Sandunes - The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Sandunes's third transcendental album, 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet', on her new label Tru Thoughts, is released Friday 17th November.

The 13 track album challenges the celebration and reward for individualism, instead homing in on humanity's "collective spirit, authentic expression… subverting the norm of what’s expected", serving as a reminder to do more of that which connects the earth and the body. The album shares its name with a Salman Rushdie novel and the book's humanist message that arrives from newfound awareness. It speaks to the sentimental foundations involved in making a home - when a tangible version of it doesn’t exist, "finding home in relationships, in ritual, in music and memory".

The project isn’t bound to any one genre but by Sandunes' emotions and reflections on the evolution of identity, particularly of womanhood and the modern world. Moving through the dynamic, electronic soundscape are soulful jazz currents, utopian synth moments and dancing percussion. The enchanting displaced vocal arrangement of “The Surge feat. Ramya Pothuri” expresses the flurry of emotions surrounding migration and big changes, like leaving the comfort of Goa’s beautiful, familiar red soil. “Pelican Dance” has rich layers of skipping marimba and 18th century harpsichord that serve as the soundtrack to a pelican dancing in the wind. You are then transported to the heart of a dark wood, with its breathing, ever changing ecosystem of sounds and deep string arrangements; with each moment shifting the sonic narrative, “Feel Me From The Inside”, is part of a world that is delicate but dense, sort of like a forest…” Sandunes adds.

“Follow Me” channels the power of women, with the collaboration of KAVYA and her siren-like, euphonious vocal offerings. Tapping into the sound of the elements, with imagery of swelling water and desert heat, the track’s shimmering synth tones and fiery lyrics peter out as the instrumental simulates a drowning sensation through the disintegrating chimes.

The releases, “Pelican Dance”, “Masti” and “Follow Me feat. KAVYA'' will be brought to life with live videos of Sandunes performing, showing her captivating musical process in real time. Her unforgettably enchanting live renditions are performed with anything from a solo show up to an eleven-piece band.

Sandunes has opened for Bonobo at the Manchester International Festival, supported George FitzGerald's album release tour at Evolutionary Arts Hackney, performed at London’s Barbican Centre under commission from Warp Records and Boiler Room, toured the US supporting Pretty Lights and released a collaborative album with celebrated UK jazz drummer Richard Spaven. As well as joining NTS for a guest mix, her previous work has gained praise from international and local tastemakers across various media; Rolling Stone, The Quietus, The Guardian, Red Bull Radio and Resident Advisor to name a few.

Tracklist:
1. Mother Figure
2. Feel Me From The Inside
3. The Surge
4. Pelican Dance
5. Masti
6. Earthquake
7. Tsunami
8. Follow Me
9. Signs
10. Time For This
11. Cyclone
12. Indeterminance
13. Flamingo Dreams

*Bonus (Sandunes - Feel Me From The Inside (Live at Island City Studios))

Terrace Martin & Calvin Keys - The Near North

Tracklist:
1. The Island
2. Invitation
3. Potholes
4. In a Sentimental Mood
5. Cotton Tail
6. Peace
7. Beau Dollar
8. The Near North Sid

Stro Elliot - Stro Elliot (La Villa)

London-based label, Def Pressé are very pleased to announce their partnership with legendary Library Music label KPM. Def Pressé and friends, including names like Damu the Fudgemunk, Stro Elliot (The Roots), J-Live, Blockhead, Deca, Chris Dave and many more TBA have been given exclusive access to the KPM Library. These projects will take shape as two types of record. Def Pressé Editions/KPM Crate Diggers are works built around samples from KPM releases amongst other Library Music catalogues. Def Pressé Editions/KPM Originals are brand new pieces of music, free from samples. Both of these series’ include some very special guest vocalists and musicians as well as the Producers/Arrangers themselves. All of this music will be released by Def Pressé and placed into the vaults at KPM Library Music.

Stro presents his new album, La Ville. A true glance back across the KPM catalogue and an opportunity to enjoy the vast experience Stro has creating foundational music for bands like The Roots. This is the fourth release in the KPM Crate Diggers series on Def Pressé, where artists are invited into a deep dive to choose samples from KPM’s iconic music and sound design library, sampled by Madlib, Prince Paul, MF DOOM, J Dilla, Gorillaz, and legions more. These new recordings themselves will then be entered into library music use for media - the circle of hip-hop life.

Stro Elliot’s fourth album La Villa is a dizzying and sumptuous trip through the lush grooves of hip-hop as well as the storied collection of the KPM Library, which is home to over 70 years of music and sound designs made for television, film, and radio. The fourth release in London-based label Def Pressé’s KPM Crate Diggers series, La Villa finds the Roots member, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Elliot applying an elegant touch to his sample selections—opening up his own production approach in new and dazzling ways while introducing a greater audience to the KPM Library’s limitless possibilities.

La Villa is the latest jewel in the crown of Elliot’s multifaceted career, from being a part of Colorado rap collective the Procussions to his contributions as a full-time member of hip-hop legends the Roots, which has also led to him being a mainstay on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. After the COVID-19 pandemic ground his busy schedule to a halt, however, Elliot found himself some free time to get back to his own (no pun intended) production roots. “We usually don’t stop—there’s constantly things to do,” he explains. “But during the pandemic, everyone in the band started branching out during the downtime, and for me it was a refocus. My passion is production and remixes, and during 2020 a lot was opened up creatively for me.”

While Elliot was hard at work on a separate remix project—specifically, his collection of James Brown re-imaginings Black & Loud from last year—he was contacted by the folks at Def Pressé about taking part in the KPM Crate Diggers series. “I’m very familiar with those green album covers, so being asked to do this reignited a desire to re-establish myself within a group of artists that like to create out of pre-existing material,” he explains about his enthusiasm to contribute to the project. “I came up with people who dub for vinyl, and it was always like finding little pieces of gold whenever we found those covers. They could be anything, and that’s what the KPM library meant to us. You could get something that sounded like rock, jazz, or Latin music—it was a lottery of material, you never knew what you were gonna get. 9 times out of 10, it was always something useful, and it was always worth listening to as well.”

“Being asked to reshape this material and do whatever I want with it was exactly the kind of thing you’d want to hear from anyone whose music you grew up listening to,” Elliot continues, and it’s the versatility of the KPM catalog that allowed him to truly dig in across these ten tracks. “KPM really did let me do whatever I wanted with this music. There was no expectation because their library’s been so vast in genre. Also, the majority of the music doesn’t have any vocals, so melodically you can do a lot more with it. I was able to go more experimental than some of my other projects because of that.”

