nu soul II

Mellow, hypnotic jazz lifted from the Glaswegian DJ and producer's first release on her own Rebecca Records.

Read More & Buy: https://www.stampthewax.com/2021/05/12/premiere-rebecca-vasmant-timings-end/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/RebeccaVasmantTimingsEnd

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Rebecca Vasmant - Timings End (STW Premiere)

Mad Mats, dating back his famous Raw Fusion Parties, is definitely one of the best "Club Jazz" DJ's in the World even if most of the people know him as a great House Dj with amazing Hip Hop Skills!

He has done for "My Favorite Things" a great mix including some digital only and unreleased tracks like this killer Incognito Remix by MAW and this hard to find, CD Only, Billy Foster’s Samba tune !

Mats has selected too some rare gems, which remember he was a very serious digger and records collector during the 80’s and 90’s like the Killer Britfunk "Final Approach" by ICQ !

Some Future classics also featured by Mats and myself like the EWF’s Cover "Can’t hide love" by Mishcael Stephenson and one of the best Jazz record of the year by Emma-Jean Thackray. 

Enjoy and don’t forget we can dance on jazz !

TRACKLIST

DJ Psycut :

01 - The Storm Watchers - Versus
02 - Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos - Bocón ft. Luzmira Zerpa (Orestes Gomez Remix)
03 - Marvxlous - Life Is Beautiful 
04 - Cool Affair - 1804
05 - Jackson Mathod feat. David Mrakpor, Harry Pope - Dumb People
06 - Michael Stephenson, Alexander Claffy, Benny Benack III - Can't Hide Love

Mad Mats :

07 - Switch - A Brighter Tomorrow (interlude) 
08 - Laurin Talese - Love Poems 
09 - Larry Willis - Prayer for New Orleans 
10 - Billy Foster & Audio - Samba 
11 - The Magic Twins - Happy 
12 - Emma-Jean Thackray - Our People 
13 - Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra - Watusa (a.k.a. Watusi) 
14 - George Kawaguchi & Art Blakey - A Night In Tunisia 
15 - Matsuura Toshio - Theme From Lupin III 
16 - I.C.Q - Final Approach 
17 - STR4TA - Rhythm In Your Mind (NSW Space Funk Rework Part 1) 
18 - Incognito - Jacob's lader (Master At Work Yorican Mix-Unreleased) 
19 - Afronaught - Shapin' Fluid 
20 - The Magic Twins - Desde El Mar 
21 - Dai-San - Dai's Carnival 
22 - Truby Trio - Alegre 2004, Louie Vega Dub 
23 - Ernie Watts With Gilberto Gil - Gondwana

MY FAVORITE THINGS — Show #37 w/ Mad Mats (Hosted by Psycut)

Label head Dusty is broadcasting live every 3rd Tuesday a month from 6 - 8pm (CET) from the dublab.de studio in Cologne, Nippes! In his monthly show Dusty presents his favourite musical discoveries as well as forthcoming exclusives and guest mixes – soulful, spiritual, electronic, cosmic… you name it, Jazz & Milk got it. 

www.dublab.de/shows/jazz-milk
www.jazzandmilk.com
www.instagram.com/jazzandmilk

Tracklist:

Ahmad Jamal - One (Ahead)
Tumi Mogorosi - The Fall
Alex Figueira - Juicy
Annette Peacock - Survival
Black Star - My Favorite Band
Themba - Ou Kaas
Fay Hill - Let Me Know
Space Ghost feat. Teddy Bryant - Heaven Sent
Roman Flügel - Thank You Jack
Brief Encounter - Human
Free Life - I'll Keep My Light In My Window
Franko Xavier - Canto Sul
Clementina de Jesus - Canto XIII
Charles Stepney - Daddy's Diddies
Les Volcans De La Capital - Oya Ka Jojo
Julian Y Su Combo - Enyere Kumbara
Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - Logans Run (Àbáse Remix)
Lord & dego - Faith Must Have Reason
Romaal Kultan - One Moment Please
Gaoulé Mizik & Michel Laurent - A Ka Titine (Kay Suzuki Gwoka Dub)
Skygaze - Melatonina
Zretro - Zuzu
Groove Masters - Purple Rhythms
Ron Trent - Flos Potentia feat. Khruangbin
Axel Boman - 'Atra feat Kristian Harborg
Louie Vega - Music Is My Life (feat. Unlimited Touch)
Dego & The 2000Black Family - Make The Right Move
Creation Rebel - Give Me Power (feat. Jah Woosh)

