Name: Pure Spleen by ZIMPALA in #FutureJazzBlast 2
Duration: 7 min 19 s
Description: Our musical production since 1999 to 2007 : 4 LPs & few maxis, remixes

A special selection made for the background sounds of our Intergalactic Jazz Spaceship.

#FutureJazzBlast 2

prayer for amerikkka pt. 1 & 2

prayer for amerikkka Pt. 1 & 2

Available digitally on Art Feast Records! 
http://www.beatport.com/track/party-on-waxist-edit/5692638

Available on vinyl at Kalakuta Soul Records!

Pure Energy - Party On [Waxist Edit] * NOW AVAILABLE ON KALAKUTA SOUL & ART FEAST Records

Sweet Jones

Poundstretcher

The Branches (Deluxe Edition)

Power of Rain

Our musical production since 1999 to 2007 : 4 LPs & few maxis, remixes

Pure Spleen

Masanori Sasaji - Hot Taste Jam (Phil Asher & The Mighty Zaf Re - Edit) (Snippet)

Soviet only 70s-80s jazz-funk & fusion by Allegro, Arsenal, Melodia Ensemble, Argo, Oleg Kutsenko Jazz Band, Yury Saulsky, Igor Nazaruk (with Alexey Kuznetsov, Alexey Isplatovskiy, Andrey Chernyshev), Igor Brill Ensemble, I. Yakushenko Jazz Ensemble, Konstantin Petrosyan, Credo, Tiit Paulus. All released by Melodia Records. 

Music you may never heard before.

Played in most likely the best equipped and best sounding spot in Honk Kong - The Music Room in Potato Head.

Vinyl Only Soviet Jazz-Funk & Fusion Session @ Music Room - Potato Head, HK (25.05.17) by Lay-Far

Zona Del Silencio or the Zone of Silence is an area deep in the Mexican desert. It is the home of several rare, mutant species of animals (including the purple cactus and a malformed version of the desert tortoise). The area’s name derives from an odd anomaly that prohibits radio waves from transmitting inside the zone. When asked about the strange phenomena, the locals invariably reply that they do not see strange things in the desert, only strange people.

Play this record three times and the IDWT gang will appear in your mirror and smoke you out.

IDWT003

Chaos In The CBD - Zona Del Silencio

Personnel:
Mausiki Scales, electric piano, vibes, vocals, lyrics, arrangement
Shawna Floyd, vocals
Raina Turner, vocals
Quinn Masonry, alto saxophone
Kebbi Williams, tenor saxophone
Alex Jones, guitar
Khari Simmons, bass
Che Marshall, drums

Photo: Brandi Pettijohn

One 2Gether

Unknown and recently discovered previously unreleased track recorded in the mid-70s at Sound Ideas Studios, NYC.

FAMILY ATTRACTION - DISCO BOOGIE [preview]

Keinemusik Radio Show by Rainer Trüby 22.09.2017

I remember the day clearly. I was searching for treasures in a record shop in Yaoundé, the Capital city of Cameroon, when suddenly I came across a 7-inch record with a picture of a young man wearing a traditional hat and bearing the marks of several imposing vertical scars on the side of his face, carved when he was just a boy as a reminder of his heritage in the Musgum tribe of the northern part of the country.

The record contained two songs – ‘Gandjal Kessoum’ and ‘Touflé’ – by an artist I had never heard of before named Hamad Kalkaba. Both cuts were raw classics of fuzzed-out bass, pin-sharp horns, built upon the unshakable foundation of Northern Cameroon’s mightiest rhythm: the Gandjal. The shop owner - who noticed that I was listening to the same record over and over again - mentioned that ‘There is another single with a green cover of the same artist, if I am not mistaken’.

Over the next six years I searched for that ‘green cover’ and finally found it in a record collection belonging to an old bar in Parakou in northern Benin. While most of the records had been beaten and worn by a life spent in the jukebox, this one had been sitting in its paper sleeve for forty years, untouched and unplayed, seemingly waiting for us to pick it up and rip the two soulful Gandjal tunes from it, the masterpieces ‘Fouh Sei Allah’ and ‘Tchakoulaté’.

