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Heavenly Sweetness - Label Compilation #1 | Comments: 0
Tuesday, March 16 2010
Various - Heavenly Sweetness - Label Compilation #1
(2xCD/12"/Download) Heavenly Sweetness, 2010-03-15
Heavenly Sweetness is THE French JAzz label today. It's quite easy since there isn't much competition... but praise should be given anyway to Antoine Rajon and Franck Descollonges for an incredible series of releases and reissues during the recent years, among which were shining the John Betsch Society and the Anthony Joseph and the Spasm Band LPs (available at the Superfly Records store!).
Along the way of releasing fantastic albums and re-releasing superb jazz LPs, they've also regularly fed Parisian record dealers of all sorts with limited edition 45s, 10 inches and free MP3s... all collected here in this double compilation, along with many tasteful spiritual Jazz, Afro, and even Reggae pieces. I couldn't recommend a better introduction to this Jazz label.
Nigeria Afrobeat Special - The New Explosive Sound in 1970's Nigeria | Comments: 0
Monday, March 1 2010
Various - Nigeria Afrobeat Special - The New Explosive Sound in 1970's Nigeria
(CD/3xLP/Digital) Soundway Records SNDWCD021/SNDWLP021, 2010-02-22 (CD) / 2010-03-01 (vinyl)
Nigeria Afrobeat Special is the fourth addition to the Nigeria Special series, a project initiated by Miles Cleret, owner of the Soundway Records label back in 2004. The triple LP features five bonus tracks not available on the CD.... Reserve your vinyl copy today at the Superfly Records store!
Skeletons - Smile | Comments: 1
Monday, March 1 2010
Skeletons - Smile
(CD) Impossible Ark/Unfold UNFOLDCD010, 2009-03-01
A very exciting new project from the man at the helm of the Nostalgia 77 ship Ben Lamdin, this is one of the draws of the Summer as the Brighton bunch turn their hand to a live, afro psychedelic funk band called The Skeleton.
Homelife - Exotic Interlude | Comments: 0
Monday, March 1 2010
Homelife - Exotic Interlude
(CD/LP) Humble Soul HS302CD/HS302LP, 2009-10-05
Released in France 2010-03-01 thru Discograph with bonus tracks
The world of the exotic lives in the imagination, a way of looking at the world. A useful way of coping now we live on Google Earth, mapped and finite, a shrunken head. More than an interlude, Homelife have painted an Exotic English landscape. An urban crust on heathen clay, the village green from tower blocks. The tower blocks seen distant from green hill sides, Pagan pylons bathed in antiseptic sunlight fingers. Bright moulds, vines and blooms on Victorian iron decay. Feel the sandstone turn to limestone, rock of ages, dirty flags, caves of blue john, land of lakes and red brick evening glow. Exotic Interlude is a mature work, slow brewed. I feel I’ve heard it all in a dream, it's familiar but utterly strange. It might be words engaging me, emotions I can empathize with, uncomfortably honest, sweetened by being set amongst gardens of glowing music. The music is both ethereal yet earthy, with heavy use of acoustic timbres, swarms of coloured percussion, bulbous synths and fresh use of languid Hawaiian guitar. A timeless English summer of a record.
Black Man's Cry: The Inspiration Of Fela Kuti | Comments: 0
Tuesday, February 23 2010
Various - Black Man's Cry: The Inspiration Of Fela Kuti
(4x10" boxset/CD) Now-Again/Stones Throw NA50566, 2010-02-23
Fela's music, and that of his organization inspired musicians across the global village when Afro-Beat was new and novel. This compilation focuses on the music Fela inspired – whether by fellow Nigerians recording alongside him in the early 70s, neighbors in Ghana, then-modern Colombian cumbia ensembles inspired by the man who injected a new feel into the Yoruban rhythms that formed cumbia's base, Trinidadian steel bands or the select few organizations left that have maintained Fela's fury in the new millennium. Compiler Egon has written extensive liner notes – and sourced never before seen Fela photos and other ephemera - for this project, included in the hardbound book that contains the CD and in a large-format booklet in the 4 x 10” vinyl box set.
