$45.00
“The follow-up to his widely acclaimed 2017 debut Antiphon, Structuralism features guest vocals from Jordan Rakai and Kaya Thomas-Dyke, who also contributed the painting on the cover of the album. Combining live instrumentation, jazz composition and a beat-maker’s ear for a break, Alfa Mist has become a key figure in London’s burgeoning jazz scene. Speaking about the album Alfa Mist says: “I have been affected by my environment. My upbringing has shaped me in a way where I do not know how to communicate. Structuralism is about, “I am who I am” because of the structure of society I grew up into. Now I need to learn how to communicate.” – Vinyl Factory
Item description:
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Artist: |
Alfa Mist |
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Title: |
Structuralism |
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Label: |
Sekito |
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Format: |
2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold |
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Pressing: |
UK |
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Release Date: |
26th Apr 2019 |
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Genre: |
Jazz, Funk / Soul |
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Style: |
Contemporary Jazz |
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Catalog No: |
SEKITO002 |
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Condition: |
New |
$45.00
“Now one of the leading lights in the UK’s new generation of soulful, genre-fluid artists, the Leeds-born and now London-based 10-piece collective have created their finest recordings to date, effortlessly weaving together elements of jazz, soul, hip hop, African styles, Latin, dub, hip hop and electronics in a flow of thought-provoking and life-affirming music. Recorded at the band’s own self-built Henwood Studio in rural Oxfordshire, the album effortlessly moves through different voices from the band’s circle. The inimitable, timeless vocals of Nubiya Brandon lead the way on the album’s title track about breaking preconceptions and promoting equality, “Where you from? I’m from wherever I be.” Saxophonist Nick Richards vocals the killer first single from the album about inner turmoil and a search for the truth, ‘Tell It To Me Slowly’ while rising Ghanaian star K.O.G. appears on the Afro jams ‘Basa Basa’ and ‘They Talk’.
Percussionist / singer Pilo Adami voices the infectious bossa-jazz jam ‘Borders’. The band also draft in two African legends for guest duties with the original Afrobeat maestro Tony Allen on ‘Ghosts’ and Ethio jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke contributing vibes on the sinuous ‘Addis To London’. “The depth of talent and ideas that every member of this group has brought to the table for this album is incredible,” says producer and orchestrator Tom Excell. “Conceptually, "Jungle Run"; is all about connecting different people and cultures whilst exploring the journey of individuals. This album is the pinnacle of everything we have done to date and to collaborate with the godfathers of Afrobeat and Ethio Jazz and celebrate their music in a modern context was very humbling.” - Bandcamp
Item description:
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Artist: |
Nubiyan Twist |
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Title: |
Jungle Run |
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Label: |
Strut |
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Format: |
2 x Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Pressing: |
UK |
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Release Date: |
15th Feb 2019 |
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Genre: |
Jazz, Funk / Soul |
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Style: |
Afrobeat |
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Catalog No: |
STRUT198LP |
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Condition: |
New |
$65.00
Light In The Attic
Various Artist – Pacific Breeze (Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986)
$65.00
“Pacific Breeze is an expertly compiled collection of choice cuts that range from silky smooth grooves to innovative techno pop bangers and everything in between. Long-revered by crate diggers and adventurous music heads, this music has never been released outside of Japan until now. Including key artists like Taeko Ohnuki and Minako Yoshida, as well as cult favorites Hitomi Tohyama and Hiroshi Sato, the long-awaited release also features newly commissioned cover painting by Tokyo-based artist Hiroshi Nagai, whose iconic images of resort living have graced the covers of many classic City Pop albums of the 1980s.” – Light In The Attic
Item description:
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Artist: |
VA |
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Title: |
Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1976-1986 |
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Label: |
Light In The Attic |
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Format: |
2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Remastered |
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Pressing: |
US |
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Release Date: |
