shabaka hutchings - bass clarinet
leafcutter john - electronics
cara stacey - umrhubhe bow

life cycle (live at st.john's bethnal green church)

Legacy Broken is a cinematic orchestral concept album that explores the psychological weight of legacy, family, and emotional silence. Blending restrained elegance with hypnotic minimalism, each track unfolds like a room in a haunted memory palace—echoes of conversations, legal inheritances, betrayals, and unresolved grief.

Muted strings, fractured piano motifs, trembling horns, and emotionally conflicted harmonic structures form a sonic language of unspoken tension and decaying tradition. The arrangements resist resolution, allowing silence, repetition, and space to carry as much meaning as melody.

This album is not just a score — it’s a portrait of inheritance, power, and the long shadows of memory. The finale song "Inheritance of Silence" concludes with a vocalized song about empty love, wealth and social responsibility. 

6. Haunted Memories

Piano 4-3

composed by shabaka hutchings
performed by shabaka and ligeti quartet
commissioned by leasowes bank music festival

collage image by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Octavia(for string quartet and clarinet)

Another impossible find from Guatemala and we love it. Moogalicious with a VG condition sounding great, except for the first 10+ seconds. Could use a good wood glue cleanse to eliminate that noise!

Emilio Aparicio "Brujeria" - Roja 7" - Guatemala, 1970's - SOLD

An abridged version of my most previous 199radio "hypnagogic jerk till midnight mix'. A trawl through funky electronic tracks from some library & soundtrack records I've bought over the years.

Track list:
Building - Music from 'Building a better way' - The 1974 Chevrolet
Jazz computer - Futuribile - Gianni Safred & his electronic instruments
Officina Stellare - Tra Scienza E Fantascienza - Moggi
Thematic - Synthetic Music - Martin Lanibor & Jean-Pierre Decerf
Angoisse Intense - Electro sounds - Bernard Estardy
Montage 9 - Montage -  Gerhard Trede
Dreams In The wind - Light Flight - Magical Ring/Jean-Pierre Decerf
Untitled - De Nieuwe Volkswagen Transporter
Surveyor - Action/Parchwork 49 - Jean-Pierre Decerf
Video synthbass - Automation vol 2 - Sauveur Mallia
Blush response - Blade Runner - Vangelis
Endstation Freiheit - Title music - Irmin Schmidt
Il Dopolota - Mimì Metallurgico Ferito Nell'Onore - Piero Piccioni
Jerk beat - Gli Angeli Del 2.000 - Mario Molino
Sequence 4 - Zombi 2 - Fabio Frizzi
Lotor - April Orchestra Vol. 47 - Milpatte
Percussionnistement Votre - April Orchestra Vol. 41 - Bernard Estardy
Zelda's theme - Zelda - Marcello Giombini
Oriental Workload - Action disco - James Asher/Studio G
Mount Rushmore - Little America - Gianni Marchetti ‎

Into the cosmos - library funk & soundtrack mix

More info about Babylon Rockers at :
› www.lemellotron.com/babylon-rockers

Babylon Rockers #87 - Ethiopia Special

https://www.mrbongo.com/products/mr-bongo-record-club-volume-three-vinyl-2-lp-cd

Volume Three in the Mr Bongo Record club series. Another showcase of recent vinyl finds and favourites from our DJ sets and radio shows. This is an extra special one however, as it lands in 2019, the year that we celebrate 30 years since it all began way back in 1989.

Compiled by David Buttle and Gareth Stephens, assisted by Graham Luckhurst and Gary Johnson.

Mr Bongo Record Club Volume Three

Taharazaka

Look Up Sharp

I'm Conscious

Tracklist and more info about Captain Cumbia Radio Show at › https://www.lemellotron.com/captain-cumbia-radio-show/

Octavia(for string quartet and clarinet)

shabakah