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The Kitchen / Global Disco Music Classics part 2

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Notes On A Journey

Mukat Edits - Afro Disco Boogie Edits Volume 1
Label: Mukat Edits
Catalog#: Mukat Edits 001
Format: Vinyl, 12" (limited)
Released : 26 Nov 2012 (UK)

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Mukat Edits - Baby Come On (Edit)

a selection of mellow soul tunes (60s to 80s) from Stefan Leisering's vinyl collection..

Summer Soul - Notes On A Journey Selection by Stefan Leisering (Jazzanova)

UNTIL MY KINGDOM COMES

you said
‘ I’ll be waiting right here to be ready, one day we’ll get over ‘
but I’ve been waiting so long I’m already gone, out of control.
I stood it for a second, but a second’s enough.
I counted every minute, every day, every month
and soon another year has gone by
without you to see me mess it up.

why don’t you tell me what you thought of
and I could try to make your mind up ?
i’ll try to make it your decision, that your decision is me.
or you could tell me that you want to,
that I could take up all your time too.
when will I shake it off
and know you love me
like I love you ?

I went a long time without feeling love
I should never try to deny it.
instead I spent all of my energy trying to remember your face.
but everytime I’d look into the mirror I’d see
the ghost of you, somewhere in there, looking at me
but I could never run away or make any sense
of what I had to be.

why don’t you tell me what you thought of
and I could try to make your mind up ?
i’ll try to make it your decision, that your decision is me.
or you could tell me that you want to,
that I could take up all your time too.
when will I shake it off
and know you love me
like I love you ?

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UNTIL MY KINGDOM COMES

Advent Calendar Day 14 - all proceeds go to Tomorrow's People

Barely Breaking Even Music (@BBEMusic) boast a diverse roster, including Ghanaian-born Nana Love. This track 'Disco Lover' is taken from the recently released 'Nana Love - Disco Documentary Full of Funk', an album crammed with Nana Love material originally recorded in the late 1970s, and now rediscovered by BBE Music.

More info at: http://www.stampthewax.com/2014/12/14/day-14-nana-love-disco-lover-free-dl/

Day 14: Nana Love - Disco Lover

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L'Impératrice — VANILLE FRAISE (edit)

They sometimes say that perseverance will win the day in the end and this is what happened with the Afro Funk monster of 'Piani' from French African artist Jo Tongo that took several years of negotiation to bring to the fruition of a potential Mukatsuku Records release. From the haunting intro this is one tune that you will never forget after first listen as it tippytoes through an afrocentric funk /disco groove that will keep your dancefloor alight. On the flipside the Joe Bisso produced funk gem 'Rhythm On Rhythm' from Sookie gets an edit from label boss Nik Weston who trims,tucks and replays the funkier elements of the track with repeated breaks and lashings of brass stabs and wobbly bass lines.available 9th feb Juno.. vinyl only 7 inch   see here... http://bit.ly/1Bb73dG

Sookie - Rhythm On Rhythm-Nik Weston edit

Classic Afro-Funk from 1970's Cameroon. Iconic wah wah effect lead guitar, signature afrobeat horns, Onyeabor-style keyboard synths and irresistible fender bass solo lines. 

More info: http://www.stampthewax.com/2015/03/17/premiere-jo-tongo-jangolo/

Taken from 'Africa Airways One (Funk Connection 1973-1980)', out 23rd March on @africaseven. 

Premiere: Jo Tongo - Jangolo

NEW EP — 'ODYSSÉE' 
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13 octobre @ La Maroquinerie, Paris ! (SOLD OUT)
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booking/ Talent Boutique — claire@thetalentboutique.fr
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LYRICS / PAROLES — LA LUNE

Les couleurs déclinent 
Quand les instants s’égrènent 
Son parfum noctambule 
Assombrit la scène 

Les lueurs s’enlacent et soudain ne font qu’une 
Quand elle surgit claire et nue 
LaLune 

L’équipée sauvage 
Désorientée s’emmène 
En safari lunaire 
L’Odyssée soudaine

Escale balnéaire, atmosphère bleu Neptune, 
Loin d’un souvenir solaire 
La Lune 

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L'Impératrice — LA LUNE

Ticket To The World

„Sumri hallar“ is an islandic traditional folk song. The title literally means "summer is leaning“ which means the summer will be over soon. Here is an autumn inspired selection of tunes that Jazzanova member and Notes On A Journey co-founder Stefan Leisering picked from his record collection .. a handful of mellow 60s to early 80s Folk, Pop, Prog Rock, Singer Songwriter, AOR tracks for the shorter, colder and rainier days of the year...

