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Conch Records
UPCOMING: Various - Spiritual Jazz Vol.3 2LP (JAZZMAN)
Due out this month on CD & 2LP, to pre-order please contact us at info@conch.co.nz
'Esoteric, modal and deep jazz from the European undergound, 1963-72'
At the end of the '50s, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue heralded the revelatory arrival of modal jazz. As the vibrations of these giant steps resonated across the world, European jazz musicians reassessed their bearings and began to steer a new course. Across the continent they sent roots down into the rich soil of the European folk and Christian liturgical traditions, extended their music along ancient routes of communication and trade to the Middle East, and reached across the crumbling ramparts of the European empires to the music of Asia Africa and Latin America.
The music collected here follows the richly tangled threads of meditative, modal and religious European jazz. Picking up where Spiritual Jazz 2: Europe left off, with volume 3 continuing our excavation of private releases, underrepresented artists and visionary one-offs that stud the European jazz landscape like standing stones. Just as it had waxed, so the cult of American jazz waned, and these recordings are the compelling documents of a musical world in imaginative transition and virtuoso transformation - a second trail of determined footprints on the pathways of European jazz.
THE MUSIC
Sublime choral jazz in an ecclesiastical setting, revolutionary sounds deep within the USSR, radical modal experiments inspired by excursions to the Asian continent and Latin America, advances in rhythm and sound where modern jazz combines with Balkan and Scandinavian folk traditions. This is Spiritual Jazz - European style.
" All tracks fully licensed and digitally restored from the original master tapes
" Comprehensive liner notes with individual notes on each track and original stories direct from the artist
" 16 page colour CD booklet with in-depth liner notes, album cover scans and previously unpublished photographs
" Most tracks never before reissued - previously only available on rare LPs that change hands for hundreds of dollars.
" Deluxe double vinyl pressing with thick, glossy double gatefold sleeve
" Only on Jazzman - all because WE DIG DEEPER!
Tracklist with sound clips:
A1 Jef Gilson - Untitled
A2 Hermann - Gehlen Kyrie
A3 Palle Mikkelborg - Mongolia
A4 Michel Roques - Le Temps
A5 Babs Robert - Pro Forma I
B1 That's Why - Udoyeleg
B2 Binder Quintet - Vasvirág
B3 Crescendo Quintet Variations on the Azerbajian Mugam 'Chargiakh'
B4 Dusko Goykovic - Macedonian Fertility Dance
B5 Albert Mangelsdorff - Sakura Waltz
C1 Yoki Freund - Aisha
C2 Jan Allan - Odins Oga
C3 Dennis Wiley - Barrio Chino
C4 Full Moon Ensemble - Samba Miaou
D1 Louis Xavier - Suite
D2 Antithesis Haze's - Dance
GIG: The Pharcyde, Sat 18th August @ The Studio
Tickets available from Conch & www.iticket.co.nz
In the early '90s, when gangsta’ rap consumed the airwaves, and the majority of West Coast rappers strapped on their Locs, Chuck Taylor’s & Ben Davis’, The Pharcyde decidedly maintained a wilfully weird vision. Opting to stay true to themselves with their left field but still South-Central sensibility, rap had seen few groups so self-deprecating and so smart, four visionary rappers adroitly able to split the difference between helium-voiced and hard-core. Listening to “Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde” two full decades after its release, its sense of timeliness is unmistakable. Every song on the album inverts a hoary hip-hop cliché. With classics like “Oh Shit,” “Otha Fish”, “Ya’ Mama,” and hit single, “Passing Me By,” it is not surprising that it shipped over a million units, garnered comparisons to De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest, and everyone from Pitchfork Media to The Source has hailed it as one of the greatest albums ever made. Speaking on the passage of time, their second release “LabCabInCalifornia” has revealed exactly how far-reaching The Pharcyde’s vision was. From enlisting a young and then unknown James Yancey a.k.a. J Dilla to produce beats, the classic “Runnin” to collaborating with director Spike Jonze (“Being John Malkovich” “Adaptation”) on the video for “Drop,” it has consistently reinforced their steadfast refusal to tread familiar artistic grounds. For the majority of the subsequent decade, Bootie Brown and Imani have been busy with Bootie contributing an instant-classic verse on The Gorillaz’s “Dirt Harry,” and Imani also issuing “Sagittarius 72,” a Japan-only collaboration with producer Spaceboyboogiex . Today, The Pharcyde is still performing and touring the globe. They continue to hone their individual abilities yet carry on the name & legacy in its original fashion. They still seduce their audience with the same boyish charm that founded them at the beginning. Now, it’s combined with the knowledge that has been bestowed upon them as men who have taken on, and rose to the challenge of the rap game. The end result of all this hard work is a band that’s still influencing the hip hop artists and sounds crowding our radio waves today and will continue to for many years to come.MIX: Tommy Flowers Nuff Said Mix
Recorded live at http://www.georgefm.co.nz Nuff Said Show July 4th 2012 by Tommy Flowers
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This is a mixtape for http://www.alexander-balfour.com/
1. Intro - Tommy Flowers
2. Elipsis - Joy Orbison
3. Feelin - Photomachine
4. Lights out - George Fitzgerald
5. Model - Goldffinch
6. Life in the machine - Drums of death
7. Mountains pt1 - DJRum
8. Good good - 5kin & bones
9. One house (Mista men rmx) - Lokiboi
10. One house (Bambounou rmx) - Lokiboi
11. Orange jack - Mosca
12. On U - Photomachine
13. Transistor rhythm - Drums of death
14. Celebro (Roma rmx) - B ju
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