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andykidd+jtc collabo.
https://soundcloud.com/andykiddibiza

Dud`s September Version

Featuring a heavy version of Roy Ayers' Chicago by East Coast Love Affair, a cut from the Harvey Sutherland's debut album, breezy summer vibes from Melodiesinfonie, a deep and layered tune from K15, a Saucy Lady Japanese boogie banger & plenty more!

In the Essential Album Corner: Samuel Jonathan Johnson - My Music (Columbia | 1978)

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BALANCE #569 (Hosted by Spacewalker)

This Italian duo goes by the name of Re:Fill and they fuse 1970s jazz-funk, UKs broken beats, and Brazilian-like atmospheres into a refreshing sound for the dance floor. The album 'Cycles' will be released via Cognitiva Records and out tomorrow.

Release: June 3rd
Full article: www.steppinintotomorrow.com

★ PREMIERE ★ Re:Fill - 'Impulse'

Ahead of their first London show since playing the main stage at We Out Here, this coming Friday at London’s Colour Factory, we are excited to share a special mix by TRC founder and NRO curator Lex Blondin celebrating the musical influences of London’s premier Latin jazz big band, New Regency Orchestra, featuring their brand new debut single,“Mambo Rama”.

Lex: “This mix is a bit of a tribute to Tito Puente , showcasing his compositions, intricate horn arrangements, and of course his amazing skills as a timbale player and soloist.  The lyrics in Eddie Palmieri's 'Bajo Con Tumbao' asks a very pertinent question whilst laying it all down:
 
I invite you to enjoy this tumbao bassline, rich and flavoursome
A rhythm flavored with cane, tobacco, honey and rum
I dedicate to the Caribbean soneros
This tumbao bass line
Who doesn't like this tumbao?
Who!?
But who doesn't like this tumbao?'
 
I'm also going all the way back to the originator of Mambo , the OG Arsenio Rodriguez with two of his deepest tracks. 'Chinito' and 'Esas No ' have such hip hop energy to me... These two are on the waiting list awaiting to get the NRO treatment. There's a few extravagant mambos with the don arranger Johnny Richards, all the way to 70's NYC salsa via Puerto Rico... That Orquesta Colon is so damn sophisticated and groovy that it might have to land in the NRO set too.. And a touch of mean cha cha's for good measure. In a nutshell the sound that I'm trying to pursue with the New Regency Orchestra.”
 
New Regency Orchestra play NE London’s Colour Factory on Friday 16 December, with support from DJs Desta, Bushbby, Alma de la Selva, Tim Garcia, Lex Blondin, and Cosmo Sofi.  Find the ticket link and full track list on the MIMS website, and more info below on NRO, direct from TRC / ¡COMO NO! 

Inspired by New York’s dynamic collision of jazz and Latin music from the 1950s to the 1970s, New Regency Orchestra grew from Lex Blondin’s “obsession” with record digging and the importance placed on creating community, two things at the heart of his work as founder of now studio/rehearsal space and former influential London live music venue, Total Refreshment Centre (TRC).

Having reconnected with percussionist Crispin Spry Robinson, at a session recorded at TRC in April 2021, Blondin and Robinson realised both shared the same dream of making an Afro-Cuban big band, fused with the sounds of contemporary London. They enrolled Cuban-Argentinian pianist/arranger Eliane Correa, and renowned arranger/composer & conductor Nathaniel Cross (SEED Ensemble, Zara McFarlane), to flesh out a high-energy, bustling setlist, brimming with Nuyorican basement club atmosphere. Seeking to pay homage to the sounds and Afro-Cuban musical saints of yesteryear but reinvent it through a 2021 London filter and present it to a new and engaged audience, New Regency Orchestra was born.

Featuring an eight-piece rhythm section and a storming twelve-piece horn section that includes trombonist Rosie Turton, saxophonist Tamar Osborn (Collocutor) & trumpeter Nick Walters (Ruby Rushton, Riot Jazz) alongside Latin music protagonists, Ernesto Marichales (timbales - Waaju, Yelfris Valdes, Ska Cubano), bongo player Flavio Correa, and bass player Frank Portuondo, New Regency Orchestra’s high-impact and dancefloor-inspired repertoire covers a uniquely fertile period between 1947-1979 for Afro-Caribbean big band experimentation.