3rd May 2019 |
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Genre: |
Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop |
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Style: |
J-pop, AOR, Boogie |
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Catalog No: |
LITA163 |
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Condition: |
New |
$48.00
Strut
Various Artist – Disco Not Disco (Leftfield Disco Classics From The New York Underground)
$48.00
“Disco Not Disco is a compilation album from the Disco Not Disco series released by Strut Records in 2000. The album is a probe to experimental side of disco and punk genres and underground music scene in general. The first volume is more rock and funk oriented and features three experimental studio projects by Arthur Russell, namely Dinosaur, Indian Ocean and Loose Joints, British new wave musician Ian Dury, and even musicians like Yoko Ono, Steve Miller Band or jazz trumpeter Don Cherry. It was compiled by Joey Negro, a British DJ and producer. Some songs included on this album did well on the Billboard Club chart. The song "Cavern" by Liquid Liquid was also used in Grandmaster Flash song called "White Lines (Don't Do It)".” – Wiki
Item description:
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Artist: |
Various Artists |
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Title: |
Disco Not Disco |
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Label: |
Strut |
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Format: |
3 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation |
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Pressing: |
UK |
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Release Date: |
This reissue: 2019 | Original: 2000 |
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Genre: |
Electronic, Rock, Funk / Soul |
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Style: |
Leftfield, Disco |
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Catalog No: |
STRUT204LP |
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Condition: |
New |
$48.00
“22a proudly present’s the 4th studio album from the Tenderlonious led jazz quartet - Ruby Rushton. ‘Ironside’ is Ruby Rushton’s most complete work to date and was recorded over a 2 day session at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.
’Ironside’ sees the band continuing to push boundaries, and lead the way, with this new genre defying recording. The quartet’s fresh, high energy sound is rooted in the spiritual concepts of John Coltrane and Yusef Lateef, paying homage to The Headhunters and Weather Report heyday, whilst still adopting influences from hip hop, Afrobeat and the UK underground culture.
“Ironside” - meaning someone who is “courageous and possessing great physical and mental strength” sums up the Ruby Ruston journey so far. A personal, against the odds journey, that required Tenderlonious starting a label, 22a, back in 2013. Nobody much cared about jazz back in 2011 when the first Ruby Ruston album (‘Two For Joy’) was recorded, so the 22a platform was built, a home for friends and members of the family to release music from. Fast forward to 2019 and the jazz landscape is looking a whole lot healthier.” – Bandcamp
Item description:
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Artist: |
Ruby Rushton |
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Title: |
Ironside |
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Label: |
22a |
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Format: |
2 x Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Pressing: |
UK |
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Release Date: |
5th April 2019 |
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Genre: |
Jazz |
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Style: |
Contemporary Jazz |
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Catalog No: |
027, 22a 027 |
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Condition: |
New |
$39.00
“There has been a compelling trajectory at work since J.J. Whitefield's Karl Hector & the Malcouns issued 2008's Sahara Swing. It articulated Whitefield's lifelong love of sounds from the African Diaspora that include Ebo Taylor's slippery guitar funk, Zamrock, Malian blues, and disco-fied Nigerian Afrobeat. Six years later, the Malcouns dug deeper on Unstraight Ahead by exploring the Ethio jazz of Mulatu Astatke, Hailu Mergia, and Getatchew Mekuria, soldered onto the German band's love of Krautrock and trancey psychedelia as exemplified by countrymen Can, Agitation Free, and Tomorrow's Gift. Non Ex Orbis, issued more than a decade after their debut, finds the band traveling further afield without losing their way. This eight-track set engages the experimentalism of krautrock as it meets classic German prog influences such as Amon Düül, Popol Vuh, and Embryo, and dark, trippy analog funk. Woven in are an eclectic mix of trance, analog synth, interlocking Afrobeat grooves, and ghostly, dark mercurial psych.” – All Music
Item description:
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Artist: |
Karl Hector And The Malcouns |
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Title: |
Non Ex Orbis |
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Label: |
