$36.00
"Muddy Waters has caught up to his legend and made an album of straight Chicago blues, sounding as fiery and nasty as he managed to 20 years ago. His unjustly ignored guitar acts as a fine counterpoint to the lyrics, as well as providing extra energy in its own right. ... Muddy can still choose and demand the utmost from the cream of Chicago’s bluesman crop. No superstars or electronic gimmickry invade the blues club mood that Muddy conjures with ease on Can't Get No Grinding" – Rolling Stones
Muddy's next-to-last Chess album, Can't Get No Grindin' marked a return to working with a band of his own after several experimental line-ups and recordings ... The music is raw, hard-edged, and sharp (the guitars slash and cut), more like a successor to Muddy's classic 1950's sides (he rethinks a bunch '50s numbers here) than to the London Sessions, Super Blues, brass blow-outs, and psychedelic albums that he'd been doing. It's also easy to hear Muddy's heart in this release -- he fairly oozes soul out of every note he sings". – All Music
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Label: Chess – CH 50023 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180-gram |
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Country: US |
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Released: 2012 |
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Genre: Blues |
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Style: Electric Blues, Chicago Blues |
$55.00
Doug's newest project, his entry in the Jazz Is Dead album series helmed by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, takes his unique and timeless art and places it within the context of a musical culture that has always taken cues from his 70s classics. There's no mistaking the musical mind that created legendary albums like Infant Eyes and Adam's Apple, but the encounter of that with the distinctive jazz-hip hop-funk-noir that is the Younge/Muhammad/JID trademark creates something worthy of comparison to Carn's past work but which could only have been made right now. One can detect nods to musical motifs by Carn's jazz peers that have served as frequent sample fodder, but his compositional and improvisational integrity remain indisputable throughout. – Bandcamp
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Label: Jazz Is Dead – none |
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Series: Jazz Is Dead – 5 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Album |
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Country: US |
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Released: 11 Dec 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
$30.00
Such was the warmth of reception granted NuNorthern Soul's debut EP of Ryo Kawasaki music, the label's Phat Phil Cooper has decided upon a follow up. And having made over 25 albums in his almost five decade long career, there's plenty of Ryo's music to choose from. Once again, Phil Cooper has chosen to concentrate on Kawasaki's mid 1970s to early 1980s period, a time which saw the guitarist living in New York, surrounded by and often playing alongside some of the finest jazz players of the era. It was a time of much experiment with jazz music and few things propel Kawasaki more than experimentation.
His mid 1970s period saw him explore what was to become known as jazz fusion music, a sometimes heavy-sounding variation, wild with revolutionary, new electronic sounds and steeped in funk and rock influences. From that period Kawasaki lead several album projects and the band Golden Dragon, upon whose recordings Kawasaki's famous, personally modified guitar synthesizer really comes to the fore. – Bandcamp
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Label: NuNorthernSoul – NUNS010 |
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Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Compilation |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 22 Apr 2017 |
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Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Funk / Soul |
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Style: Fusion, Disco, Downtempo |
$45.00
As purportedly the first Black-owned jazz imprint since the '20s, the Black Jazz label had its roots in the Black Power movement of the late '60s and early '70s. But not every album on the label had a social message. Kellee Patterson's Maiden Voyage was simply an extremely tasteful, mellow jazz vocal album, recorded with the top-notch sidemen that characterized Black Jazz sessions. Patterson first gained fame as the first Black woman (entered under her real name Pat Patterson) to win the Miss Indiana contest, culminating in a performance of 'My Funny Valentine' at the Miss America pageant. Her success led to some acting gigs (the TV shows The Streets of San Francisco and The Dukes of Hazzard, and the movie Demolition Man), a brief brush with Hollywood fame (she was briefly linked romantically to talk show host Johnny Carson), and her signing with Gene Russell for her recording debut on Black Jazz (Russell went on to produce subsequent LPs for Patterson on the Shadybrook label). 1973's Maiden Voyage is highlighted by a beautiful vocal performance by Patterson of Herbie Hancock's title tune, backed with such premium players as long-time George Duke sideman John Heard on acoustic bass and Ray Charles touring band member George Harper on flute. Our Real Gone reissue is remastered for CD and vinyl by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, with LP lacquer cutting by Clint Holley and Dave Polster at Well Made Music, and features new liner notes by Pat Thomas, ,author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975. An essential, though uncharacteristic, entry in the Black Jazz catalog! – Real Gone Music
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Label: Real Gone Music – RGM-1104 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo |
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Country: US |
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Released: 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Soul-Jazz |
$39.00
On their Night Dreamer debut, Sarathy Korwar and his allstar “UPAJ Collective” gain brand new ground in their mission to rebalance spiritual jazz with authentic Indian classical music. “UPAJ” means “to improvise” inHindi, and recording direct-to-disc at Artone Studios with almost no preconceived directions, they truly capture the “spirit of spontaneous improvisation”, as Sarathy puts it, like never before.
