrock slink, staccato bounce, and pentatonic bursts of Nigerian Highlife fuzz pour on the temporal canvas with unquestionable ease, never falling in the wrong place. Even more admirable is, that his “canvas” is a four-track tape recorder, and that Blast Off features no loops or drum machines despite its aesthetically faithful motorik and afrobeat underpinnings.  Nowhere is this fact more surprising than on album standout “Slow Down” which pulses along infectiously with a crunchy backbeat, and deftly arpeggiating bass lines that are so locked-in that it would be hard to fault an unknowing ear for assuming the whole thing is tediously programmed.

There are gentler sides to Blast Off that conjure the spacey tenderness of Arthur Russell inventively and respectfully, without adopting their muse’s palette wholesale. In this regard Blast Off is an endearing collection of songs that capture the ear with warm-yet-clear cassette aesthetics and spot-on musicianship, both of which form an angle that points lovingly to Feynman’s deep and varied influences. Make no mistake-- this one truly is alive.

Art Feynman - "Can't Stand It"

The elegance with which the sun rose was breathtaking. Some velvet morning it would turn out to be but little did they know of that as they watched the sky. Soon it would be time to leave the city and travel outwards into the great beyond, to a place in which the long grasses and the wild rivers ran between the country hills. The train would take several hours, huffing and puffing it would pass between the city walls leaving a trail of fog and dust in its midst...

Sonny is set to release a new four track EP on Koldt Bord, a new Copenhagen based record label with a forward thinking trajectory. Their first EP comes from a new Danish talent and caught our ears straight from the off.

PREMIERE: Sonny - Some Velvet Morning [Koldt Bord]

#Protect Ya Neck - El Michels Affair#

La candela del río is the debut album by Insólito UniVerso. Co-produced by The Heliocentrics’ Malcolm Catto, the record shows two distinct sides; on the one hand there’s euphoric music that begs to be danced to, while on the other there’s melancholy, mystery and devotion. 

The album kicks off with Transmutada, a composition inspired by the Venezuelan waltz and the works of Conny Mendez, a Venezuelan eccentric from the 20th century. 

More info here: http://www.musicamacondo.com/2018/10/premiere-insolito-universo-transmutada/

Premiere: Insolito Universo - Transmutada

The Unknown

The Unknown - Rosie Turton - Rosie's 5ive

Pre-save the album on Spotify:
https://presave.kud.li/jrf0016

Drift Glass

Afronaut - SEED ENSEMBLE

From the forthcoming Coastal County LP on Preservation records. Pre order available now at https://preservationrecords.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/p0026/coastal-county-coastal-county

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Coastal County - The Drop

IXCHEL are simmering with excitement to present a super limited release from the formidable Yazz Ahmed entitled ‘A Shoal of Souls’.

The release marks the final chapter of her 2017 ‘La Saboteuse’ - an explosive album that turned heads worldwide, scooped numerous best of ’17 lists, as well as becoming a heavyweight UN certified UNESCO album of the decade. High praise for an artist on her second full length release.

‘A Shoal of Souls’ cements the formidable relationship that has been established between Yazz and Sophie Bass. Sophie is one of the most exciting illustrators currently operating worldwide; still in her twenties, her enlivening work across the Jazz scene has already sparked comparisons with Reid Miles. She was given free response to create the stunning four panel gatefold artwork for La Saboteuse, before being tasked to remix her own artwork where she captured the electronic rhythm and groove of the Hector Plimmer, DJ Khalab and Blacksea Não Maya reworks for the genre-breaking ‘La Saboteuse Remixed’ EP.

Music is intrinsic to Sophie’s creative process, fuelling her distinctive style that embodies symbolism and social justice. On seeing her music visually “come alive” Yazz was overwhelmingly inspired to create, this feeling best captured in Yazz’s presentation of the movement to Sophie.

“I was inspired to compose this piece  - compelled actually - after seeing your amazing, evocative, artwork for Chapter Two. Suddenly seeing my inner destroyer, La Saboteuse, given physical form as a living breathing entity made me gasp  - a real jaw dropping moment.