With fresh arrangements on timeless classics written for each performance, and a lineup of London-based musicians raised on a steady diet of Coltrane, reggae/dub soundsystems & Pirate Radio, New Regency Orchestra breathe new life into decades-old music.

“We’re going to hit the refresh button every time. We’re going to come with new tunes, new edits, new soloists. Basically there are no limits. We want to surprise people and get creative. We might throw a grime MC right in the middle of it.” - Lex Blondin

MIMS Guest Mix: New Regency Orchestra (TRC + ¡COMO NO! / London, UK)

Brazilian jazz sensation channel the futuristic funk of Herbie Hancock on new "Sábado" single, ahead of forthcoming 'Agôra' album for Jazz & Milk. 

We've been fans since the group's 2020 'Angela' album so it's a pleasure to debut their new single. "Sábado", with its funk-infused and electrified future jazz style, pays tribute to the bustling city of São Paulo, where the trio formed. The song features vocalist Zé Leônidas, known for his fiery delivery, riding a groove reminiscent of Airto Moreira, complemented by traditional Brazilian instruments such as cuicas, tamborim, agogo and shakers.

“"Sábado" reflects well the spontaneity that permeated the entire recording of the album. When we got to the studio, we had no idea what we were going to record. We started playing a groove, kind of inspired by Gilberto Gil's 80s albums, and our drummer João started singing this funny song 'Sábado Barrigudão' (Big Belly Saturday) alongside the bass groove and that was that”.

Agôra

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Exclusive Premiere: Caixa Cubo "Sábado" (Forthcoming on Jazz & Milk)

We are excited to premiere a previously unreleased live recording from legendary British jazz bassist and composer Graham Collier.  Forthcoming on My Only Desire Records, a key label rediscovering and sharing seminal unrelreased UK jazz releases with the world. 

Previously unreleased recording of bassist/composer Graham Collier's seminal 'Down Another Road' album recorded live in 1969 at Stockholm's Jazz Day festival, his all-star sextet includes jazz heavyweights Harry Beckett, Stan Sulzmann, Karl Jenkins and John Marshall. The pastoral melody to “The Barley Mow” -  the second single - transports you to an idyllic English countryside scene, sipping a beer in the pub which inspired it. 

Since it’s release in 1969 on Fontana, 'Down Another Road' has become a cornerstone of British jazz, with the LP now a much sought-after rarity that regularly exchanges hands for over £200. It's considered the revered composer Collier's greatest album by many of its fans, thanks to its highly melodic, almost pop-like themes and irresistible '60s groove, spurred on by the on-point drumming of Soft Machine/Nucleus drummer John Marshall.

Remastered from the original tapes by Caspar Sutton-Jones @ Gearbox Records, 'Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days '69' is available as a limited edition 2LP set housed in a gatefold sleeve and 'mini-LP' gatefold CD, with sleeve notes by Graham Collier biographer Duncan Heining.

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Exclusive Premiere: Graham Collier "The Barley Mow" @ Stockholm Jazz Days '69

Coffee Shop Jazz – Soothing Relaxation And Warm Night Ambience

I Can Buy Myself Flowers

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Hammond B3 Organ solo. Alto Saxophone solo. Trumpet solo. Fender Electric Bass. Fender Rhodes Electric Piano Rhythm. Hammond B3 Organ Rhythm with Bass. Trap drum kit. Percussion Zildjen Crash & Ride cymbal, separate Hi-Hat.

Lighthouse

Barreling

Composed & Produced by: Chivicke
HomeStudio Productions ©2023
Photography by Álvaro Arano

Title inspired from the wonderful poem "Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche"  by the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
https://algundiaenalgunaparte.com/2016/02/26/poema-xx-puedo-escribir-los-versos-mas-tristes-esta-noche-de-pablo-neruda/

Sometimes she loved me too

Sometimes She Loved Me Too

This one is for you, Jeanne Marie <3

Ballad by Harold Arlen made famous by Judy Garland in the 1939 film, "The Wizard of Oz"
 My deepest thanks to David Dunham @david-dunhamuser589535203 for his generous help in mastering my track.

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Fly Me To The Moon Live - Kenny & KREG

Buy / Stream it here: https://orcd.co/onceagainchildren

Gather together beneath the sun as we journey through the rhythmic sands of time, Paul Hillery, an esteemed collector and vinyl hunter, presents his follow-up to the highly acclaimed ‘We Are The Children Of The Sun‘. Andrew Male of MOJO Magazine calls the album “One of the most emotionally uplifting and hazily beautiful compilations of recent years.”

