$48.00
Soul Jazz Records
$48.00
Cuba: Music and Revolution: Culture Clash in Havana: Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 1 is the new album compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records) that explores the many new styles that emerged in Cuba in the 1970s as Jazz, Funk, Brazilian Tropicalia and even Disco mixed together with Latin and Salsa on the island as Cuban artists experimented with new musical forms created in the unique socialist state of Cuba.
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The album is released to coincide with the massive new deluxe large format book Cuba: Music and Revolution: Original Cover Art of Cuban Music: Record Sleeve Designs of Revolutionary Cuba 1959-90, published in November, which is also compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records), and which features the music and record designs of Cuba, made in the 30-year period following the Cuban Revolution.
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The music on this album features legendary Cuban groups such as Irakere, Los Van Van and Pablo Milanés as well as a host of lesser known artists such as the radical Grupo De Experimentación, Juan Pablo Torres and Algo Nuevo, Grupo Monumental and Orquesta Ritmo Oriental, groups whose names remain largely unknown outside of Cuba owing to the now 60-year old US trade embargo which remains in place today and which prevents trade with Cuba – and thus most Cuban records were only ever available in Cuba or in ex-Soviet Union states.
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The music on this album reflects the most cutting-edge of Cuban groups that were recording in Cuba in the 1970s and 1980s – who were all searching for a new Cuban identity and new musical forms that reflected both the Afro-Cuban cultural heritage of a nation that gave birth to Latin music - and its new position as a socialist state. Most of the music featured on this album have never been heard outside of Cuba.
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Both Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker have been involved in Cuban music for more than two decades – Gilles Peterson with his many Havana Cultura projects for his Brownswood label and Stuart Baker with a number of Soul Jazz Records albums recorded in Cuba. This Soul Jazz Records album is released in conjunction with Egrem, the Cuban state record company, and has been put together after the many crate-digging trips that both compilers have made on the streets of Havana and beyond in Cuba stretching over a 20-year period, searching out rare and elusive original Cuban vinyl records. – Sounds of The Universe
Label: Soul Jazz Records – SJR LP461 |
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation |
Country: UK |
Released: 22 Jan 2021 |
Genre: Jazz, Latin, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country |
Style: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz, Rumba, Son |
$45.00
SAAR Records is reissuing, in a limited edition and under its famous label Stella, thanks to the collaboration with Sonor Music Editions for the remastering, the long-playing “A Trip Around The World”, much sought after by vinyl collectors. The album was recorded and produced in Pero (Milan, Italy), with the famous Italian composer. – HHV
While Italian library/soundtrack great Alessandro Alessandroni may be gone, his music continues to inspire a whole new generation of listeners thanks to an increasing number of reissues. Now a pair of the late maestro's arguably strongest albums — A Trip Around the World and Prisma Sonoro — are finally coming back to vinyl.
This spring, we will see the reissue of both albums, with Alessandroni's beloved 1973 library effort A Trip Around the World arriving first. The new pressing of the serious rare — and pricey — album arrives via Stella, with remastering coming courtesy of Sonor Music Editions. – Exclaim
Label: Stella Records (3) – LPS 6130, SAAR Records – LPS 6130 |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Black |
Country: Italy |
Released: 2019 |
Genre: Jazz |
Style: Bossa Nova, Easy Listening |
$45.00
Another Brazilian Funk landmark made by two of the most exceptional instrumentalists of the Soul funk scene of the 70s. José da Silva better know under the pseudonym of Zeca do Trombone is a trombone player who has worked with a multitude of Brazilian artists including Tim Maia and Carlos Dafé Elizeth Cardoso, Beth Carvalho, Milton Nascimento. Roberto Sax or Zé Roberto Simonal is none other than Wilson Simonal’s brother.
The original press of this LP is one of the rarest of Brazilian music. Mad About Record is proud to reissue it for the first time worldwide. – Bandcamp
Label: Mad About Records – MAR010 |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
Country: Portugal |
Released: 2019 |
Genre: Latin, Funk / Soul |
Style: MPB, Funk, Samba, Soul |
$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
Label: Olindo – ORLP006 |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album |
Country: UK |
Released: 2020 |
Genre: Jazz, Latin, Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country |
Style: Latin Jazz, Funk, Afrobeat |
$39.00
"Incredibly unique concept album from the one and only, Tom Zé. As featured in Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Brazilian Albums of all-time list (2007).
One of Ze’s finest albums in our opinion, originally released by Continental Brazil in 1976 – a tough one to find at a good price in its original form now.
‘Estudando do Samba’ (or ‘Studying The Samba’) is a post-Tropicalia studio experimentation laiden with layers of hypnotic percussion, effects & samples that deconstructs the ‘samba’ form. Recorded during what was arguably his most creative period.
David Byrne found the record in Rio in the late 90’s and included several songs on his Tom Ze collection for Luaka Bop a few years later. At that time Tom was not recording or touring much; playing low-key shows in Sao Paulo and contemplating a move back to Irará to work at a service station owned by one of his cousins. Byrne’s project helped to reignite his career and he hasn’t looked back since." - Mr Bongo
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Tom Zé |
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Estudando O Samba |
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Mr Bongo
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Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
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UK
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Original: 1975 | This Reissue: 2019
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MRBLP190 |
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New |
$39.00
"Soul Jazz Records are re-releasing Airto Moreira’s classic album ‘Samba de Flora’, out of print for 30 years ever since its original release in 1988. The album is very limited to just 1000 copies only, pressed on both vinyl and CD."
"...The impact of Airto Moreira in both the world of American jazz and in Brazilian music is unparalleled. At the start of the 1970s Airto was invited to join Miles Davis’ groundbreaking ‘electric’ group, which with albums such as the seminal ‘Bitches Brew’ helping Davis regain his title from John Coltrane as the most important jazz artist of all time." - Soul Jazz Records
Label: Soul Jazz Records – SJR LP436 |
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue |
Country: UK |
Released: 2019 |
Genre: Jazz, Latin |
Style: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Fusion, Samba, Latin Jazz |