The results are pure aural bliss; lead single “Monday’s Generation” is an upbeat slice of joy that rides on piping flute, shuffling guitar chords, and a percolating backbeat reminiscent of house music. “There was so much there for me to use, and sometimes as a remixer I have trouble settling on one idea—so I try to find a way to work everything in there, which turns it into a multi-part song,” Elliot explains while talking about the song’s creation. There was a lot there to pick from for this one, and I liked all of it.”

The echoing boom-bap of “Bamboo” speaks to Elliot’s deep rap lineage, while the easygoing ambience and tight drums of “Light Work” marked the beginnings of La Villa’s creation itself. “I heard the record and it just kind of jumped out of the speakers at me,” he recalls. “I was like, ‘OK, I know what this is.’ It spoke to the hip-hop aesthetic that I always gravitate towards. It was about finding a way to chop and rearrange it that felt unique while adding a groove to it. It sparked the whole project for me.” Then there’s “Solid State,” which moves with a lovely off-kilter gait as swooning tones reverberate in the background. “I don’t know if I’ve ever made anything that felt like this before,” Elliot explains while talking about the song. “It left the door open for me to try something new as a result, and even though I was hesitant about whether it would be liked, I feel like it’s part of what kind of creative I am as a producer.”

And La Villa ultimately represents Elliot’s wielding of the tools in the KPM library to expand his own sonic horizons—testing himself and his own abilities while laying a path for an exciting future. “I’ve always been a big jazz head, and it’s always been my go-to vibe, so the idea of creating something original like this with intention was really attractive,” he says while talking about how the project represents this era of his storied career. “There was a lot of musicality involved, especially when it came to what I built around these samples—and that opened me up when it comes to what I create as a musician, too.”

Tracklist:
1. Monday’s Generation
2. HHOT
3. Solid State
4. Lonely
5. Light Work
6. Praylude
7. Bamboo
8. Frozen Four
9. Riot
10. Dream Factory

Andre 3000 - New Blue Sun

Tracklist:
1. I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A "Rap" Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time
2. The Slang Word P(*)ssy Rolls Off The Tongue With Far Better Ease Than The Proper Word Vagina . Do You Agree?
3. That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn't Control ... Sh¥t Was Wild
4. BuyPoloDisorder's Daughter Wears A 3000® Button Down Embroidered
5. Ninety Three 'Til Infinity And Beyoncé
6. Ghandi, Dalai Lama, Your Lord & Savior J.C. / Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, And John Wayne Gacy
7. Ants To You, Gods To Who ?
8. Dreams Once Buried Beneath The Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens

Espen Horne - The Anatomy Of Serene Eloquence

2023 sees the return of multi-talented Norwegian producer Espen Horne to Wah Wah 45s, after a 24 year hiatus. The man behind the label’s very first release, the now seminal Magnetica, never lost his connection with the imprint and has remained very much part of the Wah Wah family, making a comeback this year with his first solo material under his own name since that club classic from 1999.

Back in the spring, the first single from the project, the gorgeous soul-jazz beauty Bakeren, featuring the stunning vocals of Resonators’ Faye Houston, quickly found a home on Gilles Peterson’s internationally renowned BBC Radio 6 show as well as that of Jazz FM legend Robbie Vincent, Bandcamp Weekly and the Fresh Finds Jazz Spotify playlist.

Following that, Bergen Sunrays, became a weekly fixture on the Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show on BBC 6 Music, with the limited 7-inch of both singles selling out within hours of release.

Next up was the wistful Den Franske Gitaren, a lugubrious soul-jazz piece with drum & bass leanings featuring Bergen based MC and vocalist Aich, which found favour with legends Laurent Garnier and Jazzanova as well as hot Japanese production outfit Dazzle Drums.

This was closely followed by the final single to be taken from the album, the stunning and outspoken vocal jazz waltzer Nada Pode Me Calar (which roughly translates to Nothing Can Shut Me Up!) featuring the sublime talent of Olav Wöllo on vocals and Juno.

And now the full album, entitled The Anatomy Of Serene Eloquence is available for your aural delectation. Recorded largely during lockdown, the LP is a sophisticated and composed piece of work that sees the Norwegian producer make connections with musicians from across Europe, and some closer to home, to collaborate on this sedate and peaceful collection of songs.

The aforementioned Faye Houston also appears on the soulful, dub flavoured Don’t Fall Asleep, a piece of music that explores the feeling of being isolated whilst sharing a mutual love and drive to explore new sonic possibilities.

Elsewhere, Olav Wöllo pops up again too, this time on O Mar E A Lua and once again singing in Portuguese to give this track a certain Tropicalia feel, as Espen explains:

“Olav Wöllo is a close friend, an excellent musician and vocalist, and a capoeira professor here in Bergen. He has spent much of his life living in Brazil and speaks Portuguese fluently. He wrote the lyrics for this tune years ago and had just been waiting for the right collaboration to come along.

We went to his lovely studio out on this remote island, made a massive gyoza meal, had some serious good wine and stayed the whole night to record his vocal harmonies and outspoken lyrics.”

The single Bergen Sunrays also appears on the album in instrumental form with featured keys courtesy of London based player Rory More - here entitled Rory’s Sunrays. His Lowrey organ adds a more melancholic feel to the track, as it does on the stunning Belle Époque, alongside the ivory work of Eirik Blåsternes - an emotional, contemplative and atmospheric track that was tested and shaped in the eclipse of Covid.

As with Belle Époque, La Psychosomnie is a playful yet explorative cut that examines insomnia, paralysis and hypnosis courtesy of some enigmatic French spoken word spinning around a framework of drums, bass and swirling keys.

And finally, the album offers up an alternative version of the single Den Franske Gitaren, this time featuring Martin Halla, a vocalist out of the Bergen Grieg Jazz Academy and winner of the Norwegian version of The Voice back in 2012! The perfect flip to Aich's more mournful interpretation of this bass and drum future classic.

