Making the most of those Linn drum sounds! Fantastic beat.

Artwork by Laura Schütte
℗  & © Invisible City Editions
ICE-005R

Here's a preview from our release (ICE-005), Zambian band Witch's early 80's rarity Movin' On. Known for their psychedelic fuzz masterpiece Lazy Bones, this is another side of Witch. This time around the band created another masterpiece, but this time with a whole new sound capturing the spirit of the early 80's, and changing political atmosphere in Africa with a perfect mix of MJ/Jake Solo boogie, and Fleetwood Mac AOR moves. This is an album in the fullest sense, a snapshot of the group at their creative peak, with stellar musicianship, blending American and African influences and peerless production and synthesizer work by the great Patrick Mwondela. This is the African/Balearic boogie version of Band On The Run.

European distribution by Rush Hour: http://www.rushhour.nl/distribution_detailed.php?item=71066
For North American distribution inquiries please contact us direct: info@invisiblecityeditions.com

Witch -  Let's Get Together (CLIP) (ICE 005)

Labas!
mielieji klausovai ir klausovės, su jumis sveikinasi raštininkės Viltė ir Emilija ir serviruoja collab'inį mix'ą pirmadieniui praskaidrinti. Enjoy!
   Hello!
      Dear listeners, Viltė and Emilija from Raštinė are              welcoming you to this collab mix which was created in order to brighten up your monday blues. Enjoy!

Raštinė Radio S01 - E02 February'23

To be released on Luaka Bop as part of a limited edition William Onyeabor Boxset, on November 11, 2014

William Onyeabor's "Body & Soul" by Peaking Lights

Cafe Lanai "Paradise" EP - Out Now on Hybridity Music

Buy Digital - smarturl.it/PARADISEEPBUY
Buy Vinyl - smarturl.it/PARADISEEPVINYL
Stream - smarturl.it/PARADISEEPSTREAM

1 - Lanai
2 - Le stud 
3 - Girl Music
4 - So
5 - Skyboyy

Dive into a magical night where moonlight meets the ocean waves. ‘Moonlight Rhythm’ takes you on an endless dance beneath sparkling stars – dreamy, hypnotic, and full of rhythm.

Moonlight Rhythm

Noodly synth lines over a low-swung dub beat, accompanied by baritone vocals that sounds like a heartbroken Ian Curtis trapped on a desert island. Taken from a new EP with @raphael-top-secret on @antinote-records. 

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/05/17/premiere-raphael-top-secret-love-so-high/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/raphael-top-secret-love

Listen on Youtube

Raphael Top-Secret & Nelson Bishop - Love So High (STW Premiere)

Skip/Jump/Make Some Noise! -  a Psychogeographical Sat Nav by LoneLady feat. The LRM

A new track by LoneLady commissioned by The LRM to celebrate their 10-year anniversary exhibition at The People's History Museum, Manchester.

The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement) is a Manchester-based collective interested in psychogeography, public space and uncovering the secret stories of the city.  Since 2006 they have been organising public walks, dérives (drifts), games and spectacles offering new ways to explore the streets. 

Written, performed, recorded and mixed by Julie Campbell, C+P Warp 2016.
Spoken words written and performed by Morag Rose.
Additional singing by Julie Campbell.

The Street Is Your Playground (LRM Mix)

London producer Hector Plimmer takes Afriquoi's diasporic African sound into deeper electronic territories, with soaring melodies and Shabaka Hutchings’ reverbed sax forming the foundation. Released on Record Store Day on Wormfood & One House Records.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2017/04/07/premiere-afriquoi-starship-hector-plimmer-remix/
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/starship-plimmer

Afriquoi - Starship (Hector Plimmer Remix) (STW Premiere)

"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)

Peaking Lights - Dream Beat

LoneLady is Julie Campbell >> songwriter, musician, singer, producer from Manchester, UK
colour workouts, cement beats >> machine groove, funk economy >> cassette magic, wilderness energy >>

The Street Is Your Playground (LRM Mix)

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