The way that you transposed psychological concepts into a physical image - my anti-muse literally dragging the victim into the depths… it really helped cement the whole idea - seeing how dangerous and evil she can be. 

I was already thinking about the migrants who perished at sea when I named the chapter The Shoal of Souls, and this new composition is dedicated to all the people who have lost their lives crossing the sea in search of a better future.

I hope the music conveys the strength and power of the human spirit, the bravery to risk everything for their families, the anger I feel at the response of the West, a lack of empathy, a lack of compassion. They are not a swarm, they are us - humans.

The music is also inspired by Sufism, the idea of whirling and turning, falling into a trance, a dream. I see a mirror with the whirling turning ocean, a whirlpool of lost souls, of untold stories, talents and lives unfulfilled: joining together in the eternal dance and rhythm of a vast shoal of fish which seems to beat like a heart.”

Presented with the intertwining of two mammoth creatives we were compelled to create something truly special….

The record comes heavyweight, as a limited collectors edition worthy of the discogs-breaking prices La Saboteuse is currently fetching. Cementing the collaboration, Yazz’s music forms the A side while on the B is Sophie’s artwork; a whirlpool of fish and souls spinning backwards into the ocean when played, embodying the voice of the music.

Copies 1 - 50 come numbered and include a limited edition print of the cover art signed by Yazz. The release also marks the first time a Yazz Ahmed test pressing has ever been available to buy.

Move fast to grab a little piece of Jazz history.

Limited 12"

Yazz Ahmed - A Shoal Of Souls

From the V/A album "The Fall Will Probably Kill You" (BS012 - 2010)- Available from i-Tunes, Amazon, Spotify, etc. or here :
http://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-the-fall-will-probably-kill-you

Rhizottome - "Synovie"

First track off Jonas Munk's (Causa Sui) and Nicklas Sørensen's (Papir) new collaborative album, "Always Already Here", out August 16th, 2019!

Preorder available soon from www.elparaisorecords.com

Info:

"Jonas Munk and Nicklas Sørensen team up for a genre-defying record that explores American minimalism, psychedelia, and electronic music – both vintage and contemporary. On a foundation of interlocking guitar and synthesizer patterns, the duo constructs lengthy pieces that are experimental yet welcoming in nature, precisely executed yet with room for soaring improvisation. Always Already Here pays homage to the masters of classical minimalism (Steve Reich, Terry Riley) and the pioneers of electronic music and kosmische (Brian Eno, Manuel Göttsching), still it doesn't sound derivative or retrospective. The type of hypnotic bliss Munk and Sørensen strive for is distinctly timeless."

Jonas Munk & Nicklas Sørensen: "Shift"

https://elparaisorecords.com/releases/martin-rude-jakob-sk-tt-duo-dichotomy-control

Martin Rude (Sun River) & Jakob Skøtt (Causa Sui drummer) team up for their 2nd album in 2020, following their acclaimed debut The Discipline of Assent. All basic tracks were cooked up from a new session on July 7th in Causa Sui’s Jonas Munk’s studio. This time around, the duo took it’s time to modulate a few ideas into several takes, but maintaining an “onwards and upwards” attitude, often relying on an original impulse or idea snagged out of the ether.

The result is a meeting of groovy electric jazz, open guitar tunings and buzzing electronics. As one reviewer remarked about their previous outing: “like one of those films where the protagonists fall through walls into completely different sets”, which is fueled by the fact that Martin alternates between double bass & guitars. The session was thoroughly produced by Jakob Skøtt, adding layers of percussion, electronics, samples, edits & effects. A duo rarely sounded this band-like before, yet the telekinetic raw vibes of the basic layers shines through. It’s a deeply layered sound, where opposites are erased:
Organic, yet synthesized.
Chaotic, yet organized.
Dissonant, yet melodic.
Jagged, yet groovy.
Experimental, yet enjoyable.

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