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DON'T PROBLEM	Liminality	LP	BRIDGE THE GAP	BTG 001LP
$25.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/26/2021 South London-based eight-piece band Don't Problem present their new album Liminality. Their first three singles "King Kong", "Whale", and "CD's Lament" gathered very strong support with from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs, Jamz Supernova, Tom Robinson, WorldWide FM, BBC London, Jazz FM, Soho Radio, Amazing Radio, Radio Nova, Fip, and more. With their new album, the combo challenges the common perception of a "covers" brass band, exclusively writing original material and adding electronics, synths, and strings, a reflection of their wide encompassing interests. They introduce you to a very personal journey; the moment in time where a brass band affirms their love for club culture and delivers an album that travels from heavy funk to psychedelic jazz and UK dance music. "As eight people writing music together, sometimes it can take a while for a tune to fully take shape. This tune came into itself in the studio which gave us the space to explore the production, sonic possibilities and instrumentation. The opening section leads to a beautiful first-take flugelhorn solo driven by lush strings, pulsing horns and electronics before reaching its soaring conclusion. The title 'Whale' is in reference to the Whale emoji which we use as a way to express a greatness or joy for which words can't be found." Don't Problem's debut DP EP combined the heavy funk and raw psychedelic sound of brass and drums with ferocious grime-inspired improvisation to deliver original and fresh music, aimed squarely at the dancefloor. The band is comprised of eight musicians who've played with everyone from Tenderlonius, Emma Jean Thackray, Alfa Mist, Tom Misch, and Ruby Rushton to Riot Jazz. 180 gram vinyl.

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CHERRY'S NEW RESEARCHES FEATURING NANA VASCONCELOS, DON	Organic Music Theatre Festival de Chateauvallon 1972	2LP	BLANK FORMS	BF 023LP
$32.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/12/2021 Double LP version. In the late 1960s, the American trumpet player and free jazz pioneer Don Cherry (1936-1995) and the Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry (1943-2009) began a collaboration that imagined an alternative space for creative music, most succinctly expressed in Moki's aphorism "the stage is home and home is a stage." By 1972, they had given name to a concept that united Don's music, Moki's art, and their family life in rural Tagårp, Sweden into one holistic entity: Organic Music Theatre. Captured here is the historic first Organic Music Theatre performance from the 1972 Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon in the South of France, mastered from tapes recorded during its original live broadcast on public TV. A life-affirming, multicultural patchwork of borrowed tunes suffused with the hallowed aura of Don's extensive global travels, the performance documents the moment he publicly jettisoned his identity as a jazz musician. The five-person band -- Don and Moki Cherry, Christer Bothén, Gérard "Doudou" Gouirand, and Naná Vasconcelos -- performed in an outdoor amphitheater and were joined onstage by a dozen adults and children, including Swedish friends who tagged along for the trip and Det Lilla Circus (The Little Circus), a Danish puppet troupe based in Christiania, Copenhagen. The platform was lined with Moki's carpets and her handmade, brightly colored tapestries, depicting Indian scales and bearing the words Organic Music Theatre, dressed the stage. As the musicians played, members of Det Lilla, led by Annie Hedvard, danced, sang, and mounted an improvised puppet show on poles high up in the air. In a fairly unprecedented move, Don abandoned his signature pocket trumpet for the piano and harmonium, thereby liberating his voice as an instrument for shamanic guidance. The show opens with him beckoning the audience to clap their hands and sing the Indian theta "Dha Dhin Na, Dha Tin Na," and the set cycles through uplifting and sacred tunes of Malian, South African, Brazilian, and Native American provenance -- including pieces that would later appear on Don's albums Organic Music Society and Home Boy (Sister Out) -- all punctuated by outbursts of possessed glossolalia from the puppeteers. "Relativity Suite, Part 1" notably spotlights Bothén on donso ngoni, a Malian hunter's guitar, prior to Vasconcelos taking an extended solo on berimbau. A vortex of wah-like microtonal rattling, Vasconcelos's masterful demonstration of this single-stringed Brazilian instrument is a harbinger of his work to come as a member, with Don, of the acclaimed group Codona.

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CHERRY, DON	The Summer House Sessions	LP	BLANK FORMS	BF 024LP
$27.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/12/2021 LP version. In 1968, Don Cherry had already established himself as one of the leading voices of the avant-garde. Having pioneered free jazz as a member of Ornette Coleman's classic quartet, and with a high-profile collaboration with John Coltrane under his belt, the globetrotting jazz trumpeter settled in Sweden with his partner Moki and her daughter Neneh. There, he assembled a group of Swedish musicians and led a series of weekly workshops at the ABF, or Workers' Educational Association, from February to April of 1968, with lessons on extended forms of improvisation including breathing, drones, Turkish rhythms, overtones, silence, natural voices, and Indian scales. That summer, saxophonist and recording engineer Göran Freese invited Don, members of his two working bands, and a Turkish drummer to his summer house in Kummelnäs, just outside of Stockholm, for a series of rehearsals and jam sessions. Long relegated to the status of a mysterious footnote in Don's session-ography, tapes from this session, as well as one professionally mixed tape intended for release, were recently found in the vaults of the Swedish Jazz Archive, and the lost Summer House Sessions are finally available over fifty years after they were recorded. On July 20, the musicians gathered at Freese's summer house included Bernt Rosengren (tenor saxophone, flutes, clarinet), Tommy Koverhult (tenor saxophone, flutes), Leif Wennerström (drums), and Torbjörn Hultcrantz (bass) from Don's Swedish group; Jacques Thollot (drums) and Kent Carter (bass) from his newly formed international band New York Total Music Company; Bülent Ateş (hand drum, drums), who was visiting from Turkey; and Don (pocket trumpet, flutes, percussion) himself. Lacking a common language, the players used music as their common means of communication. In this way, these frenetic and freewheeling sessions anticipate Don's turn to more explicitly pan-ethnic expression, preceding his epochal Eternal Rhythm dates by four months. The octet, comprising musicians from America, France, Sweden, and Turkey, was a perfect vehicle for Don's budding pursuit of "collage music," a concept inspired by the shortwave radio on which Don listened to sounds from around the world. Using the collage metaphor, Don eliminated solos and the introduction of tunes, transforming a wealth of melodies, sounds, and rhythms into poetic suites of different moods and changing forms. The Summer House Sessions ensemble joyously layers manifold cultural idioms, traversing the airy peaks and serene valleys of Cherry's earthly vision. The double-CD version includes a bonus CD with a track featuring Jacques Thollot joined by Lindqvist, Tommy Koverhult, Sune Spångberg, and others.

