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Playlist: Today's New & Noteworthy Tracks

New & hot: Ambient

favourite things | 10.21

RHYTHM SECTION HQ - part 3

What we play on the radio, spinning in the club, and vibing to in the office. Arrange by date added for the latest additions by Wallace <a href="http://wearerhythmsection.com/" rel="nofollow">More info</a>

RHYTHM SECTION HQ_part3

Zoë

The instrumental version of Cloudy
Composed by  Paul Landry
Paul Landry:  keyboards
Mastered and mixed by Paul Landry
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Recorded  summer 2021
© Elenniyah Music 2021
Artwork © Joran Elane and Glenvore Art
℗ New Age Music Garden Recordings 2021

Cloudy (instrumental)

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Cloudy (Instrumental)

Stargazing from the sands of the Niterói beach, Tempos Futuros is low-end-led Brazilian futurism from one of Brazil’s most prolific and influential bassmen. As one third of legendary Brazilian trio Azymuth, Alex Malheiros has pioneered a one of a kind fusion of space-funk, samba and jazz since the early seventies. His playing can be heard on the records of Jorge Ben, Milton Nascimento, Roberto Carlos, Marcos Valle and Mark Murphy (to name a few), and he’s performed and toured with everyone from Stevie Wonder to Chick Corea.

Written and recorded in Niteroi, Brazil, overlooking Guanabara and the beaches, mountains and forests of Rio de Janeiro, Tempos Futuros has deep roots in Brazilian soil. The rhythms of Malheiros’ homeland have always permeated his music. But just like the Oscar Niemeyer designed Niterói Contemporary Art Museum which stands spaceship-like over the water, Tempos Futuros - while inspired by terrestrial forms, reaches out deep into the great unknown. 

Produced by acclaimed London-based producer Daniel Maunick, who has worked with Marcos Valle, Azymuth, Terry Callier, and Ivan Conti, the funk comes full circle. Daniel’s father Jean-Paul “Bluey” Maunick and Alex Malheiros shared a reciprocal stream of influence throughout the 80s, between London and Rio; Azymuth and Incognito; brit-funk and samba-funk. But just as with Azymuth’s music, you can also hear the influence of stateside jazz-funk masters like Roy Ayers, Weather Report, Lonnie Liston Smith, Mtume and Pleasure.

Tempos Futuros features Alex’s daughter, a Brazilian star in her own right, vocalist Sabrina Malheiros, Brazilian percussion master Sidinho Moreira,  London based saxophonist Sean Khan, Marcos Valle’s go-to drummer Massa, and keyboard player Dudu Viana.

Alex Malheiros - Alto Verao (feat. Sabrina Malheiros)

‘Caminhos’ is a tribute to the late samba composer Catoni, featuring the masters lush vocal & guitar samples (with the permission of his family). The hard swinging hip hop track bridges gaps between classic Brazilian samba & bossa nova sounds with hard hitting Dilla-esque grooves, raw funk and boom bap, taking us on a trip to the shores of Rio de Janeiro. “The type of track you could loop forever”.

https://www.musicamacondo.com/2021/09/premiere-abase-caminhos/

Premiere: Àbáse - Caminhos (for Catoni)

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Dimension 32 has emerged with a beautiful display of songs on his latest album “Silent Emotions”. Relaxing guitar melodies flow smoothly in the foreground of calming drum loops. Take a deep breath and close your eyes now - we’ll stay underwater for a little while. 

💿| Listen everywhere
→ https://fanlink.to/SilentEmotions

🎵 | Music by Dimension  32
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🎵 | l'Outlander
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🎵 | Hoogway
→ https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Mh9G47YfuaLdQs44voLrQ
🎵 | Bhxa
→ https://open.spotify.com/artist/0FayAsrcVWzpOFe9FCn4t4
🎵 | cxlt.
→ https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TFqjcoVis5TzVQxrHMSfA
🎵 | Banks
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🎵 | softy
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🎵 | WYS
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🎵 | Hevi
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🎵 | S N U G
→ https://open.spotify.com/artist/0liH4Jfiz66Rqjz4DH3JZk

