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Komos
Randy Kerber & Jowee Omicil – Y Pati
$39.00
Visit product page →They first crossed paths whilst filming Damien Chazelle The Eddy series – they immediately recognized each other!
To our right, Randy Kerber, born in 1958, betrothed to the piano and keys at a very early age. At 19, he set off on tours alongside Bette Midler, Lionel Hampton and Don Ellis, major figures of jazz, the music he quickly became familiar with. He then accompanied musicians as renowned as Quincy Jones, B.B. King, Michael Jackson, Leonard Cohen, Whitney Houston, and Frank Sinatra. Yet it is on the silver screen that Randy Kerber made a name for himself and his fingers by taking part in over a thousand (1000!) full-length feature films. He played the solos in Forrest Gump, Titanic and La La Land, as well as orchestrating many scores, including Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Dark Knight, The Legend of Zorro and The Color Purple.
To our left, Jowee Omicil, born in 1977 in Montréal, a musician of Haitian descent. His mother died when he was just five years old. His father, a pastor, encouraged him to enroll in a music school at 15. He began on the piano but quickly opted for reed instruments – soprano an alto sax, clarinet…He has played alongside Branford Marsalis, Richard Bona, Marcus Miller, Wyclef Jean… and all together, has released five albums as a bandleader (4) or in his own name (1).
Antoine Rajon, head of the jazz label Komos, brought them together in the Studio Pigalle in July 2020. The result is the Y Pati album – thirteen pieces combining pure improvisation, fleeting moments, the desire to play, long dialogues, rambling duos, jazz antics, a nod to Miles, blues fantasies, a tribute to Jowee’s father or a tender gesture for Randy’s daughter. – Light in the attic
Label: Komos – KOS 011 LP
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album, Numbered
Country: France
Released: 11 Dec 2020
Genre: Jazz, Classical
Style: Contemporary Jazz, Free Improvisation
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Stones Throw Records
Sudan Archives - Athena
$39.00
Visit product page →The L.A.-based singer and violinist makes her boldest and most fully formed statement yet.
“As the Greek myth goes, the goddess Athena sprang fully formed from Zeus’ forehead, wearing a suit of armor. Her purview included wisdom, the arts, wartime strategy, and cities, and she was revered as a model of righteousness and justice; her namesake city endured as a space for exploratory thought and bold ideas. The Ohio-born, Los Angeles-based Sudan Archives is the latest in a centuries-long parade of Athena enthusiasts, christening her first full-length album with the goddess’ name. The songs, her best yet, have the quality of revelation, and the album earns its namesake.” - PitchforkLabel: Stones Throw Records – STH2412
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US Released: 01 Nov 2019
Genre: Hip Hop, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country
Style: African, RnB/Swing -
Alternative Fox
Steve Reich – Information, Transmission, Modulation And Noise
$39.00
Visit product page →From the pioneer of minimalism!
Label: Alternative Fox – FOX006
Format: Vinyl, LP, Unofficial Release
Released: 2019
Genre: Classical
Style: Contemporary
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ECM Records
John Abercrombie Quartet – Up And Coming
$45.00
Visit product page →"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
Item Description:Artist:
John Abercrombie Quartet
Title:
Up And Coming
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Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, 180 gram
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Release Date:
Genre:
Jazz
Style:
Contemporary Jazz
Catalog No:
ECM 2528
Condition:
New
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Erased Tapes Records
Hatis Noit – Illogical Dance
$39.00
Visit product page →“On her new EP Illogical Dance, she combines a huge range of styles from Japanese classical music and Gregorian chanting to opera, with a few pop conventions in the mix. The result is a collection that’s almost mystical in its genre-fluid design, though the almost spiritual nature of her work has trickled through from her youth. Hailing from Shiretoko – a small town in Hokkaido – Hatis Noit adopted singing as a calling during a trek to Buddha’s birthplace in Nepal when she was 16. There, she investigated a female monk singing Buddhist chants alone, awakening her to the raw power of the human voice.
As such, there are no samples to be found throughout the entirety of Illogical Dance’s three main tracks. It’s built entirely on vocal performance without words; even what sounds like the crunching of leaves beneath a person’s feet came from Hatis Noit’s own vocal chords. She instead connects the primordial and the technological in other, intuitive ways, building a musical language all its own. Ten-minute opener ‘Angelus Novus’ strings together sweepingly grand, operatic passages with more visceral and hypnotic chanting and whispered murmurs; they combine together in distinctively rhythmic and propulsive ways.” – Drowned In Sound
“At times classically operatic, at others radically avant-garde, Illogical Dance synthesizes a number of non-Western vocal traditions, from Bulgarian and Gregorian chants to her native Gagaku or Japanese classical music. At once complex and primordial, it’s easy to hear comparisons with Medúlla-era Björk, Holly Herndon’s vocal experiments and the choral majesty of 4AD’s Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares release of the mid ’80s.” – Vinyl Factory
Item description:
Artist:
Hatis Noit
Title:
Illogical Dance
Label:
Erased Tapes Records
Format:
Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, EP
Pressing:
Europe
Release Date:
23rd March 2018
Genre:
Classical
Style:
Contemporary
Catalog No:
ERATP108
Condition:
New
