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Jazzy Grooves - Escuchame

Jimmy The Twin And Alex Boogie Cafe - Dynamite

SOYUZ (СОЮЗ) stole our hearts back in 2022 when we released their album Force Of The Wind to critical acclaim. Here we proudly present the predecessor to that LP, the band’s sophomore long player from 2019 that was previously only available digitally. It captures a pivotal evolving period in the band's career, the recordings giving a snapshot of what would become their sound on Force Of The Wind, yet with echoes of avant-psychedelic-pop footprints from yester years.

Produced at a time when band leader Alex Chumak had moved from Minsk to Kyiv, torn between the need to try something new and the homesickness it brought about. Travelling back to Minsk almost weekly, Alex joined fellow band members Mikita Arlou and Stanislav Murashko to lay down II at Studio 42. The album captures these transient feelings, contextualised through the broad scope of influences the band were nourished by. From MPB to Ethio-Jazz and the Italian library soundtracks of Piero Piccioni and Piero Umiliani, the album shines with touches of joy from across the globe.

The opening track 'Verocai' is a tribute to the Brazilian maestro and 'Mirouze', whilst being named after a French favourite of the band, Jean-Pierre Mirouze, pays clear homage to Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges. A ghostly sample and invisible connection to music made miles away in a different era that has influenced and become part of the band’s lives. This is further reinforced in the album's enchanting closer, the aptly titled 'Nascimento', another nod to the great Brazilian musician and singer.

The beginnings of the cinematic, soul-laden jazz SOYUZ are now known for, are on display across the likes of ‘Lyric’ and 'Motive I'. The latter an orchestrated jazz instrumental with sensuous string sections, all of which were recorded on the warmth of a Studer reel-to-reel and waltzing Rhodes keys.

SOYUZ’s wide-ranging palate is further demonstrated in tracks like ‘Business Partners’ with its Krauty, kosmische, new wave production featuring Inturist, and the oh-too-short Anatolian-influenced interlude 'Corrida'. Elsewhere, 'Tezeta' and ‘ES-2 Jazz’ hint at the psychedelic haze of soul-funk, with the former featuring verses from Serbian rapper Petar Martic.

For this new physical and digital release, the whole album was mixed from scratch by Ryan Power before Joker worked his magic on the remaster. More excellence is to come from SOYUZ, but in the meantime, we are thrilled to present this essential recording from the band’s foundational years, mixed to a level that does it the justice it deserves.

SOYUZ - Kreditnaya (Remastered)

Transmission Towers are operational, broadcasts have been received across the globe. Transmission One is inbound and ‘Sparse’ is the second oscillation from Mark Kyriacou and Eleanor Mante’s highly anticipated debut album, on Luke Una’s E Soul Cultura label. A stripped back, slo-mo cut of heads down, Detroit-flavoured deep house merged with futuristic machine soul.

The foundations for ‘Sparse’, laid with a pulsating kick and echoing rimshot, are simple, raw and immediately effective. Claps and clicks interject like strikes of light through the darkness. Channelling sonic architects such as Theo Parrish and Ron Trent, sounds with signatures bring an emotional presence. Pensive chords and deft piano keys sweep you up, with that subwoofer shaking bassline, rattling across the cosmos. Anchoring the track, Eleanor’s vocals entice from the depths with a soulfulness that is threaded through all of what Transmissions Towers do. 

Late-night reflections, cross-temporal reverberations, ‘Sparse’ is a timeless slice of emotive brilliance.

Transmission Towers - Sparse

from Midori Hirano, Nils Mosh - Kaleidoskop M​ü​nsterland (2024)

To listen & buy full tracks:
https://midorih.bandcamp.com/album/kaleidoskop-m-nsterland

Kaleidoskop M​ü​nsterland

Nordwalde

Midori Hirano, Nils Mosh - Nordwalde (excerpt)

Afternoon Light

Etnikorp

Lurking in the darkness patiently, along with both tracks of the Ominous Shanti / Black Enchantment 7" - is the bonus remix from Black Classical… 

(Bandcamp Bonus track)

Ominous Shanti (Black Classical's Om & Om & Om Remix)

Buck Masters, J. S. Buck aka Kevin of Brainstory and Buckleberry Fin aka Brian Jamal Edwards present: 4 Seasons, a sonic interpretation of Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. 4 Seasons glides through aural  moods with the weather patterns dictating where to go. From The boisterous and flamboyant colors of spring, to the hot grooves of a beloved summer, onto the soothing and sometimes heartbreaking chills of Fall and Winter, listeners encounter stories and memories captured on wax that have touched both selectors and hopefully the listener as well. Kevin and Brian are long time musical collaborators, both out of Rialto, Ca. As a young buck, Kevin learned the art of songwriting through observing Brian write and record his original tunes on a 8 track tape recorder and both got their start as an acoustic duo called Ten Year Gap in around 2005. 

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BCR Radio 025 - 4 Seasons

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BCR Radio Episode 025 - Kevin Martin & Brian Jamal Edwards - 4 Seasons

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