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Five Things We Liked This Week - 06/03/20

March 2020 Playlist for your ears to behold!!!

MARCH 2020 - SONGS OF THE DAY

THINGS I WAS LISTENING TO THIS WEEK (3/13/20)

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21 years after starting what is the world’s longest running consecutive club session – the Brighton Jazz Rooms – comes this celebratory compilation album on Mr Bongo Records presented by its founder Russ Dewbury.

Musically the Jazz Rooms did not follow any fad or fashion. Rather it created its own and this has been the key to its success and is reflected in the album's track selection. If it's good, it gets played at the Jazz Rooms.

Over the years, just about everybody in the scene has manned the decks at the night. Luminaries include Gilles Peterson, Baz Fe Jazz, Paul Murphy and guests from all over the world such as Rainer Truby, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Espen Horne and many more. Legendary US keyboardist Weldon Irvine described it as "an international brotherhood" while Straight No Chaser Magazine called it "a legendary affair that all should attend."

Originally signed to BGP Records as A+R chief, Dewbury was instrumental in the rediscovery of artists including Jean Jacques Perrey and Terry Callier, who he subsequently managed. His own albums include the compilations Africa Funkand Club Africa on Strut Records and Freedom Time and Jazz Bizniz on Counterpoint Records. His last compilation Pulp Fusion/Africa Funk released on Harmless Records achieved significant sales around the globe.


Sarah Webster Fabio - Sweet Songs

--Credits--
Written and Performed by No Vacation
Recorded by Sean Paulson at Different Fur Studios
Synth recorded by Nat Lee
Mix and Mastered by Stefan Macarewich
Artwork by Justin Ma

~~lyrics~~

Why don’t you take off your red shoes
So we can end our night well spent

Why don’t you say what’s on your mind
I won’t run away

I won’t turn away
won't turn away

When morning comes our way
I’ll be here to stay

Staring at a distance
This warmth is hard to find
Sitting in the silence
I gave my best, I tried

Simply a distraction 
I didn’t hope to find 
Sitting by my side 
I hope you’re here to stay

Yam Yam

Preorder vinyl (12/15/17) & digital formats (11/3/17): jitwam.lnk.to/cc17

https://soundcloud.com/jitwam

At Cosmic Compositions, we’ve long felt there was a similarity between the avant-garde/free jazz scene of the 50s/60s and the modern beat generation. Both movements aimed to deconstruct, expand and rewire the conventions of their genres of origin, and were never afraid to experiment or work outside the commercial framework of the time. With our Avant Garde Series, we connected the dots between the two, paying homage to Empire State Musicians like Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, and Sun-Ra along the way. 

In more recent years, we’ve sensed kindred spirit between jazz-infected beat music, and the new generation of lo-fi funk, psychedelia, noise, and folk musicians operating around the globe. While we’ve been feeling our way towards this liminal zone with projects from the likes of Mr. Armish, Affsid Kidjhagiffy, Aporia, and our Way Out compilation, jitwam’s new album ज़ितम सिहँ might be the most beautiful expression of it we’ve released yet. 

Born in Assam, Gauhati, in Northeast India, but currently based in New York’s storied borough of Brooklyn, jitwam spent his formative years in New Zealand and Australia, before living in monasteries in Thailand, orphanages in South Africa, and washed out apartments in London. Of everywhere and nowhere, his music draws influence from a litany of iconoclasts including, but not limited to RD Burman, Moondog, The Velvet Underground, Yayoi Kusama, Jay Electronica, Jay Dilla, Moodymann, Leon Thomas, Madlib and Asha Bhosle. 

Across the album he utilises knowledge acquired through years spent digging through dusty crates, and talents honed as a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist. A series of stumbling, jazz/soul-rooted beat sculptures, each buried beneath a haze of fuzzy psychedelia, broken microphone blues, and articulated through a freestyled process he describes as “first thought, best thought”, ज़ितम सिहँ solidifies jitwam's spot as a major emerging talent. 

