JULY ON UN4TUNATES

There we are : Two years have passed already again since the last single by Jazzanova,
"I Human".

"Never change a winning team" is the name of the formula for success with the current coup "Now There Is We". Once again Paul Randolph takes care of vocal business and wrote lyrics that are as uplifting as only he can provide. The outcome is a infectious hybrid of vocal house and soulful pop. When Randolph repeats the line "There was me, now there is we, I never go back..." at the climax of the song, you notice that he's not only celebrating a romantic triumph, but also the community spirit of a well-functioning band, well maybe even of a party in sheer harmony.

The trademark of the track though is the ultra deep bass line – along the sophisticated live drum programming – fitting every house-set perfectly. Therefore you get – that's how service orientated Sonar Kollektiv is – the instrumental version on the flipside of this illustrious 10inch of vinyl.

Double awesome!


Product management by Oliver Glage.
Mastered by Calyx Mastering, Berlin.
Artwork by Frohe Zukunft Export.

www.jazzanova.com

10inch available:
http://www.sonarkollektiv.com/releases/SK271/

iTunes

Jazzanova - Now There Is We Feat. Paul Randolph

New album 'What We Do For Others', released 28 October 2022 on Brainfeeder: https://dorianconcept.lnk.to/wwdfoSo

Taken from the album Joined Ends, released 20 October 2014 on Ninja Tune ...

Draft Culture

A track from the Vudu back collection.... un-finished, un-heard, un-released.....but worthy of the worlds ears... 

(photo by Buster Grey-Jung) 

Laid Open (un-released / bootleg )

new t-shirt / art card single. out via dog knights productions. available exclusively on uk/ireland june tour with the winter passing.

dates & deets: https://www.facebook.com/events/1446888838956836/

.artwork by kieran gabriel.

.features additional vocals by roxy brennan (two white cranes/ towel/ joanna gruesome/formerly trust fund). 

uk/ireland june tour w winter passing dates:

10th: Galway @ Roisin Dubh / https://www.facebook.com/events/1610679189149405/

11th: Belfast @ Bar With No Name / https://www.facebook.com/events/359611150900224/

12th: Dublin @ Fibber Magees (all ages show in the basement) / https://www.facebook.com/events/1080134605331831/

13th: Manchester @ The Castle Hotel / https://www.facebook.com/events/1014847231921910/

14th: Kingston @ Fighting Cocks / https://www.facebook.com/events/1662461850640954/

15th: Brighton @ Green Door Store / https://www.facebook.com/events/1061943580501377/

16th: Southsea @ Drift / https://www.facebook.com/events/1605496399664856/

17th: Nottingham @ JT Soar / https://www.facebook.com/events/651923068284555/

18th: Leeds @ Brudenell Social Club / https://www.facebook.com/events/937854819579820/ / http://www.wegottickets.com/event/318130

19th: London @ Birthdays / https://www.facebook.com/events/389848114541861/

20th: Cardiff @ Undertone (there's no need to be upset fest (all dayer)) / https://www.facebook.com/events/479536012223342/

lyrics:

if all you are is paper cups
then all i am is rotten luck 
if all you are is paper 
then all i am is paper 

the summer smelt like daffodils  
i've got butterflies again 
we keep it loose like,
'who dares who'

one more time 

her voice sounds smart 
i'm dreaming with a dryer mouth & a knotted tongue 
you'd never drive me anywhere
you know that i grew up here 

i said, 'plain sailing'.
for all my friends in waiting
there's another hour for us to kill
we sit out back, complaining 
drink coffee while it's raining 
i am happy that you're happier still 

a little trouble breathing
from colder air this season 
there's no charm, just slurs in this open mouth 
sleep underneath a mirror
my handwriting is messier 
i'll be counting aches for days before you find out 

you say so's

Single Launch, The Finsbury July 21st

Heart it on Hypem - http://hypem.com/track/2bsp7/ESCAPISTS+-+Eat+You+Alive



ESCAPISTS - Eat You Alive

Heart Skips A Beat

'Marching Orders' is available from iTunes here: http://po.st/marchingordersitunes

Marching Orders

Limousine EP

Format: CD, Download | Releasedate: 09.10.2015

It is only natural and consistent for Pete Josef to release his debut album on Berlin based label Sonar Kollektiv, since it is the very same imprint he has been featured on in numerous productions over the last three years – as a singer and as a songwriter.  The close link with Sonar Kollektiv took it's course when in autumn 2012 label manager Oliver Glage signed “Make It Good” by The White Lamp (Josef's project together with Ex-Underworld member Darren Emerson), for the label.  From there, he has made contributions to Alex Barck's album “Reunion”, to tracks with Paskal & Urban Absolutes and Marlow, and to “Broken Connection” off the debut album by ComixXx released just recently.  

The young Brit, inspired over the years by such collaborations, and socialized in the lively Bristol scene, has come up with an 11-track strong masterpiece of modern pop music.  In the opening track, “Spring At Last”, he and singer Marie Lister, accompanied by Justin “Captain” Fellow's industrious drumming and a host of Bristol String and Horn players, praise the thrill of anticipation of all the things to come.  For instance, a powerful pinch of dance grooves and soul/Jazz elements – always connected to the here and now without making any retro references at any point along the course.