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"Recording in one take, direct-to-disc is a unique scenario to be in. I feel very blessed to be presented this opportunity. I decided very early on that in order to make the best use of this scenario, the music had to be completely improvised and spontaneous. That is the only true way to record within the limitations of one take. No regrets, no mistakes, no fear and no judgement. These were the ideals. In a way, this was about creating a utopian vision of a world I would like to live in. A microcosm of the ideals that I would like to live by, in the recording studio. The vision of going into the studio with this in mind, was more important than the resulting music we created. Process over product.
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Before the session we did some collective breathing exercises that I have learnt from my mother (who is a pranayama practitioner/teacher) and Wim Hof. I believe this helps centre the focus of the group and balances the mind, making it most receptive to new sounds and inspiration.
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The song So said Said is a tribute to Edward Said. Intimate Enemy, a tip of the hat to the book of the same name by Ashis Nandy (Intimate Enemy: Loss and recovery of self under colonialism). A cover of Flight IC408 by State Of Bengal is on Side B, as I am a massive fan of the band. Elephant Hangover is the imagery that the tune conjures for me personally on listening to it. A beautiful remix by the brilliant Osunlade of So said Said is on side D. – Bandcamp
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Label: Night Dreamer – ND004 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Stereo |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 27 Nov 2020 |
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Genre: Electronic, Jazz |
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Style: Free Improvisation, House |
$39.00
The Richest Man in Babylon is the third studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation. It was first released on September 30, 2002 in Belgium and on October 1, 2002 in the United States by ESL Music. The album features contributions from Emiliana Torrini, LouLou, Pam Bricker, and Notch, and features both electronic and live instrumentation. The album combines influences such as dub, jazz, dance music, rap, reggae, and Indian music, and incorporates protest music into the group's sound. A remix/dub version of the album was released in 2004 titled Babylon Rewound featuring the unreleased track "Truth And Rights". - Wiki
Bottom line: a trip with Thievery is always worth taking, if only because their relaxed musicianship offers a potent counterpart to a culture that is becoming faster and more aggressive by the day. But The Richest Man in Babylon is one of their more intriguing works to date, capably blending vocal theatrics, spritual exploration and subtle songcraft in one sitting. They might not be the Bomb Squad, but they still carve out significant space in a crowded electronica landscape. – Pop Matters
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Label: Eighteenth Street Lounge Music – ESL061LP |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Gatefold |
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Country: US |
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Released: 30 Sep 2014 |
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Genre: Electronic |
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Style: Dub, Future Jazz, Downtempo, Latin |
$45.00
Two years after the death of his mentor and boss John Coltrane and shortly before signing his own contract with Impulse!, Pharoah Sanders finally managed to release an album as a leader outside the Impulse! family. Sanders proved with a cast of no less than 13 musicians that his time with Coltrane and his debut "Tauhid" with Impulse! were no coincidences.
Although he was hated by many of the jazz musicians of that time - and even more by jazz critics who thought Coltrane was musically lost when he put together the last quintet - Sanders followed his own path to Far Eastern music and sometimes completely beyond the boundaries of what one could call jazz. Nevertheless, "Izipho Zam" is a wonderful session, full of the power of his vision and the deeply felt soul that has shaped every Sanders recording ever since.
Guests include Sonny Sharrock, Lonnie Liston Smith, Chief Bey, Cecil McBee, Sirone, Sonny Fortune, Billy Hart, Howard Johnson and others. The set begins with a beautiful soul melody in "Prince Of Peace", in which Leon Thomas plays out his trademarks, yodels and languishing whining, while Smith, McBee and Hart support him and Sanders fills the gaps.
