Fryday Falconno

The Journey Back is out now on all DSP's and available to pre-order on limited edition vinyl as part of 'My Winter' - an EP by Steve Jansen.

Spotify > https://open.spotify.com/track/7rGiB9pf2K9BLJ76h7amGj?si=d6099db4ba6b4f11

Bandcamp > https://stevejansen.bandcamp.com/track/the-journey-back-3

vinyl

Steve Jansen - The Journey Back

Sleeping Ocean *short version

Un Canto a Mi Tierra

New Morning (Slow Version)

Stampede

Raw Ingredients

Download / Stream: https://kryptox.lnk.to/BrotherAllAlone  

"Yellow Sari" is the second pre-single of JJ Whitefield’s solo debut album "Brother All Alone". A sitar - jazz funk tune with a heavy live played Hiphop beat. A stylish mix of the new Hipster jazz vibe, with Krautrock and ethno elements.
Released on the new German Neo-Jazz label Kryptox/ K7. Guitarist and producer JJ Whitefield is kind of a legend to many Neo-Funk, Krautrock and Afro connoisseurs around the world. Before joining the Kryptox label he released albums on Ninja Tune, Stones Throw, Now Again, Daptone with his bands Karl Hector & The Malcouns, Poets of Rhythm, Whitefield, Rodinia. 
He also was the band leader and co-produced the two comeback albums of Ebo Taylor for Strut Records. JJ Whitefield - the German multitalent - has been living in San Francisco before coming back to Germany and now recording "Brother All Alone" - A Jazz Funk album with some of the best young heads from the new Berlin Hipster Jazz scene. The album could make some waves as Whitefield has prominent fans all over the world: American dons like Madlib, DJ Shadow, Dan Auerbach, Mark Ronson to the UK Jazz heads around the Gilles Peterson and Shabacka scene. Many of the albums of his former bands are cult. So this next step in his carrier will get some attention too.

JJ Whitefield - Yellow Sari

Rejoice

Robbers, Thugs and Muggers (O'Galajani)

We've Landed

We've Landed (Matthew Herbert's Absence Dub Remix)

When We Are

Source (Maxwell Owin remix)

Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1940, of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Tony Allen taught himself to play by listening to records made by the American jazz drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. He began working as a professional musician in 1960, gigging around Lagos and variously playing highlife and jazz. Today living in Paris, Allen has long been acknowledged as Africa’s finest kit drummer and one of it's most influential musicians, the man who with Fela Anikulapo Kuti created Afrobeat - the hard driving, James Brown funk-infused, and politically engaged style which became such a dominant force in African music and whose influence continues to spread today.

Allen had to overcome strong parental opposition to realise his dream of
becoming a professional musician. “My parents were…not keen. Back then, in Lagos, musicians were more or less thought of as beggars, or worse. But I just put it in front of them. I was an electrical technician, but I wanted to make a change. My mother was never happy about it, but my father, who was an amateur musician, eventually agreed.”

Allen started out as a jazz drummer. “Art Blakey was my big influence, and before that, before I started club crawling, it was Gene Krupa. When I started, I tried to play like Gene Krupa. Then I discovered Blue Note Records and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers - it opened up another style to me. Max Roach was important too. I studied some lessons he wrote in Down Beat magazine about how to play high-hats. Most drummers in Lagos never used them, they were just a decoration on the kit,and I’d always thought that was something incomplete.”