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Paris DJs presents The 10 Best Albums of 2011

Saturday 31 December 2011, 23:59

Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band - Rubber Orchestras (Heavenly Sweetness) info | mix 1 | mix 2
Bio Ritmo - La Verdad (Electric Cowbell) info | mix
Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming (Dunham/Daptone) info | video
Garage à Trois - Always Smile but Stay Evil (The Royal Potato Family) info | interview
Lucas Santtana - Sem Nostalgia (Mais Um Discos) info
Mr. Chop - Switched On (Now-Again) info & discography
Ocote Soul Sounds - Taurus (ESL) info | remix
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - World Of Funk (Ubiquity) info | interview
The Greg Foat Group - Dark is The Sun (Jazzman) info | interview | mix
The Natural Yogurt Band - Tuck In With... (Now-Again) info | mix | interview

Anthony Joseph - World People 03 (The Rubber Orchestras Paris DJs Mix Part 2)

Wednesday 21 December 2011, 03:00 1

Anthony Joseph is now one of our 'resident DJs' with this third mix, the second part of his The Rubber Orchestras Paris DJs Mix: From the Plantation to the Revolution (get the part 1 here) and also the third volume of our World People series. We had the chance to meet him last week in Paris, and even if we knew it while listening to his albums and mixes, we can assure you the man has got the vibe! We've put up a few photos from this day up, check them here. And it's still time to rush into a record store and get the just released Rubbers Orchestras album to offer for Christmas, one of our...

Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band - Rubber Orchestras - out on Heavenly Sweetness

Monday 12 September 2011, 00:35

Anthony Joseph and the Spasm Band Rubber Orchestras

Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band - Rubber Orchestras
(CD/2xLP/Digital) Heavenly Sweetness/Naïve HS048, 2011-09-12

"The griot is the sound of universal culture." The opening words of his third album (after Leggo de Lion on Kindred Spirits in 2007 and Bird Head son in 2009) introduces us to the universe of Anthony Joseph. Born in Trinidad and based in UK since 20 years, Anthony is one of the UK's most exciting and innovative voices, poet, novelist, musician and lecturer. Anthony has called on the talents of producer Malcolm Catto, drummer and lead singer with The Heliocentrics. The decisive presence of the producer isn't the only new ingredient in the retro-futurist blend, which combines raw jazz and deep soul, black rock and Afrobeat, soca funk and free swing... This is no backward-looking revival or sterile fusion; this grand mix gives a new and modern perspective to all these musical styles. There are other guests on Rubber Orchestras, as the singer Jasnett Lindo but also Jerry Dammers, the legendary founder of The Specials took to the controls to arrange and enhance a visionary and revolutionary poem, the iconic suite called Generations. To announce this new fantastic and unique album, Anthony Joseph is back on Paris DJs with a new podcast - and you can still download his Roots & Influences one hour mix from late 2008...

"One of the deeply essential rare groove releases of 2011!!" - Djouls/Paris DJs"
"Rubber Orchestras is simply a grand album. Very impressive." - Nicolas Ragonneau/Paris DJs

Anthony Joseph - The Rubber Orchestras Paris DJs Mix Part 1

Saturday 10 September 2011, 17:49 1

Anthony Joseph - The Rubber Orchestras Paris DJs Mix Part 1: From the Plantation to the Revolution (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) Heavenly Sweetness, 2011-09-10 A selection of sounds from Anthony Joseph to accompany the release of his third album with the Spasm Band, Rubbers Orchestras. "Featuring some vintage soca, calypso, steelpan, psychedelic funk, and voodoo jazz. Some surprises, some real rarities, some classics, some discoveries." says the British poet, novelist, musician and lecturer born in Trinidad. We had already invited Anthony Joseph for a guest mix on Paris DJs in...

Raphaël - Stop, Look, Listen - out on Heavenly Sweetness

Monday 28 March 2011, 16:26 1

Raphaël - Stop, Look, Listen
(CD/LP/Digital) Heavenly Sweetness HS043, 2011-03-04

Reissue of Raphael's album 'Stop, Look, Listen', a deep and spiritual album released in Belgium, 1972. For fans of cosmic jazz and extremely rare vinyls who want to discover another fantastic piano player... The real mystery surrounding this album - even more than the circumstances in which it came into existence - is the magical nature of the compositions. Raphael manages to create a unique alchemy on every track, a harmonious blend of very different musical styles: be-bop, opera, free jazz, and rock. Many musicians tried their hand at fusion around that time, but this album is unequalled in its lyrical, poetic chemistry. Stop, look, listen…

Robert Aaron - Trouble Man

Thursday 15 April 2010, 00:25

Robert Aaron - Trouble Man
(CD/Download) Heavenly Sweetness, 2010-04-15

Trouble Man is a journey in jazz as it was lived and defined in the Seventies; no borders, no conventions. Robert Aaron's music, with its range of saxophones and keyboards (piano, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer), has a unique style that is hard to find in this age of mathematical solos. It perpetuates the lyricism of Gato Barbieri (his parents are from Argentina) or Stanley Turrentine, with the intense breath of Pharoah Sanders. When you listen to this album, you experience the profound and now rare feeling of what drives the playing and writing of an exceptional musician. We call it 'soul', that paradoxical state when the profane and the sacred, joy and sorrow merge into one. We hear it less and less in increasingly rational musical recordings because it can only happen when there is a live connection between two hearts.

Heavenly Sweetness - Label Compilation #1

Tuesday 16 March 2010, 23:18

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.

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.

Special HEAVENLY SWEETNESS

Saturday 05 December 2009, 14:01

Notre focus sur les labels modernes continue avec un spécial Heavenly Sweetness, LE label Jazz Français d'aujourd'hui, qui oscille entre rééditions (Doug Carn, Don Cherry, et bientôt des vinyles 180g Blue Note...) et productions (le fantastique album afro-punk d'Anthony Joseph, le spiritual reggae des Chickenwing All Stars...).

Don Cherry & Latif Khan - Music / Sangam

Monday 23 March 2009, 17:31

Don Cherry & Latif Khan - Music / Sangam
(CD/LP) Heavenly Sweetness HS015CD/HS015VL, 2009-03-23

First time reissue of this forgotten album of Don Cherry. This album was recorded in 1978 in Paris and released only in France in1981. That was the first meeting between Don Cherry and Indian percussionist Latif Khan and the result is an incredible mixture of jazz and Indian music. This unsung album is only known by hardcore fans of Don cherry who considered it as one of his best effort. Produced by Martin Meissonnier (Fela, King Sunny Ade, Khaled, Seun kuti…)

Grant Phabao and Djouls - 21st Century Afro Vol.4

Saturday 21 February 2009, 13:35 2

Grant Phabao and Djouls - 21st Century Afro Vol.4 (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) T.I.M.E.C., 2009-02-21 What's African music today besides the many incredible reissues and compilations and a small 'afrobeat' rack? Here's a little deeper digging, with electronic afrojazz from France (Minimoogli), electronic afrosoul from Netherlands (thru England: AIFF reinterpreted by Diesler and Laura Vane), Afropunk Slam from Trinidad (Anthony Joseph on France's leading jazz label Heavenly Sweetness), funky Afrojazz from Germany (The Boogoos), American Afrofunk (Kokolo) remixed by Israelian funkmeister...

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