Azymuth are back! With Fênix, their first album in five years, the Brazilian mavericks have recreated the energy of those spellbinding seventies’ sessions which would launch them into international recognition and confirm their status as one of Brazil’s most successful bands. It’s a ten-track journey through the full spectrum of Azymuth’s brilliantly coloured expressionist fusion, with all the cosmic energy and masterful musicianship you’d expect from the world’s greatest three-man orchestra… Azymuth rise from the ashes!
Check out previews below and pick up the record from December 2 in LP format. In the meantime, lock into Azymuth’s NTS radio show from March 2015 (playing some incredible never before heard demos recorded in the early 70′)
Far Out Recordings will release Fênix on 2nd December, 2016
Seminal French silent film A Trip To The Moon has been re-released with a new soundtrack by Jeff Mills.
Originally out in 1902, A Trip To The Moon is considered one of the most influential films of the 20th century. Directed by Georges Méliès, it’s among the world’s first science fiction films, dealing with themes of scientific ambition and discovery. The new version is available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
A Trip To The Moon is the latest in a long line of films soundtracked by Mills. He provided new sound for Richard Fleischer’s Fantastic Voyage and Fritz Lang’s Woman In The Moon, both science fiction classics, in 2011 and 2016, respectively.
Axis Records will release the soundtrack to A Trip To The Moon on January 22nd, 2017
The Gold Play is a compilation of all Tangram-related artists to date. Tangram Records an independent Belgian-based record label. It was founded 4 years ago by Up High Collective and Mophito to promote a batch of unreleased beats and live-show by Up High. Throughout the years their releases got picked up by Gilles Peterson, Lefto, Gaslamp Killer, and Flume amongst others. Now 4 years later Tangram have introduced a wide-range of talented musicians to the world. Without wanting to limit them to a certain genre you might say their releases are a celebration of electronics and hip-hop.
The compilation itself holds 6 previously unreleased tracks by Up High Collective, Faisal, LTGL, LoneBlue x Halibab Matador (aka YellowStraps), Le Motel and Sokoto. Each side of the vinyl ends with a previously released track on Tangram by Day Fly and Moodprint blending the entire release nicely together.
The artwork release is beautifully crafted by Dzia. Dzia is a graphic artist from Belgium and fine artist in every sense for that matter. His creations range from paintings, through sculpture to taxidermy and street works. This gatefold holds two versions of a fox and a play-full scenery of dear.
UK group Psychemagik will release the Ritual Chants compilation via Eskimo Recordings on November 18th. The rarities collection is split up into “Love,” “Beach” and “Dance” categories.
Though they put out their own music and DJ, Psychemagik are arguably best known for unearthing and licensing rare records for broader consumption. For Ritual Chants, the group’s resident record digger, Danny McLewin, shares material “acquired [on] world tours,” according to the press release.
McLewin arranged the forty tracks into three sections, Beach, Love and Dance. Love includes tunes like Man Parrish’s new age-leaning “Water Sports” and Bobby Lyle’s 1973 jazz vamp, “Making Love.” The Beach collection contains cuts from Zru Vogue, Tony Wilson and Minako Yoshida. Dance tracks include soundtrack maestro Ennio Morricone’s “Dance On,” Dionne’s “Come Get My Lovin'” and Swedish group Family Four’s “En Häst Utan Namn.” As usual, many of McLewin’s finds are rare, expensive or otherwise difficult to acquire.
Stream Golden Hands’s “Take Me Back”
Eskimo Recordings will release Ritual Chants on November 18th, 2016.
Todd Terje‘s remix of Ola Kvernberg’s “The Mechanical Fair” will see release on November 11th.
The original version of “The Mechanical Fair” was released in 2014. It was written by Kvernberg, an acclaimed Norwegian jazz violinist, for a quintet of musicians that included Erik Nylander, Ole Morten Vågan, Petter Vågan and Even Helte Hermansen, though it’s now performed by a bigger ensemble. Todd Terje’s ten-minute version will come out via his own label, Olsen Records, on vinyl and digital formats.
Listen to the remix in full.
Olsen Records will release The Mechanical Fair (Todd Terje Remix) on November 11th, 2016.
Brussels Philharmonic completed the recording of the anthology of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s oeuvre in Flagey. The recordings include fragments from ‘Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence’ and ‘The Revenant’ and were led by music director of Film Fest Gent Dirk Brossé.
Buteo Buteo will release Ryuichi Sakamoto, Music For Films on October 28th.
