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Bristolian promoters Worm Disco Club have been championing southwestern talent since their inception in 2014. Having collaborated with Glastonbury Festival on their notorious "Wormhole" stage and hosted the likes of The Comet Is Coming, The Heliocentrics, and The Mauskovic Dance Band at their regular club night, the name has become synonymous with quality groove laden goodness, percussive madness, jazz, psych and beyond. Now proudly presenting their label Worm Discs, the collective recruit some of Bristol's most notable emerging talent for an exploration into the new wave of jazz emanating from the city. Featuring the likes of Waldo's Gift, Run Logan Run (Montreux Jazz Talent Award winners), BaDaBoom, Lyrebird, and Alun Elliot, New Horizons channels the seismic energy of the sonically rich landscape into 12 progressive, psychedelic, impeccably crafted tracks. From the cinematic, post-rock infused intensity of Waldo's Gift's "Bergson" to the zen-like, floating melodies of Ishamel Ensemble's rework of Snazzback's "Flump" and the angular textures of Run Logan Run's epic "A Sea Of Apathy And Indifference" -- this record is true odyssey from start to finish, for those who really want take a trip down the Wormhole. Also featuring Alun Elliot-Williams.
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Bristol's new wave dancefloor instrumentalists announce their new album Ruins Everything on Worm Discs. Snazzback's electrifying chemistry has wowed audiences at Ronnie Scott's, festivals such as Glastonbury, Boomtown, and Shambala, and gained support from BBC Radio heavyweights including Gilles Peterson, Jamz Supernova, and Jamie Cullum. Snazzback's music is a collage, collectively constructed, torn up and glued back together in unexpected ways, bringing a renewed, daring energy to UK dance music. The seven-piece embrace their experimental beginnings to create a sound fusing abstract beats with spiraling improvisation. Their music is soaked in influences including interlocking West African rhythms, rootsy Brazilian flavors, sprawling soundscapes, deep dubstep basslines and flickering arpeggiators. A collaborative instinct runs through the group, and an eclectic choice of vocalists keeps their compositions shimmering with new possibilities. Featuring guest vocals from up-and-coming artists Grove, TLK, Soss, and Adam Kammerling.
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LP version. Bristol's new wave dancefloor instrumentalists announce their new album Ruins Everything on Worm Discs. Snazzback's electrifying chemistry has wowed audiences at Ronnie Scott's, festivals such as Glastonbury, Boomtown, and Shambala, and gained support from BBC Radio heavyweights including Gilles Peterson, Jamz Supernova, and Jamie Cullum. Snazzback's music is a collage, collectively constructed, torn up and glued back together in unexpected ways, bringing a renewed, daring energy to UK dance music. The seven-piece embrace their experimental beginnings to create a sound fusing abstract beats with spiraling improvisation. Their music is soaked in influences including interlocking West African rhythms, rootsy Brazilian flavors, sprawling soundscapes, deep dubstep basslines and flickering arpeggiators. A collaborative instinct runs through the group, and an eclectic choice of vocalists keeps their compositions shimmering with new possibilities. Featuring guest vocals from up-and-coming artists Grove, TLK, Soss, and Adam Kammerling.
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Bristolian power-improv duo Run Logan Run continue their link-up with Worm Discs and producer Riaan Vosloo on Nature Will Take Care Of You -- a monumental slab of contemporary energy music that draws on the heavy soul of David Axelrod and the fiery commitment of Archie Shepp. Working with an expanded line-up that includes singer Annie Gardiner (daughter of the late guitarist Ricky Gardiner, who played and collaborated with Iggy Pop and David Bowie) plus a string quartet and a brass section, saxophonist Andrew Neil Hayes and drummer Matt Brown have once again steered Run Logan Run in a dramatic new direction. Churning, future-forwards and emotionally tuned in, Nature Will Take Care Of You reaches out towards propulsive rock and psychedelic soul, while keeping one foot in the radical jazz-not-jazz of Bristol's ever fertile improv scene. The core of Run Logan Run's sound is the dynamic conjunction of Matt Brown's agile and powerful drums with Andrew Hayes's looping, pedal-treated sax motifs. No matter how the duo augment and enhance their music, the kernel of their art has always been the spiraling energies generated by this essential musical relationship. Explorations of repetition, dissolution, and dervish-like disorientation remain a central part of their project, with Brown weaving a tight rhythmic armature for Hayes's unshackled journeys into sound. But though they began within Bristol's improvised music scene, their vision has been increasingly structured and expansive, and the arrival of producer and bassist Riaan Vosloo (Nostalgia 77) for 2021's For a Brief Moment We Could Smell The Flowers (WDSCS 007CD/LP) allowed to them move outwards to explore pulsing, cinematic synth-scapes. Vosloo is behind the boards again on Nature Will Take Care of You -- and the duo's vision has broadened a step further. Both band members have recently won the prestigious Montreaux Jazz Award alongside prestigious artists such as Shabaka Hutchings (Comet Is Coming) and Michael League (Snarky Puppy).
