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Magnolia

Dark Moon

まったりと過ごす夏のビーチカフェ

Tropical Night Mirage

In My Line Of Sight

The Finnish tropical troupe @Maajoofficial is back with a two-track EP. In contrast to the Afro-Balearic sound of their 2016 debut Tropic of Tulli, the new Defo / Mansaba EP is a step in a deeper and sometimes darker direction.

Defo kicks off the EP with a driving 5/4 rhythm. Reminiscent of Mark Ernestus' Ndagga sounds, it is a tribal tune with Maajo's signature ethereal disco elements.

Trevor Deep Jr.'s version straightens out the original's unconventional time signature and focuses on a four-to-four beat and plenty of Berliner dub. The remix is a solid dancefloor tool, traversing the original like a train making its way through a dark rainforest.

The B-side is entirely covered by Mansaba, a 14-minute long journey into inwards. This studio jam, recorded largely live, is a wild mixture of polyrhythmic sequences, krautrock guitar licks, equatorial forest percussion and violin synths. The trip starts slow and soothing, sneakily picks up pace and keeps grow and growing, eventually exploding into a full-on tribal dance.

Maajo - Defo/Mansaba

VINYL IS IN STORES

Enjoy 3 guys jamming 3 tracks together as Lemonade’s 3rd release, played on 33rpm.

For almost a year now, our main man serving the drinks Arno Lemons has been relocated from Antwerp to Berlin, where he lives and works for OYE Records. After a few months of wack adventures into the rich culture of Berlin’s nightlife, Arno got around, made friends and was introduced to some very magical hombres …

For the next release on his Lemonade imprint, we have to go to a mythical place called Darmstadt. Darmstadt is a city in Germany, literally translated from Belgian-Flemish slang to English as “Drunk city’. According to Mr. Lemons, it would’ve been impossible to not have great stories made there.

And gladly enough, he was right; the city is sleazy & jazzy as hell, baby.

After the Jazz-storm hit Los Angeles, USA, and bursted into (South) London, UK, it has now struck Germany, right in this little, mysteriously interesting city, in the southern part of the Rhine-Main area.

Meet Triorität: a mesmerising threesome co-responsible for this fresh movement in D-town.
With Gerrit Ebeling on keys and synths, Grégoire Pignède on bass and Alexander Hoffmann on drums, you have no idea where you’ll end up. With amazing self-composed, long duration tracks full of moodswings and jams, it knows how to surprise and catch you with its uplifting drums, dancing tones and dreamy melodies.

The trio started with Gerrit and Alex, who grew up in a musical environment.
As cousins they started jamming on their fathers’ drumkit and keyboard since they were little.
In 2012, they met their third companion Grégoire at a party, drinking really bad Gin Fizz out of a plastic bottle.

After this life changing moment, Grégoire joined the duo, which reformed itself into a musical threesome full of crazy adventures. With deep influences from the 70s fusion and disco scene, as well as modern electronic genres like Hip Hop and House, Triorität pursues to push a fresh and new sound which will represent the German city in the upcoming history of jazz, thus enriching the global jazz scene and expand its different varieties of styles within the genre.

It was time Lemonade made some “Priorität”, which it now does with the amazing band called Triorität, all the way from Darmstadt!

A1. Josef Der Kamel
(A2. Hidden Track)
B1. Ammoniak
B2. Aquaboarding

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Recorded at Lui Hill Studio in Darmstadt
Produced and Mixed by Lukas Lehmann
Mastered by Markus Broy at DTL

Keys: Gerrit Ebeling
Bass: Grégoire Pignède
Drums: Alexander Hoffmann

Distributed by Oye Records
Manufactured by R.A.N.D MUZIK
Released with love by Lemonade
Design by Charlie Van Beeck
A&R by Arno Lemons

support:
DTL Mastering www.dtl-mastering.de 
Lui Hill Studio www.facebook.com/luihillstudio/ 

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Cat. No.: LEM03 
credits
released March 15, 2019

Skorphut

Josef Der Kamel

Colors

You've Got to Have Freedom

All songs written and produced by Eun apart
from and with special thanks to:

Nubya Garcia - Saxophone (Tracks 1, 2, 3 & 7)

Cynesha Brown - Guitar (Tracks 4 & 5)

Georgia Anne Muldrow - Vocals (Track 5)

Demae Wodu aka Bubblerap - Vocals (Track 6)

Wu-Lu - Bass (Track 6)

Jake Milliner - Additional Production (Track 7)

Darkness Must Be Beautiful (TuneCore)

Doubt (feat. Nubya Garcia)

You've Got to Have Freedom

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