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CARR'S NUCLEUS, IAN	Roots	LP	BE WITH RECORDS	BEWITH 102LP
$29.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/29/2021 Be With Records present a reissue of Ian Carr's Nucleus' Roots, originally released on Vertigo in 1973. From the wild cover to the iconic breakbeats, Roots is thick, funky-prog jazz-rock heaven. Genius trumpeter and visionary composer Ian Carr was a true pioneer and saw the potential in fusing the worlds of jazz with rock, just as Miles Davis and The Tony Williams Lifetime did in the US. In late 1969, following the demise of the Rendell-Carr quintet, and tiring of British jazz, Carr assembled the legendary Nucleus. Under bandleader Carr, Nucleus existed as a fluid line-up of inventive, skilled musicians. Working together with producer Fritz Fryer and engineer Roger Wake, the seven compositions by Carr, Brian Smith and Dave MacRae that make up Roots flirt with perfection, and Nucleus at that time made up of the cream of 1970s UK jazz with Brian Smith on tenor saxophones and flutes, Dave MacRae on piano and electric piano, Jocelyn Pitchen on guitar, Roger Sutton on bass, both Clive Thacker and Aureo De Souza on drums and percussion, Joy Yates delivering the vocals and of course Carr on trumpet. The title track is a low-slung, doped-out heist-funk. It was sampled by Madlib for Lootpack and Quasimoto's "Loop Digga". The soothing vocal fusion delight of "Images" follows. Meticulously constructed, with gorgeous flute work from Brian Smith, with Joy Yates' silky vocals and Dave MacRae's Rhodes never sounding better. The cool, driving "Caliban" closes out the first side. Originally the third movement in a four-part commission to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday it stands up on its own, all robust rhythms and blended brass. Keyboard color and Carr's trumpet are splashed across the funk drums and basslines (and there's even some bamboo flute). Side two opens with the short, thrilling samba of "Wapatiti". Next up, "Capricorn" forms a smoothed-out, jazzy constellation. Mellow and dreamy, its twinkling percussion and languid horns slowly build the vibe before head-nod drums and a killer bassline enter the fray. With a distinct heaviness that Black Sabbath would've envied, "Odokamona" is a venomous slice of riff-soaked jazz metal, elevated by Carr's wah-wah horns. The album closes with MacRae's exceptionally cosmic "Southern Roots And Celebration". Very much in conversation with Weather Report, it opens as a languorous, spiritual jazz of chiming keys and serene guitar that turns slowly, gorgeously into a mid-paced, brass-laced banger. Keith Davis's cover art for Roots is an acid-tinged airbrush dystopian/utopian living-room party scene. Remastered by Simon Francis from the original Vertigo master tapes. Cut by Pete Norman.

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SAO PAULO UNDERGROUND & TUPPERWEAR	Saturno Magico	LP	KEROXEN	KRXN 016LP
$21.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/22/2021 Brazilian-American power trio São Paulo Underground (Rob Mazurek, Mauricio Takara, Guilherme Granado) align their chakras with Tenerife electronic pranksters Tupperwear (Mladen Kurajica, Daniel Garcia) for an anything goes EP session of tropical jazz, Chicago post rock, and general head scratching psych chants. Recorded live in 2016 in a disused kerosene tank in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands after a week-long residency. Now recompiled by the Keroxen label and presented here in its ripest form, certified ready for human consumption. Each member plays multiple roles in creating Saturno Mágico's unique organic evolving sound. Mazurek plays cornet and modular synths; Takara's on drums, cavaquinho and electronics, whilst Granado plays keyboards, synthesizers, and sampler. Tupperwear add to the organic flow with Kurajica on various synths and keyboards whilst Garcia excels on electronics, live sampling, guitar and voices. Another unique document from the Keroxen Label, exponential Island music and insular collaborations spilled out onto the world -- so much more to come, blink it and you'll miss. Recorded Live November 9th, 2016 by Daniel Badal. Mixing and master by Daniel García. Artwork by Evan Crankshaw.

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RUN LOGAN RUN	For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers	CD	WORM DISCS	WDSCS 007CD
$14.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/8/2021 Run Logan Run's third full length album For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers finds the acclaimed Bristolian duo pushing their music forwards in a dramatic new direction in the company of producer Riaan Vosloo (Nostalgia 77). Recorded in lockdown after months of intense jamming, the album bolsters the dynamic improvised sound of the group with expansive synth soundscapes that add depth, warmth and emotional heft to the duo's uniquely committed style of spiritualized jazz. "Making music is almost the only thing that makes sense to us" says Andrew Neil Hayes, Run Logan Run's saxophone powerhouse. "It's a transcendent experience, where time stands still and it feels like our place in the universe is just right." It's a succinct summary of the deeply held commitment found at the root of Run Logan Run's uncompromising music. Based in the alchemical fusion of Hayes' extended, pedal-treated saxophone improvisations and Matt Brown's surging, polyrhythmic alt-breakbeats, the Bristol group have picked up the baton passed by the new generation of jazz-continuum UK players, and journeyed with it toward new vistas of inner and outer space. Brown, formerly of Bristol unit Dakhla Brass, replaces Dan Johnson, who featured on Run Logan Run's acclaimed 2018 debut The Delicate Balance of Terror. Over months of improvised sessions during the lockdown, Brown and Hayes established the near telepathic synergy achieved when musicians know just how to lock into each other. The songs on For A Brief Moment emerged from these focused practice sessions: "We're lucky enough to have our own rehearsal studio in a community space called Kuumba, in St Pauls, Bristol," explains Hayes. "We wrote the whole album in the space of three months. The first two months were spent improvising for hours at a time. Occasionally one of us would bring something along that we'd written in our own time as a starting point, but predominantly we'd start from scratch together until we stumbled on a riff or an idea we liked. Then we'd keep pushing and pulling it around until it developed into a track. In this way, the musical conversation that takes place between a duo is very intimate." For fans of: Sons Of Kemet, Polar Bear, Ill Considered, Colin Stetson, Shabaka Hutchings.