Tracklist:
1. Bakeren (feat. Faye Houston)
2. O Mar E A Lua (feat. Olav Wöllo)
3. Bergen Sunrays (feat. Selim Mutic)
4. Belle Époque
5. Den Franske Gitaren (feat. Aich)
6. Don't Fall Asleep (feat. Faye Houston)
7. Rory's Sunrays
8. Nada Pode Me Calar (feat. Olav Wöllo)
9. La Psychosomnie
10. Den Franske Gitaren (feat. Martin Halla)

VA - Spiritual Jazz 15: A Tribute to 'Trane

Many artists achieve greatness but very few produce work that is so moving it's considered sacred. Whether you choose to call them hymns, psalms or spirituals, their songs are a healing force for troubled times. We feel close to these prophets, in recognition of their uncommon labours. It is as if they have given all of themselves, body and soul, through music.

We can safely say that our Spiritual Jazz series would not exist without the inspiration and leadership of the spiritual messiah that is John Coltrane. It can therefore only be right and proper that we dedicate a whole album to his legacy and lasting influence. Spiritual Jazz 15 – A Tribute to 'Trane shines a spotlight on the reverence in which the saxophonist is held in so many ways.

On one hand our selection displays cover versions of his songs performed by the musicians he inspired; disciples to Coltrane the messiah, who chose to give praise to the one who laid a foundation for them. The listener will also encounter original music written in honour of Coltrane that underlines the endless presence he has had among artists from different backgrounds and eras.

The preacher may have ascended to a higher plane, but his congregation is still right down here on the ground. Ten songs to lift the spirits of everyone, everywhere.

Tracklist:
1. Norman Connors - Welcome
2. Clifford Jordon - John Coltrane
3. Sonny Fortune - Ole
4. The Darwin Strickland Trio - Niami
5. Gilles Torrent Jazztet - Terre Engloutie
6. Carsten Meinert - To Trane
7. Malachi Thompson;Africa Brass - Transition
8. Hampton Hawes - Evening Trane
9. Carmelo Garcia - Trane
10. Brother Jack McDuff - Naima

DJ Manny - Hypnotized

DJ Manny's new album 'Hypnotized' is full of fresh ideas which push the footwork format of 160bpm hyper-rhythmic music in really enjoyable new directions. He builds on the romantic themes of his last album 'Signals In My Head' and evolves them with shades of blue, taking very natural sounding experimentation into new moods and musical colour while never making the album inaccessible. Arguably this is a fine successor to the ground broken by DJ Rashad's 'Double Cup' album, which of course Manny also worked on. 'Hypnotized' solidifies Manny's style, from relaxed r'n'b rollers to moments of romantic distress - like 'WTF Goin On' and the reflective 'You N You (ft. DJ Phil)', to more intense moments like the dubstep inflected 'Ooh Baby' from the vaults, co-produced by DJ Rashad himself. Other tracks like 'Want U Bad' retool Robert Hood style minimal techno whereas dark, nervous belters like 'Turn Me Up' sound like Paul Johnson at his most wild but welded to footwork rhythms and a pumping jump up drum & bass-line. There are also moments of enjoyably hype daftness like the acid and diva head-fuck of 'Opera' or the old school Bukem style jungle homage 'Lost In Da Jungle'. 'Hypnotized' is an album that expands footwork's template with natural ease and outstanding skill.

Tracklist:
1. Hard Drive (feat. SUCIA!)
2. WTF Goin On
3. Hypnotized
4. Ooh Baby (feat. DJ Rashad)
5. I Can Luv U
6. You N You (feat. DJ Phil)
7. Overnight Flight
8. Want U Bad
9. Turn Me Up
10. Opera
11. Lost In Da Jungle
12. Deep In My Mind

Russell E.L. Butler - Call Me G

Accumulation

My body, suspended by the pressure of the ocean’s floor.

My toes dangle just above sands that feel like the roughness of the top sheet on an unfamiliar bed. Just a few grains of this sand possess the softness of the hair my cat sheds, dusted off the floor after collecting for some days or months.

The floor possesses the grains of many nights at rest, in that space between moments where we all wait. A cloud of sand forms and settles where my foot touched; a blanket of infinite newness. The sand, in its place, somewhere else. I have tried to grasp at this cycle, but can never find a hold, though I feel the beat of every grain finding its place again.

The is and is nots of my body, wave with a current layered above another current. This perpetual motion places me in a stasis, shifting in place. This projection of myself into space, beyond my understanding, shapes every drift of hair on my body; conditions my skin; flushes my pores. My whole being dissolving into grains, floating softly to the floor.

Somewhere above, the thinnest most piercing of energies grows louder, brighter, cacophonous. Photons find their way to my chest. Vibrational waves slow at increasing rates. They penetrate my bones, the swaying, nonlinear motion dies and is buried. Motion shoots me one way and another, so quickly, I can’t feel the direction. Am I flying straight? Diagonal? Am I flailing? Breath is not something I know but it calls to me to

take, take, take, take, take, take, take, take, take

gasp, gasp, gasp, gasp,gasp, gasp, gasp, gasp

So that something can enter me. Propel me into whatever is next.

A new state of being?
What even is that?

All I know is what has occurred, unending, unquestioned, in this place that possesses nothing.

Not even a name.

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T4T LUV NRG presents “Call Me G”, the new album by Brooklyn’s Russell E.L. Butler, their first full length LP since the release of 2018’s critically acclaimed “The Home I’d Build For Myself and All My Friends” on Left Hand Path. In the intervening years, Russell has experienced an accumulation of personal subjective experiences which are explored through captivating musical modalities and expressions on this sprawling, gorgeous, and deeply emotional album. Russell’s work on “Call Me G” can be described as a unique amalgam of early NY house music, dub techno and poetry. The album’s title track, as well as its instrumentals, are a kind of storytelling for histories that continue to exist without observation as well as for secrets and the power they hold in spite of their truth being obscured and sometimes lost.

Storytellers like Russell have the ability to collapse the past and future into discrete experiences of non-linear time through the emotional landscape of music and voice. Each song contains a palatable loneliness and hurt to which many in this modern world can relate, but each track also suggests the possibility of genuine connection and the formation of the self through communing and reintegrating with the natural world. These parallel concepts are the subject of “Accumulation”, a writing by Russell which accompanies the release of the album. The emotions, conflicts and resolutions that accompany Russell’s storytelling are felt acutely on tracks such as “I’m Dancing No One Is Watching” and “Stare Into The Light Beam”, among others.

