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Next Stop Stop Soweto Vol. 4
Out March 23 2015
http://www.strut-records.com

Strut continue their acclaimed ’Next Stop Soweto’ series in March 2014 as they return to the rich archives of South African music to spotlight the fertile era of the late ’70s and early ’80s. Tightly controlled by oppressive Apartheid laws, South Africa’s music scene had nevertheless progressed into myriad new directions, embracing funk, soul, rock and disco. 

Next Stop Soweto Vol. 4 is compiled by Duncan Brooker. It will be released on CD, 2LP and digital formats with physical formats featuring sleeve notes by author Francis Gooding along with rare photos and sleeve artwork.

Kabasa - Unga Pfula A Chi Pfalo [Next Stop Soweto Vol. 4]

A
1. Calyspo wet
2. Clefs
3. Piou
4. Beijos seus labios – instrumental
5. Orange
6. Le Dramont

Cassette Mouillée - Face A

FULL EP NOW AVAILABLE:
iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/role-play-ep/id1021263013
Spotify : https://play.spotify.com/album/2C4IsiMB3gIaMVXoezXarl
Deezer : http://www.deezer.com/album/10866494

ROLE PLAY:
Bilal - Vocals 
Simon Mavin - Keyboards/Sounds & Vocal 
Paul Bender - Synth Bass 
Michael Severson - Bass, Guitar, Percussion 
Leron Thomas - Lead Vocals, Sounds & Trumpet 

Additional Credits:
Malik Crumpler - Engineering, Sound design, Arranging
Mixed by: Scratch Master Gib (One Two Pass It Studio)
Mastered by:: Shawn Joseph (Optimum Mastering)
Studios:
Labomatic Studio (Paris, France)
One Two Pass It Studio (Bagnolet, France)
Milerapa's Mind Studio (Harlem, NY)
DeSoto Sound Factory (Brooklyn, NY)
Artisitic Director: Guts
Produced by: Leron Thomas and Heavenly Sweetness

Role Play feat. Bilal

An introspective, dramatic rework from the Tartelet producer,  for a forthcoming collaboration between French duo Fulgeance and Soulist. 

Follow:
@souleance
@firstwordrecords
@fulgeance
@dj-soulist

Souleance - New York (Uffe Remix)(STW Premiere)

In My Line Of Sight

I won't be around for couple of months. I wanted to share this little funk tune with you before I leave. Sound is extremely tape saturated. Just as I like! I hope you will like it too.


FREE DOWNLOAD: https://alpman.bandcamp.com/track/blown

Blown

From: WOJTEK MAZOLEWSKI QUINTET London/Theme De Yoyo  12” LQ 007

Side B: THEME DE YOYO - Composed by Noreen Beasley, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors, Roscoe Mitchell



Order:
https://lanquidityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wojtek-mazolewski-quintet-london-theme-de-yoyo-12-lq-007

WOJTEK MAZOLEWSKI QUINTET - Theme de Yoyo

ephemerals star has risen steadily since they broke onto the scene a couple of years ago with their critically acclaimed debut album – 'nothing is easy'. They’ve established themselves both at home and on the continent with the combination of a tireless tour schedule and prolific writing periods that sees them having completed album number 3 in as many years.

As before a new album once again sees them refresh their sound with a new set of influences and direction. Always unafraid to push the boundaries of their craft, this release unashamedly emanates jazz, afrobeat and psychedelia which galvanises the soul and r&b that remains at the heart of the band. 

Vinyl/CD/Digital - https://ephemerals.lnk.to/EggTooth

VINYL/CD/DIGITAL

Egg Tooth (Album Sampler)

Cosmic Language

A2 Nat Birchall - Humility

"I love The Expansions their futuristic leanings inject new life into the form. Fresh material!" Ian Merchant (Black Acre)

“Exudes all the qualities I cherish most in music, warmth, integrity and a dedication to the groove… it’s a hard road to travel when you step in the footprints of giants, The Expansions are treading that path with ease and assurance.” Patrick Forge
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When The Expansions self released their first single in 2013, the laid-back jazz funk of Lavender, it quickly gained strong support from soul and rare-groove aficionados including Kenny Dope, Dom Servini, Patrick Forge and Andy Smith. A run of shows followed and before long, when someone was asking if there was a soul-jazz band around to play with, “The Expansions” was the answer. 