Jazz & Milk radio show w/ Dusty(May 2022 / dublab.de)

Psychosynthesis

Tropical Love

Not long after the dawn of her career, as a teenager in Rio de Janeiro, Joyce was declared “one of the greatest singers” by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Yet despite reputable accolades and the fact that she has since recorded over thirty acclaimed albums, Joyce never quite achieved the international recognition of the likes of Jobim, João Gilberto and Sergio Mendes, all of whom became global stars after releasing with major labels in the US.

There was a moment when it seemed she might be on the cusp of an international breakthrough. While living in New York, Joyce was approached by the great German producer Claus Ogerman. Ogerman had already played a pivotal role in the development and popularisation of Brazilian music in the 1960s, recording with some of the all-time greats like Jobim and João Gilberto, as well as North American idols like Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Bill Evans.

Featuring fellow Brazilian musicians Mauricio Maestro (who wrote/co-wrote four of the songs), Nana Vasconcelos and Tutty Moreno, and some of the most in-demand stateside players including Michael Brecker, Joe Farrell and Buster Williams, the recordings for Natureza took place at Columbia Studios and Ogerman produced the album, provided the arrangements and conducted the orchestra.

But mysteriously, Natureza was never released, and what should have been Joyce’s big moment never happened. As Joyce remembers, “I returned home, but Claus and I remained in contact, by letters and phone calls. He was very enthusiastic about the album and tried to hook me up with Michael Franks. He wanted me to go back to NYC in order to re-record the vocals in English with new lyrics, which I actually wasn’t too happy about. But then I got pregnant with my third child and could not leave Brazil. And little by little our contact became rare, until I lost track of him completely. And that was it. I never heard from him again."

While Claus was known to be something of an elusive character, the album’s disappearance might also have been a result of timing. The Brazilian craze was coming to an end, making way for disco and new wave at the end of the seventies, and Ogerman struggled to find a major label interested in a new Brazilian sensation. Additionally, as Joyce mentions, it wasn’t quite finished. Ogerman wanted to add finishing touches to the mix and to record alternative English lyrics for the US and international markets - a critical artistic difference between Joyce and Ogerman.

As the military dictatorship’s grip on Brazil began to subside in the 1980s, Joyce had a handful of hits in her home county, including a tribute to her daughters ‘Clareana’, and the iconic ‘Feminina’ - an intergenerational conversation between mother and daughter about what it means to be a woman. But already a feminist pioneer, these successes were hard fought. Joyce had caused controversy as a nineteen-year-old when she became the first in Brazil to sing from the first-person feminine perspective, and the institutional sexism she faced was worsened by the dictatorship who would often censor her music. Even once the Junta was out of the way, Joyce found herself up against the male-dominated major record companies in Brazil, who sought to dictate her career and sexualise her image, before dropping her for refusing to play along.

Forty-five years since it was recorded, Natureza finally sees the light of day, as Joyce intended: with her own Portuguese lyrics and vocals. Featuring the fabled 11-minute version of ‘Feminina’, as well as the never before heard ‘Coração Sonhador’ composed and performed by Mauricio Maestro, Natureza’s release is a landmark in Brazilian music history and represents a triumphant, if overdue victory for Joyce as an outspoken female artist who has consistently refused to bow to patriarchal pressure.

