Brownswood and Tangram affiliate and one of the most exciting beatmakers out of Belgium today: here’s LTGL, live from Brussels with a veritable dumptruck of unheard material. Find out why Gaslamp Killer, J Rocc and Gilles Peterson are all big fans…
Tangram will release LTGL ‘s ‘Scribble’ on May 12
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Tags: Belgium, Boiler Room, Brussels, Lefto, LTGL, Tangram Records
Belgium’s Ethio-jazz reinventors return with the first single from new album ‘Artifacts’
Following up their 2013 debut, Abyssinia Afterlife, Belgium’s prime purveyors of tripped out Ethio-jazz return with a typically lush video for ‘Bones’, the first single from their new album.
Directed by Evelien Hoedekie, the short translates bandleader Nathan Daems‘ flute lines into green tendrils, which flutter and flurry like birds leaving a nest. The album is inspired by Draems’ jaunts round the world, taking in Fela Kuti afrobeat, Jamaican dub pressures and melodic lines from the far east. Music for the jazz club and the after hours club.
Black Flower’s new album, ‘Artifacts’, is released on 3 February on Sdban Ultra.
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Tags: Artifacts, Belgian Jazz, Black Flower, Nathan Daems, sdban, Video
It’s rare to find an album that is a true outlier in its field, but Abdou El Omari’s seven-track debut, released forty years ago on the Moroccan label Disques Gam, can be considered as such. A rare and intriguing record, seen fleetingly on Discogs with it’s vivid pink sleeve, atypical for an album of it’s age and origin; it immediately evokes excitement in the mind of any collector, especially given it’s price tag (well in excess of €1,000 for an original pressing).
Musically, it is like nothing that was being made in Casablanca at the time. Though present are the byzantine scales of traditional Moroccan and Andalusian music, the funk-influenced grooves, gravelly bass, delay-drenched percussion and pyschedelic lead organ, separate the music entirely from traditions of the region. One can only wonder what music Abdou El Omari was hearing at the time and how it influenced his craft. Little information is currently available about the late visionary musician, escalating the lure of his recordings.
Lifelong fans of Tropical and Oriental music, Belgian DJ collective and record label Radio Martiko have made their name playing the widest range of vintage dance music imaginable, taking their unique sound beyond the clubs of Ghent, to places far flung as the communities that created the music they love. Now the trio have answered the prayers of collectors worldwide, not only restoring and re-issuing Abdou El Omari’s debut album, but gaining access to two additional projects, hitherto unknown among Abdou El Omari fans.
With the album now available, we had the pleasure of talking to the Martiko’s about the origins of their work, their discovery of the Disques Gam catalogue and the fascinating process behind restoring and re-issuing vintage recordings. You can check the interview here and stream the album below
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Tags: Abdou El Omari, Exotica, Oriental, Radio Martiko
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
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Tags: Alex Malheiros, Azymuth, Brazil, Far Out Recordings, Fênix, Ivan Conti, Jose Roberto Bertrami, Kiko Continentino, Robertinho Silva
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
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Tags: Axis Records, Jeff Mills, Soundtrack
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.
The Gold Play compilation is out now.
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Tags: Day Fly, Electronic, Le Motel, Lefto, Moodprint, Sokoto, Tangram Records, Up High Collective, YellowStraps