🎶 | Tracklist
[00:00] Nostalgic ft. L’Outlander
[02:31] Mindfulness ft. Hoogway x Bhxa
[05:01] Point Me Home ft. cxlt.
[08:23] Raining In My Head ft. Banks
[10:32] Nuit Blanche ft. L’Outlander
[13:02] Silent Emotions ft. softy
[15:40] Amnesia ft. WYS x Hevi
[18:01] Lunar Rotations ft. S N U G
[20:31] Night Vision ft. Hevi x Bhxa

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Dimension 32 - Silent Emotions

Taken from 'Still Flute', the long awaited follow up to Tenderlonious' acclaimed 'On Flute' album, "Song For My Mother" is the perfect fusion of Ed Cawthorne's myriad musical sensibilities.

Ed's forthcoming 'Still Flute' album follows succession of releases over the last couple of years alone. From jazz fusion with his band Ruby Rushton, Hindustani classical with Pakistani quartet Jaubi, a tribute to British jazz legend Tubby Hayes, to space disco with Lorenzo Morressi, or deep house, electro funk and ambient electronica in his solo studio productions, Cawthorne has pushed at the boundaries, particularly his own, evolving, surprising and continuously captivating listeners.

"Song For My Mother" is one of four deep house jams sporting Ed's exuberant flute soloing. He tells us, "this is kinda the follow up to an old favourite of mine ‘song for my father’ that featured on my album ‘on flute’, so it was time I dedicated a tune to my mother. Clocking-in at just over nine minutes long, the tune builds with a multitude of percussive elements until it reaches a climatic flute solo before winding back down to atmospheric strings and a bubbly synth solo. Hopefully it’ll get some dance floors moving."

Due for release in October, 'Still Flute', is a very worthy addition to the Cawthorne's rapidly growing catalogue. Live flute and synth work sit comfortably over deep house, modern electro funk, spiritual ragas and ambient soundscapes.

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Exclusive Premiere: Tenderlonious "Song For My Mother" (Forthcoming on 22a)

Ambient - Style Emotional Piano

Dat It

Dat It (feat. Kiefer)

Our new instalment brought together musician @flokapokaa and photographer Michelle Ruiz, full story at: www.soundinpicture.com/flo-x-michelle-ruiz/

This new release expresses the feeling of vastness, peace and solitude, combining a deep dubstep track together with an emotive ambient piece for a perfect sonic journey through the mist.

Photography:
www.instagram.com/mmbelle/

FLO - Secrets

Solo piano music for studying, focus, mental work, also for stress relief, spa, a soundtrack to allow your mind and body to operate at its full capacity. 

Session Title: Caring | Artist: relaxdaily

Watch the YouTube version:
https://youtu.be/gr7la5uAR4g

Audio download via fan-powered Patreon page:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/56486045

This session is part of my calm piano music playlist:

🎧 here on SoundCloud:
soundcloud.com/relaxdaily/sets/relaxing-piano-music-calming-study-focus

🎧 on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/playlist/59d0fMsUB0IUcWShIJPblE

🎧 on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOzlQzU-yr67GDMoL_vHqpXAWIoEoix6k

...and on selected music services. Simply search yours for relaxdaily.

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My artist statement: relaxdaily.net/about

🧡 It's OK to boost your favorite creators on Patreon:
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I truly hope the music connects.
Stay healthy and shine beautifully,
Michael (relaxdaily)

Caring

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Caring (piano music for studying, focus, work, relaxing, stress relief, spa, calm mind music)

We are very happy to premiere the meditative sounds of  “Spaceland”, by pedal steel player, visual artist and composer Joe Harvey-Whyte. Forthcoming on None More Records, London. 

Like everyone else anywhere that’s been opening up, we on the MIMS team occasionally feel overwhelmed by the new pace of life, work, events, new releases, social engagements and more besides, so it’s a real pleasure to take a step back sometimes and listen attentively to such soothing music as this. 

“Spaceland” is taken from a track EP, ‘Flatland/Spaceland’, Harvey-Whyte’s debut solo release. ‘Flatland/Spaceland’ blurs the borderlines between ambient and neoclassical to create an engaging and meditative listening experience.