Recalling the fourth world dreamscapes explored by oddball songwriters like Connan Mockasin, Clarence Clarity, Jai Paul, Silicon, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra, it represents a time of transition and remembrance for jitwam, while still fulfilling the core qualities he looks for in song. In his words, “Music is a refuge. A shelter from the storm. A place you can go to close your eyes.” 

Since he first shared his music with IZWID Records boss Kutmah at a Brainfeeder afterparty in London, jitwam has released through Leaving Records, Cosmic Compositions, and The Jazz Diaries (the label he co-runs with Casey Van Reyk and Nigel Mphisa). He’s also written with Inkswel (BBE) and Paul White (R&S), featured on Moodymann’s K7! DJ Kicks compilation and been championed by Gilles Peterson, Alexander Nut, Andrew Jervis (Bandcamp), and Funkineven. Mixed and mastered by Matthew David at Stones Throw studios in Los Angeles, ज़ितम सिहँ will be available on vinyl and digital formats through Cosmic Compositions / hhv.de.

Text : Martyn Pepperell

ज़ितम सिहँ

Vinyl/Download/Stream

jitwam. - I Ain't Scared Of No Devil Feat. Dj Godfrey Ho

huge thanks to BuhDan for the drum loop used at the end of the song https://www.reddit.com/r/buhpacks

The Killers - Some Kind Of Love (Piboga Remix)

all I wanted - daughter (live at asylum chapel)

In 1972, Orchestre Abass released two incredible singles on Polydor. These records - featuring Samarin Banza, Haka Dunia and other afrofunk masterpieces - were powerful enough to knock any music head out, but it wasn’t until the discovery of some unreleased material by the band that the seeds for this project were planted. 

It all happened in 2008 in Ghana. I was going through some tapes that had previously been the property of PolyGram one of the major record companies based in west Africa. In the late 80s political instability and curfews had paralysed the music industry forcing Polygram to close their Ghanaian subsidiaries leaving all of their recordings behind. These recordings had been packed in boxes and left vegetating in an Accra warehouse for three decades until I came along. To my surprise all of the tapes looked unharmed and I was particularly relieved to hear that the Orchestre Abass tape was in an excellent state of condition. I began fiddling around with the idea of releasing an album of the band and that plan got an additional boost with le “coup de grace” which had landed in the form of an ultra rare tune called Honam discovered in Sotoboua, a small northern Togolese town in the middle of nowhere. That find completed this selection.

I had previously discovered some similar music in Northern Benin and in Nigeria and I started picturing an area that spread all the way from Northern Ghana to Northern Cameroon, an area I dubbed ‘The Islamic funk belt’ due to the fact that Super Borgou de Parakou, Napo De Mi Amor, Uppers International and Hamad Kalkaba just to name a few - all from that ‘belt’ - were groups made up of musicians with an Islamic background. This can be felt and heard in the music and particularly in the singing since many of the musicians had attended koranic schools and the languages used in the songs often had Arabic elements fused in - Orchestra Abass was one of them. 

With their heavy, organ-led sound combining with the deftest of musical touches, these records were the work of a rhythmic powerhouse and we are honoured to be in a position to present the recordings of Togo´s funkiest Band.

Unfortunately Malam Issa Abass, the founder, guitarist and organ player of the band, was killed in 1993 by a grenade thrown into his bedroom and to help me reconstruct the biography of the band I tracked down Thon Komla, one of the band´s songwriters and Abderaman Issa, the guitar player of the band. 

All the music was licensed directly from the various composers of these songs. The vinyl is pressed on 180 High Quality Virgin Vinyl and the gatefold contains previously unseen pictures and a detailed biography of the might band.