On the title song, which closes the album, Russell sings “Can you call me? Will you call me? All that I want is for you to call me by my name...My name is G.” Context is part of interpretation and thus it is left to the listener to feel in the music and lyrics the concept that what may seem erased never truly dies, the traces still exist in the thing that takes its place. The T4T LUV NRG label is in part a continuing effort to facilitate the documentation of true stories that don’t get told—rather than representing a singular vibe or genre. Russell’s album is a stunning and profound entry in this evolving catalog of music and art. The beautiful cover of “Call Me G” is based on a hand drawn portrait of the artist by Diego Guzman. 

Tracklist:
1. Secret In A Silent Voice
2. To Be Enough
3. I'm Dancing, No One Is Watching
4. Stare Into The Light Beam
5. A Brief Aside
6. The Place Where I Found You
7. Call Me G

Skalpel - Big Band Live

Beloved Polish downtempo / nu jazz masters Skalpel present an exquisite collection of the older Skalpel’s classics and some exclusive material performed live by a masterful 17-piece Big Band. Skalpel’s “Big Band Live” brings mellow, smoky vibes, hypnotic grooves and vibrant, occasionally blissful mood. Polish jazz at its best!

This live album was recorded at a sold out show in Warsaw where Skalpel’s founders, Igor Pudlo and Marcin Cichy, were joined on stage by virtuoso Big Band led by Patryk Pilasiewicz.

Big Band re-imagined Skalpel’s classics in a spirit of collective improvisation but also with an respectful attitude toward the original.

Tracklist:
1. Break In
2. High
3. Low
4. Wonderland In Alice
5. Konfusion
6. Test Drive
7. Behind The Curtain
8. Sunset
9. Sombrio
10. Flying Officer
11. On The Road
12. Simple
13. Sculpture
14. Jan Tajemnik
15. Sigma

Ancient Infinity Orchestra - River of Light

Ancient Infinity Orchestra is a 14-member jazz ensemble led by double-bassist and composer Ozzy Moysey, based in the bustling creative city of Leeds in the North of England – home to one of the most innovative and community-based jazz scenes in the UK. Saxophonist Mathew Cliffe, who also performs with Matthew Halsall, is a key member of the rotating line-up which includes drums, two bassists, keyboards, harp, violin, cello, two tenors, alto, oboe, flute and percussion.

Their Gondwana Records debut ‘River of Light’ is out on 17th November and drinks deep from the well of spiritual jazz. This music is especially inspired by the soulful sounds of Pharoah Sanders, Alice and John Coltrane – all of whom are mentioned in the brilliant track ‘Pharoah Sings’ – but also channels a certain Northern sensibility that can be heard in the music of Matthew Halsall or Alabaster de Plume. Melodic, warm and honest this is music that is happy to wear its heart on its sleeve.

This is also communal music made by friends, which offers a deep celebration of togetherness and of music-making. It’s confidently deep music, moving and meditative, and Ozzy draws on philosophy and nature as well as musical inspirations to foster a focus on giving and sharing beautiful things with one another and with the listener.

Bandleader Ozzy explains,

“It was a joyous three days of recording together with the Leeds based band of 14, combined with a similar sized choir of friends from Brighton joining us. Seeing them meet for the first time and witnessing their incredible dedication and passion for music together, there was such a wholesome atmosphere that was so fun to be a part of. Members of the choir cooked for over 30 people each day, descending, each morning, on mass, to the studio and melting together in the heat of the height of summer. Between tracks, the band jammed in the corridors, sat in the sun and laughed a lot. The atmosphere of all these people meeting in the heat of summer, eating, laughing and creating something together - really shines through on these recordings.” 

Tracklist:
1. Greeting
2. Rejoicing
3. Niyama
4. Michael & Zelah
5. Equanimity
6. Spring Break on Trappist-1
7. Arc of the Sun
8. Love Song
9. River of Light
10. Pharoah Sing

Gifted & Blessed - Heard and Unheard

Gifted & Blessed's new album Heard and Unheard distills years of making music in a variety of styles and under different names into a singular statement.

Heard and Unheard was created using a semi-modular synthesizer, several effects processors and a pair of analogue drum machines. The album is made up of ten reflective and hypnotic tracks with emphasis on texture and atmosphere – both music to lose yourself to, and music to get lost in.

Gifted & Blessed aka Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker was a founding member of the L.A. beat scene, he performed at the very first Low End Theory events, and has produced and collaborated with artists including Kelela, Ras G, and Steve Arrington. He has since made a name for himself in the underground electronic and dance music scenes, releasing music on Eglo and All City, among others.

Tracklist:
1. Invitation
2. Conditioning
3. Recognition
4. The Heretic
5. The Waiting Breath
6. Neutrino Stream
7. My Not-Self (Bitterness)
8. The Investigator
9. Yellow Ji (feat. AFTA-1)
10. Guidance

*Bonus (Gifted & Blessed - Yellow Ji (feat. AFTA-1) [Live Performance])

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - Les Jardins Mystiques Vol.1

14 years in the making, “Les Jardins Mystiques Vol.1” comprises 52 tracks / 3.5 hours of music composed, arranged and produced by Miguel with contributions from 50+ friends including Kamasi Washington, Thundercat, DOMi & JD Beck, Jeff Parker, Carlos Niño, Austin Peralta, Bennie Maupin, Gabe Noel, Jamael Dean, Jamire Williams, Burniss Travis II, Deantoni Parks, Josh Johnson, Marcus Gilmore and many more.

Based in his hometown of Los Angeles, Miguel is one of the preeminent musicians, orchestrators, arrangers and composers of our time. “Les Jardins Mystiques Vol.1” is his long-awaited inaugural album. It presents us with a passionate statement of intent, a labor of love, and a realm of beautiful possibilities.

“Les Jardins Mystiques” is a project that throws open and shares Miguel’s musical universe. It took shape over a dozen years, largely self-funded by Miguel, and showcasing his distinctly elegant musicianship (on violin, viola, cello and keyboards among other instruments) alongside his free-spirited dialogues with more than 50 instrumentalists. Volume 1 is the first in a planned triptych, which will collectively comprise ten-and-a-half-hours of original, refreshingly expansive music. Miguel connected with his guest musicians in versatile ways: through convivial studio dialogues; over remote communication during the pandemic era; and via the energy of live performances at LA venues including Del Monte Speakeasy (the gorgeously invigorating, piano-led “Dream Dance”) and Bluewhale (including “Ano Yo” with vivacious alto from Devin Daniels, and the cosmic harmonies of “Cho Oyu”). Bennie Maupin, the legendary US multi-reedist whose repertoire includes Miles Davis’s fusion opus Bitches Brew, plays bass clarinet on the entrancing opening number, “Kiseki”.