Next is "Balance", the first horn number in the set, with the African drums, modal horn section and Sanders' microtonal exploration of sound polarity in contrast to Johnson's tuba, with the rhythm section joining him as Sharrock and Smith swap bass lines and Sanders transforms the action into a Latin American dance from outer space - simply amazing.
Finally, the band members - all of them - begin a slow tonal exploration on the 28-minute title track, a structured stroll into the abyss of dissonance and harmonic integration, with Thomas as the bridge over which all sounds must travel on their way to the ensemble. From here, percussion, bells, whistles and Sharrock's strong guitar chords provide a rhythm to the beat of the sound figure until the horns join in after about 12 minutes.
They move slowly at first and gather strength until they really open after 20 minutes, the last eight minutes all play completely free, an endurance ride for the listener, because in the remaining four minutes Sanders leads the band into a wonderful lyrical excursion, which unites all different elements in his and our world and makes this track - and his album - an exciting, indispensable jazz experience.
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Label: Pure Pleasure Records – SES-19733 |
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Series: Strata-East – SES-19733 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: Sep 2019 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Free Jazz |
$39.00
Spiritual keyboard improvisations performed by Laraaji and recorded in a Brooklyn Church by Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, The War On Drugs, Mary Lattimore). Sun Piano finds Laraaji fulfilling a lifelong ambition to return to his first instrument, learnt whilst growing up in 1950s New Jersey. A departure from his FX-soaked cosmic zither jams, these elegant miniatures nevertheless reveal enough personality and inner light to be clearly identifiable as ‘Laraaji Music’.
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This release is the latest step in something of a late career renaissance for the New York City based musician and mystic. He first came to public attention in the late 70s via his entry in the legendary Brian Eno-produced Ambient series of albums, Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance. In the last few years his music has been re-discovered by a whole new generation of fans via reissues from the likes of the Numero Group, Light In The Attic and Leaving Records; new collaborations with underground musicians Dallas Acid and Sun Araw; a revitalised live presence that has seen him share concert stages worldwide with the likes of Solange and Jonathan Wilson; and a wide amount of media coverage: from discussing his love of orange clothes in Vogue, to demonstrating the benefits of transcendental music on BBC4 or performing a coveted NPR tiny desk concert . This latest musical side step introduces a new chapter to the story of a much-loved cult icon. - Bandcamp
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Label: All Saints – WAST057LP |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 17 Jul 2020 |
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Genre: Folk, World, & Country |
$39.00
A companion volume to the Sun Piano album, this LP was recorded at the same session in a Brooklyn Church. Whereas the former record lent itself to the more uplifting side of Laraaji’s keyboard improvisations, Moon Piano explores the more introspective and minimal pieces captured by Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, The War On Drugs, Mary Lattimore) and edited by Christian Havins (Dallas Acid).
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Laraaji describes this set of tracks as “Contemplative sound painting, embracing quiet tranquil unfolding of nurturing reflection”. In a recent interview with Aquarium Drunkard, Laraaji described the improvisatory process of making both piano albums: “I’d sit down, touch the piano and through free association, also blending it with my prepared mental state, I was able to tune in and affirm my highest sense of presence. The piano became an instrument for the imagination to suggest higher or finer worlds, to suggest a joy, euphoria, bliss, also to suggest silence, minimalism, relaxation, and contemplation. So, all of that music was spontaneous but with those influences shaping and guiding it along the way.”
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Whilst Moon Piano almost shades into melancholy with a contrasting nighttime vibe to Sun Piano’s daytime joyfulness, certain themes from the first record reoccur - side two’s “Pentatonic Smile” is a longer edit on the central riff underpinning the former album’s “Temple Of New Light”. - Bandcamp
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Label: All Saints – WAST059LP |
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Format: Vinyl, LP |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 09 Oct 2020 |
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Genre: Folk, World, & Country |
$39.00
Repressed for the first time on LP by Le Très Jazz Club, this fantastic album comes with is original cover art and liner notes.
Glass flowers, recorded in 1969, and only pressed by 500 copies at the time, is an unclassifiable album, overtaking the jazz outlines.
Can words really describe music? It may be hard when music is as fantastic as on this LP. « Glass flowers » is an unclassifiable album, overtaking the jazz outlines, recorded in 1969 by Rainer Bertrams (piano, vibes, flute) Bruce Krasin (Saxophone, flute), Lenny Ezbicky (drums) et Jimmy Bridges (bass).
