Israeli pianist and producer @yoni-mayraz unveils his new single 'Snow'. Read more @ https://wp.me/p471L0-c2U

Yoni Mayraz - Snow (TS Premeire)

From Live at Blackheath Halls 19/09/13, released 04 Oct 2013

Alto Sax - Nathaniel Facey
Alto Sax/ Clarinet - William Scott 
Tenor Sax/ Clarinet/ Flute - Leo Aarons-Richardson
Tenor Sax - Claire Furlong
Bari Sax/ Bass Clarinet - Greg Sinclair
Trumpet - Tom Dennis, Mike Soper, Lily Carassik, Alaric Taylor
Trombone - Ross Lumbard, Rosie Turton, Hannah Dilkes, George Wrench
Electric Guitar - James Kitchman
Keyboards/ Piano - Elliot Galvin 
Double Bass - Louis Thomas 
Drums - Liz Exell

The full live album can be streamed and downloaded for here: https://emmajeanthackray.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-blackheath-halls-19-09-13

Johari's Window feat. James Kitchman/  Nathaniel Facey [LIVE]

Pre-Order Album - https://bfan.link/the-globeflower-masters-vol-2 

‘Vibe Sharp’ is the first single to be taken from the forthcoming album, ‘The Globeflower Masters Vol.2’. Glenn and Mark have crafted a rich tapestry of cinematic funk and European Library music. Inspired by such luminaries as Roger Webb, Stefano Torossi, David Axelrod & Serge Gainsbourg. 

‘Vibe Sharp’ is the perfect introduction to what people can expect from the album. Glenn has often said “The image in my head when I listen to our music is of driving a car through the Italian countryside, long roads, lined with cypress trees, creeping further and further towards the sunset”. 

This track, from a musical perspective, is the sound that best suits this image. Rolling drums, an antique Harpsichord and shimmering vibes, plucked 12 string guitar and looping bass all come together to create a sound which drives, but at a suitably relaxed speed to be able to watch the stunning landscape as it passes by.

Glenn Fallows & Mark Treffel - Vibe Sharp

'After The Dawn' is the first track Project Gemini, AKA Paul Osborne, has unveiled since the release of his impressive 2022 debut album, ‘The Children Of Scorpio’. Based on a groove from a 2018 demo, it pushes the sound he conjured for his debut into new areas, whilst masterfully avoiding repetition. Rich with the dense incense of 70s Anatolian Rock, Turkish musicians such as Erkin Koray and Edip Akbayram provided a captivating influence. There’s also echoes of UK psych pioneers July, along with the dark, almost breakbeat-esque psychedelia favoured on Now Again’s 2009 ‘Forge Your Own Chains’ compilation. It’s a hazy, psych-folk-funk sound that will delight fans and win over new audiences.

The drummer Raz Man of Sababa 5 fame creates the backbone for the song, laying down a relaxed yet snappy breakbeat groove. Paul Elliott from Eleven 76 (and director of the Library Music Film) sprinkles some magic in the form of Eastern percussion, and Little Barrie takes things to the next level with his rhythm and lead guitar contribution. Paul's bass guitar is front and centre, whilst his layered vocals wash throughout the production. Mixed by Paul Isherwood of The Soundcarriers, and mastered by Joker, ‘After The Dawn’ is a sonic tour de force.

With a new album in the works, ‘After The Dawn' is the hors d'oeuvre in Project Gemini's next chapter. Thematically, the album is loosely based on the concept of how the hours between dusk and dawn impact human behaviour, and ‘After The Dawn' reflects the brew of guilt and elation felt after a lost night of soul searching.

Project Gemini - After The Dawn

Paula Juana  is joined by legendary The Funkees drummer and founding member: Chyke Madu.
The Funkees were an afro-rock group formed in Nigeria in 1969. It wasn't long before promoters ithe UK came calling and they packed up their instruments and moved to London where they quickly established a fierce reputation on the live circuit and quickly gained prominence in the expatriate West African and West Indian music scene. They specialised in funky, upbeat, highly dance able afro-rock. Chyke, born in 1949 in Lagos, joins PJ to tell us the story of The Funkees.

Soundway with The Funkees

Marshall Allen presents Sun Ra And His Arkestra: 'In The Orbit Of Ra'
Mastered from the original tapes, out now on Strut

iTunes: http://geni.us/SunRa
Amazon (LP): http://bit.ly/OrbitOfRaLP

Marshall Allen on Sun Ra:
As a Sun Ra fan, it has been a pleasure to be able to do an edit of Sun Ra material. Sometimes its more of a restoration project, than it is an opportunity to do an edit. In any case, the goal is always to preserve the original integrity, and direction of the song, while somehow making it appealing to an new and emerging fan base of listeners from the traditional school, and emerging electronic market. Sun Ra's fan base, and listeners might be changing and expanding, but you can always expect the end result of my work to highly respect the integrity of the original version. My version emphasizes the flute and percussive parts in this song. 

More from Mike Huckaby:
https://soundcloud.com/mikehuckaby

More from Strut Records:
http://www.strut-records.com
https://www.facebook.com/StrutRecords
https://www.youtube.com/user/strutrecords

More from Sun Ra:
http://www.sunraarkestra.com
https://www.facebook.com/SunRaMusic

Sun Ra - "The Lady With The Golden Stockings" (Mike Huckaby edit)

Recently found during a clear up of Jake's loft, two tracks from a DAT recording taken from the mixing desk of one of the first Herbaliser Band show at Dingwalls in Camden, London - featuring freestyles from a young rapper from NYC called What? What? who was over in London recording the tracks The Blend, New + Improved, Bring It and Hardcore - which featured on their 1997 release "Blow Your Headphones"
Micah Moody - Drums
Kaidi Tatham - Keyboards and vocals
Jake Wherry - Bass Guitar
DJ Ollie Teeba - Turntables
Ralph Lamb - Trumpet
Chris Bowden - Alto Saxophone
Patrick Dawes - Percussion
Justin Whillock - Soundman
Mastered in 2015 by No Sleep Nigel

Blowin' It ft What? What?

