This month on Sweet Nothings, some exclusive and forthcoming bits on BBE. Pépé Bradock remix of J Dilla's Big Booty Express, Louie Vega and Josh Milan remix of Brian Jackson's 'Little Orphan Boy''. Plus a teaser of a new compilation by Lefto coming out on BBE.

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Sweet Nothings w/ Jeff - July 2022

Music Is My Sanctuary's Lexis is back for his monthly Outsiders appointment! 

🌐 "Outsiders" is our daily show hosted by global record labels, record stores & more
📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9am and 9pm CET
🔗 kioskradio.com

Outsiders: Lexis (Music is My Sanctuary) @ Kiosk Radio 21.07.2022

Hi Everybody I’m very happy to be back after a short break for a new MFT Radio Show. For this episode I had the honour of welcoming the great Swedish Jazz musician Sven Wunder. He hand picked for us 16 fabulous jazz tracks which totally show his main influences between Psyche Jazz and Spiritual Jazz.
As usual I open this show with some of my recent favorite jazz tracks including the brand new Chip Whickam, Matthew Halsall, a Great GSH’s Cover, the new Makaya McCraven and the last production from Sven Wunder Himself.

Enjoy!
- @djpsycut

Tracklist

MY FAVORITE THINGS — Show #41 w/ Sven Wunder (Hosted by Psycut)

Summer season's in full swing, so you know it's time for another Coastin'! 

Spacewalker in the mix with volume 9 in the series and another fresh dose of heat (pun semi-intended) for the summertime. From contemporary Japanese boogie to classic West Coast hip hop, 70s soul to jazz-rock fusion,  roll with the vibes through the scorching city streets, coastal highways, countryside roads, and open seas.

Coastin' 8 > https://soundcloud.com/musicismysanctuary/coastin-8-by-spacewalker

Coastin' 9 by Spacewalker

Music is My Sanctuary is proud to present the latest in our wide-ranging Guest Mix series. For this one, we head to the Midwest, and more specifically Cleveland, where we linked up with multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer, and DJ - Broken Keys (https://soundcloud.com/brokenkeys216)

Balance Radio Mix 2022

MIMS Guest Mix: Broken Keys (Cleveland, OH)

Ahead of their debut London show tomorrow evening at Highbury's Union Chapel, Lahore-based Jaubi recorded an exclusive mix for us. 

"A collection of songs and beats from artists that have helped to inspire our sound. Our music has been described as a blend of North Indian Classical, Jazz and Hip Hop – we hope this mix take’s you on a journey and inspires you to come and check out one of our shows this August."

Catch Jaubi, featuring saxophonist, flautist and producer Tenderlonious, performing music from their 'Nafs', a MIMS Future Classic released last year on Astigmatic Records, and 'Ragas from Lahore', the Tendonious led LP on which they also collaborated, live at the legendary Union Chapel in London, tomorrow evening 18 August, or around the UK later this month.

Jaubi (pronounced “Jaw-Bee”) is an instrumental quartet from Lahore, Pakistan. The band is named after an Urdu word loosely translated as "whatever/whoever”. Creating whatever sounds good and whatever feels good is the groups guiding principle. Their music skips around the genres of North Indian Classical music, modal jazz and hip-hop.

Around 4 years ago the band were at a turning point in their lives, each member was facing personal problems and difficulties. Their combined struggles led JAUBI to discover the complex Qur’anic and philosophical concept of “Nafs”. In Islamic philosophy, each person has an aspect of the Self called the “Nafs” which is divided into multiple layers. Every day, a person enters a spiritual battlefield with their dark side, their lowly desires, and Satan. Satanic Nafs is thus the lowest level of the self, due the love of oneself and evil desires. Achieving spiritual transformation involves a constant struggle against the lower nature of the self (Satanic Nafs). This path of discovery would soon become the major conceptual driving force behind a cross cultural collaboration with musicians from Poland and the U.K.