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Soaring horns, jangly highlife guitars, Latin-Caribbean polyrhythms and politically-charged lyrics collide in pulsing Afrobeat and UK jazz conversation on First Home, the debut album by Leeds-raised ten-piece, TC & The Groove Family. Produced by Nubiyan Twist's Tom Excell (Onipa, Ego Ella May, Nerija) and following in the footsteps of fellow Leeds-grown talents, Submotion Orchestra and Necktr, TC & The Groove Family's First Home melds a divergent and international pool of influences (as heard in their fiercely energetic live sets), whilst also telling the story of a group of friends returning to the city where they once assembled, to chant down the powers that be and further widen the British jazz sound through a distinct 2022 Leeds filter. Comprising members who learnt their chops performing across Leeds's thriving live-music circuit, TC & The Groove originally formed as the brainchild of drummer/percussionist and Midlands-raised, Tim Cook. All but one member of the group studied at the renowned Leeds College Of Music and through their communion on the dancefloors/streets of Leeds's famous Subdub, Leeds West Indian Carnival and at Cosmic Slopparties, TC & The Groove Family's mixed-gender and multicultural unit bring together a stylistic range that encompasses soulful house/UKG-inspired vocals, King Tubby, post-punk/indie and DJ Shadow. Inviting such a disparate group of musicians might have seemed random at first but what was to follow was an unmatched sense of comfort and familiarity. Recorded over the course of a hot early summer's week in Sheffield at Yellow Arch Studios, First Home blends dexterous Latin percussion, Central African psychedelia, and UK soundsystem culture across eight exchanges of cross-genre exploration, augmented by Tom Excell's finessed production and studio engineering. The Arthur Verocai-inspired, "Tio" opens proceedings, it's sultry Afrobeat meets Brazilian/MPB fusion, arranged by trombonist Max Purcell-Burrows, is named after Leeds-based promoter, DJ and mentor Lubi "Uncle" Jovanovic and strikes the right balance between Latin, Afro-Cuban street parties and meditative jazz. The set takes a darker turn on "Bossfight", the grime-esque opening horn line and Pariss Elektra's impactful vocals capture a moment of collective anger towards Brexit, systemic racism and the UK government's "hostile environment" policies. For fans of: Nubiyan Twist, Kog, Onipa, Corto.Alto, Snazzback, Joe Armon-Jones, Nubiya Garcia.
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Bristol's Dundundun to release their second EP Future Hope featuring poet, visual artist and filmmaker Nadeem Din-Gabisi. The six-piece band return on Worm Discs following their sold-out self-titled EP. Originally conceived as a four-to-the-floor banger in a pre-pandemic-world, Future Hope was written in a small studio in NE Bristol. From the outset, what was originally a jam was quickly molded into shape with the emphasis on leaving space for a vocal -- awaiting someone like-minded who could use the piece as a platform to share our views as a collective. London-based artist Nadeem Din-Gabisi was the perfect candidate. His flow, charisma, and delivery combined with his own experience as a new father made him the obvious choice to breathe life into his conscious and conscientious lyrics, reflecting a mood of optimism in what seems to be a precarious world. Future Hope is a message of positivity. Forget about all the bullshit and corruption, there's beauty and love in things to be held on to. Make the most out of every situation to bring about positive change. The single is accompanied by the ecstatic Afro-Brazilian fusion of "Can Do" and the percussion-heavy transcendence of "Midnight Manouvres". A remix from the now Bristol-based world-renowned DJ and producer Red Rack'em completes the EP -- keeping the earthy, hopeful feel of the OG but taking it up a notch into a more jazzy, swingy place.