Sumri Hallar (Autumn Mix) - Notes On A Journey Selection by Stefan Leisering (Jazzanova)

Hurricane Season in Brooklyn

I Can't Wait

Memorial Album

Watermelon Man

More Info: http://www.notesonajourney.com/noaj003-candeias-sambaiana/
Format: LP (180g vinyl + Old School Tip On Gatefold Cover  + Download Card + Printed Inner Sleeve)
Cat#: NOAJ003
Original release: 1976
Releasedate: 28.07.2017

Short Info: 

Curiously enough the story of this record begins with a song, which isn't even featured on it. A song named 'Guayabas'. One of Guillermo Reuter's very first free-spirited compositions is one of his two contributions to the fourth album 'Ese Dia Va A Llegar' by friend and musician Agustin Pereyra Lucena, in 1975. 'Guayabas' was the unintended starting signal for Reuter's career and was coincidentally the initial spark for this reissue that you, dear reader and listener, are holding in your hands right now.

But perhaps we'd better take one thing at a time and not jump ahead of ourselves. 'Guayabas' was the Guillermo Reuter song that first caught the attention of the Notes On A Journey founders Jürgen von Knoblauch and Stefan Leisering. It led them to discover his album 'Candeias' shortly thereafter, and a love affair was born. It was a similar story for Jacques Subileau, the producer for the recordings of 'Ese Dia Va A Llegar' (and therefore 'Guayabas'), who was so enamored by this single composition that he proposed Reuter to cut a whole album, made up exclusively of his songs and compositional stylings. The Frenchman with an Argentinian girlfriend, had connections to European record labels like Disco Mediterraneo in Madrid and Disques Espérance in Paris which specialised in World and African music. 'Candeias' would be released on both labels, on the Spanish imprint under the name of 'Sambaiana', in France as the original title 'Candeias', but for inexplicable reasons, with terrible sound quality.

Having now Notes On A Journey, more than forty years after its initial release, introducing 'Candeias' to a whole new audience is also in the interest of its creator. For Guillermo Reuter, this album was and is a lifework, which has never lost momentum and significance. It is a record, which simply stands the test of time by bringing pure joy over its full, entertaining length, and is going under the skin at the same time. That's why for this re-issue the original Spanish pressing has been lovingly restored, preserving the sound quality, letting you listen to it the way it should be heard, in the here and now. With the stunning new quality 'Candeias' will find a much bigger following this time round. Come and join the club.

Sambaiana

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NOAJ003 - Candeias - Sambaiana ALBUM SNIPPET

1981 - check out her other albums too! I couldn't find the words to describe this track..

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NOAJ004 - Chuck Senrick - Dreamin out now:
https://notesonajourney.lnk.to/Dreamin

A little selection around the sound universe of Chuck Senricks LP "Dreamin'" (NOAJ004). Enjoy this journey through various solo entertainers using drum machines & keys to express their inner feelings.

Chuck Senrick LP

Soul-o Entertainer – Notes On A Journey Selection by Jazzanova & Oliver Glage

One Understanding

You Can't Change A Man

Format: 7inch
Cat#: NOAJ7-001
Original release: 1982
Releasedate: 15.03.2019

With the fifth release and the first 7inch on the quality imprint, Notes On A Journey turns its attention to Brazil. Finally, one might think, since it’s an open secret that the guys behind the label all have a soft spot for music from the leading coffee exporter in the world. So, when Brazilian DJ, record collector and digger extraordinaire Junior Santos brought this Celso Rubinstein 7-inch EP (called «Compacto» in Brazil) to the Berlin label’s attention he hadn’t to do a lot of persuading to have NOAJ reintroduce this beautiful piece of music to fans around the world some 36 years after its first appearance.

Born in Brazil to a family of Holocaust survivors, Celso Rubinstein’s career as a singer allowed him to take residency in several countries including Spain, Portugal, Israel and Britain. He performed as an artist in numerous clubs and supported other artists as backing vocalist. In 1982 he booked studio time at Chico Batera’s studio in Rio De Janeiro to record two songs for an intentional debut album.