Now-Again Records |
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Pressing: |
- |
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Release Date: |
15th March 2019 |
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Genre: |
Jazz, Funk / Soul |
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Style: |
Afrobeat, Jazz-Funk |
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Catalog No: |
NA5184LP |
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Condition: |
New |
$45.00
“The year was 1974. On the heels of the biggest hits of his career to that point, "Réu Confesso" and "Gostava Tanto de Você," Brazilian soul singer Tim Maia broke with his label, Polydor, lured by the offer of a double-album deal with RCA Victor. The 32-year-old Maia and his band retired to a house in a secluded section of Rio de Janeiro and spent their days smoking marijuana and experimenting with hallucinogens while working on new material. By the end of July, they had a few dozen songs worked out -- instrumental grooves that followed Tim's tried and true samba-soul formula -- but few lyrics. Pleased with the rough recordings, RCA dared to hope that their investment in the unpredictable singer would pay off in spades, but Tim managed to turn everything on its head. In the midst of a mescaline trip, he discovered a book entitled Universo em Desencanto (literally "Universe in Disenchantment"), the manifesto of an obscure religious cult known as Cultura Racional. Within weeks, Maia had dedicated his life to the cult, coerced his entire band to join and live by its strict precepts (no drugs, no alcohol, no red meat, and no sex except for the purpose of procreation), and was bent on a new direction for his double album. Gone was the accessible pop music he'd been known for, his usual romantic and party-oriented lyrics replaced by devotional verses.” – All Music
Item description:
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Artist: |
Tim Maia |
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Title: |
Racional |
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Label: |
Rational Records |
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release |
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Pressing: |
Japan |
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Release Date: |
This reissue: 2019 | Original: 1974 |
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Genre: |
Funk / Soul |
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Style: |
Funk, Soul |
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Catalog No: |
RRVOL.1 |
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Condition: |
New |
$39.00
“Cykada is a band of established musicians on the London scene, having played in groups including, Myriad Forest, EZRA Collective, Maisha, Where Pathways Meet, Family Atlantica and Don Kipper. Bassist Jamie Benzies is the spine of the project, along with Tilé Gichigi-Lipere, also a fellow former member of the legendary band Myriad Forest and Drummer Tim Doyle aka Chiminyo, together were the first members of Cykada. Jamie mentioned in one interview:
'I became more keen on doing something which has a longer vision. Where you get together with people you know you can work with, people you love sharing a space with and you take your time, you make sure you’re enjoying your music and as that comes, everything else comes.'
Trumpeter Axel Kaner-Lidstrom, Saxophonist James Mollison and secret weapon Guitarist Javi Pérez complete the ensemble. Tilé shows a unique and indispensable role within the band, aside from playing keys, he is programming, processing and modifying the sounds of the instruments, a massive factor in creating the distinctive vibe of the band. Cykada’s unique vibe is a testament to its members and the crucial role they each play in the creative process.” – Bandcamp
Item description:
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Artist: |
Cykada |
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Title: |
Cykada |
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Label: |
Astigmatic Records |
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Pressing: |
UK |
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Release Date: |
22nd March 2019 |
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Genre: |
Jazz |
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Style: |
Space-Age, Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Gypsy Jazz |
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Catalog No: |
AR008LP |
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Condition: |
New |
$45.00
“‘The Flying Club Cup’ saw Beirut go baroque pop, ‘The Rip Tide’ embraced mariachi with its bombastic brass arrangements and 2015 record ‘No No No’ was a 30-minute sugar rush of euphoric indie-pop. Each release was threaded through with Condon’s musical adventurousness. Album five, ‘Gallipoli’, is no different. Beirut’s now-trademark sound has been sun-drenched this time around, chockablock with slinky brass and luminous hooks. Title track ‘Gallipoli’ (which was influenced by Condon seeing a brass band procession in the Medieval Italian town of the same name) is a jubilant, waltzing chunk of folk-pop, filled with skipping drums and Condon’s velvety vocals floating over the top. ‘Gauze für Zah’ and ‘Landslide’, meanwhile, are soaring nuggets of the sweet folk-laced pop, similar to those we heard on the band’s previous album ‘No No No’. ‘Gallipoli’ is the culmination of every Beirut album, feeling like a climatic mix of new and old. In some ways this album feels like a return home, with those familiar trotting organ lines and close-knit vocal harmonies; but others it’s the inevitable next step on Condon’s musical voyage.” – NME