Although this popularity meant a hiatus in releasing music, the band have been constantly busy, playing around Europe with legendary British-Ghanaian soul singer, Andrew Ashong and the exceptional, upcoming talent Connie Constance. 

But always, The Expansions has remained a central focus and the true home of these four jazz and soul lovers, with occasional trips out to the country to form ideas and practice new music for the eventual album. 

Murmuration, recorded over three days at Big Noise in Southend, is constructed of single takes, with minimal overdubs, as the band attempt to capture the feeling and energy they create live. 

Debut single Breakthrough introduced the insanely catchy but deeply soulful blend of synths and groove, but here on the album that is explored to the fullest with longer breakdowns and more expansive, experimental solos. Pocket 5 displays the, possibly unexpected, influences of broken beat and almost combative rhythm playing – particularly in the complex guitar and keys breakdown where Koor and O’Keefe layer conflicting time signatures and battle to ride it out to the heavy drum return. 

Cannonball brings warm mellowness that delicately evolves through beats, touching on bossas alongside their fundamental hip-hop sensibilities. But even here there is a raucous zenith before the band sublimely recede into the silence of the a-side ending. 

Colossal album highlight Ivory Mountain is truly an epic. Evoking moments of 4Hero, there is a lightness of groove in the first half of this soulful exploration. But at the halfway point, all restraint is let go as a live string section joins the four quarters of the band for three glorious minutes of soulful disco. Evoking sounds of Quincy Jones, George Benson and Johnny Hammond, all the way through to a beautifully cacophonous finale. 

Dragonfly undoubtedly reflects on the work of Herbie Hancock and is the most direct throwback to the band’s earlier work, which is a welcome marker of how far they have come. A quintessential jazz funker. 

The album closes with the thoughtful and introverted shuffle of Miles Away. In the final eight minutes of Murmuration, The Expansions allow space and time to take precedence, with once-more-restrained peaks and developments. It becomes clear though, that the band cannot resist one last explosive finale, as they rise with screeching synths, strings and dubs for a perfect race to the finish line. 

You can hear the influences of Idris Muhammad, Grover Washington, even parallels with South London peers Yussef Kamaal and Ruby Rushton. But The Expansions have tirelessly worked to create a sound of their own and are very proud, along with label Albert’s Favourites, to finally share it.

Cannonball (Murmuration Preview)

The Expansions - Cannonball (Radio Edit)

The Finnish tropical troupe @Maajoofficial is back with a two-track EP. In contrast to the Afro-Balearic sound of their 2016 debut Tropic of Tulli, the new Defo / Mansaba EP is a step in a deeper and sometimes darker direction.

Defo kicks off the EP with a driving 5/4 rhythm. Reminiscent of Mark Ernestus' Ndagga sounds, it is a tribal tune with Maajo's signature ethereal disco elements.

Trevor Deep Jr.'s version straightens out the original's unconventional time signature and focuses on a four-to-four beat and plenty of Berliner dub. The remix is a solid dancefloor tool, traversing the original like a train making its way through a dark rainforest.

The B-side is entirely covered by Mansaba, a 14-minute long journey into inwards. This studio jam, recorded largely live, is a wild mixture of polyrhythmic sequences, krautrock guitar licks, equatorial forest percussion and violin synths. The trip starts slow and soothing, sneakily picks up pace and keeps grow and growing, eventually exploding into a full-on tribal dance.

Maajo - Defo/Mansaba

VINYL IS IN STORES

Enjoy 3 guys jamming 3 tracks together as Lemonade’s 3rd release, played on 33rpm.

For almost a year now, our main man serving the drinks Arno Lemons has been relocated from Antwerp to Berlin, where he lives and works for OYE Records. After a few months of wack adventures into the rich culture of Berlin’s nightlife, Arno got around, made friends and was introduced to some very magical hombres …

For the next release on his Lemonade imprint, we have to go to a mythical place called Darmstadt. Darmstadt is a city in Germany, literally translated from Belgian-Flemish slang to English as “Drunk city’. According to Mr. Lemons, it would’ve been impossible to not have great stories made there.

And gladly enough, he was right; the city is sleazy & jazzy as hell, baby.

After the Jazz-storm hit Los Angeles, USA, and bursted into (South) London, UK, it has now struck Germany, right in this little, mysteriously interesting city, in the southern part of the Rhine-Main area.

