Jeff Parker – Suite for Max Brown

On the Corner

See also <a href="spotify:playlist:2LhIfc3F0GRtoSLEbyZ1Ys">Intro</a>, <a href="spotify:playlist:6lTqLDdcZ6tOi2YVZEC5eA">Pulse</a>, <a href="spotify:playlist:0yFw1Qgvfqy1qho9dLwi6I">Edge</a>, <a href="spotify:playlist:7vTpvFaJw1IgBD4GAsPz15">♀Filter</a> 

The Sound of Freak Folk

GvsB

brighteyeslowfruit

As their third release for the year, Pacific Cruise stands as a bold statement of intention from prolific Melbourne outfit Foreign/National; another leap forward for a collective never content with stasis.  

A continuation of their production partnership with Joey Walker (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard), Pacific Cruise was born on a glacial winter night, raised in sweaty rehearsal rooms and quickly matured as a staple of the band’s live show - a favourite for audiences throughout the country. 

While retaining their usual spread of crunching, saturated instrumentation, the band again nod lovingly toward slow-burning Motown classics in Pacific Cruise’s skittering and bullish rhythm section.  

Though a healthy dose of fatalism remains present in the single’s lyrics, it does not - by any means - keep the listener at arm’s length. Each phrase carries a careful build-and-release of harmonic tension. Lapping gently over an arrangement spacious by the band’s own standards, the feeling is intimate and resolute. 

From its opening bars, Pacific Cruise whispers with casual menace. By the time those whispers become cries, the saxophone solo hits its peak and confusion gives way for clarity, it’s impossible to turn back. Either you’re right about this, or wrong about everything. 

ARTWORK: Alex Jennings ( www.ajayjennings.com )

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Pacific Cruise

First single from the new Woods album, City Sun Eater In The River Of Light, out April 8, 2016.

WOODS
CITY SUN EATER IN THE RIVER OF LIGHT
LABEL: WOODSIST
CD / LP / CS / DL
Street Date: April 8, 2016

"Woods have always been experts at distilling life epiphanies into compact chunks of psychedelic folk that exists just outside of any sort of tangible time or place. Maybe those epiphanies were buried under cassette manipulation or drum-and-drone freakouts, or maybe they were cloaked in Jeremy Earl’s lilting falsetto, but over the course of an impressive eight albums, Woods refined and drilled down their sound into City Sun Eater in the River of Light, their ninth LP and second recorded in a proper studio. It’s a dense record of rippling guitar, lush horns, and seductive, bustling anxiety about the state of the world. It’s still the Woods you recognize, only now they’re dabbling in zonked out Ethiopian jazz, pulling influence from the low key simmer of Brown Rice, and tapping into the weird dichotomy of making a home in a claustrophobic city that feels full of possibility even as it closes in on you. City Sun Eater in the River of Light is concise, powerful, anxious—barreling headlong into an uncertain, constantly shifting new world." -Sam Hockley-Smith


WOODS - SUN CITY CREEPS

Gap In The Clouds

NoName Song

Elk river (six organs of admittance cover)

Mug Museum

Are You with Me Now?

Destroyer's Rubies

Painter in Your Pocket

MØNIC

A. Deep Summer
AA. Deep Summer - Burial Remix

Available to order from:
http://store.osirismusicuk.co.uk/album/m-nic-deep-summer-burial-remix

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Mønic - Deep Summer - Burial Remix - Osiris Music uk

Im starting to up some of my long-buried African records that get shamefully little play. Afro Overflow is all about little-known b-sides, obscurities and scratchy, muddy and forgotten records that nobody plays anymore.

Superb melancholic highlife by Akwaboa's Band. Bandleader Kwabena Akwaboa was a major player in Ghana highlife scene starting in the 1960's playing with his own bands and also in K Gyasi's band. Chilled playing, atmospheric mood and the slow pace make this a master class track in my books. Scarce UK press on Decca. 1966.

DJ IJJ'S AFRO OVERFLOW: Akwaboa's Band - Onuapa Due

With their cosmic jazz celebration, Sun Ra Arkestra was one of the closing acts of Le Guess Who? 2017. We’re pleased to now bring you the full recording of this show, spanning decades of the Sun Ra legacy. The song ‘Discipline 27-II’ features a special guest appearance by King Khan. 

Visit our website to read the astonishing story ‘Sun Ra Arkestra & The Missing Saxophone’, about how the show was saved by a rare saxophone we had to hunt down last-minute: https://www.leguesswho.nl/news/sun-ra-arkestra-lgw17-recordings

About Sun Ra Arkestra:
The legendary Sun Ra Arkestra isn’t so much an ensemble as it is an ideology passed on from generation to generation. Founder Sun Ra (visionary pianist, poet, electronica pioneer and composer Herman Blount), derived from the planet Saturn, built a unique universe where jazz and spirituality converged. Marshall Allen, involved in Sun Ra since 1958, took over the lead after the death of Sun Ra in 1993. Under Allen’s guidance, the Arkestra continues to ascend towards parts unknown.

Recorded by Marc Broer at Le Guess Who? 2017 on Sunday, 12 November. Recordings made in cooperation with VPRO / Vrije Geluiden: www.vpro.nl/vrije-geluiden/lees/festivals/lgw/2017.html

Photography by Jelmer de Haas.
More info on Le Guess Who?: www.leguesswho.com

Sun Ra Arkestra - Seductive Fantasy

Hatley

"Closed Space" is the first single from CFCF's forthcoming album Liquid Colours

Montreal’s earnest-kitsch-explorer CFCF (aka Mike Silver) has been honing gentle revisions and updates on the outmoded luxuries of pop and new age music for years now. Now he returns with a ‘spiritual sequel’ to his much-loved 2015 ambient opus ’The Colours of Life’, refitted with an eye towards the bygone future: oxygen lounges, chill- out rooms, luminescent spas, and breakbeats. Told in 15 movements, ‘Liquid Colours’ is a 42-minute new age jungle odyssey, perfect for a journey into a dreamworld of pure consumerism. Like all of CFCF’s work, it’s as sincerely and painstakingly composed as it is gently sardonic.

Liquid Colours

Closed Space (Single Edit)

Late Night Feelings

Late Night Feelings (Krystal Klear Remix) [feat. Lykke Li]

Suite for Max Brown

Gnarciss

After the Rain

C'mon Now

Build a Nest (feat. Ruby Parker)

Metamorphoses

Fusion Swirl

Burning Wooden Ship

Rose Rouge

Composed, performed and recorded by MonoNeon
DOWNLOAD SONG HERE: https://dywanethomasjr.bandcamp.com/track/breathing-while-black

lyrics:

Breathing while black
You took me from my roots
Now I want it back
You beat me when I’m down
We are crying for help don't you see the problem all around
Do my tears have to be white for you to understand me
That can’t be right
We are tired and angry
Mad at the world
The devil must leave

Let’s sing about revolution
To start a evolution
Let’s sing about revolution
To start a evolution

Breathing while black
We been unheard far too long
Marching, protesting
How many times we have to do this
To get a blessing
We will stand tall
Ready for the evil to fall
We are tired and we are angry
Mad at the world
The devil must leave

Let’s sing about revolution
To start a evolution
Let’s sing about revolution
To start a evolution

"BREATHING WHILE BLACK" by MonoNeon

Miracles