“Les Jardins Mystiques” reflects Miguel’s ethos that music is a natural, vitally unaffected life force. The titles across Volume 1’s tracks draw from international languages and traditions, including Spanish, Swahili, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Japanese and Hebrew, as well as the Buddhist practice that has been key to Miguel’s life since his twenties (“It’s very joyous and very hard, because it says that there’s no retirement age in human revolution,” he says). The tracks contrast in length, from “Zarra”’s vivid burst of analogue synths to the alluringly chilled melody of “Kairos (Amor Fati)”, yet there’s a gloriously unconstrained flow throughout, and each piece seems to unfurl and blossom into its own wondrous world.

The blissfully radiant “Airavata” derives its title from the white elephant who carries the Hindu deity Indra: a divine being associated with elemental forces. It features Miguel on electric guitar (recorded then reversed to mesmerizing effect) and acoustic violin/viola, alongside bassist Gabe Noel and cellist Peter Jacobson. The stirring “Tzedakah” alludes to a Hebrew and Arabic concept of philanthropy and righteousness, and incorporates soulful bouzouki and oud within its multi-instrumental whirl. The vividly emotive piano melody “Mångata” is inspired by a Swedish word that describes the moon’s undulating reflection on water.

“To me, playing music in any kind of setting is like swimming in an ocean of sounds and emotions and vibrations,” he says. “It’s the combination of all these different rivers, right? Western European classical music is an intense love and passion of mine; all the different genres within jazz music are a joy to practice and have given my life so much meaning; electronic music, world music, and all these different things I’ve been exploring all these years.”

“I just want to be an enabler for magic and empowerment, everyone and everything. I believe in people… and I think that this is a very benevolent multiverse we’re living in. I feel like everything has infinite worth. That’s why I tried to have the diversity of tracks on there; every one is a mystical garden, in my opinion.” 

CD1
1. Kiseki
2. Persinette
3. Narva
4. Eudaimonia
5. Porpita
6. Nazo No Tenkai (Ernok)
7. Mångata
8. Ano Yo
9. Zarra
10. Kairos (Amor Fati)
11. Magnolia (Aisling)
12. Cho Oyu
13. Matumaini
14. Zoticus

CD2
1. Légäsi
2. Votivus
3. Querencia
4. Kundinyota
5. Dragons of Eden
6. Eunoia
7. Znaniya (Falkor)
8. Tzedakah
9. Apocrypha
10. Asherah
11. Plotinus
12. Kairos (Kefi)
13. Qumran
14. Makaria
15. Kupaianaha
16. Taijasa
17. Vesta
18. Ziggurat

CD3
1. Ziya
2. Scar
3. Let The Light Shine In
4. Komorebi
5. Daydream
6. Dream Dance
7. Apotheosis
8. Magnolia (Astronomia Nova)
9. Moksha
10. Datsuzoku
11. Hypatia
12. Kuleana
13. Aldous
14. Jijivisha
15. Paititi
16. Airavata
17. Znaniya (Ahura Mazda)
18. Nag Hammadi
19. Halcyon
20. Sweet Invitation

Call Sender - Lost To The Storm

“Dark cosmic psy-fi funk with crunchy drums and spacey sounds. Something you would like to find on 70‘s DeWolfe or Conroy library. Right up my alley!” JJ Whitefield (Poets of Rhythm / Karl Hector / Whitefield Brothers)

“Some delicious moody funk scapes that tick all my boxes” Shawn Lee

“A brilliantly played & recorded album in the vein of the Library Music that no doubt inspired it!” DJ Format

Call Sender is the collaborative brainchild of Suffolk (UK) based multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and engineer Paul Elliott and Bay-area (US) resident multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and drummer Michael Reed. Birthed from drumming clips uploaded online during the pandemic, Michael and Paul fostered their creative partnership through the medium of Skype, resulting in a timeless jazz-funk LP ‘Lost To The Storm’, despite living on separate continents and yet to meet in person.

Taken from the namesake of a vintage intercom, Call Sender’s debut album ‘Lost To The Storm’ has an old-school vintage foundation with a modern perspective. The album is cinematic and timeless yet fresh, drawing comparisons to Big Crown Records, Surprise Chef and the new wave of jazz-funk artists.

Influenced by iconic acts such as Klaus Weiss, Miles Davis, and Nino Nardini, as well as obscure library tracks, experimental music, European film soundtracks and a hip and funky sonic aesthetic, Call Sender’s music is nostalgic without being pastiche, has a sense of travelling at its core, having been recorded in different parts of the globe, while never hesitating on the direction of the music.

“It was never overtly discussed but I believe we wanted to continue that tradition and have funky stuff that had a cinematic vibe to it”, says Michael. Paul adds: “I kinda thought as we were making ‘Lost To The Storm’ that it could be the soundtrack to a weird and obscure film - instrumental, funky at times, some drama.”

The artwork by award-winning photographer George Karbus, one of the world’s leading outdoor photographers, perfectly encapsulates the imagery of ‘Lost To The Storm’. All titles of the album tracks are named after places near where Michael and Paul live, half from The Bay Area, USA and the other half from Suffolk, UK. ‘Lost To The Storm’ takes its name from the lost town of Dunwich on the Suffolk Coast. “A town literally lost to a storm – Britain’s version of Atlantis!” Paul jokes.

Tracklist:
1. Mad Mark
2. Nova
3. Midnight at Baker
4. Old Survivor
5. Tidefall
6. The Black Dog
7. The Red House
8. Lost To The Storm
9. Wilderness
10. Sizewell
11. Panorama
12. Palm Forest

LESKY - Mink Coats & Ladas

German-born, Tbilisi-based producer LESKY returns with new EP “Mink Coats & Ladas”. Packing his renowned recipe of crisp drums and spacey synths, LESKY once again creates a unique soundscape of laid-back beats and refined melodies, that is rich in engaging detail. With a little help from some friends – namely German producers The Breed and MAS as well as British guitarist Waywell – LESKY sonically solidifies the Tbilisi lifestyle into a 7-track-EP. The artwork comes from Parisian illustrator MC Blue Matter.

