love this track, full of malice but beautiful

comparisons don't mean much but for what it's worth Greg's group remind me of the first 3 Soft Machine albums - I loved those and I really like the Greg Foat Group - thanks for posting and the download

William Onyeabor - Love Me Now

Balance

1989 Nuovo Repertorio Editoriale NRE/1245

STRUMENTALI: TENSIONI
(P) Nuova Fonit Cetra / Star Edizioni Musicali
Originally released in 1974 on Carosello label as "FEELINGS"
Digital audiophile source repress from 1989.

Music by J.RICHFORD, S.TOROSSI & GARY STEVAN
Orchestra directed by J.RICHFORD & GARY STEVAN

ROELENS PUCCIO	        Compositore Musica (C)	
BRUGNOLINI SANDRO	Compositore Musica (C)	
GAZZANI GIANCARLO	Compositore Musica (C)	
TOROSSI STEFANO	Compositore Musica (C)

TENSIONI

Stefano Torossi - "TENSIONI" aka FEELINGS

@Ephonk edit of Shabaka & The Ancestors. 

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Shabaka & The Ancestors - The Observer (Ephonk Edit)

"I love The Expansions their futuristic leanings inject new life into the form. Fresh material!" Ian Merchant (Black Acre)

“Exudes all the qualities I cherish most in music, warmth, integrity and a dedication to the groove… it’s a hard road to travel when you step in the footprints of giants, The Expansions are treading that path with ease and assurance.” Patrick Forge
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When The Expansions self released their first single in 2013, the laid-back jazz funk of Lavender, it quickly gained strong support from soul and rare-groove aficionados including Kenny Dope, Dom Servini, Patrick Forge and Andy Smith. A run of shows followed and before long, when someone was asking if there was a soul-jazz band around to play with, “The Expansions” was the answer. 

Although this popularity meant a hiatus in releasing music, the band have been constantly busy, playing around Europe with legendary British-Ghanaian soul singer, Andrew Ashong and the exceptional, upcoming talent Connie Constance. 

But always, The Expansions has remained a central focus and the true home of these four jazz and soul lovers, with occasional trips out to the country to form ideas and practice new music for the eventual album. 

Murmuration, recorded over three days at Big Noise in Southend, is constructed of single takes, with minimal overdubs, as the band attempt to capture the feeling and energy they create live. 

Debut single Breakthrough introduced the insanely catchy but deeply soulful blend of synths and groove, but here on the album that is explored to the fullest with longer breakdowns and more expansive, experimental solos. Pocket 5 displays the, possibly unexpected, influences of broken beat and almost combative rhythm playing – particularly in the complex guitar and keys breakdown where Koor and O’Keefe layer conflicting time signatures and battle to ride it out to the heavy drum return. 

Cannonball brings warm mellowness that delicately evolves through beats, touching on bossas alongside their fundamental hip-hop sensibilities. But even here there is a raucous zenith before the band sublimely recede into the silence of the a-side ending. 

Colossal album highlight Ivory Mountain is truly an epic. Evoking moments of 4Hero, there is a lightness of groove in the first half of this soulful exploration. But at the halfway point, all restraint is let go as a live string section joins the four quarters of the band for three glorious minutes of soulful disco. Evoking sounds of Quincy Jones, George Benson and Johnny Hammond, all the way through to a beautifully cacophonous finale. 

Dragonfly undoubtedly reflects on the work of Herbie Hancock and is the most direct throwback to the band’s earlier work, which is a welcome marker of how far they have come. A quintessential jazz funker. 

The album closes with the thoughtful and introverted shuffle of Miles Away. In the final eight minutes of Murmuration, The Expansions allow space and time to take precedence, with once-more-restrained peaks and developments. It becomes clear though, that the band cannot resist one last explosive finale, as they rise with screeching synths, strings and dubs for a perfect race to the finish line. 

You can hear the influences of Idris Muhammad, Grover Washington, even parallels with South London peers Yussef Kamaal and Ruby Rushton. But The Expansions have tirelessly worked to create a sound of their own and are very proud, along with label Albert’s Favourites, to finally share it.

Cannonball (Murmuration Preview)

The Expansions - Cannonball (Radio Edit)

Baron Rétif & Concepción Perez 
Cascades EP
Musique Large

12" vinyl & digital @:
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12" vinyl in Paris @ 
Colette 
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Miami feat. Vindahl

From Cochemea's debut album, All My Relations, out now on Daptone Records.

LP/CD /Digital:
http://dapt.one/Cochemea 

Cochemea Gastelum is coming home to connect with his roots. After nearly 15 years of touring the world with Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, the saxophonist offers a deeply personal album of jazz and indigenous-influenced rhythms. All My Relations is 10 tracks of mesmerizing and spiritually ascendant instrumentation.

A California native with Yaqui and Mescalero Apache Indian ancestry, Cochemea grew up surrounded by music - both his parents were musicians, and they gave their son a heavy name meaning “they were all killed asleep.” Cochemea has spent much of his diverse musical career – as a soloist, musical director, composer and ensemble player – exploring and iterating on roots music, and All My Relations is a capstone meditation on his own ancestry.

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All My Relations

Cochemea - Al-Mu'tasim

Channel the Spirits

Star Furnace

Lines From Different Sources

Line 5

Recorded Live at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Dean Street, London. 
October 2012

Taken from the album Girl and Robot with Flowers

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Have Space Suit Will Travel, pt 1 - The Greg Foat Group

10.10.20

Yusef Lateef - Morning
Aquiles Navarro and Tcheser Holmes - A Night in NY
Baba Zula - Kelebekler Kuslar
Yusef Lateef - Oboe Blues
Jneiro Jarel - Sunwalkers, Pt. 2 & 3
Emanative + Bex Burch - Disrupt ~4
Lex Amor - Odogwu
Anja Ngozi & Maxwell Owin - Pastor
Oveous - Just Like You (Mark de Clive-Lowe Remix)

Sweet Lemonade Sisters Mix

Mansur Brown - God Willing
Yussef Dayes Feat. Rocco Palladino - For My Ladies
Johnny Hammond - Tell Me What To Do
The Freedom Sounds Feat. Wayne Henderson - Behold The Day
Light of the World - London Town
Kenny Dorham - Afrodisia Jazz
Donald Byrd - Think Twice
Chet Baker - The Best Thing For You
Dayme Arocena - La Rumba Me Llamo Yo
Horace Parlan - Congalegre
Gerardo Frisina - Marombo (Part II)
Llorca - The Novel Sound
Ibibio Sound Machine - The Talking Fish
Roy Ayers - I Thank You Thank You

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Have Space Suit Will Travel, pt 1 - The Greg Foat Group

The Greg Foat Group

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