Meet Triorität: a mesmerising threesome co-responsible for this fresh movement in D-town.
With Gerrit Ebeling on keys and synths, Grégoire Pignède on bass and Alexander Hoffmann on drums, you have no idea where you’ll end up. With amazing self-composed, long duration tracks full of moodswings and jams, it knows how to surprise and catch you with its uplifting drums, dancing tones and dreamy melodies.

The trio started with Gerrit and Alex, who grew up in a musical environment.
As cousins they started jamming on their fathers’ drumkit and keyboard since they were little.
In 2012, they met their third companion Grégoire at a party, drinking really bad Gin Fizz out of a plastic bottle.

After this life changing moment, Grégoire joined the duo, which reformed itself into a musical threesome full of crazy adventures. With deep influences from the 70s fusion and disco scene, as well as modern electronic genres like Hip Hop and House, Triorität pursues to push a fresh and new sound which will represent the German city in the upcoming history of jazz, thus enriching the global jazz scene and expand its different varieties of styles within the genre.

It was time Lemonade made some “Priorität”, which it now does with the amazing band called Triorität, all the way from Darmstadt!

A1. Josef Der Kamel
(A2. Hidden Track)
B1. Ammoniak
B2. Aquaboarding

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Recorded at Lui Hill Studio in Darmstadt
Produced and Mixed by Lukas Lehmann
Mastered by Markus Broy at DTL

Keys: Gerrit Ebeling
Bass: Grégoire Pignède
Drums: Alexander Hoffmann

Distributed by Oye Records
Manufactured by R.A.N.D MUZIK
Released with love by Lemonade
Design by Charlie Van Beeck
A&R by Arno Lemons

support:
DTL Mastering www.dtl-mastering.de 
Lui Hill Studio www.facebook.com/luihillstudio/ 

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Cat. No.: LEM03 
credits
released March 15, 2019

Skorphut

Josef Der Kamel

Colors

You've Got to Have Freedom

All songs written and produced by Eun apart
from and with special thanks to:

Nubya Garcia - Saxophone (Tracks 1, 2, 3 & 7)

Cynesha Brown - Guitar (Tracks 4 & 5)

Georgia Anne Muldrow - Vocals (Track 5)

Demae Wodu aka Bubblerap - Vocals (Track 6)

Wu-Lu - Bass (Track 6)

Jake Milliner - Additional Production (Track 7)

Darkness Must Be Beautiful (TuneCore)

Doubt (feat. Nubya Garcia)

From the upcoming album, Fu Chronicles, out February 2020. https://daptone.ffm.to/bwav9ee

Antibalas "Fight Am Finish"

10.10.20

Yusef Lateef - Morning
Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes - A Night in NY
Baba Zula - Kelebekler Kuslar
Yusef Lateef - Oboe Blues
Jneiro Jarel - Sunwalkers, Pt. 2 & 3
Emanative + Bex Burch - Disrupt ~4
Lex Amor - Odogwu
Anja Ngozi & Maxwell Owin - Pastor
Oveous - Just Like You (Mark de Clive-Lowe Remix)

Sweet Lemonade Sisters Mix

Mansur Brown - God Willing
Yussef Dayes Feat. Rocco Palladino - For My Ladies
Johnny Hammond - Tell Me What To Do
The Freedom Sounds Feat. Wayne Henderson - Behold The Day
Light of the World - London Town
Kenny Dorham - Afrodisia Jazz
Donald Byrd - Think Twice
Chet Baker - The Best Thing For You
Dayme Arocena - La Rumba Me Llamo Yo
Horace Parlan - Congalegre
Gerardo Frisina - Marombo (Part II)
Llorca - The Novel Sound
Ibibio Sound Machine - The Talking Fish
Roy Ayers - I Thank You Thank You

www.musicamacondo.com

Musica Macondo on Jazz FM with Tim Garcia Ft. Sweet Lemonade Sisters

As dedicated record collectors, we at Jazzman Records love nothing more than discovering good and obscure soul, jazz and funk records.

We started out by selling rare and obscure vinyl from a market stall in Camden in the early ‘90s, and we have now branched out into reissuing those very records so sought after by collectors.

The result so far is 6 record labels and over 200 high quality releases on LP, CD, 7” and as downloads.

We continue to scour the world to find interesting and rare records to re-release... We Dig Deeper!

A2 Nat Birchall - Humility

Jazzman Records

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