LESKY was born in Leipzig and after a short intermezzo in Cologne moved to Georgia in beginning of 2021 to pursue music full-time. Since 2019, he has dropped several EPs and two full-length albums (both released on LP) on Melting Pot Music and has worked with well-known labels like Blue Note Records/Astralwerks and Lofi Girl.

His music is a canvas of diverse influences, seamlessly blending the sophisticated harmonies and textures of the Soulquarians's Neo Soul movement, the deep grooves of Hip Hop, and the multifaceted futuristic visions of electronic music. With a discerning ear for details and a strong, high speed work ethic, LESKY creates tracks that feel rooted in the moment of their creation yet thought-through.

LESKY's tracks have garnered widespread acclaim, cementing his status as one of the most promising producers of his genre and securing his place as a regular in the biggest editorial playlists of the Lofi phenomenon.

Tracklist:
1. Puff Puff
2. Alto Peak (feat. Waywell)
3. Bijou
4. Potion (feat. Mas)
5. Relax & Recline (feat. Breed)
6. Kahuna (feat. Waywell)
7. Cupholder Flip

VA - Can You Feel It? Vol.4: Modern Soul, Disco & Boogie 1976-85

Tramp Records' Can You Feel It series, which here reaches its fourth instalment, has always been one of the more reliable sources of obscure, hard-to-find modern soul and boogie, with many tracks plucked from the vaults of tiny labels or private press releases. Naturally the selections this time round are spot on and will be unfamiliar to all but a handful of dedicated diggers. Highlights include (but are in no way limited to) the flash-fried, solo-heavy psych-funk of Vantage Point's 'All Night', the disco rush of Keith lowery's 'Super Dude', the low-slung, War-esque brilliance of 'You Shake 'Em Things' by Synod, the horn-heavy jauntiness of Street Life 80's 'Steps On A Cloud', and the killer boogie-funk badness of Ditto Memo's 'Upside Down'.

Tracklist:
1. Matter of Taste - Step by Step
2. Vantage Point - All Night
3. Kim McCrae - I'm Feeling It Too
4. Frankie Staton - Bi-Centennial (feat. Speckled Rainbow)
5. Kathy Lowery - Super Dude
6. Royal Touch - What Am I Gonna Do Baby
7. Synod - You Shake Them Things
8. Pat Carpenter - Love You Use to Be so Easy
9. Swankk - If It Takes All Night
10. Ocean Orchestra - Skinflint
11. Street Life '80 - Steps on a Cloud
12. Jackie Berns - I Still Love You
13. Tory Wynter - Real True Voices
14. Chatham - I'll Be Good to You
15. Dalton Reed - Giving on into Love
16. Panama Gold - Gettin' Lucky

Red Hot Org - Red Hot & Ra : SOLAR

SOLAR: Sun Ra In Brasil is a Brazilian celebration of the music of Sun Ra. The album was recorded in 2022 in Bahia and São Paulo, Brazil, and highlights incredible talent in Jazz, Avant-Pop, Rap and poetry. It includes such Brazilian forward-thinking artists such as Metá Metá, Edgar, Xênia França, Tiganá Santana, Max De Castro, Hamilton de Holanda, as well as 3x Grammy nominated vocalist Jazzmeia Horn and world renown musician and songwriter Meshell Ndgeocello.

Tracklist:
1. Astroblack Orunmilá
2. Nature’s God (Sun Ra Sam Ba)
3. Nine Rocket For the Planet
4. O Código (Black Prince Charming)
5. When There Is No Sun (Intergalactic Version)
6. Eu Sou Um Instrumento
7. Interstellar Low Ways
8. Brainville Dazidéia

Josef Akin - Chimera

The second Josef Akin EP this year, Chimera explores a full-band sound closer to the sound of his debut album, Flightcase. As compared to recent EP Enymore, Chimera explores sound and imagery pertaining to the natural world rather than the digital. The EP tells a story of someone slowly discovering their role in the universe and understanding themselves.

Tracklist:
1. Moondance
2. Visions of the Night
3. Revisions
4. It's Taken Me This Long

Web Web - WEB MAX II

German Jazz supergroup WEB WEB continue their collaboration with songwriter and producer Max Herre on their fifth album WEB MAX II, issued on Compost Records.

First joining forces with Herre for 2021 offering WEB MAX, on this new long player the band has achieved much more than just the pure continuation of a series. Roaming far from its Spiritual Jazz roots, WEB MAX II is, musically and emotionally, probably the most diverse distillation of what WEB WEB has created in its seven years of existence.

Tracklist:
1. Perennial Journey
2. Testimony
3. The Source Of All Things (feat. Marja Burchard)
4. La Planete Fantastique (feat. Carlos Nino)
5. Fellow Travellers
6. The 6th Dimension
7. Olobo (feat. Carlos Nino)
8. Artist Unknown
9. Zutuma
10. Look Beyond The Sun

Four Tet - Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023

Live At Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023 clocks in at around two hours and features the full recording from the UK artist's set at the titular venue in May of this year. Across the set, he reworks classic tracks such as 'Kool FM' and 'Teenage Birdsong', taking in material from albums such as Rounds, Beautiful Rewind and Sixteen Oceans.

Tracklist:
1. School Green Romantics (Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023)
2. 4T Two Thousand (Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023)
3. Baby Plastic Salad Angel (Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023)
4. Feedback Mango (Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023)
5. Lush FM Trance Fingers (Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023)
6. Three Birdsong (Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023)

Harry Mack - OB 100 Deluxe: Best of Episodes 75-100

This is such a huge milestone for myself as a creator and for us as a community. You all are the reason Omegle Bars has been such a success. I can’t thank y’all enough. So you know I had to do something extra special for the fans…

So much heart, soul, thought, and effort went into the creation of these super unique products. I can’t wait for y’all to get your hands on them. Thank you so much for supporting me and for making this Omegle Bars series what it is. Much love!

Tracklist:
1. Pulling The Trigger
2. Abracadabra
3. Ya Dig!
4. Electric
5. No Shin
6. Bike, Chicago, Bullet
7. Vámonos
8. Xenomorph
9. Genuflect
10. Kobe, Table, Jacket
11. The Bookbag
12. Slay
13. Bonsai
14. The Definition
15. Mackphobia
16. Linen, Infrastructure, Scramble
17. Revolutionary
18. MACKdonald’s
19. Handball
20. The Stares
21. Universal Explosion
22. Picture Frame
23. Animal Shelter
24. Throw In A Blanket
25. Mack On The Mic
26. Exotic
27. Scat Pack
28. Cosmetology
29. Loyalty
30. Know Where You’ve Been
31. Malicious, Pencil, Micro
32. Iridocyclitis
33. Grizzly Bear.
34. Touring Worldwide
35. Not For The Medals

JJ Whitefield - Puzzled

Broc Recordz is proud to announce the album "Puzzled" by the legendary JJ Whitefield, you'll immerse yourself in the enigmatic universe of this master of funk and psychedelism.