Repressed for the first time on LP by Le Très jazz club, this repress comes with his original cover, tip-on sleeve.
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Label: Le Très Jazz Club – LTJC005, Despa – NO.349, Despa – 24133 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
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Country: France |
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Released: 21 Sep 2018 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Modal, Soul-Jazz |
$39.00
We live in divisive times. Multiculturalism rises hand-in-hand with racial tensions, and politicians seem powerless to even bring people within earshot of their convoluted message. It’s time for a different perspective.
On his second studio album, More Arriving, Sarathy Korwar blasts out his own vibrant, pluralistic missive for the world to hear. This is not necessarily a record of unity; it’s an honest reflection of Korwar’s experience of being an Indian in a divided Britain. Recorded over two and a half years in India and the UK, More Arriving draws on the nascent rap scenes of Mumbai and New Delhi, incorporating spoken word and Korwar’s own Indian classical and jazz instrumentation. This is a record born of confrontation; one for our confrontational times.
With this album, Korwar expands his politicised narrative to envelop the entire diaspora. “This is a modern brown record. The kind of record that a contemporary Indian living in the UK for the past 10 years would make,”Korwar says. “This is what Indian music sounds like to me right now.” It all begins with the title: “More Arriving comes from the scaremongering around Brexit,” Korwar says. “It’s a tongue-in-cheek play on the fact that there are more people coming and you’ll have to deal with it!” Through this defiance, Korwar takes clear pride in the knotty mix of his identity – harking back to the new India of the Mumbai hip-hop kids, as well as identifying with London’s cultural diversity. “I want the idea of brown pride to come through,” he says. “My voice is one amongst a thousand, but this record is a snapshot of something much greater than myself. It’s the chance to send a message. - Leaf
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Label: Leaf – BAY 112V |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 26 Jul 2019 |
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Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop, Jazz, Folk, World, & Country |
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Style: Carnatic, Conscious, Fusion, Indian Classical, Spoken Word, Hip Hop, Hindustani |
$55.00
This 1975 album is one of a kind in lots of ways. First, it's keyboardist Roland Haynes' only album. But more importantly, Second Wave has a sound'and line-up'unlike pretty much any other jazz fusion album to come out before or since. Anchored by a fantastic rhythm section of Carl Burnett (Cal Tjader, Vince Guaraldi and most notably Gene Harris and The Three Sounds) and Henry 'The Skipper' Franklin (leader on a couple of Black Jazz titles still to come, plus Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Hugh Masekela, and many others), the album features dueling Fender Rhodes tickled by Haynes and Kirk Lightsey, who played with everyone from Chet Baker to Pharoah Sanders to Sonny Stitt, not to mention a bunch of Black Jazz dates. The cascading sound of the two electric pianos, one (Lightsey's) often driven through a wah-wah pedal, gives Second Wave a special vibe all its own; there are not horns or guitars getting in the way of these mindblowing keyboard jams.
Some folks might hear a little '70s-era Miles Davis when Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett and/or Herbie Hancock were in the band, and Hancock's own Head Hunters album comes to mind (as well later fusion dudes like Jan Hammer and Bill Bruford), but Second Wave is sui generis. Our Real Gone reissue is remastered for CD and vinyl by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, with LP lacquer cutting by Clint Holley and Dave Polster at Well Made Music, and features new liner notes by Pat Thomas, author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975, that include a couple of quotes from drummer Burnett and bassist Franklin. First ever time reissued on vinyl! – Real Gone Music
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Label: Black Jazz Records – RGM-1108, Real Gone Music – RGM-1108 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo |
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Country: US |
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Released: Oct 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Soul-Jazz, Jazz-Funk |
$45.00
Ancestral Afro-Venezuelan rhythms meet futuristic Latin jazz, raw funk and Afrobeat on Raúl Monsalve y Los Forajidos’ exhilarating new ‘Bichos’ album for Olindo Records. Venezuelan bassist Raúl Monsalve leads an all-star ensemble of musical trailblazers including “the voice of Venezuela” Betsayda Machado, singer Luzmira Zerpa (Family Atlantica) and drummer Dave De Rose (Agile Experiments, Moloko, Mark Ronson).
Raúl Monsalve has dedicated much of his life to understanding and learning traditional Afro-Venezuelan music, and studying under some of its greatest proponents among the percussionists of his home country, whilst at the same time taking as much interest in the sounds emanating from the fearless edges of jazz, rock, African and early electronic music.