The first side of the 2 track EP, titled “Flatland” is a glacial ambient creation made using pedal steel guitar processed through multiple effects together with field recordings and occasional revelatory sounds from Himalayan singing bowls. “Spaceland”, on side B, takes the composition and refracts it through an orchestral lens. A 26-piece ensemble delicately creeps into the calming world echoed by side A. As the piece develops the result is something more akin to a film soundtrack. Inspired by Edwin A. Abbott’s 1884 novel Flatland, in which a two-dimensional protagonist encounters a three-dimensional world for the first time, and struggles to explain it to his fellow natives of the 2D Flatland, Joe Harvey-Whyte attempts conceptually to give depth to what that which appears flat. 

On “Spaceland”, Joe Harvey-Whyte worked closely with Ell Kendal, a sound artist and orchestrator from London. Kendal is known for his use of experimental scoring techniques to create notated works for classical ensemble. His influences range from avant-garde composers and performance artists, to early religious music, and ritual, and you can hear that in his interpretation of the original piece here. The process of orchestrating and recording all the instruments for “Spaceland” took around a year, with additional challenges to the process caused by working through COVID. Everything was recorded at Joe’s studio in North London, with the exception of a few remote recordings. 

Joe says of the process of orchestrating the piece “Ell’s scores are quite idiosyncratic and were more of a gentle guide than a definitive representation of the piece as it should be played. Flatland was an improv creation and I wanted this orchestral refraction to embody that level of randomness and chance. Many of the beautiful blossoming moments in Spaceland came about by ‘accident’”.

Joe elaborates on his process: “With my music I often like to create a sonic landscape and just sit there. Breathing slowly and contemplating. When composing, my pieces allow me to take some time out from the fast paced nature of much of life here in London. The pedal steel is manipulated through effects beyond recognition. I didn’t really set out to make a “pedal steel” ambient EP. More that the pedal steel is my expressive tool and the means by which I can access a whole range of different tonalities which perhaps others might get with synths, voice or classical instruments like strings.”

'Flatland/Spaceland' is due for release in full on October 15th via None More Records. A limited 300 run of 10" vinyl with embossed sleeves are available to pre order now via bandcamp - https://joeharveywhyte.bandcamp.com/album/flatland-spaceland

Exclusive Premiere: Joe Harvey-Whyte "Spaceland" (Forthcoming on None More Records)

Two For Mistake

Bumper Cars

Band on the Wall’s latest 7” release is from producer, musician and DJ, Contours. Known for applying his own percussive dexterity, his sound is placed within the intersection of House, Jazz, Broken-Beat and percussive experimentation.

Double A-side ‘The Programme / Conga Quinto (Dub)’ proves Contours is an artist continually capable of blending the electronic and organic into a sound that re-invents and surprises. The Programme is a woozy mix of sunset synths, squelchy bass, crisp propulsive hi-hats and snare-led rhythms. The sound has a depth you can sink into, yet the skittering beats add levity and a club-leaning energy to the track.

This release is the latest in an ongoing sonic evolution for Contours, having released music on labels such as Tru-Thoughts, Rhythm Section and Anma Records. His music has received praise from the likes of Gilles Peterson, Mr Scruff, Alex Nut, Bradley Zero and others. In 2018 he joined up with Banana Hill party founder, DJ and producer Cervo to head to Uganda. They worked with percussion troupe Fonkodelis Arkestra out of the Nyege Nyege-affiliated Boutiq Studio on the boundary traversing 12” Kawuku Sound. Last year in lockdown he worked with instrument builder and artist Seth Sutton out of their Manchester and Cumbria homes to put together Balafon Sketches. This release retained Burford’s love of organic percussive instrumentation but channelled it through a minimalist and contemporary classical sound world.

The Programme / Conga Quinto (Dub) are part of ‘The Singles Club’ 7” releases from Manchester jazz institution Band on the Wall and their new label Band on the Wall Recordings. Based out of the iconic music venue, charity and cultural hub, the label has already released future neo-soul 7” Forgive You and is set to follow this up with material from the likes of Lovescene and Secret Night Gang, among others, building on a successful compilation released year to raise funds during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Contours music speaks to the heart of this project and Band on the Wall as a whole in its mission to explore the world through an openness to diverse sonic and cultural influences, whilst celebrating the talent that exists within its home city.