On «Enquanto Houver», written by Paulinho Mendonça and Gerson Conrad, Rubinstein tried to infuse some rap flavour: «I wanted to get away from that style of singing where you sing a bunch of notes without breathing. You can hear that all the words in the song are pronounced properly but the cadence is broken up, so the intention was to do a kind of rap without it seeming to be rap.»

Marina Lima and Antonio Cicero contributed «È A Vida Que Diz», a song as marvelously written as much as performed sophisticatedly by Rubinstein with his star-studded studio crew. Amongst them: Oberdan Magalhães and Claudio Stevenson from Banda Black Rio, Rique Pantoja, keyboard player, arranger and conductor Reinaldo Arias, as well as American session musician Don Harris. Celso Rubinstein wanted to create a unique atmosphere for the recording sessions, inviting numerous people to the control room to amplify the spontaneous live feeling even more (the control room was filled with people like Ney Matogrosso, As Frenéticas, Claudia Telles, Fátima Guedes.) You definitely can hear this vitality on the record originally published in 1982 by Rubinstein himself.

Since there was a massive vinyl shortage at the time in Brazil, no label had any spare material to waste on newcomers. Only the label Tapecar, which had its own pressing plant, helped Rubinstein out and used the left over material from the manufacture of Gal Costa’s latest album («Minha Voz») to have his 7” privately pressed. Needless to say that it missed any recognition back then. But now, 36 years later, thanks to Junior Santos and Notes On A Journey a broad audience has the joy to finally embrace this beautiful music wholeheartedly.

É A Vida Que Diz / Enquanto Houver

B - Celso Rubinstein - Enquanto Houver

This is Cracki Records new project 'L'Impératrice', released october 22nd.
&nbsp;
video ~ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ2iRHsG3zw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">l'impératrice ♔</a>
vocals ~ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmRrOzJS5U" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mike larry the classic</a>
mix & mast ~ <a href="http://www.studio33rec.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">studio 33</a>
more on ~ <a href="http://www.crackirecords.com/artistes/l-imperatrice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.crackirecords.com</a>
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L'Impératrice - L'Impératrice [cracki004]

Notes On A Journey to Brazil.
A Mix to celebrate the Release of Celso Rubinstein on Notes on a Journey. 

Celso Rubinstein 7inch available here: https://notesonajourney.lnk.to/EaVidaQueDiz

Tracklist:

1. Valéria - Pé na Estrada
2. Badameiro - Te Pego de Jeito
3. Eliane Salek - Pra Brincar
4. Celso Rubinstein - Enquanto houver
5. Marcelo Ganem - Ponta de Estrela
6. Gibran - Canção do Violeiro
7. André Luiz Oliveira - Filhos de Odé
8. Carlos Pita - Casa das Flautas
9. Celso Rubinstein - É a vida que diz
10. Grupo Cravo e Canela - Manda o seu Namorado Embora
11. Perinho Santana - O teu Olhar
12. Alexandre Az, Marcelo Dinis, Sergio Misan - 1,2,3….Fui
13. Cátia de França - Estilhaços
14. Fogo Baiano - Fogo do sol
15. Tadeu Mathias - Presa
16. Darcy de Paulo - Ano Novo

Notes On A Journey – To Brazil (Celso Rubinstein Inspiration - mixed by Juergen von Knoblauch)

This is an excerpt from Cracki Records new project 'L'Impératrice', coming october 22nd.
&nbsp;
video ~ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ2iRHsG3zw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">l'impératrice ♔</a>
mix & mast ~ <a href="http://www.studio33rec.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">studio 33</a>
more on ~ <a href="http://www.crackirecords.com/artistes/l-imperatrice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.crackirecords.com</a>
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L'Impératrice - 1998

Le coeur dans la tête

Montréal

Skassical

Born Free

Asa [Asha]

Fire on the mountain

Miniatures de auto rhythm

Le soleil dans le monde

„Discovering and rediscovering music“ is NOAJ's slogan and by this credo productions and recordings (records, cassettes, never before released master tapes) from days gone by shall and will find its audience. NOAJ tells the tale of mis-launched careers, failed dreams, gutted hopes, criminally overlooked masterpieces and of music that has been probably way too ahead of its time.