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Recently discovered album track which is very nice!

OBY ONYIOHA - ENJOY YOUR LIFE

Up next on Phonica Premieres is a seriously groovy cut from International Soleil Band off the new Soundway 12".  Ta Lassa is an '80s West African Disco crossover from the International Soleil band straight outta Guinea. Composed by Gnamakoron Sidi Diabaté it was originally featured on an album released in 1983 by French Warners offshoot WAM (West African Music) - a short lived label that recorded about 20 releases of West African music released in France. Also Featuring Mory Djely Kouyate this track was a staple of the 22 band's repertoire in the 1970s (in which many of the ISB played) - famous for their recordings on the legendary state-run Editions Syliphone label. We've decided to premiere the extended (DJ friendly) Hide & Smile edit on the A side. There's throbbing bass and keyboard interplay punctuated by classic Guinee guitar lines, metronomic drumming and 80s synth sweeps eventually drops into a more recognisable Guinean vocal outing. This beautiful 12" will be out on the 20th of May and you can reserve a copy on our website: j.mp/TaLassa

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Phonica Premieres: International Soleil Band - Ta Lassa (Hide & Smile Edit) [SOUNDWAY]

1 of 4 tracks on the Brazilian Compilation Series Vol.2

Other artist include: Fatnotrocnic & Poolside, TonyAdams, Daniel.T. and a Special Guest.

Vinyl released soon

Poolside & Fatnotronic - Esperar Pra Ver

Steve Watson - Born To Boogie

"How it Goes " from How to Hit What and How Hard available here :
https://mocky.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-hit-what-and-how-hard-the-moxtape-vol-iv-extended-japanese-edition
  vocals by Artelly, violin by Molly Rogers , all other instruments by Mocky

How to Hit What and How Hard 

HOW IT GOES

Since Then. 2017

Venasque

Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScpnUpCsM4

'Pineapple' (Feat. @moses-boyd & @nerijamusic) taken from Blue Lab Beats' debut album 'Xover'.

Pre-order the album/stream the single here: https://BlueLabBeats.lnk.to/Xover

'Pineapple' is an interpolation of the song Yembele by Samba Mapangala.

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Pineapple (Feat. Moses Boyd & NÉRIJA)

Parribean Disco

The Serpents Mouth

Crockett Theme

Meet Me On The Corner is taken from the album ‘Orange Whip’ which was BBC 6 Music’s Album of The Day on its release. A pounding beat beefed up by bass, guitar and brass, propels forward while ‘Ríoghnach Connolly’ (pronounced Rainer) sings lyrics that could be straight out of the playground, but suggest something a little deeper.

Here is a remix from the legends of funky house music, ‘Crazy P’ with both vocal and dub versions. Turning Honeyfeet’s latest opus into a straight up soulful disco monster by ‘Hot Toddy’ and ‘Ron Basejam’, with Rioghnach’s rasping vocals playfully meandering over crisp beats and trademark live bass.

Wah Wah 45s:
https://soundcloud.com/wahwah45s
http://www.wahwah45s.com

Crazy P:
https://soundcloud.com/crazyp

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PREMIERE: Honeyfeet - Meet Me On The Corner (Crazy P Remix)[Wah Wah 45s]

Phenomenal Handclap Band - Judge Not (Ray Mang Special Mix)

Take Me I'm Yours

Atlantic Oscillations

Meister Lampe continues his musical journey around the world. After his successful debut album «Orb» he returns after exactly one year with an exciting and colorful sequel: Orb II.

Get your physical copy here: meisterlampe.fanlink.to/ORB2

After the successful solo debut «Orb» – the limed vinyl was sold out after only a short time – Meister Lampe once again packed this beatmaker equipment in his suitcase in the summer of ’18 and set off again. On his route he picked samples and typical sound images from all around the globe, cutted, pitched or changed them and composed his own musical collages. Sometimes with juicy drums and percussion and sometimes with quieter tones.
«Orb II» is an instrumental album with clear hip-hop influences, mixed across the musical genres and influences of the individual countries. This time Meister Lampe travels musically to India, Grenada, Brazil and then make a detour to Benin and Cape Verde.
In the end there is much more than just a travelogue to get discovered: it is a record with a great suspense, one or two long-term classics and a lot of love in detail.“

releases April 5, 2019

Music & Mix: Meister Lampe
Mastering: Ludwig Maier/GKG Mastering
Artwork: Taj Francis 

© okwow 2019

Dantokpa

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Far Out Recordings proudly presents two albums of previously unheard Azymuth demo recordings from 1973-75

Since their debut album release in 1975, Azymuth have risen to rank alongside the world’s greatest jazz, funk and fusion artists. As young men in Rio de Janeiro, they stood out for both their exceptional talent as musicians, and their wild rock ‘n’ roll antics in the predominantly middle-class worlds of bossa nova and jazz. Their signature ‘Samba Doido’ (crazy samba) sound ruptured the tried and tested musical structures of the day, resulting in what can only be described as an electric, psychedelic, samba jazz-funk hybrid.
But before they became Azymuth, Jose Roberto Bertrami (keyboards), Ivan ‘Mamão’ Conti (drums), Alex Malheiros (bass) and Ariovaldo Contesini (percussion) played backing band to just about every major artist in Brazil.

Bertrami was also contracted as an arranger and songwriter at some the biggest labels of the era: Polydor, Philips, Som Livre, and EMI being just a few. Azymuth’s name can be found on record sleeves by the likes of Jorge Ben, Elis Regina, Marcos Valle, Ana Mazzotti and countless others. But at the dawn of the seventies, fascinated by developments in improvisational music - from jazz in the US, to progressive rock in the UK and of course samba, bossa and tropicália on home turf - the energetic young group were inspired and ready to move forward.Any spare moment in which they weren’t in sessions and writing music for other artists, they would be carving out their own sound.

