Dinner Table Jazz

Flute/Clarinet/Tenor Sax/Bass Clarinet: Sly5thAve
Guitar: Jamie Leeming
Keys: Alfa Mist
Bass: Ben Reed
Drums: Richard Spaven

Recorded at: Lightship 95 by Giles Barrett
Mixed by: Jamie Leeming
Additional Mixing by: Stuart Matthews, Alfa Mist and Jamie Leeming at Invada Studios
Engineered by: Stuart Matthews
Mastered by: Guy Davie at Electric Mastering

Written by: Jamie Leeming and Sly5thAve
Orchestrated by: Sly5thAve
Produced by: Jamie Leeming
Sekito Records

Late One (feat. Sly5thAve)

Rivers in the Desert

Expanse (feat. Philip Dizack)

Listen on all platforms: https://idol-io.ffm.to/jerk-dance-beneath-the-dripping-moon
Pre-order the album: https://jerkmakesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/as-night-falls
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dance beneath the dripping moon

68 Sentiments

68 Sentiments (feat. Carlos Henriquez & Obed Calvaire)

The Complete Public Access: WPAA TV Session

Faith (WPAA TV Session)

Listen everywhere: https://idol-io.ffm.to/devra-on-the-way-ep
Support on Bandcamp: https://devra.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-way-ep
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On The Way

Live n' Learn

Live n' Learn (Radio Version)

Why I Cry

Why I Cry (Radio Version)

sierra madre

Dare to Fly

Dare to Fly (Brazilian Version)

Alfa Mist - "Give Nothing"
Taken from the album 'Roulette' - out now
Buy / listen here: https://lnk.to/alfamist_roulette

Recorded & Mixed at: Invada 
Mixed by: Alfa Mist 
Engineer & Additional mixing: Stuart Matthews
Strings recorded at: Lightship 95
Engineered by: David Holmes
Produced by: Alfa Mist
Mastered by: Guy at Electric Mastering 

Publisher: Faber 
Written & Composed by: Alfa Sekitoleko
Alfa Sekitoleko - Keys, Synths, Vocals
Kaya Thomas-Dyke - Double Bass
Samuel Rapley - Sax/Bass Clarinet
Johnny Woodham - Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Jamie Leeming - Guitar
Jamie Houghton - Drums


Painting: Kaya Thomas-Dyke
Design: Patch D Keyes

On his sixth studio release Roulette, the prolific producer, songwriter, pianist and MC Alfa Mist has created his own sci-fi universe - a vast dystopia where themes of revenge, forgiveness and redemption loom large.

Alfa Mist’s albums have always tackled big themes. This time, however, he explores an imagined near-future in which reincarnation is discovered to be a potent tool linking dreams and past lives. But with this discovery comes consequences: ethical, moral and philosophical. “If reincarnation is real, how does that shape society?” he explains. “If reincarnation means accumulation of knowledge, would you share it and enable everyone to understand more about the world? Or do you struggle for power? And do some people want to stop others from remembering who they were?”
Over 15 tracks, Alfa explores these ideas with heady potency. Each song is a spin of the wheel – a different song and character. The musician’s signature is still there – lambent keys, intuitive groove, free-flowing jazz improvisation – but Roulette is imbued with a smoky psychedelia. An immersive listen, this album is designed “to feel” on every level, says Alfa. It also contains some of his most impressive arrangements yet - see the eight-minute title track that effortlessly flips through time signatures – “because life’s like that,” says Mist; it’s not always linear.

Roulette underlines Alfa Mist as one of the most forward-thinking composers in UK music, with poignant, plaintive melodies that lodge deep in your psyche. “I’m exploring different parts of myself,” he says. “But obviously, as I grow, all of those parts change. Music is a constant; it’s my state of mind that I constantly chisel and work on and make sure that’s always growing and staying interested in new things. As long as I do that, it’ll come out in the music.” 
credits


Give Nothing

I’ve been sat on this one a little while. Amanda and I have been in communication now since around 2021, after a few messages we met for the first time backstage at We Out Here. We started collaborating almost immediately, and yet none of that work has seen light of day. 

Initially she recorded pieces for what was supposed to be Believers Vol. 2, but as that project stalled heavily and I dropped it to make Paroxysm, much of the music got archived - including this piece, Red Weather. 

Red Weather is a meditation on increasing global temperatures, it sounds to me like a heat haze, like the shimmering air above baked earth. As the annual weather warnings increase, even 2 years after this song’s inception, it remains increasingly relevant. 

I hope you’ll enjoy this seven-minute meditation. It is not rushed, it is full of space and texture, languid Rhodes gives way to the breeze of Amanda’s harp which in turn metamorphs in and out of Moog synths, the melody intertwined. I love taking lead melodies like Amanda’s playing here and converting them to information I can run into my synths and it really works so beautifully here. 

The single is out on Wednesday and we hope to share more of our up-til-now hidden collaborations soon. 

Red Weather feat. Amanda Whiting

Joy To The World

Hark The Herald Angels Sing

Late Night Echoes

“A lovely jazz performance that soothes the soul”
— 6x NBA champion, basketball legend & jazz fan Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Mike Casey: Jazz For The Millennial Set”
— Huffington Post

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GRAMMYs "NEXT" Class of 2023

Faith (WPAA TV Session)

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