Approaching the end of another year, and we’ve still got some heavy hitters left! Going deep in the mix on the latest edition of Balance and the last regular show of 2021!

Featured: Makaya McCraven and something from his latest Blue Note LP, lush soul from Alicia Keys, a tribute to the late Lloyd McNeill, breezy soulful sounds from Brothers of My Uncle & Teis Ortved, 80’s boogie vibes from Bright & Findlay and Mickey de Grand IV, a Detroit connection via Billy Lo, Kyle Hall and Jon Dixon, and plenty more...

Catch you on the other side - BEST of 2021 coming soon!

Happy Holidays,

Spacewalker

Balance 565 > https://soundcloud.com/musicismysanctuary/balance-565-hosted-by-spacewalker

BALANCE #566 (Hosted by Spacewalker)

The full set recorded live on 13 October at the Big Romance in Dublin. Loved every second - and thanks so much to the dancers!
Huge thanks to Soul Rotation's Mark and Paul for inviting me x

Timestamps
0:00 - 1:00 Mark
1:00 - 1:52 - Paul
1:52 - End - Alena

The Big Romance | Dublin | 13 October 2023

Originally released in the Swinging Sixties this hot latin number was rediscovered by the Tokyo Hipsters at the height of the Acid Jazz Boom and became part of Shibuya Jazz Dance Folklore. 
Now on 45 RPM release by Hot Label Jazz Room Records and part of a 2 cut slab of wax that has Jazzfloors waiting at the gate!

NORIO MAEDA TRIO - ALPHA RAY

THE legendary release by Ronnie April's Positive Energy, pressed by Ronnie on his own Jude imprint and distributed only locally by him .. An impossibly rare holy grail which has changed hands in the past for as much as £300! "Snowflake" has been a stable of the jazzdance scene for years!

RONNIE APRIL'S POSITIVE ENERGY - SNOWFLAKE

Taken from the forthcoming Jazz Room Records release (Summer 2024) this Mark Murphy styled Spiritual Jazz Burner is a Swinging Vocal Version of the Gary Bartz 70's Jazz Classic.

On the album are Stellar Versions of Rndy Weston's Hi Fly, the Miles Davis inspired If I Were A Bell and More!!

FRANK NOVIELLO - I'VE KNOWN RIVERS

Produced, arranged, mixed by Alex Storrer
Vocals: Stimulator Jones
Guitar: Pablo Color
Mastered by Matthew Styles at Horizontal Studios

Right By Your Side

Lexx Feat. Stimulator Jones -  Right By My Side

The annual Springtime Spiritual mix by Music Is My Sanctuary’s Lexis dedicated to the memory of his mom and to the beauty and hope of spring 🌸

From soul, bossa nova to reggae and back in two hours by Montreal’s finest. 

🌐 "Outsiders" is our daily show hosted by labels, collectives, agencies, venues, clubs, ... worldwide
📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9 am or 9 pm CET
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Outsiders: Lexis (Music is My Sanctuary) @ Kiosk Radio 18.04.2024

Aerials live, dials tuned, Transmission Towers broadcasting. On either side of the river Mersey, transcendental communications are traded back and forth. Two late-night revellers, one firing messages filled with music, the other returning them laced with lyrics. The result, a dopamine hit of oddball machine soul, melded with a highlife, Afrofuturist touch. Wonky and murky yet deeply emotional, Transmission One, is a debut album that also marks the first release on Luke Una’s É Soul Cultura label, encompassing expertly the off-kilter atmosphere the label sets to orbit. 

A synthesised landscape with a Northern charm, Transmission Towers marry the musical worlds of two artists that last collaborated over a decade ago. 10 years have passed, lives have been led, but a gravitational pull has placed Mark Kyriacou and Eleanor Mante back in each other’s spheres on opposite sides of the city of Liverpool. Energised with a newfound desire to strip it all back to the sounds that influenced their formative years in the late ‘80s and ‘90s - astral travelling, intoxicated on Motor City techno, Black Dog IDM and mystical Sun Ra. 
 
Mark half Irish, half Greek Cypriot, Eleanor half Nigerian, half Ghanian, the music contained within is an alchemy of those roots and the pivotal acts that buried deep into their minds. A cosmic contrast, part machine-made, part distinctly human. Take the opener ‘UP’, an ESG-channelling, sci-fi punk beatdown or the polychromatic hyperspace anthem ‘Roller Skater 23’. 
 
Transportive throughout, you ride the solar waves, pace and emotion ebbing and flowing. Tracks like ‘Go Slow Heart’ and ‘Cosmic Trigger’ step to a slower beat but hit with a punch. The former, a slo-mo blast of celestial tenderness, the latter an otherworldly, chugged-out lunar excursion, micro-dosing on whacked-out Wah Wah and Eleanor’s ethereal vocals. Beaming love letters to space and back, ‘Sparse’ marries the organic with the artificial, pianos and percussion circling around synth pads and broadcasting bleeps.
 
