hail to the church of forgotten latinjazz gems

excusez-moi, michelle

Tim invited Nerija and Maisha Saxophonist Nubya Garcia on the show to discuss her influences, Tomorrow's Warriors, Steez, Djing and much more and we were also lucky enough to hear her play some of her favourite records.
(11th December 2016)


Trinidad Senolia - Sucre Sacre (Yoruba Records)
Moodymann - Lyk U Use 2 (feat. Andrés)
Donald Byrd – Fallin’ Like Dominoes
Richard Spaven feat The Hics - Whole Other
Dizraeli & Jakaboski - Paint Flowers
Erykah Badu – Vibrate On

Nubya Garcia in Conversation

Maisha – Africa
Minnie Ripperton – Inside My Love
A Tribe Called Quest – Lyrics To Go
NÉRIJA – For You
Mo Kolours - A Soul's Journey (Jeen Bassa Version)
Herbie Hancock – Sonrisa
Fertile Ground – Like Poetry
Susso – Bani
Sons of Kemet - The Long Night Of Octavia E Butler 
Oumou Sangare - Iyo Djeli
The Brother Moves On – Sikelela
Wganda Kenya - Shakaloade

Photo Credit : Daily Laurel DAILY

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The Música Macondo Show #015 ft. Nubya Garcia

When they come together as Roll the Dice, Swedish producers Peder Mannerfelt and Malcolm Pardon conjure a particularly stirring strain of cinematic sounds. Their latest full-length, 'Born to Ruin,' is due to arrive on May 26, but we premiered the foreboding majesty of LP cut "Cannonball" on Red Bull Radio's First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music.

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Born To Ruin

Roll the Dice "Cannonball" [First Floor Premiere]

Natureboy Flako's entry into the Bleep Mix series, is an all vinyl mix that sees us driven head-on into alien landscapes of swirling jazz symphonies and crystal machine fusion. Creating a future-past world where analogue and acoustic are seemingly one and the same thing.

Check his new album here, and for those quick off the mark, we have an exclusive 100 copy run pressed on translucent coloured vinyl...
https://link.bleep.com/Natureboy-Flako-Theme-For-A-Dream

>>Tracklist<<
Reinhard Lakomy & Rainer Oleak - Raumzeit
Claude Larson - Spectrum Analysis
Tyndall - Regen Fällt
Pyrolator - Im Zoo
Patrick Moraz - Beyond Binary
Claude Larson - Busty Town
Piero Umiliani - Soft Key
Es Herrscht Uhu Im Land - Burroughs' Haiku / Wertkauf / Ländliches
Tim Blake - Metro / Logic
Lucifer (Mort Garson) - Solomon's Ring
Jeff Newmann - Star Dive (b)
Syngery - Trellis
Jan Hammer - Light / Sun (Edit)
Natureboy Flako - Black Dance @natureboytunes

Tom Lavin's Album

Bleep Mix #33 - Natureboy Flako

xoaxoa.bandcamp.com/album/way-west
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XOA ‘Way West’ (FEP028)
Release Date: 14th June 2019
Label: Five Easy Pieces
Format: Vinyl // Digital

XOA, led by London based producer and musician Nick Tyson, is set to release debut album ‘Way West’ on 14th June via Five Easy Pieces.

XOA means to look outwards; to draw inspiration from many sources. ‘Way West’ is alive with this: steeped in the rich analogue sonics of the past, the warmth of machines and influence from the sounds of London’s fervent music scene. Featuring a blend of contemporary electronic production and live instrumentation, 70s Afrobeat inspired drums and cosmic melodies are thrust into the present day with strong cues from house and techno.

Three vocalists contribute across the album, with Tyson choosing to work with singers he has a personal admiration and friendship with. Hollie Cook, known to many for her ethereal pop tinged reggae, delivers a sumptuous contribution on ‘Heartland’, adding a beautiful emotional dimension to the horn led track. Lulu Jones’ vocals are treated more as a sample for the garage tinged ‘Call On Me’ and Ruby Wood, of Submotion Orchestra, has worked with Tyson over a number of projects and their shared love of 90s soul comes to the fore on the laid back grooves and sun kissed ‘Only One Thing’.

“When collaborating, especially with vocalists on melodic and lyrical ideas, it’s important to have that personal connection and respect for each other’s craft. That’s why I never ask vocalists to prepare anything in advance for the tracks, I like to get in the room and just see what happens in the moment, to trust each other’s ideas, and for it to be a natural, organic and spontaneous process”.

Collaboration has always been at the heart of the project for Tyson. He plays the bulk of the instruments on the album but invites Marijus Aleksa on drums to provide live energy, extra synth work from Parisian Kenzo Zurzolo, and a notable Rhodes solo from Johnny Tomlinson (a member of Bonobo’s live band) on ‘Osu’.

After well received releases on Soundway Records, Cin Cin (with Wayward) and Banana Hill (with Contours); ‘Way West’ shows another step up for Tyson as a writer and producer.

“It feels like this project is coming alive for me, the music I envisaged in my mind a few years ago is being realised, and I’m proud of how it sounds”.

‘Way West’ is set to be released on 14th June 2019 via London based label Five Easy Pieces (Mo Kolours, Reginald Omas Mamode IV, Natureboy Flako, Royalty, Call Super) on vinyl LP and digital formats.

