from 2019 late April

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Ten tracks that got us through last month. From Portico Quartet to Galya Bisengalieva press play and enjoy!!

Twistedsoul Stereo: August

S e n s i t i v e

Banda Black Rio - Maria Fumaça (Angie's Northern Belle Re-chug)

Instrumental reedit from the Nice Guitar Dub version.

Taken from the 12" released on Major Force.
1991, Japan

From the upcoming mixtape "Japanese Grooves & Reedits"

スチャダラパー - NICE Guys (Florent F Instrumental Gentle Edit)

Not my music, just a fan who wanted to share the song. 

SOIL&'PIMP"SESSION— Spartacus Love Theme

Brazil 45, number 13: http://www.mrbongo.com/products/joyce-aldeia-de-ogum-rosinha-da-valencia-summertime-7

A. Joyce - Aldeia de Ogum
AA. Rosinha da Valencia - Summertime - 7"

Rio born Joyce Moreno is one of the most famous names in Brazilian music. Her career has spanned more than 20 albums over 40 years and she continues to record and tour the world.

Aldeia de Ogum is one of her most well known songs. An anthem amongst DJs and dancers in the Acid Jazz days in London, regularly featuring at clubs such as Dingwalls.

Originally features on her sought after 'Feminina' LP from 1980, it also appears on the 'Essential' compilation that we released in 1997. This is the first time the track has been released on 7" however.
 

Rosinha was a highly acclaimed composer, arranger and guitarist who played with legends including Baden Powell, Sérgio Mendes and Sivuca. Sadly she passed away in 2004.

'Summertime' is taken from her 1975 RCA LP entitled 'Um Violão Em Primeiro Plano'. This is the first time the track has been released on 7".

Rosinha da Valencia - Summertime

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Bukky Leo & Black Egypt - Afrobeat Visions


Bukky Leo - Why Can't We Live Together

Edit of "Canned Heat - On The Road Again"

Wanda Rode Again (Todd Terje aka Wade Nichols Edit)

In intercontinental affair from Family Atlantica, taken from their second album ‘Cosmic Unity’, released on May 13th via @soundway-records. 

Read more & buy: http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/gpww-premiere-family-atlantica-enjera/
Listen on Youtube: bit.ly/fam-atlantica-enjera

Listen on Youtube

Family Atlantica - Enjera (Worldwide Premiere)

The Divine Feminine

Congratulations (feat. Bilal)

9 out of 10 tracks from Ran Nir's Debut album "Obsession"

Obsession

Album • https://LongArm.lnk.to/Darkly @long-arm

Darkly

Sleepy Bird

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Long Arm - Sleepy Bird (Darkly - Project Mooncircle, 2018)

Buy Here: https://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/saint-claude-dash-chicha-nola

After introducing the world to the elusive named Gitkin last year with the release of his debut album “5 Star Motel”, Wonderwheel Recordings is back with another special 7” of two deeply funky, lo-fi globally influenced cuts from the travellin’ man himself. 

“Saint Claude Dash” with it’s 70’s disco influenced drum machine undertone brings in Middle Eastern & North African vibes on the melody, while shifting into an even funkier B section reminiscent of the Meters. 

Just a taste of the brand new album to come this year…or when the spirits will it.

Saint Claude Dash / Chicha Nola

Gitkin - Saint Claude Dash

Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs

Hector Plimmer - Stack Feat. Pie Eye Collective

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Memory Streams'. Gondwana Records 2019.

Memory Streams

Signals in the Dusk

"A journeying expression of densely rich jazz sonics combined with electronic textural modification" Stamp The Wax

“The Tokyo collective boast players at the forefront of Japan’s jazz and electronic music scenes” Bandcamp Daily

Led by producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Mark de Clive Lowe, Tokyo’s Rōnin Arkestra brings together some of the most supreme and innovative players in Japan’s Jazz and electronic scene, featuring members of Kyoto Jazz Sextet, WONK, Cro-Magnon, Root Soul, Sleepwalker, Sauce81 and Kyoto Jazz Massive.

Formed in 2017, the collective’s debut album ‘Sonkei’, released 27th September via Albert’s Favourites, fuses ’60s deep and spiritual jazz with experimental electronica. The album follows the release of their critically acclaimed debut EP ‘First Meeting’, released earlier this year.

The super-group takes their name from Rōnin, the masterless samurai of a time gone by. Deadly master swordsmen who, without lords to serve, roamed Japan offering their skills wherever needed. As the need for their swordsmanship declined, they became master artisans making textiles, crafting poetry, painting and writing books.

It’s a fascinating evolution that has a parallel to each member in the Rōnin Arkestra collective - master musicians from different bands and clans coming together to create a vagabond band of like-minded musicians - weaving the stories of their lives into a collective sound. “The members of Rōnin Arkestra are some of my favorite musicians anywhere and the way we all come together in battle formation with so much heart and soul is making magic,” says de Clive Lowe.

The musical ‘stories’ contained in ‘Sonkei’ are each named after episodes from Samurai Champloo, an Edo-era, Japanese anime series following two ronin and their charge in search of the elusive "samurai who smells of sunflower”. “It’s a favourite of mine, with its two main characters being such juxtaposed personalities, but their only way to succeed is to work together - the lessons and reflection in that alone is self-evident,” adds de Clive Lowe.

Compositions such as ‘Lullabies of the Lost’ are a deep meditation that transports us simultaneously back hundreds of years into the right here and now, while the horn-heavy, fusion-driven ‘Art of Altercation’, confronts the skill of conflict and confrontation.

Elsewhere, the impulsive and free-flowing ‘Cosmic Collisions’ merges raw grooves and electronics – an interstellar configuration of stars, light years from each other, while ‘Circle of Transmigration’ challenges the never ending circle of life, fusing soaring horns and piano-driven melodies.

Rōnin Arkestra started life with de Clive Lowe wanting to create a project with some of his favourite Japanese musicians, unaware of the sound, shape or vibe it would manifest. Reaching out to his musician friends including Sauce81, they began recording at Red Bull Studio in Tokyo and the chemistry was instant, creating an impulsive sound that blended spiritual jazz and beat sensibilities heavy on the improvisation.

“That’s the beauty of this collective - everyone is so great at what they do, playing to the music rather than their own egos and so open to the moment. That’s the heart of the ‘jazz’ in Ronin Arkestra - being wide open to the moment and letting the music happen as it wants to. In every way there’s so much respect and reverence for the music, and for each other - which is no coincidence given how much Japan is built on an ingrained culture of respect. There’s a beautiful word for this in Japanese: sonkei,” says de Clive-Lowe.

Cosmic Collisions

01. Ronin Arkestra - Cosmic Collisions

Taken from the brand new album 'Mantra Moderne' out now on Mr Bongo backl.ink/mantramoderne

Mantra Moderne

Kit Sebastian – With A Sense Of Grace

Taken from the Open Up EP, available on Mr Bongo https://backl.ink/open-up-ep

In her latest EP, Los Angeles born Chilean American singer/songwriter, Gaby Hernandez, collaborates with two long time friends and colleagues: her sound engineer Benjamin Tierney, and her sometimes bass player Greg Malone.

Open Up EP

Gaby Hernandez – Open Up

Dj Kawasaki ft Tasita d'mour - You Can Make It (Kyoto Jazz Massive Mix)

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