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RUN LOGAN RUN	For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers	LP	WORM DISCS	WDSCS 007LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/8/2021 LP version. Run Logan Run's third full length album For A Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers finds the acclaimed Bristolian duo pushing their music forwards in a dramatic new direction in the company of producer Riaan Vosloo (Nostalgia 77). Recorded in lockdown after months of intense jamming, the album bolsters the dynamic improvised sound of the group with expansive synth soundscapes that add depth, warmth and emotional heft to the duo's uniquely committed style of spiritualized jazz. "Making music is almost the only thing that makes sense to us" says Andrew Neil Hayes, Run Logan Run's saxophone powerhouse. "It's a transcendent experience, where time stands still and it feels like our place in the universe is just right." It's a succinct summary of the deeply held commitment found at the root of Run Logan Run's uncompromising music. Based in the alchemical fusion of Hayes' extended, pedal-treated saxophone improvisations and Matt Brown's surging, polyrhythmic alt-breakbeats, the Bristol group have picked up the baton passed by the new generation of jazz-continuum UK players, and journeyed with it toward new vistas of inner and outer space. Brown, formerly of Bristol unit Dakhla Brass, replaces Dan Johnson, who featured on Run Logan Run's acclaimed 2018 debut The Delicate Balance of Terror. Over months of improvised sessions during the lockdown, Brown and Hayes established the near telepathic synergy achieved when musicians know just how to lock into each other. The songs on For A Brief Moment emerged from these focused practice sessions: "We're lucky enough to have our own rehearsal studio in a community space called Kuumba, in St Pauls, Bristol," explains Hayes. "We wrote the whole album in the space of three months. The first two months were spent improvising for hours at a time. Occasionally one of us would bring something along that we'd written in our own time as a starting point, but predominantly we'd start from scratch together until we stumbled on a riff or an idea we liked. Then we'd keep pushing and pulling it around until it developed into a track. In this way, the musical conversation that takes place between a duo is very intimate." For fans of: Sons Of Kemet, Polar Bear, Ill Considered, Colin Stetson, Shabaka Hutchings.

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NIL'S JAZZ ENSEMBLE	Nil's Jazz Ensemble	LP	VAMPISOUL	VAMPI 236LP
$26.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 9/24/2021 Vampisoul present a reissue Nil's Jazz Ensemble's self-titled album, originally released in 1976. Once resettled in Lima, Peru, in 1974 after spending some time playing in a jazz quintet in Berlin, sax player Nilo Espinosa would put together the Nil's Jazz Ensemble, a top-notch array of local talent consisting of Pancho Sáenz (trumpet), Miguel 'Chino' Figueroa (keyboards), Oscar Stagnaro (bass), Andrés Silva (drums and percussion), Jorge Montero, Richie Zellon, and Ramón Stagnaro (guitars). They recorded one single album that remains not only as one of the truly grails for collectors of Latin-American jazz but also as an outstanding piece of music on its own. The opening song "Reflexiones" is a mind-blowing jazz-funk number right up there with the very best of the genre, written by Black Sugar's former member Miguel 'Chino' Figueroa, featuring a fantastic work on trumpet and Rhodes. The album also includes a cover of the rare groove classic "Hard Work" that could have easily sneaked into the funkiest side of the Prestige catalog. Following the success of this album, Espinosa would expand his band to a big band format and tour local theatres and clubs in Lima, where jazz music was a popular genre at the time. Vampisoul's reissue presents this 1976 album in its full glory, pressed on 180 gram vinyl with remastered sound and original artwork, including the rare promo poster.

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SINGING DUST	Singing Dust	LP	EFFICIENT SPACE	EFFICIENT 021LP
$28.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 9/17/2021 Newly formed archival label Fresh Hold presents one of Australia's most mysterious jazz long players -- Singing Dust, in collaboration with Efficient Space. Almost bound for obscurity from its inception, the eponymous creation of Queensland-based jazz pianist Robert Welsh was originally issued in 1986 on Melbourne independent performance, Singing Dust resembles a unique fusion of Indian devotional song, the jazz piano styles of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, English folk, and Debussey's tonal impressions, bearing little similarity to the dominant commercial and subcultural music of its time. Representing a culmination of Welsh's influences in and outside of music, the dynamic collection of seven compositions accompany the Ghazal devotional poems translated by Australian poet Francis Brabazon. While Singing Dust sits loosely within the spheres of exploration that many jazz players took into world fusion in the '80s, it stands alone in its bright searing light of truth, love and austerity. A true work of dedication and posterity that will appeal to many serious music lovers, the album has finally been transferred and remastered from original tapes by Dan Elleson, superseding the imperfect 1986 pressing and fully realizing Welsh's expansive vision. Includes download code.