Across 13 tracks,with The Cover Made by Jason Jagel (creator of the artwork of Doomsday, MM Food ) you will discover all facets of this musician hailing from Munich, ranging from raw funk to krautrock.

JJ Whitefield is an iconic figure in the music scene, having played an essential role in diverse projects such as the mastermind behind Poets Of Rhythm, Karl Hector, the Whitefield Brothers and in the recent careers of Ebo Taylor, Embryo and Witch“ and "Puzzled" is the perfect opportunity to delve into his unique musical world.

Tracklist:
1. Dawn Of Delphi
2. Raised With Fire
3. Flute Punch
4. Hyperion
5. Comin' At Ya
6. 3Mal3
7. Bin Dippers
8. No-Mo-Woa
9. Mukōgawa
10. Holy Daze
11. Wellness
12. Amok Koma
13. Ad Acta

The Offline - La couleur de la mer

Following his debut EP ‘En clair-obscur’ and a series of singles earlier this year cementing his place as a rising voice in the world of cinematic soul & funk, Hamburg’s finest cinematic soul artist ‘The Offline’ announces his debut album 'La couleur de la mer'.

Reminiscent of film scores from the 60s and 70s, The Offline worked with co-producer Tim Liztenberger to channel the influence of film composers such as Francois de Roubaix and Brian Bennet, creating his own soundtrack on ‘La couleur de la mer’. Inducing images of manorial, fog-swept villas at the sea's edge, silhouetted sailing boats and cigar-chomping villains attempting to thwart the mission of an imaginary hero, the record is a masterfully composed sonic journey. Experimenting with themes and atypical song structures, the music moves from dramatic cues to fragile romanticism. It incorporates psychedelic spaciness, retro soul and hip-hop sensibilities informed by The Offline’s extensive record collection and crate-digger status.

“Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by the soundtracks from the 60s and 70s, and I always wanted to make an album in the film score direction. I wrote about 30 demos, kicked half of it and stuck to the ones that felt right in the dramaturgical structure of the ‘movie'. Interestingly the main theme was set really early on while writing the album, which made the writing process much easier.”

Aptly named, ‘Thème de la couleur de la mer’ opens proceedings, establishing the core motifs of the record. Haunting flutes and xylophones lead the way into Khruangbin-esque guitar lines, which sit against a hip-hop canvas that returns on boom-bap head boppers like ‘Quelque chose reste’. Retro soul revival takes precedence on deep cuts like ‘Un bout de chemin’, with wah-gated guitars interacting with emotive cello lines and symphonic string & horn sections.

The Offline came to life when composer and photographer Felix Müller travelled the Atlantic coastline in the south of France with his analogue camera, capturing beach life on film. After coming back to Hamburg, he started writing songs as the sonic counterpart to the analogue visuals. His Debut EP ‘En Clair-Obscur’ includes five tracks that capture the essence of his journey and the feeling of a cool summer soundtrack. 

Tracklist:
1. Thème de la couleur de la mer
2. L'eau
3. Jeanne et Alain
4. Quelque chose reste
5. Le motard
6. L'eau (Reprise)
7. La mission commence
8. Cap Camarat
9. Un bout de chemin
10. No. 33
11. Sous-marin
12. La couleur de la mer
13. Enfin, la paix

Papa Yankson - Party Time

Kalita are proud to present the first ever reissue of Papa Yankson’s highly sought-after 1989 disco-infused highlife masterpiece 'Party Time'! Showcasing the late Ghanaian superstar at his very best, ‘Party Time’ encapsulates the blending of deep, rhythmic West African highlife with synthesizers and electronic styles that had exploded during the decade. Now, thirty-five years after initial release, and with original copies having reached grail status on the second-hand collector’s scene, Kalita brings this phenomenal record back to life, with extensive liner notes and never-before-seen photos detailing Papa Yankson’s musical career.

A recipient of the Grand Medal of Ghana for his contribution to Ghanaian music, Papa Yankson was a key member of C.K. Mann’s Carousel Seven outfit during the 1970s, releasing joint albums together on the infamous Essiebons label to great success.

However, it was at the end of the following decade that Papa released ‘Party Time’, highlighting his forward-thinking musical style with its numerous hypnotic and driving up-tempo disco-soaked highlife cuts. Originally released in a small run on the short-lived Marriot Promotion label, the album features the standouts ‘Wonma Yenko Po’ and ‘Mumumde’, each showcasing deep highlife melodies, heavy drum patterns and phenomenal horn performances from the ingenious Sammy Lartey Jr on saxophone and Nana Asare on trumpet to boot.

With original copies selling for eye-watering amounts on the rare occasion that they come up for sale, the time is ripe for Kalita to celebrate this true Ghanaian 80’s grail, accompanied by liner notes and never-before-seen contemporary photos of Papa Yankson. 

Tracklist:
1. Wonma Yenko Po
2. Mumumde
3. Yaa Yaa Nkoba
4. Dofo Bi Afre
5. Odo Ye Wu
6. Me Bo Me Zanku Daa

Knxwledge - VGM.29

Tracklist:
1. 1. Krossd
2. 2. itstarts
3. 3. frme
4. 4. result
5. 5. espicy
6. 6. Kosmo[tro]
7. 7. gthepowr
8. 8. jsthru

Gabriel Rowland - MILS006: Gente Soul

The Madlib Invazion Music Library Series was created by Madlib and Egon over the course of the Pandemic, and was a chance to give their creative friends the ability to stretch out and indulge in whatever type of music they wanted for release on the label.

The music had to be great and able to be presented as a stand alone album – like the best “Music Library” releases of the past, on labels like Italy’s Sermi, Germany’s Bruton, France’s MP2000 and the UK’s DeWolfe. And, like those albums, it had to work as easy, one-stop clearance for background cues in film and television production and, as producers have been indulging since the 1990s, for sampling.

