Conch Records
Sorceress - Dose CD (FUNKOMMUNITY)
Available Here
SORCERESS (formerly known as Funkommunity) is a 5-piece band from New Zealand. Their 2011 debut album Chequered Thoughts received worldwide acclaim and saw the band tour Europe and Japan the following year. Fast forward to 2014, and the band announced a new name: SORCERESS and a new studio album: DOSE. While previous works were influenced by J Dilla-inspired future soul and R&B, the new album sees their sound evolve, fusing elements of Deep Electronic Soul, Afrobeat, and Dance Music. DOSE retains their distinctive sonic texture, but also projects more movement while going deeper into the source of the music. Experienced in headphones or a club/festival context, Sorceress traverses the boundaries between audio intimacy and the bass driven rhythms of the dancefloor. The creative duo at the core of Sorceress is producer/band leader Isaac Aesili and vocalist Rachel Fraser. Isaac Aesili's production provides a diverse and sonically rich soundscape from which the charismatic vocals of Rachel Fraser weave through both light and dark lyrical themes. Crafted over the period of a year, the album includes collaboration with Sorceress' guitarist Daniel Ryland. Other musicians involved in the sessions include fellow Kiwis Julien Dyne, Marika Hodgson, Tom Broome, Jonathan Crayford, Steph Brown and Cam Allen.
Tracklist & Soundclips:
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01 | Brother Dragonfly | clip | ||||
02 | Freeloadoubt | clip | ||||
03 | Teacups | clip | ||||
04 | Te Kano | clip | ||||
05 | Treat The Feel | clip | ||||
06 | Cherished | clip | ||||
07 | Dose | clip | ||||
08 | Desire | clip | ||||
09 | Shifting | clip | ||||
10 | Do It | clip | ||||
11 | Stutter Step | clip |
Kalbata & Mixmonster - Congo Beat The Drum LP (FREESTYLE)
Available Here on LP
Freestyle Records is immensely excited to be the musical home of the stunning album Congo Beat The Drum from Kalbata & Mixmonster.
Kalbata is a techno & 2-step producer who previously released on labels such as Soul Jazz, Brownswood and Greenmoney. Kalbata did a string of high profile remixes for artists such as Fat Freddy's Drop, Spank Rock, The Count & Sinden and Roll Deep, collaborated with Warrior Queen and is also the man behind reissue labels Fortuna and Spring Hill Records. Mixmonster is the man behind funk band 'The Apples' as well as a member of cut-n-paste duo Radiotrip.
Ariel and Uri went into their home studio ago in Tel Aviv, Israel with the purpose of recording a 100% analogue dub album in the spirit of the late King Tubby and the early dancehall era of the late 70's and early 80's. A 16-track tape machine and an old analogue mixing desk were their main instruments, with musicians playing live all throughout the album.
A year after recording the instrumental backing tracks, they travelled to Kingston, Jamaica and started tracking down their favourite singers and deejays from days gone by.
The resulting long playeris on the one hand truly loyal to the origins of Jamaican music and on the other, a well produced forward thinking album, sounding totally fresh in today's music aesthetics. It will also rattle your speakers in ways not heard since the heyday of reggae & dub!
The highlights of this quite amazing long player are many, but from the beautiful & mellow 'Prisoner In Love' ft Little John, though the utterly original, drum driven title track Congo Beat The Drum on which Major Mackerel displays his amazing vocal talents as the earth shattering rhythm shakes the floor.
There is yet another amazing musical moment when JA legends Trinity & Jah Thomas join forces over a dub style rhythm on Trouble In The Dance, as reverberating rimshots and analogue synths bubble and squeal on this dark dance floor destroyer.
Echo Minott worked with luminary King Jammy at the tender age of just 17, and his dreader than dread vocal performance on Out A Road, and the fully analogue production of this album really rings true on this track.
Sadly, Voice make A Joyful Noise may be the last recording made by the late Prince Jazzbo before his untimely passing in September 2013. Another genuine Jamaican legend who collaborated with Coxsone Dodd and Lee Scratch Perry, as well as running the highly respected Ujama Records for many years. Voice make A Joyful Noise is a wonderful epitaph to a great career in original Jamaican music.
The final cut features multi talented genius Kutiman on the CRB organ - adding his keyboard skills to an instrumental version of Prisoner In Love - finishing off what may just be the greatest new reggae album for years past and even years to come!
Tracklisting & Soundclips:
1. Intro 2. Inna Skateland ft. Puddy Roots 3. Prisoner in Love ft. Little John 4. Congo Beat the Drum ft. Major Mackerel 5. Same Thing Every Day ft. Mutabaruka 6. Marshall Bread 7. Trouble in the Dance ft. Trinity,Jah Thomas 8. Aim ft. Tullo T 9. Out a Road ft. Echo Minott 10. Voice Make a Joyful Noise ft. Prince Jazzbo 11. Prisoner in Love (CRB Version)
Various - If 2.0 3LP (NINJA TUNE)
Available Here on 3LP
Last year, Ninja Tune teamed up with one of the UK’s best, most singular independent record stores to release a compilation on Record Store Day. ‘If’ was named after the shop - IF Music - which had just turned 10. Founded by the tireless impresario and quality music champion Jean-Claude, IF Music has long been the London hub for discerning customers both young and old, as well as artists, DJs and collectors. It featured music by Dave Invisible, Bonobo,Fink, Herbie Hancock and many more, and ended up being a hit with the hardcore music fans who flood the shops on Record Store Day.
On the back of that success, Jean-Claude eagerly curated a follow up from scratch, putting in the hours of careful thought and the connoisseur’s eye for which he’s become known. IF Music 2.0 was released on Record Store Day 2014. Featuring music from Cinematic Orchestra’s long time vocalist Heidi Vogel (here remixed via the richly atmospheric electronics and haunting melody of J Swinscoe & Dom Smith, the slow-burn, soul beauty of Jono McCleery and the demented, infectious funk of DJ Saturn and Annabel (lee) amongst many others, IF Music 2.0 is every bit the match for its predecessor.
Ninja Tune Presents: IF Music 2.0 is proof positive that the quality independent record store is - like quality record labels - a filter that promotes great music to good people, and very much here to stay.
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