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MAKO SICA/HAMID DRAKE FEATURING TATSU AOKI & THYMME JONES	Ourania	LP	FEEDING TUBE RECORDS	FTR 592LP
$22.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 9/10/2021 "Fantastic studio recording, caught by Taylor Hales at Chicago's legendary Electrical Audio, documenting the first full meeting of all the players on this album. Mako Sica, at this point in time revolve around the core duo of Przemyslaw Krys Drazek (electric trumpet, mandolin, electric guitar) and Brent Fuscaldo (vocals, electric bass, harmonica, thumb piano, gong, percussion). For this session, these two are joined once again by Chicago's always-revelatory percussionist, Hamid Drake, with whom they have previously recorded Ronda (FTR 409LP) and Balancing Tear (FTR 513LP). In addition, Ourania features the upright bass and shamisen of Tasu Aoki (Drake's longtime partner in Fred Anderson's trio). Also included in the roster is Thymme Jones, the leader of Chicago's epic Cheer-Accident (among many other roles), and a dab hand at everything from balloon to grand piano. The basic idea for the album was to continue building on Mako Sica's recorded collaborations with Drake, and to do so in as spontaneous as setting as possible. It would be hard to say they didn't succeed like crazy. From a two-hour session, the quintet emerged with 90 minutes of finished material, selections of which are presented on Ourania (a name stemming from Greek mythology, attached to the Muse who was the Goddess of Astronomy). The three long tracks on the album are all as stunning as they are different. 'Rain' begins with strings and keys and Brent's vocals accented by Hamid's drums. Thymme comes in with an outlined piano presence recalling Necks' Chris Abrams, and the burble of instrumental interplay makes me think of Josh Abrams' Natural Information Society intersecting with the Sun City Girls at their most melodious. Have twangy guitar will travel, overlaid with Miles-via-Stanko trumpet clouds. 'Gasping for Breath' is a term taken from Janusz Anderman's book Poland Under Black Light. It refers to the Solidarity movement but also is an apt reference to the current problems America faces and the tragic loss of George Floyd. Tatsu's shamisen starts things with a plucked groove that expands quickly. Layers of vocals play words against non-words, while the pulse thickens. topped with slinky bass/trumpet dialogue whose bent and fried notes hint at don cherry's most worldly smears. 'Ourania (edit)' is a short teaser from a much longer piece. Beginning with vocals start that may or may not be words, everything comes together like a snowball creating an avalanche. Stately piano figures, sizzling percussion, guitar skeletons, sloughs of trumpet and all else, combine into a slowly whirling ghost tornado that disappears into you head. And that's it -- Ourania. As fresh a slap of freedom as you'll feel this year. Dig it." --Byron Coley, 2021

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JAI HO	Short Story from Tabla, Drums & Trumpet	7"	JAZZ45	JAZZ45 008EP
$11.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/27/2021 Any jazz lover will tell you that one of the main considerations in their appreciation of jazz is spontaneity, and the freedom it gives to improvise. In jazz, freedom is everything. Here you have a record that was recorded simply because some musicians met in the studio one day in 1996. They were not under instruction, they had no plans. What they had was the presence of mind to make music with one another, free to collaborate and spontaneously create new sounds. Drummer Harbans Srih tells Jazz45 about Short Story From Tabla, Drums & Trumpet: "We were tracking some funky jazz with a full band. All left at the end except for Pandit and myself. As there was a bit of time left I said to Pandit to have some fun tracking tabla and drums. Engineer pressed the record button and off we went without any prior rehearsal. This take is the result. Colin had turned up, took one listen and said he'd like to play trumpet on it. Again, without any particular discussion he went in and recorded this take, resulting in this fusion of Indo-Jazz." And then in 2003, "Oye Maia" came about: "We met at the recording studio one afternoon. I had an idea of recording an Indian themed track and had brought along a kalimba. I showed it to Shanti who started to play it. It was suggested that he recorded a two-bar loop while Pandit and I performed alongside. Shanti then improvised on trumpet utilizing Indian phrasing. The track was named after his daughter Maia, and translated it means 'Listen Maia'."

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FERG IRELAND TRIO	Ferg Ireland Trio	CD	MONDEGREEN	MNDGRCD 001CD
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/27/2021 "Birthed from informal sessions in South London around 2013, the Ferg Ireland Trio combines three of the UK's most exciting jazz musicians. The trio is a vehicle for Ireland to consolidate his influences and explore the sax/bass/drums format with an alchemical blend of intense spiritual jazz, broken beat flavors, angular swing and playful conversations. This, their debut recording, was captured over the course of a summer's day in 2017 and the result, stripped of artifice and any studio trickery, represents the pure expression of three great instrumentalists, as well as three great friends. Ireland (Kansas Smittys, Soweto Kinch, Ashley Henry, 22a), Nathaniel Facey (Empirical) and James Maddren (Kit Downes, Jacob Collier, Gwilym Simcock) have been playing together for over a decade, and this is reflected in the telepathy of their musical conversation. The twists and turns of their dialogue delve deep into the dark heart of modern jazz. The compositions (all Ireland originals) draw on the post-bop tradition, with lashings of London's dance rhythms blended with the new fusion sounds emerging south of the Thames. In the opener 'Stay Broke', the Broken Beat scene is a clear reference, but smooth edges are bent into something more raw and ominous. Facey's acerbic alto sound darts in and out of Maddren's frenetic, polyrhythmic kit-work and Ireland's deep, endlessly looping bassline. A soundtrack fit for the dystopian dance floors of the new decade. The trio sound authoritative whilst playing the proverbial out of a New Cross related blues -- cat-like on 'Mel's Mood', stately on 'When You Know'. The latter's Latin-esque drums propels the music forward, even at its most serene moments. Most of the tracks on this record were first takes and have an immediacy that allows Ireland's assured compositions to take unexpected directions. In the case of Lips, these boil over into a spontaneous furor, the faders left up to capture the vibe. 'Confession', the thematic culmination of all these twists and turns, is prefaced by a long brooding intro before the band stretch out with a flurry of burning solos and psychic interplay. The inescapable influence of John Coltrane is at play here, but the spirit of Eric Dolphy and the swing of the Sonny Rollins trio are also in the room."

