Digging in the Crates: Rare Grooves + Samples - 4

Black Focus

Remembrance

Muse

Suffer

Ultra-Lounge: Bongoland

Deep Night/Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Medley)

Al's Big Deal/Unclaimed Freight

Season of the Witch

Death Wish: Original Soundtrack Album

Death Wish (Main Title)

The Savage And The Sensuous Bongos

Head Hunter

Lala Belu

Yefikir Engurguro

a blooming bloodfruit in a hoodie

Makaya McCraven
January 10, 2020
New York City, NY @ Webster Hall - Winter Jazzfest 2020

Black Lion

Makaya McCraven - drums
Junius Paul - bass
Matt Gold - guitar
Marquis Hill - trumpet
Irvin Pierce - tenor saxophone
Greg Ward - alto saxophone
Joel Ross - vibraphone
Brandee Younger - harp

Shure MV88 > iPhone 7 > Motiv Audio App > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (normalized) > CD Wave Editor (tracking) > FLAC (24/48)
Recorded by Mr. Mountjoy from the center of the floor

full download: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=666679&hit=1

Makaya McCraven - Black Lion 1/10/20 NYC @ Winter Jazzfest

There is something simultaneously both brand-new and retro about 'All News Is Good News’ - the debut album from Melbourne's instrumental soul group Surprise Chef. It sounds like something dreamt up by lo-fi cousins of David Axelrod and Janko Nilovic, with dramatic Library-music-esque cinematic arrangements echoing both light and dark, delving into moments of dissonance and positivity. There is a meticulous education of 1970’s soul on display that touches on the legacies of the great composer / producers, yet at the same time, this is a truly contemporary record that could have only been made now. 

The first limited pressing of 'All News Is Good News’ was released on the band's own 'College Of Knowledge' imprint in November 2019. It slipped rapidly into the collective consciousness of underground music lovers around the world, with all copies selling out within a week and becoming a firm favourite at Mr Bongo HQ in the process. We felt Surprise Chef had made something very special, a future-classic, and that needed to be heard well beyond those lucky enough to have bagged those limited first copies.

Formed at the end of 2017, Surprise Chef have grown within the fertile, creative, and supportive Melbourne music scene. Whilst the band is comprised of four core members, the album features friends and family as guest instrumentalists on flute, saxophone, vibraphone, congas, and assorted percussion; all adeptly recorded by engineer Henry Jenkins from the band Karate Boogaloo. The warm-raw-authenticity of the album was captured in the recordings live to tape over a handful of sessions in the band’s home studio in Melbourne’s inner-northern suburb of Coburg. As band member Lachlan Stuckey explains “All of the music we record is tracked live to tape, simply because so many of the records we love most were made that way".

The results are a captivating journey of instrumental cinematic-soul that will connect with the hardened Axelrod, Truth & Soul, El Michels Affair, and Daptone's fans, as well as the open-minded first-time listener. We are very excited to share this first slice of Surprise Chef’s world, with plenty more magic from these guys coming around the corner very soon.

All News Is Good News

Surprise Chef - Flip Shelton

Surprise Chef - All News Is Good News

We’re very proud to present to you ‘Kahil El’Zabar’s America the Beautiful’, a tour de force musical testament that speaks directly to the heart, mind and spirit. Kahil El’Zabar composed, arranged and conducted ‘America the Beautiful’ to speak musically about the turbulent issues in America and the world today, as well as his hopes and love for a better tomorrow. 

This incredible album features Kahil El’Zabar with an extended ensemble of woodwinds, brass, strings and an array of Afro-percussion, showcasing extraordinary players such as Corey Wilkes, Tomeka Reid, James Sanders, Josh Ramos, Miguel de la Cerna, Ernie Adams and Hamiet Bluiett (this album is in honour of Bluiett, as this was his last recording). 