Joyce With Mauricio Maestro - Descompassadamente

Free download at: https://ahmedsirour.com/track/3118716...

So, later this year will mark the 30th anniversary of the release of what is, arguably, #Sade's best album of all time, #LoveDeluxe. I bought the CD at Tower Records when it came out, back in '92, when I was 15 years old (yes, I was ahead of my years with impeccable musical taste, if I do say so lol).

Track for track, it's a solid album and truly a masterpiece, and I couldn't have imagined that I would one day have the musical ability to be able to not only replay the arrangement, if I wanted to, but that I would have the skills to also add my own arrangements to possibly the best track on the album–#CherishTheDay"– and create this alternate universe version where I give it a more 21st century modern/Hip Hop-ish beat while maintaining the original synths & guitar, but adding new Rhodes piano and choir synth chord progressions in two breakdowns, instead of one, and removing the original drums and bass line, replacing it my own chill groove to maybe give it some more sensuality/sexiness (especially in the second half of the second 8-bar breakdown, at the 3:37 mark...smoky, sensual, hypnotic harmonies to stand apart from the original's, which was sexy as well).

I hope you enjoy my take on this classic and please do let me know if you're feeling it, and please share with others who you know would love it as much as I did making it...and please subscribe because I'm definitely gonna be adding more content, if you all want more? 🤷🏾‍♂️

I mean...I've remade 2 songs from this album already (first one was "I Couldn't Love You More", which many radio stations had been putting in steady rotation over the past couple of years), and there still a few months left in 2022, so I wonder if I can knock out a few more, if not the rest of the album?? 🤔😉

#AhmedSirour

Cherish the Day (Ahmed Sirour Rework)

Sade - Cherish The Day (Ahmed Sirour Rework)

Dreamy new jazz from Clear Path Ensemble. Perfect for a hot, humid day.  "Drumatix" is taken from their forthcoming on Soundway Records, "Solar Eclipse". 

Led by percussionist Cory Champion, Clear Path Ensemble bottles the energy of New Zealand’s bubbling new jazz scene and distills it into moody morsels of differing styles. From electric jazz to ambient, experimental, house and funk – it’s a DIY, jam-session attitude towards composition, as the band members freely cherry-pick from a vast orchard of influences.

Solar Eclipse

Exclusive Premiere: Clear Path Ensemble "Drumatix" (Soundway Records)

Old Light

“WWDAWAWG” is the second single from ‘Two Ticks Loose Bits’ – an upcoming EP compiling our favorite unreleased tracks from Royce Wood Junior's ‘No Two Blue Ticks’ album sessions.

Stream the single & pre-order the EP: smarturl.it/rwjwwd

Produced & Mixed by Royce Wood Junior

Written by Royce Wood Junior, Dan See, & Charlie Platt

Ross Hutchison - vocals
RWJ - backing vocals, acoustic guitar, keys, programming
Jamie Woon - backing vocals
Dan See - drums
Charlie Platt - piano

Engineered by RWJ and Alex “Lexxx” Dromgoole

Mastered by Kevin Tuffy @ AIR Studios

FSX-053-02 © 2022 Fresh Selects. Sounds like butter.

Two Ticks Loose Bits

Royce Wood Junior "What We Doing And Where Are We Going? (WWDAWAWG)"

We’re in for a treat today! On “Silver Afternoon”, Worm Discs affiliated power-jazz duo Run Logan Run return with their biggest record to date, adding vocals and orchestral strings to their signature tenor sax & drums sound.

Bristol-based duo Run Logan Run (Andrew Neil Hayes on tenor saxophone & Matt Brown on drums) team up with vocalist Annie Gardiner, producer Riaan Vosloo (Nostalgia 77) and a nine-piece ensemble for nine-minute single “Silver Afternoon” - their most ambitious statement yet. Continuing their relationship with local indie Worm Discs; “Silver Afternoon” will be available digitally and on vinyl as an extremely Limited 12” Single (with a ‘B’ side featuring locked groove samples from their forthcoming album) on 5th August 2022.