The Bamboos - On The Sly | Comments: 0
Monday, February 8 2010
The Bamboos - On The Sly
(12") Tru Thoughts TRU211, 2009-02-08
What do you get when you combine a truly nasty, percussive drum break with massive Hammond and guitar stabs, a loping sly horn line and Kylie Auldist’s velvet rip-saw vocals? On The Sly is the first single from The Bamboos’ upcoming album, 4, and a real statement of intent: a piece of music for 2010 that somehow transcends the boundaries of what we know as the ‘Deep Funk’ scene and pushes The Bamboos up into a world all their own, On The Sly is The Bamboos crystallised, arrived, their own unique sound fully realised.
Various - Contemporary Jazz - out february 1st on Tramp Records | Comments: 0
Monday, February 1 2010
Various - Contemporary Jazz
A fine selection of some of today's most exciting jazz bands from all over the world
(CD/LP/Digital) Tramp Records trlp/cd-9006, 2010-02-01
It was not long ago when Tramp Records founder Tobias Kirmayer discovered his love for jazz and its colorful varieties. His general affection for the analog recording technique is as evident as on the compilations predecessor‚ Contemporary Funk. If you are familiar with the aforementioned album, you know that the focus is not only about the production/sound of the late 1960s but in at least the same extent on bands which have not yet had much musical output, if any.
Mebusas - Blood Brothers | Comments: 0
Thursday, January 28 2010
Mebusas - Blood Brothers
(CD/LP/MP3) Academy LPs ALP003, 2009-12-21
Best known for their cut Son of Mr Bulldog which was made available on the recent Afro Baby compilation on Soundway Records, The Mebusas lone LP Blood Brothers combines elements of American soul and funk, psychedelic rock, latin/carribean rhythms and traditional African music. Innovative arrangements, deep rhythms and top-notch playing make this 1973 album a true classic. This is the first ever reissue of this landmark album.
AVAILABLE TO BUY AT THE SUPERFLY RECORD STORE - RESERVE YOUR COPY NOW!
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit | Comments: 0
Monday, January 25 2010
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
(CD/2LP/Download) Ninja Tune ZENCD152/ZEN152/ZENDNL152, 2010-01-25
The nine piece Norwegian jazz-rock-experimental behemoth that is Jaga Jazzist return to the fray with their stunning new album, One Armed Bandit. All galloping rhythms, and grandiloquent reach, main man Lars Horntveth describes the new sound, tongue-a-little-in-cheek, as "Wagner meets Fela Kuti!" Certainly we find it harder to imagine a better soundtrack being written for the first Nollywood Viking epic.
Jahdan Blakkamoore / Ticklah / Victor Rice - The General b/w Elimination Game | Comments: 0
Sunday, January 24 2010
Jahdan Blakkamoore / Ticklah / Victor Rice - The General b/w Elimination Game
(7 inch) Liondub 45 LNDB45001, 2009-12
Coming from the mind of internationally renowned reggae & drum'n'bass DJ Liondub, Liondub45 is a brand new sub label of the already well established and highly sought after LionDub International imprint, which represents the electronic, reggae influenced worlds of Jungle, Drum'n'Bass, and Dubstep sounds. Liondub45 is intent on releasing a catalog of collectible 7"s focusing on deep, vintage dub and scorching Roots Reggae showcasing the talents of a venerable who's who of modern Dub producers and original foundation vocalists. Things kick off with Ticklah's remix of the red hot Jahdan Blakkamoore, whose debut album Buzzrock Warrior on !k7 subsidiary Gold Dust is currently tearing up the charts. Axelrod flips the The General into a deep and heavy dub workout complete with an otherworldly skank and analog squelching bass. To the B-Side, Elimination Game, a monster slice of dub with a driving Steppers beat, swirling sound effects, deep percussion delays, bubbling organs, and all the studio wizardry we've come to expect.
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