Formed from a collective of Bristol's finest musicians, Dundundun combine thumping rhythms with jazz and electronics to create uplifting soundscapes and dirt infused dance music. Packed with a wealth of experience, Dundundun members have spent the past decadetouring the world and darkening studios with The Heavy, Alice Russell, Unforscene, DJ Die, Ben Westbeech, Pete Josef, Dele Sosimi, and Ishmael Ensemble to name but a few -- bringing a rich heritage of sound straight out of Bristol's thriving music scene. Electronic, arpeggiating multi-layered vibrations born from a mutual respect of past musical idioms and future musical legacy. Dundundun are: Justin Fellows (drums); Jackson Lapes (percussion); Benji Muscat (bass); Dorian Childs Prophet (keys, synths); Ben Plocki (baritone sax); and Brian Hargreaves (tenor sax).
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Not For Now is the debut mini-album by electrifying ensemble corto.alto, led by Glasgow trombonist, producer and composer, Liam Shortall. Shortall's ensemble combines virtuoso musicianship with fresh jazz compositions informed by a lifelong passion for hip hop. Not For Now follows an acclaimed series of DIY self-releases and videos, released over the course of a year from May 2019. In this short but productive space of time, corto.alto were awarded for "Best Band" and "Album" at the Scottish Jazz Awards 2020, and received a personal invitation by Gilles Peterson to perform at We Out Here 2021. Originally conceived as a self-imposed challenge for Liam to release new music every three weeks for a year, corto.alto's incredible success has postponed any plans to end the project. As Liam puts it, "so I called this EP Not For Now, in reply to 'Is That It?', the last track from Live at 435, featuring a hero of mine, Soweto Kinch." Lockdown gave Liam plenty of time "to better gauge a sense of perspective of where I fit as an artist in the world of music" and find the right balance between "over intellectualized" or "over commercialized" 'jazz'. Shortall is able to call on musicians of the highest caliber, from Glasgow and beyond, to give life to his compositions. Among them rising saxophonist Harry Weir, pianist Fergus McCreadie and drummer Graham Costello of STRATA fame. Nubiyan Twist and Onipa co-founder, Tom Excell, not only contributes on percussion, but co-produces Not For Now alongside Shortall, adding the Midas touch that has undoubtedly contributed to Nubiyan Twist's incredible success. "I wrote Not For Now as a reminder to myself to focus on the things that should matter to me: friendship, brotherhood, love, family, joy. The same things that are easily forgotten in regular day to day life. Making this release really helped me re-calibrate my priorities moving forward. It's also a celebration of the relationships and bonds we have with each other, more specifically the connection we have between ourselves and other musicians."
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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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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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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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Bristolian promoters Worm Disco Club have been championing South-Western talent since their inception in 2014. Having collaborated with Glastonbury Festival on their notorious "Wormhole" stage and hosted the likes of The Comet Is Coming, The Heliocentrics, and The Mauskovic Dance Band at their regular club night, the name has become synonymous with quality groove laden goodness, percussive madness, jazz, psych, and beyond. Now presenting their label Worm Discs, the collective recruit some of Bristol's most notable emerging talent for an exploration into the new wave of jazz emanating from the city. As Andrew Hayes (Run Logan Run) explains: "Bristol has always had its own sound, but there's been a new crop of young players come through over the past five years that's revitalized the scene and expanded its expectations about what jazz music means." Featuring the likes of Waldo's Gift, Run Logan Run (Montreux Jazz Talent Award winners), BaDaBoom, Lyrebird, and Alun Elliot, New Horizons channels the seismic energy of the sonically rich landscape into 12 progressive, psychedelic, impeccably crafted tracks. The Worm Discs team explain: "The idea for this record began back in 2019. We had been curating parties in Bristol featuring jazz acts from around the UK for several years and had just hosted 'The Wormhole' at Glastonbury Festival, featuring an all-star line-up from the scene. Having always felt that Bristol's exciting jazz scene deserved to be heard, the idea for a label was born. We wanted to showcase some individual creativity and open up a space to try something different." From the cinematic, post-rock infused intensity of Waldo's Gift's "Bergson" to the Zen-like, floating melodies of Ishamel Ensemble's rework of Snazzback's "Flump" and the angular textures of Run Logan Run's epic "A Sea Of Apathy And Indifference" -- this record is true odyssey from start to finish, for those who really want take a trip down the Wormhole.
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