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Animal Feelings (Archie Pelago Remix)

By popular demand Far Out is about to re-issue the beautiful and strictly limited deluxe heavy weight vinyl edition of ‘Visions of Dawn’. With Andy Votel’s stunning psychedelic designs dripping from the cover the original ‘lost’ Brazilian acid-folk album is an essential addition to record collections. 

Understated yet powerful this previously unreleased project by three Brazilian music legends has been rescued and released by Joe Davis’ Far Out Recordings. Led by the sharp lyrics and gorgeous, expressive voice and guitar of Joyce the trio is completed by the expert musicianship of her close friends Nana Vasconcelos (percussion) and Mauricio Maestro (electric bass, vocals, guitar and producer) who were both crucial in creating this masterpiece. These beautiful, hazy recordings, which took place among the charming artistic 1970s Paris scene, offer a unique chance to sit in on the original jamming sessions of tracks that later became Brazilian cult classics.
 
“These pictures were taken in 1976 when my partner Mauricio Maestro and I (left)had recently arrived in Paris. We recorded an album there with our friend Nana Vasconcelos (Right), who then lived in France. We were ready for new adventures.  ‘Visions of Dawn’ - in the language of Barack Obama - is taken from the Suite of our 1976 disc. For the album to be more psychedelic would be impossible. This is not a Joyce album this is a work of three heads.” Joyce, 2009  Mauricio, Joyce and Nana became friends as part of Milton Nascimento’s Clube De Esquina scene and his legendary ‘Clube De Esquina’ albums.

The three were also part of Sagrada Familia - the great Luiz Eça band – while Nana and Joyce played together in legendary folk-prog band A Tribo.  Having arranged for Brazil’s top artists from an early age Mauricio Maestro lent his masterful bass playing to Joyce’s classic early albums. Later a founding member of Boca Livre - one of the most successful groups ever to emerge from Brazil - Mauricio produced ‘Visions of Dawn’ and his incredible electric bass and vocals are crucial to the sessions. Nana Vasconcelos has released more than thirty albums over an epic forty year career. Vasconcelos is a vocalist and berimbau player of immense quality and here displays his unsurpassed Latin jazz percussion skills, which adds playful samba momentum to this project. Joyce recorded her first album at the age of nineteen and alongside Tropicalia artists of the time she infused conservative Brazilian music with the spirit of 60s counter-culture, creating bossa nova with a feminist edge that gave Brazilian women their voice. Joyce is now one of the most respected artists in Brazil with her compositions interpreted by Brazilian greats Milton Nasciemento, Elis Regina, Gal Costa and Gilberto Gil.   

Here Joyce’s tender psychedelic vocals (‘Clareana’, ‘Jardim Dos Deuses’, ‘Chegada’) result in a dreamy set that’s given a strong edge when scatting and letting her notes playfully jump around (‘Suite’, ‘Banana’, ‘Metralhadeira’). Creativity flows out from behind Joyce’s Paris boudoir drapes for 35 glorious minutes. Stand out tracks ‘Banana’ and ‘Clareana’ became big Brazilian hits for Joyce on her hugely successful solo albums, which followed on from this recording.  ‘Clareana’ is a beautiful lullaby in homage to her daughters Clara Moreno (Far Out) and Ana, while ‘Banana’ is a slice of pure joy. Ending with the orgasmic ‘Chegada’ this is an album like nothing you’ve ever heard.  

‘Visions of Dawn’ is a legendary lost treasure encapsulating the special freedom and beauty of Joyce, Nana and Mauricio’s music that has finally been rescued and set free after 33 years.

08 Jardim Dos Deuses

Formerly Manic After Midnite aka M.A.M 
432Hz original version of The Chase

(Manic After Midnite)The Chase

07 Nia Andrews - Notes On A History

Nomad is the final track of Laura Misch's Debut EP Shaped By Who We Knew

Saxophone & vocal: Laura Misch
Rhodes: Alfa Mist
Guitar: Alley Lloyd
Bass: Kaya Thomas-Dyke
Drums: Jim Macrae
Percussion: Jim Macrae

Written and produced by Laura Misch
Additional production from Jim Macrae and Alfa Mist
Mixed by Jim Macrae
Mastered by Dan Marshall

Recorded at Old Paradise Audio, London
Additional recording at Misch home studio, London
Artwork by Laura Misch

Nomad

full moon vibes about past lives.

written by drea smith
produced by drea smith
recorded in the vibe cave (my bedroom)

maiden muva crone (lo-fi punk tape)

sacrifice (lo-fi)

Belt up for a mind-altering journey through time and space stopping by Japanese enka, 8-bit psychedelica and mutated digi dub on this genre-defying long player from King Midas Sound’s Kiki Hitomi and Jahtari bossman disrupt.

Set against an intergalactic backdrop of riddims and soundscapes “Karma No Kusari” (“Chain Of Karma”) unfolds piece by piece, with Kiki’s otherworldly tone of voice providing a ghostly atmosphere that is at times unsettling but always achingly beautiful.

This gritty disc of cosmic vintage pop – entirely done without a computer – includes compositions by Maffi, the mysterious Tapes plus a transmission from the immortal Space Ape. With stunning artwork by Kiki herself “Karma No Kusari” is indispensible for any true space cadet.

Strictly limited pressing – outer-space black vinyl edition!

Karma No Kusari

Kiki Hitomi - Yellow Story

Just Negotiate feat. Simeon Jones (Kaidi Tatham Remix)

All songs written, recorded, performed, produced and mixed by Elsa Hewitt. Additional vocal samples on Everything Else and Rainbowz taken from a phonecall with Deqa Warsame. Released 7/4/2017. © ERH 2017 ℗ ERH 2017
Mastered by Kirk Barley.
Thank you Lewes, York, Paris and Leeds, and everyone I know in those places, for making sounds for me to capture during the making of this album.

cameras from mars

Snowmilk

The Apple And The Tooth

all the flowers (lone remix)

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X04Ff7LKH5g
Prod. by Me & my cuz @SasafromNorth

Artwork by me, photo by Leen Dweik

NYEAH

Born Again ft Suzy

"Levitating" by Xenia Rubinos X Sammus X Olga Bell

Levitating- Xenia Rubinos, Sammus, Olga Bell

“Ethereal wavy and introspective. Somewhere between being submerged and levitating” 

5683 spells love. 

Mixed/Mastered by LLANE-A

DISCOVER
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