The journey began back in April 2019, when 22a label founder and multi-instrumentalist Tenderlonious and EABS/Bloto keyboard and synth maestro Marek ‘Latarnik’ Pędziwiatr travelled to Lahore in Pakistan to take part in some improvised recording sessions with Jaubi. Nothing whatsoever was written down during the recording sessions – no sheet music, no song titles. It was sincere. All egos were left behind and hearts and souls were open and poured into the music. Two quite remarkable albums came from those recording sessions, both of which have been met with mass acclaim. The music has been described as spiritual jazz-fusion meets psychedelic Hindustani classical with nods to golden era hip hop. Both albums were featured as The Guardian 'Global Album of The Month' and were included in their album of the year lists in 2020 and 2021 respectively. They received coverage and support from some of the world's key tastemakers and publications, such as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Gilles Peterson, Downbeat, The Guardian, Mr Scruff, Jazzwise, Mojo, Iggy Pop and many more.

Following the success of these two recordings, the dream has always been for Jaubi to come to Europe and the U.K. to complete the final piece of this unique cross-cultural collaboration. In August this year that dream is becoming a reality thanks to the support of Dialled In, Chalo, The British Council & The Music Venue Trust Revive Live Tour. The band will be performing a headline show at London’s iconic Union Chapel, followed by a week-long studio session at Real World studios in Bath. They will then hit the road for a 5-date regional tour of the U.K. performing tracks from ‘Nafs at Peace’ & ‘Ragas from Lahore' as well as treating audiences to new music. This will be the very first time this music has been performed live in the U.K. and possibly the last. Audiences will be treated to a truly unique collaboration between musicians from Pakistan, Australia, Poland, and the U.K. – “whatever/whoever”.

MIMS Guest Mix: Jaubi (Lahore, Pakistan)

It's the return of Balance after the mid-summer break!

Spacewalker in the mix with a fresh batch of goodies, including new and upfront music from Eddie Chacon, Henry Wu, Polyswitch, Beringei, Romaal Kultan & more!

Coastin' 9 > https://soundcloud.com/musicismysanctuary/coastin-9-by-spacewalker
Balance 570 > https://soundcloud.com/musicismysanctuary/balance-570-hosted-by-spacewalker

BALANCE #571 (Hosted by Spacewalker)

As part of the celebrations to launch Miche's 'With Love Volume 1' compilation; four of us (post-club night)crammed into the back of a Mini Cooper for a road trip from East London to Manchester for a 5-hour listening-bar session. A relaxed and carefree set, saw us selecting recent finds and old favourites across the soul, disco, gospel, AOR, Brazilian, and jazz-funk genres. 

NAM, is a wonderful Vietnamese restaurant set in the heart of Manchester. It boasts some of the best food we've had in a while and features an awesome Hi-Fi system with an Isonoe mixer situated in a cosy basement. 

Big thanks to Nam, Christos, and the team for letting us loose to share our music with their customers.

https://www.nammcr.com

NAM - Listening Bar Session with Miche & Mr Bongo

I was watching videos of the Pharoah Sanders concert a few days after the end of the recent We Out Here festival. He was evidently frail and unwell, perhaps even uncomfortable after not setting foot on stage for three years.  

However, even through a phone screen, you couldn't help but get goosebumps once he blew into the saxophone. His charizma, aura, and sheer emotion, as always, shining through. Sadly it was to be his last. The torchbearer of Coltrane's legacy and his one true heir, passed away just a few weeks later. 
  
Born Farrell Sanders in Little Rock, Arkansas, Pharoah picked up the saxophone in his teenage years. He briefly moved to the West Coast to study art, before going to New York to take part in an exciting new jazz scene led by his idol, and later mentor, John Coltrane. Alongside Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, and Albert Ayler, he would become one of the most sought-after saxophonists in what was dubbed - avant-garde jazz. Pharoah Sanders joined Coltrane in 1965 and spent the next two years as his protege. After Trane's passing, he continued to take his music to new dimensions, furthering his journey into African and Eastern philosophies and eventually, becoming the face and driving force of what is now known as - spiritual jazz. 