These two records, plus a third simply named ‘Nord Cameroon Rythms’ constitute the entire discography of Hamad Kalkaba. Neglected for decades by all but the most devoted collectors of Afro music, Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds at long last gathers together the body of work of one of Cameroon’s forgotten geniuses.

But unlike many musicians who emerged from nowhere, recorded a few singles and vanished again, Kalkaba hadn’t disappeared. Far from it. He was a distinguished public figure, a retired Colonel in the army of Cameroon, and a former member of Cameroon’s Olympic Selection Committee. When we tracked him down he was serving as president of the Confederation of African Athletics. And Although Kalkaba’s job kept him busy, and he seemed initially dismissive of the music he’d made as a young man, he turned out to be an enthusiastic ally in this project. He arranged interviews, helped fill in the blanks and, when we finally met him in Yaoundé in 2016, provided us with photographs, lyric sheets and notes.

During the interview Kalkaba explained how the songs recorded in the mid 1970s were part of a movement, a movement initiated by musicians from all around Cameroon who, with the help of keyboards, drum kits and electric guitars, had started to modernise the traditional rhythms of their regions. For Kalkaba it was no different and backed by his band the Golden Sounds, devoted himself to the promotion of the sounds of northern Cameroon.

One of the aims of Analog Africa is to showcase the colourful diversity of styles that exist in Africa and its diaspora and today we are very proud to be able to give these Gandjal tunes their first worldwide release.

Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds 1974 - 1975

Get the Record here:

Hamad Kalkaba - Astadjam Dada Saré(Leave a comment, tell kalkaba how much you love his song!)

Bill Brown and Al Hall jr met around 1971, they were both in south central L.A and shared the same apartment building, also in the same building was Doug Carn and brownstone singer billy Wilson.
These studio sessions were don't at Paramount studios Hollywood where Al Hall jr was working for producer Art Smith a&c music.
The main distributor for A&C was Accent records. So the Soul Injections very first single "Stay off the moon" was released via Accent, as was Bill Browns "Bip Bam" The group wasn't that pleased with how Accent handle the releases so Bill took it upon himself to set up his own label called Brownstone records. Many musicians were called in for studio sessions these included 
Doug Carn, organ; Kirk Lightsey, keyboards; Mel Bolton,
guitars; Mel Lee, drums; Al Hall jr (trombones), Willaim 'Bill'Henderson strings.
The label was met with some confrontation from other Hollywood labels and many of the Brownstone releases were told not to hit the shops by Mafia run labels. Later around 1975 Brownstone released a track by Everyday people feat Alexis "world full of people"....A now cult soul 45 ....Love under the apple tree is a song of innocence, but with such a soulful jazzy twist, and a backing track to die for.

Bill Brown And The Soul Injection Love Under The Apple Tree BROWNSTONE unissued soul 1975

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From the album "Alter Ethno"
Feat. Dimitar Liolev (sax)

Pokrai Reka

WOLF Music offer up something a little different to their usual tip, enlisting the warm dusty reverberations of four-piece, jazz-not-jazz collective Velour for a 7 inch of hazy, genre traversing rhythms. Alongside being producer for the Velour project, long-standing member of the WOLF pack Mr. Fries gives his own distinctive house touch to the flip side remix.

Perfectly capturing the new school of jazz, Essen-based Velour crisscross genres drawing on elements from each yet anchoring their roots in the richness of jazz’s deft melodies and percussive touches. Head-nodding down the open road, ‘Pose’ is that undeniably soulful, first swig of summer many tracks strive to be. Morphing into a woozy affair as the sun sets midway through, Velour’s songwriting talent well outstrips their years. Throw WOLF pack member Mr. Fries into the mix, kneading in his signature production style and the freshly baked result straddles the intersection between jazz, broken beat, house and soul.

Fries then takes on remix duties for the flip, maintaining that dusty demeanour yet going for a full frontal Moodymann-esque house interpretation. The smokey jazz bar sax, background hustle and weighty beat make for a summertime heater served straight from the grill, garnished just right with Mr. Fries own vocals over the top.

Velour - Pose

fin dégustateur de crus rares et atypiques, "SOUND DESIGNER DJ sommelier producer mixer" hédoniste
producteur musical ZIMPALA - SEXOPOLIS compilations (1997-2007)

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