The Singles Club: Contours

Exclusive Premiere: Contours "The Programme"

It is our pleasure to premiere 'arts of living', Dave De Rose & Dan Nicholls' ideal companion to the heavy rain showers and chilly days in London at the moment. Read more @ https://buff.ly/2YjAXQa

Plants Heal

Dave De Rose & Dan Nicholls - Arts Of Living (TS Premiere)

Top Hits from Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly

Maze "Feat. Frankie Beverly"

It’s nearly the end of the month and we’re looking to get in the mood for the weekend early. Yes, after finally recovering from our New Years Eve exploits, surviving ‘Blue Monday’ and cancelling this year’s anaemic attempt at a health kick we’re ready to go out and have some fun and who better to put us in the mood with an exclusive mix than Memory9?

A quick look at the back story into Memory9's pathway into music reveals an interesting tale, starting off with a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music in Boston at the tender age of 17, where he collaborated with diverse acts ranging from jazz groups and Cuban musicians to hip hop MCs.

This experience with musical diversity is evident in Memory9's current new release, 'Red Falcon', and the EP's four tracks move between genres as varied as jungle, jazz, hip hop and footwork. Gadi himself is a trained jazz guitarist, and these elements of more traditional musical compositions are beautifully interwoven with sophisticated bassline beats and electronic samples. This organic combination of musical ideas has allowed Memory9 to develop his signature sound to compellingly explore a range of motifs. Inspired by the effect his colour blindness has on his perception of the colour red, the artist traverses images of dreams, desert planets, blood, lust and dust.

Now to celebrate the release of ‘Red Falcon’ out now on Mnemonic Dojo we’ve secured the services of Memory9 with this exclusive mix for your listening pleasures.

EXCLUSIVE MIX: MEMORY9

Song Of Innocence

Holy Thursday

Marina Lima

Criança

Tropical Gangsters

I'm Corrupt

Approximately Infinite Universe

Death of Samantha

In November 2019, eight artists from Kenya, Uganda and the UK spent a week in Nairobi together exploring new tangents in soul music.

The group, collectively known as Extra Soul Perception, is made up of Faizal Mostrixx (Ug), Hibotep (Ug), K15 (UK), Karun (Ke), Labdi (Ke), Lex Amor (UK), Lynda Dawn (UK) and Maxwell Owen (UK).

Every day of the writing camp they worked with a new combination of artists, putting their powers of improvisation and collaboration to the test. The result was a body of work that reflected their range of backgrounds, interests and disciplines: acapella harmonies, soft spoken word, transcendental gqom, razor sharp swahili rap, bumping broken beat and beguiling RnB. The tracks capture a spirit, unique to a place and time that won’t be replicated again; an energy and atmosphere forged by open minds and prodigious talent.

The first EP of music made in Nairobi will be released in Spring 2020, titled New Tangents in Kampala, London & Nairobi Vol.1. It features five tracks by all eight artists in different combinations, and three cameos.

A1 Lex Amor, Hibotep & Faizal Mostrixx -Ancestry
A2 Maxwell Owin & Xenia Manasseh feat. Joe Armon-Jones - Probably Never
A3 Lynda Dawn & Bes Kept - Roses
B1 Faizal Mostrixx & Karun - In My Soul
B2 K15 & Labdi - Utokapo

Leading the EP out is first single ‘Probably Never’, by London DJ and producer Maxwell Owin with Nairobi singer Xenia Menasseh, featuring pianist Joe Armon-Jones. The track was born out of a series of improvised moments that epitomises the spirit of ESP. A low-slung gospel-sampling beat Max was playing around with late at night with no real purpose, whispered lyrics laid down in minutes on the final day in the studio during an unplanned-but-welcome cameo, and keys added by a supportive housemate as it was being finished in London.