At the forefront of Bristol’s contribution to the new UK Jazz scene, Run Logan Run fuse powerful polyrhythmic breakbeats with screaming guttural saxophone and electronic manipulation to create a sound that’s direct, adventurous and elemental. 

Following their critically acclaimed third album ‘For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers’, they return with a bold statement reflecting their ceaseless search for something bigger... “Silver Afternoon”, an extended amalgamation of grooves and orchestral textures that sees the duo branch out into large ensemble performance for the first time.

The record was born out of Bristol’s Ankh Sanctuary concerts, a series Run Logan Run started during the third C19 lockdown, that provided space for artists to continue taking creative risks. There, they teamed up with bassist, composer and producer Riaan Vosloo for a forty-minute improvised set, eventually released on London’s PLAYNEUTRAL label in December 2021. 

This collaborative spirit informed the creation of “Silver Afternoon”, which is based around three melodies – one by Andrew, one by Matt and one by vocalist Annie Gardiner. They’re backed by a large ensemble which includes a string quartet, brass section and full backline, featuring many stars from the nascent Bristol instrumental scene.

The resulting track takes an intensely focused sound, and stretches it in multiple directions.
Vosloo’s detailed orchestrations bend two enticing ideas into endlessly inventive shapes, forming the backbone of the song and providing Hayes with fertile ground to let rip with trademark expressive soloing. 

Inspired by the likes of Archie Shepp’s ‘Attica Blues’, Mats Gustafsson’s Fire! Orchestra, and with notes of Nubiyan Twist, Natacha Atlas and Soweto Kinch, Silver Afternoon is a slow burner that swells into a vibrant, lucid statement of intent.

The recording of Silver Afternoon was supported by The PRS Open Fund for Music Creators, and the Ankh Sanctuary sessions by Arts Council England.

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Exclusive Premiere: Run Logan Run "Silver Afternoon" (Worm Discs)

Jonathan Kusuma - Dream Bot
Kasper Marott - Drømmen Om Ø (Forever Mix ‘19)
Mister Moogoo & Mushroom - Flight
DJ Steve - Open Yourself
Gene On Earth - Pinseeker
Jorg Kuning - Ex-tensor
Vitess - Highway
Skudge - Focus 
Spandrel - Ornithological Studies
James Bangura - Conflict of Interest
Spaced Out Krew - Dance Or Die
LNS & DJ Sotofett - Dúnn Dubbing
Alfredo92 - Katos Tranquilizer
Off and Gone - Phish
Benz & MD - Oneric
Earthman - S.K.E.W.
Kush Jones - Sunshine B
313 Acid Queen x SickBoy - Renaissance
Unknown Mobile - Hypno 5
Liquid Earth - Neutral Circuits
Microworld - Disco Version
E.R.P. - Zrx
Mister Bellini - Matula
Ambien Baby - Anger Management
Random Noise Generation - A Change Will Come (Beat Edit)
Elisa Bee - Alla Prima
Generali Minerali - Batteries Aren’t Low
Prince Pasensi - RUTU
Isaiah - Usually
JR2k - Walking Backward
Sleep D - Bass'd In Berlin

immaterial 3

Lost Dub Dub from "Fight Against Babylon" Deluxe Edition.

LOST DUB DUB

NADO 03.Available on Vinyl Oct 12 from Piccadilly Records and all good stores.

COLORAMA 'HAPUS?' BEGIN MIX(forthcoming on AFICIONADO recordings)

Secure Communications

Chari Chari - Of Mystic Dreams (6:26)

Crime Jazz : Volume 12 : Tony Hatch in Action! (disc 1)

Tony Hatch - Return to the Stars - 1975

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

Exclusive Premiere: Run Logan Run "Silver Afternoon" (Worm Discs)

Music Is My Sanctuary

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