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FERG IRELAND TRIO	Volume II	12"	MONDEGREEN	MNDGRN 002EP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/27/2021 "The second drop from Ferg Ireland and his heavy duty trio. Volume II finds Ireland (bass), Nathaniel Facey (sax) and James Maddren (drums) channelling the great chordless trios of Sonny Rollins. The trio sound authoritative whilst playing the proverbial out of a New Cross related blues -- cat-like on 'Mel's Mood' and stately on the serene 'When You Know'. Most of the tracks on this record were first takes and have an immediacy that allows Ireland's assured compositions to take unexpected directions. In the case of Lips, these boil over into a spontaneous furor on the outro, the faders left up to capture the vibe."

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SNAZZBACK	In The Place	LP	WORM DISCS	WDSC 008LP
$23.50 IN STOCK New wave dancefloor instrumentalists Snazzback release stunning second album on new label from Bristol's cultural instigators, Worm Disco Club. Bristol seven-piece Snazzback bring the sound of reopened dancefloors, of communal release, and of the joyful sound of dancing outside in the sunshine to live music. Their second album In The Place overflows with deep grooves and loose, lolloping rhythms that tease and play, sometimes languid and carefree, other times energy spiraling upwards -- and taking the listener with them, each and every time. Their music is soaked in great black American dancefloor music, whether that's the sound we call "jazz" or hip-hop. They also bring other flavors -- interlocking Afro-Latin rhythms, electronica and hypnotic rock, all marinated in Bristol's long musical histories. The album rests on the band's hypnotic, rolling musicality and inventive bringing-together of sounds, evident in their phenomenal live performances which were honed in legendary city center busking sessions and locally-famous venue residency. They're mad tight and heavily dexterous, a band who are tuned into each other and into the extended family of their audiences. Tracks like "Reading" suggest a smoked-out Ezra Collective or Moses Boyd, whilst "Triangle" brings powerfully scuzzed-out guitar sounds into the mix. Vocalists join them on a few tracks: Solomon OB and Soss. Vocalist China Bowls appears four times, including opening track "Alice", a sun-blessed deep jam that swoops and dives around the beautifully earth-bound rhythm section and which evokes Little Dragon gone groove-deep, and at the end, on closing track "BST". The track began life as a spin-off from a jam on their debut album Hedge which captured their live performances in full glory. Over time, it absorbed gorgeous new harmonies and is a perfect end point for this color-saturated snapshot of Snazzback's musical universe. In The Place was recorded in their tiny self-built studio. They wrote together, improvising sounds into a sonic scrapbook, with more production, electronics and ambient sounds than their previous live recordings. The album was fed by the band's deep community connections in the city, but also by the music the players listen to: Portico Quartet, Hendrix, Rip Rig + Panic, Azymuth, and iconic sax player Shabaka Hutchings to name just a few. There's an openness to collaboration, experimentation with unconventional sounds, and an exploration of genres outside of an immediately obvious palette.

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FERG IRELAND TRIO	Volume I	12"	MONDEGREEN	MNDGRN 001EP
$18.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/27/2021 "A limited repress of the blink and you missed it 12" from the Ferg Ireland Trio. Volume I features two tracks of deep, dark and classic vibes from three of the best players on the circuit. Ferg Ireland (Ruby Rushton/Ashley Henry/Kansas Smitty's) leads this band, backed up by Nathaniel Facey on sax (Empirical/Moses Boyd) and James Maddren (Kit Downes, Jacob Collier) on drums. Together they combine jagged, rhythmic interplay with transcendental vibes, channeling the spirit of Coltrane, and the London broken beat scene."

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UNSCIENTIFIC ITALIANS	Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol.1 (Red Vinyl)	LP	HORA RECORDS	HORA 2105COL-LP
$36.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/20/2021 LP version. Red vinyl. Bill Frisell is undoubtedly one of the most influential musicians in today's jazz scene. His compositions are, however, little explored: either because of the lack of the necessary critical distance, either because their simple hidden look hides folds that are difficult to penetrate. From a musical point of view, Unscientific Italians is not so much a tribute or an orchestral reworking of Frisell's repertoire, but rather a rewriting and idiosyncratic orchestration that borrows the compositional and instrumental language of the American guitarist. It is a work that also has a documentary value, since it gives large space to seminal phase of Frisell's record production -- the early nineties -- which today seems to be forgotten despite its definitive consecration in terms of audience and critics. This record release, the first of two volumes, is published with the approval of Frisell himself, who generously donated some of his own sketches for cover graphics. Features songs from Before We Were Born, History, Mystery, Where in the World?, Lookout For Hope, Bill Frisell Quartet, and Gone, Just Like a Train. Personnel: Mirco Rubegni - trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn; Fulvio Sigurtà - trumpet, flugelhorn; Filippo Vignato - trombone; Federico Pierantoni - trombone; Cristiano Arcelli - alto sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet; Piero Bittolo Bon - alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet; Francesco Bigoni - tenor sax, clarinet, live electronics on brass; Rossano Emili - baritone sax, bass clarinet; Alfonso Santimone - piano, live electronics on clarinets; Danilo Gallo - double bass; Zeno De Rossi - drums. Hora Records is a record label and creative collective that produces and publishes avant-garde music. An open and independent creative space, created by musicians for musicians with the intent to support and amplify the most peculiar voices of the Italian and European jazz scene.