It followers EP teaser ‘In My Soul’, released earlier this month featuring Kampala dancer and producer Faizal Mostrixx with Nairobi singer Karun rapping in Swahili for the first time; as if Obongjayar had been processed through a Hyperdub filter.

All five tracks from the EP will be performed live for the first time on the ESP. tour, featuring all eight artists performing solo and collaborative sets:

22 Feb: The Jazz Cafe, London
23 Feb: Band on the Wall, Manchester
24 Feb: 24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool

Tickets and info about the project: www.extrasoulperception.com

ESP. is supported by British Council, Arts Council England and Analogue Foundation.

Maxwell Owin & Xenia Manasseh feat. Joe Armon-Jones - Probably Never [2:08]

Psssh 001

Really Good

Needledrop is out! Thanks for your support! :)

Needledrop

The Pain

1. Funkadelic - I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody's Got A Thing [Westbound]
2. Tokimonsta - Gamble [Art Union, Listen Up]
3. Teebs - Wind Loop [Brainfeeder]
4. Flying Lotus - Massage Situation [Warp Records]
5. Dorian Concept - Fort Teen [Kindred Spirits, Nod Navigator]
6. Mike Slott - Snow Birds [LuckyMe]
7. The Electric - Beautiful feat. Yarah Bravo (Memory9 Remix) [Organically Grown Sounds]
8. J Dilla - Say It feat. Ta'Reach [OX: Operation Unknown]
9. Four Tet - As Serious As Your Life [Domino]
10. Falty DL - Some Day My Queen Will Come [Bleep]
11. Memory9 - Crash [Self Release]
12. Silkie - Concrete Jungle Deep [Medi Musik]
13. King Midas Sound - Waiting For You [Hyperdub]
14. Daedelus - Order Of The Golden Dawn feat. Laura Darlington [Brainfeeder]
15. Gonjasufi - Duet [Warp Records]
16. Memory9 - Granular Study [Unreleased]
17. Willie Isz - The Grussle [Lex Records]
18. Public Enemy - Bring The Noise Acappella [Def Jam]
19. Beats Antique - Beauty Beats [Copeland International Arts]
20. Beats Antique - Borino [Copeland International Arts]
21. Goran Bregovic - Kalasnjikov [Mercury]
22. Busdriver - Mr. Mistake (Bested By The Whisper Chasm) [Epitaph Records]


Cosmic Slop Ride (Solid Steel mix Feb 2011)

TRACKLISTING

Givers - Up Up Up (Body Language Remix)
Flying Overseas f. Devonté Hynes & Solange Knowles
Tweet - Oops (Pella)
Prototype Raptor - 26th
Common - I Used to Love her (Tall Black Guy Remix)
The M Machine - Faces
Supervision - Arcane
Mt. Wolf - Life sized Ghosts (Catching Flies Remix)
Bondax - All Inside
Phantogram - when im small (Antennae remix)
Talamak - Toro Y Mio
Washed Out - New Theory (RAC Remix)
QOTSA - Make it Witchu - (VMM Remix)
Diplo - About That Life feat. Jahan Lennon
Lux - Northern Lights
Dirty Gold - California Sunrise
Poolside - Why you Wanna
M83 - Midnight City
Local Natives - Breakers (Superhumanoids Remix)
Edward Sharpe - Home (RAC Remix)
The Shins - Sleeping Lessons (RAC Remix)
Pedestrian - Mask
Crazy P - Heartbreaker
Asaf Avidan & The Mojos - Losing Hand (Crussen Edit)
Humans - Possessions 
DrDr - Wrong
Slow Magic - On Yr Side
Vondlepark - Come On
Lykke Li - Tonight
M83 - Steve McQueen (Drankenstein Rub)
Joker - On My Mind
First Aid Kit- Winter Is All Over You (Baauer Remix)
Vondlepark - Seabed
Kraak & Smaak - The Future Is Yours (Ambassadeurs Remix)
Sun Glitters - Wasting Time
GoldRush - Closer feat. Evar After & Eileen Esposito

Pleasensations Vol.1

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

Exclusive Premiere: Joe Harvey-Whyte "Spaceland" (Forthcoming on None More Records)

Music Is My Sanctuary