With producer/engineer/drummer Malcolm Catto (Heliocentrics, Quantic, Yussef Kamaal) behind the recording and mixing desk, Raul brought together a like-minded cast of friends from Venezuela, Paris and London, to help him create a fresh sound, capturing the essence of both the African and indigenous roots of Venezuelan music, and the forward-looking sounds of afrobeat, gritty Latin jazz and experimental electronic music. ‘Bichos’, Spanish for ‘vermin’, ‘bugs’, ‘beasts’ but also used in Venezuela to refer to someone as a “nasty piece of work”, draws all these strands together. The album uses a variety of animals, such as the mosquito, butterfly, pig, snake, rooster and flea, to represent a wide range of human qualities, like greed, hate, love & compassion, and their impact on Venezuelan and worldwide corruption & division, the strengths of friendship, family, collaboration, rebellion and survival.
“Bichos” is not only a superb introduction to Raúl Monsalve, but also to a swathe of incredible musicians you might still be unfamiliar with. It’s also a brilliant window into the rich musical seam of Venezuelan music, and an excellent look at how it might interconnect with wider musical parallels. - Olindo
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Label: Olindo – ORLP006 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz, Latin, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country |
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Style: Latin Jazz, Funk, Afrobeat |
$39.00
“Full of soft big city eroticism, ultra-slick synth lines and real funkateer explosions.”
Nadja wrote all lyrics, vocals and choruses on the album herself, with arrangements coming from Sly & Robbie, Japanese producers and composers Yasuaki Shimizu and Akira Inoue, Japanese musician Hiroaki Goto, and French composer Areski Belkacem. - The Vinyl Factory
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Label: Studio Mule – Studio Mule 34 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP |
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Country: Germany |
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Released: 30 Oct 2020 |
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Genre: Electronic, Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop |
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Style: Synth-pop, Boogie, New Wave, City Pop, Disco, Leftfield |
$55.00
Takashi Nagai x Takashi Numazawa x Takashi Nakajo x KOTEZ = Blues the Butcher. A new album dedicated to Earl Palmer, the great drummer of New Orleans! With Yoko Utsumi as a guest again, from New Orleans such as Professor Longhair and Smiley Lewis to Elmore James and Etta James, a masterpiece that could not have been born without Earl Palmer's back beat is covered with btb manners. !! You can't talk about Groove Music without listening to this! - Space Shower Music
$48.00
The UK DJ and producer taps the depths of his record collection in a gorgeous, moody mix that runs through ambient, jazz, psych pop, and vintage soul.
So tapping Floating Points to curate the latest edition of Late Night Tales—a series in which selectors show off the hidden depths of their record collections—is a great pairing. Shepherd takes the opportunity to float through an unhurried selection of ruminative, crepuscular music for the wee hours. Unlike his good friend Four Tet’s own eclectic contribution to the series, Floating Points keeps the mood consistent. Few selections move faster than a resting heartbeat, but they nevertheless feel dramatic. Despite staring-at-a-candle zone-outs from Kara-Lis Coverdale and Sarah Davachi, the mix isn’t made for falling to sleep. Instead, each track—the spiderweb fragility of Carlos Walker’s “Via Láctea,” nine minutes of zero-gravity bliss from ECM trio Azimuth—is perfectly suited to inspire sweet reveries. – Pitchfork
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Label: LateNightTales – ALNLP52 |
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Series: LateNightTales – |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation |
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Country: UK |
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Released: 29 Mar 2019 |
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Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen |
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Style: Ambient |
$75.00
“The Sojourner” was released on Strata-East in 1974 and is well known as one of the label’s rarest recordings. Most tracks are focused on a soaring, spiritual groove, and some of them expressed their soulfulness.