These previously unheard recordings took place between 1973-75 at Bertrami’s home studio in the Laranjeiras district of Rio de Janeiro. At the time of recording, there was nothing in Brazil, less the world that sounded anything like them, so perhaps it’s unsurprising that when Bertrami presented his demos to the record companies he had been working for, he was turned away, and told in effect that the music was ‘wrong’.

One of the demos ‘Manhã’ would be picked up by Som Livre and Azymuth released their seminal debut album in 1975. Throughout the late seventies and eighties, the group released a series of now classic albums for Milestone Records, before taking an indefinite hiatus to pursue their individual careers.
When English producers Joe Davis and Roc Hunter arrived in Brazil in 1994 to record the first Azymuth album in over a decade, Bertrami dug out the demos which had sat virtually untouched for over twenty years. Joe recalls how he was “blown away by the freedom and intensity of the music, as well as the genius of the ideas musically.” Beginning a long and fruitful relationship, ‘Prefacio’ would be the first track Azymuth recorded for Far Out Recordings and was released on the Carnival album (1996).

Along with ‘Manhã’ and ‘Prefacio’, only a handful of these demos were ever professionally recorded and released, making this the first opportunity to hear many of these early Azymuth compositions in their raw, original form.

On every track the frenetic energy in the studio is palpable, giving the recordings a beautifully personal feel and a sense of the phenomenally creative vision Bertrami, Malheiros and Conti were realising at the time. Fifty years on, Azymuth’s earliest recorded music retains an ineffable, futuristic quality, standing amongst their most captivating and moving work.

Vinyl / CD / Digi

Azymuth - Castelo (Version 1)

Soundway Records present ’24 Hours in A Disco 1978 - 82’, 7 cuts of relentless disco grooves from the sublimely gifted Kiki Gyan. Hailed as Africa’s answer to Stevie Wonder, Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Kiki Gyan was a musical wunderkind who by 1975 had risen from the lowly status of high school dropout to being ranked eighth in a poll of the greatest keyboardists in the world (occupying the rarefied air of the top ten with heavyweights like Steve Winwood, Billy Preston, and Stevie Wonder) as well as becoming an in-demand session player in the top recording studios of London - all before his twenty-first birthday. 

Out on his own, he produced a series of highly ambitious disco records aimed at positioning him as an international star, but weighed down by the excesses of the era, Gyan saw his meteoric rise matched by an equally swift fall back into obscurity. 

Loved dearly by his contemporaries and sorely missed since his death in 2005 the story of the life of Kofi Kwarko ‘Kiki’ Gyan is one often told with warning by his friends to the new generation of aspiring Ghanaian popstars.

Soundway Records now collects the best of Gyan’s work as a frontman and solo artist, featuring an array of electrifying disco grooves that still sound contemporary (and in some cases futuristic) decades after their initial release.

Released on CD and 2xLP both formats are accompanied with detailed liner notes written by Uchenna Ikonne. LP version comes with a free MP3 download of the release. 

Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer

Resonate

House of Lett

Every Trick in the Book

Felony / Rile 'Em Up

Felony

Celebrating all styles of contemporary jazz from a myriad of fresh, exciting talents within the Lowlands, Super-Sonic Jazz Records is proud to announce its first label compilation featuring some of the finest, and diverse jazz, and jazz-influenced tracks from the scene’s very best. Super-Sonic Family Vol.1 directly follows up the sold-out Super-Sonic Jazz Festival that took place at Amsterdam’s Paradiso late last year, and is the culmination of years of dedicated work throwing events, and releasing records.

The thirteen-track compilation as compiled by KC The Funkaholic and brothers Vincent and Siemen Tenzers — the central figures behind Super-Sonic Jazz — is a snapshot of the rising jazz scene in the Netherlands, featuring a strong assortment of styles and practises, all built around a central jazz ethos. It’s a local breed of talent that has been fostered and championed by the Super-Sonic family for several years now, and with the compilation they’ve captured the Joie de vivre of the refreshed youthfulness that has been shaping the area’s musical direction. From housier beats, to fast tempos and smooth grooves with global sounds, the variety of styles and practises shows how the different communities and artists — whether they be established or fully recognised —have managed to build bridges between themselves through a strong connection the unorthodox rhythms and dark arts of soulful, and beat-driven jazz.

Featured on the record of the sounds of several producers, including local soulful beat-maker Planty Herbs, Rhythm Section producer Duke Hugh who brings a touch of cinematic percussion with an impassioned danceable gem, plus Rotterdam’s very own Ranie Ribeiro, aka. Ranie Ribeiro who channels energy from Cape Verde with some harp-heavy dancefloor sounds. Served up also is a smooth variety of extremely prodigious instrumentation; keys-man and Cinematic Orchestra alumni Dominic J Marshall splashes out with a blissful Rhodes jam, Super Sonic’s very own GreyHeads unleash their own re-interpretation of drum & bass, soul music, while Arp Frique’s Djosa lays down some instrumental, exotic jazz, boogie disco. In addition, renowned muso Trian Kayhatu is on board with some straight-up future soul, Son Swagga sets down some psychedelic jazz fusion, and Dominic J Marshall collaborator Glenn Gaddum Jr., aka, one of the Netherlands’ best bass players, bring a touch of class, with his effortless and dreamy music.

What started out as a series of events and shows at Paradiso has now gone on to become one of the most prolific hubs for jazz in the Netherlands. The label has gone on to bridge gaps between classic and modern scenes by re-releasing long lost gems alongside releases from the some of the scene’s newest, underground talents. Alongside the festival, the Super-Sonic Family compilation is just the latest step in the their development, and an important benchmark in the region’s jazz legacy.

Global Funk

SWAIN