Founders of Radio Martiko, a unique label & DJ Collective from Ghent, talk to Entropia, reveal digging stories & deliver an exclusive mix of Greek Instrumental Tsiftelei Rockers, Laika – Shake and early Skiladika, selected from their recent 7-inch finds in Athens. Start reading here.
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Tags: Abdou El Omari, Crate Diggers, Exotica, Hany Mehanna, Psychedelic, Radio Martiko, Reissues
“The belly dance holy grail from the organ king of Cairo.”
Egyptian musician Hany Mehanna’s 1973 album The Miracles Of The Seven Dances is being released, via Radio Martiko this January.
Originally released in 1973 on Cairo label Sout El Hob, Mehanna’s solo LP explored far more left-field terrain than on his other collaborations and film scores.
Its 8 tracks mixed traditional rhythms with experimental organ freestyles, guitar grooves and hypnotic strings.
Listen to ‘Badaouiah’ and check out the track list below.
Tracklist
1. Dala
2. Farha
3. Badaouiah
4. Mouled EL-Khaleej
5. Raqsah Arabiyah
6. Tahiya Wal Assaiyah
7. Mouna
Radio Martiko will release The Miracles Of The Seven Dances on January 19th, 2018
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Tags: Hany Mehanna, Oriental, Psychedelic, Radio Martiko, The Miracles Of The Seven Dances
2017 saw full-length releases from STUFF., De Beren Gieren, Black Flower, SCHNTZL, all of them acts that consider jazz as a state of mind rather than a genre.
“Belgian jazz is flourishing thanks to a rich and adventurous new wave.”
(Jazzism)
In the space between expectation and surprise, you will find Dutch-Belgian acoustic-electronic piano trio de beren gieren (The Bear Vultures), providing robust evidence that gold can still be mined from the union of piano, bass and drums. Based on the compositions of pianist Fulco Ottervanger, the trio use the power of improvisation on the quest for a new form and create a multi-layered, kaleidoscopic work of art. de beren gieren are Fulco Ottervanger (piano), Lieven Van Pée (bass) and Simon Segers (drums).
‘We Dug Out Skyscrapers is taken from the album ‘Dug Out Skyscrapers’. Out now on Sdban Ultra.
As an undeniable part of the Pitchfork generation: highly skilled musicians with a large degree of openness – Black Flower strives for original music and deliveres a vibrant, hypnotic and variously entertaining musical mix of Ethio jazz, afrobeat, oriental and dub, bending all purist rules to good effect and claiming to the age-old human ritual of dancing! Black Flower are Nathan Daems (alto & baritone sax), Jon Birdsong (cornet, alto horn, percussion), Wouter Haest (keys), Simon Segers (drums), Filip Vandebril (bass).
‘Lunar Eclipse’ is taken from the album Artifacts. Out now on Sdban Ultra.
STUFF.—a 5-piece instrumental band comprised of Andrew Claes (sax), Lander Gyselinck (drums), Joris Caluwaerts (keyboards), Dries Laheye (bass), and Mixmonster Menno (turntables)—are one of Belgium’s most promising acts. Their music is a coss-genre fusion of broken hip-hop, electronica, and jazz-influenced funk that has won them fans in, among others, Plaid, Kev Beadle, Kutmah, Lefto, and Gilles Peterson.
‘Stratra’ is taken from ‘Old Dreams New Planets’. Out now on Sdban Ultra.
SCHNTZL is a jazz duo comprised of Hendrik Lasure (pianist), and Casper Van De Velde (drums). In February 2015 they won the STORM! contest for young upcoming musical talent, which earned them a cd release on the W.E.R.F. label and a JazzLab tour in 2016. Last summer, they acquired the prizes for best composition and best instrumentalist as well, as the Tremplin Jazz d’Avignon Contest. Their music sees improvisation intertwined with fully arranged compositions.
‘Mosa’ is taken from the album ‘SCHNTZL’. Out now on W.E.R.F.
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Tags: Belgium, Black Flower, BRZZVLL, Contemporary Jazz, De Beren Gieren, Oorwerk, SCHNTZL, Sdban Ultra, Stuff., W.E.R.F.