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A massive album and one of the best Strata-East releases. A Japanese P-Vine re-issue of The Ensemble Al-Salaam's spiritual jazz masterpiece 'The Sojourner' from 1974. Highly recommended. – Mr Bongo
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Another fine deep spiritual Jazz reissue on Japanese label P-Vine that came out on Strata East originally in 1974. Soaring vocals are charismatic of this album and it features the track Optimystical which Andres previously sampled. – HHV
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Label: Strata-East – SES7418, P-Vine Records – PLP-6950 |
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Series: Groove-Diggers – |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Remastered |
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Country: Japan |
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Released: 16 Dec 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul |
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Style: Modal |
$55.00
The first-time teaming of Poland’s dynamic Marcin Wasilewski Trio and big-toned US tenorist Joe Lovano brings forth special music of concentrated, deep feeling, in which lyricism and strength seem ideally balanced. The alliance plays four new tunes by Marcin and one by Joe, as well as Carla Bley’s classic “Vashkar” (in two variations), plus collective improvisations with strong input from all four players; Slawomir Kurkiewicz’s bass skills are particularly well-deployed in the spontaneous piece “Arco”. Joe will be joining the Polish trio for a number of selected concerts in the autumn. Arctic Riff was recorded at France’s Studio La Buissonne in August 2019, and produced by Manfred Eicher. - ECM
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Label: ECM Records – ECM 2678, ECM Records – 087 9959 |
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Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: Germany |
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Released: 26 Jun 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Contemporary Jazz |
$39.00
After critically-acclaimed ECM recordings with the Maciej Obara Quartet (Unloved, Three Crowns), Polish pianist Dominik Wania delivers a solo album recorded in November 2019 in Lugano. Wania’s sensitivity to touch, tone and texture is informed by his classical background. But he also has the in-the-moment instincts of a great improviser, acutely focused on the unfolding details of the music in the responsive interior of the Auditorio Stelio Molo studio. The balancing of influences from both disciplines makes Dominik Wania one of the most distinctive players of his generation. Lonely Shadows is a testimony to his creative originality as well as a significant addition to ECM’s celebrated line of solo piano recordings. Produced by Manfred Eicher. - ECM
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Label: ECM Records – ECM 2686 088 9560 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
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Country: Germany |
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Released: 18 Sep 2020 |
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Genre: Jazz |
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Style: Contemporary Jazz |
$39.00
Music for Films is a collection of sparse, moody setpieces whose connections to actual films vary widely. Although more active and more heavily orchestrated than Eno's ambient compositions, its 18 tracks waft in and out in similarly unceremonious fashion. Some, such as "Inland Sea" and the "Sparrowful" trilogy, recall the fat-bodied analog keyboards of Discreet Music; others, like the percussive drone-piece "M386", counteract the melodic lulls with hammering nervous tension. Featuring songs recorded in different time periods with different musicians (Robert Fripp, John Cale, and a young Phil Collins are among the many who turn up here), it runs a little unevenly in spots, but it's nonetheless as evocative as anything Eno's ever done. - Pitchfork
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Label: Virgin EMI Records – ENOLP9, UMC – ENOLP9 |
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180g |
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Country: Europe |
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Released: 2018 |
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Genre: Electronic |
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Style: Abstract, Experimental |
Le Tres Jazz Club – a jazz reissue label, founded in 2017 by Fuzati a french artist, die-hard crate digger, and co-founder of the hip-hop act Klub Des Loosers along with Elvin Pagiras who runs Modulor / Modulor Records, a shop & record label based in Paris. Les Tres Jazz Club is a sub-label to Modulor Records specializing in rare and sought after Jazz titles, where originals have seen exorbitant prices on our friendly neighborhood site, Discogs.
We've been really interested in Japanese Jazz for a while now, and interestingly enough, this French label is a great doorway into that world. Their pressings are top-notch and the packaging comes through nice and neat! What really shines though, is the music they choose to reissue. Let’s dive into the reissues by Le Tres Jazz Club that are currently at the vault, which you might have missed in your time here!
It's hard to know where to begin with 2020 - with all the anxieties and uncertainty that came with the pandemic. With that also allowed a much-needed pause to all the human activity, that for a long time felt like a loop, numbing our sensitivity to the precious gift of life. 
The man of the hour, Louis aka Intriguant brings us the 15th entry to our mix series; a solid hour of power aimed straight at the dancefloor! Coming in hot and just in time to celebrate the arrival of his third album, Spirits, which we couldn't be more honoured to release on TAV Records. Lock in for some groove therapy, no wind instruments required!
Back with another edition of Selects', this time round we are lucky to have the members of the Observatory pick out some LPs that they recommend listening (Some from our Online Catalog) .
With their most recent release available now via Ujikaji Records featuring Haino - "Authority is Alive", we thought it will be a perfect time to catch up with them and trace their musical inspirations. We are sure that you will find something lovely to discover on here just like we did. Have a read and let the journey begin.