A 13 minute live jazz house odyssey from Zagreb-based producer @jankinclzero and keyboardist @regis-kattie on @pdvrec.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/05/31/premiere-jan-kincl-regis-kattie-you-never-told-me-parts-1-2/

Jan Kinčl & Regis Kattie - You Never Told Me (Parts 1 & 2) (STW Premiere)

Photay and Sam O.B. collide once again for the second of two EPs this year under the moniker Ensemble Entendu. Pastoral Dusk Themes EP evokes images deep and rolling. Lead off ‘Hully Bully’ portrays a nighttime landscape turned into electric jelly jiggling to the beat of forlorn drums. Ensemble Entendu’s take on library music here expands to include the stoic cumbia inflections of ‘Ritmo Antiguo’ and the fourth world ambient reflections of ‘Loon Interlude’ and ‘Mascoma.’ Each track brings a palpable imagined geography, a space within which to think and feel emergent states of departure. ‘Lakeview’ finishes the release with a colorful, astral spaciousness, something like aurora borealis converted into synthesized sound.

Ensemble Entendu began as a collaborative project of Photay and Sam O.B. They set out exploring library music and the tradition of rhythm tracks, emphasizing driving drums and basslines in their stripped down productions. The Brooklyn-based producers are now shaping a music uniquely situated between their already unique solo artistic voices.

Pastoral Dusk Themes EP and its recently released companion Music For The Densely Populated, Vol. 2 are available for digital download via Astro Nautico.

Pastoral Dusk Themes, Vol. 3

Ensemble Entendu - Lakeview

In 2018 Far Out Recordings signed a record deal with Brooklyn born, nomadic producer Jneiro Jarel. Having just put the finishing touches to the recordings, Jarel suffered an ischemic stroke while living and working in Costa Rica and his wife Indigo was forced to set up a crowd fund to cover special medical transport back to the states to receive treatment.

The release was put on hold, but thanks to the generosity of friends and fans around the world, Jarel was able to get the care he needed and is now on the long road to recovery.

We’re overjoyed to finally announce that Jneiro Jarel’s After A Thousand Years is now set for an October 2020 release. Throughout a career that has spanned over twenty years and seen collaborations with MF DOOM, Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn, BadBadNotGood, Portishead’s Beth Gibbons, Kimbra and Khujo Goodie (Dungeon Family), Jneiro Jarel’s consistently distinctive, forward thinking productions, as well as his love for the music of Brazil, made his partnership with Far Out a perfect fit.

Recorded between New York, New Orleans, Miami and Costa Rica, After A Thousand Years features legendary multi-instrumentalist Bill Summers, famed for his work with Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones and Eddie Henderson. The album also features Malawian-American guitarist Masauko Chipembere who has worked with the likes of RZA from Wu- Tang Clan and Ladybug Mecca from Digable Planets. For Jarel, After A Thousand Years is “a culmination of the longstanding musical contributions of the African diaspora.” Permeating the Brazilian music and Latin jazz Jarel has loved and drawn inspiration from, as well as the stateside jazz, soul and funk Jarel grew up around, the influence of Africa and its musical history, on both North and South America, is key to the album’s sound. On lead single “Banana Peel”, Jarel’s outernational perspective makes for a track that is almost impossible to place geographically: you can hear the swing of Jarel’s native New Orleans jazz, the vibrance of Costa Rican rainforests as well as the influence of Jarel’s vast collection of Brazilian records. “Viberian Waves” is equally nonconformist, morphing from funky baroque-flavoured instrumental hip hop into a bossa inspired, percussive jam.

Taking its inspiration from the biblical prophecies found in the books of Isaiah, Daniel, and Revelation, foretelling the fully realized, physical and spiritual restoration of the earth and
mankind after the thousand year reign of the Messianic Kingdom, After A Thousand Years contemplates and celebrates a world where everlasting love, peace, and harmony abound under a sovereign, divine rulership. 

After A Thousand Years will be released on Vinyl LP, CD and digitally on the 30th October 2020 via Far Out Recordings.

Exclusive Premiere: Jneiro Jarel "Sunwalkers Part Two And Three" Feat. Bill Summers

Being big fans of Contours, we are delighted to premiere his brilliant edit of "Mangroves" for Pyramid Project for ADA Records. 

Brought together by ADA label boss, Lasta, Pyramid Project finds Contours in collaboration with some of Kenya's most accomplished musicians, such as drummer Katumba, percussionists Abaki Simba Masta and Inspekta, and pianist Mutoriah. The full EP is released on November 13.

Perfect as an early dancefloor builder as well as in a Global Jazz set, Contours’ understanding of rhythm and tension really brings his edit of "Mangroves" to life.

With the original recording being a dramatic piece of Swahili Jazz, Contours uses the grittier elements of the composition to deliver an edit perfect for a cosmopolitan setting. Maintaining the driving elements of the bassline and rhythm section, the tension of the edit is developed by Contours’ synth work and a minimal choice of Mutoriah's riffs to build a more direct arrangement.

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Exclusive Premiere: Pyramid Project "Mangroves" (Contours Edit) (ADA Records)

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Glenn Fallows & Mark Treffel - Vibe Sharp

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