“Once Again We Are The Children Of The Sun” is a shimmering collection of rare finds, reminding us that we have more to connect us than to divide us. The music encompasses a broad range of sounds, starting in Cajun country with Will & James Ragar, their handmade acoustic guitars allowing for soaring vocals. Along with many of the tracks featured on this compilation, “As the Day Grows Tired” is reissued on vinyl for the first time.

Experience the previously unreleased cover of “Milk and Honey” featuring Kat Barnard and Greg Foat, a versatile mainstay of the UK jazz scene. Discover the first-ever vinyl release of “Kayenta Crossing” by William Eaton Ensemble, capturing the austere presence of Monument Valley. Immerse yourself in Wendy Grace’s jazz-folk masterpiece “More Than Hope” and the acoustic ambience of “Golden Hour” by Aria Rostami.

Paul Hillery and BBE present a compilation of styles and genres, fusing together to make private press wants accessible as a springboard for further listening pleasures. “Once Again We Are the Children of the Sun” is an eclectic selection mixing styles, year and tempo, painstakingly gathered and presented with a great deal of love.

CHOOSE FROM A LIST OF STORES AND SERVICES

Once Again We Are The Children Of The Sun compiled by Paul Hillery

The Greg Foat Group feat. Kat Barnard - Milk and Honey

Warsaw’s U Know Me Records introduce us to drummer, improviser and producer Teo Olter, on the infectious jazz composition, “How am I doing? Where am I going?”, the opening cut on forthcoming compilation, ‘Portrety 2’.

The eight track album is the second in the series of ‘Portrety’ (meaning ‘portraits’) compilations, curated by U Know Me boss, Marcin “groh”  Grośkiewicz. Marcin tells us that “the idea for ‘portrety’ was simple’: to invite esteemed drummers to record a song for release under their own name. 

There was no strict musical framework, they could invite guests or record everything themselves, and no requirement to feature drums. ‘Portrety 2’ follows this same structure, and alongside Olter features contemporary soul from Wiktoria Jakubowska, drummer for the stars, DnB patterns from Immortal Onion’s Wojtek Warmijak, and a beatless symphony from Zbigniew Robert “Inferno” Promiński, drummer for renowned extreme metal band, Behemoth. 

Active across Warsaw’s improvised music scene, and a member of various groups, Olter previously released the album ‘Mir​ó​w’, showcasing his talent for not only improvised drumming but also electronic production. Olter tells us “at a point where music felt as far away as it ever did in my life, getting to be a part of the ‘Portrety 2’ record and composing my own music was a fantastic experience and great opportunity”. 

“How am I doing? Where am I going?” features frequent collaborators Tadeusz Cieślak on saxophone, Aleksander Żurowski on piano, Kamila Drabek on double bass, and Tymek Bryndal on double bass.

‘Portrety 2’ is released on U Know Me Records on May 31.

Portrety 2

Exclusive Premiere: Teo Olter "How am I doing? Where am I going?" (U Know Me Records)

formentera cave session
https://jupitertuningcenter.bandcamp.com/album/keywax-crush

done it again

2016 Modern Sun Records, distribution by Rush Hour : http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=91996

All songs composed, performed and recorded by Marc Friedli aka Skymark



Skymark - Résistance Sonore LP - trailer

NEW EP OUT NOW on My bro Sonny Daze's label D81

Grab VINYL
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Beat-making wizard Radius creates a journey through the genre-morphing LSD release. Encompassing the Boom Bap of his Hip-Hop origins, To the Pulsating rhythms of House, and Techno. The LSD pt.1 and Division 81 draw profound influences from Chicago, Berlin, Brooklyn, and everywhere in between. The release features artist Lailah Reich of Dia.L, The Twilite Tone and Division 81 label owner, Sonny Daze. This Release is the first release from the Brooklyn based label. Vinyl Features extended version of Know Self Division 81 Re-Work.

LSD PT. 1

Lopotsaves (Remix of Daedelus' Sevastopol) LSD PT.1 OUT NOW!!!

Future Classics & Forgotten Treasures — Selections for the Adventurous Music Listener (Founded in 2007 by Lexis)

Exclusive Premiere: Graham Collier "The Barley Mow" @ Stockholm Jazz Days '69

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