a vinyl mixtape for cruising the highways and byways with panache

Larry Carlton - Easy Evil			
The Mark-Almond Band - The City			
JJ Cale - Sensitive Kind			
Cymande - One More			
Mysterious Flying Orchestra - Shadows			
Tom Browne - Forever More			
Terumasa Hino - Yellow Jacket			
Gilberto Gil - Maracatu Atomico			
Hiroshi Fukumura - Hunt Up Wind			
Manfredo Fest - Arigo			
Bautista - Gone			
Apsaras - Apsaras			
Sadao Watanabe - My Dear Life			
Ramsey Lewis - Love For A Day			
Letta Mbulu - Jigijela (Don't Throw Stones)			


Smog Lanes

Ströer Duo - Vietnam

Mindblooms

Forthcoming on Aficionado's next 10". 
Release on RSD 2015 worldwide!

Dr. Arvid's Campfire On The Doones (Wildlife Edit)

Kuwaiti Samri is Gulf folk music with a gentle 2/4 sway and a soft frame-drum pulse. In many gatherings you hear interlocking handclaps and chant-like refrains that rise and settle with a warm communal feel. This piece offers a modern instrumental take that features violin as a surrogate for the genre’s lead vocals. The usual call and response is set aside so the core sway remains, carried by a singing melodic line while a quiet frame drum keeps time. The result is intimate and cyclical, with phrases that lean into the beat, float above it, and return to the theme for a calm, hypnotic flow. It gives first-time listeners a clear window into Samri’s rhythmic heart without the crowd energy that typically surrounds it.

[CREATIVE NOTE]
This arrangement adopts the violin as the principal melodic voice throughout, drawing on the Kuwaiti ṣawt tradition to stand in for Samri’s vocal line. Violin is not standard in classic Samri settings. Its use here is an intentional compositional choice that preserves the style’s gentle sway and measured cadence while presenting the melody instrumentally for clarity and learning.

Folklore Interlude - Samri Style Instrumental

SKY GIRL 2LP/CD/DIG OUT NOW

Sky Girl is a mysteriously unshakeable companion, a deeply melancholic and sentimental journey through folk-pop, new wave and art music micro presses that span 1961-1991. A seemingly disparate suite of selections of forgotten fables by more or less neverknowns, Sky Girl forms a beautifully coherent and utterly sublime whole deftly compiled by French collectors DJ Sundae and Julien Dechery.

From Scott Seskind's adolescent musical road movie to Karen Marks' icy Oz-wave, the charming DIY storytelling of Italian-American go-getter Joe Tossini and the ethereal slow dance themes of Parisian artists Nini Raviolette and Hugo Weris, Sky Girl resonates on a wide spectrum historically, geographically and stylistically. It unites in a singular, longing, almost intangible ambience.

If the names sound wholly unfamiliar that doesn't matter, the nature of the compositions swiftly nurtures an intimacy with these lonely, poignant, openhearted wanderers. Most were available in a very limited capacity at the time of their release, some were never really released at all - Gary Davenport declined to release Sarra after he split with the girl for whom the track is named - years later a friend convinced Davenport to allow him to put 100 copies online to sell and DJ Sundae was quick enough to snare one. Beyond their scarcity, these tracks are bound together by a certain raw beauty that's achievable when music is made and no one is listening.

Sky Girl comprises of fifteen officially licensed songs, a two year international scavenger hunt through long-folded home label operations, the depths of internet forums and traceless acetates. Both compilers are well trained record sleuths - DJ Sundae's labels Hollie and Idle Press have reissued Arthur Russell affiliate Nirosta Steel and DIY relic Pitch, while Julien Dechery previously compiled 'Fire Star', a retrospective on Tamil film composer Ilaiyaraaja, for Bombay Connection.

Released by Noise In My Head offshoot Efficient Space, Sky Girl is enriched with artwork from Perks and Mini mutant Misha Hollenbach and appropriately elegant sleeve notes courtesy of Ivan Smagghe.

12 Angel - Driving (Down)4:28 (ES002)

Gogo musician Msafiri Zawose rustles up a serving of Afro-futuristic dub in this genre blurring number. Taken from his forthcoming album "Uhamiaji" released next month via @soundway-records

Listen on Youtube

Msafiri Zawose - Chibitenyi (STW Premiere)

Recorded on the Yamaha Electone (the "beast).

A2. MOISTURE - VALLEY OF LOVE

Playing back to back with Eloi (Intergalatic Library). Recorded live 23th of December, 2018 at Le Mellotron. Tracks from Baba Sissoko, Selcuk Alagoz, Fernando Gelbard, Abdou El Omari, Ray Cathode & more!

Intergalactic Library: 'Waltz In Orbit'

https://veneersouvenir.bandcamp.com/track/caretaker

Caretaker

Michel Maillard has maintained the site funkologie.com since 2015. The site is a tribute to all artists who have experienced and lived Funk and Soul.
Funkologie also publish mixes from other funk lovers and has been publishing "The Trip Series" since 2020, where they travel to different countries and showcase the funk and musical styles of each region.

Hear more on their Mixcloud page :: https://www.mixcloud.com/porkhead/

Traveling To Get To Doc - Grant Green
Shaft In Africa (Addis) - Johnny Pate
Lupita - Nico Gomez And His Afro Percussion Inc.
Do the Choo-Choo - Jack Ashford, The Sound of New Detroit
Sorcery - Big Band Katowice
Pick It Up - Frank Mantis
The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine
(Funk) Até o Caroço - BNegão & Seletores de Frequencia
Shifting Gears - Johnny "Hammond" Smith
Good to the Last Drop - Gene Page

Smog Lanes

Hatchback