Jazz

Smokey Hormel played with Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Beck, David Lynch ...

Groovadelic Ethio music
Order CD or VINYL on www.blackflower.be

Smokey Hormel: electric guitar
Nathan Daems: Baritone & Alto & Tenor saxophone, flute, composition
Jon Birdsong: Cornet
Wouter Haest: Keys
Simon Segers: Drums
Filip Vandebril: Bass

Upwards by Black Flower feat. Smokey Hormel (album Abyssinia Afterlife)

The new recording from ALIENTO.
Release Date (France) : 27.10.2014

Balkan Pursuit

As sampled by Nas and Damian Marley on the new single ‘As We Enter’

Mulatu Astatke - Yegelle Tezeta

Wim T J Segers: Vibes
Bart Vervaeck: Guitar
Mattias Geernaert: Bass
Robbe Kieckens: Congas
Frederik Van den Berghe: Drums
Track written by Wim Segers
Recorded by Frederik Segers at Boma Studio (Ghent)
Mastered by Frederik Dejongh at Jerboa Mastering
comprooromusic.be
facebook.com/ComproOroMusic 
compro.oro.band@gmail.com
0032485568515 (wim)

Compro Oro -  Hire Desire

Debut album from AddisAbabaBand.

https://www.facebook.com/Addisabababand

Piakågerenout

Jojpe

Balance

From www.DavidByrne.com

John Fitzgerald is one of the most passionate collectors of music we here at Luaka Bop have ever met. He is one of those people who just cares about finding great music, and then genuinely wants to share it with as many people as possible. In the world of record collecting, DJing and working with obscure music from the past—this kind of feature is much more rare than you might think.

For this month's show, DJ Fitz, as most people know him, has put together a mix of his favorite songs from the Middle East and Magreb, focused on the golden era of disco and funk. The mix features a few very rare 7"s he found (under a fish bowl!) during his first visit to Turkey in 2006, and others he's come across since then: the great Ahmed Fakroun from Benghazi, Libya, is featured twice, while the brothers Ziad, Elias and Gassan Rahbani have a few songs, too. Their mother, the legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz, appears towards the end of the show. As always with our show, we don’t attempt to make a representative selection of a whole region or era, it’s just the favorite songs of whoever is making this month’s show… smile

Besides DJing and record collecting, Fitz works with a lot of artists from all over the world. His “day job” is as a booking agent (he recently had the fantastic Mamane Sani, an organ player from Niger, play at his house in London!), and for many years he worked as a tour manager, with bands such as Animal Collective, tUnE-yArDs, Gang Gang Dance, and others. Whenever we release something at Luaka Bop, we sometimes (get lucky?) and the release gets championed by various influential artists or DJs around the world. As time goes, I can usually trace many of those people back to Fitz. It's like a big family tree, with him as the roots. I’ve started calling him "the source of all things good". He is always turning me on to a lot great stuff I've never heard before, too! (Here's the most recent example of that.)

To hear more mixes by DJ Fitz, check out his page on mixcloud and his popular podcast called “the DOODCAST”. For upcoming DJ gigs, please visit his website (he is playing the Film Festival in Istanbul next week, if you are lucky enough to be there).

Hope you like the music!

And thank you to David Macleod for the sound editing! 

Love,
Luaka Bop

APRIL RADIO: MIDDLE EASTERN & MAGHREB DISCO FUNK FROM THE GOLDEN ERA (1975-1985) by DJ FITZ


Dylan Jones - Trumpet 
James Mollison - Tenor Saxophone 
Joe Armon-Jones 
TJ Koleoso - Bass 
Femi Koleoso - Drums

Enter The Jungle

Dania

Negev

Mulatu Astatke - Yèkèrmo Sèw (A Man of Experience and Wisdom)

Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu (mono version)

Vinyl, CD and digital: https://www.faroutrecordings.com/collections/nomadeorquestra/products/nomade-orquestra-entremundos

Nomade Orquestra return from the stratosphere via Brazil with their second offering: Entremundos (Between Worlds). Gazing outward through a kaleidoscope from the heart of Sao Paulo’s jazz scene, the collective consciousness of the ten-man orquestra has dreamt up an adventurous amalgam of earth’s most far reaching musical cultures. Recorded at Red Bull Studios, Sao Paulo, Entremundos is like a cosmic musical playground where Ethio-jazz, Indian classical and Oriental sounds dance around Afro-Brazilian roots rhythms and Northern hemisphere jazz, funk, soul, library music and hip-hop influences. The sheer vastness of the album is astounding, Nomade Orquestra have quite literally conquered the world in sound.

Entremundos

Jardins de Zaira

The album MARA will be out on March 16th.

Pre-Order: https://oye-records.com/artists/Fazer

Instore-Tour 2018:

20/3 OYE Records, Berlin
21/3 Groove City Recordstore, Hamburg
22/3 Groove Attack, Köln
23/3 Public Possession, München

More info: http://bit.ly/2nWt7XN

Mara

Pre-Order

Mara (FAZ001)

Welcome to the first mix from the Out Of This World Chill Out Funk series.