“Mistress”, with screaming guitars and yet more powerful horn arrangements, reminiscent of Donny Hathaway’s “Voices Inside”, could almost be a new Stevie Wonder record.  In “Move On” Josef's Jazzpop turns Country-Ska, most notably thanks to his West African style claw-hammer guitar playing and some inspired drumming from Greg Freeman.  And on “Night Gospel” it is the piano that surfaces, over a lilting programmed, club-compliant beat.  Variety is guaranteed in every respect.. “Live Your Life” is a downright Afro-Jazz anthem complete with scat singing, off-beat double bass from Roshan ‘Tosh’ Wijetunge, and the mantra-like repeated chorus: “live your life, live it well”.  Whilst the Neo-Soul ambience of Running in series and Many Signs lament lost and broken love, new love is later expressed clearly as Josef carols.. “feeling the new; feeling cupids smile descend” on the buoyant, summery “Something Good”. 

The production of “The Travelling Song” has just a hint of the legendary Steely Dan productions, albeit with a modern almost hip-hop slant, and builds to put the listener into a firmly euphoric space with a Samba-funk rhythm section crafted by the virtuoso percussionist Rory Francis.  In short, “Colour” is every shade of the rainbow, from bright light, to contemplative dark.  “Hope” has all the colours in one, with lyrical positivity set against almost mournful Afrobeat ballad accompanied.  It is a setting of the poem by Emily Dickinson (“hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul”), and features a glorious improvised solo by free-Jazz trumpeter, Nick Malcolm; in which he virtually embodies the bird described in the verse through his fluttering expressive melodies.  In closing, as the album's finale, we are treated to the title track “Colour” ..and it is here where Pete Josef reveals where much of his inspiration, his optimism and his balance of mind springs from: it is his love of nature, in all it’s wondrous colour that is subtly expressed throughout his music.  Therefore not only the song “Colour”, but the whole album is de facto an ode to nature, together with the shades of emotion we all experience in our lives.  No surprise here then that Mr. Josef recently settled in a cottage in rural Somerset amid forests, meadows, and close to the natural world he loves so much.


Colour

Spring At Last

01 - Pete Josef - Spring At Last

Not shackled to any one sound, Meraqi's music begins live, weaving together glitchy electronics with soulful songwriting, powerful hooks and instrumental prowess. Deep bass, haunting vocals and grass-roots grooves meet in a kaleidoscopic musical experience falling somewhere between a sweaty underground rave and a smoky late-night vinyl discovery.

Recorded by Meraqi at Fat Tank Studios
Produced & Mixed by Neeta Sarl
Mastered by Aneek Thepar

Check out our stripped back performance for http://www.soundcloud.com/SofarSounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33igzT6r-g8
FULL BAND Live Session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWWNPBPpd4
Official Music Video: http://tinyurl.com/CONTOURSyoutube 
More info: http://www.meraqi.co.uk

Contours

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US Spring Tour Announced - http://found.ee/taylor-sk

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Taylor McFerrin - 'Postpartum' (Dorian Concept Remix)

Bonus track from our 3rd EP, 'Steel Skies'. 

Free download. Merry Christmas!

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/fd7b61'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Oh Son, No Son

Oh Son, No Son ***FREE DOWNLOAD***

160BPM beat 157.11  [preview]

After two celebrated releases on London based imprint XVI Records, Brighton’s Yumi And The Weather triumphantly returns with two brilliant cuts of forward thinking cosmic pop, released on her brand new label MIOHMI Records.

‘Distant Days’ sees Yumi channelling her hazy coastal sound into shimmering layers of expansive production and undeniable grooves. DUB FX drenched chords reverberate their way through a technicolour spectrum, perfectly complimented by her harmonious tones – summoning memories of close relationships lost in the falling sands of time.

Driven relentlessly forward by its punchy synth pattern ‘In The Night’ provides a soaring and uplifting anthem: taking the listener on a journey of nocturnal escapism. Drifting through a private melancholic world of shifting sounds, spine tingling arpeggios slice through the thick, ominous atmosphere as her anthemic vocals elevate your consciousness to the next astral plane. Berlin based Ambassadeurs step up on remix duty, working it into an epic, weaving, ethereal rollercoaster.

Out on limited edition 7" vinyl on MIOHMI RECORDS 12.05.17
Pre order here >> http://www.yumiandtheweather.bandcamp.com

Written, mixed and produced by Yumi And The Weather. Additional mixing and Mastering by Mark Dobson @ Coda Mastering.

Distant Days / In The Night

Pre-order 7" Vinyl.

Distant Days

Our remix of Little Dragon's excellent 'Twice'.

Little Dragon - Twice (Coda's Gully Noise Mix) [Free Download]

Meraqi TV: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96_bP3EOae0&list=PL6kNz8DmxGprJsSHz8AycuqwJTG1FatkM

Contact:
Management: tony.thorpe4@gmail.com
Press: jim@wormfood.co.uk
Anything else: neetamusic@gmail.com or yomeraqi@gmail.com

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7imDd44d93FCx8dTFj4iIs
Bandcamp: https://meraqi.bandcamp.com/
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/10083578
Google Play: http://tinyurl.com/oats5ht
Juno: http://tinyurl.com/oe88q4q
Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/p9grzey
Shazam: http://www.shazam.com/track/250104325/vistas
iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/merakivistas

Head of Music @ MCR Live

Freelance Interviewer, previously working for BBC Radio Wales, Horizons/Gorwelion interviewing & artist liaison. Also prior work as Digital Content Producer at Communicorp and SRA Selector presenter 2016.

I have a passion for discovering the best in new music including unsigned/undercover bands in the UK. HMU if you think thats you and I might have some opportunities!

peace and love, Jess, xxx
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email: jess@mcr.live

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