Both beautiful and bleak, befitting the subject. Keep doing what you're doing Adam, it's a welcome relief to hear someone spreading the love of humankind, rather than the hatred of bigotry. The album will be making its way into my collection on the first Bandcamp Friday after its release.

Lil Whisper in ya Ear

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Heralding her forthcoming album ‘Reflections’ on BBE Music, harp player and composer Alina Bzhezhinska (aka AlinaHipHarp) presents ‘Soul Vibrations’, the first single taken from the project.

Alongside her HipHarpCollective, Alina Bzhezhinska creates a unique sound on the harp with layered effects and electronics, combining original works and covers to pay homage to some of jazz, funk and hip-hop’s greatest innovators.

Album ‘Reflections’ features a blend of original compositions and covers of works by some of Bzhezhinska’s greatest influences, including ‘Soul’ Vibrations’, originally record by the pioneering composer and harpist Dorothy Ashby.

“This iconic tune captured my imagination when I first listened to her album, Afro-Harping” says Alina. “I decided to make my own version of this tune by writing an arrangement that represents vibrating strings of the heart. I open the album with Soul Vibrations, as I wanted to show my deepest respect to my role model.”

Album ‘Reflections’ will be released in September 2022, on vinyl, CD and digital formats.

Alina Bzhezhinska, HipHarpCollective - Soul Vibrations

Where Would We Be

"Division seems to characterise our daily experience. The secondary products of lying and corruption - frustration, anger, sadness - seeping deeper into the bones of our society, of all our experience"

In the last few weeks of October 2022 Scrimshire wrote a new collection of songs with the descriptive working title "Scream". A direct response to the absurdity of the breakdown in the UK government, the horror of the treatment of refugees arriving on our shores and the callous disregard for the trauma being caused to anyone considered "other" - class, skin colour or otherwise. Self-preserving conservative MPs fought for their jobs, record profits were announced by energy companies, while gouging crippling amounts of money from people's pockets, the sense of living in a dystopian fantasy was frequently overwhelming.

Originally named “Scream 8”, Unity Gain was one of the early outpourings from those sessions. Piano and drums bubble up until it fully boils over with huge stabbing synthesiser and string sounds in an outburst of frenetic energy. One of Scrimshire's most powerful deliveries to date.

Unity Gain follows, 2022s Music for Autumn Lovers and the much loved 2021 album Nothing Feels Like Everything.

Unity Gain

Today’s premiere comes from Ugly Mac Beer, who shares the bossa meets boom bap instrumental “Dolce Vita” with us. 

French producer Ugly Mac Beer, known for his contributions to the breakbeat scene and for founding Beatsqueeze Records, is releasing a new solo album titled ‘The Valley of the Kings’. 

Set for release on January 27, 2023, the album features a collection of obscure samples from around the world, repurposed into heavy boom bap instrumentals. 

With inspiration from 90s productions by genre masters such as Madlib, DJ Shadow, and RZA, the album's concept centers around the search for the ultimate and perfectly heady loop. 

A concept album, ‘The Valley of the Kings’ tells a story of a journey back to the time when the pyramids were built, and is described as Ugly Mac Beer's own "old movie about Egypt".

The Valley Of The King

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Exclusive Premiere: Ugly Mac Beer "Dolce Vita" (X-Ray Productions)

"This is dedicated to the politicians who have forced refugees into life-threatening decisions. Pushing people into the hands of traffickers, into small boats and too many beneath the waves of our seas. Who stoke fears to create a place of more cruelty and persecution instead of assylum. It won't be forgotten and it won't be forgiven."

In the last few weeks of October 2022 Scrimshire wrote a new collection of songs with the working title "Scream". A direct response to the absurdity of the breakdown in the UK government, the horror of the treatment of refugees arriving on our shores and the callous disregard for the trauma being caused to low income people or anyone considered "other". While self-preserving conservative MPs fought for their jobs, while record profits were announced by energy companies, as they were gouging crippling amounts of money from people's pockets. How does a society stop the callousness and corruption from seeping into its bones? 

The anger, sadness, mourning, frustration was poured into these recordings.

Paroxysm

Unforgotten, Unforgiven

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Unforgotten, Unforgiven feat. Nat Birchall

We’re excited to share a double audio and video premiere of “Raze”, taken from the brand new NRG project by Chiminyo, alter ego of drummer, percussionist and producer, Tim Doyle, renowned for both his solo releases and work with Maisha and Cykada.

The brainchild of drummer/producer Chiminyo, NRG is more than just an album, label or event. It’s a concept. Born out of a conversation about the UK Jazz scene (is it really jazz?) Chiminyo concluded that this musical expression is less about ‘jazz’ and more about energy (NRG). 
 
So with this in mind, he set about to explore, celebrate and harness this NRG in its purest form. No labels, no promoters, no industry, no control. Just Chiminyo and members of his musical community exchanging (strictly improvised) NRG with audiences and capturing the spontaneous beauty to be shared with the world. 

This first edition, NRG 1, features an all-star line-up (band members of Jorja Smith, Nubyan Twist, Gary Bartz, Nightmares on Wax, Yussef Kamaal) and you can really feel the vibrant NRG of the capital pulsating throughout. Tunes like ‘Raze’ and ‘Purple/Green’ and their whirling, high octane, jungle/broken beat aesthetic are balanced perfectly by tunes like the smooth, sexy, R&B anthem ‘SLK’ and the downtempo, ambient, Latin-house of ‘Eleguá’, a Yoruba prayer, led by trumpet player Yelfris Valdés, cleansing the room and bringing positive vibes to the band and the audience. Incredibly, this music is all improvised, yet each tune comes across as a carefully sculpted composition, a clear testament to the incredible musicians on the recording, and the high level of their chemistry.

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Exclusive Premiere: Chiminyo "Raze" (Forthcoming on NRG Discs)

Recorded at his home studio in Los Angeles (2020) “De Manhã’ is a stunning ambient improvisational solo piece. Utilising a variety of guitars alongside a host of pedals and synthesisers, the single is a sneak peak of the more gentle and reflective side of Fabiano Do Nasicmento's new album Mundo Solo.

Mundo Solo

Fabiano Do Nascimento - De Manhã

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Love For The Sake Of Dub

Broken Hearted Kota

Lo-fi psychedelia with a triumphant apex from London three-piece Night Tapes. 

Part of our 2019 charity Advent Calendar in aid of War Child.

Download & Donate: http://bit.ly/Day16_NightTapes

All money raised through Bandcamp sales goes directly to War Child, so please give generously.

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Scrimshire, Paroxysm - out now. 
Previously nominated for "Album of the Year" Gilles Peterson, Worldwide Awards for Nothing Feels Like Everything. 
Named as one of three essential UK soul producers in The Guardian. 

Songwriter, Producer, mix and mastering engineer and one of the men behind Modified Man and the Albert's Favourites record label.

Unforgotten, Unforgiven feat. Nat Birchall

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