We are excited to premiere a previously unreleased live recording from legendary British jazz bassist and composer Graham Collier.  Forthcoming on My Only Desire Records, a key label rediscovering and sharing seminal unrelreased UK jazz releases with the world. 

Previously unreleased recording of bassist/composer Graham Collier's seminal 'Down Another Road' album recorded live in 1969 at Stockholm's Jazz Day festival, his all-star sextet includes jazz heavyweights Harry Beckett, Stan Sulzmann, Karl Jenkins and John Marshall. The pastoral melody to “The Barley Mow” -  the second single - transports you to an idyllic English countryside scene, sipping a beer in the pub which inspired it. 

Since it’s release in 1969 on Fontana, 'Down Another Road' has become a cornerstone of British jazz, with the LP now a much sought-after rarity that regularly exchanges hands for over £200. It's considered the revered composer Collier's greatest album by many of its fans, thanks to its highly melodic, almost pop-like themes and irresistible '60s groove, spurred on by the on-point drumming of Soft Machine/Nucleus drummer John Marshall.

Remastered from the original tapes by Caspar Sutton-Jones @ Gearbox Records, 'Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days '69' is available as a limited edition 2LP set housed in a gatefold sleeve and 'mini-LP' gatefold CD, with sleeve notes by Graham Collier biographer Duncan Heining.

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Exclusive Premiere: Graham Collier "The Barley Mow" @ Stockholm Jazz Days '69

**Clips from both tracks from Kevin Figes & You Are Here - Seven For Lee / Green and Orange Night Park. 

00:00 - 01:30 Seven For Lee
01:31 - 03:00 Green and Orange Night Park

Saxophonist/composer Kevin Figes and his group You Are Here present this homage to two inspirational British jazz musicians - Keith Tippett and Elton Dean - with newly minted recordings of a classic track from each, pressed on a limited edition 7”.

You Are Here grew out of a celebration of the life of the vital improvising pianist/composer Keith Tippett (1947-2020), with whom Kevin Figes recorded and performed with. Made up of the finest players on the Bristol jazz scene, the band includes irrepressible drummer Tony Orrell (Paul Dunmall), Nostalgia 77 bassist Riaan Vosloo and Get the Blessing trumpeter Pete Judge.

They have added the music of Figes’ former teacher - and Soft Machine member - saxophonist/composer Elton Dean (1945-2006) to their repertoire and perform his groovy Township-jazz invoking composition “Seven for Lee”, which sees Figes’ soprano saxophone soaring over the loose-yet-funky rhythm section. The flip side takes you on cosmic jazz-rock journey through Tippett’s wonderful “Green and Orange Night Park”, with slow-building piano, percussion and horns gradually morphing into the mesmeric theme. The unhurried tempo helps to reveal the detail of the composition with Kevin’s alto solo a stunning highlight.

This is the first 7” in My Only Desire Records’ Brit Jazz 45s series, which will see contemporary jazz acts record two ‘60s/’70s British jazz compositions apiece, presenting them afresh to new audiences.

* Limited one-off pressing of 500 copies worldwide
* 7” vinyl housed in a reverse-board picture sleeve
* Mastered by and lacquer cut by Caspar Sutton-Jones @ Gearbox Studios

Kevin Figes: soprano and alto saxophone
Pete Judge: trumpet
Raphael Clarkson: trombone
Jim Blomfield: piano
Riaan Vosloo: bass
Tony Orrell: drums, percussion

Seven for Lee composed by Elton Dean
Green and Orange Night Park composed by Keith Tippett

Recorded by Jim Barr at J & J Studio, Bristol
Mixed by Jim Barr & Kevin Figes

Seven for Lee / Green and Orange Night Park

Kevin Figes & You Are Here - Seven For Lee / Green and Orange Night Park *CLIPS*

#Superimpositions with Cyrus: Paul Dunmall's Improvisations @ The Lot Radio 09-25-2023

#Superimpositions w Cyrus: Paul Dunmall's Improvisations (Pt. 2)

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#Superimpositions with Cyrus: Paul Dunmall's Improvisations (Pt. 2) @ The Lot Radio 10-23-2023

A mixtape about a dude returning to a beautiful new house by the sea after a fucked up year of doctors and question marks.
Suitable for summer roadtrips.

//Tracklist//
(David Lynch's Weather Report 7/25/2020)
Criolo, Dino D’Santiago, Amaro Freitas - Esperança
Orchestra Baobab - Coumba
Maestro Walter's Brass Band - Pran Kwa Mwen (from Félix Blume's Death in Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands & Sounds from Port au Prince)
Inti Illimani Histórico - La Fiesta de San Benito
Yussef Dayes - Turquoise Galaxy (Live on KEXP w/ Elijah Fox, Malik Venner, Alexander Bourt Windsor, Rocco Palladino)
Caetano Veloso - O Leãozinho
Elis Regina - Vou Deitar e Rolar (Quaquaraquaqua)
Andreas Papadamou, Giorgos Moutoukias - Music theme from "The Sailing Tomatoes" - The Delicate Question - Soundtrack of Short Film "Aporia"
Davi Mascarenhas - Disparada
Thanasis Papakonstantinou, Socratis Malamas - Ta Paximadia
JSPHYNX - Sensei
Derrick Harriott and The Crystalites - Biafra

the dude goes home // mixtape #2

"One of my friends, he’s a philosopher and critic. He made a word: ‘outernationalism.’ Internationalism is still based on nationality. Being outernational is like Moses in the desert. There’s no country. There is just trade, communication and merchants, but there’s no nationality. It’s a utopia and I like it."

Ryuichi Sakamoto


//TRACKLIST//
Ibaaku - Ñiini
Alfa Mist feat. Amiko Quartet - Checkpoint (Violence) live rec.
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
Khalab ft. Gabin Dabiré - Father and Grandpa
Frank Zappa - Sleeping in a Jar
João Bosco - Linha de Passe
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Differencia (first master)
Shabaka ft. ESKA - Living
Kamasi Washington - Road to Self
Milton Nascimento - Tudo O Que Você Podia Ser
Naná Vasconcelos - Sou do Bem
Chelsea Carmichael - All we Know (Shabaka Hutchings Remix)

painting by František Kupka

Outernationalism // mixtape #3

British jazz underground masterpiece
Ultra rare UK Prog-Jazz Fusion private-pressing

Gagged & Bound

Monday's Race

Leaf

Decision for Gillian

Mirror

Cameo

Underdog

Richard's Raga

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