Item description:
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Artist: |
Beirut |
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Title: |
Gallipoli |
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Label: |
4AD |
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Pressing: |
US |
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Release Date: |
1st Feb 2019 |
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Genre: |
Rock, Pop, Folk, World, & Country |
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Style: |
Folk Rock, Indie Pop, Lo-Fi |
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Catalog No: |
4AD0121LP |
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Condition: |
New |
$39.00
“Dylan Baldi maintains simple, admirable standards in quality. “A thing I like to do with all of my records is drive around with them,” the 25-year-old Cloud Nothings frontman says. “In high school, I would listen to music for hours like that: just driving through the suburbs of Cleveland. And if it sounds good to me in that context and I can think of high school me listening to it and saying, ‘That’s okay,’ I feel good about the record. This is the one that’s felt best.”
“This” is "Life Without Sound", the radiant, far-far-better-than-okay fourth full-length his rock outfit has recorded since he began writing and releasing songs on his own under the Cloud Nothings alias in 2008. While its highly acclaimed predecessor—2014’s "Here and Nowhere Else"—came together spontaneously, in the little time that touring allowed, "Life Without Sound" took shape under far less frenetic circumstances.” – Bandcamp
Item description:
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Artist: |
Cloud Nothings |
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Title: |
Life Without Sound |
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Label: |
Carpark Records |
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album, Deluxe Edition, Green Marbled 180g |
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Pressing: |
US |
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Release Date: |
27th Jan 2017 |
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Genre: |
Rock |
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Style: |
Rock |
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Catalog No: |
CAK115 |
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Condition: |
New |
$39.00
“Barre Phillips was the first musician to record an album of solo double bass, back in 1968, and he has always been an absolute master of the solo idiom. In March 2017, Barre recorded what he says will be his last solo album, the final chapter of his “Journal Violone”: it is a beautiful and moving musical statement. All the qualities we associate with Barre’s playing are here in abundance – questing adventurousness, melodic invention, textural richness, developmental logic, and deep soulfulness. End to End was recorded at Studios-La-Buissonne in the south of France, and produced by Manfred Eicher. It is issued in both CD and LP formats.” – ECM Records
Item description:
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Artist: |
Barre Phillips |
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Title: |
End To End |
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Label: |
ECM Records |
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
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Pressing: |
Germany |
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Release Date: |
7th September 2018 |
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Genre: |
Jazz |
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Style: |
Contemporary Jazz, Free Improvisation |
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Catalog No: |
ECM 2575, 675 7795 |
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Condition: |
New |
$45.00
"The Corea/Burton duo was brought together by producer Manfred Eicher, and Crystal Silence (recorded in 1972) brought a new chamber music sensibility into jazz improvisation, distinguished by an effervescence of melody and countermelody, with synchronized cascades of sound in continually changing harmonic movement. “It becomes a little magical,” said Corea.Stereo: “Crystal Silence is an album of extraordinary musicianship and rare beauty. Rarely have two musicians been so perfectly matched and rarely do we hear an album of such consistent excellence and originality. “
Initially published in April 1973, vinyl is reissued in April 2017 as audiophile pressing taken from the original analog tapes." - ECM Records
Item Description:
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Artist: |
Gary Burton / Chick Corea |
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Title: |
Crystal Silence |
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Label: |
|