From Alice Coltrane to Floating Points, Pharoah would collaborate with numerous musicians over the decades. However, for this tribute, I decided to focus on strictly his solo output and showcase the mastery of the albums he recorded for Impulse!, Strata East, and Theresa from the late sixties to the early eighties.

Rest in Jazz Pharoah Sanders (Oct 13 1940 - Sept 24 2022)

Tribute to PHAROAH SANDERS - Selected by Spacewalker

Hi Everybody, I’m very happy to be back with a new MFT Radio show and a very special guest : Soul Supreme from Amsterdam. 

The great musician and producer known for his great Hip-Hop and Jazz-Funk Covers put together a great hour mix session featuring his favorite tracks and main influences which shows he’s a serious head; from 70’s Soul Funk (J.R. Bailey, Odyssey, Caesar Frazier), Soul Fusion Jazz (Tarika Blue, Brother Jack McDuff,Steve Kuhn, Don Blackman), Spiritual Jazz (Weldon Irvine, Gary Bartz) and a brazilian music lover. (Hyldon, Orlandivo)
As Usual I have started this new session with my best last digging tracks from Deep Jazz like the last Greg Foat, a brand new fusion French band called Jéroboam and the killer african jazz by Gyedu-Blay Ambolley to some great club jazz tracks incuded the Last Dego and K15 projects, Turbojazz and a killer Broken Beat Bomb by Szajna.
Enjoy !

MY FAVORITE THINGS — Show #42 w/ Soul Supreme (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.jazzandmilk.com

Tracklisting:
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger – Coffee intro (International Anthem)
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger – Gospel Trane (International Anthem)
cktrl – Lighthouse (Touching Bass)
Navy Blue – Ode2MyLove (Freedom Sounds)
Kip Carmen & Danny Horton – This Island Is Our Home (MTMU)
Ernest Ranglin – In The Rain (Emotional Rescue)
Steve Arrington – The Joys Of Love (Stones Throw)
Àbáse – Sorongo (Groove School Records)
DJ Harrison – SweetStickyThang (Not On Label)
Nicholas Payton – Sounds Like a Memory (Paytone Records)
Samii – Wake Me Up (2000black)
Laik – Keep It Light prod. Mblsh (Mandarin Dreams)
DJ Harrison – Letter A (Not On Label)
Kyle Hall – Rising (Forget The Clock)
Jneiro Jarel – African Bahia Sol feat. Dr Who Dat (Far Out)
Leroy Burgess – One Plus One [Dave Lee Ext Club Mix] (Z Records)
Ivan Neville – Dance Your Blues Away [The Mighty Zaf Edit] (Cordial Recordings)
Dan Kye – Raro (Rhythm Section International)
Ny-Ak & Ian Blevins – K Dance (Banoffee Pies)
Samii – For Too Long (2000black)
Jitwam with Folamour – Sun After Rain [Kaidi Tatham Remix] (The Jazz Diaries)
Sam Irl – Changes (Jazz & Milk)
Kyle Hall – Teacher Plant (Wild Oats)
Alex Attias feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow & Kid K. – I Wanna Know DUB (Visions Recordings)
Space Ghost – New World Energy [Sunset Mix] (Tartelet Records)
Cuisine Dub – Mating Call (Banoffee Pies)
Danse Cette Zik – Soweto (Periodica Records)
Mr President – One Night feat. Cindy Pooch & Celia Kameni (Favorite Recordings)
Rene and Angela – Turn It Out (Capitol Records)
Milton Hamilton – We have All The Time (Disko-Mania)
Moe Fabrik – Sassy Boi (Jazz & Milk)
Steve Spacek – Do U Want My Luv (Jazz & Milk)

Jazz & Milk radio show w/ Dusty (December 2020 / dublab.de)

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

MIMS Guest Mix: Jaubi (Lahore, Pakistan)

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