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DULFER AND RITMO NATURAL, HANS	Candy Clouds	LP	MUSIC ON VINYL	MOV 2854LP
$31.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/20/2021 "Hans Dulfer is a Dutch jazz musician famous for playing the tenor saxophone. With his band Ritmo-Natural he released his second album Candy Clouds in 1970. The album consists of six songs, with its title track being split into two parts. One single was released, 'Red, Red Libanon', which hit the Dutch charts in both 1970 as well as 1977. This rare Dutch jazz album is now available on color vinyl for the first time. Get it as a limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on transparent blue vinyl."

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UNSCIENTIFIC ITALIANS	Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol.1	LP	HORA RECORDS	HORA 2105LP
$31.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/20/2021 Bill Frisell is undoubtedly one of the most influential musicians in today's jazz scene. His compositions are, however, little explored: either because of the lack of the necessary critical distance, either because their simple hidden look hides folds that are difficult to penetrate. From a musical point of view, Unscientific Italians is not so much a tribute or an orchestral reworking of Frisell's repertoire, but rather a rewriting and idiosyncratic orchestration that borrows the compositional and instrumental language of the American guitarist. It is a work that also has a documentary value, since it gives large space to seminal phase of Frisell's record production -- the early nineties -- which today seems to be forgotten despite its definitive consecration in terms of audience and critics. This record release, the first of two volumes, is published with the approval of Frisell himself, who generously donated some of his own sketches for cover graphics. Features songs from Before We Were Born, History, Mystery, Where in the World?, Lookout For Hope, Bill Frisell Quartet, and Gone, Just Like a Train. Personnel: Mirco Rubegni - trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn; Fulvio Sigurtà - trumpet, flugelhorn; Filippo Vignato - trombone; Federico Pierantoni - trombone; Cristiano Arcelli - alto sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet; Piero Bittolo Bon - alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet; Francesco Bigoni - tenor sax, clarinet, live electronics on brass; Rossano Emili - baritone sax, bass clarinet; Alfonso Santimone - piano, live electronics on clarinets; Danilo Gallo - double bass; Zeno De Rossi - drums. Hora Records is a record label and creative collective that produces and publishes avant-garde music. An open and independent creative space, created by musicians for musicians with the intent to support and amplify the most peculiar voices of the Italian and European jazz scene. LP versions available on standard black vinyl (HORA 2105LP) and red vinyl (HORA 2105COL-LP).