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: |
Germany |
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Release Date: |
Original: 1973 | This Reissue: 2017 |
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Genre: |
Jazz |
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Style: |
Contemporary Jazz |
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Catalog No: |
1024 |
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Condition: |
New |
$45.00
“For his third ECM release as a leader, Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle. The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM’s many recordings from New York over the past decade: keyboardist David Virelles, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Marcus Gilmore, who each shine in addition to the leader on multiple horns. The Dreamer Is the Dream features Potter on tenor saxophone – the instrument that has made him one of the most admired players of his generation – in the striking opener “Heart in Hand” and such album highlights as “Yasodhara,” as well as on soprano sax (“Memory and Desire”) and bass clarinet (the title track). Potter is an artist who “employs his considerable technique in service of music rather than spectacle,” says The New Yorker, and his composing develops in texture and atmosphere with every album. Along with his previous ECM releases, Imaginary Cities and The Sirens, he has appeared on some of the label’s most acclaimed discs, including Paul Motian’s classic Lost in a Dream and Dave Holland’s Grammy Award-winning What Goes Around.” – ECM Records
Item description:
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Artist: |
Chris Potter |
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Title: |
The Dreamer Is The Dream |
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Label: |
ECM Records |
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, 180g |
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Pressing: |
Germany |
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Release Date: |
21st April 2017 |
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Genre: |
Jazz |
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Style: |
Contemporary Jazz |
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Catalog No: |
ECM 2519, 574 1473 |
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Condition: |
New |
$39.00
"With Temporary Kings two of the most distinct voices on today’s jazz scene present their debut on record as a duo: Engaging in inspired dialogue Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson here explore aesthetic common ground in the atmosphere of a modernist chamber music-like setting at the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano. The saxophonist and the pianist had begun their association in the Billy Hart Quartet, where the two players featured sympathetically on two ECM albums by that band. The new duo album now contains six originals by Iverson (among them the nostalgic solo tune “Yesterday’s Bouquet”) and two by Turner (including “Myron’s World,” which has acquired near-classic status among contemporary jazz players). There’s an off-kilter blues (“Unclaimed Freight”) and a strikingly melodic, almost Ravelian opening track dedicated to the town where the album was recorded under ideal sonic conditions (“Lugano”), plus an interpretation of Warne Marsh’s playfully serpentine “Dixie’s Dilemma.” - ECM Records
Item Description:
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Artist: |
Mark Turner & Ethan Iverson |
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Title: |
Temporary Kings |
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Label: |
ECM Records |
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: |
Germany |
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Release Date: |
|
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Genre: |
Jazz |
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Style: |
Contemporary Jazz |
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Catalog No: |
ECM 2583 |
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Condition: |
New |
$39.00
“They are widely recognised as the most exciting young string quartet of the present moment, bringing new insights to contemporary composition and core classical repertoire. In parallel, they have also made surprising and impressive forays into the world of Nordic folk music. Their 2014 album Wood Works (Dacapo Records) was a left-field hit, and audiences around the world have been delighted by concert performances of the music. Now the Danish String Quartet bring their folk project to ECM with a stirring new recording. Last Leaf took its initial inspiration from an unusual Christmas hymn, “Now found is the fairest of roses”, published in 1732 by Danish theologian and poet H.A. Brorson. The hymn is set to a mysterious, dark melody: Brorson had chosen an old Lutheran funeral choral to accompany his Christmas hymn, elegantly showing how life and death are always connected. “From here we embark on a travel through the rich fauna of Nordic folk melodies until returning to Brorson in the end,” say the DSQ. “It is a journey that could have been made in many different ways, but we believe that we returned with some nice souvenirs. In these old melodies, we find immense beauty and depth, and we can't help but sing them through the medium of our string quartet. Brorson found the fairest of roses, we found a bunch of amazing tunes – and we hope you will enjoy what we did to them.” – ECM Records