El’Zabar developed the initial inspiration for this project from his musical origins in the above mentioned documentary, and later added new works that would explore issues related to current affairs and past histories of America and the globe, regarding race, ecology, economic disparity, and his hopes, aspirations and love for a better world yet to come.

The album’s theme is a unique reworking of the anthem ‘America the Beautiful’ into a multi-layered cacophony of altered harmonies and contrapuntal rhythms that speak to the bittersweet ironies of American society. Familiar classics such as ‘Express Yourself’, ‘How Can We Mend a Broken Heart’ and a killer, Afrocentric version of ‘Afro Blue’, have all been re-written with El’Zabar’s original arrangements and conducted by him in way that engages the listener in an audible landscape of thoughts and emotion that transverse the greater meaning of living in these times. El’Zabar’s powerful new compositions such as “Freedom March”, ‘Jump and Shout (For Those Now Gone’) and “That We Ask Of Our Creator”, further explore the adventure of melody to dissonance within the romance and passion of creative improvised music.

The album speaks to the times that we are living in today, in the wake of a worldwide pandemic, despotic leadership, mass social discontent, disproportionate poverty, Black Lives Matter and other disenfranchised peoples’ movements and the ecological and economic disparity of our planet. It is time to express ourselves with compassionate art that will hopefully propel better and clearer thoughts about where we are now and where we are going in the future. 

Kahil El’Zabar’s ‘America the Beautiful’ is an inspirational message channelled through powerful, spiritual music, that speaks with love, urgency and hope to our current times. 


C R E D I T S 
Kahil El’Zabar - Producer, Composer, Arranger, Conductor
Nep Sidhu – Art and Art Direction
Spiritmuse Records - Executive Producers
Mastered by Frank Merritt, Carvery Studio, London

In honor of Hamiet Bluiett, this was his last recording

T R A C K S
1.	AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL (INSTRUMENTAL)			2:23
2.	JUMP AND SHOUT (FOR THOSE NOW GONE)			6:35
3.	EXPRESS YOURSELF						3:55
4.	FREEDOM MARCH						8:13
5.	SKETCHES OF AN AFRO BLUE					8:14
6.	HOW CAN WE MEND A BROKEN HEART			4:07
7.	THAT WE ASK OF OUR CREATOR				4:28
8.	PRAYERS FOR THE UNWARRANTED SUFFERINGS		4:13
9.	AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL					2:03

M U S I C I A N S
Kahil El’Zabar - composition /arrangements
/conduction /multi-percussion /flute
Corey Wilkes – trumpet  			(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9)
Hamiet Bluiett - baritone sax			(1,3,4,6,9)
Tomeka Reid – cello  				(1,3,4,6,9)
Dennis Winslett – alto sax  			(1,3,4,6,9)
Samuel Williams – violin				(1,3,4,6,9)
James Sanders String Quartet 			(2,5,7,8)
Joshua Ramos - acoustic bass 			(2,5,7,8)
Miguel de la Cerna – keyboard 			(2,5,7,8)
Babu Atiba - African percussion 		(2,8)
Ernie Adams – percussion 			(2,8)
Robert Irving III - piano				(9)

© 2020 Spiritmuse Records Limited
    MUSIC FOR THE SPIRIT

Kahil El'Zabar's America The Beautiful - 06 - HOW CAN WE MEND A BROKEN HEART

“live audio, live video, always funky”

Funk It is a blog dedicated to live funk recordings, past and present.
Audio, video, downloads, and streaming.

https://taplink.cc/funkitblog
www.FunkItBlog.com
http://www.facebook.com/FunkItBlog/
http://twitter.com/#!/FunkItBlog/
http://funkitblog.tumblr.com/
http://instagram.com/funkitblog
http://www.youtube.com/user/RLBayers/
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheFunkItBlog/
http://www.youtube.com/user/FunkItBlog/

soundcloud:tracks:254074320

Makaya McCraven - Black Lion 1/10/20 NYC @ Winter Jazzfest

Funk It

Related tracks