Orchestre Abass Master

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Haka Dunia - Orchestre Abass

I Like That

I Like That (feat. LCYTN)

Suddenly

Home

"Suck Up" by talker

Performed by talker
Written by Celeste Tauchar and Dan Sadin
Produced by Dan Sadin
Drums by JR Kurtz
Mixed by Kyle Mangels
Mastered by John Greenham

Photo by Kiersten Friesen
Artwork by Maria Fulan

© Common Ground Collective 2020

Suck Up

Crimson Tide

It Just Doesn't Happen

Never Come Back

SONGS I WRITE ABOUT YOU

You and I

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Westfalia - Sun Dog

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Softie

Dan Edmonds - beside you

Tropical Doubt

Salvador Dassi - Tropical Doubt

Ghost

Sipper - Ghost

Jerome

'Slugs of Love', out now on Ninja Tune: https://littledragon.lnk.to/slugs-albSo 

'New Me, Same Us', out now on Ninja Tune: https://littledragon.lnk.to/new-meSo

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New Me, Same Us

Where You Belong

Chase Weinacht - guitars, vocals
Clara Brill - violin
John Michael Landon - synthesizer, drum programming, percussion, vocals
Sam Houdek - bass
Andrew Stevens - drums

Recorded, mixed and mastered by John Michael Landon at Estuary Recording, Austin, TX.
Artwork by Paige Berry Design.

LEAP DAY
 
Yes I remember 
the pact we made
Back in 2008
Yes I remember 
On that Leap Day
Wishes shimmered like coins
 
And it was cold out
But it was not too cold to swim
And I was in over my head
But I did not have to pretend
 
On a rooftop in Bushwick at 5am
I couldn’t look at you
Without almost leaning in
And if we’d been alone
I’d have had no control
but if we’d never met up
How would I have ever known
 
At dawn we hailed a cab
To take us back
To where the van was parked
I turned to Max
Whose face was weary
In the fading Brooklyn dark
 
And as the city woke up
Something buried spoke up
I am still in love with that woman
Why does that make me feel so lost?
Why do I feel so lost?
Why do I feel so lost?
 
This year on Leap Day
Seven years later
I think I might go for a swim
I hope it’s cold out
I hope it’s empty
I hope I have accompaniment
In the shape of a friend
That shimmers like a wish in wind
I won’t ever not love you
But you can’t be the one I’m with

Chase Weinacht- "Leap Day"

Gift Horse b/w I Was On Time

I Was On Time

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Fascinating

The Legends - Fascinating (feat. Tan Cologne)

New album 'Sweet Mortality' out May 8th via Taxi Gauche Records!

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A Thousand Times

The third album from this venerable Portland band bristles with invention, wedging lyrical Dadaism into right angles off rhythmic minimalism. Out June 5th, 2020 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Lithics "Hands" (Trouble In Mind Records)

"Favourite Kind Of Girl ft @flikkamusic

Released via Blue Flowers Music
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Favourite Kind Of Girl Ft. Flikka

Tell Me It'll Be Alright

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First single from Febueder's debut album 'Tomalin Has Etched In'. Out April 24, 2020.

Réseau

Future Past Life

Budapest (feat. Shy Boys)

We made this song between a day at my place in LA and and a day at Chaz’s spot in Oakland. This was our first time working together, I’ve been a Toro Y Moi fan for a while. His song Talamak is a longtime favorite. I listened to that one a lot when I first started Flume as a project.
-Harley

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Lyrics:
The difference in between
all the faces you read
When the grass ain't green
When you fix everything

I don't know about you but I got to get it out and I don't know how soon
But if we die, I want to bring the whole thing

Chorus oooohs

Who cares about a game
when it's all been replaced
Each level feels the same
It really goes either way

I don't know about you but I got to get it out and I don't know how soon
But if we die, I want to bring the whole thing

Chorus oooohs

Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold onto
Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold on
Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold onto
Just another world that I gotta get a grip of and hold onto

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The Difference (feat. Toro y Moi)

"All Occasions" w/Tyler Rohn ft. Tessa Evans

SO DEEP

Falling Is Only Bird's View a Second (Club Edit)

The french artist Dombrance continues his series of tracks and songs inspired by politicians.

"These are not political songs, I just get inspired by their names and personality" says the producer on an interview with French TV.

In collaboration with Bufi, this is the first time Dombrance uses a non-french politician, choosing the recently elected Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AKA AMLO) and his controversial personality as his victims. Mockery or hommage? Is up to you to decide.

The single is complemented by a dreamy "Tulum" and magnificent re interpretations from in-house artists Mijo & Perfect Lovers, and Ambiance.

I Was On Time

Kevin Morby