Item description:
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Artist: |
Danish String Quartet |
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Title: |
Last Leaf |
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Label: |
ECM Records, ECM New Series |
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
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Pressing: |
Germany |
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Release Date: |
15th June 2018 |
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Genre: |
Classical, Folk, World |
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Style: |
Nordic, Folk, Contemporary |
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Catalog No: |
ECM 2550, 4816497 |
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Condition: |
New |
$39.00
"So many of ECM’s finest trumpeters also happen to be skilled travelers. Tomasz Stanko and Enrico Rava in particular have hopped the globe in search of inspiration, life experience, and musical expansion. Yet few, among the possible exceptions of Nils Petter Molvær and Per Jørgensen, have gone so deeply inward and emerged with such painstaking lyricism as Mathias Eick. Midwest was inspired by a North American tour, during which time Eick recalls feeling very homesick: “Then we reached the area called the Rural Midwest and I suddenly had the strange feeling that I was home. It occurred to me that some of the early settlers must have felt this way, when they looked at the rich soil of the plains and saw that this was wonderful land for farming. Parts of the Midwest remind me strongly of parts of Norway including the southeast of Norway where I grew up.” Even with this, and the migratory tunes that comprise this album, in mind, the journey on which we are led is far more psychic than geographic. Joining his caravan are violinist Gjermund Larsen (last heard on the Christian Wallumrød Ensemble’s Outstairs), pianist Jon Balke, bassist Mats Eilertsen, and percussionist Helge Norbakken: a continent unto themselves."
"If Eick has so far crafted a distinct melodic solar system on ECM, Midwest is a galaxy unto itself. Fresh, spiraled, and classic to the core, it’s sure to be one of the label’s most enduring statements of all time." - ECM Reviews
Item Description:
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Artist: |
Mathias Eick |
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Title: |
Midwest |
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Label: |
|
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album |
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Country: |
Germany |
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Release Date: |
02 Jun 2015 |
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Genre: |
Jazz |
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Style: |
Contemporary Jazz |
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Catalog No: |
ECM 2410 |
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Condition: |
New |
$39.00
“Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick, who was born in the village of Hem in 1979, took up the piano at five and the trumpet a year later. He recalls that in the family music room “we had a vibraphone, a piano, guitars, trumpets, and a French horn. We were five kids and all of us were playing at least one instrument. My father was really into jazz and was also playing all kinds of instruments, and my mother sang in choirs.” Eick subsequently studied trumpet and double bass at the Trondheim Music Academy…
…With his next album, Skala, the line-up was expanded, incorporating two drummers, reflecting an overall conception that was “wider and bigger in all directions”, according to Eick. What didn’t change was the emphasis on the lyrical soloist at the centre of things. Inspirations came from a wide variety of music, from classical to pop. Most recently, on Midwest, Eick reflected on distances travelled in an intensely melodic set of original folk-inflected compositions, which makes an imaginative journey from the tiny village where he grew up to the vast plains of Dakota in the American Midwest, an intercontinental journey made by hundreds of thousands of Eick’s compatriots over a century ago. John Kelman called the result “[Eick’s] most well-conceived and mature outing yet”. In 2007 Mathias Eick received the International Association of Jazz Educators’ International Jazz Award for New Talent.” – ECM Records
Item description:
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Artist: |
Mathias Eick |
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Title: |
Skala |
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Label: |
ECM Records |
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album, 180g |
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Pressing: |
Germany |
|
Release Date: |
2011 |
|
Genre: |
Jazz |
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Style: |
Contemporary Jazz |
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Catalog No: |
ECM 2187, 276 3107 |