The series contains 12 releases by DJ Muggs, Karriem Riggins, J-Zone, the Heliocentrics’ Malcolm Catto and Jake Ferguson, JJ Whitefield of Karl Hector/Whitefield Brothers/Poets of Rhythm, Motif Alumni and Music Research Library, Mario Luciano of Polyphonic Music Library, Henkel, Gabriel Rowland of Los Yesterdays, Dan Hastie and Terin Ector of Orgone, Dan Ubick and Joe Harrison

The albums will be released on the Madlib Invazion Bandcamp on the first Friday of each month over the course of one year. Listen, ponder, repeat.

Tracklist:
1. Liberation
2. Skerd
3. Panorama
4. T.O.F.
5. The Wrong Hustle
6. Why Can't It Be Like
7. Baby Kute Purple
8. So F'd Up Inside
9. Spy Carnalito
10. Vitamin Psych
11. Rub Buster
12. Romantico
13. Let's Keep It Easy
14. Don't Speak
15. Mad Quakes
16. Cry Folder Cry

ATA Records - ATA Records: The Library Archive Vol​​​.​​​3

The funky, atmospheric, evocative and sometimes downright weird output of companies such as DeWolfe, Cavendish, Burton and the ubiquitous KPM have always been a guiding inspiration for ATA Records, as evidenced in the spooky soundtrack vision of The Sorcerers, the big band brass of The Yorkshire Film & Television Orchestra and even in the soul-jazz of The Lewis Express & Outer Worlds Jazz Ensemble.

It only seemed natural for the team at ATA Records to scratch their own Library itch and so "The Library Archive Vol. 1" was born in 2019. Recorded over a series of sessions in the Aladdin’s Cave of vintage recording equipment that is ATA studios, it featured many of the ATA stable of performers.

Released in 2021, "The Library Archive Vol. 2" still had the golden age of European Library music squarely in it's sights, but this time the focus was drawn more to the off-kilter soul organ sound of Italian quartet I Marc 4.

These two volumes garnered praise from Library aficionado Shawn Lee ("Holy F*$K this sounds great! ATA really smash the classic British Library sound. 10 out of 10") and the Don of British Library Music himself, Alan Hawkshaw.

And so to "The Library Archive Vol. 3": taking heavy inspiration from Jungle Obsession 9 by Roger Roger, and The Feed-back, as well as Blaxploitation era composers such as Willie Hutch and Melvin Van Peebles, and the masterful and ingenious Roy Budd, "The Library Archive Vol. 3" draws deeply from the well of library greatness.

Each track has been lovingly crafted with a keen ear for authenticity and the same eye for detail shown on 'The Library Archive’ Vol. 1 & 2, recorded on the same instruments and equipment and with the same techniques as the music that inspired it, with a focus throughout on stripped-back rhythm sections topped by flute, vibes and vintage synths.

With three volumes now out and another currently in R&D, The Library Archive will stand as a testament to the love the ATA producers and artists have for the original composers and performers.

Tracklist:
1. Ten on the Door
2. Hips & Lips
3. Hardcastle, Pt. 1
4. Countdown to Catastrophe
5. Fear on Phobos)
6. Loisaida Man
7. Pineapple Diode Daiquiri
8. Penthouse in Pernambuco
9. The Infernal Clock
10. The Street Is Family
11. Satan Stalks Among Us
12. It's Alive!

VA - J Jazz Vol. 4: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan - Nippon Columbia 1968 -1981

With J Jazz volume 4, the BBE J Jazz Bullet Train continues its journey traversing the expansive landscape of modern Japanese jazz. Volume 4 is the latest in the universally praised compilation series exploring the best, rarest and most innovative jazz to emerge from the Far East. Please take your seats for a first-class ticket to J Jazz central.

This latest station stop off is with the famed Nippon Columbia label, one of the biggest labels in Japan, whose jazz output embraces every possible style imaginable. Focussing on the key years 1968-1981, J Jazz volume 4 sees compilers Tony Higgins and Mike Peden dig even deeper into their record collections and pull-out tracks that span styles ranging from solo to big band, jazz classical interpretations and heavy jazz rock, to febrile post-bop, white hot samba fusion, and modal psychedelic wig-outs.

J Jazz volume 4 features icons such as drum master Takeo Moriyama, keyboard magi Hiromasa Suzuki, Fumio Itabashi, and Masahiko Satoh, and guitar wizards Kazumi Watanabe and Kiyoshi Sugimoto, alongside big band maestros and innovators Nobuo Hara and his Sharps and Flats, and Toshiyuki Miyama’s New Herd. Thunderous basslines nestle alongside glistening runs of electric piano, bubbling synths and air-tight drumming as the heavy psychedelic modal blues of Jiro Inagaki flows with the infectious samba grooves of Takashi Mizuhashi featuring Herbie Hancock; Shigeharu Mukai’s fusion funk epics take the music to another level and Mikio Masuda’s driving keyboard rhythms brings the heat to an incendiary dancefloor zone.

With 7,000 words of extensive sleeve notes, J Jazz vol 4 comes in a triple 180g vinyl set inside a deluxe gatefold sleeve with obi strip plus a 4 page insert. The double CD features two bonus tracks not on the vinyl edition. Mastered at the Grammy-nominated Carvery Studio by Frank Merritt, this latest collection is a worthy successor to the preceding three volumes that have set the bar so high.

J Jazz is curated for BBE Music by Tony Higgins and Mike Peden. 

Tracklist:
1. Takeo Moriyama - Exchange
2. Jiro Inagaki and His Soul Media - The Ground for Peace
3. Nobuo Hara and His Sharps & Flats, and Hozan Yamamoto - Chakkiri-Bushi
4. Tomoki Takahashi - Trial Road
5. Masahiko Satoh - A Muddy Muffin
6. Takashi Mizuhashi & Herbie Hancock - Samba de negrito
7. Hiromasa Suzuki - Scramble
8. Nobuo Hara And His Sharps & Flats - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
9. Shigeharu Mukai - Toppu
10. Toshiyuki Miyama & His New Herd - Ougi Denjushiki (A Ceremony to Give Instruction the Secret)
11. Kiyoshi Sugimoto - Jones Street
12. Mikio Masuda - Mickey's Samba
13. Hiromasa Suzuki & Jiro Inagaki and Big Soul Media - By the Red Stream
14. Kazumi Watanabe & Mickie Yoshino - Kaleidoscope (Edit)
15. Shigeharu Mukai - A Head Wind
16. Fumio Itabashi - Macumba