03 Jimmy Hiacynthe - Yatchiminou

Acoustic version / from "Hirondelle et Beretta"

Tara King th. - L'enquête (Acoustic)

No Tomorrow

OverAgain

In 1984 Shina Williams & His African Percussionists dropped the Nigerian disco funk bomb “Agboju Logun” presenting a rolling percussion beat paired with a unresistable groovy bassline. 

One who depends on inheritance offers themselves up to poverty, so goes the Yoruba proverb “Agboju Logun”. Shina Williams & his band of funksters reflect on that pearl of wisdom in this ace African disco groover. With a rockin’ Afrobeat backbone, it’s one of the best examples of Lagos’ fertile, cross-cultural scene in the 1970s. 

Even in the early 80’s the genius of this track was recognized as it was compiled on the ‘Fresh n Up’ album released in the UK by Jungle Rhythm along with some hip hop and electro tracks. The original on Earthworks is not easy to track down, but Strut comp’d it back in 2001 on “Nigeria 70 (The Definitive Story of 1970's Funky Lagos)”.

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Shina Williams & His African Percussionists - Agboju Logun (JH Edit)

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Satingarona Pt 2

THE BONGO HOP - San Gabriel feat Cindy Pooch

Recorded live at Church of Sound in early 2018, Korwar delivers a tune emblematic of the marriage of Indian raga with hypnotic jazz that underpins his debut album 'My East Is Your West'. Early passages of ambience transform into raw improvisation as Korwar's newly-formed UPAJ Collective bring us a 12-minute epic with a particularly arresting solo halfway through from percussionist BC Manjunath..

'Eastern music', much like the term "African music' are still ubiquitous and are indicative of how the UK sees, hears and consumes a lot of music that is from afar.  This album (and it's title - My East Is Your West) attempts to question notions of what and where 'East' and 'West' is, in the disturbingly common and casual use of these terms whilst talking about music and bringing together both jazz and Indian classical music with a shift in the power dynamic.” Sarathy Korwar

More info: https://goo.gl/TkW6ja

Premiere: Sarathy Korwar - Hajj

Buy Here: https://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/saint-claude-dash-chicha-nola

After introducing the world to the elusive named Gitkin last year with the release of his debut album “5 Star Motel”, Wonderwheel Recordings is back with another special 7” of two deeply funky, lo-fi globally influenced cuts from the travellin’ man himself. 

“Saint Claude Dash” with it’s 70’s disco influenced drum machine undertone brings in Middle Eastern & North African vibes on the melody, while shifting into an even funkier B section reminiscent of the Meters. 

Just a taste of the brand new album to come this year…or when the spirits will it.

Saint Claude Dash / Chicha Nola

Gitkin - Saint Claude Dash

Buy / Stream: https://LateNightTales.lnk.to/departure

Seeking a respite from the noise and clamour of New York City, Eric Phillips and some friends moved for a time out to a remote area on the Olympic peninsula. With no fixed plan in mind, this period of adventure and discovery spent in the beautiful Pacific Northwest gradually seeped into an organically evolving musical vision for Kennebec.

In many ways, ‘Departure’ catalogues this time of his move out west. Eventually moving to Portland to find work as a teacher, film composer, and mentorship under Mark Orton (Nebraska, Tin Hat.) Kennebec’s producing of ‘Departure’ began in Spring 2017. It took two long years of patient, daily labour to complete the album, during which time influences such as Studio Ghibli soundtrack composer Joe Hisaishi, cult hip hop artist Nujabes as well as Australia’s Taylor Crawford and Tycho’s ambient electronica began to permeate the soundworld. On February 14th 2020, Night Time Stories, sister label of acclaimed Late Night Tales, will release his much anticipated debut album and Kennebec will become part of an internationally respected roster including Khraungbin, Leifur James and Ash Walker.

He scored parts for classical guitar, ngoni, kalimba, bass, piano and Rhodes all of which he plays himself on ‘Departure’. Phillips began writing violin and viola parts for friend and collaborator Mirabai Peart (Joanna Newsom, Alela Diane, Ryan Francesconi), whose balkan inflections and beautiful tone became a defining sound of the record — and eventually tied the album together. All tracks on the album were mixed by Phillips.

On ‘Departure’, organic beats and soaring string lines envelope the listener with a dreamful kind of optimism. New single ‘Seasons Change’ is a silky myriad of sounds, textures and techniques that melt against a backdrop of subtle electronics, while ‘Kalahari’ glistens with curiosity and adventure as magnetic strings meet with a mosaic of horns. Elsewhere, the melancholic and wistful moods of ‘Wellspring’ provide a moment of reflection before the warm, fuzzy, feel good grooves of ‘Quest’, embellished by flutes and sax, venture into more overt atmospherics and fluid modulations.

“Recording ‘Departure’ was an amazing learning experience for me as a producer, composer and musician. It was a concentrated period of time in my life that was fully dedicated to focusing in on my craft. To me, the songs sound like journal entries — they bring me back to those specific times and places, but I also write music in an active, intentional way to try and summon the better parts of myself day to day to come to life and fruition. I have to be doing something new and experimenting to be inspired musically and I also wanted the music to be evocative of that sense of discovery in an almost physical sense — a sense of journey, motion and exploration of new spaces. The passing of time, setting out,” says Phillips.

He adds, “I wanted to make something bold and ambitious that sounded fresh and different. I think I took a big swing with this album, and, while I feel it’s impossible to fully nail the vision and intention, I’m really proud of it and the sense of idealism, even if naive at times. Hopefully it’s just fun to listen to someone take a big swing like that.”

In addition to the Kennebec project, Phillips has enjoyed working on and composing the music for numerous feature films, shorts, national parks films, documentaries (including 2017’s National Geographic ‘From the Ashes’), advertisements and video games. Films Phillip’s has worked on have screened and are set to screen at the Toronto, Napa Valley and Big Sky film festivals as well as National Geographic and more.

Kennebec - Kalahari

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Gitkin - Saint Claude Dash

WONDERWHEEL Recordings