Elsewhere, vibrations move faster. ‘Mega’ strikes, fusing sonic tribalism with psychedelic swirls, as ‘Everything’ sweeps you up in its extra-terrestrial new wave grip. Synth stabs and basslines fizzing from every angle.  
 
Demos of Transmission Towers music surfaced on Luke Una’s radar, making him stop in his tracks. Something magical was emerging, perfectly aligned with the E Soul guardian’s tastes. Guidance followed, quickly turning into conversations about Transmission One becoming the first release on Luke’s own label. 
 
Escapist and futurist yet grounded and relatable. Transmission One is synthesis meets sentiment with a deep, spine-tingling soul at its core.

Transmission Towers - Up

With delicate dancing melodies and exotic imaginings Oisima has found a global audience with his emotionally connective, original productions & also as a record collector sharing his unique taste in music through radio shows, mixtapes and beyond.

Jewels Of Thought w/ Oisima - May 2024

Music is My Sanctuary invites producer, DJ, and man of the hour, Hikko Mori for an exclusive 60-minute mix of soulful house, bruk beat, and nu jazz tunes to get you through the week (month and year)!

Website: www.hikkoworks.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/hikko.mori/

MIMS Guest Mix: HIKKO MORI (Nashville, USA)

It's the latest Balance with Spacewalker at the controls with music from the likes of BBNG, Lau Ro, Sun Ra, Arjuna Oakes, Lars Bartkuhn & more!

Show 577 > https://soundcloud.com/musicismysanctuary/balance-577-hosted-by-spacewalker/

BALANCE #578 (Hosted by Spacewalker)

A STUNNING RHYTHMIC FUSION OF LATIN AND JAZZ WITH A UNIQUE SPIRITUAL PULSE.

HUGO HEREDIA – “MANANITA PAMPERA”

JAZZ ROOM RECORDS – JAZZR 002
Available at: https://jazzroomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mananita-pampera
TBR: September 6th 2019

"Killer Argentinian saxophonist Hugo Heredia (on) a bonafide Electric Ballroom classic that’s been really hard to find for years... and it’s got Horace Parlan on piano!"
GILLES PETERSON 
"Thanks Jazz Room Records for the rerelease of a stunning and truly epic spiritual album by Hugo Heredia. Each song is an intense and rhythmic exportation from an amazing multi instrumentalist. 
For me, this is just the right blend of latin rhythms and jazz power all wrapped up in an adventurous spiritual vibe! Essential summer release." 
CHIP WICKHAM 
"Essential and collectible and important"....SNOWBOY 
"Furious, edgy and raw!".............................RHYTHM DOCTOR 
"What a great album...Reissue is top notch" DJ MELODY NELSON 
"Filled with beautiful melody and complex rhythmic patterns. The sort of sounds that bring even long dormant Jazz dancers back to that shiny floor for one last, fast, dance" PABLO BLANQUITO 
"Reissue of the year, hands down!" MIKE CHADWICK JAZZFM 
thevinylfactory.com/news/hugo-heredia-mananita-pampera-jazz-room-reissue/ 
soundsandcolours.com/articles/brazil/latin-jazz-round-up-os-seis-em-ponto-hugo-heredia-47008/ 



If ever a record called be called a lost masterpiece then this record more than deserves that epithet. First released on an obscure French label in the 1970's it might have sunk further into obscurity and left no trace of it's passing but somehow a handful of copies turned up in various Jazz shops in London where it was snapped up by DJ Paul Murphy who was then playing to the embryonic jazz dance scene, based at the very first Jazz Room club: The Horseshoe in London's Tottenham Court Road, a decaying, seedy, sticky carpeted old West End ballroom that had seen better days. This and a select few records in a similar vein were being played to an appreciative audience who demanded tough raw percussive rhythms overlaid with some furious jazzy soloing and whenever this record hit the turntable it left even the most demanding groover sated.

It's a really fantastic collection from this barely known reedman and his excellent band which also features a guest appearance by American Legend Horace Parlan who is best known for his Afro-Cuban session "Headin' South" on Blue Note Records.

Superbly produced by drummer Peter Schmidlin, who has conjured up a spiritual modal mixdown of Afro-Cuban & Jazz extended percussive workouts that are uncompromising in their groove and which manage to sound both timeless and modern. The record is being re-released with the original striking artwork, guaranteed to be a talking point.

Hugo Heredia Quintet – Mananita Pampera

Side A
1. Mananita Pampera
2. El Beto
3. Have You Met Miss ...?
4. El Beto II
Side B
5. Tunita
6. Carmen Pequena
7. Al Bebbe Guia

NORIO MAEDA TRIO - ALPHA RAY

Jazz Room Records

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