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Take from the album 'Music Promenade/Unheimlich Schön' released as LP and Download

Luc Ferrari' Music Promenade' (excerpt) (REGRM 022

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info: https://radio.syg.ma/episodes/guests-98-air-krew
https://airkrew.bandcamp.com

GUESTS 98 – Air Krew

forthcoming in Feb 2021, contact abby@cafeoto.co.uk

Double CD documenting the magic meeting of one of the all-time great rhythm sections in jazz: percussionist Hamid Drake and bassist William Parker, with London’s brilliant Black Top (Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas) and Elaine Mitchener. Across two sets the quintet are infectiously energetic and inspired, striding from synchronised heavy groove to star bright solos, whilst incorporating dub effects, guimbri and sumptuous blues piano playing. 
 
Formed by Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas but always realised with an ever changing number of invited musicians, Black Top's blend of lo-fi samples, dub effects and experimental electronics has been daring free improvisation since 2011. Their virtuoso performances draw on their Afro-Caribbean roots with delicious spontienty and humour; the histories of Ridley Road Market, the LIO and Islamic West Africa are sounded out side by side on iPad, marimba and vibraphone. Having met in 2006, Black Top played with bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake as part of their residency at Cafe OTO in 2016; forming a quartet grounded in transatlantic kinship but which looked outward to the Carribean, calypso music and Saharan gnawa rhythms. When Parker and Drake returned to OTO in 2019 Black Top reformed again, but this time with the brilliant addition of vocalist Elaine Mitchener. 
Over the last few years the clarity with which Mitchener has explored vocal expression in the global Black Avant Garde has been stunning, but here the range in her influences is manifest, moving effortlessly between phonetic and poetic experimentation and spoken word, all the while at ease with soul soaked jazz and dissonant free fall. A hand drum duet with Hamid Drake astonishes before being laced perfectly with cosmic theremin and Parker’s fantastic acid shehnai. 

Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Sunday 28th July 2019 by Paul Skinner and mixed and mastered by James Dunn. Photos by Dawid Laskowski and artwork by Oliver Pitt. 

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Hamid Drake / percussion

Elaine Mitchener / vocals

William Parker / double bass, guimbri

Orphy Robinson / marimba, electronics

Pat Thomas / piano, electronics

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CD1
Put the Brakes On - 50:08

CD2
Some Good News - 56:43

ROKU025 "Some Good News" [sample]

#Spinning RDJ works on the 1 and 2 s msg me for track listing. Spans mostly user48736353001 some user18081971 rushup edge drukqs 2 track promo thanks to RDJ for making the music

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taken from 'a sanguine twilight'

full album preview/bandcamp preorder (tape/digital) coming soon...

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V/A — 0/1

A concept-album compilation composed by Shedir, Philip Sulidae, Monte Burrows, France Jobin, Emile Bojesen, Seth Cluett, Attilio Novellino, Stefano Tashi, anthéne, Luigi Turra.

Directed and curated by Edoardo Cammisa.
Artwork and artistic concept by Camilla Pisani.
Supervised by Angelo Guido.
Mastered by Marie Rose at FixInTheMix Labs.
Released by Sounds Against Humanity.

BUY LTD. CD / DIGITAL
https://soundsagainsthumanity.bandcamp.com/album/0-1

V/A — 0/1 (excerpts)

BOOKING: warren.morris@theplayground.co.uk

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