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Condition: |
New |
$48.00
"Keyboardist-composer Vijay Iyer’s energized sequence of ECM releases has garnered copious international praise. Yet his fifth for the label since 2014 – Far From Over, featuring his dynamically commanding sextet – finds Iyer reaching a new peak, furthering an artistry that led The Guardian to call him “one of the world’s most inventive new-generation jazz pianists” and The New Yorker to describe him as “extravagantly gifted… brilliantly eclectic.” Far From Over features this sextet of virtuoso improvisers – with horn players Graham Haynes, Steve Lehman and Mark Shim alongside rhythm partners Stephan Crump and Tyshawn Sorey – leveraging a wealth of jazz history even as it pushes boldly forward. The music ranges from the thrillingly explosive (“Down to the Wire,” “Good on the Ground”) to the cathartically elegiac (“For Amiri Baraka,” “Threnody”), with melodic hooks, entrancing atmosphere, rhythmic muscle and an elemental spirit all part of the allure. “This group has a lot of fire in it, but also a lot of earth, because the tones are so deep, the timbres and textures,” Iyer says. “There’s also air and water – the music moves.” - ECM Records
Item Description:
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Artist: |
Vijay Iyer Sextet |
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Title: |
Far From Over |
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Label: |
ECM Records |
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Format: |
Vinyl, LP |
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Country: |
|
|
Release Date: |
06 Oct 2017 |
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Genre: |
Jazz |
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Style: |
|
|
Catalog No: |
ECM 2581 |
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Condition: |
New |
$39.00
“Something special happens when they play together” observed Robert Palmer in the New York Times, and the participants concurred. “Playing with John is one of my favourite things to do,” said Ralph Towner. “I can play as much as when playing solo, and still get to ply my skills as accompanist. John is such an amazing person to play with that, even when he’s playing intensely or aggressively, we somehow fit together and there’s really no way that we could collide.” On Five Years Later, follow-up to their debut duo disc Sargasso Sea, their improvisations draw on a wider sonic palette, to telling effect.” – ECM Records
Item description:
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Artist: |
Ralph Towner / John Abercrombie |
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Title: |
Five Years Later |
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Label: |
ECM Records |
|
Format: |
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 180g |
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Pressing: |
Germany |
|
Release Date: |
This reissue: 24th Jan 2014 | Original: 1982 |
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Genre: |
Jazz |
|
Style: |
Contemporary Jazz |
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Catalog No: |
ECM 1207, 374 353 |
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Condition: |
New |
$45.00
"Guitarist John Abercrombie – who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974 – returns with a second album by his quartet featuring Marc Copland on piano, along with longtime rhythm partners Drew Gress and Joey Baron. Extolling 39 Steps, the group’s 2013 album, the Financial Times said: “The emphasis is on subtle intrigue, flowing lyricism and the interplay between the leader’s warm, cleanly articulated guitar and Copland’s piano… with bassist Gress and drummer Baron equally supple and sinewy companions.” The same virtues of lyrical melody and harmonic/rhythmic subtlety are apparent with the new Up and Coming, though with even more emphasis on the enduring values of song. Abercrombie’s liquid phrasing and glowing tone – enabled by the thumb technique he has honed since eschewing a plectrum in recent years – animate his five originals and the pair by Copland, as well as a take on the Miles Davis classic “Nardis” done in the spirit of Bill Evans. Up and Coming has a twilight atmosphere, with melodic flow the guiding light." - ECM Records
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John Abercrombie Quartet |
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Up And Coming |
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Vinyl, LP, Album, 180 gram |
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Jazz |
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Contemporary Jazz |
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ECM 2528 |
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We went diggin with producer and sampling extraordinaire Fauxe to find out what his favourite records are at the moment! Have a tour through the jazzier corners of the vault with this man ;)
A music writer (Daniel Peters) and the Middle Class Cigars label head honcho (Nigel Lopez - aka Guided Meditation) go diggin' at the Vault! These two talked about some of their favourite records (in terms of music, direction, artwork and more) and recorded a mixtape to go along with it. Enjoy!
Full interview + mixtape link via http://cratedig.us/dannigel