Live from a cult jazz society in the Belgian countryside.`
A remote hinterland of Europe might not seem like a hotspot for jazz, but from the 1950s through today, the Hnita-Jazz Club in Heist-op-den-Berg has proved otherwise.
Founded by Juul Anthonissen, who ran the club from 1955 until his death in 2008 when his son took Peter took over, this society for jazz lovers has consistently attracted luminaries of the music world past and present for over sixty years, including Sun Ra, Chet Baker, Charles Mingus, and Shabaka Hutchings.
On 10th March 1973, the Freddie Hubbard Quintet journeyed to the (even smaller) town of Zonderschot for an event organised by Hnita-Jazz Club, in Our Lady Queen of Peace church.
Originally recorded by Belgian National Television (BRT/VRT), and never made publicly available, the tapes have been restored and remastered for this first ever vinyl release.
“This concert finds (Hubbard) at his swaggering best, with a backing that includes Michael Career on drums and Junior Cook on Sax, this is a great discovery which I hope you will enjoy as much as me,” shares Gilles Peterson about his “trumpet hero”.
A unique time capsule of astral jazz frequencies, from a little-known music Mecca in Europe, the LP includes standouts ‘First Light’ and ‘Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey’, from Hubbard’s 1971 CTI album First Light.
Freddie Hubbard Quintet 1973: Live in Zonderschot LP, limited to 500 copies worldwide, is out now on Cortizona Records.
Listen to snippets from the album, and check out the track list below.
Tracklist
Side A
A1. Sky Dive
A2. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Side B
B1. First Light
B2. Breaking Point
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Tags: Cortizona Records, Freddie Hubbard, Gilles Peterson, Hnita-Jazz Club, Jazz, Zonderschot
“Metro Area is one of dance music’s truly essential LPs. Unlike many artists reissuing landmark albums, Metro Area—AKA Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani—haven’t bulked out this 15th anniversary edition with remixes, alternate versions or demos. Weighing down their self-titled debut album with extra material would, after all, compromise one of its many standout qualities. Its 12 remastered tracks—which includes all tracks from both the UK and US versions—are models of economy, in which not a single note is wasted or out of place.”
RA recommends.
Join Metro Area on a journey through the music that influenced their eponymous debut album. Each metro Area title in the tracklist is immediately followed by a sampling of songs that inspired its creation!
Metro Area new/old album is available now.
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Tags: Darshan Jesrani, Electronic, Environ Records, Metro Area, Morgan Geist, NYC
“Far Out Recordings are thrilled to present the timeless, peerless and criminally undervalued Quartin catalogue to a whole new set of ears, including reissue masterpieces from José Mauro and Victor Assis Brasil.”
Over the course of the 1960s Roberto Quartin released more than 20 albums in Brazil on his Forma label, from artists such as Eumir Deodato and Quateto Em Cy. Selling the rights of Forma to Polygram in 1969, Quartin struck out for pastures new at the dawn of the 1970s with the launch of his self-titled label. Significant works and high water marks for Brazilian music overall followed in that decade’s first year, with Victor Assis Brasil Plays Antonio Carlos Jobim and José Mauro’s Obnoxious. These rare and unique gems in Brazilian music, difficult to categorise yet compellingly haunting, have for too long gone unheard. Far Out Recordings hopes that listeners out there, be they seasoned Brazilian music aficionados or simply those in thrall to bewitching, hypnotic powers of music from the outer reaches, will appreciate and enjoy these works as much as we appreciate having the opportunity to present them to you.
RELEASE IN THE QUARTIN SERIES:
José Mauro – Obnoxius
José Mauro – A Viagem Das Horas
Piri – Voces Querem Mate
Victor Assis Brasil – Toca Antonio Carlos Jobim
Victor Assis Brasil – Esperanto
Stream two tracks from José Mauro’s Obnoxius below
The fourth release in the treasure trove of the Quartin catalogue, Victor Assis Brasil’s Esperanto will be released on February 9th, 2018. Click here to view our entire distribution catalogue for Far Out Recordings.
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Tags: Brazil, Far Out Recordings, Jose Mauro, Piri, Quartin, Reissues, Victor Assis Brasil