Tracklist:
01. VS20
02. Heartland Feat. Hollie Cook
03. Way West
04. Damascene
05. Call On Me Feat. Lulu James
06. Les Musiciens
07. Only One Thing Feat. Ruby Wood
08. Osu
09. Dance Of The Mantas
10. Out + Out

XOA — Call On Me (ft Lulu James)

Cosmic Vibrations Ft. Dwight Trible - Olbap
Tenderlonious - Birds Of Paradise
Yusef Lateef - Blues For The Orient
Yazmin Lacey - I'll Never Stop Loving You
Krokonaut - Jena
Nubya Garcia - Before Us: In Demerara & Caura
Creole Brothers - Mama Odé
Luke Smith Ft. David Mrakpor - New Dawn
Byard Lancaster - Drummers From Ibadan
Nuyorican Soul - Shoshana
Nubya Garcia - La cumbia me está llamando
Meridian Brothers - Cumbia del Pichamán
Eberebijara - Samba Negra
Edmony Krater - Natibel 
King Knut - XI
Reueben Vaun Smith - Trip On New Shores
Cotone Mediterraneo - Randomized Coffee
Othasoul - How Deep
Kamaal Williams - Pigalle
Charles Tolliver - Blue Soul
Juju - Nia

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Musica Macondo on Jazz FM with Tim Garcia - 29.08.20

MIMS is excited to premiere “Colorists”, one of our favourite songs from the fourth installment of  the Felbm project, on Soundway Records. A beautiful bossa nova blended with ambient music and soothing guitars. The whole tape is one to dream away too but “Colorists” makes us want to dance too, or at least tap our feet uncontrollably.

Following on from 2018’s Tape 1 & Tape 2, the Dutch producer and musician Eelco Topper recording as Felbm, has already released Tape 3 as a digital EP, to be released together with Tape 4 on one vinyl LP on October 16.

Tape 3 & Tape 4 is an intimate, emotional, lilting and melodic solo project with a restorative, therapeutic nature. They were composed and recorded by Topper with just those aspects in mind as a personal remedy for the ailments of modern life. With a breezy and soothing quality these fourteen lo-fi, instrumental, jazz-infused sketches written on guitar, with cascading keyboards, vibraphone and drum machine, seem perfect for the second half of 2020, a year in which we could all surely use some curative and uncomplicated music. With echoes of the dreamier end of 1980s English indie-pop, minimal ambient music and Brazilian bossa-nova, Topper’s musical storybook includes touches of The Durutti Column, echoes of Ethiopian Tezeta, hints of Antônio Carlos Jobim and Baden Powell, whilst all set firmly in the summer fields of Germany and the Netherlands.

“In the summer of 2019 I took only a guitar and a “pocket piano” to a holiday retreat in rural mid-Germany that I visit regularly, and wrote most of the basic ideas for Tape 4. The opening track ‘Brunnengasse’ features the wind chimes from the garden there. When I hear them I’m back at that peaceful place immediately. Dealing with chronic fatigue syndrome for the past few years, I took on a habit of hiking in nature frequently, which in turn led to a budding love of birdwatching. The track ‘Beaufort’ contains a field recording taken in an area where I like to go hiking and spotting birds. Most notably you can hear the song of a woodlark, a bird far easier heard than seen.”

Style-wise these tracks are still navigating the space between quiet, open, meditative tunes and more solid instrumental songs, thereby reflecting his constant search for an optimal balance between stillness and movement.

Tape 4

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Exclusive Premiere: Felbm "Colorists" (Forthcoming on Soundway Records)

Ahead of the release of the debut @scarletpines EP, the band has blessed us with a guest mix that delves deep into new jazz with tracks from Kamaal Williams, Alfa Mist, Mansur Brown, Amir Bresler, KOKOROKO and more. You also get to hear all three cuts that grace Scarlet Pines upcoming EP.

Twistedsoul Guest Mix: Scarlet Pines

Went into the crates to pull a few selections from the great jazz label Muse. Tried to stay away from some of the sample-favorites (no Walt Barr or Catalyst this time around). Instead, it's a journey into the a variety of styles and flavors, some creative and beautiful music made by a wide range of musicians in the 70s and early 80s. There's definitely another stack of records I wasn't able to include this round, so maybe a part two will be in the works for the future.

Tracklist: Dom Um Romao, Pat Martino, Cedar Walton, Joe Chambers, Mark Murphy, Deodato and Joao Donato, Eric Kloss

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Pullin from the Stacks - Episode 143 (Muse Records Selections)

Matthew Halsall - Canopy & Stars
Matty - Self Portrait
Kokoroko - Baba Ayoola
Antonio Neves - A pegada Agora  é Essa
Nubya Garcia - Source (Makaya McCraven Remix)
Scrimshire - Love Is Loving Ft. Omar, Xana and Faye Houston
Linkwood & Other Lands 3VSR
Yazz Ahmed - Barbara (Ahmed/Langley Remix)
Bel Cobain & Lex Amor - At The Bay
James Reese & The Progressions - Throwing Stones (Kenny Dope Remix)

Marc Tierre (Hive Mind Records) Mix

Los Papines - Si No
El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico - Tremendo Cumban
Sonora Santanera - Oye La Lluvia
Nelson y sus Estrellas - Gitana
Afrosound - Plastico Chico
Joe Arroyo Y La Verdad - La Noche
Sonora Palacios - La Bruja Loca
Felix Del Rosario y su Orquesta - Felix Llego
Nati y su Charanga - Sandra Mora
Fruko y sus Tesos - Que Bonita Seria
Los Blanco - El Mecánico
Alfredo De La Fé Y Su Orquesta - La Mucura
La India Meliyara - La Pruebita
Los Tupamaros - Enamorao
Caramelo Caliente - Tu Pum Pum

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Musica Macondo on Jazz FM with Tim Garcia Ft. Marc Tierre (Hive Mind Records)

Special Mention -Arman Harutyunyan

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