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
SCOTT, TONY	In Afrika/Mayibue Afrika! Uhuuru!	2LP	LIFE GOES ON RECORDS	LIFE 003LP
$30.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 8/13/2021 Reissue, originally released in 1996. Tony Scott (born Anthony Joseph Sciacca June 17, 1921 - March 28, 2007) was an American jazz clarinetist and arranger with an interest in folk music around the world. For most of his career he was held in high esteem in new-age music circles because of his involvement in music linked to Asian cultures and to meditation. Tony performed with many stars as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Harry Belafonte and before moving to Italy in the early '70s he just cut two sought after masterpiece moving forward from his early idea of bop and cool jazz. In particular Djanger Bali (Saba, 1967) -- recorded with The Indonesian All Stars -- and the self-titled Tony Scott (Verve, 1968) -- featuring Richard Davis on bass, John Berberian on oud and Attila Zoller on guitar -- set the pace for a revolution in terms. This set recorded in Africa around the mid-90s is a pure rhythm festival pushing the boundaries of his Afro fusion agenda.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
MALAGASY/GILSON	Malagasy	LP	SOUFFLE CONTINU RECORDS	FFL 066LP
$28.50 IN STOCK LP version. 180 gram vinyl. "Paris, May 13th 1968. There was a general strike. One last plane left the runway, strewn with flaming oil drums. On board were three jazz musicians wondering whether they would be able to return home one day. But for the time being they really want to make it to Madagascar where concerts and workshops with young local musicians were waiting for them. Pianist and bandleader Jef Gilson was accompanied by his bassist Gilbert 'Bibi' Rovère (Martial Solal Trio) and the young drummer Lionel Magal (Crium Delirium). Gilson, who already had a reputation for finding new talent (it was thanks to him that, amongst others Jean-Louis Chautemps, Henri Texier, Jean-Luc Ponty or Michel Portal first became known) was literally blown away by the standard of the young Malagasy musicians, all capable of imitating their American idols by ear. Their names were known only to jazz fans on the island; Serge, Allain and Georges Rahoerson, Arnaud Razafy, Roland de Comarmond, Joel Rakotomamonjy, Alain Razafinohatra, Samuel Ramiara... Gilson then had a vision: he wanted to encourage them to play jazz which was truly Malagasy and which would find its' soul in the island's culture and traditional instruments (Sodina flute, valiha, various percussion instruments...) He would go back to the big island three times, in March (with cellist Jean-Charles Capon), in October 1969 (alone), then in February 1970 (as a trio with guitarist Raymond Boni and drummer Bertrand Gauthier). The two trips in 1969 would lead to the sessions, recorded on a simple ReVox with two Neuman microphones, which would make up the essential part of this mythical album entitled Malagasy, and first issued in 1972 on the Lumen label, and then reissued, as early as 1973, on Palm, Jef Gilson's own label. Apart from the last track, recorded in Paris in 1971 with Malagasy instruments brought back from trips by the trio which would play on the avant-garde Le Massacre du Printemps (Futura), all the other compositions on the album are by Jef Gilson, Jean-Charles Capon and the young saxophonist Serge Rahoerson. There is also a cover of a song issued just a few months earlier and that the Malagasy musicians had only heard through bits and pieces played by Gilson on piano: the song is 'The Creator Has A Masterplan' by Pharoah Sanders, and it is one of the most wild and mystical versions you will ever hear. In May 1972, Madagascar itself would be the theater of youth revolt. And the composition 'Avaradoha' by Serge Rahoerson would be the anthem of the revolution on the streets." --Jérôme "Kalcha" Simoneau First standalone reissue. Licensed from Palm / Geneviève Quievreux. Remastered.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
MARC/DEL RABENJA, SYLVIN	Madagascar Now	LP	SOUFFLE CONTINU RECORDS	FFL 067LP
$28.50 IN STOCK LP version. 180 gram vinyl. "While he was working on the repertoire for the new version of his group Malagasy, with young Malagasy musicians he had met in Paris in 1972 (and who can be heard on the album Malagasy At Newport-Paris), Jef Gilson realized that two of his new discoveries, in addition to being established poly-instrumentalists (who both had sharpened their skills in the legendary seja-jazz band from La Réunion, Le Club Rythmique), were also skilled composers. They were capable of reinventing jazz and traditional Malagasy music, adding influences from the new generation inspired by pop, rock and funk into the mix. He offered them the chance to share the two sides of an album recorded on his own label, Palm, alongside their compatriots. Ange 'Zizi' Japhet, Gérard Rakotoarivony and Frank Raholison, this is how Del Rabenja and Sylvin Marc came to record this Madagascar Now / Maintenant 'Zao. The first side really showcases the valiha (a small Malagasy harp) of Del Rabenja who uses the occasion to pay homage to the sadly missed Rakotozafy, often called the Django Reinhardt of the instrument. His three compositions are full of spirituality and invite an almost trance-like state. But Rabenja is equally a very good tenor saxophonist and organist on the other tracks. The other side displays the full range of talents of the multi-instrumentalist and composer Sylvin Marc, who moves from bass to drums, from vocals to percussion and offers four compositions ranging from free jazz to cosmic groove. At the same period the five men could also be found amongst the cast list of the mythical albums, Funny Funky Rib Crib by Byard Lancaster and Soul Of Africa by Hal Singer and Jef Gilson. Later, Sylvin Marc would play bass for Nina Simone on her album Fodder On My Wings in 1982, then join the team of violinist Didier Lockwood, while Del Rabenja would be part of Manu Dibango's and Eddy Louiss' orchestras for a long time and would even be at the front of the top 50 at the end of the '80s with David Koven. He would also be the special guest of the Palm Unit trio (Fred Escoffier, Lionel Martin, Philippe 'Pipon' Garcia) on their first album, an homage to the oeuvre of Jef Gilson, in 2018." --Jérôme "Kalcha" Simonneau First ever standalone reissue; remastered. Licensed from Palm/Geneviève Quievreux.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
GILSON, JEF	Malagasy At Newport-Paris	CD	SOUFFLE CONTINU RECORDS	FFL 068CD
$13.50 IN STOCK "In May 1972, the wave of anger and the thirst for freedom that had swept the world in 1968 arrived in Madagascar. The Malagasy youth took the opportunity to exile in search of a brighter future. Several of them, all jazz musicians and often polyintrumentalists, came to Paris with their Afro hair and bellbottoms. Their names were Sylvin Marc, his cousin Ange 'Zizi' Japhet, Del Rabenja, Gérard Rakotoarivony and Frank Raholison. By chance, they crossed paths with pianist and bandleader Jef Gilson, who they had already met as kids during a series of concert and workshops in Tananarive four years earlier. Gilson was far from an unknown on the French jazz scene. He had played with Boris Vian and André Hodeir at the end of the forties, he was one of the first French composers to move away from the New-Orleans style to try his hand at bebop, had launched numerous young stars (Ponty, Texier, Portal...), was a polemical critic for Jazz Hot, had opened for Coltrane at Antibes/Juan Les Pins, and was part of the Double Six... But it was tough to make a living playing personal compositions and Jef, who didn't have enough money to return to the island and continue mining the seam of Malagasy jazz, saw an opportunity to relaunch Malagasy. He had his recording studio in the Les Halles area, at the Foyer Montorgueil, where he was teaching jazz to a choir. He set to work with the new Malagasy group, working on a repertoire and reviving some of his compositions from the '50s/'60s and also included more recent tunes. The group Malagasy 73 gigged a lot. One of their concerts was recorded on the 14 March in a club, 'Le Newport', in rue Grégoire de Tours, Saint Germain des Prés, not far from the 'Kiosque d'Orphée' where Gilson worked at the beginning of the '60s when he brought bebop and avant-garde jazz to the attention of a generation of musicians with his records imported from USA. This meeting between two generations and two cultures created a new mix between jazz, traditional music and electric funk. Jef Gilson had reinvented himself yet again, and it wouldn't be the last time." --Jérôme "Kalcha" Simonneau First ever standalone reissue, remastered. Licensed from Palm/Geneviève Quievreux.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