The mix represents the Amsterdam Coffee Shop experience and is a chill out mix of Funks featuring music from Barney’s Coffee Shop in Amsterdam.

I’ve selected the best tracks from my recent visit and put them together in a 6 hour chill out mix for you to relax and unwind to.

The mix is great for back ground music, is easy listening and is eclectic featuring multiple genres ranging from Funk to Soul, Raggae to Dub and Ambient to Electro; there’s plenty of variety.

The Funk Assassin would like to thank Barney's for allowing me to put this mix together.

Please Follow The Funk Assassin on Soundcloud @thefunkassassin for exclusive content.

Enjoy the journey!

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BARNEYS AMSTERDAM CHILL OUT MIX BEST CLASSIC FUNK SOUL DISCO GROOVE LATIN JAZZ R&B HIP HOP AFROBEAT

Dorset Perception (Shpongle Cover)

The second single off The Monk Batucada's upcoming album, SUGAR CUBES AND INK. 

Lucas Nygaard - Drums 
Magnus Wiinblad - Sax 
Jonathan Bjørn Kieding - Bass 
Nicolai Nybro Hansen - Guitar 
Julie Frisslund - Harp 
Freja Slot - Piano 
Gasoline Monk - Keys & Organ 

Produced by Gasoline Monk 
Composed by Lucas Nygaard 
Mixed by Mikkel Larsen 
Mastered by Andreas Waze 
Engineered by Boe Larsen 
Recorded at MillFactory NuVenue in Copenhagen

Sugar Cubes & Ink

Not All Clouds Are Safe

On his debut album Travesseiro Feliz (Happy Pillow) Rio de Janeiro based dreamer and new Far Out Recordings signing Ricardo Richaid melds his tropical heritage with his love for psychedelic music, jazz and rock. He also takes inspiration from the many Brazilian greats – Caetano Veloso, Arthur Verocai, Ivan Lins, Joyce, Hermeto Pascoal, Marcos Valle and Azymuth (to name a few) – who he has worked with as an engineer, assistant and producer, in Rio’s former RCA studio, Cia dos Tecnicos.

As well as being heavily influenced by Brazil’s fabled Tropicalia movement, Richaid is the grandson of Brazilian actor, singer and Disney star Aurora Miranda (Carmen Miranda’s younger sister), so tropicalism is in his blood. Describing his sound as ‘Industrial Tropicalism’, Richaid’s music is undoubtedly a product of his environment. Just like Rio, it’s warm, hazy and beautiful. But reflecting the current mood of his homeland, there’s an ominous smog looming amongst its charm. Lamenting the political, economic and ecological crisis he sees engulfing Brazil, Richaid’s obscure, poetic lyrics touch on drugs, drones and darkness, emphasizing the importance of art to bring light in troubled times.

The unconventional time signatures and sunny jazz-folk meets post-punk aesthetic are adorned by Richaid’s studio smarts. Working day to day in Rio’s top studios, he developed a comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of the recording process. But seeking autonomy and total creative independence, Richaid went on an equipment finding mission in the USA. Upon returning, he set to work building his own studio in Rio’s Gavea district and began writing the tracks that would become Travesserio Feliz. Singlehandedly composing, producing and mixing everything himself, Richaid recalls the endless nights he spent working on the album, often sleeping on the studio floor.

Travisseiro Feliz features a host of notable names from across Rio’s music spectrum, including percussion sensation Marcos Suzano (Gilberto Gil), experimental pop artist Ana Frango Eletrico, and vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jose Ibarra, who has been lauded for his recent performances as part of Milton Nascimento’s touring group. On interlude track ‘Formigas’ we also hear a few verses of Ricardo singing together with his 7-year-old daughter, Nina Richaid.

Living with his grandmother Aurora Miranda until the age of seventeen (who featured in Walt Disney’s Three Caballeros film, and happens to be the first human being to kiss Donald Duck… really!), young Ricardo would listen with intrigue to his father playing chromatic scales and bossa nova melodies on the saxophone; his mother’s Brazilian classical piano; or his punk rock brother slamming the drums. This eclectic musical upbringing led a teenage Ricardo to learning his trade as the bassist in a short-lived hard rock band, which disbanded when Ricardo began to dig deeper discovering the likes of Os Mutantes, King Crimson, Frank Zappa and especially the ‘Clube De Esquina’ sound pioneered by Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges. Since then, alongside engineering some of his musical heroes in Brazil, Richaid has played in bands like Mara Rúbia and nitú, from Rio’s underground experimental psych and jazz scenes.

Following lead single ‘Largado Nu’ on the 17th January, Richaid will release his debut album Travessiero Feliz on limited vinyl, CD, cassette and digitally in March 2020, via Far Out Recordings.

Vinyl / CD / Digi

Ricardo Richaid - Largado Nu

Julien Behar - alto sax, flute
Christophe Chaïr - drums, percussions 
Rémi Gadret - electric bass
Philippe Rak - vibraphone

Jazz

Nik108