MARC/DEL RABENJA, SYLVIN	Madagascar Now	CD	SOUFFLE CONTINU RECORDS	FFL 067CD
$13.50 IN STOCK "While he was working on the repertoire for the new version of his group Malagasy, with young Malagasy musicians he had met in Paris in 1972 (and who can be heard on the album Malagasy At Newport-Paris), Jef Gilson realized that two of his new discoveries, in addition to being established poly-instrumentalists (who both had sharpened their skills in the legendary seja-jazz band from La Réunion, Le Club Rythmique), were also skilled composers. They were capable of reinventing jazz and traditional Malagasy music, adding influences from the new generation inspired by pop, rock and funk into the mix. He offered them the chance to share the two sides of an album recorded on his own label, Palm, alongside their compatriots. Ange 'Zizi' Japhet, Gérard Rakotoarivony and Frank Raholison, this is how Del Rabenja and Sylvin Marc came to record this Madagascar Now / Maintenant 'Zao. The first side really showcases the valiha (a small Malagasy harp) of Del Rabenja who uses the occasion to pay homage to the sadly missed Rakotozafy, often called the Django Reinhardt of the instrument. His three compositions are full of spirituality and invite an almost trance-like state. But Rabenja is equally a very good tenor saxophonist and organist on the other tracks. The other side displays the full range of talents of the multi-instrumentalist and composer Sylvin Marc, who moves from bass to drums, from vocals to percussion and offers four compositions ranging from free jazz to cosmic groove. At the same period the five men could also be found amongst the cast list of the mythical albums, Funny Funky Rib Crib by Byard Lancaster and Soul Of Africa by Hal Singer and Jef Gilson. Later, Sylvin Marc would play bass for Nina Simone on her album Fodder On My Wings in 1982, then join the team of violinist Didier Lockwood, while Del Rabenja would be part of Manu Dibango's and Eddy Louiss' orchestras for a long time and would even be at the front of the top 50 at the end of the '80s with David Koven. He would also be the special guest of the Palm Unit trio (Fred Escoffier, Lionel Martin, Philippe 'Pipon' Garcia) on their first album, an homage to the oeuvre of Jef Gilson, in 2018." --Jérôme "Kalcha" Simonneau First ever standalone reissue; remastered. Licensed from Palm/Geneviève Quievreux.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
MALAGASY/GILSON	Malagasy	CD	SOUFFLE CONTINU RECORDS	FFL 066CD
$13.50 IN STOCK "Paris, May 13th 1968. There was a general strike. One last plane left the runway, strewn with flaming oil drums. On board were three jazz musicians wondering whether they would be able to return home one day. But for the time being they really want to make it to Madagascar where concerts and workshops with young local musicians were waiting for them. Pianist and bandleader Jef Gilson was accompanied by his bassist Gilbert 'Bibi' Rovère (Martial Solal Trio) and the young drummer Lionel Magal (Crium Delirium). Gilson, who already had a reputation for finding new talent (it was thanks to him that, amongst others Jean-Louis Chautemps, Henri Texier, Jean-Luc Ponty or Michel Portal first became known) was literally blown away by the standard of the young Malagasy musicians, all capable of imitating their American idols by ear. Their names were known only to jazz fans on the island; Serge, Allain and Georges Rahoerson, Arnaud Razafy, Roland de Comarmond, Joel Rakotomamonjy, Alain Razafinohatra, Samuel Ramiara... Gilson then had a vision: he wanted to encourage them to play jazz which was truly Malagasy and which would find its' soul in the island's culture and traditional instruments (Sodina flute, valiha, various percussion instruments...) He would go back to the big island three times, in March (with cellist Jean-Charles Capon), in October 1969 (alone), then in February 1970 (as a trio with guitarist Raymond Boni and drummer Bertrand Gauthier). The two trips in 1969 would lead to the sessions, recorded on a simple ReVox with two Neuman microphones, which would make up the essential part of this mythical album entitled Malagasy, and first issued in 1972 on the Lumen label, and then reissued, as early as 1973, on Palm, Jef Gilson's own label. Apart from the last track, recorded in Paris in 1971 with Malagasy instruments brought back from trips by the trio which would play on the avant-garde Le Massacre du Printemps (Futura), all the other compositions on the album are by Jef Gilson, Jean-Charles Capon and the young saxophonist Serge Rahoerson. There is also a cover of a song issued just a few months earlier and that the Malagasy musicians had only heard through bits and pieces played by Gilson on piano: the song is 'The Creator Has A Masterplan' by Pharoah Sanders, and it is one of the most wild and mystical versions you will ever hear. In May 1972, Madagascar itself would be the theater of youth revolt. And the composition 'Avaradoha' by Serge Rahoerson would be the anthem of the revolution on the streets." --Jérôme "Kalcha" Simoneau First standalone reissue. Licensed from Palm / Geneviève Quievreux. Remastered.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
GILSON, JEF	Malagasy At Newport-Paris	LP	SOUFFLE CONTINU RECORDS	FFL 068LP
$28.50 IN STOCK LP version. 180 gram vinyl. "In May 1972, the wave of anger and the thirst for freedom that had swept the world in 1968 arrived in Madagascar. The Malagasy youth took the opportunity to exile in search of a brighter future. Several of them, all jazz musicians and often polyintrumentalists, came to Paris with their Afro hair and bellbottoms. Their names were Sylvin Marc, his cousin Ange 'Zizi' Japhet, Del Rabenja, Gérard Rakotoarivony and Frank Raholison. By chance, they crossed paths with pianist and bandleader Jef Gilson, who they had already met as kids during a series of concert and workshops in Tananarive four years earlier. Gilson was far from an unknown on the French jazz scene. He had played with Boris Vian and André Hodeir at the end of the forties, he was one of the first French composers to move away from the New-Orleans style to try his hand at bebop, had launched numerous young stars (Ponty, Texier, Portal...), was a polemical critic for Jazz Hot, had opened for Coltrane at Antibes/Juan Les Pins, and was part of the Double Six... But it was tough to make a living playing personal compositions and Jef, who didn't have enough money to return to the island and continue mining the seam of Malagasy jazz, saw an opportunity to relaunch Malagasy. He had his recording studio in the Les Halles area, at the Foyer Montorgueil, where he was teaching jazz to a choir. He set to work with the new Malagasy group, working on a repertoire and reviving some of his compositions from the '50s/'60s and also included more recent tunes. The group Malagasy 73 gigged a lot. One of their concerts was recorded on the 14 March in a club, 'Le Newport', in rue Grégoire de Tours, Saint Germain des Prés, not far from the 'Kiosque d'Orphée' where Gilson worked at the beginning of the '60s when he brought bebop and avant-garde jazz to the attention of a generation of musicians with his records imported from USA. This meeting between two generations and two cultures created a new mix between jazz, traditional music and electric funk. Jef Gilson had reinvented himself yet again, and it wouldn't be the last time." --Jérôme "Kalcha" Simonneau First ever standalone reissue, remastered. Licensed from Palm/Geneviève Quievreux.

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